Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20180827202615/@comment-1496755-20180910202720

When I want to make students think I am very ancient, I just tell them I witnessed the creation of the "Operative Surgery" textbook. And yes, this is the truth - my mom designed it at home with some older version of Corel Draw. In 1998. And this same textbook has been used ever since. It was quite a big project.

Heh, that's what teammates are for - to watch each other's backs. Or notice wrong types of medkits.

Now that's dedication - making custom stuff for such an early beta of the game. It helps that this beta is sufficiently playable, unlike those silent Doom Alphas. As I mentioned under the YT video, imagine if Q2 development had actually started back then and that screenshot is from a map they designed for QTEST. And then the final game broke everything and they had no choice but to release what they did, keeping the screenshot as a bitter memory.

Perhaps the tower was cut during development and someone released it as a standalone thing later? Or it's just a funny name coincidence.

Much to learn we still have. Well, a decent amount of caution and common sense should keep a W95 installation stable enough. There is always worse - Windows Me, which could start doing weird things even if you do everything perfectly and exactly per the instructions. Curiously, it introduces System Restore, or at least some earlier version of it - they must have suspected how prone to messing up it was :D

Still not sure if I really saved it, but at least I tried. I found another one hiding in the foliage too, similar to the first (same mother perhaps) and it looked much healthier. And it wasn't scared by my presence at all. Almost like an adoption candidate, though I'm still not sure I am ready for such a step.