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Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« Reply #45 on: November 01, 2025, 08:03:34 am »
I've been looking for a while, unfortunately there are only the demo versions to download. Would you archive version 7 for the community?

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Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« Reply #46 on: November 01, 2025, 02:38:25 pm »
Hello Mike

I can try to find and contact the developers/owners of "Scilab GmbH, Hamburg". But I was not able to find the name of the people involved in that company. I think I found out that "Arnd Beissner", cause of a interview I found on the "OS/2 Warp Monthly Newsletter". If you have any other names of the "Scilab GmbH, Hamburg" I can give it a try.

I got this info:
- https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=SciLab

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Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« Reply #47 on: November 03, 2025, 10:22:14 pm »
I have the CD for Xact version 7.0 and the unlock code.  How do I archive the files from the CD?  P.S. the CD also contains the files for the Windoze version.

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Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« Reply #48 on: November 03, 2025, 11:45:43 pm »
I have the CD for Xact version 7.0 and the unlock code.  How do I archive the files from the CD?  P.S. the CD also contains the files for the Windoze version.

ME

If you're able to split the contents of the CD (OS/2 only) you can give it a shot at sending a ZIP package on the Internet Archive or other sources like that. I don't think Hobbes archive is a suitable solution, since we're still talking about a commmercial software with all that regards licensing and rights.

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Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« Reply #49 on: November 19, 2025, 04:23:05 am »
I have zipped the OS/2 files for Xact from the CDROM.  Installing from the CDROM does not require a code.  Does anyone have any idea where I can upload the zip file?

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Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« Reply #51 on: December 13, 2025, 07:49:01 am »
The September 2003 issue of the OS/2 e-Zine mentions a demo of Microstation 95 for OS/2. Does anyone own this and would be willing to share it? Unfortunately, the Win95 version doesn't work with Odin.

http://www.os2ezine.com/20030916/page_4.html

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Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« Reply #52 on: December 13, 2025, 03:01:05 pm »
The September 2003 issue of the OS/2 e-Zine mentions a demo of Microstation 95 for OS/2. Does anyone own this and would be willing to share it? Unfortunately, the Win95 version doesn't work with Odin.

http://www.os2ezine.com/20030916/page_4.html
Thanks for letting me know this software existed. I created this wiki page: https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=MicroStation

Let's hope this software shows up somewhere to be preserved and don't get lost.

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Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« Reply #53 on: January 07, 2026, 10:42:00 pm »
Dear OS/2 community, : )

I am looking for an OpenSSH client that runs on OS/2 Warp 3.
Currently installed are OpenSSH 4.0p1 and OpenSSL 0.9.7f (2025-03-22).

With this version I cannot connect to current SSHds with this anymore, as the KEX is too old, so client and server can't negotiate anymore.
It is still possible to connect to older SSHd versions, but I'd rather have current versions running.. ; )

I have tried [this one] but this does not work on Warp 3, as it appers to require stuff that is not implemented. Hobbes comment also says this version is tested to run on Warp 4.52.

Question is, can I somehow update the KEX security stuff to keep running the old SSH version, or do I actually need a newer SSH version? And if so.. is there still one left that runs on Warp 3?

I'd like to thank you a lot for your time and efforts. : )

Mathias

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Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« Reply #54 on: March 02, 2026, 07:58:44 am »
Hi

I want to create this thread to get some help on finding some old software for OS/2 that it is missing.
I don't have any attachment to this software, but since I'm reorganizing Hobbes and checking some archives sites, I want to see if it possible to find some old software to have it properly organized and archived.

You are also free to post requests.

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I don't know if anyone else responded to you outside of this but I setting up my first OS/2 since the 1990s when I LOVED using OS/2. I got out of it because IBM wasn't going to support it anymore. I bought eComStation (and still have the disks) but wasn't impressed with their product and ended up using Mac OS X instead. But now I am retired and I can use the OS/2 that I loved.

Did you ever find OS/2 programs and setup an alternate Hobbs site? I was devastated when I found out that it was down and not available anymore. I have found some OS/2 programs which you may or may not have found. If you are still working at Arca Noae and are still interested in this or anything else I can help with, just let me know.

