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February 23

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


February 23

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


February 23

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


February 23

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


February 22

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


February 22

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


February 22

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


February 22

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:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product_listing.gsp?cat=86798&dept=3944&path=0%3A3944%3A3951%3A41937%3A86796%3A86798&bti=0&sb=61

Finally! A way for OS/2 users to avoid the "Microsoft tax" on new systems!


February 21

osFree source release RESOURCE.SYS

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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

via John Martin Alfredsson jma@jma.se
-> 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

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

http://www.magma.ca/~bourassa

From: Gregory Bourassa bourassa@magma.ca


February 21

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.

http://www.calmira.org


February 21

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/


February 20

Supprising Daniela Engert

Hiho/2

Daniela Engert released four new or updated programms...

- ATAPI filter driver, V0.3.7

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


February 20

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/

Enjoy,
Sam Lewis


February 20

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.

-> 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

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


February 20

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/


February 20

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/

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

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

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

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

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/webcam10.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=webcam10.zip


February 20

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


February 20

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

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/mo640.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=mo640.zip


February 20

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

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/psiconv.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=psiconv.zip


February 18

SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 - RC1


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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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ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/sdd-os2-7.0.9-rc1.exe

What's new:
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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

About SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2
-------------------------------------

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 ---


February 18

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

-> 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

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

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/psiftp.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=psiftp.zip


February 18

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

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/ndppsion.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=ndppsion.zip


February 17

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


February 17

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:

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

http://www.nord-com.net/s.milcke/BT32_001.ZIP


February 17

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).

http://www.v3x.net/directx/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxglwrap

Also, AiR-BOOT v0.28b will get released next week.

cu, Kiewitz



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