Formatting 720KB floppys on DOS/Windoze

 Well, another tip I usually forget when I need:

format a:/f:720

Sinclair QL: InfoZIP zip & unzip

Every time I want to create a zip file in my QL I have the same problem: I can't remember how to do.

Unzip is very easy if you have the Toolkit II:

ew unzip;"-d<destinationfolder> <pathtothezipfile>"

But zip is a different story because I use it from time to time and because it doesn't need the '-b' option to know where it has to create the new zip file

ew zip;"<nameofnewzipfile> <pathtothefoldercontainingfiles>*"

example:

ew win1_zip,"win1_newarchive_zip win1_files_*"

or with folder recursivity: 

ew win1_zip;"-r win1_myarchive_zip flp2_*"

Anyway, there is no need to specify the extension _zip to the name of the archive, Info-ZIP will add by itelf.

Effect & Spark in a SGI O2 R5K

I was able to run effect* 7.1 in my O2 without problem, even using a file framestore and the entire second hard drive. But effect* 6.1.3 was a different story: always complaining 'Can't initialise framestore'.

Checking the forums there are some guys that can run spark and effect* 6.1.3 with a file system framestore so i did some more tests.

The final configuration is to install Stone&Wire 2.6.5 (included with old releases of Flame and Smoke) and configure a second hard disk as stone. Seems to work even with a internal secondary disk of external one.

So, with this config I can run effect* 6.1.3, effect* 7.1 and spark 7.6 with the same stone disk!

Well, now time to play a little more !

One year without updates and my new 'All things blog'

Hi guys,
after one year of my last post, this Christmas I started to play with my old systems again. This time is not an Unix system but an Amiga 500. At the same time of this Unixverse blog I created Titox's place but never used it. As the Amiga is not an Unix system I decided to start my other blog with it. Check this here:
http://titoxsplace.blogspot.com.es/2014/02/writing-amiga-floppies-with-catweasel.html

See you!!!!!
Alberto.

Solaris 10 1/13 is here!!!!

I  was already thinking the same thing would happen with Oracle Solaris than IRIX 6.5.31 but here you are the latest release (and may be there will be no more updates):

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris10/downloads/index.html


You can read the 'What's new' document from this link.
 

Samsung Blu-Ray C5500 and internet@tv problems

Hello, this entry is no related to computers or Unix, considering that a DVD or Bluray player is not, but today I'm very happy and I want to share this small but very impirant trick. Since some weeks the function internet@tv of my Samsung Bluray playe C5500 was not working. When I started the app the system downloaded the last firmware but failed reinstalled the default apps. I tried reverting to default the player but without success... until today: a new web search returned this post with a different trick to reset the player to the building default options. Just turn on the player and pressing&holding the stop button. Two minutes lTer i got the internet@tv function running again!

Restoring DAT tapes with IRIX tar

Today I started to recover a lot of old DAT tapes of an old video software. At first time I tried with IRIX Backup/Restore Manager but gave me a lot of errors due this tapes were stored with an old release of IRIX.

As you can see in this post in the Nekochan forums, the IRIX GUI system changed its own format with the different IRIX versions:

For 6.5, the format is cpio.
For 6.3 and 6.4, the format is tar.
For 5.3-6.2, the format is bru.

As my tapes were burn in 1996/1997 I tried with tar. And success:

# mkdir /datrest
# cd /datrest
# tar xvR

With the above commands all the files in a DAT drive will be restored on the /datrest folder. Just What I needed!