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November 1994 Volume 2 Number 11 Introduction The views expressed in this newsletter are not necessarily the views held by the MMOUG or it's members. Don't agree with something you've read here? Write and tell us about it! If you have any contributions, please upload them to area 18 of the WoodMeister or send them to me via Internet at USDSSKZS@IBMMAIL.COM. If you work for the State of Missouri and have access to DISOSS, you can send them to POOLMWV at DSSHOST. MMOUG October Minutes Gerri Jeffery called the meeting to order. Gary Pool said that Wally Casey from IBM Personal Software will be presenting at the St. Louis OS/2 users group meeting on Nov 8. He will be presenting Personal Software directions. Gary will be putting more info in next months newsletter. Ben Hoffman said there will be a OS/2 Warp Seminar in Jefferson City on Nov. 3 at the Capitol Plaza starting at 8 AM and going to 11 AM. OS/2 Warp Version 3.0, OS/2 LAN Server 4.0 and the PC Company new product line will be shown. A mailing will be going out. MMOUG members are welcome to assist, contact Ben, Michelle or Phillip. There will be a session in KC on Nov 1 at the Marriot Allis Plaza. It is a nation wide tour entitled "Software Shootout". OS/2 Warp V3 was discussed by the group. Michelle Lennane from DeScribe presented DeScribe Release 5. Gary Pool won a free copy of DeScribe and his review of the product will be in the next month's newsletter. Attendees: Ben Hoffman, Gerri Jeffery, Dayton Shepherd, Penny Shepherd, David Keisker, Randal Wilkerson, Doug Norment, Scott Brodbeck, Steve Maring, Gary Pool, Mark Espinoza, Robert Tufts, Marty Maa, Ken Gray, Randy Wright, Rick Woltins, Frank Barnes, Chris Walter, David Scott, Mark Zermelman, Eric Douty. Information Officer Input/Output Last month I made a mistake. Now wait, I know it's hard to believe, but it happened. I copied August's Newsletter as the base for October's, but did not change the Name of the Month or the Volume and Issue number. Sorry about that! That was the first thing I changed this month! The newsletter is now going to appear regularly on the OS2BBS, as well as the WoodMeister, The OS/2 Shareware BBS and Compuserve. I've been in negotiation with the PCC BBS and it looks as though they may reverse their decision and allow some User Group Newsletters on their BBS again. When I said last month that I was going to pursue this, I wasn't kidding! In addition, I'll be getting a REAL Internet ID this month (I can just receive mail through IBMMAIL right now) that will allow me to do FTP. It will probably let me do more, but that's the only word I really understand when it comes to the Internet. So I hope to find a home for newsletters somewhere out there as well. If anyone is aware of a good place, let me know. Where were you when Warp was announced? I would have liked to have gone to Kansas City or St. Louis (at least to win some free software), but I couldn't justify it in good conscience. So I just moseyed up the hill (our IBM office is about 100 yards away) and watched the broadcast with Ben Hoffman. I liked the special effects of the presentation, but as I've stated on the OS2BBS, I wasn't ready to see Kate Mulgrew as the captain of the Voyager. I had not heard that she had been selected, so it was a complete surprise to me! All I could picture when I saw her was "Mrs. Columbo". I had images of Peter Falk on the viewscreen saying, "I'll be late for dinner." Warp looks *fantastic*. I'm finally going to break down and get a larger fixed disk for my 4 MB 386/40Mhz machine and see how the response is. I'll finally have OS/2 at home! My wife doesn't understand because she is happy with Windows. I can hardly wait for her to start using OS/2. She'll love it! Well, enough rambling. Someday I'll figure out why it's expected for editors to have an editorial. Let's get to the interesting part of the newsletter! gp The Dog House I may have to drop the Dog House. This is the hardest part of the newsletter because I haven't received any input for this one. It's whatever I can think up out of my head, and I'm not *that* good at REXX! I'd like to offer a little mini-REXX course over a series of issues, but I just don't have the time. So I'm begging for anybody with some knowledge of REXX to send me something that would be useful and interesting. OK. I'll put in something pretty esoteric, but it's one of the latest things that I've written. It's for use on our LAN. Before you look at it, you should know how we have our LAN set up. Drive P: is a shared directory that gives everyone READ-ONLY Access. Drive T: is a shared directory that gives everyone READ-WRITE Access. With LAN Server, it is possible to specify how many people have access to an application. However, if you put a limit of x users on a Public Application, only the first x users who sign on will have access to it. To get around this, our Public Application has no limits pointing to a CMD file that starts the application. This CMD file then starts the program and displays an error if the number of users has been reached. This is our economical way of "metering" software. If you're still with me, this will be a snap. LAN Server doesn't have a very good way to determine who is on and how long they have been signed on. So I wrote a little Timer program that would log when a user signed on and how long they were signed on. This is especially important for PMCOMM, because we only have three modems and we don't want any modem hogs! (However, since we haven't made PMCOMM publicly available yet, I'm the only modem hog, and that's quite all right! <g>) In this instance, the timer program calls the program to start PMCOMM. I'll show you both. O/____________________________________________Cut Here O\ /* TIMEUSER.CMD - Contact Gary Pool for questions about this program. */ /* The purpose of this program is to time how long a user is on a */ /* particular Public Application on the LAN. First developed for PMCOMM*/ program = 'PMCOMM' /* This must be the ALIAS for pgm */ counter = 0 /* Initialize the counter */ /* First it is necessary to load the necessary REXX functions */ call RxFuncAdd 'SysLoadFuncs', 'RexxUtil', 'SysLoadFuncs' call SysLoadFuncs /* Now I need to find out which user is calling the program. */ /* I will obtain this information by using the shareware WHOAMI program */ '@rxqueue /clear' /* Clear the queue */ /* Whoami is an IBM EWS that captures the USERID, DOMAIN Name & REQ Name*/ '@whoami | rxqueue' /* This puts the result in the queue*/ do while queued() > 0 pull qdata /* Retrieve data from the queue */ INSTR=POS('USERID=', qdata,1) /* Look for the USERID */ if INSTR > 1 then DO /* If it's in there, pull it out */ UID=SUBSTR(qdata,(INSTR+7),LENGTH(qdata)-(INSTR+6)) end /* End the checking for UID */ end /* End looping through the queue */ /* Now that I have the user ID, I need to write it out the USERID and */ /* the time to a file. If the person has just started, it will write */ /* that out. When the person ends, the amount of time will be written. */ outfile='t:\timeuser\'||program /* Get the name of the file to write*/ rc=TIME('E') /* Begin the timer */ outdata=UID||': Signed on ' date('N') ' at ' time('N') rc=lineout(outfile,outdata) /* Write out start time to file */ rc=stream(outfile,'c','close') /* Close the file */ 'call p:pmcomm' /* Start the program to be timed */ stoptime=format(TIME('E'),,0) /* Get the ending time in seconds */ Do until counter = 3 /* Loop for hrs, min, & secs. */ divisor = 60 /* Divide by 60 for hrs, min, & secs*/ counter=counter+1 /* increment counter. */ t.counter = stoptime // divisor /* Remainder = this unit of measure */ stoptime = stoptime % divisor /* increase next unit of measure */ end /* End the DO...LOOP for h,m,s */ outdata=UID||': Signed on for' t.3 'hours,' t.2 'minutes,' t.1 'seconds' TIME('N') rc=lineout(outfile,outdata) /* Write