Weep, weep!
Adam Burr
worked fine last time I tried to play Ultima III about a week ago... but
today I tried to boot Ultima IV to look at the tile colors and it does not
recognize any disks. I've tried a random sample.
I've already bid on one through ebay to replace it. But still, I've had
this one for ages and its passing saddens me. And I really hope the rest
of the system isn't about to join it.
I'm also glad that it doesn't seem to just be that the Ultima IV boot disk
is bad.
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Samurai
>...for my 1571 drive for my C128 seems to have finally died.
Oh, weep as in _cry_! I thought there was an alarm going off
somewhere ...!
;)
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Adam Burr
Samurai <sam...@daisho.prestel.co.uk> wrote:
>Quoth mad...@well.com (Adam Burr):
>>...for my 1571 drive for my C128 seems to have finally died.
>
>Oh, weep as in _cry_! I thought there was an alarm going off
>somewhere ...!
Heh. :P Alas no. Well, maybe, but I'll sleep through it. One of the few
benefits of unemployment. Anyway, I've already won an auction for a
replacement on ebay. Unfortunately, as I'm moving on the 30th, I'm not
sure where to have him send it. I'll probably send it to my mom and have
her send it to me. *shrug*
Ibn al-Hazardous Dragon
so don't come and sue ME for it!
}...for my 1571 drive for my C128 seems to have finally died. *sniff* It
}worked fine last time I tried to play Ultima III about a week ago... but
}today I tried to boot Ultima IV to look at the tile colors and it does not
}recognize any disks. I've tried a random sample.
}I've already bid on one through ebay to replace it. But still, I've had
}this one for ages and its passing saddens me. And I really hope the rest
}of the system isn't about to join it.
}I'm also glad that it doesn't seem to just be that the Ultima IV boot disk
}is bad.
Have you tried to hit it? I always hit my 1541 when I hear a specific
noise which tells me it's getting hitched. And I've found that hitting
it at the right place at the right time always does the trick. It became
a reflex after a while (and it wouldn't surprise me if I would hit
anything that managed to produce that same sound without thinking
first).
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Adam Burr
Ibn al-Hazardous Dragon <fi...@applepie.blueturtle.a.se> wrote:
>
>Have you tried to hit it? I always hit my 1541 when I hear a specific
>noise which tells me it's getting hitched. And I've found that hitting
>it at the right place at the right time always does the trick. It became
>a reflex after a while (and it wouldn't surprise me if I would hit
>anything that managed to produce that same sound without thinking
>first).
Nope, I hadn't tried it. However, ever willing to try percussion
maintanance...
*WHOOMP*
SEARCHING FOR *
?FILE NOT FOUND ERROR
READY.
Hmm. Still doesn't seem to work. I'll wail on it some more, though.
It's making different sounds, now. :>
Goldenflame
Goldenflame Dragon
>
> I ended up having to dis-assemble my 1571s and replace the flexible
> membrane connector that connects the read/write head with some fine
> wires. All that read/writing had flexed the membrane past the
> breaking point and had severed a couple of the traces. You don't have
> anything to lose - open the drive up and see if you can find anything
> obviously cracked or loose. If I still had mine, I'd email you a
> picture of what to look for but I foolishly gave my C128 away back in
> 1994.
>
Ah, my first post through my new newsreader. Anyhoo...
As you say, it can't hurt. The symptoms are that I get the standard
"there's no data to be found" kinda noise out of it as it tries to find *.
Once I got it to boot Ultima IV to the title screen but, while loading it,
it starting not finding anything again. So, I will probably wait until I
have someone who is a bit more electronics savvy than I around before I
open it up, but I will probably do so.
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> Have you tried to hit it? I always hit my 1541 when I hear a specific
> noise which tells me it's getting hitched. And I've found that hitting
> it at the right place at the right time always does the trick. It
became
> a reflex after a while (and it wouldn't surprise me if I would hit
> anything that managed to produce that same sound without thinking
> first).
Sorry, if I am wrong, but were'nt you the one that complained about a
character hittting something to fix it in a movie that the spelling of
the name of which escapes me (Armagedon? bah its a greek or hebrew
word anyway (or possibly aramaic or some other middle-eastern
language)).
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> Hmm. Still doesn't seem to work. I'll wail on it some more, though.
> It's making different sounds, now. :>
That reminds me of the performance of a piece of music written for an
"orchestra" composed of dot matrix printers.
I'm serious -- it was on As It Happens (the CBC AM radio show from
6:30-8:00), sometime between a half a year and two years ago. It was on
a Friday, I know that. :)
Anyway, each dot matrix printer had a different set of ascii chars to
print ('cause each one makes a slightly different sound). I think that
even the carriage returns were scripted -- not only dot matrix printers,
but specific *model numbers* of dor matrix printers. :)
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