Retro PC Gaming with Targa Visionary XP Laptop
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
- This is my first time checking out an old laptop for Retro PC Gaming! We are attempting to install Windows XP, Windows 98 as well as DOS!
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DOS, 98 and XP ❤
The sacred triple boot 😀
The cursed one is one i did 98 and 10
@@trash_miner hehe...I have a Core 2 Duo utility PC with Windows 98SE, 10 and Kubuntu Linux 😜
It has SATA, IDE and DVD burner and floppy.
So I use it for formatting, imaging, burning etc dvds, cds and floppies ++.
But it does use a generic video driver in Windows 98 as it has a Radeon 6870 GPU.
I have a Dell slim tower for the same purpose! More for file server and Plex at this point, but Core 2 Wolfdale just won’t quit :)
My boot Setup on my t420 is Windows 10, Dos 7.1 and Windows 3.1 :)
I have maybe half a dozen beige boxes and motherboards on my shelfs, but honestly, retro laptops get the most love in my personal retro man-cave. My favourite laptop to use is still an EEEPC 901, it's so small and compact, it's a great DVD player once you connect an external drive, and it has more than enough power to run the games i care about (either via natively-installed XP, or via DOSBox)
Looks like you have a fun one here! I miss the times where laptops had some personality, and were not just macbook clones in one way or another.
Love your work, cheers!
Would like to see more old laptop contents too.😊
Me too! I used to take an old laptop that had the giddy up to run a certain emulator, install the OS that worked best with it and would turn it into a portable of whatever I was emulating. First one I did was an Amiga Laptop. Win UAE installed on Win 7. You boot it up and it went right into Amiga OS. I loved that. Nowadays with the speed of laptops, I could run multiples at the same time on one machine and switch between them.
Surprising this is your first Laptop after so many years configuring desktops...I have my Windows98se on a PentiumIII Compaq Deskpro from 2000...but I also have about 5 old Dell Laptops from the mid noughties...sitting in protective portfolio type Laptop bags...I plan to do something with them eventually...I'm an emulation retro gamer...a lot of the work is done for you with Emulation station etc...but I've got DOS floppies so I should install at some point...I hope
Just love to see interest in old laptops! 😍 tnx Phil!!
Thanks for the video & i hope you are well
Happy Philday, Best of luck with life Phil
I still remember TGA image file format for game development resource :)
Great video again. Thanks Phil!
Breakfast with Phil's on a Friday! Love it! Thank you, Phil!
what a blast from the past! amazing!
Gotta love it when Phil uploads. Great work as always so keep it up :)
6:23 You should download all the versions of the drivers and archive them somewhere for everybody to be able to get them
Nice find Phill! I have the same laptop with the Athlon XP Mobile 2400+ and Radeon Mobility 9000. Mine have problems with IDE, but I have found out it is a common problem with VIA laptops of the era. It was a still good deal to get that Athlon XP Mobile, because it does 2.7-2.8 GHz with OC (on a Nforce 2 Ultra motherboard).
The first PC i ever played on was a Targa one. It had an AMD Athlon 1800+, an Nvidia GPU without a heatsink and a gigantic 80GB HDD running with XP. I was a great time back then.
Mine was a Targa as well, 386SX 20 MHz, 2 MB RAM, 40 MB HDD. Still works!
damn, i think we had the same computer. geforce4 mx 440?
@@obiwankenobi661 Yes. It was one of these Nvidia cards. I sadly dont have this PC anymore, so I cant check the gpu.
Have a few old laptops that i use with Win 98 and XP... Also using an old Shuttle SB61G2 with XP, but more for experimenting with different hardware like the IDE2SDCard and IDE2mSATA... Fun times experimenting with these harddisk partitions... Had to use an old tool, WHATIDE, to get some info on Cylinder, Head and Sector... A few times the PC's BIOS got mixuped the info of SDCard's harddisk partitions... Very useful tool... Also great job with the laptop video... Thanks a lot...
Looking forward to seeing the Sbemu video.
I got an IBM T-40 laptop awhile ago. I never got the sound to work in DOS and I had no idea SBEMU was a thing. I have working sound in DOS now. Thank you Phil! And Crazii!
I have a full video on SB EMU in the works!
