[Simh] vector images

[Christian Brunschen]

http://superuser.com/questions/307678/how-to-extract-files-from-msi-package
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// Christian

On 17 July 2015 at 05:50, Kevin Handy <khandy21yo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, they are there, in a file called "setup.msi", and nowhere else.
> So, as long as you ahve a windows machine that you don;t care if it
> installs older file on top of newer ones,  I had to re-install too many
> windows systems because of this, and finding all of the right install
> pckges, and figuring out the proprt order to reinstall them to get a
> working system was always a pain. msi is the old install format that
> comonly had this problem.
> However, I think I have come up with a painful, roundabout way to extract
> the files, maybe. If not, I was just curious about its memory mapped video,
> ans if the flexwriter emulation was useful enough to bother with. If this
> doesn't work, I'll just have to give up on it.
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote:
>
>>  > Many companies builf computers that  used this operating system, like
>>  > the altair, imsai, osborne, kaypro, and vector graPhics to name a
>>  > few.  Many years later, the rimh altairz80 emulator was written with
>>  > the abiliry ro emulate the vector graphic machines, but the only copy
>>  > of the necessary config and disk images was wrapped up in a miceosoft
>>  > install file called setup.msi.
>>
>> 1. Vector Graphic, no s.
>>
>> 2. Most of the stuff in the altairz80 kits is probably available from
>> vector-archive.org.
>>
>> De
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