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~ A2 PROFILES: RANDY BRANDT ~
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~ PD_QUICKVIEW: EAMON, PART II ~
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~ BIG TEXT MACHINE REVIEW ~
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~ THE ART OF FLAMING ~
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~ HOT NEWS ~ HOT MESSAGES ~ HOT NEWS ~
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GEnie Lamp A2/A2Pro ~ A T/TalkNET OnLine Publication ~ Vol.1, Issue 9
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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Publisher.................................GEnie Information Services
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Editor-In-Chief........................................John Peters
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Editor.............................................Darrel Raines
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~ GEnieLamp IBM ~ GEnieLamp [PR] ~ GEnieLamp TX2 ~ GEnieLamp ST ~
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~ GEnieLamp MacPRO ~ GEnieLamp A2/A2Pro ~ GEnieLamp Macintosh ~
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>>> WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE APPLE II/A2Pro ROUNDTABLE? <<<
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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~ December 1, 1992 ~
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FROM MY DESKTOP ......... [FRM] CPU STATUS REPORT ....... [CPU]
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Notes From The Editor. Late-Breaking Industry News.
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HEY MISTER POSTMAN ...... [HEY] HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM]
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Is That A Letter For Me? ZEN & The Art Of Flaming.
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A2/A2PRO_ductivity ...... [A2P] ONLINE FUN .............. [FUN]
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C'mon, I Dare Ya! Search-ME!
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PROFILES ................ [PRO] THE MIGHTY QUINN ........ [QUI]
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Who's Who In Apple II. Technomare.
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REFLECTIONS ............. [REF] SOFTVIEW ................ [SOF]
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Online Communications. Big Text Machine Review.
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COWTOONS! ............... [MOO] DIGITAL DIVERSIONS ...... [DIG]
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Mooooo Fun! Walking In A Minefield.
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THE ONLINE LIBRARY ...... [LIB] GEnieLamp ELSEWHERE ..... [ELS]
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Yours For The Downloading. Around GEnie: Internet!
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PD_QUICKVIEW............. [PDQ] APPLE II ................ [AII]
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Eamon, Part II. Apple II History, Part 7.
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LOG OFF ................. [LOG]
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GEnieLamp Information.
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[IDX]"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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READING GEnieLamp GEnieLamp has incorporated a unique indexing
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To utilize this system, load GEnieLamp 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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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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/ "And thanks to all for the quick response. No wonder, I spend /
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/ so much time and $$ calling GEnie." /
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////////////////////////////////////////////////// A.MASON4 ////
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[EOA]
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[FRM]//////////////////////////////
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FROM MY DESKTOP /
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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 Oops, I think I was a bit premature in announcing the
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""""""""""""""" GEnieLampLighter Awards in the last issue. Although we
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had several "professional" people respond to our questionnaire, many of
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them felt they weren't qualified to judge because they didn't have enough
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experience with shareware/PD programs. (!!!) So, does this mean that
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we're dropping the ball and canceling the awards? Absolutely not!
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Sometime in January, the GEnieLamp RoundTable and participating Computing
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RoundTables will be offering a GEnieLampLighter Awards survey on their main
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menu. This option will give _you_ the chance to vote for your favorite
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shareware/Pd/Freeware and commercial programs. All the details are still
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being ironed out so look to the January issue of GEnieLamp for complete
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details.
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Bad News, Good News If you have been following the saga of our GEnieLamp
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""""""""""""""""""" Elsewhere Magazine, you'll know that in spite of my
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continuing efforts, the magazine fell far short in the quality department
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when compared to our other offerings. Sad to say, the support for the
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magazine never developed like I had originally hoped. If you haven't
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noticed, GEnieLamp Elsewhere is no longer available on the RoundTable
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menus. That's the bad news. The good news is you'll now find a brand new
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magazine taking its place, GEnieLamp MacPRO.
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GEnieLamp MacPRO will focus on the Macintosh Developers RoundTable
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locate on page 480. Jim Flanagan is the managing editor, Erik Thauvin, is
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the supervising editor and they will be supported by GEnieLamp staff
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writers', Chris Innanen and Paul Collins.
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GEnieLamp MacPRO is available in the MacPRO and Macintosh RoundTables
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and of course along with all the other GEnieLamps in the GEnieLamp
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RoundTable on page 515.
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Download GEnieLamp? I have received several GE Mail messages asking me
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""""""""""""""""""" where can they download their issue of GEnieLamp.
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The answer is, in the GEnieLamp Library! The current issue, as well as
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back issues are available for downloading in compressed or ascii format.
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To get there, just type M515;3 or GENIELAMP at any prompt.
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Until next month...
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[EOA]
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[CPU]//////////////////////////////
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CPU STATUS REPORT /
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Late-Breaking Industry-Wide News
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Compiled By Lloyd E. Pulley, Sr.
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[ST-REPORT]
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Apple, Microsoft, Intel Bringing Video to PC's Apple Computer Inc. says
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introduce software that enables the playing of video clips on most
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IBM-compatible PCs. Apple says its QuickTime for Windows will give machines
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equipped with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows the same capabilities that Apple
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Macintosh systems have had for the past year.
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Apple has licensed the new technology to a number of software
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developers -- including Adobe Systems, Lotus Development Corp., Software
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Publishing Co. and WordPerfect Corp. -- which will build applications for
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it.
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Apple's announcement came at the same time Microsoft and Intel Corp.
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unveiled a competing product dubbed Video for Windows, based on Intel's new
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Indeo video digital technology.
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SPA Membership Hits 1,000 The Software Publishers Association (SPA)
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""""""""""""""""""""""""" announced this week that the association's
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roster has topped 1,000 members. The SPA, which acts as the industry
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representative to the federal government and works to stop software piracy,
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was begun in 1984 with only 25 member companies.
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First 66 MHz 486 Computer For Under $2,000 Lightning Computer has
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computer billed as the first 66 MHz 486 PC to be priced at under $2,000.
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Available by mail order for $1,995, the new Lightning Omnicache 486DX
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64K of cache (expandable to 256K), an SVGA monitor, a Windows accelerator,
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and a 1.2 or 1.44 MB floppy drive, among other features. For additional
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fees, the system can be customized with options ranging from drives and
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monitors to accelerators and memory boards.
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power supply, a heat sink for cooling, an 101-key enhanced keyboard, and a
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combination card with IDE, FDD, two serial ports, one parallel port, and
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one game port.
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Apple to Sell More PCs than IBM this Year According to industry analyst
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is gaining on IBM and will probably sell more personal computers than the
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IBM, the industry's largest company, this year. Brown said that Apple
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shipped more pc's in the second quarter of this year than IBM did and
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widened the gap in the third quarter.
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Brown says that the reason for Apple's gain is twofold. One because
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Apple finally announced products based on Motorola's top-of-the-line 68040
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processor. Second because IBM was late launching its new low-end product
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line.
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Brown's projections refer only to personal computers. IBM's unit ship-
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ments of all computers, including mainframes, minicomputers, and work-
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stations, still exceed Apple's.
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IBM, NBC Test 'News On Demand' IBM and NBC are developing a personal
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" computer-based system that will allow
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viewers to retrieve videotaped news reports on demand.
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Home personal computer users would not be able to hook up to the
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system. But businesses and other large subscribers would be able to call
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up video news, updated stock market summaries and internally produced
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training films or corporate announcements.
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The news reports will be supplied by NBC News and CNBC, the company's
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business-news cable TV channel, and will be updated hourly.
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Verbatim Introduces 5.25" Rewritable Optical Disks Verbatim Corp. has
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5.25-inch double-sided rewritable optical disks that store 1.1 to 1.3
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gigabytes of data.
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optical storage products marketing, as saying the disks, which meet
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proposed ECMA/ISO standards, now are being evaluated by a number of leading
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drive manufacturers.
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He said the disks are compatible with existing optical disk drives,
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adding, "Perhaps even more important is the increased data transfer rate of
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750 to 1,600K/sec. This allows even faster retrieval of files, which
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becomes more important as the amount of archived data increases."
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IBM Hits 100mhz! Code naming it "Blue Lightning," IBM Corp. announced
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"""""""""""""""" this week that it has hit the 100mhz speed barrier.
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world's fastest 486 microprocessor.
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Blue Lightning works through clock-tripling, a process that allows
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the chip to operate internally at three times its rate clock speed.
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Intel Corp.
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Intel Offers New '486 Chip A new '486 chip for portable computers that is
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""" said to offer twice the performance at half
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the power usage of an earlier model has been introduced by Intel Corp.
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Intel's '486 SL microprocessor operates on 3.3 volts of electricity,
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down from the 5 volts required by most chips. Intel says that provides
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more computing time on battery-powered portable computers. The '486 SL
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produces twice the computing speed and performance of Intel's earlier '386
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SL microprocessor, another chip designed to conserve battery power.
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[Ctsey. STReport Online Magazine]
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/////////////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
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/ "Yeah!!, I found a compass!! (I get excited over little things)" /
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////////////////////////////////////////////////// C.KLIMUSHYN ////
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[EOA]
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[HEY]//////////////////////////////
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HEY MISTER POSTMAN /
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Is That A Letter For Me?
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""""""""""""""""""""""""
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By Darrel Raines & Phil Shapiro
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[D.RAINES] [S.SHAPIRO1]
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o A2 HOT SPOTS
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o Apple II ODDS & ENDS
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o THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
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o APPLE HEADS WANT TO KNOW
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o MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT
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>>> A2 BULLETIN BOARD HOT SPOTS <<<
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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[*] Category 5, Topic 2 ...... Rumor mill and basic Apple chit-chat
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[*] Category 7, Topic 7 ...... Found Classics!
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[*] Category 11, Topic 10 .... Recommended hard drives
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[*] Category 11, Topic 16 .... Optical and floptical (tm) drives
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[*] Category 13, Topic 16 .... JEM Software
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[*] Category 17, Topic 4 ..... AppleWorks general discussion
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[*] Category 24, Topic 3 .... ProTERM 3.0 macro questions
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[*] Category 42, Topic 10 .... II Alive: An Apple II magazine
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>>> Apple II ODDS & ENDS <<<
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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Late Breaking News A new Apple IIGS users group has formed recently in
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"""""""""""""""""" England to serve the needs of Apple IIGS users in the
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entire United Kingdom. This group will be publishing a "members' disk"
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every two months. The disk will include articles, AppleWorks macros and
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templates, and other goodies.
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This new group is looking to their fellow Apple II enthusiasts in the
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New World to help them assemble some lively and informative disks. If you
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know of any good articles or public domain/shareware files they should
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have, kindly send the material to:
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Dr. B.P. (Peter) Stark
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41 High Street
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Great Shelford
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Cambridge CB2 5EH
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England
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WOW! A lot of excitement occurred earlier this month when Quality
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"""" Computers announced their new Apple II specific bi-monthly
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magazine, II Alive. Shortly after this announcement, a new topic was
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started up on the subject in the Quality Computer category in the Apple II
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RoundTable. For the latest news about "II Alive," stop by and read the new
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messages topic 10 in category 42.
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Apple II Gaming Update
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""""""""""""""""""""""
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Message 67 Sat Oct 31, 1992 R.HOUSTON3 [Bobby] at 11:19 EST
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>If anyone has any of the Sierra games for the GS, please Email me at
|
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>R.HOUSTON3 so we can compare lists and perhaps trade. I've got quite a
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>few of them, but not all of them. Can't seem to find them for purchase
|
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>anywhere. Thanks!
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Try Big Red Computer Club (aka Big Red) at (402) 379-4680.
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They have: Member's $ Non-Member's $
|
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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Black Cauldron * $20 $25
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King's Quest I thru IV * $20 $25
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Gold Rush * $20 $25
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Manhunter New York * $15 $20
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Mixed Up Mother Goose $15 $20
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Police Quest * $20 $25
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Silpheed # $15 $20
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Space Quest I thru II * $20 $25
|
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Thexder # $15 $20
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* = adventure games
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# = arcade games
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They also have Sierra's "Smart Money" for $35 (members - $45 for
|
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nonmembers).
|
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Membership is $19.95 and includes 12 issues of Scarlett (Big Red's
|
|||
|
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newsletter), which also lists a very dynamic PD library whose disks cost
|
|||
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only $3.50 a piece. -Mike Murley
|
|||
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(M.MURLEY3, CAT6, TOP3, MSG:68/M645;1)
|
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|
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|
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|
|
OUT OF THIS WORLD Got "Out of this World" today. :) Starts off with a
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""" very nice cinematic introduction (well, the actually
|
|||
|
|
the game has a lot of cinematic aspects), and then throws you into the game
|
|||
|
|
(course you can bypass the introduction later after you've enjoyed it a few
|
|||
|
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times).
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Been using the keyboard (also supports a joystick), and the
|
|||
|
|
playability's great. As mentioned in an earlier RTC on OOTW, the game
|
|||
|
|
features polygon graphics which results in very nice animation (life-like
|
|||
|
|
movements of your character and the others he encounters), music that sets
|
|||
|
|
the proper atmosphere, and great sound effects.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
It also has customizable settings before you play that allows for the
|
|||
|
|
setting of full-screen play, 3 quarters screen, half screen, or even less
|
|||
|
|
depending on whether you have an accelerator card or not (I have a ZipGS
|
|||
|
|
9/32k, and I've been playing it at full screen with very good results).
|
|||
|
|
Course if you have an unaccelerated GS, you'll probably want a smaller
|
|||
|
|
screen mode (although I'd recommend getting an accelerator instead :).
|
|||
|
|
OOTW also has keywords that allow you to restore at different levels so you
|
|||
|
|
don't always have to begin from the start (ie. preset saves).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
For those of you that attended the conference on OOTW, or read the
|
|||
|
|
transcript, you probably know all this (this is primarily for the gaming
|
|||
|
|
lurkers out there ;). So those of you out there that have been longing for
|
|||
|
|
new IIGS games, grab this great arcade/adventure game. It's available from
|
|||
|
|
the Big Red Computer Club (BRCC). -Thanks, Bill. :)
|
|||
|
|
(KMCCANN, CAT6, TOP3, MSG:90/M645;1)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Thoughts on computer games, hints, and solutions... When I use a
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" walk-thru or
|
|||
|
|
commercial clue book, I have another person keep it. That way, I can't
|
|||
|
|
just read my way through the game. My wife delights in making me "die" a
|
|||
|
|
dozen times before giving me the clue. Some of us just need some extra
|
|||
|
|
help, which is why the folks who put out the games put out clue books.
|
|||
|
|
Otherwise, most of us would never finish anything. That's why every slash
|
|||
|
|
and spell game (Wizardry, BT series, Dragon Wars, Ultima series, AD&D
|
|||
|
|
series, etc.) winds up with a legion of hint books, solves, commercial and
|
|||
|
|
PD character editors, and maps. They are just plain hard. Remember just
|
|||
|
|
trying to get two blocks out of the Adventurers' Guild in BT I with a
|
|||
|
|
wimpy level 1 party without getting creamed? Some designers have never
|
|||
|
|
figured out that playability (i.e. you have a chance of winning...) and
|
|||
|
|
enjoyment are why people play games. I have never finished the last arcade
|
|||
|
|
sequence in Manhunter NY, nor did I ever win the last shootout in Rocket
|
|||
|
|
Ranger. As far as I am concerned, those are impossible and I tossed the
|
|||
|
|
games. For the record, my kids, with their super fast, arcade trained
|
|||
|
|
reflexes were unable to beat those either...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
OTOH, romping and blasting your way through a game with level 256
|
|||
|
|
characters, maps, and a complete walk-thru defeats the purpose of the game.
|
|||
|
|
Somewhere in the middle lies fun. -Mike Murley
|
|||
|
|
(M.MURLEY3, CAT6, TOP3, MSG:136/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THE PLAYERS IN THE PLAY Have you ever wondered about the background and
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""" interests of the other Apple II enthusiasts on
|
|||
|
|
GEnie? Would you like to meet others with similar interests and computer
|
|||
|
|
set ups? The Apple II RoundTable has a special message area, "Category 2,
|
|||
|
|
Topic 6," set aside expressly for people to introduce themselves to one
|
|||
|
|
another. Stop by and find out more about your fellow Apple II enthusiasts.
|
|||
|
|
To give you a sample of the message postings, here are five interesting
|
|||
|
|
messages that were posted in the last few months.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
PLAYER 1 Hi! My name is Steve Colton and I make my home in Minneapolis,
|
|||
|
|
"""""""" MN... I've got an Apple IIgs with a 40 megabyte Vulcan hard
|
|||
|
|
drive, a 4 meg ram expansion and a TransWarp GS accelerator card...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I'm just starting to work with desktop programming, the toolbox and
|
|||
|
|
Pascal and I'll be haunting the A2Pro RT for ideas there... I pay for my
|
|||
|
|
computer habit by working as an accountant and I've done a lot of work with
|
|||
|
|
classic Appleworks (particularly the spreadsheet) and UltraMacros. Hope to
|
|||
|
|
get (and give if I can) Appleworks help and ideas here... I also use ProSel
|
|||
|
|
and Talk Is Cheap and will be interested in conversations there...
