Nerd Nostalgia
So many hours of my life are trapped in those boxes. Hard to say what I spent my most time on, most likely Ultima 7, cause that was a mission of a game. Not only to play to! To get the thing working on my computer was like a krypton challenge all in itself. Editing Himem.sys files and autoexec.bats - changing expanded memory to extended. WTF. It's hard to think we ever had to bugger around with all that. Hex, IRQ, and comports for Soundcards and Modems.
The only game I remember not being a hassle to run was Alley Cat.
I'm glad things were more difficult to set up though. Got me thinking a lot more about how things actually worked, forced education I guess, and into a line of work I'm still doing today. Games weren't the misspent youth my parents probably thought they were.
From left then down.:
Command and Conquer; Quake II; Landscape Design Program; Ultima 8: Speech expansion pack; Ultima 7 Part 2: Serpent Isle; Doom; David Wold: Secret Agent; Police Quest 3; Ultima 7 Part 1: The Black Gate; Some book; Warcraft II ;Star Wars: Dark Forces
From left then down.:
Command and Conquer; Quake II; Landscape Design Program; Ultima 8: Speech expansion pack; Ultima 7 Part 2: Serpent Isle; Doom; David Wold: Secret Agent; Police Quest 3; Ultima 7 Part 1: The Black Gate; Some book; Warcraft II ;Star Wars: Dark Forces