kirikl wrote on 2024-05-14, 16:48:

By the way. My battery sucks! It showing 2000+ mah and 00%
I would like to discharge it, but laptop dead and there is no way to make battery die naturally. I ordered another one. Good news they are cheap, bad news - probably the same cheap quality, I couldn't find some “brand” one

You could look through Tenergy's parts bin or browse Mouser if you'd like a somewhat qualified product. You're not going to find it listed application specific, of course.

Thanks to folks here, I have a Win3.11 install on c:.

One issue: Win311 doesn't seem to recognize internal mouse. Is that a driver install issue, or do I need the PS/2 mouse always?

It should! It's hardware driver. Check your bios for mouse support!

Thank you, that was it. My BIOS reset, and once I got in there and enabled the mouse, all was well.

Real Time Clock, RTC news https://yiff.life/@nallwolf/112395318290646459

BitWrangler wrote on 2024-05-14, 20:37:

Real Time Clock, RTC news https://yiff.life/@nallwolf/112395318290646459

Hah, thought I had read that before... Nallwolf posted it on the 6th on this thread,

derp, completely missed it. It was just first time it showed up on my manual webscrapes so thought it was newer info.

So after all my messing around with hardware antique and modern what finally worked for creating some clean CF card images was Virtual Machine Manager using QEMU/KVM. I did have to edit the raw drive post creation (changing the XML manually) to reference the physical drive rather than partition, but it works!

If anyone's interested I could do a quick how-to on that for Linux... might have other applications outside the Pocket-386 as well I'd guess.

Nice work, sounded like a hassle to figure out. I wonder if ghost64.exe would work in Linux/WINE:

REMOVED

Ghost64.exe does work in Win10 and I used the the stock .gho in an empty 1.0 Extreme cd and I was surprised that it worked without complaint.

I personally install everything via 86Box and save it in a raw image, then flash it onto the CF card using balenaEtcher.

I just tried to set up a serial Wi-Fi adapter following the oldnet guidelines, and man I really hate all these dongles. I need to shrink them down, starting with the mouse first.

I agree totally. The form factor goes by the wayside. Aside from the burden of cables, it seems that you did get on-line and yea for that. I found that after starting microweb and getting the prompt for display, if I choose the letter before the suggested one (h?), once 68k.news starts, I can press Fn2 and make white text on black screen, more readable in my opinion. I have both Win95 and WFWG desktop/colors set up the same way.

For further on-line adventures, telnetting to https://lynx.scramworks.net/ allows lynx browsing and most websites (that don't complain about java) come up okay. The leaner, the better: m.cnn.com, text.npr.org, etc

Inhibit wrote on 2024-05-16, 17:25:

So after all my messing around with hardware antique and modern what finally worked for creating some clean CF card images was Virtual Machine Manager using QEMU/KVM. I did have to edit the raw drive post creation (changing the XML manually) to reference the physical drive rather than partition, but it works!

If anyone's interested I could do a quick how-to on that for Linux... might have other applications outside the Pocket-386 as well I'd guess.

https://theinstructionlimit.com/installing-ms … -to-ide-adapter

I followed these instructions, and they actually worked for me. Created a bootable CF with CDU DOS 7.X. Actually quicker and easier than it looks.

@jakfish thanks for telling me about lynx.scramworks.net

It's been a life saver for browsing on old kit. I think it's the last telnet for lynx out there.

Have you found any 8-bit serial-to-wifi adapters that fit directly into the port? They seem to be out of stock, but I'm not even sure what I'm looking for.

Better news on the usb front. After the FreddyV magic cited in this thread: https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/poc … 0/#post-1380520 my 4gb Verbatim store-n-go works in DOS, WFWG, and Win95 without complaint. No more clumsy protrusions from the side. As for mitigating clumsy protrusions in the back, this looks really intriguing: https://x.com/RetroTechChris/status/1782110544024977566

Anyone know where to buy one of those? They seem out of stock but I was hoping for a knock-off.

jakfish wrote on 2024-05-19, 15:14:

https://x.com/RetroTechChris/status/1782110544024977566

Anyone know where to buy one of those? They seem out of stock but I was hoping for a knock-off.

The PicoGUS? I'm not sure where the WiFi network support for it is unless I'm blind. My searches turn up nothing relevant and I don't see anything on the GitHub faq/readme.

I picked up mine at VCF East. Also ran into Chris on his way in, oddly.

Hi, @Inhibit. From the cited X tweet, it would seem he's on-line, no? He's firing up Microweb. But I agree, I'm confused as well; there doesn't seem to be any wifi instruction. I know with the tindy-sold serial-to-wifi RS232 adapter, I had to flash a new firmware to use microweb, retro-proxy, etc. Works in my Omnibook and the P386.

But with the PicoGUS, I'm lost. I wish I didn't suck so much at hardware...

jakfish wrote on 2024-05-19, 21:43:

But with the PicoGUS, I'm lost. I wish I didn't suck so much at hardware...

Looks like it to me too. And I'm glad it's not just me not seeing an obvious way to WiFi the PicoGUS. Perhaps someone could 😵?) at Retrotech Chris. Or maybe someone familiar with the project will chime in with the answer.

Google picogus ne2000
I found a few things discussing it working but no software.

I realize that the sophisticated users here have figured out ways to back up the cf. The easiest way I've found is to backup/restore your custom/stock install with ghost, but ghost32.exe. Since my Win10 is 64-bit, I made the incorrect assumption to use ghost64.exe

Ghost64.exe doesn't work; it coughs up bad sector errors and not even the stock will boot. Backup with ghost32.exe and restore is fine, custom or stock, so far--even with faster 2gb cf's.