The Executive Beast with a Secret for MSDOS retrogaming! Toshiba Tecra 750CDT review

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• CR

  @crpony · 1 year ago

  That's a nice setup. I have the Tecra 750DVD. I do agree that these laptops do have a great sound card.

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• CA

  @caeserromero3013 · 1 year ago

  I had an Elonex Savanah Elite 200mhz MMX which came with a very slimline plug in rear dock that gave you the joystick ports and composite out etc etc. I got it 2nd hand, effectively for free around 2000. It was my mums daily laptop until 2004 when I got her an IBM Thinkpad. I then used the Elonex for retrogaming for several years until I moved to Dosbox.  I sold it a couple of years ago.

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• SZ

  @szyszka8303 · 1 year ago

  Amazing!

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• BA

  @Baddayinbogland · 1 year ago

  retro insanity

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• EV

  @evilrainbow · 1 year ago

  I love your editing and your narration tone and style. how you are below 1k subs is criminal.<br><br>I&apos;m picking up two of these in a few days 😊

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• HO

  @HouseOfFunQM · 1 year ago

  Wow no way, this is the model that they used to subsidize for us in school when I was like 14!<br><br>It was so so good.

• EY

  @Eyepatchfilms · 1 year ago

  I hope sometime in the future we get full screen scaling for the S3 chipsets like these. Audio is perfect though

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• VO

  @voodle_3d · 1 year ago

  One of my absolute favourites, great to see it on your channel and the performance testing you&apos;ve done is going to be great to refer to in future.<br>IT can also be found as the Tecra 750DVD (which has a DVD decoder integrated too) and the Tecra 750CDT. <br>If only there was a way to break out the game port &amp; midi without the dock, it&apos;d be almost perfect then - although one thing to be aware of with the Tecra 750 series is that the LCD panel&apos;s column drivers are prone to failing causing vertical lines on the screen. I&apos;ve found that the LT133X1-106 works as a direct replacement and you can find that lots of Dell CPi series laptops.<br>Additionally, there&apos;s been a community effort to remake that caddy connector which you can find in the &quot;The elusive Toshiba laptop HDD connector&quot; thread on vogons.

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• PM

  @pmcyprys · 1 year ago (edited)

  Previously it was a Toshiba Tecra 550 CDT with Intel Pentium MMX CPU @ 266 MHz than the fastest desktop Socket 7, S3 Virge MX 3D GPU and Yamaha OPL3-SA3 sound card.

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• PE

  @pentiummmx2294 · 1 year ago

  i just got the Tecra 750CDM which is quite similar to this one

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• WO

  @wootks · 1 year ago

  Another fantastic Toshiba model I have had my eye out for as well. Pretty easy bios battery removal if you ask me.<br><br>Have you experimented with hooking these laptops up to a modern display? I have had good luck with a retrotink 4k over VGA. This will let you get various shadow mask and scan line emulation to help complete the look.<br><br>For some of my laptops I use a portable monitor and just plunk it over the stock laptop screen. A handy way to get around meh 90s LCD tech.

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• GA

  @GabrielBrosteanu_GB · 4 months ago

  Love your videos! I have its more modest &quot;brother&quot;, the 480CDT and love it to bits! Although I would love the better S3 video card ;) Fn+F2 just reduces the screen brightness in mine, I might be missing some piece of software or something?