Re: How to share folder(s) from DOS 6.22, Win 3.11, and 98SE with Windows 10 over a network?
Posted on Today, 00:43
Breadbox Ensemble has some networking tools, I think. There's an rudimentary FTP client, too. https://www.geos-infobase.de/FTP01.HTM
Re: MS-DOS 4.00 is now open source
Posted on Yesterday, 21:58
@keenmaster486 Psst! I think some of those have been leaked, already. But that's another story, doesn't belong here. Speaking of Multitasking DOS, I remember reading about it at OS/2-Museum years ago. https://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos/dos-4-0/ http://www.os2museum.com/wp/multitasking-ms-dos-4-0- …
Re: Windows 98SE 486 requirement
Posted on Yesterday, 21:18
https://www.winhistory.de/more/386/winq.htm
Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...
Posted on Yesterday, 17:55
Hm. As far as MS-DOS 6 and CF cards are concerned, I'd say 512 MB and lower for CHS addressing, 2 GB to 8 GB for LBA (XTIDE Universal BIOS).
Re: Borland "abandonware" gets an implicit stamp of approval
Posted on Yesterday, 16:26
Cool! That reminds me of an radio amateur on the local FM repeater, who was an avid Kylix/Linux fan. He often discussed with others what he was doing right now. He also did some Delphi/Kylix porting, I vaguely remember.
Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...
Posted on Yesterday, 10:05
Also called UniVBE, Scitech Display Doctor is a universal vesa bios extender for a great many period accurate video chipsets, since it was hit and miss on even having a VESA driver, or having a VESA driver that did not have showstopping bugs (like your apparent INT10h loop bug.) The makers of the …
Re: Borland "abandonware" gets an implicit stamp of approval
Posted on 2024-04-25, 20:21
A few of my Turbo Pascal and Delphi books had shipped with free copies of Borland Pascal 7, Delphi 3 Pro and Delphi 7 Personal. These were no demo versions, whatsoever. Delphi 1 was also included at one point, I vaguely remember. So I guess that Borland was cool about old versions.
Re: Rippling effect on QP-VGA4
Posted on 2024-04-25, 09:14
common mode interference, maybe ?
Re: Weren't sound artists frustrated to know that very few players would be hearing the true sound of their creations?
Posted on 2024-04-25, 06:13
I think that AdLib (OPL2/3) was fine, as well. But there's a catch. It needs music especially being composed for it. Otherwise, it's just a capable soundchip hidden behind a very limiting interface. Like the IMFC/Yamaha FB-01. And that's the culprit, really. To what I read online, especially US …
Re: Open source floppy disk imaging program(s)?
Posted on 2024-04-24, 14:28
Lylat1an wrote on 2024-04-24, 03:07: I'd like one that's truly free: As in doesn't have a trial version, nag me to register, nor have any other limitations. "Was nichts kostet, ist nichts wert" 😸 (What Costs Nothing Is Worth Nothing)
Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...
Posted on 2024-04-24, 05:25
About memory expansion, I think it really depends on use case. I think I've way too often told already that my father had a 386DX-40 PC with 16MB of RAM or that I had a 286-12 PC with 4MB of RAM. Way back in early-mid 90s. But it wasn't for luxury whatsoever. The programs (Windows programs) we had …
Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...
Posted on 2024-04-23, 19:18
It's got 8MB of XMS you can allocate 4MB of that as EMS and still have 4MB to run everything that's not dog slow on a 386. Hardware EMS and 386es don't play nice. (Anything that sees a 386 and can use EMS assumes EMM386 and crashes if it's a hardware EMS driver) It probably means nothing, but years …
Re: CP/M now Open Source
Posted on 2024-04-23, 09:49
i can imagine the 'after market' or replacements and licensed version would carry on for a lone time, and the emulation of it even longer I heard that some clone chips even used to have better specs than Zilog's Z80. That's because Zilog's specs on paper were nicer than they were in reality, so the …
Re: Amiga - better graphics because of worse monitors?
Posted on 2024-04-21, 22:15
.. to give an idea about which type of vintage 14" VGA monitors I was thinking about. 1980s monitors (1987): - PACOM CVP-5468 LR (0.4mm?) Members of that era are hard to identify Early 1990s monitors (1994 or before): - AOC CM-325 (0.28mm, made 1990?) - Highscreen SV 28/3 (0.28mm) - Compaq Presario …
Re: .img image tools
Posted on 2024-04-21, 18:13
Hi. WinImage can read/modify raw images (FAT, FAT32).
Re: Magic Dosbox windows 3.1 256 color problem
Posted on 2024-04-21, 17:58
Hi, I'm afraid that's not enough information to help. 🙁 Which graphics drivers exactly had been used, for example? Secondly, forks of DOSBox are hardly being supported here, as far as I know. To my understanding, the forums are for original DOSBox only. Forks may have too much code changes/ …
Re: Whats the best 5.25inch drive installation configuration in a XT class machine.
Posted on 2024-04-21, 05:25
Hi, I'm not sure. Currently, I'm using a 5,25" 360KB drive as A: and a Gotek as B:. A: is the real one because of booter games, etc. Booting from B: is possible through a special boot floppy, which has Boot_B program. The XT can handle 3,5" 720KB format by using 2M-XBIOS driver.
Re: CP/M now Open Source
Posted on 2024-04-20, 16:20
Quick update. The Z80 is reaching EOL (end of life). Zilog wants it to retire this year. https://www.mouser.com/PCN/Littelfuse_PCN_Z84C00.pdf The Z80 was important in many ways, including to CP/M. While CP/M-80 was using pure i8080 instructions, the famous Turbo Pascal wasn't. It made use of the Z80 …
Re: Amiga - better graphics because of worse monitors?
Posted on 2024-04-18, 20:28
The IBM EGA monitor was 'sufficiently popular' in the USA, that I remember the owner of the m0m&pop I worked for had 'A WALL' , floor to ceiling, shelved with nothing but those monitors in his flea market booth. Most EGA equipped XTs and authentic ATs, came with an actual EGA monitor, even second- …
Re: Newly made ISA CGA cards with real 6845s?!
Posted on 2024-04-18, 19:36
Composite would be neat, but that would’ve increased complexity and thus price of the card. This is by far the cheapest 6845 card available in ebay. After all, not all CGA cards in the 80s had one, because few actually used composite as the image quality is crap for 80 col text etc. Except to those …
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