Success! I use D'Bridge to pass to RG. My bbs command in D'Bridge is
cd \renegade
+renegade -B57600 -N1 -Q
This is with D'Bridge 4 and Rg v1.35 Dos.

Thanks for this, I just replicated on ArcaOS 5.1! However, I realize that
means it can only be a single node BBS, as the (virtual) COM port is
defined in D'Bridge? Is that correct?

Cheers,

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Thanks for this, I just replicated on ArcaOS 5.1! However, I realize that means it can only be a single node BBS, as the (virtual) COM port is defined in D'Bridge? Is that correct?

You paid for ArcaOS 5.1?

... A house is a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff

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You paid for ArcaOS 5.1?

I did. was pretty stoked when it came out. didn't renew though.

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On 26 Sep 2024, j0hnny a1pha said the following...

You paid for ArcaOS 5.1?

I did. was pretty stoked when it came out. didn't renew though.

Besides RG, what sre you using it for and on what hardware?

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You paid for ArcaOS 5.1?

I did. was pretty stoked when it came out. didn't renew though.

Besides RG, what sre you using it for and on what hardware?

Yeah, it was mostly BBS stuff -- I also have an instance of PCBOARD and Iniquity running. And just the pure nostalgia is a trigger for me, I
worked at a job in the early 90's where i had to use OS/2 ocassionally and
I really liked it.

Originally, I wanted to run a multi-node DOS-based BBS but didn't want to
run Windows or DOSBox + Linux, so OS/2 was fun to play around with. I
paid the $139 on impluse <yikes>.

I currently run ArcaOS on an old Thinkpad T43, and in virutalbox. I also
got Warp 4.5 running on that Thinkpad (with the help of a YouTube video,
kind of a pain). For running a BBS, it's 100% fine. Also had it running
on a more modern desktop PC build. It was a 'daily driver' for a hot
minute.

But at the end of the day, there's not much benefit (for me) to ArcaOS
unless you really need modern stuff like a browser or SMB server, or
support for modern hardware and larger screen resolutions. And it really screams on modern hardware, multi-processor, etc. But I think there's also
a copy of eComStation on Internet Archive...

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Originally, I wanted to run a multi-node DOS-based BBS but didn't want to run Windows or DOSBox + Linux, so OS/2 was fun to play around with. I
paid the $139 on impluse <yikes>.

I currently run ArcaOS on an old Thinkpad T43, and in virutalbox. I also got Warp 4.5 running on that Thinkpad (with the help of a YouTube video, kind of a pain). For running a BBS, it's 100% fine. Also had it running
on a more modern desktop PC build. It was a 'daily driver' for a hot minute.

What BBS package did you manage to get working under 4.5? I was playing around with this as well, and found VMODEM would throw and error about a DLL or some sort. Couldn't get passed that error. Also couldn't get Renegade to intialize modem...

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BY: j0hnny a1pha (21:4/158)

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|11ja|09> |10I did. was pretty stoked when it came out. didn't renew though.|07 I would love a sandbox where i can use windows 3.1, os/2 and dos apps :)



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What BBS package did you manage to get working under 4.5? I was
playing around with this as well, and found VMODEM would throw and
error about a DLL or some sort. Couldn't get passed that error. Also couldn't get Renegade to intialize modem...

Yeah, Renegade most recent releases are a no-go on OS/2, unless you use something like D'Bridge to pass the connection. Older Y2K version of
Renegade apparently works tho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrG2MUNneHc

I believe i had PCBOARD and AdeptX working on 4.5...



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Yeah, Renegade most recent releases are a no-go on OS/2, unless you use something like D'Bridge to pass the connection. Older Y2K version of Renegade apparently works tho:

I wonder why. If I still had an OS/2 box and people actually ran RG, I might care to dig into this. But the few people running RG, let along RG on OS/2 isn't worth looking into unless it something that stands out in the code.

... Magicians are a vanishing species.

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Yeah, Renegade most recent releases are a no-go on OS/2, unless you use something like D'Bridge to pass the connection. Older Y2K version of Renegade apparently works tho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrG2MUNneHc

Got'cha.

Saw this as well.

Sounds like Renegade is best to be installed under windows with NetFoss and Net2BBS at this point.

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Sounds like Renegade is best to be installed under windows with NetFoss and Net2BBS at this point.

My recommendation.

... Can you repeat the part after "Listen very carefully"

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Hi Niter3,
In a message to J0Hnny A1Pha you wrote:

Sounds like Renegade is best to be installed under windows with
NetFoss and Net2BBS at this point.

Unless a native package there really is no reason to run OS/2 anymore.
I was the worlds biggest os/2 fanboy for a looong time, so for me to say this....

The GUI was lightyears ahead of it's time if you got into the whole thing, everything was an object, etc etc. It's just not worth the hassle anymore.
I miss OS/2 at times, but once I launch a VM and realize any "modern"
programs are just poorly ported linux programs, I quickly go back to
windows. WSL runs the linux apps I want perfectly.

Between dosbox, winevdm, and other tools you can run 16 bit stuff on
windows 11 without the hassle of a full virutal machine. ie: I'm writing
this using Sempoint which is a 16 bit windows 3.1 program on windows 11.

Basically I think the only choices in 2024 are Linux or Windows if you want things stable.

Shawn
P.S. I see I jumped around in my paragraphs... I'm not gonna fix it because
I'm too lazy. Sorry.


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Unless a native package there really is no reason to run OS/2 anymore.
I was the worlds biggest os/2 fanboy for a looong time, so for me to say this....

The GUI was lightyears ahead of it's time if you got into the whole
thing, everything was an object, etc etc. It's just not worth the
hassle anymore. I miss OS/2 at times, but once I launch a VM and realize any "modern" programs are just poorly ported linux programs, I quickly
go back to windows. WSL runs the linux apps I want perfectly.

Between dosbox, winevdm, and other tools you can run 16 bit stuff on windows 11 without the hassle of a full virutal machine. ie: I'm writing this using Sempoint which is a 16 bit windows 3.1 program on windows 11.

Basically I think the only choices in 2024 are Linux or Windows if you want things stable.

Appreciate your feedback,

This is lining up with my findings so far..

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