I Turned My Toshiba Libretto into a Teeny Tiny Hackintosh with Apple Rhapsody OS!
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- Опубликовано: 12 фев 2021
- Thanks PCBWay.com - The Toshiba Libretto - a computer I've dreamt of owning since I was a kid, and I finally have one to experiment with!
This Libretto 50CT is decked with with a Pentium 166 MMX, 32 megs of RAM, and Windows 98 on an incredibly loud and clicky hard drive. Let's give this tiny miracle of a machine a new lease on life with a solid state hard drive, and the most interesting operating system of its time - Apple's Rhapsody OS, the precursor to Mac OS X, which was actually released to developers on Intel!
🍎 My disk image with Rhapsody DR2 installed and configured is available here (last download): macintoshgarden.org/apps/rhap...
🍎 BS Labs OPENSTEP on the Libretto guide: bslabs.net/2016/02/29/openste...
🍎 Great Rhapsody OS Resource: www.rhapsodyos.org
🍎 More info about the weird Toshiba BIOS hibernation thing: www.buzzard.me.uk/toshiba/hibe...
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This guy be like "👈🤚☝️👇👌"
I've watched a talking hand for soooo long lol
Honestly very annoying
@@danielbocelli go cry about it
@@DeaseNootz like you’re doing?
@@danielbocelli yep!
Most expressive hands in the business.
👋👈👆👆👋👋👈👈👈👋👍
It's 4 am and I read that as most *expensive* hands in the business and I spent the whole video trying to figure you out, bud. Great excuse to watch it again! 😂
@@theunreal_TOEBEANS 🤣
@@theunreal_TOEBEANS Well, his mannerisms are pure gold, so expensive works metaphorically haha
Similar here, except that it's 11 am @@theunreal_TOEBEANS 😉
Ahhh yes, my weekend's entertainment!
Those libretto's where funky little devices, used to have one with a broken display that I used as a micro server on the home LAN. Good times.
Oh goodness, you used it as a SERVER?! That's amazing! What did it serve?
@@ActionRetro I converted it to a linux machine and used it for 'hosting' some of my first php projects, and there was a summer that it ran a quake1 server for a few LAN parties at my house, which worked out surprisingly well on the janky 10mbit pcmcia card I got with it.
@@crashmatrix that's so awesome lol
ruclips.net/video/6e0gVmpYin0/видео.html eu tenho libretto 70 ct quanto custa eu tenho pra vender mas nao sei o minimo que eu posso pedir, funcionando perfeitamente
eu tenho libretto 70 ct quanto custa eu tenho pra vender mas nao sei o minimo que eu posso pedir, funcionando perfeitamente
"We are going to get a little weird with it. "
Jokes on you im into that shiz
Nice ;)
2 things:
1. You've installed/selected the wrong driver. For the 50CT it's C&T (Chips and Technologies) B65550. If you can't find it on the OS, The Openstep has drivers for your chip (6555x)
2. I think there is a configuration file that you can modify in order to change the resolution/BPP, but I don't remember which file.
Thank you!!!
@@ActionRetro OPENSTEP 4.2 w/ Patch 4 also has a VESA driver which should provide color if it doesn't have a C&T 6555x driver.
Be cautious with the driver, as there are PCI and VLB variants of the 65550. The Libretto 50 uses the VLB variant. It has no PCI bus, only ISA and VLB. For some reason, Toshiba went the difficult route and adapted the VLB bus (originally a direct connection the the 486 bus) to the Pentium CPU. (The datasheet is still available: support.dynabook.com/support/modelHome?freeText=1073769618&osId=3333621)
@@dosenfisch24 thanks for this, super helpful!
eu tenho libretto 70 ct quanto custa eu tenho pra vender mas nao sei o minimo que eu posso pedir, funcionando perfeitamente
Hi, great video as always.
A couple of points about CF cards:
1. Unless you pay ungodly amounts of money for industrial-grade ones, they identify as removable devices. This doesn't worry DOS, Win9x or Linux, but WinNT/2k/XP/7/8/10 get upset being on a removable device, and other OSes may do too. For Windows there is a driver called diskmod that can get around this, but it's a bit fiddly to use.
