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~ WELCOME TO GENIELAMP APPLE II! ~
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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~ PROFILE: Steve Cavanaugh, Publisher of _The Apple Blossom_ ~
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~ APPLEWORKS ANNEX: The AppleWorks Gazette--Issue #1 ~
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~ FILE BANDWAGON: Top 10 Files for January 1996 ~
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~ HOT NEWS, HOT FILES, HOT MESSAGES ~
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GenieLamp Apple II ~ A T/TalkNET Publication ~ Vol.5, Issue 48
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Publisher................................................John F. Peters
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Editor...................................................Douglas Cuff
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~ GenieLamp IBM ~ GenieLamp ST ~ GenieLamp PowerPC ~
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~ GenieLamp A2Pro ~ GenieLamp Macintosh ~ GenieLamp TX2 ~
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~ GenieLamp Windows ~ GenieLamp A2 ~ LiveWire (ASCII) ~
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~ Member Of The Digital Publishing Association ~
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Genie Mail: GENIELAMP Internet: genielamp@genie.com
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>>> WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE APPLE II ROUNDTABLE? <<<
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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~ March 1, 1996 ~
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FROM MY DESKTOP ......... [FRM] FROM MY MAILBOX ......... [MAI]
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Notes From The Editor. Letters To The Editor.
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HEY MISTER POSTMAN ...... [HEY] HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM]
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Is That A Letter For Me? Apple II Brainwash Test.
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REFLECTIONS ............. [REF] APPLEWORKS ANNEX ........ [AWX]
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Nursing Homes on the Internet? The AppleWorks Gazette.
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FILE BANDWAGON .......... [BAN] THE ONLINE LIBRARY ...... [LIB]
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Top 10 Files for January. January Arrivals on Genie.
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PROFILES ................ [PRO] LOG OFF ................. [LOG]
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Steve Cavanaugh, Apple Blossom. GEnieLamp Information.
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[IDX]""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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READING GENIELAMP GenieLamp has incorporated a unique indexing system
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this system, load GenieLamp into any ASCII word processor or text editor.
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In the index you will find the following example:
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HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM]
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Genie Fun & Games.
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To read this article, set your find or search command to [HUM]. If
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you want to scan all of the articles, search for [EOA]. [EOF] will take
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you to the last page, whereas [IDX] will bring you back to the index.
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MESSAGE INFO To make it easy for you to respond to messages reprinted
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ABOUT Genie Genie's monthly fee is $23.95 which gives you up to nine
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""""""""""" hours of non-prime time access to most Genie services, such
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as software downloads, bulletin boards, Genie Mail, an Internet mail
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gateway, and chat lines. Genie's non-prime time connect rate is $2.75. To
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sign up for Genie service, call (with modem) 1-800-638-8369 in the USA or
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1-800-387-8330 in Canada. Wait for the U#= prompt. Type: JOINGENIE and
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type: DSD524 and hit RETURN. The system will then prompt you for your
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information. Need more information? Call Genie's customer service line
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GET GENIELAMP ON THE NET! Now you can get your GenieLamp issues from
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connect to "gopher://gopher.genie.com/11/magazines". When using a gopher
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and Newsletters from Genie's RoundTables).
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*** GET INTO THE LAMP! ***
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//////////////////////////////////////// Genie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
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/ I do the audio sampling for part of my living. People /
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/ are not only amazed, but astounded, that I'm using a /
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/ 9-year-old computer to do the things that they only /
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/ recently have been able to do... and then, they have to /
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/ pay hundreds of dollars just for the software to do it /
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/ properly. /
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////////////////////////////////////////////// LUMITECH ////
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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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>>> SPARED CHANGE <<<
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Since we were last together, GEnie has shed its upper case E and
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transformed into Genie. General Electric Information Services, Inc.
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sold our host online service to Yovelle Renaissance Corp. (whoever they may
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be when they're at home). So GEnieLamp A2 has become GenieLamp A2, much to
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the relief of hundreds of readers who hated that upper case E in the first
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place.
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There have been other changes at Genie.
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An immediate change that has caused many a voice to rise and many a
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door to be slammed is the new fee structure. The monthly minimum of $8.95
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has been replaced by $18.95... and that's just for old-timers. New Genie
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customers are charged $23.95/month. The number of free non-prime time
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hours has increased from 4 to 9, and extra non-prime time hours cost $2.75,
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not $3.00.
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GenieLamp exists to promote Genie. Nevertheless, I have to report
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that the new rates have meant several departures, from the A2 RoundTable
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and elsewhere, because customers cannot afford the $120/year increase. I
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can't blame them, and I doubt that the majority will ever be back. ("You
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want to come back? Sure. That'll be an extra $5/month for the rest of
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your stay on Genie.") Winning back a disgruntled customer is harder even
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than finding new customers.
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This immediate change in the rates has rankled, but if the new
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management can be persuaded to offer a more affordable option, then the new
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changes will be the saving--or perhaps making--of Genie.
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Genie is a great service, and is still _the_ place to be if you own
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an Apple II. Nevertheless, before the sale of Genie, some of us were
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worried about its future. Genie was maintaining where it needed to grow.
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Now, Yovelle plans to carry Genie into the future. That's fantastic news.
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If Genie is allowed to continue--if it doesn't suffer a mass exodus
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in protest at new, higher minimum fee--it will be an industry leader again.
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To achieve that, however, it must find a way of keeping its old users and
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attracting new ones. The current fee structure is not a way of doing
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either.
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Let's hope the new management realizes it, and implements a new fee
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structure before it's too late. If it doesn't, I may end up writing next
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month's editorial for an audience of two.
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[*][*][*]
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As always, my timing is impeccable--impeccably dreadful, that is.
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Last month, I urged you to write for GenieLamp A2, and dangled free Genie
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credits in front of your eyes. One of the results of the management
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changeover is that credits are suspended until further notice. I'm still
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eager for contributions; I simply can't pay for them, that's all.
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Two closing statements: The PAUG Newsletter has not yet returned. I
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don't know why (as I hoped I would when I wrote last month's editorial).
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-- Doug Cuff
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Genie Mail: EDITOR.A2 Internet: editor.a2@genie.com
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This issue of GenieLamp A2
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with affection and respect
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absent friends.
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FROM MY MAILBOX /
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Letters To The Editor
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MEGADEMO FOLLOW-UP #1 You said in your February editorial:
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"So what's a major gaffe? Assuming that Canadians and Americans are
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'the same thing'. Assuming that Austrians and Germans are the same.
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Assuming that New Zealanders and Australians are the same. And not knowing
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the difference between a gaffe and a faux pas. <grin>"
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I sometimes wish that Austrians and German were the same...
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Schwarzenegger being an Austrian is a major blow to my nationalist pride
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;-). As for Kiwis and Aussies: They talk the same, don't they, and
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anyway, where's the difference, save a few thousand miles. *ahem*
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Anyway, the reason to write (apart from sending silly comments about
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Austrian hollywood stars) is your mini-flame-fest with NinjaForce. IMVHO,
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that piece was just a tad too long. The original letter by NinjaForce,
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your original reply, and then maybe a short paragraph mentioning that it
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developed into a sneering match that you'll spare the reader would have
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been quite enough, I think.
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Maybe I'm oversensitive due to bad experiences on the Internet
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newsgroup csa2. Anything that even hints at a flame gets me a bit jumpy. I
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can ignore it on csa2, it's part of the game there, but GEnie was always
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the "kinder, gentler" online service, and I would hate to see that attitude
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being undermined. Not that your piece did a lot of mining, mind you, but
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it kind of nibbled at the edges, I think.
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Cheers
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Soenke Behrens
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Yes, possibly I overreacted slightly. I have a pronounced
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dislike both of being told what/how I think and of being unjustly
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accused. My apologies to those who would rather have not
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witnessed the exchange.--DGC
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MEGADEMO FOLLOW-UP #2 I haven't finished reading the latest GEnieLamp
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""""""""""""""""""""" yet, but want to respond to the issue of the
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MegaDemo. I agree with you wholeheartedly! :)
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The funny thing is that a while back I got involved in a conversation
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about this w/the author(s) on csa2. I forget how it started, but it came
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down to me voicing my opinion that while demos are OK the first time
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around, they just aren't that useful. I was attacked by "NinjaForce" much
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the same way you were.
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Just thought I'd give you a little moral support. :)
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Wily
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P.CREAGER
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Thanks for the support, Wily. I got letters from both sides on
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the MegaDemo question. That's better than apathy, as I've said
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before. Still, let's hope it doesn't develop into a schism.--DGC
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POSSIBLE NEW APPLE II PUBLICATION Hello World!
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Well yes, there is another Apple II publication around. It is called
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"Dark Castle Magazine" and is published quarterly. We wanted to tell about
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our magazine during the fall of 1995, but it just didn't happen :-). Maybe
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we should tell something about DDC Magazine.
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In the beginning we started a bulletin board system (a BBS) with the
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name "Deep Dark Castle", but we finally left "Deep" away. It runs METAL/
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FutureVision and joins the Futurenet network.
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After a few months we realized that not every Apple II owner has a
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modem and could join our BBS and participate in any discussion or read
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about 'things going on in Apple II-land'. So we started publishing a disk
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with software that had been uploaded to the BBS or had been sent in by
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mail. We found that this wasn't enough, so we started publishing a
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magazine AND a disk.
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So far so good, but this was all in Dutch and we got requests from
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foreign people to send them a copy. Because of several people there was no
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reason to switch to the English language, but more requests started coming
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in. This made us think. Why not publish in English? GS+ had gone,
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Softdisk Apple II and others also.
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But, we weren't the only ones who thought this: Juiced-GS, The
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AppleWorks Gazette and Apple Blossom hit the scene. This made us think
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again: is it needed to bring another publication? Well, we finally made
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up our decision: it is up to you.
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Would YOU like to see another publication for the Apple II only?
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Would YOU like to subscribe? Maybe some information about Dark Castle
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Magazine will interest you.
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Dark Castle Magazine Published quarterly, currently in Dutch. If enough
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'''''''''''''''''''' requests come in, the June '96 issue will be
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published in English (and the next ones too, of course).
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What is covered in each issue depends on what is sent in, or what we
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wrote during the last quarter. However, in each issue we discuss a column
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called 'modem talk'. It contains information about the use of modems and
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telecommunication on your Apple II. A pending item is the Video Grabber.
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This is a new card for the Apple IIgs that will grab video frames in real
|
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time (in the background) while running GS/OS.
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On the disk you will find self written programs, self made sounds,
|
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midi files, pictures and other (interesting) software. These disks are
|
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available on the ftp site Caltech (ftp.cco.caltech.edu) in the
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pub/apple2/incoming directory. [Editor's note: This address was accurate
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when this letter was written, but may not be accurate by the time you read
|
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this.] The files are called ddc01.shk through ddc05.shk. DDC06 will be
|
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put online at the end of March 1996 when it's finished. So you can check
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them out yourself. Of course we can send you one or more disks by mail,
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but you pay the shipping :-)
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There is a lot more to tell you about, but we have no international
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information sheet ready yet. It will soon be requestable by email.
|
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If YOU are interested, please email us! We will mail you more
|
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information back including subscription ratings (including shipping). When
|
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we switch to English, the disks won't be put on Caltech anymore because
|
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they are part of the magazine.
