It isn't enough to just try and clean up the corroded areas/components with a quick squirt of IPA and a light scrub with a tooth brush. You first need to neutralize the alkaline battery juice - IPA will not have removed it all. Some dilute white vinegar or lemon juice usually does the trick. Without it, that alkaline will definitely cause more damage down the road. And if it's seeped into the fabric of the board itself that will mean game over, no way back.
You are absolutely right, I didn't have vinegar at the time, but I went back in later and tired to get rid of as much as possible. I think I spent roughly 4 or 5 hours total cleaning that. At the time, I just wanted to see if it worked at all before continuing.
I didn't find anything in a quick search about the graphics card. Without a manual, you probably won't be able to solve anything by randomly flipping dip switches. It should be at LEAST CGA capable.
I did find a dip switch diagram for the card, switches change between text mode, cga, vga, etc with different resolutions, and also external display modes. I get the weird double image on any graphics modes even with an external monitor, text mode graphics obviously shows nothing for games that don't have text mode.
@@user-oe5rd1uh8r I'm not sure, either it wasn't used much or it's a proprietary thing, but I haven't been able to find a card other than this one that has it, and I can't even find more of this card.
Lovely machine. Failing all else you could have tried DR-DOS 5 which included a graphical file manager, nice job on the restoration.
It isn't enough to just try and clean up the corroded areas/components with a quick squirt of IPA and a light scrub with a tooth brush. You first need to neutralize the alkaline battery juice - IPA will not have removed it all. Some dilute white vinegar or lemon juice usually does the trick. Without it, that alkaline will definitely cause more damage down the road. And if it's seeped into the fabric of the board itself that will mean game over, no way back.
You are absolutely right, I didn't have vinegar at the time, but I went back in later and tired to get rid of as much as possible.
I think I spent roughly 4 or 5 hours total cleaning that.
At the time, I just wanted to see if it worked at all before continuing.
really cool
wow and zamzam water
I didn't find anything in a quick search about the graphics card. Without a manual, you probably won't be able to solve anything by randomly flipping dip switches. It should be at LEAST CGA capable.
I did find a dip switch diagram for the card, switches change between text mode, cga, vga, etc with different resolutions, and also external display modes. I get the weird double image on any graphics modes even with an external monitor, text mode graphics obviously shows nothing for games that don't have text mode.
Bro put a super soket 7 now that whoode be sick
Why not upgrade the gpu itself it may work
I haven't been able to find another gpu that has the same LCD connectors at the back of the card.
@@DS08 is the lcd connector a proprietary thing ?
@@user-oe5rd1uh8r I'm not sure, either it wasn't used much or it's a proprietary thing, but I haven't been able to find a card other than this one that has it, and I can't even find more of this card.
These pc's aren't called 'portable' they are luggable... they are heavy but function as a full system 'on the go'
Indeed, I have that written in the description, but it's actually not that heavy and it has "LCD Portable Computer" right on the front of the case.
@@DS08Yeah, would love to have a modern version of it with a stow away keyboard.
@@KayoMichiels I could see a custom mini-itx PC like this, that would be really cool.
@@DS08 I've seen a couple of them.. but they are prebuild systems... and like 2000-3000$
@@KayoMichiels Woah!... Yeah, and I just discovered these: www.theportablepc.com/commanderat3.html