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Any DOS guru's? |
Friday, 19 November 5:23 pm
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 | Some time ago I got myself a Toshiba T4400C on Ebay. I am planning to hook up this obsolete machine (25 Mhz 486SX, 200mb HD, 4MB Ram, Color screen) to my Super Nintendo back up unit. It has already been dubbed 'The SNESPod'.
Due to my late payment and us moving back to nes I haven't had the time to mess around with it untill yesterday night. Now, I think I already need help from someone with a bit more of a DOS background than me. |
I am strugling with a few issues here. My biggest frustration: the damn thing refuses to read high density (1.44mb) floppies. Now, this is a bit of an old beast, but surely not that old.
So, question 1: Is it possible that the machine merely thinks it can't read these and can I hack into something to tell the mofo to be a good poddie and read a post 80's floppy disk? Am I too demanding in thinking that it is absolutely out of the question that this machine would not be able to read HD floppies? I am running Dos 5.0. Is this OS too stupid to work with these disks?
Right, on to the next frustration. Using a double density floppy my grandma gave me, I installed ucon64. When I try to run it it tells me that I need somethingdb4.zip. Apperantly this whatever is needed when you run certain programs in the DOS of lore without having windows installed. Tried to download it, found only bad links. I'll probably be able to download this from somewhere if I take the time, but by now I am already so sick of DOS and all the crap it threw at me that I want Linux. I am actually not that familiar with DOS commands so I have to look everything up all the time. Anyway, although people have ported Linux to their own toenails by now, finding a distribution that can run on 4MB Ram is not that easy. Let alone one that can install from a few floppies. Let alone one that can install from one 700k floppy. This will all eventually get solved though, will just take some excessive nerding around and a little help from my trusty Lintel friend.
Less technical question to all of you though, does anyone still have install disks for Dos 5 or 6 and/or Windows 3.1? I'd like to be able to recover my machine after I completely mess it up in my efforts to run a cool OS.
Also, if anyone has a drawer of junk that contains an old mouse or something I can hook up to my paralel port that makes me connect to the outside world (zip drive/cd-rom drive/modem or whatever) that he can spare or let me borrow please don't hesitate...
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