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[MagnusEffect]

I feel like I discovered a time capsule. Here is a sample of what I found:

-A picture of my first girlfriend
-A picture of a friend I no longer talk to
-Some files in some mysterious format i no longer recognize
-oh... and this:



apparently i was ******* up Clanners even back then



there are a ton of these and random fan art with really bad 3d graphics. damn i was a nerd for this ****. there isn't anything here that looks very good, but if some people want to see fan art from back when AOL was HUGE, i will post more

Edited by MagnusEffect, 31 May 2012 - 10:11 AM.

[CoffiNail]

doo eeet!

Nice find.

[MagnusEffect]

i always thought it was funny how "floppies" used to really be floppy and hard disks were these "new hard things" that replaced them... oh how times have changed.

oh.. and when i said i found "a floppy"... it is actually like 20 of them... labeled generically "Disk 1, Disk 2, etc." lol

Edited by MagnusEffect, 31 May 2012 - 10:22 AM.

[Hawkeye 72]

Would love to see some more of this put up. Always great

[Alan Grant]

I found a floppy the other day too. Labelled "screenshots" in my childish handwriting, I no longer have a floppy drive, but I'm interested in what's inside it.

Keep posting what you find. Old stuff in floppy can sometimes be gems.

[Adridos]

Old floppies... rarer than memory cores of Battletech.

[MagnusEffect]

i'm still in the process of going through them and need to find a fast way to post them all online for linking purposes, but here are some more:







wow.. that last one... pink

Edited by MagnusEffect, 31 May 2012 - 10:39 AM.

[Draelren]

I recently did the same, and being the nerd I am... I had an external USB floppy drive sitting in my office. I plugged it in, and found the SAME kinda stuff you're posting now. I could add mine to your list if you would like? lol

[MagnusEffect]

@Draelren: sure, why not? we can refer to this as the "awful-pixel fan art" thread
(although i would be surprised if this is the first)

[Draelren]

Sweet, I'll take a look when I get home and see if I can track down the directory where I pulled all of the old stuff onto.

[SideSt3p]

This is one of the coolest threads I've seen on here. Keep the old school art coming!

[DocBach]

Dude, I had like all of these saved to my HD when I was like 13, I use to hang out in the AOL Battletech chat room for hours on end talking about the novels, games, mech designs and trading art.

[phinja]

o_O it's been ages since I've seen those and/or similar pictures XD hahah memories, made my day now.

[Postman6611]

That is hilarious, I kinda want that as my desktop.

[Gendou]

imgur.com is great for fast drag-and-drop uploading of images to share.
If they're in a non-standard format, like .PCX or something weird, you can use Irfanview to mass-convert them to JPGs.

[MagnusEffect]

Gendou, on 01 June 2012 - 05:14 PM, said:

imgur.com is great for fast drag-and-drop uploading of images to share.
If they're in a non-standard format, like .PCX or something weird, you can use Irfanview to mass-convert them to JPGs.

Wow... thank you Gendou. that was super helpful in making it easier to post images. Glad everyone is liking the little trip down memory lane. Here are some more:

Edited by MagnusEffect, 01 June 2012 - 07:27 PM.

[MagnusEffect]

Apologies, but I had to bump this. Anyone else with some awful CG battletech art from over a decade ago they would like to share?

Edited by MagnusEffect, 05 July 2012 - 11:33 PM.

[HanaYuriko]

MagnusEffect, on 05 July 2012 - 11:32 PM, said:

Apologies, but I had to bump this. Anyone else with some awful CG battletech art from over a decade ago they would like to share?

I'm almost embarrassed to show these. I'm also afraid some of my earliest/worst attempts at BT art might be on one of those mysterious floppy disks.






And the worst of the lot...

[Minatorc]

What is the Jenner shooting at? I dont recognise that little fella at all.

[DerMaulwurf]

Minatorc, on 06 July 2012 - 12:47 AM, said:

What is the Jenner shooting at? I dont recognise that little fella at all.

Could be the reseen Locust.