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Boy, does this bring back some good memories of the Toshiba Libretto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_Libretto I bought one on the gray market in 1996, and I think I managed to double my money in about 6 months by reselling it within the US. It was supremely handy to have around, but with only one PCMCIA slot you had to choose between wired networking and a CD-ROM drive.
A "real hardware" approach to retrocomputing like displayed here appeals to me because it much better captures parts of the experience lost to emulation. Things like insanely low latency thanks to there not being a fractal spiral of hardware and software abstractions sitting between everything. It's much more simple, and you can feel that. That said I'd also like to see some modern advancements brought in… for exampl…
I'm also bummed out that these sorts of things are all including OPL2/OPL3 Adlib style clones when I'd much rather have Sound Blaster support with the digital audio channel.
Update: apparently there's a hacky way to play digital audio through these FM synth chips, and several games and music players for DOS do just this.
Is this really based on an 8088? I thought Windows 3.0 requires at least an 286
8088 chip does not include FPU, does this laptop has one, otherwise it is going to be very slow.
Is there a turbo button?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any modern Intel laptop should be able to run the same software, without emulation. Unfortunately not, UEFI-only BIOSes and locked-down bootloaders are a thing today.
Is there something wrong with using a VM?
It looks like it has a decent keyboard with some travel, edged sides of keys, though despite having six rows lacks PgUp, PgDn, Home and End.
Why 8088? All the good DOS stuff requires at least a 286. You’re pretty much limited to extremely early 80s software with that.
A "real hardware" approach to retrocomputing like displayed here appeals to me because it much better captures parts of the experience lost to emulation. Things like insanely low latency thanks to there not being a fractal spiral of hardware and software abstractions sitting between everything. It's much more simple, and you can feel that. That said I'd also like to see some modern advancements brought in… for exampl…
A "real hardware" approach to retrocomputing like displayed here appeals to me because it much better captures parts of the experience lost to emulation. Things like insanely low latency thanks to there not being a fractal spiral of hardware and software abstractions sitting between everything. It's much more simple, and you can feel that. That said I'd also like to see some modern advancements brought in… for exampl…
One of the nicest screens I have ever used was on a monochrome ega laptop. Sure, the pixels were huge and slow, but the contrast ratio was really good without it being too bright. It’s hard to explain why it was so good. I suspect it was a bit transflective.
I imagine if you just wanted an old laptop for wordstar or something, they’d be amazing due to their clarity; but I remember trying to play commander keen on them and getting a headache.