I used a adapter like that for my IBM X40! Didn't know other brands used them adapters. My goodness it was faster than the 4200RPM original hard drive lol :D I did keep the original for archiving but glad to be booting the machine off a much faster hard drive lol :D Them original hard drives are not easy to find anymore at least for the IBM X40 :)
I have a ThinkPad T43 I use for retro laptop gaming - I upgraded it with a 2.13GHz Pentium M, 2GB RAM, and a 64GB SSD. The killer feature though is the 64MB Radeon X300 graphics chipset it has, along with the 1400x1050 display I put in it. Makes for a really nice machine 😄
Only thing is the SATA to IDE adapter installed on the board causes some headaches especially with anything newer than XP. Perhaps one day I’ll bypass it and install the SSD directly into the board ^^
Thinkpad X and T series across a lot of the generations are great.
Nice, you start to check out Retro Laptops. I kinda dig those since they take less space, even though repairing those can be more annoying than fixing a Desktop.
And that's a AMD Athlon XP laptop?! Oh my gosh, That's a dream Retro Laptop for me. More so than an another 500-th Pentium III/Pentium 4 laptop.
That ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 allows us also to play late Windows 98 DX8.1/DX9 games, that support shaders and all sorts of a good stuff that e.g. ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 lacks, and it's also a DX7 max. Not that they won't work, but they (games) will lack certain effects, like let's say the better looking Water at highest textures in Call of Duty 2003, or NFS Most Wanted 2005 looking more like Hot Pursuit 2, without it's yellow filter, shaders and bloom. (Though MW2005 is more of a XP title than W98, but definitely that ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 is a solid choice.)
Targa, I had a friend work there but they stopped producing pcs and laptops a long time ago. But they still exist as a company.
He actually also had a laptop like that.
Phil's the boss. Great video!
This seems like a good X: Beyond the Frontier machine. Would make the computer visually shine :)
I had it branded as Gericom with Windows XP. Bought it 2002. Served me good for around 10 years.
"It's better than getting punched in the face"
Well if that isn't high praise, I don't know what is!
😂
Good 'ol project Phil. Today, I'm using mainly laptops for Windows gaming as these have less power draw for Off-Grid solar enthusiast.
I like that idea. A cabin in the woods to escape inflation pressures. Play some retro games and relax.
that's awesome dude.
I've a Toshiba 2800-500 with pentium III 800mhz and GeForce 2 go 16mb, with Yamaha XG soundcard with bassboost inside this laptop it's perfectly for DOS gaming era and windows 95 98 games, a great laptop 👍🏻
nForce chipset, integrated graphics, the worst Geforce ever, i do remember that Toshina thing !
ATi 9000 did dedicated graphics back then, that is what you needed.
If memory serves right, that laptop BIOS had a really cool feature. You could quickly cycle through the back ground colors with a single key. Some early 2000s RGB, well kind of 😁😆😂!
Thanks for the video, Phill 👍!
GODS looks very similar to a game called Demon Blue. I think I read somewhere that the same people (Bitmap Brothers) moved on to VillaCrespo Software or the other way around. Very interesting!
I looked up that game, hmm I've never seen it. It reminds me of another game: Storm Lord!
I picked up a HP Pavilion DV7 1285X for retro games and DVD capabilities. Awesome! I recommend one for both! The remote media controllers are dirt cheap too.
Nice machine in its day.
Nice machine! There is a lot of options to upgrade it!
Modern Laptop : Do you want USB Ports?
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Old Laptop : Do you want Ports? Card Readers? Drive Slots? Buttons? Mini LCD Display? Volume Knob? Ethernet? Dial Up? Multiple Display Output? AND ANTI-THEF PROTECTION?!
Yes, you put it well ❤️
this device is, in its intel variant, technically identical to the "gericom blockbuster" ("gericom radeon 9600" model to be exact). i/o port placements are identical. i had a bit more luck getting drivers for it. after all, it was a random chinese oem device. it was a budget laptop sold in discounters (hofer, aldi) over here in germany,austria. i assume even medion took these ones and branded it with their logo.
I used Windows 98 & Dos till 2006 on my PIII Toshiba Tecra 8200 with Yanaha YMF 724 and S3 Savage MX. Having such a compatible machine like this Targa I could have troll people with using Win98 on my Laptop for the next 10 years :) Anyway after watching this my weekend is officially started and with the right tune, so another levels of Doom 2 and Tekwar are in plans for the next 2 days, and maybe 1 scenario in Heroes 2 :)
Very cool. I have a couple of simlar machines, they made me lazy and I now do pretty much all my retro gaming on them. Like you say, doesn't work with everything but still more than enough to choose from, my Desktops and towers get less use but on the other hand I do more retro gaming as it's easy to slob out on the sofa in front of the tv and play lemmings or whatever😁
You and me both! Played some Wing Commander Secret Mission today :D Lemmings is awesome!
