I have one of these laptops with VIA AC97 soundcard.
I made a ms-dos boot diskette with mouse driver and ft2.
The program sound bad using Soundblaster settings cause usually these AC97 cards only support SBpro emulation (22050 stereo).
Anyway I switched to PC SPeaker output,… and great!!!.. U can get 44100 mono sound with small background noise…
Anyone had experiences running FT2 natively on a laptop? (without DOsbox)
Exist any laptop with native Soundblaster16 emulation? (all these ac97 works usually as sbpro
not possible with that ac97 soundchip, believe me i know, but
check out my new old cute ft2 laptop i recently bought via ebay
Toshiba Libretto 110CT
300€ i got this lil devil with:
-266mhz intel pentium mmx
-64mb ram
-10gb hd
-800*480 widescreen
-portable cd-rom & diskdrive
-wlan & lan pcmcia cards
-docking station
-mouse, xtra batteries + some xtra crap
check out that size, hardly bigger than vhs cassette!
and oh joy, it´s soooooooo cool!! recom!
all three thumbz up
can you take close-up photos of your Libretto screen running FT2 plz?
I want to check the FT2 font size expecially the one used for tracker effects (1xx, 2xx, 3xx… etc).
Dont knowif will be posible read FT2 comands properly or we will need glasses?
screen is really sharp unlike in those pictures. it got blurry cos i resize those pics to real size so you can get that idea of scale.
that sound chip YAMAHA OPL3-SAx is totally sb16 compatible so ft runs on sb16 mode…lil annoying thing is that tracking with headphones, i have to turn amplifier & volume on ft to max which causes that noises from HD will also amplified…but there is no such a problems if you use external amp.
What you’re describing is not SB16 compatible. This is the behaviour of the legacy mode in PCI SoundBlasters and AC’97 etc stuff which AFAIK tries to emulate SoundBlaster Pro. Total SB16 compatibility would result in 44100kHz stereo playback.