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SciTech SNAP Graphics for OS/2 2.1.1 RC1
SciTech SNAP Graphics for OS/2 2.1.1 RC1 has been released:
ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/snap/os2/beta/
You can view the readme file here:
ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/snap/os2/beta/readme.txt
For a list of changes, see the changelog:
http://www.scitechsoft.com/snap2_changes.txt
"Changes in 2.1.1 (rc1)
----------------------
. Added zoom support on the VBE driver, and made some minor fixes for
flat panels.
. Decreased the retrace delay in the i845 driver to allow certain analog
flat panels (Viewsonic) to sync properly. Also added DVI support.
. Video distortion on some variants of the Rage128 and Rage128 Pro should
now be fixed.
. Video distortion on some G450 cards has been fixed.
. MultiHead tab would sometimes use uninitialized values for the base
resolution; this has been fixed.
. Screen pages were always showing current refresh rate, even if they
should be showing new selection for reboot; fixed."
If you encounter any problems, please open tickets on the SciTech
HelpDesk, with your graphics.log and any pertinent screenshots attached: http://www.scitechsoft.com/support/helpdesk/
Updcd 2.30 has been released
It is the latest full replacement of Updcd.
With UpdCD you can incorporate public IBM fixpaks into your installation
CD. In this way you will be able to install a Year 2000 compliant OS/2
Warp on systems with large hard disks right from this CD. You do not have
to reinstall fixpaks after using selective install. You can boot and
install right from the CD. You can incorporate new products into the CD.
-> URL: http://xenia.sote.hu/~kadzsol/rexx/sajat/updcd.htm
-> Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=updcd230.zip
Final Watcom 11.0c binary patch released
The Open Watcom core team has released the final version 11.0c binary
patch update targeted at existing Watcom C/C++ and Fortran users. The
binary patch update can be used to upgrade version 10.6 and later
installations.
New WarpVision 12/20/2002
Since 12/20/2002 a new version of the videoplayer WarpVision is available.
Updated were the commandline version (CLI) and the graphical version
(GUI). The ZLIB.DLL is not needed from this version on.
http://os2.kiev.ua/en/wv.download.php
Native OS/2 XML editor and parser
A little Christmas present for the OS/2 community! gX is a native 32-bit
OS/2 XML editor and parser. It is available as open beta now in the
Hobbes incoming directory in the file gX-0-2.zip. The parser is written
from scratch for OS/2, not ported; it can do full validation and SGML
compatibility checking. The editor uses document type definitions to
provide guidiance in authoring correct documents. For example, use it to
create HTML 4.0 documents, DocBook books and articles, etc.
URL: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/gX-0-2.zip
Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=gX-0-2.zip
NetGamePack v1.0a released
NetGamePack v1.0 alpha release is available for download
from http://os2.rulez.org/netgamepack/!
NetGamePack is a free, general network based game client,
targeted to ease the development of network games for
OS/2 and eComStation. Right now, it contains the server,
the client, and two sample applications (Chat and BattleShips).
An experimental server should be running even now at
os2.rulez.org:630.
Full source code is available, feedbacks are welcome!
As BattleShips is skinnable, and the current (development)
skin is not a masterpiece (it was not meant to be, anyway),
feel free to create new skins, and upload them to ftp://bships:skins@os2.rulez.org
! The best one will be selected to be the default skin of
BattleShips! (A skin how-to is available from the main site.)
New WarpVision GUI + CLI
Hot from the compiler, WarpVision GUI and CLI
WarpVision GUI
==============
PLEASE! Remove VIDEO2.INI first!
20.02.2002
* latest libavcodec
* fixed 3175 on some wma audio sources
* sync fixes again :)
* no more zlib.dll need
16.12.2002
+ added -debug command line switch
produce wvgui.log file in current directory
15.12.2002
* fixed crash on svq1 video (aka QT or MOV)
* fixed wrong length detection of mp3 audio
http://www.laemmlin.net/mirror/wvgui/wvgui20021220.zip
WarpVision CLI
==============
wvision-cli 0.0.14n ( Fri Dec 20 06:12:00 2002 UTC )
- mov files demuxer added + qt specific stuff (experimental!)
wvision-cli 0.0.14n ( Tue Dec 17 11:21:34 2002 UTC )
- latest libavcodec
- sync fix
- dart callback buffers fix (thanks to RElf!)
