Old computer, what shall I do?

[Youngie1337]

Gonna keep it short lol...

Mate had a problem with his PC and he has been asking me to fix it over the few days but not had time. I went round yesterday and fixed it , he said he would pay me but I'm generous and said no. He had an old PC lying about with HD missing... I said I'll have that cuz he was going to throw it out.

I took it and don't know what I should use it for?, don't know the specs yet but it has 512mb of ram and some sort of AMD processor lol.

I will probably update some little bits.

Burning ISO of XPLITE to disc to use on it, anyone got suggestions on what to use it for?

NOT SERVER PLZ GOT 1.

Thank you .

 

[Rastalovich]

Fold!

 

[Youngie1337]

Was thinking of doing that actually , I did it quickly before to see about what it's like. Didn't mind doing it on my desktop PC .

Also specs are

AMD Ahtlon 1700+

512 RAM (got another gig or so here)

and NVIDIA 5500fx

40gb HD that I popped in lol.

Any other ideas?

 

[mrapoc]

To play old lan games? Make it into a hardware firewall/router? More storage for a server? A jukebox for parties? errrr

Sell it on? (I did)

Run and mess around with linux (ubuntu or something productive like that)

 

[Pseudonym]

I'd turn it into an emulator PC for old school gaming.

 

[equk]

linux/unix iptables/ipchains firewall/router, maybe with a transparent caching proxy

run cisco simulator/emulator software to learn (handy for CCNA etc)

I had a celeron running as a firewall/router/proxy ages ago did the job ok and I learned a lot about iptables etc. I have since replaced it with a WRT-54G with custom firmware tho

 

[Rastalovich]

I'd turn it into an emulator PC for old school gaming.

Actually they`re ideal for that. MAME and such - oh how I want to dedicate a box for that. On it`s own.

 

[Youngie1337]

What exactly is MAME? I just seen a disc downstairs labeled MAME ...

I think it's some sort of emulator

EDIT... Just got disc and it has a lot of stuff on it lol, my dad has way too many discs lol.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/14daniel/mamelol.jpg

I may see a little project coming along... with an old N64?? or atari if I can get 1 for cheap from game or something .

What O/S shall I run on it?? I have discs for nearly all O/S available including Linux distros...

 

[Rastalovich]

XPSP2 is often enough for these things.

Wiki MAME I would have thought by now. Get uself a nice old fashioned 9-pin joystick/unit and a usb adaptor.

(God I gotta get around to doing this)

 

[Youngie1337]

I would of used wiki but my internet was not responding and this page was loaded already lol.

> Downloading CSS ;p <

Hehe being 17 not had experience of old fashioned games apart from Atari emulator , but I'm here to learn lol.

I will send you a PM of all the games that I have on the disc , too many... If you want I can send you roms??

 

[Pseudonym]

It is a brilliant thing to do with a free PC

Rast: Me too, i've been wanting an emulator box for a couple of years now. I mean you can even emulate PS2 games...

I really need to get a job. This will probably be where my first pay cheque goes. Actually I think there might be a suitably old PC at home. Reapropriation time.

Youngie: Post your steam name in the new CSS thread. HERE

 

[Youngie1337]

sounds good, I tried to post my ID but don't hav permission to post in the topic .

it's execrocks anyways .

Nice to see so many enthusiasts around here , great imagination.

 

[Pseudonym]

Oh yeah, you have to join the gaming group.

Do so HERE

Edit: i have added you. Should be Pseudonym.

 

[Youngie1337]

Oh yeah, you have to join the gaming group.

Do so HERE

Edit: i have added you. Should be Pseudonym.

Thank you , will use the tag in my name and I'll add you right now .

Looking online for some old arcade type box for a case lol.

 

[PP Mguire]

You like any DOS games? If so you can put 98SE on it and run DOS games with it if it has a 2x/4x AGP slot. Seems you got something else going on. When running emulators like ePSXe, PJ64, ZSNES ect its best to do it on your faster machine.