I recently sent a mail to VMWare, asking them for OS/2 support, either as host OS, or at least as "client" OS. The reply from them was that I should follow their web pages in the future, since they were planning on expanding the number of platforms supported. They also said they had received a number of requests for OS/2 support. Now I was afraid that this was another "automated reply", so I replied to the mail and asked if this was so. One minute later I got the reply: "I must be getting good at this if my emails seem auto-response like. There is a good chance that OS/2 will be supported but I do not have a firm date. My take would be by the end of the year at the latest."

So.. I urge everyone to send a mail to sales@vmware.com, letting them know of your interest in VMWare supporting OS/2.

For those who do not know: VMWare is a piece of software that (currently) lets you run DOS, Windows95/98/NT, Linux, and FreeBSD in an emulated x86 virtual machine, all at the same time, using either Linux or Windows NT as the "host" operating system. My hope is that they also start supporting OS/2 as at least a "client", but preferably as host os, since that's the most logical thing to do, considering OS/2's superior stability and multitasking.

Warp Expo West announces Vendor100 Plan for OS/2 Software Developers

Warp Expo West has announced a very special plan for OS/2 software developers and vendors.

"We're calling it our Vendor100 plan," said Warp Expo West Chairman Rollin White, "and it is free, absolutely free, no strings attached of any type. We want to make sure that OS/2 software developers and vendors everywhere, whether they make use of one of our free exhibitor tables or not, have a presence at Warp Expo West."

The Vendor100 plan, as explained by White, is quite simple. Any OS/2 software developer of any size can have their software displayed at Warp Expo West, and any other OS/2 offering can likewise be promoted. If the developer or vendor cannot attend, the Warp Expo West staff will fill in.

"If you have an existing OS/2 software product," said White, "you can sign up for free for Vendor100. If you offer an OS/2 service of any kind, you can sign up for free for Vendor100. If you've published an OS/2 book, or you host an OS/2 oriented web site, or if you have any other product or service related to OS/2, you can sign up for free for Vendor100."

The benefits of being a part of Vendor100 are striking. "For starters, you get your product or service onto the Warp Expo West web site as soon as you sign up, so right away you're getting additional exposure," explained Carla Hanzlik, the Warp Expo West webmistress. "Then, you'll get front line exposure at Warp Expo West even if you haven't reserved one of our free exhibit tables. We'll make sure your product materials get into the hands of the Warp Expo West attendees." Hanzlik described the Vendor100 plan while she was busily designing new web pages for Warp Expo West. "If you have brochures, or a printout of your web site, or demo CDs or diskettes, or promotional items of any kind, we'll make sure those items are received by our guests and available on our special Vendor100 tables. And our staff will be at these tables to direct guests to the particular types of products they're looking for, so not a single Vendor100 product will be overlooked by any attendee."

Signing up for Vendor100 is easy. "Email me," said White, "and we'll get you signed up for free. Every attendee who comes to Warp Expo West wants to see OS/2 products and services. They want to know the large offerings, the shareware and freeware, the books and websites that will give them the tools they need and solve the problems they have."

To join Vendor100 for free, email Rollin White.

"Vendor100 will give your product or service a free presence at Warp Expo West," continued White, "and we want every single OS/2 developer and vendor to be represented there."

Steve Schiffman, the Warp Expo West facilities manager, was especially pleased with the planning he's having done for the exhibit hall and the Vendor100 displays. "We've carefully measured the rooms and located every electrical outlet and network connection," said Schiffman, "and we're making complete floor diagrams showing lighting, tables, aisles and doorways. Every exhibitor will be included in the high-traffic area, and the Vendor100 tables will be specially located to maximize their impact and to move guests past all of the exhibitors who have taken one of our free exhibitor tables."

Warp Expo West, "A Warpfest of OS/2 Excitement", is free for guests and exhibitors alike. The show takes place on September 18 in sunny Southern California.

"Vendor100 is another means for promoting OS/2 products," concluded White. "With the product literature and samples in front of the attendees and the vendors' online ordering systems in place, we hope to connect a lot of OS/2 users with the programs and services they need."

Sponsored by The Southern California OS/2 User Group.

