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Uploaded: August 16th, 2024.

Updated: August 16th, 2024.

As mentioned in my general journal entry, i have recently bought a decent old setup. Managed to get a whole computer tower, monitor, keyboard, wires, and even a Microsoft Mouse for 80 quid! My face lit up like a kid in a sweet shop when I saw all the old stuff stacked up high on warehouse shelves, but it didn't take long for my attention to snap onto the setup I had been waiting days for waiting for me on an isolated storage box. We talked about the specs and other computer-related stuff and eventually went back to the boot and all the way home with a complete retro setup.

Cant complain about a system with a Pentium III and 256MB of RAM, it's well suited for Windows XP and excelling with my plans to transition the system to Windows 98 Second Edition. After I set it all up I went to bed and finally turned it on properly the next morning.

After messing around with the control pannel and inspecting the system information, I stuffed some mp3s onto a CD and messed around with the media player. I couldn't manage to play video .avi files unfortuantley, and the vlc i installed didnt work so i will find a solution to that another time. I did play plenty of 3D Pinball though, it was suprisingly fun, i think i got 2,300,000 Points or something like that.

my desktop after some customaization^

Playing around with Windows XP did bring back some memories too. I remember my first personal computer being very lackluster, freezing up if you had more than one or two windows open. Hell, im suprised it managed to run minecraft while i built huge hotels and towns over LAN with my dad. Also remember playing the sims 3 at dogshit quality and not really thinking much about how it could be better.