Gaming on a 25 YEAR OLD Laptop!! #Helpful Post

yes siree Bob my friends in today's

video the young whippersnappers and our

audience are gonna have a look at how

the previous generation lived because

believe it or not we did have your

mobile computers it's just that to see

that they weren't quite as sleek and

sexy as a modern Ultrabook would be a

gross understatement thanks to world of

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below to learn more so step one I guess

is to get this puppy booted up now this

might not stand out to some of you but

one of the first things I noticed about

this thing is the power cord

fascinating isn't it it's just a normal

power cord there's no external power

brick this thing has an internal power

supply are you kidding me alright we're

gonna get this plugged in now brought in

the electrician who I borrowed this

thing from he's got like a tech Museum

in his basement that guy he actually

told me the battery on this thing does

work but lithium batteries don't age

very well so I'd be surprised if it

stays on longer than a couple minutes so

we're gonna power here

this is like so exciting he also told me

that he pre-loaded my favorite game on

it which I don't remember talking to him

about retro games at any point so let's

see what do you put on here Wow is that

80 Meg's of RAM

that's actually pretty respectable for a

computer of this era I mean it's not

amazing but it's ok you know windows 95

so that makes this thing significantly

older than Jake like we literally have

people working here who are younger than

this laptop I haven't heard that sound

in so long all right so this is it this

is the desktop experience it's a go any

brighter no it does not

wow that is not a fantastic display so I

just wanted to check that RAM amount and

I realized I don't actually remember how

to access task manager in Windows 95 you

can't just right-click the task bar

monitors the system resources your

programs are using like any program the

resource meter uses system resources

when it's running this may cause your

computer to run more slowly in that

great back when we had like 100

megahertz CPUs your computer would warn

you about opening up resource monitor

because it could affect your resource

consumption Wow that is a fairly

rudimentary resource meter well your

system resources

they're very 86% free as for your user

resources same thing won't we try one of

the other similar looking things here

how about system monitor okay that's

more like it so we're using about 40

Meg's of RAM on what we don't know I

tried the two fingers swipe to scroll

and all I did was move my icons around

just like yeah yeah sure you know what

it gives you an appreciation for you

know modern grid arrangements and

everything snapping into place right how

BIG's our Drive Wow four gigs fat32

storage not beautiful I mean to put that

in context this ultrabook has four times

that in system memory all right so we're

fired up let's get into what Brian

thinks is my favorite game and action

okay there's no way

he would have guessed this but I

actually played so many hours of 1602 ad

back when the only gaming computer I had

was a Pentium 90 desktop that I

inherited from my uncle and his sound on

if you don't happen to have something

playing while you're making adjustments

you can press down for a test tone I'm

gonna need a mouse though in order to

play this game USB

didn't come around until windows 98 se

if I recall correctly this laptop

doesn't have USB actually no hold on

okay oh so that's labeled mouse keyboard

that is a ps2 port and I happen to have

in my bag of Wonders a ps2 to USB

adapter I'm gonna have to go digging

deeper into the bag of Wonders and see

if I have a ps2 mouse okay well we

didn't find a ps2 mouse but I did find a

ball mouse with USB so I am hoping that

this will not bad yes my friends these

were great for all sorts of things

picking up all the dust off your desk

and putting it in one convenient place

to be picked off and disposed of later

throwing these nice heavy rubber balls

at people you didn't like man like hair

and gunk wrapped around this gross

before I settle in for my nostalgic

gaming session though actually why don't

we like take a closer look at this thing

it's got some real problems compared to

modern computers these bezels take up

like as much at the top of the unit as

the freaking screen does they're so big

this touchpad is abominable though with

that said I do appreciate the inclusion

of dedicated left and right clicks here

speakers suck and this thing is

frickin heavy like it is it is chunky

like you were carrying a briefcase if

you had one of these but it has some

advantages compared to modern devices so

even though we weren't really able to

plug in our you know modern Mouse to it

very easily the i/o on this thing is

substantial so check this out

you've got your floppy disk reader

you've got not one but two PCMCIA

expansion slots so these could actually

be used back in the day to add new ports

to laptops

go figure right we've got our rj11 modem

port we've got the ps2 port we ended up

using check this out

that my friends yes that is infrared so

I believe though instead of being used

as just like a remote control or to like

control your TV this was actually for

wireless data transmission oh I know

right we've got our printer port we've

got a dock port VGA out serial and then

all moving around

finally my arm is like actually oh we've

got our cd-rom drive and finally

headphone microphone jacks yes my friend

a headphone jack and check this out

here's a feature you haven't seen in a

while a removable battery now I mean 2.7

amp hours daddy's not a lot and it

obviously isn't gonna work very well

anymore but hey it had it

oh wow seriously when there's an autorun

you can't click anything behind it at

multitasking there's so many things I

completely take for granted these days

alright let's fire up some corel

wordperfect so back to the things that

are good about it this keyboard is

amazing compared to modern keyboards you

might as well have a mechanical keyboard

in your laptop like

this is flippin awesome the layouts

great it's got dedicated keys for home

end page up page down

it's got look at this travel listen to

that like that that is a laptop keyboard

and check this out it's even got

remappable shortcut buttons like come on

1996 wasn't such a bad time I mean yeah

there's no Windows key you know what

those 1602 actually can be run on

relatively modern machines and there is

a game that I legitimately have not

played since like 2002 when the

classroom computers actually ran Windows

