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Cesar H.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information please contact:
Andrew Bloo, Product Marketing Manager
SciTech Software, Inc.
(530) 894-8400
andrewb@scitechsoft.com

SciTech Announces Watcom 11.0c Beta Release
Update Paves the Way for Massive Open Source Effort

Chico, Calif., September 27, 2001 – SciTech Software, Inc. today announced the beta release of the 11.0c update to the popular WatcomT C/C++ and Fortran compilers. The patch includes a number of eagerly anticipated fixes and enhancements and can be downloaded, free of charge, from the Open Watcom web site at http://www.openwatcom.org. Support for the update will be handled exclusively through the Open Watcom web site.

“This binary update will immediately aid thousands of active Watcom developers,” said Rob Veitch, Director of Business Development at Sybase®, “This release shows Sybase’s commitment to its customers and it demonstrates that SciTech Software is up to the task of assuming the leadership role in the Open Watcom development effort.”

Jointly developed by Sybase, SciTech and a core team of Open Watcom developers, the 11.0c update is the first new release of the Watcom compilers in over three years. The Watcom 11.0c release is a prelude to the to the forthcoming Open Source release.

“We’re honored that Sybase selected SciTech to lead the Open Watcom effort. This step represents a major milestone in that process,” said Kendall Bennett, SciTech’s Director of Engineering.

About Open Watcom
The Watcom C/C++ and Fortran products will be the first mass market, proprietary compilers to be Open Sourced and, weighing in at nearly three million lines of source code, will represent one of the largest pools of commercial source code of any type ever released under an Open Source license. Sybase, Inc. developed the original Watcom code and SciTech Software, Inc. is the official maintainer of the project.

The Open Watcom project has stirred tremendous interest among developers worldwide. Thousands have already joined the Open Watcom community at http://www.openwatcom.org in order to use Open Watcom and contribute to its further development.

Watcom supports software development in Windows, DOS, OS/2, Netware, QNX, and other operating systems (a Linux version of Open Watcom is planned). The Open Watcom web address is http://www.openwatcom.org.

About SciTech Software, Inc.
SciTech Software, Inc. is the leading supplier of PC graphics utilities, drivers, and tools for high-performance graphics applications, including computer games. SciTech’s products help users fix graphics hardware problems and allow software developers to achieve maximum performance from PC graphics hardware. SciTech’s products include SciTech Display Doctor, the only universal display driver, SciTech GLDirect, an OpenGL to Direct3D driver and SciTech MGL, an Open Source, professional graphics library used to develop some of today’s most popular software programs. SciTech products support the Windows, Linux, OS/2, DOS, QNX, and SMX operating systems. Many major software companies and hardware companies license portions of SciTech’s technology for incorporation in their products. SciTech is privately held and the company’s Web address is http://www.scitechsoft.com.

Скачал с http://www.openwatcom.org/ этот 46 метровый watcom-c-11.0c-b1.exe, а он оказался update для предыдущих версий :(((

ダウンロードして(watcom-c-11.0c-b1.exe 40M超ある^^;)インストールできるが、 スタートからのプログラムメニューにはアップデートプログラムしか入ってないだろう。

11/03/2001

Looks like there's some confusion in the community about what 11.0c offers to developers. The following list from Stephen Howe [TeamSybase] (Open Watcom core developer) should help:


'Out-of-the-box, with no previous version of Watcom, you can build with 16-bit DOS targets, with 11.0c Beta
Out-of-the-box, with no previous version of Watcom, you will be able to build 32-bit DOS targets, with 11.0c non-Beta (so you can't do it with 11.0c Beta as no DOS4GW.EXE but with 11.0c, non-Beta, DOS4GW.EXE will be bundled).
If you download Microsoft Platform SDK, convert COFF import libraries from VC++ 6.0 format to VC++ 5.0 format using Microsoft LINK, you can build Win32 executables with 11.0c Beta only.
A similar story with IBM's OS/2 SDK. With that you can build OS/2 32-bit executables. i think also you can build 16-bit executables but I am not sure.'[/list[/list]

10/07/2001

After years of silence the last days where somewhat exciting. For Slashdot.org (http://slashdot.org/) the announced beta release of the 11.0c Version was worth an article (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/30/0220212&mode=thread). If you visit this, make sure you read the comments. Best comment for now: 'It's dead. Let it rest in peace.'
The Sybase news server had some strange hickups but it seems that it's now back in normal operation.

09/28/2001

'SciTech Software, Inc. (http://www.scitechsoft.com/) [...] announced the eagerly awaited beta release of the 11.0c update to the popular Watcom C/C++ and Fortran compilers is now available for download (http://www.openwatcom.org/download.html).'

- As stated above, the repository has a new "kenbuild" directory. Initially, it had the open-sourced Ken-Build release, as uploaded by Ken on June 2000 and later edited on Nov 2002 (just minor edits). I confirmed that the June 2000 GAME.EXE file can be recreated with Watcom C 11.0. I'm not sure about the Nov 2002 revision, but I *guess* that it comes to a Watcom C 11.0c beta, or alternatively another early Open Watcom revision preceding 1.0.

WATCOM C/C++ Version 11.0c and WATCOM Fortran 77 Version 11.0c ZIP archives - A beta prereleas is available! This compiler to be usefull needs the OS/2 toolkit installed too, but this comes with eCS, ACP and MCP. It will be usefull for developers to

WATCOM C/C Version 11.0c and WATCOM Fortran 77 Version 11.0c documentation in pdf format.

Watcom 11c prebeta (from Leonardo Pino)
A beta prerelease is available! This is a patch for older installations but it can be use as a stand alone product. The file is a Win32 installer but works fine with ODIN. To use it one must set the enviromemt variables described on the readme file. This compiler to be usefull needs the OS/2 toolkit installed too, but this comes with eCS, ACP and MCP. It will be usefull for developers to work on device drivers, since many of them were written using this compiler. Thanks to the people at ScitechSoft.

-> URL: ftp://ftp.openwatcom.org/watcom/watcom-c-11.0c-b1.exe