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We can be reached at:
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BBS : +31-314-365145
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Internet : dboomsma@sci.kun.nl
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dark_dude@darkcastle.euro.fnet.org
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HTML : http://www.wco.com/~gbmaidsf/db/ (under construction)
|
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Snail mail: Dark Castle Magazine (Doede Boomsma a.k.a Dark Dude)
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Wolborgenmate 72
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7006 DK Doetinchem
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The Netherlands
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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 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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>>> A2 POT-POURRI <<<
|
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"""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
APPLECOLOR RGB MONITOR FIXES Several Quick and Simple fixes for
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""" AppleColor RGB monitor problems
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Notice: All of these repairs require removing the back case of the
|
|||
|
|
monitor, and some amount of soldering. If you are not confident of your
|
|||
|
|
abilities to handle this enviroment have someone else who is confident and
|
|||
|
|
qualified perform the needed repairs.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
There are potentially lethal shock hazards exposed during these
|
|||
|
|
procedures, as well as CRT implosion hazards. Proper safety procedures
|
|||
|
|
should be followed. These instructions are presented here as reference
|
|||
|
|
materials for properly qualified service technicians to make use of. I
|
|||
|
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shall NOT, in ANY MANER, be liable, or held liable, for any injuries, to
|
|||
|
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anyone, or any piece of equipment, occuring while following these
|
|||
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directions.
|
|||
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==========================================================================
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Symptom: The entire screen lights up with one color.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Fix: Obtain three 10uh (10 micro henry) inductors (Radio Shack often has
|
|||
|
|
these available, usually less than $5.00 for all three). Use these to
|
|||
|
|
replace L6R2, L6G2, and L6B2, all three of which are found on the PC board
|
|||
|
|
that is mounted to the neck of the CRT. (No adjustments of anything should
|
|||
|
|
be required) All three should be replaced at the same time, as field
|
|||
|
|
reports indicate that once one has burned out, the other two aren't far
|
|||
|
|
behind.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Note: These three inductors are used in series with the collector load
|
|||
|
|
resistor on the three gun driver output transistors, they simply perform
|
|||
|
|
power supply decoupling between the colors. When one of these inductors
|
|||
|
|
opens up, the collector of the associated gun driver transistor is no
|
|||
|
|
longer connected to it's source of power, causing the transistor's bias to
|
|||
|
|
go nuts (due to electron impingment on the grid) This causes the one color
|
|||
|
|
that has to open inductor to become biased full-on. This CAN CAUSE
|
|||
|
|
PERMENENT DAMAGE the CRT, do NOT leave the power on for longer than needed
|
|||
|
|
to observe the symptom.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Also note that it is normal for the PC board near these inductors to
|
|||
|
|
be somewhat discolored from heat (being dissipated by the noted collector
|
|||
|
|
load resistors)
|
|||
|
|
===============
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Symptom: The entire screen slowly fades to black, sometimes comes back
|
|||
|
|
(full or partially) when the case is slapped. [In some cases the
|
|||
|
|
screen may never show anything at all, but if one checks with the
|
|||
|
|
back of the hand it will be noted that there is a considerable
|
|||
|
|
static charge on the face of the CRT]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Fix #1: After unplugging the PC board from the neck of the CRT (slicing
|
|||
|
|
thru the blob of silicone rubber if present) clean the pins of the CRT with
|
|||
|
|
a tarnish removal chemical such as Tarn-X. Reassemble and test after
|
|||
|
|
drying.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Note #1: While I have not seen this procedure needed on the AppleColor RGB
|
|||
|
|
monitor, I have done this to fix several "fishtank" style Macs as well as
|
|||
|
|
televisions. It's a cheap longshot that can save a LOT of time and effort
|
|||
|
|
when it does work. Call it Majik and bill accordingly ;-)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Fix #2: After unplugging the PC board from the neck of the CRT (slicing
|
|||
|
|
thru the blob of silicone rubber if present) inspect and resolder every pin
|
|||
|
|
on the CRT socket where it connects to the PC board, also resolder both
|
|||
|
|
ends of R636. DO NOT try resoldering these connections with the board
|
|||
|
|
still plugged onto the CRT as the heat conducted into the CRT along the
|
|||
|
|
pins may cause it to implode, causing severe injury!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Note#2: The solder joints on the pins of the CRT socket sometimes crack,
|
|||
|
|
causing poor / intermitent contact and operation. Usually caused by
|
|||
|
|
blocked cooling and excessive operating temperature
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Fix#3: After unplugging the PC board from the neck of the CRT (slicing
|
|||
|
|
thru the blob of silicone rubber if present) test R636 with an ohm meter.
|
|||
|
|
This is a 1.2 ohm, 2 watt ceramic / sand resistor, which is in series with
|
|||
|
|
the CRT's filiment. If it is open, replace it with a like part. Be
|
|||
|
|
certain to mount the replacement away from the board, for proper heat
|
|||
|
|
disipation.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Note#3: This resistor fails due to excessive heat, and normal thermal
|
|||
|
|
cycling over a long period of time (many on/off cycles)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Fix #4: Locate the horizontal output transformer (flyback) and resolder
|
|||
|
|
all of it's pins on the bottom of the lower PC board, paying particular
|
|||
|
|
attention to pins 6 and 9 (these provide filiment voltage to the CRT)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Note#4: The solder joints on the pins of the horizontal output transformer
|
|||
|
|
sometimes crack, causing poor / intermitent contact and operation. Usually
|
|||
|
|
caused by blocked cooling and excessive operating temperature, but can also
|
|||
|
|
be agravated by magneticly induced motion (on a micro scale) which is
|
|||
|
|
directly related to the horizontal output frequency of 15.750Khz. This
|
|||
|
|
problem is also prevalent on many other monitors, TV sets, and in
|
|||
|
|
particular, the older "fishtank style" Macs.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Overall Note: If you sliced thru the blob of silicone rubber that keeps
|
|||
|
|
the board attached to the CRT, it is a good idea to re-glue things with a
|
|||
|
|
fresh blob of silicone rubber, as was done originally. This will keep the
|
|||
|
|
board in place when the monitor is moved or shipped. (A good grade of RTV
|
|||
|
|
or 100% silicone rubber bathtub caulk is desirable)
|
|||
|
|
===========
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Symptom: Monitor appears to be totally dead. No power light, no "thump"
|
|||
|
|
at turn-on, no static charge noted on face of CRT.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Caution: This procedure involves working in an area of the monitor that is
|
|||
|
|
NOT isolated from the power line. Be CERTAIN to unplug the
|
|||
|
|
monitor EVERY time prior to putting even one hand into these
|
|||
|
|
areas!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Fix: Check the internally mounted power line fuse located on the lower
|
|||
|
|
board near where the power cord enters. If it is bad try a replacement of
|
|||
|
|
the same current and voltage ratings. If the replacement fuse blows almost
|
|||
|
|
immediately:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
a) Locate the connector for the auto degausing coil (near front edge
|
|||
|
|
of lower board, same side as fuse) and unplug it. Retest with a
|
|||
|
|
new fuse. If all is now well the degausing coil should be replaced
|
|||
|
|
as it's shorted.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
b) Desolder and remove RP901 (near front of monitor, same side as
|
|||
|
|
fuse), and retest with a new fuse installed. If all is now well,
|
|||
|
|
RP901 needs to be replaced (it's a glowbar / thermistor which
|
|||
|
|
controls current thru the automatic CRT degausing coil at turn on,
|
|||
|
|
these are rather generic and readily available at many TV repair
|
|||
|
|
shops)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If removal of RP901 did not eliminate fuse blowing, then reinstall
|
|||
|
|
it, as it's probably Ok. The problems lie elsewhere and will require
|
|||
|
|
further diagnostic skills on your part. (Checking all components in the
|
|||
|
|
power supply, especially electrolytic capacitors will likely reveal the
|
|||
|
|
problem. Also check the horizontal output transistor for shorts)
|
|||
|
|
==========
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Symptom: Single horizontal or vertical line line on screen
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Fix #1: Check the connector between the deflection yoke and the lower PC
|
|||
|
|
board. Also check the bottom of the board around this connector for
|
|||
|
|
cracked solder joints, resoldering as needed.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Fix#2: If the line is horizontal, and you have been working inside the
|
|||
|
|
monitor, check the Service Switch, which is located on the PC board on the
|
|||
|
|
neck of the CRT, middle of the edge directly over the power cord. It is
|
|||
|
|
very easy to bump this switch accidentally. This is a three position
|
|||
|
|
switch, it should be in the middle position for normal use.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-Harold
|
|||
|
|
Resident Solder Slinger
|
|||
|
|
(HAROLD.H, CAT12, TOP25, MSG:32/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first installment of what is expected to be a
|
|||
|
|
multi-installment series.]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THIS TIME, WE REALLY MEAN IT! Found out that AOL is closing down what is
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" left of the Apple II forum in a couple of
|
|||
|
|
weeks. Apparently, the Apple II libraries will still be available.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Rick
|
|||
|
|
(R.BARD5, CAT2, TOP7, MSG:239/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FREEWARE/SHAREWARE CATALOG Well, in a very round about way, I've just had
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""" a solution of sorts handed to me concerning
|
|||
|
|
SSII's lack of having any sort of printed catalog of freeware/shareware
|
|||
|
|
software.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
SSII is going to take over the entire BRCC library of
|
|||
|
|
freeware/shareware. For years, BRCC has had a real nice looking catalog of
|
|||
|
|
those library disks. So, BRCC is also planning to send me a printed master
|
|||
|
|
of that catalog, with all references about BRCC removed. I'll be able to
|
|||
|
|
add a new cover with SSII ordering info, and presto...SSII will have a
|
|||
|
|
massive freeware/ shareware printed catalog.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Although it's certainly not going to be a complete catalog of disks
|
|||
|
|
available from SSII, it'll be a heckuva good start.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I like word-around solutions <grin>. Hmmm...this is a work-around
|
|||
|
|
shareware solution. That has a certain ring to it...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Joe
|
|||
|
|
(JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:230/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NEW EGO SYSTEMS CATALOG I'm very pleased to announce that the new EGO
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""" Systems catalog finally shipped on Monday,
|
|||
|
|
February 5th, 1996. If you were a GS+ Magazine subscriber at any time
|
|||
|
|
during the last year, your copy of the catalog is on it's way to you. If
|
|||
|
|
you weren't a GS+ Magazine subscriber, but you'd like a copy of the catalog
|
|||
|
|
(which has thirteen pages of IIGS stuff, two pages of Apple II->Mac bridge
|
|||
|
|
products and one 'editorial' page), send me your complete snail mail
|
|||
|
|
address (via e-mail) and I'll get a copy of the catalog out to you.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you are a user group officer and you would like multiple copies of
|
|||
|
|
the catalog to hand out at your next meeting, just let me know how many you
|
|||
|
|
want!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Diz
|
|||
|
|
EGO Systems
|
|||
|
|
(DIZ, CAT33, TOP2, MSG:11/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
STAR TREK RSOUNDS UPDATE Someone recently reported here that EGO Systems
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""" had published information on where to get some
|
|||
|
|
"Star Trek" rsounds. I followed the information, and here is the latest...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Sound Source Interactive
|
|||
|
|
2985 E. Hillcrest Dr.
|
|||
|
|
Suite A
|
|||
|
|
Westlake Village, CA 91362
|
|||
|
|
Sales (800) 877-4778
|
|||
|
|
FAX (805) 495-0016
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Firstly, they no longer offer the Star Trek sounds for the GS _or_ the
|
|||
|
|
MAC...only for Windows. This is due to the 'rights' having been pulled
|
|||
|
|
from them. This won't prevent one from buying the Windows version and
|
|||
|
|
having someone with Windows to run the dedicated application that
|
|||
|
|
uncompresses them to a .BMP format, and then bringing them over to the GS.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Secondly, they have _lots_ of stuff, both for the MAC and Windows.
|
|||
|
|
The sound oriented stuff includes...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Star Trek "Virtual Reality" Audioclips
|
|||
|
|
Star Trek Motion Picture Audioclips
|
|||
|
|
Star Trek: TNG "Virtual Reality" Audioclips
|
|||
|
|
Star Wars audioclips
|
|||
|
|
Empire Strikes Back audioclips
|
|||
|
|
Return of the Jedi audioclips
|
|||
|
|
Terminator 2 audioclips
|
|||
|
|
Total Recall audioclips
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Thought you'd like to know.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Jeff Carr
|
|||
|
|
(LUMITECH, CAT6, TOP7, MSG:228/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
APPLE II CODENAME HISTORY LESSON Actually, Cortland was the code name, or
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" internal name, for the Apple IIGS. It
|
|||
|
|
was one of many (like Gumby, for example). It was imortalized by the
|
|||
|
|
simple coincidence that it was the code name when some enterprising person
|
|||
|
|
at Apple decided to have some labels made up to replace the standard
|
|||
|
|
"Apple" name that appears imbedded in the lid of an Apple //e. These
|
|||
|
|
labels were used on the covers for the very early prototype Apple IIGS
|
|||
|
|
computers that were mounted in Apple //e case tops--the back and bottom was
|
|||
|
|
changed.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Later prototype models used a standard Apple //e lid, going back to
|
|||
|
|
the original top label for security reasons. After all, when it's off, an
|
|||
|
|
Apple IIGS motherboard mounted in an Apple //e case looks just like an
|
|||
|
|
Apple //e-- from the front, at least.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Perhaps because of it's ensrinement in hardware, Cortlan stuck around
|
|||
|
|
for a long time as a code name. The original versions of ORCA for the
|
|||
|
|
Apple IIGS that Apple published under their label were known as CPW, for
|
|||
|
|
Cortland Programmer's Workshop. There was a bitter debate at Apple before
|
|||
|
|
the final name was changed to APW. Why? Cortland fanatics, you suppose?
|
|||
|
|
Nope. The MPW team (Macintosh Programmer's Workshop) didn't want an Apple
|
|||
|
|
][ product to carry the "company" name! Sensibility and the fact that the
|
|||
|
|
_computer_ was called Apple won the day. :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
By the time the Apple IIGS was in an Apple IIGS, the name Apple IIGS
|
|||
|
|
was decided for sure. The initial ROM 00 Apple IIGS computers were not
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called Cortland, which, after all, was never intended to be anything but a
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code name.
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As an aside, though, Macintosh was also a code name. The name stuck
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(along with the mispelling) because so much had leaked about the new
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"Macintosh" computer that Apple didn't want to loose the name recognition!
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Mike Westerfield
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(BYTEWORKS, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:251/M645;1)
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WIN A FOCUS HARD CARD! Ever since the first issue, Shareware Solutions II
|
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"""""""""""""""""""""" has been proclaiming: "Support Those Who Support
|
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The Apple II."
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The time has come for Shareware Solutions II to offer thanks to the
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folks who continue to support Shareware Solutions II.
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On February 29, 1996, Shareware Solutions II is going to be giving
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away an 80 megabyte Focus Hard Drive. That's right; we're giving it away!
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A Focus hard drive is a speedy Internal hard drive that works on
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either a IIe or IIGS. It is completely self-contained, meaning that no
|
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additional interface card is required. Just plug it in, and away you go.
