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Applications / Re: Java applications
« Last post by Sabon on March 02, 2026, 08:01:42 am »
Hello

Does anybody knows how to use an Apple I ?? just to see if this emulator works.

http://apple1.chez.com/Apple1project/Emulation/Pom1-0.70b-JAVA.tar.gz

It runs with "java -DECHO="N" -DROMFILE="6502.rom.bin" -cp Pom1.jar pom1.Exec"
, but I'm not sure if it works fine.

regards

You might actually be able to get ahold of Woz and see if he will respond. I don't know his email address though.
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Applications / Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« Last post by Sabon on March 02, 2026, 07:58:44 am »
Hi

I want to create this thread to get some help on finding some old software for OS/2 that it is missing.
I don't have any attachment to this software, but since I'm reorganizing Hobbes and checking some archives sites, I want to see if it possible to find some old software to have it properly organized and archived.

You are also free to post requests.

Regards

I don't know if anyone else responded to you outside of this but I setting up my first OS/2 since the 1990s when I LOVED using OS/2. I got out of it because IBM wasn't going to support it anymore. I bought eComStation (and still have the disks) but wasn't impressed with their product and ended up using Mac OS X instead. But now I am retired and I can use the OS/2 that I loved.

Did you ever find OS/2 programs and setup an alternate Hobbs site? I was devastated when I found out that it was down and not available anymore. I have found some OS/2 programs which you may or may not have found. If you are still working at Arca Noae and are still interested in this or anything else I can help with, just let me know.

Bill Olson
Seattle, WA
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Applications / Re: OS/2 - Graphic User Interface - Desktop - Personal Experiences ?
« Last post by Sabon on March 02, 2026, 07:54:37 am »
Hello

I want to discuss these for months, but I had been holding back, I don't know if it is for fear or lack of time to organize the thoughts.

Sometimes when we discuss about OS/2-ArcaOS we say: "The Graphical User Interface needs some love" (Figuratively speaking  ;D ).

1) The question would be, what features you think ArcaOS and OS/2 are lacking when referring to the GUI that you think will be useful?
- Since this is a personal option question, there are no right or wrong answers. I just want to know more about it.

2) Once you install ArcaOS or even OS/2, what utilities (or customization) do you use to improve the GUI as you like?
- For example, for me now it is must XWP 1.0.16 with xCenter big icons
- Or some others like X-It to have more function buttons on their desktop windows.

Again, this is not a discussion to impose a way to working with your machine, just to try to see what I (or We) may be missing while working with the ArcaOS GUI.

Regards

I was a VERY enthusiastic OS/2 user for both personal and work in the 1990s until IBM said they weren't going to support OS/2 anymore, at which time I switched to Mac. Note that I never "loved" using Macs nearly as much as I did OS/2.

Well I'm retired after programming and systems analysis for 40 years and now I can use any [censored by me] operating system that I damn well please and I'm very excited and very worried about OS/2 as of today (March 1st, 2026).

1) There WILL come a time when 32 bit computers are hard to find or will be expensive. Not that computers in general are Inexpensive. But you know what I mean. What will happen to OS/2 in the future? Windows is VERY substandard compared to OS/2 as a user experience for me. Apple, since Steve Jobs died, has no direction because the people running the show have no clue about design and function for an operating system. Linux is FAR too fussy for me. I want to spend time using my applications, not fiddling with things to get the operating system working. OS/2 is like a Honda where it is stable and with a little general maintenance it can run for a LONG time without reboot or other stupid things that you have to do with Windows like rebooting once a month or even once a year unless there is a big update to the OS (meaning OS/2).

So ... my BIG question is this. I KNOW that one or more groups has tried to create an open source version of OS/2 in the past and that petered out and died. To be blunt, without a 64 bit version of OS/2, the companies that currently pay for support will wither and die and the OS/2 will die due to lack of income for Arca Noae and we will be left with whatever the last updated version of OS/2 that we have at that point. I don't want that to be the case.

2) We NEED a version of OS/2 that is inexpensive even if that means creating a limited version of OS/2 that will allow nerds that are interested in alternate OSs to be able to try out OS/2 and see why people like or in my case LOVE OS/2.

3) Now that I'm back to using OS/2 I will be trying to start creating small programs to get myself back up to speed on OS/2 programming. Again, it's been close to 30 years since I wrote programs in C or C++ for OS/2 so I need to get reacquainted with it.

Are there any resources for programming in OS/2 that someone can point me to including a compiler. I've been trying to find resources other than the Arca Noae website which doesn't have any of this kind of information.

4) I want to find people that are interested in talking about OS/2 and working together on projects that I might be able to help out with. Unfortunately most of my programming for the last 15 years has been with Visual Basic which I HATED but it paid for my mortgage and my retirement. And no, I didn't work for Microsoft or any company where I made money from stock. I worked for organizations that didn't have stock but did have a retirement package through a union.

Hopefully someone will see this and respond.
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Internet / Re: Firefox and disk cache - not using it, but why?
« Last post by Dariusz Piatkowski on March 02, 2026, 02:30:01 am »
Dave!

Quite possible I broke something over the years with security fixes from tenfour, changes to compile under the newer GCC etc, as I never checked the cache.

No worries there, to be honest this actually prompted me to investigate some FF aspects that have been relegated to the "set & forget" category...and yeah, as can be seen that's been at least a couple of years now, probably longer actually.

