SCANDINAVIAN REPORT


Serving Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden
by Kaare Thor Olsen
Odense, Denmark
kaare@nightcall.dk
http://www.nightcall.dk/
http://www.nightcall.dk/english.htm (English version)

OS/2 news in Danish

Tim Liljendahl has set up a mirror of OS/2 SuperSite's "OS/2 News and Rumours section" at http://phase2.dk/os2/nyheder/ translated to Danish.

A mirror of the OS/2 CONNECT newsletter, run by Eric Johannesen of Denmark, is available at http://www.zitech.dk/userwebs/ericjohs/connect/welcome.htm.

Team OS/2

Suomen Team OS/2 (Team OS/2 in Finland) is represented on the Internet at http://www.teamos2.sci.fi/. Available in both Finnish and English.

Knud Berggreen has taken over the job as Team OS/2 Denmark's webmaster from Peter Lauridsen. The site has been redesigned, and looks very nice thanks to Knud's son, Brian S. Berggreen, it is still located at http://www.teamos2.dk/. All information is in Danish.

OS2NET

Having just been elected "Zone Coordinator" of OS2NET, I'll take this opportunity to mention the network in this column.

An excerpt from OS2NET's guidelines: "OS2NET is a collection of BBS SysOps who believe in the value and capabilities of the OS/2 operating system. [...] One of the primary reasons for the existance of OS2NET is to provide a primary focal point for OS/2 activity within the BBS community. [...]"

OS2NET is a so-called "FidoNet Technology Network", which means that we use the technology originally developed for FidoNet, but without FidoNet's occasional struggles for power.

In Scandinavia OS2NET is represented in Denmark, Finland and Sweden. Feel free to contact me if you've become interested in joining the network, it being as a sysop (node) or user (point), and don't know who else to contact. OS2NET is also represented in many other countries, including, but not limited to: USA, Canada, Germany, Japan and Ukraine.

Applications and utilities

Looking for a powerful graphics file viewer? Then PMView, by Peter Nielsen from Finland, is probably what you have been looking for. Point your browser at http://www.bmtmicro.com/pmview/ to download a trial version. You can also register PMView (the page is located at BMT Micro's site) or you can register PMView in Scandinavia at http://hjem.get2net.dk/berggreen/.

Back in the IBM/MS-DOS days some of us used RAM disks to speed up our slow computers, Karl Olsen from Denmark has created an IFS-based RAM disk for OS/2 called "RAMFS" which can be downloaded from http://home3.inet.tele.dk/kro/.

Finally, if you used to own a Commodore 64 computer you may remember composers like Ron Hubbard. Now Thomas A. K. Kjær has ported Michael Schwendt's SIDPLAY to OS/2. SidPlay OS/2 can be downloaded from http://www.netby.nerdscan.dk/Syd/Flygelstraede/takk/SidPlay/index.html.

Software collections

Eric Johannesen has put together a collection of OS/2 programs for beginners, and everyone else interested, at ftp://ftp.zitech.net/pub/OS2/.

SUNET (Swedish University Network) is currently the only Scandinavian Internet site carrying a "Tucows/2" mirror, it is located at http://ftp.sunet.se/tucows2/. SUNET also has a "Hobbes OS/2 Archive" mirror at http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/OS2/ho bbes/, and a mirror of "Coast to Coast"'s OS/2 Software Repository at http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/ mirror/Coast/os2/

FUNET (Finnish University Network) also used to have a Hobbes mirror, but it is down due to a disk crash.

Opera Software

If you're interested in to work progress on Opera Software's "Project Magic" it is now possible to use the company's public news server at news:opera.nta.no.

I sincerely hope that Netscape's decision to make their browsers free for everyone (great!) isn't going to hurt Opera Software's "Project Magic".

Link page

A web page with links to Scandinavian OS/2 resources, including the ones mentioned here, is located at http://www.nightcall.dk/os2links.htm, suggestions are most welcome, as are us usual comments and ideas for this column!

- Kaare Thor Olsen

Kaare Thor Olsen is a programmer in Odense, Denmark. He has been using OS/2 since version 2.0 and is a member of Team OS/2. He is also the SysOp for the NightCall BBS at +45-63 12 10 74, +45-63 11 10 74, and +45-66 19 30 74.