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    Who played on linux before proton? (lemmy.world)
    submitted 7 months ago by Waffelson@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] comador@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    My 1999 setup running Slackware while playing Loki's Civ CTP

    [–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    How many hard drives you have in that beast? I see enough ribbon cable to wrap a gift

    [–] comador@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

    Old story: There was a sale at a big box Electronics store on Seagate Barracuda SCSI-2 Wide 9.1GB drives and I bought 6 of them to give me a 40GB RAID-5 on an old mylex dac960 scsi raid card. Bigtime storage in 1999.

    Those fed my 3:1 ratio mp3 sharing site that my uunet bot advertised haha.

    [–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    That's insane I absolutely love it. To put that in perspective, 1999 game storage requirements:

    • GTA 2, 70 MB
    • Quake III Arena, 70 MB
    • SimCity 3000, 230 MB
    • Everquest, 1 GB
    [–] the_third@feddit.de 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Yep, playing a Loki port of Myth II - Soulblighter on SuSE Linux, iirc 5.3 is one of my earliest memories of gaming on Linux. Must have been around... 25 years ago.

    [–] Willdrick@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

    Around that time too, UT99 shipped with Linux binaries on the friggin cd

    [–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

    First i thought you had a cat hiding there.

    [–] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

    I fished a tower like that out of a dumpster and built my first gaming PC in that and ran Gentoo on it about 2005. Played CS 1.6 and WoW and had better performance in Linux than Windows at the time.

    [–] ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    What is that console looking thing in the bottom right corner?

    [–] comador@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

    Sylvartas is right, it's an old flatbed scanner.

    [–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

    Could be a scanner

    [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

    That’s one tall tower.

    [–] fabiomzz@feddit.it 2 points 7 months ago

    Pure art!