Setting up a 20 Year old Windows XP Machine
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00:00-07:16 Setting up
07:16-14:13 Exploring XP
14:13-17:09 Searching for Inspiration
17:09-18:47 Platypus Reclayed
18:47-24:42 XP Gaming
24:42-27:09 Let’s Talk
27:09-28:25 Credits
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@Mackievellian
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
16:59 Loved this game back in the day.
@wilsonian89
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
Needs winamp, real media player, epson 640 printer, Nero Burning ROM, MSN messenger (ICQ was more 98se) – I'm sure I'm missing some things.
@TheDarkplace
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
I played a LOT of Pharaoh back in the day.
It gave me a great respect for Chickpeas 😂
@jimjam139
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
Had to chuckle when you went to get some XP games and then proceeded to dig through DOS and win98 boxes!
@lanegibson6859
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
Descent…yes!
@Yandarval
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
Did you know it is possible to install XP on a HDD, then use that HDD to install XP (not copy) on another machine. You "may" need XP Pro to do this. It was something I recall from official MS training back in the day. I may still have my books from back then. if anyone is interested. I can detail how it is done.
@vardekpetrovic9716
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
i really hate doom3, booooooring and slow and WAY too dark. Halo was almost as boring but in doom i at least got past the intro (never did in halo, out of boredom)
@nicknind63
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
Did not think that I could feel nostalgia for an XP machine. And yet….
@Kate-o4q7i
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
Ai is eating the imperfect experience of computing. I did enjoy the weirdy side of electronic stuff. Theres a liminal feeling in older computing adventures, possibility was endless.
Ironically, Ai is creating a bigger distance between 'the non expert, hobbyist'' and machine xxx😃xxx
@seanlavoie2
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
Is there a flaw with the screen that’s creating those lines? Not a deal breaker, just curious.
@pcuimac
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
Windows was, is and always will be shite. It only became the "Marktführer (sieg heil!)", because Bill "Epstein" Gate's mother knew people at IBM .. and because VGA cards became available, despite being useless for real business .. like Soundblaster cards.
@UwUSanime
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
As a gen Zer who grew up playing the pre installed games on windows xp you have no idea how much joy this video brought me!
@Nor-tc8vz
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
In contrast to JayzTwoCents and his retro PC journey.
@TheChrisburgoyne
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
chris likes the vids
@victorvarsanyi6702
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
Winamp and Napster. They took away all of our fun.
@CineIt
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
dude just kill me and take me back in time
@notenoughtime23
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
Great era. Loved this brings back memories. But ill stick with emulation
@notenoughtime23
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
Great era. Loved this brings back memories. But ill stick with emulation
@eirikhaakonson1961
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
13:24 A trip to India
@simonlathwell
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
I've got a Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo P Windows XP system that I was given over 10 year ago with the restore disk and driver disk for the graphics card. It's quite a good spec system with an Intel P4 3.4GHz, and I upgraded it from 2GB to 4GB RAM. It's now being rebuilt into a different case, but am keeping the old case in case I change systems. I'm upgrading it SSD's for MS Flight Simulator 2004, MS Train Simulator, and other retro games and software. I might upgrade to a P4 extreme 3.8GHz.
@theblubus
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
I love it. Might have to shed a tear lol
@BrutalChif
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
those lines are typically with the ribbon cable in monitors… sometimes the pins have oxidized so some de-oxit oughta help… or the ribbon cable might just need to be re-seated… if youre brave enough go for it…
@agentotter
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
I may have spent a significant portion of my day yesterday finding and applying Vista era icons to as much of my system as Windows 11 will allow. Just to spruce up the place a bit.
@juancarlosorozco2005
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
Yea those computers were quiet at all! The hard drives working away and I remember the fans being louder?
@juancarlosorozco2005
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 am
I remember running at Pentium 4 HT CPU, and an ATI X850XT, I think it might have been 8GB ram not too sure anymore. I had a few hard drives went up to 1Tb. I had the Thermaltake Soprano, and some Asus motherboard with dual bios. My brother and I had a great time building that thing. All the budget went the part that we were still rocking a CRT monitor, hahaha
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