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On February 29th, Shareware Solutions II will be giving that hard
|
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drive away to some lucky Shareware Solutions II subscriber. If your
|
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subscription is current on that date, you could be the winner.
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Joe Kohn
|
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Publisher, Shareware Solutions II
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(JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:269/M645;1)
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<<<<< In the latest issue of Shareware Solutions II (v2, #6) it was
|
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""""" announced that some lucky and current Shareware Solutions II
|
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subscriber would be chosen on February 29, 1996 to receive an 80 Megabyte
|
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Focus Hard Drive.
|
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What wasn't described was the method that Shareware Solutions II
|
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planned to use to choose that lucky subscriber. Please sit down before
|
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reading further...
|
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On the morning of February 29th, Shareware Solutions II will have
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AppleWorks Classic generate a list of the names of all current subscribers
|
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as of that date. That listing will be in ASCII format so that it can be
|
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easily transmitted via modem to the gentleman who has agreed to choose the
|
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recipient of "The Shareware Solutions II Hard Drive Give Away."
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And who might that gentleman be, you wonder?
|
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The winner will be chosen by none other than Steve Wozniak, the
|
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inventor of the Apple II computer!
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Joe Kohn
|
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Publisher, Shareware Solutions II
|
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(JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:284/M645;1)
|
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RAMFAST IIe I've had my RamFAST IIe for several weeks now. Here are a
|
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""""""""""" few observations.
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1. It works well in a ROM3 GS.
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2. It works well in an enhanced //e _without_ a ZIP8.
|
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3. It doesn't work in an enhanced //e with a ZIP8. Yup, I've tried
|
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five different //e's (various vintages) and five different Zips (various
|
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vintages). If the Zip is in the machine (fast or slow) the system hangs.
|
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And it hangs well, too. Even if you reset out of the hang, and attempt to
|
|||
|
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boot from a floppy, it crashes to the monitor. Take out the Zip, and all
|
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|
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is well.
|
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|
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Number 3 is especially disappointing, as I have several Zipped II'e
|
|||
|
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at work that could really use a RamFAST. SS told me they thought it would
|
|||
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work. They have been aware of the problem for about 3 weeks, but I'm
|
|||
|
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beginning to believe that they aren't going to be able to fix it. I even
|
|||
|
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offered to send them one of my spare Zip Chips.
|
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|
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Oh well. I'm sure glad it works in a GS, albeit at slightly higher
|
|||
|
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power consumption.
|
|||
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|
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BTW, you guys were right. The difference between the HS SCSI and the
|
|||
|
|
RamFAST, especially under P8, is amazing. Really amazing.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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Hugh...
|
|||
|
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(H.HOOD, CAT20, TOP13, MSG:335/M645;1)
|
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|
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|
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RETURN OF THE CALTECH APPLE II ARCHIVE Found this on
|
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Usenet.comp.sys.apple2 today:
|
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|
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Sat Feb 24 09:10:18 1996
|
|||
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Message : #39728534 From: Daniel Zimmerman
|
|||
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Address : dmz@cco.caltech.edu
|
|||
|
|
Group : Usenet.comp.sys.apple2
|
|||
|
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Subject : Return of the Caltech Apple II Archive!
|
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|
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Msg-ID: <dmz-2402960250570001@babylon.caltech.edu>
|
|||
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Posted: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 02:50:57 -0800
|
|||
|
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Org. : California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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The Caltech Apple II Archive is back! I have taken the archive and
|
|||
|
|
given it a new home on my own machine, with the help of EGO Systems (who
|
|||
|
|
graciously donated a copy of their "Shrink II" Macintosh application so I
|
|||
|
|
could use it for file validation and maintenance)... Space on the archive
|
|||
|
|
is no longer at a premium, so the submission rules have changed somewhat
|
|||
|
|
(they're in README.UPLOADS)... Also, a couple of niceties have been added
|
|||
|
|
(one of them being that the server will warn you if it thinks you uploading
|
|||
|
|
_or_ downloading in the wrong transfer mode)...
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
The archive's new address is "apple2.caltech.edu" (this is an alias
|
|||
|
|
which currently points to my machine, but which will, in the future, follow
|
|||
|
|
the archive around). I am running both an ftp and a gopher server, so
|
|||
|
|
either can be used to access the archive (I don't expect a whole lot of
|
|||
|
|
gopher users, but I figured, hey, it's no extra work on my part :)... WWW
|
|||
|
|
access to the archive may also be available in the future.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Currently, there is a limit of 15 simultaneous users on the server.
|
|||
|
|
This is because, in addition to serving the Apple II Archive, my machine is
|
|||
|
|
also serving RealAudio for the Roxette Home Page, and I want to go easy at
|
|||
|
|
first to see how it handles the extra load. I will increase the limit if I
|
|||
|
|
see that it isn't a problem.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Thanks to everybody who sent me e-mail asking for the archive's
|
|||
|
|
return - that's the main thing that finally convinced me to do it... :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Enjoy, and please e-mail any comments/questions/problems to me...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Dan Zimmerman
|
|||
|
|
Caltech Apple II Archive Administrator
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
--
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
Daniel Zimmerman Caltech Apple II Archive Admin/Official Roxette WWW
|
|||
|
|
Admin
|
|||
|
|
MSC #1023, CaltechWWW: http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~dmz/
|
|||
|
|
Pasadena, California 91126-0001 USA Internet:
|
|||
|
|
dmz@cco.caltech.edu
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
(M.EWEN, CAT35, TOP29, MSG:32/M645;1)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
IN THE BACK ROW-O-O-OH... Speaking of flashbacks, the Sci-Fi Channel is
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""" currently showing "Automan", a TV show which
|
|||
|
|
ran from late '83 to mid '84. Automan, an anthropomorphic computer
|
|||
|
|
generation ala TRON, was being asked about his astrological sign by an
|
|||
|
|
interested young lady. Puzzled, he asked his programmer/creator how he
|
|||
|
|
should answer. The reply? "Tell her you're an Apple II." Cosmic! ;-)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
:froggie
|
|||
|
|
(FROG.MAN, CAT2, TOP7, MSG:64/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> HOT TOPICS <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NEW GENIE RATES I had a conversation with one of my regular e-mail
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""" friends tonight. He has canceled his GEnie account and
|
|||
|
|
had a difficult time doing it too.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
He only used his GEnie account for a few hours a month, never quite
|
|||
|
|
going over his allotted free time and he doesn't see ever using nine hours
|
|||
|
|
a month. He called GEnie client services and was told that this month the
|
|||
|
|
cost would go up to $18.95/month, then in March it would go up to about
|
|||
|
|
$29/month. This would be with the nine hours free time. But for a user
|
|||
|
|
that only needed a few hours a month, this is no longer a good deal, and my
|
|||
|
|
friend and many other GEnie users, from what he was told by the gentleman
|
|||
|
|
taking the calls from Rochester, NY, are canceling their accounts.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
My friend liked GEnie because he wasn't forced to use a graphic
|
|||
|
|
interface, the reason was simple, my friend is visually impaired, and he
|
|||
|
|
can format his text display to suit his visual needs, he cannot use the
|
|||
|
|
typical graphical interface used for a lot of internet access because it
|
|||
|
|
isn't scalable like his text screen, he also can't track an arrow to point
|
|||
|
|
and click on a menu that is spread around various points on the screen.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
He can still use a lot of local BBSs, but they don't have the mail
|
|||
|
|
capabilities that GEnie had, which was his primary use. He can get local
|
|||
|
|
unlimited Internet access for a little as 10/month here, he doesn't want to
|
|||
|
|
since he can't see the screens well enough to make good use of them, but
|
|||
|
|
GEnie's restructuring of their prices has forced him off the system.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
We also discussed the new Telecommunications bill and our increasing
|
|||
|
|
cable rates (with decreasing service)........but I won't go into that...:)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Fortunately I use enough GEnie time to make the price hike less
|
|||
|
|
painful than it will be for a lot of folks, so it's not going to change my
|
|||
|
|
use much. But then, I just bought a Mac LC used (as a peripheral for my
|
|||
|
|
//gs and Newton ;)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
TRON - [effaced]
|
|||
|
|
(T.R.ONAN, CAT2, TOP7, MSG:214/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> I've read a lot of the grumbling about the price increase and the
|
|||
|
|
""""" decisions of some to leave Genie. But no one yet has expressed my
|
|||
|
|
reason for staying: it's insurance. Some folks buy AppleCare to keep
|
|||
|
|
their system running; I have Genie. If it costs more than AppleCare, so
|
|||
|
|
what, it's more fun than JUST an insurance policy. Where else, even with
|
|||
|
|
Apple (Macintosh) dealers, can you get the free expert advice cheerfully
|
|||
|
|
and patiently given, the software, the directions to sources and anything
|
|||
|
|
else needed to keep your Apple running? And you don't even have to leave
|
|||
|
|
home to get it!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Marie Barry
|
|||
|
|
(M.BARRY2, CAT2, TOP4, MSG:72/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
PREMIERE ISSUE OF JUICED.GS I am pleased to announce that the premier
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""" issue of Juiced.GS was mailed to subscribers
|
|||
|
|
early Monday afternoon. It will soon be arriving in a mail box near you.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I encountered a production delay late last week when Murphy's Law
|
|||
|
|
kicked in. First, the FedEx overnight package from Lincoln, Nebraska,
|
|||
|
|
containing the master pages took three days to arrive. :( Heavy fog in the
|
|||
|
|
Midwest apparently kept air-cargo planes from making their appointed
|
|||
|
|
rounds. When the package finally arrived, I discovered that the HP
|
|||
|
|
DeskWriter 550C on which the master pages were created performed some
|
|||
|
|
unforeseen modifications to the text. The biggest problems occurred with
|
|||
|
|
formatted text (bold face, italics, centering, right justification, etc).
|
|||
|
|
It took some tedious cutting and pasting to correct the more obvious flaws.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now I'm ready to forget all that, and I hope the first issue of
|
|||
|
|
Juiced.GS meets with everyone's satisfaction. :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I'll be looking forward to lots and lots of feedback. Let me know
|
|||
|
|
what you think, what's good, what's not, and what you'd like to see covered
|
|||
|
|
in future issues.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
For those who have not yet subscribed but would like to, I remind you
|
|||
|
|
that a special charter subscription rate of $12 in the U.S. and Canada and
|
|||
|
|
$18 elsewhere for the four 1996 issues is available to Genie A2 members
|
|||
|
|
until March 15. After that, the regular subscription rate of $14 ($20
|
|||
|
|
overseas) will be in effect. If you'd prefer a single copy rather than a
|
|||
|
|
subscription, it is available for $4 in the U.S. and Canada, $6 elsewhere.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Thanks again to all here in A2 who have provided assistance,
|
|||
|
|
encouragement and subscription orders. Because of you, Juiced.GS is off to
|
|||
|
|
a fast start.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Apple II Forever,
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Max Jones
|
|||
|
|
Editor and Publisher
|
|||
|
|
Juiced.GS
|
|||
|
|
M.JONES145
|
|||
|
|
(M.JONES145, CAT13, TOP43, MSG:84/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> Juiced.GS arrived here today. :
|
|||
|
|
"""""
|
|||
|
|
For those of you who haven't entered a subscription yet, it's clearly
|
|||
|
|
worth the subscription cost.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Max has included an informative lead article on the 1995 events in
|
|||
|
|
our Apple II world. While most of us are familiar with these, it does put
|
|||
|
|
things in perspective. Also included are the results of a survey of
|
|||
|
|
opinions about the past year.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There is a nice article about the "Mark Twain" with comments from Joe
|
|||
|
|
Walters and Mike Westerfield.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Max did a review of DiscQuest Encyclopedia v2.0 that will certainly
|
|||
|
|
help anyone who is thinking of order it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Tim Kellers did a nice job with his review of PMPFax.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The shareware spotlight was focused on three sound programs:
|
|||
|
|
rSounder v3.0, MegaBox v2.0.1, and SoundIt! 1.0. Interesting reviews.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Max has a column called DumplinGS that contains news from the Apple
|
|||
|
|
II world. I won't steal his thunder by sharing the news, but at least some
|
|||
|
|
of it was stuff that I didn't know. :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Finally, Ryan Suenaga wrote a nice piece about attitudes toward the
|
|||
|
|
Apple II; he presented a refreshing point of view.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
All in all, Max has done a good job with this. :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Charlie
|
|||
|
|
(A2.CHARLIE, CAT13, TOP43, MSG:88/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
...AND PREMIERE ISSUE OF APPLE BLOSSOM TOO! Well, I finished up this
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" issue of Apple Blossom late
|
|||
|
|
last night (2 am!) and got it printed today. Tomorrow I'll go in search of
|
|||
|
|
a post office with self-adhesive stamps (I tried today and was told that
|
|||
|
|
branch didn't carry them! "How can I help you sir?" "By carrying the
|
|||
|
|
products you have a monopoly on!!!" --OK, I'm better now, rant mode off.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Anyway, I should be able to put this issue into the mail on Thursday
|
|||
|
|
and Friday, as soon as I get the Vendor's List printed out to go along as
|
|||
|
|
the perk for the "charter" subscribers.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Steve
|
|||
|
|
the very tired desktop publisher :^{| zzzzzzzzz
|
|||
|
|
(S.CAVANAUGH1, CAT13, TOP17, MSG:252/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> WHAT'S NEW <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GRAPHICWRITER III V2.0 NOW SHIPPING! Last Wednesday Earl began shipping
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" version 2.0, in "first-come,
|
|||
|
|
first-served" order. He expects to continuing filling the backorders
|
|||
|
|
through the middle of next week. If you pre-ordered, you do not have to
|
|||
|
|
re-order; it will be coming soon! :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you already own GraphicWriter III version 1.0 or 1.1, you can
|
|||
|
|
order the update to version 2.0 for just $25.00 plus $3.50 s&h!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you don't own GraphicWriter III yet, please take advantage of our
|
|||
|
|
special (good through 2/29/96): purchase version 2.0 for just $65.00!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You'll find more information about the update in the following
|
|||
|
|
message.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
We hope you like it!
