>And: What have I to pay for JunkSpy?
We will announce that next week.

Also let me take this time out to say that there will be an updated version
available very soon. I'm just finishing up the audio pieces of the sequencer which now allow for audio streaming from/to hard-disk. What that means is users will be able to record and playback audio pieces that are as a big as their hard-drive can hold! So keep your eyes peeled for it. It should be out during the first week of December.

After the declarations of IBM I decided to migrate to Linux. The source code is now available under GPL license, in the hope that somebody will want to continue it. (...) Sorry.

Recently I contacted two former OS/2 developers, whose (very good) products are mostly forgotten now. They are no longer interested in continuing development, and they gave me the sources, which I'm now donating to anyone interested, because I have no time to do it myself.

Ideally, I would give the sources to Netlabs, but I thought it would be good to let it be known to other developers.

*I'll choose who to give them to.*

The first program is PageMage, a very good and very promising (at the time of its demise) virtual desktop program. At the time of its demise, PageMage was at the fourth beta, quite useful and quite stable. The sources include beta 3 (more stable) and beta 4 (more features).

The second program is WPSBackup, a very good program to archive you OS/2 Desktop. WPSBackup was a shareware program, but I'll donate the sources ONLY to someone who gives me warranty to remove the locking code and release a freeware version (NOTE: I was a registered user). WPSBackup is works well with many Warp 4 installations, but in some cases it fails reporting a failure in copying OS2.INI. The real error message is "Failed to enumerate keys for appl:PM_Workplace:Location". Since WPSBackup is a good and snappy tool (had to recover my Desktop a couple times: it worked very well), I'd love to see it revamped.

Both the authors of Pagemage and WPSBackup ask that they're remembered in the docs of the new (eventual) application, and that they're not held responsible for what people may do with their sources.

So, contact me if you're interested at: criguada@tin.it

Monday, November 22, 1999 @8pm EST [0100GMT] with the new members of Warpstock Board of Directors!
VOICE invites you to attend a special Speakup dedicated to our favorite and yours Warpstock!

This Speakup is in #voice on the WEBBnet.
For irc servers around the world see http://www.webbnet.org.

VOICE Liason officer Judy McDermott reports the Board is excited and intent at the prospect of providing the International OS/2 Community a rather unique and informative session with the following Topics:

1. Introduction of the new Warpstock Board of Directors
2. Warpstock 99 wrap up
3. Discussion of Warpstock 2000 bid process

Should you need more information on using the webbnet or IRC assistance in general, information is available at http://www.os2voice.org/meetinginfo.html 24hrs a day!

VOICE would like the thank the Warpstock Board of Directors for taking their valuable time on Monday, November 22 @ 8pm EST [0100GMT] to be our guests for a Speakup!

So Hookup! Speakup! Remember that's Monday , November 22 8PM EST [0100GMT]
This speakup promises to be a power packed session so come early and get your front row seats in #VOICE on the WEBBnet for a list of servers.

I downloaded release 19991112 of ODIN32 and had succes with ACROBAT DISTILLER 3.02!!! Typed PE ACRODIST and Distiller Window showed up.
Loaded a Postscript File and converted it to PDF in OS/2. Thank god odin! Great Work!

Write your own joystick device driver for OS/2 and you could win a Gravis Gamepad Pro and earn the respect and gratitude of OS/2 gamers around the world! With the many new games available and the advance of game controllers there arises a need for a better joystick device driver than IBM's advanced joystick device driver. Support for new controller features, such as 8+ buttons, will greatly enhance the OS/2 gaming experience for gamers as well as developers.

This is a first preliminary announcement about a business OS/2-conference in Mexico.

All OS/2-related presentations/contributions are welcome.

We hope the conference will help promoting OS/2 in Mexico. The focus of the conference will be on specific business solutions where OS/2 is absolutely the superior platform.

In particular, the Managed Client Solutions will be a cornerstone topic of the conference.

