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WarpSeeMe's mail server has been down for a few days this past week, it happens
that the cable that leads to our mail server has been hit during a thunder storm.
Now things seem to be back up and running. So in case any of you guys got any email
bounced back at you please send it again.
The WarpSeeMe/2 web site is:
InnoVal is seeking an individual, group or company interested in assuming full
responsibility for the Post Road Mailer. We are particularly interested in someone
who will enhance the OS/2 version. Selected individual or company will be free to
port the application to other platforms, sell an enhanced version of the program,
or offer it as shareware/freeware on any platform.
Applicant individual, group, or company must agree to the following terms:
Please see www.innoval.com for additional details.
Pre-release packages of Native XDS-x86 2.40 for OS/2 and the respective TopSpeed
Compatibility Pak are available for download as:
ftp://ftp.xds.ru/pub/xds/xds-x86-env-240-pr1-os2.zip
ftp://ftp.xds.ru/pub/xds/tscp-x86-240-pr1-os2.zip
More information on this release can be had from:
http://www.xds.ru/xds/xdsdloadf_xdsx86240pro.html
For those that have never heard of the XDS system it's a Modula 2 and Oberon
2 development system availeble either as a higly optimising native x86 compiler
or as a C translator. The Topspeed compability pack are libraries to help with porting
of programs written for the ever popular Topspeed Modula 2 DOS compiler.
More information about the system can be had from:
http://www.xds.ru/xds/xdsabout.html
Pretty Pop Software released Goose 1.00 and Gismo 2.13, today.
a. Goose 1.00
Goose is a `Checking Updated Homepage' utility. Goose is `Buy-My-CD-Ware'! If
you like our pop musics, please order our CD :) You can listen some MP3 edition
and order this CD at MP3.com homepage.
MP3.com - Pretty Pop
http://www.mp3.com/prettypop/
Updated topics are...
Version 1.00 ( .Dec.1999)
a.Added `Check Previously Not Updated Site Only' function.
b.Added `Change to Updated view when check is done' function.
c.Added `Skip' function.
d.Modified `Delete Site' window.
e.Modified pop up menu layout.
f.Modified and fixed some data of title exchange table.
g.Fixed the inconveniences (Ping Proxy and other minor problems).
h.Becomes `Buy-My-CD-Ware' :)
b. Gismo 2.13
Gismo is the unique color coordinating utility for those who uses editors to
make html documents with various color RGB codes. You may copy the RGB codes which
indicated in Gismo to the Clipboard and copy it into the appropriate form in your
html documents. You may use your favorite text editors and/or html editors. The
Gismo can be worked with any editors that can be corresondent with the clipboards.
Updated topics are...
Version 2.13 (11.Dec.99)
a.Changed minor Font specification.
You can get a copy from...
Pretty Pop Music and Software
http://prettypop.tsx.org/
After a long time waiting... here it is, the German FixPak 12 for Warp 4:
ftp://ftp.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v4warp/german/xrgm012/
But keep in mind: Don't fix it, if it ain't broken!
Just uploaded to Hobbes is a small VIO tool for creating/manipulating PSID files
(C64 music for 6581 SID emulators like SID Play for OS/2 (http://sidplay.eaust.net/)).
This utility is intended for old Commodore 64 freaks (like the author :-) who
want to convert their C64 SID music to the PSID format used by 6581 emulators like
PlaySID and SID Play. It can also be used to inspect existing PSID files, as well
as for converting PSID files back into C64 program files. Flexible cardware, complete
with INF and HTML documentation.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/psidtool.zip
Expected moved to:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/util/psidtool.zip
when our beloved archiver gets around to it.
MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.
It allows you to play up to 1900 classic (and some not-so-classic) arcade games
from the 70's through the 90's from the comfort of your OS/2 desktop.
The OS/2 version has been updated to the latest version of the MAME core (.36
beta 11). If you are upgrading from beta 6 or higher, it will automatically update
your Quick List and scan for newly supported games the first time you start it up
so you don't have to manually rescan everything from scratch and erase your Favorites
list.
