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Alex Taylor

Homepage: http://www.altsan.org/os2/

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Adobe Source fonts 2.0.20 Tuesday, 3 May, 2016 This package is a collection of high-quality open source fonts from Adobe: Adobe Source Code Pro, Adobe Source Sans Pro, and Adobe Source Serif Pro. This Font Software is licensed under the SIL... Read more
Daytime 1.21 Sunday, 13 June, 1999 Time and daytime server and client programs for OS/2 and Windows NT. The server implements the RFC 867 (daytime), RFC 868 (time) and RFC 1361 (SNTP) services, both for TCP and UDP protocols. The client can use any of these services. (... Read more
Fontname 1.0 Tuesday, 25 August, 2015 Command line tool to examine TrueType/OpenType fonts. Read more
MMAudio Pak & Audio codecs (APE I/O Procs) 2.0 & 0.13.29 Saturday, 30 August, 2003 Installation of these classes allow MP3s, APE, Ogg Vorbis, and FLACs can be played in any OS/2 player: Files can play by double-clicking on the files icon. Files can play in any Rexx program by using Multimedia... Read more
MyIP 0.7 Monday, 1 April, 2019 IP addresses for home users are usually dynamically assigned and change over time. MyIP returns your current IP address by connection to dedicated servers. Read more
REXXLibs (REXX Libraries) Thursday, 18 January, 2018 Open source REXX function libraries for OS/2. REXX libraries include: RXLVM, a (read-only) REXX... Read more
Universal Port Driver 1.0b1 Tuesday, 3 November, 2015 Universal Port Driver (uni.pdr) will eventually become the universal successor to smb.pdr, cups.pdr, ecups.pdr, eRedMan, PrintMon, lpr32.pdr, quePDF. The principle behind all these solutions is to take data coming from an eCS (OS... Read more
Workplace Font Family Saturday, 13 August, 2016 Workplace Gothic, Workplace Sans and Workplace Console are TrueType fonts designed to resemble WarpSans and System VIO original fonts. The fundamental difference... Read more

