Re: LS-120 3,5 internal SuperDisk - reads 1.44mb & not 120mb S.D.

Posted on 2021-04-14, 20:53

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by fronzel

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

LS-120 media are kinda touchy. Not really meant to last forever. The drives are also kinda "sensible". The heads easily misallign. Not sure how to fix that. The guy here claims 40% of all LS-120 media are kinda "bad" and that was 10 years ago. He seems to have had some luck with VHS bulk erasers. …

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Re: Good looking CD / DVD drive

Posted on 2021-04-14, 20:40

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by fronzel

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I always liked CD-Changers as I think "something exotic" or "weird" or "complicated" looks best.

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2021-04-14, 20:36

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by fronzel

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Black Mercedes Benz C180 from 2012. Not a racing car, but stylish.

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The old Tankraider.com DOS Palmtop website is back

Posted on 2021-04-14, 20:22

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by fronzel

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Maybe someone remembers tankraider.com - my old website dedicated to DOS based palmtops. Hosting company had changed owners and there were a few things i disagreed with and it finally came offline in January this year. Luckily i found a friendly user who offered to take the tankraider website as a …

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Re: Anyone able to recommend programs for MS-DOS 3.1?

Posted on 2015-03-15, 22:03

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by fronzel

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the replies everyone! Finally had some more time to fumble around with it today. Well at least a few minutes. The machine is a real oddball if you compare it to other DOS based palmtops like "Poqet PC", "HP 200LX", "Sharp PC-3000", etc. At first it was extremely late as it came out in …

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Anyone able to recommend programs for MS-DOS 3.1?

Posted on 2015-03-10, 16:28

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by fronzel

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Well so i got this old Japanese plamtop running a cut-down MS-DOS 3.10 (Japanese version). I say "cut down" because it lacks all the external tools that came with MS-DOS 3.1... I tried running some appz and games but i usually just crash DOS. Not sure if the display/GFX card is 100% CGA compatible …

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Re: Java Port

Posted on 2013-06-19, 08:15

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by fronzel

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Big compliment to Danoon! Who'd have thought to do Lightwave renderings in a webbrowser? And the TVGuy sample scene in 640x480 (1Frame) in under 4 minutes. beats my old rendering machine from the early 90s. So thumbs up!

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Re: Recommendations for fullscreen video on a 486 DX-66?

Posted on 2013-04-24, 22:05

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by fronzel

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That taiwanese app "Display" is of course also in the package i posted earlier on. Actually I am amazed how much good shareware and freeware players and tools i was able to dig out. There's also that weird DOS tool for ripping a DVD, it will convert the first 10 or so minutes into MPEG which will …

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Re: Recommendations for fullscreen video on a 486 DX-66?

Posted on 2013-04-18, 13:42

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by fronzel

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

OK, i finally came to upload my whole collection of DOS MPEG players. SO enjoy! http://www.tankraider.com/userup/1366370256.zip

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Re: How about old laptops?

Posted on 2013-04-12, 12:36

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by fronzel

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I like these old laptops that didn't even come with a battery like the Toshiba T3200 and similar ones. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETr3ATCYetk

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Re: Printing from DOS/Win3.1/WIn95

Posted on 2013-04-05, 09:32

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by fronzel

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Most newer Printers have a USB interface - more expensive models also support printing over a TCP/IP network. The solution depends on the specs of your printer and old PC and other hardware you have. Normally it would be cheaper to buy an old parallel-port laser printer for 10 bucks on ebay than …

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Re: Retro Fever!

Posted on 2013-04-05, 09:23

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by fronzel

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My guess here is that the original PSU died and he just wanted to fit "some random PSU he could get hold of" into the case by any means. Still a really nice retro case, screams like "1994" into my face.

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Re: Recommendations for fullscreen video on a 486 DX-66?

Posted on 2013-04-05, 09:10

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by fronzel

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

OK, if i got the time imma test a bit more at the weekend and imma make a grab-bag with video players for download so you can try to test yourself. So far I stick to CMPEG atm, but gonna need to test a bit more.

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Re: MS-DOS 5.0 over Compaq dos 3.31

Posted on 2013-04-05, 09:07

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by fronzel

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, as you noticed - Compaq Dos is a bit slower. On my V20 i have had the same issue with DR-DOS and Compaq DOS, especially at stuff like the DIR command you could literally read every line while it was slowly scrolling down while in MS-DOS it was too fast to read. Compared to MS-DOS 3 the compaq …

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Re: Recommendations for fullscreen video on a 486 DX-66?

Posted on 2013-04-01, 19:08

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by fronzel

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Hmmm, smacker definitely IS interesting. 320x200 sounds quite lame but it looks pretty nice in fullscreen unless you have a DVD setup next to it. The memory consumption seems to be reasonable. On an 8 MB system i had better results with longer videos so far than with quickview. SOme other tools i …

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Re: Recommendations for fullscreen video on a 486 DX-66?

Posted on 2013-03-28, 20:42

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by fronzel

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmmm the processor is not the bottleneck here, the memory is with Quickview. If you have around 32 MB or so you will be fine, but testing with bigger MPEG videos (Over 2 MB, lol) on my 486 it always said "not enough memory", even in pure DOS. My card is a dirty old ISA VGA, something generic, no …

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Re: Recommendations for fullscreen video on a 486 DX-66?

Posted on 2013-03-27, 08:19

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by fronzel

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Wow, thanks a lot for the link. Exactly what i wanted. The performance of this player is outstanding and to my surprise it even allows you to watch divx, wmv and other formats in DOS. So far i have had much fun with an MPEG-1 video in fullscreen. Gonna test a bit more, but looks like this is really …

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Re: Recommendations for fullscreen video on a 486 DX-66?

Posted on 2013-03-24, 21:54

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by fronzel

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmmm not sure if MPEG accelerator cards are really an option. At least i have doubts about passthrough since my screen is internally connected through the feature connector. Here's a video of my baby, so you get an idea what I am talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T5jknGazmE

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Recommendations for fullscreen video on a 486 DX-66?

Posted on 2013-03-24, 18:42

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by fronzel

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi all, I have been toying around with my beloved 486 DX2-66 which has a 16 greyshades monochrome screen. So most avi videos from that era run fine in win95 if they are in like 160x120 resolution and not resized, but for bragging i would like to have a video fullscreen (640x480) without (hopefully) …

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Re: Java Port

Posted on 2012-12-15, 21:48

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by fronzel

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Hi danoon, nice work on the dsl demo. Unfortunately something seems to have changed regarding memory? I used the same flags for my image as for the previous (React OS) built, but somehow my machine gets less memory and swap file. A good demo is Lightwave 3D 4.0 which is a true memory hogger. Also it …

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