The (Old) News Shelf

Last update: 6th November, 1995

15th July, 1995


 * Chris Martin's Toshiba notes:
 * Toshiba 2150CDS Installation Hang
 * Toshiba 2150CDS CDROM Problems
 * Jacco de Leeuw's note, SoundBlaster 2.0 clone won't work
 * Updated Rich Walsh's note, Ontrack Disk Manager and Warp
 * Updated S3 Video Cards and OS/2 Warp

12th July, 1995


 * Updated David Davis's note, May 1995 Drivers for ATI Mach 32 Video Cards
 * Rich Walsh's note, Ontrack Disk Manager and Warp
 * Alan J. Bayko's note, NEC Silentwriter 2 Model 90 doesn't print with OS/2 Warp
 * Miscellaneous Notes from A. Cope
 * Bob Rayburn's note, Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM and OS/2 Warp
 * Jim Torcivia's note, Setting up the Pioneer DRM-604X for cdAudio with OS/2 Warp
 * Tony Wilson's note, Odds and Sods from a Country Computer Store
 * Updated Roger Williams's note, Logitech Mouse - Right Mouse Button Doesn't Work
 * Updated S3 Video Cards and OS/2 Warp
 * Gregory B. Goodwin's note, Cirrus 5422 True Color Support Under Win-OS/2

20th June, 1995


 * New S3 drivers
 * Rumour has it that the OS/2 driver repository at IBM Europe has a set of drivers (look for s3252d*.zip) that work quite well with S3 805 cards. Could someone who has the time find the drivers, try them out and write up a note describing the results? Thanks muchly, jon.


 * Clark Gaylord's SLIP FAQ
 * According to Clark the SLIP FAQ is pre-Warp but still mostly relevant. Clark also has another set of pages with a tutorial with some tips about how to get the most out of OS/2.


 * Dan O'Reilly's note, PCMCIA Support on Compaq Aero Notebooks
 * Jim Little's note, Phoenix BIOS and SYS errors
 * Chris Richardson's note, Problems with Generic WD90C33 SVGA video Card
 * Volker Doerrsam's note, New drivers for Miro Video Cards

3rd June, 1995


 * The Nova Scotia mirror has moved.
 * David Davis's note, May 1995 Drivers for ATI Mach 32 Video Cards
 * Michael Garcia's note, Warp LaunchPad Position/Maximize Problem
 * Bob Rayburn's note, Redial Loop in REXX Script fails after slip/ppp update

20th May, 1995


 * Added a pointer to Peter Child's collection of INF documents, including:
 * The IBM WorldWide Resources list
 * The Warp FAQ (v3)
 * The OS/2 Programmer's FAQ
 * The TRAP Info FAQ
 * The Good-Bad-Ugly-Hardware Review
 * comp.os.os2.announce database
 * Glenn Drayton-Bright's note, Using Diamond Stealth 64 with Warp Fullpack/Warp Connect
 * Thomas Warfel's note, Realising the hi-performance capabilities of STB Lightspeed VL Bus card

6th May, 1995


 * Added a pointer to IBM's Warp Migration Assistant
 * Updated Trident Video Cards and OS/2 Warp
 * Updated Using Jumbo Colorado Tape Drives with OS/2
 * Updated C0000005 ON DISK #1 INSTALLATION OF WARP CS:EIP = 013b : 00000ced CSLIM = 000025ab
 * Updated Using Diamond Stealth 64 with Warp
 * Gaute Tjelflaat's note, Using the NCR53c810 SCSI adapter with OS/2 Warp (and Linux)
 * Updated PJ15955 - INSTALLATION AND/OR SELECTIVE INSTALL OF OS/2 3.0 CAUSES THE SYSTEM TO HANG IF NE2000 ETHERNET CARD IS PRESENT

23rd April, 1995


 * Matt Hickman's note, Using Web Explorer's ftp Capabilities for .exe Files
 * Ahmad Al-Nusif's note, Winos2 not starting with ATI Xpression64
 * Updated Matt Hickman's note, ROUTE.SYS in the OS/2 2.11 Netware Requester

6th April, 1995


 * Arthur W. Adkins, Jr.'s note, Installing Plextor DM3028 CD-ROM Drivers (w/ Trantor T130)

