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A friend of mine recently gave me his old acer travel mate.

I installed Linux LXLE 12.04.05 on an Acer Travelmate 800LCi. It has a Centrino processor running 1.3GHz and 786MB RAM. The laptop is from the year 2003 and was very popular at that time. To my surprise everything worked OUT of the BOX with LXLE! Wow, I'm very impressed with this operating system. It works quite smooth and the installation was very easily done via an USB stick. It is by far faster and better than installing Windows. I've picked this specific OS after viewing loads of reviews of Linux distro's and this has worked best so far. Very nice. If you want to do the same, be sure to use LXLE version 12. NOT version 14, this is intended for newer computers. I can now use this laptop again for simple tasks and for coding. Better than collecting dust...

 

If anybody is wondering why I don’t use it as a retro portable pc then its because I found a much nicer option called the Compaq Armada 110 w/Pentium 3@850MHz with 64 mb of ram and I am going to install a 80 gb ide ssd and install ms-dos ( 6 ) and windows 3.1 so I get a good mixture between dos games and windows games, on top of that I want to have dos booted up first so I can change any settings from the boot and when I i’m done with ms-dos I type in the command prompt “ms” and technically from there windows will boot up.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Compaq-Armada-110-w-Pentium-3-850MHz-64MB-RAM-NO-HDD-BATTERY-AC-ADAPTER/372247548894?rt=nc&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20150604093004%26meid%3Dcdf06162a88b41d8914793abd789e4b0%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D163116407425%26itm%3D372247548894&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

 

My current code projects

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  • C#/OpenGL ( using OpenTK graphics library API ) KnightsRealm ( unfinished, WIP plan on releasing on steam maybe a mobile port idk ) 2d topdown pixel art based game with medieval themes, sorcery, dragons, open world
  • C++ crypter ( if your into cryptography, I plan on releasing this on my website later :P ) 
  • C#/OpenGL ( OpenGL for UI ) fan/light controller for my room w/ raspberry pi and some mechanical motors and stuff :D


Current repair projects

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  • My dreadful receiver ( a capacitor blew ) 
  • working on a PC from a client, CPU died within the system, seems like a short, replaced CPU and awaiting payment before I ship it back 
  • my old 1tb sas drive for my NAS, some blemishes or something on the PCB need to clear that back out, if it doesn't work i'll need to scrap it ( already backed up all my stuff thankfully )

    If you want any software made, or stuff to be repaired give me an email! 
    mike.fernandez5138699@gmail.com
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