Screen Shot Gallery -- OS/2® Shareware
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During the "golden age" of PC computing from the early-1980's to the mid-1990's, if you were searching for
an inexpensive shareware or Public Domain program you had two choices -- you could visit your favorite computer software store and browse
racks of shareware programs on 5¼" floppy disks, or, from the comfort of your own computer, download an OS/2 shareware program from your
favorite bulletin board service (BBS).
The shareware "try before you buy" concept offers users free trials of software. Most commercial software companies will not let you return products once their shrinkwrapped packages have been opened. After finding the shareware program that best meets your needs, to both obtain the full-featured program free of "nag" screens and to support the authors who offer these low-cost software alternatives, it is only right to "register" the program by paying the author's registration fee. Shareware programs can cost tens or even hundreds of times less than comparable commercial software. |
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Office Suite
Do you really need a commercial "office" suite like Microsoft Office, Corel WordPerfect Office, or Lotus SmartSuite to be competitive in the business world, type a letter to Aunt Mae, or do your school homework? Commercial office suites are expensive -- costing up to US$800.00 in the mid to late 1990's (US$799.99 for Microsoft Office 2000 Enterprise Edition). Because commercial software companies dominated the office software market -- Microsoft in particular -- very few organizations were willing to spend the capital or time to develop such a massive project that had little chance of being a serious competitor to commercial titles. |
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StarOffice 3.1 Internet Pak I Copyright © 1996 Star Division GmbH. A rare find these days, this is a version of StarOffice by its original creators. Features include StarWriter 3.1 word processor, StarCalc 3.1 spreadsheet, StarDraw presentations program, StarImage graphics program and StarChart 3.1 graphing program. StarOffice 3.1 also features a "StarOffice Manager" graphical toolbar to launch StarOffice's programs. This English version of StarOffice had some "quirks." Many menu descriptions in the status bar are written in German. Some program menu items are in German. The "about" credits are in German. The help files for this suite were not available when the product was released. Still, for a free Internet download, StarOffice 3.1 offers a lot of productivity potential. Sun Microsystems would later purchase StarOffice from Star Division GmbH. Versions of later StarOffice code would be spun off as free office suites, the most popular known as OpenOffice which is still offered today. This version was distributed as an Internet download. Total install size: 29.00MB |
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StarOffice 5.1a Copyright © 1999 Sun Microsystems This version of StarOffice has one feature office suites by Microsoft Corporation, Corel Corporation, and Lotus Development Corporation don't -- no cost! Sun Microsystems acquired the StarOffice suite from StarDivision GmbH. This is the last OS/2 version of StarOffice. StarOffice's integrated desktop resembles Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000's "start" taskbar and menu. It features StarWriter 5.1, StarWriter/Web 5.1, StarCalc 5.1, StarBase 5.1, StarImpress 5.1, StarSchedule 5.1, StarDraw 5.1, StarImage 5.1, StarChart 5.1, StarMath 5.1, StarMail 5.1, StarDiscussion 5.1, Oterro (R:BASE Technologies, Inc.), International CorrectSpell (1991), International Electronic Thesaurus (1992), Word for Word (1996 Inso Corporation) and more. This suite was offered free by Sun Microsystems until July 2001. This version was available for download or distributed on CD-ROM. Total install size: 129.28MB |
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Productivity
If it can be written on a scrap of paper, scrawled on a napkin, or scratched onto the palm of your hand it can also be entered into a computer program. Names, addresses, phone numbers, calendars, schedules, events, reminders, confidential information, journal writings, resumes, business and personal contact information, job search information, custom documents, labels, and on and on. Personal information managers, or "PIMs," are the electronic equivalent of the "little black book" and much more. They can keep track of reminders, "to do" items, goals, remember special dates, alert you to items if the feature is built in, prioritize items, show daily/weekly/monthly views of events, and, yes, even store names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. |
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Arcadia Workplace Companion 1.55 Copyright © 1994 Arcadia Technologies, Inc. A personal information manager (PIM), Arcadia Workplace Companion features a control center displaying a monthly calendar, controls to toggle month and year, display OS/2's full year window, current date, analog clock with seconds, Julian date and time zone buttons, launch buttons for Arcadia Appointment Book, Arcadia Phone Book, Arcadia Contact List, and Arcadia Notepad. The weekly appointment book features appointment listings with date, time, title, duration, alarm, launch, add to to-do list, recurring, and notes. Phone book has tabbed letter sections, last/first name and phone number entries, file maintenance CSV import/export, and recall/ reindex/clear database. Notepad features tabbed dividers, append/insert page/ bitmap/metafile, edit chapter/tabs, and more. To-do list features priority/date/title/ notes columns, completed flag, and 1-4 priority settings. The registration fee was US$149.95. This version was released on one 1.44MB floppy. Total install size: 312K |
