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{{Infobox
|title = NightMare
|image = NightMare.png
|maker = Patrick Evans
|type = Scareware [[application]]
|date = 1990
}}
'''NightMare''' was a [[screamer]] [[program]] developed in 1990 by Patrick Evans for the [[wikipedia:Amiga|Amiga]] family of personal computers. It was distributed on Amiga [[wikipedia:Fred_Fish|Fish Disk]] 448.<ref>amiga-stuff.com/pd/fish.html/</ref> Evans made the program free to redistribute, and its source code was made publicly available.<ref>web.archive.org/web/20100829065252/<nowiki>http://amiga-fish.erkan.se/amiga-fish-disk-448-content-NightMare/</nowiki></ref> It is generally credited to be the first software of its kind.<ref>easyrider.easyrider.com/scareware_white_paper.htm</ref>


==NightMare==
When the program is executed, it runs in the background. Every five minutes, the screen would display a digital illustration of a skull facing right with its jaws open, its teeth covered in blood, and a bleeding bullet hole in its side, accompanied by an echoing shriek. (A low-pitched version of the stock sound effect "Scream, Man 3" and "Vocal Effects And Heartbeats - One Scream (Male)" from Valentino Vintage SFX's ''Vintage SFX - Horror'' and BBC Records' ''Sound Effects No. 13 - Death & Horror'', respectively.)
''NightMare ''is a scareware application created by ''Patrick Evans'' in 1990 for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga Amiga] computers. When executed, it will run in the background. Every 5 minutes, the screen will switch to a picture of a skull with its mouth open, blood covering its teeth and a bullet hole on the back of the skull, blood leaking from it. This is accompanied by an echoing shriek and happens for a four-fifth of a second.
 
== Links ==
Very little information is available regarding this program, due to how old it is, and Amiga discontinuing their line of hardware in 1996.<ref>popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a27437/amiga-2017-a1222-tabor</ref>
<u>NOTE:</u> The following [http://screamer.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Clips video] contains a [[screamer]].
 
* '''youtube.com/watch?v=ubFGj4lQSyM'''
==References==
[[Category:1990]]
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[[Category:Applications]]
==Links==
<u>NOTE</u><span>: </span>The following download link contains a [[screamer]] application!
* ftp.funet.fi/pub/amiga/fish/401-500/ff448/NightMare.lha
* '''Permalink:''' web.archive.org/web/20240517055532/ftp.funet.fi/pub/amiga/fish/401-500/ff448/NightMare.lha
* '''Showcase video:''' youtube.com/watch?v=ubFGj4lQSyM
===External links===
<u>NOTE</u><span>: </span>The following link contains the [[screamer]] image!
* '''Wikipedia article:''' wikipedia.org/wiki/NightMare_(scareware)
 
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