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I've played Fallout 1 around 1998 on my 486DX 50MHz PC. It was a pirated disk I borrowed from a classmate, who introduced me to the game. I would never be able to understand how to play it on my own without an intro (there was no manual and I never played proper CRPGs before).
By the time I reached the Master a single save game was taking around 50Mb and I only had about 80Mb of spare disk space. So I could only have 1 save file and it was loading for about 10 mins.
I managed to complete the game after a lot of pain and suffering. It sparked my interest in programming and I never looked back.
I kept returning to Fallout every 5 years or so. The most recent being a playthrough of Sonora, which was incredible.

I've been working on an isometric CRPG as a solo dev for years now.
 
DevP said:
I've played Fallout 1 around 1998 on my 486DX 50MHz PC. It was a pirated disk I borrowed from a classmate, who introduced me to the game. I would never be able to understand how to play it on my own without an intro (there was no manual and I never played proper CRPGs before).
By the time I reached the Master a single save game was taking around 50Mb and I only had about 80Mb of spare disk space. So I could only have 1 save file and it was loading for about 10 mins.
I managed to complete the game after a lot of pain and suffering. It sparked my interest in programming and I never looked back.
I kept returning to Fallout every 5 years or so. The most recent being a playthrough of Sonora, which was incredible.

I've been working on an isometric CRPG as a solo dev for years now.
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Damn, only 1 save? Would be fun to turn it into a challenge.
 
Homer2137 said:
Damn, only 1 save? Would be fun to turn it into a challenge.
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Oh, yes, it definitely was. In fact, I remember Master so well because I had to save scum multiple times due to getting crippled or losing my eye whenever entering the corridor leading to him. I would save the game whenever I was lucky enough to get a little closer to the baddy. Then I'd get crippled a minute later and load the game. Since loading was taking around 10 mins it literally took me hours to beat him bit by bit.
 
DevP said:
I've played Fallout 1 around 1998 on my 486DX 50MHz PC. It was a pirated disk I borrowed from a classmate, who introduced me to the game. I would never be able to understand how to play it on my own without an intro (there was no manual and I never played proper CRPGs before).
By the time I reached the Master a single save game was taking around 50Mb and I only had about 80Mb of spare disk space. So I could only have 1 save file and it was loading for about 10 mins.
I managed to complete the game after a lot of pain and suffering. It sparked my interest in programming and I never looked back.
I kept returning to Fallout every 5 years or so. The most recent being a playthrough of Sonora, which was incredible.

I've been working on an isometric CRPG as a solo dev for years now.
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I never ran Fallout on a PC that old, but I remember the 3/486 99mhz PCs and running Wolf3D and SC2k. We had no idea what we were doing, and I remember being ~8yo booting to post and deleting file by file to make room for Zork or Myst or 7th Guest.

Around age 11 I thought cRPGs were for nerds. Then I went to a friends house and he showed me Fallout, and some extremely violent death animations, and Desert Eagles, and I never looked back since.

Best wishes for your game. Only our generation has seen how crazy fast this all progressed.
 
mobucks said:
Only our generation has seen how crazy fast this all progressed.
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Yeah, to think of it - its crazy how in our time there were even no pagers. I remember my first hard drive was 1000mb! Fallout 2 required more than half of it! First cellphone that we've got - it was our family phone.
 
I owned a PC that released six years before Fallout did; it could not recognize drives of more than 40 mb.

*Forty megabytes; with 32mb max partition sizes.

Speaking of... The first time I needed to upgrade a hard drive to fit a game was with Baldur's Gate; the drive cost $280, and BG1 filled it.
 
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Gizmojunk said:
The first time I needed to upgrade a hard drive to fit a game was with Baldur's Gate; the drive cost $280, and BG1 filled it.
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I have no words other than: is this shit real?

My first monitor was Sony CRT.. was it Multiscan?.. The weight of this thing was about 25kg
 
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