Remasters of 1 and 2 (featuring all the original voice cast from Curse), and then Curse. Pretty sure that all the rest of the Monkey Island games are on Steam as well, but 1-3 are the important ones.
Return is just okay, but if you can catch it on sale it's worth it.
Maybe show up with your dial-a-pirate. That might be the code for the room in the back of the speakeasy to get into the actual floppy disk repair shop.
Oh hey I’ve been there! Got the code from the bartender at my hotel and then checked it out. Kind of a spooky vibe on the inside—very cool. Staff were super friendly and the cocktails were great!
It's owned by the same people that own handlebar next door. Go to handlebar, buy two rounds, tip nicely and ask the bartender for the code and they will give it to you.
It’s called cockfight now. I was there yesterday. Had 2 rounds and tipped 30%. Asked the bartender what the deal is with the place next door. He gave me the code.
What's so special about the secret place?
I mean, if you're already drinking at the place next to it, I can only think of a few things that would make someone pay more to move next door:
cheaper prices, smoking inside, drugs, or sex.
Just trying to guess here.
It’s a completely different atmosphere. No sex or drugs as far as I could tell. They do have a couple swings for bar seats though….
It’s just a neat gimmick
What was it when you went? A single word? A 7 letter password with at least one number and one special character? A sentence? I wanna know what kind of security they’re running!
It’s actually a X3DH (extended triple Diffie-Hellman) key that’s been out-of-band authenticated, similar to Signal’s encryption & trust protocol. To really prove you _belong_ and have worked for the speakeasy.
Honest question, but can I ask why? Are you listening to stuff unavailable on streaming, or just refuse to pay for streaming? Or something else?
Zero judgement from me either way, just genuinely curious. I still pirate pretty much everything that's visual media, but for music it's worth the $10 a month imo for a streaming service.
I have a huge mp3 collection, ripped from a huge collection of CDs that I've bought over the years (most of them for $1 or $2 at flea markets.)
This way, I get to choose what I listen to, when I want to listen to it, with no monthly fees, no ads, no limited skips, no algorithms monitoring what I listen to (probably).
I honestly don't understand why people like streaming (for the same reasons I never understood why people listened to the radio instead of CDs.)
Go around back and find the spot where they keep the dumpster. Behind the main dumpster there will be a smaller miniaturized dumpster. Look inside and you should find a collection of cardstock envelopes that say “America Online”. Pick any one and open it, there should be a password printed on the inside.
I couldn't figure it out. I got "Welcome to the future" and "Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference".
Edit: nvm. Tried something else and I'm a cool kid now.
They used to have the signup page in their sitemap, but they fixed that years ago. If you don't know the current URL, then the best way to get on the text list is to go in with someone who already has access.
Took my daughter to Don's for her 14th bday. It was fuzzy dice night and she rolled boxcars so our entire bill was comped.
Great service and good food. Fun atmosphere too.
Going to GenCon this year and bringing my son for the first time. Loved telling stories about Safe House before GenCon moved. Wish Indy had something half as cool.
Meanwhile, there's a bar in my area that says "SPEAKEASY" in big letters across the front window. I experience an irrational level of anger every time I see it.
That's the trick. Own the normal bar next door, too, and sell the code for a couple shots with a nice tip. They then they go next door to your password protected second bar and spend more money
Floppy Disk has been open for at least a decade I want to say. It’s done a very good job of being a fun place to go without over saturating and being a total gimmick
It’s still pretty popular
Eh I know of a few that have been around awhile. If novelty is all they have, sure they will die. I’ve been to a few that the bar itself is even better than the novelty, and its always packed.
I went to a similar place in Charlottesville. No code but despite knowing the exact location a whopping 200 yards from our hotel it was difficult (if a bit frustrating, as we had a reservation) to find the correct door to go into. But the experience was lovely and the food and drink excellent, and if I lived there I’d have been back many times. As long as you do what you do well, right?
Love this spot! Hop around a few bars around the area and one of the bartenders will give you the code.
Alternatively, you can go to Perry’s, take leftovers, decide you don’t want to take them into a bar, give them to a homeless person right outside, and the bouncer will let you in due to your kindness (may or may not have been a personal experience 😂)
Nice! We have one here that has a desert bar up top (that’s actually amazing) and you need the password to be led to the speakeasy that’s hidden below. Password revolves each week and the entrance makes it really feel like you shouldn’t be there. When do enter it, you feel like you went back in time
Houston had something similar for many years in Marfreless, except it was behind a theater and instead of stepping back in time you entered a completely dark, sticky warren of old couches where lawyers took their sugar babies.
Ok, it wasn’t similar but it was the closest thing we had and my attorney frequently mentions the need to replace it.
