[Skylark]

This is exactly 1 post more than what my first account has. I am now officially more Skylark than George.

And on August 5 it will have been 3 years since I joined the community.

But yeah... are there any other wierd things like that? For example, I joined as George foster on the 5th of August when Lancer first introduced me to MZX, at school in our robotics class.

Well? How did you first meet DMZX/mWorld/whatever?

[Lachesis]

Kuroneko's boring story of how he came to DMZX

Way back when I was like 11 my dad gave me his old 1000+ Games and More CD (it was a 1995 disk but I got it like a couple years ago). When looking through the DOS games section, I came across the ZZT stuff (I always seemed to pass the MZX stuff until AFTER I learned about MZX), and was like, "Pfff, sounds stupid." So, I was online looking for some good games, and I saw ZZT listed in the DOS games section. Again, I was like, "Pfff." So, after sighting it at like 3 or 4 DOS game sites I finally gave in, and was like, "Well, sounds fairly popular, I guess I should try it..." And I did. I was in love, mainly because I could make my own games on it. I started searching around for more games for ZZT, and I was lucky enough to find ZeuxWorld. It seemed like a good place. So, I submitted a bunch of ZZT crap under a different name, and then joined as kuroneko122301. I wasn't everyone's favorite n00b, and i recall being hated a lot (people would keep changing my avatar, etc.). At that site I discovered MZX v2.69c, but I was still using v1.00g. I got bitched at for using 1.00g and started using 2.69c. Blah blah blah. So, anyway, right before ZeuxWorld died, I decided to explore DMZX because I had heard about it at ZW. I didn't feel comfortable at first, with 1000+ members, so I didn't join. Then ZW died. I decided to join DMZX soon after. THE END.

[Trev-MUN]

I started hanging around the general Megazeux community back in ... oh jeez, when was it? I want to say it was around 1999, or possibly 1998.

Anyway, I was (still am, actually) one of the dreaded "Cans fanboys" who came to the community primarily because of those games. Despite having no clue what the inokes were referencing, they were still hilarious to me, and the game's general "explore and have fun" atmosphere is one of the things I find most appealing in these OOP type games (Snarfoogle was another game I play/ed alongside Cans, as well as Benard the Bard). Eh, well, inmate's Cans Deconstruction pretty much pegs me for what I was and am. And of course, like any other Cans fanboy, I discovered the hard way things weren't exactly as they were in real life. D:

But after coming, I've generally hung around the MZX community in some fashion, either directly or in its peripherials.

And I still have yet to prove myself like I said I would to Piman by finishing Sir Kupon ... OH SNAP *varnish*

This post has been edited by Trev-MUN: 13 July 2005 - 04:37 AM

[Game master pro]

I found MZX on dosgames.com and then i found ZeuxWorld through a google search and i posted for a while and i knew about dmzx but i didn't like it then because it was too big and i couldn't get past newbie back then (on zeuxworld you only need like 10 posts to get to advanced member ) but then it exploderded and i went to dmzx and here i am now.

[weasel]

From Home of the Underdogs, to ZZT.org, to megazeux.net, to mWorld, to here. It wasn't until this site that I actually started showing my face.

[RoSS]

I found ZZT a long time ago somewhere on the intarweb around 1996. When looking for ZZT games on AOL's downloads, I noticed a section immediate below ZZT called Megazeux, so I tried it out and I thought it was really neat. Around 2000 or so, I stumbled on mWorld, acted the newb on the board and was there for a while before the board got unruly and moved to DigitalMZX, where the mods and admins have kept it safe since *coughpuddlecough*.

[Micah]

i found megazeux on dosgames.com...along with zzt. i was like "hey neat"...the dosgames site led me here. whee.

[Dr Lancer-X]

I think I found some MZX page looking for ZZT games, then I found MZX- tried it out, hated it, tried it out again, eventually got to like it, used it for a few years (about 3), made lots of games with it, found DMZX, lurked for 10-11 months, joined as Rubicant, annoyed people for a while, rejoined as Lancer-X and here we are..

