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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on Today, 12:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Was looking for geforce 2go laptops and found this one: Dell Inspiron 8000. ESS Maestro 3 is inside, dunno if it works in pure dos and how it performs... UPD The Maestro 3 is pretty pathetic in the MIDI department in DOS. There is no FM emulation, it simulates it using the wavetable synth which …

Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on Today, 09:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does anyone know what sound chip is in HP OmniBook OB6100? I saw smth ESS, but it's the same as in N600C or better?

Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on Today, 04:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, these screens are captured with stretch enabled. Otherwise low resolution will float in the middle of the screen in tiny box. Can you launch doom 1 and take a photo of your screen please? Looks like NVIDIA do a proper stretching.

Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on Yesterday, 20:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can you tell me how scaling works on the Geforce model? Cause on savage it is trash. This weird 320x200 resolution is never 4:3 like it was meant to be, it's widescreen instead and DOS games look not as they were designed for CRT. Also, games with text upscaled badly, for eg Fallout 1 is hard to …

Re: Toshiba 2805 Yamaha XG Configuration.

Posted on Yesterday, 20:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's working on my 401, thanks! Never thought that laptop can be near Roland devices.

Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on Yesterday, 14:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got my Toshiba today. Condition is good, but hinges are tight as hell and broken in a few places. Filename photo_2020-10-20_15-59-16.jpg File size 114.58 KiB Views 84 views Also scaling in interfaces is awful Filename photo_2020-10-20_17-09-08.jpg File size 249.43 KiB Views 84 views Installing …

Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on Yesterday, 10:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Okay, sorry. Found this one: AC'97 Revision2.2 Audio CODEC with Digital Audio I / F. So it's AC97...

Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on Yesterday, 10:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Still, I wonder why one chip works in DOS and another one doesn't? Satellite 5005-S504 YAHAMA YMF753 Codec Chip 16-bit stereo, Windows Sound System V.2.0, Sound Blaster® Pro compatibility (in DOS box only) Built-in Harman/Kardon Stereo Speakers with subwoofer Full Duplex, 64 Voices, MIDI (play back) …

Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-10-19, 20:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Fro now I've downloaded drivers from the official page (https://support.dynabook.com/support/modelHom … Text=1073821137) where, for some reason, there was no video card driver.

Re: Problems with a YMF754 inside a Toshiba Tecra 8200

Posted on 2020-10-19, 20:22

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Dear Warlord, any chance to get you time for writing a complete step-by-step guide on how to set up sound and music in DOS? Tomorrow I'll have Toshiba Satellite 2805-S401 with Yamaha YMF754B-R and S3 Savage/IX 8Mb, and such a guide will be a time saver! P.s. at first I thought that https://www. …

Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-10-19, 18:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought Toshiba Satellite 2805-S401, the one with Yamaha sound, but Savage video. Will receive it tomorrow. P3 - 700MHz, 128MB SDRAM, S3 Savage/IX 8Mb, 15.0” diagonal (1024 x 768), Yamaha YMF754B-R

Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-10-16, 07:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thx. I guess business guys were not playing games much on their laptops back then :) -- Guys, I'm struggling to understand how sound works in old machines. I've got Compaq Evo N600C with ESS 198x audio chip (probably ESS 1989, aka Maestro 3/Allegro-1) and we've discussed here Compaq Presario 1800 …

Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-10-15, 05:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Filename BFA88B93-912D-4727-AE8D-C34DB982DBDB.jpeg File size 1.41 MiB Views 266 views Kinda strange that GPU in N600C doesn’t have any cooling. I saw even 70c one time. p.s. does anyone know what this thing is responsible for? Filename 2264AFF9-FBC3-45D8-8F3E-1E67BEC9BEFC.jpeg File size 268.85 KiB …

Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-10-14, 06:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Good news. Was able to modify the 14 inch hinges to work with the 15 hinges fixed. still waiting on the new cmos battery to arrive. till then we are partially together New power brick arrived. Laptop works. 1st ever geforce laptop is alive. But is it the perfect laptop? Hi, any news on this geforce …

Re: Install Gravis Ultrasound Properly, All files, No Errors (With Pictures!)

Posted on 2020-09-26, 19:20

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

YOU CAN SKIP THE INSTALL IF YOU WANT TO Sure i wanna skip and just have GUS sound in my old games, so i go for this link, but... This file has been taken down on 2015-03-20 by: File Name: Gravis ULTRASND Files.rar (9.65 MB) Company: Entertainment Software Association Email: *********@theesa.com …

Re: Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Xi 1546, or my final step for an ultimate old gaming machine

Posted on 2020-09-17, 10:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Captured replacement process on camera 😀 https://youtu.be/e3V4Cl9Xvbg

Re: Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Xi 1546, or my final step for an ultimate old gaming machine

Posted on 2020-09-16, 21:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ye, i tested cooling system in all ways, it works as it should. This x1800 was just heat damage with previous owner... Anyway X1900 came to me and it works fine! More tests will come but for now everything works perfect.

Re: Compaq N600c: hangs on playing audio in DOS, music works

Posted on 2020-09-12, 06:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For some strange reason, this DOS driver doesn't feature windows sound for DOS games. I'm doing smth wrong here, or it is the way it should work? I'm okay to use native DOS for DOS games, but not all games mandatory require that, so I wanted to play ordinary stuff, like Duke Nukem 3D for eg, under …

Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-09-08, 18:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Battery is dead and cmos is replaced and alive. Power button turns on and off laptop, it works.

Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-09-08, 13:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Compaq N600C, weird behavior. When I plugin charger laptop turns on itself. Take a look: https://youtu.be/4Ues9_BQH8A What's wrong here?

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