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Commodore Events - Both Old and New C= • ZOOM MEETING: Brian Dougherty - Founder of Berkeley Softworks - GEOS - Thursday, April 18, 2024 !

Commodore.ca about 1 month ago

TPUG (Toronto PET Users Group) is pleased to reconnect you with one of the most intriguing entrepreneurs of the mid-1980’s home computing era. Brian Dougherty was the founder of Berkeley Softworks, the company that developed GEOS (Graphic Environment O …

A20 issues with my 386

VCFed about 2 months ago

Yesterday, I set up my new 386 system using [this motherboard]. I have 8 mb RAM (two 4 mb SIMM cards). I am using a 128 mb compact flash card for hard drive, installing PC DOS 7.01 (aka PC DOS 2000) to use for operating system. I ran into my first problem …
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ZPPA (Bluesky Innovations) bootable Parallel Port ZIP

VCFed about 3 months ago

Does someone know this pretty nice ROM extension, which lets you use a parallel port ZIP drive for booting (e.g. a different operating system) ? I found an early article about it: https://brianlivingston.com... …

General Discussion • No operating system on disc

Defence Force about 3 months ago

Is there a special way to get a disc that come up with ‘ No operating system on disc ‘ to run as an older person I always have problems getting them to run , any simple instructions ?Statistics: Posted by coolman66 — Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:20 pm — Rep …
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AROS One v2.4 x86 ABIv0 Released

Old School Game Blog about 3 months ago

Hi there, Thanks for visiting Old School Game Blog. ? AROS is a lightweight, efficient, and flexible open-source operating system. It is an independent, portable, and free project, which aims to be compatible with AmigaOS at the API level. Most AROS dist …
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Looking for Sharp WD-615 OS/software

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hello, I bought this Sharp WD-615 at Goodwill a while ago and I'm unable to use it in it's current status. Apparently when using Google translate it's missing an operating system. I was hoping someone could help me out in getting this back up and running? …
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New Version of TinyAROS – Thoughts about AROS

Old School Game Blog about 4 months ago

Hi there, First of all, thanks for visiting the Old School Game Blog. ? Recently, I’ve been looking a bit into AROS. My knowledge of this operating system is limited. What I learned many years ago is mostly forgotten, but in a way, that makes it more …

Struggles with an IBM Ultimedia M57

VCFed about 4 months ago

As the title says, I've been having some problems with getting my recently acquired IBM PS/2 M57 Ultimedia. I'm trying to restore the original OS2/DOS5/Win3 operating system, and I'm struggling to actually get the OS installed. I didn't get the original di …

PDP-11 RL01/RL02 bare metal ekermit server

VCFed about 4 months ago

https://github.com/codesleu... RL01/RL02 bare metal ekermit server. This project was created as a way to backup PDP-11 RL01/RL02 disks using minimal hardware without an operating system. If you have a bootable PDP-11 with other stor …
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Need Tandy 1000HX ROM for PCEM v12 windows

VCFed about 5 months ago

Need Tandy 1000HX ROM for PCEM v12 windows. I followed the instructions below to install PCEM and emulate the Tandy 1000, but unable to find the 1000 HX rom for PCEM that works. Has anyone tried PCEM with a Tandy 1000 HX ROM? ... …

32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • MEMC and RISC iX

Stardot about 5 months ago

Previously, there was some discussion of the MEMC's virtual memory management architecture, mixed into a thread about Motorola where it was only tangentially relevant. I was thinking about this again recently, considering the remarks made by reviewers abo …

What would be a better operating system for this almost-retro PC?

