YES! In 1991 when I was 10 we got our first family computer with Windows 3.1. I stayed up late helping my dad set it up. I'll never forget seeing the desktop wallpaper for the first time. I'd never seen so many colors on a computer before!
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Windows 98 clouds: Popping in some CD-ROM bought as a school book fair. Believe it or not Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit was one of those titles.
I use to play around with a little device called Open Pandora (from when System-On-A-Chip really became a thing; it looked like a bulky Nintendo DS and was mostly used to emulate old games (including Nintendo DS ones, interestingly).
I made an alternative desktop environment for it (so you switch from using XFCE to Openbox).
Anyway, this wallpaper reminds me of that time:
The Pandora was pretty cool even if it took so long to get manufactured that the SoC was outdated by the time I got mine. I do have vivid memories of playing Kolf on it during a long and boring speech.
The website looks like a blast from the past. The keys remind me of the keyboard on the GPD Pocket 2.
Did you originally buy it for emulation, or did you have something else in mind at the time? Judging from gPodder and SMPlayer, it looks like you were using it like a bit like an iPod touch.
I can't remember. It wouldn't have been for emulation, because I'm never been that bothered about that. I remember it seemed terribly important that I get one, because I paid extra to skip the queue of pre-orders. I ported software directly on the device itself, but - yeah - I think it was mainly for audio/video stuff (using it like a fragile and cumbersome iPod touch)
