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Psygnosis Lemmings 2 Unofficial Patch
Just did another patch. This time for Lemmings 2 (Psygnosis). It emulates a routine
needed by the copy-protection. Funny thing: If it isnt supported, the copy protection
tries it again, and again, and again ;-)
Now Lemmings 2 works PERFECTLY under OS/2 or eCS. Including Sound.
cu Kiewitz
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=LEMM2FIX
From: Martin Kiewitz martin@kiewitz.de
Lucas Arts Generic Patcher available
As I patched Indy 3 this morning, I discovered that the problem was a real-buggy
runtime library. Now I got it working on several Lucas Arts titles (Monkey Island
1 and Indiana Jones 3, both VGA or Non-VGA). These games work perfectly now, under
OS/2 as well.
Please help me find more games, that needs to get patched and help os2world increase
the DOS-working games list under http://www.os2world.com/games
I would like to have someone help me debug DOS4GW programs, because I want to
fix Lucas Arts's Sam&Max, but I dont have a clue, how to debug it.
cu Kiewitz
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=LUCASFIX
From: Martin Kiewitz martin@kiewitz.de
OS/2 eZine October issue
http://www.os2ezine.com/
From The Editor
Robert Basler - Virtual PC for OS/2 is Coming!
Reviews
Quakeworld for OS/2
Robert Basler has a great time fragging a whack of strangers.
DSK4PM
Dan Eicher looks at a diskette imaging tool.
Articles
My Weekend at Warpstock
Douglas Clark recounts his weekend in the Great White North.
An Interview with Andrew Bloo of Scitech Software
Bill Armstrong sits down with the video driver folks.
JFS Cookbook
Pasha Shtemenko ~Konstantin Okounkov tell us everything we need to know about JFS.
Using Multimedia Keyboards under OS/2
Alex Samorukov shows us how to bring all the extra keys on your keyboard to life.
ODBC on OS/2 Part 6
Douglas Clark looks at Sybase SQL Anywhere.
Into Java, Part 21
Simon Gronlund continues to improve the world's smallest web browser.
1016 kernels on IBM testcase FTP site
There's another new Warp4/MCP/eCS/WSeB/ACP kernel on IBM testcase as of 10/16/01.
The documentation from the W4 kernel states
10/16: the 1015 os2ldr was broken on some CPUs
and also states:
10/16:
PJ28199 SES QUERYFILEINFO buffer pointer always -1
PJ28207 SES callgate hooks don't work
The previous (10/15/01) W4 kernel apparently disable my FPU on my AMD Athlon
but this is now fixed. If you installed the 1015 kernel and some programs are running
much slower (I noticed the problem in PMView) I advise to upgrade to the 1016 kernel.
Of course these kernels are TESTCASE releases and are not supported by anyone
including IBM.
FTP to: testcase.boulder.ibm.com
CD to: /ps/fromibm/os2
Or visit ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2
Sincerely,
---------------
Don "Freiheit" Eitner
[Moderator's note: As always these are not officially supported by IBM unless
they tell you to use them. Please send any followup to comp.os.os2.bugs on usenet.
Also note that files are only on IBM's testcase for 2-3 days, so if you want to
try these get them now. These files have been there for 2 days now, so they will
probably be gone by tomorrow or Monday. Make certain you back up any files replaced
and don't try these on a production system. You have been warned. ]
VOICE to exhibit at Warpstock Europe 2001
From: "Christian Hennecke" christian.hennecke@os2voice.org
The VOICE (Virtual OS/2 International Consumer Education) user group will exhibit
at the Warpstock Europe 2001 conference. Be sure to visit our booth in the non-commercial
exhibition area if you attend Warpstock Europe this year. VOICE is dedicated to
the promotion of OS/2 Warp and eComStation to the general consumer through various
activities as providing current and factual information about OS/2 and eComStation
related products via the online magazine VOICE Newsletter and the VOICE News mailing
list, conducting IRC meetings, and sponsoring OS/2 and eCS related promotion projects
among providing many other services.
