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VENDOR: OS/2 Essentials Version 2 Available!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Info)
Thu Aug 7 09:27:29 1997
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Date: 07 Aug 1997 09:03:00 -0400
From: info@nospam.stardock.com (Info)
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OS/2 Essentials Version 2 Generally Available
Stardock's premiere utility suite is packed full of goodies
For Immediate Release
Monday, July 28, 1997
Contact: Alexander Antoniades
(313) 762-0687
Canton MI ( Stardock Systems, Inc. A leading independent OS/2 software vendor
announced that OS/2 Essentials Version 2 is generally available today.
The utility suite comes with Stardock's essential utilities as well as a host
of shareware, freeware, demo software, and fixpacks.
The utilities include SDS Screen Saver Pro, a powerful screen saver that uses
Ssaver screen modules, Deskpic screen modules, supports green monitors, and
has built in security. This is easily the most feature rich screen saver
available for OS/2. Moreover, unlike OS/2's built in "lock-up" feature,
Screen Saver Pro does not reset thread priorities which cause system
performance to suffer. Screen Saver Pro 2.0 now offers multimedia extensions
and more screen saver modules than 1.1 did.
Another popular utility is DirMaster Pro which is a powerful file manager that
has excellent performance and is very customizable.
New to OS/2 Essentials Version 2 is SDS Benchmark. While other benchmarks are
available for OS/2, SDS Benchmark is very easy to use -- a single click to
begin benchmarking all of a PC's hardware subsystems. Users who want to
submit the results of benchmarking their system for system comparisons can
email benchmark@stardock.com.
One of the most unique and useful utilities included is SDS FileGraph/PM which
graphically displays in bar-chart format where disk space is used. This
feature alone has made OS/2 Essentials a favorite with IS Managers and power
users. Another heavily updated feature of verison 2 is the WPS Trashcan. With
the trashcan installed, users have a robust and easy to use undelete feature
that works in an object-oriented fashion.
As if these features alone don't justify the $49.95 price, Stardock has taken
advantage of room given by distributing it on a CD-ROM. Also included on the
CD are a host of un-registered shareware ranging from PMMail to PMView.
"We felt that the shareware community, which has always been a major force in
the OS/2 market, kind of got left out of OS/2 Warp 4's demo CD." said Brad
Wardell, President, Stardock Systems, Inc. "Shareware authors that are
interested in getting their programs onto future versions of OS/2 Essentials
can submit them to us for evaluation giving them a new marketing channel that
did not exist before."
Numerous fixpacks to OS/2 itself along with Visual Age and third party
programs also come on the CD. OS/2 Essentials requires OS/2 Warp 3 or later
(OS/2 Warp 3 users will need to obtain a special installation kit from
Stardock's website or via your local Stardock sales representative).
OS/2 Essentials Version 2 is $49.95 or $19.95 if you already have OS/2
Essentials 1.x.
You can purchase the full version from virtually any place that carries OS/2
software.
Stardock can be reached at (313) 762-0687 (313) 762-0690 fax or via web at
http://www.stardock.com.
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Partial listing of other things that come on OS/2 Essentials Version 2:
The GA version of Adobe Acrobat Reader!
Fixpack #1 for OS/2 Warp 4(in several languages)
Fixpack 26 for OS/2 Warp 3
Corel Office for JAVA BETA
Ghostscript Postscript reader (with viewer)
JAVA 1.02 update
XFree86 OS/2 v3.3
Several programs ported to XFree86 OS/2(including Civilization for XFree86!)
Animated Pointers
Dragtext 2.0
Fontfolder 3.0A
NPSWPS 1.82
SpellGuard
XFile 1.1
Xit 2.4
Injoy dialer 1.1
MR/2 ICE Mailer 1.29
PMMail 1.92
NFTP FTP client
Web Page Grabber
FTPD Daemon
HTML syntax highlighting for EPM
HTML Editor
HTML Studio
David Barnes's Bitmap collection
Additional "cool" desktop bitmaps
Mixer for Sound Blaster cards
Bill Gates AVI ("OS/2 is the platform for the 90's")
OS/2 Bootup Logo Creation Utility
MPEG Audio Player for OS/2
PMView 1.0
QuickMotion 1.1 demo (Quicktime player)
TrueSpectra demo
Boot OS/2
CaffeineMark 2.5 JAVA Benchmark
Config.SYS info tool
GammaTech Utilities 3.0 DEMO
Graham Utilities 2.0 DEMO
Startup Folder Utilities
HPFS access from DOS
LXLite (EXE compression)
Memsize Utility
Phoenix/2 Undelete utility
RAR for OS/2
Unzip 5.3 for OS/2
WPTool 1.9 INI Maintainence
YAOS v1.81 (Yet Another OS/2 Shell)
ZIP 2.1 for OS/2
Demos of Galactic Civilizations, Object Desktop, Trials of Battle
Fixkits for all Stardock products
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