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'''NightMare''' was a [[screamer]] [[program]] developed in 1990 by Patrick Evans, which was distributed on Amiga Fish computer disks. The program's creator made it free to redistribute, and its source code was made publicly available.<ref>https://amiga-fish.erkan.se/amiga-fish-disk-448-content-NightMare | '''NightMare''' was a [[screamer]] [[program]] developed in 1990 by Patrick Evans, which was distributed on Amiga Fish computer disks. The program's creator made it free to redistribute, and its source code was made publicly available.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100829065252/http://amiga-fish.erkan.se/amiga-fish-disk-448-content-NightMare/</ref> | ||
When the user executed the code "Nightmare" in the Amiga Disk Operating System (DOS), the screen would quickly display a digital illustration of a skull facing right with its jaws open, its teeth covered in blood, and a bleeding | When the user executed the code "Nightmare" in the Amiga Disk Operating System (DOS), the screen would quickly display a digital illustration of a skull facing right with its jaws open, its teeth covered in blood, and a bleeding fracture in its side, accompanied by a resonant shriek which echoes out. The screamer would repeat every five minutes. | ||
Very little information is available regarding this program, due to how old it is and Amiga discontinuing their line of hardware in 1996.<ref>https://popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a27437/amiga-2017-a1222-tabor</ref> A similar program called [[McDonalds.exe]] was developed in China in 1999 to disrupt newer operating systems like [[wikipedia:Windows 98|Windows 98]], followed by more types of scareware applications which emerged in the 2000s and 2010s. | Very little information is available regarding this program, due to how old it is and Amiga discontinuing their line of hardware in 1996.<ref>https://popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a27437/amiga-2017-a1222-tabor</ref> A similar program called [[McDonalds.exe]] was developed in China in 1999 to disrupt newer operating systems like [[wikipedia:Windows 98|Windows 98]], followed by more types of scareware applications which emerged in the 2000s and 2010s. | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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==Links== | ==Links== | ||
<u>NOTE:</ | <u>NOTE</u><span>: </span>The following download link contains a [[screamer]] application! | ||
*ftp.funet.fi/pub/amiga/fish/401-500/ff448/NightMare.lha | |||
*'''Showcase video''': youtube.com/watch?v=ubFGj4lQSyM | *'''Showcase video''': youtube.com/watch?v=ubFGj4lQSyM | ||
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