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Greetings from the cold north..

Quarryman

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..Norway that is. Now, I don't consider myself to be a collector of vintage hardware, I only own two vintage computers, a C64 and a Kontiki 100, I have no intention of getting more and I don't find using old software to be very interesting. ;) I do however find it quite fun to program these old things, which is how I ended up here. :)

My current quest is to write a demo for the Tiki 100, with the current sub-quest being to upgrade it first, preferably to two drives supporting the Tiki 800k format so I can store a sensible amount of data. Unfortunately I only have one potential candidate drive so far, a Teac FD55GFR, and my attempts to use that for the Tiki hasn't worked out yet. Does seem to be quite a lot of know-how around here though, so maybe someone will be able to tell me what I'm doing wrong. (or that what I'm trying to do can't be done and that I should instead focus on trying to find the correct kind of drive, which according to the documentation would be an FD55F).
 
Hello there,
I hope you get the information you need. I don't know what a Kontiki 100 is, but is sounds interesting enough for me to look it up.
Hope to see something in the future about your programming projects!
 
Welcome to the forums :-) Interesting system, first time I've heard of it but of course found some description and a picture. I'm not sure about the floppy issue but there is a manual and some information on modifying that same model of drive you have over on oldskool.org that might be related.
 
Thanks for the welcomes. :) And yes, I did find that guide on oldskool.org, and after following the instructions for the 149-U (which seems to have an identical jumper layout as the 142-U I have) I got the Tiki to at least reconize the drive, but it didn't read any of the floppies I tried booting from. Another problem I'm having is that the Tiki hangs after a random period of time, not sure what could be causing that. It boots fine, I can usually list the contents of the floppy, and depending on its mood I might be able to start a program, but then it justs hangs and doesn't respond to anything, the only way out is to powercycle it. Guess I might have to test downgrading the ROM to the original again, if that doesn't work then I'm for the time being out of ideas.
 
Greetings! This winter has been more wet than cold. :-)
A Tiki 100 is nice. It is one of the machines I would love to have (not that I have space for more machines, but...).
 
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