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Re: Software named "ScsiServer" for Winodws NT4

Posted on 2023-04-25, 12:05

Yes, you need to connect them together with a cable and with termination set up as you would for any other device connections. On the target (emulated/RAM disk) machine, you need to run that 8xxtarg program, which isn't a TSR or anything, it runs in the foreground, so it ties up the whole machine. …

Re: Software named "ScsiServer" for Winodws NT4

Posted on 2023-04-25, 09:47

Other options I can remember: - "VirDIS" which is commercial and I think requires its own hardware. I haven't tried it. - Older versions (or perhaps even worse: patches for older versions) of SCST for Linux supported target mode on some parallel SCSI cards. I managed to find the cards but not the …

Re: Software named "ScsiServer" for Winodws NT4

Posted on 2023-04-25, 03:00

It was JodieC who mentioned that in this post, and in this subsequent post they said: JodieC wrote on 2016-02-19, 16:50: The product was a commercial product from a VTL vendor. I assume VTL means Virtual Tape Library. I can't find any information about it either. Have you considered any other SCSI …

Re: Temp sensor connected to a joystick port project

Posted on 2023-04-25, 01:08

in Milliways
I think that back in the early '90s we often called this "environmental" sensing as people were interested in getting data about the environment outside their PC - I don't think many people had reason to be concerned about the temperature of their CPU back then! :D For what it's worth I don't recall …

Creating a CMOS settings/NVRAM/.nvr file automatically

Posted on 2023-04-23, 12:09

in PC Emulation
I'd like to automate generation and installation of machines in MAME and PCem (and I assume it would work for 86Box if it works for PCem), but the need to interact with the BIOS on first boot is a problem, because I'm automating things inside the emulated machine rather than sending keystrokes to …

Re: Doing a custom machine with 86Box

Posted on 2023-04-22, 03:22

in PC Emulation
As for my target machine, I need the exact BIOS - to test which SoftPaqs would work for my particular machine, for example. I think it's a missed opportunity, because one could build their entire HDD on the VM and just deploy it on a CF, place it in the real hardware where it would just work :)) …

Re: Template Creator for DOS SPAM

Posted on 2023-04-22, 03:10

I came looking for this project because I want to write my first Turbo Assembler program (I was using inline assembler in Turbo Pascal almost 30 years ago but I've never written a standalone assembler program) and I was hoping to find a template in here for that, but it's just NASM, oh well :D I did …

Re: DOS 2M and JAM in Win98SE?

Posted on 2023-04-22, 02:02

Interesting questions! I don't really know the answers. I found this in the Windows 95 Resource Kit (part 5 chapter 20): Windows 95 provides floppy disk controller support as a 32-bit device driver, and offers improved performance for file I/O to floppy disk drives, plus improved reliability of the …

Re: Stuffing new Win98SE computer: ideas?

Posted on 2023-04-22, 01:47

Maybe, but it wouldn't be nice like with Windows 2000 mount points (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_volume_mount_point) as I'm pretty certain that 9x doesn't support the modern Windows kind of thing where you can go into Disk Management, remove a drive letter, then mount the drive elsewhere, …

Re: Stuffing new Win98SE computer: ideas?

Posted on 2023-04-21, 03:26

Oh yeah, I meant to reply to you before about that! I don't know about fun exactly but some of the customisation I did to my Windows 95 machine included: I had installed Linux on another drive, so it had installed the LILO boot manager. I customised the LILO config to use 320x200x8bpp graphics with …

Re: DOS 6.22 and Windows 98SE on one machine

Posted on 2023-04-20, 09:24

Hi, I've described here https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=67476 a dual-boot system where the partition type for DOS 6.22 gets changed from 06 to 60, preventing Win98 from messing with it completely. The only change, besides changing the type, is to patch IO.sys to recognize type 60. In …

Re: Hard drive backup software?

Posted on 2023-04-18, 09:26

I use ddrescue or dd_rescue on Linux (I can't remember which I normally use or which is better) as at least one of them is able to skip over bad sectors and then retry them later, save a log of where the bad sectors are, etc. I watch the console (or dmesg or the system log) for drive errors. …

Re: xyWords - New DOS game for XT/CGA

Posted on 2023-04-15, 13:23

in Milliways
Maybe the QuickPak library has some optimised routines that wouldn't be so hard to drop in to your code, although I'm not sure how well the QuickBASIC linker works - hopefully it's not so dumb that it links in the entire library when you're only using part of it. Links to the library source and …

Re: DOS 6.22 and Windows 98SE on one machine

Posted on 2023-04-15, 04:26

Having multiple systems would be easier. ;-) I'm not so sure, it requires more space, maybe a KVM switch, etc. :D After installing Win98SE, 1. Make sure your Windows Explorer displays hidden files and system files (via Folder Options) 2. Open MSDOS.SYS under C:\ with Notepad 3. Add "BootMulti=1" …

Re: Prince of Persia 2 won't run on MS-DOS 6.22

Posted on 2023-04-15, 03:31

That seems like a very annoying problem! I take it that you can read the file yourself, e.g. copy it elsewhere, maybe even copy it back off the computer and compare it against the original? Given the things you've already tried I imagine that does work. If the file is otherwise readable but isn't …

Re: xyWords - New DOS game for XT/CGA

Posted on 2023-04-14, 11:43

in Milliways
Thanks! I was referring to the puzzle list in the collection mode. It took me a while to notice the "DONE" above the tile. I just wanted to play, not read, I guess 😁 CHILL-4 was not that chill, I finished it with 7 seconds to spare 😁 Was it meant to have a time limit?

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