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March 2002 |
Replacement OS/2 help viewer
Rewrite of OS/2 View.exe, reads INF and HLP files. Improvements include a
new UI, remember size/position, select and copy from the window... etc
Recent changes include many bug fixes, some cross file links, user
interface tweaks
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/newview1.35.8.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=newview1.35.8.zip
More on Windows-free PCs
In Germany we have a bunch of computer stores called 'Atelco' all over the
country.
Since their appearance around 4 years ago they never sold PCs with any
operating system at all (usually their complete PC systems were mere
compositions of separate parts only).
Of course they sell Wintendo stuff as OEM, too, but almost never in a
bundle with hardware.
I must admit that for a store like Walmart (they're in Germany, too) this
is something one should mention, but German users have had that choice for
years (if they knew about Atelco, that is).
I buy most of my parts there, and the stuff they sell is even mostly
compatible with OS/2 (at least to some extent).
cu/2
Phil
ManplatoSync Updated
A complete application suite and development platform for creating and
deploying cross-platform data synchronization solutions for Palm and Palm-
compatible handheld computer systems. Version beta 03 has been updated
with a new security subsystem for user authentication and synchronization
protection, as well as various GUI tweaks and bug fixes.
http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/tech/manplatosync4java?open&l=LT021802,t=awfl
LimeWire 1.7c: Free Gnutella client for Java 1.1.8
LimeWire 1.7c: Free Gnutella client for Java 1.1.8 (needs Swing) with OS/2
installation instructions. P2P file exchange in Gnutella net for Java
1.1.8. Higher LimeWire versions need Java 1.3 which is not available for
free for every OS/2 user
Program URL: http://www.limewire.com
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/limewirewinnovm17c.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=limewirewinnovm17c.zip
phpMyAdmin 2.2.4
phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the adminstration of MySQL over the web.
Some improvements:
better support for cookies with multiple domains
new feature: mark row (on some browsers)
optional recall of previous login in cookie mode
optional disable of the Function column
can now optimize many tables in one operation
new "light" left frame: load only the table names for the current database
(previous mode still available with a config. option) in the tables list,
do not display Browse, Select, Empty links if no data some languages were
updated.
documentation updates
new languages: hungarian, ukrainian, hebrew
Some fixes:
do a manual Select against a table different for the one displayed, and
you could not edit the results.
open_basedir restriction
some undefined variables
problem with Mozilla 0.9.7
problem when someone forgets to uncheck the null checkbox
Query by example returned unlimited rows
wrong calculation for overhead in multiple tables printview
wrong page back after edit
error with the cookies on the login page
problem with https
could not revoke some user permissions
Program URL: http://phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net/
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin-2.2.4-php.zip
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin-2.2.4-php3.zip
Normalize 0.7.2
Normalize 0.7.2, a textmode program to adjust the volume of several wav
or mp3 files to the same level. Long Description: Normalize is an overly
complicated tool for adjusting the volume of wave files to a standard
level. This is useful for things like creating mixed CD's and mp3
collections, where different recording levels on different albums can
cause the volume to vary greatly from song to song. (Can now adjust mp3
files).
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/normalize-0.7.2.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=normalize-0.7.2.zip
patches and utilities for IBM's VAC3.08 (fixpak 8)
patches and utilities for IBM's VAC3.08 (fixpak 8)
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/vacstuff.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=vacstuff.zip
Windows-free PCs now available at walmart.com!
I read a news item at Tom's Hardware that CNET reported walmart.com is now
offering PCs for sale without an operating system loaded. I can verify
this report, check out this url:
Finally! A way for OS/2 users to avoid the "Microsoft tax" on new
systems!
