PicoIDE is an open-source hardware IDE/ATAPI drive emulator based on a Raspberry Pi RP2350 board and designed to replace hard drives and CD-ROM drives in vintage computers with microSD card storage.

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Starting with 86Box build 7824 OS/2 Warp 3.0 fails to boot, hanging at the "Loading, please wait..." screen with the floppy disk activity indicator lit. In build 7823 OS/2 Warp 3.0 finishes booting ...

The “Valid ATAPI Device cannot be found” error usually shows up when you’re trying to update firmware or check your CD/DVD drive, but the drive doesn’t appear ...

In the innocent days of the early 90s the future of personal computing still seemed to be wide open, with pundits making various statements regarding tis potential trajectories. To many, the internet ...

In 1994, multimedia discs—from encyclopedias to magazines—flooded the market, and felt like the future. It was fun while it lasted. At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of ...

Using the Award 430VX PCI & 440FX PCI bios's, I can't get it to properly detect a cd-rom in the drive when booting from it or swapping it under windows guests. This is using both the ISO method and ...

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My girlfriend has an old PB laptop (Athlon XP Mobile 2200+ vintage) with a broken (physically snapped off!) CD ROM drive. Windows XP (original install, 4+ years old) finally gave up the ghost. in ...

I've got an 8x SCSI burner in the box I use for burning. I just got a 40x IDE burner and I don't want to rip that machine apart and replace the burner if I'm not going to see much of an increase in ...