Is This The Ultimate MS DOS Gaming Laptop? - Toshiba Satellite Pro 400CDT

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The Toshiba Satellite Pro 400CDT is regarded by many retro collectors and enthusiasts as one of the best MS-DOS Gaming Laptops that you can buy. Is this true? Is it really one of the best, or is it even the Ultimate MS-DOS Gaming Laptop? In this video, we'll test this laptop, fix a few issues with it, and find out how good it really is at MS-DOS Games! We'll also talk about a few things to look for when choosing the Best MS-DOS Gaming Laptop! Be sure to leave a comment, and let me know what you think! Enjoy!

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17 июн 2024

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@daved5288 8 дней назад

Great VLOG as always Josh! I remember having those old bricks at work in the old days! Thanks for the memories you are bringing back with all these older retro systems! Thanks again Josh! WooHoo!

@marccaselle8108 8 дней назад

What a cool old laptop. My first computer was a packard bell and it came with windows 3.11

@BollingHolt День назад

My LTE 5100 is a pretty sweet MS-DOS gaming laptop. Mine is dual boot 6.22 & 3.11 / Windows 95 and handles games of this era really well.

@BollingHolt День назад

Nice. I pulled out my 205CDS just the other day, the second laptop I used in high school and first couple of years in college. P90 with 40 megs of RAM, but I think it's just a passive matrix display. The laptop itself still powers and boots like a charm, but the screen has been reduced to an unreadable, bright mess, as some screens tend to become with age or stored in too much heat, perhaps? I'm not sure why because I never stored it in an attic or anything, but maybe my upstairs room was just too hot for it. I need to do a data dump on it. I LOVE this era Toshiba notebook.

@KomradeMikhail 8 дней назад

The ultimate DOS gaming laptop (or desktop) would be one using a Pentium 1 with MMX. Ever since Phil and the vogons guys showed us that you can use the setmul utility to disable individual caches. Run at full speed (~200MHz), or downclock to many specific results, for clock speed sensitive games. The IBM ThinkPad 770 is my ultimate... The 380XD is a cheaper alternative, but finding one with a TFT is a quest.

@retrotv1tech 8 дней назад

I have a 380XD, and I’ve seen 770’s, but you still have to either accept small picture on the screen with huge borders or use the display scaling. On the 380XD, games like Keen 4 don’t scale that well.

@christineclips 8 дней назад

Neomagic is not ideal for DOS. Ugly scaling.

@lucasrem 5 дней назад

@@christineclips You need MS 6.22, and SB16 onboard !

@maxmuster7003 4 дня назад

I used some of the 64 bit MMX instructions with a DOS executable. Very powerfull.

@DarekFalen 3 дня назад

@@retrotv1tech The integer scaling the 1280x1024 display provides on the higher end 770X and -Z models for resolutions between 320x200 to 640x480 is one of the best pictures I've seen of a laptop from that era, super worth looking out for if you can :)

@voodler День назад

Looking forward to your repair video - the power supply should be fine but it's likely those lithium-ion main batteries that caused the laptop to shut off have a fault. Test those batteries in another Toshiba if possible, sometimes the batteries go bad from internal shorts or corrosion, less likely than NiMH batteries but it can happen. It's normal behaviour for the PSU to shut off if the battery has a fault. Personally I wouldn't worry about the battery, it doesn't change the functionality of the laptop except for its portability. For the whining sound, you're exactly right and it's good that you have a new inverter on order - sadly those aren't cheap now I think. The fault is relatively easy to fix though, just the C3 capacitor has failed on the UA0392P01 inverter, I've fixed a bunch of them and its always that one that's failed. If it leaked enough it could damage the PCB or put electrolyte under other components which will cause more faults though. Good luck and enjoy the 400CDT :)

@alisharifian535 6 дней назад

Jazz jackrabbit is definitely one of the best Dos games. No digust and gore,just rabbity fun and excitement.😁

@nikkitobin527 8 дней назад

Once again you made fixing the issues look so effortless! 💕Always love checking out the retro games and comparing it to the games out now! 😊

@retrotv1tech 8 дней назад

Thank you!!

@michaeld1378 8 дней назад

Found a CDW add from back in the day. The price was $ 2799.00.

@retrotv1tech 8 дней назад

Wow!

@mariobrito427 8 дней назад

Toshiba has excellent retro laptops, I have one of the Satellite models myself. Looking forward to your video, cheers!

@retrotv1tech 8 дней назад

Thanks!

@s.kammerer1206 8 дней назад

the ps/2 port is a multi port! you need the splitter so you can use keyboard and mouse at the same time!

@retrotv1tech 8 дней назад

Nice!

@marccaselle8108 8 дней назад

Tyrian was the best 🙂

@guardianali 8 дней назад

Does it have to be the 400cdt? Ebay has 410cdt, 435 CDS, etc...

@KomradeMikhail 8 дней назад

It looks like CDT indicates TFT (Active Matrix) display, while CDS and CDX indicate STN (Passive Matrix). You definitely want Active Matrix... Stick to CDT models only. Wikipedia has a decent chart of models. Search "Satellite Pro 400 Series".

@retrotv1tech 8 дней назад

Definitely get a CDT for sure. CS or CDS are the dual scan screens and not great for gaming. The 410 CDT is good, but it is 800x600 and will have a smaller picture with borders around it in DOS games or scaling with some graphical glitches.

@voodler День назад

@@retrotv1tech Sadly because a 640x480 screen was seen as a down-side compared to an 800x600 display at the time these were sold, there are just less of them to find. Also I think manufacturers moved quite quickly from vga to svga in the pre-MMX pentium era. @guardianali - the 400CDT is the highlight because its 640x480 screen scales 320x240 / 320x200 games very nicely. Sadly it's rare compared to the later models. The later models with SVGA screens didn't have very advanced scaling so where the scaling wasn't 2:1 mapping, there would be some pixel lines end up thinner/taller than others and it can look messy, that didn't get better until around the year 2000. Stay away from models ending in "S" or "X", those are a different type of LCD that's very poor for gaming. The 410CDT is great for old games, but doesn't scale low res quite as nicely as the 400CDT, you can turn display scaling / stretch off in the BIOS and the VGA / 320x200 games will have black borders but have proper 1:1: or 2:1 scaling

@michaeld1378 8 дней назад

Was it supporting EGA graphics? Doom looked it.

@retrotv1tech 8 дней назад

It will do EGA as it was doing on Commander Keen, but Doom was running VGA.

@lucasrem 5 дней назад

VGA pentium MMX it is

@lucasrem 5 дней назад

DOS,, you need SB 16, serial port and parallel. Why this ESS Sound Pentium System ?

@retrotv1tech 4 дня назад

It has all of those things. The ESS is an audio chip that is fully SB Pro compatible with real OPL3 support.

@lucasrem 4 дня назад

@@retrotv1tech ES1688 was a good OPL3 clone, true

@handmadeheartears 8 дней назад

This was so fun to watch, even as a “non-techy” person! Love the nostalgia these vlogs bring and it’s always cool to see what you’re able to do with this retro technology! They don’t make them like they used to, that’s for sure ☺️ Thanks for the video Josh!