Experiencing IBM OS/2 Warp 4

where can I downlod it for free dear? can it run sound blaster emulator?

Long file names has been a feature of OS/2 on any drives formatted with the HPFS (or later JFS) file system. If you formatted your hard drive with FAT then you're limited to 8.3. The one other limitation is that if you're running Windows 3.1 applications, they are limited to 8.3 file names, because that's all that Windows 3.1 could handle. There is even an application that was written for OS/2 which will convert Windows 95 long file names (for people who were running Win95 and OS/2 in a dual boot configuration) to OS/2 Extended Attributes so that you would see the Win95 long file names in OS/2.

Bonus points for recording this with potato camera.

I CAN’T get over that extremely loud sound for opening and closing a window. What were they thinking

Nice video. OS/2 had long file names years before Windows 95, but you have to format the disk using the HPFS filesystem. Win-OS/2 is not really emulated. It runs actual Windows 3.11 in a Virtual DOS Machine, which uses the virtual 8086 mode of the 80386 processor. The default sound effects in OS/2 are annoying, but they can be changed or even better turned off in OS/2's System Settings in the Sounds panel.

OS/2 was capable of long file names. But you can't have spaces. You need to have saved it as IBM-Works-Test-Document. The error was due to having spaces in the name.

Why are all mid-late 90s OS sounds so obnoxious? Lol.

IBM Warp feedback beta user in 1993. Right up till Win7, Warp was FAR superior.

Warp was up there with Solaris OS.

Why couldn’t you show me the Shutdown Sequence?

I use to work in the IT department at 3COM Corporation back in the 90s. There was this one guy who was a die-hard OS/2 user. Refused to use Windows and UNIX.

I think I like best OS/2 version 3; it's much more closer to the early nineties style of powerful operating systems such as Sun Solaris 2.6. I really enjoy writing in my OS/2 powered "Panzerkraftcomputer" ThinkPad 380E. Congratulations for your successful OS/2 installation. It's so difficult when not having the compatible hardware. I tried two years ago to install OS/2 v. 4 in Compaq EN 4000 (Pentium II @ 266), which kept randomly freezing.

Download link???

Long filenames are supported, but not with spaces. Your long filename had spaces in it.

You use the document templates by selecting one then dragging out a new document, that you can place in any folder, including the Desktop

Your choice of FAT affected the filenames. HPFS filesystem would have allowed it.

In OS/2 desktop go to programms -> Multimedia -> Movies :O!! TILE VIEW!!

There is a version of OS/2 Warp 4 that had three floppies and the rest was installed from the CD. It beats inserting over 40 floppies.

Windows 95 is a mere copy of OS / 2 Warp

i never knew OS\2 had a startup sound

lol at "You have not full screen support". Reminds me of the infamous "All your base are belong to us".

BUT I DON'T EVEN LIKE A SCREEN FULL OF ICONS

DON'T CARE MUCH FOR THE SOUNDS

I don;t know if you noticed, but when you minimize a window/program in OS/2 Warp, the icon is highlighted in a square box on the desktop

You know, would be nice if modern operating systems still had cool sound schemes.

I'm surprised you didn't try 3D Ultra Pinball in the Windows 3.1 session of OS/2.
Anyway nice video

I like the video

Win-OS/2 does support Win32s despite Microsoft's attempts to break it. There are instructions online for how to install it. There are also better sound drivers as well, Creative actually shipped OS/2 drivers for the SoundBlaster 16 and AWE series that supported Win-OS/2 as well.

I'm used on a Compaq Presario 4712

I think Bach was on Windows 95.

I guess I'll also have to try IBM OS/2 for the first time in VirtualBox.

People that used OS/2 must have gotten a lot of headaches from all the unnecessary sounds that thing makes. Also, that Pinball game looks more fun and is a lot more playable than the free pinball game that came with Windows Me.

Those minimize and maximize window sounds get annoying after a bit. I wonder if kids back in the day were accused of wasting time playing games when they were just using the computer normally.

Would this work on a modern computer?

I installed it on a Pentium 3 class generic laptop from 2001. Couldn’t get video and sound support as the Maestro 2e and ATI Mobility 128 might’ve been too new for it.

Warp 4's sounds are way over the top compared to Warp 3. Also, I'm pretty sure OS/2 is capable of handling long filenames, but that might require OS/2's native HPFS filesystem, which comes with some compromises like not being able to run Windows 3.1 on OS/2 on an HPFS partition. I don't remember how it all works, as it's been years since I tried out Warp 3. Recalling a keynote I saw of OS/2 2.0, it does have some pretty impressive capabilities, including the ability to allow the use of more than 640KB of conventional memory in a DOS window.

Great experience video man!