Hey guys, so just to clarify about the floppy images (since some of you are asking) - IBM used to make disk images that were contained within a single DOS executable. The only way I know of to extract these is to run them in DOS with a standard floppy attached. A USB floppy won't work in DOS (or at least mine won't), Windows won't run the executable files from the command line, and DOSBox doesn't include the full floppy emulation that would let the executable work. One thing I haven't actually tried is using the Gotek on my P70 to run the executable in DOS and saving the files back to the Gotek. But this isn't the only case I've had recently - for example, I had a heck of a time writing that P70 reference disk too. I ended up getting that to work with my USB drive (there is a version out there that's a raw image file), but it would have been a heck of a lot easier if I just had a computer with a regular floppy drive.

8-Bit guy films his card assemblies and I enjoy watching them, so there's your vote for that.

I love the hardware episodes so looking forward to thise updates. I'm still on the hunt for my first classic IBM pc down here in Australia! :)

Keep up the fantastic work, your delivery and video style are both educational and fun!

I always had a thing for the F keys being on the Left Side.. That layout worked really well with Flight Sim too

Awesome content. Thanks!

That poor zombieman; he just couldn't hit you. :3c Oh well, he tried.

Hey just discovered your channel-really awesome videos. I see a future lgr/techmoan in the making!

Really looking forward to the P70 and rail shooter episodes.

Can't wait for the keyboard comparison!

Humid days in Atlantic Canada as well.

A long shot, but maybe there is a mixer utility for the sound card where you need to adjust the volume for sampled audio? And/or connect/disconnect headphones? Failing that, maybe a OPL2LPT or Covox would be an acceptable fallback?

Have you tried turning off quick boot in the bios of your 600X? As far as I remember that helps to get sound working in dos on a 600E which has two audio chips in there (one for Windows and another legacy for compatibility). I don't actually remember if that's the case with the 600X and it still has two chips like the 600E or just a single one and that setting in bios has something to do with the discovery of the second 100% SB-compatible audio chip there that does work in DOS. Try digging out that stuff.

The non-standard IBM disk images usually came with a program to write them to floppy. What's preventing you from writing the disk image out to a floppy disk so that you can retrieve the files from it?

Keep up the top vids :) I would love to see more of your old Apple IIc and even the good old mac classic. How do you get software/games on to them, and the 1 BIG thing that no youtubers cover is productivity. eg word processing, banking, spreadsheets and so on. I recently wrote a book on my Apple iic and also did my weekly money planner on my commodore 64. I understand that there probably isn't a lot of people after videos like that but I find it very interesting to see what else these computers can do other then game. Geos for the c64 and apple iic is pretty amazing! :) anyway keep up the top work and look forward to your next video!!

Are you still going to a video about the bolt mod for the Model M?

Perhaps a PC Card floppy drive would work with the ThinkPad? I haven't personally tried one, but I know they exist

Thanks for keeping the 15 year old computer. I think it's a nice computer.

Have you seen anything about LGR? I know he might be able to be interesting of IBM PCs

So from backing up many of my father's PC Clone's' 5.25 720kb floppy disks, I discovered that old dos systems don't write their header to the disk, simply letting the system assume that file system is fat12. You can often copy a working formated disk's header of the right size to the disk image, and them mounting them in linux. You should have access to them in linux after mounting them. I was able to use these images in linux, but not in the gotek floppy emulator. I'm not sure what's up with it. I haven't tried this with the HxC floppy emulators, or gotek with a HxC firmware.

When you say in this video that you have disk images of floppies that won't work in emulators, what do you mean by this? Do you mean that the disk images won't mount properly in the emulator, so you cannot see what is in the filesystem? Or do you mean the disk images mount in the emulator, but it is pointless trying to mount and use a driver disk for hardware the emulator doesn't contain?

Recapping that old floppy drive was a bit hasty. Yes caps fail due to age; but I usually go for the mechanical parts first. The head, the tracks, the presence of corrosion, and cracked solder joints. Recapping may be necessary, but it's a time-consuming and laborious process that may go to waste due to misdiagnosed problem.

Use a $10 USB floppy drive and the Linux 'dd' command to write disk images?

