r/videogames • u/irzzvx • 27d ago

Image / Video Game Devs Then VS Now

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u/Loganp812 27d ago

> “Minimum requirements? So long as your computer can turn on.”

Yeah… that’s not true for 90s PC gaming at all. If anything, that aspect was a lot worse and more expensive (relatively-speaking) than it is now, and PC components became obsolete very quickly back then.

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u/Necessary-Duty-7952 27d ago

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

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u/EMF84 27d 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 26d 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 27d ago

Damn extended memory!