Radu Zaharia@lemmy.sdf.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 10 months agoLet's talk about the curious and ingenious DriveSpace, an MS-DOS program promising to double the available disk space.raduzaharia.medium.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1151arrow-down17
arrow-up1144arrow-down1external-linkLet's talk about the curious and ingenious DriveSpace, an MS-DOS program promising to double the available disk space.raduzaharia.medium.comRadu Zaharia@lemmy.sdf.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squarevettnerk@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up25·edit-210 months agoDrivespace 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
minus-squaremakingStuffForFun@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agowooo, look at mr high end over here :-) 640kb RAM 2 x 512 floppies CGA green screen / monochrome
minus-squarevettnerk@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoThat 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.
minus-squaremakingStuffForFun@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoSounds similar to my 2nd. 386SX with 20mb hd. 4mb RAM. She was a beast.
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Drivespace was what enabled me to play Baldurs Gate 1 back in the day. My specs back then:
wooo, look at mr high end over here :-)
640kb RAM 2 x 512 floppies CGA green screen / monochrome
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.
Sounds similar to my 2nd. 386SX with 20mb hd. 4mb RAM. She was a beast.
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