Oh dear shuckity-darns, this thread is reminding me too much of myself.
Paspie, as someone who started on here as a tween myself interested in the most ridiculous projects possible
(no exaggeration, as many here will attest
), I'll talk down from my lofty place as an adult of incontrovertible maturity and save you a bit of time.
Just another moment; I'm waiting for the laughter to die down.
First, virtualbox
(free
) will allow you to do a better job with experimenting than using an actual older operating system
(windows 2000, etc
), because you're running it on top of a stable platform, and everything is sandboxed. When things start working, take a snapshot in virtualbox and you're golden. You can also tell it what kind of hardware you wish it to display to the system you're emulating so that you get the best results. I have absolutely no doubt that you could get sync working if you wished to in this manner, and you'd get to continue using your new, nice laptop. When you're done playing, you just close the older OS. As a side point, the older OS will also run more happily this way. It's a good habit to get into--running projects within a sandbox. It gives you better control to focus on what you're doing and save versions of it that work
(as snapshots
). You never lose your place.
I'll also point out at this time that Windows 2000
(also my favorite microsoft system, next to 95B
) runs code a good bit slower than xp does. The impact isn't huge, but xp is definitely a more efficient system
(read: not bloated
), and its compatibility with older software is actually better, as well. Unfortunately I still have not learned how to make it look exactly like 2000
(it'd take quite a bit of hacking
).
It's pretty hard when you're fascinated with a million different things and want to learn them all at once. And you can learn them all--but not at once. If you really want things to get done, you'll have to see them through one or two at a time. You'll feel better seeing completed projects, too.
Yoldering: Great, suggest the system guaranteed to take over this his life
