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May 15, 1996 Announcements

Windows NT the future? It doesn't seem so.

Information Week, the popular magazine targetted at Windows and Windows NT using IS managers recently released the results of a poll they did. Surprisingly it highlighted more support for OS/2 than for NT.

The "Windows NT Ballot Results" claimed that of people asked, "Which desktop operating systems will your company purchase in 1996?" 35% replied "OS/2 Warp" (the most popular answer) while only 25% answered "Windows NT Workstation" (the next most popular answer).

Of people asked, "Which server operating systems will your company purchase in 1996?" the big winner was again OS/2 Warp Server with 30% while the next most common answer was Windows NT Server with 24%.

Full details can be found on Information Week's web site.
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OS/2 Boggle Game v1.0 with Source code Available now.

David Boudah has submitted an OS/2 version of the board game BOGGLE to the incoming directory of ftp://ftp.hsb.com/dboudah/ subdirectory and in the Compuserve OS/2 Developers 1 forum. The archive is called BOGGLE.ZIP.

The Boggle computer game is based on the board game of the same name. The game consists of a game board, 16 dice, and a timer. The object of the game is to roll the dice and create as many words as possible using the letters that show up on the die face. The words have to be at least three letters in length and the letters that you use have to be adjacent to each other.

This game was developed using OS/2 Visual C++ compiler and the OpenClass class libraries. Sound is provided via the OS/2 multimedia classes. David's kids enjoy the game and actually learn how to spell and form new words in the process. It is released as shareware.
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Programmers' Message Box Utility.

Dan Libby has announced the availability of a freeware utility programmers may use to add a little spice to the message boxes in their OS/2 programs. Some of the main features include:

It can be found on Dan's home page. Click on the DanMessageBox link.
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Entertainment Pack for OS/2 Warp - New Release.

I'm happy to announce the latest release of the Entertainment Pack for OS/2 Warp. The Entertainment Pack for OS/2 is a rapidly growing collection of classic games including Battleship, Backgammon, Checkers, Connect Four, Eleven, Galaxy, Greed, Golf, King 'n Ace, Master Mind, Memory, Mine, Othello, Pac, Peaks, Pegged, Poker, Puzzle, Pyramid, Roulette, Scrooge, Store, Tetravex, Tetris, Tic Tac Toe, Towers and Worm for OS/2 Warp. All games exploit the advanced multimedia and multithreading capabilities of OS/2 Warp.

The latest release of the Entertainment Pack for OS/2 is available from Hobbes or BMT Micro as entrtn27.zip (US version) or entrt27g.zip (German version).
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GalCiv 2 Updated.

Galactic Civilizations 2 has been updated! Version 2.12 is now available on Stardock's web site.

New Features Include:
o The ability to easily create your own aliens, ships, technologies, etc.
o Stacked ships now act a little more intuitively.
o Much fewer nice planets when you begin a game making each earth-like planet very critical.

Alsto released is an update to the GalCiv Developer's Kit that shows you how you can easily add your own aliens to the game, change technologies, make your own ships, etc. The universe is yours to design and alter now!
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Hyperview v3.3 Released.

Michael Schacter has announced the release of HyperView version 3.3. In addition to viewing the most popular word processing formats, HyperView now views HTML (World Wide Web) files.

Version 3.3 contains the following enhancements to HyperView PM:

Added support for viewing HTML files. HyperView's HTML conversion goes beyond simply removing HTML tags:

Adjustable tab settings. The tab stop may now be set to any value between 1 and 20. Separate tab settings are maintained for word processing and ASCII files.

Improved international support for rendering of accented characters in Windows/DOS word processing files. Accented characters are properly mapped to the user's code page.

Type CTRL+DOWN and CTRL+UP from the main text window to move the cursor to the next or previous tagged line.

HyperView is distributed as user-supported software. The registration fee is $35(US) for individuals. Quantity pricing is available. The current version of HyperView may be found at BMT Micro and other sites as HV33.ZIP. For more information contact Michael H. Shacter.
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New POP3 Server Released.

Pop3 is a complete Post Office Protocol Version 3 server which runs under OS/2 equipped with TCP/IP. This implementation fully supports all aspects of RFC1725 including the 'APOP' (password encryption derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm), 'TOP', and 'UIDL' commands. Three extended commands are supported: 'HELP', 'XTND HELP', and 'XTND XMIT'.

Pop3 is a service used by mail agents to retrieve messages from a user mail box. Usually the sendmail service is used to deliver messages to the mailbox. You may need to configure your sendmail daemon to get incoming mail delivered to separate user mailboxes. Access via Secant's WWW page or look for the file pop3s101.zip on HOBBES.
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Warp Server Worldwide Sales Reach 50,000.

AUSTIN, Texas, May 8, 1996 ... IBM today announced that more than 50,000 copies of OS/2 Warp Server, its PC server operating system, have been sold worldwide through the end of April.

"To date, the number of OS/2 Warp Server worldwide sales has exceeded our expectations and confirms that today's market requires a more powerful, reliable, and feature-rich PC server operating system," said Art Olbert, director of product planning, IBM's Personal Software Products division.

The solid early sales performance also reinforces the findings of a recent Information Week Windows** NT Readership Ballot. In the poll, 30 percent of respondents indicated that their companies will purchase OS/2 Warp Server as their server operating systems in 1996, while only 24 percent indicated they will purchase Windows NT Server and 16 percent will purchase NetWare*** 4.x.
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