osFree source release RESOURCE.SYS via John Martin Alfredsson jma@jma.se CLP(R) Constraint programming for OS/2 Constraint programming is a powerful technique which has made greate
strides over the past 10 years. One of the classic implementations is
CLP(R) which can solve simultaneous equations/relations in the Real domain
and solve general constraint problems in the tree domain (symbols and
terms). I have just built CLP(R) from the distribution sources using GCC, EMX and
the makefile for OS/2 supplied in the distribution. It is simple to
build and works great on OS/2. The distribution is freely available for
personal and experimental use, from the author: Joxan Jaffar,
joxan@comp.nus.edu.sg From: Gregory Bourassa bourassa@magma.ca Calmira 3.25 Win-OS/2 Shell Calmira, The Win9x look and feel shell for Win 3.1 has been updated to
Version 3.25. This app works well with Win-OS/2 Full Screen sessions. Copy
the downloaded files to your Win-OS/2 directory and change the shell=
statement in system.ini to calmira.exe and enjoy! When used with
nice35t.zip, available on hobbes. You get 3D controls as well as the close
button in each window. MMIO Vorbis 0.2 Russell O'Connor has updated the MMIOVorbis Codec to 0.2 MMIOVorbis is an MMIOProc for OS/2 that allows OS/2ÿs multimedia system to
play Ogg Vorbis files. Changes from 0.1.1 to 0.2 (2002-02-14) Skips errors in OGG files instead of halting. Removed OGG encoding code that never worked anyway. http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~roconnor/MMIOMP3/ Supprising Daniela Engert http://hobbes.nmsu.edu:/pub/incoming/daniatapi037.zip - CD boot filter driver, V1.0 http://hobbes.nmsu.edu:/pub/incoming/daniboot10.zip - non-512 bytes per sector DASD filter driver, V0.1.2 http://hobbes.nmsu.edu:/pub/incoming/danin512r012.zip - IBM1S506 replacement, supports Intel, VIA, Ali, SiS,
CMD, Promise, Cyrix, HPT, AMD, Artop, SMSC, ServerWorks,
Opti, and Nvidia, disk capacity up to 2TiB, V1.4.1 http://hobbes.nmsu.edu:/pub/incoming/danis506r141.zip Electronic Teller Updated to 4.10 Paul Caron has updated Electronic Teller to version 4.10. Also his email and Web Site addresses have changed. Visit the new web
page at http://members.rogers.com/phcaron/ SysInfo/2 project Home page updated! Due to some reconstruction on http://www.os2.ru/ all projects homepages
were moved to http://devcenter.os2.ru/ and for now, I am glad to tell all
OS/2 users that my project homepage was updated on the new location. New dragtext beta A new beta version of DragText v3.5 is now available from: http://www.e-vertise.com/dragtext/beta.html This beta (v3.F3) extends DT's newest feature -Moving Targets- to the WPS.
Now, when you drag WPS objects you can have DT move target windows up and
down in the z-order, either automatically or by pressing a key or mouse
button. v3.F3 lets you keep unintended targets from popping up by setting
a delay before DT raises a window automatically. v3.F3 also offers Odin support so you can use DragText with your Windows
programs, along with various smaller changes & bug fixes. This beta EXPIRES at the end of April, 2002. Until then, all of its
features are enabled and no registration is needed. Please do not post it
to hobbes or other sites. BTW... if you want the beta without the Web page, it's here: http://www.e-vertise.com/dragtext/drgtxtf3.zip AudioStation for OS/2 AudioStation audio player and editor. Alpha version for testing. http://www.geocities.com/Hodges_C/audiostat_a16.zip For more info join the mailinglist, send a mail to audiostation-subscribe@yahoogroups.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/audiostation/ Versatile Commodore Emulator for OS/2 version 1.8 "VICE is a Versatile Commodore Emulator, i.e. a program that runs on a
Unix, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS or BeOS machine and executes
programs intended for the old 8-bit Commodore computers. The current
version emulates the C64, the C128, the VIC20, all the PET models (except
the SuperPET 9000, which is out of line anyway) and the CBM-II (aka
C610)." Program URL: http://viceteam.bei.t-online.de/ Formerly lclint, a "better lint" for C source code Splint is a tool for statically checking C programs for security
vulnerabilities and coding mistakes. With minimal effort, Splint can be
used as a better lint. If additional effort is invested adding
annotations to programs, Splint can perform stronger checking than can be
done by any standard lint. This is the OS/2 port of the program, it was
originally written for Unix systems. Program URL: http://www.splint.org WWW-Cam utility for Fast Movie Machine II and Win-TV Web Camera for OS/2 creates timed snapshots from VideoIn device, can be
used to set up a WWW-Camera Program URL: http://www.dttmr.de New file archive for OS/2 and ECS On OS/2.cz, there is a new file archive for OS/2 and eComStation operating
systems... We would like to build a smaller archive, but with updates and
the most popular programs, drivers, fixpacks and documents... You can try it and visit http://www.os2.cz share FAT-Superfloppies with more than 512bps with other OS This is designed for usage together with N512DASD.FLT, which makes disks
with 2k/sector from other OS unreadable. Ver. 1.0 Program URL: http://www.maazl.de/project/mo640/index.html Psion<->OS/2 data file convert utility (v0.8.3) Command line mode Psion data file convert utility. For people why doesn't
want to download whole psiftp package. OS/2 port of the original PsiFtp
utility by Frodo Looijaard frodol@dds.nl Program URL: ftp://cbs-edu.chel.su/pub/Porro/Psion SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 - RC1 ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/sdd-os2-7.0.9-rc1.exe This is the first release candidate for SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2.
