For anyone who's interested, you can register for 4 nodes free for Ezycom BBS now. Anything higher than 4 will require a payment. Version 2.15 will be out sometime soon I hope. It's still in Gamma mode right now.

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Re: Ezycom BBS
By: The Millionaire to All on Tue Apr 12 2011 02:13 pm

For anyone who's interested, you can register for 4 nodes free for Ezycom BBS now. Anything higher than 4 will require a payment. Version 2.15 will
be out sometime soon I hope. It's still in Gamma mode right now.

I have my key, but I did try and experiment with it. Maybe if a Win32 or beyond application can not happen, maybe we will see an ecom station application instead.

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I have my key, but I did try and experiment with it. Maybe if a Win32 or beyond application can not happen, maybe we will see an ecom station application instead.

It seems that OS/2 / eComStation is still fairly popular for BBSing, which seems a little surprising to me, considering that OS/2 and eComStation are now fairly obscure OSes. I didn't think there was much OS/2 software development going on anymore. I have a copy of OS/2, but it's very hard to install on newer computers (probably due to driver issues). Do you know if eComStation
is fairly easy to get going?

Nightfox

Re: Re: Ezycom BBS
By: Nightfox to thinktank on Wed Apr 13 2011 01:04 pm

It seems that OS/2 / eComStation is still fairly popular for BBSing, which seems a little surprising to me, considering that OS/2 and eComStation are now fairly obscure OSes. I didn't think there was much OS/2 software development going on anymore. I have a copy of OS/2, but it's very hard to install on newer computers (probably due to driver issues). Do you know if eComStation is fairly easy to get going?

I hear ya, I got OS/2 Warp 3 working in a Virtual Machine, if I could get
internet it'd probably be my main OS... I ordered eComStation, but
something happened and my credit card didn't go through when I had enough
money to buy 2-3 copies in my account. Later, something or the other
happened and I bought the Warp 3 and no longer have the money for
eComstation. Any way, if there's something you need for OS/2 and it's
fairly simple, let me know. I've got Borland Pascal 7 with the OS/2
16-bit patch to make 16-bit software. I'd like to find the patch for
OS/2 Family mode applications, I know good and well they used to have one
for making family mode applications in Borland Pascal 7. Those applications
would run in either DOS or OS/2 mode just the same from the same executable.



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Re: Re: Ezycom BBS
By: John Guillory to Nightfox on Thu Apr 14 2011 01:21:22

I hear ya, I got OS/2 Warp 3 working in a Virtual Machine, if I could get
internet it'd probably be my main OS... I ordered eComStation, but

I also have OS/2 going in a VM (finally!). I used to use OS/2 occasionally in the mid-90s, and now that I've had a chance to use it again, I'm somewhat surprised that you seem to have to reboot for just about every change.. Even changing the screen resolution requires a reboot. It's worse than Windows! (although to Windows' credit, Windows has been getting better about that.)

I wonder what ways eComStation differs from OS/2 Warp 4..

eComstation. Any way, if there's something you need for OS/2 and it's
fairly simple, let me know. I've got Borland Pascal 7 with the OS/2

Thanks :)

Nightfox

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I wonder what ways eComStation differs from OS/2 Warp 4.

I used to have to support OS/2. I'd rather nail my foot to the floor.

That being said, I've played with ecomstation. It is Warp 4, with a modernised desktop and more drivers.


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Re: OS/2
By: the doctor to NIGHTFOX on Thu Apr 14 2011 09:20 pm

That being said, I've played with ecomstation. It is Warp 4, with a modernised desktop and more drivers.

According to their ads, you can run unix xwindows and possibly some 32-bit
windows apps that run in Wine from Unix in OS/2. Does it still support
running other DOS versions like in Warp 3? Eg. using the boot from
disk app on the desktop, which I fainlty remember modifying a bit to
run a disk image instead of having to have the boot disk in A:...
In the day, I used to do that to test my apps with MS-DOS 3.3, 5.0,
PC-DOS 5.0, and if I really wanted to get crazy, I got a copy of
MS-DOS 2.0 and PC-DOS 1.0 at a time...



