Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT

Posted on 2022-01-05, 21:44

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Hi Gered, I saw that you replaced your floppy and as i am in the same situation (i replaced the belt with a proper on on the original drive and it can read properly, but it cant format (says that track 0 is bad). I have the 480CDT with this external floppy, same as yours i believe. I noticed at a …

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Re: Replacing a Citizen W1D drive for a Mitsumi d353f2

Posted on 2021-12-14, 08:30

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Have to answer myself here. I ordered a 26-pin 1mm flex cable and tried and sure it works. Works very nicely as a matter of fact :) But one major issue in my case - the Citizen is extremely small (11cm long i believe) whereas the Mitsumi unit is 12.5cm and in my case, the latter will basically not …

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Replacing a Citizen W1D drive for a Mitsumi d353f2

Posted on 2021-12-07, 19:37

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Hi all, Haven't really had good luck in replacing the drive-belt on my W1D drive (get the "not ready") and so i thought i could compare the connector of this Citizen drive with the Mitsumi unit and they do look the same (i believe they are both 26-pin 1mm pitch connectors). Of course, the difference …

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Re: OPL3LPT : OPL3 FM Synthesis on parallel port

Posted on 2021-12-07, 19:11

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hi Dreamblaster the opl3 arrived today and i was eagerly trying it out (using the tsr on my dx2-66 laptop). but i need some advice - neither Doom2 or Duke3d plays any music (both setup using adlib). would these require exe-patching or should the tsr be enough? i have no issues when playing the opl …

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Re: OPL3LPT : OPL3 FM Synthesis on parallel port

Posted on 2021-12-06, 20:48

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hi Dreamblaster the opl3 arrived today and i was eagerly trying it out (using the tsr on my dx2-66 laptop). but i need some advice - neither Doom2 or Duke3d plays any music (both setup using adlib). would these require exe-patching or should the tsr be enough? i have no issues when playing the opl …

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Re: Thinkpad 760E with some keys not working

Posted on 2021-12-04, 19:42

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Thx vetz. Then i will scrutinize the PCB under the magnifyer (and if so get myself a really tiny soldering tip).

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Re: Thinkpad 760E with some keys not working

Posted on 2021-12-01, 21:13

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vetz, ok thats good to know, thanks :) I will certainly rip the standby battery out of the unit asap (right-hand side, a bit bigger battery pack). But i did ogle the pcb under the palmrest a bit and i could not (hastily, i admit) notice any damages on it. But i assume (from what you say) that it is …

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Thinkpad 760E with some keys not working

Posted on 2021-12-01, 20:30

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Hi all, while i'm trying to rescue this 760E that i bought off Ebay (as booting but with issues) i did notice that some of the keys (especially on the righthand side) does not work at all. The keys in question are: 0, -, p, [, , comma, etc (slightly orthogonal). I guess this might boil down to a bad …

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Re: Win 3.1 (not the workgroup variety) and winsock explosion :)

Posted on 2021-09-10, 18:05

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Cool, congratulations! I could have only dreamed of that much memory on my 286 back then… (I would have been more than happy with 2MB) In all honesty, i think 2MB would be the "sweet spot" on this thing as the memory count takes forever to finish :-D I only did get the ISA memory expansion because …

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Re: Win 3.1 (not the workgroup variety) and winsock explosion :)

Posted on 2021-09-09, 17:59

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Tried it BitWrangler, and it had a "twist" 😀 I saw that it tried to load the frog-image, then it exploded 😁 I wonder if Opera ever launched a browser for the pre-386 era? I tried version 2.x versions but they all wanted 386.

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Re: Win 3.1 (not the workgroup variety) and winsock explosion :)

Posted on 2021-09-08, 11:01

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Guess who finally got this thing working (mainly thanks to you guys. Very much appreciated all :)) I downloaded WinSock 1.0 from the link above, cleaned out the newer winsock files and tried the non-tls hackaday site and it worked just fine (well, considering i only get script-data on screen but …

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Re: Win 3.1 (not the workgroup variety) and winsock explosion :)

Posted on 2021-09-07, 15:55

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Caluser2000 & BitWrangler, thx for the input you provide here :) Kudos. But i wonder, besides having the functional packet driver in DOS & WinPkt loaded, what would be required inside Win3.1(1)? When i start up Winsock on Windows, i see that i have an IP adress, etc properly. But when running Mosaic …

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Re: Win 3.1 (not the workgroup variety) and winsock explosion :)

Posted on 2021-09-03, 20:29

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Switched browser to NN 0.8 (formerly known as Mosaic ;)) and it exploded as well This time around, i think i'll recognize myself as defeated in this arena. Luckily enough, i have a few 3/486 machines that works rather nicely with tcpip32/wfw and browsers so thats quite ok anyway. (but yes, i will …

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Re: Win 3.1 (not the workgroup variety) and winsock explosion :)

Posted on 2021-09-03, 19:54

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Hey Caluser2000, i'm using version 1.0 of Mosaic. This is what i get atm. i tried every possible combination of slip/ppp also and also tried the "neverssl.com" site to be absolutely sure. Same issue. https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=118365 https://www.vogons.org/download/file. …

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Re: Win 3.1 (not the workgroup variety) and winsock explosion :)

Posted on 2021-09-03, 18:17

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Hmmm... failing hard over here trying to get this 30/286 system (using winsock 2.0b and Mosaic) to work. I have the winpkt driver active (assigned its virtual packet driver properly) and in Win 3.11 (non WFW) trumpet i started and configured according to my lan (gateway, netmask, etc). Trace shows …

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Re: Win 3.1 (not the workgroup variety) and winsock explosion :)

Posted on 2021-09-03, 16:54

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I remember everything got a heck of a lot easier with the updated MS winsock included with IE 2.0, but looks like that's all 386 only https://news.microsoft.com/1996/04/30/microsoft-continues-commitment-to-cross-platform-solutions-ships-microsoft-internet-explorer-2-0-for-windows-3-1/ Its mostly …

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Re: Win 3.1 (not the workgroup variety) and winsock explosion :)

Posted on 2021-09-02, 11:03

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Caluser2000, aha, now i get it. Thank you for this advice. I will definately try this 😀

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Win 3.1 (not the workgroup variety) and winsock explosion :)

Posted on 2021-08-31, 18:36

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Hi fellow vogons, i have this slight issue with my machine (an IBM PS/2 30-286 w. 4,6MB ram using a RamPat! plus with 4MB + 1024kb onboard). Basically a bog-standard machine with some expansion. I use msdos 6.22 on it and i recently installed Windows 3.1 & added the windows 3.11 kernel updates to it …

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Replaced the CMOS battery on a Toshiba 480CDT earlier

Posted on 2021-08-27, 22:09

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So i ordered a "similar" battery (same spec regarding voltage, etc) and expected a similar, rather small, battery pack to drop in my mailbox. Not so much in practice as what arrived was considerably bigger in size (to say the least). Anyhow, the stand-by batter had started to leak a tad bit so it as …

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Re: Dillodos issues when starting

Posted on 2021-08-25, 20:26

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Hey Mscdex, imho its worth quite much what you say. I looked at wikipedia and it mentions Freedos and others (but not msdos). Maybe msdos 7.x is ok but 6.22 is too old... I did manage to get the "Links" browser working (with Tls 1.2) but it works quite "clunky" to be honest. But i also managed to …

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