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Update on PC upgrade/swap, and a couple of other things

The network enclosure that I ordered has been received, and it looks pretty much brand new... the box has seen better days though, and I don't yet have any drives, but it's a good start to my new setup. I'm going to be doing a couple of "easy" PC upgrades too, maxing out the RAM of the board, and replacing the wireless card, because if nothing else, that at least helps me achieve something along the way to upgrading the PC; the CPU replacement can happen later when I have to take the PC out of its case and swap it over. I'm delaying the swap till July, because Microsoft has an announcement regarding Windows, plus I think Linux Mint 20.2 may be out by the time I plan to perform the swapover too!

Additionally, I've ordered a bunch more spools of PLA 3D printer filament, though I'm currently unable to use it, due to my full-size 3D printer having no space, though I've gotten it at a discount, so it was best to stock up on some colours whilst it was cheap, rather than getting it when I needed it at full price! Additionally, there's a power cut in my area, though my flat currently isn't affected, but other things might be! I feel sorry for the Amazon delivery guy who I spoke to just now (who delivered my stuff) having to go all the way up the stairs to the 10th floor, as that sounds exhausting, especially in this heat!

Either way, things are gradually going to plan.

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Retro PC Project update

So the Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200 (SP4270) I ordered was the one with the DSTN screen, which explained why there was so much ghosting on the screen when I checked it out, as well as the contrast dial on the right side of the screen! It’s still a decently powerful laptop, but in terms of a more powerful retro gaming laptop, it’s essentially a bit of a bust, because any sort of STN screen sucks on a laptop used for gaming, as it can’t handle fast-moving stuff, as in stuff that happens with games! However, it should still work well as some sort of retro gaming server as servers don’t have anything that moves fast. However, I did spot another two SP laptops that might be good candidates to be used instead.

One that I just found (for 30 quid) that is in decent cosmetic condition (but has no Windows 98 sticker), and is complete, but there’s no charger, so it’s not known if it fully works, plus it’s missing a few keys and another that is known to work but is missing a door over the battery bay, but other than that, the cosmetic condition is what I’d call more than good! this one costs about 47 quid including postage but has no charger either! I’m hoping that one of them will work out for me, but as of yet, I have no idea what the other model numbers in the 4200 Series correspond to as of yet, but I’ll need to learn this information for future research, I think, as well as putting into a wiki of some sort!

In any case, the laptop I have currently can either be used as spare parts for a better 4200 (or even 4300 as they share the same parts) Series laptop, although I’m not overly keen on that idea, but the laptop isn’t really of use to me for any project outside of being parts or a server of some description. In terms of specs of the 4200/4300 Series, just to gloss over them, they’re all laptops with a Pentium III CPU, be that a Celeron or full one; all of them have an S3 Savage/IX GPU with 8MB of VRAM, and all of them actually have a DOS-compatible sound crd, which would be great for more demanding DOS games!

Lastly, all of the models apart from one (which again is the one that I have) have a TFT screen, which is what you want for a gaming laptop, as anything else is a deal-breaker. Like I said though, the DSTN version can either be used for parts for the better models, or used as a local game server, which I think I might actually do for this one, as I can just hook up a cheap keyboard and mouse to use with it… I might also do a dual-boot setup on it too, so I can run both Windows XP and DOS/Win98 SE stuff on it for using with the other laptops, especially given it means the screen isn’t being used, as well as also not having to worry about using the keyboard on the laptop.

My current plan really is to have pairs of laptops in order to facilitate null modem play via some games, but I do also have plans to set up a LAN for some retro PC laptops in order to facilitate gaming, as well as running other things too, but one step at a time. Ultimately though, I now know which model number (as far as I know) has the DSTN screen, and avoid it unless I need it for parts, although I will do some tests with it in order to see how the hardware (apart from the screen) will perform in the ways I’d want to use the better models for, so at least in terms of additional uses, I can do that with it as well!

But yeah, I’m rambling a bit now, so I’m going to call it here for now. As always, I’ll keep you all up to date with what’s going on, and eventually I’ll provide information on a website/wiki to make it easier for people to judge what they need to be able to play on DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, and XP, and if any tweaks or extra hardware is needed to do that, as it’s definitely getting harder to find the right information for certain laptops over others. But that’s me for now. Expect an IsaacStorm video later tonight at 23:00 on YouTube, with social media getting announced at 00:00 universally, as I’m going back to manual scheduling patterns.

Until then though, take care and I'll see you all later on.

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Stormkeeper at Geeked Up & Played Up
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PC upgrades progress & scheduling update

I'll be so glad to finally get the PC upgrade stuff out of the way... I ordered another HDD (6TB) exclusively for the use of Linux, especially as I'll be recording on there mostly, but the 4TB HDD I had installed previously will now exclusively be for The use of Windows 10, partly to enable there to be enough space for recording some videos on there too, although I need to set aside an external drive to back up the videos (and other content, raw and edited) to as well, though I can just use a 3TB portable drive for that when I properly order the files on the other 3TB portable HDD that I have; I also want to have a NAS drive for additional backup of those files and also other things I want to share across the network (not media server stuff as I have a different idea in mind for that) for all my devices!

Either way, I look forward to the opportunity to have a fresh Linux Mint 20.x install, a fresh Windows 10 install, having a separate SSD for some games on both OSes, and also a CPU upgrade and wireless card upgrade! Unfortunately, I'll have to accept that a GPU upgrade isn't happening anytime soon, but I'm hoping with everything I'm doing, it will at least give my system a much-needed boost!

Edit: I've just noticed that the most recent YT push to FB via IFTTT got published at around 00:30, and the Twitter one was published on! This means that I might just start doing the announcement social media posts at midnight instead, seeing as it makes the most sense at this point, especially as it saves me a tiny bit of time with the auto-scheduler.

I'll continue to schedule the videos for 23:00 on YouTube, but I can't guarantee when they'll show up on Facebook/Twitter; I'll probably replace the Twitter one with WordPress, purely because it will push out to Twitter, as well as Tumblr at the same WP is hit, so at least that means I can hit 4 platforms through IFTTT. I'll make the changes to all social media platforms I can schedule on from tonight's (Thursday's) video, seeing as it's not as drastic a change as rearranging post formatting is!

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