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The newest version of DreckBak, the OS/2 Hard disk backup utility has been posted to Hobbes and the support site at:
http://weismer.virtualave.net/DreckBak.html
Version 2.a features a complete backup solution for OS/2 without the need for any special hardware. Easy installation and setup with complete instructions and suggestions for use. See what everyone is raving about. This program is released as DONATION-WARE.
Hi folks,
I have finished beta 7 of my enhanced EIDE busmaster driver. I hope this is the
last one before going final. The current (and most probably frozen) feature set
is:
You'll find it as
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/danis506.zip
and later
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/drivers/storage/danis506.zip
Enjoy it!
Dani
Editor's note: I'd like to add a special thanks to Daniela for all the hard work she has put into this. Now OS/2 users have great IDE driver support for more then just Intel chipsets.
Mark
Matrox has updated the unified BIOS updates to version 3.51:
http://www.matrox.com/mga/drivers/bios/home2.htm
Updates since version 3.49 are:
MGA G100 AGP version 1.6
MGA G200 version 2.3
From the article at http://linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-04/lw-04-penguin.html
"It doesn't look like GNOME exploits much of the potential of CORBA just
yet, but I personally consider this to be the most exciting promise of GNOME. It
means GNOME may one day become as usable and flexible as the OS/2 Workplace Shell.
The OS/2 Workplace Shell is CORBA-based and is probably the most powerful GUI desktop
available."
It goes on to talk about other OS/2 technology like OpenDoc further into the
article.
IBM has updated the OMNI printer driver (04/05/99).
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2ddpak/omni.exe
Notable additions:
Canon BJC-2000, 6000
HP Deskjet 420, 672, 695, 697, 895
Epson Stylus Color 640
I have released a BETA of a new Media Control Device (MCD) for Television on
the OS/2 desktop. The MCD/VSD drivers use the Hauppauge Wincast/TV card and physical
device drivers.
FEATURES
The Digital TV Media Device will use either the GRADD direct draw capabilities
of the Hauppauge Wincast/TV drivers or, if you are not using a GRADD video driver,
will use DIVE for the display of the video image on the screen. The use of GRADD
or DIVE is done automatically by the Digital TV Media Device.
AVAILABILITY
The program is currently available at:
http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~lsunley
and is also available at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/yadtv2.zip
The program will migrate to:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/video/yadtv2.zip
Looking throught the TekSystems Job Search, the word "OS/2" lists 20
positions they are seeking to fill.
All different skill levels, pay rates, and locations throughout the United States.
http://www.teksystems.com
+ Click on "Career Opportunities"
+ Click on "Job Search"
+ Enter "OS/2"
Pretty Pop Software released Jasmine 2.72, today. Jasmine is the ftp front-end
using the OS/2 WARP genuine part for FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for the maintainance
of your webpages. And Jasmine can copy local files to destination directory with
same functions of FTP Mode. Jasmine will put/copy the files and directories, only
which are changed or altered from the last put/copy. You can also select if you
want to put/copy this time such automatically selected files and folders. You may
record the logs of uploaded files by either daily or monthly, too. And you can remove
remote files that uploaded/copied and managed by Jasmine.
Update topics are... Version 2.72 (07.Apr.1998)
You can get a copy from...
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/prettypop/
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~qw6k-knst/
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~qw6k-knst/software/
This OS/2 application requires Watcom VX-REXX runtime module (VROBJ.DLL).
The Notebook/2 Site, which lists and grades notebook computers according to OS/2
compatability, lists now more than 260 Pentium and Pentium II models, plus some
20 or 30 486s. It is probably the biggest site with regard to notebook computers,
even in the Windows world... :-) Besides the notebook information, there are a lot
of installation infos which are useful also for desktop users, and a huge driver
links page. I am depending on users' input. Please visit the site and submit the
details about your notebook. Any info is welcome, even if you don't know the technical
details.
Thanks!
Dr. Martinus
Stellar Frontier has been updated to 0.94.4. Web page still says 3/26, but it
was updated 4/6:
http://www.stardock.com/update/update_sf.html
V is a C++ Graphical User Interface Framework designed to provide an easy to
use and program system for building GUI applications. The framework is small, elegant,
and provides the tools required for building all but the most specialized applications.
The V framework has also been designed to be portable. Currently, versions for
the X Windowing System (using a customized 3D Athena widget set), Microsoft Windows
3.1, and Microsoft WIN32 (Windows 95 and NT) are available. A version for OS/2 is
also available. A gtk version for X is also under development.
The V system is freely available for use by anyone under the terms of the GNU
Library General Public License.
Home site - http://www.objectcentral.com/
This is the second release of the OS/2 port of V. It is released at version 1.21a,
the current version of V for Windows and X. It also includes popup menu support,
a feature to be added in the future to all platforms for version 1.22.
