That'll be "collateral" from the analysis part of the tool. Until then you could use GNU Mtools to do this.
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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:01 am
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: DOSContainer Alpha Release
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3621
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: FPGA-based real GPU
- Replies: 3
- Views: 610
FPGA-based real GPU
Not that this will work with MiSTer, but some may find this interesting:
It's a complete GPU implementation that would equate a mid-90's graphics card.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:42 pm
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
- Replies: 133
- Views: 10428
Re: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
Not to hijack this one, but the DOSContainer Bash version with the YAML's for bare MS-DOS could do what you're looking for. Edit the YAML, run script, and you have a clean DOS with some toggles like drivers and memory mgt and the like. Shoot me a PM if you are interested.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:47 pm
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: Config.sys Memory Issue on Startup
- Replies: 2
- Views: 311
Re: Config.sys Memory Issue on Startup
Make a throwaway copy of your VHD and strip down the CONFIG.SYS. Start up from it and run MEMMAKER and follow the steps. That'll change your CONFIG.SYS for you, hence the throwaway VHD. Note the line that loads EMM386.EXE. Copy that down and into the VHD that has your menu system. That'll probably fix it in a reasonably optimized way.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:05 pm
- Forum: IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000
- Topic: IBM PC-DOS Weirdness
- Replies: 3
- Views: 424
Re: IBM PC-DOS Weirdness
..right.. PCEm does similar but subtly different things yet again. It's the FORMAT utility that puts the weird bytes there. No idea why though..
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:39 pm
- Forum: IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000
- Topic: IBM PC-DOS Weirdness
- Replies: 3
- Views: 424
Re: IBM PC-DOS Weirdness
Ah.. fudge.. Just noticed. I tried the PCXT core to run PC-DOS but that wouldn't boot of the 360k floppy image. So I tried AO486, and that created a disk with the wrong geometry using 63 sectors per track. Those didn't exist yet when DOS 2.00 was around. Back to the drawing board (and PCEm) for some more testing.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:25 pm
- Forum: IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000
- Topic: IBM PC-DOS Weirdness
- Replies: 3
- Views: 424
Re: IBM PC-DOS Weirdness
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:33 am
- Forum: IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000
- Topic: IBM PC-DOS Weirdness
- Replies: 3
- Views: 424
IBM PC-DOS Weirdness
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Core Sizes?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 925
Re: Core Sizes?
I've never written a line of Verilog in my life, but compilation of cores really isn't that hard. It's just pushing a button and waiting.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:04 pm
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
- Replies: 133
- Views: 10428
Re: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
Emubastard wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:52 pmVHD's are generated manually by Windows 11 Disk Management utility so they are indeed real VHD's. Easier to work on when I have issues to fix, which there are many lol.
-Emubastard
Wouldn't be the first time MS don't follow their very own specs. Thanks for letting me know.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: DOSContainer Alpha Release
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3621
Re: DOSContainer Alpha Release
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: DOSContainer Alpha Release
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3621
Re: DOSContainer Alpha Release
DOSContainer Rust just wrote its first file (IBMBIO.COM) to a VHD that was bootstrapped completely from scratch, zero external dependencies. Things still aren't ready for prime time and the code surrounding the writes is messy, but I'm very slowly getting there.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:29 am
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
- Replies: 133
- Views: 10428
Re: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
- Replies: 133
- Views: 10428
Re: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
DR-DOS is better at freeing conventional memory than MS ever was. That may help.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:19 am
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
- Replies: 133
- Views: 10428
Re: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:22 pm
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
- Replies: 133
- Views: 10428
Re: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:41 pm
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
- Replies: 133
- Views: 10428
Re: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:30 am
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: Depricated.
- Replies: 745
- Views: 294263
Re: Depricated.
As the author of DOSContainer I'm flattered by the mention but the criticism of the top300 feels a bit harsh. There's a lot of groundwork in there. Also my script only takes care of generating a VHD. The packing of the game itself is still very manual toil.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
- Replies: 133
- Views: 10428
Re: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
https://www.area536.com/dosk8s/disks/blood.zip
Blood in a supposedly working setup. Haven't tested it extensively though.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:45 pm
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
- Replies: 133
- Views: 10428
Re: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
Would it be possible to map controller inputs to keycodes so your pad acts like a faux keyboard?
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
- Replies: 133
- Views: 10428
Re: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
If anyone finds it useful, DOSContainer uses ZIP files that contain the game + boot menu BAT file in a format that just extracts to C:\ if you already have that bootable. They're available from my FTP: ftp.area536.com/doscontainer/distfiles. They could save (some of) you some work. Also, I'd happily host/mirror the VHD's for 0MHz.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:29 am
- Forum: IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000
- Topic: DOS Versions Wanted
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3229
Re: DOS Versions Wanted
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:53 pm
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
- Replies: 133
- Views: 10428
Re: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:24 am
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: DOSContainer Alpha Release
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3621
Re: DOSContainer Alpha Release
There's a whole paragraph from MS on how to determine sectors per cluster. But if you're PC-DOS 2.00 the number is just 8 no matter the drive. Funny one that, IBM.
Anyone interested in tracking my progress or suggesting improvements (those are welcome!!) can look here:
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: Linux
- Topic: MPV on MiSTer?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6844
Re: MPV on MiSTer?
This thread is the first time I heard of MPV, but I've been twiddling bits on the Linux end of MiSTer for a while now. Cross-compiling is often easier to arrange, even emulating an armv7 machine using QEMU on an x86 PC, than it is to turn a functioning MiSTer into a developer workstation. The OS simply isn't made to support that and it shows.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:50 pm
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: DOSContainer Alpha Release
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3621
Re: DOSContainer Alpha Release
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
- Topic: DOSContainer Alpha Release
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3621
Re: DOSContainer Alpha Release
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: Other Computer / System Cores
- Topic: Static IP and Groovy MiSTer/Cast Without DHCP/Router in Between
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1090
Re: Static IP and Groovy MiSTer/Cast Without DHCP/Router in Between
Indeed, do as zakk4223 said. You can NOT have a router configured on either side for these interfaces. Also, the X in the last octet's position cannot be there in any case ever. That'll always break.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:04 pm
- Forum: Other Computer / System Cores
- Topic: Static IP and Groovy MiSTer/Cast Without DHCP/Router in Between
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1090
Re: Static IP and Groovy MiSTer/Cast Without DHCP/Router in Between
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:14 pm
- Forum: IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000
- Topic: DOS Versions Wanted
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3229