The following items have changed since version .36 beta 10:
A suggestion was made to show the joystick button status to the Input Options
dialog box. I haven't had the time to do this yet, but it will be implemented by
the next release.
Another suggestion was made to run LxLite on the executables, which I have done.
The executables shrank from 10MB to 4MB, although the ZIP file is about the same
size to download.
As always, you can download the latest release 486 and Pentium optimized versions
from:
http://emuos2.vintagegaming.com/
AFST Inc, has joined in a business partnership arrangement with National DialUp
Services and InnoVal Systems Solutions, to provide a low-cost nationwide ISP service
for OS/2 users. ISP800, a private brand ISP for corporate customers, is inaugurating
service for consumers on January 3, 2000.
Extra special prices are available for any OS/2 user who pre-registers for the
service by December 30, 1999. In addition, three subscribers will be selected, at
random, from the first 100 OS/2 users who signup. These three subscribers will receive
free ISP service for one year until December 31, 2000.
Highlights of ISP800 service include:
Your choice of
Anyone who travels, uses the Internet from more than one permanent location,
or lives in an area not supported by a local access number, is encouraged to use
the 800 number. Performance on the 800 number is equal to that of local access numbers
since all connections are automatically and instantly re-directed through a close-proximity
modem. Access with the 800 number is available anywhere in the United States where
a dial tone is available. THERE IS NEVER AN ADDITIONAL FEE FOR USING THE 800 NUMBER
TO ACCESS ISP800. Airfone (in plane service) and some hotels do charge access fees
when you dial an 800 number.
ISP800 Prices:
Regular service: $19.95
For all OS/2 Users: $15.95 ***
*** Anyone who pre-registers for the service by December 30, 1999, will receive
the first year of service for only $11.95 per month. You must be an OS/2 user to
pre-register at this price. Your pre-registration must be received by 5:00pm on
12/30/99.
Additional email accounts are $3.95 per month. Limit is four additional email
accounts.
Please note: There is no direct USENET newsgroup access at this time. If enough
OS/2 users subscribe and there is sufficient interest, ISP800 will add newsgroup
access for OS/2 users. Deja (dejanews) and other web-based newsgroup services may
be used in lieu of standard USENET.
For additional information, and to signup for ISP800, please visit http://isp800.com/os2.
In particular, see the price page and the FAQ page. For additional information send
an email to os2isp@innoval.com.
Serenity Systems markets a Managed Client(r) product which provides significant
benefits to business users. We selected OS/2 as our desktop client for many reasons
and one is the broad range of application support provided.
However, we continue to receive requests to support Win32 applications. Often
this request is in addition to the requirement to run Presentation Manager or WorkPlace
Shell applications, which are frequently Line of Business Applications.
After reviewing the product solutions available, we determined that the best
response to this requirement would be a hardware modification to the workstation,
enabling the system to support a host operating system and guest operating system.
Release 1 of the product is anticipated to support an OS/2 host and a Windows guest.
The OS/2 support includes WorkSpace on Demand and OS/2 V4 (Merlin) with support
for a Managed Client, run either as a diskless RPL client or as a traditional "fat"
client.
We have put an overview of this project on our web site (http://www.Serenity-Systems.com/),
with an associated questionnaire which will help us through our product planning.
Accessing the document requires that you have a valid log-on for the site. You can
request a log on from Info@Serenity-Systems.com. Once you log on to the site, click
on the Project Concorde image and, if it is appropriate, complete the questionnaire.
I'm pleased to be able to announce that the highly anticipated version 1.70 of
my time controlling utility DSTswitch is available now. DSTswitch 1.70 has got lots
of improvements on the user interface as well as with regard to stability.
The multi-lingual capabilites has been extended as well. The package contains
support for the following languages:
The following languages are going to be supported within the next couple weeks:
Thanks very much to all the translators for their excellent work!
For more information on DSTswitch, check out the web site at:
During the past few weeks the following add-ons for DSTswitch have been released
too:
Unlike DSTswitch itself these add-ons are freeware!
