This is because my processor doesn’t have the SSE instruction set extension. The thing is, most of them are unfortunately incompatible with my processor – despite the support for Windows 2000 I’ve just added. At first glance, there’s a large selection of special versions of Firefox, Opera, the Phoenix browser, K-Meleon and more. Installation complete, I opt for modified web browsers that have been retrofitted with TLS 1.2. KernelEx makes it possible to use programs that would normally only run on Windows 2000 or XP on Windows 98. This is where my (unfortunately poorly thought-out) plan of installing KernelEx comes in. For years, most internet sites have required the Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption protocol, with at least version 1.2 for secure data transmission. Web browsers of yesteryear can still be used today, but only for very few websites. Things aren’t quite as easy on my retro hardware as they were back then. On my third attempt, I at least hear a choppy startup sound, the taskbar briefly flashing up before the system crashes again. An error and total crash, which happens two more times minutes later. It boots smoothly until the desktop background is loaded at which point, I get a blue screen instead of the usual startup sound. With the network cable plugged in, the computer starts up again. That means I just need to turn off the PC, connect the LAN cable and restart it. So that the PC could instantly make it onto today’s network, I defined the DNS host, the gateway, the IP address and the subnet mask in the TCP/IP configuration. I also put in a network card from Allied Telesyn (AT-2500TX V3 with RTL8139C) and installed its drivers. In preparation, I laid twenty metres of flat network cable behind the skirting boards, leading from the router to the retro PC. When you get blue screen instead of internet It didn’t used to bother me as much before. Working without music takes some getting used to because of the soft sound of the casing and processor fans whirring away in the background. I’ll download more songs from the NAS as soon as the computer is connected to the network. To play music, I use the legendary Winamp media player. Back then, Winamp was my favourite MP3 player.
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