Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

Hacker News is highlighting a technical retrospective on the original Quake shareware CD-ROM and how tightly it had to be packed to fit onto disc. The piece explores the engineering constraints of the early-nineties shareware era, when storage space was measured in megabytes.

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