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UPDT SOFTWARE: Intercon 1.06 (Internet Telephone)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mick Brown)
Thu Feb 8 00:09:18 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 8 Feb 1996 03:58:45 GMT
From: lfirrantello@BIX.com (Mick Brown)
Reply-To: jtew@revsoft.is.net (Jonathan Tew)
Submitted by: Jonathan Tew
Source: jtew@revsoft.is.net (Jonathan Tew)
Date sent: 1996 02 05
Date posted: 1996 02 07
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Intercom v1.06 for OS/2 Revolutionary Software
Copyright (c) 1995-96 by Jonathan Tew
"Revolutionary Software - Bringing the power to the platform."
FEATURES
InterCom is a telephone for the Internet. It allows you to communicate with
anyone around the world for free via the Internet. It's features include:
o 32-Bit multithreaded PM application
o 16-Bit audio o Real time compression
o Runs on anything from a 14.4K modem or faster
o Customizable settings to improve performance
o Caller ID o Quick Dial
o Call Blocking o Dialing Directory
o Answering Machine o Electronic telephone book server
o Connect to multiple talk servers around the world
o Online help o Easy installation
InterCom v1.06 is released in the form of a shareware version. This version is
fully functional.
InterCom is a native OS/2 32-Bit Application. It was designed from the ground
up to run specificly on OS/2 and is not based off any other previously written
products. This allows you to take the greatest advantage of OS/2.
REQUIREMENTS
o OS/2 Warp running on 8MB or more RAM (12MB recommended)
o 8 or 16-Bit sound card capable of PCM audio (16-bit recommended)
o MMPM/2
o TCP/IP Internet Access Kit
o 14.4 modem or faster connection to the Internet (28.8 recommended)
FIXES AND ADDITIONS IN THIS VERSION
o Now spawning another thread to handle hangup so that object window thread
can not pause.
o Phone stops ringing if error encountered in the send/recv thread while the
phone was ringing.
o Server count is now correct when someone clicks login all and one of the
server logins fails.
o When the InterCom ringing the answer button automaticly receives focus so
that all that is needed is to click enter real quick to answer. o Manual
dial entry field on call dialog now enables OK button when text is entered.
o Fixed scrolling bug in location and comment field in the general page of the
configuration notebook.
o Removed most of the buttons in the CallerID and Answering machine group
boxes and replaced them with a right mouse click popup menu.
o Review answering machine greeting only works if a greeting exists. o If a
new answering machine message is received the answering machine group box
displays changes to show the new message instead of just incrementing the
counter. Make it easier to notice.
o Start recording button doesn't highlight until the remote user answers the
phone. It was highlighting prematurely after the first ring. o Pending
rings are cleared once answer clicked or the remote user answers. o New
thread handling for the answering machine. Should cope with errors and
shutdown of the answering machine alot better.
o Option to force sound card to work in 8 bit mode. This was needed by some
people because their hardware will not function in 16 bit mode even if it is
supposedly a 16 bit card.
o If multiple calls at the same time it synchronizes them so that there is no
conflicts. The first one causes it to ring the phone. The second one gets
the answering machine.
o Added return call selection to the caller ID popup menu.
o Moved sample rate slider from main dialog to the compression page in the
configuration notebook.
o Added clock and the elapsed time since the call started.
o Fixed bug that caused long pause if a sound is waiting to play while the
user was recording.
o Added wait for disconnect popup dialog with option of immediate disconnect.
This will allow you to wait for pending data to be transmitted if it exists.
o Reworked talk thread synchronization.
It can be found on the following FTP sites:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/incoming/ic106.zip
ftp://revsoft2.is.net/ic/ic106.zip
The archive on hobbes.nmsu.edu will eventually be moved to os2/network/tcpip
Information and periodic updates can also be obtained from the Revolutionary
Software WWW server at:
http://revsoft2.is.net/ic/intercom.html
If you run an OS/2 based WWW page then I would appreciate you adding a link to
our WWW server to promote this product.
CONTACTING THE AUTHOR
COMMENTS & SUGGESTIONS are always welcome.
If you find any bugs or have suggestions on how to improve the product, write
me an e-mail at: jtew@revsoft.is.net
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