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Re: Anyone interested in some infos about installing Xenix itself, installing development system, VP/IX and TCP/IP ?

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On 18.06.2015 at 05:23 Jason Stevens wrote:
> In article <53c4c87f$0$6654$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net>,
> z80eu@arcor.de says...
>> And btw. is this newsgroup dead ?
>
> I did a blog post about it ages ago.  I started a DOOM port, but kind of
> lost interest as doing the graphics was going to be a MAJOR PITA, and I
> didn't see the DOOM on Xenix thing being all that big of a deal.
>
> I guess the same goes for Quake or QuakeWorld.
>
> With MESS you can emulate a 386 or 486 along with one of the network
> cards that Xenix actually supports, the 3c503 adapter.
>
> http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2013/12/09/virtual-xenix-
> the-internet/
>
> Oddly enough I had issues keeping a real Pentium based machine online for
> more than a couple of days, just like the emulated system.
>

Yeah, I am a visitor of the blog since years.
Instead of using MESS64, I was just using a DOS based sector-by-sector 
backup tool and VMPlayer. And yes, even network is still running, too.

See http://www.z80.eu/blog/index.php?entry=entry150604-180000

Regards
  Peter

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Anyone interested in some infos about installing Xenix itself, installing development system, VP/IX and TCP/IP ? Peter Dassow <z80eu@arcor.de> - 2014-07-15 08:21 +0200
  Re: Anyone interested in some infos about installing Xenix itself, installing development system, VP/IX and TCP/IP ? John McCue <jmccue@jmcnet1.bstma.east.verizon.net> - 2014-07-15 21:49 +0000
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    Re: Anyone interested in some infos about installing Xenix itself, installing development system, VP/IX and TCP/IP ? Peter Dassow <z80eu@arcor.de> - 2015-07-07 22:37 +0200
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