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The OS/2 Community and the next 2019 year
Andreas Schnellbacher:
There's not much we can do in 2019 for OS/2.
The system requires a recent browser
- QT 5
- QT 5 browser
and drivers to support newer hardware:
- USB 3
- WIFI
- RAM (> 2 GB)
- Fix/patch all remaining kernel problems with unloading high-loaded DLLs
- UEFI (install on GPT partitions)
- Video driver with more resolutions and better performance than Panorama/GRADD.
The hardware problems may be replaced with making the VirtualBox OS/2
extensions much more comfortable:
- Scroll messages on mouse scrolling (like AMouse)
- Act on the window below the mouse pointer (like AMouse)
- Larger video resolutions
- Shared folders (Valery apparently did a great job).
The distribution question from the past is finally solved with ArcaOS.
The future depends on that. Of course, sponsoring projects that gain
development is useful. Far behind that come other efforts. There exist
many of them, e.g.:
- Help with documentation of projects.
- Help with translation.
- Help with announcements of project progression.
- Make the source of abandoned software available.
- Write reports about how to use software.
- Develop software that is useful for others.
That's all not much different from that of 15 years before.
Gregg Young:
--- Quote from: Mathias on December 29, 2018, 12:17:40 pm ---
Currently I've got around 60% of all my DOS games running fine on ArcaOS, but 40%... well.. there are some issues like slowish execution, no sound, or it doesn't work at all.. no error messages whatsoever. - If "we" can establish ArcaOS and/or OS/2 in general to be THE DOS gaming platform, this will be helping a lot to make OS/2ish operating systems more widely known among gamers.
--- End quote ---
Hi Mathias
Have you tried the vcompat.sys driver? It claims to fix some things that will allow more DOS games to work. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/system/vCOMPATv035b.zip I'm not really a gamer so I can't say how well it works but it might be worth a look. It also addresses the 2GB disk size limit issue.
Gregg
Roderick Klein:
--- Quote from: Mathias on December 30, 2018, 01:01:18 pm ---Martin, whoa! Never knew ¨Enigma¨ had an OS/2 port! How cewl! - Liked the DOS version A LOT back then!
Also excellent web site, the OS2World Gaming one! Besides the vast ammount of games, it`s easy to filter and look up what you want! - Thumbs up! : )
In this case, I need to look through ALL the OS/2 games, as I could also imagine to show OS/2 games besides the DOS games too.
Of course optimising DOS games to run nicely in OS/2 and ArcaOS is a huge task. I know time is an enormous factor. Perhaps we can try some of the ¨well known¨ DOS games and optimise them to run smoothly with the current ArcaOS release. : )
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Was there not a couple of years ago also a website from an eComStation user who updated the migrate.exe database included in OS/2 to load DOS games ?
Its not that difficult if that would be stored centraly.
Martin do you remember that website I am talking about ?
Best wishes for 2019!
Roderick
Roderick Klein:
--- Quote from: Andreas Schnellbacher on December 30, 2018, 05:05:33 pm ---There's not much we can do in 2019 for OS/2.
The system requires a recent browser
- QT 5
- QT 5 browser
and drivers to support newer hardware:
- USB 3
- WIFI
- RAM (> 2 GB)
- Fix/patch all remaining kernel problems with unloading high-loaded DLLs
- UEFI (install on GPT partitions)
- Video driver with more resolutions and better performance than Panorama/GRADD.
The hardware problems may be replaced with making the VirtualBox OS/2
extensions much more comfortable:
- Scroll messages on mouse scrolling (like AMouse)
- Act on the window below the mouse pointer (like AMouse)
- Larger video resolutions
- Shared folders (Valery apparently did a great job).
The distribution question from the past is finally solved with ArcaOS.
The future depends on that. Of course, sponsoring projects that gain
development is useful. Far behind that come other efforts. There exist
many of them, e.g.:
- Help with documentation of projects.
- Help with translation.
- Help with announcements of project progression.
- Make the source of abandoned software available.
- Write reports about how to use software.
- Develop software that is useful for others.
That's all not much different from that of 15 years before.
--- End quote ---
Well in this case we need to provide financial support to BWW that helps to finish QT.
Being at Sigurd Fastenrath his OS/2 meeting in Cologne about 3 weeks ago, Lewis Rosenthal gave a Q&A to the people. He mentioned USB 3.0 is close to going into beta. And they are looking at UEFI.
What do you mean with bugs about loading DLL's high. Are these bugs reported to Arca Noae ?
Roderick
Dave Yeo:
--- Quote from: Roderick Klein on January 01, 2019, 11:52:15 pm ---What do you mean with bugs about loading DLL's high. Are these bugs reported to Arca Noae ?
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See the mozturbo thread, which actually started on the Arca Noae testing list. Basically when DLLs are loaded high and then unloaded, the address space is not released. Rich found the issue and filed an issue with Arca Noae.
Work around of not unloading the DLLs works good, for the first time in years I can get up time longer then 2-3 days. Had 8 days before the wind storm took out the power.
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