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~ WELCOME TO GEnieLamp APPLE II! ~
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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~ POLISHING GREEN APPLES: Hooked on Storage, Part 2 ~
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~ HARDVIEW A2: A Visit with Jawaid Bazyar and discQuest GS ~
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~ DR'S EXAMINING TABLE: Bard's Tale review ~
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~ THE TREASURE HUNT: Some of the First 4000 Files ~
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~ APPLE II HISTORY: Part 20/21b, Magazines ~
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~ HOT NEWS, HOT FILES, HOT MESSAGES ~
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GEnieLamp Apple II ~ A T/TalkNET OnLine Publication ~ Vol.3, Issue 25
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Editor....................................................Douglas Cuff
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Publisher.............................................John F. Peters
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Copy-Editor...........................................Bruce Maples
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~ GEnieLamp A2 ~ LiveWire (ASCII) ~ GEnieLamp MacPRO ~
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~ Solid Windows ~ Config.sys ~ A2-Central ~
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~ Member Of The Digital Publishing Association ~
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GE Mail: GENIELAMP Internet: genielamp@genie.geis.com FTP: sosi.com
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>>> WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE APPLE II ROUNDTABLE? <<<
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~ April 1, 1994 ~
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FROM MY DESKTOP ......... [FRM] HEY MISTER POSTMAN ...... [HEY]
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Notes From The Editor. Is That A Letter For Me?
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HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM] REFLECTIONS ............. [REF]
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We Shall C What We Shall C. The Future of Online Commerce.
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BEGINNER'S CORNER ....... [BEG] TECH TALK ............... [TEC]
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Polishing Green Apples. Hybrids of Apple II.
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CowTOONS! ............... [MOO] DR'S EXAMINING TABLE .... [DRT]
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No Cow Foolin'. Oldie Review: Bard's Tale.
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THE TREASURE HUNT ....... [HUN] HARDVIEW A2 ............. [HAR]
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Yours For the Downloading. discQuest GS w/ Jawaid Bazyar.
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PAL NEWSLETTER .......... [PAL] APPLE II ................ [AII]
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April 1994 Report. History Part 20/21b: Magazines.
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LOG OFF ................. [LOG]
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GEnieLamp Information.
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READING GEnieLamp GEnieLamp has incorporated a unique indexing system
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""""""""""""""""" to help make reading the magazine easier. To
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utilize this system, load GEnieLamp into any ASCII word processor or
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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].
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If you want to scan all of the articles, search for [EOA]. [EOF] will
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take you to the last page, whereas [IDX] will bring you back to the
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index.
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MESSAGE INFO To make it easy for you to respond to messages
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(SMITH, CAT6, TOP1, MSG:58/M475)
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or more messages that are following the same topic. For example: {58}.
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ABOUT GEnie GEnie's monthly fee is $8.95 for which gives you up to
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""""""""""" four hours of non-prime time access to most GEnie
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Internet mail gateway, and chat lines, are allowed without charge.
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GEnie's non-prime time connect rate is $3.00. 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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RETURN. The system will then prompt you for your information. Need
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SPECIAL OFFER FOR GEnieLamp READERS! If you sign onto GEnie using the
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//////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
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/ RISC: Proof that less is more expensive. /
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/////////////////////////////////////////// F.GREATOREX ////
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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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by Douglas Cuff
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[EDITOR.A2]
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There's no doubt about it, my wife Tara should really be writing
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these editorials. I'm sure we could overcome the technicality of her not
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actually being the editor of GEnieLamp A2 if we tried.
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Tara uses our Apple IIgs every day to log in to the UNIX-based system
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at the university she attends. It requires her to enter her login name...
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and it's case sensitive. So the daily ritual goes something like this:
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She starts up SnowTerm, a shareware VT100 package, and dials the university
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computer. She waits for the "Login:" prompt, rapidly types her account
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name, and then groans as she sees it appear on the screen... all in
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capitals. I've left the Caps Lock key down again. "Oh well," she sighs.
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"Other wives have their toilet seats; I have my Caps Lock key."
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Although I have three brothers and no sisters, I've always had
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excellent toilet-seat manners. So how is it that the only time I leave the
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Caps Lock key up is when I'm in a word processor? I admit my first
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computer was an Apple II-Plus, but it's been 10 years since then. Like
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most bad habits, mine has an unconscious element. As soon as I exit
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AppleWorks, I hit Caps Lock with my thumb without even thinking about it.
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Evidently I have a deep-rooted fear that any minute I may need to run some
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software written for a 48K Apple II.
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Even Tara's masterly condensing of the Caps Lock Key Condition pales
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compared to her summary of the reaction in the Macintosh press to the
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"death" of the Apple IIe. I showed her the vicious rejoicing that was
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taking place on CompuServe and, while incredulous, was not too appalled to
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quip, "Pretty Mac-y-avellian."
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Is it any wonder I want her to take over my monthly editorial?
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[*][*][*]
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The silly season came early this year, and March did not deign to
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come in either like a lion nor like a lamb, but chose to come in a like a
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loony. That _has_ to be the explanation. How else do you explain such
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comments in the A2 RoundTable as:
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Knock, knock! Who's there? Grammar! Grammar who? Grammar
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_whom_!
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-- J.SCHONBLOM [J.ERIC]
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and:
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> Randy, don't you just _hate_ 5.25 disks...?
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This is the essence of truth, refined into one pure
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rhetorical question.
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-- BRANDT [Randy]
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And how about this mnemonic for people who don't understand which of the
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Hewlett-Packard printers -- DeskJet or DeskWriter -- works well with an
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Apple II?:
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Simple enough to remember....
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The GS can use the JET, the Mac has to WRITE ahead for
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reservations :)
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-- H.HISLOP [Harold]
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Ken Lucke (K.LUCKE) and Harold Hislop (H.HISLOP) collaborated on "The
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Case of the Hundreds of rBundles", a discussion that reads like a 1930s
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American hard-boiled detective story:
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It was a cold day in the city. The frozen ground felt like
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peanut brittle. I felt like a cigarette. If you don't know what
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a cigarette feels like, ya ain't missin nuttin. 'Specially after
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they's been ground out.....
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I'd had a busy week, trying to crack the Case of the Absent
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Download. I was relaxin' in my office, plannin' to do a little
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modemin' that night, but waiting for the rates to go down.
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Eventually, Ken got around to detailing his problem, which was a Desktop
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file that kept expanding whenever he ran Spectrum. Harold took up the
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tale:
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It was a rainy day in Trenton, so much that even the organic
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frisbies were grounded... I had been perusing GEnie looking for
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things that seemed out of whack when I stumbled into an old
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nemesis... Finder 6.0x! The infamous (and somewhat nasty) bug in
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it that tries to glom onto disk space had struck yet again!
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Harold proposed a solution: lock your Desktop file. It could have ended
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there. Evidently Ken doesn't like to be outdone (though, equally
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obviously, he has no compunctions about being overdone):
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It was another gritty, rainy day in the City of Seaside, all the
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tourists were under cover. 'Cept fer one. Name of Harold.
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Harold Hislop. Came into town on a big white horse, which is
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kinda strange, even for a tourist town. Has this stethoscope
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around his neck and a hundred or more cables of different types
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and lengths trailing around him like Lady Godiva's hair. Said he
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had the cure for ol' Mr. Spectrum.
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Maybe all of the foregoing is due solely to spring fever. All I know
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for sure is that I'm glad there's a phone line separating these people --
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not just from me, but from each other! The mind boggles at the thought of
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what some of these people will get up to during July's ICONference.
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Still, as Hunter S. Thompson observed, "When the going gets weird,
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the weird turn pro."
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-- Doug Cuff
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:;% .;%;'
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:;% .;%%;
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`:% .;%%;'
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`::%%;'
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"The first Daffodil of Spring"
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ASCII Art by Susie Oviatt
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[SUSIE]
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[EOA]
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[HEY]//////////////////////////////
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HEY MISTER POSTMAN /
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/////////////////////////////////
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Is That A Letter For Me?
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""""""""""""""""""""""""
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by Douglas Cuff
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[EDITOR.A2]
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o BULLETIN BOARD HOT SPOTS
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o A2 POT-POURRI
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o HOT TOPICS
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o WHAT'S NEW
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o THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
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o MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT
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>>> BULLETIN BOARD HOT SPOTS <<<
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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[*] CAT2, TOP9 .............. Friends of Harold
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[*] CAT10, TOP9 ............. IIgs Fax Software
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[*] CAT13, TOP19 ............ Tool069 and Other Illegal Tools
|
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[*] CAT13, TOP23 ............ BlueDisk and PC Transporter
|
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[*] CAT29, TOP12 ............ HOT patches for GECoPilot
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[*] CAT12, TOP8 ............. Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 520 & 560C
|
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[*] CAT2, TOP13 ............. The Tinies!
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[*] CAT6, TOP3 .............. The Tinies! (yep, again)
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>>> A2 POT-POURRI <<<
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"""""""""""""""""""""
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APPLE IIGS RGB MONITOR FIX Any reasnably competent technician can fix
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""" that problem for pennies (plus his or her
|
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labor charges) with the following information....
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1. The part that causes the problem when it fails is a "choke" or
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"inductor" , it is mounted on a small circuit board attached to the back of
|
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the monitor tube itself. This part looks like a small blue ceramic ball
|
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with two leads coming out the bottom, and is color coded for 10
|
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microhenries.
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2. There are three of these items on that circuit board, and if any
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one of them fails, the symptom is a screen all of one color, with total
|
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loss of any controls of the monitor. The parts are identified by number,
|
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and what color the screen is will tell you which one to replace....
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L6R2 for a Red screen
|
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L6G2 for a Green screen
|
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L6B2 for a Blue screen
|
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3. You can probably get a 10 microhenry choke at Radio Shack, or it
|
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is available for $1.28 (plus a $5 Handling charge) from Digikey Corporation
|
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at (800) 344-4539. They take Mastercard, Visa, and C.O.D.
|
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|
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The Digikey part number is M8025-ND.
|
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4. After replacing this part, the monitor colors will need to be
|
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readjusted via the small color trimpots on the same circuit board.
|
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|
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Gary R. Utter (GARY.UTTER, CAT12, TOP25, MSG:104/M645;1)
|
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|
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|
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|
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SHAREWARE UPDATE Dave Lyons is no longer accepting shareware fees on his
|
|||
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"""""""""""""""" software.
|
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|
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|
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-- Eric S.
|
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|
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(aka Sheppy)
|
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(E.SHEPHERD, CAT34, TOP9, MSG:281/M645;1)
|
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|
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|
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|
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APPLEWORKS WORD PROCESSOR AND NP > This concerns inserting 'NP' into word
|
|||
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" > processor documents I find that
|
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|
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> having done this the cursor jumps to some distance away for where the
|
|||
|
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> 'NP' was inserted so that it is no longer on the screen.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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You've been bitten by a feature. AppleWorks 4.0 will not break a
|
|||
|
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paragraph with the np option. If you wish to do just that, just add a
|
|||
|
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carriage return to the end of the line just before the place you wish to
|
|||
|
|
issue the new page command.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
This new feature/bug has actually saved me time. When I see a page
|
|||
|
|
splitting a paragraph that I don't want split (most of them are just these
|
|||
|
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type), I just issue the np command and continue onward knowing that the np
|
|||
|
|
command was inserted at the end of the previous paragraph.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Quality Computers --- Power for performance.
|
|||
|
|
(W.CARVER1, CAT42, TOP29, MSG:182/M645;1)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
>>>>> I have some more information regarding the jumping cursor when
|
|||
|
|
""""" inserting 'NP' options.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
This again occurred when I was getting GEnieLamp ready to print.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I have found it occurs after using 'O-A K' to calculate the existing
|
|||
|
|
breaks then doing 'O-A O' NP the cursor then moves to a variable distance
|
|||
|
|
from the 'NP' always below it and in one case it was 42 lines below.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Note this only occurs if the 'NP' is inserted while the calculated
|
|||
|
|
page breaks are still visible ie no other editing is done first. This is
|
|||
|
|
annoying as I usually want to do other things at that point ie removing of
|
|||
|
|
redundant blank lines at the top of the new page.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
KenDawson [England]
|
|||
|
|
(K.DAWSON2, CAT42, TOP29, MSG:276/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> That may make a lot of sense. There was an AW3 bug with page breaks
|
|||
|
|
""""" jumping, and I fixed it in AW4, but I may have only fixed the
|
|||
|
|
ctrl-P entry point and not the OA-O NP, although I'd think they should use
|
|||
|
|
the same code. I'll check it out.
|
|||
|
|
(BRANDT, CAT42, TOP29, MSG:282/M645;1)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BROKEN HARDWARE Farmer Ken, your post to Harold give me the perfect
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""" opportunity to say again..
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Please, all user's/lovers of Apple II's, if you have any related
|
|||
|
|
hardware that is no longer working, and not ecconomically repariable thru
|
|||
|
|
commercial sources. DON'T trash it, don't just let sit in the cellar, or
|
|||
|
|
the garage, untill it gets damaged further, or thrown out. Invest a few $
|
|||
|
|
in the future, and in other Apple II users in need. Send them to one of us
|
|||
|
|
who can and will perform component level salvage and repair, without
|
|||
|
|
commercial labor charges. It really doesn't much matter which one of us
|
|||
|
|
gets what, we communicate and exchange with each other on a need and have
|
|||
|
|
basis regularly.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Please distribute this ideas as far and frequently as you can!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Many of the parts we can get through salvage are either not available
|
|||
|
|
for purchase, not affordable for purchase, or simply take too much time to
|
|||
|
|
track down for purchase (even when they are available and affordable).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Doug Pendleton --> Delivered by Co-Pilot, ProTerm & Woz IIGS System 6.01
|
|||
|
|
Science and magic are interchangeable terms, dependant on the observer.
|
|||
|
|
(H.PENDLETON2, CAT4, TOP17, MSG:292/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> Just to amplify a little..
|
|||
|
|
"""""
|
|||
|
|
Hardware that you send to Doug or myself doesn't have to be Apple
|
|||
|
|
related in all cases. Things like hard drives (SASI, SCSI, IDE) have _MANY_
|
|||
|
|
parts in common, as do tape drives, power supplies, some keyboards, etc.
|
|||
|
|
(Now that the BlueDisk controller is available, yes, even PC type floppy
|
|||
|
|
drives and tape drives are desired!)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Also there have been numerous times where I have salvaged parts from
|
|||
|
|
boards taken from other systems (PC, Mainframe, Industrial Controllers,
|
|||
|
|
etc) that have been used to repair stuff that works on Apples.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Basicly, if it has _anything_ to do with a CPU controlled device, and
|
|||
|
|
it's unusable by you, there is a VERY good chance that Doug or I can
|
|||
|
|
salvage enough parts from it to fix items that are used on Apples to make
|
|||
|
|
it worth our time and effort. (Who knows, _you_ may be the next person to
|
|||
|
|
benifit from this :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-Harold (H.HISLOP, CAT4, TOP17, MSG:293/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
SIMPLEXITY SOFTWARE Don't worry I got clever and found the old info and
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""" phoned the old number. The new number is 714-776-3625
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Michael E
|
|||
|
|
(M.EWEN, CAT13, TOP24, MSG:156/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
OTHER MAIL SERVICES > Can someone tell me how to address an email to
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""" > someone on AOL.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Sure, it's: username@aol.com
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
While we're at it, here are some other useful addresses for networks
|
|||
|
|
which have email through the InterNet:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
CompuServe -- xxxxx.xxxx@compuserve.com
|
|||
|
|
where xxxxx.xxxx is the user number. Note that the "," is
|
|||
|
|
replaced with a "."
|
|||
|
|
MCI Mail -- 123-4567@mcimail.com
|
|||
|
|
MCI Mail -- username@mcimail.com
|
|||
|
|
Applelink -- username@applelink.apple.com
|
|||
|
|
BIX -- username@dcibix.das.net
|
|||
|
|
AT&T Mail -- username@attmail.com
|
|||
|
|
Sprint Telemail -- username@sprint.com
|
|||
|
|
EasyLink -- 62xxxxxxxx@eln.attmail.com
|
|||
|
|
where xxxxxxx is the eight digit user number after the 62
|
|||
|
|
BITNet -- username@domain.bitnet
|
|||
|
|
The Bitnet domain is dependent on the user's area.
|
|||
|
|
America Online -- username@aol.com
|
|||
|
|
Delphi -- username@delphi.com
|
|||
|
|
Prodigy -- username@prodigy.com
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
__!__
|
|||
|
|
| Terrell Smith
|
|||
|
|
| tsmith@ivcfnsc.fullfeed.com
|
|||
|
|
(T.SMITH59, CAT10, TOP10, MSG:221/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NOT A VIRUS DEPT., PART 1 Well I have found the source of my "Welcome
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""" Datacomp" problem!!!! I believe it was refered
|
|||
|
|
to as "unlikely", but it is NOT on my hard drive ANYWHERE. It is coming
|
|||
|
|
through my Vision Plus card that I purchased used recently! You say
|
|||
|
|
"Pizza, How do you come to this conclusion!" I say simple! When I posted
|
|||
|
|
about my problem here, I dissasembled my GS to take to a user group demo.
|
|||
|
|
When I did that, I disconnected the line running to my VCR. The problem
|
|||
|
|
has been gone since. Well today, I hiched up that cable again and left for
|
|||
|
|
work. When I came home I had a screen full of "Welcome Datacomp, Welcome
|
|||
|
|
Datacomp, Welcome Datacomp, Welcome Datacomp, Welcome Datacomp, Welcome
|
|||
|
|
Datacomp, Welcome Datacomp, Welcome Datacomp, Welcome Datacomp, Welcome
|
|||
|
|
Datacomp, Welcome Datacomp, Welcome Datacomp, Welcome Datacomp, Welcome
|
|||
|
|
Datacomp, Welcome Datacomp" WELL you get the picture! So I disconnected
|
|||
|
|
the cable to my VCR and left it for about an hour, nothing. I reconnected
|
|||
|
|
the cable, and in an hour I had that message on my screen 4 times! WOW! So
|
|||
|
|
at least I know where it's comming from [sort of].
