Subj : smapinntpd
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Sun Nov 25 2018 10:05:39

Hi! Nick,

On 11/24/2018 11:44 PM, you wrote:

 NB> So with this being said, are you referring to Win98se's display *before*
 NB> VBox is even involved? If so, then it's probably not an issue with VBox
 NB> itself. Otherwise, If it only happens in VBox, you can probably try to
 NB> use the built in default drivers in VBox settings.

Firstly, there is /nil/ support in vBox for anything Win9x.  T'ain't no "Guest Additions" and no working OOTB Windows SVGA driver, so, the SVGA driver had been written by a third party to fill the gap.  The vBox people say it is all exceedingly very bloody difficult and don't even recommend installing Win9x in vBox.  Hence, no support.

OTOH, wouldn't you want to use a multi-tasking GUI OS that only uses 128Mb RAM (maybe just 64Mb but I didn't want to be overly stingy)? Especially if such can give renewed life to 20+ years-old accumulated utilities & custom scripts.  :)

 PQ>> runs great, but I found through early experimentation that it neither
 PQ>> will run DOS programs in a window nor full-screen.

 NB> VBox or Win98se?

The alternate (vBox) SVGA driver-supported system.  (Entirely different driver, BTW.)  It's been running happily as a Win98se system for quite a few years, so long as I throw Windows *only* apps at it.  Any attempted windowed/full-screen DOS sessions lock it up.  It still runs so long as I'm careful.

It was even running Radius from a LAN share on it as well as its primary job for a couple of weeks recently, but I've stopped doing that after Radius TRAP-ped unexpectedly one morning.  That was for a downlink who can/will-not change his iRex _from_ port 24554.

 NB> I thought the whole point of this was *not* to use a "swiss army knife"
 NB> BBS software? I mean whatever works for you of course, and I know you've
 NB> used Mystic for quite some time, so obviously the comfort level is there
 NB> for you.

There's another 32-bit Linux tosser?  Where?  What?  Hunh?  Pray tell, as I have not heard of one other than HPT.

Mystic fitted nicely into my hardware & software constraints.  I am very pleased with it.  I haven't been this happy for nearly a decade.  Can't you tell from my smile?  :)

 NB> All the software is there, you just have to write batch files or scripts
 NB> to use them in a way that works for you obviously. Not sure how much DOS
 NB> voodoo you would need, as I thought all, or most of your VMs were Linux
 NB> based?

Yes.  The DOS doin's was just after fire was tamed and the wheel introduced into general use.  Think of a time when Husky's nodelist handling stuff first became available.

I don't do DOS any more.  Just simple procedural bash-ing.

Cheers,
Paul.

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