who knows tom. shortly after keysoft 2.4e pulsedata merged with humanware and then it was all pocket pcs. I have heared the last actual keynote was the toshiba 2100 or something like that. or was it 4400 I don't know. from doodling with drivers on mt1 and mt2 disks the stuff supports the toshiba 2400and 4400 and 2100 but thats the highest its ever got. I still like the keynote gold internal. And i suppose if I was able I'd still like one in this laptop or better still get an older laptop something like a 1910, at least then I'd have things. My games all run in windows, its just I like the way dos displays things. And if keynote software was not so picky. I tried till last year finally purchacing a luggable. on ebay. The reason I never persued it further was mainly the sa batteries being dead and no way to remove them, the fact I couldn't find any more laptops, and the fact the machine although it had better specs than the gold18 was to big and had a bung \ key. granted I could get buy in dos with a selection of batch files but in keysoft which is what I use to search for some things it just wouldn't work. At one point I was going to run everything from my windows system and switch back to the other unit. However with all the extra hardware, dved, stereo, mouse and when it gets back from repair, external hard drive, network hub and usb ports there really is not much room on here anymore. This was also partually my fault as I was given the opertunatey to move to a bigger place still in the same house. Stupidly I didn't and now regret it. Saying that it would probably cost more as I'd have to go wireless, it was near impossible to get the network cables in this current location and now the other one is at the other end of the house and down stairs. At 02:43 a.m. 16/06/2008, you wrote: >Hi Shaun, >Yeah, I know what you mean about not being able to run some of the older >Dos games. After my parents got our first IBM compatible system, an IBM >I386, I got several Dos games. A lot of those games won't run on >anything higher than a I486 running Windows 95. I actually held onto an >I486 with Windows 95 for several years running a Dectalk PC and Jaws >just for gaming purposes. Though, when my wife and I moved last year I >had to scrap most of my older computers. >Some of my games like Duke Nukem II, Over Kill, etc work pretty well >using the Dos emulator for Linux. However, I have my share of Dos games >that won't run on anything but on an I386 system with true Dos. >I have this one game, Wheel of Fortune for Dos, that goes totally nuts >on a Pentium IV system. When you run wheel.exe the PC speaker begins >playing the Wheel of Fortune music at super fast speed, like 1000 times >faster than it should, and it sounds totally hilarious. As soon as the >music stops the computer solves all the puzzles, like in under a second, >and you get the game over screen. It is extremely funny. >I have some pinball games for Dos that do similar weird things. You hit >the spacebar to launch the ball and it bounces around the screen hitting >bumpers like a laser beam, and then you lose the ball in less than a >second. it moves the ball so fast a sighted player can't really see it >on the screen before it passes the flippers and gets lost. Again it is >sort of funny in a weird sort of way. >One of my favorite games for Dos was 688. In that game you played the >part of a U.S. 688 submarine commander. While on a training mission you >end up getting into a shooting war with a Soviet Alpha-Class attack >submarine. I guess it was the forerunner for Silent Steel which came out >a couple years later for Windows 95. >As for the keynote SA that was a really cool multilingual synth. In >college I really wanted one of those. I knew someone who did, and I >liked it as it handled French and German extremely well. Synths like >Eloquence though made such external synths like the Keynote SA units >unnecessary. Hmmm... I wonder if they still have the keynote Multimedia >Software around. > > >shaun everiss wrote: >> yeah mine was an 386sx, running toshiba dos 5.0, I got it in 1993. >> I didn't discover games till 1996 and then the system survived till 2003 >> when it finally died. >> I have never been able to emulate all the old style games nicely. >> One of the major drawbacks is that I can't get the back of my sa synth to >> change the batteries. >> And another to have the keynote software work I need a 386 thats either a >> straight 86 or an sx running msdos 5 or 6. >> I tried to get a laptop that was like this but never did. >> saying that if ever anyone on here does have one in working condition they >> don't want I may be interested. >> or even another old system that still has a few years good life in it. >> Idealy I'd like several that I can just change parts out of. >> I doubt that will happen but I'd still like to run all the old stuff again >> Now if I could get something to run with a screenreader in dos using the >> soundcard and switch to my notepad file with hints should I like to then >> yeah I'd probably do it. >> another thing is though I have no real desk space now, so who knows. > > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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