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| 30.12.1999 |
| Lotus SmartSuite for OS/2 v1.5 (from Dennis J. Tuchler) |
| In an earlier mail WarpCast posted a message stating that there was some confusion about pricing and availability for Lotus SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4 R1.5. After further investigation we have confirmed the following: You can purchase SmartSuite at Indelible Blue, the LotusStore and possibly other resellers. The price, not including sales tax or shipping, for the Upgrade version (you can also buy a full version license for R1.5) is $159.00 at the LotusStore, and $152.60 at Indelible Blue. All prices are in US dollars. Also, customers should note that Indelible Blue has a note on the SmartSuite R1.5 page that reads:
Notice: Our vendor had provided us with incorrect pricing on this product. Any customers who have purchased at the higher price will automatically have their price adjusted to the correct one. We apologize for any inconvenience! -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 29.12.1999 |
| MIDI Station Sequencer 2.0 (from Christopher Hodges) |
| Just wanted to let everyone know where everything stands regarding MIDI Station Sequencer. Version 2.0 is just about complete and sports a brand new audio engine that features direct-to-hard-disk recording and playback along with full audio editing capabilities including
effects. MIDI Station Sequencer is a full-featured MIDI and Audio sequencing program for OS/2 Warp and uses the RTMIDI (RealTime MIDI) System available in Warp 4. Keep your eyes peeled over the next two weeks for the release. -> URL: http://www.dinosoft.it/~midistation/index.html -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| Opera for OS/2 (from Roderick Klein) |
| Adrian Gschwend of OS/2 NetLabs says they will release a prerelease of Opera/2. In a public post Adrian says: 'I promise the OS/2 version will be released very soon.'
Opera/2 is the long promised OS/2 port of Opera, an alternative web browser. -> URL: http://www.opera.com/ -> comments: 5 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| IBM reorganizes Software Division (from Rene Pawlitzek) |
| IBM reorganizes Software Division. OS/2 division gets John Soyring back! -> URL: http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2414315,00.html -> comments: 2 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 27.12.1999 |
| Beta Testers Needed for Dragen FTP Client (from Keith Cotroneo) |
| Many years ago I authored an FTP client called SFTP. It was a Visual Rexx product that I distributed as freeware. I have been working slowly for about three years on a new ftp client. I call it Dragen FTP. "Drag" "En" for "Drag" enabled". Dragen consists of a C core that handles FTP and a visual rexx front end. Dragen is much more flexible and powerful than sftp. I also believe that it has a unique feature set that will offer a useful contribution to OS/2 computing. The core FTP module is about three years old and very stable. The rexx interface is pretty clean. I still have documentation and some polishing to do.
I intend to distribute the product as as shareware, or "trustware." There are two versions that I need to test. The shareware implementation is fully enabled, but will involve a fairly painless user permission request to my FTP server. The pay version doesn't require this. Anyhow, I am about to the point of getting it out for some limited testing. I need some people to check out both versions and give me their thoughts. I would offer a license in consideration for your assistance. As I mentioned above, this will be a limited test period, since I have been using the product myself for about six months. So, I am looking for a few good people to help. If you would like to apply to be a Dragen FTP tester. Please, send email to me. Please include a brief statement about your experience with os/2:
-> URL: mailto:cotroneo@stny.rr.com -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 26.12.1999 |
| Joystick Device Driver Contest (from Jason Stefanovich) |
| I have received a new entry in the MAMERun Joystick Device Driver Contest from Vesa J, which adds several improvements. Vesa has also updated his standards proposal. The total value of cash and prizes is now over $300 US. If you're sitting around bored this holiday this might be a great way to help that big credit card payment in January. (smile)
What is it? Write your own joystick device driver for OS/2 and you could win $300 plus valuable prizes 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 or USB, will greatly enhance the OS/2 gaming experience for gamers as well as developers. I am looking for additional sponsors for this contest. If you would like to contribute please go to: http://home1.gte.net/stefanj/sponsor.htm Any questions can be sent to me at Stefanj@gte.net. -> URL: http://home1.gte.net/stefanj/contest.htm -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 24.12.1999 |
| Notice for Netscape/2 2.02/4.04 Users (from Mark Dodel) |
From "Network Computing Software (NCS) Support News Items" pageVerisign Expiration Information: Important Notice to Webmasters, Internet Administrators, and Users (updated December 22, 1999) -> URL: http://ps.software.ibm.com/pbin-usa-ps/getobj.pl?/pdocs-usa/fixnews.html#ns202 -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 23.12.1999 |
| OS2.org (from OS2.org-Team) |
| Sorry for the server-downtimes, but it was only one time our fault! Other German servers were also down more often in the last days.
