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WEB: Update "The Best OS/2 Software" 6/25/97 [list]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett J. Cohen)
Thu Jul 3 05:57:32 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 03 Jul 1997 04:11:00 -0400
From: jeanluc@netaxs.com (Brett J. Cohen)
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OS/2 software from games to internet utilities, has been updated. (It has
been updated weekly since February...).
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[The Best OS/2 Software]
[The Best Shareware, Freeware, and Beta Software for OS/2]
Last updated 6/25/97.
New Apps - Applications - Archive - Chat - Comm. - Dialers - Editors - FTP
- Graphics - Games - Mail Clients - Multimedia - Net Misc. - Newsreaders -
WPS
[New Apps]
[Name] [Description/Date] [Size] [Filename]
Adobe Acrobat 5/27/97; Portable
acrobat document 4.0M aro2e30.exe
(Adobe) reader.
Inet 6/9/97;Suite with
Adventurer IRC, WWW, FTP, 2.0M inadv100.zip
(K. USENET, ver. 1.00.
Rasmussen)
6/11/97;
Mail Reader/2 Full-featured mailer:
filters, 952K mr2i129.zip
(KnightWare) auto-checking, ver.
1.29.
6/2/97; Popular file
PKZIP compressor and 302K pkos2250.exe
(PKWARE) decompressor, ver.
2.50.
PMMail 5/22/97; Mailer with
(SouthSide excellent PM 1.2M pmm192.zip
Soft.) integration, ver.
1.92.
Post Road 6/20/97; Demo of mail
Mailer client: filters, 1.8M post250.zip
(InnoVal) launchpad, ver. 2.50.
QuickMotion 4/21/97; Demo adds
(Practice Quicktime support to 1.9M qm13.zip
Corp.) MMPM/2, ver. 1.3.
6/20/97; Windows
'95-like task bar
TaskBox with directory 225K tbox3_10.zip
(K. Ash) browsing, ver. 3.10.
[Applications]
[Name] [Description/Date] [Size] [Filename]
SpellGuard 4/30/97; Checks as you
(2Rud type, system-wide, 665K spellgrd.zip
Soft.) ver. 1.2.2
[Archive]
[Name] [Description/Date] [Size] [Filename]
Clone 4/43/97; Finds
Cleaner duplicate files. 777K clone220.zip
(E. March)
File 2/3/97; 32-bit file
Manager/2 manager & other 1.3M fm2_252.zip
(Barebones) utilities, ver.
2.50a.
10/31/95; An undelete
File Phoenix utility for HPFS and 1.33 175K phoenix2.zip
(IBM EWS) FAT partitions.
4/5/96; Maintenance inimt33j.zip
INIMaint utility for INI 3.3j 912K
(L. Martin) files; repair, edit,
etc. (alternate)
LX Lite 6/9/97; Compresses
(A. executables to 1.20 382K lxlt120.zip
Zabolotny) increase drive space.
6/2/97; Popular file
PKZIP compressor and 302K pkos2250.exe
(PKWARE) decompressor, ver.
2.50
4/24/97; decompresses
Unzip PKZIP compatible 412K unzip53.zip
(Info-ZIP) archives, ver. 5.3.
7/31/96; Virus
VirusScan scanner and cleaner, 937K osci300e.zip
(McAfee) ver. 3.0.
10/9/95; A settings 3.0
Warp 'n Go notebook for the OS/2 239K warpngo.zip
(IBM EWS) Config.sys
3/30/97; Enhancer for
YAOS CMD.EXE, unix-like 116K yaos18.zip
(C. Lee) funct., ver. 1.8.
5/24/96;
Zip PKZIP-compatible 2.1 155K zip21x2.zip
(Info-ZIP) archiver.
5/27/97; Manage/view
Zip Control zip files. 710K zipct245.zip
(RPF) 2.45
[Chat]
[Name] [Description/Date] [Size] [Filename]
Gibbon Talk 1.1 gcptlk11.zip
9/2/95; A talk daemon 623K
(GCP) and client.