|
|||
|
|
--Dave
|
|||
|
|
(SEVENHILLS, CAT43, TOP6, MSG:93/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<<<<< Following is a detailed list of the differences between
|
|||
|
|
""""" GraphicWriter III version 1.1 and version 2.0.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
General GraphicWriter III version 2.0 requires System 6.
|
|||
|
|
'''''''
|
|||
|
|
The GraphicWriter III application icon is now contains everything you
|
|||
|
|
need--the separate "GW.Resources" file can be deleted.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Most of GraphicWriter III's dialog boxes are now "moveable, modal"
|
|||
|
|
dialog boxes, meaning you can move them around the screen.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Dialog boxes can be navigated using the keyboard. Return or Enter is
|
|||
|
|
a shortcut for clicking the button with the extra ring around it. Escape
|
|||
|
|
or Command-Period is a shortcut for clicking the Cancel button.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The horizontal and vertical rulers now show marks every 1/16th inch
|
|||
|
|
instead of every 1/10th inch.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Dragging out a new guide while the screen is updating used to cause
|
|||
|
|
the guide to be offset from the mouse position; now it stays under the
|
|||
|
|
mouse.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Select portions of code were re-written or optimized, squeaking out
|
|||
|
|
some extra speed for certain operations.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Much of GraphicWriter III was rewritten to use newer System features
|
|||
|
|
(such as the Resource Manager), resulting in a smaller program on disk.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
When you double-click a GraphicWriter III document in the Finder,
|
|||
|
|
GraphicWriter III is launched and the document is opened.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Apple Menu
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
-=> Help
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
New feature! Choosing Help from the Apple menu opens a window that
|
|||
|
|
displays help topics for GraphicWriter III. Select a topic from the popup
|
|||
|
|
menu to read more about that topic.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
File Menu
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''
|
|||
|
|
-=> Close
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This menu item now responds to the standard Command-W shortcut key
|
|||
|
|
(previously Command-W changed the View to Fit In Window...now use Command-0
|
|||
|
|
(zero) to choose Fit In Window).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The "save changes" dialog box is redesigned.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-=> Export / Import
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
When beginning an export or import, GraphicWriter III plays the sound
|
|||
|
|
associated with the "beginning long operation" event. When the process is
|
|||
|
|
complete the "operation complete" event sound is played.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-=> Print
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You are now notified if an error occurs while printing.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
While printing, GraphicWriter III tells Twilight II to use background
|
|||
|
|
(i.e. friendly) blanking if it decides to blank.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Edit Menu The standard system clipboard is now supported, so you can Copy
|
|||
|
|
''''''''' and Paste text and graphics between GraphicWriter III and other
|
|||
|
|
applications or desk accessories!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-=> Paste
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If the system clipboard contains text, Paste lets you paste that text
|
|||
|
|
into any typing frame (just as if you had copied the text from within
|
|||
|
|
GraphicWriter III).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If the system clipboard contains a IIGS PICTure (e.g. while in
|
|||
|
|
Platinum Paint you copied an image to the clipboard, then you launched
|
|||
|
|
GraphicWriter III) Paste inserts a new "picture" object into the document.
|
|||
|
|
This picture object can be resized without losing any of its original
|
|||
|
|
quality.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
TIP: After copying a picture in Platinum Paint, paste it into
|
|||
|
|
GraphicWriter III. While the new picture object is selected choose Object
|
|||
|
|
Specs from the Object menu, then click the 1/2 or 1/4 button to reduce the
|
|||
|
|
picture to exactly 1/2 or 1/4 its original size. This will yield
|
|||
|
|
exceptional print quality from high quality printers.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Currently there is no way to directly create or import a Picture
|
|||
|
|
object in GraphicWriter III. To create a picture object you must copy a
|
|||
|
|
picture from Platinum Paint, then Paste that picture into GraphicWriter
|
|||
|
|
III.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-=> Spelling
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The dialog box has been changed to provide a much larger area in
|
|||
|
|
which to display the context of the spelling error.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Most of the spelling code has been rewritten, and we believe the
|
|||
|
|
infamous "Possible Choices" bug has finally been squashed!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Curly apostrophes are handled correctly. Previously don't (with a
|
|||
|
|
straight apostrophe) would not be shown as a suspect word, but don't (with
|
|||
|
|
a curly apostrophe) would be.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The spell checker recognizes foreign characters and special symbols
|
|||
|
|
correctly.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-=> Preferences
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The "Show Frames" option (checked by default) now shows dotted lines
|
|||
|
|
around painting frames, as well as typing frames. With this change, new
|
|||
|
|
painting frames now start with the Pen color set to None (i.e. no border
|
|||
|
|
will be visible unless you select the Arrow tool, click on the painting
|
|||
|
|
frame, then choose a Pen color).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Preferences are now stored in the "*:System:Preferences:" folder, or
|
|||
|
|
in the user's folder if using AppleShare.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Font Menu The Font menu is now "standard" so it will work with utilities
|
|||
|
|
''''''''' such as our nifty "Super Menu Pack"!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
All the fonts available in your system are listed alphabetically on
|
|||
|
|
the Font menu. The menu will be scrollable if you have more fonts than
|
|||
|
|
will fit on the screen.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-=> Choose Font
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This option presents the standard Choose Font dialog box, where you
|
|||
|
|
can select a Font, Style, and Size all in one step!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Object Menu
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
-=> Object Specs
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This new feature lets you position and size an object by exact
|
|||
|
|
numbers! Common reductions (1/2 and 1/4) and common enlargements (2x and
|
|||
|
|
4x) are provided just by clicking a button.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Page Menu
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''
|
|||
|
|
-=> Snap To Guides
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The snapping code was greatly improved so that objects will snap to
|
|||
|
|
the same position even if they are slightly left/right or above/below the
|
|||
|
|
guide being snapped to.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-=> Insert Pages
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In the document window, clicking "+" in the "- Page +" area moves to
|
|||
|
|
the next page (as it did before). What's new: If the last page of the
|
|||
|
|
document is currently being shown, the "Insert Pages" dialog box appears
|
|||
|
|
automatically so you can insert new pages.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-=> Copy Master Guides
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This new feature erases all the guides on the current page, and
|
|||
|
|
replaces them with an exact copy of all the guides from the appropriate
|
|||
|
|
master page (see Master Pages in the original manual's index).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Extras Menu This menu is new, and only appears if there are GraphicWriter
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''' III extras installed that ask to be added to this menu.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Currently there are no extras available, but the capability now
|
|||
|
|
exists to extend GraphicWriter III's functionality without having to
|
|||
|
|
release a whole new version.
|
|||
|
|
(SEVENHILLS, CAT43, TOP6, MSG:94/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NEW TRANSWARP GS 32K CACHE AVAILABLE As you can see, we are still alive.
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" And this is not our last project for
|
|||
|
|
the Apple II. This is true as long as we can reach the Apple II community
|
|||
|
|
in this way. By the way, _all_ products (supported in this area) coming
|
|||
|
|
from ///SHH Systeme are alive and available.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If have a Transwarp GS and your cache size is still 8K, you can use
|
|||
|
|
our TWGS 32K cache board to speedup your card. For detailed information,
|
|||
|
|
please download the info file and the GIF picture available in the A2
|
|||
|
|
library (should be available soon). The file name is TWGSCACHE32.BXY for
|
|||
|
|
the info file (#26585), and TWGSCACHE32.GIF for the picture (#26584).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you don't know your TWGS' cache size, just go to the TWGS CDA and
|
|||
|
|
select "Speed". This sub-menu should display a "8K" or "32K".
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Well, this is the topic for discussion and support of our TWGS 32K
|
|||
|
|
cache. Please be sure to read the info file before placing any questions.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Joachim
|
|||
|
|
(J.LANGE7, CAT46, TOP14, MSG:1/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
APPLE COMPUTER ON RECENT MEDIA REPORTS AND SECOND-QUARTER OUTLOOK
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
CUPERTINO, California--February 8, 1996--In response to recent media
|
|||
|
|
reports, Apple Computer, Inc. today stated that it is not currently in
|
|||
|
|
merger discussions with any party.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The company stated: "It has been our long-standing policy not to
|
|||
|
|
comment on rumor and speculation, and that continues to be the case.
|
|||
|
|
Because of the destabilizing effect recent rumors and speculation have had
|
|||
|
|
on our business and our organization, we have decided in this one instance,
|
|||
|
|
however, to make an exception to our policy."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Apple reported that as a result of the adverse impact of such rumors
|
|||
|
|
and speculation on customer buying decisions, as well as other market
|
|||
|
|
factors, the company expects to report an operating loss for its second
|
|||
|
|
quarter that will significantly exceed its first-quarter operating loss of
|
|||
|
|
$69 million. In addition, the company stated that it expects to record
|
|||
|
|
certain second-quarter charges related to its previously announced business
|
|||
|
|
restructuring program, and other charges related to inventory adjustments,
|
|||
|
|
as it continues to take the steps necessary to position itself for a return
|
|||
|
|
to profitability and for long-term business success.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Dr. Gilbert F. Amelio, Apple chairman and chief executive officer,
|
|||
|
|
said: "I want to emphasize my strong belief, despite the obvious
|
|||
|
|
disappointment of our performance in the first and second quarters, that
|
|||
|
|
the foundations of our business are sound, and that Apple Computer has the
|
|||
|
|
ability, determination and staying power to deal with current challenges
|
|||
|
|
and to move forward with confidence into the future.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"In order to remain competitive at all levels while retaining our
|
|||
|
|
ability to develop and bring to market leading-edge technologies,
|
|||
|
|
particularly in the areas of multimedia, Internet, graphics and
|
|||
|
|
ease-of-use, we will continue building our strengths in the education,
|
|||
|
|
home, business, and other market segments.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"I am confident that the actions we will be taking in the weeks and
|
|||
|
|
months ahead will result in increasing profitability in those markets where
|
|||
|
|
we already excel, and significantly improve our overall business
|
|||
|
|
proposition going forward. I fully expect that our customers'
|
|||
|
|
grandchildren will be buying Apple products," Amelio said.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Last Friday, Apple announced that its Board of Directors had put in
|
|||
|
|
place new management leadership, appointing Dr. Amelio, an Apple board
|
|||
|
|
member and previously chairman, president and chief executive officer of
|
|||
|
|
National Semiconductor Corporation, as chairman and chief executive officer
|
|||
|
|
of Apple.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The statements herein concerning second-quarter results are
|
|||
|
|
preliminary and are based on partial information and management
|
|||
|
|
assumptions. The company will announce its actual results for the second
|
|||
|
|
quarter in April.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters
|
|||
|
|
discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve
|
|||
|
|
risks and uncertainties. Potential risks and uncertainties include without
|
|||
|
|
limitation continued competitive pressures in the marketplace; the effect
|
|||
|
|
any reaction to such competitive pressures has on inventory valuations; the
|
|||
|
|
effect of any further adverse publicity; and the need for and any effect of
|
|||
|
|
any business restructuring actions. Further information on potential
|
|||
|
|
factors that could affect the company's financial results will be included
|
|||
|
|
in the company's Form 10-Q for its 1996 first quarter, to be filed with the
|
|||
|
|
SEC.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized innovator in the information
|
|||
|
|
industry and leader in multimedia technologies, creates powerful solutions
|
|||
|
|
based on easy-to-use personal computers, servers, peripherals, software,
|
|||
|
|
online services, and personal digital assistants. Headquartered in
|
|||
|
|
Cupertino, California, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) develops, manufactures,
|
|||
|
|
licenses and markets solutions, products, technologies and services for
|
|||
|
|
business, education, consumer, entertainment, scientific & engineering and
|
|||
|
|
government customers in more than 140 countries.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NOTE TO EDITORS: If you are interested in receiving Apple press
|
|||
|
|
releases by fax, call 1-800-AAPL-FAX (1-800-227-5329) and enter your PIN
|
|||
|
|
number. If you do not have a PIN, please call the Public Relations Hotline
|
|||
|
|
at (408) 974-2042.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Press Contacts:
|
|||
|
|
Pam Miracle
|
|||
|
|
Apple Computer, Inc.
|
|||
|
|
(408) 974-0688
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Lynne Keast
|
|||
|
|
Apple Computer, Inc.