Merry christmas for all OS/2-users and after these days we will hope that our wish from santa claus will be true: A reachable and solid system like OS/2 :-) -> URL: http://www.os2.org -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 22.12.1999 |
| 'SoftwareChoice' - Important news (from Malte Ressin) |
| "Effective January 1, 2000, all features and updates available from Software Choice will be Reserved features. Free features available before January 1, 2000 will still be free until updated." So, if you have something you need from the server you should download it in the next days! -> URL: http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/asd-bin/doc/en_us/news.htm -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 21.12.1999 |
| FreeOS - A free OS/2 clone (from Ralf Reiterer) |
| I recently surfed to OS/2 VOICE and found an interesting project called FreeOS. The goal of it is to fully replace OS/2 by an open source OS/2 clone since it seems that IBM will drop OS/2 (support) in the furture.
The project is divided into several groups e.g. kernel, WPS, WPS enhancement, command line utilities. Everyone is welcome to join this interesting project even he has no programming experience. -> URL: http://www.quasarbbs.com/daniel/freeosidx.html -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| RIPLing Windows from OS/2 Warp Server-Part 2 (from Micho Durdevich) |
| My second article about remote booting Windows from OS/2 Warp Server is available. It contains a couple of more complex constructions involving a RAM drive, and basic observations on Win98 RIPL setup. I have experimented with various Windows configurations, and the one that so
far RIPLes the best from Aurora is, somehow surprisingly, Win98 (without IE shell integration). -> URL: http://www.matem.unam.mx/~micho/ripl2.html -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 18.12.1999 |
| WebNav V.2.1 Source frei (from Robert Fuchs) |
| I have read on the site from 'JMA Technologies' (that company who had released the webbrowser 'WebNavigator' as shareware) under their 'News' since 09/22/99 the source from 'WebNav V.2.1' is free!
Maybe the developers of 'Opera/2' or 'Warpzilla' (or others) want to use it for their projects. -> URL: http://www.jmast.se/ -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 17.12.1999 |
| Odin team call for developers (from Nenad Milenkovic) |
| Since the first official release Project Odin has been further improved and the success people have with the software encouraged us to promote and recommend use of the Odin32 API as a tool for porting Windows applications to OS/2. Also, while the core team is focused on main issues, a need for some side-projects arised, that is for projects that are in one way or another related to Odin, but are (at least currently) out of the scope or the man-power of Project Odin team. Finally, but not the least important, we noted that while some Odin32 API subsets are nearing the completition, others lag substantially as no one is actively working on them.
Therefore we issue this call for OS/2 developers with some spare time in their pockets, to join us, help us or let us help them. What we suggest to you is to do one of the following: Port a Windows application to OS/2 Although it is not as common as with Linux, there are many open source applications available for Windows. In some cases they are classical open source projects, sometimes they are giveaways from a product that is no longer marketed (an older game or an application) and sometimes it's a left-over from a bankrupt company or a project. Whatever is the case, Odin32 makes porting to OS/2 as easy as it can be: we provide the API, platform, resource compiler, guidelines and active support! We may even implement or improve Odin32 API functions you need if you're unable to do it yourself! If you are, you're more than welcomed, as this is the recommended way to work with Odin32, that is: helping others, too, instead of inventing workarounds or implementing the missing functions in your own applications. And if you wonder why porting if Odin provides binary compatibility, bare in mind that with porting you may improve the code, fix bugs, adjust the application to OS/2 environment, add OS/2 specific features, etc. The initial version of porting guide is available at: http://www.netlabs.org/odin/DevelopersPorting.phtml Implement one of Odin-related projects There are couple of features and projects that are out of the scope of Odin, but that are related to it in one way or another. There is a need for that sofware, and most of it can be acomplished by extending and improving Odin. These projects are either tied to Odin's purpose or are dependant on it. Others are needed in oder to replicate some Win32 features, and we believe it's better to implement them separately, in a way that will enable them to benefit and be both used by regular OS/2 applications and reused from Odin32. Some of those projects are: providing Win16 support, enabling WPS integration of Windows Desktop folder, creating Odin32 aware taksbar and 'Start' button, implementation of Windows and Control Panel applets and NT services control panel, enabling Win32 Netscape plugins to work in OS/2's Netscape, providing default file dialogs replacement based on Odin, 'skin' support for Odin32 dialogs and windows, creation of Glide API and standardized audio mixer API for OS/2... By working on these projects you will not only help Odin but OS/2 users in general. For more informations please visit: http://www.netlabs.org/odin/DevelopersProjects.phtml Join Project Odin team Some parts of Odin32 are progressing very well, but there are some 'neglected' parts of the API that lag substantially behind the others as no one is actively working on them. These include some parts of DirectX, printing, multimedia, NetBIOS and serial port communication APIs. Some others would benefit from help, too, if you beleive