Ken-mkII Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Hi there~~After fixed the broken floppy drive by replacing the O-Ring, CMOS CR2032 & Suspend Hi-MH 4.8V battries, the DEC Hinote CT475 come alive again!! Here is what look like: (Sorry, since I have no digital cam now, the pic was taken from another site)And this is the screenshot that I captured from it (Win95 OSR2 w/ Active Desktop Updated):Below is the hardware spec of this old cake 1994's notebook:CPU: i486DX 75MhzRAM: 4M onboard + 16M EDO (20M Totally)HDD: 340M 2.5" ToshibaVGA: Chips & Techology 1MLCD: 640 x 480 TFTOTR: 2 x 16bit PCMCIA socket (Cirrus Logic Chips), 1xECP, 1xCOM, 1xInferedAfter testing with some of old DOS emulator for it, I discover that it should run NESTICLE (NES Emulator) & NO$GB v2.5 (GameBoy Emulator) at full speed. So, it may be ideal for turning it to be a "Console" machine rather than a notebook since it is quite slow even I use Win95 on it.But since it hasn't sound/lan bulit in. I would like to look if I could find the following hardwares:16bit PCMCIA lan card / Printer Port Lan Adaptor16bit PCMCIA sound Card (No sould for console gaming is ingoring... )16bit PCMCIA USB adaptor (Dunno if it is existed?!)Maybe I am misposted here, but hope that someone would help, hel Also, low CPU cosuming Win95 game are welcome, too!!Thanks,Ken-mkII Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsenellenelvian Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Hey thats a good job of reviving an old system!The Wizardy series and Ultima series would run great on that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken-mkII Posted September 13, 2008 Author Share Posted September 13, 2008 Hey thats a good job of reviving an old system!The Wizardy series and Ultima series would run great on that...Yupp! You let me remember the old ages when I play Ultima IV & V on my Apple // w/ mocking board~ At that moment, Apple //'s games were better than PC's alots since at that time, VGA & Adlib were just come out, most of games still hadn't supported yet (Ultima V supports VGA, but no BGM.... So...)Thanks for your info... (At this moment, I am buliding the LPT cable for connecting Playstation gamepad to this old notebook, hel~~) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aqcww Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 真高兴可以再次碰见中国人.你可以用driver genius来找驱动的..你有msn 或者qq吗？可以交流交流~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenoitRen Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 w/ Active Desktop Updated(snip)it is quite slowThere's your problem. Remove Active Desktop/IE4. Hell, install it without any IE for disk space savings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken-mkII Posted September 13, 2008 Author Share Posted September 13, 2008 w/ Active Desktop Updated(snip)it is quite slowThere's your problem. Remove Active Desktop/IE4. Hell, install it without any IE for disk space savings.Yepp, I know, but why I installed Active Desktop update is coz of I have merged the WinMe's Spider game to this tiny notebook.BTW, Win95a w/ Office 95 on it is really fast enough for normal documentation job. But if surfing on web, IE 5.5 is reall SLOW like a turtle.... It is why I want to turn this notebook to a "console" machine rather than a word processing machine...真高兴可以再次碰见中国人.你可以用driver genius来找驱动的..你有msn 或者qq吗？可以交流交流~呵呵, 我也是, 你现在是在国内, 还是?BTW, 驱动那些不是问题了(截图上已是全上了驱动的), 我现在想要找的是有否16Bit PCMCIA的声卡或用打印口的网卡(以上在Win3.1/DOS年代有见过).你也喜欢用98, 玩古董?对了, 若然, 在下在此有个事情想请教一下, 有否办法在Win95/NT4.0上运行QQ?? 在下试过很多方法都不成, 已网上有下载的QQ2000修改版虽然可以运行, 但却不支持群聊.早两年有看过一些无牌的黑网吧, 在NT4.0的服务器上运行QQ... 当时没有太注意... 现在想找解决之道真是巨难啊.Finally, 我这阵子QQ和MSN都少上, 等下有空我send private msg给你吧. (当然, 你发我也成).呼呼, 简体字打的有点累~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aqcww Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 (edited) 我在內地.也不是玩古董啦~我的電腦配置也算高的...只不過想用來玩古董遊戲...你說需要一個聲卡？pcmcia的沒有見過.不過在淘寶上有售usb聲卡，大約30rmb左右..很便宜的.網卡我就不知道了。好有關於qq，可以用qq2006，不過好像隻支持win98或以上(try a lot..)下載地址http://dl_dir.qq.com/qqfile/qq2006standardkb2.exe因為qq從2006版本以後就不支持98了.所以只能用2006，但登陸卻有提示說版本太低~所以要懂一點手腳：点一下登录框下面的“设置”，勾上“选择QQ登录服务器”的复选框，然后“设置您需要登录到的服务器的类型”下拉框选“TCP类型”，在“需要登录的服务器地址”下拉框选“tcpconn3.tencent.com”，然后登录就可以了，以后就不用这样麻烦了，跟平常那样登录就ok了。