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Solver, a function analyzer, has been released. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

StTV version 0.02 has been released (12/20/2001). This is a TV application for Hauppage WinTV/PCI cards, which uses the wcast driver from Abbotsbury.

IBM has released (12/20/2001) drivers for Canon BubbleJet printers. From OS2.org.

LEECHMP3 version 3.70 has been released (12/19/2001). This program uses Leech or Tonigy as a CD grabber, and LAME as an MP3 encoder to make MP3 files from audio CDs. The programs are run simultaneously to reduce encoding time, and it has CDDB access to retrieve track titles. From VOICE News.

Dbf2MySQL version 0.74 has been released (12/16/2001). This program converts .DBF (dBase/Clipper) files to mysql scripts. From VOICE News.

TiMidity version 2.10.4 has been ported (12/13/2001) to OS/2. TiMidity plays MIDI and Module (.MOD) files via software, rather than relying on your sound card's capabilities. There is also an MCD version that installs as part of OS/2 Multimedia. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

IBM has released (12/13/2001) a Ensoniq 1371 audio driver for OS/2.

IBM has released (12/13/2001) drivers for Crystal sound cards, including CS4231 / CS4248, CS4232 / CS4236, CS4237, and CS4237B / CS4238B / CS4239.

IBM has released (12/12/2001) a CT5880 audio driver for OS/2. This works with the SoundBlaster PCI cards. You need a Software Choice subscription or access to eCS updates to get this.

There is now an OS/2 driver (version 0.8) for the Wacom Graphire tablet. Thanks to Eugene Gorbunoff for the news.

Poor Man's Flight is a table editor / visualizer for IBM's DB2 database. The main feature is viewing and editing any table in the database. Unfortunately, you have to e-mail the author to get this software (it is not free). Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

Kai Evers has some freeware OS/2 utilities, including: InProTrack version 1.20 (12/9/2001) - PM frontend shows installed components (retrieved from syslevel and other system config files); mINI version 1.05 (12/19/99) - Small PM INI editor with treeview, edit, view (ASCII, HEX), delete and Rexx code exporter; Object ReCreator version 1.5 (9/26/99) - Easy-to-use PM program to restore lost desktop objects; TVFS Control Center version 1.0 (8/6/98) - PM frontend for TVFS to handle most needed stuff (mount, link etc.) and configuration via easy-to-use GUI. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

Virtual Girl/2 1.0 beta 3 has been released (12/6/2001). This is a port of the Windows program that shows an animated girl on your desktop.

IBM has released (12/4/2001) a YMF754 audio driver for OS/2. Thanks to Masahiro Sakai for the news.

Lesha Bogdanow has several sound-related programs and utilities. Included are: LBMix version 0.08 (12/2/2001), a universal mixer for cards with IOCTL90 API; Timidity++ 2.91 for OS/2 (3/30/2000), a software MIDI synth; LBPlay version 0.07 (2/28/2000), a RTMIDI multiport MIDI player with soft karaoke; LBMIDI version 0.02 (2/28/2000), a set of MIDI libraries used by LBPlay; LBMIDIEd MIDI editor version 0.03 (12/26/98). From VOICE News.

Gramofile version 1.6 has been (12/2/2001) ported to OS/2. This can be used to clean WAV files of clicks and ticks prior to burning them on CD. It also supports track splitting. From VOICE News.

TRK2ISO has been released (11/30/2001). This is a conversion utility to go from RSJ's TRK to the standard ISO format. From VOICE News.

Platon Fomichev has ported two powerful Web grabbers and downloaders to XFree86/OS2. Downloader for X version 1.30 (11/30/2001) has a nice user friendly interface, with download queues and much more. Pavuk version 0.9pl27 (4/10/2001) is used to mirror contents of WWW documents or files, with an optional GTK+ GUI.

DSKSLEEP.FLT version 0.98 has been released (11/26/2001). This filter driver stops your SCSI disks when they haven't been accessed for some time, with timeout selection per disk, IOCtl interface, and APM support. From VOICE News.

Martin Kiewitz has released patches to allow some DOS games to run under OS/2. There are now patches for Fade To Black (11/23/2001) and Comanche 3 (11/24/2001).

