Tyler grew up in Silicon Valley during the '80s and '90s, playing games like Zork and Arkanoid on early PCs. He was later captivated by Myst, SimCity, Civilization, Command & Conquer, all the shooters they call 'boomer shooters' now, and PS1 classic Bushido Blade (that's right: he had Bleem!).
Against a wall in the lobby of the Firaxis office, there are two objects: An old leather desk chair, and an equally aged PC and CRT monitor in beautiful '90s beige. These obviously aren't just any old bits of retro junk. They're the kinds of relics game history archivists dream of, given how much has been lost over the years to bankruptcies, acquisitions, and carelessness.
So, what's inside this bad boy? Firaxis didn't have a full spec list to share, but we have a few details. It would've had 640 KB of useable RAM, because that was"ought to be enough for anybody"). There would've been expanded memory on top of that, and Murray said that the machine contains"16 MB of memory," which is possible. It's unclear how large the hard drive is.
"As I recall, Bill Stealey wanted a cool executive chair and he decided I should have one too—apparently ergonomics was not yet a thing," says Meier, via a description of the objects printed on the wall above them.
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