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Messages - Dave Yeo

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Internet / Re: Firefox and disck cache - not using it, but why?
« on: March 01, 2026, 12:09:57 am »
I seem to have the same behaviour here. With SM as well. Wonder if one of updates broke something.
One thing I do is keep the cache on my ram disk so as not to wear my SSD. On Firefox need to add the string preference browser.cache.disk.parent_directory and point it to where you want.
I'll keep an eye on the cache

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Hardware / Re: Problem with Panorama resultion
« on: February 27, 2026, 04:11:43 am »
You might be out of luck. Panorama depends on the video bios and sometimes that video bios seems to initialize different ports differently.
Hopefully others have other ideas. I'd suggest a ticket but if you're running 5.06 you're likely out of support.

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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« on: February 26, 2026, 12:34:05 am »
It should compile to 32 bit, above the poster says he is using it on XP, which is generally 32 bit.
Problem is that it would need a lot of porting. As I mentioned, we have some of the needed stuff such as the widgets but there are classes that need porting and who knows what else. I don't have the skills to compile iceweasel, if someone else did, I could probably compile iceape and icedove. Just like with our Mozilla where once Firefox was done, I could do SM and TB, though they still have a few bugs such as oauth2 being broke.

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Here it varies. Yesterday the site just timed out. Today it is working well so far.

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Programming / Re: Please test os2emx-cross-toolchain
« on: February 20, 2026, 01:36:23 am »
OK, got pissed off chasing a libiconv package so downloaded the source and installed it in /usr/local, remembered to run sudo ldconfig and,
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dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ i686-pc-os2-emx-g++ --version
i686-pc-os2-emx-g++ (GCC) 9.2.0
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Have to play with it later and look up cross-compiling.

Edit: Now I get,
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/home/dave/opt/os2emx/bin/../libexec/gcc/i686-pc-os2-emx/9/cc1: error while loading shared libraries: libmpfr.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Looks like libmpfr.so.4 is old and no package available. Have to build version 3 by the looks of it. Current is 4.2.2
Edit2: Ok, built a simple C program using configure and it runs on OS/2, both with -Zomf and without.
Test G++ next.
BTW, used,
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export CC=i686-pc-os2-emx-gcc
./configure --host=i686-pc-os2-emx --build=x86_64-linux-gnu LDFLAGS=-Zomf
Edit3: g++ also worked fine.

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Programming / Re: Please test os2emx-cross-toolchain
« on: February 20, 2026, 01:02:44 am »
OK, seems mc screwed up the untar. Running from the command line seems to have properly worked.
Now seems I have the wrong libiconv
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dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ i686-pc-os2-emx-g++ --version
i686-pc-os2-emx-g++: error while loading shared libraries: libiconv.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
And I don't seem to have iconv installed,
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dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ sudo apt install iconv
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package iconv is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'iconv' has no installation candidate

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Programming / Re: Please test os2emx-cross-toolchain
« on: February 20, 2026, 12:15:59 am »
Downloaded the latest tar.xv and untarred it under ~ Trying simple commands fail,
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dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ export PATH=~/opt/os2emx/bin:$PATH
dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ i686-pc-os2-emx-gcc --version
bash: /home/dave/opt/os2emx/bin/i686-pc-os2-emx-gcc: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ i686-pc-os2-emx-g++ --version
bash: /home/dave/opt/os2emx/bin/i686-pc-os2-emx-g++: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ echo $PATH
/home/dave/opt/os2emx/bin:/home/dave/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
ls -la does show the files with the x bit set.

Edit: This is current Linux Mint
Edit2:
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dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~/opt/os2emx/bin$ file i686-pc-os2-emx-gcc
i686-pc-os2-emx-gcc: POSIX tar archive (GNU)
and looking at the file, it does look like the exe tarred with ustar by komh.
I'll try different untar commands and/or installing ustar

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Storage / Re: Sharing drive between OS/2 and linux
« on: February 19, 2026, 10:31:44 pm »
Hi mauro, it is like giving a partition a drive letter on OS/2. Linux has a JFS (and HPFS) driver so mounting an OS/2 JFS volume gives you direct access to the file system without any overhead like Samba or shared folders.
Can even do fsck (chkdsk) on the file system which can be handy.

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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« on: February 19, 2026, 04:41:22 pm »
It should compile on OS/2, it uses UXP, the Gecko fork that PaleMoon uses. PaleMoon itself should compile on OS/2 but it would take a lot of porting. We do have the widgets etc from Gecko (Firefox) but it would be quite a bit of work from someone knowledgeable. And that's the problem, an interested programmer with a lot of time.

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Games / Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« on: February 18, 2026, 06:42:20 am »
Yes, I saw that after. Unluckily the only ones that make sense for our platform are surface and ttf. TTF does sorta work and fills up the desktop when choosing full screen. Not sure what would happen using a graphical mode.
Seems there are limits to the SDL surface, at least with Panorama.

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Games / Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« on: February 17, 2026, 02:25:03 am »
Hi Pete. look at the beginning of dosbox.conf,
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#   fullresolution: What resolution to use for fullscreen: original, desktop or a fixed size (e.g. 1024x768).
#                     Using your monitor's native resolution with aspect=true might give the best results.
#                     If you end up with small window on a large screen, try an output different from surface.
[\code]

Unluckily, any attempt to use other then "fullresolution=original" so far causes a crash. Only tried desktop and 1024x768. Otherwise, like you I get a small display, maybe 640x480 in the upper left.
Need to research what else can be used for "output" besides surface.

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Applications / Re: Apache OpenOffice port updates?
« on: February 15, 2026, 07:12:31 pm »
The problem with building OpenOffice is a requirement that is not commonly available and only the Bitwise developer had. I tried to build it at one point and that requirement stopped the build. Forget what the requirement was, probably a LIB and perhaps it can be recreated.
I should revisit the build.

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Games / Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« on: February 10, 2026, 06:52:22 am »
OK, I mis-understood. ALT-HOME may switch from window to full screen and back.

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Games / Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« on: February 10, 2026, 01:10:31 am »
Have you tried ALT-HOME?

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Programming / Re: Uconv in Dosbox-X
« on: February 09, 2026, 04:34:05 pm »
You should install \OS2IMAGE\DEBUG\SYMBOLS\OS2\DLL\UCV32.SYM from your AOS ISO and recreate the trp.

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