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Article Discussions / Re: Games with older SDL and FSLIB
« Last post by Dave Yeo on July 20, 2025, 01:14:10 am »
Hello Dave

The older one is working fine, this new one gives me an error that can not find data/sounds.

Regards

Guess I should have tested :)
It's weird as the error is,
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H:\cuyo-2.1.0>cuyo.exe
Error: Could not find "sounds/leftright.wav".
Tried the following places:
  ./data/sounds/leftright.wav
And
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H:\cuyo-2.1.0>ls ./data/sounds/leftright.wav
./data/sounds/leftright.wav

So it is there and should work.
Hmm, rebuilding without -Zhigh-mem and it works. Just use the original binary as it seems the -Zhigh-mem is breaking something, perhaps the combination of a GCC binary and OW DLL.
Edit: updated compile.os2 removing the -Zhigh-mem
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Article Discussions / Re: Games with older SDL and FSLIB
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on July 19, 2025, 07:14:04 pm »
Hello Dave

The older one is working fine, this new one gives me an error that can not find data/sounds.

Regards
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Hello
Shared folders fails to copy files in some cases, leaving a 0 length file on the host system. WPS seems to have the defaults for move and copy swapped.

It is on my TODO list to open a ticket about the VirtualBox guests on OS/2 have this issue.

-"Drag-drop+Ctrl" (copy action) from the guest to the host it give me that failure of a  0 length file on the host system.  (ERROR)
-"Drag-drop+Shift" (move action) from the guest to the host it works as the expected "file move". (FINE)
- Only "Drag-drop" from the guest to the host works as a "file move". I'm not sure if that is fine between two different drives.  (NOT SURE)

Regards


Regards
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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Last post by Dave Yeo on July 19, 2025, 05:48:30 pm »
52ESR was pretty well the last Mozilla that built without Rust so anything newer is out of reach. Going the 52ESR route, there is PaleMoon which was forked off of 52ESR and in theory buildable on OS/2 but it would be a lot of work and while a lot of  modern stuff has been back ported to it and it will handle a lot of sites, it is still limited.
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Networking / Re: Would this be, a good ethernet bridge for Arca OS 5.1.1
« Last post by Dan Eicher on July 19, 2025, 05:37:03 pm »
Neil,
  > GL.iNet family of travel routers

Thanks, and yes, I have a GL.iNet travel router, also my home router is a GL-MT6000 - and I couldn't agree with you more.

I was looking at something smaller to throw in with a traveling laptop.  I know Lewis wrote up docs on the GWU627, but the GWU627 is no longer available, and appears to have been replaced with the GWU637.
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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Last post by Roderick Klein on July 19, 2025, 03:54:10 pm »
Hi All

While browsing osnews.com I saw this:-


Mypal68: Firefox 68, maintained for Windows XP
Thom Holwerda 2025-07-17 Mozilla, Gecko 9 Comments

Do you have a Windows XP retro virtual machine or, god forbid, run Windows XP on your primary machine? You’re going to need a sort-of up-to-date browser, and it turns out Mypal68 offers just that. Terrible name aside, it’s Firefox 68 ported to and maintained to run on Windows XP SP3; SP2 and lower are not supported, but some people do seem to have some success getting it to run on those.

There are issues, of course: there’s a 1.5GB memory limit, and the browser will crash when it reaches that limit, and 64bit builds simpy don’t work at all, so there’s only a 32bit build. Version 74.1.0 was released a few days ago, but that version number doesn’t actually mean the browser is now based on Firefox 74; they had to change the reported version number for extension compatibility.



Could "a sort-of up-to-date browser" currently "maintained for WindowsXP" be of interest to us OS/2 users?

Would it be easier to port than Dooble + qt5/6?

If any of our "Mozilla experts" fancy taking a look: https://codeberg.org/Theodor2/Mypal68


Regards

Pete

A extremely big chance that this game over. This Firefox 68 version most likely contains RUST code. The question is how far it will help as Firefox 68 was end of life
August 25, 2020.  Before OS/2 VOICE started on the Dooble browser BWW and I looked at Firefox 52 ot 54. That would take at least 6 months of full time work to get from 45.9 to 52.
My initial thought with the very limited resources the OS/2 community is that it will most likely not help to port a 5 year old browser to the platform.

Dave what are your thoughts ?

Roderick
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Networking / Re: Would this be, a good ethernet bridge for Arca OS 5.1.1
« Last post by Neil Waldhauer on July 19, 2025, 03:16:06 pm »
It's a nice compact travel router, but software is deeply inferior to the GL.iNet family of travel routers. GL.iNet is open-source, based on DDWRT.
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Shared folders fails to copy files in some cases, leaving a 0 length file on the host system. WPS seems to have the defaults for move and copy swapped.

Other than that, it seems to work pretty well. I wish there was a pair of applications that would allow OS/2 associations to result in actions on the host system. For example, WPURL objects should open a browser tab on the host system web browser.
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Thanks, I've done that windows emulation (7/xp) on Win11 - but didn't know if it worked with AOS.

I will try it and report back.
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Internet / Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Last post by Pete on July 19, 2025, 02:03:18 pm »
Hi All

While browsing osnews.com I saw this:-


Mypal68: Firefox 68, maintained for Windows XP
Thom Holwerda 2025-07-17 Mozilla, Gecko 9 Comments

Do you have a Windows XP retro virtual machine or, god forbid, run Windows XP on your primary machine? You’re going to need a sort-of up-to-date browser, and it turns out Mypal68 offers just that. Terrible name aside, it’s Firefox 68 ported to and maintained to run on Windows XP SP3; SP2 and lower are not supported, but some people do seem to have some success getting it to run on those.

There are issues, of course: there’s a 1.5GB memory limit, and the browser will crash when it reaches that limit, and 64bit builds simpy don’t work at all, so there’s only a 32bit build. Version 74.1.0 was released a few days ago, but that version number doesn’t actually mean the browser is now based on Firefox 74; they had to change the reported version number for extension compatibility.



Could "a sort-of up-to-date browser" currently "maintained for WindowsXP" be of interest to us OS/2 users?

Would it be easier to port than Dooble + qt5/6?

If any of our "Mozilla experts" fancy taking a look: https://codeberg.org/Theodor2/Mypal68


Regards

Pete
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