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[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Jumpers, IRQ conflicts, out of memory for your drivers and program at the same time. Still hella fun. The front panel used to be an unlabeled, unstandardized mess.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (4 children)

SET Blaster=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 T6

Remember having stacks of boot floppies for each game so you could optimize memory allocation depending on the need?

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Lolol stacks of boot floppies, what a casual. I had custom config.sys and autoexec.bat with a boot menu for various configurations.

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This game requires EMS memory to be allocated, and this other game requires XMS memory to be allocated! Hold on, gotta edit my AUTOEXEC.BAT.

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

Some of us automated that shit.

There were times when writing batch files was more fun than playing some of the shitty games I had back then.

[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Ah yes because some things needed eXtended memory and some needed exPanded memory, and some things didn't like drivers being loaded into high memory and some things didn't like other things to be on certain ports or interrupts haha.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Still suffix my paradox games' run commands in steam

[–] Tja@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Ahaha good point it's making a comeback!