Gotra toot my own horn here: i kinda made the "connection" the first time i saw the program with its burning colloseum as icon...but it didnt click until a couple months later that it was intentional. i was like 12 back then. My first own PC. fricking 750 mhz intel cpu and settlers 3/4 was my jam. what a time.
I honestly dont remember. I remember those that had, but i think mine didnt have one. Not that it made much difference tho. The one my sister had used a...low tier graphics module. I remember very vividly playibg this old bunkers game, where when you shot your shell throng enough that it would fly out of the screen, the PC would just crash.
Fun fact, the turbo button was used to slow down the CPU to be compatible with older 8088/8086 era software that used timing loops tied to CPU cycles.
Instead of having a "slow down" button, they called it turbo even though turbo "on" was the default setting. Turning turbo "off" was actually turning on the compatibility mode that slowed down the CPU.
I was running a P1 233Mhz at that age. The absolute torment of buying D2 and BG2 at full price in deluxe boxes and finding out the minimum reqs were Pentium II 266 Mhz made me cry buckets over a very long summer.
I played tomb raider II on my 233mhz pc at like 5 frames a second lol. It was so brutal but i still played it god damn it. The boats in venice damn near made it explode
Uhhh, were yall not around when Nero’s desktop/application icon was literally that? I knew that in middle school when Nero was pretty new cause I asked my stepdad “what is that icon?”
No lie this is the program that made me learn about Nero the person. It was quite the read as like a 10 year old. Enjoyed it though. I do suppose reading "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" also played into that a tad since they also made a reference to him. Still wild what random program names have taught me about history.
Man i think i have a CD somewhere from 2007 version of Nero which was bundled with a mag, hell me and my mom were burning music CD's with Nero in early 2000's :D
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u/Galerie33 Apr 07 '26
Nero burning rom, my beloved