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Thanks for all the suggestions!
|
|||
|
|
(EW.CHRISTIAN, CAT12, TOP16, MSG:50/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THE APPLE II LED THE WAY Here's one of the better reminiscence articles
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""" I've seen since the official shut-down of the
|
|||
|
|
Apple II by Apple in November. I found it in the March 1994 issue of the
|
|||
|
|
Monsanto Apple Users Group newsletter, "MAUG Log", and was submitted to
|
|||
|
|
that newsletter by Ralph Supinski from America Online by someone named
|
|||
|
|
"Clyde III" (BTW, I'd like to know how to get in touch with that person if
|
|||
|
|
anyone knows; is that an AOL user name, and what is the Internet gateway
|
|||
|
|
address of AOL?)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
What It Was All About
|
|||
|
|
From: Clyde III
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Years from now, when Power PCs are considered low-end machines, and
|
|||
|
|
Macs and Pentiums have long since been forgotten, I hope they'll remember
|
|||
|
|
the Apple II.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
What the Apple II was all about:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Apple II was about computing in color: the first computer with
|
|||
|
|
built-in color video. The Mac tried to make black & white cool, but it
|
|||
|
|
almost died on the vine for trying. Now that every computer uses color,
|
|||
|
|
except for the cheap or light weight, will they remember that the Apple II
|
|||
|
|
was the first one?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Apple II was about the speed of disk drives: the first
|
|||
|
|
micro-computer to use a disk drive. Remember cassette tapes? Could it
|
|||
|
|
have been that they might today be using hard cassette drives, if not for
|
|||
|
|
Woz and his Disk ][?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Apple II was about fast startups and low memory overhead: the
|
|||
|
|
only computer ever to use sensible floppy disk-based operating system. DOS
|
|||
|
|
and ProDOS required nothing more than the juice from the plug and a closed
|
|||
|
|
drive door to get up and running from a floppy. 'Nough said!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Apple II was about business sense: the first spreadsheet that lit
|
|||
|
|
the business world on fire. After Lotus and Microsoft knock each other out
|
|||
|
|
fighting over this crown, will they remember that it was Visicalc on the
|
|||
|
|
Apple II that first blew everyone away?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Apple II was about integrated applications: when Mac's OS and
|
|||
|
|
Windows are long gone, will they remember that it was AppleWorks that
|
|||
|
|
showed the way?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Apple II was about losing yourself in a computer game: the
|
|||
|
|
greatest software was born on the Apple II. Ultimas I-V were created on the
|
|||
|
|
Apple II. Wizardry was born on the Apple II. Sierra On-Line's first game
|
|||
|
|
was programmed on an Apple II. Will they remember?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
What the Apple II was all about was breaking open the door to
|
|||
|
|
computing for the rest of us and giving us access to this most powerful and
|
|||
|
|
wonderful of pursuits.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
We will never forget.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Clyde
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Steve Weyhrich <IX0YE>--<
|
|||
|
|
(S.WEYHRICH, CAT2, TOP16, MSG:96/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
APPLE EMPLOYEES KNOW THE SCORE ][ just went by the group at Apple
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" I worked in last year, on Wednesday, to
|
|||
|
|
help them out a bit (they couldn't quite figure out how to get a IIgs to
|
|||
|
|
boot properly over AppleShare :) and even THEY were saying "It's too bad
|
|||
|
|
these machines weren't supported better. Apple could have really sold a
|
|||
|
|
lot of them." (: Of course, while Apple employees, they weren't speaking
|
|||
|
|
for Apple, either. <grin>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-= Lunatic (:
|
|||
|
|
(A2.LUNATIC, CAT5, TOP3, MSG:29/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
OKAY, BUT WHERE'S BEAVIS? Harold writes:
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
> (Yes folks, fNotButtHead really is the Apple assigned name for this
|
|||
|
|
> particular flag bit in device driver files...)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Doncha' just love it? :-) I was soooooo mad when I had to make
|
|||
|
|
changes to the GS/OS Device manager just to add a new Apple-defined status
|
|||
|
|
call to device drivers because people ignored the rules. I won't name
|
|||
|
|
cards, but a very fast caching SCSI card that I use in quite a few of my
|
|||
|
|
machines broke terribly when I added the new feature. That card was the
|
|||
|
|
single motivation for the name of the bit. I had to add it, and I named it.
|
|||
|
|
:-)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Jim Murphy,
|
|||
|
|
Macintosh System Software Hack/MacsBug engineer
|
|||
|
|
(MURPH, CAT20, TOP12, MSG:255/M645;1)
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ROM 1 GS MEMORY BUG? Dave, are you using large files? The ROM1 GS has a
|
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"""""""""""""""""""" memory management bug that can cause data corruption
|
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with large files. I believe the problem is solved by running System 6.0.1,
|
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although I'm not sure. Of course, if you use UltraMacros, you'd have to be
|
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careful about any inits you had installed.
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(BRANDT, CAT17, TOP4, MSG:349/M645;1)
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>>>>> Uh, this sounds like something that a couple hundred thousand of us
|
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""""" might find worthy of further discussion. In what exactly does a
|
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"large file" consist? Are only AW filed affected; are all AW filetypes
|
|||
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affected; does it occur only under certain "save" conditions? Does it only
|
|||
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show up when GS/OS is loaded, or is this a pure P8 thing as well?
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I realize that you probably don't know the answer to all these
|
|||
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questions, but those of us who frequently manipulate valued data in
|
|||
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AppleWorks would appreciate any tips, suggestions or caveats that may
|
|||
|
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apply. On one of my (ROM 01) GSs I have occasionally experienced data
|
|||
|
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corruption of large database files (2000+ records). It is so infrequent and
|
|||
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sporadic that I have never been able to pin it on anything -- in fact I
|
|||
|
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have suspected random "burps" in the SCSI chain rather than anything in
|
|||
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AppleWorks or the GS itself. But hey, a "memory management bug" works for
|
|||
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me.
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(D.CRUTCHER, CAT17, TOP4, MSG:351/M645;1)
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>>>>> When you elucidate on the memory manager bug you refered to would
|
|||
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""""" you please include the Apple part number on the ROM_01 rom that
|
|||
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you've confirmed this problem with. (ie: 342-0077-A, 342-0077-B, etc)
|
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I have reason to beleive (however this is NOT yet confirmed) that
|
|||
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Apple may have actually released more than one "flavor" of the ROM_01 roms
|
|||
|
|
without publicly documenting it. This memory manager bug may, or may not
|
|||
|
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exist in all such suspected versions, and I'd like to gather as much info
|
|||
|
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on this possibility as I can before "jumping out of the frying pan and into
|
|||
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the fire" as it were.
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Thanks!
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|
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-Harold
|
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|
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Resident solder slinger.
|
|||
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(H.HISLOP, CAT17, TOP4, MSG:354/M645;1)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
<<<<< Okay, I opened up a can of worms. Here are the facts as I know
|
|||
|
|
""""" them. I have a client in Brooklyn who handles his entire watch
|
|||
|
|
repair business with AppleWorks. A couple of years ago I updated him to
|
|||
|
|
DoubleData and TotalControl to increase his capacity. As he worked with
|
|||
|
|
files up to 500k or so in size, he suddenly started having random
|
|||
|
|
characters, often parentheses, appear in his files. He called me in a
|
|||
|
|
panic, worried about the macros messing things up. We went back and forth
|
|||
|
|
on it for weeks as he went crazy, having to do searches for weird
|
|||
|
|
characters and hoping he'd catch the corruption each time.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Finally, he came up with a series of 100% reproducible steps, but
|
|||
|
|
they worked flawlessly for me. Then he shipped me his hard drive and memory
|
|||
|
|
card so I was running the same byte-for-byte programs on the same data, but
|
|||
|
|
it still worked great. Suddenly it hit me that he had ROM 01 and I had ROM
|
|||
|
|
03. I took his drive and card to a ROM 01 and there it was! He got rid of
|
|||
|
|
both ROM 01 computers and his Laser, got three ROM 03 machines and has
|
|||
|
|
never seen the problem since. I have no idea what the serial numbers were
|
|||
|
|
on his ROM 01 computers, so I can't help there. I just know that the
|
|||
|
|
problem could be demonstrated in minutes on any ROM 01, and never on a ROM
|
|||
|
|
03.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Later he found an Apple tech note about a memory management bug which
|
|||
|
|
is fixed by GSOS. He's convinced that was his problem, although I don't
|
|||
|
|
believe we ever tried the steps under GSOS to see if that fixed it. This
|
|||
|
|
bug was insidious, since he could run for days without a problem, then
|
|||
|
|
suddenly end up with a trashed file when he was busiest.
|
|||
|
|
(BRANDT, CAT17, TOP4, MSG:355/M645;1)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THE EASY (APPLEWORKS) WAY TO ADD LINEFEEDS Lloyd, an empty file _is_ just
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" a receptacle, but it can be an
|
|||
|
|
AppleWorks word processor receptacle, a text receptacle, or an MS-DOS text
|
|||
|
|
receptacle. When you put your contents into an MS-DOS text file and save
|
|||
|
|
it, the linefeeds are added because AW4 knows that the output has to be in
|
|||
|
|
MS-DOS format. This means you can keep an empty MS-DOS shell file handy,
|
|||
|
|
and any time you need MS-DOS output, you just dump your text in, change the
|
|||
|
|
name and save. Presto! An instant MS-DOS text file.
|
|||
|
|
(BRANDT, CAT17, TOP14, MSG:66/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NOT A VIRUS DEPT., PART 2 I _Think_ I have just been hit by a virus!
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""" Doesn't seem to be an evil one, though.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
What happened was I accidently quit CoPilot to go "Online & Quit" to
|
|||
|
|
Spectrum. I realized that I didn't want to do that, just wanted to quit.
|
|||
|
|
So as Spectrum was loading, I was holding down the Apple key in
|
|||
|
|
anticipation of hitting "Q" to quit. When Spectrum's opening dialog
|
|||
|
|
showed, I suddenly got, in the exact center of the screen, a smaller box
|
|||
|
|
that had a nicely drawn British flag and the words "Made in Britain", and
|
|||
|
|
the sound "Trumpets" played (even though it is NOT assigned to any of my
|
|||
|
|
control panel sounds). I wasn't paying much attention until it hit, and
|
|||
|
|
had already hit the "Q", and the Flag disappeared before I had any chance
|
|||
|
|
to inspect it closely.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
At first, I thought that this might be some sort of "Easter Egg" in
|
|||
|
|
Spectrum (although why they would say "Made in Britain" was beyond me), but
|
|||
|
|
I have NOT been able to duplicate this happening.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Since the words "Made in Britain" appeared to be part of the picture,
|
|||
|
|
I have not tried searching for those words anywhere on my disks, but I
|
|||
|
|
think I will try it anyway. I have added NOTHING to my system lately that
|
|||
|
|
I didn't get online here on GEnie or commercially. No HD damage has
|
|||
|
|
appeared, nothing else untowards has happened.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Anyone else ever seen this?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Ken Lucke (K.LUCKE, CAT12, TOP16, MSG:54/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> Do you suppose the fact that the author, Ewen Wannop, is a resident
|
|||
|
|
""""" of Great Britain might have any relevance?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Ain't now way this is a virus. Period.
|
|||
|
|
(GARY.UTTER, CAT12, TOP16, MSG:55/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<<<<< I have had it confirmed by Dave at Spectrum that this is an easter
|
|||
|
|
""""" egg, and that I was the first to report it. No prize, though :(
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Ken Lucke
|
|||
|
|
(K.LUCKE, CAT12, TOP16, MSG:65/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
APPLE GRAPHICS TABLET INTERFERENCE Please, avoid the Apple Graphics
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Tablet if at all possible. While it
|
|||
|
|
works quite well, it was removed from the market at the "request" of the
|
|||
|
|
FCC as it really radiated a TON of radio and TV interference (could cause
|
|||
|
|
problems well over a block away)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-Harold
|
|||
|
|
Resident solder slinger.
|
|||
|
|
(H.HISLOP, CAT6, TOP4, MSG:115/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> HOT TOPICS <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GS FAX SOFTWARE BY WIFALL > Where will Pointless (no problem, I think),
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""" > and Harmonie (not in the picture even) fit
|
|||
|
|
> in?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Harmonie will continue to work with your printer. The fax driver is
|
|||
|
|
simply for another device that happens to be connected to your modem port
|
|||
|
|
rather than to your printer port. ;-) It will appear as a 200 dpi printer
|
|||
|
|
to GS/OS, so all existing software that works with today's printers will
|
|||
|
|
automatically be able to fax documents. Pointless will continue to work as
|
|||
|
|
it always has (in fact, you will *need* Pointless to create good looking
|
|||
|
|
faxes).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Think of it this way: rather than sending a document to your own
|
|||
|
|
printer, you are using someone else's fax machine as the "printer". :)
|
|||
|
|
That's why implementing sendfax as a printer driver is the only reasonable
|
|||
|
|
solution. Trying to fit send-receive fax into Spectrum or Proterm would be
|
|||
|
|
a wasted effort since you have to fire up those program every time a fax
|
|||
|
|
came in or you had one to send out. This way, the fax driver becomes
|
|||
|
|
instantly available to any properly written GS/OS desktop program that uses
|
|||
|
|
the Print Manager. Even something as old as my 1986 copy of DeluxePaint II
|
|||
|
|
will now be able to fax graphic images. Who would have imagined this just
|
|||
|
|
a few years ago? ;-)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----|----- Sent by CoPilot (beta)
|
|||
|
|
*>=====[_]L) for ANSITerm 2.1
|
|||
|
|
-'-`-
|
|||
|
|
(B.TAO, CAT10, TOP9, MSG:32/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> My dad was kind enough to let me post something here to clear
|
|||
|
|
""""" things up a bit.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
First of all I would like to reinforce what Brian said that no one on
|
|||
|
|
this topic speaks for me. So anything you hear here about my program is
|
|||
|
|
going to be at best second hand and at worst simply rumors. With that
|
|||
|
|
aside, let me try to answer a few questions on this topic about my program.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It will be GS specific and so will obviously require GS/OS. At this
|
|||
|
|
stage it will only work with Class 2 compatible modems. In particular, any
|
|||
|
|
modem that uses the rockwell chipset and supports Class 2 should work quite
|
|||
|
|
well (I am developing the program using a Supra v.32bis) Current plans are
|
|||
|
|
for a NDA for receiving and fax manipulation, and a print driver for
|
|||
|
|
sending. Shell executables and/or any other form would be nice, but will
|
|||
|
|
probably depend more on what type of deal I make with a publisher then
|
|||
|
|
anything else (ie Yes, it will be commercial).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I'm not looking for any beta testers at this time. I don't have any
|
|||
|
|
release date planned, and even if I did I wouldn't tell what it was. :) If
|
|||
|
|
you want more information on exactly how the development is progressing I
|
|||
|
|
suggest you read the gsfaxstat.txt file (I don't know if Brian uploaded
|
|||
|
|
this or not, but you can get it on internet from grind.isca.uiowa.edu
|
|||
|
|
apple2/caltech/uploads/gsfaxstat.txt via ftp) I will be updating that file
|
|||
|
|
semi-regularly and making it available on internet (unless someone wants to
|
|||
|
|
give me a free account here ;).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you are planning on purchasing a faxmodem and you want it to work
|
|||
|
|
with my program when it is released, make sure it is class 2 compatible. I
|
|||
|
|
doubt I will ever get around to working on any Class 1 support. (Note: I
|
|||
|
|
don't think the Supra144LC supports Class 2, but make sure to ask Supra or
|
|||
|
|
find out.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you have any specific questions, I can answer them using this account
|
|||
|
|
till I go back to school. (Translated this means anything posted after
|
|||
|
|
friday night won't be replyed to by me. I can be contacted by internet
|
|||
|
|
email at rwifall@nmsu.edu though. Read your GEnie user manual for help
|
|||
|
|
sending internet email :) (friday night meaning March 11th)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Richard Wifall | Have you ever received a fax on your AppleIIgs?
|
|||
|
|
rwifall@nmsu.edu | You will. But it won't be a product of AT&T.
|
|||
|
|
(J.WIFALL, CAT10, TOP9, MSG:75/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> Ummmmm. This makes one of the dumber guys ask, "What's the diff
|
|||
|
|
""""" between Class 1, Class 2 and Class 3, etc.?"
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Mature mind wishes to know...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Dave (D.MATTIS@GEnie.geis.com)
|
|||
|
|
(D.MATTIS, CAT10, TOP9, MSG:77/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> Dave - Ok, heres a quick primer in fax-speak. Class 1, 2 and 2.0
|
|||
|
|
""""" refer to how the computer talks to the faxmodem in software. Class
|
|||
|
|
1 is an official standard. Class 2 is not an official standard, but is
|
|||
|
|
fairly well standardized among faxmodem makers. Class 2.0 is the offshoot
|
|||
|
|
of Class 2 and is also an official standard.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Ok, now you're wondering what in the world this means to you? First
|
|||
|
|
of all you can ignore Class 2.0 for awhile. There aren't any faxmodems
|
|||
|
|
that I know of that actually support this standard yet. This leaves class
|
|||
|
|
1 and class 2. The differences between them are basically that the class 1
|
|||
|
|
command set requires that the computer do more of the work involved in a
|
|||
|
|
fax transmission whereas in class 2, the modem does more of the work and
|
|||
|
|
the computer does less. Class 2 is enough of a standard among the faxmodem
|
|||
|
|
manufacturers that compatibility should not be a problem. There is no such
|
|||
|
|
thing as class 3 at this time. I choose to support Class 2 at this time
|
|||
|
|
because it is easier from my standpoint and I haven't really taken a good
|
|||
|
|
look at what Class 1 requires.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Don't confuse "Class" with the "Group" designation of a fax-machine.
|
|||
|
|
The Group designation determines what machines your fax will talk with
|
|||
|
|
Basically every modern fax machine or fax modem is group 3 and should have
|
|||
|
|
no problems communication with each other (outside of bugs in the
|
|||
|
|
firmware).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BTW, I forgot to mention above, but the main reason that Class 2 is
|
|||
|
|
fairly well standardized among faxmodem manufacturers is because many of
|
|||
|
|
them use the rockwell chipset so they all should have the same
|
|||
|
|
implementation.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now on another note: Printing faxes..
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you own an HP DeskJet or some other high resolution printer,
|
|||
|
|
you're in luck. I printed out a fax today using a HP DeskJet portable. (It
|
|||
|
|
has the same internals as a DeskJet 500) and it looks _good_. Now if you
|
|||
|
|
are unlucky enough to still use an ImageWriter II (like I am) then printing
|
|||
|
|
faxes is not going to be a fun experience. Basically it boils down to the
|
|||
|
|
fact that the ImageWriter II simply does not have a high enough resolution
|
|||
|
|
to support printing faxes without some loss in quality. This means that in
|
|||
|
|
order to print a fax on an ImageWriter II it must be scaled down first. To
|
|||
|
|
put it frankly, the output does not look all that great. I may have to
|
|||
|
|
offer the option of splitting a fax into multiple pages so that it can be
|
|||
|
|
readable when printed on an IWII. (especially with small text)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I think thats all for now...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Richard (In disguise ;)
|
|||
|
|
(J.WIFALL, CAT10, TOP9, MSG:79/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
TIMEOUT FAX A recent brochure from Quality indicated that TimeOut Fax was
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""" coming soon. Does anyone know more about that? Hope it works
|
|||
|
|
on the //e...
|
|||
|
|
(J.GOODMAN10, CAT10, TOP9, MSG:28/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> TRON
|
|||
|
|
"""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
> On Quality and their fax software, the last thing I heard is that they
|
|||
|
|
> had abandoned all their fax projects, it's funny how they keep
|
|||
|
|
> advertising it though.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You might note that the IIGS version of the FAX software (which we
|
|||
|
|
abandoned) is different from the FAX software that we advertised in the
|
|||
|
|
AppleWorks flier. The IIGS fax software was a longterm project that the
|
|||
|
|
author never finished. We felt that we couldn't keep our customers waiting
|
|||
|
|
any longer and just cancelled our participation in it. That's not to say
|
|||
|
|
it won't be finished in the future, or that we aren't interested in any
|
|||
|
|
other products that might do the same thing.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Walker - QC (W.ARCHER2, CAT10, TOP9, MSG:55/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> WHAT'S NEW <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
AFTERWORK SCREEN SAVER RELEASED Just received AfterWork. I had trouble
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" with the 5.25 installer. After
|
|||
|
|
installing, none of the UM.Inits loaded, only the AfterWork inits. I
|
|||
|
|
checked the disk, and both the UM.inits and the MR.inits were there ok.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Then when AW started, it jumped to the "You must activate Inits and
|
|||
|
|
reboot to use UM" message on the standard setting inits screen. Inits
|
|||
|
|
_are_ activated. But OK, I'll bite, so I changed it to "no" then "yes" and
|
|||
|
|
rebooted, just to be sure. Same thing.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now, for the Installer to "find" the AW disk, I did find I needed to
|
|||
|
|
change the AW Startup disk pathname from /AW back to /Appleworks. After
|
|||
|
|
installing AfterWork, I renamed the disk /AW again. My inits are on a disk
|
|||
|
|
named /Appleworks in another drive, to avoid swapping disks. Since the
|
|||
|
|
standard settings have the init pathname, this ought to be OK, no? So why
|
|||
|
|
din't the UM.inits load after the AfterWork inits?
