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

Posted on 2020-07-30, 03:47

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by aha2940

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What is TSR? And I guess there is no chance for any BIOS settings on the laptop, they are crippled as much as possible :) P.S. One issue, the one I found is Toshiba Satellite 2805- S302 while the one with GF is 2805- S402 . Not sure what's the difference here... TSR means Terminate and Stay …

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Re: Sidewinder gamepads any good?

Posted on 2020-07-30, 03:23

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by aha2940

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Some (maybe all?) of them are digital-only and will not work in DOS without SDWRGMPD from http://www.bretjohnson.us/ . I reckon you should just go with whatever gamepad you can find. There is (at least) one sidewinder gamepad that supports digital and analog D-pad (the sidewinder pro: http://www. …

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Re: Need a new motherboard - help with new setup

Posted on 2020-07-29, 05:30

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by aha2940

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Why not getting an exact replacement of the original board? there are a couple currently on the big auction site and it does not seem to be a bad board (it has ISA, PCI, AGP and intel chipset)

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-27, 21:11

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by aha2940

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Definitely make the CD backups for vogonsdrivers. Pretty sure I have the original ISIS install CDs, but I don't think I have the extra CDs. The regular CDs might actually already be on vogonsdrivers. This. I'd really like to have copies of the restore CD and floppies for both my thinkpad 360CE and …

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Re: Cd rom audio

Posted on 2020-07-27, 02:25

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This is my soundblaster pro 2 card in my 386 system. I have ordered an audio out cable going from back of cdrom to the SB pro cd in. I had to solder on an old resister leg so i have the 4 pins and i have cleaned up with IPA. My question is how is the connector keyed at the card end? On the j3 there …

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

Posted on 2020-07-27, 02:06

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by aha2940

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Yes, much time went into the locking part of the hard drive, plus the cable replacement required for the SATA drive (original 40-thread PATA cable would not work, had to use an 80-thread one), plus the eeprom.bin thing. We learned a bit, though. We had to softmod the xbox because it's one of the …

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

Posted on 2020-07-26, 16:32

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Today I configured the PCMCIA ethernet card on both: my thinkpad 560X laptop (dlink DFE-690TXD) and thinkpad 360CE (3Com 3cxe589et) to work on DOS. The d-link was a bit different than the 3Com because before using the packet driver, I had to install the cardsoft drivers (for the PCMCIA slots) and …

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Re: Any way to wipe a FATX partition from a Western Digital Protege HDD?

Posted on 2020-07-26, 04:55

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by aha2940

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My more recent PC is all sata and the drive is pata, so that's out. Also, DOS recognizes that the drive exists but can't see the partition at all, can't add or remove. Again, I'm sure it's locked to the Xbox. I know now how to unlock it, but I'm really not keen to do hotswapping at the moment. …

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

Posted on 2020-07-26, 04:49

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Helped my sister's boyfriend to replace the old 10GB HDD on his OG xbox with a newer SATA 120GB one. We spend almost all day on that (had to read a lot of documentation / do many testing) but in the end it worked fine.

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Re: Your favorite retro socket/platform

Posted on 2020-07-24, 01:51

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by aha2940

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I started with computers when My dad bought an IBM 386 PS/1 PC. No idea about the model, it came with DOS 6.00 and Windows 3.0 IIRC. It also had a 4-window shell on startup, no idea if it was part of the PC or some software installed by IBM. On that PC I started playing my first games (Wolf3D, Test …

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Re: Any way to wipe a FATX partition from a Western Digital Protege HDD?

Posted on 2020-07-24, 01:31

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by aha2940

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IMO, there is a big difference between wiping a partition and just erasing it. If you just want to erase the current partition to reuse the drive then most partition tools should be able to do that (even Windows' diskpart) because you just need to erase the first few kB of the drive to accomplish …

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Re: Is it possible to change Soundcard address by editing the Bios ?

Posted on 2020-07-24, 01:26

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i have noticed that on some motherboards the 220H address cannot be used. and there is nowhere in the bios to set it free, nor disable other things like integrated audio. is there any way to modify the bios file, and make the integrated sound card to use 240H as default? in that way i can install a …

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Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2020-07-22, 00:36

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In 2010 I used both a laptop (Dell Vostro 1400, Core 2 Duo T7500, 4GB RAM, 128MB nVidia video card) and a desktop (Dell Inspiron 531, AMD Athlon X2 5600+, 4GB RAM, 256MB nVidia video card). Stupidly, gave away the laptop about 4 years ago, the desktop is still with me (with a different video card, a …

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Re: Iomega ZIP100 external parallel drive questions

Posted on 2020-07-21, 14:38

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by aha2940

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Hi, the Zip 100 AC adapter is 5.0V, 1.0A center-positive with a 5.5mm barrel, . It's easy to find the connector in other adapters:

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Re: Good gamepad games for a 386 DOS system

Posted on 2020-07-19, 05:21

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Just remembered Duke Nukem I should run on a 386. Not sure if Duke Nukem II does.

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Re: Partition cloning with W98

Posted on 2020-07-19, 05:19

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I want to make multiple instances of W98 in one HDD and each system will have specific settings (for quickly testing cards etc). So I will make a fresh install of W98 + initial setup like drivers. Then clone partition to X partitions and change boot menu with proper title. What's the best way to …

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

Posted on 2020-07-16, 22:59

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Today I fixed a driver issue with the PCMCIA ports of my thinkpad 560X under Windows 95, then installed "balls of steel" and DX-Ball2 with some add-on levels on it. Played a bit of each then. Out of curiosity, where can one buy a legitimate copy of DX-BALL 2 for Windows 98? Not very likely that you …

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

Posted on 2020-07-16, 13:29

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by aha2940

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Today I fixed a driver issue with the PCMCIA ports of my thinkpad 560X under Windows 95, then installed "balls of steel" and DX-Ball2 with some add-on levels on it. Played a bit of each then. Out of curiosity, where can one buy a legitimate copy of DX-BALL 2 for Windows 98? Not very likely that you …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-16, 00:19

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by aha2940

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Today I received a couple floppy drives. Found them on "mercadolibre" (LatinAmerica's eBay) and paid like $5 for them, shipping included. The two units that arrived are a black sony one, dated 2005 and a white samsung one. Both appear to work, but the sony seems to read faster and more reliably than …

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Re: Can you help me get CardBus working in Win95 on Thinkpad 560X?

Posted on 2020-07-16, 00:15

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by aha2940

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Hi! did you manage to solve the problem with the CARDBUS slots of the 560X? That's a good question. I don't think I ever did, actually. What I did do was convert the system to a dual boot with DOS/Win31 and Windows NT 4.0, both of which have no issues with the cardbus slots. I suspect there is …

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