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~ Now, A2 Pro RoundTable Coverage! ~
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~ Hack'n Apple II: Preventative Maintenance ~
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~ Apple II History, Apple I ~
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~ HOT FILES / HOT MESSAGES / HOT NEWS ~
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GEnie Lamp A2/A2Pro ~ A T/TalkNET OnLine Publication ~ Vol.1, Issue 04
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Press <RETURN> or <S>croll?S
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Publisher............................................Kent Fillmore
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Senior Editor........................................John Peters
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Editor (AII).......................................Tom Schmitz
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Co-Editor (AII).................................Phil Shapiro
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~ GEnie Lamp MAC ~ ~ GEnie Lamp IBM ~
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~ GEnie Lamp ST ~ ~ GEnie Lamp Elsewhere ~ ~ GEnieLamp A2/A2Pro ~
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>>> WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE APPLE II ROUNDTABLE? <<<
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~ July 1, 1992 ~
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FROM MY DESKTOP ......... [FRM] APPLE BITS .............. [BIT]
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Notes From The Editor. A2/A2Pro - July 1992.
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HEY MISTER POSTMAN ...... [HEY] ONLINE FUN .............. [FUN]
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Is That A Letter for Me? Search-ME!
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APPLE II HISTORY ........ [HIS] A2 PRO ROUNDTABLE ....... [PRO]
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Part II, Apple I. A Great Developer's Tool.
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HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM] WHO'S WHO ............... [WHO]
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Follow The Bouncing Cursor. Who's Who In Apple II.
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FOCUS ON ................ [FOC] THINK ABOUT IT .......... [THI]
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Online Food For Thought. Online Food For Thought.
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CowTOONS! ............... [COW] VIEWPOINT ............... [VIE]
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Mooooooo Fun! Piracy Claims Another Victim.
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THE PROGRAM CLINIC ...... [ASK] WHY APPLE II ROUNDTABLE? [AII]
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Questions & Answers. Here's Why!
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THE ONLINE LIBRARY ...... [LIB] HACK'N APPLE II ......... [HAC]
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Yours For The Downloading. The Squeaky Wheel...
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[IDX] """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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READING GEnie Lamp GEnie Lamp has incorporated a unique indexing
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"""""""""""""""""" system to help make reading the magazine easier.
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To utilize this system, load GEnie Lamp into any ASCII word processor
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or text editor. In the index you will find the following example:
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HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM]
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[*]GEnie Fun & Games.
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To read this article, set your find or search command to [HUM]. If
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you want to scan all of the articles, search for [EOA]. [EOF] will take
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you to the last page, whereas [IDX] will bring you back to the index.
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MESSAGE INFO To make it easy for you to respond to messages re-printed
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"""""""""""" here in GEnie Lamp, you will find all the information you
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need immediately following the message. For example:
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(SMITH, CAT6, TOP1, MSG:58/M475)
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|Name of sender CATegory TOPic Msg.# Page number|
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In this example, to respond to Smith's message, log on to page
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475 enter the bulletin board and set CAT 6. Enter your REPly in TOPic 1.
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A message number that is surrounded by brackets indicates that this
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or more messages that are following the same topic. For example: {58}
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ABOUT GEnie GEnie costs only $4.95 a month for unlimited evening and
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""""""""""" weekend access to more than 100 services including
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electronic mail, online encyclopedia, shopping, news, entertainment,
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single-player games, multi-player chess and bulletin boards on leisure
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and professional subjects. With many other services, including the
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largest collection of files to download and the best online games, for
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only $6 per hour (non-prime-time/2400 baud). To sign up for GEnie
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service, call (with modem) 1-800-638-8369. Upon connection type HHH.
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Wait for the U#= prompt. Type: XTX99368,GENIE and hit RETURN. The system
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will then prompt you for your information.
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///////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
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/ "Sir Newton, was awaken and upon noticing that an APPLE had /
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/ hit him in the noggin, began contemplating why that APPLE /
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/ had dropped. His conclusion was the beginning of the /
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/ concept and theory of Gravity." /
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/ "Later that evening, he began to wonder why the darn thing /
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/ didn't have a SCSI port built in...." /
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///////////////////////////////// W.GEORGE2 / L.DEVRIES ////
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[EOA]
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[FRM]//////////////////////////////
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FROM MY DESKTOP /
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/////////////////////////////////
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Notes From The Editor
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"""""""""""""""""""""
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By John Peters
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[GENIELAMP]
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TOP OF THE PAGE Expanding the GEnieLamp concept to four different
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""""""""""""""" computer platforms has been a real eye-opener for me.
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Reading hundreds (thousands?) of messages from the various computing
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bulletin boards every week here on GEnie has made me think twice about the
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computer choices that we have. Literally, everyday I see the good, the
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bad, and the ugly when it comes to the IBM, Atari ST, Apple II and
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Macintosh computers. This computer will do this, the other will do that,
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but this one does it better etc. etc. etc. Although I consider myself to
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be a faithful, sometimes fanatical STer, I must admit that being exposed to
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the other systems has altered my thinking a bit. Sometimes my mind begins
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to wander and I wonder if I really am getting the maximum power out of my
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system or if I would better better off with another computer. So, what is
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all this rambling leading up to? Announcing....
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>>> THE ANNUAL GEnieLamp COMPUTER WAR CONTEST! <<<
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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Take Your Best Shot! Here's your chance to boast about your favorite
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"""""""""""""""""""" computer system, whether it is a Timex/Sinclair or a
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Cray Supercomputer or something inbetween. Plus, you can win GEnie online
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credit time! How? Simple. All you have to do is to convince me why you
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think I should _upgrade_ to your computer system. Or if you are an Atari
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STer, why you think I should stay with the Atari ST.
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What's In It For YOU? Wow! Over $200.00 worth of GEnie online credit,
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""""""""""""""""""""" that's what! Take a look...
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1st Place............$100.00 worth of GEnie credit.
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2nd Place............$50.00 worth of GEnie credit.
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3rd Place............$25.00 worth of GEnie credit.
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Honorary Mention.....$12.00(*)
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(*) Entries selected for publishing in upcoming issues of
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GEnieLamp will receive $12.00 worth of GEnie time _upon_
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publication.
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The Details
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o The contest is open to all GEnie members. (If you are not a
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GEnie member, maybe now is the time to join!) GEnieLamp
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staff writers and GEnie employees/contractors are welcomed to
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submit articles, but are not eligible for prizes.
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o Contest entries are to be 500 words or less and in ASCII
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format. At the top of your article, be sure to include your
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name and your GEmail address.
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o Deadline for submissions is no later then midnight, August 15,
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1992.
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o When you are ready, you can upload your entry to the temporary
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library #8 in the GEnieLamp RoundTable (M515;3) or send it via
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GEmail to GENIELAMP. Use CONTEST for the subject.
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o All entries become the property of GEnieLamp Online Magazine.
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o Entries will be judged by the GEnieLamp Editors, Co-editors
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and Columnists. Judges decisions are final.
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So what'cha you waiting for? This is an easy contest! You're
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writing about something you love, your computer system. Boot up that word
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processor and fire the first shot!
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"GET THE LAMP" SCRIPTS NOW ONLINE GEnieLamp scripts are now available for
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" our IBM, Atari ST and Microphone
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II/White Knight Macintosh readers. These script files will allow you to
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download all the issues, or just the issues you want. As an added plus,
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you can also have Aladdin grab the latest copy of GEnieLamp while you
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sleep. Where can you Get The Lamp script? You'll find the script right
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here in GEnieLamp ST and GEnieLamp IBM. (See [GET]). Just clip it out and
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add it to your Aladdin script file.
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The script file is also available in the GEnieLamp RT, [m515], Aladdin
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ST RT, [m1000] and the PCAladdin RT, [m110]. The Macintosh macros for
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White Knight and Microphone II are available in the GEnieLamp RT [m515],
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the Mac RT [605] and the Freesoft RT [m585].
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Get The Lamp. Scripts and macros make it easy!
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DEEP THOUGHTS... The following post was written by a ST RoundTable
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"""""""""""""""" SysOp, Jeff Williams.
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Atari-ST RoundTable
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Category 13, Topic 7
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Message 96 Tue Jun 09, 1992
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JEFF.W [ST Sysop] at 00:14 EDT
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While I hope to use grammar correctly and exercise correct spelling in
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all my writing, I make plenty of mistakes (and typos) in my online
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messages. I'll transpose letters, drop letters (how many times have I
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typed 'you' instead of 'your'? I wince at that every time I see myself
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doing that.), absent-mindedly use 'their' instead of 'they're', etc.
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Proper grammar and spelling facilitates written communication, but it
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doesn't insure that one expresses his thoughts clearly. It helps, but it's
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not a guarantee. On the other hand, I've seen lots of posts that were
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clear and understandable in spite of several grammatical and spelling
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errors.
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My point is this...if a message is to be criticized or debated, I
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hope it will be based on its content and meaning, not on writing skill of
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the author.
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In business writing, education, and literature, different rules
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apply. For these, I definitely need tools like GramSlam!
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[*][*][*]
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Coudnt havve saed it bedder, misalf! :-)
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Take care!
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John Peters
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[GENIELAMP]
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///////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
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/ "I'm strictly a section trombone or euphonium player....and /
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/ newsletter writer. I ran several bands (pep, jazz, brass /
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/ quintets, etc.) in college, but I never conducted them. /
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/ The last time I was a conductor was when I allowed my /
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/ wrench to touch both terminals of a marine battery...." /
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////////////////////////////////////////////// L.DEVRIES ////
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[EOA]
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APPLE BITS /
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A2/A2Pro July 1992
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WHAT HAPPENED? Traditionally June is a strange month for the Apple II
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"""""""""""""" community. Through most of the year rumors of impending
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doom, corporate buy-outs and new products abound, but on the sixth month
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one can nearly hear a pin drop. The rumors cease, the regular banter
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quiets and everybody sits still. Why the change in attitude? June is the
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month of anticipation and the month of wait.
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But while June is a quiet time, July is a month of great commotion and
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excitement. July marks A2-Central's annual KansasFest Apple II Computer
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convention. This is the month when developers and programers release
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their newest and greatest creations and reveal their exciting plans for the
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coming year.
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Celebrating the developer's convention, GEnie Lamp A2 is adding
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coverage of the Apple II Developer's Roundtable and now becomes GEnieLamp
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A2/A2Pro. This month we take you on a tour of A2Pro and share with you its
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many exciting features. You will find it all in our A2Pro News & Features.
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Stealing the show at KansasFest last year, Apple Inc. revealed they
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were working on new system software for the IIgs and a HyperCard GS update.
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What followed were several months of excitement and frustration while
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Apple users waited and watched as the gang from California labored and
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stumbled their way to golden masters.
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But throughout the wait Apple Inc. kept us informed. We new it was
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really going to arrive. Of course GEnie was on the cutting edge as Apple
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Computer's Andy Nicholas, Tim Swihart and Matt Deatherage were constantly
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online answering inquiries. This open approach to developing rebuilt a lot
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of trust in Apple Inc. and has been sorely missed since HyperCard GS and
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System 6.0 were finished.
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Now that System Six is in the consumers' hands we can look forward to
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more software which will take advantage of the new technologies. And since
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resource forks play even bigger role in programing the IIgs, developers can
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look forward to many new tools. Still, the big question remains. Who will
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take the lead in exciting announcements and releases during the 1992
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KansasFest?
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But while June was a quiet month, it did not pass without some events.
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The Byte Works has released their new package to program the IIgs toolbox
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in Pascal. This complete lesson plan even includes an abridged toolbox
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reference so you can delay acquiring the toolbox reference set. If you are
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interested in programing any Apple II, whether a seasoned professional or
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one who still wants to learn, you owe it to yourself to look at The Byte
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Work's product list.
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We also began seeing references to the Avatar project and that it
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will be the future of the Apple II. Obviously, until Avatar is in beta
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testing it is still vapor ware, and even then it may not get onto the
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retail shelf. Any new technology which attempts to duplicate Apple's
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proprietary knowledge is sure to be burdened with long and costly court
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delays. We shall soon see -- maybe.
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But what is Avatar? Bill Heineman explains in this message:
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Super Apple II? Project Avatar is a machine that I am building with a
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""""""""""""""" friend which "Could" be called a Super Apple IIgs. It
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also has a lot of neat designs and concepts so the machine really is a new
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platform and not just an Apple II rehash. This machine is NOT a clone. It
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is a new design that can run most Apple IIe and IIgs software but if can do
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a whole lot more. I am working with people trying to get investors so that
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the machine can get off the ground and actually become something you can
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buy.
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But the road is long and hard because I need several million dollars
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to actually go into production... If everything works out we'll all breathe
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easier knowing that someone will be actively selling, supporting and
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improving a machine that could have taken over the world but was never
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given the chance...
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(W.HEINEMAN1, CAT5, TOP4, MSG:4/M645;1)
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[*][*][*]
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NEXT MONTH Next month GEnieLamp A2/A2Pro will have a full story on the
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"""""""""" Avatar project, what it hopes to accomplish and why it is
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going to have a difficult time getting into your hands. Look for that in
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the August A2Pro News & Features.
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But this is July, the Christmas season for the Apple II computer, and
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if you cannot be in Kansas with Uncle Dos and the A2-Central gang the next
|
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best place to be is online with GEnie. A2-Central, the sponsors of
|
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KansasFest also sponsor the Apple II (A2) and Apple II Pro (A2Pro)
|
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roundtables on GEnie which means daily updates and product announcements
|
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will be available in the A2 RT.
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>>> Addition to A2Pro News & Features <<<
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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July Contest in A2Pro Hey, now that 6.0 is out and lots of people know
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""""""""""""""""""""" about some of the programming features, we're
|
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having our first contest to take advantage of it.
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This is the A2PRO contest for July 1992, and it's for Finder
|
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Extensions. If you're writing one, or if you want to, here's a great chance
|
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to win a great prize.
|
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Here's the scoop.
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o We're looking for Finder Extensions.
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o We (the A2PRO staff and others we reserve the right to
|
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corral) will judge them on the following criteria:
|
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o How useful (or incredibly cool) they are. Some extensions
|
|||
|
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may be very cool but not particularly useful (a good example
|
|||
|
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of this was Jason Harper's "Meltdown NDA"), but most should be
|
|||
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very useful.
|
|||
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|
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o How they fit into the user interface (i.e., intuitive,
|
|||
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non-intrusive, tabbing to the next controls works and takes
|
|||
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you where you expect, etc.).
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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o We've opened a new library for the uploads -- library 22 --
|
|||
|
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and all you have to do to enter is upload your Finder
|
|||
|
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Extension to that library. Don't worry about uploading
|
|||
|
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elsewhere; we'll merge all entries into the main A2 and A2PRO
|
|||
|
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libraries after the contest. (Only authors are eligible, by
|
|||
|
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the way -- you can't upload someone else's extension and win.)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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o You get bonus points for including source code that shows
|
|||
|
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useful techniques, but they can be nullified if we find
|
|||
|
|
compatibility risks.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
o The contest deadline is August 1st, so you have time to talk
|
|||
|
|
to other people at KansasFest about your entry.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
The winner will receive a FREE WEEKEND in A2 and A2PRO -- all your
|
|||
|
|
time in A2 and A2PRO that weekend will be on the house. The runner-up gets
|
|||
|
|
one free weekend day in A2 and A2PRO -- same deal.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
The library is already open and ready for your great Finder
|
|||
|
|
Extensions, and A2PRO is always your best resource when you have questions
|
|||
|
|
on how to make them work. So wrack your brains and start those assemblers
|
|||
|
|
and compilers!
