Was born in 1995 but god do I remember playing Redneck Rampage on Dial up when I was 5 or 6. My dad and the whole 9 person family was there to experience building our profiles on Windows ME. That game was all I had when mom had to make phone calls lol.

I don't think I ever actually saw one of those, but dang: 100mb capacity in 1994? That would've been so much easier. I still remember trying to copy doom 2 onto my pc from a stack of about 20 3.5 '' disks :P

ZD's were prone to failure.

A friend was a graphic designer who bought into them and loved them until they mostly broke and cost him a lot in lost jobs.

Actually, Doom II came on five floppy disks. I know this, because I still have them. In the box, with (admittedly useless) manual.
Envy me. :-) (Or not, because I'm pretty sure at least one of the disks has gone bad, and I don't even have a proper floppy drive anymore.)

The switch from floppies to cd-roms was a seriously exciting time for me. FMV for the win! IT'S LIKE MOVIES! ON YOUR PC! WOW!

That's pretty mindboggling. By the time I got into computers, cassette tapes were no longer widely used for data storage. But a schoolfriend of mine had a C64, and the thing I most remember about that machine is how long it look to load the games into memory. By the time it finally finished loading something, we'd usually already moved on to the NES in the next room. :-)

Heh, you too? That's my best memory from Encarta (which was a pretty good piece of software, sort of like an offline Wikipedia). I remember showing that little clip to everyone as proof how advanced and "photorealistic" computer graphics had become. With games FMV like Phantasmagoria, it seemed that soon we would have games indistinguishable from live-action TV in which we would be able to do anything we wanted.

But that was only after I got my first Pentium. For much of the early 1990s I owned only a PC 286 / 25 MHz / 2 MB RAM / 40 MB HDD. The bottleneck was actually my EGA graphics card. I wept with envy as I watched my friends play so many more great games just because they had VGA. I still played many classic games, to be sure, but a few more years had to pass before I could play Monkey Island 2 or Fate of Atlantis at home.

Oh? That's interesting. Actually, I think that our neighbour installed Doom 2 on my 486, or perhaps the pc came with it (it's so long ago!) Coming to think of it, I wasn't trying to install doom 2 from the stack of disks, I was trying to copy it for a friend, who handed me a big stack of disks at school. Not that I could do it in any case. I ran into the massive .wad file and didn't know what to do with it. We were young and stupid :P

Ha yup.. this is my disks for star trek judgement rites.. sigh shouldve take better care of it.

but still after a lengthy installation.. it feels like a reward ;D

Lol, that pic immediately made me nervous :)

Hey honey, here's the disk you so desperately searched yesterday.

Yikes. I bet he was real happy about that.

There's 2 person in the house and one of em gonna be dead. And it aint me !*shotgun cocking sound*

Thanks, that must be it, when my dad bought her a C128 I was like NOOOOOO, god rest her soul, still missing my little sis. :( is it really 26 years ago, father died at 56, nine months later my little sis died, and a year later my mum died.

Thanks for your time.

all the best

I got my disc caught in a zipper once.