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Hi,
For sale these two games, tested OK
120 each + shipping cost from France

Parodius Da !







Detana Twinbee







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Think I'm almost fully sorted on getting all my X68k ducks in a row, but one thing I wanted to check on- some older threads recommended not powering the floppy drives via the ATX connector from a PicoPSU? One person selling units on another forum recommended not using a PicoPSU if you're using floppies since LEDs would start to flicker on disk read?

I'm not sure how the power rails are built on a PicoPSU, but I have a 120W one with a 4-pin molex, SATA power, and 4-pin floppy drive connector pre-attached. I could pull out a multimeter to check for continuity, but I guess I should ask, is the 4-pin floppy connector (which should be +5V, GND, GND, +12V) actually different than just using those pins from the ATX connector?

Since my drives have the 3-pin +5V, GND, +12V connectors I was going to splice the original wires to the PicoPSU either way, it's just a matter of where to connect them.

Thanks!

The PC9800 Series Central discord is the best place to find your answers in this case. We won't bite.

You could get a CF extender to pass the CF socket outside the machine, making it easier to access. If you have a free backplate, you could put it through there. I use an SD extension on my X68000 for similar reasons.

You don't make it clear how you copied the files from CD to the 98. The best way would probably be to exit to DOS prompt rather than use FILMTM.

You won't be able to play floppy games from the hd in the same way as the HD images.

Quote from: spectreman on April 29, 2024, 06:18:35 AM

Quote from: armitage on April 29, 2024, 01:02:39 AM

Quote from: neko68k on April 22, 2024, 04:19:55 PM

Quote from: spectreman on April 19, 2024, 03:30:10 AMHI,
I noticed in this HDD image, that by pressing the L key, selecting the letter C: you find the Multimedia folder.
I'm curious to try my X68000 XVI at 16MHz as you see the videos and photos created by me.

The problem is that I don't know the programs for Windows 11, suitable for creating compatible movies or images, can anyone help me?
Thank you!!!

There's a boatload of image and video loaders in this folder.

In the parent folder you can find converters and editors and all sorts of other related things.

Don't expect too much from videos unless you're willing to learn how to use specialized formats like MACS.

Been meaning to ask... is there a document somewhere that indicates what the files in the archive are? It's kind of impossible to know what I'm looking at from just the short filenames.

Copy the files into your HDD image using the Windows program editdisk, and run the documents with the XM6 TypeG emulator to read the contents, they cannot be used on Windows or other systems.

There is no other way to understand how they work, many users have never really tried them.

Basically, no. I would also not use editdisk for this unless you have unlimited time and patience. Better is to use windrvXM. It lets you access a host folder as though it was a hard drive on the emulated machine. You can get it here.

TBH this is still a time consuming task and if I'm being completely honest I doubt anyone has delved much other than myself and a few others.

If you really want to get lost grab the Dennou Club ISO's and the DOKONAZO ones also. You'll never run out of things to dig through.

Hi, congrats for this image, it's very impressive! I could load it with my SCSI2SD on a X68000 XVI compact, everything went fine, but as my XVI as an audio problem (no sound), I wanted to use it on my ACE. But the boot hang on the splash screen "SXSY-SCSI V2.10. Then nothing happen anymore. I changed the id of the SCSI2SD to 3, and I can boot another image (the one that I used before) without problem. What can be the problem?
Thanks!

Quote from: spectreman on April 29, 2024, 06:25:26 AM

Quote from: incrediblehark on April 28, 2024, 08:37:39 AMThank you for the feedback, I'll look into super hang on again, I will admit for this last update I only tested on an emulator, I'll load the image up in my xvi and test as well.if I can come up with a fix I'll do a small update.

Aquales had reports on not being able to play past the first stage. Let me know if you are able to.

Unfortunately I have to confirm that at the end of the first level of Aquales, the system reboots back to the main screen of your HDD image.

I tried both 16MHz and 10MHz.

I'm fairly certain that Aquales can only be ran off actual floppies or a goteks-like device. After each stage it tries to write your progress to the disk and crashes when it can't. The current mounting method is read-only and the mounting method that allows write doesn't work with this game.

Quote from: spectreman on April 29, 2024, 06:06:52 AMSorry but you could be more specific.
On my XVI the countdown starts at 128, reaches 000 and stops, and restarts infinitely.

By the term OG are you referring to the first model from 1987 (CZ-600C)?
If so, that model has a different CPU (Hitachi HD68HC000 10 MHz) than the XVI model which has a Motorola 68000 16 MHz CPU.

Did you boot the HDD image with HENKAN BANCHO PRO or do you use SCSI2SD?

How much total RAM do you have?

No problem:
I can't remember what the counter starts at but it counts down to 0 or 000 then the game starts in demo mode and is then playable.
Yes CZ-600C , I can also test on Expert 2.
Using a BlueSCSI V1.
10Mb.

I have heard that 10Mhz CPUs are generally the most compatible. Maybe there is information on what games are not compatible with the other CPUs?
Or test with a PC emulator to confirm.

Quote from: incrediblehark on April 28, 2024, 08:37:39 AMThank you for the feedback, I'll look into super hang on again, I will admit for this last update I only tested on an emulator, I'll load the image up in my xvi and test as well.if I can come up with a fix I'll do a small update.

Aquales had reports on not being able to play past the first stage. Let me know if you are able to.

Unfortunately I have to confirm that at the end of the first level of Aquales, the system reboots back to the main screen of your HDD image.

I tried both 16MHz and 10MHz.

Quote from: armitage on April 29, 2024, 01:02:39 AM

Quote from: neko68k on April 22, 2024, 04:19:55 PM

Quote from: spectreman on April 19, 2024, 03:30:10 AMHI,
I noticed in this HDD image, that by pressing the L key, selecting the letter C: you find the Multimedia folder.
I'm curious to try my X68000 XVI at 16MHz as you see the videos and photos created by me.

The problem is that I don't know the programs for Windows 11, suitable for creating compatible movies or images, can anyone help me?
Thank you!!!

There's a boatload of image and video loaders in this folder.

In the parent folder you can find converters and editors and all sorts of other related things.

Don't expect too much from videos unless you're willing to learn how to use specialized formats like MACS.

Been meaning to ask... is there a document somewhere that indicates what the files in the archive are? It's kind of impossible to know what I'm looking at from just the short filenames.

Copy the files into your HDD image using the Windows program editdisk, and run the documents with the XM6 TypeG emulator to read the contents, they cannot be used on Windows or other systems.

There is no other way to understand how they work, many users have never really tried them.

Quote from: HIggy on April 28, 2024, 07:47:24 PMI just checked on my OG X68000 and Super Hand On is working.

I loaded it (need to wait a while for countdown timer) and played it.

Sorry but you could be more specific.
On my XVI the countdown starts at 128, reaches 000 and stops, and restarts infinitely.

By the term OG are you referring to the first model from 1987 (CZ-600C)?
If so, that model has a different CPU (Hitachi HD68HC000 10 MHz) than the XVI model which has a Motorola 68000 16 MHz CPU.

Did you boot the HDD image with HENKAN BANCHO PRO or do you use SCSI2SD?

How much total RAM do you have?