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Links for OS/2! HIGHLIGHTS The Magazine dedicated to OS/2, Windows Tip of the Day Windows NT, and Windows 95 users! If you use the command line, type "Start ." to open an explorer window of that MAGAZINE directory. Summer 997 http://www.stardock.com JAVA as a solution. IBM is positioning Warp 4 OS/2 PlusPak: PMINews Available as the premiere JAVA platform. As we go to press, the much (Internet Junk mail), great Stardock looks into JAVA as awaited PMINews became available binary post handling, and a a solution for business and Essentials as part of Stardock's popular PlusPak lot more. A full article on it consumer use for OS/2 and series. PMINews was developed will appear in the Fall issue of Windows users. Page 9. Stardock's utility suite by the team of SouthSoft (makers of grows up. PMMail) and published Electronic Commerce b y S t a r d o c k w a s Stardock's on-line store is OS/2 Essentials 1.1 designed from scratch now up and running. Users was released nearly 2 years to be the world's best can purchase software on- ago. In late June, Stardock news reader. line and download it for use released version 2.0 which Features include immediately. Is this a trend will better address the needs of a powerful yet easy for the future or a headache professional users of OS/2. to use user interface. waiting to happen? Page 7. OS/2 Essentials 1.x has Sophisticated filtering a strong corporate presence to help eliminate SPAM Battle of the 4.0's but its dual-emphasis on Windows NT vs OS/2 Warp. consumer users sent mixed The battle continues to rage signals to customers. With Links for OS/2! in corporate sites around 2.0, Stardock's removing all The world's best golf game comes to OS/2 with unique the home and on the desks doubt -- professional use only. features for OS/2! of power users everywhere. Stardock is taking out Havoc Which one should you and FileBar and replacing OS/2 users who have as well as the MS Golf .CRH choose? Page 7. them with SDS Benchmark, longed to play golf on their 32- course files. Even more, it also a utility the benchmarks OS/2 bit operating system no longer uses OS/2's unique abilities such Cross platform games performance in video, hard have to wait. Stardock and as its great GUI environment, Stardock and Access Software disk, and CPU categories. Access Software have signed an multithreaded features, and the team up to bring Links Moreover, this time around it agreement to bring Links to users latest multimedia features of OS/2 to OS/2. Stardock takes will come with a CID enabled of OS/2 Warp 3.0 or later. Entrepreneur and Stellar install making it easier to It also can use the Links386 Frontier to Windows 95 and install on a LAN and come Windows NT. Is this the start only on CD ROM. of a trend? Page 11. The CD will not only have the OS/2 Essential utilities, 1997 Reader's Choice it will also include important and useful files from OS/2 sites OS/2-Ezine has become around the world. This would OS/2's leading Electronic include Fixpack #1 for OS/2 Magazine. This year, they Warp 4, the latest Fixpacks for sponsored a worldwide OS/2 Warp 3, upgrades to OS/2 reader's choice contest. Page JAVA, Adobe Acrobat reader, 14. Fixkits to all of Stardock's products, demos of Stardock's Universal File Viewing products, and useful freeware Only Object Desktop and shareware programs from Professional has it. Find out the Internet. This will likely why you need it. Page 17. be a CD every OS/2 users will want to have. was available before. resources to run than it should have. But Spring time for Today, a typical new PC has state of the OS/2 Warp 4 really shows off my hardware's art sound, true color graphics, that runs a few abilities from a multitasking and object- the 32bit world. orders of magnitude faster than the 286-10 I oriented standpoint. Windows NT 4.0 out had just 8 years ago. The problems we have of the box can use SMP machines very well. Let's face it, desktop computing has today are quite different. Stardock itself is Windows 95 supports all the latest 3D cards gotten a lot better over the past few years moving towards solving a new set of problems. and neato multimedia features. for PC users. In the late 80's, I was a Data management is one of Stardock's new key What I want, as you might expect, is fairly heavy Amiga user. Today, I use a strategies for its professional and corporate the powerful object oriented environment combination of OS/2, Windows 95, and divisions. Consumers, or more specifically, of OS/2 with its