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Graphics and Window Design / EDM/2 Logo Request
« on: November 02, 2025, 03:36:45 pm »
Hello David

Here I have a request. I think we need a new logo for the EDM/2 wiki.  I want to give an idea to Adrian to see if he approves the change.

Here it is the latest logo for reference. Do you think you can please help me out with some ideas. If you can generate the logo in vectorial (SVG) format it will be desirable.

Regards

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General Discussion / Spam Bots
« on: November 01, 2025, 03:56:34 am »
Hello

I'm trying some available tools to try to slow down the bots spamming the site.
Please let me know any strange behavior that you may find on the site.

Regards

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Applications / BrainStorm: Best Classic OS/2 Software
« on: October 16, 2025, 11:18:20 pm »
Hello

This is my typical brainstorm question where there is no right or wrong answers.

The question is: Which OS/2 software that is close source (Shareware, Freeware, Commercial, Abandonware, etc) do you think it is so good we should offer money to the author to open source it ?

Let's do not worry if it can be possible to open source it, or we have or not the money to offer something, just dream away on the brainstorm.

Regards

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Applications / Dynamic Icons Issue
« on: October 02, 2025, 05:23:55 pm »
Hello

What do you think it is the issue that is shown on the pic?
The PNG files on the upper folder does not show as thumbnail icons.

It is ArcaOS 5.1.1 with Dynamic Icons 2.5.6

Regards

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Events / Warpstock 2025 - Nov 7-9
« on: September 22, 2025, 03:55:33 pm »
Hello Guys

If everything turns right I will be going to Warpstock 2025 this year.

Since I'm also on the Warpstock board, I'm open to suggestions on what do you want to see or talk this year.
If someone wants to do a remote presentation, please let me and/or Neil know.

Regards

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Applications / New Ports Testing
« on: September 15, 2025, 12:50:11 am »
Hello

Tellie was kind enough to port Drawpile 1.0.6 to OS/2.

"Drawpile is a free software collaborative drawing program that allows multiple users to sketch on the same canvas simultaneously. Open Source Software."

Requires Qt5 - "yum install qt5-qtbase qt5-qtmultimedia qt5-qtbase-gui"

Please give it a try and let me know.

Regards

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Article Discussions / OS/2 Package Boxes - Collection Items
« on: August 26, 2025, 05:28:52 pm »
Hello

I started to create this gallery of OS/2 box packages in the OS2World wiki some time ago. Call it craziness if you want, but I think it will help collectors and general OS/2 fans to know what was out there.

I wanted to document the part number of the packages and if possible trying to list all the content with the part numbers too.

If you want to check it out I think the best way is to surf under this wiki category.
https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:IBM_Product_Package

If you want to help me, if you have an OS/2 box and can share your pictures and list the contents of it with the part numbers, just contact me or post here the pics. I know I'm still missing a lot of languages.

Regards

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General Discussion / Looking for files from "ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs"
« on: August 13, 2025, 05:42:45 pm »
Hello

I'm trying to find this file
- ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/os2_text_files/ar5.txt

If someone has a way to get it, please let me know.
Or if someone has a copy of all the directory it will be good put on archive.org.

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
* Done - G:\WARP\A\Alizarin Tetris
* Issues - G:\WARP\E\Enigma
* Done - G:\WARP\F\Formido
* Done - G:\WARP\H\UHexen (replaced with UHexen/2)
* Issues -G:\WARP\K\KoboDeluxe
* Done -G:\WARP\L\Lopan
* Done -G:\WARP\L\Luola
* Done - G:\WARP\M\Marryampic2
* Done - 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
* Done - G:\WARP\A\Alizarin Tetris
G:\WARP\A\Amoebax
* Done - G:\WARP\C\Cuyo\bin
* Issue - G:\WARP\E\Enigma
* Done - G:\WARP\F\Formido
* Done - G:\WARP\H\UHexen (replaced with UHexen/2)
G:\WARP\I\InfinityCat
* Issue - G:\WARP\K\KoboDeluxe
G:\WARP\K\Kuklomenos
* Done -G:\WARP\L\Lopan
* Done -G:\WARP\L\Luola
* Done - G:\WARP\M\Marryampic2
G:\WARP\P\Pingus
* Done - 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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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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Games / Revisiting some Flash Games
« on: June 18, 2025, 05:15:19 pm »
Hello

I was contacted to revisit some old flash games and I wanted to give it a try.
I think it will be worthy to document the working flash games with Odin and possible also include those in Hobbes in some way.  Maybe adding a install.cmd script to add an icon on the desktop, and include an PNG and ICO file for each. (I'm still brainstorming this)

I don't remember installing Flash on my ArcaOS VM and they work. Maybe the flash engine is embedded on the .exe.

Give a try this ones, run it like "pe eggs.exe" from the command line.
Do they work directly for you?

Regards

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Hello

I think I missed this article at it's time. It was posted on June 22, 2020, and it tells the story on how Scott Schweitzer created the first OS/2 install CD for the "OS/2 Professional Developer's Kit (PDK)".

- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-first-ever-os-install-cd-scott-schweitzer-/

Regards


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Programming / Request: Compile "Tower Topper" (aka Nebulus)
« on: May 11, 2025, 10:20:22 pm »
Hello

Can someone please help me to compile "Tower Topper" 1.3 to AcaOS ?
It uses SDL 2 now. (Dependencies: SDL2_mixer  (with ogg support if you want music), sdl2 and zlib)

Here it is the source code: https://gitlab.com/roever/toppler/

Here it is the old one, just in case: https://www.os2world.com/games/index.php/native-games/strategy/301-tower-toppler

I will like to understand better the makefile to see if I can do it by myself as an exercise.

Regards

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Applications / Apache and PHP
« on: April 12, 2025, 04:47:38 pm »
Hello

I just got a request from a user and he wants to know the latest Apache and PHP libs port for OS/2.

My guess is:
- https://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/server/web/ApacheHTTPSrv_2-4-52.zip
- https://smedley.id.au/tmp/php-5.6.40-os2-20201213.zip

Is that correct?

Regards

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