IBM Japan has released (11/21/2001) an evaluation version of Desktop On-Call version 5. Thanks to Oliver Rick for the news.

A LDAP SDK based on OpenLDAP 2.0.15 is now (11/20/2001) available. This allows you to use LDAP APIs in your C programs. There is also a REXX LDAP API there. From VOICE News.

A couple more OS/2 games have become (11/20/2001) open source: Lites Out! is a clone of the Electronic game Lights Out, with an optional twist to make it harder. Compulsive Gambler's Toolkit contains Blackjack 1.0, Caribbean Poker 1.0, Caribbean Stud Poker 1.3a, and Multi Poker 1.05.

DoxyGen version 1.2.11 has been ported (11/20/2001) to OS/2. This tool can generate an on-line documentation browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual from a set of documented source files. There is also support for generating output in RTF (MS-Word), PostScript, hyperlinked PDF, compressed HTML, and Unix man pages. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources, which makes it much easier to keep the documentation consistent with the source code. Also available is a config tool for Doxygen that requires QT. Thanks to Platon Fomichev for the news.

Blocks version 1.01 has been released. This is a strategy game, with some elements of Tetris. From VOICE News.

Rich Walsh has released (11/15/2001) CpPal version 0.30; this Codepage Switcher uses drag & drop to let you query and change the codepages used by PM-based programs that are already running. You can also set the PM "message queue" codepage to any of the 100+ values in country.sys. PM will use this codepage to translate keystrokes into characters and character values into the glyphs displayed in a window.

IBM has updated (the date on the webpage is incorrect) the drivers for the Adaptec SCSI cards; it contains the fix for the infinitely long chkdsk times during bootup. Also available (6/28/2000) is the Adaptec version of the drivers. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

Martin Kiewitz has released patches to allow some DOS games to run under OS/2. IDPATCHR (11/7/2001) allows Doom, Doom2, Heretic, Hexen, and Strife games to work using Soundblaster sound. The Syndicate Wars patch (11/9/2001) allows that game to run with sound. Be sure to check out Martin's section on DOS games at OS/2 World.

Sizer has been released (11/8/2001); this is a program that shrinks the help viewer window to a more reasonable size. Thanks to Dr. Martin R. Hadam for the news.

The VPART boot manager has been updated (11/7/2001). It can now boot from a 0F extended partition, and/or above the first 1024 cylinders.

A software kit for integrating PMMail with Netscape has been updated (11/6/2001) to version 0.0.5. This causes PMMail to be called instead of Netscape Messenger when a "mailto:" link is pressed, or other instances when mail is used.

WarpMedia beta 8 has been released (11/5/2001). This is a PM based media player, that can play MPEG-1 audio/video, DivX ;-) audio/video and MP3 audio. It is capable of displaying video in a PM window, in fullscreen mode, or using TV-out. It also features skin support and an xCenter plugin. You can find the latest version here. From VOICE News.

There are some updated (11/4/2001) programming libraries available on Hobbes: PERFDLL is a DosQueryPerformance() dynalink library, that queries performance activity ratios (busy, idle and interrupt one) of overall system and each CPU on 32bit OS/2 processes. MAPYHMEM is a DosMapPhysMem() dynalink library, that maps specified physical memory region to 32bit process address space and unmaps it. FREQCPU is a DosEstimateFreqCPU() dynalink library, that estimates clock frequency of all available CPUs on 32bit OS/2 environment.

VIA has released version 2.10B of their OS/2 sound drivers for their AC97 audio chipset, which is integrated into many motherboards. From OS2.org.

Citrix has released (11/1/2001) ICA OS/2 Client version 6.012. This is used to run Win32 apps on a remote WinFrame or MetaFrame (NT) server.

The Very Interesting Vision version 1.0 has been released (11/1/2001). This game is currently only available in German. From the screenshots, it looks like some space strategy game. From OS2.org.

Some codecs for the Warpvision AVI player have been uploaded (11/1/2001) to Hobbes, which enable the playing of the vast majority of AVIs, including Indeo, Cinepac and MP4. Thanks to Jason Stefanovich for the news.

Multinote beta 8 has been released (10/31/2001). This is a document manager for text and text files. Thanks to JMA for the news.

