Opera for OS/2
Last month, despite my excitement about the news, I forgot to mention that Opera Software have released the first beta version of their Opera web browser for OS/2 Warp. This beta release is similar to version 5.12 for Windows.
Meanwhile I've installed Opera on my OS/2 computer and have had a chance to use it. While it is still a beta version it certainly is much faster than Netscape 4.61 on my rather slow computer. The beta isn't perfect, beta versions seldom are, i.e. I can't get it to show its toolbar icons, and the browser crashes from time to time.
If you're familiar with Opera from another platform, you'll find it easy to use Opera under OS/2, as it looks and acts almost the same thanks to the use of the OS/2 Netlabs' Odin32 API (Application Programming Interface) from the Odin project.
I'm looking forward to the first non-beta release of Opera for OS/2 Warp.
Other news
Jan Danielsson has released a simple two-player game called HalfWorm, the source code is available from the same location. He is now working on a new game that will be playable over a network.
Leif-Erik Larsen has released version 1.5.2 of his Norton Commander clone, Larsen Commander. This a minor update.
IBM has refreshed the Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish versions of Netscape Communicator 4.61.
Please do not hesitate to send me any other news from around Scandinavia.