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Minimum System Requirements
« on: 2012-08-04 22:11:48 »
Checking out new releases on Steam, I saw Dungeons of Dredmor: Conquest of the Wizardlands was just released.
Then I noticed the minimum system requirements:
Minimum:

OS:MS-DOS 5.5
Processor:IBM 386 Personal Computer
Memory:1 MB RAM
Graphics:Hercules Graphics Adaptor
DirectX®:5.2
Hard Drive:20 MB HD space
Sound:Adlib compatible sound card; Roland MT-32; Gravis Ultrasound
Additional:640kb should be enough for everybody. Are you brave enough for 640kb?


Now those were the days!
Though I would recommend DirectX 6.  It offered a huge speed increase over 5.

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Re: Minimum System Requirements
« Reply #1 on: 2012-08-04 22:37:24 »
I remember Half Life 1's requirements. A 100Mhz processor, 32mb of RAM and 600Mb of hard drive space. Good times.

These days I don't think a machine like that could even execute a simple flash file.

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Re: Minimum System Requirements
« Reply #2 on: 2012-08-04 23:48:15 »
a simple flash file.
Haha, Flash is so bloated and slow that a many modern games are more likely to perform at full speed than a relatively simple Flash game. Case in point: The Binding of Isaac is far more likely to struggle than ANY Source-engine powered game.

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Re: Minimum System Requirements
« Reply #3 on: 2012-08-05 00:39:44 »
Flash has had a huge memory leak for a while now, crashes after a while if left running, regardless of if it's in focus or not, makes watching streams a pain in the ass, infact the only Flash thing running right now is an small ad on another tab, it's using nearly 800MB of ram...

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Re: Minimum System Requirements
« Reply #4 on: 2012-08-05 00:39:58 »
I remember the days when my computer could run a decent game.

Oh wait, it still can.


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Re: Minimum System Requirements
« Reply #5 on: 2012-08-11 05:36:08 »
Fucking flash, been temp freezing my computer and causing all types of hiccups when other things run fine, crashing all the time lately.

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Re: Minimum System Requirements
« Reply #6 on: 2012-08-11 10:20:30 »
You can try Gnash 0.8.10, the open source replacement project.

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Re: Minimum System Requirements
« Reply #7 on: 2012-08-11 13:12:18 »
Flash is either crashing or updating so often that I barely have time to play games on my computer!