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I spent a lot of time with OS/2 Warp 4 and eComstation before buying it. I loaded it onto a Dell Inspiron 5591 and the two things that don't work are the touchpad and the network adapter. Installation and booting went better than I expected. I am sure I will get those problems resolved soon.

There is a hardware supported list on Arca Noae's site and I am working to see if I can build a modern system with supported hardware.

I also installed it on Virtualbox and it works 100% with no issues there. I can even start it with 4GB of RAM. OS/2 Warp 4 won't start with more than 2GB enabled. I am looking at setting up a website for progress. There are a lot of OS/2 related sites and forums but I haven't found a single one that documents all the problems I have solved. The biggest one was the Arca Noae package manager set up and getting EMX to work correctly.

The one major drawback on Virtual box is scaling doesn't work at all and you have to pick a resolution and reboot for it to take effect. On my Debian Virtualbox deployment I hit the button to full screen it scales the resolution perfectly.

I spent a lot of time with OS/2 Warp 4 and eComstation before buying it. I loaded it onto a Dell Inspiron 5591 and the two things that don't work are the touchpad and the network adapter. Installation and booting went better than I expected. I am sure I will get those problems resolved soon. There is a hardware supported list on Arca Noae's site and I am working to see if I can build a modern system with supported hardware. I also installed it on Virtualbox and it works 100% with no issues there. I can even start it with 4GB of RAM. OS/2 Warp 4 won't start with more than 2GB enabled. I am looking at setting up a website for progress. There are a lot of OS/2 related sites and forums but I haven't found a single one that documents all the problems I have solved. The biggest one was the Arca Noae package manager set up and getting EMX to work correctly. The one major drawback on Virtual box is scaling doesn't work at all and you have to pick a resolution and reboot for it to take effect. On my Debian Virtualbox deployment I hit the button to full screen it scales the resolution perfectly.

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It looks interesting. I have a need to get a bunch of old 16-bit Windows and DOS programs back up and running, but these are music and synthesizer related programs which have a lot of programming tricks in them to get hardware to behave in a more raw and direct way than normal OS support allows. Some of those programs involve direct floppy drive timing manipulation (to read/write non-PC formats used by some synths and samplers) and others use ASPI and SCSI to interface with music devices that support SCSI. I have my doubts that ArcaOS could make those work properly given the hardware support is limited, but it would be great if it did work so I could get my older music gear back up to full spec. Not sure about dropping $139 just to try it out and find it doesn't work though. Also there are some jewish names involved in the product/project that make me more wary.

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blah blah blah crawl into a grave

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I would suggest going the MS-DOS 7.1 China DOS Union with Windows 3.11 for Workstations. I have another VM set up focusing on DOS and Windows 3.11 software.

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I would suggest going the MS-DOS 7.1 China DOS Union with Windows 3.11 for Workstations. I have another VM set up focusing on DOS and Windows 3.11 software.

I'm not looking to build an old computer, load old an OS and deal with all the old hardware software issues. I'm looking for a modern bridge between more recent hardware and old software. I don't want to deal with the cost and maintenance associated with vintage computer hardware. I just want to have the ability to run some software that has no modern equivalent on any current OS. I've lived without it, but it would be nice to have it available again without high cost and jumping through hoops to get there.