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by waltje
Fri 22 Dec, 2017 11:16 pm
Forum: Merged patches
Topic: [Patch] Intel Advanced/ZP
Replies: 11
Views: 12251

Re: [Patch] Intel Advanced/ZP

This patch adds support for the Intel Advanced/ZP (Zappa) motherboard for Socket 5. It is similar to the Advanced/EV (Endeavor) board, but has a few nice differences like the BIOS supporting CD-ROM booting (only in the First Boot Device position) and having no non-emulated on-board video/audio clut...
by waltje
Sun 15 Oct, 2017 6:17 am
Forum: General
Topic: FPU on emulation of pre-486 machines...
Replies: 6
Views: 7443

Re: FPU on emulation of pre-486 machines...

Hello. I far as i know 287 and 387 SX/DX emulation was added in 86box, at the moment the Cyrix 486 DLC/SLC, variants and 8087 are not emulated. I tested the emulation with Windows 3.1 in MR 386 DX(it´s good because Windows don not need to emulated the FPU) and Award 286 with Windows 2.11/286 and Wo...
by waltje
Fri 08 Sep, 2017 10:36 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Dynamic recompiler and UNIX
Replies: 4
Views: 6314

Re: Dynamic recompiler and UNIX

Many non-Microsoft operating systems have major issues with PCem (and 86Box), most particularly on processors where Dyna is enabled. In most cases, turning off Dyna will fix that (at a speed cost, of course.) Confirmed for AT&T SysV R4.2, ESIX, 386/ix, Interactive (which is the successor to 386/...
by waltje
Mon 05 Jun, 2017 5:31 am
Forum: General
Topic: Host machine survey
Replies: 186
Views: 262742

Re: Host machine survey

Primary laptop: HP 6710b, Intel Core2 7250 @2.0GHz, 4GB, WinXP SP3 Backup laptop: Same, but with 2GB Primary development desktop: Gigabyte P35 system with Intel Q6600 (OC to 2.85GHz) with 8GB Servers: HP ProLiant 4-processor 32-core systems, running VMware ESXi, 128GB per machine. I run XP and (now)...
by waltje
Sat 06 May, 2017 10:42 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: [Bug] DOS Prompt on Windows 95 OSR 2 and S3 Trio64...
Replies: 19
Views: 15736

Re: [Bug] DOS Prompt on Windows 95 OSR 2 and S3 Trio64...

Got a patch for it? It's annoying ...
by waltje
Fri 05 May, 2017 6:38 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Feature request: revamping config files
Replies: 53
Views: 36822

Re: Feature request: revamping config files

Correction: Bad idea, OBattlet, for reasons I just explained to you... It would be good if the Configurator (which usually is a GUI) 'compiles' the resulting configuration data into a machine-readable optimized data set (binary, structured ASCII text, etc) so that the APplication itself can just bli...
by waltje
Fri 05 May, 2017 6:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Feature request: revamping config files
Replies: 53
Views: 36822

Re: Feature request: revamping config files

Bad idea, Sarah. Although often separating the two is a good idea, in this case, with an ever-changing (so, very dynamic) code and feature set, you'd be splitting up knowledge about that into two programs, and that is going to be asking for trouble.
by waltje
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 6:38 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Introduction && issue with Floppy
Replies: 13
Views: 11652

Re: Introduction && issue with Floppy

@vbdasc: well, #1 is now fixed by Sarah - we can turn that smartness off. :P And on #2 ... yeah, it is, but only if the hardware (or, in this case, emulated hw) cooperates ;-) Those 'cards' work fine, until you scroll the screen. Thats when junk appears, which makes me believe we are scrolling into ...
by waltje
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 7:07 am
Forum: Development
Topic: Introduction && issue with Floppy
Replies: 13
Views: 11652

Re: Introduction && issue with Floppy

Gracias! See PM for more.
by waltje
Wed 22 Mar, 2017 1:49 am
Forum: Development
Topic: Introduction && issue with Floppy
Replies: 13
Views: 11652

Re: Introduction && issue with Floppy

@SarahWalker: MDA, Hercules and CGA tried, all showed the same-ish behavior. I think I remember the CGA worked "sortof", the others failed to properly "wrap". As said, OTI VGA works. Others not tested. Also - quick dive into the sources show a lot of GNUism present. Slowly going ...
by waltje
Tue 21 Mar, 2017 12:50 am
Forum: Development
Topic: Introduction && issue with Floppy
Replies: 13
Views: 11652

Re: Introduction && issue with Floppy

@SarahWalker: I will do some work to see if I can get this to behave on VS. I don't like VS itself, so will mainly work (first) on getting it to compile using the commandline compiler. Once that is done, we can add a VS project setup I guess.
by waltje
Tue 21 Mar, 2017 12:49 am
Forum: Development
Topic: Introduction && issue with Floppy
Replies: 13
Views: 11652

Re: Introduction && issue with Floppy

@Battler: True, but older systems like Microport SysV/AT, Xenix, etc, etc, Minix, and even early Linux do not use a BPB at all, so its pure "luck" if the current code catches it or not. With empty file systems, this block is all-zeroes, and so the BPB code catches it and uses the image fil...
by waltje
Mon 20 Mar, 2017 9:37 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Introduction && issue with Floppy
Replies: 13
Views: 11652

Introduction && issue with Floppy

Hi All, Quick intro: I have been in software and hardware development since, oh, 1985 or so, and now that I am semi-retired, can finally spend some time on projects that I never had the time for, and which need cleaning up. Its that horrible, nasty feeling that you did not fully "close" a ...