NightMare

NightMare
About This Screamer
Maker	Patrick Evans
Type	Scareware application
Release date	1990

NightMare was a screamer program developed in 1990 by Patrick Evans, which was distributed on Amiga Fish Disk 448. The program's creator made it free to redistribute, and its source code was made publicly available. It is generally credited to be the first software of its kind.

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.

Very little information is available regarding this program, due to how old it is, and Amiga discontinuing their line of hardware in 1996. A similar program called McDonalds.exe was developed in China in 1999 to disrupt newer operating systems like Windows 98, followed by more types of scareware applications which emerged in the 2000s and 2010s.

Links

NOTE: 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

External links

NOTE: The following link contains the screamer image!

• Wikipedia article: wikipedia.org/wiki/NightMare_(scareware)

NightMare is part of a series on

The Exorcist - Original Theatrical Trailer ⟡ Faroe Islands (WDC) ⟡ Jumyou Ga Chijimaru ⟡ Monkey on Their Backs ⟡ Budd Dwyer’s Suicide ⟡ Ricardo López's Suicide ⟡ Dumb Animals ⟡ The Scavengers ⟡ Burger King Kids Club Commercial - The Simpsons ⟡ Bowlgirl ⟡ Peperami - Running ⟡ OFEX ⟡ The Chase ⟡ ChechClear ⟡ Environmental Investigation Agency - Tigers ⟡ BME Pain Olympics ⟡ Teletoon at Night Bumper

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