SMB: JERRY'S REMIX
In 2007, I made a full mario hack as well as a few unfinished ones. I had played some over a couple years including Mario Adventure and wanted to take a stab at making my own. I found that screwing with environments and mixing them with landtypes they didn't belong with yielded some strange color mixtures not before seen in Super Mario Bros. I also was able to put underwater enemies above water and vice-versa. If you touch anything underwater you get hurt, while you can stomp on top of underwater creatures as long as they are above water and hurt them.

There are bugs I abandoned I may fix sometime but never got around to it in 12 years, so you may need to restart or cheat by testing them in a level editor. Later worlds have more levels while early worlds have 2-3 levels. Shit gets pretty difficult later on if you are into challenging mario hacks. I made these with mario hack tools long before Mario Maker came out on the Wii-U or Super Mario Bros X graced the PC freeware scene. If you would like to make hacks of your own, visit romhacking.net or zophar.net and find some Mario Bros 1-3 level editors. I may someday make more with actual graphic hacks as well.

So I found a box of old media and tapes in the basement while looking around and stumbled upon recordings I did when I was around 8 years old. I know, I know. This sounds pretty lame to find on a website, but I was rapping. I was actually rapping pretty good for a freaking 8 year old! Also I overdubbed. I remember taking a stereo and a boombox I got later and playing on one while recording on the other, then switching tapes and doing it again, and again!

I won't grace this website with every single recording of course, but pick a few good ones and others at random to end up with maybe 8-10, possibly more. These are just for my own nastalgia's sake and anyone that follows music I've done recently to have a good laugh at an eight year old version of myself.

That is all!

MSDOS COLLECTIVE!
I figured since this site is based around nastalgic things both to myself and to others, I might as well share some shareware from the early 90's as well. You will need DOSBOX to run these, and if you're from the 90's I'm sure you'll figure out what to do next.

I'm a little biased, and am only including links to games I myself have played. You can also find these on many other sites and get more games, I just wanted to share my own personal nastalgia.

GAMES LIST OPENS DOSGAMESARCHIVE.COM PAGE

Abuse, Captain Comic, Alien Carnage, Ant Run, Arcade Volleyball, Arctic Adventure, Bio Menace, Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold, Blake Stone: Planet Strike!, Blood, Catacomb Abyss, CD-Man, Chex Quest, Commander Keen 1, Commander Keen 4, Commander Keen 6, Commander Keen Dreams, Corncob 3-D, Corridor 7, Cosmo, Crystal Caves, Cyberdogs, Dangerous Dave, Dark Ages, Descent, Descent 2, Disney's Aladdin, Doom, Doom II, Duke Nukem, Duke Nukem II, Duke Nukem 3D, Earthworm Jim, Electroman, Epic Pinball, Gobman, H.U.R.L., Heartlight, Heretic, Hexen, Hocus Pocus, Hugo 1, Hugo 2, Hugo 3, Jazz Jackrabbit, Jazz Holiday Hare '95, Jetpack, Jetpack Xmas, Ken's Labyrinth, Magic Carpet, Major Stryker, Maniac Mansion, Maninac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle, Math Rescue, Megarace, Monster Bash, Monuments of Mars, Mystic Towers, Nitemare 3-D, Operation Body Count, Paganitzu, Quake, Raptor, Rise of the Triad, Secret Agent, Shadow Warrior, Skunny, Skyroads, Solar Winds, Spear of Destiny, Star Wars: Dark Forces, Strife, System Shock, Tank Wars, Terminal Velocity, Tyrian, Wacky Wheels, Witchhaven, Wolfenstein 3D, Worms, Xargon, Zone 66, ZZT. There are other games I couldn't find on a couple of sites: Zaxxon, Space Chase 1-3, and Rescue Rover 1&2. I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting, I mean it WAS the 90's after all.

Direct Access 5.1 was a shell for MS-DOS 6.22 or probably lower that worked as a graphical menu system to launch programs and games. I remember "borrowing" it from the public library in the early 90's on a floppy disk copy I made and bringing it home to mess around with. I got it working by deleting MENU.CUS which removes all of the passwords and color choices. So if you get locked out or forget your password, that's what you do. You can have menu trees branch out six times, with 26 items on each section, so that pretty much gives you unlimited options here. I've had issues with DOSBox here and there but if you have an old 486 laying around this software is for you!

