The Return of Old Friends: A Journey Back to Classic Computers

As I sat in front of my old Mac mini friend, I couldn't help but feel a sense of nostalgia wash over me. It had been a long time since I'd last seen this trusty companion, and I was eager to get it back up and running. The progress bar on the screen seemed to be taunting me, its familiar sight bringing back memories of countless hours spent tinkering with this very machine.

How have you been? How are the kids? It's great to finally ask those questions again, and I'm thrilled to report that Chicago is doing just fine. But I digress – I'd like to think that my old friend has been keeping busy while I've been away. Unfortunately, it seems that I had a bit of an accident last time we met up. It appears that I may have blacked out the entire planet once again... and possibly blown up the power grid.

The sound of keyboards clattering and beeping filled the air as I worked to revive my system. The logo charged up, and upbeat music began to play, signaling the start of our adventure. I took a moment to acknowledge my loyal viewers, letting them know that we were about to embark on another exciting journey. If you haven't seen the previous two episodes where I attempted to install Catalina Patcher on this Mac mini, be sure to check them out.

One of those episodes was quite successful, while the other one turned out to be a bit of a disaster – but don't worry, we're going to get back on track today. We'll try again with a different computer and hope that things go more smoothly this time around. But before we can do that, I need to restore my Mac mini back to its former glory.

That means reinstalling two Installation Sensations – a special treat for you, our loyal viewers. The first one includes Mac OS X Snow Leopard, one of the original operating systems on this very machine. I was fortunate enough to receive a copy of it from my friend Steve, who donated it to me and also has a store on eBay where he sells vintage computers. If you're interested in picking up some of his stuff, be sure to check out the link in the description.

As I booted up the Mac mini, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement building inside me. The sound of the disc drive spinning up repeatedly was music to my ears – or at least, it would have been if it had worked properly. But after a few false starts, it finally seemed to be working again. I took a deep breath and let out a sigh of relief, grateful that my system was back online.

But before we can continue with our Catalina Patcher installation, I want to take a moment to talk about another operating system that's close to my heart: Windows XP. I know it may seem like an old news story at this point, but for me, it holds a special place in my heart. And while I do have the original box and manuals, I've managed to track down a copy of Windows 7 – which I'll be installing next. But before we get to that, I want to take a moment to commemorate the passing of support for Windows XP.

I know it's hard to believe, but this classic operating system is no longer supported by Microsoft. But don't worry, we're going to do an Installation Commemoration – and yes, you read that right. We'll be installing Windows 7, and I've even got a little party kit to mark the occasion. Remember when Microsoft used to host house parties for their products? Well, it looks like they won't be doing that again anytime soon.

But enough about that. Let's get back to our Mac mini, shall we? With Snow Leopard installed, we can finally move on to more advanced topics – including the installation of Catalina Patcher. And speaking of which, I should probably mention that my previous attempts at installing this were less than successful. But don't worry, we'll learn from those mistakes and get it right this time.

As I continued to work on restoring my Mac mini, I couldn't help but feel a sense of gratitude towards Steve for donating the Snow Leopard copy to me. He's an eBayer, which means he has all sorts of cool vintage computers listed in his store. Be sure to check them out and see if anything catches your eye – after all, it's always fun to explore new tech from bygone eras.

Now that my Mac mini is back up and running, I can finally focus on the main event: installing Catalina Patcher. But before we get started, let me just take a moment to acknowledge Steve's generosity once again. He may have donated all sorts of cool items to me, but this Snow Leopard copy will always hold a special place in my heart.

