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Commodore Events - Both Old and New C= • Photos and video from Los Angeles Maker Faire 2024

Commodore.ca about 1 month ago

Check out the pictures and video of our exhibit at the April 6 Los Angeles Maker Faire 2024! We had many attendees come and talk about the Commodore and Amiga computers that were on exhibit. Thanks to SCCAN member Jerold K. for helping out through the d …

Commodore 16, 64, 128, VIC-20, PET • MiSTer Can't Connect to Neohabitat [Solved]

MISTerFPGA about 2 months ago

Neohabitat is a relaunch of the first MMO, Lucasfilm's Habitat. MiSTer did seem capable of logging in, as seen in a youtube video from 2019. I've been trying for weeks and the closest I've gotten is with these steps:Set system modem to 1200 baud.Save sett …
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IWM reverse engineering

Apple Fritter about 2 months ago

After probing the waters in this thread: https://www.applef... finally got enough motivation to proceed with reverse engineering the IWM myself. I'm well aware that other have done that long ago, …

Sinclair QL with SPEM Floppy Disk sistem 1.16 (sistem with the "i" and not the "y")

VCFed about 2 months ago

Dear Group, I have been given a system like the subject. Everything has been ok for some minutes... I have been able to read a dir of a floppy and then to launch a program from that floppy. Then I wanted to make a case with two black floppies, one 5.25 and …

Repairing aging plastics

VCFed about 3 months ago

Many of us have been seeking a solution to broken, cracked or missing plastics on vintage computes. I've tried epoxy, various glues and solvents to fix cracked plastics on laptop lids and other plastic parts. None have been a great success, IMHO. After tri …

How important are the IWM features for the Apple IIc ?

Apple Fritter about 3 months ago

Hi Fans - as you might know, I'm working on my Replica 2e project which aims to produce a substitute for all Apple II from the early ones to the Apple IIe and the Apple IIc without using any of Apple's proprietary custom ICs, like the MMU, IOU and  the I …

Faulty Panasonic JU-475-5 5.25 floppy drive

VCFed about 3 months ago

Just looking to unlock the knowledge of the forum - I have a Panasonic JU-475-5 floppy disk that's broken - The spindle motor just constantly spins. The heads seek on bootup - but again, the motor never stops spinning and DOS reports drive not ready. A …

Nabu - trying to fix a problem in my FD bootloader

VCFed about 3 months ago

This is certainly a case of "coder is an ID10T", but last July I tried to write a floppy disk bootloader for the Nabu that: Doesn't use the official code, because I want it copyright-clean. Can boot existing CP/M 3.1 boot disks. I coded it in tw …
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Need help—IBM 5162 can't boot from the XT-CF card!

VCFed about 3 months ago

My IBM 5162 has a damaged hard drive. Every time, I had to use a floppy to boot it. I recently bought a MINI XT-CF card. However, my IBM 5162 can't boot from it. Using DOS 3.3, I fdisk the CF card and erase all partitions on my Compaq Prolinea 4/50 (whi …

Macintosh Plus 1MB Screen jitter?

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hiya Folks. I hope I'm posting in the right section! I have a Macintosh Plus 1mb that i've been having some issues with as of recent. View attachment IMG_3364.mov Whenever the Macintosh is turned on it'll do it's beep and load into the searching for OS/FL …

ComVEX - Commodore Los Angeles Super Show (CLASS) • Prizes, freebies, and for sale at CLASS 2024

Commodore.ca about 4 months ago

Whoa! Thanks to Larry Anderson of the Silicon Realms BBS, we have a really great raffle prize -- a CMD hard drive with SCSI2SD adapter (replacing mechanical SCSI drive), SD card at 4 gigs and partitioned, v2.80 ROM, external power supply, instruction boo …

Creating boot disk for Mac Plus using a Mac Plus?

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hi, I have a mac plus and can boot it using a SCSI2SD, is it possible to create a boot floppy disk using the Plus only? Do I just drag the system folder to a floppy? Thanks …

XUBDisk - floppy disk XTIDE Universal BIOS booter

VCFed about 4 months ago

After seeing many people use things like networking cards and similar in order to add XTIDE BIOSes to their computers that either lack IDE BIOSes or that have buggy IDE BIOSes, I was inspired to see if I can make a floppy diskette which would steal a littl …

How to write a floppy disk from an image file on a Compaq Portable III?

