New betas of Firefox and Seamonkey are now available. They feature
native printing support, a major improvement in memory usage, and a
fix for a long-time bug.

Firefox v4.0b8pre is available from:
http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/mozilla/firefox-20101030.zip /> or
http://class='extlink'http://e-vertise.com/warpzilla/firefox-20101030.zip /> Seamonkey v2.1b2pre is available from:
http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/mozilla/seamonkey-20101030.zip /> or
http://class='extlink'http://e-vertise.com/warpzilla/seamonkey-20101030.zip

/>Printing Support
----------------
All native printer drivers will work if their output resolution is set
to 360 DPI or less. This beta can automatically reset the resolution
for both the OMNI and PSCRIPT families of drivers if needed. Mozilla’s
built-in Postscript support is also available for use, as is its PDF
support. Please read PRINTING.txt in the exe’s directory for details.

Memory Management
-----------------
With a few trivial exceptions, the Mozilla apps will no longer use any
shared memory beyond what’s needed to load their dlls. Problems that
have been attributed to low or no shared memory (such as the inability
to start new apps, failure to update unrelated ini files, and general
system instability) should no longer occur. This does not mean that
these problems have been permanently eliminated, only that a major
cause of them has been removed.

’Copy Link Location’
--------------------
A long-time bug that caused characters to be deleted from URLs when
using the ’Copy Link Location’ menu item has been fixed.

Community support for these betas and all Mozilla apps is available
through the newsgroups ’mozilla.dev.ports.os2’ or ’comp.os.os2.apps’.
Messages posted to other forums may not be seen by the developers.

Rich Walsh <richATe-vertiseDOTcom>

Welcome to focuswriter v1.3.1 port for OS/2 and eComStation.

FocusWriter is a fullscreen, distraction-free word processor designed to immerse you as much as possible in your work. The program autosaves your progress, and reloads the last files you

had open to make it easy to jump back in during your next writing session, and has many other features that make it such that only one thing matters: your writing.

Changelog:

October 28th, 2010: version 1.3.1 released

* Added typewriter sound effects

* Brazilian Portuguese translation added by Márcio Massula Jr.

* Polish translation added by Jakub Kowalski

* Spanish translation added by Luis Osa

* Bug fixes

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/FocusWriter-1.3.1-os2.zip
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Product Announcement

October 27, 2010

Subject: OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 GA for eComStation and IBM OS/2 released

Effective date: October 27, 2010

 Effective immediately, Mensys B.V. will be distributing a GA version of OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 to all users who own an active Support Agreement for OpenOffice.org or an active Software Subscription Services for eComStation product.

 This version has been compiled to run on eComStation and IBM OS/2 as a native application. This release replaces OpenOffice.org version 3.1.1.

Features

========

== NLS:

OpenOffice.org 3.2 for eComStation and OS/2 is released in the following

language versions:

* English

* German

* Italian

* French

* Spanish

* Dutch

* Russian

== Internet integration:

* e-mail related settings are now supported, you can email your current

document, but only Thunderbird is supported.

* the default OS/2 browser will be used for opening web pages from URL

links in documents.

== Desktop integration:

* support for WPS integration via seperate package.

* support for the FreeType2 (FT2) font engine for improved text rendering.

* support for XWP/eWPS sliding menu hilite (requires XWorkPlace 1.0.8 or

eCS 2.0 RC4 or newer)

* support for clipboard bitmap formats and unicode text.

* support for mouse wheel.

== WPS integration package for OpenOffice.org 3.2 for eComStation and OS/2:

* Extends the WPS data file class to recognize OpenOffice.org document files

* Integrated support for WPS-Wizard hint and folder info area

* REXX hooks for reading document properties

== Quickstart:

* the quickstart feature has been implemented for eComStation and OS/2.