Hi Good to see i am not the only person who struggles with PC at times Re the PC - are the floppies original 360 only - they probably are, i cant recall if you have a hard drive in that machine, so we have some issues / standards to look at 360 floppy only, well it becomes a floppy boot machine and a slave drive 360 floppy x2 and hard drive, i would use laplink 3 to 5 ( or fast lynx ) and use the correct parallel port or cross over serial port cables - i bought some of ebay but they did not work i just chopped it in half and tested pins with multimeter and butchered a working cable Laplink etc will only work in pure dos mode, you must boot of boot floppy or up to dos 6.22, you cannot run within dos box on on XP machine, you can actually use a machine that has dos / win 3.1 / Win 95 / Win 98 but on the start up menu hit F5 or F8 to go to dos prompt - donto go into windows, then you will be able to use the hardware from dos level Everything after Win98 eg ME / 2000 / XP / Vista etc is not dos based it is NT based as such it does not access physical devices via bios / hardware everything needs a windows driver , also the dos prompt is just a emulator - this is why you cannot run a ISA sound blaster or run dos games that use a sound blaster, the program runs, but stutters on the sound You may be able to get a parallel port Zip drive running, the internals are IDE or scsi so that wont run on PC / XT class Typically you should be able to connect similar age machines or machines within the next 2 generations I have P100 - P2 - P4 - P4 Celeron - Core2Duo and I3 - I5 - I7 Software is form Dos to Win98 to XP to Win 7 and Win 10 and they all see the same network in windows, well win 98 is a bit funny as it can see the win7 shares, but you cannot access the fuiles from the Win98 machine, you can however from the Win 7 machine see the Win98 shares and drop files, it never worked, now it works this way once i changed the Win98 setup to have a login password as this is necessary in the old imbedded security( yeah you can still do escape and run win98 but it uses some other protocol or something that the Win X and Win7 can talk to ) 286 and newer you can get a combo controller card with IDE connectors I dont know if you can get say a old ISA sound blaster with the matching cdrom and use that - i do still use my ISA SB1.5 and the 2 speed cdrom to this day on a Series 5 Pentium 100 system and also a Pentium 2 You can run 8bit ISA networks cards such as 3com or a NE2000 clone, from there you can use dos networking to get to a remote drive on another machine The laptop with the sound issues is typical to generic cards that are not fully dos compatible, i have this issue with a Dell 2400 with a PCI card with the Crystal CM18738, it is DOS compatible, plays sound and FM and no most games digital sound but not doom, it has the same issues as your video on time stamp 8:44 it shows the IRQ and DMA, but it wont "pop" so you get music but not the gun sounds - which is very important in that game. The only thing i suggest is check the bios and turn of IRQ 5 or the printer and try and rerun the sound card dos initialization to IRQ5 or IO 220 , somewhere on Vogons i found a good tutorial about the IO IRQ etc as i had issues with my SB1.5 and it explained the setting and how each device is like 10 or 20 of the prior setting with the cdrom - you may need to turn of serial ports in bios as well as it will allow some rearranging of resources The only other way s to use the laptop with Win98 and set up the resources as a windows music device and then click doom from the file manager, it should launch a dos prompt and run ( note often you may need to rerun Doom set up - typically i do and select the music and hardware options save and run ) Nortons System Info ( i think i use version 5 ) is also useful to tell you what is being used, it is like a early windows MSD diagnostics. The gotek is good, i have on on my P100, it is excellent to boot of the first image, and the other images are good to place your original floppy install or backups, you can d/l some file images and convert them for use on the gotek, however i do find it very slow as it emulates the hardware to good as it uses the floppy access speed, also to copy fro say image / disk 1 to image disk 2 cant really be done ie star of in first drive, then type b: hit enter , it prompts for b drive, then you change the number on the gotek screen and press enter, it then access that file image, now you can copy a file from B: to A: but it takes forever, it seems to copy like 10k then ask to swap drives, so you change the numbers on the control panel then it writes, then it asks for b: again , i copies a small dos file under 100k and it took a few attempts - so normally when i use the gotek, i use the P100 , it has 16meg ram and i use 8 meg as a ramdrive - i use that as c drive and file swaping is very fast now, this is how i run doom and wolf3d and win311 on the P100 with just a Gotek - all it needs a working 3.5 floppy chain Cool , Regards George

Hello. I have an IBM PC-XT with the XT-IDE from Glitch Works. I'm using it with a CF to IDE adapter and a 1GB CF card. I have no experience with DOS systems and I've had some issues creating DOS partitions. I'm using DOS 2.10 in floppy disks to make the CF card bootable with DOS, but DOS 2.10 is only allowing me to create one 32mb partition. I also tried DOS 3.3 with Virtualbox on a Windows machine and a USB CF card reader. DOS 3.3 allows me to create multiple partitions. One 32mb primary DOS partition, which is set to active, that I make bootable with DOS 3.3 and an extended partition with several 32mb logical drives. When I try to boot from this on VIrtualbox it works fine, but when I try to boot with this on my PC-XT, it doesn't work. It hangs right after selecting the XT-IDE drive. Also, I'm not able to access these logical drives through Windows, only the primary partition. As you can see I'm having some issues here and I'm looking forward to see how it goes for you.

Looking forward to the rail shooter video, as for best cart has to be SNES for me, maybe because of the fondest memories, UK cart though not US, the PC Engine was smart too as it was a slim card.

Conflicting IRQ for that Sound issue?

this was released 1 day from my b day. got a apple ii+

Can't say I've ever seen a lavender video card.

There is a floppy drive the you can use usb with

I realise Panzer Dragoon will get a shout out on the Saturn, but Panzer Dragoon Orta on the original Xbox deserves a shout out :)

I always confuse you with vwestlife

I have downloaded the ThinkPad 600x Audio driver floppy from thinkpads.com and extracted it on a machine containing a real floppy, onto the real floppy drive as it was requesting. It extracted a bunch of files there, which appear to be the audio driver setup for Windows 3.1. The readme on thinkpads.com says this is what they provide (and that they don't provide a separate, DOS-only installation of the audio drivers). I have zipped up the contents of this floppy disk, and will send you a private message with a link to download the contents over Twitter.

i want to propose you a project..... transform an AGP 2x card, so it can be used on an AGP 8x slot. why? voodoo 5 cards are expensive and rare, and people have been doing all sorts of mods with them, there is even an agp to pci adapter sold in japan many years ago that was really expensive, anywhay some people in europe modified a voodoo5 agp 2x to run on an agp 8x slot. Most of the images got lost because of imageshack. but its a clean mod if you buy an agp riser and know how to feed 3.3v to the agp 2x card.

Well, if you are going to do a video on rail shooters, I hope you also at least mention the perhaps only proper rail shooter game, Roller Coaster Rumbler! Where you are actually on rails. I did a short video on it a couple of years ago and whenever I hear rail shooters, that's the first thing I think of. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aK6Cm5ChmrObpZ8.html

Hah. And then your XTIDE vid gets 20K views :D

My wife made me throw it away. It was not making money for our computer business sniff I remember it fondly. I HAVE ALL my old software for it if you need any of it and email me at my gmail.

Very hot day, wearing two layers of clothing ☺