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The author of Christoph's OS/2 pages informs me that "Russian/2" site http://OS2.ru can be read in English language (machine translation only!).

http://193.125.27.41/its/url/result.asp?direction=65538&template=Default&autotranslate=true&url=http://www.os2.ru/

As of 06/30/00, InnoTek announced the general availability of the public Beta 3 of its Flash plugin for OS/2. In order to download, go to:

http://www.innotek.de/flash

and select the download form.

After that, you will receive an email with download instructions.

Note that this will be the last beta version so we are very interested in getting feedback on remaining problems. Please refer to the readme for the list of known problems and permanent restrictions.

InnoTek Systemberatung is a leading software consulting company based in Stuttgart, Germany, that specializes in application development for Java, OS/2 and embedded systems. InnoTek also offers unique application porting services based on the Odin technique which is being developed by InnoTek employees and a large Open Source community. If you need to support any Win32 applications on the OS/2 platform (whether available in source code or not), please contact us at services@innotek.de for further information.

Version 2.11 of Digitize2 is available on Hobbes.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/digitize2_11.zip

Digitize2 lets you digitize from an image using your mouse. After loading an image the user initializes the software by selecting 3 points and giving coodinates. Subsequent points may be saved into an ASCII file. The user can edit the image while digitizing.

New features in this release:

A brief tutorial is provided.

A Transform Coefficients panel shows the current transform equation.

Lots of error checking on the user input for setup of the transform equations.

I know many of you have had a keen interest in the situation on Java 2 (1.3) for OS/2. I have spoken to the team in Austin and I am pleased to be able to provide you with the following information:

The preview release is available (as of June 28, 2000).

Customers who have a current subscription to Software Choice can download the code from the web site:

http://www-4.ibm.com/software/os/warp/swchoice/

CDR/RW Wizard 0.9.9 beta16 has been released.

NEW: Creation of boot CD (TEXT only for now)

I'm also releasing CDR/RW Wizard 0.9.91 corresponding to beta17 Creation of boot CD (WPS in VGA mode)

http://www.quasarbbs.com/rocco

These IBM programs will be withdrawn from marketing.

AFP Font Collection for AIX, OS/400 and OS/2

http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?it=eme_announ&on=ZP000393

Corepoint Voice Response for OS/2, Version 2.1 for PC/Intel based

http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?it=eme_announ&on=ZP000401

Ghostview, the PM-Frontend for Ghostscript, has been updated to Ver. 3.1:

ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/ghostgum/

OS2 World.Com, a free web project, is now offering free page hosting. Its purpose is to give the OS/2 user community a possibility to set up project pages, as well for regular product sites etc. -- free of charge! More features and functions will be available during the summer.

http://www.os2world.com

The Command line Clipboard Access (CCA) programs are a set of shareware programs that allow the OS/2 user to access the OS/2 clipboard from the command line in a full screen or windowed OS/2 session.

These programs do not make any changes to the OS/2 INI files or create any additional files on your hard drives. To install them, just copy the two executable files to a directory in your OS/2 search path.

The shareware version of these programs are fully functional, but they add an identification line to the clipboard text.

Registation of Command line Clipboard Access is $12 (US).

CCA is available from BMT Micro at http://www.bmtmicro.com or directly from the author via PayPal.

New in Command line Clipboard Access 1.12

An optional version of ToClip (toclip2.exe) has been added to the distribution.

The line buffer in toclip.exe has been increased to 20477 characters. This should handle most long lines.

New in Command line Clipboard Access 1.1

The functions of PMClip2.exe and Fclip2.exe have been combined into one program that is also called Fclip2.exe.

This should improve performance when getting data from the OS/2 clipboard.
Don Hawkinson , author of CCA, DH-Grep-PM,
PMStripper, Pastry Box, and DH_ClipSave/2
http://www2.southwind.net/~dwhawk
dwhawk@southwind.net

The Dragen FTP client has been updated to version 1.1a. This version includes several bug fixes along with the addition of the site command plus enhanced support for OS/2 FTPd and Windows NT servers.

In addition, product registration is now available through PayPal.