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Statistical/Mathmatic
Alpha, beta, delta, gamma, psi, and omega. It's all Greek to me, and probably to you, too. Mathematics and statistical analyses can unlock the secrets of the universe and both improve our lives and show us new ways to harm it. Geometry, trigonometry, calculus, vectors, ratios, matrices, derivatives, and conditionals. From the simplest addition to the most complex variable-laden equation sets, this software can do the math. |
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Copyright © 1988 Judson D. McClendon Remember when the "nerds" used to walk around with their sliderulers strapped to their belts? An extremely rare survivor of OS/2 1.00 freeware, and otherwise known as BIGCALC, this program is the computer equivalent of a HP scientific calculator. Features include X/Y/Z/T coordinates, stack, 10 memory registers, precision from 3 to 1,075 digits (up to 1,074 decimal places! -- the default is 50), exponents to +/-999999999, add, subtract, multiply, divide, square root, square, 1/X, factor X!, power Y^X, fraction, integer, pi, e, e^X, sine, arcsine, cosine, arccosine, tangent, arctangent, all trig functions in Radians, common log, natural log, 10^X, floating/ scientific notation, store in register, recall register, exchange X and register, exchange X and Y, change sign, save to disk, print, on-line help and more. Total install size: 64K |
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Utility -- File Manager
Versions of OS/2 2.x and later did not come with a true file manager program. While the Drives icons opened tree-like windows to work with files and directories, these were not true file managers and were not user-friendly. Shareware OS/2 file manager software offered an alternative. |
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File Freedom 2.02 Copyright © 1999 Bruce Henry One utility OS/2 lacked was a file manager. Featuring drag-and-drop, source/ destination movement, Info-Zip support, multiple file selection, one-key cursor search, file attribute editing, rename and append, directory tree size, icon/list/detail views, 8 programmable hotkeys to run programs (Alt-1...Alt-8), sorting by name, date, size, etc., moveable toolbar, drive bar, status bars, directory bookmarks, network refresh timers, on-line help and more, File Freedom gives OS/2 users much needed control over files, directories, and drives. Total install size: 312K |
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Utility -- Screen Capture
Many operating systems have their own screen capture utility -- Windows, Macintosh, BeOS, and others. If you only need a quick snapshot of a screen's content, chances are you don't need to use a screen capture utility. But if you need to do specialized screen captures -- showing the cursor, capturing a portion of a screen, or other special need, a screen capture utility has features for these and other needs. |
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Copyright © 1990 Dynalink Technologies Inc. A high-quality and very easy-to-use screen capture program for both IBM and Microsoft OS/2 1.xx. It captures, or "clips" all or part of the OS/2 Presentation Manager screen and places the contents in the clipboard. Copy the file CLIPLIB.DLL to the OS/2 \DLL directory and you can run CLIP.EXE from any location, even a floppy disk. It is activated by pressing Print Screen. Clip works by loading a system-wide keyboard queue hook. When you press Print Screen, Clip will capture any screen content -- a menu, dialog box, etc. Monochrome /grayscale/color displays are all supported. Clip has a viewing area that shows the captured content. Captured content is saved as a GPI bitmap and can be converted to a Presentation Manager bitmap, GPI metafile, ZSoft PC Paintbrush (PCX), Microsoft Paint, Aldus TIFF, or PostScript. Clip can also act as a bitmap viewer. Bitmaps copied to the clipboard can be viewed in Clip. The capability to run OS/2 1.xx software is becoming more and more rare because many versions of OS/2 1.xx will only run on 80286 PCs. Dan's 20th Century Abandonware is fortunate to have a fully functional 286 PC to run OS/2 1.xx operating systems and software on. The registration fee was US$20.00. The screen shots at the left show Clip 1.1 running on Microsoft OS/2 1.10 (top) and IBM OS/2 1.20 (bottom). Both are 1989 versions of OS/2 and only run on 286 PCs. Total install size: 94K |
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Pounce 1.10 Copyright © 1995 SoftPaw Development Pounce is a screen capture utility for OS/2 2.x and later. Features include capture window with focus, window under mouse, selected area, entire desktop, set capture hotkey, capture to clipboard, file, or printer, OS/2 or Windows BMP format, capture file can be original size, scaled to a percentage, scaled to specific pixel width/ height, print capture can be scaled to a percentage, resized to custom cm or inches, or "as large as possible," printed position can be top/bottom left/right or centered, capture can be flipped horizontally/vertically or invert colors, and be set to run every time OS/2 starts. The registration fee was US$25.00. Total install size: 218K |
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