|
|||
|
|
(S.COLTON1, CAT2, TOP6, MSG:42/M645)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
PLAYER 2 Hello! My name is Andre. I'm living in the small town called
|
|||
|
|
"""""""" Zug in the small country called Switzerland. I joined GEnie
|
|||
|
|
only a few weeks ago and I like it very much! I've got an Apple IIGS at
|
|||
|
|
home equipped with a 40 meg Vulcan Gold, 8 meg OctoRam and a 7 Mhz
|
|||
|
|
TransWarp (and of course a lot of other accessories like Audio Animator,
|
|||
|
|
DataLink, ComputerEyes, ...).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Recently I became a member of Bright Software. I like this group.
|
|||
|
|
We're independent and we enjoy the work with the IIGS. Assembly language is
|
|||
|
|
our second mother tongue; we are exclusively working with Merlin. At the
|
|||
|
|
end of 1991 I finished my first commercial program called ShadowDial,
|
|||
|
|
that's a software decoder for the IIGS allowing to use the Swiss (German)
|
|||
|
|
Videotex (Bildschirmtext) service. Videotex (Bildschrimtext) is something
|
|||
|
|
like the French Minitel or like the American Prodigy.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you have any questions about us or our products send email to me or
|
|||
|
|
use the RoundTable Category 13, Topic 13 (Hmm...fortunately I'm not
|
|||
|
|
superstitious!). -Andre
|
|||
|
|
(A.HORSTMANN, CAT2, TOP6, MSG:45/M645)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
PLAYER 3 This is Texas Red "Deb" signing on. I run an Apple ][e with an
|
|||
|
|
"""""""" AE Vulcan 20, an AE DataLink Express, an AE RamFactor, an AE
|
|||
|
|
Transwarp, and an Epson FX185 powered by a Grappler +. I use my computer
|
|||
|
|
for Genealogy (Family Roots) and Money Management (MYM) and newsletters
|
|||
|
|
(out of the game for a while, nothing really good without a mouse), plus
|
|||
|
|
the modem. Plus I use Appleworks with all of them. Love my Apple ][e, and
|
|||
|
|
I do know the "other" world as I use a Zenith Lap Top 286 with Microsoft
|
|||
|
|
Word 5/Graph/and Spreadsheet. I also use a "Big" Zenith at my church where
|
|||
|
|
I spend a lot of volunteer time where we have loaded on a custom Church
|
|||
|
|
management program and use also Wordstar Professional. -Deb
|
|||
|
|
(D.KOPLEN, CAT2, TOP6, MSG:51/M645)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
PLAYER 4 Hi! My name is Steve DePaul. I'm from Gig Harbor, Washington
|
|||
|
|
"""""""" and I have been lurking around here for too many months. I've
|
|||
|
|
learned a lot but it is time to ask some specific questions so I had better
|
|||
|
|
figure out how to send a message.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I run a computer lab at an elementary school in Tacoma and I have a
|
|||
|
|
few AppleShare headaches. If this comes through, I'm heading over to the
|
|||
|
|
appropriate category. How did I do? -Steve
|
|||
|
|
(S.DEPAUL3, CAT2, TOP6, MSG:79/M645)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
PLAYER 5 Hello! I've been visiting the A2 Bulletin Board on GEnie for
|
|||
|
|
"""""""" over a year. My "participation" has been downloading files and
|
|||
|
|
reading the messages posted. I did post a question about a problem I had
|
|||
|
|
getting logged on to America Online --- probably not a good first post!
|
|||
|
|
(By the way, I did get an answer that fixed my problem). Anyway, I thought
|
|||
|
|
it was time to introduce myself.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I've had an Apple II since 1983; first a IIc, and now a IIgs. My
|
|||
|
|
kids (8 & 11) use the IIgs for entertainment and some school projects (word
|
|||
|
|
processing, generating graphics). I use it for a little of everything--my
|
|||
|
|
current project is to create some HyperStudio stacks to help me keep up
|
|||
|
|
with what my kids are learning in school! My day job is as a manager of an
|
|||
|
|
engineering group responsible for process integration/new technology
|
|||
|
|
development at a semiconductor manufacturer. I'm over 40 and responded to
|
|||
|
|
the urge to buy a sports car (mid-life crisis) with the purchase of a
|
|||
|
|
TransWarp accelerator card. Paint job isn't much to talk about but the
|
|||
|
|
mileage is great!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Like to thank everyone who has posted questions and replies. The
|
|||
|
|
Apple II RoundTable on GEnie is the most reliable source of information
|
|||
|
|
about the Apple II around. Best Regards, -Don Erickson
|
|||
|
|
(D.ERICKSON7, CAT2, TOP6, MSG:86/M645)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> APPLE HEADS WANT TO KNOW <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Who's Running The Show? Here's an up-to-date listing of your Apple II
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""" sysops on GEnie:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Name Position GE Mail
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Dean Esmay Apple II Chief Sysop A2.DEAN
|
|||
|
|
Bill Dooley A2 Bulletin Board Manager A2.BILL
|
|||
|
|
Susan MacGregor A2 Real Time Conference Manager A2.SUSAN
|
|||
|
|
Tim Tobin A2 Library Manager A2.TIM
|
|||
|
|
Tyler Weisman A2 Library Assistant A2.TYLER
|
|||
|
|
Lunatic E'Sex Apple II Promotions Manager A2.LUNATIC
|
|||
|
|
Matt Deatherage A2Pro Leader M.DEATHERAGE
|
|||
|
|
Steve Gunn A2Pro Assistant A2PRO.STEVE
|
|||
|
|
Jim Murphy A2Pro Assistant A2PRO.JIM
|
|||
|
|
Greg Da Costa A2Pro Assistant A2PRO.GREG
|
|||
|
|
Todd P. Whitsel A2Pro Assistant A2PRO.TODDPW
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Our Able A2 Library Assistants
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Tom Zuchowski 8-bit games & utilities T.ZUCHOWSKI
|
|||
|
|
HangTime Hypermedia and Sounds A2.HANGTIME
|
|||
|
|
Pat Kern Clip Art & graphics C.KERN1
|
|||
|
|
Steve Beville Appleworks & related S.BEVILLE
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Our A2 Real-Time Conference (RTC) Assistants
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Dave Ciotti Saturday Night Live - Saturday A2.BEAR
|
|||
|
|
Don Arrowsmith II Speak - Sunday D.ARROWSMIT1
|
|||
|
|
Lynda Botez New Users - Monday L.BOTEZ
|
|||
|
|
Susan MacGregor Formal Guest - Tuesday A2.SUSAN
|
|||
|
|
HangTime Hypermedia - Wednesday A2.HANGTIME
|
|||
|
|
Mike Garvey TBC Forum - Thursday TBC
|
|||
|
|
Jim Zajkowski Telecommunications - Friday J.ZAJKOWSKI
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Keeping an eye out on all of us is Tom Weishaar, the Manager of the
|
|||
|
|
Apple II RoundTables here on GEnie!
|
|||
|
|
(A2.DEAN, CAT1, TOP24, MSG:1/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
TIPS & TRICKS If you'd like to add your own short "bio" to Category 2,
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""" Topic 6, you need not compose the message online. You can
|
|||
|
|
save connect time (and money) by composing your message in AppleWorks 3.0,
|
|||
|
|
printing the short file to disk as a text file (do make sure to add
|
|||
|
|
carriage returns at the end of each line, though). Then after entering the
|
|||
|
|
roundtable message area, type "Set 2" to set the category. You can then
|
|||
|
|
proceed to read the last message, and add your own.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Instead of typing in the message online, use the GEnie "*UPLOAD"
|
|||
|
|
command when you see the first line number. Then do an "ASCII" upload from
|
|||
|
|
your Apple II communications program.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
When the cursor returns to the bottom left corner of your screen, type
|
|||
|
|
a <Control-C>. You'll then see the bottom line number of your prepared
|
|||
|
|
message. The final step is to type: "*SN" to save this message without
|
|||
|
|
having GEnie reformat it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To help the Apple II community come to know each other better, the
|
|||
|
|
Apple II GEnieLamp will be featuring messages from the Category 2, Topic 6
|
|||
|
|
in upcoming issues of the publication.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THE ONGOING APPLE II FLEA MARKET The Apple II RoundTable on GEnie is
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" known nationwide for the interesting
|
|||
|
|
and helpful messages that are posted each day. But technical support and
|
|||
|
|
advice are only one part of the roundtable message area. The roundtable
|
|||
|
|
serves as host of the Apple II Free Trade Zone, an ongoing international
|
|||
|
|
Apple II flea market. Before you buy that new computer or peripheral,
|
|||
|
|
you'd do well to check the messages in Category 4, the "A2 Free Trade Zone"
|
|||
|
|
to see if someone is selling what you want second-hand.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
What makes the A2 Free Trade Zone so particularly useful is that the
|
|||
|
|
"for sale" and "wanted" classifieds are neatly organized into topics. So if
|
|||
|
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you're looking to buy or sell something, you can steer right over to the
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appropriate topic.
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A recent perusal of the A2 Free Trade Zone turned up the following two
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exceptional bargains. After these two messages is a listing of all the
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topics in the A2 Free Trade Zone.
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[*][*][*]
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LOOKING? Apple IIc System 128k, includes Panasonic color monitor, built
|
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"""""""" in 5.25" disk drive, Apple Brand IIc carrying case..........$200
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Half Height 5.25" drive for IIGS or IIc.............. $50
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Apple 3.5" Platinum Disk Drive.......................$125
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Grappler C IIc Printer Interface w/cable..............$20
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Jeff Strichard: (305) 587-9590; GEnie address: J.Strichard1
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(J.STRICHARD1, CAT4, TOP10, MSG:45)
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OR.... For Sale: Zip chip accelerator for Apple II+ or Apple IIe.
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"""""" 8mhz.....$65.00. Send e-mail if interested.
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(RAM-ROD, CAT4, TOP10, MSG:71/M645)
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CHECK IT OUT!
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"""""""""""""
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CATEGORY 4 :The A2 Free Trade Zone (Items For Sale, Items Wanted, & Etc.)
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===========================================================================
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Msgs Status Author
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1 A2's Classifieds 3 Closed ERIC-M
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2 General Discussion on Buying & Selling 53 Open ERIC-M
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3 Collected Items and Full Systems 50 Open ERIC-M
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4 8-bit Software 25 Open ERIC-M
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5 16-bit Software 16 Open ERIC-M
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6 Expansion Cards 16 Open ERIC-M
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7 Floppy Drives 14 Open ERIC-M
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8 Hard Drives, Tape, CD-ROM, Mass Storage 11 Open ERIC-M
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9 Printers, Modems, and Accessories 21 Open ERIC-M
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10 Other Hardware/Miscellaneous Equipment 71 Open ERIC-M
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11 Books and Periodicals 0 Open ERIC-M
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12 Computer Shows and Fairs 1 Open ERIC-M
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13 2400bps modem CHEAP! 1 Open J.ZERDEN
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14 GS Hardware/Software for Sale 11 Open M.CLEVELAND5
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15 Standard slot (1-7) expansion cards 35 Closed ERIC-M
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19 5.25 floppy drives 18 Closed ERIC-M
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24 Non-SCSI Hard Drives 14 Closed ERIC-M
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28 Printers & Accessories 33 Closed ERIC-M
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29 Scanners/digitizers 18 Closed ERIC-M
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31 Modems 37 Closed ERIC-M
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36 IIe and IIe-specific hardware 41 Closed ERIC-M
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37 IIc/IIc+ and IIc-specific hardware 42 Closed ERIC-M
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38 IIgs and IIgs-specific hardware 55 Closed ERIC-M
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39 Other hardware & misc. equipment 53 Closed ERIC-M
|
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41 Apple II Books and Periodicals 21 Closed ERIC-M
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There are a few more topics shown in a complete listing of the
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category, but most of the rest have been closed since the category was
|
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reorganized recently. The first twelve topics are meant to handle all
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possible sale items
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>>> MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT <<<
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""
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UNBRIDLED ENTHUSIASM! While the popular computing press has been
|
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""""""""""""""""""""" declaring the Apple II "old technology" for the
|
|||
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past 8 to 10 years, Apple II users know that their computers still have
|
|||
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great untapped potential. You can be pretty sure that almost all the
|
|||
|
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strong Apple II believers have an account on GEnie, too. For a taste of
|
|||
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unbridled Apple II enthusiasm, listen in on the following public message
|
|||
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posted by Jay Curtis three weeks ago.
|
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[*][*][*]
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Category 5, Topic 3
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Message 123 Wed Nov 11, 1992
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J.CURTIS8 [Jay] at 09:10 EST
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I'm still having fun with my IIGS. I've got years of experimentation
|
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and tinkering ahead of me. I've still got a couple of free slots begging
|
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for me to add some sort of peripheral to them. I need to add the PC
|
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Transporter card, a new accelerator card, boost the cache memory on my
|
|||
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RamFactor memory card to 1 MEG. This spring I'm getting one of those
|
|||
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Applied Engineering floptical drives to serve as backup to my 105 meg
|
|||
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Quantum. Eventually, I'm going to have to have a Laser or Ink Jet printer.
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I've got no reason to add more memory, but, shoot, it might be fun to
|
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have nine megs in this sucker rather than just five! Besides, memory is so
|
|||
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cheap now, and I might need the additional if I get serious about running
|
|||
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GNO/ME. (Wish I could find out more about it here on Genie.)
|
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My IIGS boots and runs faster than the MAC Classic II at work and is
|
|||
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just so much more interesting and versatile. I've got text display as well
|
|||
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as graphic display, three different operating systems to play with, more
|
|||
|
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programming languages than I'll ever be able to learn, and so many pieces
|
|||
|
|
of software to check out that I'll never get around to all of it. It's the
|
|||
|
|
best of many different worlds: expandability, near state-of-the-art
|
|||
|
|
technology with a slice of history, text and graphic display, entertainment
|
|||
|
|
and productivity, 8-bit and 16-bit. When I talk to other computerphiles,
|
|||
|
|
they're amazed at what an "Apple II" can do. Some have to come see for
|
|||
|
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themselves, because they don't believe me.
|
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[*][*][*]
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In the following sections we present a variety of interesting posts
|
|||
|
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that have appeared during the last month in the bulletin boards for A2.
|
|||
|
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These messages can be identified by the footer attached to each item.
|
|||
|
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(See the introductory notes on how to interpret the footer.) If you find
|
|||
|
|
the topic, excerpt, or just the interplay between various people to be
|
|||
|
|
stimulating, then please jump to that topic on a weekly basis and read
|
|||
|
|
about developments in the Apple II community. Our hope is that you will
|
|||
|
|
find something new and interesting each month in the A2 bulletin boards.
|
|||
|
|
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
|
|||
|
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thousands of messages posted from people like you from all over the
|
|||
|
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world.
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
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/////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
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/ "Arthritas......not inflicted yet but its coming ;-)" /
|
|||
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/ /
|
|||
|
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/ "Arthritis......before the spelling police get me." /
|
|||
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/ /
|
|||
|
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/ "Boy, you just made it, Darlah, /
|
|||
|
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/ I was warming up the shot gun.... :-)" /
|
|||
|
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//////////////////////// DARLAH / DARLAH / D.FLORY ////
|
|||
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|
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[EOA]
|
|||
|
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[HUM]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
HUMOR ONLINE /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
ZEN And The Art Of Flaming
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Compiled By Terry Quinn
|
|||
|
|
[TQUINN]
|
|||
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|
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|
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|
|||
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>>> FLAME ON! <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
flame: 1. vi. To post an email message intended to insult and
|
|||
|
|
provoke. 2. vi. To speak incessantly and/or rabidly on
|
|||
|
|
some relatively uninteresting subject or with a patently
|
|||
|
|
ridiculous attitude. 3. vt. Either of senses 1 or 2,
|
|||
|
|
directed with hostility at a particular person or people.
|
|||
|
|
4. n. An instance of flaming. When a discussion
|
|||
|
|
degenerates into useless controversy, one might tell the
|
|||
|
|
participants "Now you're just flaming" or "Stop all that
|
|||
|
|
flamage!" to try to get them to cool down (so to speak).
