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November 2002
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OS2World Gaming Site Updated
There had been some updated on the OS2World Gaming Site.
Visit http://www.os2world.com/games
I had added some old OS/2 games that I was missing.
- Action -
Breakanoid
Centipede
Death from Above
PacWarp
Space Invaders
Tunnel Wars
Whack! for OS/2
- Adventure -
Adventure
DinKum
Trek
- Board -
Trickle Down
Pipeline
- Cards/Dice -
Cribbage
kniffel
Twenty One
- Strategy -
Hebi
Network Battleship
First Flight Simulator
- Educational -
Across Lite
Kid Alpha Pro
- Puzzle -
Hexmines
Kabooom
BastiSoft Tetris
JigSaw
Tetris-Pentis
Tritis
PickPuz
Please let me know if Im missing any OS/2 game.
Enjoy this games.
From: Martin Iturbide martin@os2world.com
Bastisoft Tetris 1.02 released as Open Source
Bastisoft Tetris 1.02 is now released as Open Source under the GNU GPL
license.
This game is only available in german, but anyone with programming skills
can change its languange.
You can get the files at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/bstetris.zip
and later at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/games/puzzle/bstetris.zip
Special thanks to its author, Sebastian Koppehel, for making it Open
Source.
IBM SDD SE 7.1.1
IBM has released the IBM Special Edition - SciTech Suite of Drivers
(Software Choice needed) V 7.1.1
Picture from Warpstock USA 2002 Online @ OS2 World.Com
The picture gallery at OS2 World has been updated with picture from
Warpstock USA 2002. Direct link to the gallery:
http://www.os2world.com/gallery/
If you have any pictures or video clips you want to share, please then use
following e-mail, gallery@os2world.com.
Kniffel game released as freeware with sources
KNIFFEL (german for "YAHTZEE") is now released as Freeware in any respect
- you may use, alter or distribute the application at your will.
The game is only available in german. It Includes the Source Code.
Thanks to the author Andreas Kieser
Program URL: http://3stepsbehind.de/os_2.htm
Get the files at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/kniffel.zip
Then it will be located at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/kniffel.zip
Warpstock 2002 photos
There are now some photos from Warpstock 2002 up at the http://www.warpstock.org site. We will continue to add photos as we get
them.
There is also an ongoing discussion now of where people would like to see
Warpstock go in the future on the Warpstock mailing list - http://www.yahoogr
oups.com/group/warpstock-public Tell us what we did
wrong, what we did right and what you want to see from Warpstock in the
future.
Gnuplot 3.8
Petr Mikulik has released Gnuplot 3.8i
Gnuplot is a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility for
UNIX, MSDOS, VMS, and many other platforms. The software is copyrighted
but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay for it). It was
originally intended as graphical program which would allow scientists and
students to visualize mathematical functions and data. Gnuplot supports
many different types of terminals, plotters, and printers (including many
color devices, and pseudo-devices like LaTeX) and is easily extensible to
include new devices.
http://www.sci.muni.cz/~mikulik/gnuplot/
Warpstock 2002 article?
Is there anyone that attended Warpstock 2002 interested in writing an
article on it for the VOICE Newsletter? I know Pete Grubbs will probably
write something for OS/2 eZine, but they might welcome an alternative view
as well. I usually write an article on Warpstock, but this year I didn't
really get to see much of it myself, just a few minutes here and there,
and though I plan on writing an article, it will be more of an
organizational issues one, then about the event. As a matter of fact I
usually have a list of questions that I ask different people that I never
get the opportunity to talk to otherwise, and didn't get to do any of that
this year. It usually just gets me in trouble anyway. ;-)
So if you want to write about all that happened there, please let me know
at editor@os2voice.org For the November issue I will need it sometime
in the next week or so.
Thanks to all who attended, and especially to the volunteers and speakers who helped make Warpstock 2002 a reality.Br>
Mark
Keyboard Layer 2.1.1
Keyboard Layer 2.1.1 has been released
Keyboard Layer/2 is the alternative keyboard layouts switcher for OS/2
version 4.0. It can be used also as a current layout indicator.
Url: http://glass.os2.spb.ru/software/english/layer.html
New WVGui
PLEASE! Remove VIDEO2.INI first!
10.10.2002
* disable adding media to playlist while playing
* disable changing skin while playing
* movie without sound stops carefully
+ play mp3 audio with ID3v2 tags
+ added -dvdaid command line switch. sets audio id for DVD. usefull, when
DVD has different audio ID's with same language
Program URL: http://os2.kiev.ua/
http://www.laemmlin.net/mirror/wvgui/wvgui20021010.zip
vCOMPAT v0.31b released...
