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From: ileicht@jarthur.claremont.edu (Spiff)
Subject: Re: running unreal demo, want sound under OS/2 (and don`t wanna boot dos!)
Keywords: unreal, no sound
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 22:38:17 GMT


Unreal demo. Well, the Unreal demo has enough problems running anywhere
to tell yuou the truth. I had much better luck getting it to run under
OS/2 than I did under DOS actually. (Yet one more example of how
OS/2 is a better DOS than DOS).

I have a 386/25 and a SB (not a pro) and it worked fine. I even was
able to get sections of it to run in a window on the desktop (way
impressive in my book).

Tweak around with the standard graphics/sound options in the dos settings.
I run mine under my DOS-GAMES session. So set it up just like you
were going to play a stanrd video game with sound.

Check the FAQ-os2-games for more info oin this.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Subject: XGA-2 Information...
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 16:04:59 GMT


Here's some info. on XGA2:
 
 ---------------------------------------------------
 Standard resolutions for XGA2:
 - all VGA
 - 640x480 (256, 65536-color)
 - 800x600 (16, 256, 65536-color)
 - 1024x768 (16, 256-color)
 - 8-bit/color RAMDAC, 16.7 million color palette
 - all non-interlaced, up to 75Hz refresh (programmable)
 - XGA is coprocessed, whether you have MCA or ISA
 There are also some non-standard modes, such as 1136x1024 16-color
 interlaced.  IBM Boca is also working on seamless driver for this mode.
 Expect XGA2 drivers for all res. to show up in about 2 weeks (might
 even be included in the upcoming CSD).
 ----------------------------------------------------
 ...also has busmastering...1meg vram....
  
  Radius is making an ISA (maybe EISA too) XGA2 card.
  Their number is 18005RADIUS.
  The ISA card won't be available until December.
   
   32-bit OS/2 2.0 drivers for all resolutions will be coming out in about
   2 weeks...they might even be included with the Service Pack.
From: dennis.powell@brent.uucp (Dennis Powell) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ATI OS/2 SUPPORT (ULTRA +
Date: 28 Sep 92 07:21:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Brentwood BBS Harrison, NY  914-835-7898
Reply-To: dennis.powell@brent.uucp (Dennis Powell) 


JB: I currently own a Speedstar 24 and am very, very, frustrated with Diamond's
    support for OS/2.  They can't even tell me if they've started on Speedstar
    24 drivers.  Those who do answer me give a different answer everytime I
call.
    I am thinking of selling my card and getting an ATI Graphic Ultra+ EISA (I
    believe that's the designation.  It has 800x600 in 24 bit, and is quite
fast.)
    Does anyone know what ATI support will be around.  Will 24-bit drivers
    be available?  How about standard 256 color drivers?  Also any technical
info
    (specs) on the Ultra+ would be appreciated... thanks!

ATI  has  been  just  awful about all of this.  in several conversations
with 'em, i've been told:

-- we're working on the drivers.

-- we're not working on the drivers. the 1.3 drivers will work.

-- we'll work on the drivers after the 32-bit GRE is released.

-- we plan no additional OS/2 support.

-- we may write drivers for OS/2, but they would be for  the  new  cards
   we're going to release.

in short, ATI may not be the answer.

dep
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From: nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Boot Disk
Date: 14 Oct 1992 15:40:01 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn) writes:
>In <Bw0nHI.1IA@brunel.ac.uk> Paul L Barnfather writes:

>>Is it possible to boot OS/2 off a single 1.2MB floppy FOR HPFS?
>>
>>I can make a boot disk for FAT, but there isn't enough space
>>for HPFS.IFS

>No way, just won't fit.  Trust me I've tried.

Actually there is a way to do it.  Get the DOS program FDFORMAT from
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/msdos/dskutl, this allows you to format an
1.2 MB disk to 1.44 capacity, you should be able to fit the uhpfs.dll on
it then.

