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Re: 5.25" floppy

Posted on 2013-02-20, 00:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You need boot diskettes. DOS 3.3 would probably be fine. DOS 5 or 6.x will work but are probably overkill. An easy solution for data transfer is to get an old Microsolutions Backpack drive with a 3.5" 1.44MB drive in it. You need a small device driver to use it, but it makes exchanging data very …

Re: Mi future 486...hopefully!

Posted on 2013-02-13, 13:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Since you have a NIC, check out mTCP. You can run an ftp server on your 486, and just ftp in to transfer files. I launch mine with a 3 line batch script. And remember, it is not just FTP server ... - FTP client - Telnet client - IRC client - SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol) client - DHCP client …

Re: Mi future 486...hopefully!

Posted on 2013-02-13, 13:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It depends on your version of DOS. Original DOS versions (5 and 6) support the original FAT16, which limits each partition to 2GB. That includes the extended partition, so basically you can have a drive letter for your primary partition and another drive letter for a logical drive in the extended …

Re: FTP client

Posted on 2013-01-09, 06:03

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

I use the "megabuild" for quite a bit of mTCP development and testing. If jdosbox gives you a virtual serial port linked to the host then you can configure mTCP to use PPP or SLIP over it. You will need a PPP or SLIP daemon running on the other side; Linux/Unix machines provide this. I have PPP/SLIP …

Re: Adding arbitrary ROM images to the memory map

Posted on 2012-10-26, 01:06

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

And of course, it was good - thanks again! Mike

Re: Adding arbitrary ROM images to the memory map

Posted on 2012-10-22, 14:24

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Ok - I was on the right track about how ColorPaint starts up ... I'll give it a whirl. That was very quick and very detailed - I thought I knew a thing or two about PCjrs. ;-0 Regards, Mike

Re: Adding arbitrary ROM images to the memory map

Posted on 2012-10-22, 10:56

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

My bad - DOSBox would be a more appropriate place. -Mike

Adding arbitrary ROM images to the memory map

Posted on 2012-10-22, 01:17

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

I'm probably going to kick myself when somebody gives me an obvious answer ... Is there a way to insert code (a ROM extension) into the memory map at startup? In particular, I'd like to have a PCjr cartridge resident during the emulation but I don't want to use the BOOT option to get it. My emulated …

Re: Can't load packet driver for D-link PCI ethernet card in DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-07-23, 23:46

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

This will help too .. http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_virtual_environments.html (Look at the first section, which is for DOSBox.) To summarize: - Straight DOSBox doesn't have this type of networking built in. You need the HAL9000 megabuild. - The HAL9000 megabuild emuates an NE2000 card. You do not …

Re: Older machines for general home use

Posted on 2012-07-03, 01:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Lost forever? Not really ... ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/ Back then the primary method of distribution was BBS systems. But SIMTEL.NET was around as an FTP archive, operated by the US government. If you had access to a Unix machine you could browse the FTP archive, transfer what you needed, …

Re: Older machines for general home use

Posted on 2012-06-30, 18:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Back 25 or 30 years ago here is what a person might be doing with their home computer: Productivity: - WordStar 3.31 or an early version of WordPerfect - Microsoft Multi-plan or Lotus 1-2-3 - Crosstalk, Procomm, Telix or Kermit (for modem use) - The PrintShop - Dbase ][ - PC Paint - Fontrix …

Re: Next mTCP release (2012) - wish lists and ideas?

Posted on 2012-05-31, 23:52

in Milliways

in Milliways

And it's out there! Download the latest from http://code.google.com/p/mtcp/ . Here are the major changes: Power awareness for virtual machines and laptops IRCjr fixes to improve compatibility with more servers "Howto" style documentation for setting up SLIP and PPP with mTCP FTPSrv requires …

Re: Next mTCP release (2012) - wish lists and ideas?

Posted on 2012-04-21, 01:09

in Milliways

in Milliways

Increasing the timeout for idle connections is trivial, but I don't ever want to make it unlimited. Right now I think it is 30 minutes - I'll bump it up to a few hours. (As an aside, in case anybody questions how this is relevant to DOSBox - it works in DOSBox, and I do most of my testing in DOSBox. …

Next mTCP release (2012) - wish lists and ideas?

Posted on 2012-04-21, 00:27

in Milliways

in Milliways

I am looking for wish lists items, bug reports, and ideas for the next release of mTCP. The current version is about six months old now. I haven't had too many bug reports so there has not been a great need to update it. That is also the release that FreeDOS 1.1 chose to use, so it has seen quite a …

Re: What do you use for MS-DOS networking?

Posted on 2012-04-06, 13:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If all you need is a shared drive on the network MS LANMAN or perhaps the earlier Novell Netware client programs (with a dedicated server) is the way to go. mTCP does not have a utility to provide a shared drive letter. But it can do file transfer as both an FTP client and server (noted above) and …

Re: mTCP , need some basic info how to use it...

Posted on 2012-03-17, 00:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Slave slots? All ISA slots are slave slots. ;-0 What is this PCI of which you speak? Seriously, PCI without bus mastering is bad. An NE2000 type card probably works as those just use Programmed IO (PIO), but anything more sophisticated will have problems. Then again, I doubt that a lot of DOS packet …

Re: mTCP , need some basic info how to use it...

Posted on 2012-03-15, 13:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For the two most common errors you should have gotten some sort of message ... - If the packet driver can't talk to the hardware it doesn't load. And even if it loads and it can't send a packet, every packet that DHCP sends should get an error return code from the packet driver. There is a warning …

Re: lookit the stuff I just got for $20 shipped!! (p2 era stuff)

Posted on 2012-03-15, 03:44

in Milliways

in Milliways

P2P networking? Not sure what that means. But regular networking under DOS isn't that bad. Assuming you have a reasonable Ethernet card with a packet driver you can run all sorts of network programs. For sharing a drive letter with another machine (Windows or Linux) you can use MS LAN Manager. For …

Re: mTCP , need some basic info how to use it...

Posted on 2012-03-15, 03:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When DHCP was failing to get an address, what exactly was it telling you? If the packet driver is having problems sending packets you will get a message that reads something like "Your Ethernet card reported an error for every packet sent"." If you were able to send packets but not a single packet …

Re: networking under DOS

Posted on 2012-02-01, 05:03

in Milliways

in Milliways

The mTCP guy checks in here once in a while. And he is a PCjr expert too. :-) On a low-spec machine (PC, XT, PCjr) I use mTCP exclusively - it is small enough to run from a floppy and fast on those machines. On my 386-40 and better machines I'll use both MS LANMAN and mTCP. You can't have both …

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