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This program allows OS/2 users to seamlessly read and write files on disks formatted with the Hierarchical File System, used by Macintosh computers. With this product, Macintosh disks can be used just as if they were regular disks. Both 'quest' and IFS versions are included.


Licence: Freeware
Online:
http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~f96-bet/HFS/
Operating system: OS/2
Requires: OS/2 Warp 4, 486DX2 66, 4M RAM, 800 by 600 (256 colour) video card, supported mouse

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Use this image database to handle extremely large image collections, with a highly optimised search capability and a variety of image choosing, browsing and manipulating tools. This is the ultimate tool for Internet image collections, or organisations that require tagging and searching of uniquely named images.


Licence: Shareware ($US19.95)
Online:
http://www.modulardreams.com/m3.html
Operating system: OS/2
Requires: OS/2 Warp 4, Pentium processor, 32M RAM, 50M Swap space, 1,024 by 768 graphics card (24-bit is suggested), 600 bytes of disk space per file stored in database, 2.5K disk space per icon file, a mouse with three buttons is extremely useful but not necessary. Note: Storage needs to be on a HPFS drive if any images reside on HPFS drives or your image collection is very large.

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As most OS/2 users would know, this is a very powerful image manipulation tool. It supports a large number of image formats, both read and write, and is particularly intuitive to use. Although this new release has been rebadged with a '2000' label, there don't seem to be as many extra features as one would expect compared to the previous version.


Licence: Shareware ($US59.95)
Online:
http://www.pmview.com/
Operating system: OS/2
Requires: OS/2 Warp 4, emx runtime installed, 486DX2 66, 4M RAM, 800 by 600 (256 colour) video card, supported mouse

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This is a small program that enables unused keys on your keyboard when you're working with the OS/2 PM. For example, you can make the left Windows key (if you have one) open the Warp Centre menu. You can also map almost any key combination to any action you want.


Licence: Freeware
Online:
http://vik.avi.kiev.ua/software.phtml
Operating system: OS/2
Requires: OS/2 Warp 4, 486DX2 66, 4M RAM, 800 by 600 (256 colour) video card, supported mouse

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