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From: jbergman@ixc.ixc.net                              10-Dec-99 22:29:03
  To: All                                               11-Dec-99 03:29:26
Subj: Re: MAME for OS/2 version .36 beta 11 is available

From: "Trancser" <jbergman@ixc.ixc.net>

I was wondering if you statically link the required libraries to MAME/2, or
if you dynamically link them?


On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 19:31:51 -0500, Marty wrote:

>MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.
>
>It allows you to play up to 1900 classic (and some not-so-classic) arcade
games
>from the 70's through the 90's from the comfort of your OS/2 desktop.
>
>The OS/2 version has been updated to the latest version of the MAME core (.36
>beta 11).  If you are upgrading from beta 6 or higher, it will automatically
>update your Quick List and scan for newly supported games the first time you
>start it up so you don't have to manually rescan everything from scratch and
>erase your Favorites list.
>
>The following items have changed since version .36 beta 10:
>
>* Updated to MAME core version .36 beta 10 
>* Fixed a bug requiring an extra keystroke when the MAME core asks you to
>  type "OK" to acknowledge a message
>
>A suggestion was made to show the joystick button status to the Input Options
>dialog box.  I haven't had the time to do this yet, but it will be
implemented
>by the next release.
>
>Another suggestion was made to run LxLite on the executables, which I have
>done.  The executables shrank from 10MB to 4MB, although the ZIP file is
about
>the same size to download.
>
>As always, you can download the latest release 486 and Pentium optimized
>versions from http://emuos2.vintagegaming.com.
>
>Enjoy!
>
>- Marty



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From: jbergman@ixc.ixc.net                              10-Dec-99 22:52:18
  To: All                                               11-Dec-99 03:29:26
Subj: Re: would it be possible to....

From: "Trancser" <jbergman@ixc.ixc.net>

>Well I think there is absolutely no sense in investing time into video card
>drivers because of SciTech Display Doctor. I think in the final release we
>will get very good performance and we should bether start working on other
>device drivers.
>
>cu
>
>Adrian

SDD/2 has shown (for myself anyway) some good potential so far. But I'm
wondering if performance of what I hope is possible, with the drivers I'll
ever see. Right now, I still can see a 'window dragging' effect as I drag
certain gui windows over other windows, which doesnt literally seem to put an
actual drag on the computer ...just that it makes the desktop re-paint over
those windows that the dragging seems to still be prevelant with. I dont mean
to make this sound as dramatic as it MIGHT, its just something that if
posssible, I would like to see illiminated.



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From: dwparsons@t-online.de                             11-Dec-99 22:17:22
  To: All                                               11-Dec-99 19:49:08
Subj: Re: Tar and gz files

From: dwparsons@t-online.de (Dave Parsons)

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 18:23:34, Scott Vetter <svetter@ameritech.net> wrote:

>    I'm running OS/2 V4 and have some files that are suffixed in tar.tar
> though the original files are suffixed with tar.gz.   I have one tar
> program which doesn't seem to work no matter what the suffix is.  How
> does one use the tar program?  Can it handle .gz files?  Is there a
> different tar program I should be using?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Scott
> 

Don't know if you are aware, but there is a program called UNTGZ which
has managed all tar.gz files I have come across, irrespective of the exact
filename endings. It is available for for various OSs and the latest I've
found for OS/2 is untgz095.zip.
See www.leo.org in /pub/comp/os/os2/leo/archiver.

-- 
Dave

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From: mamodeo@stny.rr.com                               11-Dec-99 18:45:28
  To: All                                               11-Dec-99 21:20:14
Subj: Re: MAME for OS/2 version .36 beta 11 is available

From: Marty <mamodeo@stny.rr.com>

Trancser wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if you statically link the required libraries to MAME/2, or
> if you dynamically link them?

