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Program URL: http://www2.southwind.net/~dwhawk
Available from: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu in pub/os2/apps/internet/www/util or pub/incoming
http:www.cdrom.com in /.1/os2/wpsutil when moved
http://www.bmtmicro.com

Archive Filename: pms_122.zip 374402 bytes
Shareware: $9.95 (US)

Registration covers all 1.xx releases of PMStripper. If you have registered PMStripper prior to May of 1999 and have not received an email notice of this update, I need to update your email address in my mailing list. Send me a message with the email address used with your original registration and your new email address and I will update my mailing list. If you registered PMStripper with BMT Micro in May of 1999, use the same user name and password to download the new version.

If you operate an internet accessable archive of OS/2 software and would like me to upload the shareware version of PMStripper to your site, please email me at dwhawk@southwind and include OS/2 in the subject line.

Discription of PMStripper:

This PM utility strips HTML codes from Web pages, leaving only the text and optionally the URLs. While the layout of tables and lists is lost during stripping, data is sorted to separate lines for legibility.

Install PMStripper as the HTML source viewer in WebX instead of the OS/2 system editor E, and you can use the Ctrl+V keystroke combination to load the web page source directly into PMStripper. This will make it easier to cut and paste information or URLs from web pages. It can also be installed as the document source viewer in Netscape. There are instructions for using PMStripper with Netscape 4.04 on my web page and included in the shareware distribution zip file.

Registered users of PMStripper will have access to two additional executable files that were compiled with the 486 and 586 compiler options. These versions will offer some performance improvement for users with 486 , Pentium, or equivalent CPUs.

New in PMStripper 1.22

Corrected a bug in handling the "TD" html code.

New in PMStripper 1.21:

Fixed bug that prevented the font selection made from the menu from being saved as the new default font.

Added support for saving drag and drop color and font changes made to the information area below the main window. This should make PMStripper easier to use for OS/2 users with vision problems.

Added a "Save Marked Text To File" option under "File" on the menubar.

Back up your OS/2 Hard Drives without any expensive hardware! Ideal for removable media, but works great with any device that can be read and written to by OS/2 as a Drive letter. Tired of those expensive and unreliable programs that seem more trouble to use than it's worth? DreckBak will do automated backups of as many as 9 partitions. This COMPLETE "Backup/Restore Solution Suite" features an automated installer that creates all needed directories, folders,program objects, links to the support site, etc. An optional scheduler, several freeware utilities used by the program and complete instructions and docs. The program does Full Logging and DOUBLE integrity checking.

ALL YOU NEED IS SOME SPACE ON YOUR HARD DRIVE, and ZIP/UNZIP.EXE from Info-Zip. This low cost solution is why there's NO LONGER a reason not to have a backup of your system.

See why Warp City calls this one "a keeper"!

Download now from:

http://weismer.virtualave.net/DreckBak.html

Focus on OS/2 features two items this weeks:

1. A survey of what's new in the Aurora server. See http://os2.miningco.com.

2. The name of the MiningCo.com has been changed to About.com to reflect the fact that now that About.com is among the top 25 sites on the Web we are must broader than "mining for gems on the internet." Many of those gems, in fact, are on our sites. For more information about why the name was changed, see http://ourstory.about.com/why.htm.

Oliver Rick (oliver.rick@oor.de) has translated his Warpupdate table of contents in English. There are 6 chapters with 63 Items.

His start page is:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/Homepages/orick/warpupd1.htm

The page of the table of contents is:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/Homepages/orick/warptoc1.htm

IBM hosts a goldmine of Tech Tips in their Lotus Domino Technical Documents database, viewable from the following URL.

http://service5.boulder.ibm.com/pspsdocs.nsf

After going to this URL, select "Documents By Family", then Search (using the Search link) for warp.

You may want to narrow that search down as I got over 2,000 hits on my search for "warp".

In the latest issue of "Stardock News", Stardock Systems (http://www.stardock.com/) announced that they had changed their position on producing another OS/2 version of their business simulation game, Entrepreneur. Previously Stardock had stated that the next version of Entrepreneur would be available only for the Windows platform. However, late yesterday (Tuesday, May 18, 1999) they announced:

"On October 1, a game based on Entrepreneur will be released for OS/2."

There will be a name change of the product so the new game will not be called Entrepreneur but Stardock announced that the new game will be available free to current owners of Entrepreneur.

