First post, by ibm5155
This is a curious hardware, the state of the notebook was that it was never used (it came with the original box and everything).
Hardware Resume:
-6,7" TFT screen (800x600 but I belive it can do 1024x768)
-3,2GB of HDD (that sounds like a 80s HDD)
-CPU: Cyrix Megia GXm 200MHz with MMX (That can be set to run in 175 or 200MHz over bios or you can reduce the performance by half with casio tools)
-No L2 Cache 🙁
-GPU: ExpressGraphics (2D only, 1,5MB or 2MB onboard mode)
-RAM: SDRAM PC-100, came with 32mb soldered, but can be expanded up to 96mb
-Audio: ExpressAudio (Emulated FM OPL3, under review)
-Input Output:
-1 USB, 1 Irda, 1 PCMCIA, 1 Line out and build in mic.
Battery: 1500MAh (dead)
There're still "new" units being sold, just check the link: Here
All the screenshots can be viewed over this link: http://imgur.com/a/bs27w
=: PERFORMANCE
The Fiva is a quite fast machine under Windows, for daily tasks as using work and excel it Works just fine, but for real gaming, that's another history.
The clock may look big, but the real performance is btw a Pentium 100 and a Pentium 133.
=: SOUND QUALITY
Here we have some good and some bad parts, first, the speaker quality isn't great, so, sometimes you may feel the áudio is bad but in reality the speaker is the one that's causing the bad sound...
With earphones, everything was better, but not the best quality, the opl3 quality feels actually good, but not the best, it sounds like some 8bits áudio quality, some games has some tick like sound when there is no sound playing and a sound is starting to be played...
Here's just some áudio quality reviewed by some games:
Tyrian 2000: The sound effects are ok, and the opl sound actually near to the original, but the music sounded a bit sultry.
DXBALL: sound effects ok but midi sounds all wrong, it's like a virtual pc 2005 opl3 synth emulator D:
Warcraft II: Sounds actually good wave/opl3
=: MICROPHONE
This is a tool that I'll never use, but I noted one thing if you put your finger into the mic, it's going to make a really loud sound, and there're no ways to disable it >.<
=: GPU
The Achilles' heel from Fiva is the GPU, no 3D support, not so compatible with old games, and it even makes some old games slow (forcing you as example, to run Doom on low graphic quality).
=: GAMES
Here's a list of games that I played and tested:
-Alley Cat: Works fine
-SimCity 2000: Ok
-Commander Keen 6: Ok (there's some small flickering sometimes but that's outside the game screen)
-Starcraft : it looks like it's working just fine
-Quake 2: It's a no no, even under 320x240, I only get 9,7fps on the first demo 😳
-Quake 1: Actually, it's near to 30fps.
-Street Ball: Some graphical glitches (text mode tries to mix the graphics mode) but, just press enter + enter and it's fixed.
-Dune 2: Works Quite Well
-Heretic: Works much faster than Doom 1/2 for some reason
-CDMAN: Ok
-Corridor 7: Ok
-Death Rally: Ok
-Descent: A bit slow, but I'm running on "max" settings, maybe lowering some settings and it's going to be playable
-Duke Nuke 3D: Feels Playable
-DX-Ball: The music sucks (the Windows opl is much worse than ms-dos opl), but it's playable
-The Secret Monkey Island: Ok
-4D Stunts: Ok
-Network Q Rally: Couldn't enjoy this one, some parts were almost ok, and others were slow (like 15fps)
-Doom 1: This one impressed me, I got something btw 25 - 30 fps 😳, that's the first computer that I have that is required to use the low quality settings for make doom playable xD
-Wolfenste 3D: Black screen of death D:
-Test Drive 3: almost playable when setting the cpu speed at 50% (min) and disabling the L1 Cache
-Another World: Only adlib sound (and the quality was bad) and the performance was bad.