This programs only runs under native DOS.

-- Nan
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: agriffin@mitre.org (James Artcher Griffin)
Subject: Re: How can a Canadian get ahold of Radius?
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 15:03:09 GMT


Radius phone numbers: (in the USA)

+800-227-2795
+408-434-1010 Corp. Sales i'm told.
+408-434-0127 FAX for Corp. Sales.

HTH.  Happy OS/2ing it.

Artch
From: anlst2+@pitt.edu (Arthur N Lilley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: After Dark Problems (Take Two)
Date: 8 Oct 92 00:52:39 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


     I'm having some trouble trying to run After Dark.  The screen saver pops
up every X minutes even if I have been doing stuff(mouse, keyboard, etc.).
I assume that the solution lies somewhere in the WIN-OS2 settings, but I
can't figure out the right combination.  Like I said, I don't think that
Windows is getting the signal that I have hit a key or clicked a mouse.
Once Afterdark pops up and is in the foreground, as soon as I hit a key it
will disappear like it should.  Any ideas?

                                                         - Art
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tom@nds.com (Tom Williamson)
Subject: OS/2 Binaries?
Reply-To: tom@nds.COM (Tom Williamson)
Organization: Northwest Digital Systems
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 19:14:59 GMT

I am wondering whether there is a problem with the newsgroup comp.binaries.os2.
It has been almost two weeks since the last files came across.  In fact it was 
the gcc-2 group that last came across.

We seem to have a very flakey newsfeed here at NDS, so I don't know whether 
there have been postings and they are not making it through to us or whether 
there have been no postings.

Anybody out there getting anything on comp.binaries.os2?

Thanks - Tom

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From: cvafyaga@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: adding PS fonts to OS/2 ?
Keywords: PS font pfa
Date: 15 Oct 92 07:53:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: vmsa.15OCT199215535613
Distribution: world
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <9210141556.AA04213@elliemae.cs.nyu.edu>, figueroa@ELLIEMAE.CS.NYU.EDU (Samuel A. Figueroa) writes...
> 
>I have tried putting the .pfb and .afm files in other directories, and while
>the font palette knows where the files are and which fonts were installed,
>it can't display them in the sample box.  I asked in this newsgroup what I
>needed to do in order to fix this, and no one was able to tell me how.  I then
>called IBM's OS/2 help number, and I was told that OS/2 was not very config-
>urable at this time, and that the font files should reside in \os2\dll on the
>drive on which OS/2 was installed.

That's odd,  I remember installing fonts in the \PSFONTS dir and it worked
just fine.   Did you also put the *.PFB files in the directory??  

Srikanth
From: mmtl@hobson.cc.flinders.edu.au (T.Lampre)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 ate my whole harddrive!
Date: 14 Oct 92 01:29:04 GMT
Organization: Flinders University

In article <4eqDEyS00VpEM4u2oj@andrew.cmu.edu> sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy) writes:
>
>Yes, I was compiling along, (gcc-2.2.2) got the old "The system has
>stopped" message (which has been happening all too often, not related to
>gcc though)  Powered Down, powered up and got "Missing Operating System"

Funny, the same thing happened to me last night, except that I had
only just rebooted after changing my config.sys, ie no crash.

> Then, pulled out the handy-dandy OS/2 boot floppy disk that I made, it
>worked, insert original disk numer 2, and do a "chkdsk c: /f:3" and got
>a message something like "cannot find the specified device" or whatever

Yep. Same here.
.
> Went over to C:, did a DIR and noticed that my volume label was gone,
>and did a dir and got a "The system cannot find the file specified"  The
>entire hadrrive was gone.  

I tried reinstalling and fdisk failed. Running fdisk a second time
worked though and I restarted the install. This time the format failed
so I dug out my copy of DOS and tried to see what it said. I could
format the drive right up until the point where it asks for a volume
label and then it hung. DOS fdisk hung completely, couldn't even read
the partition table.

