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JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 months agoWhy would anyone need a 24TB HDD?
Because in the time we have gone from 4GB SD cards to 4TB cards, movies have gone from being 700MB to 70Gb, and games from coming on a few cds or dvds to requiring a mountain of them - Baldurs Gate 1 came on 5 CDs, BG3 would require around 200 of them.
moody@lemmings.world 2 months ago
The original Baldur’s Gate came on a single CD and had full install size of under 600MB. It was also possible to do a partial install and to load files off the CD at runtime.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I wonder what the other disks were all for then.
grue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
CD audio, maybe?
(I’m not familiar with Baldur’s Gate in particular, but I do remember some '90s games being like that.)
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
You could do that with a lot of PS1 games. The first track was data, the rest were just regular CD audio tracks.
This got rarer later on, once they realised the could fill the discs with FMV sequences instead.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
In this case, the question was rhetorical - the original release of BG1 takes 5 CDs, and the sixth is the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion.
They did eventually re-release it as only a 3 CD set because they could cram more data on a single CD by then
Hule@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I see one is an expansion disk.
There might be a few with CD Audio
As was the fashion at the time…
mark3748@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Last I remember, Baldurs Gate was on 6 separate discs, but I haven’t installed it from those in probably 20 years.