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~ WELCOME TO GEnieLamp APPLE II! ~
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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~ POLISHING GREEN APPLES: Hooked on Classics, Part 4 ~
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~ TECH TALK: Apple II Hybrids and Disk Formats ~
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~ APPLE II HISTORY: Part 19b, AppleWorks ~
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~ HOT NEWS, HOT FILES, HOT MESSAGES ~
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GEnieLamp Apple II ~ A T/TalkNET OnLine Publication ~ Vol.3, Issue 23
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Editor....................................................Douglas Cuff
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Publisher.............................................John F. Peters
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Copy-Editor...........................................Bruce Maples
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~ GEnieLamp IBM ~ GEnieLamp ST ~ GEnieLamp [PR] ~ GEnieLamp Windows ~
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~ GEnieLamp A2Pro ~ GEnieLamp Macintosh ~ GEnieLamp TX2 ~
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~ GEnieLamp A2 ~ LiveWire (ASCII) ~ GEnieLamp MacPRO ~
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~ Solid Windows ~ Config.sys ~ A2-Central ~
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~ Member Of The Digital Publishing Association ~
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GE Mail: GENIELAMP Internet: genielamp@genie.geis.com FTP: sosi.com
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>>> WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE APPLE II ROUNDTABLE? <<<
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~ February 1, 1994 ~
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FROM MY DESKTOP ......... [FRM] HEY MISTER POSTMAN ...... [HEY]
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Notes From The Editor. Is That A Letter For Me?
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HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM] REFLECTIONS ............. [REF]
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If DOSes Ran Airlines. Your Online Social Skills.
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BEGINNER'S CORNER ....... [BEG] TECH TALK ............... [TEC]
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Polishing Green Apples, Part 7. Apple II Hybrids and GCR/MFM.
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CowTOONS! ............... [MOO] DR'S EXAMINING TABLE .... [DRT]
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Beef Futures II. Golden Oldies.
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HARDVIEW A2 ............. [HAR] PAL NEWSLETTER .......... [PAL]
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Known Bug in Apple SSC Card. February 1994 Report.
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APPLE II ................ [AII] LOG OFF ................. [LOG]
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Apple II History, Part 19b. GEnieLamp Information.
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READING GEnieLamp GEnieLamp has incorporated a unique indexing
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""""""""""""""""" system to help make reading the magazine easier.
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To utilize this system, load GEnieLamp into any ASCII word processor
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or text editor. In the index you will find the following example:
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HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM]
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[*]GEnie Fun & Games.
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To read this article, set your find or search command to [HUM]. If
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you want to scan all of the articles, search for [EOA]. [EOF] will take
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you to the last page, whereas [IDX] will bring you back to the index.
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MESSAGE INFO To make it easy for you to respond to messages re-printed
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(SMITH, CAT6, TOP1, MSG:58/M475)
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|Name of sender CATegory TOPic Msg.# Page number|
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In this example, to respond to Smith's message, log on to page
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475 enter the bulletin board and set CAT 6. Enter your REPly in TOPic 1.
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message is a "target" message and is referring to a "chain" of two
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or more messages that are following the same topic. For example: {58}.
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ABOUT GEnie GEnie's monthly fee is $8.95, which gives you up to four
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""""""""""" hours of non-prime time access to most GEnie services, such
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as software downloads, bulletin boards, GE Mail, an Internet gateway,
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multi-player games and chat lines, without charge. GEnie's non-prime time
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connect rate is $3.00. To sign up for GEnie service, call (with modem)
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1-800-638-8369 in the USA or 1-800-387-3880 in Canada. Upon connection
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type HHH. Wait for the U#= prompt. Type: XTX99014,DIGIPUB and hit
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RETURN. The system will then prompt you for your information. Need more
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information? Call GEnie's customer service line (voice) at 1-800-638-9636.
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//////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
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/ "Oh, it does! It just doesn't work. :)" /
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[EOA]
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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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>>> EVERYBODY OUT OF THE GENE POOL <<<
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Details are still a little sketchy, but the spring catalog from
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Resource Central notes that there will be an ICON Summer Conference this
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July in Kansas City. Since it's sponsored by the International Computer
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Owners Network, it might not be exactly the same KansasFest of old, but you
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can bet that it will attract the Apple II community. (For those of you
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just tuning in, ICON runs the Apple II, Macintosh, and PowerPC RoundTables
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on GEnie. The Resource Central empire seems to be changing and expanding.)
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The upcoming conference, whatever its name, started me thinking.
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What with one thing and another -- poverty, and formerly living on an
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island, in a city within five miles of Canada's easternmost point, being
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chief among them -- I've never looked in on Uncle DOS and the usual
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suspects when they gather in Kansas City during the summer. Therefore I
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don't really know what happens and who turns up.
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From what I hear, however -- chiefly through reports in Shareware
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Solutions II, in our sister publication, GEnieLamp A2Pro, and "live" on
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GEnie itself -- the event attracts old-timers and newcomers. It attracts
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people who are online and those who aren't.
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Both these points strike me as being extremely important. We of the
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Apple II community need to meet newcomers and to be introduced to people
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who don't own a modem... if only to persuade them to buy one! Otherwise,
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the Apple II gene pool will become extremely limited. It's not as if we
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represent any serious threat to computing as it is, but unless we seek out
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those just lurking outside the light of our campfire, things are going to
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get mighty incestuous.
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When I bought my first modem, I started looking for a local BBS.
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Because of their unofficial nature, there weren't any listed in the
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telephone directory, so I was forced to cast my net widely. I started on a
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multi-national information/communication network much like GEnie. From
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there, I tracked down a private BBS in Toronto -- Canada's equivalent of
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Detroit, New York, or Chicago... depending on who you ask. The BBS in
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Toronto, Ontario led me one province east to a BBS in Montreal, Quebec.
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The BBS in Montreal led me to one much closer to home, in Canada's Maritime
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region. (All this time, my phone bill was mounting.) I got as close as
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, but could not get beyond that... and there was no way
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I could afford to call long-distance for my daily telecommunications fix.
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I gave up.
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Some months later, I picked up a local teacher's newsletter, and
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discovered that there was a local BBS within about two miles of my house.
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Once I had made that first call, I soon found half a dozen other BBSes
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being mentioned, and learned the first rule of BBSes: BBSes concentrate on
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advertising themselves on other BBSes. Instead of looking for new
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customers, they try to poach users from other system operators.
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The lesson is, I hope, clear. Before you open that important first
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door, you think you're alone in the house. Once you open the right door,
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though, you'll find a party going on.
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"Yes, but surely, by now, everybody knows about at least one Apple II
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magazine or on-line service?" I hear you say. (Well, when I'm the one
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writing the editorials, I jolly well hear you say it.)
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"Not by a long shot," I reply.
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Just two months ago, quite by chance, one poor, lost soul with an
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Apple II Plus, two Disk ][ drives, and a barbarically slow DOS 3.3
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application program happened to meet one of our local Apple II experts.
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Upon learning of a ProDOS version of the same program -- even of the
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existence of ProDOS itself -- this individual's eyes reportedly became as
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wide as salad plates, and said eyes were close to filling with tears. This
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person's reaction to the news flash that there was an Apple II user's group
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close by, I leave to the reader's imagination.
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With that insularity very much in my mind, I'm pleased to announce
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that this issue contains an article from a Apple II enthusiast outside the
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GEnie network... Ron Higgins has contributed a piece on a bug in the Apple
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Super Serial Card. I'd like to thank Ron for helping us dispel the myth
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that GEnieLamp A2 is only for those on GEnie. Not only are GEnieLamp A2
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readers found on networks other than GEnie, but our contributors are
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sometimes outside the fold too. We welcome your submissions, no matter
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where you are! It's wonder to receive an article from outside the GEne
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pool -- I hope the first won't be the last.
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-- Doug Cuff
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[EDITOR.A2]
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>>> A2 POT-POURRI <<<
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NEW HARDWARE RTC Starting last night, and every Wednesday night
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"""""""""""""""" henceforth, from 11pm till 1am EST (or maybe even later?
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:) I will be hosting a new RTC devoted mainly to hardware questions,
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problems, etc. (of course other questions are always welcome, particularly
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from newcomers :)
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If you have some obscure piece of hardware, or some kind of _strange_
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hardware problems, or just want to learn a bit about what makes your Apple
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tick, stop on by and pull up a chair (not that one, thats where my hot
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soldering iron is! :) Smokers are welcome, we have special air handling
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equipment for the comfort of non smokers :)
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If you have any questions about hardware, the care and feeding
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thereof, modification tips, etc. please bring them to the RTC next
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Wednesday night. If we run out of hardware stuff, one never knows what the
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topic will turn to... (last night it was ASCII art, which Bird does quite
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nicely :)
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-Harold
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(Wed Night RTC 11pm 1am EST)
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(Hdwr probs handled live!)
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(H.HISLOP, CAT2, TOP7, MSG:231/M645;1)
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HOW _DARE_ WE OUTPERFORM AT LOWER COST? This is a MAJOR COMPLAINT about
|
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" AppleWorks 4.0. I use a Mac at
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work and AppleWorks 4 is making it look bad. Most of the people at work
|
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have either a Mac or Apple II at home, the ones that have computers anyway.
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They keep coming up to me and asking why the $500 Mac program, they
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just purchased, can't do some of the stuff AppleWorks 4.0 can do. What
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should I tell them? Although this posting is mostly "toung 'n cheek", it
|
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is based on fact. I know your name is "Quality", but can't you just
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slack-off a little until the people at Apple give the Mac an AppleWorks.
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____ ____ ___ _ ____
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/ ___| | ___| / | | | |_ _| Transmitted via
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\___ \ | _|_ / /| | | |__ _||_ CoPilot & ProTERM
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/____/ |____|/_____| |____| |____| From Universal City, CA
|
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(S.IMMERMAN, CAT42, TOP29, MSG:456/M645;1)
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...ESPECIALLY SINCE WE'RE DEAD! Thanks for expressing your appreciation.
|
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" BTW, I'm still self-employed. I'm
|
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working with QC on this project and others, but they haven't hired me.
|
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(That means I keep my freedom, _and_ get to pay lots of self-employment tax
|
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and medical insurance.) It's been a very enjoyable arrangement for me, and
|
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hopefully for them as well. People have warned me about the dangers of
|
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writing Apple II software (it's a dead market!) since 1984. I started at
|
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Beagle back then with just a wife and an apartment. By May we'll have five
|
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kids living in our house, with virtually all payments being made by
|
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Apple II software sales. While it's true no one is getting rich from the
|
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A2, I'm happy just to make my payments on time and avoid commuting. It
|
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beats working for a living!
|
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(BRANDT, CAT42, TOP29, MSG:461/M645;1)
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DISCQUEST MINI-REVIEW > If anyone has purchased DiscQuest, it would be
|
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""""""""""""""""""""" > really nice to leave a message here about it's
|
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|
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> strengths and weaknesses.
|
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|
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I have been using the DiscQuest software with a RamFAST (with latest
|
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|
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SS ROM) and an Apple PowerCD. Everything works as advertised with the
|
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|
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CD-ROM that was sent with the package, The Family Doctor. The graphics are
|
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|
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not in color but much more detailed than I expected. My only complaint is
|
|||
|
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the selection of currently available CD-ROM software does not really
|
|||
|
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interest me. If I could get an encylcopedia CD-ROM, it would go from being
|
|||
|
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a good purchase to a great purchase. I would be happy to answer any other
|
|||
|
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specific questions.
|
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Rick Light (R.LIGHT4, CAT20, TOP12, MSG:134/M645;1)
|
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SUGGESTIONS FOR THIS SUMMER'S CONFERENCE Joe Kohn leaping out of a huge
|
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Apple-II cake and starting a
|
|||
|
|
song and dance number featuring popular songs of the 60s?
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Matt Deatherage and Stevie Wonder playing a "We are the World, We are
|
|||
|
|
DTS" duet?
|
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|
|||
|
|
Tom Weishaar swipes Evil Knievel's bike and defies death by jumping
|
|||
|
|
through a flaming loop over a dozen old Apple Profiles?
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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Roger Wagner gets shot out of a cannon and grabs a three story tall
|
|||
|
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tie while flying through the air swinging up onto the top of Ridgeway dorm?
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Bryan Pietrzak recites all 423,000 routines names of GSLib in two
|
|||
|
|
minutes without pausing to take a breath?
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Dean Esmay morphs into a 500 ft tall Jerry Garcia and terrorizes
|
|||
|
|
downtown Kansas City?
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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Naaah, too drab.
|
|||
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|
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Nate (A2PRO.GELAMP, CAT23, TOP10, MSG:49/M645;1)
|
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|
|||
|
|
PONGLIFE LOOKING FOR INPUT PongLife will attempt to prove that our
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""" computer is NOT dead. Through reviews of FW,
|
|||
|
|
SW, and PD software, to interviews with Apple programmers, as well as
|
|||
|
|
programming tips, and databases of all available software, WE WILL BRING
|
|||
|
|
IBM TO ITS KNEES.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ps. I'm not a nut. So, you want to help out, eh? PongLife is
|
|||
|
|
looking for program reviews, programmers to interview, programming tips,
|
|||
|
|
and various Apple II specific bits of info. Such as Apple BBS's, etc.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Post a message here, or E-mail, if you'd like to help out.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Thanks, Ben Johnson
|
|||
|
|
(B.JOHNSON17, CAT13, TOP19, MSG:1/M645;1)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
BEST-KEPT SECRETS OF 1993 (#1) > Also, I understand MECC has published a
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" > similar program where kids can construct
|
|||
|
|
> a dinosaur park. Some of their stuff is on the GS platform
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I don't know why MECC doesn't get more publicity. They continue to
|
|||
|
|
produce some wonderful software for the IIe/IIgs. If you are not on their
|
|||
|
|
mailing list, you can call (800) 685-MECC. In Canada, you can call (800)
|
|||
|
|
663-7731.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
I was told by one of their operators that they plan to continue to
|
|||
|
|
release 6 new titles for the IIe/IIgs yearly. Not bad, if true.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Pax! -=-plato-=-
|
|||
|
|
(A.HUTCHINSON, CAT6, TOP3, MSG:220/M645;1)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
SWIM CHIP I need a bit of help...
|
|||
|
|
""""""""" I have a PCT here for repair, I beleive it has a dead drive
|
|||
|
|
controller chip on it... What does this have to do with SuperDrives??
|
|||
|
|
Simple, the chip in question is an Apple chip! I strongly suspect that AE
|
|||
|
|
obtained these from Apple, and that they may be the same chip used on the
|
|||
|
|
SuperDrive controller cards.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Apple part number is:010-0101-1 (c) Apple 1987 It is a 44 pin
|
|||
|
|
PLCC (about 3/4" square surface mount chip)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
If someone with a SuperDrive controller could check for a chip with
|
|||
|
|
this number (it might end with -2 or higher) I'd appreciate it. (It would
|
|||
|
|
at least give me an idea of where I might be able to find a chip to fix
|
|||
|
|
this PCT)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Thanks!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-Harold
|
|||
|
|
(Wed Night RTC 11pm 1am EST)
|
|||
|
|
(Hdwr probs handled live!)
|
|||
|
|
(H.HISLOP, CAT11, TOP7, MSG:67/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> ]-[arold, that chip is indeed the same chip as used on Apple's
|
|||
|
|
""""" SuperDrive controller card. It's the SWIM (Super Wozniak
|
|||
|
|
Integrated Machine) chip, which replaced the IWM (Integrated Wozniak
|
|||
|
|
Machine -- yes, they switched the "I" and the "W" because "SWIM" sounds
|
|||
|
|
better than "SIWM" :) chip on Macs sometime after the Mac SE came out.
|
|||
|
|
Applied Engineering purchased a number of those chips from Apple for use on
|
|||
|
|
their PC Transporter cards, to enable the PCT to have Apple drives
|
|||
|
|
connected directly to it and read and write data in MFM format with them
|
|||
|
|
(they had to do some tricks in microcode to get them to do all that on 800K
|
|||
|
|
drives designed only for GCR, though, and as people with PCTs know, it's
|
|||
|
|
not perfect).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-= Lunatic (:
|
|||
|
|
(A2.LUNATIC, CAT11, TOP7, MSG:69/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
TEXAS II WORD COUNTER
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Labels
|
|||
|
|
.Word.Counter
|
|||
|
|
\sa-A TimeOut Word Counter // (c) 1994 Kingwood Micro Software
|
|||
|
|
start
|
|||
|
|
a:<all x=28 y=7:m=x+4:n=y+3:o=y+5:d=7:b=d+y+1:
|
|||
|
|
k=peekword $0c6e:posn c,l:e=.eof:e=e+1:
|
|||
|
|
.titlebox x,y,24,d,2,"TimeOut Word Counter":
|
|||
|
|
.Writestr m,b,"(c) 1994 TEXAS II":
|
|||
|
|
.Writestr m,o,"Please wait... ":
|
|||
|
|
s=peek $0f18:poke $0f18,4:display 0 oa-v poke $8d1a,$80: rtn:
|
|||
|
|
w=peekword $a751: esc:poke $0f18,s:
|
|||
|
|
.Writestr m,n,"Word Count: " + str$ w:n=n+1:
|
|||
|
|
.Writestr m,n,"File size: " + str$ k + "k":n=n+1:
|
|||
|
|
.Writestr m,n,"Current line: " + str$ l:n=n+1:
|
|||
|
|
.Writestr m,n,"Total lines: " + str$ e:
|
|||
|
|
k=key:oa-q display 1 go:$95="Word.Counter":launch "Seg.um":>!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Contents of TEXAS II on Disk vol.8: TimeOut Word Counter - TimeOut
|
|||
|
|
QuickFonts - TimeOut Catalog to DB - TimeOut Catalog to WP - TimeOut
|
|||
|
|
Catalog to SS - TimeOut File Finder - TimeOut Tree Directory - TimeOut
|
|||
|
|
Vital Info lists all your Standard Settings. PEEKS for the Environment
|
|||
|
|
- How to use PutBlock and Relblock - Very small macros that do a very
|
|||
|
|
big job: Number to Text ($15.00 to "Fifteen and 00/100 Dollars" ),
|
|||
|
|
QuickPathchange. And so much more, I can't remember.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In order to be notified about TEXAS II on Disk vol.8, you must be a
|
|||
|
|
TEXAS II subscriber. This is the last week we'll be asking for it...
