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Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 32 points 10 months ago (13 children)

I have fond memories of Windows XP working well.

Do not have fond memories of the multi-dvd game installations, but I still have my library of physical games. :)

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    Nothing sucked more than buying a used game only for it to ask for disc 5 to be inserted to continue, when it only came with 4!

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago

    Oh, true, but back then game companies would sell you those single disks you needed. My copy of Baldur's Gate 2 was missing one that I was able to replace for a few bucks.

    In hindsight, I kinda miss the awesome customer service that used to exist.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Multi dvd? Those are from 2007 and later, iirc. Multiple cds were common by 2000 already, tho

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    And before that, there were games that spanned multiple floppies. Plus, floppies were less reliable, so there was a higher chance one of the disks would fail to read, leading to the Retry, Fail, Abort menu.

    They were only 1.44MB so a 50GB game would take like 40k floppies.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    I installed Office 97 from 49 floppies on a bunch of office computers. We didn't have CD-rom drives, so we requested the floppies from Microsoft (this was a free of charge service). Took me a week. Got into graphic novels, as I was waiting for each floppy to load.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I watched a video where a dude wrote his own filesystem for floppies so he could run and play factorio from floppy disk. It was quite entertaining.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I remember when Doom Ultra HD 8k came on 40k floppies. Back before we even had 2k displays. It took nearly 2 days to read it all into RAM (mind you, I had a cluster of 200 computers just to have enough ram...) and ran at about 0.01 FPS on my 640x480 CRT. And you had to read about 73 more floppies every time you loaded a new map.

    Ah, the good old days.

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