The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoThen vs Nowstartrek.websiteimagemessage-square203fedilinkarrow-up11.24Karrow-down168cross-posted to: gamedev@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up11.17Karrow-down1imageThen vs Nowstartrek.websiteThe Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square203fedilinkcross-posted to: gamedev@sh.itjust.works
minus-squareCodex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up56·11 months agoThere’s some nostalgia goggles for sure. I mean, the demo for Rollercoaster Tycoon (Mr. “Hand coded in assembly” there) bricked our Windows 98 machine when i installed it as a kid. My dad was pissed: we had to reformat the harddrive, reinstall windows, all that.
minus-squarelad@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·11 months agoSeems like a golden era of running everything in ring 0, although that wasn’t called like this then, afaik
minus-squaresnf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·11 months agoI remember having three or four games that you had to boot the computer into directly. As in, insert floppy and ctrl-alt-delete to launch the game.
There’s some nostalgia goggles for sure.
I mean, the demo for Rollercoaster Tycoon (Mr. “Hand coded in assembly” there) bricked our Windows 98 machine when i installed it as a kid. My dad was pissed: we had to reformat the harddrive, reinstall windows, all that.
Seems like a golden era of running everything in ring 0, although that wasn’t called like this then, afaik
I remember having three or four games that you had to boot the computer into directly. As in, insert floppy and ctrl-alt-delete to launch the game.