{"id":4085,"date":"2016-08-07T20:03:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T10:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=4085"},"modified":"2016-08-07T20:03:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T10:03:11","slug":"os2-warp-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/07\/os2-warp-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"OS\/2 Warp Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the joys of abandonware websites, you can play with some interesting things from the 1990s and before. One of those things is OS\/2 Warp. Now, I had a go at OS\/2 sometime in the 1990s after being warned by a friend that it was “pretty much impossible” to get networking going. My experience of OS\/2 then was not revolutionary… It was, well, something else on a PC that wasn’t that <\/em>exciting and didn’t really add a huge amount over Windows.<\/p>\n

Now, I’m nowhere near insane enough to try this on my actual computer, and I’ve managed to not accumulate any ancient PCs….<\/p>\n

Luckily, qemu helps with an emulator! If you don’t set your CPU to Pentium (or possibly something one or two generations newer) then things don’t go well. Neither does a disk that by today’s standards would be considered beyond tiny. Also, if you dare to try to use an unpartitioned hard disk<\/strong> – OH MY are you in trouble.<\/p>\n

Also, try to boot off “Disk 1” and you get this:
\n\"os2-wrong-floppy\"<\/a>Possibly the most friendly error message ever! But, once you get going (by booting the Installation floppy)… you get to see this:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a>and indeed, you are doing the time warp<\/strong> of Operating Systems right here. After a bit of fun, you end up in FDISK:<\/p>\n

\"os2-install\"<\/a>\"os2-1gb-too-much\"<\/a>Why I can’t create a partition… WHO KNOWS<\/strong>. But, I tried again with a 750MB disk that already had a partition on it and…. FAIL<\/strong>. I think this one was due to partition type, so I tried again with partition type of 6 – plain FAT16, and not<\/strong> W95 FAT16 (LBA). Some memory is coming back to me of larger drives and LBA and nightmares…<\/p>\n

But that worked!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"warp4-installing\"<\/a>\"os2-checking\"<\/a>Then, the OS\/2 WARP boot screen… which seems to stick around for a long time<\/strong>…..<\/p>\n

\"os2-install-2\"<\/a>and maybe I could get networking….<\/p>\n

\"os2-network\"<\/a>Ladies and Gentlemen, the wonders of having to select DHCP:<\/p>\n

\"os2-dhcp\"<\/a>It still asked me for some config, but I gleefully ignored it (because that must be safe, right!?) and then I needed to select a network adapter! Due to a poor choice on my part, I started with a rtl8139, which is conspicuously absent from this fine list of Token Ring<\/a> adapters:<\/p>\n

\"os2-tokenring\"<\/a>and then, more installing……<\/p>\n

\"os2-more-installing\"<\/a>before finally rebooting into….<\/p>\n

\"os2-fail\"<\/a>and that, is where I realized there was beer in the fridge and that was going to be a lot more fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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