Gammatech 11/26/95; Reliable IRC 1.04
IRC demo, limited to 30 253K gtirc104.zip
(SofTouch) minutes.
8/15/96; Telephony app
InterCom with support for 684K ic316.zip
(Revsoft) QuickCam video, ver.
3.16.
NetChat 5/18/97; Chat
(G. application, features 204K nchat103.zip
Robinson) "hailing," ver. 1.03
[Comm.]
[Name] [Description/Date] [Size] [Filename]
FaxWorks 12/1/95; Faster
(Keller update to BonusPak 589K bl_226.zip
Group) App.
6/24/95; Basic com
INTERcomm program with 993K ic92.zip
(AdeptSoft) scripting, etc. (alternate)
11/19/96;
ZOC Award-winning comm. 781K zoc304.zip
(EmTec) program, ver 3.04. (alternate)
[Dialers]
[Name] [Description/Date] [Size] [Filename]
5/26/97; Replacement
iLink/2 for DOIP, with 323K ilink1_2.zip
(MSS) autoredial, etc.,
ver. 1.2.
6/11/97; A 32-bit
In-Joy text replacement for 605K injoy1_1.zip
(B. Jensen) ppp.exe with redial &
more.
PPPDIAL.CMD 2/6/97; script adds
automatic redial, 3.1 36K ppdial31.zip
(Don multiple phone
Russell) numbers.
[Editors]
[Name] [Description/Date] [Size] [Filename]
Config.sys 6/12/95; includes
Info tips to optimize 4.0 613K cfginfo4.zip
(Rick config.sys, and
Meigs) sorter.
Enhanced 5/21/96; Powerful 6.03b
Editor text editor with 2.6M epm603b.zip
(IBM) macro support and
more.
6/3/97; WYSIWYG
HomePage HTML editor, with
Pub. table support, 3.5M hpp100f.zip
(JBC) version, 1.0f.
HTML Studio 8/23/96; HTML
editor for power 1.4M htmls101.zip
(Panacea) users; for manual (alternative)
coding.
HTML Wizard 8/26/96; fast HTML
(D. Editor for more 1.0M htmlwiz.zip
Terrell) experienced users. (alternate)
Kon 4/28/97; fast
(B. text-editor with 116K kon106.zip
Andersson) hexeditor, ver.
1.06.
Picardy 3
7/3/96; HTML Editor 3.0
(D. with large feature-set. 226K pic3v063.zip
Devaney,
Jr.)
2/17/97;
SmallEd Easy-to-use
(Bianchi graphical text 381K smled145.zip
Soft.) editor, ver. 1.45.
WebWriter/2 3/24/97; Text
editor with HTML 1.1M ww2_12a1.zip
(J. Blumel) 3.2, frames, ver.
1.2.
[FTP]
[Name] [Description/Date] [Size] [Filename]
6/12/97; FTP client
FTP Browser with slick, 217K ftpupd2.zip
(J. Rushton) interface, ver. 1.7
update
6/21/96;
Multithreaded
FTP Spy 32-bit FTP Client 260K hwifs.zip
(H. Wilhelm) for OS/2 Warp
LWPFTP 8/11/95; Adds FTP 1.1 lwpftp11.zip
(L. support to the WPS. 279K
Deffenbaugh) Multiple sites,
etc.
4/18/97; Update to
NFTP fast text-mode FTP 484K nftp103.zip
(S. Ayukov) client, ver. 1.03
[Games]
[Name] [Description/Date] [Size] [Filename]
4/14/97; A shoot 'em
Bugs up with good 199K bugs.zip
(Cramon) 256-color graphics,
alpha 6.
8/26/96; 13 Card
Card Games games for OS/2. 818K fmcrd320.zip
(F. Maschek)
Chinese 8/8/96; Classic
Checkers multiplayer game 172K cc2066.zip
(M. with sounds, etc.
Mitrakas)
Doom/2 5/12/97; 360-degree
(id) 256-color action 656K dmos2_19.zip
game.
Enter. Pack 8/22/97; large 1.5M entrtn27.zip
(P.W., S.H.) collection of games.
