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

Posted on 2019-12-07, 11:11

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by Bondi

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If scaling to 800x600 is acceptable, then my candidate for an ideal laptop is my Hitachi Visionbook. P233, ESS1879 sound chip, up to 128 Mb RAM, C&T65555 video, and all sorts of ports from that time. Very reliable and expandable. It can take second HDD or any stanard laptop IDE optical drive. It …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-01, 11:04

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Received a bunch of pcmcia cards and a scsi scanner with a bulb problem... newpcmciacards.jpg AFAIR this Cisco wifi card has even drivers for DOS. Is this correct? I also have the Orinoco card that works in Win98. But unfortunately it does not support modern security standards, and I could not get …

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Re: IBM Thinkpad 755CD Restore ?

Posted on 2019-11-26, 06:18

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If tere is no picture, then the problem is either cable or video card or PCB of the LCD itself. Is therean image on external monitor? Does the screen flicker or react anyhow if you move the screen? This could be an indication of a bad cable. First thing to do is to take it apart, clean and reseat …

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Re: DXX-Rebirth Version 0.56

Posted on 2019-11-19, 18:13

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Sorry to bump this old thread, but I cannot find the Version 0.56 of DXX-Rebirth anywhere online. The earliest is 0.58.1, date: 2013/08/04. Does anyone have the 0.56 by a chance or know where to get it?

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Re: Games/Source ports for W9x supporting MIDI

Posted on 2019-11-19, 07:04

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Thanks to all of you! Now I have lots of things to try. @ragefury32, this pcmcia card is unfortunately neither OPL3 nor DOS compatible. It works only as MIDI synthesizer in Windows. The laptop has built in OPL3 clone chip, but you can't compare it with MIDI.

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Games/Source ports for W9x supporting MIDI

Posted on 2019-11-18, 18:35

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I have a laptop that I want to use for gaming. It's a P233MMX machine, runs W98 and has a Yamaha PCMCIA MIDI card. And I'm looking for games that can utilize this setup. For now I found only Zandronum (ZDoom fork) that meets my requirements. Version 2.0 runs on W98 and can use Windows MIDI devices. …

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

Posted on 2019-11-18, 18:11

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I ran Zandronum (Doom mod) on P233MMX, W98 with Yamaha pcc10xg (PCMCIA) as MIDI device. The card sounds awesome. It also makes a huge difference in terms of performance. If I switch to software Roland MIDI synth the game runs signufucantly slower, becomes unplayable. And with the Yamaha it runs …

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Re: Yamaha PCC10XG English user manual

Posted on 2019-11-18, 06:36

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That's very helpful. Thank you for doing this.

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Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2019-11-16, 16:43

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It's IDE, so yes, it supports every IDE device. But the BIOS won't see it, because 1. it's not a primary/secondary IDE channel, and 2. the IDE port has no resources assigned at that time of POST at all. Do I understand correctly, that the HDD connected to the sound card will be accessible in …

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Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2019-11-16, 13:51

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An HDD can work off the soundcard, but you need special software to get it going. The easiest way is probably the XT-IDE BIOS (AT Version), because it supports tertiary and quaternary IDE channels...unlike most system BIOSes which at most support secondary. This is a BIOS for an IDE controller? If …

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Re: DOS 7.1 Boot and Memory Problems

Posted on 2019-11-16, 13:47

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You can try adding NOAUTO option to dos= string: dos=high,umb,noauto It prevents loading some drivers that are loaded in the backgroung in DOS 7.1

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Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2019-11-16, 12:35

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I was always wondering whether it's possible to connect a HDD to the IDE port on the ES1868F? Or it supports only CD drive?

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

Posted on 2019-11-15, 15:24

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Yeah, the 760LD is one I would just love to get my hands on. Never seen it for sale. :( I found one locally for less than $15, but the screen turned out to be faulty. Now I'm waiting for a replacement to arrive. There was a seller in US that had 50+ of NOS screens for 760LD for sale. But when I …

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

Posted on 2019-11-15, 15:15

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bjwil1991 wrote: I wonder if the ThinkPad 760LD has an external floppy port on the side or rear? My 380D has both an FDD and CD drive in 1 combined piece that can be replaced easily. Yes it has a 21 mm FDD connector on the rear.

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

Posted on 2019-11-15, 11:57

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My favorite laptop for DOS gaming is Thinkpad 760LD. It has the perfect combination of Pentium 90 CPU, 640x480 10.4" TFT display and ES1688 Audio controller + interchangeable CD-ROM/FDD drives. Can be connected to DOCK I which will add 1 ISA slot, built in speakers and so on. But it's not very …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2019-11-14, 17:38

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I found a way to get use of my Yamaha pcc10xg card (which is windows only MIDI card) in DOS games...in a way. It tuned out that there is Win9x port of VDMsound driver. And it works with Yamaha card in DOS session in Win98. Yet in some games music sounds strange/slow. I suspect it's due to CPU load. …

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Re: PCMCIA Graphics and Video decoding cards

Posted on 2019-11-11, 19:10

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What a beast! Haven't ever seen anything like that. It would be even cooler if it had a normal ISA slot in it to install any ISA device. But it's great anyways.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-05, 11:05

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lolo799 wrote: I also have the TV/Video capture card Panasonic made at the time, the CF-JTV101. I've seen that TV card for sale for very cheap, but did not buy it. Mostly because there is no analog TV anymore. Does it also work in DOS?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-05, 10:54

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I wonder if anyone still broadcasts the text-over-radio service these were meant to receive anymore? Seems like the sort of thing that could have been left on at a transmitter site years ago and forgotten about - still broadcasting the page from when it was last updated 20 years ago. In my area, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-05, 09:00

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I've received my Panasonic PCMCIA FM radio today. Model number CF-JVR101. It's a 16-bit card, so works on old computers. And the collest thing is that it turned out that it has drivers for DOS! SS and CS are required to work properly.There are also drivers for W3.1 and W95. The interface of the …

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