• ryedaft
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    7 hours ago

    Umm the rest of us has to write it own autoexec.bat, not because we were idiots that deleted stuff or got viruses, but to change the keyboard language and a few other things to have enough memory to play Doom.

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      7 hours ago

      Don’t forget config.sys! Who all here can get a Soundblaster working without disabling anything else? (IRQ 5 typically?)

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      6 hours ago

      And then put that autoexec.bat on a bootable floppy disk you needed to research how to make yourself, fucking around with EMS and XMS settings to have enough memory to play.

      Figuring out how to get games to play as a teenager is what launched my career in IT.