DSTswitch 1.31 has been released right now. DSTswitch is a utility that switches
from daylight saving time to standard time and vice versa. As DSTswitch analyses
the TZ variable you also need to have a TZ calculator like TZ-Maker.
DSTswitch 1.31 has got some minor bug fixes and some enhancements:
You can download DSTswitch 1.31 from these servers:
ftp://os2serv.rz.fh-heilbronn.de/csw/dsts131.zip
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dsts131.zip
(later ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/system/dsts131.zip)
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/2372/download/dsts131.zip
Please note: os2serv will be down on Wednesday, April 6 from 9:30 a.m. GMT to
12:30 p.m. GMT due to hardware upgrade.
As a novelty you can request DSTswitch 1.31 by e-mail. Send an e-mail to eckstein@geocities.com
with the subject "DSTswitch request"; it'll be sent twice a week.
Ver 1.00 of the Free Config.sys analyzer/optimizer/information PM Tool has been
released.
New:
Better GUI, works with 4OS2 and 640x480 Screen resolution, many addings to cm2cfg.dat
(e.g. PCMCIA, TCPIP), nearly complete Partition table id in howto.dat and lots more.
available at:
http://www1.stuttgart.netsurf.de/~kevers/
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/
later also at:
http://www.buntspecht.de/cfgmaint/
I updated my Crystal Semiconductor and OS/2 web page to include information on
the new PCI sound card that will soon be available from Crystal Computer and Centari
Computers, as well as a new FAQ. The URL is:
http://www.tabi.org/timur/crystalos2.html
The Crystal Semiconductor and OS/2 web page is a web page about sound cards that
use chips from Crystal Semiconductor and work with their excellent OS/2 drivers.
If you're looking for the best sound card to use with OS/2, this web page has the
answer.
If you've been holding off from joining Team Warped because it didn't seem possible,
well, it wasn't possible for a while because Distributed.Net was rewriting their
stat server code. The current code is a work in progress, but you can finally join
teams again! That means that if you've been running the Distributed.Net distributed
computing client and want to join Team Warped you can do it by going to the following
web page and clicking the "I want to join this team" link at the bottom
of the page:
http://tally.distributed.net/rc5-64/tmsummary.php3?team=112
You will, of course, need to get your password from your personal stats page
which you can get to by searching for your email at:
http://tally.distributed.net/rc5-64
or by modifying this URL to contain your email address:
http://tally.distributed.net/rc5-64/psearch.php3?st=you@yourisp.com
You can also update personal information at the following URL:
http://tally.distributed.net/pedit.php3
And of course, information on Team Warped can be found at the team website which
I'm finally updating:
http://www.ionet.net/~colin/rc5.html
I've created a mailing list for NICE/2 development and use. To subscribe, send
email to os2-nice-subscribe@egroups.com,
or visit the NICE/2 Home Page at:
http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/6525/os2.html
Through the early years of non-support, to the rumored OS/2 driver in development...
now it is OFFICAL... nVidia is supporting OS/2 with their TNT2 chipset!!!
http://www.nvidia.com/3Dgraphics/datasheet/rivatnt2.pdf
Hooray! Yipee! And remember to donate that 3Dfx board to charity... :)
DFSee now includes a fully functional FDISK module that lets you display, create
and delete partitions of any type and size. It also supports OS/2 bootmanager setup,
including all the SETBOOT commands.
All commands can run in batch mode, requiring no user intervention at all, so
you can now FDISK your OS/2 or Win-NT system automatically from a simple DOS boot
diskette! And it can do all that from either OS/2, DOS or Windows-NT!
So if you are using an OS/2 multiple-boot system you can now switch to a different
operating system automatically, as an example: "DFSDOS SETBOOT /iba:WARP"
will re-boot to the bootmanager system named WARP from DOS
For those of you that don't know DFSee yet, DFSee is an FDISK, display, analysis
and recovery tool for disks and filesystems.
Started as an HPFS-tool for OS/2-only in 1994, it now covers:
Display, modification and analysis for disk partition-tables
'MAP' graphical disk display (modelled after PartitionMagic)
Full display and analysis and lots of recovery features for the HPFS filesystem,
including UNDELETE and boot-record recovery.
Display coverage of all FAT filesystems including VFAT, FAT32 and OS/2 EA's. No
specific recovery options yet.
Display of NTFS boot-record, MFT structures and directories. Recovery of the NTFS
boot-record when damaged
Binary display mode allowing analysis of any disk- or filesystem structure. Limitted
editing is supported too.
Acces to disks based on several methods allowing acces under most circumstances:
physical sector-level directly to the disk, logical sector-acces to volumes/partitions.
Several 'fix' and 'recovery' commands each targeting a specific error situation.
