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DOSZIP commander on HP 200LX (Users)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 02.08.2012, 10:38

Hi,
I had a luck to buy very cheap old mighty HP 200LX DOS palmtop :)
http://rayer.g6.cz/1tmp/HP%20200LX/
It was in poor mechanical state so I had to completly disassemle it, clean and fix broken parts (mainly the display joint) with epoxy but now seems good. It has some intel SoC chip contains 186 core, 2MB RAM (EMS), ROM with MSDOS 5.0 and PCMCIA slot (I tested 16MB CF work, 1GB don't maybe 512MB LBA limit).

I tested DOSZip commander because of it's lightwaight but last version 2.33 didn't work - just display (C) message and hangs. I had also older version 2.17 that seems to run well.

My loved DN+ (1.51.04) is little bit slow on this machine.
I also tried some games but many of them has broken graphics looking like display mode didn't switched from 640x200 to 320x200...

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Complete thread:

• DOSZIP commander on HP 200LX - RayeR, 02.08.2012, 10:38 (Users)
  • DOSZIP commander on HP 200LX - nidud, 02.08.2012, 13:15
    • DOSZIP commander on HP 200LX - RayeR, 03.08.2012, 02:36
      • DOSZIP commander on HP 200LX - Rugxulo, 03.08.2012, 11:45
        • DOSZIP commander on HP 200LX - RayeR, 04.08.2012, 13:13
          • DOSZIP commander on HP 200LX - roytam, 07.08.2012, 08:49