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HP 200LX: Hosting a modern website on a Retro DOS Palmtop
Premiered on 1 January 2022
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Published on 14 January 2022, by Radiance
The PalmtopTube channel needs a new website, and what would a palmtop focussed website be if it was not hosted on a palmtop itself!
In this video, we try to build a moderately fast webserver using a nearly 30 year old HP DOS Palmtop and have it serve a modern website. Watch the video to find out if this crazy idea will work, and find out how I installed and configured the whole system in detail.
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Prehistorik with S2P (MT32) Review
Premiered on 1 January 2022
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Published on 14 January 2022, by Radiance
In this video series titled "Will It Play?" we test various MS-DOS games on the HP 200LX Palmtop and demonstrate the game running aswell as give fitness scores based on the playability of the game on a system with the limitations of a 200LX Palmtop.
In this episode we take a look at Prehistorik, a side-scrolling action platformer released by Titus in 1991, and we use a Serdaco S2P parallel port General MIDI sounds card, patched to emulate MT-32 sound.
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Budokan: The Martial Spirit Review
Premiered on 1 January 2022
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Published on 14 January 2022, by Radiance
In this video series titled "Will It Play?" we test various MS-DOS games on the HP 200LX Palmtop and demonstrate the game running aswell as give fitness scores based on the playability of the game on a system with the limitations of a 200LX Palmtop.
In this episode we take a look at Budokan: The Martial Spirit, a Martial Arts Fighting game released in 1989 for MS-DOS and Amiga personal computers, by Electronic Arts, and a Serdaco S2P parallel port General MIDI sounds card, patched to emulate MT-32 sound. |
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Adding more SCSI devices to the Palmtop. Part 2 of 2
Premiered on 1 January 2022
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Published on 14 January 2022, by Radiance
This is the second part of two videos, which show how to connect SCSI-2 peripheral devices such as hard drives, an IOMEGA ZIP 100 drive and in this second video we add a CD-ROM drive and Flatbed Scanner to an HP 100LX or 200LX DOS Palmtop, by using the Linksys ParaSCSI Plus Parallel to SCSI adapter, and the Quatech SSP-100 PCMCIA EPP Parallel port interface adapter card.
The video contains adds a CD-ROM drive, a Flatbed Scanner and 2 more Hard Drives to the SCSI bus, and benchmarks the throughput of all the SCSI devices, comparing them against the Palmtop's RAM drive and a CompactFlash/PCMCIA card.
It is recommended you watch the first video before watching this video, as it will explain more about the initial setup of all the hardware featured in this video. |
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How to connect a serial or
PS/2 mouse to an HP DOS Palmtop
Premiered on 22 December
2021
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Published on 14 January 2022, by Radiance
This video shows how to connect a Microsoft or Mouse Systems RS-232 serial or PS/2 mouse to an HP 100LX or 200LX DOS Palmtop,
and shows how to install and fine-tune the compact and flexible CuteMouse driver for MS-DOS.
Where to purchase the Serdaco PSToSerial device: https://www.serdashop.com/PS2TOSERIAL
Where to download the CuteMouse MS-DOS mouse driver: http://cutemouse.sourceforge.net/
Regarding purchasing an RS-232 NULL Modem adapter and Gender Changer it's best to google for them as they are very common and you can buy these online in your country, saving you expensive shipping costs.
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Will It Play ? Eye of the
Beholder I on the HP 200LX Palmtop
Premiered on 22 December
2021
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Published on 14 January 2022, by Radiance
In this video series titled "Will It Play?" we test various MS-DOS games on the HP 200LX Palmtop and demonstrate the game running aswell as give fitness scores based on the playability of the game on a system with the limitations of a 200LX Palmtop.
In this episode we take a look at the Dungeons and Dragons classic "Eye of the Beholder", a Dungeon Master-like, pseudo 3D role playing game with (limited) AD&D rules for MS-DOS.
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Running Minix on the HP
200LX, a UNIX-like OS. Part 1 of 2
Premiered on 16 December
2021
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Published on 14 January 2022, by Radiance
In this first video of a 2 part series, I show my journey to find a UNIX-like operating system that can run on the HP 100LX or 200LX Palmtop. After settling on the only option available, a version of Minix 2.0.2 called DOSMINIX 2.0.2, I demonstrate how to install and configure the system, connect an RS-232 terminal to it, and demonstrate the use of the system by compiling an old UNIX game, downloaded separately as C source code, and I compile and run it on the terminal.
In the 2nd part of this video series, which will be made available in a few weeks, I will continue my journey and compile a Minix kernel with networking support, and compile, install and configure a working httpd and ftpd webserver that serves a basic website with webpages where users can download HP Palmtop specific files.
