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Re: Play MSDOS Oregon Trail 1990 on archive.org

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Post by jalapenos »

The mere site of DOS games makes me feel so nostalgic. Takes me back to when I was a kid, sat in my room playing games from the CDs that were stuck to PCWorld magazines, on the 486 (that I nagged to get upgraded from the 386, and a CD drive for). "Simpler times, happier times", I guess.

Loving the work of archive.org.

Re: Play MSDOS Oregon Trail 1990 on archive.org

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Post by saiya-jin »

jalapenos wrote: post #6

The mere site of DOS games makes me feel so nostalgic. Takes me back to when I was a kid, sat in my room playing games from the CDs that were stuck to PCWorld magazines, on the 486 (that I nagged to get upgraded from the 386, and a CD drive for). "Simpler times, happier times", I guess. Loving the work of archive.org.

CD drive was such a massive improvement over floppy disks, a true revolution of that time. It had/has its own problems (scratches, degradation of organic stuff inside medium over time), but compared to having games on 30 floppies, split by archives, and then seeing 17th and 24th one having bad sector or some other issue... people are often nostalgic for good ol' times, but definitely not for this stuff. I wasted so much time and nerves basically doing nothing, just watching progress bar and praying it works...

There were some self-correcting archive formats back then (.par ?) which could rebuild even damaged archives by adding only few % of size, but that wasn't my story on 386 back in 1993.

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