Does anyone know for sure from experience or actually opening one up what kind of RAM is required to upgrade an FM Towns PC? Are internal hard drives optional on an FM Towns PC? Is the power supply built to power one or more internal SCSI 1 hard drives? Can I use any SCSI 1 drive, or do I need a special kind? Does the Towns OS system software disk usually contain the utilities needed to format a new disk? I have a 3-mode USB floppy drive - does this mean that I can make 1.44 floppies readable in a 1.2 MB/720 KB drive? If so, can anyone link a good utility to do this with?
The Towns can format fds no probs. You only really need the 3-mode if you don't have a Towns and want to either create the required fds to play games you find on the net on real hardware :fresh: (some games come on fd only, some require a formatted fd for saves to be present in order to load, some cd games have a 'boot' fd with game specific material needed to load it), or if you want to back up your legit fds :dancelike me). I think anyway.... The other stuff, not too sure, sorry. I'll ask around. There was one seller on yahoo with a load of Towns ram a while back, 8, 16 and 32 strips, lots of them. Wish I'd picked some up as he seems to have left yahoo.
I just read this thread and wanted to mention the FM-Towns utility FIT-L, for those who don't have a 3-mode drive, but have a keyboard on their FM-Towns. I use this on my Marty to write floppy image files to actual floppies. Download from: http://my.vector.co.jp/servlet/Syst...0/281778/pack/towns/util/disk/fitl2131.zip?ds The Windows utility Virtual Floppy Image Converter can convert i.e. D88 format images to the "BKDSK format" that FIT-L expects by default. Download from: http://my.vector.co.jp/servlet/Syst...06/pack/win95/util/disk/image/vf011010.zip?ds Just my two cents...
