Then vs Now - eviltoast
  • Codex@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 months ago

      Seems like a golden era of running everything in ring 0, although that wasn’t called like this then, afaik

      • snf@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        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.