At the VOICE booth, you can get a CD with the complete Newsletter archive or
a special "Best of Newsletter" PRINTED issue. You'll be able to talk to
VOICE representatives about their organization, inquire into becoming a member or
re-new your membership, or just chat about OS/2 and eComStation!
To learn more about VOICE, visit our web site at
X-Commander 0.27
Michael Ijlin has released X-Commander 0.27
ftp://ftp.projects.os2.ru/x-commander/xc20_27b.zip
X-Commander is a powerfull textmode shell, designed to facilate a number of operations
with files, directories and archives under OS/2, Windows'9x/NT, Windows'2000 operation
systems.
Some features are:
- the common file and folder functions: view, edit, copy, move and rename, create,
delete;
- background file operations
- easy to use menu driven interface
- easy configurable options: internal file viewer and text editor, panel view and
file sorting modes;
- long file name support;
- plugin modules and commands: default plugins set includes archive management plugin,
network client, process list, file splitter, but you may write your own plugins;
- tunable configuration, color scheme customization, files highlighting;
- clipboard functions;
- clock, nice screen saver;
- ability to view and edit multiple files in same session (use Ctrl+Tab to switch
between windows);
- file associations;
- and more!
Come to the Warpstock Europe 2001 Social Event
The "Social Event" promises to be one of the Warpstock Europe 2001
conference highlights and a perfect opportunity for attendees to relax after two
long days packed with presentations, lectures and software demonstrations. Following
the "Social Event", Warpstock Europe continues on Sunday for a third and
final day of nothing but sessions related to the OS/2 Warp and eComStation operating
systems.
As the "Social Event" starts at 8pm on November 3, it will be time
to party for everyone at Warpstock Europe! Two bands will be playing live music
throughout the night, so make sure you join us for a guaranteed fun evening. It's
a chance to meet old and new friends, enjoy good music, good food and good drinks,
including a large selection of the world famous Belgian beers.
Thanks to Warpstock Europe sponsors Mensys, Hydrografix, the Dutch HCC and Vesp-Soft,
the Event Team has been able to keep the admission for the "Social Event"
at a low 300 BEF per person, which is less then 7.5 EUR, food included.
For online registration and to buy your "Social Event" ticket, go to
the Mensys web site at http://shop.mensys.nl/catalogue/mns_WarpStockEurope2001.html
On-site registration will be available as well for those who don't want to use a
credit card to make on-line payments.
The Warpstock Europe 2001 Conference will be held on November 2-4, 2001 at the
'KH Limburg' College in Diepenbeek (Hasselt), Belgium. Warpstock Europe is an annual
gathering of developers, vendors and users of the OS/2 and eComStation operating
systems, for the purpose of education, providing information and support to everyone
with an interest in these operating systems or related technology. More information
is available at the Warpstock Europe web site http://warpstock.os2.org
From: Luc Van Bogaert luc.vanbogaert@pandora.be
Important FIX: DFSee version 4.07 released
An unplanned but important update:
The problem (in 4.05 and 4.06) with multiple-disks showing the same information
in the part and map displays has been solved!
DFSee is an FDISK-like display, analysis and recovery tool with powerfull FIX
commands and UNDELETE for HPFS and NTFS.
Details can be found at: http://www.fsys.demon.nl/dfsee.htm
Version 4.07 updates and fixes:
- Fixed BUG with multiple physical disks showing same information
- Added '-x' commandline switch, avoids read diskinfo at startup
- Added detection for EBR-loop, read will terminate at 100 EBR's
- FIXBOOT for FAT and FAT32 (beta only, works on most partitions)
- Show DIR of available imagefiles when IM parameter ends in '\'
- Minor update to DFSINFO.CMD reducing number of warnings
Registering DFSee will give you the right to use all 4.xx versions and get support
plus a reasonable amount of assistance by email.
But even more important, it enables further development of DFSee! The next major
changes for DFSee will be multiple UNDO/REDO, and a command to copy/move partitions.
Regards, Jan van Wijk
From: Jan van Wijk jvw@fsys.demon.nl
Warpzilla (Mozilla VACPP Build) 0.9.5 re-released
From: Mike Kaply
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.5/mozilla-os2-vacpp-0.9.5.zip
OK 0.9.5 is up again.
