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  • Re: OS/2

    From ogg@21:2/147 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jun 21 13:21:08 2025
    But, OS/2 had its moment. Loved the multitasking, and running OS/2 BBS
    binaries (Maximus, Squish and BinkleyTerm) was amazing. They ran in a
    minimized window on my OS/2 desktop and I barely noticed they were
    running.

    It was the multitasking that attracted me to it. Once I was using dos and Desqview, I never looked back.

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  • From Exodus@21:1/144 to Ogg on Sat Jun 21 15:32:24 2025

    It was the multitasking that attracted me to it. Once I was using dos and Desqview, I never looked back.

    I don't see how .... the BBS always bled thru DESQview. Couldn't really do what I needed in another window with it, which led me to OS/2 2.1, the OS/2 v3 WARP which allowed me to be telnetable back in 1995.

    ... Ever meet a Sysop who would admit the problem was his?

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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to Exodus on Sat Jun 21 15:22:25 2025
    I don't see how .... the BBS always bled thru DESQview. Couldn't really do what I needed in another window with it, which led me to OS/2 2.1,
    the OS/2 v3 WARP which allowed me to be telnetable back in 1995.

    I ran my bbs on OS/2 v3 without an issue. The problem came in with OS/2 v4. That's when I move backed to DOS and DESQ/view.

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    |11altairiv.ddns.net:2323

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  • From Exodus@21:1/144 to Ogg on Sat Jun 21 18:36:02 2025
    I ran my bbs on OS/2 v3 without an issue. The problem came in with OS/2 v4 That's when I move backed to DOS and DESQ/view.

    I ran on Warp V3 Connect for years. When I moved into my 1st apartment, I saw on egghead.com they have OS/2 Warp v4.0 for $1.88 .... it was an obvious mistype on te webpage, but they sent it. Best deal I ever got. Warp v4 was a different breed. It never did want to install correctly.

    ... He's not dead, Jim. He's just considering moving to Seattle.

    --- Renegade v1.35/DOS
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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to Exodus on Sat Jun 21 18:11:14 2025
    I ran on Warp V3 Connect for years. When I moved into my 1st apartment,
    I saw on egghead.com they have OS/2 Warp v4.0 for $1.88 .... it was an obvious mistype on te webpage, but they sent it. Best deal I ever got. Warp v4 was a different breed. It never did want to install correctly.

    So maybe it wasn't me after all! For 30 years, I thought it was me and my mouse that created my problems. That makes me rethink my decision to try and get it back up and running. I've got a full box set of v3 and v4 still on my book shelf. What to do....

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  • From hyjinx@21:1/126 to Exodus on Sun Jun 22 11:15:51 2025
    It was the multitasking that attracted me to it. Once I was using dos Desqview, I never looked back.

    I don't see how .... the BBS always bled thru DESQview. Couldn't really d what I needed in another window with it, which led me to OS/2 2.1, the OS/ WARP which allowed me to be telnetable back in 1995.

    When you say 'bled thru' do you mean the video bled through?

    If yes, then that sounds like the virtual terminal settings in advanced settings, you could switch this off easily. I experienced the same issue the other day, I just fiddled with the options and all went well after that. DesqView is really good for my needs in 2025. I have multi-tasking pretty much for whatever I want, runs fast and I don't have any bugs that I notice in protected mode.

    -Al


    hyjinx // Alistair Ross
    Author of 'Back to the BBS' Documentary: https://bit.ly/3tRINeL (YouTube) alsgeeklab.com

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  • From hyjinx@21:1/126 to ogg on Sun Jun 22 11:17:45 2025
    back up and running. I've got a full box set of v3 and v4 still on my boo shelf. What to do....

    If you're installing on real hardware it might be fun for a laugh, but AFAIR, install time was a real drag. It would probably be interesting to install in 86box or whatever its called and seeing how well it performs there.


    hyjinx // Alistair Ross
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  • From Exodus@21:1/144 to Hyjinx on Sat Jun 21 22:18:02 2025
    When you say 'bled thru' do you mean the video bled through?