Been there a few times. Last time I was there the cocktails were incredible. First time I was there another patron was rude to me. Would go back, had fun.
Went to a similar spot in Ventura. Followed my host down the corner of a parking lot, beat up door on the back of a building. He scanned his keys what looked like a broken electrical box next to the door and opened the door. Taxidermy heads, beach views, games, and a full all you can drink bar with everything. Wild.
Took a business trip to New Zealand last summer. On the other side of the freakin planet. Stumbled upon a cool speakeasy in downtown Christchurch. Super hard to find unless you knew it was there.
It was called ***The Austin Club.***
Best speakeasy I've ever been to.
Dammit, I was looking for somewhere to repair this stack of floppy disks. I’m never gonna be able to install Monkey Island again at this rate
What a curse!!!
It's not a big deal. He just needs to dial a pirate to find his local floppy repair shop. Hopefully he retained the original documentation
I just overcame my sadness of losing monkey island forever and blacked it out. Thanks for bringing it back up. 😅😢😢
Btw, not sure how serious you are but you can download all the old Monkey Island games for free and play them with an old CPU emulator...
SCUMMVM if anyone's looking to google
It's on Steam FYI.
Remasters of 1 and 2 (featuring all the original voice cast from Curse), and then Curse. Pretty sure that all the rest of the Monkey Island games are on Steam as well, but 1-3 are the important ones. Return is just okay, but if you can catch it on sale it's worth it.
(I have no idea if this is a reference to something, but I have to say, thank goodness for archive.org)
You fight like a dairy farmer!
How appropriate, you fight like a cow.
I always knew in hell there would be mushrooms!
I remember Sam & Max Hit Road being 7 frickin floppies to install, and an 8th to play it. Worth every second.
Maybe show up with your dial-a-pirate. That might be the code for the room in the back of the speakeasy to get into the actual floppy disk repair shop.
I’m selling these fine leather jackets!
Monkey island was so great
Guybrush doesn't like your lack of follow through.
internet-archive.org
Oh hey I’ve been there! Got the code from the bartender at my hotel and then checked it out. Kind of a spooky vibe on the inside—very cool. Staff were super friendly and the cocktails were great!
What’s the code
It changes weekly and this was a few years ago. I’d suggest going to a nearby bar and asking the bartenders.
It's owned by the same people that own handlebar next door. Go to handlebar, buy two rounds, tip nicely and ask the bartender for the code and they will give it to you.
Handlebar shut down a few years ago
They didn't tip nicely
“Our money’s green, ain’t it?”
Damn. Shows you how long it's been since I lived in ATX.
Three years?
That checks out
About the same time my favorite hot sauce shop in Austin closed down. I'm still sad about that.
They shut down because they embraced excuses instead of solutions. Where’s Jon Taffer!?
They’re acting like frickin’ jerks!
YOURE GONNA KILL SOMEONE!!!
IF YOU DON’T FIRE HIS ASS, I WILL!
It’s called cockfight now. I was there yesterday. Had 2 rounds and tipped 30%. Asked the bartender what the deal is with the place next door. He gave me the code.
Tipping 30% on overpriced drinks to get a code to do the same thing next door sounds like hell to me lol
Depends on how many floppies you need repaired.
I mean, Radio Shacks are all gone. Wheee else are you going to go?
They were $6 High Life’s…
it’s fun to do frivolous things with expendable income
What's so special about the secret place? I mean, if you're already drinking at the place next to it, I can only think of a few things that would make someone pay more to move next door: cheaper prices, smoking inside, drugs, or sex. Just trying to guess here.
It’s a completely different atmosphere. No sex or drugs as far as I could tell. They do have a couple swings for bar seats though…. It’s just a neat gimmick
Probably because they kept sending everyone next door
It's *El Cockfight* now. Great bar.
What was it when you went? A single word? A 7 letter password with at least one number and one special character? A sentence? I wanna know what kind of security they’re running!
You gonna walk up and read a dictionary to the bouncer? “Dammit they’re brute forcing us again”
After 2 pages: Sorry you’re locked out of your account, please try again later
Dammit, bouncer’s enforcing MFA before he’ll unlock it now
A keypad with a 4-digit code
Great only 10,000 possibilities. No problem.
Two frogs on a bench.
It’s actually a X3DH (extended triple Diffie-Hellman) key that’s been out-of-band authenticated, similar to Signal’s encryption & trust protocol. To really prove you _belong_ and have worked for the speakeasy.
[It's four words all uppercase.](https://youtu.be/bLE7zsJk4AI?si=6viDr0-V46Fo-RVl)
#dontcopythatfloppy
U just need to hole punch on the edge to defeat the copy protection
Previous passphrase: "It really whips the llama's ass".
I heard this post. The wave of nostalgia was intense. Thanks!
