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Tidalwave PS-1000 PC Card Flash and or CF cards

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First post, by BastetFurry

Posted on 2018-03-28, 09:59

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Hey Vogons 😀

I have a Tidalwave PS-1000 clone, a Okano PT-100, in front of me where i want to use either CF-Cards trough a passive adapter or Flash Cards, maybe even both.
The problem is, tellme.com isn't recognizing the PC Card chipset, see "screenshot" for the output. Darn hard to photograph these old screens. 😅

Any ideas how to get the two PC Card slots in that machine to recognize more than these darn way too expensive SRAM cards?

Reply 1 of 8, by ajacocks

Posted on 2018-06-22, 02:08

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Interesting...I just picked up a Zeos Pocket PC, though it seems to need cleaning, since it doesn’t power up on battery.

Do you have manuals, or the parallel or serial cables? I don’t have any of them, and would like to try to clone the serial cable, at least.

- Alex

Reply 2 of 8, by BastetFurry

Posted on 2018-06-23, 10:03

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Nope, just got the device in its leather bag, had to get myself a used aftermarket solution that is just for the Tidalwaves utilizing a very thin PCB instead of some special cable adapter.

Reply 3 of 8, by ajacocks

Posted on 2018-06-23, 12:14

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Interesting...are you willing to post some pictures? I’d like to try to clone the aftermarket board.

Reply 4 of 8, by BastetFurry

Posted on 2018-06-23, 14:18

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The image is too big for the forum, check it out over here:
http://lionscade.de/zeugs/tidalwaveportreplicator.jpg

BTW, you can abuse Dosbox running Norton Commander to get files from and to the device over serial, works rather nicely. 😉

Reply 5 of 8, by ajacocks

Posted on 2018-06-25, 04:02

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Thanks, BastetFurry!

Can you take a picture of the bottom, as well?

Looks to be a very straight-forward board.

- Alex

Reply 6 of 8, by BastetFurry

Posted on 2018-06-27, 15:32

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Here you have it:
http://lionscade.de/zeugs/tidalwaveportreplicator2.jpg

Reply 7 of 8, by ajacocks

Posted on 2018-06-27, 15:36

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Thank you very much, BastetFurry!

Reply 8 of 8, by buzztiaan

Posted on 2019-10-06, 21:39

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did you ever end up cloning this board? i got a couple of these systems here 😀

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