A utility for decoding 'NEF' files, the raw image files from the Nikon D1 camera, has been released (10/31/2001). From VOICE News.

Daniela Engert has released (10/30/2001) DaniDASD version 1.4.4, an OS2DASD.DMD replacement. It supports extendedX partitions (type 0F) and Linux extended partitions (type 8F), FAT32 partitions (type 0B and 0C), FAT16X partitions (type 0E), and eight additional partition types as specified by the user (including "hidden" partitions); it can override the boot drive letter assignment; and it can create a logical volume map independent of the physical volumes. It doesn't support arbitrary drive letter mappings ("holes"), disk spanning, dynamic volume resizing, or JFS, but this "mini-LVM" doesn't have some of the problems that IBM's LVM does: it doesn't store the drive letter assignments globally in LVM sectors (thus each CONFIG.SYS can have it's own different mapping), and it handles removable media as it used to be. It can also be booted from any boot manager.

3COM has updated (10/29/2001) their Ethernet NIC drivers to version 5.2.4 for the 3C90x 10 Mbps and 10/100 Mbps PCI NIC family. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

An OS/2 calendar for the year 2002 is now available (10/29/2001) in PDF format from OS/2.cz Thanks to Filip Molcan for the news.

There are two songs dedicated to eComStation available (10/28/2001) for download (in MP3 format). They are composed by members of the two groups that performed during the Warpstock Europe Social Event. Thanks to John Bijnens for the news.

HTMLtoPDF version 1.0 has been released (10/26/2001). HTMLtoPDF is a PM front end for the htmldoc program, which converts HTML files to Adobe PDF or PostScript format. From VOICE News.

Version 7.00b of Dialog Enhancer has been released (10/24/2001). Dialog Enhancer provides a simple but highly effective update to your desktop and 3rd party applications by neatly re-sizing dialogs, adding new icons, and changing the font used to WarpSans. This version includes MouseSmart, which offers improved configuration of mouse speed and acceleration on the desktop, vastly improved support for OS/2 networking, and many other fixes and tweaks. Thanks to Richard Castle for the news.

Martin Kiewitz has released (10/20/2001) patches to allow some DOS games to run under OS/2. The Lucas Arts Games Generic patch allows Monkey Island 1 and Indiana Jones 3 to run. The Lemmings 2 patch allows that game to run. Be sure to check out Martin's section on DOS games at OS/2 World.

eComStation CD covers for each of the three CDs in StarOffice format are now available (10/13/2001) from OS/2.cz Thanks to Filip Molcan for the news.

A stopwatch widget (HBStopWatchWGT) for xCenter has been released (10/11/2001). It is similar to the one found on WarpCenter.

PMEquator version 0.1 is an educational game for equations that has now (10/9/2001) been released as open source freeware. Thanks to Martin Iturbide for the news.

Some OS/2 games have been recently (10/5/2001) open-sourced: Asteroids version 2.30, Mine/2 version 1.0, and Birdman. Thanks to Martin Iturbide for the news.

SoundBlaster Live! driver version 0.80 has been released (9/28/2001). It features: up to 32 simultaneous wave playback streams, recording stream, full duplex, support for the IOCTL90 mixer interface, and full source code is available from the Netlabs CVS server. A mailing list has been started for this driver. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

Symantec has an update (9/27/2001) for Norton Antivirus. Thanks to Roland for the news.

MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, has been updated (9/24/2001) to version 0.37b14. This version was rewritten from scratch to use the DualMode library for full screen and windowed graphics and contains a completely new GUI. This version of MAME supports over 2,800 arcade games. Thanks to Marty Amodeo for the news.

An OS/2 port of ARJ/2 3.10 has been released (9/23/2001). It was designed to be maximally compatible with the existing DOS version, but supports OS/2 long filenames and is able to create native OS/2 ARJSFX, ARJSFXV and ARJSFXJR modules.

InCharge, the Financial Management System, has been updated (9/22/2001) to version 1.02.73a. From VOICE News.

MySQL User Manager version 0.33 has been released (9/17/2001). This is a VIO program for editing MySQL user tables. From VOICE News.

