Windows Services for NetWare 5

Posted on 2020-12-05, 23:59

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by RJDog

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So I was looking around, and I think Windows 2000 Server with Windows Services for NetWare 5 would be the killer silver bullet of all silver bullets of retro networking server for a retro network... don't know how many people actually do this with their retro PCs, but I am a networking guy …

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Re: Best place to get the chips for a clone AdLib PCB?

Posted on 2018-11-22, 21:04

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by RJDog

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I'm building a couple of the replicas myself... I got the YM3812 and YM3014 from eBay in quantities of 5. Not very expensive. They tout them as "new" but I doubt they are truely "new"... but the ones I tested work.

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Re: Identify This ISA Card... Please?

Posted on 2018-10-16, 20:31

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by RJDog

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The flash chips are 4Mbit/512kb each, so it's a 2MB card. Hm... not large enough to do anything super useful, really... On generic versions of these cards the BIOS allows the flash memory to appear as either a floppy drive or hard drive that the PC could boot off. . Interesting... if I had to guess …

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Re: Multi-I/O ISA Card - What Do I Need to Know

Posted on 2018-10-16, 20:19

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by RJDog

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Just to kind of close off this thread, I have decided to go with an all-in-one (IDE, Floppy, Parallel, Serial) card, just waiting for the right deal to pop up on eBay. Per the others' comments, I am not too worried about year for my 1989ish build. In fact a lot of good Goldstar multi i/o cards seem …

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Identify This ISA Card... Please?

Posted on 2018-10-12, 18:23

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by RJDog

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So a while ago I salvaged some old Cisco PIX ("Classic", ca. 1996-97) appliances from an old storage room at work. Didn't think much of them until I opened them up and found it's actually PC hardware, a PPro 200Mhz, on Intel VS440FX motherboard. Very cool find. Anyway, there was no traditional …

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Re: Multi-I/O ISA Card - What Do I Need to Know

Posted on 2018-10-12, 14:36

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by RJDog

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One period-correct option if you don't want to deal with any 'weird' stuff: SCSI. This is actually not a terrible suggestion; I do have a couple of SCSI hard disks. The only thing is that, to me, putting SCSI into a 386 would definitely turn it into "workstation" territory... and where the 386 …

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Re: Dual Socket 5/7 Boards

Posted on 2018-10-12, 02:38

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by RJDog

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Came here expecting a board with a Socket 5 and a Socket 7 (as kind of an upgrade option thing)... was not disappointed. Great stuff.

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Multi-I/O ISA Card - What Do I Need to Know

Posted on 2018-10-11, 02:32

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by RJDog

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So I'm finally breaking down and building a 386. As it turns out, I already had a 386 motherboard (an M396F of all things, which as I understand is semi-desirable) just missing some key components... like a Multi-I/O card -- that is, serial, parallel, IDE and floppy controller. Now, I've never had …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-10-08, 22:09

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by RJDog

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Are the CD drive and hard drives SCSI, SAS, or IDE? Also, the Mac Mini would be a good candidate for a video editor or making DVDs from an old video camera that has the FireWire port. This appears to be a more budget-oriented server, so the CD drive is IDE, so definitely worth saving, and HDDs are …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-10-08, 19:45

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by RJDog

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Found a Dell PowerEdge 830 on the way out at the office... it's ~10 years old so definitely in retro territory. It's LGA775 but only supports Pentium 4 or Pentium D.... no Core or Core 2. I think I'll salvage the optical, floppy, and hard disk drives, the serial card, the RAM... I don't have any …

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Re: Getting Lara Croft "hot & bothered"

Posted on 2018-10-01, 20:13

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by RJDog

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I've gotten Tomb Raider 1 working with my Voodoo2 after a slight amount of fannagling... basically, the Banshee patch works fine and where its DOS, it doesn't matter about drivers in Windows or whatnot. The trick is to use the batch file (I found it around here on Vogons somewhere.... just too lazy …

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Re: IBM PS/1 consultant restore.

Posted on 2018-09-21, 20:21

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by RJDog

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Wow, I had that exact computer when it was new. Did not have sound card and CD-ROM from factory, added that myself later using a clone SoundBlaster 16 (honestly don't remember the exact brand, just that it wasn't Creative) that came in a "Multinedia Pack" which included the drive, sound card, and …

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Re: Windows XP SP2 Offline Install in 2018

Posted on 2018-08-28, 17:00

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by RJDog

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Lozi wrote: Thanks guys so I need to try and find a corporate copy of Windows if the phone thing doesn’t work. For sure, the phone activation should work; I've done it many times with pretty much everything from XP to 10.

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Re: What brand / computer company used this logo?

Posted on 2018-08-28, 16:45

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by RJDog

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Thinking of Analog Devices?

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Re: DOOM / DUKE3D Native DOS6.22 IPX game fails

Posted on 2018-08-24, 22:52

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by RJDog

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You mention NDIS drivers but typically for IPX stack you need ODI drivers for your card. Should be pretty easy to find for a common card like Intel Pro/100. Typically, 16-bit (i.e. not Novell's 32-bit Client32) driver loading looks like: lsl.com e100bodi.com (or whatever the odi driver is for your …

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Re: NetWare - Ultimate Retro File Sharing?

Posted on 2018-08-23, 19:34

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by RJDog

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What means exactly user licence in Netware world? Its number of machines, or number of Nowell users accross machines, number of parallel users? I'm actually not 100% sure, but I am quite certain that it is number of users that have successfully authenticated simulataneously -- i.e. number of …

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Re: NetWare - Ultimate Retro File Sharing?

Posted on 2018-08-23, 13:08

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by RJDog

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You don't need Netware to play IPX games. I remeber playing Command and Conquer and Red Alert on IPX, back in school. No, you don't need the full NetWare client; but you do need an ODI driver for your NIC and the IPX protocol stack, which is the basis of the NetWare client stack (and all courtesy …

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Re: NetWare - Ultimate Retro File Sharing?

Posted on 2018-08-23, 13:05

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by RJDog

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What is OS compatibility, could Netware networking work in modern MS OSes like XP, Vista, Win7, Win10? Yup :) https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7016731 Thats said, I don't consider Windows 7 or newer to be particularly "retro"... my goal is to have a single solution for DOS-WinXP (the …

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Re: NetWare - Ultimate Retro File Sharing?

Posted on 2018-08-20, 17:26

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and can't find for 100% certainty that either drivers for it online Wow, I have no idea why this took me so long to find, but this will obviously be helpful to other folks looking to install Netware: https://developer.novell.com/devres/lan/drivers/ It's not explicitly stated on the page, but it …

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Re: NetWare - Ultimate Retro File Sharing?

Posted on 2018-08-20, 15:25

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by RJDog

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we used everytime Win9x+ inbuild networking or Serial port cables for DOS, Netware was something fancy what we saw only in some institutions.. Ah, yeah, well before Windows 95 and the proliferation of TCP/IP, users in pure DOS running DOS games needed something else... as mentioned above, Novell's …

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