[Spectere]

1) Found ZZT on a shareware CD in December 1992.
2) Found massive ZZT section on AOL keyword "PC GAMES".
3) Downloaded tons of crap.
4) Downloaded Sivion.
5) Played Sivion.
6) Read about "Sivion for MegaZeux" in said game.
7) Found MegaZeux v1.02 on AOL in 1994/1995.
8) Played with it. Extensively.
9) Found community hangout around 1998/1999. Joined as "Repeat".
10) Realized that 95% of the "community" was made up of complete and total assholes.
11) Left said community.
12) Continued playing with MegaZeux
13) Looked around DMZX around 2003, registered an account in mid 2004.
14) Made my first post a month after registering.
15) Took a short leave around Thanksgiving 2004 to catch up on school and make my grades not suck so badly.
16) Came back late January 2005 to much fanfare (XD).
17) rox'd ur sox ever since

[Nash]

Discovered ZZT/MZX about 10 years ago on AOL (when it was $2.95 an hour), joined the community shortly after, have been annoying people ever since for almost a decade.

This post has been edited by nashizzle: 13 July 2005 - 08:57 AM

[asgromo]

As far as I know, MZXGiant found ZZT on this Game Empire shareware CD I now have. He showed it to me between 1996 and 1997. Between 1998 and 1999 he showed me MegaZeux. I only got semi-entrenched in the community in 2002.

[Goshi]

I disocvered ZZT through TMK and after a few months of ZZT programming I found a link to mWorld on ZZT.org and I started using MZX. I never joined DMZX or in fact the community until during the MZXEA, some people might actually remembered I voted in the MZXEA.

Of course I was a huge asshole in the past, luckily I changed that. ^^

This post has been edited by Goshi: 13 July 2005 - 09:09 AM

[duvel]

Let's see, like everyone else I first discovered ZZT, at http://classicgaming.com/tmk/ in their old ZZT game section (which curiously is taken down now). It had some mario games I liked. This was 1998 I think (was zzt.org open then?). Anyway I downloaded Banana Quest and loved it. Eventually I went out of it (I was 7, I had no attention span). Then in like 2002 I rediscovered it via z2.org. I even uploaded a game. I tried MZX but it didn't work for me at the time. Then in September of 2003 I got a brand spanking new computer. MZX decided to work for me then, so I followed links from z2 to here and joined as Gamecube Guy. I was very silly and attempted to make a wolf3d clone in mzx (yep, that dumb). I also was making a couple of doable games, like Spell (which has been started and restarted like 5 times by now) and MZX Fighter (which would have been a lame cameo game anyway but it at least was semi feasible). Then I got bored of it and left (because I always did that). Then in like February 2004 I rejoined as the ler I am now with an interest in RPG Maker (but I still tried to make MZX games). Somewhere along the line I just plain stopped making games (possibly because Doom stole me). So here I am as someone who hangs around.

Also OMG LONG POST LOLZ etc. etc.

[GetDizzy]

lets see. since everyone is translating their ZZT/MZX starts into years and I only have vague memories of grades and ages, I'm going to have to pull out my calculator and do some quick arithmetic.

I discovered ZZT and MZX simultaneously on AOL while I was in the fourth grade, I would've been about 9, and it would be around 1997. I believe they had a ZZT/MZX section back then. It was flooded with some fairly interesting games. At that point I was a total AOL filesearch whore, and being on 14.4k, the small filesize of MZX and ZZT and their respective games (At least at that point in time) were enticing.

Between 1997 and 1998 I somehow discovered mWorld and started leeching better games off of it, though I didn't know what "forums" were and so did not venture on them.

Approximately around 1998-ish, after having played the entire Cans series, I went onto austnet (I was already familiar with mIRC, though barely, after having spent some time in #aohell on EFNet thoroughly hating on my current ISP. ) and joined #zzt and #megazeux. Fishfood was in #zzt, nobody was in #megazeux. Fishfood pointed me to #darkdigital, where I was immediately banned because Peach's talk about her monthly blood had caused me to go into a fit of 10-year-old shock at this new idea. Fishfood then pointed me into #/mefallsover.

At some point (Could anybody give me a year?) mWorld died. At that point #/mefallsover had turned into #mofo and I had already gained a reputation (earned within the first few minutes of joining #/mfo, probably) of being an annoying, socially inept idiot. One day I was blabbering on about MZX to a bunch of ZZTers, an effort somewhat like trying to teach Luke Drelick not to offend people or like trying to teach fish to breathe on land, they pointed me to the fact you guys were in #mzx on EsperNet. Relieved to have finally found you guys (Though I couldnt really FIND you guys for a while because EsperNet wasn't in my mIRC networks list and I wasnt really THAT proficient with IRC yet), I went into #mzx and actually lasted about a month before being banned the first of maaaaany times. Somewhere between bannings, I expressed the need of a community which was less real-time and more structured than IRC, and they deftly pointed me to these forums. And, after being banned there after an extremely embarassing incident involving anxiety attacks, donut, and my retarded ability to overreact to just about everything, I migrated to the #roms community, gained some maturity, and came back the slightly more presentable human being you see today.

