ODIN GUI version 1.9 has been released (3/18/2007). This is a GUI front end for running programs with Odin. Thanks to Chris Roossien for the news.

WPIView version 1.02 has been released (3/17/2007). This is a utility to view, install, and extract WarpIN packages.

FM/2 version 3.05 beta 8 has been released (3/17/2007). This is an open source GUI file manager program, with lots of extra helper utilities.

SmartSVN version 2.1.5 has been released. This is a Java Subversion GUI client, with features like built-in File Compare/Merge, Change Report or Tag and Branch handling, and more. It requires Java 1.4.1 or higher.

DOSBox Front End version 4.8 has been released (3/16/2007). This is a GUI front end for launching games using DOSBox. Thanks to Chris Roossien for the news.

Lots of modifications in the templates handling.

The template name is now seperated from the program name and is now under the template list.

When adding (saving) a new template it checks and don't accept the same filename.

A message pops up; file exist.

Added a template save button to save the current template again when modifications are made.

When saving a program or template and there is not a name given (the field is empty)then a message pops up to tell there is no name and the save gets aborted.

When new buton was pressed the templates and program list were reloade from disk destroying the updates from current session, is fixed now.

I noticed that since a certain ? update the Eatmem option was messed up, fixed.
(I could use some feedback, specially on options-combinations not often used)

Download ;
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dosboxfront_4_8.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dosboxfront

Url:  http://members.home.nl/cwroossien/ecs.html

OS2MT has been updated (3/16/2007) to version 0.65 beta. This is a maintenance tool that enables you to download and install various applications with a couple clicks of the mouse. There is also a mailing list for it on Yahoo Groups.

Gendatam Suite beta 3 has been released (3/16/2007). This is a Java family history application, providing support for the Gedcom format.

[ANN] Gendatam Suite Beta 3

Gendatam Suite is a fully-featured Family History application.

Beta version 3 of Gendatam Suite for OS/2 is now available for download at http://www.gendatam.com/.

The application is a Java program which has been pre-compiled for use on OS/2. Running as native code makes the application generally quicker and more responsive.

The application has its own look-and-feel. This provides a consistent interface regardless of the host system.

OS/2 users may be interested in this application for a number of reasons:
  - It is written in Java but packaged as an OS/2 native code program.
  - It is a family history program available first on OS/2, but also to be available on the Microsoft Windows series with data compatibility between operating systems.

This beta will be of particular interest to those people who like to see how well programs will read the various varieties of Gedcom files.

This current beta version expires at the end of June 2007.

Feedback is welcome at betaDESPAM@DESPAMgendatam.com.

A note to archive administrators: The version is a beta version which incorporates an expiry date. There is no point in archiving it.

Regards
Peter

DBCSMAP version 1.1 has been released. This is a character map program for Unicode and selected DBCS codepages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). Characters can be copied to the clipboard as codepage-specific text (UTF-8 for Unicode text), and in "text/unicode" format as supported by Mozilla.

TrafficVisor III beta has been updated (3/15/2007). This is a program to collect and analyze TCP/IP traffic. From OS2.org.

K Movie Player version 0.2.2 has been released (3/14/2007). This is a movie player based on FFPlay, without SDL dependencies and support for WarpOverlay.

pbook version 1.3b has been released (3/14/2007). This is a GUI tool designed to help you manage the phone numbers in your GSM cellphone, attached to the infrared or serial port. From VOICE News.

Franz Bakan  has released pbook-1_3b which is a slightly updated version of the irda-phonebook application from Oliver Stein.

"PBOOK.EXE:     A GUI based tool for OS/2 that is designed to help you manage
the phone numbers in your GSM cellphone. You can read and write the phonebook and edit it on your PC while the phone is attached to the infrared or serial port. First, go into options and either let the program detect the right settings or update them manually. It also contains a
feature that lets you send an SMS from your PC and manage     the SMS's in
your phone. This should be generic and was tested with Nokia and Ericsson phones."

