Re: installing an internal IDE zip drive in a 386?

Posted on 2016-02-07, 23:25

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I'm a big fan of Zip disks. I bought a new Zip 100 SCSI external drive back in 1996 or 1997 when they were fairly new for use on an OS/2 system. Here is a collection of random notes/experience gathered over the years. Parallel port models: These need an 80286 or better to run the standard Zip …

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

Posted on 2015-11-04, 03:50

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Wait till you have to network DOS... Without cheating and using mTCP. So how is mTCP cheating? :evil: It is not MS style drive sharing but we already have a solution for that. I much prefer the older, Unix style of moving bits around. Which happens to work on the Internet all around the world, not …

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Re: Anyone use an old linux OS on an old PC?

Posted on 2015-10-30, 03:44

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I agree though DOS would be a better match for an old PC, but then getting TCP/IP working to transfer files can often be a pain, so I wouldn't mind being able to boot Linux so I can use that to maintain the DOS partition! That and having something that properly uses the 286's protected mode would …

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Re: Great collectors of Vogons! What's missing in your collections? :P

Posted on 2015-09-27, 18:07

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Of course Mike would call me out. lol Hello mike, I didn't even know you were registered on here! Seriously though you have to admit the Tandy 1000 is better for the average collector, it can run tons of games and utils with no tweaking and later versions of the 1000 computers had Hard disks ( …

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Re: Great collectors of Vogons! What's missing in your collections? :P

Posted on 2015-09-26, 20:41

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Just avoid it, the PCjr was my first retro system and I own it complete in the boxes. It's a waste of time, it's compatible with almost nothing and everything is proprietary that it uses. lol What? Yes, the peripherals are non-standard. There are adapters to let you use standard serial devices and …

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

Posted on 2015-09-19, 21:00

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brassicGamer wrote: The only GIFs I had on floppy disk in the 90s were pornographic... Thanks for sharing?

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

Posted on 2015-09-19, 19:50

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Disk imaging ... lots of disk imaging. I have too many loose floppies and CD-ROMs laying around. For original CD-ROMs I like to image them to a hard drive in case the originals are lost or damaged. For the floppies, they need to be examined. I don't have the time to do that now, so I'm just imaging …

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Re: A new mTCP is available! (mTCP 2015-07-05)

Posted on 2015-07-08, 02:48

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I'd like to have SSH but I'm not able to spend the time to port or recreate all of the libraries needed to do it. With 32 bit code you can borrow a lot from Linux, but with 16 bit code you basically wind up doing everything yourself. We need more programmers ...

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Re: A new mTCP is available! (mTCP 2015-07-05)

Posted on 2015-07-07, 03:34

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Hi guys, and thanks ... I've been trying to get this update pushed out since April but real life and little changes kept getting in the way. I finally found a good block of time to update the web pages and get everything packaged up. I suspect it is getting difficult for people to get too excited …

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A new mTCP is available! (mTCP 2015-07-05)

Posted on 2015-07-05, 21:17

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After two very busy years in that place we call "real life" I am happy to announce that a new version of the mTCP TCP/IP programs for DOS is available! Some of the more notable improvements and changes are: Incredible new format for documentation featuring things like boldfacing and italics ... (PDF …

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Re: File Transfer methods (from a modern pc to an old pc)?

Posted on 2015-05-20, 15:11

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Blurredman wrote: mbbrutman wrote: Besides having an FTP client for file transfer mTCP also has: An HTTP Server (coming soon). Ooooh, I look forward to that! 😎 Try it now - it's been available for download for testing for almost a year: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_HTTPServ.html

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Re: File Transfer methods (from a modern pc to an old pc)?

Posted on 2015-05-20, 04:18

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Besides having an FTP client for file transfer mTCP also has: An FTP server HTGet for downloading files from web servers directly An HTTP Server (coming soon) Netcat, for sending arbitrary stuff back and forth across a socket. And if you are really hardcore, there is Xmodem and Ymodem built into the …

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Re: Vogons IRC?

Posted on 2015-04-14, 03:05

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As Caluser2000 pointed out, there are at least two IRC clients that run in DOS. And for those of you who want to use DOSBox, that is not a problem either - the HAL9000 megabuilds support networking. (I use DOSBox for most of my mTCP testing.) A brief how-to can be found here: http://www.brutman.com/ …

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Re: The next mTCP update is coming soon ... last call for bug fixes and ideas!

Posted on 2015-04-12, 00:18

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Strictly speaking it is not possible ... the default file transfer mode is set by the server, not the client. What can be done is to add an option to send the "bin" command after the client detects that the login has completed. I think that would prevent the unfortunate "I transferred your zip file …

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Re: The next mTCP update is coming soon ... last call for bug fixes and ideas!

Posted on 2015-04-11, 20:21

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That is very ambitious .. and as you suspect, I think it would be a great project but not for me. Another related idea is a TSR version of mTCP that allows users from other programming languages to use a software interrupt to get at the mTCP functions, in the same way that the Trumpet NTCPDRV …

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Re: The next mTCP update is coming soon ... last call for bug fixes and ideas!

Posted on 2015-04-11, 18:02

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Hi Mike, A feature I would like is accented characters handling on IRC When you're use using ASCII when everyone IRC is using utf8, you see and send some garbage Both text must be identical on screen Unicode support is on the long-term to-do list. For CGA and MDA it is a simple mapping of the …

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Re: The next mTCP update is coming soon ... last call for bug fixes and ideas!

Posted on 2015-04-11, 00:20

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It's just a little magic ... Today I added the ability to specify an alternative nameserver that overrides what DHCP provides so that you can use things like Google DNS regardless of what your router wants you to use. There was a request for an ipconfig/ifconfig type command from a user at the VC …

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The next mTCP update is coming soon ... last call for bug fixes and ideas!

Posted on 2015-04-10, 15:51

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I last updated mTCP in May 2013 and I have two years of changes that are probably overdue to be unleashed on an unsuspecting populace. Here is some of what you can expect to see: All: Automatic IP address conflict detection All: Slightly moar speed All: Slightly improved TCP retransmit logic FTPSRV …

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Re: Google Code is shutting down: export your projects

Posted on 2015-03-14, 17:36

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I think that any business is going to have questionable decisions. I look at the whole of Google and I don't see the same policies and tactics that gave Microsoft such a black eye in the mid 90s, or IBM in the 70s and 80s. I wouldn't mind if they made it all read only. My gripe is the loss of all …

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Re: Google Code is shutting down: export your projects

Posted on 2015-03-14, 16:21

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I think that any business is going to have questionable decisions. I look at the whole of Google and I don't see the same policies and tactics that gave Microsoft such a black eye in the mid 90s, or IBM in the 70s and 80s. The point of the thread was to let people know that a service is shutting …

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