Awesome, more of win98 laptops plz.
A few sketchy third party websites do host the bios upgrades for Visionary XP. As is often the case of vintage hardware/gadgets, the manufacturer either went out of business over 15 years ago, or has removed the driver files altogether (thanks Acer and Intel), leaving these sketchy sites the only place to turn to.
This is really great for DOS games and 90’s windows Games!
I had serious overheating problems with gaming on laptops, back in the day, so I dont use them anymore for any gaming, retro or not. A good advice: you can use a Laptop SATA to IDE Adapter model with a "flat" pcb and you can tear down a ssd and use just the small pcb. That way you can fit both in the hdd slot.
You reminded me that Sound blaster came out a PCMCIA sound card. While searching found a vorgons threads about someone engineering one for retro computers.
Would give some older laptops better DOS compatibly hopefully when it's released.
Yes but I guess like many retro parts, it will be hard to find one?
Nice review
My heart beats faster when i see laptop with Athlon XP and Radeon 9000
Great user name!
I remember Lidl Portugal selling Targa laptops back in the day, this could have very well been one of them. Love the VAIO purple on that unit lol.
If you want another good Win98 laptop to test, I'd recommend the Compaq Presario from the 12xx through 16xx series. Socket 7 with decent specs. Drivers are readily available. Great video Phil!
I remember these back in the day! If I recall They were Lidl specials in my town.? Great machine and it’s great to see you give the much improved SBEMU some love! 😃 and with regards to the memory issues, I found replacing himem and emm386 with himemx and jemmex. And I have simply made a boot menu at startup. With a few maximum ram flags, etc That for me solved a large chunk of the memory issues
Hey, what flags exactly are you using for limiting the memory?
@@philscomputerlab himemx.exe /MAX=65535
Jemmex.exe x=test i=test NOVME NOINVLPG
jemmex.exe NOEMS x=test i=test NOVME NOINVLPG
The two different sets of flags on each Jemmex entry one with Ems and the other without. It doesn’t solve everything though, and I’m in the middle of testing another tool called limitmem.
Between these 3 options most games should work. Duke nukem 3d, death rally etc work great with himemx and commander keen, wolvenstein etc work with Jemmex options
@@philscomputerlab hi Phil, I tried replying multiple times but nothing seems to stick! 🙄 maybe using config sys lines in a comment would flag something in RUclips’s comment system 😅 after himemx In the config file I add /max(equals symbol)65535
Awesome @@casualretrocollector
@@philscomputerlab but then for real mode games you need to use jemmex(for sbemu sound support), but the last three times I tried commenting about this RUclips deleted it 😆
A while back I fired up my brother's old Pentium II Dell laptop (which shipped with a DVD drive!) and it sure took me back to the days when I was in awe of such a machine as my parents kept our old Packard Bell Pentium desktop that saw minor upgrades. Maybe I'll install some old DOS and Pentium II era games, though the laptop didn't ship with much in the way of graphics as I never thought much about the ATi Rage Pro LT.
The Adventure Continues...! 😁
xenon ii megablast ftw!
Please do a similar test on old Core2Duo laptop that there is TONS available for practically zero dollar. They are from 2005-2009 with some with early PCIe ATI or NVidia graphic, and they are the first laptops to have "decent" screen while still be able to run DOS, curious to see how you can slow them down for DOS games and if you can get sound from their integrated sound card.
Noted!
If you can get them cheap and still get addons to get it up and running then it's a good idea 😊
Nice to see some retro lappies for a change. Older Latitudes and ThinkPads can often be picked up for next to nothing.
Another laptop I'd highly recommend for Windows 95/98 gaming is a Compaq Armada M700 which has a really nice, solidly built case w/ a titanium lid, a Pentium II or III CPU, an ATI Mobility Rage 3D graphics and also a SoundBlaster-compatible ESS Maestro sound chip.
In any case, make sure the hinges are in good shape and the display works and isn't too dark. Plastic parts may have visible cracks or other physical wear on them, so check for those as well.
I will keep my eyes out for more!
Aladdin is infamous for not running well on machines. If you have too much ram it has issues, I believe my sound and music issues were caused by that. Luckily I found the solution and didn't need to set up alternative profiles to run games that want to use the base memory and for those that can use the expanded memory. I just ran MEMMAKER and freed up enough memory and didn't need to mess with anything else, it configured everything I needed I think.
Great tip, I haven't used MEMMAKER in ages!