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
USENETter Marc Ramsey, who was at WPI from 1972 to 1976,
|
|||
|
|
adds: "I am 99% certain that the use of `flame'
|
|||
|
|
originated at WPI. Those who made a nuisance of
|
|||
|
|
themselves insisting that they needed to use a TTY for
|
|||
|
|
`real work' came to be known as `flaming a**hole lusers'.
|
|||
|
|
Other particularly annoying people became `flaming a**hole
|
|||
|
|
ravers', which shortened to `flaming ravers', and
|
|||
|
|
ultimately `flamers'. I remember someone picking up on
|
|||
|
|
the Human Torch pun, but I don't think `flame on/off' was
|
|||
|
|
ever much used at WPI." See also {asbestos}.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
The term may have been independently invented at several
|
|||
|
|
different places; it is also reported that `flaming' was
|
|||
|
|
in use to mean something like `interminably drawn-out
|
|||
|
|
semi-serious discussions' (late-night bull sessions) at
|
|||
|
|
Carleton College during 1968--1971.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
flame bait: n. A posting intended to trigger a {flame war}, or
|
|||
|
|
one that invites flames in reply.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
flame on: vi.,interj. 1. To begin to {flame}. The punning
|
|||
|
|
reference to Marvel Comics's Human Torch is no longer
|
|||
|
|
widely recognized. 2. To continue to flame. See
|
|||
|
|
{rave}, {burble}.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
flame war: n. (var. `flamewar') An acrimonious dispute,
|
|||
|
|
especially when conducted on a public electronic
|
|||
|
|
forum such as {USENET}.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
flamer: n. One who habitually {flame}s. Said esp. of obnoxious
|
|||
|
|
{USENET} personalities.
|
|||
|
|
(B.MARYOTT, CAT8, TOP32, MSG:60/M245)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
///////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "I see Jello has taken over my topic here. :-)" /
|
|||
|
|
////////////////////////////////// S.HUGHEY1 ////
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[A2P]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
A2/PRO_ductivity /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
C'mon I Dare Ya!
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By Jim Couch
|
|||
|
|
[J.COUCH2]
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
HEY YOU, I DARE YA... Hello all from the A2Pro RoundTable. A lot of
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""" interesting stuff has been happening in the
|
|||
|
|
RoundTable this month. One topic that has been seeing a fair amount of
|
|||
|
|
traffic is Category 16, Topic 7: the Challenges topic. This topic is a
|
|||
|
|
place to say "C'mon I dare you" to the A2 programers. You can post
|
|||
|
|
'challenges' to the A2 programmers. A lot of neat ideas have been popping
|
|||
|
|
up here. If there is a program, utility, or such that YOU would like to see
|
|||
|
|
written for the Apple II, why don't you stop by and throw down the
|
|||
|
|
gauntlet? It's your chance to talk directly to the programmers!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A2 University has two courses currently running. In Ultra 4 to the
|
|||
|
|
Max, Will Nelken is focusing in on the new Randy Brandt's Ultra 4.0 macro
|
|||
|
|
language for Appleworks. Ultramacros has grown well beyond a macro utility
|
|||
|
|
into a full blown programming language. With Ultra 4.0 the power of
|
|||
|
|
Ultramacros has improved even more while still maintaining it's ease of
|
|||
|
|
use. If you do anything with Ultramacros you will want to come by for a
|
|||
|
|
look. Many class participants have been posting small useful macros that
|
|||
|
|
are definitely worth looking at. Ultra 4.0 really is amazing and Will's
|
|||
|
|
class demonstrates much of the new power of this improved language.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Not to be outdone 'Professor' Andy Fadden is covering data
|
|||
|
|
compression. If you ever wondered how one can manage to compress files and
|
|||
|
|
then uncompress them without scrambling all that data (I certainly do!)
|
|||
|
|
then this is the class for you.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Although both classes are in full swing, you can still stop by and
|
|||
|
|
join in on the discussions. Lessons for both of the classes are in the
|
|||
|
|
A2Pro library and have a wealth of great information.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There is a lot of other things going on in A2Pro as well. With the
|
|||
|
|
wide variety of stuff going on, there is something for everyone. C'mon by,
|
|||
|
|
I dare ya!
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
ULTRA EXTRAS RELEASE DATE DELAYED I've had delays ranging from other
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" obligations to sickness in the family
|
|||
|
|
(nothing serious, just time-consuming), so Ultra Extras is running a little
|
|||
|
|
behind schedule. If all things all into place, we'll still be done in
|
|||
|
|
October, but now it won't surprise me if we don't ship until November. Mark
|
|||
|
|
Munz is pretty much done his stuff, and I've only got a few more bugs to
|
|||
|
|
track down. Coming soon...
|
|||
|
|
(BRANDT, CAT34, TOP8, MSG:16/M530)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> Due to other events chewing up time, UE likely won't ship this
|
|||
|
|
""""" week as hoped. It's close, but needs more testing. If all goes
|
|||
|
|
well, it'll ship in three weeks or less.
|
|||
|
|
(BRANDT, CAT34, TOP8, MSG:17/M530)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ULTRA 4.O TIP Don't record over any existing macros, since following
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""" macros can get messed up. Make sure you record only macros
|
|||
|
|
that haven't been compiled. For example, reserve number macros for
|
|||
|
|
recording, or both- apple macros, or something like that.
|
|||
|
|
(BRANDT, CAT34, TOP4, MSG:55/M530)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
REVERSE ENGINEERING DEEMED FAIR PLAY BY U.S. COURT Thought I would bring
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" everyone up to date
|
|||
|
|
on the latest court ruling regarding reverse engineering. This information
|
|||
|
|
comes from the Tuesday (10/27) issue of Investors Daily.
|
|||
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|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
REVERSE ENGINEERING DEEMED FAIR PLAY BY U.S. COURT
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Appeals Panel Finds Disassembly of Sega Game by a Rival To Be Legal
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
...Reverse engineering has received a stamp of approval in a landmark
|
|||
|
|
ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
...the court ruled last week that Accolade Inc. was within legal
|
|||
|
|
limits to disassemble Sega Enterprise Ltd.'s electronic game cartridges to
|
|||
|
|
figure out how to produce games compatible with Sega's Genesis game
|
|||
|
|
machines....
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
...Technology companies have lined up on both sides of the fence on
|
|||
|
|
the disassembly issue. Officials at Apple Computer Inc., Intel Corp. and
|
|||
|
|
IBM have stated that disassembly reduces their ability to protect their
|
|||
|
|
investments in hardware and software. (Now if we could only get rights to
|
|||
|
|
the IIGS hardware and firmware! -Ed)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
...But Sun Microsystems Inc. Unisys Corp. and others have sided with
|
|||
|
|
Accolade, arguing that disallowing reverse engineering would stifle
|
|||
|
|
competition (mine: there is no IIGS clone (unfortunately)).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Sega says...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"In our opinion, the court improperly applied the doctrine of fair use
|
|||
|
|
and disregarded established precedents in this area of law," Riley Russell,
|
|||
|
|
Sega's corporate counsel, said in a prepared statement after the ruling.
|
|||
|
|
"We feel thee court's ruling, is it stands, substantially reduces the
|
|||
|
|
ability of manufacturers to protect their intellectual property."
|
|||
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|
|
|||
|
|
The case came down to the legal doctrine called "fair use".
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
The Appeals court said that under the doctrine one can dissemble a
|
|||
|
|
product as a means of accessing the unprotectable ideas underlying the
|
|||
|
|
particular expression of the product if that is the only way to get access
|
|||
|
|
to those ideas. The company disassembling the product cannot, however,
|
|||
|
|
then create a work that infringes another's copyright (mine: probably a
|
|||
|
|
IIGS clone!).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Ideas themselves cannot be protected by a copyright; only specific
|
|||
|
|
expressions of the ideas can be.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Another issue in a copyright cases is whether the copyright holder was
|
|||
|
|
actually harmed (would IIGS clone harm Apple ??).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
...."The ruling says the monopoly power granted by patent laws will
|
|||
|
|
not apply to copyright law," said Stephen Hollman, a partner with Pettit &
|
|||
|
|
Martin in San Jose, Calif. "This case has ramifications for the computer
|
|||
|
|
hardware and semiconductor industries, as well as software."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Hope you found this interesting. -Chris
|
|||
|
|
(CHINOOK.1, CAT13, TOP22, MSG:69/M530)
|
|||
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|
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|
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HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE $200? $400? $800? Read on! :) As always,
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" we're are looking for
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submissions for both Softdisk and Softdisk G-S. In a moment, I'll list
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some ideas, but first let me address one misconception. You DO NOT HAVE TO
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BE A PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMER TO SUBMIT. All too often people think that
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they must be professional programmers whose works rival those of Andy
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Nicholas. Well, if you were that good, you'd probably be working for Apple
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right now :)
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You might be surprised just how easy it is to get your programs
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published and to make some easy money. For example, we have a full staff
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of in-house artists that can redo your artwork. We have people that get
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paid to design interfaces for programs. We can work WITH you to make your
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program as good as anything Andy can do.
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Here are some program ideas that we are interested in. Some of these
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things are quick, $100 programs, others are major undertakings and thus
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major bucks would be paid (upwards of $1500 in some cases!)
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o database shell that would allow the user to create their own
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templates
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o anything related to astronomy (hot topic these days :)
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o statistical analysis type programs (we've had requests for those)
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o Zip Code/Area Code finder CDA database thingy
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o Text Viewer CDA, allow preset files and file selection
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o time billing database thingy
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o Car maintenance scheduler database thingy
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o games, games, and more games :)
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o family tree programs
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o weird things like those things that tell you are far your mouse has
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traveled, or eyes that follow your mouse, etc.
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You get the idea? -Bryan
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(SOFTDISK.INC, CAT31, TOP3, MSG:21/M530)
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>>>>> I was talking with a submitter the other day and he said to me,
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""""" "Bryan, why don't you let more people know how much you pay for
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submissions?"
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So, here I am.
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A submission can fall into one of four broad categories: feature,
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"filler", reuseable, article/artwork
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Features A feature is a submission an issue of Softdisk or Softdisk G-S
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"""""""" will be centered around (our issues are not thematic, but the
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issue cover art and what-not always tend to reflect the feature). Usually,
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features tend to be large programs, sometimes as large as 200K on Softdisk
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G-S. Usually no more than 100K on Softdisk (mainly due to disk space
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considerations), but occasionally, Softdisk features use two 5.25-inch disk
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sides.
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We generally pay between $500 and $1200 for a feature.
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"Fillers" To be more accurate, this category should probably be called
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""""""""" "non-feature". This is the category of submissions that
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aren't features. On Softdisk G-S we try to publish 3-4 programs on each
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issue (4-5 on Softdisk 8- bit). Since only one program can be the feature,
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the other programs "fill" out the issue.
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Fillers vary greatly in size. Some are as small as just a few K,
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others are as much as 150K. Again, the size varies with the product.
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Small fillers bring around $100-$300. Larger fillers between $300-$800.
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Reusable This is not so much as another class as it is another aspect of
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"""""""" the other classes. Anytime we can reuse a submission
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repeatedly, it's worth more money to us. For example, a program that
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allows the user to play crossword puzzles where the puzzles are simply
|
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documents that can be opened and played will be worth more than a crossword
|
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player that only plays a specified puzzle.
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Being reusable can add anything from $200 to $1500 to a submission.
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Article/Artwork I'm not really sure what to call this category. Maybe
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""""""""""""""" "Documents" would have been better. Things like product
|
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reviews, articles (yes we accept articles even though few people submit
|
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them!), artwork, MIDI Synth songs, clip, print shop stuff, appleworks and
|
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appleworks GS templates, rSounds, all this kind of stuff brings anything
|
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from $5 to $200 (or more, depending on quantity).
|
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Now, I'm not going to sit here and tell you why selling your program
|
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to Softdisk is better than making it shareware: you are capable of the
|
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simple math involved. Softdisk simply pays better. -Bryan
|
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(I should include this disclaimer: these prices are NOT set in stone.
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I don't decide what we pay for submissions, that's done by other management
|
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people. The numbers could change at any time--but since these are the
|
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numbers we've been paying for a few years now, I doubt there will be much
|
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change.) (SOFTDISK.INC, CAT31, TOP4, MSG:1/M530)
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AND THIS FINAL LESSON FROM THE PROGRAMMERS
|
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
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|
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> Tracking down a bug caused by an errant BRA sometimes takes HOURS. I
|
|||
|
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> know, just don't insert bugs into the code...
|
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My wife found the last errant BRA I forgot about. Boy did that take
|
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a lot of explaining! -Bear
|
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(A2.BEAR, CAT7, TOP7, MSG:47/M530)
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///////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
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|
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/ "Snakes don't have arms. That's why they can't wear vests." /
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////////////////////////////////////////////// R.MARTIN22 ////
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[EOA]
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[FUN]//////////////////////////////
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ONLINE FUN /
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/////////////////////////////////
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Search-ME!
|
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""""""""""
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By Scott Garrigus
|
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[S.GARRIGUS]
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HEY, BOYS AND GIRLS! It's that time of the year again! Time to spend all
|
|||
|
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"""""""""""""""""""" your money on your family and friends! You _have_
|
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|
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done all your shopping already, haven't you? :-) You know the GEnie Mall
|
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|
|
will be open 24 hours, 7 days a week. (premeditated plug :-)
|
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|
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|
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This month I didn't visit a specific place on GEnie. So be sure to
|
|||
|
|
tell your kids they can write letters to Santa on GEnie. Just have them
|
|||
|
|
address their letters to SANTA.CLAUS and send them via GE Mail. Santa will
|
|||
|
|
write back to each and every one of them. He must have a terminal up there
|
|||
|
|
somewhere. Hmmm... I wonder what kind of computer he has? :-)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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Well, this month's Search-Me theme is of course, Christmas! So get
|
|||
|
|
yourself a nice cup of hot chocolate, curl up on the couch and have some
|
|||
|
|
fun finding this month's keywords! Oh, yeah, and have a Very Merry
|
|||
|
|
Christmas!
|
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|
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|
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>>> CHRISTMAS! <<<
|
|||
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""""""""""""""""""
|
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|
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|
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O W C T W P E J S V T S V Z J V C O Q R A X N
|
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H B G H A T Z G D D V D L J O Q B H T P Z O F
|
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Y T C F F S V V C H C S S L V N K I S S C Q S
|
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R U P R O K M J H E P G G U S O P X Q T N C M
|
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X E Q Q K X X G L E X N R E W Y E I H N T Y Q
|
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Y L I M A F J E T Q D I E D Z R O P S E O F B
|
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G D U N L M B Q D B M K L F R E L T Q S M Q R
|
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F P B H D R M N F N S C V B E U P V L E U G E
|
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C A R E A E B Q R S Z O E H T C D G F R Y H B
|
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C E H T K R E V M G L T S U V C L O P P R O M
|
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P V I G J E D R L M J S N A T N A S L S G L E
|
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S O E W C T N S U S E J O S E M Y R L P N I C
|
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N W Y S T N E M A N R O W M L S G E O O H D E
|
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X U A M P I B G J A E R F R J E G Y I L R A D
|
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|
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F Q D G B W S L N M V O L S D N I Z F C S Y W
|
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A H H S N O W M A N P Z A B A J J G J I C V B
|
|||
|
|
A A T Z Q Q L R F K H Y K N O H I D H U I Z X
|
|||
|
|
E V R K M C L I T W R V E Z R N H K K F Q M Z
|
|||
|
|
A C I N R K S X N P H X Q D V U A C G E E R T
|
|||
|
|
V Z B L L W I V Y D Z M T A L V H U U Z U J B
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
>>> WORD CLUES <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
SANTA ELVES TOYS
|
|||
|
|
STOCKINGS HOLIDAY SLEIGH
|
|||
|
|
REINDEER RUDOLPH SNOWMAN
|
|||
|
|
SNOWFLAKE PRESENTS TREE
|
|||
|
|
CAROLS JESUS ANGELS
|
|||
|
|
WINTER BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
|
|||
|
|
ORNAMENTS DECEMBER FAMILY
|
|||
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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,
|
|||
|
|
an Atari ST program by David Becker.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "I wonder what's worse....One long post of wares to sell... :-( /
|
|||
|
|
/ or 15 post complaining about it? ;-)" /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////////////////////// J.BRENNER1 ////
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[PRO]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
PROFILES /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Who's Who In Apple II
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By Phil Shapiro
|
|||
|
|
[P.SHAPIRO1]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> WHO'S WHO? <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
~ A GEnieLamp Profile of Randy Brandt ~
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
GenieLamp> Randy, how did you first become involved with the Apple II?
|
|||
|
|
""""""""" At what point did you realize that you could make a living
|
|||
|
|
from your hobby?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Brandt> I started playing around with an Apple II+ which had been donated
|
|||
|
|
"""""" to the Geophysics Dept at Christian Heritage College in San
|
|||
|
|
Diego, where I was a sophomore at the time (1981). They set it up in the
|
|||
|
|
library with a sign-out card, and I filled up so many cards they finally
|
|||
|
|
gave me my own key to the computer desk. I played a lot of Sabotage,
|
|||
|
|
Pac-Man, etc., and got into Basic and then 6502 assembly. My first program
|
|||
|
|
was a grade keeping Basic program for my girlfriend's student teaching
|
|||
|
|
needs. Her name was Joanna Ellen Morrison; astute readers will see the
|
|||
|
|
significance of those initials. Anyway, I began selling GRADE.AID to other
|
|||
|
|
teachers and that got me thinking there might be some money in computers.
|
|||
|
|
Then I sold a little hardware as well during my first year of teaching
|
|||
|
|
after college. As for actually thinking I could make a living at it, I'm
|
|||
|
|
not sure about that yet, but I have survived over 7.5 years as a full-time
|
|||
|
|
computer nerd.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
GenieLamp> Can you tell us a bit of how you came to work at Beagle Bros?
