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OS/2 - eComStation News - February, 2006Browse - February 2006: Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 2006: January 2005: August September October November December SW: RexxMail build 20060209.143952 released. SW: ScummVM 0.8.2 Released SW: Event: K-W OS/2 Users Group February 2006 Meeting Mag: VOICE Newsletter 02/2006 available SW: USB "configurator" beta5a available SW: eCo Software newsletter, week 6 Event: SCOUG February Meeting: A Plethora of Demos and Programming SW: Updates of unofficial SeaMonkey, PmW-Fx, and PmW-Tb Admin: List update note SW: BInd 9.3.2 now available SW: Syslogd/2 v2.0 Net: netlabs newsletter #2 SW: ecs_os2_folders_icons updated SW: Enigmail 0.94 Updated SW: Pixel for eComStation Beta 6 SW: Correction: Pixel for eComStation Beta 6 SW: WarpVision GUI 1.0 RC2 on Netlabs Net: OS/2 Java Corner has been updated Net: Week of motherboards for AMD Dualcore
2006-02-09 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Marcus de Geus A new build of RexxMail is available from my web site: <http://www.degeus.com/rexxmail/> RexxMail is an object-oriented WPS e-mail client, written in REXX, which uses the standard WPS user interface. It features an extensive range of functions and options with full command-line access. New in this release: - Bugfix: ShadowSend operation depended on ShadowView definition. - Changed Quiet setting to Silent to avoid a problem with CMD.EXE. - Simplified UseCurrentDir setting to apply to message creation only. - (Reference) Removed references to non-existent settings. Best regards, Marcus de Geus Top
2006-02-09 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Paul Smedley Hi All, Just a short note to advise that ScummVM 0.8.2 has been released and is available for OS/2 from http://www.scummvm.org Feedback about the OS/2 build can be sent to me at paul at smedley dot info. Note that some sourceforge mirrors may not yet have the OS/2 binary available, it is definitely available from the 'Switch' and 'Heanet' mirrors. >From the website: Feb. 8th, 2006: ScummVM 0.8.2 "Broken Broken Sword 2" released Due to a bug discovered in 0.8.1, which rendered Broken Sword 2 unplayable, we're forced to release ScummVM 0.8.2 "Broken Broken Sword 2". Also, we used this opportunity to fix the WinCE builds, as well as the MacOS X bundle. As usual, you can get builds for all supported platforms on our downloads page at http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the game, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed! ScummVM lets you run these adventures: Adventure Soft's Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution's Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep's Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision's Gobliiins and games based on LucasArts' SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system. SCUMM is used for many games, including Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. Compatibility with supported games is continually improving, so check back often. Among the systems on which you can play those games are Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Dreamcast, PocketPC, PalmOS, AmigaOS, BeOS, OS/2, PSP, PS2, SymbianOS/EPOC and many more... Top
2006-02-11 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Peter Brown comp.os.os2.apps Hi All This application is designed to help (re)configure USB drivers and devices. It is not designed to install USB drivers, the drivers must already be installed - it should help sort out driver parameters so the drivers become useful though :-) Please read the Readme.txt file included in the package before attempting to install and use the application as this details any changes in installation and behaviour. Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=USBcfg Download: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/USBcfgb5.zip Regards Pete Top
2006-02-12 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Walter F. Metcalf KW/2 K-W OS/2 Users Group Serving Kitchener-Waterloo and south-western Ontario area OS/2 and eComstation Users February 2006 Meeting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DATE: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 TIME: From 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. LOCATION: Room DC1316, Davis Centre, University of Waterloo Meeting facilities provided courtesy of Institute for Computer Research. Everyone is Welcome to Attend! Maul Desktop Publisher ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ An introductory look at this professional level desktop publisher. Other topics of discussion for this monthly meeting are still under development. OS/2 User Forum ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (Sharing OS/2 Ideas)(Bring Your Questions) (What's New with OS/2)(Announcements) As a courtesy to our presenter, please plan to arrive by 7:00 p.m. For up-to-date information check our homepage at: http://www.sentex.net/kwos2cug/ For directions to get to the meeting check: http://www.sentex.net/kwos2cug/directon.html Next Meeting: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 ***************************************** Walter F. Metcalf VOICE Vice-President Warpdoctor Co-ordinator walter dot os2 at rogers dot com ***************************************** Top
