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~ WELCOME TO GEnieLamp APPLE II! ~
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~ THE TREASURE HUNT: Yours for the Downloading ~
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~ WHO'S WHO IN APPLE II: Doug Cuff ~
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~ HOT NEWS, HOT FILES, HOT MESSAGES ~
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GEnieLamp Apple II ~ A T/TalkNET OnLine Publication ~ Vol.4, Issue 35
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Editor....................................................Douglas Cuff
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Publisher.............................................John F. Peters
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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 ~
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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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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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~ February 1, 1995 ~
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FROM MY DESKTOP ......... [FRM] FROM MY MAILBOX ......... [MAI]
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Notes From The Editor. Letters to the Editor.
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HEY MISTER POSTMAN ...... [HEY] HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM]
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Is That A Letter For Me? Too Much Time on My Hands.
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REFLECTIONS ............. [REF] ASCII ART GALLERY ....... [ASA]
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Bond Between Writers & Readers. Valentine Art.
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THE TREASURE HUNT ....... [HUN] PROFILES ................ [PRO]
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Yours For The Downloading. Who's Who: Doug Cuff.
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LOG OFF ................. [LOG]
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GEnieLamp Information.
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HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM]
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[*]GEnie Fun & Games.
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To read this article, set your find or search command to [HUM].
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[EOA]
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[FRM]//////////////////////////////
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FROM MY DESKTOP /
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Notes From The Editor
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by Douglas Cuff
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[EDITOR.A2]
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This month, the big news is that Spectrum 2.0 has been released,
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assuming that Seven Hills Software kept their promise. However, in
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discussing the release of Spectrum, Dave Hecker of Seven Hills mentioned
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that they are also working on new versions of Kangaroo, TransProg III, and
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GraphicWriter III. That's exciting. (Of course, my cynical side
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immediately chimes in that this explains the pre-Christmas sale Seven Hills
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had on these products, but don't listen to it. My cynical side is a just
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an old grump with a permanent case of the winter blahs.) It's always
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exciting to know that the wheels keep turning.
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At the same time, apparently not enough of us are voting with their
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wallets. Mike Westerfield says that sales of Quick Click Calc--a fine
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program, BTW--are not all they should be, and Michael Lutynski desperately
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needs more orders of Animasia 3-D in order to keep his head above water.
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Now, I know that few of us have enough money to buy every piece of
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software that comes on the market. (I sure don't, as you'll read in this
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month's interview.) But if you do have the money, then take the time now
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to order the software. I've cut my editorial short this month so that you
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have the extra time. (Oh, all right, I also figured that since I'm
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profiled this month, there's a limit to how much of my voice you readers
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can take.)
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-- Doug Cuff
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GEnie Mail: EDITOR.A2 Internet: editor.a2@genie.geis.com
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[EOA]
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FROM MY MAILBOX /
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Letters to The Editor
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Unpaid Bills I was told that the latest A2 Lamp says that I am doing
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'''''''''''' programming for Spectrum 2.0. Someone must have their Bills
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confused. It is not me that is doing that programming.
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-= Bill Shuff =-
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(W.SHUFF, CAT3, TOP3, MSG:265/M645;1)
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Sorry about that, Bill. This was entirely my fault. In fact,
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it is Bill Tudor who has programmed XCMDs for Spectrum 2.0. I
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apologize for any inconvenience suffered.--Ed.
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Check Before You Donate In the January GEnieLamp A2 there is an article
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''''''''''''''''''''''' by Phil Shapiro about the Apple II as an Equity
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Computer. In the article, Phil discusses what might be done with the many
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Apple IIs in schools as school labs switch over to Macs and Power Macs. To
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quote:
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"As the more affluent schools in our nation decide to equip their
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computer labs with Macs and Power Macs, large numbers of Apple II computers
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will come available on the second-hand market. Along with the computers
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themselves will come huge quantities of second-hand Apple II educational
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programs."
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It would be prudent for us to inquire closely about our local
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school's plans. I have heard more than one report (from educators) of area
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schools =requiring that their Apple IIs be junked= -- thrown in the trash
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-- when their computer labs were "upgraded" to new machines. I find this
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appalling, unconscionable, and outrageous.
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Phil proposes some fine uses for these machines, and others could
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think of more, but if the machines are thrown in landfills, the opportunity
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will be wasted. We've each come to terms in some way with Apple's decision
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to figuratively bury the Apple II; for Apple IIs to literally be buried
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would be a tragedy!
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(EDMUNDL, CAT3, TOP3, MSG:277/M645;1)
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[EOA]
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HEY MISTER POSTMAN /
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Is That A Letter For Me?
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by Douglas Cuff
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[EDITOR.A2]
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o A2 POT-POURRI
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o HOT TOPICS
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o WHAT'S NEW
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o THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
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o MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT
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>>> A2 POT-POURRI <<<
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WHILE THEY LAST...! Publish It 4! is available!!!!
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Troll Associates (the company that sell children's books and
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software) has Publish It 4 available IN STOCK today. She couldn't tell me
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how many copies they had, so if you are interested, you should call soon.
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Troll 1-800-526-5289 ext 1119
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Publish It 4 - item # TM-AD275 $149.95
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I'm not associated with this company but I know people have been
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looking for this program, so I'm passing along this info.
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Cindy
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APPLIED ENGINEERING SOURCE CODE GOOD NEWS!!! GREAT NEWS!!!
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All is not lost with the AESource archive, it seems that the archive
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was corrupted when I tried to unpackit with GShrinkit v1.1. I then got a
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hint about trying to unpackit with Shrinkit v3.4, and to my amazement it
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worked.
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The AESource is all intact, and this includes the PCTransporter
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source. I was able to unpackit, and took a quick look at. The source
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itself is old, and only includes the drivers for the PCT, and not the
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actual software. I guess something is better than nothing. :) :) :)
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Sam Latella [A2World]
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"Apple ][ Forever, IBM Never!!!"
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(S.LATELLA, CAT14, TOP2, MSG:72/M645;1)
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ONE THOUSAND MARK AND RISING Just about a week ago, Shareware Solutions
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""" II passed a major milestone when I was able
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to proclaim that SSII now has subscribers in all 50 states.
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Today, Shareware Solutions II has passed an even greater milestone.
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It now boasts a readership of 1,000 subscribers.
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I'm almost at a complete loss for words.
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I'd just like to thank everyone for their support and encouragement;
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I couldn't have done it without you.
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Joe Kohn
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Publisher, Shareware Solutions II
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SEND IN YOUR TYPES As you may know, A2Pro has assumed responsibility for
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"""""""""""""""""" assigning filetypes, sound types, scrap types,
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resource types, request codes, and all other previously Apple-assigned
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types. Unfortunately, we are having difficulty getting a complete list of
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-any- of the recent assignments from Apple's DTS. Thus, we ask you to
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please send a description of any and all data which may fall into one of
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the previous categories and which was assigned to you by DTS since June of
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1992, when they published their last list. Please forward these data to
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-this- account, a2pro.help@genie.geis.com, as the A2PRO@genie.geis.com
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account mentioned in our press release is not currently staffed.
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Also, we encourage you to feel free to send your requests for
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filetypes and such NOW. They will be filled as soon as we are reasonably
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sure that we have an accurate list. These can be filed either to me or the
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A2PRO address... but, if it's time-critical, please have it sent to me. :)
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All temporary DTS assignments should be considered permanent unless
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we notify you of a conflict.
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Thank you for your cooperation and your continued support of the
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Apple II series of computers. :)
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...J. Nathaniel Sloan, Apple II Programmers' and Developers' RoundTable
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on GEnie.
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(A2PRO.HELP, CAT11, TOP20, MSG:19/M645;1)
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ICON BASICS Doug's comments need a little clarification.
