Oddity Archive: Episode 279.3 - Windows 98 Laptop Update (4/2024)
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- Опубліковано 24 кві 2024
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@7:09 Realized (far too late) in the editing process that’s an S-Video jack. Guess S-Video and early 2000’s laptops don’t go together in my brain.
AliExpress for 15$ has 3.5" USB External Floppy Disk Drive 1.44 MB FDD Floppy Disk Drive Plug and Play for PC Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10/Mac , Maybe a good cheap temp fix for you. not sure about 98SE but updated i think it would work.
Hearing that bell and that oversampled drum beat takes me back to when they were installing 98 on anything that had a hard drive in my high school. Ah, the memories. And the swear word combinations I learned.
2:49 - Composed by Michael Simpson of the Dust Brothers.
Happy Oddity Thursday!
I miss my old Thinkpad. I carried that thing everywhere. I wish you good luck on getting it to work correctly. Those are some good projects to watch to on.
As a Thinkpad, and now Lenovo fan in general they always make a statement when you pull one out at work running Linux when most everyone else has a boring Apple Macbook, or Dell/HP Windows laptop they get frustrated with.
To play back Audio CDs on a USB optical drive, you need to use a player that supports Digital Audio Extraction. Originally there was an analog audio cable going from the CD drive to the sound card, and the program would just tell the drive to play an audio track and the CPU would be free to do something else.
Go into the Multimedia control panel and there's an option you can check which will change the system to use digital instead of analog audio. It won't work with _all_ programs but it should on anything using the normal Windows APIs.
Speaking of LGR, did you see his recent one where he was slowly going mad trying to get a 90's era printer to work?
I did. I think you have to have a screw (or a hundred) loose to do this YT retro-tech/content stuff. Of course, I'm no different.
i LOVED my 98SE machine... i clung tenaciously to it long after XP had proliferated everywhere...*has a wistful*
oh deep down i knew you had taste!
I still use an old Windows XP machine for some stuff (not connected to the internet). A lot of the video software I use has not had updates in 15 years. Nobody makes anything for SD video. I converted a lot of my collection to DVD in the early 2000s in most cases at max bit rate so a game was often on two or three DVDs. To upload I have to make into one file however I'm not going to re-encode so I have some old software to merge mpgs. I also love my old canopus capture card for transfers. If you capture in mp4 then edit you're encoding twice. Avi is not a codec it's a file system. 30 704x480 bit maps per second.
I actually recieved that laptop as a Christmas gift from my mom back in 2009, though it had XP on mine. However, it died around 6 months later. What happened was the hard drive started making this clicking sound that would cause it to blue screen. So we tried installing Windows Vista on it and it briefly worked for about a week, then it started clicking and blue screening again. Then it eventually stopped booting at all and would bring up “Operating system not found”, so I think that the hard drive somehow got corrupted due to overheating. Because I also remember it running hot as well.
Anyway after the hard drive stopped booting, I ended up throwing it away and went back to using and sharing my mom’s Lenovo laptop with Windows Vista for a while.
It would be really cool if you could get a slot loading CD rom. I’m a big Apple fan and I love those. Of course for the software and that notebook there are standard CD/DVD combo drives you can still pick up cheaply even for IDE busses. Just don’t forget an apple slot load with a bezel if you want to try that.
That's a nice IBM ThinkPad you got there. It's a shame that Lenovo ruined the ThinkPad brand after IBM sold the brand. I wonder if there would be "Oddity Software" to review (like "Ben's Junk")?
The BIOS is not retaining the settings because a coin cell (CR2032) battery needs replacing. Hopefully it's not soldered, or it's a different kind of battery.
He showed it in the video it's one of the ones wrapped in tape with a 2 prong connector, & it looks like he got it replaced. Lenovo still uses these types of bios/UEFI batteries as there is no chance of them popping out of a coin cell holder, and not being soldered less chance of leaking onto the board, & causing an RMA within the warranty period.
4:17 How’s your Duke Nukem impression?
Non-existent. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever so much as played Duke Nukem.
Caught the S-Video not PS/2 before me. Guess it's safe to say... YOU DON'T KNOW JACK
I know where I can score an ibm optical drive at least. it turns out my stash of not very many laptop drives has an ibm one that looks similar. I don't know if it works though since I don't have a thinkpad to test it in
To get cd audio working you an find a drive with a headphone jack and it might work to just plug it to the line in or use an external mixer. Old software never streamed CD audio digitally, it just told the drive to play an audio track and it just played out through an analog output internally, and the headphone jack on the front. Also doom will run much better. That's far more optimized where you don't know Jack runs in Flash. :p
Those hard drives are pata ide 2.5 inch drives. The CD/DVD drives are easy to find as well. I got an I series with xp drive that I can swap back to Me windows if needed. Flebay there cheep on there.
Found the CD/DVD drive on ebay
Ben, looks like that laptop uses a standard sized laptop CD drive with a Slim IDE connector. There are lots of replacement drives on eBay which should work (the faceplate of the drive seems very specific though.) I found a Lenovo-branded one for five bucks on eBay from a seller who has tons of them, and it looks like it'll fit (the shape looks the same) you just have to pop it out of the case and swap it in.
The hole on the left side is for PCMCIA cards, which are essentially extension bays for laptops. There's cards with all sorts of features, including wireless internet, USB ports, firewire adapters and even external hard drives. If the bays still work, they'll be very useful for your recordings, since it'll be way easier for you to transfer files from and to that thing.
I'm a bit jealous! I'm currently trying to get some hardware to run Windows 98 on for a project of mine that's been ongoing for years and that I want to get started before the summer. I already have a Mac to work with but Win 95/98/XP hardware isn't easy to find here for cheap.
Good to know. I'll have to see if I can fleabay a period-ish iBM one and see if it fits.
Try to image and backup the hard disk before you start messing around with stuff. Windows 98 installation is easy to break and hard to get running again if you're not familiar with retro stuff. You could use something like old version of HBCD 15.2 to boot from usb and run disk imaging software from there.
I'm going to guess that you are a Scorpio.