My parents have an old Compaq Presario SR1950NX that works perfectly fine, but hasn’t been used in at least 15 years. Obviously I can’t connect it to the internet with Windows XP, but before I recycle it I thought I’d see if anyone had any cool ideas for how I could use it. I’m sure I could find Linux distro that would work, but I don’t really need another desktop PC in the house.

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    23 days ago

    It’s not nearly as difficult as you think. But I agree in the sense that people should be downloading and archiving roms themselves, to keep the history and heritage alive.

    • over_clox@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      I actually do have a pretty massive local archive, mostly acquired back in the late 2000s through mid 2010s when I worked doing data backups and recovery. Key word being local, Nintendo can sugma…