From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Early version of Floppy Demo
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 23:01:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa8262c4-331a-4705-8a73-13e963c1f4e3@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSxfmJxGdS7Y2F8r3w9g6OHT-ic_RPu5j0_xohOqMkCMwuY_w@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020, at 10:33 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 1:31 PM Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm> 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 stand corrected.
> 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.
I think I have images of those, could send them if desired. At least, the ones I have are described like this in the README:
> The files in this directory recreate the four 1.44MB diskettes
> used to load a limited version of Plan 9 onto a PC. It is intended
> to let you try out Plan 9 before buying, in particular to see if
> the system supports your PC hardware.
They also contain fixes, perhaps over the iso? Anyway, if they contain iso9660, I imagine they're enough to get the iso installed.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-23 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-23 16:57 will.senn
2020-07-23 17:50 ` [9fans] " Skip Tavakkolian
2020-07-23 19:52 ` will.senn
2020-07-23 20:29 ` Ethan Gardener
2020-07-23 21:33 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2020-07-23 21:59 ` Will Senn
2020-07-23 22:07 ` Ethan Gardener
2020-07-23 22:01 ` Ethan Gardener [this message]
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