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Doug Bissett:

--- Quote from: Larry on March 18, 2013, 02:21:41 pm ---Thanks again Doug. I know about GPL software such as WINE. There was another one too, but it became a pay-for software after a few beta releases. Anything you have to "pay for" on Linux I tend to ignore pretty quickly. IBM? 1992? Doesn't retiring at a young age mean you quit or they laid you off? Or did you win the lottery? Haha.
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It was a bit of every one of them.  :D   At the time, IBM was downsizing, and they made all employees an offer I couldn't refuse. I don't think they realized that I had enough time in to qualify for early retirement, and expected me to stay. Fooled them.   :)


--- Quote from: Larry on March 18, 2013, 02:21:41 pm ---Having some issues running eCS right now in VirtualBox, but going to try a few things before I try a more updated beta/demo version.
(I've determined SNAP works, Panorama hates it.)
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It is usually better to install using GRADD for video, because the extensions (to integrate the eCS desktop to the host desktop) simply replaces the GRADD driver.


--- Quote from: Larry on March 18, 2013, 02:21:41 pm ---If you're curious as the what issues I'm having. First it froze up VB after Phase 1, I tweaked a few settings, got to almost the end of Phase 2. But when I woke up this morning after seeing it boot up, and having a desktop before I went to sleep, it boots past the graphical logo to get an error: "The system detected an internal processing error at location ##0168:fff1da1f - 000e:ca1f". So I'm going to try HPFS instead of JFS. If it fails this time, I'm going to see if I can effectively "skip" phase 2.
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Phase 2 installs most of the stuff that you need.


--- Quote from: Larry on March 18, 2013, 02:21:41 pm ---Update: as of 10am(EST), I now have a working install. I don't know why VB/eCS worked better with HPFS as opposed to JFS, but it did. Didn't tweak too many of the settings in the installer, besides making sure it was just using IDE. It had "Floppy" set on USB, which I don't have a floppy usb drive, so I set that to 0.

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The floppy setting is not important. It puts a zombie floppy drive into the Drives object, that does nothing, until you plug in a USB floppy drive, if it is set to 1. 

I remember that I used HPFS for the boot volume, and it works fine. If you create a second drive, in the virtual disk, it works properly with JFS.  I think that VBox has some sort of incompatible setup that the OS2 loader doesn't comprehend when used with JFS, but I never followed up on that. It seems to be a fault in VBox, because booting from JFS on real drives works well.

walking_x:

--- Quote from: Doug Bissett on March 18, 2013, 06:22:03 am ---DVDDAO is supposed to have support for BlueRay, but I don't know if it works.
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It works, really... I'm wrote some disks on 8x speed (36Mb/s) - on PC with danis... Nice result for 14 years old system and 16bit SATA driver ;)

Doug Bissett:

--- Quote from: walking_x on March 21, 2013, 12:23:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: Doug Bissett on March 18, 2013, 06:22:03 am ---DVDDAO is supposed to have support for BlueRay, but I don't know if it works.
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It works, really... I'm wrote some disks on 8x speed (36Mb/s) - on PC with danis... Nice result for 14 years old system and 16bit SATA driver ;)

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Thanks for that. Can you read the BlueRay disks with OS/2 (eCS)?

walking_x:
I use it only for backup, so never tried to insert a movie ... but my own written disks can be read - both in cfds and udf format.

lmotaku:
As long as the hardware drivers detect that the bluray drive is readable, I suppose it's then up to the software on eCS to determine that. I suppose VLC could do this job.

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