Re: 4 specific 5.25 floppies won't read

Posted on 2021-02-17, 15:47

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by ocdmonkey

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Looking at the box closely I see now that it says that it has 1.2 MB 5.25 in floppies. Strange that the 5th one is the more standard 360KB (since it's the startup disk maybe they did that so they could give a more relavent error message to those without 1.2MB drives). Anyway, I have a 360K drive in …

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4 specific 5.25 floppies won't read

Posted on 2021-02-17, 02:27

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by ocdmonkey

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I've finally gotten around to backing up a lot of my old floppies, and it's been going pretty well but the first 4 (of 5) disks for Quest for Glory 2 won't read at all. In winimage it says a disk is not in the drive, which I haven't seen before, and I even tried reading them on the only other …

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Re: SB16 (CT2290) Suddenly very quiet selectively and only playing certain instruments

Posted on 2020-12-06, 19:10

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by ocdmonkey

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I've tested every trace on that chip I can see with a multimeter and they all seem to be fine. It would make sense for it to be a bad solder joint, since even in the short time I was testing it the symptoms weren't 100% constant, but I would really like to know for sure the source of the problem …

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SB16 (CT2290) Suddenly very quiet selectively and only playing certain instruments

Posted on 2020-12-06, 00:07

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by ocdmonkey

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Ok, so something weird I noticed after changing out the VGA card in my HP Vectra is that the Soundblaster card I have installed in there doesn't seem to be working properly anymore. Depending on the application it will either be barely audible, or only play certain MIDI instruments. Jazz Jackrabbit …

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Re: Later Sierra AGI games not working when installed on 5160

Posted on 2018-09-29, 00:03

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by ocdmonkey

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Early AGI games, like KQ2, had copy protection that looked for a damaged sector, but that works just fine on my 5160. The games I'm having trouble with (KQ4 AGI and Gold Rush) don't have on-disk copy protection (I'm not sure if Gold Rush originally had copy protection, but the game files I have …

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Re: Later Sierra AGI games not working when installed on 5160

Posted on 2018-09-28, 03:43

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by ocdmonkey

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I managed to get an original copy of KQ4 AGI, so I installed it using the INSTALLH.BAT file on Disk 1. Gold Rush I also managed to obtain the original INSTALLH.BAT and _INSTALL.BAT files and so I manually copied what I perceived to be the appropriate files onto 5 360K floppy disks, and installed it …

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Later Sierra AGI games not working when installed on 5160

Posted on 2018-09-28, 01:10

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by ocdmonkey

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Hi, I've run into a rather annoying problem: I recently got an IBM PC XT 5160, in which I have since installed an XTIDE interface card so I could use a CF card as a hard drive. It works fine for the most part, but for some reason I'm having a problem getting some Seirra AGI games to run. Basically, …

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Re: Problem with KVM switch and 5160

Posted on 2018-08-13, 20:46

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by ocdmonkey

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I found out what's going on. See, the keyboard I'm using is a Model M, and apparently most PS/2 keyboards use the AT protocol instead of the XT protocol, which the 5160 is not compatible with (the KVM's documentation refers to the connector as an AT connector, which should have tipped me off). …

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Re: Weird floppy drive (5.25 in) issues

Posted on 2018-08-06, 20:30

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by ocdmonkey

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Most 1.2MB disk drives can't write to 360KB disks. Can you read from the 5160 the files you put with the 1.2MB drive ? Also, cleaning the heads might help. Ooookay. I did not know that. That would explain why even when I was able to get the XP computer to write files to the disk I got errors when I …

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Re: Weird floppy drive (5.25 in) issues

Posted on 2018-08-06, 13:03

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by ocdmonkey

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The BIOS doesn't support more than one FDD on the XP and 98 builds, so I had to use the 5.25 as the A drive. I've never heard of XP being buggy with 3.5'' (even Windows 10 works fine with them for me). The BIOS on the XP and 98 builds allows me to select 1.2 MB 5.25'' and 360 KB 5.25'' as the FDD …

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Weird floppy drive (5.25 in) issues

