Rob, Mirage floppy drives are usually hard to come by....but you are right, they do expire....if indeed your drive has made 'the transition' you might be ...
Awhile back I made this demo for someone to get a better idea of what the Mirage sounds like. The demo mainly consists of factory sounds and sequences that...
hey miragers: yeah that's a walk down memory lane- funny thing, when i got my first dsk-8, it came bundled with the 'Lucy' theme with some disks the prior...
It might be worth a shot, but there's a place called OEM Parts here in Colorado Springs. I'm not sure what the number is, but I've found many, many things...
Jason I noticed you mentioned Co Springs. I'm in Denver, and still using my Mirage keyboard since 1985 in my 1960's band (that I've been with for 16 years ...
... Do you have a list of which factory disks these sounds and demos come from? I have almost all, but there were a couple I haven't heard before, for example ...
how? ... From: Mike Nelson [mailto:mjnelson12@...] Sent: 05 October 2003 04:04 To: Mirage-Net@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Mirage-Net] Re: formating disks...
Do any of you know which pins on this drive need jumpers to work, if any? I bought this one that supposedly worked, then it was shipped to me and it doesn't...
... Sounds like you got an IBM compatible drive. Try the jumper on DS0. What make/model of drive were you sent? -- ... - Tom Arnold - When I was small, I...
Its the Mirage in general that doesn't work, and it happens to have a Shugart drive. I am not sure its a floppy drive problem, but that's what I will assume...
The October & November 1989 issues of Transoniq Hacker have a two part articule on replacing your floppy drive with a, then standard, double sided drive. Yep,...
The hardest part is finding a compatible drive....if anyone knows a source, please let me know. Thanks, Rob j9a2g52 <jgigli@...> wrote: The October &...
You can get 720K floppy drives at http://www.abcresellers.bigstep.com/item.html;$sessionid$DIFNPZAAAAB5F TZENUGXBMWPERWRJPX0?PRID=1328648 They are $129.00....
... If you dont want to hunt down the proper new drive to use ( its in the FAQ ) then hit surplus/pawn/thrift stores and look for wordprocessors. The 80's ...
In Germany you can get new Teac FD235HF drives at www.schiwi.de for €9.90. but I don't know if they deliver overseas. ... working Mirage for that... ... ...
Whats the rest of the model number? It has to be a 720k DS/DD drive to work, and the common FD235HFB291 "current" drives won't work. It has to have the jumper...
Ahm, before we start scanning and posting, we need to check with Eric and Jane, the publishers. I don't have a current web/email address for them. Unless...
I don't know the complete model number. I'll get one (hopefully) tomorrow and try to make it work in my Mirage. I'll let you know. ... of the model number? It...
If its the same one I found on their site, I wouldn't bother ordering it. Looks like a "normal" 1.44MB drive that doesn't have the jumpers to make it 760K. Oh...
Hi all, I recently bought a Mirage off of eBay. Been playing around with it for the past few weeks and so far enjoying the keyboard a great deal - I was ...
Hey folks - Forgot to ask this in my original post. I came across Acopy.prg for the Atari while searching the archives.. Tried to make backups of my disks...
A couple of things. First - congrats! Glad you're enjoying your Mirage. Depending on how the HD discs were written, you may not have any trouble with them....
Syntaur.com Jones <audiotechnica@...> wrote:Hi all, I recently bought a Mirage off of eBay. Been playing around with it for the past few weeks and so far...