Hi everybody, I am kind of crossposting this from another thread, so sorry if I am breaking some rule - I got one of the excellent Mac286 replica cards made by
@max1zzz and I am trying to figure out how to make it work. Max was so kind to add in the package the Mac software disks and even the 5.25" DOS floppies, which I can use connecting the Apple PC 5.25 drive to the card(s).
I installed the cards in my Mac IIfx, turned off 32bit addressing, configured the control panel extension for managing the serial interfaces as "compatible" and started the Mac286 v. 3.02 program. There I set external floppy to PC drive, and D: root directory (this is the shared dir between System 7 and DOS) to a folder that contains up-to-date DOS commands, coming with the program.
Everything seems fine, I can boot dos from the floppy, then I run FDISK and partition the virtual C: drive (which is a file on my Mac hd), then I have to remember to activate the partition
(damn DOS...) , then I format C:, copy DOS files from floppy 1 and 2... and then when I boot, the autoexec run commands DSTEP1 - 2 - 3 (which should activate the shared dir) ... and then it hangs there. Any chance to solve this, or find a manual anywhere for the card (it's two days of googling and I can't find anything)? what would be your hints? also
@max1zzz if you shared your C: drive file online somewhere, could you please point it out to me / us here?
Thanks all in advance!