OS/2 - Revision history

Ray Chason: Note on running NetHack 5.0.0

2026-05-03T01:59:21Z

Note on running NetHack 5.0.0

Ray Chason: ArcaOS; placement in "outdated" section; some updates

2022-09-19T01:18:31Z

ArcaOS; placement in "outdated" section; some updates

Ray Chason: Some expansion

2020-02-06T23:08:46Z

Some expansion

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2020-02-06T04:34:28Z

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'''OS/2''' was an operating system developed by Microsoft and IBM. It was first released in 1987, and was intended to be a successor to [[MS-DOS]]. However, the success of early versions of [[Windows]] led Microsoft to abandon development of OS/2. IBM continued supporting the system until 2001.

[[NetHack 3.0]], released in 1989, was ported to OS/2. Support continued up to [[NetHack 3.4.3]], which remained the newest version of NetHack from 2003 to 2015. The DevTeam doesn't know if [[NetHack 3.6.5]] can run on OS/2.

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 ==MS-DOS port on OS/2==
-A TTY-only NetHack for OS/2 is hardly worth the effort: the [[MS-DOS]] port runs fine. The native DOS mode does not support the [[wikipedia:VESA BIOS Extensions|VESA BIOS Extensions]]; this is not a limitation for [[NetHack 3.4.3]], but is somewhat limiting for [[NetHack 3.6.6]], and will be more so in the future, because the development source has expanded VESA support.
+A TTY-only NetHack for OS/2 is hardly worth the effort: the [[MS-DOS]] port runs fine. The native DOS mode does not support the [[wikipedia:VESA BIOS Extensions|VESA BIOS Extensions]]; this is not a limitation for [[NetHack 3.4.3]], but is somewhat limiting for [[NetHack 3.6.6]], and is more so for [[NetHack 5.0.0]] and later, because these have expanded VESA support.
 A port of [https://www.joschs-robotics.de/dosbox/dosbox.html DOSBox] is available, and supports VESA BIOS Extensions.

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-'''OS/2''' was an operating system developed by Microsoft and IBM. It was first released in 1987, and was intended to be a successor to [[MS-DOS]]. However, the success of early versions of [[Windows]] led Microsoft to abandon development of OS/2. IBM continued supporting the system until 2001.
+'''OS/2''' was an operating system developed by Microsoft and IBM. It was first released in 1987, and was intended to be a successor to [[MS-DOS]]. However, the success of early versions of [[Windows]] led Microsoft to abandon development of OS/2. IBM continued supporting the system until 2001. [https://www.arcanoae.com/ ArcaOS] is the current version of OS/2 as of 18 Sep 2022.
-[[NetHack 3.0]], released in 1989, was ported to OS/2. Support continued up to [[NetHack 3.4.3]], which remained the newest version of NetHack from 2003 to 2015. The DevTeam doesn't know if [[NetHack 3.6.5]] can run on OS/2.
+[[NetHack 3.0]], released in 1989, was ported to OS/2. Support continued up to [[NetHack 3.4.3]], which remained the newest version of NetHack from 2003 to 2015. The DevTeam doesn't know if [[NetHack 3.6.6]] can run on OS/2.
-The Devteam have [https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/comments/8fgkn8/new_version_of_nethack_released/ indicated] that they plan to drop support for OS/2. However, as of 6 Feb 2020, the sys/os2 directory [https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/tree/NetHack-3.7/sys/os2 still exists] in the development code.
+The Devteam have [https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/comments/8fgkn8/new_version_of_nethack_released/ indicated] that they plan to drop support for OS/2. As of 18 Sep 2022, the sys/os2 directory has been moved to the [https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/tree/NetHack-3.7/outdated/sys/os2 "outdated" section] in the development code.
 ==Window ports supported==
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 ==MS-DOS port on OS/2==
-A TTY-only NetHack for OS/2 is hardly worth the effort: the [[MS-DOS]] port runs fine. The native DOS mode does not support the [[wikipedia:VESA BIOS Extensions|VESA BIOS Extensions]]; this is not a limitation for [[NetHack 3.4.3]], but is somewhat limiting for [[NetHack 3.6.5]], and will be more so in the future, because the development source has expanded VESA support.
+A TTY-only NetHack for OS/2 is hardly worth the effort: the [[MS-DOS]] port runs fine. The native DOS mode does not support the [[wikipedia:VESA BIOS Extensions|VESA BIOS Extensions]]; this is not a limitation for [[NetHack 3.4.3]], but is somewhat limiting for [[NetHack 3.6.6]], and will be more so in the future, because the development source has expanded VESA support.
-A port of [https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/?detail=%2Fpub%2Fos2%2Fapps%2Femulator%2Fdosbox0.74.2.zip DOSBox] is available, and supports VESA BIOS Extensions.
+A port of [https://www.joschs-robotics.de/dosbox/dosbox.html DOSBox] is available, and supports VESA BIOS Extensions.
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	[[NetHack 3.0]], released in 1989, was ported to OS/2. Support continued up to [[NetHack 3.4.3]], which remained the newest version of NetHack from 2003 to 2015. The DevTeam doesn't know if [[NetHack 3.6.5]] can run on OS/2.		[[NetHack 3.0]], released in 1989, was ported to OS/2. Support continued up to [[NetHack 3.4.3]], which remained the newest version of NetHack from 2003 to 2015. The DevTeam doesn't know if [[NetHack 3.6.5]] can run on OS/2.
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		+	The Devteam have [https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/comments/8fgkn8/new_version_of_nethack_released/ indicated] that they plan to drop support for OS/2. However, as of 6 Feb 2020, the sys/os2 directory [https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/tree/NetHack-3.7/sys/os2 still exists] in the development code.
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		+	==Window ports supported==
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		+	NetHack on OS/2, like on most other systems, supports the [[TTY]] interface. At one time, it was common practice to build [[X11]] support and install drivers to support X11 on OS/2; but the current Xorg distribution does not support installation on OS/2, and the older ones that do are much harder to set up.
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		+	The graphical shell on OS/2 is the Presentation Manager. No tile support for Presentation Manager is known to exist.
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		+	[https://pdcurses.org/ PDCurses] supports OS/2, and it should be possible to build the Curses port on OS/2.
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		+	==MS-DOS port on OS/2==
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		+	A TTY-only NetHack for OS/2 is hardly worth the effort: the [[MS-DOS]] port runs fine. The native DOS mode does not support the [[wikipedia:VESA BIOS Extensions\|VESA BIOS Extensions]]; this is not a limitation for [[NetHack 3.4.3]], but is somewhat limiting for [[NetHack 3.6.5]], and will be more so in the future, because the development source has expanded VESA support.
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		+	A port of [https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/?detail=%2Fpub%2Fos2%2Fapps%2Femulator%2Fdosbox0.74.2.zip DOSBox] is available, and supports VESA BIOS Extensions.

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