MadyNora: After a bit of thinking I think I understand finally!

I remeber my mom once told me about a book I should read. I didn't read it, and I don't remeber the title, but afaik it's about a world where robots do all the work, so the average people are dumb as a box of rocks.

And this is exactly what we see now.

Steam automatically updates and installs games. Result? A bunch of kids who have *no idea* how to install or, heavens forbid, download a game or *OMG* an update maually.

I once read a blog of a pro-stean anti-gog guy. His main point against gog was that downloading and installing from gog is a hard chore! On steam he has his game after 1 click, on gog OMG 3 clicks!!! "Download" "2x click on .exe" OMG this is toooo hard and takes toooo loooooooong, steam is better, period D:
(Why the heck am I reading these things in the 1st place...? >_>)

What made me understad this?
The guy who said that gog games are easier to pirate. I did not understand what he means. All games are easy to pirate... but wait! Non-gog games need a crack! You need to copy-paste a crack! This makes pirating non-gog games suuuuuch an incredibly hard chore!

GEEEEZZZ!!!
I'm 23.
Sometimes I feel too young. Too young to know most of the old games. Too young to have a nostaliga feel over some games. Too young to be able to get into retro, or retro-syle games.
But sometimes I feel too old. I feel too old when no matter how hard I try I simply don't understand people, who belive that manually downloading something and 2x clicking on the .exe is a hard chore, and it *must* be handled by a client =/

Sry for wall of text, but it felt good to write this down, especially the last paragraph :)
(don't get me wrong I'm not a 100% anti-steam person, I just realllly can't stand some people who use it...)

hummer010: Thanks a lot. Here I thought I had wiped those memories, but here they are again. I need a beer.

Psyringe: I think you mean autoexec.bat and config.sys - autoconfig.sys did not exist in DOS and actually the filename wouldn't have been possible due to the 8.3 character limitation.

It's probably a good thing if our memory of these things grows fuzzy, as it indicates that we've indeed overcome those clunky tools ... ;)

hummer010: I think I used QEMM instead of Voodoo.

awalterj: Origin and Sierra games were the ones I generally had trouble with, occasionally needing help form my IT-wise higher evolved older brother who enjoyed studying the DOS manual more than playing games.
To this day, I get a tense kinda feeling when playing old games and the Origin logo pops up, as if I'm expecting the game to freeze the very next instant (which did happened with Ultima games, Crusader, Wing Commander, Bioforge)

phaolo: Even if Dosbox is heaven, messing with the old DOS stuff always had its sense of mystery and accomplishment :D
(well, unless it didn't work or the game was bad afterwards lol)

awalterj: Only had the demo of Outpost which worked fine but with Sierra adventures, half the 'Quest' was getting them to run in the first place. No wonder I stayed more loyal to LucasArts throughout the years and have played all of them but have quite a backlog with the Sierra ones. For some reason, Sierra strategy titles like Caesar didn't cause quite as much trouble as their adventure titles, at least on my computer.
Strangely, I rarely encountered problems with Win 3.11 / Win 95 / Win 98 games, the periphery was another story though . Plug & Play was an evil joke, half the time joysticks and gamepads didn't get recognized properly, USB was truly a Godsend later on.