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Add your voice to the OS/2 e-Zine! Reader Survey
Each month, OS/2 e-Zine! asks its readers to speak up about how and why they use the world's best 32-bit OS. This month, we ask our readers: "What programs do you use?". Visit our WWW site at http://www.os2ezine.com/ and fill out the on-line form in our latest issue (click the "July 16, 1997" link).
If you haven't seen the complete results of last month's survey ("Do you use WIN-OS/2?"), you can also find them in our current issue. Drop by and find out whether your fellow OS/2 users really want Windows support in OS/2.
The "OS/2 e-Zine! Reader Survey" is a regular feature of OS/2 e-Zine!, the Internet's largest and most popular OS/2 magazine.
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Available at:
http://sektortech.dyndns.com
http://sektortech.dyn.ml.org
DYNDNS/2 3.3 now works with the new ML.org WWW page setup. Doesn't support all the new features but works perfectly. You will also notice that Ml.org updates your IP very fast now (1 to 5 seconds rather than 10 to 20 minutes :) Please note that ML.org just switch providers. DNS lag is still there. Please wait at least 48 hours and then try again before E-mail mailing me about DYNDNS/2 problems. Within the next 48 hours DNS lag should be gone. To get more information about DYNDNSes check out these URLs:
http://www.dyndns.com
http://www.ml.org
Jason J. Czerak NewOrder@flash.net
DYNDNS/2 3.3 setup.exe (setup version 3.1) has a slight MISSING LABEL problem when you try to enable dyndns.com and disable ml.org. I have fixed it and just replaced the ZIP on my WWW/FTP server. The fixed setup version is 3.2. If you downloaded DYNDNS/2 before 13:00 EST time on 7-25-97 I suggest you RE-DL it.
Jason J. Czerak NewOrder@flash.net
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New corrective service for GtIrc 2.x is now available.
This release corrects a number of problems found over the last few months. This is a free upgrade for registered customers and brings the version up to 2.06.
You may download the corrective service from out web site. Go to the GtIrc page and click on the corrective service link at the bottom of the page.
Benny N. Ormson ormson@gt-online.com
GammaTech, Inc. Product Development
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Help Team Warped catch the Evangelistas.
The Mac Evangelist team has made a strong run and is now going twice as fast as Team Warped! We need all the CPU's we can get to retake the top position for highest rate. Help OS/2 look good, join Team Warped:
http://www.ionet.net/~colin/rc5.html
The most frustrating thing, is that Apple has joined in the effort full force. They have far and away more machines working on RC5 than any other domain:
http://rc5.distributed.net/stats/hosts-dom2.html
They actually are reported to have a single machine with 2 200MHz PPC 604e's that's doing the equivalent of 8 PPro 200's. Guess what OS it's running -- AIX! That machine alone is almost doing more than ibm.com! I'm disappointed that we haven't been able to get IBM and Lotus involved.
Come on folks, let's not let the Evangelistas make us look bad. Let's take back first place!
Colin L. Hildinger
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I am happy to announce the first release of hfsutils for DOS, Win32 and OS/2.
"hfsutils" is a collection of tools for accessing Macintosh HFS-formatted volumes. HFS is the Hierarchical File System used on modern Macintosh computers.
This is a port of Robert Leslie's HFS utilities for UNIX systems. There are two binary versions of the package: one for Win32 and one for OS/2. Both versions also run under DOS.
hfsutils is free software, and is available from http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~f96-bet/hfsutils/
For OS/2, you also need to install the EMX runtime, available from ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/devtools/emx+gcc/emxrt.zip
Marcus Better
email: Marcus.Better@abc.se
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After months of hard work, my newest game, NetTrivia for Java, is nearing completion.
For those of you who don't know, NetTrivia is one of the Internet's hottest Trivia games, developed by JoyCom Internetive Software in Etobicoke, Canada. Its database currently holds well over 70 000 questions in over a dozen different categories, and new questions are being added daily. It features live chat, an offline notes system, tournament play, and, of course, lots of trivia action.
Up until now, however, NetTrivia was only available for Windows. However, today I am pleased to announce the upcoming release of NetTrivia for Java. For the release version to be as stable as possible, however, I would like to request that as many people as possible who are interested in the product drop by and give it a test on their systems. Thus far it has been tested under OS/2 WARP v4 (using the built-in applet viewer and Java application loader, plus Netscape 2.02 for OS/2), Windows 95 (using Netscape v3.x and v4.0, and MSIE v3.x), and even Windows 3.1 (running MSIE v3.x).
If you're interested in helping test this new piece of cross-platform Java software, I invite you to web on over to the beta homepage at http://www.nettrivia.com/yaztromo/index.html, and welcome any comments or criticisms that you can come up with.
For those who are interested, this cross-platform application was developed using the IBM JDK v1.0.2 under OS/2 WARP v4, and IBM's advanced Jikes java compiler.
Thanks in advance for your help in this endevour!
Brad Barclay, os2@idirect.com
OS/2 Development Director,
JOYCOM Interactive Software.
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IBM's VISUAL AGE FOR JAVA FEATURED AT AUGUST 6TH MEETING
The next scheduled meeting of the Tampa Bay OS/2 Users' Group (TBOUG) is planned for Wednesday evening, August 6, 1997 at IBM's LakePointe One Building in Tampa (fourth floor).
The main meeting will be from 7:30 - 9:00pm. Our featured speaker for the August meeting will be Ms. Kelly Westphal of IBM's Personal Solutions Systems Center (PSSC). Kelly will be demonstrating IBM's new Visual Age for Java (http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/vajava), a new programming tool for developing Java code. During her presentation, Kelly intends to demonstrate the ease of visual programming in Java as well as the iterative compiler technology it contains (e.g., the ability to change a Java application while it is running and have the change show up). Kelly's e-mail address is: westphal@us.ibm.com
The registration fee for dinner is $7 for members who pre-register; $8 for pre-registered guests. Please make your reservations early (no later than August 1st). The registration fee for those who do not pre-register is $8 for members and $9 for guests. NOTE: If you have a "standing" reservation for monthly meetings it is not necessary to confirm reservations (except to cancel). For cancellations, please call no later than two days prior to the meeting.
Place your reservations with the TBOUG Treasurer:
Fritz Foster
Tel: 813/341-1444
E-Mail: fosterf@gte.net
Full details of the meeting can be found in the August issue of TBOUG's newsletter, "PROS/2", available as PROS0897.ZIP on the Internet at the TBOUG web site: http://www.tbos2cla.com/tbog
The next meeting will be on Wednesday, September 10, 1997.
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SDG announces the availability of WarpAMP B2a.
WarpAMP B2a is now available for download from ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu. It is currently in /pub/incoming with its final destination being /pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/players. The filename is wamp_b2a.zip.
This is beta 2a of the OS/2 PM MPEG layer 2 & 3 player "WarpAMP". Beta 2a is a fix for the memory leaks in beta 2 that caused swapfile growth. People who uses previous versions of WarpAMP should upgrade to this version.
MPEG layer 2 & 3 streams are commonly known on the internet as .MP2 and MP3 sound files. Typically these files represent highly compressed high fidelity sounds (often music). WarpAMP can decode and play .MP2 and .MP3 files.
The Software Developers Guild (SDG for short) is an organization that aims to promote OS/2 by developing freeware and shareware applications. Applications for other platforms is also likely to emerge from SDG, but our primary platform is OS/2.
More information on Software Developers Guild and WarpAMP can be found in the wamp_b2a.zip archive.
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