Cris' widgets version 0.8 have been released (9/14/2001). These are XCenter widgets to control Z!, PM123, CDPlay, a clock, and swapper monitor, for use with XWorkPlace and the Widgets Library.

snee version 0.99 has been released (9/13/2001). This is a freeware VIO news & email editor. From VOICE News.

Cipher Plugin for Netdrive has been released. The Cipher Plugin is the only OS/2 solution that provides transparent data encryption using the most secure ciphers (AES - rijndael, blowfish, twofish, mars, etc). There is an article which describes the Cipher plugin. Thanks to Eugene Gorbunoff for the news.

Tauto AVC version 1.02 has been released. This is an answering machine for the US Robotics Courier modem. The web page is in Russian, but the program itself is in English. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

GNUPack, a collection of GNU command-line utilities, has been updated (9/7/2001) to version 1.2. It is available as a WarpIn package.

SmartBar version 3.2 is now (9/5/2001) available. This is a nice looking system monitor that can display memory, swap, processes, threads, files in use, cpu load, network activity, new mail, temperatures, time, and more.

Some widgets for XCenter have been released, most of which require the XWorkplace Widget Library. The most recent provides some scripts and icons (HBSCROBJ3.zip, 9/3/2001) for lockup, find, and run objects.

ebaybot is a REXX script to place an ebay bid at the last possible moment. The script itself can be downloaded (8/31/2001) from Hobbes.

NetUse version 1.5 has been released. This is a PM front end for connecting or disconnecting network shares.

The file tool called "Names" has been updated (8/27/2001) to version 1.3. This application checks files on HPFS drives, and allows you to change case, revise differences between file and WPS object names, and change file attributes. Thanks to Sergey Posokhov for the news.

CMDRUN version 1.3 has been released; it is an OS/2 WPS replacement WPFolder class which gives the ability to start command line sessions from any folder with the current directory set to that folder, and gives a Run menu option similar to that found in Windows, allowing the starting of OS/2, DOS and Windows applications.

System Colors version 1.0 has been released (8/25/2001). This allows you to easily customize the system colors for entry fields, selection background, etc. The web page is in Russian, but the program itself is English. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

CLIPS expert system shell has been released (8/21/2001). This is a productive development and delivery expert system tool which provides a complete environment for the construction of rule and/or object based expert systems. Thanks to Massimiliano Campagnoli for the news.

SWI-Prolog version 4.0.9 has been ported (8/18/2001) to OS/2. SWI-Prolog offers an open prolog environment with powerful and bi-directional interface to C. Thanks to Massimiliano Campagnoli for the news.

Quick-WPI is a new (8/18/2001) tool to create a WPI (WarpIn) archive using drag and drop.

Vcdtools version 0.4 has been released (8/17/2001). Video CDs are ordinary CDROMs in a special format which contain MPEG-1 encoded video. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

Audio Center 1.0 has been released (8/12/2001). "AudioCenter is an OS/2 audio front-end that you can configure to be used as a front-end for any OS/2 based audio program. It has been tested with UltiMOD, Muse/2, DMP 1.09, mp123, mpg123, maplay and Timidity using Warp 4." Also available is MikMod 3.1.9a, along with a plugin for PM123.

Table version 1.2.0 has been released (8/8/2001). This is a combination of an ASCII character code chart and a tool to convert and display binary, decimal, octal, hexadecimal and ascii representations of a string. Thanks to Goran Ivankovic for the news.

CandyFolder version 0.1.0 has been released (8/6/2001). This gives the illusion of transparent desktop folders. Thanks to Adrian Gschwend for the news.

Some widgets for XCenter have been released, most of which require the XWorkplace Widget Library. The most recent (8/6/2001) are Rexx Button widgets that provide an alternative memory monitor (HBMemMonWGT.zip), and a clipboard monitor and editor (HBClipEditWgt.zip).

MakeFI, a tool to display and rebuild the fi.ini for Feature Install, has been released (8/6/2001).

IBM has released (8/1/2001) audio driver version 5.01 for the Crystal Semiconductor ICH 810, 820, 815. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

Dialer/2 2.0 alpha 7 has been released (7/25/2001). This is a nice phone dialer with a phone-book and autodial.

Some widgets for XCenter have been released, most of which require the XWorkplace Widget Library. The most recent (7/21/2001) is a Rexx Button widget that minimizes all windows and shows the desktop (HBShowDesktopWGT.zip).