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Brandt> I quit a white collar job in 1985 and was looking for work when I
|
|||
|
|
"""""" decided to send applications to Roger Wagner and Beagle Bros,
|
|||
|
|
thinking that my English major and Apple ii experience would make a good
|
|||
|
|
combo for documentation writing. Joanna was pregnant with Heather, so we
|
|||
|
|
were rather interested in becoming employed, but when she spelled the
|
|||
|
|
address wrong on the letter to Beagle, I told her not to redo it since we'd
|
|||
|
|
never hear back from them anyway. A few weeks later I started writing docs
|
|||
|
|
for Pro-Byter and Extra K.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GenieLamp> At what point did you leave to form your own company, JEM
|
|||
|
|
""""""""" Software? When did you join GEnie?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Brandt> I didn't leave Beagle to form JEM. I actually started JEM in
|
|||
|
|
"""""" 1984, over a year before I started at Beagle. However, it was
|
|||
|
|
dormant until I wrote PathFinder. I wanted a special royalty rate and a
|
|||
|
|
low-cost disk since the program was so simple and there was no need for a
|
|||
|
|
manual, but Beagle didn't want to pay any more, and suggested I sell it
|
|||
|
|
myself. That propelled JEM into AppleWorks enhancements, which is
|
|||
|
|
basically all we've ever published, other than MiniPaint and I.O. Silver.
|
|||
|
|
I joined GEnie around 1988 or 1989, mostly to support Rose16, my APW
|
|||
|
|
editor, and my other JEM products.
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
GenieLamp> Over the years UltraMacros has evolved through several
|
|||
|
|
""""""""" generations, culminating with your recently released Ultra
|
|||
|
|
4.0. For the benefit of those who walked in late to the party, kindly
|
|||
|
|
explain a bit about the early generations of UltraMacros.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Brandt> My first macro program was MacroWorks. That came about because I
|
|||
|
|
"""""" was beta-testing Alan Bird's Program Writer, and really liked
|
|||
|
|
the OA- Delete command to "gobble" the character under the cursor. It
|
|||
|
|
really annoyed me that AppleWorks couldn't do that. Since I'd switched
|
|||
|
|
from AppleWriter, I also liked having a command to jump to the end or
|
|||
|
|
beginning of a line. After playing with Merlin's sample keyboard macros I
|
|||
|
|
kind of figured out the theory behind macros and went to work on
|
|||
|
|
AppleWorks. Beagle liked the idea, gave me an advance to pay the bills
|
|||
|
|
while I worked on it, and began creating ads for PatchWorks. Then it
|
|||
|
|
turned out there was a quilting program with that name, and they finally
|
|||
|
|
gave in to my request for "MacroWorks" even though they thought it sounded
|
|||
|
|
too techie.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Then Alan came out with AutoWorks, I wrote Super MacroWorks for
|
|||
|
|
AppleWorks 2.0, TimeOut got going and I wrote TimeOut UltraMacros, and now
|
|||
|
|
finally there's Ultra 4 from JEM. Somewhere in the early, days Pinpoint
|
|||
|
|
came out with KeyPlayer, which copied a lot of my stuff while adding some
|
|||
|
|
good ideas, but had some flaky problems and finally vanished.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
GenieLamp> Can you briefly tell us what Ultra 4 has to offer?
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Brandt> Ultra 4 is a major rewrite, primarily offering external dot
|
|||
|
|
"""""" commands which are added through init files. This means there
|
|||
|
|
never needs to be a successor to Ultra 4, since I can simply create
|
|||
|
|
additional command files as needed.
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
GenieLamp> The National AppleWorks Users Group (NAUG) has played a
|
|||
|
|
""""""""" central role in popularizing AppleWorks. What are your
|
|||
|
|
thoughts about the role NAUG has played in the national Apple II scene?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Brandt> NAUG _is_ the AppleWorks scene. Without NAUG members ordering my
|
|||
|
|
"""""" products, I would've had to abandon the Apple II years ago. As
|
|||
|
|
for the national Apple II scene, there's plenty of IIgs stuff out there,
|
|||
|
|
but NAUG certainly dominates the 8-bit world. While I know I've
|
|||
|
|
contributed to NAUG's success, they've been the indirect source of most of
|
|||
|
|
my income over the last few years, for which my family is very thankful!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GenieLamp> Over the years many people must have sent you copies of nifty
|
|||
|
|
""""""""" macros they've created. Can you tell us a little about some
|
|||
|
|
of those most creative and zany macros you've seen?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Brandt> It's tough to pick just a few macros, but the more creative ones
|
|||
|
|
"""""" include Mark de Jong's drawing program which used text
|
|||
|
|
characters in a word processor file, Rod Young's Lynx Hypermedia program.
|
|||
|
|
There have been hangman, blackjack and shoot'em up games that were very
|
|||
|
|
creative, but the zaniest is likely the one that made AppleWorks screens
|
|||
|
|
display bottom to top so the main menu had Quit at the top, the
|
|||
|
|
REVIEW/ADD/CHANGE messages were at the bottom of the screen, etc.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GenieLamp> The TimeOut series of AppleWorks enhancements gives great
|
|||
|
|
""""""""" power for using an Apple II in a small business setting. Can
|
|||
|
|
you share any juicy anecdotes about Apple II's you know of that are being
|
|||
|
|
used in a business setting?
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Brandt> I know of a fine watch repairman ("any watch cheaper than $500 is
|
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"""""" junk!") who uses a couple of IIgs's and a couple of Laser's to
|
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run his whole business. There's a travel agent who uses II's to run a
|
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million-dollar business, an auctioneer, and a pediatrician. I'm sure there
|
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are others I haven't run into, but these are some that I've talked to who
|
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are using my add-on's to AppleWorks and running good-sized operations. The
|
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best anecdote is a Hewlett-Packard employee who had to teach a massive
|
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class on Windows to other employees. He created the entire course outline
|
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using my Outliner and AppleWorks 3.0.
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GenieLamp> What types of things do you like to do for fun?
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"""""""""
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Brandt> I have fun at a lot of things, including playing in two ice
|
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"""""" hockey leagues. I also enjoy playing basketball and softball,
|
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and watching all the major sports on television. Playing with my kids is a
|
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joy. Before starting my computers, I load up my CD carousel from my
|
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collection of 400+ CD's, mostly Christian rock with a bit of classical
|
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thrown in for culture's sake. I also enjoying reading techno-thrillers
|
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(Tom Clancy, Dale Brown, etc), magazines (MacUser, National Review, The
|
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Hockey News, National Geographic), the daily paper (sports first, then
|
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editorials), and the Bible.
|
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GenieLamp> What work are you most proud of?
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"""""""""
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Brandt> Other than my role in producing Heather, Erika and Michael, I'm
|
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"""""" most proud of Ultra 4 and TotalControl. They're both major
|
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products that add an awful lot of power to AppleWorks for any serious user.
|
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GenieLamp> What do you think are going to be some of the more exciting
|
|||
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""""""""" technological developments that will be realized before the
|
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turn of the century?
|
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Brandt> Although I'm sure I can predict the future at least as well as
|
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"""""" the tabloid psychics, I'm not too sure what we'll see. I'd LIKE
|
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to see affordable extremely high-powered notebook computers with stuff like
|
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built-in cellular phones/fax, satellite-based navigaitional maps, voice
|
|||
|
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recognition, and battery technology that lets you work all day. A complete
|
|||
|
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office in one package, sans water cooler. Maybe a cold fusion computer
|
|||
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that you could dump your Big Mac wrapper into for instant recycling. The
|
|||
|
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new MacEverything- it slices, it dices... Apart from computers, who knows?
|
|||
|
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To be honest, I think short-term technological growth will be hampered with
|
|||
|
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Al Gore as Veep, at least if he gets his buddies into the EPA and the like.
|
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|
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Startup companies are going to have a tough time surviving all of the new
|
|||
|
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regulations that'll be here soon. When massive corporations dominate,
|
|||
|
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creativity stagnates, like with HP rejecting Woz's silly little ideas about
|
|||
|
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building a personal computer.
|
|||
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|
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|
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GenieLamp> For the benefit of those who may be unfamiliar with JEM
|
|||
|
|
""""""""" Software's product line, kindly tell us a little about each
|
|||
|
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of your products, along with your motivation for making them.
|
|||
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|
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|
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Brandt> My product line is getting shorter, but this is the active stuff:
|
|||
|
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"""""" PathFinder is a directory selector I wrote in a two-day period in
|
|||
|
|
1986 or 1987 that lets you pick subdirectories from a list instead of
|
|||
|
|
having to type in the name. I built that into AppleWorks 3.0.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
DoubleData by Dan Verkade gives the AppleWorks 3.0 database 60
|
|||
|
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categories per record. It was created because 30 categories per database
|
|||
|
|
record seemed like too few.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
TotalControl adds spreadsheet-type formula capability to the
|
|||
|
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AppleWorks 3.0 database (Dan did the formula stuff) and gives you control
|
|||
|
|
over your input, allowing you to set min/max lengths, values, case rules
|
|||
|
|
and do automatic importing and lookups from other files.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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DB Pix displays Print Shop graphics in the DB along with your record,
|
|||
|
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so you can have a "graphic category". It also displays single and double
|
|||
|
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high resolution pictures.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Ultra 4 is a major rewrite of TimeOut UltraMacros, offering a more
|
|||
|
|
powerful compiler, easier-to-use but more powerful commands, and the
|
|||
|
|
ability to add new commands via disk files.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
OmniPrint is an ImageWriter II enhancement that lets you access all
|
|||
|
|
ImageWriter II capabilities from within the word processor, including font,
|
|||
|
|
downloading graphic patterns, color, change of pitch on one line, etc.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
InitCity is the next JEM disk, due out sometime before the snow melts
|
|||
|
|
in 1993. It offers a dozen or so AppleWorks 3.0 inits to make life easier,
|
|||
|
|
such as letting you tab through multiple OA-Q desktops, pick a new
|
|||
|
|
directory from a list during the Add files process, print titles on each
|
|||
|
|
page of a multi-page spreadsheet printout, etc.
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
GenieLamp> How can people contact you?
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Brandt> People may write to JEM Software at 7578 Lamar Ct, Arvada, CO,
|
|||
|
|
"""""" 80003, fax (303) 422-4856, or contact me on GEnie. My
|
|||
|
|
electronic mail address is: BRANDT, and you can leave public questions or
|
|||
|
|
messages for me in category 34 of the A2Pro (Apple II Programmers)
|
|||
|
|
Roundtable on GEnie.
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
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/////////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "Try not to make your lines too long, so that it looks neat. /
|
|||
|
|
/ For example look at Wally's excellent ad!<g> Lovely graphics, /
|
|||
|
|
/ nice spacing...let's give it an Addy Award! /
|
|||
|
|
////////////////////////////////////////////// MIKE.KELLER ////
|
|||
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|
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[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[QUI]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
THE MIGHTY QUINN /
|
|||
|
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/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
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Technomare
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
"A Whole Buncha Milliseconds with Mark"
|
|||
|
|
by Mark Quinn, DOA
|
|||
|
|
GEnie address: NEWSIE
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Technomare"
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
I suppose most of us have our own "tech nightmares". In short,
|
|||
|
|
equipment that just doesn't do what it's supposed to do, or what we'd like
|
|||
|
|
it to do, which reminds me of a story I heard about a man who was told to
|
|||
|
|
"take the 5.25" floppy disk out of its jacket and insert it in the disk
|
|||
|
|
drive" and took the instructions a wee bit too literally: he ended up
|
|||
|
|
ripping the black cardboard part of the disk apart and taking the media
|
|||
|
|
itself -- that little circle of mylar that's inside the disk -- and
|
|||
|
|
inserting it into the drive.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Not me. I won't turn into one of those old gents who doesn't know
|
|||
|
|
quite what to do with the "business" end of a remote control, who literally
|
|||
|
|
couldn't program a VCR via an onscreen menu if his life depended on it.
|
|||
|
|
Why, I am part of the "hands-on" crowd, the group that solves problems with
|
|||
|
|
tech, and is constantly shepherding that other (shudder) group, the ones
|
|||
|
|
who don't know their azimuth adjustment from a hole in the ground.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Well (deadlines will oft make fools of mortal men), there _was_ that
|
|||
|
|
time when I was trying to obtain a decent setup with my video equipment.
|
|||
|
|
Let me warn the squeamish among you "hands-on" folks: This just about tops
|
|||
|
|
the guy I mentioned (the one who tried to insert Disk A in Drive A) in the
|
|||
|
|
paragraph above. And it was done with video gear.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It began the day I stood admiring our video equipment. I had recently
|
|||
|
|
purchased a Pioneer "combi" laser disc player and was in the process of
|
|||
|
|
merging with my Significant Other and her gaggle of VCRs.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
All that equipment, and a TV and a stereo system besides, sat on an
|
|||
|
|
industrial-strength stainless steel rack that could (literally) hold a
|
|||
|
|
Cessna power plant or three. My SO had been using the rack in the basement
|
|||
|
|
for storing heavy objects, and I was a little proud of myself for adapting
|
|||
|
|
it for use as a home entertainment center.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I was tired from having to schlepp all that stuff to the top of Mount
|
|||
|
|
Videorat, and was thinking about the task that lay before me: hooking up
|
|||
|
|
the mess.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
My SO, sensing my fatigue, offered to help. "I'll hook it up," she
|
|||
|
|
said. "You just sit there and think manly thoughts."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"I've got one now," I sneered. "How are you going to dub stereo
|
|||
|
|
movies from our laser discs to the SuperBeta VCR? And how are you going to
|
|||
|
|
dub stereo tapes from the SuperBeta to the linear stereo VHS job?"
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Can't you copy tapes in stereo this way?" she asked, innocently
|
|||
|
|
holding a coaxial cable.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Puh-leeze. We true videophiles would never ask such a question.
|
|||
|
|
Then again, if I'm a true videophile, why are we holding on to such low-end
|
|||
|
|
equipment? Ahh, no matter. The way is being made clear to me, even as I
|
|||
|
|
speak." My SO sat down and struck a match to a coffin nail.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"What do you have in mind, Swami, and how much is it going to cost us
|
|||
|
|
this time?"
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Sheesh. What I "had in mind" seemed perfectly reasonable to me. It
|
|||
|
|
would be a masterpiece of engineering: I was planning on connecting the
|
|||
|
|
"direct video and audio" inputs/outputs of my equipment in such a fashion
|
|||
|
|
that dubbing from one piece of equipment to any of the other five in the
|
|||
|
|
series would be possible. And using the direct inputs meant -- at least to
|
|||
|
|
this video slug -- that I would be getting a higher quality connection than
|
|||
|
|
if I had used the coax, and my stereo laser discs would be dubbed to both
|
|||
|
|
those stereo VCRs in stereo. The keystone of my hazy 'plan' was the RCA
|
|||
|
|
male-to-female (one male to two female) y-cable, which was available at the
|
|||
|
|
local Shadio Rack.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"This shouldn't cost me more than twenty bucks," I said.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Later . . . fifty bucks later, I came home with my kill: a pile of
|
|||
|
|
those cellophane and cardboard packages, complete with that sprayed- on
|
|||
|
|
odour de plastique that we have all come to love. I ripped them apart, and
|
|||
|
|
arranged the cables in neat rows.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"I think I should start with the laser disc player. The direct VIDEO
|
|||
|
|
OUT goes to the VIDEO IN of all the VCRs. That should require two
|
|||
|
|
y-cables. Or is it three?" My plan involved "Y-ing" those RCA y- cables.
|
|||
|
|
I connected the first piece of video equipment in the series to the second,
|
|||
|
|
then the second to the third. Then the first to the third. About then,
|
|||
|
|
Murphy's Law paid me a visit, as I was already running out of y cables, and
|
|||
|
|
my grand "setup" was well on its way to breaking some kind of record in
|
|||
|
|
pure complexity/stupidity. It had long ago gotten dark outside, and I
|
|||
|
|
rushed again to SR before they closed.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I came home, determined to solve my wiring dilemma. I even (gasp!)
|
|||
|
|
drew a diagram or two. That didn't help, either. The sheer complexity of
|
|||
|
|
what I was trying to do was beyond the scope of my now- seemingly feeble
|
|||
|
|
talents. And I was -- again -- out of y-cables. I stood, drenched in
|
|||
|
|
sweat, behind Mount Videorat, trying to 'picture' the setup in my mind.
|
|||
|
|
"It won't work," I realized. And I was right. I was trying to do the job
|
|||
|
|
of a $1,000 piece of video switching gear with $70 worth of wires, and had
|
|||
|
|
forgotten that there was a reason why such devices existed: because it was
|
|||
|
|
just about unfeasible to do it the "hard way".