Warpstock 99 Announces Official Hotel and Airline

The Warpstock Board of Directors and Warpstock 99 Committee are pleased to announce the designation of the Sheraton Gateway Hotel, Atlanta Airport as the official hotel, and Delta Airlines as the official airline of Warpstock 99.
The recently renovated Sheraton Gateway Hotel is a beautiful property immediately adjacent to the Georgia International Convention Center. Warpstock attendees will not have to leave the building to travel between their rooms and the conference space. The Warpstock committee was able to negotiate a very attractive rate structure starting at US$89.00 per night single or double occupancy!
For extra savings attendees can triple up for US$99.00 per night and even share a room among four people for only US$109.00 per night. Children under 18 may share their parent's room free of charge. "We can't emphasize enough" said a spokesperson for Warpstock, "that this represents not just a great room rate, but a great place to stay." The Warpstock spokesperson went on to note that the committee had visited the hotel and spent two nights there before making the decision to designate the Sheraton as Warpstock's official hotel. "Make sure you try the Southern Fried Catfish before you leave." Added the spokesperson. The special room rates will be in effect from October 13, 1999 through October 20, 1999.

For those traveling by air the Warpstock 99 Committee has arranged a special rate with Delta Air Lines, one of the worlds great air carriers. Depending on how and when you make your reservations discounts of 5%, 10% and 15% will be available. Details of the discounts will be posted on the Warpstock website.

The Warpstock 99 Committee is expecting to receive the registration codes for both the Sheraton and Delta by Tuesday, July 27. So visit the Warpstock website for the codes and additional details.

Link Guard Solutions pleased to inform users of cable modems and ADSL services that price of the SafeFire Firewall is reduced for more than 25%.

SafeFire Firewall 1.0 is a Network Address Translation (NAT)/Firewall solution for OS/2.
It is designed to work with any type of LAN-to-LAN
connection:

• xDSL
• Cable modems
• Ordinary LAN

SafeFire Firewall provides following features:

• Easy installation
• Flexible configuration
• Network Address Translation
  (masquerading)
• Full support for FTP and IRC connections, including builtin IDENT server
• Port Mapping
• Packet Filter/Firewall

Unlimited number of supported users/connections, high performance, robustness, 'on-the-fly' configuration and now reduced price makes SafeFire Firewall the best Firewall/NAT solution for OS/2.

Very soon (planned at the next week) LGS will start public beta testing of version 1.1 with many new and improved features.

IBM Sending Head Development Manager To Speak At Warp Expo West
Steven King, Development Manager for IBM's OS/2 Warp Server For e-Business and WorkSpace On-Demand products, is now a scheduled lecturer at Warp Expo West.

King is leading the IBM team that will showcase their new and existing e-Business products, all based on the OS/2 platform. The team will both present seminars on these products and demonstrate the products in the exhibit area of the show.

"OS/2 Warp Server For e-Business and WorkSpace On-Demand are very key elements of the overall e-business solutions for our customers," said King during a phone conversation from his office in Austin, Texas. "With that base platform in place, we can then build a very robust e-business solution by adding additional IBM products such as our Lotus Domino server family, IBM WebSphere for web-based applications, our extremely powerful DB2 database products, our security offerings, IBM's advanced Java technology and, of course, network computing. I'll be showing all of this in the presentations."

Rollin White, Chairman of Warp Expo West, called IBM's presence "a perfect fit" with the show's audience. "Warp Expo West guests want and need business solutions that will do exactly what IBM can deliver," said White, "and at Warp Expo West they'll be able to see these products in action, learn how to get them installed and running, and ask questions and discuss solutions directly with members of the IBM development team."

"We're developing a fully-featured web site right now for fourth-quarter rollout," said one southern California entrepreneur in the finance industry. "We're using several IBM VisualAge products plus their DB2 database, and Warp Expo will hit at a perfect time for us because our developers will be ready at that point to put all the pieces together. Having IBM right there in front of you and giving you the direct answers you need will probably save us several weeks of development time."

