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  • Re: Ultimedia Audio NT Driver Complete

    From Christian Holzapfel@21:1/5 to lorenzo....@gmail.com on Sat Jan 8 10:42:07 2022
    lorenzo....@gmail.com schrieb am Mittwoch, 5. September 2018 um 22:38:31 UTC+2:
    Uli, are you still around? I've got a 7012-39H i'm restoring, and would like to use the 5.1 Ultimedia package you've created. If you can send it, or if anyone else has, please let me know !!

    And here another call for Uli :-/
    Anyone found the driver or still has contact with him?

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  • From Wolfgang Gehl@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 10 19:21:16 2022
    Am 08.01.22 um 19:42 schrieb Christian Holzapfel:
    lorenzo....@gmail.com schrieb am Mittwoch, 5. September 2018 um 22:38:31 UTC+2:
    Uli, are you still around? I've got a 7012-39H i'm restoring, and would like to use the 5.1 Ultimedia package you've created. If you can send it, or if anyone else has, please let me know !!

    And here another call for Uli :-/
    Anyone found the driver or still has contact with him?



    Hi Christian,

    So you want to torture your 42T with AIX 5L?

    Unfortunately, you can no longer reach Uli Link. As far as I know, he died.

    He probably did not finish his work on the AIX 5.1 Ultimedia package.
    There is preliminary work on libsydneyaudio, "a powerful, but easy to
    use cross-platform API for PCM audio capture and playback. So it would
    sit right on top of ALSA, pulseaudio, OSS, ... and abstract away all hardware-related complexity (e.g. having to check whether a card
    supports XYZ on ALSA before using it)." https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/libsydneyaudio/-/tree/master

    Kevin saved the older AIX 5L Firefox install files: http://ps-2.kev009.com/ulrich.link/ForAIX/Firefox/v5/

    Info on the latest build can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170625133530/http://linkitup.de:80/ForAIX/Firefox/fx35-aix51-19.html

    ... and the files are here:
    http://tenox.pdp-11.ru/os/aix/Software/Firefox/3.x/

    Uli's Thunderbird install files for 5L are here: http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Thunderbird

    and those for Seamonkey here: http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Seamonkey

    Regards

    Wolfgang

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  • From Christian Holzapfel@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 20 08:00:00 2022
    Sad to hear about Uli :-/

    I'm still getting to know that AIX universe, so possibly the solution is too trivial to be written down.
    Regarding AIX 5.1, it seems to be as simple as

    1) Installing bos.som from the AIX 4.3.3 CD1
    2) Installing the device drivers from AIX 4.3.3 Bonus Pack CD1 (e.g. devices.mca.8f96, devices.mca.dfe5)
    3) Installing UMS from AIX 4.3.3 Bonus CD1

    After that, you can run all the UMS examples within the media player, and all the common AIX games that require UMS (Quake, Abuse).

    After replacing the old HDD by a SCSI2SD adapter, the 7006 feels pretty snappy without all the milliseconds of access time. Switching between my 4.3.3 and 5.1 installations is as easy as swapping out the SD card.

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  • From Ryan Alswede@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 10 10:09:03 2022
    Yes I'm still around. No sorry I don't think I have my source code anymore.

    They now are making modern copies of MCA sound cards that are compatible with Sound Blaster drivers and games. You can find them on eBay.

    I'm still looking for AIX 4.1.5 or higher source code to understand the AIX MCA 100TX card 8f62 to get the start method "srent_open" device entry point.
    http://www.mouritzen.dk/aix-doc/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixprggd/kernextc/ethernet_dd.htm

    I have AIX 4.1.3 source code so maybe there is hope.
    I have the PCnet Family Win NT 4.0 source code from AMD.
    I have an adf file created for 8f62 based on AIX POS registers.

    Cheers,
    Ryan Alswede

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