I'd like to announce the release of ServerConfig/2 v1.8
Version 1.8 has a lot of improvements, including new features and an updated
more compact interface.
Home page:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dm898/soft.html
ServerConfig/2 is a PM configuration utility for Apache web server, the InetPowerServer/2
and the IBM TCP/IP Firewall! Also supports remote management for Apache (even unix).
I'd like to announce the release of ConfigEdit/2 v1.5
ConfigEdit/2 is a config.sys database manager which can auto-generate config.sys
files from a database which can be either imported or created by hand. It can be
used to hold multiple config.sys files and generate new ones. Also manages OS/2's
recovery choices!
Home page:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dm898/soft.html
After some conflicting information from NovaStor about potential OS/2 CD-R/W
support, I inquired further and received the following letter from NovaStor Technical
Support:
Louis,
We have thoroughly researched the possibility of adding support for CD-R/W drives under the OS/2 Warp operating system. Attempting to use these drives with the current version of the NovaDisk application provided unstable and faulty results, being unable to provide a reliable backup or restore procedure. Consequently, we have decided to discontinue any further development of a backup program for the OS/2 platform.
We apologize for any inconvenience that this might cause.
Please note that we are still fully expecting to support the OS/2 Warp operating system with our future release of InstantRecovery. This software will allow you to perform a disaster recovery backup to CD-R/W media and allow the system to be recovered in case of a critical failure from a floppy diskette or bootable CD-R/W.
We invite you to visit our beta forum to download and test this new software. The beta forum can be reached on our Internet site on the Technical Support pages. Provide the required information and be sure to add in the comment field "Authorized by CK" (non-authorized request forms will be declined). After downloading the beta version, please evaluate the software and return your comments or questions via email. We will be glad to hear from you and your input to make the software even better.
NovaStor beta tester request form:
http://www.novastor.com/backup/tech_supt/beta_license.html?SID=0
NovaStor beta labs email:
Sincerely,
Craig
NovaStor Technical Support
The SFX Installer has been updated and is now online at:
WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE
SFX INFORMATION
The SFX Installer offers the first one file archive/installation tool widely
available on the OS/2 platform. It marries the installation tool for your software
and it's own setup tools into one friendly package for point and click installation
setups that are personalized for your software. SFX allows you to build an archive
in standard or self-extracting format, with or without the installer.
There are no cryptic scripts to learn to write other than any setupstrings (samples
provided) you need to place folders and icons on the desktop. The installation setup
tool allows you to point and click a complete setup. When you are satisfied with
how the archive should be setup you can save all the information and recall it when
needed. SFX will save and retrieve as many setups as you have disk space for and
will help the author of multiple programs to keep them organized. It can also be
used as a general zip file distribution builder as well.
The SFX Installer includes several novel details for the software distributer
including:
1) Dll and help file placement (and tracking) into existing LIBPATH and SET HELP
directories so your user may avoid adding to these paths and also avoid rebooting
before usage.
2) An uninstallation script is written at install time specific to the users
installation that will, track all files your program has installed and remove any
WPS objects created at installation time. This uninstall script can be modified
if needed via a plugin.
3) Authors can make use of Plugin scripts to overcome any installation limitations
that your installations need to perform. (examples included)
Although the installer is distributed as shareware through BMT Micro (http://www.bmtmicro.com),
we invite freeware authors to use the installer free of charge as a small token
of appreciation for their selfless work. Please read the license for more details.
More information and downloads are available at:
WarpZip is now available as version 2.4
Information, screenshots and fully functional copies of are available at:
http://www.pillarsoft.net/warpzip.html
NEW IN THIS RELEASE
This release comes quickly on the heels of v2.3 but we have added a new feature
that we felt deserved to see the light of day. It is a type of seamless install
from zip archives. Double-clicking on any install.exe or setup.exe in the viewer
automatically sets the archive up to do an installation. Afterward the user can
press the "Clean up" button to have WarpZip take care of the mess.
