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Re: Willow - Windows 3.0 Real Mode applications on OS/2 1.x and up (and stuff)

Posted on 2023-02-25, 17:45

in Milliways

in Milliways

I am new to PCem, so I am unsure how capable it would be when it comes to fully emulating the capabilities of OS/2. I wonder how it does on real hardware? By the time presentation manager came about, wouldn't a high end PS/2 have been more appropriate? Given the memory, and likely speed concerns, I …

Re: Willow - Windows 3.0 Real Mode applications on OS/2 1.x and up

Posted on 2023-02-19, 16:00

in Milliways

in Milliways

I forgot to mention.. There's an issue I totally have had overlooked. Early 80386 chips were market "16BIT S/W ONLY". They had issues executing 32-Bit software kind of. At least on their rated speed, underclocking may or may not helped. Indeed, there were some silicon issues. Since there was some …

Re: Willow - Windows 3.0 Real Mode applications on OS/2 1.x and up

Posted on 2023-02-19, 03:42

in Milliways

in Milliways

For me, I didn't see the 286 becoming common place until right around 1989 (being a home user), when the the 486 kicked the 386 off it's mainframe on a chip hill. For many in the late 80s, turbo XTs were the affordable option. So XT class machines until the 486 happened, then the 286 really started …

Re: Can anyone ID this IDE/Floppy Controller?

Posted on 2023-02-19, 00:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No I cannot id. But this is very similar: https://www.elhvb.com/iocard/tdnservices/c190m5105.pdf

Re: Willow - Windows 3.0 Real Mode applications on OS/2 1.x and up

Posted on 2023-02-18, 02:19

in Milliways

in Milliways

Originally MS had Xenix, yes. The plan in the early IBM PC days of Microsoft was to migrate DOS users over to Xenix, when PCs got better. So DOS was starting to take more of a resemblance to UNIX. Windows was kind of born out of the multi-task switchers that started to pop up to give users some …

Re: Willow - Windows 3.0 Real Mode applications on OS/2 1.x and up

Posted on 2023-02-17, 14:13

in Milliways

in Milliways

When MS broke away from the OS/2 project, and created WinNT, did they design and market it for the masses? No... ? And at the time, they kept updating and releasing DOS, which took until 2000 for them to finally decide to kill it. I think OS/2 initially was not going to replace DOS. They were going …

Re: Pentium MMX 233 aiming for the stars!

Posted on 2023-02-15, 17:10

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Hmmm maybe only worked on PowerColor's own motherboards???? https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tech-retrospective-ali-aladdin-7-artx-feat-powercolor-p561a-sunset-on-super-socket-7.295755/ some turbo PCI mode??? That motherboard... yuk. The virtual AGP 8X is marketing speak for just …

Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-02-08, 15:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And even with the V5-6k, there are people who through incompentence kill theirs... that means shrinking supply, so even if the number of enthousiasts starts dropping at some point, prices probably won't. What really confuses me for the future is that younger generation just can't use computers. …

Re: So, what is the #1 rule to have a stable Windows Millenium Edition PC?

Posted on 2023-02-08, 15:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If we set up a side by side competition and installed a few apps, installed a few games, upgraded a few versions of things, uninstalled a program or 2. I can guarantee 98SE would be fine and ME would crap its pants. When ME was used as a "daily driver" back in the day I could see this, but at this …

Re: So, what is the #1 rule to have a stable Windows Millenium Edition PC?

Posted on 2023-02-06, 21:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, I don't understand what all the fuss is about with ME being unstable. It does have some problems, but they are easily mitigated, as what people say, turn off system restore, run some patches (fewer than 95/98!). Really WinME does represent the best of the of 9x series had to offer. The only …

Re: At last, almost a complete system!

Posted on 2023-02-05, 20:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Great work. I hope to hear more on your projects

Re: How often should an old PC get power?

Posted on 2023-02-04, 19:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Good quality electrolytics can reform if powered up in a certain way and then used enough. I would think it's not so much about how often, but the process used on which kind of caps. I would say there might not be a simple solution for more complex situations. If there is a good study behind this …

Re: a closed source project is using DOSBox code

Posted on 2023-02-04, 15:49

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

and charges 50 euro to register to remove the nag screen, This is fine, according to the book. No clause in the GPL forbids that he adds nag screens to the software. I did not claim that adding a nag screen violated the GPL. You broke my sentence apart, where there were "ands" tying the sentence …

Re: a closed source project is using DOSBox code

Posted on 2023-02-04, 04:22

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

You are not allowed to remove boilerplates. They are there for a reason. Apart from the screwy way to use paypal to perform the transaction, the GPL does allow charging for the cost to deliver the source code. If he pulled down the code from third party sites and only made it available at his chosen …

Re: a closed source project is using DOSBox code

Posted on 2023-02-03, 22:47

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

Well maybe the page is not up to date. It clearly claims it is derived from dosbox and source code being shared implies it is GPL. But otherwise hides stating the license. The register page is equally confusing, but it might not have any connection to the license. Have you asked if you can get the …

Re: a closed source project is using DOSBox code

Posted on 2023-02-03, 18:20

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

The page you linked to says the source can be obtained if you pay 0.38euro. That is allowed by the GPL2, and there wouldn't be anything stopping you from copying it again under the GPL2, if they didn't strip the license out and say it is under something else. So if they are using dosbox GPL2 code, …

Re: Slow motherboard :/

Posted on 2023-02-01, 18:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well the settings should persist across reboot and momentary power off without the battery as I found when testing my board. It's just gets annoying down the line having to deal with a lack of battery. Some boards cannot boot properly without one, but you should be able to get a bit farther on this …

Re: DirectDraw or DirectX porting to Windows 3.1+Win32s possible ?

Posted on 2023-01-30, 18:20

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I see alot of choices here on getting a project up and running. I wouldn't mind trying to get one of these old compilers going, but right now I am hoping for a cross compiler on my modern machine to do the job, as I've had pretty good success at that. I think it will prove to be difficult still, and …

Re: DirectDraw or DirectX porting to Windows 3.1+Win32s possible ?

Posted on 2023-01-29, 02:27

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I was able to cross compile a dll with the latest mingw, but that platform in it's loader implementation of msvcrt assumes threading functionality on init/exit. If I use a newish msvcrt from winxp that has this, that msvcrt won't run due to missing Nt* API functions. If I go older, then I loose the …

Re: Slow motherboard :/

Posted on 2023-01-28, 23:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BTW, see this vogons thread on the bios versions for each variant: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=75830&p=882680&hilit=5ema#p882680 https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?id=89644&mode=view The thread says the 5EMA and 5EMA+ do share the same board ID, but actually have different …

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