Warpstock Europe 2014

2014-06-24 18:07:51 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The conference gives impulse to the developers so they will work on programs during the whole year (the conference "charges" developer with energy and confedence)

Are you going participate in the conference?

Share your minds, what topcis to discuss?

BTW, here is the article of OS/2 activist which recalls the meeting (october, 1996) ACCEPTING MEDIOCRITY IN COMPUTING

- Just because you use Microsoft products, doesn't mean you are "state of the art."

(the meeting was aimed to support IBM OS/2 Warp 4 Merlin release):

10 years ago..

There was a conference in 2004 (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany)

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(History of the conferences)

What games to port to OS/2?

2014-06-17 19:42:04 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

osgameclones.com has long list of open source clones of famous games

• X-Com -- openxcom (C++, SDL) // (source)
• Warcraft -- Wargus
• and other

Previous discussion of games: (RUS) History of games for IBM OS/2 Warp

Screenshots of Open X-Com:

Firefox 24.3.0 Beta

2014-06-01 01:09:19 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [#netlabs, dmik]

This is the first beta release of Firefox for eCS (OS/2) version 24.3.0. It is an upgrade of the previous 17 ESR release to 24 ESR that brings tons of performance and stability improvements from the Mozilla developers. This release also fixes the infamous SIGFPE crash on OS/2 seen with the previous 17.x releases when using JavaScript-enabled sites.

The CHANGES.OS2 file contains more detailed list of changes.

This is a beta release meaning that not all functions work properly.

Announcement

Requirements:

• LIBC 0.6.5 Runtime
• Freetype Runtume
• pthread v.20140425
• mmap v.20111102
• GCC 4.7.3 Runtime

Don't forget test video playback via web-browser:

Zippy: To extract modern archive formats

2014-05-30 02:59:40 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

If you "compressed" many clothes to travel bag, then it's difficult to pick up needed item:

Zippy allows view the archive contents, select and extract needed files and directories immediately.

Zippy homepage: http://ecomstation.ru/zippy

Zippy 0.07.00 whatsnew:

• Added full support of drag and drop. You can drag and drop archived files or directories to any WPS folder or trash can. You can also drag and drop any WPS folder or file to Zippy window to update or create new archive.
• Added new check box to the extraction dialog that allows to show the destination folder after extracting.
• Now if you mark archive item holding down SHIFT key, you can mark a group of items. Also you can mark or unmark all items of the current container view using CTRL+/ keys.
• Added option that allow reuse one password in all archive operations. This is simplifies usage of encrypted archives.
• Now, if you add a files with partial paths to opened archive, they are added to current selected directory.
• The newly created archive is now loaded into the browser after the finish of file compression.
• Optimized memory usage.

Zippy for professional and dummy users

2014-05-07 01:41:31 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The users are sending us fun pictures which demonstrate the power of Zippy archiver.

Don't use Zippy for this purposes! Start the utility to archive / extract electronic files only.

What to do if command line archivers can't extract files / write about errors? -- Give the chance to Zippy and try extract files.

What to do with 7z / 7zip files? -- Zippy supports this format.

Homepage: http://ecomstation.ru/zippy

Firefox 24 for OS/2

2014-04-23 22:36:18 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Firefox is updated again (site of the project)

OS/2 for mobile users

2014-04-21 16:13:14 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Does OS/2 Warp / eComStation follow the needs of mobile users?

• XWLAN widget is aimed to switch between ethernet cable and wifi. (there were significant updates)
• USB drivers were updated and support more USB modems for mobile internet. Now you can use: Huawei Mobile Broadband E3131
• Maps/2 allows view maps from different sources in high details (the most famous maps may miss some information) + you can browse cached data.
• We have general applications: Firefox, Thunderbird, irc-chat, VNC-client for remote access, ..
• NDCrypt plugin to protect data.

Mobile users need: DropBox, ..

Support OS/2: make efforts and use OS/2 applications, not android tablets.

Support service: eComStation desktop

2014-04-13 17:05:46 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

To prevent damage of desktop, every eComStation should run DMT utility on startup.

Desktop Maintenance Tool (DMT) 0.90 -- "registry cleaner". It is checking ini files on every boot of system.

Moreover, the utility fixes the problem of moving icons, creates backup of ini files.

Download from BETAZONE.

Configuring eComStation for server tasks

2014-03-31 02:36:57 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Tell us, do you use eComStation for server tasks? We start collecting recommendations: (russian text) Configuring eComStation for server tasks

What means for self-diagnostics should be developed?

WiFi for eComStation

2014-03-15 01:55:27 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Do you have troubles with WiFi connection?

1) WPA Supplicant was updated some monthes ago smedley, It resolves problems with D-Link routers, etc.

