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Mållgan Feb 11, 2017 @ 2:03am

This game is from 1995 and it needs 1GB RAM

Did people have 1GB RAM in 1995? But more importantly, wasn't this game released for DOS? Lol.

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stJae Feb 11, 2017 @ 9:16am

It was released on Panasonic 3DO in 1995 and it had... 2Mb RAM :D

Mållgan Feb 11, 2017 @ 9:19am

Originally posted by stJae:
It was released on Panasonic 3DO in 1995 and it had... 2Mb RAM :D

Lol. I don't get it. The devs shouldn't increase the system requirements because they fear that people wouldn't purchase the game because of its old age. Doing so would give it an illusion that this re-release is a "remake" and thus creates certain expectations.

Baguette Feb 11, 2017 @ 10:27am

I like also how you need a minimum of 357mb space but you only really need 1mb for the reccommended lol.

SillyWalk Feb 11, 2017 @ 2:08pm

Originally posted by Generic Player:
Originally posted by stJae:
It was released on Panasonic 3DO in 1995 and it had... 2Mb RAM :D

Lol. I don't get it. The devs shouldn't increase the system requirements because they fear that people wouldn't purchase the game because of its old age. Doing so would give it an illusion that this re-release is a "remake" and thus creates certain expectations.

Be aware that it's not counting the RAM that the game itself needs, but the RAM that the system needs, and that current systems obviously need more RAM than DOS (one of the original release platforms). It wouldn't make sense to put in the requiments that you need 2MB of ram on your system because none of the Windows from the requirements (xp-10) would ran on it, and even less would ran the game on top of that.

Last edited by SillyWalk; Feb 11, 2017 @ 2:09pm

Kashra Fall Feb 11, 2017 @ 7:56pm

Originally posted by Generic Player:
Did people have 1GB RAM in 1995? But more importantly, wasn't this game released for DOS? Lol.

Was on the CD I if I remember correctly. Could be wrong, but I recall a game called "Eden" on the CD I.

Mr Hanky

Dec 23, 2017 @ 4:55am

Games back then mostly played off the discs hence the small file sizes. Wing Commander 3, if I'm not mistaken, was over a GB when computers back then averaged around having 400 MB so games played off discs rather than having to be fully installed. The RAM requirements are most likely for the emulation software.

Octomore

May 30, 2020 @ 2:29am

I have the originally disc from 1995 and box and ran it on my DOS pc. it had about 40mb HDD and a first generation intel processor inside.
until i found the game in steam store, I still played the original disk on a pc with DOS and Windows 3.11. Wich stil works fine.

I can tell, that the originally Lost Eden file is a .BAT file and that file are about 360MB big. Its correct that you in the prompt typed eden and then the game started.
TO play the game on a modern Win 10 you need a program called DOSbox, and thats why the recom. for 1gb of RAM is there. Not because of the game! but the Emulator to run it.

All in this game is in orginal shape, sound, grafic ets. Nothing changed! Witch is good and nice.

Reaper Iru has Lost Eden

Mar 27, 2021 @ 7:53am

Can confirm what Kashra said. My grandpa used to have a Philips CD-i player. we would play anything from Dino's Quest to Zelda's Wand of Gamelon on that thing.