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From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: Wing Commander I & II w/ OS/2 2.0
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 02:39:00 GMT

In <92366.034239CXKPE@ASUACAD.BITNET> Chin , Jeffery <CXKPE@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:

>I'm running OS/2 2.0 on a 486/33 and I'm trying to get WC I & II to run
>acceptably.  They are running very slowly and the sound is out of synch or
>corrupted.  I'm only using the PC speaker for the sound.

>The readme only suggests that on WC II to turn-off the sound, but this has
>almost no affect on the performance.

>Any other suggestions or is this not possible?

 Hell, I'm not an expert.  In fact the PS/Valuepoint with OS/2 just arrived
today, and I've had 2 hours experience. :-)

 I have WC I, and that was the first thing I tried under OS/2 for some
strange reason.

 I was seriously impressed that it worked.  And, it came up in a DOS window.
This really impressed me, except it was awfully hard to play a game in this
little 320x200 window on my 1024x768 screen. :-)

 Anyway, a couple of comments, which will maybe point you in the right
direction.

 Running out of a window was slow for me too (486-33), although actually it
was a rather nice speed compared to running on a full screen.

 On the full screen, the sound worked fairly well, but the whole program is
just too darned fast on a 486-33, for me to play.  And the PS/Valuepoint
doesn't have a turbo switch.

 PC Speaker sound is kind of shakey.  It's based on interrupts, and so a
game program which is relying on the timing of interrupts to play sound is
going to come out sounding funny.

 My suggestion would be to use a full screen DOS window.  I can't see how
your computer could be slower than mine, unless you've only got 4 Megs of
RAM or something.

 Speaking as a non-expert, perhaps if you've got a shortage of RAM you
should disable the EMS and XMS settings for the DOS session?  If I
understand things correctly, OS/2 will swap out DOS applications, which
would affect performance quite a bit.

 As far as the sound, I guess the only solution would be to get some sort of
sound board.

 Again, I disclaim everything I say. :-)

 Well, I got to get back and see if I can't screw up my OS/2 installation...
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From: lmp8913@rigel.tamu.edu (PRESTON, LISA M)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Trident 32-bit drivers: Problems.
Date: 27 Dec 92 17:36:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


	Hi folks!
	I got a 1 meg Trident 8900c card for Xmas, so I downloaded the
32-bit drivers from Hobbes that were in the upload directory. I only
have a VGA monitor(maybe next Xmas :-) ), so I installed the 640 x 480
256 color driver. 

	The installation program was very nice, and the sustem rebooted 
in 256 color mode (the solitare cards look GREAT ), but I've had some problems
with PM apps, specifically PM-FRACT (32-bit) and the beta of PMVIEW.In each of 
these, the screen is not redrawn properly after a pull-down menu is used-it 
leaves a 16 color "Shadow" where the menu was. 

	Also, after displaying a monochrome GIF with PMVIEW, and exiting it, 
solitare would not run properly-It would crash if an attempt was made to 
move a card.  The cards looked funny, so I suspect the pallete was changed 
by PMVIEW and not reset when it ended. This was cured by rebooting.

	Also, the scrolling in a windowed session is SLOOOOWWWW!!! TE/2 looks 
like it is running at 300 baud.  The situation is improved somewhat in a 
DOS window by setting VIDEO_ROM_EMULATION to off, although it is then a
jerky scroll, rather like a Windows 3.1 DOS window scroll.

	The screen loses sync if I switch back to a DOS full-screen session 
from PM (no problems yet with OS/2 full-screen), and if I switch back, I get 
lots of vertical lines on the desktop, which disappear if the desktop is 
Refreshed, although those lines lying on open Windows do not.

Any Ideas or sugestions? 

Thanx in Advance!

LISA
From: hhsiao@vnet.ibm.com (Harry Hsiao)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 10:04:02 EST
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Need util to allow .EXE to run in a window
News-Software: UReply 3.0
X-X-From: Harry Hsiao

In <1992Dec29.185435.2921@seas.gwu.edu> Ilan Berkner writes:
>I used to have this program that would allow an OS/2 executable to run
>in a windowed OS/2 session.  Apparently, some non-PM OS/2 programs have
>their .EXE flagged to only run full-screen.  This program would change
>the flag so that you could run it in a window.  I tried using the
>Open->Settings->Session thing, but it didn't work.
>
There is a program shiped with OS/2 Toolkit called WINABLE.EXE which will
make a full-screen exe winable. Remember, if the exe uses special VIO calls,
WINABLE won't work.

