Yes, that's the downside to PCs/laptops before 1999. USB became norm from Pentium 2 PCs onwards.
For the mouse I use PS/2 optical (ie. HP's mouse). And if I want BOTH keyboard & mouse... (Libretto only has 1 PS/2 port) I use a PS/2 to COM1 convertor for the mouse and a PS/2 keyboard.
Just updating all my followers of finding a "Portable x86 Device to play MS-DOS games natively". Am quite happy with my Libretto 100CT (overclocked to 266MHz, 96MB EDO RAM, 8GB HD) that I bought off eBay. I wiped the harddisk and used MS-DOS 6.22 boot disk to create FAT16 partitions (each is...
Yep, my Toshiba Libretto 100CT (overclocked to 266MHz, 64MB RAM) is very nice. Very small, very fast for Windows 2000. It's got PCMCIA slots... came with a wireless network card, floppy disk and more. Very happy with eBay purchase :D
Thanks for the advice. Yeah, am wondering where my Libretto is... I won it in an eBay auction 1-2 weeks ago. Fingers crossed it hasn't got lost in the post.
I'll be mainly playing old skool 2D platformers like Alien Carnage and Duke Nukem series and many Bullfrog games aswell as 1992 Alone in...
Just bought myself Toshiba Libretto 100 off eBay. Going to test it out for MS-DOS and maybe FreeDOS also.... and also Windows 98SE.
I am planning to get myself a netbook also... and in future an Open-Pandora (once they get better at it ironing all the nacks and crookies - since they're still...
I think Windows 95/98 had good MS-DOS support & sound drivers.. ie. running an MS-DOS game via Windows 95/98 prompt box will allow it to use the generic Sound Blaster compatible within game... even if the Sound card is something else other than Creative Labs Sound Blaster. Then again.. it would...
I might test try netbooks since they now should be USB bootable. Can easily setup a MS-DOS with games on a bootable USB ( eg. with help from http://blogs.sun.com/dragonfly/entry/dos_bootable_usb_flash_drive ) ... and see how it runs... ofcourse taking into account it might be a little sluggish...
I've been playing oldskool 1990 PC games on my PSP (via PSX ports or SCUMMVM or even Amiga ports). DOSBox and DOS emulation on PSP is way too slow. Even FreeDOS on bochs emulator is still slow (well it's not slow to run DOS and use DOS but it's slow to run the DOS games under DOSBox or FreeDOS...