Toyland a native Warp puzzle game.
Rainald Menge announces the release of Toyland, a native OS/2 WARP puzzle game. Development of Toyland included a 9 month cycle of iterative improvements based on input from a large group of beta testers before version 1.0 was released on June, 30th 1996.
Toyland is an ambitious puzzle game similar to the likes of "Sokoban", "The Incredible Machine", and "Lemmings". T(r)oy, the hero of the game, a wooden puppet, has to rescue his friends. He has to collect wooden beads which are located in several places. To get these beads he has to do such things as push balls, open doors, move chess pieces, and press buttons to activate LEDs.
With levels ranging from very easy to almost impossible it is the perfect game for the whole family. For people who want to play with or compete against friends the game comes with cooperation and competition levels. Moreover, the login feature for individual players challenges the individual player to best the time and number of moves of others.
Toyland, for the past 31 weeks, has been ranked in the "downloading top 40" of the Internet PC Games Charts (World Charts), while the only listed OS/2 game in that section, and is currently ranked 10th (in edition 185).
Toyland features include:
For further information contact Rainald Menge.
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Furr's/Bishops Rolls out IBM's OS/2 Warp.
Furr's/Bishop, one of the largest U.S. cafeteria chains, operating as Furr's Family Dining, Bishop's Buffets, and Zoo-Kinis, today began rolling out IBM's family of OS/2* software products, including OS/2 Warp Connect and OS/2 Warp Server, to increase the reliability and ease of use of a mission-critical point-of-sale (POS) system.
OS/2 Warp now links Furr's/Bishop's more than 8,000 employees, in 113 stores, across 13 states. OS/2 Warp Server runs in each store across the country and the main office, which is headquartered in Lubbock, Texas. OS/2 processes data from multiple DOS-based point-of-sale client workstations, which collect incoming orders, handle cash and credit card transactions and flag inventory checkpoints for each store and the company's headquarters.
Approximately six years ago, Furr's/Bishop adopted a pricing strategy based on the concept of "all you can eat" for a fixed price. With this change, the company found that its POS equipment was not flexible enough to accurately perform portion tracking and inventory control.
Using OS/2 Warp as a client/server combination gave Furr's/Bishop access to information and data, as well as new portion-tracking and inventory capabilities. Furr's/Bishop can now create daily menus with improved accuracy, thanks to the real-time data and information available on the network.
Additional advantages to Furr's through their use of OS/2 Warp Server are enhanced cash controls and credit card transaction processing. IBM's OS/2 Warp Server allows the cashier to gain credit card authorization through the system, instead of the traditional countertop card/phone machine. As a result, credit card transactions are processed much faster while in-house related errors have been reduced or eliminated. Everything is now a self-contained OS/2-based system.
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CYBERCOM accepting orders on AccuCount/2.
CYBERCOM is currently accepting orders on our AccuCount/2 Accounting Package. Ordering now will save Team OS/2 Members 85% and non-members 75% on the standard retail price of $125.
AccuCount/2 is designed to take full advantage of OS/2 Warp in ways its Windows counterparts cannot compete, such as true multithreading, true pre-emptive multitasking, true device independent print/fax support as well as voice and multimedia support.
When asked why CYBERCOM is selling pre-ordered copies for such a discounted price, Director of Sales and Marketing David Adams said "Quite simply, we believe we have an application far superior to any of its Windows competitors on the market. By selling at such a discounted rate for the introductory period, we have a way of creating positive publicity from all the OS/2 users who jump on this phenomenal offer and enjoy the capabilities and speed of our program."
Due to the plethora of features and methods they are implemented that require Warp, there will be NO Windows version of this application. For more information visit the AccuCount/2 page on CYBERCOM's Home Page.
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PMMail 1.51 Now Available.
PMMail 1.51 is on SouthSide Software's WWW Home Page.
PMMail 1.51 is an upgrade to all previous versions of PMMail. Some of the features of this release are:
We hope you enjoy this release. If you have any problems or questions please e-mail pmmail@southsoft.com.
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Newsbeat for OS/2 Beta Available.
Newsbeat for OS/2 is a PM, multithreaded USENET newsreader for OS/2.
It's features include:
Prominic (tm) Warp Cloner Beta Available.
This beta program has been opened to the public with the release of Beta Level 2. For more information, go to Prominic's Web Page.
About this product:
Prominic (tm) Warp Cloner lets a single OS/2 Warp machine act as a server to another computer. This is accomplished by creating boot disks for the client and running a small server process. The client can then copy the entire OS/2 installation (all HPFS and FAT drives) from the server, thereby "cloning" the original machine.
Note: No server software is required (Warp/LAN Server): the only requirement is the availability of the OS/2 Warp Connect CD-ROM.
There are many desktop save/restore programs, but this is the first time that it is possible to easily copy an entire system without physically putting both hard drives in one PC.
Warp Cloner should prove useful for small systems that do not want to bother with creating Configuration, Installation, and Distribution (CID) response files. It is often faster to manually install software several times rather than to spend time configuring the automated CID process. CID is meant for large installations, not small workgroup settings (usually around 10 machines). Warp Cloner gives small sites an alternative! Now an 'ideal' client can be set up and easily cloned to the rest of the machines.
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TMT Development Corp. Announces Beta-1 of New 32-bit Pascal Compiler for OS/2.
TMT Development Corp. announces Beta-1 of its new 32-bit Pascal compiler for OS/2. With TMT Pascal you can create 32-bit applications for extended DOS, OS/2 text, and OS/2 presentation manager.
For details and to obtain a free beta copy, please go to http://www.tmt.com/.
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Povray 3.0 for OS/2 Now Available!
The Povray 3.0 command line version for OS/2 is now ready for you to download and use! Right now (8am EST, July 16th), it is sitting in the /pub/povray/incoming/unofficial directory on ftp.povray.org. It will be moved very soon (and mirrored) in the /pub/povray/unofficial directory. The name of the file is pov3_os2.zip.
To track what we are doing (command line version updates, PM Version), please feel free to check, and bookmark, the Povray For OS/2 Homepage.
This is where you will find the latest information on Povray versions for OS/2 and related applications, utilities, and pictures! It was just started last night, so it is still pretty basic. Let us know what you think so we can keep working and upgrading it!
We hope that you will all get as much use out of this port as we have!
The Povray for OS/2 Porting Group:
Chris McKillop
Martin Conlon
Michael Johnson
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