There is an interesting assortment of "OS/2 Collectables" available for sale at http://www.ChipChat.com/os2/special.html

Items include OS/2 key fobs, OS/2 lapel pins, OS/2 watches, and OS/2 Shirts. True OS/2 Enthusiasts will enjoy owning and using these items.

These are all genuine IBM-OS/2 marketing materials - some from the very early days of OS/2 1.x

Marty Cawthon
ChipChat

P.S. I personally collected these items over the past 12 years. I began my OS/2 exploits with Microsoft and IBM in 1987 with the beta version of OS/2 1.0. It required several pages of non-disclosure in order to get a copy of the secret code. Quite a difference from attitudes today!

IBM eNetwork Communications Server for OS/2 Warp, Version 6 Brings the Power of Personal Networking to Your Workstation

At a Glance

eNetwork Communications Server for OS/2 Warp, Version 6.0, now a SecureWay Software offering, offers a broad range of communication, connectivity, and networking options that lets you make application decisions based on business needs not networking protocols.

New enhancements include:

Enterprise Extender - Results in efficient use of the intranet infrastructure for IP clients who access the SNA-based data TN3270E Server additions

Client filtering - Enables central administration of clients allowed to connect into the TN3270E Server

LU Pooling - Simplifies user access Secure Sockets Layer-based (SSL-based) security =97 Provides additional levels of security

LU Termination - Provides configuration flexibility

License Management - Manages the number of concurrent users Tivoli Readiness

IBM Host On-Demand Entry Version 3 - Provides basic Java-based terminal emulation for intranet and Web users

http://www2.ibmlink.ibm.com/cgi-bin/master?xh=3DmWqCbHhB2krGSl0USenGnN9332&request=3Dannouncements&parms=3DU%5f299%2d119&xfr=3DN

ABOUT CHANGE

I'm Walter Metcalf, and you know me as your Mining Co. Guide to OS/2. That's about to change. As of today, I'm your About.com Guide.

As you've probably guessed, we're changing our name. We're no longer MiningCo.com.

As of today, we are About.com.

And I'm committed to running the Web's best site About OS/2. You'll find it at http://os2.about.com.

I know many of you kind of liked the old name. I did, too. But I like the new one even better. Here's why:

WHAT WE'VE BEEN ABOUT

In the beginning, "MiningCo.com" made sense. We set out to solve the problems of a huge and confusing medium by mining for the Internet's real gems. We were all about taking you to the good stuff, quickly and efficiently, in the best way possible: via expert human guidance.

We're still about that. But we've grown into something much more.

WHAT WE'RE ABOUT NOW

Today, we're about vibrant online communities led by qualified specialists -- like me. We're about reliable, entertaining feature content -- the largest collection of original, specialized content on the Web. We're about the trusted recommendations of hundreds of Guides, including me. We're about leveraging the human mind to make sense of the virtual world -- and the real world. All this, and more, is now just as essential to what we are as mining for information.

Simply stated, our goal is to be about whatever you're about. And my goal in particular is to maintain a terrific site and a community that's about your special interest -- OS/2.

Hence the new name: About.com.

ABOUT YOU

When this newsletter next arrives, it'll be called Warped World of OS/2 from About.com. But it'll still feature the same great content, and it'll still be coming from me, your Guide About Focus on OS/2

Feel free to send along your feedback about About.com, or about anything else that's on your mind.

After all, this community is about you.

Yours,
Walter

OS/2 Headquarters (http://www.os2hq.com/) has posted the long-awaited "Halloween 3" review, a summary and analysis of the third in a series of leaked internal Microsoft memos -- from an OS/2 user perspective. Also available is the final outcome of the informal "OS/2 Mascot Contest" and its surprise winner.

There was a serious bug in just released beta 0.07 of VNC viewer for OS/2 PM. Fixed this bug and released new beta 0.08.

You can get VNC viewer for PM under my OS/2 tools page

http://www.sra.co.jp/people/akira/os2/index-e.html

or directly,

http://www.sra.co.jp/people/akira/os2/vnc-pm/index.html

VNC is a system to access remote desktops from a local machine. It consists of a remote server and a local viewer (client). This release is the viewer for OS/2 PM. For more details see

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

http://www.pendragon-software.com/pendragon/cm3/scores.html

Do you see a trend here? Another proof that OS/2 Warp 4 Java performance is top notch.

X-it is a full-featured desktop enhancer. X-it gives you a single click to many common actions that normally take a large number of mouse movements and clicking. X-it was nominated as Most Innovative New Product at the 1997 Shareware Industry Awards (www.sic.org).

