The eCSoft/2 weekly newsletter for OS2Voice

April 15, 2019 by ecsoft2.org@gmail.com

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* Agena 2.14.9 https://ecsoft2.org/agena
Agena is an easy-to-learn procedural programming language suited for
everyday usage.
* 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.

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* Cobras 0.8 https://ecsoft2.org/cobras
Cobras is an IDE for linux programmers.
* BeeDiff 1.9 https://ecsoft2.org/beediff
BeeDiff (beediff) is a program with graphical user interface (GUI) for
comparing and merging files.
* Vacuum Jabber Instant Messanger 1.2.1
https://ecsoft2.org/vacuum-jabber-instant-messanger
This is an IM client with support for multiple accounts in one profile,
and many other features.
* TAP tools 1.0.4 https://ecsoft2.org/tap-tools
Some programs designed to work with the .TAP format files used with the
majority of ZX Spectrum emulators.
* T1 Utils 1.33 https://ecsoft2.org/t1-utils
This package contains some utilities to cope with Postscript Type 1 fonts.
* Visualizzatore dischi P3D https://ecsoft2.org/p3d-disk-viewing-program
OS/2 port of a PCW (Amstrad) disk viewer. Useful to read the contents of a
ZX Spectrum +3 disk image file.
* VoiX voice suppressor 1.0.0b5 https://ecsoft2.org/voix-voice-suppressor
A voice suppressing program. It can suppress the voice frequency band from
a .WAV audio file. It can be used with LAME lame to work with MP3s.
* Chord & ChordII 3.6.2 & 4.5.1 https://ecsoft2.org/chord-chordii
* *Chord* is a program which converts an ASCII text file containing
lyrics and chords for one or more songs into a PostScript file with
lyrics and chords typeset in a professional
* Philip's Music Writer 4.22 https://ecsoft2.org/philips-music-writer
A music typesetting program. Like MUP or ABCm2PS it accepts an ASCII text
file as input and outputs a postscript file.
* SoX - Sound eXchange 14.2.0 https://ecsoft2.org/sox-sound-exchange
SoX is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS X, etc.) command line
utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to
other formats.
* QBall 1.4 https://ecsoft2.org/qball
QBall is a simple breakout game clone that uses Qt4
qt4-application-ui-framework.
* eMozPrint 1.85T https://ecsoft2.org/emozprint
This utility scans the desktop for PDF files created by Firefox,
Thunderbird or Seamonkey, and prints the files automatically or offers a
dialog to print them, using Ghostscript.
* LAN Server Installation https://ecsoft2.org/lan-server-installation
This program allow you to install LAN Server components, available on *IBM
OS/2 Warp Server for eBusiness* (Aurora Convenience Package 4.51 and
4.52), on
* 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.
* Object Desktop 2.0 https://ecsoft2.org/object-desktop
Object Desktop for OS/2 is an advanced desktop environment.
* FM/2 Utilities https://ecsoft2.org/fm2-utilities
Bunch of free utils (including HPFS defrag) text mode only.
* File Manager/2 3.24 https://ecsoft2.org/file-manager2
FM2 is an excellent file manager for the eComStation WorkPlaceShell with a
lot of functions!
* Graham Utilities 2.1 https://ecsoft2.org/graham-utilities
The Graham Utilities for OS/2 are the largest, most comprehensive suite of
disk, file and general utilities specifically written for the OS/2
Operating System.
* Firefox 45.9.0 https://ecsoft2.org/firefox
A Mozilla-based fast browser! Firefox includes:
* Thunderbird 45.8.0 https://ecsoft2.org/thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component, with
several new features and improvements to make your mail and news
experience better.
* Dave Gnukem 0.56.1 https://ecsoft2.org/dave-gnukem
This is a clone of the first Duke Nukem game.
* PPWizard 17.308 https://ecsoft2.org/ppwizard
PPWizard is a free html preprocessor which is powerful and yet easy to
use.
* ProjectX 0.90.4.00 https://ecsoft2.org/projectx
ProjectX allows you to cut MPEG files (e.g. remove the advertisement). It
has has a build-in preview mode of the movie, so it's easy to set the cut
marks.
* AVxCAT (ex FFmpegCA-GUI) 1.5.1.2
https://ecsoft2.org/avxcat-ex-ffmpegca-gui
GUI front-end *in Rexx language* for FFmpeg ffmpeg-ffplay, which will
allow for converting audio and video between formats.
* 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.
* NetRexx 3.0.6 GA & 3.0.7 ?GA https://ecsoft2.org/netrexx
NetRexx is a programming language derived from both Rexx and Java.
