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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 23:26:55 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   Ever heard that Wing Commander story where the memory extender crash message was changed to "Thank you for playing Wing Commander" to conceal a crash? Well, that doesn't actually happen in any version of the game. This article gets to the bottom of the myth:
   https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/16279

   • 4am (a2_4am@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 00:12:59 UTC 4am

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     @dosnostalgic WHAT

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 00:25:02 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • 4am

     @a2_4am Did you also hear the one about an overflow causing Gandhi to go nuclear in Civilization? That one isn't true either.

   • 4am (a2_4am@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 00:27:35 UTC 4am

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     @dosnostalgic My entire childhood is a lie.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 00:29:01 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • 4am

     @a2_4am All cars in Hi-Octane have exactly the same stats and collision boxes.

   • 4am (a2_4am@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 00:31:35 UTC 4am

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     @dosnostalgic Now you're just fucking with me

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 00:33:14 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • 4am

     @a2_4am No, no. They had to get the game made in 7 weeks or so. It's a miracle it has as many assets as it does in the first place.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 00:35:08 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • 4am

     @a2_4am Here's the whole story as told by Alex Trowers, the level designer:
     http://alextrowers.blogspot.com/2017/09/hi-octane.html

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 00:39:15 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • 4am

     @a2_4am And Sid Meier dedicates an entire chapter of his memoir to dispelling the Gandhi myth and tracking how it spread online in his amazingly titled memoir:

   • Gorgeous na Shock! (indigoparadox@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 00:48:25 UTC Gorgeous na Shock!

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     • 4am

     @dosnostalgic @a2_4am You can't do this to me. I've used this as a metaphor to explain so many things. I can never show my face in public again.

     Oh no my embarrassment overflowed and now I'm gonna start a Podcast!

   • Floaty Birb (floatybirb@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 00:49:14 UTC Floaty Birb

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     @dosnostalgic I thought I remembered the "Thank you for playing Wing Commander message from DOS", but maybe instead I was remembering the "You step out of the airlock and into..." and human memory is an unreliable beast.

     Man, I don't know what is real or not anymore.

   • Gorgeous na Shock! (indigoparadox@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 01:51:48 UTC Gorgeous na Shock!

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     • 4am

     @dosnostalgic @a2_4am It took a while but I managed to dig this one up: https://mastodon.social/@shadsy/110471427214212142

     The SimCity use-after-free bug shimmed by Microsoft in Windows 95 was actually in the Win16 version of SimCity 2000.

   • cassie (porglezomp@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 08:43:35 UTC cassie

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     @dosnostalgic in any *shipped* version of the game!

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 14:29:31 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • 4am
     • dpflug

     @dpflug @a2_4am I have read the article I myself have posted, thank you. The fact that it happened during the development (as most bugs are, let's be honest) doesn't take away from the fact that this is a popular story people tell about the *released* version of the game.

   • dpflug@hachyderm.io's status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 14:29:32 UTC dpflug

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     • 4am

     @dosnostalgic @a2_4am Check the article. This one was true, but in a pre-release version of the game.

   • William D. Jones (cr1901@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 00:53:21 UTC William D. Jones

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     @dosnostalgic Well. Damn. I fell for that one :/.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 23:21:13 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Ben S.
     • Martijn Frazer

     @HunterZ @Tijn The message isn't there either.

   • Ben S. (hunterz@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 23:21:14 UTC Ben S.

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     • Martijn Frazer

     @Tijn @dosnostalgic the message is there, but it turns out that the story about it existing as a way to paper over an error message isn't accurate.

     Edit: Or not, so I join Martijn in shock lol

   • Martijn Frazer (tijn@dosgame.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 23:21:15 UTC Martijn Frazer

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     @dosnostalgic wow this is bizarre. I swear I’ve seen the message! Maybe WC2 has it?

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2023 02:56:56 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Martijn Frazer

     @Tijn The 2nd game's exit message is "Leaving Wing Commander 2..."