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Internet / Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« on: July 19, 2025, 02:03:18 pm »
Hi All

While browsing osnews.com I saw this:-


Mypal68: Firefox 68, maintained for Windows XP
Thom Holwerda 2025-07-17 Mozilla, Gecko 9 Comments

Do you have a Windows XP retro virtual machine or, god forbid, run Windows XP on your primary machine? You’re going to need a sort-of up-to-date browser, and it turns out Mypal68 offers just that. Terrible name aside, it’s Firefox 68 ported to and maintained to run on Windows XP SP3; SP2 and lower are not supported, but some people do seem to have some success getting it to run on those.

There are issues, of course: there’s a 1.5GB memory limit, and the browser will crash when it reaches that limit, and 64bit builds simpy don’t work at all, so there’s only a 32bit build. Version 74.1.0 was released a few days ago, but that version number doesn’t actually mean the browser is now based on Firefox 74; they had to change the reported version number for extension compatibility.



Could "a sort-of up-to-date browser" currently "maintained for WindowsXP" be of interest to us OS/2 users?

Would it be easier to port than Dooble + qt5/6?

If any of our "Mozilla experts" fancy taking a look: https://codeberg.org/Theodor2/Mypal68


Regards

Pete

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Article Discussions / Re: Games with older SDL and FSLIB
« on: June 23, 2025, 11:49:19 pm »
Hi Martin

If you can recompile any of the games without the need for SDDHELP$ it would make those games playable on systems using panorama driver. I suspect it would need a lot of work though...


Regards

Pete

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Applications / Re: Mouse Cursor disapear.
« on: June 22, 2025, 09:42:50 am »
Hi Martin

Sometimes opening the Text Editor by doubleclicking a text document re-initialises the mouse pointer.


Regards

Pete

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Games / Re: OS/2 - ArcaOS - Native Games
« on: June 20, 2025, 12:13:58 am »
Hi Remy

I selected the first result in the google search which was https://archive.org/details/pinball_flash_202310

Looking at the file list using the Show All option on the above page I see that it contains pinball.swf

This package also contains an swf file https://archive.org/details/critter-pinball_flash

I'll let you rummage through the other google results  :-)


Regards

Pete

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Games / Re: OS/2 - ArcaOS - Native Games
« on: June 19, 2025, 05:12:26 am »
hi Remy

You will find some flash pinball games using this google search 
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=0619bf7b847f9363&q=pinball+game+adobe+flash&oq=pinball+game+adobe+flash&aqs=heirloom-srp..

No idea if any of them work as I do not have flash or odin installed.


Regards

Pete

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Games / Re: OS/2 - ArcaOS - Native Games
« on: June 18, 2025, 12:03:53 pm »
Hi TZhivkov

I doubt if there are any... I have never found a working OS/2 based pinball game.

I think this is simply because the existing DOS games can be played without problems using the OS/2 built in DOS support - or DOSBox can be installed.
 
I use DOSBox to play Epic Pinball and Pyscho Pinball - probably 2 of the best pinball games around - simply because current audio devices tend to need the uniaud driver which does not have sound support for DOS sessions.


Regards

Pete



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Off Topic discussions / Re: This may make you smile
« on: June 05, 2025, 04:12:21 am »
Hi Martin

Well, I guess that is a bit more friendly than throwing them into the sea - but not as much fun  ;-)


Pete

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Off Topic discussions / Re: This may make you smile
« on: June 03, 2025, 04:13:45 pm »
Hi Mentore

Well I may agree with that, but... Isn't the sea already polluted enough? ;-) 8-)

Mentore


You should be more worried about them corrupting the sea life ...

I suspect that most politicians will biodegrade without problems and thus become useful - feeding the fishes  ;-)


Pete

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Off Topic discussions / This may make you smile
« on: June 01, 2025, 05:10:17 am »
Hi All

Had a few days break last week in St. Leonards-On-Sea (town adjoining Hastings - 1066 and all that) where I spent the formative years of my childhood during the early 1960's.

When my wife saw the sign in the attached image - which is in public view on the cliff top warning rail on Hastings West Hill next to the castle - she burst out laughing and said "Now I understand your political views".


;-)

Pete

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Applications / Re: warpin problem
« on: May 24, 2025, 05:04:02 am »
Hi andreas

Have you tried running H:\sys\install\WARPIN.CMD (change H to match your system) - may need the /R parameter and your AN install media loaded.


Regards

Pete

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Setup & Installation / Re: Cannot update cups
« on: May 24, 2025, 04:40:10 am »
Hi Lars

For future reference you can "kill" cupsd.exe to stop/close cups but you need to repeat the "kill" several (3?) times.

You can restart cups by doubleclicking the CUPS Daemon in the Startup folder.


Regards

Pete

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Applications / Re: warpin problem
« on: May 16, 2025, 05:23:41 pm »
Hi andreas

Maybe the Warpin Install routine checks the existing C:\sys\install\WARPIN\DATBAS_C.INI file to see if Warpin is already installed (replace C with correct drive letter for your system). If that is the case deleting the Warpin entries from that file using Ini Editor from INI Tools, or any other ini file editor, should allow Warpin to be reinstalled.


Regards

Pete

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Setup & Installation / Re: Troubleshooting process trap/dump...how?
« on: May 05, 2025, 07:23:03 am »
Hi Dariusz

Try reseating ram and any cards, disconnect and reconnect drive and power cables .

If that does not help: How old is PSU and when did you last open it and give it a clean?
Had a problem a few years ago where lengthy disk access caused system hangs. Took a few hours but traced that to a dying PSU - dust buildup had caused overheating. Replaced PSU and all worked fine.


Regards

Pete

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Programming / Re: GCC - updates
« on: April 30, 2025, 03:40:10 pm »
Hi Dave

I see what you mean.
Looks like a slim case and probably not quite enough room to fit a water radiator to the case rear fan mounting.
Probably have problems with some of the taller air coolers as well.


Regards

Pete
 




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Programming / Re: GCC - updates
« on: April 29, 2025, 10:33:45 pm »
Hi Dave

Maybe you want to check out water cooling as it seems to work cooler/quieter than cpu fan type coolers.


Regards

Pete

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