Victor 9000 Updates

[westveld]

Lots of new stuff lately, figured I'd collect it all in one post (and miss a few things, probably)

Much credit to @pdevine @donohoe00 @FozzTexx
for figuring out a lot of stuff and getting the Mame port up to speed.
And to @BradC for the van load of hardware and software.

Intergalactic Commander (IGC)
Very basic Volkov / Midnight / Norton Commander clone
https://github.com/IntergalacticMicrosystems/Victor9000-Software

vtg_image_util
Utility to copy files into and out of disk image files
Supporting Victor floppy and hard drive images
GUI and command-line
https://github.com/IntergalacticMicrosystems/vtg_image_util

Archive mirrors of old UK Sirius sites
https://victor9000.com/oldsites/

Disk BIOS Custom Builds
The Victor 9000 has it's BIOS loaded from disk
The ROM BIOS is basically a hardware test + bootstrap only.
This is the source code and build system for it.
This allows us to build an MS-DOS boot disk with tweaks
or added hardware support or ? who knows what.
https://victor9000.com/disk-bios/v9k-disk-bios.html

ROM BIOS Source
Source for the Universal ROM v3.7 (F3F7)
Most of the work for this was done by FozzTexx
I tweaked it to match the 3.7 ROM
https://github.com/IntergalacticMicrosystems/Victor9000-ROM-source-F3F7

 

[nigwil]

Thank you for this excellent update, glad to see all this progress.

I feel we are getting closer to being able to do a port of Unix System III to Victor 9000/Sirius 1, exactly as they did back in the 1980s, at least to Alpha status. It was only distributed to a small number of dealers, but I saw it running, I would like to see it running again.

 

[westveld]

Thank you for this excellent update, glad to see all this progress.

I feel we are getting closer to being able to do a port of Unix System III to Victor 9000/Sirius 1, exactly as they did back in the 1980s, at least to Alpha status. It was only distributed to a small number of dealers, but I saw it running, I would like to see it running again.

Is the source for that in the wild somewhere? I'm not very versed in the olden days unix

 

[westveld]

Made some tweaks to freitz85's v9kramtest ROM port - support for testing up to 896k, and can be run with a single 4k EPROM (2732)
NOTE: No screen display (yet) - only serial output @ 19200
https://github.com/IntergalacticMicrosystems/v9kramtest

 

[nigwil]

Is the source for that in the wild somewhere? I'm not very versed in the olden days unix

No copy has ever been found, it was a set of 10 diskettes and need a 10MB hard-drive machine with I think at least 256KB, maybe 512KB of memory to install/boot.

There are enough pieces of Unix for Intel 8088 that have been found, that building it again using the Victor BIOS source codes is perhaps now possible.