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Messages - Mentore

#1
Quote from: ALT on 2012.08.30, 15:52:19
Quote from: Mentore on 2012.08.30, 11:15:50
Really good news Martin, I'll look forward to get this software.

Too bad the sources got lost...

ISTR Alex Taylor made good projects with VisPro, so maybe he can help you.

Mentore

Actually, I don't use VisPro at all.  I've played with it a couple of times, but that's it.

I use VX-REXX, personally.

Ops, sorry: I forgot!

:(
#2
Quote from: miturbide on 2012.08.29, 17:46:18
Joachim from Mensys told me that there is no problem from their side to turn it freeware.

So, I'm starting to collect the binaries to put them on hobbes.


Really good news Martin, I'll look forward to get this software.

Too bad the sources got lost...

ISTR Alex Taylor made good projects with VisPro, so maybe he can help you.

Mentore
#3
Applications / Re: Old Software
2012.01.10, 09:34:17
Quote from: lpino on 2012.01.09, 13:53:42
Quote from: WarpWorld on 2012.01.06, 18:25:43
Cool  :) Give to me one of them for free of charge  ;D

I have no intention of recieving money for any of the sofware I have. So as soon as I get everything back into my new home I'll begin giving away some, if not all of the stuff. I actually own lots and lots more. I even have the official betas of Warp Server, Warp 4 and WSeB since I participated on those programs... funny I even forgot about that.

Regards

Leo, we both live in Italy I think ;-) so contact me when you're ready... I think I could do with WSeB and some games :)

Mentore
#4
Quote from: Andi on 2011.09.12, 11:06:23
As this part of minous post in the RPM packager thread get lost, I'll start a new one here. I do embedded programming since a long time too. Here are some thoughts about that -

PIC
Some time ago tried porting the pic30 tool chain (for PIC24xx). Should have been an easy task if I would have some knowledge on porting *nix software to eCS. Sources are available and even some tricks from people who have done this for *nix. But run out of time after some build errors.

Would be very happy if these tools are available for eCS. Although I fear the debugger/IDE part would be not that easy as of the AFAIK closed source interfaces to ICD3 or RealICE. Minou do you like to start with the new NetBeans based version?

Hobbes holds some port I made for PIC programming/debugging. No IDE so far, since I didn't find anything related...

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ARM
For new projects I use EFM32 ARM cortex-M3 devices. If you ever worked with such 32 bit device and a decent J-link debugger you never want to go back to the 16 or 8 bit world. Beside easier software development with 32 bit registers these devices are insane power efficient with a lot of features build into hardware. You never want to switch back f.i. to these crappy 64k memory restriction... As much as I like Microchip, partly cause the hardly never discontinued any part, for 32 bit I prefer the EFM32 (or any other real 32 bit design). In my experience you feel much to often the restrictions of the usual Microchip way of pimping up small parts with new features. Only comparing the flashing times of f.i. 100k code into a EFM32 and Seeger J-link with RealICE into a PIC24 gives a clear preference for the ARM track. Another example, AFAIK even the PIC32 tools are still not able to set a breakpoint during program execution. So what I really miss on eCS is Rowleys Crossworks for eCS with Seegers jlink dll.

Minou or others interested in embedded programming feel free to add your thoughts to this thread.

Same goes for ARM/Atmel. IIRC I ported some command-line software - but I didn't have hardware to try this software on, so I can't tell if it works.

A simple IDE would be a nice add-on, so maybe some of you can point me somewhere to find it.

Mentore
#5
Multimedia / Re: 3D CAD Under OS/2?
2011.08.05, 09:30:42
Quote from: Ben on 2011.08.05, 00:19:09

I'm looking for a 3D Computer Assisted Design program that will run under OS/2. Old or new, I don't care.

I have been using BlueCAD for a while, (and I still am), but it is strictly 2D and has a number of annoying bugs.

Is there any 3D CAD program that will fit the bill? It doesn't have to be native... as long as it will run.

Thanks...



ISTR an OS/2 native version of MicroStation was floating somewhere. Never got my hands on this, though (too bad).

There's also something interesting here: http://www.sibbald.com/windows/windows01.html. Seems some AutoCAD 10 for OS/2 exists.

Methinks some good old OS/2 abandonware is still in this world...
#6
Applications / Re: jtk6
2011.05.01, 00:01:21
Quote from: Phil on 2011.04.29, 21:47:09
robert
I don't know why but I was under the was under the wrong idea that
this was a java program.
I have had gcc4.5.2 install for sometime now.
A visit to povray web site shows a release canidate rc3 dual processor friendly
for windows.  This would suggest that the port might be for
single processor only.
Phil

Hello Phil.

I already tried to compile POV-Ray 3.7.0 RC 3 but failed in configure script, so I gave up. I hope I will try again when the RC Phase will be over.

For what regards POV-Ray 3.6.1, as you read it is written for a single processor environment. In a SMP environment, I don't think the program itself will take advantage of multi-CPUs or multicore. To run the exe file, you will need the GCC DLLs located on netlabs FTP archive.

