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Games / Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« on: February 19, 2026, 02:18:41 am »
Hi Dave

Yes ttf nearly uses the fullscreen; trying to run heretic results in the game occupying the top left corner of the screen though.

Wonder what has changed between dosbox and dosbox-x with regard to the surface option as surface works fine in dosbox.


Regards

Pete

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Games / Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« on: February 18, 2026, 04:55:46 am »
Hi Dave

Yet again dosbox(-x).conf gives an answer for output options:-

#            output: What video system to use for output (surface = software (SDL_Surface); openglnb = OpenGL nearest; openglpp = OpenGL perfect; ttf = TrueType font output).
#                      Possible values: default, surface, overlay, ttf, opengl, openglnb, openglhq, openglpp, ddraw, direct3d.


So far default, surface, ddraw and the opengl* variants all give the same result: dosbox-x does not run fullscreen; overlay results in dosbox-x crashing on startup.


Regards

Pete

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General Discussion / Re: What happened to Paul?
« on: February 17, 2026, 01:04:17 am »
Hi Paul

Glad to hear you are overcoming the issue, it helps to laugh so watch some comedy from time to time  :-)


Regards

Pete

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Games / Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« on: February 17, 2026, 12:57:40 am »
Hi All

Posting to correct my previous statement that dosbox-x runs fullscreen.
It does not.

If I start dosbox-x windowed and then use F12+F to switch to fullscreen dosbox-x blanks the whole screen but only runs in the top left corner.
I get the same result when starting dosbox-x in fullscreen.

What should I change in the following [sdl] section settings to get dosbox-x running fullscreen? - Note: output=overlay does not work at all, surface and openglnb both give the above result.

fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=original
aspect=true
windowresolution=original
# output=surface
# output=overlay
output=openglnb
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper-SVN.map
usescancodes=true



Regards

Pete

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Games / Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« on: February 10, 2026, 04:21:50 am »
Hi Dave

Not sure what that is meant to do - but it doesn't whatever it is.

To clarify: dosbox-x runs full screen but any game is loaded into the top left corner of that screen rather than full screen.


Regards

Pete

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Games / Re: Dosbox and Dosbox-X
« on: February 10, 2026, 12:51:27 am »
Hi All

Silly question: How do I get full screen use for games in dosbox-x?

Currently trying to run any game results in the game appearing in the top left corner of the screen - dosbox-x is running full screen.
The same games run full screen in dosbox.
I am using the same [sdl] section settings that work for dosbox.

I can only guess there is a setting that I am not aware of in dosbox-x...


Regards

Pete

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Networking / Re: Changing from DHCP to Static IP leads to TRAP
« on: January 12, 2026, 02:37:17 am »
Hi David

I think you need to issue the command

   \mptn\bin\arp -f

before requesting a new ip lease.
This should flush the arp tables so the old ip should not get re-used.


Regards

Pete

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Applications / Re: RSJ CDwriter question.
« on: December 18, 2025, 03:14:01 pm »
Hi

Been a while since I last used RSJ and do not currently have RSJ installed but to burn an ISO file to CD use the Copy(Burn?) CD object with destination set as CD/DVD writer and source as the ISO file.


Regards

Pete

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Storage / Re: Does anyone have a copy of the 386 HPFS Upgrade for WSeB?
« on: November 29, 2025, 05:45:28 pm »
Hi Richard

Check your Personal Messages


Regards

Pete


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Storage / Re: Does anyone have a copy of the 386 HPFS Upgrade for WSeB?
« on: November 29, 2025, 12:28:02 pm »
Hi Richard

If still looking for hpfs386 upgrade for WSeB I have a hpfs386.zip available.
It contains files dated 1999 and 2000, readme states "386 HPFS UPGRADE FOR OS/2 WARP SERVER FOR E-BUSINESS".

Not sure where I got it from... could have been supplied by eCS or I found it on the web at some point in time. So, not sure how "legit" it is - or whether that matters these days.

Do you need/want a copy?

If "Yes" hopefully Martin will advise on whether it can be uploaded as an attachment here.


Regards

Pete



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General Discussion / Re: Spam Bots
« on: November 07, 2025, 02:23:10 pm »
Hi Martin

If BadBot Protection displays the "Checking..." page here it will not load os2world until javascript is enabled.

It also seems to affect other websites ie if I load  https://theartofsound.net/forum/  after getting the "Checking..." message on os2world a "Javascript Required" page is displayed instead of loading the website. If os2world does not show the "Checking..." message there is no "Javascript Required" message displayed when loading theartofsound website.


Regards

Pete




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Applications / Re: Dynamic Icons Issue
« on: October 02, 2025, 09:20:49 pm »
Hi Martin

What do you have set to display png files?

I have PMView set so png files display the PMView icon here - even those in the BIGICONS directory until I set PMView Icon Thumbnails to Automatically Create when using PMView File Open on a directory containing png icons eg BIGICONS.


Regards

Pete

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Hi Martin

Site seems to be loading much faster this evening but I notice the Forums "latest posts" section is missing from the home page.


Regards

Pete

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Storage / Re: Slow FAT32.
« on: September 15, 2025, 02:35:33 pm »
Hi Adrian

I have had this problem myself.
The cause was using some cheap usb sticks from an ebay seller - trying to set either of the 2 sticks involved to boot an ArcaOS installation was painfully slow during the copy process and neither could boot to perform the install. These sticks work fine to copy files to/from in "normal" use - allowing for the fact that fat32 is slow - but could not be used to create a working install stick for ArcaOS.
Resolution: Use a better brand usb stick - Sandisk and Kingston products work fine, creating an ArcaOS install stick takes a few minutes... memory suggests between 3 to 10 minutes.

I suspect hunting through old forum posts about ArcaOS install problems will show a few posts similar to yours, there may be other causes eg badly setup usb/fat32 drivers or other system configuration issue but I think the above is more common.


Regards

Pete




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Communication / Re: Zoc and Transfers
« on: September 09, 2025, 06:59:11 pm »
Hi Dan

Could this be some sort of libc problem? - I ask because it seems MEGADODO.DLL is the EmTec Runtime Application DLL (User-Generated Microsoft (R) C/C++ Runtime Library) for zoc.

Are you using any libc related packages from the netlabs-exp repo? If "Yes" maybe try backlevelling to the last netlabs-rel version(s).


Regards

Pete



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