hey

got it working!

video: http://instagram.com/p/kV0K6PxAw1/

f*cking rad nice going dude

And so is "If it's too old, you're too young"

For playback try : http://www.dcee.net/Files/Music/Player/

It's basically audio on LPT but modified... so you might find a driver that someones written to take LPT DAC audio and translate it to the tandy DAC.

got it working!

video: http://instagram.com/p/kV0K6PxAw1/

Tandy 1000 series had a proprietary 16 color which was neither EGA nor CGA, though many games supported it.

mhmm, backward compatible with CGA though ! (and i dont know any trackers that use the tandy extensions)

i thought "pressing Esc and being able to enter commands" meant you were able to get to DOS?

i think this model has DOS built into it (in rom??) so you shouldn't need a disk with anything but trackers/samples but i don't know how you can bypass deskmate startup. a pdf of the tl3 user manual (tl3user.zip) is available ...

Thanks for the memory jog. The built-in DOS was a Tandy hacked version of DOS 2 or 3 depending on the model, but you can boot anything that boots on a 286 pc. Try typing "version." There was also a GWBASIC for it with a hacked PLAY command for three voice.

Not just possible, when I was given mine it already had a VGA card in it. Tandy 1000 series had a proprietary 16 color which was neither EGA nor CGA, though many games supported it. I put an SB pro in it so I didn't use its built-in sound very much.

i think this model has DOS built into it (in rom??) so you shouldn't need a disk with anything but trackers/samples but i don't know how you can bypass deskmate startup. a pdf of the tl3 user manual (tl3user.zip) is available from the verrry slow oldschool.org ftp ftp://ftp.oldskool.org/pub/tvdog/tandy1 … l3user.zip

i imagine it would explain in there

blaster master is, i believe, designd for the sound blaster (a clue in the name)

mod edit runs on anything i believe, even MDA and PC Speaker. but i do not think it has support for tandy soundchip so you would be stuck with just using pc speaker. unless you have a speech thing which is an 8 bit soundcard that connects to the printer you can easily build yourself or maybe buy on ebay (http://harryaxten.webs.com/covoxspeechthingclone.htm)

having the speech thing would maybe open up the trackers you could use and give you more compatability but not having EGA/VGA still limits the trackers you can use a lot (maybe screamtracker 2 works with CGA and covox, but it realllllly sucks) (it possible to add a VGA card to a tandy computer I BELIEVE)

anyway!  286 does not "sound like an amiga" since 286 is just a CPU, a 286 computer may have any kind of hardware installed to it. i suppose for this record he had a soundblaster although he doesn't mention it. tracking protracker mods with crappy 8 bit output will sound a bit like an amiga whatever you do though

Hm, that's the thing. I'm trying to bypass DeskMate on startup, but it gets disc read errors 99% of the time I put in the startup disc with the option to change that. Wonder if the disc drive is damaged.

There's an eeprom in those things that would make it load a deskmate skeleton if there is no bootable floppy or hdd installed. I think all you need is a bootable disk.

I'll see if my brother's memory is better than mine, the answer may be a "hold delete key while booting" option... All I remember is that I turned it off and had a very complex DOS 5 boot menu.

Edit: if I find out my brother still has the setup disk you refer to I'll make a zip file of it. (He and our dad were RS employees when we were teens.)

http://www.killbotrecords.com/killbot/d … er-286-12/

That is if I'm understanding any of this correctly, which I may not be considering I just woke up.

Either way, it's cool to learn a little more about this machine. Don't think I'm missing too much that can't be done on a good DOSclone.