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Interesting tidbit on reading floppies

VCFed about 3 months ago

I process a lot of floppy disks, as you probably know. For the garden-variety 5.25" disks, I use the closest to hand. I had a bunch (44) of RX50 (DECmate iI) floppies to read. All read perfectly, save one, where the software insisted that the driv …

Get mac software onto old macs without a floppy

Apple Fritter about 3 months ago

Getting software onto my old macs has always been a pain in the butt crack so I made http://www.themacatti... which works on really old browsers so I can download what I need. I can even upload which is good for macs with broken floppy disks.Hope someo …

Wanted Three Inch Disks

VCFed about 3 months ago

Please, does anyone know where I can get three-inch floppy disks? It's for a Tandy word processor that I inherited. It works great, and I'd love to save stuff on it. Otherwise, it's just a cool typewriter! Thanks for your help …

Degausing old floppy disks?

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hi, I was just wondering who else here degauses their old floppy disks to address coercivity issues with the media? It's pretty clear some disks have been exposed to magnetic force and heat at times, that I'm guessing has occasionally exceeded the curie l …

File Read Error on C128 floppy disks

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hello, please be gentle and remember I am new to all this. Unboxed my old Commodore 128 and 1571 drive from 40 years ago. PC works, cables work, and the drive seems to work. I did clean both heads. Almost all the disks I try to load will fail. I can see …
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TRS-80 Model II and External 3-floppy unit

VCFed about 3 months ago

Guys, I have a non-working (2 years ago did work) TRS-80 Model II and an external 8" 3-floppy expansion unit that I would like to give away for free. I also have a box of 8" floppy disks. I would like to see these units in working condition a …

HP 110 and HP Portable Plus Software and ROMs - survey

VCFed about 3 months ago

Several software products had been available for the HP 110 and the HP Portable Plus. Some of them came on floppy disks and some in (EP)ROMs. A few are available for example on hpmuseum.net or on www.jeffcalc.hp41.eu. Howe... there are still many progra …

Sony HB-F1XDmk2 floppy drive issue

VCFed about 4 months ago

I just cleaned up and recapped the HIC-1 on this MSX system for a friend of mine. Just wondering if anyone has seen an issue with one of these where the floppy drive (which is a re-belted Mitsumi D357B) won't boot from or read any 720k floppy disks. It wil …

ICOM FDOS-III for the Poly88

VCFed about 4 months ago

As posted in the DEC forum, I am archiving a pack of 8" floppy disks I came over. While most of those disks are for the PDP-11, one of the disks seems to be a release of FDOS-III for the Poly88. Does anyone here have experience with this? I don't kno …

RT-11 floppy disks conversion

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hi I am waiting for some 8" floppies with some RT-11 software on them. There's Fortran and BASIC, and the expected pile of games. Several of the floppies also seems to have a system installed, so I guess these are bootable. Now, I don't own and I ha …

Looking for floppy disks

Amigans about 4 months ago

We are looking for large quantities of blank disks for a software release for the Amiga.The diskettes should be unlabeled and unsticked and of course work. …

5.25 floppy repair (plastic part missing).

VCFed about 4 months ago

Dear Group, I have a 5.25 drive with the plastic cam missing. Ideas? I have a 3D printer and I could print something but I would need a file... the shaft is not round everywhere, there is a flat part. …

5.25 floppy drive suddenly stopped reading disks

VCFed about 4 months ago

I was backing up some old floppy disks (using `dd` on Ubuntu), when the drive I was using just stopped working part way through reading the disk. It's not the disk because I tried some disks that I've just copied successfully and the drive is no longer abl …

Paid disk recovery services recommendations

VCFed about 4 months ago

Someone contacted the Vintage Computer Federation and they are not local and don't want to mail their floppy disks to us for recovery. I'm aware that there are some services that recover different media, but am looking for reputable companies that we can r …

8-bit acorn software: other • Welcome Disks Master 128

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hi,I'm trying to build up a set of manuals and core software for my BBC Master. I'm just not sure what the best route is to do this, I've read multiple forum posts which explain that the BBC Master welcome disk and utilities are on the ADFS format so I c …

(Donations please) Bad 8" & 5-1/4" floppy disks

VCFed about 6 months ago

Not sure if it's okay to ask for donations. I am trying to collect some bad 8" and 5-1/4" floppy disks for an art project. Around 10 disks each. Yes I want bad ones -- bad sectors, molded, etc, those you would throw away. Black disks and good-l …

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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Guide: Best MSX Games Of All Time

Time Extension about 6 months ago

The Japanese computer that gave the world Metal Gear.2023 marks the 40th anniversary of the MSX, the Japanese computer standard that ran from 1983 to 1993 and spanned dozens of hardware variations from manufacturers such as Sony, Philips, Panasonic and man …

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 • Slot Machine Simulator

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

I grew up with a real slot machine from the 1930's in my bedroom. In the early 1980's, I wrote a Commodore 64 program that accurately simulates my slot machine. The slot wheel fruits rotated on the screen and in the computer's memory just like the actua …

Test Computer Problems

VCFed about 6 months ago

Hi, I had a test computer built for me, but I'm having issues with it. It's a 386 computer and I have the ability to select either DOS or Windows XP. I'm currently running under DOS to check out some older floppy disks. The computer has a 5 1/4" di …
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Help & Support • Problems overwriting .CRT on Kung Fu Flash

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

I recently downloaded the SSI Gold Box AD&D games in special Easyflash releases, eager to play them on my Commodore 64 via Kung Fu Flash.However, the game keeps freezing before even getting through the party creation/management part, and it seems like …

DEC RX01 RT-11 images written with GW4 boot, but writing to them from RT-11 corrupts the directory

VCFed about 6 months ago

I am able to successfully take images from various sites and create bootable 8" RX01 RT-11 floppy disks with the Greaseweazle. When I try to update a file on the GW written disk after booting it, the directory is corrupted. if I take the GW written di …
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Can anyone identify this mystery module I found in a box of things I purchased at the VCF Swapmeet?

VCFed about 7 months ago

I bought a box of random floppy disks. Inside were two small boxes. One with DAT cassettes and the other had this small 1.78" X 2" Ram module. My first thought was VRAM upgrade? or possibly Laptop RAM upgrade. Anyone know what this thing is? Appe …
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Other 8-bit Commodore computers • C128D + Ultimate II + C128 device manager + external physical 1541 drive = impossible..?

Lemon64 about 7 months ago

Hello,I had to make a thread because I was not able to find information by searching/googling..I have been using Ultimate II+ on my C128D for a few years quite happily now ever since I got the C128 device manager from bartsplace - I can load multiload gam …