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Messages - André Heldoorn

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Applications / Re: David's Doodles
« on: August 29, 2019, 11:43:56 am »
For a possibly better 80x80 one (too.. many ... details, even for 80x80), which shows the days of the calendar more clearly, I can refer to the original 128x128 icon source file. Hang on, I'll attach it (128x128, larger than 80x80 so NOT an icon for us). It was found in a JREMIND.JAR of a possibly different JRemind. The size suggests it's the icon; there was more artwork, including a 60x60 image.

Our JREMIND.JAR doesn't contain an icon file, AFAICT, and I couldn't find its possibly updated and/original source files.

I've played with the days while resizing to 40x40, and may give it a third try later today. Now even 80x80 is too small. Please note that it's an alternative to grab any rather clear 3D'ish calendar icon and an own J.

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Applications / Re: David's Doodles
« on: August 29, 2019, 01:24:45 am »
JRemind (JREMIND.JAR)

Semi-"solved": 80x80 only, without the border, based on an original 128x128 source file. I'm not 100% sure if it's the icon of our version of JRemind, though. Too... many... details for 40x40.

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Applications / Re: David's Doodles
« on: August 28, 2019, 11:26:04 pm »
Squash (SQUASH.EXE)

"Solved". The attached icon file (Squash.ICO) is based on an original icon source file, resized by using ... Squash.

For a 80x80 PNG icon, with David's border, I would recommend using the 64x64 icon source file. I haven't tried to upscale that original image to 80x80 myself: https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/squash/squash-0.3.tar.bz2.

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Applications / Re: David's Doodles
« on: August 28, 2019, 09:56:26 pm »
QVV (QVV.EXE)

"Solved". The attached icon files (QVV.ICO, QVV_80.PNG) are based on an original icon file of QVV.

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Events / Re: ArcaOS 5.0.4 is out!
« on: August 28, 2019, 07:46:57 pm »
With FF 45 (actually SM) one simple looking website couldn't be loaded anymore, due to a "configuration error" of the website. But they were kind enough to undo a security-update, so now it works again.

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Events / Re: Do not forget: Spock (Leonard Nimoy) introduced OS/2 Warp
« on: August 28, 2019, 07:34:44 pm »
My friend bought a new IBM Aptiva 486 in late 1994 or early 1995 and I never understood why it came with PC-DOS and Windows 3,1 installed instead of OS/2. Why didn't IBM ship OS/2 with its own computer models?

My restriction is eCS 1.2, FWIW. Hence nothing newer than a single core Pentium 4 CPU at best.

In general IBM was about options or choices, so the customers decided. In 1994 it was possible to order OS/2 2.1 pre-installed, without any obligations to support all configurations. Presumably the most popular, or cheapest, or most realistic choice of users was a default, i.e. their DOS and Microsoft's GUI. An understandable choice. Selling copies of OS/2 is not a goal of a hardware-selling hardware division.

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Applications / Re: David's Doodles
« on: August 28, 2019, 07:08:23 pm »
Great. I've tried to use the P of a WP52.ICO, and the top of that P as a D, but that wasn't worth the efforts.

Perhaps reported earlier: vitural_box.ICO - > virtural_box.ICO

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Events / Re: ArcaOS 5.0.4 is out!
« on: August 28, 2019, 03:37:04 pm »
My wife is also having problems with more websites using the latest Firefox on her Mac, she prefers Seamonkey because that is what she uses for email but she knows she will have to change to something else as it's getting to hard.
Getting used to Thunderbird and a browser may help, because e-mail will be less demanding than "modern" websites. Nevertheless it does sounds like Firefox is becoming a victim of its own "Agile" software development methods. Too many (irrelevant) changes, while not keeping the whole community in mind. I'm still using Firefox for Windows, but only because I'm not busy looking for a replacement and I'd like to avoid Apple's, Google's, Facebook's and Microsoft's.

Here FF 38 is better, but an OS shouldn't be a collection of apps. If you can download FF 45 with FF 38, then that's enough. ISTR FF 38 works better with older hardware, FWIW, due to changes of Firefox, but of course you'll be forced to upgrade so the discussion will bcome less relevant.

I'm not sure if Microsoft Edge should be a subject of an OS review video, if there are alternative apps. I'd rate and review browsers as apps which can be replaced; not as OS components. Even embedded, illegal browsers.

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Events / Re: Do not forget: Spock (Leonard Nimoy) introduced OS/2 Warp
« on: August 28, 2019, 03:33:16 pm »
Did IBM fail because of bad marketing?

Windows 95 and cheap computer with just 4 MiB of RAM was the best market condition ever, but popular shops should have told their customers that OS/2 also required more RAM. Now the order was Windows 95, tears, OS/2, even more tears, memory upgrades and Windows 95. You can blame marketing, but that's almost the same as claiming that a problem actually was s "communication problem".