We are very happy to announce that Serenity Systems is willing to participate as both exhibitors and presentators, and to support us in all important aspects of the event!

The conference will take place in Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, a beautiful resort on Mexican Pacific Coast, during approx one week of the next spring or autumn (say May/June or September 2000). We would like to avoid the high tourist season.

We plan to publish the proceedings of the conference. We also plan to organize some OS/2 mini-sessions in Mexico City, after the main conference.

If you feel enthusiastic about coming to Mexico and participating in this warped event (any way you like) please feel free to tell us! We would like to make a preliminary estimate of how many people would come.

We are in the process of negotiating the best pricings with the hotels (if everything goes fine, do not expect to pay more than 90USD per day in an excellent hotel, food included).

For any questions, you can write either to me or Carlos de Luna from Mati a Mexican ISP organization.

Contact: Robert Rosenwald
Smack! version 2.0 development on hold.

Perfect Niche Software, Inc., was eager to provide Smack! 2.0 beta for demonstration at Warpstock 99, but due to the serious bugs discovered in IBM's development environment, was unable to meet this goal.
Development of Smack! v. 2.0 for OS/2 has been put on hold until these bugs in IBM's development environment have been fixed.
Several of our current Smack! customers have expressed that they are 'looking forward to v. 2.0 with great anticipation'. We regret that we have had to take this step in the final development stage, but in order
to maintain our high standard of quality software, Smack! v. 2.0 will not be released until these standards are met. Smack! has been described as a 'must have' software tool. Smack! v. 2.0 will be a FREE upgrade for current users of Smack! v. 1.0 and above.

Der Warp Server, in der aktuellen Version als »IBM Warp Server for E-Buisiness« angeboten, ist rasch erklärt: Er bietet in etwa den doppelten Funktionsumfang eines NT-Servers, läuft anderthalb mal so schnell wie ein NT-Server und stürzt dabei allerdings wesentlich seltener ab.

"Seattle, 02. Okt. - Der US-Software-Hersteller Microsoft hat die Preise für die verschiedenen Varianten seines neue Betriebssystems Windows 2000 veröffentlicht. Danach wird es bei Windows NT, das hauptsächlich von Unternehmen genutzt wird, einen Preisanstieg von elf Prozent geben, teilte das Unternehmen am Montag in Seattle mit. Der Nachfolger von Windows 95 und 98 werde dagegen nicht teurer. Die bereits mehrmals verschobene Markteinführung des Betriebssystems wird voraussichtlich Mitte Februar sein. (...)
Private Anwender von Windows NT könnten ihren PC oder Notebook für umgerechnet 270 Mark, also ohne Preisaufschlag, aufrüsten, erklärte Nash. Für den Nachfolger von Windows 95/98 müssten die Kunden etwa 400 Mark zahlen. Microsoft erwartet Nash zufolge, dass die meisten Privatnutzer sich gleich einen neuen Computer mit dem dort installierten Windows 2000 zulegen werden."

Development on v3.0 of MainActor/2 has been cancelled due to software tools problems. They do seem to still be keen on OS/2, so I'm sure any help they can get would be appreciated.
Below is the discussion at MainConcept's site posted 31 October 1999 11:58:
sorry to say that you are right and we have cancelled v3 due to many problems with VisualAge v4 for OS/2. We are focusing on Qt for later MainActor versions. Sorry, maybe there will be a way to get the Qt version running under OS/2. There are ways to get X Applications to work and we will look into this.
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Markus Moenig
markusm@mainconcept.de

The posting was not reviewed by us and is a bit misleading. We do offer customized installation services for Warp Server for e-business where we can assist the customers in installing only those components that they need. In some cases, the customers want to kernel, LVM, and JFS .... but not much more. So we assist them in the use of custom install (attended and unattended) to achieve the desired end content. But ..... the pricing for the software license is no different than the normal server. They may qualify for discounts based on Advantage points but the tables are no different than for the server solution. We do not have an Aurora client pricing model.
Sorry for the confusion!!!!!