Exploring A Windows XP Toshiba Laptop Saved From E-Waste
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2024
- I found a Toshiba Satellite laptop from 2003 at e-waste. Let's take a look and see if it will run some games. Thanks to PCBWay for sponsoring this video. pcbway.com
Help with DOS game sound on Windows XP: www.dosgames.com/xphints.php
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Why buy an XP laptop?
02:46 - PCBWay Ad
03:23 - First look
06:06 - History
08:38 - Boot and troubleshooting
13:10 - Metal Of Honor
15:15 - Dos games
21:22- How much did it cost?
Music used by permission:
"Cheese Brickwall" and “Fakebit World” by Malmen
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"Pathfinder" by Kubbi
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Absolutely played dark forces demo as a kid! Couldn't afford the full game but loved the gameplay.
I just finished watching this on my p4 version of that laptop.
Great video on this XP laptop! Will Windows 98 games work on Windows XP?
Windows 98 games don't even reliably work on windows 98... Compatibility mode *MIGHT* do it.
I too have found some Laptops Still being advertised on Newegg and other sites. Toshiba's and some Older Dell XPS/Studio systems (refurbed dells) . Also found a couple Acers and Gateway? systems i think they were .. i forget ive got a massive stack of Laptops and hard to keep track... ive gotten More in the past month so i cant keep track of what i have anymore lol . I take Donations of old systems, e-waste if you will, and try to get working systems from the crap given to me . If i can prevent it from going to a landfill or china ill do it . Interesting video mate, keep up the great work . Love it . Cheers .
Ha. I can't keep track either 🙂
@@RetroHackShack But we Love every Min of it dont we :) Cheers mate .
@@RetroHackShack I forgot to mention/ask ... Do you know roughly opr exactly what Key you need for that unit in the video ? I might have a replacement for you? Just need a bit more to go on and ill have a look, i know i have a few doners and they may just have the key you require. Id send you out a few if you want, not a problem.. as long as it will Work for you that is .
It's the up arrow key. Thanks for asking/checking.
@@RetroHackShack The closest i think i have to the missing key are these.. Toshiba C50D-A -00R maybe? Toshiba A205 - S5800 . If one of those would work for ya let me know . Seems those are whats left for donar keys here. Cheers .
Man, I forgot how painful those laptop speakers were for some sound effects
XP SP3 was light yet stable OS and enough to run all sort of applications and tools, unfortunately today's OS's are stuffed with a lot of heavy unneeded things.
Thanks
I agree.
Still have a Satellite 2400. Excellent system for it's time.
Dark forces didn't use the doom engine. Doom was really only 2.5d you could not have overlapping floors. It used, believe it or not the "Jedi" engine
A tip: A linux live CD can be super helpful for getting all your hardware info so you can hunt down drivers. boot it up, open a terminal, and hwinfo, lspci, and lsusb will give a very detailed inventory of the system.
Concerning that problem with the screen, it looks to me like there's a wire behind the screen and the backlight is casting it's shadow on to the panel.
It would be a strange way for a panel to break otherwise.
That weird W character is the currency symbol for Wulongs in the anime' Cowboy Bebop...😀 Look for an old Star Wars game called Star Wars: Rebellion. Contemporary with 98SE/XP, and native to WIndows with DirectX 9/10, as I recall. Apparently, the cognoscenti in the gaming biz think this was the worst game of the year for 1998, but I had a lot of fun with it. It had network multi player support, which meant two people could play against each other.
Toshiba makes good gear, but, more especially with the older laptops, please make a screw map if you have to take it apart. They typically used several sizes and lengths of screws, which will make it harder than necessary to put back together if you don't keep track of where they all go.
It's the currency symbol for the Korean won, which is the region to which the laptop was set (but also used in Cowboy Bebop).
Back in the day, I had both Toshiba Tecra and Sattelite model laptops. They were ultra reliable. I ran a 24x7 application on one of them for years hoping the brighitness would fade away, It never did. I finally junked them as the newer stuff was much faster and had more storage.
In my old company I hated the Tecra S1 with a passion, 90% of the 20 something machine we had broke the HDD
My childhood Toshiba Satellite M115 still works to this day. My grandmother has been using it as her PC basically as a glorified typewriter for years, was not as careful about avoiding dropping it as she expected me to be when she gave it to me when i was a kid 😂🤣🤣 But it still works.
For me, the problem was that I had sound effects but no music on a laptop that I bought second-hand. Don't forget that those bottle depots have hornets. A lot of hornets.
XP was definitely my favourite Windows OS. Since then, it seems Microsoft have been all about trying to find ways to make Windows more annoying. 🤢
does it have dvd,,,?????
i played Dark Forces on PS1
XP is a good OS but the default ‘Luna’ skin is awful. It was awful in 2001 and it’s awful now.
I’ve read that it originally had a much better UI but was changed at the last minute.
The Watercolor theme that came with the Beta's (when it was still called Whistler), was indeed better looking.
@@babbaloerie I remember when XP was first released. I was working in a big 'enterprise' financial company at the time and we were upgrading from Windows 2000, a very solid OS.
XP looked like it was designed by Fisher Price. We were doing a presentation of our software (boring call center stuff) on a projector for some bank and the first time we used the new Windows Explorer search feature, and that animated dog came up, we all cringed!
Now that I'm older, I love all that quirky stuff. But at the time it was not a good look, especially compared to the hot new OSX.
Please don't sacrifice one laptop to save the display of this one.
sorry XP was not the best OS out there XP was resose hog and never ran fast win 2000 was the best in that time never had any problems at all ran 2000 all the way up to win7
Please, PLEASE don't run XP. It's a horrific mess these days. It's almost guaranteed to pick up a virus, and allowing one on a corporate network with internet access will probably get the entire network infected with ransomware. (True story - A client had a mass spectrometer that required XP for the software to run. Some idiot in the lab decided he wanted to browse the web while waiting for results and plugged it into the network. They called us after everything important was encrypted, but we traced it back to that machine. It cost them MILLIONS to get up and running again. Their reason for XP? The MS cost them 100k+ and worked fine, so replacing the whole system just for a newer OS seemed like a waste of money. While I agree, and the manufacturer should have some sort of liability for creating a situation that encouraged stupidity, spending another quarter million on new lab equipment would have been cheaper.) Anyway. With all that said, a lightweight linux distro will make a 15 -20 year old laptop perfectly usable for light web browsing. Not sure if it could handle netflix without tearing and freezing, though.
MOHAA.exe
I may get 1 free tomo,, will it be ok for just utube? and google,, no gmail,,