that you coud not contribute to the above listed ones. The curent status of implemented API subsets can be viewed at: http://www.netlabs.org/odin/DevelopersOdin32API.phtml To join Project Odin, the first step would be to join the 'general' mailing list and establish contact with the team. You can do that from: http://www.netlabs.org/odin/ProjectJoining.phtml if you can help with the implementation of some of the core API subsets. With this announcement we invite you to join one of the most important projects for the future of OS/2 as a desktop solution. The project is making great progress and is probably the OS/2 project with the highest number of active participants at the moment, but the goal we are aiming to achieve is huge and lot of work still remains to be done. There are many good Win32 applications out there and OS/2 users would benefit if they could use them. To learn more about Project Odin in general visit: http://www.netlabs.org/odin/ Project Odin Team -> URL: http://www.netlabs.org/odin/ -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 16.12.1999 |
| WinCast/TV Update (from Andreas Linde) |
This message is taken from the WinCast mailinglist:Hello, -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| Is 'Phoenix' the new 64Bit OS/2 ? (from Gerhard Arnecke) |
| A fake or is it true? Will OS/2 live in a virtual machine under a 64bit OS (codename: "Phoenix") running on "Merced"? -> URL: http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL1299H/vnewsfe.htm -> comments: 7 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 14.12.1999 |
| FREEDB.ORG instead of CDDB (from Joerg Sievers) |
| The new CDDB(2)-protocol won´t be support OS/2, but if you want to use a internet-database for your tools, maybe FREEDB.ORG is an alternative - it is based on CDDB. -> URL: http://www.freedb.org/ -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| Joystick Device Driver Contest Update (from Jason Stefanovich) |
| I have received a new entry in the MAMERun Joystick Device Driver Contest from J Da Silva, an enhanced version of gamport.sys. The total value of cash and prizes is now over $300 US. If you're sitting around bored this holiday this might be a great way to help that big credit card payment in January. (smile)
What is it? Write your own joystick device driver for OS/2 and you could win $290 plus valuable prizes 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 or USB, will greatly enhance the OS/2 gaming experience for gamers as well as developers. I am looking for additional sponsors for this contest. If you would like to contribute please go to http://home1.gte.net/stefanj/sponsor.htm Any questions can be sent to me at Stefanj@gte.net. -> URL: http://home1.gte.net/stefanj/contest.htm -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| Happy Birthday REXX (from Gerhard Arnecke) |
| This year REXX is twenty years old. Happy brirthday! It is so young and powerfull as it was on the day of birth. We love REXX and do not want to live without it :-) -> URL: http://www.zdnet.com/computershopper/stories/reviews/0,7171,2388360,00.html -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 12.12.1999 |
| InnoVal seeking support for Post Road Mailer (from Dan Porter) |
| InnoVal is seeking an individual, group or company interested in assuming full responsibility for the Post Road Mailer. We are particularly interested in someone who will enhance the OS/2 version. Selected individual or company will be free to port the application to other platforms, sell an enhanced version of the program, or offer it as shareware/freeware on any platform.
Applicant individual, group, or company must agree to the following terms:
-> URL: http://www.innoval.com -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 11.12.1999 |
| Project Concorde, Plan to run Win32 apps under OS/2 (from Bob St.John) |
| Serenity Systems markets a Managed Client(r) product which provides significant benefits to business users. We selected OS/2 as our desktop client for many reasons and one is the broad range of application support provided.
However, we continue to receive requests to support Win32 applications. Often this request is in addition to the requirement to run Presentation Manager or WorkPlace Shell applications, which are frequently Line of Business Applications. After reviewing the product solutions available, we determined that the best response to this requirement would be a hardware modification to the workstation, enabling the system to support a host operating system and guest operating system. Release 1 of the product is anticipated to support an OS/2 host and a Windows guest. The OS/2 support includes WorkSpace on Demand and OS/2 V4 (Merlin) with support for a Managed Client, run either as a diskless RPL client or as a traditional 'fat' client. We have put an overview of this project on our web site, with an associated questionnaire which will help us through our product planning. Accessing th document requires that you have a valid log-on for the site. You can request a log on from Info@Serenity-Systems.com. Once you log on to the site, click on the Project Concorde image and, if it is appropriate, complete the questionnaire. -> URL: http://www.Serenity-Systems.com/ -> comments: 2 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 10.12.1999 |
| Two Warpstock Europe videos (from Christoph Vogelbusch) |
| There are two 'Warpstock Europe 99'-videos on my site for download: A private one and parts of the 'Neues' TV-show from the German TV 3Sat. -> URL: http://birdy.hpage.net -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 09.12.1999 |
| Junk Spy Pricing and Availability (from Sundial PR) |
| December 8, 1999 - Today Sundial Systems has announced that Junk Spy will be available for purchase on January 10th, 2000. The suggested price will be $49 including one year of automatic updates to Junk Spy's junk mail detection database (a $24 value!).
