I guess I'll start the messages here... :) There will be a public alpha release of Odin on November 16th. In the meantime, you can get daily snapshots here: ...
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Paul Smedley
psmedley@...
Nov 15, 1999 10:19 am
... You should be updating the webpage not posting here ;) I must confess to not getting around to installing the latest daily snapshot yet - i've downloaded...
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Steve Wendt
stevew@...
Nov 15, 1999 10:21 am
... I know... it's in progress as I write this... :) Hopefully it will get more people onto this list. ... Windows 95: Multicrashing, OS/2: Multitasking, Win...
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Eric W. Burgin
eburgin@...
Nov 16, 1999 6:24 am
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 02:12:49 -0800 (PST), Steve Wendt wrote: *> *>Anyone else getting better results? Not me, I can't get anything to convert. PLEASE NOTE: my...
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Nenad Milenkovic
nenad_milenkovic@...
Nov 16, 1999 6:52 am
... Please use ftp://ftp.os2.org/odin/, let the developers as much of Netlabs (limited) bandwidth as they can get. :) ... No loging is now default in daily...
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Steve Wendt
stevew@...
Nov 16, 1999 7:47 am
... I haven't used pe2lx in a long time. win32k.sys works pretty well for me. ... Windows 95: Multicrashing, OS/2: Multitasking, Win NT: MultiSleeping "Nobody...
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Steve Wendt
stevew@...
Nov 16, 1999 7:58 am
... The only choice; the daily directory on netlabs is empty now. :) ... Cool... :) ... I have xf86sup.sys loaded. When the game is set to windowed, the game...
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John Poltorak
jpolt@...
Nov 16, 1999 1:51 pm
Is there any way to get Windows SETUP program converted to OS/2? I would like to see if I can actually install any programs which are included on the covers of...
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Paul Smedley
psmedley@...
Nov 16, 1999 8:54 pm
John, In one of the FAQs - possibly the one at www.netlabs.org/odin/ it mentions setup/install programs and that they will take awhile before they are able to...
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Paul Smedley
psmedley@...
Nov 16, 1999 8:59 pm
Hi, Just found the following file - looks like the official Alpha is here! ftp://ftp.os2.org/odin/OdinAlpha5.zip I'll try installing it once I get home from...
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John Poltorak
jpolt@...
Nov 16, 1999 9:05 pm
... ... but I don't have Win95/98/NT installed anywhere, even though I must have six licences for it. Oh well... :-( ... -- John...
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Nenad Milenkovic
nenad_milenkovic@...
Nov 16, 1999 9:49 pm
... IIRC this upside-down problem was fixed recently. Nenad...
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Steve Wendt
stevew@...
Nov 17, 1999 1:41 am
... Must have been since Friday's release... I'll try it again... :) ... Windows 95: Multicrashing, OS/2: Multitasking, Win NT: MultiSleeping "Nobody will ever...
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Steve Wendt
stevew@...
Nov 17, 1999 1:41 am
... I discovered that running Setup programs off of CDs doesn't work. Copying all of the necessary files to the hard disk got me further. Does PE (via...
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Steve Wendt
stevew@...
Nov 17, 1999 1:41 am
The official announcement: ... The Odin development team is proud to announce the availability of the Public Alpha 5 release (19991116). A lot has happened...
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Sander van Leeuwen
sandervl@...
Nov 17, 1999 8:34 am
The Odin development team is proud to announce the availability of the Public Alpha 5 release (19991116). A lot has happened since the last public release in...
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Steve Wendt
stevew@...
Nov 17, 1999 8:40 am
... This is indeed fixed in alpha5. Yay! All the other problems are there, though. :( I get lots of crashes in kernel32.dll also, when trying to change...
... Having no M$ rubbish is not quite that uncommon. I don't have any, and two friends of me in the neighbourhood too. After all, that's why we are on OS/2,...
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Elbert Pol
epol@...
Nov 17, 1999 3:47 pm
Hello, When i have set in mine config.sys the win32k.sys I booted an the following error i get: DOSDEVIOCTL Faild. What does this error means, and what should...
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Nenad Milenkovic
nenad_milenkovic@...
Nov 17, 1999 4:33 pm
... There are some programs mentioned on the Download page that can deal with InstallShield archives (related downloads). And, from what I saw, support for...
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Cheng-Yang Tan
cytan@...
Nov 17, 1999 5:36 pm
I've had a first look at ODIN32 alpha5 and I'm really impressed. However, it seems that there's a problem with ODIN on winhlp32 from NT4.0. command: pe...
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Kris Steenhaut
kris.steenhaut@...
Nov 17, 1999 11:11 pm
... Yes, saw that, but went a bit over my head, I'm afraid. Don't forget, we are only simple end-users here, not programmers. ... Nothing but good news then. ...
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Nenad Milenkovic
nenad_milenkovic@...
Nov 18, 1999 4:49 am
... can be ... installed, the ... directory, or ... It appears that Win32s apps have same (or simmilar) PE format as full Win32 applications. I was able to...
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Marty Abrego
photon@...
Nov 18, 1999 8:52 am
... I converted FreeCell (win32s) using PE2LX (I think it was the last daily before Alpha5) and it works better than it did using the old Win32OS2 converter....
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Sander van Leeuwen
sandervl@...
Nov 18, 1999 10:22 am
... No. Perhaps you forgot to copy msvcrt.dll. By the way; as stated in the docs, pe2lx is no longer recommended. Use either win32k or pe.exe. Sander...
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Kris Steenhaut
kris.steenhaut@...
Nov 18, 1999 10:37 pm
... Not that piece of cake for end-users. ... The Win-OS2 DLL's don't work in that respect; that's why I asked, of course. ... This camouflaged Win32 v1.30 is...
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Steve Wendt
stevew@...
Nov 19, 1999 6:35 am
Using the 1118 daily build, the sound in Quake 2 works! The other broken stuff is still broken, but at least there is progress... :) ... Windows 95:...
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Helen Terbizan
helent@...
Nov 19, 1999 9:31 pm
Hi I tried WinZip and although it starts to extract it never completely finishes, I can only assume that is to the point that it wants to put an icon on the...
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abwillis@...
Nov 28, 1999 9:12 am
Starting with the Nov. 27th build the install-shield is going along pretty well. I have an application I have been trying to install that had been up till...