1st April, 1995

Apoligies to those of you who sent me mail recently and have not received a reply - my outgoing mail directory got trashed and I lost both the mail I was going to send and the record of those to whom I intended to send it!
 * Bob Kitzberger's note, FrameMaker for Windows file sharing violations
 * Hans K. Aspenberg's note, MMPM/2 support for Sound Blaster 16 fails to install cleanly
 * Maurice Janssen's note, SB16 VE - 8 bit sound samples sound bad
 * Updated Warp Installation from Aztech CD fails - no matching driver found
 * Updated Trident Video Cards and OS/2 Warp
 * Updated Installing OS/2 On Hard Drives With OnTrack DiskManager
 * Updated Using Jumbo Colorado Tape Drives with OS/2
 * Rocco's tips for installing Warp on a Toshiba notebook.

jon.

14th March, 1995


 * Rupa Schomaker's note, The Internet Adapter (TIA) and IAK
 * Updated Install from CD-ROM locks up
 * Updated Installing OS/2 On Hard Drives With OnTrack DiskManager

5th March, 1995


 * Mark Ingebretson's note, Windows GPF - WINSHIELD.EXE error in SBPSND.DRV
 * Updated Trident Video Cards and OS/2 Warp (again!)
 * Matt Hickman's note, Using the Same System Login Script for OS/2 and DOS
 * David J. Birnbaum's note, How to get Netware and TCP/IP to Coexist

2nd March, 1995


 * Added HTML version of Rod Smith's Should I buy OS/2 Warp 3.0?
 * HTML rendering performed by Lori Ragnarsson.
 * Made all the GIFs transparent (at last!)


 * Joseph J. Quinlan's note, Automated Netware Logon
 * Matt Hickman's notes:
 * Install of Windows Files Using Windows CD-ROM
 * Running IAK and LAN TCP/IP Simultaneously - Security Issue
 * Using Netware for a CID Install of Warp
 * ROUTE.SYS in the OS/2 2.11 Netware Requester
 * Unattended Warp Netware Login with Password
 * Khamdy Xayaraj's note, Wizard 924 (S3 86C924 chip set)
 * Updated PAS-16 Sound cards and OS/2 Warp
 * Updated Installing OS/2 On Hard Drives With OnTrack DiskManager
 * IBM's Ultimail FAQ
 * Updated Erratic Joystick Behavior using OS/2 Warp 3.0
 * Added a pointer to a search page maintained by IBM.
 * Vinson J. Hua's note, Keyboard and Green AMI BIOS - an UGLY workaround
 * Updated Trident Video Cards and OS/2 Warp

27th February, 1995


 * Jay Tipton's note, Promise DC4030VL-2 Card - cannot read MBR
 * Added this switch to the header of the main pages:
 * World: Australia | Europe | North America | Singapore
 * Europe: Austria | Birmingham | Budapest | France | Italy | London | TeamOS/2 (Germany)
 * North America: Berkeley | Chattanooga | Minnesota | Nova Scotia | Ontario | Pennsylvania | TeamOS/2
 * Use this switch to hop across to the Warp Pharmacy image closest to your location and you should notice a performance improvement.
 * Added this switch to the trailer of the main pages:
 * The Warp Pharmacy | News | Hardware | Software | Symptoms | Procedures | References | Commerce | Search | More Help!!!

11th February, 1995


 * Updated Warp Tips page with 6 new tips.
 * Updated OnTrack note with Zdenek Wagner's tip.
 * Updated Canon printer note with Jonas Reppe's suggestion.
 * Greg Steckman's note Sending mail no longer works after software update.
 * Tim Smith's note Linux, OS/2 and >1024 Cylinder HDDs.
 * Updated Ake Johansson's note about Micropolis HDDs.
 * Sumner Jenkins' note about an internal modem on COM3.
 * Joseph J. Quinlan's note Installing PCMCIA Support in Warp on the Gateway 2000 Handbook
 * Anne Baker's note Hitachi CD-ROM (proprietary CDR-3600)
 * Jon Seymour's note IBM Ethernet II 10Base2 Credit Card Adapter

6th February, 1995


 * An update about SB16 cards.
 * Updated OnTrack note.
 * Ake Johansson's note about Micropolis HDDs (1GB).
 * Tal Barenboim's Erratic Joystick Behavior using OS/2 Warp 3.0
 * Randy Ellingson's Hang on Install Disk #1.
 * Ake Lindblad's Avance Logic Video Cards.
 * Added a pointer to Rutger van de Gevel's S3 note.
 * Added pointers to .TXT and .INF files containing Warp Tips.
 * Updated ftp links in Jon Seymour's S3 805 note.

