Hardware video acceleration in OS/2 with wvgui

2002-05-14 20:15:42 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Timo Maier]

We are glad to announce for the OS/2 community, that hardware video acceleration become possible. Driver, developed by Valery Gaynullin can acces to the hardware acceleration with follownig chips:

• Matrox MGA G200, G250, G400, G450, G550
• ATI 3D Rage, 3D Rage II+, 3D Rage IIC, 3D Rage Pro, 3D Rage LT, 3D Rage LT Pro, Rage XL,Rage Mobility
• NVIDIA (beta support) Tested: GeForce2 MX200, GeForce2 MX400, GeForce 2GTS, GeForce2 Ti

Acceleration tested and work perfectly with WarpVision GUI video player.

Read details at Homepage.

Games in OS/2

2002-05-14 20:08:34 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [#os2russian, Savrs]

The list of Games running in OS/2 (Odin) was updated.

Multidomain mail system

2002-05-14 20:01:35 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2.spb.ru]

The article "Multidomain mail system based in IPS mail server" was published. (russian text)

p.s. Join on-line survey "Did you killed your eComStation?" on main page.

APeCS report

2002-05-13 11:18:50 -- APeCS Bot [eComStation.Ru]

Latest changes in APeCS database (20 programs updated) :

• PM Downloader by ErOs2 is updated to preview 2b
  PM Downloader is interactive multithreaded network retriever for OS/2 Presentation Manager which supports HTTP and FTP protocols for downloading files . . .

• File Manager/2 by Mark Kimes is updated to 3.01
  Swiss army knife of file managers . . .

• XSane by Oliver Rauch is updated to 0.86
  XSane is a powerful graphic front-ends for SANE (scanner ACCESS Now Easy), which requires a functioning libsane.dll (e.g . . .

• NetOp Remote Control by Danware Data A/S is updated to 7.0
  NetOp was designed for users just like you who require heightened security, top rated speed and more platform options . . .

• Simple SPL by Vadim Yegorov is updated to 1.0.0
  Years ago I worked on firmware solution for radio exploring . . .

• Apache HTTP Server by The Apache Software Foundation is updated to 2.0.36
  Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996 . . .

• Ru2En by Sergey V. Khudyakov is updated to 0.2
  Small "russian to english" dictionary (about 15,500 words) . . .

• DFSee by Jan van Wijk is updated to v4.22
  Display File Systems (DFSee) is a generic partition and filesystem browser/analyser . . .

• JDictionary by - is updated to 1.4
  JDictionary is a powerful multi platform dictionary software . . .

• ZxMail by Zeryx Software Inc. is updated to 1.1.18 beta 4
  ZxMail Server is a full POP3 and SMTP Server . . .

• OS/2 startup delay device driver by Bob Eager is updated to 1.7
  DELAY is a simple OS/2 device driver for providing a timed delay from CONFIG.SYS during system startup . . .

• IBM Networks Primary Logon Client by IBM is updated to 4.5
  The IBM(R) Networks Primary Logon Client for Windows NT(R) 4.0, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows XP Professional enhances the capabilities of Windows NT 4.0 clients, Windows 2000 Professional clients, and Windows XP Professional clients connecting to OS/2 Warp(R) Server for e-business . . .

• Gradmous by Stefan Knodt is updated to -
  Gradmous is a workaround for the asymmetric speed of the mouse in FS WinOS/2 with GRADD-based drivers including SDD. . . .

• PhotoMesa by - is updated to 1.3
  Photomesa is a free image browser/organizer . . .

• CDDBD by - is updated to -
  Quick & dirty port of freedb's cddbd to OS/2 . . .

• Gross by Bill Moore is updated to 1.0
  Gross, a the text adventure game for OS/2. . . .

• IPFORMATx by - is updated to -
  This an alternative to the IBM IPTRACE program . . .

• Internet JunkBuster by - is updated to 2.9.14 Beta
  Junkbuster is a powerful web proxy that filters out unwanted web content like advertisements, cookies, snoopy javascript, etc . . .

• PMRobots by Kent H Lundberg is updated to 1.3
  OS/2 Game . . .

• WarpVision by WarpVision Team is updated to test version
  WarpVision is an OS/2 video player . . .

Warpstock Europe 2002 announcement

2002-05-13 01:18:18 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Bart van Leeuwe]

Here by we want to announce that Warpstock Europe 2002 will take place in arnhem Holalnd from 8th november till the 10th of november. More details will follow soon on Warpstock site.

