Virtually Fun

the account from my blog

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The only thing left for us is to pray.
Pray for the safety of our families,
for our countries, for our planet.
May God forgive us and protect us.

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@falken_cat @OSNet_cloud In Scotland if I ask for any sauce it must be UK curry. all the time. curry on fish, chips, mashed potato's, pasta... Like wtf?! how does tartar sauce sound like curry?
But I think it's brain auto-complete too.

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@falken_cat @OSNet_cloud It's what always worried me about French & Spanish is that it's so easy to 'sound right' in foreign ears but be so wrong... In chinese it's just radically different meanings, so you just speak jibberish.

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@SathyaBhat Welcome to Asia... I could tell you but you'd blush.

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@falken_cat @OSNet_cloud I'll never forget my first Alfajor... Which really has an unfortunate English sounding Alpha-.... lol

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Me checking up on Chat GPT as it grinds OS/2 emulation into Hyper-V Virtual Machine Platform, and it's just gone to lunch... new version of Chat GPT?

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@BillHeyman OfficeVision, now that's a name I've not heard in a LONG time. I think at amex we bought everything IBM would sell us and more. lol

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So since were running OS/2 programs on Windows, and I know it runs on crossover, the next logical step is to package it up and put it on Boxed Wine!
https://t.co/u2q44Bhbgo
Hopefully cloudflare caches this! lol
it'll start you off in a CMD prompt.. a new 32bit native CMD prompt. Ive had AI add ps/kill command history and tab completion! demos, are in the demo directory, and if the EXE is flagged as a Presentation Manager program it'll automatically start it in that mode, so no messy consoles!
Neko gets confused under boxed wine, and runs away... otherwise everything else seems okay!

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for sure, and the whole OMF vs COFF/PE thing. Although I'm not sure why I never tried to output the assembly and get MASM to accept it.. it was like 6 sed scripts. But then again an idiot like me with multiple Ghz available vs a 486 at 33Mhz at best..
What I found was odd after finally getting a ddk iso is that the msc 6/386 was still on there.. I guess quite a lot of the kernel remained MS C/386 6 in order to not break it

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@BillHeyman Thanks!!!
This is the kind of impossible to get 1st hand knowledge that is otherwise ... impossible to get lol!

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@falken_cat @OSNet_cloud I read it 💯 like mother... Lol 😂 what an unfortunate company abbreviation!!!

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yeah I am 100% sure they are!
If going through the hoops of magic to get a 3rd party subsystem was a thing I'd be doing that... But that's never going to happen.
I guess in reactos it's possible to just add another subsystem, but OS/2 would be back to the burner, I kinda like going through Win32 process API for now, and a Hyper-V process for a v2 to bring OS/2 to Windows... in a wine kinda way.

I've got to find what was the OS/2 2.0 GA sdk... what compiler/clib was it from IBM.. I know get a time machine lol As fun as it is using MSC from 1991, that libc feels more like 1989.

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@ArmchairAdml it'd be more alarming to feed the script to an ai and have it re-act it out dead pan, and serious.
fml

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@falken_cat @OSNet_cloud id only seen the ms cobol in the wild and it's 16bit... is microfous available as a 32bit os/2?

If so can you DM me a 32bit hello world? asking for an AI that needs OS/2 hello worlds...

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@BillHeyman I guess at some point Ill have to get the AI to remove Win32 calls where available and call the ntrtl ... so it'll be more like the NTOS/2 of 1990... lol

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@SamTechien I know someone with a 2060 on a P4...

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yes, and it's all ai coded, and I'm well aware at best "I'm helping" ... by asking questions, and setting small milestones.

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@brockpierson but mix tapes were on....tape.

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@ChoochSkookum I saw a 3060 12gb for 255GBP and I was really tempted...
my 2070 died, and Im just rocking a 1080ti these days

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@AnnaDsays Kevin just needs one more sausage. plz.

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@dj_matej you'd have to ask @neilrackett

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This is pretty amazing! a £36 cartridge for the ST that'll take over the ST as a parasite/tube style co-processor! Of course it run DooM! This is too cool!

[Neil Rackett @neilrackett]

Yes, the @SidecarTridge Multi-device is brilliant, but can it run #DOOM?

#AtariST #SidecarT #CanItRunDoom