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Here is a stupidity I did back when I was a kid and just got my first computer. I had some pre-installed games on my PC. I noticed shortcuts to games are only

Here is a stupidity I did back when I was a kid and just got my first computer. I had some pre-installed games on my PC. I noticed shortcuts to games are only 1-2kb while the executable files are in MBs. Since both things have same icons, same names they must be the same thing right? I deleted the executables and copied shortcuts to where they were to save some precious space for my PC. And I didn't even test things before hand, I permanently deleted all my game exes and then tried starting running a game, which obviously failed. Thankfully the place where my parents bought our PC reinstalled my games.

dusted 7y ago
I remember doing this as well! Imagine how excited I was that Doom, Duke3D and Wolfenstein all fit on one floppy! And they started too when I popped it in the drive and double-clicked on them! So I removed the folders from my harddrive. And didn't notice until days later when I wanted to play Duke. (It was my first PC, and I was 11, so somewhat excused)
flukus 7y ago
Here's one from my whole family. We got an Amiga 500 back in the late 80's, it's all setup with word processing and spreadsheets working fine, the games were incredibly hard though. Most games had these dark patches where there were hidden pieces of floor, except sometimes they'd disappear and you would die, so for these games you had to memorize exactly where all the floor was. For some games it was mostly fine, for others it made them almost impossible. I was only 5 or 6 and it was the only games machine I'd ever played. Fast forward a few years and the computer is no longer an expensive investment, or threat to children, or whatever it is that made my parents have it in their bedroom, so we moved it. As I picked up the monitor I accidentally pressed a button on the back the toggled the graphics mode and when the machine turned on I could suddenly see all my games in full color. In retrospect it affected many other things too. The only saving grace during that period was that so many games were ports from the speccy or commodore 64 with a limited color pallet.

dusted 7y ago

I remember doing this as well! Imagine how excited I was that Doom, Duke3D and Wolfenstein all fit on one floppy! And they started too when I popped it in the drive and double-clicked on them! So I removed the folders from my harddrive. And didn't notice until days later when I wanted to play Duke. (It was my first PC, and I was 11, so somewhat excused)

flukus 7y ago

Here's one from my whole family. We got an Amiga 500 back in the late 80's, it's all setup with word processing and spreadsheets working fine, the games were incredibly hard though. Most games had these dark patches where there were hidden pieces of floor, except sometimes they'd disappear and you would die, so for these games you had to memorize exactly where all the floor was. For some games it was mostly fine, for others it made them almost impossible. I was only 5 or 6 and it was the only games machine I'd ever played. Fast forward a few years and the computer is no longer an expensive investment, or threat to children, or whatever it is that made my parents have it in their bedroom, so we moved it. As I picked up the monitor I accidentally pressed a button on the back the toggled the graphics mode and when the machine turned on I could suddenly see all my games in full color. In retrospect it affected many other things too. The only saving grace during that period was that so many games were ports from the speccy or commodore 64 with a limited color pallet.