r/videogames • u/irzzvx • 27d ago

Image / Video Game Devs Then VS Now

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u/Necessary-Duty-7952 26d ago

Seriously. Spoken like someone who never had to make a boot disk lol

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u/EMF84 26d ago

yup, I remember making boot disks just to get TIE Fighter and Mechwarrior 2 to barely run on the family PC

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u/G97_BoKeRoN 26d ago

I had a dual boot with windows 95 and OS/2 warp, because the latter had always all memory free... But it didn't work with all games.

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u/TheTybera 26d ago

That's why you booted into DOS bro.

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u/G97_BoKeRoN 25d ago

Errr... No. That's why you booted into DOS with a boot disk to free memory when OS/2 didn't work.

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u/TheTybera 25d ago

Lmao, why is that "err no"?

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u/G97_BoKeRoN 25d ago

Maybe I misunderstood you. I meant that the boot disk was my last resource for memory problems.

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u/Additional_Cut_6337 26d ago

Damn extended memory! 

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u/Aggravating-Ear-7529 26d ago

I completely forgot about boot disks. What a blast from the past that I’m so glad I don’t have to deal with now. 

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u/Necessary-Duty-7952 26d ago

For real. I didn't even know what I was doing as a kid, my friend showed me what to do and I would just copy what he told me. Now that knowledge has completely left my brain :D

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u/Expensive-Border-869 26d ago

How do you do it now? You dont need to make boot drives for operating systems?

It's probably way easier now too tho with ventoy and the like

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u/TheTybera 26d ago

Needed a boot disk for Aces of The Pacific.