First up, some testing with Windows 2.1. It worked surprisingly well from a single floppy disk.
Next came a proof-of-concept Windows 3.00a install. I stripped it down until I could cram the whole thing onto a floppy and, somehow, that worked too.
And finally, the end result. Note the change in the colour of the light. The sun had long since set by the time I finished this journey several hours later.
The next goal is getting a hard drive into the TeraDrive, either through the strange 44-pin connector on the motherboard or through an ISA expansion card. We will be victorious!



For now, please welcome Nintendo Game Boy to the family. I had one of these back in primary school, I think. Long time ago now. Good times with Tetris and Super Mario Land… oh, and Snow Brothers on my dodgy 10-in-1 pirate cart.
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Further Reading
- Sega TeraDrive Hard Drive Interface Investigation - my later investigation into the TeraDrive’s unusual 44-pin hard-drive interface.