hey,
of course I will try to record something. But before I must learn how to install Soundblaster drivers in DOSEMU. The laptop actually have a linux debian OS.
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Necro reply for sure, but the Toshiba Satellite 4010CDT has the Yamaha OPL3-SA3 inside it.
Only works properly if you install drivers from Yamaha though, the standard Microsoft SAX driver only works for MIDI file playback.
I grabbed drivers at the bottom of this page: https://web.archive.org/web/20160307174 … /download/
"OPL3-SAx Drivers for YMF701, 711, 715, 718, 719"
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2xAA wrote:
Necro reply for sure, but the Toshiba Satellite 4010CDT has the Yamaha OPL3-SA3 inside it.
Only works properly if you install drivers from Yamaha though, the standard Microsoft SAX driver only works for MIDI file playback.
I grabbed drivers at the bottom of this page: https://web.archive.org/web/20160307174 … /download/"OPL3-SAx Drivers for YMF701, 711, 715, 718, 719"
Thanks for your contribution!
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Sorry for this necro post, but I get a toshiba tecra 530 cdt. On startup it says : no system disk. If I remove the 2GB disk it says insert a disk. I may need to install win98 but the problem is there is no cd drive and I think no floppy drive too. I am searching a PCMCIA cd drive or one which can work with the tecra 530 cdt.
Do you know if some other cd drive can work or not ? I read somewhere that recent cd drive can work with a PCMCIA adaptor. Is it true ?
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First of all, are you there's no CD drive? It's supposed to be on the right side - if not, you'd see a hole where the drive was.
As for getting this thing to boot. The way I usually get this kind of computer to boot is by putting files externally on the HDD, and booting off of that, no reliance on floppies or CDs.
You have two options for this:
1) Get a USB to IDE caddy, and plug in the HDD into it.
2) Get a CF card and a CF to IDE adapter. This lets you use a CD memory card as a HDD. This will often make it boot faster, and be more quiet. (Unless you have nostalgia attached to the clicking HDD noise. 
) This also make it easy to read the card with a standard memory card reader for transferring files in and out.
From there, there are few details but you need to for example attach the drive to a virtual machine, or image it somehow to the same effect. Then boot a DOS boot disk and do a command like "sys a:". Copy the install.exe and the win98 folder from the Win98 CD to the CF card. With any luck, it should now be possible to insert the CF card, through the HDD adapter, to the laptop and boot it. Now you should be able to type install to start the installation.
There are some details I'm glossing over, and I would love to try to help you get it running.