NightMare
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)