New vCOMPAT is out for public download.
Please note that this version contains MUCH new code and is BETA, so be
careful.
Downloading via:
http://en.ecomstation.ru/kiewitzsoft/vdd-vcompat.php
vCOMPAT is a special VDD, that will fix some issues in VDMs to further
enhance compatibility. It contains plenty of fixes and some of them are
user-controlable via Properties.
Additions for 0.31b:
- Magical VM Patcher hooks moved from VDM to VDD-space
- DPMI Anti-CLI code included
- DPMI Workarounds for application "bugs" (e.g. Sam'n Max and Alien
Legacy)
- Magical VM Patcher also removes DPMI Turbo Pascal CRT Unit bug
(Error 200)
This means DooM, Sam'n Max and many many other DPMI games are now running
unpatched in VDMs.
cu, Kiewitz
P.S.: Alien Legacy is one of the games that require a change in the OS/2 /
eCS kernel. I hope that the fix will get available somewhere in November.
New WVGUI
PLEASE! Remove VIDEO2.INI first!
09.10.2002
* fixed ac3 silent on non-multichnnel cards
* fixed DVD & VOB slideshow :)
+ Added d'n'd to control window
08.10.2002
* fixed mute button behavior
* Canceling loding skin doesnot reset skin
+ Play button plays last played file if playlist is empty
Program URL: http://os2.kiev.ua/
http://www.laemmlin.net/mirror/wvgui/wvgui20021009.zip
VIA Tech. 8233/8235 integrated sound driver
MMPM/2 AC'97 sound driver for VIA Technologies KT266A/333/400, P4M266 and
P4X266/333/400 (8233/8233C/8233A/8235 south bridge) with IOCTL90 support.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/823xac97.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=823xac97.zip
Additional items for VT823x MMPM/2 driver: ALC-201A patches,
diagnostics utility, startup sound driver and source code.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/823x_add.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=823x_add.zip
Characters Map/2 2.01
Dmitry A.Steklenev has released Chracters Map/2 2.01
You can use Character Map/2 to insert into documents extended characters
not found on most keyboards. These include special characters provided in
symbol fonts.
Version 2.0.1
fix: Problems with opening the message catalog at start of the program
from other directory.
Url: http://glass.os2.spb.ru/software/english/charmap.html
IBM Printerpak V. 30.774
IBM has updated the printerpak (omni, laserjet, postscript, plotters) to
level 30.774 for all available languages.
No new drivers have been added.
Url:
http://www7.software.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/WebCatMod?OpenView&Start=1&Count=300&ExpandView
ZxMail updated to version 1.2.12
Hi everyone i updated zxmail to version 1.2.9
Release 1.2.12
Fixed: POP server would not close file handle if connection broke, causing
some problems for following transaction.
Added: SMTP backup relay server
option, this is to solve the problem where some ISP block
direct access to their mx server for users of their network,
basicaly the option
sends directly if for any reason it fails, it passes the email
to the defined SMTP relay.
To do: update the help for this new feature.
We recommend you update to this version.
Here are some of the features of ZxMail Server.
ZxMail can pull email from other POP3 accounts and redistribute it to a
domain by the username or to specific users on any domain.
ZxMail
supports an unlimited number of aliases.
ZxMail can forward mail to internal or external mailboxes.
ZxMail supports multiple forwards and chaining of those forwards (meaning
if a message destined for A and A has a forward to B and B has a forward
to C the message for A then goes to C and A can have other forwards).
ZxMail supports multiple domains with no limits
ZxMail can route email through another SMTP server to save on bandwidth.
ZxMail is multi threaded for maximum performance.
ZxMail supports IP filtering to block or to allow connection based on an
IP address.
ZxMail supports SMTP AUTH command with CRAM-MD5, PLAIN, LOGIN
mechanism. Evaluation license for more mailbox than the basic 2 can had
on request, just send an email to demo@zeryx.com Rexx scripting at
4
different points of a mail transaction, smtp connect, smtp pre DATA , smtp
post DATA, and POP3 external mailbox fetch.
To view the pre requisite to run ZxMail go to
http://www.zeryx.com/English/req.html
For a listing of what is new in the
current version of ZxMail go to http://www.zeryx.com/English/whatsnew.html
For screen shots of ZxMail go to http://www.zeryx.com/English/screenshots.html
ZxMail can be purchased at:
BMTmicro http://www.bmtmicro.com/BMTCatalog/os2/zxmail.html
Mensys http://shop.mensys.nl/uk/ZxMail/
A free fully featured 2 mailbox version is available.
