Hi, Dane.

-=> Dane Walther spaketh unto All <=-

 DW> I was curious if anyone knew the best and cheapest way to get a hold
 DW> of the HOBBES OS/2 CDROM with all of the compilers and what-not... 
 DW> I'm assuming that it costs around $30-40, and that they have both
 DW> compressed and uncompressed versions...

I just got the Hobbes Archived edition today, I ordered it from the Public
Domain and Shareware Library for 21 Pounds Sterling. You may well be better
off ordering it direct from Walnut Creek though (voice 1 510 674-0783,
email info{at}cdrom.com).

The uncompressed version lets you run stuff off the CD, but has less on.

 DW> Has anyone used these, and how do they run under OS/2 v3?

Since this is OS2PROG I assume you mean the compilers, not Hobbes itself...
The version of EMX on the disk I got is 0.8h, which I have used and works
okay, although 0.9a is available now, so I think I've been sent an
out-of-date Hobbes (well, it does say August 94 on the cover). GCC/2 is
also on the CD; I've had bad experiences with that before, although I think
I had an incomplete installation. There's also a sort of C interpreter for
doing scripting in, and a Pascal compiler or two (none of which I've
tried).

There may well be some other compilers on it, but I haven't searched in any
great detail yet.

Andrew.

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