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 * Netlabs GCC 4.9.2 & 3.3.5 (CSD6) https://ecsoft2.org/netlabs-gcc
   Ports of GNU GCC 3.x and 4.x, which ensure 100% compatibility with ANSI
   C/C++.

 * iQPuzzle 1.2.6 https://ecsoft2.org/iqpuzzle
   iQPuzzle is a diverting I.Q. challenging pentomino puzzle developed using
   Qt software development framework qt-software-development-framework.

 * OpenTTD 1.4.0 https://ecsoft2.org/openttd
   OpenTTD is a clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a
   popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer.

 * Enigma 1.30 https://ecsoft2.org/enigma
   Enigma is a tribute to and a re-implementation of one of the most original
   and intriguing computer games of the 1990's: Oxyd.

 * FFmpeg & FFplay 4.2.2 https://ecsoft2.org/ffmpeg-ffplay
   *FFmpeg* is a very fast video and audio converter. It can also grab from a
   live audio/video source.

 * Media Downloader 2.2.1 https://ecsoft2.org/media-downloader
   Mediadownloader (ex GoogleImageDownloader) is an opensource software that
   lets you search, watch and download items with Google Image and YouTube.

 * Odin 0.9.0 https://ecsoft2.org/odin
   Odin is the name of the project and software that allows users to *run
   Win32* (Windows 95 and Windows NT) *applications in OS/2 Warp operating
   system natively*, almost

 * FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) 1.3.3
   https://ecsoft2.org/flac-free-lossless-audio-codec
   FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3,
   but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in
   quality.

 * Mplayer 1.4 https://ecsoft2.org/mplayer
   Port of MPlayer: it is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the
   documentation).

 * VideoLAN VLC media player 3.0.16
   https://ecsoft2.org/videolan-vlc-media-player
   VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most
   audio and video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4,
   aac, ...) from files, p

 * Agena 2.26.0 https://ecsoft2.org/agena
   Agena is an easy-to-learn procedural programming language suited for
   everyday usage.

 * AVxCAT (ex FFmpegCA-GUI) 1.5.1.4
   https://ecsoft2.org/avxcat-ex-ffmpegca-gui
   GUI front-end in Rexx language for FFmpeg ffmpeg-ffplay, which will allow
   for converting audio and video between formats.

 * QSINIT 08032022 https://ecsoft2.org/qsinit
   QSINIT is a replacement of OS2LDR created from scratch.

 * WHOIS client 5.5.12 https://ecsoft2.org/whois-client
   A new whois (RFC 954) client rewritten from scratch. It is derived from
   and compatible with the usual BSD and RIPE whois(1) programs.

 * GNU Unifont glyphs 14.0.02 https://ecsoft2.org/gnu-unifont-glyphs
   GNU Unifont glyphs version for OS/2.

 * WebServe 2.4 https://ecsoft2.org/webserve
   A lightweight web server for OS/2, written in Modula/2 modula-2, that
   should be suitable for most non-commercial web sites, and possibly many
   commercial ones.

 * cURL 7.75.0 https://ecsoft2.org/curl
   cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax,
   supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, FILE and
   LDAP.

 * Hunspell 1.7.0 https://ecsoft2.org/hunspell
   Hunspell is the spell checker of LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org openoffice,
   Mozilla Firefox firefox 3 & Thunderbird thunderbird

 * Testlog 3.48 https://ecsoft2.org/testlog
   Create a log file that you can submit with your test results when
   reporting a problem with a driver.

 * IMAP4 server for the Weasel mail server 0.1.16
   https://ecsoft2.org/imap4-server-weasel-mail-server
   This is an IMAPD server designed to run in conjunction with the Weasel
   weasel mail server.
   *Features*:

 * Thunderbird 45.8.0 https://ecsoft2.org/thunderbird
   Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component, with
   several new features and improvements to make your mail and news
   experience better.

 * SeaMonkey 2.42.9esr https://ecsoft2.org/seamonkey
   SeaMonkey is a community effort to deliver an high production-quality
   releases of web browser code derived from "Mozilla Application Suite". The
   program includes the email client.

 * Firefox 45.9.0 https://ecsoft2.org/firefox
   A Mozilla-based fast browser! Firefox includes:

 * Lua Programming Language 5.4.4
   https://ecsoft2.org/lua-programming-language
   Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language
   developed at PUC Rio (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio). Port by
   different authors.

 * Apachectl 0.1 https://ecsoft2.org/apachectl
   Apachectl is a Rexx script to control Apache web server apache.

 * XWorkplace 1.0.15 https://ecsoft2.org/xworkplace
   XWorkplace is the most feature-rich freeware Workplace Shell enhancer
   available. Some features:

 * S.M.A.R.T. disk monitoring tools 6.6
   https://ecsoft2.org/smart-disk-monitoring-tools
   The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and
   smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the /Self-Monitoring,
   An/

 * RPM&YUM for OS/2 4.13.0 & 3.4.3 https://ecsoft2.org/rpmyum-os2
   Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management
   system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and
   updating computer softwa

 * Popt 1.18 https://ecsoft2.org/popt
   Popt is a C library for parsing command line parameters.