Example: 'fixext' will correct the unwelcome large-extended partition type 0x0f
back to the standard 0x05.
Because of the targeted use for DFSee it is a command-line and text-only utility
(no GUI). At the moment an OS/2, Win-NT and DOS (+ Win-95) version exist.
Version 2.92 of the DFSee disk-analysis and repair utility adds several new features
(to 2.82) and some bug-fixes like:
Support for disks larger than 8Gb by DFSDOS
Recovery of NTFS and HPFS boot-records
Graphical MAP display command
TRANS(late) command for number and CHS conversions
All (OS/2) FDISK and SETBOOT capabilities
I would very much like to hear some experiences you have with DFSee, either positive
or negative.
You can get DFSee from my web-site:
With some delay, it will be on HOBBES as well ...
LBPlay was updated to level 0.06. The main new feature is modular structure with
DLL player modules. Currently there are modules for RTMIDI, external player, MMOS/2,
direct MPU-401 (without drivers) and standard device (primarily serial port).
Also Crystal mode 2 mixer LBCSMix was re-released under GPL.
For more info and download please visit:
http://www.freebyte.ml.org/~boga/OS2Programs.html
httptunnel creates a bidirectional virtual data path tunnelled in HTTP requests.
The requests can be sent via an HTTP proxy if so desired.
This can be useful for users behind restrictive firewalls. If WWW access is allowed
through an HTTP proxy, it's possible to use httptunnel and, say, telnet or PPP to
connect to a computer outside the firewall.
OS/2 Port of version 2.0 is available now at:
http://www.viaduk.net/freepage.nsf/page/OlDer/$file/ht2_20.zip
This port has no logging at all, because I don't have unix-like syslog library
for emx.
Original Unix source is available from the web site at:
http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel.html
Please send questions regarding the OS/2 port to older@iname.com
For other questions please mail bug-httptunnel@gnu.org
pm123 mpg123 1.07
What's new!
mpg123.dll 1.07
Fixed MMPM crash when DART underrun occurs.
Fixed Equalizer mute crash.
FileInfo (in playlist) was always reporting 0 length songs.
http://www.cam.org/~guardia/pm123.html
Templeton Project v.3.200
The Templeton Project contains a powerful World Wide Web mirroring and mapping
tool, and a very configurable HTML syntax checker. Using Templeton, you can bring
remote web pages to your local hard drive for fast, convenient, reliable, off-line
use. Mirrored HTML documents include working links, images, and sounds!
Web browsers can easily access the retrieved files. Minor HTML corrections (such
as a missing quote) are performed. Templeton is very configurable; it can generate
web site maps, mailing lists, server lists, and much more. It can also be included
in automated scripts and can be used to run other applications on the mirrored files.
You can download a copy from:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=tton3200.zip
Due to Mr. Hansen's requests, I'm taking down the Frequently Asked Questions
page for CU-Seeme for OS/2 for good. All information including user feedback has
been removed.
Contact him at deckkh@inet.uni2.dk if you have any questions about the status
of this program or future developments.
Fixpak 1 for IBM's VisualAge C++ v4 is now available. Fixpak for IBM C/C++ compiler
v3.6.5 (one that ships with VAC v4 for compatibility with v3 level product) is also
available.
One can download fixpak from:
http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/visualage_c++/service/csd.html
Note that it's very big (two files, one about 30MB and another about 70MB), but
only the first one is really needed. The second one contains updates to samples
and some other non-essential parts of the package. This Fixpak adds support for
WarpServer targets (therefore Warp 3 targets as well) and fixes some bugs. It should
even improve performance of IDE to some extent.
DragText v3.1 is now in beta testing. This beta test is restricted to *registered
users*, though. It offers a major new feature (pickup text and drop without continuous
mouse-button-holding), some nice enhancements, and of course, bug fixes.
Full information on the current version of DragText (v3.0) can be found at:
http://www.usacomputers.net/personal/rlwalsh/
Today I have released tc123 version 1.0.1-RELEASE for OS/2. Here's the text I
sent to Hobbes:
Archive Filename: tc123101.zip
Short Description: tc123-1.0.1 RELEASE for OS/2
Long Description: An ircII script+helper applet which allows you to control z! and
pm123 within your irc client console. The helper applet can also be used in any
other area where you wish to show information about the mp3 you are currently playing(like
email signatures!)
Proposed directory for placement: /pub/os2/internet/irc/script
Program URL: http://tc123.mm/
Additional requirements: EMX Runtimes version 0.9c or newer
It currently sits at http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/tc123101.zip
1.0.1 was made to update the rawdata structures to conform to z! v2.4b9.2's. Enjoy!
I have compiled a PoV-Ray 3.1e for OS/2. Haven't had time to test it much, though.
You'll find it on:
http://w1.246.telia.com/~u24600028/