And now, it's time to get back to work. I'll be booting up my Mac mini and attempting to install Catalina Patcher – with your help, of course. Let's hope that things go more smoothly this time around!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Oh, hello old progress bar, old friend.It has been a long timesince I've seen you.How have you been?How are the kids?We'll just say Chicago.Oh I just blacked outthe whole planet, did I blowup the power grid again?(beeping)(keyboard clattering)(logo charging up)(upbeat music)Hey guys, how are you all doing?Really, that's just great.I'm doing pretty great today toobecause I'm back withmy old Mac mini friend.Now, if you have not seenthe other two episodeswhere I try to get dosdude'sCatalina Patcher on here,check it out.One of them was a great episodeand the other one wasa great live broadcast,it was a two-parterbut if you're ready tokeep watching, continue.I'm just letting youknow, there's spoilers.Ready?Spoiler alert, it failed epically.So what happened is we couldn'tget the system on here,even though we took it apartand tried differenthardware configurations.Either way, we're gonnarevisit that whole setup later,we're gonna try on a different computerto get Catalina installed on it.So what we need to do nowis restore this Mac miniback to its former glory,basically how it wasbefore the two failed experimentsand that means we have to dotwo Installation Sensations,two for the price of one.That includes Mac OS X Snow Leopard,because that was one of theoriginal systems on here,and Windows XP, I don'thave my colorful boxand manuals and stuff but Ihave this (sighs) copy of iton this beautiful generic CD.So those are the thingswe're gonna install,but while I was digging out those discs,I came across my Windows 7 boxand I just wanna say wewill do an InstallationCommemoration of this ina future tech video logwhen the support ends.We're even gonna have amini Windows 7 house partybecause I have a house party kit,remember when Microsoftdid those house parties?Ooh, so exciting, sowe're gonna do that again,this time to commemorate its death.(glass shattering)But for today, let's focuson the big cat,and then Windows XP.So, boot her up.Thank you to my buddy Stevefor giving me this copyof Snow Leopard with the box,he's actually donatedquite a few things to meand I have them stored in my lair here.He is also an eBayseller, so he has a storeand if you ever wannabuy some of his stuff,several listings are vintage computers.Check out the link in the descriptionand you can look at his store.All right, in you go.(disc drive trying to spin up repeatedly)Um...That's not a good sign.(disc drive spinning up)Oh, think it's going now.It seemed like it wasn'tworking for a second there.Good, it's working, I wasa bit worried for a secondbecause during the livebroadcast, I took this thing apartlike six times and I was like,\"Ooh, I hope I didn'tbreak the optical drive.\"All right, let's boot intothat CD, or DVD, technically.And let's install Snow Leopard.Man, I don't remember the last timeI ever installed Snow Leopard,it's been a long time.I like the old boxes, I like the artwork,I like the features they put on there,all the icons and I love the wallpaper,I think the Snow Leopard wallpaperwas the best wallpaper Apple ever did.DSMOS has arrived.That is my favorite line,it sounds so ominous,but also like DSMOS is an important guy,like DSMOS has arrived,the party can start now.He's really important.All jokes aside, it standsfor Don't Steal Mac OS,it's kext or something like that.Okay and we're gonna useEnglish as the main language,that makes sense to me.The barber pole animation,the old Aqua user interface, very nice.Yeah, oh man.Okay so I say we start with Disc Utility,in fact, the hard drive inhere probably won't even workwith Snow Leopard 'causeit's probably APFS.Snow Leopard has no ideawhat Apple File System is.Yep, it has no clue.So let us format this,we'll do one partition,we'll use the Boot Camp Assistant laterto do the Windows XP installationand then we can just let the assistantdo the repartitioning.Mac OS Extended journaledGUID and let's apply that.And there we go, nuke that sucker!And it should be clean.All right, that finished successfully,let's Command + Q back to the installer.Continue.And for some good bedtimereading, let us begin.Family Pack license, if you have purchaseda Family Pack, agree.Macintosh HD seems