>
>I suspect TCP/IP 1.2.1.  ever since I applied the 1.2.1 patch from 1.2,

I don't have tcp/ip.

[rest of Steves probelm deleted]

I tried reformatting with HPFS and this time it worked. The install
went ok until disk 6 where it hung. Rebooting got over that hurdle but
it hung again when the tutorial came up. The tutorial was still alive
but the desktop never configured itself. Rebooting fixed that too.

By this time it was 2 am so I went to bed. I still have to reinstall
all my display drivers and colour schemes etc. This is the first time
I've ever had a problem reinstalling like this on about six machines
that I've worked with.

I suspect that it may be my new IDE controller. I added a 3rd drive to
my system and so I have one of those new cached controllers with 4
megs. I've had it installed for about a week with no problems and was
going to post how happy I am with it, now I'm not so sure. The drive
that failed was not the new one.

Trevor Lampre
<mmtl@cc.flinders.edu.au>
Flinders University of South Australia
From: Don.Johnson@f107.n207.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Anyone got 123 3.1 runni
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 08 Oct 92  16:28:00

US>After I installed the beta of OS/2 on my machine, suddenly
US>123 3.1 won't work.  I followed the directions in the readme

US>123 can not run in a DOS compatibility box or OS/2.
US>Please run 123 under DOS 3.00 or later.

US>(I am paraphrasing.)  Has anyone gotten 123 3.1 to run under
US>the OS/2 beta?  What am I doing wrong?  I have

You've set DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT to at least 4?  You're also starting
1-2-3 from a batch file such as the following?

                        SET 123MEMSIZE=2048
                        123


 * OLX 2.1 TD * Courtesy of the Department of Redundancy Department

--- Maximus/2 2.01wb
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Subject: Re: Latest scoop on the service pack...
Keywords: Service pack
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 22:14:32 GMT

In article <kaz.718925265@pv7b8c.vincent.iastate.edu> kaz@iastate.edu (Jimmy Buffet) writes:
>	What's the current word on the service pack?  Is it wise to look 
>forward to Oct. 15?  
>
Hello.  I was thinking the same thing today...so I called 18003ibmos2 and
the guy I talked to said that he has *no* information, and that as far as
he knows October 15th is the first date it will be available.

He also said that he is pretty sure IBM will give him(the operators) full
details on October 15th.

Anyways, he was a pretty nice guy, didn't get his name, but anyways, I'm
just going to call back on the 15th and see if I can order it.

I figure one of two things can happen:
1. I can order it
2. I can't order it.  :)
Actually, if I can't order it, I will look on software.watson.ibm.com for
an announcement of some sort from IBM.  Like the one IBM put their on
September 30 to respond to the fact they wouldn't have it out by the end
of the month.  Since they are now saying 1st half of October, I figure
the earliest we'll see an announcement of delay is October 15, since
October 16th is in the 2nd half of October!
From: 873clifton@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Backup-Programm for OS/2?!
Date: 15 Oct 92 15:21:25 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <1992Oct14.163455.26678@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
> In article <1beckqINNf@perm.geologie.uni-freiburg.de> holger@perm.geologie.uni-freiburg.de (Holger Hussy) writes:
>>Since 3 month I'm searching for a good backup- programm which also
>>supports the extended attributes and therefore a complete
>>backup of the WPS. Is there one?
> 
> Yes.  On the shareware side, there's OBackup (available via anonymous
> ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu).  Currently version 3.40.
> 
> On the commercial side I use Sytos Plus, and it works well.  There's
> also Sterling Software's Intelligent Backup.  See the FAQ List for
> details.
> 
> -- 
> Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST 2.0f is avail.
> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | from 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all
> Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
> of Chicago, 60637       | [For the Internet, vote Clinton-GORE this year.]