|
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"""""""""""
|
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First: To use a new Icon it must be placed into a Folder named
|
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|
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ICONS. This folder must be in the root directory of a currently mounted
|
|||
|
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volume. It does NOT have to be on the boot volume, but this is the
|
|||
|
|
preferred place for Icons that will affect all files (like the trash can
|
|||
|
|
icons). Generally the best method is to place icons that affect only a
|
|||
|
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particular program onto the disk for that program, unless the program is
|
|||
|
|
kept on your hard drive.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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Second: Since the introduction of System 6.0, the Finders own icons
|
|||
|
|
are not stored in the Icons folder. Instead they are in the Finder's
|
|||
|
|
resource fork. Even with the older systems, however all of the Finder's
|
|||
|
|
icons were lumped together into a single file. If someone were to do what
|
|||
|
|
doug suggests and move their Finder.Icons (on system 5 or earlier) to a
|
|||
|
|
differnt directory, the Finder would crash. While this method is fine for
|
|||
|
|
Icons added to the system, it will not work with the Full Trash Icon
|
|||
|
|
(unless you have more than one personal trash icon). This is not a problem
|
|||
|
|
though. When the Finder locates a new icon it simply replaces the built in
|
|||
|
|
icon with the new one.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Third. Be careful adding new icons. The Finder gets into trouble if
|
|||
|
|
more than one icon is added to the system with the same definition. I.e if
|
|||
|
|
you placed to new Trash Icons into your Icons folder, bad things are likely
|
|||
|
|
to happen. This is especially true for multiple copies of the "Generic
|
|||
|
|
file" icon. For this reason, I use an icon editor to check every new icon
|
|||
|
|
folder before I use it. I then combine any new Icons I like into my
|
|||
|
|
existing Icon Folders. What I end up with is a nice manageable set of Icon
|
|||
|
|
folders with no duplicates. My Icon folder looks something like this;
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Folder.Icons
|
|||
|
|
System.Icons
|
|||
|
|
Filetype.Icons
|
|||
|
|
Game.Icons
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
As I find or make new Icons that I like, I just place them into the
|
|||
|
|
appropriate folder.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
I hope this helps
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Dave C
|
|||
|
|
(D.CORKUM, CAT2, TOP4, MSG:573/M645;1)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
POINT TO POINT PROTOCOL Is anyone out here interested in a PPP program
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""" for the Apple IIe? No, I kid you not... I
|
|||
|
|
recently ran accross a programmer who (just to prove it can be done) is
|
|||
|
|
working on a PPP program for the _8-bit_ Apple II. He asked me to put out
|
|||
|
|
some feelers in here to see how many people are interested should he be
|
|||
|
|
successful. :) He says he's already looked over the specs, and seems
|
|||
|
|
pretty sure of himself. I won't hold any promises, but I'm one that'll
|
|||
|
|
definately be excited if he gets it to work :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Dave
|
|||
|
|
(JUST.DAVE, CAT10, TOP10, MSG:299/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
EASTER EGGS THAT CHECK THE CALENDAR Aside from System's 6's Time Control
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Panel, I'm not aware of any other
|
|||
|
|
Easter Eggs that depend on the IIGS clock or that only activate themselves
|
|||
|
|
on certain days. That is, until Brutal Deluxe's Blockade arrived here about
|
|||
|
|
a week or so ago.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It seems to me that if you play Blockade on odd numbered days, the
|
|||
|
|
border flashes in time to the music. Played on even numbered days, there
|
|||
|
|
are no flashing borders.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Knowing Brutal Deluxe, I'm sure that's just one of many Easter Eggs
|
|||
|
|
in Blockade. Another one is activated when clicking on a senstive part of
|
|||
|
|
the graphic of the young lady.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Anyone else found any others?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Joe
|
|||
|
|
(JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:369/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> Sorry, but our BBS package Eclipse (written in 1989) has an easter
|
|||
|
|
""""" egg, where if it is the birthday of any of the authors (three of
|
|||
|
|
us), you'll get a happy birthday message on startup. So... BD were not the
|
|||
|
|
first.
|
|||
|
|
(RICHARD.B, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:372/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[Others pointed out the calendar-specific Easter eggs in Print Shop IIgs
|
|||
|
|
and Platinum Paint.--Ed.]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
RAMFAST FATAL MEMORY FAULT CODES
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
$00 - unknown, probably means your card is very confused
|
|||
|
|
$01-$08 - DRAM memory test failure
|
|||
|
|
$09 - EPROM Checksum failure
|
|||
|
|
$0C - Z180 processor crashed, indicates some hardware fault
|
|||
|
|
$0D - error writing cached data to disk device
|
|||
|
|
$0E - Termination power error
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Jawaid
|
|||
|
|
(PROCYON.INC, CAT20, TOP13, MSG:641/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MEMORIES OF KOBE I just downloaded Steve Chick's Find.File NDA, and I
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""" noticed his address is in Kobe, Japan. Does anybody
|
|||
|
|
know if he made it through the earthquake?
|
|||
|
|
(P.CREAGER, CAT9, TOP5, MSG:463/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> The last time I was in contact with him, after 2 years ago, he was
|
|||
|
|
""""" no longer in Japan.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There are 2 different CIS' addresses for Steve Chick listed in
|
|||
|
|
FindFile. One has a typo, but one is valid. You could always try writing an
|
|||
|
|
e-mail to him.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Joe
|
|||
|
|
(JOE.KOHN, CAT9, TOP5, MSG:465/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NOW THAT'S PLUG AND PLAY! I have gone on record here stating the
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""" Roadrunner is the best low priced internal hard
|
|||
|
|
disk drive available, and that its little more than plug and play when I
|
|||
|
|
send one to a customer. Here is a message I received yesterday:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>> Dear Chuck,
|
|||
|
|
>> I got the Hard Drive Today. I connected it myself.
|
|||
|
|
>> Isn't that nice?
|
|||
|
|
>> It works fine!
|
|||
|
|
>> I coppied my programs on to it with no trouble.
|
|||
|
|
>> Thank you so much,
|
|||
|
|
>> Brent Bacome
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
What you may find interesting is that Brent is inconvenienced with
|
|||
|
|
blindness. Yet he installed the two card Roadrunner, installed his
|
|||
|
|
TEXT-TALKER and other software and was up and running from the hard disk
|
|||
|
|
drive and on GEnie the same day the Roadrunner arrived in the mail.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I think that the fact I was able to help Brent was neat. That Brent
|
|||
|
|
doesn't need much help is way neater. I just had to share this.......
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Chuck
|
|||
|
|
(A2.CHUCK, CAT13, TOP25, MSG:253/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> HOT TOPICS <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
APPLEWORKS 5 BUG FIX! Bug fix! Peter Hinchliffe of Australia reported
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""" that AW5 crashes when you attempt to save a Data
|
|||
|
|
Base file which has multiple label-style reports containing background
|
|||
|
|
text. To solve the problem, patch the following bytes in SEG.AW:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Offset Original Change to
|
|||
|
|
------ -------- ---------
|
|||
|
|
47C6 2D 20
|
|||
|
|
47E6 20 3F
|
|||
|
|
47E7 6F A9 32 8D BA 5C AD AA 77 60
|
|||
|
|
4F30 AD 20 5B 55
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Note: In the latter two, only the original first byte is given.
|
|||
|
|
Obviously other bytes are being replaced by the new sequences.
|
|||
|
|
(BRANDT, CAT17, TOP31, MSG:1/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MACRO CAPTURES CELL MEMO TEXT I figured out how to capture up to 70
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" characters of a memo, even if it's much
|
|||
|
|
longer, without crashing. The trick is to set the column width of the
|
|||
|
|
hidden column to the max then use < .getcell x,y,1 >. The 1 tells UM to
|
|||
|
|
grab what would be displayed on the screen, if it were displayed, not the
|
|||
|
|
literal value.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Here's my last effort on cell memos. I made one change that pokes a
|
|||
|
|
width of 80, actually an illegal value, into the colwidth table for the
|
|||
|
|
hidden category that contains the memo. I stopped at 80 because that's the
|
|||
|
|
maximum length of an Ultra string variable.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
start
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
M:<asp:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
posn c,r : // get current position
|
|||
|
|
c = c + $80 : // set hi bit
|
|||
|
|
$1 = .getcell 121,1,0 : // grab memo "map"
|
|||
|
|
$2 = chr$ c : // stuff c in $2
|
|||
|
|
x = .substring $2, $1, 1: // search for current cell in map
|
|||
|
|
if x > 0 x = x + $79 : // calculate which hidden column
|
|||
|
|
poke #colwidths + X, 80: // set hidden col to 80 width
|
|||
|
|
$1 = .getcell x,r,1 // get up to 80 characters of memo.
|
|||
|
|
$1 = .zapchar $1, $d : // remove crs from string
|
|||
|
|
msg $1 >! // show memo
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Z:<asp:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
posn c, r : // get current position
|
|||
|
|
for I = $809b to $80a0 : // range to search
|
|||
|
|
M = peek I : // look for column in memo table
|
|||
|
|
ifnot M = C :
|
|||
|
|
Next I else : // didn't find try again
|
|||
|
|
A = I - $809a + $79 : // found memo for current cell
|
|||
|
|
poke #colwidths + A, 80: // set hidden col to 80 width
|
|||
|
|
$1 = .getcell A,r,1 : // get up to 70 characters of memo
|
|||
|
|
$1 = .zapchar $1, $0d : // remove crs from string.
|
|||
|
|
msg $1 >! // show memo
|
|||
|
|
(S.BEVILLE, CAT17, TOP18, MSG:{571}/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
AW5 PRINTER PROBLEMS Appleworks 5.0 keeps changing the on-line status of
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""" my Imagewriter II from NLQ to Draft Mode before each
|
|||
|
|
print. I'd like to have the option of setting the on-line status from the
|
|||
|
|
Imagewriter panel. Previous versions of Appleworks would allow this but
|
|||
|
|
this one doesn't. Any suggestions?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
thx
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
George Carmichael
|
|||
|
|
(G.CARMICHAE1, CAT17, TOP29, MSG:42/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> Remove the ImageWriter printer from AW 5 and then reinstall it. The
|
|||
|
|
""""" one that shipped pre-installed with some versions of AW5 had some
|
|||
|
|
extraneous code in it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-(+)-
|
|||
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
...Will
|
|||
|
|
(W.NELKEN1, CAT17, TOP29, MSG:44/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
DON'T DO THIS! Here are a couple of AW5 don'ts:
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Don't attempt to duplicate an existing labels report format in the
|
|||
|
|
data base if the report contains background text unless there is background
|
|||
|
|
text for each line of the report. If you have background text on every
|
|||
|
|
line of the report, even 1 character, it works OK. Otherwise a =serious=
|
|||
|
|
crash results.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Don't try to use the TimeOut Menu from the Clipboard. I call this a
|
|||
|
|
blunderbug 'cause I just accidentally blundered into while not paying
|
|||
|
|
attention. You won't like the results of that one either :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I think Dan has duplicated and worked up a fix for the first one.
