Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-26005008-20160407215658/@comment-1496755-20160420185542

I saw a bird while waiting for the bus - it had trouble flying, due to the wind. It did some pretty awkward movements :P

Haven't seen this cyberspace thing, but I'll look it up. Yeah, proper looking up and down was a big step for that time. It was probably one of the reasons Descent was so heavy with regard to memory requirements - in fact, we had to prepare a special DOS configuration just so that it would run properly (one that squeezed more memory). We had several versions of CONFIG.SYS that we used for different purposes (because different games or other programs needed different environmental parameters). It's one of the joys of the 640K barrier that DOS used to have (back then even Bill Gates himself thought that no one would ever need more than 640K conventional memory... oh dear).

My experiences have been quite different. I'll run some field test ;)