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Re: Commander X16 of The 8-Bit Guy, can it be considered as the most nonsense neo-retro computer of all times?

Posted on Today, 05:24

in Milliways

in Milliways

I look at it like the Mega65. Massively expensive and its not really "retro" or anything. its inspired by the classic machines we love, but feels somewhat pointless. I thought the same, but then I learned that the Mega65 is based on the unreleased Commodore 65 , of which a few actually exist (or at …

Re: Call for ideas/fixes for the next mTCP version

Posted on 2024-10-03, 09:33

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To have another piece of code take over means getting the packet driver to call it instead. The correct way to do that is to have Telnet unregister from the packet driver and have the new code register with the packet driver. And then you miss any packets that came in during that window. And then …

Re: Call for ideas/fixes for the next mTCP version

Posted on 2024-10-02, 12:05

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in Milliways

I haven't recently checked - Does the telnet program support Z-modem? There are some telnet BBS'es that don't support X- nor Y-modem protocol, unfortunately... Maybe the modem capability can be implemented as a proxy program for packet driver as i think NetDrive has (or will have) the capability? I …

Re: Black stripes over the screen in FreeDos

Posted on 2024-10-02, 10:57

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Did the black stripes appear and then you couldn't play it any more? If so, it might be that the game crashed. In my experience, when VGA games like DOOM crashed, they would crash back to DOS, but leave the system in a graphics mode with some black lines on it, and if you typed CLS and hit enter it …

Re: AI Generated Wallpapers Representing Retro Computing

Posted on 2024-09-30, 04:29

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I wonder if the AI imagines that blue is the correct colour for a screen because we all take lots of photos of blue screens of death? 🤣

Re: Winamp's source code is now open

Posted on 2024-09-28, 05:02

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in Release Announcements

They also included some files which were from Dolby and not allowed to be redistributed, and removed them after someone raised an issue, but if you know an old commit hash (or find it in an issue which is still available on GitHub) you can still find the content of those files. It seems that whoever …

Re: AI Generated Wallpapers Representing Retro Computing

Posted on 2024-09-28, 04:48

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in Milliways

It certainly made up some interesting things (is that an Apple computer/copier/fax/scanner?) but they all look melted and broken like something someone found at the bottom of a pile in a barn and cleaned extensively despite being completely broken.

Re: A place to download .ico files for Win3.1?

Posted on 2024-09-28, 03:55

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in Marvin \ Software

Yeah, shovelware CD collections of icons on archive.org is definitely a good option! Another option is to search on http://discmaster.textfiles.com, which indexes files inside collections on archive.org and will show you previews. You can only have at most 250 results per page though, it seems. You …

Re: ethflop - a network-backed floppy emulator for DOS

Posted on 2024-09-22, 07:55

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1. Can it run in a DOS window under Win9x? I doubt it. ETHFLOPD for DOS requires a packet driver to send/receive Ethernet frames. I do not think that Win9x provides such interface. A quick web search tells that there is a thing called WinPKT, but it's only for Win 3.x, apparently. Unfortunately it …

Re: Trying to get Hercules Monochrome working with Windows 3.1 to 95 upgrade install

Posted on 2024-09-21, 12:54

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in Marvin \ Software

I checked a Microsoft TechNet CD from 1997 and couldn't find anything saying whether Hercules should work with Windows 95. I expected to maybe find something saying it's not supported, but didn't.

Re: Any DOS software for reading battery charge from ACPI?

Posted on 2024-09-21, 02:25

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in Marvin \ Software

jkq wrote on 2024-09-21, 00:28: Yup. No APM on there. Thanks, that's interesting to learn, just not so relevant to me as I never have laptops with working batteries 😁 This seems like a gap in FreeDOS then - perhaps if you report that you have a machine where FDAPM can't be used, someone will update …

Re: Trying to get Slackware Linux 4.0 onto my new Pocket 386 palmtop

Posted on 2024-09-21, 02:17

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in Marvin \ Software

Another option is to grab images of CDs, e.g.: https://archive.org/details/Slackware_Linux_4 … Creek_June_1999 In that collection it looks like ZipSlack is on CD 1.

Re: Any DOS software for reading battery charge from ACPI?

Posted on 2024-09-21, 00:13

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in Marvin \ Software

According to https://github.com/FDOS/fdapm/blob/master/fdapm.txt (not sure if that's the official repository for it), FDAPM from FreeDOS has an "INFO" command which "Displays things like battery fill percentage." Not sure if this is what you're after though - do you specifically need it to be …

Re: Trying to get Slackware Linux 4.0 onto my new Pocket 386 palmtop

Posted on 2024-09-20, 07:52

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in Marvin \ Software

I used to have Slackware installed on my 486 on a "UMSDOS" filesystem - it was a supported installation target and I learned about it from some of the bundled instructions. This is a compatibility layer built-in into Linux that stores unix files on a regular DOS FAT16 partition in C:\LINUX with …

Re: MsDos Virtual Keyboard?

Posted on 2024-09-08, 01:05

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BinaryDemon wrote on 2024-09-07, 11:12: I respect the suggestion, but it's also an option I'm not terribly eager to pursue. Yeah, I don't think morse code has punctuation, let alone function keys? 😁

Re: MsDos Virtual Keyboard?

Posted on 2024-09-07, 03:43

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in Marvin \ Software

I think there's a way to abuse batch file utilities like choice.com and a mouse menu selection for batch files, that would allow you to write a rudimentary batch keyboard for command prompt entry, that then returns to the batch file for your next command. There's also I think some util that will …

Re: Asking for help with Bret Johnson's USBJSTIK driver

Posted on 2024-08-28, 11:07

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in DOS

- and that my second onboard UHCI has IRQ conflict with ISA PNP sound card, which BIOS would not let me solve Have you tried something like the Intel ISA Configuration Utility? It might let you change the sound card's IRQ. I had to do this recently to avoid an IRQ conflict with something else, …

Re: Asking for help with Bret Johnson's USBJSTIK driver

Posted on 2024-08-24, 11:43

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in DOS

ludicrous_peridot wrote on 2024-08-20, 17:51: probably doesn't work in PM games at all I assume you're referring to Protected Mode? That's kind of what I imagined. Glad you're having some success with it though!

Re: Found Hummingbird Exceed/DOS ie. X11 Server for DOS

Posted on 2024-08-24, 11:42

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in DOS

I never thought much about it, I assumed that it was the only available X server for Windows. I seem to remember StarNet X-Win32 being pretty popular, maybe because it had a trial or shareware version or something, and I think it was also pretty easy to use. Later I used the X server in Cygwin …

Re: Found Hummingbird Exceed/DOS ie. X11 Server for DOS

Posted on 2024-08-19, 11:08

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in DOS

Interesting! I imagine the server might listen on a TCP port with no security, so perhaps you could just run something like "DISPLAY=1.2.3.4:0 xterm" on a *nix machine (via a separate connection/console), where 1.2.3.4 is the IP address of the DOS machine, and the xterm will appear on the DOS …

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