And Terry Warren, President of The Southern California OS/2 User Group which sponsors Warp Expo West, was also pleased that show attendees would have this opportunity to meet and speak with King. "IBM continues to add value to the OS/2 platform, the platform we have all found to be the most stable, flexible and robust of anything in the marketplace," said Warren. "With Steven's and IBM's presence at Warp Expo West, our guests will now be able to see the IBM e-business solutions that run on top of OS/2."

Warp Expo West is the free international OS/2 expo being held on September 18 in southern California.

Sponsored by The Southern California OS/2 User Group.

The Warpstock99 Board of Directors and the Atlanta Warpstock Team will be our guests on Saturday, 24 July at 1 PM EDT for a specially scheduled OS/2 Voice Speakup taking place on Webbnet via IRC.

Our guests tell us that they are planning to use the occasion for quite a few announcements regarding finalization of plans, hotel booking and travel arrangements.

VOICE members only will be eligible to compete for the prize of 1 Event Pass, 1 night in the Official Warpstock Hotel and 1 Ticket to the Saturday Evening Social Event (party) during this meeting.

Everyone planning on attending Warpstock99 or following the event online is enthusiastically invited to attend.

• neue IBM Fixpaks (Fixpak 11, Peer 8412, etc)
• erneurte OS/2 Installationsdisketten
• verschiedene Einheitentreiber

IBM Joins Warp Expo West !!

"We are extremely pleased to announce that IBM will be both a presenter and an exhibitor at Warp Expo West," said Rollin White, Warp Expo West Chairman, to a delighted OS/2 crowd of businessmen, network engineers, software vendors and other OS/2 enthusiasts attending the recent general meeting of the Southern California OS/2 User Group.

"IBM will be sending members of their national team to give our Warp Expo West guests more information on both new and existing IBM products for the OS/2 platform," continued White, "and we shall do everything we can to make sure that these OS/2 products and IBM's representatives are an integral part of Warp Expo West."

The Southern California OS/2 User Group (SCOUG) is the sponsoring organization for this September's "A Warpfest Of OS/2 Excitement - Warp Expo West".

Following the announcement, the audience was elated that IBM would be present in such force. "This shows IBM's commitment to OS/2," said Paul Wirtz, Vice President of SCOUG. "I am personally very excited."

"I've installed OS/2 on so many office machines and networks over the years that I can do it in my sleep," said one audience member during a break. "It simply never fails. It's Y2K compliant. There's a brand new version out. And IBM will be there with their OS/2 people. I'm going to suggest very strongly that my entire department attend this show."

Steve Schiffman, Facilities Coordinator for Warp Expo West, was also thrilled. "IBM's presence will certainly attract both more attendees and more vendors," said Schiffman, "and we will add as many additional rooms as necessary to ensure that all guests and exhibitors are accommodated in a comfortable, professional manner."

Warp Expo West is the free international OS/2 expo being held near Disneyland in southern California.

"This is our third annual OS/2 show," said Terry Warren, President of SCOUG, "and we've expanded it every year to keep pace with new developments in OS/2 software products, including the many new offerings from IBM. Each time IBM adds OS/2 products or increases the functionality of existing ones, we get technologically farther and farther ahead of the competition. We have the Y2K readiness that other platforms don't; we have IBM's outstanding development tools; we have their robust server and database products. The stability of OS/2 and its associated products has shown time and again that it's both a better solution and less costly to maintain, and we look forward to seeing OS/2 users and IBM join together this September for a view of the future, an OS/2 and IBM future, at Warp Expo West."

Sponsored by The Southern California OS/2 User Group.

Die brutale und offene Antwort ist: Wir werden es nicht tun. OS/2 ist eine zu aufwendige Plattform, um Notes R5 dorthin zu portieren, und der Markt ist einfach viel zu klein, um diese Investition zu rechtfertigen.

Warp Expo West, the free international OS/2 expo to be held this September, has just emailed its third weekly newsletter to all those who've registered for the event.
(The url to register and receive the newsletter is below.)

"It's important to give our future guests a steady flow of information," said Rollin White, Chairman of the Warp Expo West planning committee as well as a significant player in Warpstock 97 and the 1997 and 1998 versions of Warp Expo West. "Back in 1997, one of the things we didn't have time to do was a newsletter. Putting on two years of OS/2 shows has given us a lot of experience, and the Warp Expo West newsletter is one result."