Sites, sites, sites...

2002-05-10 13:32:07 -- Deniska [eComStation.Ru]

Just to mention, that previous news was not our opinion. Readers' comments ware also very significant.

We'd like to say, that eComStation.Ru never thought, that other sites discredit OS/2 and eCS.

Week of UPS in Hardware section

2002-05-10 02:05:23 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

We collect info about eCS compatible UPSes. Input data in Hardware section.

eComStation downloads available on CD

2002-05-10 02:02:26 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.com, Buck Bohac]

For those who have slower connections or for anyone wanting a local copy of the files, a CD with all the available downloads, fixes, and upgrade protection files is now available. You must be a registered eComStation owner and have purchased Upgrade Protection to purchase the version of the CD with Upgrade Protection files including the latest SmartSuite upgrade. All registered eComStation owners can purchase the drivers and fixes CD. More details read here.

APeCS report

2002-05-07 17:07:28 -- APeCS Bot [eComStation.Ru]

Latest changes in APeCS database (31 programs updated) :

• Squid2 by Evgeny Kotsuba is updated to 2.5 v9
  alpha-preview Squid proxy server v2.5 for OS/2, compiled and fixed for VACPP3 . . .

• BIEW by Andrew Golovnia is updated to 5.3.2
  BIEW- is a free, portable, advanced file viewer with built-in editor for binary, hexadecimal and disassembler modes . . .

• Resin by Caucho Technology, Inc. is updated to 2.0.0
  Resin is a fast servlet and JSP engine supporting load balancing for increased reliability . . .

• mod_throttle_access by Christian Gilmore is updated to 0.2
  My motivation for writing this module was to limit number of apache children that could simultaneously be serving the (nearly) same resource . . .

• mnoGoSearch by - is updated to 3.1.19
  mnoGoSearch is a full-featured SQL based web search engine . . .

• AiR-BOOT by Martin Kiewitz is updated to 0.29b
  AiR-BOOT is a Multi-Boot partition loader with some extra features built in . . .

• DirDiff by Wolfram Schmid is updated to 2.0
  DirDiff is a Directory compare program for OS/2 and eCS and compares all files in two sub-directorys or whole directory trees . . .

• Audio/Data-CD-Creator by Chris Wohlgemuth is updated to 0.51
  Audio/Data-Cd-Creator is a set of WPS classes for easy creation of audio and data CDs . . .

• jMSN by - is updated to 0.9.7
  MSN messanger application, written in Java. . . .

• FTE by - is updated to 2002-03-24
  FTE is a free text editor for developers . . .

• RESMGR by - is updated to -
  RESMGR is a resource decompiler/manager . . .

• Program Control by Christian Langanke is updated to 1.04
  PGMCNTRL is a small vio utility that allows you to perform actions on active programs like kill and query, hide/show the tasklist entry and window functions like minimize, maximize, restore them again to the normal size . . .

• XNap by - is updated to 2.1pre2
  XNap is a file sharing client to access the Gnutella and the OpenNap networks, written in Java . . .

• Free Pascal by - is updated to 1.0.6
  Free Pascal (aka FPK Pascal) is a 32 bit pascal compiler . . .

• Driver for Adaptec 1505A SCSI adapter by - is updated to -
  SCSI Driver for Adaptec 1505A adapter, contains EXE install program and associated BIN file. . . .

• CallNotify by - is updated to 0.14
  CallNotify consists of a server which watches a log file for additions and a client which can run on a remote machine . . .

• DIRtools by - is updated to 1.16d
  DIRtools contains 3 OS/2 utilities: * DELDIR -- delete a directory tree . . .

• Hypermake by Martin Vieregg is updated to 4.0
  With Hypermake (earlier version "MakeIPF"), you can easily create HTML files or IBM IPF files, Winhelp, RTF-Text files and Microsoft HTML-Help files . . .

• cdrtools by nickk is updated to 1.11a22pre2
  OS/2 port of well known unix cd writing tools . . .

• PMCRC32 by - is updated to 1.9
  SFV check program now with sound support and some auto functions. . . .

• Phex by - is updated to 0.64
  Phex is a java-based gnutella client . . .

• GNU GhostScript by - is updated to 7.05
  GNU version of GhostScript . . .

• GSView by Russell Lang is updated to 4.3
  GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript . . .

• IBM ThinkPad T30 Audio and Video drivers by IBM is updated to -
  This is drivers for video and audio adapters on IBM ThinkPad T30 notebooks. . . .

