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Re: BrainStorm: Best Classic OS/2 Software
« Reply #30 on: November 26, 2025, 01:28:39 am »
Let's hope it can be turn into "AS IS Freeware" !! Good luck !!

Support team is working on simplifying the installation package in order to remove the need for a key. They'll let me know.


any word on this?

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Re: BrainStorm: Best Classic OS/2 Software
« Reply #31 on: November 26, 2025, 02:40:33 am »
Hello Mentore!

should probably confirm this makes it onto their website before making it generally available. i couldn't find martin's email so here we go

Thanks everyone.
I've got an installation package yesterday from Martin (thanks @Martin) and sent a google drive link to the support email at SlickEdit.
Now let's cross our fingers and see what will happen.

Mentore

I'm sorry this response is so late (recently away from home for some business travel), but catching up now I want to state the following:

1) I had originally purchased the fully licensed VSE product, so the original installation media is here and I'd be happy to dump that out to some sort of an archive for you

2) There was a V4.0b 'fix-pack' release made in 1999, where several bugs were addressed and a few extra features were added
- take a look at the attached file

Again, would be happy to make that available for an official distribution as this was never available through the official VSE channel(s).

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Re: BrainStorm: Best Classic OS/2 Software
« Reply #32 on: November 26, 2025, 08:07:22 am »
Hello Mentore!

should probably confirm this makes it onto their website before making it generally available. i couldn't find martin's email so here we go

Thanks everyone.
I've got an installation package yesterday from Martin (thanks @Martin) and sent a google drive link to the support email at SlickEdit.
Now let's cross our fingers and see what will happen.

Mentore

I'm sorry this response is so late (recently away from home for some business travel), but catching up now I want to state the following:

1) I had originally purchased the fully licensed VSE product, so the original installation media is here and I'd be happy to dump that out to some sort of an archive for you

2) There was a V4.0b 'fix-pack' release made in 1999, where several bugs were addressed and a few extra features were added
- take a look at the attached file

Again, would be happy to make that available for an official distribution as this was never available through the official VSE channel(s).

Hi Darius, here's the latest I know:

SlickEdit support team emailed me asking for a fully installed package together with some instructions via a cloud service, so I packed what I have and sent 'em. The reason why is that they didn't want to be bothered with registration keys requests, I feel. Also - they don't have the source code anymore (hard drive crash before they swapped their development on cloud, as per their communication).

I'm at office now so I have my VM available - will move it on an USB drive so that I have everything available any time, since at home my only machine hasn't got enough drive space. I will look at VSE settings to check if there are entries in OS2.INI, CONFIG.SYS or whatever, and these additional instructions will eventually go into the description file. ISTR there's nothing else needed, apart from a program object, but let's check first.

For what I know, the SlickEdit guys should already be able to distribute VSE 4.0b as public domain, without the need for a registration key. I'll check on them later this morning, if I have some time.

Mentore

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Re: BrainStorm: Best Classic OS/2 Software
« Reply #33 on: November 26, 2025, 03:35:42 pm »
FWIW I made an installer for Vslick as a part of my Suntan Special product. It wasn't much. I unzipped a saved installation, modified vslick.sta to reflect the new installation directory, and inserted my license file.

We could hack together a decent WarpIn installation program.
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Re: BrainStorm: Best Classic OS/2 Software
« Reply #34 on: November 27, 2025, 08:37:45 am »
FWIW I made an installer for Vslick as a part of my Suntan Special product. It wasn't much. I unzipped a saved installation, modified vslick.sta to reflect the new installation directory, and inserted my license file.

We could hack together a decent WarpIn installation program.

Really an interesting idea, Neil. We may propose that to the support team at SlickEdit.

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