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#1
Hello everbody

I am currently running firefox 4.0.1 and would like to "upgrade" to the latest unoffical port 10.0.5.
I downloaded the archive and extract it into D: drive. I have therefore a new folder D:\firefox\.

When I double click on the firefox.exe file, the "Properties" dialogs opens... and that's it...

Did I missed something in the installation?

Thanks for your help.

François
#2
Hello All

I would like to install OS/2 Warp 4 on my Toshiba Satellite 220CS (Pentium 133Mhz with 144Mb RAM and a Hardrive of 60GB)

I have the three installation disks and the installation CD.

But, once the system has loaded all three installation disks, I get the following error message:

SYS0039: The C: device is not ready

I have read on the net I should update to newer installation disks... but have ne idea a safe place to download them.

Thanks for your help.

Regards

François
#3
Dear all

I am wondering which of these laptop is most compatible with eCS 2.1: the IBM Thinkpad T43 or the Lenovo Thinkpad T60? Both with a XSGA+ (1440x1050) screen.

My main usage will be: email + internet browsing + office work + programming... So I am not looking for pure performance, but really for compatibility and comfort of use.

Best regards

François
#4
Hello everybody

I installed openwatcom and just successfully build my first PM "Hello World" app in C

Cool... but I could not find where to enable the syntax highlighting...

Please, help me, as coding without syntax highlighting is not that comfortable.

Thanks for your help.

François
#5
Internet / NetSurf port to OS/2?
2012.05.15, 11:06:38
Dear,

Do you know netsurf (http://www.netsurf-browser.org/), a modern and lightweight browser for old and/or alternative platforms.

My C skill is still in its early stages, so I am not able yet to start such a port...

But, considering the difficulties to port Firefox, I think this one could be a good candidate for an OS/2 port. Furthermore, it could run on old hardware way much better than Firefox.

Hope this challenge will interest some people here ;)

François
#6
Applications / Mesa2 - Abandonware?
2012.05.14, 23:26:30
Hello

I am i search of a light and powerfull spreadsheet for OS/2 to run on a old machine (Pentium I 120Mhz)
I found Mesa2 in demo version on the Hobbes repository. To unleashed the full power of it... a license code is required... But it looks like the company behind this product vanished.

So, is it considered as abandonware? And if so, where could such a license be found?

Regards

François
#7
Hello

I would like to install a second instance od eCS for expirimentation (i.e. installing new drivers) in order to avoid corrupting the main instance.
Also, i would like to put the home folder into a separate partition

Is that possible? How should I proceeed?

Thanks for your help.

Regards
#8
Hi all

I noted that the Watcom Dialog Editor (wde.exe) seems to be missing on the OS/2 - eCS platform...

Is there another GUI editor available that could be used with OpenWatcom?

Regards

François
#9
Hello

I am new in the OS/2 - eCS 2.x world since this WE... and reinstall the system already twice: the first one because I installed lots of stuff everywhere and wanted to return to a clean install (and also increase the partition dedicated to eCS 2.1). The second one after enabling the APM which cause my laptop to freeze 10 to 15 seconds after the desktop appears... Before the end of those 10 to 15 seconds, i succeeded to disable APM... but after the reboot, I got a freeze at startup...

Anyway, i just reinstalled everything without activating ACPI... For the time being, I will stick with this.

But my current problem is much basic.

The default soud volume is way too loud. So, I went to the Sound Control Panel. The default theme is set to "Desktop". I did not change it. I checked the "Apply same volume to all sounds" option (or something like that) and move the sound cursor to 10%....

But, when I press return or tab or when I closed the dialog, the theme switched to <no theme> (or sth like that... sorry, I have no access to my laptop now)... and changes did not apply: when rebooting, the sound level was back to its too loud level. The only way I found was to change the level of all sounds one at a time (thus unchecking the "apply same volume to all sounds" option) and to save everything under a new theme...

So, the "apply same volume to all sounds" check box does not work.

The weird thing is that I did not have this problem with my two first installations: I successfully changed the volumes by checking the "apply same volume to all sounds" option....

Thanks for your help.

François