You are going to be trapped in a room for 12 hours with a mid 2000s office desktop with no internet connection and an external hard drive; what are you putting on the hard drive?

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.

Secret300,

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

freshlemon,

I would only need a copy of Gothic 1

Gooey0210,

Damn, I forgot to mention this one

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

freshlemon,

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

Faceman2K23,
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Morrowind, RCT2, Total Annihilation with all my mods and Deadlock 2 as well if I have time.

Kit,

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.

samus12345,
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Present day with 2005 desktop.

Kit,

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.

ZeroHora,
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

Around 2005?

TES Oblivion

xilliah,

1000010708

Krauerking,

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.

useful_idiot,

Visual C++ 6 SP3

Baahb,

Dwarf fortress

Cethin,

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.

WeLoveCastingSpellz,

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

crimsonpoodle,

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

WeLoveCastingSpellz,

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

uis,
  1. Newest Linux distro
  2. G4 and G5 MLP episodes
Railcar8095,

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

AceFuzzLord,

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.

Interstellar_1,
@Interstellar_1@pawb.social avatar

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.

deezbutts,

Where can I learn more about this

Interstellar_1,
@Interstellar_1@pawb.social avatar

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.

Interstellar_1,
@Interstellar_1@pawb.social avatar

You can download LRO from github.com/LunaKampling/LROverhaul/…/Latest

tasankovasara,

FastTracker II and a bunch of samples.

ArmokGoB,

Any good tutorials? I wanted to get into tracking.

tasankovasara,

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.

Big_Boss_77,

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

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