Does any one REMEMBER...

[Alithis]

1/4 gig?

I remember having a hard drive that was 11MB. It was about the size of a minitower PC case of today. The funny thing was that I had no idea what to do with that much space.

I remember when my parents bought the first PC I ever saw. It had a 40MB hard drive, but MS-DOS of the day couldn't cope with a partition bigger than 32MB. So instead of splitting it into 32/8 it was split 20/20 so that both partitions would be equally useful. It was pretty advanced for its time, it had CGA graphics (which, IIRC, offered white, yellow, cyan and magenta as the four available colors) and ran at 12.5MHz. Many of the games for the original XTs wouldn't run on it because it was so fast. Many other games were very hard to play because you could only use one keypress at a time, so on the day's equivalent of Need For Speed you could keep the gas on or you could steer but not both. Braking into a corner was particularly tricky because you had to alternate the brake and the steering, with predictable results.

I recently sold a bunch of Apple II gear to a collector. I was sad to see it go but it had sat in my shed for 15 years so I figured it was time.

haha yeh i recall it was a SMALL hard drive .. cant recall what size thats why i said ,or whatever ..

i never got into car race games much ..later on i did the first large multi player fps games .. like delta force .

haa 3 years ago i reinstalled the cd and could not believe the CHUNKY graphis ..how on earth did we not all go blind ... oh wait ,,, all these years later and a few spectacle prescriptions later ... hmmmmmmmm haha .

 

[tango]

haha yeh i recall it was a SMALL hard drive .. cant recall what size thats why i said ,or whatever ..

1/4 gig is HUGE compared to my early drives

Funny to think that 30 years ago I was using 11MB on something the size of a minitower, and now you can put 128GB and more on a microSD card.

i never got into car race games much ..later on i did the first large multi player fps games .. like delta force .

I liked that particular game, largely because it was one of three games I had. It had a cool bug in it - if you were chased by the police you needed to let them overtake when you were going flat out, because if you stopped you got penalised but if you let them overtake and just let go of the controls they would guide you (at the speed you were doing when they passed) to the finish line.

haa 3 years ago i reinstalled the cd and could not believe the CHUNKY graphis ..how on earth did we not all go blind ... oh wait ,,, all these years later and a few spectacle prescriptions later ... hmmmmmmmm haha .

I remember replaying some old Apple II games on an emulator and marvelling at just how bad they were.