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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 04:28:15 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   Fallout's custom installers (both DOS and Windows) tell you how much space you have free on all of your drives. Except the maximum it can display is 2,147 Mb, so I assume it counts the free *bytes* until it fills a signed 32-bit integer.

   • JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 04:43:18 UTC JP

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     @dosnostalgic i remember seeing that, and a bit later the size of the maxed out install for westwood's Blade Runner at like 2GB, and thinking "who has *that* kinda HD space anyway??"

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 07:02:12 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • JP
     • Phil Nelson

     @philnelson @jplebreton I legitimately remember thinking "this is obscene" when I first encountered a game that *required* an install size larger than a CD.

   • Phil Nelson (philnelson@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 07:02:13 UTC Phil Nelson

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     • JP

     @jplebreton @dosnostalgic what are they, millionaires??

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 07:45:12 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     I remembered that a friend of mine liked Fallout so much, even though their machine was very modest & didn't run it well, that in order to play it with no CD loads they only had the HUMONGOUS INSTALLATION of the game and Windows 95, and that maxed out their HDD.