Installing a computer game from DVD old skool

[Gandahar]

Sad to say that installing a 17.3GB game from a DVD can now be considered things from the dinosaur age, but I am currently doing it.

Far Cry 5 is one of my favourite games of recent years , streamed download for the original and I had wanted to try Far Cry New Dawn, but it was overpriced for what seems to be an add on rather than new game.

Amazon doing it for £16 though so I bought it. Then it came in the post and was the DVD set. Now I assumed it would be a box with the code and download link but actually was 3 DVDs of 17GB ! So I popped the first one in and guess what? My DVD drive that had not been used for longer than the Tin Man from the wizard of Oz needed a bit of oiling It's a grumpy old bugger it seems.

Now on disk 3 ..... still holding fingers crossed, just as fast as modern day downloads, how things have changed. It will probably still make me log on and then down load 2 GB of updates via the web


The good old days

[RizzoTheRat]

I was clearing out my loft a while back and threw out my 26 floppy disk set of MS Office. That's a maximum of 37MB, I've got spreadsheets that are bigger than that these days

I built a new PC last year and put a DVD drive in, but haven't used it once yet.

[FourWheelDrift]

RizzoTheRat said:

I was clearing out my loft a while back and threw out my 26 floppy disk set of MS Office. .

I remember the days of having 20 to 30 3.5" discs to install something and then finding disc 28 was missing.

[Wonderman]

Pfft new fangled tech, was cassettes in my day *brrrrrrrr-bip.....bbbbbbbbbrrrr...dip*

[Mr E]

I recall Monkey Island having 11 floppy disks.

One of the wing commander games had 6 Cd-roms (that’s FMV for you).

[RizzoTheRat]

Wonderman said:

Pfft new fangled tech, was cassettes in my day *brrrrrrrr-bip.....bbbbbbbbbrrrr...dip*

Don't remind me, 15 minutes to load my 737 simulator on a BBC micro and sometimes it would crash as soon as it started

[geeks]

RizzoTheRat said:

Wonderman said:

Pfft new fangled tech, was cassettes in my day *brrrrrrrr-bip.....bbbbbbbbbrrrr...dip*

Don't remind me, 15 minutes to load my 737 simulator on a BBC micro and sometimes it would crash as soon as it started

The plane or the game?

I have a whole load of C64 games and Spectrum too, keep meaning to put them on a shelf rather than letting them sit in their crates!

[RizzoTheRat]

geeks said:

The plane or the game?

It was a long time ago but I think it was an approach and landing simulator so the plane crashes usually came 5 or 10 minutes in

[Gandahar]

That black humour 737 joke made me chuckle ... moving on ...


Talking of old v new

Old Microsoft Flight simulator

Version 1 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27szyA9mZ8Q


New

MS 2020...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD2_zzQi7bQ


The new one contains 2 Petabytes of data, so using "modern" 1.44MB floppies then it would come on 1.4 billion floppy disks and would take you, at 30KB/s data transfer rate, approximately 22 years to install negating time to swap disks.

Luckily it's cloud based, pardon the pun.

[Baldchap]

Mr E said:

I recall Monkey Island having 11 floppy disks.

That was Monkey Island 2. One of the best ever games IMO. My disk 11 had something wrong with it and so I had to wait about 20 years to finish it as a grown up.

[RizzoTheRat]

Gandahar said:

Old Microsoft Flight simulator

Version 1 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27szyA9mZ8Q

That engine noise brings back some memories

[Mr E]

Baldchap said:

That was Monkey Island 2. One of the best ever games IMO. My disk 11 had something wrong with it and so I had to wait about 20 years to finish it as a grown up.

That sucks.

I replayed both a few years back. They’re still brilliant.

[ladderino]

Baldchap said:

That was Monkey Island 2. One of the best ever games IMO. My disk 11 had something wrong with it and so I had to wait about 20 years to finish it as a grown up.

Monkey Island also had an issue wtih disk 36

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYP8t7-Dbrk