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Games / Re: Daggerfall in DOS window

« on: January 14, 2025, 09:14:20 pm »

I'm familiar with DOSBox.  I just wanted to try it out with built in DOS.  I was wondering if anyone else got this working.

I like DOSBox, but probably would stick with Haiku if I needed DOSBox.

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Games / Daggerfall in DOS window

« on: January 14, 2025, 05:49:31 am »

Hi.  I can run daggerfall in DOSBox on a Mac, but have been unsuccessful in doing so in a dos session on OS/2 Warp 4.52.  Has anyone been successful with this?

Other games from my FreeDOS partition work in OS2 DOS sessions.

Update:  I found out about Z.CFG, made the path changes.  Now no error, just a black screen.

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General Discussion / Desktop Icon Placement

« on: January 04, 2025, 04:36:48 am »

Hi.  I am unable to get OS/2 to remember desktop icon placement.  Whether I set layout as gridded or as placed, and whatever I do in sort.

After a reboot, icons seem to be placed randomly.  Whats the best way to resolve this?  I'm having similar issues with folder view settings.

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Setup & Installation / Re: OS/2 Multi-Boot on T42p

« on: January 03, 2025, 11:20:58 pm »

Thanks for that.  That's helpful, although I did figure it out in the meantime.  So I can now unzip things, but I'd like to look into that.

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Setup & Installation / Re: OS/2 Multi-Boot on T42p

« on: January 03, 2025, 10:41:29 pm »

Update to 14_104a worked.  Thanks.

Side note, what unzip program is the best?  I have been unsuccessful unzipping anything.

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Setup & Installation / Re: OS/2 Multi-Boot on T42p

« on: January 03, 2025, 08:12:05 am »

Thanks.  This page: https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Updating_OS/2_Warp_4.52

Lists apars not included in fixpaks.  I can not find these in any of the archives.  Should I have them?

I appreciate your help.  Regardless of updates, I'm looking forward to actually using the OS, not just try to get it working.  I should probably watch some tutorials because the UI is somewhat foreign to me.

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Setup & Installation / Re: OS/2 Multi-Boot on T42p

« on: January 02, 2025, 10:25:44 pm »

So the update that caused a problem last time worked out fine this time.

Regarding fixpaks C005 and C006, I read that C006 could cause issues.  Is there any reason I should update?  Will I miss out on anything or have any issues not updating?

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Setup & Installation / Re: OS/2 Multi-Boot on T42p

« on: January 02, 2025, 10:08:28 pm »

Oh, I fixed it.  How?  Well, I just tried it again today and it's working.  I tried many times and many reboots yesterday and same issue.  Did absolutely nothing today but try it and it worked.

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Setup & Installation / Re: OS/2 Multi-Boot on T42p

« on: January 02, 2025, 07:48:59 pm »

So I did a reinstall.  Still worked out well with the multi-boot.  Maybe the trick is to do the partitioning from within OS/2, instead of the installer.  So install, boot, do necessary partitioning like removing the boot manager partition.

Anyway, I did the reinstall.  Got some new errors.  Also it seems quite slow now, but maybe that's my imagination.  The error I got was trying to install C005 fixpak. (D003 same thing).  Complains about CSF_SEL.000 file.  I can't find this file.  The reader included with the FIX.CMD tool suggests it happens after attempting to use CSF 1.37b after 1.44, but I did it the same way as last time as far as I know.  What a mess!

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Setup & Installation / Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman

« on: January 01, 2025, 11:12:16 am »

Maybe that was never generated as part of the update, and that's why there is still an update.  I don't think I have that.  I'll check it out and see, if not, I'll just give in and reinstall.

Thanks for all the help, and Happy New Year.

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Setup & Installation / Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman

« on: December 31, 2024, 09:23:45 pm »

Same issue even with those.  What is IBMCSFLK.LST?  It seems like the exe calls that?

I'm about to just reinstall, but don't want to mess up my multi-boot.

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Setup & Installation / Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman

« on: December 30, 2024, 11:10:36 pm »

The two lines I rem'd relate to this.

After I rem that, things seem fine on boot, but I can't install anymore CSF service fixpaks because there is still one "pending".  That happens even with original Config.sys from original
Install.

I would just try to do the install again, but CSF complains about the pending.

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Setup & Installation / Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman

« on: December 30, 2024, 10:59:42 pm »

Actually maybe it just can't find IBMCSFLK.LST.  Search turns up nothing.

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Setup & Installation / Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman

« on: December 30, 2024, 10:54:22 pm »

3 of 3.  I did copy that DLL and have the same result.  It seems like IBMCSFLK.LST might be locked.

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Setup & Installation / Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman

« on: December 30, 2024, 10:52:48 pm »

2 of 3.