VCFed about 5 months ago

I have this system that's not living up to its potential. The motherboard is an Intel D865PERL equipped with a 3.2ghz Pentium IV, one of the fastest single-core CPUs ever made. It supports DDR1 RAM in 4 slots, AGP, and plenty of PCI slots. I currently have …

general • Pronouncing the system call names

Stardot about 5 months ago

I came a little late to the BBC Micro party - my primary schools up to that point had been Research Machines sites and none of my friends had a Beeb. As far as IT teaching went my secondary school had already moved on to the Archimedes when I enrolled, a …
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Review: The Analogue Duo Console for Turbo Grafx-16, PC-Engine, and Super CD Rom

Retro Gamer Randomness about 5 months ago

 Over the past decade, the interest in retro gaming has grown by leaps and bounds. It has grown from a niche hobby to a commercially viable sector. As legacy hardware continues to age, the availability of working consoles shrinks with each passing yea …
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AROS One v2.3 x86 ABIv0 Released

Old School Game Blog about 5 months ago

Hi, Thanks for visiting Old School Game Blog. AROS is a lightweight, efficient, and flexible open-source operating system. It is an independent, portable, and free project, which aims to be compatible with AmigaOS at the API level. Most AROS distributions …

Looking for DECUS LISP for RSX by Chris Meyers

VCFed about 6 months ago

I'm looking for a copy of this LISP for RSX. This is important. If anyone has a copy we should make an effort to get this into a public archive. 110433 LISP for RSX-11 and Micro/RSX Version: October 1986 Submitted by: Maximilian Hadersbeck, Ludwigs …
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Celebrating 25 Years of the Dreamcast and the Kaiju Monster it Rode in on

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 6 months ago

Well, shit. It’s been 25 years…or 300 months…or over 13 million minutes. That’s how long it’s been since Godzilla Generations was unleashed in Japan.And the Dreamcast, too, for that matter.In our house, it's always November 27th, 1998.I was a twe …
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General • Buddy 64 Memory Map

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

Hi there, I was looking at the manual for Buddy 64/128 by Chris Miller 1990. I have two questions, first, what are things to look for when trying to determine to location where a program resided in the C64 memory. Chris gives a little more information at …

IRAN'd (working) Apple IIc motherboards for sale on Ebay

Apple Fritter about 6 months ago

In the next weeks I offer several Apple IIc motherboards on Ebay at a ridicolously low starting price. These have been "Inspected and Repaired As Necessary"  (IRAN) and are in known functional condition, but there is a catch: - they don't come with the …

Gifted Compaq plus, how to confirm it boots up?

VCFed about 6 months ago

Hello, I was gifted a COMPAQ Basic Version 2, it boots up and gives me a 601 missing operating system error . Also came with two manuals. What's the best way for me to get an OS disk to see if the computer works? My intent is to eventually sell it. Thank …
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programming • OSCLI

Stardot about 7 months ago

I have my ElkWiFi rom installed. But when I try to "OSCLI" any command from this ROM I get a "File not found" error. I have search in the advanced user manual whether I am missing some operating system call but there doesn't seem to be something missing i …
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Pepper Pad 2 OS Image?

VCFed about 7 months ago

I picked up a Pepper Pad 2 in fairly good condition from the VCF swap meet yesterday, and it looks like this: Does anyone else remember this device? It's an early UMPC, before they evolved into modern tablets. This particular device has a bad hard …
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Episode 119 - The Batch!

Advent of Computing about 7 months ago

This episode we are looking at a ghost of bygone days: batch processing! Before fancy terminals peppered computer rooms, before there was a microcomputer on every desk, there was the batch. In this non-interactive form of computing a user could wait hours …

What do you like for salvaging old laptop hard drives?

VCFed about 7 months ago

I've got this somewhat rare Fujitsu windows 2000 tablet I want to restore. It still posts ok but I can't get it to boot. I think the hard drive no longer runs well enough to actually boot the operating system, but it might still be readable. From what I he …
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General • The Amiga Future magazine Issue 165 - preview is now available to view online

LemonAmiga about 7 months ago

The Amiga Future magazine Issue 165 - preview is now available to view onlineThese comprise of the full colour preview and excerpts of our Amiga Future issue 165 (November/December 2023) which can also be viewed online on the Amiga Future website.Some of …