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Boot from MFM disk drive - How to install DOS?

VCFed about 9 months ago

Hello all I wanted to get my MFM disk drive bootable in order to get rid of the floppy but I always end up with the following message, when it attempts to boot from: Error loading operating system from fixed disk. Insert COMPAQ DOS diskette in drive A. …
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Need help identifying this laptop

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

I bought this a couple of years ago at an estate sale. Paid about $40 for it (I think). I had to set the date before I could get to MS-DOS. Apparently, it has Windows installed, but it won’t start. When I search Ultra laptop, I get a billion …
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new projects in development: games • [RISC OS] PowerMonger

Stardot about 9 months ago

I've been working on a little prototype of the game PowerMonger (Bullfrog/EA) that came out on ST/Amiga/PC and several other formats. Even if you didn't play the game, you could watch little people just going about, fishing, farming, etc. and it was just …

AT 286 save bios in two support EVEN/ODD on ms-dos

VCFed about 9 months ago

Hi, On my 286 motherboard i have two bios, one EVEN and other ODD. (27c256) when i save bios with nssi i have one file with size 65536 I would have two files with size 32768 how do i do ? I have to split the file which has the size of 65536 for have two f …

Gold Mine Run! - A charming Arcade platformer released for MS-DOS!

Indie Retro News about 9 months ago

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Epson QX-16 DOS 2.11 source code found

VCFed about 9 months ago

I ended up getting my hands on a couple of QX-16 harddrives recently and was able to image them using my MFM emulator to dump the drives. One wasn't really that interesting, but the other one appears to have come from a system that was used by Epson of Ame …
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All Spider-Man Games In Order (1982 – 2023)

Retro Dodo about 10 months ago

Want to get your Spidey facts in order? Need to know how many games you’ve missed and try out some new web-crawling adventures? If that’s you, then you need our list of all Spider-Man games in order from 1982 until today! From the early beg …

Making trs-80 boot and software disks with GREASEWEAZIL controller.

VCFed about 10 months ago

Making trs-80 boot and software disks with GREASEWEAZIL controller. I have been trying to hobble together a basic MSDOS PC twith 5.25" and 3.5" floppies o create boot disks for TRS-80 and other machines. Can this be done and are there compatible …

Is there anyway to make a floppy disk bootable manually?

VCFed about 10 months ago

Here's the situation: I have DOS 3.30 on my XT on the C: drive. I also have X-TIDE (CF card), but that is the D: drive. I am able to put things on the CF card, and have 5.0 and 6.22 on the drive. I can put those files on a blank 5 1/4" floppy, but it …

general • Help me get these old Render Bender demos working on real hardware

Stardot about 10 months ago

This concerns the two rare Render Bender demos uploaded to the iconbar years ago:https://www.iconbar.com... ... 693#122523There are 2 ADFs:1. Render Bender Animation Demo By David J. Hoskins (1988) (Clares Micro Supplies).adf2. Clares Sound A …
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Downgrading from MS-DOS 6.22 to 3.30 on my IBM 5160 XT

VCFed about 10 months ago

I have a 5160 XT with a working original 20mb hard drive (C) and XTIDE (D). I have DOS 6.22 and all of the system files on my C: drive. The A: drive also works. I want to go to the more era-friendly DOS 3.30. I have the installation floppies, but I don't …

XT-IDE Commodore PC20

VCFed about 10 months ago

Hello all, In my on going quest - it feels more like the trials of Hercules now - to get my PC20 working, I built a XT-IDE card. I believe the card is working as the machine detects it on startup...but it does not recognize my IDE hard drive. Would anyon …
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Star Wars fans unite! BSzili releases an unofficial Amiga port of Dark Forces (High end Amiga required?)

Old School Gamer Magazine about 10 months ago

It feels like it was only just yesterday that we announced through Indie Retro News that BSzili had unofficially released not just the full version of the classic ID Software game of ‘Wolfenstein 3D’ and ‘Spear of Destiny’, but als …

Sound • Can the SoundBlaster CT4520 (AWE64 Value?) be used as General MIDI in DOS?