Junk Spy is new. It monitors your incoming email and identifies junk messages using a database culled from over 60,000 junk emails. At the same time you can request a free temporary license so that you can fully appreciate Junk Spy's usefulness. -> URL: http://www.sundialsystems.com/junkspy/ -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 08.12.1999 |
| Spotlight 7 available (from Detlef Schäbel) |
| Spotlight 7 is available. On the Spotlight-CD´s you will find the latest files from the ftp-sites Hobbes and Leo. -> URL: http://www.teamruhr.de/NUTZEN/spotlight.html -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 04.12.1999 |
| GNOME needs HELP! (from Christoph Vogelbusch) |
Today I got a mail from Platon:Dear users of GNOME/2 apps. Do not worry. I am working with GNOME/2 and E/2, but now I have critical problems with Orbit things. I really need yourGNOME/2 is a networkready desktop-envitonment for Xfree86OS/2 andf with all programs like financial software, office-suites, browsers, MP3-players, GIMP etc. we will also work (under OS/2) in future under OS/2 and won't pay anything... it is open source! -> URL: http://birdy.hpage.net -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 03.12.1999 |
| OS2.org downtime 12/04 !! (from Andreas Linde) |
| OS2.org will be down for some hours on saturday 4th december, because our provider will move to a new location. -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 02.12.1999 |
| OS/2 multimedia- and game programming info from IBM (from Timur Tabi) |
| It looks like IBM forgot to delete this FTP site - it appears to include lots of documentation on OS/2 game and multimedia programming. All of these items used to be part of the DevCon CD, but recent DevCons have removed some of them. I've already downloaded all the files, and I'll be extracting the best parts and uploading them to 'hobbes'. -> URL: ftp://ftp01.ny.us.ibm.net/pub/games/ -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| Odin Application Database (from Adrian Gschwend) |
| Some days ago the Odin Team at OS/2 Netlabs released the first public alpha version of Odin since the code is open source.
For those of you who still don't know it, Odin and Odin32 is an approach to get Win32 support in OS/2 (it is no emulator!). The homepage of the project is here. We are very proud to say that the project made great progress, a lot more applications are running with Odin actually, especially slim programs. A lot of Odin users reported applications, which are running on OS/2 without problems, for example:
One of the very promising applications is Lotus Notes R5, we are already able to start the application, you can find a screenshot of it at the Odin page (it's mentioned in the 'News' section). As you may know we also working on a port of the Opera webbrowser to OS/2. With Odin32 we can actually compile the whole V4.0 Win32-Sourcecode without significant changes in the code. If you are interested in our progress, check the Odin application database. You are also welcome to add your application to the database! For impatient users we have daily builds available, note that we don't support any of the Odin versions actually because progress is changing almost every day. We are not that much interested in bug reports because of this reason. But we still need more skilled developers, the more support we get the faster we are! If you think that you can support our project, get more information about how to join at the Odin page. -> URL: http://www.netlabs.org/odin/ -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| 01.12.1999 |
| Opera port to OS/2 news (from Ronald Vogelaar) |
| An anouncement on Betanews informs us that the developers are getting closer to a beta of Opera, a www browser that is being ported to, amongst others, OS/2. The news, taken from an announcement on Opera's web site (dated Nov. 25th) says that the OS/2 port is about 50% done. -> URL: http://www.opera.com -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| RIPLing Windows 95 from Warp Server (from Micho Durdevich) |
| There exists a very interesting and simple solution to set a Windows 95 diskless workstation to remote boot from a Warp Server (in other words, the whole Windows OS resides on the server). I have written a short article about that.
I would appreciate any suggestions/comments. I think the whole topic is relatively unexplored and deserves a nontrivial attention. -> URL: http://www.matem.unam.mx/~micho/ripl1.html -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| OS/2 Software Withdrawal by IBM: Further Info (from Bob Bencivenga) |
IBM posted this announcement today. It is a follow up to a previous announcement about how they are no longer distributing the older versions of OS/2 after the end of the year.'Software Withdrawal: IBM OS/2 Warp Version 3, Warp Connect,and Warp Server Version 4 -- Replacements Available (6.9KB)' -> URL: http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?it=usa_annred&on=999-377 -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
| BIOSTAR M7MKA BIOS-Update (Athlon-Patch) (from Joachim Scholtysik) |
| I got from BIOSTAR in Taiwan a new BIOS for my Athlon board M7MKA that solved the problems with memory detection from OS/2 greater 64 MB. Who also want that update can write me an eMail and I will sent the BIOS by mail. -> comments: 0 [ Version for printing ] [ Send via eMail ] |
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