|
|||
|
|
Can't remember if the second one has ever been reported but both are easy
|
|||
|
|
to avoid if you're aware of 'em.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[irrelevant portion of message omitted--Ed.]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>> sa-ctrl-r in SEG.AX
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Got a msg through the Internet from someone who wanted to know why
|
|||
|
|
the Revert to the last saved version of a file macro (sa-ctrl-r) only works
|
|||
|
|
with word processor files. It's supposed to be a global, <all>, macro but
|
|||
|
|
I guess I put in <awp> by mistake. I don't think I've looked at this thing
|
|||
|
|
or used it since it was written, so evidently it's been that way since
|
|||
|
|
AW4.0 was released. If you want to use it, just find the macro in the
|
|||
|
|
SEG.AX.source file on /Extras/macros and change awp to all. Recompile the
|
|||
|
|
macro, then save it as a hidden task file using Ultra Options. Be sure to
|
|||
|
|
save the changed source file to your BACKUP copy of the /Extras disk, says
|
|||
|
|
Install Disk on the disk label. Never alter your original disks.
|
|||
|
|
(S.BEVILLE, CAT17, TOP18, MSG:402/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> > Steve, what kind of a serious crash
|
|||
|
|
"""""
|
|||
|
|
You're using a //e, right? Might be a different. I get one of those
|
|||
|
|
"arcade" crashes on the gs. Border color changes, speaker clicks, drive
|
|||
|
|
access ( which can be very dangerous ), nice colored pixels flashing all
|
|||
|
|
over the screen. Ctrl-reset does no good. oa-ctrl-reset doesn't reboot. I
|
|||
|
|
have to power down and start over. I think Randy said Dan was trying to do
|
|||
|
|
a getblock on a pointer to the background text when the pointer was 0. The
|
|||
|
|
memory manager doesn't like that.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I get the same type crash trying to access a TimeOut from the
|
|||
|
|
clipboard.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
> You want to give us the steps to a crash? :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You some kinda masochist :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Load the file backgroundtext from the /Extras disk. Create a labels
|
|||
|
|
report from the existing layout. Try to duplicate the report. See the
|
|||
|
|
pretty colors. Watch the lights come on.
|
|||
|
|
(S.BEVILLE, CAT17, TOP18, MSG:409/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> WHAT'S NEW <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
SPECTRUM VERSION 2.0 IS SHIPPING IN JANUARY 1995! Even if that means
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" 1/31/95, it IS shipping
|
|||
|
|
this month! :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Version 2.0 fixes the little "quirks" that were discovered (in-house
|
|||
|
|
and by users like you) after releasing version 1.0. Although most of you
|
|||
|
|
have probably never experienced these problems, here are some highlights:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
+ Compressing Spectrum with HardPressed is no longer a problem; Spectrum
|
|||
|
|
is quite happy running in compressed form.
|
|||
|
|
+ Spectrum's rBundle has been fixed so your Desktop file won't get bigger
|
|||
|
|
each time Spectrum is launched.
|
|||
|
|
+ The "black text" and bogus memory errors when opening Editor files has
|
|||
|
|
been fixed.
|
|||
|
|
+ Downloaded files always go into the correct folder (a lot of CoPilot
|
|||
|
|
users saw this one).
|
|||
|
|
+ Fixed a problem that could have corrupted some memory when creating or
|
|||
|
|
editing a phonebook entry.
|
|||
|
|
+ The "Copy File" script command can now copy even very large ("tree")
|
|||
|
|
files, where previously it showed an "access not allowed" error.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BUT VERSION 2.0 IS NOT MERELY A "BUG FIX" VERSION! We jumped from
|
|||
|
|
v1.0 to v2.0 because of all the new features and capabilities we crammed
|
|||
|
|
into Spectrum!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Here's an EXTREMELY short list of "new or changed features":
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
+ Spectrum v2.0 plays its sounds by event number, which means you can use
|
|||
|
|
the Sound CDEV to pick which sound is associated with each event.
|
|||
|
|
+ Resuming Zmodem now works with GEnie, and is even more reliable on all
|
|||
|
|
systems when receiving unique files that happen to be named the same.
|
|||
|
|
+ The Scrollback buffer can now be set to contain the "filtered" data
|
|||
|
|
(just like the Capture buffer) or the "raw" data (just like version
|
|||
|
|
1.0).
|
|||
|
|
+ Most Online Displays now support an EDITABLE chat line (using the Arrow
|
|||
|
|
keys).
|
|||
|
|
+ Each Online Display has been updated to some degree. One big
|
|||
|
|
improvement to the Spectrum SHR displays is that they now show _23_
|
|||
|
|
lines down!
|
|||
|
|
+ Phonebook entries can remember an Online Display choice.
|
|||
|
|
+ Scripts execute up to 300% faster than they did in version 1. WOW!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THE SCRIPTING LANGUAGE ALSO HAS A *BUNCH* OF NEW FEATURES! These new
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features will benefit you even if you don't write scripts, because people
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are already writing useful scripts for working on services such as GEnie.
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Here are a few of the new scripting capabilities:
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+ Use any reasonable number of NAMED variables (no longer limited to
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variables 0 through 9)!
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+ Create up to 32 "HitZones" so your script can respond to mouse clicks.
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+ Work with "Spectrum External Commands" (XCMDs), which greatly extend
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Spectrum's capabilities. For example, a "Line Edit" XCMD lets scripts
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display a custom window with up to 8 LineEdit boxes (the script
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specifies the labels and the kind of data to enter).
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Other XCMDs include:
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AlertWindow -- gives scripts COMPLETE access to the AlertWindow tool
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call
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Chatterbox -- lets scripts manage "private" messages while in a live
|
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chat, by displaying each private chat in its own custom
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window)
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Debug -- helps script authors to debug their scripts
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HodgePodge -- several utilities, such as number conversions, text
|
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conversions, etc.
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Inform -- display a custom window containing a Teach file
|
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Lister -- lets scripts manage lists of information, and lets the user
|
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interract with them in a custom window
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RadioCheck -- display a window with radio buttons and checkboxes
|
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rVersion -- reads rVersion info out of files which contain that info
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ScriptEditor -- access advanced TextEdit tool functions
|
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Speech -- speak any given phrase, IF Byte Works' "Talking Tools" is
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installed
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Twilight II -- controls the Twilight II screen blanker so it blanks only
|
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at appropriate times, and completely inactivates it
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during file transfers
|
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XLoader -- provides an easy way to activate and inactivate Spectrum
|
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External Commands while using Spectrum
|
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Don't Have Spectrum Yet? Now is the perfect time to "trade-up" to
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'''''''''''''''''''''''' Spectrum version 2.0!
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If you already own some other telecom program (which you obviously
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do, since you're reading this message online) then you can "trade up" to
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Spectrum for just $65!* When you place your order, just tell us what
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software you are trading up from; it's THAT simple.
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*Plus tax (in FL) and shipping & handling; keep reading...
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Already Own Spectrum Version 1.0? Upgrade from Spectrum version 1.0 to
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Introductory Price of just $25!*
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If you purchased Spectrum in Dec94 or Jan95 then the upgrade is
|
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free*; see the end of this message for further details.
|
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*Plus tax (in FL) and shipping & handling; keep reading...
|
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|
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Hey, Check This Out! If you're ordering Spectrum or the Spectrum Upgrade
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'''''''''''''''''''' then you'll be interested in two more great deals
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we've worked out!
|
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DEAL #1 -- BALLOON is a new desk accessory (NDA) that lets you easily
|
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|
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create and maintain NuFX (ShrinkIt) archives on your IIGS. Because Balloon
|
|||
|
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is a NDA, you don't have to quit Spectrum (or any other IIGS application)
|
|||
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just to pack or unpack files!
|
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|
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Dealing with NuFX archives has never been easier. In the Finder you
|
|||
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double-click an archive and instantly see what's in it...and extract the
|
|||
|
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files right there! And creating an archive is just as easy--simply
|
|||
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highlight some icons then choose "Archive Files" from the Extras menu.
|
|||
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|
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Now, that's cool enough, but it gets EVEN BETTER: With Balloon you
|
|||
|
|
also get a Spectrum External Command (XCMD) that transparently keeps track
|
|||
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of all the files you download. As soon as you log off and it's "safe" to
|
|||
|
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unpack, Balloon pops open and automatically unpacks the files you received!
|
|||
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(Of course there are preferences to tailor Balloon to your desires...opt
|
|||
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for the completely automatic/no prompting/automatic extraction of your
|
|||
|
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archives, or go with full prompting, or something in between.)
|
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|
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|
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The Balloon XCMD even adds several new commands to Spectrum's
|
|||
|
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scripting language! That right, with Balloon and the Balloon XCMD, you can
|
|||
|
|
write script to open existing archives, create new archives, add files to
|
|||
|
|
archives, and extract files from archives.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Joe Wankerl at GS+ Magazine wrote this great utility, and you can
|
|||
|
|
purchase it from EGO Systems for $25...OR you can take advantage of the
|
|||
|
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special deal we've worked out, where you can purchase it direct from Seven
|
|||
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Hills Software for only $18!*
|
|||
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|
|||
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*Plus tax (in FL) and shipping & handling; keep reading...
|
|||
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|
|||
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DEAL #2 -- TALKING TOOLS is set of system tools which provide "voice
|
|||
|
|
synthesis" (computer-generated speech) for your Apple IIGS! Because the
|
|||
|
|
speech is computer-generated instead of being recorded, these tools let you
|
|||
|
|
speak ANY phrase at will.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
To make this happen we created the "Speech" external command for
|
|||
|
|
Spectrum v2.0. Using the Speech XCMD you can control various speech
|
|||
|
|
settings (Male or Female voice, pitch, volume, etc.), and you can write
|
|||
|
|
scripts that actually SPEAK to you!