like a good option,it's the only thing we have.Let's take a look at thecustomization though.QuickTime 7 for shits and giggles, sure.X11, that's always fun to mess with.We don't need different languages,we're not using this with a printer,I mean, saves a couplegigs and the installationwill be way quicker.And install.Here we go, oh man, thatlooks so pretty, the old Aqua.There's our utilities, pretty sweet.Let's take a look at the log,'cause that's entertaining.Show all, and now we can watchthe installer do its thing,what version do we have here?230.1.1, sweet!I just figured while we werewaiting for it to install,we could take a look atthe old box and admire it.Yes, it did get a littlescrunchy but that's okay.But yeah, this operating systemwas all about refinements,it wasn't really about new features,in fact, it was advertised that wayduring the early WWDC previews.It wasn't a feature release,it was all about refining itto make it better and thenadding in core technologieslike we talked about beforeand then support for MS Exchange.Yeah, this version ofMac OS X had Safari 4and I remember they had CoverFlow for the history browser,they don't do that anymore.Probably because yourcache sizes would be hugefor storing all those images.I was really excitedabout the new QuickTime Xwhen that came out becauseyou could record right insideof it, you could trim right inside of it,stuff that you couldn't do in QuickTime 7,you could do some ofthat stuff in QuickTime 7if you bought the Proversion but the new interfacewas great too, it was basically nothing,the controls would justfade away, QuickTime 7wasn't like that.Share online though, yeah,MobileMe, remember that?To quote Steve Jobs, itwasn't our finest hour.Trying to find a way to hold this.And as a friendly reminder,as with any InstallationSensation tradition, wedon't just install software,we take it for a test driveand since it's been a long timesince I've test driven SnowLeopard, we'll have some funwith that, same with Windows XP.'Cause yeah, there's some features in herethat didn't last verylong, the Dock Expose,where you click and hold on an app iconand it throws it into expose mode,yeah, that doesn't exist anymore.Oh yeah, this was a smallthing but a big deal.I don't know if you stilluse Stacks in your Dock,where you can open upa folder from the Dock,but in Leopard, where theyintroduce this feature,you couldn't scroll through a Stack.If the Stack ran out of room,it just would stop displaying items.But in Snow Leopard, youcould scroll though itand you could alsonavigate through folders.All right, time to putyou back in your box.And we have about 18 minutesremaining, the concerning thingis it said that about four minutes ago.And I lost the signal. I'mguessing it just went into somekinda sleep mode, display sleep.There we go, looks likeit's retrieving packagesfor speech voices right now.Well, the number 18 must justbe the installer's favoritenumber because it's been sayingthat for about another fiveminutes and for about 30seconds it went to 17.We're back to 18 now so, yeah.Okay, it went up to 19 minutesnow, fan-fricking-tastic.I think we're gonna be here for awhile.And here we go, three,two, one, ready to restart.And guess what?This was the last versionof Mac OS X to comewith the intro video,so we get to enjoy that.Here we go.Okay, there's the blue, whichmeans we should have the introand the setup assistant in a few seconds.(rhythmic music)Aw, check it out man, isn't that great?Kinda nostalgic.You don't see that anymore. (vocalizes)Oh, that tiny littlespeaker in the Mac miniis trying so hard.And our little cube transition, yes.Welcome, we made it, here is Snow Leopard,let's, well, not install,let's set up the rest of this.Yes, we are in the United States.Apple ID, we don't need that right now.Registration information, let's skip it.Create an account.Krazy Ken.Connecting to Apple, ping!(clicks tongues) \"What the heck,\"this guy just installed SnowLeopard, what's going on,\"why didn't he install Catalina?\"That's how I picturethe Apple spies sound.\"He should have installedCatalina, that's the new system,\"why'd he install this piece of crap?\"Didn't we stop supporting that thing\"like five minutes after it came out?