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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

A few movies on the drive and I'll take a nap to waste some time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I would only need a copy of Gothic 1

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

I could probably look this up but can't you play Gothic with just a keyboard?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, you can :) But with community patches, you can get a more modern mouse/keyboard control.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Damn, I forgot to mention this one

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

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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Morrowind, RCT2, Total Annihilation with all my mods and Deadlock 2 as well if I have time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

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

Present day with 2005 desktop.

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Visual C++ 6 SP3

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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.

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

12 hour morrowind marathon begin. and a few seasons of TV series I like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

sounds epic one of my fave mods is the illuminated order mod, I remember having such fun becoming a lich

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago
  1. Newest Linux distro
  2. G4 and G5 MLP episodes
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

When what happened to me, I had Chrono Trigger. Shortest 12 hours of my life

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

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

Where can I learn more about this

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

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.

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

FastTracker II and a bunch of samples.

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

Any good tutorials? I wanted to get into tracking.

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

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.

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

Probably be time to sit down and run through Xenogears again...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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.

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Can it be running some unix derivative?

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