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A study on tech literacy (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 23 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

If you've had to mess around with EMM386 and HIMEM settings to play Wing Commander 2, you win.

[–] Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Autoexec.bat's and boot disks for everything ftw.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Let me blow your mind.

People are probably running FreeDOS nowadays though which uses a different syntax.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

That knowledge is completely useless now.

[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Does messing around to play Red Alert at 640 x 480 (instead of the default 320 x 240) qualify? I emphasize that I modded the thing to have ICBM carrying submarines for more realism, and played global thermonuclear war with my university course mate over an RS-232 cable. :P

(We could not afford Ethernet, or maybe couldn't understand it, since it was such a new thing. I recall seeing shiny Ethernet cards from 3COM with some envy.)