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.
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.
Since size of harddisk is not specified, I’d take all Nintendo consoles roms that work with emulators on that desktop. May some genesis, Atari and some PSP, basically I take myrient erista on my drive 😂
But what would you play? Or is this an !sbcgaming@lemmy.ml thing where you’d spend the 12 hours tinkering with emulators?
Well, yea, I have most likely spent more time installing stuff on my 3ds than actually playing with it
But in all honesty I would likely kill most time with Zelda, Mario, and pokemon (any generation of each)
Thank you very much for the link to that community, it feels just like home 🤩
Lemmings.
Nothing else. 😛
Tutorial videos for programming
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
Zsnes and a few roms
Morrowind, RCT2, Total Annihilation with all my mods and Deadlock 2 as well if I have time.
Rollercoaster Tucoon 2
ADoM
Donkey Kong Country and SNES9x
2005, you say? I bet KOTOR could run on low on a shitty office PC.
Master of Orion 2
Check out OpenRCT. It’s RCT but improved for the modern age.
I’m well aware, thank you
GalCiv 2?
Mid 2ks? Baldur’s gate, in whatever version was usable
Would you being in the GOG version or the open source engine recreation GemRB?
I could bring the whole Person of Interest series and wouldn’t finish a season. That, or any TV series with reasonable length. I was thinking:
- Dark
- Breaking Bad
- Fringe
- Mr. Robot
- Hannibal
- Battlestar Galactica
- The Expanse
Speaking of, I wonder what the mid-00s performance for decoding HEVC.
Also, what do I get from this, anyway?
Also, what do I get from this, anyway?
You don’t kill your family or get arrested I guess
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/10506722
Speaking of, I wonder what the mid-00s performance for decoding HEVC.
That’s a good question. I hadn’t thought of how that would play into things
I’d copy my Doom and Quake folders, hoping the modern sourceports still work on them. Well, PrBoom+ and ZDoom should both work. Then all my emulators up to the 32-bit era, some music and the seasons of Kamen Rider and Ultraman that I’m currently watching.Honestly I could just bring my actual external hard drive or my HP laptop from 2013 that I installed Linux on. It’s what I got on those.
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.
Install the gta 3d games need for speed most wanted 05 and music from 80s to the 90s
Max Payne 1 and 2, F.E.A.R, Far Cry, MAME with a couple of arcade roms like Galaga, Tetris, Pang, Puzzle Bobble, Metal Slug.
And if I get bored with those there is always Microsoft solitair, mine sweeper and mayong to fall asleep on the keyboard.
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.
