Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2024-01-29, 01:05

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This may have already been answered but outside of manuals is there an actual MR. BIOS BIOS available for the Micronics JX30G motherboard? I saw the manuals posted a bit back. I also looked through the list of boards but did not see these particular boards listed. If anyone can point me to a BIOS …

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Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2023-08-16, 22:11

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Most free TCP/IP applications for DOS have a built-in TCP/IP stack that assumes its the only one running on the system - this is going to conflict with your TCP-needing TSR. To be able to run any TCP/IP applications at the same time as your SMBv2 client you'd need a TCP/IP stack that runs as a TSR …

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Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2023-08-16, 15:11

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And if you're writing your own DOS client I don't know that implementing SMB over some other protocol actually provides any real benefits. Microsoft is actively discouraging use and deployment of antique SMB versions and is removing support from Windows. I doubt many Samba users are actually …

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Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2023-08-16, 00:03

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Personally I'm thankful for EtherDFS for its simplicity, just load a packet driver, point it at the server, and it just works. Other protocols would be, IMHO, unnecessarily complicated for the purpose of sharing files with a DOS client . Not really. I know people keep complaining about the MS …

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Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2023-08-15, 16:01

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It's a pity there are no good samba-equivalent netware server implementations for Linux as the DOS clients are so much better than the MS-NET one. .... I assumed therefore the name 8.3 name mangling must be quite complex give only Samba attempted it but actually having a look at the Samba code it …

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Re: EISA Graphics / Video Cards

Posted on 2023-07-25, 21:29

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Video cards are somewhat lacking in availability. You can literally fill a room with cheap network and scsi e-isa cards, but for some reason video cards never took hold. I mean, video was a major driving factor when it comes to the death of ISA, so you would think video cards would flock to E-ISA, …

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Re: a closed source project is using DOSBox code

Posted on 2023-07-05, 23:32

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Was there any further resolution to this issue? I would consider supporting the author's work but not if he is trying to profit off of DOSBOX's work and contrary to the license terms.

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2023-06-13, 18:06

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This may have already been answered but outside of manuals is there an actual MR. BIOS BIOS available for the Micronics JX30G motherboard? I saw the manuals posted a bit back. I also looked through the list of boards but did not see these particular boards listed. If anyone can point me to a BIOS …

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2023-04-21, 23:18

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So are there actual MR. BIOS images for the JX30G or all we have is the manual? TIA!

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Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards

Posted on 2023-04-21, 06:13

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These questions have been answered already. See here . As for the second question... since some SuperIO chips also have FDC (although they may not actually expose connector for them), you probably need to do some detailed configurations to make sure SuperIO won't get in your way when connecting a …

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Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards

Posted on 2023-04-21, 03:46

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Two questions: 1. Are you limited to one slot? Or can you have multiple ISA slots (e.g. one for sound and one for fdc)? 2. Does it support FDCs?

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Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2023-02-28, 04:32

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keenerb wrote on 2023-02-27, 18:57: There is a fork/patch to ethflop that lets you ejecte and insert disks from server side. It works very well. I did not know of this fork. Can you please direct me to where I can find more info? Thank you!

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Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2023-02-28, 04:20

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But even the NetWare DOS Client doesn't bother with LFN support or reporting more than 2GB of free space. And Novell clearly put a lot of work into their DOS and Windows 3.x client and continued to support and enhance it right up to the end of the 90s. This suggests to me that it can't be done …

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Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2023-02-27, 18:34

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Sure, that's technically very much possible and involves hooking up not the MSDOS network redirector, but int 0x21 and reimplementing a good chunk of what the DOS kernel is supposed to do already. This is not the path I chose because I like the elegance of the redirector approach, but IIRC hooking …

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Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2023-02-27, 06:54

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EtherDFS is a very slim DOS network solution. It uses the network filsystem interface Microsoft introduced around DOS 3.x, and slightly adjusted in DOS 5.0, and just forwards whatever MS-DOS 5.0 requests from the network driver. The limitation is that this interface between MS-DOS and the network …

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Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2023-02-27, 06:16

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I created EtherDFS to solve a use case need I had. The current state of EtherDFS fulfills this need perfectly, hence I see no reason for further development at the time being. And I have to admit that I tend to use ethflop more than EtherDFS anyway, because of its simplicity and straightforwardness …

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Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2023-02-26, 18:11

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Does anyone know if EtherDFS is still in development? The last update on sourceforge is from 2018? Also a question for those of you using the program regularly: Do EtherDFS drives report the correct free space on the server and LFN (assuming a TSR is loaded fro LFNs) or is it short names with a max …

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Re: EISA Graphics / Video Cards

Posted on 2021-09-21, 04:51

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So I ran some benchmarks between this and an ET4000 ET4000 DOOM realtics - 1284/3910 Compaq EISA realtics - 1284/3927 Is that an EISA ET4000 based board or an ISA one? If it is ISA it kind of makes sense given that the ET4000 claim to fame was "host interface throughput" I could imagine an EISA …

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Re: Help identifying two unknown motherboards please....

Posted on 2021-01-26, 02:57

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I have this 486 EISA AT board and the ECU demanded a TEKRAM cfg file when I did the configuration. There is very little information about this board to be found on the net but it´s faster than my (similar) ASUS EISA 486E. Well I got the board up and running. Ran the EISA config utility and this is …

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Re: EISA Graphics / Video Cards

Posted on 2021-01-17, 09:45

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That is excellent information there. I wonder why would Compaq be replacing the card w/ a lower caliber card (AFAIK the 1024 maxes out at 1024x768 and can not do 1280x1024).

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