|
|||
|
|
so please subscribe now. 6 issues (+ 3 free issues of TEXAS II on
|
|||
|
|
MACROS), $15 US, $18 overseas. Thanks. Last time. I promise.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Kingwood Micro Software, 2018 Oak Dew, San Antonio, Texas 78232-5471
|
|||
|
|
(B.CADIEUX, CAT13, TOP15, MSG:119/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
DOS 6.2 AND PC TRANSPORTER For anyone interested, I got my PCT to work
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""" with DOS 6.2 and my Hard Drive.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To do it, I had to create the Hard Drive Partitions from scratch and
|
|||
|
|
do an Fdisk and Format. After doing and re-doing it a few times, it
|
|||
|
|
appears that you cannot redesignate your hard drives or floppies for that
|
|||
|
|
matterusing the PCT control panel once you've created your boot drive.
|
|||
|
|
After a small amount of anguish, I have two 6.2 partitions on my Hard
|
|||
|
|
Drives and they work fine. Not sure I would recommend this to
|
|||
|
|
anyone--didn't have this problem with 3.3.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
John Stankowski
|
|||
|
|
(J.STANKOWSKI, CAT14, TOP12, MSG:155/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A WORD TO THE WISE I won't go into the ugly details but take my word for
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""" it:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
DON'T EVER use Optimizer when you are using Prosel 16 with TheManager
|
|||
|
|
active. B-(
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Randy (Still has one partition de-activated) Chevrier
|
|||
|
|
(R.CHEVRIER, CAT30, TOP2, MSG:252/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
EDUCATION, MODEMS, AND THE APPLE II I received an e-mail letter this
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" morning related to the education
|
|||
|
|
survey that I uploaded recently. I prefer not to identify the writer, but I
|
|||
|
|
would like to share with you my response to something in the letter because
|
|||
|
|
I think it relates to this topic.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
++++++
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In your letter you said, "I think it is fair to
|
|||
|
|
say that education is not interested in this medium."
|
|||
|
|
referring to online communications.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I have to disagree. I believe that educators do
|
|||
|
|
not frequent online services because (1) they do not
|
|||
|
|
have access to the necessary equipment, (2) they do not
|
|||
|
|
know what is available and the possibilities that
|
|||
|
|
exist, (3) generally they do not have the time or money
|
|||
|
|
necessary to explore online communications on their
|
|||
|
|
own, and (4) educational institutions, particularly
|
|||
|
|
public ones, do not encourage such activities for many
|
|||
|
|
of the same reasons list above.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Case in point: This fall I made it possible for
|
|||
|
|
two teachers at my school to have their students
|
|||
|
|
participate in an exchange of writings with students in
|
|||
|
|
other parts of the country. This was through the
|
|||
|
|
ScrapBook USA writing project headed by Emery Roth on
|
|||
|
|
America On Line. I handled all of the online work from
|
|||
|
|
my home because our school does not have access to a
|
|||
|
|
modem and phone line to do this at school.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The teachers and the students were excited about
|
|||
|
|
the project and put a lot of effort into it. As it came
|
|||
|
|
to a conclusion, I heard the same comments from many,
|
|||
|
|
"It would be nice to be able to do more of this!"
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
However, they won't unless I make it possible.
|
|||
|
|
Neither of the teachers have a modem at home. The
|
|||
|
|
school is not prepared to spend the money needed to
|
|||
|
|
make online communications a possibility at school. The
|
|||
|
|
costs involved include long-distance phone bills since
|
|||
|
|
there are no local numbers for us and we have not been
|
|||
|
|
able to convince those who control the purse strings
|
|||
|
|
that it is worth the expense.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Within five years I believe you will discover
|
|||
|
|
that educators will be using online communications to
|
|||
|
|
great advantage, because by that time education will
|
|||
|
|
have caught up with _today's_ business world and the
|
|||
|
|
difficulities I mentioned above will have been
|
|||
|
|
overcome.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The interest is there, and it is growing. The
|
|||
|
|
problem for online services is to anticipate it and be
|
|||
|
|
there waiting.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
+++++
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Charlie (C.HARTLEY3, CAT2, TOP11, MSG:11/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> HOT TOPICS <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
APPLEWORKS 4.01 HAS SHIPPED Nightly (or somewhat nightly) status report:
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""" All copies of the dual pack AW 4.01 updates
|
|||
|
|
were shipped to the Post Office today! (yay). Unfortunately, the post
|
|||
|
|
office sent them back. It seems they wanted us to print 'Third Class' on
|
|||
|
|
all of the packages. To put it politely, they were being picky on this
|
|||
|
|
run.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The good news is that all 500 of the last updates are packaged,
|
|||
|
|
labeled, and posted, and will be in the mail as of tomorrow. That should
|
|||
|
|
do it for AppleWorks. We also cleared lots more backorders today.
|
|||
|
|
(W.ARCHER2, CAT42, TOP29, MSG:465/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BUG IN SSC CHIP FIXED As I promised, I have received, installed and
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""" test the new Harris CDP 65C51AE1 replacement chip
|
|||
|
|
for the standard 6551 on the Apple brand SSC. I ordered it from Lightning
|
|||
|
|
Systems, P.O. Box 4, Mukwonago, WI 53149-0004. (414) 363-4282
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As you know, the standard 6551 has a problem, when using CTS hardware
|
|||
|
|
handshaking, with trashing the character being sent when the CTS flow
|
|||
|
|
control line is asserted.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I have personally experienced this problem on my SSC, using hardware
|
|||
|
|
CTS handshaking, driving a serial printer. (I use CTS handshaking rather
|
|||
|
|
than DTR or XON/XOFF for reasons I won't explain here.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I am pleased to report that the new chip has solved this problem, all
|
|||
|
|
for $4.00.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
But, there's more.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
With the chip, I received info about a $27 replacement chip for the
|
|||
|
|
6551 on the SSC, that supports additional baud rates of 38.4K, 57.6K,
|
|||
|
|
115.2K and 230.4K.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
From personal experience, I know my Zipped //e has enough trouble
|
|||
|
|
keeping up at 19,200 baud with ProTerm, so I have seriously to wonder about
|
|||
|
|
the practical effect of being able to use the higher bauds rates. Anyone
|
|||
|
|
care to speculate?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FWIW, here is what the sales sheet says:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
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Turbo ASB
|
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Do you have a high-speed modem, or other
|
|||
|
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high-speed serial communications device? Did you know
|
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|
|
that most Serial Interface Cards for the Apple II are
|
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|
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limited to only 19.2k bps?
|
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Well, they don't have to be anymore. The Turbo
|
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|
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ASB can blow away that nasty 19.2k bps barrier. With
|
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the Turbo ASB, your serial communications can run as
|
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fast as 230,400 bps!!!
|
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The Turbo ASB replaces that pokey old 6551 chip
|
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|
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on your Serial Interface Card and transforms it into a
|
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|
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speed demon.
|
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|
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The Turbo ASB supports all the standard bps rates
|
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you are used to (slow...) and adds 38.4k, 57.6k, 115.2k
|
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|
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and 230.4k!
|
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|
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The Turbo ASB is available from Lightning
|
|||
|
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Systems. Order product "Turbo ASB". $27.00 each plus
|
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|
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$3.00 S&H in the States, $10.00 S&H everywhere else.
|
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|
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-------------------------------------------------------
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Can the IIe handle 230,400 bps? For that matter, can the IIGS?
|
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Hugh... (H.HOOD, CAT12, TOP5, MSG:170/M645;1)
|
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|
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|
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>>>>> Hmmm.... "dis 'ere chip sounds neat" :)
|
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""""" I know, from experience, that a stock //e can handle 19.2KBps, as
|
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long as minimal screen handling is done. (ie: feeding a bunch of stuff to a
|
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|
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printer, or some other device) Receiving 19.2KBps is also doable, the catch
|
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|
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again is trying to keep a screen updated...
|
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|
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I would think that if the slick code was written for this new chip,
|
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and used on a //e with an 8Mhz Zip Chip, that the max baud rate it could
|
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|
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handle (in bursts) would possibly be as high as 230.4KBps.
|
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|
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|
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The biggest bottlenecks in handling the serial port is trying to keep
|
|||
|
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the screen updated properly, and the _long_ delays for disk I/O, should
|
|||
|
|
they be needed. The disk I/O problem (for the most part) goes away with a
|
|||
|
|
RamFast (Hello cached DMA, Goodby huge overhead times :) but the screen
|
|||
|
|
still needs some real special handling... It's do-able, but somewhat tricky
|
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|
|
to program (due to the 80 col screen being held in two seperate banks of
|
|||
|
|
memory.) This screen handling would require hard coded line address lookup
|
|||
|
|
tables, with even / odd bank information being extracted from the
|
|||
|
|
horizontal posn.
|
|||
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|
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|
|
PMP, (Paul) should be able to comment on what he's found as far as
|
|||
|
|
high speed serial goes, after all he wrote AnsiTERM (and it handles some
|
|||
|
|
high speed stuff :)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
-Harold
|
|||
|
|
(Running the NEW CoP/TIC scripts)
|
|||
|
|
(They're Here!!!)
|
|||
|
|
(H.HISLOP, CAT12, TOP5, MSG:171/M645;1)
|
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|
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|
|||
|
|
>>>>> Hugh, why can't your Zipped //e keep up at 19,200 Bd? This is
|
|||
|
|
""""" strange, as I operate a stock IIGS with 2.8 MHz at 38,400 Bd
|
|||
|
|
(transferring files from and to an AMIGA via null modem cable - the AMIGA
|
|||
|
|
500 can't go any faster, I suppose the IIGS still has reserves at that
|
|||
|
|
speed ;-)) )
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Udo - ... just a IIGS freak -
|
|||
|
|
(U.HUTH, CAT12, TOP5, MSG:177/M645;1)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
<<<<< I received the following response from Ron Higgins at Lightning
|
|||
|
|
""""" systems concerning using the //e with his Turbo ASB replacement
|
|||
|
|
chip for the 6551 in the SSC.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=======================================================
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
My Apple //e has got a Zip Chip 8000 (8 MHz) in
|
|||
|
|
it, so may results may be better than others.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I've been able to use ProTERM v3.1 running at
|
|||
|
|
57,600bps without any problems. 115,200bps overruns it
|
|||
|
|
though.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The need that I see the Turbo ASB filling is
|
|||
|
|
those that have modems faster than 14.4k (V.32bis).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The reason for this is that compressed files (the
|
|||
|
|
most commonly transferred) achieve about 1650cps
|
|||
|
|
(16,500bps), but as modems get faster and faster (I've
|
|||
|
|
got a 21.6k USR) the transfer rate starts to exceed the
|
|||
|
|
19.2k limit of the SSC.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I feel that 38,400bps should be just about right
|
|||
|
|
for those high-speed modems. (At least for now) But
|
|||
|
|
I've also provided for 57,600 and 115,200 if we need
|
|||
|
|
them.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=======================================================
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Hugh... (H.HOOD, CAT12, TOP5, MSG:273/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NEW CARD FROM SSH SYSTEME... Finally, a picture is available in the A2
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""" library. Now you can see how much vapor we
|
|||
|
|
have produced. Even better, the vapor never disappears! Kind
|
|||
|
|
of a high-quality, solid-state vapor.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Sorry that my talking often is irony, but a not-too-long time ago some
|
|||
|
|
important persons here on GEnie claimed that we are producing nothing than
|
|||
|
|
vaporware ("...nobody has seen the card...", see category 21, topic 6).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Joachim (J.LANGE7, CAT13, TOP23, MSG:96/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
...CALLED THE BLUEDISK CARD Vapor-Ware Leak: We have shipped the first
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""" two beta boards of our new project to the US
|
|||
|
|
testers. We are pleased to announce that the purpose of our new product is
|
|||
|
|
to allow the Apple II comunity to utilize the inexpensive disk drives
|
|||
|
|
available to the IBM compatible user.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Specifically, this card is intended to allow standard MFM floppy disk
|
|||
|
|
drives to be used by the Apple IIgs _and_ IIe, directly by the Apple
|
|||
|
|
operating systems (ProDOS and GS/OS) for storage of all Apple II compatible
|
|||
|
|
programs and data.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
We have completed both the hardware and software allowing use of
|
|||
|
|
Double Density, High Density and Extra Density floppy disks in a _variety_
|
|||
|
|
of capacities, and are continuing work on the software utilites that will
|
|||
|
|
be shipped with the card. In addition, software for using inexpensive
|
|||
|
|
MS-DOS style floppy streamers is planned but not complete.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
When the first beta tests are finished, we will come up with specs
|
|||
|
|
and information about availability.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The information given here refers to our uploads (see A2 library):
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
21878 NEWHARDWARE.BXY
|
|||
|
|
Desc: A picture of a new Apple II product
|
|||
|
|
(Apple Preferred Super Hires)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
21899 NEW.HW.GIF.BXY
|
|||
|
|
Desc: GIF pict. of an upcoming product
|
|||
|
|
(higher resolution than #21878)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
SHH Systeme, Joachim Lange
|
|||
|
|
(J.LANGE7, CAT13, TOP23, MSG:134/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<<<<< >> Any prelimenary guesses as to cost yet? <<
|
|||
|
|
"""""
|
|||
|
|
Cheap!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Cheaper than a Turbo IDE Card, cheaper than a RamFAST SCSI, cheaper
|
|||
|
|
than Apple's floppy controller. Special introductory offer! Watch for the
|
|||
|
|
specs.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Joachim (J.LANGE7, CAT13, TOP23, MSG:153/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> Very simply, the BlueDisk controller card allows owners of Apple
|
|||
|
|
""""" //e's and Apple //GS's to:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1) Use darn near any MS-Dos machine type floppy drive (these are
|
|||
|
|
quite inexpensive, and very easy to find)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
2) Read & write MFM format disks at 720k, 800k, 1.44Mb, 1.66Mb,
|
|||
|
|
2.88Mb (amongst others) Even more densities may be supported (the hardware
|
|||
|
|
already supports all possible densities that exist, the driver code is
|
|||
|
|
currently going thru beta & enhancements)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
3) Allow any Apple //e or //GS to read or write darn near any MS-Dos
|
|||
|
|
disk.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
4) Seamlessly works with GS/OS applications (and many P8 apps) and
|
|||
|
|
provides up to three times the data storage available on 800k disks.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
5) Other "floppy connector" type PC related hardware _may_ be
|
|||
|
|
supported in the future.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There it is in a nutshell. (note that this is an abreviated list of
|
|||
|
|
whats already in existance, future enhancements (driver code) _will_ add
|
|||
|
|
more features :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-Harold (H.HISLOP, CAT13, TOP23, MSG:210/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> BlueDisk slot requirements:
|
|||
|
|
""""" Any slot other than slot 3. (a minor bug is preventing use in slot
|
|||
|
|
5, this will be fixed before public release)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The control panel needs to be set to "Your Card" to access the
|
|||
|
|
BlueDisk.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
So, in my setup (BlueDisk in slot 6, which is probably where most
|
|||
|
|
people would place it) I can either have access to MS-Dos type disks OR
|
|||
|
|
Apple 5.25" disks, but not both at the same time.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Please remember that this product is still going thru beta testing,
|
|||
|
|
so it's normal that Doug and I are running into some minor bugs, anoyances,
|
|||
|
|
etc. (it's not only normal, it's to be expected at this stage of the game)
|
|||
|
|
The information here is accurate for the ROM & GS/OS driver we have at the
|
|||
|
|
moment. However, we are expecting new ROM code and a new GS/OS driver to
|
|||
|
|
arrive shortly from Joachim (bug fixes, etc).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-Harold (H.HISLOP, CAT13, TOP23, MSG:222/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
KOHN HIRES HEINEMAN TO CREATE PRINT SHOP UTILITY Bill Heineman has
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" proclaimed to me that he
|
|||
|
|
will be able to create some type of program patch for Print Shop GS so that
|
|||
|
|
greeting cards, signs, banners, etc can be printed to Hewlett-Packard
|
|||
|
|
DeskJet 500, DJ500c, DJ550c, LaserJet and DeskWriter printers, as well as
|
|||
|
|
to Apple's StyleWriter I printer.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now that Bill has had a chance to look at PSGS, and knows what would
|
|||
|
|
be involved and how much time would be needed to complete the project, he
|
|||
|
|
was able to give me a revised quote on the cost.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It's a lot higher than previously estimated.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
So, thinking again out loud...the pledges that have come in so far
|
|||
|
|
will only cover a small percentage of that cost. So, maybe that's not quite
|
|||
|
|
the way to go?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I wonder if a more realistic scenario might be that I just pay Bill
|
|||
|
|
his fee, and then publish the results as a low cost commercial software
|
|||
|
|
product, with a special "Such A Deal" discount offered, of course, to
|
|||
|
|
Shareware Solutions II subscribers.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
OTOH, being a man of my word, the reward is still open, and will go
|
|||
|
|
to the first person that can create a freeware or shareware patch/utility.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The only thing that bothers me about the "contest" and reward is that
|
|||
|
|
it's just so uncertain. Maybe it'll result in a Shareware Solution, but
|
|||
|
|
maybe it won't? To date, no other programmer has contacted me to tell me
|
|||
|
|
that they are working on such a project.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Decisions, decisions...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Feedback, as always, is appreciated.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Joe Kohn (J.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:144/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> Just how much does Bill think it will take? Is he interested in the
|
|||
|
|
""""" possiblitity of pre-sales?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If this thing is doable, and we can get enough people to committ to
|
|||
|
|
pre-ordering it by sending their checks to you to hold for the finished
|
|||
|
|
product, then I vote we push forward.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Set a price for advanced sales. Announce it here, in the next SSII
|
|||
|
|
issue, and anywhere else you can think of. Set a deadline for advanced
|
|||
|
|
sales for say one month or until the following issue of SSII. If enough
|
|||
|
|
people committ hard cash (ok, checks), then Bill goes ahead. If not, well
|
|||
|
|
we will just have to figure out what to do next.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
