[Simh] vector images

[Christian Brunschen]

>From the link I posted
<http://superuser.com/questions/307678/how-to-extract-files-from-msi-package>,
Lessmsi <http://lessmsi.activescott.com/> seems to be a good solution.
Requires a Windows system to run, but isn't going to be overwriting
anything.

// Christian



On 17 July 2015 at 15:41, Armistead, Jason BIS <Jason.Armistead at otis.com>
wrote:

>  Surely it is possible to extract files from SETUP.MSI without running
> the installer.  Someone must have the tools to do this (either commercial
> or freeware perhaps ?).
>
>
>
> Another alternative is to run a virtual Windows OS image inside something
> like VirtualBox, thus avoiding any problems “destroying” your day-to-day
> Windows host system (if you even have one).  I you didn’t specify what
> Windows version the rimh altairz80 emulator requires, so this may or may
> not be possible.  Other alternatives to VirtualBox might be something like
> the Bochs IA-32 emulator.
>
>
>
> *From:* Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] *On Behalf Of *Kevin
> Handy
> *Sent:* Thursday, 16 July 2015 8:50 PM
> *To:* Dennis Boone
> *Cc:* simh at trailing-edge.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Simh] vector images
>
>
>
> 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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