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April 13

BallsBall - Vangbal 1.1 Released as Open Source

The author of BallsBall (Vangbal Dutch version),Dmitry Ivanov, has released the Source of his OS/2 game under the GNU GPL license.

The code is now available at hobbes
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/BallsBall.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=BallsBall.zip

and soon it will be also in the OS2World Gaming Sitehttp://www.os2world.com/games

Thanks to Dmitry to turn it open source

April 11

Java Movie Database V0.99 beta 2 (HOTFIX!)

English:

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The Java Movie Database (JMDB) is a Java program which stores the Data from the IMDB Text files (Internet Movie Database) in several MySQL Tables. After you have imported the data, you can search for actors, movies, producers and actors. About the movies and people some details are shown. For more details look at the JMDB-Homepage!

There was a serious bug, so we had to make this new version available. Sorry if you had problems with converting the IMDb files. As bonus we added another nice (and working ;)) feature to the new release.

If you have not yet converted the IMDb files, you should really use the "JMDB-JavaDebug" Icon (you should disable "close on exit" in the settings of the program icon) or the startos2debug.cmd. There are displayed some infos whats going on!

After you converted the data you can switch to the "normal version".

New in this Hotfix release:

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* (*) fixed serious bug that prevents converter from converting the actors/actresses (hang)

* (+) import compressed (*.list.gz) or decompressed (*.list) IMDb files

Juergen Ulbts

http://www.jmdb.de

April 11

ERACC OS/2 and eCS pricing page updated ...

Hello Everyone,

This is an addendum to my message sent on 04-09-2002.

I finished updating and uploading the OS/2 and eComStation (eCS) pricing on our store site. I cleaned up the layout a bit to make the items easier to distinguish. It now has pricing for OS/2 Software Choice. I have to "Special Order" the Software Choice items so if anyone needs to order those please be aware there may be a significant delay between placing an order and receiving delivery. Please take a look around the rest of the site and feel free to e-mail me with suggestions or comments.

Thanks to all of you who have stopped by to see our site!

The store site is off our main page's main menu:

http://eracc.hypermart.net/

From there choose the "ERACC's Online Store" URL and then the "Operating System Sales" URL from the main store page. We do not yet have online order capability but that will change in the near future. Another issue is the site has pop-up ads that are not under our control yet as we are still using the "free" hosting until we see if the online store is going to be feasible for us. Happily if you use Warpzilla the pop-ups can be disabled.

If you are in the market for eCS in the United States please check our site and/or contact ERACC for a quote.
Thanks,
Gene Alexander
Owner
--
ERA Computer Consulting
os2sales@eracc.hypermart.net
FAX/Voice messages: 1(731)664-8524
[e-mail preferred please]

April 11

IBM Web Browser for OS/2 V1.2 on Software Choice

IBM Web Browser for OS/2 V1.2 is now on IBM's Software Choice site. It requires a subscription to download.

http://service.boulder.ibm.com/asd-bin/doc/en_us/ns50/f-feat.htm

IBM(R) Web Browser for OS/2(R) V1.2 enables you to browse the Web, compose and receive e-mail, and support newsgroups. You might choose to use My Sidebar, a new feature, which enables you to search and bookmark sites in a separate window. Web Browser also includes a SpellChecker, which enables you to spellcheck your messages. In addition, strong (128-bit) encryption provides enhanced security for online shopping, banking, trading, and e-mail. Updated 04/09/02

IBM(R) Web Browser for OS/2(R) V1.2 (Web Browser) includes the following components: browser, mail/news, SpellChecker, and Macromedia(R) Flash. Web Browser supports the IBM OS/2 Warp Developer Kit, Java(TM) 2 Technology Edition, Version 1.3 and the Macromedia Flash plug-in.

In addition, Web Browser also includes updated internet standards support and features such as:
HTML 4.0 (W3C standard)
DHTML
DOM 1.0
JavaScript 1.5 (ECMAScript)
XML 1.0
Cascading Style Sheet level 1
Cascading Style Sheet level 2 (partial support)
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) version 3.1

Note: Web Browser is only available in the following languages:
English
Brazilian Portuguese
Simplified Chinese
German
Spanish
French
Japanese
Italian
Traditional Chinese

April 10

ZDnet article: When will IBM buy Sun?