out how long signed on */ rc=stream(outfile,'c','close') /* Close the file */ exit /* Exit the program */ O/____________________________________________Cut Here O\ Note that I made the assumption that no one would be signed on to the application between 11:00 PM and 1:00 AM. Going after midnight will cause an error. I'll probably fix that in the future, but the only way that I can really be sure of when they signed on is to write out the date and time to a file, and I don't really want to do that. FYI, here is the CMD file that starts PMCOMM: O/____________________________________________Cut Here O\ @echo off c: rem . call net use m: pmcomm if not exist m:\pmcomm.exe goto no_access rem . rem In the above to lines, I tried to acquire the resource PMCOMM rem If it wasn't there, that means three users have it already. rem . if exist C:\modem_in.use del c:\modem_in.use rem . rem Now I try to access the first modem and redirect the rem "Command completed" message to a file rem . call net use com3 modem1 > C:\modem_in.use 2> NUL copy c:\modem_in.use c:\modemin.use 2> NUL rem . rem If it is a 0 byte file, it won't copy to modemin.use rem . if exist C:\modemin.use goto chkinst echo . echo MODEM1 is in use, attempting MODEM2 echo . call net use com3 modem2 > C:\modem_in.use 2> NUL copy c:\modem_in.use c:\modemin.use 2> NUL if exist C:\modemin.use goto chkinst echo . echo MODEM2 is in use, attempting MODEM3 echo . call net use com3 modem3 > C:\modem_in.use 2> NUL copy c:\modem_in.use c:\modemin.use 2> NUL if exist C:\modemin.use goto chkinst goto no_access :chkinst if exist c:\pmcomm\setup.dat goto startup md c:\pmcomm copy m:pmcomm.hlp c:\pmcomm copy m:setup.dat c:\pmcomm copy m:pmcomm.fon c:\pmcomm copy m:host*.fle c:\pmcomm copy m:host.cmd c:\pmcomm goto startup :no_access echo . echo . echo PMCOMM has max number of users. Please try again later. echo . echo . pause goto end :startup if exist c:\modem_in.use del c:\modem_in.use if exist c:\modemin.use del c:\modemin.use attrib -r -s c:\os2\os2*.ini call m:pmcomm c: net use m: /d net use com3 /d :end O/____________________________________________Cut Here O\ :elines. If you have any neat REXX programs, please upload them to area 18 of the WoodMeister or send them to me via Internet at USDSSKZS@IBMMAIL.COM. If you work for the State of Missouri and have access to DISOSS, you can send them to POOLMWV at DSSHOST. Humor --- ___..---/---`---..___ .-=========================- _______________/ :.::.:.---..___..---~~~ (___________(_||_)_____/ /____/___:..::.:::.::/ \__________/ "Phasers and photon torpedoes are locked on target, captain!" ! ! === |S| |S| |S| |S| ___ +-----+|S| | | | ||S| | |- _| ||S|-| ||- _|| ||S| | ||| |||_____||S| | |||- ============================== ||||||||||S| | |||| ===== ------------------------------------- C H I C A G O ------- This may not be too funny, if it strikes close to home! This was posted several months ago on the OS2BBS. Bob: You just reminded me of a true story that happened in the late 70's or early 80's. I don't remember what the hardware was, but the CE told me about a similarly baffling problem that he ran into. It seems that this company was having intermittent problems with some hardware crashing (It's been a long time, so I don't remember all the details). The odd thing was that it always happened at about the same time of day (about 4pm). Of course diags never failed, either just before 4 or just after bringing the system back up. This went on for weeks, then suddenly stopped. The problem was gone, so everyone stopped looking after a while. Then suddenly, a year later the problem began recurring, again at the same time of day. Everyone involved became increasing frustrated until one day the CE happened to be standing between the system and the window, looking out at just about 4pm, when suddenly he was blinded by a flash of light and the system crashed! It took a little more investigation over the next few days, but they finally determined that each day at about 4 a city bus turned the corner in front of the building and at the same spot each day reflected the sun right into the computer room. The flash did something to a light sensitive <relay/fill-in-the-blank> that caused the system to crash. And Because the sun was only in exactly the right spot in the sky a few weeks out of the year, and only happened once a day, it was almost impossible to diagnose! (Imagine being the CE on that one!) As a P.S., the solution was simply to close the blinds in the afternoon! Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did your "tale of woe." Take care. Mark Chapman, IBM PC Co. HelpCenter - IBMMAIL(USIB3ZLD); MCHAPMAN@VNET.IBM.COM OS/2 Tips 'N' Techniques It's possible to replace DLL, INI and other locked files without having to use a boot diskette! This helpful tip was taken from Indelible Blue's "OS/2 News & Blues" Newsletter. If you would like to receive this monthly newsletter -- buy something from Indelible Blue! They have pretty good pricing. They might send it to you if you drop a note to Compuserve ID 70670,2352 or on the Internet to bbohac@mercury.interpath.net. Although not something the normal OS/2 user would need to do regularly, OS/2 does provide a utility for this action. The locked files device driver is included on the MMPM/2 diskettes and will be in the d:\OS2\install directory if MMPM/2 has already been installed. To use this utility, copy files you wish to replace into a temporary directory and write a simple command script with the commands needed to carry out the action. For example, to replace the UHPFS.DLL with an updated one, write the following script file: COPY C:\TEMPDIR\UHPFS.DLL C:\OS2\DLL\UHPFS.DLL DEL C:\TEMPDIR\UHPFS.DLL RD C:\TEMPDIR Then save the file (I'll call it UPDATE.DLL) and then immediately following the IFS=C:\OS2\HPFS.IFS... line in the config.sys, include the following two lines: DEVICE=C:\OS2\INSTALL\IBMLANLK.SYS C:\UPDATE.DLL RUN=C:\OS2\INSTALL\IBMLANLK.EXE C:\UPDATE.DLL The next time you reboot, the device driver will replace the old UHPFS.DLL file with the new one and then delete the two extra lines in the config.sys. You're up and running with an updated .DLL using only a single reboot! Alternatively, you can always use the IBM Employee Written Software SHIFTRUN, which can be found on many bulletin boards. This will allow you to interrupt the boot process by pressing the shift key, leaving you at an OS/2 command prompt. How about an interesting OS/2 prompt? Enter this prompt command: prompt I$e[1;31m$e[0;37m$e[1;33;44mOS/2$e[0;37;40m[$p] In order to get the '', in EPM, while holding the [ALT] key, press [3] on the numeric keypad. Rebound -- Off the boards October already? It's time to un-bury the PC from the mounds of paper/manuals/junkmail/etc and figure out what's been going on here... The new version of the Adept BBS is due out 'any time now'. I'll be taking a CLOSE look at that when it's available. Adept is a fully integrated 32bit PM based BBS and mailer application. What that means is that there are no more separate utilities required to piece together a BBS. This will support RIP graphics, point-to-point and FidoNet support, has built in Internet connectivity (you think maybe I'll FINALLY get newsgroups in here?), and a TON of other things. One of the major points is that by running Adept on both my system and the Jeff City BBS, it will be MUCH easier to automatically hurl new files and messages, mail, news, etc. to the JC point. This will make the two systems a lot more consistent. I'll keep you all informed as I find out more about Adept. New files have been scarce. My Internet FIDO feed has been awfully quiet lately. Not to fear! Now that Warp is out, I'm sure we're going to see a flood of new shareware hit the OWM. Keep in touch - as I get them, YOU'LL get them. ▄▀▀▀▄ █ █ █▄ ▄█ █ █ █ ▄ █ █▀█▀█ ▀▄▄▄▀ ▀█▀█▀ █ █ <══════════ The OS/2 Woodmeister ══════════> Overview of downloadable files (314) 446-0016 (Columbia, MO) (314) 634-0394 (Jefferson City, MO) FIDO Node 1:289/27 1200/2400/9600/14400 D/S <══════════════════════════════════════════> (Tue Oct 25 05:30) Last 1 months newest of a total of 2967 files (500 MB) Maximum privilege shown: Disgrace Newest: OWM_NEW.ZIP dd 10-24-94 (avail: 10-24-94) Date flag: new on this system since: * = 1 week, + = 1 month Filename Area Size Date Description ──────────── ──── ───── ───────── ───────────────────────────────────────────── 911-INST.FDL 24 21K 10-13-94+ pdox 911V1.EXE 24 44K 10-13-94+ pdox ABOUT.ZIP 24 15K 10-13-94+ pdox ACTION.ZIP 24 90K 10-13-94+ pdox AFIX-041.ZIP 12 48K 9-29-94+ Area-fix v0.41 An echoarea manager for OS/2 - supports squish, autoXXXX and maint by downlinks AFIX042.ZIP 12 48K 10-13-94+ AreaFix v0.42 - Manage message areas for downlinks - auto add, etc ALIGN.ZIP 24 17K 10-13-94+ pdox ANONFTP.ZIP 16 15K 9-28-94+ INformation on anonymous FTP ANS000.ZIP 12 221K 9-26-94+ Answering machine app for modems with ROCKWELL chipsets. This is a beta ANS001.ZIP 12 209K 10-13-94+ OS/2 Answering machine app for rockwell-chipset modems! ANS002.ZIP 12 223K 10-13-94+ OS/2 Answering machine app for rockwell-chipset modems! APM.DOC 4 31K 10-04-94+ Tech info on Advanced Power Management APPDEMO1.ZIP 24 893K 10-02-94+ Paradox for Windows V5 APP Expert Demo 1of2 APPDEMO2.ZIP 24 1012K 10-01-94+ P4Wv5 AppExpert Demo 2of2 AQUANAUT.ZIP 8 224K 10-20-94* OS/2 PM MMPM shoot-em-up type arcade game ATIV85.ZIP 7 958K 10-06-94+ Latest ATI mach 32 drivers for OS/2 AUTSAV.ZIP 24 6K 10-13-94+ pdox BEDIT2.ZIP 9 49K 10-03-94+ 32bit multithreaded binary editor for OS/2. Will edit large files. BLCKSZ.ZIP 24 98K 10-13-94+ pdox BOOKM1.ZIP 6 109K 10-03-94+ Yet another IPF front end to assist in building INF and HLP files. BOOKMAV.ZIP 9 462K 9-29-94+ An IPF Builder. It also has the 6-15-94 VROBJ.DLL which it needs. BORBTN.ZIP 24 11K 10-13-94+ pdox _ ! BSD-FAQ.ZIP 63 148K 10-05-94+ FAQ on FreeBSD/NetBSD/Linux -- *VERY* informative. BT0294.ZIP 24 49K 10-13-94+ pdox BT0494.ZIP 24 35K 10-13-94+ pdox BT0594.ZIP 24 42K 10-13-94+ pdox BT0993.ZIP 24 4K 10-13-94+ pdox BTNFNT.ZIP 24 9K 10-13-94+ pdox CAL5.ZIP 24 13K 10-13-94+ pdox ! CALC.ZIP 24 37K 10-13-94+ pdox CALEND.ZIP 24 15K 10-13-94+ pdox CENTZI.ZIP 24 6K 10-13-94+ pdox CERT31.EXE 32 1271K 10-18-94* Netware Certification Sample Exams 1/3 CERT32.EXE 32 1222K 10-18-94* Netware exams 2/3 CERT33.EXE 32 853K 10-18-94* Netware exams 3/3 CERT94.ZIP 11 859K 9-28-94+ OS/2 LEngineer and LAN Server Engineer sample tests and information. CFGINFO.ZIP 9 335K 9-30-94+ Lets you highlight each line in your CONFIG.SYS and get detailed info about each command. CHAPM13.ZIP 6 148K 10-03-94+ Develop. tools, project manager for Smalltalk/OS2 CHARON40.ZIP 16 482K 9-28-94+ Some sort of mail gateway CJ0694.ZIP 24 37K 10-13-94+ pdox CLASSLIB.ZIP 6 300K 9-30-94+ Class Library for OS/2 programming (for EMX/GCC compiler) CLICK.ZIP 24 7K 10-13-94+ pdox CM0694.ZIP 24 28K 10-13-94+ pdox CMC.ZIP 1 55K 9-30-94+ Computer Mediated Communications - Info on Internet sites CREATE.ZIP 24 18K 10-13-94+ pdox CURSORS.ZIP 24 6K 10-13-94+ pdox CVTICO.ZIP 14 18K 10-03-94+ OS/2 icon conversion utility. Converts windows *.ico icons to os/2 format. DALI.BMP 14 756K 10-06-94+ Dali's 1952 "The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory. DATEDE.ZIP 24 18K 10-13-94+ pdox DATEDR.ZIP 24 19K 10-13-94+ pdox DBP025B.ZIP 9 60K 10-19-94* DocsBoot+ v0.25b - a Bootmanager replacement DCAF.TXT 11 20K 10-17-94+ Dist Console Access facilty - remote lan control of workstation DCAFSAMP.DSK 11 178K 10-17-94+ Sample (DEMO) version of Dist.console access facility for OS/2 DCAFSAMP.TXT 11 20K 10-17-94+ see dcafsamp.dsk DEPTH.ZIP 8 1415K 10-03-94+ Shoot'em up maze game in the tradition of DOOM and wolfenstein. Shoot robots and other creatures as you try to free the poor DF2-3211.ZIP 9 12K 9-30-94+ Enhanced 'unix-like' DF command with NFS and improved CDROM support DG0894.ZIP 24 15K 10-13-94+ pdox DH0894.ZIP 24 20K 10-13-94+ pdox DMG32OST.ZIP 1 11K 10-07-94+ IBM white paper: Warp vs Chicago DRGNDR.ZIP 24 21K 10-13-94+ pdox ! EASYLOOK.ZIP 14 207K 10-04-94+ Fun and programmable OS/2 BMP pictures viewer and wall paper hanger. Playbacked files can be tiled on many frames. Must have! (Sep.94) EDMI2-8.ZIP 6 289K 9-30-94+ Electronic Developers Magazine v2 issue8 EMIS10.ZIP 9 651K 10-06-94+ E-mail and Information System: Frontend. All docs in German ENTRTAN4.ZIP 8 175K 10-20-94* Entertainment pack for OS/2 - 6 games ETELR212.ZIP 15 1095K 10-17-94+ Electronic Teller for OS/2 V2.12 ETLR21B3.ZIP 15 969K 10-13-94+ Bank and credit card manager v2.1 EUDORA14.EXE 16 270K 9-30-94+ Internet Mail/Newsreader - Requires winsock EXPOS2_1.ZIP 7 397K 9-30-94+ ALR drivers 1/2 EXPOS2_2.ZIP 7 320K 9-30-94+ Advance Logic SVGA display drivers v1.41 (2/2) FLIFLC.ZIP 14 62K 10-03-94+ FLI/FLC animation support for MMPM/2. Plugs into MMPM/2 as an IOproc and Codec. Allows the system to understand a new file format. FLX247-2.ZIP 6 382K 10-03-94+ GNU Flex 2.4.7 (scanner generator) FM2_207.ZIP 9 468K 9-28-94+ FM/2 v2.00 An OS/2 2.1+ PM 32-bit file/directory/ archive maintenance package with plenty of bells and whistles -- a Swiss army knife for FONTCL10.ZIP 21 526K 9-30-94+ Font Control for Windows THE FASTEST FONT INSTALLER EVER! Installs all TrueType and Type1 fonts. Instan FOSS10B4.ZIP 12 260K 9-28-94+ The latest release of FOSS - an OS/2 based BBS FTPLIST.ZIP 63 190K 10-03-94+ A comprehensive, detailed list of internet FTP sites. GOSLIP11.ZIP 32 490K 9-29-94+ A SLIP dialer GOSLIP2.ZIP 16 1192K 10-01-94+ Version 2 of the popular VB SLIP util GO_13.ZIP 9 18K 10-20-94* GO! v1.3 - List, switch, and kill running processes HGOPHR23.ZIP 32 186K 9-29-94+ A GOPHER client. Uses Book metaphor. Requires winsock HHELP10.ZIP 31 362K 10-01-94+ View WIN HLP files from DOS! HPFS.DOC 4 40K 10-04-94+ Tech info on HFPS - intersting reading HPGN12.ZIP 27 189K 10-05-94+ Win Help Generator IBB124.ZIP 15 147K 10-17-94+ Itty-bitty black book/2. Replaces LBB2_123.ZIP. 32 bit PM Multimedia aware address book IBMWARP.ZIP 14 442K 9-27-94+ Very aggresive WarpII logo in several formats INETTECH.ZIP 1 175K 9-26-94+ Highly Technical Internet info: SLIP, PPP, TCP/IP, UUCP, M.O.U.S.E.... INNDOC.ZIP 1 3K 9-26-94+ Discussion about obtaining NetNews feeds INOTES.ZIP 21 129K 9-26-94+ Windows INOTES App. Sort of a super notepad and cardfiler. Interesting idea INWCH17B.ZIP 21 122K 9-29-94+ InWatch. 'Watches' win 3.1 apps install. Lets you backup your config files (autoexec.bat, config.sys, system.ini, win.ini). When you in KA2_11.ZIP 15 364K 10-18-94* Kitchen Assistant/2 v1.1 - PM recipe manager for OS/2. Searches, imports mealmaster, compchef, more KOPYKATD.ZIP 9 458K 9-29-94+ Fully functional demo of Hilgraevw's KopyCat remote control software for OS/2. Lasts about 60 days KUVERT22.ZIP 9 78K 9-29-94+ Kuvert 2.2, Envelope and address label printing system with dial function for OS/2 LHA100BT.ZIP 9 101K 9-30-94+ Ported Unix LHA that will unpack some newer LHA archives that Peter Fitzimmon's version fails on. Requires EMX runtime. LINUX-LS.ZIP 63 113K 10-04-94+ A dir of the linux CD @ ftp.cdrom.com LINUX.IDX 63 126K 10-04-94+ File listing of linux files w/ descriptions LINXINST.ZIP 63 189K 10-03-94+ Linux Install Doc -- from sunsite, these docs are from the Linus Doc Project (LDP) and are easier to read than the standard manuals LINXMISC.ZIP 63 210K 10-03-94+ A collection of FAQs, INFs, and HOW-TOs for Linux from sunsite.unc.edu LINXNETG.ZIP 63 551K 10-03-94+ LDP version of the Let Admin Guide for Linux LOAD64.ZIP 7 113K 9-30-94+ Util required to load ATI video drivers LR11B.ZIP 9 11K 10-19-94* LinkRight patch 1.1b, a pair of parallel port drivers which fix bugs in previous versions. LS40DEMO.ZIP 1 591K 9-28-94+ Demo of LAN Server version 4.0 (FREE d/l) M32V85.ZIP 