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Offline pixeljunkie

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FM Towns Marty help!
« on: October 18, 2011, 12:07:15 pm »
So i just picked up a Marty system [after hunting for far too long]

Of course, the floppy drive is busted. It seems to be the drive belt [as it's turned into goo and is in several pieces]

I find a rubber band [how tight should it be?] and it SEEMS to be functioning. However when I go into the system settings to create a user disk which I assume is the green floppy icon, I get this error message:



Anyone know what this means? I'm disturbed because that's the same message I got when the drive belt was no good.

Sidenote: I am using a brand new floppy that I formatted to 720k...is there any other requirements I might be missing?

Also, I am doing all of this attempting to load Metal Eye 2, which is giving me this error:



which I can only assume means it needs a user disk?

any help is greatly appreciated. I am a total Marty noob.
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Re: FM Towns Marty help!
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2011, 02:44:35 pm »
The first error says that there is no disk set (ie: no disk detected).  In my experience using elastics for floppies is easy and reliable, they should be taut but not stretched very far.

Your problems may be deeper than that.
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Re: FM Towns Marty help!
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2011, 01:21:17 am »
Quote from: Lawrence on October 18, 2011, 02:44:35 pm
Your problems may be deeper than that.

any forums/links/tips?
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