OBackup sounds interesting, however the newest version I could locate was 1.25.
This version is dated '89-'91 and doesn't work (just froze the cmd window I
was using). Also no mention was made of HPFS, etc. Does anyone know where I
can find v3.40 for evaluation on the nets?

Thanks,

/Doug
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bharris@intelhf.hf.intel.com (Bennie Harris)
Subject: Re: BETA 32-bit GRE **BUGS**!next
Organization: Development Tools Operation, Intel Corp., Hillsboro  OR
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 16:23:42 GMT

slam@desire.wright.edu writes:

>In article <1992Oct3.155927.28064@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, tcristy@nyx.cs.du.edu (Tim Cristy) writes:
>> In article <1992Oct3.054337.19072@netcom.com> rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:
>>>slam@desire.wright.edu writes:
>>>: 
>>>: 2) I'm using WIN-OS/2 3.0. Everytime I start it up (full screen) it
>>>:    comes up with a "Application Error" dialog saying that it could
>>>:    not find the program and to check the path. This happens right
>>>:    before the Clipboard comes up on the desktop and also before the
>>>:    Print Manager comes up.
>>>
>>>Same here.  It happens twice for me and I cannot switch back to the OS/2
>>>desktop from any full screen winos2 session.  I have to exit to get back.
>>>I sure hope someone can figure this one out.  I'm stumped.  It might help
>>>get a handle on it if the box said what bloody program it couldn't find.
>>>
>>>I also get a session failure any time I use the print screen key from a
>>>full screen DOS session.
>>>Bob
>>>-- 
>>>Bob Cain    rcain@netcom.com   408-358-2007
>>>
>>>                ____________________________________________
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>>>                \ Flames to /dev/null    Advice by email! /
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>>>                  \ PGP public key available on request /
>>>                   \                                   /
>> Look in your win.ini and system.ini files for a line that has !ddeagent
>> and !clipwos2 and delete it. These are programs that Win-OS2 uses to 
>> communicate with OS2, but were not included in the Beta for some reason.
>> 
>> Tim Cristy
>> tcristy@nyx.cs.du.edu
>>>                    -----------------------------------


>I checked and indeed some files are missing. The files indicated by
>the !gopm and !ddeagent variables indeed do not exist. clipwos2.exe
>does exist. So, I think the solution is to delete the !gopm and
>!ddeagent entries.

>SC Lam - slam@eve.wright.edu

Next time you have an error that says it cannot find a file, try
starting the program up in a window instead of full screen. A small
box may pop up telling you what file it cannot find. This may work
in some situations. It has worked for me when a library *.dll file
could not be found. Worth a try.
-- Bennie Harris
From: reimert@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Please explain '.inf' files! What are they?
Date: 9 Oct 92 03:03:55 GMT
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA

In article <david.718588889@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) writes:
>I have downloaded the ps2asst.zoo, which contains a group of files ending in
>'.inf'
>
>These files are not ascii, but are probably something incredibly simple such
>as me needing to use the 'help' browser to read them.
>
>If anyone could provide the missing clue i'd appreciate it.
>
>
>Thanks.
>  David
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David,
     the .INF files are informational files that you can look at with the
viewer (in the 'productivity' folder). Open the viewer, drop down the file
menu, and type in the .INF file you want to look at.

		Scott

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From: steveh@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Steven Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: IBM is Horrible
Date: 12 Oct 92 00:01:51 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

Tazzie@cup.portal.com (Jon S Novak) writes:

>My point is this:   You spend $89 on a program, one which claims
>                    compatability.   After having problems with
>                    one particular incompatability, they tell you
>                    that you have shell out over $500 ... THAT is
>                    not right.  

As has been mentioned earlier, you _can_ use your SBPRO CD-ROM in a 
DOS window and under win-os2. Create Labs are working on an OS/2 2.0
specific driver we are told.