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
This capability is fun, but it's also useful. Imagine being able to
|
|||
|
|
truly _listen_ to a GEnie Roundtable while doing something else (building a
|
|||
|
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model, reading the newspaper, etc.)!
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Because Ewen Wannop wrote the Speech XCMD which controls the speech
|
|||
|
|
tools, we are able to provide the Speech XCMD for FREE with Spectrum v2.0.
|
|||
|
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But the XCMD won't do diddly unless you've actually got the speech
|
|||
|
|
synthesis tools from Byte Works.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
You can purchase "Talking Tools" from Byte Works for $35...OR you can
|
|||
|
|
order direct from Seven Hills Software and get it for just $25!*
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
*Plus tax (in FL) and shipping & handling; keep reading...
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Great! Where Do I Send My Money? When you place an order please give us:
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
+ Your name
|
|||
|
|
+ Your complete address
|
|||
|
|
+ Your area code and phone number
|
|||
|
|
+ What you are ordering and how much you expect to pay*
|
|||
|
|
+ Your Visa/MasterCard/Discover card number WITH expiration date (we
|
|||
|
|
DO accept checks and money orders by mail)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
*Add tax (in FL) and shipping & handling, as follows:
|
|||
|
|
- Calculate Subtotal (add cost of all the products you're ordering)
|
|||
|
|
- If in Florida, add 7% tax
|
|||
|
|
- Add $3.50 for shipping and handling
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Online orders: Send email to SEVENHILLS here on GEnie
|
|||
|
|
By FAX: 904-575-2015 (anytime)
|
|||
|
|
By phone: 904-575-0566 (M-F, 9am-5pm ET)
|
|||
|
|
By mail: Seven Hills Software
|
|||
|
|
2310 Oxford Road
|
|||
|
|
Tallahassee, FL 32304-3930
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Important If you qualify for the free Spectrum upgrade (i.e., you
|
|||
|
|
''''''''' purchased Spectrum in Dec94 or Jan95) we need a photocopy of
|
|||
|
|
your dated sales receipt UNLESS you purchased directly from Seven Hills
|
|||
|
|
Software.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you did NOT purchase Spectrum directly from us then you MUST
|
|||
|
|
submit your order (with dated sales receipt) either by mail or by FAX.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you DID purchase Spectrum directly from us then you may submit
|
|||
|
|
your order by any method, but be sure to tell us you're eligible for the
|
|||
|
|
FREE upgrade, and to look up the invoice in our records.
|
|||
|
|
(SEVENHILLS, CAT43, TOP15, MSG:{639}/M645;1)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
BALLOON V2.0 IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE IIGS! EGO Systems is pleased to
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" announce that version 2.0 of
|
|||
|
|
Balloon is now shipping!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Balloon is a new desk accessory (NDA) that allows you to easily
|
|||
|
|
create and maintain NuFX (ShrinkIt) archives on your IIGS. Since Balloon
|
|||
|
|
is a NDA, you no longer have to run GS-ShinkIt to extract files from
|
|||
|
|
archives! So, if you use a desktop telecommunictions program, like
|
|||
|
|
Spectrum from Seven Hills Software, you can manipulate your ShrinkIt
|
|||
|
|
archives while still online!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Here are a few of Balloon's features:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* Balloon can extract files from ShrinkIt archives.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* Balloon can create new ShrinkIt archives.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* Balloon can add/remove files to/from existing ShrinkIt archives.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
* Balloon recognizes ShrinkIt archives that are enclosed in Binary
|
|||
|
|
II, MacBinary and America Online for Macintosh "wrappers."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* Balloon works properly in both 640 and 320 modes, just like all
|
|||
|
|
good new desk accessories should!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* Ballon allows you to have multiple ShrinkIt archives and file
|
|||
|
|
information windows open at once.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* Balloon is Finder friendly. Double-click on a ShrinkIt archive
|
|||
|
|
and Balloon opens it automatically! Balloon can also communicate
|
|||
|
|
with other system extensions to automatically open files after they
|
|||
|
|
are extracted from an archive!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Balloon v2.0 package also comes with the Balloon XCMD for
|
|||
|
|
Spectrum v2.0. By using this XCMD with Spectrum v2.0, you can have Balloon
|
|||
|
|
AUTOMATICALLY expand the ShrinkIt archives that you download with Spectrum!
|
|||
|
|
You don't even have to open Balloon!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In addition, the Balloon XCMD for Spectrum v2.0 lets you write
|
|||
|
|
Spectrum scripts that give you full access to the Balloon new desk
|
|||
|
|
accessory and all its capabilities. For example, you can write a script
|
|||
|
|
that will create a new archive and add files to it. Or, you could write a
|
|||
|
|
script that would open an existing archive and extract all the files from
|
|||
|
|
it to a folder that you specify.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As if that weren't enough great stuff, the Balloon v2.0 package also
|
|||
|
|
includes a copy of our popular new desk accessory text editor, EGOed lite.
|
|||
|
|
With EGOed lite installed in your system, you can quickly and easily read
|
|||
|
|
and print text, Teach, AppleWorks Classic and AppleWorks GS word processor
|
|||
|
|
files. Balloon and EGOed lite will even work together to let you
|
|||
|
|
automatically open and read the word processing files that you extract from
|
|||
|
|
your ShrinkIt archives!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
So, how much does all this cost? Believe it or not, the retail price
|
|||
|
|
for Balloon v2.0 is just $25! This price includes first class shipping to
|
|||
|
|
anywhere in the United States, Air Mail shipping to Canada and Mexico, and
|
|||
|
|
surface mail shipping to anywhere else in the world. (For Air Mail
|
|||
|
|
delivery outside North America, add $3, for a total of $28.) As an added
|
|||
|
|
bonus, when you send in your Balloon registration card, we'll send you a
|
|||
|
|
FREE issue of GS+ Magazine, the only Apple IIGS Magazine and Disk
|
|||
|
|
publication! (If you are already a GS+ Magazine subscriber, sending in
|
|||
|
|
your Balloon registration card will get you a free magazine-only back issue
|
|||
|
|
of your choice!)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Speaking of GS+ Magazine, if you are a GS+ Magazine subscriber, you
|
|||
|
|
can get Balloon v2.0 at a special introductory price of only $20! When you
|
|||
|
|
order, just let us know that you are a subscriber and include your customer
|
|||
|
|
number (it's on your GS+ Magazine mailing label above your name) to qualify
|
|||
|
|
for the special introductory price. But hurry! This special offer ends on
|
|||
|
|
April 3rd, 1995!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Ever So Fine Print Balloon requires System Software v6.0.1, at least
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''''''''''' 2MB of RAM, and a hard drive. Spectrum v2.0 is
|
|||
|
|
required to use the Balloon XCMD for Spectrum v2.0, it will NOT work with
|
|||
|
|
earlier versions of Spectrum. (However, the Balloon new desk accessory
|
|||
|
|
WILL work with older versions of Spectrum.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Balloon v2.0 is a complete rewrite of the original Balloon Finder
|
|||
|
|
extension that appeared in GS+ Magazine V5.N2. Balloon v2.0 is a
|
|||
|
|
stand-alone product and will NOT appear in GS+ Magazine! Only current GS+
|
|||
|
|
Magazine subscribers can purchase Balloon for the special introductory
|
|||
|
|
price of $20. However, if you subscribe when you place your order for
|
|||
|
|
Balloon, you can get the special pricing. This special offer expires on
|
|||
|
|
April 3rd, 1995.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To order Balloon, give us a call at 1-800-662-3634 between 9 a.m. and
|
|||
|
|
5 p.m. Monday through Friday. (Outside the United States, call
|
|||
|
|
615-332-2087. We accept Visa and MasterCard for all phone orders.) You
|
|||
|
|
can also FAX your order to us at 615-332-2634. If you prefer to order by
|
|||
|
|
mail, send your check or money order (made payable to "EGO Systems" and in
|
|||
|
|
US funds only), or credit card information to:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Balloon
|
|||
|
|
EGO Systems
|
|||
|
|
P. O. Box 15366
|
|||
|
|
Chattanooga, TN 37415-0366
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
America Online, Delphi: GSPlusDiz
|
|||
|
|
GEnie: Diz
|
|||
|
|
Internet: Diz@genie.geis.com
|
|||
|
|
(DIZ, CAT33, TOP2, MSG:475/M645;1)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
CRY FOR HELP Yes, this is a cry for help. My name is Michael Lutynski
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""" and I am starting a small business called Animasia. My
|
|||
|
|
first product, Animasia 3-D, is finally ready to begin shipping in the next
|
|||
|
|
several days. However, the cost for printing the first run of manuals,
|
|||
|
|
registration cards, and disk labels have monopolized my expenses and almost
|
|||
|
|
completely offset the orders received so far.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I am asking for anyone who is interested in Animasia 3-D to consider
|
|||
|
|
purchasing it now. This is not meant to be an advertising campaign. I
|
|||
|
|
need only four orders to help me meet my pressing financial obligations.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
What Is It? In brief, Animasia 3-D is a desktop application that creates
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''' animations using three-dimensional models. Animasia 3-D also
|
|||
|
|
can be used to create images and clip art for other applications. A more
|
|||
|
|
descriptive press release is available upon request.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
What You Will Receive You will receive the following:
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
Two manuals: Tutorial and Reference
|
|||
|
|
Four disks: Application, Tutorials, Animations, and Projects
|
|||
|
|
Registration card
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The manuals are laser printed with spiral bindings. Of the 300+
|
|||
|
|
total pages, there is an illustration on almost every page. The Tutorial
|
|||
|
|
manual contains twelve complete lessons and the Reference is thorough.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The disks contain the application, tutorials, sample animations,
|
|||
|
|
projects, and 3-D clip models. One animation entitled "Warning" is 40
|
|||
|
|
seconds long. For HyperCard IIgs users, there are also two new animation
|
|||
|
|
player XCMDs written by Brian Gillespie.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There is a 30 day satisfaction guarantee. If Animasia 3-D just isn't
|
|||
|
|
for you, you can return it for a full refund. All in all, the package is
|
|||
|
|
professionally done.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You will need an Apple IIGS with System Software 6.0.1 and at least
|
|||
|
|
2Mb of memory. 4Mb, a hard disk, and an accelerator are strongly
|
|||
|
|
recommended.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Why Is It Shipping Now? Animasia 3-D was supposed to be released on
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''''''''''''''' December 10th. The release has been pushed back
|
|||
|
|
to correct a few significant bugs and generally to make everything as
|
|||
|
|
perfect as can be.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As of today, 1/26/95, the only issues that remain are to determine
|
|||
|
|
which animations and 3-D clip models will be included and to type up a few
|
|||
|
|
disk notes. All other materials are ready to go.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
About Animasia The Animasia 3-D project began as a test in the summer of
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''' 1989. Not until 1991 was it seriously developed. Since
|
|||
|
|
that time, I have written several articles for GS+ magazine, created the
|
|||
|
|
Addressed For Success label printing application, and worked as technical
|
|||
|
|
support for Econ Technologies.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Animasia 3-D was demonstrated at this summer's KansasFest. User
|
|||
|
|
suggestions were implemented, like faster operation and support for
|
|||
|
|
gray-scale images and animations.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Conclusion If you've already ordered, thank you very much. Your Animasia
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''' 3-D will be arriving shortly. If you'd like to order, I'm
|
|||
|
|
asking that you please do so now; the funds are greatly needed. The cost
|
|||
|
|
is US $99 plus $3.50 shipping and handling. Overseas orders add $5.
