Hi,
Sorry for the long delay in replying - I have been messing around with these two computers for a while now and have started to understand them a bit more.
The Fresh FT seems to be working well (I see what you say about capacitors in the PSU, but I am getting issues with sound on the same three games - Chase HQ, Genocide/Genocide2 and Prince of Persia - and no others. At this point, I wonder if it is CPU or RAM related?) I have played about with the setup2 program, and managed to delete the second partition on my drive - this sounds like a big problem, but it now boots into Towns OS with no issue! One thing I did have a problem with is the original partition I deleted was 170mb, but the max the setup2 can create is 127mb... How is it possible the original owner had 170mb partition on the drive?
The Fresh TV is currently in bits as I clean it up and fully test it. It looks like the CD drive in this one is more delicate, as it won't load my CD-R's, but will load originals! The Hard Disk seems as though it was damaged, so I could not format it and start to partition. I need to get it all back together and do more testing to see what I can get it to do. I want this one as it should output native RGB, while the Fresh FT is only VGA.
I bought myself a SCSI2SD and have restored your image file from Assembler. While this boots into TownsOS, I can't 'see' any of the other files in the TownsOS windows program. I can get into a version of DOS (I type 'tmenu' and it takes me back into TownsOS) but I cannot seem to load any of the games at the command prompt?! What am I doing wrong here?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Cheers,
Paul
uroko-sakanabito wrote:
If it starts to have problems with CD audio try replacing all PSU caps. Should help 75% of the time, if not its the laser and you have to look for some replacement parts or drive.
The beep during the startup can be caused due to wrong config or autoexec settings / lines, installing TOS on top of MS Dos is very fragile.
You can try to boot from Dos Diskette and edit the files. Try to rem everything and look if it starts to boot into command line again. Then add other files and find out what exactly causes your error.
Also check the settings in setup2 and post a screen please, sometimes the system loses its rom and hdd settings leading to many problems. C drive always should be the rom, everything else causes armageddon on Towns

The later towns systems only cause problems because of the higher ram, CPU is afaik never the problem. I also never heard of audio problems aside from NZS, i bet its just your PSU caps. If you are not using many add on cards, you can also replace the PSU with some 160w pico.