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Topic: Laser XT speed.com utility |
Bitlord
Replies: 10
Views: 90693
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Forum: IBM PC/XT & AT Webforum
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:40 pm Subject: Laser XT speed.com utility |
I've tried every Ctrl-Alt key combo possible to no avail. I really think the speed.com utility is the only way. I am busy disassembling the code to figure out how it works. I will post the results whe ... |
Topic: Laser XT speed.com utility |
Bitlord
Replies: 10
Views: 90693
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Forum: IBM PC/XT & AT Webforum
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:33 am Subject: I found it!!! |
This morning through an amazing stroke of luck, I have found the file. I have now put the "turbo" back into my XT and all is well. |
Topic: Laser XT speed.com utility |
Bitlord
Replies: 10
Views: 90693
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Forum: IBM PC/XT & AT Webforum
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 5:00 pm Subject: Re: I found "some" |
Ok sent me an email to an address where I can send the programs
wdegroot@ptd.net
use "turbo xt "in the title
Done. |
Topic: Laser XT speed.com utility |
Bitlord
Replies: 10
Views: 90693
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Forum: IBM PC/XT & AT Webforum
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:26 pm Subject: Laser XT speed.com utility |
I've found several schematics of the system and am now positive there is no hardware control switch for the speed. I can only guess that the "speed.com" utility alters the values in the time ... |
Topic: Laser XT speed.com utility |
Bitlord
Replies: 10
Views: 90693
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Forum: IBM PC/XT & AT Webforum
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 5:53 pm Subject: Re: speed |
there may be a jumper
or a keyboard sequence
searh for that.
I thought about that. I tried before but I'll try again.
Thanks for replying. |
Topic: Laser XT speed.com utility |
Bitlord
Replies: 10
Views: 90693
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Forum: IBM PC/XT & AT Webforum
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:03 pm Subject: Laser XT speed.com utility |
I have lost the utilitiy for my XT "speed.com" due to floppy disk bad sectors! Help! This utility is my only means of putting the machine in "turbo" (8 Mhz) mode.
Please, if y ... |
Topic: Posting with Lynx |
Bitlord
Replies: 5
Views: 52924
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Forum: Single Core
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:37 pm Subject: Re: Posting with Lynx |
I thought I'd just see how this forum software
works with old kit and progs.
It seems quite well actually. I'm
presuming, of course, that when I hit
the submit link, that it will work.
I'm j ... |
Topic: Bitlord's Intro |
Bitlord
Replies: 2
Views: 42476
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Forum: Off-Topic Discussions
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:19 pm Subject: Bitlord's Intro |
Interesting you mentioned formatting a 720k disk. I had noticed that it would only format floppies to 320k! I've currently running Caledera OpenDOS "lite" 7.1 on it right now, partly becaus ... |
Topic: Bitlord's Intro |
Bitlord
Replies: 2
Views: 42476
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Forum: Off-Topic Discussions
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:54 pm Subject: Bitlord's Intro |
Hello everyone, glad I found this cool site. I'm into 16 bit read mode 8086 programming and general tinkering and have a Laser XT 8088 with 640k. I managed to get a VGA card installed and a 720kb DD ... |
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