|
|||
|
|
Florida residents add 6% sales tax. At this time, only checks or money
|
|||
|
|
orders are accepted.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The address is:
|
|||
|
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Animasia
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3324 Vishaal Drive
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Orlando, FL 32817
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USA
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If you would like to contact me by voice, by all means, please do so
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at 407-380-9932. Business hours are 10 AM - 4 PM Eastern Time, Monday -
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Friday. I can also be reached on-line at animasia@genie.geis.com.
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Please distribute this message where you think it may reach an
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audience.
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Sincerely,
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Michael Lutynski
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President
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Animasia
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(ANIMASIA, CAT2, TOP27, MSG:46/M645;1)
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OFFICE PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE TAKES LEAVE OF ABSENCE Office Productivity
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Software will be
|
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curtailing support for AppleWorks and Apple II computers in general. The
|
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one and only employee of OPS, (me), has accepted a conventional job with a
|
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regular paycheck. You way still order old products such as TO.DiskTools
|
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and TO.About Time at the old address, but work on new programs and updating
|
|||
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old prducts for AppleWorks 5.0 will not resume for several months at least.
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(D.GUM, CAT13, TOP7, MSG:75/M645;1)
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>>> THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE <<<
|
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
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DIGISOFT CD FOR IIGS I know we have been pretty quiet lately, and the
|
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"""""""""""""""""""" truth of the matter is that the CD has been finished
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since September. However, several unexpected problems and a lack of time
|
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to deal with them has delayed the production of the disc until now. We
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will be sending the data off to the CD plant within the next two weeks,
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and beyond that it should take another three weeks to be replicated, so we
|
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expect to ship somewhere in the first half of February. Price will be
|
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around $60, more details will be announced soon. This is a 100% Apple II
|
|||
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CD with over 600 megabytes of files useful to Apple II owners.
|
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Thanks for your support and interest. If you would like to be added
|
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|
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to our electronic mailing list to receive more info on the CD as it is
|
|||
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available, please email your preferred internet email address to
|
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jagaroth@leland.stanford.edu with CD mentioned in the subject of the mail.
|
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Regards (and happy holidays!),
|
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<<Jim
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(DIGISOFT, CAT13, TOP34, MSG:11/M645;1)
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FUTURE OF II ALIVE I'm not sure what we're going to do with II Alive.
|
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"""""""""""""""""" It's likely we'll continue publishing it in some form
|
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or another, but what that form will be is currently up in the air. With
|
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the shrinking subscription base, I don't think we can continue to publish
|
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it as a "glossy" much longer.
|
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I personally won't be working on it very much; my job
|
|||
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responsibilities at QC have changed somewhat recently, and I'm not doing
|
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much writing.
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I'll keep y'all informed.
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(II.ALIVE, CAT42, TOP10, MSG:130/M645;1)
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INTERVIEW WITH WOZ Is there a question you have always wanted to ask
|
|||
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"""""""""""""""""" STEVE WOZNIAK? (the Woz, Saint Woz, Da Man, etc. <g>)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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Well, now's your chance! PowerGS will be interviewing Steve Wozniak
|
|||
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for the next issue!!! Yes, it's true, and you can be a part of this first
|
|||
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interview with Woz since '86.
|
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(yea yea it's free! :))
|
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Email to A.RAHIMZADEH -- I will also check my internet account
|
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periodically (on gellersen for those who have it in PowerGS issue 4), but
|
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to insure that I get the questions you have, please send it to my GEnie
|
|||
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account!
|
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Happy Holidays and Apple II FOREVER!
|
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-Auri Rahimzadeh
|
|||
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Editor in Chief
|
|||
|
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PowerGS Diskazine(TM)
|
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|
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(A.RAHIMZADEH, CAT13, TOP38, MSG:121/M645;1)
|
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<<<<< The interview with Steve Wozniak has _not_ been cancelled.
|
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""""" Actually, it was just delayed since we had some difficulties in
|
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|
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California. I am pleased to announce, however, that Woz and I are doing
|
|||
|
|
the interview through e-mail now, and that Issue Number Five of PowerGS
|
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should be released sometime in February.
|
|||
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Yes, there IS an interview with The Woz. If you have any questions,
|
|||
|
|
please email me at A.RAHIMZADEH or arahimza@gellersen.valpo.edu on the
|
|||
|
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internet.
|
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I hope you had a wonderful new year!
|
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Sincerely,
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Auri Rahimzadeh
|
|||
|
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Editor in Chief
|
|||
|
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PowerGS Diskazine
|
|||
|
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(A.RAHIMZADEH, CAT13, TOP38, MSG:123/M645;1)
|
|||
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FAXINATION DELAYED, FEATURES CUT Sorry to hear, and report, a slight
|
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|
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" delay in Faxination. I talked with them
|
|||
|
|
today (Tuesday) and was told that there was a "minor" bug found and it
|
|||
|
|
would be fixed before shipping. As sad as I was that I would not have my
|
|||
|
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new toys for Christmas, I told them I appreciated them holding it back
|
|||
|
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until they fixed the bug.
|
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|
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|
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Michael E.
|
|||
|
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(M.EWEN, CAT40, TOP2, MSG:139/M645;1)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
>>>>> Faxination will allow you to forward faxes to one new address at a
|
|||
|
|
""""" time, and the new addresses can be selected from your phone book.
|
|||
|
|
It looks like we may have to defer the batch send feature until a (maybe
|
|||
|
|
free) upgrade due to delivery delays. Also, compatibility concerns fueled
|
|||
|
|
the decision to NOT include a "timed send" feature, so you will have to
|
|||
|
|
start your fax transmissions manually. For the same reason, no redial
|
|||
|
|
feature is being included in the initial release. The limit for the number
|
|||
|
|
of entries in the phone book is about 32,767, but the practical limit for
|
|||
|
|
your machine may be smaller due to RAM or disk space limits.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Steve Bernbaum -
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Many regrets, but every time I look at the serial routines, the
|
|||
|
|
entire program seems to break. :) I now plan to include alternate port
|
|||
|
|
support, but the lateness of the program prevents me from including it in
|
|||
|
|
the initial release. I think ProTerm allows you to use the Modem port even
|
|||
|
|
if it is not enabled in the Control Panel, and Faxination certainly does.
|
|||
|
|
Perhaps you could simply put your modem in the Modem port and only
|
|||
|
|
reconfigure your communications software? (Hope so, been there with the
|
|||
|
|
mass reconfig -- several times! :)
|
|||
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|
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|
|
Da Programmer
|
|||
|
|
(S.MCQUEEN1, CAT40, TOP2, MSG:142/M645;1)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
>>>>> We're hoping to be shipping by January 15, 1995
|
|||
|
|
"""""
|
|||
|
|
Lowell Erbe
|
|||
|
|
Vitesse, Inc., Technical Support
|
|||
|
|
(VITESSE, CAT40, TOP2, MSG:155/M645;1)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
WOLFSTEIN 3-D FOR IIGS When will Wolf be out? Only the dead will tell!!
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
Truely, I can't give a date yet. Bill is busy with a emergency
|
|||
|
|
project near final along with Wolf GS. So, he is working as fast as he can
|
|||
|
|
to finalize two projects at the same time!
