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24.06.2006
GBM 1.41 + REXX, GBMV2 1.28, GBM File Dialog + REXX (from Heiko Nitzsche)

NEW:
----
The bitmap formats PBM, PGM, PPM and PNM (binary + ASCII) are
now supported by GBM.DLL (read and write). The GBM File Dialog
help and the documentation has been updated with all options
for these formats.


Notes for eComStation 1.2/1.2R users
------------------------------------
Please read the installation instructions. eCS 1.2/1.2R ships
with an old GBM.DLL (1.12) which prevents loading of the new
GBM.DLL (1.41). Please follow the instructions to use the new
GBM.DLL for all programs as well as for eCS WPS features like
bitmap previews.
If you cannot replace the eCS shipped GBM.DLL, please execute
unlock x:\\os2\\dll\\gbm.dll from a command line. Then override
the old GBM.DLL with the new one. Don\'t forget to reboot afterwards.


GBM.DLL 1.41 and GBM command line tools
---------------------------------------
(Public Domain)

The Generalised Bitmap Module (GBM) is a library capable of loading and
saving bitmap files in a variety of popular and less popular bitmap file
formats. Programs may be written to use this code, and thus be able to
access a variety of file formats without actually knowing what format
the pictures are in, or any details about file format itself.

In this version, extended BMP, PNG, TIF, PBM, PGM, PPM and PNM support
is additionally included. PNG and TIF support also 16, 32, 48, 64 bpp
colour depths with/without alpha channel. PPM supports also 48 bpp
colour depth. BMP supports also OS/2 RLE24 and Windows 16/32 bpp RGB
and BITFIELDS formats.

It comes with a useful set of command line bitmap manipulation tools.

Get package gbmos2_141_bin.zip from Hobbes.
It is also included in the WarpIN installation package (see below).


Enhanced GBMV2 Version 1.28
---------------------------
(Public Domain)

GBMV2 is a fast and simple bitmap viewer and editor for the
OS/2 and eCS Presentation Manager.

Enhanced release of the GBMV2-Viewer from the GBMOS2PM package:
* An English and a German version of GBMV2 is included.
* An English and a German version of the GBM file dialog is included.

GBMDLG.DLL has been extended by:
* Bitmap preview within the file dialog
* Redesign to fit eComStation file dialog style

Several extensions for keyboard shortcuts have been added.
Both parts got new resources that better fit to the Warp 4
and eComStation look & feel. Resources for fonts 8.Helv and
9.WarpSans for both, German and English are available in the
sources package.

Get package gbmos2pm128_bin.zip from Hobbes.
It is also included in the WarpIN installation package (see below).


GBM.DLL REXX adapter library (GBMRX 1.0)
----------------------------------------
(Public Domain)

GBMRX.DLL is a REXX adapter DLL for OS/2 and eComStation which
REXX programs may use to load or save all bitmap file formats
supported by the GBM.DLL (to/from a file).

Almost full feature set of GBM.DLL is provided by the REXX API.
I/O remapping is not supported due to language restrictions.

Get package gbmos2rx101_bin.zip from Hobbes.
It is also included in the WarpIN installation package (see below).


GBM File Dialog REXX adapter library (GBMDLGRX 1.01)
----------------------------------------------------
(Public Domain)

The REXX adapter DLL allows REXX programmers to use the GBM File
Dialog in their programs. It requires availability of GBM.DLL
and the GBM File Dialog DLLs (GBMDLG.DLL and GBMDLG.HLP).

Get package gbmos2rx101_bin.zip from Hobbes.
It is also included in the WarpIN installation package (see below).


The new homepage of GBM for OS/2 and eCS
----------------------------------------
http://heikon.home.tlink.de

It provides:
- reworked documentation (now also included in the download archives)
- developer tutorials on how to use GBM libs in your own programs
- download of all sources and binaries


What\'s new compared to GBM.DLL 1.40, GBMV2 1.27
-----------------------------------------------

GBM.DLL:
* extended PPM support (24/48 bpp, types: ascii P3 and binary type P6, multipage type P6)
* extended PGM support (8 bpp , types: ascii P2 and binary type P5, multipage type P5)
* new PBM support (1 bpp , types: ascii P1 and binary type P4, multipage type P4)
* new PNM support (same subformats as PBM/PGM/PPM, multipage PNMs)

GBM.DLL, GBM command line tools, GBMV/GBMV2, GBM File Dialog
* Modified compiler options for OpenWatcom build after profiling.
Performance benefits are between 5 and 20 percent depending on the
image format and the specified options. Overall performance on my
Athlon64 3000+ is now close to the IBM VAC build.