7 888K 10-19-94* ATI Mach 32 drivers for OS/2 M64V75.ZIP 7 745K 10-19-94* ATI Mach 64 drivers for OS/2 (8/18/94) M64W13.ZIP 7 720K 9-30-94+ ATI Mach 64 display drivers for Graphics Pro Turbo VLB M64W13TX.TXT 7 4K 9-30-94+ Text file describing how to install ATI Mach 64 display drivers MD2_10B2.ZIP 12 445K 10-18-94* MainDoor/2 v1.00 (prerelease). Powerful native 32bit mailer. MFILE120.ZIP 12 127K 9-27-94+ MaxFile/2 v1.2 0 text based FILES.BBS manager. FILE_ID.DIZ import, more MLP.ZIP 16 43K 9-30-94+ Mailing list processor for OS/2 (TCP/IP based) MMOUGA94.ZIP 1 1192K 10-04-94+ The October issue of the MidMissouri OS/2 Users Group Newsletter in INF and TXT formats. (FREE download!) MORTBK10.ZIP 15 30K 9-27-94+ Mortgage Workbook v1.0 MPM1_22.ZIP 12 217K 10-20-94* MaxFile/PM PM based FILES.BBS manager. Imports FILE_ID.DIZ, etc. MR2_210.ZIP 12 252K 9-30-94+ MR/2 - A QWK compatible mail reader for OS/2 text-mode. Menu/picklist driven, mouse support, thread summary, multi- threaded searching, NMFW12BE.ZIP 21 397K 10-01-94+ New Menus for Windows 1.2b - EXCELLENT motif/openlook replacement for Program Mangler. Very clean menu system! NSUITE1A.ZIP 16 941K 10-13-94+ Network Suite from IBM - TCP/IP apps including LAMail, LAGopher, more... NSWCH2.ZIP 9 11K 9-28-94+ NoSwitch V2.0 - OS/2 Switch-list utility ---------------------------------------- Allows Alt+Esc to bypass specified programs. Useful if OBACK209.ZIP 9 132K 10-03-94+ os/2 tape/floppy backup utility. Easy to install. OS2DB2.ZIP 9 20K 9-28-94+ A shutdown command that will also disconnect DB2/2 client server databases. OSC211E.ZIP 9 353K 10-18-94* McAfee's virus scanner with clean for OS/2 (OS/2 v2.x req'd) OSLITE10.ZIP 9 13K 10-03-94+ Converts .EXE to compressed .CMD file. Requires EMX runtime, 4OS2 2.x, HPFS and gzip. 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You T2BBS501.ZIP 12 32K 9-28-94+ TIC to BBS - a Tic manager TCP32.ZIP 32 727K 9-29-94+ MS TCP/IP 32 RELEASE for Windows/Workgroup 3.11 Microsoft is pleased to offer you the released version of Microsoft TCP/IP-32 for Windows TCPFAQ1 1 87K 9-29-94+ Info (TECH) on TCP/IP 1 of 2 TCPFAQ2 1 65K 9-29-94+ Info (TECH) on TCP/IP 2 of 2 TELDR001.LZH 12 39K 10-19-94* BBS Door to allow users of OS/2 BBS's to login to Internet services TNLOGIN.ZIP 16 75K 10-19-94* Enhanced Telnet login for OS/2 TCP/IP v2 TOOLS53.ZIP 9 300K 10-18-94* Small collection of system utils TR1147.GZ 61 26K 10-18-94* Linux Token Ring driver. ALPHA code TR1149.GZ 61 17K 10-18-94* Linux Token Ring driver for 1.1.49 BETA code TRITRI.ZIP 21 410K 9-29-94+ A funny tetris type of game. TRMPTEL.ZIP 16 21K 10-02-94+ --- no description available --- TRUCKER.ZIP 8 24K 10-03-94+ REXX Game that takes to everywhere: OS/2,TSO, Unix,Amiga,OS/400, and other destinations... With REXXIsIt-Large REXX Products Info.(9/94) TTICK103.ZIP 12 116K 10-19-94* Tic file processor UMAILPOP.ZIP 16 2K 9-30-94+ You can pick up Internet mail from a POP3 server with LAMPOP, but Lampop doesn't work with UltiMail. This is a simple workaround UNIXBBS.ZIP 1 17K 9-30-94+ FAQ document about Unix BBSs UQWK18.ZIP 12 141K 9-28-94+ QWK, SOUP, and ZipNews message manager VIEW01.ZIP 9 142K 9-29-94+ Text mode .inf viewer (DOS and OS/2) VIEW2.ZIP 33 59K 10-03-94+ DOS txt viewer of INF files. Still in development. VISFLD.ZIP 21 217K 9-30-94+ Windows Visual Folders - OLE tool WAS-PPP.ZIP 16 49K 10-02-94+ --- no description available --- WATCHIT.ASC 11 3K 10-17-94+ see watch.zip LAN SERVER tuning util WINPGP10.ZIP 21 24K 9-30-94+ --- no description available --- WINSQL23.ZIP 27 582K 10-05-94+ SQL database (single user) for Windows WINWEB.ZIP 16 415K 10-02-94+ --- no description available --- ZOC196B.ZIP 12 529K 9-26-94+ Latest ZOC Beta: REGISTERED OWNERS ONLY!!! Will not work on non-registered versions of Zoc. Easy upgrade and code runs beautifully. ZOC197B2.ZIP 12 534K 10-05-94+ ZOC Upgrade precursor to GA Release 2.00. REGISTERED USERS ONLY!!! Will not work with a non-registered copy of ZOC. OS/2 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ List created with DOWNSORT 5.5g by Rob Hamerling on Tue Oct 25 05:30 under OS/2 2.9 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ The OS/2 Woodmeister Overview of downloadable files (314) 446-0016 (Columbia, MO) (314) 634-0394 (Jefferson City, MO) FIDO Node 1:289/27 1200/2400/9600/14400 D/S Threads "Threads" are a collection of posts that may be of interest to individual readers. Top 100 Games In the recent Warp announcement, it was mentioned that Warp would support the top 100 games. "What are those games?", you might ask. Ah, Grasshopper, you are about to find out! TOP 100 GAMES The list identifies 100 of the most popular games being played today, based on surveys of retail availability and sales, shareware downloads, and lists maintained by gaming magazines and online enthusiasts. :lines align=left. 7th Guest Aces Over Europe* Alone in the Dark* Arena: The Elder Scrolls Asteroids* Battle Chess* Betrayal at Krondor* Black Jack* Blake Stone Carriers at War* Castle Wolfenstein 3D Centipede Chess Master* Civilization* Commander Keen* Conquered Kingdoms Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure* Day of the Tentacle Doom* Duke Nukem* Empire* F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0 Falcon 3.0 Fleet Defender Freecell* Front Page Sports Football Gunship* Hardball* Harpoon* Hoyle Book of Games* Humans Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis Indianapolis 500 Indy Car Racing Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf* Just Grandma and Me Kid Pix* Kings Quest* Lands of Lore* Leisure Suit Larry* Lemmings* Links386 Pro* MYST Mahjongg* Mario Is Missing Master of Orion MATH BLASTER Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Mickey's 123's and ABC's Microsoft Flight Simulator* Might and Magic* Minesweeper* Missile Command Mother Goose NHL Hockey Oregon Trail Outpost Pinball* Pipe Dream* Police Quest* Populous 2* Prince of Persia* Quest for Glory* Railroad Tycoon* Raptor Reader Rabbit* Rebel Assault Red Baron* Reversi* Sam and Max Hit the Road Seawolf Secret of Monkey's Island* Serf City Sherlock Holmes CD SimCity* Solitaire* Space Quest* Star Trek* Tetris* The Bard's Tale* The Castle of Dr. Brain* The Grandest Fleet* The Incredible Machine* The Legend of Kyrandia* The Lost Admiral The Perfect General The Playroom Theme Park Tie Fighter Ultima* V for Victory* VGA Planets Warlords* Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?* Wing Commander* Wizardry* World Circuit* X-Wing* XCOM - UFO Defense :elines. Note: * indicates that OS/2 includes additional support for multiple platform versions, title variations, supplemental programs, or enhanced releases. Wally Casey in St. Louis The St. Louis OS/2 User Group will be holding an evening meeting on November 8 at the west St. Louis County IBM office (500 Maryville College Drive) - that's just off U.S. 40 (I-64) about 2 or so miles west of I-270. Wally Casey is the guest speaker. If you're unfamiliar with Wally Casey, he's high enough in the IBM ranks to have been a featured presenter at the OS/2 *Warp* Announcement, although he wasn't high enough in the ranks to get "beamed" in. :) November 8, 1994 - 6:30 p.m. Wally Casey -- Director of Marketing for Personal System Software *Agenda* What is IBM's Personal System software strategy? IBM What is the future of Workplace OS and the PowerPC? Demo of the newest version of OS/2 (code name WARP) OS/2 Technical Questions and Answers LAN Server 4.0 vs NT Advanced Server The following is a post by Tom Gordy, LAN Server expert extraordinaire, on the OS2BBS: ----- OS2LAN CFORUM appended at 23:37:57 on 94/10/13 GMT (by GORDY at DALVM41B) Subject: Comparison LS 4.0 vs. AS NT ...? Ref: Append at 03:36:30 on 94/10/09 GMT (by ROK2027 at HONE81) * ********************************* * * Long Append warning (130 or so lines.) Y'all got me on my soapbox * --- again (as