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Elissa 22h ago

@gloriouscow Me: "Oooh an XT emulator. I have wanted to try writing an OS to learn x86 assembler... NO elissa, BAD! You do NOT need another project!"

Human Brain Enthusiast 22h ago

@vampiress @gloriouscow

trampinheavy 21h ago

@vampiress @gloriouscow
You can have a little OS project as a treat

Elissa 21h ago

@trampinheavy @gloriouscow For my sins I am opening up my copy of "Modern Operating Systems" by Tanenbaum and looking up real simple asm boot loader stuff over lunch...

Human Brain Enthusiast 22h ago

@gloriouscow criminal that it isn’t more popular! Best era of PCs too

@thomasfuchs more popularity would just mean more bug reports...

Elissa 22h ago

@gloriouscow @thomasfuchs This is why I prefer releasing my games on itch to steam. 😅 Though honestly I'm going to have to real soon because of capitalism and rent...

@thomasfuchs but I'm sure I'll overtake DosBox with the improved light pen emulation in 0.4.2

Matthew Jones 22h ago

@gloriouscow I was just using it the other day. Apparently MartyPC is the only emulator that handles the Kaypro 16 hard drive setup disks without throwing some sort of fit about their awful autoload script. Now if it accepted hard drive images... :P

@mcjonestech it supports simple VHDs. If you've got some other format I can help you convert.

Matthew Jones 22h ago

@gloriouscow I was trying to build this crazy Kaypro 16's hard drive virtually since it requires something like 9 disk swaps to fully set up. The PicoMEM has a swap disk command but the Kaypro setup script is stupid/smart enough to detect every keypress and start immediately looking for a change in variable for disk number. I just have a blank 100MB IMG I was using the PicoMEM created

@mcjonestech Raw disk images are tricky as you need to store the geometry somewhere. I could add that though.

Matthew Jones 21h ago

@gloriouscow Seems like a lot just for me just being lazy and not hooking up a Gotek haha. Now if there was a way to import the contents of a VHD into an IMG without wrecking the place... Research may be necessary

@mcjonestech you literally just have to chop the footer off

@mcjonestech why are we having this conversation on mastodon lol

Matthew Jones 21h ago

@gloriouscow That is a fantastic question. I've been rocking two side by side windows of Mastodon and the Internet Archive for most of today so I think my brain forgot lol

Elissa 22h ago

@gloriouscow (just built it and am tinkering with it) Wow that's a slick emulator. Really nicely done!

Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️22h ago

@gloriouscow cool!

@gloriouscow bug report, alley cat isn't loading

@thomasfuchs yeah. I need to remove the menu thing

@gloriouscow JUST CLEARED A FISHTANK!!! (alas in dosbox)

@thomasfuchs no overscan emulation for you

@gloriouscow 😢

@thomasfuchs alleycat was the first thing I got running in martypc, I didn't even have cga emulation, I had a weird visualization of video memory. Normally the cpu would hang but I was curious when alleycat just kept running one time. Then I peeked in video memory and saw the cat walking around on the fence.

Incredibly satisfying moment

@gloriouscow amaze amaze amaze

@gloriouscow it's hard to get this across over social media but your obsession with these old computers and getting this stuff to work makes me super happy