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Julius Schwartzenberg

@nil @moira many thanks for looking into this. I won't be able to try it soon, but when I do and run into this, I'll be sure to reach out!! You seem to be using the program for the SunPCi III whereas I have a SunPCi II. Possibly they are different. I still had the Ultra 5 on my desk in 2010-2011, so possibly the check isn't in that version or I indeed didn't boot up the card after 2009.

There is relatively little point in emulating that card btw. (A 2nd QEMU x86 instance will help more.)

1 January at 23:06 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mas.to
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nil :demisexual_flag:

@jschwart @moira for sure, i only emulated it since i wanted to get this error message and don't have a sun workstation of my own, let alone a SunPCi. if i wanted to run old x86 software i'd use 86Box or DOSBox. but it would be nice for the sake of preservation, if really impractical, if someone could implement an emulator for the SunPCi.

2 January at 15:21 | Open on furry.engineer
Julius Schwartzenberg

@nil @moira I see where you're coming from but basically you'd end up hooking up a second QEMU instance with some rather limited and peculiar hardware. The SunPCi II board for instance is just this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiS_630/ on a PCI card with some tricks that allow rerouting the display in a window and using disk images stored on the Solaris filesystem.

You'd be dealing with emulating the SiS 630/730 and even if you do that, you then already have a superior independent stand-alone emulator :)

@nil @moira I see where you're coming from but basically you'd end up hooking up a second QEMU instance with some rather limited and peculiar hardware. The SunPCi II board for instance is just this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiS_630/ on a PCI card with some tricks that allow rerouting the display in a window and using disk images stored on the Solaris filesystem.

2 January at 17:24 | Open on mas.to
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