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

Posted on 2021-03-25, 19:26

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by ragefury32

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So yeah, received an interesting new toy - a Sony Vaio PCG-SR9G/K (it’s the JDM version of the PCG-SR31k). The machine was listed as a flog on Buyee Japan and the bid ended at around 20 USD. Combine that with the usual fees and shipping (Fedex international and freakishly cheap), it was surprisingly …

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Re: Smallest modern computer with DOS drivers

Posted on 2021-03-23, 05:05

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Or if you want to just run everything on emulation, buy a Terasic DE10-Nano and run the MiSTer AO486 core on it.

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Re: Running a tracker on a Sony Picturebook?

Posted on 2021-03-21, 14:13

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Hey all, was wondering what dos music tracker to use on this Sony Picturebook (comes with Windows ME for ref) I got recently, I know it features an xg soundcard and was hoping to take advantage of that..I loaded adlib and wasnt able to get any music playing, anything i could be doing wrong? Flip …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2021-03-20, 04:49

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I had greasy homemade protein burgers for dinner today... 1: Small handfull of mixed salad, on top of some good burger dressing. 2: One fried egg with a slice of fried ham. 3: Burger paddy made from minced beef, weighing some half a pound (250 gram) 4: Ketchup. Uhh... And I had two of those burgers …

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

Posted on 2021-03-17, 04:06

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Toshiba Portege 7220CTe, 650Mhz versus the Thinkpad T21, 850Mhz - the Portege has the ESS Maestro 2e with Sensaura support in UT’99. The Thinkpad has the Crystal CS4264. Both are 440 chipset machines, Coppermine based with 8MB S3 SavageIX GPUs, which is okay for DirectX 6 but hopeless for later API …

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Re: Smallest modern computer with DOS drivers

Posted on 2021-03-14, 00:53

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Can I add Wyse VXO V90LE, it runs nice with Win98SE, no problem with drivers. Yep, it’s decent with Win98SE. That being said, the audio is AC97 only, so no native DOS support if you expect to use it to play Wing Commander Privateer (won’t work in a DOS box in the Windows UI). The general strategy …

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Re: List of known Thin Clients with SoundBlaster support for cheap MS-DOS gaming & more !

Posted on 2021-03-13, 03:48

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I just spotted (and bought) an HP Compaq T5525 Thin Client from German eBay. Specs seems to be almost same as T5515: 800MHz CPU, 128Mb RAM, 256Mb Flash storage. No idea yet about specific video or audio chip. I'll test it out once it arrives. https://www.cnet.com/products/hp-compaq-thin-client- …

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Re: Smallest modern computer with DOS drivers

Posted on 2021-03-11, 15:24

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To be perfectly honest, I don't think I need a working sound card. I'm getting wet just thinking about configuring a nice DOS or FreeDOS machine with a working LAN connection. Haven't had the chance to fire it up because I'm still waiting for a power adapter (USB-C to HP 4.5 x 3.0mm). Also waiting …

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Re: Smallest modern computer with DOS drivers

Posted on 2021-03-11, 12:52

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Gents, awesome info! Found another candidate: HP Thin Client T5710 (800MHz version) having the Via VT8231 chipset. Ehhh. The Via VT8231/686C southbridge can do “some” DOS since it embeds the audio block from a Trident 4dwave, but there’s problems associated with it - A) It’s not enabled in the BIOS …

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Re: Smallest modern computer with DOS drivers

Posted on 2021-03-11, 12:25

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Good day folks. Have recently bought a HP Thin Client T420, wonderful piece of hardware for $20. The problem with this one is there is no way to initialize the sound card in DOS, while there is no video driver for Windows XP. Other than that, the machine is beautiful and it would have made a great …

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Re: Smallest modern computer with DOS drivers

Posted on 2021-03-11, 05:47

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There was some discussion of this in this thread: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=78058 Hi, I'm the guy from that thread. Two years ago, I also started looking for a tiny computer to run DOS games, although I also wanted to target Windows 98 SE instead of XP. What I can tell you is it's …

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Re: What is the best Thin Client for Windows 98 (SE)

Posted on 2021-03-09, 05:39

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At this point, I almost got every model from the HP T57x0 series lol. If the goal is solely for Win98, the 1.2G model (Efficeon TM8600 instead of TM5XXX from the 800MHz model) of T5710 is also recommended since it's has a higher CPU clock. The weakness is, it uses a ULi M1563 chipset, which means …

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Re: Your Retrogaming laptop/portable machine megathread (recommendations, tips, minutae)

Posted on 2021-03-07, 12:25

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OK.... I've finally had a chance to finish basic refub to my stable of laptops..... Removed cmos batteries... Swapped in CF-IDE, M2/sata-ide, 2.5"ide-3.5"ide adapters in all of them so they are quiet (the old drives are intolerable for me). As recommended here, I have removed all rechargable CMOS …

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Re: What is the best Thin Client for Windows 98 (SE)

Posted on 2021-03-04, 18:26

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The latter is a little more tough. There’s 2 possible paths: - Any Sempron or Athlon64 based thin client (like the HP t5730) has a Radeon X1300 based embedded GPU inside the Xpress 1250 northbridge, which can in theory take the last Catalyst drivers made for Win98 - it does contain beta support for …

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Re: Thinkpad T22/T23 S3 Savage IX & SuperSavage

Posted on 2021-03-03, 16:06

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Is that MeTal thing just for win9x? When I got my T21, it came with winXP installed and windows 2000 pro sticker at the bottom of the laptop. Been considering switching to win98se if the drivers exist. Should be a Win98 thing - I didn't remember seeing any MeTal implementations for 2K/XP. And yes, …

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Re: Gotek Floppy Emulator with FlashFloppy

Posted on 2021-02-26, 04:05

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That being said, I killed my UFA1M44-100 (the USB version of the Gotek) by triggering the unlock, and KeirF (the author of flashfloppy)didn’t even want to touch it (that is a dual controller board - one for handling floppy emulation and the other used for handling USB mass storage, communicating to …

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Re: PC games on consoles

Posted on 2021-02-25, 07:54

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Wing Commander Prophecy (ported to the Nintendo Game Boy Advance) Wing Commander I/II for the SNES (first was released, second was completed but not produced)

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Re: 1999 Dell CPI-A laptop SB MIDI emulation

Posted on 2021-02-25, 07:03

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Nope - the Dell Lat CPiAs do not have a DOS kosher sound card - that’s a known issue for pretty much all DellLats between the CPiD (CS4237B) and the CPx (ESS Maestro series). All the other Dell models in that range are Neomagic AC97 devices only (except one specific LS model that uses a Crystal …

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Re: Where I can download original "Road Wars" [Phenom Production | Warcry Corps | 2001]?

Posted on 2021-02-25, 06:35

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...what? What, archive.org doesn’t have an ISO for it?

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2021-02-21, 22:02

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Butterbrod. A piece of bread with butter and some Doktorskaya sausage on top, garnishes with freshly ground salt and pepper. Would put some Polish Mayonnaise on it but can’t find it for some reason.

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