2006-02-12 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Christian Hennecke The February issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now available online. NOTE: Currently, the German issue is incomplete due to the understaffed translation team. Translations that are submitted at a later point will be published a.s.a.p. For online reading: English - http://www.os2voice.org/newsletters.html German - http://de.os2voice.org/newsletters.html For download: English (HTML) - http://www.os2voice.org/files/vnl0206h.zip English (INF) - http://www.os2voice.org/files/vnl0206i.zip The German issue won't be offered for download until the translation has been completed. In the latest issue you find: o News from the tailor's workroom -- by Christian Hennecke o A new Future for eComStation -- by Jeroen Besse o Warpstock Europe 2005 in Dresden - eAMPT - the one click install of a CMS for eComStation is here! -- by Niels Jensen o Warpstock 2005 - An outsider's impression -- by Chuck Pettus o SigmaMD5 - A program to check message digests -- by Keith Merrington o How to create a database using Lotus Smartsuite -- by Arthur van Egmond o Time to think about Warpstock Europe 2006 -- by Robert Henschel o And of course letters, addenda, and tips! Older issues can be found at http://www.os2voice.org/newsletters.html, or http://de.os2voice.org/newsletters.html, and the Hobbes archive as well. As always a big thank you to our authors, editors, and translators without whom there would be no VOICE Newsletter. Please consider helping with the translation or writing an article for the Newsletter. Top
2006-02-12 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Peter Brown Hi All Beta5a is now available. This rectifies a glaring error regarding the UHCI Controllers Installed quantity - if your system uses UHCI Controllers the Quantity was displayed as 0 and the UHCI Quantity was added to the OHCI Quantity. Not sure how that crept in. I probably missed it here because my system only has 1 EHCI and 1 OHCI Controller... No other errors spotted or reported to date though. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=USBcfg Regards Pete Top
2006-02-12 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: eugenegorbunoffDESPAM@DESPAMmail.ru No signigicant releases or updates on this week. 1. Updated drivers * Release of USB Serial Converter Driver for Belkin F5U103 USB serial adapter -- http://betazone.ecomstation.nl (login via www.eComStation.com site) 2. Research * UPTime Test driver, can be used for changing of milliseconds counter in global information segment structure (gis). a) This counter is wrapping every 49 days; b) It is available via DosQuerySysInfo(QSV_MS_COUNT... c) go.exe shows it as uptime. We are researching the behaviour of applications after this milliseconds counter wrap (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?sh=1&button=Search&key=uptt.zip&stype=all&sort=type&dir=%2F) 3. Updated software * Personal Cards Manager, internal beta released -- http://ecomstation.ru/pcm * Dutch, taiwan version of JUne is released -- http://ecomstation.ru/june * A customer reported about succesful launch of T&V HappyPlayer with Hauppauge WinTV (Tuner: Temic 4009FR5, Decoder: BT878) -- http://ecomstation.ru/happyplayer * Update of PM Downloader, v0.9.5 (popular network retriever) -- http://eros2.by.ru/pmdownloader_en.shtml 4. eCo Software support service * Gathering information about ThinkPad notebooks; Distributing ACPI test utility to query ACPI data on computers without ACPI driver loaded -- http://ecomstation.ru/commentnews.php?id=1267 5. eCo Design (design studio) * Release of 23 advertisement banners (dimension: 140x140) for www.ecomstation.ru interior pages 6. Toolkits * ACPI Toolkit updated -- http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=down * Lange v1.1, multi-language support library -- internal beta released Top
