Hanging with my cousin.

Since he’d just picked up the Space Quest Collection on the cheap we got the wise idea to tag team some adventure gaming like the ole days.

Click to learn what the hell Space Quest is.

Thing is, since the old games used DOSBOX the colors were not rendering properly on his Windows 7 machines, so we were left to play SQ on his microscopic Dell netbook running XP.

What is DOSBOX? It makes old things work. Click to learn more.

I’m close to my cousin, but neither of us could get comfortable with the idea of the two of us snuggled in around the 11″ netbook screen trying to figure out what the next move should be on our space adventure. Sooo, I got the wise idea to use his big screen TV that was more or less saying, “Hey look at me!! I’m over here! You can use me!”. We had to get a little creative with the connectivity, but in the end…victory.

Click to Enlarge - Netbook turned into a video game adapter.

The speaker you see in the image, it is something special. When I say special, I mean it in almost every way imaginable. This link has the details if you’re even remotely interested (it is ok not to be, it is not thaaat special).

So with everything connected, loaded, and configured, we managed to get our space pod off the mother ship and get the adventure rolling. Maybe hooking all this up was part of the adventure.

Click to Enlarge - The whole setup

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