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WPSWizard 0.4 and Bubblepad 1.0.5

Chris Wohlgemuth has released WPSWizard 0.4

WPS-Wizard is an addon for the WPS which gives you freely configurable context menus for all filesystem objects. You may have different extended menus for different classes. For example iconfiles may have other menu extension than audiofiles.

Bubblepad 1.05

Bubblepad V1.05 is a replacement class for the Launchpad of OS/2 Warp 3

http://www.os2world.com/cdwriting/

OS/2 CHL update

OS/2 & USB Controllers article was finalized and put online on OS/2 Compatible Hardware List http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?pageid=3&sub=5

Article contains in-depth chipsets details.

Url: http://www.os2warp.be/

SciTech to Provide Customers with Enterprise Level Display Driver Solutions for HP Compaq Business Desktop PCs

From the SciTech home page (link):
http://www.scitechsoft.com/news/press/hp_oems_snap.html

There is a recent press release on SciTech Software's site -

"SciTech to Provide Customers with Enterprise Level Display Driver Solutions for HP Compaq Business Desktop PCs"

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Chico, California -- (June 16, 2003) -- SciTech Software, Inc., a leading supplier of enterprise level graphics driver solutions, today announced their OS/2 solutions will be available to HP Compaq Business PC D530 customers. SciTech's latest device driver technology, SciTech SNAP Graphics will be placed in the heart of HP's OS/2 based enterprise HP Compaq business desktop systems, and ensures that customers will benefit from the latest Intel graphics chipsets.

"SciTech is able to deliver, to HP customers, potent solutions to market faster, and more cost effectively than ever before" said Andrew Bloo, Director of Sales & Marketing, for SciTech Software Inc. "SciTech continues to show that it is deeply committed to the adoption of new and improved technologies that have the ability to better serve its customers."

SciTech will provide select models of the HP Compaq business desktop PC D530 with a custom edition of SciTech's leading graphics driver solution, SciTech SNAP Graphics for OS/2. This will provide HP's OS/2 customers with SciTech certified graphics systems, as well as support for the latest Graphics chip from Intel.

"By providing SciTech's high quality SNAP graphics video drive solution, HP can offer customers OS/2 support, a key attribute many customers find important when making new hardware purchases," said Keith Martin, Software Marketing Manager, HP Personal Systems Group.

SciTech SNAP Graphics offers superior performance and a higher-level stability than any other solution currently available. By allowing customers to select only the features they wish, driver complexity can be greatly reduced, long-term support issues are minimized, and time to market can be dramatically shortened.

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Does this mean HP is selling OS/2 boxes?... that's interesting, isn't it?

Cheers, Ian

RSJ CD Writer for OS/2 5.02

I just noticed that last month RSJ released an update to their CD/DVD writer software for OS/2. In case people weren't aware, starting with 5.0 RSJ now supports writing to DVD media.

URL: http://www.rsj.de/stage/en/cdwriter/cd_os2.asp

Download:
English: http://www2.rsj.de/pub/cdwos2/5.02/cdwos2us.exe
German: http://www2.rsj.de/pub/cdwos2/5.02/cdwos2d.exe
French: http://www2.rsj.de/pub/cdwos2/5.02/cdwos2fr.exe

Changes RSJ CD Writer for OS/2
5.02
* recorder speed tables updated
* DVD-RW support improved
* CDView: track sizes larger than 2GB are now displayed correctly

5.01
* better detection of DVD recordables in DVD+-RW combo drives
* no more popup message after accessing unformatted DVD+RW media
* bug in cache management fixed (this bug was only contained in 5.00)

5.00
* DVD+R/RW support
* DVD-R/RW support
* Recorder detection enhanced
* German version: "CD Writer Steuerung" changed to "CD Writer Kontrollfeld" to match the program object title
* OEM version of Ricoh 7060S added to cddrv.inf
* Fixed license problem in CopyWizard and CD Cover Print

SNAP Graphics for OS/2 2.2.0
SciTech SNAP Graphics for OS/2 2.2.0 has been released: http://www.scitechsoft.com/ftp/snap/os2/beta/

You can view the readme file here:
http://www.scitechsoft.com/ftp/snap/os2/beta/readme.txt

Highlights of this release include preliminary support for MultiHead on some Nvidia chipsets, proper support for AGP 8X, and various nice fixes (including some GRADD updates from IBM).

For a complete list of changes, see the changelog:
http://www.scitechsoft.com/snap2_changes.txt

If you encounter any problems, please open tickets on the SciTech HelpDesk, with your graphics.log and any pertinent screenshots attached:
http://www.scitechsoft.com/support/helpdesk/

web/2 and neatutils update

Hi everyone, I released a new version of web/2, check it out @http://dink.org/web2/

"Web/2 is a native OS/2 web server, written in Pascal and is freeware and incredible small (the size of the executable I use is only 42k)."

neatutils were updated also, see http://dink.org/neatutils.htm

"Compilation of various utilities, including whois, speed (displays realtime statistics on an ethernet interface), sock (shows a list of opened sockets) and others."

regards,
- dink http://dink.org

IBM Web Browser 2.01 Available for eCS users

IBM updated the Web Browser from 2.0 to 2.01. The updated version is available to registered eComStation 1.1 users.

http://www.ecomstation.com

IBM Web Browser Service Refresh

The IBM(R) Web Browser for OS/2(R) V2.0.1 Service Refresh is now available for download. IBM Web Browser for OS/2, v2.0.1 is based on the Mozilla 1.3 level.

http://www-3.ibm.com/software/os/warp/swchoice/

Netlabs Fat32 driver

I have been working on a Warpin install for the Netlabs fat32 driver. Adrian finally has found time to upload it so others can download it.

