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General Discussion / Re: OS/2 - ArcaOS Santa's List for 2025

« on: December 05, 2024, 09:25:35 pm »

OK, it uses GTK. That would be a huge job to port, much like Qt. While nice to have, I can't imagine it being ported.
It can also run in a browser, so that might be a possibility, though even for that there's a good chance it needs something we don't have, webgl or node.js.

My bad, Dave, I forgot about the strife we have with GTK. I take back most of what I said before 

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General Discussion / Re: OS/2 - ArcaOS Santa's List for 2025

« on: December 05, 2024, 08:20:35 pm »

Looking at the system requirements, the oldest setup Winflector could theoretically run on is a Linux environment from the latter half of 2007.

I'm optimistic that this could potentially be an "easy-win" for us, but as Dave said: it comes down to asking them about the required work & weighing it against the task of porting to PM & WPS.

My biggest thought on this is in regards to the vast majority of developers for new OS/2 software, who are hobbyists undertaking open-source projects in their spare time. I'm suspecting that Winflector would hardly be interested in a licensing deal for a platform so small, meaning that a successful implementation of this idea would involve a lot of unpaid work for a paywalled closed-source application; something which most open-source hobbyists rightfully do not want to deal with regardless of what benefit it might lead to.

One of the only saving graces would be if it so happens there is an industrial use/interest in such a service - I suspect this is not the case as AN would've likely gotten on top of it quite some time ago.

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Off Topic discussions / Re: Which Linux desktop for long time OS/2 users?

« on: August 14, 2024, 05:57:31 am »

I recall using it and its support for multi-screens was non-existent or buggy at best.

I use WindowMaker Live on one of my laptops....been a while since I fired it up --- though it is setup without multiscreen support in mind. ie extended desktop. WindowMaker goes weird when you force extended between more than one screen with arandr.

You're correct, but GNUstep has made notable steps towards resolving this. So long as you don't have a constantly changing screen layout, say a laptop being plugged into different workstations, you can get away with it. As a desktop user, it's smooth after some difficult initial setup.

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Off Topic discussions / Re: Which Linux desktop for long time OS/2 users?

« on: August 13, 2024, 08:13:29 pm »

For general computing, GNUStep(Windowmaker) works quite well for me. For certain applications that otherwise don't play well, XFCE is my go-to.

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Multimedia / Re: OS/2 (Startup) Sounds

« on: July 14, 2024, 06:22:44 pm »

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vJieRgZ5SkS9o7mw946nvIogELAFfyQB/view

Hello. The link is not public, it request for your to approval the access. It is something that always happens with the Google Drive GUI that is confusing.

Reards

Hi Martin.

Apologies for that, it should be fixed now.

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Multimedia / Re: OS/2 (Startup) Sounds

« on: July 14, 2024, 06:08:47 pm »

Here's a remake of the Warp 3 startup sound I quickly threw together in Audacity. I'm almost tempted to waste a bit of spare time throwing together some "updated" sound schemes.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vJieRgZ5SkS9o7mw946nvIogELAFfyQB/view?usp=sharing

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Multimedia / Re: OS/2 (Startup) Sounds

« on: July 14, 2024, 12:54:48 am »

First off, thank you kindly for reminding me of AVID. I happened across this website one late night and totally forgot it's name the day after.

While I don't have much to add, I just wanted to say that this is an excellent find! Aside from MELORISE and GLIDE, which were WAVs found in some version of MS Office, I haven't heard a lot of these sounds at this level of quality.

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Applications / Re: themes

« on: February 19, 2024, 09:27:04 am »

What were your steps to migrate eSchemes from eCS to ArcaOS?

Hi David. If I recall correctly, all that I had to do was copy over the eSchemes/ThemeMGR folder from eCS, under the same directory structure as it's found in eCS.

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Applications / Re: themes

« on: February 05, 2024, 04:15:13 am »

I'd just like to comment:

I bought eComstation 2.1 some couple of years before ArcaOS. When I eventually got ArcaOS, the first thing I did was migrate eSchemes and a few other programs that came with ECS - although if I recall correctly, it's called ThemeMGR in the installation files. For any who may be curious, it's worked perfectly for me across multiple releases of 5.0.x and now 5.1.