- WMA noise fix
http://www.laemmlin.net/mirror/wvcli/wvcli20021220.zip
IBM explains the recent withdraw of Warp4/WSeB
http://www-3.ibm.com/software/os/warp/swchoice/
On 10 December 2002, IBM United States Announcement Letter 902-274
announced the withdrawal from marketing on both Passport Advantage and
Software Choice of selected IBM OS/2 Warp 4 and OS/2 Warp Server for
e-business shrinkwrap part numbers. This withdrawal was made possible by
the recent removal of the 10 point minimum initial purchase criteria for
Passport Advantage subscriptions, enabling single and low volume orders by
business partners and individual customers. This announcement also
withdraws obsolete OS/2 part numbers for OS/2 Warp 4 for which End Of
Service expired on 31 January 2001.
IBM OS/2 Warp 4 and OS/2 Warp Server for e-business with Software
Maintenance will continue to be available through Passport Advantage.
New Passport Advantage customers should register online at http://www.lotus.com/services/passport.nsf/WebDocs/Passport_Advantage_Home and can use the following table to help select the appropriate OS/2 Warp 4
and/or OS/2 Warp Server for e-business license(s) and product media
package(s) that also include the Convenience Package CD ROMs and the
Software Choice features CD ROMs.
OS/2 Warp V4:
New OS/2 Warp V4 License. Choose either 1 year or 2 year license plus
Software Maintenance
D5C4JLL OS/2 WARP INSTALL LIC/SW MAINT 1 ANNIV
D5C4KLL OS/2 WARP INSTALL LIC/SW MAINT 2 ANNIV
Current OS/2 Warp V4 License Holder. Select 1 year Software Maintenance
after License.
D5C4NLL OS/2 WARP INSTALL SW MAINT AFT LIC 1 ANNIV
OS/2 Warp Server for e-Business:
New OS/2 Warp Server for e-business License. Choose either 1 year or 2
year license plus Software Maintenance for the server and 1 year or 2 year
license plus Software Maintenance for each user connected to the server.
D5C4TLL OS/2 WARP SERVER FOR EBUSINESS SVR LIC/SW MAINT 1 ANNIV
D5C4ULL OS/2 WARP SERVER FOR EBUSINESS SVR LIC/SW MAINT 2 ANNIV
D5C52LL OS/2 WARP SERVER FOR EBUSINESS USER LIC/SW MAINT 1 ANNIV
D5C53LL OS/2 WARP SERVER FOR EBUSINESS USER LIC/SW MAINT 2 ANNIV
Current OS/2 Warp V4 License Holder. Select 1 year Software Maintenance
after License for the server and for each user connected to the server.
D5C4XLL OS/2 WARP SERVER FOR EBUSINESS SVR SW MAINT AFT LIC 1 ANNIV
D5C55LL OS/2 WARP SERVER FOR EBUSINESS USER SW MAINT AFT LIC 1 ANNIV
Once you purchase the Software Maintenance either as part of a new license
or after license you should also purchase the appropriate media package.
You may find the following table useful in selecting the desired language
product media package. OS/2 Warp V4 OS/2 Warp Server for e-business
Passport Advantage Media Package by Language Passport Advantage Media
Package by Language Language Part Number Language Part Number
English 84H6327 English 31L1723
German BC81HDE German BC6V9DE
French BC8YKFR French BC6V9FR
Italian BC8WQIT Italian BC6V9IT
Spanish BC8GHES Spanish BC6V9ES
Brazilian Portuguese BC005BP Brazilian Portuguese BC6V9BP
Japanese 25L9165 Japanese BC6V9JA
Traditional Chinese BC620TC
Traditional Chinese BC6V9TC
Simplified Chinese BC005SC Simplified Chinese BC6V9SC
Dutch BC8FANL Dutch BC6V9NL
Danish BC83GDA Danish BC6V9DA
Finnish BC8YHFI Finnish BC6V9FI
Norwegian BC8YPNO Norwegian BC6V9NO
Swedish BC8YSSV Swedish BC6V9SV
Scitech press release - Intel video chipset drivers
It seems Scitech will take over supporting Intel video chips on OS/2
http://www.scitechsoft.com/news/press/intel_release.html
"SciTech Reaches Agreement with Intel on Future OS/2 Graphics Driver
Support for Integrated Graphics Chipset Platforms
SciTech Software, Inc. has reached an agreement with Intel(R) Corporation
which will allow SciTech to provide future support for Intel Chipsets for
enterprise and business customers worldwide running IBM's OS/2 operating
system. The agreement effectively transitions all OS/2 graphics driver
development, validation, and support for Intel integrated graphics
chipsets from Intel to SciTech as of January 1, 2003. As part of the
agreement between the two companies, SciTech will make their latest device
driver technology, SciTech SNAP Graphics, available for licensing directly
to OS/2 customers of Intel's integrated graphics chipsets. SciTech will
also offer full support for customers using SciTech SNAP Graphics on Intel
integrated graphics platforms running OS/2."
eBayWatch/2 ver 1.09g revisited
Hello all,
My apologies.
