I remember paying well over $100 CDN for this back when it came out… But now its on sale for $2.99 … lol wow the times have changed! Â And of course this is where the whole ‘neozeed’ thing came from, nothing to do with the matrix.
I wonder how long until they start releasing SegaCD & 32x stuff?
Looks like instead of drinking too many dos equis, I’ll be trying to remember how to do that double jump throw thing.
well apparently it *DOES* work, however the disk access is incredibly slow, like 1kb/sec slow.. I can’t help but wonder if it is somehow tied to how NetWare 3.12 bombs on Qemu once it tries to mount a volume….
Anyways, you can read all about it on “The beez speaks:” which goes into some detail on how to dump Qemu’s running state, and restore.. Kind of handy actually.
I remember the print ads for Coherent, nearly bought it but I felt too weirded out by it being mail order. Â My loss I guess, but it sure would have been nice to have before the whole rise of 386 BSD / Linux …
Even in a hiatus I couldn’t stay away. DSL should be in my new place on Wednesday, so it’ll be business as usual. thanks again for all the support!
Love DOSBox on java, but don’t like java? Love the power of Google’s v8 javascript engine? Well then you’ll love this, introducing jsDOSBox, a port of jDOSBox to javascript!
That’s right, with chrome, it is as simple as click and go!
Doom in dosbox all in javascript!
So how does it perform? well OK OK, its slow, but it sure does have promise! Â Then again it could be my laptop. Â But wow, emulation in javascript!
Test it here.
I saw the announcement that OpenBSD 5.1 was just released today (May day release?) Anyways I thought I’d boot it up on SIMH to check that the VAX is still working. So here is a minimal ini file, that I used.
set cpu 64m
set rq0 ra92
att rq0 openbsd_vax
set rq1 cdrom
att rq1 cd51.iso
at xq0 bob
boot cpu
I fired up SIMH, and away it went!
KA655-B V5.3, VMB 2.7
Performing normal system tests.
40..39..38..37..36..35..34..33..32..31..30..29..28..27..26..25..
24..23..22..21..20..19..18..17..16..15..14..13..12..11..10..09..
08..07..06..05..04..03..
Tests completed.
>>>boot dua1:
(BOOT/R5:0 DUA1
2..
-DUA1
1..0..
>> OpenBSD/vax boot [1.16] <<
>> Press enter to autoboot now, or any other key to abort: 0
> boot bsd
878604+1623756+375488=0x2be99c
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1995-2012 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.orgOpenBSD 5.1 (RAMDISK) #32: Tue Feb 14 14:09:56 MST 2012
[email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/RAMDISK
MicroVAX 3800/3900 [0A000006 01530302]
cpu: KA655, CVAX microcode rev 6 Firmware rev 83
real mem = 67043328 (63MB)
avail mem = 61091840 (58MB)
mainbus0 at root
ibus0 at mainbus0
uba0 at ibus0: Q22
dz0 at uba0 csr 160100 vec 196 ipl 15
mtc0 at uba0 csr 174500 vec 508 ipl 15
mscpbus0 at mtc0: version 5 model 3
mscpbus0: DMA burst size set to 4
mt0 at mscpbus0 drive 0: TK50
mt1 at mscpbus0 drive 1: TK50
mt2 at mscpbus0 drive 2: TK50
mt3 at mscpbus0 drive 3: TK50
uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 504 ipl 15
mscpbus1 at uda0: version 3 model 3
mscpbus1: DMA burst size set to 4
ra0 at mscpbus1 drive 0: RA92
ra1 at mscpbus1 drive 1: RRD40
ra2 at mscpbus1 drive 2: RD54
rx0 at mscpbus1 drive 3: RX50
qe0 at uba0 csr 174440 vec 500 ipl 15: delqa, address 08:00:2b:aa:bb:cc
boot device: ra1
ra0: 1436MB, 512 bytes/sector, 2940951 sectors
ra1: 650MB, 512 bytes/sector, 1331200 sectors
ra2: attempt to bring on line failed: unit offline (not mounted) (code 3, subco
de 1)
ra2: not mounted/spun down
ra2: 0MB, 512 bytes/sector, 0 sectors
rx0: attempt to bring on line failed: unit offline (not mounted) (code 3, subco
de 1)
root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b
clock has gained 76 days — CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
erase ^?, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C, status ^TWelcome to the OpenBSD/vax 5.1 installation program.
(I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell?
You can find OpenBSD on OpenBSD.org, and of course the mirrors.
damn
Gunkies has apparently fallen victim to the cross scripting attacks…
damn. I put a lot of work into that.
sigh.
Flight Simulator 4
From a comment made by ampharos, there is all kinds of weird stuff on the old Microsoft FTP server, including all kinds of stuff in the stress test directory.. So wandering around I came across something I never noticed, Flight Simulator 4!
That’s right and for MS-DOS. Â I recall running this on OS/2 2.0 was kind of a big deal, but its cooler in dosbox! … Anyways, if you want click here, and download away. Â I think this version was intended to more of a demo, but it’s still cool to watch the jet plane going through the motions.
What is amazing to me is just how compact it is… It seems there was a lot ‘more’ with less back then, but maybe we’ve come to expect so much more?
I got word of this on G+, and I finally got somewhere where I could look at it properly:
With all the articles talking about the 25th birthday of OS/2 posted two weeks ago I found this one from David Strom. (Windows 8: The OS/2 of Today,) On this article he said he wrote an OS/2 book that never got finished or released. So I contacted the author and requested his permission to release the book under a license that allows derivative works.
David Strom released his 1988 book “Every Manager’s Guide to OS2” under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license.
This 200 page book belongs OS/2 1.x era and it is in draft state. It has revision remarks and missing screenshots. I had transformed it to docx, odt and pdf format and it is now available for download at hobbes.
Link:Â http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/…
I will like to thank David Strom for making it possible.
Enjoy!
A friend passed this link on, and I thought it’d be right to share this:
https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II
So now who is going to port it to the i386?
LOL
Personal issues have intervened with pretty much everything. This morning, I packed as much as I could into three suitcases, bought a one-way ticket, and I’m leaving my ‘home’ behind.
While in the past I’ve taken a few months off here & there I’ve done my best the last two years to get in an update of something at least 2x a week, if not more.
However, I don’t feel that I am in any position to do so now, I don’t even have a proper place to live so the next while will be .. interesting to say the least.
If things get too crazy I’ll wind up archiving this thing in Egypt and I don’t know from there…
But at the same time, who knows the future isn’t written.
there is not fate, but what we make.