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Virtualization / Re: VBox Guest AddOns 7.2.6
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on Today at 03:06:06 am »
Hello

On April 21 2026, the 7.2.8 was released and I just notice it. The VMs are working fine on the Win11 host.

The Addons were updated and I think they two issues from 7.2.6 are now solved.
- The bidirectional clipboard is working back
- The auto mount drive is also working back.

Let me know if someone wants to try it and report back.

Regards
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Setup & Installation / Re: Effective/efficient partition set-up for OS/2 Warp 4.52
« Last post by KevinP on June 05, 2026, 04:26:22 pm »
IIRC, DFsee will install BootManager for you. Edit --> UI, Switch to expert mode. Then Mode=FDISK-->OS/2 LVM and BootManager-->BootManager install. Need a small primary to install it to.

Yes, in the window where you select Partition Type there is an item for IBM Boot Manager and 1 cylinder size.   There is also a pre-set line for 2gb FAT 16 partition which is what I used for the DOS/Windows 3.1 partition.
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Programming / Re: Programming an OS/2 App with AI
« Last post by Neil Waldhauer on June 05, 2026, 03:08:32 pm »
I am amused by news that some companies found it was more expensive to use AI to create software than paying humans to do it. Using the iterative approach should eventually get an executable program.
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Programming / Re: Programming an OS/2 App with AI
« Last post by Jan-Erik Lärka on June 05, 2026, 06:18:15 am »
  • gemini.google.com
  • duck.ai
both work with our browser (Otter 1.0.81, QT5) with patience and alteration of zoom factor for gemini.

  • or our own home made one locally...
based on llama3_2.c (see github) instead of llama2.c but Europeans may only the latter. Just need a bit of tweaking to the code and it will compile with OpenWatcom v2.

  • or have a front end that call models online with apikey.
Am looking at Mistral (French AI) at the moment.
Just begun this one for Classic Rexx on OS/2, and it is therefore not finished... haven't even seen the start page of it yet as it is sooo new.


//Jan-Erik
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Fdisk has been replaced with LVM, both the Java based GUI and the text mode lvm (type lvm at a cmd prompt). DFsee is good as well as the text mode LVM, which does take a bit of getting used to.
Primary partition for DOS/Win3.1, small Primary for the Boot Manager. There's also Airboot which fits in the MBR but I think OS/2 will insist on BootManager to install on other then C: OS/2 itself will happily use extended partitions. IIRC, DFsee will install BootManager for you. Edit --> UI, Switch to expert mode. Then Mode=FDISK-->OS/2 LVM and BootManager-->BootManager install. Need a small primary to install it to.
Partitions have to be startable for BootManager to boot them. Same if you want to install other stuff like Linux, Haiku, NT etc, partition with OS/2 (DFsee), make them startable and use advanced install in their install program to install on the new partitions.
BootManager needs to be the partition that boots, if Win9X etc tell you that your OS/2 install is history, use fdisk to make BootManager startable. Win9x was horrible that way, install it and at the end it would inform you that your OS/2 install was wiped, even though it was still there.
Really it is only DOS and Windows (and BootManager) that require primary partitions. Note that BootManager is limited to a max of 512GB drives.
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Setup & Installation / Re: Effective/efficient partition set-up for OS/2 Warp 4.52
« Last post by KevinP on June 05, 2026, 05:07:59 am »
Which partitions should be active and primary, etc.?  I am using the bootable disk of DFSee.  The OS/2 Warp installation media I have apparently does not have fdisk as is shown in the Certification manual so I tried LVM but was having some trouble getting what I wanted.  Thanks
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Hardware / Re: 32-bit Basedev Comport driver
« Last post by Igor on June 05, 2026, 02:03:43 am »
Hi Martin!

Thanks Igor

Do you have (by any chance) a link of a retail site where this device is being sold?
Is it your a PCI or PCI Express card?

Regards

It is old PCI card.

Chip from WinChipHead.
It just so happened that I had it for testing.
I'll also soon be updating my driver to work with the ePCI card, which also doesn't work with the standard driver.

Regards
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Programming / Re: Programming an OS/2 App with AI
« Last post by Remy on June 05, 2026, 02:01:51 am »
Do not learn IA how to code programs on OS/2.
OS/2 should be intact from IA attacks or else. Of course, IA could help but it also is able to take advantage for him against us (humain)
What will happen if someone is asking him to create viruses on OS/2 ?
 
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Hardware / Re: 32-bit Basedev Comport driver
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on June 04, 2026, 10:46:23 pm »
Thanks Igor

Do you have (by any chance) a link of a retail site where this device is being sold?
Is it your a PCI or PCI Express card?

Regards
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Hardware / 32-bit Basedev Comport driver
« Last post by Igor on June 04, 2026, 09:43:34 pm »
Hi All!

I created 32-bit serial port driver. Chip 16550A.
Currently only 1C00:2273 hardware is support. This hardware is not supported by the standard driver.
I would appreciate your interest in this project.

If uou serial port driver is also not working or is unstable, please contact  me and attach the pci.exe program log.
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