It has been 0 days since I struggled to get a Java WebStart app working on a modern OS.
But here we are with ASDM running on Debian with Oracle JRE 8. (No, it won't run with OpenJDK.) I've had to disable a fair amount of security to get this running, because the best security an ASA5505 can do is TLS1.0 and SHA1.
Buy old ASAs, I thought. They'll be good for training, I thought.
In future I'm just going to buy old PCs with quad NICs and stick OPNsense on them. Or old EdgeRouters with OpenWrt.
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Honestly, I'd quite like to go back to working on Psion stuff soon...
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Well, as I've hit a dead-end with the firmware, I'm going to move on to IPsec VPN shenanigans. OpenWrt on a BT Hub 5a and Cisco ASA 5505.
And before anyone says anything, this is for training people, not prod. One of these devices is not safe to be used on the internet anymore, and it's not the BT Hub.
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HPE/Aruba making me jump through hoops to download firmware for low-end switches (OfficeConnect 1820) is NOT cool.
I'm not an organisation. I'm an individual who just wants some bloody firmware!
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Has anyone got any tips on converting #TASM and #MASM code to a more modern assembler like #NASM? Even just between TASM and MASM would be helpful.
I've got a few old bits of #Psion 8086 assembly that I'd like to use with NASM. My aim is to remove as many proprietary tools as possible.
I guess I'm looking for some sort of Rosetta stone for 8086 Small Memory Model assembly.
Books, web pages and video suggestions welcome.
[#]x86 #Borland #RetroComputing
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[#]InternetArchive has been invaluable for me while doing #Psion research over the past 6 years.
Long-dead personal websites with copies of old software and source code were retrieved from the Wayback Machine. Old manuals and software were easy to access from the main site. Invaluable information that would otherwise have been lost.
[#]DigiPres #RetroComputing
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The DDoS attack on #InternetArchive seems to have ended, so take the opportunity to change your password as soon as possible.
But be prepared to have to change it again... Remember, IA haven't yet officially announced that the security hole has been closed.
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Got a new toy! A #Psion HC120 corporate/industrial handheld. The HC range was the precursor to the Workabout range.
[#]retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #16bit #rs232
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Some day I know I'm going to go down a #COBOL rabbit hole.
Not today. Probably not in the next couple of years. But I just know it's gonna happen.
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Decided not to take part in this year's RetroChallenge. Work's been busy and I've not generally been in the best MH state to take on something new.
Instead, I've dipped into some #ctran stuff and started looking at #FreePascal unit tests with FPCUnit. I'm also doing a little research into the next SDK app I'll be rewriting.
I've also just made a purchase that I'll be showing off at RetroFest in Cambridge in November!
Still, as @miah said to me, every month can be retrocomputing writing month!
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@ActionRetro Hey! Hope all is well. Do you think you'll have a chance to upgrade this instance to 4.1.x or 4.2.x soon?
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I'm regretting not backing @mwl's #RunYourOwnMailServer Kickstarter when I had the chance. I've been seeing photos of paperbacks appearing through the letterboxes of various fedi users and I'm slightly jealous.
Might have to invest in a digital copy to stop the sad.
https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/ryoms-ebook/
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Speed of different versions of #ctran, processing a DEMO category file.
A 32-bit #DOS #FreePascal app (having to load CWSDPMI.EXE) will never be as fast as a 16-bit DOS C app, but it ain't bad. I'm pleased with the speed increase in the current version over 0.0.1 - better memory management using TList<> instead of concatenating arrays.
No idea why 5.02 is so much slower than 3.43.
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Just realised that FPCUnit is bundled with Free Pascal. As I'm looking for the path of least resistance, I'm going to use that.
EDIT: A handy PDF, too! https://www.freepascal.org/~michael/articles/fpcunit/fpcunit.pdf
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I'm ashamed to say that #ctran still doesn't have proper unit testing.
I'll be honest, I've been putting off learning how to use the frameworks available for #FreePascal - FPCUnit and FPTest (leaning towards the latter). I get the feeling I'm going to have to restructure the project to use them, hence my reluctance.
I had planned to start recreating another set of Psion SDK tools (EMAKE, EREMAKE and EDUMP), but proper testing needs to take priority.
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Just added a tiny but handy feature to #ctran, my implementation of #Psion's OO C preprocessor.
You can now set a default path for output files, rather than having to manually specify an identical path for each type of file you are generating. You can also override the default path for each file type.
It's only a handful of lines of code that I knocked up in 15 minutes. But it makes a massive difference when using it at the command line.
https://github.com/PocketNerdIO/ctran
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I vaguely remember reading that October is meant to be some sort of #NaNoWriMo for #retrocomputing projects. Did I get that right?
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OK #HaikuOS people. Who's going to explain to me what this is?
[#]AustinPowers #shagadelic
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Wanted a break from $dayjob work, so I thought I'd have one final go at #MAME 0.270 on #HaikuOS.
It feels like git commit -a isn't picking up every file it should, because manually git adding the missing files worked fine and MAME is now building!
Same thing just happened when updating the recipe for a different Haiku package (deark). I'd renamed a file, but git commit -a only picked up that a file had been "deleted", not that there was a "new" file to add. Had to quickly git --amend.
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Pull request created on HaikuPorts for MAME 0.269, including the switch to Haiku's own boost asio package, the fix for asio on R1B5, and the Psion SIBO ASIC5 serial fix.
MAME 0.270 will have to wait until I can work out what's going on with those genie/gmake files not being added to the patchset.
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