Forrest Gump would say.) * ********************************* * :elines. Sometimes folks think that just because LS and LANMan share a common heritage, they are the same. Maybe they were at one time -- that time was LS12. Now, don't throw things at ME, back then I was in L2 support (Hell, I WAS L2 support) and my life was not happy -- if you don't believe me, just ask my ex-wife. Problems were measured in 100s and open bug reports were over 1,000 (I know because 1,000 was all our tracking system could handle, but that is another story...) Every release since then has had 1/10 the serious problems of the previous release -- from 1,000+ in 1.2 to under 10 in 3.0. I am not counting all bugs here, just the serious ones -- Austin has done an outstanding job in their rewrite of LS. So, the first thing I'll say LS has over NTAS is Quality -- code that doesn't break regularly (and I just KNOW someone reading this will be suffering one of those 10 serious problems (actually, it was 5 last time I looked) that I said 30 had and want to agrue the point.) It ain't perfect, folks, and it may never be -- it is just the best on the market (and I'll argue that with you toe-to-toe -- but remember I did 6 years in the Marines - in a recon unit.) 2. The Domain concept. Single System Image and all that. One NTAS'er wanted a 'browser' on LS (they use it to see servers on the LAN and get a NET USE issued to their resources), and after a while he understood the concept M$ has (if you can't fix it, feature it) is a dog (but I think he tried it with LS and it worked since we have never done anything to make LS and NT incompatible). We don't need a browser, when a user logs on, he gets all access the admin wants him to have -- and he gets it automatically. They got no choice -- except to issue their own NET USE d: \\servername\netname commands. 3. Alias names for server resources. If you just GOTTA use your own NET USE commands, all you need is NET USE d: alias. No need to know the server name -- no need to search for a resource the admin moved to a less busy server. To a LAN Server user, the LAN is a system. One system. Even if there are dozens of servers out there, the user never needs to know about them. An NTAS user had better be pretty familiar with all the servers -- or a lot of time can be wasted browsing them and hunting for something. 3. Performance. I know, I said it before -- but 2.4 times the speed serving 4 times the number of users and requiring half the hardware is worth saying again (even if my typing finger is getting sore.) 4. Public and private apps folders - sorta cheating in that 'folders thing, eh? Of course, NTAS has no object functions -- or object oriented user interface (even M$ admits OS/2 Workplace Shell is superior -- just look at Chicago). But, with Novell or NTAS if you want a 'menu' of apps presented to a user, you have some real work to do. This is automatic with LS. And even better with NetDoor. While I'm on NetDoor, LS can support users with smaller hardware requirements (disk, anyway) when you use it to download app code from a server. With Hermes, M$ puts the code on everybody's disk (more copies mean more liscences, no?) And suites can take 180MB (then you add W*n.) So, less disk on the requester -- and fewer code liscences for the users. 5. IBM's 'Protect the Investment' directive. This is a requirement for LS, it is not optional. Users see it as 'evolution, not revolution' -- ask any NW40 person what revolution can mean. The old PC LAN Program had a requester (called the redirector) back in 1985. There is no reason to believe it will not work with the server we will be selling in 1995. That example might not be important to you, but think about it. He who does not study history is about to relive it. As DCE comes, maybe next year, do you want to toss everything you have just to be able to use some of its cool functions? I don't think so. Some folks wanted the X.500 emulation in NW40 badly enough to try that -- and just look at the bad reputation that code has today... Folks paid throughthe nose for it (like you often do with Novell) and then ran it in 3.1 (bindery emulation) mode because the revolution was more than they could handle. Having multiple servers sharing resources for users was beyond them. Is it beyond you? I wonder how long it takes to browse servers if the LAN/WAN is scattered over 6 states or countries? Novell abandoned its customers and is trying to force them to 4.0. M$ abandoned its customers and is trying to force them to Chicago. LS maintains backward compatibility to earlier versions. That should be a hint as to how the future might work. Who to trust. 6. (or whatever the next number is) Open systems strategy and the ability to be your Interoperability Gateway. We have discussed (and I have seen the first try at a redbook on this, so...) the capability of having all your protocol stacks on the server to access other stuff (NFS, Pathworks, Vines, Netware, W4W, NTAS, etc) and have the server use (or mount) the other systems shared resources and the reshare them with full LS admin and security added so users need only ONE protocol stack on their systems. Add Lantastic to the above list. BTW, Thanks to you who have shared your setups for communicating to some of these other systems....they help.) 7. CID. Could be easier to use, but START (a front end for it) didn't do to well. I am sure there will be others.......X <-- my fingers. FFST - anybody else even TRYING to trap a failure the first time it happens so you don't have to hear 'we can't recreate it, so run this trace until it happens again.' 8. Common API's on the server and the requester. This is what makes OS/2 and LS a Client Server System (not a NOS, uggh). With M$ API du jour and sure and certain knowledge that a) it will change and B) that there are secret ones you'll never know about or with Novell's crazy setup where you MUST test your new app ON THE SERVER --- well, you see the advantages of having ONE API set (somebody once counted 9 in M$'s stable) 8. Call this misc. This append is getting long. Multimedia support that they can only dream about. Network Signon Coordinator so one logon is all you need for ALL your domains and hosts, online reference manuals searchable by ANY word in them -- in 10 seconds (on my laptop). Not a flat 'encyclopedia' that you have to do random access by sequential seach on, and finally --- market share. LS outsells NTAS. Customers who M$ has presented to tell me they really don't push NTAS (I guess PC Weak does that for them) -- they generally push their apps and then, if they get by that, suggest that NTAS would give them a single vendor. They KNOW they have a DOG of a server. After seeing NT and NTAS and the folks who waited up to 2 years for them and then seeing them wait 18 months (plus, maybe) for Chicago, I think it might be time for IBM to confess that Steve Ballmer is secretly an IBMer who has been placed in M$ as a 'mole' to cripple their product plans. Don't I wish..... TomG-TeamLS Galactic Civilization You can now order Galactic Civilizations for OS/2 directly from Stardock Systems Inc. (SDS)! October 10, 1994. Stardock Systems, a leading developer of native OS/2 multimedia software, began selling Galactic Civilizations to end users today. Users are urged to try to get it from non-direct sources if possible in the hopes that retail sales of GalCiv will be good enough to encourage future titles from SDS and other OS/2 developers. However, some users may not be able to get GalCiv localy due to lack of software stores in those areas. Those users are encouraged to just order it directly. "Stores have been wary of OS/2 products because they have not traditionally sold well. But with OS/2 3.0 (warp) on the verge of release along with GalCiv being a mass market product available ONLY on OS/2, we hope to see a good retail showing. Once retailers see that