OS/2 News of Month - Dez/97

Internet Adventurer 1.20

Internet Adventurer integrates all major Internet protocols into one program. It supports WWW, IRC, New, Email, Java, FTP, and Telnet.
Internet Adventure has been awarded 5 cows by Tucows, the Highest possible score. Software Showcase rated Internet Adventurer "excellent"
The EDM/2 magazine said: This program can fulfill the needs of all but the most demanding of Internet users.
Is shareware, and costs $40 to register. Site: www.inetadv.net for free demo

Nota Musica

Johannes Martin Software-Entwicklung announced the availability of Nota Musica Sequencer for OS/2. As its name suggests, this program is a MIDI sequencer, it enables you to play and record music files on sound cards and musical instruments that are equipped with a MIDI interface. Supports the new Real-Time_MIDI interface of OS/2 Warp Version 4, which offers high quality and precision music.
"Nota Musica Sequencer is the first program that allows recording of MIDI files under OS/2 using an up-to-date graphical user interface" said project manager Ludger Martin. "Thanks to IBM Voice Type support, you can control recording and playback of music from your musical instrument. Speak to your computer, when recording shall begin!". he explained while playing tunes can be imported into Nota Musica for further editing and to create printouts.".
A MPU401 compatible sound card with wave-table or a MIDI key-board is recommended.
NMusica is $27. http://www.teamos2.de/software/notamusica/

Post Road and NetExtra

Inno Val Systems Solutions announced the availability of Post Road Mailer 3.0 for OS/2 and NetExtra 2.0 for OS/2.
The NetExtra is a major upgrade to what has become a wildly successful and best selling OS/2 product. This is the add-on to Netscape for a lot of power, features and usefulness. Post Road have a new tool bar and several other usability enhancements. The up-grade applies to you if you have a license for any OS/2 email program.
The both products are estimated to be about $25 (upgrade) and $40(new user) http://www.innoval.com

PowerBoot

Power boot is a utility that allows you to select which operating system to boot from, if you have multiple OSs on your drives.
If all you need is the ability to boot from different partition, Power Boot is more versatile and much less expensive than another popular program. PBoot is an ideal and inexpensive companion to Partition-It or Partition Magic. You can create multiple Partition with Partition-It or Partition Magic, then use Power Boot to boot from any one of the partitions.
If you company uses Partition Magic 3.0 and you don't want to pay an exorbitant price for Boot Manager licenses, Power Boot is an excellent alternative. Unlike OS/2 Boot Manager, Power Boot does not occupy a primary partition entry; you can use all four primary partitions in a hard disk for different operating systems.
You can choose which drive letter an OS/2 HPFS partition can be booted with. You can hide or unhide partition, on the fly, as you boot up. There is no need to run another program in order to hide or unhide partitions. With a one touch option, you can configure your system to install an OEM version of an operating system (such as Windows 95 OSR2). Often, such OEM versions will not install if they detect another operating system.
Power Boot is Power-Chain enabled. You can install more than one utility in the master boot record of your hard drive.
$25, at BMT Micro

ETHMON2

ETHMON2 LAN analyzer for OS/2 is a Network monitoring program for use with Ethernet NetWorks. Among its features are:

• Real time monitoring
  
• Statistics
  
• Protocol decoding
  
• Report generator
  
• Multi-level filtering
  

PM2Web

PM2Web allows remote control of the OS/2 Presentation Manager desktop from an ordinary Web browser. This utility is best used for monitoring applications or remote control there keyboard input is not the main part of the application, as keyboard input is rather difficult.
$67 at BMT Micro

CapiTel

CapiTel is a 32-bit answering machine for OS/2, Win/95 and NT. It has graphical and text versions for all operating systems. Among its features are:

• 32-bit multi-theaded answering machine
  
• OS/2 graphical and text mode versions, bases on CAPI 1.1
  
• Graphical and text mode version for Win/95 / NT
  
• Complete Support for WAV files
  
• Remote control function, controlled by DTMF tones.
  
• Silence detection
  
• Completely configurable
  

MIDI Station

MIDI Station allows you to send MIDI SysEx messages to any MIDI compliant device through your sound card. This is accomplished by using the OS/2 Real Time MIDI subsystem. You create what are called 'Pages" that correspond to a particular MIDI device. Inside of a particular "page" you can have any number of Controls which correspond to a particular MIDI message. The maximum number of pages you can create is only limited by the amount of disk space you have. This configuration allows for a logical ordering of your MIDI setup.
$ 25 at BMT Micro

PM Make

Probably the most comprehensive PM based make program available, this product performs the core functions of making, backup, and restore, as well as being totally tools independent. PM Make can manage projects spread over directories, split into myriad subdirectories, numerous output files including several .EXE, .INF, .HLP etc. in one make. PM Make provides plugin DLL's push button control of tools option, library selection, selective backup, restore, and more.PM Make is multithreaded and never gives you a wait pointer. You can safely run multiple instances of PM Make.

$ 39.90 at BMT Micro