• Krypto by - is updated to 0.40
  Krypto - Strong file encryption for OS/2 and eComStation. . . .

• Script to install testcase kernels by - is updated to -
  REXX-Script to install testcase kernels easy . . .

• Netwide Assembler (NASM) by NASM community is updated to 0.98.30
  NASM is the Netwide Assembler, a free portable assembler for the Intel 80x86 microprocessor series, which uses the traditional Intel instruction mnemonics and syntax . . .

• Inet.Mail Perseus by Hethmon Brothers is updated to 2.0.1
  Inet.Mail Perseus for OS/2 is a full featured SMTP/POP3 server for the OS/2 environment . . .

• XSane by Franz Bakan is updated to 0.86
  XSane is a powerful graphic front-ends for SANE (scanner ACCESS Now Easy), which requires a functioning libsane.dll (e.g . . .

• VICE/2 by - is updated to 1.9
  Versatile Commodore Emulator . . .

• ELinks by Petr Baudis is updated to 0.4 pre 6
  ELinks is a text-mode web browser, capable of correctly formatting tables and frames, unlike lynx . . .

OS/2 Strategy for 2002

2002-05-03 02:46:50 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, Deniska]

IBM published OS/2 Strategy for 2002. Here is PDF-version of the document.

APeCS report

2002-05-02 23:27:45 -- APeCS Bot [eComStation.Ru]

Latest changes in APeCS database (47 programs updated) :

• GOGO by - is updated to 3.10pl3
  This software is a mp3 encoder based on LAME3.88, which is optimized for Enhanced 3D Now!/SSE/SSE2 and dual-CPUs. . . .

• RamFS by Karl Olsen is updated to 1.01
  RAMFS is a "remote file system" (as opposed to a "local file system") meaning that it isn't associated with a hard disk partition . . .

• ZOC by EmTec is updated to 4.0.5
  Zap-O-Comm the well known Terminal Program. . . .

• HFS Utils by - is updated to 3.1a
  Hfsutils is a collection of tools for reading and writing Macintosh HFS volumes . . .

• TCPDump by - is updated to 4.3
  Tcpdump is a tool for network monitoring and data acquisition . . .

• nmap by - is updated to 2.54 beta 30
  Nmap ("Network Mapper") is an open source utility for network exploration or security auditing . . .

• Norman Virus Control by Norman is updated to v5
  Anti-virus software for OS/2 . . .

• ZxMail by Zeryx Software Inc. is updated to 1.1.17
  ZxMail Server is a full POP3 and SMTP Server . . .

• jMSN by - is updated to 0.9.5
  MSN messanger application, written in Java. . . .

• GOAT by - is updated to 0.03
  GOAT is a graphical frontend/extension to the GNU OCR program . . .

• Intelligent E by - is updated to 2
  Intelligent E, prevents the system editor from asking for a file type . . .

• Multics Archive by - is updated to 1.0
  The Multics 'archive'(ar) command is perhaps the "mother of all" file packaging systems, such as unix 'ar' and 'tar', and OS/2's 'zip' . . .

• Mozilla by Mozilla Team is updated to 1.0 rc1
  Most powerfull multiplatform web-browser. . . .

• SNAP by SciTech is updated to -
  SciTech SNAP (System Neutral Access Protocol) will change the way you look at device support forever . . .

• KANON by RCD is updated to 1.0
  "KANON" - modern system of digital sound processing and editing which gives an ability to edit a sound stream and apply to it different good algorithms of digital processing and restoring . . .

• FileCommander/2 by Brian Havard is updated to 2.20
  File Commander is a 32 bit text mode file manager and shell that allows you to locate, copy, move, delete, view, edit and execute your files in a quick, convenient and customizable manner . . .

• DaniS506 by Daniela Engert is updated to 1.4.2
  DaniS506.ADD - replacement for IBM1S506.ADD . . .

• DaniATAPI by Daniela Engert is updated to 0.3.10
  DaniATAPI.FLT - replacement for IBMIDECD.FLT, IBMATAPI.FLT, DaniADsk.FLT and all other ATAPI related filters . . .

• DaniN512 by Daniela Engert is updated to 0.1.4
  NON-512 bytes/sector DASD support filter . . .

• ppwizard by Dennis Bareis is updated to 02.109
  ppwizard - Free generic preprocessor (html/rexx/ipf/inf/ipfc) . . .