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/fat32/fat32_94b_netlabs.wpi

In this release, EXTENDED ATTRIBUTE support is enabled. If you don't want EA support, you will have to manually edit your config.sys and remove the /EAS from the

IFS=G:\OS2\BOOT\FAT32.IFS /EAS /Q /CACHE:2048

Warpin is not setup to allow people to select options or I would have given people the option.

Mike, this is a later version than the one I sent you.

Someone asked what is different about this one compared to Henk's driver. It is my understanding that you no longer have to boot to Windows to perform any chkdsk. However, this is what I was told on one of the forums. So far, with every crash, this fat32 chkdisk has worked.

David Graser

DFSee 5.23 released; BMGR detection improved

For easy detection of several (eComstation/OS2) installation problems some interesting additions heve been made to the PART display that:

For easy detection of several (eComstation/OS2) installation problems some interesting additions heve been made to the PART display that:

- Will identify THREE different IBM bootmanagers correctly
1) The original one, created by FDISK, no I13X, no LVM
2) The updated FDISK one, now including I13X but no LVM
3) The one created by LVM, including I13X and of course LVM

- WARNING if a bootable partition requires I13X to boot, but either the installed BMGR of the MBR code does NOT support that

- Warning if primary 'active' partition beyond cylinder 1023 is present and the MBR does not support I13X

- Int-13 limit (cylinder 1023) for BIOS is shown at DFSee startup together with a short description of the detected MBR-code

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:

http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee523.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/disk/dfsee523.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee523.zip

Most important functional changes:

- PART Detect 3 different versions of BMGR: FDISK/I13X/LVM
- PART Format "none" = unformatted, "unknown" = unrecognized
- PART -w Minor warning for IBM BMGR when it is not W2K protected
- Startup of DFSee or DFSUNFD/DFSTART scripts use "FDISK -m" now
- DFSIBMGR Fixed bug for disk other than 1, allow different name
- PART Warning when MBR or BMGR has no I13X while required
- TYPE Types 0x8a/8e/a8/ab/bb/fa/fb/fc/fd now recognized
- TYPE XOSL bmgr 0x78 type recognized now (in PART cmd too)
- LVM -n Do not update disk/sector if it is no LVM-sector yet
- LVM -c Skip CRC update for non-LVM sectors (non-LVM partitions)
- PART -s Added display of (old) BMGR-name, even when "--> LVM"
- CHECK Does not set RC to #errors anymore, better for scripts
- DISK/MAP Added System Commander MBR code recognition / display
- PART/MAP Display INT13 1023 cylinder limit with the '-m' option
- SET Added "set ASC 7/8" for 7-bit or 8-bit ascii output
- TxWin Updated codepage-437/850 compatibility for TxWindows
- TxWin Refined Windows NT/W2K/XP version if no servicepacks

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

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DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee - dfsee@fsys.nl

OS2.org with new operators

While the closure of OS2.org has been announced some month ago, this website will now be operated by http://www.teamdv.de Team OS/2 Deutschland e.V. (Germany) (local association http://www.teamruhr.de. The association will provide the technical and financial basis for the website, but for further development as well as for editorial tasks OS2.org still requires help from outside.

Please help to keep OS2.org running!

Please see further details within the current http://en.os2.org/forum/editorial/?type=1&id=10 OS2.org editorial

http://en.os2.org

PM123 User's Manual Version 0.96

PM123man.INF is an English hypertext file in the native INF format, offering the PM123 User's Manual.

PM123man.INF offers new possibilities and substitute gently obsolete integrated PM123 User's Manual.

PM123man.INF is a part of the NEPTUNE project, which contains -- 1,900 skins !

New features:
- Massive support useful tools throughout INF file
- REXX program to uninstall PM123man.INF

Direct download link (255 KB) -- http://www.os2ecs.net/PROG/pm123man.zip
See -- http://www.os2ecs.net/neptune/downloa4.shtml
See -- http://www.os2ecs.net/neptune/skincd4.shtml

CDRWSEL_V201

This is a GUI utility to allow switching between more then one CDR-RW drives when using RSJ CD Writer for OS/2.

"GUI using RSJ commands possibilities. Detects your CDRW (than update the list with your generic name and speed). Allow you to attach each CDRW with your prefered drive letter ! (Few bugs correct from V200 + FR support)."

Requirements: RSJ from http://www.rsj.de

Currently in Hobbes Incoming:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/cdrwsel_v201.zip

Search Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=cdrwsel

Final Hobbes location should be:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/cd/cd-r/cdrwsel_v201.zip

Warpstock Registration Now Open!

In case you have not heard; Warpstock Registration is now open at:

http://www.warpstock.org/2003/registration/registration.html

From here you can get information on how to register via the Warpstock Online store or by mailing in your payment as well as information for hotel reservations.

For your convenience, this year Warpstock is now offering payment plans for Early Registration of 2, 3 or 4 monthly payments which now makes it easier than ever to fit into your budget!

While you are visiting the online store, order up a few Warpstock 2002 shirts. These shirts are durable, well made, long lasting and require only minimal maintenance; just like our favorite operating system. Buy them up, wear them to work, show the world there is a choice! They are also great as gifts and for trading with friends.

The Warpstock online store can be reached directly at:

http://www.bamart.com/warpstockinc

Warpstock 2003 will be at the Doubletree Airport in San Francisco. You can place your reservation via the web at:

https://secure.hilton.com/en/dt/res/choose_dates.jhtml?&hotel=SFOAODT&spec_plan_desc=Warpstock&spec_plan=CDTWRS

This link will give you our special rate plan of $85 a night, which will be available for 5 days prior and after Warpstock, so make your plans to visit San Francisco, the City by the Bay.

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 :

http://www.warpstock.org

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