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Wing Commander II is quite memorable to me because as a child I could never get it to work properly and it introduced me to the world of autoexec.bat and HIMEM.
by allenu 6y ago
Wing Commander II is quite memorable to me because as a child I could never get it to work properly and it introduced me to the world of autoexec.bat and HIMEM.SYS. No matter what I did, I could never get both the in-game speech and the mouse working at the same time, it was either one or the other.
- xyzelement 6y agoYes! I often think about how my childhood fiddling with this kind of stuff gave me the confidence and background to become a "computer person" and how little of that exists today for kids - apps just work so there's no educational struggle to get them going.
- Bluestein 6y ago> I often think about how my childhood fiddling with this kind of stuff gave me the confidence and background to become a "computer person" So much of this. Actually taught one an approach to problem solving in that domain, in a a way that few other things can ... Often wonder if there's an equivalent activity nowadays that would amount to this for newer generations.