GBM File Dialog
* Updated online help to reflect newly supported PBM, PGM, PPM and PNM formats

GBMRX, GBMDLGRX:
* They have been recompiled with slightly different compiler options
but there was no functional change. If you want the recompiled versions
get the WarpIN package which has them included.

For more details please have a look at the change log in the included
documentation or at my GBM homepage (see above).


Download from Hobbes
--------------------
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=gbmos2rx101_bin
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=gbmos2_141_bin
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=gbmos2pm128_bin

WarpIN installation package (GBM.DLL, GBM command line tools, GBMV2, GBMRX, GBMDLGRX, Doc):
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=gbmos2pm128_gbm141_bin_wpi

Full source code:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=gbmos2pm128_gbmos2_141_src

If the links don\'t show anything, the packages might not yet have reached
its final location in the Hobbes archive. In this case please lookup
the incoming folder.

Have fun,
Heiko Nitzsche
(Germany, 24-Jun-2006)


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18.06.2006
Stella/2 updated to v2.2 (from http://www.os2news.com)
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Paul Smedley < paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info > Now available from http://smedley.info/os2ports/ The Atari 2600 Video Computer System (VCS), introduced in 1977, was the most popular home video game system of the early 1980"s. Now you can enjoy all of your favorite Atari 2600 games on your PC thanks to Stella! Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Stella was originally developed for Linux by Bradford W. Mott, however, since its original release several people have joined the development team to port Stella to other operating systems such as AcornOS, AmigaOS, DOS, FreeBSD, IRIX, Linux, OS/2, MacOS, Unix, and Windows. The development team is working hard to perfect the emulator and we hope you enjoy our effort.
New in v2.2: Stella release 2.2 for Linux, Mac OSX, Windows, WinCE and GP2X is now available. Ports to other operating systems will be released as they become available. A partial list of features is:
* Added new ROM browser option which works like a normal filesystem browser, allowing navigation throughout the filesystem. The old mode of browsing is still present, and can be toggled at runtime. Related to this, fixed bug whereby sorting in the ROM launcher sometimes didn"t work. * Integrated stella.pro properties into the application, resulting in faster startup time. Now Stella can be redistributed as a single binary; no external files are needed, but they will still be used if present. * Reworked ROM properties files once again. The "user.pro" file has been removed, and all user-defined properties are stored in "stella.pro" instead. You should delete all properties files when upgrading to this version, to take advantage of the speed increases. * Reworked settings files once again. Removed all references to a global settings file. Each user now gets a user-specific settings file only. If that file doesn"t exist, the built-in defaults are used. * Added "conditional saving" of the cheatcode and settings files, so that these files are only written to disk when absolutely necessary. This doesn"t really affect desktop systems, but is very useful for systems with flashram-based storage (GP2X, WinCE, etc). * Reworked Settings class, hopefully fixing a bug whereby settings weren"t being saved in certain cases (most evident in the OSX port). * Added "tiadefaults" commandline option, which can also be toggled from within the GUI. This option disables all TIA positioning "tweaks" that typically make a game look better, and present the image exactly as it would appear on a real 2600. * Added jitter-detection code for the paddle emulation, which should eliminate an annoying "jittering" effect when using paddles with a Stelladaptor. * Related to jitter-detection, added "-pthresh" commandline option and GUI entry, which sets a bound below which the emulation detects jitter. * Fixed crash when adding one-shot cheats. * Fixed bug in RAM comparitive searches in the debugger. * Fixed bug with setting snapshot naming type from the GUI (it was always being set to "romname"). * Re-added low compatibility CPU emulation mode, since it benefits some slower systems. This is activated with the commandline argument "-cpu low".


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16.06.2006
DosBoxFront, OdinGui and JavaGui updates (from http://www.os2news.com)
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Chris Roossien (roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com) In all 3 programs; VACPP filedialog replaced with standard OS/2 file dialog, so now the enter key works as we are used to.
DosBoxFrontend; Important bug fix in DBFconverter, last line was removed. DBFconverter is now included. Included is an experimental simple list.exe to call from the CMD script to list manuals or walkthrough Use as; "start list < manual.txt/walkthrough.txt > " before the dbldr.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dosboxfront
JavaGui; Some more bugs fixed with the class paths http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=javagui
OdinGui; http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=odingui Url: http://members.home.nl/cwroossien/ecs.html