And for all the inquisitive people, that was NOT the latest Java plugin, it was
actually a very old one, and that was not a Mozilla flash, it was the same one you
can download from Innotek.
Mike Kaply
IBM
[Moderator note: The 0.9.5 version was briefly pulled yesterday because it was
the non-optimized code and the package included some items not meant for the freeware
release.]
Golden Code Trace Suite now available
Atlanta, GA, USA, October 17, 2001 - Golden Code Development announces two new
products for the OS/2 market: Kernel Trace for OS/2 and Trace Analyzer for Java.
This rounds out the company's suite of tracing software products, which also includes
Network Trace for OS/2.
From: Eric Faulhaber http://www.goldencode.com
Business type presentations at Warpstock Europe 2001
Warpstock Europe 2001 features several business type presentations to allow attending
IT managers, system administrators and other IT professionals a day off work, while
still making the time very well spent for their business.
Featured presentations on on Friday November 2, 2001 include sessions by IBM'ers
Oliver Stein and Oliver Mark about WorkSpace On-Demand Version 3, by IBM'er Alain
Rykaert about LAN Server Management Tools, by Innotek's Achim Hasenmueller about
High Availability clustering on OS/2 and by Starfire representatives Benjamin Claypool
and Richard Spurlock on Starfire Titan, a cross-platform administration system for
enterprise networks.
Even if some of these topics are of little interest for your own business, the
Friday schedule is packed with enough other sessions to fill the day : Webmail/2,
the Opera for OS/2 internet browser and the DFSee partitioning tool are only a few
of the exciting new products you will discover at Warpstock Europe.
The above is just a sample of the presentations you can attend at Warpstock Europe
2001. A complete list and an up-to-date schedule is available at http://warpstock.os2.org/en/program/sessions3.php3
All presentations will be repeated at least once during the three day event, so
you won't have to miss a thing!
The Warpstock Europe 2001 Conference will be held on November 2-4, 2001 at the
'KH Limburg' College near Hasselt, Belgium. Warpstock Europe is an annual gathering
of developers, vendors and users of the OS/2 and eComStation operating systems,
for the purpose of education, providing information and support to everyone with
an interest in these operating systems or related technology. More information is
available at the Warpstock Europe web site http://warpstock.os2.org
Hypermake 3.99b
Martin Vieregg has released Hypermake 3.99b
With Hypermake (earlier version "MakeIPF"), you can easily create HTML
files or IBM IPF files, Winhelp and Microsoft HTML-Help files. Instead of editing
the HTML, IPF or RTF files directly, you enter a more simple ASCII source text.
Links are created automatically; windows of different headings levels can be shown
simultaneusly (frames) with only one command; at the end of a chapter, links to
subchapters are created automatically and a lot of more.
http://www.vr-transport.de/Martin/english/hypermake.html
CD-RW, DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM File System Support, Version
1.5 updated
IBM has updated the UDF.IFS for CD-RW, DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM File System Support
BTW. you need a software choice subscription to download the driver
Ghostview 4.04 beta released
Ghostgum has released GSView the Ghostscript PM-Frontend in v. 4.04beta
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/beta
GSView is a forntend viewer for Ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript
language and for PDF. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
Timidity 2.10.4 released
Darwin O'Connor has released Timidity 2.10.4. It is a a text-mode version of
TiMidity 2.10.4. This isn't a MCD version. It supports more types of module files,
playing files from inside zip and other archives, playing files directly off the
web, a "ncurses" text mode interface and a much cleaner port.
TiMidity plays MIDI and Module (.MOD) files. It does it in software without depending
on any hardware MIDI support your soundcard might have. Sound quaility can be much
higher because it limited by your CPU's power and memory rather then your soundcard's
power and memory.
http://www.reamined.on.ca/doconnor/timidity.htm
New codecs for Warpvision
I have uploaded new codecs for the Warpvision AVI player to Hobbes. These codecs
will enable the playing of the vast majority of AVIs, including Indeo, Cinepac and
MP4. All codecs have been tested for compatibility with over 40 AVI files.
