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Developer workshop 2007
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OS/2 - eComStation News - June, 2006
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2006: January February March April May
2005: August September October November December
SW: DosBoxFront, OdinGui and JavaGui updates
Event: Correction: Official announcement of Warpstock Europe 2006
Event: SCOUG June Meeting - SMP, BetaZone, and more! June 17
SW: Stella/2 updated to v2.2
SW: Boxes Itheme for eCS 2.0
Event: BayWarp meeting for June cancelled
Event: Time to Decide to Present at Warpstock2006
SW: Press release about TWAIN USB scanner support on eComStation/OS/2
BLUEFOLD itheme uploaded to Hobbes
SW: Which USB devices are supported in eCS?
| SW: DosBoxFront, OdinGui and JavaGui updates |
2006-06-16
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Chris Roossien (roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com)
In all 3 programs;
VACPP filedialog replaced with standard OS/2 file dialog, so now the enter
key works as we are used to.
DosBoxFrontend;
Important bug fix in DBFconverter, last line was removed.
DBFconverter is now included.
Included is an experimental simple list.exe to call from the CMD script to
list manuals or walkthrough
Use as;
'start list
before the dbldr.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dosboxfront
JavaGui;
Some more bugs fixed with the class paths
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=javagui
OdinGui;
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=odingui
Url: http://members.home.nl/cwroossien/ecs.html
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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| Event: Correction: Official announcement of Warpstock Europe 2006 |
2006-06-16
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Roderick Klein
The first Warpstock Europe 2006 announcement that was send stated the
event would be from the 18th to the 20th of November. This is not correct,
its from the 17th of the 19th of November!
Roderick Klein/Thomas Klein
Warpstock Europe 2006, the annual event for OS/2 and eComStation users in
Europe, will take place in the city of Cologne, Germany. The three day
event will be held from November 17th to 19th at the youth hostel
Koeln-Riehl, so when you are tired your bed is only a few steps away...
Warpstock Europe is the event for all users of the OS/2 or eComStation
operating system. If you are interested in OS/2 or eComStation, its current
development and future enhancement you should attend Warpstock Europe 2006.
Come and join us in Cologne learn more about OS/2 applications and
development projects, ask questions or simply enjoy chatting with other
users. This years Warpstock will not have a social event, however a bar
will be open until 24:00 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
More information about Warpstock Europe 2006 can be found on the official
homepage - http://www.warpstock.net
Accommodation and meals are NOT(!) included in the entrance fee! You only
make a reservation for a lunch and/or dinner. We pass along the _amount_ of
reservations we have to the youth hostel so they can plan ahead. When you
arrive at the youth hostel you will need to arrange the reservation for
your lunch and dinner your self! You will also need to contact the youth
hostel yourself to reserve a room.
The website is still under construction, the first people who want to give
a presentation have already send us an email. If you want to give a
presentation please send an email to rwkleinDESPAM@DESPAMmensys.nl and in
that email explain what the presentation is about and tell and briefly tell
us something about yourself.
We recommend people to visit the website www.warpstock.net for more to date
news.
We look forward to seeing you all in Cologne!
Roderick Klein & Thomas Klein
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| Event: SCOUG June Meeting - SMP, BetaZone, and more! June 17 |
2006-06-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Tom Brown
The next SCOUG meeting will be Saturday, June 17, 9:30 AM - 1 PM
We are going to start off with the long awaited "Tony does SMP"
presentation. He's going to show us how to install eCS2.0 beta with SMP on
his dual CPU Athlon setup.
If time permits, we will also get to see how the latest ACPI drivers from
the eComStation BetaZone get along with this setup.
Moving along, Bob Blair is going to continue with the next installment of
his "Introduction to PM Programming" tutorial. And, the Programming SIG
will also give us an update on the current status of the development of the
Developer's Assistant.
Got questions? SCOUG has answers! Our Q&A session at each meeting gives you
a great opportunity to work the kinks out of your systems.
Plus, don't forget - snooze, you lose - we always have free coffee and
donuts. Make sure to be at SCOUG in June!
