Some news for you OS/2 fans:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/10/hobbes_os2_archive_shut_down/



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And internet archive apparenly already has backed it up.

So OS/2 fans will still have access to the files, nothing should be
lost (so I hear).
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Hello Gamgee!

11 Jan 24 07:51, you wrote to all:

Some news for you OS/2 fans:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/10/hobbes_os2_archive_shut_down/

os2site.com has a mirror.

so not a total loss... I was supprised that it's only 23gig in size.

(Yes I took the time to download everything).

No pretty descriptions etc. but the files are there...


http://m68k.vk3heg.net/hobbes/
ftp://m68k.vk3heg.net/pub/hobbes.nmsu.edu





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Gamgee wrote to All <=-

Some news for you OS/2 fans:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/10/hobbes_os2_archive_shut_down/

I read that too, but thought that most OS/2 software is dustware by now,
and you could buy a Hobbes CD-ROM and not need a download site.




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I read that too, but thought that most OS/2 software is dustware by
now,

For many it probably is, but there are still plenty of OS/2 fans in
BBSland and the retroverse. ;)



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For many it probably is, but there are still plenty of OS/2 fans in BBSland and the retroverse. ;)

Wondwr what kind of hardware they are using?

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Re: Hobbes OS/2 archive shutting down
By: niter3 to Blue White on Sat Jan 13 2024 10:37 am

For many it probably is, but there are still plenty of OS/2 fans in
BBSland and the retroverse. ;)

Wondwr what kind of hardware they are using?

I have an OS/2 virtual machine with VirtualBox that I've used on modern hardware.

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Wondwr what kind of hardware they are using?

Virtual or antique... a friend of mine handed me a boxed copy of OS/Who when
I was getting TLP setup.. I was still considering trying to find some real metal to run it on.. but ended up with 4 x virtual boxes and MS-SOD..



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I have an OS/2 virtual machine with VirtualBox that I've used on modern hardware.

I'll have to check this out....

Thanks.

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On 12 Jan 2024, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/10/hobbes_os2_archive_shut_down/

I read that too, but thought that most OS/2 software is dustware by now, and you could buy a Hobbes CD-ROM and not need a download site.

the hobbes archive has a lot of fairly modern stuff in it, mixed in with all the oldschool software. that's why older archives on e.g. archive.org might not be great. and an old purchased hobbes cdrom would have been outdated pretty quickly when it was contemporary (the incoming folder had a steady stream of new stuff even into the late 00's)

i suppose most of the newer stuff may have shifted from stuff for every category to mainly necessities (compilers, libraries, development and documentation stuff). if a new game showed up there, there'd probably be a parade.

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*** Quoting Niter3 to Blue White dated 01-13-24 ***

For many it probably is, but there are still plenty of OS/2 fans in BBSland and the retroverse. ;)

*** Quoting Niter3 to Blue White dated 01-13-24 ***

Wondwr what kind of hardware they are using?

Can't speak for anyone else, but I'm psoosting this from a BBS running on a
40 Mhz AMD 386 running OS/2. ;)

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Some news for you OS/2 fans:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/10/hobbes_os2_archive_shut_down/

I have downloaded it all. It's available at https://ftp.melin.org/os2/.


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Can't speak for anyone else, but I'm psoosting this from a BBS running
on a
40 Mhz AMD 386 running OS/2. ;)

Nice.... as of late, the retro followings has my interest.

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For many it probably is, but there are still plenty of OS/2 fans

in

BBSland and the retroverse. ;)

Wondwr what kind of hardware they are using?

I would suggest asking in the FSX_RETRO echo as there might be some folks
there who still dabble with it. I was running it on an older pentium
until a couple of years ago. It was a good platform to run a DOS BBS
under.


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Re: Hobbes OS/2 archive shutting down
By: Abbub to Niter3 on Sat Jan 13 2024 10:00 pm

Can't speak for anyone else, but I'm psoosting this from a BBS running on a 40 Mhz AMD 386 running OS/2. ;)

Sounds like a good setup. :) I also had an AMD 386DX-40 for a while. I really enjoyed that system.

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Blue White wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

For many it probably is, but there are still plenty of OS/2 fans in BBSland and the retroverse. ;)

I know some of them, and I have a OS/2 VM running at home - but since
there's most likely not been a lot of change going on, you could buy a
DVD and have an archive of it.

Rumor has it that the Internet Archive snarfed the contents of Hobbes
and has it online now.


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Spectre wrote to niter3 <=-

Virtual or antique... a friend of mine handed me a boxed copy of OS/Who when I was getting TLP setup.. I was still considering trying to find
some real metal to run it on.. but ended up with 4 x virtual boxes and MS-SOD..

I bought 2 boxes of OS/2 Warp for $5 each, couldn't pass them up - and
haven't had anywhere to install them. :(



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Abbub wrote to Niter3 <=-

Can't speak for anyone else, but I'm psoosting this from a BBS
running on a 40 Mhz AMD 386 running OS/2. ;)

That was my kit in 1992-1993 - I ran all of my stuff in one window
and created a DOS VDM with Lantastic drivers to talk to the BBS, which
was running DOS.

Those AMDs ran great - mine lasted way into the 486 era.



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Hello Blue,

13 Jan 24 08:35, you wrote to poindexter FORTRAN:

I read that too, but thought that most OS/2 software is dustware by
now,

For many it probably is, but there are still plenty of OS/2 fans in BBSland and the retroverse. ;)

\o/


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Hello niter3,

13 Jan 24 10:37, you wrote to Blue White:

For many it probably is, but there are still plenty of OS/2 fans
in BBSland and the retroverse. ;)

Wondwr what kind of hardware they are using?

my bbs runs on a P166MMX w/64MB RAM.

but you can try it on a virtualbox instance :)


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