Who remembers having to use boot disc's for games

i remember having to load a game from a tape (C64/amstrad 48k/128k etc), then after 15 minutes of the tape running it sometimes hadn't loaded proper lol. Then i remember using BASIC on the dragon 32, thousands of lines of programming to run a very simple racing game haha.
 
Ooh dear, those were the days. Memmaker, Smartdrive and desperately trying to find a way of shuffling stuff around to free up 1 or 2K . :D

I can never remember making too many boot disks though. I seemed to be able to keep enough RAM free for most games, but I do remember experimenting with Boot menus and the like. I acquired a fair bit of knowledge from all that fooling around though, just a shame that I never 'did something' in IT.

But the best thing was that Windows knew its place back then. ;)
 
Badger2003 said:
That's exactly what I used to do.

I remember my first PC was a 486 SX25 (25Mhz processor) with 1 Meg Ram, running DOS 5.0. It had a 40Mb HDD.

I remember upgrading to windows 3.11, installing a co-processor to make it a DX and spending £240 on a 300Mb HDD (in the sales!!!).

Used to have to reconfigure memory settings for almost every game i purchased. They were the days.... (much better than my old Amstrad CPC PC with tape drive - 16 K Ram if I recall....)
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My 286 12mhz had a 320MB SCSI drive, that must have cost a couple of thousand pounds at the time!
 
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