|
|||
|
|
(408) 974-5431
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Investor Relations:
|
|||
|
|
Debbie Vanolst-Robinson
|
|||
|
|
Apple Computer, Inc.
|
|||
|
|
(408) 862-5590
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Apple's home page on the World Wide Web: http://www.apple.com/
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
SPECTRUM AND GENIE LYNX Richard Bennett updated his ANSI display to use
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""" the Second Sight card. He also added the GEnie
|
|||
|
|
Lynx display to the bundled package. This display was never officially
|
|||
|
|
released to the GEnie libraries. It was only made available to the beta
|
|||
|
|
testers and those who specifically asked SevenHills for it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
However if Richard is now happy with the current version, I think we
|
|||
|
|
can get SevenHills to release it very soon.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Ewen (Speccie)
|
|||
|
|
Delivered by: CoPilot v2.5.5 and Spectrum 2.0
|
|||
|
|
(E.WANNOP, CAT43, TOP15, MSG:222/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
DRAG DROPPED My drag&drop manager for the IIgs is on hold at the moment
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""" due to way too much to do. :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I DO intend to resume work on it, but it could be some time yet. :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Sheppy
|
|||
|
|
[Team PPCPro]
|
|||
|
|
(SHEPPY, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:224/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
WEB BROWSER FOR THE IIGS I got to talking with Derek Tauber today on the
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""" undernet irc, and he asked me to 'publicize' the
|
|||
|
|
following on GEnie. I decided to post here first...1) to see what topic
|
|||
|
|
would best to post in and 2) to make sure it's ok with the 'higherups' to
|
|||
|
|
post this in a public area.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To: a2.gena@genie.geis.com
|
|||
|
|
Subject: GS/TCP web pages
|
|||
|
|
Reply-To: taubert@uiuc.edu
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you could spread this around genie, I'd be most thankful!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
--------8<--------8<--------8<--------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Very good news for those interested in TCP/IP access for the Apple
|
|||
|
|
IIgs. I have just completed an initial port of CERN's LineMode Web Browser
|
|||
|
|
to the IIgs, and it is functional! The LineMode Browser is a simple text
|
|||
|
|
based browser based on CERN's WWW Library. Using the LineMode browser,
|
|||
|
|
information can be retrieved via many protocols such as http, ftp, gopher,
|
|||
|
|
and nntp.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
My port of the WWW Library (almost 40,000 lines of C code) in
|
|||
|
|
cooperation with GS/TCP and GNO will make it feasible for a graphical based
|
|||
|
|
web browser to be written for the Apple IIgs.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In addition, I have also completed an initial port of the public PPP
|
|||
|
|
package to run under GS/TCP. It is still in the testing phase, but I have
|
|||
|
|
been able to establish a connection and use GS/TCP utilities such as ftp
|
|||
|
|
over the connection.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I apologize that the work I have done is not yet available to the
|
|||
|
|
public. I am very busy finishing up my Master's degree, and will work on
|
|||
|
|
GS/TCP whenever I get a chance. I am very close!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
All of this information and links at:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
http://www.winternet.com/~taubert/gstcp.html
|
|||
|
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I urge you to check it out!
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Derek Taubert | Ask me about TCP/IP for the Apple IIgs!
|
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taubert@uiuc.edu | Really, I'm serious!
|
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http://slab.isdn.uiuc.edu/~derek | Or check it out yourself at: FAX:(217)
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359-0010 | http://www.winternet.com/~taubert/gstcp.html
|
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(A2.GENA, CAT48, TOP43, MSG:38/M645;1)
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WEB BROWSER FOR 8-BIT APPLES? Well, actually, I AM working on getting a
|
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" text based web browser for the IIe.
|
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(Anything that runs a 6502, actually.) I say "working on getting" because
|
|||
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|
_I_ (obviously :) am not the one doing it, and, further, it is being
|
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|
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developed by someone outside the Apple II community.
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I'm being mysterious here, and I hate it when other people do that,
|
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|
|
but in this case, I don't have any real choice. I'm not exactly sworn to
|
|||
|
|
secrecy, but I don't actually HAVE details. I was approached by someone
|
|||
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that I know and trust to see if there would be sufficient interest to
|
|||
|
|
justify a port. I responded enthusiastically. I was advised that I would
|
|||
|
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be told more when it was appropriate to let me know.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
BUT, this is definitely in the works at this time. If I understand
|
|||
|
|
it correctly, this will be 6502 machine code that handles TCP/IP protocols.
|
|||
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|||
|
|
Again, we're talking text mode only.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Gary R. Utter
|
|||
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(GARY.UTTER, CAT2, TOP3, MSG:333/M645;1)
|
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|
BRUTAL DELUXE ON THE MOVE For those of you who prefer to do your Internet
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""" downloading using lynx...I've just updated my
|
|||
|
|
homepage links so you can now download from the new caltech archive.
|
|||
|
|
http://www.crl.com/~joko
|
|||
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|
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|
|
On another subject, Olivier Zardini of Brutal Deluxe will be arriving
|
|||
|
|
at the Shareware Solutions II Worldwide Headquarters sometime on Thursday.
|
|||
|
|
Since he does not have access to GEnie from France, the first thing I'd
|
|||
|
|
like to do with him is set up a time for an RTC.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
I've already spoke to A2.Gena about it, and she says that the more
|
|||
|
|
notice I can give, the better it will be. So on Thursday, I hope to nail
|
|||
|
|
down a convenient time with Olivier and will immediately contact A2.Gena so
|
|||
|
|
she can set up the appropriate banners.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
In any case, whether it's a "formal" RTC, or an impromptu one, Brutal
|
|||
|
|
Deluxe will be here on A2 to chat with you sometime during the next 2
|
|||
|
|
weeks.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FYI, Brutal Deluxe has just released a brand new Apple IIGS CD-ROM,
|
|||
|
|
which is currently for sale only in France, as all the information on it is
|
|||
|
|
in French. We'll be discussing the best way to make that CD available to
|
|||
|
|
people outside of France. Additionally, I look forward to seeing their
|
|||
|
|
latest game, which is nearing completion.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Joe (Brutal Deluxe's American Business Agent) Kohn
|
|||
|
|
(JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:356/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MORE INTERNATIONAL RUMOURS [Olivier Zardini]'ll be in the San Francisco
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""" Bay Area for about 2 weeks. But, the details
|
|||
|
|
that came through in e-mail were just a little sketchy. I believe he'll be
|
|||
|
|
here until March 10th.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
So if anyone has any technical questions about Convert 3200, or about
|
|||
|
|
the source code, or about Brutal Deluxe's new CD-ROM, now would be a great
|
|||
|
|
time to ask them.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Speaking of International Apple II news, I received some outstanding
|
|||
|
|
news today. MS-DOS Utilities will be available in a few months as a New
|
|||
|
|
Desk Accessory.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Joe
|
|||
|
|
(JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:59/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BALLOON UPDATE? OK, I spent a couple of hours today looking into the
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""" possibility of a Balloon update. Joe had already been
|
|||
|
|
working on this when the end came, and it's actually in pretty good shape.
|
|||
|
|
He had fixed a couple of bugs, and added one or two small new features,
|
|||
|
|
and I just fixed another bug myself....
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
So, what I'm getting at is: Should I release just this bug fix
|
|||
|
|
version, or should I spend a couple of weeks putting in some new features?
|
|||
|
|
Either way, I'll have to charge for it. If it's just the bug fix, it'll be
|
|||
|
|
less than $10 but if I put in the new features, it'll be at least $10 for
|
|||
|
|
the update.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Specifically, the new features I want to put in are:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1) Encode/Decode BinSCII
|
|||
|
|
2) Support for Disk Archives
|
|||
|
|
3) Support for other Apple II archive formats
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Basically, I want to bring the feature set up to par with the
|
|||
|
|
features in Shrink II.... (minus the apple events of course :-) )
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Oh, yeah, someone once reported a problem with scripting Balloon from
|
|||
|
|
Spectrum (I THINK it was a problem with Adding files to archives via a
|
|||
|
|
script), but I've lost the bug report. If you've had this problem, or
|
|||
|
|
you're the person that reported it, PLEASE send me details so that I can
|
|||
|
|
investigate and hopefully fix it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Diz
|
|||
|
|
EGO Systems
|
|||
|
|
(DIZ, CAT33, TOP9, MSG:64/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Category 2, Topic 7
|
|||
|
|
Message 275 Sun Feb 04, 1996
|
|||
|
|
M.WADE7 [Mark] at 13:31 EST
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I acquired my first computer, an unenhanced Apple //e, in August,
|
|||
|
|
1992. 128k, 80 columns, 2 Disk II drives, and an Apple DMP printer, with a
|
|||
|
|
box of diskettes, all pirated. The disk drives had a problem and erased
|
|||
|
|
most of those disks (poetic justice I guess). I had a local Apple dealer
|
|||
|
|
repair the drive to the tune of about $300 for what I think was just a bad
|
|||
|
|
cable, cause when they demoed the repair it erased his disk :) They then
|
|||
|
|
replaced the ribbon cable for a mere $40. Thus the beginning of my
|
|||
|
|
computer learning experience.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I took out what the library had to offer, took a subscription to
|
|||
|
|
Incider/A+, and found a fairly local user group that I joined. I found an
|
|||
|
|
ad in Incider/A+ for Resource Central offering books so I bought the 8 bit
|
|||
|
|
ref. manuals and subscribed to A2 Central and bought all their back issues.
|
|||
|
|
There I learned of GEnie's A2 RT and was told that was where I should be,
|
|||
|
|
so I bought a Super Serial Card clone and a refurbished 2400 baud modem
|
|||
|
|
from Alltech and signed on somewhere around December, 1992.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I have learned more from the A2 RT than any other source that I dug,
|
|||
|
|
scratched and clawed for these past 3+ years ( I can't believe it's been
|
|||
|
|
that long). I can't imagine using my II's without the A2 RT.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
When I first signed on here, with the old pricing structure and a
|
|||
|
|
2400 baud modem, my bills were typically between $25 and $35. More
|
|||
|
|
recently, with the previous pricing and a 14.4k modem, I vary from about
|
|||
|
|
$10 to about $15. The savings were nice but I'm certainly not going to
|
|||
|
|
drop my account because things are back to where they were a year or so
|
|||
|
|
ago, and believe me, my finances right now are pretty p*ss poor. Where
|
|||
|
|
would I go? CSA2 ? Please, that's an added distraction but certainly
|
|||
|
|
would never replace GEnie's A2 RT.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BTW I've bought new from vendors where possible and used here from
|
|||
|
|
GEnie and the //e is now enhanced with 1mb Qram, Grappler+, Super Serial
|
|||
|
|
Card, Seq Sys bit mouse, Vtech Universal Disk Controller, Apple HS SCSI
|
|||
|
|
connected to a CMS 20mb hard drive, and a 20mb Focus IDE Hard Card along
|
|||
|
|
with a fairly impressive bit of software I think, and, oh yeah, an 8mhz Zip
|
|||
|
|
Chip. :) But my real prize is a Rom 1 IIgs with 12/64 ZipGSX, Grappler+,
|
|||
|
|
AST VisionPlus, Quickie scanner, Audio Animator, RamFAST, 8mb RAM, 170mb
|
|||
|
|
LaCie, Apple CD150, and an Iomega Zip100, oh yeah, and an Apple MIDI
|
|||
|
|
interface. Of course all my clothes have holes in them but I have to keep
|
|||
|
|
my priorities straight :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I have a complete set of reference manuals, 2 assemblers and a C
|
|||
|
|
compiler and as long I can keep it all running I'll be hobbying with it. I
|
|||
|
|
can't think of a better place to help me do that than here.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
P.S. Froggie, I quit smoking cigarettes years ago. Please don't
|
|||
|
|
say I have to cut back on the beer. NAHH!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Mark Wade
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
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.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[HUM]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
HUMOR ONLINE /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Deprogramming: Start Here
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
from the rec.humor newsgroup
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> UNOFFICIAL APPLE II BRAINWASH TEST <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Have you been brainwashed by your past experience as an Apple ][
|
|||
|
|
hacker? Here is a test you can take to find out.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1. What is /r$ ?
