8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Part 1

Re:8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Part 1 by Two9A on Friday June 20, 2014 @08:27AM (#7920398)

I have, in the past, been forced to type an Xmodem transfer program into debug.com's hex mode, to get to the point where I can transfer files over a null-modem connection from another box. I can dig up the file in question, if that'd help you out at all.

I ended up typing it in 1k at a time, and independently typing in a CRC32 utility to check that I'd done it properly.

(That was to install Windows 98 on a computer with no drives, if I recall. So, not so very long ago.)

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Re:8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Part 1 by jacquesm on Friday June 20, 2014 @09:51AM (#7920665)

That's how I used to transfer files to my coding buddies.

On the phone, hex dump in S-record format, then read out loud while the other side would type in the line. Checksum matches? Next line...

Our respective parents were not too happy about this unplanned usage of their phone lines but it saved a ton of cycling.

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Re:8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Part 1 by sgt on Saturday June 21, 2014 @11:04AM (#7925152)

That's how you do it! What's the today's equivalent that kids do?

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Re:8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Part 1 by sgt on Friday June 20, 2014 @01:19PM (#7921669)

Yes, I would love to find that specific program - as there are several Xmodem transfer programs out there and I'd like to use one that's not only small in size, but also most likely to work.

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