WARPZIP OVERVIEW
WarpZip is the latest in Zip and OS/2 "Packed" file management. Beneath
WarpZip's stunning interface you will find some revolutionary and powerful functions
that will save both time and effort and boost your productivity.
The integration of a directory tree as part of the interface makes unarchiving
complete archives or just selected file(s) from an archive to any directory as simple
as a 3 inch drag and drop, to ANYWHERE on your drives. If you don't have the directory
you want, create it! You can also open any folder from the directory tree for drag
and drop operations. Drag files into or out of archives. Delete any directory or
even complete directory trees from WarpZip!
DOWNLOAD PREPROCESSOR
No more manually selecting a directory when downloading from NS. WarpZip's Download
PreProcessor allows your browsing sessions to sport one click downloads that obey
your every whim. It will selectively move your downloaded zip files to any directory
you choose, test them for integrity, virus test them and queue them up for later
review by WarpZip. All this is handled seamlessly in the background while you spend
your online time making your browser session count. When you're offline, WarpZip
will be waiting with the list of files you've downloaded. It will automatically
load them in it's queue on startup and present you with any test results you may
have requested.
PACKED FILES?
OS/2 Packed file extensions can have "_" or "@" or no extension
at all. So how do you locate them? Better yet, how do you locate and see what files
are archived inside of them? We are unaware of any software that will help you find
those almost unrecognizable OS/2 packed files except WarpZip. Of course, dragging
a file out of them or viewing them is as easy as working with a zip archive.
SEARCH FACILITIES
WarpZip will search a directory, directory tree, hard disk or CD for zip files
as well as OS/2 packed files. It will add or delete files from archives, view files
in archives or you can test run them (to do an installation, for example) and let
WarpZip clean up after you. You can test zip files or run virus scans, view bitmaps,
grep, build self extractors, copy, move, rename, delete... well... you get the picture...
INSTALLATION DETAILS
During installation WarpZip will allow you to use existing paths for dll's etc.
and keep track of them for you. It will write an uninstall script specific to your
installation should you decide to remove the program at a later date. No forgotten
file clutter...
ERATTA
WarpZip licenses are available at BMT Micro ($29).
Please take this opportunity to download a fully functional copy from our website
and try everything out. The "Sample.zip" that opens automatically on the
first run will help get your feet wet but we hope you will check into all the different
search mechanisms in the program too.
A version of the Star Logo language written in Java with OS/2 support is available
for download from:
http://starlogo.www.media.mit.edu/people/starlogo/download/getstar.html
More information on the language can be had from:
http://www.media.mit.edu/starlogo/
The Star Logo lagnguage is a expanded version of Seymour Papert's turtle-based
programming environment Logo, written by Mitchel Resnick at the MIT media labs (and
the creator of the Lego Mindstorms kit).
Junk Spy Watches For Junk Mail So You Don't Have To Pricing and Availability
Announcement
December 8, 1999 - Today Sundial Systems has announced that Junk Spy will be
available for purchase on January 10th, 2000. The suggested price will be $49 including
one year of automatic updates to Junk Spy's junk mail detection database (a $24
value!).
Junk Spy is new. It monitors your incoming email and identifies junk messages
using a database culled from over 60,000 junk emails. For more information on Junk
Spy, or to download the current PreRelease, visit:
http://www.sundialsystems.com/junkspy/
At the same time you can request a free temporary license so that you can fully
appreciate Junk Spy's usefulness.
For more information on Sundial Systems and its other OS/2 products visit http://www.sundialsystems.com. Sundial
has the answers.
OS/2 PEER NETWORKING
Join us as we start a new series on Setting Up a Home Network on Warp 4.
The article can be found at:
http://os2.about.com/compute/os2/library/weekly/aa120899.htm
The rest of the site, which now contains 1084 links, can be found at:
Tyra/2 the Config.sys analyzer and editor is now available in version 1.80.
The following bugs were fixed:
New Features:
Tyra/2 is shareware and you will have 31 days to test it. If you are an author
of a piece of OS/2 Freeware you can get a key for free.