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/irapps/pbook-1_3b.zip

eSchemes Deluxe has been updated (3/13/2007). It consists of new WPS classes which simplify browsing of pictures; it offers a preview window and image viewing, with support for many common graphics formats. eSchemes will be a component of eComStation 2.0, while eSchemes Deluxe is a standalone product; it can be purchased through Mensys.

wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) version 2.8.2 has been released (3/13/2007). This is a sophisticated cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI applications using (where possible) the native controls.

An OS/2 port of dvddao version 1.3.6 has been released (3/13/2007). This is a tool for writing DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM discs.

bootAble version 4.4 has been released (3/13/2007). This is a script which can be used to create a maintenance partition or bootable CD with enough facilities to fully manage and recover your system. It contains support for LVM, HPFS, JFS, FAT32, UDF, and the CD file system. From VOICE News.

Hayo Baan's bootAble  Updated
Latest Release: 4.4 (13/03/2007)by Hayo Baan
  >>> http://www.xs4all.nl/~hrbaan/bootAble/index.html  <<<

"bootAble is an OS/2/eCS script to create a maintenance partition or a bootable CD/DVD. This partition or CD/DVD supports enough facilities to fully manage and recover your system."

Dear bootAble users,
It has been a while since the last update to bootAble, but finally there is another one  :-) This 4.4 release is basically a bug fix, with only minor enhancements to the functionality. The next thing I am going to work at is the integration of the Microsoft Virtual Machine additions, especially the mouse integration. For this, I may need to revamp the display driver integration (so far I have been unable to get the mouse integration to work), so this may take a while (if I can get it to work at all)...

v4.4 (13/03/2007)

Renamed CDRECORDCLEANDIR
to CDRECORDCLEANDIRBEFORE;
Now cleaning-up temp image files after creating the ISO file or burning the CD/DVD (CDRECORDCLEANDIRAFTER); You can now separately specify whether or not the Enhanced Editor
(EPM) should be added to a WPS system (WPSEPM, used to be included with WPSAPPS); Fixed bug in dirExists funtion, it now also correctly recognizes drives/root directories as valid. As a result, the SEARCHPATH can now contain root directories as well; Fixed bug with location of PEER related files when cloning a CD/DVD to a (maintenance) partition (CLONECD); The script now ignores errors when determining the cdrecorder device (cdRecorderDevice function) when only an ISO will be created (CDRECORDCREATEISOONLY='Yes'); cloneCD.cmd will not automatically add asked questions to the previously used file anymore as this could fail if the path does not exist on the booted system, and could be undesirable anyway (WRITEASKEDTOFILE and WRITEASKEDTOFILENAME); For the same reason, bootAble now removes the SIO logfile parameters in the default situation (SIOSERIALPORTOPTIONS, SIO2KSERIALPORTOPTIONS, SIO2KUARTOPTIONS).

JAlbum version 7.1 has been released (3/13/2007). This is a web photo album generator that runs on Java.

PM123 version 1.32 beta 2 has been released (3/12/2007); separately available are version 1.40 alpha 2 and version 1.21 (9/24/2003). PM123 is an MP3, WAV, and CD Audio player, which is now open source. Some of the features include sharing of the sound card, playlist with drag/drop support, HTTP streaming, and the use of skins to change the program's look.

MindTerm version 3.1.2 is now available; this is a SSH client written in Java.

C.a.R. version 6.0 has been released. This is a Java program that simulates school geometry constructions with a pair of compasses and a straightedge (ruler).

The OS/2 port of GNU Privacy Guard version 1.4.7 has been released (3/11/2007). This can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures, is a complete and free replacement for PGP, and is compliant with OpenPGP.

Paul Smedley has released an OS/2 build (3/9/2007) of Samba server version 3.0.25pre1. Unlike the older Netlabs port, it does not require Security/2. Also available - NetLabs has released (11/6/2006) SAMBA 3.0.9 alpha 10; both client and server are included. Also available is 3.0.9 beta 14 of a client plugin for the NetDrive Filesystem, which supports 64-bit file I/O with NDFS 3.0 or higher. It allows you to mount SMB or CIFS shares on OS/2 without the need of NetBIOS (IBM LAN Manager or IBM Peer). Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License; you can download the full OS/2 source code from NetLabs CVS. You can find the latest build on NetLabs FTP. From VOICE News.

