For me I loved the challenge of squeezing out a few extra k of lower memory. My autoexec.bat had four hundred lines in it.
I miss those days honestly. There’s really not much practical benefit to overclocking anymore, even broke college kid level devices come with at least 8 gigs of ram.
8… gigs… of ram… and ALL of it treated like lower memory… Could you imagine that in the mid 90s? I’d be thinking star trek.
I learned so much in those days about the outrageously absurd, efficiency of code and concatenation and stupid little things. Early days of cutting and even scraping through these silly coding difficulties shaped us in ways we can’t even recognize now.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 4 months ago
you just gave me panic attacks about trying to get ultima underworld II and Star Wars: TIE Fighter to run
I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You have 57 minutes left to work it out…
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 4 months ago
not my bedtime!
Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I was maintaining a custom autoexec.bat just for TIE Fighter.
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 4 months ago
For me I loved the challenge of squeezing out a few extra k of lower memory. My autoexec.bat had four hundred lines in it.
I miss those days honestly. There’s really not much practical benefit to overclocking anymore, even broke college kid level devices come with at least 8 gigs of ram.
8… gigs… of ram… and ALL of it treated like lower memory… Could you imagine that in the mid 90s? I’d be thinking star trek.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I learned so much in those days about the outrageously absurd, efficiency of code and concatenation and stupid little things. Early days of cutting and even scraping through these silly coding difficulties shaped us in ways we can’t even recognize now.
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The curse of accessibility, if you make something so easy that anyone can use it, everyone will.