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A study on tech literacy
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this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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If you've had to mess around with EMM386 and HIMEM settings to play Wing Commander 2, you win.
Does messing around to play Red Alert at 640 x 480 (instead of the default 320 x 240) qualify? I emphasize that I modded the thing to have ICBM carrying submarines for more realism, and played global thermonuclear war with my university course mate over an RS-232 cable. :P
(We could not afford Ethernet, or maybe couldn't understand it, since it was such a new thing. I recall seeing shiny Ethernet cards from 3COM with some envy.)
Speaking of nuclear war, did you play this game:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_(video_game)
It was hilarious! Gandhi was launching nukes before Civ 1!
a nullmodem is what we had too! I remember copying over Warcraft 1 from one computer to the other over most of a day, and it then not working.
Autoexec.bat's and boot disks for everything ftw.
I learnt how to use a custom autoexec.bat that had a menu to select the different memory configs. That was a godsend!
Let me blow your mind.
People are probably running FreeDOS nowadays though which uses a different syntax.
Yup eventually did this with DOS 6. Suffered from DOS 1 until then.
That knowledge is completely useless now.
Ahhh happy days and nights.