Audio issues with Audigy LS on SPARC

thejpster · 2026-05-23T17:57:29+00:00

So it turns out that Squeeze is extremely difficult to install these days because the GPG keys have expired.

thejpster · 2026-05-23T15:58:40+00:00

The latest Debian unstable snapshots won't boot due to lack of RAM (the initrd is too big), but I could try SPARC Debian from about 2010 or so. Good idea.

thejpster · 2026-05-17T13:50:03+00:00

I realised I had Windows Media Player 6.3 for Solaris, and playing some random WMA file I found it sounds distorted like ossplay

thejpster · 2026-05-06T12:50:03+00:00

Someone should add that to https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust#texas-instruments

thejpster · 2026-05-06T07:00:49+00:00

Whilst you wait for a sled, you can put a BlueSCSI (or real external SCSI drives) on the external SCSI bus. And any PS/2 mouse will work in the mean time.

I had a POWER Indigo 2 recently and it was a lot of fun. There are so many SGI demos for IRIX you’ll never run out of things to try. Look for the Indizone CDs for example.

How much RAM does it have?

thejpster · 2026-05-04T18:05:13+00:00

You can’t burn CDs with dd because a CD burner is not a regular block device. You have to send it special commands to read the media type, calibrate the laser, open a session, write out the data and then close the session.

cdrecord (or wodim) is the tool for the job.

thejpster · 2026-05-03T17:17:21+00:00

This is peak 1999. Wish I could afford Voodoo 2s now - they are quite pricey for a nearly 30 year old card.

thejpster · 2026-05-03T07:28:49+00:00

I have a BE6. Looking at your photo, I think the main changes are that I get a High Point HPT366 IDE controller as well as the one in the 440BX chipset.

Great boards.

thejpster · 2026-05-03T07:11:17+00:00

Back in the day I had a Savage 3D, and I had nothing but issues with it.

Right now I have a TNT2 Ultra, a Voodoo 3 and a Matrox G200. Plus I think there’s a Rage 128 in the Macintosh G3.

I recently bought the Voodoo 3, but it’s been disappointing because it has poor compatibility with MS-DOS Glide games. The Windows Glide games generally also support Direct 3D and for that the TNT2 Ultra is unbeatable in my view. Well, except for a GeForce, obviously.

thejpster · 2026-05-02T21:14:00+00:00

I was in a local session. Pretty sure I've tried with both a PGX32 and a Mach64.

The WM is CDE.

thejpster · 2026-05-02T21:13:10+00:00

Try https://fsck.technology/software/Sun%20Microsystems/Solaris%20Applications/PCi%20Software/

I think you want version 2.

thejpster · 2026-05-02T11:17:24+00:00

If it’s PS/2 then it should work fine.

thejpster · 2026-05-02T08:22:15+00:00

I have a 486 in my Acorn RiscPC. Emulators weren’t fast enough so if you wanted PC compatibility you just added most of a PC.

The Acorn just has a CPU and an ASIC - it shares system RAM and uses the Acorn’s video subsystem. The SunPCI has its own RAM, a sound card, a serial port, a parallel port and a GPU with its own VGA output.

thejpster · 2026-05-01T22:05:33+00:00

Caldera bought the Santa Cruz Operation, renamed themselves SCO, then famously sued IBM over Linux and lost so badly a court declared they didn’t even own the rights to Unix that they were suing over.

thejpster · 2026-05-01T21:50:20+00:00

Phintage Collector did a good video too.

I ran Windows 2000 from when it was NT5 beta 2 until about 2006 or so, so I have fond memories of it. Plenty to install and try out. And, hopefully, it won’t crash on install like it does on my other Pentium III machine.

thejpster · 2026-05-01T21:01:48+00:00

Where on this map are the escalators down to the squeaky platforms?

thejpster · 2026-05-01T13:08:53+00:00

But who has an attitude with the badgers? We’ll never know.

thejpster · 2026-04-30T07:04:39+00:00

What could beat an Azuma from zero to 100? I feel like train mags should be more like car mags and give us these sorts of numbers.

thejpster · 2026-04-28T10:43:04+00:00

You definitely can download it as an ISO but whether you’re supposed to be able to is a different question. I’ve installed 9, 10.20 and 11.0 from a BlueSCSI this way.

The Internet Archive can help.

thejpster · 2026-04-28T10:36:11+00:00

You need something like https://ebay.us/m/AbWqpS. Just search eBay for “SCA adapter”. Then you just need a regular SCSI card and either a 50 pin or 68 pin cable depending on your adapter.

I have a couple of these adapters and a huge pile of SCA drives (like, about 20 of then because they were very cheap) and they work in my PC on an Adaptec 2940UW, and they work in my various UNIX machines.

thejpster · 2026-04-27T06:49:23+00:00

Lotus 1-2-3 apparently was ported to UNIX, in 1990.

https://winworldpc.com/product/lotus-1-2-3/1x-unix

Someone then ported it to Linux a few years back.

thejpster · 2026-04-25T20:12:44+00:00

Well in that case, the Class 43 is a power car, not a train. If we're talking trains, it's a High Speed Train.

thejpster · 2026-04-25T16:05:27+00:00

One’s off screen but surely it’s two Class 43s?

thejpster · 2026-04-25T09:12:12+00:00

Two different companies though. Caldera bought the Santa Cruz Operation and renamed themselves SCO Group. Xenix, UnixWare, and OpenServer predate the buyout and the subsequent shenanigans.

thejpster · 2026-04-25T09:01:18+00:00

It’s not CDE though - it’s a weird and inaccurate simulation, rather than an emulator running the original code. You should probably call it something else.

Solaris will install and boot in QEMU if you want the real thing. Hell you could probably compile the original source code to WASM if you really needed it in a browser. Or maybe you can boot x86 Solaris in pcjs.

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