> Here are the challenges I see:
> You need to scan the PCI bus for the card.
> You need to persuade the OS to let you access the hardware directly.
I was going to do this under OS9, since I already have code to do the
device tree scanning, and there isn't a problem touching hardware directly :-)
>> Flamingo DEC 3000 Model 500 Home...won't boot. ... had DEC UNIX
.
> OK. I *think* Ultrix was the only OS commercially available (not sure
> about the later product named "Digital Unix" that was formerly OSF/1)
Ultrix was never commercially available on Alpha hardware, AFAIK. As
Eric Dittman pointed out, VMS was available in addition to Digital Unix.
Ultrix was based on 4BSD; Digital Unix was based on OSF/1, one of
the less successful offerings from the very misleadingly named (in
today's context) Open Software Foundation. While their Motif GUI was
widespread, OSF/1 was not - in fact it's a good trivia question to ask
who aside from DEC ever shipped it. (Intel Paragon. AIX/ESA? Encore?)
Anyway, I checked and I don't have docs for this model. But just
yesterday I dragged out my 3000/300LX and had to reseat the memory
before the machine would behave...
Good luck,
--Steve.
smj(at)spamfree.crash.com (lose spamfree to get through, m'kay?)
Hi, Fred --
Searching all over the place, used Google, and came up with your name!!
I have a Casio CFX-400 that has gone through 4 watch cases -- it started
out with the silver case and was replaced 2 times, then about a year and
half ago I tried the same source as the other 2 times and they were sold
out with no place to go. I don't remember how I did it, but I DID find a
source in the mid-West that had ONE more case left and it was the less
expensive looking black plastic case -- I'LL TAKE IT, I screamed into
the phone!!! Doesn't matter how much it costs!!!
Well, now that black case has finally given up the ghost where the pins
of the band attach to the case itself -- in fact, from stress, it has
cracked and broken three times already in the same corner, and I've
managed to fix it with superglue and once with epoxy (luckily I was able
to find the small black plastic piece that broke off) -- but today it
broke again, in a NEW spot, and the small piece that broke off is GONE,
KAPUT, LOST, never to be seen again -- in a forest of dirt, rocks, pine
leaves, pine cones, and just plain STUFF -- the piece that came off is
probably less than an 1/8 inch in size, but IT was what was holding the
pin into the hole!!
I was wondering if you have ANY idea where I might find another case --
I've searched before with very little luck -- seems like this watch is
definitely a dying breed, and it was one of their BEST!!!
Thanks in advance for any info you might have :-)
Stan Glaser
stantstk(a)pacbell.net
I've hacked together a 2.11 BSD C program (nothing special, should work
on other *nixen) that takes a .tap tape file and spits it onto a real
tape. I've tested it with both a TK50 and a TS05 tape drive. It even
successfully wrote a bootable TK50 format XXDP 2.5 tape. I'm going to
be cleaning up the code and posting it on the web, but for those who
can't wait, here is the raw code. It is left as an exercise to the
reader to figure out where my MUA breaks the source code lines.
------------ Cut Here --------------------
/* detap.c - 2003 by Christopher L McNabb */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <strings.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/file.h>
#include <sys/inode.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/mtio.h>
main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
int infile,outfile,ctr;
long int offset;
long int records=1;
long int filecnt=1;
long int reclen;
long int reclen2;
void* buffer;
struct mtop tapeeof,taperew;
ctr = 0;
taperew.mt_op = MTREW;
taperew.mt_count = 1;
tapeeof.mt_op = MTWEOF;
tapeeof.mt_count = 1;
if(argc < 3)
{
printf("Usage: %s infile outdev\n",argv[0]);
exit(-1);
}
infile=open(argv[1],O_RDONLY);
if(infile < 0)
{
printf("Could not open %s\n",argv[1]);
exit(-1);
}
outfile=open(argv[2],O_CREAT | O_RDWR | O_TRUNC,IREAD | IWRITE);
if(outfile < 0)
{
printf("Could not open %s\n",argv[2]);
exit(-1);
}
printf("Rewinding Tape\n");
if( 0 > ioctl(outfile,MTIOCTOP,&taperew))
{
printf("\nMTIOCOP REW ERROR\n");
exit(-1);
}
offset = 0;
read(infile,&reclen,4);
while(1)
{
ctr ++;
if(reclen == 0)
{
filecnt++;
if(0 > ioctl(outfile,MTIOCTOP,&tapeeof))
{
printf("\nMTIOCTOP EOF ERR\n");
exit(-1);
}
read(infile,&reclen,4);
if(reclen == 0)
{
printf("\nEnd of Tape\n");
close(outfile);
ioctl(outfile,MTIOCTOP,&taperew);
break;
}
records=1;
continue;
}
buffer = malloc(reclen);
read(infile,buffer,reclen);
read(infile,&reclen2,4);
if(reclen != reclen2)
{
lseek(infile,-3,L_INCR);
read(infile,&reclen2,4);
if(reclen != reclen2)
{
printf("\nHdr1 and Hdr2 do not match\n");
exit(-1);
}
}
write(outfile,buffer,reclen);
fprintf(stdout,"Total Records: %6d File: %6ld Record: %6ld Record
Length: %6u\r",ctr,filecnt,records,reclen);
fflush(stdout);
free(buffer);
records++;
read(infile,&reclen,4);
}
close(infile);
close(outfile);
}
------------------- SNIP --------------------------
--
Christopher L McNabb
Operating Systems Analyst Email: cmcnabb(a)4mcnabb.net
Virginia Tech ICBM: 37.1356N 80.4272N
GMRS: WPSR255 ARS: N2UX Grid Sq: EM97SD
Ethan:
Regarding your message posted on classiccmp.org from last May, did you ever
find a taker for the Series/1 (or any parts thereof)? I've been trying to
find a copy of RPS (Realtime Programming System) from such a beast, but to
no avail (so far). Any info that you could provide would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim Storc
ITT A/CD
AARGGH!