2. Modern CF cards are intended for digital cameras, and are optimised for fairly large reads and writes. On a computer OS where typical reads/writes are fairly small, the performance can be terrible (I've verified this with some thin clients I own that use CF cards). If you can find a suitable adapter for your hardware an SSD is a better way to go long-term - I upgraded an iBook G4 by using an M.2 SSD in an M.2-to-2.5" IDE adapter - the speed of this is only limited by the IDE interface. It does cost a bit more though.
Thanks again for an intriguing video.
Another good option is IDE DOMs (Disk on Module), so long as you don't need a lot of space. They're all fast, durable SLC flash, non-removable devices, available in 44pin versions that can plug straight into a laptop IDE port, and for something like this where you don't really need multiple GB you can get them for ~$25 each. Stupid expensive if you need anything much bigger than 1GB though, but the big advantage is they're still made new in small sizes that old computers expect (as small as 128MB). All smaller CF Cards are basically just new old stock when you can find them.
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eu tenho libretto 70 ct quanto custa eu tenho pra vender mas nao sei o minimo que eu posso pedir, funcionando perfeitamente
DoogieLabs made a video installing Windows 95 to a Libretto with CF card... a 55 min long video
I know that some older consumer SanDisk CF cards can make use of a DOS utility which toggles a bit in the firmware that allows it to detect as a fixed disk. It’s just very hit or miss since there’s not an exact list as to which ones work with the program but from what I can tell they age upto the mid 2000s roughly.
"I'm dating myself..."
Oh, Sean, you silly person! The 90s were last decade!
...wait...oh no. Oh god.
I hate time, sometimes.
I relate to this feeling of terror.
Every time someone starts talking about “30 years ago” I’m like, we didn’t have that stuff in the 70s. ... awww. :-(
Easy mistake to make. The 2000s and 2010s didn't feel like much - easy to forget they ever happened.
Rhapsody was basically OPENSTEP 4.2/Intel with a Mac OS veneer. It was actually meant to run on intel machines not branded by Apple. So it's not REALLY in actual fact a hackintosh. I used to run OPENSTEP4.2/Mach for Intel on my machine at home for years. Full Disclosure: I am the GNUstep lead (gnustep.org) maintainer and former NeXT developer. :) Much respect, though. My comment is meant to be informative. Love what you're doing here bro.
For a teenage PC enthusiast, the Toshiba Libretto was anything but useless! I got mine used on eBay back in 2000, and this was the first laptop I ever owned. Mine was the 100CT (slightly faster CPU and a wider 800x480 LCD) but I used that little thing for every task I possibly could! I browsed the internet over WiFi with an 11Mbps Belkin PCMCIA card, I did my homework on that little tiny keyboard, and I even took my Libretto to college with me in 2003! I used to write Visual C++ code on it in college - I had the whole development environment installed on that little thing! It was so impractical and I absolutely loved it!
When it was disassembled, you need to unplug and bin that green CMOS battery of death immediately. I went through 4 LIbrettos this weekend and 2 of them had green corrosive crap coming out of the connector to the motherboard and in another year or so would have eaten away at something important. It doesn't need the battery to boot and you just set the time and you're away.
From now on it shall be known as the mighty Apple SuperNewton!
I literally chortled at this
Totally!
When I was in college, my boss had that exact Compaq Presario. I think it ended it’s life as a music player for hold music in the company’s phone system.
The libretto series are so awesome and rather powerful for their size and time. Nice video as always!
I supported these back in the day. We would set up our Executive's homes with a docking station, then docking stations in a few offices at different sites and their homes, so they could just carry the Libretto back and forth. They loved them.
That isn’t a hard drive! You accidentally installed windows 95 on a Geiger counter
🤣🤣🤣
@@camthesaxman3387 hahaha. I can tell. The powerbook 520c I own also has an extremely loud hard drive
@@camthesaxman3387 the computer wants to eat you, that's why it's grunting.
@@camthesaxman3387 I sometimes hear my hard drive spin up while I'm using Chrome and I don't know what's going on?
To make matters even more confusing my OS is installed on an SSD.
@@bland9876 Browser might be checking the HDD for whatever reason, sometimes even the system is doing that, again, for whatever reason.
I always wondered why the Macintosh Garden hosts so much utilities that seem quite obsolete, like virtualization software for a rather slow G3 PowerBook, now I know why. Excellent video!
wow a Toshiba Libretto is kinda like the first gen version of what GPD does today.
