Fletch Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 I recently acquired a SuperCharger from DarkLord and after quite a bit of tinkering, it seems to be working fairly well with my TT030. Initially the unit only seemed to work for a few minutes before locking up. Also, whenever I tried to load any programs that used CGA graphics it would freeze immediately. I took the unit apart and have reseated all of the socket chips a couple of times and now it seems much more stable. Under normal DOS activity it has not locked up at all now. Running CGA games still seems to lock up the SuperCharger occasionally, but it is certainly usable now. I installed DOS 4 on an external SCSI and it boots surprisingly quickly. Very neat product. -Pete 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Coolness. Glad you got it working. Exodus: Ultima III. Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fletch Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 It rained all day yesterday so I was bored and figured I'd have the SuperCharger play Battle Chess against the Spectre GCR. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 remowilliams I see you got the discovery, do you have a the Clock installed and if so is Y2K compliant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bee Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 I have a Supercharger and a Mega 2, bring it back on line. Need to find the DMA cable and it would be nice if I could locate my 5.25 drive for the ST. I have a Shoebox of floppies for the IBM. I do have a1040 stf running ATM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinroh Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 (edited) Super cool, I love seeing these Supercharger updates. I would love to have one someday if I can find one. Good luck getting it online Bee! Would love to see what you load up on it. ^^ Edited March 23, 2020 by Jinroh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bee Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Is anyone else currently using their Supercharger? I have a DMA cable on order. Going through my software I have v1.5 as the last version of the software. What are others using? Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 9 hours ago, Bee said: Is anyone else currently using their Supercharger? I have a DMA cable on order. Going through my software I have v1.5 as the last version of the software. What are others using? Thank you I have had a Supercharger for many years now. I patched it a bit to make it run on the TT with a graphic card. Now I can run it in 800x600 and be able to display the HERCULES resolution of 720×348 in full page. I also played with the clock generator to push it to 10MHz. I have written a page about ma setting: https://gtello.pagesperso-orange.fr/supch_e.htm The Supercharge can also be used as a coprocessor and work in parallel with the ST. Guillaume. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted May 2, 2020 Author Share Posted May 2, 2020 On 5/1/2020 at 2:08 AM, Bee said: Is anyone else currently using their Supercharger? I have a DMA cable on order. Going through my software I have v1.5 as the last version of the software. What are others using? Thank you 1.40 was the latest I had on disks that weren't corrupted. If you have a 1.5 set, please post it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bee Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 It's alive. DMA cable arrived! It is running from floppy. @remowilliams I will work on it. I currently have no way to get anything off the ST. It will take some time. I happen to have pile of disks. No PC that can read them and no external connection on the ST yet. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted May 2, 2020 Author Share Posted May 2, 2020 34 minutes ago, Bee said: It's alive. DMA cable arrived! It is running from floppy. @remowilliams I will work on it. I currently have no way to get anything off the ST. It will take some time. I happen to have pile of disks. No PC that can read them and no external connection on the ST yet. Congrats on getting it working! : ) I'm setup for disk imaging, if you want to mail them out PM me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 18 hours ago, Bee said: hello ! I can read "Loaded External Disk Driver for Drive G" I don't have this driver here... Can you tell me what file is it? Why is it different from drives C to F ? Guillaume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bee Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 This is the v1.5 floppy running on a MegaSTE internal HD lun ID set to 3, with a Ultra Satan connected to after the Supercharger. I suspect the G drive is on the Ultra Satan. I was experimenting. With the Supercharger connected it forces the boot from the internal Hard Drive. I don't have specific DOS software I was looking to run. I was just trying to get the Emulator up and running. Back in the day I ran the GEM Desktop. I'm going to work with @remowilliams to try to get a sharable copy of this disk. I can't make a image and export it at the moment. When I moved to a 1040STE the Ultra Satan isn't seen after the SuperCharger. The 1040SET is where I would like to use it. More to come. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 13 hours ago, Bee said: This is the v1.5 floppy running on a MegaSTE internal HD lun ID set to 3, with a Ultra Satan connected to after the Supercharger. I suspect the G drive is on the Ultra Satan. Hello, Can you make a DIR on the G drive? Can you TYPE AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to compare with my setting? Many thanks! Guillaume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bee Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Here are the files- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberfox_it Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Hello, I'm new to this site, I bought a super charger few months ago. When received it had only 512K of ram, so I've added more ram, but I noticed that sometimes it freeze. So I tryed to test the memory with checkit, but seem that the very first memory blocks are bad. I've changed the chips with other but nothing change. Is there someone who can test the ram of his supercharger using checkit and let me know if the test goes ok ? Do you know which version is the last ? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 (edited) 48 minutes ago, cyberfox_it said: Hello, I'm new to this site, I bought a super charger few months ago. When received it had only 512K of ram, so I've added more ram, but I noticed that sometimes it freeze. So I tryed to test the memory with checkit, but seem that the very first memory blocks are bad. I've changed the chips with other but nothing change. Is there someone who can test the ram of his supercharger using checkit and let me know if the test goes ok ? Do you know which version is the last ? Thank you! Hi, Here is the result with my 1MB Supercharger. Guillaume. Edited August 28, 2020 by moulinaie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, cyberfox_it said: Hello, I'm new to this site, I bought a super charger few months ago. When received it had only 512K of ram, so I've added more ram, but I noticed that sometimes it freeze. So I tryed to test the memory with checkit, but seem that the very first memory blocks are bad. I've changed the chips with other but nothing change. Is there someone who can test the ram of his supercharger using checkit and let me know if the test goes ok ? Do you know which version is the last ? Thank you! And here are the reported errors. But my emulateur works well and never freezes. So I imagine that CHECKIT can't report correctly the RAM erros on this system. Guillaume. Edited August 28, 2020 by moulinaie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 When I think about it... The locations 46C/46E, 43E/440 are used by the bio and regularly incremented by an interrupt. That's why the tester finds different values in it and thinks that the RAM is faulty. If the errors you encounter are in the BIOS area 400-4FF, then no need to panic... Guillaume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberfox_it Posted August 29, 2020 Share Posted August 29, 2020 thank you very much for your reply! I'm using version 1.5 of the software, do you know if is the latest ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted August 29, 2020 Share Posted August 29, 2020 5 hours ago, cyberfox_it said: thank you very much for your reply! I'm using version 1.5 of the software, do you know if is the latest ? You'll find here versions 2.x and 3.x: http://minuszerodegrees.net/software/software.htm What errors have you got? Guillaume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberfox_it Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 (edited) Hello, sorry for be so late answering, I'm changing home. I've somthing like overflow error, I can't verify at the moment. Another issue I've is when I switch from DOS to TOS, usually I got the system freeze! Do you load something like a patch, or library on boot for make it work ? Do you know which is the latest system software for the Supercharger ? Thank you Edited September 18, 2020 by cyberfox_it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 2 hours ago, cyberfox_it said: Do you know which is the latest system software for the Supercharger ? Thank you Hi ! I use version 1.50. Guillaume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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