graywest Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Hey everyone, One of my first memories of Atari computers when I was a wee lad was of a program called "cruel.exe". I had just gotten an 800xl for Christmas with a few cart games. My mom's friend gave us a bunch of pirated disks to use with the new disk drive. There were a lot of different games and demos on these disks. My parents showed me how to boot the disks, then left to go on a walk. I played a couple of games, then came across this program called cruel.exe. Booted it up, and it asked me to type in my name. As soon as I hit the first letter, the screen started flashing garbage characters and making loud siren sounds! Scared the crap out of me. I actually ran out of the room, down the street, found my parents and told them that I broke the computer. Anyway, they came back and had a good laugh when they found out that it was just a programmer's joke. I was just wondering... does anyone have a copy of this program? I checked Atarimania and couldn't find anything. Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Hi! I don't really know what it was. But I've found a "nice tool" called Paperweight 3.1 which seems to do something similar. It may apear somewhere as Destroy Demo, too! Have fun! paperw31.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Paperweight. I remember that one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinosaur Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 I remember when that came out in A.N.A.L.O.G. (after the ST appeared) and 8 bitters thought it was real and were PISSED OFF! Generated quite a few letters to the editor! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Mo Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Hey everyone, One of my first memories of Atari computers when I was a wee lad was of a program called "cruel.exe". It's actually called CRUELIO.BAS, and was on the ANTIC monthly disc for October 1984... Attached! Antic_v3_n6_Computer_Learning_Magic.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graywest Posted March 24, 2008 Author Share Posted March 24, 2008 Hahaha - yes, that's the one!! Thanks so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allas Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 It's a crash very real, I understand why do you scared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graywest Posted March 25, 2008 Author Share Posted March 25, 2008 Yeah, I was probably seven years old at the time. I had forgotten that the screen flashes "DANGER!" too, which didn't help matters any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 It's actually called CRUELIO.BAS, and was on the ANTIC monthly disc for October 1984... I remember that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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