I've uploaded 1.09g1 to -
http://www.eclipse.net/~knkrchnr
And the web page is pointing to the right file this time.
This is to fix the corrupted search results page. I have also had a report
of an "Unable to Process" error message that I've not been able to
reproduce. If you get such a page error please email me the eBay item
number so I can try to find what's different.
PC Magazine and the Register declare OS/2 dead yet again.
"Obituary: OS/2 ", By John Dvorak -
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,768242,00.asp
"So farewell then, OS/2 - Windowed to death, finally", By John Lettice -
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28606.html
mozilla maintenance 1.0
mozilla maintenance, a small utility to wipe the urlbar history from
localstore.rdf and a .cmd to wipe the cache/cookies/download
log/history.dat
is available free @ http://dink.org
I run this utility once a day to keep mozilla nice and speedy.. I noticed
too many entries in the urlbar history causes UI slowdown...
best regards,
- dink
eBayWatch/2 ver 1.09g
eBayWatch/2 is an auction management tool for OS/2 users. It works solely
with the eBay auction site. It is meant to aid the user in searching for,
monitoring and bidding on auction items. eBayWatch/2 is copyright
freeware.
Required -
1) partition with long filename support (hpfs/jfs)
2) rexxutil.dll and rxsock.dll in libpath
3) must start from its work directory, or a program object which sets the
work directory I have uploaded ver 1.09g to -
http://www.eclipse.net/~knkrchnr
There's not a lot new in this drop, but eBay changes make it a must.
From the readme -
- eBay changes broke page retrieval (and probably bidding)
- New: Added search option "Search Seller Auctions"
Use the "search builder" to add a search for a particular seller to
your
search page. Options will enable/disable according to your selection.
- New: Added context menu item "View Seller Auctions"
This will call the standard eBay page to display the auctions of the
seller whose item you have hilited
As always, if you find anything strange or broken, please let me know.
Thanks,
Ken
Warpstock Europe 2002 statistics & T-shirt
Now we've read various articles about the Warpstock event in Arnhem, the
Netherlands, there's only one final conclusion to draw: the event was
successful.
According to the opinion of some guys from Netlabs (e.g. Bart van Leeuwen
and Adrian Gschwend), this year's Warpstock Europe gave a tremendous push
forward to the open source development of OS/2 software.
Besides that, as a Warpstock Europe visitor you might become curious about
some figures of the event. Well, here you go:
- The total amount of visitors was 248
- An average of 163 attendees each day
- Up to 19 nationalities
- Almost 450 lunches have been served
- About 40 attendees stayed overnight at the hostel for 2 or more nights.
- 18 speakers
- About 16 people were involved at the organization
- There were 3 captains on the ship, Bart van Leeuwen, Gerrit Schoenmaker
& Christian Langanke
- Warpstock Europe was sponsored by the huge Dutch
computerorganization HCC with 3000 Euro
- 4 commercial exhibitors were
present
- The total cost of this Warpstock was as little as 6500 Euro
If you see all this, you should like to have a reminder on Warpstock
Europe in the Netherlands. So, the organization team has decided that its
possible for you to buy that famous Warpstock T-shirt as yet until the end
of january 2003 for the special price of 25 Euro all in. If you want to do
so, please send an email with the SHIRT SIZE and your POSTADDRESS to g.s.schoenmaker@kader.hobby.nl with the subject entitled: WSE2002 T-shirt.
You will get a mail in return with the bankaccount where you can transfer
the money to. The shirt will be sent to you as soon as the payment has
arrived!
JANUARY 2003 OS/2 CONNECT NEWSLETTER
PALM HARBOR, FLORIDA (December 16, 2002) - M. Bryce &
Associates (MBA) today announced the release of the January
issue of OS/2 CONNECT, a freeware newsletter distributed
through the various computer networks and bulletin boards.
The newsletter is implemented as a web page at:
http://www.os2ss.com/connect/.
Its HTML files are also available for downloading and
viewing locally. The file is named CON0103.ZIP. The
newsletter includes the following sections:
Title & Publisher
What's New in this Issue?
