I'm curious, Yea Forums. Do any of you keep old stuff like PC Hardware and old consoles around in working condition and hooked up just to pretend you're still in another decade? And I'm not talking about "lel I have a CRT monitor next to my 49 inch ultrawide" or "I have my retro consoles still connected to a secondary TV because I'm such a nerd XD". I'm talking about an actual nostalgia corner or nostalgia room full of stuff from 2000-2009 exclusively.
Call me a faggot but my dream setup is pic related, just with updated internal hardware so it's useable today. I'm pretty sure that's possible, but I don't have the money to invest in that. I don't know what kind of horrid autism I have but I wouldn't mind playing modern vidya on 4:3 at all. Maybe some day...
>Do any of you keep old stuff like PC Hardware and old consoles around in working condition and hooked up Yes. >just to pretend you're still in another decade? No.
I went to someone's house once to fix their computer and it looked like they hadn't touched their office since the 90's. They still had dial-up internet and couldn't figure out why they couldn't get online. It's amazing how out of touch some people are.
This clear glass border aesthetic aged horribly. Just get a Mac Mini and install Linux or Windows on it so it's a usable computer.
Parker Phillips
Fuck me that Vaio case looks really good even today. >They still had dial-up internet How can this even happen in current year?
>This clear glass border aesthetic aged horribly No it did not you fucking muppet. >Just get a Mac Mini and install Linux or Windows on it so it's a usable computer Then why the fuck would you buy a Mac Mini?
i keep most of mine in storage, but there are a few classics i keep in my server room it's not a nostalgia corner or whatever, i just like keeping my cube and my o2 visible
>15 years ago LCDs weren't very good Wow what a relevant image.
Jace Jones
What are you referring to? You posted the comparison between LCD and CRT and I also posted a CRT.
Gabriel Johnson
Shitty 1024x768 60Hz CRTs were awful and people forget how much flicker they had because they are used to 60Hz LCDs
Asher Garcia
Any CRT is a fine shitposting device.
Gabriel Taylor
>literally worst speakers that needed an adapter >second worse mouse with only single mouse button >keyboard that prevents you from plugging in non-apple USB devices >meme trash can mac before new mac pro yikes
Elijah Sullivan
Trust me you dont want to game on 4:3. I've had the Same monitor since 2005.
Lucas Bell
I used to always use the top of my CRT as a shelf, I forgot about that. It always had a stack of games like deus ex and star wars racer
Jordan Price
confirmed for never using a 60Hz CRT monitor
Caleb Harris
>literally worst speakers that needed an adapter Good speakers that needed a shitty adapter* FTFY >second worse mouse with only single mouse button It's retarded and I only like it because muh clear plastic. I demand a reissue. >keyboard that prevents you from plugging in non-apple USB devices ...No? >meme trash can mac before new mac pro Fuck you.
Why not?
Isaiah Lopez
Nah it's fine. I still play lots of older stuff with black bars on the sides.
Jason Sullivan
I have 4 inputs on my 55 inch main television and I cycle consoles in and out as I play them. PS2/Dreamcast/Xbox X/Switch currently.
If you want to play older games just play them and dont try to constantly chase whatever it is you are chasing. The present sucks we just gotta deal.
Grayson Lopez
>Playing Dreamcast/PS2 on a 55 inch I too like to stare at a blurry mess all day. Truly a man of taste.
>Studio Display CRT > Studio Display LCD > iMac G4 > Everything else The CRT (OP) is the rarest and best looking one. The LCD (pic related) is super comfy but expensive to get nowadays due to the DVI adapter to use with modern computers ($100 + monitor). Based Lamp iMac is good for modding to make it a regular HDMI display.
Is it even possible to access the internet on OS 9? I know it’s still perfectly possible to shitpost from 10.4.11 but I think that’s the oldest it’ll go.
Jackson Torres
I keep them hooked up because I still need to use them. Sound Blasters don't grow on trees and modern "soundcards" sound like ass for midi.
