Notices by HP van Braam (hp@mastodon.tmm.cx), page 2

@snow Wow that is BLEAK.

@aqua If it's so good, then why has Intel spent its entire existence trying to kill x86!

* iAPX 432
* 80860
* 80960
* Itanium

Can any #retrocomputing nerd suggest a tool to dump every register on a #vga from #dos into a text file? Ideally also the state of the int10 interface.

Ideally I want to be able to sample the state of the VGA at different states of brokenness.

I have read the osdev wiki on the vga and I'm pretty confident I can write something myself, but I'd rather use something that is known to work so I'm not compounding the uncertainty in my debugging efforts.

Thanks! ♥️

What do we think? Is my 100% cursed capture setup working adequately?

The setup in question

It's happening!

#fosdem2026 #retrocomputing

I don't know what I was expecting...

#retrocomputing #solaris #win98

Wow! #sun #solaris is super duper easy to use! I don't understand why not everyone is using #unix !

#sunpci #retrocomputing

@FlashMobOfOne what is your intrusive thought!

Do you ever get a #retrocomputing intrusive thought?

This is #wordperfect 7 (ish, all from 1996 and 1997)

* Native #solaris #unix version (bottom left)
* Native 32bit windows in SunPCi (bottom right)
* #macintosh system 7 in MAE (top left)
* Windows 3.1 (16bit) in #wabi (top right)

All of this was supported by at least one vendor at the time!

And you can actually copy/paste between all of them, and it just works!

@lordbowlich @killyourfm You can make it work! If you already have an Nvidia card and you know how to deal with the drivers then that's fine.

I'm really just saying that if we want to recommend the best experience to new users that part of that is telling them to not go out an buy a NEW Nvidia card to play Linux games with.

If you ever run into trouble with your system feel free to ping me! I'd be glad to help.

@killyourfm @lordbowlich It totally should! I've used a 560 recently in a Linux build. It worked fine (or you know, as fine as a 560 ever did) I played some GTA5 on it :)

@ojonnysilva @killyourfm Nvidia's drivers are what they are, AMDs drivers are what they are.

Whatever the "potential" of the Nvidia cards are is entirely irrelevant. If you actually look at the graphs, the 9070XT MOST of the time was either beating or in spitting distance of the 5080 for average fps, almost universally better in the lows.

It's simply a fact that if you want to play games on Linux TODAY the 9070xt is at worse functionally identical to a 5080 and generally better.

@killyourfm Most important takeaway; On Linux the 9070XT is pretty much a 5080 and sometimes a 5090.

Don't buy Nvidia if you're a Linux user or plan to be a Linux user!

@killyourfm What do you mean, "disguised"?

@thomasfuchs wild! I knew that Sony had one of these for certain mavicas, and those did not work in regular ass floppy drives afaik.

I had no idea someone made a generic one! Very cool!

@killyourfm @gamingonlinux nope, that's what I mean. I'm fine with holding Linux to a higher standard overall, of course! But I honestly don't think that a slightly suspect mesa update is a reason to NOT recommend Linux over the data eating OS. 😄

@killyourfm @gamingonlinux windows broke just like "SSDs" a couple months ago.

This is comparatively easy to fix. If anything this is a selling point for Linux. The ssd thing was much harder to diagnose and fix for users. 🤷♀️

If users lived with that nonsense, they'll deal with this and still come out ahead. 😄

@whitequark why remind me of SOAP? I was having a perfectly fine time, and now I remember that soap exist(s/ed)

Mean

@thomasfuchs Hey there! I decided to give it a go myself again today, and this is my result!

* standard PC (i440fx)
* 486 CPU / 256MB of RAM
* cirrus VGA
* pcnet nic (auto detected during setup)

This all worked out of the box for me! If it won't for you I suspect some local firewall settings on your machine.