NEW FEATURES:

* Added quick copy/paste for Dos windows - simply drag mouse button 1 to begin marking text in a Dos command line window. Double click button 1 to paste.
* Mouse button 1 configuration (with shift/ctrl/alt combos).
* Added snap mouse to window - snaps either to the default button, or center of the window if no buttons. Options to snap to button windows only and animation.
* Added auto menu selection when mouse moved over menu item.
* Option to autoselect menu when over any of the 6 sections/columns of a menu item.
* Added disable/enable NumLock and ScrollLock keys. Use Shift+key to override. Also allows you to force NumLock on or off on bootup.
* On the fly toggles for X-it's mouse/keyboard actions. Toggles appear in X-it's popup menu (right click over an X-it titlebar button, or in X-it's task list).
* Fix for X-it's Edit popup menu occuring when there is no static text to copy. This fixes right mouse button conflict with PMView 2.x (bug occurs only if static copy is enabled in X-it's menu options).
* Shift+rolldown now only rolls down those windows that were rolled up via shift+rollup. That is, windows already rolled up are left alone.
* Fix for shift+rollup messing up minimized icons.
* Fix for alt+mouse button executing the keyboard alt+left_shift action * New port: X-it for Windows 95/98/3.x at www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/xitwin/

AND THE STANDARD FEATURES:

* Multiple user defined titlebar buttons - assign a predefined action to them or launch any PM, Dos or Windows program. Place them on the left or the right side of the titlebar.
* Over 40 useful predefined actions.
* Window actions include close, rollup, next, previous, move, size, task list.
* Edit actions include cut, copy, copy all, paste and clear. These actions are available in any PM window or any command line window. Copy all will copy the entire text in a PM multi-line entry field with a single click - no need to mark it first! Copy from static text or the titlebar!
* Folder actions include open parent, open parent and close, sort, arrange and refresh.
* User defined middle and right mouse buttons - assign them with the same actions available for the titlebar buttons. Plus, you can assign the right or left mouse button double click action to a single mouse button or a key - never have to double click again!
* Keyboard keys can also be assigned any predefined action (including Win95 keys).
* User defined popup menus for edit and folder actions. Copy and paste or sort a folder with almost no mouse movements.
* Full OS/2 and Dos command window support, including font size and full screen actions. Bypass that pesky "are you sure" dialog when closing a command line window or doing a system shutdown.
* Other available actions that can be assigned are X-it task list (single click to another program), OS/2 task list, LaunchPad, and Help.
* Titlebar and Desktop clock, with date and/or time in your country format.
* "Auto drop down combo box on mouse click" - a handy windows-like feature where you don't have to click on the tiny down arrow to open a drop down list.
* X-windows like window focus - the window under the mouse pointer is automatically activated. User defined delay, and Z-order can be preserved.
* "Remove Warp 4 close button" option.
* "Disable capslock/numlock/scrolllock key" option. Handy for small keyboards.
* Language support for German, French, Danish, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch, Portuguese, Hungarian, Italian and English.
* No charge when updating from a previous 2.x version, and all your current settings are preserved.

"I always feature the latest and greatest shareware in my demos and a LOT of people ask me where to get X-IT. I have grown to REQUIRE it (and can't stand working on a system that doesn't have it)."
- David Barnes, IBM Senior Product Manager for PSP, on X-it 1.0

"A VERY cool WPS enhancement!"
- David Barnes, IBM Senior Product Manager for PSP, on X-it 2.0

"There is a certain little desktop enhancement that is long overdue for a Rave ... X-it v2.2.... everyone should know how incredible it really is. X-it is super useful, super small, and super slick. This software is extremely configurable, allowing users to place a zillion buttons on either the left or right of any window's title bar to do about a zillion things. ... I've never once had to look at a readme or manual to figure out what a feature does. ... X-it is solid and beautifully discreet."
- Trevor Smith, editor, OS/2 e-Zine!, June, 1996

"After using it for the past two weeks or so I have found this to be one of my most treasured add-ons."
- Collin Summers, OS/2 Warp Newsletter Feb. 1996

"This is a *very* useful gadget that deserves a spot on *everyone's* desktop."
- Chris Wenham, OS/2 e-Zine! March 1996

Product Info:

http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/xit/xit.html

This is just a short note to let everyone know that I am working with a team of programmers and the SETI@Home development team to port the SETI@Home client to OS/2. We have made substantial progress this weekend and we should have something ready for public use soon.

