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Programming / Re: Dipping my toes into OS/2 programming!
« on: March 04, 2026, 02:25:55 pm »
Hi again
  • .... Some of these look pretty intimidating from the books on Bitsavers!
Just in case here we have a list of OS/2 Development book, I guess it will be better to start with the newer ones.
-- https://www.edm2.com/index.php/List_of_OS/2_Software_Development_Related_Books

Regards[/list]

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Programming / Re: Dipping my toes into OS/2 programming!
« on: March 04, 2026, 02:34:18 am »
Hello Lily!, welcome to the forum.

I'm guessing that you have ArcaOS, right?

I think you first need to read this to understand the tools that we have:
https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/information-for-developers/

Our resource for development articles and API information is the EDM/2 wiki.
https://www.edm2.com/

Where to start depends on the goal of your project and your skill set.
a) If you want to go pure Presentation Manager (PM) you should use OpenWatcom (open source) and/or IBM OS/2 Developer’s Toolkit (OS2TK45) (Freeware) and/or IBM VisualAge C/C++ (Not freeware/Abandonware)
 
I did some experiment to compile old PM samples with gcc. I was told that OpenWatcom is better than gcc for pure PM apps, but it was just an experiment since with gcc it was very easy to install the environment with rpm/yum
-- https://github.com/orgs/OS2World/repositories?q=DEV-SAMPLES-PM

b) If you want to port things from the Linux word you can use "gcc" and some libraries like "Qt5" and SDL.

c) Do you want to create a WPS application.... prepare to suffer  ;D ;D
Maybe you should start with PM first and later learn about WPS.

d) If you want to develop drivers you require a different set of skills and tools like IBM Device Driver Kit for OS/2 (IBMDDK) and OpenWatcom.

So, there are several options according to the need. Just read and think about what you like to start with, and just ask away on this forum.

Regards

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Hello

Just to let you know. These days we also had been hit by some DDoS  attacks.
We are also checking what else can we do.

Regards

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Hello

There are some changes we are doing, but those are coming slowly. I hope this changes make the server more reliable.

Regards

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Hello, and welcome back to the OS/2 community.

I was a VERY enthusiastic OS/2 user for both personal and work in the 1990s until IBM said they weren't going to support OS/2 anymore, at which time I switched to Mac. Note that I never "loved" using Macs nearly as much as I did OS/2.

Well I'm retired after programming and systems analysis for 40 years and now I can use any [censored by me] operating system that I damn well please and I'm very excited and very worried about OS/2 as of today (March 1st, 2026).

1) There WILL come a time when 32 bit computers are hard to find or will be expensive. Not that computers in general are Inexpensive. But you know what I mean. What will happen to OS/2 in the future? Windows is VERY substandard compared to OS/2 as a user experience for me. Apple, since Steve Jobs died, has no direction because the people running the show have no clue about design and function for an operating system. Linux is FAR too fussy for me. I want to spend time using my applications, not fiddling with things to get the operating system working. OS/2 is like a Honda where it is stable and with a little general maintenance it can run for a LONG time without reboot or other stupid things that you have to do with Windows like rebooting once a month or even once a year unless there is a big update to the OS (meaning OS/2).

So ... my BIG question is this. I KNOW that one or more groups has tried to create an open source version of OS/2 in the past and that petered out and died. To be blunt, without a 64 bit version of OS/2, the companies that currently pay for support will wither and die and the OS/2 will die due to lack of income for Arca Noae and we will be left with whatever the last updated version of OS/2 that we have at that point. I don't want that to be the case.

2) We NEED a version of OS/2 that is inexpensive even if that means creating a limited version of OS/2 that will allow nerds that are interested in alternate OSs to be able to try out OS/2 and see why people like or in my case LOVE OS/2.

3) Now that I'm back to using OS/2 I will be trying to start creating small programs to get myself back up to speed on OS/2 programming. Again, it's been close to 30 years since I wrote programs in C or C++ for OS/2 so I need to get reacquainted with it.

Are there any resources for programming in OS/2 that someone can point me to including a compiler. I've been trying to find resources other than the Arca Noae website which doesn't have any of this kind of information.

4) I want to find people that are interested in talking about OS/2 and working together on projects that I might be able to help out with. Unfortunately most of my programming for the last 15 years has been with Visual Basic which I HATED but it paid for my mortgage and my retirement. And no, I didn't work for Microsoft or any company where I made money from stock. I worked for organizations that didn't have stock but did have a retirement package through a union.