如果tcpconn3不行，選擇tcpconn4.我的msn是lym_0072003@live.cn,有空加我..qq：421109601end Edited September 13, 2008 by aqcww Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken-mkII Posted September 14, 2008 Author Share Posted September 14, 2008 (edited) 呵呵, 是玩老的DOS游戏, 还是? 我自己是比较倾向玩模拟器的游戏, 但机器配置却都是"古董"级的, 故只能在可能的范围内选择了.USB声卡我有了, 我是想找一个可以让我这台CT475本本可以用的声卡, 14年前的本本, 你认为有USB口吗? 呵呵...所以, 要声卡, 只能找当年(Win3.x/DOS年代)出过的16位PCMCIA声卡了, 这个真的是比较头痛耶. 不过就算可以用USB声卡, 我也不认为可以在DOS下发声...而网卡, 16位PCMCIA的我已经有一片了, 只是我想再找个更老点的用打印口的那种网卡给我那台Toshiba出的第一台Plasma本本 (386SX-16Mhz, 2M RAM, 40M HDD, EGA, 没PCMCIA口... Orz..)至于QQ, 我自己本身就在用2006版, 这是唯一官方可以支持Win9x(只支持98)的版本了, 但问题是QQ2006版在Pentium MMX 200Mhz 128M + Win98的系统上跑都巨卡.... 在Pentium 75Mhz + Win98上跑卡的连字都打不了.. 怎么用啊.... 所以我想找个更古早的修改版本 (2003, 2004版), 可以在Win95上跑就更好. 这样我的古董就可以继续发挥余热...恩, 这阵子我用的机器都有点问题, 故QQ, MSN等我都没上, 待有空后我再加你进好友, 谢了.Below is the translation of above chinese, since this is an english forum, we use chinese to post here is not so good, heh~ Heh, play DOS game, or others? For me, I play console games on computer via emulator mainly, but most of my machines are ERA's, so I can only choose from limited area... I owned an USB sound card already, but what I want is finding a sound card for my CT475 notebook, don't you think that a 14 yrs old notebook would have a USB port? So the only solution is to find a 16bit PCMCIA sound card that was popular in that ages (Win3.x / DOS ages). It is really headache to me.... BTW, even I could use USB sound card, but I still don't think if I could make it soundable under pure DOS.And the Lan card, I owned a 16bit PCMCIA 10M (Kingston PC2) already, but what I am looking for is a Printer Port version Lan Adaptor (I remember 3COM had sold it b4) for my another ERA Toshiba Plasma Laptop (386SX-16Mhz, 2M RAM, 40M HDD, EGA, no PCMAIA socket of coz... )And for QQ, I'm using 2006 ver, too... This is the only version that support Win9x(98 Actually, so no luck on 95). But the problem is that is SOOOOO SLOW on Pentuim MMX 200Mhz + 98SE, and totally unusable on Pentium 75Mhz +98SE which I have tried. It is why I want to find a more eariler modified version which could run under Win95. If so, I could make my old computers still usable nowadays (For chatting, word processing and some old gaming etc...)Yupp, since my computers has some issues now (Mostly I am working on those old machines), I can't on MSN/QQ at the moment, after I return back to use my main machine, I will added you back. Bye!!Best Regards,Ken-mkII (Aka. Ken Yaksa) Edited September 14, 2008 by Ken-mkII Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aqcww Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 Sorry for speaking Chinese in this English forum...sorry for my bad english. you say that you need a 16bit pcmicia sound card,my question is that the card must be 16bit?(i don't know about the sound card in that time.)if you need 32bit(maybe not support)there are lots of pcmcia sound card in 淘寶.And an exciting news is that i heard about qq2005/2004 from one of my friends.he said it runs perfecttly under win98.i always play some old games like ra95,cs,hl,ut and more in win98. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken-mkII Posted September 14, 2008 Author Share Posted September 14, 2008 Well, old notebook (K6-2 Model or earlier) only support 16bit PCMCIA (PCCard), later models support 32bits (So called CardBus). It is why I am looking for 16bit card only due to my notebook is an old cake.BTW, could you confirm your friend if QQ2004/2005 can still logged in to QQ Server and chat with others?If so, also if possible, could you ask for your friend to test if QQ2004/2005 can install under Win95(Win97)??If everything okej, I may ask for you to send me the file, hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aqcww Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 no problem that.hard working these days,so maybe i can't come to this forum.if i have any news,i'll tell you(if i have free time). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken-mkII Posted September 15, 2008 Author Share Posted September 15, 2008 Yupp, waiting for your good result~~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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