What do you think?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Charlie (C.HARTLEY3, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:145/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<<<<< Charlie - After I found out that Bill wasn't too interested in the
|
|||
|
|
""""" contest/reward, we basically talked about him creating the drivers
|
|||
|
|
on a contract programming basis. I would pay him for his work, but he would
|
|||
|
|
not retain the rights. As originally envisioned, I thought that we could do
|
|||
|
|
this for the few hundred dollars that has already been pledged, and then
|
|||
|
|
release it as freeware.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As it is, my job is to write and publish a newsletter. My first
|
|||
|
|
thoughts on reading your comments about taking pre-orders is that it would
|
|||
|
|
take a lot of paperwork to stay on top of, and probably some accounting
|
|||
|
|
skills that I sure don't have (and don't especially want to acquire).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
So, the way I'm thinking today is that I personally would be willing
|
|||
|
|
to take the risk of putting up the money in advance, and could act as the
|
|||
|
|
product manager, the marketing manager, the beta-tester and documentation
|
|||
|
|
writer. Then, the completed program/patch/whatever would be sold as a
|
|||
|
|
commercial product through Shareware Solutions II.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In that way, no one else besides me is taking a risk of any kind.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The completed product would then be available for the same ball-park
|
|||
|
|
figures as several people have pledged ($20-$25). Maybe $20 for subscribers
|
|||
|
|
and $25 for non-subscribers?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Switching gears...I just want to say that Shareware Solutions II is
|
|||
|
|
the first business venture that I've ever been involved with, having always
|
|||
|
|
worked for others before. I guess at this point that I'm asking for some
|
|||
|
|
business type of advice. If it's inappropriate for me to be talking about
|
|||
|
|
things like this "in public", someone just tell me. As I said in Issue #1,
|
|||
|
|
this is all new ground for me.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Joe Kohn (J.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:146/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
SPECTRUM AND SECURITY Two points about security when using "Spectrum"
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""" With some of my calls I have to dial a number which
|
|||
|
|
includes a 10 digit PIN to connect to our Mercury Phone system. This would
|
|||
|
|
be visible to anyone who opened the dialing menu.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Sending a PassWord from the internal store is visible & liable to be
|
|||
|
|
in a capture buffer if connected to a Full Duplex system. I have proved
|
|||
|
|
this.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Using scripts for dialling& log on gives you more scope for
|
|||
|
|
protecting sensitive info.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
My way of ensuring they do not get passed on with scripts is to store
|
|||
|
|
them in a 'File' which I can hide anywhere on my 105mByte drive. The
|
|||
|
|
script only needs to know the location of it. As an exercise in security I
|
|||
|
|
have protected this further with a PIN. Although no one else has access to
|
|||
|
|
my system I could set it so that if someone tries unsuccesfully to run the
|
|||
|
|
script the file would be over written, not just deleted.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
KenDawson from England - < Delivered by GECo-Pilot & TIC 4.0 >
|
|||
|
|
[Still learning about 'Spectrum' & New CoPilot scripts]
|
|||
|
|
(K.DAWSON2, CAT43, TOP15, MSG:223/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> WHAT'S NEW <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
APPLEWORKS 4 PATCHER You might want to check out RFP (Randy's Free
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""" Patcher) created by Randy Brandt (one of AW 4.0's
|
|||
|
|
authors) -- it's better (IMO) and it's available on GEnie.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-(+)-
|
|||
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
...Will (W.NELKEN1, CAT42, TOP2, MSG:125/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
...NOT TO MENTION APPLEWORKS 4.02 AW 4.02 goes final this week and the
|
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" updater should be uploaded to GEnie
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next week and should be available for public downloading before the end of
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the week. It will also be on TimeOut-Central, NAUG's disk, AfterWork, and
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available for $10 or so from Quality if you don't have access to any of the
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other sources. Obviously you can get it right here.
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(BRANDT, CAT42, TOP29, MSG:649/M645;1)
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NEW FINANCIAL GENIUS Financial GeniuS * v 2.0 has been released! This is
|
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"""""""""""""""""""" a financial program similar to others on the market
|
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today. FULL featured, cheaper, and more user friendly than ANY other
|
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financial program. And this one is for your GS.
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Financial GeniuS is a program that will store your financial records
|
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and allow you easy access to this information in many forms. Financial
|
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GeniuS has the ability to produce a variety of report forms which will
|
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allow budgeting, cost projections, credit card management, investment
|
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management, tax return reports, year-to-date analyses, and many other
|
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useful applications. All entry of data- categories, budgets, transactions,
|
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addresses, etc.- is incredibly easy to master and use without hassle on a
|
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daily basis. Financial GeniuS uses the standard methods of entry on the GS
|
|||
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(menus, line edits, lists, text edits, radios, check boxes, pop-up
|
|||
|
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menus...) with a flexibility that few can ignore. All in all, Financial
|
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GeniuS is the perfect program for a person or family who is financially
|
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conscious (or attempting to become that way).
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The only way to get the full perspective on this financial program is
|
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to dowload the demo from your local BBS. If that is not possible, the demo
|
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is available from the author for $5. Send a check or money order to:
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Rick Adams
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FGS Demo
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1627 Ball St.
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Galveston, TX 77550.
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The demo includes a tutorial that will help you to understand the
|
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basics of the program. A separate demo account has been included to
|
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illustrate basic use of the program as well as to let you in on some
|
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advanced features available to you while using the program.
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NOTE: Financial GeniuS is being distributed as shareware. The demo
|
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version does not allow changes to be saved to an account. In order to
|
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receive the fully enabled version as well as written documentation, the
|
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shareware fee of $35 must be paid to the author.
|
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Update Notice The wait is over! The new version of Financial GeniuS is
|
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''''''''''''' ready to ship. I listened to all of your suggestions and
|
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|
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fit in a few of my own as well. You will be amazed by the improvements!
|
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Version 2.0 is a total rewrite. No more waiting for disk access; version
|
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2.0 now loads everything when you open your account. Because Financial
|
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GeniuS is now memory-based, you are allowed access to all portions of the
|
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|
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program at any time. If you discover you need to enter a category to your
|
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|
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account while you are entering transactions, you can open up the category/
|
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budget section, enter your new category, and BOOM, it appears in the
|
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transaction window for immediate use. Improved handling of all aspects of
|
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your account has been added. You may now edit, remove, and add auto
|
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transactions and payee addresses. Use of auto transactions has been
|
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dramatically enhanced to allow entry of any transactions you want in any
|
|||
|
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order you specify. System 6 controls allow ease of movement through
|
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|
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windows to make entry of data much more fluid and controlled. Filtering of
|
|||
|
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transactions has been dramatically improved; find the transactions you need
|
|||
|
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in no time at all. In addition to the increased functionality of FGS, the
|
|||
|
|
data structure has been expanded to allow larger accounts while maintaining
|
|||
|
|
its goal of using only necessary memory. The new account limits include:
|
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|
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200 categories, 150 auto transactions, 200 payee addresses, up to 50
|
|||
|
|
transactions in the clipboard, and transactions still only limited by
|
|||
|
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memory! This update is a must!
|
|||
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|
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New Features :
|
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$ Memory based to make it faster and more accurate; well tested to
|
|||
|
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prevent bugs.
|
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$ Separation of program segments to make all sections of the program
|
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|
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available at all times (i.e. concurrent category, transaction, auto
|
|||
|
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transaction, and payee address abilities).
|
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$ Re-developed menus and windows to be more accessible and
|
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|
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comfortable.
|
|||
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|
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$ Updated for complete System 6 compatibility.
|
|||
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$ Finder*-like Windows menu to rapidly find or close a specific
|
|||
|
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window.
|
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|
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$ Customize the program by saving window positions.
|
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|
|||
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$ Cut, Copy, and Paste transactions via a clipboard.
|
|||
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|
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$ Expanded support of split transactions.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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$ Memos in transactions.
|
|||
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|
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|
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$ Expanded support of variable budgets.
|
|||
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|
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|
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$ Better report generation: faster, more intuitive, and easier to
|
|||
|
|
read. (Saves to disk in Teach or ASCII).
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
$ Print checks using the GS Print Manager.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
$ Auto load and auto backup features.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
$ Compatible with The Manager, SwitchIt!, and other program
|
|||
|
|
switchers.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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$ Was 16k, now uses only 9k of stack space!
|
|||
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|
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|
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$ Convert program makes v 1.0 files compatible with version 2.0 while
|
|||
|
|
checking for errors in account files.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
$ 130 pages of written documentation.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
$ Import accounts from other programs.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
$ Smaller account files.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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$ Lots more!
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
NOTE: The upgrade price for Financial GeniuS v 1.x to 2.0 is $15.
|
|||
|
|
Send check or money order AND _registration number_ to:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Rick Adams
|
|||
|
|
FGS Update
|
|||
|
|
1627 Ball St.
|
|||
|
|
Galveston, TX 77550
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Demo Account Not Yet Available Due to circumstances beyond my control,
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' the demo account mentioned in the
|
|||
|
|
Financial GeniuS announcement is _not_ included in the uploaded demo. That
|
|||
|
|
demo account will be uploaded separately as soon as it is completed. Since
|
|||
|
|
the beginning of the year is now here (Happy New Year!), I thought it best
|
|||
|
|
to let the 'public' try before they buy NOW.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
A tutorial is included with the demo that will give you the basic
|
|||
|
|
feel for the program and will let you know whether you want it or not. The
|
|||
|
|
demo account will show a lot more abilities of Financial GeniuS and show
|
|||
|
|
you more possibilities for maintaining your finances. If you're in no
|
|||
|
|
rush, wait for the demo account to be released. I will re-upload a
|
|||
|
|
'complete' package when that time comes.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Finally, if you desire to upload the FGS demo to another bulletin
|
|||
|
|
board system, PLEASE _wait_ for the package that contains the demo account.
|
|||
|
|
That way others will see a 'complete' Financial GeniuS!
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Thanks,
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Rick Adams, author Financial GeniuS
|
|||
|
|
(R.ADAMS48, CAT8, TOP3, MSG:{22}/M645;1)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
KEYBOARDING 5 UPDATED Keyboarding 5 (aka Computer Keyboarding) version
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""" 5.1.2, dated 12-20-93, has been added to the
|
|||
|
|
library.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
21861 KB5.HD.BXY -- this is the complete version for hard drives and
|
|||
|
|
for 3.5 inch diskettes.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
21862 KB5.D1.BXY -- this contains the files for the 5.25 inch STARTUP
|
|||
|
|
diskette. Add ProDOS and BASIC.SYSTEM to make it
|
|||
|
|
bootable.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
21863 KB5.D2.BXY -- this contains the files for the 5.25 inch PROGRAM
|
|||
|
|
diskette.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This version includes all previous bug fixes as well as numerous
|
|||
|
|
cosmetic changes designed to make the program more user-friendly.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Keyboarding 5 is SHAREWARE. Until you pay the shareware fee, each
|
|||
|
|
time the program is booted you will be reminded to pay the fee. The program
|
|||
|
|
allows you to complete all of the 'home keys' lessons and begin with the
|
|||
|
|
first set of new keys (e u g). However, it will lock up at that point if
|
|||
|
|
the fee has not been paid. The key to unlocking the rest of the program is
|
|||
|
|
given to you when you pay the fee.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The SHAREWARE fee is $10 if you download the program or obtain it
|
|||
|
|
from another source other than me. When you send the fee to me, specify an
|
|||
|
|
e-mail address or snail-mail address to get the password in return.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you wish to get the program directly from me, do the following:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1. Send me $15.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
2. Include your name and address.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
3. Identify which size diskette you want - 3.5 inch or 5.25 inch.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
4. If you are purchasing this for someone else, give me that name too.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
5. Mail it all to
|
|||
|
|
Charles Hartley
|
|||
|
|
455 Foster Lane
|
|||
|
|
Shepherdsville, KY 40165
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I will send the program on bootable diskettes. I have a license with
|
|||
|
|
Apple to include ProDOS and BASIC.SYSTEM with the program.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you request the program on a 3.5 inch diskette, I will include
|
|||
|
|
some extra goodies since there is ample room on that diskette.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Keyboarding 5 continues to be available as a site license for
|
|||
|
|
schools. The school site license fee is $100. Address all inquires to me at
|
|||
|
|
the address above.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Thanks!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Charlie (C.HARTLEY3, CAT13, TOP8, MSG:25/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NEW HARD DRIVES A2.Bill asked me to move the discussion of new hard disk
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""" drive products over here as a more appropriate place.
|
|||
|
|
So, here we are in our new home.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Later tonight, I'll post brief reports of both the Roadrunner40 and
|
|||
|
|
the AppleLeaf hard disk drives. I'll also discuss the Diplomat.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Roadrunner is primarily aimed at the Apple IIe because the
|
|||
|
|
package includes a late (read the latest) model CMS SCSI card. This holds
|
|||
|
|
the price down a lot. Also included are a card for power on which any
|
|||
|
|
available 2.5" Quantum GO Drive (SCSI) can be mounted. The producer was
|
|||
|
|
able to obtain something just under 1,000 of these 40 meg drives, and
|
|||
|
|
designed the card for the power, SCSI ID and Terminator power. Again ways
|
|||
|
|
to hold the price down.....
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Roadrunner has been tested in a IIe and a IIGS at Charlie's
|
|||
|
|
AppleSeeds and found to work correctly in both machines!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Retail price is a suggested $199.00
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Where else can one find, for an Apple IIe, a 40 meg drive AND SCSI
|
|||
|
|
card for that price? AND, don't forget, its SCSI!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Also available, a limited supply of Roadrunner20 units for a
|
|||
|
|
suggested retail price of $149.00.........
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Chuck Newby
|
|||
|
|
Charlie's AppleSeeds
|
|||
|
|
(A2.CHUCK, CAT13, TOP25, MSG:2/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
PROSEL LITE New addition to the Roadrunner: ProSel LITE
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""" ProSel LITE adds the ProSel 8 (PRO)gram (SEL)ector to the
|
|||
|
|
Roadrunner, so that you can have the best program selector available on the
|
|||
|
|
Apple II Series in 8 bit mode.... Essentially, what you get is the ability
|
|||
|
|
to create a program selector screen for your Roadrunner. The EXTERNAL
|
|||
|
|
Program Selector Editor is part of the LITE package, as are all of the
|
|||
|
|
screen demo files which show you what can be done. In addition, thre
|
|||
|
|
(there) are about 10 pages of dox, in AWP format for how to best use the
|
|||
|
|
Program Selector Screen and both the internal and external screen editors.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ProSel 8, discussed elsewhere on GEnie, can be purchased for $28.00
|
|||
|
|
plus $2 postage, with proof of purchase of your Roadrunner. That
|
|||
|
|
represents a $10 (25%) discount over the suggested retail price.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Chuck (A2.CHUCK, CAT13, TOP25, MSG:6/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
TWILIGHT II CONTEST Check out file #21904 for full information on a new
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""" Twilight II art contest! You can win cash and prizes
|
|||
|
|
:) Hurry; the deadline is Feb 14, 1994.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
YOU DON'T HAVE TO OWN TWILIGHT II TO ENTER THE CONTEST!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Also included is a beta version of a toast module for Twilight II
|
|||
|
|
written by Nathan Mates. Check it out! :-)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Please place all discussion of the contest right here! Enjoy and
|
|||
|
|
good luck!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
(A2PRO.DYAJIM, CAT13, TOP30, MSG:114/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NEW GEM NOT SCUTTLED AFTER ALL? Just wondering if there was any news on
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" GEM for AW4....
