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General Advertisements / Re: Suntan Special 0.69
« on: August 22, 2025, 02:46:43 am »
Thanks for testing, P.R. I raised a support issue with my ISP, but they were not that helpful.

Interestingly, my ISP said OS2World.com was timing out completely, but since I described what was happening, they said they could only guess that your (P.R.'s) ISP might be blocking either the blondeguy.com domain or just the FTP port of the blondeguy.com domain.


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64 GB is fine.

Those old programs are from an era when disks came in MB, not GB. Make a scratch volume of 500 MB and install onto that. After that, you can probably move it to the real boot volume.

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General Advertisements / Re: Suntan Special 0.69
« on: August 19, 2025, 08:03:15 pm »
The error 4 mentioned in the log is the return code from wget. Error 4 is simply Network Failure.

The FTP server is one provided by my ISP, so it's not likely to be down for very long. If FTP connections work, but not to my server, then one solution would be for me to change the program to use HTTPS for my server. I'll consider that.

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General Advertisements / Re: Suntan Special 0.69
« on: August 19, 2025, 03:22:25 pm »
Perhaps something is blocking FTP?

Code: [Select]
traceroute to blondeguy.com (63.249.102.192), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  www.routerlogin.com       (192.168.46.1)  0 ms  0 ms  0 ms
 2  96.120.89.121             (96.120.89.121)  10 ms  10 ms  10 ms
 3  po-303-1215-rur101.scotts.ca.sfba.comcast.net  (96.110.102.193)  10 ms  10 m
s  10 ms
 4  po-100-xar01.scotts.ca.sfba.comcast.net  (69.139.199.205)  10 ms  10 ms  10
ms
 5  ae-249-rar01.santaclara.ca.sfba.comcast.net  (96.108.99.153)  10 ms  20 ms
20 ms
 6  be-299-ar01.santaclara.ca.sfba.comcast.net  (68.86.143.93)  20 ms  10 ms  10
 ms
 7  * * *
 8  * * *
 9  RCN-CORPORA.ear3.SanJose1.Level3.net  (4.7.16.194)  20 ms  10 ms  10 ms
10  l3cruzio.layer42.cruzio.com  (69.36.229.82)  20 ms  10 ms  20 ms
11  877cruzio.10g.cruzio.com  (63.249.65.17)  10 ms  20 ms  10 ms
12  blondeguy.com             (63.249.102.192)  20 ms  20 ms  10 ms

If some people are able to access and some not, is it likely to be a server problem?

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General Advertisements / Re: Suntan Special 0.69
« on: August 17, 2025, 03:34:18 pm »
Thanks for the report. I'll have to think about why you can't access FTP. I can reach it from here.

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I'm also confirming the shared folders are working here.

When I upgraded my Windows 11 host system to VirtualBox 7.20, no errors were found, but I could not start my ArcaOS 5.1.1 virtual machine. I restarted a few times, and eventually it ran, so I updated OS/2 Additions and tested shared folders.

I had the same EA issue as Martin, but that is acceptable for me.

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General Advertisements / Suntan Special 0.69
« on: August 13, 2025, 04:17:23 am »
Suntan Special 0.69 has been released

The newest release of Suntan Special, version 0.69, is available. Suntan Special is a system configuration tool that installs and maintains a collection of useful fixes, applications and development tools to ArcaOS, OS/2 or eComStation systems.

http://www.blondeguy.com/suntan6.html

Current Suntan Special users are entitled to upgrade to 0.69. The upgrade may be downloaded using the application refresh feature of Suntan Special.

Suntan Special may be downloaded at no charge. The price for a Suntan Special CD or DVD is $24.95 including shipping to USA and $39.95 for shipping outside USA.

The first release of Suntan Special since 2019. This release fixes a few bugs, and adds support for HobbesArchive and its mirrors. Version 0.69 adds better support for installations under VirtualBox. A new feature, MasterSequence, detects the operating system creates and executes a sequence designed to install all available fixes and applications. Thanks to current users whose suggestions have been incorporated in the new version of Suntan Special.

Support is also restored for OS/2 Warp 4 and for OS/2 Warp 4 Convenience Pack. These concentrate on support inside a VirtualBox session. If you got OS/2 running, and wonder what it is good for, Suntan Special will install a suite of software that will answer that question.

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Setup & Installation / Re: BonusPak installation, fail.
« on: July 24, 2025, 03:19:03 pm »
IBMWorks 3.0 is also on the eCS CD #2.

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It's a nice compact travel router, but software is deeply inferior to the GL.iNet family of travel routers. GL.iNet is open-source, based on DDWRT.

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Shared folders fails to copy files in some cases, leaving a 0 length file on the host system. WPS seems to have the defaults for move and copy swapped.

Other than that, it seems to work pretty well. I wish there was a pair of applications that would allow OS/2 associations to result in actions on the host system. For example, WPURL objects should open a browser tab on the host system web browser.

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The T43 is not just locked to certain drives. It uses some function that just isn't present in most IDE drives.

You can substitute a hard drive for the CD drive. That interface has fewer limitations. The T43 is SATA internally and goes through a PATA converter to support its list of IDE drives.

I used to be able to import brand new 120 GB IDE hard drives that had the function, but China ended the program that allowed it. Plus the USA is not as good about China imports as it used to be. (Not to be political. Just the facts regarding this and a few other parts for old computers.)

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Setup & Installation / Re: pscom.sys proper way to pass args
« on: July 13, 2025, 03:18:12 pm »
Remember that there are two flavors of IBM Thinkpad T43. The -1xxx never had OS/2 support, and ACPI is pretty much required for a good install. The -2xxx has OS/2 support, and the original IBM drivers with APM work very well.

Either way, you get the SATA disk controller with only a PATA/SATA converter that greatly restricts your choices of a hard drive.


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Arca Noae provides good tech support. You could try that.

GParted is a mistake, but it should not stop the USB stick from booting. And you should be able to boot and zero out the disk to undo the damage from GParted.

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Applications / Re: Free standalone slideshow program or just viewer?
« on: June 17, 2025, 03:23:52 pm »
Microsoft made a PowerPoint viewer for 16-bit Windows that runs in Win-OS2

I found one here:

http://hobbesarchive.com/?detail=/pub/win16/apps/docviewer/MSPowerPointViewer97_7-0.exe

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General Discussion / Re: Hobbes is down
« on: June 13, 2025, 03:58:04 pm »
Nathan informs me that HobbesArchive.com is back up.

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