ELTEE said:Falcon 3.0
Oh GOD!! I was never able to get that game running with a joystick, sound card and mouse in memory at the same time. What a memory hog!
ELTEE said:Falcon 3.0
heh, I remember being 6 years old and struggling to set up proper boot disks for Falcon 3.0, Xwing and WC2. I had an old Zeos 486, pretty good for the time. All I wanted to do was play the game, and I just didn't understand why it was so much more difficult than fireing up SNES and Super Mario World...
I do remember being proud of the fact that I was into PC gaming at the time...most of my other friends sticked with the nintendos and segas....
When I look back on it though, those days forced me to gain a certain level of understanding with computers than perhaps I would have otherwise. Fast forward to summer 2003 when I worked as an intern in a law office. Someone had computer issues, and I remember resolving the problem through the command prompt simply because it was familiar to me. All these lawyers suddenly thought I was THE computer guy.
Honestly, I didn't really know what I was doing. I fixed the computer at the time, and always seemed to bumble my way to solutions for future requests (which then became frequent), but really, I just learned these tricks from gaming.
More like: I did take my time to do it properly ONCE. Any yes, that might have taken more then one afternoon to get there.
Yeah, Doom was easy too run, and still is. But damn, Priv, wc2 and WC3 had wildly different hardware and mem config demands... WC3 needed lots of EMS or XMS, while Priv needed you to NOT have any of that turned on, thanks to that god damned mem manager.
By the way, I got the package today, thanks!
This is what I'm talking about. One needed MSCDEX/CD-ROM drivers, and another needed them disabled to free up conventional memory.
See? Gaming is good for you.
I guess.