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Megatouch XL CD-ROM to Hard Drive
orizzle:
I recently acquired an XL cabinet (Super 5000). Runs off a CD-ROM drive but is incredibly slow and from the sounds of it, I believe the CD drive is going. I did some Googling and found some people attempting to install the software onto a hard drive but without success. Does anyone know if this has been pulled off successfully? If not, I may attempt it myself and post back with my results.
yotsuya:
Do a search on this topic on klov. I'm pretty sure you'll find some luck. I ended up picking a pre-configured hard drive up for mine to replace the CD ROM drive, and it works great.
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obcd:
It's possible to use a harddrive. I use a compact flash card with a cf2ide adapter.
From the Merit pc point of view, it's identical to a harddrive.
I once started a tutorial for someone who PM'ed me here with the same question.
He suddenly disappeared, so I never finished and posted the stuff.
First, you will need to copy the cd contents in a folder on your pc.
It's just a regular copy of all the stuff, no need to create an iso.
I used freedos on the compact flash card and booted from there. It gave me more options to experiment with the system.
The Merit XL original boots from a flash disk on it's io card. You can disable that with a jumper on the io board.
Removing JP1 normally does the trick.
Drive letter D was a small ramdisk
Drive letter F was the cdrom drive. I used the freedos subst or assign command to point the folder with the contents of the cd rom to that drive letter. I am sure I can dig up more details if needed.
orizzle:
Thanks for the info. I wound up playing around with this myself today and got it working.
I installed MS-DOS 6.22 on another machine, created 4 partitions (C, D, E, F), and copied the contents of the CD-ROM to F and the autoexec.bat/config.sys from the flash memory from the ioboard. A couple tweaks and it's running like a champ.
Much faster and the touchscreen even seems more responsive.
DaddyLongLegs:
--- Quote from: obcd on May 31, 2016, 07:02:25 am ---It's possible to use a harddrive. I use a compact flash card with a cf2ide adapter.
From the Merit pc point of view, it's identical to a harddrive.
I once started a tutorial for someone who PM'ed me here with the same question.
He suddenly disappeared, so I never finished and posted the stuff.
First, you will need to copy the cd contents in a folder on your pc.
It's just a regular copy of all the stuff, no need to create an iso.
I used freedos on the compact flash card and booted from there. It gave me more options to experiment with the system.
The Merit XL original boots from a flash disk on it's io card. You can disable that with a jumper on the io board.
Removing JP1 normally does the trick.
Drive letter D was a small ramdisk
Drive letter F was the cdrom drive. I used the freedos subst or assign command to point the folder with the contents of the cd rom to that drive letter. I am sure I can dig up more details if needed.
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Would you be able to post this guide? Does it require me being able to dump the contents of the socketed chips?
If you could post a step-by-step guide, that would be incredible. I don't want this machine to die on me.
Definitely dig up more details, please :D
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