A few movies on the drive and I'll take a nap to waste some time
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I would only need a copy of Gothic 1
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.
Damn, I forgot to mention this one
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.
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.
Around 2005?
TES Oblivion
Nerf arena blast.
Honestly not sure if it will run on the PC because man that game was a resource hog but should feel just like my childhood trying to get it to run if it doesn't.
Visual C++ 6 SP3
Dwarf fortress
It turns out the answer to these types of questions is always Dwarf Fortress. Even if it's "travel back in time" style, with only access to stuff of the time, it's still Dwarf Fortress, though much more limited and janky, and probably 2D depending on when you drop in.
12 hour morrowind marathon begin. and a few seasons of TV series I like.
I remember back in 2013 I picked up the full expansion set at a thrift store for $4 it was the best summer of middle school by far— got the werewolf mod working and went around finding out who was essential to the plot by killing them and then reverting the saves— good times
sounds epic one of my fave mods is the illuminated order mod, I remember having such fun becoming a lich
- Newest Linux distro
- G4 and G5 MLP episodes
When what happened to me, I had Chrono Trigger. Shortest 12 hours of my life
If I have enough space, a copy of RCT3 platinum edition (the only one I've ever played), and a bunch of music. May not get me completely through the 12 hours, but I at least get a lot of time to see park guests "dying" to getting hit by runaway coasters and get to keep designing a bunch of insane coasters that couldn't be built today for monetary and legal reasons.
As a Line Rider Creator, I'd get Line Rider Overhaul, Ungoogled Chromium with the linerider web app, get a bunch of mods and download a bunch of cool .ogg's.
Where can I learn more about this
You can join our community in Discord (unfortunately Discord is where the community is), there's also a couple good guides, Arglin's Line Rider for Dummies and Malizma's .com guide, and you could also just watch videos and make tracks, which is imo the best way to learn.
FastTracker II and a bunch of samples.
Any good tutorials? I wanted to get into tracking.
Can't recommend any, I learned by trial and error on the Amiga circa 1989 :D
Renoise does come with a bunch of tutorial modules and surely there is some good learning material on Youtube.
Probably be time to sit down and run through Xenogears again...
I'd probably sit and play Unreal, or maybe Riven if I was feeling more chill. Could easily burn through 12 hours like that. Just need to be able to take a case of Jolt, a few bags of chips, and some Skittles along and I'd be set.
Emulators definitely should still run fine for GBA games I'd think. So there's a lot to choose from already in that library. If not, then SNES. even a potato from the mid 2000s can run SNES games.
Other than that, I'm thinking I would load up my entire calibre Epub library so I can read books. I have so many books I want to go through that I have collected over the years. Want to go through the entire Dune series for the first time among other books.
I'm also quite certain a mid 2000s office PC can run VLC. I have many older series I have yet to watch still because I've been so busy. Stuff like The Shield or The Wire that I have downloaded but never got around to watching.
I don't think I would get bored without internet for 12 hours at all with all that media at my disposal. Even on a 128gb thumb drive, I can easily bring in 2-3 full 1080p tv series. Epubs and retro system ROMs take no space at all so that'd be easy.
And if I get bored of all that media somehow, I'd just use an offline copy of wikivoyage to plan my next vacation.
I'm currently listening to the Children of Dune audio book. That alone is 16h. I think Messiah was around 8h and Dune was around 12h. Basically, 12h is nothing.
SNES 9x ran great on systems of this era. I spent days playing all the Megaman titles and save-scumming or scanning memory to make infinite health cheats.
Can it be running some unix derivative?
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.
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