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SCOUG Director Tony Butka has written a review of Junk Spy, the junk email security software.

It's online at:

http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2000/scoug002.junkspy.html

His review covers installation, options, and the "automatic update" feature.

I've just had Word 97 running on my OS/2 Desktop!

However I was running the Citrix Java ICA client and was connected to a Windows 2000 Terminal Server running Citrix Metaframe 1.8 and it was on this that Word was really running. It did look pretty cool though, Word 97 seamless on Warp 3.

A new version of StWTV is out. StWTV is a TV-Viewer for the WinTV/PCI card.

- Free defineable toolbars with
- Station buttons
- A station selection combo box
- A channel selection spin button
- Volume, Bass, Brightness etc. are stored together with every channel so every has its own set of values
- Rexx-API
- Runs in DIVE or GRADD mode

You'll need the driver wcast.sys from Abbotsbury before you can use StWTV.

StWTV is now shareware. You can download a fully functional version that is only time limited to 20 minutes from:

http://home.t-online.de/home/stefan.milcke/stwtv_en.htm

There is a new version of Star Track available at:

http://en.os2.org/projects/indos2/Multimedia/StarTrack.php3

Changes:

- HTTP Support
- better CDDB engine

Star Track is a CD Player with CDDB access and extended loop functionality.

The Internet CD Database is at:

http://www.cddb.com/

catdoc converts _no_ formulae or other OLE objects. This version provides options for output with codepages 437 and 850 (not only Windows Latin1), and also limited TeX output. catdoc is published under the GPL.

http://en.os2.org/projects/indos2/utilities/catdoc.php3

At os2.org:

http://en.os2.org/news/?area=1#1400

Andreas Linde andreas.linde@os2.org reported today (February 15, 2000) that the final version of FixPak #13 for Warp 4, which also will be used in the upcoming update for OS/2, will be extented to be able to address the same amount of RAM that Aurora can: 3GB. He further comments that, "with this feature Project Odin will be able to start Microsoft Office programs under OS/2."

This is to announce the availability of MIDI Station Sequencer Preview Edition Build 4. This version includes some significant bug fixes such as:

- Fixed message capturing with Step Recording module
- Fixed bug with incoming MIDI message while recording audio
- Fixed time bug in quantize module
- Fixed bug where Program change messages weren't being sent with certain MIDI files
- Added function callback for filtering incoming MIDI messages
- Fixed bug with endless loop function
- Fixed timing bug with MIDI metronome

The final edition was scheduled to be released yesterday February 14th. But given the fact that now there are real testers using the product and the above issues were identified I've decided to wait a week to give the testers time to use this version of the code.

As always MIDI Station Sequencer is available at:

http://www.dinosoft.it/~midistation/index.html

For those of you who don't know what MIDI Station Sequencer is: Its a full-featured MIDI/Audio Sequencer available for the OS/2 platform and uses the RTMIDI (RealTime) MIDI Subsystem available in Warp 4.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions/issues regarding the program or using the MPU-401 driver with your sound card.

Christopher Hodges
Author of MIDI Station Sequencer
cdhodge@ibm.net

Version 0.29 of EuraPM2 is available.

EuraPM2 is a configuration and fee analysis software for the PBX Euracom by Ackermann.

You can download the software from:

http://home.t-online.de/home/C.Arnold/eurapm2

File is:

http://home.t-online.de/home/C.Arnold/eurapm2/EuPM2_29.zip

The language of this site is German.

Most important change, communication over TCP/IP is now possible.

Mr. Altair NBG01720@nifty.ne.jpNBG01720@nifty.ne.jp ported the newest XVNC viewer (3.3.3) for OS/2. You can get it from:

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA000199/os2/xvncviewer-3.3.3.zip

Mr. Altair ported lots of OS/2 programs, which can be found at:

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA000199/os2/

but this page is written in Japanses only.

OS2.org setup a new survey: "What do you think about the announced OS/2 Warp 4 update?"

The announcement of an update for OS/2 Warp 4 led to some agitation. There should be a lot of features from the last year released OS/2 Warp Server for e-business, resulting in a client meeting with today's technical requirements. As far as OS2.org knows the update will be available in Q2/2000 and would be distributed via Software Choice.

If you want to see the results and lots of comments of our last survey, then please also check out the survey archive page at OS2.org.

http://en.OS2.org/

Editors note: at the time of this IBM has not announced any OS/2 Warp 4 update

MARCH 2000 "OS/2 CONNECT" NEWSLETTER RELEASED

PALM HARBOR, FLORIDA (February 14, 2000) - M. Bryce ~Associates (MBA) today announced the release of the March issue of OS/2 CONNECT, a freeware newsletter distributed through the various computer networks and bulletin boards. OS/2 CONNECT is THE authoritative source for contact information in the universe of IBM's OS/2 32-bit operating system.

The newsletter is implemented as a web page at:

http://www.os2ss.com/connect/

Its HTML files are also available for downloading and viewing locally. The file is named CON0300.ZIP and can also be obtained at:

Hobbes - ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/info/newsltr/connect/con0300.zip
or
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/con0300.zip

Walnut Creek - ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/

ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/pub/os2/newsltr/con0300.zip
or
ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/pub/os2/incoming/con0300.zip

America Online and various Bulletin Boards.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact:

Tim Bryce
Editor, OS/2 CONNECT
M. Bryce ~Associates (MBA)
a division of M&JB Investment Company
3310 U.S. Alt. 19
P.O. Box 1637
Palm Harbor, FL 34682-1637
United States
Tel: 727/786-4567
Fax: 727/786-4765
E-Mail: timb001@attglobal.net
WWW: http://www.os2ss.com/connect/
MBA: Developers of the "PRIDE" Information Factory ~Batch Manager
Since 1971: "Software for the finest computer - the Mind"

The SETI@Home client V2.0 for OS/2 is now available at the official download site:

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/unix.html

Be sure to read the README.os2 file in the zip file that you download, especially those of you who have been running previous versions on a FAT disk.

