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Your OS/2 Abandonware Wishlist

Started by Terry, 2007.09.10, 23:29:04

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Terry

Wishlist:  "Wouldn't it be nice if..." this OS/2 application would be released to the eCS-OS/2 community as abandonware.

The Dadaware folks did this for OS/2 Embellish:  http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=embellish&pushbutton=Search

#1 "OS/2 Abandonware Wishlist" pick would be:  Visualizer Query.  Doug Clark's November 2001 OS/2 eZine article, "Visualizer Query," was a bonus article to his superb 12-part "OBDC on OS/2" series that ran in OS/2 eZine from May 2001 through April 2002.

As the article's screenshots attest, this is indeed a "killer application" since it is one of the few database apps that was fully integrated into the OS/2 Workplace Shell.  Visualizer Query requires either an OS/2 DB2 CAE, or OS/2 DB2 server.

OS/2 eZine's - Visualizer Query => http://www.os2ezine.com/20011116/page_4.html

OS/2 eZine's - OBDC on DB2 (part 7) => http://www.os2ezine.com/20011116/page_8.html

Astrac purchased the Visualizer Query rights from IBM, and later stopped offering this database reporting application apx. two years ago.  The last Astrac Visualizer Query offering was optimized for DB2 v.5x.

lwriemen

My list is all games.

Hopkins FBI and Links are two I really wish I had bought.

BigWarpGuy

Would the Win32Prn qualify as abadonware? http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?name=win32prn The database for it has not been updated since 2004. The source code was suppose to have been released to Netlabs but I have not heard anything about it. http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?name=win32prndownloads None of the files shown are downloadable or accessible.

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Paul Smedley

Quote from: BigWarpGuy on 2007.09.13, 20:24:20
Would the Win32Prn qualify as abadonware? http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?name=win32prn The database for it has not been updated since 2004. The source code was suppose to have been released to Netlabs but I have not heard anything about it. http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?name=win32prndownloads None of the files shown are downloadable or accessible.

8)

Mensys bought this code and were planning to further development - but based on CUPS having a better probability of success - they abandoned plans for win32prn.


warp

#4
One stable Audio/Data/Video-CD/DVD-Creator... ;-)
There is not an operating system already without this today !!! :-(

abwillis

Quote from: warp on 2007.09.14, 16:39:58
One stable Audio/Data/Video-CD/DVD-Creator... ;-)
There is not an operating system already without this today !!! :-(
What app are you thinking of that is abandonware?  RSJ has not long ago put out a new release, the only other option I am aware of is Open Source already.

cytan

IBM EWS written PMDRAW, a near full featured vector drawing programme. I use it all the time and it's fantastic except for a few small bugs. I personally find it better than xfig.

It'll be great if it becomes open sourced and  the few bugs are fixed like 8.3 filenames.

cytan

BigWarpGuy

BueCad? I think it is abandonware since there aren't any newer versions of it (at least not for OS/2-eCS).
http://www.cadwaresoft.com/eng/html/bc10install.html

Ben

For my part, I'd love to see OpenChat/2 open sourced.

It's a neat little IRC client that needs a bit of debugging and modernizing like the addition of UTF for example.

I believe someone tried to hunt down the author before...

Does anyone know anything about this?

nitro

Here are a couple more.

PMiNews (yenc crash fix? built in yenc support and a few other minor bugs)

Dictonary (full version of the Dux app that came in the family pack)  I found a back level copy on ebay but it is not easy to merge the two versions.


Robert Deed

Mikh claims the source code was lost in a hd crash or a fire or his dog ate it or something of the sort..  Better off getting development continued on pmbitchx

Quote from: Ben on 2007.09.14, 23:23:54
For my part, I'd love to see OpenChat/2 open sourced.

It's a neat little IRC client that needs a bit of debugging and modernizing like the addition of UTF for example.

I believe someone tried to hunt down the author before...

Does anyone know anything about this?


onlineuser2



As somebody suggested blue-cad, we may remember of Bentley os/2 Microstation (perhaps called Microstation 95 till its last release), which is a superb 3d-cad with rendering (I am told), born as a true professional tool. But how to do?
Herewith some more news http://www.os2ezine.com/20030916/page_4.html

onlineuser2

Ben

Quote from: Robert Deed on 2007.09.15, 07:04:35
Mikh claims the source code was lost in a hd crash or a fire or his dog ate it or something of the sort..
Which, I guess means that whichever the case may be, we aren't getting the source. Too darn bad.  :-\

Quote from: Robert Deed on 2007.09.15, 07:04:35Better off getting development continued on pmbitchx.
PMBitchX is a lesser client to be sure and a bit awkward to deal with, (though it's been a while since I've used it).

I'm wondering if there isn't something better out that in the *nix world, (or elsewhere), that we can get the code for.

I don't deal with *nix so I'm not in a position to suggest anything.

Anyone?

cyberspittle

Hockware Vispro C/C++, IBM Visual Age for Basic, hmmm

BigWarpGuy