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Re: Debian Live - recovery by image on early 90s PCs

Posted on 2023-05-27, 19:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

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

in DOS

in DOS

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

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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.

Re: 2D Acceleration - first chipsets

Posted on 2023-03-20, 18:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Are any of those examples really vector art or just simply basic line art graphics? I have trouble believing any of those use any form of scaling or trig functions to pre-render or output to the screen.

Re: 2D Acceleration - first chipsets

Posted on 2023-03-20, 07:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=91642 Fixed version of the VBE/FreeAF driver installer. Have a look through the drivers and see what features they expose. A lot are just "exposes linear framebuffer"... Very few expose the more advanced drawing features that people are talking about here. …

Re: 2D Acceleration - first chipsets

Posted on 2023-03-20, 07:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The only 'sane' drawing acceleration API for Dos was VBE/AF, and like other have mentioned it was far, far too late in the life of Dos to be useful. Most people had already moved in to Windows as their gaming/application platform. It *can* do acceleration of lines, fills, block transfers, vram to …

Re: Found this non-Windows software for TL866 eeprom programmer...

Posted on 2023-03-16, 08:10

in Milliways

in Milliways

The minipro software is solid and regularly updated with new device support. I've been using my tl866 on Linux with it for many years. Absolutely no need to use Windows just for this device.

Re: How to connect my VGA MS-DOS PC to an LCD? (with extras)

Posted on 2023-03-14, 18:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Honestly, the answer is just OSSC.

Re: Windows 9x or DOS data recovery software that will read LS-120 SuperDisks?

Posted on 2023-03-06, 10:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You need a tool which will work on raw disk images - even if you booted Linux and used dd or dd_rescue to make a copy of all the readable sectors on the disk (and skip any that were unreadable) it won't automatically pull back files for you. There should be plenty of tools on Windows which will scan …

Re: Japanese retro computers - do you own any?

Posted on 2023-03-04, 09:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The MSX (especially in 2/2+ version) is a good all-in-one, self-contained setup. Especially if you pick up a Megaflashrom SCC+ or equivalent; it will play 97-99% of all the MSX titles out there except the single-digit titles that are for the Turbo-R or for Moonsound audio or V9990 gfx.

Re: Opinion on running windows 95 on a 486DX4 100 with write back

Posted on 2023-02-28, 10:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I can tell you that in 1995/1996, the college that I was taking my Computer Science 'A' levels had just added a small number of Win 95 desktops to the classroom. For the first year of my course we were using 386 machines (PS/2 towers) with Dos, as well as an assortment of Acorn Archimedes (mainly …

Re: Chipset experiences question: VLSI and Opti.

Posted on 2023-02-19, 00:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For the 286 at least, VLSI produced by far and away the fastest chipset designs, next up is possibly Headland. I'd say Opti probably had the better parts in the 386/486 era though.

Re: Omnibook XE3 and Linux - IDE Issues?

Posted on 2023-02-18, 21:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What are you booting off for the Arch install? It's complaining about IO errors from the install medium by the looks of things. That appears to be before it's ever even trying to write to the SD card.

Re: Belkin Omniview KVM and mono

Posted on 2023-02-15, 19:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've got a couple of Belkin Omniview switches, both a couple of desktop ones (4 port, mixed PS2 + usb + audio) and a big rackmount 16 port thing. I'll check the model numbers. I've not come across that behaviour. It's almost like it's not detecting a fully wired 15 pin cable. Have you check that all …

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