Recent content by Divarin

interesting well I don't think I want to make a twitter account just to reach out to him I'd rather just stay out of that whole universe. So nothing wrong with the caps as far as I can tell. One interesting bit I tried powering the device with a bench power supply (so it's not in a c64, just...

Yeah I'm basically using this broken piece of tech as an excuse to practice and improve my own skills, I have other means of connecting my Commodore so for me the end goal isn't so much having a working rs232 adapter as I could just go buy another one it's to get this one in particular working...

I've had this device sitting around for years and have rarely used it. The reason is that it gets really hot, well U1 (one of the MAX232CPE chips) gets hot. Like hot enough that you can smell it burning and if you touch it you burn yourself. U2 (which is the same chip) is fine. I tried swapping...

My first attempt I had nothing on the drive except for the two ADFs, when that was giving me the E31 errors then I went down the route of adding the HxC stuff. For now I'm booting off of a floppy (workbench) so I'm not really concerned about booting off of the gotek just yet. Once I get it...

Ignoring the add-on to swap DF0 and DF1 for now (until I know this is working) is there some trick to setting up the thumb drive for a gotek that will be on an external floppy drive on an amiga 500? I copied the files HxC_Compat_Mode/Amiga/AUTOBOOT.HFE and HxC_Compat_Mode/HXCSDFE.CFG to the root...

Well I got the Kickstart 1.3 rom installed okay and went through the process again but the result is the same, after formatting I still get "Not a DOS disk"

Yeah this will be the 3rd card I've tried, I have a 4th on order (a 256mb SanDisk) This is the first one that would actually go through the format process. I did get out of memory errors with a 64gb card and my 8gb hard drive. As for ram this is a bone-stock Amiga 500 except for an internal...

You know what I think I might know the issue, I'm using Kickstart 1.2 which I think predates compatibility with FFS (Fast Filesystem). I will try updating to 1.3.

Taking a long shot there that someone might have some answers but I'm pretty much at my wit's end. For my (stock) Amiga 500, I would like to add some storage. I found and put together this: http://nuclear.mutantstargoat.com/hw/amiga/a500hdd/ The memory card I'm trying to use is a SanDisk...

Update: yeah definitely a cache issue, I might need some help there too but I'll post that question separately since the subject line on this is about XTIDE.

Alright it looks like I have a completely separate issue. I removed as much from the computer as I could (kept video card and floppy/IDE controller card) and connected only one floppy drive (no hard drive) and tried to boot off of a floppy. This still locked up just after POST. This...

I have had for the past few years this 486 (a dx-33) which has been relying on the XTIDE Universal Bios (sitting on a rom chip in a network card) to support the hard drive in the system. The hard drive is an 80 gig drive but is recognized as an 8 gig drive and I have currently 2 2-gig partitions...

This has been sold.

Hi all! Last year at VCFMW I picked up an Atari 800 and in restoring it I was faced with the issue of a broken, pretty much non-repairable, stackpole keyboard. I found this Mechanical Keyboard and decided to go that route as it lets me re-use my keycaps and keep the same classic look to the...

Actually that sounds exactly like what I'm looking for! Thanks, I'll play around with this today!