14 Oct
2000
14 Oct
'00
8:01 p.m.
Thanks to the CP/M User Group swap meet today I'm closer to my dream of a
PocketPDP-11, as I picked up a box of Dauphin DTR-1 stuff, with three
complete systems which are already earmarked (unfortunatly my wife wants
one for some simple games). Still that leaves one for the PocketPDP-11 (if
you've big enough pockets), and a console for the VAXlaptop project!
Anyway the Dauphin is basically a pin-based handheld (that will accept
either thier mini keyboard or a standard PS/2 keyboard) 486/25 with a 64
shades of grey 640x480 LCD display running MS-DOS 6.0, and Windows 3.1.
I've got the external floppies, and an internal 40MB HD. I've loaded
Ersatz-11 onto it and I've got a RT-11 RL02 image that I've used with the
Supnik emulator.
I'm doing the following with Ersatz-11:
set cpu 23
mount dl0: c:\e11\rt11.dsk
boot dl0:
However, it just sort of sits there, and does nothing :^( Anyone have any
ideas? It's not showing any indication of RT-11 booting.
Zane
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14 Oct
14 Oct
10:55 p.m.
Try a different CPU like a 73 or 70. I know this helped
for booting some of the UNIX images. It's too bad that
you are using Windows 3.1 because I have a version
of the Supnik emulator that runs under WIN32. I know that
someone on this list must have compiled it as a DOS
app. Let me know if you don't have any luck and I'll
do a quick dos compile for you.
Kirk
Thanks to the CP/M User Group swap meet today I'm closer to my dream of a
PocketPDP-11, as I picked up a box of Dauphin DTR-1 stuff, with three
complete systems which are already earmarked (unfortunatly my wife wants
one for some simple games). Still that leaves one for the PocketPDP-11 (if
you've big enough pockets), and a console for the VAXlaptop project!
Anyway the Dauphin is basically a pin-based handheld (that will accept
either thier mini keyboard or a standard PS/2 keyboard) 486/25 with a 64
shades of grey 640x480 LCD display running MS-DOS 6.0, and Windows 3.1.
I've got the external floppies, and an internal 40MB HD. I've loaded
Ersatz-11 onto it and I've got a RT-11 RL02 image that I've used with the
Supnik emulator.
I'm doing the following with Ersatz-11:
set cpu 23
mount dl0: c:\e11\rt11.dsk
boot dl0:
However, it just sort of sits there, and does nothing :^( Anyone have any
ideas? It's not showing any indication of RT-11 booting.
Zane
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+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
16 Oct
16 Oct
9:24 p.m.
Kirk B. Davis wrote:
Try a different CPU like a 73 or 70. I know this
helped
for booting some of the UNIX images. It's too bad that
you are using Windows 3.1 because I have a version
of the Supnik emulator that runs under WIN32. I know that
someone on this list must have compiled it as a DOS
app. Let me know if you don't have any luck and I'll
do a quick dos compile for you.
Unfortuantly no joy on setting the CPU to something different. A DOS
version of the Supnik emulator would probably be a big help at this point!
If this doesn't work I just might have to try turning the machine into a
Apple ][ or Commodore 64 ;^)
Zane
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15 Oct
15 Oct
12:25 p.m.
In <v04020a00b60ed01a375b(a)[192.168.1.5]>5]>, on 10/15/00
at 05:25 PM, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> said:
set cpu 23
mount dl0: c:\e11\rt11.dsk
boot dl0:
However, it just sort of sits there, and does nothing :^( Anyone have
any ideas? It's not showing any indication of RT-11 booting.
I have troubles with my lunchbox case's proprietary ISA video card. The
card drives the LCD and so is the only one I can use if I want to use the
onboard display. Win95,98,NT, and Linux (Xwindows) will not run on the
machine at all. The only thing that will even install is OS/2 Warp4. This
is fine for me because Warp is what I wanted in the first place. I wanted
another OS just for kicks. I use the machine as an MP3 player for my car.
We created playlists and used the machine at our wedding last September.
Thank God for friends because my 2kw UPS is a HEAVY bitch.....
Maybe you are having similar trouble with your emulator. Perhaps trying
the emulator in a DOSBox in Windows might help work around it.
It also might have something to do with Smartdrive being enabled or (base)
memory issues. In Config.sys:
Device=C:\dos\himem.sys /testmem:off
Device=c:\dos\emm386.exe noems
Files=60
Buffers=40
Dos=high,UMB
Remove any superfluous lines in config and Autoexec and see what happens.
Sorry if you know all this allready. Just trying to help.
Why in hell a 32bit microprocessor needs to bitbang ram is just beyond me.
Microsoft couldn't write themselves out of a paper bag.
Regards,
Jeff
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12:55 p.m.
THETechnoid(a)home.com wrote:
We created playlists and used the machine at our
wedding last September.
That's how my wife and I did our wedding party as well. I took my main
Linux workstation along, had about 5 hours of MP3s (had to copy them
from the fileserver... that took FOREVER), and my home
stereo (which has
a little bit of kick to it).
We had people from the Inn (Bear Mountain Inn in New York State) coming
in to check out what was going on. I suppose they'd seen me bringing in
this computer, and when they walked by, they saw it was the DJ. :)
And it was supposed to be a technology-free wedding and party.
Infinitely cheaper than hiring someone. And much less annoying. NO
CHICKEN DANCE!
Now, if only my NeXT could have handled the MP3s. That would have been
much cooler.
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Tim Harrison
Network Engineer
harrison(a)timharrison.com
http://www.networklevel.com/
16 Oct
16 Oct
9:26 p.m.
Jeffrey S. Worley wrote:
Maybe you are having similar trouble with your
emulator. Perhaps trying
the emulator in a DOSBox in Windows might help work around it.
It also might have something to do with Smartdrive being enabled or (base)
memory issues. In Config.sys:
Device=C:\dos\himem.sys /testmem:off
Device=c:\dos\emm386.exe noems
Files=60
Buffers=40
Dos=high,UMB
Remove any superfluous lines in config and Autoexec and see what happens.
Sorry if you know all this allready. Just trying to help.
No joy I'm afraid. Trust me these suggestions helped. I've not really
touched DOS since before these systems were new!
Zane
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