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| 629899 | 2008-01-13 03:08:00 | hello, is it possible to install a 5-1/4 inch floppy into an external inclosure and connect to pc via usb, to play the real old games? running through a virtual machine running dos or early windows. thanks for any help |
dbs (8785) | ||
| 629900 | 2008-01-13 04:53:00 | It would not be too easy. Either; get an old machine and install 5" drive there, or, better still, transfer the 5" disks to 3.5 floppies because USB units are available to play them. | PENTIUM (426) | ||
| 629901 | 2008-01-13 08:21:00 | thing is I'm trying to not install into a machine as will rarely be used, and was wondering if the common 5-1/4 enclosures would work |
dbs (8785) | ||
| 629902 | 2008-01-13 08:41:00 | I would say the connection on the 5.25 floppy is possibly the same as the 3.5 inch drives (wouldnt match up to an enclosure), may match to the modern floppy cable, no idea if the modern m'boards/os's could tho, worth a try :-) Wouldn't be hard to extend the floppy cable to the backplane if it does work. |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 629903 | 2008-01-13 08:41:00 | No, regular 5 1/4 cases (I presume its the ones for the CD drives you're talking about) have a different connector to the floppy drive itself. You're better off installing it internally. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 629904 | 2008-01-13 18:26:00 | Why don't they just re-release those old games for XP ? I used to love some of them. The new games just don't do it for me (age 57) I think the major problem will be to get them running on XP. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 629905 | 2008-01-13 19:11:00 | I’d like to solve this one too. I’ve a heap of old 5 ¼ floppies and a whopping 40 Meg Hard-Drive I’d love to get going. I saved all the drives out of an old PC Direct 286AT after the wired in CMOS battery leaked and ate its way through some of the printed circuits on the motherboard. :annoyed: The trouble as I see it is that those old drives had no on-board controller so had to be wired to a controller board which in turn plugged into an ISA (or similar) slot on the motherboard. If we could ever get around the controller issue we are still faced with the prospect of slowing a modern machine down to 6Mhz. :eek: My old 286 had a “Turbo Button” to slow the processor down from 12Mhz to 6Mhz so you could play some of the older games. The whole problem is substantial and one I have contemplated for many hours without success. It’s a REAL Challenge so go to it. :D |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 629906 | 2008-01-14 07:26:00 | thanks for the replies, if I tinker a way around it, will repost |
dbs (8785) | ||
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