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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Recently picket up this old Thinkpad T30 for 2 bucks at a local flea market. Its a bit scratched up and the battery is more or less dead but everything else is working fine. Its Pentium 4M, 1gb of ram and 40gb hdd might be a bit overkill for win2k but its really amazing. Running Firefox 13 and a webone proxy to deal with ssl issues.
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Im a Zoomer myself and I love those old win95-2k aesthetics! You cant tell me that this doesn't look amazing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It's the Lilac color scheme that really makes it - we had that on my family's first PC and classic Win UIs don't look quite right to me without it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

How does one install that? My japanese isnt the best

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

everyone has a different taste I guess

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

IrfanView, now that's the good stuff

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Ok your desktop goes fucking hard, im just very particular about my browsing experience

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I obviously dont use a 24 years old OS as my daily driver. I just love to play around with a OS thats older than me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yo is the a gamecube emulator????

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Nope. Only have n64 and snes atm. Dont think this laptop would run gc at a playable framerate.
Edit: In case you are talking about classicube: Thats a rewrite(afaik) of one of the alpha versions of Minecraft

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Classicube is pretty sick

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Damn, i miss gamecube and was hoping youd tell me it was a good one so i didnt have to go looking myself

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Dolphin is the main GC/Wii emulator. It works great on a modern-ish computer, but you can't really run it on GC-era hardware.