On 7/23/20 4:33 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 1:31 PM Ethan Gardener <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020, at 6:50 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> Going by memory, assuming aux/vga ran, you should be able to
type 8-Alt-1-2 to type 8½
> You should also be able to start acme or sam instead of 8½.
These will probably work, except acme hadn't been invented yet and
sam may or may not give an error the first time. (Checked with
another demo disk.) You probably do want to start the window
system, there is no way to kill the foreground process without it.
Acme (Alef version) is in 2ed; the single-floppy version doesn't seem
to have the binary. Looking at the screenshot that Will sent me
directly, the dates on the binaries match up to 2ed release.
I'm pretty sure the four-floppy set that came with the CDROM has the
acme binary. I don't have any floppy drives that I trust to look at my
copy.
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Interestingly enough, I found an old 4 floppy set of vd's in the same
folder with the demo image. It looks like they are Nov 1995 (I
apparently winimaged them from floppies back then). When I boot disk 1,
it complains about not having an mbr partition and bails. I'm guessing
it's expecting some OS and hard disk to be present to install to.
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