\"Maybe so, but that doesn'tmean I need to upgrade.I remember being soexcited when it came out.I remember when itlaunched, getting that boxfrom the delivery man and hetold me that he had so manyof them on his truckbecause a bunch of peoplewere ordering it all at the same time.That is fun.Set timezone using location,I think that was a new featurein Snow Leopard.We'll just say Chicago.Oh, I just blacked out thewhole planet, did I blow upthe power grid again?Crap.Your Mac is set up andready so you can back upyour computer, which we won't do,browse your files with CoverFlow, which is annoying.Email with style, which we don't need,chat using effects and backdrops,you need friends to do that,and organize your work,I'm very disorganized, so noneof those are gonna be useful.But, anyway, I will enjoyusing my Apple computer.And fade to the aurora andthe Dock rises from the abyss.And there it is, thenice, glassy, 3D Dock.And it froze.Oh, the Dashboard, rest in peace,that didn't make it to Catalina.iTunes, rest in peace,that didn't make it to Catalina either.Let me play this for you inslo-mo here, as Steve Jobswould say, hold down theShift key and enjoy those slowmotion animations, yes.It looks like we're actuallyoverscanning a little bit,the top of the menu bar iscropped out just a little bit.Ah yes, MobileMe, good times.The iDisk, oh the users' iDisk,yeah you could just go to,if you knew someone else'susername and password,you could just like blub,blub, blub, blub, blub,type it right in and mount their iDiskright on your desktop.Oh yeah and Spaces, the virtual desktops.Spaces is not set up,well let's do that shit.It looked different, we can turn it on,you have Spaces nowadayswhere you can put the Spacesacross the top and theMission Control interfacebut in Leopard and Snow Leopard,it kinda just looked like thisand you can drag thewindows to different spacesor you can move the entire space around.It's lagging a littlebit, that's interesting.Can we slo-mo that?Doesn't look like we can.But yeah, that's what it lookedlike back in Snow Leopard,pretty different fromhow we have it nowadays.Oh yeah, and the otherfeature I was talking about,the Dock Expose, you can clip and hold,and there's your expose and youhad these little menus here.That feature did not last, Ikinda like the little spotlightlook there and all that stuff.But that feature did notmake into future versions.We're not finished yet.That was just phase one.So let's open up Boot Camp assistant.Let's give it five gigs, right?That'll be nice, just kidding.What do we do, like maybe 40?40 sounds good.So we're gonna partitionthat and then install XPand then we have to installthe Boot Camp driversbut, oh yes, the Boot Campdrivers were on the Mac OS Xdisc, that's right,that's how they did itback in the day, hah!Look at that, instructions,those are helpful.All right, let's throw that in there.And start.Boy, I have not installedWindows XP in years,this is gonna be anostalgia attack for me.Admittingly, I had to installit a lot back in the daybecause, well, let's just say sometimes itwould have crashes or corruptionand I would need to dorepair installs quite often.And I also have myhandy-dandy index card here,which on the reverse side,has the activation key,this thing has beenwith me for a long time,I was probably in middle schoolwhen I drafted up this index card.So the fun thing is Windowsinstallation processesare typically built upon previous systems,so the first part of setupis actually gonna looklike how it did I thinkback in the Windows 3 days.Very blue, just getready for a lot of blue.I don't know how to prepare you for it,other than, there you go.One of my favorite files is driver.cab.I'm just amused by thatnomenclature right there.Maybe we'll see it pop up, maybe we won't.Setup is starting Windows,that means we're almost readyto do stuff.I just thought of somethingelse, we're gonna witnessthe Luna theme, yes, all thatblue kinda plastic look Luna.So yeah, this was it ladies and gentlemen,looks pretty, right?We can read the end-user license agreementlike this if we want.Okay, partitions, this is theBoot Camp partition, FAT32.I thinking we should use NTFS,it's a little more robust.And modern.Let's do that, let's do a quick format, F.Oh yes.Oh, hello old progress bar, old friend.It has been a long timesince I've seen you.How have you been?How are the kids?Why am I talking to you?Okay, so now it's gonna dothe examination process,checking drive C, allright, it's already done.Now it's gonna copy a bunch of stuff over.Oh, there it is, there'smy old friend, driver.cab,how are you