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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? (leminal.space)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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.

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[-] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego and Commander Keen ... wait a second, the time machine's dial is broken.

[-] renard_roux@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 2 points 7 months ago

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.

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[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

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

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

So, just a PC? No controllers or anything?

I might get a few 8 and 16 bit ROMs

And mainly movies, I'd get around to watching Rambo and get some other stuff

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[-] useful_idiot@lemmy.eatsleepcode.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Visual C++ 6 SP3

[-] millie@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If it were actually the mid 2000s, I'd be okay for an insane amount of time with just Flash and Audacity. Today, probably the first Baldur's Gate.

Oo or an snes emulator with Shadowrun.

[-] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

Tutorial videos for programming

[-] EchoCranium@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 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.

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