An alpha 1 build of rdesktop version 1.5 has been released (3/8/2007). This is a free RDP client which you can use to connect to a Windows NT/2000/XP Terminal Server. Unlike earlier builds, it uses SDL and does not require XFree86/OS2. From OS2.org.


Maul Publisher version 3.11 has been released (3/6/2007). Maul Publisher is "the world's first professional desktop publisher for OS/2 Warp." It will automatically take care of page numbering in folding booklets, reversal of margins for facing pages, page numbering offsets where you don't want to start from page one, reversal of margins for top bound booklets and top folding booklets, centering margins on printers with odd margins, and multiway folding sheets and maps. In addition, you have full control of column, row, gutter, and centre gutter guides, including the automatic adjustment of page offsets when a number of sheets are bound into a folding booklet. There is a language translation toolkit, so that anyone interested can provide translations for their native languages. There is also a mailing list.

JamochaMUD version 1.7 has been updated (3/6/2007). This is an open-source Java MUCK/MUD client.

DFSee has been updated (3/5/2007) to version 8.12. DFSee is an FDISK, display, analysis and recovery tool for disks and filesystems. It includes the ability to resize FAT and FAT32 partitions, has some JFS and LVM support, and is now shareware. There is also a support forum available.

DFSee 8.12 has just been released.

Menu additions, display enhancements, (NTFS) resizing refinements and several small fixes and updates.

Some info on creating a bootable USB-stick with OS/2 and DFSee (with a link
to more info) is now part of the DFSee HOWTO at:
         http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/howto.htm#usbootlf

DFSee is a very powerful disk-utility with disk partitioning, filesystem
and disk analysis, file recovery, UNDELETE for HPFS JFS, and NTFS,
resizing, imaging, cloning and sector editing.

More details at:
   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/

Direct download links from the DFSee website:
   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx.zip
   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx.msi
   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_warpin.exe
   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_iso.zip
   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_dsk.zip

   Note: Most of these can also be downloaded using '812'
         instead of the generic '8xx' version number

Or from the HOBBES website:
   http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee812.zip
   http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee

Most important functional changes since 8.11:
  - CD       Display current working directory without an error
  - CHECK    NTFS, fix alloc error messages on split-tree DIR
  - CR dlg   Fix size=1 sticking after a BMGR partition is made
  - FORMAT   Use drive locking during format (on OS2 and Windows)
  - LOCK     Support lock-by-driveletter for large floppy format
  - LVM dlg  Update of driveletters works again (bug in 8.11)
  - MAP      Fixed display of driveletter line with 'map * +'
  - MENU     Display -> Other partition views; fixed, better help
  - MENU     Mode=FDISK -> Set Partition -> Not active, clear flag
  - NTFS     Recognize Windows Vista NTLDR sectors (named BOOTMGR)
  - PART     LVM column aligned if > 98 cols, using max 114 cols
  - PART -b  Align freespace lines for Linux in its default table
  - RESIZE   Allow '*' for default/maximum size in the dialog
  - RESIZE   NTFS, avoid empty bitmap extent on expanding the FS
  - RESIZE   NTFS, avoid extra bitmap flushing after updating it
  - STORE    Better understandable store description texts
  - WIPE -V  Perform an all-sector verify by reading back

Known bug (in version 8.11 and 8.12)
When creating LVM/JFS volumes (type 35) with DFSee, do NOT check both:
      ( ) Create NEW mode, clear existing bootsector and old LVM info
and
      [x] Include LVM information

Since that currently interferes with creating the extra info. This problem
is under investigation and wil be solved in 8.13. Using either one of them
is OK, but not both at the same time.

Regards, JvW

Jan van Wijk, author of DFSee; http://www.dfsee.com

USB Dock version 2.0 has been released (3/5/2007) on the eComstation BetaZone. This will show information on attached USB devices. From VOICE News.

Guiffy version 8.0 has been released (3/5/2007). Guiffy is a file compare / merge (diff-like) tool with a GUI implemented in Java.