Re: Newly made PCMCIA sound card

Posted on 2020-02-09, 07:24

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This is a truly great idea! I've filled in the questionnaire, but will post some thoughts here as well. Personally my main expectaion would be SB compatibililty in DOS, including protected mode. True OPL3 would be also nice, but some good clone is also acceptable. Gameport supporting MPU-401 would …

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

Posted on 2020-01-17, 09:55

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vorob wrote on 2020-01-16, 21:57: It's with me now... […] Show full quote It's with me now... Cool! Looks like it's Moscow 😉

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2020-01-12, 18:40

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dongle less IBM 3D sound card and Roland scp-55, which would be useless if you can't either find the appropriate dongle or build them yourself... There is such an agiotage around that card on ebay :) I think I've identified what kind of connector IBM card uses. But I need the pinout to make a …

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Re: Thinking on bying an old laptop, need your advice

Posted on 2020-01-11, 12:06

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Here ia very informative thread about choosing an old gaming laptop The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

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Re: PC Card adapter (mass storage) in Windows 3.1?

Posted on 2019-12-26, 17:26

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It's not too difficult to get Cardsoft working in DOS. Here is the manual just in case https://www.rtd.com/NEW_manuals/software/utilitymodules/CM6109/cardsoft_users_guide_SWM640020003B.pdf Not sure about W3.11 though. I use PC Card Director on my IBMs, not sure if it works on Toshibas. But there …

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Re: running half-life in software 320x240

Posted on 2019-12-22, 22:00

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Not sure if this is relevant, but I ran fine HL1 on my P233 laptop in 320x240, fullscreen.

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Re: MiTAC 4022 - a vintage 486 notebook (1994)

Posted on 2019-12-22, 21:36

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Cool stuff! I liked the feature of BIOS support for PCMCIA storage. It's very convenient. Some of my thinkpads can boot from PCMCIA card. But you cannot access it (without drivers) unless you boot form it.

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

Posted on 2019-12-18, 19:44

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If only Creative Labs made a Sound Blaster 16 on a PCMCIA card. Wait a minute. There were some companies that did make PCMCIA sound cards back then, even the Panasonic 4x CD-ROM drive had Sound Blaster compatibility with the integrated speakers. It has SB compatibility only in Windows. You'll get …

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

Posted on 2019-12-18, 19:39

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Wait... what? This is not good. I did not know this. Why the hell would they not include SB hardware compatibility in a laptop from 1995?? That's bad. Now I am a little nervous about trying to use this thing. I guess I will find out when I get it just how bad it is. I specifically got this one …

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

Posted on 2019-12-18, 07:53

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Tomorrow the Thinkpad 755C arrives. I will give a full report as to its usefulness. 755C has a very poor sound card onboard. I put a quote here: "The sound chip used in the Thinkpad 755C/Cs is a Crystal Semiconductor CS4248. It is a AD1848-compatible Windows Sound System chip, providing a 16-bit …

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Re: Is this laptop good for retro gaming?

Posted on 2019-12-17, 15:52

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MAZter wrote: Bondi wrote: Nice laptop! It even has Line-in connector, which is very useful. I did not spot the game port. Is it on the port replicator? Oooops, I messed up the game port in another laptop, TwinHead SlimNote 9 (P79) Ah, okay. And what port is between USB and PS/2? Looks like …

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Re: Is this laptop good for retro gaming?

Posted on 2019-12-17, 06:08

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MAZter wrote: I have very similar TwinHead SlimNote P79TE laptop (bought for $15 on eBay) GAME PORT Nice laptop! It even has Line-in connector, which is very useful. I did not spot the game port. Is it on the port replicator?

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Re: What games were ported from Windows to DOS?

Posted on 2019-12-16, 19:00

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Revolter wrote: Does Retro City Rampage 486 count? Sure! Thanks!

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Re: What games were ported from Windows to DOS?

Posted on 2019-12-15, 17:53

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Thanks!

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

Posted on 2019-12-15, 17:46

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My current retrogaming laptop is a Dell Latitude XPi CD M166st It's a good little laptop,it seems big but it's actually pretty small,perhaps it loads a lot of DOS Games ,it has a nice MIDI Synthesizer,unfortunately it doesn't have a good video codec,it's a little bit slow when you try to load a …

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What games were ported from Windows to DOS?

Posted on 2019-12-14, 08:34

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I'm wondering if there are games that have been initially released for Windows and later ported to DOS by fans? I.e. games that had no official DOS version. There is one example that I know of - Quake 2. Are there more?

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

Posted on 2019-12-09, 16:02

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I was messing with SONY FA-P1 external PCMCIA FDD drive. Got it for $10 on ebay. It worked finally. In DOS it requires SS and CS + dedicated driver that I found online. I'm attaching the drivers just in case.

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Re: Old software you miss the most

Posted on 2019-12-08, 10:32

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I miss the crazy applications made by Kai Krause/Metacreations: KPT Goo, Show, Tools, Bryce and on.

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

Posted on 2019-12-07, 18:55

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keenmaster486 wrote: I was able to get it connected to my home WiFi network through an Orinoco card. I'm wondering how you did that. I could never connect mine. AFAIR it did not support some modern security protocol. What router are you using and what security standard?

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

Posted on 2019-12-07, 11:11

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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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