Which ones in particular?  MAME will not function without MDM.DLL, DIVE.DLL,
and GPMIXER.DLL being present.  They are still "dynamically linked" (as
opposed
to having a copy of their code included in the EXE), but they are required on
startup.  Are you referring to "dynamically linked" as using DosLoadModule
instead of an import library?  I do not use this method.

- Marty

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From: jbergman@ixc.ixc.net                              12-Dec-99 05:11:13
  To: All                                               12-Dec-99 10:13:27
Subj: Re: Porting from OS/2 to Win 95 / 98 / NT??

From: "Trancser" <jbergman@ixc.ixc.net>


No no, you've got that confused. You wanna port those programs FROM NT and
98/95 to OS/2! :)

we cant have those programs running on a non-y2k compliant 32-bit shell
(98/95)  ...heh....

you want those runnin' on a nice, stable y2k-compliant Operating System! :)



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From: stefanj@gte.net                                   12-Dec-99 13:55:09
  To: All                                               12-Dec-99 14:24:13
Subj: Joystick Device Driver Contest.....New Entries!!

From: stefanj@gte.net (Jason Stefanovich)

I have received a new entry from J Da Silva,
An enhanced version of the popular gameport.sys.



MAMERun Joystick Device Driver Contest.

What is it?

Write your own joystick device driver for OS/2 and you could win $290
plus valuable prizes and earn the respect and gratitude of OS/2
gamers around the world! With the many new games available and the
advance of game controllers there arises a need for a better 
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Support for new controller features, such as 8+ buttons or USB, will
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From: mlueck@lueckdatasystems.com                       12-Dec-99 09:11:06
  To: mrowe03@attglobal.net                             12-Dec-99 14:24:13
Subj: Re: Porting REXX to Java

To: mrowe03@attglobal.net
From: Michael Lueck <mlueck@lueckdatasystems.com>


Michael Rowe wrote:

> I am porting an OS/2 Rexx application to Java.  The program does screen
> scraping of a mainframe screen using the HLLAPI interface.  Does anyone
> know of a HLLAPI interface in JAVA?
>

I don't know that IBM has such an interface yet - but with VA Java you
should be able to use the data access builder to wrap around the DLL which
allowed Rexx to use HLLAPI.

FYI - That Rexx support is ONLY on their OS/2 version - not Win32.

Michael Lueck

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From: miket@interact.net.au                             12-Dec-99 12:51:21
  To: All                                               13-Dec-99 05:13:27
Subj: Re: MAME for OS/2 version .36 beta 11 is available

From: miket@interact.net.au    (Michael Taylor)

One feature I would really like is for "snap to double size" 
to be permanently settable (at 1600x1200 normal size is pretty 
small!) How about a "x4" mode?

Other than that beta 10 works well (Celeron 400MHz) with
no speed problems!

--
Regards,                    Michael Taylor
Mike                        miket@interact.net.au
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  Home Page: http://users.interact.net.au/~pmiy
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From: myself@pbn.dp.ua                                  13-Dec-99 12:21:09
  To: All                                               13-Dec-99 10:24:20
Subj: .ttf -> .fnt

From: Ivan Klimenko <myself@pbn.dp.ua>

Hi !

	I need something like .TTF to .FNT converter. Somebody has one ?
	I already have TrueType/2 DevKit and need some sample building 
	.fnt file (f.e. source of FONTEDIT.EXE)

-- 

Ivan Klimenko   [Team OS/2]
e-mail:         myself@pbn.dp.ua
net-mail:       2:464/69.11@fidonet, 2:464/27.26@fidonet
ccmail:         Ivan Klimenko at Privat-Nikopol

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From: brobbin2@rochester.rr.com                         13-Dec-99 22:42:21
  To: All                                               14-Dec-99 03:29:05
Subj: Re: MAME for OS/2 version .36 beta 10 is available

From: Britton Robbins <brobbin2@rochester.rr.com>

Marty,

Why can't you use the VESA 2.0 / 3.0 compatibility built into most of today's
video
cards?  Just like the DOS version of MAME.

