Re: DreamBlaster S2P : Small form factor General MIDI on parallel port

Posted on 2018-04-20, 22:15

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by jaZz_KCS

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Very much looking forward to this one!! This will be handy especially for the Win 3.1 game era. I have been waiting for something like this to add way more games to my retro laptops that run under Win 3.1 😀

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Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades

Posted on 2018-04-17, 17:09

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by jaZz_KCS

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Neat. Good luck with the keyboard restoration, mate. I can count myself lucky that my keyboards works flawlessly, albeit it actually could use a good clean under the hood I guess and has slightly yellowed on the sides, but that's just age 😁

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Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades

Posted on 2018-04-16, 19:43

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by jaZz_KCS

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Looks good, it will never be perfect, but is very close to it. Glad to see the keyboards restored to working condition 😁

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Re: Weird Slot 1 heatsink/cooler

Posted on 2018-04-15, 14:38

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by jaZz_KCS

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It's an HP Vectra VE. Those Desktop cases have air taken in through the 90W PSU, so that air stays rather cool and gets redirected directily past the passive heat sink fins of the Slot 1. This should do the deal.

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Re: Fdisk wont create 2GB Partition only 504MB

Posted on 2018-04-15, 10:40

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by jaZz_KCS

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What version of EZDrive are you talking of jaZz_KCS I tried ezdrive9.exe from here: http://www.philscomputerlab.com/western-digital.html and it would not work well after when booting from a floppy I use 9.09W in all occasions I have to use overlay software, and it never fails me. What exactly …

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Re: Weird Slot 1 heatsink/cooler

Posted on 2018-04-15, 10:35

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by jaZz_KCS

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I would recommend replacing it with an active cooler. Is that really necessary? Even under DOS where there is no throttling going on whatsoever it doesnt run that hot even after an hour of sitting on the command line. It never reaches too hot to touch states, so is an active cooler really necessary …

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Re: Fdisk wont create 2GB Partition only 504MB

Posted on 2018-04-14, 14:38

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by jaZz_KCS

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There is no reason for XT-IDE if you JUST want to use full capacity of a bigger drive. Granted, it has a multitude of additional very nice features, but if you only need to be able to make use of drives with bigger capacities than supported by BIOS, you might as well just use Overlay software. I …

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Re: Weird Slot 1 heatsink/cooler

Posted on 2018-04-14, 13:57

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Ok, it turned out to be a Compaq thermal sensor that would tell the case fan to ramp up the speed if temperatures rise. If not connected on those mobos the board would give a warning on boot, requiring a keystroke to continue. On other boards, this can simply be ignored. It's not connected to the …

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Weird Slot 1 heatsink/cooler

Posted on 2018-04-14, 13:37

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by jaZz_KCS

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I don't know what to make of this, and I'm a tad scared to just ram it in and try it out before knowing what this is :) I bought a Slot 1 PIII 750/256/100 with a heatsink that was advertised in the title as "active". And further down in the description it said "passive". Neat, I thought. Must be an …

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Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades

Posted on 2018-04-11, 09:45

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by jaZz_KCS

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I wonder whether there are bad side effects for not preparing and selecting the correct codepages for your country, and only using the keyb.com to get your desired layout. I am wondering because the only thing I have set is "LH C:\DOS\KEYB.COM GR" in the autoexec.bat and nothing else regarding the …

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Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades

Posted on 2018-04-07, 16:38

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by jaZz_KCS

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Indeed, and you always have the option to rip the emulator out and substitute it with a generic floppy drive, now that you found the safe haven of Toshiba T Series information :) The amount of modifications IanB and Vipersan are undergoing is staggering. I am just happy to have a unit with …

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Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades

Posted on 2018-04-05, 14:35

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by jaZz_KCS

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There seems to be some kind of logic behind the behavior for sure. I bet that IanB can shed some light into proceedings, but it seems priority is given at some point to one slot upon bootup..

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Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades

Posted on 2018-04-04, 15:22

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by jaZz_KCS

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@REFCODES.ORG Although I don't personally like to see a Gotek FDE inside one of these series (:P), I am still happy to see as many of these machines still in use/working condition/restored as possible. :) @Vipersan So much trouble to have another 16bit ISA channel available, totally unnecessary and …

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Re: Toshiba T3200SX BIOS?

Posted on 2018-04-04, 15:15

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This is correct. I am so freaking happy with my fully working T3200SX, I cannot even conjure the right words. I have the original floppy drive still working, which is a rare sight indeed. I have actually switched it with a Sony drive just to archive the still working original drive. I guess that may …

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Re: A couple of retros I'm working on.

Posted on 2018-04-04, 15:04

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Okay, I opened up my T5200... The battery is a Toshiba, but it has some kind of a resistor attached to it. I'll be replacing it with a single 2032 button battery. inside01.jpg The reason they did that is because the original batteries used for these computers were very long lasting non- …

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Re: A couple of retros I'm working on.

Posted on 2018-03-19, 20:52

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by jaZz_KCS

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So a genuine Soundblaster in the T3200SX and a PCMCIA sound card in the T5200? Sounds good! Also the PCMCIA will open up new possibilities as you then can fit the external Panasonic PCMCIA CDRom drive that you have. 😀

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Re: A couple of retros I'm working on.

Posted on 2018-03-15, 12:35

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@ Vipersan: This is both correct and I can confirm these behaviors on the T3200SX as well. For 800x600 you indeed need more than 256kb video memory, which both the T3200SX and T5200 do not have. This is the reason why all the (supposedly compatible) drivers I tried for Win3.1 in this resolution …

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Re: A couple of retros I'm working on.

Posted on 2018-03-05, 23:43

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Yes, the caddies were actually designed to hold either floppy or CD drives. And one of my drives in the external caddies perished as well so I replaced it with another drive that has the same flat cable connector. You probably have already opened it and see what I mean. It should be a standard …

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Re: A couple of retros I'm working on.

Posted on 2018-03-05, 22:52

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I have two Satellites of the same model range. On both the connectors show slight corrosion but they are still intact. These models have very thin connectors for their batteries , but the climate here in more central Europe is more kind to them I guess. One BIOS battery I had to replace I had to use …

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Re: A couple of retros I'm working on.

Posted on 2018-03-04, 22:14

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PS: Vipersan, I never managed to get EZ Drive (or any other overlay software) to work with SSDs. Only with CF/SD-adapters as well as regular IDE HDDs. Their main purpose is to make use of the full capacity of an CF or SD card which is more than likely to be more than the BIOS can handle (and in many …

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