Re: [9fans] Early version of Floppy Demo

[Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>]

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On 7/23/20 4:33 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 1:31 PM Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm 
> <mailto:eekee57@fastmail.fm>> wrote:
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>     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.
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>     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.
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> 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.
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> 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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