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Anyone knowledgeable on FreeDOS 1.3?

VCFed about 3 months ago

Ok Im getting to trying FreeDOS late in the game but could use some help. In a nutshell I have these outdated laptops that I think would make good retro DOS machines and thought FREEDOS was the best way to make this happen. I downloaded the 1.3 Bootable I …
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Crystal 4237b/IPLAW35 sound card won't work on my 286

VCFed about 3 months ago

I have purchased a [Crystal 4237b]-based soundcard called (if I have understood things correctly) Aopen IPLAW35 (seen in action [here] for my 286. Finding [this Vogon thread] through googling, I clicked my way on to the manufacturer's website, where t …
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Please help me with my rare Toshiba libretto 30CTK

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hello! Someone at work gave me this Toshiba Libretto 30CTK for free I'm trying to get it to work. It doesn't boot. It doesn't see the HDD. So i thought... okay, the hard drive is broken. But its not. I connected it via an adapter to my windows deskto …

5 1/4" disk drive problems

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem. I was testing some vintage 5 1/4" disks in a Teac 1.2MB drive (Just doing a DIR on them) using a 486 running DOS 5.0. Most were good disks, some were bad. After testing awhile I ran into a numb …

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

MISTerFPGA about 3 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 …

RCA CF Reader not working in DOS on 486

VCFed about 3 months ago

Greetings, I have a parallel port-based RCA CompactFlash reader which has been tested to work in Windows XP, and in MS-DOS 7.1 / WIndows 98SE on a Pentium III. I have MS-DOS 7.1 installed on a 486DX2 and have tried all sorts of drivers I found by scouring …

New 486 Build

VCFed about 3 months ago

I was able to find a DATA Expert Motherboard and it can take up to 128MB RAM. It says 72Pin SIMS and regretfully the manual doesn't offer much more other than for 128MB it would take 16*2 DRAM in each of its 4 slots to get the 128MB. Its been a long time …

Please help me to play high-quality audio on XT/286 machine

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hello Forum! I'm looking for a vintage PC hobbyist interested in running a DOS program that plays high-quality audio through a PC speaker. Context: I'm a vintage software hobbyist writing graphics/sound/other software using 20-30-year-old programming lan …

IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000 • DOS Versions Wanted

MISTerFPGA about 3 months ago

For the VHD generator I'm writing I'm looking to gather as many original MS/IBM DOS versions as I can. I know that MS-DOS was originally distributed through OEM's so this is quite a tall order (I now have 53 OEM-releases of 2.x alone). I'm looking for DOS …
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DOS/BATCH-11

VCFed about 3 months ago

In the process of adding support for tape images to ImageUtils. I came across something interesting. As the first test subject - a tape from bitsavers (http://www.bitsavers.org/b... According to the attached tape catalog - the ta …

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 …

Downloading and copying files from a windows 10 macine onto a compact flash card for A Kaypro XT clone

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hello everyone, It has been a while but I want to play around with various programs on my "Kaypro PC" an NEC v20 XT compatible that I posted about a couple years back. I have not really done anything with it except display it. it has some minor i …

Blue-screen when updating USB drivers, win98

VCFed about 3 months ago

I bought a lovely little pentium II from the consignment area at VCFSoCal which I plan to use as a DOS gaming system. It came with win98 preloaded on a spinning disk which I want to keep. Now I don't know if it was like this on first boot, but at present t …

Recommended PS/2 optical mice for DOS?

VCFed about 3 months ago

I got this cheap Perixx PS/2 optical mouse for use on my 486. I was running the open source CTMOUSE driver for the past few weeks and never had any issues, but for some strange reason today the mouse started acting wonky. It seems that it will randomly g …

Apple II+ woes continue...

Apple Fritter about 3 months ago

Hey everyone...I have been ignoring my II+ for a while (I have two of them), but got one down to fire up and ensure everything was OK. Obviously, since I am posting here, it isn't OK!I can boot into DOS 3.3 via FloppyEmu or actual disk drive.  No problem. …

Text corruption after BIOS on internal LCD only, external display fine on Portable PC III (Orchid)

VCFed about 3 months ago

I have a Portable PC III by Orchid Systems - a 386 compaq portable III clone that takes a regular MB with a special video card for the LCD. Plugging in a VGA monitor, everything works fine - the initial BIOS boot screen, and then DOS afterwards. Using the …
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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 …

IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000 • MiSTer PC XT BIOS

MISTerFPGA about 3 months ago

Here's my small contribution to this project:MiSTer PC XT BIOSIt's a fork of well known 8088_bios (https://github.com/skisele... PC XT related enhancements:Memory size set to 704KB. So if A000h UMB enabled, 704KB memory will be available to …

Hello from Southern New Hampshire

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hello VCF, I've recently begun rebuilding my vintage/nostalgia collection, with a focus on early-80s to 90s systems. I started way back when with an Apple IIc that my parents bought from my uncle when he moved onto an Amiga (I believe, it's been a few dec …
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Kingston Pocket Ethernet Adapter KNE-PKL2 DOS/Win3X

VCFed about 3 months ago

So I am trying to use my KNE-PKL2 (parallel port ethernet adapter we used to use only old machines to get them on the network back in the 90s) that I have had in the box for almost 30 years. Its probably been 15 to 20 years since I used it. Im having a n …

Quick Loader Compact card for Apple II

Apple Fritter about 3 months ago

AttachmentSize IMG_5256.jpeg4 MB IMG_5253.jpeg2.9 MB IMG_5250.jpeg2.73 MB IMG_5250.jpeg2.73 MB IMG_5252.jpeg2.81 MB QuikLoader Compact Card for Apple II II plus IIe or Platinum Computers. The QL is a really useful card, it automatical …

Quick Loader Compact Card for Apple II computers

Apple Fritter about 3 months ago

AttachmentSize Quick Loader Compact Card4 MB Quick Loader Compact Card2.9 MB Quick Loader Compact Card2.45 MB Quick Loader Compact Card2.73 MB Quick Loader Compact Card2.94 MB Quick Loader Compact Card2.81 MB QuikLoader Compact Card …

Commodore 16, 64, 128, VIC-20, PET • C64 Jiffydos SSD [Solved]

MISTerFPGA about 3 months ago

this wont default to jiffydos with the jiffydos rom it default to dolphin dos anyone know why?c64 folder is on ssd not sd card could this be cause wouth a symbolic link fix thisyes i know about this part To use JiffyDOS or another alternative kernel, repl …
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Seattle Computer Products 8086 Monitor Collection

VCFed about 3 months ago

I have created a collection of all known versions of SCP's 8086 Monitor ROM. Versions 1.4 to 1.6 are intended for the SCP CPU support board model 300F, while version 1.9 is designed for model 301A. Both the source code and binary files are included for all …

Symphony IDE controller??

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hi! I'm a newbie here, just getting into retro PC builds. I recently acquired a Gateway 2000 486DX4/100 machine. It has a WD Caviar 2340 Intelligent AT drive, a NEC CD-260 CD-ROM drive, and this odd little IDE controller by Symphony (photo of an identic …