Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-02, 04:58

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by hyoenmadan

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Those licenses are expired and terminated. It's just like having a expired lottery ticket. No you can not claim it. And having a license gives you zero rights. False . Only applies to software licensed as service/suscription model. Licenses tied to hardware and early retail don't work that way.

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Re: Need help with VLB IDE controller setup ?

Posted on 2020-01-29, 15:20

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by hyoenmadan

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According README in the driver package, your vlb board chipset doesn't seem to support LBA addressing mode, so it will not allow you to use the included performance drivers with drives which have more than 1024 cylinders. You have 2 options for this. - If your motherboard supports LBA addressing …

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Re: Compaq Pentium 166

Posted on 2020-01-28, 16:28

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by hyoenmadan

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Just keep in mind many VxD drivers, specially SBLive and Terratec ones, don't like to be used in ACPI environments and/or in tandem with other WDM drivers (capture, dvd decoding drivers, printers, scanner stuff etc). VxD drivers also don't like newer DirectX versions. If you will use VxD drivers for …

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Re: Olivetti SNX 140/s + EISA-SCSI-Controller + Windows 2000 = trouble...

Posted on 2020-01-27, 19:41

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by hyoenmadan

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That's a weird advice, because he wants to run Windows 2000, we all know that those cards (Adaptec 174x, Adaptec 274x, ...) will work (I have 2 such machines) under Windows 98SE. Isn't about the cards, is about the board and how the BIOS/Firmware manages the cards and EISA bus resources. Back in …

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Re: Olivetti SNX 140/s + EISA-SCSI-Controller + Windows 2000 = trouble...

Posted on 2020-01-26, 20:33

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by hyoenmadan

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Win2000 PC HAL is Triton EISA aware as far as I know. There would be a problem with Windows Kernel Firmware Mapper or the ISAPnP.sys component due a BIOS incompatibility with Windows 2000. Maybe you would like to try first with a Windows 9x version like 98SE to see if the behavior is replicated. …

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Re: ISA Hard Drive controllers

Posted on 2020-01-21, 01:19

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by hyoenmadan

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I use an Ali based PCI SATA+PATA card on my i420EX based board and a SIL3112 SATA card on another 486 board, both working without any headaches, and also on 50MHz PCI. Your mileage doesn't seem to be the general rule, as has been shown in this forum frequent posts about incompatibilities of modern …

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Re: ISA Hard Drive controllers

Posted on 2020-01-20, 23:25

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by hyoenmadan

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That said, if your system has PC, you should use SATA and be done with it. Again, stop with this "recomendation" . SATA is a no go in older pre-Pentium3 platforms , except maybe if you are lucky to get one of these Promise SATA controllers with the first revisions of the chip (And even these will …

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Re: Roland Remake of the MT-32?

Posted on 2020-01-17, 11:52

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by hyoenmadan

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... inexpensive sound device with the look and feel of the MT-32... Here... This is the key why such thing will never ever happen. Roland users are used to pay Roland prices for their items, and you are asking for an inexpensive product for an already niche market were almost anyone is already fine …

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Re: The "Driver CD" for motherboards thread

Posted on 2020-01-12, 18:27

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by hyoenmadan

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There shouldn't be any problem with that, as long as he doesn't share the CD keys. Also these "full" versions are often locked with authentication DLLs which only work when the software is executed in entitled boards, which ofc gives the owner of these boards a license and the rights to execute …

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Re: ISA Hard Drive controllers

Posted on 2020-01-10, 00:27

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by hyoenmadan

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- PCI PATA+SATA controller with some Promise chipset - works OK with a 160 GB PATA HDD, but can't see an SSD - PCI PATA+SATA controller with VIA VT6421A chipset - can see the 120 GB SATA SSD, but isn't stable First one: Doesn't implement certain commands to work with SSDs (even if them look as HDDs …

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Re: ISA Hard Drive controllers

