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Does anyone remember the game Syndicate? When it came out, I didn’t have a CD-ROM drive yet. But I saw there was a floppy version I could install, so I got that.
It was on 19 floppies.
Longest, most painful install ever. Great game though.
Some Microsoft Office installations were 40+ diskettes. Thankfully, this kind of nonsense was quickly replaced by CD-ROMs.
I recall buying a massive box for C++ at a computer show in the 90s, but I can’t recall if it came with dozens of discs and/or whether it came with a massive printed reference book 😂
I think about that game often. I got to have the old 386 up in my room after my Dad upgraded, and I somehow got hold of that game for free, used to play it after school when I was 12-14.
I’m pretty sure that machine didn’t have CD drive… Could be I’m mixing up a few different memories…
Yes!!! Loved that game, was one of my favourites. Look up Satellite Reign by 5 Lives Studios, some of the original creators built a modern retake (“spiritual successor” in their words) because they loathed the fuckup created by EA.
Oh nice, I’ll look into it. Reminds me of Bryan Fargo making Wasteland 2 because he didn’t like Fallout being turned into a first person game after Fallout 1 and 2 essentially being a remake and a sequel to Wasteland (Fallout 1 even had the promotional line “Remember Wasteland?”)
I preferred Wasteland style turn-based team RPG to the later Fallout games, so I’m glad he did.
Does anyone remember the game Syndicate? When it came out, I didn’t have a CD-ROM drive yet. But I saw there was a floppy version I could install, so I got that.
It was on 19 floppies.
Longest, most painful install ever. Great game though.
Some Microsoft Office installations were 40+ diskettes. Thankfully, this kind of nonsense was quickly replaced by CD-ROMs.
I recall buying a massive box for C++ at a computer show in the 90s, but I can’t recall if it came with dozens of discs and/or whether it came with a massive printed reference book 😂
If the image is real, there are 3711 disks for this install.
I think about that game often. I got to have the old 386 up in my room after my Dad upgraded, and I somehow got hold of that game for free, used to play it after school when I was 12-14. I’m pretty sure that machine didn’t have CD drive… Could be I’m mixing up a few different memories…
I need to get an emulator and play it now.
Yes!!! Loved that game, was one of my favourites. Look up Satellite Reign by 5 Lives Studios, some of the original creators built a modern retake (“spiritual successor” in their words) because they loathed the fuckup created by EA.
Oh nice, I’ll look into it. Reminds me of Bryan Fargo making Wasteland 2 because he didn’t like Fallout being turned into a first person game after Fallout 1 and 2 essentially being a remake and a sequel to Wasteland (Fallout 1 even had the promotional line “Remember Wasteland?”)
I preferred Wasteland style turn-based team RPG to the later Fallout games, so I’m glad he did.
I remember. That game was awesome.