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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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

FTL: Faster Than Light would run on a computer that old, yeah? Probably bring that and a couple animes to watch while I play it.

Oh shit, if it's XP then I'd be good just playing pinball for the full 12 hours

[–] viking@infosec.pub 4 points 10 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?

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Surprised no one mentioned GTA series

[–] neocamel@lemmy.studio 5 points 10 months ago

Bro remember the top-down GTA games?! Those were legit.

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[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

12 hour morrowind marathon begin. and a few seasons of TV series I like.

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[–] chalk46@fedia.io 4 points 10 months ago

probably some snes roms, an emulator, and some ebooks

[–] Greznak@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago

Elder scrolls morrowind. 12 hours should'nt be a Problem.

[–] alphafalcon@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago

There should be an external hard drive full of portable game installs in some drawer that fits the time period.

Should easily kill a week.

[–] zedricxks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

warcraft 3, sid's pirates, civ 3 or 4. portable of vlc for some classic 90's anime.

[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

I'd love to chance to play a bunch of nostalgic titles - just off the top of my head I'd play DOOM, Uplink, Darwinia, Morrowind, and my trashy favourite from that era Themepark world. There are definitely more if I had time to think about it.

[–] ludrol@bookwormstory.social 3 points 10 months ago

12h is barely enough for 1.5 out of 33 of Ascendance of a Bookworm volumes. I would probably rererereread volume 1 and 18

[–] Varyag@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

I'd copy my Doom and Quake folders, hoping the modern sourceports still work on them. Well, PrBoom+ and ZDoom should both work. Then all my emulators up to the 32-bit era, some music and the seasons of Kamen Rider and Ultraman that I'm currently watching.Honestly I could just bring my actual external hard drive or my HP laptop from 2013 that I installed Linux on. It's what I got on those.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Mid 2ks? Baldur's gate, in whatever version was usable

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[–] kindenough@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Max Payne 1 and 2, F.E.A.R, Far Cry, MAME with a couple of arcade roms like Galaga, Tetris, Pang, Puzzle Bobble, Metal Slug.

And if I get bored with those there is always Microsoft solitair, mine sweeper and mayong to fall asleep on the keyboard.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Silent Hunter III

Sink some tonnage.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Newest Linux distro
G4 and G5 MLP episodes

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

Morrowind, RCT2, Total Annihilation with all my mods and Deadlock 2 as well if I have time.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

12 hours? Lol probably just some stuff to code on and screw around in. I'll probably take a nap in there somewhere to kill time

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Diablo 2 with a mod: Project Diablo 2.

I'd download an offline copy of the wiki, too. And a build guide; 12 hours isn't enough time to come up with a build and play the game!

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'd probably bring Warcraft III, Half Life 2, and potentially Deus Ex if the PC was extra shitty.

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[–] root@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Civilization 4, Dungeon Keeper, Black & White just to name a few. See you next year. :p

[–] quickhatch@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Man, I haven't thought about Black and White in a long time. I wonder if I still have the disc floating around somewhere...

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[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

Zsnes and a few roms

[–] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Install the gta 3d games need for speed most wanted 05 and music from 80s to the 90s

[–] insinsanity@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Angband or umoria

[–] AnimacityArtist@ani.social 3 points 10 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.

[–] freshlemon@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I would only need a copy of Gothic 1

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[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago (13 children)

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 10 months ago

Visual C++ 6 SP3

[–] millie@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

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