Recent content by acgs

I think this is a good step in the right direction, but would suggest a few other changes. 1.) Add a note to the "IBM PC, Clones and Descendants" category description directing non-PC IBM users to the Companies category. I didn't immediately see the new forum at first. 2.) While we are...

Sorry to take so long to reply, but I hadn't noticed this new thread until today. Kaypros in general used standard power cords. The 1982 Kaypro 2s I've seen used the same cord as the ones I mention for the Kaypro 4 in this post on the Kaypro Replacement Parts thread...

If you want to still go the animated GIF route, you should give lxpic a try: http://hplx.pgdn.de/ While it started out as a viewer for the HP 100LX palmtop, it has been greatly expanded to cover a lot more standard screen resolutions from CGA up to VESA. You can use it to view a number of...

That's great news and a great idea Rodney!

I would think EVERYONE HERE would be interested in the source code! I am, at least.

SAY was first published in PC Magazine itself (like most of the programs found in DOS Power Tools) and you can read about it here...

This problem stems from the way Microsoft added the Unix functionality to MS-DOS back in version 2.0. While Unix had the escape character \ to prevent the shell from treating the vertical bar as a pipe symbol, no escape character was added in to MS-DOS's COMMAND.COM preventing the use of the...

They don't. Sinclair BASIC didn't have READ & DATA statements until the ZX Spectrum came out. So you can't load the machine code in that way. This was one of the greatest hurdles to programming in machine code on the ZX81/TS1000. There were many ways around it, from a simple BASIC program...

I found the manual a little confusing and its layout not the best. I just wanted to be sure you hadn't missed something. Oh well...

I think you might have problems using this card in a Pentium II. From looking at the manual on archive.org, I see that there is a requirement of no more than 21K clusters in any DOS extended partition. If your Pentium II is setup anything like the norm for this system, you're going to have FAR...

I seriously doubt the problem is caused by a Pi 4 and requires a Pi 5. I suggest putting Debian 12.4 (the one @mbbrutman is using) on a new sd card and seeing if that solves the problem. The Pi 4 should run the new OS version fine (it's not that slow), but the problem you're experiencing...

Let's start with the basics for any 86-DOS clone: What do the CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT (FDCONFIG.SYS/FDAUTO.BAT) have in them? You should have a device driver for the DVD drive and the MSCDEX clone, SHSUCDX, loading in order to get any access to the DVD-ROM drive. You might want to set up the...

Exactly my take on it. You never know if a particular program was available from more than one collection or not until you've been able to see the program and compare it with other collections. (Just looking at the filename isn't enough: how many different people had their own ideas on what...

If you are going to toss them, I'll take them. I figure they are worth archiving regardless of their content, even if no one else does.

Other people reading this thread, either now or in the future, might need it. So please post the information to answer the original question. It can't hurt to have the right part identified.