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Who here remembers inserting disk 4 of 12?
14 of 32.... windows 3.11 on floppy was a beast.
That was more Windows 95 or NT but the point still stands. CDs were a massive leap in capacity.
3.11 had a floppy pack bundled with Office, it was freaking huge, something like 60 floppies. And they were those freaky 1.68MB floppies as well.
Fun fact: Those were still the exact same floppies that you would normally have formatted to 1.44MB, but Microsoft formatted the disk differently to allow 1.68MB. Works well for small numbers of large files, but not so great for general purpose storage.
Unreal Tournament 2004 was 7 CDs if I remember correctly. That's the most I ever dealt with, and I would gladly insert 100 CDs if it meant we got games of that quality again.
Yes!! UT04 was phenomenal
I had it on one DVD The ways I spent modding the maps in the map editor ! Every time I listen to the Offspring again, like I did at that time, it takes me back to DM-Rankin and its creaky stairs