KC-Emu/2 version 0.3 has been released (7/19/2001). This is an emulator of the KC, which is similar to the C64.

Some widgets for XCenter have been released, most of which require the XWorkplace Widget Library. There is a replacement Health Monitor (HBHealthWgt.zip, 7/11/2001); an INI file monitor (HBInimonWgt.zip, 7/11/2001); and an IP monitor (tcpmon.zip, 7/8/2001).

AWPralf version 0.3.1 has been released (7/11/2001). This is a plugin for Auto WGet Daemon that offers selective download of URL objects on desktop; download files to different directories depending on file extensions; and check for possible duplicate files before downloading.

MemSize version 4.0 beta has been updated (7/4/2001). This program provides a digital clock (with date), the elapsed time since your system's last restart, the amount of free virtual memory, the current swap-file size, the maximum amount the swap-file can still grow, the current CPU load (%), the number of active tasks and the amount of disk space free on each of your hard disks. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

Scan Lite version 0.41 has been released. This is a free SANE scanning frontend that requires Java.

Thomas Wanek has released (7/1/2001) Audio Database, a database program that deals with music data. It has many different query functions, and a large pre-installed database with more then 3000 entries.

BatteryWidget version 0.2.1 has been released (6/28/2001). This is a replacement battery power widget for xCenter in XWorkPlace. Thanks to David Forrester for the news.

PMCDRec version 0.10 has been released (6/26/2001). This is a frontend for mkisofs and cdrecord. From OS2.org.

Eladine version 1.1 has been released. This is a utility for use with Injoy to have control over uptime with NAT servers. The web page is in German only, so the program may be also. Thanks to Klaus for the news.

A new alpha of EverBlue, the XLib-PM implementation for OS/2, has been released (6/21/2001). EverBlue allows you to compile Xlib (Unix/Linux) applications as native PM applications. The beta is still not really usable for end users.

Filip Molcan has made Skins Collection 3.5 for PM123. It adds 10 new skins to Skins Collection III, which includes a skin preview program, as well as visual plugins.

LSMT version 2.13c has been released (6/15/2001). The LAN Server Management Tools are REXX based tools that will let you detect software levels and some hardware of servers within a domain. Thanks to Frans Morre for the news.

Warp CD-Copy version 2.0 Release Candidate #2 has been released (6/10/2001). This is a PM based audio CD grabber with built-in mp3 encoder. The latest version can be found on Hobbes. From VOICE News.

HalfWorm version 0.8.1 has been released (6/2/2001). This is a multiplayer Nibbles type game, with source code available.

PTime/2 version 0.81 is now (6/2/2001) available. This program is for recording and evaluating of project times for several projects simultaneously.

System Clock for eCS has been updated (6/2/2001). It features time zone support, Swatch Beat, time synchronization, and a scheduler/task planner.

PsiConv/PM version 1.02 has been released (6/1/2001). This is a frontend for the PsiConv utility that lets you convert text and graphics files from your Psion PDA to common PC file formats. Thanks to Hans Hockx for the news.

ConfigEdit/2 is a Config.sys Data Base Manager, that can auto-generate config.sys files from a Data Base which can be either imported or created by hand. It can be used to hold multiple config.sys files and generate new ones. It also manages OS/2's Recovery Choices. It is currently (5/28/2001) on version 1.8.

Jason Stefanovich has released MAMERun beta 8a, a frontend for the DOS version of MAME.

Magnum version 1.2 has been released (5/26/2001). Magnum is a numerology calculator which can be used to derive Chaldean, Hebraic, Pythagorean and Common numbers from alphanumerical text. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

Animator is a WPS Enhancer (5/21/2001) for window Open/Close animations.

MultiDesk version 0.2.0 has been released (5/18/2001). This allows you to have multiple desktops and users under OS/2. It lets you create, delete, and manage desktops; define users; customize environment, video resolution, etc for each user; lock some files from other users' eyes; and more. From VOICE News.

The BIOS for LSI Logic (Symbios) SCSI adapters has been updated (5/17/2001) to version 4.19. Thanks to Martin R. Hadam for the news.

