So I decided to try running Gimp which has been installed here since it was ported.
First problem is HobX, while it runs fine on my OS/2 Ver 4 install, it comes up under eCS 2.1 complaining that it is an illegal install and then closes. Note that this is the version that Hob software gave away just before ending the OS/2 version of HobX and so is legal.
Next was to try and run it under X. Added the device=path\to\xf86sup.sys and rebooted and tried to set up X, something I haven't done in close to 10 years.
First tried with the VESA driver, no go so reverted to the VGA driver as it should work on damn near anything.
After some trial and error I got it to run far enough that it would crash in os2select before initializing the screen.
Went back to the VESA driver, applied what I learned getting the VGA driver to work, mostly fixing the mouse statement and tried running it.
Errorred out with no modes available. Looking at the log, all available modes are full of zeros. Weird as Panorama successfully uses the VESA stuff in the video bios.
Next was to try to run it on the Desktop using X. downloaded the DIVE driver and also the VNC server. The VNC server should be ideal, could actually rebuild X to use klibc instead of EMX and upgrade some software.
Managed to get it to come up in the PMVNC window, no proper background and twm working as Window Manager but no xterm window. Seems that an xterm can't get a valid PTTY under eCS and exits.
Has anyone managed to get X to run under eCS? Or even tried? Running on the desktop in a VNC window seems like a better solution then HobX and the way it pop open windows.
Also of course, I no longer have the HobX install that I installed, anyone know how to make it happy with eCS