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A Roadmap for the OS/2 and ArcaOS platforms
Jan-Erik Lärka:
--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on April 01, 2023, 04:32:23 pm ---I would like to see modern WiFi on ArcaOS. The WiFi needs to come on automatically. if it can't connect to the last known access point, then it needs to find one from the previously used points. If it can't find one of those, then it can allow the user to do something.
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David A started to work on a driver arcitecture to be able to port drivers from FreeBSD for this or something like that, right? Didn't seem to be easy, but a basic driver for a certain chipset would be intreseting to see.
I haven't seen if there where progress, or if bumps in the road has appeared.
--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on April 01, 2023, 04:32:23 pm ---I want to see memory managed better, so that more memory is available to the system. Modern computers seen to have less memory available to OS/2 than 15 year old computers. Virtual Box offers 3.5 GB, better than any hardware ArcaOS that I have. The RAM disk in ArcaOS is admirable. I'd like to see it extended so that programs had some access to it more directly than file i/o to the RAM drive.
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Modern applications seem to be designed to use up a lot of memory, something that follow over and can't be avoided when ported to this platform.
Wouldn't mind if someone could do magic how ArcaOS/2 use memory and pass on to applications.
Regards
Neil Waldhauer:
--- Quote from: Jan-Erik Lärka on November 24, 2023, 11:05:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on April 01, 2023, 04:32:23 pm ---I would like to see modern WiFi on ArcaOS. The WiFi needs to come on automatically. if it can't connect to the last known access point, then it needs to find one from the previously used points. If it can't find one of those, then it can allow the user to do something.
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David A started to work on a driver arcitecture to be able to port drivers from FreeBSD for this or something like that, right? Didn't seem to be easy, but a basic driver for a certain chipset would be intreseting to see.
I haven't seen if there where progress, or if bumps in the road has appeared.
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A bigger matter than the driver is to manage connecting to access points and managing security. David had commented that the network driver was done.
--- Quote from: Jan-Erik Lärka on November 24, 2023, 11:05:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on April 01, 2023, 04:32:23 pm ---I want to see memory managed better, so that more memory is available to the system. Modern computers seen to have less memory available to OS/2 than 15 year old computers. Virtual Box offers 3.5 GB, better than any hardware ArcaOS that I have. The RAM disk in ArcaOS is admirable. I'd like to see it extended so that programs had some access to it more directly than file i/o to the RAM drive.
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Modern applications seem to be designed to use up a lot of memory, something that follow over and can't be avoided when ported to this platform.
Wouldn't mind if someone could do magic how ArcaOS/2 use memory and pass on to applications.
Regards
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I think you misunderstood my point. The hardware is taking more and more memory from the 32-bit address space. Of the 4 GB available, 2 GB or less remains on most recent systems. By comparison, Virtual Box leaves OS/2 nearly the entire 4 GB space.
You are right, though, about memory-hungry programs. I don't know how much longer one Chrome browser tab will fit into 32-bit address space.
Paul Smedley:
--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on November 25, 2023, 12:28:54 am ---You are right, though, about memory-hungry programs. I don't know how much longer one Chrome browser tab will fit into 32-bit address space.
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I regularly need to restart Chrome to avoid exhausting 16GB(!) of RAM on my linux laptop. Memory Saver (in newer Chrome) helps with this, but it's still a memory pig.
David Graser:
--- Quote from: Rich Walsh on November 22, 2023, 07:23:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: David Graser on November 21, 2023, 06:01:15 pm ---I noticed all the icons listed are not in the bigicons folder.
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That figures - it was always a mess. (Don't blame me :) I worked on the code, someone else handled the icons). I see it has been cleaned up a bit but still needs work.
Basically, don't worry about what's in the BIGICONS folder or in 'bigicons.txt'. Consider it a blank slate you can use to do whatever you want. Make a copy then delete stuff you don't want to support and add stuff you do - not just programs but WPS classes and file types too. It's your choice, not "theirs"...
To make things easier, open 'config.sys' and locate "SET BIGICONS=", then change the path to point at your icons folder. While your folder can be anywhere, the final product (say, 'DGicons') should probably go in 'x:\sys\icons' for consistency.
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Update:
It will be a few more weeks until I have something to test. Everything was such a mess, I can see why it hasn't gone much further.
I have made lots and lots of new PNGs to replace the icons that have no PNG equivalent. Making entries in the script for system objects that were not included along with new PNGs.. Still working on the text structure to something more easier to work with. Renaming icons so a person can know what icon it affects.
Now up to 323 PNG icons from a little over 200. I am thinking it may be close to 400 pngs when I am done.
I was wondering, if problems occur after testing, can I boot up and replace with an earlier WPShell backup before testing with another script?
Can one add comments to the text like one does with rexx scripts?
Jan-Erik Lärka:
--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on November 25, 2023, 12:28:54 am ---
--- Quote from: Jan-Erik Lärka on November 24, 2023, 11:05:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on April 01, 2023, 04:32:23 pm ---I would like to see modern WiFi on ArcaOS. The WiFi needs to come on automatically. if it can't connect to the last known access point, then it needs to find one from the previously used points. If it can't find one of those, then it can allow the user to do something.
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David A started to work on a driver arcitecture to be able to port drivers from FreeBSD for this or something like that, right? Didn't seem to be easy, but a basic driver for a certain chipset would be intreseting to see.
I haven't seen if there where progress, or if bumps in the road has appeared.
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A bigger matter than the driver is to manage connecting to access points and managing security. David had commented that the network driver was done.
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Focused on the way ArcaOS/2 behave to connect to access points and handle security is of course the next step.
Where are those drivers for wifi?
I've only seen drivers for ethernet.
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