Warp Expo West is free for guests and exhibitors alike, and everyone who registers for Warp Expo West receives the weekly newsletter.

"The newsletter isn't a huge weekly writeup," explained Carla Hanzlik, who edits the monthly OS/2 For You publication for Warp Expo West's sponsoring organization. "It's in an easy-to-read format with headlines and a quick paragraph for each, so people know we're on top of all the details and that they'll have the experience of their life once they get here."

In fact, the show's byline -- "A Warpfest Of OS/2 Excitement" -- says it all. "That's why we chose the Chapman Conference Facilities near Disneyland," said Steve Schiffman, the Warp Expo West facilities planner. "It's big enough for us to do anything we want. Did you see the picture on our web page? It's huge. We're not using the entire building, but we've already expanded the show size once and it's certainly nice to have all that space available."

The Warp Expo West web pages, complete with the free registration form and pictures of the conference facilities.

"The Southern California OS/2 User Group (SCOUG) is sponsoring this event because we care about OS/2," said Terry Warren, President of SCOUG. "We've made the show free so more people can attend the seminars and lectures, talk with the exhibitors, see the new software and meet the other OS/2 users of the world. Warp Expo West is something special, something that is for the people, the users, the vendors, the proponents, the *community* that uses OS/2."

Sponsored by The Southern California OS/2 User Group.

I see that there are some rumours about OS/2 Netlabs projects out there, including Win32-OS/2, Opera and Mame. I think it is important to let you know what is going on actually.

As you can see most of the OS/2 Netlabs pages are really out of date, this is mainly because I started studying computer science one year ago and also because OS/2 Netlabs is growing incredible.

We have a lot of new projects at OS/2 Netlabs, a lot of them are still behind the scene and because of this offical announcements are missing until now.
Currently I am working together with the guys at http://www.os2.org, they are supporting me in providing up to date webpages which will be generated with PHP3 and MySQL.

I am sure I will find the time to finish the work with the new design this summer vacation. Please understand that I can't do everything, OS/2 Netlabs is simply too big to maintain it alone and because of this I have to change some things actually. I am sure you will like the result!

Beside this I have to work to get some money, live is expensive in Switzerland :-) (If there are some very rich people out there which can support me, let me know ;-))

Now some updates:

For those of you who don't know it yet: Win32-OS/2 got a new name, it is now called Project Odin.

The XLib port (aka EverBlue) still needs more developers, if you are interested, let us know! The (out of date) Homepage of the project is located at http://www.netlabs.org/everblue/

As Marty already wrote in another message, MAME got an update. Maybe I will find some time to update the pages at OS/2 Netlabs, until then you can find the new version at Hobbes.

Some of you already know it: OS/2 Netlabs is currently working on an OS/2 port of the well known Opera Webbrowser. We use our new Odin Project to do the OS/2 port and because of this we hope to have a working version of Opera for OS/2 in the near future. More information about Opera can be found at http://www.operasoftware.com.
Please *don't* register the Windows version if you want to use the OS/2 port in the future, there will be *no* crossgrade from Windows to OS/2.

Stay tuned and enjoy the work we did, more will come soon!

Negotiations went well and the leader of the teams submits his first update as follows:

"We hope to get the Windows Source code this week, then we will use our Odin32-APIs on OS/2 to do a quick port. Our first goal is to fix the missing items in Odin32 that we can port the binary version of Opera for Windows to OS/2, then we have everything we need to recompile the Windows source on OS/2 with just a few changes. OS/2 specific enhancements will also be included in the future."

1. Schauen Sie in Ihr Archive Verzeichnis und holen Sie dort die alte Version von MIDI.SYS heraus und kopieren diese in das x:\MMOS2 Verzeichnis
2. Laden Sie MIDI Station Sequencer herunter und benutzen Sie den Treiber der dort mitgeliefert wird.

"We would need to sell around 250 Qt Professional licenses for OS/2 to cover development costs, marketing and general expenses related to this. I think this would be very difficult, because the OS/2 development community is much smaller than for e.g. Linux, Windows or Macintosh."

