Following your notion, I think you just likely pointed us all in the right direction: maybe they used it to extract files from images, e.g. of the Windows installation disks, Turbo C, Turbo BASIC, etc?
Thank you! - The graphics card, indeed, had died. I don't know why or how. They sent me a new one - and that worked (subject of my preceding video, should you ever need to change it). To prevent thermal issues, that little hand-ventilator behind, with the two covers open, seemed to really suffice.
07:00 ... WAR = Ancient Art of War maybe? One of my all time favourites. There was also WAS = Ancient Art of War at Sea ... of course, you have to play in CGA mode :)
@@ninoivanov Ahh, thanks for checking. I don't think the original Ancient Art of War would work on a 386 anyway ... only knows about 8088/86 and so runs too fast. But there is a VGA version apparently.
@tikkasen_urakointi I actually do have a question: any chance to tell it the correct CHS during setup? It "miss-guesses", and the result is unbootable.
@@ninoivanov It depends on the disk. The USB stick image can boot from any geometry, but the BIOS needs to support LBA indexing, which is probably not available in your 386's BIOS. Try using a virtual machine to install ST-DOS from a floppy image to the CF card? Then the geometry in the boot sector should automatically become correct.
23:00 ... I think HD-COPY can be used for imaging floppies ... interesting inclusion considering it doesn't have a floppy drive ... ? :)
Following your notion, I think you just likely pointed us all in the right direction: maybe they used it to extract files from images, e.g. of the Windows installation disks, Turbo C, Turbo BASIC, etc?
What was the problem with it before? Glad to see that you got it working again.
Thank you! - The graphics card, indeed, had died. I don't know why or how. They sent me a new one - and that worked (subject of my preceding video, should you ever need to change it). To prevent thermal issues, that little hand-ventilator behind, with the two covers open, seemed to really suffice.
07:00 ... WAR = Ancient Art of War maybe? One of my all time favourites. There was also WAS = Ancient Art of War at Sea ... of course, you have to play in CGA mode :)
Blizzard's "Warcraft: Orcs & Humans", just had a look for you - and thank you kindly for these hints above! :)
@@ninoivanov Ahh, thanks for checking. I don't think the original Ancient Art of War would work on a 386 anyway ... only knows about 8088/86 and so runs too fast. But there is a VGA version apparently.
@Brfff There used to be something called "moslo.com" to slow down the CPU…
Can it run ST-DOS?
Never heard of it before, but I am exploring it and I will try it - very kindly thank you for that amazing suggestion!!
@@ninoivanov Many things in ST-DOS work quite differenly from MS-DOS and its 100% clones. You can come to its IRC channel if you have questions!
@tikkasen_urakointi I actually do have a question: any chance to tell it the correct CHS during setup? It "miss-guesses", and the result is unbootable.
@@ninoivanov It depends on the disk. The USB stick image can boot from any geometry, but the BIOS needs to support LBA indexing, which is probably not available in your 386's BIOS. Try using a virtual machine to install ST-DOS from a floppy image to the CF card? Then the geometry in the boot sector should automatically become correct.
died in a week huh, sad
Exactly, actually.