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13.06.2006
Lucide beta 1.1 available for eComStation customers (from http://www.os2news.com)
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Joachim Benjamins < joachimDESPAM@DESPAMmensys.nl > Serenity Systems International and netlabs.org today released the second beta version (beta 1.1) of Lucide, a document viewer for eComStation designed as a replacement for Acrobat Reader.
One goal of Lucide is to have a fast document viewer which is well integrated in the eComStation WPS and supports features like drag and drop and printing and which makes as easy as possible to work with PDF and other files on eComStation.
Changelog for beta 1.1:
- Poppler (pdf rendering) library updated to version 0.5.3. - Added settings dialog, where you can define default page layout and zoom level (closed ticket #23). - Added asynchronous opening of documents. - Custom zoom level can be specified in zoom combo on toolbar. - Fixed crash on opening file with long filename (closed tickets #19, #21). - Fixed crash and redraw problem when opening a new file (closed ticket #24).
All registered eComStation customers can download Lucide Beta 1.1 from the the eComStation Betazone, after login at:
http://www.ecomstation.com/ If you find any bugs please report them to the Netlabs tracking system:
http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/ If you want to provide some more plugins for Lucide you will find the sample source code on this page as well. The package also contains all GPLed parts of the source code.
Support is available on the Lucide mailinglist, you will find details about that at:
http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/
Best regards, Serenity Systems International

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08.06.2006
Java Gui 1.7, important update (from http://www.os2news.com)
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Chris Roossien (roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com) There is an important bug fix in the Java Gui. Java is case sensitive with the class name, this is supposed to be fixed now.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/java/util/javagui_1_7.zip
Url: http://members.home.nl/cwroossien/ecs.html [Moderator warning: It may just be my setup since its a brand new install of FireFox, but every time I try to access this web site with FireFox 1.5.0.4, FireFox hangs and I have to kill it.]
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php

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Lucide beta 1 available for eComStation customers (from http://www.os2news.com)
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Joachim Benjamins < joachimDESPAM@DESPAMmensys.nl > Serenity Systems International and netlabs.org today released the first beta version of Lucide, a document viewer for eComStation designed as an replacement for Acrobat Reader.
One goal of Lucide is to have a fast document viewer which is well integrated in the eComStation WPS and supports features like drag and drop and printing and which makes as easy as possible to work with PDF and other files on eComStation.
Lucide provides a SOM based plugin API, this makes it possible to support much more than just PDF documents, the current release also supports DjVu documents and JPEG files. More formats can easily be added by 3rd party programmers.
While the core of Lucide is currently not released as open source software, all plugins are available in sourcecode to encourage programmers to add support for more file types.
All registered eComStation customers can download Lucide Beta 1 from the the eComStation Betazone, after login at:
http://www.ecomstation.com/ If you find any bugs please report them to the Netlabs tracking system:
http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/ If you want to provide some more plugins for Lucide you will find the sample source code on this page as well. The package also contains all GPLed parts of the source code.
Support is available on the Lucide mailinglist, you will find details about that on the page mentioned above.
Best regards, Serenity Systems International

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05.06.2006
OS/2 port of NcFTP updated (from http://www.os2news.com)
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Paul Smedley < paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info > Hi all, I just updated my OS/2 build of NcFTP. Changes in this release are: - moved to libc06 CSD1 - fixed getline support so that command line history and tab-filename completion now work.
The updated build can be found at http://smedley.info/os2ports/ From http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/: NcFTP Client (also known as just NcFTP) is a set of FREE application programs implementing the File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
The program has been in service on UNIX systems since 1991 and is a popular alternative to the standard FTP program, /usr/bin/ftp. NcFTP offers many ease-of-use and performance enhancements over the stock ftp client, and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms as well as operating systems such Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X.
Cheers, Paul.


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03.06.2006
New unofficial Mozilla based releases (SeaMonkey, PmW-Fx, PmW-Tb) (from http://www.os2news.com)
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Peter Weilbacher, posted on news://number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com/mozilla.dev.ports.os2 Please find my new unofficial builds on my website (see sig). They hopefully fix all issues that were reported in the newsgroup or by private mail, except a problem with Java (when starting both PmW-Tb and PmW-Fx without Run!l) and the offset menupopup of bookmarks.
In addition, I added the new OS/2-like look to the PmW-* apps (SeaMonkey may get it with 1.0.3) and the updated default plugin. I hope you like it.
I have to do the release a bit earlier than the official one of Mozilla.org because I will not have any time in the next few days. (That"s also why the official SeaMonkey release will probably be a few days late.)