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
I can tell you that all the main art is done. The walls and game
|
|||
|
|
sprites are all completed. Misc stuff like interface screens and junk like
|
|||
|
|
that still need to be done, but are trivial stuff.
|
|||
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|
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|
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I'll keep you all posted. :)
|
|||
|
|
(S.EVERTS, CAT40, TOP6, MSG:26/M645;1)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
>>>>> "Bill is busy with a emergency project near final along with Wolf
|
|||
|
|
""""" GS." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Whuzzat?
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Scott, you seem rather knowledgable abt Wolf... how about some specs?
|
|||
|
|
Blood, automap, hounds, are they all included? (especially the former :)
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
-Ken
|
|||
|
|
(KEN.GAGNE, CAT40, TOP6, MSG:27/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<<<<< Yes, I'm quite familiar with it since I did all the artwork
|
|||
|
|
""""" conversion. :)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
It's based on the Mac "Third Encounter" version. It has blood,
|
|||
|
|
automap, and hounds. ;)
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
The main difference is the artwork was reduced from 128x128 pixels to
|
|||
|
|
64x64 pixels and of course reduced to 16 colors. It was a major job but I
|
|||
|
|
think you'll like the results. I'm quite happy with the final art.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
There will be 90 levels!!! It will have the original 30 which is all
|
|||
|
|
that was included in the "Jaguar", "Super Nintendo", and "Mac shareware"
|
|||
|
|
versions. Plus it includes all 60 levels of the original "IBM" version
|
|||
|
|
which are broken down into 6 missions of 10 levels each.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
There will be at least 3 screen resolutions you can pick. Maybe more
|
|||
|
|
in the final version. An accellerator card is HIGHLY recommended.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I'm right now finishing up the interface screens, so it is getting
|
|||
|
|
close. I'll keep you posted on the progress. I'm expecting a new version
|
|||
|
|
next week for test.
|
|||
|
|
(S.EVERTS, CAT40, TOP6, MSG:28/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<<<<< The mac "third encounter" has the original 30 levels which were
|
|||
|
|
""""" used in the Jaguar and Super Nintendo versions. They were heavily
|
|||
|
|
modified levels from the IBM version.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
The 60 extra levels are the entire levels that came with the full IBM
|
|||
|
|
version.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
It gets kind of confusing. Basicly, the IBM full version had 6
|
|||
|
|
missions, each with 10 levels.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
When the SNES and Jaguar versions came out, they made a new set of 30
|
|||
|
|
levels based on the IBM version.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Then the Mac version came out and took those 30 levels. They then got
|
|||
|
|
the original IBM levels and added them back. Thats why it has 90 levels.
|
|||
|
|
When you play the IBM levels, you may notice half of them are familiar, but
|
|||
|
|
they were heavily changed. Rooms were moved, deleted, or added, doors
|
|||
|
|
change, etc.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
So... On the mac version, they had three versions. One with the 3
|
|||
|
|
levels, one with the 30 levels, and one with all 90 levels.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
The gs version will only be released with all 90 levels.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
I'm sure I confused all of you now! :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
On the question of compatibility... The game will NOT be compatible
|
|||
|
|
with IBM WAD files. The formats are very different. We are building in a
|
|||
|
|
feature to allow you to load in new levels. We aren't making a level
|
|||
|
|
editor, but hopefully some brave programmer will decide to make one for it.
|
|||
|
|
Hint, hint!! So if someone does do an editor, I'm sure we'll see tons of
|
|||
|
|
new levels. Bill says its possible to edit the art too, so someone can
|
|||
|
|
make an art editor too!
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Wolf Barney, here we come!!
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
-Scott
|
|||
|
|
(S.EVERTS, CAT40, TOP6, MSG:33/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>>>> We don't yet have a project release date for Wolfenstein 3D. We're
|
|||
|
|
""""" working out some final details and a few bugs, but hope to begin
|
|||
|
|
shipping by February.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Vitesse is taking orders for Wolfenstein 3D NOW. The current price is
|
|||
|
|
$39.95. After it begins shipping, however, the price will go up to $49.95.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Lowell Erbe
|
|||
|
|
Vitesse, Inc., Technical Support
|
|||
|
|
(VITESSE, CAT40, TOP6, MSG:35/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
APPLEWORKS 5 ON A MAC? The emulator, tentatively titled "Phoenix II" and
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""" heretofore referred to as "Phoenix" or "the
|
|||
|
|
Phoenix project," allows you to run AppleWorks 5 on a Mac. AppleWorks 4
|
|||
|
|
will likely be supported as well. There will be some trade- offs, at least
|
|||
|
|
in version 1.0, such as no double hires graphics, but on the other hand,
|
|||
|
|
you'll actually being running AW5 on your Mac. That means macros and pokes
|
|||
|
|
and all that stuff is the same; this isn't _similar_ to AppleWorks, it's
|
|||
|
|
running your _actual_ AW5 software on a Mac or Power Mac.
|
|||
|
|
(BRANDT, CAT17, TOP28, MSG:52/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
SECOND SIGHT CARD STILL IN THE WORKS > Shipping soon??? I hear it was a
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" > question of the manual being
|
|||
|
|
> delayed??
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Manual? What manual? :-)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
No, we're doing a slight hardware revision. We want to do everything
|
|||
|
|
we can to keep your interest on our product, so there will likely be a new
|
|||
|
|
feature: TrueColor. (Actually, by luck, it looks like we'll get this
|
|||
|
|
almost for free :-)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The firmware is progressing nicely. I'm nearly done with lores,
|
|||
|
|
leaving only double lores, hires, and double hires to do. BTW, AppleWorks
|
|||
|
|
looks GREAT on a VGA monitor. :-)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Jawaid
|
|||
|
|
(PROCYON, CAT20, TOP14, MSG:260/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
QUICKDRAW II SUPPORT FOR SECOND SIGHT? OK, I wasn't going to say anything
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" again just yet, but the QuickDraw
|
|||
|
|
II support IS being worked on! I've managed to get about a third of QD
|
|||
|
|
disassembled and understood so far (it's about 32K of code in total), and
|
|||
|
|
I've started work on the driver structure. At this point, I believe it to
|
|||
|
|
be possible to support higher resolutions in many programs, though of
|
|||
|
|
course not any that write directly to screen memory, even though this is an
|
|||
|
|
Apple supported method. You will not get more colours out of existing
|
|||
|
|
programs, and I'm also concerned about the display being rather odd looking
|
|||
|
|
because of the large difference in aspect ratios.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The best I can offer is, we'll have to wait and see how it works out.
|
|||
|
|
Initially I was quite excited about the prospects of using the Finder,
|
|||
|
|
AppleWorks GS, etc., at 1024x768, but now I realize that the display is
|
|||
|
|
going to look very squished unless I add special code to, for example,
|
|||
|
|
double the height of 640 mode icons and also change the system font.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I also do not have any official affiliation with Sequential and have
|
|||
|
|
not seen any documentation on how to access the board. Hopefully I'll have
|
|||
|
|
everything else pretty much ready when the board and developers' docs are
|
|||
|
|
released so I can put together the driver for the SS very quickly.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I still think that the best use of the board will come from new
|
|||
|
|
programs written with the Second Sight in mind, but my driver system should
|
|||
|
|
help with at least some of the older programs that will not be updated.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Mike
|
|||
|
|
(M.HACKETT, CAT20, TOP14, MSG:245/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
TURBOREZ CARD ALSO BEING WORKED ON Re: TurboRez. It exists. It's real.
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" It's under tremendous pressure to be
|
|||
|
|
completed. There actually are people who develop things but do not feel the
|
|||
|
|
need to continually toot their own horn.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
On the other hand, it would be nice if RezTek popped in here so I'll
|
|||
|
|
e-mail Bill St. Pierre and ask him to reply to this topic.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Michael
|
|||
|
|
(ANIMASIA, CAT6, TOP16, MSG:32/M645;1)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
>>> MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT <<<
|
|||
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Category 5, Topic 2
|
|||
|
|
Message 396 Wed Jan 11, 1995
|
|||
|
|
M.DYE at 00:00 EST
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I know I should be happier about this than I am, but Woz made the
|
|||
|
|
cover of the latest "Apple Developer Tools Catalog" hustling Mac
|
|||
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development tools. The blurb on page 1 prattles on thus:
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"No, you're not seeing things... that's Steve
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Wozniak on our cover. Woz heard about our great
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subscription products that automatically deliver
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regular updates. He got so excited that he couldn't
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resist getting in on the action!
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... While Woz probably won't deliver these
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terrific products personally, you're sure to be more
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than satisfied! Just like Woz!
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I know things, especially in technology, more faster and faster, but I
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really like my IIGS. The macs I make use of at work are just boxes,
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ClarisWorks is OK; it just doesn't compare to the feeling I get helping at
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an Apple II user group meeting. Words can hardly express the gratitude I
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feel towards what Woz and all the others for Apple II hardware and software
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and I know the Power Mac and MacOS are Apple's future, but it doesn't feel
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the same. Maybe Woz has something to say beyond that bogus blurb.
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Mark Dye - Lurking in Otego, NY
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[*][*][*]
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While on GEnie, do you spend most of your time downloading files?
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If so, you may be missing out some excellent information in the Bulletin
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Board area. The messages listed above only scratch the surface of
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what's available and waiting for you in the bulletin board area.
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If you are serious about your Apple II, the GEnieLamp staff strongly
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urge you to give the bulletin board area a try. There are literally
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thousands of messages posted from people like you from all over the
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world.