OS/2 products can sell well, getting future OS/2 products on the shelves will be much easier. If they can't find it at the store, tell them to stock it (and other native OS/2 software). However, if our customers just can't get it at retail, or do not want to wait for their local store to carry it, they always can come directly to SDS to get it from us." said Brad Wardell, the project manager for GalCiv. There are a number of retail distributors that stores will be able to obtain GalCiv from such as Microcentral. Moreover, users can expect to see GalCiv in mainstream retail stores such as CompUSA, Egghead, Software Spectrum among others in the weeks following OS/2 3.0's release. Galactic Civilizations was produced in response to overwhelming demand from the OS/2 community that a game be made from the ground up for OS/2 that would demonstrate that OS/2 can be a superior games platform. The OS/2 community's outcry and input to SDS are responsible for GalCiv's existence. GalCiv is a space based strategy game with a powerful multithreaded 32bit artificial intelligence engine to control several computer controlled players against the single human player. It was designed from scratch exclusively for OS/2. It uses OS/2's native multithreading, multitasking power to deliver a rich universe full of wonders, alien civilizations, political intrigue and outright warfare. Specifications: OS/2 32 bit Presentation Manager Program. MMPM/2 support Very multithreaded Multiple Resolution and Color Depth support. Designed/Produced by Stardock Systems Inc. Marketed and Distributed by Advanced Idea Machines Inc. ** The Game ** In the near future, mankind begins to colonize the stars. On its first venture into the unknown, a colony ship called the "Santa Maria" encounters a one way wormhole that teleports it to a distant galaxy. This galaxy is already populated by up to 5 computer controlled alien civilizations. It is up to you to colonize the star systems of this new galaxy. Among other things, you will guide your people through new technologies, diplomatic negotiations, trade agreements, and of course defense. The game is won either by uniting the various civilizations together under a United Planets (by allying with everyone) or by conquering everyone through sheer military might. Because it is a native OS/2 game, GalCiv can have much larger playing fields than competitors such as Civilization and Masters of Orion. While you consider your moves, for example, the AI is in a background thread computing its moves. As a result, in a universe with thousands of planets, the time between turns on a typical system is comparable to other strategy games such as Masters of Orion (even though GalCiv's universe can be set to be over 10 times as large). Moreover, unlike most strategy games, the computer players don't cheat to play well. One of the most impressive features of GalCiv is its ability to adjust itself to your environment. Unlike most games written for a GUI such as Windows or Presentation Manager (PM), GalCiv will adjust its size to fit the entire screen. Moreover, it can also sense how many colors your systems can display. For example, if you are running in plain VGA, the ships have their own unique 16 color versions. If you have 256 colors, you get a unique set of 256 color ships and graphics. Surprisingly, there is even a unique set of graphics and ships for 16.8 million color users! "One thing that has bugged me about GUI games that I have played is that they try to lock you to a specific resolution. On those games, if you have a high resolution like 1024x768 then their game only takes up 1/4 of the screen. From the onset, we made sure that GalCiv would adjust the sizes of everything so that whatever resolution you were running at would seem like the resolution it was designed for, whether it be 640x480 or 1024x768 or anywhere in between" said Brad Wardell of SDS. GalCiv supports many of OS/2's multimedia features as well. Multimedia features include: MMPM/2 support for: Digitized Sound MIDI Music Playing of Ultimotion Video (which uses DIVE) GalCiv also went through a very long (nearly a year) beta program to help ensure that it works well on a variety of systems and configurations. Moreover, the beta was very public with new features debated on open usenet forums. "In a way, the OS/2 community helped design this game" said Brad Wardell. GalCiv is intended for users who enjoy strategy games and world building such as Empire, Simcity, Civilization, Masters of Orion, and Warlords. Requirements: Comes on 5 disks. 14 megs hard drive space for full install. 386DX-25 with 8 megs of ram. VGA (SVGA is much nicer). Mouse Soundcard recommended. Quantities of GalCiv will be very limited at first as it is just coming out of manufacturing and beta testers will be getting their packages first. We will ship them out in the order in which we receive your order. Ordering GalCiv: Below is a form you can use to order GalCiv. You can cancel your order any time before your package is shipped to you. This way, if you find it at a store, you can purchase it there instead. -------------------------------------------------- Order form for SDS Galactic Civilizations: _______________________________________________ Name ________________________________________ Address ________________________________________ City/State/Country/Zip Payment Type: [ ]COD [ ]VISA [ ]Mastercard [ ] Check If ordering via credit card: Credit Card Number: _________________________ Expiration Date: __________________________ Order Info: Package Galactic Civilizations: $59.95(US) Order Info: Shipping Shipping in USA/Canada: $5.00 or Shipping outside USA/Canada: $10.00 Total Amount (Package plus Shipping): ____________________ Galactic Civilizations comes with the base package (box, manual, disks, etc.) plus Mark Anderson's GalCiv FAQ. Ordering Methods: * Orders can be sent via internet to: x90wardell@wmich.edu * Phone orders can be directed to: (313)/782-2248 (Starting Oct11) * You can fax your order to: (313)/782-9868 If you prefer to mail in your order send to: Stardock Systems Inc. 13405 Addison Gibraltar MI 48173 Stocks will be limited at first, orders will be handled on a first come first serve basis. ------------------------------------------------------------ ----- OS2GAMES CFORUM appended at 22:49:57 on 94/10/24 GMT (by DEV1024 at HONE82) Subject: GalCiv on internet's top 100 play list If I am allowed to blow my on horn. The weekly internet top 100 play list came out today. GalCiv came in at number 85 in this first week it received any votes. This is with about 100 gold and 600 beta copies out in the entire world. Also neither AIMs or Stardock had anything to do with this. It was a player response that got us on the list. The first OS/2 game ever to make the top 100. Hopefully GalCiv will continue to climb the list and be the first OS/2 game into the top 10. Dare I wish for number one? John Schaeffer Internet: aimgames@xmission.com AIMsBBS 801-572-6353 8-n-1 2400 to 14400 Fax 801-571-8625 OS2BBS DEV1024@Hone82 AIMsDirect 801-488-1292 Information: 801-572-4018 ************************************************************** ==================================================================== From: Jojo <jojo@hacktic.