For those of you who do not like retro stuff like Amiga page cursor and who want more modern’n’beautiful aesthetics I can suggest neat cursor pack, which is pretty close to classic Mac cursors and for sure [brings warm analog depth] .

UPDATED ON: 2022-02-28 Another [quality game] from my childhood. This time, turn-based tactical combat. It’s addictive game-play coupled with stunning atmosphere make it so great. Emotive Adlib FM music bring up even more intrigue to classy style of this masterpiece. Some gameplay videos for deeper immersion. INTRO MISSION [ORIGINAL OST PLAYLIST] [XCOM LEGACY OST PLAYLIST] Heavily inspired by original one, not those orchestral epic crap. Also you should definitely check [open-source remake] of the original game.

In case you are wondering regarding status and the main purpose of my blog feed. Here is some legal stuff you might want to know. SITE WILL NEVER CONTAIN FOLLOWING THINGS: ADS “TRENDY” NEWS POLITICS COVID NONSENSE ALSO YOU DON’T HAVE TO: SUB PUT LIKES SHARE STUFF WRITE COMMENTS All these boring things you can do in your favorite social-scroll-down-network [if you have such]. But instead of this monotonous stuff I’d rather go for a lil` stroll in a local park.

Insanely underrated Korean art-house cartoon [Aachi & Ssipak] . YOU: And what about OST? ME: YES. Ok-Ok!. It’s dope. My favorite one is credits music theme. And, yeah, two versions of it right here. Enjoy! 아치 & 씨팍 양아치 Ver. ► Master P.G Version 아치 & 씨팍 (Backstreet Ver.) ► MC K Version In case you are interested in the rest soundtrack here is a complete playlist on YT .

UPDATED ON: 2023-02-20 I recommend to replace Fennec F-Droid with [Mull Browser] due to the fact that is COMPLETELY free from telemetry. In contrast to Fennec Mull browser do not trigger any mozilla or google connections, so take a note. And for God’s sake do not use plain Firefox, it is almost like chrome now! As my main web surfer IceCat begin to showing it’s age and don’t have any new versions apart from “super-new” 68.

This posting doesn’t promote beer activities. As a matter of fact I don’t even drink it. But, maaaan, this is so cool! Another one And one more very famous one

[Excellent comedy] from creator of [Beavis & Butt-Head] . When shitty KPI was just introduced. When screens were small and mice were big. When computer hardware had quality casings. For all of you, office workers! Personal fuck-offs goes out to mama’s-boy heads, efficiency unit managers and other dumb-heads. And yeah, you don’t have to sub, put like or sh#t like this.

UPDATED ON: 2023-02-12 ► Added info on 2.93.15 LTS & 3.0 Final Make sure to check [newer post] regarding refreshed information about modern Blender and Windows 7 compatibility As we all know that last official Blender build to support Windows 7 is 2.92. Next version requires Python 3.9.x, which is not an option for Windows 7. However, there is a possibility to run new 2.93 version via [DLL HACK] , which could be applied even to the newest 2.

British, [almost documentary movie about rave culture of 90s] reminds me of my own youth. Quite talented picture for sure. DJ Koop always puts me on the right rails. I used to pretend the same thing Koop’s scratching The most raddest scene of the film: Koop’s Jungle record store

UPDATED ON: 2025-08-27 NOTE: list will be updated in the future [final renewal is planned somewhere around 2028]. List of essential software needed for smooth and hassle free system performance. I use these applications on a daily basis. Selection is really private, but nevertheless of this fact I want to share my knowledge with you. List doesn’t contain any microsoft or adobe products. Sorted by usage frequency. Also i’ll do my best to provide final Windows 7 compatible versions of software.

Relaxed melancholic composition delivered by very interesting [retro hardware yt-vlogger] . And his [personal page] in case you want to know.

DON'T EVEN THINK THAT WINDOWS 7 IS DEAD! Official extended support for Windows 7 operating system [ended on January 14, 2020] . Home users can’t extend support for the operating system while business and enterprise customers may extend support by up to three years [till January 14, 2023] , to be precise. This is done by joining the ESU program which is available per machine [business] or per user [enterprise].

Here is a short breakdown of the most frequently used commands, which could be launched from the START menu. [WIN] + R ► START ► RUN ► …. CONTROL PANEL control panel LAN CONNECTIONS ncpa.cpl REMOTE DESKTOP mstsc SYSTEM SERVICES services.msc USER CONTROL PANEL control userpasswords2 MICROSOFT CONFIG TOOL msconfig DIRECTX DIAGNOSTICS TOOL dxdiag SYSTEM INFORMATION msinfo32 REGISTRY EDITOR regedit TASK SCHEDULER taskschd.msc GROUP POLICY EDITOR gpedit.msc

My favorite game of all times. Thanks to it I’ve learn English [to some kind of degree] and even was almost expelled from university. What a neat memories. I was totally obsessed with deep “in game” atmosphere. Cyberpunk post-apocalyptic stuff, you know what I’m saying and those incredible ambient from master [Mark Morgan] . Can firmly confirm that modern series of this franchise don’t provide such immersion. As for backdrop music, Mark Morgan in Fallout ½ set quality bar to unreachable level.

