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« on: April 15, 2022, 10:19:42 am »Congratulations Mentore, proud father one can presume
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Congratulations Mentore, proud father one can presume
Guys...I do not want to be seen as only pouring fuel on the fire, but I honestly think it behooves us to come up with another browser option if the OS/2 platform is to survive in ANY sort of form and/or shape. This is BTW coming from a guy who's been running OS/2 ONLY on bare metal all these years...so you bet your "you know what" that committment is here!
Anyways, I bring back my suggestion to completely off-load the browser chores to a tiny bare metal platform where you can convert the darn box into an App server.
Literally, these things come in the tiniest of formats, some actually will attach to the back of your monitor's VESA bracket/mount and all you basically need is a power cable running to it (most are WiFI based, of course you can run a CAT cable if you want/prefer). Cost here is a couple of hundred USD, wide range of power hardware available, so you can pick something up for as little as $75. It is that cheap b/c it has no powerful GPU, crazy amount of RAM, or big SDD.
Combine that with a RDP solution like FreeRDP and our problems are nearly solved.
Heck, I'b be much happier pouring more money into fixing the current FreeRDP memory leaks than putting that cash into a native browser build.
Further on, we could all probably figure out the best combo to configure for our needs, and such a standard build could become an "off the shelf" solution for our use. Yes, I do literally mean: we should build an App Server image and make that available so that anyone else who wants to stand one of these tiny platforms just orders the hardware, dumps the image on there and installs FreeRDP on his/her current OS/2 box.
As they say: just my 2-cents!
Hi,
AVxCAT v2 has progressed
Many planned updates and new functions are now available (only 3 to 4 new options/changes aren't fully enabled yet)
I need more feedbacks about (not finalized) current beta. (ini file is maintained compatible with older release despite new entries are added)
Regards
Remy
As to Windows 10, my brother's opinion of it was to request me to order in an OEM base install of windows 7.
We followed some advice and disabled a whole lot of things, and Win10's idea was to download fixes and install + uninstall them. You boot the computer and go have dinner before it had finished booting.
Rufus does not even work on home-brew windows 7 isos either.
I wanted to know if there is an instruction similar to QBASIC Poke in Rexx
POKE &H00006281, 238 in rexx = ...
Saludos
Hi Mentore, good chance your stick is going bad. Being 4GB's (big enough), it is probably old. I've had a couple fail, always in subtle ways. One wouldn't boot and another failed to mount the ISO image.
As for programs like Rufus, remember that OS/2 can't access USB until late in the boot, so the installer starts out by installing to a ram disk and running OS/2 of of that.
Hi
At Warpstock there was a quick Q&A with Lewis and there was some talk about ArcaOS as a retro gaming platform.
There was some fast comment about gamepads/joysticks and DOS old games.
I asked on the FreeDOS mailinglist if there was something like a way to connect an USB gamepad and some "interpreter" that will allow old DOS games see it as a game port joystick. (So, in the end you can be able to play games that are supposed to use a game port joystick with an USB joystick).
Bret Johnson, that developed some USB device drivers for DOS (http://bretjohnson.us/) , answer me that it is possible with his driver, but under a very specific USB hardware set running FreeDOS.
The final idea will be to be able to support an USB gamepad under DOS VDM for old DOS games, but it seems we are still some steps behind.
I just post this as a discussion topic and maybe something of the open source DOS USB driver/program can be useful someday for the OS/2 platform.
Regards
Digi's SDL trps the same.I actually don't like the for cycle written above: (reported below)
What I think the bug is, is that it queries the list of possible full screen video modes, which here just returns one, 1680x1050 in my case, and then tries to go through the list of video modes to make sure they will work. At this point it crashes when trying to load the 2nd member of an array of one.
I'm not really a programmer and can't see the simple fix, I'll think on it some more.
The broken code is,Code: [Select]else {
IFDEBUG_VIDEO(sys_printf("xrick/video: SDL says, use these modes:\n"););
for (i = 0; modes[i]; i++) {
IFDEBUG_VIDEO(sys_printf(" %dx%d\n", modes[i]->w, modes[i]->h););
for (i = 0; modes[i]; i++) {
HI
I used PPWIZARD version 08.298 on OS/2 and the sources are gone, but is there an easy way to download my entire site?
https://web.archive.org/web/20160312220056/http://os2notes.net/
I was pretty surprised by how much of it still work too. Thinking about reviving it
Thanks,
Greggory
I'm waking this thread up after a long time. I started to write a REXX program to control the GL.iNet family of routers. These tiny routers can provide wireless support. But the user interface does not work with Firefox 45.
So I use curl and an API to control the router. So far, I can go to some WiFi hotspots, connect to them and surf the internet.
In order to do this, I needed to interpret the JSON file that CURL returns. So here I am. I used this:
* Filename: JSon2Rx.cmd
* Author: Jan-Erik
* Created: Sat Feb 23 2013
* Purpose: Interpret a JSon-file and place in stem
I found it had a problem with one of the files I got. So I tried this one:
/*
* Filename: fromJSon.cmd
* Author: JANERIK
* Created: Sat Feb 3 2018
Amazingly, this hangs my ArcaOS computer. I type
fromJSon curldns.txt
and it never completes. Is there something wrong with my computer, or is fromJSon.cmd doing something wierd?
Hi
Just in case, this weekend, I will take a full backup of hobbes and put it on Archive.org just to leave it archived. I guess nobody will get mad for it.
Regards
I just took a quick look at the latest QEMU, it would take work getting it to compile. For example, the configure script is hand written by Fabrice Bellard, so probably not too different from FFmpeg's configure but definitely no OS/2 support currently.
Perhaps if I get bored, I'll see if I can get it to compile, but right off, running configure dies with "ERROR: main directory cannot contain spaces nor colons" so it doesn't like that our sh's PWD returns the drive letter along with the current directory.
Guess the first step would be to find the patches that were used for the last port.