Trouble with emulator on a stock 486 machine

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Nic93
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Trouble with emulator on a stock 486 machine

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the symptom's happen as following, the machine wil boot up, do memory test and then hang on 'wait...' and then it shut's off leaveing the machine hanging and a noise from the speaker, i have set the jumper's to be drive A: on the machine,

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Re: Trouble with emulator on a stock 486 machine

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Which image are you using ? Is the floppy ribbon twisted ? Which switch setting are you using ?

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Re: Trouble with emulator on a stock 486 machine

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i was useing a converted dos 6.22 image hfe file, i had just forgotten to change it up to a 2.88 floppy drive emulation

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Re: Trouble with emulator on a stock 486 machine

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Nic93 wrote:i was useing a converted dos 6.22 image hfe file, i had just forgotten to change it up to a 2.88 floppy drive emulation
2.88 ? Should be 1.44MB.

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Re: Trouble with emulator on a stock 486 machine

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Well, the 1.44 floppy's are compatible, but this 486 i messed with havent been modified that much since the 90's so that would proberly be why it didnt like the emulator that much

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