I’ve got some DOOM WADs I have been meaning to play so I would probably grab Trench Foot, Total Chaos, and the sequel to Ashes 2063, Ashes: Afterglow with a portable install of GZDoom to play them.
After that I’d probably bring Star Trek TOS and a MOBI copy of Neuromancer by William Gibson combined with a portable install of VLC and Calibre in case the computer didn’t have applications that support the file format.
What about you?
I wanted to phrase this in a way where it isn’t a prolonged or desert island style question where the responsible idea would be to bring Wikipedia ZIMs and educational PDFs. It’s just an awkward amount of time to kill. The mid 2000s office desktop stipulation is just an additional challenge so you can’t just bring in a copy of Baldur’s Gate 3 or Cyberpunk 2077.
Edit: By mid 2000s I meant around 2005; the XP or Vista.
Dark Disciples 1 and 2, including the temple of eternity module.
removed by mod
A few movies on the drive and I’ll take a nap to waste some time
The brother bear game
Any reason why? Nostalgia?
I feel like I had that or the Open Season game at one point
Simple nostalgia! I used to play this with my cousin on vacation non stop, we’d go all night on that thing
12 hours of trying to overclock a mid 2000s desktop as much as I can
Memtest on a floppy and superpi or prime95, atitool on the drive, maybe a few games to benchmark? Can’t forget a soldering iron and defroster repair kit. 12 hours is not going to be enough.
I’d love to chance to play a bunch of nostalgic titles - just off the top of my head I’d play DOOM, Uplink, Darwinia, Morrowind, and my trashy favourite from that era Themepark world. There are definitely more if I had time to think about it.
Some retro computer emulators(Atari 8-bit, C64) and my dev environment for them - when you target old stuff you can customize the whole dev tooling setup with very little compromise, especially if you go the route of assembly/Basic/Forth and then pile on higher level build steps. I’d have to be careful around the potential problem of “whoops there’s a 64-bit binary in there and I’m on a 32-bit OS”.
Basically if I were back in college it’d be that all the time, and then VLC and some anime or movies in 480p. No sense in keeping up with those darn 2000’s games.
I would only need a copy of Gothic 1
Damn, I forgot to mention this one
I could probably look this up but can’t you play Gothic with just a keyboard?
Yes, you can :) But with community patches, you can get a more modern mouse/keyboard control.
That sounds like a solid plan! Trench Foot, Total Chaos, and the Ashes series are all great choices for some DOOM WAD fun. Adding in some classic Star Trek and a cyberpunk classic like Neuromancer for reading material is a nice touch. Bringing along portable installs of GZDoom, VLC, and Calibre shows great foresight in case the computer’s applications don’t support your files. Enjoy your gaming and reading adventures and you can check for more at チャットgpt!
Morrowind, RCT2, Total Annihilation with all my mods and Deadlock 2 as well if I have time.
Age of Empires 2… See you in 12 hourse ✌️
Install the gta 3d games need for speed most wanted 05 and music from 80s to the 90s
12 hours isn’t really even that long, could probably bring just about anything, but I think Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri would be a great way to spend that time.
Depends. Are we in the 2000s or is it present day stuck with a 2000s desktop? If the former, I’d grab Final Fantasy XI and relive my childhood. If the latter, I’d download a few seasons of Buffy and Xena and chill out with some popcorn.
Present day with 2005 desktop.
Yeah definitely watching some classic TV and anime on CCCP. The CRT will do great justice to older shows. If I had to game, I’d boot up Zeus: Masters of Olympus, Rollercoaster Tycoon, and Dungeon Keeper II.
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