Oddity Archive: Episode 280.3 - Windows 98 Laptop Update (5/2024) (She Lives!)
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- Ben christens his newly-functional laptop…by playing a little Slim Whitman.
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Only Ben would use the voice of Slim Whitman to test out a laptop's sound quality
In my experience, the only thing that ever gets you in trouble with UA-cam with video games is the music, and even then it just results in the video getting demonetized (and most of the instances of that are the big console RPGs or games that use music from famous artists or movies).
I thought that _Garfield: Caught in the Act_ is some kind of Rule 34 material. Turned out it was just a platform game ported from the Megadrive/Genesis.
Sonic and Garfield: Together at last!
Finally finished with 568 videos OA playlist and thinking about doing it all over again. What a journey.
You deserve a cookie. Hell, a whole box of cookies. Perhaps a small amount of psychiatric care as well. :D
Congrats!
Pie is a cool whip/whipped cream delivery device. You're doing it right.
I literally LOLed at some of 'You Don't Know Jack'.
I love The Rutles; I first discovered them from a Rhino video that was available at our local branch library.
it's a thinkpad, so the natural order is it being fixed :)
Not only that, but it's an IBM Thinkpad, and not a lenovo.
I can hear Love Life from here. Love the Video taped from London too.
The laptop lives. Nice to see it running as good as something 20 ish years old laptop can.. Yes I have the Slim Whitman too.
I had a little M&M's with my Cool Whip when I was little. Now the thought makes me nauseous.
Should have tested with Fats Domino as well as Slim Whitman, just to test the whole audio spectrum.
Nice Rutles footage in the opening! 👍🏻
That lady pronounced "Cool Whip" like Stewie.
Cool Hwhip.
TWO OF THEM
I'm glad you managed to get the drive replaced. Regarding video output, there are some VGA to HDMI converters which might make it easier to record them using an HDMI capture device. They don't like some resolutions and refresh rates, but the laptop probably won't cause much trouble because the LCD isn't capable of changing its refresh rate much, if at all. I used one of those to do some test recordings from my older Intel Mac.
Indeed.
Just like Cathode Ray Dude & Technology Connections (moreso TC), he's indulged in the magic of buying two of them.
Its alive! Its Alive!.
So weird to think that that laptop is over 20 years old.
Infact I have an IBM Aptiva manufactured in 1999 running Windows 98 Second Edition and I use it for software testing but on real hardware, no virtual machines.
I had that exact version of Garfield: Caught in the Act CD-ROM game for PC.
It took a while to get through it.
Heh.. YDKJ - absolutely loved those games, Cookie.
Don't forget the umpteen AOL free trial CDs.
Getting hung shutting down... windows 10 still does that.
Im still using xp for music
"Well this upsets the natural order."
I know right? Ben successfully fixing something?
I'm not that bad.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a small electrical fire to put out.
I loved windows 98 it was so much better than 95
What Win 98 did was add native USB support which was made a lot better due to the fact that on Win 95, you had to restart your computer when inserting and removing USB hardware. With Windows 98, you don't have to!
A lot of computers of this era just had really pathetic audio, at least most modern computers can just shove a realtek and call it a day with passable audio.
but ofc a machine like yours you're lucky to have audio to begin somewhat.
I notice from the boot splash and a couple bits and bobs on the desktop that you or someone has installed the unofficial service pack -- the general consensus within the vintage PC community these days is that it tends to cause more issues than it solves, so be wary of that. A good rule of thumb is to only install the earliest version of DirectX that the newest piece of software you're running expects, too, as going directly to the latest DirectX9 redistributables can really slow things down -- from the looks of things this is some kind of late Pentium III laptop or early P4, I couldn't clearly see a model number, that might well be less of an issue. Contrary to intuition, sometimes the very latest version of a driver you can install isn't the best one to use, as well.
Good to know. And, yes, it was already there when I got it.
Otherwise, the concept was to have a machine that was a little more recent than the OS I wanted--in the name of (possibly) maxing out the potential.
11:54 is that Rick Wakeman?
Yes. Telling Bob Moog and Bernie Worrell the story of how he acquired his first Minimoog.
@@OddityArchive cool! You planning on seeing Rick’s farewell tour?
Martians LOOK OUT!