SCOUG OS/2 For You - May 1996

May Meeting Topic

Coming to SCOUG May 18th

Stardock, the Sequel

Galactic Civilizations 2 is out and so are some exciting third party scenarios. Brad Wardell of Stardock is returning this month to zap you with excitement. He'll also be showing the first OS/2 native multiplayer first person action game, Trials of Battle, a sort-of cross between DOOM and Wing Commander, designed from the ground up to use OS/2's unique abilities.

On the more serious side, Brad will give us a tour of the changes to Object Desktop (now available as version 1.5), many of which were user suggested features. He'll also preview the Professional version coming out later this quarter that will additionally offer security, desktop management, document management, advisors, and tape backup capabilities.

Stick around, there's more

After the presentation, Q&A gives you a chance to ask those perplexing OS/2 questions - and hopefully get some answers. There will be a brief break before the SIGs begin:

General Interest Group - will explore the basics of REXX, what it is, what can be done with it, and what add-ons are available. As always, general questions and answers will follow.

Network - will conclude building their SOHO peer to peer network by defining peer resources on each workstation.

Programmers - will continue with the openclass library sample program. They will be looking at how to improve the appearance of the program window by using the various types of canvas classes and explore how to program font and color changes.

May 20th, not the 27th Due to the Memorial Day holiday, the Internet SIG will meet on Monday, May 20th at 7 PM this month. Until then, you can check out their new web page at:

http://users.deltanet.com/users/dwatson/isig.html

Also on the 20th, the Lecture Series is being reborn as a tightly focused 3-hour New User Workshop for beginners to OS/2.

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