Oops type, I meant then surely you could use new tech and also find a new way to NOT get distracted.
12 Name: Anonymous2025-10-18 05:37
>>9 you probably could but that's much less fun, and I suspect the real reason anyone would bother is for the fun of it
hell, even now, I'll fire up Windows 95 in PCem and type shit up in Word 95 there, or do something in Fast Tracker II it's not like I can't just use LibreOffice or MilkyTracker, but fuck man, it's fun
going back to a modern desktop is as easy as it can be, but most of the reason I'll even bother is for the fun of it installed a bunch of shit on it, but it's also emulating a 486/50 (partly because this laptop is 10 years old and a bit slow and PCem is very processor intensive to maintain full speed and I actually would like a new laptop but I'm cheap and don't actually need one)
On a related tangent, I used to have a bunch of fun doing Mac emulation with Basilisk II, although I ended up continuing to do it for a while for other reasons: running Word and Photoshop and other programs under Basilisk II was absurdly snappy compared to modern (at the time) programs. Programs designed for a 68040 absolutely soared on my Pentium III laptop, even with the overhead of emulation. I also played a bunch of Marathon Infinity and Sim City 2000 under the Mac emulation, lol. I don't think that quite counts as taking the "numa numa pill", that was more just when I realized just how slow software was getting over the years.
>>9
Oops type, I meant then surely you could use new tech and also find a new way to NOT get distracted.