I set up my old computer for my son this afternoon. I was teaching him how to type.
Eventually, it'll be his computer exclusively, and he'll learn how to play simple games on the computer and learn how to use the mouse and write his first novel.
I wrote my first book on that computer.
He's not quite old enough to be able to play HL1 or HL2 well yet, he needs to get used to the basic computer scheme first. Plus I'm not sure there's content control on HL2. After all, you would'nt want to traumatize him with lots of blood, gibs, and swearing at such a young age, would you?
I'll teach him computer basics on that computer, and I'll let him start with some old DOS games from 1992> ( I think even dune2). Especially sims, like sim city 2000, a very good dos game would be settlers2 maybe ... games like the incredible machine... generally, games that would develop his mind.
How old is your son, satch ?
And what you have there, satchmo, is a genius.
Sarcasm wins.
Flawless victory.
My old computer is a Athlon 3200+ XP with 2 GB of RAM and Radeon 9800 Pro card.
It's old, but not too shabby.
It can play HL2 and other Source games without a hitch.
Hahaha sorry.... My PC is a 3Ghz Pentium HT, 1 GB DDR2 RAM, 6600GT AGP card... and thats my current PC, I don't even have an old PC! Nice
Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower
GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel mobo
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W
EVGA 896-P3-1260-AR GeForce GTX 260 896MB 448-bit
CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready
G.SKILL PI Black 8GB (4 x 2GB ) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Seagate ST3640323AS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler - Retail
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit OEM
Your PC are being awesome!
I restricted my lappy using basicmouse/basic board (trial version) and my three-year-old niece played YO GABBA GABBA games online for an hour without crashing my computer. Most of those kiddie flash games just use the arrow keys and/or the mouse. You can also define a "clickable" area or in other words, the mouse will only work in the gaming window and nothing else(without restricting keyboard/screen and merging mouse buttons, she opens up a million windows and crashes my machine in about 2 minutes flat).
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