In theorie they should have started selling cheap OS/2-hardware with more than enough RAM installed, but it's hard to do that when you've got a few months to complete such a mission. Suddenly the market conditions were rather specific: Windows 95, and hardware which was too cheap. In theory they could have started selling OS/2 with false hardware requirements, to not sell swapping and the OS/2 clock cursor to those customers.

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Applications / Re: David's Doodles
« on: August 27, 2019, 09:57:34 pm »
DataPerfect (DP.COM)

"Solved". https://dataperfect.nl/files has a 32x32 Windows icon file, which would probably look better as a 40x40 icon with a slightly larger text "DP", using the same italic blue font of WP5*.ICO OS/2 icon files.

The attached file is DP.ICO, converted to a 32x32 OS/2 icon. Apparently DataPerfect itself is freeware: https://winworldpc.com/product/dataperfect/2x.

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Applications / Re: WordPerfect for Windows 6.1 OS/2 tools
« on: August 27, 2019, 05:39:29 pm »
it presented everything as if it was a folder / object.

Here NetDrive caused a lasting system hang while visiting ftp.corel.com/pub. A FAT32 update may have played a role. I had to use <Alt-F1> to rescue a desktop and to go to a prompt to delete volumes.cfg* files. SM/2 also couldn't visit the site. AFAICT there's no overload of interesting files, but something being interesting is about as personal as a "good" FTP solution. :)

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Applications / Re: A comprehensive guide to Odin available?
« on: August 27, 2019, 12:29:02 pm »
how can one set  [autoexec] and "cputype" settings?

For [autoexec] perhaps give the DosBoxGui (DOSBox front-end) a try, tab Config (scroll down there) and/or tab Autoexec.

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Applications / Re: David's Doodles
« on: August 26, 2019, 11:26:14 pm »
Grand Prix Circuit (GPEGA.EXE)

"Solved". There was an unexpected but recognizable 32x32 OS/2 icon file in its directory, which is slightly better than a default DOS session icon.

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Applications / Re: A comprehensive guide to Odin available?
« on: August 26, 2019, 12:08:07 pm »
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Looking at Microsoft's current direction, I expect to use their cloud products more in the future.

Personally, I avoid any contact with anything Microsoft, as much as possible.

Their "cloud" is used for creating customized advertising, and, eventually, I expect that you will probably need to pay for using anything that is out there, including your own data.

In my book not using Microsoft's disks-scanning OS to use required Microsoft Office "solutions" qualifies as avoiding contact with Microsoft as much as reasonably possible. No more Windows, no more hours of monthly updates, less disk torture, and probably the same bleedin', unavoidable cloud in the future.

If only it was just your own data.

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Programming / Re: Mozturbo help
« on: August 26, 2019, 11:02:59 am »
PMMail doesn't actually use those settings for anything, and it doesn't matter if they are set, or not, unless you also use the available PMMDiags package (for extra logging). Then, it is used to find the location of PMMail (forcing the user to do the setting, if they want to use the package).

The bottom line is, that few, if any, apps actually use that stuff, so there has been little incentive for anybody to bother.

Why the "if any", when you report that PMMDiags "actually uses that stuff"!? I don't know why PMMail on its own would ever "actually use those settings for anything" anyway, unless such an app would be some extension of PMMail.

A bothered developer or bothered users, a rather clear choice. Presumably you cannot control the number of "apps actually using that stuff" of remaining users of PMMail, and unfortunately the install procedure of an OS sets a different default e-mail client. So the competition, pleased users, integration of an informal and unannounced new OS standard, the simplicity, and e.g. a possibility to synchronize known inboxes can be some incentives for quite a few developers.

BTW: of course anyone has the full freedom to write a fully open default e-mail client installer, a more aggressive installer for a single product, or perhaps even an uninstaller to delete an alleged useless setting. I won't write an open one, for example because I had to pay for my copy of PMMail, it's not as easy as setting a default browser, and e.g. MAILTO.EXE and YARN.EXE are e-mail solutions which may be hard to integrate.

Either way the on-topic installer won't enable a change by default. So the user has to enable, confirm and apply it intentionally. A specific warning could be possible, but apparently users of PMMDiags had to set it earlier. They should be able to recognize their own explicit setting, which will be displayed. In theory PMMail, or a new QT 5-based browser, can be included as an adopted member of the Mozilla family too, but it's not a fully open installer. For one due to its links with the MozTurbo-solutions.

As such the setting does affect the code significantly, but I'll include it because IIRC it was one of the original requests and other apps can and will use such a new "OS" setting. Yet another component of ArcaOS available as an "informal upgrade" for OS/2 and eCS: a default e-mail client setting.

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