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First post, by vasyl

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Not sure if this belongs to DOS or PC forum but I just hope somebody might know something about this little problem.
So, I've got a couple games on HP 110/150 diskettes. Namely, the games are Zork I and Deadline (both folio releases!) It is surprising that there were any games for that computer, given it's specs and purpose but I have these two as a proof (I also know for sure that there was also version of Planetfall but I don't have that one). Understandably, I want to see what's on the disks. The computer itself was running MS DOS 2.11 but the disk format was non-standard. Those two games came on 270K 3 1/2 diskettes. According to some sources, HP110 was the first computer to actually use 3 1/2 diskettes!
I've found some kind of driver by Sydex that is supposed to so what I need but I just get "device not ready" error. Did anybody have success reading HP110 disks on PC? Any hints, suggestions, clues, pointers, drivers?..

Reply 1 of 1, by vasyl

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Answering my own question. That Sydex driver works so does Anadisk, it just requires really old hardware. Ancient Zenith 486 laptop did the trick. Both disks are completely readable. I hoped to see unusual Infocom release numbers but no luck -- Deadline appears to be very common release 27, Zork I is release 75. HP110 was definitely DOS compatible to some degree -- the interpreter runs under DOSBox, just produces some garbage characters sometimes.