OS/2 Warp

Discussion in 'Other Guest OS Types Discussion' started by LogicalVue, Jun 21, 2007.

  1. LogicalVue

    LogicalVue

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    I'd love to play around with OS/2 Warp again. Does anyone know if this is still available anywhere? Can it even be purchased or downloaded? If so, does it work with Parallels?
     
  2. dkp

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    It is called ECommerce now and is still available. And you can get it on Ebay, too. I still have every copy I ever owned starting with 1.1 through 4.something. And it runs fine in Parallels.
     
  3. Maurilio

    Maurilio

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  4. antblog701

    antblog701 Bit Poster

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    You can try eBay for OS/2 Warp, I got my copy there.
     
  5. janstett

    janstett

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    Man, I used to be a big OS/2 guy. I interned for IBM in East Fishkill, NY in 1991 and saw betas that still had Microsoft copyrights in it, and the Workplace Shell back then was a seperate install and by default you still had the OS/2 1.3 Program Manager. Man I wish I had kept that. I was so blown away by it I did an internship at Boca Raton the following year during the OS/2 2.0 launch. I met Mike Kogan (chief architect). I still have a bunch of what are probably now rare OS/2 tee shirts including the Blue Ninja, 1.3 logo, and a bunch of Team OS/2 stuff.

    I eventually lost track/interest when it was clear NT was so much better and I switched (I tried 3.1 but it was 3.5 that did it for me).

    I just installed Warp 4 and it's not the OS/2 I remember but still cool to see it running. To think how mind blowing this should be, running my Intel Mac (!) inside which an OS/2 Virtual Machine (!!) is running Win-OS2 (!!!). Geek-gasm!

    Any problems if I dig up my Warp 3 disks? Maybe even 2.0 or 2.1 for nostalgia?

    Also I guess I need to find a less archaic browser. Any tips?

    Joe
     
  6. Scrutch2001

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    You can install the latest versions of Firefox (Browser) and Thunderbird (Email). They work quite nicely with eComstation (and, I presume, OS/2 Warp 4). You might not be able to get the full functionality of some websites that use Flash 8 or other recent multimedia content (YouTube, for one), but on the whole they work quite nicely
     

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