Another fun and useful video. I always find these relaxing to watch.
I am surprised by how sharp your screen recordings from the laptop were. What VGA capture device do you use?
Retro Tink 4k!
Thanks Phil, I didn't even know that Vogons has a driver library. I'll get Omegas for my Pentium M laptop which has the same GPU as this laptop (though I run WinXP on it) :)
edit: Seems that those are 9x only, damn.
I just watched a number of fun retro projects by a fellow retro computing RUclipsr named MAttKC. He grew up programming and loves to tinker with retro builds like you. I would love to see you two collab on a retro lan type multiplayer period correct build, with improvements on Windows 98 2nd ed. that one could play head to head. ( ie Need For Speed ) He would benefit, as we all do, from your archive of drivers and software. And, he brings a progammers ability to your collaboration. Maybe create and/or improve some patching software. Who knows, put two great minds together on task.
Thanks for all the help you provide to all us old computer and gaming nerds that love playing our old favorites like Quake, Unreal and Half Life on period correct hardware. Your archival collection on your website will some day have to go to the Smithsonian.
Seems like a better option for those who don't have more time & money to build a retro PC. Installing SATA to IDE adapter on the laptop though can be a pain in the neck. Also pray to God that the laptop's DVD drive would last since finding the replacement one is hard.
That's a good point, when installing Windows I thought, what if the drive doesn't work?
turok system shock and half life must be amazing on it
Happy Friday Phil!
Yes 😀
I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600, 800 Mhz Pentium 3 with 16 MB Trident XP GPU. There are definitely some graphical issues with certain games making them unplayable, but a lot of stuff works great. It's nice having an retro PC in a smaller form factor.
That's an interesting GPU! I guess for DOS it will work fine?
I love my Windows XP Laptop Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook e8210 with c2d t7200, 4GB DDR2 ATI Radeon mobility X1400 and 256GB SSD. Runs OK all games 1997-2007
My favorite XP gaming laptop is the Lenovo T430 which supports a 3rd gen core series processor and an nVidia NVS 5400M (basically a mobile Geforce GT 540). It's the last Lenovo laptop to have full driver support for Windows XP and the CPU/GPU combo is powerful enough to play the vast majority of XP games at higher settings. I upgraded the screen on mine so it has a modern IPS panel that looks great. The older T series models were highly modular and easy to upgrade.
Great tip!
The T430 is even a good daily-drive notebook. You can upgrade the CPU to a Core i7-3632QM, a quad-core cpu (It never came from factory with this cpu). My current daily driver Computer is a T430 with a Core i7-3632QM and an nVidia NVS 5400M. At home it is in a docking-station and when I go out, I push the button on the dock and it comes out.
I have a bunch of old laptops, mostly Pentium M/4/C2D, and they're awesome for LAN parties with retro games! As long as they can run 98/2000/XP they'll do the job 🙂
Wall power needed on the Lan Party ???
-@@lucasrem Wall sockets are usually rated for 2000w, but old laptops consume less than 90w, so if I use 4 to 6 laptops at most they don't even reach 1/4 of the limit...
Laptops are neat for retro gaming in that they don't take up a lot of space. The downside is that especially on older machines the display quality isn't always great.
I did some repairs and installed 98 on a laptop for a guy that had software for his business that would only run on 98 correctly.. saved him thousands because he did not have to purchase new software that would do the same thing. I did tell him he could play some cool games but he was no into gaming ..
Retro games are the best! I just played some Wing Commander 1 and modern games are just not the same LOL
I still have my Targa. I should check if it still works.
Beautiful piece of hw. Mine are nowhere near this pristine, but still keeping them 'cause the lack of space and often time too. Just putting in the car the little ThinkPad 600E in its original leather case makes a busy day much better. Its the best portable thing for win95/late dos, 233MHz Pentium MMX, USB port, no 3D accel of course, SB16 DOS emulation, original drivers available. Its weak point is the soft touch cover, it didnt age well. If you have any idea how to revive or fresh it up a bit im all ears.
The other piece is a HP nx9420, 17 inch, Radeon X1600 for the old 3D titles until 2002-3, first thing bought refurbished in 2006, with hard-earned cash. :) The performance of the radeon is nowhere near the desktop variant, the clock speeds were significantly lowered. If anyone buys such things, its always good to look after the MHz-s. Handles anything prior to directx 9.0c. The older the better. Im always in the search of the lower cover plastics, mine have some minor damage around the left hinge, the plastics there couldnt handle the weight over the years.
