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Reply 840 of 2685, by devius

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Wow! That laptop actually looks like a semi-modern laptop. Not bad 😀 And a Pentium 100Mhz! What a beast 🤣

It should actually be a very good PC for playing just about any (non-3D accelerated) DOS game ever made.

Reply 841 of 2685, by retrofanatic

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Sutekh94 wrote:
Specs: Intel Pentium 100MHz 24MB RAM 810MB IBM HDD C&T 65550 with 2MB VRAM ESS 688 AudioDrive with genuine YMF262 OPL3 Windows 9 […]
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Specs:
Intel Pentium 100MHz
24MB RAM
810MB IBM HDD
C&T 65550 with 2MB VRAM
ESS 688 AudioDrive with genuine YMF262 OPL3
Windows 95

EDIT: Forgot to mention that this is in really good shape! Also came with a few goodies: the original external floppy drive, a copy of Windows 95 (like I didn't already have a million copies of Win95 already 🤣), and a Microsoft PS/2 mouse.

Very nice. I love those Toshiba laptops...built in Japan and tough as nails. I have a couple older Toshiba laptops like that and they kept the same build quality for years until some of their later made in China models started to come out.

The thing I am in the hunt for is a proper dos pcmcia game port adapter so I can actually use my older Toshiba laptops for true dos gaming. Having the genuine opl3 allows you to play a lot of pure dos games with sb support but the lack of a gameport is the biggest limiting factor to play dos games on an old laptop...but that said if you have a working usb port in win9x, it of course works well with usb controllers.

Anyways...very nice laptop and big bonus having the original floppy drive.

Reply 842 of 2685, by Sutekh94

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retrofanatic wrote:

Very nice. I love those Toshiba laptops...built in Japan and tough as nails. I have a couple older Toshiba laptops like that and they kept the same build quality for years until some of their later made in China models started to come out.

The thing I am in the hunt for is a proper dos pcmcia game port adapter so I can actually use my older Toshiba laptops for true dos gaming. Having the genuine opl3 allows you to play a lot of pure dos games with sb support but the lack of a gameport is the biggest limiting factor to play dos games on an old laptop...but that said if you have a working usb port in win9x, it of course works well with usb controllers.

Anyways...very nice laptop and big bonus having the original floppy drive.

re. the gameport - if it's anything like the port replicator for my T2150CDT, the port replicator for that particular series of Satellites should have a gameport built-in.

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Reply 843 of 2685, by S95Sedan

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Just wanted to show my current retro pc i have been working on.
The old Abit board my parents bought when i was about 12-14 years old i think, still going strong today. Rest of the parts i gathered from ebay and locally and old parts i had laying around.

Specifications:

  • Motherboard: Abit LX6 (beta bios)
  • Processor: Pentium III 500mhz @ 416mhz
  • Memory: 1x 128Mb 1x 256Mb (Has to be replaced still)
  • Videocard: 3DFX Voodoo 5500 AGP
  • Soundcard: Creative Soundblaster AWE32 (32mb memory) + Yamaha DB50XG Add-on
  • Storage: Promise Fasttrak66 (ModdedUltra66) + 2x Maxtor 40Gb (raid0)
  • Casing: Fractal Design Core 3000 (Removed hdd brackets to make space for the soundcard)
  • Power Supply: Corsair HX850W

All of the parts before it went in the case, with some spare cpu's:
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Case with all of the hardware installed:
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Heart of it all, the Intel Pentium III 533mhz @ 412mhz:
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Bottom part of the case, top to bottom (Voodoo5 5500, Promise Raid, Lan controller, Optical out for the AWE32, AWE32 itself):
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Some more pictures:
Soundblaster AWE32 card - Here
Soundblaster AWE32 memory modules - Here
Yamaha DB50XG - Here
3DFX Voodoo 5500 AGP - Here
Promise parts - Here

Reply 844 of 2685, by eFatal2ty

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Why 850W PSU on it? 😁

*ASUS P3B-F *Intel Pentium!!! 450MHz Katmai@133fsb *Hynix 4x128MB SDR PC133 CL2 *Matrox G400MAX 32MB + Procomp Voodoo2 12MB SLi *Creative SB Live! CT4760 *3Com 3C905C-TX-M *2xSeagate 40GB 7200rpmn *EIZO T68 19"CRT * Creative FPS1000 *OS: MS Win 98SE

Reply 845 of 2685, by S95Sedan

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Why 850W PSU on it? 😁

Mostly because its 'spare' / not used, already have a gold rated seasonic in my main pc, shame to use an old non-rated chieftech crappy one instead 😜
And it has a good 5v rail, and looks nice in black.

Reply 846 of 2685, by retrofanatic

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Very nice build S95Sedan. I like the combination of old hardware with new cases like this, but I think the lack of enough drive bays on this case would drive me nuts. Will you be using any floppy drive or CD/DVD ROM for this build?