doing, buddy?Wow, all my friends arehere, this is great.Well, I'll let you get going,I'm sure there's other filesthat have to be copied.You must be a big file,it's taking a while for youto get in there, you're stuck at 11%.Almost done copying, lot of .dlls.All right, we're gonna rebootwith the nice bloody progress bar.We're gonna hit enterand skip right past that.Here we go.Ahhh, oh my gosh, the dithering.Oh, Luna, it's been so long.Sweet, sweet Luna,fingerprints on my screen.It has been so long since I've seen you.Orange accent color,the green radio buttons,the blue everywhere.Yeah, Windows XP was a big step up.I gotta give props to Microsoft.Honestly here for a second,Windows XP is, what,the most installed software in history?I think it is.Think of how many people installed it.Think of how many people still use it.Ah, the green littlesquares down there too.How I've missed you.Ah yes, I forgot about you,regional and language optionswindow, legitimately Idid, I forgot that stuffpopped up while theinstallation was happening.Next, name and organization.Well, my name is KrazyKen, as my friends call me.So, pretty much nobody calls me that.Organization, we'll justsay Krazy Ken Incorporated.Product key, one of thebest features of Windowsis this activation process.It's not valid, what the shit!It's gotta be.Hang on, yes, this iswhat happens when I talkand type at the same time,I type in wrong shit.I can't believe it, man thatcode works, that's amazing.I wrote that down with pencilon an index card forever ago.Computer name, yes,we'll call it Krazy (speaksgibberish) that's okay,I like it.Okay, time to reboot.(Windows chiming)Ah, so nice.Please wait while I try to connect you.To improve the appearanceof visual elements,Windows will automaticallyadjust your screen resolution.Yeah, oh.If you can read this text,click OK to continue.It looks horrible, it looksreally pixelly and blurry.Okay, (laughs)we'll fix that we also haveto install the Boot Campdrivers, so we'll get tothat just in a little bit.Aw, I just realized we'reprobably not gonna hear the music.Yeah, we got the cool videobut we're not gonnahear any sound right nowbecause the audio drivers aren't on here.Here's our little wizard guy,you can just drag himaround and bounce him aroundlike the DVD logo.Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.Help protect my PC by turningon automatic updates now.Sure, why not?My name: Krazy Ken.You're ready to go.Really, that was it?Okay then, if you say so.Ah, yes.Yeah I know we won't be ableto hear the iconic musicbut once we get the driverinstalled, we can do that.Yeah, here's the start menuand yes we're overscanning,it's really terrible right now.Let's see what resolutionwe can actually get.Your computer might be atrisk, that's the first thingyou wanna see when youinstall your new system.Oh yes, that's great, that'sexactly what you want to see.It's because we don'thave antivirus on here.Yeah, well my brain is myantivirus, just don't be stupid.Oh, look at that painting.Take a tour of Windows XP, wewill do that, but right now,it's gonna perform like crap,especially with thatredrawing, check that out,this is what happens whenyou install XP on a Mac miniwith no graphics drivers.Your computer may be atrisk, how about you suck it?All right, let's see whatresolution we can get here.Oh, apparently nothing higher than that.And we will reinsert theglorious Snow Leopard disc.You'll be guided through thething, yep, I accept the terms.Next, Apple software updatefor Windows, why the hell not?Install.There we go, the display driver.Yep, we could use thatright about now. (laughs)Let me close that and get a viewof that beautiful wallpaper,which is probably alsothe most viewed photographin the world.Chuck O'Rear, right?He shot that in wine country.That's probably the most famous hillin the fricking world. (laughs)At least in terms of photography.You know while this is installing,my mind is just gonnago down rabbit holes,what I wanna do in a futureepisode is experimentwith a Zune.If anyone has an oldZune just lying aroundand you wanna send it infor a Krazy Ken episode,I will gladly take it.(bubble popping)Huh, a little balloon sound. (pops lips)Wait, what?I just got an Apple Watch notificationthat said \"LGR commented,\"LGR.Like, Lazy Game Reviews, hang on.He said this was a fun show,I'm guessing he's talkingabout Vintage Computer Festival Midwestbecause I was there when 8-Bit Guyand him were there as well.Let's see, he said, \"Thiswas such a fun show!