Maximum PC

hello all, i have an old laptop, tecra 520cdt, 166mhx mmx , 64 mb of ram (totally pimps win 95, and does okay with 98) I was wondering if there were any websites that had software for download, for older pc's. I remember in come issue of max pc i believe they had a "breathing life into an old pc" article...or that might have been cpu mag come to think of it now..

uh..programs to do what exactly?

doom...

You can still find Microsoft Office Pro 97 for sale from legit websites. I would recommend that or if you don't want to dump any money into it, OpenOffice would be a good alternative. I still have Office 97 running on a 486 Overdrive with no problems.

As for games, you can probably run Diablo, Starcraft, Quake I, Mechwarrior II, Worms II, Half Life, and Worms World Party.

If you're looking for a few cheap upgrades, it sounds like your laptop might have the old MMC style laptop processor socket. It might be worth it to find out because you can find low voltage mobile Pentium 266 MMX chips cheap nowadays.

There's a few over here if you're interested:

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?in ... MX&cat=CPU

You'll definitely wanna use Win98SE on that, it's great for cranking power outta old computers, and office 97 or 2k should do. As for games I recommend Big Red Racing, Star Wars: Dark Forces, F22 Lightning 2, Hind, Gunship 2000, NFS2, Doom 1 or 2, Quake 1 or 2, Eradicator, Half-Life 1, Duke Nukem 3D, Tigershark, A-10 Tank Killer 2, Amok, Destruction Derby 1 or 2, and maybe WipeoutXL and G-Police. All these run great on old systems.

Linux. No GUI.

Be elite. Learn to love CLI.

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