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Many fond memories of my dad struggling to make this run on our family PC which was well below the system requirements, his eventual success and my ultimate love of the game.

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AFAIR it required some unusally large amount of base mem (not highmem). I learned a lot about computers by repetitively breaking the family PC trying to get it to work (by disabling random things in autoexec.bat and CONFIG.SYS to free up as much of that 640k as possible), then trying to fix it before my dad came home. Good times.

Yeah, I nagged my dad into buying a PC, after playing this (and Wolfenstein 3D) at a friend's house.

I still fire it up, every once in a while, at night, trying to recapture the mood of those early days.

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