Ryan Garcia
Sure is. You can still access a lot of the internet if you have Classilla installed.
pic related some image i just got off images of some raddit user doing it
Why would anyone willingly use Mac hardware for anything other than OS/X?
Blake Brown
Shiet, are powerPC Macs not totally useless then?
Aaron Ward
of course not you can run linux on them
Jose Harris
But I hate Linux
Brayden Rodriguez
But you can still do lots of useful stuff.
Nolan Baker
most of that image is bad, but you have to go that far to get some animes
Evan Torres
I want muh OSX tiger, god damn it.
Andrew Perry
I bought one of these used and restored it 10 years ago. Sold it a few years ago for a few eurobucks. Did I make a mistake?
Christian Powell
Absolutely.
Jason Peterson
Does anyone remember a mac or mac-like model that looked kinda like a G4 imac but with a pink translucent plastic casing?
Brody Cox
Yeah, sometimes I wish I could have a CRT monitor. If I ever found a really nice FW900 I'd replace my gpu with one that takes an analog signal in a heartbeat just to use it.
David Ward
>kinda like a G4 imac but with a pink translucent plastic casing? What I don't remember anything like this. Can you sketch it?
I don't have any good cameras right now, but it was basically a mac-like computer or computer monitor that looked like a pink G3 in coloration and aesthetic, but flatter, that was running OS X.
>Were there any games on these that were essentially exclusive? I don't know. Not exclusive but Halo and American McGee's Alice were on Mac though. >Why would I want to run an old mac? Only looks. Absolutely nothing other than nostalgia. Alternatively, mod the shit out of them and make the Micro ATX conversion.
How many desks and or rooms do you have that you would do this?
Charles Rogers
>it's still shit due to hardware issues half of the time because internals are beyond retarded >Find compatible mobo >Literally any i5/i7/i9 model >Literally any current AMD GPU >Everything works out of the box except Wifi and iMessage, one of which you can solve for $10 >Dual boot Wangblows 10 for vidya Wow how fucking difficult, such a terrible fate for OS X users, oh the humanity!
I was born in 88. I notice the older I get, I start to get nostalgic for later and later periods. In 2008-2010 I was really nostalgic for the 90s. Now it's into the 00s.
Interesting. I was born in 1984. In the 00s was a full blow weeb and couldn't give a fuck about the western 90s culture. 90s to me is boredom and school.
>OS X has no advantages whatsoever Except not getting fucked over with all your information, smooth and good looking OS experience, really convenient features if you also use iOS and the superior video and audio editors. ...Unless you're an Adobe nigger.
I do love me some 2000's stuff. For some reason, whenever I think of the year 2000, the Guinness Book of Record edition for the year 2000 is the first thing that comes to mind.
>Except not getting fucked over with all your information
You'd have to be extremely deluded to believe that
>smooth and good looking OS experience
You can make your Windows look like anything these days. As for supposed "smoothness" that's purely a myth, these days OS X isn't even well optimised.
>Really convenient features if you also use iOS and the superior video and audio editors.
WHAT "convinient features" ? You mean all those features that treat the user like a retard and don't allow you to do half the things that you wish you could? As for Video editing software you can get everything on Windows or a superior equivalent. Software liblary will always be smaller on OS X.
>...Unless you're an Adobe nigger.
Correction: "unless you want to use that one specific software suite that I've learned and refuse to learn anything new" sounds more in tune with reality.
>And I'm not talking about "lel I have a CRT monitor next to my 49 inch ultrawide" or "I have my retro consoles still connected to a secondary TV because I'm such a nerd XD". I'm talking about an actual nostalgia corner or nostalgia room full of stuff from 2000-2009 exclusively. That's literally what you asked when you asked if anyone keeps their old games and computers hooked up.
It's just propaganda plain and simple. It has been proven over and over again that OS X isn't in any way more secure and can be used to spy on it's users just like any other OS.
>I'm pretty sure that's possible You'd be throwing out all the internal components and just keeping the shell for its "aesthetics". Pretty much as bad as that fag who decorated that antique rifle with mlp shit.