By David Berlind, dated April 8, 2002. Frequent mention of IBM's failures, especially with OS/2 and how IBM should take control of Java from Sun.

http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2860393,00.html

April 09

ERACC eCS Pricing now up ...

Hello All,

I finally got eComStation (eCS) pricing up on our store site. The store site is off our main page's main menu:

http://eracc.hypermart.net/

From there choose the "ERACC's Online Store" URL and then the "Operating System Sales" URL from the main store page. We do not yet have online order capability but that will change in the near future. Another issue is the site has pop-up ads that are not under our control yet as we are still using the "free" hosting until we see if the online store is going to be feasible for us. Happily if you use Warpzilla the pop-ups can be disabled.

If you are in the market for eCS in the United States please check our site and/or contact ERACC for a quote.

The same page will have OS/2 Warp 4 pricing as soon as I can find a good distributor for OS/2 Warp. Unfortunately the distributors I use rarely have OS/2 in stock.
Thanks,
Gene Alexander
Owner
--
ERA Computer Consulting
os2sales@eracc.hypermart.net
FAX/Voice messages: 1(731)664-8524
[e-mail preferred please]

April 09

ThirdEye 2.01 FULL

Native OS/2 software for photo collectors.

ThirdEye is supported until January, 2005.

What is ThirdEye technology?

- VIO, NetDrive, REXX, PM applications to manipulate your digicam

(support of 151 models);

- Photos browser, EXIF viewer.

- i'net application for i'net OS (upload photos to http-script, show photos to friends over internet by one click)

What is the next step?

- ok.. join our on-line poll. Only you can say what to do.

http://ecomstation.ru/poll.php?action=show&id=9

- Without your feedback no progress!

What's new:

- http daemon. Run ThirdEye and tell to your friends your ip. voila! everybody has access to your photo albums.

- you can use external viewer to view photos

- thirdeye is equipped with built-in exif-viewer. you can get information about parameters of shooting, etc.

- interface is translated to german, spanish, english, russian languages thanks to our users.

- New: Kodak 200,

Fixed: Epson PhotoPC 850Z and similar;

http://ecomstation.ru/thirdeye/downloads.php

April 09

ComputerWorld Opinion piece mentioning OS/2

A new opinion piece from Computerworld's Nicholas Petrelli that has some interesting info, as well as a mention about OS/2:

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47-68-86-1721_STO69882,00.html

Hope this is helpful to someone...

April 09

Xitami/2 v2.5 beta 5

The OS/2 version of the xitami v2.5 beta 5 is out.

Available on hobbes (/incoming) or http://runner.conacom.de

bernd

[Moderator's note: Xitami is a "small, fast, and powerful multiplatform Open Source web server" - http://www.xitami.org Xitami requires Emx 0.9c or better.

There is both a 2.5 beta 5 and a 2.5 beta 5 patch 1 on hobbes: Xitami 2.5 beta 5

- http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/server/bos225b5.zip

Xitami 2.5 beta 5 patch 1 "This is the OS/2 executables for Xitami v2.5 beta 5 patch 1 which fixes the VHost-Bug again. "

- hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/server/bos225b5p1.zip

Hobbes Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=xitami]

April 08

jOggPlayer 1.1.3 Java Ogg Vorbis Player

An open source Java Graphical Vorbis Ogg Player!

I programmed this because I wanted a Java Graphical Vorbis Ogg player that I could use on OS/2 (as well as the other OSs I am forced to use). I thought I would share it with you.

