[TheJMan]

Sigh... Off to a great start, it seems.

This post has been edited by TheJMan: 02 January 2010 - 07:58 AM

[weasel]

Welcome to the forums, JMan, and I hope the rest of the forum doesn't suddenly begin following THDPro's example here. That wasn't a very friendly way to welcome (back?) a new member.

[ThDPro]

weasel, on Jan 2 2010, 12:08 AM, said:

Welcome to the forums, JMan, and I hope the rest of the forum doesn't suddenly begin following THDPro's example here. That wasn't a very friendly way to welcome (back?) a new member.

He only posted once on his first account, and plus, he's my older brother. Let me have at him for a moment.

[TheJMan]

This conversation comes off way sillier once you realize that we are in fact sitting right next to each other watching Star Trek: TNG, a computer running MZX(got all three letters this time) in both of our laps. This is what our whole tomorrow will look like into the wee hours, I wager. Come to think of it, its been like this for a few days already.

[weasel]

ThDPro, on Jan 2 2010, 12:15 AM, said:

He only posted once on his first account, and plus, he's my older brother. Let me have at him for a moment.

Well, that's something that was not obvious to me, I just thought it was an unwarranted attack on a new guy. Didn't have anything that pointed to that.

[Ken Long]

hello dudes.

I played ZZT/MZX 7-9 years ago a lot and just recently got it again. was never active in the community nor have I ever made any games.

greetings everyone!

[Val]

Hi Giel NEVER MIND

Hi Ken Long how long are you nmiaow

This post has been edited by Guy: 27 January 2010 - 04:33 AM

[Maxim]

Ken Long, on Jan 27 2010, 04:58 AM, said:

hello dudes.

I played ZZT/MZX 7-9 years ago a lot and just recently got it again. was never active in the community nor have I ever made any games.

greetings everyone!

Well, I certainly hope you do make some games because we could really use some.

[Ken Long]

hey man. i'm doing pretty well!

[Genrok]

Hey Ken, welcome.

[WeirdMan]

Hi all,

I am an old old timer that used to go by Owcp and ZZTDude in the old days. And then WeirdMan on the early IRC channel days. I made a lot of crappy games and the much hated #MegaZeux Adventure game for ZZT. Anybody still around from that era that remembers me? Really was just curious if anybody had a couple of my old MegaZeux games I lost years ago. One was called Arena Adventure, and another was called Dragon Quest Legends - Ortega Demo. I would just like to have them again for nostalgic reasons. So if anyone could help with that I would be very grateful!

- Dustin

[weasel]

I think I actually played #Megazeux Adventure, back before I knew what Megazeux was. (So that'd be...1999, maybe?) It didn't strike me as being a particularly bad game, but then, I also hadn't played November Eve or Code Red at that point...

[Terryn]

 If I had them, they'd be in the archive already. Sorry. I can add them to the request list if you'd like.

[Exophase]

WeirdMan, on 08 April 2010 - 03:59 PM, said:

Hi all,

I am an old old timer that used to go by Owcp and ZZTDude in the old days. And then WeirdMan on the early IRC channel days. I made a lot of crappy games and the much hated #MegaZeux Adventure game for ZZT. Anybody still around from that era that remembers me? Really was just curious if anybody had a couple of my old MegaZeux games I lost years ago. One was called Arena Adventure, and another was called Dragon Quest Legends - Ortega Demo. I would just like to have them again for nostalgic reasons. So if anyone could help with that I would be very grateful!

- Dustin

I remember you, but I can't help but feel like you want as something else at some point. Were you on AOL?

[A-Guymzx]

holy, i just noticed i haven't even properly introduced me here. So, here goes:

I'm A-Guymzx*. I'm 13 years old , a rather big Anime fan and incredibly lazy. I like to play Roblox (a lego-based game making program/community), make (mostly practice) my own manga/anime, and sleep during school, cuz i don't feel like sleeping before 2 am. My dream is to make an animation company and community with it. Why?

Spoiler

Since i've become an anime fan, i've been thinking of making an anime serie myself. I've already thought of what kind of serie it'll be, some main characters, and that kinda stuff.
Even though i know how hard it'll be, i want to do it. Whatever it may take.

I'm also learning Japanese and making AMV's on youtube in my spare time. Other then that, i just check my inboxes over and over to pass the time.