For additional information and directions, see:
http://www.scoug.com/meetings.html
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| SW: Stella/2 updated to v2.2 |
2006-06-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Smedley
Now available from http://smedley.info/os2ports/
The Atari 2600 Video Computer System (VCS), introduced in 1977, was the
most popular home video game system of the early 1980's. Now you can enjoy
all of your favorite Atari 2600 games on your PC thanks to Stella!
Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator released under the GNU
General Public License (GPL). Stella was originally developed for Linux by
Bradford W. Mott, however, since its original release several people have
joined the development team to port Stella to other operating systems such
as AcornOS, AmigaOS, DOS, FreeBSD, IRIX, Linux, OS/2, MacOS, Unix, and
Windows. The development team is working hard to perfect the emulator and
we hope you enjoy our effort.
New in v2.2:
Stella release 2.2 for Linux, Mac OSX, Windows, WinCE and GP2X is now
available. Ports to other operating systems will be released as they become
available. A partial list of features is:
* Added new ROM browser option which works like a normal filesystem
browser, allowing navigation throughout the filesystem. The old mode of
browsing is still present, and can be toggled at runtime. Related to this,
fixed bug whereby sorting in the ROM launcher sometimes didn't work.
* Integrated stella.pro properties into the application, resulting in
faster startup time. Now Stella can be redistributed as a single binary; no
external files are needed, but they will still be used if present.
* Reworked ROM properties files once again. The 'user.pro' file has
been removed, and all user-defined properties are stored in 'stella.pro'
instead. You should delete all properties files when upgrading to this
version, to take advantage of the speed increases.
* Reworked settings files once again. Removed all references to a
global settings file. Each user now gets a user-specific settings file
only. If that file doesn't exist, the built-in defaults are used.
* Added 'conditional saving' of the cheatcode and settings files, so
that these files are only written to disk when absolutely necessary. This
doesn't really affect desktop systems, but is very useful for systems with
flashram-based storage (GP2X, WinCE, etc).
* Reworked Settings class, hopefully fixing a bug whereby settings
weren't being saved in certain cases (most evident in the OSX port).
* Added 'tiadefaults' commandline option, which can also be toggled
from within the GUI. This option disables all TIA positioning 'tweaks' that
typically make a game look better, and present the image exactly as it
would appear on a real 2600.
* Added jitter-detection code for the paddle emulation, which should
eliminate an annoying 'jittering' effect when using paddles with a
Stelladaptor.
* Related to jitter-detection, added '-pthresh' commandline option and
GUI entry, which sets a bound below which the emulation detects jitter.
* Fixed crash when adding one-shot cheats.
* Fixed bug in RAM comparitive searches in the debugger.
* Fixed bug with setting snapshot naming type from the GUI (it was
always being set to 'romname').
* Re-added low compatibility CPU emulation mode, since it benefits
some slower systems. This is activated with the commandline argument '-cpu
low'.
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| SW: Boxes Itheme for eCS 2.0 |
2006-06-21
From: dwgras@swbell.net
I have created an itheme where the folders are now brown boxes. Will
only work on eCS 2.0 betas and above with itheme installed All other
default icons have been replaced also.
Url: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/boxes_itheme_for_ecs20.zip
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| Event: BayWarp meeting for June cancelled |
2006-06-22
From: Neil Waldhauer
The meeting of BayWarp, previously scheduled for June 27, is cancelled.
BayWarp will next meet on July 25, 2006.
For more details, see the BayWarp web page: <http://www.baywarp.org/>
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| Event: Time to Decide to Present at Warpstock2006 |
2006-06-22
From: Edgar Scrutton
*Only 113 days left to the start of Warpstock 2006.
We have a great social program lined up this year, including a visit to:
Hiram Walker Distillery, Ford Essex Engine Assembly Plant, Banquet,
Casino Visit and of course great companionship with fellow
OS/2/eComStation users.
This is a general call for Session Presenters, Software Developers who
wish to display and Vendors.
