Re: [9fans] Early version of Floppy Demo

2020-07-23 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020, at 10:59 PM, Will Senn wrote: > 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 a

Re: [9fans] Early version of Floppy Demo

2020-07-23 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020, at 10:33 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 1:31 PM Ethan Gardener 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 al

Re: [9fans] Early version of Floppy Demo

2020-07-23 Thread Will Senn
On 7/23/20 4:33 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 1:31 PM Ethan Gardener > 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 >

Re: [9fans] Early version of Floppy Demo

2020-07-23 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 1:31 PM Ethan Gardener 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 wo

Re: [9fans] Early version of Floppy Demo

2020-07-23 Thread Ethan Gardener
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

Re: [9fans] Early version of Floppy Demo

2020-07-23 Thread will . senn
I figured out how to get the graphical system to work... when it asks about the mouse, select a valid option :) - ps2, 0, or 1... imgur.com/ecPcAm4 Now, I just need to figure out which mouse options to set in 86box, so the mouse actually works! -- 9fans:

Re: [9fans] Early version of Floppy Demo

2020-07-23 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
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. On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 9:58 AM wrote: > Hi, > > I have an early version of the Plan 9 demo (serial number 0561). I'm using > 86Box (Socket 7 VX S

[9fans] Early version of Floppy Demo

2020-07-23 Thread will . senn
Hi, I have an early version of the Plan 9 demo (serial number 0561). I'm using 86Box (Socket 7 VX Shuttle HOT-557 Pentium 100) to boot it. It boots, but then presents: root is from (local, il, tcp)[local!#f/fd0disk]: I press enter user[none]: fs...fs...time... init: starting /bin/rc /fs 14: s