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Idiom on long letters
As Mark Twain famously maybe said but probably not:
Sorry to write you such a long letter; if I had more time I'd have written a short one.
Mark Twain
Rowan J Coleman, 1min 50s into the video "Movies Are Better Than TV Shows and I'm Tired of Pretending They're Not"
Repacked ecm files in download/old/
Today I finished repacking all .zip files as yet found within the https://pushbx.org/ecm/download/old/ directory, and uploading the lzipped tarball instead. This reduces the disk space use from 22 GB to about 2.3 GB.
Link spam: Auto-Injecting Files into an Active PCem/86Box Machine
Here's a quick-'n-dirty tool for easy, automated file transfers from a Windows host to a running machine in PCem/86Box (especially if it runs DOS). No need to shut down/restart the emulator, to set up virtual networking, or to manually create/mount/eject floppy disk images.
It uses the disk-image approach, but does it transparently, in one click. Useful if you tend to update sets of files very often - for example, if you do your DOS programming with native Windows tools, and switch to the emulator for quick testing and debugging.
That was my own motivation for making it: these emulators don't have DOSBox's native filesystem integration, and you can't update the HDD image without shutting down the guest machine first. ... Posted by VileR Apr 15, 2020
I find this interesting because it (presumably) re-uses the DOS support for removable media (ie diskettes) to allow access to a completely rewritten disk image.
Of course, dosemu2 provides access to (Linux) host directories as DOS redirector drives using its mfs redirector, which is similar to "DOSBox's native filesystem integration" except it works with any sufficiently compatible 86-DOS.
SFP Corona Core boot logo
Image description: A logo, consisting of white on black text that reads "SFP CORONA Version 0.1". There is also hard-to-read dark blue and dark red text, reading (blue) "Microsoft (R)" (red) "MS-DOS 7.10" (blue) "Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1981-1999". Image description end.
This file, saved as an appropriately sized .bmp file, was a boot logo for the DOS logo mechanism. We created it for use with the Corona Core distribution that we intended to create, based around extracting MS-DOS v7.10 from MSW 98SE (with a license key to allow doing so of course). This file was found in a directory named 2010-01-11, and carries a modified date of 2008-01-10.
SFP is the old "organisation" for our work, standing for SF Productions. Corona Core was named for the outermost layer of a star's atmosphere, visible during a total solar eclipse (Sonnen-Finsternis). Not related to the beer brand or the type of virus. Later, we envisioned Corona CoreNT which would be a set of utilities to be used with MSW NT-based operating systems.
