Comments on: Updates for NT 4.0 on the DEC Alpha

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 03:36:06 +0000

In reply to Mike T.. You may need a HAL diskette... I found a bunch of them here. Although Im not sure which one you'd require so you may have to download them all and see if any are for the DS10.

By: Mike T.

Mike T. — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:30:44 +0000

Trying to install WNT4.0 on a DS10 466Mhz, am using the alphaBIOS and can start the setup from CD but I am being prompted to instert a floppy disk (for the HAL), regardless of the machine I select.

What am I doing wrong/missing..?

TIA

Mike T.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:51:15 +0000

In reply to biewz. Don't use wget, load it in a browser, and the 404 page will tell you how to download them... And the page goes into why I had to do what I did.

By: biewz

biewz — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:56:36 +0000

Hey neozeed,
Awesome to see someone putting the effort into such a write up,
I’ve been trying to get my hands on an alpha system without paying a fortune for years, not im trying to get my mitts on nt4 for alpha along with any associated files such as what you have posted links for but sadly all avenues to obtain these seem to have run dry. including your links. would you perhaps be kind enough and able to reupload them somewhere?

Cheers in advance!

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 01:04:44 +0000

In reply to calvin. Too bad I can't run it.

By: calvin

calvin — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 22:04:04 +0000

From the IE 5 for Alpha distribution:

$ file cchat.exe
cchat.exe: PE32 executable (GUI) Alpha (stripped to external PDB), for MS Windows

You know exactly what to do now.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:30:03 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

> The only consolation is my Itanium is ok… sigh. Alphas were cooler.

Alphas were *officially* cool. Mine was originally bought to render scenes in a game, and later spent its retirement as the company’s VPN server.

I’ve offered it to the Computing History Museum here in the UK (http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/) – I don’t suppose I could talk you into donating your VC6 discs to go with it, could I? (I’ll happily pay the shipping costs).

Cheers,

Sean.

By: Peter Dassow

Peter Dassow — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:34:04 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

Addendum: There is also a FX32SERV.EXE … may be this is exactly what I am searching for… if this is renamed/stopped, x86 code would be probably not executed, too.

By: Peter Dassow

Peter Dassow — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:31:07 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

Meanwhile I am a bit smarter… the appropriate program is named X86PROG.EXE on W2K (not FX!32, which is located as an additional program in a subdirectory \VALUEADD\FX32MGR on CD).
Some DLLs named WX86*.DLL are involved, too.
At the moment I am not sure about a windows service which can be stopped or controlled manually.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:01:57 +0000

In reply to Sean. The only consolation is my Itanium is ok... sigh. Alphas were cooler.