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Let's talk about the curious and ingenious DriveSpace, an MS-DOS program promising to double the available disk space. (raduzaharia.medium.com)
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[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Drivespace was what enabled me to play Baldurs Gate 1 back in the day. My specs back then:

  • 32MB RAM
  • Pentium166 MMX
  • 500ish MB drive (My 2GB went bust, so I used an old spare drive for quite a while)
  • 16X CDROM
  • 2X CD Burner... yarr, that made me a lot of money
  • 3dFX Voodoo2 8MB coupled with an ATI Rage Pro
  • Soundblaster Live
[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wooo, look at mr high end over here :-)

640kb RAM 2 x 512 floppies CGA green screen / monochrome

[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That wasn't my first PC, just the one on which I played BG1 and used drivespace. My 1st PC was more like the generation after yours. 386 of some sort, 2x 3.5" floppies, and a whooping 43MB harddisk.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds similar to my 2nd. 386SX with 20mb hd. 4mb RAM. She was a beast.

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