|
|||
|
|
a) "slash r string"
|
|||
|
|
b) "slash r dollar sign"
|
|||
|
|
c) a subdirectory of the root directory
|
|||
|
|
d) Rich Salz
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
2. Do people wonder why you keep using "Applesoft" as a synonym for
|
|||
|
|
BASIC?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
3. Do you despise assemblers, preferring instead to code your
|
|||
|
|
programs byte by byte in machine language with a debugger?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
4. Do you only use three registers when programming because "if A,
|
|||
|
|
X, and Y are good enough for the 6502, then by golly they're good
|
|||
|
|
enough for me"?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
5. Do you still have floppies that have write-protect holes on both
|
|||
|
|
sides, but are labeled "single sided"?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
6. Are you uncomfortable with the words "interrupt," "timer," or
|
|||
|
|
"multitasking"?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
7. Do you have "Beneath Apple DOS"?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
8. Do you wonder why any Gentleman would need more than 64K?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
9. Are you distrustful of lowercase?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
10. Do you have "alias CATALOG ls" in your .login?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
11. Do you despise anything that is not overtly user-hostile?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
12. Wonder why & doesn't do the same thing in UNIX?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
13. Think ^D in UNIX is a DOS command?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[REF]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
REFLECTIONS /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Thinking About Online Communications
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
by Phil Shapiro
|
|||
|
|
[pshapiro@aol.com]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> INCLUDING NURSING HOMES IN THE NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Last weekend I went to visit my aunt who lives in a nursing home
|
|||
|
|
about 120 miles from me. I went to sing songs with her because music is
|
|||
|
|
the one thing she still takes a great deal of joy in. At the age of 65,
|
|||
|
|
ten years ago, she took up the guitar and became a real fan of 1960s folk
|
|||
|
|
songs. She learned almost every Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and
|
|||
|
|
Malvina Reynolds song ever written. She sang them all with great gusto at
|
|||
|
|
family gatherings.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now her Alzheimer's leaves her too frail to pick up a guitar, yet she
|
|||
|
|
sings along with the same enthusiasm when I sit beside her and strum. I
|
|||
|
|
thought that an hour's worth of singing might be too much for her, so I
|
|||
|
|
regularly asked her if she was feeling too tired. "Not too tired," she
|
|||
|
|
would faintly reply each time I asked her. I looked over at her tired
|
|||
|
|
visage to check to see that she wasn't just being polite. Assured that I
|
|||
|
|
wasn't taxing her energies too much, I continued on through the song book.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
After an hour and a half of singing we reached the African spiritual
|
|||
|
|
"Kumbaya." We started singing the song together, but I noticed that her
|
|||
|
|
voice trailed off with each passing chorus. By the end of the song I
|
|||
|
|
looked over at her and noticed she was sleeping.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As the rest of the country focuses its energies on hooking up schools
|
|||
|
|
and libraries to the Internet, I do hope that decision makers consider the
|
|||
|
|
importance of hooking up nursing homes, too. What does it mean for a
|
|||
|
|
nursing home to have a high-speed Internet connection? It means that a
|
|||
|
|
nephew in Washington DC can sing songs to an aunt in Philadelphia via a
|
|||
|
|
videoconference connection. It means that a day filled with loneliness and
|
|||
|
|
boredom is filled with less loneliness and less boredom.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Currently I visit my aunt no more than two or three times per year.
|
|||
|
|
If I could, I would visit with her two or three times per week. As
|
|||
|
|
inexpensive videoconferencing become more and more affordable, the latter
|
|||
|
|
option becomes more and more feasible. But in our rush to wire schools and
|
|||
|
|
libraries, our society may be overlooking a segment of the population that
|
|||
|
|
stands to benefit immeasurably by a high-speed Internet connection.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I'm not only talking about the residents of nursing home. I'm
|
|||
|
|
talking about their families and friends and the courageous workers at
|
|||
|
|
nursing homes and anyone else who takes an interest in the well-being of
|
|||
|
|
the frail elderly. This is not to say that a videoconferenced visit offers
|
|||
|
|
as much joy and emotional-nourishment as an in-person visit. But
|
|||
|
|
videoconferencing offers the hope of more frequent visits, and the
|
|||
|
|
frequency of visits is emotional currency to people in nursing homes.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
With my aunt sleeping peacefully in her bed I leaned her guitar
|
|||
|
|
against the wall at the foot of her bed, put on my jacket, and quietly
|
|||
|
|
closed the door behind me. Walking down the hallway outside her room the
|
|||
|
|
melody of Kumbaya circled around in my head. And so did the thought that
|
|||
|
|
in wiring our country we need to do far more to take the lyrics of this
|
|||
|
|
song to heart. "Come by here, my lord. Come by here."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Phil Shapiro
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This essay is one of thirty one essays in the series, "Thinking
|
|||
|
|
About Online Communications." Excerpts from these essays can be
|
|||
|
|
found on the author's home page at http://users.aol.com/pshapiro/
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Feedback is invited at: pshapiro@aol.com
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[AWX]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
APPLEWORKS ANNEX /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Premiere Issue of The AppleWorks Gazette
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
by Douglas Cuff
|
|||
|
|
[EDITOR.A2]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Christian Serreau of France and Howard Katz of Illinois, U.S.A. have
|
|||
|
|
launched _The AppleWorks Gazette_, an AppleWorks magazine on disk. The
|
|||
|
|
premiere issue appeared in January 1996.
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Last year was not a great year for AppleWorks newsletters. Both
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_TimeOut-Central_ and the National AppleWorks User Group's _AppleWorks
|
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Forum_ ceased publication in 1995. Serreau and Katz are doing their part
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to make 1996 look brighter.
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There are three parts to the first issue of the Gazette: the
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newsletter itself, software, and data. You can easily read the
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newsletter--which is, naturally, an AppleWorks word processor file--either
|
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with AppleWorks 5.x or with the enclosed QuickView program. If you choose
|
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to read the file from within AppleWorks 5.x, there's a browser that you can
|
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launch from your TimeOut menu.
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NEWSLETTER Here are the contents of the first issue:
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""""""""""
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1. Welcome to the AppleWorks Gazette! [introduction to the magazine]
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2. The Main Menu [introduction to the disk and its contents]
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3. The NewsReel
|
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4. Duplicate Zapping Made Easy: a Review of TO.DupeFinder
|
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5. Software Preview: Deja ][
|
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6. Twelve Features I Wish I Had in AppleWorks 5.1
|
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7. Two CD ROMS for the Apple II
|
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8. How to reach us
|
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9. Subscription information
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My favorite article is Serreau's wish list of features for
|
|||
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AppleWorks. It required some thought on the part of the author, and it's
|
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something you won't find in every other Apple II journal. I also admired
|
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the preview of Deja ][ for its in-depth, nuts-and-bolt approach.
|
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|
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|
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The NewsReel presents news from the Apple II world, with the
|
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AppleWorks-related news given prominence. This item and the review of the
|
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|
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Digisoft Golden Orchard CD-ROM and AUGE CD #1 bored me just a little, since
|
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I'd already gone into most of this information elsewhere.
|
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The Gazette is clearly aimed at the up-to-date and fairly
|
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knowledgeable AppleWorks user. The word processor file will load into
|
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AppleWorks 3.0 and 4.3, but not without a few cosmetic glitches. Serreau
|
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|
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and Katz use inverse in their titles--to good effect!--but the upper case
|
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inverse characters won't look nice unless you're using AppleWorks 5.x. If
|
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you're not up to date with AppleWorks, you show use the supplied QuickView
|
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|
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program instead. The supplied browser also assumes AppleWorks 5.x. It
|
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|
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won't crash if you try to use it with AppleWorks 4.x--for which the editors
|
|||
|
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are to be commended--but it won't work, either.
|
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If you don't have MouseText in your Apple IIe, you won't find the
|
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|
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Gazette attractive. Now that it's easy to use inverse and MouseText
|
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|
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characters in AppleWorks word processor documents, one can design documents
|
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|
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to look more attractive than was previously possible. Serreau and Katz
|
|||
|
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have done so here. They're obviously assuming that readers will read the
|
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|
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Gazette onscreen, and not want to print them out.
|
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The newsletter was cut shorter than the editors meant in this first
|
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issue, as there was a need to include certain tools on the first issue. I
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look forward to the editors having more room to move next time out!
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ON THE DISK The software on the first issue actually has a slightly
|
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""""""""""" sparse feel, due to the necessity to supply the AppleWorks
|
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5.1 update on the first issue. (The editors not only believe it is the
|
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|
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reader's duty to keep up to date, but it is the Gazette's duty to help the
|
|||
|
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reader stay current!) The 5.1 update consumes also 40% of the disk space.
|
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|
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Presumably later issues, freed from this restriction, will be meatier.
|
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The software contents break down as follows:
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1. The official AppleWorks 5.1 update
|
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2. Macros from Roy Barrows
|
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3. DupeFinder, the macro reviewed in the newsletter
|
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4. An unofficial upgrade for TimeOut DirecTree
|
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|
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5. 19 new dot-commands for UltraMacros programmers
|
|||
|
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6. ShrinkIt 3.4 (necessary to unpack the software)
|
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|
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|
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The 5.1 update and ShrinkIt are unexciting, but the editors were
|
|||
|
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duty-bound to include them. DupeFinder, reviewed in the newsletter, is
|
|||
|
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hardly an exclusive either, but it's well worth a look. Don't confuse it
|
|||
|
|
with DuplicateFinder, included with AppleWorks 5.x--Joe Walters' DupeFinder
|
|||
|
|
is more flexible and useful.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
The macro and macro-writing tools--about 25 of 'em--from Roy Barrows
|
|||
|
|
are useful, but not polished. I get the impression that they're more
|
|||
|
|
geared toward to AppleWorks programmer than the AppleWorks user. Still,
|
|||
|
|
there are some gems here that you'll clasp to your bosom, even if you never
|
|||
|
|
program.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
The upgrade for TimeOut DirecTree is exciting, since it expands on
|
|||
|
|
the capabilities of DirecTree--with this patch, DirecTree lists text files
|
|||
|
|
as being AppleWorks compatible, and can load them. You'll need to own
|
|||
|
|
DirecTree (available as part of TimeOut DeskTools IV) in order to apply the
|
|||
|
|
patches.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Even more exciting are the 19 dot commands: .Accent, .ChngChar,
|
|||
|
|
.FillBlock, .FillStrng, .FindChar, .FlipChar, .FlipStrng, .SC, .SCPrompt,
|
|||
|
|
.Sub, .Super, .StoreChar, .TabFill, .ZapCR, .GetLine, .PutLine, .Write,
|
|||
|
|
.PickStrng, and .PutStrng. (These have also appeared on Texas II.) The
|
|||
|
|
commands are all intended for use in the word processor, and make life
|
|||
|
|
easier for the UltraMacros programmer who wants to manipulate word
|
|||
|
|
processor files.
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
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DATA Also on the Gazette disk is the complete text--in AppleWorks word
|
|||
|
|
"""" processor format, natch--of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes
|
|||
|
|
novel, _The Sign of Four_. (Conan Doyle's copyright has lapsed, and this
|
|||
|
|
work is now in the public domain.) Each of the 12 chapters is in its own
|
|||
|
|
word processor file. The file have all been compacted with ShrinkIt.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Personally, I found the inclusion of this item a little odd--your
|
|||
|
|
mileage may vary. I like Sherlock Holmes stories, but I don't like reading
|
|||
|
|
books with my computer. I'm all for having certain books on disk so that I
|
|||
|
|
can use the computer to search them, but not Conan Doyle's work. Getting
|
|||
|
|
an entire book on a disk is a nice little treat, but somehow it feels out
|
|||
|
|
of place to me on an AppleWorks disk--almost like filler. Perhaps if it
|
|||
|
|
hadn't happened on a month when the editors were cutting back their
|
|||
|
|
newsletter--? I'm always more interested in original material than
|
|||
|
|
reprints.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I'd like to underline that this is a personal, subjective reaction.
|
|||
|
|
It left me cold, but you may be delighted to with the lagniappe. It's
|
|||
|
|
certainly an excellent book!
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
SUMMARY There's room for improvement here, but the glitches are all
|
|||
|
|
""""""" minor. The supplied browser provided no way of quitting, and
|
|||
|
|
have any labels in the macro menu. Once or twice the formatting goes
|
|||
|
|
slightly awry, and since English is not his _langue de preference_, Serreau
|
|||
|
|
should consider asking Katz to edit his pieces for an English-speaking
|
|||
|
|
audience.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The editors have had the good sense not to use ShrinkIt to compress
|
|||
|
|
the newsletter itself. Presumably owners of TimeOut ShrinkIt will get the
|
|||
|
|
most out of the Gazette, since they can unpack the software and data
|
|||
|
|
without leaving AppleWorks. (I predict the Gazette will help sell copies
|
|||
|
|
of TimeOut ShrinkIt, in fact.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The AppleWorks Gazette will be published bi-monthly, six times a
|
|||
|
|
year, and costs $35 for a one-year, six-issue subscription. You should
|
|||
|
|
subscribe from the editor nearest you:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Christian Serreau Howard Katz
|
|||
|
|
12, rue de la Censerie 1104 Lorlyn Circle #2D
|
|||
|
|
49100 Angers Batavia, IL 60510
|
|||
|
|
France U.S.A.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
100316.14@compuserve.com h.katz@genie.com
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
At approximately $5.80 a disk, the Gazette seems to me a fair enough
|
|||
|
|
deal as it is. If subsequent issues give more space to original material,
|
|||
|
|
then Serreau and Katz will have a winner here.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
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|
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|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[BAN]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
FILE BANDWAGON /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Top 10 Files for January
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
by Douglas Cuff
|
|||
|
|
[EDITOR.A2]
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
This feature lists the ten most popular files for the month. To give
|
|||
|
|
files a chance to seek their own levels, no files will be added to the list
|
|||
|
|
until they've been in place at least a month. This month, we look at the
|
|||
|
|
files uploaded 1-31 January 1996.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This isn't the Academy Awards ceremony, folks; it's more like the
|
|||
|
|
People's Choice Awards (both of which are trademarked, by the way). The
|
|||
|
|
Top 10 doesn't necessarily tell you what's new and interesting--what files
|
|||
|
|
_you_ might find interesting--it simply tells you what files have been
|
|||
|
|
downloaded a lot--what other people found interesting!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
File # Filename Bytes DLs Short description
|
|||
|
|
------ --------------- ------ --- -------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
