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Hardware / Re: Smart Hard Drive Monitoring on AOS 5.1.1
« Last post by Dave Yeo on August 03, 2025, 09:50:24 pm »
Good things aren't too bad for you Pete, too many move on or worse and vanish.
As for  PMsmartctl, what is needed are driver updates, eg nVME to get the smart data and then updated smartmon, all beyond your control.
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Hardware / Re: Smart Hard Drive Monitoring on AOS 5.1.1
« Last post by Pete on August 03, 2025, 07:27:07 pm »
Hi All

Thanks for your concern Dave but I'm still alive and kicking - although I have developed a nasty case of "students elbow" which is a bit uncomfortable and slows my limited keyboard skills down somewhat  :-)

No current plans on updating PMsmartctl - unless someone has a need for something not already included?

I checked the version of smartmontools I have installed and it is
   smartctl 7.0 (build date Oct 19 2019) [i386-pc-os2-emx] (local build)

This came from http://rpm.netlabs.org/experimental/00/zip/smartmontools-7_0-1_oc00.zip

As netlabs seems to be down at the moment I've attached the above zip to this post.


Regards

Pete


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Programming / Re: Powerbasic for OS/2
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on August 03, 2025, 04:29:54 pm »
Hi
As far as I know, version 1.5 was the last version of VisualAge for Basic. Unfortunately, the update is nowhere to be found.
Yes, I'm still looking for the 1.5 patch. I don't know if it was distributed as a fixpack or as a full product installer. Never saw that version in my life.

Regards
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Applications / Re: AVxCAT 2.1.1.2
« Last post by David McKenna on August 03, 2025, 04:09:51 pm »
Hi Remy,

  I tried your prereqs installer... here is what I did and some observations:

 Installed AVxCAT 2.2.2.0 (over 2.1.1.2), got FP2 and copied, then ran the prereqs installer. It said I did not have ID3V2, Timidity, Ogginfo, and Leech. I did already have timidity, but the path was wrong on the parameters page, so changed to the correct path (C:\Programs\timidity). I choose to download and not install, ran it and everything downloaded (plus some other stuff). Installed all in the locations suggested by the structure of the downloaded zip files (\usr\local\bin and \usr\local\lib were already on my path) and ran the Leech WPI. Then re-ran the prereqs installer and this time it said I did not have ID3V2 and Ogginfo, but again the paths were wrong on the parameters page. Changed the paths and now everything is recognized under AVxCAT parameters, except priority.exe was colored yellow (why yellow?). Manually looked for priority.exe on my system and it was missing, so installed FM2UTILS from WPI. Now priority.exe is white on the parameters page. Re-ran the prereqs installer and now it said I did not have priority.exe (but do and it is recognized on the parameters page). Tried again and it still shows priority.exe is missing.

  Now it seems everything needed is set up so I started trying things. Noticed under 'View' on the toolbar, you can open a log window at the bottom and see what is going on under the hood. At the beginning it shows loading and testing various components. There were 2 it did not find: 'rxtnsion not loaded' and 'Voix not found'. I went to Hobbes and found Voix and installed, but could not find any 'rxtnsion'. At least now it finds Voix.

  Thanks for creating AVxCAT! It is amazingly comprehensive and so somewhat complex - will spend some more time trying it out.

Regards,

EDIT: The problem with priority.exe is that I did not reboot after installing FM2UTILS. Apparently, it adds the path to FM2UTILS to LIBPATH and AVxCAT uses that to find priority.exe.
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Programming / Re: Powerbasic for OS/2
« Last post by Michael on August 03, 2025, 02:06:22 pm »
As far as I know, version 1.5 was the last version of VisualAge for Basic. Unfortunately, the update is nowhere to be found.

Version 1.1 is unfortunately extremely unstable, especially when trying to use the language's object-oriented features.
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Programming / Re: Powerbasic for OS/2
« Last post by MPJ on August 03, 2025, 09:09:57 am »
Is it really a higher version than 1.1? Although the 1.1 is easy to program, it crashes more often. You just have to know what you have to avoid. I would be interested in how the 1.27 behaves.
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Hardware / Re: Smart Hard Drive Monitoring on AOS 5.1.1
« Last post by Dave Yeo on August 03, 2025, 06:52:57 am »
Wonder how Peter is doing? Been a while since he posted
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Article Discussions / Re: Games with older SDL and FSLIB
« Last post by Dave Yeo on August 03, 2025, 04:02:28 am »

Abusing of your time again, (if possiblr) the next one is:
- https://github.com/OSSGames/GAME-SDL-ACTION-UHexen
- https://uhexen.sourceforge.net/
The shareware wad is here: https://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/games/action/UHexen_0-601.zip

Regards

Hi Martin, I compiled UHexen, dropping the binary and DLL's into UHexen_0-601 I get,
Code: [Select]
H:\tmp\hexen>uhexen.exe
Starting Hexen!
V_Init: allocate screens.
M_LoadDefaults: Load system defaults.
W_Init: Init WADfiles.
DEMO IWAD detected!
Z_Init: Init zone memory allocation daemon.
MN_Init: Init menu system.
CT_Init: Init chat mode data.
S_InitScript
SN_InitSequenceScript: Registering sound sequences.
I_Init: Setting up machine state.
SDL Audio opened successfully.
ST_Init: Init startup screen.
Executable: U-Hexen 0.5 build Aug  2 2025.
R_Init: Init Hexen refresh daemonTextures Flats Sprites Colormaps Done.
P_Init: Init Playloop state.
Numsprites:300
D_CheckNetGame: Checking network game status.
SB_Init: Loading patches.
SDL: Using video driver:OS2

Killed by SIGSEGV
pid=0x5188 ppid=0x0062 tid=0x0001 slot=0x00ac pri=0x0200 mc=0x0001 ps=0x0010
H:\TMP\HEXEN\UHEXEN.EXE
cs:eip=04b0:00000000      ss:esp=1f38bb5a:001efb78      ebp=00000053
 ds=1f38c045      es=0000      fs=0002      gs=0000     efl=1b35a301
eax=001efc28 ebx=1ffc9d7c ecx=001efc3c edx=001efc60 edi=001efb20 esi=001eff8c
Creating 5188_01.TRP
Moved 5188_01.TRP to W:\var\log\app\688e5e16-5188_01-UHEXEN-exceptq.txt

And looking at the trp file, the call stack has _VSDL_InitGraphics as the culprit.
I'll play more, there are a lot of warnings in the compile, but not hopeful.
After I'll look at the source that Tellie pointed to and see about compiling that to use our current environment.
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Setup & Installation / Re: SDHC Card Support
« Last post by Doug Bissett on August 02, 2025, 11:36:18 pm »
Using a Thinkpad T530 - it has an SD Card slot, collecting dust.

Should I be able to pop-in an SDHC
card and use minilvm to format it?

Would the recommendation be FAT32 or JFS?

Is the backend for this the usbmsd?

I expect that it is the same as the slot in my ThinkPad L530. I never got it to work. The simple solution was to get a USB SD card adapter. I got a Kingston device (Realtek internally). It started to work with the Arca Noae USB stack, a few releases ago.

There may be a better option, unless you use the SD card with another device. I have a couple of USB external drives, using SABRENT enclosures, with Crucial NVME sticks. They work far better than SD cards (and adapters).
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Programming / Re: Powerbasic for OS/2
« Last post by RTAN on August 02, 2025, 10:20:54 pm »
Hi Dariusz,

Yes please! I have PM'd you :-)

Best,
Richard.
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