Links

This page is formerly known as "Timur Tabi's Programming Links", from the old EDM/2 web site. The content has seen some recent updates but is still not fully checked so you will find the odd dead link.

Most of the links are to OS/2-specific sources of information, however links to generic (i.e. not platform-specific) sources are sometimes included for completeness.

Other OS/2 and eComStation related web sites

• eCSoft/2 - OS/2 & eCS software news an listings - By far the best updated and most comprehensive out there - In both Italian and English.
• eComStation.ru - Loads of info in Russian and English
• OS/2 World - News, forums and Wiki.
• OS/2 Warp News and Rumors
• OS/2 and eComstation Korea South Korean user forums and so on, responsible for a number of OS/2 ports of UNIX software.
• OS/2.org - Used to be a generic info page on OS/2 and eComStation issues but is now primarily a German language forum, but as such all in all more popular than any English language one.
• WarpServer Blog - In German - News snippets on new and updated OS/2 software and more detailed blog postings on older ones.
• Nightcall BBS - These are the archives of what used to be the Scandinavian BBS, outdated but contains a lot of old files there that are not to be found anywhere else.
• Alex Chapman OS/2 Home Page - Tad outdated in parts but useful info buried in between.
• Wisdomtree - Collection of eCS & OS/2 related links.

There are also a few related groups that have become invite only in the last couple of years.

OS/2 related blogs

• Metztli Information Technology Blog - IBM VAR, mostly Linux and zSystem, but quite a number of OS/2 related blogs in-between.

Conferences, seminars and user groups

Want to meet other OS/2 and eComstation users and developers?

• Warpstock - An OS/2 user/developer conference - Held in North America yearly
• Warpstock Europe - An OS/2 user/developer conference - Held in Europe yearly
• SCOUG Programming SIG - A special interest group of the Southern California OS/2 User Group
• Philadelphia Alternate Systems User Group - Highly OS/2 oriented
• VOICE - A "virtual" user group, i.e. not geographically constrained and holds meetings only on-line.
• Wellington User Group - New Zealand
• Team OS/2 Hamburg - Germany
• A list of Worldwide OS/2 user groups - from VOICE

Companies and individuals offering OS/2 and eComStation services

• BWW Bitwise Works - Austrian company that offers custom OS/2 programming services and more.
• Arca Noae - USA based company, offers driver updates and sundry custom install, development and deployment services.
• XEU - Dutch company that offers the eComStation OS and sundry related services
• eComStation.it/Massimo Sangriso - Italian integrator, provides all common services and sales locally.
• Neil Waldhauer aka Blond Guy - California, USA, does consulting and support of OS/2 related systems.
• Russ Harvey - OS/2 consultation and services in Canada

Project and source hosting

Websites that provide a range of support options for OS/2 developers, the big two are SourceForge and GitHub and they have their own separate pages.

• Codeplex - Microsoft's alternative, good but not flexible about licenses - Free
• Gitorius - Less popular alternative to GitHub - Free for open source projects
• Bitbucket - Offers both free and paid project hosting - not as flexible as some of the others.
• Code Base - Project hosting - Not free but inexpensive and has more features than most free alternatives.
• Launchpad - Project hosting - Primarily intended for open source projects.
• Jira - Paid for only
• Unfuddle - Paid for project hosting

See also: Configuration management

Online References

Manuals and other online guides on OS/2 programming

• The OS/2 API Project - OS/2 API documentation on the web
• IBM BookManager - Tons of documents in BM format.

Programming related news groups, forums and mailing lists

• comp.os.os2.programmer.tools - OS/2 development tools
• comp.os.os2.programmer.porting - Porting software from other operating systems to OS/2
• comp.os.os2.programmer.oop - SOM, WPS, and other object-oriented OS/2 programming
• comp.os.os2.programmer.misc - General OS/2 programming
• Os2ddprog - Yahoo OS/2 Device Driver Development Group
• David's device driver page

Magazines and articles with OS/2 programming content

• OS/2 e-Zine - The premier OS/2 news source, with the occasional developer-related article
• Microsoft Systems Journal back issues - Although they're no longer online, the older issues have lots of OS/2 information.

FTP sites (or their WWW equivalents), search engines, and other indices

• BMT Micro's OS/2 catalog - A collection of shareware OS/2 tools
• Hobbes' dev directory - Lots of stuff.

Low-level OS/2 programming

Device drivers, real-time control, hardware access, etc.

• The OS/2 Programming Device Drivers mailing list - This page contains all driver-related information.

Visual programming, CASE, RAD, etc.

• VisualAge Generator - A RAD tool for Java, I think.
• Object WorkBench - A workframe for C++ and Java programmers
• ZMECH - A cross-platform visual CASE tool

Embedded Systems

• ESP Magazine's embedded systems develop internet resources - Tons of links to WWW resources on embedded systems development.
• JAL V2, XWISP2 - Software for Microchip® PICmicro® controllers

Presentation Manager (PM)

• Generalised Bitmap Module - Libraries and source code for loading, saving, and manipulating images in a variety of file formats
• V C++ GUI Framework - Cross-platform GUI Framework, now for OS/2!

Multimedia, Graphics, and Game Development

• Crystal Space - A free 3D engine for OS/2 and other OS's, note that only older versions have explicit OS/2 support, but the code is fairly portable.
• BlobCity - An OS/2 game like SimCity, with great multithreading and full source code

Version Control and Project Management

• Opus Make - A cross-platform powerful make utility

Copy Protection, Encryption, and Security

• SecureIt - Registration protection for your shareware application

Applications with documented plug-in API's

• CadWare's BlueCAD 1.0 - An excellent small and fast CAD package for OS/2
• Maul Publisher - An OS/2-only desktop publishing application

Editors and Viewers

• Fast Editor Lite - Small yet powerful programmers editor for OS/2
• Andys Source Code Folding Editor - Cross-platform editor with the ability to group lines into a larger 'meta-line'

Miscellaneous

• OS/2 and Linux Topics - And yet another mostly outdated index
• OS/2 emulation layer for NT - Emulates over 110 DOSCALL functions under NT
• Christoph Bratschi's Homepage - Small programmer's editor, Netscape plug-ins, MCI tester, some file viewers, etc.
• Telvox Srl - Some kind of cross-platform CODEC, I'm not sure what it does

Historical computing and programming

• Historic Documents in Computer Science by Karl Kleine at the Jena University, the latter being historically important since it was the primus motor behind the early ALGOL development, unusual for a then East European country.

Other Languages

• Développer sous OS/2 - A list like this one, but in French
• PIDO/2 - Italian translation project for eComStation and individual software packages.

See also:

• Links - Italian
• Links - Turkish