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Events / Re: Warpstock 2024: Coming? Not Coming? Why?

« on: September 11, 2024, 04:12:33 pm »

I try to make it to most Warpstock events, but this year, I'm unable to attend. It is a significant amount to time and money to attend Warpstock -- airfare, hotel, etc.

I think the attraction is to have a bunch of OS/2 users in one room. There is also some sense of announcements and future plans, but that has dwindled over the years.

I helped to put on some virtual Warpstocks, but the limitations of our platform constrain that to an insufficiently engaging experience. I also run BayWarp, a local OS/2 user group that also struggles to find attendees.

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Virtualization / Re: 64-bit job control in OS/2, via AToF

« on: September 05, 2024, 03:41:04 pm »

I think you should focus more on extending the basic API of OS/2 to 64 bits.

Think about the task of moving 8 GB of memory around a 64-bit memory space.

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General Discussion / Re: Do we still need a 64-bit version of OS/2? And a possible roadmap provided ...

« on: September 03, 2024, 11:00:44 pm »

I'll remind people there is an Apache OpenOffice port available here: https://www.bitwiseworks.com/products/ports.php

This thread has drifted way off-topic. Maybe an admin could break it up?

I think it might be interesting to create a 64-bit host program to act as a helper for OS/2. Then some commands could be routed to the 64-bit host, while maintaining the original OS/2 in good condition. Essentially, a 64-bit API could be interpreted by the host. Data would flow between the host and OS/2 with some inter-process communication yet to be determined.

There is still the difficulty of switching between 64-bit and 32-bit operation by the CPU, but at least some 64-bit operations could be fit into existing OS/2.

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Virtualization / Re: How to create Virtual Box floppy disk images without any cruft!

« on: August 28, 2024, 03:09:46 am »

My understanding is that 3.0 is Windows-only. Is that incorrect?

No idea, really. CA Realizer 1.0 predates OS/2 2.0, so certainly 16-bit. CA realizer 3.0 is 1996, so it seems to me the Windows code for 3.0 is likely a port of the OS/2. I'll bet the Windows version runs fine in Odin.

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Virtualization / Re: How to create Virtual Box floppy disk images without any cruft!

« on: August 27, 2024, 03:42:21 pm »

CA Realizer 3.0 is 32-bit, and CA Realizer 1.0 is 16-bit. I don't know about version 2.0. If you were targeting OS/2 1.x, 2 GB might still be too large. When I ran OS/2 1.x, an 80 MB drive was "huge".

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Networking / Re: NetDrive error message

« on: July 31, 2024, 03:24:07 am »

Thank you!

All that was wrong was /A:1 on the UniAud32.Sys line when it wasn't needed. I suppose the error message could have been more helpful, but I removed /A:1, and sound works and I don't see any error message.

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Networking / NetDrive error message

« on: July 30, 2024, 10:04:38 pm »

When I boot ArcaOS 5.1 my Lenovo ThinkCentre M920, I get the following error from NetDrive:

OSSS32_Initialize: FAILEDpci_register_driver: query_device found fb 8086:a348 class=40380 checking bt87xUnable to attach 32-bit driver.

And yet I can still mount a drive using ArcaMapper.

What does it mean?

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Applications / Re: Unzip Version 6.0 hangs when booting to a commandline

« on: July 28, 2024, 03:34:24 pm »

I keep around a 2nd copy of unzip.exe for these purposes. This one is statically linked, and requires only DOSCALLS, KBDCALLS, VIOCALLS, NLS and MSG.

5-26-09  13:06         248,768    124  unzip.exe

http://www.os2site.com/sw/util/archiver/zip/unz600.exe

The other course could be to update the libpath for the F2 command line to include the needed DLLs.

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Multimedia / Improvement in Webcam support

« on: July 25, 2024, 03:26:12 pm »

Starting with Arca Noae USB drivers version 12.16, Webcam support is working with USB 3.0 on all the machines/webcams I have available to test. Prior to this version, USB webcams only worked with the USB 2.0 drivers.

The function is nice and fast, and I see no lag with the picture. Laptops with webcams that are attached with USB 3.0 tend to be much higher resolution, probably because they are newer.

I am using WebCam, UVC Webcam Support for OS/2 (ArcaOS, eComStation) by Wim Brul.

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Networking / Re: Samba groups are broken

« on: July 24, 2024, 05:54:42 pm »

I am also using password files I created on eCS.

I found that almost all of the user and groups commands will fail.

smbpasswd.exe is called for many user create, edit and delete functions from Samba Users and Groups.

Things work better if I edit smb.conf and change some of the lines to use forward slashes instead of backward slashes.

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add user script = E:/Programs/samba/usermod.cmd -a "%u"
rename user script = E:/Programs/samba/usermod.cmd -r "%uold" "%unew"
delete user script = E:/Programs/samba/usermod.cmd -x "%u"
add group script = E:/Programs/samba/groupmod.cmd -a "%g"
delete group script = E:/Programs/samba/groupmod.cmd -x "%g"
add user to group script = E:/Programs/samba/groupmod.cmd -j "%g" "%u"
delete user from group script = E:/Programs/samba/groupmod.cmd -l "%g" "%u"
set primary group script = E:/Programs/samba/usermod.cmd -p "%u" "%g"
add machine script = E:/Programs/samba/usermod.cmd -a "%u"

This should not be needed, of course. And groups still doesn't work. Maybe the answer is to move some functions back to an eCS virtual machine.

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Networking / Re: Samba groups are broken

« on: July 22, 2024, 02:56:47 am »

I'm interested in getting this working as well.

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Events / Re: Warpstock Europe 2024 Follow Up

« on: June 21, 2024, 02:53:41 am »

I think most of us are using some other operating system to browse the internet at this point. But I've tried quite a few of the platforms and browsers, and it's not like they are so perfect.

Every one of them fails in some situation. Some sites must have MS Edge, some must have Chrome, others Firefox.

I'm a little worried about Arca Noae developing a browser. It's taking a long time just to develop a WiFi driver. Maybe supporting ArcaOS is enough.

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Off Topic discussions / Comparison between an inkjet printer and a cat

« on: May 28, 2024, 04:44:35 pm »

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Utilities / Re: K File Wizard

« on: May 26, 2024, 03:23:23 pm »

Both KFileWizard and JFTP fail to connect to SFTP server, hanging in the authentication negotiation. I'm going to try to see if there is some problem with the server configuration.

OK, I tried again after rebooting the server, and now JFTP works with SFTP server. I need to find out why this isn't stable.

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Hardware / Re: Modern Motherboards - Whats working

« on: May 26, 2024, 03:16:03 pm »

PS/2 ports are on most modern systems dead as doornail. Maybe industrial mainboards (that are sometimes pretty expensive), still tend to have PS/2 ports.
The more modern systems the 8042 PS/2 controller is also going away from the mainboards.

Roderick

Even the latest Lenovo M series desktop has optional PS/2 ports. My particular problem, which is not unique to OS/2, is in supporting access to IBM iSeries and mainframes that still rely on their legacy keyboards. I expect to be able to support PS/2 connected keyboards for a long time to come.