The following pertains to the Gotek SFR1M44-U100 3.5 Inch 1.44MB USB SSD Floppy Drive Emulator Black: I have used one of these in the past and had no problems. I'm trying to figure out if there's something wrong with my USB stick or the emulator itself. I have tried 2 USB sticks actually, the first …

@darry, thanks for that input. I think I'm satisfied based on mostly understanding the origin of the executables being distributed. Its more of a curiosity than a concern of legalese. As a kid, my 486 (Packard Bell Legend) in 1991 didn't come with much but a few disks. I took for granted drivers …

@darry, @joseph_joestar, Thank you for the input. I appreciate all the research! So its safe to say that because Yamaha and Benq provided these originally for their products, these drivers aren't the same as say "a proprietary ROM"? Obviously, drivers are required to run devices. I just wanted to …

Hello there, I have come across several drivers that seem to be floating around in the community that are required to get my rig running properly. I have built a Socket A Athlon DOS gaming machine based on Phil's suggestions. I picked up one of those Cobra YMF744 PCI cards. The machine has an …

Ok, so 1 for 3dfx VD3. Anyone else care to weigh in? I know those aren't cheap these days. I'm hoping perhaps for something a little less popular that's still great for the era.

I'm building a machine based on a Gateway 4000622 / Intel D815EEA motherboard. According to the docs of the D815EEA, I can use an AGP card with the following: agp.png I recently found a GeForce ti4200 x8 on eBay for a decent price, but it seems that x8 is a part of AGP 3.0? The board has a universal …

So, I just bought a Socket 370 motherboard for the first time in about 17 years, a Gateway 4000622... I'm pretty happy. @RJDog, hey I realize that I'm bring an old post out of the archives here but I was wondering how things worked out for you. I'm asking because I recently bought this same board …

Thanks @Rodoko for the tips. I'll need to check the lense for sure. Everything else checks out.

So I used the oakcdrom.sys in Autoexec.bat and config.sys and it mounts. However when I cd to D: I'm getting the good old "Drive not ready, Abort? Retry? Fail?" The CD light doesn't come on even. I see there's PIO modes in the BIOS. I've tried all to no avail. Thanks for the feedback as well!

Greetings, New here so be nice :D ... I've built a retro computer recently with the following specs: Socket 7 Motherboard Pentium I @133Mhz 16M RAM IDE 52x Creative CDROM 2G compact flash -> IDE Standard 1.44 3 1/4 Floppy Drive So far, everything has worked great. For some reason I'm having issues …