SETI@Home is a distributed computing project similar to the encryption cracking efforts run by distributed.net (http://www.distributed.net). The SETI@Home concept is to distribute radio telescope data gathered by the SETI project (SETI = Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) to thousands of computers over the Internet so that the data can be analyzed for signals that might be of intelligent origin. The client software runs in the background when your computer is idle.

The SETI@Home web page is located at:

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

Now nVidia's RIVA 128/TNT driver is now AVAILABLE FOR OS/2!!! Horray!!!

This is a GRADD based driver, so please make sure that you have switched your display driver to VGA GRADD (NOT plain VGA driver) before install... I believe that this ISN'T a rebadged version of GENGRADD, so be prepared for the speed... :)

Since I do not have an nVidia chipset based video card, I cannot test the driver... Please let me know the result after you have tested the driver...

Now:

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/128tntb5.zip

Later:

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/drivers/video/128tntb5.zip

The CandyBarZ team @ the OS/2 Netlabs has released the first public beta of CandyBarZ v1.30

CandyBarZ originally was a gradient filled titlebar replacement, but has now been extended to allow 'skinning' of the titlebar, frame backgrounds, and buttons (push, radio, checkbox). Menus and scrollbars will be skinnable in the near future.

The distribution is currently available at hobbes in the incoming directory and will soon be available at the CandyBarZ website http://www.netlabs.org/candybarz/

If you try this version and have comments or bugs to report please subscribe to the CandyBarZ egroup @ http://www.egroups.com/list/candybarz

WarpNote 1.8 released.

Download URL: ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro/wnote18.zip
Developer Web Site: http://www.geocities.com/rodeodrive/2048/warpnote.html

Product Description:

Tired of those yellow sticky notes that won't stick on your monitor? Here come the sticky notes that remain where you put them: On your OS/2 desktop. WarpNote gives you easy access to little yellow windows where you can note down everything you want. The program is simple and easy to use and consumes as little memory as possible. Each and any feature can be configured and adjusted to the user's needs. Extensive scripting capabilities give you unlimited possibilities (birthday-reminder included as an example script).

New in this Release:

A Blowfish encryption interface is the highlight of the new WarpNote version. It enables you to easily encrypt notes that contain private data, such as IDs and passwords. The encryption feature is, of course, as easy to use as WarpNote itself.

Blowfish is a symmetric block cipher that is considered as a replacement for DES or IDEA. It was designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier as a fast, free alternative to existing encryption algorithms. Since then it has been analyzed considerably, and it is slowly gaining acceptance as a strong encryption algorithm. For more information on Blowfish, go to the Blowfish homepage http://www.counterpane.com/blowfish.html.

The program data can now be kept in any directory, enabling the user to move it to a central position e.g. on a network server.

Further enhancements have been made in notes handling, especially regarding keyboard usage and quick notes access.

Found this thanks to the HARDWARE list at os2ss. I think it's a very positive article, and a few of OS/2's well known supporters are quoted in the article.

http://www.infoworld.com:80/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?990511.pios2users.htm

http://www.volano.com/report.html

OS/2 has still the fastest Java VM according to the people at Volano. Even the new Sun HotSpot 1.0 is no match against IBM OS/2 JDK 1.1.7.

I have released a new version (beta 0.07) of VNC viewer for OS/2 PM.

This is a new beta version (beta 0.07) of PM VNC viewer. I added some requested features and fixed some problems.

New Features:

Appended '-passwd password-file' option. If VNC viewer can access password file of the VNC server, this option specifies the use of the password from given file, not from password dialog. If you use this viewer with Xvnc server for OS/2, this option gives no passwd dailog to connect to local Xvnc server.

Appended '-keymap keymap-file' option. Keymap-file defines maps between scan key code and VNC's key code (X's keysymdef). With this mapping, you can send different key code for Right/Left Shift/Control keys, or keypad keys usually not distinguished. Also, you can send NLS keys with this mapping.

Fixes:

When keyboard focus changed, VNC viewer adjusts Shift, Ctrl, Alt state to current state. This fixes a problem CTRL stay pressed when CTRL-ESC to change active window. But this fix sends another key event to the remote desktop, and this may cause problems on some remote applications.

Also there is a problem on mouse button release. If you hold down a mouse button and release it outside window, then no mouse release was send to remote desktop, and remote application think mouse button is still pressed. Now the viewer captures mouse on button down and watches button release.