Britton

Marty wrote:

> Trancser wrote:
> >
> > Some good work on MAME/2, I was wondering if full screen mode will be a
possibility
> > in a future version? And if so, would non-full screen DIVE be faster than
full
> > screen DIVE?
> >
> > thanks!
>
> If I can ever get the Scitech drivers and MGL apps running on my system
> there is a possibility of a full screen version.  Unfortunately, MGL
> applications lock up my system entirely with the Matrox drivers.  SDD
> itself installs and runs on my system ok, but I can't change the refresh
> rates the way I need them to be to use my monitor, so until this is
> fixed, the drivers are useless to me.
>
> Any other method of full screen access in OS/2 won't work above
> 320x200x8 with my Matrox card (believe me, I've tried them all).  I was
> thinking about implementing one method anyway, but I wouldn't be able to
> test it thoroughly and it might not be compatible with all video
> hardware.
>
> Running full screen would be a lot faster than running in a window
> because I can have direct access to the video memory and would be in the
> exact color mode I need and wouldn't have to convert anything.  I could
> also use the palette registers in a full screen mode, greatly speeding
> up some games as I wouldn't have to redraw an entire image to change a
> color.
>
> - Marty

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From: mamodeo@stny.rr.com                               14-Dec-99 01:46:16
  To: All                                               14-Dec-99 03:29:06
Subj: Re: MAME for OS/2 version .36 beta 10 is available

From: Marty <mamodeo@stny.rr.com>

Britton Robbins wrote:
> 
> Marty,
> 
> Why can't you use the VESA 2.0 / 3.0 compatibility built into most of
today's video
> cards?  Just like the DOS version of MAME.
> 
> Britton

Unfortunately, nothing works across the board.  Conformance to VESA standards
is even less important to modern video card makers as most cards require
specific drivers to access all of their features anyway.  This is one of the
reasons Scitech is in business and doing quite well.

In some experimentation I've done with FSDIVE, SVGALIB (ported from Linux),
and
the Vio function calls, I have yet to find something that will allow a Matrox
card to go above 320x200x8.  While this might not be important to everybody,
it's extremely important to me, as I have only one system and it has a Matrox
Millenium II.

My last remaining hope is in Scitech's MGL, but so far any apps I have built
with MGL have locked up my system.

- Marty

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From: jbergman@ixc.ixc.net                              14-Dec-99 00:59:23
  To: All                                               14-Dec-99 03:29:06
Subj: Re: MAME for OS/2 version .36 beta 11 is available

From: "Trancser" <jbergman@ixc.ixc.net>

>
>Which ones in particular?  MAME will not function without MDM.DLL, DIVE.DLL,
>and GPMIXER.DLL being present.  They are still "dynamically linked" (as
opposed
>to having a copy of their code included in the EXE), but they are required on

Ok, yea, thats what I was wondering! Cool...

>startup.  Are you referring to "dynamically linked" as using DosLoadModule
>instead of an import library?  I do not use this method.
>
>- Marty




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From: bakan@-NOSPAM-btzpc3.desy.de                      14-Dec-99 16:00:15
  To: All                                               14-Dec-99 14:35:15
Subj: Re: Tar and gz files

From: bakan@-NOSPAM-btzpc3.desy.de (Franz Bakan)

Holger Veit wrote:
>On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 13:23:34 -0500, Scott Vetter <svetter@ameritech.net>
wrote:
>>   I'm running OS/2 V4 and have some files that are suffixed in tar.tar
>>though the original files are suffixed with tar.gz.   I have one tar
>>program which doesn't seem to work no matter what the suffix is.  How
>>does one use the tar program?  Can it handle .gz files?  Is there a
>>different tar program I should be using?
>
>You need another GNU program named gzip:
>	gzip -d file.tar.gz | tar xvf -

or just tar -zxf file.tar.gz

(with gzip.exe in your path)

Franz

-- 
 Franz Bakan,  Hamburg,  Germany
 email: bakan@ukezyk.desy.de

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From: pfitzsim@NOSPAMBASTARDS!home.com                  15-Dec-99 23:43:26
  To: All                                               15-Dec-99 21:17:22
Subj: Re: Porting from OS/2 to Win 95 / 98 / NT??

