Part of what I’ve been backing up is a lot of old disc games, which I might have mentioned prior, and has gone off with about a 95% success – depending on DRM and/or disc rot. Paralleling that was creating two virtual machines as a test bed for all of these old games/software to see how they would work coming from those enviroments into a far newer one, or even Wine for that matter.
The restults have been pretty positive aside from having to deal with the DRM discs. It’s just been a hugely nostalgic feeling playing some of these older games, especially under Windows XP. Max Payne, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Tiberian Sun, Rollercoaster Tycoon, the SimCities, The Quake Series, my first original Half-Life discs, it just goes on from there. There’s a lot of old warm fuzzy feelings and I could just lose myself for hours if I allowed myself to (for in which I cannot since time is very much a luxury I cannot waste), and it’s been a good alley to revisit.
It certainly gives me an idea to resurrect one of my old Pentium 3’s or 4 PC’s I still have lying around, but that’s a project for another year. A replacement part got delayed arriving, which I’m hoping will show up prior to the weekend, and that will help finish off this little side-tracked project and get back to the far meatier one that I really want done by the end of this year.