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WarpVision GUI 20030511
"The goal of the WarpVision project is to create an OS/2 multimedia player
that supports the latest formats, as well as the latest hardware
features."
PLEASE! Remove VIDEO2.INI first!
Changelog:
11.05.2003
Removed indefinite waits in semaphores (this can helps with system
freezes)
Added SVQ3 video codec (mov files such as T3 trailer)
Added VP3 video codec. Still buggy. (mov files)
Fixed some mpeg1 streams with broken startup sequence (cause fast video
play to the end)
Some other fixes and bugs :-)
Download: http://www.laemmlin.net/mirror/wvgui/wvgui20030511.zip
Web site: http://os2.kiev.ua/en/wv.php
Tim's Warped Bargains: Wireless Routers
Dear Bargain Hunters:
Wireless networking is very inexpensive now, and there have been some
excellent articles on the subject in the VOICE newsletter http://www.os2voice.org
Wireless routers are handy when you want to share a high-speed home or
small office Internet connection, such as a DSL or cable modem.(*) They
vary a bit in features, though.
I've found a pair of "super wireless routers" that have more features than
most, and they're both available for under $50 each. Both have two fairly
uncommon but terribly useful features: a printer port and a serial port.
The serial port is used to connect an optional external modem for dial-up
to a backup Internet provider. Both have a built-in LPD-style print
server, and both are administered using any web browser. So they work
great with eComStation and OS/2 Warp.
Here are the two links:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?sku=S199-1012%20P
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?sku=U13-4054
I bought the USR model only because I like the flat top (for stacking my
DSL modem), but the Speedstream model is a slightly better deal because
there's no rebate to worry about.
They aren't the cheapest wireless routers. (CompUSA has one for $29.99
plus shipping as I write this.) However, I think the extra $10 or so is
well worth the extra features.
You may see wireless routers advertised with higher speeds (22 Mbps, 54
Mbps, etc.) In my opinion, that's not a major advantage, considering that
a DSL or cable modem runs much slower than 11 Mbps. Granted, you always
get less than rated speed, but 11 Mbps produces entirely adequate results
for me at least.
Don't want to use wireless networking? No problem. Both these routers
have three ethernet ports, so you can use them as ordinary ethernet
routers. Regardless, do make sure you follow recommendations for securing
your wireless router. There's a pretty good FAQ here:
http://www.iss.net/wireless/WLAN_FAQ.php
I have no affiliation with any of these companies. Offer ends on the USR
router May 31, 2003, and possibly sooner for both.
(*) Check your DSL or cable modem provider for terms and conditions.
Some, such as AOL Broadband and Comcast (formerly AT&T) Cable, use address
locking and other techniques to prevent sharing of Internet connections,
even for personal home use. Last I checked, Comcast charged a fee for
changing their MAC address in their routers, and AOL Broadband required
special AOL-specific routers. You can investigate the policies of your
high speed Internet provider at this web site:
They aren't the cheapest wireless routers. (CompUSA has one for $29.99
plus shipping as I write this.) However, I think the extra $10 or so is
well worth the extra features.
http://www.broadbandreports.com
- - - - -
Timothy F. Sipples
SHISEN-SHO and Mahjongg 1.15
SHISEN-SHO and MAH JONGG solitaire Version 1.15 available from my home
page
Free Bitstream fonts
Lifted from the Mandrake Linux newsletter. The fonts work fine on OS/2.
The Sans is a nice clean font, somewhere between Warpsans and Verdana.
You can unpack the .tar.gz using tar -xzvf , assuming you have recent
versions of tar and gzip on your path. See hobbes.
======================================================================
Bitstream's 'Vera' fonts now available for download. Bitstream and GNOME
have teamed up to make the high quality 'Vera' font family freely
available to Linux users. These TrueType fonts make a nice addition to the
anti-aliased fonts already included in Mandrake 9.1.
Screenshot:
http://atari.saturn5.com/~jwb/vera.png
Download:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/
======================================================================
[Moderator's note: I couldn't find tar.exe or gzip.exe on Hobbes, just
some front ends for them. What I found, and what worked on unzipping this
font package was UNTGZOS2.EXE from http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/archiver/untgz095.zip
Once unzipped I opened the "Fonts" Folder in the eCS 1.1 "System Setup"
folder and dragged the .ttf files on to it. The Bitstream fonts were then
available in the font palette. In Warp4 I believe this can be done in the
Font Palette by editing a font and selecting "Add".
{Editor's Note:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?sh=1&dir=//pub/os2/util/archiver/gtar258.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?sh=1&dir=//pub/os2/util/archiver/gzip/124.zip}
Warpstock 2003 General Announcement
The Warpstock Board of Directors is very pleased to announce that
Warpstock 2003, the seventh edition of the annual Warpstock event, will
be held near San Francisco, California, October 18th and 19th, 2003 at
the Doubletree Hotel, San Francisco Airport.