Availability

============

OpenOffice.org 3.2 is available to anyone with an active OpenOffice.org

Support Agreement for eComStation and OS/2, or an active Software Subscription

Services for eComStation, via their download-area at the Mensys Online Shop:

http://www.mensys.net/login/

What is new

===========

Below is a list of some of the improvements that are present in

OpenOffice.org 3.2:

* OpenOffice.org 3.2 provides improved support for other common office

document types:

- Password protected Microsoft Office XML files (supported document

types: MS Word 2007 documents (*.docx, *.docm); MS Word 2007 templates

(*.dotx, *.dotm); MS Excel 2007 documents (*.xlsx, *.xlsm); MS Excel

2007 binary documents (*.xlsb); MS Excel 2007 templates (*.xltx, *.xltm);

MS Powerpoint 2007 documents (*.pptx, *.pptm); MS Powerpoint 2007

templates (*.potx, *.potm)). OLE objects, form controls and pivot tables

can now be read from MS Excel 2007 documents (*.xlsx, *.xlsb).

- Encryption support within the Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP filter allows

password protected

- Microsoft Word documents to be saved (using the Microsoft Office

standard RC4 algorithm).

- OpenOffice.org 3.2 has made further strides in compliance with ODF 1.2,

including closer conformance to OASIS ODFF/OpenFormula specifications.

* Faster start up times: OpenOffice.org 3.2 Calc and Writer have both reduced

’cold start’ time by 46% since version 3.0 (results will vary on different

operating systems and hardware).

* Start Center - When launching OpenOffice.org 3.x, users are presented with

the Start Center that allows the selection of an application within the

office productivity suite without having to click the File -> New menu.

* Enhanced PDF export - The PDF export feature in OpenOffice.org provides a

huge set of formatting and security options; so that PDF files can be

customized for many different scenarios.

* View Multiple Pages in Writer - OpenOffice.org 3.x allows Writer users to

view pages with single-page, two-page side-by-side and book layout options.

* Improved Notes - The new version of Notes in OpenOffice.org 3.x provides

additional formatting, spell checking and accessibility features while

displaying notes within the margins.

A full list of enhancements can be found at:

http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.2/

More information on the OpenOffice.org development roadmap can be found at:

http://development.openoffice.org/releases/index.html

Information on the eComStation and OS/2 version can be found at:

http://www.ecomstation.com/openoffice/

User Support

============

For help with the OpenOffice.org 3.2 office suite, take a look at the

archives to find questions already answered on the ’users@openoffice.org’

mailing list at http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html.

Alternatively, you can send in your questions to users@openoffice.org.

Remember to subscribe to the list to get an email response.

Full documentation is available at http://documentation.openoffice.org

Support specific to the eComStation and OS/2 version can be obtained

through the ticketing system at:

http://www.ecomstation.com/support/ooo/

More information

================

More information on OpenOffice.org can be found at:

http://www.openoffice.org

Information on the eComStation and OS/2 version can be found at:

http://www.ecomstation.com/openoffice/

Links:

• http://www.ecomstation.com/openoffice
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Hello bootAble users,

Thanking Doug Bissett for the hard work, there is a new version of bootAble. As always you can download it from my website at http://class='moz-txt-link-freetext'; http://www.xs4all.nl/~hrbaan/bootAble />

v6.5 (23/10/2010)

• Support for aMouse has been added (<code>bootAble.aMouse</code>);
• Support for USB Removable Device Monitor has been added (<code>bootAble.usbrdm</code>);
• Updates to ConfigMaker;
• XWorkplace now has numlock turned-off by default (laptop owners will love this);
• Fixes for eCS2.0: <code>ivm.dll</code> and <code>pmex.dll</code> now added when found on the system;
• Fixed device snooping: <code>.snp</code> files added and <code>snoop.lst</code> moved to the correct place;
• Typos and other minor corrections.

Have a good time,
    Hayo Baan

Links:

• http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ehrbaan/bootAble
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Thank you for support of the project!

(Many users have purchased sponsor units in the past)

Homepage of sNOa Game pack: http://ecomstation.ru/ecobaby

Free reg.key for sNOa game pack: Download page

sNOa Game pack consists of:

* Sunny Pills -- A puzzle game. Swap adjacent pills to make sets of 3, 4 or 5.

* Operation Warp II - Revenge -- On your ’pepelatz’ type aircraft you must execute the tasks of ’resistance’: deliver agents and citizens, earn bukazoids, make sabotage.

