Furthermore, such floppy drives typically had a light indicator to indicate when they were in use, plus said drives weren't exactly what I would call quiet.

This also means that there is no desktop or command prompt to return to when done with the game.Īlso, the OS was very simple and did not do any disk caching therefore, the file system on the floppy disk would always be in a consistent state except when the computer was writing to the disk.

Hence, simply turning off the computer would not damage the hard drive, since there wasn't any hard drive to damage. Ultima 1 was released in 1981 hard drives didn't come with computers until 1983 at the earliest (and were too expensive at that point). There were resident 'process killers' as well to save your **s from your boss. Knowing the right key combinations was essential - there was no alt+tab. TorMazila: Actually most games had one or another way to exit them, plainly turning off PC could lead to damaged FAT, and parking your hard drive (if you were a lucky owner) was essential for most of sub-40MB drives.

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