One of these popped up on eBay a few weeks ago, a friend of mine grabbed it. My friend has plenty of CF-IDE adaptors but the hard drive makes such aesthetic retro noises she kept it on purpose 😎
I find the hard disk seek relaxing. He could record it then substitute it for other .wav files if he wants the best of both worlds. Some hobbyists do that with floppy seek noises.
It’s a itsy, bitsy, tiny, weeny, little hackintosh thingy! :)
This is definitely something you don’t see everyday !
👍
finish it!!!! that he booted for the first time today....
To make life easier with the SD card being so far back in the machine you can buy SD card extension adapters. Then you can stick the card slot right up at the front of the HDD bay and get easy access ^^
I don't know much about Rhapsody but a PC with those specs should easily run OS/2 - Warp, eComStation or ArcaOS.
and BeoS R5 as well.
Haiku OS would also be cool
Cute!!! Love the music for the tear down too!
My friends parents had one of these computers. I remember being blown away at how small the device was and also how nice the screen was. I still think the power plug for the unit is in a weird spot, but Toshiba probably had nowhere else to put it. Great content as usual!
These tiny little laptops have always been a little (pun intended?) fascination of mine. Fantastic video as usual!
The netbook failed because it tried to cram the laptop form factor into a small device using slow chips.
My iPad Mini runs rings around them and its blazing fast. It doesn’t look like a netbook but that its appeal.
Little fascination is a euphemism for lifelong all consuming obsession.🤣🤣🤣
Awesome project! Also a very crisp display on that little Toshiba
Hey man, I spend a lot of time messing with Rhapsody dr2, I've patched a number of drivers to get more hardware working with it. Hit me up if you have a device that you need a rhapsody driver for
Oh man that's awesome! Will do, thanks!
What all have you patched to get working?
@@larbob I made a small tool for patching the drivers in Java (Rhapsody ships with a java compiler+runtime)
Got all variants of 3c905 cards working through that, more info here: www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=4551.0
Similar trick can be applied to lots of other hardware of the era (Worked on one of my ATI cards too)
I'm currently working on patching the EIDE driver to work with generic PCI IDE adapters like the promise ultra DMA cards (source of the EIDE driver is public)
I'm not super familiar with programming drivers in general. It would be really cool to port a generic usb driver to rhapsody but thats far outside my knowledge right now
Could use a Rage Mobility 128 AGP 2X driver and a Intel PIIX4 IDE driver.
I always appreciate throughout the development...
Very impressive, great work!
The Libretto is the 20-years-ago equivalent of the GPD Win.
GPD Pocket*
Keyboard looks more sane, I probably would use the GPD Win if the keyboard wasn't so weird.
It looks more like the gpd pocket
Aww, I miss the sound of the sped up screwdriver sounds when you took apart machines. Still a fantastic vid as ever. One of my favourite channels ❤️👍
I think there was a writeup on this in PC MAGAZINE in the 90s - was the first time I even heard of sub notebooks. Keep up the great teardowns!!!
Great seeing dosdude for once. Such a nice guy with great projects. Cheers!
"loud, hot and bulky and way underpowered compared to their desktop brethren" well we fixed the bulky part, but other than that I'd say laptops haven't changed much.
Nah, they're pretty much same spec. They're only really underpowered if you're comparing them to gaming rigs but even then, you can get gaming spec laptops.
Ok now that’s pretty impressive. Before OS X came out Apple was going to not include desktop drive icons so I emailed Steve Jobs saying that was a huge mistake and he replied saying simply “Boy, are you wrong”.
In the 90's I was an IT guy working for a VAR (predecessor to MSPs, conceptually) and spent a lot of time on the road in server rooms that were often little more than cramped closets. I wanted the Libretto so very much but could never convince my boss to buy them. It was fun seeing you hack on yours!
(11:38) I just noticed a green backup battery near the connector for the main battery! I hope you've removed that before it leaks! (it can corrode through the wires)
I gasped when I saw that module. I've been searching for one for like a year!
That's pretty much how hard drives sounded at the time
Yep a lot of HDD's back then where loud AF, & we didn't think much of it. Same for 40X - 52X CD-ROM/CD-R/RW drives back then as well.
4:10 Is it odd that I love that sound? I even went as far as to gut a rare Apple 20SC SCSI external drive with working original HDD to add a clickey, loud, relay driven server scsi drive with a MASSIVE capacity of 320 MB?
😲 Ice cube tray! What an amazingly good idea!