The Doubletree Hotel features 389 richly appointed guest rooms, including
10 luxurious suites. New Concierge Rooms feature Herman Miller office
chairs and a printer/fax/scanner/copier combination unit. We have
arranged a special show room rate of $85 per night Single/Double that
will be available for up to 3 days before and 3 days after Warpstock
(based on availability). We will have more information about the San
Francisco area on the web site at http://www.warpstock.org soon.
The final contract and arrangements are still pending. When that is
finalized we will follow with specific room reservation instructions.
Registration amounts have been set and are as follows:
Registration: $119
Early Registration: $99
At the Door: $140
One Day: $90
Vendor: $400
And introducing a new way to contribute to the ongoing wonder that is
Warpstock: Supporting Memberships for $48. Supporting Memberships are
common with Science Fiction conventions and are essentially a way for
members to help support the costs of putting on the convention even if
that person will not be able to attend. Supporting Members will be
entitled to the same registration package as all other attendees. If it
later appears the Supporting Member can in fact attend, the membership can
be upgraded from "supporting" to "attending" for the difference in cost.
Further details on the event, including presentations and events will
follow soon. If you are interested in giving a presentation at Warpstock
2003, please contact our speaker coordinator, Robert Kuropkat robert-kuropkat@attbi.com with a synopsis of your presentation and any
requirements. If you have suggestions for presentations, send them as
well and we will try to find someone knowledgeable on the subject who is
interested.
Warpstock, Inc., is a North Carolina corporation. The Warpstock annual
conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from
around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More
information is available at the Warpstock web site :
MPEG-4 player
IBM Alphaworks has released MPEG-4 player and content creator development
kit. It is Java, so works on OS/2. I've tried it with Java 1.3.1 and it
plays MPEG4 video (samples included) just fine on a PII-300MHz machine.
The included .BAT file to start the player works basically without mods
(if you're default is Java 1.3.1) as a .CMD file in OS/2.
Url: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/download/tk4mpeg4
OS/2 World Awards!
"What everybody has been waiting for has now been launched; the nomination
process for the 3rd OS2 World.Com Award.
This years categories are following:
- Best Unix Port of the Year
- Best Commercial Software of the Year
- Best Java Application of the Year
- Best Site of the Year
- Best Supporting Company of the Year
- Best Individual Software of the Year
- Honor Award for Individuals
The nomination form can be found at following url:
http://www.os2world.com/award/nominate.php
The nomination process will be open until Sunday the 25 of May.
The OS2 World.Com Award Event, was founded to advance the developent and
use of eCS and OS2; foster cooperation among creative developers and
users; recognize outstanding achievements; cooperate on technical research
and improvement of methods and equipment; provide a common forum and
meeting ground. "
BigWarpGuy
PS Nominate your favorite programs!!!
Tim's Warped Bargains: HP Color LaserJet 2500L
Dear Bargain Hunters:
The HP Color LaserJet 2500L printer is now priced at $719.23 at Office
Depot. Here's the link:
http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do?level=SK&id=670456
But there's a 10% off coupon code you can use: 20216343.
You can try sending in this rebate form:
http://www.shopping.hp.com/shopping/pdf/colorit_claim_smb.pdf
although it's not clear whether the 2500L qualifies. If you start
shopping by clicking to Office Depot from this web site:
after 2.2% rebate and coupon (but without HP's rebate). Free delivery.
Cost per page is about 2.2 cents for black and white and 11.4 cents for
color with this printer. The printer features 600 dpi and 64 MB RAM.
There's great driver support with eComStation and OS/2 Warp.
I have no affililation with any of these companies. Offer expires June
30, 2003, or perhaps earlier if stock runs out.
- - - - -
Timothy F. Sipples
PCI soundcards for eComStation and OS/2 Warp
The new PCI soundcards for eComStation and OS/2 Warp web site is now
online. The site offers lists of sound cards and chips which are
compatible with eComStation and OS/2, including information regarding the
chip sets which the card is based on, hardware quality, available drivers,
driver features and quality, driver sources, and available tools like
mixers. So if you are considering to buy a new PCI sound card or a new
motherboard with on-board sound, or you are wondering whether your
existing sound card is supported by OS/2 or not, this is the place to go.
Visit us at: http://www.os2world.com/soundcards/
Without your reports we won't be able to keep the site up-to-date. So you
should also pay us a visit, if your sound card is working well. Please
check whether your soundcard is listed and if the information given is
correct.
Christian Hennecke
Beta release 3 of Labela
As the final release 1.0 of Labela has been delayed I have released the
third beta release of Labela.
Only change worth mentioning : Expiration of the beta version has been
changed from 01-Apr-2003 to 01-Jul-2003, where the final release hopefully
will be ready.
You can download it form : http://www.os2world.com/labella.
--------
For those who don't know, Labela is a label and business card designer,
closely related to my C-Side CD-label designer !
Kim Foder
New WarpVision GUI 20030506
"The goal of the WarpVision project is to create an OS/2 multimedia player
that supports the latest formats, as well as the latest hardware
features."
