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)

CUSeeMe/2 by Kim Kruse Hansen
http://inet.uni2.dk/~deckkh/

Again I came across an application whose name I am familiar with, without having noticed it is of Scandinavian (Danish) origin. CUSeeMe/2 is a video conferencing program compatible with the corresponding Mac and Windows applications, it is not a port from one of those systems.

Using CUSeeMe/2 you can transmit audio and video over the Internet. Obviously a camera is required in order to transmit video, and a sound card for the audio part. I haven't tried the program, but download the application and give it a try if it is something you need. Besides the already mentioned hardware CUSeeMe/2 also requires Warp 3 or Warp 4, MMPM, Dive and Dart, and mimimum a 14k4 connection to the Internet.

Hexen ported to OS/2 by Jostein Ullestad of Power Utilities
http://www.powerutilities.no/hexen2.html

Jostein Ullestad is porting Raven/Activision's DOS game Hexen to OS/2. I don't play games and have no idea what the game play is about, but if you are a gamer, or the name rings a bell, go get it! :-) Hexen/2 requries Dive.

FrontDoor for OS/2 by Definite Solutions
http://www.defsol.se/ifd.html

FrontDoor is a very popular FidoNet communications application that has been available in DOS flavour for many years. The developers have finally released the long-hoped-for OS/2 version as shareware (and as a commercial application). If you don't know what FidoNet is I recommend following the link to read more about.

GoldED for OS/2 by GoldWare
http://www.goldware.dk/

GoldED is another very popular FidoNet application; it is an advanced message editor that has been around for many years for various operating systems, including OS/2. In the beginning of 1999 Odinn Sørensen, the primary developer, released the source code for GoldED as OpenSource and has also made the code available on a CVS server.

XFolder with Swedish National Language Support
http://www2.hu-berlin.de/~h0444vnd/xfldr.htm

The WPS enhancer XFolder is now available in Swedish from the German developer's home page. Translated by Roger Lindmark and Simon Gr”nlund.

InJoy Firewall 1.1 by F/X Communications
http://www.fx.dk/firewall/

F/X Communications has released version 1.1 of the InJoy Firewall. It runs on the computer with the Internet connection and acts as a gateway for the other computers on the network. The product is designed for LAN-to-LAN configurations, including the many new Cable Modem and xDSL installations.

The Larsen Commander by Leif-Erik Larsen has been updated
http://home.sol.no/~leilarse/lcmd/index.html

Leif-Erik Larsen is busy adding new features and fixing bugs in his Larsen Commander, an Norton/Windows Commander clone for the Presentation Manager. The current beta is number five with the version number 0.95, now with drag-and-drop support.

Swedish FixPak 38 for Warp 3
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v3.0warp/swedish/

FixPak 38 was released in Swedish in mid-December. There is no news on FixPak 8 (or later) in Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish, nor regarding FixPak 9 in Danish.


I came across the language specific fixes for Peer, TCP/IP stack, MPTS etc. for Warp 3 and 4. Links have been added to my page listing Scandianvian OS/2 Resources, as have all other new links featured in this column.

Please do not hesitate to send me any news related to OS/2 from around the Scandinavian area.

- 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 12 11 74, and +45-63 12 12 74.