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Old 03-03-2006, 07:38 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Snarky
Heh. I don't know what world you were living in in the late 80s-early 90s, but I don't think any game ran "out of the box" back then. You were lucky if you only had to fiddle with the soundcard settings and didn't need to restart your computer from a boot disk to play the game.

Or am I reading you wrong?
I was using a Mac in the 80s and 90s. No fiddling.

(Although I did play Police Quest 1 and 2 on a PC in 1990 or so, and don't remember having to do anything particularly drastic to it. I played directly off the disk... the computer didn't have a hard drive.)
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