29th January, 1995


 * IBM's Warp Fix Pack # 3
 * Russell Lang's note Netware access from OS/2
 * Russell Lang's note Pegasus Mail from OS/2
 * IBM's European Personal Software Marketing home page.
 * La Trobe University's Hobbes Mirror (Australia)
 * IBM PC Company's FTP server

18th January, 1995


 * Added Swiss mirror.
 * Keith Medcalf's Mixed Mode Semaphore Support
 * Western Digital Video Cards
 * S3-764 Video Cards
 * OAK Video Cards

15th January, 1995


 * Updated the AmiPro note with information about startup directories.
 * Re-organised the structure of the Warp Pharmacy to better support mirror sites.
 * Chris Bartling's note, OS2.INI, HPFS and PTI DC4030VL-2 IDE Caching Controller Card
 * David Silva's note, Optimising performance using the SWAPPATH statement
 * David Silva's note, Optimising performance of Windows under Warp

13th January, 1995


 * Added some mirror sites

12th January, 1995


 * CD-ROM drive as slave on secondary IDE controller
 * AmiPro for Windows under Warp
 * SIIG SCSI-PRO (XL-221)
 * An update to the OnTrack note.
 * Added pointer to triwarp.zip

9th January, 1995


 * C.E. Wyatt's USR Modems - bad modem ROM causes problems at higher speeds
 * Andy Wolff's Trident Video Cards and OS/2 Warp
 * Jon Seymour's Unable to load operating system from start drive
 * Updated Opening a folder sometimes causes the WPS to hang

6th January, 1995


 * Randy Ellingson's note about Diamond Stealth 24 ISA cards.

4th January, 1995


 * Larry Bell's Warp Sound Tips
 * Fixed the link to Paul Kolenbrander's home page
 * Reorganised the top level pages.
 * Updated About The Warp Pharmacy
 * Made the Contribution Guidelines a bit more contributor-friendly.

31st December, 1994


 * Opening a folder sometimes causes the WPS to hang

30th December, 1994


 * Using Jumbo Colorado Tape Drives with OS/2
 * Video, OS/2 Warp and IBM ThinkPads
 * OS2INFO: a PM tool to help create problem reports to be sent to IBM.
 * A procedure for swapping the A: and B: drive.

29th December, 1994


 * Installing OS/2 On Hard Drives With OnTrack DiskManager
 * Promise Technology Inc. Products and OS/2 Warp
 * Fixed a few link errors. Added a few index entries.

27th December, 1994


 * Reorganised The Tonic Shelf into a number sub-shelves.
 * Added a selection of IBM's Warp Tips
 * This section is derived from .TXT files found on software.watson.ibm.com.
 * Added The CD-ROM Shelf
 * The CD-ROM Shelf is dedicated to collecting information about using CD-ROM drives with OS/2 Warp
 * Changed most ftp references to point to a directory rather than a particular file.
 * Fixed broken link to OS/2 Warp APAR List - Part 1 (30apr1.zip)

24th December, 1994


 * Marked up Frank McKenney's Warp Installation Notes v1.1.2 in HTML.

19th December, 1994

I am going away for a few days. I will respond to any correspondence upon my return.
 * Tseng Lab ET4000/W32 (Hercules) video cards.
 * Diamond Stealth 64 video cards.
 * Mach 32 video cards on a Packard Bell P60.
 * PAS-16 sound cards.
 * Logitech Mouseman mice.

Seasons Greetings To All!,

jon seymour.

18th December, 1994


 * Added pointer to ATI Video Cards and OS/2 Warp.

17th December, 1994


 * Converted Frank McKenney's Warp Installation Notes v1.0 into a multi-page document to reduce the hit on the Web server's net bandwidth.

15th December, 1994


 * We need some help to catalog Warp fixes on Hobbes. Interested?
 * Added pointer to 3Com 3C509 drivers.
 * Added pointer to Doom under OS/2 tips

14th December, 1994


 * Added a SLIP tip.

12th December, 1994


 * Added names of some contributors. Thanks, guys!
 * Added a page for the occasional anecdote.