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
My 5.25 AfterDark Installer disk shows an error on Track 16 Block B,
|
|||
|
|
and the back of the disk (notched) is blank. No, it does have something on
|
|||
|
|
it: it makes the drive head go beserk, which needs a reset to stop it.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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I had no problems with the 3.5 installer on another machine with a
|
|||
|
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3.5 drive. However, the oa-x UM function no longer worked at all with
|
|||
|
|
AfterWork installed. Is this normal? (I sure hope not.)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
The various modules are GREAT! Especially Meltdown (I almost died
|
|||
|
|
laughing, and can't wait to set the time to 1 minute while my son is
|
|||
|
|
typing), Trickle (you should have seen the eyes of the people at work),
|
|||
|
|
Fans, Lemming Lines, and Boxes. And to be able to add sound and change the
|
|||
|
|
settings, Wow! One guy at work said, "Hey, I can't modify any Windows
|
|||
|
|
screen blankers!" Another asked, "Can I get that for my screen?" "No,
|
|||
|
|
sorry," I answered, "you have to have an _Apple_ to get this kind of
|
|||
|
|
stuff."
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
BTW, I noticed that with the delay for blanking set to 1, it went
|
|||
|
|
into AfterWork even while I was typing away. No big problem, just a
|
|||
|
|
comment.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Randy and Matt are to be commended on a job well done. But how about
|
|||
|
|
these questions?
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
__!__
|
|||
|
|
| Terrell Smith
|
|||
|
|
| tsmith@ivcfnsc.fullfeed.com
|
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|
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(T.SMITH59, CAT42, TOP29, MSG:162/M645;1)
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
TIMEOUT SHRINKIT SHIPS TimeOut ShrinkIt should be shipping today,
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""" finally. (Got the manual done last week. <g>)
|
|||
|
|
(QUALITY, CAT42, TOP29, MSG:194/M645;1)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
>>>>> Actually, TIMEOUT SHRINKIT officially shipped this afternoon. :)
|
|||
|
|
""""" Sorry for the delay.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Walker - Quality
|
|||
|
|
(W.ARCHER2, CAT42, TOP29, MSG:206/M645;1)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
ENHANCE SHIPS APPLE II TO II ALIVE Have you ordered from us in the past
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" year? If not, you won't get our
|
|||
|
|
catalogs and whatnot... usually. There are other ways to get on the
|
|||
|
|
mailing list, namely by being on one of the other lists we rent.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
We are mailing a separate Apple II catalog this time. All Apple II
|
|||
|
|
stuff that is NOT related to education has been removed from Enhance. And
|
|||
|
|
if you have told us that you are NOT a teacher, you will stop getting
|
|||
|
|
Enhance since it does not have any Apple II home/consumer stuff.
|
|||
|
|
(QUALITY, CAT42, TOP2, MSG:218/M645;1)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
NEXUS RELEASED AS FREEWARE! It seems as if the Apple IIGS world is going
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""" hyper over hypermedia.First HyperCard IIGS,
|
|||
|
|
then...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Tracy Valleau, the author of Nexus, has just re-classified the status
|
|||
|
|
of that hypermedia authoring system. Formerly costing $179, Nexus has just
|
|||
|
|
become copyrighted freeware! In his distribution notes, Tracy says that the
|
|||
|
|
freeware Nexus is the"exact same commercial program that won rave reviews
|
|||
|
|
and an A+ Editor's Choice.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Nexus allows you to link together standard text, graphics and sound
|
|||
|
|
files. There is no need for you or your students to learn new graphic or
|
|||
|
|
authoring software: just use the files and programs you already have.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Using Nexus, you can open a text document, click on the word
|
|||
|
|
'elephant' and Nexus will automatically retreive and display a picture of
|
|||
|
|
an elephant (or more text about elephants, or play the sound of an
|
|||
|
|
elephant.) This is all done without importing the files, changing their
|
|||
|
|
format or even altering them in any way! Use it for interactive fiction;
|
|||
|
|
multimedia based education and so on. The limit is the imagination."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Mr Valleau has stated that in order for any profit making
|
|||
|
|
organization to distribute Nexus, written permission must first be
|
|||
|
|
received. I have just written to Mr Valleau seeking that permission.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I have also spent the morning getting hyper about Nexus. Mr Valleau
|
|||
|
|
had sent me a demo disk that is filled with Nexus created stacks, and after
|
|||
|
|
looking at many of them, I feel that Nexus is a valuable addition to the
|
|||
|
|
IIGS hypermedia arena. It may not be as powerful as HyperCard IIGS, and it
|
|||
|
|
may not have as many bells and whistles as HyperStudio, but the price is
|
|||
|
|
right and its ease of use will make Nexus a powerful hypermedia contender
|
|||
|
|
in schools.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Shareware Solutions II would like to salute Tracy Valleau for making
|
|||
|
|
Nexus available as copyrighted freeware!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Joe Kohn (J.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:342/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> Here comes Nexus
|
|||
|
|
"""""
|
|||
|
|
Mr Valleau has given Shareware Solutions II permission to distribute
|
|||
|
|
both the Nexus program and the Nexus demo. He didn't want me to add the
|
|||
|
|
sample Nexus files I already had to the program disk, so it looks like the
|
|||
|
|
SSII Library will start off with both.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
He also said that it would be just fine with him if Nexus were
|
|||
|
|
uploaded here to the A2 Library. Since I mentioned this yesterday in email
|
|||
|
|
to both Dean and Tim Tobin, let me ask them...do you want to upload it, or
|
|||
|
|
should I?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As I like to joke, Shareware Solutions II sometimes takes on a life
|
|||
|
|
of its own, and tells me what I should write about. It sure likes like the
|
|||
|
|
major theme of issue #5 is going to be IIGS hypermedia.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Joe (J.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:351/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MAGIC NEWS GROUP ARRANGER [and it's FREE to registered owners of THE
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""" MAGIC NEWS GROUP READER]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
by Gary Hayman
|
|||
|
|
(c) Copyright 1994
|
|||
|
|
Gary Hayman & Magical Software
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[Versions for AppleWorks 3.0 with TimeOut Installed and AppleWorks 4
|
|||
|
|
with TimeOut activated]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Those of you who already own Magical Software's THE MAGIC NEWS GROUP
|
|||
|
|
READER (MNG READER) know of the great 'Subject thread' following features
|
|||
|
|
that are included with that program.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
All one needs to do is to register the thread in any message with a
|
|||
|
|
SA-T)hread and subsequent presses of SA-N)ext will take you to the next
|
|||
|
|
message in the thread (even replies) until there are no more messages in
|
|||
|
|
that thread left. A press of SA-E)xit will exit the thread search and
|
|||
|
|
return you to your starting message. If you want, you can use the
|
|||
|
|
BA-T)hreadCount feature to actually tell you how many messages in the
|
|||
|
|
thread from that point to the end of file.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Announcing a New Related Product THE MAGIC NEWS GROUP ARRANGER (MNG
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ARRANGER) takes your news group captures
|
|||
|
|
and automatically sorts each message so that all same subject thread
|
|||
|
|
messages appear one after the other. This is done by completely
|
|||
|
|
re-arranging all the messages in the file - no simple task.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now as you read your messages, with the MNG READER you will see
|
|||
|
|
groups of subject thread messages -- all together. This will even increase
|
|||
|
|
your speed in reading news group messages for if you enter a thread that
|
|||
|
|
you are not interested in, the quick repeated pressing of SA-Down Arrow
|
|||
|
|
will zip you through them without you having to read the contents of the
|
|||
|
|
messages in the thread. The included 'Subject is Highlighted' feature of
|
|||
|
|
the MNG READER aids in this task.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Once activated, the MNG ARRANGER does it's job and produces a new
|
|||
|
|
file with the arranged messages in the proper order. MNG ARRANGER will
|
|||
|
|
first count the number of messages in your file in order to later provide
|
|||
|
|
you with a running status indicator of the number of messages out of the
|
|||
|
|
total number have been processed. While it is doing this first task, it is
|
|||
|
|
also checking to see if 'CS-ID: ' and 'Subject: ' are in the proper place
|
|||
|
|
[flush left, separated by two lines]. If not, it will let you know and
|
|||
|
|
provide you with the opportunity to hand correct the errant message(s).
|
|||
|
|
When all is well, it will proceed to do its major task of finding and
|
|||
|
|
moving. If you have hundreds of messages, you may want to grab a cup of
|
|||
|
|
coffee as the MNG ARRANGER does it's automagical stuff - or just watch
|
|||
|
|
while being hypnotized by the flashing screens. You can always check on the
|
|||
|
|
progress by the text printed on the message line. As the messages are
|
|||
|
|
transferred, the processing speed keeps on increasing.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Example To give you an example as how I use it to my advantage; I am
|
|||
|
|
''''''' in and capture the Internet/USENET newsgroup messages of
|
|||
|
|
'alt.magic'. I process the messages with MNG ARRANGER and read the new file
|
|||
|
|
with MNG READER. I use the SA-C)lipping feature to extract messages or
|
|||
|
|
portions of messages in which I am interested. I later use this clipped
|
|||
|
|
file to post on a Magic BBS in the Washington DC area. By having subject
|
|||
|
|
threads together, it provides a continuity for my clippings.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
How Can You Get Your Copy Of The Magic News Group Arranger? Until further
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' notice, I
|
|||
|
|
will furnish FREE OF CHARGE to all registered owners of the MNG READER, the
|
|||
|
|
new MNG ARRANGER. If you are a registered owner you must request it by
|
|||
|
|
sending email to me at:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ghayman@cap.gwu.edu
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The file will be sent to you via email in a BINSCII format of some
|
|||
|
|
Shrunk files. This means you must have one of the BINSCII programs (ProDos
|
|||
|
|
or GS/OS) and one of the Shrink.It programs (ProDOS or GS/OS) in order to
|
|||
|
|
process the file I send you. Using this technique, my turnaround time is
|
|||
|
|
very rapid and you can receive your file in only minutes after I read your
|
|||
|
|
email request and verify you as a registered owner of MNG READER. Also, and
|
|||
|
|
this is a plus, I can send it to foreign countries with no international
|
|||
|
|
border bother at all.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The MNG ARRANGER is designed as a TimeOut application that is to be
|
|||
|
|
placed in your TO.APPLICATIONS directory (AW3) or TIMEOUT directory (AW4).
|
|||
|
|
Since there are two different versions of the program (AW3 and AW4) you
|
|||
|
|
must specify which one you desire. You may have both, however, please make
|
|||
|
|
separate requests and on different dates please.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Running The Magic News Group Arranger Once installed in the proper
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' directory all you have to do is to
|
|||
|
|
go to your TimeOut menus [OA-ESC], highlight MNG.ARRANGER, select it, and
|
|||
|
|
let it do its thing. You will find your arranged news group messages in a
|
|||
|
|
new file on your desktop named ARRANGED.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Another Related Program P.S. To let you in on a little secret. There is,
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''''''''''''''' in existence (at this very moment), a third
|
|||
|
|
module in this series -- THE MAGIC NEWS GROUP RESPONDER which I am still
|
|||
|
|
playing with to ascertain if it would be of value to individuals other than
|
|||
|
|
myself. In the future, I may release this module too.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NOTE: OA = Open Apple or Command key
|
|||
|
|
SA = Solid Apple or Option key
|
|||
|
|
BA = Both Apples or the Command & Option keys
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The MAGIC NEWS GROUP READER & ARRANGER require AppleWorks 3.0 with
|
|||
|
|
TimeOut installed or AppleWorks 4.x with TimeOut activated.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
See previous messages for details about THE MAGIC NEWS GROUP READER
|
|||
|
|
and its use for off line high speed reading of Internet/USENET News Group
|
|||
|
|
messages. A 'received' format is required.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
March 4, 1994
|
|||
|
|
GARY HAYMAN
|
|||
|
|
MAGICAL SOFTWARE
|
|||
|
|
8255 Canning Terrace
|
|||
|
|
Greenbelt, MD 20770
|
|||
|
|
Phone: (301) 345-3230
|
|||
|
|
Email: ghayman@cap.gwu.edu
|
|||
|
|
(G.E.HAYMAN, CAT10, TOP10, MSG:226/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THE ULTIMATE ULTRAMACORS BOOK? Doug, it's the compleat, concise, and
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" unabridged anthology, encyclopedia,
|
|||
|
|
dictionary, reference, easy does it, yes, I can! book of UltraMacros. Items
|
|||
|
|
are listed A to Z; if you want to learn about Display 0, just look up under
|
|||
|
|
D and you'll get everything you ever wanted to know, and some you didn't
|
|||
|
|
know you needed to know.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I do not have an official title yet. It is specific to AppleWorks 4.
|
|||
|
|
Available after April 15.
|
|||
|
|
(B.CADIEUX, CAT13, TOP15, MSG:223/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<<<<< Gary, TEXAS II subscribers will be the first (and the only) ones to
|
|||
|
|
""""" know.
|
|||
|
|
(B.CADIEUX, CAT13, TOP15, MSG:226/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BILL HEINEMAN GAMES OF SOFTDISK G-S? Don't pester us about Bill's games
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" -- pester Bill. We have been trying
|
|||
|
|
for MONTHS to get Bill to make final changes to his games and he is not.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Believe me, we want to publish those games as much as anyone, but we
|
|||
|
|
can't publish them until they are complete.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Bryan (SOFTDISK.INC, CAT34, TOP4, MSG:117/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
APPLEWORKS GS 2.0 SETBACK? I called the other day and placed my order for
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""" AWGS v2.0. I was informed at the time that
|
|||
|
|
the new _projected_ release date is now July,'94. This is fine by me. My
|
|||
|
|
only question is that when you first acquired the rights, a mention was
|
|||
|
|
made about a version 1.2 to correct bugs, followed by the v2.0 for some
|
|||
|
|
major enhancements. Has this changed?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Jeff - Delivered by CoPilot v2.1.1 and Spectrum v1.0
|
|||
|
|
(J.CARR20, CAT42, TOP32, MSG:376/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> Yeah, our programming force of extraordinary magnitude just sort of
|
|||
|
|
""""" fell apart. The person we picked to lead it just didn't have the
|
|||
|
|
full-time commitment for the job.
|
|||
|
|
(QUALITY, CAT42, TOP32, MSG:377/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
DIGISOFT UPDATE Sorry for my couple week absence! I have been pretty
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""" busy with school and other endeavors and now things are
|
|||
|
|
back to normal.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Re: Art Contest
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
We are currently sorting and reviewing the entries received. If you
|
|||
|
|
still would like to enter, that is okay - feel free to email us any more
|
|||
|
|
art! We hope to reach a final decision within a few weeks; I will keep you
|
|||
|
|
posted.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Re: DigiSoft CD
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This is currently our top priority... We are putting a lot of work
|
|||
|
|
into it and are making considerable progress. Stay tuned. It will have
|
|||
|
|
everything we can find that is usable to an Apple II user, in all
|
|||
|
|
uncompressed form.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<<Jim (DIGISOFT, CAT13, TOP29, MSG:86/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ALL-TECH ONLINE? Speaking of All Tech, look forward to them being online
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""" in A2 in the near future. :)
|
|||
|
|
(GARY.UTTER, CAT2, TOP19, MSG:187/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
WAITLESS ALMOST READY? Since we're in the AW 4 topic, I might add that
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""" Dan Verkade is about done with WaitLess (those
|
|||
|
|
California guys with their pointless names!), an AW 4 print spooler which
|
|||
|
|
stores the print info on the desktop as fast as AW will kick it out, then
|
|||
|
|
sends it to the printer during cursor blinks, allowing you to keep working
|
|||
|
|
as the printing goes on in the background. Printing isn't faster, it's
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probably slower, but you get your computer back much quicker, as Chuck
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explained, and as the WaitLess name implies.
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(BRANDT, CAT42, TOP29, MSG:286/M645;1)
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SHAREWARE SOLUTIONS II UPDATE Several things have changed since I
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" initially announced Shareware Solutions II
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in May, 1993.
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In my initial press release, I stated that SSII would be 12 pages in
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length. As we all know, each issue has been 20 pages.
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I also announced that I had high hopes that Shareware Solutions II,
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after a few issues, would become a monthly publication. I had initially
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thought that when I became more familiar with Desktop Publishing that I'd
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be able to step up my production schedule.
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After having produced 4 issues, I think I can safely say that it
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would be a Herculean - if not impossible - task for any one person to
|
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write, edit, layout, publish, fold, stamp and mail a 20 page newsletter on
|
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a monthly basis. I'm comfortable now with the bi-monthly schedule, and have
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come to the conclusion that Shareware Solutions II will remain a bi-monthly
|
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newsletter. Actually, I came to that conclusion several months ago.
|
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I just wanted to let everyone know that it is now official; Shareware
|
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Solutions II is, and probably always will be, a bi-monthly publication.
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When I first announced Shareware Solutions II, I stated that a
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subscription was for 12 issues. Being a man of my word, I just wanted to
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clarify that all current subscribers (with very few exceptions) will
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receive those 12 issues of SSII. Your 12 issue subscription has effectively
|
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become a 2 year subscription. I feel a need to clarify that now, as several
|
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people have recently sent me subscription renewals; since you're a year too
|
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early, I will be returning your checks to you.
|
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Knowing now for a fact that SSII is a bi-monthly publication, I plan
|
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to re-vamp the subscription fees to bring them more into line with what
|
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other Apple II publications charge. Although nothing definite has been
|
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determined, I'm thinking of offering two different subscription rates...
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Plan A) This will be a one year, 6 issue subscription. People who
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subscribe to Plan A will start their subscription with the then-current
|
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issue.
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Plan B) This will be similiar to the current "charter subscriber"
|
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plan. It will be a 2 year, 12 issue subscription starting with the Premier
|
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issue of Shareware Solutions II.
|
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I have not yet set the rates for these new plans, but will think
|
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about this a whole lot in the next week or two, and announce those new
|
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rates here. Whatever they are, they will become effective on May 1, 1994.
