Eskil

Can't be true. That would mean that I'm in my mid-40s, and... oh god...

Wow, this place is still here! I should never have left, eh? And these days I'm almost a kiwi too (currently residing in Melbourne, Australia), hah! I won't ask what's been happening since I've been gone, seeing as I haven't spoken to you guys in ages, but I'm curious to see if a few names I recognize will pop by to say hi. Anyway, I'm having a sleepless night, going through old bookmarks and memories. Good to see the blue and gold is still with us!

So this site is still going, huh? Been on a nostalgia trip lately, checking up on old haunts and marking old visited places on Google maps. It's been 20 years since my last post here, and almost 25 years since I was a staff member of this site. I vaguely remember making this thread in 2005, thinking it was shocking that the site was still going, and that it seemed so old even then. The transformation of the internet from 2001 to 2005 was already mind-boggling, and it hasn't stopped since. This is such a callback to classic internet for me, before it all became an endless battle for everyone's attention and dopamine. Some of my first online friendships were made through this site and the extended C&C community. As with almost everything else from back then, I have long since drifted out of touch with everyone I knew, and any chat logs or e-mails we may have exchanged have been lost in any one of a dozen hard drive crashes, upgrades, forgotten hard drives and moves. I see activity has obviously dropped off to almost zero these days, which makes sense for multiple reasons I guess. There's not much interest in the franchise anymore, and these old sites dedicated to specific games have been dying off for at least two decades by now. Anyway, I don't expect anyone to remember me here, or probably even read this post, but since my old login still worked I figured I'd leave a comment for myself to find in another 20 years. So: Hello 65-year-old Eskil, how's life? I hope you're getting ready to retire soon; I'm sure you deserve it. How are the kids? Are you a grandfather yet? Our own digital footprints are such a funny thing to come across. In many ways they're incredibly fleeting, and most of them will be gone within a few years when web sites close down or delete old content. But at the same time, every now and then these footprints are the longest-lived and clearest memories we have. Long after our own memories have faded, photos have been lost, friends drifted out of touch, and locations we used to visit are now forever changed or far away - Every now and then we can come across these digital memorials of days gone by, still as fresh-looking as the day they were first made. Anyway... Thanks @Sonic for the memories. I guess I will be very surprised to see this page still up in 2045, but then again - I would have said the same 20 years ago about 2025

Well hello there, fellas! Figured it was time for me to pop in for my annual visit to see how everyone's doing 8) Seeing as my original C&C and RA discs are long gone (and wouldn't work on these new-fangled machines anyway, heh), I figure The First Decade will be a nice trip down memory lane for an old-timer like me (for those who don't know me, I used to work on this site a few lifetimes ago). I saw it in my local store today, and almost picked it up immediately. However, as a die-hard user of Windows 2000, the "Windows XP" system requirement gave me second thoughts. Has anyone got any experiences (read: problems) with running this on Windows 2000? I obviously don't have the compatibility mode (well, not a simple one, anyway) that XP offers, but I can't imagine someone releasing a game that actually relied on this "feature" (and I use the term losely, considering it doesn't exactly work wonders for many old games). In any case, I just figured I'd ask, and at the same time check in on you all. Cheers! Eskil (once known as Viper)

You'll have to ask my parents

Isn't that the Enterprise?

Oh, and the drunken stupour thread is lost to cyber-heaven, but we can still access the sequel (may need a few refreshes): http://web.archive.org/web/20020225140920/...=1&t=000003

I'm still around, although my visits are rare. Unless Lord-D decides to turn up, I'd be the second oldest "member" of the site, after Sonic

Indeed, I was the second helping hand that Sonic took on this ship, back around september 1998. Damn, that's a long time ago, isn't it? I left in 2000 (I believe) due to me not having time to do much (especially to fulfill my duties as co-webmaster), and because I found my interest in the C&C series going steadily downhill. I'm extremely impressed with the work you've managed to put into this site, Chris. I was back in 2000, and I'm even more so now. I wish I had your determination when it came to my assignments *grins* I definitely would love to visit NZ, but it won't be for a good while yet. Money troubles as a student, plus the fact that I have a Master Thesis to finish, will keep me inside Melbourne's borders for close to a year still, I'm afraid. I'm currently in my last year of education, heading towards a Master degree in Computer Science, with specialising in games programming and development. So my interest in gaming in general is strong as ever, and I owe much to my time here for getting my interested in things that go on behind the scenes, both in terms of getting a more inside look at the games industry through being a member of this community, and for getting my interest in making things on the computer that other people can enjoy (html was my first "programming" language, one could say). For my first dodgy game, a Space Invaders remake, or tribute, head to my site and check out the news post. It's over a year old by now, and it was my first working game. I promise I'm better at it now, currently working on a networked game, a version of top-down Capture the flag. Anyway, enough pimping of my limited abilities, I'll step off my box. Later!