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  Welcome To Windows XP. When I started the PC Chronological timeline project on YouTube, I wondered if I would have even made it this far. Alias, we made it, but man things are changing. When I started exploring the history of the evolution of the PC platform using emulation/virtualization, one could have gotten away with using either PCEM/86Box for the vast majority of the earlier PC configurations. Yet, as we enter the early 2000’s, it’s really not feasible to use PCEM/86Box, at least with later Windows anyway. I was a high school student in the early 2000’s. At that time, I was taking computer maintenance at the high school that I attended. Most of the computers ran Windows 98. These machines were your basic builds with the standard white tower case, an Intel Pentium II processor running at 266MHz with 64MB’s of RAM. Yet, when the school district got order to upgrade all the computers to WinXP, even when they didn’t meet the system requirements, then I became cursed when occa...

  This is a topic that has dominated headlines a lot recently. As someone who plays a lot of video games a lot, it is a topic that I find of great interest, and a bit of concern. Well, concern for those who unfortunately lost their jobs. They were placed in a situation that they should have never been put in, and as a result, have become the latest causalities in this downturn in the market. All the major triple AAA studios have been laying off people. I have sympathies for those who have lost there jobs. Most of them only found out when the event occurred. The ones who have done all the work are getting the boot while those responsible for the bad decisions have been getting golden parachutes larger than what most will make in their entire lifetimes multiple times over, for bad decisions that resulted in the layoffs of those who poured their heart and soul into the company. Jim Ryan, the now ex-CEO of Sony, posing with the London development team a couple of days before it was a...