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No dice on booting w/o the JrIDE. Still get error A. Yanked out the chips again and it booted but with half the memory. The good half is soldered in the board so good thing one of them didn't go belly up. Ah well, live and learn I don't see myself using the Jr much w/o the JrIDE so will put the memo...

Just want to chime in on this thread to say wow, this is fantastic. I have always wanted to play Pitfall II on the Jr but never figured I would ever be able to find the cartridge. Kudos for putting this together I am happy to have version 4 as part of my floppy collection

Well removing the card did the trick. Qbasic and Edit functionality now restored. Can also run Word Perfect 5.1 and a few other programs that wouldn't run before. Kind of weird when I first installed the JrIDE everything worked great as far as Edit and Qbasic. Then intermittent freezing issues then ...

I have a PCjr with Racore Drive II + Memory expansion and a JrIDE. Recently got patched MS DOS 5.0 and have been playing around with all the different utilities when I started having problems. Intermittent Error A on boot up and random freezes or reboots while running programs that typically didn't ...

I wasn't sure whether or not to post this in Hardware, Software, or Other, so I chose Other: I finally got all the components together to make use of the JrIDE I have been sitting on for over a year. Set it up with a CF-IDE adapter and a 2GB CF card come to find out I couldn't find fdisk on any of m...

Been reading about DOS 5 and the Jr and my combo cartridge. I have combo cartridge 3 which includes the compatability cart so does that mean I can run Dos 5 without a software patch? Thats what the documentation lead me to believe...

Dos 5 sounds heavenly. That has edit and qbasic ya? Don't get me wrong I love edlin just as much as the next guy but using edit would be just dreamy. Are there memory issues running that kind of stuff? Oh and DOS shell! does it have DOS shell? I will of course be googling the answer to these questio...

Well I finally got my jr out of storage, cleaned up, and set up on my workbench. Opened my jrIDE and plugged it in for the first time. Using a CF card and CF->IDE adapter the bios recognizes "InnoDisk Corp.." on Disk 0. So far so good! Now time to partition 32MB worth into a usable drive n...

I think the trick is to turn the printer on first before the computer. The BIOS of the machine will try to detect that the Compact Printer is connected. If it does detect it then the BIOS will magically re-route LPT1: to the serial port. This of course assumes that the program is well behaved and i...

Happy new year PCjr Guru's! I recently received an IBM Compact Thermal Printer for my PCjr. It seems to work as far as holding the line feed button down during power up causes it to print a test pattern, however when I try to print from IBM Writing Assistant, Print Shop, or even the Typewriter softw...