fantastic DOS support NT. My only complaint being that these the game players, still want the best graphics, combined with the rock solidness of 3 OSs should somehow be combined into best sound, and best performance available. Our properly configured Windows NT machine the near-ideal OS. Consumer Software Products group continue to with Windows 95's consumer support. But all 3 of these OS's are light years ensure that our games have special benefits for Unfortunately, it doesn't look like that's ahead of what we were forced to use just those with the most powerful systems but also going to happen any time soon so I'll have a few years ago. My first PC, in 1989, run well on yesterday's machines as well (and to stick with using OS/2 sometimes, NT was a 286-10mhz with DOS Shell 4.0 we could get into a long discussion about how sometimes, and Win95 sometimes. I expect and a copy of Windows 2.11 which I used software is requiring too many resources!). most consumers will end up running a to work with PageMaker. It was pretty The OS's have finally begun to really use combo of (OS/2 or Win NT) and Windows pathetic. No sound, graphics were pretty the hardware I have. Even my puny 286-10 was 95. poor (320x200 with 256 VGA), and of capable of doing preemptive multitasking and Expect to see Stardock's business course no multitasking or crash protection. having crash protection. OS/2 1.x was the only strategy progress to support mixed Even Windows 95's biggest critics must OS at the time that could use it but it had poor environments. admit that it is light years better than what backward compatibility and required far more [email protected] News Briefs Stardock and Trilliun part ways. Avarice Fixkit Available. Stardock Expands... For the past year and a half, Stardock Adventurers who have had compatibility In June, Stardock is moving to a bigger and Trilliun Software Products have problems with Avarice can now download a office in the city of Livonia Michigan. Over collaborated on producing a game called Fixkit that addresses many of the concerns the past two years, Stardock has steadily Master of the Empire. In January, it of early players. The Fixkit is available at grown to the point that it could not fit any became clear that the two companies http://www.stardock.com. more employees into its existing building. could not agree on what the final version The current address and phone number of the game should be like. As a result, for Stardock will continue to work for Stardock and Trilliun agreed to go their Netscape Communicator Available (but several months. The new address is going own ways. Trilliun has said they will no OS/2 version) to be: seek a third party to market and distribute Netscape has released version 4 of Stardock Systems, Inc. the final game. Netscape Navigator in the form of Netscape 17292 Farmington RD. Communicator. This powerful suite of Internet Livonia MI 48152 InfoWorld's Editor in Chief claims utilities provides most of the functionality the casual Internet user would need. No details yet OS/2 users stuff the "Reader's on when the OS/2 version will be out. New PlusPak component in the Choice" ballot boxes. works. The third product in the PlusPak series InfoWorld's Editor in Chief claimed Stardock's CompuServe Forum goes in the April 3 issue of InfoWorld that is nearing completion -- PlusPak: B.U.G.S. "fanatical" OS/2 users were stuffing the cross-platform. This original arcade game made for OS/2 Recognizing the varied interests of ballot boxes in their annual "Readers is a bit like Galaga in game play except Stardock's customers, Stardock has begun to Choice" award survey. OS/2 had won with much nicer graphics and far more add new sections to its CompuServe forum "Product of the Year" for the past 4 years levels. Visit Stardock's website regularly to address the needs of its customers that in a row and had apparently won for the for updates. use Windows. Other sections have been 5th consecutive time. added to make the forum to allow mature OS/2 users in InfoWorld's electronic discussion on a wide range of topics. To reach Brad Wardell featured in forum (http://www.infoworld.com) said Stardock's forum, type GO STARDOCK on "Entrepreneur Magazine" there was no evidence of ballot stuffing CompuServe. The June issue of Entrepreneur and that OS/2 won primarily because Magazine had an article that featured OS/2 users cared more about their OS Stardock's President & CEO -- Brad choice than the typical Windows 95 user Wardell.
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