Re: OpenWatcom - "next generation" test build
Posted on 2025-03-21, 06:42
Yeah, lack of contact information is not ideal. I don't remember if it was on the previous version of openwatcom.org or not, but the IRC channel is #watcom on OFTC.
Re: OpenWatcom - "next generation" test build
Posted on 2025-03-20, 23:02
because these are two completely separated teams (the old team restarting with the old 1.9 and naming their new release 2.0 and Malák who started his V2.0 development years ago) the teams seems to not share code which is not a very good idea because Malák put so much workload into cleaning up that …
Re: OpenWatcom - "next generation" test build
Posted on 2025-03-20, 08:59
There appears to be some confusion here. The official Open Watcom project (at openwatcom.org , started back when Sybase released the source code) produced a number of releases up to and including version 1.9. They were working on a 2.0, there was some issue I guess, and Jiří Malák ended up forking …
Re: OpenWatcom - "next generation" test build
Posted on 2025-03-20, 02:54
See where? I can't find a link to the perforce repository anywhere - I'm pretty sure the web view for that has been gone for a long time now. Actually downloading the latest V2-fork snapshot and comparing it to the contents of ow_portable_v2_test_build.zip from openwatcom.org its clear they are not …
Re: OpenWatcom - "next generation" test build
Posted on 2025-03-19, 19:49
No, I'm fairly certain its not the v2 fork by Jiří Malák but rather a continuation of the original pre-fork codebase. IIRC there was a 2.0 branch in the OpenWatcom perforce repository which I guess was to follow on from 1.9, but it was never finished or saw a release. I assume thats what this is. …
Re: What operating systems are available for SUN Ultra 5 system?
Posted on 2025-03-06, 00:37
The original SunPCI (with K6-2) is supported up to Solaris 8. You can get it to run on 9, but it's non-trivial (I did that for no good reason about 20 years ago, don't ask me how). Yeah, my Ultra 10 is running Solaris 9 so I had to jump through those hoops. IIRC it involved creating a bunch of …
Re: What operating systems are available for SUN Ultra 5 system?
Posted on 2025-03-05, 19:31
Solaris 10 may well work, but you'd really be pushing it. I run Solaris 9 on my Ultra 10 and its not exactly fast - if I had Solaris 7 or 8 media I'd probably run that instead. Did it originally come with Solaris? Are there modern Linux distros that would work with it? OS/2 or WinNT builds? Solaris …
Re: Which Drives Dies Sooner? SMR HDDs or SSDs?
Posted on 2025-02-28, 03:24
Microsoft COULD mitigate this with changes to how their disk subsystem operates, but they have been completely unwilling to do so. And understandably so. Mechanical hard drives have been rapidly retreating from the consumer space for a few years now. Is it really worth them spending time optimising …
Re: Getting files transfered with serial port
Posted on 2025-02-28, 01:08
Hi! I need to transfer files from Windows to DOS with a serial port. Is there any software for this? Both of my PCs support serial. You haven't said which Windows version which can affect your options a little. Using the Kermit protocol is an option - there are open-source implementations of this …
Re: DDLINK: Easily move files between/To/From DOS systems
Posted on 2025-02-23, 19:31
I'd still like something that goes MS-DOS to modern-Win64 more natively (via a USB-dongle of some sort, without DOSBox). There are certainly ways of transferring files directly between DOS and modern 64bit Windows (I'm the maintainer of the Windows half of one of them), but enumerating those …
Re: Serial Issues
Posted on 2025-02-21, 04:43
What is it exactly that you're trying to do? What programs are you trying to run? I believe the primary focus of DOSbox is running games - if its not a game you're trying to run then maybe you might have better luck with 86box.
Re: 8-bit ISA Network Cards with DB15 connectors?
Posted on 2025-02-20, 20:27
I allways wanted to check if DOS 6.22 Interserve runs on Dosbox or some other virtualized system. I had good experience with the performance of the parallel connection. Anybody tried this allready? Whether it does or not, it feels like it wouldn't really be worth the effort. Null-modem cables are …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2025-01-27, 19:07
I released Kermit 95 3.0 beta 7 not just for modern Windows, but everything going back to Windows NT 3.50 and IBM OS/2 2.0 as well on all possible CPU architectures. This meant firing up some exotic hardware to help with the build: An AlphaServer 800 5/500 to do the three DEC Alpha builds (one for …
Re: C-Kermit for Windows v10 beta
Posted on 2025-01-27, 19:02
As of Beta 7, the name has changed from C-Kermit back to Kermit 95. At the same time, IBM OS/2 is once again supported: warp4as.png Highlights of whats changed since Beta 4 include: Ported to 64bit Windows on x86-64, arm64, itanium and alpha64 Binaries for Arm32, Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC are now …
Re: Tutorial: Setup a low-cost home dialup connection without a real telephone line
Posted on 2025-01-17, 05:52
OS/2 is interesting too! Still to be installed. Last time I tried the install failed mostly due to too large hdd. I have the original retail package with all CDs and printed manuals etc For OS/2 Warp 3 (whose only form of networking is Dialup unless you've got Warp 3 Connect), an update is required …
Re: Tutorial: Setup a low-cost home dialup connection without a real telephone line
Posted on 2025-01-15, 05:59
If the BRI-ISDN digital extension can interface with the analog extensions then your digital to analog conversion is covered. Hopefully your PBX is capable of emulating a digital ISDN CO like how it emulates an analog CO, otherwise you will need an ISDN line simulator between the server card and …
Re: Tutorial: Setup a low-cost home dialup connection without a real telephone line
Posted on 2025-01-14, 18:16
Using a PBX is certainly the easy path if you can get one cheap/free. Several months back I fetched out of storage an old Panasonic KX-TD1232 I got for free a some point years ago, works great. Provides all the normal tones (dial, busy, off hook, etc) and modems just work. Only real fault I can find …
Re: I've got a DEC Alphaserver ES40 !
Posted on 2025-01-11, 23:07
As far as I know, Windows was never officially supported on the ES40. Compaq killed Windows on Alpha shortly after the release of the DS20 and so anything newer (including the DS10 and ES40) did not receive support. That said, you could try the AlphaServer DS20 HAL - maybe it's compatible enough. …
Re: Home NAS - running SAMBA NT1 and SMB2/3 instances in parallel
Posted on 2025-01-06, 20:19
5) Or any other solution? My preference would be MarsNWE in a VM with its NIC bridged to the retro LAN, rather than an old version of Samba. MarsNWE is to NetWare what Samba is to Windows Server, and IME its a lot easier to get DOS, OS/2 and vintage windows talking to something that looks like a …
Re: BIOS file/BIOS chip specs needed for DEC Digital Equipment Corporation PRIORIS MTE Socket 2 motherboard
Posted on 2024-12-11, 19:49
I believe the Prioris MTE was previously known as the DECpc MTE which was sold as a higher-end workstation/server machine. Perhaps the weird video card situation was to let them put cheaper graphics hardware in machines sold as a server. In 1994 DEC retired the DECpc line and introduced a bunch of …
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