Spoiler

*= I got this name when i was still like 10 or so. when i first properly used the interwebs (like playing runescape) i wanted a name that won't identify me, but did include a peice of my real name. So i took the first letter of my name (A) and randomly pasted Guy onto it to make A-Guy. after trying that, i noticed it's already been taken and thought again. after a little while i put mzx (cuz i loved megazeux back then) and put it behind A-Guy. Since then, this has been my internet alias everywhere, mainly cuz this is a rather unique combination. And so I signed up on dMZX (and everywhere else) with the name A-Guymzx. Quiet a little story, huh?

[Shlavar]

Hi everyone.

I used to play Megazeux games when I was younger, and recently I realized that it was an awesome gaming experience and would like to get back into it.

I'm glad there's still a community. But I'm having trouble finding an archive of games, and I'm afraid I don't quite have the patience to download them one by one... well, I would like to get the good ones somehow.. anyone have any suggestions? I saw something about getting some via MIRC?

Anyway, hope we all have a good time megazeuxing and whatnot.

[mzxgiant]

Welcome, Shlavar! As KKairos pointed out (and I see you found ), the link at the top that says "The Vault" is where the archive is squirreled away. Once I stop being lazy (or overwhelmed), I plan to make it slightly more apparent. mIRC (or any other IRC client) is a good way to find more community folks though. You can go to irc.esper.net #mzx to find more people.

[Shlavar]

mzxgiant, on 07 May 2010 - 11:36 AM, said:

Welcome, Shlavar! As KKairos pointed out (and I see you found ), the link at the top that says "The Vault" is where the archive is squirreled away. Once I stop being lazy (or overwhelmed), I plan to make it slightly more apparent. mIRC (or any other IRC client) is a good way to find more community folks though. You can go to irc.esper.net #mzx to find more people.

Thanks. Yeah, I found the vault. There's so many games though. It'd be very useful to have a torrent or something of all the games available at this time. For now I'll download the top rated ones and the ones people recommend. I'm not sure yet what I'll do for the rest, but I plan on trying out a lot in June.

[djtiesto]

WeirdMan, on 08 April 2010 - 08:59 PM, said:

Hi all,

I am an old old timer that used to go by Owcp and ZZTDude in the old days. And then WeirdMan on the early IRC channel days. I made a lot of crappy games and the much hated #MegaZeux Adventure game for ZZT. Anybody still around from that era that remembers me? Really was just curious if anybody had a couple of my old MegaZeux games I lost years ago. One was called Arena Adventure, and another was called Dragon Quest Legends - Ortega Demo. I would just like to have them again for nostalgic reasons. So if anyone could help with that I would be very grateful!

- Dustin

Holy shit, I remember you... of course from Dustin's DQ Page, and from your MZX/IRC days... I remember the Dragon Quest game too, had some really nice graphics IIRC. Unfortunately I don't still have it, but we have some pretty awesome archivists on here... perhaps Spectere or someone else has this game sitting on some hard drive somewhere?

This post has been edited by djtiesto: 12 May 2010 - 01:32 AM

[RinGames06]

I re-joined the MZX community, I am hanging over here, nice to meet you (or re-meet you) ... i am RinGames x3

[ZeuxWarrior]

Hi, everyone.

I am ZeuxWarrior. Some of you may know me as CaRmAgE around other places on the Internet. I am 22 and have been using Megazeux since v2.51. I usually don't join forums of any sort, but I began to run into a few problems with the newer Robotic features, so I might pop in from time to time with some questions.

[Lachesis]

Welcome to the forums ZeuxWarrior :)

[JohnWWells]

Hi! I'm John W. Wells, and I was active in ZZT a while back, where I wrote a game. Good to see that people are still making games here!

[Lachesis]

Hello John, and welcome to DigitalMZX.net!

[Spectere]

Welcome to DMZX, John!

I assume that you're the one behind ESP? I love that game.

[Dr Lancer-X]

ESP was pretty great

[vsevolod]

Hi, I used to be known as MZCool, epicguy2367, and a couple other things. I was one of the CompuServe kids, shooting the shit with Tim and that other guy from Epic Megagames back in the ZZT days. I've been involved in the MZX community since it came out (I was ~10 at the time), except for an 8+ year hiatus which I have only just returned from.

