Recent content by Haemogoblin

Yes, that sort of what I was asking. Let me elaborate, I own gotek drives but have only ever used them on my Amiga's, using them on a x86 system is something I've not yet done, so it's outside my wheel house of experience. I'm not clear on what I need to do to get a gotek working on a different...

I’m trying to restore a none functional Compaq Portable II, I’ve got as far as getting it to post, but it is seeking a boot disk. All the disks I’ve tried don’t work and I was wondering whether I could plug in a gotek floppy emulator? From what I’ve read on here, so long as the image on the...

This is interesting, I didn't think the portable would even look at a 3.5" floppy drive until the bios was altered. I have plenty of drives hanging around and i'll most likely have a floppy cable some place, maybe steal it from another system. I do have the disks in the post, coming to me from...

Thanks for the response, sorry for the delay in replying. A very kind chap on here is sending me the disks needed to boot the computer up. So the next step will be to secure myself a slim line 5.25" 1.44mb floppy drive.

The reason I’m posting here, is because I don’t know anyone with a 360kb floppy drive and was hoping someone could help. But it’s thus far proven fruitless 🙁 Not an encouraging start to restoring this machine.

I’m still looking, thought hagelaars was going to come to the rescue but he’s since stopped responding to pm’s and I really need a boot disk to use this machine.

Still needing a boot disk if anyone can help

At the moment the machine has it's stock 5.25" drive installed. All I have is 3.5" floppy drives, so I'm not able to create the disk needed to get the ball rolling. My understanding is that you can just swap the internal floppy drive without first booting into the bios and telling it to look for...

A few months back I got my hands on a Compaq portable, it seems in working order, albeit the keyboard cable is frayed, which I'm going to address at some point. Either with a new cable or some heat shrink. Anyways, reason for the post is because I don't have the means to create the original...

Hey I've just been using this cool little program on my Amstrad PPC. However the spell checker doesn't function. Anyone know if there's are registered version lurking around? I don't imagine it's possible to register it still in 2021 lol

Admins please delete, somehow my phone has created two posts when I initially posted this morning.

I'm playing around with an Amstrad PPC512 and I've been using the stock software. It's not bad, but very limiting and was wondering if anyone could recommend anything else. My first thought was Wordstar, but I want something I can transfer to a modern PC and read with ease. I used to have a...

Hey everyone I'm hoping to get some advice, someone I know is selling a CP-II but he says it doesn't power up, all that happens is the lights bink on and off. I'm not that familiar with the Compaq Portables and wondered if anyone with more experience might be able to offer some insight.

Hey guys So i think I finally found a copy of the Sharp Diagnostic disk but I've got a slight problem. When I first became the proud owner of this machine, the floppy drive didn't work and as a work around I installed a 3.5" floppy drive. It works fine and it's a lot easier to swap data between...

Hey Is it possible to read / write to disks formatted for Apricot computers on a modern, Win XP system?