test-drb March 2002

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NEWS: Old Atari games play on Sony Ericsson phones

by bpope＠wordstock.com

Jus' a little news blurb: Mar 14, 2002 8:30 AM PT Old Atari games play on Sony Ericsson phones Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson on Thursday announced partnerships with two companies making games for mobile phones in its drive to challenge handset market leader Nokia through mobile entertainment. The newly formed handset maker, Sony Ericsson, said partnerships with iFone and Synergenix would enable consumers to download some games for free from the Sony Ericsson Web site, or access others for a fee from an operator's Web site. IFone will be providing games from its Atari catalogue, including classics such as Asteroids and Pong. --Reuters This is from: http://zdnet.com.com/2110-1105-859957.html Cheers, Bryan P.S. Happy PI day!!!

22 years, 9 months

Need Best Z-80 Disassembler

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

Well, The subject says it all... I have a ROM (a 2764 I think, it came to 8K bytes) I need to render into the most readable source code possible. It is Z-80 executable, and contains ASCII strings that have their high-order bits set (yes, PR1ME). I have a few disassembler stored on some archive somewhere. But on the chance that a lister might know of a more modern Z-80 disassembler than what I'm likely to have, I thought I'd post a query. This need comes after having acquired and replaced every single board in my Prime, only to still have it be non-operational. Thanks in advance, -doug quebbeman

22 years, 9 months

VAXBI fun continues - seeking DEBNT installation docs

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

> Ethan Dicks wrote: > >ports. No DMB32 or anything like that (not that I would mind locating >one of _those_ either). If only you'd asked 18 months ago :-) >As you can see, it's a full boat - 16MB of RAM in 5 cards. I'd love to >run across an inexpensive MS820-CA or two. I wouldn't mind pulling the If only you'd asked ... :-( >MS820-AAs out, but 16MB is an OK amount of memory for a single user. I'm >also on a long-term quest for free or nearly free KA825 boards - I'd be >nice to bring this up to an 8350. If ... No, done that enough for one email. If you can get three KA820s (or KA825s) you should be able to get that to work too! (But you cannot mix KA820 & KA825). >right from looking at where the Lance chip is on the DEBNT. If anyone >has installation instructions, particularly cabling instructions, >those would be very helpful. The Owner's Manual is available at: http://208.190.133.201/decimages/moremanuals.htm as is the Installation Guide. I *thought* I'd also scanned and sent an install guide for one of the VAXBI ethernet options, but I guess not. When I had one in the lab, my VAX 8350 just mostly worked so I don't have too much experience of playing with the ethernet. The DSB32 and DMB32, and the CPU(s) and memory were all pretty straightforward. The only funny I remember with ethernet is that you need to cable up a little bit extra for the power required by the AUI in the bulkhead. But that may well have been the VAX 6000 ... Antonio

22 years, 9 months

VCF on MediaTelevision

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: M H Stein [mailto:mhstein@canada.com] > Freedom Fighters? Revolutionaries? Wow! And I thought we > were just weirdos & nerds... I think the politically correct term is "futurist" ;) Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 9 months

Atari PC3000

by KenzieM＠sympatico.ca

I saw one of these yesterday. It looks like a monitor with floppy drive in the bottom, at the back was a plug for the power and another labelled video. I could not see anyplace for a keyboard to be attached. Does anyone know anything about this machine? Collector of Vintage Computers (www.ncf.ca/~ba600)

22 years, 9 months

[Maybe OT] A/UX installation

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> > cdrecord -speed 8 -dev 0,6,0 -eject -v AUX_3.0.1_Install.toast_image > > I don't know if this works or not. I don't know if the image is "real ISO" > (I used Toast, so I couldn't say). > > > When I try to boot up on a IIci, the floppy works ok, and it starts to > > search for the CD in the CD drive. The cd drive is a toshiba 5401B, I > > pulled from an alpha. It never finds a valid disk. So, to try to > > figure out what was wrong, I used BasiliskII (a mac-on-unix emulation) > > and tried to mount the CD image as a disk under system 7.6...and it > > wanted to format it. Should the CD be mountable? > > No, it shouldn't be. Toast complained about it too, but it worked fine > for installation. The boot disk is needed to mount it. I have lots of trouble with older 68k Macs that were used by clueless lusers... in particular, here at my current orkplace, our #1 Mac advocate didn't realize you have to power off the system and SCSI devices when attaching them/ removing hem from the chain. I'm not sure what goes bad after five years of connecting/dosconnecting with the power on (the terminator resistors shouldn't be affected, should they)? But I run into this a lot; I have little luck with CDs on Macs, and more trouble with outboard drives in general than I'd care to say... -dq

