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486 DX2/66 Graphics Card

VCFed about 4 months ago

Any suggestions here for a Gateway 2000 486 DX2/66? I have one ISA slot and one PCI slot available. I have an ISA SoundBlaster 16 in the other ISA Slot. I wouldn't mind maybe adding an ethernet card in the unused slot after I select a graphics card. Op …

Apple DMP printer support and drivers for say System 6 and such.

Apple Fritter about 4 months ago

So I finally track down a RGB monitor and with it came the the APPLE DMP (dot matrix printer.). You know the one before imagewritter. According to the manaual perfect fit forApple II, II plus,  and III. Due to the centronics interface. Then later Apples l …

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 …

PCI parallel port card / Windows 98

VCFed about 4 months ago

I am in moderate need of a 2nd LPT port on my Win98 box. I tried a cheap card off ebay based on the WCH CH351 chip set. While "something" was installed that vaguely resembled an emulated LPT port, I could never make it work. Seems like legacy …

dsk file works great on emulator but crasch when copy on disk with ADTPro

Apple Fritter about 4 months ago

Hi All,I have downloaded this DSK file, an open version provided by the author on his web page:HTTP : // www.erix.it / retro / cast2001.zip inside the zip file, there is the game with the name C201.dsk. If you load it from an emulator (like Virtual II on …
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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 …

(ebay) Retro DOS game PC Pentium 200Mhz MMX, 32Mb RAM, Nvidia Vanta, AWE32, DVD, Win 98

VCFed about 4 months ago

Vintage gaming computer with Pentium MMX 200Mhz! Real "Time mashine" from 1998 year! Brand: DTK On board: - CPU: Intel Pentium MMX - 200Mhz, SL27J, - MOTHERBOARD: Lucky Star 5I-VX1F, Socket 7, - RAM: 32 Mb (1x32Mb DIMM PC100), - HDD: IDE FUJ …

Sending ISA BUS data from TCP protocol with stm32 processor

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hello. I sent you an e-mail before, but I guess you didn't see it. About a month has passed. P3 motherboards work in real time with DOS system. And these boards have ISA BUS bus. Of course, as you know, P3 and DOS are very old now. The current windows sy …

Newbie with an XT - Options for displaying CGA

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hello everyone! I'm new to this community and, though I grew up with MS DOS and the x86 family, I have a limited knowledge about computer hardware (something I hope to correct with my new-found hobby). I recently bought this beauty of a computer: an XT s …

Win98 on P4 systems: COM ports not working

VCFed about 4 months ago

I'm looking for some help to debug an issue I have seen twice now on 2 separate hardware. I am trying to run Laplink from a windows 98 machine to an old 8088 laptop, using serial transfer. I have two different Pentium 4 class systems, both with windows 9 …

86-DOS / QDOS version 0.1c disk image posted on archive.org!

VCFed about 4 months ago

This is until now the oldes known version of 86-DOS / QDOS, download here (Serial number 11!). But the image is 8 inch 250 kb so I don't think you get it to run on an IBM compatible PC. Other versions of 86-DOS: 0.34 klick klick 1.0 klick and extracted …

Guidance and Process of TRS-80/M4 Beginner

VCFed about 5 months ago

Hello everyone, I just somehow got my hands on a TRS-80/Model 4 from savers for 60$. Full on working. Came with an external FreHD setup. I am extremely new to retro computing and this is my first DOS based machine, so I am really going in completely dry. …
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The Elder Scrolls Daggerfall Now Has A Fanmade Remaster

Time Extension about 5 months ago

Adds modern lighting, high-resolution widescreen support, and more!Following years of development, Daggerfall Unity — a fanmade mod and Unity recreation of the second and largest of The Elder Scrolls games — has finally been released in 1.0.0 (as spott …

[yt] Video showing a deep dive into the earliest to date copy of 86-DOS 0.11.

VCFed about 5 months ago

This video gives an in-depth look at what is currently the oldest known copy of 86-DOS, the antecedent to #MSDOS aka #PCDOS, where we go through the process of moving from CP/M, translating Z80 to 8086 code, and assembling it. Since this DOS predates the I …

Flashback DOS - A brilliant game from the 1990's gets a DarkwyndPT review!

Indie Retro News about 5 months ago

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Hp64700 with 68000 pod

VCFed about 5 months ago

Hello I am in need of the software for a PC Running either DOS or Early version of Windows I have a HP64700B emulator that I got and am trying to get it working to get a 68000 board running …
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Ancient DOS

VCFed about 5 months ago

Very interesting article . . . ... known version of DOS unearthed – MS-DOS ancestor 86-DOS version 0.1 C is now available on the Internet Archive Disk contains just ni …
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Earliest known copies of 86-DOS...

VCFed about 5 months ago

This past week I've been imaging disks in my 8" disk collection and I came across two awesome artifacts: ... DOS Version 0.1 C Serial # 11 ( ORIGINAL DISK) : Seattle Computer Products …

32-bit acorn hardware • A3000 to PC file transfer options

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hi, and season's greetings!Now that my A3000 is working great thanks to many helpful people here I'm on a quest to find ways to transfer files between it and my PC. My current process is CFCARD -> Amiga 1200 -> 720K DOS disk -> A3000 . I bought …
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8-bit acorn hardware • Master 512 stalls

Stardot about 5 months ago

Master 512 displays the following (attached image) at boot. Any * command causes it to hang so it won't boot DOS except sometimes when it displays a few random characters. It's not the TUBE interface cables - I have tried both internal and external, and o …
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MS-DOS 2 on single-sided floppy?

VCFed about 5 months ago

Hi all, I've got an MBC-555 (original recipe: two single-sided Teac FD-54As) and I'd like to run MS-DOS 2. What finally pushed me over the edge is that Kermit needs it, and I'd like to use Kermit to test my homemade serial card: Problem is, the only MS …

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 …

Compaq Portable 1 with 301 / 101 error. 8255 PPI Chip?

VCFed about 5 months ago

I took out my Compaq Portable 1 today to install the Gotek I got for Christmas and it's now booting to a 101/301 error. It boots to DOS but a handful of the keys just type garbage. It was fine when I put it away a year ago. I found this thread h …
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Backpack 5 1/4 Floppy : 360KB on 1.2MB / TEAC 55-GFR

VCFed about 5 months ago

Thanks to help from @Chuck(G) and the invaluable @modem7 website - I was able to make a 5 1/4 Backpack work again on the parallel port of a Toshiba 2130 (486 era laptop) running msdos 6.22 The documentation of the backpack (the flyer) says this drive sh …

MS-DOS, OS/2 Warp Large Hard Drive boot/setup/etc.

VCFed about 5 months ago

I have a roughly 13GB hard drive that I'm getting ready to back up and install a drive overlay software on. It's a 486DX4/100 with 16MB and Warp 3 ran pretty well previously. I need to get an XTIDE ROM someday, but for now I'm going to stick with Ontrack D …