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Messages - Martin Iturbide

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Games / Re: Minecraft
« on: June 23, 2025, 07:05:36 pm »
Hello Jochen

I had been updating my games project (One Huge File Of Warp Games) and I will include ClassiCube.

I had updated the packaging with some icons and a little and basic readme. Let me know what do you think and if you want to update anything on it.

Regards.

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Article Discussions / Games with older SDL and FSLIB
« on: June 23, 2025, 05:08:53 pm »
Hello Again

I've been updating my OHFOWG project and I found some SDL games that does not work directly on ArcaOS.

They use an old SDL.DLL library (that is SDL 1.x) and some require "SDDHELP$".

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Games that require SDL.DLL

G:\WARP\A\Abe's Amazing Adventure
G:\WARP\A\Alizarin Tetris
G:\WARP\E\Enigma
G:\WARP\F\Formido
G:\WARP\H\UHexen
G:\WARP\K\KoboDeluxe
G:\WARP\L\Lopan
G:\WARP\L\Luola
G:\WARP\M\Marryampic2
G:\WARP\R\Rock Dodger
G:\WARP\S\sdlinvaders
G:\WARP\S\sdlroids
G:\WARP\S\sdlzombies
G:\WARP\S\snakeme
G:\WARP\S\still yet another sokoban
G:\WARP\T\Tiles World
G:\WARP\X\XRick

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Games that Requires FSLIB.DLL

G:\WARP\A\Abe's Amazing Adventure
G:\WARP\A\Alizarin Tetris
G:\WARP\A\Amoebax
G:\WARP\C\Cuyo\bin
G:\WARP\E\Enigma
G:\WARP\F\Formido
G:\WARP\H\UHexen
G:\WARP\I\InfinityCat
G:\WARP\K\KoboDeluxe
G:\WARP\K\Kuklomenos
G:\WARP\L\Lopan
G:\WARP\L\Luola
G:\WARP\M\Marryampic2
G:\WARP\P\Pingus
G:\WARP\R\Rock Dodger
G:\WARP\S\sdlinvaders
G:\WARP\S\sdlroids
G:\WARP\S\sdlzombies
G:\WARP\S\snakeme
G:\WARP\S\still yet another sokoban
G:\WARP\T\Tiles World
G:\WARP\X\XRick

But FSLIB.DLL also shows in some of the games. For what I know FSLIB is a library to allow the game to run in Full Screen, it also says that "SDDHELP$" is required.

My questions are:
1) Does it makes sense today to use FSLIB, or if there is a better alternative with SDL? I had seen games that with Alt+Tab I can get full screen in games like Tower Toppler without using FSLIB.

2) Does it makes sense to try to recompile this games to avoid FSLIB and "SDDHELP$", or it can backfire?

Regards

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Games / ArcaOS as a RetroGaming Platform
« on: June 23, 2025, 04:30:44 pm »
Hello,

I've been updating my OHFOWG project, and the idea of ArcaOS as a retro platform often comes up in discussions. I personally think it's a great concept, and here's my brainstorm of the key points needed to achieve that:

DOS VDM
DTAudio:
- Enhance DTAudio to finally enable sound within DOS VDM using Uniaud.
- Improve the DTAudio Win-OS/2 Driver for more stable performance in Win-OS/2 sessions.
- I would even prefer DTAudio to be open source. If not, perhaps it could be developed as a closed-source collaborative project under the Netlabs umbrella.

Win16 - Win-OS/2
I think it would also be beneficial to revisit Win16 games and identify which ones work well under Win-OS/2.
- Document any required extra runtimes or libraries (e.g., QuickTime, Windows Media) needed for games to function.
- Document and update information on running Win-OS/2 games, specifically with ArcaOS in mind.

Casual Gaming
SDL:
SDL is crucial for porting smaller casual games.
- Invest in making SDL, SDL2, and potentially SDL3 more stable under ArcaOS.

Win32 Gaming
ODIN:
I know it's a long shot to get all Win32 games playable under ODIN, but it would be good to improve ODIN incrementally. We could aim to bring it closer to the latest Wine version and document which Win32 games are runnable on ArcaOS with it.

Joystick Support
Wim Brul's USB joystick drivers are excellent. He managed to modify the old game port driver to allow games that use it to work with USB joysticks. I would suggest:
- Completing a General Availability (GA) version of the drivers.
- Creating a graphical user interface (GUI) to help users configure different USB gamepads and joysticks (currently done via REXX scripts).

What do you think? What are your comments, and what am I missing from this brainstorm?

Regards,

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Games / Re: Please test - OpenTTD v12.1
« on: June 21, 2025, 04:13:05 pm »
Hello

I would prefer to try SDL2.

Regards

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Applications / Mouse Cursor disapear.
« on: June 21, 2025, 04:11:07 pm »
Hello

It happened to me a that I have a miss behaved application (in this case sdlmame with an older SDL12.DLL) that I had to kill with TOP.

The desktop came back, but no mouse pointer is showed. The mouse is working because if I can click randomly it clicks, but I it does not show.

Do you have a technique the get the mouse pointer back without a reboot? The reset the WPS does not help with that.

Regards

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Virtualization / Re: Win-OS/2 - Open vbesvga.drv video driver
« on: June 21, 2025, 03:49:39 pm »
Hello

I just tested it today in my T14s (UEFI). 
Win-OS2 runs fine with the default ifgdi2vm.drv, but the mouse clicking is choppy. I have to click two or three times to get it. I can notice the difference with Win-OS2 windowed mode.


The moment that I change:
 driver.drv=ifgdi2vm.drv
for
 driver.drv=vbesvga.drv
It hangs the desktop when I run Win-OS2 Full screen. I got to use TOP to kill the session. (I guess this is exactly what David reports)

In my case is not working with UEFI.

Regards

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Virtualization / Re: Win-OS/2 - Open vbesvga.drv video driver
« on: June 21, 2025, 03:19:52 pm »
Hello

Just in case the author released an updated yesterday, v0.7.2 (2025-06-20).
- https://github.com/PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv/releases

In my ArcaOS 5.1.1. VM (as VirtualBox Guest) it keeps working fine at 1920x1080.

I have pending to try it on EFI and BIOS hardware.

Regards

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Games / Re: Strange but good fork of MAME for OS/2
« on: June 20, 2025, 05:55:54 pm »
Ohh the good old days !!!

Thanks for reminding me that we have MAME on OS/2.

Just in case there are some Free for non commercial use ROM here:
- https://www.mamedev.org/roms/

Regards

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Games / Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
« on: June 20, 2025, 12:19:28 pm »
Hello

I had been using this SWF converter online:
- https://pdfrecover.herokuapp.com/swftoexe/
I selected Flash 9 r277

Regards

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Games / Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
« on: June 20, 2025, 06:26:42 am »
And High School Musical 3 Pinball, and Free World Game Pinball.

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Games / Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
« on: June 20, 2025, 06:00:40 am »
Here it is CrazyBall (A Pinball game) that you can play with the left and right keys.

I convert it from swf to exe and it seems to run with Odin. Give it try.

Regards

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Games / Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
« on: June 19, 2025, 05:08:22 am »
Here are the others.

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Games / Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
« on: June 18, 2025, 10:59:35 pm »
Hi

The game called Cocotte.exe is called Eierjagd.

What do you think shipping it this way?

Regards

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Games / Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
« on: June 18, 2025, 10:17:28 pm »
Hello

I just confirmed on my Vanilla VM that the flash games run with "pe eggs.exe" (or the other exe files).

Regards

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