> > > That's odd. The original machine does not have a floppy disk. That probably > > > communicates with the protection PIC on the I/O board instead, which is not > > > dumpable. > > That makes sense. It loads exactly like a floppy would, reads one sector to 0:7c00, > jumps to it. I suppose that it has the IDE support code in there, in order to read > the hard disk. It probably would not be difficult to provide a > functionally-equivalent replacement for it. > > > All within 5 minutes I bet I could get the harddisk to boot on one of my junk PCs > lol > > :-) Maybe so, but not with that BIOS.
Hence why I use my older PCs XP
> > Hmm, any other pentium/*86 PC computer arcade games I've forgot other than the > > thunder series and this? > > Funky Ball is another one.
Funky Ball is a Media GX based computer which I don't consider to be a true "PC in a cab" thing. I already tried Area 51: Site 4 but the hardware is either to different to use or the BIOS is much different to standard bioses. Funky Ball uses ROM chips though and it's on a custom board unlike A51Site4 which was a typical PC->Adaptor board thing, so one or both would stop me from booting it on a standard PC.
EDIT: Doing a quick bit of research the A51 Bios has a built in boot loader *headdesk*. I suppose maybe it could have a chance of working with some hacking on normal hardware, doubt it though
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On a quest for Digital 573 and Dancing Stage EuroMix 2
By gods I've found it!
Edited by Naoki (01/19/12 02:57 PM)
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