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For Sale Random items: IBM P70, duodisk

VCFed about 4 months ago

Basement clean out. Unfortunately it’s time to say goodbye to some items… all are make offer and cross posted. IBM P70, works, needs good cleaning, boots to missing file errors. MFM hard drive is noisy but works. Make offer. Will reluctantly ship to c …
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For Sale Random items: IBM P70, duodisk, Toshiba t1910cs

VCFed about 4 months ago

Basement clean out. Unfortunately it’s time to say goodbye to some items… all are make offer and cross posted. IBM P70, works, needs good cleaning, boots to missing file errors. Early non-MFM hard drive is noisy but works. Make offer. Will reluctantly …

Toshiba T5100 laptop - random freezing during high disk activity (software installs, etc.)

VCFed about 4 months ago

Have a Toshiba T5100 I'm trying to get going, but running into a rather odd problem. Anytime I'm doing anything that involves a high amount of disk activity (such as a software install from floppy to hard drive, or install from hard drive directly), the c …

Severe help need with xtide cards

VCFed about 4 months ago

Simply put, I have a lo-tech XT-CF-lite rev.2 that refuses to allow me to use a 256mb card to boot from or even seen past being visible on the boot screen. (Not working currently) I also have a lo-tech xt-ide rev.3 hard drive board which was seeing a 10gb …

Spring Cleaning I 2024

VCFed about 4 months ago

I'd better get going on this before more work sets in. I'll start with these: 2x Neoware CA21 thin clients--fitted with SD card adapters (SD cards not included) 1 Neoware CA10 --will include PCI riser and I think has a 21GB 2.5" hard drive instal …

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 …

Hardware Setups • Using a 10TB Hard Drive?

MISTerFPGA about 4 months ago

Hello,I have a 10Tb HD, I wanted to know if it works on MiSTer? …

Corona PPC-20 power supply gone up in smoke, worth repairing or no?

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hello, I've joined this forum so I could maybe get a hand from some more experienced folks here. I have a PPC-20 luggable IBM clone that I modified with an XT-IDE card, removable hard drive and 3.5inch floppy. Unfortunately, while attempting to install t …

For Sale-Cps-3 Mobo with Darksoft Roms, Killer Instinct PCB, & CPS-1 SF 2 Hyper fighting PCB

Neo Geo Forums about 5 months ago

CPS-3 mobo has the dark soft roms installed with Third Strike looking for $500 but I’m negotiable. Killer Instinct includes hard drive looking for $700 negotiable. Hyper Fighting looking for $200. I will cover shipping charges. I will also make note …

ESDI- format technical papers?

VCFed about 5 months ago

Hi, I’m looking to get into PS/2 era systems but I’m a little paranoid about hard drive failure. Does anyone know of any good ESDI technical papers? I’m looking to make something like BlueSCSI that’s compatible. …

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 …

PC 486SX (ao486) • DOSContainer alpha release

MISTerFPGA about 5 months ago

Dear fellow PC enthusiasts. Enjoy!https://gitlab.com/do... DOSContainer project started out over a year ago in response to me becoming aware of community-created "packs" of games. These come in the form of large hard drive images with …

IBM 5162 (XT/286) hanging on boot

VCFed about 5 months ago

Hello all, A couple of weeks ago I turned on my 5162 and it didn't boot. I thought at first it was the RLL hard drive since normally when I turn this machine on the C: drive boots up to DOS 3.3. But I don't think it's the RLL hard drive after pulling it o …
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Feature: Preserving Physical History: Meet The World's Biggest 'Big Box' Fans

Time Extension about 5 months ago

"Your imagination was kickstarted by the pictures and text on the box".Preserving history is often all about archiving before it is too late, especially when it comes to games. Saving that floppy before it becomes unreadable, ripping that CD before 'bit ro …
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8-bit acorn hardware • DOS image won’t boot on Electron

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hello allI have an Electron with AP5, PiCoProc and BeebSCSI. I have built a hard drive image which works fine in BeebEm but when I select the 80286 co-proc on my physical hardware I just get this:Pressing return does nothing but I suspect it may have alre …

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 …

mTCP NetDrive: network attached storage for DOS 2.0 or better

VCFed about 5 months ago

mTCP NetDrive is a DOS device driver that allows you to access a remote disk image hosted by another machine as though it was a local device with an assigned drive letter. The remote disk image can be a floppy disk image or a hard drive image. Use it to: …

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 …
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Epson ActionNote 4LSC/33

VCFed about 6 months ago

Epson ActionNote 4LSC/33 up for offers This notebook is basically working but needs the following; Hard Drive is dead (Seagate ST9190AG - 170MB - C:873 H:16 S:24) RTC - Battery is dead - Dallas DS1287/1187 Main Battery (dead) - Sanyo KR-1700AE - 9.6V - …

IBM XT286 with IDE and CF-Card problems

VCFed about 6 months ago

Hello, After in my old IBM XT286 (with the original BIOS from 04/21/86) the original MFM hard drive crashed, I replaced the original IBM Fixed Disk and Disk Drive Adapter with an M51505 A4 Mini Super IDE controller with a 256MB CF card. The floppy drives …
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32-bit acorn hardware • First look at an A3020

Stardot about 6 months ago

My mate Tony dropped off this A3020 that he'd been given and never plugged in - my mission is to get it going!I plugged it in to the mains, no monitor because I can't find a VGA cable I know, amateur hour. There's no beep from the speaker, but power & …

Pro 350 RX50 Drive Speed Issues

VCFed about 6 months ago

Hi! I recently acquired a crippled micro-11, a Professional 350. It powers up fine but stops at 000400 000007 (EMT trap or required file not found) which leads me to believe the hard drive has either been wiped or is dead. Now to my actual issue: When …
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My first IRQ conflict! Need some help.

VCFed about 6 months ago

Just installed a shiny new copy of Windows 95 onto a WinBook FX I just got in from eBay. Laptop needed a new hard drive and has a hinge problem I need to check but it’s otherwise working. I’ve got an audio issue though. Seems like Windows knows what it …

Compaq SLT 386

VCFed about 6 months ago

I recently acquired an SLT 386 in decent shape. I had to tear it apart and do the Dallas mod, fix the sticky bumper issue in the hard disk, and take a peek at what it had. It's a fairly basic model, having a 60 MB hard disk and no modem, but it does have 6 …

32-bit acorn software: other • Adjust ADFFS !Boot so that it loads when first seen?

Stardot about 6 months ago

Let's say that I have ADFFS on the root of my hard drive. What I want is for !ADFFS to load as soon as the root of the drive is seen by RISC OS (e.g. I click on the drive icon). I know this needs to be done in the ADFFS !Boot file, but what would be the b …