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|date = 1990 | |date = 1990 | ||
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'''NightMare''' was a [[screamer]] program developed in 1990 by Patrick Evans | '''NightMare''' was a [[screamer]] scareware [[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> | ||
When | When NightMare executes, it runs in the background. Every five minutes, it changes the entire screen of the computer for four-fifths of a second to an image of a skull with blood on its teeth and a bullet hole with blood leaking out of it, and plays an echoing shriek on the audio channels. (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.) | ||
Very little information is available regarding this program, due to how old | Very little information is available regarding this program, due to how old it is, and Amiga discontinuing its line of hardware in 1996.<ref>popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a27437/amiga-2017-a1222-tabor</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
<references /> | <references /> | ||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
<u>NOTE:</ | <u>NOTE</u><span>: </span>The following download link contains a [[screamer]] application! <font color="red">as well as a [[malicious script]] that may harm your computer!</font> | ||
*youtube.com/watch?v=ubFGj4lQSyM | * 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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{{Comments}} | {{Comments}} | ||
[[Category:Applications]] | [[Category:Applications]] | ||
[[Category:Other makers]] | [[Category:Other makers]] | ||
[[Category:Malicious scripts]] | [[Category:Malicious scripts]] | ||
[[Category:1990s]] | [[Category:1990s]] | ||
[[Category:Skeletons]] | |||
Latest revision as of 10:19, 27 June 2026
NightMare was a screamer scareware program developed in 1990 by Patrick Evans for the Amiga family of personal computers. It was distributed on Amiga Fish Disk 448.[1] Evans made the program free to redistribute, and its source code was made publicly available.[2] It is generally credited to be the first software of its kind.[3]
When NightMare executes, it runs in the background. Every five minutes, it changes the entire screen of the computer for four-fifths of a second to an image of a skull with blood on its teeth and a bullet hole with blood leaking out of it, and plays an echoing shriek on the audio channels. (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.)
Very little information is available regarding this program, due to how old it is, and Amiga discontinuing its line of hardware in 1996.[4]
References
Links
NOTE: The following download link contains a screamer application! as well as a malicious script that may harm your computer!
- 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
NOTE: The following link contains the screamer image!
- Wikipedia article: wikipedia.org/wiki/NightMare_(scareware)