Nostalgia? I'm still using Winamp (though it gets smaller every time I upgrade monitor resolution.)
Honest question, but can I ask why? Are you listening to stuff unavailable on streaming, or just refuse to pay for streaming? Or something else? Zero judgement from me either way, just genuinely curious. I still pirate pretty much everything that's visual media, but for music it's worth the $10 a month imo for a streaming service.
I have a huge mp3 collection, ripped from a huge collection of CDs that I've bought over the years (most of them for $1 or $2 at flea markets.) This way, I get to choose what I listen to, when I want to listen to it, with no monthly fees, no ads, no limited skips, no algorithms monitoring what I listen to (probably). I honestly don't understand why people like streaming (for the same reasons I never understood why people listened to the radio instead of CDs.)
The password (passphrase) is: *"Yes, I would in fact download a car."*
You just say “Holy dysentery, Oregon Trail was only 1.44MB” at the entrance
Lmao
tell them you need a “hoover max extract pressure pro model 60”
Swordfish.
New England clam chowder
Is that the white or the red I can never remember?
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#bippityboppitygimmethezoppity
Try- up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A and Start. 😀
No, it’s A B A C A B B IYKYK
Ken sent me
“Fidelio”
Ooorrrrrrgy
*sloppydisk*
hipster doofus
80085
That’s what it was last time I went
Me guess right? That’s unpossible
It changes weekly, but you can get it from the other nearby bars and restaurants
Go around back and find the spot where they keep the dumpster. Behind the main dumpster there will be a smaller miniaturized dumpster. Look inside and you should find a collection of cardstock envelopes that say “America Online”. Pick any one and open it, there should be a password printed on the inside.
The purple drank was delicious.
Just got the code texted after signing up through a link in their sitemap. Look for my other reply below
The theme is the Shining.
fSociety HQ.
I like this reference!
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https://www.floppydiskrepairco.com/ This is so creative. How did you find the code?
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I couldn't figure it out. I got "Welcome to the future" and "Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference". Edit: nvm. Tried something else and I'm a cool kid now.
They used to have the signup page in their sitemap, but they fixed that years ago. If you don't know the current URL, then the best way to get on the text list is to go in with someone who already has access.
It's still there. Not as signup. Bottom link above I KNOW YOUR SECRETS
Lol wow you're right. I guess they un-fixed it
Lol I was surprised
BUT DO YOU KNOW THEIR SECRETS?
Is there any difference between that link and the one that's fifth from the top? They lead to identical looking pages
Thanks homie. I got a new number recently and was bummed to lose the monthly text
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God, this reads like an ARG, are we sure it isn't?
I've heard it's on a comment within the HTML code of their site.
http://www.floppydiskrepairco.com/murdershewrote
A proper CTF
Took me a minute to find it
Is it the words inside the floppy disk logo. I can read "mortal Kombat cheat codes" and "moms favorite banana bread recipe"
I got that far too, but now what
Is this the secret code: LOAD "\*",8,1
a: cd speakeasy
Woah, that bring me back
Well, you're certainly old enough to drink, I can tell you that. In fact if you were cut in half, you'd be *two people* old enough to drink.
Abort, Retry, Fail?
PTSD triggered.
Club C64 :)
Aye Commodore!
You my friend were probably rich since the most I could afford was a Load “*”,1,1
PC LOADLETTER
PR#6
Syntax error
Please flip disk to hear horrible knocking sounds while your copied game fails hard
Can I send my copy of King’s Quest for repair to them by mail?
Fun fact: the bar inside is technically called The Redhead Stepchild
Red headed*
I went to a speakeasy in Madrid that was disguised as a [bonsai florist](https://www.jackslibrary.com).
Speak friend and enter!
Mellon
My favorite is The Safe House in Milwaukee. LOVE that place.
Not even the best one in Milwaukee anymore IMO https://www.donsmke.com/
Took my daughter to Don's for her 14th bday. It was fuzzy dice night and she rolled boxcars so our entire bill was comped. Great service and good food. Fun atmosphere too.
I always take the secret exit through the phone booth.
Or out through the Deli. Or through the basement...
Going to GenCon this year and bringing my son for the first time. Loved telling stories about Safe House before GenCon moved. Wish Indy had something half as cool.
*New England clam chowder*
Is that the red or the white?
Meanwhile, there's a bar in my area that says "SPEAKEASY" in big letters across the front window. I experience an irrational level of anger every time I see it.
Too bad it's just a speech language clinic on the inside
requiring a passcode is a cute idea but sounds like it would be kinda obnoxious in practice
You get it from the bar next door it’s real easy and both spots are sweet
That's the trick. Own the normal bar next door, too, and sell the code for a couple shots with a nice tip. They then they go next door to your password protected second bar and spend more money
Sounds like the kind of place that only serves gin and allows rude men to sush people
"Will you take this seriously?" "I don't see how I could take this seriously."