I always thought this aesthetic was kind of tacky, but boy do I miss it.
Chase Campbell
Have an orange G3 iMac with slot-loading drive, have 10.4.11 on with OS9 as classic environment. Still play old Mac games like Abuse/PoP1&2/Barrack and such on it. Good times.
I grew up in a house with only mac computers until I was in my mid teens and went to an all mac school. It probably made me retarded. >>Were there any games on these that were essentially exclusive? I think Bugdom was? Mac always seemed to get a tiny portion of bigger pc games for twice the price and with something a bit janky.
Windows is worse than macOS. Why would you run Windows at all?
Grayson Davis
Birmingham Bullring if anyone is curious.
Instantly recognized whilst scrolling past the thread. Why the fuck someone is posting this shit not related to vidya beats me.
Joseph Ortiz
No, doing those things for nostalgia's sake is retarded. My computer has XP because I only play old games, I use a CRT for old consoles, I don't do it because I'm nostalgic, I do it because I haven't played everything released on those systems and, besides, it's the right way to play.
For a second I fucking thought that the lamp behind the monitor was one of those things you see in hospitals to keep a television suspended and that the monitor was just on one of those.
Asher King
I don't mind 4:3 either but many games today won't even do it without black bars. Dark Souls 3 comes to mind, I think I tried that on a 4:3
Bentley Bennett
I tried Hollow Knight on 5:4 and got bars. Fucking bullshit.
Brayden Cruz
I think I'm done now. Thanks to the mods for not being homosexuals and banning me or deleting the thread.
Thanks user. It was a nice look into the brief time where we lived in the future.
Alexander Baker
Y2K, home...
Henry Morgan
confirmed didnt know how to set it higher refresh
Dominic Bailey
any of you guys see the atomic pi? 35-50$ for a small pc. seems great for beginners to pcs.
Luis Kelly
confirmed for not being alive in the 90s
Parker Watson
>1280x1024 pixels at 75 Hz >1600x1200 pixels at 65 Hz. yike(s)
Liam Nguyen
might as well just tell everyone nowadays to turn up their TVs refresh rate, oh wait
Oliver Thomas
My brother is a technician so we have a bunch of old 98 and XP machines he took from work lying around the house, they can be pretty fun sometimes just for nostalgia purposes and old vidya games that don't work on a modern OS
>talking about security >sponsored by lastpass oh the ironing. imagine listening to autism evans about anything.
Samuel Morris
Powerbook G4 died recently, don't remember if it was Nvidia or ATI, oldest I have now is An Acer Aspire One netbook from 2008 and a Thinkpad R61i, comfy WinXP machines.
Jayden Gonzalez
I mean, I have a couple consoles hooked up to my TV, but that's about it. Got rid of my CRT monitor years ago.
Nathaniel Barnes
Yes I do, I always have a dedicated Windows XP and 98 setup.
Gabriel Morales
>480p is blurry Get your eyes checked.
Nicholas Adams
>graphics getting better year by year >all that new tech >mobile phones actually being upgraded year by year >2000s internets >awesome games >handheld consoles
zoomers won't ever know that feel fuck them for that AHAHAHAH
Kevin Rivera
Not that user but in his defense modern TVs usually have shitty upscalers that blur anything below native resolution. Only 1% of PS2 games ran at 480p so enjoy even blurrier 480i.
Sebastian Peterson
late millennial is when shit started taking apart slowly
Julian Peterson
I tend to shift cannibalize parts for newer builds, but I have one DOS and one WinXP build that I've kept in perfect shape as I still want to play the games of my youth without resorting to DOSbox. It just isn't the same without a CRT. Outside of that I still have the very first computer I ever owned, an Atari ST that my dad bought me in the mid-90s for $25, and my frankenstein's monster that was my first real build, a compaq by someone else and left in a junkpile, switched part after part until it ran, then more until I got it running win3.1, then more tinkering until I got it outputting on a dot matrix. Dad was happy I finally found something I enjoyed and was good at.
