System info:

486DX/33

16MB RAM

Cirrus 5422 video card

Connor 120MB IDE HD, Maxtor 540MB SCSI HD (Trentor 130b adapter)

Pegasus 14.4 external Modem

Pro Audio Spectrum 16

NEC-25 external CD-ROM

Colorado 120MB tape backup drive

2 Teac Drives (3.5/5.25)

HP Deskjet 550C

"Power II" Monitor (generic Sony)

Software I run:

• OS/2 Warp for Windows
• Norton commander
• WordPerfect 6.0a
• Kinemage (protein display program)
• EMX GCC 0.9a
• IAK using slip and PPP
• My research
• SeaHaven Towers (card game)
• scrutil (screen saver)
• Alarm (from OS/2 2.1 -- does cron jobs)
• Sytos Premium
• PIG (personal inventory gatherer)
• AmiPro 3.0, 3.0a, 3.0b (all installed, all suck -- use WordPerfect)
• PMDraw
• PMJpeg (soon PMView)
• Scrap (IBM EWS screen capture)
• GhostView and GhostScript
• GnuPlot
• Livewire
• Faxworks, Person 2 Person, IBM Works (bonus pack)

Software I have had problems with:

IAK has problems at 14.4 since I don't have a 16550 UART. Solution: (weird, but) don't use the mouse while downloading. The mouse uses the same UART as the modem. The keyboard does not cause errors, just mouse movements.

Nearly every DOS game that uses dos4g.exe does not get sound.

NeuralWorks (neural network software from Kosto "Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems")

My Windows NT demo CD-ROM.

Hardware problems:

The PAS-16 uses a generic trentor scsi adaptor. The Trentor 130B is not supported. OS/2 demands to install using the PAS-16, even though the CD-ROM in on the Trentor SCSI card. Fix: change the installation disk 1 to only load the trentor scsi driver. After rebooting, change the config.sys to only install the trentor scsi driver.

Neal
nealk@tamu.edu