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[EOA]
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[HUM]//////////////////////////////
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HUMOR ONLINE /
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/////////////////////////////////
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Fun & Games On GEnie
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""""""""""""""""""""
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by Douglas Cuff
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[EDITOR.A2]
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>>> TOO MUCH TIME ON MY HANDS <<<
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A long, long time ago, I used to run a computer BBS on my trusty
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Apple IIe. Some of the callers knew each other, but most of the denizens
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knew each other only as names. After a year or two, some of the more
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regular callers organized a "night out", when we all met for dinner to
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remind ourselves of the faces behind the names.
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The first time we did this, there was a distinct lack of
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organization. The time, date, and place of the event floated in limbo.
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One participant asked, innocently enough, "So what's the story on the
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banquet hall?" All she wanted to know is what progress had been made in
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making reservations at the proposed venue. A simple enough question.
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Well, you know how it is when you have a lot of stress. Sometimes
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you expend a lot of energy on trivial things just to keep yourself sane.
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That was and is my excuse for my following reply to the innocent question
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"What's the story on the banquet hall?"
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[*][*][*]
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Once upon a time, far, far away, there was a banquet hall named
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Ermintrude. She was a very jolly and good banquet hall most of the time,
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but unfortunately she had a very low tolerance for the inane drivel that
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passes as dinner conversation in modern-day North America, and so, throwing
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off her tablecloths and curtains, she set out to seek her fortune.
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As she was trundling down the road with no thought in her mind other
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than the fact that it was quite chilly to be out without one's foundation,
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she ran into three little children named Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and
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Peter. She noticed that they looked quite sad.
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"Why do you look so sad?" Ermintrude asked, going for the obvious,
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and addressing all three at once, so as to save time.
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"Yea, though would fain break bread--" began one.
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"All right, knock it off!" warned Ermintrude. "Speak English, or
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French, or both, but not something you've obviously mugged up out of a book
|
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published about the same time that King Arthur was in rompers."
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"We're starved!" cried all three at once.
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"Starved?" echoed the puzzled Ermintrude. "How can that be? Surely
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your mothers have given you your Family Allowance cheques."
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"No, money is not the problem," Mopsy explained, and indeed,
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Ermintrude noticed that the children's pockets were fairly stuffed with
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loonies.
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"Then I don't understand. There is a McDonald's right behind us, a
|
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Burger King in front of us, and an Arby's just down the droke a piece.
|
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Fast food to the right of us; fast food to the left of us; fast food all
|
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around us; char-broiled and sundry."
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"With a clarity unparalleled in an inanimate object, you have
|
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mentioned the solution and the problem in the same breath," said Flopsy,
|
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|
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who, to be absolutely frank, was a trifle too verbose. "We have partaken
|
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of the fare at all three emporiums..."
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"...and we're still hungry!" finished Mopsy.
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"Not overly surprising, considering that there's about as much food
|
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value in their containers as in the muck they dish into said containers,"
|
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|
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said Ermintrude sourly. "Come with me, children, to a land beyond the blue
|
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mountains, where food is nourishing and no one tries to serve you while
|
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|
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wearing a thing that looks like telephone operators' gear."
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So the three hungry and apparently boundlessly optimistic children
|
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bundled into Ermintrude, and they all set off for the land behind the blue
|
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mountains.
|
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|
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|
|
[Join us for an exciting installment of the story of the banquet
|
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|
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hall, to presented at approximately the same time that it has been reliably
|
|||
|
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determined that hell has frozen over.]
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|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
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|
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|
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|
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But I'm feeling much better now.
|
|||
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|
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|
|
--Doug Cuff
|
|||
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|
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|
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|
|||
|
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[EOA]
|
|||
|
|
[REF]//////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
REFLECTIONS /
|
|||
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
|
Thinking About Online Communications
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
|
by Phil Shapiro
|
|||
|
|
[P.SHAPIRO1]
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
>>> NURTURING THE EMOTIONAL BOND BETWEEN WRITERS AND READERS <<<
|
|||
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Last month I finished reading an excellent new book, "The Metaphysics
|
|||
|
|
of Virtual Reality." Having finished the book, my mind was swirling with
|
|||
|
|
ideas. So I sat down and wrote a lengthy e-mail message to the author of
|
|||
|
|
the book, Michael Heim. His Internet address was printed right there in
|
|||
|
|
the preface of the book.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Within a day of sending the message, I received a friendly reply.
|
|||
|
|
Incredibly enough, the very person who had spent months and months of work
|
|||
|
|
writing this book was ready and able to respond to my own reactions to the
|
|||
|
|
book.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The excitement of being able to communicate with someone whose book
|
|||
|
|
you just read is hard to describe. The experience is akin to going
|
|||
|
|
backstage after a play to chat with the director and actors of the
|
|||
|
|
production. Or being invited backstage at the end of a rock concert to
|
|||
|
|
chat with your favorite performers.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Truth is, I was already familiar with Heim's work from his earlier
|
|||
|
|
book, the uniquely insightful, "Electric Language: A Philosophical Inquiry
|
|||
|
|
Into Word Processing." I had written a feature length review of this
|
|||
|
|
earlier book, so I e-mailed Heim a copy of the review .
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Heim was duly appreciative to receive a copy of the review I wrote.
|
|||
|
|
Actually, it took me all of five seconds to send him the review. The
|
|||
|
|
review was already sitting on my hard drive as a text file. The least I
|
|||
|
|
can do to show my appreciation of an excellent book is to send the author a
|
|||
|
|
copy of a review I have written about the book.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Last year I engaged in an equally invigorating e-mail exchange with
|
|||
|
|
syndicated columnist Michael Schrage, whose 1990 book, "Shared Minds: The
|
|||
|
|
New Technologies of Collaboration," has some immensely interesting things
|
|||
|
|
to say about collaborative creativity. Schrage is currently working at
|
|||
|
|
MIT's Media Lab, a place whose mission is to dream and play with all the
|
|||
|
|
possibilities of converging technologies. (For a probing report on the
|
|||
|
|
goings on at MIT's Media Lab, see Stewart Brand's top-notch 1987 book,
|
|||
|
|
"Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT.")
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The excitement of direct communications between writers and readers
|
|||
|
|
is something that results in great benefits to both. Writers, after all,
|
|||
|
|
derive emotional sustenance from the feedback they get from readers. The
|
|||
|
|
very purpose of writing becomes real and tangible when readers are able to
|
|||
|
|
respond to your books right in your own e-mail mailbox.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Online communications transforms the "imagined audience" into a "real
|
|||
|
|
audience." By doing so, it nurtures the emotional bonds between writer and
|
|||
|
|
reader.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The possibilities of writer/reader interaction got me thinking about
|
|||
|
|
the experiences I had writing a column for my college newspaper. While an
|
|||
|
|
undergraduate, I wrote a regular commentary column on the back page of my
|
|||
|
|
college newspaper. The words I would write on Sunday evenings at my desk,
|
|||
|
|
in my room, would be be multiplied 10,000 times to appear in bundles of
|
|||
|
|
newspaper around campus on Thursday afternoons. I'd often receive feedback
|
|||
|
|
from friends within an hour or two after the papers hit the sidewalk.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The positive feedback created by hearing reader reaction to my ideas
|
|||
|
|
served as a potent source of creative energy for my next column. This same
|
|||
|
|
type of tight feedback between writer and reader is made possible by online
|
|||
|
|
communications.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It's only fair to admit, though, that there are some downsides to
|
|||
|
|
having book readers communicate directly with book authors. A popular
|
|||
|
|
author might receive several hundred fan e-mail messages per day.
|
|||
|
|
Naturally, fans will come to learn that not each and every e-mail message
|
|||
|
|
can be responded to personally, in detail.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
On the other hand, online communications allows book authors to
|
|||
|
|
personally involve themselves with the publicity for a book. Book
|
|||
|
|
publishers will naturally start favoring those authors ready and able to
|
|||
|
|
put in the hours to answer online reader responses. Grueling and expensive
|
|||
|
|
book signing tours will thankfully take on a lesser role in book publicity.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Authors who write books on telecommunications subjects, especially,
|
|||
|
|
will be expected to be available to interact with reader fan mail. Before
|
|||
|
|
the turn of the century, it won't be surprising to hear the comment, "I
|
|||
|
|
can't for the life of me understand why this author didn't include his/her
|
|||
|
|
Internet address in the beginning of this book. Perhaps they're one of
|
|||
|
|
those 'recluse' authors, or something."
|
|||
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|
|
|||
|
|
-Phil Shapiro
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Addendum: Copies of the book reviews mentioned in this article
|
|||
|
|
can be found as text files in the Digipub RoundTable file
|
|||
|
|
library, and in the new "Readers" RoundTable file library here on
|
|||
|
|
GEnie. To locate the particular number of the file, search under
|
|||
|
|
the uploader: p.shapiro1
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To navigate to the Digipub RoundTable, simply type "digipub" or
|
|||
|
|
"m1395" (no quotes) at any standard GEnie prompt. To navigate to
|
|||
|
|
the new "Readers" RoundTable, type "readers" at any standard
|
|||
|
|
GEnie prompt.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Also, persons interested in following (and contributing) book
|
|||
|
|
reviews with the Internet community in general may enjoy the
|
|||
|
|
newsgroup titled: rec.arts.books.review. This moderated
|
|||
|
|
newsgroup tends to have a broader and more interesting selection
|
|||
|
|
of book reviews than the New York Times book review section. To
|
|||
|
|
contribute book reviews to this newsgroups, read the instructions
|
|||
|
|
given in the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) file for the
|
|||
|
|
newsgroup, which is posted periodically as a message to the
|
|||
|
|
newsgroup.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Shapiro takes a keen interest in the social and psychological
|
|||
|
|
dimensions of online communications. He can be reached at:
|
|||
|
|
p.shapiro1@genie.geis.com and pshapiro@aol.com. This is the
|
|||
|
|
twentieth column in his ongoing series, "Thinking About Online
|
|||
|
|
Communications".]
|
|||
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|
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|
|||
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[EOA]
|
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|
|
[ASA]//////////////////////////////
|
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|
|
ASCII ART GALLERY /
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/////////////////////////////////
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Valentine Art
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"""""""""""""
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by Susie Oviatt
|
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[SUSIE]
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[FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED READERS: The above ASCII art consisted of two
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pictures: a teddy bear holding a balloon bouquet, titled "Be Mine", and a
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little girl holding a valentine.]