22 years, 9 months

Semi-OT: PMac 6100 DOS

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> > > Chris , I'm sorry, you're totally wrong. The 26 pin connector is for an > > >Apple Audio Vision monitor. No F--king Dongle. > > I said a number of times, I have NOT used the DOS card that works with > > the 630/6100... and that is the card in question. > > > > But I CAN tell you that EVERY OTHER dos card Apple made, needs a video > > dongle... and they ALL connect via a DB-26 connector on the back of the > > DOS card... which is exactly what the person described on the back of > > their DOS card. > > > > Now, it is quite possible that Apple put an AppleVision port on the > > 630/6100 DOS card, why, I would have NO idea, since the 630 can't use an > > applevision monitor... but maybe they did. > > > > HOWEVER, on the back of the 6100... is an HDI-45 video port... THAT is an > > AppleVision video port. That is NOT the same thing as the DB-26 on the > > DOS cards. Totally different port, totally different function. > > BUT... I have heard that you do not need a video dongle with the 630/6100 > > DOS card... I just can't confirm it one way or the other... and again, > > since they are describing EXACTLY what will happen to a Quadra 610 > > Houdini DOS card if the dongle is not connected... I felt it was a good > > guess that they might in fact need one. > > > > Now I am REALLY going to have to get 630/6100 DOS card... just so I can > > figure out once and for all if it needs a video dongle (or do you prefer > > the term... video loopback connector) I've never heard these called "video dongles", and while they don't come in the package with the 6100 DOS board, the manual says it's needed, shows its picture, and says it comes with the computer in which you're trying to install the board. Complete package, appears not to have ever been installed, the red Apple seal is still intact on the diskette pack (but was easily pried open by yours truly while checking). I think I even have a 6100 for it to go in, but dunno what I'll ever do with the mess... -dq

22 years, 9 months

impressive CI - SCSI storage rack from MTI (RAID?)

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hi ho, now I hauled it home, the modules of this very impressive MTI StorageWare assembly. It's a marvellous piece of super redundant 24/7 operational gear for any VAX cluster. The fun starts with a box that probably emulates an HSC90 or so, that one has two power supplys, and there are two of those boxes each having the 4 redundant CI connectors. Each box has 3 SCSI (?) connectors that run to another 4-box assembly and there is another layer of redundancy. Then all this drives 4 arrays of 4GB SCSI disks each having 8 such disks. I conclude that this must be a RAID array, because I don't know how else one could address 8 disks on a SCSI bus (isn't 7 devices appart from the controller the maximum?) Initially it seemed straight-forward to use as a simple CI/HSC to SCSI adapter, but now it looks like this stuff is best kept as one big impressive unit. I'm going to try find the manuals for this too. Does anyone have experience with this kind of gear? regards, -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

22 years, 9 months

Macintosh Portable power supply?

by dan＠ekoan.com

I recently acquired a Macintosh Portable (M5120) but it came without a power supply. Does anyone have a spare they'd like to get rid of? Cheers, Dan

22 years, 9 months

MicroVAX-II questions

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On March 8, Doc Shipley wrote: > Just got home with my brand-spanking-old MVII and set about playing > with it. It's indecently clean inside, cables all in good shape, fans > all free and clean, cards well seated. Sounds like a girl I once knew. > I even managed to get them all back in properly, in order, and the > cables connected right. This too. > This means I would, if I had the distribution hardware for the DHQ11s, > have 25 serial interfaces? (plus console) What exactly is the DMV11? > "Synchronous communications controller" sounds like it requires a DMV11 > on the other end as well. It's a sync serial interface...you'd connect it to a CSU/DSU and a leased line, or something similar. > Everything VMS I've looked at says the DEQNA is unsupported in VMS > >v5.2. Is that unsupported as in "don't call DEC/Compaq/HP", or > unsupported as in "it don't work"? Am I stuck with NetBSD then? Does > anyone know if NBSD will mop-boot over the DEQNA? I don't have VMS > older than 6.2. DELQAs are fairly easy to come by. If you want one and can't find one immediately, email me. > Anybody have 2 breakout boxes for the M3107, and no M3107? We could > equalize.... For that matter, if anybody needs the card, I'll just > share. I might have one of these, I will check. Email me if you don't hear back about this by the end of the weekend. > You know you're over the edge when the lack of ethernet access in your > garage is a problem. Nah...that's just a *start*. -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

22 years, 9 months

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