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Applications / Re: Media downloader
« Last post by Dave Yeo on Today at 12:05:01 am »
i don't know if we have deno ported.


No, It is a stand alone JavaScript interpreter based on the V8 (Chrome) engine. Perhaps if we get a newer browser.
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Applications / Re: Media downloader
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on January 16, 2026, 10:54:53 pm »
When I run it I get this:

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[media-downloader] Failed to find executable "bsdtar"
[media-downloader] Error, executable to backend "bsdtar" could not be found
[media-downloader] *************************************************************
[media-downloader] To Disable These Checks, Do The Following:-
[media-downloader] 1. Go To "Configure" Tab.
[media-downloader] 2. Go To "General Options" Sub Tab.
[media-downloader] 3. Click "Actions At StartUp" Menu.
[media-downloader] 4. Select "Do Nothing".
[media-downloader] *************************************************************
[media-downloader] Download Path: C:/HOME/MARTIN/Downloads
[media-downloader] App Data Path: C:\HOME\MARTIN\.config/media-downloader
[media-downloader] *************************************************************
[media-downloader] Checking installed version of yt-dlp
[media-downloader] Found version: 2025.12.08
[media-downloader] Start Downloading deno ... ... ...
[media-downloader] Download Failed: File Not Found
[media-downloader] Checking installed version of ffmpeg
[media-downloader] Found version: 4.2.2

In my case it works. But I noticed that it depends on the video. It seems that there some newer format that give some kind of error.

I deleted the ./config stuff of mediadownloader just to see how it was the first run. It gave me:

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[media-downloader] Failed to find executable "bsdtar"
[media-downloader] Error, executable to backend "bsdtar" could not be found
[media-downloader] *************************************************************
[media-downloader] To Disable These Checks, Do The Following:-
[media-downloader] 1. Go To "Configure" Tab.
[media-downloader] 2. Go To "General Options" Sub Tab.
[media-downloader] 3. Click "Actions At StartUp" Menu.
[media-downloader] 4. Select "Do Nothing".
[media-downloader] *************************************************************
[media-downloader] Download Path: C:/HOME/MARTIN/Downloads
[media-downloader] App Data Path: C:\HOME\MARTIN\.config/media-downloader
[media-downloader] *************************************************************
[media-downloader] Start Downloading yt-dlp ... ... ...
[media-downloader] Downloading: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/download/2025.12.08/yt-dlp
[media-downloader] Destination: C:/HOME/MARTIN/.config/media-downloader/bin/yt-dlp.tmp
[media-downloader] Downloading yt-dlp: 3.04 MiB / 3.04 MiB (100.00%)
[media-downloader] Download complete
[media-downloader] Renaming file to: C:/HOME/MARTIN/.config/media-downloader/bin/yt-dlp
[media-downloader] Checking installed version of yt-dlp
[media-downloader] Found version: 2025.12.08
[media-downloader] Start Downloading deno ... ... ...
[media-downloader] Download Failed: File Not Found
[media-downloader] Checking installed version of ffmpeg
[media-downloader] Found version: 4.2.2

I did a:
 yum install bsdtar
to install bsdtar and the error message was removed about it was gone.

i don't know if we have deno ported.

Regards
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Applications / Re: Media downloader
« Last post by Remy on January 16, 2026, 10:02:37 pm »
* Read updates *
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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Last post by Dave Yeo on January 16, 2026, 04:56:34 pm »
For compiling large projects like Qt, having a stand alone box would help as you can have the minimal other stuff running to save memory. Likewise with a VBox instance, though I find that with VBox, multiple CPU's doesn't work too well. Running multiple jobs when building can really speed things up if you don't run out of memory. Some of this C++ code uses a lot of memory. I've seen compiling one file take a couple of GB's of memory and even hit my swap file with 3.4 GB's of visible memory when running multiple jobs.
Cross compiling from Linux would be best and in theory quite possible. Linux is way faster at compiling projects then OS/2. OTOH, OS/2 is quite a bit faster then Windows compiling this stuff where there is lots of forking of processes.
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Applications / Re: General Software Testing
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on January 16, 2026, 04:42:05 pm »
Hello

Do you think there is a chance to run this poker game in ArcaOS with some trick/hack/mod?
- https://www.os2world.com/games/downloads/native/cards-dice/Poker_Solitaire_1-1.zip
It is from 1989, so it is for OS/2 1.1 or later.

This is the error on popuplog
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01-16-2026  10:39:01  SYS3175  PID 00af  TID 0001  Slot 009c
C:\HOME\MARTIN\DOWNLOADS\POKER_SOLITAIRE_1-1\POKER.EXE
c0000005
0001035b
P1=00000008  P2=00001b30  P3=XXXXXXXX  P4=XXXXXXXX 
EAX=00000000  EBX=1f8e0000  ECX=00000005  EDX=e3980000
ESI=00062ab0  EDI=000f2d86 
DS=001f  DSACC=00f3  DSLIM=0000609f 
ES=001f  ESACC=00f3  ESLIM=0000609f 
FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=000f:0000035b  CSACC=00fb  CSLIM=000076df
SS:ESP=001f:000050fe  SSACC=00f3  SSLIM=0000609f
EBP=0006513c  FLG=00010246

POKER.EXE 0001:0000035b


Regards
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Article Discussions / Re: Games with older SDL and FSLIB
« Last post by Dave Yeo on January 16, 2026, 04:34:33 pm »
Not sure, perhaps some file combined with our port. After unzipping the source, I tried git pull and it still stalled.
Look at the source later
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Article Discussions / Re: Games with older SDL and FSLIB
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on January 16, 2026, 04:14:57 pm »
That is strange. Do you think it is a limitation of our git port? Or is some strange file on the repository.

This is the source I can get from Github desktop (Windows) attached.

Regards
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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Last post by Andi B. on January 16, 2026, 03:59:13 pm »
Thanks for the info, but it's just one example. And, don't get me started on IDEs ;-)
Here maybe Dmitriys approach (SSH file sharing to OS/2 box if I understand it correct) may help. Or running OS/2 virtually in f.i. Linux. But until now I hate doing such. Of course you don't need a browser for OS/2 anymore when running within VBOX....
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Applications / Re: Media downloader
« Last post by Remy on January 16, 2026, 01:02:26 pm »
Hello

In my case MediaDownloader_5-4-5.zip is working for me to download YouTube Files.

I also have Python 3.13.2. When it runs for the first time, it downloads "yt-dlp" first and I guess it uses python to get it. It also requires ffmpeg to create the video file in your hard drive.

Regards

I think you did settings or have additional options installed !
e.g. bsdtar libarchive-os2 ?  where did you get it etc...

Of course, I have my
AOS 5.1.1 at latest level including ffmpeg
Default python and only this one is installed is python 2.7.6 (so, it isn't compatible and media downloader requires python 3.xx !)
Only Python 3.9.xx is available for install but it look creating a lot of problems to install and I didn't install it now until it is possible to install it without trouble from under anpm
Python 3.13.2 is not available from under an official depository !

I think that installing python v3 may disactivate arca OS support  help !   

mediadownloader should not be distributed without the correct python prereqs
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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Last post by Jochen Schäfer on January 16, 2026, 12:12:46 pm »
Thanks for the info, but it's just one example. And, don't get me started on IDEs ;-)
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