<Wanda[cis]>
help how do I download more RAM for dosbox
<Wanda[cis]>
okay XC4000A and XC4000H are likewise properly hooked into the contraption
<mupuf>
Wanda[cis]: \o/, and lol for the OOM!
<mupuf>
Is XACT a 16 or 32 bits dos binary?
<Wanda[cis]>
32-bit inside; it uses Phar Lap as dos extender
<sdomi>
Wanda[cis]: if you need help setting up a DOS VM (or any related env) then hmu
<sdomi>
also i suppose that this won't work on even very old windows?
<Wanda[cis]>
idk
<Wanda[cis]>
it miiight?
<sdomi>
wanna check w2k server? i have one running
<Wanda[cis]>
mostly the problem is that I need to spawn many parallel copies of that shit quickly and move files to/from the relevant VM
<Wanda[cis]>
dosbox makes it manageable
<Wanda[cis]>
with win2k... I don't think rust supports this, so we'd have to construct some cursed RPC contraption
<sdomi>
you know that rust has a win9x target ported by some lunatic?
<Wanda[cis]>
... now I'm curious how badly that would run
<sdomi>
and tbh. the higher you go the easier it gets. i can backport DLLs for you
<sdomi>
anyhoo 1s
<Wanda[cis]>
I won't get any kind of SMP within win9x
<sdomi>
xfreerdp /v:192.168.13.168:1234 /u:wanda
<sdomi>
password is meow
<sdomi>
you're admin
<Wanda[cis]>
mmm
<sdomi>
this machine has (i think) two cores and 8GB of RAM, not particularly fast but if it works on 2k then we may arrange something much faster
<Wanda[cis]>
how do I get files there
<sdomi>
there's a browser :^3
<sdomi>
it should support some tls even
<sdomi>
or you could throw them onto sakamoto and access \\192.168.250.1\Files
<sdomi>
(there's also RDP directory sharing, but it seems to have been broken in freerdp for a while)
<Wanda[cis]>
seeing "capacity: 1.78TB" in w2k UI is unreal
<Wanda[cis]>
okay the xact ui just plain doesn't work
<sdomi>
awh
<sdomi>
okay so best i can suggest rn is qemu + dos6/dos7 + himemx
<Wanda[cis]>
um actually
<Wanda[cis]>
I spawned cmd.exe and Alt-Enter failed with the exact same message?
<Wanda[cis]>
I think it may be failing to set video mode due to rdp?
<sdomi>
oh, i wonder if it's rdp
<sdomi>
... so this is non-trivial to solve, because that's a physical machine at my flat a bunch of kilometers away that i left running for shits and giggles
<Wanda[cis]>
anyway, let's try the cli
<Wanda[cis]>
okay yeah the cli seems to work
<Wanda[cis]>
anyway
<Wanda[cis]>
oh huh. the windows-specific tools actually seem to work?
<Wanda[cis]>
interesting
<Wanda[cis]>
either way
<Wanda[cis]>
that was a fun thing to check
<Wanda[cis]>
but in the end I think just giving the dosbox contraption more RAM somehow is going to be more efficient
<sdomi>
aight
<sdomi>
(poke me if you end up needing more help with it, tho. although rn i'll probably head to sleep shortly..)
<Wanda[cis]>
... alright it just needed memsize=32 in the config file