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
(People who already don't pay for time in A2 and A2PRO, like product
|
|||
|
|
support people, are ineligible to win prizes or be judged, but they're
|
|||
|
|
encouraged to upload their extensions as well. Authors retain all rights
|
|||
|
|
to their code just as in normal library uploads. If you have questions,
|
|||
|
|
just ask!) --Matt (I speak for A2PRO, not for Apple)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "Usual disclaimers of course, if you are not comfortable /
|
|||
|
|
/ working around high voltage storage units, let someone /
|
|||
|
|
/ else do it (that what brothers are for <g>)." /
|
|||
|
|
///////////////////////////////////////// K.CAVAGHAN2 ////
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
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[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[HEY]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
HEY MISTER POSTMAN /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Is That A Letter For Me?
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By Tom Schmitz & Phil Shapiro
|
|||
|
|
[TOM.SCHMITZ] [P.SHAPIRO1]
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
o BULLETIN BOARD HOT SPOTS
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
o Apple II ODDS & ENDS
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
o WHAT'S NEW
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
o APPLE HEADS WANT TO KNOW
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
o MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> BULLETIN BOARD HOT SPOTS <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*]CAT 2, TOP4, MSG:139 ........ Common error messages.
|
|||
|
|
[*]CAT 6, TOP6, MSG:7 .......... Broderbund new releases.
|
|||
|
|
[*]CAT 6, TOP27, MSG:72 ......... The Beyond Zork patch.
|
|||
|
|
[*]CAT 9, TOP2, MSG:138 ........ Available resource editors.
|
|||
|
|
[*]CAT 10, TOP6, MSG:4 .......... Prime BBS History.
|
|||
|
|
[*]CAT 13, TOP13, MSG:2 .......... Bright Software products list.
|
|||
|
|
[*]CAT 23, TOP8, MSG:45 ......... Happy Birthday, Script-Central.
|
|||
|
|
[*]CAT 24, TOP8, MSG:1 .......... Insync adds Fax number.
|
|||
|
|
[*]CAT 25, TOP23, MSG:77 ......... Amazing Window Version 1.8.4
|
|||
|
|
[*]CAT 32, TOP2, MSG:110 ........ HyperStudio 3.1 update info.
|
|||
|
|
[*]CAT 40, TOP8, MSG:88 ......... Quickie 3.0 bug report.
|
|||
|
|
[*]CAT 10, TOP3, MSG:119 ........ GenericTerm v3.3 released.
|
|||
|
|
[*]CAT 43, TOP10, MSG:35 ......... More news on Express.
|
|||
|
|
[*]CAT 43, TOP2, MSG:8 .......... Gate & SpaceFox released.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> APPLE II ODDS & ENDS <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A+/inCider Author Speaks! I just want to say how thrilled and
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""" appreciative I am about the help I've
|
|||
|
|
received so far on my short stay here in A2.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As a person who makes my living with the Apple II, I am often called
|
|||
|
|
upon to help other people with their computer related problems. Writing for
|
|||
|
|
inCider and SoftDiskGS, being the Ambassador and VP of an Apple II User
|
|||
|
|
Group, and having been involved with BRCC for a couple of years, I'm
|
|||
|
|
constantly being asked to solve other people's computer problems.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If the truth be told, us "experts" also have computer related
|
|||
|
|
problems. And, I've had a really hard time getting answers to some of my
|
|||
|
|
questions. The duplicate entries AppleWorks problem has been something
|
|||
|
|
I've been struggling with for over a year. I have previously sought help to
|
|||
|
|
that problem, to no avail.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I'm just so happy that I posted my question here, and that Bev came up
|
|||
|
|
with a solution to my problem within 36 hours. My only question now
|
|||
|
|
is...how come I waited so long to get involved with A2?
|
|||
|
|
(J.KOHN, CAT17, TOP33, MSG:114, M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> WHAT'S NEW WITH APPLE II? <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
New Librarian I think it's time that I announce that Tim Tobin,
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""" henceforth known as A2.TIM, has been tri... I mean, has
|
|||
|
|
graciously agreed to take over as A2's Chief Librarian. Tim's be en with
|
|||
|
|
us in a couple of different capacities for about a year and we think he'll
|
|||
|
|
work out splendidly in this new position.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Tim will be handling the regular file checking chores and will also
|
|||
|
|
be in charge of general library projects, including the Best of A2 series,
|
|||
|
|
which we hope to get back on track in the very near future. He'll also be
|
|||
|
|
keeping our crack team of assistant librarians in line. I've Federal
|
|||
|
|
Expressed my cat'o nine tails to him so I'm sure he'll have no trouble.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I hope you'll all be kind to Tim for the first couple of weeks while
|
|||
|
|
he learns the ropes. -Dean Esmay
|
|||
|
|
(A2.DEAN, CAT 3, TOP7, MSG:95/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Another one bites the dust! I just got the letter from Mike Harvey,
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""" NIBBLE is dead. From now on you will get
|
|||
|
|
A2-Central. Hope John's "happy".
|
|||
|
|
(D.COLWELL, CAT 5, TOP2, MSG:72, M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
European GS Connection
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Article 36431 (68 more + 5 Marked to return) in comp.sys.apple2:
|
|||
|
|
From: prisoner@CONTROL.SPIES.COM (Kent Keltner)
|
|||
|
|
Subject: The European GS Connection
|
|||
|
|
Message-ID: <9206090459.AA17977@control.spies.com>
|
|||
|
|
Date: 9 Jun 92 04:59:50 GMT
|
|||
|
|
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
|
|||
|
|
Lines: 28
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The European GS Project
|
|||
|
|
941 Di Giulio Ave.
|
|||
|
|
Santa Clara, CA 95050
|
|||
|
|
(408)727-8902
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Contact: Kent Keltner
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> APPLE IIGS USERS UNITE TO FORM AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Santa Clara, CA. -- April 20, 1992 -- Apple IIgs users in the United
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""" States and Europe have formed a group to provide Apple
|
|||
|
|
IIgs software and hardware to European users at a lower cost and with
|
|||
|
|
faster delivery.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Current prices for Apple IIgs products are generally 400% to 700%
|
|||
|
|
higher in Europe than in the United States. Delivery times can run to
|
|||
|
|
several months. The European GS Project hopes to improve on these by
|
|||
|
|
buying products directly from the manufacturers in wholesale quantities. It
|
|||
|
|
will then ship them to the groups in the various European countries for
|
|||
|
|
distribution and sale hopefully within weeks of their release in the United
|
|||
|
|
States.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In Addition to improving prices and delivery times, The Project will
|
|||
|
|
be translating software and manuals into European languages for Apple IIgs
|
|||
|
|
users who do not have a familiarity with English.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In Europe, groups have been formed for each major language. In the
|
|||
|
|
United States, developers, publishers and others who wish to sell their
|
|||
|
|
Apple IIgs products in Europe should contact Kent Keltner, The European GS
|
|||
|
|
Project, 941 Di Giulio Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95050 (408) 727-8902 for more
|
|||
|
|
information. (LUNATIC, CAT 5, TOP2, MSG:71)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> APPLE HEADS WANT TO KNOW <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
HyperStudio Bug Report
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
> Everyone who has HyperStudio 3.1 and System 6.0
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I've been helping out Roger Wagner, lately, with some apparent
|
|||
|
|
problems HyperStudio 3.1 has under Finder 6.0, and I've made some
|
|||
|
|
interesting discoveries.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
One is that while HyperStudio 3.1 has an rBundle that gets used by
|
|||
|
|
Finder, it doesn't have any corresponding rIcons. This is what causes your
|
|||
|
|
HS stack icons to stop showing up, after you've launched HS 3.1. When
|
|||
|
|
Finder reads the rBundle, it doesn't find any rIcons for it, so it uses the
|
|||
|
|
"Unknown" icon. Since there IS an rBundle and rFinderPath, though,
|
|||
|
|
double-clicking on an HS stack will still cause HS to be launched. Since
|
|||
|
|
Finder always checks the Desktop file on a disk before it checks the old
|
|||
|
|
style icon files, it finds the rBundle and stops looking, so it never gets
|
|||
|
|
to any custom HS icons you might have in icon files.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There are two solutions to getting your custom HS icons to show up.
|
|||
|
|
One has already been stated. That is, to move or delete the Desktop file
|
|||
|
|
from the disk HS is on, and then hold down Control and Option while
|
|||
|
|
double-clicking on an HS stack (Of course, you have to exit Finder and
|
|||
|
|
return to have your custom icons show up, first). The other solution is to
|
|||
|
|
put your HS icons on a disk earlier in Finder's search chain than the disk
|
|||
|
|
HS itself is on. If HS is on your boot disk, this obviously won't work.
|
|||
|
|
If HS is _not_ on your boot disk, then placing your HS icons onto your boot
|
|||
|
|
disk will cause them to show up again, without having to Control-Option
|
|||
|
|
double-click anything.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In the course of this investigation, I found out the full order in
|
|||
|
|
which Finder searches volumes for matching icons. First, it searches the
|
|||
|
|
last disk inserted, then the second to last, and so on under it gets to the
|
|||
|
|
first disk inserted. Then, it searches the boot volume. Next, it follows
|
|||
|
|
the order of the other disks online when Finder was started up, from first
|
|||
|
|
to last. So be careful of this seeming inconsistency. Just remember
|
|||
|
|
inserted disks are last to first, and disks already online at startup are
|
|||
|
|
the reverse, first to last. -Lunatic (:
|
|||
|
|
(LUNATIC, CAT9, TOP3, MSG:123/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
HyperBole Continues Thanks to everyone for your comments about
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""" HyperBole. Hopefully this will make you all feel
|
|||
|
|
better about recent events:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It is with great pleasure that we renege on the last letter you
|
|||
|
|
received from us, which (for those of you with short memories) notified you
|
|||
|
|
of the discontinuance of HyperBole for the GS. Our most sincere apologies
|
|||
|
|
for the mix-up.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
What happened was... our new distributor, Roger Wagner Publishing,
|
|||
|
|
convinced us that many of you would be very disappointed in HyperBole's
|
|||
|
|
untimely demise (which was reflected in your response -- many thanks to
|
|||
|
|
all of you for your kind words and praise). So he suggested a revamped
|
|||
|
|
version of Hyperbole, one aimed towards high school students, with an
|
|||
|
|
emphasis on education as well as literature. We agreed, but not before
|
|||
|
|
our last letter went out.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The main focus of the changes will be in our interface design, as
|
|||
|
|
well as some content alterations. We will be eliminating the rating
|
|||
|
|
system and the content will be consistently PG: we will no longer feature
|
|||
|
|
adult-oriented themes, and the language will be modified slightly (in
|
|||
|
|
keeping with our redefined audience). We will not, however, compromise
|
|||
|
|
the quality of our work, and HyperBole will continue to be a hallmark of
|
|||
|
|
good literature as well as an interactive pioneer. So you will still enjoy
|
|||
|
|
all the things HyperBole has brought you; the cutting edge of multimedia
|
|||
|
|
design, compelling stories and thought provoking situations.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
SO... you have some options again. If we do not hear from you, we
|
|||
|
|
will simply keep your subscription going. Indeed, we ask that if you have
|
|||
|
|
any reservations about the new HyperBole, that you allow us at least one
|
|||
|
|
issue to convince you that the writing and the quality of our work will
|
|||
|
|
only be improved by the changes. If you have already changed your
|
|||
|
|
subscription over to another publication, you may switch back if you so
|
|||
|
|
choose. And if you are now a Mac subscriber, we are certain you will be
|
|||
|
|
completely satisfied with HyperBole on the Mac.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In regards to The Marvelous Magic Machine: it has become the new
|
|||
|
|
HyperBole, and therefore will not be a separate publication. We look
|
|||
|
|
forward to continuing HyperBole for the GS, and we feel confident that the
|
|||
|
|
improvements to HyperBole will allow you to enjoy it more technically and
|
|||
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textually. Thank you once again for your patience, your understanding,
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and your confidence in us. --The Staff of HyperBole
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(A2.GREGOR, CAT23, TOP9, MSG:57, M645;1)
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Anything Else Icon Info Larry, I recently did some investigating into
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""""""""""""""""""""""" this, myself. What I found is that what Kevin
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said is correct: The only way to edit the image of the generic "Anything
|
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else" icon is to edit the icon in Finder's resource fork. There are pros
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and cons to this design. On one hand, it makes it considerably more
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difficult to edit this icon. While the other icons that used to be in
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Finder.Icons and Finder.Icons.X are now EASIER to change, without having to
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edit the original files (as you HAD to do to replace the trash icon and the
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icon for your boot volume), the generic "Anything else" icon went the other
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way, now requiring you to edit your original system files (in this case,
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the Finder itself). On the other hand, since the only generic "Anything
|
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else" icon Finder pays attention to is the one in its own resource fork,
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you don't have to worry as much about accidentally including an "Anything
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else" icon in one of your other icon files, causing Finder to "overwrite"
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all the icons it had loaded into memory previously. Allowing an icon in a
|
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regular icon file to act as the "Anything else" icon would also by
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necessity "overwrite" all of the icons in Finder's resource fork. If that
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one "Anything else" icon were the first file in your only Icons folder, or
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you didn't have any other icons there, EVERYTHING would show up blank, and
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nothing you double-clicked on would work, except for folders and
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application files.
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So, I suppose that it's not THAT bad that Finder 6.0 was set up this
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way. We just have to deal with the generic "Anything else" icon the same
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way in System 6 as in previous systems. That is, the original system files
|
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must be edited in order to change it. At least the OTHER icons that used
|
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to be like this (the trash can and the icon for the boot volume) can be
|
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edited much more easily, now. -= Lunatic (: (LUNATIC, CAT9, TOP2,
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MSG:136)
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3.5 Inch System Disk J Gilbert, Just in case you don't or can't follow
|
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"""""""""""""""""""" the previous advice here is a list of the files on
|
|||
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the Minimum System Disk from the System 6.0 package.
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File Name
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---------------------------------------------------------------
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ProDOS
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System
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Start.GS.OS
|
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GS.OS
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Error.Msg
|
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GS.OS.Dev
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FSTs
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Pro.FST
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Char.FST
|
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Drivers
|
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AppleDisk3.5
|
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AppleDisk5.25
|
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Console.Driver
|
|||
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System.Setup
|
|||
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Tool.Setup
|
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TS2
|
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TS3
|
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Resource.Mgr
|
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Sys.Resources
|
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Desk.Accs
|
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ControlPanel
|
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CDevs
|
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Printer
|
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Time
|
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Start
|
|||
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Tools
|
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Tool014
|
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Tool015
|
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Tool016
|
|||
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Tool018
|
|||
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Tool019
|
|||
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Tool020
|
|||
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Tool021
|
|||
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Tool022
|
|||
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Tool023
|
|||
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Tool025
|
|||
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Tool027
|
|||
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Tool028
|
|||
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Tool034
|
|||
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Fonts
|
|||
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P8
|
|||
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Icons
|
|||
|
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FType.Apple
|
|||
|
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BASIC.System
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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44 files for 741,466 bytes (739K on disk)
|
|||
|
|
Hope this helps. -Randy
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Editor's Note: When installing System Software 6.0 we recommend
|
|||
|
|
using the /INSTALLER disk. It will make a difference and save you
|
|||
|
|
headaches. (R.CHEVRIER, CAT9, TOP8, MSG:37)
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
External Power for the GS >>"I need a heavy duty power supply and I am
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""" _cheap_. I'll put it on the floor if I need
|
|||
|
|
to. Would 110W output overload the GS motherboard?"
