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.

  • klemptor@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Winamp with my favorite skin

    Entirety of my mp3 collection

    All 7 seasons of DS9

    All 5 seasons of Kids in the Hall

    • Corroded@leminal.spaceOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      You’d rather spend the 12 hours just using whatever is on the computer than bring in some of your ill-gotten gains for some guaranteed entertainment?

  • EchoCranium@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 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.

  • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    This kind of feels like every work day. Except I can’t use the pc for fun. Lol help me :')

    +1 on roms and Doom. Maybe the sims. Tbh I’m not too familiar with that generation of PC gaming. There’s probably a lot I don’t know about

  • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
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    3 months ago

    awkward amount of time to kill

    For how long? Because that’s probably the most important factor.

    There’s also a million indie games that run perfectly fine on mid 2000 desktop hardware. Even games that look crazy computational intensive like Factorio.

  • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Open X-COM. Or well, maybe the regular X-COM, that should run just fine regularly.

    Some books as epubs or whatever format is convenient, and a reader. Would have to research which one works on Windows 2000 or ME. Or was it XP already?

  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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

  • AnimacityArtist@ani.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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.

    • Avg@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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.