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<<<Lloyd>>> (STAMPS.RT, CAT29, TOP4, MSG:45/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> Beta testing is vigorously proceeding...hang in there.
|
|||
|
|
"""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-(+)-
|
|||
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
...Will (W.NELKEN1, CAT29, TOP4, MSG:46/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NEW COPILOT "OPEN BETA" SCRIPTS The CoPilot scripts for Spectrum and TIC
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" are in the library, and have been since
|
|||
|
|
before daybreak.:)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The library folks are aware that the CoPilot files need to be
|
|||
|
|
released as soon as possible, and they will be making every effort to get
|
|||
|
|
them out. If there is any delay on this, it WILL be unavoidable. (And my
|
|||
|
|
apologies to the library staff for putting them under pressure like this.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The ProTerm scripts are VERY near complete, and if nothing unexpected
|
|||
|
|
comes up in THAT arena, you should see them early next week.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Gary R. Utter (GARY.UTTER, CAT29, TOP13, MSG:{85}/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> I've been so busy trying to whip the new CoPilot ProTerm scripts
|
|||
|
|
""""" into shape that I've got 800K or unread messages in my A2 buffer!
|
|||
|
|
I'm not sure what Gary has posted about the ProTerm version of these
|
|||
|
|
scripts but I thought I'd take a second to give a status report.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As far as I know, the scripts are done and bug free. The last set of
|
|||
|
|
changes are in the hands of the Beta testers.... Since I may be going out
|
|||
|
|
of town for a couple days, I'm deciding whether to bite the bullit and
|
|||
|
|
upload them.... I'm inclined to upload them and see what happens :). In
|
|||
|
|
any event, you should see them within a week..no matter what.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
These scripts are pretty much direct translations of Gary's TIC
|
|||
|
|
scripts. Because of this, I've used none of the power commands in the
|
|||
|
|
ProTerm macro set. The bad side is that it makes it GOto laden spaghetti
|
|||
|
|
code. The good side is that it is so like the TIC/SPECTRUM scripts, almost
|
|||
|
|
anyone can look at additions to the TIC scripts and easily impliment them
|
|||
|
|
in the ProTerm scripts. Also, this first order usage of the ProTerm macro
|
|||
|
|
language should allow use with ProTerm 3.0 as well as 3.1. I did about
|
|||
|
|
half the scripting using ProTerm 3.0 by accident. But after switching to
|
|||
|
|
3.1 I didn't see any reason why 3.0 shouldn't be perfectly adequate. If
|
|||
|
|
there are any problems with 3.0, please jump in and let me know. I want to
|
|||
|
|
make sure they are 3.0 compatible (and I _think_ they are now).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I'll leave it to Gary to explain the 'features' of the scripts. You
|
|||
|
|
can yell at me for any ProTerm bugs though...:) Watch for them. It won't
|
|||
|
|
be long now....
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
.goose. (W.GOOSEY, CAT29, TOP15, MSG:138/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
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SOFTDISK CONSIDERS ONLINE SALES We will be offering certain Softdisk
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" standalone products in a download
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superstore from GEnie as well as other services.
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We're looking into the possibilities of being able to download back
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issues. We're also looking at allowing subscribers to subscribe
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electronically and download the latest issue from GEnie and other services.
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Selling back issues that way is also being talked about.
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None of it is set in stone, but I imagine we'll know within a month
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exactly what we're going to do.
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(Oops, I should have answered this on the SOFTDISK.INC account. Hard
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to keep 'em straight sometimes. %-)
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Dean Esmay (DEAN.ESMAY, CAT34, TOP9, MSG:243/M645;1)
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QUIET DEATH OF QFAX GS I was leafing through my back issues of the late
|
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"""""""""""""""""""""" lamented A+/InCider and I found a press release in
|
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the June '93 issue to the effect that Quality was soon to release a product
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called Q-FaxModem GS. It stated that the software to transmit (and
|
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eventually receive) faxes would be available seperately. Since I have
|
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recently purchased a high-speed modem with fax capability I am very
|
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interested in such a product. Has this software been released by Quality?
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Sam King (S.KING1, CAT42, TOP3, MSG:138/M645;1)
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>>>>> Alas, no. Q Fax has died a quiet death. We held every hope that
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""""" the software would be completed, but after a year and a half we
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have finally begun to notify our customers that we will no longer be s 8;
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19A b *E"3 keeping everyones hopes up. The author continues to work
|
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on the project, and he may even finish it for another publisher. If they
|
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bring it to us in a finished form we will probably carry it, but we will
|
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not be pursuing the project any further.
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Walker (W.ARCHER2, CAT42, TOP3, MSG:139/M645;1)
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NEW ECON SUPPORT PERSON Due to recent internal changes and events at Econ
|
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""""""""""""""""""""""" Technologies Inc., we've been unable to provide
|
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timely support on both of our online support areas. Unfortunately our time
|
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resources have been severely taxed and therefore time intensive task such
|
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as bulletin board support had to be sacraficed. In order to counter this
|
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situation we have commissioned a new individual to provide support for Econ
|
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|
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Technologies here on GEnie.
|
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|
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Kevin Piclesimer is the new ECON dude here on GEnie! Kevin is an
|
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enthusiastic Apple IIgs owner who has enjoyed using the Apple II for many
|
|||
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years. Kevin will be providing answers to general & specific questions
|
|||
|
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concerning ECON products here in our support area. He will also do his his
|
|||
|
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best to help you through any problems you may be having with any ECON
|
|||
|
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product although he may have to refer you to ECON tech. support.
|
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|
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|
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Please give a kind welcome to Kevin as he joins the GEnie community!
|
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|
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|
Best Regards,
|
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|
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D.Proni (ECON, CAT35, TOP2, MSG:33/M645;1)
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|
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BUG DISCOVERED IN PROTERM 3.1 You just uncovered a bug in ProTERM 3.1!
|
|||
|
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Its there, its in the code! Congratulations
|
|||
|
|
if you and I are ever on Times Square, I'll give you a big hug in public.
|
|||
|
|
<smile>
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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Greg was looking over the PT3.1 code and found that during a routine
|
|||
|
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test for 1200 baud modems, he removed part of the "maintenance" code for
|
|||
|
|
those modems and never put it back (blush).
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
It now seems apparent that not many are using 1200 baud modems as you
|
|||
|
|
are the first to note the problem that the 1200 baud modes is indeed
|
|||
|
|
instructed to answer the phone if it rings. <smile>
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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Just add
|
|||
|
|
S0=0 (read that as S zero equals zero)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
to the end of your Init string and it should solve the problem.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Jerry Cline @ InTrec Software, Inc.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
(INTREC, CAT24, TOP2, MSG:263/M645;1)
|
|||
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|
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|
|||
|
|
DIGISOFT CONSIDERING CD DigiSoft is currently considering the production
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""" of a new IIGS CD-ROM disc. How much interest
|
|||
|
|
would there be? We don't want to make it and then have only 20 copies
|
|||
|
|
sold, for instance... On the other hand, if we could sell 100, we'd get
|
|||
|
|
the project underway immediately. So, what say the masses? Just how many
|
|||
|
|
AII users have CD-ROM drives now that they are much cheaper?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Most of the stuff on the disc will be in HFS format, so AII users
|
|||
|
|
with access to Macs with CD-ROM drives could copy off files and bring them
|
|||
|
|
home to the GS as well.. There might also be a prodos partition for P8
|
|||
|
|
programs..
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
<<Jim (DYA, CAT13, TOP29, MSG:31/M645;1)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
>>> MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Category 2, Topic 3
|
|||
|
|
Message 51 Mon Jan 03, 1994
|
|||
|
|
T.A.GATES at 03:09 EST
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Ah, the good ol' days!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Not to mention the "other guys", but if anyone also gets on
|
|||
|
|
CompuServe (hey, I use it to access my company mainframe - GEnie is where I
|
|||
|
|
have my fun :) - the 'Behind the Screens' column by John Edwards in the Jan
|
|||
|
|
94 magazine was interesting.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
He mentions a kind of yearning for 4k RAM, Kilobaud and OnComputing
|
|||
|
|
magazines, the take-over of the micro computer industry by "consultants",
|
|||
|
|
the disappearance of the original hackers (in the good sense).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I still have my original 1979 Apple II in my 4-year old daughter's
|
|||
|
|
room. She still gets a great kick out of making it tick. I get a much
|
|||
|
|
greater kick watching her have fun with it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Circa 1976, had taken BASIC and FORTRAN courses at the Univ of
|
|||
|
|
Minnesota totally by consequence (another whole story) and fell in love
|
|||
|
|
with the things. A year before my high school physics teacher was busy
|
|||
|
|
building a computer from a kit (Altair I believe) and got me interested in
|
|||
|
|
the kit building side. So HeathKit was a way of life for some time as
|
|||
|
|
well.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Drooled over the ads in Byte magazine about the 4K RAM machines that
|
|||
|
|
you put together on the "kit a month" plan. Then the ads for the Apple I,
|
|||
|
|
you could get just the motherboard and add your own case, power supply and
|
|||
|
|
keyboard - or - buy the works in a case already!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Even in those days, Apple was high priced compared to other
|
|||
|
|
computers. I recall the month-long debate over spending my $2000 on 16K
|
|||
|
|
Apple II with an AppleSoft language card, or get the Ohio Scientific
|
|||
|
|
computer with 32K of memory, disk drive, monitor for the same price. The
|
|||
|
|
decision on the Apple was almost a coin toss type of affair. What sinched
|
|||
|
|
the deal was I couldn't find software for the O.S. machine outside of the
|
|||
|
|
Montgomery Wards store. Yes, Wards! They sold them right next to the
|
|||
|
|
tires and batteries. :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I loved what the Lisa and Mac computers could do and had a part in
|
|||
|
|
bringing a Lisa into our office. This eventually became a love/hate affair
|
|||
|
|
as the arrogance of the Mac owners/users and the shenannigans within Apple
|
|||
|
|
Inc. regarding the II vs Mac became more profound. So, when my dad saw
|
|||
|
|
this neat new IIGS computer coming on the market, he asked if I'd be
|
|||
|
|
interested in one. How can you say "no" to your dad. ;) I'd guess that
|
|||
|
|
this Woz signature machine will last at least as long as the II in my
|
|||
|
|
daughter's room. And, if Quality moves ahead with plans on a software
|
|||
|
|
emulator for the PowerPC's, I'll really be in hog heaven. Finally someone
|
|||
|
|
to bridge the gap that Apple was never willing to.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Ah, memories!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
T.A.Gates
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Category 2, Topic 4
|
|||
|
|
Message 350 Wed Jan 05, 1994
|
|||
|
|
R.HOSKING [WOODCHUCK] at 22:51 EST
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Sometimes we Apple II users have our rewards.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I had a project at the office which would work the best using a
|
|||
|
|
database. Our office is awash in messy-dos machines. The guru in charge
|
|||
|
|
of software feels that if it is bigger (read more expensive), the software
|
|||
|
|
must be better so in his infinite wisdom, bought rBASE as our data base
|
|||
|
|
software. In an attempt to give it a fair shot, I have been trying to
|
|||
|
|
learn rBASE for a year and like the other folks in the department, have
|
|||
|
|
muddled along and still can't set up a data base. (If the manual is over 1
|
|||
|
|
1/2 inches thick, don't buy it). Having a deadline to meet, I said to hell
|
|||
|
|
with messy-dos and planned on using Appleworks database to get the project
|
|||
|
|
done. As luck would have it, the nor'easter of 94 (thats what the news
|
|||
|
|
media called it) gave me the chance to get Appleworks up and running at
|
|||
|
|
home. My boss told me to take work home Monday night and work at home
|
|||
|
|
instead of driving 35 miles to the office on Tuesday. Not one to argue
|
|||
|
|
with the boss, I did just that. As the snow fell and the wind blew, I
|
|||
|
|
typed away on the IIGS and got the project done.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Wednesday morning, I brought my Deskjet 500 printed custom output
|
|||
|
|
into the office and showed the boss what could be done with a "SIMPLE"
|
|||
|
|
database program on a obsolete computer. As he was working with my output,
|
|||
|
|
I went into my office and started doing some SuperCalc work on my messy-dos
|
|||
|
|
machine when the computer hung on me. It wouldn't even recognize a
|
|||
|
|
ctrl-alt-delete boot. I turned off the machine and rebooted to find only a
|
|||
|
|
blank screen, no cursor and the sound of the harddrive spinning. When the
|
|||
|
|
service tech looked at my dead machine, he found that the motherboard was
|
|||
|
|
fried and had to be replaced.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Could it be that my DOS machine saw the Apple output and threw in the
|
|||
|
|
towel?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Dick (Woodchuck) Hosking
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
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 /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Fun & Games On GEnie
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Author Unknown
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> IF OPERATING SYSTEMS RAN AIRLINES <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If operating systems ran airlines:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
DOS Airline Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then jump on
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""" and let the plane coast until it hits the ground again, then
|
|||
|
|
push again, jump on again and so on.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
DOS with QEMM Airline The same thing but with more leg room to push.
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Macintosh Airline All the stewards, stewardesses, captains, baggage
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""" handlers, and ticket agents look the same, act the
|
|||
|
|
same, and talk the same. Every time you ask questions about details, you
|
|||
|
|
are told you don't need to know, don't want to know, and everything will be
|
|||
|
|
done for you without you having to know, so just shut up.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The OS/2 Airline To board the plane, you have your ticket stamped ten
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""" different times by standing in ten different lines.
|
|||
|
|
Then you fill out a form showing where you want to sit and whether it
|
|||
|
|
should look and feel like an ocean liner, a passenger train, or a bus. If
|
|||
|
|
you succeed in getting on board the plane and the plane succeeds in getting
|
|||
|
|
off the ground, you have a wonderful trip...except for the times when the
|
|||
|
|
rudder and flaps get frozen in position, in which case you have time to say
|
|||
|
|
your prayers and get yourself prepared before the crash.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The WINDOWS Airline The airport terminal is nice and colorful, with
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""" friendly stewards and stewardesses, easy access to
|
|||
|
|
the plane, an uneventful takeoff...then BOOM! the plane blows up without
|
|||
|
|
any warning whatsoever and you're dead.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The WINDOWS NT Airline Everyone marches out on the runway, say the
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""" password in unison, and form the outline of an
|
|||
|
|
airplane. Then they all sit down and make a whooshing sound like they're
|
|||
|
|
flying.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The UNIX Airline Everyone brings one piece of the plane with them when
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""" they come to the airport. They all go out on the
|
|||
|
|
runway and put the plane together piece by piece, arguing constantly about
|
|||
|
|
what kind of plane they're building.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The ATARI Airline No one knows where the ticket agents are or the
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""" terminal is.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Contributed to GEnieLamp by Terry Quinn [TQUINN]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[REF]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
REFLECTIONS /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Thinking About Online Communications
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By Phil Shapiro
|
|||
|
|
[P.SHAPIRO1]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> DEVELOPING YOUR ONLINE SOCIAL SKILLS <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The other day I got to thinking about the two types of
|
|||
|
|
telecommunications skills a person can possess. The first type is
|
|||
|
|
technical skills: how to use the features in your communications software,
|
|||
|
|
how to read and leave messages on local bulletin boards and national
|
|||
|
|
information services, how to diagnose the problem when your modem has
|
|||
|
|
difficulty connecting with a remote system.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The other type of telecommunications skill is far more subtle and
|
|||
|
|
amorphous. It's the skill a person has at knowing what to say, how to say
|
|||
|
|
it, where to say it, and whom to say it to. It's the "savoir faire" skill
|
|||
|
|
of knowing accepted online social practices, and of playing the game
|
|||
|
|
according to the unwritten rules.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It's this second type of telecommunications skill I find most
|
|||
|
|
fascinating.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You can tell when a person has developed a facility at this skill.
|
|||
|
|
Their public message postings sound concise, well-thought out, sensitive to
|
|||
|
|
others' feelings, and inviting reply. Their private electronic mail
|
|||
|
|
messages have similar attributes.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You can also tell when a person's online social skills are not fully
|
|||
|
|
developed. The person who sprinkles exclamation marks hither and thither
|
|||
|
|
in their writing may be unaware that their puppy-dog exuberance betrays a
|
|||
|
|
certain naivete. Likewise the poor soul who has yet to learn that the
|
|||
|
|
English language has evolved to where lower case lettering is indeed
|
|||
|
|
permissible.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Knowing what to say online is only half the battle though. Knowing
|
|||
|
|
how to say it is the real challenge.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It takes skill to choose just the right words to elicit the desired
|
|||
|
|
response. Another way of saying this is that online communications gives
|
|||
|
|
you ample opportunities to put your foot in your mouth.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You need not feel overly self-conscious if you do commit the
|
|||
|
|
occasional social gaffe, though. Online communications is so new to all of
|
|||
|
|
us that everyone can recall social gaffe's of their own.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Just last week I myself had a narrow escape. In a moment of reckless
|
|||
|
|
abandon I courtesy-copied an electronic mail message. My reason for doing
|
|||
|
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so was to save myself the trouble of sending a separate e-mail message to
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the courtesy-copied party.