* EGenM32W 0.2 https://ecsoft2.org/egenm32w
Easy to handle tool to show or patch content of genm32w.os2
* GenMAC Driver 2.20 https://ecsoft2.org/genmac-driver
GenMAC is a personal attempt of Willibald Meyer to design a device driver
that offers support for a lot of recent and modern network interface cards
(NICs), with a strong accent for gigabit and on-
* Client Samba (plugin per Netdrive o EVFSGUI) 4.10.0
https://ecsoft2.org/client-samba-plugin-netdrive-o-evfsgui
OS/2 port of Samba 3.x client made as plugin for NetDrive netdrive by
Netlabs.org. You can use it also with the EVFSGUI grafic client included
in eComStation.
* Renzoku Player/2 0.9.9 https://ecsoft2.org/renzoku-player2
A simple GUI front-end *in Rexx language* for Mplayer mplayer, KMovie
Player k-movie-playerand
* PMKiki 1.31 mpg123-audiocenter
PMKiki is a pastime game to play alone or in company: throw your arrows
without blowing up the balloon!
* Tabata Timer/2 1.0 https://ecsoft2.org/tabata-timer2
Presentation Manager Tabata Timer/2 for Tabata Training (4 Minutes). You
can change the font and color of this software.
* ANPM (Arca Noae Package Manager) 1.0.3
https://ecsoft2.org/anpm-arca-noae-package-manager
The Arca Noae Package Manager is a graphical interface to easily install,
remove, and update software on any OS/2-based system.
* RPM&YUM for OS/2 4.13.0 & 3.4.3 https://ecsoft2.org/rpmyum-os2
Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management
system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and
updating computer softwa
* Heimdal 1.5.3 https://ecsoft2.org/heimdal
Heimdal is an implementation of Kerberos 5
www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4120.txt, a Network Autentication Service (and
some more stuff).
* OpenLDAP 2.4.46 https://ecsoft2.org/openldap
OpenLDAP Software is an open source implementation of the Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol.
* ePicView 0.0.1 https://ecsoft2.org/epicview
A simple images viewer for OS/2 and eComStation inspired by the default
viewer of the GNOME Desktop, "Eye of GNOME".
* XviD core for OS/2 1.3.4 https://ecsoft2.org/xvid-core-os2
XviD is a high performance and high quality MPEG-4 video de-/encoding
solution.
* qShare 2.1.5 https://ecsoft2.org/qshare
QShare is a FTP server with a service discovery feature that makes qShare
clients aware of other clients running on the same network.
* Udpxy 1.1.6p2 https://ecsoft2.org/udpxy
Small-footprint UNIX/Linux daemon to relay multicast UDP traffic to
client's TCP (HTTP) connection.
* EasySync 3.1 https://ecsoft2.org/easysync
PM Syncronisation and backup utility with Netdrive support.
* TCP/IP Profiles Manager 1.1 https://ecsoft2.org/tcpip-profiles-manager
TCP/IP Profile Manager lets you define multiple TCP/IP configurations (as
selectable "profiles") and switch between them without rebooting.
* eCo Software runtime 20190214 https://ecsoft2.org/eco-software-runtime
Runtime for the *new generation* of applications developed by eCo
software.
* eCo Market 20110708 https://ecsoft2.org/eco-market
eCo Market is a catalogue with popular software for eComStation and IBM
OS/2 Warp.
The idea is to provide a selected popular software repository like Linux
distros.
* 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 2.19 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.
* 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.
* SeaMonkey 2.42.9esr & 1.1.19 https://ecsoft2.org/seamonkey
SeaMonkey is a community effort to deliver an high production-quality
releases of web browser code derived from "Mozilla Application Suite". The
program includes the email client.
* Odin 0.8.9 https://ecsoft2.org/odin
Odin is the name of the project and software that allows users to *run
Win32* (Windows 95 and Windows NT) *applications in OS/2 Warp operating
system natively*, almost
* Leech 1.20 https://ecsoft2.org/leech
Leech is a very versatile CD digital audio grabber for OS/2, featuring
advanced de-jittering capabilities to ensure perfect grabs even on bad
drives or CDs.
* Tyra/2 1.91 https://ecsoft2.org/tyra2
Tyra/2 is an easy to use OS/2 config.sys file editor. All of the
statements in your config.sys file are displayed logically in a notebook.
* Qwit 1.1 pre2 https://ecsoft2.org/qwit
Qwit is a Twitter client developed using Qt4 qt4-application-ui-framework.
* Remap 1.02 https://ecsoft2.org/remap
Remap v1.0 is a developer's tool that reformats and demangles IBM-style
map files to make them more informative and easier to use.
