Greetings from the cold north..

[Quarryman]

..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).

 

[luvit]

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!

 

[barythrin]

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.

 

[Quarryman]

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.

 

[tingo]

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...).