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi All,Just joined and hopefully this question won't be too stupid.I am on MS-DOS 6.22, running a Pentium 200 MMX, S3Virge DX + 3Dfx Voodoo1 and a SoundBlaster CT4520 for sound.While under Windows 98, I am able to run Doom and select General Midi as music …

Sound • MS-DOS drivers for CT4700

Vogons about 10 months ago

Please help me find the drivers for a Creative CT4700 PCI sound card for MS-DOS.Statistics: Posted by vico — Yesterday, 21:36 — Replies 0 — Views 42 …

Software • Sound in DOS window under Win3.1

Vogons about 10 months ago

This has probably been asked a million times but I can't find the right search terms...Is it possible to have sound in Win3.1 and its MS-DOS subsystem/prompt?I vaguely remember back in the dark ages that if I wanted to play MS-DOS games with sound from wi …

What can be the cause?

VCFed about 10 months ago

I have this computer 8088 - 8MHZ DTK look a like PIM TURBO 640 Motherboard Motherboard have a full 640Kb of system memory. Clone IBM XT case. (No LEDs or TB switch) (but there on the motherboard (header) Seagate ST-296N 84MB Partitioned: C: 42MB D: 39MB …

Wipe tools to wipe harddisk under MS-DOS

VCFed about 10 months ago

Does anyone know of any tools that will allow me to wipe a harddisk (in this case a miniscribe XTA harddisk on a card of 20MB) running MS-DOS ? Just something simple as writing zero's would do. …
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Sound • SB16 PnP working in Diagnose, but nothing in games?

Vogons about 10 months ago

Heya,Curious if anyone has any thoughts on what might be going sideways here, I walked through the following video...https://www.youtube... order to set up my Sound Blaster 16 VIBRA PnP card, and all seemed to go very well. When …

Various docs (CPT 9000, 212/AT, 212/BB, Diablo 1200, NCR, Zenith) : 5 euro's each

VCFed about 10 months ago

For sale the following docs : - CPT 9000 Enhanced MS-DOS User's Guide - CPT 9000 User's Guide to CPT 9000 Hardware - CPT 9000 GW-BASIC Reference Guide - CPT 212/AT & 212/BB Workstation User's Manual - Diablo Model 1200 HyType 1 Printer Maintenance Man …

General Old Hardware • PCI cards not detected in DOS

Vogons about 10 months ago

I'm trying to install drivers for my PCI cards in DOS, one is a RTL8139 NIC, the other is a YMF724 sound card. My motherboard has no compatibility issues with them, since they worked perfectly well under Windows 95, which is my previous OS before. Now, my …

Difference MSDOS 4.01 and IBM PC DOS 4.01

VCFed about 10 months ago

Can someone explain me what the difference between MS-DOS 4.01 and IBM PC DOS 4.01 Are they really the same as what options you have? Or is PC DOS more advancer? What are the PROs and Cons of both osses.? I really like to install version 4.01 on my 8088 …

General Old Hardware • Drive Issues with a C&T BIOS

Vogons about 10 months ago

I'm building a new 386 and this is my first experience with a Chips & Technologies BIOS. It's a CHIPS PEAK/DM BIOS 2.1.1 (1991). The problem I'm having is that I have tried several solid state drives (CF as well as SD/IDE adapters) and I can't get i …
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Borland International Software Packages from the 1980s

VCFed about 10 months ago

Several Borland International software packages from the 1980s. PC format disks. Excellent condition, either lightly used or totally unused. PM with offers for anything that catches your eye. Turbo Pascal 3.0 (MS-DOS Generic): SuperKey file security and …

General Old Hardware • 386 and Compact Flash Woes

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi all. I am working on a new 386 build and am having some trouble. The primary storage is a 512MB Compact Flash drive using IDE adapter I've successfully used with other 386 and 486 builds in the past. Here are the details:It's a Rectron PEAK/DM 386 D …