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#31
Quote from: oli on 2009.03.14, 19:12:49
In case someone is still looking for this I have at the least 1 if not 2 unopened copies, free but you guys pay postage, am based in the UK

OK I have found 2 unopened packages of GC, if no-one here is interested they will be going on ebay over the weekend
#32
General Discussion / Re: The New Hobbes
2009.07.09, 22:15:01
Quote from: IBManners on 2009.07.07, 07:21:06
Hi Ólafur,

Apologies, putting Oli in quotes wasn't meant to be negative or derogatory, just a way of referring to what you said.
I also didn't know who I was referring.

No apologies needed, it was just weird to look at, anyhow I have always meant to send you a note thanking you for keeping the OS2site going all these years, has saved my behind quite a few times, since you are here might just as well do it now


And since I am already off topic, I ported CSOUND to OS/2 a few years back since a the time I did not have a Windows PC, any point in releasing it ?

Is anyone using ecs for music creation these days ?
#33
General Discussion / Re: The New Hobbes
2009.07.09, 22:08:56
Quote from: RobertM on 2009.07.07, 05:04:58
Oli,

Your post is entirely irrelevant and off base. THIS discussion was about some bugs in the new platform that Hobbes switched to a short while back. MY comment was that regardless, I sent them my thanks - for decades worth of helping the OS/2 community - which cannot be wiped away even if they dissappear tonight.

Thus, your post doesnt in any way fit into this topic, does it? It's also more based on your feelings on (an/the entirely irrelevant) matter. If you want to bash, malign or just grump about Hobbes and a 3 year old email - feel free to do so: elsewhere.

Really. This thread is simply "Hobbes' new software setup was having problem" "Well, on the note of contacting them, I have finally sent out a thank you for their years of dedication and work"


Relax, no need to get emotional, why is everyone so paranoid these days, you are reading far too much into what I said, I was just explaining why I mixed the 2 up and in response to blondguy that I have had multipile requests for financial donations to hobbes and have have thus kept off the hobbes issue for years, I had no idea that there where more than one new hobbes. Chill
#34
General Discussion / Re: The New Hobbes
2009.07.07, 04:26:09
Why do you guys put "Oli" in parenthesis? I have been chatting to you mr. Manners on and off for what, 15 years on the net, no need to be paranoid, I am not Dr. Tim Martin at Warpcity.com

2006 : "It's April, and HOBBES could use another Donation..."

"http://web.archive.org/web/20061014031557/os2ecs.org/hobbes/"

similar emails were sent out in April 2004, December same year, and in Jan/feb the 2005, July 2001, and at the least once before, which in turn clashed with the following message from the original maintainer in 2005, that appears to state that there had be none, the conflicting info was enough to keep me away from donating to either the os2ecs new hobbes or the NMSU new hobbes




"> "My tenure at new Mexico State University is fast coming to an end.
>Although I have a commitment from the Unix manager here to continue
>supporting hobbes(he uses it to train student employees in standard
>server support processes) there is pressure to eliminate hobbes that
>will escalate when I leave, and of course, I might not be the only one
>leaving.
> Hobbes has received little external support over its 2 decades of
>existence at NMSU(where will OS/2 be in 2010? 2020?). I've 'detained'
>boxes on their way out to surplus (some may remember the 1st hobbes at
>NMSU was a Next system) and 'borrowed' student employee hours to support
>it. The total of external donations over 20 years is less than $200.
> Since hobbes, to most computers, is really hobbes.nmsu.edu, it
>really isn't practical to 'transfer' it to another location. The plan
>was to give lots of notice before it died so that someone could copy all
>the files to another server or servers, one of which would probably
>become the future favorite OS/2 site, or at least, most well known.
> Looking at the success of the OS/2 tinderbox funding model, do you
>think that the Amazon Honor system would be a good model to fund a
>longer life for hobbes? I think the university would look more kindly on
>hobbes if there were some revenue, and student labor is cheap. And the
>training value is recognised by more than a few. A few thousand a year
>would go a long way toward preserving hobbes at its current well known
>address, and maybe even upgrade it( it is currently running on an old
>RS/6000 550 with little space or memory and a tenency to fail). And,
>even though retired, any continued input from me would receive more
>attention if money was on the table.
> The university has a big network pipe(100 mb), even if heavily
>used, with redundant backbones. So moving it to another ISP would not
>only lose its well known address but possibly provide poorer access.
> PLEASE, restrict response to the question. Hobbes has gotten all
>the praise and complaint it will ever need, and you know how testy old
>guys can get."


