[HN Gopher] Hobbes OS/2 Archive: As of April 15th, 2024 this sit...
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Hobbes OS/2 Archive: As of April 15th, 2024 this site will no
longer exist
Author : linker3000
Score : 63 points
Date : 2024-01-09 17:55 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (hobbes.nmsu.edu)
(TXT) w3m dump (hobbes.nmsu.edu)
| dmitrygr wrote:
| Someone should alert archive.org to make sure they have a
| complete mirror.
| mattl wrote:
| I mentioned it to Jason Scott on Bluesky.
| h2odragon wrote:
| Pity. It was a major resource for a few hobbyists, and
| professionals sadly stuck with poor choices. Props to those who
| pulled it together and kept it up this long.
| glhaynes wrote:
| Just a few months ago I came across some reference to Hobbes and
| it reminded me of my early-'90s OS/2 but pre-internet days, when
| I'd often see references to "Hobbes" but, like "the internet", I
| didn't quite know what it was.
| LorenDB wrote:
| I've alerted r/DataHoarder to the situation :) I expect some
| interested person will create an archive on their personal server
| like I plan to.
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/192p8jc/the_ho...
| brian_herman wrote:
| Thank you!
| LorenDB wrote:
| I'm now httrack'ing the site. If anybody reads this after April
| 15, I'm probably not going to be around to read your comments,
| but you can hit me up on Matrix if you need a copy:
| @lorendb:nheko.im
|
| If you're reading this before April 15 and need a copy, get it
| yourself.
| mike_d wrote:
| Please please please only hammer the site if you intend to
| create a public mirror. While I appreciate the DataHoarder
| mentality (I am one as well), when sites announce they are
| going offline don't send hundreds of rabid nerds when that
| bandwidth is better spent on making sure public archivists can
| get everything.
| rilindo wrote:
| This brought back memories when I was an OS/2 User. I miss that
| desktop.
| squarefoot wrote:
| Likewise. The presentation manager was much more advanced than
| Windows, and aside the infamous single queue "bug", a lot more
| stable. I never wrote software for OS/2, aside some playing
| with the C compiler whose name I can't recall now, but I used
| OS/2 as a better multitasker for DOS instances. At that time I
| was writing a database software in Clipper that I adapted to
| work for two shops (books and furniture) and needed to have in
| both places two DOS machines communicating over NETBIOS, where
| both would work as sales terminals but only one of them would
| keep the db, indexes etc. The customers had two machines, and
| also did I, but I wanted to speed things up so I tried to open
| multiple DOS windows on a single machine and let them share the
| same directory emulating the NETBIOS shares environment, so
| that I could for example compile both client and server on the
| same machine off the same code base to keep code changes
| consistent in case I was for example changing common structures
| etc. Turns out that OS/2, after enabling something to allow
| data sharing between DOS instances (can't recall which option
| or setting), not only worked but was a lot more stable than
| Windows 95 at that; for some reasons Win95 appeared to work for
| a while, only to crash in multiple ways shortly after, while
| OS/2 never had a hitch, so after realizing that Windows wasn't
| an option I ditched it for good using only OS/2. Good times.
| neverartful wrote:
| The infamous "SIQ" problem is synchronous (not single) input
| queue.
| neverartful wrote:
| Regarding compilers, IBM had their C Set/2 compiler and then
| later the VisualAge C++ one. Borland also produced a C++
| compiler and IDE as well.
|
| Funny that you should mention Clipper because I developed
| Clipper software too that got to be too big (memory
| requirements) for DOS to handle without doing crazy tricks.
| At that point, I sucked it up and transitioned it to OS/2 PM.
| I wrote the GUI front end in Watcom's VX-REXX (an excellent
| product) and the back-end in C and using DB2/2. Fun times!
| andrewstuart wrote:
| Be nice if they zipped it up and offered a download link for the
| entire site.
| mike_hock wrote:
| Or upload it to archive.org themselves. In their own interest.
| Instead of inviting hoarders to hammer the server with
| crawlers, upload it once and say it's already there.