* Operation Warp -- Game about driver development and system administrating. Let’s drive.

* MARS! -- This is the only way to join salvation of your planet from Mars invaders. Game may be used by small children or real alien-hunters.

* Tie Revenge -- A game for children and alien-hunters. This is a ’shoot them all’ game. Author of idea: Dane Torson, graphics and music are borrowed from StarWars.

screenshot:

http://ecomstation.ru/projects/ecobaby/sp-cap.png

The development of games is very important for any operating system.

First of all, the games are aimed for entertainment of users.

Moreover, the games cause the development of developer tools and libraries.

Games - is a good base for new Commercial Solutions.

The games attract the attention to eComStation on conferences and exhibitions.

Mistakes of eCo Software:

* It was necessary create unique original games, not remakes of existing

* It was necessary release libraries for developers

* It was necessary create video clips to promote this kind of software

* It was a mistake to start work on "large" games like OpWarp without business-plan.

Mediadownloader (ex GoogleImageDownloader) is an opensource software that let you search, watch and download items with Google Image and YouTube.

Search results are displayed within a mouse scrollable view, as well as mobile devices do.

You will see thumbnails that are conform with your search criteria, doubleclick to view, rightclick to popup a menu and choose to download the single image or video, remove from global downloads or browse the web page.

v 1.4.2

support for custom styles and realtime css style changes

double-click videos on OS/2 will play with smplayer

menu entry to play videos with mplayer

changed a bit the behaviour of scrolling items

some fixes

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/MediaDownloader-1.4.2-os2.zip
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Paul Smedley has updated Apache2 to v2.2.17. http://class='extlink'http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/

http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php

"The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems"

Download: http://class='extlink'http://download.smedley.info/httpd-2.2.17-os2-20101021.zip
Requires: http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store http://class='extlink'www.mensys.net/os2ports/

HexGlass is a Tetris-like puzzle game based on a hexagonal grid.

Ten different types of blocks continuously fall from above and you must arrange them to

make horizontal rows of hexagonal bricks.

Completing any row causes those hexagonal blocks to disappear and those above move downwards.

The blocks gradually fall faster and the game is over when the screen fills up and blocks can no longer fall from the top.

1.1.0

- Stable release.

1.0.9

- Space-key unpause game in pause mode.

- Cosmetics.

1.0.8

- China locale. Thanks a lot to Jie Luo .

1.0.7

- Catalan locale. Thanks a lot to Marcel Baya .

- Fix typo in English locale (affected to all locales);

thanks a lot to Marcel Baya .

1.0.6

- Spanish locale. Corrections by

Ricardo A. Hermosilla Carrillo .

1.0.5

- Spanish locale. Thanks a lot to Tobias Diaz Diaz-Chiron .

- Minor cosmetics.

1.0.4

- Add CLI option -locale to force locale name.

- Load qm-file at (i) the location of translation information

for Qt strings, (ii) directory that contains the application

executable, (iii) at builin translations.

- Common color palette for all icons.

1.0.3

- Belarus locale. Thanks a lot to Prywid .

1.0.2

- Skins and sizes moved to submenus.

- Autopause: freeze game on focus lost event.

- Minor cosmetics.

1.0.1

- Fix: icon for Mac OS X. Thanks to for comprehensive testing.

- Add e-mail to "About".

1.0.0

- Initial release.

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/hexglass-1.1.0-os2.zip
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GoodWord is a free and easy to use, full featured text editor written in Qt.

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/GoodWord-1.04-os2.zip
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Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper changer, using multiple sources like files, folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr, Yahoo!, Panoramio, Pikeo,

Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa, Smugmug, Bing, Google, Vladstudio and deviantART images.

It runs under OS/2, Linux, Win32, and MacOSX, and it’s available in many languages.

