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Applications / Re: eCo software runtime packages

« on: December 13, 2024, 01:50:16 pm »

Hello Mauro

I think you will get two answers:

1) I have installed those in ArcaOS 5.1 and I didn't have any kind of problems. I dont' have a Warp 4.52 or ArcaOS 5.0 at hand to try those, but my guess is that there is not problem.

2) The second answer you may get is if you really require those libraries. Do you have any application that uses those library?  Some may way say it is not necessary to update if everything is working fine.

Check the changelog, in my case, since it fixed some FOC (File Open Close window) memory leaks (Win Package), I think it is worthy to give it a try, specially in ArcaOS that uses it.

The decision is up to you. Take a backup/snapshot of the VMs.

Regards

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Virtualization / Re: A new video about OS/2 after more than 4 Years...

« on: December 05, 2024, 02:24:02 pm »

Thanks for sharing Sigurd.

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

« on: December 04, 2024, 04:25:58 pm »

Hello

I think that the "ArcaOS Developer Kit" was covered this year with AN's update the website - "Information for Developers".
- https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/information-for-developers/
With their list of tools and the release of David's OpenWatcom and IBM Toolkit bundles I think this subject got more clarity.

Regards

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

« on: December 04, 2024, 04:10:37 pm »

Hello

Do you think it is time to review again our Santa's list for the platform?

On December of 2023 I sent this file to Lewis (Impress file attached) like a summary of the wishlist forum discussion. Please remember that this does not mean that all of this has to be done by Arca Noae. It can also provide some inspiration to other developer/porters to help out the user needs.

Code: [Select]

[b]HARDWARE[/b]
- Wifi Support
- Audio and Camera support for a Videoconference tool (Web based).
- Bluetooth support for Keyboard and Mouse.
- 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express.
- Dual Screen Support
- - Intel HD dual screen support. (To mirror screen or extend screen)
- - Easier Hot plug to projectors. (To mirror screen or extend screen)
- Video support for HDMI and DP output
- Video support for USB-C output
- Audio support for HDMI or DP output
- Hibernate support for PCs  / Laptops.
- Standby support for PCs  / Laptops.
- Special Keys support for volume (mute, mic) and brightness support. (Most common in laptop computers)
[b]SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS[/b]
- Qt 6
- OpenJDK 18 (Java)
- GTK+
- Node.js / Atom (for stand alone Node.js applications)
- KDE
- OpenGL Support
[b]SOFTWARE[/b]
- Otter. Web browser
- Falkon. Web browser
- Eclipse. Development IDE
- The GIMP.  Photo edition tool
- Inkscape. Illustration tool
- Audacity. Sound recording editing tool
- QEMU. Machine emulator and virtualizer.
- Openscad . The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller.
- QCAD. 2D CAD
- R. Statistics, 3-D and dynamic graphics
- TeX live. Recent version of the TeX typesetting program, successor o teTeX.
- Kate. Text editor.
- Notepad++. Text Editor
- Peazip. Archiver tool
- OBS. Video streaming, desktop recording.
- KDevelop. Development IDE.
- Lazarus. Development IDE.
- wxWidgets.  C++ library GUI API (Update it)
- LibreOffice. Since OpenOffice seems to be evolving to slow
- Upplay. A Qt-based UPnP audio Control Point
- Audacity. Audio Editor
[b]Platform Improvement Wishlist[/b]
- Memory Management
- Improvements TCP/IP Stack to support IPV6
- GUI Improvements
- ArcaOS Developer Kit

What do you think? Did something else change from December of 2023 to today?
Is there some other new requirement that showed up on 2024?

Regards

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Hardware / Re: OS/2 on ARM64 CPU - No Problem! - Surface Pro 11

« on: December 04, 2024, 01:02:44 pm »

I would suggest to use the 86Box Manager, there are all different VMs listed and you can configure them there a bit easier.
https://github.com/86Box/86BoxManager

Thanks Sigurd. 86BoxManager really made it easier.

Regards

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Multimedia / Re: TUF Gaming X570 PRO (wifi)

« on: December 02, 2024, 10:09:30 pm »

Hello

I slipped the topic, just because it was going away from UniAud.