IBM has updated (5/16/2001) the driver for the Iomega parallel port-attached ZIP drives to version 1.02. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

Ribble version 1.0 has been released (5/16/2001), with source code. It is a strategy game, that can be compared to Sokoban.

NetLookout (previously Lookout) has been updated to version 3.00 (5/10/2001). NetLookout will notify you when Web, FTP, and Gopher sites have changed.

DoomLegacy version 1.32 beta 1 has been released (5/8/2001), and includes an OS/2 binary. This allows you to play the Doom games natively. Thanks to Yuri Dario for the news.

CD2MP3 PM version 1.14 has been released (5/7/2001). It's features include: CDDB support to automatically get CD information, as well as ID3 tag support to store this information; "LFN support" for DOS encoders through smart renaming; Super Grab will launch a concurrent encoding session while a grabbing session is getting the next track; Play preview allows you to listen to a track before making your selection; Autodetection of CD-ROM drive letters; Comes with expandable support for Leech, Alfons, JCDread2, ToMPG, L3Enc 2.x and BladeEnc through a text mode configuration file; Statistic information for CD tracks and WAV files available in container's detail view; Drag 'n Drop WAV encoding list; Autodeselecting and removal of WAV files from the list after successful encoding; Support for a custom MP3 directory and a temporary CD-DA directory.

OS/2 Commander version 1.29 beta 4 has been released (5/6/2001). This is a Norton Commander clone.

Eric Lavoie has updated (5/3/2001) some Vispro objects that allows users of Vispro Rexx, C and C++ to have fly over buttons, and progress bars that display in percent, 3D or flat. There is also a mailing list for these objects.

Paul Ratcliffe has released a patched version of the E editor that prevents Ctrl-Z characters from being added, and a rewrite of the Black Hole WPS class that allows the confirmation to be disabled. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

IBM has released (4/30/2001) USB drivers for Ethernet network interfaces, and for CD-ROM and CD-RW drives, for Software Choice subscribers. Thanks to Martin Iturbide for the news.

WarPaint has been updated (4/29/2001) to version 1.6. WarPaint is a basic paint program and bitmap viewer, that supports BMP, GIF, PCX, XBM, TIF, VID, KPS, IAX, TGA, IFF, SPR, and PSE formats. Thanks to Wayne Swanson for the news.

The beta of Apple's aborted Quicktime for OS/2 has been posted (4/22/2001) to Hobbes. As with QuickMotion, it only plays the older codecs. From VOICE News.

Christopher Hodges has released MIDI Station Sequencer version 3.0 beta2. MIDI Station Sequencer is a 16 channel, multi-track sequencer that uses the RTMIDI (Real-Time MIDI subsystem) to communicate with a MIDI keyboard. New features include a brand new audio engine, full audio editing, and complete audio sequencing. There is also a table of soundcards with settings for drivers on the page.

Scigraphica/2 0.6.3 has been released (4/20/2001) for XFree86/OS2. Check out the Scigraphica page for more information on this scientific application for data analysis and technical graphics. Thanks to Platon Fomichev for the news.

KidStreet version 1.1 has been released (4/18/2001). This is an educational program for children. It currently has spelling and math - more is planned once the author receives some feedback. Thanks to Wayne Swanson for the news.

Wayne Swanson has updated (4/18/2001) SFX Installer, a tool for point and click installation setups that are personalized for your software. SFX allows you to build an archive in standard or self-extracting format, with or without the installer. It includes: Dll and help file placement (and tracking) into existing LIBPATH and SET HELP directories; uninstallation script is written at install time specific to the users installation that will track all files your program has installed and remove any WPS objects created at installation time; plugin scripts to overcome any installation limitations. Freeware authors can use the installer free of charge.

TEAM OS/2 Russia has made available (4/13/2001) some new HTML conversion tools for Adobe PDF, pdftohtml version 0.31. Thanks to XDmitry for the news.

INI editor version 1.20 has been released (4/13/2001); it has integrated tools to compare ini files and search multiple files for a string. OS/2 binary INI files can be viewed and edited, data (applications and keys) can be exported and imported between INI files. Thanks to Goran Ivankovic for the news.

PhotoTiger, a program for editing digital photos and pictures, is now (4/9/2001) on version 2.51. Also available is PhotoTiger Animation version 1.01, a program to animate JPEG images. Thanks to Christian Hennecke for the news.

