Comments on: QNX 1.1 Demo Disk

By: tenox

tenox — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:54:46 +0000

In reply to Len White.

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2020/10/13/virtualization-challenge-iv-qnx-1-2/

By: tenox

tenox — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:54:38 +0000

In reply to Jeff.

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2020/10/13/virtualization-challenge-iv-qnx-1-2/

By: tenox

tenox — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:30:22 +0000

In reply to Len White. The machine reboots/crashes. I will share the images in a next post shortly.

By: Len White

Len White — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:27:40 +0000

What happens when you try to boot the images of the copy-protected disks? Do you get an error or just no boot?

I’m pretty sure I can bypass it using IDA to create a patch if you post the dumps

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 16:16:14 +0000

If you share a link to the Kryoflux dumps, I’ll take a look and see if I can make the boot disk work in PCjs…. Thanks.

By: tenox

tenox — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 06:33:55 +0000

In reply to Fernando. I unfortunately don't know much about ICON. I wish they were in my school. Also note that we covered QNX here several times before so you want a fully working system in a little later version of QNX like v2 we have these. I will update the post with some links.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 03:10:12 +0000

In reply to Fernando.

I’ve been wondering this since I left High School in Ontario.

I’ve seen pictures of a rescued system on reddit a year ago but I think the guy died.

I’ve been hoping someone would image the hard disks/and machine ROMS along with any media but that seems that it’ll never happen.

I know the model 2 terminals were capable of running a PC emulator (I think it mostly did disk redirects) as I installed space quest II onto my home directory and was able to play it. I believe it was EGA too!

They had 8088 compatible processors for sure (8088/8086/80186!?) as the speed was very good.

I assume that the iCON qnx has a bit going on regarding the video hardware, but who knows.

It’s a shame the majority of them were crushed and sold as scrap. Seems like it was a networked product that could have been something

By: Fernando

Fernando — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 01:45:10 +0000

First, thank you Tenox!, thank you very much!
This is a software that would be impossible for me to acquire.
Since the 80’s I saw the ads for QNX at the magazines and have curiosity to see it and test it, it looked like something special.
-“please could you try it on different emulators and comment what works and what doesn’t.”
I will test it in the following days and report about it.
-“circumventing checking the copy protection”
I don’t have experience about this, but if no one stand up, I will see what I can do.
One question. Do you know if this is different from the operating system that run at the CEMCorp/Burroughs/Unisys Icon?