From now until April 30, all users who register PMMail at the OS/2 Supersite's "instant" online registration area will be registered to win a $30 gift certificate from BMT Micro. The winner will be determined by random drawing.
The "instant" online registration area for PMMail requires a secure browser such as Netscape Navigator and can be found at https://secure.falcon-net.com/BMT/pmmail/.
The OS/2 Supersite is located at http://www.os2ss.com and the BMT Micro
web site is at http://www.bmtmicro.com.
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Bank v1.1.2 Beta Released.
Bank v1.1.2 32Bits for WarpServer is a bank account manager. EZ to use, user friendly. Very simple. (patched to run with ObjectRexx)
Try it at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/m_l/bank.zip.
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Home Automation System/2 Beta Now Available.
The beta version of the Home Automation System/2 is now available for download from HOBBES in the "wpsutil" directory of the OS/2 section.
Home/2 is a PM based application you can use to set up an X10 CP290 Home Control Interface Unit. Dialogs for direct control of lights, setting event timers, query events, and setting base codes are easy to understand and use. 128 timer events can be set or cleared. A base house code may be set in the control unit itself so the 8 rocker switches can be used directly.
The CP290 Home Control Interface Unit is an X10 based timer unit that can be used to turn lights, appliances, and other devices on and off. This can be used for home security, or just to have a light on when you come home late at night.
This is the first beta of the application. Please feel free to try it out
and/or pass it along to friends interested in home automation or security.
You do not need an X10 CP290 unit connected to go through the various dialogs.
Feel free to send me any comments and/or suggestions about the Home/2 program. For more info contact Dennis Caffi.
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Sslurp! v1.0 Released.
Version 1.0 of Sslurp! (formerly known as SpiderMan and WebSucker) has been released. Sslurp! can download web pages and follow all links on it plus download inline images. Retrieved data is stored on disk for later inspection using a standard web browser.
You can use Sslurp! to
- make a local copy of a web site or subset of it for offline viewing
- automatically get web pages that are updated regularly (e.g. the famous
Dilbert cartoon)
- mirror web sites
- etc.
Sslurp! is a 32 bit PM program and requires OS/2 Warp with TCP/IP 2.0 or newer or the Internet Access Kit. At least one HPFS partition is required. Sslurp! 1.0 (SSLURP10.ZIP, 65246 bytes) has been uploaded to:
ftp://ftp.wilmington.net/bmtmicro/sslurp10.zip.
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Word Pro Toolbar Add-on Available.
An add-on tool bar for Word Pro for OS/2 has been created by the kind folks from the Lotus L-Team Volunteers on Compuserve. This tool bar adds some nice features such as the ability to add curly quotes, single quotes, change Envelope SmartMasters on the fly, Change the screen background color to an off white and back again, add Copyright symbols and some others. It includes icons and tool bar that you can just copy to the proper directory and go for it.
A detailed doc file is included that explains setup issues.
The file is currently located in HOBBES
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/wpsutil/tink4os2.zip
Questions and comments can be posted in the GO WORDPRO forum on Compuserve.
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Info-ZIP DLL's Available.
I (Alger Pike) have made Info-ZIPs's zip and unzip into DLL's, which run under OS/2. These DLL's are extremely easy to use (just like the command line versions). I wrote them so I could have native compression support for my D/A application, which generates very large data sets. This also makes the data sets compatible with the slew of applets that have native zip compression support. (Like OD 1.5 etc).
I have decided to make them publicly available. Swing by
http://avenger.mri.psu.edu/os2page.html and have a look under the new
utilities section. You should find here (among other things) the DLL's
themselves and examples, with a brief explanation of things to watch out for
when using these DLL's.
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Master of the Empire Announcement: Trilliun.
There has been a growing concern with the whereabouts of Master of the Empire for OS/2 in the past couple of weeks. Any questions in regards to the games completion status, and its availability will be answered either here or in Stardock's press release.
Stardock, as of March 31, 1997, has voluntarily terminated the contract that it had with Trilliun Software Products. In essence, this means that all product rights, development, marketing, and distribution have been returned to Trilliun Software Products.
At this time, Trilliun Software Products has no insight as to the future of Master of the Empire. Over the course of the next several weeks, we will identify and post a press release outlining any information or plans that we have come up with.
We sincerely hope that we can find a means to distribute Master of the Empire within a reasonable time frame. Past reviews from months back ,prior to Master of the Empire's completion, have been favorable. Now we believe Master of the Empire to be a true leader in the OS/2 community.
It is unfortunate for all paid beta testers and anyone who wishes to own a copy of Master of the Empire, since we currently do not have the facilities to manufacturer or publish Master of the Empire. We will do everything possible to ramify the situation with each and every one of our customers.
