Mike's PCjr Page

Hi Guys,

So I grabbed the DOS 5 patch from Mikes website and after some playing around I managed to get a 360k disk patched and the system boots to the prompt, but there are some weird issues going on here:

1. The Keyboard won't work. When I hit any key all I get is a beep, no characters at all. The keyboard works in the ROM Basic. It does this if it is wired or wireless.

2. It won't install the second floppy. The JrConfig.dsk summery screen says only 1 disk drive, but it does change the screen mode and enables the full 640kb of RAM.

3. I get Insufficient disk space when I try to copy command.com to the C:, this one is probably easy to solve, I probably just need to make a larger RAM drive, though I can't check it because of #1 above.

My config.sys My autoexec.bat In PC-Dos 3.3 this exact same configuration works perfectly, so I am a bit baffled.

Any ideas?

To get the keyboard working, add STACKS=0,0 to config.sys.

I had the same problem with JRCONFIG. I had to grab version 3 to get it to work. File name is JRCONFIG.SYS, and you add a -R if you want a drive letter assigned to your RAM disk.

jmetal88 wrote:To get the keyboard working, add STACKS=0,0 to config.sys.

I had the same problem with JRCONFIG. I had to grab version 3 to get it to work. File name is JRCONFIG.SYS, and you add a -R if you want a drive letter assigned to your RAM disk.

Ahh, thanks. I'll give that a try later.

Can you point me in the right direction to get JRConfig V3?

Mike just added a link to it on his download page:

http://www.brutman.com/PCjr/pcjr_downloads.html

It's jrcfg310.zip.

jmetal88 wrote:Mike just added a link to it on his download page:

http://www.brutman.com/PCjr/pcjr_downloads.html

It's jrcfg310.zip.

Its not on the list there, but I was able to infer the URL from the other downloads. So its actually at http://www.brutman.com/PCjr/downloads/jrcfg312.zip

Thanks.

Here are some of the posts/threads that explain the keyboard handling problem with DOS 5:
Jrcfg310 is in the list, right under the older jrconfig. Refresh your browser if you need to. And the proper link is:

-Mike

Yeah, it is on the list there, actually.

Yeah it shows up for me now. Must have been a cache thing since I did refresh it a few times.