(This is a guest post by Antoni Sawicki aka Tenox)
Apps for Windows NT RISC… Alpha AXP, MIPS and PowerPC. Happy downloading.
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(This is a guest post by Antoni Sawicki aka Tenox)
Apps for Windows NT RISC… Alpha AXP, MIPS and PowerPC. Happy downloading.
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Thanks! I didn’t know there was a Visual C++ 4.1 for the PowerPC.
If you want more AlphaNT stuff, someone uploaded to archive.org a mirror I’ve done of http://ftp.alphant.com before it vanished: https://archive.org/download/ftp.alphant.com
Sweet! We are all probably sitting on obscure dumps like this… All the more reason to archive it
wow thank you very much!!!!!!!!
Probably you know already, but for some folks could be interesting that the current MAME can boot IRIX to the desktop. Would you write about it?
Wow, I did not know about that! Thank you! Maybe you could send a guest blog article to Jason 😉 I’d like to see a ready to run package 🙂
I can try that. Thanks for the idea.
I had a quick look for the WNT 4.0 drivers for a 3X-PBXGG-AA but didn’t see anything yet, if anyone has them I could add another OS to my DS10 !!
Thanks
I don’t think NT drivers for this card exist. DEC graphics cards had specific UNIX/NT versions incompatible with each other. I think -xA is UNIX/VMS and -xN is NT. What I ended up doing is bought a HCL listed card on eBay and NT worked like a charm. I think it’s PBXGA-CN or -AN or PBXGB-CN or something like that, but definitely not GG. If you want I can open up my Alpha and tell you what card I got.
Wow, very nice, thanx.
Is there any chance you would also have the visual c++ x86 cross compiler suite (risc edition, forgot the version nr) ??
As far as I know there was no cross editions to the RISC machines. The closest thing I could do was use the Windows CE MIPS compiler to target NT, however the floating point model is too different and it’ll crash if there is any floats.
This 10 year old post kind of goes over it.
You could even consider using the Mac cross-compiler’s PPC compiler.
FWIW, you might actually want to check out the Mac stuff for VC++2/4. It’s insane being able to use the MS toolchain to spit out an PE containing big-endian 68k/PPC code, compile Windows resource and Rez files into the same resources, reconstitute it into a proper Mac application with proper forks, and run Win32 natively on Mac (or use just Toolbox, if you wish). I was able to port a Win32 program in basically 10 minutes. I spent more time figuring out how to write a Rez resource script for SIZE/BNDL than I did any code changes.
Is there a list of MS software for non-x86 systems?
SQL Server 7 has an alpha version
It was mostly the enterprise stuff, like SQL/SNA/Exchange and the tools. There was word & excel for the Alpha, there was internal versions for the MIPS but seem to have never been released.
RISC software was few and far between
Anyone have any luck virtualizing NT on PPC or Alpha? All I see on the internet is that qemu doesn’t have enough PPC little endian support and that Alpha isn’t ready for serious use.
I’ve been playing around with NT on MIPS via qemu recently and porting software to it. But it’s sloooow. It looks like qemu’s magnum system is single processor; has anyone had luck emulating MP MIPS?
Sadly as far as I’m aware there is none.
I would speculate that something like win86emu could be hacked up using a processor core from something either like MAME (like MS-DOS Player) or even Qemu & it’s userland emulation.
The lack of a sleeping idle really makes the MIPS feel incredibly slow.. I think.