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Storage / Re: DISKIO - updated version in need of TEST
« on: Today at 01:02:44 am »
Diskio reads tracks and ignores partitions and file systems. Along with the rest of OS/2, it does expect 512 byte sectors but i doubt that matters.
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I have to say this is a bit of a shame. 20+ years worth of links on the Internet to the Hobbes archive don't work anymore. Several archives on Hobbes also have text files in them referencing other files on Hobbes by filename, which can no longer be searched since most of the names have been changed.
Would have been better to create a new index referencing into the old structure or something. As it is now, I've been using one of the mirrors listed in the main page to find the files with their correct filenames. And I have the original directory structure memorized..
Ah well..
I finally got a newer version of the old vi clone Elvis ( https://github.com/mbert/elvis ) working!
And now inquiring minds will surely like to know how you accomplished that
Hi Chris,
I have a vague memory of some Desktop background BMP's etc causing problems. You might want to move them all out of the way and see if OS2OOOC.DLL still crashes.
Remember that OS/2 and Windows BMP files have differences. Cant remember what they are at present as most of my stuff, including my OS/2 computers are packed up. PMView from memory can save a graphics file to either format, I had to save some Windows BMP files to OS/2 format to use as background images.
Not any of that image, irrespective of whether I saved them as OS/2 1.x or OS/2 2.x (with or without RLE encoding). It just choked.
As did that image as a JPG. I didn't try a number of options here.
Could it be the colour depth? If I get bored I'll try.
However, saving it as a GIF did allow it to work.
W:\OS2\BITMAP>file BIGBLU.BMP
BIGBLU.BMP: PC bitmap, OS/2 1.x format, 287 x 287
W:\OS2\BITMAP>file DTOP1680.BMP
DTOP1680.BMP: PC bitmap, OS/2 2.x format, 1680 x 0
W:\OS2\BITMAP>file DTOP1920.BMP
DTOP1920.BMP: PC bitmap, OS/2 2.x format, 1920 x 0
W:\OS2\BITMAP>file GARDEN.BMP
GARDEN.BMP: PC bitmap, OS/2 1.x format, 1024 x 768
Actually it didn't. So back to the gif.
The Virtual Box approach might work, but it appears that it needs the VBox Exensions. But worth playing with. I've had enough fun with local virtualisation for now... (see my next post).
-Chris