Re: A program to determine the CPU features required to run another program.

Posted on 2022-06-13, 18:12

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For simple cases, "objdump -d" or equivalent (plus some grepping) might suffice. There are lots of projects that do some kind of platform detection on a file, but it's usually fairly limited (for the reasons mentioned above). For example, Ghidra and Cutter need to know what kind of platform they're …

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Re: StarForce Infected Games (Windows XP and Later; Major Warning Ahead)

Posted on 2022-05-09, 15:00

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mirh, have you actually managed to run any of the SF titles with Wine? AFAIK the demos have no need to access hardware such as CD-ROM directly, would that be what you meant by "purely software"? I guess SF was used in demos just to make the comparison with the retail version (and thus cracking) more …

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Re: UniPCemu Windows 95/NT progress and issues

Posted on 2022-04-29, 21:38

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It seems this same BSOD also happens in qemu if you use "-M isapc". Perhaps related.

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Re: UniPCemu Windows 95/NT progress and issues

Posted on 2022-04-29, 13:09

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Microsoft documentation on Bug Check 0x7B holds the explanation for the "garbage", it's an UNICODE_STRING structure holding a pointer to the actual string. OK. So the string is at E1101688h with 44h out of 46h bytes used? Yeah that's what I was thinking as well. The Microsoft page says this could …

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Re: UniPCemu Windows 95/NT progress and issues

Posted on 2022-04-29, 10:31

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Microsoft documentation on Bug Check 0x7B holds the explanation for the "garbage", it's an UNICODE_STRING structure holding a pointer to the actual string.

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Re: Step-by-step guide to QEMU and QEMU-3dfx for artards?

Posted on 2022-04-11, 22:12

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The previous thread about qemu-3dfx may be worth a look if you haven't seen it. There's talk about this compilation stuff and maybe you can get some explanation about why things are like they are :D As for tutorial, the one in the README should mostly "just work" but that's Linux. I wouldn't think …

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Re: Getting UniPCemu up and running

Posted on 2022-04-10, 13:01

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FWIW the P2/i440fx/patched Bochs combination seems ok with the latest commits. SeaBIOS has trouble detecting the drives though (the boot menu is empty), that's starting with (UniPCemu) commit 52008e43 it looks like. Tried it with multiple SeaBIOS versions too (with 0.3.0 being the oldest one) and …

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Re: Getting UniPCemu up and running

Posted on 2022-04-04, 16:17

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OK here's how to make SeaBIOS to execute the VGA optrom, so that we actually get to see something on VGA. I noticed that in the old SeaBIOS versions there's this switch called CONFIG_OPTIONROMS_DEPLOYED, that's needed to run optroms in old qemu versions (and Bochs). The switch was removed in commit …

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Re: Testing and fixing UniPCemu's CPU and UniPCemu progress

Posted on 2022-03-25, 15:24

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Man do you work fast :D For me it's the opposite now (with commit 35833c02, i430fx/i440fx, patched Bochs BIOS, clockingmode=1 and cpuspeed=1700): CDROM boot is fine, but for hdd the boot fails with "FATAL: No bootable device.". I've encountered this issue in my previous testing with clockingmode=1 …

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Re: Testing and fixing UniPCemu's CPU and UniPCemu progress

Posted on 2022-03-24, 17:34

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Yeah these latest changes have broken booting for me (cdrom0 or hdd0, with Bochs BIOS). I went back to commit a3371a63 and that one seems to work, but some minor patching is needed for Linux: libserial.h: "termios backup" should be "struct termios backup" maybe? libserial.c: some #ifdef trouble, as …

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Re: Testing and fixing UniPCemu's CPU and UniPCemu progress

Posted on 2022-03-02, 23:32

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Have you tried the so called "checked" (debug) builds? They're supposed to have some internal testing so maybe worth a try. Also, is there a /debug switch for boot.ini in NT4?

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Re: Testing and fixing UniPCemu's CPU and UniPCemu progress

Posted on 2022-02-28, 00:37

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That hex string seems to match halmps.dll (along with a couple of other dlls) and more specifically the function KfAcquireSpinLock(). So yes, that does point to APIC as you suspected. Some info here: https://geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/km/hal/history/index.htm?tx=14 It seems "mp" in halmps.dll …

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Re: Getting UniPCemu up and running

Posted on 2022-01-23, 19:49

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Something I came across on Hacker News... Here's a Linux image with a modern kernel that actually manages to boot: https://ocawesome101.github.io/486-linux.html Didn't have much luck getting Linux going in UniPCemu until I came across this one.

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Re: Testing and fixing UniPCemu's CPU and UniPCemu progress

Posted on 2022-01-17, 22:18

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Nice going, I won't be requiring a quadcore guest anytime soon though :D About that Kolibri DOSBox test, it's not broken because it does run in qemu (and at least "dir" works there). But I couldn't get Kolibri itself to run in UniPCemu (it hangs when detecting the CPU?) EDIT: The Kolibri hang seems …

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Re: Making WineD3D on Windows for Win32

Posted on 2022-01-17, 21:44

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How to apply the mentioned patch on first post? Well it says to use git, so wouldn't that be just something like "git apply /path/to/patch.txt"? (yes can be done with a text editor too, but that gets old real quick...) Btw Bruno, I got your pm about WineD3D a bit late and then couldn't even reply …

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Re: x86 local apic and/or io apic issues?

Posted on 2022-01-15, 10:22

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Well well, so jessie is recent enough to have systemd... The kernel got as far as trying to launch the first userland process (init, PID 1). And systemd init then launches a whole bunch of daemons that are listed in your pic 1531. In your first pic there's that __do_page_fault call in the trace (and …

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Re: x86 local apic and io apic diagnostics?

Posted on 2022-01-11, 23:41

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Idk if it helps much but you could try using the kernel parameter "apic=debug", it should yield some more information. There's lot more of them listed in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. How do I pass that to the kernel when booting the installation cd-rom? I'm using the debian jessie i386-cd-1 …

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Re: x86 local apic and io apic diagnostics?

Posted on 2022-01-11, 19:47

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Idk if it helps much but you could try using the kernel parameter "apic=debug", it should yield some more information. There's lot more of them listed in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.

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Re: Testing and fixing UniPCemu's CPU and UniPCemu progress

Posted on 2021-11-22, 06:04

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With Minix 3.3.0, running setup from the bash shell causes it to hang still? Directory listing (ls) works though. The echo program also works. The boot was moving at a glacial speed for me, so I never got as far as having a shell. There could be some differences between the Minix3 versions. Besides …

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Re: Testing and fixing UniPCemu's CPU and UniPCemu progress

Posted on 2021-11-19, 21:31

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I followed the breadcrumbs and found the cause for the Minix3 boot panic :D Looks like the problem is with TLB handling, so maybe this explains some Windows issues too? In my previous post , I found the main suspect on the Minix side to be reload_cr3(). Now taking a look at UniPCemu's source, we see …

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