You can get VNC viewer for PM under my OS/2 tools page:

http://www.sra.co.jp/people/akira/os2/index-e.html

or directly,

http://www.sra.co.jp/people/akira/os2/vnc-pm/index.html

VNC is a system to access remote desktops from a local machine. It consists of a remote server and a local viewer (client). This release is the viewer for OS/2 PM. For more details see:

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

From the Southern California OS/2 User Group:

The May "Webfoot, The Duck" OS/2 column is now online at

http://www.scoug.com/os24u/1999/scoug905.2.webfoot.html

This month, Webfoot covers:

- the Triple-A rated OS/2.org site
- code rewriter GlassMan
- taking Rover for a walk
- suspicious Mascot activities at OS/2 Headquarters
- the Homepage of the OS/2 Config.sys file
- and a lot more

Each monthly "Webfoot, The Duck" column includes:

- "On the web, content is king ...", a section which reviews ten relevant OS/2 sites,
- "Duck Feather", an internet tip, ande
- "Comparing The Hits", a monthly search engine test.

Sponsored by the Southern California OS/2 User Group (http://www.scoug.com).

I just visited the website for the RC5-64 encryption cracking effort and found that Team Warped has moved up into 3rd place in the Teams stats. We finally passed the Japan FreeBSD User Group!

http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/tlist.php3?low=1&limit=100

If we're to keep our hold on 3rd place, we're going to need more members with decently fast machines. If you're running OS/2 (or would just like to add to Team Warped's standings by using the spare CPU cycles of a Windows, Mac, Linux, etc machine) I encourage you to visit the Team Warped website at http://www.ionet.net/~colin/rc5.html and sign on! It's fast, free, and could help demonstrate OS/2's continuing life!

(note, this is not an official Team Warped announcement, just a status report from a member)

Just wanted to let everyone know that the MIDI Station Sequencer page is back up. My ISP had a problem with one of their routers but it has been fixed.

So if you were trying to download MIDI Station Sequencer and were unsuccessful you can now go grab a copy.

http://www.midistation.cei.nu

Christopher Hodges
Author of MIDI Station Sequencer

IBM has updated Java 1.1.7 (5/13/99):

ftp://ftp.hursley.ibm.com/pub/java/fixes/os2/11/117/

It has been some time since we published a new software review. That's why we are very pleased to announce that The Warped Site has been updated with an extensive review of Relish, Sundial Systems time and information management tool. Find out what we have to say about this exciting native OS/2 application at :

http://users.pandora.be/luc.vanbogaert/reviews/relish.htm

Thanks,

Luc Van Bogaert,
Webmaster of The Warped Site.

Josh Shagam, the Hobbes site administrator, posted this to the Hobbes message line early Thursday morning. (The message line appears when you run a Quick Search. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/) I *think* the "w4demo.zip" file utilized by the attacker is the OS/2 Warp 4 demonstration that runs on Windows.

-----

(05/13/1999) I should be happy because I'm done with all my finals. I'm not, however, as someone's been exploiting the sheer size of certain files to basically cause a DoS of Hobbes (and, as such, I had to temporarily 'remove' w4demo in /pub/incoming). Does anyone know how to stop spoofed IP addresses, particularly when the address which is being spoofed is 0.0.0.0? To reject 0.0.0.0 would be to reject oneself, and that path leads only to self-hatred. I'd hate to think that someone were trying to maliciously cripple Hobbes, but the following snippet of the access-log (which is just four lines out of hundreds/thousands) tells me otherwise:

0.0.0.0 - - [13/May/1999:01:35:45 +0700] "GET /pub/incoming/w4demo.zip HTTP/1.09
0.0.0.0 - - [13/May/1999:01:35:45 +0700] "GET /pub/incoming/w4demo.zip HTTP/1.09
0.0.0.0 - - [13/May/1999:01:35:46 +0700] "GET /pub/incoming/w4demo.zip HTTP/1.09
0.0.0.0 - - [13/May/1999:01:35:46 +0700] "GET /pub/incoming/w4demo.zip HTTP/1.09

Please, no conspiracy theories about certain tool-challenged OS vendors trying to use a demo of a superior OS against its own best file archive in a bitter streak of poetic quasi-justice. I'd just like to know how to keep this from continuing to happen. Anyone have experience with configuring ICS to block IP addresses, for example? So far I haven't figured out how to do that (and I've been using ICS for what, 2.5 years now?) though it's trivial to do in Apache. *sigh* politics...