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
If you want to mount the thing externally, you would probably be
|
|||
|
|
better off with a comparatively strong IBM supply. Supplies that are "too
|
|||
|
|
weak" for an IBM can be found used, REAL cheap. The problem i s that the
|
|||
|
|
longer the power line is, the more loss you are going to experience, and
|
|||
|
|
the more noise you are likely to introduce. To cut down on both, you would
|
|||
|
|
want to use a pretty heavy gauge shielded cable. I have done this, and
|
|||
|
|
experienced a lot of frustration in finding proper connectors, assembling
|
|||
|
|
the whole thing, and getting the cable in place through the holes in the
|
|||
|
|
back of the GS. If I h ad it to do again, I would skip that step and go
|
|||
|
|
directly to the heavy duty AE power supply I am now using. :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
HOWEVER, if Scott is going to buy one anyway, maybe we can persuade
|
|||
|
|
him to open it up when he gets it and measure the actual size of the power
|
|||
|
|
supply inside the case. If it will fit into the stock GS power supply case,
|
|||
|
|
then it would be a relative piece of cake to pull it out of their case and
|
|||
|
|
remount it in a GS power supply case. I know at least one person who has
|
|||
|
|
done this (no, make that two) us ing the power supply from a dead Vulcan.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A 110 watt power supply would not overload the GS motherboard in and
|
|||
|
|
of itself, however, if you get something wired wrong, or if something on
|
|||
|
|
the MB should short at some point, you will see smoke, and your wallet will
|
|||
|
|
bleed. The difference between this happening with a 110 wat supply and
|
|||
|
|
stock power supply (what, 40 watts?) is just a matter of how fast it will
|
|||
|
|
burn things up though. With a stock supply, if you SEE this happening, and
|
|||
|
|
hit the power switch fast enough, you MIGHT just be lucky enough not to
|
|||
|
|
burn anything out. With a 110 watt supply, you probably won't be able to
|
|||
|
|
save it. I'd say it is similar to the difference between being shot in the
|
|||
|
|
face with a .22 and a .38. Neither is going to make you happy.
|
|||
|
|
- Gary R. Utter
|
|||
|
|
(GARY.UTTER, CAT12, TOP5, MSG:70/M645;1)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Band Newsletter on Publish It! I used Publish It! 4, an 8-year-old dot
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" matrix printer (SCM D200) and a photocopy
|
|||
|
|
machine to produce a newsletter for my concert band th is past week.
|
|||
|
|
Saturday, at the annual picnic, one of the music teachers couldn't believe
|
|||
|
|
I hadn't used a Mac! (Several others asked me whether I was using a Mac
|
|||
|
|
or a "pc," but this one trumpet player couldn't be shaken in his belief.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Another musician countered, "The Apple II is a '57 Chevy," to which I
|
|||
|
|
replied, "Yeah, but it gets me where I want to go."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Still another wanted to know what scanner I used for the photo of a
|
|||
|
|
brass quintet. No scanner; I used Publish It for the rest of the page,
|
|||
|
|
plopped the photo and the page onto the photocopy machine, set it for the
|
|||
|
|
lightest copies possible, and hit START. Of course, I couldn't use
|
|||
|
|
collating and stapling for this issue.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you'd like to see a copy of the newsletter, send me a self-
|
|||
|
|
addressed stamped (29c) business envelope by snail mail...."while supplies
|
|||
|
|
last." Make sure you indicate somewhere what you're requesting....since I
|
|||
|
|
advertise free copies of pricelists and other stuff for stamp collector
|
|||
|
|
using the same method. <<<Lloyd>>> P.O. Box 145, Dumont, NJ 07628-0145
|
|||
|
|
(L.DEVRIES, CAT8, TOP18, MSG:18/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Mah Jong Vs. Shanghai Unlike Shanghai, Mah Jong also doesn't let you back
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""" up a move. Other options Shanghai has include the
|
|||
|
|
ability to show you all the available moves left on the board, and the
|
|||
|
|
ability to give up and "peek" under tiles, both of which are very useful
|
|||
|
|
while learning and can be nifty when you're just wanting to relax and not
|
|||
|
|
really challenge yourself too hard .
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Mah Jong lacks these nice features. It's also slower. And, it's got
|
|||
|
|
this annoying feature where, every time you click on a tile that you can't
|
|||
|
|
remove, you get a big dialog box right in the middle of the screen and have
|
|||
|
|
to hit return or click "Okay" to get it to go away. This is annoying,
|
|||
|
|
especially when sometimes you had the right tile but you just "missed" it
|
|||
|
|
and hit the wrong one.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Shanghai would just not accept an incorrect tile. No dialogs or
|
|||
|
|
anything, it just wouldn't take it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Another thing is that Shanghai's tiles are much more clear and crisp.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
On the other hand, Mah Jong is cheaper, and it's more colorful, and it
|
|||
|
|
does let you change tilesets "on the fly" (you can do it with Shanghai but
|
|||
|
|
it's more effort). The game play is basically the same. It's a fine
|
|||
|
|
shareware effort.
|
|||
|
|
(A2.DEAN, CAT3, TOP4, MSG:145/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
While on GEnie, do you spend most of your time downloading files?
|
|||
|
|
If so, you may be missing out some excellent information in the Bulletin
|
|||
|
|
Board area. The messages listed above only scratch the surface of
|
|||
|
|
what's available and waiting for you in the bulletin board area.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you are serious about your APPLE II, the GEnie Lamp staff strongly
|
|||
|
|
urge you to give the bulletin board area a try. There are literally
|
|||
|
|
thousands of messages posted from people like you from all over the
|
|||
|
|
world.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
//////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "I GOT THE JOB!!!! In 2-3 weeks, I'll be back in Illinois! /
|
|||
|
|
/ I will soon be Promotion Director for WICS!!!!! Life is /
|
|||
|
|
/ good, life is great, life is a big slab of Carmel Pecan /
|
|||
|
|
/ Silk Supreme pie from Village Inn/Baker's Square!!! (with /
|
|||
|
|
/ extra whipped cream!). Sorry to overdose everyone on the /
|
|||
|
|
/ '!s'. I'm off to do a happy dance now!" /
|
|||
|
|
//////////////////////////////////////////// R.MARTIN22 ////
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
[EOA]#57
|
|||
|
|
[FUN]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
ONLINE FUN /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Search-ME!
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By John Peters
|
|||
|
|
[GENIELAMP]
|
|||
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|
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
SEARCH-ME! Welcome to Search-ME, our new monthly puzzle program. Each
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""" month we will have a different theme. Our first Search-ME!
|
|||
|
|
puzzle is about GEnie. If you have some ideas of a theme for Search-ME!,
|
|||
|
|
send your list of keywords to GENIELAMP. Lists selected that are used in
|
|||
|
|
this column will get you one hour of GEnie credit. Cool!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This month's keywords:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
***************************************************
|
|||
|
|
* ALADDIN BOARDS BULLETIN *
|
|||
|
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* CHAT DOWNLOAD GAMES *
|
|||
|
|
* GEMAIL GENIE GENIE*BASIC *
|
|||
|
|
* GENIELAMP GENIEVALUE HOTSUMMERNIGHTS *
|
|||
|
|
* LIBRARY LIVEWIRE MESSAGES *
|
|||
|
|
* MULTIPLAYER ONLINE ROLEPLAYING *
|
|||
|
|
* ROUNDTABLE RTC UPLOAD *
|
|||
|
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***************************************************
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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S Y A P I Z N A B U L L E T I N M C P L T H W
|
|||
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N E I A I V P P F J Y F W Z S C Y R A R B I L
|
|||
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C P R S V K Y O P K Z D O W N L O A D F M Q I
|
|||
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I Z L I A J S Z W V N C Q H F A Q J H Z G B N
|
|||
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S X W T W B U P L O A D T L H H V L S E I H X
|
|||
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A P M A L E I N E G B Y Q D M F X T L B D Z S
|
|||
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B D F H E D V W M Z O A W T K O O B X D F I X
|
|||
|
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* M T C Q A O I M J A Z C T Y V A R L Z C L I
|
|||
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E Y U L X L N U L L R R D G V T B W P Z Q Q C
|
|||
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I C S L S I O V W U D M E C D V E L B H O A W
|
|||
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N V Y F T S L J X X S N G N I Y A L P E L O R
|
|||
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E G E M A I L Q Z O I U U M B L Q C T I W J B
|
|||
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G A M E S H P P N E S O W X N V L J F R B O K
|
|||
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V I V S L D H L V T R O U D I C R F J S M J B
|
|||
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Y F F S K L I A A Z O L M F D R T K N C Y U E
|
|||
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Z I U A S N L S O Y Q X Z O D W G R E I N E G
|
|||
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C V L G E U A G F W E K W P A P Q Y L F R O C
|
|||
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N I V E E R V G A Z J R Y S L V G Z P Y E X V
|
|||
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V U F S M V Z E C Q C R W S A T W Z E Q Y H M
|
|||
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H O T S U M M E R N I G H T S L W G T O F A H
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
GIVE UP? You will find the answers in the LOG OFF column at the end of
|
|||
|
|
"""""""" the magazine. This column was created with a program called
|
|||
|
|
SEARCH ME, by David Becker.
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
///////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "Sir Newton, was awaken and upon noticing that an APPLE had /
|
|||
|
|
/ hit him in the noggin, began contemplating why that APPLE /
|
|||
|
|
/ had dropped. His conclusion was the beginning of the /
|
|||
|
|
/ concept and theory of Gravity." /
|
|||
|
|
/ /
|
|||
|
|
/ "Later that evening, he began to wonder why the darn thing /
|
|||
|
|
/ didn't have a SCSI port built in...." /
|
|||
|
|
///////////////////////////////// W.GEORGE2 / L.DEVRIES ////
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
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|
|||
|
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[EOA]!!@
|
|||
|
|
[HIS]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
APPLE II HISTORY /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Part II, The Apple I
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By Steven Weyhrich
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> APPLE II HISTORY <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Compiled and written by Steven Weyhrich
|
|||
|
|
(C) Copyright 1991, Zonker Software
|
|||
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|
|
|||
|
|
(PART 2 -- THE APPLE I)
|
|||
|
|
[v1.1 :: 12 Dec 91]
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This section of the Apple II history deals with the
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""" origin of the Apple Computer Company and its first
|
|||
|
|
product, (what else?) the Apple Computer. Predecessor to the Apple II, it
|
|||
|
|
was not much of a computer by today's standards, but for its time, it was
|
|||
|
|
incredible.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I've heard (possibly an old fable, but fun anyway) that there is still
|
|||
|
|
an Apple I circuit board, framed, hanging on the wall of John Sculley's
|
|||
|
|
office. The writing on the plate at the bottom of the frame says, "Our
|
|||
|
|
Founder".
|
|||
|
|
-Steve Weyhrich <IX0YE>--<
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
THE APPLE I: DEVELOPMENT At the Homebrew Computer club in Palo Alto,
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""" California (in Silicon Valley), Steve Wozniak, a
|
|||
|
|
26 year old employee of Hewlett-Packard and a long-time digital electronics
|
|||
|
|
hacker, had been wanting to build a computer of his own for a long time.
|
|||
|
|
For years he had designed many on paper, and even written FORTRAN compilers
|
|||
|
|
and BASIC interpreters for these theoretical machines, but a lack of money
|
|||
|
|
kept him from carrying out his desire. He looked at the Intel 8080 chip
|
|||
|
|
(the heart of the Altair), but at $179 decided he couldn't afford it. A
|
|||
|
|
decision to NOT use the 8080 was considered foolhardy by other members of
|
|||
|
|
the club. Consider this description of the microcomputer "world" as it was
|
|||
|
|
in the summer of 1975:
|
|||
|
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"That summer at the Homebrew Club the Intel 8080 formed the
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center of the universe. The Altair was built around the 8080 and
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its early popularity spawned a cottage industry of small
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companies that either made machines that would run programs
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written for the Altair or made attachments that would plug into
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the computer. The private peculiarities of microprocessors meant
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that a program or device designed for one would not work on
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another. The junction of these peripheral devices for the Altair
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was known as the S-100 bus because it used one hundred signal
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lines. Disciples of the 8080 formed religious attachments to the
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8080 and S-100 even though they readily admitted that the latter
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was poorly designed. The people who wrote programs or built
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peripherals for 8080 computers thought that later, competing
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microprocessors were doomed. The sheer weight of the programs
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and the choice of peripherals, so the argument went, would make
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it more useful to more users and more profitable for more
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companies. The 8080, they liked to say, had critical mass which
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was sufficient to consign anything else to oblivion."<1>
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Another chip, the Motorola 6800, interested Wozniak because it
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resembled his favorite minicomputers (such as the Data General Nova) more
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than the 8080. However, cost was still a problem for him until he and his
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friend Allen Baum discovered a chip that was almost identical to the 6800,
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while considerably cheaper. MOS Technology sold their 6502 chip for $25,
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as opposed to the $175 Motorola 6800. Wozniak decided to change his choice
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of processor to the 6502 and began writing a version of BASIC that would
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run on it. A friend over at Hewlett-Packard programmed a computer to
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simulate the function of the 6502, and Wozniak used it to test some of his
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early routines. When his BASIC interpreter was finished, he turned his
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attention to designing the computer he could run it on. Except for some
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small timing differences, he was able to use the hardware design he had
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earlier done on paper for the 6800.<2>
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To make the computer easier to use, Wozniak favored a keyboard over
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the front panel switches that came on the Altair. He also made it simple
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to use a television for a video terminal. (Recall that at this time the
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most common mechanism used for input/output was a teletype, which consisted
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of a keyboard, typewriter, and if you were lucky, a paper tape
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reader/puncher). Functionally, it was a television terminal attached to a
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computer, all on one printed circuit board (another enhancement over the
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Altair). Wozniak used two 256 x 4 PROM (programmable read-only memory)
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chips to create a 256 byte program (called a "monitor") that looked at the
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keyboard when the computer was turned on. This monitor program could not
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do much more than allow entry of hex bytes, examine a range of memory, and
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run a program at a specific address. <3> (The Altair needed these
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"bootstrapping" instructions to be entered by hand each time the computer
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was turned on).
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Because there were no cheap RAMs available, Woz used shift registers
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to send text to the TV screen. Consequently, his video terminal was
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somewhat slow, displaying characters at about 60 characters per second, one
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character per scan of the TV screen. (This speed would be similar to
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watching a computer communicate via a modem at 1200 baud). It was slow by
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1991 standards, but an advancement over the teletypes that could only type
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10 characters per second. The computer had 8K of dynamic RAM. You could
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load BASIC into 4K of memory and have 4K left over for your own programs.
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It had a video connector, but you had to connect a monitor on your own.
