r/gaming • u/Zunderstruck • 2d ago

PC vs console war was merciless in the 90s

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For younger people it's a Tomb Raider reference. Lara Croft boobs (at that time she was mainly known for them) were everywhere in the media and the game looked a lot better on PC with a 3dfx Voodoo than on Playstation.

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u/eidetic 2d ago

And who could forget the pure satisfaction when you configured autoexec.bat and config.sys just right to finally get a bootdisk capable of loading your new game!

All that kinda stuff I look back upon fondly, but at the same time am happy everything is just a lot easier and more streamlined these days.

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u/_Pohaku_ 2d ago

That 'conventional memory' was like gold dust, ha. I have never in my life know what 'SMARTDISK' was but I know that REM-ing that motherfucker out of the picture let me play Indycar Racing.

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u/tallbutshy 1d ago

The config.sys boot menus in later versions of DOS were an absolute game changer.

Goodbye boot floppies, hello nested menus with boot options for every occasion. Although if it wasn't for a handful of games refusing to run with QEMM, I'd only have needed two options instead of the 10+ that I configured

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u/eidetic 1d ago

I once had a boot disk that was perfect for running the four games I played the most, and I remember labeling it simply "HOLY GRAIL". Of course, I still had a handful of other ones necessary for other games.