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Messages - Olafur Gunnlaugsson

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Programming / Re: Liberty Basic for OS/2
« on: November 15, 2020, 10:08:26 pm »
Carl Gundel, the author of LB was on this site a year or two ago asking for help with a Warp setup so he could finish sorting out old bugs. You should also try True Basic, demo is on Hobbes, still available commercially although with limited or no support for USD 25, actually quite good in some respects.

http://www.truebasic.com/OS2

BTW Liberty Basic is a tad slow, its interpreter was developed in Smalltalk, which is not the ideal environment for such.

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Hardware / Re: AMD Ryzen 2nd generation processors
« on: October 26, 2020, 07:43:58 pm »

This board has real USB2, just not the actual connectors on the back plate

Connect a USB1/2 slot plate connectors or case connectors to the USB_3_4 or USB_5_6 headers on the motherboard, and you will have a working USB 2 slots that are hooked up to the AMD USB 2 implementation on the SOC, not the ASMedia USB 3.2 built into the B450. These are connectors 19 and 20 on the motherboard drawing, between the COM port header and the clear CMOS jumper.

Are you sure of that?  At the moment I have those headers connected to USB 2 ports on the case and a backplain strip and they require the XHCI USB 3 driver to work - I have not found a combination of USB 1.1 and 2 drivers that load and see them.

Disabled by default in the UEFI configuration I believe, it is a subfolder under the AMD CBS tab

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Hardware / Re: AMD Ryzen 2nd generation processors
« on: October 26, 2020, 07:38:05 am »
P.S. These are useful to have connected under any OS, Realtek based USB 3 Wi-Fi sticks and a number of USB audio solutions for instance, are prone to dropouts under USB3.

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Hardware / Re: AMD Ryzen 2nd generation processors
« on: October 26, 2020, 07:34:03 am »
The fact that the motherboard doesn't have any real USB 2 ports (those it does have are a subset of the USB 3 CPU/chipset) did make things a little 'sensitive' to start with - the trackball kept on locking up if I tried to click on something while waiting for something else to happen.

This board has real USB2, just not the actual connectors on the back plate

Connect a USB1/2 slot plate connectors or case connectors to the USB_3_4 or USB_5_6 headers on the motherboard, and you will have a working USB 2 slots that are hooked up to the AMD USB 2 implementation on the SOC, not the ASMedia USB 3.2 built into the B450. These are connectors 19 and 20 on the motherboard drawing, between the COM port header and the clear CMOS jumper.

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Internet / Re: The new browser / QT5
« on: September 25, 2020, 02:26:36 pm »
There's not many options besides the QT based browser. FF52 could still be ported and then the various forks such as PaleMoon could be ported. Really, now there is the Webkit browsers, Firefox and its forks.
Users of older PPC Mac hardware are truly blessed by Cameron Kaiser's work on TenFourFox. The Pale Moon/XUL project is also interesting as from it there has spawned independent forks for OS X Snow Leopard and even Windows XP!

I have an old PPC Mac and TFF is not exactly in great shape, as for Pale Moon it is buggy and the original author does not like forks, see: https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal/releases

Apart from that Feodor2 has been doing a bang up job

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Applications / Re: Arca / proxmox
« on: September 17, 2020, 11:50:38 pm »
It is the first time I hear about proxmox, I may be getting behind in the infrastructure market :)


It's a fork of OpenVZ (Linux only container solution, basically Ububuntu + limited virtualisation, it is not a true hypervisor) with bits of LXC transplanted onto it to give it a more generic OS support, as it stands support for anything that is not Linux is rudimentary.

It is supposed to work like Solaris Containers, but lacks in many respects.

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General Discussion / Re: OS/2 on a Via C7 desktop?
« on: September 12, 2020, 02:49:40 pm »
Some of those older Wise Thin Clients are actually crippled terminal or Zero Client devices, sometimes in the BIOS, even is some cases will only allow Wise's own Linux version to run and nothing else. After the Dell takeover things got better and for the last decade Dell and Wise branded TC's have been just re-branded Clientron devices (Which in fairness have some BIOS limitations of their own).

For TC's of that vintage I have had much better results using HP's, TECO's and in particular IGEL hardware to run OS/2 derivatives on.

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General Discussion / Re: OS/2 on a Via C7 desktop?
« on: September 10, 2020, 03:32:35 am »
I recently rescued a MicroATX motherboard with a Via C7 CPU.  it is a 2005 release, and would have winxp normallly,  The board has IDE, SATA, and USB.  Does anyone have any idea if I could get OS/2 Warp running on this hardware?
I run a couple of C7 systems for testing mostly, SNAP handles the graphics of all VIA/S3 graphics released up to VX900 (Ca 2009, a couple of them need to run in SNAP "compatibility mode") and the Via chipsets and ethernet controllers of that era were well supported by DANIS etc since they were the same as used with Intel boards with Via chipsets, the C3 to C7 family uses a Intel 370 bus basically.

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Multimedia / Re: Removing commercials from recorded TV programs
« on: September 04, 2020, 03:37:56 pm »
Are those files on the ArcaOS install disk?  If so, how can I extract just the java sdk files so that I can build the jar?  Can that be done without installing the update?

