anormal
Experienced Member
Hi!
I got this week a spanish PS/1 2011 (with a 30MB HD), working perfectly, no apparent faults.
I was thinking to build a boot floppy with some tools useful for testing.
I know this PS/1 has a 286, so, some of these tools probably don't work. I have to test them first.
I thought of somelike this:
- Benchmark : Topbench
- Debugger: Insight debugger 1.24 / Quaid Analyzer (may-90) / AVPUtil 2.2 ??
- Floppy disk testing/copying: snatchit (with Copy2PC 5.2) / Imagedisk 1.18 / Copywrite (may-92) / Quaid's Disk Explorer (oct-91) / Teledisk 3.23 / TestFDC
- Hardisk Tools: Spinrite 6.0? / some formatter / Speedstor ? / ... ?
- Hardware test : Checkit ? / i remember Norton has some kind of tools for this
- Hardware id : maybe a old HWinfo works in 286 ?
- File manager / viewer : Volkov commander with an old Hiew? o maybe there is a Biew compile for dos ?
- File compressor : Rar/zip/arj/lha (i remember arj was very used in DOS)
- Some antivirus? : i think this need another disk, too large ?
i've been testing compressing many of these tools with latest Upx with --brute commandline and everything is working fine :D
These are only ideas...
If you want to suggest something, whatever you think it could be useful in a disk like this ...
Regards!
I got this week a spanish PS/1 2011 (with a 30MB HD), working perfectly, no apparent faults.
I was thinking to build a boot floppy with some tools useful for testing.
I know this PS/1 has a 286, so, some of these tools probably don't work. I have to test them first.
I thought of somelike this:
- Benchmark : Topbench
- Debugger: Insight debugger 1.24 / Quaid Analyzer (may-90) / AVPUtil 2.2 ??
- Floppy disk testing/copying: snatchit (with Copy2PC 5.2) / Imagedisk 1.18 / Copywrite (may-92) / Quaid's Disk Explorer (oct-91) / Teledisk 3.23 / TestFDC
- Hardisk Tools: Spinrite 6.0? / some formatter / Speedstor ? / ... ?
- Hardware test : Checkit ? / i remember Norton has some kind of tools for this
- Hardware id : maybe a old HWinfo works in 286 ?
- File manager / viewer : Volkov commander with an old Hiew? o maybe there is a Biew compile for dos ?
- File compressor : Rar/zip/arj/lha (i remember arj was very used in DOS)
- Some antivirus? : i think this need another disk, too large ?
i've been testing compressing many of these tools with latest Upx with --brute commandline and everything is working fine :D
These are only ideas...
If you want to suggest something, whatever you think it could be useful in a disk like this ...
Regards!