If you are on this list by error and or wish to be removed please email
me with your request. I will remove you.
This year, the Presenter Registration is only $95 CAD (That's about
86.00 US$! ... Wow what a deal)* Includes admission to all l classes and
sessions on all days, the Saturday Banquet and Sunday Luncheon.
If you are a Developer or Manufacturer you can get a booth and Exhibitor
Reg for $0.00!
All the information for:
Registration
Location
Weather etc.
is at Warpstock.org
<http://www.warpstock.org/staticpages/index.php?page=ws2006_home>
and/or at <http://www.allisonstravel.on.ca/warpstock.html>
Attached are two files? NominationForm.html and nominationform.txt
choose your type, complete it and return itt.
Contact me with your questions.
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| SW: Press release about TWAIN USB scanner support on eComStation/OS/2 |
2006-06-22
From: Roderick Klein
Solution Technologies, Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Mensys B.V. , Haarlem, The Netherlands
Paul Smedley, Greenwith, South Australia
Solution Technology, Mensys B.V. and Paul Smedley have come to an
agreement to work together to provide a solution for legacy
OS/2/eComStation applications that use a TWAIN interface to control a
flatbed scanner.
TWAIN provides a standard interface that applications can use to
control a scanner. All scanners currently supported on the
OS/2/eComStation platform that have a driver with a TWAIN interface are
legacy scanners with a SCSI interface. The result is that applications
that ship with a
TWAIN interface are not very useful anymore because modern scanners are
not supported.
Solution Technologies has provided the source code of its OS/2 TWAIN
DDK so an interface can be built between SANE and TWAIN.
The result will be that applications that access a flatbed scanner via
a TWAIN interface will be able to utilize USB scanners with the aid of
the open source scanner driver SANE (http://www.sane-project.org/)
Kent Swan from Solution Technology: "This agreement enables Solution
Technology to keep supporting its corporate OS/2/eComStation customers
with up to date scanner support. The OS/2 kernel provides very good
multi tasking and stability, the reason why some our customers prefer
to run our scanner solutions on OS/2/eComStation. In conjunction with
this agreement and the development Serenity Systems is doing for the
eComStation we can provide our customers with a solution to keep their
critical business processes going."
Paul Smedley from Australia and other developers have over the years
been maintaining a port of the open source scanner driver SANE on the
OS/2/eComStation platform.
When a beta release is ready for release of the TWAIN<->SANE interface
it will be included with all SANE builds for OS/2. Custom applications
and well known eComStation/OS/2 applications like PMVIEW, Embelish,
Star Office for OS/2 etc will be able to use SANE supported USB scanners.
Future versions of eComStation will ship with this package
and also the TAME software (a program to use in conjunction with SANE).
For corporate customers requiring support for their applications,
please contact Solution Technology.
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| BLUEFOLD itheme uploaded to Hobbes |
2006-06-22
From: dwgrasDESPAM@DESPAMswbell.net
This is another blue folder itheme. The blue folders themselves were
designed by Alessandro Cantatore. The theme and other icons were
created by me. Itheme will only work with eCS 2.0 betas and above.
Url: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/bluefold_itheme_for_ecs20.zip
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| SW: Which USB devices are supported in eCS? |
2006-06-22
Monitor for APC Back-UPS CS/ES (USB) is updated (http://apcusbm.narod.ru,h
ttp://apcusbm.narod.ru/APCUSBM004b1.RAR,
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?sh=3D1&button=3DSearch&key=3Dusbecd&s=
ort=3Ddate&dir=3D/)
Please, download test utility
(http://ecomstation.ru/projects/ecocrc/download/usb-mmkbd-test.zip) if
you have USB keyboard with multimedia keys and run some tests to collect
codes.
You can find more links to USB control applications at the homepage of
USB Tools (http://ecomstation.ru/projects/usbtools/?action=3Dapps)
If you have found new working USB devices, please post reports to the
database of supported hardware (http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php) Add
references to the auxiliary USB driver and homepage of develope
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