Anyone here ever played the old Mac game Captain Magneto?
Anyone ever win?
HOW?!?!
I can get the jet pack and I can fly into the castle past the killer
spider, but I can't figure out how to put together the rocket.
I also can't find the key to open the door on the micro island to get the
laser gun. Without the gun, it is next to impossible to kill that bastard
spider guarding the castle. If I can't kill him reliably, then I don't
think I have a shot at getting the rocket working.
I've wanted to beat this game for eons... and every Xmas I think about it
as I plan to return to my folks house and memories of sitting playing for
hours on end at the 128k Mac come flooding back. So its that time of year
again, and I still want to win the damn game!
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:36:16 -0800 (PST)
>From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)floodgap.com>
>Subject: Re: Old Dos Programs
>
>Eventually, yes, though they were only distributors for that one (id Software
>actually wrote the Commander Keen series; check out their exorcism of their
>past games, including Wolf and CK, in DOOM II's secret level
Never saw Commander Keen stuff in DOOM II, only the Wolfenstein level.
I'd be grateful for any hints or tips to call up CK in DOOM II.
Thanks,
Freek.
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, David Holland wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 23:46 +0000, Antonio Carlini wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> It was possible to arrange for SCSI to be in the box using
>> a KZQSA, but that was only used to drive CDROM and tape -
>> disks were not oficially supported.
> It does have true scsi on it at least.. You say disks were "Not
> officially supported".. I don't suppose they'd work still though?
Read: No driver under VMS or NetBSD, and the design was very low-cost with
lots of corners cut. Apparently it'll barely tolerate a single drive
attached to it.
> (I've a number of varying size SCSI drives in external shoe boxes that
> are easy enough to move around, and plug in. DSSI drives, well....
> Unsurprisingly, I don't have any of those, should the below 3 turn out
> to be boat anchors.)
I'm willing to bet that ALL of your DSSI disks are fine. If you require
more storage, go and get a HSD05 and a Storageworks shelf to put it in.
eBah has them quite regularly. A Storageworks shelf is a rackmountable
SCSI drawer system, holds 8 modules. At least one of those would be a PSU,
the rest can be disks or tapes. A HSD05 is a DSSI <-> SCSI converter that
appears on the DSSI bus as an attached server with multiple RF7x disks.
I run two DSSI VAXen off one DSSI bus sharing a HSD05. Easiest and
cheapest way to get NetBSD on a 4000/200 is a KFQSA QBus DSSI card and a
HSD05 :)
> I've poked around in it, and on the net enough to see what all is in
> it.. Should anyone be interested..
>
> 2 RF72 1G drives.
> 1 RF31 380M drive.
Yum :)
alex/melt
In November 2003 Joe Heck offered up a stack of manuals including some heathkit stufff I could really use right now that he was going to toss. I'd like to contact him and see if he indeed tossed them out.
Regards,
Eric Lenius
lenius(a)tscnet.com
Heathkit H11-2 parallel interface module schematic
Heathkit WH9-1, WH8-51, WH11-51, WH8-41 adapter cables instructions
Heathkit H11-2 illistration booklet
Heathkit WHA11-5 serial interface module schematic
Heathkit H11-5 illistration booklet
Heath/Zenith model WHA11-5 serial interface module operation/service manual
1979
Heathkit H11-5 serial interface module 1977
Heathkit H11-2 parallel interface module 1977
Heathkit H11-5 schematic
Hi
It seems that every now and then, people need a
parallel keyboard. There is an auction on ebay
for two keyboards that were designed for a Franklin Ace.
I've bought from this fellow in the past and these
are good quality keyboards. They are NOS. They require
only +5V and are ASCII true out.
I have hacked the PROM for this board and can give
you the locations to change the key behavior for
specific operation that one might need for another
machine. They can take a standard 2716 but have
some type of 2508 on them. They have a 8035 or
8048 as the processor.
If no one else bids on these by tomorrow some time,
I'll bid on them. It would be better to see these go to
someone that needs them now then to sit in my
spares pile.
Check ebay #5149974404
Later
Dwight
My old machine is slowly becoming sensible.
Turns out I had three bad RAM chips in my Seattle 16K
boards. They're TI 9044's, I assume are 2147 type. Jameco sells
them for $6 each; is there a better source? (They're also 55nS
claimed, about 3X faster than what's in there now!)