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Anyone subscribing to Shareware Solutions II between now and May 1,
|
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|
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1994 will still be able to take advantage of the Charter Subscriber Rates.
|
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|
|
If you subscribe now, you will receive a package that includes the first 4
|
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|
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issues, and still have over a year left on your subscription.
|
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|
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|
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Joe Kohn
|
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Publisher, Shareware Solutions II
|
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(J.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:409/M645;1)
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|
APPLIED ENGINEERING SWAN SONG? According to a good source...
|
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
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|
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As of Monday, March 25 1994, Applied Engineering has closed their
|
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|
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doors. (confirmed by their lawyer)
|
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|
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|
|
I have very mixed feelings about this.
|
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|
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|
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1) AE finally got their just deserts for having sc*#ed all the Apple
|
|||
|
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// people who are the ones who really built the company in the first place.
|
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|
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|
|
2) Now where do people like Doug, Bill and myself go to get
|
|||
|
|
replacement custom chips (PAL, GAL, Eprom, VLSI, etc) to repair AE
|
|||
|
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products????
|
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|
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|
|
If a whole bunch of Apple // users were to pool some funds real quick
|
|||
|
|
there MIGHT be a chance that a bunch of these irreplacable chips, in house
|
|||
|
|
documentation, source code, etc could be purchased before it gets lost, or
|
|||
|
|
sold for salvage value. I am NOT in a position to pursue this possibility,
|
|||
|
|
but maybe there are others here with the needed backround and finances to
|
|||
|
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pursue this possibility.
|
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|
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|
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If this occurs, I would be willing to make the effort to get to
|
|||
|
|
Carrolton (etc) to sort thru a bunch of this hardware, doccumentation,
|
|||
|
|
source code, etc so that prime repair parts (the really critical stuff) and
|
|||
|
|
needed paperwork, etc could be obtained.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
-Harold
|
|||
|
|
Resident solder slinger.
|
|||
|
|
(H.HISLOP, CAT5, TOP3, MSG:41/M645;1)
|
|||
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|
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|
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|
|||
|
|
>>> MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Category 2, Topic 9
|
|||
|
|
Message 59 Mon Feb 28, 1994
|
|||
|
|
D.JOHNSON106 [VACC Dave] at 23:53 EST
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
> in all the years that I have participated in online communications
|
|||
|
|
> via various avenues, I have _never_ seen such an outpouring of good
|
|||
|
|
> will towards another.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
I think our goodwill toward Harold comes, not from the fact that he
|
|||
|
|
fixes our broken toys, but from the fact that he personifies a quality that
|
|||
|
|
seems to be in short supply these days. The old work ethic. Most of us in
|
|||
|
|
this forum share this ethic, but we see a lot of the opposite all around
|
|||
|
|
us. So many people these days (maybe it was always so) look for any excuse
|
|||
|
|
to avoid work. Work is the enemy to them. But our friend Harold solicits
|
|||
|
|
work to do for us at no charge so that he can feel useful. And useful he
|
|||
|
|
is. I liken society to a machine. We are all cogs, gears, shafts and cams
|
|||
|
|
in the machine. Some are just idlers, some carry their share of the load.
|
|||
|
|
Some drive and some are driven. Quite a device.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
VACC Dave .............
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
While on GEnie, do you spend most of your time downloading files?
|
|||
|
|
If so, you may be missing out some excellent information in the Bulletin
|
|||
|
|
Board area. The messages listed above only scratch the surface of
|
|||
|
|
what's available and waiting for you in the bulletin board area.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you are serious about your Apple II, the GEnieLamp staff strongly
|
|||
|
|
urge you to give the bulletin board area a try. There are literally
|
|||
|
|
thousands of messages posted from people like you from all over the
|
|||
|
|
world.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[HUM]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
HUMOR ONLINE /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Fun & Games On GEnie
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Captured from:
|
|||
|
|
Wildcat Orphanage BBS
|
|||
|
|
(719) 392-6631
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> WE SHALL C WHAT WE SHALL C <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In the beginning there was ENIAC. And the ENIAC was without language
|
|||
|
|
or form. And so was created Machine Code. And it was Good.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
On the second day, Hex was created. And it was good.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
On the third day, Assembly Language was created. And it was good.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
On the fourth day, Fortran was created and it was good.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
On the fifth day, man programmed in Fortran. And it was very good.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
And it was spoken: "Thou may program in any of these, but the tree of
|
|||
|
|
COBOL thou shall not partake for thou shalt surely pay for thine
|
|||
|
|
transgressions."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
But, there was a hacker in the woods who took the form of a mini and
|
|||
|
|
spake to the man and said "Thou shalt not pay for thine transgressions, for
|
|||
|
|
he knoweth that if thou partakest, thou shall have power to program large
|
|||
|
|
and wonderful things that shall be readable by others!"
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
So, the man partook of COBOL.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
And it was spoken: "Thou hast partaken of the tree of COBOL: Thou art
|
|||
|
|
doomed to write hundred thousand line programs, be enslaved by IBM, and not
|
|||
|
|
have other good programming options for years."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
And it was so. Many years passed. IBM dominated. Programs grew
|
|||
|
|
larger and larger. BASIC, Pascal, SNOBOL, PLI, Ada and many others came
|
|||
|
|
and went. IBM dominated. And COBOL programs grew.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Then, as implied, a program came out of the telephone.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It spread to the universities who took it on and made it grow.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
IBM tried to kill it many times, but after the PC was introduced, it
|
|||
|
|
was inevitable. First, A. Written in Assembly, not COBOL. Then B which
|
|||
|
|
was better that A. Then finally C took full form and shape.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
With UNIX, it launched into the market seemingly impervious to
|
|||
|
|
COBOL's domination. IBM tried again to kill it. Through security holes,
|
|||
|
|
and portability, and unreadability IBM tried. But C could not be quashed.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The implied savior of programming everywhere had come!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
And the great COBOL could finally start to be removed. Open systems
|
|||
|
|
and high capacity graphic's aided and spurred C on until there was C for
|
|||
|
|
DOS, C++, and finally, C for the IBM series 3090.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
And it was very good.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
//////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ /
|
|||
|
|
/ If "authority" fails to give a good answer when queried /
|
|||
|
|
/ sincerly, then such "authority" is such in name only, /
|
|||
|
|
/ and further investigation is warranted. /
|
|||
|
|
/ /
|
|||
|
|
/ Must be related to "Always listen to experts. /
|
|||
|
|
/ They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. /
|
|||
|
|
/ Then do it." (the motto of every Apple II /
|
|||
|
|
/ programmer). :) /
|
|||
|
|
/ /
|
|||
|
|
////////////////////////////////////// H.HISLOP / B.TAO ////
|
|||
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|
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[REF]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
REFLECTIONS /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Thinking About Online Communications
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
by Phil Shapiro
|
|||
|
|
[P.SHAPIRO1]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> THE FUTURE OF ONLINE COMMERCE <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Our nation has always had a long and proud history of inventors and
|
|||
|
|
tinkerers. From Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, to Henry Ford and
|
|||
|
|
Thomas Edison, to Orville and Wilbur Wright, to Steve Wozniak and Steve
|
|||
|
|
Jobs -- the creative spirit of Americans emerges anew in each and every
|
|||
|
|
generation.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Inventiveness is so much a part of our national culture that we even
|
|||
|
|
have stores which cater specifically to the "do-it-yourself" spirit.
|
|||
|
|
Almost every city in the nation has a few "home repair" stores, and every
|
|||
|
|
small town in the nation has at least one Radio Shack store.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The usefulness of Radio Shack stores was brought home to me in a
|
|||
|
|
personal way last month.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Without any warning, my Apple II monochrome monitor burned out. A
|
|||
|
|
kind and helpful person in the local computer user group, Jon Hardis,
|
|||
|
|
offered to take a look at it for no charge. Two weeks later I received a
|
|||
|
|
phone call from Jon saying the monitor had been fixed. "All you really
|
|||
|
|
needed was an inexpensive doo-dad replacement from Radio Shack," he
|
|||
|
|
declared matter-of-factly.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The way he said the words "Radio Shack" implied that the burned-out
|
|||
|
|
part in my monitor could be replaced with a commonplace device that any
|
|||
|
|
self-respecting electronics hobbyist could obtain with a simple stroll down
|
|||
|
|
to Radio Shack. Well, I don't hold myself out to be an electronics whiz by
|
|||
|
|
any means, but I'm fascinated by the fact that he was able to repair my
|
|||
|
|
monitor so easily. And to think that all he really needed was an
|
|||
|
|
inexpensive doo-dad from Radio Shack.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
But this episode also got me thinking about some not-so-positive
|
|||
|
|
encounters I've had with Radio Shack. On more than a few occasions, I've
|
|||
|
|
asked technical questions of Radio Shack in-store employees, only to be
|
|||
|
|
given entirely erroneous answers in return.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To be sure, you could hardly expect every Radio Shack employee to be
|
|||
|
|
knowledgeable about everything they have for sale in their stores. The
|
|||
|
|
complexities of the products, and the complexity of the terminology
|
|||
|
|
describing the products, are too much for anyone but an electronics
|
|||
|
|
hobbyist to fully master.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Which is where online communications could come into play. Radio
|
|||
|
|
Shack could take a leadership role in bringing online tech support to its
|
|||
|
|
customers. Tandy doesn't need to hire an audio components expert for each
|
|||
|
|
and every one of its stores. Rather, it could provide an audio components
|
|||
|
|
expert online, with an Internet address that could easily be reached by
|
|||
|
|
anyone with an account on GEnie, America Online, or CompuServe.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Likewise, Radio Shack could provide tech support for any of their
|
|||
|
|
other products they sell. Note: I'm not just talking about post-sale tech
|
|||
|
|
support. More than anything, Radio Shack needs pre-sale tech support.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
And the tech support need not be narrowly focussed to a particular
|
|||
|
|
product. Someone working on an electronics project should be able to
|
|||
|
|
discuss that project online with a suitable Radio Shack expert, and then
|
|||
|
|
receive recommendations and suggestions by that expert.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Imagine the possibilities: an ongoing online dialogue between a
|
|||
|
|
techie guru and someone with a keen spirit of inventiveness. If Radio
|
|||
|
|
Shack had had an online tech support service back in the 1960s, you can bet
|
|||
|
|
that they would have received a barrage of questions from that pesky
|
|||
|
|
youngster, Steve Wozniak.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
By offering such an online service, Radio Shack would overcome the
|
|||
|
|
problems they currently have with in-store employees who are unable to
|
|||
|
|
answer tough technical questions. Not only that, Radio Shack would
|
|||
|
|
dramatically reduce the quantity of returned merchandise -- merchandise
|
|||
|
|
bought in error.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
But more important, by implementing a free online tech support
|
|||
|
|
service, Radio Shack could help foster and perpetuate the inventive spirit
|
|||
|
|
that brought our county the electric light bulb, the airplane, the Model T,
|
|||
|
|
and the Apple II.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The next generation of inventors are making their way through
|
|||
|
|
elementary school today. And they have just a ton of questions they'd like
|
|||
|
|
answered.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[Footnote: I called Tandy-Radio Shack's main office in Fort Worth,
|
|||
|
|
Texas, to find out if they might already offer an online tech support
|
|||
|
|
service. They told me the closest thing to such a service that they offer
|
|||
|
|
is tech support for Tandy computers, via PC-Link.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you're interested in seeing Radio Shack offer free pre-sale and
|
|||
|
|
post-sale online tech support, take a minute to write a hard copy letter to
|
|||
|
|
Tandy Corporation's director of customer relations, Ms. Lucille Frey. The
|
|||
|
|
address for Tandy Corporation's executive offices is: 1800 One Tandy
|
|||
|
|
Center, P.O. Box 17180, Fort Worth, TX 76102. If you'd rather not write a
|
|||
|
|
letter, you might send Ms. Frey a hard copy printout of this article.]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Phil Shapiro
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The author takes a keen interest in the social dimensions
|
|||
|
|
of communications technology. He can be reached on GEnie
|
|||
|
|
at P.SHAPIRO1; on America Online at: pshapiro.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[BEG]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
BEGINNER'S CORNER /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Polishing Green Apples
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
by Steve Weyhrich
|
|||
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[S.WEYHRICH]
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>>> HOOKED ON STORAGE (Part 2) <<<
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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PRELUDE Last time I laid the groundwork for an understanding of the
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""""""" function and use of a hard disk, with a brief explanation as to
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why a hard disk is not necessarily a luxury item, on through to some
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vocabulary that will be used as we continue to discuss the topic. This
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month the discussion will turn to what is needed to create a mass storage
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system for YOU.
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PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER Now that you've decided to take the plunge
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""" and buy a hard disk, what exactly do you need
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to make it work with your computer? Your decision depends primarily on
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which computer you have, how much storage capacity you plan to buy, and how
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much speed you want. As usual, some of those decisions will hinge on how
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much money you can afford to spend on this upgrade. Remember that no
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matter HOW much storage or speed you have today, you'll want more within a
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year. It is probably best to buy as large and as fast a drive as you can
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afford right now, because on the used market you can be sure that you will
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never get back what you paid for it. (The depreciation of computer
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equipment is pretty steep.)
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APPLE IIC For IIc owners, the choices are few. Originally a "sealed"
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""""""""" computer that the user would simply plug in and start using,
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the Apple IIc was not designed with expandability in mind. In fact, the
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original IIc was conceived to use one and ONLY one external 5.25 drive; it
|
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was not until user demand prompted them to upgrade the hardware and
|
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firmware to handle the larger capacity 800K UniDisk 3.5 drive that it
|
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became possible for a greater variety of disk devices to be used on the
|
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IIc. This modified disk port, which is nearly identical in function to the
|
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one later used on the Apple IIgs, utilizes a firmware protocol that Apple
|
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named the "Smartport" protocol. It includes the necessary commands to
|
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allow the ProDOS operating system to communicate with different types of
|
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disk devices.
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After the Smartport protocol was created, however, a protocol that
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was more flexible and more widely accepted across the computer industry
|
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came into use. The Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI; pronounced
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"scuzzy") protocol used commands similar to those used on the Smartport,
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but not similar enough to be directly compatible. Although Macintosh
|
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computers beginning with the Macintosh Plus came with a SCSI port built in,
|
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the IIc never was upgraded with that ability. Companies that wanted to
|
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build hard drives that would work on the Apple IIc had to jump through some
|
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hoops to make it work at all. Consequently, you will definitely pay more
|
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for a hard drive on the IIc than it would cost to outfit a II Plus, IIe, or
|
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IIgs with a similar-sized drive.
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Sequential Systems For brand new hard drives, there is only one choice
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'''''''''''''''''' available: Sequential Systems sells a SCSI drive,
|
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originally designed by Chinook, which uses a built-in adapter to enable it
|
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to work with the Smartport on the IIc. That adapter translates Smartport
|
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commands into proper SCSI commands. After Chinook sold their hardware
|
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operations to Sequential Systems, the IIc hard drive was not discontinued,
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as it fills a niche that is available nearly nowhere else.
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As of this writing, Sequential still sells the CT-40c ($399) and
|
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CT-100c ($549), 40- and 100-meg hard drives respectively. They are selling
|
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the 40-meg version "while supplies last", as it is getting more difficult
|
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to obtain new hard drives at a size less than 100 megs. These drives use
|
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SCSI mechanisms made by Quantum, a respected name among disk drive
|
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manufacturers. With the drive comes a utility program that will allow you
|
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to repartition the drive if you wish, but it does come already formatted
|
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and partitioned. (Recall that partitions are necessary since ProDOS can
|
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handle disk volumes only up to 32 meg in size.) The CT-40c is divided into
|
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two 20 meg partitions, and the CT-100c into multiple 32 meg partitions.
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(Note: These drives will work only on versions of the Apple IIc that
|
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can accept a UniDisk 3.5. To see which version of the IIc YOU have, get
|
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into Applesoft BASIC, and type "PRINT PEEK(64447)". If it responds with
|
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"255", you need an upgrade -- which Apple is still supposed to do for free;
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ask for authorization number "ODL660" at your dealer. If you see a 0, 3,
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or 4, you can use this hard drive. The Apple IIc Plus will respond with a
|
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5, and will be compatible with the Sequential drives.)
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Alltech Electronics / ProApp Alltech Electronics still sells some older
|
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'''''''''''''''''''''''''''' hard drives for the Apple IIc that carry the
|
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ProApp name. These are 40 meg drives, and require UniDisk 3.5-capable
|
|||
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Apple IIc's. However, they use a protocol called "RLL", which is different
|
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from the more common IDE and SCSI types of hard drives. As with the
|
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Sequential drives, the ProApp drives come with partitioning software, and
|
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are divided into two 20-meg partitions.
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Quark One other hard drive for the Apple IIc may be found on the used
|
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''''' market: the Quark QC-10. This is a 10-meg hard drive that was
|
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released soon after the IIc came on the market in 1984, and was unique in
|
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that it managed to function on the ORIGINAL Apple IIc disk port (recall
|
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|
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that this was designed to work ONLY with a single external 5.25 drives).
|
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Because of that design, a QC-10 possibly may NOT work with a IIc that has
|
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|
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been upgraded to use the UniDisk 3.5 or memory expansion; however, if the
|
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drive itself is still functioning, it may be possible for an enterprising
|
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hacker to make the modifications to allow it to work. (I do not have
|
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|
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specifications about what type of hard drive this was, nor how they made it
|
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work on the old IIc disk port, and cannot be certain about whether it can
|
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be used "as is", or would require modifications.)
|
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HARDENING AN APPLE IIC A couple other considerations about the use of
|
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|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""" hard drives on the IIc must be made here.
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|
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Versions of ProDOS up through v1.9 would allow no more than four disk
|
|||
|
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devices to be attached to a disk device on slot 5 (which is where the IIc
|
|||
|
|
and IIgs Smartport appears in the classic Apple II slot scheme). On other
|
|||
|
|
slots no more than two disk devices could appear. Because of this, a hard
|
|||
|
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disk that was partitioned into more than four volumes would not be fully
|
|||
|
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available for use on the IIc. For example, if you purchased a CT-100c and
|
|||
|
|
wanted five 20 meg volumes, only the first four would show up in a disk
|
|||
|
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list. (ProDOS must remap those other drives to make it appear that they
|
|||
|
|
are attached to another slot and drive. The first volume attached to the
|
|||
|
|
Smartport can be accessed at Slot 5/Drive 1, the second at slot 5/Drive 2,
|
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|
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the third at Slot 2/Drive 1, and the fourth at Slot 2/Drive 2.)
|
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|
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|
|
Beginning with v2.0.1 of ProDOS, up to fourteen disk devices could be
|
|||
|
|
attached to a single slot. If you are running that version or any later
|
|||
|
|
one on your IIc, you could theoretically divide that 100 meg hard drive
|
|||
|
|
into as many as twelve smaller-sized volumes. (To go beyond twelve would
|
|||
|
|
possibly interfere with access to the internal 5.25 drive, and to the 64K
|
|||
|
|
RAMDisk in Slot 3/Drive 2.) My personal recommendation would be to aim for
|
|||
|
|
20 meg partitions on the IIc; if you use ProSel as a program selector --
|
|||
|
|
highly recommended, by the way -- some of its hard disk management
|
|||
|
|
utilities cannot handle volumes greater than 20 megs unless you are running
|
|||
|
|
on a IIgs.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
One other little problem with the use of a hard drive on a IIc: The
|
|||
|
|
IIc will start at slot 7 and scan down to slot 1 until it finds a disk
|
|||
|
|
device with a valid disk that can be booted. The internal 5.25 drive is at
|
|||
|
|
Slot 6/Drive 1, and a hard disk attached to the Smartport will appear at
|
|||
|
|
Slot 5/Drive 1. It is preferable to boot from a hard disk, for the sake of
|
|||
|
|
convenience. On a IIe, you would just put the hard disk card into slot 7;
|
|||
|
|
on the IIgs, you would change the control panel setting to make it boot
|
|||
|
|
from the right slot. How to do this on a IIc, where such changes cannot be
|
|||
|
|
made?