Sound Off!
Editorial Page (Proposed "OS/2 Update" Program & OS/2 Java
Corner)
World Reports (Scandinavia)
News & Press Releases
Graphic of the Month
Calendar of Events
Bulletin Boards
Internet Addresses & Locations
Telephone & Fax Numbers
Team OS/2
OS/2 User Groups
Who's Who of OS/2
Publications
- Books
- Periodicals
- Videos
OS/2 Tips, Tricks & Keys
Products & Services
A 1README.TXT file is attached to the .ZIP file explaining
how to install and view the newsletter using standard web
browsers, such as the Netscape Navigator.
1. On the Internet:
World Wide Web:
OS/2 CONNECT home page (HTML)
http://www.os2ss.com/connect/
- the zipped HTML files for downloading can be found at:
http://www.os2ss.com/connect/purpose.htm
OS/2 WORLD (Mirror site in Europe)
http://www.os2world.com/connect/
Yahoo! OS/2 CONNECT Discussion Group in the "Files"
section (for members only):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/os2conect/files/con0103.ZIP
IN AUSTRALIA - SBT Internet Systems Pty. Ltd.
http://www.sbt.net.au/connect/
IN BRAZIL
http://macarlo.com/
IN DENMARK:
http://www.lionmail.dk/
FTP Site: hobbes.nmsu.edu
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/info/newsltr/connect
or (/pub/incoming)
2. Commercial Networks:
America Online
In the OS/2 Forum (Ctrl+K, "os2"), under "OS/2 News
Magazines."
NOTE: You can also access our Web site through AOL's
"OS/2 on the 'Net" section in the OS/2 Forum;
select "OS/2 Publications Websites."
3. Bulletin Boards:
The 42nd Street BBS (Northern Ireland, UK)
+44-(0)1247-270883
IBM OS/2 BBS Slovenia (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
+386-61-1253464
The Lighthouse OS/2 Support BBS/HUGO (Netherlands)
+31-183-402427
Midnight's Hour BBS (Carbondale, IL)
618-529-3176
Me2BBS London (London, UK)
+44-208-442-8560
NightCall (Odense, Denmark)
+45-6312-1074
The OS/2 CONNECT HTML files may be distributed free of charge.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact:
Tim Bryce
Editor, OS/2 CONNECT
M. Bryce & Associates (MBA)
a division of M&JB Investment Company (M&JB)
3310 U.S. Alt. 19
P.O. Box 1637
Palm Harbor, FL 34682-1637
United States
Tel: 727/786-4567
Fax: 727/786-4765
E-Mail: timb001@attglobal.net
WWW: http://www.os2ss.com/connect/
MBA: Developers of the "PRIDE" Information Factory(R) & Batch Manager
Since 1971: "Software for the finest computer - the Mind"
Pine 4.51
Hi all.
http://www.zeta.org.au/~nps/software/pine/en/index.html
As for Pine 4.50, I've compiled two versions of Pine 4.51. The standard
version, available from Hobbes, has had no OS/2-specific changes. The new
version, available from my web site, has had a couple of changes.
Most significantly, the mail servers can now be launched from an
OS/2-style inetd. I haven't had time to test them thoroughly but they seem
to work fine for basic mail reading. In particular, I haven't carefully
examined the security of my log-in implementation so you may want to think
carefully about how your machine might exposed if you use the new
servers. Please report any bugs or security flaws to me so that I can fix
them for the next release.
Nicholas S.
Christmas OS/2 eZine is Out
Read it at http://www.os2ezine.com
New WarpVision GUI 12/13/2002
PLEASE! Remove VIDEO2.INI first!
13.12.2002
! Hi to Freddie :)
+ added status of playlist
* fixed possible crash in mp3 layer1 streams
* other fixes
Program URL: http://os2.kiev.ua/
http://www.laemmlin.net/mirror/wvgui/wvgui20021213.zip
Program Editor V2.30 for OS/2
Program Editor for OS/2 is a full-featured, general-purpose, PM-based text
editor capable of handling any number of different editing tasks. The
editor is programmable, remote controllable from another application (such
as your own), and capable of running any OS/2 command line compatible
program (such as a compiler). It has many features including unlimited
undo, redo, file template support, file access sharing controls for group
working, etc.
You can download Program Editor from
http://www.manglais.com/download/MAPE230.ZIP
(the url is case sensitive)
Enjoy!
Mozilla 1.3a is up
1.3a is up
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/
Enjoy!
Mike
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