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Re: Anyone know where to find Visual Studio 6.0 resources

Posted on 2022-08-16, 01:13

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

yeah, VB 5 was in VS97 - that was the version that introduced the MDI IDE with the dock widgets which continues to be used by Visual Basic for Applications in MS Office today - I think Visual Basic 4.0 was pretty much a continuation of the Visual Basic 1/2/3 IDE. I do have fond memories of Visual …

Re: Anyone know where to find Visual Studio 6.0 resources

Posted on 2022-08-15, 23:39

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Hi everyone. My father used to develop with Visual Basic 6 at some point, which also used Visual Studio 6 as its IDE. From what I remember, he had some MSDN Library CDs, too. I could be wrong, but I think the MSDN Library CDs contained a collection of examples, code snippets, documents and tools …

Re: Anyone know where to find Visual Studio 6.0 resources

Posted on 2022-08-15, 21:57

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Visual Studio 6.0 and Visual C++ 6.0 should both come with all of the documentation you need assuming you're already familiar with C++ (though there should be some basic C++ documentation in there too). The basic install will probably include help for the IDE itself. For everything else you need to …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-08-12, 12:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got briefly distracted from adding SSH support to C-Kermit for Windows by the question: "It builds with Visual C++ 6 SP6, will it build with Visual C++ 5?" With a few features turned off at compile time (NTLM Auth, and authentication in general), yes it does build with Visual C++ 5.0! Then I …

Re: Hey Vogonians, what are your other hobbies?

Posted on 2022-08-11, 21:09

in Milliways

in Milliways

I dabble a bit in astrophotography though I've been a bit too busy with other things this year. Here is a picture of Saturn I took a few years back ( details ): saturn.png This is mildly amazing to me. Could you describe the equipment needed.to produce a picture like that. I used a "cheap" …

Re: SMC Ethercard Elite16 8216t Packet driver?

Posted on 2022-08-11, 20:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've got a bunch of Elite16 drivers archived here (along with a scan of the manual): https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/drivers/SMC/Elite16/ There are two versions of ether.exe in there - one from 2000-07-14 which should be the latest, and one (in the 'old' subdirectory) from some time in 1996. Version 11.5 …

Re: DEC Alpha PC64 - problem with booting NT firmware

Posted on 2022-08-08, 20:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've never seen the debug monitor on any of my Alphas but I've never gone looking for it either - I just get the normal firmware (SRM or ARC/AlphaBIOS, what ever is set as the default) out the serial port if I turn that on. They may well have it though - one of my AlphaServers (perhaps a few of them …

Re: DEC Alpha PC64 - problem with booting NT firmware

Posted on 2022-08-08, 08:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The DS12887 was dead all the time as I bought the board - no wonder it was ~25 years old. I tried to replace it with DS1287 with OK batt but no change. Without RTC it doesn't boot neither to Debug Monitor (hangs soon at POST code 00). Please could you take and upload some video of your booting …

Re: DEC Alpha PC64 - problem with booting NT firmware

Posted on 2022-08-06, 22:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've never seen one of these boards before so I can't really comment on how they normally behave and my small Alphas are all in need of repair (bad PSUs). None of mine ever crashed at the VGA BIOS though - if drives or disk controllers or anything like that were missing or not working it would just …

Re: Does modern printer works for retro computers?

Posted on 2022-08-02, 22:39

in DOS

in DOS

I can print to my LaserJet 4100 via NetWare from DOS, OS/2, Classic Mac, Windows 3.x, 9x, NT, etc. Its not exactly a modern printer (made in 2001) but if it has any special support for these older operating systems I'm not using it. What it does have is a network port and an understanding of …

Re: Hey Vogonians, what are your other hobbies?

Posted on 2022-08-02, 00:16

in Milliways

in Milliways

I dabble a bit in astrophotography though I've been a bit too busy with other things this year. Here is a picture of Saturn I took a few years back ( details ): saturn.png I also do a lot of software development (which also happens to be my day job). Lately I've been resurrecting Kermit 95 (which …

Re: NetWare, fire phasers!

Posted on 2022-07-31, 06:44

in Milliways

in Milliways

Not that I know of though I've never played NetWars (seems to only come with Personal NetWare or NetWare Lite - NetWare 3.11-4.11 doesn't include it as far as I can tell). So I guess its just a sound that the NetWare login script processor (on windows at least) can play - I guess to indicate errors …

Re: C-Kermit for Windows v10 beta

Posted on 2022-07-31, 05:26

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

I think the main reason the code dialer wasn't released was the Kermit 95 authors didn't like it much (it was just a thing to make the product more marketable) and it was built with a modified version of Zinc which was proprietary at the time so the code wasn't particularly useful for anything. …

Re: NetWare, fire phasers!

Posted on 2022-07-31, 00:33

in Milliways

in Milliways

The windows client plays a WAV file . I don't know what OS/2 does. I don't think the Mac client runs login scripts so no phasers there. If you want more NetWare info, I've accumulated a pile of screenshots and notes while exploring it in depth several months back including the clients for DOS, …

Re: Pc printers get worse and worse

Posted on 2022-07-27, 23:59

in Milliways

in Milliways

Novell Network Print Services were very popular back in 1990’s Works pretty well too - just map ("capture") an LPT port to the network print queue using this fancy GUI, the login script, or the DOS capture tool, and whatever you send to the LPT port goes via netware and comes out the printer. Under …

Re: Transfer files to and from an old pc with no USB

Posted on 2022-07-27, 02:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

On the same desk or short row, or across a small room you can hook up the AUI 15pin D connectors in a "null modem" bodge between two 10b5 supporting cards.. https://www.epanorama.net/documents/lan/aui2aui.html Yeah, I guess thats kind of what the DELNI does - its just a box with 9 AUI ports. Kind …

Re: Transfer files to and from an old pc with no USB

Posted on 2022-07-26, 21:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There were three common LAN standards using coaxial cable: - Thin Ethernet ie. 10base2 - 50 Ohm - Thick Ethernet ie. 10base5 - 50 Ohm - Arcnet - 93 Ohm I've always kind of wanted to give 10base5 ago. I've got some of the hardware - long (1-2m) AUI cables and a box of DEC h4005 ethernet transceivers …

Re: Transfer files to and from an old pc with no USB

Posted on 2022-07-21, 20:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

FTP.. Isn't FTP generally considered obsolete, like X.25, Telnet and the KERMIT protocol? :D The Kermit protocol is still around! A beta version of the C-Kermit v10.0 for Windows (based on the former Kermit 95) went up a few days ago and I'm currently working on PTY support for Windows 10+! Right …

Re: Transfer files to and from an old pc with no USB

Posted on 2022-07-21, 04:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

9x Workgroup / file sharing can be notoriously difficult to get working right, even more so if any semi-modern OSes are involved with higher security requirements etc. Yeah, I've pretty much landed at if it works out of the box then great I guess but I'm not going to jump through hoops trying to …

Re: Transfer files to and from an old pc with no USB

Posted on 2022-07-19, 23:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

LAN is the best method. You'll never go back. Ideally, if you have some spare hardware (old PC or Pi) set it up as a server running RetroNAS. That means you don't have to think about how to get old & new systems talking to each other, juggling different SMB versions etc - it makes it all pretty …

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