You can download the newest version of Tyra/2 from these sites:
http://www.opweb.de/
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/tyra180e.zip
(will be moved in the next time to)
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/config/tyra180e.zip
And in the next days at:
http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/tyra2.html
Hello OS/2 users,
After more than 2 years of development we're proud to present the first playable
demo of "Crown of Might"for OS/2. "Crown of Might" is a strategic
game pretty much as the classic "Defender of the crown". The "Crown
of Might" demo is now available for download from the UJ-Homepage at:
In the course of December '99 the shareware version will follow.
Cambridge, MA - Lotus Development Corporation announced today that a new version
of SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4 is now available. This new version, called Release
1.5, includes the following new features:
Full details are available at:
http://www.lotus.com/smartsuiteos2
CDRecord/2 V1.8a32 is ready for download:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/cdrecord/cdrecordmain.htm
CDRecord/2 is a port of a freeware CDRW/CDR burning software application for
*nix. CDRecord/2 is released as freeware under the GPL.
I'm extremely pleased to announce the first and only comprehensive astrological
calculation program for OS/2. Astrolog for OS/2 is based on the famous program Astrolog
by Walter D. Pullen, and has all the astrological calculation features of the Windows
version.
The latest version (v0.97b) can be downloaded from the link below:
http://www.visdom.nu/home/astrolog/astrolog.zip
Astrolog for OS/2 is an ongoing development project. Updates and more information
can be found on the Astrolog for OS/2 home page:
http://www.visdom.nu/home/astrolog/
Xitami 2.4d6 is now available from:
This release corrects a fault in the LRWP handler, and some other minor bugs.
The 2.5 beta release 2 is also available for those of you who want to try the
advanced features of Xitami 2.5.
Xitami is a small, fast, and powerful multiplatform Open Source web server available
for OS/2 and many other operating systems.
**NEWSFLASH**
iMatix Corporation will be exhibiting at the Bazaar Open Source conference in NYC
from December 14-16, at the Jacob Jarvis Center. See http://thebazaar.org for details.
The Xitami team will be there, and happy to see you and answer your questions. Visit
our stand, and get Xitami/Pro plus a unique iMatix t-shirt for a giveaway price!
**NEWSFLAS**
Before upgrading your Xitami installation backup your entire site and test the
new release carefully before putting into production.
This is an important notice for users of UniMaint!! If you have UniMaint version
5.1 installed on a FAT partition and OS/2 installed on a HPFS partition, you probably
are not getting a good backup of your Desktop directory structure when you do a
Desktop Backup. Use the link below for more details and how to make a short term
fix.
http://www.filestar.com/pages/notices.html
We apologize to affected users for any inconvenience this may cause.
The Large OS/2 Customers List (LOS2CL) has been updated. The LOS2CL is a list
of companies using OS/2 in large quantities. It can be found at:
http://rover.wiesbaden.netsurf.de/~meile/los2cl.html
A new version of the ScanPCI tool for OS/2 has been released.
ScanPCI is a little utility that scans the PCI buses attached to the system and
reports about devices connected. This new build sports some new features and updates
to the device database.
You can get your own copy from:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/scanpci.zip
Suggested placement will be:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/system/scanpci.zip
Or visit:
http://whiz.cjb.net/ (follow the "software"
link)
Fixkit 2 for Object Desktop 2.0 is now out. Should be able to get it from Stardock's
web site tomorrow. It was posted today to Stardock's OS/2 support news group by
Brad Wardell - news://news.stardock.com/stardock.os2.support
From the readme:
12/1/99
Unlike previous fixkits, this fixkit is really a "hot fix" type fix.
We did not create the binary patches, and have only included changed DLLs.
To install, simply boot to a command prompt, save the previous DLLs to a save
directory (FixKit20.2), and copy the contents of this zipfile to the Object Desktop
2.0 installation directory.
Changed files:
OBJDCOMN.DLL
OBJDCCEN.DLL
OBJDEFLD.DLL
Fix List:
Enhanced Folder
TODO: