SINIX-Z 5.42 on 86Box

(this is a guest post by Antoni Sawicki aka Tenox)

As part of nerdy new year celebrations I got Fujitsu Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme SINIX-Z running on 86Box. This was possible thanks to Plamen and Vlad!.

Update: got X11 going:

Also C compiler:

Also networking… apparently you have to manually connect it.

Here is a pre-installed image and 86Box configuration file. Now includes bash, gcc and gzip. These are also downloadable here.

8 thoughts on “SINIX-Z 5.42 on 86Box”

Woah! I’ve tried this before (some months ago), only to get errors trying to access the distribution CD-ROM (wouldn’t be seen at all), and gave up. What system configuration did you use for this?

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tenox on January 1, 2024 at 11:08 pm said:

I will post everything including 86box config in a few days. I still want to fix the C compiler licensing situation.

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- blw on January 3, 2024 at 5:50 pm said:
  
  I checked out the premade VM, and it is working on my end too! I tried to use the keydisk for 5.41 under osarchive.org (which is what I think you’ve done, as /etc/.products/.legit/SINIX & SINIX-BASE have a 5.41 version number) but I haven’t been able to get the following products to install:
  SIlan
  SIaddon
  SIspool
  SIwinue
  
  SIwinue, especially, is what I’m interested in. Is there any way to trick it to install and license?
  
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