Darrell Spice has released (4/8/2001) "sneak peek 2" of his port of Virtual Gameboy Emulator.

WPSBar alpha 1 has been released (4/4/2001). This is yet another WarpCenter replacement.

The game MasterMind/2 has been updated (4/2/2001) to version 1.4b. This is an implementation of the classic logic-game for OS/2. The main features are: choose the colors to use, drag and drop, fully help enabled, quick and small, and high scores.

Connect/2 7.6.8 has been released (4/2/2001). Connect/2 is a free Norton Commander clone with more capabilities, including Hexedit. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

Osuwari Multi version 1.06 has been updated (4/1/2001). This program is used to show a pretty anime girl sitting on your active window. Thanks to Masahiro Sakai for the news.

Warpster version 1.0 alpha 21 has been released (3/24/2001). This is a native GUI Napster client.

EMX 0.9d fix 04 has been released (3/21/2000). This is a complete package for programmers; users will only need emxrt.zip. These Unix-compatibility libraries are required for XFree86/OS2, Quake for OS/2, and countless OS/2 utilities. You're going to need this library sooner or later. Thanks to Christian Hennecke for the news.

An alpha build of an SSH2 client for OS/2 has been released (3/8/2001). Also available (8/25/2000) is an OS/2 port of Secure Shell version 1.2.30. Secure Shell is like telnet, but uses encryption, so your passwords can't be stolen. It can emulate xterm, linux, vt220, os2 terminals, and supports VIO applications.

Java Image Processing Program was released a while back (3/8/2001). This Java program only seems to be available in German. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

A patch that allows WinOS2 to look like Object Desktop 2.0 has been released (3/8/2001). This is a modified seamless WinOS2 screen driver that will work with any GRADD based video driver.

GP/PARI has been ported (3/8/2001) to OS/2. GP/PARI is a mathematical calculations program / programming language / C library. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

Martin Kiewitz has released (3/7/2001) a patch for the DOS Rayman game to work under OS/2.

IBM Japan has a new (3/6/2001) driver (EPOMNI4) for Epson printers, which supports the Stylus Color 670, 680, 777, 880, and 980, and may work on other models as well. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

SquidGuard version 1.1.4 has been ported to OS/2 (3/5/2001). SquidGuard is an exremely powerful redirector for the Squid cache proxy. You can find out more about it on the SquidGuard home page. Thanks to Platon Fomichev for the news.

Link Guard Solutions has released the SafeFire Firewall Development Kit. This tool was created to make SafeFire PPP even more flexible; anyone can create a DLL or REXX script that will integrate into SafeFire PPP. Thanks to Head of PPP development group for the news.

Sea Haven Towers version 3.01 has been released (3/4/2001). This is a Solitaire card game, which has been released as freeware. Thanks to Martin Iturbide for the news.

With Stardock no longer supporting Object Desktop, someone has made an unofficial OD 2.0 FixKit #4 available (3/4/2001) on Hobbes. All modifications were directly made on the binaries, so things that can be done are very limited.

Roderick Klein reports that there is some Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol software now available (3/4/2001) on his web page. It is no longer under development, but may be of use to someone.

Gewels has been ported (3/1/2001) to XFree86/OS2. Gewels is a Gnome clone of Jewels, a tetris-like game. Thanks to XDmitry for the news.

Goran Ivankovics has released (2/27/2001) Unit Converter version 0.96. Unit Converter is a PM utility which enables "on-the-fly" unit conversions. You can add, change, or delete groups and units, conversion factors and prefixes.

The SafeFire PPP Dialin 3rd Party addon version 1.0 beta 2 has been released (2/22/2001). This allows you to create a PPP dial-up server. Thanks to Head of PPP development group for the news.

Gozer, a command line text rendering utility for creating images from abitrary text, has been ported (2/22/2001) to OS/2. It needs Imlib2 engine and X11 libs to work. Thanks to Platon Fomichev for the news.

VRAID version 2.3 has been released (2/15/2001). This software RAID now implements RAID 1 (mirroring), RAID 0 (striping) and chaining. Define array drives from SCSI, IDE, MFM, ... disks using drag and drop. Supports any filesystem available for OS/2.

