Check out my journey of restoring my Packard Bell Multimedia D135 computer. It was a doozy. If you too are attempting to restore a Packard Bell computer, I have an Ultimate Guide on Archive.org. The restore media is for the D135, but may work on other variants such as the D131 and D134 as these […]
The Best Movie You’ve Never Seen A Love Song for Bobby Long has had me in a chokehold since I found it at my local library in 2005. A Love Song for Bobby Long is a story about grief, regret, love, and and deceit. It is based on the novel, Off Magazine Street by Ronald
I built a retro PC for early 2000s gaming using a 370 Socket motherboard, Intel Celeron, and a Creative Sound Blaster 128. The system gave me a few problems and the midi sound ended up being lack luster. Turns out the Creative Sound Blaster 128 is a rebranded Ensoniq chip that has poor Midi emulation
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Recently, I built my Retro Dream Machine PC. The computer I couldn’t dream of affording back in the day. Most of the build is new old stock except for the ram, power supply, and the Nvidia 8800 GTX graphics card. I had a blast building and using it. I’ve been using a Dell Inspiron 9400
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“The dog that caught the car, refers to someone who achieves or attains something they’ve pursued, but then doesn’t know what to do with it. I was the dog that caught the car” I originally planned to write about the problems with Windows 11 and Microsoft as a whole. I sat on the idea for a
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In this episode of The Past Present Show, Aaron sits down with Ross Scott—creator of the Stop Killing Games movement—for a deep and wide-ranging conversation that spans the early days of YouTube, creative experimentation, and digital activism. We revisits Ross’s YouTube beginnings, exploring the quirky origins of his channel name, Accursed Farms, and deep diving
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The Past Present Show | Chicken, You Scary | Wednesday Aug 13th 2025 In this episode of The Past Present Show, hosts Ashton and Cassie dive deep—literally and figuratively—into the eerie world of horror gaming, personal phobias, nostalgic gaming memories, and their critiques of YouTube’s potential ID Age Verification.
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There’s good news and bad news There’s good news and bad news. The good news is, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 is releasing. The release date is now set for October 21st, 2025. The bad news is that two clans will be locked behind a paywall as DLC. Yep, you read that right folks. In
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Project Zomboid, Still Wakes the Deep, and Phobias | Wed Aug 13th 2025 In this episode of The Past Present Show, hosts Ashton and Cassie dive deep—literally and figuratively—into the eerie world of horror gaming, personal phobias, nostalgic gaming memories, and their critiques of YouTube’s potential ID Age Verification.