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I was angry at myself, and literally felt like toppling the whole mess
|
|||
|
|
into a pile on the floor. I ripped out all those cables, and started
|
|||
|
|
again.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
My new plan was to wire all six units in series with coaxial cable,
|
|||
|
|
and come up with a much simpler way to dub between the stereo units in
|
|||
|
|
stereo. I was done a few minutes later.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I explained everything to my SO. We had a good laugh over it. "So.
|
|||
|
|
It's all hooked up now? Let's watch something on cable!"
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I turned the TV on, and watched about five seconds of the Evening
|
|||
|
|
News. Apparently, lots and lots of snow and herringbone patterns were
|
|||
|
|
"falling" in the CBS studios. It is said that a picture is worth a
|
|||
|
|
thousand words, but only one described this one: 'Mud'. "Noooooo!" I
|
|||
|
|
cried. I had used _so_ much coaxial cable to wire everything up that all
|
|||
|
|
that signal loss took its deadly toll on our already-poor cable signal.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"You watch TV," I snapped. I picked up a hand full of cables and
|
|||
|
|
handed them to her. "I'm going to bed!"
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
So now you've read how I shakily survived my technomare. By the way,
|
|||
|
|
most of the cables I bought are now in a laundry basket in the basement.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Contact me at my GEnie address (NEWSIE) and I'll tell you where to
|
|||
|
|
send _your_ diagrams. But please don't send any cables.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
///////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "...what the problem was REALLY trying to tell me was that /
|
|||
|
|
/ my 85MB Seagate was about to take a trip south. The erratic /
|
|||
|
|
/ reading was the first sign the thing was dying. The funeral /
|
|||
|
|
/ will be here in Georgia. Probably have the #@%!&* drive /
|
|||
|
|
/ cremated!" /
|
|||
|
|
///////////////////////////////////////////// D.STMARTIN ////
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[REF]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
REFLECTIONS /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Thinking Online Communications
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By Phil Shapiro
|
|||
|
|
[P.SHAPIRO1]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> UNDERSTANDING TELECOMMUNICATIONS <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MAGICAL COMMUNICATIONS The other day I paid a visit to the city public
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""" library to dig up some books about
|
|||
|
|
telecommunications. I've been an active telecommunications enthusiast for
|
|||
|
|
the past several years and my curiosity was getting the better of me.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As with most computer enthusiasts, I've got a passing acquaintance
|
|||
|
|
with most basic telecommunications concepts. But my understanding still
|
|||
|
|
remains at a superficial level. For a
|
|||
|
|
"FOR A LONG TIME I'VE HAD long time I've had a burning "curiosity
|
|||
|
|
A BURNING CURIOSITY TO FIND to find out more about these magical
|
|||
|
|
OUT MORE ABOUT THESE 'MAGICAL "packet switching systems" that allow
|
|||
|
|
PACKET SWITCHING SYSTEMS'..." people to place a local phone call to
|
|||
|
|
connect to a national telecommunications
|
|||
|
|
network. And I've always wanted to know more about how this process called
|
|||
|
|
"multiplexing" makes the packet switching systems work.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A computerized search of the library's holdings turned up about three
|
|||
|
|
dozen books dealing with telecommunications. As I wrote down the call
|
|||
|
|
numbers of these books, I couldn't help but think of my past experience
|
|||
|
|
trying to find books or magazine articles to explain the fundamental
|
|||
|
|
concepts of modern telecommunications.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
About one third of all such books were written before 1982, strongly
|
|||
|
|
suggesting that their contents are at least ten years out-dated. Major
|
|||
|
|
changes in the telecommunications industry have happened in the past ten
|
|||
|
|
years. Whatever was written about telecommunications before 1982,
|
|||
|
|
therefore, ought to be taken with a large grain of silicon.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Another third of all books about telecommunications are written
|
|||
|
|
primarily for third graders. These books cover the subject in such a
|
|||
|
|
simplistic manner that any child who has ever dialed a telephone is likely
|
|||
|
|
to be yawning before the close of the first chapter.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The last third of all books about telecommunications are written for
|
|||
|
|
graduate electrical engineering students. Identifying such books requires
|
|||
|
|
no special skill. One telling characteristic is that the preface of these
|
|||
|
|
books contain more schematic diagrams than English language sentences.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
So I was especially delighted to discover the book "Understanding
|
|||
|
|
Telecommunications," published by TAB Books in 1989. Written neither for
|
|||
|
|
third graders, nor for graduate electrical engineering students, the book
|
|||
|
|
explains all the basics of telecommunications theory and practice at a
|
|||
|
|
level that any typical college graduate could understand.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The book starts out with a concise yet comprehensive review of
|
|||
|
|
telecommunications history. Starting with Morse's telegraph, moving
|
|||
|
|
through Bell's phone, covering early radio and television, the transistor,
|
|||
|
|
and the earliest electronic computers. The author even sneaks in a few
|
|||
|
|
words about the reasons for establishing the Federal Communications
|
|||
|
|
Commission (FCC) in 1934.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The second chapter of the book logically follows from the first. This
|
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second chapter, "Electricity and Electronics," gives a solid explanation of
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the differences between direct current and alternating current. A
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discussion of the development vacuum tubes is accompanied by an informative
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illustration. Definitions of capacitors, transistors, and other electronic
|
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doodads are presented for you to nod your head in feigned acknowledgement.
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The third chapter, on "Computers," gives a good general grounding in
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basic computer operations and theory. Most interesting is the last section
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of the chapter which explains how computer technology has been incorporated
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into so many different facets of the national phone system. If you're
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already familiar with basic computer concepts, this chapter can easily be
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skipped over.
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Chapter 4, "Telephone Systems," does a great job in explaining about
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telephone switching equipment, the phone company's central office, the
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amplification and transmission of phone signals, private branch exchanges
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(PBX's), and the movement towards digitalization of the entire phone
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system. What makes the author's explanations so compelling is that he
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places concepts in their historical perspective. So before explaining
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about the complexities of modern telephone switching systems, he first
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explains about the early manual switchboards. The end result is that you
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learn historical context as well as modern developments.
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The fifth chapter, "Communication with Computers," explains such
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things as modems, ASCII, protocols, and error detection techniques. Good
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for beginners to learn about. Eminently skippable for the rest of us.
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The sixth chapter, "Radio," did not hold my attention that much.
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Sure, the new mobile radio and cellular phone systems are interesting. But
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radio theory remains one of the most colossally boring subjects ever
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conjured up by the human mind. If radio is not your bag, it's easy enough
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to flip over to the next chapter of the book.
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The seventh chapter gives a good overview of the technical aspects of
|
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television. Compared to radio theory, television theory is almost
|
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interesting. But the real goodies can be found in chapter 8, "Long
|
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Distance Telecommunications."
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This chapter starts out discussing "transmission mediums," including
|
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copper wire, coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, and air. The fascinating
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historical treatment of the subject continues on in this chapter. So you
|
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can find out about how MCI gained permission from the FCC to build a
|
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microwave radio system between St. Louis and Chicago, thereby setting off a
|
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whole series of events leading to the breakup of AT&T. You can learn about
|
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WATS systems and INWATS systems. You can revisit multiplexing (packet
|
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switching) from a data communications viewpoint.
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Ronald R. Thomas, who authored Understanding Telecommunications, has a
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natural and breezy writing style that illuminates the most complicated of
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subjects. In this book he achieves the unique feat of making serious
|
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telecommunications subjects intelligible for the general reading public.
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Can't wait to hear about what new books Thomas may be working on. It
|
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sure would be interesting to learn more about the behind the scene action
|
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|
|
at the major national information services. A behind-the-scenes report
|
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|
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about GEnie, America Online, and CompuServe would make for a delectable
|
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read. With the cooperation of these services, such a book would not be
|
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|
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difficult to construct. And with hundreds of thousands of people now on the
|
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national information services, the market for such a book would be quite
|
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large.
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Understanding Telecommunications
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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By Ronald R. Thomas, TAB Books, 1989,
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243 pages, $24.95.
|
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ISBN 0-8306-9229-0 (hardcover)
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ISBN 0-8306-3229-8 (paperback)
|
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|
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Available From
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""""""""""""""
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TAB Books, Inc.
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Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17924-0214
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[*][*][*]
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[The author takes a strong interest in the social dimensions
|
|||
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of communications technology. He can be reached on GEnie at:
|
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p.shapiro1; on America Online at: pshapiro; and on Internet
|
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at: pshapiro@pro-novapple.cts.com]
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///////////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
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/ "This unterminated clock acted like an antenna and picked up on /
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/ the now higher RF from the 030, the result...random changes in /
|
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/ the color palette. Interesting effect, but QUITE disturbing to /
|
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/ someone trying to get work done." /
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////////////////////////////////////////////////// J.ALLEN27 ////
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[EOA]
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[SOF]//////////////////////////////
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SOFTVIEW /
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/////////////////////////////////
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BIG Text Machine Review
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By David Hindman
|
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|
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[D.HINDMAN2]
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>>> BIG TEXT MACHINE <<<
|
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|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
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|
|||
|
|
Recently, InCider/A+ Magazine published a brief story about Phil
|
|||
|
|
Shapiro and his company Balloons Software (Sept '92). In it was mentioned
|
|||
|
|
one of his products called Big Text Machine. While InCider/A+ concentrated
|
|||
|
|
on Phil, his company and the work he did with Bernie Benson in creating Big
|
|||
|
|
Text Machine, they said little about the actual program. I hope to tell
|
|||
|
|
you more about BTM than they did (with no disrespect for the people who put
|
|||
|
|
it together).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To put it simply, BTM is a text-file displayer that will run on
|
|||
|
|
virtually every Apple II, as well as Laser and Franklin clones, and the Mac
|
|||
|
|
LC II, with the IIe emulation card installed. The one difference in BTM
|
|||
|
|
from other text display utilities is that BTM uses letters that are almost
|
|||
|
|
1/2 inch tall, hence the word "big" in the title.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The program comes on your choice of 5.25" or 3.5" disks that contain
|
|||
|
|
the main program, some sample text files, and an auto-display program disk.
|
|||
|
|
The main program starts out with a big text menu to select any of the
|
|||
|
|
following functions: read a file, run a demo, online help, printer on/off,
|
|||
|
|
other activities, and a quit option.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
When BTM reads a text file on your disk, it displays it in large
|
|||
|
|
letters on the screen. It then awaits a keypress before showing the next
|
|||
|
|
page. The demo program shows how different options set in "other
|
|||
|
|
activities" look, to give you an idea of how you might wish to customize
|
|||
|
|
the program to your own tastes. Color, font style, and the "ruling" lines
|
|||
|
|
can be set to the user's wishes. The online help is very good, which
|
|||
|
|
almost makes the instruction manual unnecessary. There is also a print
|
|||
|
|
option that allows a hardcopy to be generated that is similar to the text
|
|||
|
|
display on the screen. Quit lets you exit BTM and back to your program
|
|||
|
|
selector or ProDOS.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The manual is well written, but anybody that's read anything Phil
|
|||
|
|
Shapiro has written would expect that from him. The book goes to great
|
|||
|
|
lengths to explain not only how to work BTM, but how to prepare text files
|
|||
|
|
for use on BTM with AppleWorks and FrEdWriter. There are also suggestions
|
|||
|
|
for uses of BTM throughout the book. Explanations on how to use BTM from a
|
|||
|
|
minimal one-drive system up to a system with a hard disk drive are
|
|||
|
|
explained in plain English and with great detail. You can mix and match
|
|||
|
|
3.5 drives, 5.25 drives and hard drives all with ease.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As for uses, that is only limited by one's imagination. Teachers
|
|||
|
|
could use it in a classroom situation to display a story to students, or
|
|||
|
|
have it flash letters and word examples on the screen. These files don't
|
|||
|
|
have to be limited to just English, either. Four foreign character fonts
|
|||
|
|
are also available, so accented letters can be displayed as well. This
|
|||
|
|
could make some interesting "flashcard" screens for other language classes.
|
|||
|
|
Visually impaired people could use BTM to read text files with less
|
|||
|
|
difficulty. If you're imagination needs to be jump-started on other uses,
|
|||
|
|
Phil's got lots of ideas available in the manual.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
On one of the other disks included with BTM is the Auto Display
|
|||
|
|
program. This does the same thing that the "regular" BTM does, but instead
|
|||
|
|
of pressing a key, the screen is displayed for a moment or two, then the
|
|||
|
|
next screen is displayed. All you have to do to run the auto program is
|
|||
|
|
put in the auto disk and boot it. The auto program uses a text file named
|
|||
|
|
"auto.display" on the auto disk. To change the text, simply save (or
|
|||
|
|
"print" if using AppleWorks) a text file to the Auto disk and name it
|
|||
|
|
"auto.display". Just as an example of a use here would be a monitor
|
|||
|
|
placed in a store window could run information across the screen to help
|
|||
|
|
sell whatever products are being peddled (I stole that one from the manual,
|
|||
|
|
by the way).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The third "extra" disk included in BTM is a sample file disk. This
|
|||
|
|
disk is crammed full of interesting, amusing, informative and well-written
|
|||
|
|
stories covering a wide range of subjects. There was almost as much time
|
|||
|
|
put into the sample files disk as there was into the code for programming
|
|||
|
|
the BTM program. These are also summarized briefly in an appendix in the
|
|||
|
|
manual. Not only do they give you a start on BTM (as well as a few files
|
|||
|
|
to play with), they're darn good reading as well. I don't run around
|
|||
|
|
looking for things to read on my computer, but they are well written and
|
|||
|
|
entertaining and they deserve a plug here.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
When I first looked at the manual for BTM, I was a bit surprised by
|
|||
|
|
its thickness. Being the typical user, I'd already booted the program up
|
|||
|
|
and played with it for awhile before checking the manual to see what I'd
|
|||
|
|
missed. About half the manual deals with running BTM, and making text
|
|||
|
|
files with AppleWorks and FrEdWriter. One section even goes into detail
|
|||
|
|
about different versions of AppleWorks and the subtle differences between
|
|||
|
|
them when it comes to text file manipulation. The other half of the manual
|
|||
|
|
contains appendixes that cover a wide range of topics. There's plenty of
|
|||
|
|
information here to help the non-technical user out if he or she gets in a
|
|||
|
|
jam. There are many hints listed that don't necessarily pertain to BTM's
|
|||
|
|
operation, but are good guidelines for getting better use out of your II.
|
|||
|
|
The appendixes include a ProDOS summary, "text massaging" (or getting what
|
|||
|
|
you want and how you want it on the screen with BTM), transferring text
|
|||
|
|
files from one type computer to another, and recommended monitors. There
|
|||
|
|
is also an appendix appealing to unpublished writers of children's stories,
|
|||
|
|
promising a chance at getting their stories seen as freeware.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Balloons Software puts a lot of TLC into their products. Version
|
|||
|
|
2.0's manual states that there is going to be improvements or add-on
|
|||
|
|
features in future versions of BTM, so this program won't grow stagnant
|
|||
|
|
from lack of customer support. Phil is available on several online
|
|||
|
|
services, and welcomes feedback and provides customer support as well.
|
|||
|
|
Although designed with even the old IIs in mind, BTM will run fine on a GS
|
|||
|
|
or Mac LC (with a IIe emulator card installed) just as easily. That's more
|
|||
|
|
than can be said for a lot of the software coming out now for computers in
|
|||
|
|
general. Putting emphasis on sound, flashy graphics, and mega programs to
|
|||
|
|
do little more than drill-and-practice children seem to be the big push
|
|||
|
|
now. But letting a child write his or her own story to a floppy and then
|
|||
|
|
have it displayed in big letters on the screen for all to see might be more
|
|||
|
|
incentive to be creative than having the computer talk to the kid. With
|
|||
|
|
the wide compatibility of the software to existing machines in our schools,
|
|||
|
|
and the simple, friendly interface of the program, Big Text Machine would
|
|||
|
|
be a good product to recommend to a parent-teacher organization or school
|
|||
|
|
board to purchase for use in your child's school.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Big Text Machine retails for $35, and lab packs are available for
|
|||
|
|
$75. If you act before Feb 28, 1993, your school can get a site license
|
|||
|
|
for just $65, and there's no restriction on the number of computers being
|
|||
|
|
currently used at the school. Here's where to order:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Balloons Software
|
|||
|
|
5201 Chevy Chase Pkwy, NW
|
|||
|
|
Washington, DC 20015-1747
|
|||
|
|
(202) 244-2223
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GEnie mail address: P.shapiro1
|
|||
|
|
America Online: pshapiroo
|
|||
|
|
Internet: pshapiro@pro-novapple.cts.com
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "Topic police warning! ;-) This is getting old. ;-)" /
|
|||
|
|
//////////////////////////////////////// POTECHIN ////
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
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|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[MOO]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
CowTOONS! /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Moooooo Fun!
