But I can run it on a 300MHz Pentium 2!

Specifically, I ran Indev at a laggy 12-15 fps, and 1.5.2 at ~5-6 fps.

I suspect that the CPU is the bottleneck, 'cause Minecraft is much more CPU intensive than it is on the GPU.

Though, I do have a 400-something MHz Pentium 2 in storage that I pulled from a different computer...

Either way, the thing can barely play Youtube videos at 144p, and it actually surprisingly loads Fimfiction pretty quick.

So, my dad got a notification this morning on his iPhone 7 Plus to update to iOS 13. He decided to go ahead and update, naturally. Neither of us saw any harm in a simple software upgrade, after all.

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Because I keep finding new ways to poke at this one particular dead drive.

This time, a crystal oscillator appears to be dead! Can't keep proper timing for things if your crystal's blown! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

browser wars? more like estranged cousin wars.

A R C H I V E A L L T H E D I S K S.

Starting with a grammar-checker software first. :)

Also, I can now make images of 360KB and 1.2MB disks using FreeDOS, Raread, and a Pentium 4-era computer. Yes, the floppy controller still supports 5.25" drives even though the chipset and CPU are from like 2006.

I'll post another blog once I figure out where to upload the archive dump.

'Cause 1: I was supposed to have fall break this week, but it got cancelled 'cause Covid.
And 2: I really don't have very many resources to start a new hardware project, so I'd might as well do something else.

Also, I haven't had the time to even try setting up a GoFundMe for my dog yet. :P

But anyway, here's some thoughts on some of the stuff I'd like to try doing:

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All I wanted to do was get Windows 10 version 1803 to install. I ended up spending an hour hunting down "afamgt.sys" because Windows Update didn't like the fact that it existed.

Turns out it was on my desktop that entire time in a driverpack I downloaded to transfer to a Windows XP machine.

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Running Handbrake again to re-encode Rainbow Rocks into a low-res mpeg-2 file in a futile attempt to get the movie to play smoothly on my mid-1990s era computer that's sitting in the corner of my room.

It looks weird when it's paired with a 1920x1200 screen that's outputting sub-480p video, but my only problem so far has been the audio getting desynchronized with the video.

being a broke college student be like:

This summer's gonna be the first time in almost four years where I don't have some form or another of summer classes taking up most of the day, and I'm itching to work on several big projects, which I hope I can also post onto youtube as progress/walkthrough videos.

Only issue I see is that I don't have a job and I finally got my one and only stimulus check. I don't wanna spend too much, and my overly-frugal brain doesn't like prices above $15 on anything lol.

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Logged into Fimfiction on a backported version of K-Meleon 74 on Windows 2000, lag abound over the 10mbps ethernet card!

I was actually posting the specs earlier, but for some reason I got logged out and lost that blog, so I'm just gonna leave it at this. Final specs will come later.

EDITS FROM MY SURFACE GO:
Yeah, The First One is a cheesy name for a computer, but what else would I have called it?

Specs:

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*screams in agony*

doubt it's gonna catch as much interest. this one's about floppy drive head alignment, so unless you've got a clunky ol' floppy drive sitting around that's got trouble reading disks, this probably ain't for you. :P

I have almost the exact same PC, but with original hardware.

Random farts facts~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WITH EXTRA SARCASM!

Farts are smelly.

Farts are stinky.

Farts are all of the above when one does it in a tent on a hot day filled with multiple people.

Don’t light farts on fire. They are flammable.

Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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