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General Discussion / ArcaOS - OS/2 - GUI Improvements Suggestions Discussion

« on: October 11, 2024, 06:06:36 pm »

Hello

At the Warpstock round table discussion, there was a little moment to talk about there should be some GUI improvements for ArcaOS, and I think it is good to write the down somewhere and discuss it on the open.

The question is, based in your experience with different OS GUIs, what do you think it could be interesting to have in ArcaOS ?

My ideas/suggestions will come in a while.

Regards

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Applications / Dynamic Icons - Not Showing Thumbnail Icons.

« on: September 09, 2024, 11:14:37 pm »

Hello

I was wondering about this issue with Dynamic Icons.

- First I turn Dynamic Icon on for all the desktop. "System Setup - Workplace Shell" under the "Icon Size" tab, "Icon Display = Dynamic Size".

- Second, I set "SET BIGICONSPATH=C:\SYS\ICONS\BIGICONS" or any other icon theme.

The issue is that if you you can not no longer see the icon thumbnail (?) that PMView can do that to an PNG, BMP or PTR image. I think it puts the Thumbnail on the EAs or something.
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Workaround 1: There is a work around to disable "Dynamic Icon" on the folder, but it is more like a workarround instead of how one will like to see the icons. And also the icons will get smaller to the default size.
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Workaround 2: Remove the PNG, BMP, PTR images from the PNG Icon Theme. I like this one since the icons are not small, but for the other images that does not has "thumbnail" it will not show the icon of the theme.
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Do you think it will be good to request the author to try to find some solution for this? Like trying first to display the "thumbnail" of the image file instead setting the default image icon first by default?



Any other workarounds? Did my issue makes sense ? (sometimes it is hard for me to explain desktop/GUI things  )

Regards

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General Discussion / OS/2 Box Collection Wiki - Questions

« on: September 06, 2024, 02:18:16 pm »

Hello

Any idea how can I recognize if this OS/2 Warp 3 Media Packages boxes represent the Red or the Blue spine?

- IBM OS/2 Warp 3 - German - 24H1371
- IBM OS/2 Warp 3 - Italian - 24H1146
- IBM OS/2 Warp 3 - Italian - 24H1300
- IBM OS/2 Warp 3 - UK English - 24H1143

Regards

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Events / Warsptock Presentation: Remarkable Software of Last Years

« on: August 18, 2024, 06:03:37 pm »

Hello

This year I want to make my Warsptock Presentation about what software releases for our platform had been remarkable this last year (or last two years).

I have some in mind, but I also wanted to ask you what software updates had been remarkable for you on the last two years. Let me know.

About my trip, I think everything will be fine, but I'm still short on money for the hotel nights. Any donation is welcome at the main OS2World page donate button.
Any other suggestion for Warpstock is also welcome.

Regards

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General Discussion / Olympics 2024 OS/2 Warp Meme

« on: August 08, 2024, 09:49:41 pm »

Sorry guys, I couldn't resist.



https://x.com/OS2World/status/1821637068147065208

https://www.facebook.com/os2world/posts/pfbid...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_Dike%C3%A7

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Utilities / YUM Issue - Error: database disk image is malformed

« on: August 06, 2024, 09:34:51 pm »

Hello

I'm getting this errors:

[C:\]yum install media-downloader
arcanoae-rel         | 1.9 kB  00:00
arcanoae-rel/primary |  27 kB  00:00
netlabs-rel          | 2.9 kB  00:00
netlabs-rel/primary_ | 2.7 MB  00:02       ] 431 kB/s | 2.1 MB  00:01 ETA


[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/@unixroot/var/cache/yum/netlabs-rel/959a5
065a99df5b5b4d7e8672bbf1b90a4c9135f653d52968d19b4ae0dba9085-primary.sqlite.bz2'

[C:\]


[C:\]yum list me*
netlabs-rel/primary_ | 2.7 MB  00:03       ] 392 kB/s | 1.9 MB  00:02 ETA
Error: database disk image is malformed

Any ideas how to solve this issue?

Regards

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Hardware / Disable Touchpad in config.sys. AMOUSE ?

« on: August 01, 2024, 08:03:52 pm »

Hello

I think I remember someone posting a technique to disable the touchpad with AMOUSE on the config.sys.
Did I remember correctly? was it with AMOUSE or a different technique?

I want to give it a try to disable the touchpad and just keep the trackpoint in a T14s (without messing with the BIOS) and  Thinkpad Yoga 14.

Regards

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General Discussion / EDM/2 Wiki Issue

« on: July 17, 2024, 05:06:22 pm »

Hello

FYI: There is an issue with the EDM/2 wiki servers according to Adrian (Netlabs), it seems to be a memory issue with the server.

I'm chatting with Adrian via X (Twitter)
- https://x.com/linkedktk/status/1812103136477053168

Let's hope he can fix it soon.

