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

Posted on 2025-05-15, 12:08

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vorob wrote on 2025-05-14, 18:00: ATI Rage Pro LT, wow, what is it, what year was that? I thought first 3d accelerated card in laptops was ATI m1. It is card inside my powerful Sager 8500 notebook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRaxnjGBQ54

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Re: Trident Providia 9685 BIOS

Posted on 2025-04-14, 17:51

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Lol, got it today too. https://vgamuseum.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/ … 85-MX27C256.zip Filename photo_2025-04-09_08-48-18.jpg File size 151.39 KiB Views 83 views File license Public domain

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Re: Media Vision Memphis Multimedia Kit

Posted on 2025-04-12, 17:42

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Found Media Vision Memphis installation floppy & cd-rom: https://archive.org/details/media-vision-memphis-1.0

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2025-04-12, 17:25

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Media Vision Pro Audio card comes bundled with a variety of software applications including ExecuVoice speech recognition software from Dragon Systems; a text-to-speech synthesiser called Monologue for Windows; and a set of applications that can be used for recording and editing digital audio and …

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Re: Trident Providia 9685 BIOS

Posted on 2025-04-08, 12:37

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I can look around, maybe have bios for you.

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Re: Old games that had CD Audio tracks?

Posted on 2025-04-08, 01:17

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Sesame Street Elmo's Preschool (1 audio track)

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Re: microsoft and passowrds

Posted on 2025-04-07, 13:36

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For Windows 11 I just switched manually to local account in options and left password blank, that works fine for me.

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Re: Help with old EA Sports games

Posted on 2025-04-07, 13:33

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Some games need additional dxwind fixes, for FIFA 2002 check this thread: https://soccergaming.com/index.php?threads/tutorial-fix-for-playing-fifa-2002-on-modern-hardware.6465498/ Last week I fixed Formula Karts (1997) game incorrect speed using dxwing method described here: https://sourceforge.net …

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Re: Roland SC-55 power supply voltage

Posted on 2025-03-31, 13:08

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Is 15V within expected values? Or it's still too high for a unloaded PSU? Bondi, thats normal, old unregulated AC adapters often display a higher-than-stated voltage reading when measured without a load, but this voltage drops to the rated value when a load is applied, which is a characteristic of …

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Re: Native PC Lightgun Games?

Posted on 2025-03-27, 14:51

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Lasergames PC Gamegun just showup on sale again if anyone interesting (not mine): https://www.ebay.com/itm/306176156643 Here ACT Labs GS gun system: https://www.ebay.com/itm/127008654289 www.act-labs.com/gun1_specs.htm http://www4.anandtech.com/show/379

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Re: Hardware you wish you'd never bought.

Posted on 2025-03-20, 15:27

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Is anyone can tell why is it so cheap? $5.99 with free shipping Turtle Beach Ear Force DSS 7.1 Dolby Surround Sound Processor PS4 Xbox One PC https://www.ebay.com/itm/265351425196

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Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT

Posted on 2025-03-19, 12:22

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2025-03-18, 23:39: My $5 USD yard sale laptop. It still works too Toshiba knew how to make beautiful laptops!

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Re: Toshiba T48050CT — Re-cap or nah?

Posted on 2025-03-18, 15:10

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Agree, but more often, the presence of the battery may be the problem. My Sager was making a high pitch noise to the audio channel while charging the battery until I removed it.

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Re: Toshiba T48050CT — Re-cap or nah?

Posted on 2025-03-18, 12:41

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I can assume that due to internal defects the laptop just requires more power than before. As for the sound - in my experience, sound or video as separate boards are often repaired by simply reseating it in the slot or/and cleaning the contacts. Previously I assembled a working one T4850CT from two …

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

Posted on 2025-03-14, 16:48

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megatron-uk wrote on 2025-03-14, 15:24: Bottom tier I would add Cirrus Logic & Silicon Motion to the Bottom tier. megatron-uk wrote on 2025-03-14, 13:42: Piece of junk! My luck is just not very good at the moment. Unfortunately, many Taiwanese laptops are garbage, didn't you know?

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Re: Very low boot with Toshiba 530CDT, motherboard password, bios access and usb sticks

Posted on 2025-03-12, 12:23

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Does this one will do the job ? It's 40mAh so more close to the original one : Any of these will works, more mAh preferable, I would buy 35mAh. If you are lucky, maybe someone else has come across this - and made a BIOS patch. Of maybe there's an alternate compatible BIOS that allows complete …

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Re: Miss Laptop-vote for most beautiful laptop(opinion poll).

Posted on 2025-03-04, 15:03

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Asus L7300 or L7200 in its splendor Filename 470215832_999055835585396_7441701437609037149_n.jpg File size 131.31 KiB Views 399 views File license Public domain Filename 291569_84488_10303.jpg File size 79.98 KiB Views 390 views File license Public domain

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

Posted on 2025-03-03, 16:24

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megatron-uk wrote on 2025-03-02, 08:32: I've tried soldering tabs on to cr2032s before and it was always a mess! Ohh, why, it's not work like this. Just use black electric tape and stick battery to wires.

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Re: How many "hobbyist" PCs do you have?

Posted on 2025-02-28, 18:08

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I would say more than 50

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Re: Help with Panasonic CF-28 Toughbook :-(

Posted on 2025-02-27, 17:05

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Duffman wrote on 2025-02-27, 16:44: I too am looking for drivers... any help? This laptop was designed for Windows XP, this is why some drivers just not existed for Windows 98 (especially touchscreen).

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