[icecap12]

I guess I was hacking at a young age then. Obtaining the pak1.pak file from a friend who had the CD automatically turned the freeware version into the full version of the game. The tough part was transferring it over a 28.8 baud modem. Took all blasted night on my dads "borrowed" Pentium 90. Oof...kids with broadband these days don't know how easy they have it.

[FredPret]

I remember boobs.jpg loading one... line... at... a... time

[MayeulC]

Do you recall how you transferred the file? I'm curious. You likely didn't dial each other up, or did you? Did you employ some kind of p2p utility? IP-based? I don't know much what was achievable as a kid or teen back then.

[enneff]

You would just dial the other person’s modem and that would give you a bidirectional steam of bytes from one machine to another. Anything you typed showed up in their terminal and vice versa. Then you could initiate a file transfer using a protocol such as Zmodem, which would stream the file in checksummed chunks so that parts could be retried if line noise corrupted them.

[rbg246]

I used to use hyperterminal as a child to transfer if we didn't both have unlimited hour ISP access.