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/wviscdc.zip
From: Jason Stefanovich stefanj@gte.net)
XSane 0.80
[Moderator note: The following post was received in German. It was translated
using Altavista's BabelFish - http://babelfish.altavista.co
as all the German speakers seem to be unavailable on IRC at the moment. ;-) I hope
it is reasonably correct. Please send any corrections to feedback@os2voice.org
]
There is a new version of XSane for OS/2. XSane is a powerful graphic frontend
for SANE (scanner ACCESS Now Easy), which requires a functioning libsane.dll (e.g.
from SANE-1.05) and an XServer (e.g. XFree86/OS2).
Highlights:
Output formats: JPEG, tiff, Postscript, pnm, raw, png
copy by mouse-click (assistance of Ghostscript)
PNG directly send as email.
XSane is BETA. I.e. it runs for me (SANE 1.05, EPSON GT-9500), but has NOT been
tested elsewhere.
Feedback is desired! Send to fbakan@gmx.net
http://home.tiscalinet.de/fbakan/xsane-os2.htm
Warpzilla 0.9.5 (VACPP Build) is Available
From: Mike Kaply
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.5/mozilla-os2-vacpp-0.9.5.zip
Notable things in here that aren't in the trunk (yet) are:
Startup has been optimized
Plugins are working again
Off by one problems are fixed
At least one random hang has been fixed
Third level menus display properly
Enjoy!
Mike Kaply
IBM
Updates for UPS Monitor available.
UPS Monitor has been updated with new features and more support for various UPS
brands.
A new release for UPS Monitor B now supports APC Back-UPS ES series in addition
to the Back-UPS and Back-UPS Offices models.
UPS Monitor C has been updated to support most contact closure models by adding
UPS signal polarity selection. It even supports UPS models without a communications
interface. See the help for details.
UPS Monitor for PowerCard has been posted for the Guardian On Board PowerCard,
a small, internal UPS.
All UPS Monitor versions now include a manual shutdown menu with APM shutdown
option and a UPS-activated external script to use XWorkplace Extended Shutdown.
UPS Monitor can be found at http://home.att.net/~ASchw/upsmonitor.html
From: Amin Schwarz LPAInfo@worldnet.att.net
LogView 1.02
ws it-service, Wolfram Schmid (w.schmid@ws-it.de)
updated LogView, a text file viewer program for OS/2 and eCS.
LogView can trace files in realtime and is very quick. It can be used during
program development to disply debug output or to show any other text file or logfile
created by any arbitrary program.
Features of LogView 1.02:
- Traces the growing of text files
- Handles large text files with more than 65535 lines
- Scrolls automatically to the end of the file (optional)
- Shows line numbers and file positions
- Starts viewing after program start (optional):
- from the begin of the file
- from the end of the file
- Window position and size can be stored.
- Column wide can be stored.
New in this version:
- Copy to the clipboard
- Open file via Drop
- File dialog
Web Site http://www.ws-it.de/en/product/logview
AOL protocol and source code
OSS AOLers have been working hard to figure out AOL's proprietary protocol for
their online service and popular AIM messenger.
This document "The AOL Protocol" gives in depth information on the
login and handshaking between the AOL client and servers:
http://www.aol-files.com/misc/theaolprotocol.wri
Also visual basic source code and more at:
under "AOL Protocol ~ Sign on and IM example"
Finally a nearly full, but unofficial specification for the AIM protocol at "FAIM":
http://www.zigamorph.net/faim/protocol/
Great information for anyone who might think about implementing either of these
very popular services under OS/2.
From: Jason Stefanovich stefanj@gte.net
DFSee version 4.06 released
Another update to DFSee, with some fixes. It is also the version that will be
on the Warpstock-Europe CDrom (if all goes well :-)
DFSee is an FDISK-like display, analysis and recovery tool with powerfull FIX
commands and UNDELETE for HPFS and NTFS.
Details can be found at: http://www.fsys.demon.nl/dfsee.htm
Version 4.06 updates and fixes:
- Added FAT32 2nd/3rd bootsector display with freespace value
- Made 'nonstd type 0f' a non-critical warning ("part warn")
- Show all critical warnings on PART display
- Fixed extended-int13 usage for Thinkpads (and possibly others)
- Added low available memory tests and warnings to DOS versions
Registering DFSee will give you the right to use all 4.xx versions and get support
plus a reasonable amount of assistance by email.
