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Yeah, but people aren't tweaking the autoexec.bat files and frigging around with virtual memory settings, tweaking drivers and dealing with crazy work-arounds f
by douche 11y ago
Yeah, but people aren't tweaking the autoexec.bat files and frigging around with virtual memory settings, tweaking drivers and dealing with crazy work-arounds for their social smartphone games, the way a lot of us did cutting our teeth on PC games.
I picked up a tremendous amount of various computer trivia digging around making games work, and basically internalized a lot of debugging techniques before getting out of short-pants, so to speak.
- rimantas 11y agoSo maybe it is reversed: the fact that you don't need to tweak autoexec.bat any more draws more females to the gaming?
- douche 11y agoMaybe - getting DOS games to run on weird PC clones back in the day was really only an activity fit for masochists - or ten year old boys that reaaaally wanted to shoot some demons or play Warcraft... The other thing is, if gaming is the gateway drug, for a lot of people the next step is modding, level design, botting, etc. The more black-boxy games are, the harder that is.