For everyone else's benefit who might be reading this thread, I did the following:

1) shut off the DISK cache by setting browser.cache.disk.enable=FALSE
2) set the browser.cache.memory.capacity=65536 (which is 64M, compared to the original value of "-1", which was providing me with rougly 26M)
- this last one you really need to play around with as the "-1" setting uses a FF algorithm to determine the target size given your available memory

Anyways, truth be told, FF is much more responsive now!  :o ...and maybe I shouldn't be :o

...It does work to a degree, after shutting the browser down and restarting some pages load from cache, though not as many as do under newer SM on Linux. SM, FF and TB share the code.
I have no idea where the cache code resides and don't feel motivated to explore the issue as it is working well enough in this broadband era.

Dave, regardless, I appreciate your feedback on this for w/o it I would have spent more hours investigating things further thinking that something has gone awry on my machine!

Thank you again sir.
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Internet / Re: Firefox and disk cache - not using it, but why?
« Last post by Dave Yeo on March 01, 2026, 11:08:26 pm »
Quite possible I broke something over the years with security fixes from tenfour, changes to compile under the newer GCC etc, as I never checked the cache. It does work to a degree, after shutting the browser down and restarting some pages load from cache, though not as many as do under newer SM on Linux. SM, FF and TB share the code.
I have no idea where the cache code resides and don't feel motivated to explore the issue as it is working well enough in this broadband era.
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Hello Martin!

I am wondering, is there some ongoing work still being done?

Reason for asking: the last 2-3 days trying to get to the forum has been very spotty...tracerte consistently (for me) shows the following:

Code: [Select]
traceroute to os2world.com (178.236.76.172), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  40:B0:76:13:81:00         (192.168.1.1)  0 ms  0 ms  0 ms
 2  bas1.wndson17.mnsi.net    (216.8.136.77)  0 ms  0 ms  0 ms
 3  br0.win.mnsi.net          (216.8.137.193)  10 ms  10 ms  10 ms
 4  port-channel8.core1.tor2.he.net  (209.51.184.205)  0 ms  10 ms  10 ms
 5  port-channel9.core2.tor1.he.net  (184.104.197.133)  0 ms  10 ms  10 ms
 6  100ge0-76.core3.nyc4.he.net  (184.104.196.177)  10 ms * *
 7  port-channel2.core2.ewr5.he.net  (184.104.188.253)  20 ms  20 ms  20 ms
 8  port-channel4.core3.cph1.he.net  (184.104.189.26)  90 ms  90 ms  100 ms
 9  netnod-ix-cph-green-9000.teleservice.net  (212.237.192.236)  90 ms netnod-ix-cph-green-9000.teleservice.net  (212.237.193.236)  100 ms netnod-ix-cph-green-9000.teleservice.net 212.237.192.236)  90 ms
10  rtr-100-mmo-5-link.teleservice.net  (85.30.128.86)  100 ms  100 ms  90 ms
11  host-85-30-131-67.sydskane.nu  (85.30.131.67)  100 ms  100 ms  90 ms
12  * * *
13  * * *

thanks!
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Programming / Re: Compiling uchardet
« Last post by Michael on March 01, 2026, 09:42:22 pm »
Hello Tellie,

Thank you for your help. In the meantime, I have downloaded the latest version of CMake from Paul Smedley and I'm no longer receiving the previous messages. However, it seems that the makefiles now require quotation marks for the path specifications. Very strange...

I will take a closer look at this when I have the time. My goal is actually to compile NotepadQQ for OS/2. All prerequisites would be in place once uchardet is built.

Thank you once again,
Michael
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Internet / Re: Firefox and disck cache - not using it, but why?
« Last post by Dariusz Piatkowski on March 01, 2026, 04:22:24 am »
Dave!

I seem to have the same behaviour here. With SM as well. Wonder if one of updates broke something.
One thing I do is keep the cache on my ram disk so as not to wear my SSD. On Firefox need to add the string preference browser.cache.disk.parent_directory and point it to where you want.
I'll keep an eye on the cache

I did quite a bit of surfing for the answer, but seeing how old our FF is very few topics were relevant. Having said that, I went through the regular suspects, such as: combination of private session setups and the previous bugs that would force the disk cache to be disabled...alas, those were actually FF releases prior to ours.

As it happens I try to do an occasional FF profile backup, but seeing as I haven't been really consistent with this (given that I do a DAILY rsync copy) the last backups I had were from Feb-2024...but no-go there, meaning, nothing was to be found in the 'cache2' subdirectory. Keep in mind though that in order to minimize the backup size I typically would purge the cache first before I ran the backup...lol, great intent, but that approach messes with our troubleshooting today!

Anyways, I did play around with re-directing to my RAMDISK, no change there.

I am going to revert to the previous cache engine setting and see if that does have any impact.
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Web applications / Re: Memcached 1.2.6
« Last post by Igor on March 01, 2026, 01:16:59 am »
Hi!

Multitasking support has ben rewriten. This paves the way for porting modern versions of the program.
Attached multi-threaded version 1.2.8.
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Internet / Re: Firefox and disck cache - not using it, but why?
« Last post by Dave Yeo on March 01, 2026, 12:09:57 am »
I seem to have the same behaviour here. With SM as well. Wonder if one of updates broke something.
One thing I do is keep the cache on my ram disk so as not to wear my SSD. On Firefox need to add the string preference browser.cache.disk.parent_directory and point it to where you want.
I'll keep an eye on the cache
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