TIM'S TOP 10 OS/2 INTERNET SITES*

As we all know,

• OS/2 News & Announcements (comp.os.os2.announce) - this is the single most important source of credible OS/2 news and announcements in the Usenet Newsgroups - NNTP, primarily because it is fairly and consistently moderated.

• Kevin Royalty's Master OS/2 Warp Update List (http://www.cincyteamos2.org/masterupdate.html) - Kevin, who is a member of Team OS/2 Cincinnati, has done the OS/2 community a great service by providing a single source for locating all product updates and revisions pertaining to OS/2.

• The Best of OS/2 "Newswire" (http://www.aescon.com/bestofos2/msgs/msgs.htm) - is sponsored by InnoVal Systems Solutions Inc. and represents the best Web site to distribute and research OS/2 news and announcements.

• IBM's OS/2 Warp Home Page - is still worth following even though it is infrequently updated. It includes pertinent news and convenient links to other sites for product updates.

• Trevor Smith's OS/2 e-Zine! - some people will be surprised to see me list another electonic magazine on this list, but "OS/2 e-Zine!" is a highly respected publication and is now considered the authorative source of product reviews since other OS/2 printed publications folded.

• The Hobbes FTP site (ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/) sponsored by New Mexico State University is the most popular "Anonymous" FTP site for uploading/downloading OS/2 related files, even though it is often overloaded and hard to access (which is due to its popularity). Be sure to check out Hobbes' Incoming file area for the latest submissions and its OS/2 section.

• Walnut Creek (ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/pub/os2/) - tired of waiting for Hobbes? Then in all likelihood, you'll find the files you're looking for at Walnut Creek, another excellent "Anonymous" FTP site for OS/2 files. Also, be sure to check out their Incoming file area for the latest submissions.

• IBM PC Systems and Devices Compatible with OS/2 (http://www.austin.ibm.com/pspinfo/os2hw.html) - although this site is not checked as frequently as the others, it is an important site to research compatible hardware for OS/2.

• For OS/2 software catalogs, I couldn't settle on just one; although Indelible Blue ( http://www.indelible-blue.com/ib) is perhaps the most popular catalog, I have always found Jim Ames' J3 Computer Technologies (http://www.j3comp.com/) to be very competitive.

• For OS/2 shareware products, I ran into another tie:
  • Thomas Bradford's BMT Micro (http://www.wilmington.net/bmtmicro)
  • Pete Norloff's OS/2 Shareware BBS (http://www.os2bbs.com/)
  • The new The OS/2 Supersite (http://www.os2ss.com)
  • And Germany's Link Everything Online (LEO) (http://www.leo.org/archiv/os2/)

* Yea, I know I'm showing 14 sites (not just 10) but this isn't exactly a contest! The only winner is the OS/2 user. - Tim Bryce

• Kevin Linfield's Favourite OS/2 Freeware (http://www.to2.org/freeware) represents an excellent collection of available files.
• The OS/2 Warp Pharmacy (http://www.zeta.org.au/~jon/WarpPharmacy.html) is still useful for anwering questions even though it hasn't been updated recently.
• Timur Tabi's home page (http://www.io.com/~timur/) - excellent reference for programming tips and links, and OS/2 hardware compatibility (including sound cards).
• And David Barnes' Warped Gallery (http://www.os2bbs.com/David_Barnes/) is still a great place to look at OS/2 related graphics and shareware.