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc Subject: *** NET PC GAMES TOP 100 * EDITION 95 *** Date: 23 Oct 1994 18:08:03 GMT Message-ID: <38e8q3$1fg@news.xs4all.nl> :font facename=Courier size=12x12. =================================================================== ║ This week the votes from 329 people have been used to compile this chart. ║ ║ Send your votes to jojo@hacktic.nl and you'll get the next chart sent to ║ ║ you personally. You can ask for the document that tells how to vote. ║ ║ The format for every line with a vote is: points title publisher ¢ ID | ║ ║ You can allocate a maximum of 20 points, but not more than 5 for one game. ║ ============================================================================== ============================================================================== New Contestants (Runners Up) Edition 95 - Week 43 - October 24, 1994 ============================================================================== NW Title Developer/Publisher(s) Cat ID ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tip 1 4 Aces of the Deep Dynamix/Sierra SI ¢1500| Tip 2 4 Aethra {S} Michael Lawrence RP ¢1495| Tip 3 4 3D Ball Blaster {S} Homebrew/Dungeon AC ¢1498| Tip 4 5 Overlord Virgin SI ¢1492| Tip 5 1 Wacky Wheels {S} Beavis/Apogee AC ¢1509| Tip 6 3 Pinball Arcade {C} 21st Century AC ¢1504| Tip 7 2 Lords of the Realm Impressions ST ¢1507| Tip 8 2 4D Stunts Driving Mindscape AC ¢1506| Tip 9 3 Iron Cross New World ST ¢1503| Tip 10 6 Delta-V Bethesda/US Gold AC ¢1488| Tip 11 1 Return to Ringworld Tsunami AD ¢1510| Tip 12 10 Armour Alley Three-Sixty ST ¢1484| Tip 13 1 Quarantine Gametek AC ¢1511| ============================================================================== The Net PC Games Top 100 Edition 95 - Week 43 - October 24, 1994 ============================================================================== TW LW NW Title Developer/Publisher(s) Cat ID Points ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 ( 1) 45 Doom (+hacked add-ons) {S} Id AC ¢1386| 548 2 ( 2) 27 U.F.O.: Enemy Unknown (+X-Com) Mythos/MicroProse ST ¢1437| 452 3 ( 3) 14 Tie Fighter LucasArts/Virgin AC ¢1473| 315 4 ( 4) 95 Civilization MicroProse ST ¢1002| 255 5 ( 5) 55 Master of Orion SimTex/MicroProse ST ¢1344| 242 6 ( 8)^ 41 SimCity 2000 Maxis/Mindscape ST ¢1399| 166 7 ( 6) 12 Jazz Jackrabbit {S} Epic AC ¢1479| 115 8 ( 7) 19 The Settlers (+Serf City) Blue Byte/SSI ST ¢1458| 123 9 ( 34)* 2 DOOM 2: Hell on Earth Id AC ¢1502| 261 10 ( 9) 92 VGA Planets {S} Tim Wisseman ST ¢1131| 76 11 ( 14)^ 31 Myst {W} {C} Cyan/Broderbund/Electronic Arts AD ¢1426| 120 12 ( 33)* 3 COLONIZATION MicroProse ST ¢1496| 234 13 ( 11) 86 X-Wing (+Imperial Purs.,B-Wing) LucasArts/US Gold AC ¢1169| 78 14 ( 12) 94 Dune 2: Building of a Dynasty Westwood/Virgin ST ¢1110| 79 15 ( 10) 29 Raptor: Call of the Shadows {S} Cygnus/Apogee AC ¢1434| 56 16 ( 13) 63 Warlords 2 SSG ST ¢1284| 65 17 ( 15) 51 Epic Pinball (+Silverball retail v.) {S} Epic AC ¢1359| 68 18 ( 17) 37 Pinball Fantasies Digital Illusions/21st Century AC ¢1416| 75 19 ( 16) 70 SVGA Air Warrior Kesmai/Konami/GEnie SI ¢1251| 43 20 ( 20) 6 Lode Runner: The Legend Returns Sierra AC ¢1487| 71 21 ( 18) 41 Mortal Kombat Probe/Virgin SP ¢1400| 55 22 ( 19) 93 World Circuit (+F1 Grand Prix) MicroProse SP ¢1123| 57 23 ( 21) 46 IndyCar Racing Papyrus/Virgin SP ¢1375| 49 24 ( 24) 19 Harpoon 2 Three-Sixty ST ¢1462| 64 25 ( 26)^ 30 Ultima 8: Pagan Origin/Electronic Arts RP ¢1401| 67 26 ( 25) 42 Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father Sierra AD ¢1377| 59 27 ( 22) 68 Syndicate (+add-on) Bullfrog/Electronic Arts AC ¢1271| 37 28 ( 46)* 2 MASTER OF MAGIC MicroProse RP ¢1501| 162 29 ( 23) 83 Nethack 3.1 {F} DevTeam RP ¢1186| 41 30 ( 45)* 4 SYSTEM SHOCK LookingGlass/Origin/Electronic Arts AC ¢1438| 139 31 ( -)* 1 ONE MUST FALL: 2097 {S} Epic AC ¢1505| 72 32 ( 29) 93 Railroad Tycoon MicroProse ST ¢1121| 52 33 ( 27) 15 Theme Park Bullfrog/Electronic Arts ST ¢1459| 39 34 ( 30) 68 Betrayal at Krondor Dynamix/Sierra RP ¢1275| 52 35 ( 28) 20 Hocus Pocus {S} Apogee AC ¢1456| 36 36 ( 32) 5 World at War: Operation Crusader Atomic/Avalon H. ST ¢1489| 51 37 ( 31) 95 Links 386 Pro (+add-ons) Access/US Gold SP ¢1006| 37 38 ( 35) 46 Rebel Assault {C} LucasArts/US Gold AC ¢1374| 47 39 ( 36) 44 Sam & Max Hit the Road LucasArts/US Gold AD ¢1379| 29 40 ( 38) 94 Star Control 2: Ur-Quan Masters Accolade ST ¢1116| 32 41 ( 39) 33 The Elder Scrolls: Arena Bethesda/US Gold RP ¢1423| 33 42 ( 40) 56 Privateer (+Righteous Fire) Origin/Electr. Arts AC ¢1337| 35 43 ( 37) 85 Empire Deluxe (+add-ons) New World ST ¢1177| 20 44 ( 41) 9 Xquest {S} Atomjack AC ¢1482| 36 45 ( 42) 69 Day of the Tentacle LucasArts/US Gold AD ¢1268| 32 46 ( 49)^ 14 Outpost Sierra ST ¢1471| 37 47 ( 43) 31 Fleet Defender MicroProse SI ¢1429| 13 48 ( 44) 47 Slicks 'n' Slide {S} Timo Kauppinen SP ¢1352| 16 49 ( 47) 27 Cannon Fodder Sensible/AVME/Virgin AC ¢1435| 25 50 ( 50) 56 Front Page Sports: Football Pro Dynamix/Sierra SP ¢1330| 35 51 ( 48) 55 NHL Hockey Electronic Arts SP ¢1340| 27 52 ( 52) 10 FIFA International Soccer Electronic Arts SP ¢1481| 29 53 ( 53) 54 Return To Zork Infocom/Activision AD ¢1288| 25 54 ( 54) 20 1942 Pacific Air War MicroProse SI ¢1460| 24 55 ( 51) 95 Wolfenstein 3D (+hacked add-ons) {S} Id/Apogee AC ¢1013| 13 56 ( 55) 28 Battle Isle 2 Blue Byte ST ¢1439| 16 57 ( 57) 10 Nahlakh {S} Tom Proudfoot RP ¢1480| 21 58 ( 58) 36 Sensible Soccer Sensible/Renegade SP ¢1316| 24 59 ( 59) 93 V for Victory (+scenario's) Three-Sixty/El. Arts ST ¢1114| 27 60 ( 62)^ 76 7th Guest {C} Trilobyte/Virgin PU ¢1230| 32 61 ( 56) 84 Minesweeper {W} Microsoft ST ¢1184| 15 62 ( 61) 12 Wargame Construction Set 2: Tanks! SSI/US Gold ST ¢1464| 28 63 ( 63) 95 Falcon 3.0 (+add-ons) Spectrum Holob./MicroProse SI ¢1005| 32 64 ( 64) 25 Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Interplay/El. Arts AD ¢1017| 32 65 ( 60) 92 Ultima Underworld 2 LookingGlass/Origin/El. Arts RP ¢1127| 19 66 ( 67)^ 4 Front Page Sports: Baseball Dynamix/Sierra SP ¢1491| 33 67 ( 68)^ 82 Ultima 7 Part 2 (+Silver Seed) Origin/El. Arts RP ¢1195| 28 68 ( 65) 75 Solitaire {W} Microsoft ST ¢1214| 19 69 ( 74)^ 95 Darklands MicroProse RP ¢1008| 28 70 ( 66) 57 MS Flight Simulator 5.0 Microsoft SI ¢1334| 11 71 ( 75)^ 76 Core Wars Intern. Core Wars Society ST ¢1227| 29 72 ( 78)^ 4 Wing Commander: Armada Origin/Electronic Arts AC ¢1494| 35 73 ( 71) 45 Duke Nukem 2 {S} Apogee AC ¢1381| 21 74 ( 84)^ 3 NHL Hockey '95 Electronic Arts SP ¢1493| 41 75 ( 70) 11 Alien Legacy Dynamix/Sierra ST ¢1476| 13 76 ( 69) 66 The Lost Vikings Interplay AC ¢1280| 7 77 ( 72) 46 Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold {S} Jam/Apogee AC ¢1380| 12 78 ( 76) 7 Superhero: League of Hoboken Legend RP ¢1486| 19 79 ( 73) 25 Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession SSI/US Gold RP ¢1433| 12 80 ( 77) 64 Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos Westwood/Virgin RP ¢1305| 19 81 ( 85)^ 2 Bundesligamanager Hattrick Software 2000 ST ¢1497| 29 82 ( 88)^ 90 Wing Commander 2 (+Sp. Op. 1+2) Origin/Mindscape AC ¢1007| 32 83 ( 79) 94 Monkey Island 2 LucasArts/US Gold AD ¢1014| 17 84 ( 92)^ 2 Dark Sun 2: Wake of the Ravager SSI/US Gold RP ¢1499| 35 85 ( -)^ 1 Galactic Civilizations (OS/2) Stardock/AIM ST ¢1508| 33 86 ( 83) 22 Beneath a Steel Sky Revolution/Virgin AD ¢1436| 16 87 ( 81) 95 SimCity (+enhanced v.) Maxis/Ocean/Interplay ST ¢1079| 12 88 ( 82) 91 Spear of Destiny (+add-ons) Id/FormGen/Psygnosis AC ¢1124| 11 89 ( 91)^ 23 Romance o.t. Three Kingdoms 4 Koei ST ¢1442| 23 90 ( 86) 95 Ind. Jones: Fate of Atlantis LucasArts/US Gold AD ¢1003| 15 91 ( 80) 19 Dark Legions Silicon Knights/SSI/US Gold ST ¢1450| 3 92 ( 87) 13 Gary Grigsby's War in Russia SSI/US Gold ST ¢1312| 11 93 ( 90) 43 Spaceward Ho! New World/US Gold ST ¢1154| 15 94 ( 89) 95 Ultima Underworld Blue Sky/Origin/Mindscape RP ¢1009| 12 95 (100)^ 7 Battle Bugs Dynamix/Sierra ST ¢1485| 24 96 ( 94) 16 SSN-21 Seawolf Electronic Arts ST ¢1470| 17 97 ( 97) 92 Commander Keen 4, 5, 6 {S} Id/Apogee AC ¢1129| 20 98 ( 99)^ 51 Elite 2: Frontier Gametek/Konami AC ¢1356| 20 99 ( 98) 14 Mystic Towers {S} AnimationFX/Apogee AC ¢1474| 17 100 ( 96) 95 Ultima 7 (+Forge of Virtue) Origin/Mindscape RP ¢1001| 15 Dropped Out: ( 93) 4 War Wizard {S} MicroGenesis RP ¢1490| ( 95) 94 Lemmings (+More Lemmings) Psygnosis PU ¢1095| ============================================================================== ║ TW : This Week ║ The Net PC Games Top 100 is compiled using votes ║ ║ LW : Last Week ║ sent by many people from