I might have a winner. I have a Acer Aspire One AOA150X netbook from 2008 with a Intel Atom N270 and 1GB DDR2. Here is an Imgur album of my experiments with it in 2018 plus a picture from today.

https://imgur.com/a/9IZmioP

I don't have all of the details because this was years ago. The benchmarks were within 1-3 FPS, but in practice it didn't matter because the actual experience was seconds per frame. When staring at a wall on itemtest it showed signs of life by pushing hundreds of FPS.

I used a stripped-down sketchy version of Windows 7. I definitely must have known at the time that Linux would theoretically be way better for this sort of thing but I must have had my reasons for not using it. If I were to take a guess it would probably have something to do with Windows being net better overall for the ancient integrated graphics by using DirectX instead of OpenGL. Or just that the OpenGL Linux version wouldn't launch at all.

I think mastercoms told me to disable multicore rendering or something equally unheard of. I tried some other software as well.

Team Fortress Classic: Not much better. It could simply be that running an operating system and a 3D application at the same time is simply too much to ask for the poor single-core 3W CPU.
Retail Half-Life 2: I recall this being a single-digit FPS but technically a moving picture unlike TF2. Wall-stares also technically gave me smooth motion.
DUSK: Despite the pseudo-N64 graphics it is in fact a game running on a modern game engine and therefore unusable. It did launch though.
NES emulation: To give no credit at all, I was surprised to see an NES game run at full speed. Mario still wasn't any fun because of the keyboard ghosting.

Steam dropped support for 32-bit hardware so I'm not sure if I could revisit this experiment if I wanted to, but if anyone has any further optimizations I would be down to try to break the 4FPS barrier.

I go by jzplr on most websites now
Name: From xLuigislayer_ to jzplr
I also have a stream but I don't use it often: https://www.twitch.tv/jzplr/

coming back from a four-year hiatus to assemble a crack team of my best friends, many of whom i had to convince out of retirement also, and putting in the time, effort and leadership to take a full roster of my favorite people to 1st place adv hl.

i loved seeing how a lot of my old favorite teammates changed and matured over such a long time away. i loved getting back into the flow of grinding this game. i loved the team-wide lock-in when we saw winning it all was possible. i loved giving closure to the team i've been leading on-and-off for almost a decade. now that it's over, i'm loving seeing the adventures my teammates are going on after our win. leading a team is often thankless work for masochists and it took a lot out of me but i wouldn't trade being the team lead for bopis for anything.

our win will probably always be my personal favorite gaming accomplishment and the visceral feeling of "i won it all" after putting in so much effort cements it probably among my best accomplishments in life period. love bopis forever.

made an imgur album demonstrating all of the color projection commands

coolsports83
gamerjosh23bball
turkmenistani_greatness44
obama 2 da rim = buckets frfr
successful_business23

mastercoms has ascended from mastercomfig to literally just doing the work that valve should be doing

He admitted to sleeping with his ex's sister once in the past so yes i would believe that he said that

incredible work

huge up and comer, really nice and always looks for ways to improve his gameplay

patches has always been very reliable for me in hl
the guy never misses scrims and will always ring if you need him
untiltable and will not clutter comms ever
there is not a shred of doubt in my mind he'll do above average on whatever team you put him on

Luigi
USA
https://www.twitch.tv/xluigislayer_
i stream hl heavy scrims primarily, sometimes pugs and rarely other games

i've never played 6s with him but i've played multiple seasons of hl with him and he's always been friendly and cooperative with the team and was always a top 3 sniper in whatever div he was rostered in.

if his 6s scout is as good as his hl sniper (which i would imagine is the case) he'll fist

dxlevel 8 is very poorly optimized for most modern pcs and is known to have alt tabbing issues
the solution to your problem is dxlevel 9
unfortunate because i like dx8's aesthetic

p4rsa is one of my favorite people to talk to outside of the game and to play with, funny guy and very good at shooting people (VERY good at shooting people).

https://clips.twitch.tv/FineConsiderateSardineNotATK