Re: backpack cd driver freezes keyboard

Posted on 2020-03-09, 15:14

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by xtgold

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One of the programs I lost was called jacket.exe It would print out the sleeves for a 5 1/4 inch floppy with the directory of what you were putting on,with cut along the dotted lines and fold/paste to make a sleeve for the floppy.Would come in handy for dvd's cd's in this era.It expected a parallel …

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Re: backpack cd driver freezes keyboard

Posted on 2020-03-09, 14:39

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by xtgold

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think I used tiramisu for that type of recovery back then. You can still find it with an ftp search site

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Re: backpack cd driver freezes keyboard

Posted on 2020-03-09, 14:28

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by xtgold

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For those playing along at home, the V4 of the drivers comes bundled with a dos program called testport that will check the parallel port to see if it is epp/ecp/uni The program works all the way back to dos 3.30

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Michelangelo virus

Posted on 2020-03-09, 14:25

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by xtgold

in Milliways

in Milliways

Set up a DOS only 6gig hardrive with diskfix and started going through my collection of 360k floppies. Old favorites I copied to the hardrive and tried a few.The other day I started the process again and the hardrive wouldn't boot and was blank. I should have waited until after march 6th. Beware of …

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Re: backpack cd driver freezes keyboard

Posted on 2020-03-09, 03:59

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by xtgold

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

v1.06 on a celeron 550 for testing purposes gives me the divide overflow error when it loads. I know there was a turbo pascal patch for .exe files but never heard of one for .sys driver files. On the xt it just doesn't detect the backpack. I believe the device was the 8x cd,I bought it for the guts …

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Re: backpack cd driver freezes keyboard

Posted on 2020-03-08, 14:19

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by xtgold

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

forgot to mention,the xt does have the v20 chip. pc is the blue chip pcPopular xt maybe why v4 drivers almost work?

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backpack cd driver freezes keyboard

Posted on 2020-03-08, 13:56

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by xtgold

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Backpack parallel cd device out of the case,i have no idea what model number. It is missing the 20 pin memory buffer chip. The only dos driver I can get to work on an xt is v4,but the keyboard freezes right after the driver loads. None of the commands after the .sys line make any difference. One …

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Re: Let's make some memories (SIMMs)

Posted on 2020-03-07, 16:52

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by xtgold

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The original xt pc had all it's memory on a multifunction board. I was thinking about that approach,an isa or eisa card with extra memory. I once had an eisa prototype board from radio shack, but both are long gone. A pic of a 286 mainboard with no simm sockets,all memory was discrete chips. Try to …

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Re: Let's make some memories (SIMMs)

Posted on 2020-03-07, 16:29

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by xtgold

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1 meg simm kit from the 1980's I would strip the 1meg x1 dram chips from defective 286 motherboards

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Re: Iomega ZIP drives

Posted on 2020-03-07, 14:21

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by xtgold

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

mac may be for old macs and not osx I have cd's with iomegaware 2.8 but that is from the os8 era scour the earth for omegaware for the 250meg drive,mine has the click of death the 100meg works but to puny for any storage uses.

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Re: DOS 7.1 With Large Hard Drives

Posted on 2020-03-02, 15:39

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by xtgold

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

getting back to win98 and the various .dos files,dos7.1 fools 98 into thinking win98 is already installed and doesn't rename anything. When I kick into dos mode instead of exit it uses my .bat and .sys files from the previous dos 7.1. On a drive with the old 1994 dos 7.0 it did rename the various …

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Re: DOS 7.1 With Large Hard Drives

Posted on 2020-02-27, 12:46

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by xtgold

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I tried qcrack last night for old times sake but get the runtime error. For old cracks you may have to actually use a retro machine ,unless you can patch it.

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Re: DOS 7.1 With Large Hard Drives

Posted on 2020-02-27, 12:26

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by xtgold

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

vista the other day wouldn't activate online,if they are even doing that anymore. I loaded a legit copy from cd and it gave me 3 days to activate.

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Re: DOS 7.1 With Large Hard Drives

Posted on 2020-02-26, 18:05

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by xtgold

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had another pc with osx86 on a partition and one with fat32 that osx86 made,it made a 156gig fat32. Booting dos7.1 off a sata cd (no sata driver) just 2.88 meg worth of dos,xtgold detected the ahci fat32 partition but it was read-only. Changing bios to ata I was able to play with the fat32 …

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Re: DOS 7.1 With Large Hard Drives

Posted on 2020-02-26, 11:55

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by xtgold

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

DOS 7.1 and winxp on a 160Gig drive, 1 partition fat32. I made the drive boot-able with dos 1st so windows shows the startup menu of windows and previous windows.To get around the problem of xp using dos autoexec.bat and config.sys I boot off a floppy with those aimed at the various directories on …

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Re: DOS 7.1 With Large Hard Drives

Posted on 2020-02-25, 13:20

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by xtgold

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Win2k won't even install,it says partition corrupt or not formatted.

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Re: DOS 7.1 With Large Hard Drives

Posted on 2020-02-25, 02:08

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by xtgold

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

fdisk refused to make a new partition,said the disk was full. I used aomei partition assistant in win 7 to make a new fat32 partition 357G like the 1st. DOS booting on C wouldn't recognize the new drive. That was rude. I used hirens boot cd 15.2 parted magic to make partition 2 lba like the 1st. …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-02-22, 13:40

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by xtgold

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DOS 7.10 on cf card 256meg lexar cf card with the usb logo on the back usb capable so it takes a more primitive adapter I had to use rufus in win7 to format and make bootable, then I put the chinese dos 7.10 on. On my shuttle ab45s014 mainboard I am limited to usb 1.0 so dos is very sluggish and …

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Re: DOS 7.1 With Large Hard Drives

Posted on 2020-02-21, 20:56

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by xtgold

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Norton disk doctor in dos 7.10 shows it as a 357G drive the 246m is a usb cf card fat32

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Re: DOS 7.1 With Large Hard Drives

Posted on 2020-02-21, 17:44

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by xtgold

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I let the modded fdisk make the partition

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