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

Posted on 2021-04-29, 22:29

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

keenmaster486 wrote on 2021-04-29, 22:07: There should be a way to make it stretch, in the BIOS settings. The sound chip in the T4700CT is a WSS-only chip, which will be crap for DOS games but just fine for Windows. Any chance to hear this issue? I'm quite surprised that 1990 laptop can have a bad …

---

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

Posted on 2021-04-29, 21:34

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My God, why can't these laptops stretch 320x200 to full screen?)

---

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

Posted on 2021-04-29, 20:11

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Guys, getting back to my idea of having old FAT laptop... Found Toshiba 4700CT, your thoughts? Any 😀 https://ibm.retropc.se/manuals/Toshiba/Other/ … ce%20Manual.pdf

---

Re: Installing DOS drivers on an Audigy2 ZS

Posted on 2021-04-22, 04:49

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Okay, thanks. One more question bout this PCMCIA card, does it play MIDI? Cause I’ve installed 2009 driver under XP and Creative utility says that I’ve got NONE midi device in system, and sound panel says that it will be MS synth. Installed, older driver, from 2006 instead of 2009-10, and midi …

---

Re: Installing DOS drivers on an Audigy2 ZS

Posted on 2021-04-21, 21:17

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Guys, PCMCIA Creative Audigy2 ZS Notebook is not the same hardware thing as the desktop one? No chance to have it working under Win 98 and pure DOS?

---

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

Posted on 2021-04-15, 08:27

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The video expansion is sharpened I guess this means bad stretching like on Savage? btw, I remember here on vogons a long thread where different scaling was compared from different videocards. I can't find it despite different attempts to search here. A lot of pictures of the same scene from …

---

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

Posted on 2021-04-14, 22:38

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Guys, regarding my idea of the old fat laptop, what do you think about Toshiba Tecra 520CDT? Found one 85 USD in perfect condition. Several questions: https://support.dynabook.com/support/staticContentDetail?contentId=638371&isFromTOCLink=false DOS applications sound, only sb16 or general midi is …

---

Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2021-04-14, 17:59

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hi, i've got a laptop with 754. In Audio Mixer i've got a 3D Wide regulator. What is it and why it is turned off by default? What laptop is it and what driver are you using? Working on getting a working VXD driver for Sony laptops with the 754 and anything helps. It’s all here: https://www.vogons. …

---

Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2021-04-14, 10:35

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Crackling may be caused by too high maximum volume. Sometimes it's because driver allows to set the volume too high, when it was taken from another card. With VxD drivers you may fix it in registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\YAMAHA\Driver\YMF724\VolumeMax, or by YMF7x4Utilities. Sorry, but I fail …

---

Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2021-04-14, 10:25

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hi, i've got a laptop with 754. In Audio Mixer i've got a 3D Wide regulator. What is it and why it is turned off by default?

---

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

Posted on 2021-03-30, 21:15

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

517W4DV7PGL._AC_.jpgDespite I've found a perfect retro laptop (Toshiba 2805), I'm currently busy with Toshiba 5205. It's a AC97 laptop with Geforce 5600Go. Reason? Gorgeous retina-like screen. It's a 1600x1200 resolution 15 inch panel with almost no sign of wear. It's bright, it's colorful and it …

---

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

Posted on 2021-02-26, 19:06

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks! I'll google all of them and search russian ebay, then I'll be back 😀

---

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

Posted on 2021-02-26, 13:35

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, i've missed my chance. Now i'm interested in old, fat laptop, with big motherboard, normal screen with good scaling, sb compatible audio... Fat laptop! Early Pentium i guess 😀

---

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

Posted on 2021-02-25, 09:39

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Guys, any info on ACERNOTE 950. Want some fat old laptop and this one in maximum proximity now 😀

---

Re: Toshiba 2805-s402 Ultimate retro gaming laptop

Posted on 2021-02-19, 15:42

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Scaling on laptops lay on videocard, not the monitor. So 100% avoid Savage videocard, only GeForce (2805-402 and 603). Savage will be good for an external monitor since scaling there lay on external monitor logic board, internal will have horrible scaling. Windows stuff looks extremely bad in low …

---

Re: Toshiba 2805-s402 Ultimate retro gaming laptop

Posted on 2021-02-19, 13:57

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's here! For a test, I've installed new LCD into savage laptop. It's brighter, but for some reason, it's not obvious on photos. Filename photo_2021-02-19_16-14-17.jpg File size 144.16 KiB Views 2030 views Also, i've taken some comparison photos of bad scaling: Filename photo_2021-02-19_16-29-24. …

---

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

Posted on 2021-02-13, 19:07

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Okay, i've tested LBA in PCem and it's the same story. Looks like this game is just not working under Windows.

---

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

Posted on 2021-02-13, 18:08

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Full Throttle (1.0) and Little Big Adventure. Is there any known bugs with them? I’m trying LBA on 2805 and 5205 under Windows 98 and after intro video game just closes. In native DOS it works fine. Full Throttle works fine both in Windows and native DOS, but it sometimes freezes for a 3~5 seconds. …

---

Re: How can I clone the desktop in Windows 98 ?

Posted on 2021-02-11, 19:12

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Faced same issue, but wanna go deeper, when I play on single screen, my dos games have high resolutions, but if I go with dual screen mode, I’m getting only tiny resolutions. Filename 0AD2A0B1-C5BE-44C0-9EFC-A37E41E57E2B.jpeg File size 1.48 MiB Views 721 views

---

Re: Toshiba 2805-s402 Ultimate retro gaming laptop

Posted on 2021-02-11, 07:15

by

by vorob

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought a new screen for 2805. It was sold as new on ebay, the price was extremely cheap. No idea what I'll receive, but it was worth trying. My sample is already showing signs of degradation, the screen is yellowish.

---