\"Definitely considering going next year.\"Fantastic!I'm considering hosting a booth next year.Maybe we should meet up.Anyway, what else didhe say, \"Matt, the guy\"that you bought yourNeXTcube from, is the same guy\"who hooked me up with the P5 glove,\"that he just covered on LGR.Oh, sweet.\"I was eyeing up that cubeas soon as I got there.\"You got a stellar deal.\"Well thank you, Clint, Ireally do appreciate that,yes, fan-fricking-tastic.Anyway, that was fun.Finish!We are done.So now we have to reboot andlog out sound, you ready?(Windows chiming)Ahhh, yes, that is very nice right there,that good old piano.(windows booting)Okay, this time, we shouldhave the log in sound, ready?Or the startup sound,whatever you call it.(Windows chiming)Mm, if that doesn't give younostalgia, I dunno what will.I guess it depends on how old you are.Yes, okay, so displaysettings, let's fix that,things are looking sharper atleast now and the overscanningseems to be gone as well,maybe it's a little bit at the,no actually, no, yeah, the overscanninglooks like it's been corrected.Take a tour of XP, we will do that soon.Let's see, we canprobably run this at 1080.GeForce 9400M.Do you wanna keep that?Yeah.Yeah, everything is reallyfreaking' tiny but it's sharp,I mean it works.This lonely little recycle bin,I'll just put you on the hill right there.Go ahead and sit on the hill.Some hikers come by and theyneed to recycle some stuff,you can just, oh, it's snapping to a grid,you can just sit thereon the hill, right there.Okay, tour Windows XP.Oh my gosh, Windows Messenger.Are you ready for this?Buckle your face.Hang on, we gotta turnup the volume all the wayto make sure we can really enjoy this.Here we go, buckle up.Oh, that was anticlimactic,I forgot it had this.Play the animated tour, hell yeah,this is fricking Macromedia Shockwave 5,we gotta use all the animations, bitch!I missed the button, there we go.- Welcome toWindows XP from Microsoft.- Nice!- A new version of Windowsthat brings your PC to life.- So hot.- Experience the best.- Experience Windows XP.- This is sharper thanI remember.- Best for business.- Is this like vector art?I don't remember itbeing this crisp looking,it actually adapted to thefull resolution of the monitor.That's impressive.- To begin thetour, click any selection.- Dude, Macromedia,oh it was Flash Player,not Shockwave. Yeah, thiswas back when Macromediaowned Flash, shit.Yeah, Flash is like dying now,well it's been dying for a long time.- WindowsXP, you get the proof.Friendly new screens, simplifiedmenus and a whole lot more.- The start menu.But then they have thispixelly looking screencastinside this beautiful full resinterface, of course they do.Wow, that is justfan-freaking-tastic, that's amazing.Okay, let's try to, well, yeahwe gotta get this on network.We have easy access to the guards' router,I can just run some cable.Ha, ha, Bon appetit.And we'll just give you a little poke.There you go.After all, why use wifiwhen you can use non-wifi?Let's open up,probably the most memed pieceof software in the world,the infamous Internet Explorer.Yeah, done it says, I don't think you are.It probably has no idea howto load modern webpages,especially if they are SSL.Let's try microsoft.com.You're about to view pagesover a secured connection,uh, good, I guess.Yeah okay this page cannot be displayed.Thecomputerclan.com, there we go.Yeah I think the network is working,it's just it can't really parse anything.Let's ping thecomputerclan.com,just to make sure.Yes, so we are getting a pong.So we know internet access is working,we just can't really domuch with this older versionof internet explorer, I guesswe could put a newer thingon here if we really wantto, but yeah, I got some datato transfer, I'm not sure how muchof it's gonna be compatible orhow much it's gonna it's workfrom the backup, but let's try anyway.So while I was waiting forthe other files to copy,I just kinda left the tour runand this is probably the mostI've ever watched of the tour before.Some people may watch TV,may watch Game of Thronesor whatever the kids arewatching these days, but me,I just sit here and watchthe Windows XP tour.- Improved system- All right,- restore,- let's plug this in.