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  • General: [The eCSoft/2 newsletter] The eCSoft/2 weekly newsletter - 11

    From VOICE News Service@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 3 16:25:48 2019
    ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

    From: [email protected]

    -------- THE ECSOFT/2 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER - 11 2019 ----------------------------

    Find in this digest all the records created or updated in the last week on the eCSoft/2 site https://ecsoft2.org.

    If you find something wrong and you want to report it, or if you want to contribute updating or translating to your language the records, or if just you want to write us, visit our Contact page https://ecsoft2.org/contact or drop us an email at ecsoft2 [
    dot] orggmail [dot] com

    NEW:
    ====

    * NewView 2.19.5 https://ecsoft2.org/newview
    A replacement for View.exe, the original OS/2 help viewer.
    * FreeRDP Client for OS/2 20190312 https://ecsoft2.org/freerdp-client-os2
    A FreeRDP port for OS/2, eComStation and ArcaOS. FreeRDP is a client for
    Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), used in a number of Microsoft Windows
    operation systems.
    * Driver supporto di base USB 11.17 & 10.226
    https://ecsoft2.org/usb-basic-device-driver-support
    USB basic driver stack including UHCI, OHCI, EHCI (USB 2.0) support,
    always required and to be installed first!
    * Device Driver Development Kit for 16 Bit Drivers 20190310
    https://ecsoft2.org/device-driver-development-kit-16-bit-drivers
    A development kit to make developing new device drivers very easy.
    * Testlog 3.25 https://ecsoft2.org/testlog
    Create a log file that you can submit with your test results when
    reporting a problem with a driver.
    * Driver ACPI 3.23.11 https://ecsoft2.org/acpi-driver
    Purpose of this driver is to provide ACPI interface:
    * QSINIT 07032019 https://ecsoft2.org/qsinit
    QSINIT is a replacement of OS2LDR created from scratch.

    UPDATED:
    ========

    * OS/2 Trace Tools 20180329 https://ecsoft2.org/os2-trace-tools
    This package includes two scripts (trcinit.cmd and trcctl.cmd) that
    implement an interface to the OS/2 Trace Facility.
    * Flashblock 1.5.17 https://ecsoft2.org/flashblock
    Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla https://ecsoft2.org/node/574
    and Firefox https://ecsoft2.org/firefox browsers that blocks ALL Flash
    content from loading.
    * DjView & DjVuLibre 4.10.6 & 3.5.27 https://ecsoft2.org/djview-djvulibre
    Standalone viewer for DjVu files. Features include navigating documents,
    zooming and panning page images, producing and displaying thumbnails.
    * Links 2.18 https://ecsoft2.org/links
    A text-mode web browser, which is able to correctly display tables and
    frames, and to render correctly most pages, even if they include several
    graphical elements.
    * 32bit Linux ext2 file system driver (EXT2 IFS) 2.40
    https://ecsoft2.org/32bit-linux-ext2-file-system-driver-ext2-ifs
    This is an old driver for the Linux ext2 file system taken from kernels
    2.0.x.
    * FAT32 0.10b https://ecsoft2.org/fat32
    FAT32.IFS for OS/2 will allow you to access FAT32 partitions (max 32 Gb,
    non removable) from OS/2.
    * JRescuer JUne and ISJ for JFS 2.21 & 2.31
    https://ecsoft2.org/jrescuer-june-and-isj-jfs
    An utility to retrieve files from un-mountable JFS volumes, unavailable
    due to any of a lot of reasons: phase 3 chkdsk fail etc. Includes JUne, PM
    undelete utility.
    * POSIX Pthreads 20171227 https://ecsoft2.org/posix-pthreads
    This library provides basic POSIX Pthreads
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX_Threads support for OS/2.
    * FFmpeg & FFplay 2.8.6 & 4.0.2 https://ecsoft2.org/ffmpeg-ffplay
    *FFmpeg* is a very fast video and audio converter. It can also grab from a
    live audio/video source.
    * REXX Reference Summary Handbook https://ecsoft2.org/rexx-reference-summary-handbook
    REXX Reference Summary Handbook - 4th Edizione Ottobre 1997.
    * BuildSOM 1.0 https://ecsoft2.org/buildsom
    BuildSOM is a REXX program that will create OS/2 WPS objects. Currently,
    the program supports only program and folder objects.
    * CDMagic 3.826 https://ecsoft2.org/cdmagic
    CDMagic offers you the most comprehensive solution for running a local
    music-database in the OS/2-/eCS-world.
    * VCDBurn 0.9.5.6 https://ecsoft2.org/vcdburn
    VCDBurn is a GUI frontend for ffmpeg, vcdimager, and cdrdao to transcode
    video files, and build and burn a VCD image.
    * DVDBurn 0.9.7.0 https://ecsoft2.org/dvdburn
    DVDBurn is a GUI frontend for ffmpeg, dvdauthor, mkisofs2, and dvddao to
    transcode video files, create a DVD structure, and build and burn a DVD
    image.
    * Harddisk Manager 1.15 https://ecsoft2.org/harddisk-manager
    Advanced and bugfixed replacement for lvmgui on Warp Server for
    e-Business, ACP/MCP and eComStation. Now with full keyboard support!
    * SiS Ethernet https://ecsoft2.org/sis-ethernet-driver
    SiS ethernet drivers.
    * The Digger Games Menu 3.0.0 https://ecsoft2.org/digger-games-menu
    Menu for the OS/2 version of Digger https://ecsoft2.org/digger (a DOS game
    from Windmill Software 1983) and the extra game files available from the
    Digger http://www.digger.org/
    * Digger 20140703 https://ecsoft2.org/digger
    Digger is a game originally created by Windmill software in 1983 and
    remastered by Andrew Jenner in 1998. MMOS/2 (DIVE, DART) is required.

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