[Castlevania]

I discovered MZX on dosgames.com in 1998 and later found mWorld on Google. After a few months of visiting the site I finally managed to pluck up the courage to visit the forum there. My very first post was under the name "Martin Knowles" but then I quickly noticed that it..just wasn't cool, so I sgined up again using my DJ name instead: EmalkaY. mWorld was the first forum I I had ever signed up to.

I wasn't everybody's cup of tea back in those days, especially when I later discovered the joys of IRC about 2000, I was a bit of an arse, it has to be said. When mWorld died I came here under the nick EmalkaY again. I still seemed to annoy a few people somehow, but I was ALL about MZX then. I joined IF around 2001 but had to leave the MZX community shortly after due to lack of internet connection. In 2002 I came back to release NS2 then left again. I also checked my posts recently and found out I was around when Zeuxworld started afterall, it was zeuxworld.cjb.net back then, can't believe I forgot about that. Then about November last year I came back here and got my nick changed to "emalkay" (no caps, ooo), mainly because I've changed a helluvalot since then, I hope.

That just about sums it up for me.

P.S
wot is this ZZT you speak of?

[Pyro1588]

like kuroneko, john and i recieved a "1000+ games and more" cd from an obscure little mac shop that had mostly pc software. this must've been sometime in 2000. john was browsing around it on our old 233mhz gateway tower (awesome computer.) he discovered this thing called "zzt" that he had heard about once or twice before. he installed it off the cd and started playing with it. the cd had "ned the knight" (unfinished) and "zoo of zzt" (corrupt.)
john continued browsing around the cd and found mzx1.02. he and i started playing caverns and were amazed by the simplicity of the editor (back when it had the red sidebar.)
we made our first game and entitled it "inferno I: the three guardians" and adopted the name, "amessoft inc." inferno was a crappy little standard-palette caverns-music piece-of-crud creation with the inevitable 2d maze.
while browsing around online, john found a site called "mworld." i remember getting home that day from a violin lesson and john running over and excitedly telling me about this new version, "2.51," that had all these new great features. he showed me cool things like overlay and all that great stuff.
he and i leeched many a game off of mworld. i never ventured into the forums because i didn't know what they were. we proceeded to make inferno II and incorporated all these stunning new features into it. for instance, we actually had one part that had a single line of overlay in it that was supposed to be a powerline. it was so cool. unfortuanately, it wasn't meant to be. the first of many harddrive crashes managed to eradicate inferno II before we could upload it. looking back, it must have been Divine Providence that prevented me from posting it here =)
we both watched the mzx community as it slowly changed. a new site called "digitalmzx" was born. i went there and, once again, neglected to visit the forums.
time went by. mworld died as matt went off to college (btw, has anyone heard from matt at all?) john and i continued to screw with mzx. by this time, we had played many of the classics (cans, btb, etc.) we came out with our next production: idiocy. john tried uploading it to dmzx, but it didn't work. i decided to join the forums so that i could post a link to it.

i was the most annoying little creep you ever laid eyes on. okay, it wasn't quite that bad, but i still annoyed some people by my presence.
well, time went by and i spammed my way to over 3k posts in less than three years. shame on me.
and now here i am. i haven't released anything since idiocy, but i am trying to work on another game. we'll see how that goes.

[Superfunk]

It was one fine Summer of the new millenium. I think it was when I was fascinated by DOS. I think I was searching for random DOS junk to fulfill my dream to make a DOS game, and I found DOSGames.com, and I found ZZT and MegaZeux. And I tried ZZT out, and I couldn't get MegaZeux to work, but later, when I got a new computer, I tried out MegaZeux again. It worked fine. Then I got used to it bit by bit, then a few years later, I joined this community.

There's my history! ^_^

[CJA]

Well see, I did ZZT for like 2 years, and it was awesome for me to be able to make my own games. Then I went on to MZX, and it was a lot better. One day searching for "download games" I found this thing, I only used it for downloading games. A couple years later I said "Why don't I join this?" And I'm glad I did, the end.

[Lachesis]

ler, on Jul 13 2005, 06:18 AM, said:

Let's see, like everyone else I first discovered ZZT, at http://classicgaming.com/tmk/ in their old ZZT game section (which curiously is taken down now)l

It was taken down because of copyright ishues if I am not mistaken... When I found TMK, it was already down but the link was still there.