I've been putting off this intro post. Those of you oldbies who are left may not remember me fondly. Newbies (which, to me, is most of you) may know me from throwing me at people in the Cans series. I never finished or released a game in ZZT or MZX, although I threw together a few boards here and there for projects that never had much of a shot, in hindsight. I was also obnoxious, even for a small child, and that "first wave" of MZXers were not much older, but just old enough to get interested in cliques and exclusion. djtiesto is also familiar with this phenomenon, as are, I'm sure, a few others. Unlike djtiesto, I was an Aspie scatterbrain with no motivation, spiraling into the depths of delusion thanks to the impulse toward cognitive rigidity, isolation and withdrawal, not to mention the impact of familial abuse. By the time I woke up to the nature of my brain and its difference from others, I had bombed out of college, alienated many friends, and caused most of the others to lose interest. Now I am picking up the pieces, undoing the years of damage to relationships and my mind. Thankfully my diagnosis came with an IQ test and it turns out I have certain mental gifts, which I long suspected, but never showed off.

My greatest contributions to the MZX community were securing an FTP site called "cloud" that became a widely-linked repository for MZX and ZZT games as well as other free games and my interviews with any MZXers who would oblige me. It's all gone now, I'm pretty damn sure, but it was a rare stable link in the days before the Vault.

Rediscovering MZX this week was accidental. I'm not sure how it started, but I think I stumbled upon the diy gamer zine interview with SnigWich and it released memories of old community, identity and creativity. It spurred me on to open an IRC client and reconnect with the community as I knew it, and maybe meet some new people bringing fresh (to me) perspectives to the GCS I knew and loved. Or, at least, loved. I have been lucky to meet many such people. Don't ever take this community for granted! There are minds here which would put any to shame, and the things you cats have done with that old, kludgy, limited, keyboard-only GCS have blown me away. Examples need scarcely be mentioned, but I should point out that perhaps the incredible energy of this community's core is less visible to those of you who have been in it continuously. For me, walking back into it after so long away, I see drive, hustle and an optimistic problem-solving attitude prevailing. The feel of this community is very different from the old vaporware days. As, I suppose, it should be: inmate and some of you who have stuck around are hovering around 30, and that trips me right the hell out.

I stumbled into the wrong IRC network--I hadn't been on IRC since at least Bush 2's reelection--and found Exophase there, where I asked him for directions. He followed me into #mzx and I was glad to see him welcomed back as well. Maybe it sounds cheesy, but being around the creativity and DIY spirit of this group has flared up my passion for expression, although I won't make the same mistake twice by promising this expression will take the form of completed/released MZX games.

I have been pleasantly surprised at my reception on IRC, though again, given that everyone has grown older, perhaps I shouldn't be. In the old days, I always came back to the channel even after many bans (mods were pretty capricious and I was pretty annoying). Despite the teasing and low-level bullying I experienced as part of my youthful MZX experience, I also felt that this community was in rarefied air in terms of its acceptance of diverse ways of thinking and being. We often joked that we were "crazy", "mental", "out of our minds", but now I think we were puzzling out these words that dominant society told us we were (or must be). In our creations, and in each other, we found our individualism and humanity under these labels and pushed it to the surface, replacing guilt with pride and shame with resolve. It was no coincidence, again, that I learned about zines here, and learned about the drug war, and learned about what transgender people need from their friends and communities. I still see people expressing their very idiosyncratic perspectives through their creations here, and for many, this has extended outside of the interpreter to tie Robotics in with other sites of digital life. I suspect something fundamental about the MZX and 'pre-MZX'* community, or perhaps ZZT and MZX themselves, has had a humanizing effect on many of us whose cognitive, affective and intellectual differences from others push us close to a dark path. I have vague thoughts of exploring this concept with others in the community, maybe producing something similar to cly5e's ZZT interviews (which are a great blast from the past if you remember the originals).

* To distinguish this group from the surprisingly distinct group of ZZTers who replaced us after we all migrated to MZX for good.

//

Anyway, hi again to those of you I haven't seen in a long time, and hi to those who don't know me. It's good to be back among friends.

I have only read the first and last pages of this thread so far, but hey there WeirdMan, since you asked, I totally remember you. (but not your games--eep! I don't have much memory for ZZT/MZX games, beyond the super famous ones.)

[CJA]

wb

[Terryn]

I'd like to hear the story about the FTP sometime, especially considering that if I remember correctly, that one was hosted by the U.S. Navy.

[Maxim]

Not just the Navy, but Naval Warfare Systems Command! What the?!