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You also had to buy the keyboard separately and wire it into a 16-pin DIP
|
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connector. The power supply had to be connected to two transformers to get
|
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5 volts and 12 volts for the motherboard. There was no speaker, no
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graphics, and no color. There was a single peripheral slot, and when it
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was first released there was nothing available to plug into this slot. It
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was entirely contained on a single printed circuit board, about six by
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eight inches in size (most hobby computers of that time needed at least two
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boards), used only 30 or 40 chips, and because it could run BASIC programs
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it got people's attention.<4>
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THE APPLE I: MARKETING Let's adjust our time circuits for 1976, and jump
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"""""""""""""""""""""" forward in time. By now, Steve Wozniak had
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completed his 6502-based computer and would display enhancements or
|
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modifications at the bi-weekly Homebrew Computer Club meetings. Steve
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Jobs was a 21 year old friend of Wozniak's and also a visitor at the
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Homebrew club. He had worked with Wozniak in the past (together they
|
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designed the arcade game "Breakout" for Atari) and was very interested in
|
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his computer. During the design process Jobs made suggestions that helped
|
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shape the final product, such as the use of the newer dynamic RAMs instead
|
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of older, more expensive static RAMs. He suggested to Wozniak that they
|
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|
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get some printed circuit boards made for the computer and sell it at the
|
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club for people to assemble themselves. They pooled their financial
|
|||
|
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resources together to have PC boards made, and on April 1st, 1976 they
|
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officially formed the Apple Computer Company. Jobs had recently worked at
|
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|
an organic apple orchard, and liked the name because "he thought of the
|
|||
|
|
apple as the perfect fruit--it has a high nutritional content, it comes in
|
|||
|
|
a nice package, it doesn't damage easily--and he wanted Apple to be the
|
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|
|
perfect company. Besides, they couldn't come up with a better name."<5>
|
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Jobs approached the owner of a new computer store in the bay area
|
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|
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called "The Byte Shop." This businessman, Paul Terrell, expressed an
|
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interest in the Apple Computer (to be known later as the "Apple I"), but
|
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|
|
wanted only fully assembled computers to sell. If they could provide this,
|
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|
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Terrell told them he would order fifty Apples, and pay cash on delivery.
|
|||
|
|
Suddenly, the cost of making (and selling) this computer was considerably
|
|||
|
|
more than they expected. Jobs and Wozniak managed to get the parts on "net
|
|||
|
|
30 days" (30 days credit without interest), and set themselves up in Job's
|
|||
|
|
garage for assembly and testing of the Apple I. After marathon sessions
|
|||
|
|
of stuffing and soldering PC boards, Jobs delivered the computers to the
|
|||
|
|
Byte Shop. Although these "fully assembled" computers lacked a power
|
|||
|
|
supply, keyboard, or monitor, Terrell bought them as promised. In July of
|
|||
|
|
1976 the Apple I was released and sold for $666.66, which was about twice
|
|||
|
|
the cost of the parts plus a 33% dealer markup. <6> Two hundred Apple I
|
|||
|
|
computers were manufactured, and all except twenty-five of them sold over a
|
|||
|
|
period of ten months.<7>
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Although the Apple I was easier to begin using than the Altair
|
|||
|
|
(thanks to its built-in ROM code), it was still a time consuming process
|
|||
|
|
to set it up to do something useful. Steve Wozniak would have to type in
|
|||
|
|
about 3K of hexadecimal bytes before BASIC was ready to use. He could do
|
|||
|
|
it in about 0 to 30 minutes, but he almost knew the code by heart. The
|
|||
|
|
typical user was more limited in ability to use BASIC on the Apple I. To
|
|||
|
|
broaden the appeal of the Apple I (and at the insistence of Paul Terrell),
|
|||
|
|
Wozniak designed a cassette interface. It was mounted on a small
|
|||
|
|
two-inch-high printed circuit board and plugged into the single slot on
|
|||
|
|
the motherboard. The card sold for $75 and a cassette tape of Woz's BASIC
|
|||
|
|
was included with it. The advertisement Apple included with the card
|
|||
|
|
stated,
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Our philosophy is to provide software for our machines free or at
|
|||
|
|
minimal cost." The interface worked, but worked well only with
|
|||
|
|
cassettes running on expensive tape recorders. To further try to
|
|||
|
|
enhance sales, the Byte Shop stores found a local cabinetmaker that
|
|||
|
|
made some koa-wood cases for the Apple computer (so it would no
|
|||
|
|
longer be just a "naked" circuit board).<8>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Interestingly, although most of the action in the micro world was
|
|||
|
|
going on in Silicon Valley, news of the Apple I made its way east. Stan
|
|||
|
|
Veit, owner of the east coast's first computer store, bought an Apple I
|
|||
|
|
and took it to a meeting of the Association of Computer Machinery. Those
|
|||
|
|
attending were quite skeptical that a REAL computer could fit into a small
|
|||
|
|
briefcase; they were sure that the machine was just a portable terminal,
|
|||
|
|
attached by a hidden phone line to a mainframe somewhere!<9>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NEXT INSTALLMENT: The Apple II
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NOTES
|
|||
|
|
"""""
|
|||
|
|
<1> Michael Moritz, THE LITTLE KINGDOM, p. 123.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<2> Moritz, pp. 124-127.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<3> Williams & Moore, p. A69.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<4> Gregg Williams and Rob Moore, "The Apple Story, Part 1: Early
|
|||
|
|
History", BYTE, Dec 1984, pp. A68-A69.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<5> Frank Rose, WEST OF EDEN: THE END OF INNOCENCE AT APPLE COMPUTER,
|
|||
|
|
p. 33.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<6> Moritz, pp. 138-144.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<7> Williams & Moore, pp. A69.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<8> Moritz, pp. 147-149.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<9> Chien, Philip, "Apple's First Decade: A Look Back", THE APPLE II
|
|||
|
|
REVIEW, Fall/Winter 1986, p. 12.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
///////////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "...when I first did v1.00 I envisioned this nice simple little /
|
|||
|
|
/ utility and it is now honestly a monster of code." /
|
|||
|
|
///////////////////////////////////////////////// S.SANDERS2 ////
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[PRO]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
A2 PRO ROUNDTABLE /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
A Great Developer's Tool!
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> A2 PRO NEWS AND FEATURES <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A2Pro NEWS & FEATURES What is A2Pro? Welcome to the first installment
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""" of A2Pro News & Features. July is an exciting
|
|||
|
|
time for the Apple II community as it marks A2-Central's annual KansasFest
|
|||
|
|
where developers share ideas, exchange notes and traditionally unveil
|
|||
|
|
exciting new works. It seems only fitting that we use this KansasFest
|
|||
|
|
month to begin our coverage a great developer's tool, the GEnie Apple II
|
|||
|
|
Developers Roundtable -- A2Pro.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In future issues A2Pro News & Features will carry exciting news from
|
|||
|
|
fellow developers and the companies which support them. We will share with
|
|||
|
|
you A2Pro's most informative and insightful messages and give you a
|
|||
|
|
roundup of great new files in the A2Pro Library. This month, though, we
|
|||
|
|
want to tell you all about A2Pro.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THE GRAND TOUR "You may not know it but there is a whole area dedicated
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""" to programming Apple II computers of every shape, form
|
|||
|
|
and dimension. It's the sister forum to A2, and it's called A2PRO. You
|
|||
|
|
can get to it by typing "M530" at the main A2 prompt (or at any GEnie ">"
|
|||
|
|
prompt).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In A2Pro we help programmers and developers of every skill level,
|
|||
|
|
from the very novice to the folks who write the products you use every day.
|
|||
|
|
We can help you write programs in anything from Applesoft BASIC to
|
|||
|
|
HyperCard IIgs or 6502, 65C02 or 65816 assembly language. Why, you'll even
|
|||
|
|
find people from Apple Computer dropping by every now and then. :)"
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
That was recently written by the head sysop from A2Pro and it tells
|
|||
|
|
A2Pro's mission quite well. The concept behind A2Pro is relatively simple
|
|||
|
|
and very effective, to provide a place where developers and programers can
|
|||
|
|
get together, pass messages, share files and talk to one another. Three
|
|||
|
|
areas accomplish this:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
o The Message Center
|
|||
|
|
o The Live Conference Room
|
|||
|
|
o The Online Library
|
|||
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|
|
|||
|
|
The Message center is a place where you can openly share your thoughts
|
|||
|
|
and ideas or respond to what other people have to say. It is divided into
|
|||
|
|
several categories, each category containing a number of individual topics.
|
|||
|
|
Should you not be able to find a topic which meets your needs, you can
|
|||
|
|
easily start a new topic which will be available immediately to you and
|
|||
|
|
everyone else. To get a complete listing of all the categories and their
|
|||
|
|
individual topics you can use a simple index command to list them all out.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Here is a list of the current categories:
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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1 A2Pro Roundtable Business
|
|||
|
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2 Programming in 6502 Assembly
|
|||
|
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3 Programming in 65816 Assembly
|
|||
|
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4 Programming in C
|
|||
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5 Debugging
|
|||
|
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6 Programming in Pascal
|
|||
|
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7 Programming with ProDOS 8 and other 8-bit Operating Systems
|
|||
|
|
8 Programming with GS/OS and ProDOS 16
|
|||
|
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9 Programming in BASIC
|
|||
|
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10 Tools and Utilities for Programmers
|
|||
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11 Algorithms, Design, and Data Structures
|
|||
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12 Hardware and Peripherals
|
|||
|
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13 Developer Information Center
|
|||
|
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14 Other Programming Languages
|
|||
|
|
15 Using the Apple IIgs Tool Box
|
|||
|
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16 Developer and User Lounge
|
|||
|
|
17 Communications and Networking
|
|||
|
|
18 HyperMedia Programming
|
|||
|
|
19 Development Environments and Shells
|
|||
|
|
20 Apple IIgs System Software
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
The conference room A2Pro's place for live discussions. You can
|
|||
|
|
arrange to meet other A2Pro members here in groups, enter into private chat
|
|||
|
|
or attend regularly scheduled conferences which often feature exciting
|
|||
|
|
guests. These roundtable conferences are fun, lively events which provide
|
|||
|
|
a great way to get to know other A2Pro members.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Last stop on the tour is the online library. GEnie boast one of
|
|||
|
|
Apple II computing's greatest collections of developer support software.
|
|||
|
|
Here members can find many tools to make programing easier and fun. Like
|
|||
|
|
the message center, the online library is separated into categories.
|
|||
|
|
Library navigation is a breeze with commands to browse through
|
|||
|
|
descriptions, display a complete directory or see what new files have been
|
|||
|
|
added since your last visit. Here is a list of library categories:
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
1. A2Pro Archives and Transcripts
|
|||
|
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2. Apple II Tech Notes
|
|||
|
|
3. Apple II File Type Notes
|
|||
|
|
4. Apple II Sample Code
|
|||
|
|
5. System Software
|
|||
|
|
6. Assembly Source Code
|
|||
|
|
7. Pascal Source Code
|
|||
|
|
8. C Source Code
|
|||
|
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9. BASIC Programs
|
|||
|
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10. REZ Code
|
|||
|
|
11. Other Languages
|
|||
|
|
12. Programming Utilities
|
|||
|
|
13. HyperCard IIgs
|
|||
|
|
14. HyperStudio
|
|||
|
|
15. Miscellaneous Files
|
|||
|
|
16. Apple II University (A2U)
|
|||
|
|
17. Debugging Tools
|
|||
|
|
18. Apple Human Interface Guidelines
|
|||
|
|
19. Apple Interface Files
|
|||
|
|
20. Cross Development Tools & Utilities
|
|||
|
|
21. Library Tools
|
|||
|
|
22. Compression Tools and Source
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Of course you need to be a GEnie member to join A2Pro, but as you have
|
|||
|
|
seen, the advantages are tremendous. Remember, the best way to keep on
|
|||
|
|
top of things is to be in the thick of the action, and if you are a
|
|||
|
|
programer or developer the best place to be is on GEnie in A2Pro.
|
|||
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|
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|
|||
|
|
NEW BOSS IN A2Pro Big changes have recently taken place which make
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""" A2Pro the premiere gathering place for Apple II
|
|||
|
|
developers. Foremost amongst these is the appointment of a new staff.
|
|||
|
|
Read on...
|
|||
|
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|
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|
|
Since timing on GEnie isn't always certain, most of you will have read
|
|||
|
|
about this on the door of A2Pro, but some of you will read this message
|
|||
|
|
before the new door files get posted. To those of you who didn't find
|
|||
|
|
anything unusual on the door, you're about to be surprised. :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
After a long and productive reign guiding A2Pro through thick and
|
|||
|
|
thin, Tom Stechow and Mark Collins no longer have the time they feel A2Pro
|
|||
|
|
deserves, and so have reluctantly moved on to other challenges. Tom's
|
|||
|
|
making an important trip soon and Mark's very busy with the upcoming
|
|||
|
|
Foundation resource editor from Lunar Productions, so each of them has more
|
|||
|
|
than enough to keep them busy. Their work here has been exemplary and
|
|||
|
|
their presence on staff will be sorely missed.
|
|||
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|
|
|||
|
|
When Tom resigned, I talked to Tom Weishaar and Dean Esmay and
|
|||
|
|
indicated I was interested in what happened with A2Pro. One thing led to
|
|||
|
|
another, and about a week ago I accepted the position of head sysop here
|
|||
|
|
in A2Pro, effective today.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
For those of you who don't know me, I'm the lead developer technical
|
|||
|
|
support engineer for the Apple II family of computers at Apple Computer,
|
|||
|
|
Inc. -- I spend a lot of my days answering development questions from
|
|||
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Apple Partners and working on one-to-many tools like Technical Notes, File
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Type Notes (which I created), Sample Code (like IR 2.0.1). I also review
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documentation and work with the Apple I
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I continuing engineering group on their continuing work. I'm
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responsible for assigning ProDOS file types and auxiliary types, and I've
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written magazine articles for Call -A.P.P.L.E., GS+, _develop_ and
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APDAlog. I've also been active here in A2Pro for over four years.
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In the past, I've had trouble with people confusing me (an individual
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person) with Apple Computer. I know Apple's policies inside and out (I
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help create some of the technical ones, like some compatibility rules) and
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I know the people who create the system software. I know the processes
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that they go through and I know that decisions they took weeks to make and
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implement can sometimes be dismissed online by disgruntled users without
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thought for how the decision was made. When I tell people Apple's
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policies, they tend to think I'm representing Apple online. When I defend
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decisions painfully made by my friends and coworkers, people think I'm
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defending Apple even when it's unreasonable. I'm not. I'm speaking for
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_myself_ and saying what _I_ believe, and the fact that I work for Apple
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during the days just happens to give me more insight on some issues.
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If you have a genuine development problem with something (say the
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Finder), those of us here in A2Pro can help you work around it and get your
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program working. If a bug in the Finder leads you to post something like
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"The Finder's a piece of crap and Apple hates us to have shipped it" -- now
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you're insulting my friend Andy Nicholas and my other colleagues and
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friends who labored long and hard over Finder 6.0 and its testing -- and
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I'm likely to respond to that. :)
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To help keep the distinction, I'll have a "disclaimer" on my signature
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for the time being -- something that reminds you on every message that here
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in A2Pro, no matter how adamant I may be about what's compatible and
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what's not, I'm speaking for _me_ and not for Apple Computer, Inc. On the
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bright side, Apple isn't authorized to speak for me, either. :)
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Many of the names on the new door are familiar to A2Pro regulars --
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Jeff Holcomb and Greg Da Costa are staying on board and lending their vast
|
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expertise (both with GEnie and with the Apple II) to A2Pro, and I'm very
|
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pleased they're here. Steve Gunn is here, also, and when he finishes the
|
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current Apple II University course he'll be promoted to assistant sysop.
|
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The new fellow on the block isn't really new -- he's written lots and
|
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lots of NDAs and Finder Extensions, the most famous of which is probably
|
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"Big Edit Thing," a TextEdit-based desk accessory word processor. He's
|
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been here and on the Internet helping programmers for a number of years,
|
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and he's a KansasFest veteran. Lately he's been working with
|
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sysop-emeritus Mark Collins and Marc Wolfgram on "Foundation," the Apple
|
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IIgs Resource Editor. He is Jim Murphy, and we're pleased to have him
|
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aboard.
|
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Please join me in welcoming Jim and Steve to their new
|
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responsibilities here in A2Pro (and in thanking Greg and Jeff for staying
|
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on!). Over the next few days, you'll be seeing several of the ideas we
|
|||
|
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have for making this a vastly-fun summer here in A2Pro, and we hope you'll
|
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agree that this is going to be a lot of fun.
|
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If you have any questions or suggestions, just ask. We're here to
|
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help you out.
|
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Thanks for stopping by.
