Gaming problems of the 90s

[jes]

Gaming problems of the 90s

A tribute to all the old-school gamers out there - gaming in the 90s wasn't easy

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Trying allsorts of tricks to get DOS to load high and allow maximum free DOS memory...

was fun

 

[TJ99]

gaming in the 90s wasn't easy

No, and that's why it was fun. It wasn't like watching a movie with the occasional option to interact like you kids have today.

 

[Fulcrum29]

How many youngsters are acquainted with these?

 

[TJ99]

I see your

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And raise you:

 

[Pitbull]

Can't even remember the DOS prompts to run a game or look for a file

C:/d
D:/dir
D:/frogger.exe

Bleh, something like that

 

[The_Ogre]

How many youngsters are acquainted with these?

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Pfftt, everybody knows that's a hose connector

 

[SuperVarkie]

Doom and Warcraf1 ftw

 

[Polymathic]

Don't forget about needing to downgrade your screen resolution to 256 colors to play certain windows 95 games

 

[dadecoza]

How many youngsters are acquainted with these?

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lol, In high school me and my friend spend days trying to get a network going between our pc's without those pesky terminators. Eventually someone told us where we went wrong and we got it going. I remember LANs where we had a box of NE2000 nics (ISA) and the first half of the evening we spent setting IRQs and addresses with jumpers.

 

[Fulcrum29]

I see your



And raise you:

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Yep, although this is still used, however it is dwindling in home user (residential) applications.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Trying allsorts of tricks to get DOS to load high and allow maximum free DOS memory...

was fun

Then there was people installing HIMEM customisation applications, eh...

I tried searching some application I really cannot remember, but it was similar to SoftRAM.

 

[dabean]

Trying allsorts of tricks to get DOS to load high and allow maximum free DOS memory...

was fun

Some games needed extended memory while others needed expanded memory lol. I had to help my cousin setup a multiconfig over the phone once, lots of fun

 

[Rocket-Boy]

I see your



And raise you:

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I remember lanning with BNC, unfortunately I also remember laplink cables

 

[dadecoza]

I still use my null modem cable often but not for gaming Use to play ROTT,Duke Nukem 3D over the serial cable. In the days of XTs and 286s we played Retal and Battle Chess over the serial cable.

Remember how long it would take to use laplink3(or 5) to copy files over serial cable? Parallel was waaaaay faster.

 

[grim]

Trying allsorts of tricks to get DOS to load high and allow maximum free DOS memory...

was fun

Then there was people installing HIMEM customisation applications, eh...

I tried searching some application I really cannot remember, but it was similar to SoftRAM.

Some games needed extended memory while others needed expanded memory lol. I had to help my cousin setup a multiconfig over the phone once, lots of fun

These actually did work:
QEMM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM

and

MEMMAKER command:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DOS_commands#MEMMAKER

 

[Mr.Jax]

Yoh, what a trip down memory lane right here!

DOS=HIGH,UMB

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Pfft, without looking at the links above :

To load DOS high :

CONFIG.SYS
device=himem.sys
device=emm386.exe noems
dos=high,umb
devicehigh=smartdrv.exe (and all its assorted switches)
devicehigh=mouse.sys

I had a couple of customized CONFIG.SYS files - tailored to suit each and every game of that time (which I used to play).

When DOOM came out with the DOS extender, it was nice not to worry about conventional (>640k) memory anymore...

 

[Fulcrum29]

These actually did work:
QEMM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM

and

MEMMAKER command:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DOS_commands#MEMMAKER

I see the QEMM Wiki points to its competitors:

- BlueMax/386MAX
- HeadRoom/NetRoom

The one missing is the one which replaced HIMEM.SYS, it was prior SoftRAM, but had similar discrepancies... This was very long ago.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Still got my old infrared USB dongle somewhere around...