hmmm tom, I know all this but I don't have a floppy drive anymore.
most of the disks I had were dammaged though I have a lot of stuff
round with me that are backed up.
I have my origional keynote disks which as far as I know are ok.
hardware wise I don't have a gold synth and even if I got one if I
don't know how to change the battery pack then there is a problem.
At 04:42 p.m. 17/10/2012 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Shaun,
Well, if you are willing to be flexible its not difficult to rig up a
working Dos system. The easiest way would be to run it as a virtual
machine under VMWare. GW Micro still sells Dectalk external synths and
there are probably people out there willing to sell an older external
synth for cheaper than that. Jaws for Dos is now freeware and last I
heard is available somewhere on the Freedom Scientific site. So right
there you have the makings of a basic Dos virtual machine. Install MS
Dos 6.22 into VMWare Player, install your synth drivers, install Jaws
and you'll have a working Dos system. :D
On 10/17/12, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> ibriham Its been a major project since my old toshiba t1850 died.
> Ofcause all the pulsedata readers needed a 386 else they didn't work.
> So I decided that I'd just run with stuff on trademe or ebay or something.
> Trouble was at least locally I couldn't find a good box.
> I managed to find a loggable unit once but it was heavy and the
> keyboard was dammaged.
> I then went for another box but still couldn't find it that worked ok.
> Then all my synths crapped out the keynote sa needed a battery change
> and was useless even on power.
> I never found out how to change the cells so I chucked the synth away.
> The dectalk functioned for a bit but keynote stuff only supported
> keynote synths.
> I hadn't used jaws though knew I could use the free reader or hal
> free reader for dos.
> In the end I just decided enough was enough.
> The only way I think I'd ever go back to dos was if I either
> 1. got someone to give up a keynote gold external synth and a 386 system
> or a keynote internal and a steady supply of parts, I would need a
> keynote gold.
> or 2. that I found room for a linux box just to play old dos games.
> I will bee aquiring a single core crappy old mangled dog of a box my
> grandpa uses which is a begger to use and setup but it will do for
> the old windows games especially if I go 64 with the laptop.
> Dos though unless someone has hardware to give or an idea how I could
> do it as software and in such a way as I could run the hints and
> other things in windows and also to emulate the pc speakers setups
> and stuff by making stuff run at the right speed while not effecting
> anything else I may seriously concider it.
> Right now though dos is just to hard to obtain.
> I guess I could have pushed for a new gold running box back in 1995
> and probably should have.
> Ofcause thats ages ago and I'd never have fitted things back then.
> Back then I still relyed on now mostly dammaged floppies I still have
> those.
> Most of my stuff was and performance was gotten via vertual memmory
> management and optimisations of the system.
> I also disabled sertain things and hacked their address space.
> Must say though the more I look at it the more I realise its really
> not practicle to use dos as a primary os anymore on a system.
> Academic as it is, I actually have dos 5.0 wp 5.1 dos6.22 and I think
> dos7 that I used in the old days.
> I have all my keynote software, and even other stuff I coppied for things.
> Those days seem like a long time ago now.
> Just thinking of them brings me to tears some times.
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