Note: This website is using CSS and other modern web techniques. Just as you migrated from DOS to a more modern operating system, perhaps it is time to use a newer browser. Anyway, we have tested this site with a variety of old browsers (1.0 browsers my have some trouble) and, while most of them will display the site's content, it may not be very pretty.
Dennis Bareis is an Australian software developer with a full range of interesting free applications and utilities available at his site. Popular downloads include:
PPWIZARD
A web/rexx/ipf/other development tool. Dennis also has a link to a series of articles
which appeared in OS/2 e-Zine! about the use of this text preprocessing
tool for creating web sites that can be changed quickly and efficiently.
ARCHIVE
Simplifies and expands on OS/2 archive functionality (example archive every 'x'
days).
REXX2EXE
Rexx "compiler", many options.
Norloff's OS/2BBS.COM
A long-running source for OS/2 shareware and freeware programs and information.
OS2.org
The "Software--SoftWhere" page is a well-organized listing of OS/2 programs.
Roger Troost's OS/2 Java Corner
Roger lists Java programs and applets that have been tested on OS/2.
JavaShareware.com
This site has a surprising amount of Java software. You may not realize how far
development of Java has come until you browse this area.
Data Representations
For programmers, Data Representation publishes Simplicity for Java, a 100% Pure
Java Rapid Application Development tool can serve the needs of programmers at all
levels of experience. For more advanced projects, Simplicity Professional gives
users an intuitive graphical method of integrating data into applications from any
JDBC/ODBC data source. Simplicity Professional also enables one to build Servlets
quickly and easily.
Data Representations also publishes Simplicity for the Palm OS Platform. Trial versions of all three products are available for download from the company's web site.
Bill Smedley
Bill is a prolific porter of Linux applications to OS/2.
For more on OS/2 software,
visit our Software We Use section.