Amazing work
Fusion for DOS is a great old 68k emulator that you can use to turn an old laptop or PC in to a hackintosh. IIRC it ran great on Pentium II and above.
genius problem solving....kudos
I love this! I have my 50CT running 7.6.1 via DOS and Fusion. It works really well and makes a great desk ornament.
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You're a madman. I love it.
That clicking you mentioned is very nostalgic to me. It's the sound of computing for me. ^u^
I remember reading about that Libretto 50CT and wanting it so bad. Still do, kinda.
That's the one I had...I couldn't remember the name until right now. I loved it. I had it when I was still in school and it was smaller than anything anyone else had so it was instantly a sensation.
AND YES! With a flashlight, a stick and a little patience (15 seconds) you can put a adapter with SD or another adapter WITHOUT OPEN ENTIRE LIBRETTO. 2 screws...
I don't know why but that laptop with that vapourwave background is a match made in heaven
I am just in awe. That this was accomplished in 2021 after the release of the M1. Just fantastic. Bravo. is there some kind of award we can give this guy? #WINNING
Nobel prize for physics.😁
You could also try using PCem for the virtualization, which has a lot more control over the emulated hardware (especially of that era), you could more closely match what you're trying to flash the OS onto.
9:36 I agree this design looks weird nowadays, but back there in the 90s, this was one of the most sexy designs. Any laptop back there was boxy, and the Toshibas and Compaq surprised the market with these rounded lines. This was a design, futuristic, and present in many segments of the industry. For instance, the Ford Taurus (1996) and Contour.
Great video! Amazing hacking! :D
The design of the Nintendo DSi and posterior version looks very close to the Toshiba libretto.
I wouldn't be shocked if DSi or 3DS had a little more power though, or at least similar preformance.
All I can say for sure is that a homebrew hacked 3DS is really fun to play around with, even have a version of linux installed that I need to tinker with some more
@@UNSCPILOT I think that MJD channel shows a video of a DS running old versions of windows, that's amazing
I have a Sony Vaio Picturebook, its the counterpart of the libretto, but bloody awesome! Great video Sean, as usual offcourse ;)
used libretto with msdos for a couple of year as a usenet reader during train commuting. very useful
I loved this. Everything about it haha. Definitely some Druaga1 vibes.
On my old thinkpad with ide to SD adapters I’ve used a bunch of electrical tape to make a handle.
Then to install it I dangled it in there and used a plastic poker to get it into the ide slot.
It’s a little fiddly to install, but it’s much better than taking it apart.
Voice coil hard drives are not terrible - lots of people love the sound! I definitely do.
I, too was fascinated with portable computers when I was a kid. Imagine a computer that could be easily moved with a forklift!
I have a couple 50CTs. Cool little machine.
That slight of hand with the CF card caused me to rewind twice. Thanks.
Literally Oregon Trail and Sim Ant. Thats all we did in “computer lab around 1995-1996 on our mac OS Rapsody computer lab
Ok this is just fantastic.
Cool! I'd spent 5,000$ back in the day to have a 32meg 486 machine and ran OpenStep. Still have the original box that I'd purchased.
You know your an old-school tech enthusiest when you use ithe an egg carton or an icecube tray as a screw organiser. (Pill holders aslo work especially well because of the closable lids.)
3:55 - Call me mad, but the clicky and noisy hard drive is one of the things that I most appreciate from old computers :-D
This video is beyond epic! I really need to see if I can get Rhapsody running in QEMU one of these days.
Try to build a newer toolchain that targets it and hack it into submission until it can run current open source software. Or you could compile compilers to compile compilers directly on the machine if you like waiting
I’m sure someone has mentioned it somewhere deep in the comments but don’t forget about the Libretto 100/110. They have a NeoMagic NM-2160 and both can support 96MB of RAM. The 100 can also be overclocked to 233Mhz fairly easily.
They were also delightfully well made. I'd buy a properly done modernized clone in a heartbeat as I found them quite nice to use.
I always wanted one of those.
Sounds like my Amiga 1200’s old HDD, it was so loud you would think it had a fan in it. It was almost weird when I replaced it with a much quieter drive a few years later.
Man! I have got to try this on mine :-)
I always wanted a Libretto when they were hot and fresh in the market. To turn one into a Hackintosh. That would have blown my 90s mind.
4:03 Wow! I hadn't heard that sound in... oh, so many years.
Very Cool Sean
nice you get it the way you want it in time
Pizmo. That name always makes me smile.