Features:

* plays files from your hard drive, URL, or jRoar ogg streams (see http://www.jcraft.com/jorbis for some radio sites like BBC Radio 1)

* individual file play or multiple file looping play

* sequential or random play

* visual song progrees indicator

* playlist songs have a favourite selection box

* displays ogg file information comments

* unlimitted size playlist that can transparently include files and/or URLs

* Can Load a full recursed directory

* needs Java 1.2 or higher

* works behind a proxy/firewall (see website)

* PLUS it sounds great! On OS/2

v1.1.3 fixes many outstanding bugs.
-> URL: http://www.webarts.bc.ca/jOggPlayer
-> Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/joggplayer113-install.zip
-> Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=joggplayer113-install.zip

April 08

Virtual PC for OS/2 at Finnegan Software

Hi there... just an announcement that Finnegan Software will be taking orders (and fulfulling them!) :) for Virtual PC for OS/2, in the North American market, and, well - anywhere someone has an eMail address.

http://www.finnsoft.com/html/virtualpc.htm

Electronic delivery for now (8MB download, eMailed registration key), retail box product to follow (when available).

About Finnegan Software, Inc.:

Founded in February 1995 (50+ cat years ago!), Finnegan Software, specializes in custom-assembled performance PC systems, featuring pre-loaded eComStation software.

From our office in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, we offer on-site services to local Toronto-area clients, and a variety of services and products to clients in over 20 countries.

...is a happily purring computer in your future? Please visit http://www.finnsoft.com/ for more information.

***

Thanks!

-Derek

April 08

UpdCD 2.02 fix has been released

Download: http://xenia.sote.hu/~kadzsol/rexx/sajat/doc/updcd202.zip

Mirror: http://www.quasarbbs.net/updcd/doc/updcd202.zip

Changes since 2.01:

new: added support for netscape update (cp1)

new: added support for full emx install (all version)

new: aligned with cp1 fixpak 2 (mcp1)

fix: add add's option was broken in 2.0 (all version)

fix: SYS0002: The system cannot find the file specified message (all version)

April 08

AiR-BOOT v0.28 pre-release Linux tester needed

Well, I was away for some weeks. I just included Linux Kernel FAT-16 support into the latest pre-release version of AiR-BOOT.

It's working as far as I can tell on my computer(s), but I don't have Linux actually installed. I just have some kernels to mess around. So if someone has Linux and is willing to try out this pre-release, PLEASE contact me.

Previously raw kernel partitions were supported. Now this changed. AiR-BOOT is able to load kernels from a FAT-16 partition and they will get included on-the-fly into Bootmenu. My FAT-16 support is able to handle up to 4 GB (!) FAT-16 partitions (64k clusters). I can't actually test that feature because I don't have Windoze NT and I only got some 2 GB FAT partitions.

As soon as that feature gets tested, I will finally release v0.28b. Afterwards I will continue my work on Virtual Soundblaster driver (that one got delayed as well).

cu, Kiewitz

http://kiewitz.ath.cx/KiewitzSoft/

From: Martin Kiewitz kiewitz@netlabs.org

April 07

Virtual PC for OS/2 article on Slashdot

Slashdot is running an article about Innotek's VPC http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/07/183205.shtml?tid=136

April 07

Java Movie Database V0.99 beta (2002-04-06)

English version:

===========

The Java Movie Database (JMDB) is a Java program which stores the Data from the IMDB Text files (Internet Movie Database) in several MySQL Tables.

After you have imported the data, you can search for actors, movies, producers and actors.

About the movies and people some details are shown.

For more details look at the JMDB-Homepage!

There are a lot of changes since the last release (here are some of them):

-finally made an WarpIN Archive available :)

-no we use Threads everywhere!

-rewrite of nearly all dialogs

-complete new "simple result window" with a configurable and sortable table

-bookmark function to add a movie in the "Bookmarks Movie Collection"

-added "movie collections"

These are sets of movies defined in text files.

With movie collections, the user can manage a Bookmark movie list and his own video or DVD lists inside JMDB.

-complete new "detail window" (with quick navigation menu)

-hyperlinks (movies, actors, directors, producers) to open a new detail window

-added Java LookAndFeel support (now you can select different styles)

-and much more....

One note:

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Sometimes the import crashed on my machine, so we would like to hear some feedback from the users if it's really a problem or only my machine that's causing this error.

http://www.jmdb.de

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