Hey, Nate I still want that disk drive you have. I didn't mean to offend you by low balling the price. However, I gave you reasons for my justification. I'm in...
I had this problem and corrected it by tweaking a small board pot INSIDE the Mirage. As I recall only a small adjustment of this pot was required. I have never...
Mine has a shield. If anyone wants, I could probably take a photo and upload. CVD ... From: lou To: Mirage-Net@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009...
Photos attached. Bought my DSK new in the late 80's?? maybe. Played it for 4-5 years in the first sequencer band in the NorthWest US ( "is that a tape...
GREAT NEWS EVERYONE! I found a guy in Britain nice enough to send me another 65001 keyboard scanner IC (i think its U6). Anyway, I pulled the old 65001 out and...
Hey Sorry Claude I was able to fix the unit be replacing the keyboard scanner IC! Its for sale on eBay if you want a unit that is fully functional & in great...
Hello again all, I just bought some mirage disks from ebay, 1 sound disk with os 3.2, one formatting disk and a MASOS v2 disk. All 3 came on HD floppies with...
Yeah you need double sided disks for the Mirage! alexP www.myspace.com/twitchcraft ... __________________________________________________________________ ...
... I just recently purchased a Mirage with no disks and also just bought the same disks from eBay on HD with the tape on the corner. When I got them, I...
... No you don't, on account of how it only originally had single-sided drives! You can fit twice as much onto a disk by adding a wire and switch to select...
Before I got clear about the differences between floppy types, I made some formatted blanks on DSHD floppies. Most of those worked at first, a few failed...
Yes the Mirage use DD disks but personally, I had a different experience: Mind worked (until intermittent trouble got permanent) with patched hole HD disks....
... Just as an aside, you only need to tape over the holes to fool an HD drive into thinking it's a DD disk - the Mirage has no HD sensor and does not care....
... I found exactly this when I used HD disks in an Atari ST. They would work for a week and then the formatting would fade. The magnetic material needs a...
Thanks everyone for your words of wisdom on the HD disks... Good news though, I bought some Servisol VIDEO40 Tape Head/ Disc Drive Cleaner from Maplin, took my...
... Sorry guys, im learning by the minute with this. Didnt realise there was a default seq, (close encounters). OK so it plays the seq no prob. I guess that...
... Could be that it's set to Local Off. Where's Local Off, Gordon? Now you're asking... I *think* in OS 3.2 it's parameter 81 - it used to be and on/off...
... CHECK THE OMNI IS ON IF NOT IT WILL ONLY RECIEVE from an external device for some reason its not set correctly on the disks make sure you get some dd disks...
... Thanks Gordon, Just tried setting parameters 30, 81 and the 90's you suggested to ON, but no joy. Still no kybd life! Does that mean new IC's?? M....
... Yep just checked Omni and its set to ON. no joy! Seems its a fault rather than a setting. :-( Gonna try and track down some DD disks on the net, know...
... Using HD floppys in a DD drive (the Mirage's floppy drive) won't physically damage anything. The only problem is that the magnetic "data" written by a DD...
... Haven't tried the midi thing yet as im at home and not back at the studio till monday. All my other equip is over there. I assume its ok though as it plays...
I am thinking about a theoretical solution: If we could find a drive diagram, maybe we could modify the circuit by increasing magnetic field going to the head....
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