But even more important, it enables further development of DFSee! The next major
changes for DFSee will be multiple UNDO/REDO, and a command to copy/move partitions.
Regards, Jan van Wijk
From: Jan van Wijk jvw@fsys.demon.nl
Crystal Drivers
If you have trouble with crystal soundchips with drivers from the manufactures
like AOpen aw 320 soundcard for os/2. Download the drivers for these cards and others
here. These drivers are sometime better with addition features
http://www.cirrus.com/drivers/audiodrv/index_new.cfm?pg=2&OpSysID=5
Steven Douglas Taylor
sdtaylor@gnt.net
[Moderator note: These are not new drivers on the Cirrus site (last updated in
July 2000), but there has been a lot of discussion on some forums about audio drivers,
so this tip may be of help to people having problems with getting these cards to
work right under OS/2.]
MySQL/2 update
A second temporary update file has been made available:
http://yware.dnsalias.com/yuri/mysql2/mysql-3-23-42-upd2.zip
(829KB)
If you don't have the C2T temporary file problem, you don't need thisupdate.
The MySQL database server is the world's most widely used open source database.
The OS2World.com Award Nomination Extended
We are happy to announce that the official nomination process has started and
we will accept nomination between the 23 September until 31 October. So this period
has now been extended to give You all a fair chance to participate in the nomination
process. The starting date for when the final voting will start has not been set.
To submit Your nomination, please enter the Nomination Area.
http://www.os2world.com/award_nomi.shtml
If there is any questions or ideas how to improve the OS2 World Award, please
do not hesitate to contact us.
From: Martin Iturbide martin@os2world.com
SmartCache 0.5.5 released
Smartcache 0.5.5 by Radim Kolar was released October 13. This is just a minor
bug-fix release.
http://home.worldonline.cz/~cz210552/scache.html
[Moderator's note: Smart Cache is a full featured proxy cache server. It can
also be used as replacement for your browser's internal diskcache. ]
Junkbuster 2.9.9 alpha released
The development of Junkbuster continues - and an OS/2 port is available. Junkbuster
is a powerful web proxy that filters out unwanted web content like advertisements,
cookies, snoopy javascript, etc. Recent improvements include things like improved
HTTP 1.1 support and popup suppression.
Tester input is needed... the documentation is a little light at the moment,
but you can get support via the Junkbuster SourceForge website or comp.os.os2.apps.
A self-installing executable, as well as the source code, is available.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118
ThirdEye/REXX is released
Now with Rexx interface! It's reality!
Build applications for digicams by yourself! Automate any routine!
Homepage: http://ecomstation.ru/thirdeye/
REXX library:
http://ecomstation.ru/download/ThirdEye/ThirdEyeRexx_demo.zip
(Registered users can download full version)
e-mail: thirdeye@ecomstation.ru
New kernels (1015) on IBM's testcase site
IBM has new SMP, UNI and W4 kernels available on their testcase FTP site - ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2/
smp1015.zip
smp1015d.zip
uni1015.zip
uni1015d.zip
w41015.zip
w41015d.zip
The xxxxxxd.zip archives are debug kernels. These replacement kernels are for
post MCP/ACP/W4F15/eCS systems. Installation instructions and a listing of new features
and fixes are included in the readme file included with each archive. Also note
that these kernels contain a new CLOCK01.SYS. Please read the readme for details
on how to use this.
There are also new versions of SES - ses1015.zip and files for the system Dump
Formatting df1015.zip available in the same directory.
As always these are not officially supported by IBM unless they tell you to use
them. Please send any followup to comp.os.os2.bugs on usenet. Also note that files
are only on IBM's testcase for 2-3 days, so if you want to try these get them now.
Make certain you back up any files replaced and don't try these on a production
system. You have been warned. There is already a post on comp.os.os2.bugs about
someone having a TRAP on boot with one of these new kernels. The SMP1015 kernel
booted fine here on my eCS 1.0 test machine.