Some features:

- History support

- EXIF support

- Proxy support

- A lot of wallpaper layouts, independent from window manager’s capabilities

- Save downloaded pictures

Version 2.4.1

- Deprecated HTTP Qt classes have been replaced

- Wally can now terminate after first background change

- Splash screen can be disabled

- Mac OSX Settings GUI scrollbar issue fixed

- WallyPlugin now uses D-Bus

- BUG FIXED: CMake build script had an issue in compiling language resources

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/Wally-2.4.1-os2.zip
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Simple bookmark manager application

2010-10-15

- Added eidting option

- Updated lang file

2010-10-08

added :

- if nessery dir’s not exists it will create them automaticly

- you can edit title of saved web page

- added multilanguage support

- app runner works in slide show mode

- added fix for OS/2

- app runner now in slide show mode works

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/QLinkSaver-2.0-os2.zip
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Native printing support is now available in new betas of Firefox and
Seamonkey. These betas are part of a project sponsored by Mensys to
provide full printing support in the Mozilla apps.

Firefox v4.0b8pre is available from:
http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/mozilla/firefox-20101009.zip /> or
http://class='extlink'http://e-vertise.com/warpzilla/firefox-20101009.zip /> Seamonkey v2.1b2pre is available from:
http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/mozilla/seamonkey-20101009.zip /> or
http://class='extlink'http://e-vertise.com/warpzilla/seamonkey-20101009.zip

/>Printing Features
-----------------
Native Support - all native printer drivers should work if their output
resolution is set to 360 DPI or less. If the resolution is set higher,
the app will attempt to reduce it to 300 or 360 DPI. Should that fail,
it will popup a ’Print to file’ dialog and will create a PDF. See the
’Notes’ section below additional info.

Postscript Support - Mozilla’s built-in Postscript support can still be
used if needed. CUPS users may need to enable it if they are unable to
change their native driver’s DPI setting. See ’Notes’ below for details.

PDF Support - PDFs can be created by selecting ’Print to file’, When
the file dialog appears, give the file’s name a ".pdf" extension.

Other Features
--------------
Image Handling - an experimental feature in this beta eliminates native
handling of images (i.e. pictures, graphics, etc.). This _may_ reduce
the instability many users report after the browser has been open for
several days.

Notes
-----
* Resolution has been limited to avoid excessive memory consumption.
At 300 DPI, a print job on A4- or Letter-sized paper uses about 32mb;
at 600 DPI, it requires 128mb. The ’Print to file’ dialog appears
whenever a job needs more than 64mb.

* Memory use is controlled by the paper size and DPI settings, not the
number of pages. If you use a small enough page size (e.g. a CD-cover
or photograph sheet), you may be able to print at a higher resolution.

* To enable Mozilla’s built-in Postscript support:
- enter "about:config" in the browser’s address bar, press Enter
- click MB2 on any item in the preferences listing
- select ’New->Boolean’ from the popup menu
- enter "print.os2.postscript.use_builtin" (no quotes), press OK
- select "true", press OK

To use the built-in support, you must select a printer associated with
a native PS driver. The driver won’t actually be used - it simply acts
as a flag to tell Mozilla to produce PS output.

* CUPS users may find that the only resolution available is 1440 DPI.
To confirm this, open the printer’s ’Job Properties’ notebook to the
’Output’ tab and look at ’Resolution’. If ’1440’ is the only value
listed, the PPD for this printer has no "*Resolution" entries. You
have two options:
- enable Mozilla’s built-in Postscript support
- edit the PPD to add the entries, then import the PPD into the driver
(if you need instructions, please post a request in the newsgroups)

* In the current beta, initial memory use will appear to increase due
to the change in image-handling. Memory freed as images are discarded
will be reused by the browser but won’t be released for system-wide
use. This will be fixed in the next version.

* A copy of this announcement is included in the zips as PRINTING.txt.

Rich Walsh <richATe-vertiseDOTcom>

Mensys BV is pleased to announce the availability of the Flash 10 Plugin wrapper for eComStation Technology Preview 2

 This product is available for download to all registered users of Software Subscription Services for eComStation. For more information, please visit: http://www.ecomstation.com/subscription/

 The second Technology Preview of the Flash 10 Plugin wrapper for eComStation is intended to show the progress of this product and to give you an early experience of being able to use websites implementing the latest Flash content.