1/11/97; Demo of
Galactic acclaimed
Civ. 2 space-simulation 3.3M galciv25.zip
(Stardock) strategy game.
7/29/96; New version mroids10.zip
Masterroids of asteroids with 886K
(R. Komary) great graphics, ver.
1.0
7/22/96; Game
SimBlob similar to SimCity, 286K simblob.zip
(A. Patel) Civilizations.
4/23/96; Tetris
Stris clone with good 68K strs_145.zip
(R. Straub) graphics, ver. 1.45.
6/30/96;
Toyland Role-playing game 2.5M toyland.zip
(R. Menge)
6/26/95; Excellent 1.17 uchess.zip
UChess 2-d graphics; 183K
(R. Uzun) requires 256 colors.
12/5/97; Innovative
Warp Tris Tetris variation 140K warptris.zip
(P. Camara) with 4 walls.
[Graphics]
[Name] [Description/Date] [Size] [Filename]
4/9/97; Full-featured
Embellish image editor with 1.2M emb_os2.zip
(Dadaware) special effects, ver.
2.0.
PMJPEG 12/31/96; Graphics
(N. & K. viewer for JPEG, GIF, 207K pmjpg174.zip
Yee) TIFF, ver 1.74
PMView 3/25/97; Fast bitmap
(Peter graphics editor and 1.3M pmvw100.zip
Nielsen) converter, ver. 1.00
[Mail]
[Name] [Description/Date] [Size] [Filename]
6/11/97; Full-featured
Mail Reader/2 mailer: filters, 952K mr2i129.zip
(KnightWare) auto-checking, ver.
1.29.
PMMail 5/22/97; Mailer with
(SouthSide excellent PM 1.2M pmm192.zip
Soft.) integration, ver.
1.92.
Post Road 6/20/97; Demo of mail
Mailer client: filters, 1.8M post250.zip
(InnoVal) launchpad, ver. 2.50.
[Multimedia]
[Name] [Description/Date] [Size] [Filename]
QuickMotion 4/21/97; Demo adds
(Practice Quicktime support to 1.9M qm13.zip
Corp.) MMPM/2, ver. 1.3.
[Net Misc]
[Name] [Description/Date] [Size] [Filename]
Adobe 5/27/97; Portable
Acrobat acrobat document 4.0M aro2e30.exe
(Adobe) reader.
Inet 6/9/97;Suite with
Adventurer IRC, WWW, FTP, 2.0M inadv100.zip
(K. USENET, ver. 1.00
Rasmussen)
WebExplorer 6/28/96; Latest 1.1d
(IBM) version of IBM's Web 1.4M webxv11d.zip
Browser.
[Newsreaders]
[Name] [Description/Date] [Size] [Filename]
Newsbeat 2/13/97; Easy to use
(V.B., 32-bit PM newsreader. 611K nb99b51.zip
D.M.)
[WPS Utilities]
[Name] [Description/Date] [Size] [Filename]
3/5/97; OS/2 font
Font Folder manager resembling 553K fntf30a.zip
(C. Cullum) ATM, ver. 3.0a.
10/21/95; Adds extra 1.82 npswp182.zip
NPS functions to the 79K
(N.P.S.) WPS.
10/21/95; A Windows 2.62 tskbr262.zip
Taskbar 95 like task-switcher. 408K
(R. Yoder)
TaskBox 6/20/97; Windows
(K. Ash) '95-like task bar
with directory 225K tbox3_10.zip
browsing, ver. 3.10.
TrashCan 8/31/96; Mac-like trshc252.zip
(K. trashcan for the 799K
Sommerfeld) WPS, ver. 2.52.
5/14/97; Adds
Warp directory
Enhancer information to WPS 115K we020.zip
(A.H.) folders, etc., ver.
0.20
WP Security 11/6/96; Adds
(Maple security and lock-up 883K wpsec215.zip
Valley) features to the WPS,
ver. 2.15.
5/14/97; "Super"
X-File open file box, ver. 84K xfile11.zip
(CodeSmith) 1.1
4/14/97; Adds close
Xit button & more to 613K xit24.zip
(CodeSmith) titlebars.
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