Re: Flashing the Gotek floppy emulator with HxC firmware
Posted on 2016-03-02, 13:50
Thanks to everyone in this thread. Managed to get my gotek flashed over the weekend, super pleased with my Tandy now! http://i.imgur.com/PZlvLDg.jpg
Re: What's the best way to get high-density floppy support in an old XT-class machine?
Posted on 2016-03-02, 13:48
If that's all of your problem, you can connect a HD drive to a DD controller and it will work (as DD only obviously). I figured that out over the weekend, actually! I ended up just flashing a gotek drive though. Once I build my xt-ide card I'll be able to set up the high-density WD1002-WX1 I …
Emulating floppy speeds
Posted on 2016-03-02, 13:44
Floppy transfer speeds are blindingly fast in Dosbox by default; is it possible to emulate the actual transfer rate of a floppy disk?
Booting from floppy image, unable to mount any other drive letters
Posted on 2016-03-02, 13:42
I'm trying to replicate my Tandy 1000TX environment in Dosbox. I've gotten the tandy MSDOS 3.2 boot floppy and it WILL boot successfully, but I'm then unable to mount any other drives. I assumed this was due to the mount.com and imgmount.com executables not existing on the boot image, but when I …
Re: Best platform for a Win9x retro pc?
Posted on 2016-02-26, 13:46
I have a working Pentium III 700mhz and a half-dozen P4 boards/processors of unknown functionality, as well as any number of Duron/early Athlon mobo/cpus. I have one or two S3 Trio64 cards, some S3 Virge of various makes/models, some random Number Nine video card i can't remember (Imagine 128?), and …
Re: Best platform for a Win9x retro pc?
Posted on 2016-02-26, 03:25
gdjacobs wrote: Are you looking mostly for capability or do you want systems that are fairly period correct? Capability. The experience is more important than the specific hardware.
Best platform for a Win9x retro pc?
Posted on 2016-02-26, 01:20
Here's what I've got to work with that I reasonably remember from that era: A pile of SB32 2760 cards non-pnp Two PNP SB Awe32 Awe64 gold Two SBLive PCI cards Ultrasound Max + two Ultrasound PNP Pro Two Geforce 4400ti Two Voodoo2 cards AMD K6-2 450 barebones Pentium 166 barebones Celeron 300a …
Re: What's the best way to get high-density floppy support in an old XT-class machine?
Posted on 2016-02-26, 01:01
Keep in mind that no matter what kind of floppy drive you attach, whether it's a classic mechanical one or a gotek emulator, you will not get more than DD format support unless you add a BIOS extension for HD format support. The BIOS of XT-class machines simply does not have HD floppy support. I'm …
Re: What's the best way to get high-density floppy support in an old XT-class machine?
Posted on 2016-02-25, 15:56
Thanks for all the feedback. It appears even more complicated than I initially thought, since I'm working with a Tandy 1000TX. I've ordered a full selection of lo-tech XT expansion boards and will be spending the spring populating those. I've also got a WD1002A floppy controller on the way that …
Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?
Posted on 2016-02-24, 18:26
This looks amazing. I'd love to see GUS back in production. I've been trying to go back through the logs; what's the availability of these going to be? is there an estimated cost?
Re: Has anyone tried one of these floppy emulators in a retro PC?
Posted on 2016-02-24, 15:59
Interesting. I've done some quick looking around, and it seems like that custom firmware might even give it XT double-density drive compatibiliy without any need for additional floppy controllers...
Has anyone tried one of these floppy emulators in a retro PC?
Posted on 2016-02-24, 15:11
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C4PCK9S?dpID=41XbdwgjAcL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_SL500_SR160%2C160_&refRID=0HKQ35DYFBDKYZVA0X7Z&ref_=pd_lutyp_cxhsh_2_5 Basically I'm imagining you'd load up all your old floppy images into this and then select which one you want to present to the PC. The reviews online …
What's the best way to get high-density floppy support in an old XT-class machine?
Posted on 2016-02-23, 13:26
I'd like to add high-density floppy support to this Tandy 1000TX I've found, but it looks like most of the 8-bit XT class floppy adapters are double-density only, and/or don't have a bios so I can boot from them? Anyone have any suggestions on how to (relatively easily) add a HDD floppy controller? …
High density diskette in low-density drive?
Posted on 2016-02-22, 14:43
Can I format a high-density 3.5" disk in a low-density drive? I recently came across a Tandy 1000TX with monitor, joystick, and keyboard for $20 bucks at a local yard sale, in essentially perfect condition. I'm not sure it was even turned on, it's literally in 100% like-new condition, there isn't …
New 486 single-board computers for retro system?
Posted on 2015-03-19, 12:35
Has anyone tinkered with using one of these 486 single-board computers for a standalone retro-gaming system? http://www.advantech.gr/products/sbc/pcm-4825.htm CPU: Embedded AMD 5x86-133 (DX5-133) processor • BIOS: AWARD 128 KB Flash memory • Chipset: VIA VT82C496G • System memory: One 72-pin SIMM …
Re: Any recent news on dosbox touchscreen support?
Posted on 2015-02-18, 13:44
Yeah I picked up a little fanless celeron 10" netbook to use for dos gaming. it works very well. 2gb ram and old 60gb SSD. I couldn't resist the lure of a a 7" portable Windows PC though, Microcenter had the Winbook 7" on sale for $59, and was just a little surprised touchscreen wasn't really …
Re: Any recent news on dosbox touchscreen support?
Posted on 2015-02-16, 19:56
I did but I can't get it to work windowed. It's a damn shame Doxbos doesn't already support this, there is a real glut on the market of cheap Windows 8 x86 hardware that'd be PERFECT for portable little dos gaming machines. Do any of the unofficial PC ports offer this functionality? Or am I allowed …
Any recent news on dosbox touchscreen support?
Posted on 2015-02-12, 15:14
The forum search only pulled up some threads from 2011 and a link to an updated SDL that doesn't seem to work for me. Basically, is there any way to get relative input via touchscreen rather than absolute? I.E., the location I touch on the screen is registered as a mouse click at that x/y, rather …
Re: Dosbox on Motorola Cliq (Android phone)
Posted on 2009-12-31, 18:10
lightmaster wrote: congrats man! Wasn't anything special. Just got a chroot set up on the phone, and apt-get install dosbox. What you see on the screen is a VNC session into a VNC server running locally in the debian chroot, and then Dosbox running on top of that.
Dosbox on Motorola Cliq (Android phone)
Posted on 2009-12-31, 16:10
Everything you see is running locally on the phone through a Debian chroot environment. Telengard is playable. Ultima IV crashes with "Bus error".
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