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--- JOHN GUILLORY wrote --
According to their ads, you can run unix xwindows and possibly some 32-
windows apps that run in Wine from Unix in OS/2. Does it still suppor
running other DOS versions like in Warp 3? Eg. using the boot fro
disk app on the desktop, which I fainlty remember modifying a bit t
run a disk image instead of having to have the boot disk in A:..
In the day, I used to do that to test my apps with MS-DOS 3.3, 5.0
PC-DOS 5.0, and if I really wanted to get crazy, I got a copy o
MS-DOS 2.0 and PC-DOS 1.0 at a time..

I haven't played with it in years. I toyed with the idea of making my BBS
run on it... I think there is a port of Ruby for OS/2.

I also remember hearing about a port of Wine for it.

I might dig it out and have a play!


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Re: OS/2
By: the doctor to NIGHTFOX on Thu Apr 14 2011 21:20:00

I used to have to support OS/2. I'd rather nail my foot to the floor.

Haha, was it really that bad?

That being said, I've played with ecomstation. It is Warp 4, with a modernised desktop and more drivers.

I wonder if eComStation can be installed on modern PCs more easily than OS/2..

Nightfox

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I wonder if eComStation can be installed on modern PCs more easily than OS

I think so. I think they have written drivers for more modern stuff.


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On 4/14/2011 11:11 PM, Nightfox wrote:

I used to have to support OS/2. I'd rather nail my foot to the floor.

Haha, was it really that bad?

I used to do 2nd level support for iomega in the early 90's, one of the few on the OS/2 queue specifically (most of my calls were OS/2 or jazz drive)... probably why I'm so paranoid about redundant copies of everything now (that and a few mishaps with personal projects... thanks source-control (svn/cvs) and dropbox.

I liked it a lot back then, but when NT4 came out (late '96 iirc), I switched and never really looked back. NT3.51 wasn't as good as OS/2 imho, but NT4 passed it (think Warp 3 was current at that time).

That being said, I've played with ecomstation. It is Warp 4, with a
modernised desktop and more drivers.

I wonder if eComStation can be installed on modern PCs more easily than OS/2..

Yes... though still wouldn't recommend it if you don't *NEED* it.

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Re: Re: OS/2
By: Tracker1 to Nightfox on Sun Apr 17 2011 02:22:55

I liked it a lot back then, but when NT4 came out (late '96 iirc), I switche and never really looked back. NT3.51 wasn't as good as OS/2 imho, but NT4 passed it (think Warp 3 was current at that time).

I used OS/2 a little bit in the 90s and liked it too.. Recently I started playing with OS/2 again in a virtual machine, and now I'm not sure I like it as much as I used to. For instance, I'm used to being able to type a drive location in the GUI when browsing the computer, and OS/2's GUI doesn't seem to let you do that.. Also, OS/2 seems to need rebooting after many little
changes - It even needs to reboot if you change the screen resolution. And I thought Windows used to be bad about rebooting after changing..

I wonder if eComStation can be installed on modern PCs more easily than OS

Yes... though still wouldn't recommend it if you don't *NEED* it.

ah.. I thought it might be at least interesting to see anyway.

Nightfox

Re: Re: Ezycom BBS
By: Nightfox to thinktank on Wed Apr 13 2011 01:04 pm

It seems that OS/2 / eComStation is still fairly popular for BBSing, which seems a little surprising to me, considering that OS/2 and eComStation are n fairly obscure OSes.

Yeah, but OS/2 multitasked console windows far better than any other OS at the time. Running multiple console nodes of a BBS under Windows was tough, but not a problem for OS/2.

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Re: Re: Ezycom BBS
By: Poindexter Fortran to Nightfox on Wed Apr 20 2011 10:34:07

Yeah, but OS/2 multitasked console windows far better than any other OS at t time. Running multiple console nodes of a BBS under Windows was tough, but n a problem for OS/2.

Yeah, I remember OS/2 being able to multi-task console windows fairly well. I thought DESQView (for DOS) was fairly good at that too..

Nightfox