I'm trying to think of a list of abandoned OS/2 apps that were actually made freeware. So far, I can only think of BlueCAD, TrueSpectra Photo>Graphics and Dadaware Embellish. Can anybody think of any others?
I have been doing a lot of research on that for my new site...I emailed you!
NFTP was made public.
It's an FTP client
SNAP Graphics for OS/2 v3.1.8
Quote from: craigm on 2011.01.11, 02:58:43
I have been doing a lot of research on that for my new site...I emailed you!
I tried to reply, but your domain's mailserver says your email address doesn't exist...
PostRoadMailer (for a long time my favourite email app for OS/2)
Then (even though its Java) jStreetMailer (AKA Polarbar Mailer)
For a while Hacksaw was free, I'm not sure if that was meant as a permanent thing or just an offer at the time.
Sorry about that...I had an old email...its updated now.
Tonigy is now freeware. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/cd/tonigy17.wpi (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/cd/tonigy17.wpi)
QuoteHow to register Tonigy?
Registration is free!
Use the free key:
hLfSfk+D3DErvn2r98eaHEyyFu1UOkH50RuYyPeEmJCJ
dLyyepvMVY3Z6/4ks9tP9V+YJq0hoX8U+X/yE518NA==
The key is official. It can be used for non-commercial purposes with no limitation.
PMFax (AKA PrimaFax, and FAXworks), but I am not sure where they can be downloaded From the announcement:
QuotePrimaFax Pro for Windows (download)
Key: 10-00054-273-937-727-579-251
PrimaFax Pro for Linux (download)
Key: 10-00042-185-182-616-225-873
PMFax Pro for OS/2 (download)
Key: 10-00040-974-912-151-306-952
QuotePMFax (AKA PrimaFax, and FAXworks), but I am not sure where they can be downloaded
http://www.os2site.com/sw/comm/fax/index.html (http://www.os2site.com/sw/comm/fax/index.html)
YMMV
Cheers
I thought of a couple more myself: 4OS2 and OpenWatcom both started out as commercial software before going open source.
I have CUADRAW / CUAPAINT IBM (c) from 1991
I do not know if it is always under licence agreement
NFTP is now open source under the MIT license.
Did anyone hear for this US law act? - http://sciencefictionobserver.blogspot.com/2006/12/usa-legalizes-abandonware.html
That's cool
Hi WarpWorld
I haven't hear of that law, and the link that it reference seems to be broken.
As far as "the all mighty" wikipedia says ;)
"Therefore, sharing of such software is usually considered copyright infringement, though in practice copyright holders rarely enforce their abandonware copyrights."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware)
I wish this could change on the future.
Microsoft Word for DOS became freeware. IBM PC DOS 2000 Chinese edition was available on IBM server for free download for unknown reason long time, but from unknown reason again they (IBM) removed it, so license of that system is big symbol ? ,who downloaded it in that time,have free legal version,others not ;D
Also, I found very interesting brazilian word processor from 80's and it works fine and with .doc files.
I don't know status of pre-released version of Quick Time for OS/2.As I know that never became stable and commercial program, isn't it? I saw on hobbes and maybe os2site it for download? Yeah,yeah I know that's abandonware but that's not cathegory it can only be easiest freeware,shareware,commercial or free with source code.
..I think that was a Apple Quicktime beta that was never completed. But we also used to have QuickMotion, which has a series con CODECs to support some Apple formats. Quickmotion was open sourced on 2011 - http://www.os2world.com/content/view/20596/2/
Yes, I saw for Quickmotion.But as understand, and downloading and usage of Quciktime for /2 beta is close to legal.