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.

renard_roux,

A complete collection of QI episodes, and I’d be able to watch a fraction of them 😊

SBS1313,

Stardew valley

Alice,

MS Paint, an old clip art CD, and notepad. It’s time to make some unbearable personal websites

Flax_vert,

This is the best idea.

arran4,

Not sure 12 hours is enough time for me to grab much. Perhaps my backlog.

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

You don’t have 12 hours to grab anything. You’re stuck in the room for 12 hours

arran4,

That part was understood. I don’t think I could complete 1 game in that period of time.

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

Fair enough. I’m not sure what’s in your backlog but there are some gems that can be beaten in a single play session. Titanfall 2’s campaign for example only takes 6 hours.

arran4,

Thanks. I didn’t know, it is also on my list.

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

No worries HowToBeat is a good website if you want to gauge how long a game might take you.

Every so often I feel fatigued by long games so I’ll look for something shorter.

Gooey0210,

If we are talking about modern games

Uncharted series is pretty short

Dark Souls game+ can be beaten in some hours if you know what you do 🤭

ivanafterall,
ivanafterall avatar

Extreme Warfare Revenge, an old wrestling management game, has always been one of my go-tos for situations like this.

loudWaterEnjoyer,
@loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I would take an SNES and N64 emulator. 12 hours is nothing.

Brain,

Backyard 2 Global!

EWR is still my favorite booking sim. TEW is just too much, but ProWrestling Sim on Steam is showing some promise I think.

ivanafterall,
ivanafterall avatar

I've really enjoyed ProWrestling Sim. Have you given it a shot? I never, ever meet people who know what these games are.

Brain,

I bought it, but I only have about 9 hours into it so I’m no expert on it, still getting used to it really, part of that “play time” is idle as I do other things while it’s in the background.

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

Is it anything like MDickie’s Wrestling Empire?

ivanafterall,
ivanafterall avatar

I haven't played that one much, but it's a lot like ProWrestling Sim. It's a management sim, so a lot of menus and text. You recruit wrestlers, setup the various faces/heels/tag teams/stables, you schedule the storylines, rivalries and matches, etc... It's very deep and addictive, if you like the genre/subject matter.

Imgonnatrythis,

Stuck? Sounds more like a gift to me.

I’d probably not waste any time and play minesweeper

HolidayGreed,

Porn

bionicjoey,

After those 12 hours are up:

https://www.meme-arsenal.com/memes/e36e367fb8b88640b9ce883f198e1e6f.jpg

Varyag,
@Varyag@lemm.ee avatar

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.

zedricxks,
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warcraft 3, sid’s pirates, civ 3 or 4. portable of vlc for some classic 90’s anime.

Pulptastic,

StarCraft, warcraft 2, HL, Portal, doom 1-2, Simpsons doom, quake 1-2, command and conquer series, Dune, NES emulator and the full game library zip.

I probably don’t need that many but yeah.

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

Would you use engine recreations or the original versions of the games?

Pulptastic,

When in Rome? I’ve only played the originals and they should all play on mid 00s hardware.

AnimacityArtist,

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.

Localhorst86,

Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 or possibly OpenRCT2 (depending on whether or not it works on the hardware)

Omgboom,

Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction

burrito,

Bring on that 800x600 goodness.

root,

Civilization 4, Dungeon Keeper, Black & White just to name a few. See you next year. :p

quickhatch,

Man, I haven’t thought about Black and White in a long time. I wonder if I still have the disc floating around somewhere…

root,

I still have the CD. Getting it to run might be the tricky part. :p

Adderbox76,

Silent Hunter III

Sink some tonnage.

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