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This group is for owners of classic NorthStar Computers such as the Horizon, Advantage, and Dimension.

Its purpose is to be redundant with and complementary to the existing internet NorthStar Computer resources such as comp.sys.northstar and others.

Please cross post any information on comp.sys.northstar to ensure as wide dispersal of information as possible.

Thank you!

Andrew Lynch

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Re: Update - Getting N* DOS 5 running on a VG ZCB System
Another note, the ports used by Northstar are 2 and 3 (echo of 0 and 1). I have also been working on the hardware route...i.e. Altair 2SIO wired to port 0/1
Posted - Sat Feb 25, 2012 3:33 pm
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Re: Update - Getting N* DOS 5 running on a VG ZCB System
For posterity, should anyone find this thread in the future, the hardware manual link below is not the same version of N* DOS that I want (5), but it gives me
Posted - Wed Feb 22, 2012 3:07 pm
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Re: Update - Getting N* DOS 5 running on a VG ZCB System
http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Manuals/Northstar/North%20Star%20Disk%20System%20Overview.pdf This file has the port info I was looking for around pg
Posted - Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:56 pm
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Re: Update - Getting N* DOS 5 running on a VG ZCB System
Hi Bill, Basically yes, editing the memory at 2900-2A00 would probably work. Of course, if you can modify DOS itself on the disk so that the correct values are
Posted - Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:18 am
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Update - Getting N* DOS 5 running on a VG ZCB System
I first wrote about this subject a while ago, but to recap, I have been working to try to get N* DOS running on a non-N* system. I am using a known working
Posted - Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:20 am
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