- Andrestore your system to theway it was--- Oops, my fingersbumped Alt + F4, I'm sorry tour lady.I have some pictures onhere, just because why not.It's a good way to test thenew Filmstrip view in WindowsXP, so let's see, let's openup a new Explorer windowand let's just copy all of them in here.Some of the stuff I shot, whichby the way, you can downloadsome of these as wallpapersfrom our website if you want,the link is in the description.We could actually set oneof these as the wallpaperright now, we could just right clickand go set as desktop background and boom!There's the rainbow board.Oh yeah.Yeah, well that'll work for now.Okay so here's my WindowsXP backup, I just backed upthe whole freaking thing.I know there were games inhere, yep, which need RealArcadeto work I believe.The RealArcade serversare probably long gone,so I doubt any of these aregoing to be able to reactivate,but yeah, we can try.Let's see.(laughs) Yeah, some ofthese items are hiddenbut we're rebels, we can dothis, we know how this works.Hey, here's our games, I'mjust gonna drag 'em in there,I have no idea if that'sgonna work at all,but we're gonna try.Program files, these arehidden, yes they are.Not anymore.BumpTop was on here, what!That was that old 3D desktop thing from,from awhile ago,holy crap.That goes back.Safari for Windows was on here, aw man.You could probably still install thatif you know where to look.(laughs) That was back when Safariwas available forWindows, yep, not anymore.Well let's transfer those overand see if they will work,I don't think they will.I doubt any of this stuff is gonna workwithout a proper installer.(Windows error honking)Yeah.'Cause the applicationconfiguration is incorrect.RealArcade.Oh, let's see if we can boot this up.(Windows error honking)Uh, yeah PNCRT.dll was not found.I don't know what that is,I don't know where that's supposed to livein the file system.I could probably run a searchand see if I can findwhatever the frick that was.Let's pull up our dog friend.Hello, I forgot your name.I really forgot your name, I'm so sorry.Oh, look at that.Right there, system32.We get to dive into that folder.Yeah, let's make a copy ofthis into here and lemme guess,it's gonna find anotherfile that's missing.Is owned by no application, okay.Um, okay now I don't know what that is.Oh shit!Whoa!Yo, it worked!Ha, ha!Oh wow, this, dude, backbefore I did serious stuffon a computer, I spent most ofmy life inside this program.Way before I played on Steam.I would play in RealArcade,this is where my stuff was.Yeah, right now it lookslike it's just detectingthe default WindowsPinball and all that stuff.'Cause it's probably notgonna be able to reactivateany of the other things.Well let's see if any ofthese games will even launch.I have my doubts.Ah, Red Ace.Oh, shit!(rhythmic music)Oh wait c'mon.Work for me.Yes!It's bugging out a littlebit, but it's here.It has our status, like we'vefinished these missions,holy crap, it remembers.Yeah I'm gonna switchout of that for a secondand see if I can fix it up.Small rockets, what, no I hit end task,why are you bringing itto the foreground, dick?Yeah this program's notresponding, gee, I wonder why.Okay, let's try that one more time.All right well guesswe're just gonna havea crappy screen there.Oh, yeah! Click here if thispage is displayed correctly,absolutely.Anyway, missions, yes.I'm gonna play the onlymission I know how to do.I really sucked at this game.My brother was way better at this shit.(plane propeller buzzing)Okay, so we're the American biplane,there's a German plane there.(gun firing repeatedly)Sorry Germany, you're cool,this is World War II or something, so.(gun firing)(plane exploding)Oh!There we go.All right, I gotta go takeout these guns over here.And you could right click and drop a bomb,I just blew up that tree, no,Mr. Beast is gonna hate me.Okay, here we go,we got a German guy.(gun firing)No!Whoa, shit I'm smoking, Iprobably should've dodged.I probably should've donesomething about that.Oh boy, here we go.Blow up these tanks.(bombs exploding)I think I got some tanks I gotta blow up.Mission Accomplished!Take a look at that.All right, I killed twoGermans, 7% accuracy. (laughs)Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,I wasn't really playingthat very seriously, now was I?Yes.Okay, what else we got in here?Yes, Thrillride Pinball, this was good,it was like a Hersheypark pinball machine.Yeah, I spent a lot oftime playing this one.Yeah, okay, so this is whatI was thinking would happen.At certain times, whenyou launch the game,it's not gonna reactivate, so it's like,\"Okay, you gotta go in the demo mode.