Wossen Wyatt 🇬🇾🐧💿💾There was a time when a game taking up 262 MB of hard disk space was considered CRAZY, even by the game's own developers! 🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
Like many of you, this is more space than my entire hard drive had. Back then though, I got a copy of the game on floppies from a friend.
Now in my older days I can afford to pick up an original CD from eBay. My first PC - the one I first played Descent and Descent II on - didn't even have a CD-ROM drive. And I vividly remember the hard disk was 170 MB in total.
One of the best things about retro collecting is fully experiencing what we missed back then.
Anna@wossman Descent 2 was a game...
Jeremy7o2Such a great game. And yes, the joystick is a must. I think I had a Sidewinder to play it. Maybe something older.
Jake in the desert@wossman so true. Descent ftw!! Love the game but I'm SO bad at it hahaha
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zl2todI smell Turbo Pascal, or at least some other Borland product.
@zl2tod Are you saying the code was inefficient? I think it was just high quality assets. 🤷🏾♂️
No, just that it was likely written in Turbo Pascal or compiled with another Borland product.
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| 🍶🦊@wossman I remember when I got that game back in 96 and was like: "262MB? That's half of my entire drive size!!!"
Oh those were the times.
Oh those were the times.
Sami Koskinen@wossman Also, there was a time when spinning rust was "accessed quickly"
@sampe Yep. The millisecond race to the bottom.
David Willanski@wossman the original Doom was bigger than the hard drive on my first PC
Martin Pugh@wossman I've not played Descent in a very long time but I used to love it. It was amazingly smooth (although with low res graphics) on the 486's of the day.
@pugmiester It sure was. I played it on a DX33. Although, I didn't have anything better to compare with so I'm not sure I knew what I didn't know. 🤷🏾♂️
pitz ☕@wossman When I played this with a VR headset, I would only last 10 minutes before succumbing to vertigo.
GD@wossman @dosnostalgic 262 MB for a game
WHAT?
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