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--Matt (I speak for myself, not for Apple)
|
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(CAT2, TOP2, MSG:7/M530;1)
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SOME A2PRO REGULARS Members who frequent A2Pro can find many sources
|
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""""""""""""""""""" for help with a variety of problems. Not only are
|
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|
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there fellow developers and programers but many of the companies supporting
|
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A2Pro members stop by to answer questions and offer ideas. GEnieLamp asked
|
|||
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a few of these companies to tell us about themselves:
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BYTE WORKS The Byte Works was started 10 years ago in October with the
|
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"""""""""" ProDOS version of ORCA/M being our first product. Since then
|
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we have concentrated on serving the developer community with programs like
|
|||
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ORCA/M for the GS, APW (which we developed under contract for Apple
|
|||
|
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Computer), ORCA/Pascal, ORCA/C, ORCA/Debugger, Design Master and
|
|||
|
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ORCA/Disassembler; and with courses, like Learn to Program in Pascal, Learn
|
|||
|
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to Program in C, and Toolbox Programming in Pascal.
|
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|
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Judging from our sales, Pascal and C are both very popular programming
|
|||
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languages on the Apple IIGS, with the two languages virtually tied as far
|
|||
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as the number of registered owners. Assembly language continues to be our
|
|||
|
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most popular package, but a significant number of people use it to
|
|||
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supplement C or Pascal, rather than as a sole development language.
|
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|
|||
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From a technical viewpoint, Pascal and C are both great choices. It
|
|||
|
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really depends what you are writing; as a general rule, Pascal is the
|
|||
|
|
better choice for general application development, while C is the better
|
|||
|
|
choice for bit manipulation, shell utilities, and hardware related
|
|||
|
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programming. Frankly, the idea that C and Pascal are competitors is
|
|||
|
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ridiculous -- it's like saying a hammer and saw are competing tools because
|
|||
|
|
both are used to work with wood. Pascal is a high-level language. C is a
|
|||
|
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medium level language. People who think they are competitors simply don't
|
|||
|
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know one or the other very well!
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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Most of my own programming is done in Pascal, frequently with assembly
|
|||
|
|
language subroutines. Some programs are written entirely in C or assembly.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
As for your question about whether C is easier to use than Pascal,
|
|||
|
|
no. C is a "let the programmer beware" language that requires a strong
|
|||
|
|
background in writing well organized, structured programs and a detailed
|
|||
|
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knowledge of the machine that usually only comes through a solid grounding
|
|||
|
|
in assembly language before you can really learn C well. In addition, you
|
|||
|
|
have to know C a lot better than you would know Pascal or assembly before
|
|||
|
|
you should try to use it to write programs, since C tries very hard to stay
|
|||
|
|
out of your way -- and in the process, makes it very easy to make subtle
|
|||
|
|
programming errors. I just got a note today from a very pissed off
|
|||
|
|
developer who has a project 6 months behind schedule, and was blaming the
|
|||
|
|
delay on a "bug" in ORCA/C. It wasn't a bug in the compiler at all; he
|
|||
|
|
had missed a subtle point about the C language that resulted in unwarranted
|
|||
|
|
assumptions in his program. Interestingly enough, the program would have
|
|||
|
|
worked on many C compilers - the problem was due to an implementation
|
|||
|
|
dependent feature of the language! This is the sort of thing that happens
|
|||
|
|
over and over in C. The error would not have happened in a high-level
|
|||
|
|
language like Pascal. (It also makes you wonder why people say C is a
|
|||
|
|
portable language. It isn't. C is one of the least portable languages I
|
|||
|
|
know. C is, however, a low-level language, and like any low-level
|
|||
|
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language, a skilled and careful programmer can write programs in C that
|
|||
|
|
can be ported easily - programs that could not be written in a portable way
|
|||
|
|
in other languages. But the burden for portability os on the _programmer_,
|
|||
|
|
not the language.) -Mike Westerfield
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Editor's Note: Check out Category 1, Topic 4, Message 6, M530;1 in
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""" A2Pro for information on Byte Works new release,
|
|||
|
|
Toolbox Programming in Pascal
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
SOFTDISK PUBLISHING Both Softdisk and Softdisk G-S are published monthly
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""" for all Apple IIs and the Apple IIgs respectively.
|
|||
|
|
Being on a monthly schedule can be tough, especially when you consider that
|
|||
|
|
the software published on both products is =NOT= shareware, freeware or
|
|||
|
|
public domain! Every single program is an original creation, only
|
|||
|
|
available to Softdisk subscribers (subscriptions by the way are $20 for
|
|||
|
|
three months for Softdisk and $30 for Softdisk G-S).
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Because we published 4-5 programs a month on Softdisk and 3-4 on
|
|||
|
|
Softdisk G-S, we are =always= looking for quality submissions. We are
|
|||
|
|
interested in just about any category of program: game, productivity,
|
|||
|
|
utility, business, personal, educational - you name it!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Why sell my program to Softdisk? But, I want the widest possible
|
|||
|
|
audience? Can't I make more money in the shareware market? What about my
|
|||
|
|
rights?
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
These are all good questions, but the fact is Softdisk can pay more
|
|||
|
|
than all but the very best shareware programs (in fact, probably less than
|
|||
|
|
a dozen shareware programs have made more money than Softdisk pays for
|
|||
|
|
programs!). Considering that over 10,000 subscribers will get your program
|
|||
|
|
if you go with us, versus a few hundred people that actually download
|
|||
|
|
programs from the online services, Softdisk has a wider audience. As far
|
|||
|
|
as rights are concerned, drop us a note here on GEnie at SOFTDISK.INC and
|
|||
|
|
we'll send you a copy of our legal mumbo-jumbo so you can see for yourself
|
|||
|
|
what the deal is!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-Bryan Pietrzak, Softdisk Publishing
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
A2U, HEAD OF THE CLASS For readers who are interested in learning to
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""" program or in picking up a new language, A2
|
|||
|
|
University offers courses to help you on your way. Currently Steve Gunn is
|
|||
|
|
teaching a class in Assembly language. And should you come into a lesson
|
|||
|
|
late in the session it is no problem. Each class session can be found as a
|
|||
|
|
file in the online library. Look for more exciting news about A2Pro in
|
|||
|
|
next month's issue!
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp A2Pro Coverage In future issues of GEnieLamp A2/A2Pro our
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""" A2Pro News & Features will have all the latest
|
|||
|
|
happenings from the A2Pro RT and a look at new files in the online library.
|
|||
|
|
Also, we will be keeping in touch with many of the companies which produce
|
|||
|
|
development tools and with the programers who use them.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
If you like GEnieLamp A2/A2Pro, please pass copies to your local bbs's
|
|||
|
|
and to your friends. There are few Apple II magazines around today and
|
|||
|
|
while we may not be on paper, we want everyone to share the experience.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GET ONLINE! But remember, the best way to enjoy all the excitement is to
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""" join GEnie and become a member in A2Pro. (See [LOG] Off for
|
|||
|
|
details on signing up on GEnie.) You will find yourself in the thick of
|
|||
|
|
the action as it happens. And no matter how confusing things might get,
|
|||
|
|
you will be surrounded by experts who can get you turned in the right
|
|||
|
|
direction and on your way.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A2Pro membership will make your Apple II programing or development not
|
|||
|
|
only easier, but so much more rewarding. You will be with folks who can
|
|||
|
|
appreciate your accomplishments for both what they can do and the effort
|
|||
|
|
behind them.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
So become a part of A2Pro today! Just type M530 at any main GEnie
|
|||
|
|
prompt.
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
///////////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "When I show output on 'crappy' paper next to the output on the /
|
|||
|
|
/ sharpest paper I have, many people can't 'see' a difference. /
|
|||
|
|
/ It's as different as black and white to me!" /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////////////////////// T.MCCOMB ////
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
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[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[HUM]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
HUMOR ONLINE /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Follow The Bouncing Cursor
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By Miles Deforest and Al Pena
|
|||
|
|
(From The TeleJoke RoundTable)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Fifty Ways to Hose Your Code
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
(Kind of by Paul Simon)
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
The problem's all inside your code she said to me,
|
|||
|
|
Recursion is easy if you take it logically.
|
|||
|
|
I'm here to help you if you're struggling to learn C,
|
|||
|
|
There must be fifty ways to hose your code.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
She said it's really not my habit to #include,
|
|||
|
|
And I hope my files won't be lost of misconstrued,
|
|||
|
|
But I'll recompile at the risk of getting screwed,
|
|||
|
|
There must be fifty ways to hose your code.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Just blow up the stack Jack,
|
|||
|
|
Make a bad call Paul,
|
|||
|
|
Just hit the wrong key, Lee,
|
|||
|
|
And set your pointers free.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Just mess up the bus, Gus,
|
|||
|
|
You don't need to recurse much,
|
|||
|
|
You just listen to me.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
She said it grieves me to see you compile again.
|
|||
|
|
I wish there were some hardware that wasn't such a pain.
|
|||
|
|
I said I appreciate that and could you please explain,
|
|||
|
|
About the fifty ways?
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
She said why don't we both just work on it tonight,
|
|||
|
|
And I'm sure in the morning it'll be working just right.
|
|||
|
|
Then she hosed me and I realized she probably was right,
|
|||
|
|
There must be fifty ways to hose your code.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Just lose the address, Les,
|
|||
|
|
Clear the wrong int, Clint,
|
|||
|
|
Traverse the wrong tree, Lee,
|
|||
|
|
And set your list free.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Just mess up the bus, Gus,
|
|||
|
|
You don't need to recurse much,
|
|||
|
|
You just program in C.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
///////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "Hey, you're preaching to the choir, ya know? <g> But just /
|
|||
|
|
/ as I tend a jaundiced eye towards "the grass is greener", I /
|
|||
|
|
/ refuse to get too emotional over a dumb machine. A yare /
|
|||
|
|
/ boat, now, is another matter. <g>" /
|
|||
|
|
////////////////////////////////////////////// M.JONES52 ////
|
|||
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[WHO]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
WHO'S WHO /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Who's Who In Apple II
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
>>> CHATTING WITH MATT DEATHERAGE <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Well, as our regular readers know GEnieLamp A2/A2Pro can never sit
|
|||
|
|
still when exciting happenings are about so we decided to get to the heart
|
|||
|
|
of things. Here's our chat that we had with Matt Deatherage. Next month,
|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp will introduce you to the other new sysops in A2Pro.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
GL: Matt, you've been working at Apple a long time. How did you first
|
|||
|
|
become involved with the Apple II? How did you come to get your job
|
|||
|
|
at Apple?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MD: It's a strange story -- I'm the only person at Apple I ever knew who
|
|||
|
|
this happened to, so I hesitate to mention it lest anyone else
|
|||
|
|
"aspire" to it...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I was a "certified" Apple Developer back in 1987. In those days,
|
|||
|
|
Apple used to try to support everyone who wanted to be a developer,
|
|||
|
|
for free, as long as you could show you were working towards releasing
|
|||
|
|
a for-sale product within two years. (Trying to help everyone was a
|
|||
|
|
tremendous drain and burned a lot of people out, which is part of why
|
|||
|
|
it was changed in 1989 to the current Partners and Associates program
|
|||
|
|
-- those programs not only have fees to help with the tremendous cost
|
|||
|
|
of supporting developers, they also reduce the number of developers
|
|||
|
|
who get direct code-level support from Apple so the engineers can work
|
|||
|
|
on more one-to-many tools like Technical Notes and Sample Code. But I
|
|||
|
|
digress...)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Apple held their only "Apple IIgs College" in spring of 1987, and
|
|||
|
|
because I was a certified developer I was invited to attend (3 days,
|
|||
|
|
$500, airfare and hotel were your own responsibility). I was in
|
|||
|
|
college, but I figured it would be a really good way to get started
|
|||
|
|
programming for the IIgs, which at the time was a lot more than I
|
|||
|
|
understood. The documentation I had was alpha or pre-beta, and even
|
|||
|
|
that was hard to get -- there was nothing explaining how anything
|
|||
|
|
worked or what you were supposed to do, and the Apple IIgs College
|
|||
|
|
promised to help explain some of that. So I wheedled with my parents,
|
|||
|
|
and they loaned me the money for airfare, hotel and college admission.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
At the college, I met a lot of people who worked at Apple in Developer
|
|||
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|
Technical Support -- Jim Merritt, Rilla Reynolds, Pete McDonald -- and
|
|||
|
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many Apple IIgs engineers like Steve Glass, Fern Bachman, Jay
|
|||
|
|
Schaffer, Dan Oliver, Cheryl Ewy and many more. It was a great
|
|||
|
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college and I learned a lot, and went home to try to start applying
|
|||
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it to programs while still going to school and keeping my GPA up
|
|||
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enough to maintain my scholarships.