Hopefully someone will see this and respond.

Just feel free to create a new thread on this forum and ask.

a) Like it was posted on a different thread, visit the ArcaOS Information for Developers first:
-- https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/information-for-developers/

b) I also have a collection of OS/2 applications source code. I played in the past with some Presentation manager Samples.
https://github.com/orgs/OS2World/repositories?q=DEV-SAMPLES-PM

I'm not a developer, I was just interested in the compile and linking procedure to learn more about it.

c) Our resource for OS/2 development articles is EDM/2, but it is down now, let see if gets back later.
- https://www.edm2.com/


Also, if you want to develop for OS/2, it depended where do you want to start:
- Do you want to start compiling some sample?
- Maybe later you can escalate to a simple port with gcc and later to more complex ports with gcc and Qt5 ?
It depends of you skill.

Or maybe later we can look around for a more specific necessity of the community and focus on bringing something there.

Just keep asking, create a new thread with an specific topic and we will see what we can do.

Regards

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Applications / Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« on: March 03, 2026, 05:27:39 pm »
Hello Bill, welcome.

I use this thread to find old OS/2 software files.
These days Hobbes had been replaced with https://hobbesarchive.com/.

If you have any OS/2 software that is missing let me know here and we will check the best way to upload it there. Remember that HobbesArchive is for Open source/Freeware/Shareware/PublicDomain/Demos, we are not putting Abandonware there, since we don't want to risk the only site we have  :D


Regards

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Applications / Re: Java applications
« on: February 25, 2026, 03:33:13 am »
Hello

I'm trying TANKS but the CPU goes to 100%.
- https://tanks.kenjin.net/downloads.shtml

Anyone else experiencing the same?

Regards

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Web applications / Re: Memcached 1.2.6
« on: February 23, 2026, 10:48:59 pm »
Hello Igor

Thanks for sharing it.

What it is for?  Is it this one?
"Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load."
-- https://memcached.org/

Any tips on how to test it?

Regards

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Hello

It is still a mess, but I gave it a try.  I asked Google AI studio to generate me a PMMERGE.DLL replacement.

"Generate the C code replacement for PMMERGE.DLL for OS/2 Warp 4.52."

No, it didn't work, it generated me some kind of portal with 4 functions that are on PMMERGE.
At least seems educational.

Regards

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Hello

Yes, we are experiencing some problems with the OS2World server. We are doing some work migrating some server stuff that is going to take a couple of weeks (I guess).


Regards

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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« on: February 19, 2026, 04:29:30 pm »
Hello

It is the first time I hear about IceApe. It is mentioned that IceApe is based in SeaMonkey.

Win32 - Version 1.8 : https://github.com/roytam1/iceape-uxp/tree/winbuild

I see references to Iceape 2.7  - https://user-agents.net/browsers/iceape/versions/2-7
But I can not found the source code.

I would need something with more knowledge on this area to know if IceApe is compilable under/for ArcaOS.

Regards

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Programming / Re: Please test os2emx-cross-toolchain
« on: February 16, 2026, 11:45:40 pm »
Hello

Sorry if don't understand this. Is the idea is that with this set of tools you can compile software for OS2 from a Linux machine?
Is the benefit of this to overcome some limitation we are getting on OS/2 to compile complex software?

Regards

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Applications / Re: Apache OpenOffice port updates?
« on: February 15, 2026, 04:05:13 pm »
Hello Michael

As far as I know Yuri Dario was the one porting OpenOffice for Bitwise, but last time I wrote him, he told me he was very busy with work.

We can do a fund raising, but without having the developer that wants to work on that it is kind of hard. Maybe if we can get Bitwise to set a goal to update OpenOffice we can give it a try.

Regards

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General Discussion / Re: What happened to Paul?
« on: February 15, 2026, 02:34:02 am »
Thanks Paul for writing.

It is good to hear you are getting better. Just take your time and I think everything will be better for you in the long term.

Regards

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Virtualization / Re: Something on ArcaOS 5.0 in Virtualbox
« on: February 13, 2026, 07:43:51 pm »
Hello

To disable Valery's Addons it just to REM those out of the config.sys.

Here it is the link of the older release just in case.
- https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.2.4/VBoxGuestAdditions_7.2.4.iso

To install the Official VBOX addons, just take care to do not copy or replace some libc .dll that we already have in ArcaOS.
To do not confuse things, don't copy the Official Addons it on the same folder of Valery's Addons.

Regards

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