Anything in a good shape and with dedicated graphics are well worth the price.
You know this world of laptops for Retro PC, it is new to me. Thanks for the pointers and naming a few machine to keep an eye out.
You can run DOSBOX-X under Win XP. It can emulate all kinds of Pc speeds from 286/386/486 to over 800 mhz Pentium 3 speeds. Might be worth a try with them old game speed issues. Can also turn off and on extended memory etc etc.
I been looking for something like SBEMU for quite a while, I wonder if it'd work on an old Lenovo T400.
Thanks for including it in the video.
I've had a few machines with muted PC Speaker and the solution is to not load the drivers for the sound card in DOS! In Windows in the sound mixer there is often a 'PC Speaker' section as well that is muted by default.
I'm still using my pentium 4 2.66 GHz laptop... Well, it's in storage but last time it still worked fine. With a ati 9000 dedicated graphics.
Those were made by Clevo,the same company that made Alienware laptops in the past and the same company that make laptops for Gigabyte,MSI,System76,Eluktronics and others in the present. I have a new old stock one with the same GPU but with a 2.6 ghz Pentium 4 instead. Pretty well performers but the plastic is a bit on the cheap side
Oh nice, thanks for sharing this nugget!
Got one of these as well, branded as Gericom Hummer Advance 2400+. The only difference between mine and yours is the colours (mine is black instead of blue/purple) and the screen is 1440x1050.
Not Geforce Go Chips too, check, not ATi ?
I got a Gateway 600YGR which is a Pentium 4 with Radeon 9000. I got Windows 98 on there with a struggle. MSDOS is a no go on this one but I was looking for Windows 98SE Games that do not work on XP. Performance is wonderful but there is a battery I am worried about getting to
XP is Love XP is Life if you disagree you're a treble person with horable teast in operation systems 😉
XP runs on so many machines, much better ones. 98 and DOS is where it's at 😊
Finaly! More mobile 🎉
I use a dell c840 with a custom nvidia driver for my windows 98se system. Great for mobile gaming.
I have positive experience with laptops based on Pentium M and ATI 7500. Great for retro gaming.
Ati, true, not integrated chipset Geforce Go !
man I miss those days when Game hate your PC coz you have bigger RAM.
12:05 i think you're using an outdated version of that driver. the most recent up to date SBEMU has more flexible features such as fluid mixer controls and improved sound blaster compatibility.
i only noticed this due to the wonky sounding OPL FM Synthesis in the video. the newer driver release improves FM emulation to that of the DOSBox OPL core implementation; since this uses part of it's code base alongside MPXPlay.
ebay enters the chat 😀thx for video, just one question, how about resolution scaling , did it plays duke3d in 1024x768? ;-)
I didn't try Duke with VESA modes!
I'll watch the video another time.
A thing that came to mind tho is this:
is a Linux Distro a better alternative to play retro on newer hardware?
YES, Wxp, even W98, 95 and MSdos can still be installed on newer PCs, BUT the software and hardware support is already not there for a lot of things.
Could using Linux take the place of the low specs requirement of older OSs, while running both old games (or maybe even software) AND on top of that being a modern computer both in parts and use?
Coincidentally I was reinstalling Windows XP just today on a Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook C1020 and came across one of the pitfalls of older laptops: screen scaling. This one in particular will only look good at its native 1024x768. Using 640x480 or 800x600 will result in either a black frame around the image or fullscreen with terrible scaling and almost unintelligible text.
I've been thinking about using my old 2009 macbook pro for some XP gaming. It shipped with drivers from Apple for dual booting with boot camp. I wonder if I could use it for DOS as well.
9400 Mobile, why DOS ?
his Geforce integrated crab ?
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 build, LAN gameplay.
Curious if you could create a ram drive to eat up the excess ram while using dos to increase compatibility.
I got big into old Thinkpads and Dell Workstation laptops and they all have the same issue, the screens all suck even compared to regular LCD 4:3 monitors
I acquired a Thinkpad X40 some time ago, and tried using an IDE to mSATA adapter that looks exactly like yours to replace the slow-as-balls 1.8” HDD, but I ran into the same problem as you and ended up just keeping the mechanical drive. I wonder what the underlying problem is 🤔
powered USB drive you need, weird system X40 was, it needed USB to setup, but USB was not jet ready....
Power USB drives, LOL !
I should try SBEmu with the Fujitsu Lifebook C-6310 (Yamaha DS-XG, Midi sounds great) I'm having problems with Sound Blaster mode in Win98SE DOS-Box and when booting into DOS mode. Tried lots of drivers but only one is working at all (VXD).
