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Hardware / Re: Is this WiFi supported?

« on: October 05, 2024, 01:57:57 pm »

I have been looking around on Google to find a USB to serial adapter. Then with a high speed serial port.
http://www.tronicore.com/en/serial-wifi-adapter
This gets SOMEWHAT closer. But is also FAR from ideal. The baudrate is to low and you would need a serial to USB converter.
Now if I could find an all in one USB device, that would be handy.
Roderick

If you have a Ethernet port you can use a multimedia adapter, intended for HDR boxes and so on, most of them are N600 Dual Band, so not AX5400 speeds but quite usable, there are a few faster ones but more difficult to get hold of.

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Applications / Re: Lotus SmartSuite 4 on WinOS/2

« on: August 05, 2024, 07:50:46 pm »

Isn't that what the line "LOADHIGH C:\sys\MDOS\BIN\2GBFIX.COM >NUL" in the autoexec.bat is supposed to do?  What is the difference between these two drivers?

That's correct, the 2GBFIX one is simpler, the sys driver more flexible if memory serves

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Applications / Re: Lotus SmartSuite 4 on WinOS/2

« on: August 05, 2024, 07:48:32 pm »

No problems encountered except PM groups were not created, did you guys remember to install from a full screen session?
Tried both the nordic and Lotus SmartSuite 4.0 (1996-08-02) (ISO) version from Winworld

I tried full screen, same problem. Plus the additional problem of full screen sessions with VBox, where my mouse cursor stays in the upper half of the virtual screen and moves half the distance it should vertically, making any control through mouse almost impossible..

Its just the install, most larger software packages will not install correctly under a win31 session, for reasons I cannot recall, so you always install from a full screen session even if you have to use the keyboard during install rather than the mouse. But the installed software works fine in a windowed session.

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Applications / Re: Lotus SmartSuite 4 on WinOS/2

« on: August 05, 2024, 07:42:45 pm »

One thing I have installed is this dos driver. Since Windows 3.1 is primarily a shell over dos, I figured this driver could only help.

It should not hurt, but this is rarely an issue with late Win3x programs as there were 4gb drives already available by then, so installers took them into account.

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Applications / Re: Lotus SmartSuite 4 on WinOS/2

« on: August 05, 2024, 07:39:11 pm »

No problems encountered except PM groups were not created, did you guys remember to install from a full screen session?
Tried both the nordic and Lotus SmartSuite 4.0 (1996-08-02) (ISO) version from Winworld

What size partition did you install to?

Small HPFS boot partition, but over the 2GB barrier

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Applications / Re: Lotus SmartSuite 4 on WinOS/2

« on: August 04, 2024, 06:08:05 pm »

No problems encountered except PM groups were not created, did you guys remember to install from a full screen session?
Tried both the nordic and Lotus SmartSuite 4.0 (1996-08-02) (ISO) version from Winworld

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Events / Re: Warpstock Europe 2040 Follow Up

« on: June 10, 2024, 09:19:04 pm »

All your links have been made private, and thus unavailable ...

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Hardware / Re: Modern Motherboards - Whats working

« on: May 25, 2024, 09:19:18 pm »

Hi

I documented some reported working mainboards on the OS2World wiki, right here:
- https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=List_of_Motherboards

But I don't think they have PS2 ports anymore.

Regards

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

Most motherboards on the market have at the least 1 PS/2 connector that is usable as either KB or mouse, a few specialist gaming boards skip them altogether but that is not the norm at all yet. If one is all that is needed you can choose from a number of AM5 or 12/13th Intel based boards.

"Business boards", i.e. LTS boards designed for long term support contracts frequently have both KB/Mouse connectors but feature slightly older chipsets as in the case of Intel in particular, the "business" chipsets are frequently not shipped in volume until long after the "performance" ones, even if they are announced at the same time. I am running this with a Ryzen 5500: https://www.asus.com/uk/motherboards-components/motherboards/csm/pro-a520m-c-ii-csm/

Not the newest board but, received an updated version late last year when I bought it and with Ryzen 3 support that is not really an issue speed wise, and the PCI slot comes in handy. ASUS still has at the least one PS/2 connector on most of their boards, but on AMD670 and Intel 760/90 gaming boards only some of the PRIME boards have them.

The LTS type boards are not always available to the public since they are intended for the OEM market, but large OEM makers such as Pegatron (DELL, HP, Acer etc) et al have them in their lineup, sold under a variety of names. The Asus is sold to end users however: https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Business-Motherboard-Supports-Management/dp/B0BTJ4KLR8

ASROCK has at the least 1 PS/2 connector on all intel boards bar a few intel 790 boards, it is missing from a number of AMD 6xx series boards but LTS boards such the AM5 https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A620M-HDVP/index.asp actually have 2.

