[Swansea Hackspace] Floppys

[Gwion Davies]

The intention is to use the USB floppy drive to write to disks on a modern machine that can then be used to install an os onto the 90s machine with it’s built in floppy drive.

Kate has kindly donated a stack of floppy disks so now I’m looking to get a couple of floppy drives, one for the HS and one for personal use. I may also need to replace the internal floppy drive as it is throwing an error on boot.

We did however manage to get Duke Nukem 3D up and running last night by imaging the CF card with FreeDOS but there were loads of compatibility issues so a fresh install is likely required.

[cid:50BD455D-1582-4018-B8AC-1A0F71505CCF at swan.ac.uk]

G.

On 10 Jul 2018, at 00:56, Alan Cox <alan at llwyncelyn.cymru<mailto:alan at llwyncelyn.cymru>> wrote:

On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 14:52:00 +0100
Alex Duffield <alexmduffield at gmail.com<mailto:alexmduffield at gmail.com>> wrote:

There's a pc repair place in the market that has LOADS

On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, 14:45 Gwion Davies, <gwiondavies at live.co.uk<mailto:gwiondavies at live.co.uk>> wrote:

Does anyone have any floppy disks & a usb floppy drive that they can bring
along this evening?

I’m going to attempt to set up a 90s pc with MSDOS or FreeDOS and see if
we can have some fun with it.

You can install FreeDOS from CD-ROM on many systems.

I've got a couple of USB floppy drives but to use them to install or run
MSDOS you must have the right BIOS support to use them.

Alan

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