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Utilities / Re: Copying files from an HPFS HDD
« on: February 12, 2019, 11:23:02 pm »
I made a DVD from Mint 19.1, which seems to be the latest. Booting it as a live CD, I can read all my partitions fine, HPFS, JFS, Fat32. The live CD seems to leave the user with privileges to read the JFS volumes unlike a regular install, unless Mint itself has changed how it handles OS/2 JFS.

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Utilities / Re: Copying files from an HPFS HDD
« on: February 12, 2019, 11:19:41 pm »
Hi Martin,

I updated my Linux box to the latest version of Mint and am still able to read all my OS/2 partitions, HPFS and JFS, over the network without problems.

Reading over the network doesn't mean much as the client takes care of accessing its files.

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Applications / Re: Firefox 45.9 XUL.DLL error
« on: February 12, 2019, 10:55:03 pm »
You shouldn't need to downgrade libc and libcx. The RPM version is available through Arca Noae's RPM repository, you should have got instructions on how to access I believe.
You still haven't posted your popuplog errors so it hard to say what the problem is.
Have you tried to start in safe mode? Incompatible plugins are a known issue, for example the Java iced tea ones.
firefox.exe --safe-mode

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Games / Re: ArcaOS - Retro Gaming Machine
« on: February 11, 2019, 07:49:17 pm »
It was pointed out to me that fslib will work most of the time if SDDHELP.SYS is loaded and it has access to x:\os\2\drivers\snap\graphics.bpd (x: being the boot drive). Testing, my example above still fails but other games successfully use full screen.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Getting files in and out of OS/2 on virtualbox
« on: February 11, 2019, 06:23:52 pm »
I can get on the internet, but I haven't had any luck using netbios over tcpip to access any shared folders on the host os (not that I'm any good at that).  Are you saying I can ftp to the host?

You can install something like http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/ftp/server/ftpser_2.5.zip (recommended server) on OS/2 and ftp to it or install a server on Linux and use the OS/2 default ftp program (either cmd line or graphical).

Netbios is old and hard to get newer stuff to use, so you would need to install Samba, either the client, which would be easiest or the server.
To install the client, you will need to install a bunch of stuff, which is packaged as RPM's. Easiest is to install the Arca Noae Package Manager (ANPM) from here, https://www.arcanoae.com/resources/downloadables/arca-noae-package-manager/. Read the page for prerequisites.
This will also allow you to install GCC etc as well.
Samba itself is available at http://trac.netlabs.org/samba

Have fun and ask questions if needed.


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Utilities / Re: Copying files from an HPFS HDD
« on: February 11, 2019, 06:08:56 pm »
I have the version before the newest of Mint and it shipped with HPFS support, same with the last Ubuntu I used, which has been a couple of years.
I think that all Debian based dists still ship with HPFS support but not sure.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Getting files in and out of OS/2 on virtualbox
« on: February 11, 2019, 08:44:59 am »
Simplest is ftp. Next is Samba. There has also been work on shared folders that has problems as well as 2 implementations that others are better equipped to comment on.
Is networking working?

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Utilities / Re: Copying files from an HPFS HDD
« on: February 11, 2019, 02:06:17 am »
Use a dist like Ubuntu or Mint (only ones I have experience with) that ships with the HPFS module, others may also include it but lots don't, though it can probably be installed on most. Plug the USB/IDE drive in, click the partition to mount it (might be automatic) and drag and drop or otherwise copy the files seems the simplest. Even better if his computer has an IDE interface.
EAs will be lost, which shouldn't matter for data.
The Linux HPFS support is pretty good, it'll even handle our libc symlinks and permissions if @UNIXROOT for example was on a HPFS partition and will copy EAs to another HPFS partition though it can't actually use the EAs.
Linux handles our JFS pretty good too, but it does get confused by the lack of permissions and you need to be root or use sudo. I noticed that Mint even mounts my OS/2 JFS as case insensitive now to avoid the problem of having FOO and foo on an OS/2 partition.