I believe AN is making use of a restricted version of eSchemes/ThemeMGR in order to get the look and feel that we have in ArcaOS, the dependencies are all there and usage of this program in the ArcaOS environment is way too simple for me to assume otherwise.

With all this being said, I don't think ECS can be bought anymore and even if it could be, it's probably not worth spending upwards of 100USD for a theme manager.

I tried to update my NeoWPS registration from Mensys.  Everytime it said an email was sent, I never received it.  I beginning to wonder if the US government is blocking it.  Buying software from Russia is becoming impossible.

The Mensys website has been gradually decaying for some time, I wouldn't be surprised if their mailer is acting up at this point.

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General Discussion / Re: when will version 5.1 of ArcaOS be released

« on: May 26, 2023, 03:44:33 am »

Hi Ibrahim

The Warpstock quote was from 2021-06-03. This is an old thread, I also got confused.

FYI: The Warpstock board is currently discussing the venue for Warpstock 2023.

Regards

Hi Martin, thank you for clearing that up. I'm glad to see that the Warpstock board is talking about venues, I was concerned that there just might not be an event this year. If 5.1's not public by then, it'll be a chance for us to get some much-needed answers!

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General Discussion / Re: when will version 5.1 of ArcaOS be released

« on: May 25, 2023, 09:45:46 am »

when will version 5.1 of ArcaOS be released?

When it's ready? Should be some more information at Warpstock on Saturday.

Pardon me, but I haven't seen any promotions or adverts for a Warpstock event in 2023 in neither the EU nor US sites, let alone that it is coming up on Saturday. Could someone share a link?

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Off Topic discussions / Re: Car rides etc, was Re: Qt6 Development

« on: May 07, 2023, 08:44:23 am »

As far as long roadtrips go, I've got a Trusty Suzuki Hayabusa which is my go-to for anything interstate.

On the matter of vehicles which refuse to die... The bike I had previous to my current Busa was a 1998 Honda ST1100 which was still going strong at the time I sold it. The odometer had just ticked over 350,000Ks and the bloke buying it got it specifically for a Melbourne to Perth trip. It still lives on as a middle-finger to Honda Australia 

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Programming / Re: Compiling OpenJDK

« on: April 10, 2023, 06:08:27 am »

Apologies if this sounds silly, but has the possibility of porting a Linux release of OpenJDK been considered?

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Programming / Re: Compiling OpenJDK

« on: April 08, 2023, 08:52:56 pm »

Well if nothing else, there is a b49 at https://github.com/openjdk/jdk6 (vs our current b27)

Edit: https://download.oracle.com/otn/java/jdk/6u45-b06/jdk-6u45-windows-i586.exe might help for the j2sdk-image directory

I see Oracle wants a login to download that Anyone all ready have one?

Dave, I have sent you a PM.

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: A Roadmap for the OS/2 and ArcaOS platforms

« on: April 04, 2023, 08:42:58 pm »

Quite a few ideas come to mind, but I'll list the ones I believe Arca Noae would be more likely to roadmap, at least in the long-term.

> A new release of OpenJDK: 1.6's time came and went some time ago, with it's LTS period ending just over 4 years ago. Given how many times it's been mentioned in Warpstock events since 2021, I'm somewhat optimistic that we will see this raised as a priority sooner than later.

> Improved memory management: As Neil has mentioned, a big peril of running ArcaOS on modern hardware is the increasing shortage of RAM which the user has access to. Having PAE would be a godsend and a half, but any kind of improved memory management is much welcome.

> An updated version of SNAP with support for more video chipsets: Moving away from VESA(Panorama) would not only help with performance/stability issues related to video playback and 3D rendering - it would resurrect an expansive library of software which hasn't been usable in quite some years due to being only GRADD-compatible. The last item in this list is an example directly affected by this.

> QEMU (or similar): Yes, I'm bringing this up once again. AN has stated their intentions on multiple occasions to address retro x86 gamers as a target demographic - even stating it to be the focus of a subsequent 5.1 update. Since we have WINOS/2 and DOS, adding the ability to run Windows 9x and maybe even early Linux distros would do quite well.