Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/19
Editing [WayBack] What is a Delphi DCU file? – Stack Overflow for more historic correctness and adding links prompted me to archive some older material and search for some more, basically because while historically very relevant, link rot makes a lot of that stuff harder and harder to find.
The legendary full page colour advert published in the 12th 1983 issue of Byte Magazine on page 456 is at the bottom of this post (Many BYTE magaine issues have been archived at https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine).
The smaller version below is from WayBack: Sip from the Firehose : November 2008 marks the 25th anniversary of Turbo Pascal v1.0! (this article is not available on the Embarcadero or Idera site any more).
I also included more adverts in reverse chronological order at the end:
The last two via [WayBack] saundby.com: Software for the Ampro Little Board.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/07
Reminder to self: see if I ever can resurrect my old BBS and FidoNet node that was based on at least:
- FrontDoor (by Joaquim Homrighausen)
- RemoteAccess (by Andrew Milner)
- GoldED (by Odinn Sørensen)
- A FOSSIL driver (forgot the name)
- A Fidonet NodeList Compiler
- a Message Tosser
Maybe a good place to start: [WayBack] Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv, DOSBox, plus telnet fun with WSL – Scott Hanselman
I already wrote a few times about me being on Fidonet, and BITNET in the late 1980s:
A few email addresses I have been using in that era:
A tag-line from me in that era (I blanked out the phone number as it now belongs to someone else):
o _ _ _ _ _ voice: +31-2522-XXXXX (19:00-22:00 UTC)
/ (_' | (_) (_' | | snail: P.S.O.
__/ attn. Jeroen W. Pluimers
P.O. Box 266
jeroenp@rulfc1.LeidenUniv.nl 2170 AG Sassenheim
jeroen_pluimers@f521.n281.z2.fidonet.org The Netherlands
Related:
- FidoNet – Wikipedia
- Gerard van der Land (GEcho)
- Erick van Emmerik (FileMGR)
- Arjen Lentz (Xenia)
- Ron Huiskes (RemoteAccess)
- Frans Veldman (ThunderByte Anti-Virus)
- [Archive.is] Info-IBMPC Digest V89 #31 – Google Groups
- [WayBack] 1991 section of SIMTEL20 in the info-ibmpc mailing list
- [WayBack] VIRUS-L Digest Monday, 3 Jun 1991 Volume 4 : Issue 96
- [WayBack] Ralf Brown’s Interrupt List Release 34 Last change 4/3/93
- [WayBack] Information on WinSite package gif2bmp.zip (it looks like I wrote a GIF to BMP converter <g>)
- [WayBack] Kelly Sommers on Twitter: “I ran a PCBoard BBS on my parents spare phone line at night.”
- BBS: The Documentary Archive : Free Movies : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
- [WayBack] Scott Hanselman on Twitter: “Awesome. I ran a Wildcat BBS on Desqview and a digiboard, and was a Fidonet node. Such a hopeful time. You can still run door games and BBSs today. (Go explore if you aren’t from this generation! Great historical fun.) https://t.co/WhudTNrwCG… https://t.co/tqhWtyllBj”
- [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “I paid their phone bill (for outdoing at night) and got an extra line (for incoming) to run a Dutch DFF fidonet node called The White House (now not so proud of that name any more) with frontdoor, remote access, golded, a fossil, a tosser (message processor), all on 1/…”
- [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “an pair of i286 PCs with null network, later i386 (with DESQview 386 that included QEMM 386) with Novell Netware 3.x LAN and a bunch of batch files that were multi-tasking aware so I could offload message processing to different instances/systems. Later made this work 2/…”
- [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “On Windows 3.x and Windows 95 that had slightly different command. com versions. This because I wanted to stay up to date on Turbo Pascal related stuff (which I learned slightly earlier). So I posted a lot on the groups Pascal.028, Pascal, and others. Later also hooked 3/…”
- [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “up to compuserve (where I learned to know @JohnKaster, @danny_thorpe, and many TeamB members) and laid the foundation of startingy own business in software development. Being a student, I was glad university licenses were affordable (: That era has formed me. Will never forget.”
