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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Member when you edited your ~~himem.sys~~ config.sys and autoexec.bat to play your game?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Remember when you had to navigate through DOS to start your game?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Remember when you had to find a stick for stick and hoop?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Ug ug ooga ooga? Ug ug!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Remember when you had to make boot disks for games?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Remember when you needed a cassette tape for games?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Remember when you had a quickload cartridge in the expansion slot but not every game would be able to use it? And when you blew the video card pulling the keyboard too hard since they were all hot connections? I still haven't fixed that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Config.sys actually. Himem was a line in the config.sys file.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Oh, fuck. Right. config.sys! I'll return my old fart medal right away, sir.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ahh the good old days when you had to flip dip switches on expansion cards to avoid IRQ and address conflicts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Freaking sound cards sucked back then.