Harry Hsiao
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Subject: Re: How to install SBMMPM?
From: cbell@cabell.vcu.edu (Charles A. Bell)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:18:53 GMT
Organization: Virginia Commonwealth University


Hi gang,

I've read your article about not playing audio through the SB
when playing audio CDs.  I have installed the drives from hobbes
(clios2cd.zip), MMPM/2 and SBMMPM/2 drivers from hobbes.  I _can_
play audio CDs through my SB speakers _but_ have some problems
with MMPM/2: When playing an audio CD, the controls allow me to
start the cd, but immediately report that the cd has finished.
However, the cd continues to play just fine.  I blame this mostly
on the beta CD driver from Creative Labs.  Rumour has it that the
beta is not supposed to support audio cds.  Hmmm...  Good luck!

cbell@cabell.vcu.edu
From: "richard wyble" <richard.wyble@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ati driver support!
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:59:13 EST
Reply-To: "richard wyble" <richard.wyble@channel1.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

On 12-23-92 (11:09am) Ted Chen wrote re: ATI DRIVER SUPPORT!
---
 > For all you ATI Vantage/Ultra/8514/a/Ultra Pro/+ users, why not send some
 > email to ATI to voice your displeasure at their absence of drivers for
 > OS/2 2.0.

 > I believe their email address at CIS is

 > 74740.667@compuserve.com


FWIW, I have emailed them several times over the past two months,
asking for an up-to-date statement regarding this very topic. They
have not responded.

Should anyone receive a response, please email to me or post to this 
group. Thank you!

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Where do things go when you move them to a folder?
Date: 22 Dec 92 17:21:27 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Dec18.162007.2585@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>When I create a folder in \TMP, and move FOO.ZIP to the folder, FOO.ZIP does
>show up in the directory \tmp\"folder name" (seen from an OS/2 window).
>However, the drag-n-drop no longer works.  It is as if UNZIP (the OS/2
>32 bit version, from Hobbes) can't unpack files into folders.
>(Or, at least, folders with funny names...)

Ignore my previous post (I'm going to try and cancel it before it gets
out of here...).

If your folder or filename has a space in it, UNZIP will choke.  It is
parsing on spaces, and seems to ignore double-quotes.  So if you type:

   UNZIP "folder/file name"

It will try and unzip "folder/file" and "name".  Neither of which
exists.  I know of no solution other than to avoid spaces in the name.
I think this is a bug in GCC's command-line parsing algorithm.  Since
IBM utilities work fine, I suspect that UnZip will work fine if
someone recompiles it with C Set/2.

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From: os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.)
Subject: Re: "IBM is listening." How? (was Re: IBM won't accept Internet...)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 13:33:51 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Keywords: IBM problem report compuserve cis

In <1992Dec22.205133.16541@watson.ibm.com> dwl@watson.ibm.com (David W. Levine) writes:

>From my perspective, what matters the most is that when something happens
>that makes people on the internet really yell, there's a pretty good chance
>that someone who can do something about it will see it and look into the
>problem. It's not the way to solve day to day problems, nothing informal
>ever is. 

I should add that just because they see it doesn't mean anything will happen
because of it, regardless of the severity of the issue.  I can remember when
2.0 was in beta and there was a huge stink about the lack of Hercules mono
drivers for those people with those cards and 20" monitors (since a mono
monitor of that size is *so* much cheaper than a color one).  I went so far
as to call the 1-800 number during the Fall Comdex announcement of OS/2 2.0
and ask Lee Reiswig what he was going to do about it.  Now, I'm not knocking
on what he has done, because he has done a helluva job, but we all see what
became of this particular issue.

>I don't think anyone's got formal repsonsibility to "talk to the internet"
>But I'll ask in some of our internal discussions and see where that 
>stands these days. 

No one does, although Dave Whittle has formal responsibility for Compu$erve.
I find it hard to believe that IBM continues to ignore a network as large as
the Internet, but then again, I also found it hard to believe that it took
them so long to get any marketing going so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Cheers,
Q  - one of IBM's strongest critics, but still fiercely loyal :-/
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From: s_fuller@iastate.edu (Steve Fuller)
Subject: Re: OS/2 and Logitech mice?
Keywords: Logitech, mouse
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:34:12 GMT

I have a Logitech Series 2 mouse (bus version, 2 button) and have
had no problems with the drivers installed when I first put OS/2
on my machine.