- [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “A few more names from back then: @RolandGuijt, @joho68, @arjenlentz . I will probably remember more names later (:”
- [WayBack] Maarten van Stam on Twitter: “2:280/112 Softwareboard two lines on ISDN with USRobotics HST modems some dudes imported from the US, not easy back then … #fidonet”
- [WayBack] Danny Thorpe on Twitter: “Compuserve: 76646,1035”
- [WayBack] John Kaster on Twitter: “71510,3321” and [WayBack] FoxPro Tool Producers Directory
- [WayBack] Danny Thorpe on Twitter: “Hey! PC Magazine issues circa 1990’s are available in Google Books! Whoda thunkit? (new to me, anyway) A Blast from the Past: Cross-Platform DLLS for DOS and Windows, PC Mag Feb 22, 1994: @jpluimers @ahejlsberg @JohnKaster”
- [WayBack] John Kaster on Twitter: “I ran the fidonet relay for Clipper via PCBoard on KWIBBLE in Rosslyn, VA in the late 80s… “
- [WayBack] waldo ‘not @ any .*con’ kitty on Twitter: “Have run Waldo’s Place USA on RemoteAccess since ’89… Just started over completely with Synchronet thanks to Hurricane Florence. Now known as The SouthEast Star, a fidonet mail hub (still)…… https://t.co/1QlcFKAgvP”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/06
Cool tool if you have industrial machinery that uses DOS and needs a slowdown on modern hardware (because for instance your serial communications program is running way too fast): [WayBack] The Throttle homepage. Slow that machine down!
Via Matthijs ter Woord
Downloads:
- Q) How does throttle work?
- A) Throttle enables power management bits in the chipset to control CPU clock. Any chipset that conforms to the ACPI (advanced configuration and power interface) specification has a means to enable and control the throttle.
The intended purpose of these bits is to provide a means of power savings, typically utilized in notebooks or other battery powered devices.
When the CPU is in a throttled state, it uses less power. It just so happens that a throttled CPU creates a perfect environment to emulate the performance of an older generation CPU!
- Q) I have a chipset that supports ACPI. Why isn’t it supported in throttle?
- A) Probably because I don’t know about it. Because the ACPI specification can be implemented in different ways by different chipset manufacturers, it’s impossible to create one generic program that works with all ACPI compliant hardware. This creates the problem of constantly updating the internal database of known hardware. So far, the biggest problem has been finding the documentation for known ACPI compliant chipsets. Adding support for them is the easy part! You may also be using an older version of throttle. Contact me for the latest.
- Q) Can I have more speed options than just the 8 (or 16) provided?
- A) No. Throttle provides you with as many different CPU throttling options as the chipset allows. The ACPI spec only defines 8 different modes, each one 12.5% more throttled than the previous. VIA technologies has taken the spec 1 step further and allowed for throttling on 6.25% increments, thus doubling the amount of options available, which provides for more slowdown and a finer tunability.
If you want to run oldskool games, get a VIA motherboard!There’s nothing I can do to change the available options, and no further options will be available unless the ACPI spec changes.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/27
Blast from the past:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/14
Dumping the command prompt history
From [WayBack] Saving windows command prompt history to a file – Charlie Arehart’s ColdFusion Troubleshooting Blog:
doskey /history
gives you the command history.
Redirecting with >, >> or piping with | allows you to save this to a file or filter the output.
Found via: [WayBack] How I can export the history of my commands in Windows(7) Command Prompt? – Stack Overflow
Shells that do support persistent history
Note that the command history is not persistent. If you want that, then there are two other shells that support persistent history:
Both of these found through [WayBack] windows – Is there a global, persistent CMD history? – Server Fault.
–jeroen
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