Once the last few remaining issues are ironed out, we will be doing the
official release of the product. . All remaining changes are now tracked on the web. Public changes
are tracked at the following URL: http://www.scitechsoft.com/sdd2_changes.txt SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 brings SciTech's proven universal device
driver technologies to the OS/2 operating system. SciTech Display Doctor
for OS/2 incorporates the SciTech Nucleus Graphics Architecture, which is
a cross platform device driver technology enabling the use of the same
device drivers in all versions of SciTech Display Doctor. Sharing the
drivers between platforms improves the quality and performance of device
drivers for all supported operating systems. For more detailed information about SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2
(including the list of supported graphics chipsets) see the complete
readme at: ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/readme.txt --- END OF ANNOUNCEMENT --- osFree Technology Preview released osFree, a noncommercial OS/2-compatible system, sees the light of day.
English and Russian versions are available at Hobbes. The project invites
new participants, below is the manifesto of osFree team: The osFree team is looking for developers that could help us build an
opensource OS/2 clone. The OS/2 operating system has served us well during the years we have used
it. OS/2 still has its strengths but sadly the developer (IBM) has decided
that the strengths do not count anymore. In the end of 2002 all "free"
(IBM calls SWC free!) updates will be terminated and in the end of 2006
the plug will finally be pulled. Soon we will have two choices, migrate to another OS or keep running
something that will soon turn really old. eComStation may be a dark horse
here, but they are still dependant of what IBM will allow them to do. Or, is there another possibility ? In the recent years, open source has made its way into the mainstream
computing world. It would be a perfect solution to our problems. Anyone
can use the OS and noone will have the power to stop anyone else from
enhancing it. IBM has several times been asked to opensource OS/2 but to no avail. Their
reasons have been more or less muddy. Therefore we propose a mission to clone OS/2! As you have seen we have already gained some ground with our osFree
Technology Preview Edition but we need your help to: - Implement more, lots of stuff needs to be written: Networking,
more drivers, Presentation Manager, WPS and so on.Br>
- Create a good way to share the code (CVS, build environment)
and transform the existing code to an opensource compiler. - Create our own SDK/DDK. - Build documentation both for developers and end users. If you are interested, please join our yahoogroup http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osFree/ and tell us how you can help ! /The osFree team Psion OS/2 utilities (v1.4) Text mode ftp-like utilities for Psion Series 3(5). For a files transfer
and files conversion, with a Rexx interface. This utilities don't use any
TCP/IP stack calls. Program URL: ftp://cbs-edu.chel.su/pub/Porro/Psion Psion OS/2 NetDrive plugin (v1.4) NetDrive plugin to get access to Psion PDA disks as to ordinary OS/2 drive
(now with icons and partial reconnection) Program URL: ftp://cbs-edu.chel.su/pub/Porro/Psion Make 3.79.1 available for testing... GNU Make is an important program for anyone compiling programs with
EMX/GCC. Unfortunately on OS/2 we have had to use old versions of Make for
a long time. The most recent of which is v3.76.1, but there are many
different releases of this port and they do contain a number of bugs, some
different from other releases, so it makes it particularly difficult to
accurately report any problems . Now there is a new port of 3.79.1 and it
would be nice to get this tested as rigorously as possible, so if you do
use Make, please give this new port a test and report any problems so that
they can be corrected. It's available here:- ftp://ftp.unixos2.org/incoming/make-3_79_1-bin-beta1.zip BTTV-Project updated 14. Feb 2002 New BT8X8 driver for TV-Cards (Freeware/Shareware)
Last Update: 14.02.2002 Program URL: http://www.nord-com.net/s.milcke/bttv_en.htm The author (Stefan Milcke) says: I'm currently trying to port the linux BTTV driver to OS/2. The main work
is done. Radio is working already. I'm looking for Beta-Testers for this
new driver. I've included a fast hack of a radio application. Use at your
own risk! The driver is currently very big. It includes debug information. Important: My intention is to release this driver (and LXAPI32.SYS) as
Open Source. But I need some time until both drivers are stable and the
API is well defined. Complete history: http://www.nord-com.net/s.milcke/BT32_001.ZIP DirectX -> OpenGL Wrapper Open Sourced Just found out that the BeOS DirectX to OpenGL wrapper got released Open
Source that means one could port it into Odin (imho). Also, AiR-BOOT v0.28b will get released next week. cu, Kiewitz
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readme for osFree disassembly distro of IBM OS/2 Warp resource.sys
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1. You must be, and agree that you are, a current licensee of
IBM OS/2 Warp 4(*)
resource.asm decompile !