2) Wireless LAN Monitor / XWLAN version 3.12 beta 2 has been released (2014/03/01).

Please remember to give your feedback on the project's trac system.

"XWLAN/WLAN enables you to switch your OS/2 - eComStation system between wired and wireless network. The Wireless LAN Monitor is available both as a XCenter Widget as well as a standalone program. It features connection monitoring, multipe connection profiles, generation of WEP keys, and more."

Download

Homepage

Project SVN: http://trac.netlabs.org/xwlan

Updated by Andreas Buchinger

Source: os2world.com

PCI Dock - Essentials subscription

2014-03-11 16:05:07 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

PCI Dock - one of the most popual utilities: the users investigate the list of devices while configuring the system, the developers need detailed information about PCI devices, support service is loading the lists to PCI Dock and make fast decisions.

PCI Dock is available by Essentials subscription.

• Download PCI Dock
• Subscribe to Essentials

P.S. Some devices have long name of manufacturer, example: D-Link System Inc
Post a comment, what name to substitute and short name, in this case: D-Link

Essentials and NeoWPS for OS/2 / eCS

2014-03-11 13:25:15 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Software goes re-pack applications, extenders and drivers and release two packages:

• Essentials - utilities, fixes,
• NeoWPS - WPS extenders and WPS applications

If you have purchased NeoWPS components in the past then you have a discount or get free subscription for N monthes.

Contents of subscriptions:

• Essentials: LIP packages, SysInfo/2, PCI Dock, ..
• NeoWPS: Paino Launchpad, Sunny icons, PCM address book, Virtual keyboard, ..

File Open Container is updated

2014-03-07 20:00:21 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

File Open Container is the replacement of system File Open Dialog (the dialog aimed to find and select files)

Example: FOC substitutes old Lotus Smart Suite dialogs

How to install FOC?

• If you have eCS 2.1 or above then FOC is available in your system, activate it. To get updates, download and install updated eCo Software runtime.
• If you have older version of eComStation then you can get FOC as part of NeoWPS extenders (contact us to get details)
• How to update FOC? Install the latest eCo Software runtime (Base and Win)

Whatsnew:

• Fixed hangs and other abnormally behaviour after failed attempt to show a preview of some files.
• Improved compatibility with applications of the Lotus SmartSuite family.
• Fixed tickets:

Homepage: http://ecomstation.ru/foc

PMMaps with GPS receiver support

2014-03-07 00:30:22 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

PMMaps application supports USB GPS now! You can use use eCS (OS/2 Warp) in the car (searching the route) or when walking in the forest.

General advantage of PMMaps/2 is the support of several sources. You can switch view to other sources: Google maps, Yandex maps, Bing, Navteq, OSM, Here (was Nokia), and many other (18 sources or more!)

All data is cached. You can cache maps while sitting in internet cafe and later find the way using cached data (if no internet connection).

Don't forget secure the laptop

Installation:

• Update eCo Software runtime
• Download and Install PMMaps (homepage)
• Setup GPS receiver (homepage -> Hardware)
• If you like the project then register and buy sponsor unit

Whatsnew:

• Significant changes and updates

The location of eCS computer is marked with orange pointer

PM123 Classic audio-player, 1.36

2014-02-25 01:05:02 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

PM123 continues to play sound even if CPU and hard drive are loaded with other tasks.

What is the advantage of Classic version from other forks?

• (Разработчик: Glassman)
• Classic version has equalizer (works for all decoders)
• New versions are improved: user interface (skins support) is improved, support of lossless audio is better

Sponsor the project:

You can support the development of this application Sponsors of PM123 Classic

Whatsnew (PM123 1.36):

• PM123 can be integrated to folder context menu.
• Added new remote control commands: 'info format' and 'info meta'.
• Moving and drawing the volume and position sliders became a bit more accurate.
• Added option that limit loading files to only files with extensions provided by a plugged decoders.
• The saving and restoring of the position of the vertical split bar of playlist and bookmarks was broken in 1.33 release. It has been fixed.
• Skinned window are now compatible with the Object Desktop.
• Fixed enormous size of the equalizer sliders on high-resolution displays.
• You can change order of the decoding and filtering plug-ins.

WVPLAY

• Can play WavPack audio files.
• Can play files from FTP and HTTP servers.
• Fully supports APE comment fields.

CDDAPLAY

• Now it is possible to limit CD drive speed while reading to avoid noise produced by some drives.
• Now you can easy clear FreeDB cache.
• Now you can turn on or off the Unicode support when exchanging with FreeDB.

Бесплатные программы для пользователей eComStation

2014-02-24 03:59:45 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Software applications eCo Software is the largest developer of shareware applications for eComStation (IBM OS/2 Warp). We have invested many efforts and resources to develop all this applications.