Changelog:
06.05.2003
Fixed working on "old" systems
Fixed 3175 on some mpegs
Fixed wrong audio speed on some mp3 streams
Some other fixes and bugs :-)
http://www.laemmlin.net/mirror/wvgui/wvgui20030506.zip
Program URL: http://os2.kiev.ua/
eCS 1.1 in the news
OSNews has a mini review of eCS 1.1 online.
The reviewer doesn't like the installer improvements though I, personally
found the installation procedure to be quite improved over version 1.0.
I've had my eCS 1.1 GA now for a few days. I have experimented with
installing it on a few different machines and it was in essence, simply a
matter of making your adjustments taking a twenty minute break and coming
back to a fully functional desktop.
The reviewer goes beyond the installer however, and for speed &
performance it's rates a 9/10, (I'd like to see what fetches a 10/10...
certainly not anything MS makes 8) ). If such an article is of interest to
you the OS/2 community, you can read it in it's entirety at;
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3476
Enjoy,
Ben Dragon
DFSee version 5.19 released
Many improvements and bug-fixes, the 'about' command or DFSee is the SWISS-ARMY-KNIFE for disk and filesystem problems. With
FDISK-like displays, analysis and recovery, FIX commands, UNDELETE for
HPFS/NTFS, imaging and cloning. More details at: http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee.htm Direct download links: Most important functional changes since 5.17: Check DFS*.TXT files for details, all changes listed in DFSHIST.TXT Registering DFSee will give you the right to use all 5.xx versions and get
support plus a reasonable amount of assistance by email. Existing 4.xx
registrations can be upgraded to 5.xx as well. But even more important, it enables further development of DFSee! Regards, Jan van Wijk WarpVision CLI updated 20030504 Download: http://www.laemmlin.net/mirror/wvcli/wvcli20030504.zip Web site: http://os2.kiev.ua/en/wv.php Learn C++ for eCS discussion forum is up Ok, all those wanting to discuss the Learn C++ for eCS class can now go
to: http://forums.os2voice.org/VOICE/CPlusPlus/ [Moderator's note: This class has been discussed on the eComStation Yahoo
mailing list as a way for eCS and OS/2 users to learn the C++ programming
language to help in developing applications for our platform of choice.
Please see the online forum for more information.] I've provided some basic intro info. Walter Metcalf, VOICE President, is still working with me on the forum
setup I'd like, so there might be some changes still. So if you set a
bookmark, it might need to be changed, I don't know for sure. OS/2-eCS potential article subject list Ok, I have setup http://groups.yahoo.com/group/articles-eCS-OS2 as a place
where people can submit article ideas or go to look for ideas to write
articles. I have currently left membership open but will change it to restricted in
a week or so to try to lessen spam. I suggest setting your subscription
to daily digest rather than individual emails unless you are actively
looking for an article idea. If there is not much involvement I will
cancel the group in around a month or 2 so as not to have to deal with the
group owner responsibilities for an unused group as I would think that
should be sufficient time to determine if it has any virtue. These articles ideas could be for OS/2Ezine or Voice, whomever picks up
the idea and submits an article to whomever they desire.
[News Index]
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee519.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/disk/dfsee519.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee519.zip
- CREATE Added -A option to "create as" another partition
- PTE Fixed display of almost empty entries (just a type)
- RESIZE Added explicit warning about resizing bootable NTFS
- ALLOC Fixed reported minimum size for FAT (missed some EOF)
- OS/2 Fixed trap in "check" command for some systems (I hope)
- DELETE Fixed invalid MBR on delete of last logical using 0x0F
- DFSUNFD New example RECOVER2.DFS and new samples in DFSUNFD.TXT
- PART Support nn,r relative PID syntax to select partitions
- DELETE Support for -d:D and -p:P,r relative PID (for scripts)
- PART Added DELL utility partition-type; updated W2K LDM
- PART/MAP Fix Linux device-name when logicals in wrong order
- MBRcode Added another GRUB MBR variant to be recognized
- Errors Added store-description to many reported errors
- ABOUT Added OS-version info, inluding OS/2 kernel revision
- Startup Warning if DFSWIN used on Win9x/WinME virtual DosBox
- Startup Warning for DFSDOS on Windows or OS2 virtual DosBox
- Startup Warning if DFSDOS used on DOS with a memory manager
- DFSTART Added presence-check for all required DFSee files
- DFSTART Added write-permission check for current directory
- DFSUNFD Added write-permission check for current directory
- display Changed cylinder text 'C:' to 'Cyl' for readability
- Alt-F12 Switch output buffer color: NORMAL - BRIGHT - INVERT
- HELP -? Added for the commands SET, SETANSI and TRACE
- EXE New '-C:2' switch on .EXE sets bright FG colors only
- SET 'SCREEN BRIGHT' will set bright FG color only
May 05
wvision-cli 0.0.14r ( Sun May 4 15:39:38 2003 UTC )
- latest ffmpeg
- latest liba52
- some unused variables and warnings removed
- dvd cache change (smoother playing)
- performance measurement procedure (wvision.cpp/CALC_PERFORMANCE)
May 04
May 04
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