Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades

Posted on 2021-01-25, 13:17

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by OldCat

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so cool , what version of 3.1 are u using ? can you upload a image of it to archive.com or here.... All I tested wont start... only win 2.03... that is it.... says not enough memory? (may be a memory problem , may need to load expanded memory? it seem to find 64k High Memory area available... (bios …

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Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades

Posted on 2021-01-21, 09:14

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Any EGA or VGA games are out of the realm of possibilities on this machine, no? (I should not w8st time testing them... right?) EGA and VGA - nope. But there's plenty of CGA games and some actually look well on monochrome screens - https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=56507 (one of my …

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Re: DEC HiNote Ultra CT475 - A 486 "Ultrabook"!

Posted on 2020-11-19, 10:48

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I'm so jealous. I would like one. Alas! Very hard to find.

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2020-10-27, 08:34

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Please do not post links to pirated software. Duly noted. My apologies, they had images that I was to lazy to copy here. In other news, here is interesting case of a CGA game totally relevant to this thread - Rockford . Its creators didn't care about the colour mode, but focused on "how is it going …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2020-10-22, 08:05

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The mode 5 palette was actually not that rare. It seemed particularly common in French games, for some reason (maybe because it's as close as CGA gets to the tricoleur ? 🇫🇷) ;) Could you list a few? I have a soft spot for French games (Silmarils, Kalisto, Loriciels etc.). I should make my own list …

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Re: Toshiba Portege 3020CT vs 3110CT

Posted on 2020-10-14, 12:53

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by OldCat

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All in all, I had to sell these two, so no updates from me on DOS compatibility and exchanging HDD vs CF in these models. 🙁

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-14, 12:51

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I've actually sold some of my retro stuff these recent weeks: broken Panasonic CF-41, functioning Toshiba Portege 3020CT and 3110CT, as well as one plasma luggable, Toshiba T5100. As much as it pains me, I had some extra expenses to take care of, so I've chosen the ones that I could part with. …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-08-26, 07:25

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Just finished transferring all XT-Hercules (or simcga) capable games I own and could think of to a Schneider Euro XT. Time to see now on a so-rare-yourself-and-your-geeky-things Saturday night what actually runs on the 512KB RAM this XT beauty has. Sorry about the phone photos, I reallly don't know …

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Re: The GIF Thread

Posted on 2020-08-22, 19:23

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Keep pumping out those gifs. Some of us really enjoy it.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-08-21, 12:33

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Everywhere I look, it says Doom doesn't use FPU in any shape or form. Carmack supposedly referenced it explicitly when discussing Quake (which does), but I can't find the reference/quote anywhere. So it's unlikely FPU would make the difference. But something clearly was. My best bet would be cache: …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-08-19, 13:56

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I went to my recently deceased Grandad's house to help my Dad sort through his stuff. Sadly he stopped being into tech in the 60 so there were no PCs but he did have this Word Processor (Sharp Font Writer FW-760) thing. https://i.imgur.com/LM1L3oph.jpg https://i.imgur.com/B1ZiR9yh.jpg It's pretty …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-08-19, 13:50

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debs3759 - thank you, i got confused i thought that both 386dx and 486dx had the fpu...whoops lol ill have to look into getting one once I am able to test that they work You don't need an FPU to run the board. Lots and lots of 386 systems didn't have one back in the day. It only made sense for big …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2020-07-27, 10:36

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Love the small form factor of the Tandon - wish those were more common, because I would love to grab one of those somewhere down the line. Was that a Point of Sale, or an industrial computer? You seldom see PCs with those specs in such small form factor. I'm not really sure, but I think it was …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2020-07-27, 07:48

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Wow. I mean... wow. I found this thread randomly googling for good CGA games and wow, this forum is so far up my alley I should be charging rent! Thanks for the great game suggestions, everyone! Thank you for the kind words! Are there any you’d recommend for excellent CGA artwork, specifically? Not …

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Re: Weird monitor behaviour in Kontron IP Lite Color laptop - please advise

Posted on 2020-07-16, 08:01

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I was, but they didn't find the files you requested. It's a guy, by the way. If he has time, he will copy the entire DOS and WINDOWS directories and share (but remember, it is someone I only met once when I sold them the computer, so...). However, he asked if you would be able to share the scans of …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2020-07-13, 10:27

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Street Rod - already mentioned in the thread, but it was my favorite game on that PC Operation Wolf - it was good for a short time Future Wars - I couldn't understand English back then - so I never got far in it, but I remember running it only to enjoy the graphics and animation on my amber monitor …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-06-14, 15:08

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by OldCat

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Haha, I know that feel. Last year I bought large amount of used floppy disks. Dug around and found some DOS porn floppies with looped animations and some "story" behind it. :D Well, it's still a time capsule somehow. Were these by any chance the *.dl files (not *.dll, single d, single l)? If so and …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-06-13, 15:32

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by OldCat

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Was digging through some of my old new stock (so the computers that I bought, but didn't have time to play with properly). Found some porn on one of them. Sample below (censored it, of course, but if it's still in violation of whatever rule, please remove either the image or the post): 20200612_ …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2020-05-28, 12:58

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by OldCat

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While searching for info on Gobliiins and the Hercules version on the internet, I have found this interesting bit concerning DOSBox 86Box development: https://github.com/86Box/86Box/issues/260 It is interesting to compare screenshots without the patch: Gobliiins without patch.png with the blend …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2020-05-19, 12:46

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dr.zeissler wrote on 2020-05-19, 09:25: What is the hercules-switch of the cga version of defender of the crown? I have no idea and I really would like to know, too.

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