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| Date: | Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:10:36 EST |
| From: | sbtaus@ibm.net |
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| To: | 32bits@sbt.net.au |
| Subject: | OS/2 updates #2 |
//this news courtesy of ChrisH, thanks Chris//
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Palet Software, Inc. and QVision, Inc. are proud to announce the
immediate commercial release of Tensor, a state-of-the-art,
single-player, real-time, action/strategy java game.
Tensor is a 100% java applet. As such, it can be played through
a java appletviewer, or a java-enabled web browser.
Currently, Tensor runs in Windows 95/NT and OS/2. Macintosh and
UNIX releases are planned for the beginning of February.
For more information, to order Tensor, or to download a free demo
version of Tensor visit our web site: http://www.qvision.net/tjava.html
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Element.ary for OS2 --- weather information for
people who need to know!
Element.ary for OS2 uses your Internet connection to
provide comprehensive current weather information for
locations worldwide. This easy-to-use shareware written
by David DuPre' gives you access to weather text information,
as well as satellite and radar images, and even animated
weather movies. Element.ary for OS2 eliminates the need
to manually search multiple Internet addresses and saves
the user valuable time by combining the latest critical
information from multiple sources into a unified interface.
Updated information about everything from earthquakes and
hurricanes to tornados and typhoons can be automatically
downloaded.
Element.ary for OS2 provides current access to visible
and IR enhanced satellite images covering every continent,
as well as radar images covering the continental United States.
Full motion weather video of any continent can be viewed with
the built-in MPEG player. Registered users receive updates on
the latest program changes via e-mail.
If you need up-to-the-minute weather information for locations
throughout the US, Canada, Europe or even down-under in Australia,
Element.ary for OS2 is the tool for you.
Element.ary for OS2 -- the serious Internet weather information tool
-- for people who need to know!
--------- Latest information as of Jan. 1, 1997 -------
Additional sources of weather information currently
in 'test' and will be released soon.
Text based information:
- Tide prediction for all of US coast lines.
- Expanded Hawaii weather coverage,
- Expanded Australian weather coverage
- Forecasts for all States, includes Aviation reports.
- Expanded coverage for Canadian forecasts and current conditions.
- Weather forecast for France, in French.
- Caribian Weather reports
- Weather for Croatia, Vrijeme u HRVATSKOJ (also in english)
- Forecasts still available for US, UK, New Zealand
New Images available:
- Satellite: All continents
- Radar: Berlin, Hawaii
- Forecast/current conditions imagery:
- Europe, Artic, Northern and Southern hemisphere, Switzerland, US
- MPEG weather movies available with cloud movement, radar, and IR:
- Europe, Africa, North Atlantic, Middle East
Central and Southeast Asia, North and South America, Australia
NOTE: Registered users will get this update sent to them via Email
as soon as it is released. So register Element.ary now.
For more information contact:
http://www.cdc.net/~dupre
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I've just updated my OS/2 Soundcard Summary, which is available at
http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~rodsmith/sound.html. This revision
sees lots of little detail changes, many related to VTD support for
various boards. Here's the change list:
1. Miscellaneous small textual changes.
2. Greater rigor to ensure proper HTML codes. (Check the above link
to the "any browser" site for some eye-openers about proper HTML
format.) For the moment, I've addressed the main pages for the
major sections and the contents of specific boards and chipsets
that have changed in this version; pages without content changes
have received less attention on this matter.
3. Warp 4.0's VoiceType does NOT work with all sound boards with
MMPM/2 drivers; it requires drivers that support the DART
extensions. I've added a partial list of boards that do and
do not work well with VTD to the Technology section, and have
added flags to boards that don't work with VTD in their individual
sections.
4. I've been informed that the AudioMedia III board (mentioned in
the technology section) is actually marketed by DigiDesign, not
Avid Technology.
5. Creative Labs has announced that they will be doing no further
development for OS/2.
6. I've removed OPTi-based boards from man of the purchase
recommendation
categories because of their problems with VTD under Warp 4.0.
7. Updated information on getting the Acer Magic S20 to work.
8. Updated procedure for getting around problems installing Win-OS/2
support on IBM Multimedia Modem boards.
9. The latest IBM Aptiva computers come with Mwave boards for which no
OS/2 drivers are yet available.
10. Links to additional utilities for Mwave boards, and especially
Dynalink models.
11. The Ensoniq boards apparently don't support VTD.
12. Updates to the Mediatrix section on their plans for OS/2 support.
13. Updated URLs for miro.
14. Updated contact information for OPTi.
15. Another site listed with Reveal information.
16. (Minimal) information added on the Turtle Beach Tropez Plus board.
17. New drivers for Crystal Semiconductor boards are available, and I
have some notes on improving VTD performance with some of these
boards.
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| Rod Smith Author of: |
| rodsmith@indiana.edu "Should I Buy OS/2" FAQ |
| http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~rodsmith "OS/2 Soundcard Summary" |
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Fellow OS/2 USers,
This post is to announce the availability of a new OS/2 site, the
OS/2 Supersite, at http://www.os2ss.com This site has been in
preparation for several months. At present it contains a partial
mirror of the Hobbes ftp site. As we secure more support, the site
will be expanded to completely mirror Hobbes. We will be
adding other features, and we also solicit your suggestions.
Please stop by and check it out, especially when your downloads
from Hobbes are crawling along. :-)
Dirk Terrell
Voytek Eymont
SBT Information Systems Pty Ltd - Distributor of OS/2 software
fax 61-2 9310-1118 ph 61-2 9310-1214
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~sbt
sbtaus@ibm.net
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