 The official Flash 5 included with eComStation is outdated and does not support video playback. The unofficial Flash 7/9 release which can be found on the internet does not work on a lot of websites as it identifies itself as Flash 9 but can only display Flash 7 content.

 With the new release of Flash 10 up-to-date Flash support for eComStation is provided. This release also supports proper rendering of Flash 10 text elements and Flash keyboard input works.

Notes:

- This code should not be used on production systems. See the readme document for details.

- This release requires eComStation 1.2, 1.2R or eComStation 2.0 GA.

- This release requires an installed version of Odin, which can be obtained from the same download location as the Flash 10 package.

- Feedback can be provided via http://svn.ecomstation.nl/flash10

• http://www.ecomstation.com/subscription/
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After a long period of work we finally made the Odin repository public again. You can access everything at http://svn.netlabs.org/odin32

SVN is available at http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/repos/odin32/ but please do *not* checkout the whole tree, this is ridiculously big and includes older experimental source as well like odin32xp (can be found in tags/odin32xp). Latest source can be found in trunk:
http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/repos/odin32/trunk

And discussion about the source should go to the odin mailing lists, web interfaces can be found at:

http://class='extlink'http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.odin.devel

http://class='extlink'http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.odin.user

To subscribe check out http://class='extlink'wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Mailinglists

List names are odin-dev@netlabs.org and odin-user@netlabs.org

We are also on #netlabs IRC channel on irc://irc.freenode.net

enjoy

Adrian

Tubularix a game similar to Tetris but viewed from above.

0.5.1.5 (2010-10-12)

--------------------

-Color degradation configuration added in options dialog.

-Apply button added in options dialog, mainly to allow color changes to be tested faster in the gameboard.

-New color preset added.

-AI for player 2 disabled in network game.

-Help about mouse control and network game added.

-Czech translation updated.

-Some bugs fixed.

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/tubularix-0.5.1.5-os2.zip
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Paul Smedley has updated Postgresq to v9.0.1. http://class='extlink'http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/

http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php

"PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source relational database system."

Download: http://class='extlink'http://download.smedley.info/postgresql-9.0.1-os2-20101012.zip
Requires: http://class='extlink'http://download.smedley.info/libc064x.zip

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store www.mensys.net/os2ports/

Paul Smedley has updated bzip2 to v1.0.6. http://class='extlink'http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/

http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php

"bzip2 is a freely available, patent free (see below), high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression."

Download: http://class='extlink'http://download.smedley.info/bzip-1.0.6-os2-20101012.zip
Requires: http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip
http://class='extlink'http://download.smedley.info/gcc445.zip

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store www.mensys.net/os2ports/

Mediadownloader is an opensource software that let you search, watch and download items with Google Image and YouTube.

v 1.4.1 (10 oct 2010)

- layout rearranged

- video controls and mouse cursor autohide while playing

- added brightness, contrast, hue and saturation video control sliders

- added video volume slider

- added online version control check

- added confirmation to overwrite file to save

- added support for all forwarded links (like for deviantArt)

- added tab to import items from a local directory

- fixed images loading from deviantArt in slideshow

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/MediaDownloader-1.4.1-os2.zip
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A Simple bookmark manager application

New:

added Git Version Control System

added possibility to add applications and run them in the same way as links

change url for downloading

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/QLinkSaver-2.0-os2.zip
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BCChat is developed with the aim to create a chat application which can be run on any network without the need of installing a server or having an internet connection.

CHANGELOG 2.1:

- dropped broadcasting, so app’s name is now inappropriate,

only "hello" packets are still broadcasts

- formatting: write bold, italic or underlined Text; this was the first step to

colored text and/or smileys

- clients list is now ListWidget instead of TextEdit, also first step onwards private chats

- dropped spammode (was just a testing feature)

- code cleanup

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/bcchat-2.1-os2.zip
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Extreme Image Converter is an open-source batch image format converter.

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/ExtremeImageConverter-os2.zip
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PIECES is a program to play the traditional Tangram, game of Chinese origin.

It consists on constructing shapes with some polygonal pieces.

Traditionally the game has seven pieces, but there are also variations with 5,14 pieces and others.

The program PIECES allows you

To play the tangram in 33 different modalities.

To create your own shapes.

To elaborate more that 4600 shapes proposed by the program.

To preserve your personal records.

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/glpeces-4.0-os2.zip
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The peg solitaire game, also known as English peg solitaire or Senku is of uncertain origin.

It is a board game played with pegs: in the classic mode, the board has 33 positions and 32 tokens because the center position is without form.

The game is to remove the pegs but only with horizontal and vertical movements.

To solve the game is to leave only one piece on the board in the center position (which was initially empty). In the reverse modes, initially there is only one piece on the board: with the movements (jumping from one empty position to another position to get empty) tokens are added to get only one position is vacant on the board.

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/peg-solitaire-1.0.0-os2.zip
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Paul Smedley has updated the OS/2 port of the GNU C Compiler to v4.4.5. http://class='extlink'http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/

http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php

Download: http://class='extlink'http://download.smedley.info/gcc-4.4.5-os2-20101004.zip

/>Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
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Gottet 1.0.4 is a tetris (C) clone written in Qt 4.

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/Gottet-1.0.4-os2.zip
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There is an Alpha release of Java for OS/2 and eComStation based on Oracle’s OpenJDK 6 on Netlabs FTP. See the readme.os2 for information and installation instructions.

Also see http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/java/wiki for current information.
"The latest version of OpenJDK 6 is 1.6.0-b19 Alpha released on 01.10.2010. This is a first public release intended for testing purposes only. It can only compile and run console Java applications, AWT and Swing classes are not yet available."

Roadmap is located at http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/java/roadmap

Report problems or feature requests at http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/java/report

Download: http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/java/openjdk6_b19_sdk_os2_alpha-20101001.zip />Requires: http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/odin32bin-20101001-release.wpi

Note: They are still in need of sponsors to support completion of Java development. If you are interested in sponsoring Java please contact Silvan Scherrer (silvan dot scherrer at aroa dot ch) directly.

Paul Smedley has updated Subversion to 1.6.13. http://class='extlink'http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/

http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php

"The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community. The software is released under an Apache/BSD-style open source license."

Download: http://class='extlink'http://download.smedley.info/subversion-1.6.13-os2-20101002.zip
Requires: http://class='extlink'http://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store www.mensys.net/os2ports/

Paul Smedley has updated Quassel to v0.7.1. http://class='extlink'http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/

http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php

"Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client, meaning that one (or multiple) client(s) can attach to and detach from a central core"

Download: http://class='extlink'http://download.smedley.info/quassel-0.7.1-os2-20101001.zip

/>Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store http://class='extlink'http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/>

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Paul Smedley has updated ImageMagick port to v6.6.4-8. http://class='extlink'http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/

http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php

"ImageMagick®, is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a large variety of formats."  This is a combination of several command line programs.

ImageMagick website: http://class='extlink'http://www.imagemagick.org

Download: http://class='extlink'http://download.smedley.info/ImageMagick-6.6.4-8-os2-20101001.zip
Requires: http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store www.mensys.net/os2ports/

Paul Smedley has updated MySQL v5.1 to v5.1.51. http://class='extlink'http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/

http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php

"ySQL 5.1 Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world’s most popular open source database."

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store www.mensys.net/os2ports/

Thanks to new development for Flash 10, after a long hiatus there has been new work being done on the Odin project on Netlabs. There is no update to the changelog so I don’t know what has been changed.

http://class='extlink'http://odin.netlabs.org/

"Odin is the name of the project and software that allows users to run
Win32 (Windows 95 and Windows NT) applications in OS/2 Warp operating
system natively, almost as if they were intended to be OS/2 applications
in the first place. It also makes porting from Win32 to OS/2 easier by
providing a Win32 API implementation in OS/2: the Odin32 API."

Release version: http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/odin32bin-20101001-release.wpi />Debug: http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/odin32bin-20101001-debug.wpi

Odin mailing list archive:
http://class='extlink'http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.odin.user>

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