• National Semiconductor DP83820 MAC driver by - is updated to 0.3
  Driver for cards, based on National Semiconductor DP83820 chip. . . .

• National Semiconductor DP83815 MAC driver by - is updated to 0.5
  Driver for cards, based on National Semiconductor DP83815 chip. . . .

• DFSee by Jan van Wijk is updated to 4.21
  Display File Systems (DFSee) is a generic partition and filesystem browser/analyser . . .

• Simple SPL by Vadim Yegorov is updated to 0.9.10
  Years ago I worked on firmware solution for radio exploring . . .

• DragText by Rich Walsh is updated to 3.5
  a distinctly different desktop enhancement. . . .

• cdrtools by nickk is updated to 1.11a21
  OS/2 port of well known unix cd writing tools . . .

• USB Resource Manager by - is updated to 0.9
  The purpose of this driver is to show all connected USB devices with exception of USB-hubs connected to the system . . .

• desproxy by Yuri Dario is updated to 0.0.19
  TCP connections are (by far) the most used ones in Internet applications . . .

• RxWeb by Igor Pool is updated to 0.1.2
  Provides additional REXX functions for CGI scripts . . .

• P6K7MTRR by Takayuki 'January June' Suwa is updated to 0.07b
  Intel P6 / AMD K7 MTRRs management IOCtl PDD . . .

• Ager's Socket Library by Soren Ager is updated to Release 4
  Ager's Socket Library (from now on asl) - is a free socket (tcp/ip) library for Virtual Pascal v2.0+ (it supports both OS/2 and Win32) . . .

• CallNotify by - is updated to 0.12
  CallNotify consists of a server which watches a log file for additions and a client which can run on a remote machine . . .

• WarpGoGo by ElectricDreams/2 Group is updated to 0.99d & TEST
  MP3 front-end for Gogo-no-coda. . . .

• Drift by Dirk Vandenheuvel is updated to -
  Drift, an Asteroids kind of game for OS/2. . . .

• AGSatellite by - is updated to 1.44
  Multithreaded and Multilanguage Audio Galaxy Satellite agent clone for OS/2. . . .

• Odin Tool by - is updated to 0.5.1
  Tool to ease manipulation of Odin.INI plus some other Odin administration related tasks. . . .

• Smart Cache by Radim Kolar is updated to 0.71
  Smart Cache is full featured proxy cache server . . .

• RSched by Alex-G is updated to test version
  Full featured VIO scheduler . . .

• SoundMax Audio Driver by Analog Devices is updated to 3.1.0
  Driver for soundcards based on Analog Devices AD1881/ AD1881A/ AD1885/ AD1887 (SoundMax) chips. . . .

• Kаspersky Anti-Virus for OS/2 by Kaspersky Labs is updated to 4.0 beta
  Kаspersky Anti-Virus for OS/2 . . .

• tvisor by Digi is updated to 22.03.02
  Calc traffics . . .

• socksd by nickk is updated to 1.0
  Native multithreaded socksd server with built-in TCP/UDP portmaps . . .

• iSpell by Geoff Kuenning is updated to 3.2.06
  Ispell 3.2.06, a spell checking program, ported to OS/2 . . .

• phpMyAdmin by - is updated to 2.2.6
  phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the adminstration of MySQL over the web . . .

• Analog by - is updated to 5.22
  Analog is a very versatile analyzer program for web log files . . .

• zlib by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler is updated to 1.1.4
  zlib is a general purpose data compression library. . . .

• RAR by Eugene Roshal is updated to 3.00 beta 7
  RAR Archiver . . .

Your articles at eComStation.Ru

2002-05-02 20:41:22 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Our site is ready to publish your articles in any language: english, german, spanish, italian, portuguese, czech, polish and french.

Your readers will comment and discuss it.

eComStation presentation in Kazan

2002-05-01 21:41:29 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Denis Tazetdinov talks about results of presentation and enumerates hot questions bringed up by listeners - "eComStation Presentation: things to think about" (russian text).

New site related to OS/2

2002-04-27 16:06:26 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

New site related to OS/2 software is opened - Kiev Elephant.

Yandex knows about OS/2

2002-04-25 00:47:46 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Russian Yandex.Ru web-search system added info about OS/2 to its own web-resources catalogue. This will make internet people inquire more about OS/2 platform.

OS/2 Car

2002-04-25 00:42:02 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Cool story written by famous Moscow writer Leonid Kaganov. Imagine that OS/2 is a car. It's very clumsy but funny.