Re: Mounting NFS share with XFS (problem)
Posted on 2023-07-12, 22:12
What NFS server are you running? It's not expecting some odd like the ancient pcnfsd server, rather than a typical 'modern' nfsv3/4 protocol, is it?
Re: DOS programming tools
Posted on 2023-07-09, 19:25
Oh, and the last release of Allegro for DOS (4.x) still builds perfectly fine with the latest djgpp/GCC. I have some notes about building it with GCC 12.x on Linux here: https://www.target-earth.net/wiki/doku.php?id … blog:pcdevtools
Re: DOS programming tools
Posted on 2023-07-09, 19:21
Open Watcom is great, especially if you want to do cross compiling from Linux. It has all your target types down. However, don't try to use it with Allegro. In that case stick with djgpp. There are much newer versions of GCC available now, so don't go trying to use the bundle from the DJ delorie …
Re: which specs would you recommend for a gaming rig that can cover the whole DOS area
Posted on 2023-07-05, 16:35
As you have no doubt found from the replies so far... There is no magic unicorn machine that will cover the entire DOS gaming era and be accurate at everything. The reason you get so many recommendations - all the way from 486 through to P3 - is because people have their 'own' particular eras of …
Re: The jungle of keyboard and mouse connectors
Posted on 2023-06-29, 06:52
If it's any help, I use a Logitech Trackman Marble (usb) on all of my old systems with PS2 mouse ports, via a passive usb to PS2 adapter.
Re: The jungle of keyboard and mouse connectors
Posted on 2023-06-28, 17:51
Plenty of solutions to use modern usb/PS2 dual protocol mice if you don't have a ps2 mouse port. You can either get a serial to PS2 external adapter: https://www.serdashop.com/PS2TOSERIAL Or, you can get an all in one solution with a PS2 mouse port on an ISA card: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic. …
Re: Program AMI BIOS via TL866 (unknown IC)
Posted on 2023-06-22, 19:46
If it is pcchips, then they are known (renowned?) for using non standard ROMs for the bios. It is almost certainly a mask ROM and not an (e)EPROM or similar. I have a couple of pcchips 386 and 486 boards and they are all the same - a nonstandard mask ROM that cannot be read by my tl866.
Re: Has anyone tried Wing Commander on a 386 SX-40?
Posted on 2023-06-22, 18:58
cool! I will get the board now. I also just remembered that I have a 286-25 stored somewhere. If the 386 ends up too fast I think the 286 should work. A 286-25, if running at 0 wait state, should be just as fast as a 386SX-25, if not ever so slightly faster. I can't quite get any of my 286 boards …
Re: Has anyone tried Wing Commander on a 386 SX-40?
Posted on 2023-06-21, 06:40
I played through the original game back when it first came out on an SX-40. It was mostly fine, though with a little bit of slowdown in some of the more hectic battles. It was definitely a little slow for WC:2 though.
Re: Picking a Sound Card for a 286-12/16 (Targeting 1987-89 Games)
Posted on 2023-06-17, 11:05
Honestly don't think about it too much. The 286 era runs from just after the dawn of the PC right up to the early 90's with VGA, digital effects, networked games and the like. Almost the full breadth of the golden years of DOS gaming fit into the 286 (despite what some latecomers to the platform …
Re: Old scsi peripherals on modern PC?
Posted on 2023-06-06, 18:45
Easiest option is probably a recent Linux system with a PCI SCSI card, since most SCSI support is baked in and you won't (usually) need additional drivers to access the devices on the SCSI bus. Testing on windows will be a headache unless you can track down period device drivers for a period version …
Re: Debian Live - recovery by image on early 90s PCs
Posted on 2023-05-27, 19:12
dd is dd is dd, whether you use it from a 1996 Slackware install, a SunOS version or something from a modern Ubuntu. What is the purpose of comparing bytes? If you want to just compare a byte range to another byte range you can extract using DD from one offset and then use diff (with the binary flag …
Re: Intel 845 Motherboard for Win98 build?
Posted on 2023-05-25, 20:03
The ibase boards are quite good. I have the MB800H and the ISA slots have worked with everything I have tried in them (SB16, GUS Max, various industrial control cards, a couple of Transputer host cards etc.). No issues what so ever. I think I have a Geforce 6800 GT in mine. Max of 2GB which is isn't …
Re: Open Watcom DOS graphics library?
Posted on 2023-05-02, 16:58
Just a warning if you are thinking of using Allegro with OpenWatcom... Don't! The support for OpenWatcom is broken and you will get partially working support in any Allegro code you build. Stick with GCC if building Dos applications using Allegro.
Re: DJGPP doesn't leave error logs
Posted on 2023-04-22, 19:14
You're really doing yourself a disservice by sticking to the ancient release of djgpp on Dos. If you used the cross compile djgpp toolchain on a modern Windows, Linux or Mac system you would get the advantage of a far better compiler and the ability to plug it in to most modern IDE or editors (if …
Re: Old Sunfire V20Z Server
Posted on 2023-04-22, 09:28
What are you specifically looking for the firmware for? Interestingly enough, I looked after a full rack of these back in the early 2000s. They were decent pieces of kit, but the lights out management functionality was definitely inferior than the Fire X series that replaced them.
Re: Non-standard floppy disk in old system
Posted on 2023-04-14, 09:51
The "dos-65" version string is a smoking gun, this is likely either a DOS/65 variant (ie based on a 6502 CPU), or some CPM based system. If it's CPM, then you should be able to find some tools to open and edit the contents of the image files, I know there are some on Linux. I don't know what Dos/65 …
Re: XTIDE ISA ADDRESS questions
Posted on 2023-04-06, 11:05
XTIDE supports fully configurable IO port addresses for the IDE controllers. Take a look at the documentation (https://www.xtideuniversalbios.org/), users *must* run the configuration tool to correctly configure a ROM image before writing it to an E(E)PROM, and that includes the ability to set the …
Re: My first real attampt to get XTIDE on a network card...struggling some
Posted on 2023-03-29, 07:23
To change the boot order you can configure it using the same tool which sets the ROM address. You should also be able to override it on each boot by pressing on of the Function keys listed at the top of the Xt-ide splash screen - you can then change to floppy, ROM, or one of the detected ide drives …
Re: My first real attampt to get XTIDE on a network card...struggling some
Posted on 2023-03-28, 18:33
As above, the rom file MUST be configured first. The documentation used to be pretty terrible for not making this immediately obvious. Not sure if that is still the case.
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