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I upgraded my DOS version, and now DeskMate is gone. How do I get it back?

April 26, 2017deskmate dos gone upgraded version

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I upgraded my DOS version, and now DeskMate is gone. How do I get it back?

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I’ve written a device driver to reenable access to the ROM drive where DeskMate resides after the drive has been rendered invisible by a DOS upgrade. The driver is here: ftp://ftp.oldskool.org/pub/tvdog/tandy1000/utilities/romdrive.zip Romdrive is known to work on the 1000TL and TL/2. If you try it on another system, let me know whether it works. There may be an older version of Romdrive floating around out there. That version does not work. Get the one from the site above. The correct version is dated May 1997 or later. DeskMate earlier than 3.05 has trouble with hard drive partitions larger than 32 megabytes, so if you reformatted your drive when you upgraded DOS you may have trouble with the original DeskMate. If Romdrive does not work, or you don’t want to use it, you can get the generic PC-compatible version of DeskMate 3.05; see section III.B.2.