 knightryI'm Not Fat, I'm Festively Plump
join:2002-05-06
Oviedo, FL | Changing Times I love how even game demos these days take massively more space than full games years ago did. How about a toast to cheap storage. Without it we'd be boned by these bit-greedy game developers.
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 NerdtalkerWorking Hard, Or Hardly Working?Premium,MVM
join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ | What's wrong with 3 GB? That's like, what, not even a DVD?
You've got 500 GB of storage. If anything, I want *more* textures for my money. |
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 GTJiga06 GTPremium
join:2002-02-02
Azle, TX
kudos:1 | said by Nerdtalker:What's wrong with 3 GB? That's like, what, not even a DVD? You've got 500 GB of storage. If anything, I want *more* textures for my money. It's a toast to cheap storage. Thank hardware manufacturers keeping 1TB drives down below $100.
As long as we keep storage devices at a pretty low price, I don't care how large a demo or game is. He was just saying how back in the day a demo would be roughly 200-400 megs and the game would be around 700megs full or on multiple CD's. When I finally got into PC gaming at age 18 my first PC only had a 20gig drive in it. |
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 Cthen
join:2004-08-01
Detroit, MI
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·Comcast
| Oh man did you just give me a flashback of when I thought my brand spankin' new 6gb HDD was the shit way back in the day! 
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 SteimesI make internetsPremium
join:2002-01-08
Belle Vernon, PA
kudos:1
·Comcast
·Verizon Online DSL
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- Cthen  many years ago
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 StewyPremium
join:2007-12-12
Kitchener, ON | reply to knightry
can you imagine getting that on floppy disk ? |
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 mazhurgPremium
join:2004-05-02
Portage La Prairie, MB
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Recall getting my very first HDD back then for the Tandy.... 10MB and it was *expletive* expensive...
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 SLDPremium
join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA
2 edits | reply to Cthen
Man.. I think my first Windows PC (386) had something like 100MB disk. I remember discussing how cheap storage had become, it was only about $1/MB.
The Trash-80 we had while growing up didn't even have a hard drive. |
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SLDPremium
join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA | reply to mazhurg
Was that the big upgrade from tape? Oh wait, that was the floppy floppy, nevermind. |
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 screavic4Premium
join:2006-08-11
Paron, AR
kudos:1 | reply to knightry
My first hard drive was 202mb I also had a "laptop" that had a 60mb hard drive and it weighed about 20lbs lol
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mazhurgPremium
join:2004-05-02
Portage La Prairie, MB Reviews:
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said by SLD:Was that the big upgrade from tape? Oh wait, that was the floppy floppy, nevermind. Nope, the upgrade from tape was on a Vic-20, to a 1541 drive. Man could it load those 3K programs fast. 
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knightryI'm Not Fat, I'm Festively Plump
join:2002-05-06
Oviedo, FL | reply to Stewy
said by Stewy:can you imagine getting that on floppy disk ? Haha. A generous estimate to the storage capacity of the floppy puts this game in over the 2,500 mark.
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 dMarksMelting Faces For FunPremium
join:2007-02-09
Jackson, MI
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1 edit | reply to knightry
This was my computer as a kid: »oldcomputers.net/ti994a.html
EDIT: I still have it FYI |
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@dMarks---ME TOO!! TI99/4a with all the manuals. Tape drive is somewhere. Only a couple cartridges left though. Lost most of them moving around.
Funny stuff, seeing someone else that has this too. |
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 kingdome74What Have You DonePremium
join:2002-03-27
Syracuse, NY
kudos:2
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I think the first computer game I played was Below The Root:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Below_the_···eo_game)
Seemed like you spent more time changing floppies that actually playing but it was the coolest thing I had ever seen.
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 shinjuruPremium,Mod
join:2000-10-29
California | reply to knightry
I think I can hear the echoes of my first computer teacher saying,
"You'll never need more than 1mb of memory!" |
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 OmenQSpazzPremium
join:2003-03-21
Continuum | reply to knightry
I know I'm only 30, but I must have been late to the party. My first "Computer" (more like electronic calculator) was a Commodore 64. After that, it was a 386 with a 40 MB hard drive. I remember installing the CD-ROM drive and sound card combo (Tray load!) to play some game or other. Then when I upgraded it to a 486, I bought a 1.6 GB hard drive for something like $260. I thought I would never run out of space...
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knightryI'm Not Fat, I'm Festively Plump
join:2002-05-06
Oviedo, FL | reply to shinjuru
said by shinjuru:I think I can hear the echoes of my first computer teacher saying, "You'll never need more than 1mb of memory!" It's funny, I guess some things never change. Just 2 days ago one of my professors was going on about how programmers will never need more than 4GB that's becoming the standard virtual memory size.
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mazhurgPremium
join:2004-05-02
Portage La Prairie, MB Reviews:
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| said by knightry:said by shinjuru:I think I can hear the echoes of my first computer teacher saying, "You'll never need more than 1mb of memory!" It's funny, I guess some things never change. Just 2 days ago one of my professors was going on about how programmers will never need more than 4GB that's becoming the standard virtual memory size. X-plane terrain map takes a small 90GB all by itself.. And that is 3 M resolution.
While it's obviously paged in as required, sizes for the visible view will only increase as the data gets more accurate.
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dMarksMelting Faces For FunPremium
join:2007-02-09
Jackson, MI Reviews:
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After the Texas Instruments computer we had, we went to a Commodore 64. I loved that computer. We upgraded to a 128 and I think I still have that one too. Can't remember the next computer we got, but was an IBM something.
Ahhhhh....memories.
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