blast from the past
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blast from the past
by revelator » Thu May 12, 2011 11:48 am
dug out my old OS2 disks to see if it could run on a modern pc and hehe well im writing this from it so yup the old thing still runs 
dosquake runs quite fine on it also
glquake and winquake well not so much hehe.
browser was updated because netscape cant show some content without crashing so im using a newer qt based one from ecommstation.
unfortunatly i cant remember how to do a screenshot of the desktop (if it was even possible) in OS2.
bit of a shame that it died
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dosquake runs quite fine on it also
glquake and winquake well not so much hehe.
browser was updated because netscape cant show some content without crashing so im using a newer qt based one from ecommstation.
unfortunatly i cant remember how to do a screenshot of the desktop (if it was even possible) in OS2.
bit of a shame that it died
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Re: blast from the past
by frag.machine » Fri May 13, 2011 1:03 am
reckless wrote:dug out my old OS2 disks to see if it could run on a modern pc and hehe well im writing this from it so yup the old thing still runs
dosquake runs quite fine on it also
browser was updated because netscape cant show some content without crashing so im using a newer qt based one from ecommstation.
unfortunatly i cant remember how to do a screenshot of the desktop (if it was even possible) in OS2.
bit of a shame that it died
Yeah. I was an OS/2 user too, for almost 4 years. Used to play Quake in a DOS window without worrying about running PPP drivers or protected mode memory extenders (DOS emulation under OS/2 was far superior than the real thing). Those were the days...
I know FrikaC made a cgi-bin version of the quakec interpreter once and wrote part of his website in QuakeC (LordHavoc)
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by revelator » Fri May 13, 2011 11:35 am
yup the dos emulation in OS2 was pretty much as good as it gets
hmm IBM pretty much cant release the OS2 source because microsoft
still holds parts of the copyright, but i wonder if they could reveal the source for the emulation ? would be somewhat cool to have as an WDM plugin for say win7
also i wonder what happened to the OS2 object desktop system alike microsoft had plans for.
hmm IBM pretty much cant release the OS2 source because microsoft
still holds parts of the copyright, but i wonder if they could reveal the source for the emulation ? would be somewhat cool to have as an WDM plugin for say win7
also i wonder what happened to the OS2 object desktop system alike microsoft had plans for.
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by revelator » Fri May 13, 2011 11:35 am
yup the dos emulation in OS2 was pretty much as good as it gets
hmm IBM pretty much cant release the OS2 source because microsoft
still holds parts of the copyright, but i wonder if they could reveal the source for the emulation ? would be somewhat cool to have as an WDM plugin for say win7
also i wonder what happened to the OS2 object desktop system alike microsoft had plans for.
hmm IBM pretty much cant release the OS2 source because microsoft
still holds parts of the copyright, but i wonder if they could reveal the source for the emulation ? would be somewhat cool to have as an WDM plugin for say win7
also i wonder what happened to the OS2 object desktop system alike microsoft had plans for.
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