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May 31, 1996 Announcements

New OS/2 App -- Mirage

Mirage is a powerful OS/2 Warp Visual Multimedia Management and Presentation System. Mirage is Snow Storm Software's first multimedia release with its easy to use Multimedia Control Center. Mirage scans hard drives, CD-ROM's and network drives to locate all supported multimedia files. Once located, Mirage will create thumbnail representations of the objects and store these in groups, alleviating the need for the original sources. Once scanned, simply drag and drop objects to organize, create presentations, and define image screen savers. Extensive multimedia formats are supported including images, music, sound, and video, with a built-in multimedia preview system. Formats may be expanded by adding MMIO procedures to OS/2 Warp, $129US. For more information, contact Snow Storm Software
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A2 Acrobat Reader for OS/2 -- Expiration date extended.

As some of you may have noticed, the Acrobat reader began giving a warning message last month that the reader you have will soon expire.

We have posted a new reader on our Web site (www.adobe.com) that has the expiration date extended to September 30. The exact location is: http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/amber/os2instl.html

Please note: This new A2.1 reader does not contain bug fixes to the original OS/2 reader version A2; it only contains a revised expiration date. A new beta version of the reader will be available shortly.
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J3's On-Line OS/2 Store -- New items.

Many new and exciting items have been added to J3's On-Line OS/2 Store, we now have over 150 OS/2 items to choose from.

Items added:

Visit J3's site at - http://www.j3comp.com/.
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Xit v1.1 Released.

CodeSmith Software has released Xit 1.1 on May 28, 1996. This update to Xit 1.0 contains:

  1. Close window buttons for command line windows as well as PM windows
  2. Updated author contact info
This release replaces Xit 1.0, but is NOT replaced by any of the Xit 2.x releases. Xit 1.1 remains as freeware, and has been released due to user demand (most sites have replaced Xit 1.0 with 2.x versions).

Uploads have been made to hobbes (/incoming or /wpsutil), cdrom ftp, FIDONET, Brad and Mike's OS/2 BBS (604-540-9071) and IBM Canada's BBS (604-664-6464).

Queries can be sent to Michael Shillingford.
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Prominic Technologies, Inc.'s OS/2 Warp Hardware Center.

Prominic Technologies, Inc. announces the immediate availability of the OS/2 Warp Hardware Center on the Web. This site allows users to easily find competitve prices on IBM brand desktop PCs and servers preloaded with OS/2 Warp. The expert staff will help customers determine which system will best meet their needs. Prominic can also customize a single PC or an entire network for programs such as LAN Server, Warp Server, DB2/2, Lotus Notes, and more.

The OS/2 Warp Hardware Center is an initiative designed to provide an alternative to limited local shopping selections and inflexible mail order companies. The Prominic staff has a diverse background in OS/2 Warp technology, and is able to provide recommendations for applications ranging from simple home systems to scalable database or workgroup servers.

Focusing on the needs of modern businesses, Prominic develops computer software solutions for on-line communications and information sharing. The Prominic staff has experience writing cross-platform communications and database related software. Specializing in OS/2 based systems, Prominic Technologies also provides computer consulting and network administration.

Contact Prominic Technologies, Inc. at: (217) 356-0277 voice, 356-9464 FAX, or http://www.prominic.com/.
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SFTP v1.26 Now available.

SFTP126.zip is now on hobbes.nmsu.edu/incoming and ftp.cdrom.com/.4/os2/incoming. This version adds command mode operation and bug fixes.

Command mode allows sftp to automatically logon and download files from an OS/2 command prompt or when called from other programs.
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SLRN v0.8.8.2 Available.

The OS/2 version of the slrn newsreader, version 0.8.8.2, is now available in binary form. It is in the incoming directories of ftp.cdrom.com and ftp-os2.nmsu.edu as slrn0882.zip. This version has all of the features of the Unix version, and works, to the best of my knowledge, just as that version does as far as possible in the OS/2 environment.

This version was compiled directly from the sources available from John E. Davis' FTP site. If you wish to compile it yourself, you should have no problems, assuming you have a working EMX 0.9b and dmake setup.

The program's original author is John E. Davis. Please direct questions about slrn in general to him, and about the OS/2 port to John Maynard at jmaynard@nwpros.com.
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Animouse for OS/2 Now Shipping.

Sentience Software has begun shipping Animouse for OS/2 world-wide! At $19.95 Australian (plus shipping unless delivered by UUEncoded e-mail), Animouse is an inexpensive and fantastic addition to any OS/2 desktop!

Animouse is an add-on for OS/2 Warp that adds a bit of style to your boring old mouse pointer by changing it from a single pointer into an animation composed of a series of pointers displayed one after another to produce a really slick animation!

Even better, Animouse was designed with customization in mind! You can enable or disable animation for any particular pointer if, for example, you only want the pointer to be animated when you are sizing a window. You can even design your own animations, since Animouse animations are composed of a plain-text script and a set of .PTR files (which can easily be edited with OS/2's Icon Editor).

A demo of Animouse can be downloaded from Sentience Software's Animouse home page or from HOBBES in the incoming directory.

For more information, contact Sentience Software.
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Bug Eyed Monsters Released.

BEM: It Crawled from the Net is the first game to be released in the BEM universe. An isometric view to a 3D world allows intuitive point-and-click control of your character as you fight in a retro 50's SciFi world. An unlimited number of players can cooperate or compete using bullets, atomic blasters, rocket launchers, and more to vaporize the opposition. Beware the deadly animated killer plants and crazed warbots that blast away friend and foe alike.

Features:

Free demo available from http://www.nrvcom.com/business/grinliz. Ordering info (or free demo) at http://www.rhintek.com.
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