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Reading the AMI BIOS chipset manuals from their old FTP site

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First post, by Anonymous Coward

Posted on 2024-05-30, 12:25

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On AMI's old FTP server they used to have a bunch of chipset specific manuals from the AMIBIOS.

https://ia601900.us.archive.org/view_archive. … ftp.ami.com.tar

I believe the manuals are in some kind of word perfect format. I could have sworn at some point somebody on here converted them into a more conventional format.
Any idea where they might have ended up? If not, how do I read the .z06 and .z12 files?
The files I need are for the SIS EISA chipset.

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Reply 1 of 2, by Grzyb

Posted on 2024-05-30, 12:53

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ATML711.Z06 is a normal ZIP archive, containing ATML711.MAN - which is from WordPerfect indeed, LibreOffice seems to open it without problems.

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Reply 2 of 2, by Anonymous Coward

Posted on 2024-05-30, 13:53

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Thanks! I didn't realise it was compressed. If you search for z06 file extension, all you get is results for stupid corvettes.

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