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""" (__)
|
|||
|
|
By Mike White (oo)
|
|||
|
|
[M.WHITE25] /""\+===\/===+
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ \ \| | ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ \ || || ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~~ \~~ || ~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \ ~~\ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~
|
|||
|
|
~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ \__/ ~~ ~~~~~~
|
|||
|
|
~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~~ ~` ~~ `
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
" Cowabunga "
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~
|
|||
|
|
(__)
|
|||
|
|
(oo)
|
|||
|
|
/-------\/ <\/> <\/> <\/>
|
|||
|
|
/ | || oo oo oo
|
|||
|
|
* ||----|| (\/)* (\/)* (\/)*
|
|||
|
|
~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
" Hugh Heifer "
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|||
|
|
(and Three Bunnies)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
~\________/~ CowTOONS? Mike White took us up on
|
|||
|
|
(oo) our offer and sent in this month's
|
|||
|
|
/-------\/ CowTOONS selections.
|
|||
|
|
/ | |+
|
|||
|
|
* ||----|| If you have an idea for a CowTOON, we
|
|||
|
|
~~ ~~ would like to see it. And, if we pick
|
|||
|
|
"Sister Mary Angus" your CowTOON for publishing in GEnieLamp
|
|||
|
|
we will credit your account with 2 hours
|
|||
|
|
of GEnie non-prime time!
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[DIG]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
DIGITAL DIVERSIONS /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Walking In A Minefield
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By Mel Fowler
|
|||
|
|
[MELSOFT]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ADDICTIVE? YOU BET! MineField GS was ported from the IBM Windows format
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""" by Aaron Taurog I have no idea what the IBM version
|
|||
|
|
looks like but I cannot imagine that it could look and play any better than
|
|||
|
|
MineField for the Apple IIGS. This game is in the addictive category and
|
|||
|
|
can be most challenging.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The object of this logic game is to uncover all the squares in a grid
|
|||
|
|
that do NOT have mines in them and to FLAG all the squares that have mines
|
|||
|
|
in them. You start out with a blank grid of gray boxes. A number of mines,
|
|||
|
|
20 in the EASY mode, 40 in NORMAL, and 90 in WELL DONE, are randomly
|
|||
|
|
distributed.There is also a Custom mode where you decide the grid size and
|
|||
|
|
number of mines.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As you uncover a box you can have one of three results. (1) You may
|
|||
|
|
uncover a blank box which means there are no mines present in the adjacent
|
|||
|
|
boxes. This will reveal all the boxes around the blank box. (2) You may
|
|||
|
|
uncover a mine and the game ends, or, (3) you may uncover a box with a
|
|||
|
|
number inside. The number may be from 1 to 8 and tells you how many mines
|
|||
|
|
are located in the boxes adjacent to the box you just uncovered. The
|
|||
|
|
adjacent boxes are defined as pictured here.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
_________________________
|
|||
|
|
I 1 I 2 I 3 I
|
|||
|
|
I_______I_______I_______I
|
|||
|
|
I 4 I I 5 I
|
|||
|
|
I_______I_______I_______I
|
|||
|
|
I 6 I 7 I 8 I
|
|||
|
|
I_______I_______I_______I
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
By using the numbers in the boxes you can use a process of elimination
|
|||
|
|
to locate the mines. The example below shows how you can locate mines by
|
|||
|
|
using this process. In the third box in the second row there is a 1
|
|||
|
|
indicating that there is one mine located in an adjacent box. Since there
|
|||
|
|
is only one box adjacent that has not been uncovered, it must have a mine
|
|||
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in it (located in the fourth box in the first row). Change the cursor from
|
|||
|
|
pointer to FLAG by pressing the TAB key and leave a flag in the fourth box
|
|||
|
|
in the first row. The fourth box in the second row also has a 1 located in
|
|||
|
|
it and since we know that the fourth box in the first row is a mine and it
|
|||
|
|
is adjacent to the fourth box in the second row, the 1 is satisfied and
|
|||
|
|
there can not be any mines in the other adjacent boxes (indicated by No
|
|||
|
|
Mine).
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
The first box in the second row has a 3 in it which means there are
|
|||
|
|
three mine in the adjacent boxes. Since there are only three box that have
|
|||
|
|
not been uncovered, all three must have mines in them. This also satisfies
|
|||
|
|
the first box in rows one and three. This means that there can not be any
|
|||
|
|
mines in the other boxes adjacent to those boxes. The boxes that cannot be
|
|||
|
|
eliminated are marked with question marks. By using this method you can
|
|||
|
|
identify and FLAG all the mines and win the game. Your score is determined
|
|||
|
|
by the time it takes you to solve the game. The lower the score the better.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
NONE NONE NONE ? ? ?
|
|||
|
|
________________________
|
|||
|
|
MINE I 2 I 1 I 2 I MINE No Mine
|
|||
|
|
I_______I_______I_______I________
|
|||
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MINE I 3 I I 1 I 1 I No Mine
|
|||
|
|
I_______I_______I_______I_______I
|
|||
|
|
MINE I 2 I I I 1 I No Mine
|
|||
|
|
I_______I_______I_______I_______I
|
|||
|
|
NONE I 1 I I I 2 I MINE
|
|||
|
|
I_______I_______I_______I_______I
|
|||
|
|
NONE I 2 I 1 I 1 I 2 I MINE
|
|||
|
|
I_______I_______I_______I_______I
|
|||
|
|
? ? ? NONE NONE NONE
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
You are often faced with situations where you can not determine the
|
|||
|
|
exact location of the next mine and then it becomes a guessing game.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
You can use the "Command" key to start a new game and it will uncover
|
|||
|
|
all the blank boxes around the one you select. Command-N will start a new
|
|||
|
|
game, so you can hold the Command key down while start a new game and if
|
|||
|
|
you fined a mine just press "N". What you want to start a new game is
|
|||
|
|
like the example above. You can then start out knowing the locations of
|
|||
|
|
some mines.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you get frustrated you can choose "Safe Corner" from the Game Menu.
|
|||
|
|
Two of the four corners with have an area of blank boxes. Of course you do
|
|||
|
|
not know which of the corners is safe.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There is also a MineField NDA game. The object is a little different
|
|||
|
|
than MineField GS in that you try to get from the left side of the grid to
|
|||
|
|
the right side without hitting a mine. You use the same elimination
|
|||
|
|
process however. Look for "HELP" under the Game Menu for instructions.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Thank you Aaron for this great game. You show a real talent for
|
|||
|
|
porting programs from other platforms to the IIGS. We are looking forward
|
|||
|
|
to your next endeavor. Users of Minefields GS are urged to show their
|
|||
|
|
support by sending in the very modest shareware fee.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
MineField GS
|
|||
|
|
by Aaron Taurog
|
|||
|
|
Shareware $10.00
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
File name: Minefield. bxy File Number: 19444
|
|||
|
|
Size: 40704 bytes Accesses: 276
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "Unless you have all 8 VBL slots full, you probably WON'T see /
|
|||
|
|
/ a problem with 6.0.4. If you DO, and try to use the cache... /
|
|||
|
|
/ Well, it isn't a sight for the squeemish..." /
|
|||
|
|
///////////////////////////////////////////////// NTACTONE ////
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[LIB]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
THE ONLINE LIBRARY /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Yours For The Downloading
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By Mel Fowler
|
|||
|
|
[MELSOFT]
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
>>> TrueType FONTS...INTERESTED? <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
SO WHERE ARE THEY? With the advent of Pointless from WestCode, Apple
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""" IIGS users have been looking high and low for
|
|||
|
|
collections of TrueType fonts. Well we have a great collection of TrueType
|
|||
|
|
fonts right here in the Apple II Library. In fact there are some 55
|
|||
|
|
individual fonts that have been uploaded into individual files. In
|
|||
|
|
addition, the National Appleworks User's Group (NAUG) has uploaded 20 disks
|
|||
|
|
of TrueType fonts. The Apple II community on GEnie would like to take this
|
|||
|
|
opportunity to thank NAUG for their time and effort in uploading such a
|
|||
|
|
vast collection.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You may wonder why I entitled this article "TrueType Fonts And How To
|
|||
|
|
Download Them"? Well with all these TrueType fonts available within the
|
|||
|
|
Apple II Library, how do you ensure that you do not waste time and money
|
|||
|
|
getting duplicate fonts? That is what this article will attempt to answer.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Fortunately NAUG included an Appleworks database listing all the files
|
|||
|
|
on each of their TrueType font disks. I would recommend that you download
|
|||
|
|
this database as a first step. Next choose menu item number 3, Search the
|
|||
|
|
Library. For the keyword, type in "TrueType". This will result in a
|
|||
|
|
library listing of all the individual TrueType font files and the NAUG disk
|
|||
|
|
files. (Be sure to turn on your capture buffer so you can save this list to
|
|||
|
|
disk.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You now have a database of the NAUG disks and a list of the individual
|
|||
|
|
files. Simply compare the individual TrueType listing with the NAUG
|
|||
|
|
database and eliminate the individual fonts that are included in the
|
|||
|
|
database. This will give you a single list and you will have eliminated
|
|||
|
|
any duplication. The fun now begins as you download the 20 NAUG disk files
|
|||
|
|
and those individual TrueType font files that were not included in the NAUG
|
|||
|
|
collection.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now that you have all the NAUG disk files and individual TrueType
|
|||
|
|
files downloaded and unpacked, you may want to get your collection into
|
|||
|
|
some kind of order. As the Apple IIGS disk librarian in my local user
|
|||
|
|
group, this was my next concern. If you have a hard drive it is not to
|
|||
|
|
much of a chore to get your collection into alphabetical order. I just
|
|||
|
|
opened temporary folders for each letter of the alphabet. Each TrueType
|
|||
|
|
font disk was then brought up on the Finder and all the "A" fonts were
|
|||
|
|
copied into the "A" folder, all the "B" fonts copied into the "B" folder
|
|||
|
|
and so on. When my hard drive was close to being full, I would change the
|
|||
|
|
"View" to "By Name" on each font folder and copy all the "A" fonts back to
|
|||
|
|
disk starting at the top of the directory. When all the "A" fonts were
|
|||
|
|
copied back to disk, the "A" folder was trashed thus making room for
|
|||
|
|
another folder. The "B" folder was then copied back to disk in the same
|
|||
|
|
way and then erased. You now have a well organized collection of TrueType
|
|||
|
|
fonts.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I even took it a step further by printing out a hardcopy sample of
|
|||
|
|
each font for each disk. Our Special Interest Group (SIG) was very
|
|||
|
|
impressed with the collection and with the sample printouts they could
|
|||
|
|
easily select which TrueType disks they wanted.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Good luck in getting your Apple IIGS TrueType Font collection and I
|
|||
|
|
hope this article will help. -Melsoft
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[Melsoft is the GEnie user name of Mel Fowler, the Apple IIGS
|
|||
|
|
disk librarian of the Honolulu Apple Users Society. Mel writes
|
|||
|
|
regularly for GEnieLamp about the public domain and shareware
|
|||
|
|
offering in the Apple II Roundtable on GEnie.]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
//////////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "And I was up a couple of hours before I realized that it's my /
|
|||
|
|
/ 44th birthday! I think I should just IGN PER this topic while /
|
|||
|
|
/ I'm still in a good mood. It's been so long since I've had /
|
|||
|
|
/ anything to feel positive about, I should try to make it last /
|
|||
|
|
/ and let the naysayers have this topic to themselves." /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////////////////// J.EIDSVOOG1 ////
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[ELS]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp ELSEWHERE /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Around GEnie: Internet!
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> GEnieLamp IBM On Internet <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
These files are available via anonymous FTP from WSMR-
|
|||
|
|
SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (192.88.110.20) or mirror sites OAK.Oakland.Edu
|
|||
|
|
(141.210.10.117), wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4), ftp.uu.net
|
|||
|
|
(137.39.1.9), nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100), src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.3.7)
|
|||
|
|
nic.switch.ch (130.59.1.40) or archie.au (139.130.4.6), and by e-mail
|
|||
|
|
through the BITNET/EARN file servers, or by uucp from UUNET's
|
|||
|
|
1-900-GOT-SRCS. See UUNET file uunet!~/info/archive-help for details.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NOTE: Type B is Binary; Type A is ASCII
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Directory PD1:<MSDOS.GENIE>
|
|||
|
|
Filename Type Length Date Description
|
|||
|
|
==============================================
|
|||
|
|
ILMP0492.ZIP B 49272 920908 GEnieLamp IBM Online Magazine (Apr 1992)
|
|||
|
|
ILMP0592.ZIP B 44418 920908 GEnieLamp IBM Online Magazine (May 1992)
|
|||
|
|
ILMP0692.ZIP B 32725 920908 GEnieLamp IBM Online Magazine (Jun 1992)
|
|||
|
|
ILMP0792.ZIP B 35730 920908 GEnieLamp IBM Online Magazine (Jul 1992)
|
|||
|
|
ILMP0892.ZIP B 52097 920908 GEnieLamp IBM Online Magazine (Aug 1992)
|
|||
|
|
ILMP0992.ZIP B 59842 920908 GEnieLamp IBM Online Magazine (Sep 1992)
|
|||
|
|
ILMP1092.ZIP B 74339 920930 GEnieLamp IBM Online Magazine (Oct 1992)
|
|||
|
|
ILMP1192.ZIP B 77166 921107 GEnieLamp IBM Online Magazine (Nov 1992)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> FINDING the Files mentioned in this month's LIVEWIRE Magazine <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Several files are mentioned as great starting places for information
|
|||
|
|
about the Internet and GEnie's part in it. As a convenience to the Unix RT
|
|||
|
|
participants we have made these available in 3 different forms: Text form,
|
|||
|
|
Unix Compress form, and ZIP form. The file names and numbers are listed
|
|||
|
|
below:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Description Name Text ZIP Unix
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
How to find College E-Mail addresses 3625 4361 3512
|
|||
|
|
Bibliography of Internet Info FYI 3 4365 4364 3529
|
|||
|
|
New Internet User Questions FYI 4 4366 4367 3530
|
|||
|
|
Experienced Internet Questions FYI 7 4368 4369 3533
|
|||
|
|
Who's Who on the Internet FYI 9 4370 4371 3535
|
|||
|
|
Gold in the Internet FYI10 4363 4362 3536
|
|||
|
|
ZEN and the Art of the Internet ZEN 3624 3623 3321
|
|||
|
|
(The Unix compressed version of ZEN requires a PostScript printer.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Other files about the Internet can be found by searching for
|
|||
|
|
"INTERNET" while in the Unix libraries on page 160.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT GEnie's INTERNET GATEWAY PRICING <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The pricing for GEnie's Internet gateway changed after GEnie LiveWire
|
|||
|
|
Magazine went to print. The new pricing can be found on page 207, and in
|
|||
|
|
the file GENIE-INTERNET.INFO #4331. In summary, there is no longer a
|
|||
|
|
monthly $9.95 fee but a one-time $2 fee for registration with the Internet
|
|||
|
|
gateway, and the per-piece price has been reduced from 40 cents to 30 cents
|
|||
|
|
per 5,000 characters or part thereof, and applies to messages both sent and
|
|||
|
|
received via the Internet gateway.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
CANADIAN INTERNET GATEWAY ANNOUNCED Today, GEnie announced the expansion
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" of its Public Beta Test of the GEnie
|
|||
|
|
to Internet Gateway for Canadian members of GEnie. The Canadian pricing is
|
|||
|
|
as follows:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
$3.00 one time registration fee
|
|||
|
|
$.40 cost for each 5,000 characters or portion thereof on
|
|||
|
|
each inbound or outbound message.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The beta test for Canadian users will be opened on Tuesday, DECEMBER
|
|||
|
|
8, 1992. The keyword remains INTERNET, and can be gotten to on that date
|
|||
|
|
by typing INTERNET or moving to page 207, or by selecting the Internet
|
|||
|
|
option on the Unix RT menu.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
For information about the Internet, select item 5 from the Unix
|
|||
|
|
RoundTable menu. As mentioned in this month's GEnie LiveWire Magazine
|
|||
|
|
these files are good starter files for learning all about the Internet.
