All I see is four badass apps with no ads and no dark patterns.
I got a Minesweeper app for my phone a few months ago with no ads. It’s amazing.
For Linux, Mac, and Windows (sorry bsds)
I also recomnend Libremines https://bollos00.github.io/LibreMines/
In general, get stuff like that from F-Droid. Ads and other enshittification basically isn’t allowed.
Shoutout to Breezy Weather on Fdroid.
Kids and their fancy winders machines…
That doesn’t look like GORILLAS.BAS
Whenever people mention Space Cadet pinball, I HAVE to recommend the reverse engineered open source version on github (source ports for almost every type of platform).
It’s also available on flathub.“Reverse engineered open source” isn’t a thing. You can decompile a program and look at the source code all you want, but that’s not the same as having the legal right to modify and redistribute it. Open Source specifically means the latter.
What you’ve linked to there is just some pirated proprietary-licensed source code that, frankly, I’m a little surprised Microsoft hasn’t taken down yet.
(Also, I don’t like the term “open source” for exactly the reason that it leads to this sort of confusion. According to both the OSI and FSF it means the same thing as “Free Software,” so folks should use the term Free Software instead since it emphasizes the four freedoms.)
If you want a pinball game that’s actually Free Software, check out Vector Pinball. I recommend installing it via F-Droid.
That’s great. Fun memories! Simple but exciting
Thanks for the Linux link! Where is that on the git
I assume you ask where in the Git mention the Flathub link since Flathub deems it unverified? It’s on On Linux section of the ReadMe
Are there revese engineered open source version of the other games?
I unfortunately don’t know of any other games on top of my head. I know Lego Island is close to 100% reverse engineered, but I’m not certain it’ll get released as an open source game like Space Cadet.
Ski free was available as an HTML 5 game years ago, so probably
Ahh, my nostalgia. Thanks!
MS paint used to have a spray paint tool. I spent a lot of time using that tool to fill the entire canvas.
Space Cadet.
I played the hell put of Freecell back in the day. Started going through the seeds in order, and over the course of about 2 years I made it through 1500 or so.
I should pick that up again. Only got about 30000 or so games left to finish the whole thing…
What about winamp and windows media center audio visualizers. Trippy patterns
Have I got good news for you.
How would you acquire winamp without the internet?
It was bundled with the computer, my father won at a lottery.
skiifree was also a solid choice
And Chip’s Challenge.
Loved old school paint. I used to try and recreate 3d renders of Nintendo characters that I’d seen printed in magazines and on my Gameboy pocket pouch by doing a kind of primitive dithering technique that 10 year old me thought up drawing 1 pixel blocks of specific colours in alternating patterns to try recreate shading or gradients of colour and I’d draw whole rows of them with the line tool which naturally had a staircase effect to it. Used to save it all on a zipdisk.
I mean we did have internet, but it was billed by the amount of data you used, and being online meant that people couldn’t use the phone at the same time.
I grew up with a a Windows 3.1 machine, so for me my game selection was Chip’s Challenge, Miser Mind (MasterMind), WinTris (Tetris), Atmoids (Asteroids), and JezzBall. Oh and SkiFree of course but somehow I never played it.
Chip’s Challenge was my favorite. To this day I still haven’t beaten every level.
3.0/3.1 user also… paint always felt like a downgrade from paintbrush.
Yeah you could set custom colors in Paintbrush, which was removed in Paint and I don’t think was ever restored.
I just had a happy flashback into my pst of playing that pinball a lot.
I had totally forgotten that.
Thanks for triggering this memory :)
No love for SkiFree?
Well there goes the rest of my day, thanks.
Obligatory XKCD - https://xkcd.com/667/
Man this takes me back.
Encarta and Paint were where I spent most of my computer time as a younger teenager. The trivia games on Encarta were dope, I also spent a lot of time walking around the 3d castles and ancient ruins. And a lot of time in the ummm… Art section. Learned a lot about myself from Venus of Urbino.
Used to waste time by painting giant graphic and bloody battle scenes between stick figures in paint. Did it pixel by pixel! Good times!
Fucking encarta! I always am amazed that no one else my age remembers that. I don’t think I ever found the art section interesting… I don’t even remember it.
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