***Bearclaw's Gift Thread MAY 2009***

[Bman212121]

286 / 16mhz FTW!!!!

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I used to have one with 2MB of ram.

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A 40MB hard drive.

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A 256K CGA capable graphics card.

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Only had a monochrome monitor though.

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Had DOS 4.0 loaded on it.

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But that was kind of flaky at times...

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So I had a 5 1/4" floppy diskette loaded with MS-Dos 5.0 handy.

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That way I could at least consistently boot the pc.

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And try to play some really crappy games that I had located.

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I remember one time I had Falcon 3.0

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It is loaded on a cd. I still have that disc sitting beside the pc here in the shelf. :D

[jcrox]

Holy **** dude... you need a hobby

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So anyway, I needed to get the game from the cd to that 286, since the minimum requirements for the game was a 286.

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Holy **** dude... you need a hobby

I'm in the middle of a story...

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So as I was saying, the pc that had a CD-Rom drive only had a 3 1/2" floppy disk drive.

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And my pc I wanted to put the game on only had a 5 1/4" floppy drive.

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So I took and zipped up the game files, and spread it out across several 3 1/2" disks.

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Then I took another pc that had a 3 1/2" and 5 1/4" drive, but no cd rom, and I copied the data from the 3 1/2" to the 5 1/4".

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Then I copied it from the 5 1/4" to the 40MB hard drive.

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Once all of the parts were copied over, I unzipped all of the game data.

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Then I was able to finally install the game.

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It probably took me a few hours of running back and forth between computers to do all of that.

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But it was pretty sweet when I was able to play Falcon 3.0 on my 286. (nana2)

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Those were some good memories right there.