vorob on 15/4/2015 at 08:08
Hello everyone :)
Since this is a community chat i just wanted to share my little story on my project.
Several years ago I lived in Denmark and near my house there was a Danish Design School. From time to time they placed decommissioned equipment for everyone, and there i found this wonderful machine:
Inline Image:
http://www.vitinhtrunghau.com/images/product/product_s934.jpgCode:
Dell Latitude D800
Screen: 15,9 - 1680x1050
CPU: Intel Pentium M Processor 1.60 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go (Forceware 67.42)
-- OpenGL version maximum version 1.5
-- DirectX version maximum version 8.1
RAM: 1Gb DDR-SDRAM (PC2700)
Chipset: Intel i855PM + 82801DB (ICH4-M)
Audio: SigmaTel AC97 (AC9750/51)
HDD: Hitachi HTS541680J9AT00
DVD: HL-DT-ST DVD+RW GCA-4040N
PCMCIA: Texas Instrument PCI7510 CardBus Controller
OS: Windows XP SP3 \ Windows 98 SE
I must say that working with hardware is my hobby, i really love to fix something, assemble devices and disassemble them and etc. And after i played enough with it i decided to make an old-games-gaming-machine.
For this purpose:
- I installed Windows 98 (which was a reeeeal pain in ass since hardware is too new for this OS) and Windows XP.
- Upgraded HDD so its speed will be ~ 35mb/s instead of ~20mb/s.
- Found external creative sound blaster with proper EAX support (cause internal AC97 doesn't support anything)
- And tuned OS so i can play even Far Cry 1 without big problems. Including GPU overclock.
- Unpacked my old PVA LCD from 2003 with 1280x1024
Internal hardware of this laptop allows me to play my favorite games (Thief, System Shock) "The Way It's Meant to be Played" with dithering and with no need for core fixes, ddfix, newdark and etc.
I do understand that all old games work fine on modern PC's, but... Its my hobby, making this thing working is a theory proof for myself :)
vorob on 16/4/2015 at 06:54
Quote Posted by PigLick
avoiding works is my hobby, and I must admit I am pretty good at it!
Good for you, bad for company :)
