The (Old) News Shelf

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Last update: 6th November, 1995


15th July, 1995


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


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


5th March, 1995


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!)

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


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


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


9th January, 1995


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


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.