One professional license cost $1,550. I cannot say anything about the quality of QT, developers told me that it is great.

Crystal Space is a free (LGPL) and portable 3D engine written in C++. It supports true 6DOF, colored lights, mipmapping, portals, mirrors, alpha transparency, reflecting surfaces, 3D sprites, scripting, 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit display support, Direct3D hardware acceleration on Windows, Glide and OpenGL hardware acceleration on Windows and Linux.

Crystal Space currently compiles and runs on Linux, general Unix, Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, BeOS, NextStep, OpenStep, Rhapsody, DOS, Amiga, and Macintosh. It can optionally use Direct3D (Windows), GGI (Linux), Allegro (DOS), X11 (Unix/Linux) and SVGALIB (Linux). It can also optionally use assembler routines (GCC/DJGPP, Visual C++ and Intel only currently) and MMX if the processor supports it.

XR_W041 will be the publicly available Warp 3 fixpak. Like Fp11, it has had most of the device drivers removed. It will apply to Warp Server and Warp Server SMPO only.

XR_R041 is identical to XR_W041 except it will be a
controlled release fixpak that will apply to all versions of Warp 3. This will be available to customers who call service and are give the correct userid/password to use to gain access from the testcase server in Boulder. This is being done because all versions of Warp 3 except Server and Server SMP have been dropped from support. Customers will need a service offering of some kind (Service extension or TCO) to continue to receive support for those products so it seemed logical to no longer support them with free fixpaks.

MP3: Software-Player für Windows, Linux, MacOS und OS/2

Hi all,

I wanted to let the OS/2 developer community know how they can foster the development of new, native OS/2 applications, including SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2.

wxWindows is a free, open source, cross platform C++ GUI framework. wxWindows currently supports Windows 3.1/95/98/NT, Unix with GTK/Motif/Lesstif, with Mac, OS/2 and SciTech MGL versions underway.

SciTech Display Doctor's existing hard-coded Windows 9x user interface is now being re-written using wxWindows. This will enable users of OS/2 and
other alternative operating systems to have the exact same, full featured user interface that SciTech offers its Windows customers.

Here is where you can help. In order to get the OS/2 support completed in a reasonable time frame, we need some OS/2 gurus to help out with the wxWindows OS/2 port. If you want to participate, please contact the lead developer of the wxWindows OS/2 port, David Webster.

wxWindows will make it a piece of cake for developers to support OS/2. wxWindows enables developers who favor OS/2 to support and develop in their favorite OS, while at the same time targeting other OSs to maximize their revenue potential.

The time is right for a solution like wxWindows because many developers

are looking for ways to target Linux, Mac and other alternative operating systems to complement their Windows-based products. wxWindows allows developers not only to support all those operating systems, but OS/2 and others as well.

Thanks for your help!!

Regards,

Tom Ryan

SD contains six modules:

1. Multi-User Desktop: every user has his own desktop with folders, programs, icons, shadows, backgounds, ...
   Easy administration, 32 groups, password protection for each desktop
2. ClientLogon: Every user is - dependend on his rights - logged on the network
3. DistributedWPS: "The WPS goes with the User". For a user it is uninteresting where he will logon, he has always HIS WPS.
4. File/Directory-Protection: This module is under development. The reason is that I have to develop a filesystem but IBM did not send me any information about KPI until now.
5. TCP/IP-Package: WPS will distributed over TCP/IP, user dependend web-filters (like web-washer from Siemens)
6. RemoteLogon: Security on remote logon users

• Für private Nutzer (bis zu 3) wird es kostenlos sein (Sie bekommen einen Schlüssel um das Paket zu installieren)
• Für private Nutzer, die mehr brauchen:
  10 Nutzer: DM 50,- (das ganze Paket)
  20 Nutzer: DM 100,- (das ganze Paket)
• Für kommerzielle Nutzer:
  10 Nutzer: DM 70,- (das ganze Paket)
  30 Nutzer: DM 210,- (das ganze Paket)
  unbegrenzt: DM 560,- (das ganze Paket)