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I feel like this is one of those things where they'll either gravitate towards it or not. Most of my early introductions to computing devices were just playing
by emodendroket 5y ago
I feel like this is one of those things where they'll either gravitate towards it or not. Most of my early introductions to computing devices were just playing video games which wasn't exactly educational.
- verve_rat 5y agoI'm sure if we start talking about it, there will be a bunch of people of a certain age that will wax lyrical about putting mouse drivers in the high memory area, testing changes to autoexec.bat to see what works, using EMM386, and a bunch of other stuff I have forgotten. Just getting to the stage of playing games used to be a lot more educational than it is now, and I think there is something to that. If I had kids I would definitely try to recreate that experience for them somehow.
- emodendroket 5y agoI didn't have to do any of that, I put the cartridge in the slot or clicked the icon on the desktop. Or I did but it came later when I was already really into games and wanted to putz with emulators or whatever.
- eurasiantiger 5y agoFiguring out to how to load mouse, sound card and CD-ROM drivers while still having at least 605kB free base memory for launching SimCity was definitely a generational experience.