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Let's talk about the curious and ingenious DriveSpace, an MS-DOS program promising to double the available disk space. (raduzaharia.medium.com)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Drivespace was what enabled me to play Baldurs Gate 1 back in the day. My specs back then:

32MB RAM
Pentium166 MMX
500ish MB drive (My 2GB went bust, so I used an old spare drive for quite a while)
16X CDROM
2X CD Burner... yarr, that made me a lot of money
3dFX Voodoo2 8MB coupled with an ATI Rage Pro
Soundblaster Live

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wooo, look at mr high end over here :-)

640kb RAM 2 x 512 floppies CGA green screen / monochrome

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That wasn't my first PC, just the one on which I played BG1 and used drivespace. My 1st PC was more like the generation after yours. 386 of some sort, 2x 3.5" floppies, and a whooping 43MB harddisk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds similar to my 2nd. 386SX with 20mb hd. 4mb RAM. She was a beast.