95 windows 98 and it's called the Aero

unfortunately getting it seems like it

might be a little tricky so a lot of you

might not realize this but check this

out Windows 95 is actually pre like the

blue Internet Explorer icon this is when

like Internet Explorer was the name

because it was internet mail internet

news and Internet Explorer

what does internet News even look like

what do you please select a folder where

Internet mail should keep your message

of been talking about Internet News

configuration holy crap so we're gonna

have to download the game separately and

then just copy it over to here except

one small problem even though the game

is small enough to fit on a single

floppy disk I don't have any floppy

disks this pop out is this floppy drive

removable holy crap it is there must be

like a catch somewhere for it it

definitely count anyway also rj45 was

considered a fancy-pants feature back

then none of that and of course even if

Windows 95 did support USB storage it

doesn't have any USB ports and Wi-Fi oh

forget about it that was still a twinkle

in the eye of an engineer somewhere like

that that's not a thing how do I write

back

fortunately what is a thing is this old

external CD burner that I have and this

spindle of CDRs that I happen to have

kicking around like I still remember

when if you had a CD burner you were the

coolest kid in class like yeah they were

slow and the software was atrocious also

the blank discs were expensive so when a

burn failed it was like actually a big

deal like okay there goes a few more

dollars great thanks for that but you

could move a whopping 650 megabytes of

data in between the scenes or store it

safely and that is exactly what we are

gonna do now I don't actually have

burning software installed on this

laptop because why would I but I seem to

recall Microsoft building it in at some

point okay how do you want to use this

disk with a CD DVD player the arrow men

finished burning okay I'm burning a CD

it's been a while now when I say these

things were slow like I really mean it

I'm going at a speed that is about eight

times what we would have had back then

in the early days of CD burning I'm only

writing like a mega files and it's still

taking this long because there was the

preamble and the like the the finishing

process that had to be done on the disk

regardless of how much you wrote to it

so let's see if this works

fortunately if it didn't I've got this

whole spindle that definitely is not

earmarked for any other purpose so Brian

must have actually burned this for me

old awesome thanks dude

hey there we go holy crap I think it

worked

the arrow windows 98 give her a second

here got a ramp up that disk okay is

this gonna work

Oh aren't you fun extended memory

successfully initialised press any key

oh yeah the arrow V 1.33 baby hey Jake

you want to play some wee arrow lis

arrow so it's local multiplayer only Oh

some I like Wasden your well your RF DG

and then you need fire change weapons

and jump if it helps at all mine's

really not much better so there's a

mini-map down here wait this before

there's a way to dig fast ah there it is

you hold the direction you want to go

and then you press back so you like you

spam back I think this keyboard has

ghosting issues oh I see so only one of

us can like dig at a time let's get some

explosives going on up in this biz

oh crap it was not what I meant to do

Oh crass modern

that's lower load it's killing me here

no I can't even aim Oh No oh right the

hurt shot

I can't change my weapons cuz you're

holding down keys

I can't change my lovin now you're done

we have 14 lives roomie your all day

yeah when you're better at the game and

the controls are working it actually

goes pretty quick

well the grasshopper is really powerful

whoa

okay next point wins I guess yeah shoot

I shouldn't have said that

atom gun now one of the other things I

used my laptop for when I was a teenager

was looking at pictures so the problem

though is that when you did that just

use Internet Explorer to open a picture

it did it is downloading it from the

cd-rom drive give her a minute oh yeah

there it goes she's loaded she's loading

in skin tones we're really not handled

very well on the default setting so you

can hardly tell cuz the display is so

bad but if you zoom in on this can you

tell how little colors to this thing

like loading in on the edges of the

frame as you you see that oh it's

spectacular now fortunately many older

computers you went into the properties

much like you would today allowed you to

here we go change the color palette from

the default 256 to high color or even

true color now with that said that

didn't actually seem to do much for me

and it might have been Windows 98

where they had a built-in picture viewer

I can I open this with something else

like is this something that's been

altered yeah this is clearly no better

the the bottleneck here may actually be

the display you guys will just have to

take my word for it

16 or better yet 24-bit color was was

definitely a much better experience

when looking at pictures on your laptop

a better representation of skin tones

for sure that is assuming that your dial

up internet connection could even

download anything high res high color I

think that's enough of me fooling around

with this thing

let's get down to bidness and play some

1602 AD sound not working that trend

offers uh it's not a form of DRM or

anything it's just that the sound assets

we're too big to actually copy over to

the harddrive in-game music wouldn't

work without the discount so let's go

ahead and close down the program to try

that one more time and that great single

player Oh lame the yellow and blue

player got big ships to start so

settling a southern island is good

late-game because you've got like cotton

and all that kind of stuff but actually

northern islands were better for food

production we have to explore the island

one moment please

ooh cocoa and cotton hundred percent

yield oh and there's or there we go

build a warehouse the controls are like

so unintuitive man I might go home

tonight and like legit play this game

it's gonna foresters Hut going on over

here

I won't subject you guys to any more of

that though so that's pretty much it

that's a look at not the laptop that I

owned as a kid but one that is pretty

darn close it was a hand-me-down

actually from my half-sisters dad so it

was already worthless then and it's even

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to Brian for giving me this old clunker

of a laptop to play with here and if you

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