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Doesn't sound too dangerous on the face of it, does it? Aha, but
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foot-in-mouth opportunities abound in the online world. No sooner had I
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dispatched the message than I realized the possible perils of my action.
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Some stray comments in my message could possibly be taken the wrong way by
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the courtesy-copied party.
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Luckily, I narrowly escaped a rather embarrassing situation. Next
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time I'll think twice about using the convenience of courtesy-copying. I'm
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all the wiser for having narrowly missed that precipice.
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The truth is that online social skills are closely akin to the social
|
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skills we use in conducting our everyday face-to-face affairs. Those who
|
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have developed refined social skills in the tangible world usually have no
|
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trouble transferring those skills to the online world.
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Tact. Courtesy. Thoughtfulness. A reserved, controlled demeanor.
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These are all indicia of a refined mind -- both online and off line.
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These are commendable skills to hone and refine. You cannot learn
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them quickly. You cannot learn them from any guidebook. You can only
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learn them through experience.
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As you journey through the online world, take time to reflect upon
|
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the positive examples of online social skills you encounter. You will
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enrich yourself immeasurably as a result.
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-Phil Shapiro
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[*][*][*]
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The author takes a keen interest in the social dimensions
|
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of online communications. He can be reached on GEnie at:
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P.SHAPIRO1; on America Online at: pshapiro.
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[EOA]
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[BEG]//////////////////////////////
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BEGINNER'S CORNER /
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/////////////////////////////////
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Polishing Green Apples
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""""""""""""""""""""""
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By Steve Weyhrich
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[S.WEYHRICH]
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>>> HOOKED ON CLASSICS (Part 4) <<<
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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INTRODUCTION We finally reach the end of our tour of the Apple IIgs
|
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"""""""""""" Classic Desk Accessory Control Panel, with a discussion of
|
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the Printer Port and Modem Port options. If you are one of the many who,
|
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like me, have recently updated to a newer, faster modem, this may be
|
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helpful.
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PRINTER PORT / MODEM PORT These two options in the Control Panel are
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""""""""""""""""""""""""" quite similar, so I will deal with them
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together. Modifying the characteristics of a serial port on the Apple II,
|
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II Plus, or IIe required popping the top off the computer and flipping some
|
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|
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tiny little DIP switches. To do this on the IIgs is much easier; you just
|
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enter our handy little CDA Control Panel and use the arrow keys to change
|
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things.
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Before describing the various entries in these Control Panels, let's
|
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diverge for a moment and discuss parallel versus serial devices, and then
|
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explain what a serial device needs to properly communicate. The parallel
|
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|
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interface was designed originally by a company named Centronics, which
|
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manufactured printers, way back before microcomputers existed. They
|
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designed an inexpensive way of sending data from a computer to a printer
|
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that involved having a separate wire for each of the eight bits in a byte.
|
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|
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Besides these eight wires, there was also a wire from the computer to the
|
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|
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printer to tell it that a character was coming, and another wire from the
|
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printer back to the computer to tell it that the character had been
|
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|
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printed, and it was ready for more. The only problem with the parallel
|
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|
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interface is that it is expensive to have a cable that runs over a long
|
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distance (if your printer and computer can't be right next to each other).
|
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Because of these drawbacks, the serial interface is often used as an
|
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alternative.
|
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Serial interfaces have been around for a LONG time, so long that a
|
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specific standard has been defined to designate exactly how a serial
|
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|
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interface should work. This is called the RS-232-C standard, and that's
|
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|
|
why you see that name on some serial devices (when they claim to be
|
|||
|
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compatible with that standard). The simplest serial interface would be one
|
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|
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line for data and another for a ground, but several others were added over
|
|||
|
|
the years, until there were as many as 25 different lines with different
|
|||
|
|
meanings. In the microcomputer world, where practicalities such as price
|
|||
|
|
have reigned supreme, this has been reduced significantly. The Apple IIc,
|
|||
|
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the first Apple II to use the serial interface as a standard, used only
|
|||
|
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five of the lines coming out of the computer, although the plug at the
|
|||
|
|
other end had to have 25 pins to follow the RS-232-C standard. The IIgs
|
|||
|
|
and Macintosh computers use eight lines for data transmission to achieve
|
|||
|
|
slightly better control. This uses one data line in each direction, plus
|
|||
|
|
other lines for control (letting one device tell another when it is ready
|
|||
|
|
for more).
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Now that we have that out of the way, here is what these Panels look
|
|||
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like:
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Control Panel Control Panel
|
|||
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|
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Printer Port Modem Port
|
|||
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|
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|
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-Device Connected: Printer- -Device Connected: Modem-
|
|||
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~ Line Length: Unlimited ~ Line Length: Unlimited
|
|||
|
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~ Delete first LF after CR: No ~ Delete first LF after CR: No
|
|||
|
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~ Add LF after CR: Yes ~ Add LF after CR: No
|
|||
|
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~ Echo: No ~ Echo: No
|
|||
|
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~ Buffering: No ~ Buffering: No
|
|||
|
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~ Baud: 9600 ~ Baud: 1200
|
|||
|
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~ Data/Stop Bits: 8/1 ~ Data/Stop Bits: 8/1
|
|||
|
|
~ Parity: None ~ Parity: None
|
|||
|
|
~ DCD Handshake: Yes ~ DCD Handshake: Yes
|
|||
|
|
~ DSR/DTR Handshake: Yes ~ DSR/DTR Handshake: Yes
|
|||
|
|
~ XON/XOFF Handshake: No ~ XON/XOFF Handshake: No
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Select <- -> V ^ Cancel: Esc Save <-|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
(Note that as in previous month's articles, the "~" character
|
|||
|
|
represents the checkmark that appears next to each line in Control Panel
|
|||
|
|
setting that is the default selection for that feature.) All these
|
|||
|
|
parameters are necessary to help your computer communicate properly with
|
|||
|
|
alien species (i.e., printers and modems). Now, we'll take each of these
|
|||
|
|
in turn to explain what they mean.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Device Connected On the ROM 01 IIgs, this is an option that can be
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''''' adjusted by pressing the right or left arrow keys to
|
|||
|
|
select "Printer" or "Modem". On the ROM 03 IIgs, the Printer and Modem
|
|||
|
|
Control Panels are smart enough to tell you what setting you have made in
|
|||
|
|
the Slots Control Panel. If you have Slot 1 set for "Printer", it tells
|
|||
|
|
you that; if for "Modem" (yes, you could have two modems attached), it
|
|||
|
|
tells you that. If for "Your Card" it will say that also, and if
|
|||
|
|
"AppleTalk" (on the ROM 03), that name is displayed. If AppleTalk is
|
|||
|
|
selected for either of these two slots, many of the other options are NOT
|
|||
|
|
displayed; apparently only the first four are needed to properly control an
|
|||
|
|
AppleTalk interface.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Line Length This option refers to the number of characters that will be
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''' sent to a port before a carriage return (Ctrl-M) character is
|
|||
|
|
automatically generated by the computer and sent down the serial data line.
|
|||
|
|
This may be necessary when using some very old printers that REQUIRE this
|
|||
|
|
type of control, or if the page that you are trying to print seems to
|
|||
|
|
continually print characters off the right edge of the paper. In most
|
|||
|
|
modern applications, however, the software takes care of where the line
|
|||
|
|
should end and continue on the next, so most users should just set this to
|
|||
|
|
"Unlimited". A modem also MUST have this option set to "Unlimited".
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Delete first LF after CR Here, LF = Linefeed (Ctrl-J), and CR = Carriage
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''''''''''''' Return (Ctrl-M). When these terms were
|
|||
|
|
originally defined back in the teletype and typewriter days, a Carriage
|
|||
|
|
Return meant that the movable print head was moved back to the left end of
|
|||
|
|
the line. However, without a Linefeed to move the paper up one line, any
|
|||
|
|
printing that continued from this point would go right over that printing
|
|||
|
|
that had already appeared on the line. So, when information was sent to a
|
|||
|
|
teletype it was necessary to send both a Ctrl-J and a Ctrl-M to make sure
|
|||
|
|
that the next line of printing WAS printed on the next line.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
From the beginning, the original Apple II would move the cursor to the
|
|||
|
|
next line on the screen with ONLY the Ctrl-M character. It became
|
|||
|
|
customary for printers attached to Apple II's, and later to the Macintosh
|
|||
|
|
series, to also require ONLY the Ctrl-M character, rather than the
|
|||
|
|
Ctrl-M/Ctrl-J (CR/LF) byte pair. This made sense in terms of saving a bit
|
|||
|
|
of time during printing, and space in a text file; each line in the file
|
|||
|
|
would require one byte less of storage if it only used the Ctrl-M
|
|||
|
|
character.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In the CP/M world, and later in the MS-DOS world of the IBM PC, the
|
|||
|
|
custom of using BOTH the CR and the LF bytes persisted, and so some
|
|||
|
|
printers expect to receive BOTH a CR and LF to work properly. Other
|
|||
|
|
printers (such as the Apple ImageWriter) only require a CR to work properly
|
|||
|
|
(in its default setting).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Since the settings on printers differ, this can be used to change how
|
|||
|
|
the serial port talks to the printer. If all the lines in your word
|
|||
|
|
processing document print out double spaced, setting this option to "Yes"
|
|||
|
|
will allow the serial port firmware to "eat" the extra LF character.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Add LF after CR Similar to the above discussion, an application that
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''''''' does NOT send a LF after a CR may cause some printers to
|
|||
|
|
print every line in a document on top of each other. If that happens with
|
|||
|
|
your setup, setting this option to "Yes" will cause the serial port
|
|||
|
|
firmware to burp out an extra LF character every time a CR character is
|
|||
|
|
sent.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Echo When using a modem, two modes of data transmission are used.
|
|||
|
|
'''' "Full-duplex" means that a character sent to the computer on the
|
|||
|
|
other end is sent back ("echoed") to the computer on your end.
|
|||
|
|
"Half-duplex" (which GEnie and nearly no one else uses) means that the
|
|||
|
|
characters sent from your end are NOT sent back to your computer.
|
|||
|
|
Therefore, to see what you are typing, your terminal program must be set to
|
|||
|
|
half-duplex, or you must set this Control Panel option to "Yes". If you see
|
|||
|
|
ttwwoo of everything you type, the remote computer is sending each
|
|||
|
|
character you type back to you, and you need to set Echo to "No".
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Buffering This option, if activated, uses a space in RAM where data being
|
|||
|
|
''''''''' sent to the printer or modem can be temporarily stored up when
|
|||
|
|
the device is busy and can't handle any more data for a moment. For a
|
|||
|
|
modem, if you find that you are losing some data at times, turning this
|
|||
|
|
option on may help. Apple's manuals suggest leaving this turned off unless
|
|||
|
|
a particular program or device requires that it be on.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
One "gotcha" that once hit me was turning Buffering "On" in the
|
|||
|
|
Printer Port. It began to cause problems when I tried to print several
|
|||
|
|
documents from AppleWorks; as each new document began to print, it appeared
|
|||
|
|
to clear out the remainder of the previous document. After tearing out a
|
|||
|
|
few hairs ("But this USED to work!!!"), I finally recalled that I had made
|
|||
|
|
that change, and returning it to normal fixed everything. Moral: Don't
|
|||
|
|
turn Buffering "On" unless you have specific instructions to do it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You will probably find that if you use a high speed modem (9600 baud
|
|||
|
|
or faster) this option will need to be turned "On".
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Baud The approximate speed (in characters per second) that the serial
|
|||
|
|
'''' port will send data to the device attached to it. When the IIgs was
|
|||
|
|
designed, the most common speed for printers was 9600, and for modems was
|
|||
|
|
1200. The baud rate for printers should be set to the fastest speed that
|
|||
|
|
the printer can handle (make sure the settings on the printer match what
|
|||
|
|
you set here). For many modems, this setting may NEED to be set to the
|
|||
|
|
speed at which you want to use the modem; however, with newer modems, it
|
|||
|
|
may be possible to have the Baud setting in the Control Panel set to the
|
|||
|
|
highest speed (19200) EVEN if the modem cannot communicate faster than 2400
|
|||
|
|
baud. This Control Panel setting will determine how fast the computer
|
|||
|
|
communicates with the modem; the modem will communicate over the phone line
|
|||
|
|
at whatever speed IT has been set to.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In general, put this option to the highest setting that allows you to
|
|||
|
|
make a reliable connection.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Data/Stop Bits To allow eight bits of data to be sent on a SINGLE
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''' electrical line between two devices, there has to be a way
|
|||
|
|
to tell when one byte ends and the next one begins. Consider this series
|
|||
|
|
of characters: "GODISNOWHERE". Does it mean "GOD IS NOWHERE" or "GOD IS
|
|||
|
|
NOW HERE"? Without the space character it could be difficult to determine
|
|||
|
|
the correct meaning of the words. In the transmission of a series of bits,
|
|||
|
|
it is absolutely critical that there be a way to tell where the "space"
|
|||
|
|
should go.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Data Bits" refers to whether a byte is sent as five, six, seven, or
|
|||
|
|
eight bits. Although five or six bits may not send many characters based
|
|||
|
|
on the ASCII character set, some older standards require such a setting.
|
|||
|
|
However, I know of no standard BBS or major online information service that
|
|||
|
|
uses such a limited protocol.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Stop Bits" refers to how a byte is terminated; by the above example,
|
|||
|
|
it identifies how a "space" between bytes is identified. This is either
|
|||
|
|
one or two bits.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In nearly all circumstances these days, it will be unnecessary to
|
|||
|
|
change this setting from 8/1 to anything else.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Parity This option has to do with an older method of error checking.
|
|||
|
|
'''''' After each character is transmitted, a parity bit may be required
|
|||
|
|
to allow the computer on the receiving end to determine whether or not the
|
|||
|
|
character was sent accurately. If not, that one character would be
|
|||
|
|
re-transmitted.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Parity is set to either "Odd", "Even", or "None". An "Odd" parity
|
|||
|
|
requires that an extra bit, either 0 or 1, is added to the end of the 5, 6,
|
|||
|
|
7, or 8 bit character to make sure that it has an odd number of 1 digits.
|
|||
|
|
"Even" parity means that the extra bit should make the entire transmitted
|
|||
|
|
character have an even number of 1 digits. "None" means that the parity
|
|||
|
|
protocol is not used, and in most cases this will be the best choice.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
DCD, DSR/DTR, XON/XOFF Handshake These three Handshake options are used
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' to help the device attached to a serial
|
|||
|
|
port to be able to tell the computer to stop sending data to it. A
|
|||
|
|
printer, for instance, is not able to print data as quickly as the computer
|
|||
|
|
can send it. If the printer could not tell the computer "Stop, I'm full
|
|||
|
|
right now!," data would be lost as the computer continued to dump data to
|
|||
|
|
it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
DCD stands for "Data Carrier Detect"; DSR for "Data Set Ready"; DTR
|
|||
|
|
for "Data Terminal Ready"; and XON/XOFF are the names for ASCII characters
|
|||
|
|
that tell the transmitting device to start and stop sending, respectively.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THE END OF THE CLASSICS Finally, we are at the end of this description of
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""" the CDA Control Panel. Hopefully, it has made it
|
|||
|
|
easier for you to make adjustments to your Apple IIgs, and to understand
|
|||
|
|
what those adjustments are for. Next time, join me here as we begin to
|
|||
|
|
look into the use of increasingly affordable hard disks on Apple II
|
|||
|
|
computers.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Steve Weyhrich is a family physician from Omaha, Nebraska.
|
|||
|
|
He has been using Apple II computers since 1981, and writing
|
|||
|
|
about them since 1990. He follows closely the events that
|
|||
|
|
continue to shape the destiny of the legendary Apple II and
|
|||
|
|
IIgs computers, and writes a monthly column called the "A2
|
|||
|
|
News Digest" for A2-Central disk magazine. He is also the
|
|||
|
|
author of the "Apple II History," available on fine BBSes
|
|||
|
|
everywhere. He is really getting tired, however, of talking
|
|||
|
|
about the CDA Control Panel.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[TEC]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
TECH TALK /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Apple II Hybrids
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By Jay Curtis
|
|||
|
|
[J.CURTIS8]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
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>>> HOW THE APPLE II READS AND WRITES MS-DOS <<<
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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The Macintosh world has been buzzing recently about an
|
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Apple-manufactured 68040 Processor Direct Slot card that actually allows a
|
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Macintosh to run MS-DOS programs. Running inside a Mac Quadra 610, this
|
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|
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486 co-processor does has features that take it beyond the PC Transporter;
|
|||
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however, I can't help but be amused by the attitude of the Mac-o-philes at
|
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|
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my work place. One in particular has been crowing about what an "amazing
|
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technological breakthrough" the card represents and how "nothing like it
|
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has ever been done before." One of these days I'll bring him to my home
|
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and quietly demonstrate how my PC Transporter-equipped IIgs can launch and
|
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run the latest versions of Microsoft Works, ProCOMM Plus, and Word Perfect
|
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from GS/OS desktop icons.
