From topcatdrc at yahoo.com  Sat Nov  1 00:34:56 2008
From: topcatdrc at yahoo.com (Thomas Clayton)
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 00:34:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [GEM Development] Trident UC-51 Drivers
Message-ID: <244071.36659.qm@web82301.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Dear John Elliot er Al.:

While poking around the web looking for Diamond Stealth sites that I /had/ had references to - they're not there anymore - I found a site that DOES have those 'pesky' UC-51 files.

http://www.mpoli.fi/files/hardware/DISPLAY/TRIDENT/index.html

You can update your webpages and you others can get them while they're available. Germany (.de) doesn't work, Finland (.fi) does SOMEtime and I had good luck with Poland (.po). I didn't try "others".


Sincerely,

Thomas Clayton


From jce at seasip.demon.co.uk  Sat Nov  1 12:03:10 2008
From: jce at seasip.demon.co.uk (John Elliott)
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 19:03:10 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [GEM Development] Trident UC-51 Drivers
In-Reply-To: <244071.36659.qm@web82301.mail.mud.yahoo.com> from "Thomas
	Clayton" at Nov 01, 2008 12:34:56 
Message-ID: <E1KwLkc-00013H-00@seasip.demon.co.uk>

> While poking around the web looking for Diamond Stealth sites that I /had/
> had references to - they're not there anymore - I found a site that DOES
> have those 'pesky' UC-51 files.

  Thanks. I've updated my website accordingly.

  For 800x600, the FreeGEM 800x600 driver (SDU869.VGA) should work with a
Trident card. But I'm not so sure about 1024x768; you'd probably have to
use the VESA one (SDV109.VGA), perhaps with an additional VESA TSR.

-- 
John Elliott

From topcatdrc at yahoo.com  Mon Nov  3 07:44:22 2008
From: topcatdrc at yahoo.com (Thomas Clayton)
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 07:44:22 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [GEM Development] Trident UC-51 Drivers
In-Reply-To: <E1KwLkc-00013H-00@seasip.demon.co.uk>
Message-ID: <917910.46700.qm@web82302.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

 In case anyone is interested.
There is, as I remember, on the same page as the UC-51 driver set a Trident VESA DOS extension (TSR) as well.

BTW, I'm a step, or two, closer to getting my /actual/ DOS system running again. I've co-located the Micron 80485 (5 - since it's DX capable) and the SRAM cache chips that I finally pulled from three other (smaller) 485 boards this past Sat.. Next step / next time: putting in a cache and testing the board with a '485, or two (an x2), or three (an x3) different processors. (Just in case: It IS a UNI-processor board NOT a multi-processor board!)

Tom Clayton

--- On Sat, 11/1/08, John Elliott <jce at seasip.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> From: John Elliott <jce at seasip.demon.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [GEM Development] Trident UC-51 Drivers
> To: gem-dev at simpits.org
> Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 2:03 PM
> > While poking around the web looking for Diamond Stealth
> sites that I /had/
> > had references to - they're not there anymore - I
> found a site that DOES
> > have those 'pesky' UC-51 files.
> 
>   Thanks. I've updated my website accordingly.
> 
>   For 800x600, the FreeGEM 800x600 driver (SDU869.VGA)
> should work with a
> Trident card. But I'm not so sure about 1024x768;
> you'd probably have to
> use the VESA one (SDV109.VGA), perhaps with an additional
> VESA TSR.
> 
> -- 
> John Elliott

From topcatdrc at yahoo.com  Mon Nov  3 23:39:07 2008
From: topcatdrc at yahoo.com (Thomas Clayton)
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 23:39:07 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [GEM Development] CP/M Historical Materials
Message-ID: <435266.77259.qm@web82301.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Dear GEM Gang:
(Pardon me IF that is offensive!)

This showed up in a reply on the associated Digital Research Group, here on Yahoo!. (I didn't see the original but cut this from someone's reply.) (I've gone back and found the original.)

***
"
--- On Fri, 10/31/08, roche182 at laposte. net <roche182 at laposte. net> wrote:

    From: roche182 at laposte. net <roche182 at laposte. net>
    Subject: Re: [DigitalResearch] Dr. Logo Web Page
    To: DigitalResearch@ yahoogroups. com
    Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 5:46 PM


    (Published in 2003 and 2005, on the comp.os.cpm Newsgroup.)

    WS4FILES.WS4
    ------------

    An attempt to list the CP/M files of Emmanuel Roche.

    (During 15 years, I worked on an Epso[n] QX-10 with 4 floppy
    drives under CP/M Plus, and all those floppies have not been
    transferred. ..)

    (Nota Bene: All the WS4 files listed below can be converted to
    HTML, thanks to the WS4-to-HTML File Converter listed in "WS4
    Utilities".)

Gary Kildall texts
============ ======
"
***


Then comes a list of *.WS4 (WordStar4?) files that go downward for several screen fulls, after which comes


***
"
Total
=====

455 file(s) 13 682 301 bytes

(About 6,841 pages (excluding the papers of Gary Kildall) when
printed by WS4 on European A4 paper (which is 12" long).)

(I also have the WS4 files of a "Journal of CP/M Plus Research"
that I produced after the CP/M User Group (UK) closed. I made 10
issues of 60 pages, or 600 pages. 6,841 + 600 = 7,441 pages...)

(Of course, those are only the doc files. You will notice that
almost no source code files are listed. After about 20 years of
CP/M programming, I estimate that I must have produced as much
source files.)

(I don't count the COBOL programs that I made when I was a COBOL
programmer on IBM Mainframes, before discovering CP/M.)

As usual, I am searching for something or someone which would
enable me to set up a Web site (thanks to time and money) dealing
with the above CP/M stuff.

Respond to the Newsgroup.

EOF

Cr?ez votre adresse ?lectronique prenom.nom at laposte. net
1 Go d'espace de stockage, anti-spam et anti-virus int?gr?s.

"
***

(These last phrases are French, BTW.) Question is:

Is anyone in THIS newsgroup UPto aiding him in his
recollection(s) and web postings?

Is anyone here, particularly, CP/M knowledgeable?

Of course, this MAY have already be done (accomplished) since there is a note about
"(Published in 2003 and 2005, on the comp.os.cpm Newsgroup.)"
near the beginning. (It helps to read these things, first.)
 ;-)

Anyone KNOW if the articles were made available?
(Do "we" have them?   "we" = the world-at-large)

Sincerely,

Thomas Clayton