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I found Abe's Oddysee, Dune 2000, Civilization III and Pandemonium all in their original big boxes for the PC today, all in great condition and almost everything included in 'em (AO is missing something I believe...) from a used games store that I go to once in a while. So that's pretty retro. Yay.
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I have the AO PC box and manual. Although not the absolute originals, sort of like a 2000-ish reselling of the game called "Replay". Only time I've ever heard of it. Thinking about buying Gran Turismo 2 for 20p, funny how you can buy b rand new copy of it... I guess they're still making it from it's original 1999 release.
Also I dug around in my attic to see if there was any forgotten old stuff in there and it turned out there was this laptop I used to use years ago. The bottom says it's a Fujitsu Lifebook 530T and has a Windows 95 sticker on it. Unfortunately I couldn't find a charger that fit it, only the multiple tip car adapter fits it and that's not really that helpful right now. So because of this I don't know any of the specs on it as there is no site that actually documents the laptops stuff.
The shell is an old black colour and feels rough just like any old laptop, major benefit is it doesn't suck fingerprints off from a mile away and is easy to remove dust from.
The keyboard is great, better than the flat keys you get on today's laptops. Also, very loud and clicky, the mouse buttons are as well. You may notice the laptop has a manual brightness slider which is cool.
Finally, out of all the ports on this thing, I have no idea what this is. I've not seen it on anything else before and it has an icon which looks like a lego minifigure's 'hands'. Strange.
When I find a charger for it I definately want to find out what was on this laptop, if it even still works that is. Nothing on it is broken that I can see..
EDIT: I managed to turn it on in the car since I went out yesterday! It turns out the specs are pretty good but there were some downsides to it's age and upgrades.
Seems to have a 4GB standard IDE hard drive (3.97GB exact).
48MB of RAM which I assume is upgradable since it uses a common RAM type.
Battery holds no charge whatsoever however oddly enough the internal clock battery still works. Figure that out.
CD Drive seems to have a faulty driver so I'll be using an external one that connects via PCMCIA for the time being.
Infrared still works.
Still haven't found out what that strange port is.
Has Windows 98 Second Edition which would make sense being that I have a CD for it still and the RAM is good enough.
The lights on that grey-ish strip seem to be the hard drive, battery etc lights. Aren't backlight at all, think of an old Gameboy display but with computery symbols.
Microsoft Office 2000 is installed!
Insaniquarium Deluxe is on there!
Some game called Pacific Poker is installed, no idea what it is, I didn't have time to look.
Unfortunately the mousepad seems to be dying, a shame but still works (slightly).
Some of them I want to play but I don't really want to open them.