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The PC Transporter is, for all practical purposes, a small,
|
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|
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high-speed XT that is contained upon a single card. When it was
|
|||
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introduced, XTs were considered "aging technology" in the PC world, when
|
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compared to the accepted 286 standard, and the just-emerging, ultra-fast,
|
|||
|
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386 systems. Nonetheless, the ability to cram an entire XT on a single
|
|||
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card was considered an engineering accomplishment, and the card must be
|
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viewed, historically, as state-of-the-art technology in consideration of
|
|||
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what it could do.
|
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|
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Even today, the PCT is no slouch. People who have just enough
|
|||
|
|
knowledge about computers to think that they "know" you can't run IBM
|
|||
|
|
software on an Apple II, are usually amazed when they see a machine that
|
|||
|
|
will do exactly that. The PCT uses a V30 microprocessor -- essentially the
|
|||
|
|
equivalent of an Intel 8086, only smaller. The V30's speed is 7.14 mhz,
|
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but subjectively it runs much faster than that. I can compare the card's
|
|||
|
|
performance (using non-Windows, MS-DOS applications) with an old XT and
|
|||
|
|
with an HP Vectra 386/16 at my work place. Running inside my GS, most of
|
|||
|
|
the PCT's functions seem much closer in speed to the HP Vectra than the XT.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
I haven't tried to verify Applied Engineering's claim that MS-DOS
|
|||
|
|
programs run 3 times faster on the PCT than on a PC/XT. Many factors
|
|||
|
|
govern speed and the perception of speed on personal computers, and with
|
|||
|
|
Applied's claim, you could easily imagine the PCT running like a 22 Mhz
|
|||
|
|
386. Don't. It probably isn't THAT fast. Think along the lines of a fast
|
|||
|
|
286 running a text-based program. Yes, Windows WILL run on the PCT, but
|
|||
|
|
there's no advantage in doing that. A GS user already has a (better)
|
|||
|
|
windowing environment with GS/OS system 6.0.1, and according to those who
|
|||
|
|
have tried it, Windows will slow down the PCT to a snail's pace. The PCT
|
|||
|
|
is strictly a DOS engine, and what it does, it does with speed and panache.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
According to Applied Engineering, the PCT gets its speed from the
|
|||
|
|
fact that it is a "co-processor." In either an Apple IIe or IIgs, the
|
|||
|
|
Apple's own microprocessor and ProDOS system software handle the I/O from
|
|||
|
|
the V30 while emulating PC I/O ports. This enables the PCT's V30 to
|
|||
|
|
process MS-DOS programs "at full speed" while accessing its own on-board
|
|||
|
|
RAM.(1) Therefore, the PCT can be said to be running INSIDE an Apple, both
|
|||
|
|
figuratively and literally, given that most of the I/O is overseen by
|
|||
|
|
ProDOS.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There are, however, two important exceptions to the rule that you
|
|||
|
|
need ProDOS for I/O management: First, the PCT has its own Color Graphics
|
|||
|
|
Adapter (CGA) controller for generating video. In a IIgs, a "ColorSwitch"
|
|||
|
|
is required to automatically switch between the GS's RGB analog color
|
|||
|
|
output and the PCT's digital output. The second exception to ProDOS I/O
|
|||
|
|
management is found in the PCT's on-board, MFM floppy disk controller. If
|
|||
|
|
it were not for the MFM controller, there would be no way to get program
|
|||
|
|
instructions from a STANDARD MS-DOS diskette into your Apple II/PC hybrid.
|
|||
|
|
It is helpful to think of this controller as your principal doorway to the
|
|||
|
|
MS-DOS world beyond the PC Transporter and Apple II hybrid system.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Considered by itself, the PC Transporter card is capable of working
|
|||
|
|
with three types of MS-DOS volumes. These volume types are MFM, GCR and
|
|||
|
|
hard disk. The PCT can read and write directly to MFM/MS-DOS volumes ONLY
|
|||
|
|
through its on-board MFM floppy disk controller. The controller, in turn
|
|||
|
|
must be connected to either PC Transporter "Transdrives" or to a standard
|
|||
|
|
Apple 3.5 microfloppy drive to be able to read and write MFM/MS-DOS
|
|||
|
|
diskettes. The PCT reads and writes to hard disk and GCR/MS-DOS volumes
|
|||
|
|
through the Apple's microprocessor and ProDOS.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ABOUT "LOW-LEVEL" FORMAT "GCR" and "MFM" are sometimes called "low-level"
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""" formats or "disk formats." This is done to
|
|||
|
|
distinguish them from "file formats," such as MS-DOS, ProDOS and HFS.
|
|||
|
|
"MFM" is principally used by PCs and PC compatibles, while "GCR" is
|
|||
|
|
principally used by Apple IIs. Another way to think about GCR and MFM is
|
|||
|
|
that they are HARDWARE-RELATIVE terms that have to do with the schemes used
|
|||
|
|
by the drives themselves, and their interface cards or controllers, for
|
|||
|
|
encoding data on diskettes. MFM stands for "modified frequency
|
|||
|
|
modulation." GCR stands for "group code recording." On the other hand, the
|
|||
|
|
FILE formats MS-DOS, ProDOS and HFS, should be thought of as
|
|||
|
|
"SOFTWARE-RELATIVE" terms for our present purposes.(2)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As file formats, MS-DOS, ProDOS and HFS can be independent of MFM and
|
|||
|
|
GCR. Thus, it is possible to have MFM-encoded ProDOS diskettes, and it is
|
|||
|
|
also possible to have GCR-encoded MS-DOS diskettes. The 1.4MB and 720K
|
|||
|
|
ProDOS disks created by Floptical disk drives are MFM-encoded ProDOS. The
|
|||
|
|
720K and 360K ProDOS disks created by the PCT's Transdrives are also
|
|||
|
|
MFM-encoded. However, convention pairs MS-DOS with MFM in the PC world and
|
|||
|
|
ProDOS with GCR in the Apple II world. (It should be noted that HFS is
|
|||
|
|
often written to both MFM and GCR; Superdrive-equipped Macs routinely work
|
|||
|
|
with both formats.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It appears to some Apple watchers that the company will soon leave
|
|||
|
|
the GCR standard behind (along with the Apple II) to make their drives and
|
|||
|
|
data disks more cross-platform compatible with the PC world and to save
|
|||
|
|
money. This would seem to be a logical step as Apple moves toward
|
|||
|
|
promotion of the PowerPC and, therefore, a single hardware standard with
|
|||
|
|
the PC world. It is all the more reason for Apple II devotees wishing to
|
|||
|
|
remain with dynamite power applications like ProTERM 3.1 and AppleWorks 4.1
|
|||
|
|
to develop bridges to enable them to move their data with greater ease
|
|||
|
|
between their Apple and other platforms when needed.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It is important for cross-platform and hybrid users to keep in mind
|
|||
|
|
which kind of diskette (GCR or MFM) that they are working with, because
|
|||
|
|
each kind of diskette requires a certain kind of disk drive and/or
|
|||
|
|
interface in order for it to be written or read. For example, a user
|
|||
|
|
cannot write a 720K MFM/ProDOS diskette in a Floptical disk drive or PCT
|
|||
|
|
Transdrive, then take it to a standard GCR 800K Apple drive and read it.
|
|||
|
|
Similarly, anyone who takes advantage of the PCT card's ability to write
|
|||
|
|
MS-DOS to a diskette through a standard GCR Apple drive and controller,
|
|||
|
|
should not expect to be able to read one of these diskettes in a standard
|
|||
|
|
PC or compatible drive.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Apple 3.5 and Applied's Platinum 3.5 are, however, capable of
|
|||
|
|
reading and writing both 720K MFM/MS-DOS AND 800K GCR/ProDOS when hooked to
|
|||
|
|
the PCT card. On the ProDOS side of an Apple II/PC hybrid, a special
|
|||
|
|
Applied Engineering software program called "PCT.SWAP" can turn these
|
|||
|
|
drives on and off as ProDOS drives. This capability has caused some
|
|||
|
|
AppleII fans to opt for the PC Transporter card in place of Apple's
|
|||
|
|
Superdrive bundle.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As many know, the Superdrive and its controller card give Apple II
|
|||
|
|
users the capability to rewrite high density HFS, MS-DOS, and ProDOS in MFM
|
|||
|
|
and GCR. By comparison, however, the PCT's advantage is that it gives the
|
|||
|
|
user the ability to not only rewrite MFM/MS-DOS and GCR/ProDOS, but also to
|
|||
|
|
RUN MS-DOS. Additionally, IIe users who do not possess 800K 3.5 capability
|
|||
|
|
get the added benefit of a 3.5 floppy disk controller (usable on both
|
|||
|
|
ProDOS and MS-DOS sides of their machine) with their PCT card.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Unfortunately, the Superdrive cannot be hooked to the PCT's MFM
|
|||
|
|
controller and cannot be accessed by the PCT as an MFM/MS-DOS device. The
|
|||
|
|
Superdrive's double and high density diskettes CAN, however, be accessed by
|
|||
|
|
the PCT through the Apple II's ProDOS emulation of PC I/O (in the same way
|
|||
|
|
that standard Apple 3.5 drives can be accessed by the PCT through the Apple
|
|||
|
|
ports). Additionally, with Peter Watson's (GS/OS) MS-DOS utilities and
|
|||
|
|
System 6.0.1's MS-DOS FST, it is possible to format and rewrite MFM/MS-DOS
|
|||
|
|
in both double density and high density from the IIgs side of a GS/PC
|
|||
|
|
hybrid, or from ANY GS for that matter, hybrid or not.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
For those who already have 3.5 capability (hopefully most of us by
|
|||
|
|
now), one drawback to consider in comparing the PCT and Apple's Superdrive
|
|||
|
|
bundle is that the PCT's controller will not handle high density (1.4MB)
|
|||
|
|
diskettes. This is often the essential consideration for those who
|
|||
|
|
purchase the Superdrive. Also, while the PCT and Apple 3.5 combination
|
|||
|
|
will read and write MFM/MS-DOS, PC-compatible drives on other machines are
|
|||
|
|
finicky about reading and writing MFM/MS-DOS diskettes which have been
|
|||
|
|
FORMATTED in the Apple 3.5 drive. Most Apple II hybrid users who rely on
|
|||
|
|
the PCT and Apple 3.5 drive combination purchase preformatted IBM
|
|||
|
|
diskettes. Others may wish to consider using the PCT Transdrive system,
|
|||
|
|
which not only flawlessly formats MFM/MS-DOS, but is also able to display
|
|||
|
|
MFM/MS-DOS diskette volumes on the GS/OS desktop with the MS-DOS FST.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Though neither the PCT Transdrive system nor the PCT and Apple 3.5
|
|||
|
|
combination are capable of reading or writing high density diskettes, there
|
|||
|
|
is one MFM-capable device, other than the Superdrive, that CAN read and
|
|||
|
|
write 1.4MB high density. The Floptical disk drive has been receiving much
|
|||
|
|
attention lately among Apple II hybrid and cross-platform users because of
|
|||
|
|
its ability to handle MFM encoding AND its ability to rewrite high density.
|
|||
|
|
This gives it many advantages, especially for Apple IIgs devotees who want
|
|||
|
|
to work with both the MS-DOS and HFS file system translators. It seems
|
|||
|
|
important, therefore, to briefly consider use of the Floptical in this
|
|||
|
|
series on Apple II hybrid computers.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ABOUT FLOPTICAL DRIVES Tulin, PLI and IOMEGA sell the majority of
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""" Floptical drives to AppleII owners. Unlike
|
|||
|
|
Superdrives, Floptical drives are limited to only MFM encoding. However,
|
|||
|
|
besides being able to rewrite high density diskettes, they also can read
|
|||
|
|
and write VERY high density (21MB) Floptical diskettes. These Floptical
|
|||
|
|
diskettes are 3.5 floppy diskettes which have been "etched" or "stamped" on
|
|||
|
|
one side with a series of small pits, laid down in concentric rings.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you turn a Floptical diskette over, open the shutter and hold the
|
|||
|
|
diskette at an angle to an incandescent bulb you get refraction, a rainbow
|
|||
|
|
effect across the diskette's surface appearing much the same as when you
|
|||
|
|
hold an old LP record at an angle to light. A light emitting diode inside
|
|||
|
|
the Floptical drive's case shines on this surface, and an optical servo
|
|||
|
|
mechanism reads the pits to position its magnetic read/write heads.
|
|||
|
|
Therefore, positioning is done optically, but, unlike an optical disk,
|
|||
|
|
which encodes data optically in small reflective pits, data are encoded
|
|||
|
|
MAGNETICALLY on Floptical diskettes. The Floptical drive achieves its very
|
|||
|
|
high data densities because of the precision which can be derived from
|
|||
|
|
optical positioning.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Like the Apple Superdrive, the Floptical drive cannot be accessed
|
|||
|
|
directly as an MFM/MS-DOS device by a PCT card because it cannot be
|
|||
|
|
attached to the PCT's MFM/MS-DOS controller. The diskettes can, however,
|
|||
|
|
be accessed as special hard disk volumes by the PCT.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Floptical drives are SCSI devices, and therefore they must be hooked
|
|||
|
|
to an SCSI controller card. Once they are properly configured on the SCSI
|
|||
|
|
bus, a floptical diskette, placed in one of these drives, can function like
|
|||
|
|
any other hard drive volume, with one important difference. Floptical
|
|||
|
|
diskettes are removable. Being removable, they can be used as backup
|
|||
|
|
devices or substitute volumes containing alternative programs and data.
|
|||
|
|
Therefore, they can also provide multiple hard disk volumes to both the
|
|||
|
|
Apple II and PC sides of the hybrid. Used as PCT hard drive volumes, these
|
|||
|
|
diskettes offer tremendous flexibility to Apple II hybrid users.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Next month, we'll talk more about PCT hard drive volumes and about
|
|||
|
|
use of the PCT control panel and hardware drivers. We'll also talk more
|
|||
|
|
about the kind of software that runs on the PC side of the Apple II/PC
|
|||
|
|
hybrid and what benefits the user can expect. Until next month then, think
|
|||
|
|
hybrid!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NOTES
|
|||
|
|
"""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
(1) PC Transporter User's Manual, p. 73
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
(2) Before we make this definition too rigid, however, we should
|
|||
|
|
acknowledge that MS-DOS and ProDOS are more than JUST filing
|
|||
|
|
systems. They are also disk operating systems. As such, they
|
|||
|
|
have code built into them which enables them to work with
|
|||
|
|
peripheral devices. In this sense, MS-DOS and ProDOS are also
|
|||
|
|
hardware-relative terms.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[MOO]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
CowTOONS! /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Beef Futures II
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""" (__)
|
|||
|
|
by Mike White (oo)
|
|||
|
|
[MWHITE] /~~~||~~\/~~||~~~\
|
|||
|
|
| ^^ ^^ |
|
|||
|
|
| |====\
|
|||
|
|
(__) /~~\ | Black | ||
|
|||
|
|
(oo) / | | ||
|
|||
|
|
`\~~~~||~~~~||~~~~/' | Cow | ||
|
|||
|
|
`\ ^^ ^^ /' | |====/
|
|||
|
|
`\ \ / /' | |
|
|||
|
|
~-====-~ \________________/
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Cow Punch Moot Beer Float
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
(__)
|
|||
|
|
(oo)
|
|||
|
|
_______\/ (__)
|
|||
|
|
*~||)))))) oo=======--*
|
|||
|
|
~~ ~~ ^^ ^^
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Short Ribs Pressed Beef
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|||
|
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
(___)
|
|||
|
|
(o o)
|
|||
|
|
/[~~~~~~\;/~~~~~~] Watch for another thunderin' herd of
|
|||
|
|
/(.................) Moo Fun from Mike White in the next
|
|||
|
|
* \............./ issue of GEnieLamp.
|
|||
|
|
\........./
|
|||
|
|
\...../ If you have an idea for a CowTOON, we
|
|||
|
|
\./ would like to see it. And, if we pick
|
|||
|
|
! your CowTOON for publishing in GEnieLamp
|
|||
|
|
we will credit your account with 2 hours
|
|||
|
|
Top Sirloin of GEnie non-prime time!
