David Goodwin
@davidrgnz.bsky.social
I develop software and mess about with vintage computers. Sometimes I have a go at a bit of astrophotography. @davidg@mastodon.nz, @davidrgnz on twitter
Kermit 95s first time ever doing 24-bit colour! I'm not sure what this is actually *useful* for, but I guess there must be something out there that needs to display more than 256 colours in a terminal at once.
April 16, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Kermit 95s first time ever doing 24-bit colour! I'm not sure what this is actually *useful* for, but I guess there must be something out there that needs to display more than 256 colours in a terminal at once.
It has been *a lot* of work, but 256-colour support in Kermit 95 is finally showing some visible sign of progress! Still a fair bit of work to go to finshin the implementaiton off, like commands and OSC sequence for customisng the colour palette, etc.
April 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
It has been *a lot* of work, but 256-colour support in Kermit 95 is finally showing some visible sign of progress! Still a fair bit of work to go to finshin the implementaiton off, like commands and OSC sequence for customisng the colour palette, etc.
After replacing a few leaky capacitors in its power supplies, my HP 9000/370 lives! And unlike the /360 I fixed up a week or two back, none of the weird glass tantalum capacitors popped! Now I've just got to sort out some emulated HP-IB drives for it so I can get it up and running an OS.
March 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM
After replacing a few leaky capacitors in its power supplies, my HP 9000/370 lives! And unlike the /360 I fixed up a week or two back, none of the weird glass tantalum capacitors popped! Now I've just got to sort out some emulated HP-IB drives for it so I can get it up and running an OS.
With all the attention I've given the Mitac Turbo XT lately, I guess its time the Ugly 286 was finally given some. While it may be a little rusty, yellowed, and have "Tasman" engraved in the plastic, its not a bad machine overall. 12MHz 286, 10MHz IIT 2C87 FPU, ST-238R RLL HDD, 2MB RAM, VGA.
February 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
With all the attention I've given the Mitac Turbo XT lately, I guess its time the Ugly 286 was finally given some. While it may be a little rusty, yellowed, and have "Tasman" engraved in the plastic, its not a bad machine overall. 12MHz 286, 10MHz IIT 2C87 FPU, ST-238R RLL HDD, 2MB RAM, VGA.
The Mitac Paragon 88, a rather nice compact 10MHz Turbo XT. Integrated Paradise CGA video, RTC, Floppy controller, one serial port, one parallel port and 768K RAM (the top 512K-640K is bank-switchable to support a 128K RAM disk). Display is an ADI DM-14+ green monochrome. HDD is a Seagate ST-225.
February 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
The Mitac Paragon 88, a rather nice compact 10MHz Turbo XT. Integrated Paradise CGA video, RTC, Floppy controller, one serial port, one parallel port and 768K RAM (the top 512K-640K is bank-switchable to support a 128K RAM disk). Display is an ADI DM-14+ green monochrome. HDD is a Seagate ST-225.
A new video capture card (Datapath VisionAV) arrived today, so here is a video of my RS/6000 43P Model 132 (type 7248) slowly booting into windows. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwDu...
Windows NT 4.0 booting on an IBM PowerPC machine
YouTube video by David Goodwin
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February 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
A new video capture card (Datapath VisionAV) arrived today, so here is a video of my RS/6000 43P Model 132 (type 7248) slowly booting into windows. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwDu...
Kermit 95 v3.0 beta 7 has been released! Now for IBM OS/2 2.0+ in addition to Windows NT 3.50+ (x86, alpha, mips, powerpc, alpha64, itanium, x86-64, arm32, arm64) and Windows 9x. Aside from a new/old name and OS/2 support, this release brings REXX scripting to x86 Windows XP or newer, ...
January 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Kermit 95 v3.0 beta 7 has been released! Now for IBM OS/2 2.0+ in addition to Windows NT 3.50+ (x86, alpha, mips, powerpc, alpha64, itanium, x86-64, arm32, arm64) and Windows 9x. Aside from a new/old name and OS/2 support, this release brings REXX scripting to x86 Windows XP or newer, ...
Today the Windows AlphaServer 800 is doing a bit of compiling...
January 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Today the Windows AlphaServer 800 is doing a bit of compiling...
Playing Age of Empires under x86 emulation on an AlphaServer 800 via an IP-KVM isn't the *best* experience, but it could be much worse. It has trouble scrolling the screen (1024x768 probably doesn't help), but otherwise it runs pretty smoothly. Perhaps letting FX!32 optimise more may help.
December 22, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Playing Age of Empires under x86 emulation on an AlphaServer 800 via an IP-KVM isn't the *best* experience, but it could be much worse. It has trouble scrolling the screen (1024x768 probably doesn't help), but otherwise it runs pretty smoothly. Perhaps letting FX!32 optimise more may help.
About time I posted something, so last night I installed real 64bit Windows 2000ish on one of my DEC AlphaServer 800s, a model of computer introduced in 1997 with prices starting at around US$30k in 2023 money. The CPU is a 500MHz 64bit DEC Alpha EV56 which was introduced in 1996.
December 21, 2024 at 8:42 AM
About time I posted something, so last night I installed real 64bit Windows 2000ish on one of my DEC AlphaServer 800s, a model of computer introduced in 1997 with prices starting at around US$30k in 2023 money. The CPU is a 500MHz 64bit DEC Alpha EV56 which was introduced in 1996.