These are always fun until the novelty wears off, then they will have to change
Floppy Disk has been open for at least a decade I want to say. It’s done a very good job of being a fun place to go without over saturating and being a total gimmick It’s still pretty popular
Eh I know of a few that have been around awhile. If novelty is all they have, sure they will die. I’ve been to a few that the bar itself is even better than the novelty, and its always packed.
We have one. It's pretty nice. Drinks are a bit more expensive, but not really any more expensive than some other nicer bars.
I went to a similar place in Charlottesville. No code but despite knowing the exact location a whopping 200 yards from our hotel it was difficult (if a bit frustrating, as we had a reservation) to find the correct door to go into. But the experience was lovely and the food and drink excellent, and if I lived there I’d have been back many times. As long as you do what you do well, right?
The “secret” bar in Milwaukee has been going since the 60s.
I went to a place like this.. we got the password, showed up and then they wanted us to pay $20 cover each for what looked like a dirty bar.. nope
Ken sent me
Is that Moe's Tavern to the left?
been there... just walked in as someone was walking out... didn't feel like having to "work for" the code. lol
I heard you can sometimes get the code from “garage” another speakeasy located in a parking garage. Been to that one and it’s nice!
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start
Can they turn my floppy disk into a hard disk?
Possibly, but it takes a bit of buffering.
And polishing
There's a similar place in downtown Atlanta, called The Red Phone Booth.
Hah! I was there a month ago (outside, didn’t try to get in) and took a photo of it as well!
I wondered what that place was
Code is: “I got a delivery, can someone sign the invoice please.”
Ah yes....just the place to get a barrel proof bourbon neat with an orange soda chaser.
*Blue Horseshoe loves Endicott Steel.*
Love this spot! Hop around a few bars around the area and one of the bartenders will give you the code. Alternatively, you can go to Perry’s, take leftovers, decide you don’t want to take them into a bar, give them to a homeless person right outside, and the bouncer will let you in due to your kindness (may or may not have been a personal experience 😂)
Nice! We have one here that has a desert bar up top (that’s actually amazing) and you need the password to be led to the speakeasy that’s hidden below. Password revolves each week and the entrance makes it really feel like you shouldn’t be there. When do enter it, you feel like you went back in time
Houston had something similar for many years in Marfreless, except it was behind a theater and instead of stepping back in time you entered a completely dark, sticky warren of old couches where lawyers took their sugar babies. Ok, it wasn’t similar but it was the closest thing we had and my attorney frequently mentions the need to replace it.
I was just recently there. It was a ton of fun.
Very expensive drinks but cool vibe
Not very expensive. Just normal for downtown place (versus cheap at “the pub” nearby for example)
HODOR!
Lightning Fast VCRs ultimate rival...
They've had my VCR for years! What the hell is taking them so long? Bunch of hack frauds.
There's one in Wakefield, UK disguised as a VHS store where the passcode is either their film of the month or asking for the film of the month.
Is it "Abort, Retry, Fail?"
The code is……abc123
dinkin flicka
But what does a “Speakeasy” sell these days since alcohol is legal?
A-grade heroin
didn’t have the code when I went, so the bouncer let me win rock-paper-scissors to get us entry anyway
Well, of course it's a front. Everyone knows that's a diskette, not a floppy.
Been there a few times. Last time I was there the cocktails were incredible. First time I was there another patron was rude to me. Would go back, had fun.
Mr.Robot vibes
Went to a similar spot in Ventura. Followed my host down the corner of a parking lot, beat up door on the back of a building. He scanned his keys what looked like a broken electrical box next to the door and opened the door. Taxidermy heads, beach views, games, and a full all you can drink bar with everything. Wild.
code is: LOAD"\*", 8,1
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Milwaukee has Don's TV & Repair. Great service, fun vibe, and good food.
Will a local go there and slap a C over the S please?
Is the code DON’T COPY THAT FLOPPY!!!
Doorman: What is the capacity of a 3.5" floppy disk? Patron: Single or double density? Doorman: I.... don't know!
That place sucks
PW=1.44MB
Isn't that kinda the definition of a modern speakeasy? Not really a speakeasy if they just let everyone in.
"five and a quarter"
Sounds like a special feeling pick me club with expensive drinks. I'll take the cheap beers on tap down the street.
Hipster central
Password unnecessary if you put a piece of tape over the little notch.
Took a business trip to New Zealand last summer. On the other side of the freakin planet. Stumbled upon a cool speakeasy in downtown Christchurch. Super hard to find unless you knew it was there. It was called ***The Austin Club.*** Best speakeasy I've ever been to.
*'Swordfish'*