Posted on 2020-01-09, 18:18

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by hyoenmadan

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Sure, in such a machine you can install even a UDMA/133 controller. You can also install a SATA controller (150 MB/s), but with this, the original PCI (132 MB/s) will be the bottleneck. Check this doesn't always work. PCI specification comes with versions . Most modern SATA PCI cards expects things …

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Re: Windows NT on Motorola Powerstack II

Posted on 2020-01-09, 16:26

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by hyoenmadan

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Can you post a screenshot of "printenv" command in the "ok" prompt please? ED: Looks like VEENER can take the environment variables setup by "setenv" command as i thought. The VrOpen failed message is because the ARC path was incorrect... Is difficult to know what is the right one because i don't …

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Re: Windows NT on Motorola Powerstack II

Posted on 2020-01-09, 15:17

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by hyoenmadan

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Guys... A few win32 apps can run now in NT MIPS thanks to this... http://retro.ircx.net.pl/nt/mips/wx86/ Is the core technology that was licensed and used later on DEC Fx32! package, and still lives more or less in the WoW32 layer for Windows 64bit and WoA32-64 for Windows ARM. Unfortunately only …

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Re: Windows NT on Motorola Powerstack II

Posted on 2020-01-09, 03:57

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by hyoenmadan

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Ok... from the "ok" prompt type the following commands: Copy code to clipboard 1 printenv 2 setenv LOADIDENTIFIER NTSetup 3 setenv OSLOADER scsi(0)cdrom(6)fdisk(0)\ppc\setupldr.exe 4 boot cdrom:,\PPC\VENEER.EXE Typed as how it is. Tell us what happens.

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Re: Windows NT on Motorola Powerstack II

Posted on 2020-01-09, 03:07

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by hyoenmadan

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How did you modified the "\ppc\osloader.exe" to "\ppc\setupldr.exe" to make the posted screenshot?

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Re: Windows NT on Motorola Powerstack II

Posted on 2020-01-08, 22:57

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by hyoenmadan

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Taken from https://github.com/andreiw/prephv/blob/master/prep.dts, there are certain parameters need to be added to the openfirmware "option" word vars so VEENER can read them... These are: LOADIDENTIFIER = "Entry Name"; OSLOADOPTIONS = "dunno what this does"; OSLOADPARTITION = "this has to point to …

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Re: Windows NT on Motorola Powerstack II

Posted on 2020-01-08, 20:51

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by hyoenmadan

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As i said before... Unlike what seems at first, looks like there is a sort of "beta" (?) support for your system built in Windows NT CD. You really would like to try that support before going more extreme flashing files to PROM and stuff... Just type in the OFW "ok" prompt the command "boot cdrom:,\ …

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Re: Can't get USB keyboard to work in pure DOS mode

Posted on 2020-01-08, 20:07

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by hyoenmadan

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Your keyboard probably has an internal hub or isn't a proper HID device but an USBGCP device as with modern Joysticks and other sort of control devices. 1997-2000 AMIBIOSes had 2 different modules to drive input devices from Real Mode with manufacturer sometimes only updating the BIOS USB HID driver …

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Re: Windows NT on Motorola Powerstack II

Posted on 2020-01-08, 06:27

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by hyoenmadan

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Only between the first PowerStacks I and II which are PReP chipset level compatible, and the very last ones, which are already CHRP chipset boards. There were PowerStack OpenFirmware PReP boards which only differ from PPC1Bug ones in the firmware. But NT OpenFirmware support is supposed to cover …

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Re: Windows NT on Motorola Powerstack II

Posted on 2020-01-08, 05:19

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by hyoenmadan

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Unfortunately you have one of the last PowerStack machines which came with Firmworks OpenFirmware (non-Sun implementation) out of the factory instead Motorola PPCBug. These only will boot AIX (or linux as you said before). Not sure if was possible to make these run NT with firmware change or ARC …

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