As is tradition (well, I’ve decided that it’s my tradition), I’m doing #AdventOfCode on older hardware. I’m also a bit of a Windows 2000 fan, because … I don’t know why, weird irrational nostalgia, I guess. Either way, I’d like to do some Win2k thingie for AoC this year.

The minimum system requirements are a Pentium 133 and 32-64 MB of RAM. That’s pretty much exactly what I have. So, let’s try to install it.

The installation took well over an hour, but once it’s done, it’s actually quite usable. Here’s a video of the boot process (just takes about a minute) and a bit of web browsing:

https://movq.de/v/5dbc55dbaa/MVI_9356.MOV.mp4

It’s also the first time that I saw this screen (see below). Windows can’t power off the PC by itself, I have to push the button. I only knew similar screens from Win9x.

I don’t know yet which programming language I’ll use. Maybe Visual Basic? 🤪

#retrocomputing