| rezmason wrote:
| If you hated Windows in the nineties and you're feeling
| sentimental, seems like there's plenty of anti-Microsoft stuff in
| there for old time's sake
| pengaru wrote:
| Weird, they even still have recent additions:
|
| https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/?path=%2Fpub%2Fnew
|
| Edit, for posterity, as this site's demise is imminent,
| /pub/new's present contents: Directory: /pub/new
| Name Description
| Type Upload Date ../
| (to /pub)
| (dir) assoccls4.wpi WPS class
| that implements the "Become" functionality for file objects per
| drag and drop [Detail] application/octet-stream 18.74 KB
| 2024/01/03 assoccls4.wpi WPS class
| that implements the "Become" functionality for file objects per
| drag and drop [Detail] application/octet-stream 18.74 KB
| 2024/01/03 LabelA_2-00b.zip LabelA 2.00
| beta (2004-12-09) [Detail]
| application/zip 417.38 KB 2024/01/06
| Agena_3-9-1.wpi Agena is a procedural
| programming language [Detail]
| application/octet-stream 10.22 MB 2024/01/07
| Jd_1-10.zip Jd - A Graphical Debugger for
| Java 1.10 (1998-01-28) [Detail]
| application/zip 214.23 KB 2023/12/30 Anti-
| MS_Fun_Wallpapers_Vol-1.zip Anti Microsoft Fun Old BMP
| wallpapers Vol 1 [Detail]
| application/zip 3.07 MB 2023/12/31
| BluePortals_BigIcons_r2.zip Blue Portals theme rel 2 for
| Dynamic Icons (2023-12-31) [Detail]
| application/zip 5.25 MB 2023/12/31
| DavidsArcaOSWallpapers_Vol-1.zip David's ArcaOS Wallpapers Vol
| 1 (2023-12-31) [Detail]
| application/zip 12.54 MB 2023/12/31
| DavidsXWPBootLogos_Vol-1.zip David's XWorkPlace Boot Logos
| Vol 1 (2023-12-31) [Detail]
| application/zip 1.72 MB 2023/12/31
| FileCabinets_BigIcons_r5.zip File Cabinets theme rel 5 for
| Dynamic Icons (2023-12-17) [Detail]
| application/zip 4.54 MB 2023/12/31
| Filecabinets2_BigIcons_r5.zip File Cabinets 2 theme rel 5
| for Dynamic Icons (2023-12-21) [Detail]
| application/zip 4.76 MB 2023/12/31
| Ice_BigIcons_r2.zip Ice theme rel 2 for Dynamic
| Icons (2023-12-31) [Detail]
| application/zip 4.69 MB 2023/12/31
| LookingGlass_BigIcons_r3.zip Looking Glass theme rel 3 for
| Dynamic Icons (2023-12-31) [Detail]
| application/zip 5.16 MB 2023/12/31
| Nature_Wallpapers_Vol-1.zip Nature and Photography Old
| BMP wallpapers Vol 1 [Detail]
| application/zip 8.59 MB 2023/12/31
| Pink_BigIcons_r2.zip Pink theme rel 2 for Dynamic
| Icons (2023-12-31) [Detail]
| application/zip 4.79 MB 2023/12/31
| Red_BigIcons_r3.zip Red theme rel 3 for Dynamic
| Icons (2023-12-31) [Detail]
| application/zip 4.92 MB 2023/12/31
| WarpItUpWallpapers_1995-04-30.zip Warp It Up Wallpapers
| (1995-04-30) [Detail]
| application/zip 1.2 MB 2023/12/31 freerdp-
| wpi-20231225.zip Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client.
| [Detail]
| application/zip 1.91 MB 2023/12/31
| DG_Pointers_1-0.zip Mouse Pointers by David
| Graser (2018-12-25) [Detail]
| application/zip 161.85 KB 2024/01/01
| PasswordManager_5-0-3b.zip Password Manager 5.0.3 beta
| (2005-07-28) [Detail]
| application/zip 764.47 KB 2024/01/06
| eComStation_Wallpapers_Vol-4.zip eComStation Wallpapers Vol 4
| (2007-02-18) [Detail]
| application/zip 3.47 MB 2024/01/01
| PointerPak_1-3.zip Pointer Pak 1.3 (2024-01-01)
| [Detail]
| application/zip 316.71 KB 2024/01/01
| squarefoot wrote:
| This has been an institution for OS/2 users; they also published
| their CD by the same name, very useful when Internet access was
| uncommon or so slow that downloading so much material would have
| required an eternity.
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