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Re: the Penultimate Semi Vintage Windows OS

Posted on 2023-09-19, 09:47

in Milliways
Age of machine matters a lot here - what would be well suited for a 2007 machine would be pointlessly slow on a 1998 machine, and what would run best on a 1998 machine likely couldn't even run on a 2007 machine without a lot of effort. But if I had to pick one it would be 32bit XP if only because it …

Re: Serial Issues

Posted on 2023-09-17, 20:29

I use several programs that require serial interface through DOS: HP48 PDL & HP version of Columbia University Kermit Transfer If you're still trying to run MS-DOS Kermit in DOSbox, have you considered not using DOSbox? Kermit is available for practically every platform under the sun so there is …

Re: Showing some love for Adaptec's ugly ducklings: Adding big drive support to EISA and VL controllers

Posted on 2023-09-14, 21:01

Impressive. I don't suppose you'd consider taking a look at ASPI4DOS.SYS as well? The latest version of it does not work at all with the 1542B. The previous release, dated 1997, does support the 1542B but it has a bug. The latest BIOS for the 1542B supports extended translation, and indeed works …

Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2023-09-01, 22:15

Although I can't seem to find a PPP IPX driver for MS-DOS anywhere. Anyone knows of any (to use with etherppp and friends)? There are certainly IPX over PPP solutions for MS-DOS but the ones I'm aware of aren't free and I doubt they'd work with etherppp, etc. The ones I'm aware of are built to work …

Re: No modern SSH client for Windows 98?

Posted on 2023-08-24, 03:53

Ahhh, well you don't need SSH for that. The terminal emulator I maintain is actually the windows port of C-Kermit . And C- Kermits "thing" is making connections to other computers and transferring files - it's what it was originally built to do . It just has terminal emulation abilities on Windows/ …

Re: No modern SSH client for Windows 98?

Posted on 2023-08-23, 22:26

Yeah, SSH on vintage windows is a bit of a challenge. The terminal emulator I maintain runs on all non-16bit Windows except sort of NT 3.1 but I can't support SSH on anything older than XP SP3 at the moment due to OpenSSL 3.0.x not supporting vintage Windows any more and the SSH client library, …

Re: No modern SSH client for Windows 98?

Posted on 2023-08-23, 21:52

TeraTerm is probably your best bet - it can SSH from Windows NT 4.0 at least. Edit: Perhaps TeraTerm is not so up-to-date - it seems its SSH implementation is based on PuTTY 0.70 (2017-07-08) and OpenSSL 1.1.1k (2021-03-25) both of which likely have known security issues (certainly OpenSSL does). …

Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2023-08-15, 22:32

It's a pity there are no good samba-equivalent netware server implementations for Linux as the DOS clients are so much better than the MS-NET one. .... I assumed therefore the name 8.3 name mangling must be quite complex give only Samba attempted it but actually having a look at the Samba code it …

Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2023-08-15, 02:33

It's a pity there are no good samba-equivalent netware server implementations for Linux as the DOS clients are so much better than the MS-NET one. But of the three implementations two are now unmaintained ( Mars NWE , frommel ) and development work seems to have stalled on the most recent portable …

Re: Mounting NFS share with XFS (problem)

Posted on 2023-07-17, 22:02

in Milliways
I don't know other nfs clients for dos, could you tell me which ones are the most used, if any? Sun PC-NFS was the original NFS client for DOS from the company that originally developed NFS - I guess this might have been the most "popular". Beame & Whiteside also had a DOS/Windows 3.x NFS client …

Re: Mounting NFS share with XFS (problem)

Posted on 2023-07-12, 23:19

in Milliways
Its quite possible that the client is expecting something like the Sun PC-NFS authentication server running - at least that's been the case with other DOS NFS clients I've seen. I've never heard of this "XFS" network stack/NFS client before though.

Re: Network Booting (and some NetWare stuff)

Posted on 2023-05-18, 23:36

yeah, they might work. I've tried 86box in the past and it didn't - the NIC emulations either didn't support an option ROM (AMD PCnet) or were too buggy and didn't work with ODI drivers whether under DOS or embedded into the option ROM (Realteak). It's also possible VirtualBox may have more NIC …

Re: Which DR-DOS?

Posted on 2023-05-18, 02:57

Caldera DR-DOS 7.03 was pretty much the last full version for desktop use - later versions were targeted at embedded/industrial use and lacked many things. You can get a (fully functional and 100% identical to the real full version) trial version of Caldera DR-DOS/OpenDOS 7.0x (plus Enhanced DR-DOS) …

Re: Network Booting (and some NetWare stuff)

Posted on 2023-05-18, 02:38

Attached are some boot images I pulled off my NetWare server. These are the same images I created as part of this process which will describe what all the files are: https://www.zx.net.nz/netware/client/dos-netboot/ I've got a few ROMs collected over here as well if you happen to have an EPROM …

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