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Messages - Neil Waldhauer

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Setup & Installation / Re: Booting with NVMe
« on: April 15, 2021, 01:00:24 am »
If you want to boot from NVMe drive, and you use AirBoot, how are you going to install AirBoot on NVMe drive? That's why you need to boot from the installer USB stick.

If you have another drive besides NVMe one, better read this page from the Arca Noae wiki.

https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/arcaos/multiple-disk-types/

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Setup & Installation / Re: Booting with NVMe
« on: April 14, 2021, 05:26:07 pm »
I have now done it using the ArcaOS 5.0.6 USB stick. I'm sure a Wiki entry from Arca Noae will come soon, as I have reported the result to the tester's list.

You'll need to edit the Config.Sys in the pre-boot menu to comply with what it says in the NVMe readme. The PSD line needs to NOT have /VW

If you install, you need to edit Config.Sys at the end of Phase 1 with the same changes the pre-boot menu got. After that, it should work.

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Thanks, the hint about "1" was what I needed.

wrong: CustomVideoModel
right: CustomVideoMode1

I now have ArcaOS running at 1920 x 1200 x 32 in full screen mode.

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I carefully tried jailbird's instructions above, but I don't see a 1920 x 1200 x 32 selection appear.

I didn't notice before, but I do see 2 lines containing 1280 x 1024 x 16M in the OS/2 screen applet. Next step is to repeat the ArcaOS installation.

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Hardware / Re: Virtualbox, eCS and USB 12.08
« on: April 13, 2021, 05:12:46 am »
I just installed USB 12.08 on my Virtual Box system. No problems observed so far.

Maybe it is widescreen that is causing your crash? ;)

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Thanks for the suggestions.
I am using Virtual Box 6.1.18 under Windows 10 64 bit (and also Ubuntu, but I checked your suggestions under Windows)
I left monitor unselected, as I had seen Martin's page with no monitor, but wide screen working
I am using VBoxVGA and I increased video memory to 32 MB
I had been trying 1920 x 1080 x 32, but then I saw your suggestion, and I changed to the native 1920 x 1200. Both Windows and ArcaOS are fine with 1920 x 1200 x 32. Unfortunately, this change did not get VirtualBox to cooperate.

My OS2Addtions are dated 8-15-20. These do not have VBXGRADD.DLL

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I am using Ubuntu Linux, but I also have a Windows 10 host. I am quite unfamiliar with Windows 10 and Ubuntu, but I thought Virtual Box might be helpful to develop. I've tried to follow your instructions, and those at Arca Noae, but nothing seems to set that resolution.

Your helpful Wiki helps me see that monitor definitions are not the answer. But I'm still unsuccessful at adding any wide screen video.

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I tried VBoxManage and I am using the same GRADD.DLL as Martin. But so far no joy with getting a wide screen resolution. The screen applet suggests that I select a monitor to enable higher resolution, but offers me a list of monitors from 1996. Did anyone using a wide screen select a monitor? What did you choose?

For what it is worth, I do see a slight flicker to the cursor at 1280 x 1024. It's not crippling, but I think original poster is right that it is a little slow.

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Programming / Re: VSLICK - OS/2 Toolkit Support Package
« on: April 08, 2021, 03:34:08 pm »
Well, consider me subscribed. I use Vslick daily. I would love to see the feature with Document->Format paragraph default to one space after the period.

I do HTML and CSS with Vslick also, and of course that's a little behind the times, too.

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How do you get 1980 x 1080 resolution with GenGradd? On my Virtual Box, I only see non-widescreen resolutions offered.

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Applications / Re: Problems with lsusb and usb.ids
« on: April 04, 2021, 06:44:40 pm »
I needed to move the usb.ids from \sys\bin to \mptn\etc, but lsusb 013 seems to work well here.

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Web applications / Re: QT5 simplebrowser
« on: April 01, 2021, 03:49:10 pm »
Thanks, Paul!

For me, the exciting thing was a pointer to another article with a news site that would probably work on IBM Web Explorer.

http://68k.news/

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Philadelphia retro computing enthusiast Sean Malseed, have opted to create parts of the modern internet in a way that's intelligible to the earliest of machines.

His latest effort is a reworking of Google News designed to run on browsers as early as Netscape 1.1, first released in mid-1995

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Hardware / Re: OS/2 on Virtualbox with 8 COM ports
« on: March 16, 2021, 03:10:22 pm »
I got more or less the same answer from Digi 20 years ago. I got the same from Quatech.

There are a lot of Gasonics PEP out on the used market. An internet search reveals dozens available. It's hard to imagine the use for them. I can imagine that the software could be modified to run on one OS/2 computer without the network. I would have set it up, but PEP was end-of-life by the time I worked on it.

I did make a replacement computer for PEP based on an Industrial computer. That computer cost quite a bit more than the current value of a PEP on the used market. Practically, it might make sense to buy two PEP and use one for parts.

The OS needs to be real-time, which OS/2 is not. But Windows and maybe Linux are worse at real-time than OS/2. The replacement for PEP ran on a real time OS.

Making OS/2 virtual probably makes things worse. Is there such a thing as a real-time Virtual PC? Anyway, that's why there are three computers. The right and left just do precise real-time control of the robots and oven.

An OS/2 machine with a Pentium 3 would easily control 99 serial ports in not quite real time. That's why so many robotics setups were using OS/2. Windows and Linux in the same situation would generally not control even one serial port. That's why there are so many network-based serial solutions - to off-load the real-time to a dedicated processor/operating system.

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What is the Trackpoint scroll button? Is it the blue trapezoid shaped button? What is it supposed to do?

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Hardware / Re: OS/2 on Virtualbox with 8 COM ports
« on: March 10, 2021, 03:45:39 pm »
I think the application software only does DosDevIOCtl calls that go to serial ports. I can't really be sure. It's been a long time.

But the cards are available on eBay, so I doubt there is a practical need to replace.


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