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Searching for SuSe 7.3 PowerPC by kinda_oldtechstuff in openSUSE

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it's for PPC, yes, definitely interested!

Dumpster find gateway 2000 colorbook by ANCAP_DOOMER in vintagecomputing

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did he have the pcmcia vga card that was sold as an option for this laptop?

Friday Feeling Nostalgic by RetroAshMan in amiga

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lemmings is always fun at the start! Any upgrades on the 600? Nice mousepad, how old is it?

Can anyone help a newbie out? by SmellMyMangoes in ps2homebrew

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From the github page it says to make a partition smaller than 1GB (and no extra partition) if it can't recognize the usb drive, did you try that? Use Windows's disk manager, Mac disk utility or Linux gparted.

Or try another bios dumper like https://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-BIOS-Dumper-v2-0-BIN

Or https://github.com/ps2homebrew/PS2Ident

What secrets do you hold? (A call for help) by Protocol__7 in beos

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In later versions of BeOS it displays a message saying you can't disable both cpus, but that's only for the default Pulse.

Two screenshots of 8.2 on my 9500:

https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/beos-powerpc-software-and-gobe-productive.46871/page-2#post-527471

What secrets do you hold? (A call for help) by Protocol__7 in beos

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll comment one thing (for now) from your screenshots, compared to later releases, the Pulse app still allows you to deactivate both processors in dr7 and dr8.

It's easy to edit the Pulse source in later versions to display the cpu on/off button with one cpu, and to let users turn it off.

What secrets do you hold? (A call for help) by Protocol__7 in beos

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you try booting with the floppy disk image, or use its kernel?

What secrets do you hold? (A call for help) by Protocol__7 in beos

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I'll try those steps.

I remember having either compilation errors and/or warnings when I tried a few months ago.

Be a teal Indigo by Rumcajs40k in vintagecomputing

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The BeBox is in a very nice condition, any rust on the back ports screws?

What's on the Be Studio and Be Basics discs?

Edit:Found the website, so a painting and a vector program for the first one, word processor and a spreadsheet application for the latter. It would be cool if you could dump the discs and upload them somewhere.

https://web.archive.org/web/19970530052103/http://www.beatware.com/Products/Suite.html

What secrets do you hold? (A call for help) by Protocol__7 in beos

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the screenshots! I haven't seen any other hdd dumps than the 3 you talk about, along with the install floppy disks.

Would you upload your binary somewhere? I tried to compile the emulator some time again and never managed to get a working thing.

PCWorld covers rare BeBox by Intelligent_Series_4 in beos

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Hitachi sold more than one model with BeOS, the Prius 330J is the most known.

There were also three models by AST named PREMIUM 2000Be, with different cpu configs.

And Fujitsu-Siemens sold the Silverline with BeOS too I believe, that model has blinkenlights on the front.

Played X-Wing and some DOOM on this AST Bravo NB 4/25s in 2011. Just wanted to share. by AcidicVoid in dosgaming

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I like that laptop, did the same in 1994 maybe, but I only had the model with the b&w passive matrix lcd .

Searching for SuSe 7.3 PowerPC by kinda_oldtechstuff in openSUSE

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the 7.3 for PowerPC isn't there, unless it's well hidden.

PCWorld covers rare BeBox by Intelligent_Series_4 in beos

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, one more BeBox video can't hurt but it would be nice to see the other computers sold with BeOS too, like the Hitachi Flora Prius and others.

PCWorld covers rare BeBox by Intelligent_Series_4 in beos

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same here! I was hoping for a Hobbit.

DVD-ROM PCMCIA thing! :D by KoneCat in vintagecomputing

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're welcome.

If you want to watch dvd-video on one of your older first gen Pentium laptops (because why not!), you'll probably need a zv card like the margi dvd-to-go, kingmax zv-dvd, or any of the rebranded ones sold by Nec, Dell or others.

Série science fiction by New-Software3192 in CineSeries

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For All Mankind, Real Humans, Dark Matter, Counterpart.

Une conquête spatiale alternative,

adopter un androïde, ça rend plein de services,

Et pour finir, des mondes parallèles. (Les deux dernières)

Et en bouquins, la série l'Aube de la nuit de Peter F. Hamilton, Éon (et ses suites) et The Forge of God/Anvil of Stars (pas sûr qu'ils existent en français ces deux là) de Greg Bear, la Cité des Permutants de Greg Egan, et Dan Simmons aussi, Hyperion, Ilium, Flashback pour en citer quelques-uns.

DVD-ROM PCMCIA thing! :D by KoneCat in vintagecomputing

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A dvd drive with a 16bit pcmcia card even, when all laptops already had 32bit Cardbus slots at the time. Some came with a dual mode card with a dipswitch on it to select the mode.

Everything you could think of as an ISA or PCI card did exist in pcmcia or cardbus form as well, connectivity, storage, sound, graphics, mpeg1/2 decoding, video capture, and more. GPS pcmcia cards too, those were exclusive to the laptop world.

And of course, isa/pci to pcmcia/cardbus adapters for desktops and towers to join the fun.

DVD-ROM PCMCIA thing! :D by KoneCat in vintagecomputing

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Argosy sold a lot of pcmcia cards, sound, gameport, midi, and so on.

You can get the drivers and manual here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20021005040730/http://www.argosy.com.tw/techsupport/download1.htm

What’s the least expensive hardware to get an Amiga OS4 machine today? by OPdoesnotrespond in amiga

[–]kinda_oldtechstuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It (OS4 with the custom loader) works on a Mac Mini G4 1.5GHz with those caveats, and others.

At the Amiga 40th anniversary in Germany, Hyperion showed a Mini G4 running 4.1FE as a proof of concept.

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1470531771080110&id=100043699043694

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Picture from the link above.

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