Warp Expander 0.4: front-end for un-archivers (ZIP)
Simple freeware PM front-end for commandline un-archiver programs such as
unzip, unrar, unpack and others. OS/2 clone of BeOS Expander (a.k.a.
Expand-O-Matic) with language support (english and spanish). Program
version: 0.4. (ZIP archive: 0.4.0)
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/wexp040z.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/wexp040w.wpi
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=wexp040z.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=wexp040w.wpi
Lynx 2.8.5 dev.9 with SSL and NLS
Lynx 2-8-5 web browser with SSL and NLS support, now packaged as a self
installing exe file.
Program URL: http://lynx.browser.org
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/lynx2-8-5-dev9-os2.exe
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=lynx2-8-5-dev9-os2.exe
jikes, native Java compiler 1.17 for OS/2
jikes, native Java compiler 1.17 for OS/2 with unicode support. OS/2
executable with PII optimization. Few aliases for cyrillic codepages.
Program URL: http://www.vsu.ru/~vy
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/jikes.117.os2.uni.bin.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=jikes.117.os2.uni.bin.zip
Beta V.90 Lucent Winmodem driver
OS/2 driver for Lucent PCI soft modems, updated to support V.90. Use at
-v90=23 to enable V90 (value can range from 0 to 23)
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/ltm2590.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=ltm2590.zip
Sample REXX scripts to manage extended attributes.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/rxeas.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=rxeas.zip
New BT32.SYS/LXAPI32.SYS for eCS and OS/2
I've released a new build of BT32.SYS/LXAPI32.SYS at http://www.nord-com.net/s.milcke/bttv_en.htm
BT32.SYS is a driver for BT8x8 based tv grabber cards. Included is a
small application for TV and Radio.
MfG Stefan Milcke
NewView V1.41.27
This version is purely a bug fix for the file dialog problems. I added
lots more error checking around disk/file access and the problems seem to have gone away...
See
http://homepages.visp.co.nz/~aaronlawrence/NewView.html
Regards
Arun
NewView is a replacement for View.exe, the original
OS/2 help viewer.
Major enhancements are:
- New user interface (split window)
- Select and copy direct from window
- Easy to use global (all files) search
- Remembers size & position
- Most recently used files list
- Smooth scrolling display
- Current topic always highlighted in contents
- Can go forward as well as back in history
- Options for fonts, colours and more
- Annotate help files
- Bookmarks
- Fully resizeable
V1.41.27
- Fix crashes using file dialog
V1.41.24
Enhancements:
- Searching for multipart/symbols now works
e.g. __os2__ or CAKE_AND_BISCUITS
Note: These searches can be slow due to the need
to verify exact sequences in the help file.
- Improved the sorting of search results
- Support custom fonts in the file
Note: smallest size is deliberately limited to 8 point
- Direct RGB color editing ;)
- Support text foreground/background colors
- Added a popup menu item to search for the selected text.
- Adding logging of call stack on exceptions. Hurrah!
- Open Special operates like command line
(includes environment var expansion, path searching)
- Improved mouse/keyboard handling:
- Ctrl+Cursor skips words
- Left mouse + shift keeps selection
- Double click words to select
- Left mouse drag + right click copies
- Alt+Cursor always scrolls
- Home/End goes to line start/end
Bug fixes:
- Contents/index decoding fixes
- Cursor positioning around margins
- Selection problem around line ends
- Find in topic faster and less buggy
- Printing to network printers without port
- Less restriction on total length of filenames
when opening multiple files (still some probs)
- Better handling of disk errors in file dialog
- Missing space characters in some files
- Crash when deleting notes
- Notes now keep leading and trailing whitespace
Note: a single pararaph note still does not keep it's
final carriage return, apparently due to an OS/2 bug
- Doesn't crash if default fonts missing (WarpSans/Helv)
- Fixes to font selection dialog
- Allow run-in images to be aligned (centred etc).
- Put spaces after images if spacing is set (guess).
- Message boxes improved a bit
- Problem decoding margins set to 0
(resulted in very wide text!)
- Flickering when displaying topic with notes
NVC v5.40 Internet Update working again
Internet update of Norman Virus Control for OS/2 and eComStation is now up
and running again. If you have not yet upgraded to v5.40 you can do so
now. Those with an incomplete upgrade from the weekend, should run
Internet Update again to fetch the remaining modules.
