21 Sep
1998
21 Sep
'98
7:34 a.m.
Chuck McManis wrote:
"Don't touch it, it's EVIL." A line from the Time Bandits I believe...
"...PURE evil..."
Actually, it seems like a reasonable system, at least CP/M-wise. I did find a
page on the web where a fellow made an IDE controller card and patched the
BDOS to use it. I'd really like to play with a 2.5" card-mounted HD in this
thing!
Now that Titan card might be evil... MS-DOS and all. :)
It's strange that 64k (CP/M memory) + 111k (RAM disk) leaves 81k of 'unused'
memory. Where'd that go?
I actually won a QX-10 with its Titan PC card in a
contest once. It was
surrealistically slow running MS-DOS, not very compatible, and just
plain weird. I also had the hard disk card for it. Weird system.
I just put Turbo Pascal 3.0 on it last night, although I have to reconfigure
the key commands. (Anyone know a quick way to get TP3 back to WordStar-style
defaults? My copy, freshly installed, doesn't even let me exit the editor. All
the key commands except up/down/left/right are undefined.)
It's certainly faster and easier to use than my Commodore 128 I've been
playing with in CP/M mode.
QXPC should finish if the Titan card is working. I may
have the source
to it (don't ask :-) I'll see...
I let it run for 5, maybe 10 minutes without any noticable progress.
Source? Uh.. Okay.
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