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
- 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.
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!
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:
- 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
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
- 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.
I am going away for a few days. I will respond to any correspondence upon my return.
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.