Tamas, the "Asus TUF Gaming X570-Plus (wi-fi)" was reported by Eugene Tucker here:
- https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=Asus_TUF_Gaming_X570-Plus_(wi-fi)

Eugene, did you disabled hyperthreading on the UEFI BIOS ? Tamas, did you?

Regards

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Programming / Re: CPUMON - source code location?

« on: December 01, 2024, 01:54:21 pm »

Hello Dariusz

I think I found his work email, I'm sending Trevor an email and politely asking him if it can be posible to open source it because there is interest in CPU Monitor.

Let's see if he writes back.

Regards

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Setup & Installation / Article: Booting to ArcaOS Desktop on a USB Stick

« on: December 01, 2024, 01:38:48 pm »

Hello

Peter Rehfisch shared his article with me and gave me permission to republish it on the OS2World Wiki.

You can read it at:
- https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=Booting_to_ArcaOS_Desktop_on_a_USB_Stick

I still need to get some time to give it a try. This is something that it is on my TODO list. Feedback about the article is welcome.

Regards

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Multimedia / TUF Gaming X570 PRO (wifi)

« on: December 01, 2024, 01:30:17 am »

Hello Tamas, welcome to the forum.

With your hardware report, I had created this wiki page:
- https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=Lenovo_IdeaPad_Y510P
Let me know if you want me to add/correct something, and If you want me to name you as the reporter.

Thanks !!

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Hardware / Re: Mouse, Trackpoint, Trackpad, Touchpad - I2C Question

« on: November 29, 2024, 05:10:38 pm »

Hello

On my T14s I have an ELAN trackpoint. Windows recognize the device as "04F3" which is the ELAN's Vendor ID.
The Testlog PCI report does not show anything with "04F3".

I guess Windows has something to query the I2C bus. But looking around everyone refers to linux's I2C Tools.

I also try to find more information, but I guess it is getting out my technical skills and getting more into the hardware world.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/making-i2c-elan-touchpad-work-elan0d07-00-04f3-3078-on-a3511.86749/
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=i2c

Regards

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Hardware / Re: OS/2 on ARM64 CPU - No Problem! - Surface Pro 11

« on: November 26, 2024, 06:27:02 pm »

Hello

By checking 86box, I think this can be my only opportunity to run Quake 3 under OS/2 with an emulated 3DFX card. (since I don't have the real hardware).

Regards

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Hardware / Re: OS/2 on ARM64 CPU - No Problem! - Surface Pro 11

« on: November 26, 2024, 05:48:25 pm »

Thanks Sigurd for this topic

I had also check out some other information about 86Box, Jamie Honnaker gave me permission to include also his configuration on the wiki:
- https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=Install_and_run_IBM_OS/2_Warp_4.0_and_4.52_in_86Box
- https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=Install_and_Run_IBM_OS/2_Warp_3_Connect_in_86Box

I didn't get it first, but the trick was to run the machine and got to "Tools-Settings" to customize it (Picture attached), I will be trying to learn more about it.

Regards

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Web applications / Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds

« on: November 25, 2024, 03:43:53 pm »

Hello

Do you think it will be ok to push the 2024-11-17 Qt5 version to the Netlabs RPM?
Who can make it happen? Tellie?

Regards

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Games / Re: RetroArch Port

« on: November 25, 2024, 03:29:27 pm »

Hello Mentore

Just one extra thing. can you put your ported version of RetroArch in some repository (like Github - https://github.com/MentoreSiesto?tab=repositories)
If possible I want to learn from your makefile, and I think it will be nice for everyone to check it out.

Regards

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Programming / Re: Bigicons

« on: November 22, 2024, 03:56:44 pm »

Hello David.

Just curious here. What is your technique to generate each of the "device list" styles of the icons ? (Sorry If I'm limited for my English and there is a better wording for it). I'm attaching an image to try to explain what I'm talking about.

Do you do it on a different tool that can save each icon size/style inside the .ico?
Do you create the image on a different tool and paste it to IconEdit to save the icon?
Do you create those in IconEdit and edit each image one by one?

Regards