The other donation running at the same timeframe (mid 2005), I seem to recall a post were they claimed to have got at the least 25xx or 35xx USD and they print a list of donors on their page, perhaps some people got confused as to which project they were donating to? :

>Donations to the new Hobbes via the established Amazon HONOR page will
>go to the OS2IRC Organization (a soon to be established legal non-profit
>company).
>The New Hobbes service at OS2IRC.org will be operational by April 1, 2005.
> the money ..."  "There's no reason for anyone concerned
> with the Hobbes issue to be forced into applying for membership
> with OS2Irc.  That kind of underhanded scamming gives the

>Those donating to the new Hobbes project at OS2IRC Org. are not forced
>into applying for membership. Membership in OS2IRC Org. is entirely
>voluntarily and not related to donations. What you do get with your
>donation is assurance that it will be used to preserve the hobbes
>archive and encourage further development of OS/2 and eComStation
>software by utilizing OS/2 Technology as a platform for the new hobbes.
>Membership is free for all who want to join.
><rest of faulty output from random number generator snipped>
>Regards,
>Jeramie Samphere
>President & Operating Manager
>OS2IRC Org.

#35
General Discussion / Re: The New Hobbes
2009.07.06, 18:05:33
I think you have misunderstood things a bit, the old hobbes has been going 20 years, the new hobbes they were discussing was an initiative funded by quite substantial public donations and run by the guy behind os2ecs.org but has never worked AFAIK

It is supposed to be here :

os2ecs.org/hobbes/


And it was initially started in response to the by now regular requests from the old hobbes for "2000 USD per year" or we close down.
#36
Marketplace / Re: Smartsuite
2009.05.06, 19:15:42
Quote from: Saijin_Naib on 2009.05.04, 20:53:12
Where is SmartSuite for eCS? Is that a disk 2 program?

Yes
#37
Marketplace / Re: Smartsuite
2009.05.04, 19:31:10
Another option is to get hold of a used copy of ecomstation on ebay etc. All versions come with fairly recent version of Smartsuite, it is not tied to ecs in any way except license wise

And why not Openoffice ?

it is not that expencive

Does in not work on Warp 4?
#38
Quote from: Fahrvenugen on 2008.07.12, 07:24:45
Usertale,

Warp Server 4 is based on the Warp 3 code base.  It should be possible to get it to run on the P4 machine, however the Athlon 64 may not run it.  I don't think the Warp 3 kernel was ever updated to allow it to run on the 64 bit processors as the Warp 4 kernel was updated.



Worked fine on a 3500 Athlon 64 a couple of years back, in fact for some reason better than some W4 versions, I just needed to update the install diskettes and then throw in Fixpack 4x and snap, Danis and etc optional, if fact it was more of a problem for me to justify having a otherwise powerful computer tied up with an OS with a very limited supply of software for .......
#39
Quote from: Thomas on 2009.03.15, 11:00:18
Quote from: oli on 2009.03.14, 19:12:49
In case someone is still looking for this I have at the least 1 if not 2 unopened copies, free but you guys pay postage, am based in the UK
Well, I am interested in any game for OS/2. Do you have any others?
Thomas

Might have a used copy of the IBM CD Rom games collection but cannot guarantee that and if I remember it correctly it was not too hot to begin with .....
#40
In case someone is still looking for this I have at the least 1 if not 2 unopened copies, free but you guys pay postage, am based in the UK
#41
Ah  ...... this might actually be a kernel incompatibility, my 7xxx series Compaq computers all run any OS/2 version up to and including 452 and ECS 1.2 but will not run the 2x series due to the newer kernel

What I did was to install 1.2 refresh on them and then hand install the updates that come with 2x


Note also if your Compaq has a S3 video card like most of that vintage did you are better off with the original drivers or a very early copy of SNAP, the S3 installer is buggy and you will need to edit the vga file by hand to change the refresh rates, apart from that ECS runs like a champ on those old monsters ........