FingPing - PM-based TCP/IP finger and ping program.

FauxRAM - RAM and system resource doubler for OS/2.

Only one applet here so far, but more should be coming!

I didn't write any of these, but ported them from Unix to XFree86 for OS/2. It is often a trivial task, so if there is some killer X-Windows app you are dying to use in OS/2, give it at try. And if you don't already have XFree86 for OS/2 installed, you are missing out on a lot of great applications! Be sure to check out Dr. Holger Veit's XFree86-OS/2 Project Homepage for the whole scoop.

• Xinvest and Xquote are a couple of financial programs written by Mark Buser. Xinvest 2.5.1 is a is a free personal finance tracking and performance tool and Xquote is a free WWW quote retrieval tool. Both of these are Motif applications that run fine with Lesstif, a free Motif 1.2 clone. You'll need Lesstif for OS/2 v0.81 or later, as well as the XPM pixmap library installed. And be sure to visit the Xinvest/Xquote Homepage!
• Xfinans 5.9 is a personal finance program for X11 written by Niels C. Larsen. More info can be found at the Xfinans Homepage.
• Flying 6.20 is a wonderful billiards game for X11, including pool, snooker, cannon, carrom, hockey, and curling. It was written by Helmut Hoenig.
• Cbzone is very good implementation of the old Classic Atari Battlezone arcade game. The original FORTRAN version was written by Justin S. Revenaugh and translated to C by Todd W. Mummert.
• xinvaders is a Space Invaders clone done by Jonny Goldman.
• xtetris 2.6 is a nice X11 tetris game done by Dan R. Greening, Adam Marguilies, Phill Everson, and Didier Tallot.
• XBL 1.0h is a 3D tetris game done by Thierry Excoffier who also maintains an XBL Homepage.
• xpipeman is an pipe laying arcade/puzzle game done by Nigel Paver.
• Xoids 1.5 is an version of Asteriods for X11 done by Tim Ebling.
• xmancala is an ancient and simple but fun board game. This version was written by Joe Shmo and requires the XForms library.

Are you running a Cyrix 5x86 or 6x86/6x86MX series processor in your OS/2 system? If so, definitely download set6x86.zip for OS/2. It is a port I did of Koen Gadeyne's set6x86 v1.5 Cyrix CPU configuration utility for Linux and DOS. This program will allow you to set some of the special registers in the Cyrix 6x86/6x86MX (and possibly 5x86). Most important is the power-saving feature that will power down the CPU from its whopping 24W normal state (for the original 6x86) to a 0.3W state when OS/2 issues a halt instruction. You'll be able to hear the CPU power-down when idle--there is much less strain on the power supply. Best of all, this benefit comes with NO performance penalty at all! The other special 6x86 register settings eek out a bit more performance. The program was compiled with gcc/emx, so be sure you have the emx runtime libraries installed, available as emxrt.zip from the newest subdirectory of http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/emx.

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