i found something interesting in the basement

[ilan]

after cleaning a little bit the basement i found something very interesting.

an old Sony Vaio

Model - PCG-N505SN
Pentium II (Mhz ??)
128 MB Ram
NeoMagic 256AV (graphic card)
OS - Windows 98
(german version)

with lots of accessories sony cd-rom, sony floppy, sony connector (Serial, LPT, USB, VGA, .. and some that i dont know), infra red, wireless PCMCI Card, and everything is working perfect.

Keyboard, Screen are in very good condition.

what can i do with it in the modern world? is it really only good for the trash can? what do you think?
do you guys also got an old laptop somewhere waiting for you to turn it on?

 

[MikeH]

Unfortunately I think we all have basements, attics, store rooms, cupboards etc full of "junk" that still works. If we ever thought of a use for it, it wouldnt still be in storage

I`ll trade you for a PII desktop with 15" crt screen and parallel scanner... or a 12" windows CE tablet, or an AMD 64 bit laptop or....... lets just put them o̶n̶ ̶e̶b̶a̶y̶ in the trash

 

[ilan]

it has java, will b4j jar work on it?

 

[MikeH]

it has java, will b4j jar work on it?

Only one way to find out

 

[wonder]

what can i do with it in the modern world?

Portable retro-gaming machine!
- Doom Series
- Descent Series
- Quake Series
- Unreal Tournament Series
- Command & Conquer Series
- Warcraft Series
- MDK
- Virtua Cop and other SEGA games
- One Must Fall 2097
- Lucasarts Games (Full Throttle, The Dig, Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, Star Wars and so on...)
- Sierra Games (Phantasmagoria, Gabriel Knight, Leasure Suit Larry and so on...)
- Halflife 1
- Crusader No Regret / No Remorse

Load it up!!!

 

[sorex]

you can always use it as a file server to sync your sources folder to as backup.

or an internal webserver to do some tests.

 

[ilan]

Portable retro-gaming machine!
- Doom Series
- Descent Series
- Quake Series
- Unreal Tournament Series
- Command & Conquer Series
- Warcraft Series
- MDK
- Virtua Cop and other SEGA games
- One Must Fall 2097
- Lucasarts Games (Full Throttle, The Dig, Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, Star Wars and so on...)
- Sierra Games (Phantasmagoria, Gabriel Knight, Leasure Suit Larry and so on...)
- Halflife 1
- Crusader No Regret / No Remorse

Load it up!!!

you forgot Prince of Persia (i loved that game)

 

[wonder]

I tried to focus on late 90's games...
None the less, yeah, why not? Load it up, all the way up to the early 80's.

By the way, here's the support page: http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/pcg-n505sn
Better to download all you can while it's still online.

 

[EnriqueGonzalez]

i loved the prince of persia games!! but because i was so young, i could never really won any. such good memories.

 

[ilan]

I tried to focus on late 90's games...
None the less, yeah, why not? Load it up, all the way up to the early 80's.

By the way, here's the support page: http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/pcg-n505sn
Better to download all you can while it's still online.

cool thanx @wonder. its funny, i did not thought they will still have support for that model. they even have upgraded the drivers

 

[ilan]

i loved the prince of persia games!! but because i was so young, i could never really won any. such good memories.

it is never to late: http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/old-games/prince-of-persia.php

 

[An Schi]

I'm using an old laptop as musicbox.
Just put winamp and your mp3s and you don't have to worry if someone spills beer over it

 

[EnriqueGonzalez]

thanks @ilan i cannot believe that it was released on 1990, i was only 2 years old... i usted to play it when i was 8 years old and at that time seemed pretty high tech to me.

 

[ilan]

thanx @wonder for your suggestion, i like the idea

 

[MikeH]

you can always use it as a file server to sync your sources folder to as backup.

or an internal webserver to do some tests.

My old pc is running Kodibuntu and doing it very well considering its only a 32 bit 1.7ghz 2gb ram

 

[ilan]

I'm using an old laptop as musicbox.
Just put winamp and your mp3s and you don't have to worry if someone spills beer over it

this is also a good idea, thanx

 

[sorex]

My old pc is running Kodibuntu and doing it very well considering its only a 32 bit 1.7ghz 2gb ram

sure, filesharing doesn't take much resources and Win98SE came with PWS already you just had to enable it to have a fast webserver including classic ASP & JScript support.

 

[wonder]

Ahahah awesome!!!
Here's some more ideas:

 

[An Schi]

I found my old Nintendo 64 a year ago. Plugged it in the TV and the old games are still running.
I played them for some minutes and found out that the memory of them is much better than they are.

Maybe i got too used to modern games....

 

[Beja]

Home automation I can suggest
Security alarm.. Control lights on off while in holiday so thieves are scared..