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
When I used a IIc and a Chinook CT-20c hard drive, my solution was to
|
|||
|
|
write a short utility that I called "SmartBoot". It is still available in
|
|||
|
|
the A2 Library:
|
|||
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|
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|
|
13641 SMARTBOOT.BXY V2.1 X S.WEYHRICH 901002 32760 328 40
|
|||
|
|
Desc: Improved Hard Disk Booting
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
This program, which is also useful on the IIgs and IIe, lets you use
|
|||
|
|
a disk device that IS available immediately (such as the internal 5.25
|
|||
|
|
drive on the IIc) to look at another slot and drive, and continue checking
|
|||
|
|
that location until a valid disk is available. That means that you can
|
|||
|
|
also turn on both the computer AND the hard disk simultaneously, and
|
|||
|
|
SmartBoot will wait until the hard disk has come up to speed before it
|
|||
|
|
tries to boot it. In the above example, SmartBoot is stored on a disk in
|
|||
|
|
the internal 5.25 drive, and is configured to check Slot 5/Drive 1, which
|
|||
|
|
is where the hard disk's first partition is found. (SmartBoot has other
|
|||
|
|
features, but I won't go into them here.)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
RESOURCES Here's where to get in touch with the companies mentioned in
|
|||
|
|
""""""""" this article:
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Alltech Electronics Co. Sequential Systems
|
|||
|
|
602 Garrison Street 1200 Diamond Circle
|
|||
|
|
Oceanside CA 92054 Lafayette CO 80026
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
800-995-7773 800-759-4549
|
|||
|
|
619-721-7733
|
|||
|
|
619-721-2823 (fax)
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[TEC]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
TECH TALK /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Apple II Hybrids
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
by Jay Curtis
|
|||
|
|
[J.CURTIS8]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Want a hybrid computer that "does everything", but can't wait for a
|
|||
|
|
PowerPC with Apple II emulation? A colleague of mine recently reported
|
|||
|
|
that he had a Mac LC 475 (1) up and running with an Apple II PDS card and
|
|||
|
|
Soft PC, giving him a hybrid computer platform that runs Apple II, Mac and
|
|||
|
|
MS-DOS software.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MACINTOSH LC 475 According to my colleague, the economical, 68040-based
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""" Mac LC 475 runs at a sprightly 22 MIPS (3 times faster
|
|||
|
|
than the 68030-based LC-III). Because of this fact, he claimed that he
|
|||
|
|
could get "acceptable" performance from Insignia's PC emulation software
|
|||
|
|
while running DOS-only applications on his Mac. Formerly, the biggest
|
|||
|
|
complaint about Insignia's Soft PC emulator for the Mac has been its
|
|||
|
|
lethargy, but the LC 475 gives Soft PC a shot of adrenaline.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
My colleague said that Windows still runs slowly on his 475, however.
|
|||
|
|
He also said that Apple II emulation from the PDS card remained consistent
|
|||
|
|
with an off-the-shelf, 1 mhz IIe. The IIe screen display may be somewhat
|
|||
|
|
faster with the LC-475 than with the LC-III, however. Of course, the 475
|
|||
|
|
won't run IIgs applications, but this poor man's PowerPC may be just the
|
|||
|
|
thing for Apple IIe owners who want to expand their horizons while
|
|||
|
|
retaining their capability to run the latest and greatest 8-bit
|
|||
|
|
applications like AppleWorks 4. We will talk more about the LC/IIe hybrid
|
|||
|
|
and the Mac's PDS IIe card in next month's article.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
TRACKSTAR Up to this point, all our hybrid articles have focused upon PC
|
|||
|
|
""""""""" Transporter-equipped Apple IIe and IIgs computers. However,
|
|||
|
|
there are other Apple II hybrid platforms that blend PC and Apple II
|
|||
|
|
technology that should to be covered in this series. All of them are based
|
|||
|
|
upon Diamond Computer System's "Trackstar" card, a 128K, 65C02 coprocessor
|
|||
|
|
board that is designed to fit into an expansion slot on a PC or PC
|
|||
|
|
compatible system to make a PC/IIe hybrid. Radio Shack sold these cards
|
|||
|
|
with its Tandy 1000s, and Diamond Computer sold them direct to public
|
|||
|
|
schools.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Two of the more notable hybrid systems that used the Trackstar were
|
|||
|
|
the "WPC Bridge" and the "Laser Turbo XT DUO". New Science Prospects, a
|
|||
|
|
company in Houston, Texas, sold the Laser Turbo XT DUO, while Cordata
|
|||
|
|
corporation bundled the Trackstar with its Wizard PC and sold their system
|
|||
|
|
as the WPC Bridge. It's worth noting that the Trackstar card uses exactly
|
|||
|
|
the same Apple II ROM instructions as the Laser 128 Apple II compatible
|
|||
|
|
computers.(2) Therefore, the DUO and Bridge also possess this same
|
|||
|
|
relationship to the Laser 128.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Last December a spokesperson for Diamond Computer Systems advised me
|
|||
|
|
that the Trackstar is "no longer in production." However, Diamond Computer
|
|||
|
|
may still have some of these cards within its inventory, and many of them
|
|||
|
|
can be obtained as used equipment. If you can get your hands on a
|
|||
|
|
Trackstar Plus, which can be installed in a 386 class computer, you may
|
|||
|
|
find some of its capabilities to be quite useful. Like the Trackstar,
|
|||
|
|
neither the DUO nor the Bridge are manufactured any longer.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
DUO The 8088-based DUO ran at 10 mhz (PC mode). It sported two 5.25
|
|||
|
|
""" floppy drives, which could read both 143K Apple and 360K IBM
|
|||
|
|
formatted disks. It came with 512K RAM in IBM mode. At approximately
|
|||
|
|
$1300 for computer and monitor, the DUO cost a bit less than the pricey WPC
|
|||
|
|
Bridge, which listed for $1695. Like the DUO, the WPC Bridge also sported
|
|||
|
|
dual IBM/Apple-compatible 5.25 drives, an 8088 microprocessor and 512K RAM.
|
|||
|
|
However, the Bridge sold as a single plug-and-play unit with a monitor
|
|||
|
|
built right into the CPU chassis, just like the Mac Classic.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
WPC BRIDGE Cordata corporation felt like the WPC Bridge would be a sure
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""" hit with public schools. However, like so many others,
|
|||
|
|
including Apple Corporation itself, Cordata misjudged the schools and the
|
|||
|
|
Apple II market. While Apple users were moving in droves to 128K systems
|
|||
|
|
and ProDOS, or to the Apple IIgs, Cordata was sending out its Bridge as a
|
|||
|
|
64K Apple II Plus emulator, bundled with Apple DOS 3.3.(3) In order to
|
|||
|
|
allow the Bridge to make full use of its 128K Apple RAM, the user would
|
|||
|
|
need to supply his or her own ProDOS.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Besides being bundled with an older Apple disk operating system, the
|
|||
|
|
Bridge was also bundled with an older IBM operating system (DOS 2.11), and
|
|||
|
|
this was done when MS-DOS 3.3 and the 286-level PC had become the accepted
|
|||
|
|
standards. The WPC Bridge wasn't a complete flop, however. It had many
|
|||
|
|
excellent features, although many of its best features (so far as Apple II
|
|||
|
|
users were concerned) were derived from the Trackstar card itself.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
TRACKSTAR FEATURES Because the Trackstar is a CO-PROCESSOR card which has
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""" its own on-board Apple RAM and microprocessor, one of
|
|||
|
|
its neatest features was (and is) the Trackstar's ability to do
|
|||
|
|
multiprocessing. This was a feature also found in both the DUO and the WPC
|
|||
|
|
Bridge. Using an Alt-Esc key combination, a Trackstar user can switch
|
|||
|
|
between two programs running simultaneously in both Apple and PC modes.
|
|||
|
|
For example, a spreadsheet program can be run on one side of a PC/IIe
|
|||
|
|
hybrid while the user works in the word processor on the other side.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Another good Trackstar feature is its ability to be used in a PC LAN
|
|||
|
|
network. When installed in a 286-level or 386-level PC, the Trackstar can
|
|||
|
|
function as a server to a network of similarly equipped hybrids, enabling a
|
|||
|
|
group of PC/IIes to access both 8-bit Apple II and MS-DOS programs and data
|
|||
|
|
that have been stored on a single server. This feature has been of
|
|||
|
|
particular interest to schools which have equipped their PC labs with the
|
|||
|
|
Trackstar, enabling their students to enjoy the best of both the Apple II
|
|||
|
|
and PC worlds over a network.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Trackstar shares similar features with the PC Transporter. For
|
|||
|
|
example, while the PCT allows the storage of MS-DOS data and programs on
|
|||
|
|
the Apple's CGR volumes, the Trackstar enables the storage of ProDOS data
|
|||
|
|
and programs on a PC's MFM volumes. Virtually any of the PC's MFM block
|
|||
|
|
devices will work, including devices which use high density diskettes.
|
|||
|
|
Unfortunately, it is not possible to attach a CGR/ProDOS 3.5 microfloppy
|
|||
|
|
device directly to the Trackstar so it is not possible to load programs or
|
|||
|
|
data from this type of diskette. However, MFM/ProDOS diskettes, which have
|
|||
|
|
been written in a Floptical or similar device, should be accessible by the
|
|||
|
|
PC's drives.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Like the Transporter, the Trackstar uses a specially configured
|
|||
|
|
directory on the PC's hard drive for the storage of ProDOS files and
|
|||
|
|
programs (up to 10MB only). MS-DOS is used for I/O management between the
|
|||
|
|
Trackstar's 65C02 microprocessors and the PC's serial and parallel ports,
|
|||
|
|
printer and drives. A special connector on the Trackstar enables a
|
|||
|
|
standard, 5.25, Apple-compatible drive to be connected to the Trackstar for
|
|||
|
|
hard-to-load, copy-protected programs. Also like the Transporter, the
|
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Trackstar uses keyboard emulation to allow PC-standard keyboards to
|
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function like the Apple keyboard.
|
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The Trackstar was sold with utility software that allowed rudimentary
|
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text and binary file translation between MS-DOS and ProDOS. This software,
|
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|
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however, was not as powerful as the corresponding PCT file translation
|
|||
|
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software. Just as the PCT is booted from ProDOS, the Trackstar coprocessor
|
|||
|
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card is booted from the PC's MS-DOS operating system. The Trackstar Plus
|
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|
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was keyboard selectable for 2 mhz "turbo" operation, and it would support
|
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|
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640x200 CGA and 720x348 Hercules video resolutions on the PC monitor. An
|
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Apple compatible joystick could be connected directly to a special
|
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|
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connector on the Trackstar, a feature not offered with the Transporter.
|
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|
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|
For Apple II power users, the Trackstar's 128K of RAM was a major
|
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|
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limitation. New Science Prospects promised in one of their flyers that the
|
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|
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128K Apple RAM would become expandable to 640K in the Turbo XT DUO by late
|
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|
|
1989. I don't know if Diamond Computer's engineers were planning to
|
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|
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actually add on-board RAM expansion capability to the Trackstar, or whether
|
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|
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they were planning to borrow the DUO's native 512K RAM (through some kind
|
|||
|
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of system software magic) for the Trackstar. Though I have made calls to
|
|||
|
|
dealers, I have never been able to verify that this feat was accomplished,
|
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|
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and I believe that the Trackstar's Apple RAM never exceeded 128K.
|
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|
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|
|
A few years after New Science Prospects had promised to make more RAM
|
|||
|
|
available for their Trackstar-equipped DUO, Apple computer itself was faced
|
|||
|
|
with the same problem with their IIe PDS card and Mac LC. Fortunately, for
|
|||
|
|
those Apple II power users who made the switch to the LC and IIe PDS card,
|
|||
|
|
Apple delivered on their promise and could make up to 1MB of the LC's RAM
|
|||
|
|
available to the IIe card. Next month, we'll talk about the Apple IIe PDS
|
|||
|
|
card and the Mac LC series computers. Until then, think Hybrid!
|
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|
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NOTES
|
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|
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"""""
|
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|
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|
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(1) The Mac LC 475, Mac Quadra 605 and Mac Performa 476 are all essentially
|
|||
|
|
68LC040-based LC-IIIs.
|
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|
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|
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(2) To my knowledge, the Laser 128 and Trackstar were the only 'legal'
|
|||
|
|
Apple II clones that were ever produced. A firm called "Language Arts"
|
|||
|
|
wrote the Apple II ROM knockoff for these systems. Anyone wishing to
|
|||
|
|
produce an Apple II software emulator for the PowerPC might be wise to
|
|||
|
|
start by attempting to acquire the rights to this ROM.
|
|||
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|
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|
|
(3) Grevstat, Eric. "WPC Bridge." InCider. September, 1988. p. 77.
|
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|
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|
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[EOA]
|
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|
|
[MOO]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
CowTOONS! /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
No Cow Foolin'
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|||
|
|
by Mike White
|
|||
|
|
[MWHITE]
|
|||
|
|
_____________________________
|
|||
|
|
( )
|
|||
|
|
( )___( .___. ___ )
|
|||
|
|
( /(. .)\ /(. .)\ /(. .)\ )
|
|||
|
|
o( ( \*/ ) ( \*/ ) ( \*/ ) )
|
|||
|
|
Cownting Sheep .' ( ( ) ( ) ( ) )
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .' ( Y~ ~Y Y~ ~Y Y ~ Y )
|
|||
|
|
.' ( """~~"~~""""~~"~~""""~~"~~""" )
|
|||
|
|
(__) (_____________________________)
|
|||
|
|
/------(--)
|
|||
|
|
/ |)_---_\/
|
|||
|
|
"""""~""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Seldom was heard a discouraging word
|
|||
|
|
(__)(__) but this Cowboy is hittin' the trail.
|
|||
|
|
(oo)(oo)
|
|||
|
|
/-------\/ \/------\ Warmest thanks to John Peters and the
|
|||
|
|
/ | || || | \ whole herd of GEnieLampers for giving
|
|||
|
|
* ||----|=~^~=|----|| * me a home on the range for 18 months.
|
|||
|
|
~~ ~ ~ ~~
|
|||
|
|
Keep reading GEnieLamp Online Magazines.
|
|||
|
|
Cowoperation I'll see you on the drive!
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
(oo)....Cowboy Mike
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
//////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
|||
|
|
/ /
|
|||
|
|
/ Pehaps its time for a sanity check to see if we can find /
|
|||
|
|
/ out where your <Parents> are. /
|
|||
|
|
/ /
|
|||
|
|
//////////////////////////////////////////////// INTREC ////
|
|||
|
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[DRT]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
DR'S EXAMINING TABLE /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Golden Oldie Review: Bard's Tale
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
by Darrel Raines
|
|||
|
|
[D.RAINES]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This month I intend to pull another "Golden Oldie" from the shelf and
|
|||
|
|
review a software package that you will be most likely to find in the "used
|
|||
|
|
software" areas -- "Bard's Tale". This program was originally written for
|
|||
|
|
and distributed by Electronic Arts. The game was produced for many
|
|||
|
|
different computer systems, including the Apple II, IIgs, IBM clone, Atari
|
|||
|
|
and Amiga platforms. The game was successful enough to justify two
|
|||
|
|
follow-up games and, for some platforms, a construction set that allowed
|
|||
|
|
you to create your own scenarios. I will be reviewing the Apple IIgs
|
|||
|
|
version of this game.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Bard's Tale is an adventure game in the mold of the Wizardry
|
|||
|
|
scenarios: You are called upon by the people of Scara Brae to rid them of
|
|||
|
|
an evil wizard who has closed down the city gates and controls most of what
|
|||
|
|
goes on within the city walls. Outlaws, demons, and monsters of all
|
|||
|
|
description have taken over the city. You are responsible for gathering a
|
|||
|
|
band of merry men to release Scara Brae from the clutches of this deadly
|
|||
|
|
maniac. Fortunately, there is a good deal of monster-thumping to be done
|
|||
|
|
along the way. We should be in for some fun!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The first thing that struck me when I loaded this game was the
|
|||
|
|
graphics. "Out of This World" has some of the best animation that I have
|
|||
|
|
ever seen on an Apple IIgs, but Bard's Tale gets my vote as one of the best
|
|||
|
|
still-graphics games. It is true that the graphics in this game have some
|
|||
|
|
limited animation, but this is only a crude frame swapping that doesn't
|
|||
|
|
really qualify as animation in my book. The graphics are realistic and
|
|||
|
|
lead the player to believe that he/she is actually viewing the scenes
|
|||
|
|
depicted on his/her computer screen.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The screen is laid out with three main areas. The bottom half of the
|
|||
|
|
screen is reserved for a view of the party roster and the current
|
|||
|
|
statistics of each character. You may point with the mouse to get more
|
|||
|
|
information about a character. This action will also bring up a menu that
|
|||
|
|
allows the character to perform many different activities, such as trading
|
|||
|
|
supplies and casting spells. The roster also indicates in what order the
|
|||
|
|
band travels, which is important for battles since the first three
|
|||
|
|
characters are the ones who do most of the hand-to-hand combat. The back
|
|||
|
|
three characters are only able to join in the fray via the magic system.
|
|||
|
|
Current statistics are always shown in this area including the
|
|||
|
|
all-important health indicator (hit points) for each character.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The top left corner of the screen is dedicated to showing a view of
|
|||
|
|
the outside world. If the team is engaged in combat mode, the view screen
|
|||
|
|
is reserved for a picture of the nasty that you are currently facing. The
|
|||
|
|
limited animation comes into play here, but does not really add much to the
|
|||
|
|
overall effect of the game. When not engaged in battle, the port is used
|
|||
|
|
to show the streets, houses, and insides of homes that are apparent in your
|
|||
|
|
field of view.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The final display area is the top right hand corner. This area is
|
|||
|
|
used to tell the player what is going on in the world around him. It is
|
|||
|
|
also used in combat mode to select which option each character will take
|
|||
|
|
during battle. Any information displayed in this area will scroll at a
|
|||
|
|
rate selectable by the player. Therefore, you must pay attention to this
|
|||
|
|
part of the screen, or you may miss something important.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The play of Bard's Tale should be familiar to all adventure-game
|
|||
|
|
players. You go through a short character-building sequence and then are
|
|||
|
|
thrust into the adventurer's guild where you can build a team of
|
|||
|
|
characters. Some of the character classes are geared toward fighting,
|
|||
|
|
while others are geared toward magic. The Rogue is a thief. Finally,
|
|||
|
|
there is a unique class called the Bard. The Bard can fight and can wield
|
|||
|
|
weak magic with his songs.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The composition of a party is pretty much standard. You need two
|
|||
|
|
fighters, a Bard, a Rogue, and two magic users. You may chose to differ
|
|||
|
|
from this standard, but the results may not be what you want. Even though
|
|||
|
|
this game has an objective (getting rid of the evil wizard), the main task
|
|||
|
|
is to build your characters in experience. Once you have some powerful
|
|||
|
|
characters, you can go whip the big boy.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
When it comes to character development, this game has a number of
|
|||
|
|
good features. However, one of the worst features is the one that hits new
|
|||
|
|
players right off the bat. It is extremely difficult to get characters
|
|||
|
|
past the first and second levels of the game. Your characters will soon be
|
|||
|
|
dropping like flies.. The only way to bring them back to life is with the
|
|||
|
|
help of some expensive monks -- the cost of healing and bringing back to
|
|||
|
|
life a party of six characters required me to create and steal the money
|
|||
|
|
from more than fifty throw-away characters. Life is tough, and then you
|
|||
|
|
die... and then you pay exorbitant fees to come back to life!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Once you get a few levels under your belt, the fun begins.
|
|||
|
|
Exploration commences in a large city that has a number of hidden dungeons.
