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IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000 • XT-IDE r625

MISTerFPGA about 3 months ago

Just received much awaited addons and start looking at MisterXT Looks like it's suggested BIOSes goes with quite old XT-IDE release, so i made a build of main and XT-IDE BIOS.Main BIOS is a quick port of Book8088 (chinese XT laptop) BIOS i'm working on, w …

CP/M Recommended disk geometry and directory sizes

VCFed about 5 months ago

I've just finished off disassembling the Cirtech CP/M plus (V1) implementation for a 128K Apple //e and it supports any Apple ProDOS hard drive upto 32Mb in size. Sadly it uses eight 512 byte sectors per track for its geometry. I have a feeling that going …

Rainbow 100 Hard-disk partition scheme?

VCFed about 6 months ago

I have a failing ST-412 in my Rainbow 100B and would rather not lose the files that came on it. Today I was able to read a sector data image from it using a Gesswein mfmemu. However I cannot figure out how to loop mount the partitions on a Linux system a …
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SectorC: A C compiler that fits in the boot sector

Retro Computing Forum about 12 months ago

We have previously seen SectorLISP and SectorForth, and now a character going by ‘xorvoid’ has produced SectorC. Like the other two projects that inspired it, it is a boot sector that implements a programming language. There is a great w …