|
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Later in 1987, I became disenchanted with college and industrial
|
|||
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engineering (my major) -- I was taking a lot of classes that didn't
|
|||
|
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really interest me, and thought I needed a break. One of my best
|
|||
|
|
friends was doing a "co-op study" with NASA -- he'd be at the
|
|||
|
|
University of Oklahoma for one semester, then he'd go to Johnson Space
|
|||
|
|
Center in Houston for one semester and work there for one hour of
|
|||
|
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credit. He enjoyed it a lot.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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When I read in "Open-Apple" (now "A2-Central", by the way) a notice
|
|||
|
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from Jim Merritt that Developer Technical Support could use more
|
|||
|
|
engineers, I wrote him on AppleLink (I was a developer, and one of the
|
|||
|
|
four people in the world who could make the Apple II AppleLink
|
|||
|
|
software work on my machine) and asked him if I might co-op study at
|
|||
|
|
Apple. Jim had already left DTS for engineering, but Rilla Reynolds
|
|||
|
|
(who was acting manager) worked with me, took my resume and got it
|
|||
|
|
through Apple's College Relations department, and several weeks later
|
|||
|
|
I had an offer to be an Apple intern from March 14th through July
|
|||
|
|
29th, 1988. I withdrew from classes, packed up about half my stuff
|
|||
|
|
and moved out to Silicon Valley.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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While I was here, I started on revising all the Apple II Technical
|
|||
|
|
Notes, I wrote a few at the beginning, answered Emails (which wasn't
|
|||
|
|
exactly something we had planned for me to do) and generally made
|
|||
|
|
myself useful, and it was at a time when the Apple II portion of DTS
|
|||
|
|
was getting back up to strength. When I first asked about being an
|
|||
|
|
intern, there were only three Apple II engineers there -- Rilla, Pete
|
|||
|
|
McDonald and Glen Baxter, and Pete was the only one with significant
|
|||
|
|
desktop experience. Within about six months in 1988, Rilla brought in
|
|||
|
|
me, Dan Strnad, Jim Mensch, Keith Rollin and Eric Soldan. Jim Luther
|
|||
|
|
and Llew Roberts came in early 1989.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Anyway, Apple was pleased with the work I did and in June offered me a
|
|||
|
|
permanent job as a DTS engineer, which I accepted. The rest is more
|
|||
|
|
or less history. My parents helped me move the rest of my stuff out
|
|||
|
|
here and I never went back to school. Technically I'm still somewhere
|
|||
|
|
in the middle of my junior year. :)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
I say this is all excessively weird because I was hired for my job (as
|
|||
|
|
an intern) completely electronically -- I never interviewed for it at
|
|||
|
|
all. Rilla had met me at the IIgs College and hired me as an intern
|
|||
|
|
based completely on our phone and electronic conversations. I have
|
|||
|
|
_never_ seen this kind of thing happen at Apple except -- I've never
|
|||
|
|
known anyone Apple hired but never interviewed except me. :)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GL: Apple Computer was founded by two professional pranksters, Steve
|
|||
|
|
Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Can you share with us any of the humorous
|
|||
|
|
pranks that you've instigated or witnessed at Apple?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Pranks are a way of life in some groups, and in other groups they
|
|||
|
|
rarely happen at all. In DTS they're a way of life. Right now, Neil
|
|||
|
|
Day (Macintosh Technical Notes and Sample Code engineer) is on
|
|||
|
|
vacation after celebrating a birthday last week. To celebrate, while
|
|||
|
|
he's been gone, his friendly coworkers have filled his office with
|
|||
|
|
about two inches of sand.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I personally will not be having any more birthdays at Apple. :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GL: Is there any achievement that you're particularly proud of?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MD: I've been lucky to achieve many things in my life so far --
|
|||
|
|
academically, musically and professionally -- that it's hard to
|
|||
|
|
pick out one thing that I'm exceptionally proud of. I try not to
|
|||
|
|
start on something if I don't think I'll be proud of it when it's
|
|||
|
|
done -- especially things that have my name on them.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I guess professionally I'm kind of proud of the one-to-many tools I've
|
|||
|
|
been able to release, including a whole slew of Technical Notes, a few
|
|||
|
|
magazine articles and some sample code.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It's nice to be able to work on things that can help lots of people,
|
|||
|
|
and one-to-many tools are like that. It's also nice that Apple has a
|
|||
|
|
fairly-free distribution policy for Technical Notes and Sample Code
|
|||
|
|
(you can redistribute them, but not modify or sell them) -- that means
|
|||
|
|
a lot of what I've worked on is available in A2Pro's libraries where
|
|||
|
|
anyone can have it for the cost of the download.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GL: Who do you consider your mentors?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MD: I've learned much from a lot of people, and in a lot of cases we've
|
|||
|
|
learned a lot together. I've been particularly pleased at all the
|
|||
|
|
discoveries Dave Lyons, Andy Nicholas and I have made together and how
|
|||
|
|
we've been able to make use of them in the system software or in other
|
|||
|
|
places. It's a lot like A2Pro's bulletin board -- more often than
|
|||
|
|
not, everyone discovers things together.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The first person I really learned about computer programming from,
|
|||
|
|
though, has to be the late Dr. Richard Andree of the University of
|
|||
|
|
Oklahoma. Dr. Andree and his wife (also Dr. Andree) were expert
|
|||
|
|
cryptanalysts during World War II, and after the war they returned to
|
|||
|
|
mathematics and computing. They founded Mu Alpha Theta (M A Th), the
|
|||
|
|
national high school and junior college mathematics club. They held a
|
|||
|
|
summer camp for mathematically gifted students every summer for 25
|
|||
|
|
years to teach them about computer programming and how common sense
|
|||
|
|
and logical thinking makes programming easier, and that's where I
|
|||
|
|
learned a lot of the programming foundation I've used for years since
|
|||
|
|
then.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Dr. Richard Andree passed away a few years ago, but Mu Alpha Theta and
|
|||
|
|
thousands of kids everywhere benefit every day from the work he did.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GL: Do you have any favorite mottoes or proverbs?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MD: My motto comes from my friend Robert Thurman, and remains "Eat lots of
|
|||
|
|
toast." Words to live by.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GL: What do you foresee as being the important developments in personal
|
|||
|
|
computers in the next five or ten years?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MD: The most important development will be the continuation and permeation
|
|||
|
|
of an idea that's already changed the way people look at computers:
|
|||
|
|
computers are tools, not ends in themselves. Real people are
|
|||
|
|
interested in using the computer to help them with their lives, not in
|
|||
|
|
figuring out how to make the computer do what they want.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GL: Can you describe what a typical work day for you is like?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
No work day is typical. :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
We have an Email meeting at 10:00 AM every morning, where we discuss
|
|||
|
|
the Emails that need our attention that day. We talk about the
|
|||
|
|
problems and decide who will be responsible for researching and
|
|||
|
|
answering each one, then we go and do our stuff.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
During a day, we'll answer Emails, work on Technical Notes or Sample
|
|||
|
|
Code, review documentation to make sure it's accurate, work on
|
|||
|
|
upcoming projects to make sure developers' needs are met in the
|
|||
|
|
product, and learning future technologies. We also throw things at
|
|||
|
|
each other and eat.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Sometimes it takes a lot more than 8 hours per day; sometimes I work
|
|||
|
|
all night because I get started on something and want to finish. I
|
|||
|
|
especially tend to do this on Sunday nights/Monday mornings, then come
|
|||
|
|
home and sleep Monday afternoon and evening and start again Tuesday
|
|||
|
|
morning. But sitting through Monday morning meetings after being
|
|||
|
|
awake for 22 hours is usually not fun. :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MD: In the Apple II world, Steve Wozniak is a legendary figure. Was the
|
|||
|
|
Woz still working at Apple when you started working there? Any
|
|||
|
|
stories or anecdotes about working with the Woz?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Woz" is short for "Wozniak." He's not "The Woz" anymore than you're
|
|||
|
|
"the Tom" or "the Phil." You're thinking of "The Wiz", which was a
|
|||
|
|
musical. :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Woz is still an Apple Fellow, so he draws salary and officially works
|
|||
|
|
for Apple, but he doesn't have any duties that I know of. I've met
|
|||
|
|
him several times but I've never actively worked with him.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GL: Obviously your official presence will be a big draw in A2Pro. Do you
|
|||
|
|
have any changes or improvements planned for A2Pro you would like to
|
|||
|
|
share with us??
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MD: Our revised/revamped A2Pro staff (me, Steve Gunn, Jim Murphy, Jeff
|
|||
|
|
Holcombe and Greg DaCosta) are going to stir up some trouble. Right
|
|||
|
|
after starting we announced new programming contests and conferences,
|
|||
|
|
and with new Apple II university courses later this summer and more
|
|||
|
|
contests, people who like to program shouldn't have any trouble
|
|||
|
|
staying busy. :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GL: What advice do you have for people considering writing software for
|
|||
|
|
the Apple II -- new to programing and experienced.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MD: Too much to list here -- come to A2Pro and find out!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
//////////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "No insult taken Rod. I just hoped you weren't implying that /
|
|||
|
|
/ I was secretly working for Nintendo. That would have insulted /
|
|||
|
|
/ me greatly and made me challenge you to some silly sport where /
|
|||
|
|
/ we could act like cavemen.:]" /
|
|||
|
|
////////////////////////////////////////////////// J.AUCOIN ////
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[FOC]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
FOCUS ON... /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Super Finder!
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
SUPER FINDER Building a Super Finder in GS System Software 6.0 By Thomas
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""" M. Schmitz. Those who have upgraded to System Software 6.0
|
|||
|
|
for the Apple IIgs are discovering a whole range of new features and
|
|||
|
|
abilities, but like a sports car, fresh from the factory, the Finder is
|
|||
|
|
even better with the addition of some well chosen, high performance parts.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
For the IIgs there exist a whole inventory to choose from when
|
|||
|
|
souping up your computer. But before we look at individual programs you
|
|||
|
|
will want to know a little bit about the various classifications and their
|
|||
|
|
placement. We will be examining four classes of additions: Inits, Desk
|
|||
|
|
Accessories, Control Panels and Finder Extras. All of these are placed
|
|||
|
|
inside various folders within the /System f older of your boot drive or
|
|||
|
|
starting volume.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
DESK ACCESSORIES A Desk Accessory is a program you can run without
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""" leaving the Finder or the GSOS program your may be
|
|||
|
|
running. They may accomplish a number of tasks such as editing documents,
|
|||
|
|
manipulating files or even playing games.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There are two types of Desk Accessories, the NDA or New Desk
|
|||
|
|
Accessory and the CDA or Classic Desk Accessory. To install a Desk
|
|||
|
|
Accessory you simply copy it into the /Desk.Accs folder located inside the
|
|||
|
|
/System folder of your boot drive. Then, the next time you turn your IIgs
|
|||
|
|
on the NDA or CDA will be automatically installed.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To access a CDA you press the Command (Open Apple), Control and Escape
|
|||
|
|
buttons all at the same time. Then use the arrows to highlight the needed
|
|||
|
|
CDA and press return. To Access an NDA simply move the cursor to the
|
|||
|
|
apple in the upper left hand corner, hold down the mouse button and drag
|
|||
|
|
the cursor until the NDA you wish to use is highlighted. Let go of the
|
|||
|
|
mouse and the NDA opens-up.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
CONTROL PANELS Control Panels, formerly known as CDev's, are similar in
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""" nature to Desk Accessories but tend to regulate a
|
|||
|
|
distinct function in the computer's settings and performance. Control
|
|||
|
|
panel s are traditionally placed in the /CDev folder within the /System
|
|||
|
|
folder of your boot drive or starting volume.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
When in the /CDev folder Control Panels are automatically installed at
|
|||
|
|
booting time. To access a Control Panel just open the Control Panels NDA
|
|||
|
|
and the menu will appear, or by simply double clicking a Control Panel's
|
|||
|
|
icon you can open that Control Panel directly.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
INITS Inits do a number of tasks, usually having to do with system
|
|||
|
|
""""" control. Simply place an Init in the /System.Setup folder within
|
|||
|
|
the /System folder of your boot drive or starting volume. Inits perform
|
|||
|
|
their functions in a number of different manners so you will need to read
|
|||
|
|
each Init's individual instructions to see how it works.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FINDER EXTRAS Finder Extras can be seen as a sort of marriage between
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""" Desk Accessories and Inits. To install a Finder Extra you
|
|||
|
|
will need to create a /FinderExtras folder in the /System folder. Copy
|
|||
|
|
the Finder Extra into the folder and when you boot your computer you will
|
|||
|
|
find a EXTRAS option on the menu bar. Click the EXTRAS on the menu and a
|
|||
|
|
window will open listing the installed Finder Extras.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Some Finder Extras will work like NDAs, open the EXTRAS menu,
|
|||
|
|
highlight and let go. Other's require you to click a file's icon or
|
|||
|
|
perform some other task. This can become confusing so be sure to read
|
|||
|
|
each Finder Extra's documentation to find out how it works.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now that you know what Desk Accessories, Control Panels, Inits and
|
|||
|
|
Finder Extras are we can look at some of the great software which will make
|
|||
|
|
your Apple IIgs a better looking and better performing machine. Except
|
|||
|
|
for DeskColor, all of the following programs are performance programs.
|
|||
|
|
They either make the Finder more powerful or make your computer easier to
|
|||
|
|
use. DeskColor is like that racing stripe you always wanted to put on the
|
|||
|
|
side of your car. Its sole purpose is to make your computer look good.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Number: 18881
|
|||
|
|
Name: FNDRVIEW3.0.BXY
|
|||
|
|
Approximate # of bytes: 40192, Library: 6
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Finder-View 3.0 is a Finder Extension that works with the Finder in System
|
|||
|
|
Software 6.0 and later. With Finder-View you can view pictures of the
|
|||
|
|
following formats: SHR uncompressed, SHR compressed, PaintWorks, APF,
|
|||
|
|
Print Shop GS, 3200 color (Brooks, French, SHR, APF), and you can also
|
|||
|
|
animate $C2 Paintworks animations, all right from within the Finder!
|
|||
|
|
Finder-View 3.0 supports selection of multiple graphic files at once,
|
|||
|
|
displaying them in a slide show. Seeing a single graphic is as easy as
|
|||
|
|
double-clicking on its icon in the Finder!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Finder-View 3.0, by Jupiter System's Finder-View 3.0 is shareware, $10
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Number: 18772
|
|||
|
|
Name: MOREINFO.BXY V1.2
|
|||
|
|
Approximate # of bytes: 18176, Library: 6
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This Apple IIgs Finder 6.0 Extension adds more functionality to Finder's
|
|||
|
|
Icon Info menu item. With MoreInfo installed, shift-selecting Icon Info
|
|||
|
|
from the Finder 6.0 menu brings up the MoreInfo window , which shows you
|
|||
|
|
the file type, aux filetype, individual access attributes, creation/mod
|
|||
|
|
dates, data fork blocks, data fork size, resource fork blocks, resource
|
|||
|
|
fork size, and storage type. You can also CHANGE many of these values!!
|
|||
|
|
Version 1.2 looks nicer, fixes one bug, and allows/displays filetypes with
|
|||
|
|
either hexadecimal numbers or 3-letter abbr. Requires System 6.0!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Shareware: Fee=$10. Copyright(c) 1992 by Bill Tudor.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Number: 18758
|
|||
|
|
Name: HOTKEYS.BXY V1.1
|
|||
|
|
Approximate # of bytes: 14848, Library 6
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This is an Apple IIgs Finder 6.0 Extension INIT that adds "HotKeys",
|
|||
|
|
which are single-keystroke function keys to the System 6.0 Finder. You can
|
|||
|
|
do many Finder functions with a single keypress such as
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Open folders, quit the Finder, shutdown the computer, stack windows,
|
|||
|
|
set the view to "by name" and Much More! Version 1.1 adds a number of new
|
|||
|
|
actions including (but not limited to) Open ANY fold and LAUNCH
|
|||
|
|
Applications that you choose!! Keys on the keypad can be defined as
|
|||
|
|
HotKeys. Ver 1.1 also allows Shift-<keypad key> HotKeys. Extended
|
|||
|
|
Keyboard keys can also be HotKeys. Documentation Included.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Shareware: $10. Copyright(c) 1992 by Bill Tudor.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Number: 18696
|
|||
|
|
Name: INITMASTER.BXY V2.1.1
|
|||
|
|
Approximate # of bytes: 16640, Library: 6
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This Apple IIgs Init is a Finder 6.0 extension that allows you to quickly
|
|||
|
|
change the Enabled/Disabled states of all your Inits (PIF and TIF), DAs
|
|||
|
|
(NDA and CDA), Drivers, FSTs, Icons (old style), and FinderExtras without
|
|||
|
|
having to use Finder's "Icon Info" window on each and every one of them.
|
|||
|
|
You can also have up to 3 sets of saved settings for quick recall.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
This program is ShareWare (Fee=$10). Copyright(c) 1992 by Bill Tudor.
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Number: 18633
|
|||
|
|
Name: PIECEOSTRNG.BXY V1.0
|
|||
|
|
Approximate # of bytes: 5248, Library: 6
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Piece O' String is a Finder Extension that will memorize and later
|
|||
|
|
restore icon selections in the Finder. Selections are remembered across
|
|||
|
|
Finder sessions. It adds two items to the Extras menu: "Preserve
|
|||
|
|
Selection" and "Restore Selection".
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Number: 18603
|
|||
|
|
Name: DTUTIL3.3.BXY
|
|||
|
|
Approximate # of bytes: 81664, Library: 6
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
DeskTop Utilities is GyruS shareware from Australia. Goes in System.Setup
|
|||
|
|
folder but gives you an NDA and CDA with incredible functions! Add/remove
|
|||
|
|
fonts/DAs, create virtual DAs, instant DAs, has a screen blanker for both
|
|||
|
|
P8 and GS/OS, installs a menu clock with date, frees memory, has a
|
|||
|
|
stopwatch, does mouse coordinate info, creates custom hot keys and includes
|
|||
|
|
some already set up to shutdown (with options) or launch another program
|
|||
|
|
from within any desktop app. You can even launch a program and open a
|
|||
|
|
document file at the same time (great for running HCGS or HS stacks).
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Number: 18582
|
|||
|
|
Name: SYNTHINIT.BXY
|
|||
|
|
Approximate # of bytes: 5504, Library: 6
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
SynthInit Play MidiSynth songs by double clicking on their Icons from the
|
|||
|
|
Finder. Accepts multiple selections, next, previous feature. Will play to
|
|||
|
|
either the GS speaker or both GS speakers and Midi device Docs included.
|
|||
|
|
FreeWare...
