The Picard Maneuver to Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agoThen vs Nowstartrek.websiteimagemessage-square265arrow-up11.47Karrow-down179
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minus-squareCodexlinkfedilinkEnglish62•5 months agoThere’s some nostalgia goggles for sure. I mean, the demo for Rollercoaster Tycoon (Mr. “Hand coded in assembly” there) bricked our Windows 98 machine when i installed it as a kid. My dad was pissed: we had to reformat the harddrive, reinstall windows, all that.
minus-squareladlinkfedilinkEnglish21•5 months agoSeems like a golden era of running everything in ring 0, although that wasn’t called like this then, afaik
minus-square@snf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish13•5 months agoI remember having three or four games that you had to boot the computer into directly. As in, insert floppy and ctrl-alt-delete to launch the game.
There’s some nostalgia goggles for sure.
I mean, the demo for Rollercoaster Tycoon (Mr. “Hand coded in assembly” there) bricked our Windows 98 machine when i installed it as a kid. My dad was pissed: we had to reformat the harddrive, reinstall windows, all that.
Seems like a golden era of running everything in ring 0, although that wasn’t called like this then, afaik
I remember having three or four games that you had to boot the computer into directly. As in, insert floppy and ctrl-alt-delete to launch the game.