Duke3D in DOS-Box is crashing the whole system with some sort of access violation even though none of the resources for SB mode show any conflicts and under DOS mode it always complains about some DMA problem, no matter which DMA I'm trying.
I'm still having an old Dell Latitude C610 with 1 GHz Pentium III and ATI Radeon at home.
Runs fine under Windows XP and even Diablo II works really good.
I want to try Windows 98/Dos next and see, if I can get the Audio running under Dos.
Awesome, let us know how you go! What I like to do is just use another storage device, so I don't have to wipe the working one.
@@philscomputerlab On these old Laptops, you can just remove one screw and swap the HDD out. Not like on modern notebooks, where you have to disassemble the hole device.
The 40 GB IDE HDD has Windows XPP on it and Windows 98 SE is installed on an smaller 10 GB.
@@octopusgaming4027 You can hot swap NVMe drives, you meant the bit lockers issues, disable that on modern windows versions, gaming PC, less secure, who cares ?
Soldering mem is the only issue, i like it, faster than industry So slots, be sure you have enough, 16 Gb is enough for this gen titles on mobile system ? 32 if you have OLED 4k native.
never did have any issues with NVMe drives on modern systems, only replacing industry standard components here, never needing framework.
@@lucasrem I meaned just the hardware part. On old Laptops, the HDD is mostly in a sled on the side.
When trying to swap a SSD on a modern laptop, it's more work. Therefore, I still love my old C610.
Phil, could you add UNIVBE to DOSBENCH? And/or could you make the ultimate DOS IMG for PENDRIVES so it has MSDOS, your fantastic menu, UNISOUND, SBEMU, DOSBENCH? And a video of course, I think it would be absolutely great.
I would love a retro laptop but the poor quality of early 2000's LCD panels holds me back. I'm sure it's possible to find a decent 3rd party IPS panel, but I don't have the skill to disassemble the display without breaking something, especially the fragile plastic bezels.
Or use an external screen and turn it into a desktop? Seems a bit silly at first, but it might be cheaper than buying / building a retro desktop?
You did an older laptop (at least by some definitions) a few years ago, a HP Pavilion netbook with an AMD E-350 (I think, its in that family) APU. It's from back in 2017: "Can we turn this old laptop into a retro pc?" I've actually been trying to get a similar setup to work, but I've yet to find a SATA driver that works...
That one isn't old 😊 Runs 7 fine I believe but can also made to work with XP.
@@philscomputerlab Yeah if you can find an AHCI driver for it. I tried a driver from an ITX Asrock desktop board with a similar APU and FCH and got nowhere.
Can't the memory issue be solved either via some program or by enabling the memory hole in BIOS? (if it has that option)
Generally I like the idea of retro gaming laptops, as they are also compact. I never thought it was a great idea to play current games with a modern laptop, but for retro games, I think that makes total sense. I think the bigger issue might be, that laptop tests might not be super interesting if you repeatedly do them, unless it's either a super unique laptop with exciting features or the opposite, where a lot of people might actually check out your video to see if it's worth buying it. But random laptops which are not "widely available" might not have a big appeal in terms of video coverage.
Yes I believe there are tools and / or parameters you can use to limit memory. For sure something to investigate in the future. I had a look on eBay for old laptops but seems "old" there is not old for us, it's all fairly recent stuff.
The bad thing about laptops is they wear out so quick compared to desktops.
Fair point, and harder to swap parts. For example, if the motherboard has an issue, that usually means sourcing another laptop for parts.
Can you hear SBEMU pitching the sound of the music for Doom and Lemmings lower than it should be? I wonder if the Dev for SBEMU is aware of this.
It's work in progress pretty much and better some sound than no sound.
@@philscomputerlab absolutely if it means we can use more modern Sound Cards / onboard solutions I’m all for it.
That XP error could be from faulty RAM, run memtest
Have you ever gotten the Ati Mobility radeon M6 work with 98?
Are there drivers?
@@philscomputerlab yes I have some drivers that even install and shows up correctly too but it always errors out on this P4 laptop.
It even shows the specs of the gpu in 98 but it can’t start up or load the drivers correctly. I tried several variants and versions but nothing works. I literally gotten everything else to work on that computer except the gpu which sucks.
And being Acer the Bios is under lock en key to a ridiculous degree as always. I kind of suspect it can be something with the video bios shadowing or something to do but I can’t reach those settings.
It really would have been a superior 98 machine to get that working but I cannot find a way it seems