SETI@Home is a distributed computing project that scans radio data observed with the Arecibo radio dish in Puerto Rico for signals that might be of intelligent origin. For more info on the project, see the SETI@Home web site at:

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

Where do you get it?

You can download SciTech Display Doctor 7.0 for OS/2 BETA 19 from our ftp site using the following URL:

ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/sdd-os2-7.0.0-b19.exe

What is SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2?

SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 brings SciTech's proven DOS and Windows device support technologies to the OS/2 Operating System. Although one of the core features of our DOS and Windows products is the support for the VESA VBE/Core standard, the OS/2 version has nothing at all to do with VESA services. Rather SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 incorporates the new SciTech Nucleus, Graphics Architecture device driver technology to bring SciTech's device support to the OS/2 platform.

SciTech Nucleus is a binary portable, OS neutral, device driver architecture. As binary portable drivers, SciTech can fully develop and test the core device drivers in the DOS and Windows environments, while being able to target any Intel x86 based OS as the runtime environment (such as OS/2). This essentially allows the OS/2 product to utilise the same SciTech binary device drivers as the DOS and Windows versions of the product, improving the quality and performance of the drivers for all supported operating systems. Runtime Requirements

SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 requires a version of OS/2 Warp 3 or OS/2 Warp 4 in order to run. More imporantly, it requires at least Warp 3 with fixpack 35, or Warp 4 with fixpack 5 installed. If you have a version with earlier fixpacks installed, SciTech Display Doctor will refuse to install.

List of all supported chips:

This is a complete list of the various graphics cards that this version of SciTech Display Doctor supports. Please note that this list refers to the actual chips being used, not a board-level implementation. Thus you will not see any products from Hercules or STB on the list, but their products are supported because they use S3, Cirrus, Tseng, etc. chips. Also, any card with less than 512KB of memory cannot be supported by SciTech Display Doctor.

. 3DLabs Permedia, Permedia 2, Permedia 2V
. 3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3
. ATI Mach64 GX, Mach64 CX, Mach64 CT, Mach64 ET, Mach64 VT, 3D Rage
. ATI Mach64 VTB, 3D Rage II, 3D Rage II+, Mach64 VT4, 3D Rage IIC
. ATI 3D Rage Pro, 3D Rage LT Pro, Rage Mobility, Rage XL, Rage 128
. ATI Rage 128 Pro
. Alliance ProMotion 6422, ProMotion AT24, ProMotion AT25
. Alliance ProMotion AT3D
. Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434, CL-GD5440, CL-GD5436, CL-GD5446, Laguna 5462
. Cirrus Logic Laguna 5464, Laguna 5465
. Cyrix Media GX, Media GXi, Media GXm
. InteGraphics CyberPro 2000, CyberPro 2010
. Intel i740, i740 PCI
. Macronix 86250, 86251
. Matrox MGA Millennium, MGA Millennium II, MGA Mystique
. Matrox MGA Mystique 220, MGA-G100, MGA-G200, MGA-G400
. NVIDIA RIVA-128, RIVA-128ZX, RIVA-TNT, RIVA-TNT2, RIVA-TNT2 M64
. NVIDIA RIVA-TNT2 Vanta, RIVA-TNT2 Ultra
. Number Nine Imagine 128, Imagine 128 II, Ticket 2 Ride
. Number Nine Ticket 2 Ride IV
. Philips 9710, 9712
. Rendition Verite V1000, Verite V2200
. S3 Trio32, Trio64, Trio64V+, Trio64UV+, Trio64V2/DX, Aurora64V+
. S3 Virge, Virge/DX/GX, Virge/VX, Virge/GX2, Virge/MX, Trio3D
. S3 Trio3D/2X, Savage3D, Savage4, Savage2000
. SiS 6202, 6205, 6215, 5597/5598, 6326, 5595/530, 5595/620, 300
. Sigma Designs RealMagic 64 GX
. Trident TGUI9440, TGUI9440-R2, TGUI9660, TGUI9680, ProVidia 9682
. Trident ProVidia 9685, 3DImage 975, 3DImage 985, Blade 3D
. Tseng Labs ET6000, ET6100
. VESA VBE 1.2, VBE 2.0, VBE 3.0

Note that there are many more chipsets that will work with our existing legacy VBE/AF based drivers, that are not included in this list. For a complete list of all chipsets supported in our prior Windows and DOS products, please visit our web site. We are currently in the process of moving all our existing device support code to our new SciTech Nucleus device driver architecture. The above list only lists those drivers that have been converted, and we won't be supporting any chipsets not on the list until those drivers are properly converted.

Changes in this BETA:

. All changed are now tracked on the web. Public changes are tracked at the following URL

http://www.scitechsoft.com/sdd2_changes.txt

We have a new editorial online. Some thoughts from our co-news-admin Joerg about the future, especially from Warp Client.

http://en.os2.org/forum/editorial/

There is new version of the OS/2 PM ICQ client - pwICQ 0.28.

Changes include many bugfixes, some enhancments, interface changes and mainly, CHAT support.

Currently pwICQ is available on hobbes at:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pwicq028.zip

and later should be available in:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/chat/pwicq028.zip