AE - text editor 1.9.9 Sunday, 16 November, 2003 AE is a simple text editor, designed to replace IBM's original OS/2 E.EXE. It mostly behaves the same, except for where behaviour has become annoying, irrelevant or inconsistent with other systems/programs. Several languages supported.... Read more
Almost Swiss Fonts 1.1 Monday, 15 July, 2019 Almost Swiss is an OS/2 bitmap font inspired by the 8- and 10-point sizes of the system font "Helv". Read more
Almost VIO Fonts 1.1 Monday, 15 July, 2019 Almost Swiss is an OS/2 bitmap font inspired by the 6-point sizes of the system font "System VIO". Read more
ANPM (Arca Noae Package Manager) 1.1.0.2 Saturday, 12 December, 2015 The Arca Noae Package Manager is a graphical interface to easily install, remove, and update software on any OS/2-based system. It is released under GPLv3 and is freely available for everyone. Read more
Archive Viewer 2.25 Sunday, 21 November, 2004 Archive Viewer is a very simple GUI tool for viewing and extracting archive files of various types. It originated as a system utility included in eComStation (and it remains so to this day). It... Read more
ATSHELL (Alex Taylor SHELL) 0.5 Saturday, 9 December, 2006 The AT Desktop Shell (ATSHELL) is a simple RUNWORKPLACE replacement. It allows an arbitrary executable to be run as the desktop program (in place of the Workplace Shell). When this program exits, the ATSHELL dialog (re)appears... Read more
Caratteri Liberation 1.07 Tuesday, 19 July, 2011 The "Liberation" family of fonts is designed as a Free alternative to several common MS Windows fonts. Read more
Cawf 4.10 Wednesday, 8 March, 2006 Cawf provides "a usable subset of raw nroff capabilities". Unlike groff, it is small and easy to install/use. It is also highly portable. Archive includes OS/2 executables and full source code. Read more
Configure Internet Applications 1.2.0 Thursday, 13 June, 2019 This utility sets default internet application paths in the OS/2 INI file. You can, for example, define default browser for Thunderbird mail client, or default mail client for Firefox browser... Read more
ConText/2 0.4 Monday, 12 February, 2007 ConText is a utility for converting text from one encoding (codepage) to another. Read more
CPMAP 1.2 Wednesday, 30 March, 2011 CPMAP is a simple program that can display a complete character map of any OS/2 codepage (even those which are not available for use as system or PM codepages). Read more
CUPSWIZ - CUPS printer-creation wizard 1.1 Wednesday, 3 January, 2018 This program is simple graphical front-end for creating CUPS-based printers under OS/2. Read more
DBCSM (Extended Character Map) 1.6 Saturday, 14 April, 2018 DBCSMAP is a simple 'character map' program that is specifically designed to support double-byte characters. Read more
Desktop Object Tool 0.4 Friday, 14 March, 2014 A simple tool to save the desktop settings (or other folders), usefull for backups. Read more
Droid fonts 1.0.0.2 Thursday, 17 January, 2019 "Droid" is a family of high-quality fonts originally designed for Google Android, and released under the Apache open source license. Read more
eCUPS 2.2.13 Thursday, 21 December, 2017 The eCUPS project is intended to create a seamless integration of CUPS into OS/2 base Operating Systems, to substitute the old and obsolete IBM... Read more
EPRINT - Enhanced PRINT for OS/2 0.5 Monday, 16 January, 2012 EPRINT is a command-line program designed as an improved or enhanced replacement for OS/2's built-in PRINT command. The main enhancement (at present) is the ability to print a file directly to any defined printer port —... Read more
Font Bitstream Charter 2.0 Thursday, 10 January, 2013 Bitstream Charter is a high-quality serif font which was specially designed for digital printing. This font supports the Latin-1 character set. Available in regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. Read more
FreeType/2-IFI 2.0.0 beta 1 Thursday, 28 November, 2013 FreeType/2 is an OS/2 TrueType Font Driver DLL based on the FreeType engine to enhance OS/2 standard TT font rendering (port by different authors). Read more
FrontenACT (ex PM CTorrent Manager) 0.50 Saturday, 11 September, 2010 This program is a graphical interface to the Enhanced CTorrent BitTorrent client for OS/2. Read more
Icon Themes 2.2 Thursday, 6 July, 2006 Icon Themes is a program which allows the desktop icons used throughout the Workplace Shell to be changed, based on installable icon sets or 'themes'. A number of themes are included, and various others are... Read more
IMERJ 2.0.1 Friday, 1 March, 2019 IMERJ is a "poor man's" input method editor (IME) for Japanese. It allows you to enter Japanese kana by typing romanized text in the edit window. The program does need to be run under codepage 932 if the... Read more
InstFont 1.0 Tuesday, 4 September, 2018 InstFont is a simple command-line tool for installing a font under OS/2 Presentation Manager. This program was written in order to facilitate automated font install... Read more
LAN Server Installation Tuesday, 27 February, 2018 This program allow you to install LAN Server components, available on IBM OS/2 Warp Server for eBusiness (Aurora Convenience Package 4.51 and 4.52), on top of any version of ... Read more
LPR32 Port Driver 1.1 Monday, 20 April, 2009 LPR32 is a printer port driver for LPR (IP network) printing. It provides up to 64 LPR ports for printing to network printers that run the LPD protocol. Read more
Midori Sans Fonts 0.4 Saturday, 13 August, 2016 Midori Sans is a semi-condensed sans-serif font which combines both transitional and humanist elements. It is mainly intended for on-screen user interface text, but may also be suitable for printed text at small sizes. Read more
OS/2 Boot logos Monday, 25 September, 1995 Collection of system boot logos by the OS/2 community (available graphic formats: BMP, PNG, LGO). Read more
PM Printer Manager 0.85 Saturday, 10 November, 2018 PM Printer Manager is a new graphical printer management tool designed to replace several older, separate programs by integrating their functions in one central tool. This includes creating standard OS/2 printers (local and LAN),... Read more
Potrace 1.16 Tuesday, 17 September, 2019 Potrace is a command-line utility for "tracing" a bitmapped image to generate an equivalent vector graphic. GUI availables. Read more
Quick Text Editor 0.9.10b Monday, 12 February, 2018 Quick Text Editor is a fast and simple text editor, modelled after IBM's OS/2 System Editor and Aaron Lawrence's AE. It is written using... Read more
Simplified MAN 1.0 Friday, 10 March, 2006 Simplified MAN is a simplified 'man' utility (a command-line viewer for Unix-style manual pages). It emphasizes convenience and ease of use, rather than rigid adherence to working exactly like standard man. Unlike most versions... Read more
Styler/2 and eStyler for eComStation (ex Smart Windows) 1.2.0 Wednesday, 10 September, 2014 Styler/2 is an user interface enhancer for OS/2 Warp. Both the aesthetics and the behavior of various OS/2 Presentation Manager windows and controls can be easily modified to meet your needs. You will be... Read more
TCP/IP Profiles Manager 1.1 TCP/IP Profile Manager lets you define multiple TCP/IP configurations (as selectable "profiles") and switch between them without rebooting. This program works by storing copies of the three main TCP/IP configuration files (... Read more
TiMidity++ Player (ex TiMidity MCD) 2.13.3 Tuesday, 11 August, 2009 TiMidity plays MIDI and Module (.MOD) files. It does it in software without depending on any hardware MIDI support your soundcard might have. Sound quality can be much higher because it limited by your CPU's power and memory rather then... Read more
Vi Improved (VIM) 7.4 Saturday, 17 June, 2006 Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi. Many new features have been added. Read more
Libreria VX-REXX Extras 1.3.2 Wednesday, 19 November, 2014 VX-REXX Extras is an API & class library designed to extend the functionality of Watcom VX-REXX. The package include runtime and development tools. Read more
WarpSans font Extended size 1.3.0 Thursday, 21 February, 2013 This is an unofficial extension to the OS/2 WarpSans bitmap font which provides several larger sizes (10 and 11 point) in both the regular and Bold weights. This is particularly useful when using very high-resolution screens (above... Read more
Window Themes toolkit Wednesday, 2 January, 2008 Window Themes allow you to change the appearance of your window-frame controls, checkboxes, and radio-buttons, using installable 'themes'. A number of themes are included, and various others are available... Read more