From: Peter Fitzsimons <pfitzsim@NOSPAMBASTARDS!home.com>

Chris wrote:
> 
> If OS/2 is so stable, why does it keep doing weird things??  Where can I get
> the latest fixpack / service pack?
> 

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v4warp/english-us/xr_m012/

OS/2 does strange things --- about 1/10th the number of times NT and
Win98 do. I've had to re-install nt 4 about 4 times in the past four
months.  I gave up trying to personalise it, if I have to install it
once a month i install the bare minimum and that's it.

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From: opensys5000@nospam.hotmail.com                    15-Dec-99 10:13:00
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 02:11:09
Subj: Re: Porting from OS/2 to Win 95 / 98 / NT??

From: Chris <opensys5000@nospam.hotmail.com>

If OS/2 is so stable, why does it keep doing weird things??  Where can I get
the latest fixpack / service pack?

- SOMEONE PLEASE get me an OS/2 to Windows porting program!!!!!!!!!!




Trancser wrote:

> No no, you've got that confused. You wanna port those programs FROM NT and
> 98/95 to OS/2! :)
>
> we cant have those programs running on a non-y2k compliant 32-bit shell
> (98/95)  ...heh....
>
> you want those runnin' on a nice, stable y2k-compliant Operating System! :)

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From: usenet@cramon.dk                                  15-Dec-99 22:24:04
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 02:11:10
Subj: Re: Porting from OS/2 to Win 95 / 98 / NT??

From: "Jeppe Cramon" <usenet@cramon.dk>

TRy www.codefx.com

Jeppe
"Chris" <opensys5000@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3857DA2C.890A303@nospam.hotmail.com...
> If OS/2 is so stable, why does it keep doing weird things??  Where can I
get
> the latest fixpack / service pack?
>
> - SOMEONE PLEASE get me an OS/2 to Windows porting program!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
>
>
> Trancser wrote:
>
> > No no, you've got that confused. You wanna port those programs FROM NT
and
> > 98/95 to OS/2! :)
> >
> > we cant have those programs running on a non-y2k compliant 32-bit shell
> > (98/95)  ...heh....
> >
> > you want those runnin' on a nice, stable y2k-compliant Operating System!
:)
>


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From: jbergman@ixc.ixc.net                              16-Dec-99 17:42:23
  To: All                                               17-Dec-99 03:47:21
Subj: dynamically resizable windows in OS/2

From: "Trancser" <jbergman@ixc.ixc.net>


Wondering whats the possibility of giving command line windows in os2 the
ability to be resized (preferably with the mouse) on-the-fly? I personally
know this would come in incredibyl handy for a lot programs out there (like
lynx :) among other things. 



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From: icedancer-zamboni@ibm-zamboni.net                 17-Dec-99 17:58:16
  To: All                                               17-Dec-99 20:07:16
Subj: Re: dynamically resizable windows in OS/2

From: icedancer-zamboni@ibm-zamboni.net (Ken Walter)

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 22:42:47, "Trancser" <jbergman@ixc.ixc.net> wrote:

>
>
>Wondering whats the possibility of giving command line windows in os2 the
>ability to be resized (preferably with the mouse) on-the-fly? I personally
>know this would come in incredibyl handy for a lot programs out there (like
>lynx :) among other things. 
>
>
>
It already is up to the size set by the mode command.
And there is the font size on the system menu.

I start DOS programs from a command file the has a mode 80,50
and shift click the max button so that when I double click
the program icon that runs the command file, it starts maximized 
80,50.

Ken Walter

Remove -zamboni to reply
All the above is hearsay and the opinion of no one in particular

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