Regards

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Applications / Experiment: Moving OS/2 Graphic/MM Resources

« on: July 12, 2024, 04:58:47 pm »

Hello

I want to make a little experiment of moving the graphics resources like BMPs, Pointers, ScreenSavers to a different folder structure. This is just an experiment to for me try it out and document things on the wiki.

I'm looking forward to see what problems gives me ArcaOS-OS/2 and see if a workaround can be found. I will be asking for help here and you are welcome to try it yourself too, but remember I'm not pointing a gun for everybody to try it out.

I want to start with Pointers. I want to move C:\OS2\POINTERS to C:\RESOURCES\POINTERS as part of the experiment. My first issue is that the "Load Set" on the "Pointers" settings will break up. Is this locations stored somewhere on an INI file that can be updated to the new path?

Regards

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Hardware / F Keys Altenartives on OS/2 - ArcaOS

« on: June 22, 2024, 03:33:56 pm »

Hello

Some modern PCs keyboards and laptops are suffering of a lack of F keys. Sometimes they replaced with hardware functionality (with an special Fn key) and sometimes they are just gone. Independently if we like it or not, and knowing that there is always a work around to get a full key keyboard, I was wondering if there should be some alternative for the F keys in OS/2.

I this list of shortcuts we have in ArcaOS for reference. (Any other thing to add there is welcome)

As a brainstorm question.
- Should we have additional alternatives to the "Alt + Funtions Keys" in OS/2?
- Did someone find some workaround for this kind of keyboards?

Regards

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General Discussion / Video: DIY FPGA based Mixing Console with OS/2 GUI - and more

« on: June 13, 2024, 12:10:33 am »

Hello

I was refereed to this video on YouTube: DIY FPGA based Mixing Console with OS/2 GUI - and more

If I don't get it wrong, He created an audio mixing console based on the Arduino Vidor 4000 FPGA board, and created the GUI app to control it on OS/2 (Warp 3). I need to watch the full video with more detail.

Regards

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Programming / Compiling PM Samples with OpenWatcom

« on: June 10, 2024, 03:16:58 am »

Hello

I want to learn to use a the OpenWatcom compiler as an alternative to gcc for some PM samples, but I need to understand the commands and have some example of the make file.

My desire is to compile some thing simple like: https://github.com/OS2World/UTIL-WPS-Scale
I have installed OpenWatcom C for OS/2 v2.0.x  offered from the David Azarewicz website. I'm using make and wlink too.

Please give me hand with the makefile, should I make a makefile.wcc ?

Regards

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Events / Warpstock Europe 2024 Follow Up

« on: June 07, 2024, 08:47:22 pm »

Hello

Our friends at Warpstock Europe should be having a great time and I just want to help a little so we can follow up.
Here are the videos of Friday with a direct link of when each presentation starts, just for the people that can wait to have the videos organized (trimmed) 

FRIDAY:
- Opening Warpstock Europe 2024 - Roderick Klein https://youtu.be/EDGRb5hhfSE?t=403
- BIOS UEFI MBR and GPT - Keith Merrington https://youtu.be/EDGRb5hhfSE?t=918
- EA's revisited - Keith Merrington https://youtu.be/EDGRb5hhfSE?t=4075
- EasySync an update - Keith Merrington https://youtu.be/PWBp9SyqgsU?t=416
- Enhancements for MMOS2 (Multimedia) - Gregg Young https://youtu.be/PWBp9SyqgsU?t=3161
- Whats Next for ArcaOS 5.1 ? - Lewis Rosenthal https://youtu.be/PWBp9SyqgsU?t=6906
- EasySync an update (Cont.) - Keith Merrington https://youtu.be/PWBp9SyqgsU?t=10357

Please feel free to post any personal remark that you consider interesting/important on the presentations.

Regards

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Applications / Bochs 2.2.6 for OS/2

« on: June 04, 2024, 09:30:26 pm »

Hello

This weekend I was playing around with some old OS/2 software and tried to run Bochs under OS/2.
- https://us01.hobbesarchive.com/pub/os2/index.php?p=apps%2Femulator&dl=Bochs_2-2-6.zip

But that version of Bochs was ported some time ago and it uses some renamed libc DLL.

Is there a change for someone to help to recompile Bochs with the newer libraries? Or maybe try of Bochs version 2.8 can compile under OS/2-ArcaOS?

Regards

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General Discussion / Chuck McKinnis Passed Away

« on: May 19, 2024, 07:13:10 pm »

Dear Community Friends

Yesterday I found this news at his Facebook page. There were two posts from his daughters Kelly McKinnis  and Kimberly McKinnis. Even that I was not able to find an online obituary yet, I'm calculating he passed away on May 17.

I met Chuck on a couple of Warpstocks on the past and he was a nice and funny guy. He will be missed.

If you don't know who Chuck was, I have a little profile about him on the OS2World Wiki pages.
Here are some Chuck pictures from Warpstock: https://photos.app.goo.gl/jwLrQSTXADD4qEJC7

Rest in peace Chuck.

Regards