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Found this relic cleaning my car's trunk (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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The CD case was all warped due to heat, the CD didn't survive either :/

How long was it there? Some years, i think

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 67 points 3 months ago (12 children)

This and Descent are the reasons I play with an inverted Y axis to this day.

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[–] Dontsellmydata@piefed.social 27 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Oh my. I remember playing Descent on my Compaq Pentium 486dx. Good times.

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[–] assembly@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I had this on the 486dx2 66MHz. It ran smooth.

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Stop bragging, not all of us can splash out the cash to upgrade from 386. :(

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[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Not the same person you replied to, but I first played Descent on my 386 too, but it didn't run truly smooth unless two upgrades and years later on a dx266. Same with Doom too, really,

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Well, to be fair, you wouldn't need as much ram as you do now a days....

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Pentium ≠ 486

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[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

We played it on a Mac Performa with like 24mb ram and maybe a 75 MHz PPC processor.

That and a starter’s Jedi game were the first FPV 3D games we’d ever played at home. (Someone had installed doom on the auto as compys at highschool).

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[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

I remember my first laptop, a b+w PowerBook 520 with 4MB RAM. I bought an 8MB upgrade for it that was $410. You think RAM is expensive today…

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[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 months ago

I think you're memory is fuzzy, it was either a Pentium or a 486, not both.

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

When I was in 8th grade taking Computer Applications, on Fridays the teacher would let us have free time and we would have 8-player LAN matches of Descent. That game was the shit.

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[–] deacon@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Hey, those were the first two games I got to emulate - but including Descent 2.

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[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

I always played with a keyboard and years later I saw someone playing it using a fancy joystick and inverted Y axis and I was shocked at how much more effective it was.

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