Re: Monthly chat May 2015
Well, as for me the month of May is certainly off to a good start. For one thing it is finally beginning to warm up in Ohio, and we are no longer dealing with the effects of the cold we had this past winter. The last couple of days it has gotten up into the 70's, is sunny, and has a fair breeze. So that in of itself is good.
My son and I went to a flea market yesterday and I purchased a guitar amp for $20. It was a decent practice amp, and I think it is something we both will enjoy as it is both small but has a number of effects on it.
I also managed to take my son to a pawn shop yesterday and replaced his Playstation 2 with a used one. So we spent a couple of hours yesterday just playing games like Nascar Thunder 2004 and Off Road Racing 2005. Both were fun although not accessible enough for me.
In other news I am working my way through Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series. I've read the books before, but not in order and one after another so it is fun reading them all in chronological order. At the moment I am now on the Emperor's Tomb which is the sixth book in the series.
As a side project I have updated one of my older laptops with 2 GB of ram, a 100 GB hard drive, and restored it to Windows XP. The main purpose behind fixing up this older laptop is to turn it into a gaming machine. As people know some games such as Eaman don't work on newer versions of Windows as well as some of my favorite IF interpreters so I am fixing up an older computer with XP to serve the purpose of playing and running older software that doesn't meat newer specifications. So far that is turning out well for my purposes.
Fortunately, a lot of the stuff I want to run doesn't need the latest and greatest hardware. Eaman is just a glorified text based roll playing game, and most of the Dos games like Piledriver, Wrestling League Manager, and Any Night Football don't need super specs either. Any machine that can run 16-bit Dos apps will do the job.
I also have the added bonus that I have some relatively modern apps like Windows Media Player 11 on there so it isn't just all gaming. I can listen to mp3s, play DVD movies, and pretty much turn that laptop into a multimedia computer and reserve office type work, programming, and the internet for a machine running a newer version of Windows or Linux.
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