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04.06.2006
Video/2 v0.9.7 (from Helmut Renner)
Video/2 is an attempt to control the many video cassettes and DVDs, which lie around in every house.
This version still has beta status, too. However, she works (at least with me) without faults.
Anyway it would be nice if anybody send me an \"I installed it and it works\". ;-)
Of course reports over possible fault and design weaknesses are always welcome, too.

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02.06.2006
The Battle for Wesnoth v1.1.4 for OS/2 & eComStation (from http://www.os2news.com)
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Paul Smedley < paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info > The Battle for Wesnoth v1.1.4 is now available for OS/2 & eComStation from http://smedley.info/os2ports/ The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. See http://www.wesnoth.org for details.
Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand! Choose units from a large pool of specialists, and hand-pick a force with the right strengths to fight well on different terrains against all manner of opposition.
Fixed in the OS/2 port since 1.1.2 are: - the wesnoth directory can be moved from the root directory. - network timeout with multiplayer fixed.
Note that this is a rather large download ~71mb.
Please send any feedback or encouragement on this release to pauldDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info, bugs can be reported via the bug tracker at http://mantis.smedley.info Finally, for those that feel so inclined, can support my efforts via Paypal using the link at http://smedley.info/os2ports/ Cheers, Paul Smedley Adelaide, Australia.


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SW: RexxMail build 20060530.114215 released. (from http://www.os2news.com)
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Marcus de Geus < marcusDESPAM@DESPAMdegeus.com > A new build of RexxMail is available from my web site:
< http://www.degeus.com/rexxmail/ > RexxMail is an object-oriented WPS e-mail client, written in REXX, which uses the standard WPS user interface. It features an extensive range of functions and options with full command-line access.
New in this release:
- Added ReplyToAllAsList, ReplyToAllAsListOpen, ReplyToRecipientsAsList, and ReplyToRecipientsAsListOpen commands. Use these commands to create a reply message addressed to a local list rather than including the names and addresses in the new message header. RexxMail will create the list for you in the Lists folder. This is also an easy means of creating a mailing list file based on the address contents of an existing message.
- Changed @ddress format check to accept any combination of leading and/or trailing angle/square brackets and @ddresses starting with "mailto:". Since many texts include the mailto: part in addresses, which until now had to be removed manually after dragging & dropping text content, this seemed an obvious solution. Note that RexxMail removes the mailto: part (as well as any square brackets) from addresses when they are processed.
- Some minor bug fixes.
Best regards, Marcus de Geus

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01.06.2006
DFSee 8.02 released (from http://www.os2news.com)
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Jan van Wijk < jvwDESPAM@DESPAMdfsee.com > DFSee version 8.02 has been released today This version has enhancements for SMART imaging/cloning, JFS enhancements, log/trace additions and a few bug-fixes.
You can now make a SMART-compressed image from a whole disk, and view the disk-usage (allocation) for a complete disk:
Display - > Disk/filesystem Usage DFSee is a very powerful disk-utility with disk partitioning, filesystem and disk analysis, file recovery, UNDELETE for HPFS, JFS, and NTFS, resizing, imaging and cloning.
More details at: http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/ Direct download links from the DFSee website:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx.zip http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx.msi http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_warpin.exe http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_iso.zip http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_dsk.zip Note: Most of these can also be downloaded using "802" instead of the generic "8xx" version number
Or from the HOBBES website: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee802.zip http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee
Most important functional changes since 8.01:
- ALLOC Area support HPFS, FAT, JFS and NTFS filesystems - CLONE Smart sector support (skip) on disk or filesystem - COMPARE Smart sector support (skip) on disk or filesystem - DFSDISK Allow display of all LVM information in FS modes - FIXBOOT Fixed a program-crash in FAT fixboot (trap) - FIXPBR Better Geo/HiddenSector warnings, optional fix - JFS More error reporting on damaged fileset structure - LOGGING Support for maximum logfile size and log rotation - MENU File - > Trace to 3 cyclic files of limited size - MENU < F9 > Supports allocation display (usage) for a whole disk - Mode=xxx Menu wording changed a bit for more clarity - SHIFTR Shift all data in a range of sectors to the RIGHT - SLT2LIST Add selected SLT sectors to list for later analysis - \path command for the JFS filesystem (find file by path)
Regards, JvW ========================================================================= DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee - infoDESPAM@DESPAMdfsee.com

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