Posted on 2018-08-06, 03:10

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by ocdmonkey

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So I have an old 5.25 inch floppy drive that used to work, I used it for a bunch of backup stuff (using it in an old XP machine to backup IBM PC formatted disks, and using a Kryoflux for C64 disks) and I was hoping to use it to write some disks to use with my newly acquired 5160, but I've tried the …

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Re: Problem with KVM switch and 5160

Posted on 2018-07-30, 13:46

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by ocdmonkey

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This may sound weird but I've seen it working for a similar case: Connect an ATX machine to the same KVM, turn it on, switch to the 5160, turn the 5160 on. Not saying that it'll work, just a quick thing to try. Well I'm not sure if it's an ATX machine, but I tried that with my HP Vectra and it …

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Re: Problem with KVM switch and 5160

Posted on 2018-07-30, 03:56

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by ocdmonkey

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I'm wanting to use my new 5160 with a PS/2 KVM switch, but it refuses to recognize the keyboard with either of the KVM switches I have on hand. I'm using an adapter cable to convert the PS/2 keyboard connection into the AT DIN connection and it works just fine if I plug the keyboard directly into …

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Problem with KVM switch and 5160

Posted on 2018-07-30, 00:54

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by ocdmonkey

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I'm wanting to use my new 5160 with a PS/2 KVM switch, but it refuses to recognize the keyboard with either of the KVM switches I have on hand. I'm using an adapter cable to convert the PS/2 keyboard connection into the AT DIN connection and it works just fine if I plug the keyboard directly into it …

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Re: Problem with Soundblaster ViBRA16X PnP on DOS/win 3.1 machine

Posted on 2017-02-05, 20:16

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by ocdmonkey

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Here is the sndblst.drv sections of my SYSTEM.INI: [sndblst.drv] DisableMidiPort=0 PnpFlag=1 Port=240 Int=5 DmaChannel=0 MidiPort=330 HDmaChannel=1 FDMAPlayBack=0 FDMARecording=0 MicVolume=16 SpeakerVolume=16 MuteVirtual=10 OutputMixerSwitch=6 AGC=0 Mux_WaveIn=1e VoiceVolume=16, 16 FMVolume=16, 16 …

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Re: Problem with Soundblaster ViBRA16X PnP on DOS/win 3.1 machine

Posted on 2017-02-05, 14:53

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by ocdmonkey

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Autoexec.bat: @ECHO OFF SET CTCM=C:\CTCM C:\CTCM\CTCU /S /W=C:\WINDOWS SET SOUND=C:\SB16 SET BLASTER=A240 I5 D0 H0 P330 T6 SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S /W=C:\WINDOWS REM ** SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D0 H0 P330 T6 REM ** SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:G REM ** C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S /W=C:\WINDOWS C:\SB16\ …

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Problem with Soundblaster ViBRA16X PnP on DOS/win 3.1 machine

Posted on 2017-02-05, 02:44

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by ocdmonkey

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So I used the ctcm program and the card works perfectly for DOS games and Windows 3.1 system sounds, and a few Windows 3.1 programs like a video viewer, but I've tried You Don't Know Jack volume 2 and King's Quest 7, and both refuse to work with the sound card. Typically they crash and play a …

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Re: Can't find a CF to IDE adapter that works

Posted on 2017-01-26, 21:18

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by ocdmonkey

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Ok, I finally figured it out. All the adapters were working just fine when I used them with an IDE to USB adapter. After I tested that I kinda got a eureka moment that my '95 for whatever reason wouldn't work with the card correctly unless there was a slave on the cable. Sure enough, I tested this …

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Dell Dimension XPS T motherboard CMOS clock won't save even with new battery

Posted on 2017-01-02, 03:08

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by ocdmonkey

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UPDATE: Well, this is weird. I fixed it by entering today's date (it defaulted to 01/01/1990 so for testing I just put in 05/01/1990). Thought it would start at the earliest time it could store but I guess not. =/ ---- Original post Ok, so basically it seems that everything else in the BIOS on this …

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Re: Can't find a CF to IDE adapter that works

Posted on 2016-12-22, 21:51

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by ocdmonkey

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Ok,I'm using the same system with both the working adapter and the not-working one. I haven't tried the system with a normal IDE drive, but it does work just fine with an IDE CD drive. BIOS does see the drive even with the not-working adapter. I have BIOS set up to automatically get the drive specs, …

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