Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2018-09-16, 13:14

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Coherent looks interesting, I'll give it a try soon. NextStep also officially ran on x86 in one of its later 3.x versions, and you're right, it was picky about the hardware. If anyone wants a taste of what NextStep was, I suggest you try GNUstep: http://www.aiei.ch/gnustep/ http://wiki.gnustep.org/ …

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Re: Games with better Disney Sound Source support?

Posted on 2018-09-13, 15:26

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Short list here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing#Games Build engine games seem to support it for SFX. There's a longer list at https://www.mobygames.com/attribute/sheet/attributeId,44/offset,0/p,2/so,0a/ Alone in the Dark and Shadow of the Comet both support the Disney Sound …

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Re: Cirrus CS4624 dos init - fails after PCMCIA

Posted on 2018-09-11, 15:13

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I can't remember if the SCP-55 need sCard Services loaded or if it works with only the Socket Serices driver... Could you post the contents of your config.sys and autoexec.bat files?

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Re: Pinout for the New Media WAVjammer

Posted on 2018-09-09, 15:40

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I have an analog multimeter like this one: Filename testeur.jpg File size 60.63 KiB Views 789 views I put it on *1K Ohm function and tested the breakout box, almost all the pins on the connector to the pcmcia card gives a reading on each of the 3 contacts out of the headphone jack, drawing a …

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Re: Photos Creative Midi Blaster MB10 (1992)???

Posted on 2018-09-09, 13:07

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Salient wrote: I haven't got the slightest clue about what they had in mind with this design either. 😀 It wasn't the only weirdly shaped product they wanted to release that year: Filename midi-portblaster.jpg File size 21.54 KiB Views 517 views

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2018-09-09, 11:12

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Time for a small 360K size update, so far the lowest specs machines supported in the thread were 386 with 2MB of RAM, but if you got an older machine, such as an original PC, a XT or a 286, this post is for you. If you want use a flavour of Unix on your oldest PC and compatible system, you're in …

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Re: Pinout for the New Media WAVjammer

Posted on 2018-09-08, 15:14

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Calling it a dongle is a not really accurate, it's more a breakout box, I don't know if there are electronic components inside or just direct connections between the 3.5" jacks and the connector to the card.

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Re: Pinout for the New Media WAVjammer

Posted on 2018-09-07, 12:42

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I have one with the dongle, it doesn't have screws, so plastic tabs or glue, no idea how to open it...

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2018-08-30, 19:22

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I found it unusable with my am5x86160 10 years ago. The VESA driver didn't work very good on the ye old Trio64 either. ^^ I've used it on a P233MMX with 64MB, but that's already a couple generations newer. Took a few minutes to boot off the CD but after it finished loading it wasn't too bad. Didn't …

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2018-08-19, 11:09

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Found a working mirror for LoopLinux at ftp://bbc.nvg.org/pub/linux/sunsite/distributions/looplinux/index.html SliTaz needs quite a lot of ram, even for the mini and loram versions, but it looks cool for Pentium machines. How usable is DSL with the minimum required specs? Time for an update, today …

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2018-08-14, 21:36

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UMSDOS isn't very desirable due to the inherent restrictions involved. IIRC, Peanut used an image file. Edit: No it did not. So, the mystery question is, what was the distro I'm thinking of. Low resource consumption, X based GUI, ran off a loopback mounted file image. There's Basic Linux on the …

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2018-08-14, 17:51

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Have you tried Plan 9 from Bell Labs ? I have known about it for years but never tried it, there is even an old port of it to the BeBox, thanks for the link! I can't find any of the old versions of Peanut Linux. I remember running it via loopback off a FAT filesystem. All the download links from …

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Re: Linux on old hardware?

Posted on 2018-08-12, 17:20

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gdjacobs wrote: Older distributions supported 4mb with some caveats. https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slack … -3.1/LOWMEM.TXT Another interesting read is https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/4mb-Laptops.html

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2018-08-11, 21:16

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Time for an update, with a handful of 1 or multi floppy Linux distros running from a ramdisk, some of them are installable. -As its FAQ describes it, "The most GNU/Linux on one floppy disk", using a superformatted 1722K floppy, Tomsrtbt is available at http://www.toms.net/rb/ It's a rescue disk with …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2018-08-09, 21:53

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Some fantastic info in this thread! I have a fairly contemporary laptop with both expresscard and pc card slots, both of which are currently vacant. I'm looking for a high quality sound card BUT I would really like one that is flush with the edge of the socket or basically doesn't stick out and if …

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Re: Linux on old hardware?

Posted on 2018-08-09, 12:53

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I have the exact thread for you Hamby, and the others too, though you can leave Xenix out: Retro OSes for retro computers You can run Linux with only 4MB, but yes it will be an old kernel.

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Re: PCMCIA Graphics/Video Cards?

Posted on 2018-08-07, 13:52

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The Canopus card is really uncommon, I saw only 2 for sale on Yahoo over 2 years, one of which I bought. You can try the benchmark I used with my card and compare the results: https://archive.org/details/speedy_11 If i had to guess, I'd say your Trident Cyber9388 is faster though... The …

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2018-07-29, 19:06

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I took the screenshots on 86box and/or qemu, when the former failed to display the system. One more Open Source OS for today, Visopsys, the Visual Operating System was first released in 2001. Current version from March 2018, available as a single floppy:: visopsys-1.png visopsys-3.jpg visopsys-5.png …

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2018-07-29, 18:04

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I have Slackware 3.0 on my 486, but not sure how many unix/linux types we have around this forum? I'm not really into OS/2. I use a few Linux distros on my 486, RedHat 3.0.3, Unifix 1.5, and some old Debian... There are some alternatives OS people around, just not many in my thread! Yes, 32bit …

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2018-07-29, 17:53

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Another system entirely written in x86 assembly, V2_OS, created in 1999 in the Netherlands, claims to be "the fastest operating system available for the 386+ PC." It needs only a 386DX and 2MB of RAM to run correctly, though it will be a lot faster with a better CPU and more memory. V2_OS-3.png V2_ …

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