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kareila) wrote2025-09-04 06:31 am
kareila) wrote2025-09-04 06:31 am
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That was rather bizarre.
A rustle in the kitchen woke me up around 4:30am, and I couldn't get back to sleep. Upon emerging from the bedroom, I heard voices upstairs, which meant both kids were awake. So I went to investigate, and found them playing a DS game.
I mentioned something to the effect of being glad that they could still play their old video games, and Will expressed interest in revisiting some of the CD-ROM games that they played on the ancient iMac when they were little. That machine is buried downstairs in the office closet, but its box of games was nearby, so we looked through that.
Will then asked where the Myst CD was, and I said that I had moved it back into my box of PC games when we were packing. So I opened up that box, and the boys boggled over its contents. I told them that most of those games would only be playable on my old Windows 95 laptop, or in emulation.
Then I realized that the aforementioned Windows 95 laptop was right there, so I got it out and plugged it in. The hinge can't support the screen any more, but otherwise it still works.
And that's how I ended up playing the original version of You Don't Know Jack with my oldest kid, who wasn't even born when it was released. But it held up surprisingly well! And we were pretty evenly matched.
I didn't find much left on there in the way of personal documents, apart from a copy of the release notes for the final version of the ChaoticMUX source code, oddly enough.
I mentioned something to the effect of being glad that they could still play their old video games, and Will expressed interest in revisiting some of the CD-ROM games that they played on the ancient iMac when they were little. That machine is buried downstairs in the office closet, but its box of games was nearby, so we looked through that.
Will then asked where the Myst CD was, and I said that I had moved it back into my box of PC games when we were packing. So I opened up that box, and the boys boggled over its contents. I told them that most of those games would only be playable on my old Windows 95 laptop, or in emulation.
Then I realized that the aforementioned Windows 95 laptop was right there, so I got it out and plugged it in. The hinge can't support the screen any more, but otherwise it still works.
And that's how I ended up playing the original version of You Don't Know Jack with my oldest kid, who wasn't even born when it was released. But it held up surprisingly well! And we were pretty evenly matched.
I didn't find much left on there in the way of personal documents, apart from a copy of the release notes for the final version of the ChaoticMUX source code, oddly enough.
