I have the Norwegian Warp 4.0 CD in a box in my parents' attic; I'll try to dig it out when I go to see them for Christmas.

IBM were so eager (understandably so) to gain market share that I simply called their Norwegian office and asked if I could have a few copies for installing in my high school's computer lab. 'Sure thing!' - days later I received a box full of retail copies along with a friendly letter suggesting I get in touch if I needed more!

If you are comfortable/allowed to use torrents, you may want to try this magnet link:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d981a11797c174ab90d5567bcb47e09da70a3451

It contains 29+GB of OS/2 related stuff, including official CDs. Just found by searching at the usual shady places, so no guarantees about contents and safety.

Thanks for raising awareness on this. I think I may have a retail box with Warp 3 in Portuguese (Brazil). I had an ISV at the time, and used to join the OS/2 meetups organized by IBM, where they regularly distributed copies to power users.

I'll try to find it next week and see if it's helpful for the folks in OS/2 museum.

edit: it seems they're looking for Warp 4; I don't think I ever saw that version. I only used 2.0/2.1 and Warp 3.

I crossposted this to the os2 reddit, as well as LinkedIn and my personal Facebook page. I used to write about OS/2 exclusively, so I'm still connected with a lot of the IBM engineers and executives. Though I would not count on them keeping every language version, any more than I kept the 300 OS/2 applications I'd acquired.

Crazy that French could be missing. It's the 6th most spoken language on Earth!

Hrm. I think I had few OS/2 boxes amongst some old games I took to sell to a video game antiquarian, and I think I left it there but they didn't seem interested in them.

Frankly I don't remember which language they were, either english or finnish. I had both the red and blue boxes (was it, with windows support or not?), and other was unopened.

I usually preferred english versions myself, as I learned computers with english, it was more comfortable with me. Also IBM had some rather odd choices on some words versus Microsoft, which could be jarring (was it Umpilevy for hard drive, as opposed to Kiintolevy or Kovalevy in most other places).

One year (must of been 1997 or so?) IBM had a crazy marketing campaign at Assembly[0], where they practically just handed out the boxes to anyone who would take them. If they had handed out finnish version, I would be surprised if they were that hard to come by.

[0] https://assembly.org/en

What is the official IBM statement on this (or MS one, as it was a joint project, right?)

I cross posted a reference to this on 2SB (https://twostopbits.com/) in case someone over there knows something that might be of assistance.

Good luck!

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Well, good luck. But how many copies of OS/2 Warp do you think were ever sold in Slovenia? Heck, there were not many sold in English speaking regions!

Perhaps a more interesting question would be: "how do I create a localisation CD?"