26448 A2.DOM.9601.BXY 424804 269 A2 Disk of the Month, January 1996
|
|||
|
|
26424 ROM4SHR.BXY 284288 140 ROM 4 GS, a folder of SHR graphics!
|
|||
|
|
26435 ROM4PICS.TXT 9932 119 Descriptions of the ROM 4 pictures
|
|||
|
|
26452 DESKPLAY201.BXY 40704 116 Deskplay 2.01 plays Amiga MOD songs
|
|||
|
|
26453 DOS33.LNCHR.BXY 42752 112 Run DOS 3.3 progs from a hard drive
|
|||
|
|
26429 TWAINHR3.GIF 970512 89 ROM 4 GS; High res GIF #3
|
|||
|
|
26426 GS.PLUS.ADB.BXY 5120 88 database of GS+ Magazine programs
|
|||
|
|
26306 CALENDAR96.BXY 54784 86 1996 AWGS calendar
|
|||
|
|
26464 GLAMPA29602.BXY 118400 82 GEnieLamp A2, Feb. 1996 (AppleWorks)
|
|||
|
|
26308 AW1040.95.BXY 29056 81 1995 individual income tax preparer
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A2.DOM.9601.BXY The A2 RoundTable Disk of the Month continues to be a
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""" favorite download. It contains two newsletters--
|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp A2 and one edition of the weekly II Something--plus a collection
|
|||
|
|
of simple but entertaining BASIC games from Charlie Hartley. For IIgs
|
|||
|
|
users, there are a set of SHR calendars for 1996, Jawaid Bazyar's HFS
|
|||
|
|
Patch, which fixes a bug in the HFS.FST partition, so that you can use
|
|||
|
|
Macintosh partitions and disks without fear, the prototype edition of Max
|
|||
|
|
Jones' Juiced.GS (requires AppleWorks GS), John Wrenholt's Print 3200 and
|
|||
|
|
an index of ShareWare Solutions II in a New Desk Accessory.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ROM4SHR.BXY This collection of 14 SuperHiRes graphics of the fabled ROM 4
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""" IIgs were taken by Joe Walters at a Apple user's group
|
|||
|
|
meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico on 6 January 1996. See Jim Pittman and
|
|||
|
|
Byte Works' Mike Westerfield puzzle over the intricacies of this
|
|||
|
|
thought-to-be-legendary machine, code-named "Mark Twain".
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ROM4PICS.TXT This text file explains just what the heck is going on not
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""" only in the 14 SHR graphics in ROM4SHR.BXY (above), but
|
|||
|
|
three hi-resolution GIF files too (TWAINHR1.GIF, TWAINHR2.GIF, and
|
|||
|
|
TWAINHR3.GIF). The GIF files are available for download separately in the
|
|||
|
|
A2 RoundTable library.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
DESKPLAY201.BXY DeskPlay is really two programs in one, designed to play
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""" MOD sound/music files. The archive contains ShellPlay by
|
|||
|
|
Brian C. Bening, which allows MODs to be play from a shell environment such
|
|||
|
|
as GNO/ME. For those intimidated by shells, or who just like New Desk
|
|||
|
|
Accessories, Ninjaforce had written DeskPlay, which interfaces seamlessly
|
|||
|
|
with ShellPlay. Install both utilities and you'll be able to play MODs as
|
|||
|
|
you work on the IIgs desktop. DeskPlay has a very attractive interface--if
|
|||
|
|
you can operate a CD player, you'll love it--but ShellPlay crashes when you
|
|||
|
|
try to run 8-bit applications.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
DOS33.LNCHR.BXY This program lets you install DOS 3.3 programs--or entire
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""" disks--on your ProDOS hard disk or on 3.5-inch disks.
|
|||
|
|
You can then launch these DOS 3.3 programs via your favourite program
|
|||
|
|
launcher. This unofficial release (v2.1) supposedly supports networks.
|
|||
|
|
Daniel Pfarrer assembled this version from the remains of the source code
|
|||
|
|
on programmer John MacLean's hard disk.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
TWAINHR3.GIF This high-resolution (1520x756x256) GIF format graphic shows
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""" an overhead view of the motherboard of the "Mark Twain" ROM
|
|||
|
|
4 IIgs. Visible are two SIMM slots, the battery, the sound transducer, the
|
|||
|
|
five slots, and various other details. This is GIF89a format graphic, and
|
|||
|
|
some GIF viewers may not be able to handle it. ShowMe! is one program that
|
|||
|
|
definitely can handle it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GS.PLUS.ADB.BXY An AppleWorks 3.0 database file of the programs that
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""" appeared in _GS+ Magazine_ over the years. Handy--since
|
|||
|
|
back issues are still available from EGO Systems!--for exploring what
|
|||
|
|
programs are available and for checking that you have the most recent
|
|||
|
|
version. This file lists the first appearance of a program, the last
|
|||
|
|
appearance, and the current version number.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
CALENDAR96.BXY A 1996 calendar in AppleWorks GS format, from Max Jones.
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""" Customizable. Includes bitmap and TrueType versions of
|
|||
|
|
the New York font. (Sorry, folks--this description is brief because I
|
|||
|
|
don't own AppleWorks GS and therefore can't examine the file.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GLAMPA29602.BXY The February 1996 issue of GEnieLamp A2, the only
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""" remaining monthly Apple II publication. Highlights of
|
|||
|
|
this issue include a profile of Max Jones, publisher of _Juiced.GS_, three
|
|||
|
|
different views on the educational game "Where In Hell Is Carmen
|
|||
|
|
Santiago?", and Jay Curtis' look at the speed of Deja II (AppleWorks 5 on
|
|||
|
|
the Mac). If you're a regular reader of GEnieLamp A2, you won't be
|
|||
|
|
surprised to learn that it's one of the top 10 download, but you might be
|
|||
|
|
surprised to find the February issue listed as a top download for January!
|
|||
|
|
The explanation is simple: GEnieLamp A2 is usually uploaded on the last
|
|||
|
|
day of the previous month.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
AW1040.95.BXY An Appleworks 3.0 spreadsheet template of form 1040 to do
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""" your 1995 U.S. income tax. Selects tax tables or tax
|
|||
|
|
schedule as appropriate. Uses lower alternative capital gains rate if
|
|||
|
|
applicable. Calculates limitations on exemptions and deductions for high
|
|||
|
|
income people. Does form 2210 penalty and alternative minimum tax if
|
|||
|
|
applicable. From Maxwell Campbell.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[LIB]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
THE ONLINE LIBRARY /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
January Arrivals
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
by Douglas Cuff
|
|||
|
|
[EDITOR.A2]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This month, I'd like to list all the files that have been uploaded to
|
|||
|
|
the A2 RoundTable libraries during January. Since there are so
|
|||
|
|
many--127!--I can't examine them in detail, but the short description
|
|||
|
|
provided should give you an idea of what the file is all about.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Let's dive right in, shall we?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> PROGRAMS <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
|||
|
|
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
26373 SCRNPRTNDA.BXY 4992 NDA prints SHR screen/saves to disk
|
|||
|
|
26320 SCRNSAVENDA.BXY 4736 Screen Saver NDA
|
|||
|
|
26452 DESKPLAY201.BXY 40704 Deskplay 2.01 plays Amiga MOD songs
|
|||
|
|
26453 DOS33.LNCHR.BXY 42752 Run DOS 3.3 progs from a hard drive
|
|||
|
|
26444 INSTALL.MD.BXY 10720 Installs Megademo onto hard drive
|
|||
|
|
26299 QSL.V1.0B1.BXY 104320 Ham Callsign Database Program
|
|||
|
|
26318 M68000.BXY 302976 m68000 Simulator and Assembler
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> GAMES <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
|||
|
|
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
26363 EAMON.237.BXY 54512 40/80-col. P8 "Fiends of Eamon"
|
|||
|
|
26335 EAMON.DOS05.BXY 781792 Eamon Collection: DOS 3.3 Disk 5
|
|||
|
|
26407 EAMON.DOS06.BXY 795092 Eamon Collection: DOS 3.3 Disk 6
|
|||
|
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26454 EAMON.DOS07.BXY 752452 Eamon Collection: DOS 3.3 Disk 7
|
|||
|
|
26463 EAMON.DOS08.BXY 747916 Eamon Collection: DOS 3.3 Disk 8
|
|||
|
|
26430 EAMON.REV4.BXY 55612 Reviews of Eamon Adventures
|
|||
|
|
26455 TUFFENUFF.BXY 38556 New course for Mean 18.
|
|||
|
|
26392 TREASURE.BXY 3456 Find the hidden treasures!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
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|
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|||
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|
>>> HYPERMEDIA <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
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|||
|
|
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
|||
|
|
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
26394 ANIMATE1.5.BXY 14912 256 color Animation in Hypercard!
|
|||
|
|
26404 FONT.LIST.BXY 8160 HC command to list fonts in a stack
|
|||
|
|
26345 ARCALC.BXY 16256 Very Powerful, SMALL HS Calculator
|
|||
|
|
26344 MW.BXY 7168 MicroWord HyperStudio WordProcessor
|
|||
|
|
26434 REFERENCE.BXY 18048 HyperStudio Reference Book
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
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|
|
|||
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|
|
|||
|
|
>>> APPLEWORKS (CLASSIC AND GS) <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
|||
|
|
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
|||
|
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26308 AW1040.95.BXY 29056 1995 individual income tax preparer
|
|||
|
|
26307 AWGS1040.95.BXY 33792 1995 individual income tax preparer
|
|||
|
|
26306 CALENDAR96.BXY 54784 1996 AWGS calendar
|
|||
|
|
26391 A2OD.IDXA.BXY 29568 Partial Index to A2 On Disk
|
|||
|
|
26426 GS.PLUS.ADB.BXY 5120 database of GS+ Magazine programs
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> PERIODICALS <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
|||
|
|
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
26448 A2.DOM.9601.BXY 424804 A2 Disk of the Month, January 1996
|
|||
|
|
26334 GLAMPA29601.BXY 67712 GEnieLamp A2, Jan. 1996 (AppleWorks)
|
|||
|
|
26464 GLAMPA29602.BXY 118400 GEnieLamp A2, Feb. 1996 (AppleWorks)
|
|||
|
|
26338 IIS.960107.BXY 22144 II Something - Issue 11 - Jan 07 96
|
|||
|
|
26393 IIS.960114.BXY 16640 II Something - Issue 12 - Jan 14 96
|
|||
|
|
26446 IIS.960121.BXY 24960 II Something - Issue 13 - Jan 21 96
|
|||
|
|
26450 IIS.960128.BXY 27904 II Something - Issue 14 - Jan 28 96
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> GENIE A2 ROUNDTABLE TOOLS AND FILES <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
|||
|
|
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
26331 A2.DEC.ADB.BXY 7540 ADB Update of A2 Library Index - DEC
|
|||
|
|
26330 A2.DEC.TXT.BXY 7392 TXT Update of A2 Library Index - DEC
|
|||
|
|
26329 A2.NOV.ADB.BXY 6956 ADB Update of A2 Library Index - NOV
|
|||
|
|
26328 A2.NOV.TXT.BXY 6880 TXT Update of A2 Library Index - NOV
|
|||
|
|
26415 A2NDX.MAKER.BXY 8740 Apple II BB Index Maker
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> SOUNDS <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
|||
|
|
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
26372 MUSIC.BXY 95872 Five Songs Completely Copyright free
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> FONTS <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
|||
|
|
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
26374 BLACKHWK.T1.BXY 59688 Old Western Type 1 PostScript font
|
|||
|
|
26375 BLACKHWK.TT.BXY 36984 Old West TrueType font for Pointless
|
|||
|
|
26336 BODIDLY.T1.BXY 40844 T1 PostScript bold display font
|
|||
|
|
26431 CHENEAU.T1.BXY 33148 T1 PostScript classic Roman typeface
|
|||
|
|
26432 GADZOOX.T1.BXY 38288 T1 PostScript zany UC display font
|
|||
|
|
26442 GADZOOX.TT.BXY 13056 Gadzoox a 60 character TT font
|
|||
|
|
26337 LINTSEC.T1.BXY 43632 T1 PostScript stencil display font
|
|||
|
|
26443 LINTSEC.TT.BXY 22784 Lintsec, a stencil TT font
|
|||
|
|
26438 TOONZSCR.T1.BXY 28664 T1 cartoon font for PostScript
|
|||
|
|
26439 UPPERWES.T1.BXY 88060 T1 NewYorker Mag. font for PostScrip
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> MOVIES <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
|||
|
|
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
26326 LASSENMORPH.BXY 770816 Mt Lassen blows its top!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> GRAPHICS <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
