Time to highlight a #PC game! Here's #Freelancer, released in 2003. This game was an earlier attempt of Chris Roberts to bring his impressive vision to reality. #StarCitizen's interesting ancestry is interesting to revisit and explore, even today.
The game isn't for sale anymore, sadly, but it has been picked up by #Abandonware sites.
Do also check out the #DiscoveryFreelancer (https://discoverygc.com) and #LibreLancer (https://librelancer.net/) projects!
#RetroComputing #Gaming #RetroGaming

New (OEM) 8-cell battery came in for the #Thinkpad #X61. I'm using the Lenovo software's built-in functionality to let it do a full charge-discharge-then-charge-again cycle to see what the battery thinks its capacity/health is like. It's a brand new battery so should be good, but it needs to figure that out by itself, so to speak.
It's pretty nice to have it do all this automatically. I can just leave the charger connected while it does its thing. Neat :).
#RetroComputing #Lenovo #IBM

You know what time it is. It's #Maxis time!
Here's a beautiful release filled to the brim with manuals so thick they would make Tolkien blush.
Sadly the disks are 800K Mac formatted so I can't actually read them on my Macs as they are "too modern." I think it's ok if I fetch an image from the Garden in this case 😄️
This was apparently a limited edition, though I don't know how limited it was.
#Macintosh #RetroComputing #ClassicMac #Gaming #RetroGaming #MARCHintosh #SimCity #SimLife #SimAnt

This came in this morning; a still new in box (shrink wrapped and all) copy of #Dynamix' Heart of China, for Macintosh. The embossed front really looks nice in person.
The box is positively *packed* with extra flyers and booklets. It's so fun when games (used to) come with a bunch of goodies.
I opened this one right away as I wanted to see if the 8 floppy disks the game on still read fine. Fortunately enough, they do!
#RetroGaming #Gaming #RetroComputing #Macintosh #ClassicMac #Sierra

Flashback to last Friday where I had to burn *seven* discs to install a factory fresh XP installation on my "new" #Thinkpad #X61.
I had some trouble getting a generic #WindowsXP SP3 installation disc to work (it kept blue-screening), but as luck would have it some friendly archiver had put the official X61 XP SP2 restore discs on #InternetArchive. Score!
Not entirely sure why #Lenovo thought 6 discs was reasonable though. I guess all the bloatware had to be stored somewhere 😅️
#RetroComputing

Progress update on my #Apple #iBook #G3 14" battery rebuild: I... might have actually succeeded? The house is still standing, at least.
I'm not seeing the total mAh numbers I was expecting, even after giving it two full charge-and-discharge cycles, but it does manage to run as long as I'd expect (about ~6.5 hours idling, screen on most of the time), with it reporting % seemingly correctly too.
So I think for now I'm going to call it a win?
#RetroComputing #ClassicMac #Macintosh #MARCHintosh

With the surprise #snow we had overnight I really wanted to sit at the bar table today. It's nice to not always sit in the same spot.
The #Thinkpad #T480 running #Fedora #Linux is quite lovely. It handles everything I throw at it so far like a champ. I managed to get the fingerprint sensor to work, too, even though that whole setup felt super janky.
Combined with #1Password handling Git signing and SSH keys it really makes for a nice workflow though!
#WorkFromHome #Nature #Seoul #Korea #Photo

It's been a little bit since I last shared a photo of our beautiful bear. Allow me to correct this horrible mistake.
#DogsOfMastodon #dog #dogs #photo #autumn