Can this device run serious sam the first encounter smoothly?? 😅😅

What hdd adapter did you use for your hdd caddy i have one and need to get the disc drive out and replaced with a flash or sd card

I thought Moonstone was an AMIGA exclusive?

Gateway Solo 2500 is good as a Windows 9X laptop. I do like the Dell Lattitude XPi CD MMX. Although the Toshiba Satellite Pro 445CDT is better investment. It had Windows 95 OSR2 on it's replaced hard disk drive so I decided to stick a Western Digital Scorpio WD400 on the machine in which I installed Windows 98 First Edition on the machine since it had when I got it 144 MB of RAM and an Intel Pentium MMX clocked at 133 Mhz. Threw quite a bit of Blizzard Entertainment games on it. There is better stuff online anyway. The only other laptop that would have rivaled the Toshiba was the Compaq LTE 5300 with 80 MB of RAM but that one only had an Intel Pentium clocked at 133 Mhz with no MMX and had no USB. At the time I did not even have a PCMCIA CardBus network ethernet card. The Compaq much like the Toshiba you could swap the floppy drive out for a CD-ROM but with the Toshiba you can connect the floppy disk drive as an external drive. The Compaq LTE 5380 as opposed to the Toshiba as well as the Gateway had a 1024x768 TFT LCD Display whereas the Gateway as well as Toshiba had an 800x600 TFT LCD Display. The major drawback with the Compaq LTE 5300 was the most in terms of an operating system that you could run was Microsoft Windows 95. The Toshiba Satellite Pro 445CDT you can go up to Microsoft Windows 98 provided that you have the RAM. I really like the Compaq Armada laptops that not just came with Pentium MMX but also Pentium II processors not just because like with the Compaq LTE 5000 line which came with ESS AudioDrive ES1688 and you also had Armada laptops that had that in addition to having a built in power supply. The Toshiba Satellite Pro 445CDT had Yamaha OPL3-SA Sound Chip. The problem with the Gateway Solo 2500 as opposed to the Gateway Solo 9100 was the limited MS-DOS Mode support only working on Windows 95 OSR2.1 mainly for the fact that the NeoMagic MagicWave 3DX Sound System on that laptop only seemed to work properly on Windows 95 and not Windows 98. You could not properly run MS-DOS 6.22 & Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on the Gateway Solo 2500 whereas the Compaq as well as the Toshiba you were able to. MS-DOS compliant sound hardware is a really big deal. On the Toshiba I ran QUAKE on the WINQUAKE port at 400x300 and it ran a little bit choppy but mostly smooth. Got 17.3 FPS on running DEMO3 on QUAKE’s ‘timedemo’ command from within the console. Tried it on WINQUAKE on DEMO3 at 320x200 and got 26.1 FPS. I ran DEMO3 on QUAKE V1.08 at 320x240 in MS-DOS Mode and got 25.9 FPS. WINQUAKE and GLQuake ports were really a great alternative to playing in MS-DOS. That Chips & Technologies 65554 PCI onboard video chipset on the Toshiba is on par with the Gateway Solo 2500’s NeoMagic MagicGraph128XD especially with both having 2 MB of VRAM. Although I do like the Compaq LTE 5000’s Cirrus Logic GD7543 with it’s 2 MB of VRAM is also not a bad options.

Which game is this onthe beginning?

Hello what gampad do you use in this video

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6:35 Cardbus, not PCMCIA. PCMCIA = ISA, Cardbus = PCI. It even says "CB" below the slots. You'd have to go down to the 486 era or older to encounter straight PCMCIA/ISA. But bonus points for Jill of the Jungle... for some reason nobody seems to include that, so hearing the level theme playing while typing this immediately put a smile on my face :D

Back then I had a Satellite 4200 PRO. Good old days :)

OMG this laptop is great i need buy!

Hi, I recently got a Toshiba Satellite 2545 CDT and installed Windows 98SE, but I can't find the drivers. Even though it's a different model, do you have the drivers for your model that you could provide me?

I can't believe the coincidence that you made a video on an old Toshiba Satellite pro..I found 2 models in the communal rubbish bin a 460CDT and a 480 CDT..along with several Dell P4 mid towers and 2 Gateway laptops..I took the Gateways to recycle and kept the rest..both the Toshibas work..both boot..and have HDD trays and appear to have no missing parts..the Dells I strip for parts..I saw one laptop corner poking out under the black bin bags and when i pulled it up more retro stuff appeared the further i dug into trash..good job no-one was watching..the stack of old tech I'm still amazed they threw it all away..worth money on eBay

If anyone ever develops a TSR for the ViRGE MX to fix the screen scaling for 300x200, this would jump higher on the "ultimate DOS laptop" list. I know one exists to fix the screen scaling issue for the C&T 6555x chips in the slightly earlier Tecras, but nobody has figured out (or attempted to) such a fix for the ViRGE MX.

Do you find the Ad Lib music is very quiet in DOS vs. Windows? I have the 470CDT and I have to turn the volume wheel all the way up to hear much at all. Even after maxing out the FM volume to 7 in setupsa

If your Toshiba is locked by bios, you have to make a parallel cap from a parallel cable to unlock the bios. 3 types exist, some online pages describe the proper cable connections.

curious what kind of camera you use for recording? Great video quality

I have a 470CDT and it performs great for DOS games too. There is a stretching utility called VEXP, but it only runs on C&T graphics chip. The 550CDT with the S3 virge is tempting, even if it's not a great GPU.

You might be able to upgrade it with an AMD K6-3 CPU.

