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PC 486SX (ao486) • SAVIOR.EXE: A general solution for backing up DOS saves

MISTerFPGA about 9 days ago

Work in ProgressThis is a design document specifying the functionality of a program that is not finished. I've implemented a lot of the functionality described below, but not all of it, and there are probably a lot of bugs. I can make an alpha version ava …

PC 486SX (ao486) • archive.org folder synchronization script [0mhz-dos]

MISTerFPGA about 11 days ago

Hey folks, I hacked this up today for my own use. It will synchronize any item folder @ archive.org (default is 0mhz-dos) with a local directory. Unlike the other download script I saw mentioned here, it doesn't need to parse XML, works for any archive.or …

IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000 • IBM PC-DOS Weirdness

MISTerFPGA about 1 month ago

Hey all. IBM does something unexpected when formatting a drive from DOS 2.00. There's a whole bunch of bytes written just before the second copy of the FAT at hex offset 0x1000 from the partition start. I see no recognizable strings in there, it doesn't l …

Kaypro XT Toshiba drives having intermittent faults and not working

VCFed about 2 months ago

I have a kaypro XT with two toshiba floppy drives (see photo for label) i can find no documentation for them. the main issue is that both will intermittently not work, both at the same time i think?. when they do work drive A will read the directory but …
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Other Computer / System Cores • Static IP and Groovy MiSTer/Cast Without DHCP/Router in Between

MISTerFPGA about 2 months ago

Hi everyone I want to have a direct conection between my laptop and my Mister using an ethernet cable (No router inbetween or DCHP) , so I wanted to set up the static ip only on the ethernet side of my mister , according to Flandango in this post viewtopi …

PC 486SX (ao486) • Special Sauce MiSTer FPGA DOS Game Collection

MISTerFPGA about 2 months ago

Another game collection? Sure why not. I thought I would see what I could learn by tweaking all these games to run on MiSTer FPGA.Why this collection? Well it's not for everyone. The idea was to make a "booter" version of a top games collection where …
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Zenith Z-100 can read early 8" 86-DOS disks

VCFed about 3 months ago

I was able to assemble Zenith's MS-DOS 1.25 source code to produce a functioning IO.SYS and by changing two variables in the disk tables, when it senses an 8" SSSD it reads the directory on track 2 and lowers the number of directory entries. It can no …

Zortech C++ missing Zed

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hi, I am in the instllation of a vintage Zortech C++ 3.1 compiler package from 1991. The installation is about 9 floppy discs. With a small bumps the install went right but I am missing the Zed editor (zed.exe?), I was not able to find it in the BIN direc …

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 …

Victor 9000 / Sirius 1 Hard Disk Emulation

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hi djg, here we go with a fresh thread, djg said: D... print too many lines. Did you get a directory or did you get an error? Click to expand... I got a directory. ... said: …

Real mode dos command line LFN file copier

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hi People, It recently occurred to me that if I could copy a directory structure full of LFN files from a real mode dos command line (The way xcopy would for SFN files) it would be very useful to me. The real mode dos I'm using is Win 98SE (4.10.2222). A …
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The Complete Guide to Commercially Released Dreamcast Indie Games

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 4 months ago

The fact that we're still blathering on about the Dreamcast some 20 odd years after the console's demise is testament to two things - the fact that we're sad little people still holding on to a mere glimmer of nostalgia about our youth as we rapidly approa …

32-bit acorn software: other • Risc OS - Questions

Stardot about 4 months ago

Hi Folks,I recently dropped a SD card based HDD solution into my A3010. Works great, but I got to thinking about loading a few applications on boot up to make life easier and ran across the requirement edit a !BOOT file.Which I cant find. Nor can I see a …

8-bit acorn hardware • Gotek Drive inconsistancy

Stardot about 4 months ago

Hello,I'm trying to use a Gotek Drive on an issue 7 Model B with an 8271 controller.I am seeing the drive working for the FIRST time it gets accessed, so power on then *CAT I get a directory. But then on the second *CAT you get "Disk Error" (with DFS 0.98 …

32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • Adding additional SCSI drives

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hi,I was trying to add a third SCSI HD to the RISCiX box I've been messing aroung with under Arculator the other day, and found it wasn't quite as straightforward as I'd expected.I'm not going to get into how to create and format a new disc partition (her …

32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • Tutorial: How to transfer files RISC OS<->RISC iX

Stardot about 5 months ago

Transferring files from RISC OS to RISC iX and vice versa isn't too hard (especially from iX->ROS), but there's some interestingness for sure.From RISC iX to RISC OS:This is the easiest transfer direction. The RISCiXFS module loaded by !RISCiX can actu …

The Game Gear Directory: (Wor)

Retronauts about 5 months ago

The penultimate entry of the Directory may be painful, but at least it's not protracted. …

General Discussions • Really Struggling With Arcade Setup and MiSTer

MISTerFPGA about 5 months ago

Hey All,So i have a 2 player, 6 button, + 2 x COIN and P1 and P2 Start and no matter what i try it just wont work consistently with anything i try, so much so I'm not even sure where to start here as I'm either fundamentally misunderstanding how this work …

communications • WFSINITing IDE disc for a Level 3 File Server

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hi all,I've been experimenting with setting up a Level 3 File Server on a Model B. I've previously gone through the process with Pi1MHz emulating a SCSI disc which worked fine, but now I am trying with an IDE adapter and SD card I'm not having much luck.I …

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 …

The Game Gear Directory: (Wiz-Woo)

Retronauts about 5 months ago

Nobody make a joke about Woody Pop. It's childish and puerile …

ZX Spectrum, ZX81, SAM Coupé, TSConf, QL, Next • ZX Spectrum Top 100 games collection (feat. 274 titles)

MISTerFPGA about 5 months ago

This is a little something I made to have a fun break from my more long-term archival projects. From the description: This collection contains games from 5 different Top 100 ZX Spectrum games lists. Overall it features 274 games altogether (full list belo …

the complete BBC games archive • Forest by Scetlander (1990)

Stardot about 5 months ago

This is a long shot, but I was looking for a game that I played when I was ~8 years old. It was a Forest ecology management simulation and I suspect that it was the BBC Micro game "Forest" by Scetlander that was released in 1990. However, searches for the …

IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000 • Tandy sound on Space Quest and odd CGA colors

MISTerFPGA about 5 months ago

Hi, I'm having a heck of a time getting Space Quest to run in Tandy mode on the pcxt core.In the pcxt mode with pcxt31.rom, I can load up my ao486 vhd to access the game directory. The colors are not correct in CGA (they show up as orange, green, etc.) My …

Official Addon Boards • mt32-pi not Booting on Model 3 A+ board; Shows "Power Failure Type B" Blink Pattern [Solved]

MISTerFPGA about 5 months ago

This was originally going to be a request for help, but in the effort of collecting information for my issue, I was able to find a solution.ProblemI got a misterfpga.co.uk mt32-pi hat, a Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ board, and a Geekworm enclosure. I prepared …