I Cast Fist@programming.dev to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoFound this relic cleaning my car's trunkprogramming.devimagemessage-square139fedilinkarrow-up1646arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1643arrow-down1imageFound this relic cleaning my car's trunkprogramming.devI Cast Fist@programming.dev to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square139fedilinkfile-text
The CD case was all warped due to heat, the CD didn’t survive either :/ How long was it there? Some years, i think
minus-squareDontsellmydata@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·23 hours agoOh my. I remember playing Descent on my Compaq Pentium 486dx. Good times.
minus-squarezod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 hours agoI think you’re memory is fuzzy, it was either a Pentium or a 486, not both.
minus-squareassembly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·21 hours agoI had this on the 486dx2 66MHz. It ran smooth.
minus-squarepotoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·19 hours agoStop bragging, not all of us can splash out the cash to upgrade from 386. :(
minus-squarezod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 hours agoNot 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,
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 hours agoWe 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).
minus-squaremaccentric@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoI 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…
Oh my. I remember playing Descent on my Compaq Pentium 486dx. Good times.
Pentium ≠ 486
I think you’re memory is fuzzy, it was either a Pentium or a 486, not both.
I had this on the 486dx2 66MHz. It ran smooth.
Stop bragging, not all of us can splash out the cash to upgrade from 386. :(
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,
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).
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…