For those of you who don't know what MIDI Station Sequencer is - its the most advanced MIDI/Audio MIDI sequencer available for the OS/2 platform!!
You can download the latest version at: http://www.dinosoft.it/~midistation/index.html
The website will be updated with correct screenshots of the sequencer over the next few days. Look for the final edition in two weeks!!
I look forward to hearing your feedback and comments.
As of now, the new Generic WinOS/2 audio driver is available for download at:
This release, v2.1r01, supports both wave in and wave out, the wave-in source is selectable beteen mike and line inputs. MIDI is coming soon.
This is an ongoing development, so relatively frequent releases and updates can be anticipated.
The driver is available for download completely free of charge.
NEW IN THIS RELEASE
This release comes quickly on the heels of v2.3 but we have added a new feature that we felt deserved to see the light of day. It is a type of seamless install from zip archives. Double-clicking on any install.exe or setup.exe in the viewer automatically sets the archive up to do an installation. Afterward the user can press the "Clean up" button to have WarpZip take care of the mess.
WARPZIP OVERVIEW
WarpZip is the latest in Zip and OS/2 "Packed" file management. Beneath WarpZip's stunning interface you will find some revolutionary and powerful functions that will save both time and effort and boost your productivity.
The integration of a directory tree as part of the interface makes unarchiving complete archives or just selected file(s) from an archive to any directory as simple as a 3 inch drag and drop, to ANYWHERE on your drives. If you don't have the directory you want, create it! You can also open any folder from the directory tree for drag and drop operations. Drag files into or out of archives. Delete any directory or even complete directory trees from WarpZip!
DOWNLOAD PREPROCESSOR
No more manually selecting a directory when downloading from NS. WarpZip's Download PreProcessor allows your browsing sessions to sport one click downloads that obey your every whim. It will selectively move your downloaded zip files to any directory you choose, test them for integrity, virus test them and queue them up for later review by WarpZip. All this is handled seamlessly in the background while you spend your on-line time making your browser session count. When you're off-line, WarpZip will be waiting with the list of files you've downloaded. It will automatically load them in it's queue on startup and present you with any test results you may have requested.
PACKED FILES?
OS/2 Packed file extensions can have "_" or "@" or no extension at all. So how do you locate them? Better yet, how do you locate and see what files are archived inside of them? We are unaware of any software that will help you find those almost unrecognizable OS/2 packed files except WarpZip. Of course, dragging a file out of them or viewing them is as easy as working with a zip archive.
SEARCH FACILITIES
WarpZip will search a directory, directory tree, hard disk or CD for zip files as well as OS/2 packed files. It will add or delete files from archives, view files in archives or you can test run them (to do an installation, for example) and let WarpZip clean up after you. You can test zip files or run virus scans, view bitmaps, grep, build self extractors, copy, move, rename, delete... well... you get the picture...
INSTALLATION DETAILS
During installation WarpZip will allow you to use existing paths for dll's etc. and keep track of them for you. It will write an uninstall script specific to your installation should you decide to remove the program at a later date. No forgotten file clutter...
ERRATA
WarpZip licenses are available at BMT Micro ($29) http://www.bmtmicro.com/
After visiting with many of you at WarpStock, (Arkay brought this to my attention) it has become apparent that we haven't been able to make it all clear about what WarpZip really does. Because I can't demo it very easily here, I would hope that you all would take the opportunity to download a fully functional copy from our web site and try everything out. The "Sample.zip" that opens automatically on the first run will help get your feet wet but we hope you will check into all the different search mechanisms in the program too.
Back Again/2000 has many new features and capabilities not found in any other OS/2 backup utility. These new features make protecting your OS/2 workstation or server easier and faster than ever before:
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- Brad Benson
Software Engineer
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December 6, 1999
New in this version:
Added support for time zone settings. More than 300 countries and locations around the world are available with their settings for the tz variable.
Added a Fastsave option. Fastsave saves the config.sys file only, without showing the new config.sys file and all the dialogs.
Added some functions to determine that the config.sys file is bootable and compatible with the OS/2 install and update programs. These functions are called at every save. The limitations are as follows: Config.sys should not be greater than 64000 Bytes, Config.sys should not have more than 600 lines and a single line should hot have more than 1024 characters right from the equal sign.
The Change History function has been redesigned to avoid problems with the 600 lines limitation. The Change History will now be written to an externally file and not inside the config.sys file.
Tyra/2 is year 2000 tested and proofed.
Added some entries to the Config.sys Descriptions.
On my web site is a small utility available that can speed up the start time of Tyra/2 and any other VXREXX written software. This is done by preloding the Vrobj.dll file and holding it in the memory.
Tyra/2 is available in English and German.
Bug corrections:
Fixed a problem with the Check Paths function. The function reported that you can delete the boot drive entry (i.e. C:\) from the the SET Path variable. It is only needed by the Setup.cmd from any GRADD based graphiccard driver. Without it the setup.cmd will fail with an error message "Can't find BOOTOS2", you have to add the bootdrive to the SET Path variable.
Fixed all reported errors.
Tyra/2 is shareware and you will have 31 days to test it. If you are an author of a piece of OS/2 Freeware you can get a key for free.
You can download the newest version of Tyra/2 from this sites:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incomming/tyra170e.zip will be moved in the next time to ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/config/tyra170e.zip
And in the next days at http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/tyra2.html