Mentore
#7
Applications / Re: jtk6
2011.04.27, 09:28:22
Quote from: RobertM on 2011.04.26, 08:37:56
Hi Phil,

#2 http://www.os2world.com/content/view/20702/2/

POVRay for OS/2, v3.6.1, ready to go.  ;)

I did it :-) and I hope you'll have no problems with it!

Mentore
#8
Quote from: Ben on 2011.03.29, 02:12:28
However, I for one, have my fingers crossed and am wishing Craig good luck! on this endeavour... though not for the first time.

I completely second that - and also what the other posters said.

Projects like OD are a great enhanchement for OS/2. I didn't have money to buy it when it came out, and a friend of mine showed me just some of the things it added to the WPS (and I went green with envy).

Knowing how much the OS/2 community shrank in these years, I really wonder why many of us OS/2 users still keep the old, bad habit of sitting down and waiting for someone to fulfill his needs, sometimes whining and complaining - even in harsh tones - that this works bad and that is worse, maybe without giving any kind of help or support to the community.

The eCS (OS/2) community seems to be growing, judging from what the boys at Mensys say, and other eCS resellers are keeping pace - altough the economical situation is still critical, people buy eCS. As a community member, I feel that Craig has done a good thing setting up BlueNexus and asking Brad to give OD.

Fingers crossed.

Mentore
#9
Quote from: abwillis on 2011.03.07, 19:16:12
Mentore, I had also sent you an email about the changes... it may have gone into a spam bucket or something.

No problem for it, you didn't need my permission to work on my port. Instead, I'm really glad to know that some of my little experiments have been useful!

Mentore
#10
Quote from: CDRWSel on 2011.03.04, 04:24:53
AVxCAT major release 1.2.0 is out
- Apply VoiX filters
etc...

Hello Remy! Is the "VoiX" in this post related to my VoiX port for OS/2? I'd be really happy :)

Mentore
#11
Networking / Re: OS/2 Warp 4 as a router
2010.05.21, 15:30:35
Quote from: stringZ on 2010.05.21, 14:38:56
Hey there,

I'm kind of new to OS/2, and would like to ask if version Warp 4 is suitable for building a multi-functional server computer: router, fax receiver and transmitter (I would like to use Cheyenne Bitware for Windows 3.11), fooling around with old games. Of course, internet router is the priority one.

Are there any applications, howtos to do this? Are there networking and security applications, like highly-configurable firewalls, dhcp servers, etc.? Is Warp 4 secure enough to be connected to the internet 24/7 (e.g. are there dangerous bugs or security holes that hasn't been fixed)?

Thanks for your help
stringZ

I don't remember correctly, but should have some docs regarding OS/2 as a router. You surely can, IIRC, even with more than one NIC.

About faxing, IMHO it's better to use native software like FaxWorks (bundled with BonusPak or eComStation) and SANE/TAME (free software) as a scanning solution.

As for security, Warp 4.52 (even better eComStation) outperforms Win*, and ClamAV is useful to avoid virus spreading in a non-OS/2 network using OS/2 as a router.

Ohter people here uses OS/2 in a multi-OS network environment and will/can help better (I will too, though, as soon as I will be able to rebuild my PCs).

Mentore
#12
Quote from: Fahrvenugen on 2010.05.10, 04:23:53
Slightly different area of discussion, has there been any indication of what the costs of eCS 2.0 (upgrade from 1.2 / full version / etc) will be?  Will it be more then the current 1.2 pricing structure, or comparable?

Also, I'm guessing (and I could be wrong on this) that since the ACPI stuff needs the SMP kernel to run properly, is it safe to presume it'll be shipping with the SMP kernel, thus making the SMP add-on package currently available redundant?

Just wondering.

AFAIK the latest RCs install per default the latest SMP kernel / DOSCALL1.DLL, so that the SMP package is already redundant.

Mentore
#13
Quote from: RobertM on 2010.04.28, 00:35:39
Quote from: ivan on 2010.04.28, 00:32:30
Robert,

Why do you think we've kept with OS/2 since we started with v2.1?  It just gets on with the job.

I know... but how do we sound even remotely believable comparing it to other alternatives when such stories sound so insanely impossible?!?!  ;D  ;)

Indeed those stories sounds like hoax to any Windows user :)

I sent an e-mail to a well-known Italian online IT magazine (punto-informatico.it), I'll look forward to see if anything appears on its pages. I also sent an eCS Silver Release review some weeks ago on HAX (another magazine, more biased on open source software).

Just some efforts to let the "outside world" know OS/2 is still alive and great.

Mentore
#14
Quote from: CDRWSel on 2010.04.20, 17:24:07
Having video + audio looks to be  ???

This is why I was talking about something ffplay-related in a separate window. I personally dislike an "Movie Maker"-like approach (everything in one window), and would prefer a framework approach (something more like Visual Age for Basic).

Mentore
#15
Quote from: CDRWSel on 2010.04.20, 18:19:35
Do you think it may be possible to have an OS/2 build of avisynth + ffmpeg including its support ?
both are open source and it may increase a lot video possibility.
Cheers/2
Remy

Remy,

AFAIK AviSynth is a Windows program, based on win* API. I don't remember well, but ISTR I saw many "#include <windows.h>" in its source code; so, I think it can be ported on OS/2, but seems to me a big work (maybe using ODIN API it's possible, though).

Mentore