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

Posted on 2020-02-17, 05:30

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by ragefury32

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Was there any laptop with fully dos-compatible soundcard and (!) good videocard with acceleration for late 90th pc games (for unreal, half-life, thief 1) I would go for Compaq E500 :) There's no such thing as a "fully DOS compatible soundcard" as certain things don't really work correctly in …

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

Posted on 2020-02-17, 04:56

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Extremely helpful community. Thank you very much! I'll take a look at this guy, and page. Now I wanna get back to the roots. Since 2010 I have an ultimate retro gaming machine for 1997+ videogames - Dell Latitude D800 https://sun9-50.userapi.com/c855636/v855636740/1da982/cDMzkaBG0rM.jpg Two things …

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

Posted on 2020-01-19, 14:39

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by ragefury32

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Anyone remember Omega drivers for ATI? Can i make them work with Ati Rage Mobility? Cause default driver is not perfect. Check Phil's Computer Labs on youtube - he has a few archived, and Phil used to be active on Vogons. That being said, the Omegas are meant for newer GPUs (M3 all the way to the …

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Re: Why don’t PC parts work in a Mac ?

Posted on 2020-01-18, 03:02

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I agree with every word you wrote. However, I think you need to try out the Dell XPS models, most particularly the Dell XPS 15" 9570. Then you will (probably) keep your words the same, but you might feel tempted by the power of this XPS model. You can run Windows 10 on it, sure, and the screen is …

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Re: Why don’t PC parts work in a Mac ?

Posted on 2020-01-18, 02:44

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by ragefury32

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Have Apple chaged the design of their keyboards yet? You mean the scissors one on my 2015 MacBook Air 11 that I am typing on, the 1st generation butterfly on my 2015 MacBook (company discard), the 2nd generation one on this 2017 MBP13 next to me, the 3rd gen one on the 2019 MBP13 with the sealant …

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

Posted on 2020-01-17, 15:50

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by ragefury32

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The SXGA models have life-limited CCFLs that can turn the screen red (and fail over time) I guess it's not the problem of Thinkpad itself rather than a whole old laptop issue. Right? Anyway, as I mentioned already, I bought Compaq Evo N400C instead of Thinkpad T22. Compaq looked more interesting in …

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

Posted on 2020-01-17, 06:16

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by ragefury32

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Be aware that the T2x line has problems with their plastic frame, though. Especially to the right side of the keyboard. The small plastic bridge tends to break on these models, which in turn makes the metal frame of the drive bay break after a while, which causes the plastics around the hinge to …

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Re: Why don’t PC parts work in a Mac ?

Posted on 2020-01-09, 06:09

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Ok, yeah, so it is more of a UNIX OS. I've only ever messed with a UNIX setup once... and just default to calling everything modern like that as Linux.. my bad. There are several schools of thought on that. In most ways, OS X is a UNIX, although some of the user space is different. In the case of …

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Re: Hardware tools for speeding up file transfers to legacy laptops (and possibly other things)

Posted on 2020-01-08, 05:00

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by ragefury32

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That's why on machines that can support it, I prefer to offload it to USB2 whenever I can. Id consider your approach to fall into the category of (possibly other things)...Definitely is useful in situations where Ethernet is not possible, however those situations on vintage hardware is far less …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-06, 05:30

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Received an IBM Thinkpad 560E from the friendly local mail carrier over the weekend... https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=73841 The 560E is a very decent DOS/Win95 machine - Trident TGUI9682 GPU, Pentium 166MMX, 80MB RAM ceiling, ESS1688 audio, and with a throw-weight of around 4 …

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

Posted on 2019-12-30, 18:45

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I have encountered the gunky Thinkpad coating only on the 385 that I had for a while and then sold. A lot of them have a sort of charcoal grey rubbery coating on the lids (of those that I have... 600E, T41, all modern Thinkpads, but not the older ones). This rubs off over time, but it doesn't …

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Airpower: Battle in the skies - a config guide and game review

Posted on 2019-12-27, 16:09

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Part 1: Getting the game working in DOSBox and the ThinkPad T21 (or with a similar S3 Savage GPU) Okay, so I was told that this is a pretty difficult game to get working in SVGA mode (on both DOSBox, and on actual bare metal) thanks to some really proprietary SVGA drivers that only supported video …

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Re: A question about old graphics cards and their worth

Posted on 2019-12-27, 14:37

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S3 Savage 4 PCI is a desirable card? - ooh, I've got one of those somewhere, not sure if it's still in an old system - some nostalgia as it was my first ever card beyond 2D Windows accelerators. Sure, why not. It's not too bad as a DX5/6 accelerator for the stuff that came out around 1998. It's …

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

Posted on 2019-12-26, 06:45

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by ragefury32

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Got my hands on a Mid-2010 MacBook Pro 13, rescued from the ol' corporate discard pile. Pre-SSD.png Core 2 Duo P8600 (2.4GHz), 4GB of RAM, 250GB 5400rpm spinner, 8x Superdrive. Not a bad machine per-se - as it contains nVidia's Geforce 320M/MCP89 chipset, which is a very good integrated chipset. …

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Re: A question about old graphics cards and their worth

Posted on 2019-12-26, 02:20

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by ragefury32

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high end cards retain value. Cheap cards don't. there maybe some exceptions but not many. its the same with everything else. If you go out and buy the special racing edition of the corvette in 20 years it will be still desirable. If you go out and buy the cheapest toyota in 20 years it might still …

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

Posted on 2019-12-24, 20:06

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Oh yeah. The NEC Versas are not very popular stateside, and I don't think it's that big in Europe either (at least when compared with Fujitsu/Siemens, Dells, HPs, IBMs or Toshiba) - hence it won't show up on evilBay often. Even if it does, NEC is not nearly as nice as IBM or Dell in being clear and …

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

Posted on 2019-12-23, 23:09

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Toshiba T-series comes a lot closer to the "ideal" DOS laptop than 7xx Thinkpads imho. The build quality is as good as Thinkpads, screens and keyboards are nice and they come with fully SB Pro compatible soundcards with legit OPL3 if I'm not mistaken. They might not look as cool as Thinkpads, but …

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

Posted on 2019-12-23, 21:02

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by ragefury32

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I have this obscure laptop: 20191215_145433 (002).jpg 20191215_145338 (002).jpg Other specs: AMD K6-2+ 500MHz and a 12.1'' TFT 800x600p. It's a really low hour laptop, looks like new, including the excellent screen. But is it any good for Win9x 3D gaming? What is the best 3D game that I can run …

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

Posted on 2019-12-19, 18:08

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by ragefury32

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I would just like to vent my frustration for a minute here. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAthat being able to play DOS games on my laptops means less and less to me. I have a 486 desktop for that, not to …

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Re: How do you find retro Hardware free?

Posted on 2019-12-19, 15:27

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by ragefury32

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"How do you find retro Hardware free?" From dead people. I'd say. More precisely, from family members of people that passed away. They usually don't care about the vintage (electronics) stuff the deceased one collected/repaired in loving detail over the years. If you're lucky, they will be so kind …

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