|
|||
|
|
You soon find that life will go well for you if you can develop a couple of
|
|||
|
|
powerful magic users. There are four types of magic users. However, once
|
|||
|
|
you learn the spells of any one branch of magic, you can start over
|
|||
|
|
(retaining the memories of the learned spells) and learn a new branch of
|
|||
|
|
magic. Therefore, it is possible to develop a magic user that will know
|
|||
|
|
all the spells for each of the four magic disciplines. This type of
|
|||
|
|
character will be known as an Arch-Mage. The greatest part of your time
|
|||
|
|
will be spent in trying to develop one or more of these characters.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As you explore the city and dungeons, mapping is an important
|
|||
|
|
concept. There are a few riddles and hidden items that must be found for
|
|||
|
|
you to be able to find the ultimate bad guy. You must therefore delve into
|
|||
|
|
each and every corner of the dungeons to assure success in the final
|
|||
|
|
battle.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The quality of graphics in the dungeons and the wide variety of
|
|||
|
|
monsters that you encounter make this game a joy to play. The interface is
|
|||
|
|
smooth and allows both mouse and keyboard entry of commands.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Bard's Tale uses the sound support of the IIgs to good advantage.
|
|||
|
|
The number of instruments used in the music is limited, but the quality of
|
|||
|
|
the songs is better than usual. One of the unique features of this
|
|||
|
|
adventure game is the special nature of the Bard character. As you would
|
|||
|
|
expect, there are certain advantages to be gained for this character. The
|
|||
|
|
Bard can weave certain long-term magic by playing tunes on his musical
|
|||
|
|
instrument. There are many different instruments available. Some of them
|
|||
|
|
have special attributes that are useful in battle as well. Of course, only
|
|||
|
|
the Bard can use these instruments. When these weapons are used you will
|
|||
|
|
hear appropriate sounds from your speakers.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There are a few weaknesses in this game. The chief fault is that you
|
|||
|
|
must return to the adventurer's guild before you can save a game. This can
|
|||
|
|
be most annoying if you happen to lose your way in a maze. More than once,
|
|||
|
|
I had to turn off the monitor and hope that we did not have a power failure
|
|||
|
|
before my next session. As mentioned earlier, it is difficult to get past
|
|||
|
|
the first two levels.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In general, Bard's Tale is an extremely enjoyable game and deserves a
|
|||
|
|
look. The play is smooth and absorbing; the graphics are fun to look at
|
|||
|
|
and add to the realism of the game; the user interface is comfortable. My
|
|||
|
|
recommendation would be to find a copy of this game and play it!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
DR's prognosis: A fine specimen of an adventure game. It has a fine
|
|||
|
|
future ahead of it as an aging classic.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Darrel Raines likes to play games on his computer. He has been
|
|||
|
|
known to write reviews about these games from time to time. He
|
|||
|
|
also sometimes works for NASA as a subcontractor on the
|
|||
|
|
International Space Station.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[HUN]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
THE TREASURE HUNT /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Yours For the Downloading
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
by Charlie Hartley
|
|||
|
|
[C.HARTLEY3]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> WELCOME TO THE TREASURE HUNT <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The purpose of this new column is to introduce you to some files in
|
|||
|
|
the A2 library that you may have overlooked. Each month I'll try to find a
|
|||
|
|
variety of files that deserve a little recognition and tell you a little
|
|||
|
|
bit about them. When appropriate, I'll offer suggestions on how to make
|
|||
|
|
them more useful.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
All of the files described this month are public domain. Each month
|
|||
|
|
I'll identify the files that are copyrighted freeware or shareware.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Let's get started with 8 files that are among the first 4000 files
|
|||
|
|
ever uploaded to the A2 library.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
INTERNAMAZE.BNY File #1298 6300 bytes (ProDOS game)
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
INTERNA-MAZE by Dennis G. Ward with Applesoft conversion by Bill
|
|||
|
|
Fortenberry is a good example of a lo-res graphics game. It's also a neat
|
|||
|
|
program to study if you're interested in improving your knowledge of lo-res
|
|||
|
|
graphics programming.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The program creates a random maze on the lo-res screen and shows it
|
|||
|
|
to you from a top (overhead) view. Then it switches to a head-on (as if
|
|||
|
|
you were in the maze) view and waits for you to decide which way to go.
|
|||
|
|
Movement is determined by the E D X S keys with E being forward, X
|
|||
|
|
reversing direction or turning around, D turning right and S turning left.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The game has various aids or on-screen helps. You may choose to
|
|||
|
|
leave footprints, have compass directions displayed, and have access to a
|
|||
|
|
map. The map is the overhead view of the maze with your path clearly
|
|||
|
|
marked.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You start the game with 100 points. Each time you look at the map,
|
|||
|
|
it costs you 5 points. You also lose 1 point each time you go forward if
|
|||
|
|
you have already been there before. The object of the game is to complete
|
|||
|
|
the maze, losing as few points as possible.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In addition to deciding if you want to leave footprints, have a
|
|||
|
|
compass, or have access to the map, you also choose a difficulty level
|
|||
|
|
between 1 and 10. I've chosen level 1 and also level 10, and I haven't
|
|||
|
|
noticed a great difference; but I haven't examined the code closely enough
|
|||
|
|
to determine for sure what the difficulty level does.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The graphics are acceptable on a monochrome screen, but are easier to
|
|||
|
|
see on a color monitor. Uppercase input is required. I haven't discovered
|
|||
|
|
any way out of the game except control-reset.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Running on a regular IIe, the program is kind of slow, but that is
|
|||
|
|
because it is written almost completely in Applesoft BASIC. You spend a
|
|||
|
|
fair amount of time waiting for the maze to be created; but since it's
|
|||
|
|
created on the screen in front of you, it's interesting watching it do its
|
|||
|
|
thing.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you're into maze type games you'll like this one. And if you're
|
|||
|
|
interested, you'll be able to fix some of its shortcomings and make it even
|
|||
|
|
better by following these directions:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Get into BASIC. LOAD the program into memory. If you don't know how
|
|||
|
|
to do that, do this: RUN the program and at the first chance you get to
|
|||
|
|
type anything, press CONTROL-RESET to exit the program.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Next, type the following lines just as they appear below. Press
|
|||
|
|
RETURN after each line.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1500 IF G$ = "y" THEN FTS = 1
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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1515 IF G$ = "y" THEN COMP = 1
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1525 IF G$ = "y" THEN MAP = 1
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1660 IF Z = 155 THEN TEXT : HOME : END
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1665 IF Z > 197 THEN Z = Z - 32
|
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Next, type "SAVE INTERNAMAZE" (without the quotes) and press RETURN.
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Now, thanks to line 1660, when you press the ESCAPE key you will exit the
|
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|
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program without having to press CONTROL-RESET. The other lines add the
|
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ability to use lowercase letters.
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[*][*][*]
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THE.GALLOWS.BNY File #1612 5040 bytes (ProDOS game)
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'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
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|
The next program is titled THE GALLOWS and was written by Douglas
|
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|
|
Konitzer and uploaded on March 29, 1987. It is a fancy take-off on the
|
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|
|
hangman type game. It is actually misnamed because it displays a
|
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|
|
guillotine instead of a gallows or hanging tree. It requires an 80 column
|
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|
display.
|
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|
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|
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This "word guess" program displays a guillotine which lowers each
|
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|
|
time that you select an incorrect letter. Like most games of this type,
|
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|
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you are shown a list of the letters that you have selected. The program
|
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|
|
also tells you whether the word is a person, place, or thing. It comes
|
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|
|
with a supply of words, but it is fairly easy to change them or add
|
|||
|
|
additional ones. The words can be up to 18 letters in length.
|
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|
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|
|||
|
|
There are some drawbacks to the program. The most serious is that
|
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|
|
the program treats lowercase and capital letters as separate letters. This
|
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|
|
can create a problem when the sample words are in all capital letters and
|
|||
|
|
the user is typing lowercase letters. The other main problem is that you
|
|||
|
|
need to know at least a little about BASIC programming to change the sample
|
|||
|
|
words.
|
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|
|
|
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|
|
If you're into hangman type games you'll like this one. And if
|
|||
|
|
you're interested, you'll be able to fix some of its shortcomings and make
|
|||
|
|
it even better by following these directions:
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Get into BASIC. LOAD the program into memory. If you don't know how
|
|||
|
|
to do that, do this: RUN the program and at the end of the program, when it
|
|||
|
|
asks you if you want to play again, type a capital N.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Next, type the following lines just as they appear below. Press
|
|||
|
|
RETURN after each line.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
1725 GL = ASC(GL$) : IF GL > 90 THEN GL = GL - 32 : GL$ = CHR$(GL)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
1995 IF T$ = "n" THEN TEXT : HOME : END
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Next, type "SAVE GALLOWS" (without the quotes) and press RETURN. Now
|
|||
|
|
you will be able to type your answers in lowercase. If you want to correct
|
|||
|
|
the erroneous references to "gallows" and replace them with "guillotine"
|
|||
|
|
then add the following lines before you SAVE the program.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1140 DT$(1) = "Welcome to the GUILLOTINE game"
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1210 DT$(8) = "bottom of the GUILLOTINE. To help"
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1300 VTAB 3 : HTAB 13 : PRINT "THE GUILLOTINE"
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1580 VTAB 12 : HTAB 5 : PRINT "RESETTING GUILLOTINE-STAND CLEAR"
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The program lines that contain the sample words are lines 2040, 2050,
|
|||
|
|
2060, 2070, 2080, and 2090. To replace them with sample words of your own,
|
|||
|
|
do the following: decide first whether the word is a person (1), place (2),
|
|||
|
|
or thing (3). Then begin typing with the number first followed by the word
|
|||
|
|
as shown in the examples below.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
2040 DATA 1,CLINTON
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
2050 DATA 3,GOLDENROD
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
2060 DATA 2,ARKANSAS
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
2070 DATA 0,0
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The line number is typed first, followed by the word DATA and a
|
|||
|
|
space. Next type the number (1,2,3) followed by a comma followed by the
|
|||
|
|
word TYPED IN CAPITAL LETTERS. Do not put any spaces before or after the
|
|||
|
|
comma. Press RETURN after each line. Finish with a line like #2070 above.
|
|||
|
|
The two zeros tells the program that it has reached the end of the list.
|
|||
|
|
There can be up to 150 words listed. Be sure to SAVE the program after you
|
|||
|
|
add new lines.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MSETXT.RACE.BNY File #2232 5040 bytes (ProDOS game)
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
RACES is a rather simple game that uses the 80 column enhanced IIe,
|
|||
|
|
IIc, or IIgs to run a race among 5 runners. The whole program runs
|
|||
|
|
randomly from the decision as to how big your stake is to which runner wins
|
|||
|
|
the race. You get to decide how much to wager and whether to bet for or
|
|||
|
|
against a particular runner. The odds are different depending on how you
|
|||
|
|
bet.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you regularly purchase lottery tickets, you'll probably like this
|
|||
|
|
game. The skill involved and the chances of consistently winning are about
|
|||
|
|
the same in both. <grin>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The author is identified only as Michael A.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BMW.BNY File #1352 3780 bytes (ML Subroutines)
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The next program, BILL'S MINI WINDOW, may be of some use to those of
|
|||
|
|
you who like to program the IIe in Applesoft. According to the directions
|
|||
|
|
file that comes with it, this program "provides a way to do simple 'pop-up'
|
|||
|
|
windows in Applesoft Basic. The &SAVE command stores the current text
|
|||
|
|
screen (40 or 80 column) in a buffer and opens the window. The &LOAD
|
|||
|
|
command restores the text screen and sets the text window to full screen
|
|||
|
|
dimensions."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A WORD OF CAUTION HERE! I've been able to get this program to work
|
|||
|
|
with the 40 column screen, but there seems to be a problem with the 80
|
|||
|
|
column version. The &SAVE clears the window, but the &LOAD returns garbage
|
|||
|
|
to the screen. Since the main part of the program is written in assembly
|
|||
|
|
language, you will need that ability to try and fix it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BMW.BNY unpacks to 3 ProDOS files: BMW -- the actual program;
|
|||
|
|
BMW.DEMO -- Applesoft demonstration program; and BMW.DOC -- text file of
|
|||
|
|
documentation. Bill Fortenberry is the author of this program, which was
|
|||
|
|
uploaded on January 25, 1987.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Joysticks and RF Modulators
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Jim Lubin uploaded several interesting files in late 1986. Among
|
|||
|
|
them were two sets that described how to build an RF modulator and a
|
|||
|
|
joystick. Each set contains a short text file listing the parts needed
|
|||
|
|
and giving a brief description of the process, and a high-res graphics
|
|||
|
|
screen showing the schematics. The graphics are very well done.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you're reasonably proficient in working with hardware, you might
|
|||
|
|
want to take a look at these. If you're not, don't bother.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The RF modulator files are RF.MODUALOR.SCH.BNY (file #1246) and
|
|||
|
|
RF.MOD.BNY (file #1245). The first one is the graphics screen with
|
|||
|
|
approximately 8820 bytes. The second one is the text file and is
|
|||
|
|
approximately 3780 bytes.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The joystick files are JOYSTICK.BNY (file #1244) and JOYSTICK.TXT
|
|||
|
|
(file # 1243). The first one is the graphics screen with approximately
|
|||
|
|
8820 bytes. The second one is the text file and is approximately 3780
|
|||
|
|
bytes.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
According to Jim Lubin, this will tell you how to build your very own
|
|||
|
|
joystick for your Apple II, II-Plus, IIe, or IIgs.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ANS.MACHINE.TXT File #1437 8820 bytes (text file)
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Do you hate answering machines? Then you might be interested in this
|
|||
|
|
next text file. According to the long description...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"This file, written by Rod Serling of CYGNUS, discusses the
|
|||
|
|
backlashes of buying an answering machine. Ever notice how the number of
|
|||
|
|
calls to your house seem to drop drastically when you install that
|
|||
|
|
answering machine? A humorous look at the common answering machine."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This is dry humor, not slapstick. You'll either agree with him or
|
|||
|
|
wonder why you downloaded it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
KERMIT Reference Files
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Do you use KERMIT? I found two files uploaded by Pharing in late
|
|||
|
|
1987 that may be helpful to you. The first one, named VI.CMD.REF.TXT (file
|
|||
|
|
#2660; approximately 15120 bytes), is described this way.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Apple users with the KERMIT program will appreciate this extended
|
|||
|
|
command reference when using VI on a UNIX/XENIX/ULTRIX system. Print out
|
|||
|
|
this text file and keep it handy."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The second one, named VI.QUICKREF.TXT (file #2659; approximately 5040
|
|||
|
|
bytes), is described this way: "This is for Apple users, using KERMIT on
|
|||
|
|
UNIX/XENIX/ULTRIX systems; a quick reference card for vi for those who
|
|||
|
|
don't have access to one."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
With the increased interest in accessing the Internet, some may find
|
|||
|
|
these files useful.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
WOZ.HRTZFLD.TXT File #494 22680 bytes (text file)
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The oldest file that I could find in the A2 Library is an article
|
|||
|
|
titled...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Reflections from Steve Wozniak and Andy Hertzfield
|
|||
|
|
on Apple Inc., and Diverse Other Items,
|
|||
|
|
During a Flying Visit Downunder for Breakfast
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This is a report by John MacGibbon of a visit by Woz and Hertzfield
|
|||
|
|
with the New Zealand Wellington Apple Users' Group in December 1985.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The greatest part of the article is given over to a discussion of
|
|||
|
|
Steve Jobs at a time when Woz and Jobs were not on the best of terms.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Some of the other topics discussed include LCD monitors for the Apple
|
|||
|
|
IIc, the AppleTalk network, AppleWorks for the MAC, Jam Session, the Mac's
|
|||
|
|
future, esoteric uses for the Thunderscan, desktop publishing, and products
|
|||
|
|
linking the Apple II and the Mac.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
While most of this information is available in other places and is
|
|||
|
|
dated, it is interesting to compare what they had to say in 1985 with what
|
|||
|
|
has happened since then.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I wonder what became of files 1-493?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Next time we'll take a look at some more recent files, including some
|
|||
|
|
that are GS-specific. Until then, happy downloading!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-- Charlie Hartley
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[HAR]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
HARDVIEW A2 /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
discQuest GS
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
by Jay Curtis
|
|||
|
|
[J.CURTIS8]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> A VISIT WITH JAWAID BAZYAR <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A CD-ROM software interface for the IIgs seemed a pipe-dream to many
|
|||
|
|
Apple II fans. However, Jawaid Basyar, author of GNO/ME, SwitchIt, and
|
|||
|
|
discQuest, never had any doubts that it could be done.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I met Jawaid on a cold, snowy Saturday this past February at
|
|||
|
|
Sequential Systems in Lafayette, Colorado, where he had promised me a
|
|||
|
|
personal demonstration of Sequential's CD-ROM bundle and the discQuest
|
|||
|
|
software that makes it all possible. Just a few miles away in Boulder
|
|||
|
|
there was an all-important basketball game that same day between the
|
|||
|
|
University of Colorado and my own alma mater, the University of Kansas.
|
|||
|
|
The rest of my family was going to that game. However, for me basketball
|
|||
|
|
could wait; I couldn't pass up the opportunity to meet Jawaid and see
|
|||
|
|
discQuest.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Someone called up here and wanted us to admit that we didn't have
|
|||
|
|
CD-ROM capability," Jawaid said as he unlocked a door to Sequential's plant
|
|||
|
|
and offices. He explained that after Sequential sent out their press
|
|||
|
|
releases, many people couldn't believe it was true, and others seemed
|
|||
|
|
openly hostile to the idea that the GS could actually possess such a
|
|||
|
|
capability. Nonetheless, discQuest is a reality that not only works, but
|
|||
|
|
it works well.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In a matter of minutes, Jawaid and I were sitting in front of a
|
|||
|
|
RamFAST-equipped IIgs with CD-ROM drive, and he was running a beta color
|
|||
|
|
version of discQuest. As reported in last month's GEnie, the color version
|
|||
|
|
of discQuest is no longer in beta, and is now being sold with Sequential's
|
|||
|
|
CD-ROM bundle as version 1.2.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Jawaid is a C programmer who does some GS development on a 486 PC
|
|||
|
|
compatible and then ports his code to the GS using his UNIX-like
|
|||
|
|
environment, GNO/ME. The discQuest software, however, was developed
|
|||
|
|
strictly on a GS. According to Jawaid, DiscQuest makes use of a CD-ROM
|
|||
|
|
format called "DiscPassage". To date, Sequential and Jawaid have
|
|||
|
|
identified some 15 DiscPassage CD titles that will work with discQuest. No
|
|||
|
|
doubt Jawaid's familiarity with the PC has helped him in his understanding
|
|||
|
|
of DiscPassage, which was originally set up for use by PCs.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
DiscPassage is primarily a hypertext format that includes 640x480,
|
|||
|
|
256-color images. A bit of software sorcery is necessary to make a PC's
|
|||
|
|
VGA color images fit the IIgs's 640x200 screen resolution. To do this,
|
|||
|
|
Jawaid's discQuest "front-end" turns the GS screen into a mouse-controlled
|
|||
|
|
window that slides around over a slightly magnified PC graphic image to
|
|||
|
|
display portions of the image in color mode. Keyboard commands can then
|
|||
|
|
shift between this color image and what Jawaid calls a "16-color gray
|
|||
|
|
scale" display to provide full, single-page images of the graphics. Color
|
|||
|
|
or gray-scale can be selected as defaults. The arrangement works smoothly
|
|||
|
|
on an algorithm that Jawaid calls an "octree quantization method."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The CD-ROM search functions of discQuest are performed from a
|
|||
|
|
standard GS screen display with menu bar. Searches can be performed by
|
|||
|
|
author, keyword, subject and title. A "Related Items" selection is also
|
|||
|
|
available from the menu bar. Jawaid feels that the search functions
|
|||
|
|
benefit from a "very fast index built into DiscPassage". Subjectively,
|
|||
|
|
searches seem to occur about as quickly with a RamFAST-equipped GS as those
|
|||
|
|
performed on a CD-ROM drive attached to a MAC LC. Text displays are in
|
|||
|
|
standard 640x200 GS black-on-white. The GS user can capture the text for
|
|||
|
|
use in other documents, and graphic images can be printed to disk. Jawaid
|
|||
|
|
explained that GS/OS system 5.04 or higher is necessary to use discQuest.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Sound is provided through the CD-ROM drive, itself, rather than the
|
|||
|
|
GS. As the user accesses specific portions of a CD's text and graphics, an
|
|||
|
|
audio track on the CD automatically plays the corresponding sound data
|
|||
|
|
through a speaker jack on the drive. Sequential bundles a pair of small,
|
|||
|
|
multimedia speakers with its drive, discQuest software and CD-ROMs. In
|
|||
|
|
this writer's opinion, the speakers provided adequate sound and
|
|||
|
|
amplification. A flyer from Sequential offered two bundles, both of which
|
|||
|
|
include an RF card, single and double speed "Texel" CD-ROM drives,
|
|||
|
|
multimedia speakers and a selection of four CDs.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The RamFAST SCSI card offers the widest compatibility with CD-ROM
|
|||
|
|
drives. However, discQuest will also work with the Apple high speed SCSI
|
|||
|
|
card. For those who missed last month's GEnieLamp A2, it was reported that
|
|||
|
|
the RF card would work with Texel, NEC, and "virtually all" SCSI-2 CD-ROM
|
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drives. The Apple high speed SCSI card would reportedly work with the
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Apple CD-150, Apple CD-300 and some Apple SCSI-2 drives. Jawaid said that
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Tulin was completing a driver for the Apple HS SCSI card which would allow
|
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it to be used with NEC drives. However, if you own the Apple SCSI card, it
|
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might be best to try before you buy. For those who already own a RamFAST
|
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or Apple HS SCSI card, Sequential will sell the discQuest software, CDs and
|
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drives separately. RamFAST owners may require a ROM upgrade to their cards
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for compatibility.