|||
|
|
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
26397 BEETLE.GIF 4644 Color GIF of a bug
|
|||
|
|
26396 BLCKRCK.GIF 16364 Color GIF of a house at sunrise
|
|||
|
|
26398 CACTUSPOT.GIF 10552 Color GIF of a cactus in a pot.
|
|||
|
|
26300 CALEN96BW.BXY 68836 Calendar/desktop clipart for 1996.
|
|||
|
|
26321 CHAMPS.GIF 22484 Fiesta Bowl trophy graphic.
|
|||
|
|
26327 CORNHSKDESK.BXY 116812 Desktop INIs. Nebraska Fiesta Bowl.
|
|||
|
|
26350 CUPID.GIF 9324 Color GIF of Cupid
|
|||
|
|
26386 CUPID2.GIF 7388 B&W GIF of Cupid
|
|||
|
|
26387 CUPID3.GIF 7404 B&W Cupid GIF
|
|||
|
|
26371 DEMO.PICS.BXY 188544 10 awsome pics from Bloofadoofa
|
|||
|
|
26341 DESERT.SCEN.GIF 23952 Color GIF of a desert scene
|
|||
|
|
26400 DRUMS.GIF 21776 Color GIF of drums
|
|||
|
|
26389 E.BASKET.GIF 8208 Color GIF of an Easter basket
|
|||
|
|
26449 FEB96.DESK.BXY 373120 Desktop backgrounds for Feb. 96.
|
|||
|
|
26339 GEISHA.GIF 15668 Color GIF of a Geisha
|
|||
|
|
26348 GRHOG.GIF 20552 GIF of a groundhog in gray shades
|
|||
|
|
26349 GRNHOG.GIF 5504 Color GIF of a groundhog
|
|||
|
|
26347 GWASHINGTON.GIF 46200 Color GIF of Washington painting
|
|||
|
|
26351 HISTORY.GIF 31232 B&W clipart of historical things
|
|||
|
|
26340 IRIS.GIF 7140 Color GIF of an iris
|
|||
|
|
26342 LAKE.GIF 23804 Color GIF of a lake
|
|||
|
|
26413 LOVE.GIF 12444 Color GIF for Valentine's Day
|
|||
|
|
26422 MLKING.GIF 3312 GIF of Martin Luther King
|
|||
|
|
26412 NEWYEAR.GIF 1072 Color GIF for New Year's Day
|
|||
|
|
26411 PUNXS.GIF 10148 B&W GIF for Groundhog's Day
|
|||
|
|
26435 ROM4PICS.TXT 9932 Descriptions of the ROM 4 pictures
|
|||
|
|
26424 ROM4SHR.BXY 284288 ROM 4 GS, a folder of SHR graphics!
|
|||
|
|
26414 SB.XXX.DESK.BXY 217000 Super Bowl XXX desktop backgrounds.
|
|||
|
|
26451 SPAM.DESK.BXY 81352 Desktop backgrounds. Email Spam.
|
|||
|
|
26436 STS72.BXY 54476 3 APF conversions of Endeavor
|
|||
|
|
26427 TWAINHR1.GIF 756364 ROM 4 GS; High res GIF #1
|
|||
|
|
26428 TWAINHR2.GIF 846780 ROM 4 GS; High res GIF #2
|
|||
|
|
26429 TWAINHR3.GIF 970512 ROM 4 GS; High res GIF #3
|
|||
|
|
26384 VALEN1.GIF 10404 Color Valentine GIF
|
|||
|
|
26385 VALEN2.GIF 12440 Color Valentine GIF
|
|||
|
|
26409 VALEN3.GIF 20032 Color GIF for Valentine's Day
|
|||
|
|
26417 VALEN4.GIF 2776 Color GIF for Valentine's Day
|
|||
|
|
26418 VALEN5.GIF 4264 Color GIF for Valentine's Day
|
|||
|
|
26419 VALEN6.GIF 65012 Color GIF for Valentine's Day
|
|||
|
|
26420 VALEN7.GIF 8868 B&W Valentine GIF
|
|||
|
|
26421 VALEN8.GIF 2776 Color GIF for Valentine's Day
|
|||
|
|
26325 VALENT.DAY.GIF 2776 Color GIF for Valentine's Day
|
|||
|
|
26410 VALENTIN2.GIF 13592 Color GIF for Valentine's Day
|
|||
|
|
26324 VALENTINE.GIF 4264 Color GIF of a Valentine heart
|
|||
|
|
26408 WASHING.GIF 7752 Color GIF of George Washington
|
|||
|
|
26388 ZEBRA.GIF 412208 Color GIF of a zebra
|
|||
|
|
26399 ZOZOBRA.GIF 132608 Color GIF from Santa Fe Online
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> MESSAGE ARCHIVES <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Did you know that Genie's A2 RoundTable takes an archival approach?
|
|||
|
|
The library doesn't just contain the favorite files nor the recent ones,
|
|||
|
|
the way sound services do--it prides itself on its archival library. The
|
|||
|
|
same is true of the A2 Bulletin Board--the messages don't just scroll off
|
|||
|
|
into the ether, like on other Computer Services; they are archived and kept
|
|||
|
|
in the file library.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
|||
|
|
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
26309 GSPLUS07.BXY 43852 Old Msg:Letters to the GS+ Editor
|
|||
|
|
26310 GSPLUS08.BXY 40268 Old Msg:Letters to the GS+ Editor
|
|||
|
|
26311 GSPLUSFAR01.BXY 17764 Old Msg:GS+ Magazine - Feature Art.
|
|||
|
|
26312 GSPLUSPRE01.BXY 44120 Old Msg:GS+ Magazine - Prod.Rev.
|
|||
|
|
26313 GSPLUSPRO03.BXY 34024 Old Msg:GS+ Disk - Programs
|
|||
|
|
26314 GSPLUSWLT01.BXY 46196 Old Msg:GS+ Wish List
|
|||
|
|
26315 GSPLUSWLT02.BXY 42632 Old Msg:GS+ Wish List
|
|||
|
|
26358 HDHDWR10.BXY 38836 Old Msg:Hrd Dsk Hardware/SCSI Woes
|
|||
|
|
26359 HDHDWR11.BXY 38380 Old Msg:Hrd Dsk Hardware/SCSI Woes
|
|||
|
|
26360 HDHDWR12.BXY 38652 Old Msg:Hrd Dsk Hardware/SCSI Woes
|
|||
|
|
26361 HDHDWR13.BXY 31712 Old Msg:Hrd Dsk Hardware/SCSI Woes
|
|||
|
|
26356 INTRO06.BXY 44496 Old Msg:Introduce Yourself!
|
|||
|
|
26357 INTRO07.BXY 40428 Old Msg:Introduce Yourself!
|
|||
|
|
26376 IOMEGAZIP06.BXY 40372 Old Msg:Iomega ZIP Drives
|
|||
|
|
26377 IOMEGAZIP07.BXY 40044 Old Msg:Iomega ZIP Drives
|
|||
|
|
26378 IOMEGAZIP08.BXY 35008 Old Msg:Iomega ZIP Drives
|
|||
|
|
26364 LASERPTRS12.BXY 50048 Old Msg:HP LaserJet and Other Laser
|
|||
|
|
26365 LASERPTRS13.BXY 49064 Old Msg:HP LaserJet and Other Laser
|
|||
|
|
26366 LASERPTRS14.BXY 44508 Old Msg:HP LaserJet and Other Laser
|
|||
|
|
26353 ORCHARD31.BXY 46756 Old Msg:The Orchard Lounge
|
|||
|
|
26354 ORCHARD32.BXY 47216 Old Msg:The Orchard Lounge
|
|||
|
|
26355 ORCHARD33.BXY 41080 Old Msg:The Orchard Lounge
|
|||
|
|
26382 PMPFAX01.BXY 47632 Old Msg:PMPFax Facsimile Software
|
|||
|
|
26383 PMPFAX02.BXY 42892 Old Msg:PMPFax Facsimile Software
|
|||
|
|
26401 PWRGUIDCF01.BXY 44296 Old Msg:Config. & Using PowerGuide
|
|||
|
|
26402 PWRGUIDCF02.BXY 45116 Old Msg:Config. & Using PowerGuide
|
|||
|
|
26403 PWRGUIDCF03.BXY 39992 Old Msg:Config. & Using PowerGuide
|
|||
|
|
26367 RDRNNRALF01.BXY 39348 Old Msg:RoadRunner/AppleLeaf HD
|
|||
|
|
26368 RDRNNRALF02.BXY 40244 Old Msg:RoadRunner/AppleLeaf HD
|
|||
|
|
26369 RDRNNRALF03.BXY 38624 Old Msg:RoadRunner/AppleLeaf HD
|
|||
|
|
26370 RDRNNRALF04.BXY 31480 Old Msg:RoadRunner/AppleLeaf HD
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you liked this column, please let me know. Same deal if you
|
|||
|
|
didn't like it. If you'd rather I spent more time reviewing the uploads,
|
|||
|
|
I'm interested in hearing about that too. Until next month!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[PRO]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
PROFILES /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Who's Who In Apple II
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> WHO'S WHO <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
~ Steve Cavanaugh, publisher of _The Apple Blossom_ ~
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Steve Cavanaugh had been providing his newsletter _The Apple
|
|||
|
|
Blossom_, absolutely free, to anyone who cared to download it and print a
|
|||
|
|
copy. It was well received right from the start, and "subscribers" began
|
|||
|
|
to tell Steve that he should be charging for such a quality publication.
|
|||
|
|
That's the kind of advice you'd be foolish to ignore, so Steve Cavanaugh
|
|||
|
|
took it. The first subscription issue of _The Apple Blossom_ was posted
|
|||
|
|
just before GenieLamp A2 went to press. We managed to buttonhole the
|
|||
|
|
exhausted publisher/editor for this month's profile....
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GenieLamp> Are computers a part of your daytime job? Please tell us a
|
|||
|
|
""""""""" little about what you do between 9 and 5.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Steve> Computers _are_ my daytime job. Since last June I've been working
|
|||
|
|
""""" for Mosby-Year Book, a medical publisher. I use a PowerMac to
|
|||
|
|
layout books in Quark XPress, doing manuscript corrections and coding in
|
|||
|
|
ClarisWorks and occasionally WordPerfect Mac. I also have the unofficial
|
|||
|
|
position of office geek, and all the questions about PCs or Macs usually
|
|||
|
|
come to me. For the three years before that I was a computer teacher in an
|
|||
|
|
elementary parochial school.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GenieLamp> How and why did you begin _The Apple Blossom_ as a free
|
|||
|
|
""""""""" electronically-distributed but paper-based publication?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Steve> When I was teaching I used to host a monthly get-together for the
|
|||
|
|
""""" other computer teachers in the diocese to pass along shareware and
|
|||
|
|
system updates and to discuss teaching strategies and field how-to
|
|||
|
|
questions. The newsletter was originally conceived as a way of sharing
|
|||
|
|
that info with teachers who couldn't make the meetings. Then I decided to
|
|||
|
|
upload it to Genie in case anyone else was interested, and it kind of took
|
|||
|
|
on a life of its own from that point.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GenieLamp> What problems arose with this method of distribution?
|
|||
|
|
""""""""" Did any of them influence your decision to go commercial?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Steve> The only real problem was that some folks had trouble printing the
|
|||
|
|
""""" copies I uploaded. That ended up being a real education about the
|
|||
|
|
differences in the way the page setup for a Harmonie-driven DeskJet and a
|
|||
|
|
LaserWriter do their work. (However, as a side bonus, I learned how to get
|
|||
|
|
a DeskWriter 310 working with a IIgs, so I can occasionally print out some
|
|||
|
|
very nice graphics.) It also pointed out how different versions of the
|
|||
|
|
same font can have very different effects. Trying to make it as easy for
|
|||
|
|
other folks to print and get at led me to upload 4 different versions of
|
|||
|
|
the last [freeware] edition.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GenieLamp> Please tell us about what your decision to go commercial
|
|||
|
|
""""""""" was based on, and how you arrived at it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Steve> Basically, the newsletter had gotten so popular that I couldn't
|
|||
|
|
""""" afford to do it out-of-pocket any longer. I distribute it via AOL
|
|||
|
|
and my Web page, as well as on Genie and through mailings, and the total
|
|||
|
|
distribution had reached about 450. The last issue cost me around $200,
|
|||
|
|
and I can't keep that kind of spending up.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GenieLamp> How often will you publish?
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Steve> Last year I published 4 issues. This year I plan on publishing 6
|
|||
|
|
""""" issues (every 2 months). If a lot of people subscribe, to the
|
|||
|
|
point where it is feasible to have other people working on the newsletter
|
|||
|
|
part-time, then more frequent publication is possible. But I don't foresee
|
|||
|
|
that for this year.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GenieLamp> How much will a subscription be?
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Steve> $12 per year. I plan on a subscription plan like Joe Kohn uses
|
|||
|
|
""""" for Shareware Solutions II. If someone subscribes after two
|
|||
|
|
issues have already gone out, then I'll send the new subscriber the first
|
|||
|
|
two issues as well. I think that was a great concept that Joe came up
|
|||
|
|
with. And since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GenieLamp> Would you tell us how you first became interested in the
|
|||
|
|
""""""""" Apple II? Was it your first computer?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Steve> Actually, no, the first computer we had was a TRS-80. It was a
|
|||
|
|
""""" hand-me-down from my younger brother. We got it so that my son,
|
|||
|
|
who was two years old at the time, could practice writing. He knew his
|
|||
|
|
letters, but didn't have the hand coordination to write them out. He took
|
|||
|
|
to the computer like he was born for it. By the way, the first word he
|
|||
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