    If yes, then that sounds like the virtual terminal settings in advanced

    Nahh, sometimes it would just crash the program from the background to the foreground nd crash both windows ... just wasn't stable enough to run the BBS from and do something else.

    ... Truth is shorter than fiction. -Irving Cohen

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  • From Mortar M.@21:2/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jul 3 14:47:29 2025
    Re: Re: OS/2
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Utopian Galt on Wed Jun 11 2025 07:08:40

    ...and used LANTastic networking.

    There's a blast from the past. LANtastic was my introduction to networking. One of my college instructors was using it for his home network and I helped him set it up. Made me wish I had my own network, just so I could use it more.
    --- SBBSecho 3.28-Linux
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  • From Utopian Galt@21:2/150 to All on Tue Jun 9 20:25:18 2026
    If I did buy Arca Noae, is there any faqs on how to setup sio/vmodem?

    Perhaps running a dos based bbs software might be the way to enjoy the hobby for the next 12 years when the 2038 crisis happens.

    + KO6GVD - Ontario, California - Winserver and WWIV BBS Operator

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  • From fusion@21:1/616 to Utopian Galt on Wed Jun 10 00:38:34 2026
    On 09 Jun 2026, Utopian Galt said the following...

    If I did buy Arca Noae, is there any faqs on how to setup sio/vmodem?

    Perhaps running a dos based bbs software might be the way to enjoy the hobby for the next 12 years when the 2038 crisis happens.

    there's some, like this one:

    https://proboardbbs.com/wiki/doku.php?id=installing_sio

    i can help you with it if you need it. the sio manual is also pretty good though.

    the example only shows up to COM4 but the manual lists other COM3 to COM8 settings from the PS/2 that should also work if you mark them INTERNET too.

    past COM8 (sio should support up to 16..) i don't know what the i/o addresses it expects are.

    back in the day we all just ran 3 nodes, COM2-4, and COM1 was for our modem/internet connection

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  • From Exodus@21:1/144 to Utopian Galt on Wed Jun 10 06:01:08 2026
    If I did buy Arca Noae, is there any faqs on how to setup sio/vmodem?

    Download FULLOS2.ZIP or FULLPACK.ZIP .... the settings and such should be the same in that great text file.

    ... Nothing is so smiple that it can't get screwed up.

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Utopian Galt on Wed Jun 10 06:23:14 2026
    If I did buy Arca Noae, is there any faqs on how to setup sio/vmodem?

    You could download it at your favorite FTW BBS...



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to fusion on Wed Jun 10 06:58:11 2026
    fusion wrote to Utopian Galt <=-

    back in the day we all just ran 3 nodes, COM2-4, and COM1 was for our modem/internet connection

    I had a serial mouse and a serial printer, which made IRQs a mess. :)



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  • From Roon@21:4/148 to fusion on Wed Jun 10 15:53:05 2026
    Hello fusion,

    10 Jun 26 00:38, you wrote to Utopian Galt:

    On 09 Jun 2026, Utopian Galt said the following...

    If I did buy Arca Noae, is there any faqs on how to setup
    sio/vmodem?

    Perhaps running a dos based bbs software might be the way to
    enjoy the hobby for the next 12 years when the 2038 crisis
    happens.

    there's some, like this one:

    https://proboardbbs.com/wiki/doku.php?id=installing_sio

    i can help you with it if you need it. the sio manual is also pretty
    good though.

    the example only shows up to COM4 but the manual lists other COM3 to
    COM8 settings from the PS/2 that should also work if you mark them
    INTERNET too.

    past COM8 (sio should support up to 16..) i don't know what the i/o addresses it expects are.

    back in the day we all just ran 3 nodes, COM2-4, and COM1 was for our modem/internet connection

    my only advice is just use 1.60d and not sio2k, it has some issues.
    if you have any question i can help tough :)

    ByEbYe
    --
    Daniel

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