2006-02-12 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Tom Brown Saturday, February 18th, 9:30 AM - 1 PM February is demo month combined with a bit of power programming show and tell. Postponed from last month, Jerry Rash has been experimenting with USB cameras. He's ready to show us what fun he's having with them. Tony Butka has promised to both come to the meeting and to demo something interesting, but to date has refused to tell us what he is going to demo. No worries. Tony's presentations are always interesting. This one is sure to be no different. Lynn Maxon has decided it would a worthy venture to port VIM using the OpenWatcom development tools. This month he's going to show us the results, to date, of this venture. It will be interesting to compare his results with Greg's results using the GCC tools. For those of you that missed Greg's presentations, VIM is an enhanced version of the classic VI editor, which has been around since the early days of UNIX. If there's time, maybe we can convince Sheridan to give us an update on the status of his solid-state computer. Last month we had hardware issues that prevented the eCS install attempts from running to completion.. We will have a Q&A session too, so have your questions ready. See you on Saturday, February 18th. Don't forget to bring some room for donuts and coffee! Room 326 of the Eastside Christian School at the Grace Ministries Complex 1645 W Valencia Dr. in Fullerton For a map and further directions,see: http://www.scoug.com/meetings.html Top
2006-02-12 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Peter Weilbacher Posted on news://number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com/mozilla.dev.ports.os2 Dear all, if you go to by builds webpage (see sig), and as usual reload the frame you will find new releases of all my unofficial Mozilla based programs (SeaMonkey, PmW-Fx, and PmW-Tb). They are all built from exactly the same codebase so running the concurrently should not require Run!, all still require the libc05.dll from Innotek. Changes from previous releases: - Workaround fix for the attachment-related crashes, WPS objects are still picked up using Rich's RWS code, (remote) icons are not (all) - Fixed slow display of ibsensoftware.com webpage (SeaMonkey, PmW-Fx) - Fix remaining SVG issues (PmW-Fx) - Fix scrollbarbutton display (PmW-Tb) - Perhaps fix LDAP autocomplete (SeaMonkey, PmW-Tb) - Installer EXE now also installs lxLite-compressed files (SeaMonkey) - merged ReadMe.* with README.txt, and changed it to include new newsgroup name - security fixes and minor changes picked up with normal Mozilla.org changes since the last releases. I also spent lots of time to create update packages for all ZIP build lovers that should work if you unzip them into the existing directory. (I hope nobody tries to unzip over Mozilla 1.7.x!) Top
2006-02-12 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Mark Dodel Just a note to point out that it now appears that the feed from OS/2 World's form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php is again working. As always you can also submit announcements to the list directly by sending an email to submit@os2voice.org or by using the form on the VOICE's web site: http://www.os2voice.org/fSubNews.html Mark Top
2006-02-13 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Paul Smedley Hi All, I finally got around to updating by build of Bind 9.3.2rc1 to the GA version, and it's now available from http://smedley.info/os2ports.html For those that don't know what Bind is/does: BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols and provides an openly redistributable reference implementation of the major components of the Domain Name System, including: * a Domain Name System server (named) * a Domain Name System resolver library * tools for verifying the proper operation of the DNS server The BIND DNS Server is used on the vast majority of name serving machines on the Internet, providing a robust and stable architecture on top of which an organization's naming architecture can be built. The resolver library included in the BIND distribution provides the standard APIs for translation between domain names and Internet addresses and is intended to be linked with applications requiring name service. Questions regarding the OS/2 port can be send to me at paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info If people want to help support continued ports, they can send a donation using the link at http://smedley.info/os2ports.html Cheers, Paul Smedley Adelaide, Australia 13th February, 2006. Top
2006-02-13 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Michael Greene (greenemkDESPAM@DESPAMcox.net) Syslogd/2 v2.0 a BSDish syslogd clone for OS/2. Receive both IPC and UDP messages, logging to a file(s) or forward to a central syslogd server. Has additional option to log priority, parse popuplog.os2. Added truncate and rotate options. