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OS/2 4 on Virtual Box…

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Looking at hup.hu, it’s a pretty popular subject (hit wise)…

I’d imagine it ought to be as simple as slapping in some diskettes and away you go.  But personally I find the video speed of OS/2 on virtualbox to be horrific.  But at the same time it runs all the 386 friendly versions so…. It’s the ‘best’ and only solution for OS/2 1.0 onward….

I would imagine you guys could post issues…?

I’ve run it on Virtual PC 2007 ‘ok’ although the combination of SIO & Hyperterm uploading or downloading from a ‘shared drive’ always leads to Hyperterm crashing like crazy.

I’m not sure if that is even anything to really write home about.

But don’t write off using Qemu to run OS/2.

Some follow up on Stacker

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From my OS/2 experiments before I roll it out… 
  • It only supports FAT.
  • Maximum of 2GB ‘compressed’ drives
  • Swapping drive letters assumes 1 disk 1 volume
  • You create the compressed disks in DOS

So, since I’m thinking of BBS space, I can leave part of the disk uncompressed for zip’s then the compresses partition for databases & doors.

I guess the thing to keep in mind is that 1991-1994 2GB disks were not in the hands of your average user.. And the idea of using that much storage seemed crazy.  It’s a shame they did that deal with Microsoft and basically got pushed out of the market.  It’s a shame that the OS/2 product doesn’t actually run on OS/2, nor support HPFS.  The idea of bigger disks, and long file names would have been nice.
Oh well I guess that is how the older stuff dies out.

World Of Warcraft has gone “free”…

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Good lord like things could possibly look any worse!

The end of humanity

I don’t know what even overcame me as I read the news on thinkq, but I’m already thinking of backing out. LOL  But it’s now “free” to people for the first 20 levels.  But who would want to quit at level 20 and not go all the way to 87?

Oh the humanity.

For anyone crazy enough you can join HERE (Europe) or HERE (United States), HERE(Korea), HERE(Chinese)…

Oddly enough no links for Japan.

Anyways don’t say I didn’t warn you but…. The full install is also some 10GB!  Good luck you people in capped areas.

terraria networking

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Personally, I couldn’t care less about Terraria, although it reminds me a bit of Zelda III back in the day, but it does have this multiplayer capability.  But it never mentions the TCP port.  Well the default port is:

7777

And if you have an Apple airport network, a teenager that needs to have ‘cut off times’ and sits 2 levels of NAT in, you’ll have to forward TCP 7777 all the way to their computer.  It’s not the end of the world but UPNP doesn’t work in nat-nat scenarios (thankfully) but the blasted game doesn’t mention when setting up a network game, oh by the way you’ll need to NAT TCP 7777.

Oh well that is all.

Well I pulled the plug on the old place….

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So now this is pretty much vacant…

If anything it’ll be interesting to see the ‘google’ fallout as I know I was indexed here, but pretty much everything I wrote showed up from the old site.  Oh well worst case I can always restore the backup.

But I’m also keeping ‘virtually fun’… I spent too many years on that one to just let it lapse out for someone to google poison the thing.

Anyways I also started to add some generic info pages on OS’s and emulators… At least it’ll be a somewhat better way to find the latest builds of Qemu or what is the current release of whatever OS…

I should have done that a while back, but as they say no better time then the present.

Save Officer Spock

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It finally happened, well 30 years ago.

Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: fa.sf-lovers
Path: utzoo!duke!cincy!chris
Date: Mon Jun 8 11:06:47 1981
Subject: Save Officer Spock
From: chris
X-OldUsenet-Modified: added From; converted from A-news; fixed Message-ID; added Xref
Xref: dummy dummy:1
Perhaps you are not yet aware of it, but a new Star Trek movie
is in the making this summer. While that is all well and good,
there is a problem with it. It seems that Leonard Nimoy will no
longer be available for the role of Spock after this movie;
thus they are killing him off. Loyal trekkies here have taken
great offense to this, as well they should. There are much better
ways to remove the necessity of having the character present.
A local radio station has begun a campaign the call SOS (see title).
They are encouraging letter writers, and wil forward the mail they
collect to the producers of the movie. If you would like to write,
or contact them and start your own movement, here is the address:
SOS
WVXU-FM
Xavier University
Cincinnati, OH 45207
Live Long and Prosper!

From what I recall the breaking story of how Spoke died in Star Trek II was one of the first ‘big’ nerd crisis on usenet. I’m sure it has more to do with the date of when usenet started to get popular vs other big ‘shocks’ of the time like Empire Strikes Back. The old usenet archives sure do provide an interesting ‘view’ into our past, of even 30 years ago. I’m out of town for the next few days so … no big stuff coming up but I thought this was worthy enough to post.

Old Usenet! Party like it’s 1981!

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Check out this amazing site, olduse.net!  It’s really amazing!  What Joey Hess has done, is get a copy of the old USENET archives from the UofT, and parse out all the dates, set them in the right format for a news server, then stream them in ‘real time’ as it was, back in 1981.

That is right, it’s August 6th 1981.  Star Trek II still hasn’t happened yet, can you wait for the hype and the build up for the biggest geek movie since.. well when everyone found out last year (1980) that Vader was Luke’s father?

News/2

What is also cool is that you can take any news reader (even News/2) and point it to nntp.olduse.net and read away!  And not to mention the incredible setup with a telehack like interface to a news reader.

Now I’ll just have to figure out a way to stuff USENET into Synchronet 2.. (I’m sure Synchronet 3 will/would be way easier, but heh you know, OS/2 …)

Oh and here is a timeline of things to look forward to.  But I guess being a ‘time traveler’ kind of takes the fun out of it.

The end of the world as we know it!

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So after waiting what? 14 years and actually shelling out money for a game that I really don’t care about (BORDERLANDS.. UGH.) and all the promises…. I was about to go to bed, and suddenly… I got the email.

And of course, the server is OVERLOADED, and the first time I tried.. Denied.

Over and over. I know it’s silly but how can I go to sleep now?  The greatest expectation in video gaming history is upon us!

Ok ok, yeah I do remember daikatana and what a catastrophic letdown that was, but come on! this is the DUKE!

So a few clicks more….

And it looks like we are in business.

 

Now the only debate is…

Sleep, or not.

 

ARGH!