The clicky noisy hard drive is one of its most endearing qualities.
It might be possible in some circumstances to boot from the CF card in the PCMCIA adapter, negating the need to take the machine apart to swap out the SD card. Though from my rough googling it seems to require a magic combination of a compatible CF card, cooperative BIOS and operating system to actually work.
On 486 and any old machine the bios limits the max hdd size you can use, so you have to either use software to workaround that like ezdrive or you have to use an appropriately sized disk
This Toshiba laptop is pretty small, i like it
I have a 70 CT however I picked up a longer CF card adapter which allows me to swap cards without taking it apart. I was planning for other operating systems I wasn't thinking Mac!
The Libretto sounds like a real Apple product form the mid 90’s
BEHOLD- THE APPLE LIBRETTO 🍎
😂
Rhapsody is the most 90's Apple product name there ever was.
One thing I found with the Libretto 50 CT which I still have also having bought it new (Not Cheap back then ) I really like how useable the trackpoint is on the display lid actually is it works really well.
Standard they came with a port replicator which helped out but remember these were Windows 95 originally some 25 disks for windows and another six from memory for drivers and other software.
The original hard drive was well what you expect for the era I suppose and yes I still have it.
One thing was the first Toshiba I owned was an 8086 CPU and the operating system Dos 3.0 was installed in Read only memory and expansion was a very expensive plug in 2 megabyte card the real advantage with the OS being installed the way it was is it makes it totally virus proof shut down and reboot and you have a clean OS as it cannot be written to or compromised a very useful feature nobody seems to have remembered these days for IT security repairs to client systems.
I don't think I've ever seen someone use a compact flash card without an adapter so it seems like it would be better to just manufacture a solid state IDE device.
I must automatically press Like for having the Libretto as the subject.
Oh great it's not just me who has problems with the 50CT and SSD alternatives. That sleep/wake function is genuinely awesome though!
awesome!
This tiny pc looks awesome, I want itttt :(
Do you really call that HDD sound annoying? It's one of the magicest of magical sounds of those times! Honestly, whenever I hear it I'm back to the day I sat by my first computer for the second time in my life - the morning after getting it, because particularly then that sound felt - somehow - most crisp. Can't imagine such laptop without it, something would be clearly missing.
I don’t have any apps to try, but I’d absolutely love to see more exploration of Rhapsody and the ways it’s similar to Nextstep and OSX. Some parts of it looked like OSX or, as you say, OS8, while other parts look like Nextstep.
I’m of that age too. Damn I would’ve killed for that Compaq laptop back in the day. With its janky shortcut keys on the trackpad and everything. Adults around me would tell me, oh the battery is crap and you can’t really do anything with them anyway, but I just wanted to play games on the sofa instead of in the office. I was too young to care about graphics, and I would’ve been plugged in the whole time.
I've heard that Mac OS X DP1 is still very similar to Rhapsody DR2 just with Carbon and Classic.app bolted on, so that might be an avenue for getting Rhapsody with more software.
Those ATA flash adapters can be a little tricky. Make sure you have a type that's able to manually select master, slave, or cable select for the best chance of getting them to work.
Ah... I remember accidentally overwriting about 300 GB of data over the last 6+ years by accidentally mixing up drive assignments while using DD
Always check with sudo fdisk -l
I'm going to guess that you guys are talking about diskpart cuz ya that thing is not to be taken lightly.
@@bland9876 I'm talking about DiskDestroyer command
@@TylerFurrison you're making diskdestroyer sound like LibreOffice whereas diskpart is Microsoft word
So the exact same thing.
this is EPIC
My hope is that this video one day will get 10 million views because is super cool to see what happened in here.👍🙏👩🎤
Not even gonna bother watching before commenting.
WOW! JUST WOW! GOOD JOB!
I will return after watching.
🤣🤣🤣 Thanks!
@@ActionRetro my patience for hackintoshing is almost zero. It's such a pain. So that's why I'm congratulating you.
I first saw a Libretto in 1999 running NT server. I still have my little Libretto 100 with full dock (It has USB).
I know if it were me installing that HDD mod, I would've spent two hours with an endoscope and pliers and chopsticks (or whatever else came to hand) trying to stick the mod in place instead of just opening up the laptop some more. ;-)
If you had cargo pants/shorts, you could comfortably have one of these in your pockets. I might eventually do that anyways because a windows 98 laptop in a pocket sounds legendary