all over the world. The ║ ║ NW : Number of Weeks ║ latest chart is published every Monday on Usenet ║ ║ - : New Entry ║ in the comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce newsgroup. ║ ║ ^ : Climbing ║-----------------------------------------------------║ ║ * : Bullet ║ The games in the chart are not sorted by the points ║ ║ AC : Action ║ mentioned in the last column. These points indicate ║ ║ AD : Adventure ║ how well the games are doing. Many points gives the ║ ║ PU : Puzzle ║ right to climb in the chart. Few makes the games go ║ ║ RP : Role-Playing ║ down. This system makes the chart stable. ║ ║ SI : Simulation ║-----------------------------------------------------║ ║ SP : Sports ║ (c) 1994 all rights reserved ║ ║ ST : Strategy ║ Jojo Productions ║ ║ {S}: Shareware ║ You may also find this chart in: Brasserskade 124 ║ ║ {F}: Freeware ║ Game Bytes (USA) 2612 CH Delft ║ ║ {C}: CD-ROM Only ║ Software Gids (Netherlands) The Netherlands ║ ║ {W}: Windows Only ║ Tangents (South Africa) jojo@hacktic.nl ║ ============================================================================== Letters to the Editor OK. So it's just *a* letter to the editor. I've always wanted a 'Letters to the Editor' column, but nobody would write to me! Date: Thu, 20 Oct 94 09:07:53 CST From: "Richard Heider" <advocat@MR.Net> To: usdsskzs@ibmmail.com Subject: MidMissouri OS/2 Users Group Newsletter Gary, my compliments on a very fine newsletter! I especially enjoyed your play-by-play of Atlanta, and the many pictures of the people, pins, etc. That's the best rendition of pictures I've seen yet in an INF file --- usually they've been fuzzy. I think you've raised the bar and set a new standard for the newsletter authors. (Of course I didn't want to post this on the OS2BBS and get zotted!) <g> I look forward to the next newsletter! Dick Heider │ Voice 612.293.2348 │ Ecolab, Inc. advocat@mr.net │___Fax 612.293.2092___│ Information Services Dept ECOL007@HONE8x, TEAM OS/2 │ St Paul, MN 55102 ----------------------- End of Mail Text --------------------- Thanks, Dick! As I said in my reply to you: To me, compliments are like water off a duck's back -- the duck likes it, too! And since folks on the OS2BBS can download this newsletter, you might still get zotted! <g> Review of Boxer for OS/2 Evaluation by David Keisker Boxer for OS/2 is a character mode program that offers powerful text editing capabilities in an OS/2 environment. This text editor is a 32-bit application that not only gives an impressive speed performance, but has the capability to edit VERY large files (depending on the availability of your OS/2 virtual memory). Boxer allows editing in either a full-screen OS/2 session or in a window from the OS/2 Workplace Shell. Boxer provides an extensive set of configuration options. Configuring the screen colors, keyboard, menus, windows, etc. is extremely simple to achieve your editing preference. The program has an impressive set of features. I have included all the menus below and will try to point out some outstanding features that make Boxer a great text editor. One of Boxers noticeable feature is the color syntax highlighting. The REXX program example above shows the programs reserve words, comments, symbols and constants with user-definable colors. I found the multiple colored screen to be rather irritating at first, but after awhile the color highlighting was helpful in editing my program. Of course if you didn't like the colors, you certainly have the option of defining your own colors. By the way, Boxer has full mouse support. File Menu. The File Menu is where you may open multiple files using overlapping or tiled windows. Near the bottom of the menu is a Compile option. Executing this option, you can compile the programs within your editing session using several of the most popular compilers. Edit Menu. The Undo option is the most impressive option of the Edit Menu. The programs defaults to 200 changes being stored. If you choose, you may store up to 4,096 changes that can be undone and redone! Search Menu. The Search Menu provides the programmer with various globally or selectively search and replace options. Window Menu. The option that I personally like in the Window Menu is the Auto scrolling option. I hate paging down a large program file to find one specific line of code. This option will scroll thru my program as fast or slow as I wish until I stop the scrolling or it hits the end of my program. Block Menu. This menu has all the basic block editing features. You can perform case conversions to upper, lower, or swap case. Misc Menu. The Misc menu has several nice features. The calendar option gives a small windowed calendar that at times is extremely useful. The Calculator option is pretty useless. Instead of placing a graphic calculator in a window, like the calendar option, Boxer asks for an expression to be entered at the bottom of the screen. The ASCII option is useful in that when selected requires you to press the desired keyboard key and Boxer gives you the ASCII numerical value, letter, hex, octal, and binary values. Goto Menu. The Anchor option in the Goto Menu is useful in editing long programs. You simply place "anchors" at various sections in your program which you can quickly return to anytime while editing the program. This feature is nice to mark REXX sections of code! Options Menu. The Options menu is the place where you configure Boxers screen preferences. You can customize almost every visual aspect of your screen. One neat feature is the option of selecting between 6 different screen modes up to 200 columns by 100 rows! Macros Menu. You can define up to 26 macros that are automatically loaded and you may use at anytime in your editing session. Help Menu. Help is context sensitive and indexed to provide easy on-line assistance. As you might have guessed so far, I liked Boxer for OS/2 :hp2.A LOT:ehp2.. The program is certainly more flexible and powerful than the Enhance Editor that I used before using Boxer. Pricing is $89.00 + $6.00 shipping. This includes a manual, tech support, quick reference card, coupon for one free upgrade, and special offers. I will try to place the Shareware evaluation version on the MMOUG BBS. Ordering information is included along with the evaluation disk files. Boxer Software P.O. Box 3230 Peterborough, NH 03458-3230 Next MMOUG Meeting Next month's MMOUG meeting will be held in Jefferson City on Wednesday, November 16, 4 pm at: Department of Social Services 1621 E. Elm Jefferson City, MO 65101 314-741-4198 From Columbia: Highway 63 South to Highway 54 West (across the bridge) to (be careful, this is still a dangerous intersection) Highway 50 East. Go through lights at MO. Blvd, Broadway, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe Take the CLARK AVENUE exit off of Highway 50. Turn right onto Clark Ave, THEN make an almost immediate left onto ELM Street. Take Elm Street to IBM. IBM will be on the left. Eastland Highway / Patrol Elm Street McDonalds________ HQ ________________ | DSS\___________/ | |______________________________________________\_______ Highway 50 Clark Ave Exit We will have a representative from Desktop Observatory show us their tool which helps to manage WorkPlace Shell Desktops. 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Box 30654, Columbia, MO. 65205-0645 Thank you for your support. _______________________________________________________________________________ The Mid-Missouri OS/2 Users Group is a non-profit corporation who's dedicated purpose is to aid and facilitate the education and communication between individual computer users, different computer groups, and the general public. The Woodmeister BBS is the official Bulletin Board of the MMOUG. A copy of the Bylaws is available for downloading from the Woodmeister BBS (314-446-0016). For assistance with OS/2, call our Voice Mail at 314-636-0805.