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    Who played on linux before proton? (lemmy.world)
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    [–] comador@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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

    [–] the_third@feddit.de 7 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

    [–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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
    [–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

    First i thought you had a cat hiding there.

    [–] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (2 children)

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

    [–] comador@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

    Could be a scanner

    [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

    That’s one tall tower.

    [–] fabiomzz@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

    Pure art!