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Re: Anyone running E/D 1.99p9 under OS/2?



>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Newman <alexn@fl.net.au> writes:

    Alex> Hi Cliff, Hi there Cliff,

    >> We have never had a good installation of OS/2 on our TI4000M
    >> and so it's hard for us to tell whether or not 1.99p9 is
    >> running properly under OS/2.

    Alex> :(

    Alex> If you have installed 1.99p6 and then 1.99p9 on top of it
    >> under OS/2, please let me know whether Executor/DOS 1.99p9
    >> worked as well as 1.99p6 itself did under OS/2, or worked
    >> better, or worked worse.  We need this information in order to
    >> build 1.99q, which we want to get out real soon (so we can work
    >> on MACWORLD Expo preparations).

    Alex> I'm currently running 1.99p9 on Warp Connect, and everything
    Alex> appears to be fine, including transparency between
    Alex> linux/Warp/DOS/Executor, CD-ROM accessibility etc., as per
    Alex> my last note to you. There does not appear to be any
    Alex> performance hit associated with p9, and from subjective
    Alex> observation p9 is running at least as well as p6 (I didn't
    Alex> really give p8 much of a go due to time limits :), if not
    Alex> better, especially reading the floppy drives.

    Alex> NisusWriter still won't install (let alone run!), but that's
    Alex> not a Warp problem. (Am I hanging out for the day when it
    Alex> *does* work!!!).

We've made some progress and *might* have it running in house by the
end of this week.  No promises, since once we get over the AEGizmos
mountain we don't know if we'll see the promised land or more
mountains.

    Alex> The speakers go 'click' when E/D starts up on OS/2, which is
    Alex> thoroughly encouraging, and interesting considering that the
    Alex> OS/2-DOS SoundBlaster16 installation hasn't been properly
    Alex> configured yet!

    Alex> The cd-rom drive is a bit slow to read, but the Linux
    Alex> partitions read via the OS/2 ext2fs driver are lightning
    Alex> fast in appearing - roll on the OS/2 version of Executor so
    Alex> that I can read long file names via Executor! I can see long
    Alex> file names on the Linux partiton via OS/2, but not via
    Alex> Executor.

    Alex> Speedometer also runs fully without breaking now, but I
    Alex> still can't switch between E/D and the Desktop without E/D
    Alex> snapping. Curiously, I can actually do this on another
    Alex> machine running E/D (in Demo mode) on Warp Connect with a
    Alex> Trident 8900D or similar card and out-of-the-box SVGA
    Alex> dirvers (this machine's got a #9 GXE64 Pro 2Mb with highly
    Alex> suspect drivers from #9).

Yes, it's drivers problem.  Ugh.  I can't wait til we have native
versions for W95 and OS/2.

    Alex> Cheers, Alex


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--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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