#xtide — Public Fediverse posts
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In today's #retrocomputing adventure, I learned:
- Only the first PCI slot in my #COMPAQ #Presario 5184 exposes its option ROM, sometimes. At least for the NIC.
- Compiling #XTIDE will work in Linux if you get rid of the .exe extensions and replace del with rm, but you also have to remember to replace all the backslashes with slashes or the checksum perl script won't run and you'll get a 101-I/O ROM Error!
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I just stumbled upon this upgrade I would have leapt at a few years back when I was building up my "new" Tandy 1000HX:
Tandy 1000 EX/HX 3-in-1 V2 Adapter --- 640K RAM + 2x Serial + Parallel + XTIDE Upgrade by Rob Krenicki
https://www.ebay.com/itm/197473626636
It looks like the creator of this device, who posted the project to GitHub, has made his last production run, sadly. Several are available still on eBay.
It doesn't look like the RAM expansion has the DMA chip, but that really doesn't much matter. What a great unit. I upgraded my own 1000HX to this spec -- but did it the Hard way (note the capital H).
https://github.com/rkrenicki/Tandy-EX-HX-3in1
#Tandy #Tandy1000 #Tandy1000HX #Tandy1000EX #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrogaming #XTIDE #modernretro #eBay #x86 #TRS80 #RadioShack
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Hang on... this is bonkers! Booting an IBM PC compatible pc mounting a drive via the #serialport ! Something like the modern computers #netboot !
https://youtu.be/g7ScyiO19Pg?si=OcAB5Qsfl4xOykZ0
He uses the #xtide #opensource #bios (https://www.xtideuniversalbios.org/) and a null modem cable to a windows computer. Unfortunately it seems the disk #emulator app is available only for Windows, but I imagine it could be implemented in a #serial #wifi #modem firmware (like #zimodem or #theoldnet 's). Imagine having a #samba share on your #NAS and telling the wifi modem to mount an image on that, then turn on the old pc and boot it from your NAS via WIFI... awesome!!!
#retrocomputing #tandy #pc