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#1
Quote from: RTB2011 on 2011.04.25, 17:31:29
I recently emailed APSoft regarding a build for a TI x515 chipset.  They replied they'd be able to add support for it and several other chipsets, but need cash to do so...  Around 3k euros.  Is there any community interest in this?  It's a lot of money to be sure but supporting these chipsets would go a long ways towards future proofing OS/2 on newer laptops.
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I obviously can't afford it,  but maybe the community could start a donation pool or something if there is enough interest.

I contacted them a few years ago with the same request, and got the same answer. I began collecting names of people who could be interested in paying for a new driver, but
- I could never get enough commitments (so I could never turn in the list)
- There were too many requests that APSoft was *not willing* to satisfy (especially guarantee that such and such chipsets would be supported - the very chipsets that were used by some who could have been interested in sponsoring the updated drivers).

So... I am with you as for PC Card support, but I am not very optimistic. Unless SSI/Mensys go into talks with APSoft to get the source of an updated driver and include it in the next eCS, I do not think much will happen.

It is very sad that OS/2, that had always had excellent backward compatibility, is encountering so many issues today whose solution is "Either new hardware is supported (but old hardware does not work anymore), or vice versa". Not possible to have a modern laptop working with ACPI and PC Cards (Using my SCSI scanner on my 3.5 year-old laptop is already impossible..).
#2
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/19561/2/
QuotePosted by Martin Iturbide - Tuesday, 05 January 2010


It
is w. .. .

I wish there had been a small delay between the announcement and the end of the sale (or maybe I missed the announcement when it was posted), I need at least Unimaint 5 (I have 4 and was always "sniped" when I tried getting 5 on eBay...).
#3
Applications / Re: Open Office
2009.12.13, 07:23:03
Unrelated question: Will OpenOffice ever support running VBA macros ( http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/VBA ) on eCS ? This is one major function that I need from time to time for my work and that has forced me to use Excel on Windows (Matlab, Fortran90, a good Photoshop equivalent are the other missing pieces of software that prevent me from not using Windows anymore)...
#4
Let Andrei know there IS a need for LSwitcher. It's always one of the first apps I install after intalling eCS. I like the taskbar icons to be grouped together for the same application, which keeps the bar readable and, AFAIK, is not a functionality that is included in the basic eWPS/XWP taskbar. That, the nicer look, the internal consistency with the Alt+Tab functions, makes me wish that LSwitcher were installed and activated as part of eCS. I really hope someone will continue developing this small, but powerful add-on.
#5
Hi William,

I add my name first in line for VC++, the DevCon, Productivity Toolkit and Backup. I can leave Warp 3 to anyone, I've already too many copies of that ;)

APP
#6
Quote from: chennecke on 2009.09.28, 13:45:41
Yes. Since I didn't hear back from you after replying to your initial message, I sold it to somebody else.

I don't see a reply here in this topic, nor a private message in the mailbox. Anyway, thanks for having proposed it. Maybe I will be lucky in the future and find another copy (although I have looked for any kind of scientific software for OS/2 for years - Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, ... - and never found anything for sale).
#7
Hi Christian,

you edited your original message recently, striking out some items. Does it mean someone already got them ?

No mathematica anymore :-(
#8
I think that one specification should be added to all these (possibly) nice features: do not break what was working before... I feel like Eugene and his team, although they are doing a great work, never take that into account. Two examples: the APSoft driver does not work anymore with ACPI; last time I installed the eCoSoft products, I had to reinstall my system for some other incompatibility (processor went to 99%, unable to control system anymore). This was on my 2004 laptop. Lots of work are needed to make eCS compatible with the newest machines, as it is more and more difficult to find compatible hardware (that was already difficult when OS/2 was actively developed..), so I think it's really a bad idea to break down the compatibility with hardware that is a few years old when developing new software...

I remember now (Sept12 2009) where the problem with eCoSoft was: it was (at least on my laptop) incompatible with XWLan. That was what caused the processor to go to 99% and the system to become unusable. And I prefer an old interface to a laptop without easy wifi... Although a nice new interface that does not break wifi (or anything else that is necessary on a laptop) is even better...
#9
Hardware / Re: Free space problem
2009.08.24, 09:29:32
2gbfix works well with DOS programs. However, it does not work with old, native OS/2 programs or, IIRC, with "common mode" programs. The solution I have found is to use spacehog ( http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/disk/spacehog.zip ) that will create large files to fill up the space above 2GB. This should work for you.
Spacehog does not work if your disk is *really* large (such as a 64GB drive, maximum size for HPFS, that is partially filled) in my experience, but with a 7GB drive there should be no problem.
Just remember, when your old stuff is installed, to delete the files created by spacehog. The programs (PMWord, PMExcel, ...) will still work. They only check for hard disk space during the installation process.
#10
Nice collection ! Here is what I think about it...