Survey related to support of USB devices in eCS and OS/2
Markus Montkowski (Netlabs) is developing usbresmg.sys driver, which will allow
to other programmers to make support of USB-devices: Digital cameras, FM-tuners,
TV-tuners, UPS, etc.
Support Markus in our on-line survey!
Your comments will be forwarded to Markus.
http://ecomstation.ru/poll.php?action=show&id=4
Programming sessions at Warpstock Europe 2001
If you come to Warpstock Europe 2001 you will be able to attend a variety of
presentations about different programming topics. The Warpstock Europe conference
offers professional level presentations for both novice programmers as well as experts.
This three day conference is therefore a unique opportunity you simple can not afford
to miss. Learn how to write your own device drivers. Actively support open source
software development for OS/2 and eComStation. Find out how to develop interactive
web sites and much more...
Programming topics that will be presented at Warpstock Europe include web development,
device driver programming, OS/2 PM programming, cross platform development, etc.
Markus Montkowski will be doing several sessions about USB and USB device drivers,
Ulrich Moeller will talk about extending the OS/2 Workplace Shell and about his
extremely popular WarpIN and XWorkplace software applications, Rony Flatcher will
give an introduction to the power of ObjectREXX and discuss JavaBean scripting with
REXX, Stephan Schwarzer will discuss the high level scripting language Python and
show you how to use it on OS/2.
The above is just a sample of the presentations you will be able to attend at
Warpstock Europe 2001. A complete list and an up-to-date schedule is available at
http://warpstock.os2.org/en/program/sessions3.php3
All presentation sessions will be repeated at least once during the three day event,
so you won't have to miss anything!
The Warpstock Europe 2001 Conference will be held on November 2-4, 2001 at the
'KH Limburg' College near Hasselt, Belgium. Warpstock Europe is an annual gathering
of developers, vendors and users of the OS/2 and eComStation operating systems,
for the purpose of education, providing information and support to everyone with
an interest in these operating systems or related technology. More information is
available at the Warpstock Europe web site http://warpstock.os2.org
WIndows terminal server client for OS/2 (XFree86/2)
I've have made a quick (proof of concept) port of rdesktop to OS/2. rdesktop
is a free RDP client which you can use to connect to a Windows NT/2000/XP Terminal
Server. rdesktop was created by Samba team member Matt Chapman.
It's not a native PM port. You'll need EMX and XFree86/2. If anyone is willing
to take over from me, please be my guest since I won't be doing much work on it
anymore.
More information, sourcecode and binaries can be downloaded from:
http://huizen.dds.nl/~jacco2/rdesktop/
Thanks,
Jacco
(To mail me: please be advised that I'm not in the military, but in The Netherlands
Jacco de Leeuw jacco2@dds.mil
XML slides from Warpstock
An enhanced version of my presentation (XML and XSLT processing on the OS/2 and
eCS platform) from Warpstock is now available at http://www.magma.ca/~bourassa/ws2001
including some information attendees requested. Links are attached so you can try
out a real example of generating a single document into a Web page, an OS/2 help
file, and an RTF file.
From: Gregory Bourassa bourassa@magma.ca
CC65 V2.7.0 - C crosscompiler for 6502
CC65 has C and runtime library support for many of the old 6502 machines, including You can use this with VICE/2
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- The Commodore C64, C128 and the C16, C116, Plus/4 machines.
- The CBM 510 (aka P500), a quite rare Commodore machine (programs run in bank 0).
- The CBM 600/700 family (programs run in bank 1).
- Newer PET machines (not 2001)
- The Apple ][ (library support by Kevin Ruland
<kevin@rodin.wustl.edu>)
- The Atari 8 bit machines (thanks to the Atari team: Christian Groessler
<cpg@aladdin.de>, Mark Keates
<markk@dendrite.co.uk>, Freddy Offenga
<taf_offenga@yahoo.com> and David Lloyd,
<dmlloyd@atari-central.com>).
- GEOS for the C64 and C128 (GEOSLib by Maciej Witkowiak
<ytm@elysium.pl>)
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