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C-Media 8738 Audio Driver, Beta 0.1.6

Wave audio driver for C-Media 8x38 PCI chips.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/cmedia016.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=cmedia016.zip

Poor Man's Flight

PMF (Poor Man's Flight) is a table-editor/visualizer for IBM's db2 database. Main feature is viewing and editing any table in the database, but PMF has some other useful functions, too (see below). Useful for developers and db2-Admins. PMF is available for Linux, OS/2 and Windows NT/2000.

Unfortunately only the Linux Version is free

http://www.leipelt.de/

Maul Publisher v2.03 update

http://www.manglais.com/subs/php/product.php?MAULE200

Maul Publisher is aimed at anyone needing to quickly create pleasing and sophisticated publications, without the high cost of one of the industry leading packages. It is aimed at anyone wanting to quickly create printed presentations, club magazines, business cards, cd inlays, or posters.

Odin Bug Report Generator 0.5.5

Odin Bug Report Generator 0.5.5 (c) copyrighted FREEWARE

Tool to generate Odin Bug Reports that are compatible with the standards that Team Odin has defined in the file ReportingBugs.TXT that is distributed with every Odin build. Bug reports can be created comfortably and fast. 22 changes/additions, 18 bugs fixed since 0.5.3a

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/OdinBug055.wpi
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=OdinBug055.wpi

And the following from Herwig Bauernfeind(developer of OdinBug) on Odin-user list - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/odinusers/

What's new?

* Exception page: OdinBug now uses a second thread in order to retrieve the exception information in the logfile faster and display it on a separate page *before* the report is created!

* Enhanced email creation for Netscape 4.61 and PMMail users. No more copying to the clipboard and pasting into the message body. For these two programs the email is created completely automatically. You just have to send it!

* Complete online help and manual. Every single field now has its own page in the helpfile. Plus a short "HowTo" create bugreports. And a lot more... Please, read it!

* Browse button. Specify your favorite logfile browser in order to take a glance at Odin's logfiles from within OdinBug.

* Multiple bug reports now can be concatenated into a single file.

* And some minor other features...

* Plus: Lots of bug fixes (ever tried to pick a second logfile with one of the previous versions? - No? - Phew!)

* Plus: Packaged into a conveniant .WPI package. A ZIPfile only package is also available!

* Plus: Sourcecode is also available now.

So, in short words: Nobody, and I really mean nobody, should stick with one of the previous versions of OdinBug (especially not with the infamous 0.5.3).

How to get version 0.5.5:
- Odin's weekly build files (from next week onward!)
- from the odinusers files section (now!)
- from hobbes (now!)

CenterICQ 4.2.1 is a text-mode ICQ/Yahoo/MSN instant messaging client

CenterICQ 4.2.1 is a text-mode ICQ/Yahoo/MSN instant messaging client, with a nice windowed interface. This is a port to OS/2, the original CenterICQ page can be found at <http://konst.org.ua> .

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/cicq421.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=cicq421.zip

eCS Fixtool Version 1.08 Build 2001.12.06

I really wanted a couple of more days to work on it, but the Version 1.07 Build 2001.12.04 has a serious error that needs to be taken care of. The error is in the update of the LAN device driver statements and is not covered in the readme.txt file. The new version is being placed on:

http://pws.prserv.net/mckinnis/code/ecsupdt.2001.12.06.zip

until http://www.ecomstation.com/ is back online.

From the readme:

Change Log:
Build 2001.12.06
Added ecscntl.zip to provide updated control lists for all older ptf releases.
Made some parameters internal to the code and removed ecsupdt.lvl and ecsupdt.lst from the package.
Only update parameters of PMREXX.EXE if necessary.
Add use of WPTOOLS.DLL back in.
Add capability to upgrade to eCS Pro and to install or uninstall SMP support if ecspro*.ptf is available.
If SET SHELLHANDLESINC= is not present in CONFIG.SYS, add a statement, SET SHELLHANDLESINC=20, to CONFIG.SYS.
Update code level to 1.08.

Chuck McKinnis
Covenant Solutions
IBM Senior Systems Engineer (retired)
http://pws.prserv.net/mckinnis/
505-286-3191

Internet Junkbuster 2.9.10 Beta available

The development of The Internet Junkbuster continues - and an OS/2 port is available. Junkbuster is a powerful web proxy that filters out unwanted web content like advertisements, cookies, snoopy javascript, etc.

Improvements since 2.9.9 Alpha include a web-based configuration editor and a web-based on/off toggle. Tester input is needed... the documentation is a little light at the moment, but you can get support via the Junkbuster SourceForge website or comp.os.os2.apps. An OS/2 self-installing executable, as well as the source code, is available.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118

MPEG Layer 2 Encoder, based on ISO Dist 10 source, VBR support

Beta 02I of the TooLame MPEG 1/2 Layer 2 encoder. Runs about 40% faster than the ISO code on which its based, and includes some of the bug fixes from the Lame mp3 encoder. Includes VBR support!

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/toolame-02i.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=toolame-02i.zip

Sibyl RAD tool for Pascal development

Some of you might know the Sibyl Pascal development tool. It provides a Delphi-Like RAD Interface, creating a PM application in Pascal becomes quite easy like this. However, Sibyl is quite out of date now and it also has bugs which most probably won't be fixed in the future. Because the sourcecode of the RAD-Tool itself is available (at least parts of it as far as I know) we think about porting it to another pascal compiler (VPascal might be an option which is an excellent compiler). This is not that easy but it should be possible. If you are a pascal developer (and even better a Sibyl user) with some spare time please let me know, we need help to get it to work. Like this we can create a new project for this.

Please send an email to ktk@netlabs.org if you would like to join

http://www.netlabs.org

Sysbench 0.9.4e OS/2 Benchmarking tool

Includes PM Graphics, DIVE, CPU Integer and floating point, Disk and File I/O, memory, and CD ROM benchmarks.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/SYSB094G.ZIP
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=SYSB094G.ZIP

ODBC SDK (beta) for OS/2

Beta version of a SDK for developing ODBC applications and database drivers

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/odbcsdk.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=odbcsdk.zip

SOM version 2.1 Documents in postscript

Postscript version of documents for the SOM Objects SDK version 2.1

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/som21doc.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=som21doc.zip

Manipulate window switchlist title from a rexx program

Change or retrieve the switchlist title of the VIO window your rexx script is running in

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/rxwtitle_12.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=rxwtitle_12.zip

SOM version 211 service

Fixes for SOM Objects SDK version 2.1

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/somcs211.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=somcs211.zip

SOM Objects version 211 Toolkit

SOM Objects toolkit version 2.1. This is the version of SOM that is included in OS/2 v 3, v 4 and eCommStation. SOMObjects toolkit has been released as version 3 but version 3 of SOM has never been certified for OS/2. This version (2.1) includes DSOM and workgroup DSOM.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/somobjtk.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=somobjtk.zip

Pine 4.43

OS/2 port of the popular Unix e-mail and news client. Supports POP3, IMAP, NNTP servers; MIME, HTML, multiple accounts, more.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pine443.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pine443.zip

MR/2 Update Coming Soon!

The last full release of MR/2 for OS/2 was v2.25 and this version is still available on my MR/2 home page:

http://nick.secant.com/mr2ice.htm

Since this release, however, work on bugs and enhancements HAS continued and current open/public beta version is at v2.29k. My wish is to release a v2.30 RSN ... I have a new set of base DLL's being tested. These DLL's include a small fix that speeds up a few areas.

I will also start providing links to interrim/beta releases as they are deemed "stable", right on the MR/2 home page. This, so those with a minor sense of adventure can benefit sooner at their discretion.

Stay tuned!

Nick

Convert word documents to text and postscript

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/antiword032.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=antiword032.zip

Review of eComStation in OSNews

OSNews (http://www.os2news.com/) has a review of eCS.

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=369

SmartSuite 1.7 Released

The much awaited SmartSuite for OS/2 upgrade has been released. The major new features are:

Improved Microsoft Excel and Word filters in 1-2-3 and Word Pro, including
support for Office 2000 and Office XP files; and
Fixes for customer-reported issues in all of the SmartSuite applications.

