I need to do some spring cleaning on my laptop. Here are my notes
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Superproject resurrection
I have a set of CA-Superproject’s installation disks and it has been an ambition of mine to see if I can run it on a modern Laptop. My edition failed to run on Windows XP and when I read about W98 and Virtual Box, I decided to see if I could install SPJ on modern…
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Moving a Virtual Box VM
I need to move two Virtual Box images between two host machine images to keep them safe during an upgrade. Here are my notes and links.
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Managing Docker with Panamax & Vagrant
I got distracted and was pointed at Kitematic, but it’s Mac only and so I moved on to Panamax. I am not sure this is for me, but we’ll see and I am still not clear that the answer isn’t shipyard.
Read moregNewSense 3.1
get the .iso from here don’t make a mistake in creating the Vbox image, it needs a bridged network adapter
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Virtual Box
This page has been live for a long time. Sun Microsystems bought Innotek the authors of Virtual Box, an opensource virtualisation product in 2008. It permits Windows/Linux/Solaris guests on the same operating system. I probably started this page slightly later, my first oracle blog on it was dated May 2008. It mainly describes any guest…
Read moreOpenSUSE and Virtual Box
I have been experimenting with an OpenSUSE Linux VM running in Virtual Box.
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WINE
The windows software emulator, not more booze. Wine is not an Emulator, it seems. This was originally written in about 2011 when I tried to install NWN on my Mac (For more, see here….). As part of the rollforward from OSX 10.6, in 2013, I needed to rebuild the WINE implementation. I reorganised the wiki…
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WINE and NWN
This page is about my attempts to install NWN under WINE on my MAC. I finally got this working in March 2011 and then attempted to ensure that this page focuses on the NWN actions and runes, and that my WINE page deals with installing WINE on the MAC. I returned in 2014, to try…
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Wineskin
I used wineskin and winery to install WINE containers for the apps I want to run on the MAC. This article describes how I did it and cross references to some hyperlinks and other articles on this wiki. I
Read moreRunning LBA 2 under Dosbox
In order to run LBA 2, the PIF requires the following command C:\DOSe\dosbox\DOSBox-0.72\dosbox.exe -c “mount d: d:\ -t cdrom -lable lba2 -ioctl -usedcd 1 -fullscreen” -c “mount c c:\DOSe\lba2” -c “C:” -c “lba2” -c “exit” I have tried to get this to run in a .bat, but this works. Obviously the directory path will vary…
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Installing WINE from source
At the backend of 2009, I started experiments with WINE on MacOS. I documented my findings at my WINE page on this site. In March 2010, I returned to the project having been advised to use the Macports installation of WINE, instead of building from source. This page documents how I built from source code,…
Read moreShell Scripting on Windows
I want to write bash scripts to be emulated using cygwin. This has a problem in that XP uses spaces in its file folder hierarchies and the environment variable initialisation process isn’t good enough. This is actually a snip on writing shell script using cygwin. The virtual boix commands are just the use case which…
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This article was written in 2010 and became defunct. I have not deleted it as I still use the product and that use is increasing. I may create an RDP page as I don’t expect to need this and the RDP integration with today’s W10 is much better. The article looks at using an ipodtouch…
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They say “DOSBox is an emulator that recreates a MS-DOS compatible environment (complete with Sound, Input, Graphics and even basic networking).” Their home page is at http://www.dosbox.com/. I have now used it to run Twinsen’s Little Big Adventure 2 (aka LBA2) on my Alienware Aurora. Here’s how! Download the Installer Install DosBox Read the documentation…
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