To the gentleman who suggested unplugging the mouse and plugging
it back in, not a good idea.....


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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: IRQ2 in OS/2
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:50:08 GMT

In <oq6cwB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP> tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:

>Can OS/2 use IRQ2?  

>When I set up COM3 to run IRQ2 using:

>DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS (3,3e8,2) (4,2e8,5)

>in the config.sys file, then OS/2 reports:
>Unable to load COM3, Interupt not available, or something like that.

IRQ2 is actually a cascade to the second interrupt controller.
AT-class hardware will map IRQ2 to IRQ9.  I've never tried this in
OS/2, but Windows will insist that you configure that port as IRQ9
rather than IRQ2; does OS/2 perhaps do the same thing?

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From: skagos@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (P. Takis Skagos)
Subject: OS/2 Icon problem.  UGH!!!  Information wanted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:28:53 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, SK, Canada

I recently re-installed OS/2 and the Service Pack and I am experiencing a
bloody annoying problem.  I've created a shadow of one of the PROMPT icons
and then I went into SETTINGS and created another, customized, icon for 
it because the default icon looks pretty ugly.  Creating the new icon
works nicely (I save it as wp!1.ico), and it even alters the apperance of the
shadow and original, but when I double-click on the icon to open, say, a
windowed command prompt, and then minimize that windowed session, it doesn't
use my new icon ... it uses the default OS/2 icon.  Before I re-installed
OS/2 and the SP, everything worked fine ... my icon was used all the time,
not the OS/2 default.

Any information on what's going wrong would be *greatly* appreciated.
Thanks!

  P. Takis Skagos
  (skagos@cs.uregina.ca)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: WINOS231 & MSCDEX 2.21
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 10:42:10 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <1992Dec23.234058.18561@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
> Does anybody have MSCDEX working with WINOS321 without having to 
> initiate a specific dos version ? 
> 
> When I do use a spec. dos version, I load fsfilter, and this gives me
> access to all my os/2 partitions AND the CD-rom drive. BUT NO ! That's not
> enough for Winos231 - I have to mount it again as g: using MSCDEX. There
> must be a better way ...
> 
> Here's hoping.
> 
> -- 
> Tom J Parry.
> Your reality is a figment of my imagination.

In the README for the OS/2 2.1 beta it says that you set INT_DURING_IO (in the
DOS SETTINGS) to "on". This enables the MSCDEX support.....:-)

Steve

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From: mskreis@iastate.edu (Mark S Kreisberg)
Subject: Info wanted on Talon TA-200 (Texel) CD-ROM & OS/2 
Keywords: Talon TA-200 (really Texel) CD-ROM
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:49:20 GMT

I'm interested in any information available on the Talon TA-200 CD-ROM
drive from Hard Drives International.  The salesman claims that this drive
is actually the Texel drive with the following specs.:
	*  265ms access time
	*  64K buffer
	*  300KB transfer rate.

Has anyone been able to operate this drive through OS/2?  If so, how does it
perform?

Thanks for all comments!

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From: calvert@QueensU.CA (John Calvert)
Subject: problem with Windows game SOL
Organization: Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 01:33:03 GMT

I have the Windows game SOL migrated as a WINOS/2 appl. I used to
be able to run it in windowed or full screen mode in the PM. Recently
it won't run. Either it tries to start a DOS session and craps, or
the double click results in nothing but the icon background hatching 
that should indicate an open window. When the latter happens, I can not
get rid of the background hatching. It only seems to go away if a boot
DOS and then reboot OS/2. I tried re-migrating the program but
no good. I checked all the WINOS/2 settings but I can't see anything
obvious.

John
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: New Drivers for Sytos backup needed.
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 17:38:07 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <BzMEz8.9Ln@inews.Intel.COM> rkeel@fnugget.intel.com (William R Keel) writes:
>I need to know where I could find the latest drivers for Sytos.  That's all
>I know...if anyone has info as to where I could look or exactly what I'm
>looking for...thanks in advance!

Directly from Sytron, as far as I know.  Have you contacted the
company directly?