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[DRT]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
DR'S EXAMINING TABLE /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Golden Oldies
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
by Darrel Raines
|
|||
|
|
[D.RAINES]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
One of the potentially frustrating things about owning an older
|
|||
|
|
computer system is that you feel left out when you see your friends going
|
|||
|
|
to the nearest computer store and buying that great new game for their
|
|||
|
|
system. They plop down $50 for a new dungeon game that will blow the socks
|
|||
|
|
off anything that was ever created before. The package consists of music
|
|||
|
|
and graphics that will make you think that you are actually in the room
|
|||
|
|
with the dragon that just toasted your exploration crew.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
All this sounds great to the average Apple IIgs owner (except the
|
|||
|
|
high purchase price). The trouble is that there are no longer new games
|
|||
|
|
coming out for the Apple. You begin to feel left out and start to consider
|
|||
|
|
purchasing a new computer just so you can play the latest and greatest
|
|||
|
|
computer games. Well, hold onto your mouse for just a minute. I have an
|
|||
|
|
alternative that I think you should consider: used software.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Unless you were a lot wealthier than the average Apple II owner, you
|
|||
|
|
did not have the resources to purchase every game that was written for the
|
|||
|
|
Apple II over the years. I certainly tried, but even I could not
|
|||
|
|
accomplish this feat. Therefore, many games and other useful software were
|
|||
|
|
written for your computer, but escaped your clutches for some reason or
|
|||
|
|
other. Now is your opportunity.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Run, don't walk, to the nearest Apple IIgs and boot up the
|
|||
|
|
telecommunications software. Log onto GEnie and hop over to the Apple II
|
|||
|
|
RoundTable (A2). Enter the bulletin board area (option 1) and set your
|
|||
|
|
category for number 4 (SET 4). You are ready to enter the magic kingdom.
|
|||
|
|
In just a few weeks, you'll have hundreds of opportunities to purchase used
|
|||
|
|
software that needs a new, loving home. All that you have to do is browse
|
|||
|
|
(BRO) the different topics to find the software that you managed to miss in
|
|||
|
|
the past few years. There are even a number of hardware items that may
|
|||
|
|
tickle your fancy.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Once you see a title that sounds good, drop a note to the person who
|
|||
|
|
left the original "For Sale" message. If the price sounds too steep, then
|
|||
|
|
make a counter-offer. If the price sounds fair, then shout quickly "I will
|
|||
|
|
take that item off your hands." If you are the first one to make an offer
|
|||
|
|
that the owner accepts, then you will be the proud owner of a new toy. The
|
|||
|
|
seller will generally send the package to you and expect prompt payment in
|
|||
|
|
return. You will get the original software, documentation, and many hours
|
|||
|
|
of entertainment.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I should interject a word of caution at this point. I have never had
|
|||
|
|
a problem in receiving merchandise or payment while using this process.
|
|||
|
|
However, the possibility does exist that you could get ripped off during an
|
|||
|
|
exchange. I have never experienced a problem other than slow payment. I
|
|||
|
|
have also been guilty of taking some time in shipping equipment to a
|
|||
|
|
purchaser. I am working on this; it only works against me in the long run.
|
|||
|
|
Be sure to work out who pays for shipment and what order the payments are
|
|||
|
|
exchanged with the person you are buying from. Take nothing for granted;
|
|||
|
|
spell out every detail.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I have been able to find many good deals by purchasing my software in
|
|||
|
|
this manner. I have also sold some items that would otherwise be gathering
|
|||
|
|
dust on my shelves. Not only that, but by selling my used software, I have
|
|||
|
|
more money to purchase someone else's used game for my computer. What a
|
|||
|
|
deal!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I have finished many computer games, especially adventure games,
|
|||
|
|
where the software and documentation look exactly like they did when I
|
|||
|
|
purchased the game. The only difference is that I have completed playing
|
|||
|
|
the game and killing the ultimate bad guy. Now I do not know what to do
|
|||
|
|
with the game. I will not be playing again anytime soon, since I spent
|
|||
|
|
long hours on the game before finishing it. Why not sell the software on
|
|||
|
|
the Apple II RoundTable?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You can place an ad for a software package almost as easily as you
|
|||
|
|
can find someone else's software to purchase. All you have to do is
|
|||
|
|
compose a brief ad for the forum message and type it under the correct
|
|||
|
|
topic in category #4. There are topics for 8-bit software, 16-bit
|
|||
|
|
software, IIgs computer systems, peripherals, and so on. Find the correct
|
|||
|
|
category and type away. Even if you happen to pick the wrong topic, the
|
|||
|
|
forum sysop will move the message for you and leave a friendly note telling
|
|||
|
|
you where to look for replies.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I have managed to find several packages just recently that I have
|
|||
|
|
been wanting to purchase for years. I never got around to ordering this
|
|||
|
|
software... or I didn't have the money... or something always came up. By
|
|||
|
|
buying used software, I have been able to get a few games that I always
|
|||
|
|
wanted, a page layout package that looked useful, and a database program
|
|||
|
|
that my wife needed for her Biology Test Question Bank. These packages
|
|||
|
|
were purchased for a reasonable price and included full documentation and
|
|||
|
|
the original disks.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now that you know the "Used Software Solution", why don't you clean
|
|||
|
|
out the computer closet? Place ads for all your unwanted software. Make
|
|||
|
|
inquiries about software you see in the Apple II RoundTable. Sell software
|
|||
|
|
and equipment. Buy a new game. Trade adventure games with someone one the
|
|||
|
|
far side of the continent. It might even provide you with as much
|
|||
|
|
excitement as your friend who just purchased that $50 game for his IBM
|
|||
|
|
clone. Maybe more.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Since we have opened this Pandora's box used software, a natural
|
|||
|
|
question follows: "Which software should I try to find?" You can ask your
|
|||
|
|
friends what games they have enjoyed playing. You can seek opinions in the
|
|||
|
|
other categories on the RoundTable. Of course, the reason that I brought
|
|||
|
|
up the subject is that I have an even better idea. You can read GEnieLamp
|
|||
|
|
A2 edition.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You see, next month, and from time to time in the future, I will be
|
|||
|
|
reviewing some golden oldie software packages that you can purchase on the
|
|||
|
|
used software market. This will help you find that gem that you may have
|
|||
|
|
missed when it first came out. Until next time, happy bargain hunting.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Darrel Raines is a staff writer for GEnieLamp A2. He is also a
|
|||
|
|
remarkable computer shopper. He has been known to sniff out a
|
|||
|
|
software bargain from up to a mile away.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[HAR]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
HARDVIEW A2 /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Known Bug in Apple SSC Card
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
by Ron Higgins
|
|||
|
|
[rhiggins@carroll1.cc.edu]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In the "Hey Mister Postman" column of November 1993 issue of
|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp A2, B.PERCIVAL and H.HOOD were discussing a problem with the 6551
|
|||
|
|
chip in Apple's Super Serial card, frequently used as a printer or modem
|
|||
|
|
interface. The 6551 chip, which the SSC uses, can lose characters when
|
|||
|
|
sending. Typically, this can interfere with PTSE screens and with ZMODEM
|
|||
|
|
file transfers.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Every time the CTS line from your modem goes low to tell the computer
|
|||
|
|
to stop transmitting data, the current character is lost. What happens is
|
|||
|
|
that the 6551, (ACIA -- Asynchronous Communications Interface Adaptor) chip
|
|||
|
|
stops transmitting immediately when the CTS line is lowered, no matter
|
|||
|
|
where in the current character it is.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A character is made up of 8 bits (ones and zeros that computers can
|
|||
|
|
understand). These bits are sent to your modem one at a time. If the
|
|||
|
|
modem is getting the bits too fast, it must tell your computer to stop
|
|||
|
|
sending them until it can catch up. It does this by signaling the computer
|
|||
|
|
via a control line to stop sending data.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In the old 6551 chip design, the 6551 would stop sending bits
|
|||
|
|
immediately upon getting the signal from the modem to stop sending data.
|
|||
|
|
It didn't matter where in the current character it was, the chip just
|
|||
|
|
stopped. It would then throw away the unused portion of the character it
|
|||
|
|
was sending and, when asked to start sending data again, restart with the
|
|||
|
|
next character. This is, of course, bad -- we have now lost part of a
|
|||
|
|
character. To the receiving end, this appears as a missing character on
|
|||
|
|
the screen, or an error in a file transfer.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now the question is whether or not you are affected by this problem.
|
|||
|
|
You may be run into this "bug" if the following conditions exist:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
o You are sending data from your computer to another
|
|||
|
|
(it may affect uploads, but never downloads).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
o You are using a high speed modem (9600 bps or faster).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
o You are using hardware flow-control (sometimes called
|
|||
|
|
hardware handshaking)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
What do I do if affected by this problem?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The only solution to this problem is to purchase a replacement 6551
|
|||
|
|
chip where the problem has been corrected. The Harris CDP65C51AE1 chip,
|
|||
|
|
mentioned in the November 1993 issue, is a good replacement. I've been
|
|||
|
|
using it without trouble for over 11 months now.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Where do I get a replacement?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Good question -- this is NOT something you can run to Radio Shack(tm)
|
|||
|
|
for. You need to order it from a electronic parts supply house. I do not
|
|||
|
|
know of anywhere that will sell just one chip, but I'm sure that they
|
|||
|
|
exist.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
On the other hand, I have purchased a small quantity of these chips
|
|||
|
|
(about 75 pieces), and am offering them to anyone needing them. The cost
|
|||
|
|
is $4 per chip with $3 shipping & handling per order in the US. Send check
|
|||
|
|
or money order to the address listed below. Send E-mail to my Internet
|
|||
|
|
account for information on shipping costs outside the US.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Remember, don't fix it if it ain't broke!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Ron | Lightning Systems | Lightning Systems
|
|||
|
|
rhiggins@carroll1.cc.edu | (414) 363-4282 200megs | P. O. Box 4
|
|||
|
|
Apple // Forever! | 14.4k USR Dual Standard | Mukwonago, WI 53149
|
|||
|
|
** Ask me about the new Turbo ASB for your Apple // Computer **
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[To save you the trouble of asking about the Turbo ASB, read on. Also, see
|
|||
|
|
the "Hey Mister Postman" section in this issue of GEnieLamp A2. On behalf
|
|||
|
|
of our readers, I asked Mr Higgins about the Turbo ASB, a product he is
|
|||
|
|
currently working on. -- Ed.]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Turbo ASB is an add-on board for an Apple Super Serial Card (or
|
|||
|
|
compat.). What is does is eliminate the 19,200 bps barrier that the SSC
|
|||
|
|
has. It's an external baud rate generator that pushes the 6551 ACIA to a
|
|||
|
|
maximum of 230,400 bps. It also supports standard bps rates of 38,400,
|
|||
|
|
57,600 and 115,200.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
All you need to take advantage of all this speed is one of my add-on
|
|||
|
|
cards and a 1-byte change to software. It will definitely be supported in
|
|||
|
|
ProTERM, with probable support in ANSIterm, Spectrum, ModemWorks/ProLine,
|
|||
|
|
and PMP drivers for ACOS.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[PAL]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
PAL NEWSLETTER /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
February 1994 Report
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By GEna Saikin
|
|||
|
|
[A2.GENA]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The World Wide User Group (WWUG) is our online usergroup, which meets
|
|||
|
|
the 3rd Sunday of every month. The online usergroup concept was developed
|
|||
|
|
to create support for our Apple II community, support which is sadly waning
|
|||
|
|
in too many areas.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A special announcement: WWUG has now been renamed PAL. T. R. Onan,
|
|||
|
|
who goes by the name TRON, won the naming contest, and will choose a
|
|||
|
|
publication from Resource Central as his prize. PAL -- Planetary Apple
|
|||
|
|
League -- was voted in primarily because both the acronym and the words say
|
|||
|
|
volumes; PAL for friend, and what they stand for indicates that we ARE
|
|||
|
|
indeed a world-wide organization!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
WHAT'S NEW IN APPLE II-DOM AppleWorks 4.01 has now been shipping for a
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""" time, and so far, it's been proven to be a
|
|||
|
|
real nifty update of the ever-popular AppleWorks 3.0, the staple of many
|
|||
|
|
Apple II users.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ANSITerm 2.1 is out, and it too, is being hailed as a great
|
|||
|
|
telecommunications program, that has many new features that were NOT in
|
|||
|
|
version 2.0.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
And, finally, Spectrum has been released and has been shipping, and
|
|||
|
|
is also meeting with great enthusiasm in the Apple II world. Below, will
|
|||
|
|
be a short note on the meeting with Dave Hecker of Seven Hills, and Ewen
|
|||
|
|
Wannop, the author.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
PAL MEETING -- JANUARY 19, 1994 Dave Hecker of Seven Hills and Ewen
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Wannop (all the way from England!) graced
|
|||
|
|
us with their presence at January's meeting of PAL. Below are a few short
|
|||
|
|
features of Spectrum, a GS/OS Desktop term program for the GS.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
First, Spectrum is a GS/OS desktop program, therefore, all the
|
|||
|
|
goodies (inits, desk accessories, etc.) that are available under GS/OS
|
|||
|
|
desktop programs will be available in Spectrum! And, users of The Manager,
|
|||
|
|
HardPressed and AutoArk will be able to use these programs with Spectrum,
|
|||
|
|
as well! You could, as well, scribble something in ShadowWrite while still
|
|||
|
|
online, or go to your calendar NDA and note a date of something you may see
|
|||
|
|
online to attend!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Spectrum has many of the "common features" of most telecom programs
|
|||
|
|
-- it has a chat mode, various emulations available, and a "macro" ability.
|
|||
|
|
However, Spectrum goes beyond macros, into a total scripting language --
|
|||
|
|
which is by far more flexible! You could even develop a script to run a
|
|||
|
|
BBS!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Other features of Spectrum include disk utilities (copy, format,
|
|||
|
|
delete, and so on). These are just a few goodies. To find out more, check
|
|||
|
|
out SEVENHILLS category in the Apple II RoundTable Bulletin Board, #43.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THE LIBRARY STACKS Below are some great files...brought to us by our
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""" librarian, Tony Ward [A2.TONY]:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
22045 GS1040.93V2.BXY AWGS SS to do your 1993 income taxes
|
|||
|
|
+22043 AW1040.93V2.BXY AppleWorks SS to do your 1993 income taxes
|
|||
|
|
22025 DISKTIMER.BXY Measure your IIgs hard drive speed
|
|||
|
|
+22012 MSDOS13.BXY Copy files from MS-DOS disk to ProDOS
|
|||
|
|
22011 WRITEAWAY.BXY WriteAway v2.0 -- IIgs word processor
|
|||
|
|
22000 WELCOME4.0.BXY Change your GS/OS startup screen
|
|||
|
|
21996 PT3.SETTIME.BXY ProTERM macro to set the IIgs clock
|
|||
|
|
21994 CPUSPEED.BXY Shows the current speed of your IIgs
|
|||
|
|
21988 SYSFAILPLUS.BXY Improved IIgs system death manager
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Just like the Dean's List, a (+) means it works on 8-bit Apples.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
WHAT'S NEW IN A2? There are a couple new faces in A2 -- Harold Hislop,
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""" who is our resident "hardware guru", who hosts an RTC
|
|||
|
|
on Wednesdays from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. eastern, appropriately called
|
|||
|
|
"Hardware Hacker", and Donnie Grimes, who right now fills in as RTC host
|
|||
|
|
where ever he is needed.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
We've got a bulletin board just loaded with great information and
|
|||
|
|
answers to your most thorny questions. Make sure to check it out! And
|
|||
|
|
don't forget our nightly RTC's and all-day Sunday RTC, where help is
|
|||
|
|
literally "at your fingertips"!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[AII]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
APPLE II /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Apple II History, Part 19b
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
By Steven Weyhrich
|
|||
|
|
[S.WEYHRICH]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> APPLE II HISTORY <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Compiled and written by Steven Weyhrich
|
|||
|
|
(C) Copyright 1993, Zonker Software
|
|||
|
|
(PART 19b -- APPLEWORKS)
|
|||
|
|
[v1.3 :: 10 Dec 93]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
INTRODUCTION In this segment of the History, we look further into
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""" improvements made to AppleWorks, and then take a look at the
|
|||
|
|
newest version, 4.0.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ENHANCEMENTS: BEAGLE BROS AND COMPANY The next significant AppleWorks
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" add-on appeared in June 1986. It
|
|||
|
|
was a product sold by Beagle Bros and called MacroWorks.<1> Written by
|
|||
|
|
Randy Brandt, this program patched itself into the keyboard-reading routine
|
|||
|
|
of AppleWorks and allowed the user to automate certain functions and assign
|
|||
|
|
them to a specific key on the keyboard. Previously, many of AppleWorks
|
|||
|
|
features were accessed by pressing either the open-apple or solid-apple
|
|||
|
|
(option) key together with another key (recall that the apple keys were
|
|||
|
|
nothing more than access to the pushbutton inputs on the joystick). For
|
|||
|
|
instance, open-apple and "C" (oa-C) together were used to start a "copy"
|
|||
|
|
function. Before MacroWorks was patched into the program, either oa-C or
|
|||
|
|
sa-C had the same effect. After adding this enhancement, the solid-apple
|
|||
|
|
keys were given their own, separate identity, offering more than double the
|
|||
|
|
number of functions that could be executed from the keyboard. (Pinpoint
|
|||
|
|
had done something similar, by taking sa-P for its own purposes).
|
|||
|
|
|
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A macro was actually a series of keystrokes that could be entered from
|
|||
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the keyboard (similar to WPL programs for Apple Writer), but was automated
|
|||
|
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so that a single keypress would activate it. For example, typing a return
|
|||
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address could be assigned to the sequence solid-apple-A (sa-A). Or sa-S
|
|||
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could be defined to save ALL the files on the desktop and quit the program.
|
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Anything that could be done manually with AppleWorks could be automated
|
|||
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with MacroWorks, and it could even do some things that could NOT be easily
|
|||
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done manually.
