[Simh] vector images

[Ken Cornetet]

msiexec /a pathtoMSIfile /qb TARGETDIR=pathtotargetfolder


From: Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Armistead, Jason BIS
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 9:41 AM
To: simh at trailing-edge.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] vector images

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<mailto: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<mailto: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<http://vector-archive.org>.

De

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