MSI has a few as well: This one is similar to the Asus minus the  PCI socket: https://uk.msi.com/Motherboard/A520M-A-PRO
Most other MSI board have a single PS/2 connector

Most Gigabyte boards have at the least 1 connector, their LTS boards have two like this: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/H410M-H-V2-rev-20#kf

Biostar has 1 connector on everything except Intel 7xx gaming boards, the consumer 7xx boards have 1 however
Their AMD LTS boards have 2 PS/2 connectors but the Intel ones only one for some reason
eg https://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=995

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Applications / Re: WordPro issues

« on: May 06, 2024, 05:53:16 am »

Hello all,

Somehow, WordPro started having some issues, without my touching any setting nor doing any update:
- When creating a blank file, it complains that it cannot open the default.mwp (that, I checked, is in its folder, and I copied one from another installation, to no avail)
- The icons at the top have all disappeared.Ctrl+q (or the equivalent menu) does not change anything, that menu never gets selected.

Any idea how to fix that?

There was an issue with an SS dll file that would get corrupted for some reason, I just cannot for the life of me remember what the dll was, but if you have another install, you could do a file comparison.

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Applications / Re: ArcaOS 5.1 - First Impressions

« on: January 02, 2024, 08:32:09 pm »

I believe Hyperthreading is an Intel only feature - meaning it only appears on Intel CPUs.  If I understand it correctly Hyperthreading was/is a technology by Intel to provide some of the benefit of multiple cores without actually having all of the hardware of the multiple cores.

It is not an Intel only feature, it appeared originally on minicomputers specialised in database jobs and on some workstation/server chips, a number of the later SPARC chips have hyperthreading. The original idea is literally to speed up database jobs by having a parallel hardware threads packing inherently inefficient relational database code into something more efficiently executed on a normal CPU core, this gave you a 7 to 20% speedups in specialised tasks for for a 3% to 8% increase in transistor count. Intel originally introduced Hyperthreading on Xeons as an answer to Sun SPARC's with hyperthreading close to 20 years ago.

Even though current versions of HT are a bit more generic than the original designs they still have the same flaw, the code is packed out of order, and there is a slight unpredictable (fuzzy) delay in reordering it, not an issue in most cases, but for hard real time work such as some drivers and audio applications that get their timing reference from the soundcard rather than the CPU, this leads to hiccups. As an example on Windows, most professional audio programs that require a single timing reference (not all do) simply turn off HT via ACPI while they are running, turning it back on again when they exit.

SPARC server chips were not doing any hard real time work so this was never really an issue with them, however it became an issue as soon as Xeons came out since they were being used for real time audio and video work. I still turn HT off on my Intel machines regardless of OS due to past experiences with driver and app issues, and even on Windows I have never really found an application that takes advantage of HT to such a degree to make me consider turning it on again, but your milage may vary.

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Programming / Re: Getting started with OS/2 development - any recommendations?

« on: December 28, 2023, 09:51:12 pm »

Hi Richard

An alternative to c and rexx is pascal - very similar to c.

WDSibyl is a fairly good RAD system, similar to Delphi, and may be of interest https://wdsibyl.org/en/

That website has some issues, you can try the os2.org archive instead at https://archiv.os2.org/

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Programming / Re: Getting started with OS/2 development - any recommendations?

« on: December 23, 2023, 12:44:56 am »

Vispro/Rexx is now free but not open source, you can download it here: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/rexx/VISPROREXX-3_1_1.wpi

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Applications / Re: HyperAccess 7

« on: November 09, 2023, 10:34:45 pm »

Ar you sure the sectors containing the library file are good?

Try downloading https://winworldpc.com/product/hyperaccess%20/7x and see if you get the same error.

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Setup & Installation / Re: 5.1 and Samba/can't make it work!

« on: October 12, 2023, 07:24:30 pm »

I can't get Arca Mapper Network Connections to function. After many tries using 3 machines I was unable to det the Network Browser to work I've tried using different settings for Protocol in SMB config and got nowhere.. Don't know what else to try. Anybody got any  luck with this new setup for Samba --- Thanks for any ideas.

klipp

Do not know if it is the same issue, but some 5.1 users are reporting that Arcamapper does not install correctly, a reinstall has helped for some.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Multiple installations of AOS?

« on: September 02, 2023, 04:58:21 am »

Sorry I wrote that text about 12 years ago when I still worked at Mensys. It was intended to READ if you want to use MORE then 5 license you need to buy a commercial license.
It NEVER intended to imply you can use eCS personal license in upto 5 devices at the same time. Thats a violation of the OS/2 EULA.

Roderick

I know, I was not wondering about the license useage, but about the number 3 vs 5