Thanks a lot, Tomas, you are confirming some fears I had. Will stay at the bottom of my priority list, but will contact you eg via fpc other if I need help, thanks a lot.
Regards, Reinier On Saturday, January 26, 2013, Tomas Hajny wrote: > On Fri, January 25, 2013 11:00, Reinier Olislagers wrote: > > On 24-1-2013 18:55, Tomas Hajny wrote: > >> On Thu, January 24, 2013 18:03, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > >>> I know there are still a few of you developing for the OS/2 platform. > >>> So > >>> I made available on my server some INF e-books. They originally came > >>> from the Sybil Library project. > >>> > >>> There are also some Object Pascal and OOP related books. > >>> > >>> http://opensoft.homeip.net/~graemeg/inf_books/ > >> Anybody interested in the original documentation of OS/2 API and not > >> owning eComStation CDs nor the original IBM Developer's Toolkit > >> documentation may want to check > >> http://cyberkinetica.homeunix.net/os2tk45/ > >> and http://www.edm2.com/. > > > > Thanks a lot, guys, perhaps I'll put some more effort in converting my > > set of original OS/2 2.0 floppies into a working Virtualbox image ;) > > (Did manage to read the floppies and I'm about halfway there but won't > > bother the list with OT horror stories) > > You can contact me directly or via fpc-other if you feel a need for > consulting some issue you'd encounter (need for a more up to date drivers, > etc.). However, I believe that reviving OS/2 2.0 does not make too much > sense - you'd simply miss too many features added later. > > Everything starting from OS/2 Warp v4.0 with the latest fix pack is OK > (although eCS is better due to addition of the 32-bit TCP/IP stack and > other features previously available from IBM separately or with the server > versions), earlier versions might be relevant only in the context of a > very specific need. As an example, you would not be able to compile > programs using FPC on this OS/2 version (I'm not 100% sure whether FPC > itself would work, but the version of GNU assembler distributed with FPC > does not work with this version for sure). > > FPC compiled programs for OS/2 should work there, but you would need to > cross-compile them or stick to some older GNU assembler version. Compiling > FPC RTL is not possible with such old GNU assembler either (due to CPU > instructions not supported there but used in our RTL), but you might > obviously use the distributed RTL version. > > Tomas > > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org <javascript:;> > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal >
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