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The idea of automating keystrokes in AppleWorks was not unique to
|
|||
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MacroWorks; soon after, AutoWorks was released by Alan Bird of Software
|
|||
|
|
Touch, and Pinpoint Publishing got into the act with their product,
|
|||
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|
Keyplayer. Brandt upped the ante later in 1986 with an upgrade called
|
|||
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Super MacroWorks, which added a few new features and was made to work
|
|||
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specifically with the new version 2.0 of AppleWorks.
|
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|
|||
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It didn't take long for the other companies to come out with enhanced
|
|||
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versions of their programs to work with the newer version of AppleWorks.
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But the most significant enhancement yet came during 1987. Beagle Bros had
|
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just undergone a change in management, as its founder Bert Kersey retired
|
|||
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and his company merged with Software Touch. Mark Simonsen and Alan Bird,
|
|||
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|
owners of Software Touch, had previously worked at Beagle before leaving to
|
|||
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start their own company. Aside from AutoWorks, they had released
|
|||
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enhancements such as SideSpread (which would allow a spreadsheet to be
|
|||
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printed sideways on a dot matrix printer) and FontWorks (which allowed word
|
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processor files to be printed using different font styles and sizes, using
|
|||
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codes embedded in the WP text). As they merged back into the Beagle fold,
|
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they brought with them plans for a series of AppleWorks add-ons and
|
|||
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enhancement. These would be accomplished via a new core program (or
|
|||
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"engine", as they called it) called TimeOut.
|
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|
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Written by Alan Bird, TimeOut installed itself into AppleWorks and
|
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interfaced directly with Lissner's remarkable built-in memory manager. The
|
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neat thing about TimeOut was that after the engine itself was installed,
|
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adding other modules was no more complicated than copying them over to the
|
|||
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disk from which AppleWorks started. This addressed one of the problems
|
|||
|
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with all of the other enhancement programs available; if they were not
|
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installed in the correct order, the patches would begin to step on each
|
|||
|
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other, and crashes were much more likely. TimeOut provided a
|
|||
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clearly-defined protocol for adding new features to AppleWorks without this
|
|||
|
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patching hassle.
|
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|
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|
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The first TimeOut modules released included DeskTools, FileMaster
|
|||
|
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(which allowed file copying and more), Graph (spreadsheet graphing),
|
|||
|
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QuickSpell, SideSpread (update of the older Software Touch program),
|
|||
|
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SuperFonts (update of FontWorks), and UltraMacros (a more powerful version
|
|||
|
|
of Randy Brandt's Super MacroWorks, using ideas from AutoWorks). More
|
|||
|
|
followed in subsequent years, including a thesaurus module and a
|
|||
|
|
full-featured telecommunications module that worked within AppleWorks.
|
|||
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|
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|
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|
|
ENHANCEMENTS: JEM SOFTWARE Over the years, Beagle Bros has been a major
|
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|
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""" contributor to the longevity of AppleWorks
|
|||
|
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through its many TimeOut enhancements. And they did many users a favor by
|
|||
|
|
making upgrades available virtually free, through a program they called
|
|||
|
|
"Beagle Buddies". Just contact your Buddy, give evidence that you really
|
|||
|
|
owned the program, and he would update (for example) UltraMacros from
|
|||
|
|
version 3.0 to 3.1, without charge. The down side of this service,
|
|||
|
|
however, was that there was NO income received by Beagle for updates,
|
|||
|
|
making it financially difficult to pay the authors of those updates for
|
|||
|
|
their work. For this reason, authors like Randy Brandt (one of the
|
|||
|
|
AppleWorks 3.0 revision authors) have decided to start their own private
|
|||
|
|
company for release of other products for AppleWorks. Through his company,
|
|||
|
|
JEM Software, he released PathFinder, which made setting the pathname for
|
|||
|
|
the AW "Add Files" menu easier and faster to change. Although that feature
|
|||
|
|
was built in to AW 3.0, Brandt did not stop there. With the help of Dan
|
|||
|
|
Verkade, he created TotalControl, which added features to the database
|
|||
|
|
module that make specific qualifications for the type of entries that could
|
|||
|
|
be made in new or existing records. DoubleData changed the database module
|
|||
|
|
so AW could handle twice as many categories per record as it was designed
|
|||
|
|
to do. Mr. Invoice made it possible to produce invoice-type documents with
|
|||
|
|
AppleWorks, and DB Pix added graphic capability to the database, displaying
|
|||
|
|
single and double hi-res and Print Shop / Print Shop GS graphics. Brandt
|
|||
|
|
also wrote an update to UltraMacros 3.1, called Ultra 4.0, which added
|
|||
|
|
considerable power to the macro language. All these add-on programs
|
|||
|
|
enhanced the usefulness of AppleWorks for very specific applications,
|
|||
|
|
significantly extending the lifespan of the program.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Brandt also came up with the concept of "inits" for AppleWorks. A
|
|||
|
|
small patch was made to AppleWorks to incorporate this feature. Adding an
|
|||
|
|
init was simple; it was copied into a subdirectory called AW.INITS, and any
|
|||
|
|
binary program found there with a name that started with "I." was
|
|||
|
|
automatically loaded and patched in at startup time. These inits ranged
|
|||
|
|
from one that improved the handling of the screen print function built-in
|
|||
|
|
to AW, to other much larger applications (TotalControl was added via an
|
|||
|
|
init, for example). The difference between these inits and TimeOut
|
|||
|
|
applications was that inits were always working, whereas TimeOut programs
|
|||
|
|
had to be specifically activated to work. Brandt used the same concept of
|
|||
|
|
simple extensions when he designed Ultra 4.0; additional commands (called
|
|||
|
|
"dot commands") could be added to the macro language in the same way as
|
|||
|
|
other inits.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ENHANCEMENTS: PATCHES As with other popular programs, there have been
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""" many patches that have appeared over the years to
|
|||
|
|
customize AppleWorks to do things more to a particular user's likings.
|
|||
|
|
These first appeared as one to several byte patches that would be applied
|
|||
|
|
using Applesoft, poking the bytes to memory and then using the BASIC.SYSTEM
|
|||
|
|
command "BSAVE" to put them into the right place in the program. Patches
|
|||
|
|
were published in various places to do things like changing the pitch and
|
|||
|
|
duration of AW's awful error tone, make it possible for AW to access a disk
|
|||
|
|
device in slot 1 or 2 (which it refused to do ordinarily), or make more
|
|||
|
|
than one custom printer (not easily done in versions before 3.0). Other
|
|||
|
|
patches were published to fix various bugs that were uncovered over time.
|
|||
|
|
Eventually, these patches were collected into several different programs
|
|||
|
|
whose purpose was to streamline the process. Randy Brandt, through JEM
|
|||
|
|
Software, released Late Nite Patches for AppleWorks 2.0. John Link created
|
|||
|
|
a program called SuperPatch that he provided via online services initially,
|
|||
|
|
later changed it to shareware as it got more and more massive, and
|
|||
|
|
eventually arranged for it to be sold via Quality Computers. Written in
|
|||
|
|
Applesoft, John's program made it possible to not only apply the various
|
|||
|
|
patches, but to also remove them neatly.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Beagle Bros came out with AW 3.0 Companion (later updated to Companion
|
|||
|
|
Plus) which allowed not only a large number of useful changes to be made to
|
|||
|
|
AppleWorks, but also included a version of Mark Munz' Patcher program to
|
|||
|
|
correct some bugs that had made it into the program (and which Claris
|
|||
|
|
refused to fix via an upgrade). The Beagle program followed John Link's
|
|||
|
|
lead by making it possible to remove most patches as easily as they were
|
|||
|
|
applied.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
APPLEWORKS 4.0 The year 1993 brought a major surprise: Another upgrade
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""" for AppleWorks. Two paths converged during that year to
|
|||
|
|
bring about this unexpected turn of events. Quality Computers, a
|
|||
|
|
mail-order business based in Michigan, had been steadily increasing in size
|
|||
|
|
and influence during the previous several years. They began as do most
|
|||
|
|
such enterprises, selling software and hardware products that various
|
|||
|
|
companies around the country had available. One of their earliest
|
|||
|
|
enterprises was to sell software written by Joe Gleason, the company's
|
|||
|
|
founder. They were prominent in their advertising in the Apple II
|
|||
|
|
magazines that remained in the market; in inCider/A+ magazine they always
|
|||
|
|
had the first two to four pages of available ad space. During the early
|
|||
|
|
1990s, they even began to distribute some hardware items of their own
|
|||
|
|
(usually produced by another company, who allowed Quality to sell them
|
|||
|
|
under their own name). When Beagle Bros decided to concentrate solely on
|
|||
|
|
their upcoming Macintosh product, Quality stepped in and purchased the
|
|||
|
|
rights to sell and upgrade the Beagle products, thus expanding their
|
|||
|
|
influence in the world of Apple II software.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Randy Brandt, as mentioned above, had also been quite busy with
|
|||
|
|
production of software products to enhance AppleWorks. Although AppleWorks
|
|||
|
|
3.0 in 1989 had many of the features that he wanted to have, he
|
|||
|
|
continued to come up with new ways to enhance it. Through Beagle Bros and
|
|||
|
|
his own JEM Software, he continued to create add-on tools to allow users to
|
|||
|
|
get more out of the program. But in the back of his mind there was always
|
|||
|
|
this wish that AppleWorks ITSELF could be enhanced and fixed, to modernize
|
|||
|
|
it with features that many of the MS-DOS and Macintosh products on the
|
|||
|
|
market had incorporated since that last version of AW was released by
|
|||
|
|
Claris. Unfortunately, Claris continued to show no interest in
|
|||
|
|
doing ANYTHING with AppleWorks, not even being willing to make the effort
|
|||
|
|
to release an update to fix known bugs in the program. Claris' other
|
|||
|
|
AppleII product, AppleWorks GS, suffered from the same neglect.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In the spring of 1993, Brandt contacted Joe Gleason at Quality
|
|||
|
|
Computers and discussed his interest in a major upgrade to AppleWorks 3.0.
|
|||
|
|
Having worked on the "Spike" project to develop 3.0, Brandt knew the
|
|||
|
|
program inside and out, and knew exactly how he could accomplish his goals
|
|||
|
|
of program enhancement. The BEST method would be to incorporate the
|
|||
|
|
changes into the program source code and recompile it; but Claris still
|
|||
|
|
held the rights to it. Gleason was extremely interested in the proposal,
|
|||
|
|
and began holding discussions with Claris to see if they would be willing
|
|||
|
|
to sell the license for releasing AppleWorks to Quality Computers. This
|
|||
|
|
would give Quality the opportunity to upgrade AppleWorks through a
|
|||
|
|
rewrite, as well as to provide technical support in a way that had not
|
|||
|
|
previously been possible.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Brandt and his long-time programming associate, Dan Verkade, began
|
|||
|
|
working on the upgrade to AppleWorks (code-named "Quadriga"), while Gleason
|
|||
|
|
negotiated with Claris. Although they all hoped that it would be possible
|
|||
|
|
to release the finished product as AppleWorks 4.0, they recognized the
|
|||
|
|
possibility that Claris would not relinquish its death grip on the
|
|||
|
|
program. In that eventuality, it was determined that there would be no
|
|||
|
|
choice but to put it out as a VERY large patch program. The proposed
|
|||
|
|
product name would be "TheWorks 4.0", and in order to make use of it a
|
|||
|
|
customer would need to already own AppleWorks 3.0. Installing TheWorks
|
|||
|
|
would patch into AppleWorks and make use of what code in the program was
|
|||
|
|
still useful, but still give access to all the new features they wanted to
|
|||
|
|
include.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Many features included with the Quadriga project were like a "best-of"
|
|||
|
|
list from TimeOut modules of the past: Triple Desktop, which gave access
|
|||
|
|
to as many as thirty-six files at a time; UltraMacros, in the improved
|
|||
|
|
"Ultra 4" version that JEM Software had released, in a form which allowed
|
|||
|
|
playback of pre-compiled macros (the compiler would be available
|
|||
|
|
separately); DoubleData, to increase the number of available categories in
|
|||
|
|
the database module from thirty to sixty; TotalControl, which further
|
|||
|
|
enhanced the abilities of the database; support for more printers,
|
|||
|
|
including newer style printers such as the Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 500;
|
|||
|
|
links between the database and word processor; and links between
|
|||
|
|
spreadsheets (similar to the "3-D" features that were currently available
|
|||
|
|
in MS-DOS programs like Lotus 1-2-3).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
While Brandt and Verkade worked on the program code itself, Gleason
|
|||
|
|
was doing his best to convince Claris that it would be in their best
|
|||
|
|
interest to sell AppleWorks to Quality. As Quadriga was nearing
|
|||
|
|
completion, Gleason showed Claris executives that Quality was prepared to
|
|||
|
|
release it as a patch program, even if AppleWorks was NOT sold to them.
|
|||
|
|
Apparently Claris took this as clear evidence that Quality not only was
|
|||
|
|
determined to follow through on the project, but could pull it
|
|||
|
|
off. Negotiations became more serious, and by late August 1993 a contract
|
|||
|
|
was signed by both parties. This contract allowed Quality to purchase (for
|
|||
|
|
an unspecified sum) the rights to publish AppleWorks AND AppleWorks GS,
|
|||
|
|
and have the right to use that product name (which was actually an Apple
|
|||
|
|
trademark licensed to Claris).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
With the legalities out of the way, the Quadriga project proceeded at
|
|||
|
|
full steam. They had a goal of releasing the program by October 1, but
|
|||
|
|
some last minute problems delayed the actual debut of the program until
|
|||
|
|
November 1, 1993. As with many programs, some bugs surfaced within a week
|
|||
|
|
of the distribution of v4.0. However, these were quickly resolved, and
|
|||
|
|
shipping of an updated version 4.01 resumed within a week. A version 4.02
|
|||
|
|
update was expected by the start of the next year, to fix some other less
|
|||
|
|
serious problems that had been identified by early users. Brandt himself
|
|||
|
|
wrote a small patch program to customize version 4.01 and 4.02. Compared
|
|||
|
|
to four years of absolute inactivity by Claris to fixing known problems in
|
|||
|
|
version 3.0, this was much better support.<2>, <3>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BEYOND APPLEWORKS AppleWorks is probably the most powerful integrated
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""" program ever written, in terms of speed (being
|
|||
|
|
text-based) and overall useability for a wide range of purposes. The one
|
|||
|
|
single problem that it has caused in the Apple II world is that it is SO
|
|||
|
|
comprehensive that it has killed the market for nearly every
|
|||
|
|
other text-based word processor, database, or spreadsheet program, even at
|
|||
|
|
a time when new such programs were being written. At this point in time,
|
|||
|
|
there would be little point in creating a new text-based program in either
|
|||
|
|
of these categories, since AppleWorks 4.0 covers all those areas so
|
|||
|
|
comprehensively. For most users, AppleWorks 4.0 (also known as
|
|||
|
|
AppleWorks "Classic") will meet ALL of their needs in a computer program.
|
|||
|
|
And on an Apple IIgs with expanded memory, the 4.0 version can make it
|
|||
|
|
possible to process and manipulate tremendous amounts of data easily.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
However, what AppleWorks CANNOT do on an Apple IIgs is to take
|
|||
|
|
advantage of some of the features that GS/OS makes available: Easy access
|
|||
|
|
to foreign disk storage formats, use of outline font technology (via
|
|||
|
|
Pointless), access to a graphic-based work environment, the ability to
|
|||
|
|
switch between multiple programs (via program switchers like The Manager
|
|||
|
|
and Switch-It!) and many other features that IIgs users prefer. The other
|
|||
|
|
Claris program that Quality purchased, AppleWorks GS, could possibly meet
|
|||
|
|
the requirements for those users. AWGS (which is actually a rewrite of an
|
|||
|
|
older program, GS Works, purchased by Claris from StyleWare and remodelled
|
|||
|
|
slightly) is significantly different from AppleWorks and cannot be
|
|||
|
|
considered an upgrade, but may meet the needs of IIgs users that want
|
|||
|
|
something more like a desktop publishing program. Since Quality Computers
|
|||
|
|
has also purchased the rights to AppleWorks GS, IIgs users can look forward
|
|||
|
|
to a revision to THAT program as well, to correct the many known bugs that
|
|||
|
|
IT contains. And, depending on how good Quality can make it,
|
|||
|
|
AppleWorks GS may not be quite the killer of competing software that
|
|||
|
|
AppleWorks Classic was. Other programs have been released over the years
|
|||
|
|
that Claris has neglected AWGS to try to fill in the gap, and at least on
|
|||
|
|
the IIgs side of this fence, some healthy competition may result in better
|
|||
|
|
software for all users.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
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|
|||
|
|
NEXT INSTALLMENT: Magazines
|
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""""""""""""""""
|
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NOTES
|
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|
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"""""
|
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|
|||
|
|
<1> Weishaar, Tom. "Miscellanea", OPEN-APPLE, Jun 1986, p. 2.33.
|
|||
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|
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|
|
<2> Selur, Joseph. "Taking Off The Wraps", II ALIVE, July-August 1993,
|
|||
|
|
pp. 44-47.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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<3> -----. "Quadriga To Be AppleWorks 4.0", II ALIVE,
|
|||
|
|
September-October 1993, p. 27.
|
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|
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|
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|
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