Beige case with floppy and CD drive bay, CRT monitor and Windows XP as operating system. These elements make up an important part of the personal computer era, a combination that brought joy to many in the mid-2000s. All this retro aura was rescued by YouTuber Salim Benbouziyane with a mini-PC that he built from a 3D printed structure and a Rasperry Pi 4 board.
Using a resin 3D printer, he printed the parts that give the retro aesthetic touch to a mid-2000s computer. The process involved a few hours of fine-tuning the parts, making them as perfect as possible, in addition to, of course, painting them with the characteristic tone of old PCs. Salim also added striking stickers from that era, referencing Windows and the presence of an Intel processor.
The basis of the hardware was the Raspberry Pi 4. And the screen, which looks like a tube monitor due to the 3D printed housing, is actually a 4-inch IPS panel with a resolution of 720 x 720 pixels.
In the video you can see the tiny computer running Windows XP and applications as classic as the game Pinball, the card game Solitaire, both embedded in the system, and even the legendary game Doom, and the very fun Aladdin. In addition to the Winamp software.
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Source: https://www.hardware.com.br/noticias/mini-pc-retro-windows-xp-doom.html
