Comments on: Citrix South Beach: aka the missing link from text to graphics

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:33:39 +0000

In reply to Stefan Ring. I think the NTVDM is still hanging around, not returning to CMD.exe? It might be a little more complicated to get around to switch between modes...

By: Stefan Ring

Stefan Ring — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:17:27 +0000

How did I not know about forcedos?! It’s interesting to see that this is a Win32 executable and utilizes an undocumented process creation flag called “CREATE_FORCEDOS” for CreateProcess. I created basically the same thing as a DOS program just yesterday to prevent Windows 2000 from running the OS/2 portion of a bound family API executable directly (as part of the WinWord 1.0 build). Unfortunately, when I try to use forcedos in the makeopus build (on all invocations of im2obj), somehow the DOS-forcing mode becomes sticky for the entire session and affects invocations of the OS/2 csl compiler as well, which are completely unrelated.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 08:42:32 +0000

In reply to Justin. It was probably a favour to drive a wedge into IBM, as the leads for Citrix were IBM OS/2 guys. Think of it more as an independent research facility. And when Microsoft wanted that tech, they held the bigger license, so Citrix had no choice.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 20:04:28 +0000

I have no idea how they managed to secure this lucrative deal again

I suggest that Microsoft admitted they were not good at communication software vis-a-vis Hyperterminal.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 23:06:58 +0000

In reply to Random. I somehow forgot to include the pc-bios directory which you can just copy from the server zip. I figured that it was such a giant pain to setup I may as well make a “shake and bake” version lol

By: Random

Random — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 21:22:15 +0000

In reply to neozeed. Thanks for that, especially for the dos network stuff you included with it!

By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 14:03:37 +0000

Thanks a lot 🙂

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 00:05:29 +0000

In reply to Christian. Americans censor my stuff on archive.org but Russians don't seem to mind.

By: Daghdha

Daghdha — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 00:04:32 +0000

In reply to Christian.

https://archive.org/details/citrix-south-beach-build-101-1994-beta-english

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 19:14:21 +0000

I apologise for asking so bluntly, but… might there be a way for mere mortals to get their hands on an ISO of this gem? 🙂