 * POSIX Pthreads 0.2.6 https://ecsoft2.org/posix-pthreads
   This library provides basic POSIX Pthreads
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX_Threads support for OS/2.

 * PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions 8.45 & 10.37
   https://ecsoft2.org/pcre-perl-compatible-regular-expressions
   The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression
   pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl perl 5.

 * DjView & DjVuLibre 4.10.6 & 3.5.28 https://ecsoft2.org/djview-djvulibre
   Standalone viewer for DjVu files. Features include navigating documents,
   zooming and panning page images, producing and displaying thumbnails.

 * PRIMA 1.20 https://ecsoft2.org/prima
   Prima is an extensible Perl toolkit for multi-platform GUI development.

 * Createrepo 0.17.3 https://ecsoft2.org/createrepo
   This program generates a repodata dir and xml files for a repository of
   rpm packages. This repository is compatible with apt/yum/smart/yast and
   many other package-repository-related tools.

 * PHP 8.1.1 https://ecsoft2.org/php
   PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially
   suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

 * ClipGrab 3.9.7 https://ecsoft2.org/clipgrab
   With ClipGrab you can download online clips from many sites with just some
   clicks and then automatically convert them into "usable" files.

 * WarpSans font Extended size 1.1.0
   https://ecsoft2.org/warpsans-font-extended-size
   This is an unofficial extension to the OS/2 WarpSans bitmap font which
   provides several larger sizes (10 and 11 point) in both the regular and
   Bold weights.

 * Libusb 1.0.16 https://ecsoft2.org/libusb
   Libusb is a C library that gives applications easy access to USB devices
   on many different operating systems at userspace level.

 * TCP/IP 4.0 Fixpak 4.0 https://ecsoft2.org/tcpip-40-fixpak
   A set of packages to provide replacement modules for the OS/2 Warp V4,
   TCP/IP V4.0 stack, DLL's, and stack applications.

 * VDMSERVE (VDM Server Utility) 1.10
   https://ecsoft2.org/vdmserve-vdm-server-utility
   VDM Server Utility run DOS command in VDM in a "detached" background
   state.

 * PackMan 1.41e https://ecsoft2.org/packman
   PackMan is a GUI to manage lzh,  zip and other archive types.

 * FileStar/2 & FlexEdit  3.05.00 & 1.10.00
   https://ecsoft2.org/filestar2-flexedit
   FileStar/2 is a powerful OS/2 file management utility that users should
   find very helpful in the maintenance of all types of files.

 * IBM SOMobjects Developers Toolkit for OS/2 3.0
   https://ecsoft2.org/ibm-somobjects-developers-toolkit-os2
   The *System Object Model* (SOM) is a new object-oriented programming
   technology for building, packaging, and manipulating binary class
   libraries.

 * Weasel 2.79 https://ecsoft2.org/weasel
   Weasel: a POP3 and SMTP daemon for OS/2 (also available an IMAP optional
   extension).

 * Jhead 3.04 https://ecsoft2.org/jhead
   Jhead, a program for manipulating settings and thumbnails in jpeg Exif
   headers used by most Digital Cameras.

 * Python 2.7.6 https://ecsoft2.org/python
   An interpreted, object oriented, scripting language.

 * FreeRDP Client for OS/2 20220216 https://ecsoft2.org/freerdp-client-os2
   A FreeRDP port for OS/2, eComStation and ArcaOS. FreeRDP is a client for
   Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), used in a number of Microsoft Windows
   operation systems.

 * WordPerfect for OS/2 5.2 https://ecsoft2.org/wordperfect-os2
   WordPerfect for OS/2!

 * JALv2 Compiler (Just Another Language) 2.4q5
   https://ecsoft2.org/jalv2-compiler-just-another-language
   JAL (Just Another Language) is a Pascal-like programming language and
   compiler that generates executable code for PIC microcontrollers.

 * Runaway  https://ecsoft2.org/runaway
   What happens when computers get too much life in them? What if the mouse
   got so cruel that the programs on the desktop ran away from it whenever it
   approached? Find out with this program!

 * INI2Rexx 0.1.2.0.2 https://ecsoft2.org/ini2rexx
   INI2Rexx is a tool that eases the freezing, editing and mainteinance of
   INI files that you want to behave exactly as you like.

 * PSave  https://ecsoft2.org/psave
   Save Program Objects, shadows, and other non-disk objects into real disk
   objects. Why back up an entire OS2.INI file when you can back up the few
   objects you want to keep as short .CMD files?

 * Libpipeline 1.4.1 https://ecsoft2.org/libpipeline
   Libpipeline is a C library for setting up and running pipelines of
   processes, without needing to involve shell command-line parsing which is

 * DB2/2 Utilities  https://ecsoft2.org/db22-utilities
   This package contains a collection of utilities for use with DB2/2.

 * Credit Card Checker  https://ecsoft2.org/credit-card-checker
   Raw text Credit Card number checker. Checks the number only - doesn't
   confirm that it represents an account.

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