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Number: 18533
|
|||
|
|
Name: FNDRSOUNDER.BXY V1.0
|
|||
|
|
Approximate # of bytes: 3840, Library: 6
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Very handy finder-extension that lets you play rSound resources in
|
|||
|
|
files by double clicking them in Finder. Finder Sounder is less than 3K
|
|||
|
|
and doesn't take up much memory. Currently only supports playing first
|
|||
|
|
rSound resource in a particular file. Highly recommended, short download.
|
|||
|
|
Freeware, written by Jupiter Systems
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Number: 18232
|
|||
|
|
Name: QUICKLAUNCH.BXY
|
|||
|
|
Approximate # of bytes: 13184, Library: 6
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Here it is! QuickLaunch by Steve Stephenson. This is a Finder
|
|||
|
|
Extension which will launch programs from the Finder with the greatest of
|
|||
|
|
ease. Install the INIT in your System.Setup folder under System 6.0 (or
|
|||
|
|
greater) and reboot. Then select the QuickLaunch menu item under the
|
|||
|
|
Extras menu in the Finder to add programs to the Launch List. This file is
|
|||
|
|
FREEWARE and copyrighted by Seven Hills Software. Please read the Read.Me
|
|||
|
|
file and check out the on-line Help System for more information about
|
|||
|
|
QuickLaunch and Seven Hills Software! Enjoy!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Number: 17727
|
|||
|
|
Name: DESKCOLOR.BXY V3.1
|
|||
|
|
Approximate # of bytes: 31744, Library: 11
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Deskcolor is a neat IIgs CDEV/Control Panel to change the color or pattern
|
|||
|
|
of your desktop, or add a background graphic. This version of DeskColor
|
|||
|
|
simplifies the interface for selecting patterns which is now done from the
|
|||
|
|
main window - you may also insert or delete patterns. It also updates
|
|||
|
|
immediately to the new desktop when you close the Control Panel, especially
|
|||
|
|
desktop graphics. Has a built-in pattern editor. Includes documentation
|
|||
|
|
and sample patterns.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This utility is JesusAware and is distributed the same as Freeware.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You should note that all these programs take-up memory on your computer
|
|||
|
|
which makes InitMaster and Desktop Utilities particularly attractive
|
|||
|
|
programs. Learning and using these two programs can take you to a higher
|
|||
|
|
level in your IIgs's ability and in memory management.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You can find many popular Desk Accessories, Control Panels, Inits and
|
|||
|
|
Finder Extras available in GEnie's Apple II library. There are games,
|
|||
|
|
word processors, clocks, calculators and other useful applications. You
|
|||
|
|
owe it to yourself and your machine to take a look at what your Apple IIgs
|
|||
|
|
can achieve under System Software 6.0.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
//////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "Lots of messages! That's what I like to see! Messages /
|
|||
|
|
/ galore! More messages than you can stick a shake at! /
|
|||
|
|
/ I haven't been this happy since I decided I wanted /
|
|||
|
|
/ to be a LUMBERJACK!..." /
|
|||
|
|
//////////////////////////////////////// R.MARTIN22 ////
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[THI]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
THINK ABOUT IT! /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Online Food For Thought
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By Phil Shapiro
|
|||
|
|
[P.SHAPIRO2]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> COLLABORATION IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Each one of us is born into this world with unique talents.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
However, no two persons have exactly the same strengths.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Working alone, each one of us can make a contribution to society.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
But working together, in collaboration with others, our individual
|
|||
|
|
talents are magnified.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Defying logic, when two or more persons collaborate on a
|
|||
|
|
project, the sum of the parts is often greater than the whole.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In this electronic age, electronic mail is the lifeblood of
|
|||
|
|
collaboration.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Within the business world, e-mail is the cement that binds companies
|
|||
|
|
together.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Outside the business world, e-mail facilitates social and intellectual
|
|||
|
|
discussions.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Whatever the nature of the collaborative project, be it software
|
|||
|
|
development, scientific research, or the writing of a book, electronic
|
|||
|
|
mail can facilitate just about every stage of the project.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Before a project even gets launched, the participants can brainstorm
|
|||
|
|
ideas via e-mail.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Once the project begins to take shape, the direction and timetable of
|
|||
|
|
the project can be worked out via e-mail.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
During the middle stages of the project, progress reports can be
|
|||
|
|
distributed via e-mail.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
And in the final stages of the project, feedback from independent
|
|||
|
|
observers can be sent via e-mail.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It used to be that persons who were collaborating on a project needed
|
|||
|
|
to live in the same city, or at least the same state.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In the electronic age, physical proximity is becoming increasingly
|
|||
|
|
irrelevant.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Emotional and intellectual proximity are far more relevant.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Most interesting, people can collaborate on long term projects without
|
|||
|
|
ever having met each other.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Their shared ideas alone can be the sole force connecting them over
|
|||
|
|
months of work.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Ideas themselves can be both the communication medium and the end
|
|||
|
|
product of collaboration in the Information Age.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In the previous Industrial Age, shared ideas could only be used as a
|
|||
|
|
means to an end.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The structures and inventions of the Industrial Age were all physical
|
|||
|
|
tangible structures.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In contrast, the structures and inventions of the Information Age are
|
|||
|
|
intangible, knowledge structures.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The ideas themselves are the invention.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As the world becomes more complex, no one individual has enough
|
|||
|
|
know-how to tackle ambitious, original projects.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Shared knowledge and shared insight are going to be the hallmark of
|
|||
|
|
future successful ventures.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Persons open to working in collaboration with others are going to have
|
|||
|
|
a distinct advantage over the "lone wolf" worker.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In the coming years rugged individualism is going to have to take a
|
|||
|
|
back seat to rugged cooperation.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Orville and Wilbur Wright's father once remarked that neither of his
|
|||
|
|
two sons, working on his own, would ever have achieved much with his
|
|||
|
|
life.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Working together, bouncing ideas and energy back and forth, the two
|
|||
|
|
were able to soar to unimagined heights.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-Phil Shapiro
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Recommended Readings
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Sproull, Lee, and Kiesler, Sara; Connections: New Ways of Working in
|
|||
|
|
the Networked Organization, The MIT Press, 1991, 212 pages. Price:
|
|||
|
|
$19.95.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Strassman, P.A.,Information Payoff: the Tranformation of Work in the
|
|||
|
|
Electronic Age, Free Press, New York, 1985.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Kraut, R.E., (ed.), Technology and the Tranformation of White Collar
|
|||
|
|
Work, Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, 1987.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[The author develops educational software for the Apple II
|
|||
|
|
line of computers. He can be reached at Balloons Software,
|
|||
|
|
5201 Chevy Chase Parkway, NW, Washington, DC, 20015. Or on
|
|||
|
|
GEnie at: P.Shapiro1]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
///////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "I agree, the game is very different when you play against /
|
|||
|
|
/ a human opponent. There is nothing comparable to the scream /
|
|||
|
|
/ of your opponent when he sees the volcano you just put in /
|
|||
|
|
/ the middle of his territory." /
|
|||
|
|
//////////////////////////////////////////////// T.PACK1 ////
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[MOO]
|
|||
|
|
[COW]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
CowTOONS! /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Moooooo Fun!
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
_____________________________
|
|||
|
|
| |-------------|
|
|||
|
|
| | ________ |
|
|||
|
|
| COWNTY | | (|__|) | |
|
|||
|
|
| JAIL | | |oo| | |
|
|||
|
|
| | |__|\/|__| |
|
|||
|
|
| | o |
|
|||
|
|
| | ~ |
|
|||
|
|
| | ] |
|
|||
|
|
| | |
|
|||
|
|
|_____________|_____________|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
(__) CowTOONS?
|
|||
|
|
~~ (oo) The Cowtoons picture here were drawn
|
|||
|
|
~~~~ /-------\/ by various artists and were compiled
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~ / | || and circulated on USEnet by Eric W.
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~ * ||----|| Tilenius.
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~ ====~~====~~====
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~/ If you have an idea for a great cow-
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ toon, we would like to see it. Upload
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ your CowTOON to GEnieLamp. If we use
|
|||
|
|
"Cow Hanging Ten at Malibu" it here in GEnieLamp, we will credit
|
|||
|
|
your account with 2 hours of GEnie
|
|||
|
|
non-prime time!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[VIE]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
VIEWPOINT /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Piracy Claims Another Victim
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By Tom Schmitz
|
|||
|
|
[TOM.SCHMITZ]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
SEVEN HILLS DROPS SOUNDSMITH Earl Childers, the president of Seven Hills
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Software, recently announced his company
|
|||
|
|
was forced to abandon its plans to commercially release SoundSmith, the
|
|||
|
|
popular shareware music authoring program. Huibert Aalbers, SoundSmith's
|
|||
|
|
creator, became disenchanted with the Apple IIgs community after a
|
|||
|
|
beta-tester broke the nondisclosure agreement and copied the program for a
|
|||
|
|
friend. This "friend" in turn began passing the program to others and the
|
|||
|
|
SoundSmith beta has become a favorite target for the IIgs pirate community.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Seven Hills, which had planned a series of improved SoundSmith
|
|||
|
|
versions, could not acquire the source code and did not have the resources
|
|||
|
|
to take over the project independently. Following the incident, Huibert
|
|||
|
|
Aalbers denounced the Apple IIgs community and has turned his efforts
|
|||
|
|
towards the Macintosh.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The SoundSmith episode stresses the importance of honesty in the
|
|||
|
|
Apple II community. Too often we see people passing out copies or selling
|
|||
|
|
and trading software black market style. With such a small developing and
|
|||
|
|
programming community, making sales in ever shrinking quantities, the
|
|||
|
|
survival of the IIgs market depends on our honesty.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Piracy is the copying of software without proper payment. But, as
|
|||
|
|
SoundSmith's misadventure shows, it may not always be so simple. There are
|
|||
|
|
many forms of piracy and many degrees, but it all hurts the authors and it
|
|||
|
|
hurts the Apple IIgs community.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Software piracy is not always intentional either. Customers often
|
|||
|
|
commit theft by ignorance when they download a shareware file from a
|
|||
|
|
commercial service or they pay the copying fee at a user meeting or they
|
|||
|
|
purchase a disk from a mail order house. Many of these people do not
|
|||
|
|
realize they are still responsible for sending in their shareware fees
|
|||
|
|
unless the distributor specifically states the author's fee is included in
|
|||
|
|
cost for the program acquisition.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In many ways it is the shareware market which keeps the Apple IIgs a
|
|||
|
|
viable, growing computer. Prompt payment of the fees is important if users
|
|||
|
|
do not want more programmers to defect to more profitable platforms. Just
|
|||
|
|
because a program might only be used occasionally is no excuse not to pay
|
|||
|
|
for the author's efforts. Just because one has empty pockets can it be
|
|||
|
|
assumed others will make their payments. Beg, borrow but do not steal!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Another form of piracy is the selling of extra disks. Many programs
|
|||
|
|
come packaged with software included on both 5.25" and 3.5" disks. Do not
|
|||
|
|
believe that because only one disk is being used the other can be sold.
|
|||
|
|
Potential buyers need to be skeptical when they see programs on one sized
|
|||
|
|
disk being sold without a manual. This does not imply everyone who sells a
|
|||
|
|
single disk is dishonest. It is, however, something to be aware of and to
|
|||
|
|
inquire about. Never be afraid to ask what happened to the manual or the
|
|||
|
|
second disk when it is not included in a used software purchase.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
While there are too many forms of piracy to mention here, you should
|
|||
|
|
ask yourself a simple question when using or buying software. "Did the
|
|||
|
|
author or publisher of this program get properly paid for this software?"
|
|||
|
|
Now comes honesty and conscious.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Apple II community may be small, but it is filled with creative
|
|||
|
|
and committed people who could easily be filling their pockets by defecting
|
|||
|
|
to another computer. Every Apple II user owes it to the developers and
|
|||
|
|
programmers to watch out for piracy in any form and to make an effort to
|
|||
|
|
stop it. We should not loose good programmers the way we lost Huibert
|
|||
|
|
Aalbers.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "I believe Wayne has a misspelling in the previous post. /
|
|||
|
|
/ If I'm not mistaken, " ^&*( " really means " ^&& " or, /
|
|||
|
|
/ possibly, " *&(( ". /
|
|||
|
|
///////////////////////////////////////// M.EVERHART2 ////
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
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[ASK]//////////////////////////////
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THE PROGRAM CLINIC /
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/////////////////////////////////
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Questions & Answers
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"""""""""""""""""""
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By The GEnie Apple II RT Staff
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>>> HAVE A PROBLEM? JUST ASK! <<<
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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Question A friend of mine has a single 5.25 inch disk drive on his Apple
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"""""""" II system. He tells me he's interested in learning about
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telecommunications, including uploading and downloading, but doesn't have
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the money to buy an extra disk drive. Would it be possible for him to use
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ShrinkIt on a single 5.25 inch system?
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GEnieLamp The answer is a qualified "yes." He could use ShrinkIt in a
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""""""""" limited way on a single 5.25 disk drive. The compressed source
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file and the uncompressed destination file would both have to fit on the
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same 140K disk. Unlike the "duplicate disk" feature on the Apple II System
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Utilities disk, ShrinkIt does not have a capability of keeping track of
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different floppy disks in the same disk drive. So you couldn't do disk
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swapping to unshrink a downloaded file from one 5.25 inch disk onto
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another.
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Whether you find this limitation serious depends on the types of files
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you upload and download. Text files, for instance, typically are quite
|
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small, and can be compressed even further using ShrinkIt. On the other
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hand, some public domain and shareware programs take up an entire 5.25 inch
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disk. (These would be impossible to unshrink after downloading to a single
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5.25 inch disk drive system.)
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Assuming that ShrinkIt can be used in a limited way on a single 5.25
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inch disk system, the natural follow-up question is: "How large a file can
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you download and unshrink onto a single 5.25 inch disk?" The answer to
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this question is complicated by the fact that ShrinkIt has varying
|
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compression performance depending on the type of files being compressed.
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Text files, for example, are usually compressed to about 50% of their
|
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original size. So a 10K text file (about the length of an average
|
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newsletter article), compresses down to 5K after being shrunk. Using this
|
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50% rule-of-thumb for text file compression, that means you could download
|
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a fairly large 40K text file to a single 5.25 inch system, and still have
|
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room to unshrink it onto the same 140K disk. (The arithmetic for this is:
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40K + 80K = 120K.)
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So while it is possible to use ShrinkIt on a single 5.25 inch disk
|
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drive system, the freeware ShrinkIt program was designed to be most useful
|
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when being used with two or more floppy drives, or a hard disk drive. At
|
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the price of new and second hand disk drives these days, it's very much
|
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worth your while to get a second disk drive for your Apple II system.
|
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You'll find an extra drive opens up new possibilities for
|
|||
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telecommunications adventures, as well as adding great convenience to your
|
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word processing (by allowing you to leave your data disk in your second
|
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disk drive).
