Comment on Memories of defragging your computer

Blackout@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• vrek@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fun fact is the turbo button wasn’t actually turbo anything. It pressed in was the default and designed speed. When it was depressed it set it to run at a lower clock speed. This was meant for older games where aspects of the game like movement and attack speed were tied to the clock rate. With a high speed cpu the game was unplayable so you take off turbo mode and it mostly fixed the issues.

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• jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I felt like the difference was only obvious if the disk had gotten really bad in the first place, but maybe it was just psychological from seeing the colors move around.

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  • Klear@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    …for a whole day.

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  • Tiral@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Looking back, honestly everything was so slow already I don’t think it was noticable. When it takes 5 seconds to see an app a start to open vs 6 you doesn’t notice much. Now with SSDs and such an extra second is like twice as long as it should take.

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• Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Oh I just recently replaced Myst. Only outshined by Riven, such a great game.

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  • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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  • kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I still have my original 5 disc set of riven.I need to image those and mount them in 5 virtual CDroms so I’m not changing disks constantly.

    That game was hard as hell, I remember the last puzzle defeating me. Some of the clues were vague too. But man it was something.

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    • Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I also have my OG 5 disk set but I recently replayed it in VR. Man, what a ride! Yes, the last puzzle was maybe the most difficult puzzle in videogame history haha

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  • Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Blue Prince, while vastly different, did bring up fond memories of those games.

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    • Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Wishlisted!

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• homes@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  oh, I could always tell the difference, but it would always take at least a day-and-a-half to run. it was difficult to go without the computer for that long

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  • Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Needed to run it more frequently and you’d have much shorter cycles.

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