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Applications / Re: mozturbo
« on: February 10, 2019, 09:37:08 pm »
As for the sys2070's, I think this may just be an artifact of the way things work.
Smturbo preloads the DLLs in the applications directory and subdirectory, which then load their dependencies, one of which is NSPR's PLDS4, finds the mozilla.exe PLDS4.DLL in memory and uses that, possibly along with NSPR4.DLL and PLC4.DLL and loads them. These seem to be the only DLLs that have names in common between SM 1.19 (and presumably whatever version of Mozilla you're using) and SM2.49. Generally the NSPR4 stuff is very stable but obviously an extra export was added at some point and is missing from the older version. Bitwise also may have made changes that made the libs incompatible in subtle ways.
Ordering the loading so smturbo runs first and finds its proper version of NSPR etc first in LIBPATH is probably needed. Possibly it just won't work the way you're trying to use it as mozilla.exe may then try to use the newer NSPR with its modifications.
While it is possible to expand the turbo programs to take this in account, I really don't have the interest in supporting such setups.

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Applications / Re: mozturbo
« on: February 10, 2019, 09:09:18 pm »
Cosmetic copy-paste mozturbo.cpp error: #define MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME "seamonkey.exe"

This is trying to compile? Weird that it would error there. Which version of GCC and what compile switches?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Recovering XDF Disks from Flux Images?
« on: February 09, 2019, 06:03:54 pm »
There's also this long thread, https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,1902.0.html about writing an XDF extractor.

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Games / Re: ArcaOS - Retro Gaming Machine
« on: February 09, 2019, 05:52:12 pm »
Hi Martin. In theory forwarder DLLs could be written to bridge between the old and newer SDL libraries but it would be simpler to just recompile as the source should be available. Due to differences in calling conventions and who knows what else, forwarder DLL might no be simple and all these games are open source.
Without fslib, we only get a pseudo full screen like if you press F11 in the browser, the xcentre still displays. Still not bad. Try something like lbreakout2 where under the graphics you can choose full screen. I find it easier to play in a window.
Tried using SDHELP with Panorama
Code: [Select]
F:\games\Lopan>lopan.exe
[SNAP_Initialize] : Initializing...
[SNAP_ThreadFunc] : Starting...
[SNAP_ThreadFunc] : Calling DosSetPriority!
[SNAP_ThreadFunc] : Calling WinInitialize!
[SNAP_ThreadFunc] : Calling WinCreateMsgQueue!
[SNAP_ThreadFunc] : Calling GA_loadDriver!
[SNAP_ThreadFunc] : Could not load graphics driver!
[SNAP_Initialize] : SNAP-Thread could not initialize itself!
[FSLib_Initialize] : Could not initialize SNAP!
[os2fslib_CreateDevice] : Could not initialize FSLib!
Couldn't initialize SDL: No available video device

I don't know if Panorama could be expanded to use true full screen, I'd guess so but I doubt the developers have the time/interest in doing it.

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Applications / Re: Firefox 45.9 XUL.DLL error
« on: February 08, 2019, 03:22:46 am »
No, not yet. Some older versions of FF depend on the legacy packages,38 needs libvpx-legacy and older needs the legacy fontconfig.
Generally the legacy packages have older versions of DLLs that aren't binary compatible as the API has changed and the DLLs themselves are usually versioned to co-exist. foo1.dll and foo2.dll with foo-legacy containing foo1.dll

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Applications / Re: Firefox 45.9 XUL.DLL error
« on: February 08, 2019, 02:04:11 am »
The question is, what is the last entry or entries if at the same time, in popuplog related to Firefox?
What are the dates of the binaries? Wouldn't hurt to update to the latest. Heimdal libs shouldn't matter

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Games / Re: ArcaOS - Retro Gaming Machine
« on: February 07, 2019, 09:37:38 pm »
Another thing to consider, which is probably the cause of some incompatibilities is which compiler things were built with.
SDL is usually built with OpenWatcom and needs certain flags to use the same calling convention as GCC. I believe older versions used the wrong calling convention for GCC compatibility. Likewise some games are compiled with OpenWatcom and calling convention can come into it.
There is a GCC compiled version of SDL floating around, originally from bauxite.jp if I'm remembering correctly.

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