|
|||
|
|
And this month's GEnie LiveWire Magazine contains a coupon good for one
|
|||
|
|
free hour in the Unix RT - a good chance to start learning for almost
|
|||
|
|
nothing.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
//////////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ "Ross Perot will be by shortly to point to a graph showing the /
|
|||
|
|
/ amount of national debt divided by the number of inactive /
|
|||
|
|
/ customers counted by online services :)" /
|
|||
|
|
///////////////////////////////////////////////// P.COLLINS ////
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[PDQ]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
PD_QUICKVIEW /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Eamon, Part II
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By Darrel Raines
|
|||
|
|
[D.RAINES]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
YOURS FOR THE ASKING! Eamon is a Freeware gaming system allowing a
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""" single player to experience a Dungeons and Dragons
|
|||
|
|
(D&D)(TM) type of environment on any Apple II computer. In a previous
|
|||
|
|
Apple II Gaming article, I described a typical scenario that a player might
|
|||
|
|
encounter in the world of Eamon. This article will examine how to set up
|
|||
|
|
Eamon on your floppy or hard drive system. We will also run through a
|
|||
|
|
sample dialogue for a first-time player. You should download one of the
|
|||
|
|
two files listed at the end of this article to get started. Each contains
|
|||
|
|
a number of good scenarios and a complete set of the basic files, called
|
|||
|
|
the Main Hall. There are two versions of the Main Hall available: Text or
|
|||
|
|
Graphics. The graphics version is more enjoyable and has more options, but
|
|||
|
|
it is less stable. There are also a few character editing programs
|
|||
|
|
available that you may find useful.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Setup If you wish to play Eamon from a hard drive, the setup is
|
|||
|
|
""""""""" quite simple. Create a directory somewhere that you want to
|
|||
|
|
store all of the various Eamon files. Place each of the basic files in
|
|||
|
|
this directory including the Main Hall and character files. You can then
|
|||
|
|
store each of the scenarios as a subdirectory under this main directory.
|
|||
|
|
The name of the subdirectory should indicate the name that you will use to
|
|||
|
|
identify the scenario. Store all of the files associated with each
|
|||
|
|
scenario under the appropriate subdirectory. Scenario names will
|
|||
|
|
automatically appear when prompted for the adventure area. This setup will
|
|||
|
|
avoid confusion and directory listings with hundreds of entries.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you wish to play Eamon from a floppy drive, the setup is equally
|
|||
|
|
simple. Create a disk that will serve as a boot disk and Main Hall area.
|
|||
|
|
Place each of the basic files on this disk including the Main Hall and
|
|||
|
|
character files. Each of the scenarios should be stored on separate disks.
|
|||
|
|
The title of the disk should indicate the name that you will use to
|
|||
|
|
identify the scenario. Store all of the files associated with each
|
|||
|
|
scenario on the appropriate disk. Scenario names will automatically appear
|
|||
|
|
when you place the disk in the drive (when prompted for the adventure
|
|||
|
|
area). This setup will avoid confusion and each disk will contain a
|
|||
|
|
separate scenario.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you have followed the instructions listed above, then you are
|
|||
|
|
ready to start up Applesoft Basic (Basic.System). Move to the directory
|
|||
|
|
(or disk) with the Main Hall and run Startup. You may eventually choose to
|
|||
|
|
start by running the Main.Hall program. The next thing that you know, you
|
|||
|
|
will be playing Eamon!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Play When a person first starts up the Eamon program, he is faced
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"""""""" with a desk and the imposing question of "What is your name".
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Since our typical player has never used Eamon before, he/she is free to
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choose any name that they want. It is unlikely that the new name will have
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ever been used before. Therefore, the gatekeeper will ask if you want to
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create a new character. The correct answer is "yes".
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The next few questions will help determine the traits of the new
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character. Dice will be rolled to assign values to each character trait.
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It is important to hold out for reasonable values in each category. A
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value of 10 for each trait would be a minimum with some traits reaching 17
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or higher. You may find it difficult to survive with much less ability.
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The next order of business will be to equip yourself for battle. You
|
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should be able to purchase leather armor and a sword to begin with. If you
|
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can get a shield also, then do so. The first adventure that you pursue
|
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will help finance further wardrobe purchases. Be sure to arm yourself and
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put on the armor after it is paid for.
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If you decide to download and play the graphical main hall, there are
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other shops available. I don't recommend doing business with them until
|
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after you have tried the first adventure. A note is appropriate here
|
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concerning the various scenarios. The key to Eamon is the flexibility of
|
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the gaming system. Every person who writes a game for the Eamon system is
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given total freedom to create whatever type of world he/she can dream up.
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This can also lead to chaos. Files can get mixed up, weapons may be
|
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inappropriate for certain scenarios, directories can become unmanageable,
|
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etc. All of these problems have been solved to some extent in the modern
|
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world of Eamon. Each separate scenario is given its own subdirectory under
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the main Eamon directory. Any files needed by that scenario must be
|
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contained in the subdirectory.
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Every new character should start with the Beginner's Cave. This
|
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simple and not-to-dangerous adventure will get you started and produce
|
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reasonable gold and weapons. To choose a scenario, the new character must
|
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exit the main hall. This will bring up the prompt asking for the scenario
|
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that the character wishes to pursue. A listing of the various
|
|||
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subdirectories can be obtained by pressing the return key when prompted.
|
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Once the new character has selected the Beginner's Cave, the scene
|
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will be set by some introductory text and the adventure will begin! A
|
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question mark (?) will bring up a list of the commands that the current
|
|||
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scenario understands. The inventory command (I) will list the items
|
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available to the character. The new character should attempt to explore
|
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the entire cave before returning to the Main Hall. If a character is
|
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unable to finish the Beginner's Cave in one outing, then the rest of the
|
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|
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Eamon scenarios will be much too difficult to attempt. I will leave the
|
|||
|
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budding Eamon game player with one final word of advice: Read descriptions
|
|||
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completely and look for hints in the wording of those descriptions.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
With this hint and the trusty question mark (?), the reader should be
|
|||
|
|
able to start discovering the wonderful world of Eamon on their own.
|
|||
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|
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No. File Name Type Address YYMMDD Bytes Access Lib
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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16728 BEST.EAMONS.BXY X T.ZUCHOWSKI 910929 348544 100 36
|
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Desc: An incredible role-play experience!
|
|||
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16750 STARTER.KIT.BXY X A2.DEAN 911002 331008 160 36
|
|||
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Desc: Very Best role playing system!
|
|||
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|
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Author Darrel Raines [D.RAINES] welcomes any feedback or comments via
|
|||
|
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"""""" electronic mail to the listed user name.
|
|||
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|
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|
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//////////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
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/ "This is supposed to be a topic for zaniness to reign supreme! /
|
|||
|
|
/ You know, swinging in the rafters with household appliances /
|
|||
|
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/ and everything. This place is almost becoming -mundane-. /
|
|||
|
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/ The PEZ Dispenser is not pleased." /
|
|||
|
|
//////////////////////////////////////////////// R.MARTIN22 ////
|
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|
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[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[AII]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
APPLE II /
|
|||
|
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/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Apple II History, Part 7
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By Steven Weyhrich
|
|||
|
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[S.WEYHRICH]
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
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>>> APPLE II HISTORY <<<
|
|||
|
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""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
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Compiled and written by Steven Weyhrich
|
|||
|
|
(C) Copyright 1991, Zonker Software
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
(PART 7 -- THE APPLE IIE)
|
|||
|
|
[v1.1 :: 12 Dec 91]
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
INTRODUCTION With the advent of the Apple IIe, a significant event
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""" occurred in the life of the Apple II line. Realizing that
|
|||
|
|
this computer was NOT going to go away, Apple finally realized that it
|
|||
|
|
needed to improve its four-year-old design and bring it out of the 1970's
|
|||
|
|
in which it was born. The IIe's keyboard was influenced by that of the
|
|||
|
|
Apple III, and it is appropriate to take a brief look at that computer's
|
|||
|
|
development and problems to see why the Apple IIe came to exist at all.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
PRELUDE: THE APPLE III PROJECT As we continue our travels examining the
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" history of the Apple II, let's fine tune
|
|||
|
|
the time-machine card on our souped-up Apple II to concentrate specifically
|
|||
|
|
on the next version of the II, the IIe. As before, just accelerate the
|
|||
|
|
microprocessor speed to 88 MHz, and watch out for the digital fire-trails!
|
|||
|
|
Destination: 1982.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Between the years 1979 and 1983, although no new versions of the Apple
|
|||
|
|
II were released, it enjoyed a broad popularity and annually increasing
|
|||
|
|
sales. The open architecture of the computer, with its fully described
|
|||
|
|
hardware and firmware function via the Reference Manual, made it appealing
|
|||
|
|
both to hardware and software hackers. Third-party companies designed
|
|||
|
|
cards to plug into the internal slots, and their function varied from
|
|||
|
|
making it possible to display and use 80-column text, to clocks and cards
|
|||
|
|
allowing the Apple II to control a variety of external devices. During
|
|||
|
|
this time there was also an explosion of new software written for this
|
|||
|
|
easily expandable machine, from the realm of business (VisiCalc and other
|
|||
|
|
spreadsheet clones), to utilities, to games of all types. Each month a
|
|||
|
|
host of new products would be available for those who wanted to find more
|
|||
|
|
things to do with their computer, and the Apple II was finding a place in
|
|||
|
|
the home, the classroom, and the office.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
At Apple Computer, Inc., however, the Apple II was not viewed with the
|
|||
|
|
same degree of loyalty. By September 1979 the Apple II had continued to be
|
|||
|
|
a sales leader. However, few at Apple believed that the II could continue
|
|||
|
|
to be a best seller for more than another year or two. Since Apple
|
|||
|
|
Computer, Inc. was a business, and not just a vehicle for selling the Apple
|
|||
|
|
II computer, they began to enlarge the engineering department to begin
|
|||
|
|
designing new products.<1> These new design efforts had begun as far back
|
|||
|
|
as late 1978. Their first effort was an enhanced Apple II that used some
|
|||
|
|
custom chips, but that project was never finished. They also began work on
|
|||
|
|
a different, more powerful computer that would use several identical
|
|||
|
|
microprocessor chips sharing tasks. The main advantage would be speed, and
|
|||
|
|
the ability to do high precision calculations. This computer was
|
|||
|
|
code-named Lisa, and because it was such a revolutionary type of design,
|
|||
|
|
they knew it would take many years to come to actual production. Because
|
|||
|
|
of the power it was to have, Apple executives felt that Lisa was the future
|
|||
|
|
of the company.<2>,<14>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Because they knew that the Lisa project would take a long time to
|
|||
|
|
complete, and because the Apple II was perceived to have only a short
|
|||
|
|
remaining useful life as a product, they began a new computer project
|
|||
|
|
called the Apple III. Instead of building upon the Apple II as a basis for
|
|||
|
|
this new computer, they decided to start from scratch. Also, although
|
|||
|
|
Wozniak made most of the design decisions for the II, a committee at Apple
|
|||
|
|
decided what capabilities the Apple III should have. They decided that the
|
|||
|
|
Apple III was to be a business machine, and not have the home or
|
|||
|
|
arcade-game reputation that the II had. It was to have a full
|
|||
|
|
upper/lowercase keyboard and display, 80-column text, and a more
|
|||
|
|
comprehensive operating system. They also decided that since it would be a
|
|||
|
|
while before many application programs would be available for this new
|
|||
|
|
computer, it should be capable of running existing Apple II software. In
|
|||
|
|
some ways this handicapped the project, since it was then necessary to use
|
|||
|
|
the same microprocessor and disk drive hardware as was used in the Apple
|
|||
|
|
II.<3>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Apple executives also decided that with the introduction of the Apple
|
|||
|
|
III they wanted a clear separation between it and the Apple II in regards
|
|||
|
|
to marketing. They did not want ANY overlap between the two. The III
|
|||
|
|
would be an 80-column business machine and was predicted to have ninety
|
|||
|
|
percent of the market, while the Apple II would be a 40-column home and
|
|||
|
|
school machine and would have ten percent of the market. Apple's
|
|||
|
|
executives were confident that after the release of the Apple III, the
|
|||
|
|
Apple II would quickly lose its appeal.<4>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Because of their desire for a strong and distinct product separation,
|
|||
|
|
the Apple II emulation mode designed into the Apple III was very limited.
|
|||
|
|
The engineers actually ADDED hardware chips that prevented access to the
|
|||
|
|
III's more advanced features from Apple II emulation mode. Apple II
|
|||
|
|
emulation couldn't use 80 columns, and had access to only 48K memory and
|
|||
|
|
none of the better graphics modes. As a result, it wouldn't run some of
|
|||
|
|
the better Apple II business software, during a time when there wasn't much
|
|||
|
|
NEW business software for the Apple III.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Apple III engineers were given a one year target date for
|
|||
|
|
completion. It was ready for release in the spring of 1980, but there were
|
|||
|
|
problems with both design and manufacturing. (It was the first time that
|
|||
|
|
Apple as a company tried to come out with a new product; the Apple II had
|
|||
|
|
been designed and built by Wozniak when he WAS the engineering department).
|
|||
|
|
The first Apple III computers were plagued with nearly 100% defects and had
|
|||
|
|
to be recalled for fixes. Although Apple took the unprecedented step of
|
|||
|
|
repairing all of the defective computers at no charge, they never recovered
|
|||
|
|
the momentum they lost with that first misstep, and the III did not become
|
|||
|
|
the success Apple needed it to be.<3>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Although all of the bugs and limitations of the Apple III were
|
|||
|
|
eventually overcome, and it became the computer of choice within Apple, it
|
|||
|
|
did not capture the market as they had hoped. At that point, they weren't
|
|||
|
|
sure exactly what to do with the II. They had purposely ignored and
|
|||
|
|
downplayed it for the four years since the II Plus was released, although
|
|||
|
|
without its continued strong sales they would not have lasted as a company.
|
|||
|
|
In a 1985 interview in Byte magazine, Steve Wozniak stated:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"When we came out with the Apple III, the engineering staff cancelled
|
|||
|
|
every Apple II engineering program that was ongoing, in expectation of
|
|||
|
|
the Apple III's success. Every single one was cancelled. We really
|
|||
|
|
perceived that the Apple II would not last six months. So the company
|
|||
|
|
was almost all Apple III people, and we worked for years after that to
|
|||
|
|
try and tell the world how good the Apple III was, because we KNEW
|
|||
|
|
[how good it was] ... If you looked at our advertising and R&D
|
|||
|
|
dollars, everything we did here was done first on the III, if it was
|
|||
|
|
business related. Then maybe we'd consider doing a sub-version on the
|
|||
|
|
II. To make sure there was a good boundary between the two machines,
|
|||
|
|
anything done on the II had to be done at a lower level than on the
|
|||
|
|
III. Only now are we discovering that good solutions can be
|
|||
|
|
implemented on the II ... We made sure the Apple II was not allowed to
|
|||
|
|
have a hard disk or more than 128K of memory. At a time when outside
|
|||
|
|
companies had very usable schemes for adding up to a megabyte of
|
|||
|
|
memory, we came out with a method of adding 64K to an Apple IIe, which
|
|||
|
|
was more difficult to use and somewhat limited. We refused to
|
|||
|
|
acknowledge any of the good 80-column cards that were in the outside
|
|||
|
|
world--only ours, which had a lot of problems."<4>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Wozniak went on in that interview to say that at one time he had
|
|||
|
|
written some fast disk routines for the Pascal system on the Apple II, and
|
|||
|
|
was criticized by the Apple III engineers. They didn't think that anything
|
|||
|
|
on the II should be allowed to run faster than on a III. That was the
|
|||
|
|
mindset of the entire company at the time.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Apple has been much maligned for the attention they gave the Apple III
|
|||
|
|
project, while suspending all further development on the Apple II. They
|
|||
|
|
pegged their chances for the business market in 1980 on the Apple III.
