I love this!

SteveC wrote on 2021-01-23, 23:50:

I love this!

Thanks, I loved making these videos.
I plan to add a few more...
If anone has any suggestions of games that are small (eg can fit in 1MB or so) and use adlib, and can possibly be altered to support the OPL3LPT with the adpatch patching utility,
name them here and I'll see if I can get it to work and post a video of it 😀
I'm also looking forward to seeing what I can do with the Dreamblaster S2P, the MT32 equivalent of the OPL3LPT, but that's for in a few months or so, once it supports more 16bit games without the TSR...

Cheers,
Terrence

Never thought I'd see quality sound come from a 200LX; great work! Is your 200LX modified with any fancy upgrades eg. clock doubler, internal HD space?

That 200LX has no right to be making noises like that! Great setup.

Byrd wrote on 2021-01-24, 00:13:

Never thought I'd see quality sound come from a 200LX; great work! Is your 200LX modified with any fancy upgrades eg. clock doubler, internal HD space?

This one is'nt, it's a stock 2MB, but I have a few in which I also have a 32MHz crystal oscillator installed (I buy/repair/refurbish/upgrade/mod/sell them).
I'm not sure the PCMCIA parallel port card will work in the double speed ones, I'll have to test it. I generally don't use the mint condition / upgraded ones as they are for sale and I don't want to accidentally scratch/break them...
I also had a few with the clock speed also doubled and that have the internal memory upgraded with piggybacked chips soldered onto the chips on the motherboard (one 10MB (2MB + 8MB chip) and one 18MB (2MB + 2*8MB chip),
but I sold those and am looking around to try to find more of those chips, they are HARD to find 😉

I also have a large amount of Psion machines, Series 3, 3a, 3c, 3mx, 5, 5mx, 5mxpro, revo, repo plus that I repair/refurbish and sell...
I'm also currently developing a sort of mini adobe illustrator with PDF support and support for a Microsoft or mouse systems serial mouse via the RS232-C interface for the Series 3a/c/mx using the SIBO C SDK, as a hobby project, but I've still much work to do... I have to write everything from start, the mouse driver/protocol decoder, widgets/buttons etc... that support mouse activity etc...

Terrence

radiance32 wrote on 2021-01-24, 00:31:

This one is'nt, it's a stock 2MB, but I have a few in which I also have a 32MHz crystal oscillator installed (I buy/repair/refur […]
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Byrd wrote on 2021-01-24, 00:13:

Never thought I'd see quality sound come from a 200LX; great work! Is your 200LX modified with any fancy upgrades eg. clock doubler, internal HD space?

This one is'nt, it's a stock 2MB, but I have a few in which I also have a 32MHz crystal oscillator installed (I buy/repair/refurbish/upgrade/mod/sell them).
I'm not sure the PCMCIA parallel port card will work in the double speed ones, I'll have to test it. I generally don't use the mint condition / upgraded ones as they are for sale and I don't want to accidentally scratch/break them...
I also had a few with the clock speed also doubled and that have the internal memory upgraded with piggybacked chips soldered onto the chips on the motherboard (one 10MB (2MB + 8MB chip) and one 18MB (2MB + 2*8MB chip),
but I sold those and am looking around to try to find more of those chips, they are HARD to find 😉

I also have a large amount of Psion machines, Series 3, 3a, 3c, 3mx, 5, 5mx, 5mxpro, revo, repo plus that I repair/refurbish and sell...
I'm also currently developing a sort of mini adobe illustrator with PDF support and support for a Microsoft or mouse systems serial mouse via the RS232-C interface for the Series 3a/c/mx using the SIBO C SDK, as a hobby project, but I've still much work to do... I have to write everything from start, the mouse driver/protocol decoder, widgets/buttons etc... that support mouse activity etc...

Terrence

The Psion drawing app is supposed to look like this in a few weeks (or months), I've just contents of the tabs and tabs themselves to code etc...
there's a video of the mouse working I filmed a few weeks ago here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmqYAHtmLOs

Terrence

That's very cool.
Which parallel port pcmcia card do you use?

General Midi is an option too using the Roland SCP-55 but it draws more current than what the power supply can give...

lolo799 wrote on 2021-01-24, 13:40:

That's very cool.
Which parallel port pcmcia card do you use?

General Midi is an option too using the Roland SCP-55 but it draws more current than what the power supply can give...

