scruffyherder

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by scruffyherder 4mo ago
I know it's a shame it'll never get up streamed. Es40 gets more attention at the moment and is the current king of Windows on Alpha emulation. https://github.com/ES40-Emu/es40 You'll need to get a firmwa
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by scruffyherder 2y ago
when testing native builds I was using a Xeon E5v2. why bother with anything slow as a p3?
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by scruffyherder 2y ago
DLL's were the most involved part of the port.
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by scruffyherder 2y ago
I've no idea why so many people struggle with this.
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
I have to admit, that I was surprised when they all came back good! We already had the SDK on 3 1/2" disks, so we could compare the contents. Oddly enough all the executables, libraries and headders are a match but the helpfiles
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
It's the full OS + SDK and the networking bits & kernel debugger as well!
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
It’s really cool to run dec alpha binaries on x86!
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
Pharlap 386 is mentioned on Links386, although its flies on by, and special->about
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
Pharlap's TNT was way more exciting to be honest. I'm still trying to find the first early extenders though from 1987/88 no leads though.
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
Wow that's pretty cool! I first found out I had some virus when I was hex editing my boot/root floppy disks for Linux back in 92? I'd just compiled a kernel and forgot to set the root to the hard disk, swapped disks around
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
I'd only zapped the partition table... https://virtuallyfun.com/2009/12/03/partitioning-with-debug/
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
Nah, it was wp-mail-smtp. It completely crashed out on me. > PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: ActionScheduler_Action::set_schedule(): Argument #1 ($schedule) must be of type ActionScheduler_Schedule, ActionScheduler_NullSchedule gi
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
I'm hoping to pull it out of storage and give it an update. There is newer processors, although they are still about the same price, and I'm not sure it's all that worth it.
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
I was able to cross compile from windows to BOW https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/12/12/cross-compiling-to-bsd-o...
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
Load it on arca https://archive.org/details/bsd-on-windows If be more interested if that runs ..
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
you clearly havent tried it on real hardware, BOW is pretty awesome. Yes I too was doing IT in the mid 90's and did far more than my share of widnows 3.1 with win32s. If you'd looked into bow it hooks all the timers from dos, and
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
yes I was hoping to do an update after I had help finding the author, and to see if there was any potential of an update. It's late breaking & live. And it seems all the engagement is here not on the blog so I didn't see thi
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
I'd like to think it'd have had some subtantial tracktion back in the day, being able to overlay your work windows 3.1 machine with BSD. It has some DDE exchange I haven't tried to use yet, but it'll talk to Excel, so i
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
You're looking too close to the trees gcc/vi instead of the BSD forest. BOW's only weakness is its single user mode, more so a limitation of being a Win16. If it'd been pushed harder to a NT service/client/ser
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
I just cobbled together IRC 2.9. I don't see why anything else more useful could build. Ive also built Apache 1.3.1 and gotten it to run. https://archive.org/details/apache131_for_BOW It's really cool how B
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
SFU replaced the posix subsystem with an OpenBSD port and more capable thing for NT/2000 etc. SFU was so much later to the game, while BOW ran on Windows 3.1 which would have been great had it had far bigger appeal as you could just ru
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
not really, the exe's are a.out so it's more like EMX. It's broken up like services more like HURD, and extended to 32bit on Win16. It's far more cooler being able to run on Windows 3.1
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
I dont suppose you have coherent 8086/80286 at all? I should have ordered it as a kid but I'd been told so many times to never trust mailorder. It still bugs me I didn't send in the $99.99
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
probably too mainstream, there was other hacked ways of running linux on windows using debuggers and other memory map hacks...
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
Indeed! What makes this version interesting is that it brings the retail interpreter to the PDP-11 to give access to not only Zork1/2/3 but planet fall, and a host of the rest of the z3 adventures across the Infocom Universe!
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
I should make some videos on how to use it as it is daunting. But I’m glad you got it to run! Totally cool!!!
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
You can go one step further on Windows and compile the games from source! You'll want to use ZILF https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/17/so-the-infocom-source-co... This site has a far more extensive and in
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
I got the PDP-11/RT-11 version to build & run! It's the real deal! https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/11/21/zork-for-the-pdp-11-rt-1...
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
I’m sure it’d beat a 386 running it in v86 mode emulating a CGA display on an VGA window. Something an Amiga cannot do. Rest assured it’s significantly faster full screen under OS/2. And faster again on native MS-DOS.
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
I replaced the 386 today with one from 1990. I was able to boot a disk I keep around that has MS-DOS 3.30a and Windows/386 2.11 on it. I also have Battletech on there and yes it ran with no issues! It didn’t work at all on the older

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