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Jawaid lamented that no encyclopedia CD was as yet available for the
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IIgs. This was due mainly to the fact that none exists in "DiscPassage"
|
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format. Nonetheless, Jawaid felt that an encyclopedia was "doable", and he
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expressed confidence that an encyclopedia would eventually be available.
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He said that DiscPassage is licensed to several different companies but
|
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that none have yet come up with an encyclopedia. Meanwhile, at more than
|
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600MB storage per disk, there's more than enough information available on
|
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Sequential's collection of 15 CD-ROMs to keep users busy for some time.
|
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Big Red Computer Club has announced through their publication
|
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SCARLETT that they will also offer the Sequential CD-ROM bundles, discQuest
|
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software and CDs for sale. A full list of the CD titles is available from
|
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Sequential and another list of the titles was posted in last month's
|
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GEnieLamp A2. Additional lists with complete descriptions of each CD are
|
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available in the most recent issue of Scarlett and on GEnie's Apple II
|
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RoundTable in Category 20, Topic 12. Check out these lists. They include
|
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such things as a Darwin multimedia collection with complete text and
|
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graphics from several of his works, the complete Monarch Notes, complete
|
|||
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collected works of William Shakespeare, U.S. history, world history, and
|
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countries of the world on CD.
|
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Jawaid explained to me that he wrote discQuest for the same reason
|
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that he wrote GNO/ME, simply because "People told me it couldn't be done."
|
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He said, "People get to a point in the GS market where anything that
|
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couldn't be done in the past becomes impossible. I've never let anything
|
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like that bother me." He said a CD-ROM interface for the GS was always a
|
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possibility once GS/OS system 5.04 (with its support of ISO 90 CD ROMs) was
|
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released.
|
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Personally, I'm glad that Jawaid Basyar enjoys this kind of
|
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|
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challenge. DiscQuest really works. I've already got a RamFAST card, and
|
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|
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CD-ROM drives are dropping in price faster than leaves in October. Now all
|
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|
|
I need to do is save a few more of my pennies, and I'll be able to get my
|
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|
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own drive and discQuest software. I can hardly wait.
|
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[EOA]
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[PAL]//////////////////////////////
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PAL NEWSLETTER /
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/////////////////////////////////
|
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April 1994 Report
|
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"""""""""""""""""
|
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by GEna Saikin
|
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[A2.GENA]
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|
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|
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|
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The Planetary Apple League (PAL) is an online user group that meets
|
|||
|
|
the third Sunday of every month. The purpose is to provide a place that
|
|||
|
|
Apple II users can meet with their fellow users and gain knowledge and have
|
|||
|
|
fun! Our meetings include the main speaker plus information about what's
|
|||
|
|
happening in the Apple II world and in the Apple II RT on GEnie, as well as
|
|||
|
|
guest articles -- some humorous, some serious.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
WHAT'S NEW IN APPLEDOM? Soon to arrive -- early this summer, we hope! --
|
|||
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""""""""""""""""""""""" will be the long-awaited update to AppleWorks GS,
|
|||
|
|
making it more function and System 6 compatible.
|
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|
|||
|
|
Several other new programs have already been out, and have been
|
|||
|
|
enthusiastically embraced, among them:
|
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|
|||
|
|
o Spectrum, a desktop communications program for the Apple IIGS;
|
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|
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|
|
o AppleWorks 4, and update to the "workhorse" of the Apple II world;
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
o AnsiTERM 2.1, another communications program for the Apple II,
|
|||
|
|
with a marvelous ANSI emulation.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
A new "diskazine" has entered the Apple II world: PongLife, which
|
|||
|
|
will contain informative articles, product reviews, and many graphics and
|
|||
|
|
music -- done in HyperStudio format.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
SPECIAL SPEAKERS - PONGLIFE Auri Rahimzadeh and Ben Johnson, co-editors
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""" of PongLife were the guests at the March 20
|
|||
|
|
meeting of PAL.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
They told us about PongLife, and what to expect in future issues.
|
|||
|
|
The first issue contained a reviews of several communication programs, and
|
|||
|
|
an interview with accomplished programmer Tony Morales.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
According to both Auri and Ben, issue #2 will have more graphics,
|
|||
|
|
more music and a much better interface, plus more articles, more reviews,
|
|||
|
|
interviews, and other goodies. To quote the editors, the new interface
|
|||
|
|
will have the following features:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Online Help in all areas, so if you ever wonder what an option does,
|
|||
|
|
just click on Help Me! and it will list all buttons on the screen and tell
|
|||
|
|
you what they do! A JUMP command, which will let you jump to any 'page' in
|
|||
|
|
the issue, instantly. And the questionnaire will automatically ask you
|
|||
|
|
questions then create the text file so you can print it out without
|
|||
|
|
printing it out first, then filling it out..."
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THE LIBRARY STACKS With over 22,000 files uploaded to our library, it is
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""" exceptionally hard to choose which ones to put here,
|
|||
|
|
as all are good. However, since in the interest of space, we DO have to
|
|||
|
|
narrow it down. Below is what is known as the Dean's List -- a list of the
|
|||
|
|
best files:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
22225 MINITALK162.BXY Telecom program in a CDA!
|
|||
|
|
+22222 AT.COMMAND.BXY Text file of modem commands.
|
|||
|
|
22220 CDA.ADB.BXY CDA to view AppleWorks database files
|
|||
|
|
22207 DISKOPEN.BXY Automatically open your Finder disk icons
|
|||
|
|
22200 HCGSSTARTER.BXY HyperCard IIgs starter kit - A must-get!
|
|||
|
|
+22183 A2.DOM.0294.BXY A2 Disk of the Month, February 1994
|
|||
|
|
22181 DISKTIMER2.BXY Check the speed of your hard drive
|
|||
|
|
+22171 A2AWLIBLONG.BXY AppleWorks database - lists all A2 files\
|
|||
|
|
22151 FLI.VIEWER.BXY View IBM .FLI animations!\ling\
|
|||
|
|
+22090 NF.BXY Nightfall II v1.0 - NICE astronomy program
|
|||
|
|
22084 EAR1.1.BXY Hear sounds/music directly from Finder
|
|||
|
|
22083 EYE1.1.BXY View graphics & more from Finder
|
|||
|
|
22081 BLEACH.V1.1.BXY Makes Finder & now STANDARD FILE folders white!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GUEST COLUMN: THE CONTINUING SAGA OF MY APPLE II Well, after several
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" months of using my
|
|||
|
|
Apple IIc on GEnie, I finally took the plunge and bought an Apple IIgs. I
|
|||
|
|
would have never been able to do this without the support of all the good
|
|||
|
|
guys and gals of A2. I have a basic "bare-bones" system with CPU,
|
|||
|
|
keyboard, a monochrome monitor, and a 5.25 drive.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The "continuing" part of this saga is how everyone is really joining
|
|||
|
|
in to help me find the other parts that I need to have a complete system.
|
|||
|
|
Everyone is helping me hunt high and low and in the bulletin board for
|
|||
|
|
equipment. It seems that I am finally on my way to becoming an Apple II
|
|||
|
|
user of today!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
But then, it happened. My quest for new equipment was postponed as I
|
|||
|
|
had to refocus my attention on having my keyboard cleaned and repaired.
|
|||
|
|
Folks, I know you have heard this a thousand times, but DON'T EAT AND DRINK
|
|||
|
|
AROUND YOUR COMPUTER!!!! Yes, salsa. Not the thick chunky kind either.
|
|||
|
|
The thin, runny, oozing kind. It makes a nice layer of sludge inside a
|
|||
|
|
keyboard. Trust me. I know this for a fact.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Well, my Apple fate is now in the hands of Harold, A2's resident
|
|||
|
|
hardware guru. I think if it weren't for all the people here in A2, I
|
|||
|
|
would have defected to the world of PC by now. But, I am still here and
|
|||
|
|
still working at it! Stay tuned for more details!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
WHAT'S NEW IN A2? We continue to have nightly Real Time Conferences
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""" (RTCs) from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. eastern time, and all
|
|||
|
|
afternoon on Sundays (2 p.m. to 8 p.m. eastern). Our bulletin board is a
|
|||
|
|
wealth of information for Apple II'ers, so feel free to browse -- and post!
|
|||
|
|
And don't forget our library, filled with thousands of useful and fun
|
|||
|
|
files.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There has been one sad note in A2. The son of Doug Pendleton, known
|
|||
|
|
for his expertise in hardware, and a frequent visitor to A2, was shot and
|
|||
|
|
killed in a drive-by shooting on March 19. We wish Doug and his family the
|
|||
|
|
best, and grieve with him in his loss. Topic 18 in Category 2 has been
|
|||
|
|
designated "In Memoriam" for Doug's son.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[AII]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
APPLE II /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Apple II History, Part 20/21b
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
by Steven Weyhrich
|
|||
|
|
[S.WEYHRICH]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> APPLE II HISTORY <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Compiled and written by Steven Weyhrich
|
|||
|
|
(C) Copyright 1994, Zonker Software
|
|||
|
|
(PART 20/21b -- MAGAZINES, CONT)
|
|||
|
|
[v1.2 :: 10 Feb 94]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
INTRODUCTION We continue this month with review of the Apple II magazines
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""" that kept us using our favorite computer to its fullest,
|
|||
|
|
including Computist, A+, inCider, Apple IIgs Buyer's Guide, II Computing,
|
|||
|
|
Open-Apple/A2-Central, Compute!, and Apple Orchard. (As a reminder, I've
|
|||
|
|
taken the original parts 20 and 21 of the History and combined them, added
|
|||
|
|
some new info, and then split the result into three Lamp-sized pieces.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Computist (1981-Present) This magazine began originally back in 1981 with
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""" the name "HardCore Computing". A flier mailed
|
|||
|
|
out during 1982 gave this description of the magazine: "HARDCORE COMPUTING,
|
|||
|
|
a small magazine in Tacoma, Washington, warns pirates about the latest
|
|||
|
|
technology that companies are using against them. HARDCORE is a magazine
|
|||
|
|
dedicated to the Apple-user. There are a lot of computer magazines, but
|
|||
|
|
HARDCORE prints the information that other magazines refuse to print,
|
|||
|
|
information vital to you as a computer user."<1> By 1983 it was split into
|
|||
|
|
two separate publications: "HARDCORE Computist" (devoted to "kracking";
|
|||
|
|
see below), and "CORE" (devoted to general Apple II topics). CORE was to
|
|||
|
|
have been published four times a year, but was dropped after only a few
|
|||
|
|
issues. The first issues of CORE, during 1983, covered graphics,
|
|||
|
|
utilities, and games. The third quarterly issue was to have been about
|
|||
|
|
databases, but the games topic was substituted and the database topic never
|
|||
|
|
appeared in print.<1>,<2>,<3>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
For the first four issues, the name "HARDCORE" dominated the title
|
|||
|
|
page. Beginning with issue #5, "Hardcore" appeared in smaller type, with
|
|||
|
|
"COMPUTIST" taking over a dominating position on the cover. By issue #27,
|
|||
|
|
the name "Hardcore" was dropped completely from the cover. Although it
|
|||
|
|
began as a glossy format magazine, this was discontinued with issue #45 in
|
|||
|
|
1987, and with issue #66 in 1989 they changed to a tabloid format. The
|
|||
|
|
publishers claim that one reason for the name change to simply "Computist"
|
|||
|
|
stemmed from a complaint sent in by a young subscriber whose mother was
|
|||
|
|
throwing out the magazine before he got it, because she thought it
|
|||
|
|
contained pornographic materials!<1>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Computist" was, admittedly, in the business of teaching users how to
|
|||
|
|
"strip". But this did not refer to X-rated topics, but the ability to
|
|||
|
|
strip the copy-protection from commercial software. This technique, known
|
|||
|
|
as "kracking", was a popular pastime for some software hackers of the day.
|
|||
|
|
Using powerful programs such as Locksmith and Copy II Plus, Computist gave
|
|||
|
|
specifics on how to make a disk work as easily as a standard Apple DOS
|
|||
|
|
disk.<3> The combination of ProDOS and un-protected commercial programs
|
|||
|
|
took much of the wind out of Computist's sails, since the special help
|
|||
|
|
needed to copy disks was no longer necessary. There were, of course, those
|
|||
|
|
who used the techniques printed in Computist to "pirate" programs
|
|||
|
|
(duplicate and distribute protected software), but many used it to
|
|||
|
|
standardize the modified DOS so that the programs could be used with RAM
|
|||
|
|
disks, large floppies, and hard disks.<1>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Though it is still being printed, "Computist" is much different than
|
|||
|
|
it was in its early days. It is no longer Apple II-specific, and has
|
|||
|
|
expanded to also cover the Macintosh and IBM. Its publishing schedule has
|
|||
|
|
also become rather irregular. Each new subscription still comes with a
|
|||
|
|
tutorial by Wes Felty on disk de-protection and the use of a program called
|
|||
|
|
"Super IOB".<4>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A+ (1983-1989) Ziff-Davis, who published other computer magazines such as
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""" Creative Computing, began publishing A+ in January 1983.
|
|||
|
|
This new Apple II magazine carried primarily hardware and software reviews
|
|||
|
|
and consumer-oriented articles. It was somewhat similar to today's
|
|||
|
|
inCider/A+ in terms of being a general interest Apple II magazine as
|
|||
|
|
opposed to the programming slant of Nibble (A+ had virtually no type-in
|
|||
|
|
programs).<5> During the time that both A+ and inCider were being
|
|||
|
|
published there continued a friendly rivalry between the two.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
One of the features unique to A+ was a column called "Product
|
|||
|
|
All-Stars", a classified-style listing of the current popular software and
|
|||
|
|
hardware similar to the old "Fastalk" column in Softalk magazine.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
During the latter part of A+'s publishing run, Gary Little became its
|
|||
|
|
editor. He had previously written books about the Apple IIe, IIc, IIgs,
|
|||
|
|
and their disk operating systems, and so was very qualified to know the
|
|||
|
|
computer and its uses. He replaced Lisa Raleigh, who left to take a job
|
|||
|
|
with Apple Computer. Not long after, and just prior to the magazine's
|
|||
|
|
merger with inCider, Gary Little also was hired away by Apple. It was felt
|
|||
|
|
by some subscribers that Little's short stint with A+ significantly
|
|||
|
|
improved the magazine, and they were saddened to see him go.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
When Creative Computing had ceased publication in 1985, subscribers
|
|||
|
|
found their remaining issues were switched over to A+ Magazine by
|
|||
|
|
Ziff-Davis. In 1989, the publisher chose to discontinue A+, and allowed it
|
|||
|
|
to merge with inCider magazine.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
inCider (1983-1993) This magazine was originally begun by Wayne Green,
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""" who had been involved in technical magazines for many
|
|||
|
|
years. As mentioned above, it was not a programming magazine, though it
|
|||
|
|
carried columns that answered readers' questions about programming as well
|
|||
|
|
as other Apple II questions. The main direction that it has seemed to take
|
|||
|
|
over the years was in helping advertise available software and hardware,
|
|||
|
|
and carry articles that helped Apple II users learn to use the software
|
|||
|
|
they owned. These columns included "AppleWorks In Action" by Ruth Witkin;
|
|||
|
|
"Press Room" by Cynthia Field (which detailed ways to do desktop publishing
|
|||
|
|
with Print Shop, Publish-It!, AppleWorks GS, and GraphicWriter); "Bridging
|
|||
|
|
The Gap" by Gregg Keizer (discussing ways to help the Apple II and
|
|||
|
|
Macintosh work peaceably together); "Apple IIgs Basics" by Joe Abernathy
|
|||
|
|
(highlighting programming on the IIgs); and "Apple Clinic" (questions and
|
|||
|
|
answers about using Apple IIs).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In 1989 inCider merged with A+ Magazine, as mentioned above, and in
|
|||
|
|
December 1990 the editors chose to broaden their audience by adding
|
|||
|
|
coverage of the Macintosh computer to their Apple II features. This was a
|
|||
|
|
highly unpopular move with many Apple II loyalists, who had already had
|
|||
|
|
quite enough of Apple Computer telling them to "move up" to a Mac.
|
|||
|
|
"Polluting" their Apple II publication with this better-loved younger
|
|||
|
|
sibling infuriated many, and they vowed to let their subscriptions expire.
|
|||
|
|
However, at this point in time there were few national Apple II-specific
|
|||
|
|
publications remaining, and no others that appeared on the magazine racks
|
|||
|
|
at large newsstands (since Nibble had by then gone to mail-only
|
|||
|
|
distribution to subscribers). Apparently inCider's distributing company,
|
|||
|
|
A+ Publishing, felt that they couldn't survive without making some attempt
|
|||
|
|
to broaden their customer base, and they chose this as what they felt was
|
|||
|
|
their best defense in a shrinking market. For several months afterward,
|
|||
|
|
the magazine got just a little bit smaller in size, eventually going from a
|
|||
|
|
square-bound back to a stapled format. This shrinkage stabilized in early
|
|||
|
|
to mid 1992, and by late that year, inCider/A+ was still in business.
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However, rumors began to surface in October 1992 about plans by
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inCider to change to a format that would focus almost entirely on the
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Macintosh, with significantly less attention paid to the Apple II.<11>
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Initially, it was said that inCider/A+ would cease under that name with the
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January 1993 issue, and would reappear as just "A+" in February 1993.
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Reasons cited at the time were declining advertising revenue, and they
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hoped that by changing themselves to deal with the Macintosh in more detail
|
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(particularly from the point of view of educators), they could continue to
|
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be printed.
