I didn’t want to make OS/2 *think* more than it had to, and I had thought the CGA on EGA thing looked ‘cute’.

My main goal was to get something running on the oldest version of OS/2 which at the time was 6.123, however with the recent unearthing of 6.78 I was happy to see it running there!

I would imagine it’d be a trivial change, the lines are here. Although I don’t think much of anyone would be all that interested..

It is complete enough I could play Space Quest II all the way through although I would realistically enable a queue for keyboard input, maybe going as far as a matrix for multiple keypresses, as it just flags individual keys, so if you type fast, it’ll lose the input. It did make playing kind of hard.

OS/2 2.0 GA on a VGA had an odd colour palette with #00/#7F/#FF intensities, whereas an actual CGA or EGA would be #00/#B9/#FF. OS/2 2.0 GA also set colour #7 to #CCCCCC. I have no idea why they did this.

But it’s close enough for a typical 16 colour game, and if you tried to run a CGA or EGA DOS game in a window, it would just map the colours directly.

Sure crypto can be just removed for a start.
Having just a good plain and simple VIO client is already a very good start. OS/2 is absolutely orphan here. Thanks!

I wonder about using stuff like this:
https://github.com/classilla/cryanc

or this:
http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1987239.html

it looks like something emx could build?

Probably need to change the tcpip strategy and remove crypto I guess?

But it would first require OpenSSL to be useful, and this is going to be a major PITA!

https://c9x.me/irc/https://c9x.me/irc/

OS/2 needs badly a good VIO IRC client, without any PM depency.