Tankraider DOS Palmtop Forums

Hmmm, yeah the CF compatibility problem is indeed annoying. I will try to get more CF cards and see which ones work, so we can collect a list of working cards. Totally without CF or SRAM the storage is a bit limited on the 3000. You can compress most exe files with tools like upx, but still you will...

Yeah the OB800CT is definitely a good MS-DOS machine. The battery indicator might sometimes go nuts. "usually" it helps to hold "F4" while turning it on which would reset the battery indicator. But yeah with a rebuilt pack it would be best to fully charge it over night (Until the...

So sorry about all the problems getting CF to work. Wish i could do more about it, but i think the sundisk driver is very limited and most CF cards have a controller that simply isn't compatible with it. About games - only CGA games work. My favorites are old adventure games from Sierra and Lucasfil...

OK my abilities cracking old DOS appz are not that great - however as i see it the SDISK tool simply throws away all partitions and makes one with all space available and the SFORMAT tool simply gives it a FAT16 format with 4K blocks. So if the 32MB winimage file doesn't work then these 2 tools also...

Hitachi... Hmmm how weird. You'd think that a company like Canon would pick one supplier - at least for the same card with the same label. Unfortunately i also didn't have any luck with the Hitachi cards. If i have some time i will try to "crack" the sdisk and sformat tools so they would n...

You also have the 32MB "MH" card? Mine showed as "SanDisk SDCFB-32" in windows - Sandisk cards can be used by the sformat and sdisk tools. What does yours look like in windows when you check the "hardware" tab of the drive properties? I suspect theres not a sandisk card...

Yeah a minimalistic nullmodem cable (In German we say "3 line cable") would only need receive, Transmit and ground. No handshake with that one though. Actually the Tidalwave port replicator also fits - the lines are messed up, so you would need to either rewire the lines (and solder the un...

OK, just let me know if you still have problems. Mine didn't work "out of the box" but after SFORMAT it worked fine.

OK, i had the glorious idea to make an image with winimage of the working Canon card and write it to the non-working one and it didn't work. I still upload the image here because i think your card is technically pretty much identical to the Canon one (SanDisk SDCFB-32), so maybe it works? http://www...

On a side-note - did you try a "format" (Not to be confused with "sformat") in the Sharp?