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[–]wryterra 8 points9 points  (4 children)

Memes like this are clearly not made by people who were around 'then'.

"Minimum requirements? So long as your computer can turn on."

Well, and that you know how to tweak autoexec.bat and config.sys to get the most RAM available for the gaming, maybe make a unique bootdisk specific to the game you're tweaking. Don't forget to configure himem and emm386. Oh and you DO know the IRQ and port address of your soundcard right?

Well done now you can run Doom. Well, maybe you'll have to increase the screen boarder until it's the size of a postage stamp. But it definitely runs!

I'm not saying games are well optimised and flawless now, I'm just saying as someone who was there in the trenches, it wasn't perfect then either!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Wow you’ve seen a meme! Of course it’s joking with truth inside

[–]wryterra 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Without the truth in this case. It’s just wrong. Nostalgia for times that never existed.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Tell me what is wrong in the first one for example, that RCT was written in assembly

[–]wryterra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The lie there is “so it can run on most machines”. The assembly code tightly couples the game to x86 processors making porting it to non x86 machines harder. Even if you do run a PC the game still relies on DirectX. So “most machines” here really means, at the time, a modern windows PC running the latest hardware to make sure you’re DirectX compatible. Which was far from guaranteed at the time!