SmartSuite customers with Passport support will get the new upgrade automatically. It can also be purchased from IBM as an upgrade from SmartSuite v1.5 for $176 US. (Presumably at some point eComStation customers will also receive it as part of an eCS upgrade.)

Further details, including hardware and software requirements, are available at http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/smartsuiteos2

QT3 for XFree86/2

QT (www.trioll.no) is a famous toolkit for Windows and X. This is a port for OS/2 XFree86/2. Many console apps also use QT rutime so it is possible someone may need it. KDE can be easily built using QT.

Have Fun!

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/QT_Toolkit_3.0.0/qt3-emx_os2.dll

Monitor adjusting software

Apparently the new LCD desk monitors can be a bear to adjust. This outfit:

http://www.displaymate.com/

has software for sale to optimize the new investment. They have several versions that includes DOS. Their DOS version description even mentions OS/2. I saw it in a magazine that talked about the "several editions" and checked it out, because I'm thinking of doing some major hardware upgrades.

Al Carmon

DFSee version 4.10 released

New: READ-ONLY mode, BUG FIXES, more SWITCHES and OPTIONS

DFSee is the SWISS-ARMY-KNIFE for disk and filesystem problems. It has FDISK-like displays, analysis and recovery tools with powerfull FIX commands and UNDELETE for HPFS and NTFS.

Details can be found at: http://www.fsys.demon.nl/dfsee.htm

Version 4.10 fixes a trap and has new switches and options.
- Fixed several non-512 byte sector problems (CDROM trap/crash)
- Fixed several traps on HPFS sectors with missing / wrong data
- Fixed trap-D with a CDROM present (2048 bug, DFSUNFD 9 disks)
- ReadOnly in status, and detect RO img;
-R option on VOL/PART
- Added -R switch/option forcing a safe global READ-ONLY mode
- Added -I switch forcing std Int13 use when cylinders < 1024
- Fixed CHECK/SLT command, added -r option to force a refresh
- Updated CR and SETBOOT for new parsers, added usage texts
- Updated all command-parsers; DFSMDOS now runs in 380 Kb -
-? = short help on all commandline switches, as in 'DFS -?'
- -t = auto timestamp to screen and logfile (also on -q and -l)
- -m = specify FDISK autoshow cmd, allowing multi-command too
- Added Intel EFI spec GPT_DISK type (recognize Win-XP types)
- Add "-r" and "-a" to "part" command, replacing the '!' option
- Add "-e" option to settype and fixext allow work on extended

Check the DFSHIST.TXT and DFSCMDS.TXT documentation for details.

Registering DFSee will give you the right to use all 4.xx versions and get support plus a reasonable amount of assistance by email.

But even more important, it enables further development of DFSee!

Regards, Jan van Wijk

http://www.fsys.demon.nl

LBMix 0.8

This is a simple mixer for IOCTL90 Mixer API. Also supports pipe mixer API - the easiest way to create your own mixers. Supported cards: Crystal ISA with v.1.xx and v.2.xx driver, Crystal PCI with v.3.xx driver; Creative SB Pro or compatible, SB16/32/AWE, SBLive; ESS ISA, Maestro 2E; C-Media 8738; any other card with IOCTL90 Mixer API support. Distributed under GPL.

http://users.podolsk.ru/boga/OS2Programs.html

SNES9x 1.39 OS/2 release 11 is available

SNES9x is a fast and accurate Super Nintendo emulator. The OS/2 port of SNES9x has been updated to the latest version available with the following changes and enhancements.

What's New?:
* Fix to make Yoshi's Island run without the -i2 switch
* Volume control added (thanks, Dink!)
* Option to pause on window focus change added
* Window size and position are saved
* Added priority level boost option (use at your own risk!)

http://emuos2.netlabs.org

TeaTime file encrypter/decrypter including source.

TeaTime is a file encryption/decryption program based on the XTea cipher. Including Modula-2 source!

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/teatime-0.05.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=teatime-0.05.zip

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