Shepherd version 1.1.0 beta has been released. Shepherd is a TCP/IP server framework with support for SMTP, POP3, FTP, j-Chat, and remote administration. Thanks to Jason Koeninger for the news.

PM Download Center version 0.6.0 has been released (2/7/2001). This program adds many new features to Wget and Auto Get/2 and does away with URL objects being lost, offers more options, download order selection, and pause or release downloads at your command. There is also a mailing list for the software. Thanks to Daniel Caetano for the news.

Panda AntiVirus for OS/2 has been updated (2/5/2001). Apparently you must be a registered user to download. Thanks to Thomas Frey for the news.

Netfinity 5.20.7 for OS/2 is available (1/29/2001) for free download. Netfinity is a family of distributed applications designed to enhance the system monitoring and management capabilities of a network. The client software is pretty useful for examining your system (BIOS, peripherals, etc).

Chuck Cohen has released (1/26/2001) some ID3 tag editors for MP3 files. MyMP3FS finds mp3 files along a search path and sets them up for individual or multiple editing. MyMP3Rx can edit v1.1 & 1.2 tags or will amend an ID3 Tag to the end of the file if none was there originally (v 1.2 is used for writing). MyMP3Rx will also remove TAGS, delete or rename & move files and make, rename or remove directories.

CSD 19 for the Graham Utilities for OS/2 v2.0 is now (1/21/2001) available from WarpSpeed. This takes it to version 2.10.9, and includes the new Task Manager.

Home Page Publisher version 2.1 "level C" is available (1/19/2001). This version includes frames support, DBCS, Drag/Drop, Undo/Redo, Toolbar Designer, and a dictionary. From OS2.org.

Hexedit version 1.10 has been released (1/18/2001). HexEdit is a free hex editor with many features. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

CDBFlite version 1.02, a command line DBF viewer and editor, has been released. Thanks to Sergey Chehuta for the news.

TEAM OS/2 Russia has ported some XFree86/OS2 games, GTowers 0.1 (1/17/2001) and XScorch 0.1.10 (1/16/2001). Thanks to XDmitry for the news.

Propaganda, the well-known series of tilable background images, have been uploaded (1/16/2001) to Hobbes in WPI format.

XDmitry reports that TEAM OS/2 Russia has updated (1/16/2001) the HTML conversion utilities for Excel (xlhtml 2.8) files.

A zip2wpi utility has been released (1/13/2001). This Rexx script can take a zip file and turn it into a WPI file for WarpIn.

Theta Band Software has announced that its two products, WarpCharge and MM Pack, will soon be released under an "Open Source" software license. They are now available for free download, and the source code will be released in the first quarter of 2001 under the GPL and/or Berkeley (BSD) license. Thanks to Frank Berke for the news.

The source code for the OS/2 port of Hexen is now available. Also available (7/11/99) is the binary for version 0.13. It features a settings dialog, sound effects, music, joystick support, and mouse support.

CPU Limiter version 0.1.3 has been released (1/11/2001). This is an automated killer for processes which eat too much CPU for a specified period of time.

The OS/2 build of MGLDOOM has been updated (1/10/2001) to work with SDD beta 37. Get the older version also if you need the shareware WAD file - it will also work with commercial DOOM 1, 2, and Ultimate DOOM WADs.

Bart van Leeuwen has written (1/8/2001) a driver that enables the extra buttons on the IBM Rapid Access Keyboard I. This keyboard is available as a option from IBM and is the default keyboard for a broad range of IBM Aptiva Systems. When this driver is loaded the extra keys will generate Scan Codes like any other key. Extra software to attach actions to the keys is needed, such as XWorkplace.

Michele Della Guardia has updated (1/8/2001) NUT/2, the Nutritional Database for OS/2, to version 5.5.

IBM has released (1/2/2001) drivers to support the ThinkPad T21. Thanks to Klaus Staedtler for the news.

'Yotogi-Hime's APM Monitor' version 0.61e has been released (1/1/2001). It allows you to check power status, battery remainder, etc. in APM-enabled environment. It can also perform APM sleep / suspend / power-off or restart system. Customizable window shape or graphic images with external 'Panel File'. You can find it on Hobbes.

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