At $200US the new version of eComStation, 1.1, is available for purchase. No news yet about new features as the press release is not up yet to the newly redesigned eComStation web site. Additionally, OS/2World.com published a recap of last year’s OS/2 activities and happenings in an editorial. Our Take: Any idea why the SMP version of eCS 1.1 is cheaper than the non-SMP version? Anyone?
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I don’t think the SMP version is cheaper, I think that is an additional charge to the base version.
you’d think if they were trying to sell something, they’d make their site a bit more userfriendly… hell, i’d settle for it just having a logical layout.
my mistake. i was at http://www.serenity-systems.com, not ecomstation.biz. freaky.
Before I even consider running eCS on something, I need to see a hardware compatibiliy list and I was unable to find one anywhere on there website.
I’ve been playing on the Mac so much that I almost forgot about eCs. Wonder if my subscription is still active (maybe; just barely). Time to get a power supply for the eCs machine and update it before my upgrade protection expires.
i would like to know if eCS people have the os/2 source code and if they’re allowed to modify or improve it?
Here are some screenshots (v. 1.0)
I wonder does it still run 16/32-bits Windows Applications?
http://www.ecomstation.com/gallery/index.php?
>I wonder does it still run 16/32-bits Windows Applications?
Yes it does (for the latest 32-bit windows apps, you can either run VirtualPC for OS/2 with a Windows client OS, or many apps run under the free Odin API’s which map to Win32 API’s)
Also, Java 1.4.1_02 is bundled with the new version.
HTH,
Jean-Yves
Gil Bates: Before I even consider running eCS on something, I need to see a hardware compatibiliy list and I was unable to find one anywhere on there website.
I also wanted to find their HCL. Where is it?
setag llib: i would like to know if eCS people have the os/2 source code and if they’re allowed to modify or improve it?
IIRC, yes, Serenity licensed the OS/2 source code for IBM.
How long before it’s on edonkey/kazaa? 😉
IIRC, yes, Serenity licensed the OS/2 source code for IBM.
Actually Serenity Systems doesn’t have access to the OS/2 source code. If they did we’d have anti-aliasing right now!
it’s UGLY
nice try to the guy who used the ‘gravity well’ wallpaper and imported all his BeOS icons.
Can you still paint buttons?
In Warp 3 one could paint each individual button on the screen with a color, by dragging colors from the color control panel.
Yes you can still paint buttons by drag & drop.
eCs uses an earlier version of SciTech Display Doctor to provide decent graphics support on a wide range of chipsets. Additionally eCS is compatible with SciTech SNAP Graphics for OS/2 which offers support for 180+ chipsets many with advanced features such as zooming, multi-head, TV-Out, and custom modes and more.
So they could kill VirtualPC for OS/2.
Still too expensive