* Maul Publisher 3.16 https://ecsoft2.org/maul-publisher
Maul Publisher is aimed at anyone needing to quickly create pleasing and
sophisticated publications, without the high cost of one of the industry
leading packages.
* InstFont 1.0 https://ecsoft2.org/instfont
InstFont is a simple command-line tool for installing a font under OS/2
Presentation Manager.
* Caratteri Liberation 1.07 https://ecsoft2.org/liberation-fonts
The "Liberation" family of fonts is designed as a Free alternative to
several common MS Windows fonts.
* QSpeedTest rev. 43 https://ecsoft2.org/qspeedtest
QSpeedTest is a GUI tool written in C++ and Qt for evaluating the latency
and speed of an Internet or LAN access by pinging and concurrently
downloading test files from
* QDiskUsage 1.0.4 https://ecsoft2.org/qdiskusage
A Graphical Disk Usage Analyzer. QDiskUsage generates a navigable pie
chart of your directory so you can easilyy find the largest directory or
file on your disk.
* Flashrip 0.4 https://ecsoft2.org/flashrip
Flashrip allows you to rip Youtube videos and covert them to an MP3 or OGG
file.
You can also choose to rip it as video.
* muStringConverter 0.2.0 https://ecsoft2.org/mustringconverter
muStringConverter is a little GUI tool for conversion of strings from a
representation (binary, decimal, hexadecimal, octal or ASCII) to another.
* File Syncronizer 1.3 https://ecsoft2.org/file-syncronizer
Keeps your files syncronized between two systems by tracking changes and
transferring changes via your choice of removeable media.
* Syncronize Directories 1.5 https://ecsoft2.org/syncronize-directories
A program to sincronize directories.
* JWasm 2.02 https://ecsoft2.org/jwasm
This is a free MASM-compatible assembler, with several additional
features, and is a fork of the Open Watcom assembler.
* Driver per adattatori di rete Ethernet Marvell Yukon https://ecsoft2.org/marvell-yukon-ethernet-nic-driver
Driver for Marvell Yukon 88E8038 and 88E8056 PCI-E Fast Ethernet
Controller.
* QGoogleTranslate 0.2b7 https://ecsoft2.org/node/964
This application translated text via Google Translate engine until the
APIs were free. Application developed using Qt compiler.
* Lsof (List Open Files) https://ecsoft2.org/lsof-list-open-files
Unix port of "List Open Files", which is used in many Unix-like systems to
report a list of all open files and the processes that opened them.
* WorkplaceShell Monitor 1.0 https://ecsoft2.org/workplaceshell-monitor
WorkplaceShell Monitor is a simple but useful tool for starting and
terminating WorkplaceShell (WPS) on OS/2 Warp systems and for registering,
deregistering and replacing WPS classes.
* J2kcodec (decoder/encoder OpenJPEG JPEG2000) 1.5.1
https://ecsoft2.org/j2kcodec-openjpeg-jpeg2000-decoderencoder
Ports of the two command line tools part of the OpenJPEG library that
allow decoding and encoding JPEG2000 files.
* Tiff per OS/2 (LibTIFF) 4.0.9 https://ecsoft2.org/tiff-os2-libtiff
LibTIFF UNIX port. A library to manage Tag Image File Format (TIFF).
* So 0.10 https://ecsoft2.org/so
Utility to get info about processes, kill them and to do other stuff
(consider it as an enhanced GO! go by Carsten Wimmer).
* NYAOS, Nihongo Yet Another OSes Shell 3.3.8_0
https://ecsoft2.org/nyaos-nihongo-yet-another-oses-shell
NYAOS (NYACUS,NYADOS,NYAOS-II) is the enhanced commandline shell for
Windows, DOS, OS/2.
* Virtual keyboard/2 1.0 https://ecsoft2.org/virtual-keyboard2
Virtual keyboard/2 is an application displaying a unique virtual keyboard
on the screen and allowing you use the mouse pointer or the touch-screen
to type the way you do it with the hardware keyboa
* Java/Download Machine 0.24 https://ecsoft2.org/javadownload-machine
Java/Download Machine is a simple non-graphical, non-interactive tool for
batch file downloads with resume support. It is controlled via ASCII
formated queue file.
* Pngcrush 1.7.59 https://ecsoft2.org/pngcrush
Pngcrush is an optimizer for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files.
* Thinkpad On Screen Display 1.09
https://ecsoft2.org/thinkpad-screen-display
A Utility to display the current settings for several ThinkPad BIOS
related settings like:
* MTPSync 0.0.2 https://ecsoft2.org/mtpsync
MTPSync is a simple command line tool to transfer data to/from USB MTP
(Media Transfer Protocol) device like media player, cell phone, digital
photo device and so on.
