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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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Marketplace / Ultrabay HDD (62P4554)

« on: December 29, 2024, 07:07:03 am »

Does anyone have an Ultrabay IDE adapter for a T42p thinkpad?  Part number: 62P4554

Also may be interested if anyone is selling a T42p with flex view.

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

« on: October 14, 2024, 10:06:23 pm »

Hi.  I successfully installed OS/2 Warp 4.52 (14.086) on my Thinkpad T42p.

I had some issues at first but resolved then with the Scitech video driver.  I tried to figure out my boot situation from other posts here, but was getting a bit overwhelmed.  I was hoping someone might be able to offer advice for my particular case.

I partitioned the drive into 3 primary partitions. Windows, OS/2, and BeOS.  Then I made 4 logical partitions for Haiku, and other projects that I hadn't gotten to.  I installed OS/2 to partition 2, and it was working up until I installed the BeOS Bootman.  Boot Manager installs into the MBR, and boots the partition.  I'm assuming OS/2 boot manager also installs to the MBR, because I was unable to use the BeOS boot manager to boot the OS/2 partition.  No errors occur, it just appears to be in bootable.

Is there an advanced way to install OS/2 to not use the MBR?  I want to use BeOS as I already know it can boot my other partitions.

Some options I think I have:

Can I use some boot manager like Lilo installed into a different partition to boot OS/2? (I can use this for other OS's.

Can OS/2 be booted from a PCMCIA to CF card that I have in the Thinkpad?  I'm unable to see it from OS/2 and don't know if there is a driver I need.

Is there a way to install the OS/2 booter directly into the OS/2 partition, and if so, how would I do that?

I appreciate any help to my long winded question. :-)