Bill Olson
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Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« Reply #55 on: March 03, 2026, 05:27:39 pm »
Hello Bill, welcome.

I use this thread to find old OS/2 software files.
These days Hobbes had been replaced with https://hobbesarchive.com/.

If you have any OS/2 software that is missing let me know here and we will check the best way to upload it there. Remember that HobbesArchive is for Open source/Freeware/Shareware/PublicDomain/Demos, we are not putting Abandonware there, since we don't want to risk the only site we have  :D


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Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« Reply #56 on: March 05, 2026, 12:34:30 am »
Thank you

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Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« Reply #57 on: April 02, 2026, 09:34:00 am »
A 100%, and I mean ONE HUNDRED PERCENT 3D golf game where EVERYTHING in the game is an object and EVERYTHING in the game is ruled by physics. I'm not just talking the golf swings but the golf carts and everything.

Eventually someone will make that golf game. It's just a matter of time (probably decades) but wouldn't it be great if YOU got to decide how YOU wanted to play the game.

Don't want to drive the golf carts? Just choose to or not to.
Walk from Fairway to fairway or not. You choose.

When people talk about artificial intelligence creating programs. That is probably the only way that version of a golf game would ever be created because no company or person has the time AND the will AND the money to do all of that. And I'm not just talking a few golf courses but all the famous ones but then also being able to point to satellite views of the golf courses in your area that you do or do not get to play at.

Of course the golf courses won't like that but if nobody is charging for those golf courses then what can they do about it?

Hey, if I'm going to dream ...

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Word Perfect with Word Perfect's scripting language and not the MS [censored] that Corel replaced it with. With Word Perfect's scripting language I enjoyed writing scripts. One of this was over 1,000 lines of code for a leasing program I wrote in Word Perfect as a stop gap when the bank I worked for needing a Leasing Application that could have all the legal jargon AND have it be able to convert ANY amount from a number into words like you need to do on a check. I used C to create a lot of scripting lines and then copied those and put them into Word Perfect. After I got most of the scripting done I told Word Perfect corporation what I was doing (before it was sold to Novel before they sold it to Corel) and they didn't think it was possible so I sent them the script and they were stunned that it worked and how fast it was. It didn't take more than a minute to process the script.

Anyway, I KNOW that there are Word Processors that work in OS/2. But I never came to "enjoy" writing and scripting in them like I did with Word Perfect and the original scripting language. And yes, I KNOW that nobody is going to create it but I WISH someone would. I just don't have the ability to do it myself.

The OS/2 version of Word Perfect was pretty much the same as the UNIX version which was horrible compared to ... and I wince to say it, the Windows version when they had Word Perfect's scripting language.
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Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« Reply #58 on: April 02, 2026, 02:40:27 pm »
Wordperfect is/was (and is still today!) an excellent word processing program ... I fell out of my chair the first time I hit "reveal codes", and saw what formatting was being applied to my text, and I could fix that formatting directly.

Sadly, over the years, vendors "improve" a software application, and features that we rely on slowly disappear, being replaced with stuff that someone else decides is important, but which you now find missing or changed beyond usefulness. The version parade marches on, and everyone forces you to march with it.

You just want to pick an application version number, and stop time in its tracks, so you can keep using it forever. While, of course, making use of modern stuff ...

Luckily, I'm still running that old WP for DOS, in a VM, right alongside one or more OS/2 (ArcaOS) VM's, and alongside a mainframe VM, and more ... all on one machine. Modern browsers and x64 apps also available. AToF (over in the virtualization sub-forum of this site) allows it, and I've recaptured the value of my old WP for DOS license, still being used today, many decades later.

As long as we can keep the actual bits around (*preserve* those old programs), we can bring them back to life and make them usable again.

So, AToF a laptop or desktop, and bring up Wordperfect (or whatever) as you remembered it, and use it again today! And in the same machine, AI that golf program as well, and run it in OS/2 ... don't wait for someone else to get around to it.

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Re: Lost / Missing Software for OS/2
« Reply #59 on: April 02, 2026, 11:45:39 pm »
Hello Bill, welcome.

I use this thread to find old OS/2 software files.
These days Hobbes had been replaced with https://hobbesarchive.com/.



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