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I was given these files from the osFree team.
The package contains:
makefile - file used to build resource.asm (se below)
RESOURCE.ASM - disassembly of resource.sys
version.mak - used by makefile
osFree TPE development team
-> Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=osf_resource.zip
-> FTP-Search: http://download.lycos.com/swadv/AdvResults.asp?query=osf_resource.zip
February 21
February 21
February 21
February 20
Hiho/2
Daniela Engert released four new or updated programms...
- ATAPI filter driver, V0.3.7
February 20
Enjoy,
Sam Lewis
February 20
-> URL: http://devcenter.os2.ru/sysinfo/index.phtml.en
-> Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=sysinfo089.zip
-> FTP-Search: http://download.lycos.com/swadv/AdvResults.asp?query=sysinfo089.zip
February 20
February 20
February 20
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/vice-os2-1.8.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=vice-os2-1.8.zip
February 20
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/splint-3.0.1.6.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=splint-3.0.1.6.zip
February 20
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/webcam10.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=webcam10.zip
February 20
February 20
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/mo640.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=mo640.zip
February 20
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/psiconv.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=psiconv.zip
February 18
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SciTech Display Doctor 7.0.9 for OS/2
RELEASE CANDIDATE 1
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Where do you get it?
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What's new:
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About SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2
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February 18
-> Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=osf_en.zip
-> FTP-Search: http://download.lycos.com/swadv/AdvResults.asp?query=osf_en.zip
February 18
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/psiftp.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=psiftp.zip
February 18
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/ndppsion.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=ndppsion.zip
February 17
February 17
NEW: New functionality
FIX: Fixed bug
CHG: Changed functionality or behaviour
INT: Internal change
M40: Migration from VisualAge 3.0 to VisualAge 4.0
==================================History=======================================
Date Type Text
14.02.02 FIX: Radio not tuned correctly (bit 7 of divider was allways 0)
14.02.02 CHG: Enhanced informations about detected cards
12.02.02 CHG: Introduced 50KHz step mode in tuner.c (Thanks to Paul
Ratcliffe) 03.02.02 NEW: Support for more tuners
31.01.02 FIX: Trap 0e on system boot when TV-card is not detected
23.01.02
FIX: Rewrote most asm code for workaround in wlink bug 19.01.02 FIX:
Module parameter in config.sys not accepted
16.01.02 FIX: Trap 0e in
CS:EIP=0168:fa32889b (current pointed to NULL) 15.01.02 CHG: LXAPI32.SYS
created. BT32.SYS now interacts with LXAPI32.SYS 04.01.02 FIX: Thread not
exited in msp3400
03.01.02 CHG: rewrote IRQ handler logic
01.01.02 FIX: Wrong code in bt848_muxsel
01.01.02 FIX: On some systems vsfx is allways 1 when it should be 0
31.12.01 CHG: IRQ handler now determines irq number via DOSVar
29.12.01
FIX: IRQ handler not entered with correct irq number
23.12.01 FIX:
Forgotten some code in MSP3400.c
22.12.01 CHG: Updated most code to linux ver 2.5.1
14.12.01 FIX: desc->checkit not executed in chip_attach() in module
tvaudio
14.12.01 FIX: Page fault in module tvaudio
13.12.01 FIX: Timer handler was entered when timer list was not
initialized
12.12.01 NEW: Linux module parameters implemented
10.12.01 NEW: Loading/Unloading of modules
09.12.01 FIX: Memory allocation with CONTIG
08.12.01 NEW: First release of BT32.SYS driver
February 17
http://www.v3x.net/directx/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxglwrap
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