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lol I remember copying game shortcuts on desktop on my flash drive thinking I'll get the game at home
My computer class teacher did the opposite
He claimed that you can delete all the big exe files, as they are not needed as just take up space
He'd love demonstrate it on the school computer, but it didn't boot right now, "for some reason"
He was not a good CS teacher
lmfao, I wonder if the school even check the teacher's background
I think he meant the installer files, not the actual
.exethat launched the game, but who knowsyeah, I think he heard the shortcut thing somewhere and completely misunderstood it.
tbf, this is now 25 years ago, so computers were still quite a novelty in regular schools, let alone have teachers that know about them. I think he was just a math teacher before
I remember for my birthday one year I wanted the Sega CD Memory card/cartridge thing. It was literally just a memory card BUT I thought it was some magical tool, officially licensed/made by Sega mind you, where I could then go to blockbuster and rent games and it would then SAVE those games...in their entirety...to the memory cartridge. thus allowing me to have a bunch of games without paying full price for them. This is what I believed the thing did. that was my birthday present. a memory card.
Those kinds of things existed in Japan. The Famicom Disk System is probably the most notable example, but I think there were equivalents for the 16-bit consoles
Honestly, that one's on Microsoft. There's basically no value to copying a symlink to a separate disk other than to copy the source. They have all the necessary information to resolve that logic, but chose not to.
Thanks for reminding me, I did that on a floppy disk once and was so proud at first...
Thats how you learn I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Kind of relieved to see I wasn't the only one who did this!
TBH didn't it work at some point? Boots up Rodent's Revenge
I think there are games that are simply a single
.exefile, so copying that does work, I think I have one in Windows XP era and just left it on the desktop for easy access lolI did that for a friend when he asked me to share my copy of Minecraft with him, holy shit