Until Trilliun and Stardock have reached closure with issues regarding our contract, we will be able unable to comment on any questions pertaining to that issue.
This is no way deters from Trilliun's dedication to the OS/2 community.
Questions about this press release can be directed to tsp@ares.csd.net.
We will also be resuming our web page in the next few days (http://ares.csd.net/~tsp), and will be posting any new information there as well.
Trilliun Software Products
Jonathan Ramsey
tsp@ares.csd.net
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Master of the Empire Announcement: Stardock.
Stardock Systems and Trilliun Software Products have elected to part ways. The two companies working together on the native OS/2 game Master of the Empire. At the beginning of 1997, it became clear that both companies had very different views on what the completed game should be like.
As a result, Stardock voluntarily returned all rights with regard to the game to Trilliun. Trilliun will now be entirely responsible for the game.
Existing beta testers will be given the following options which include but not limited to:
1) Switching to a different beta program (such as Entrepreneur or Stellar Frontier)
2) Continuing on with Master of the Empire with Trilliun
3) Exchanging their beta for *any* shipping Stardock product.
Users who have pre-ordered Master of the Empire will have these options:
1) Change their order for a different Stardock product
2) Be forwarded on to Trilliun to get the final version of Master of the Empire from them.
3) Cancel their order
Stardock can be reached at:
Phone: 313-453-0328, fax 313-453-1480
A special email hotline has been setup for users who are in the beta program or pre-ordered:
All users will be sent notices of this in the mail as well.
Stardock apologizes in advance for any inconvenience this may create.
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In order to learn PM programming I (Paulo Gago da Camara) have developed last summer a small Tetris variation called WarpTris.
WarpTris is a 32 bit multi-threaded PM program fully developed in C (user interface) and C++ (game engine), there's no DLLs to load, no WPS classes to register, no changes to CONFIG.SYS. This isn't a port from any OS ;). All you have to do is run a small REXX script to install it and create its WPS objects. The uninstallation program is the Shredder! :)
This game differs from classic Tetris, by the fact that the pieces appear at the middle of the game window, and then start "falling" towards one of the sides randomly, this way you can make lines everywhere.
If you want you can download the source code as well, this way novice PM programmers, like myself :), might get some help by looking at it.
WarpTris was developed using Visual Age C++ for OS/2 3.0.
The source code and the compiled game are available at my home page on geocities, the URL follows:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/1856.
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PMView v1.0 Released.
PMView 1.0 is the latest version of a very fast, easy-to-use, and flexible shareware bitmapped image viewer for OS/2. This release is intended mostly to fix a few problems running PMView under OS/2 Warp 4.0, but it also includes some new features, including support for CFM TWAIN (so you can drive a CFM-supported scanner from inside PMView), LGO and FITS file read/write support, and optional interpolation while Zooming (to improve image appearance).
PMView 1.0 is currently located at
BMT Micro at ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro/pmvw100.zip
FilePile at http://filepile.com/nc/dd?pmvw100.zip+os2
AOL at the OS/2 Forum
(thanks to Scott Jentsch and Dave Swartz respectively for the last two).
In case you aren't familiar with it, PMView is a fast and popular viewer, converter, and (minor) image editor for OS/2. PMView handles BMPs, GIFs, JPEGs, TIFFs, PNGs (you can find our signatures on the PNG announcement), IFFs, PCXs, PCDs, and many other types of bitmapped images (we support 35 different formats and variants). PMView is multithreaded and allows you to do minor image modifications (such as adjusting brightness and contrast or cropping). You can also use PMView to convert images, make simple slideshows, capture the screen, and attach useful thumbnails (icons) to your image files.
For more information, see the PMView web page at http://www.bmtmicro.com/pmview/
PMView is shareware, with a registration fee of US$42. PMView for OS/2
registrations are good for all future versions; you will NEVER have to pay to
upgrade. To register, contact BMT Micro. They have a web page at
http://www.bmtmicro.com/ and take phone calls at 910-791-7052 or faxes at
910-350-2937. For technical support or questions, please e-mail Peter Nielsen
at pnielsen@abo.fi or Raja Thiagarajan at sthiagar@indiana.edu.
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New WWW URL for Internet Adventurer.
Internet Adventurer's www-site has been updated, and is now available from either
http://www.inetadv.net
or
http://home3.inet.tele.dk/krasmus/
Also, some screenshots of the upcoming version 1.00 has been placed on the www-site.
Internet Adventurer is OS/2's premier Internet suite, offering superior email,
news, IRC, WWW and Java, all in one fast, memory-efficient program! Internet Adventurer is shareware, A free demo is downloadable from the WWW-site!
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