[Torte]

Found a reference to ZZT on a random site, found ZZT on Dosgames, found MZX on www.theunderdogs.org and then found my way here.

[Bramble]

I can't very well think of how I came to this site, except by a certain dude who introduced me and my brother to ZZT, then wouldn't let us have MZX until we (*star wars voice*) "learned to set and clear flags". So then I played various games, not understanding anything with cameos or inside jokes, but pretending I did, and all the while downloading games from different sites, such as mWorld, Zeuxworld, and other random archives. But I didn't actually realize all that went on in these sites. I released the Pizza Man lames to Zeuxworld, and thought that was just hardcore because they announced it, then gradually came to DigitalMZX somehow. That's basically all.

[ShloobeR]

yeh same as everyone else apparently, found zzt on a '1001 games' CD around 1998. Toyed around with it and made some silly little things and looked for Zzt websites, I then stumbled across that webpage which was like 'Jack and Jills zzt website' (I've totally forgotten the names though I'm sure someone like Terryn would know) and then it had some stuff about megazeux. went to mworld and starting getting myself known.
I'm not sure about when I actually joined mworld or anything but I remember I was there for about 1 and a half years of on and off idling before 'THE GREAT EVACUATION'.

[Terryn]

Norris and Sean, which ended up being my first ZZT page too.

[Tixus]

Back in 1992 or so, my dad brought home a bunch of disks with DOS games from a friend at work, and one of them happened to be a strange game called "ZZT." Skip about 13 years, and here I am now.

[LogiCow]

I found mzx in my alphabet soup.

oh and madbrain is my brother he introduced me to mzx

but I like the alphabet soup story better so disreguard the other one

[djtiesto]

Nash gave me ZZT in 1995 on a floppy disk, and he gave me some games. Like Code Red, The Simpsons (one of the worst ZZT games ever!) and Bobo, which was amazing. And then he told me about MZX and how it had awesome music so I d/led that on the school's library. And then I made a game that people liked, developed an ego and been pissing everyone off since

[Kuddy]

In August 1997, I searched for RPGs on AOL (using an awful 2400 baud connection on a 486), which happened to bring up a plethora of ZZT games. I skipped over them at first, but there were so many that I finally decided to download ZZT. I think I found this page eventually (back then it had the Exdeath theme song as background music) and got most of the games I played from there. I also saw several references to MegaZeux, and got that two months later on a better computer (HP Pavilion 8160). From February 1998 to February 2001, I was nothing more than a notorious IRC lamer who had a thousand projects but never completed a single one. Then I played EverQuest a lot until October 2001, and wasn't in the community during that time. When I came back, I actually started posting on the forums with the account I had registered since January of that year. In June 2002, josh asked me if I wanted to be a moderator. Three years later, I'm still the newest staff member, and I've completely lost my mind.

[ZzCrook]

ZZT was given to me by a friend back in '96. I played around with it, made a couple games. Then after a year or so I got my first Internet connection, we searched for "ZZT Sword Engines" and stumbled apon MegaZeux. I immediately began posting on the mWorld forums (late 97-early 98?). When mWorld died I began posting on DigitalMZX in 2000, and Zeuxworld once it was founded.

[Lachesis]

Kuddy, on Jul 13 2005, 07:50 PM, said:

I think I found this page eventually

Haha, that was the first ZZT game site I found AFTER I discovered that I liked ZZT, and that lead me to Chronos30's page, which lead me to ZW (I think)

This post has been edited by Kuroneko: 14 July 2005 - 05:12 AM

[Revvy]

My brother was in grade 8 in 1999-2000 I guess, and his class was hooked on it. It was a gifted special-ed class all about letting kids do their own thing, so they got to spend tons of classtime messing with mzx. They had 2.51 s3.1 in those days, and my brother brought it home to show me. I first played Caverns and loved it, but I couldn't beat the first demon so I edited the world and added a million health potions around the room. Unfortunately that didn't affect my savegame, as I discovered when I next loaded up smugly. Anyways, we knew about mWorld, and picked up games like Bernard the Bard and that Megaman game by ZZTurbo. I went browsing soon before mWorld died (I was in grade 5 or so) and discovered "The Untitled MegaZeux Page" I believe. Anyways, I didn't see much of interest so I left and didn't visit again for a year or so, when I discovered the forums and figured out exactly what they were and stuff. I was an eager new person, always wanting the respect of other people, and I believed that my games would rock the world with their amazing stuff etc. Anyways, I'm pretty sure I've outgrown that stage because I don't even make games anymore!