\"You could buy the full game onlinebut you probably can'tget to the server anymore.It's probably nonexistent.But let's play the demoand see what happens.(laughs) Yeah, time remaining: 60 minutes.I remember being a little kid, and going,that was the Sierra guy, going like,\"Okay, we have to do all thisstuff before the 60 minutes\"is up because then wehave to buy the game,\"so we have beat it as much as we can.\"(pinball machine chiming)- 3D Ultra Thrillride!- Yeah, oh dude!Oh man, I haven't played this in years!Holy shit.I mean, Space Cadet is great but this was,oh we're already in theFun Zone, hell yeah.- Canyon River Rapids!- Oh yeah, I rememberthis shit.I've never been to Hersheypark though.My only experience waswith this game. (laughs)- Here comes another one!- Here comesanother one! (laughs)- Here comes another one!- Oh shit, I blew it.- The stopwatches willcut down on weight time.- I'm sure they will.Oh, sinker!What was that!That was a bunch of bullshit!(upbeat music)- Get yourself.- Uh oh, what'd you do?What'd you do?What just happened?Oh, I activated Sticky Keysbecause fricking asshole.(pinball machine chimes)Okay, I'm playing blind.Oh, that's nice.(pinball flippers clattering)That's beautiful, hang on.There we go.(pinball flippers clattering)Can I save a game?I dunno if I can.Well, I'll just have to abort it'cause we do have to move onbut that is incredibly fun.This is, oh it crashed.Platypus, this was oneof my favorite shooters.All of the sprites are made from clay.Which I've never seen ina game before until then,which was awesome.Let's see if this loads,looks like it will.Oh yeah, that music.Hell yeah, oh shit.Oh shit boy, I'm getting hitwith so much nostalgia now.It's all clay, even thefricking font is clay.Dude, this music was my jam.Here's the fun thing, I dunnoif anyone knows the themeto Shadowfire, composed by Fed Gray,but a remix of it is usedon the level select screen,it's pretty fun, listen.(uplifting music)(uplifting 8-bit music)Yeah. (laughs)Oh!I just died.Okay, yeah, well,yeah and I exploded intoa nice fruity custard.It's been a long time sinceI've played this and these guysare a little harder to beat, there we go.Dude, I know scientists haven'tcracked time travel yet,but I think I just did.This is how you time travel,you just feel nostalgic to the nth degree.Wow. All right, Space Cadet time,yeah, yeah, yeah, herewe go, it's been so long.(pinball machine powering up)Yeah.When you hear that sound,shit's about to go down.(ray gun firing)'Kay, how do I flip, there we go.(pinball bumpers popping)Get up the ramp, nope.Dude, you frick, piece of, what!There's like a cheat code thing.(pinball machine powering up)(ray gun firing)There it is!Yep.Yep, so we can just dragthe ball around, yeah,it works!Yeah, we got the colors changed.Let's just roll through thisthing as much as we want,up and down, up and down, up and down.Oh yeah, going up.(pinball bumpers popping)Going up again.Yeah, we can just bouncearound all we want.If you type in \"hidden test,\"I think you need to includethe space, I don't remember,before you deploy the ball,while it's loading up, youcan just drag it aroundwith your mouse.And then I think you canpress a certain letterto get on the scoreboard.Oh, there it is, whateverI just pressed there,I just now got a billionpoints, so beat that.Krazy Ken, but then funny thing is,it doesn't put you in first place though.Because it knows.So what did I press?It was H I guess, I pressed H.Okay, so yeah, there you go.Oh, and now we're in fruit punch mode,this was not part of the demo.This is great, I got thesystem restored with Mac OS XSnow Leopard and WindowsXP and the shit works.Just a heads up, even thoughthat Catalina experimentfailed, which again, if youhaven't watched it, watch it,Even though it failed, GregHrutkay's setting me upwith a dosdude mod, another Mac minithat should be able to rundosdude's Catalina Patcher,so stay tuned for a futureepisode where I tackle thatand don't forget to tunein for the Windows 7End of Life Installation Commemorationwhen that happens in January, 2020.But of course there's goingto be a lot more fun stuffcoming up before then too.This has been a mega awesomeInstallation Sensationand nostalgia trip, thanksso more for sticking with me,catch the Krazy, and pass it on.(Windows chiming)(upbeat music)\n"