Again, our apologies for any inconvenience this has caused for our
customers.
Best regards,
Harald Eilertsen, Norman ASA
New poll about Virtual PC @ OS2 World.Com
Since there is a new release of Virtual PC out for OS2 from Innotek we
thought it would be of interest to figure out if you already use it. Or if
you plan to get a licens or that you just find too expensive. So the
question this month is "if you are using Virtual PC for OS2" with
following answers as option:
- Yes (v4.x)
- Yes (v5.x)
- No (plan to buy)
- No (no need for it)
- No (too expensive)
To participate in the poll use following url:
http://www.os2world.com/polls/
Mike129.INF version 1.3 !
Mike129.INF is a new hypertext file in the natural INF format, comprising
129 complete articles in Czech language. I have personally published the
articles in several Czech specialized magazines.
NEW: NFS over TCP/IP, OS/2 and linux - a further search for common ground.
New article in Mike's Notebook -
NFS over TCP/IP, OS/2 and linux - a further search for common ground.
http://www.catherders.com/mwcexp.shtml
Phoenix, the slim Mozilla
Mike Kaply of the Mozilla development team of IBM brought now also a
Build out of Phoenix (Mozilla without Mail, News, Composer, etc....) for
OS/2.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/phoenix/releases/0.2/phoenix-0.2-os2.zip
NVC 5.40 for OS/2 and eComStation
Norman Virus Control v.5.40 for OS/2 and eComStation has now been
released. However we are experiencing some problems with the configuration
of our download server, so if you are trying to update through Internet
update, not all files will be downloaded. We apologize for the
inconvenience this may cause, and will post further news when this is
fixed.
If you already have downloaded, contact me, and we will arrange for you to
download the missing files until the update server is ready.
Best regards,
Harald Eilertsen, Norman ASA
New WarpVision GUI
PLEASE! Remove VIDEO2.INI first!
05.10.2002
+ Added multichannel support (4- and 6- channels)
(Unfortunally, currently only CMedia driver by Ruediger "Rudi" Ihle
support 4-channel mode under OS/2. 6-channels cards either not
supported.
There is no hope to get multichannel support from UNIAUD/2 developers
due
some non understable things. Correct me if I wrong)
+ Added "Auto" option to Force FPS in settings
Allow automatically adopt FPS for better syncronisation
02.10.2002
+ Added Force FPS in settings
You can manually force FPS for better syncronisation
* FullScreen always on top
30.09.2002
* OSD position is not updated
* fixed crash after Stop button pressd (hope finally)
27.06.2002
* stops even if LOOP is ON
* fixed problems with LOOPing
* problems with DART closing
* if DVD plays failed, other file types did not plays until restart
26.09.2002
* fixed 3175 after Stop button pressd
* brightness set at startup fixed
Program URL: http://os2.kiev.ua/
http://www.laemmlin.net/mirror/wvgui/wvgui20021005.zip
SafeFire PPP/Links 1.1 Beta 12
New version of SafeFire PPP/Links is out. SafeFire PPP/Links is PPP
client & server with LAN interfaces support, PPPoE, Callback,
Dial-On-Demand, Dial-in support, Traffic Shaper, CCP, PAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP,
NAT, CAPI 2 (ISDN) support, 3 different packet filters, Fast NDIS support
(for 100Mb networks), powerfull REXX API, plugins support, GUI &
textmode user interfaces, remote control interface (including WEB),
Transparent Proxy support, etc.. Number of bugs fixed, including callback
problems; Remote Control is enhanced; Fast NDIS perfomance boosted.
DirDiff 2.04
From ws it-service, Wolfram Schmid (w.schmid@ws-it.de) a updated version
of DirDiff is available. DirDiff 2.x is a OS/2 PM directory compare and
analysis program.
This version contains updated DLL files. A redraw problem was fixed.
Web Site (english):
http://www.ws-it.de/en/product/ddiff
LogView 1.11
From ws it-service, Wolfram Schmid w.schmid@ws-it.de updated LogView, a text
and log 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.
New in this version:
- Bugs fixed. New DLL files.
- Column delimitter char is adjustable now.
- Optional fixed columns on the right or left side in the multi column
view.
Web Site (english):
http://www.ws-it.de/en/product/logview
Amouse 2.1 beta USB driver
Noeller & Breining Software has released a beta USB driver for their
Amouse2.1 mouse driver
http://www.nbsoftware.de/sw_ms21en.htm
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