Read Ethan's posts. He can NOT use ANY ISA sound cards, because the computer does not have any ISA slots. Period.
So, can anyone answer Ethan's question about how to get a PCI sound card to work with a ca. 1994 MS-DOS game?
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Berger [mailto:sanepsycho@globaldialog.com]
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 12:45 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Sound for DOS games on modern hardware?
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 03:05, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> --- G Manuel <gmanuel(a)gmconsulting.net> wrote:
> > Have you considered just running 2 sound cards in the system.
>
> Two PCI sound cards? How does that help?
Actually an ISA sound card and PCI one will usually co-exist. The trick
is to get a non-pnp ISA one that you can set to the classic settings.
Easiest solution is to do what has been suggested, setup a separate
system just designed to play classic DOS sutff. I have a 486DX-2 with a
good ET-4000 based video card and a SoundBlaster 2 for the sound. I
have a couple non-PnP SoundBlaster 16's that I'm holding onto for a
higer end system I'm planning on building for later games.
Paul
>
> -ethan
Several things happening on the classiccmp server front....
1) I'm looking into cleaning up the old mohnarc list archives, and
integrating them into the current mailman archives. This would also include
filling in the couple of missing months as well as scrubbing the email
addresses from the old archives. The old archives are currently offline,
pending me completing this task. I am going to try and put in a search
function as well, and MAYBE a thread view.
2) I'm also looking into upgrading the mailman list software to the latest
stable version. This has a whole bunch of new features - most for list
admins, but a decent amount of new user features as well. See list.org and
the 2.1 release for specifics.
3) One of the features in the new mailman is the introduction of the
isolated list moderator role. Right now there is just the list owner, and
the subscribers. To approve posts on a moderated list (cctech), or posts
>from non members to a private list (cctalk), the list owner has to go in and
do this on each individual post (web based). The screens that come up for
this also include list configuration items that a list moderator only
shouldn't be able to change. With the new software, since there is a list
moderator type user, that means I can solicit responsible people from the
list to help moderate posts, without giving them access to system wide list
configuration. If anyone would like to volunteer to be a list moderator, I'd
like to get a few people to help after I get the new software installed. You
don't need to know anything about unix or mailman, you just have to be able
to use a web browser and look at each post and click "accept, discard,
etc.". Ideally I'd like to get a few people that are spread across different
time zones who are willing to do this once a day. If several people do this,
the flow of posts requiring moderation should be a lot quicker. I am
guessing that if we have maybe 3 moderators, it wouldn't take each person
more than 5-10 minutes a day, or every other day. If interested, contact me
off-list. The new version of mailman has some new spam filters. Spam is
already caught for moderation, so these spam features would just make it
less work for the moderator as to the number of posts to discard. If this
works really well, I may not need additional moderators.
4) The server hosting the list has become... ermmm "cluttered". I want to
reinstall the OS from scratch and everything along with it. This is
partially to get current on all the packages used on the server (read:
security reasons), and partly because the machine is just cluttered up. Yes,
all the current archives and such will be maintained across the install of
course. This DOES mean that the list would be totally down when I swap the
drives, perhaps for 20 minutes. Of course I'll let the list know in advance
when this is to be done.
5) The server is starting to swap (not enough memory), and the main data
disk is about 60% full. When the server was purchased, going from memory
here... various listmembers contributed around $220 bucks, and I paid about
$200 out of my own pocket to cover the box. I would like to definitely
upgrade the memory to 512mb, this will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of
$120 (maybe $20, researching). I'm also thinking about upgrading the data
drive from 20gb to 170gb. This would cost about $99 bucks. Would anyone be
interested in helping out with donations towards these? Either cash or the
requisite hardware. Let me know off-list if so. Don't just go straight to
paypal, I need to research a little further if the drive is required. I'll
let the list know my findings then. Part of the reason for considering more
disk is that the one there is a bit over half full, but most of it is
because I want to mirror a large number of classic computer related files
>from other locations. And yes, the server that hosts the list is completely
dedicated to classiccmp stuff, nothing else is on it.
6) Finally, I've got some ideas for things I want to do to the classiccmp
website. I'm an admin, not a web developer, so I'm curious if there is
anyone on the list who is willing to do specific changes to the
classiccmp.org website. Most of the things I want to put there need to be
done in PHP and possibly mySQL so being familiar with those is important.
And finally, (putting on some body armor first), I'm in the mode of taking
requests - so if anyone has suggestions for things they'd like to see on the
website or changes to the list, please contact me OFF LIST. I'd love to hear
any ideas you all may have for improvements. Depending on the suggestion, I
may just implement it or reject it, or I may bring it to the list for
discussion/decision as to if it should be done.
Regards,
Jay West
I'm still in the market for any model of Ohio Scientific Challenger
computer.
If you've got one to sell or trade, please contact me directly.
Thanks!
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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