Visit:

http://cotroneo.dyndns.org

or

http://cotroneo.homeip.net

to download you copy.

There have been some small updates on the OS/2 Emulation Site:

-Added CP/M-Emulator and CP/M80 for OS/2 on the "Computer Emulators" section.
-Added Bochs for XFree86 version ported by Alex Spanidis also on the "Computer Emulators" section.
-A little correction with the EMX version.

Visit:

http://www.os2world.com/emulator/

you are welcome to give me comments about the site!

Cdrecord/2 V1.9a02 is ready for download.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/cdrecord/cdrecordmain.htm

CDRecord/2 is a port of a freeware CDRW/CDR burning software from solaris. CDRecord/2 is released as freeware under the GPL.

Features:
-Data and audio CD creation
-Single- and multisession
-TAO/DAO mode
-...

Audio/Data-CD-Creator is a set of folder classes to write CD-R/RW via drag and drop. CDRecord/2 and cdrdao/2 are used to actually burn the CD. The classes are released under the GPL so full source is avaiable.

Visit the home page for further information:

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/creator/creatormain.htm

New with V0.41:
-Again: resource DLL error fixed (really?)
-Support for z! as mp3 decoder. You need a version later than 17.june.2000 to use this feature. Thanks to dink for the added option.
-Last image path now saved
-Cdrecord options for data CDs weren't saved
-Some options for data folders weren't saved
-Grab helper didn't find wrapper.exe -> grabbing failed
-Preliminary support for cover creation. You need Photo>Graphics Pro to use this feature

IBM has released on 8 June the SDD SE 7.02. The link to the page is:

http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/html/02C85B26B9A029488725689000530FE4.html

Mangus Olson has relased Magnum 1.0:

http://www.visdom.nu/home/magnum/

Magnum is a numerology calculator which can be used to derive Chaldean, Hebraic, Pythagorean and Common numbers from alphanumerical text.

SNES9x is an emulator for Nintendo's 16 bit home gaming console, the "Super Nintendo". It featured sequels to most of the games that the 8 bit Nintendo made famous, as well as having some new gems of its own. Through the magic of Scitech's Multiplatform Graphics Library (MGL), this gaming experience can now be brought natively to OS/2 users.

Retrocade is an emulator which specializes in arcade classics. It has an attractive and futuristic user interface built in, and boasts well-optimized assembly code for maximum emulation performance with minimal performance impact to other concurrently running applications.

Both of these emulators have been updated as follows:

SNES9x changes:
* Updated to work with SDD beta 31, SDD SE 7.0.2, and higher
* Using a newer version of MGL [should get rid of "No error" error messages]
* Joystick support with the Enhanced Joystick driver by Vesa J.
* PM Configuration program
* Remappable keyboard
* Ability to save PNG screenshots as a game is running
* Ability to save and load Super Nintendo states
* Ability to switch to your desktop and back without exiting or video corruption

Retrocade changes:
* Updated to work with SDD beta 31, SDD SE 7.0.2, and higher
* Using a newer version of MGL [should get rid of "No error" error messages]
* Fixed a small bug that didn't allow lower resolution screen modes to be used even when they were appropriate

Both SNES9x and Retrocade may be downloaded from:

http://emuos2.vintagegaming.com

IBM will begin the beta testing program for its new Host On-Demand Version 5 software. Participation in the beta program is limited. Details can be found at:

http://www.ibm.com/software/network/hostondemand/beta

Host On-Demand is one of IBM's range of Java-based, web-delivered host access solutions. Host On-Demand users can access 3270, 5250, and VT terminal applications on a variety of host systems, using just about any Java-enabled web browser. Host On-Demand supports the broadest possible range of client and server platforms, including OS/2 Warp, WorkSpace On-Demand, and Warp Server for e-business.

Unit Converter is freeware PM utility which enables "on-the-fly" unit conversions. Users can add, change or delete groups and units, conversion factors and prefixes.

Language support: English, Croatian, German and Swedish.

To download Unit Converter 0.90, visit:

http://redrival.com/os2util/index.htm