Very, very, very interested in:

- Mathematica 2.2 with printed documentation... I've been looking for that piece of software (and for a real license for Maple for OS/2) for a long time...

Interested in:

- Neon Grafix 3D light
- Neon Grafix Storybook
- OrisaPro 1.0.01
- Vispro REXX Data Entry Object Pack
- Corporate Expansion Pack for Entrepreneur
- Papyrus Office 7.5 German with documentation (can it qualify for an upgrade price to the latest version ?)

May be interested in (I've got to check the version I have...):

- Vispro REXX Gold 3.0
- VisPro C 3.0
- TrueSpectra Photo>Graphics 2.02

Maybe interested, depending on what come with the software/which version it is:
- Visual Age C++ 4.0 (incl. 3.65); I bought it some time ago on eBay, but there was no formal license/doc included...
- Sim City (if different from the version included in the IBM Family FunPak)
- BlueCad (anything more than the free download, such as manuals ?)

Slightly interested in (games are not my thing... but a nice OS/2 software collection is):

- BEM (Bug Eyed Monsters) It Crawled From the Net!
- Drilling Billy
- Star Emperor
- Trials of Battle
#11
Quote from: miturbide on 2009.08.04, 16:40:07
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/19089/2/
In simple words, any University student can request their teacher to download OS/2 Warp 4.52 and provide it to the student, while he is investigating the OS or making homeworks.
Right, but unfortunately, except for SmartSuite, nothing else is available. I repeatedly asked IBM to make their OS/2 compilers (VisualAge series) available for  students on Academic Initiative, and they never did it... I wonder what is the use of the VA distributed debugger if you have nothing to debug...
#12
Quote from: Pete on 2009.05.29, 15:29:52
The npmp.dll in the current mplayer package should work - worth knowing where to pickup this version though, just in case  :-)

Thanks for the piece of information, Pete !

There is, however, two things that bother me:

1- from the previous conversations on that topic, I still don't understand if MediaPlayer connectivity has to be installed or if the plugin is self-sufficient. Instructions say that the associations should be deleted, installing MPC needs the associations, discussion seems to indicate that MPC is still required. All of that seems to be self-contradictory, and I don't know what to believe.

2-a For whomever coded/ported this code: it would be great if the program could look into its own directory/subdirectories when handling libraries, thus avoiding users to add lengthy paths to the path and especially to the libpath. Even without putting all my programs into the \Program(s) directory, the length of my Libpath is almost at its maximum value, and adding the paths for mplayer make it too long (with the usual doscall1.dll error).
2-b To solve the libpath/path length errors, I would be willing to sponsor (in the limit of what I can still afford at the end of the month, given my student's earnings at the beginning), in form of an os2world bounty, the creation of a program that would concentrate libraries in a common directory. This program would be run by the user before a program is installed and after it has been installed (before rebooting), look at the differences in the libpath. If there is any difference, then the program would list the libraries in the added directory, go through the other libpath libraries (or just through the existing libraries in the common folder) to see if there is any library newer than the ones just installed but with the same name, and copy the libraries of the recently installed program into the common folder, just discarding those that are already installed in a more recent version. Given the size of today's hard drives, having two copies of the same libraries (one in the original folder and one in the common folder) is not a lot of lost space, but it would allow using the available space when installing more programs without getting a libpath-length error.

A.
#13
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/17999/2/
QuotePosted by Robert Mauro - Wednesday, 30 April 2008


This ". .. .
npmp_test.zip is not available anymore at the given address. However, OS/2 site (http://www.os2site.com/sw/mmedia/video/mplayer/npmp_test.zip) got it on time.
#14
Abandonware / Lahey Fortran 90
2009.05.16, 12:02:58
Hi,

does someone have a copy of Lahey Fortran 90 for OS/2 ? I have version 2.00aa (OS/2 part fits on 5 floppies) but the first floppy is defect and therefore I cannot install this compiler.

A.
#15
Quote from: warpcafe on 2009.04.06, 11:14:32
The "lifetime subscription" was one of the best investments I ever made.
I only wish they would come up with a v6-like thing for OS/2, supporting the tabbed-sessions. But I can live without that for sure... :)

I emailed them sometime ago, and they have stopped development for OS/2 and will not be making new versions of ZOC. I also loved this piece of software, but unless someone has a real daily need for it, I would advise not to invest in a new license. Except if we can push them into upgrading the OS/2 version by showing a significant number of people who would like to buy a new license or who would be willing to pay an upgrade fee. However, I remember that I tried doing that for the APSoft PC Card driver and there were so many conditions from people who would have been interested, and even so few people interested that I could never reach the quota they required for a driver upgrade. Therefore, I am not optimistic either on the outcome of such a request for ZOC, although updating a piece of software to match its Windows counterpart is certainly easier than updating drivers.