DeskTop Backup (DTB) has just been updated with Automated backups and redundacy storage.

DeskTop Backup is a simple tool that works with InfoZip's Zip (v2.2) and Unzipsfx to build a self-extracting zipfile containing your essential desktop and other configuration information. There is no magic or slight of hand concerning it's use and one can do the same work from the command line along with the InfoZip utilitities. DeskTop Backup merely makes it a bit more automated and will also help you decide what files may be important to archive.

DTB will also help find and list important files on your drive so you are able to do a more detailed backup than the standard OS/2 system desktop archive will give you.

You may add to the "suggested" file listings or do a separate setup of your own important files and directories as well. Such as? Well... maybe you want to do an archive of business correspondance or maybe back up a development directory every so often. You can do them on demand or automatically as well.

Saving several distinctive backup setups to be performed on demand or automatically is easily handled by DTB. You can also scan the chosen drive for existence of suggested files whenever you feel an update of the information is needed. (new files important to your desktop may have appeared since the last setup)

As usual, we try to stay away from cryptic scripts etc so "AutoStart" backups are simple point and click setups that update your situation automatically with just a mouse click. You can also save multiple archive setups and recall them at will as well as setting the scheduler to run automatically at startup to archive by "days between archives" or "day of the week".

More information and downloads are available at: http://www.pillarsoft.net

IBM has worked together with various ISV's and provided a promotions page, where some ISV's are offering an opening special to conincide with the release of OS/2 Warp Server for e-business, aka Aurora. These sites can offer substantial savings off of normal RRP (Recommended Retail Price).

The URL is:

http://www.ibm.com/warp-server/promotions

MaccaSoft is announcing the availability of Emerald Mail version 1.20.

Emerald Mail is a full featured e-mail client and news reader written in the Java language, thus it is compatible with virtually every operating system that also support a Java virtual machine version 1.1 or higher, including Windows, OS/2 and Linux.

The integration of an e-mail client and a news reader makes Emerald Mail the perfect solution for the office and home users. The support of IMAP4 servers, as well as standard POP3 and SMTP servers, allows you to access your corporate mail from anywhere in the world.

Here are the relevant features of Emerald Mail:

- Multiple accounts.
- Multiple nested folders.
- Support for POP3, IMAP4, SMTP and NNTP (news) servers.
- Multiple address books.
- Multiple identity.
- MIME compliant.

System requirements:

- Java virtual machine version 1.1 or higher (1.2 suggested).
- At least 2MB of free disk space for the program files.

Emerald Mail is a shareware product. You can download a fully functional evaluation version from http://www.maccasoft.com.

We want to make this product the best e-mail client and news reader around the world, so we want to hear from you. Please write your comments to support@maccasoft.com and tell us what do you think about this product and what we can do to improve it.

There is an OS/2 port of vMac (The Virtual Macintosh Emulator) available at http://www.vmac.org.

It is able to run up to System 7.5, and requires a valid ROM file. A utility for downloading a ROM file from a real Mac is also available at the site.

I haven't tested it yet (I don't have easy access to a Mac here), but it sure looks promising.

I've just completed the shareware edition of ERIC a puzzle solving game for OS/2. It can be downloaded from http://hobbes.nmsu.edu (currently in the incoming directory as ericos2s.zip). Or from my home page at http://www.bacchus.com.au/~ben. I have also detailed my future plans for ERIC on my website.

If you want to get certified on IBM Netfinity Hardware, then you should check out the web page below:

http://www.pc.ibm.com/techconnect/

They are basically looking for LAN engineers and other support personnel who will support at the expert level, IBM Netfinity servers on ALL operating systems. (OS/2 is a choice of answer for all NOS related questions.)

Personal Note: You can think of this in a sense as "BESTeam for IBM Hardware."

And now for an IBM quote to sum it up in their own words:

"TechConnect is IBM's information resource linking Netfinity users with information updates, training and professional credentials in over 100 countries.

Members receive quarterly CD ROM mailings containing over 10,000 pages of news and technical information. TechConnect also sends a separate Drivers and Fixes CD, giving convenient access to the latest information.

In addition, TechConnect members have the opportunity to qualify as IBM Certified Professional Server Specialists (PSS), IBM Certified Associate Professional Server Experts (APSE), or IBM Certified Professional Server Experts (PSE). This elite group enjoys many unique privileges, including enhanced support through the IBM HelpCenter and more frequent information updates.

Join Now - TechConnect Membership is available to all qualified networking professionals without cost or obligation."