Hi,

It's a PCMCIA parallel port card from "Trans Digital Corporation" and it's called the "Trans PC Card Universel Parallel Port".
It's especially made for the 200LX and even has the 200lx and it's quirks in it's user manual, but, it also works on other PCMCIA ported PCs and OS'es from the day.
Remember that the 200lx's PCMCIA port is non-standard and only supports a small subset of all the PCMCIA products out there, usually with customized drivers,
and the current draw must be less than 150mah....

Terrence

From what I remember without looking for the hardware bible, your card is one of only two parallel cards it supports I think.
The low max current draw is annoying, there were 1/2 slots pcmcia extender adapters with an extra power adapter, to go around that problem.

Do you have a parallel storage device, zip drive or CF adapter, or anything else?
Could you use that along the opl2lpt adpatched games, as long as you don't access the drive at the same time, or unload the drivers for the storage device?

lolo799 wrote on 2021-01-25, 11:42:

From what I remember without looking for the hardware bible, your card is one of only two parallel cards it supports I think. Th […]
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From what I remember without looking for the hardware bible, your card is one of only two parallel cards it supports I think.
The low max current draw is annoying, there were 1/2 slots pcmcia extender adapters with an extra power adapter, to go around that problem.

Do you have a parallel storage device, zip drive or CF adapter, or anything else?
Could you use that along the opl2lpt adpatched games, as long as you don't access the drive at the same time, or unload the drivers for the storage device?

Hey,

I don't have any other parallel devices at the moment, no zip drive etc...
I do have a number of CF -> PCMCIA Adapters and various CF cards of 16, 32, 64 and up to 512MB...

Terrence

Terrence

If anyone's interested, I made 2 more videos using a CVX4 on the same PCMCIA parallel port card,
which is a covox clone, and I made 2 youtube videos with Mod Master playing some 4 channel mod files here:

Videos of HP200LX Palmtop PC with CVX4 sound-board plays mod music with Mod Master beta 26

Cheers,
Terrence

Does anyone know if the Quatech SSP-100 works with the 200LX? I am still trying to find the SPP-100 to get sound going at some point but I found a good price on the SSP-100 for a serial port in the meantime. I don't have the cable that connects to the port on the right of the unit, but even if I get it, I'd like to be able to have a mouse AND be able to connect via serial to my Raspberry Pi for Hayes modem emulation or to another older PC for Laplink etc WHILE having the mouse as well if I want. I can't seem to find a DOS driver for the SSP-100 (Quatech SERIAL Card) but I only started looking today. I was hoping this would be the place to ask! Thank you in advance!!

nyccollin wrote on 2023-07-24, 21:36:

Does anyone know if the Quatech SSP-100 works with the 200LX? I am still trying to find the SPP-100 to get sound going at some point but I found a good price on the SSP-100 for a serial port in the meantime. I don't have the cable that connects to the port on the right of the unit, but even if I get it, I'd like to be able to have a mouse AND be able to connect via serial to my Raspberry Pi for Hayes modem emulation or to another older PC for Laplink etc WHILE having the mouse as well if I want. I can't seem to find a DOS driver for the SSP-100 (Quatech SERIAL Card) but I only started looking today. I was hoping this would be the place to ask! Thank you in advance!!

I have the SPP-100, the parallel port version, which has an enabler for the 200LX. It won't work without the specific enabler/driver.
I've never seen an enabler for the serial port versions, so I don't think it will work, but I'm not %100 sure...

However,
Since the 200LX supports PCMCIA modems (which are RS-232 ports from the system point of view),
it's possible that the 200LX's PCMCIA services will support it as a "modem"....

Only way to find out is to try it...

Terrence

Thanks! I knew you had the parallel version. Those are as rare as unicorns. I’m just getting the serial version because it was $14 on eBay and I want a serial port. I don’t have the cable. I need to make one like you did. My Palmtop doesn’t even arrive until Friday haha

nyccollin wrote on 2023-07-25, 01:02:

Thanks! I knew you had the parallel version. Those are as rare as unicorns. I’m just getting the serial version because it was $14 on eBay and I want a serial port. I don’t have the cable. I need to make one like you did. My Palmtop doesn’t even arrive until Friday haha

Where in the world are you located ?
I'm in New Zealand, so shipping won't be super cheap...
I have a few 200LX -> DB9 serial cables,
I can sell you one...

But, It will take me a few weeks, as I've just moved into a new house,
and those cables are buried deep in approx 30 boxes of stuff sitting in my new garage...
It will take me time to find them...

Terrence

PS: You can email me a terrence dot vergauwen at gmail dot com