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  • The AD&D “Gold Box” games from SSI Inc. stored game text in 6-bit encoding. The first one of these I played was “Champions of Krynn” and the PC release came on 4 360k 5.25 dsdd floppy disks. They actually needed the packing in those days, and couldn’t afford to spent cpu cycles or ram on built in compression.
    I remember opening up the game data files in a file viewer (maybe pc-tools?) and being confounded by the lack of text in the files.













  • Agreed. I prefer a ‘proper’ dock like the HP ultra Slim dock 2013 or the Lenovo ThinkPad pro dock, where you set the laptop into it and you’re good to go, but times change and the current usb-c thunderbolt docks are reasonably decent now. One cable if your laptop doesn’t have insane power demands, or two if you use a laptop with >100W draw