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How compatible is "Odin"?

Started by BookWorm, 2011.03.06, 04:13:40

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BookWorm

There's a program called "Odin" that patches 32 bit Windows applications - either permanently or as they are loaded, for use with multiple operating systems - so they will run under OS/2.

I know Odin is not perfect, and some Windows software can't be patched, but how much can? Will Odin work with Microsoft Office 2007? 2003? XP? 2000? 97? What about Works Suite 2006? Encarta? Microsoft Home? (actually most Microsoft Home software was for Windows 3.1, but some of it says "Designed for Windows 95")

IBM apparently had a line of software comparable to Microsoft Home; if I find some of that for Windows 95+, will it work with OS/2 (eCS 2.0) and Odin?

abwillis

I know there were reports of it working with Word Viewer and I think Excel viewer... I believe the 97 viewers were the ones being reported as working at the time.  I have not heard any reports of the Office products working.
Andy

Pete

Hi Bookworm

There used to be a list of what win32 apps were working and how well but I cannot seem to find the url at the moment.

However I will say from experience that win32 apps that work with 1 build of odin may not work at all when odin gets updated.

I did have M$ Word (Office 2000) running in a very unstable manner awhile back and would not recommend trying to use it for "real" work. I did use StarOffice 5.2 for Windows as my main "office package" for a while as well - I did an article for os2voice about this http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0501H/vnewsf5.htm

Hopefully odin will progress and become more useful. I am currently playing around with java6 which relies on the latest odin runtime, see http://svn.netlabs.org/java, and the few java apps I've played with work fine. If you have > 1 cpu core then you would need to grab a java package describing itself as "SMP Friendly" - which simply means that markexe has already been run on the .exe files as the odinised java6 will have problems (crash/hang) when trying to use multiple cpus. 

The bottom line is that to discover whether odin will run the win32 apps you want to use means giving it a try. However, I would not expect the latest win32 apps to run but would look at older apps (for win2000 winXP) as having more chance of success.


Regards

Pete