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Trials of Battle

Trials arrived today and installed beautifully on my Warp 4.0. It's running on a P90, 64 MG RAM and a Matrox 4 meg video card (800x600) and 21" Nanao F760i-W monitor. The game is an absolute delight! So far my Hovertank is getting destroyed pretty quickly so as soon as I send this message I'll try a Training Session.

Help, I think I'm addicted!

John Heinrichs


Interesting review. Would have been better if the reviewer had experienced the game on a machine which could be expected to be typical of one an OS/2 game player would use. Also, the reviewer should have mentioned whether the game lent itself well (if at all) to voice control under Warp 4.0. Thanks for the informative review.

Alan Pilcher


Netscape 2.02 for OS/2

Since I am used to News under Netscape 3.0, [Netscape 2.02] was a step back. I can live with it for now but the major problem I am having with this new version of Netscape is that it does not offer U.S. Encription. [Therefore] I cannot use this browser to do my online banking.

Stephen Bailey


- I also have this gripe with the new Navigator for OS/2. I have the opportunity to do my banking online but have yet to figure out how to do so with the OS/2 variety of my browser.

- editor


I liked the review you had in the Christmas Special edition of OS/2 e-Zine! on Netscape 2.02 but disagreed somewhat with the rather terse critical evaluation of the News Reader.

After a little playing around with the News Reader in NS I have discarded several other readers and use it exclusively. Granted I don't live my life on USENET but I found for my casual use it worked well. Other than a few slight things I thought it was fairly intuitive and easy to use. I highly recommend it to all casual USENET users.

Gary L. Robinson


Process Commander and C-A-D Commander

I would have preferred it it you had made a comparison of the two products, Process Commander and CAD Commander. I have already bought PC (I had not heard about C-A-D Commander before) and since CAD Cmdr does not cost very much, I will maybe order it too just to have a look. But if I had just read your Christmas issue without owning one of these products, I actually would not know which to buy.

Hauke Laging


I'm not sure of the wisdom of publishing a review by somebody whose video driver would not let him utilize the program geing reviewed (smile). I also would have liked to see Process Commander and Ctl-Alt-Del Commander reviewed by the same individual (or maybe 2 each), so that we could get a comparison instead of just two different reviewers saying separately what the products did. I own Process Commander, and had hoped to be able to find if I might be better off investing in the other program, but I found no such direction from these reviews.

Don't get me wrong, I love what you're doing, but just take this as constructive criticism that could make what you're doing have considerably more real-world value.

Mark Hay


- A fair comment. Your view is shared by many readers and we would have preferred to do a comparitive review if time had permitted.

- editor


Impos/2 2.0 Review

It would have been nice to talk about the bundle offering of scanner and software that is being offered by Indelible Blue, Inc. You can get the software for about $40.00 with a scanmaker ES6. Total cost of $599.00. Very good deal...

The review was very well written and had good content.

Walter Burnett


Death of OS/2 Magazine

I can't say that I'm surprised to read of the death of OS/2 Magazine. Although there are obviously commercial and political reasons that contributed to its demise, it seems more a case of suicide than murder. After the demise of OS/2 Developer, OS/2 Magazine made the peculiar choice of wholeheartedly chasing the same market that refused to support OS/2 Developer. How many developers are there anyway?

As a mere OS/2 user (and there are only 14 million of us) I found only about 5 pages per issue were of any interest to me. I don't care about REXX programming or the other tedious articles it appeared to be filled with. The boredom factor was highlighted when I compared it with your excellent e-Zine. Maybe in some perverse way your magazine and the other excellent online magazines also share in the responsibility!

On another somewhat related matter, I was amazed to hear of Creative Labs decision to drop OS/2 support. I currently have 3 SB cards in my computers, solely because they were the standard, and because they supported OS/2. I will refuse to buy Creative products from now on.

Michael Block

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