Reply 847 of 2685, by S95Sedan

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Very nice build S95Sedan. I like the combination of old hardware with new cases like this, but I think the lack of enough drive bays on this case would drive me nuts. Will you be using any floppy drive or CD/DVD ROM for this build?

Thanks.

Yeah, i really like the combination of black with that color of pcb's, makes it stand out really good. It does have a CD/DVD drive in the top slot, below that are the 2x 40Gb hdds in raid0 which are paired up to the promise controller. Also mostly using usb flashdrives for transfers, which works ok. Want to switch to lan later since that theoretically should work in dos aswell. (or so i read)

Do have the brackets somewhere still but they are mounted facing front, which i thought ruins the look.

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Reply 849 of 2685, by PhilsComputerLab

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Nice Time Machine (mixing old with new) S95Sedan!

A wicked gaming system for Glide games like Unreal 😀

I used USB (sneaker net they call it) a LOT but recently played with my home network and LAN cards and I don't think I will be going back 🤣 It's just so convenient. Sometimes the LAN cards like to steal resources so there might be a bit of work involved ensuring the Sound Blaster has the proper resources.

Regarding storage, personally I wouldn't bother with RAID on 40 GB drives. For maximum performance just go with either:

- PCI SATA card and modern SATA drive. Just create a single, max 128 GiB FAT32, partition and install Windows 98
- Use SATA to IDE converter with a modern SATA drive and either limit the capacity of the drive with SeaTools or just through BIOS settings

You will end up with a much faster / quieter / reliable solution.

But as always, it's just a suggestion 😀

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Reply 853 of 2685, by Backfire

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First is a Asus K7M (AMD/ VIA) board with a 1GHz K7 Orion cooled by a Titan Majesty IV aka golden orb. It's got 3x 256MB PC133 CL2 RAM by Infineon. The graphics- adapter is a Diamond Viper V770Ultra (TNT2 Ultra) with 2 Diamond Monster 3D II 12MB. The sound system is an EWS64 XL with front panel made by TerraTec. Case is a Chieftec CS-601, PSU is by Enermax.

The second machine is a Epox MVP3G5- board with a K6-III+ 400ATZ @ 600MHz cooled then by an Alpha PAL6035, now by a Kanie Hedgehog 238M. It has got the same memory as the "slot machine", 3x 256MB PC133 CL2 RAM by Infineon. AGP- card is an ATI Rage Fury MAXX, followed by 2 Creative 3D-Blaster CT6670 with each 12MB. Soundcard is a TerraTec Maestro 32/96. Case is a Chieftec Dragon, because the CS-601 I wanted to use had fresh paint. PSU again by Enermax.

Pic 3 is me with dinner. Since the nuclear power plant has blown up a few month ago, the snails around here are growing really big. ...

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Reply 854 of 2685, by retrofanatic

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@ backfire...Welcome....very nice cable management and I love enermax power supplies...makes for a rock solid build.

Actually...it is very difficult to arrange all those cables coming out of those enermax units...I know because I have tried to conceal them on one of my builds and failed miserably. Good job.

Reply 856 of 2685, by Backfire

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At the moment I'm working on a youngtimer: DFI CFX- 3200, Radeon X1950XTX Master/ Slave Xfire, much watercooling, Thermaltake "Tai-Chi".

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Planned is a dual core Opteron, but for 1st tests a little behaeded "San Diego" 3700+ worked out fine.

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Reply 857 of 2685, by Tiger433

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My Retro Laptop Sony Vaio PCG-F707 and i use that for watch DVD movies and DOS gaming

Specs:
Processor: Pentium III 600 (100Mhz FSBx6)
Graphic Card: Neo Magic MagicGraph 256AV+ 3008 Kb RAM
RAM: 256MB PC100
Hard Disc: IBM-DARA-209000 9GB
Optical Drive: DVD Toshiba SD-C2402
Sound Card: Yamaha DS1 (I have good dos driver for her, which give me sound even on Commander Keen 4)
Mainboard is on 440BX/ZX chipset

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Reply 859 of 2685, by PcBytes

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This is mine. It's been through a lot of changes. Quite messy atm,I need to get some zip ties and tide everything up.

Athlon XP 2500+ - detected as 1100MHz,any fix for that? It should read 1833MHz. (real speed of 2500+)
1.5GB RAM
2x Sony DVD-ROM drives
400W Rexpower PX-400 PSU
80GB WDC SATA HDD - main HDD
40GB Maxtor IDE HDD - storage
Black Floppy Drive
ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe
Radeon HD3450 AGP - ASUS yet again
C-Media PCI audio - good to have additional sound
Winfast TV2000XP Deluxe TV Tuner
Titan TTC-D9TB/CU35/R1 cooler - copper base right on the die of the CPU,temps are at 40-50*C
no OS atm.

This is my rig. Photo is in the old case.

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