UPDATE 2021-10-11: Added Excellent [APKGrabber] ▓ ALTERNATIVE FIRMWARE As for firmware, I recommend to use [LineAgeOS] if your device is supported. Neat FW with minimal tracking and no bloat from big corps. If there is no native LineAgeOS support check [XDA forum threads] for unofficial ports by community enthusiasts. If your device is not supported in both cases I do not recommend to update stock firmware to prevent bloat’n’telemetry installation.

The roots of bench-marking tools come from [Demoscene] .
The most quality products were crafted by Finnish and Russian coders.
Here is a little breakdown of most notable benchmarks just for your convenience.

Three the most glorious moments of the whole [comedy] . Especially i like how Marv is doing cool break dance. Always splitting my sides with laughter. MARV DOING BREAK-DANCE MARV GETS ELECTROCUTED HARRY BEING EXPLODED [700% SLOW-MO]

One of my favorite cartoons ever. The reality is like: current gen Z is even dumber than B’n’B. Who would have thought that such thing could turn out like this? Some time ago I have compiled the best moments of this awesome cartoon. Hosted on Brighteon video service. Following content belong to Mike Judge. BEST CUTS OF BEAVIS’N’BUTT-HEAD DIRECT LINK THE BEST BEAVIS HYSTERICS DIRECT LINK BEAVIS’N’BUTT-HEAD ARE DREAMING DIRECT LINK BEAVIS&BUTT-HEAD IN DEEP COMA [~4HOUR OF DEEP SLEEPING] DIRECT LINK

UPDATED ON: 2025-05-08

List will be updated in the future.
Most of the applications can be found on [F-Droid market] and work on Android 8.0.
Permissions checker: [Exodus] .

Note: Don’t worry, your eye sight is ok. I’m just testing CRT-emulation mode via CSS-magic. To remove FX click on any other page. Back in Pentium 66Mhz days I was a follower of minimal design and always turned off all fancy graphical beauties, for the sake of performance of course. However, today we are not limited to 8Megs of RAM anymore. Therefore, I have decided to transform my Windows 7 installation into Windows Vista.

Probably one of the best pure 100% ambient albums in human history. Well-crafted multi-layered textures deeply stimulate ear channels and bring your consciousness to the outer limits of our existence. Effect of presence is unparalleled. You do not even need motion video footage to feel the third dimension. More than good earphones are highly recommended. Low-quality audio sample can be found on YT. [CONSIDER TO PURCHASE IT]

It’s just incredible how creative were people in 90s. This one will be remembered for sure. Posting to make sure that all of you make a note of it.

UPDATED: 2021-10-05 Some good old-school sites regarding ‘puters and technology. I will update this post when stumble upon something very cool. [Razorback95] ► cool guy doing retro stuff [DXZeff] ► small vintage computer forum, also guy has pretty neat YT channel [Retro revival blog] ► excellent selection of vintage software [Vogons forum] ► the most important place for old school gamers [Old-games.ru portal] ► very vibrant old games Russian community

Software is not perfect. Windows, Linux or any other OS. It doesn’t really matter. In this quick note, I will talk about Windows operating system. For basic deleting of stucked files big chance that you are already using utility like Unlocker or smth. However, some time ago Unlocker was caught in spreading malware, so no trust to this application anymore. As for me, I prefer [Lock Hunter] instead. And what about frozen processes?

Even mighty Windows 7 comes with preinstalled junk. Yeah, you can’t go wrong with Microsoft.
In this posting I’ll point you out some bloated stuff, that don’t need regular home user on normal basis.
All of these should be removed to save your disk space and improve system performance.

As you may already know [I like to do landscape and industrial photography] . But when taking plain pictures don’t fun me enough I’m doing simple 3D graphics in Blender. Not long ago I have discovered [Terragen] software. Software can produce pretty good terrain landscapes. Here are my results, hope that you’ll find them entertaining. I’ve tried to keep the picuture size small, not to generate big traffic.

For some time I’ve owned Asus Essense STX II sound-card with cool hardware internals, but sh#t-like drivers. Very common situation for modern reality. Except the fact that card is not so modern at all. Asus dropped [driver support] for Windows 7 @ 2015. How cool is that? After some web searching I’ve stumbled upon [Maxedtech drivers] . The overall quality is better, some bugs are fixed, some appeared, but even at this point was not satisfied with system stability.

Quick breakdown of the most powerful AMD-based cards for legacy operating systems. [X850XT PE] ► WINDOWS 98 [official drivers] / Omega drivers ] [HD 3870 X 2] ► WINDOWS 2000 [official drivers] plus some INF tinkering, will review that one later on [HD 5970] ► WINDOWS 2000 [Blackwingcat hacks] [R9 270X] ► WINDOWS XP [official drivers] [6950XT] ► WINDOWS 7 [official drivers] ◄ currently rocking on that one under Windows 7 wing.

In early 90s, during days of light-hearted childhood, I used to own [Gravis Ultrasound Max] ► cool wave-table based audio card. Pretty strong rival to [Sound Blaster from Creative Labs] . Card held nice instruments in its RAM and was gooood at playing Midi files. Signal-to-noise ratio was better than in Sound Blaster, but card struggle to compete with [Pro Audio Spectrum 16] . It’s a pity that I don’t own card anymore and that is why can’t do quality pictures of it.