Today, netlabs.org, the OS/2 User Group Dresden and Alexandr Cherkaev are releasing the first alpha version of the IEEE 1394a - Firewire driver set for OS/2 and eComStation.

This version does not yet enable you to use external Firewire hard drive cases, it will only show if your Firewire controller is supported by this driver! Install the driver and use the included resource manager to see if the driver did correctly recognize your Firewire controller!

Warpstock Europe 2004 is going strong!
Take a look at http://www.warpstock.net

SESSIONS
Although it still takes quite a while before November 26th is finally there, the speaker sessions at WarpStock Europe 2004 are filling up rapidly.
There is already a lot of information about the program available on the Warpstock Europe website (http://www.warpstock.net/index2.html ).
Please take into account the session list is changing regular. The availability of the final schedule depends on how fast the few empty places will be filled up.
Some sessions expecting to be added:

SoX (also known as Sound eXchange) translates sound files between different file formats, and optionally applies various sound effects.

Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=sox-12.17.4

GNU Privacy Guard version 1.2.5 has been ported to OS/2. This is a complete and free replacement for PGP, and is compliant with OpenPGP.

Download: http://www.tobiashuerlimann.de/GnuPG/
Project Web Site: http://www.gnupg.org/

There are various eComstation themes available; the most recent is a collection of 12 by David Graser. Thanks to [stom] for the news.

URL: http://www.ecssite.com/sw/graphics/themes/

TOP had been updated.

URL: http://home.clara.net/orac/os2.htm#top

TOP is an OS/2 VIO application to monitor CPU usage by process. It does NOT impose an artificial load on the system to generate usage statistics. The process list can be sorted according to various criteria (including CPU percentage, name, threads), and any process from the list can be selected to be killed.

TTF2PT1 version 3.4.4 has been ported to OS/2. This tool will convert TrueType fonts into Adobe Postscript Type 1 fonts.

Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=ttf2pt1

OpenWatcom C/C++ 1.3 RC3 is available for download.

Download: open-watcom-os2-1.3-rc3.exe

Open Watcom is a joint effort between SciTech Software Inc, Sybase®, and the Open Source development community to maintain and enhance the Sybase Watcom C/C++ and Fortran compiler products. Plans for Open Watcom include porting the compiler to the Linux and FreeBSD platforms, as well as updating the compilers to support the latest C and C++ ANSI standards.

web Site: http://www.openwatcom.org/

IBM1S506 replacement, supports Intel, VIA, Ali, SiS, CMD, Promise, Cyrix, HPT, AMD, Artop, SMSC, ServerWorks, Opti, Nvidia, NatSemi, SiliconImage, ITE, and ATI chips, SerialATA, disk capacities up to 2TiB, V1.6.9

Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=danis506r169

Enhanced shutdown helper driver, ver.0.01 is available for download at hobbes.

Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=esdhlpdd

ESDHLPDD.sys is a simple interface physical device driver (PDD) that can perform reboot / power-off after system shutdown without any kernel / subsystem modification. A sample executable, ESD.exe, issues system shutdown with 3 modes (conventional / reboot / power-off) interactively (via Presentation Manager) or not (via command line option).

Web Site: http://www.sys3175.com/~jjsuwa/