>Now for those who say 'well you just spoke to someone who didn't know'
>IBM is supposed to be the industry leader.  They are supposed to have
>all these high standards for their employees.  So if this person is just
>an example, what can you say about the company in general?  Forget about them.

IBM's techinical and customer support has by far been the best I've ever
encountered. So maybe you rang an employee who didn't know _all_ the facts.
This happens - no-one is perfect. This isn't an excuse, just a fact of
life.

Anyway, to boycott IBM because of one phone call is the hieght of stupidity.

-- 
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   Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)  |  +61 3 660-2693
From: checker@acf5.NYU.EDU (checker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: VSVGA.SYS nonsense
Date: 11 Oct 92 16:24:36 GMT
Organization: New York University

sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
>This bug is apparently known.
>What I've done to restore the proper screen is open another full
>screen OS/2 or DOS session, then switch back (using ALT-ESC or
>CTRL-ESC) to the affected session.
>I've been told the problem will be fixed in the CSD.

I suppose I'll have to wait; your work around doesn't work on my
machine.

Chris
From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 GRE beta release
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:21:36 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

rgaudre@triton.unm.edu (Ron Gaudreau) writes:

>I've been reading that there seems to be some that have actually been able
>to install the beta release of OS/2 with 32 bit GRE & WIN-OS 3.1
>I can't install it on my machine. It keeps saying that it can't find
>a handful of files even though there are there, in the proper directories
>and chkdsk says that the disk is fine. I would love to install this
>puppy but guess I will have to wait for the CSD, whenever that finally
>comes.

The disk driver (ibm1s506.add) seems to be the main culprit for many 
beta install problems. Copy the install and disk#1, put a version of
ibm1s506.add that works (the GA version, or a fix) on the disks,
and then you will get the initial install. Unfortunately, the install
will unpack the beta's version of the .add driver to \OS2, which
means that when you get to the boot from the hard disk, it will
again have problems. Re-boot from the floppies, copy the working
version of the .add to \OS2, and re-boot. Finish the install.
 
Or, get the Service Pack, and then wait for the release version of
the Win3.1 support. Much easier. 
 
Tom
From: sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 performance tips?
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:00:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.wepF7pa00Uh_I_7mIF
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.os2.misc: 8-Oct-92 OS/2 performance tips?
by Andrew T. Robinson@MAINE 
> Running DOS-based database applications, I saw a 10x performance drop between
> raw DOS 5.0 and OS/2 DOS boxes (OS/2 is significantly better than Windows 3.1

This isn't much of a performance tip, more of a testimonial...

I have a 386-16. It has 10 megs of memory.  It runs OS/2 like a dream. 
I don't understand all you people with the fastest PC's on the market
complaining about how slow it is.  What's up with this?  Maybe if you
have 4 megs of RAM on your system it would make that big of a
difference, but I seriously doubt it.

Secondly, yes, it will take MS-word 30 seconds to start up, because you
have to first run Windows, the MS-word in it.  Try starting up a windows
clock, then MS-word.  Then you can compare.  
"If I were a fish, I'd dream of flying"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: Why XGA-2?
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:34:32 GMT

In article <16104@umd5.umd.edu> adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir) writes:
> 
> IBM has promised the CSD since June.  It was June CSD, then Sept CSD, then
> October 15 CSD, and now I just read it's been delayed again.  If IBM can't
> get a fixed version of OS/2 and the 32-bit GRE out, then how the hell can
> we expect all these other companies to get drivers out for it??  
> 
> Hold your whining about lack of drivers until we get the CSD.  Unitl then,
> whine about no CSD!

I spoke to an IBMer yesterday who said that IBM wants to release a CSD with
ever possible bug squashed. They are not used to handling the "mass" market
(desktop end-users in *big* numbers), but they are so happy that people are
backing OS/2 that they really are going the extra mile to deliver a *quality*
upgrade.
 
So keep the pressure up....but be constructive. Abuse serves no purpose
whatever.
 
Steve
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