Bwhahaha, no way would they work in a 1500, the nubus in a 1500 uses card
edge connectors, versus those nasty plastic thingies on apple nubus.. I
know, since I own a 1500..
Will J
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I've just released version 2.2 of my Sol computer emulator, Solace.
Besides fixing a few bugs and making a few minor improvements,
I've added support for what I call Sol Virtual Tapes. These are human-
readable ASCII files that contain the state of a tape.
Just like a real Sol, two tape drives are supported, and files can be
recorded at 1200 baud or 300 baud.
Check out the whizzy user interface for the virtual tapes:
http://www.thebattles.net/sol20/solace/solace_tape.html
I'm quite confident that I spent more time working on the interface
than anybody will ever spend actually using it. But that wasn't the
point of doing it anyway.
Here are the release notes for Solace:
http://www.thebattles.net/sol20/solace/relnotes.txt
Here is the link to the main Solace web page:
http://www.thebattles.net/sol20/solace/solace.html
Here is the link to the main Sol web page:
http://www.thebattles.net/sol20/sol.html
I've heard that Solace runs on Linux under the Wine (Win32 emulation)
interface,
and it also runs on a Mac via the RealPC emulator program (yes, an emulator
on an emulator). Now I have no reason to port it.
A few people have sent me items for the Sol archive which have been waiting
in line behind Solace, and I hope to get them online soon. After that, the
next
step for Solace is emulation of a couple Northstar disk drives...
As always, suggestions, bug reports, and donations of items for the Sol
archive are welcomed. If anybody with a Helios system can grab the ROM
image from their personality module, and more than that, can dump the
contents of a bootable disk, I'll add support for that disk system too.
Bob Stek was great and sent me source listings for PT DOS, but I can't
see myself OCRing and correcting 200+ pages of source code any time
soon.
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Jim Battle == frustum(a)pacbell.net
Well, lots of progress yesterday - I managed to read the entirety of the old
Tek hard drive on a modern PC using dd and an Adaptec controller - no idea
why the controller should make a difference (my other PC SCSI card doesn't
like the drive, and nor does the Tek's own controller)
Better still, I dumped the raw disk image onto another drive and put that
into the Tek, fully expecting it not to work - but it did!
A big thanks to those on the list that offered advice - looks like I might
be able to revive this thing :) (see my separate posting about filesystem
checks)
cheers
Jules
ps. the ROM-based diags reckon there's 64MB of memory in this thing and 16MB
of framebuffer - I'm not ready to believe that yet, but it'd be nice :-)
--
Well, I didn't have enough money for the Mac 512K because I went and picked
up a Texas Instruments Compact Computer 40, mint in box, with plotter also
mint in box. Everything works. Anyone out there familiar with these? I have
all the manuals, but I'm just curious what uses people have found for them.
Neat device, resembles a TS 1500, 31-character 1 line LCD screen.
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Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu
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Today I found an external 3 1/2" floppy drive made by Heath/Zenith. It
has a tiny connector on it. It's similar to the micro-SCSI connectors but
only has 20 contacts. There is no separate power connector. Does anyone
know what this is made to be used with?
Joe
On February 15, Jeff Hellige wrote:
> The most base Amiga 1000's have just 256k of RAM and a single
> 880k floppy and require two steps to boot the OS (loading Kickstart
> off of the 1st floppy and then reading Workbench off of the second)
> and will happily run off of that single floppy, even allowing you to
> swap it out for whatever application disk you want to use. This with
> full GUI, sound and all the other nifty things that go along with
> using an Amiga. I no longer recall what the exact size of the
> A1000's Kickstart is but nearly all remaining machines (with the
> exception of a softkicked A3000) had the Kickstart in ROM. Of
> course, there was also the Atari ST line that had it's GEM-based TOS
> totally ROM based and ran well in less than 1meg of RAM, though I've
> never thought their graphics capabilities were on par with the Amiga.
Amigas rock. A solid operating system with preemptive multitasking
and a GUI in 256K of RAM on a floppy-based system...Amazing! Why
can't Microsoft get it right with thousands of programmers, 800+MHz
processors, hundreds of megabytes of RAM, and gigabytes of disk space?
-Dave McGuire
Is there a command from BASIC or such that formats the
floppy disk on an Apple IIc?
There appears to be a way to do it -- rather convoluted --
in assembly. But with no assembler worth mentioning...
Thanks for any clues.
-- Ross
A friend will soon be receiving a TC2048 made by Timex of Portugal which he
wants to use in the US. Replacing the DC ps is no problem, but the composite
video out was designed for a 50 Hz PAL TV.
What's the best way to hook a US TV or monitor up to this beast?
Thanks,
Glen
0/0
I've had a Tatung Einstein for some time but have no OS to
use with it. Anyone have Xtal/DOS (correct?) for the Einstein
- I've a few spare blank 2nd. user 3.0" disks (ten or more)
to swap for the 3.0" disk(s) supplied with the Einstein.
Doug.
At 01:44 PM 2/19/01 -0500, James B. DiGriz wrote:
>On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>
> >
> > > Hey I've got a CC40, maybe I better start paying attention.
> >
> > Someone on the Vintage Macs list said that TI invented NuBus. True?
> >
> >
>
>It was originally developed at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science,
>around '73 or so, I think. There was a consortium of some kind formed later to
>commercialize it, of which TI, Apple, and others were members. The TI
>S1500 and Explorer series were NuBus machines.
I designed a card for Nubus that never made it to market (it was an
accelerator card for doing OCR) back about 1991 or so. My recollection was
also that it came from MIT, TI adopted it, then when the open Macs came out
they adopted the bus. Heresay was that at the last minute the standard
card size was changed because Apple already had worked up a machine and
somebody got the dimensions wrong by 1/8" or something, so they changed the
standard rather than retooling their product.
>What I'd like to know is how compatible the Mac NuBus is with the
>S1500 implementation. That is, can you take Mac NuBus cards and use them
>in an S1500, given Unix drivers for them?...
One feature that I recall was that was in the standard that Apple ignored
was that the test and initialization code that came on each card was to be
written in interpreted FORTH in order to make the cards more portable to
different machines.
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Jim Battle == frustum(a)pacbell.net
