#PCEmulation

2026-03-09

Earlier tonight, I was searching the web for the official Compaq diagnostics disk to add a Compaq Deskpro 386/25 to my collection of 86Box virtual machines. This machine's from the late 80s and it does not have anything like a BIOS settings menu, but instead uses a bootable floppy disk instead.

Great success! I did not only find working disk images, but I even managed to download the original files from Compaq to create these disks in the first place. In both 3.5" and 5.25" versions! The files are named "SP0308.EXE" and "SP0316.EXE".

I'm reallly grateful to the community for preserving these files! 😃

#RetroComputing #Compaq #DOSGaming #RetroGaming #Emulation #86Box #PCEmulation #FloppyDisk

Copying the SP0308.EXE and SP0316.EXE to a temporary folder.Unpacking the Softpaq Diagnostics files to the disk.Choosing which disks to write to the physical drive.Transferring diskette #1 to a virtual floppy disk.
Li KaoLiKao
2025-04-13

Ugh, I draw a blank. What was the fancy recent dosbox equivalent with scanlines support, already ?

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