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From: ilan@seas.gwu.edu (Ilan Berkner)
Subject: Need util to allow .EXE to run in a window
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:54:35 GMT


I used to have this program that would allow an OS/2 executable to run
in a windowed OS/2 session.  Apparently, some non-PM OS/2 programs have
their .EXE flagged to only run full-screen.  This program would change
the flag so that you could run it in a window.  I tried using the
Open->Settings->Session thing, but it didn't work.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Brandon.Vanevery@launchpad.unc.edu (Brandon Vanevery)
Subject: 24-bit, ***HI-RES***, DOS window under OS/2?
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:02:39 GMT


Ok, let's up the ante a bit.

Anyone done a 24-bit, ***true color*** fullscreen DOS window under OS/2, at
	800 x 600 resolution?
	1024 x 768 resolution?

Has anyone done it without crashing the machine?
If so, what hardware were you using?  (Make, model, company, everything.)

Brandon Van Every


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From: wilker@hopf.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)
Subject: Adaptec 1522 SCSI controller
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:10:11 GMT

Is this model supported by OS/2 out of the box?

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From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: DOS in background?
Date: 23 Dec 92 02:32:54 GMT
Reply-To: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Vicuna Systems, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hi everyone:

Quick question; is it possible for a DOS session to "spawn" another
DOS session in the background?  I know this is possible for OS/2
processes, but how about DOS?

What I would like to do is have Waffle running in one DOS session,
and then if somebody would like to send a FAX document on my other
line (by sending a mail message to FAXDAEMON containing the document
they wish to send), Waffle would then "spawn" the FAX process in
another session.  This way the user could continue doing what they
were doing and then get a mail message when the FAX was complete.

Is this at all possible?  Or is it more of a juggling act by using
an OS/2 command line session as the middle-man?

Please respond via e-mail, I have temporarily lost read-access to all
OS/2 groups until the new year.  I shall be more than happy to follow-up
here with a summary.

Thanks in advance.

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From: toy@soho.crd.ge.com (Raymond L. Toy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: CSD, seamless WIN-OS/2, and left-handed mouse
Date: 26 Dec 92 20:41:28 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center


Thanks for everyone who replied to my problems with a left-handed mouse.
I've tried setting the WIN-OS/2 full screen to a right-handed mouse.
All this does is give me a right-handed mouse for WIN-OS/2.  I still get
a right-handed mouse in seamless mode.

This is a bit annoying, but for now the solution is simple:  don't run windows 
seamless.

Thanks!

Ray

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Subject: 2.1 CDROM install problem
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 18:26:49 GMT


	I received the Beta 2.1 cdrom a few days ago, and am having
	a problem with one part of the install.  I am installing
	from the cdrom over an existing 2.0 system.  The install
	goes along fine for the 19 virtual disks, but then wants
	me to insert the first "drivers" disk in f: (my cdrom drive)
	It seems to expect f: to be a floppy, and won't find the
	driver in the cdrom hierarchy.  Also, it is a not very nice
	request as there is no escape from it.  You can't tell it
	to change drives or directories.  You need to reboot.
	I am now in the process of creating 26 some floppies and
	will try the installation from there.
	Anybody have this kind of problem?
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Date: Saturday, 19 Dec 1992 02:35:35 CET
From: FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: where should SET name=thing go?
 <1992Dec14.065220.19796@cdf.toronto.edu>
 <1992Dec14.151847.17868@midway.uchicago.edu> <Bz9vtp.2uz@knot.ccs.queensu.ca>

John:

The "SET-thing" should go into the CONFIG.SYS.

device-drivers for all DOS-sessions: should go into the CONFIG.SYS

device-drivers for specific DOS-sessions: should go into the session-settings

---rony
From: jms20@po.CWRU.Edu (John M. Sully)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: CD-ROM drives and OS/2
Date: 24 Dec 1992 02:33:03 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: jms20@po.CWRU.Edu (John M. Sully)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


Greetings,
    I've been toying with the idea of getting a CD-ROM drive
for my 486 (8Mb, 200Mb IDE HD), and I'm looking for recomendations
for what drives/controllers are happy with OS/2.

Also on a related note...how much do the IBM CD-ROMS usually
go for (eg: the new 2.1 Beta disk, etc). 

Please respond via e-mail.

Thanks a heap!
John
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