If you would like to run Minix on your HP Palmtop, and would like to get a copy of my fully configured DOSMINIX 2.0.2 installation with the EXPORT.MNX filesystem added, and all the dos files compressed into an archive, please ask in the comments and I will get you a copy.
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HP 200LX: Connecting SCSI
devices to your Palmtop part 1 of 2
Premiered on 24 November
2021
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Published on 14 January 2022, by Radiance
This is the first video of two, which shows how to connect SCSI-2 peripheral devices such as hard drives and an IOMEGA ZIP 100 drive to an HP 100LX or 200LX DOS Palmtop, by using the Linksys ParaSCSI Plus Parallel to SCSI adapter, and the Quatech SSP-100 PCMCIA EPP Parallel port interface adapter card.
The video contains an introduction to the history and uses of SCSI, it's many different types, and it's evolution over it's lifetime, and, what kind of devices you can connect to a SCSI bus.
If you already know how a SCSI-2 bus works, you can skip the introduction to SCSI by skipping to 17:45 into the video.
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HP 100 / 200LX:
Disassembly for Repairs and Upgrades
Premiered on 12 November
2021
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Published on 14 January 2022, by Radiance
This tutorial will show you how to safely disassemble and reassemble the bottom shell of your HP 100 or 200LX system to gain access to the motherboard for repairs and upgrades.
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Will It Play ? SIMCITY for
MS-DOS on HP 200LX Palmtop
Premiered on 11 November
2021
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Published on 14 January 2022, by Radiance
In this video series titled "Will It Play?" we test various MS-DOS games on the HP 200LX Palmtop and demonstrate the game running aswell as give scores based on the playability of the game on a system with the limitations of a 200LX Palmtop.
SimCity was a very popular MS-DOS game released in 1989 for various computer platforms. It was created by Will Wright, the creator of The Sims and sold by Maxis, and received many sequels during the years after it's release.
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Ventura Publisher: 80's
Desktop Publishing on a 30 year old HP 200LX Palmtop PC
Premiered on 9 November
2021
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Published on 14 January 2022, by Radiance
Ventura Publisher was a professional DTP (Desktop Publishing) application for early MS-DOS computers, and the first of it's kind on the platform. It ran on the GEM (Graphical Environment Manager) windowing system, an early competitor to Microsoft Windows, developed by Digital Research. GEM was the first graphical desktop environment released on the PC, just a few months before the release of Microsoft Windows v1.0. Ventura Publisher was originally developed by Ventura Software, a small software company founded by John Meyer, Don Heiskell, and Lee Jay Lorenzen, all of whom met while working at Digital Research, and was purchased and distributed by Xerox as of 1986.
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HP 200LX: Planet X3 Adlib
/ OPL3LPT Soundtrack
Premiered on 6 November
2021
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Published on 14 January 2022, by Radiance
The Serdaco OPL3LPT board used in this video is an Adlib compatible sound card that connects to the PC's parallel port.
It contains a Yamaha OPL3 chip, a more modern, backward compatible stereo version of the OPL2 chip used in the popular Adlib and SoundBlaster PC sound cards from the late 80's and early 90's.
The OPL3LPT is very useful for users of older systems which lack expansion slots for sound cards, such as old laptops, palmtops and exotic PCs which cannot be expanded but have a parallel / printer port.
Planet X3 is a retro DOS game developed by The 8-bit Guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szhv6...
You can purchase a copy of Planet X3 here:
https://www.the8bitguy.com/product/pl...
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HP 200LX with OPL3LPT
Adlib synth plays Leisure Suit Larry 3
Premiered on 6 November
2021
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Published on 14 January 2022, by Radiance
The Serdaco OPL3LPT board used in this video is an Adlib compatible sound card that connects to the PC's parallel port.
It contains a Yamaha OPL3 chip, a more modern, backward compatible stereo version of the OPL2 chip used in the popular Adlib and SoundBlaster PC sound cards from the late 80's and early 90's.
The OPL3LPT is very useful for users of older systems which lack expansion slots for sound cards, such as old laptops, palmtops and exotic PCs which cannot be expanded but have a parallel / printer port.
Note: There is a small amount of noise in the audio signal, which originates from the headphone amplifier in my Logitech speakers, the sound coming out of the S2P doesn't have this amount of noise.
Leisure Suit Larry III was a popular point and click adventure game released in 1989 for MS-DOS computers and various other platforms.
To get the game to support the OPL3LPT over the parallel port, it must be patched first with the ADPatch tool in the ADLipt package, available here:
https://github.com/pdewacht/adlipt/re...
You can purchase your very own OPL3LPT sound board on Serdaco's online shop here:
https://www.serdashop.com/OPL3LPT
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