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Cameron Crotty, Associate Editor of inCider/A+, stated online in the
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A2 Roundtable on GEnie during October, "inCider/A+ is going primarily
|
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Macintosh. The shift will occur in February and will probably include a
|
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name change (not finalized). WE WILL CONTINUE TO COVER THE APPLE II FOR AS
|
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LONG AS IT REMAINS FEASIBLE. I cannot say (because I do not know) whether
|
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the coverage would be mixed in or in a separate section (input would be
|
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appreciated). With the shift in focus, we are also trying to enlarge the
|
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book..."
|
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He also said, "Right now, inCider/A+ has two choices: 1) stay with the
|
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Apple II and be dead in 6-8 months or 2) shift to the Mac and try to
|
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survive. We believe that there is a low-end Mac niche at least as large as
|
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our current circulation (perhaps larger), and that most of our readers (75%
|
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or more) will maintain their subscriptions (numbers from editorial surveys
|
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& such). We also believe that we can attract the advertising we need to
|
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survive by shifting to the Mac. We may be wrong. We may be dead in 6-8
|
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months anyway. But a change has to be made. We cannot survive on our
|
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current course."
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There was, of course, considerable discussion of this planned move on
|
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|
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the A2 Roundtable on GEnie. Some advertisers, like Quality Computers,
|
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|
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threatened to withdraw their advertising ENTIRELY, if such a move took
|
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|
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place. Perhaps it was because of statements like this, or perhaps Crotty
|
|||
|
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spoke out without authority to do so. In any case, there was considerable
|
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|
|
back-peddling on the announcement that began to appear. Joe Kohn, who had
|
|||
|
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been writing a column in inCider/A+ called "Shareware Solutions" for some
|
|||
|
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time, stated that he had been told that there had as yet been no CORPORATE
|
|||
|
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decision to make any changes, and previous statements should be
|
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disregarded.<12>
|
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|
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|
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inCider/A+'s new Editor-In-Chief, William Kennedy, wrote an editorial
|
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|
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for the February 1993 issue of the magazine. In his editorial, he made
|
|||
|
|
great pains to point out that the rumors that had been flying about were
|
|||
|
|
never accurate from the beginning. Yes, with the March 1993 issue they had
|
|||
|
|
plans to redesign the layout of the magazine, and probably put the Mac
|
|||
|
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stuff in a separate section, but he stated firmly that it would remain
|
|||
|
|
oriented to the Apple II.<13>
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
However, it was eventually clear that IDG Communications, the company
|
|||
|
|
that printed the magazine for A+ Publishing, was not going to continue to
|
|||
|
|
produce what they viewed as a losing venture. Quality Computers, which had
|
|||
|
|
decided by early 1993 to start their own Apple II magazine, arranged to
|
|||
|
|
take over inCider/A+'s remaining subscription base and fulfill it with
|
|||
|
|
their publication. inCider/A+ ceased publication with the July 1993 issue,
|
|||
|
|
but ended it as abruptly as did Softalk, with no announcement to
|
|||
|
|
subscribers to make them aware of the change until Quality Computers sent a
|
|||
|
|
letter discussing it. IDG then planned to begin a new Macintosh
|
|||
|
|
publication called Mac Computing, utilizing most of the old inCider/A+
|
|||
|
|
staff. However, after the first issue was produced and distributed, IDG
|
|||
|
|
changed their minds and terminated the project.<14>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If the editors of inCider/A+ had chosen to maintain their focus on the
|
|||
|
|
Apple II, and had not taken the unpopular move of becoming a combination
|
|||
|
|
Apple II/Macintosh publication, perhaps they would have survived longer.
|
|||
|
|
Perhaps things would have still turned out as they did, even if they HAD
|
|||
|
|
remained true to their original topic. In any case, with the disappearance
|
|||
|
|
of inCider/A+, so also ended the era of newsstand Apple II magazines.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Apple IIgs Buyer's Guide (1985-1990) This magazine began originally under
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" the name, "The Apple II Review" in
|
|||
|
|
the fall of 1985. After about five issues the name was changed to "The
|
|||
|
|
Apple IIgs Buyers Guide". The changed magazine began in the Fall of 1987,
|
|||
|
|
and it ceased publication in the Fall of 1990. It was published in a high
|
|||
|
|
gloss format, and over half of each issue was devoted to a listing of
|
|||
|
|
available IIgs software/hardware.<6>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
II Computing (1985-1987) This magazine published from October/November
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""" 1985 until February/March 1987. Trying to
|
|||
|
|
appeal to a variety of readers from beginners to experienced Apple II
|
|||
|
|
users, it printed program listings (including at one time listings made for
|
|||
|
|
the Cauzin strip reader), reviews, and general articles. It covered items
|
|||
|
|
in more depth than inCider, but less than Call-A.P.P.L.E. or Nibble,
|
|||
|
|
offering a combination of both type-in programs and general articles. It
|
|||
|
|
had available a companion disk available containing the programs in the
|
|||
|
|
magazine.<5>,<7>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Open-Apple / A2-Central (1985-Present) As mentioned above, Tom Weishaar
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" was a writer of Softalk's
|
|||
|
|
"DOSTalk" column beginning in April 1983, after Bert Kersey retired from
|
|||
|
|
the position. He continued with it until Softalk went bankrupt after the
|
|||
|
|
August 1984 issue. An Apple II user since 1980, and author of two programs
|
|||
|
|
sold by Beagle Bros (Frame-Up, a graphics slide-show displayer, and
|
|||
|
|
ProntoDOS, an enhanced version of DOS 3.3), Weishaar had previous
|
|||
|
|
experience with writing newsletters from his days with the Commodity News
|
|||
|
|
Service in Kansas City. After Softalk folded, he realized that there was
|
|||
|
|
still a market for a technical publication for the Apple II that also could
|
|||
|
|
be helpful for the beginning user. In January 1985 he began with a
|
|||
|
|
newsletter he called Open-Apple, which continued where "DOSTalk" left off.
|
|||
|
|
The initial issue (Volume 1, No. 0) included readers' letters (some left
|
|||
|
|
over from DOSTalk, but some intentionally phony, with return addresses like
|
|||
|
|
the Okefenokee Swamp), information about Applesoft and Logo, and one
|
|||
|
|
response to a reader asking how to create a disk that would boot WITHOUT
|
|||
|
|
DOS 3.3. At $24 for a monthly eight page newsletter, its subscribing cost
|
|||
|
|
was as much as full-sized magazines of the day. However, Open-Apple did
|
|||
|
|
not carry any advertising, and the amount of useful information printed
|
|||
|
|
each month made it worth the expense.<8>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As the newsletter matured over the years, the coverage of Logo
|
|||
|
|
disappeared, and Applesoft dwindled as well, reflecting changes in reader
|
|||
|
|
interests. During the late 1980s, coverage of AppleWorks was heavy, and
|
|||
|
|
nearly every issue would contain some way to patch the program to customize
|
|||
|
|
it for a certain function. Coverage of the IIgs was also prominent, and
|
|||
|
|
Weishaar and his various editors have struggled to find the balance between
|
|||
|
|
articles that dealt with the new technology without ignoring the sizable
|
|||
|
|
number of readers who still owned the older 8-bit Apple IIs.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In December 1988, the name of the newsletter was changed to
|
|||
|
|
A2-Central. Several reasons were given for the change. One was similar to
|
|||
|
|
the reason given by A.P.P.L.E. for changing its name to TechAlliance; Apple
|
|||
|
|
Computer was in the habit of threatening legal infringement against those
|
|||
|
|
who used "their" name without permission (or at least licensing it).
|
|||
|
|
Another was to indicate philosophically what was the purpose of the
|
|||
|
|
magazine: To be the center of the Apple II universe, and a central source
|
|||
|
|
of information and programming resources. Earlier in the year, Weishaar
|
|||
|
|
had also agreed to be the manager of the Apple II roundtables on the online
|
|||
|
|
service GEnie. This extended the information available to him for his
|
|||
|
|
publication, as well as the ability for more prompt exchange of information
|
|||
|
|
for his readers. In fact, there was a great similarity between the
|
|||
|
|
conversations that took place on GEnie, in the reader questions section of
|
|||
|
|
A2-Central, and the old "Open Discussion" part of Softalk magazine. New
|
|||
|
|
users could ask "how do I get XYZ program to run with my ABC printer?", and
|
|||
|
|
experienced users could help them, either online or in a letter written to
|
|||
|
|
A2-Central.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Because the newsletter included international readers as well, and
|
|||
|
|
these people had difficulty in getting their hands on certain Apple
|
|||
|
|
II-related products or books, a catalog was added to the A2-Central line-up
|
|||
|
|
in early 1989. This initially carried books, but quickly expanded to
|
|||
|
|
include software and hardware. February 1989 also saw the first issue of
|
|||
|
|
A2-Central-On-Disk, which included a text file of the current month's
|
|||
|
|
newsletter, as well as an assortment of the latest shareware and freeware
|
|||
|
|
programs for the Apple II. At times it also contained text files with
|
|||
|
|
useful information (such as updates to the official Apple II tech notes).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
September 1989 saw a change in editors for A2-Central. After nearly
|
|||
|
|
five years of working constantly on it, Weishaar turned over the reins for
|
|||
|
|
the month-to-month work to Dennis Doms, and moved himself to the position
|
|||
|
|
of publisher. There was little change in the content or style of the
|
|||
|
|
newsletter (since Weishaar was still running the show), but it freed him to
|
|||
|
|
recover from the burnout of meeting a monthly deadline, and to work more on
|
|||
|
|
managing the company itself. One of the new items that appeared in
|
|||
|
|
December 1989 was a disk-based publication called Stack-Central (later
|
|||
|
|
changed to Studio City). What was unique about this bi-monthly product was
|
|||
|
|
that it was based on HyperStudio, the graphics, sound, and text
|
|||
|
|
manipulation program from Roger Wagner Publishing. As such, it could be
|
|||
|
|
read in a "non-linear" fashion; that is, you didn't have to start at the
|
|||
|
|
beginning and read through until you got to the end. You could jump from
|
|||
|
|
one topic to another, or thread through topics in a fashion that could not
|
|||
|
|
be duplicated in a printed publication.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
More new disk-based products appeared from A2-Central in 1990. August
|
|||
|
|
1990 saw the start of TimeOut-Central, devoted to AppleWorks and the
|
|||
|
|
TimeOut series of enhancements distributed by Beagle Bros. It was also a
|
|||
|
|
bi-monthly publication, and was originally edited by Richard Marchiafava,
|
|||
|
|
who had previously written a column called "AppleWorks Advisor" for
|
|||
|
|
user-group newsletters. In March 1991 the editorship was transferred to
|
|||
|
|
Randy Brandt, the Beagle Bros programmer who had written many of the
|
|||
|
|
TimeOut applications, as well as several for his own small software
|
|||
|
|
company.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
8/16-Central, specializing in programming for both 8-bit Apple IIs and
|
|||
|
|
the IIgs, began in December 1990. It was a continuation of a short-lived
|
|||
|
|
magazine called 8/16, published by Ross Lambert's Ariel Publishing Co.,
|
|||
|
|
which itself was preceded by several separate newsletters that specialized
|
|||
|
|
in Applesoft or assembly language or other programming for the Apple II
|
|||
|
|
series. 8/16-Central was a monthly disk, but didn't keep enough
|
|||
|
|
subscribers to stay afloat. In October 1991 it was discontinued, and the
|
|||
|
|
remaining subscriptions were folded over into GS+ Magazine. Later, the
|
|||
|
|
contents of the entire run of 8/16-Central were upload as individual file
|
|||
|
|
archives to A2Pro on the same exclusive basis as were the Apple Assembly
|
|||
|
|
Line files previously mentioned.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Weishaar's organization began to carry Hyperbole in March 1991.
|
|||
|
|
Produced by an outside source, it was also a HyperStudio-based disk
|
|||
|
|
publication, but its focus was not on making HyperStudio stacks, but on
|
|||
|
|
actually USING the program to produce a literary form that had never been
|
|||
|
|
done before. It consisted of poetry, art, and sounds, combined together in
|
|||
|
|
a way that could not be presented in printed form. For example, one series
|
|||
|
|
of stories that appeared early on in Hyperbole involved a medieval theme,
|
|||
|
|
with the story told from various points of view, depending on which picture
|
|||
|
|
was selected on the "door" that introduced the story. To get the entire
|
|||
|
|
story required going back to the main door and selecting a different
|
|||
|
|
picture. Sound and graphics were also integrated into articles that
|
|||
|
|
appeared in this disk-magazine.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Finally, Script-Central began in June 1991. This was similar to
|
|||
|
|
Stack-Central, but was dedicated to HyperCard IIgs. It featured some
|
|||
|
|
animated sequences that introduced it, and the user could select the
|
|||
|
|
articles to read by pointing to doors in the Stack-Central "building" on
|
|||
|
|
the screen, and follow hallways to other articles (sort of like combining a
|
|||
|
|
magazine and a video game).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A2-Central itself has undergone few changes in its life. Its focus
|
|||
|
|
has shifted slightly to keeping abreast of the newest changes in the Apple
|
|||
|
|
II world (in terms of products and events that affect that computer), where
|
|||
|
|
previously it spent a lot of time talking about various specific products
|
|||
|
|
(such as AppleWorks, HyperStudio, etc.) The spin-off disk publications
|
|||
|
|
that were started have filled the niche needed to continue user-support of
|
|||
|
|
those Apple II products. The editorship has changed a couple of further
|
|||
|
|
times as well; Jay Jennings briefly took the place of Dennis Doms as editor
|
|||
|
|
in November 1991, before going to work for Softdisk. Ellen Rosenberg began
|
|||
|
|
editorship after that, and made the change of accepting feature articles
|
|||
|
|
from outside authors for the first time since A2-Central began publication.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
When Nibble magazine folded in 1992, A2-Central took over their
|
|||
|
|
subscription list, filling out remaining issues for those people. It was
|
|||
|
|
hoped that many of those people would see enough value in A2-Central to
|
|||
|
|
renew when the time came, but not enough readers did so. Weishaar started
|
|||
|
|
up a new paper newsletter called Fishhead's Children, intended to be a
|
|||
|
|
resource for those who had to bridge themselves among the Apple II,
|
|||
|
|
Macintosh, and MS-DOS computers. However, the new publication did not have
|
|||
|
|
enough subscribers to maintain a positive cash-flow, and in June 1993 a
|
|||
|
|
letter was sent out to both Fishhead's Children and A2-Central subscribers:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Dear Subscriber,
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Dominoes are falling at Resource Central and you've been
|
|||
|
|
hit.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As the Apple II nears the end of its life-cycle, renewals
|
|||
|
|
to our flagship publication, the paper version of A2-Central,
|
|||
|
|
have fallen to less than 20 per cent. That domino has been
|
|||
|
|
teetering ever since we took over Nibble's subscribers a year
|
|||
|
|
ago.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
We had hoped to stabilize the situation with a new
|
|||
|
|
publications, Fishhead's Children, which would take us into new
|
|||
|
|
territory. Unfortunately, that publication hasn't been the
|
|||
|
|
success we had hoped it would be. For each $100 we've spent
|
|||
|
|
trying to obtain new subscribers, we've taken in less than $10.
|
|||
|
|
We can no longer carry this expense without putting our entire
|
|||
|
|
company in jeopardy, so that domino has ceased publication and
|
|||
|
|
fallen.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Without a successful Fishhead's Children, there's nothing
|
|||
|
|
to pay the even-increasing bills the paper version of A2-Central
|
|||
|
|
is running up. A2-Central-On-Disk continues to have strong
|
|||
|
|
renewals, as do our other disk publications, but they're not big
|
|||
|
|
enough to continue supporting our paper publications. It all
|
|||
|
|
means that I have no choice but to cease publication of the paper
|
|||
|
|
version of A2-Central as well.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The letter went on to explain that the value of remaining
|
|||
|
|
subscriptions (not counting the old Nibble people) would be credited to the
|
|||
|
|
subscriber's account, and could be refunded or applied to another product
|
|||
|
|
sold by Resource Central. A2-Central-On-Disk would continue to be produced
|
|||
|
|
as it had before; it cost much less to duplicate and mail disks than it did
|
|||
|
|
to print and mail paper newsletters. This would also be the place where
|
|||
|
|
the newsletter A2-Central would continue to appear (in a digital, rather
|
|||
|
|
than in a paper format).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The January 1994 issue of A2-Central-On-Disk was renamed to simply
|
|||
|
|
"A2-Central". Dean Esmay, who had been editing the disk publication from
|
|||
|
|
its beginning, went on to work with Softdisk in Louisiana, and newcomer
|
|||
|
|
John Peters came on as editor. The appearance of the text was dressed up
|
|||
|
|
in a manner similar to that used in the GEnieLamp online newsletters, which
|
|||
|
|
Peters had been overseeing for several years. Not himself an Apple II user
|
|||
|
|
at the time when Weishaar signed him up, Peters gathered several veteran
|
|||
|
|
Apple II writers to assist in producing the text of the newsletter each
|
|||
|
|
month, and in collecting the freeware and shareware files that were
|
|||
|
|
included with each issue. At this time my own independent monthly news
|
|||
|
|
compilation, the A2 News Digest, became exclusively a part of A2-Central.
|
|||
|
|
(The Digest had previously been available on GEnie as source material for
|
|||
|
|
Apple user group newsletters.) Doug Cuff, who was editor of the A2 edition
|
|||
|
|
of GEnieLamp and a contributing editor for II Alive, was also tapped to
|
|||
|
|
write articles for A2-Central. Peters continued the practice started by
|
|||
|
|
Ellen Rosenberg of soliciting articles written by other authors not
|
|||
|
|
routinely associated with A2-Central.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Peters was also commissioned to coordinate work on disk publications
|
|||
|
|
for the Macintosh (called Macrocosm), and IBM and compatible computers
|
|||
|
|
(Solid Windows and Config.Sys, for the Windows and MS-DOS user,
|
|||
|
|
respectively).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The disk newsletter, catalog, and other disk publications continue
|
|||
|
|
today under the corporate umbrella of Resource Central, Inc., which also
|
|||
|
|
has sponsored annual summer conferences since 1989. These conferences have
|
|||
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<1> Hood, Hugh. GEnie, A2 ROUNDTABLE, Oct 1991, Category 2, Topic 16.
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<2> Wessel, Hank. GEnie, A2 ROUNDTABLE, Oct 1991, Category 2, Topic
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<3> Vanderpool, Tom. GEnie, A2 ROUNDTABLE, Oct 1991, Category 2,
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Topic 16.
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<4> Felty, Wes. GEnie, A2 ROUNDTABLE, Oct 1991, Category 2, Topic 16.
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<5> McIntosh, Ross. GEnie, A2 ROUNDTABLE, Oct 1991, Mar 1992,
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<6> Disbrow, Steven. "Old Timers: Magazines", 1992 A2 CENTRAL SUMMER
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CONFERENCE (tapes), July 1992.
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<7> Schack, Robert. GEnie, A2 ROUNDTABLE, Oct 1991, Category 2, Topic
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<8> Weyhrich, Steven. "MACH Interview: Tom Weishaar", M.A.C.H. NEWS,
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<9> Weishaar, Tom. -----, A2-CENTRAL CATALOG, Fall 1990, p. 2.
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<10> -----. "The History of Softdisk: Part 1", SOFT TALK (company
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<11> Weyhrich, Steven. "inCider Twists The Knife", A2 NEWS DIGEST,
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<12> Weyhrich, Steven. "More On The Changes At inCider ...", A2 NEWS
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<14> Weyhrich, Steven. "inCider: R.I.P.", A2 NEWS DIGEST, Jun 1992.
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