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=syslogd20 Url: http://www.mgreene.org/os2/syslog/syslogd.html Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2006-02-13 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: newsDESPAM@DESPAMnetlabs.org News from netlabs.org January / February 30. - 31. / 01. - 05. * Universal Audio driver bug reporting o if you have problems with the Universal Audio driver, PLEASE open a problem ticket in TRAC o this is the only way to make sure that the problem is not forgotten and that you get help from the author o see: [http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/report/1] Open Tickets o see: [http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/newticket] Create New Ticket * LIBC TRAC tickets are now in the newsgroups as well o Tickets and feedback to tickets, for LIBC, are now also send to the gmane newsgroup o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/report/1 o See: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.libc.user February 06. - 12. * netlabs.org FTP Server mirror o The University of Erlangen mirrors the netlabs.org FTP server o See: ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/os2/mirrors/ftp.netlabs.org * netlabs.org news now on the Wiki as well o http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter * QT3 Library News o QRegion was implemented + if you need a cutting edge version of the QT3 port, check it out from the subversion repository! + See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3 o Valknut 0.3.7 was ported to OS/2 and eCS + Valknut is a program that uses the Direct Connect protocol. It is compatible with other DC clients, such as the original DC from Neomodus, DC++ and derivatives. Valknut also interoperates with all common DC hub software. + a QT3 library from Subversion was used for this port + because it requires QProcess and QSound + See: http://dcgui.berlios.de/ + See: [http://froloff.homeip.net/images/valknut-os2.jpg] Screen Shot + See: http://froloff.homeip.net/zips/valknut-0.3.7-os2.zip Netlabs.org relies on your support as well, we hire developers to have better progress on projects. For sure this costs money so any sponsoring is very welcome! You can support netlabs.org via netlabs.org sponsoring units: http://www.mensys.net/NETLABS/ The page states that VAT has to be paid as well, this is *not* the case for the sponsoring units, netlabs.org gets the full amount you donate! Thanks for your support! CU at http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2006 We can be reached at: newsDESPAM@DESPAMnetlabs.org Greetings, netlabs.org team Top
2006-02-13 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: David Graser (dwgrasDESPAM@DESPAMswbell.net) I have updated my ecs_os2_folder_icons package. It now contains more folder icons. It also contains two new folder colors. This package is dated 2/12/2006. Url: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=ecs_os2_folder&pushbutton=Search Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2006-02-13 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Davide Posted on: news://number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com/mozilla.dev.ports.os2 A new version of Enigmail 0.94 is available from my warpzilla page: http://www.dimi.uniud.it/bresolin/warpzilla/index.html It fixes all XPCOMCOR.DLL crashes with pw-tb and seamonkey, and it should work also with seamonkey 1.1 alpha. http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ "Enigmail is an extension to the mail client of Mozilla / Netscape and Mozilla Thunderbird which allows users to access the authentication and encryption features provided by GnuPG." Ciao.... Davide Top
2006-02-13 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Michael Greene I was checking the Pixel site and found that Pixel 1 Beta 6 Pixel (2005-11-14) is available. Url: http://www.kanzelsberger.com "Pixel is a RGB, CMYK and HDR image editing, photo retouching and manipulating program available for many operating systems formerly known as Pixel32. It is available for Windows, Linux, Linspire, MacOSX, BeOS, Zeta, QNX, MorphOS, FreeBSD, eComStation, OS/2, SkyOS and even old plain DOS, for both x86 and PowerPC architectures. Pixel is not free software, if you like it and want to support its development, you may consider Purchasing a copy. Licensing and prices are very fair, and include unlimited support." Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2006-02-14 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ Please note the following additions about this announcement: The update to Beta 6 of Pixel is only available to registered users at this point. For unregistered users the only available download is the previous Beta 5 version. Also Pixel Beta 5 has the following requirements: "Requirements: This is first beta release for eComStation. There are still known bugs in SDL/2 library and you may experience artifacts on screen. Please test as much as possible and report bugs to bug tracking system. It is required to have Scitech SNAP driver installed to get SDL/2 working properly. Some of the libraries require libc06r1.dll library installed. For scanning it is recommended to install [the] SANE package." From: Michael Greene I was checking the Pixel site and found that Pixel 1 Beta 6 Pixel (2005-11-14) is available. Url: http://www.kanzelsberger.com "Pixel is a RGB, CMYK and HDR image editing, photo retouching and manipulating program available for many operating systems formerly known as Pixel32. It is available for Windows, Linux, Linspire, MacOSX, BeOS, Zeta, QNX, MorphOS, FreeBSD, eComStation, OS/2, SkyOS and even old plain DOS, for both x86 and PowerPC architectures. Pixel is not free software, if you like it and want to support its development, you may consider Purchasing a copy. Licensing and prices are very fair, and include unlimited support." Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2006-02-14 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Mark Dodel "The goal of the WarpVision project is to create an OS/2 multimedia player that supports the latest formats, as well as the latest hardware features." This is a full install version. As far as I can tell it just needs LIBC06.DLL which you can download from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.0-ga2.zip Web site: http://warpvision.netlabs.org/ Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wvgui/wvgui1.0rc2.zip Support mailing list: To subscribe, e-mail: warpvision-user-subscribe@netlabs.org Problem reporting: http://svn.netlabs.org/wvgui/report Requirements: IBM compatible PC with -OS/2 Warp4 and higher -Video 64k and higher -DIVE, WarpOverlay or SNAP with overlay support (Note this version has WarpOverlay disabled) -Sound card. Uniaud plugin requires UNIAUD installed (see ftp://ftp.netlab.org/pub/uniaud/) -LIBC (see ftp://ftp.netlab.org/pub/wvgui/) -UDF for dvd -latest dvdcss.dll located at ftp://ftp.os2.spb.ru/pub/mmedia/contrib/libdvdcss-1.2.6.zip -regionset utility located at ftp://ftp.os2.spb.ru/pub/mmedia/contrib/regionset.zip -TV Tuner support requires WARPDRVR.SYS from TVSHOW package Changelog: PLEASE! Remove VIDEO2.INI first! 14.02.2006 (v1.0RC2) - Fixed problems with playback MPEG2 streams - Fixed problems with playback of 160 pixel width streams - Fixed problems with playback MOV streams - Fixed problems with playback INDEO4 streams using WIN32 codec "ir41_32.ax" - Fixed wrong colors playing IV50 or I263 encoded AVI - Fixed problems with playback WMV streams - Fixed some SNAP plugin problems 22.01.2006 (v1.0RC1) - Fixed wrong colors in MJPEG, MOV (RLE and rpza) etc codecs - Added snapshot to TV tuner - Added support of addition keys on Logitech keyboards (Media/Play Pause/Mute/Volume) - Added volume changing for all 6 channels in UNIAUD plugin via volume slider - New postprocessing added. Now works as filtes chain - Matroshka support added - Native Indeo2 codec added - TV IN pause added - WMV3/9 now works with DIVE and support OSD/subtitles, snapshots etc - Added selection of prefer audio codec for DVDs - Added experimental code for avoid stop playing due broken frames - Added recording code (not turned on yet) - Redesigned TVSHOW lib for hardware scaling support (needed for recording) - TVIN scaled to 352x288. Reduces cpu load at least twice. No need of deinterlaicer. Ready for recording - Fixed MOV with MP4A audio codecs (was jerky sound/sync) - Fixed handling of large files (>2Gb) - Fixed crash after stops TVIN when no uniaud installed - Fixed ULTIMotion colors - Fixed few seconds pause when stopping tvin or closing while tvin works - Fixed non starting second copy - Added native QDM2 audio codec support (uses in QT) - Fixed lost subtitles and subtitles parts (by KO Myung-Hun) - Fixed CDDA - Added WAVE audio output plugin. - Added support for loading Video Output plugins - Added H.263 video codec (known in mobile phones video recording as 3gp) - Added AMR audio support (not finished yet) - Added native COOK codec instead of WIN32 - Fixed HDV (MPEG TS) support - Implemented SNAP and DIVE video out plugins. WO plugin in progress Top
2006-02-15 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Roger Henson (javaos2DESPAM@DESPAMattglobal.net) Programs added or renamed; updated or removed broken links; and modified page to conform to XHTML 1.0. Please send me any updates, comments or corrections. Url: http://www.os2world.com/java Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2006-02-15 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Eugene Gorbunoff The seventh week of 2006 is dedicated to collection of info about compatible/non-compatible motherboards (NVidia chipset). Our database contains 89 records only ( http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=category§ion=mb ) Major part of the models are not manufactured anymore. Post new reports using the web-form ( http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=new ) Attention! The developers of solutions are interested to know the list of unsupported motherboards. Download the latest ACPI driver v2.6 to run AMD DualCore even on NVidia motherboards (login to eComStation beta-zone via Mensys shop). Top
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