Should be, if not then: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/java/openjdk6_b27_ga5/openjdk6_b27_sdk_os2_ga5-20130217.zip

or

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/java/openjdk6_b27_ga5/

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Multimedia / Re: Audigy 2 ZS Notebook
« on: August 31, 2020, 08:15:50 pm »
This information is interesting Martin. I will check for more details. Until now I was checked only the old archived The Notebook/2 Site http://web.archive.org/web/20061019015429/http://www.os2ss.com/users/DrMartinus/nbdriver.htm#PCMCIA

Jonas Buys had an updated version of that site http://web.archive.org/web/20070224015317/http://www.os2warp.be:80/index2.php?name=nb2pcmcia

P.S. There was someone releasing updated versions of IBM's PCMCIA drivers and applications in the latter half of the noughties and distributing it from their homepage, but as I did not own a laptop at the time I did not have the presence of mind to download them and cannot remeber his name.

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Multimedia / Re: Audigy 2 ZS Notebook
« on: August 29, 2020, 02:32:40 pm »
Quote
(based in Ricoh RL5C746)

I may be wrong, but this device is more likely to be an SD card reader, with nothing to do with PCMCIA.


Ricoh RL5C746 is an old PCMCIA interface chip not an USB/mass media interface, it is sufficiently generic to work with some even older Ricoh PCMCIA drivers on Windows so there is a possibility it will do the same on OS/2.

BTW, the Audigy ZS Notebook is basically the same card as the later Soundblaster X-Fi Cardbus card except for the mechanical interface, I have one of those but no OS/2 based computer with a Cardbus interface to test it on.

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Programming / Re: Non-English programming questions - in English
« on: August 25, 2020, 05:06:27 pm »
When non-English speakers write programs, such as Rexx, SQL or C, what language do they write in?

For example in SQL - in English a query looks like

SELECT column1, column2 FROM thisTable WHERE someCondition ORDER BY column3

Does a Spanish speaker or German speaker write the same thing, or do they write the Spanish/German words for SELECT FROM WHERE and ORDER BY?

Likewise in Rexx, does everyone write DO UNTIL and SELECT , or do they write their own language equivalents?

IBM languages and the C class of languages in general were never fully localised, so they use English keywords but user generated input such as identifier names and so on may be in any language. A number of other languages especially those intended for end users rather than professionals such as BASIC, Comal, Pascal and LOGO are sometimes localised, LOGO in particular sees more use localised than in English. Some programming languages were originally in other natural languages and translated into English, so you may find code for PROLOG for instance in French and ALGOL was originally in German.

To make it more complicated some languages, in particular some database query systems and so on are partly localised, they use English keywords but defer to local conventions on number and word usage.

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I tried that "mod" and now I get a blank screen(well I did delete the logo) and my hard disk light stays on forever.  This is NOT an upgrade I had MS-DOS 6 and Windows 3.1 on the Fat(I think it's Fat and NOT Fat32) drive before.(and FreeDos before that). This is a sort of eraish-appropriate laptop(IMB Thinkpad 380Z).

UPADTE#3: Turns out that "mod" is for version 4 and I have version 3, so that's no good.

That technique also works in W3 and in v2.1 for that matter, I replace boot disk drivers all the time, the reason I asked is that as shipped W3 only sees hard drives of a certain size, simply because it was originally shipped in 1994 and HD's did not go above a certain size back then. The most common disk related problem when installing old versions of OS/2 onto hardware more modern that the OS itself (even computers from 1996/7/8) is that the drivers refuse to operate the hard drive because the BIOS is reporting size numbers back to the OS that the driver/OS thinks are impossible.

To fix this you need to 1) modify the drivers on the boot diskette and 2) Instruct the installer to copy the drivers from the boot diskette over the drivers the installer copied from the CD or floppy onto the hard drive because the drivers contained on the CD/Floppy install image are the same as the original, so will have the same error. This can also be done by hand by booting the modified floppy again after install and going into the command line and manually copying the files onto the drive.

This is explained in some detail in the original link.

IBM used to supply replacement driver install diskettes with fixes from FP40, but that site has sadly been taken down, but they do have a replacement driver set at: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v3.0warp/english-us/warpinst/ but it should be noted that this is outdated and the original method is recommended.

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My compute froze at "Loading system files. Please wait" after I told it to NOT reformat my C: drive. This is on real hardware and from floppies. What do you suggest I do?

is this after an install or an upgrade?

If so this could simply be outdated drivers loaded from the diskette, download and updated boot floppy and replace the drivers on the disk by the ones from the floppy, or roll your own boot disks as below:

https://www.elstel.org/OS2Warp/InstallUpdate.html#OwnBootDisks

BTW the boot floppy format is DOS FAT so it can be done from any system including Win10 or Linux with a USB floppy

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Hardware / Re: Odroid H2+
« on: July 16, 2020, 07:54:25 pm »

However - it does have SATA ports in addition to NVMe.

You can also use SATA M.2 boards.

BTW ASRock makes mini ITX and mini DTX boards that almost all support BIOS emulation, although they are mostly sold by the consumer division as mini PC's such as https://www.asrock.com/nettop/AMD/DeskMini%20A300%20Series/index.asp , but their industrial division actually sells most of those as boards as well:

https://www.asrockrack.com/general/Catalog2020.pdf

Turn to page 46 for a mini DTX board with some real power

a mini DTX board is the same with as a mini ITX board but a little longer

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