GamezRanker: From a quick web search: "A gigawatt is equal to one billion watts, and most of us are familiar with a watt. The light bulbs in our homes are typically between 60 and 100 watts. So 1.21 gigawatts would power more than 10 million light bulbs or one fictional flux capacitor in a time-traveling DeLorean."
Oh yes, I'm very aware of the capacity of a gigawatt. But Doctor Emmitt Brown's Flux Capacitor specifically calls for "One-point-twenty-one JIGAWATTS" of power!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk5O6F3qwOE GamezRanker: I remember doing this....fun times they were....and if the game ran then they were even better. :)
Back in my day... we didn't have no stinkin' Steam Achievements. Just getting our game to start WAS the achievement!
GamezRanker: I remember....System Shock, for example, would only run for me in pure dos. I would have to boot into dos to play it, albeit it at first without sound as I couldn't free enough RAM.....then I found a mouse driver/etc that used less RAM and finally got to play the game from then on with full sound. :D
I remember Microsoft's mouse drivers using an absolutely insane amount of RAM, and I could never get them to load into the upper-memory blocks properly. I eventually found some third-party driver that only took about 7KB. After installing it I looked at my free conventional memory... and it was like the clouds parted and sunrays from Heaven shown down upon me while angels sang out in chorus.
Playing "memory Tetris" and trying to figure out how to squeeze as many drivers as possible into the upper memory area while maximizing conventional RAM almost became a game in itself.
FRIEND: "I just did a 100% clear on all levels of Doom on Nightmare difficulty."
ME: "Cool. I just got 630KB free conventional memory in MS-DOS."
FRIEND: "OH MY GOD! THAT'S SO AWESOME!!!"
:-) (I kid... but not by much...)