Click HERE to Download for DOS/DOSBox.
It's also available via Vetusware.com

I'm a little on the odd side these past few years where though I kept up with technology decided to downgrade for fun. I had so many cassettes I recorded when I was younger that I found again and listened to a few that I decided to start buying them again. They still sell them at Walgreens and Walmart so far, and I'm sure I'll find them in other places too. Walgreens has the Maxell brand, which was the best in the day. Naturally Walmart sells the new generic ONN brand. They have ONN TV's for $108 with a 32" screen if that is any indication of how generic they can be. But they work! My cassette recorder is ONN too. Anyways if I have a stupid song idea and don't feel like firing up the software/studio or if I have a riff I want to keep, or just fuck around, these are what I use! You'll also notice the "notes" tape or tapes. I have more. These are for when I'm driving and can't write in a pocket journal when I have ideas. I also just like having lofi recordings of things in modern times. I have no clue why, I just do.

Sure magnetic media supposedly does not last as long as CDs, but they have plastic cases, and when you have kids, you understand how things can easily be damaged if they are meant to be held delicately. Other than that, I'm a nastalgia freak and I still have most of my floppies and most of them work! Whenever I'm on the hunt for a 486 I always hope it has a working floppy drive. My brother Max found me one that also had a ZIP drive. I'll get to that later. If you write a lot of text files to plan things out like I do and don't care if they go corrupt years from now because you'll be done with them, use floppies. You can organize different ideas on different disks. Sure you can use folders to do that too, but you're more than likely to lose them if they aren't on solid old school media. I'm probably lying. I just love old media. Some people are head over heels about Vinyl records again. Me too, but not as much as I am about 3.5" floppy disks! MiniDVDs fit in the makeshift floppy shelf as well.

If you're looking for a hundred megabytes instead of 1.44MB that comes on a floppy and 2.88 that comes either compressed on a floppy or on a superdisk, go to ebay and get a USB-powered ZIP drive. They come in three formats also: 100MB, 250MB, and the rare 750MB. The 750MB I'm sure was overshadowed by the cheaper 700MB CD-R. I have quite a bit of those too, but they still come with modern computers and function in DVD-RW drives, so they don't belong here. Thanks to the now vintage (shit, I'm old!) 486 computer my brother found me with a ZIP drive, I can store all kinds of goods on an old Windows 98 computer I've designed for the kids that I have stored in the garage studio for use when I make things too. I'll use the studio pc to design sites, game mods, and whatever else and this 486 with floppies and zip disks to store things. I also have a ZIP drive on the studio pc in USB form, so I can transfer old dos games and whatnot over to it. As you've noticed by glancing at the upper left corner, all the id software clones have their own 100MB zip disks encased and full of mods. As you also have noticed. I name my disks. Names like "Curdled Milk Disk" "Rage Biscuits Disk" "Medieval Pancakes Disk", etc. I used to name my floppy disks and be so OCD about it that they each had 6 8-letter folders with 9 8-letter documents in each, when I used to ride my bike as a preteen to the library and download band articles from "Infotrac" which is long gone. I've searched, it's totally gone. It was a database for magazine articles that I'm assuming were hand-typed before the internet happened. When my family got its first computer in 1994, the internet reached a hell of a lot of people that year and made me part of nastalgia. Anyways DOS only allowed 8 letters or numbers or symbols in their filenames with a period and a three character extension, be it EXE or COM or TXT, etc. There's this one time I spent way too much time coming up with a comp book full of 8 letter phrases and words placed in a directory-making batch file that when clicked will unleash thousands of blank folders immediately in whatever folder you're in to either cause havoc, or just be weird like me. If I find it I'll zip it and share it.

And this little exhibit isn't complete without my 486 computer running Windows 98 that I have been fixing up this year for the kids. It runs Quake and everything before, but the hard drive is almost full so I better either start teaching them how to use ZIP disks, burn a bunch of CDs for games to run from, or just invest in a second Enhanced IDE hard drive for this old school beast. This thing has a functioning CD-ROM, a ZIP Drive, and a Floppy Drive! It has all the "Dad's Era" shit I can teach them and obviously use myself because I'm a weird dad that's stuck in his era!