* Tesseract OCR 2.04 https://ecsoft2.org/tesseract-ocr
Tesseract OCR is an optical character recognition program, released under
the GNU General Public License. It reads images in many formats and
outputs a text file.
* Squeak 3.5 https://ecsoft2.org/squeak
Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk-80
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk implementation whose virtual
machine is written entirely in Smalltalk, making it easy to debug,
* Supporto per webcam USB 1.1
https://ecsoft2.org/usb-webcam-support-programs-and-drivers
USB WebCam device drivers and control programs.
* Driver per tavolette Wacom Bamboo & Intuos https://ecsoft2.org/wacom-bamboo-intuos-tablet-driver
Wacom Bamboo and Intuos tablet driver (supported models see readme.1st)
* QueenCy 0.2.10 https://ecsoft2.org/queency
QueenCy is a bitmap paint program, good for image manipulation or creating
paintings from scratch. Queency supports some Wacom graphic tablets
wacom-bamboo-intuos-tablet-driver.
* File Commander/2 2.40 https://ecsoft2.org/node/277
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
* Fixpak 5 (XR_C005) Build 14.103 https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-5-xrc005
*Fixpak 5 ** for Convenience Pack 1 & 2 (ACP and MCP) and eComStation*
* Fixpak 15 (XR_M015) - United States https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-15-xrm015-united-states
*Fixpak 15 for OS/2 Warp 4*.
*Bring the system to OS/2 Warp server for eBusiness service level!*
* Fixpak 15 (XR_M015) - Spain 14.062
https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-15-xrm015-spain
*Fixpak 15 for OS/2 Warp 4*.
*Bring the system to OS/2 Warp server for eBusiness service level!*
* Fixpak 15 (XR_M015) - Japan 14.062
https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-15-xrm015-japan
*Fixpak 15 for OS/2 Warp 4*.
*Bring the system to OS/2 Warp server for eBusiness service level!*
* Fixpak 15 (XR_M015) - Italy 14.062
https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-15-xrm015-italy
*Fixpak 15 for OS/2 Warp 4*.
*Bring the system to OS/2 Warp server for eBusiness service level!*
* Fixpak 15 (XR_M015) - Germany 14.062
https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-15-xrm015-germany
*Fixpak 15 for OS/2 Warp 4*.
*Bring the system to OS/2 Warp server for eBusiness service level!*
* Fixpak 15 (XR_M015) - France 14.062
https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-15-xrm015-france
*Fixpak 15 for OS/2 Warp 4*.
*Bring the system to OS/2 Warp server for eBusiness service level!*
* Fixpak 15 (XR_M015) - Canada - French 14.062
https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-15-xrm015-canada-french
*Fixpak 15 for OS/2 Warp 4*.
*Bring the system to OS/2 Warp server for eBusiness service level!*
* Fixpak 15 (XR_M015) - Brazil 14.062
https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-15-xrm015-brazil
*Fixpak 15 for OS/2 Warp 4*.
*Bring the system to OS/2 Warp server for eBusiness service level!*
* Fixpak 12 (XR_M012) - Hungary 9.036
https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-12-xrm012-hungary
*Fixpak 12 for OS/2 Warp 4*.
* Fixpak 12 (XR_M012) - Greece 9.036
https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-12-xrm012-greece
*Fixpak 12 for OS/2 Warp 4*.
* Fixpak 12 (XR_M012) - Denmark 9.036
https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-12-xrm012-denmark
*Fixpak 12 for OS/2 Warp 4*.
* Fixpak 11 (XR_M011) - Saudi Arabia 9.035
https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-11-xrm011-saudi-arabia
*Fixpak 11 for OS/2 Warp 4*.
* Fixpak 11 (XR_M011) - Poland 9.035
https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-11-xrm011-poland
*Fixpak 11 for OS/2 Warp 4*.
* Fixpak 11 (XR_M011) - Greece - English 9.035
https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-11-xrm011-greece-english
*Fixpak 11 for OS/2 Warp 4*.
* Fixpak 11 (XR_M011) - Czechoslovakia 9.035
https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-11-xrm011-czechoslovakia
*Fixpak 11 for OS/2 Warp 4*.
* Fixpak 10 (XR_M010) - Finland 9.034
https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-10-xrm010-finland
*Fixpak 10 for OS/2 Warp 4*.
* Fixpak 09 (XR_M009) - United Kingdom 9.033
https://ecsoft2.org/fixpak-09-xrm009-united-kingdom
*Fixpak 09 for OS/2 Warp 4*.