|
|||
|
|
Even Steve Wozniak had stated in another interview, "We'd have sold tons of
|
|||
|
|
[computers in the business market] if we'd have let the II evolve ... to
|
|||
|
|
become a business machine called the III instead of developing a separate,
|
|||
|
|
incompatible computer. We could have added the accessories to make it do
|
|||
|
|
the business functions that the outside world is going to IBM for."<3> Part
|
|||
|
|
of the problem was the immaturity of the entire microcomputer industry at
|
|||
|
|
the time. There had NEVER been a microcomputer that had sold well for more
|
|||
|
|
than a couple of years before it was replaced by a more powerful model,
|
|||
|
|
usually from another company. The Altair 8800 and IMSAI had fallen to the
|
|||
|
|
more popular and easier to use Apple II and TRS-80 and Commodore PET, as
|
|||
|
|
well as other new machines based on the Intel 8080 and 8088 processors. It
|
|||
|
|
is entirely understandable that Apple's attitude between 1978 and 1980
|
|||
|
|
would be of panic and fear that they wouldn't get a new computer out in
|
|||
|
|
time to keep their market share and survive as a company. However, during
|
|||
|
|
the entire time when Apple was working on the III as a computer to carry
|
|||
|
|
the company through until Lisa would be ready, and during the entire time
|
|||
|
|
that the Apple II was ignored by its own company, it continued to quietly
|
|||
|
|
climb in sales. It is a credit to both the ingenuity of Wozniak in his
|
|||
|
|
original design, and to the users of the Apple II in THEIR ingenuity at
|
|||
|
|
finding new uses for the II, that its value increased and stimulated yet
|
|||
|
|
more new sales. The Apple II "beat" the odds of survival that historically
|
|||
|
|
were against it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THE APPLE IIE: BEGINNINGS When Apple saw that the sales on the Apple II
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""" were NOT going to dwindle away, they finally
|
|||
|
|
decided to take another look at it. The first new look at advancing the
|
|||
|
|
design of the II was with a project called "Diana" in 1980. Diana was
|
|||
|
|
intended primarily to be an Apple II that had fewer internal components,
|
|||
|
|
and would be less expensive to build. The project was later known as
|
|||
|
|
"LCA", which stood for "Low Cost Apple". Inside Apple this meant a lower
|
|||
|
|
cost of manufacturing, but outsiders who got wind of the project thought it
|
|||
|
|
meant a $350 Apple II. Because of that misconception, the final code name
|
|||
|
|
for the updated Apple II was "Super II", and lasted until its release.<5>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THE APPLE IIE: HARDWARE Part of the IIe project grew out of the earlier
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""" work on custom integrated circuits for the Apple
|
|||
|
|
II. When they finally decided to go ahead and improve the design by adding
|
|||
|
|
new features, one of the original plans was to give the Apple II an
|
|||
|
|
80-column text display and a full upper/lowercase keyboard. Walt Broedner
|
|||
|
|
at Apple did much of the original hardware planning, and was one of those
|
|||
|
|
at Apple who pushed for the upgrade in the first place. To help maintain
|
|||
|
|
compatibility with older 40-column software (which often addressed the
|
|||
|
|
screen directly for speed), he decided to make 80-columns work by mirroring
|
|||
|
|
the older 40 column text screen onto a 1K memory space parallel to it, with
|
|||
|
|
the even columns in main memory and the odd columns in this new "auxiliary"
|
|||
|
|
memory. To display 80-column text would require switching between the two
|
|||
|
|
memory banks. Broedner realized that with little extra effort he could do
|
|||
|
|
the same for the entire 64K memory space and get 128K of bank-switchable
|
|||
|
|
memory. They put this extra memory (the 1K "80-column card, or a 64K
|
|||
|
|
"extended 80-column card") in a special slot called the "auxiliary" slot
|
|||
|
|
that replaced slot 0 (the 16K Language Card was going to be a built-in
|
|||
|
|
feature). The 80-column firmware routines were mapped to slot 3, since
|
|||
|
|
that was a location commonly used by people who bought 80-column cards for
|
|||
|
|
their Apple II's, and was also the place where the Apple Pascal system
|
|||
|
|
expected to find an external terminal. The auxiliary slot also supplied
|
|||
|
|
some special video signals, and was used during manufacture for testing on
|
|||
|
|
the motherboard.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The engineers that worked on the IIe tried hard to make sure that
|
|||
|
|
cards designed for the II and II Plus would work properly in the new
|
|||
|
|
computer. They even had to "tune" the timing on the IIe to be slightly OFF
|
|||
|
|
(to act more like the II Plus) because the Microsoft CP/M Softcard refused
|
|||
|
|
to function properly with the new hardware. A socket was included on the
|
|||
|
|
motherboard for attaching a numeric keypad, a feature that many business
|
|||
|
|
users had been adding (with difficulty) to the II Plus for years. The full
|
|||
|
|
keyboard they designed was very similar to the one found on the Apple III,
|
|||
|
|
including two unique keys that had first appeared with the III--one with a
|
|||
|
|
picture of an hollow apple ("open-apple") and the other with the same apple
|
|||
|
|
picture filled in ("solid-apple"). These keys were electrically connected
|
|||
|
|
to buttons 0 and 1 on the Apple paddles or joystick. They were available
|
|||
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later the IIc projects) and their team managed to decrease the number of
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components on the motherboard from over one hundred to thirty-one, while
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THE APPLE IIE: FIRMWARE Peter Quinn had to beg for someone to help write
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""""""""""""""""""""""" the firmware revisions to the Monitor and
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Applesoft for the IIe. He finally got Rich Auricchio, who had been a
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hacker on the Apple II almost from the beginning. Quinn said in a later
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interview, "You cannot get someone to write firmware for this machine
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unless he's been around for three or four years. You have to know how to
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get through the mine field [of unofficial but commonly used entry points].
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He [Rick] was extremely good. He added in all the 80-column and Escape-key
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stuff." Quinn also got Bryan Stearns to work on the new Monitor.<6>,<7>
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made necessary by having two parallel 64K banks of RAM memory. To have
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enough firmware space for these extra features, the engineers increased the
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size of the available ROM by making IT bank-switched. This space was taken
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from a location that had previously not been duplicated before--the memory
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locations used by cards in the slots on the motherboard. Ordinarily, if
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you use the Monitor to look at the slot 1 memory locations from $C100
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through $C1FF, you get either random numbers (if the slot is empty), or the
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bytes that made up the controller program on that card. Any card could
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if they needed it. If a card in a slot did a read or write to memory
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location $CFFF, the $C800-$CFFF ROM that belonged to that card would appear
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in that space in the Apple II memory. When another card was working, then
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ITS version of that space would appear. On the IIe, they made a special
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soft-switch that would switch OUT all the peripheral cards from the memory,
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and switch IN the new expanded ROM on the motherboard. The firmware in the
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new bank-switched ROM space was designed to avoid being needed by any card
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in a slot (to avoid conflicts), and much of it was dedicated to making the
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80-column display (mapped to slot 3) work properly.
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editing. In addition to the original ESC A, B, C, and D, and the ESC I, J,
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K, and M added with the Apple II Plus, Auricchio added the ability to make
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the ESC cursor moves work with the left and right arrow keys, and the new
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up and down arrow keys. The new IIe ROM also included a self-test that was
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activated by pressing both apple keys, the control key, and RESET
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simultaneously.<5>
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THE APPLE IIE: SUCCESS The new Apple IIe turned out to be quite
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"""""""""""""""""""""" profitable for Apple. Not only was it more
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functional than the II Plus for a similar price, but the cost to the
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dealers selling it was about three times the cost of manufacture. They had
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gotten their "Low Cost Apple", and by May of 1983 the Apple IIe was selling
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sixty to seventy thousand units a month, over twice the average sales of
|
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the II Plus. Christmas of 1983 saw the IIe continue to sell extremely
|
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well, partly resulting from the delayed availability of the new IBM PCjr.
|
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Even after the Apple IIc was released in 1984, IIe sales continued beyond
|
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those of the IIc, despite the IIc's built-in features.<8>
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THE APPLE IIE: MODIFICATIONS Early Apple IIe motherboard's were labelled
|
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""" as "Revision A". Engineers determined soon
|
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after its introduction that if the same use of parallel memory was applied
|
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to the hi-res graphics display as was done with the text display, they
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could create higher density graphics. These graphics, which they called
|
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"double hi-res", also had the capability of displaying a wider range of
|
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colors, similar to those available with the original Apple II lo-res
|
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|
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graphics. The IIe motherboards with the necessary modifications to display
|
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|
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these double hi-res graphics were labelled "Revision B", and a softswitch
|
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was assigned to turning on and off the new graphics mode.
|
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|
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Later versions of the IIe motherboards were again called "Revision A"
|
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|
|
(for some reason), although they HAD been modified for double hi-res
|
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|
|
graphics. The difference between the two "Revision A" boards was that the
|
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|
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latter had most of the chips soldered to the motherboard. An original
|
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|
|
"Revision A" board that had been changed to an Enhanced IIe was not
|
|||
|
|
necessarily able to handle double hi-res, since the change to the Enhanced
|
|||
|
|
version involved only a four-chip change to the motherboard, but not the
|
|||
|
|
changes to make double hi-res possible.<9>
|
|||
|
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|
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|
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|
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THE APPLE IIE: THE ENHANCED IIE This version of the Apple IIe was
|
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|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" introduced in March of 1985. It
|
|||
|
|
involved changes to make the IIe more closely compatible with the Apple IIc
|
|||
|
|
and II Plus. The upgrade consisted of four chips that were swapped in the
|
|||
|
|
motherboard: The 65c02 processor, with more assembly language opcodes,
|
|||
|
|
replaced the 6502; two more chips with Applesoft and Monitor ROM changes;
|
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|
|
and the fourth a character generator ROM that included graphics characters
|
|||
|
|
(first introduced on the IIc) called "MouseText". The Enhanced IIe ROM
|
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|
|
changes fixed most of the known problems with the IIe 80-column firmware,
|
|||
|
|
and made it possible to enter Applesoft and Monitor commands in lower-case.
|
|||
|
|
The older 80-column routines were slower than most software developers
|
|||
|
|
wanted, they disabled interrupts for too long a time, and there were
|
|||
|
|
problems in making Applesoft work properly with the 80-column routines.
|
|||
|
|
These problems were solved with the newer ROMs.
|
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|
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|
|||
|
|
Monitor changes also included a return of the mini-assembler, absent
|
|||
|
|
since the days of Integer BASIC. It was activated by entering a "!"
|
|||
|
|
command in the Monitor, instead of a jump to a memory location as in the
|
|||
|
|
older Apple ][. Also added were an "S" command was added to make it
|
|||
|
|
possible to search memory for a byte sequence, and the ability to enter
|
|||
|
|
ASCII characters directly into memory. However, the "L" command to
|
|||
|
|
disassemble 6502 code still did not handle the new 65c02 opcodes as did the
|
|||
|
|
IIc disassembler. Interrupt handling was also improved.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Applesoft was fixed to let commands such as GET, HTAB, TAB, SPC, and
|
|||
|
|
comma tabbing work properly in 80-column mode.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The new MouseText characters caused a problem for some older programs
|
|||
|
|
at first, until they were upgraded; characters previously displayed as
|
|||
|
|
inverse upper-case would sometimes display as MouseText instead.<10>,<11>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THE APPLE IIE: THE PLATINUM IIE This version of the IIe, introduced in
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" January 1987, had a keyboard that was
|
|||
|
|
the same as the IIGS keyboard, but the RESET key was moved above the ESC
|
|||
|
|
and "1" keys (as on the IIc), and the power light was above the "/" on the
|
|||
|
|
included numeric keypad (the internal numeric keypad connector was left in
|
|||
|
|
place). The CLEAR key on the keypad generated the same character as the
|
|||
|
|
ESC key, but with a hardware modification it could generate a Ctrl-X as it
|
|||
|
|
did on the IIGS. The motherboard had 64K RAM in only two chips (instead of
|
|||
|
|
the previous eight), and one ROM chip instead of two. An "extended
|
|||
|
|
80-column card" with 64K extra memory was included in all units sold, and
|
|||
|
|
was smaller than previous versions of that memory card.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
No ROM changes were made. The old shift-key modification was
|
|||
|
|
installed, making it possible for programs to determine if the shift-key
|
|||
|
|
was being pressed. However, if using a game controller that actually used
|
|||
|
|
the third push-button (where the shift-key mod was internally connected),
|
|||
|
|
pressing shift and the third push-button simultaneously causes a short
|
|||
|
|
circuit that shuts down the power supply.<12>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THE APPLE IIE: EMULATION CARD ON MACINTOSH LC In early 1991, Apple
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" introduced a new version
|
|||
|
|
of the Apple IIe. This one was designed to be exactly like the 128K
|
|||
|
|
Platinum IIe, with the modification that it had a color Macintosh attached
|
|||
|
|
to it. This Apple IIe cost only $199, but the required Macintosh
|
|||
|
|
peripheral went for about $2,495, which makes the combination the most
|
|||
|
|
expensive Apple II ever made. Apple engineers managed to put the function
|
|||
|
|
of an entire IIe onto a card smaller than the old Disk II controller card.
|
|||
|
|
With version 2.0 of the Apple II interface software, more of the memory
|
|||
|
|
allocated to the Macintosh can be used by the IIe (strange way of designing
|
|||
|
|
an Apple II!). However, unlike all previous versions of the IIe, there are
|
|||
|
|
no hardware-based slots on the IIe card; instead, there are software-based
|
|||
|
|
slots that are allocated by moving icons that represent various peripherals
|
|||
|
|
into "slots" on the Mac screen. (Oh, yes; it runs some Mac software, too).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To use 5.25 disks with this Apple IIe, there is a cable that attaches
|
|||
|
|
to the card. The cable splits into a game connector (for paddles or
|
|||
|
|
joystick operation) and a connector that accepts IIc and IIGS style 5.25
|
|||
|
|
drives. The IIe card runs at a "normal" (1 MHz) speed and a "fast" (2 MHz)
|
|||
|
|
speed.<13> It has limitations, however. For a 1991 Apple II, it is
|
|||
|
|
limited in being unable to be accelerated beyond 2 MHz (a Zip Chip can run
|
|||
|
|
a standard IIe at 8 MHz), and the screen response seems slow, since it is
|
|||
|
|
using a software-based Mac text display instead of the hardware-based Apple
|
|||
|
|
II character ROM. As a Macintosh it lacks the power and speed of the
|
|||
|
|
newer Macintosh II models (which also run in color). But if having a Apple
|
|||
|
|
II and a Mac in one machine is important, this is the best way to do it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
NEXT INSTALLMENT The Apple IIc
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""
|
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|
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|
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|
|
NOTES
|
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|
|
"""""
|
|||
|
|
<1> Freiberger, Paul, and Swaine, Michael. "Fire In The Valley, Part
|
|||
|
|
I (Book Excerpt)", A+ Magazine, Jan 1985, p. 45-48.
|
|||
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|
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|
|
<2> Freiberger, Paul, and Swaine, Michael. "Fire In The Valley, Part
|
|||
|
|
II (Book Excerpt)", A+ Magazine, Jan 1985, p. 46,51.
|
|||
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|
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|
|
<3> Rubin, Charles. "The Life & Death & Life Of The Apple II",
|
|||
|
|
Personal Computing, Feb 1985, p. 72.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
<4> Williams, Gregg, and Moore, Rob. "The Apple Story, Part 2: More
|
|||
|
|
History And The Apple III", Byte, Jan 1985, pp. 177-178.
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|
|||
|
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<5> Tommervik, Al. "Apple IIe: The Difference", Softalk, Feb 1983,
|
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|
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pp. 118-127, 142.
|
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|
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|
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<6> Williams, Gregg. "'C' Is For Crunch", Byte, Dec 1984, pp.
|
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A75-A78, A121.
|
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|
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<7> Little, Gary. Inside The Apple //c, 1985, pp. 1-7.
|
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|
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|
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<8> Rose, Frank. West Of Eden: The End Of Innocence At Apple
|
|||
|
|
Computer, 1989, pp. 98-99.
|
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|
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|
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<9> Weishaar, Tom. "Ask Uncle DOS", Open-Apple, Dec 1986, p. 2.86.
|
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|
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|
|
<10> Weishaar, Tom. "A Song Continued", Open-Apple, Mar 1985, pp.
|
|||
|
|
1.20-1.21.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<11> Weishaar, Tom. "Demoralized Apple II Division Announces Enhanced
|
|||
|
|
IIe...", Open-Apple, Apr 1985, pp. 1.25-1.27.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<12> Weishaar, Tom. "Apple Introduces An Updated IIe", Open-Apple,
|
|||
|
|
Jan 1987, p. 3.1.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<13> Doms, Dennis. "The Apple II as Mac peripheral", Open-Apple, Jul
|
|||
|
|
1991, pp. 7.43-7.44.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
<14> This was an early version of the Lisa project. When the 68000
|
|||
|
|
microprocessor became available from Motorola, it was decided to
|
|||
|
|
use that as a single processor for the Lisa. Also, after Steve
|
|||
|
|
Jobs paid a visit to the Xerox lab and saw the Xerox Star
|
|||
|
|
computer with its icon interface and mouse pointing device, he
|
|||
|
|
pushed strongly for the Lisa to work in that way.
|
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