I juggled chips such that the duds are at 9000 - 9fff, so I can
boot CP/M (62K system) and run some programs (memtest, sid...).
I've got to figure out why the floppy controller won't talk to
side 2 (sectors 27 - 52) and I can do that in 16K easily.
My B: drive is loud OH MAN IS IT SO LOUD I have to power it off
after a program load! Need to find another double sided drive.
Out of sheer laziness, to avoid even the faint effort it took
to find the bad chips, I yanked all my nice static RAM and
swapped in my other RAM cards, one by one:
* Central Data 64K
* MSC 64K
* mumble brand, some acronym, no manual (I'm not at home right now)
My EPROM monitor resides at 7800 - 7fff, uses a dozen bytes
RAM below 7800. It self-copies into RAM and turns itself off
(for a clean address space after boot).
Central Data: set the jumpers right, plugged it in, Nothing
Happens. (Boring story & expletives deleted) it shorted +16V,
popped the fuse. Another one of those !@#$%W^% tantalums;
47uF/35V. Replaced with an electrolytic (it was just down near
the card edge). Card works now, but flake-ey results, failed
address-contention tests, couldn't boot CP/M. It's all 4116's,
lots of jumpers for buss timing, ugh. Needs Work.
Reference separate rant on capacitors.
MSC: Dislike this thing's RC filters on the data/address
lines! Crock-detect! I forget the problem, but had problems
with one bank (32K).
Mumble: Inert.
All the static cards back in, debugged the problem. For the
S-100 buss, I'll stick with static memory, thank you!
Joe;
Do you have any software that drives or uses the iSBX 251 bubble memory
module board?
My 1986 Intel Development systems handbook says
"The iPDS can be used as a general purpose desktop computer. The widely used
CP/M microcomputer operating system is available for the iPDS from Intel. It
supports iPDS systems with single or multiple disk drives, and iPDS systems
using bubble memory for mass storage."
Is this inherent in CP/M from Intel? Has anyone tried this? I think I have
Intel CP/M for the iPDS but don't have any bubble memory left. Nor do I have any
of the 4 way iSBX boards for the iPDSs left.
Paxton
Astoria, OR
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:10:06, Al Kossow (aek(a)spies.com) wrote:
> I've put a scan of the 791x installation manual up at
> www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/disc/07912-90902_791x_Inst_Jun86.pdf
Many Thanks, Mr. Kossow! And all that quick!
This will no doubt enable me to prepare the drives for moving. I've pulled
this and the corresponding Service Manual down.
The machine wasn't run in the last few years according to the owner, so a
dummy-loaded PSU checkout seems to be in order. As an HP 1000 neophyte, what
other corners do I have to pay special attention to? (The Site Environmental
Requirements for Disc/Tape Drives say something about an absolute filter
that may have to be changed sometimes, but since the 7912 is said to use a
sealed drive assy. in the Service manual, I suppose this applies to another
series?)
Another time this list proves to be a magnificient resouce to me...
Yours sincerely
--
Arno Kletzander
Stud. Hilfskraft Informatik Sammlung Erlangen
www.iser.uni-erlangen.de
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Hi Nico, I'm in Australia.
I'm looking for drivers for my Compaticard IV.
I found this on the net:
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From: "David C. Jenner" <djenner(a)earthlink.net>
To: "Classic Computer Moderated List" <cctech(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 9:47 PM
Subject: Compaticard IV Master Diskette
>
> Note that I'm not talking about the Uniform software package, but
> if it were available, I'd be interested in it, too!
>
On its way
Nico
CAN YOU HELP ME ???CHEERS,LAURIE.
Hi,
Thanks to Dave, who sent me the Teledisk images of CP/M and ISIS, I was able to get my old iPDS running after sitting (and doing nothing) for the past few years.
For those interested, I used Teledisk Version 2.11 running on an IBM PS/1 (25Mhz 486) running DOS5. I used 360K DD diskettes in the 5inch (1.2M capable) drive and it worked without any errors. I made a couple of copies and they all booted flawlessly in the iPDS. Wonderful stuff!
The iPDS also came with a programming module for the 8748, 8749 and 8751. I'm not real familiar with these chips, but I may have a few around and I think I've got the spec sheets on them, so I'll have a bit of a play I can do with it.
The MDS225 restoration is going well. I have contacted the seller who has a box of cables and I'm going to see him later this week to see if the dble density drive array cable is there. I hope so 'cos it saves me having to make one.
seeyuzz
river