VCFed about 5 months ago

I have a Compaq Portable III and the system defaults to 1.2MB floppy drive after losing its settings (replace the battery for the clock chip DS1285). I would like to have a bootable Diagnostic floppy for a Compaq Portable III (286 CPU), for which I have d …

32-bit acorn hardware • Floppy Disk Transfers DOS - A3010

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hi Folks,Since the A3010 has a high density floppy drive I though Id transfer some small utilities over to it. With a 1.44MB floppy in hand I formatted the floppy in the 3010 as a DOS 1.44mb floppy. To test, I opened up the floppy on the Arch and created …

Franklin Ace 1000 Won't Floppy Boot but seems OK?

VCFed about 5 months ago

I picked up an Ace 1000 and I'm trying to get it up and running. I have a floppy drive on it, and a BMOW emulator as well. I don't have a bootable floppy disk unfortunately. Powering on the drive makes the traditional clunkitah-cllunktah, so I know it's …
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Commodore 16, 64, 128, VIC-20, PET • Automatically Running a Program from Floppy at Boot

MISTerFPGA about 5 months ago

As far as I have been able to find, there's no simple setting to make the C64 core load and run a program from a floppy image at boot.But the you can use a MGL file to mount a floppy disk and then inject a PRG file.And you can have a simple program that p …

8-bit acorn hardware • DFS and MMFS together

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hello again,Can I have both DFS and MMFS roms in at the same time ? Do I need to to be able to access reals floppies and the SD-CARD image files at the same time.How does the beeb know what disk is what?And how do you format a floppy disk ?Thanks.DerekSta …

TRS-80 Model 1 won't boot from disk

VCFed about 6 months ago

I have a Japanese TRS-80 model 1 that I can't seem to boot from a floppy disk. I'm creating the floppy disks using a cassette input and Büssert's Bootstrap program. The creation of the disks seems to go through without errors. I've tried to write three …
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Help & Support • C64 - KungFu Flash copie sur floppy

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

Good morningI've looked through various forums but haven't found an answer.With my c64 I have a Kungfu Flash.Is it possible to copy a KungFu Flash (KFF) ROM to a floppy disk?Is there a command or software that allows this?For example, I tried to launch Ac …
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New Releases • New Release - Star Wars 2024 C64 Calendar by Back2the8bit

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

https://back2the8bit.itch.... ... 4-calendarhttps://youtu.be/... you are here, the Force has guided you!Have a great 2024 as Galactic Empire or Rebel Alliance, it doesn't matter, the most important thing is to wave your hands in front …

Glen Bredon's DOS.MASTER for ProDOS Drives

Apple Fritter about 6 months ago

Moving the discussion about compatibility problems with the "DOS.GAMES" collection (see previous discussion here) to this separate thread. It's not a DAN][-specific topic, and the other thread is getting incredibly long anyway. Makes sense to spin off side …
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Help & Support • Problems with XUM1541/CBMTransfer

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

Hi!I recently got a XUM1541 adapter, which I have connected to my windows computer (large USB connector attached to the computer, Micro-USB connector attached to the XUM adapter, serial cable from 1541-II attached to the XUM adapter).My goal is to write a …
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Scene • Does CHROUT() out to 1541 disk drive interfere with RDTIM()/jiffies clock?

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

I am a bit stumped attempting to measure KB/sec file write speed in my program.I basically dot0 = RDTIM();SETNAM()SETLFS()OPE... * (CHROUT() + READST())CLOSE()t1 = RDTIM();and then log (t1-t0)/60 as the elapsed number of seconds.But for e.g. a 80 …

32-bit acorn software: other • Porting to Acorn

Stardot about 6 months ago

I'm porting a development platform to the RiscPC (and ultimately older machines). Its a bit of a long term project - and just for fun - but I think it will be useful to developers who like to dabble. I'm not going to give details here - thats for another …