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Post by **Blaze** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:44 am

So, my girlfriend up at school has no computer whatsoever. I currently don't have the cash to just buy her one, and I don't have enough parts lying around to put one together at the moment. Lucky me, my sister decided it was time for a new machine, and said I could have the old one.

The old one is so old, in fact, that I wouldn't DARE put XP or 2000 on it. So, I'm spending the evening formatting and reinstalling Win98.

Ah... 16 colors and DOS based .cab extraction programs. This is the stuff I grew up with.

I ALMOST miss it..... Almost.

How about you? What's your "favorite" part of the old school?

Arc Orion · Post by **Arc Orion** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:56 am

The games. I still keep a 486 around for when I want to play a really old DOS based game. Of course, the monitor that came with it is currently fubar, so I can't really use it right now.

Nitz Walsh · Post by **Nitz Walsh** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 10:18 am

I use my 486 as a book end.

I had a 350 mhz something I forget what, set up as a team speak server, it lagged a bit with more than about 4 people on it, but it worked... don't need it anymore though.

FireAza · Post by **FireAza** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:20 am

[quote="Blaze";p="544470"]How about you? What's your "favourite" part of the old school?[/quote]
That they make great foot rests. I've put together a 2nd PC froms scrap parts left over from my upgrades. It's not exactly crap (1.3GHZ processor) but most of the time I just use it as a foot rest. And in winter, it's nice and warm if you turn it on because it's poorly cooled (only one fan, the PSU's fan and the nail in the coffin: the PSU is right next to the processor

)

Spongiform · Post by **Spongiform** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 2:59 pm

What do I like best about old computers?

I can get them for free at the local recycling center. Half the time I can just plug them in and switch them on and they work.

tankkisankari · Post by **tankkisankari** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:40 pm

I still use Win95 when visiting my parents, they dont need anything better for paying bills on the internet.

Infin8Cyn · Post by **Infin8Cyn** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:30 pm

Things I love about old school:

- Text Adventure Games
- Zork
- Command lines (I love BBS' and many many command line driven things)
- Simple, functional "GUI"'s
- Less Bloat, More Function
- Batch Programming
- GWBASIC
- 2D Side Scrollers (Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, etc.)

Vektor T. Gecko · Post by **Vektor T. Gecko** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:18 am

favourite part of "old skool?"
console based OS's.
Back when we didn't NEED no stinking GUIs or registries to get things really fucked up.
Granted, DOS was barely an operating system

Didn't even have a decent driver architecture.
But there you have it.
I miss not having to deal with over-complex, inconsistent, and failure prone GUIs

Deacon · Post by **Deacon** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:05 pm

[quote="Vektor T. Gecko";p="544653"]I miss not having to deal with over-complex, inconsistent, and failure prone GUIs[/quote]
KDE?

workmad3 · Post by **workmad3** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:52 am

or perhaps just a linux/unix console maybe? after all, then you have all the features of a much better os than dos, including driver architecture etc, along with powerful shell scripting etc so you can completely get away from dos batch files as well (which can barely be called programming

)

edge · Post by **edge** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:01 pm

[quote="Arc Orion";p="544472"]The games. I still keep a 486 around for when I want to play a really old DOS based game. Of course, the monitor that came with it is currently fubar, so I can't really use it right now.[/quote]

Word to that. I love my 486

There's so much that I loved about the old systems though. I think the thing I loved most was that hardware configurations weren't complex, and they actually made sense...now you have so many things to concider when buying even just a motherboard, it makes my head spin.

I think the one thing that really sticks out in my mind was when I got my IBM 468 DX2 66MHz. I was all stoked because it seemed like it was so fast. Upgraded later on down the road from 8MB of memory (the short simms, no less), to 16MB, I could play all of the high-end games!

Infin8Cyn · Post by **Infin8Cyn** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:24 pm

[quote="Vektor T. Gecko";p="544653"]favourite part of "old skool?"
console based OS's.
Back when we didn't NEED no stinking GUIs or registries to get things really fucked up.
Granted, DOS was barely an operating system

Didn't even have a decent driver architecture.
But there you have it.
I miss not having to deal with over-complex, inconsistent, and failure prone GUIs[/quote]
Whatcha talkin' about? TSR's were the way to role.

Vektor T. Gecko · Post by **Vektor T. Gecko** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:57 pm

Yeah, but I wasn't using Linux back then. So I can't really claim to be nostalgic about Linux.

Now granted, I DO have it on one of my computers, an old P200 MMX that I've installed inside the first computer case (well, PC case) I ever owned. But that still doesn't count

workmad3 · Post by **workmad3** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:42 am

I know one game i really miss from old dos games (although not too old all things considered) is Toonstruck, one of those nice point and click games. I expect it would work in windows, but I dont have it anymore, so I'm nostalgic about it under dos. If I ever get nostalgic about the commond prompt though, I just log in to a linux box and remiond myself that dos got it wrong

removes all nostalgia

Infin8Cyn · Post by **Infin8Cyn** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:30 pm

[quote="Vektor T. Gecko";p="545032"]Yeah, but I wasn't using Linux back then. So I can't really claim to be nostalgic about Linux.

Now granted, I DO have it on one of my computers, an old P200 MMX that I've installed inside the first computer case (well, PC case) I ever owned. But that still doesn't count

[/quote]

TSR = Terminate & Stay Resident. Often used to load things like Mouse Cursor drivers and F-Prot.

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