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'''NightMare''' was a [[screamer]] [[program]] developed in 1990 by Patrick Evans, which was distributed on Amiga Fish | '''NightMare''' was a [[screamer]] [[program]] developed in 1990 by Patrick Evans, which was distributed on [[wikipedia:Amiga|Amiga]] Fish Disk 448.<ref>https://www.amiga-stuff.com/pd/fish.html/</ref> 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 fracture in its side, accompanied by a resonant shriek | When the user executed the code "Nightmare" in the Amiga [[wikipedia:Disk_operating_system|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. The screamer would reappear 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. | ||