You can actually overclock these to 400Mhz. Using a Super Socket 7 mobo, naturally. Just like laptop AMD K6-III+ CPUs rated for like 375Mhz with a 75Mhz FSB will actually clock 600Mhz and do 133Mhz FSB with out modifications or need to use increased voltages on the motherboard.

My k6 2 350@550 was surely faster

i have one of these that i got out after watching this, i quickly removed the cmos battery connector that had some signs of green but doesn't appear to follow on the motherboard, although the left windows key and right arrow key are not working

I have also a Tecra 550CDT but with the Deskstation V+ (PA2710EYN ) the station has PCI and ISA Slots, in mine i have two Voodoo 2 in SLI, this make´s the tecra to a realy powerhouse gaming machine

I managed to push my old pentium mmx from 166 to 225Mhz. That helped me skip the few generations and my next one was the PII slot 1

I subscribed, I like the way you talk about these old neat machines. I love old tech and love seeing what they can do. Thank you good sir

I have one of these laptops, i need to change the CMOS battery in it but don't know where it is located. Also have some replacement 18650 batteries to repair the old cells in the battery.

Did you consider using an IDE SSD?

What is that controller called? Also does this laptop work on the deskstation v+?

There's a program called throttle.exe which commands chipset and it's power saving features to set different throttle speeds for CPU. Works quite well because, it's not a TSR at all.

Generally, almost all Toshibas in this shade of gray are excellent for DOS and games from the early Win 95 era. They mostly have OPL and decent graphics. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to find a working one, because they have a cancer: the internal battery leaks and completely ruins everything on the motherboard. It has 3 batteries that can leak: 1. the clock battery, 2. the backup battery (to keep the system idle while you replace the main battery with a full one) and the main battery when it is not lithium. Another common problem is that it will almost always have a sour screen, and you will need to spend a small fortune to adapt it to work with a modern IPS. I had several, luckily the battery had started to leak, and I was quick to remove them from the notebooks, and managed to recover part of the board with vinegar.

Hmm how abt the k6 iii 550?

Cool machine. As for Pentium 233 MMX Socket 7 CPUs, it is quite easy to overclock them to 266 MHz by changing the FSB frequency from 66 MHz to 75 MHz, although the performance difference isn't too noticeable.

Great video! It would be the perfect retro laptop if was using an ati rage instead

is that a serial or usb game pad you have got there?

This is awesome, I have a single board computer that is the same size as a 3.5" hard drive that has a Tillamook Pentium MMX that I can get up to 333mhz and it has a Trident Blade 3D which while not being a great 3d chip it is super cool to have such a powerful system with 3d acceleration in such a small form factor for both dos and windows gaming. I really love that thing.

I would not use an USB mouse/keuboard because if I remember correctly, USB peripherals eat CPU power (maybe I am wrong if use legacy mode). Also, for 160MB RAM and 266 P1 CPU, I would use Windows95. I have an P2@266 laptop with 128M RAM and with Windows 98 feels sluggish, it runs better with Windows 95 or, Windows 2000. Ofcourse, Win98 have the advantage of better USB support for thumbdrives. Great video, I enjoyed your presentation of this beauty.

The Pentium MMX 266 MHz Tillamook is a Socket 7 CPU! 😅

Another great video! Love these!

Enjoy my Tecra 550 as well. It is indeed a bit of a pain to remove the bios and suspend batteries. I need to keep an eye out for the dock! One thing I wish was there was a good hardware VGA->HDMI scaler for 320x200 @70hz. AFAIK there is nothing on the market that can handle this well.

magnifique

This one or the successor had a docking station with PCI slots, that way you could use a 3D GPU. Dell featured an PCI slot dock as well a few years later.

You mention hooking up an external midi device, but did you ever try it? I have no idea how to disable the onboard HW midi so I can send midi out the game port to a SC-88vl.

Love to see people playing Zork!

Lucky me, I picked up a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4320 just the other day for AU$30 + (AU$35 postage). It works great. Only missing the docking port cover. It also came with a PCMCIA Xircom network card, physical manual and a Toshiba bag.

Love the Portege Pentium and Pentium II lines, but finding them is next to impossible. Which to me is surprising, because I thought companies bought them often for execs, much more so than Librettos. I guess the Satellite and Tecras were the models Toshiba sold the most.

I have a 4025CDT that i use for DOS. I usually use setmul to turn off the cache for speed sensitive DOS games. The Yamaha chip really is one of the best reasons to use these for DOS.

Nice video, i really like this series of yours on retrogaming laptops :) I'd be curious to hear your opinion on the EEEPC. I have an EEEPC myself, which i use for WinXP games + DOS games via DOSBox. It's not really a pure DOS gaming experience, but i found out it comes pretty close, and also the size + ability to connect to an external VGA CRT makes it a pretty neat piece of hardware, at least for my use case. I wonder if SBEmu works on the EEEPC 901, if it does i might reconsider using it as a pure DOS machine 😄

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I need a old PC to run Windows 95 and DOS but unable to get one due to the cost of one

Thank you for including the segment on checking and removing the RTC batteries, this particular Toshiba series (440 to 480 & 220CS, 230CX) are quite prone to damage from them even when the connectors look fine on the top-side. The reason is that there are some fine traces underneath those connectors and battery corrosion that seeps through the PCB quickly breaks a few significant traces, breaking the memory system. It can be fixed if caught relatively early though, I've fixed 2x of these motherboards by repairing the traces with test pads on the underside

i have the 4015 cdt mmx pentium 1 or 2 not sure.. it needs a replacement motherboard