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[The Program Clinic column provides answers to Apple II technical
|
|||
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questions. The aim of the column is to provide simple answers to questions
|
|||
|
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that novice Apple II users might have. Occasionally the column will tackle
|
|||
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more difficult questions as well.
|
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[*][*][*]
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If you have questions you'd like answered by The Program Clinic,
|
|||
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please e-mail the questions to Phil Shapiro (P.Shapiro1) on
|
|||
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GEnie.]
|
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////////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
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/ "Please don't tell Chip I'm working for him. He thinks I'm a /
|
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/ piano player in a brothel." /
|
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/////////////////////////////////////////////////// DRACO ////
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[EOA]
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[AII]//////////////////////////////
|
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WHY APPLE II ROUNDTABLE? /
|
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/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
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Here's Why!
|
|||
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"""""""""""
|
|||
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By Phil Shapiro
|
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[P.SHAPIRO1]
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|
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>>> REASONS TO VISIT THE APPLE2 ROUNDTALBLE <<<
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|||
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
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|
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|
|
Ever since Tom Weishaar and A2-Central took over command of the Apple
|
|||
|
|
II Roundtable on GEnie, back in 1988, the roundtable has served as a
|
|||
|
|
central gathering place for Apple II users nationwide. People turn to the
|
|||
|
|
roundtable to find answers to their most perplexing, difficult technical
|
|||
|
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questions. But they also turn to the roundtable for camaraderie and
|
|||
|
|
socializing.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
A recent tally of the attendees of the roundtable turned up lots of
|
|||
|
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RoundTable members. Within these members is a phenomenal wealth of talent
|
|||
|
|
and experience. If knowledge could be quantified in gigabyte units, the
|
|||
|
|
collected knowledge of the Apple II users on GEnie would take up several
|
|||
|
|
dozen laser discs.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
But it's not only the programmers who possess the technical knowledge.
|
|||
|
|
Some ordinary Apple II users are virtuosos at using PublishIt and
|
|||
|
|
HyperStudio. Other "ordinary" Apple II users are using their computers in
|
|||
|
|
extraordinary ways.
|
|||
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|
|
|||
|
|
The original spirit of the Homebrew Computer Club is alive and well
|
|||
|
|
and meeting on a daily basis on page 645 of the GEnie information service.
|
|||
|
|
Stop by and visit sometime. If you've got a question to ask, just yell it
|
|||
|
|
out (in the appropriate category and topic, of course). If you've got
|
|||
|
|
something neat and interesting to share, by all means share it with the
|
|||
|
|
rest of us.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
A community can be defined as a gathering of souls who look out for
|
|||
|
|
one another, nourish each other, and feed each other goodwill. Apple II
|
|||
|
|
users are ever so lucky that Tom Weishaar drove his covered-wagon into this
|
|||
|
|
clear pasture called GEnie, placing down stakes for his vision of a busy
|
|||
|
|
and bustling village. While it might seem trite to say, it's indeed true
|
|||
|
|
that a community has grown up where nothing but barren magnetic tape
|
|||
|
|
existed before.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Looking back, it has been quite some journey. (But then again, the
|
|||
|
|
journey is often the reward.) Come walk with us. We've only begun to find
|
|||
|
|
out what the Apple II can do...
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "Ain't it a shame that "80%" of computer users aren't online, /
|
|||
|
|
/ and don't realize the magnitude of expertise available here /
|
|||
|
|
/ on GEnie!" /
|
|||
|
|
////////////////////////////////////////////// A2.HANGTIME ////
|
|||
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|
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|
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|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[LIB]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
THE ONLINE LIBRARY /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Yours For The Downloading
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
>>> HOT FILES! <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
CHECK IT OUT Public domain and shareware programs are not the only kinds
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""" of files you can find in the Apple II Roundtable library.
|
|||
|
|
The Apple II library also has a goodly number of text file uploads.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
These text files range from newsletter articles to press releases to
|
|||
|
|
software reviews to real-time conference (RTC) transcripts to archives of
|
|||
|
|
messages from the Apple II Roundtable. If you like to read about the Apple
|
|||
|
|
II and the national microcomputer scene, check the recent uploads to the
|
|||
|
|
Apple II library. You may be surprised at what you find.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you're a newsletter editor, you may find text files in the A2
|
|||
|
|
library worth re-printing. And if you know of a newsletter editor who's
|
|||
|
|
looking for new articles, you could do him or her a favor by downloading
|
|||
|
|
text files and passing them along.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As an example of some of these text file uploads, you may enjoy
|
|||
|
|
browsing through the following text files recently uploaded:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
18792 News.9206.bxy (This file contains fresh Apple II news items
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""" compiled by prolific author Steve Weyhrich. User
|
|||
|
|
group newsletter editors could possibly use this file as a stand alone
|
|||
|
|
article.)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
18288 EFF.Info.bxy (The Electronic Frontier Foundation in a non-profit
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""" organization that lobbies Congress on important
|
|||
|
|
telecommunications and personal privacy issues. Download this file to find
|
|||
|
|
out more about their recent testimony before Congress.)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
18792 PI.Tips1.bxy (This user group article provides time-saving tips for
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""" creating newsletter using Publish It 4.0. Learn how
|
|||
|
|
advance planning can save you work. The article covers such topics as
|
|||
|
|
setting up page standards, basic column formats, page elements, resizing
|
|||
|
|
graphics, and the rule tool.)
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
18828 H.I.G.Notes.bxy (Apple Computer's phenomenal success is partially
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""" due to the consistent interface used by many
|
|||
|
|
different applications. This consistency is a result of software
|
|||
|
|
developer's following Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. These guidelines
|
|||
|
|
are an ongoing, book-length project at Apple.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If interface issues are of interest to you, you might enjoy reading
|
|||
|
|
some of the notes and updates Apple has released about the Human Interface
|
|||
|
|
Guidelines. While intended for programmers and software developers, many of
|
|||
|
|
these notes are written in plain English and make for fascinating reading.)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
18765 Dave.Matt.bxy (When Apple Computer released System 6.0 for the
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""" Apple IIGS, earlier this year, GEnie hosted the
|
|||
|
|
leaders of the System 6.0 development team in a real time conference (RTC).
|
|||
|
|
If you missed the conference, you can still download the transcript as a
|
|||
|
|
text file. You can learn much from the probing questions put to Dave Lyons
|
|||
|
|
and Matt Deatherage.)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
18756 Broderpr.txt (Last month Broderbund released not one, but two new
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""" Apple II programs. Download this short press release
|
|||
|
|
to find out about "Where in America's Past is Carmen Sandiego" and "The
|
|||
|
|
Treehouse.")
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
494 Woz.Hrtzfld.txt (Finally, if you're interested in Apple II history
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""" and folklore, this early GEnie text file tells about
|
|||
|
|
Steve Wozniak and Andy Hertzfeld's trip to visit the Wellington, New
|
|||
|
|
Zealand, Apple user group in 1985. This feature-length 20K article
|
|||
|
|
summarizes some of the remarks Woz and Hertzfeld made about Apple Computer,
|
|||
|
|
Steve Jobs, and the Apple II.)
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[HAC]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
HACK'N APPLE II /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
The Squeaky Wheel...
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
by Lorin Evans
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
o APPLE DMP or IMAGEWRITER I & II TUNEUP
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
o APPLE DISK ][ DRIVE TUNEUP
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
>>> PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
~ For Your Apple II Equipment ~
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Your dot matrix printer allows you to make a paper copy of your
|
|||
|
|
creative writing and graphics. Its components clank about inside the case
|
|||
|
|
along dirty rails, pushing little pins through dried out ink trying to
|
|||
|
|
reproduce your work faithfully. Little guidance is provided by printer
|
|||
|
|
manufacturers concerning preventative maintenance of your printer. This
|
|||
|
|
tutorial article is designed to redress that oversight.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
After the discussion of printer maintenance routines is a discussion
|
|||
|
|
about preventative maintenance of 5.25 inch Apple II disk drives. While
|
|||
|
|
this article focuses on the Apple Disk ][ drive, most of these remarks are
|
|||
|
|
applicable to generic disk drive brands as well.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Note If you are uncomfortable doing any portion of this preventative
|
|||
|
|
"""" maintenance, it might be wise to solicit the help of someone who is
|
|||
|
|
more mechanically inclined. It is possible, for example, to damage the
|
|||
|
|
printhead card on your dot matrix printer. The usual caveats concerning
|
|||
|
|
your responsibility for the work you perform apply here. If you undertake
|
|||
|
|
any of these maintenance routines, you do so at your own risk; Washington
|
|||
|
|
Apple Pi is not responsible for the outcome.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> APPLE DMP or IMAGEWRITER I & II TUNEUP <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Tools Required:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
- foam swabs
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
- isopropyl alcohol
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
- WD-40 lubrication spray (or equivalent)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
- small Phillips head screwdriver
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
- paper towels
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
- LaBell lightweight oil
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Historical Note before Apple made the ImageWriter I printer, it produced
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""" a dot-matrix printer by the name of the "Apple DMP"
|
|||
|
|
printer. For preventative maintenance purposes, the Apple DMP and
|
|||
|
|
ImageWriter printers are often treated the alike.]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Disassemble First shut off the power. Remove any paper, the two cover
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""" panels, and the print ribbon. Now remove the print head.
|
|||
|
|
[ImageWriter I and Apple DMP owners: there are two metal hooks that swing
|
|||
|
|
out from each side of the print head.] On the ImageWriter II there is a
|
|||
|
|
white plastic clip that must be GENTLY pressed to the right. AT THE SAME
|
|||
|
|
TIME, raise the print head straight up with a side-to-side rocking motion.
|
|||
|
|
The part of the print head that you can see is attached to a card below it
|
|||
|
|
that plugs into a socket. DO NOT USE FORCE IN LIFTING UP THE PRINT HEAD.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Clean Printhead Do NOT attempt to disassemble the printhead.
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""" [ImageWriter I and Apple DMP owners: with the head out,
|
|||
|
|
remove the stainless steel shield by removing the screw on the bottom of
|
|||
|
|
the print head. Set them aside.] Take WD-40 or equivalent spray and squirt
|
|||
|
|
both the face of the print head and underneath in the open channel you will
|
|||
|
|
find there. Lay the print head face down on two or three folds of paper
|
|||
|
|
towels. What should begin to happen is old dried print ink will dissolve
|
|||
|
|
and flow off both the face and the rear of the print pins. You are
|
|||
|
|
lubricating the pins where they pass through the head and removing dried
|
|||
|
|
ink. Repeat this several times until the spray comes out clear. Use the
|
|||
|
|
swab when wiping the face of the head. Gentle, gentle! Set this assembly
|
|||
|
|
aside while the spray works.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Clean Platen/Rollers Take one or two towels and moisten with isopropyl
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""" alcohol. Wipe the platen (the black roller) with
|
|||
|
|
the paper lever in the lower position. Turn the platen so all of its is
|
|||
|
|
wet. A black residue should come off along with ink from where the print
|
|||
|
|
head printed on the platen. After several wipes, switch to a dry towel and
|
|||
|
|
rub until essentially dry. Now remove any lint or fuzz on the chrome
|
|||
|
|
rail(s) inside the printer. Take the lightweight oil and drip some on the
|
|||
|
|
rail(s). Then slide the ribbon carriage back and forth to provide an even
|
|||
|
|
coating of lubricant on the rail(s). [ImageWriter I and Apple DMP owners:
|
|||
|
|
place several drops of fresh oil on the felt washer in the center of the
|
|||
|
|
ribbon carriage.]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now clean out the lint and fuzz in the rear of the printer where the
|
|||
|
|
tractor feed mechanicals reside. Wipe the square rails with isopropyl so
|
|||
|
|
that the tractor feed wheels slide easily side to side. Some folks like to
|
|||
|
|
lubricate those square rails as well to ease sliding.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now take a plain piece of paper and inset it into the printer as if
|
|||
|
|
you were going to print a document. You want it to absorb any residual
|
|||
|
|
alcohol on the bottom pinch rollers. Roll it through and discard.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Reassemble Check the condition of the print head. Spray it again to make
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""" sure only clear fluid is running out of it. Wipe the face
|
|||
|
|
and reinsert into the guide card slot. [ImageWriter I and Apple DMP
|
|||
|
|
owners: first reinstall the shield after you have cleaned it.] On an
|
|||
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close both locking hooks.] With the head reinstalled, replace the print
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Test To test your newly cleaned head, hold down the 'form feed' button
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discard the test paper.
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You will have done your print head a favor and be rewarded with
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clearer printing after this is done.
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>>> APPLE DISK ][ DRIVE TUNEUP <<<
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- blank disk
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button (pressure pad), and head carriage rails. If during the drive speed
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test you find a large variation in speed, there are two additional items
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under the drive that can be cleaned as well.
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Remove the Cover With the power off to your computer, turn the Disk ][
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cover. Slide the case backwards off the chassis.
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cable on the left side. If all gray, note whether the red stripe is on the
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left or right, or if rainbow colored, which way the cable curves as it
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comes off the connector. (You need to know this so as to orient the cable
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correctly when reinstalling it.) Now gently remove the ribbon cable plug
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from the left rear of the card. Remove the two screws at the front of the
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analog card. Slide the card forward past the retaining slots in the rear
|
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and lift the card out of the drive. Now lay the card on a foam pad or
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cardboard, etc and gently press the socketed chips into their sockets. Over
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time they sometimes creep out which can cause erratic operations.
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On some machines you will see a metal shield that straddles the
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"collet hub frame." (The "collet hub frame" is the technical name for the
|
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cone-shaped device that you see through the disk drive door that actually
|
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presses the disk against the turntable. The collet hub frame sits above the
|
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turntable on two little arms that extend to the back of the disk drive.
|
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|
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When you close the disk drive door, this assembly comes down and pushes the
|
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floppy disk against the turntable.) It will pop off. Note which way it came
|
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off; you want to reinstall it when you are finished.
|
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Clean It Take a foam swab and dip it in isopropyl alcohol. Clean the
|
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"""""""" head load button [the small round pad of white felt found in
|
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the spring loaded black arm mounted above the read/write head.] Next clean
|
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the head. Finally clean all around the entire length of each guide rail.
|
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|
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You can manually slide the guide carriage back and forth to gain access to
|
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all of each rail.
|
|||
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|
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Now take a look at the head load button (pressure pad). If worn - it
|
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|
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will look somewhat like a cylinder skewed to the right - replace it. Check
|
|||
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with a dealer first to be sure they have the part. The button snaps in and
|
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out of its holder.
|
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Speed Check When all is done, reassemble, but leave the cover off. It is
|
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""""""""""" time for a drive speed check. KEEP IN MIND that if you
|
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change the speed significantly, disks that were recorded at the old speed
|
|||
|
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may not want to boot at the new one. If the test shows the speed out of
|
|||
|
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specification, adjust one of your drives to Apple specs and copy any disks
|
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made on the out-of-spec drive from that drive to the spec drive.
|
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|
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Be sure the isopropyl alcohol has evaporated or you will end up with a
|
|||
|
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wet disk. Boot a program that has a drive speed check routine (such as Copy
|
|||
|
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II Plus, Essential Data Duplicator, or Diversi-Copy). Follow its
|
|||
|
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instructions. The speed control is located on the motor control board on
|
|||
|
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the rear of the chassis. The speed control, which is located on the
|
|||
|
|
vertical circuit board, is a small wirewound resistor with a slotted
|
|||
|
|
screwdriver adjustment protruding from one side. DO NOT TOUCH THE TRIMPOTS
|
|||
|
|
ON THE ANALOG CARD! The speed is controlled by turning the trimpot on the
|
|||
|
|
motor control board. Move the screw in small increments and wait for the
|
|||
|
|
speed to settle down before making another change. If the plus or minus is
|
|||
|
|
considerable, it can sometimes be reduced by cleaning the pulley and drive
|
|||
|
|
belt (located under the chassis) with isopropyl.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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Reassemble When you are finished, reassemble and you are ready for many
|
|||
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"""""""""" more hours of successful use.
|
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[*][*][*]
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[This article is the first in a series of articles on Apple II
|
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maintenance and repair. The author, Lorin Evans, serves as
|
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|
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|
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|
|||
|
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If you have suggestions, comments, or questions you'd like to
|
|||
|
|
see answered in future articles in this series you can contact
|
|||
|
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Evans at: Washington Apple Pi, 7910 Woodmont Ave., Suite 910,
|
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|
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Bethesda, MD 20814.]
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|
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|
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|
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