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[HUN]//////////////////////////////
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THE TREASURE HUNT /
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/////////////////////////////////
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Yours For the Downloading
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""
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by Charlie Hartley
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[C.HARTLEY3]
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Welcome back to the Treasure Hunt! This month we will take a look at
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a variety of files available in the A2 Library. Let's get started. :)
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MAH.JONGG.BXY File #18729 154240 bytes GS STRATEGY GAME
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''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
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Mah Jongg
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By Chris Heckman and Scott Mathews
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Copyright 1991, 1992. All rights reserved.
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Wedge Software.
|
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Shareware - $5.00
|
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Joe Kohn uploaded this game for Wedge Software. He describes it as a
|
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"fabulous implementation of the ancient game of Mah Jongg. Similar to
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Shanghai, but better, as each game is completely different as tiles are set
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at random."
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The following information is based on the READ.ME text file that
|
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comes with the download.
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The object of the game is to clear all the tiles from the screen. To
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clear the tiles, you must first find a pair of tiles that match
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identically. Only matched pairs can be removed from the playing field.
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Also, a tile must be considered as 'free' in order to be removed.
|
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A tile is considered 'free' if there are no tiles on top of the tile
|
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|
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you would like to remove, and the tile has either no tiles immediately to
|
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its left, or no tiles immediately to its right. Think of it as having to
|
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|
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slide tiles out to the left or right without disturbing the board.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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Tiles are highlighted and removed by using the mouse. Error messages
|
|||
|
|
will prompt you when you try to remove or match up a tile in error.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
A background image sits underneath all the tiles. If you can clear
|
|||
|
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the board, you'll get to see it in its entirety.
|
|||
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|
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|
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You can load in a new set of tiles if you get bored of the default
|
|||
|
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set. Four tile sets are included with this download. There are several
|
|||
|
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other tile sets in the A2 library.
|
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S.DASILVA1 has recently uploaded several tilesets for Mah Jongg. Here
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|||
|
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is a list of them.
|
|||
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File# File Name Description
|
|||
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|
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23864 ENGLISH.BXY English Tileset for Mahjongg
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23865 FLAGTILES.BXY Flag Tileset for Mahjongg
|
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23808 FRENCH.TILE.BXY French Tileset for Mahjongg
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23897 HARPOON.BXY Harpoon Tileset for Mahjongg
|
|||
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23899 HEBREW.TILE.BXY Hebrew Tileset for Mahjongg
|
|||
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23807 LAKE.TILES.BXY Lake Side Tileset for Mahjongg
|
|||
|
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23581 NIGHT.TILES.BXY Night Tileset for Mahjongg
|
|||
|
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23721 PATTERN.TIL.BXY Patterns Tileset for Mahjongg
|
|||
|
|
23896 SPHERE.TILE.BXY Sphere Tileset for Mahjongg
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
All of these are fairly short downloads, so I recommend that if you
|
|||
|
|
like Mah Jongg, download all of these are try them out.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Instructions for creating your own tilesets are included in the
|
|||
|
|
READ.ME file.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
I like this game a lot. It requires concentration and foresight.
|
|||
|
|
There are no "shoot 'em up" tactics here, just solid strategy and a bit of
|
|||
|
|
luck.
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
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|
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|
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DESKTOP2.BXY File #23867 37248 bytes GS INIT/PROGRAM
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
DeskSets v1.0
|
|||
|
|
by Larry Badten
|
|||
|
|
May 1994
|
|||
|
|
JesusAware (similar to Freeware)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Pat Kern, who uploaded this program, said about it, "Tired of looking
|
|||
|
|
at the same startup/background screen each time you use your GS? Here's a
|
|||
|
|
program that will select from several different desktop patterns that can
|
|||
|
|
be changed daily, each bootup, or find one you like & use it all the time.
|
|||
|
|
31 patterns are included and you can add others as desired.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Larry Badten, the author of this program said about it: "This is a
|
|||
|
|
combination of an init (DeskSets) and a GS/OS program. The init must be
|
|||
|
|
loaded into the boot disks' System/System.Setup folder to become active at
|
|||
|
|
boot time. This init looks for two things: 1) a folder called "DeskTops"
|
|||
|
|
(located in your boot disks' System folder) which contains the patterns and
|
|||
|
|
2) a preference file which will be in your boot disks' System/Preferences
|
|||
|
|
folder (the program and/or init will create and update this file).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"The init has several options. They are: 1) Load a different pattern
|
|||
|
|
after each x boots (you will enter the value for x); 2) Load a different
|
|||
|
|
pattern if the date has changed since the last boot; 3) Don't change the
|
|||
|
|
pattern; 4) Show the boot icon; 5) Hide the boot icon.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"The above options may be changed with the program "SetDesks", which
|
|||
|
|
may be launched from any ProDOS or HFS volume or directory. Another option
|
|||
|
|
is to set the next desk pattern to be selected. If you set a new desk
|
|||
|
|
pattern, you may elect to have it redraw your current desktop (this allows
|
|||
|
|
you to view each desktop)."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This program works as advertised. I've viewed each of the available
|
|||
|
|
screens and selected one of them to permanently (until I get tired of it,
|
|||
|
|
anyway) replace the plain blue screen you normally see with the Finder and
|
|||
|
|
other desktop programs like ShrinkIt GS.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Directions are also included explaining how to create your own
|
|||
|
|
background screens.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BIRTHDAYS.BXY File #23887 28672 bytes DESKSET PICTURES
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This upload by Pat Kern contains six more desktop backgrounds for the
|
|||
|
|
Apple GS DeskSets program by Larry Badten, review above.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
These novelty backgrounds all have something to do with wishing you a
|
|||
|
|
happy birthday. Encourage Pat to create more backgrounds by downloading
|
|||
|
|
these.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GRNSLEEVE.BXY File #23872 107648 bytes MOD SONG
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Ken Gagne uploaded this Christmas favorite, Greensleeves, better
|
|||
|
|
known as the Christmas carol "What Child Is This?" Play it with MODZap,
|
|||
|
|
Sonobox, or any other Amiga MOD player.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I've played it with Sonobox, and it sound nice. Download this one
|
|||
|
|
now and you will have it ready for next Christmas.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
APPLE.SALE.BXY File #23948 17664 bytes ADB OF PROGRAMS
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This is an interesting upload. Mr. Nissel [J.NISSEL1] has a list of
|
|||
|
|
733 pieces of Apple II software that he would like to sell in one large
|
|||
|
|
package. While there are some duplications (indicating more than one copy
|
|||
|
|
of a piece of software available), this is an impressive list of Apple II
|
|||
|
|
software.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I recommend that you download this AppleWorks data base file and take
|
|||
|
|
a look. If nothing else, it's interesting to see what software he has
|
|||
|
|
accumulated. Contact Mr. Nissel for details about what he is asking for
|
|||
|
|
this package.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ELECREP95.BXY File #23940 20992 bytes ELECTED OFFICIALS
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This download contains a listing of all currently elected Federal
|
|||
|
|
Senators, Congresspeople, and Representatives of the US Territories, their
|
|||
|
|
phone #'s and office assignments, as well as the seated Governors for all
|
|||
|
|
50 States. It also includes information on how to write to the elected
|
|||
|
|
officeholders, as well as the President and Vice-President. All
|
|||
|
|
information is stored in AppleWorks 3.0 format. The information is current
|
|||
|
|
as of 1-15-95.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This is useful information in an easy to access format. Mr. Katz
|
|||
|
|
[H.KATZ] is to be commended for making it available.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GODZILLABAR.BXY File #23953 26240 bytes APF GRAPHIC
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Joe Kohn uploaded this grayscale graphic titled Barney vs Godzilla:
|
|||
|
|
The first (and only) chapter. It is a $C0 filetype SHR graphic.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Barney-haters among you will get a kick out of this graphic. The
|
|||
|
|
rest will no doubt send hate-mail to Joe (Just kidding, please don't!).
|
|||
|
|
This is what I call a throwaway download. Get it because you're curious
|
|||
|
|
and because it's a small download. But then, who knows, you might find a
|
|||
|
|
real use for it. :)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
UNISYS.LZW.TXT File #23959 5760 bytes TEXT FILE
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This file contains a statement titled "Unisys Clarifies Policy
|
|||
|
|
Regarding Patent Use in On-Line Service Offerings." This covers Unisys's
|
|||
|
|
actions to enforce it's copyright of LZW against Compuserve, as well future
|
|||
|
|
licensing needed for the use of LZW.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Since the LZW compression is used in GIF graphics, as well as in
|
|||
|
|
products such as ShrinkIt which use it to compress and decompress files,
|
|||
|
|
this issue of potential copyright infringement is of great importance to us
|
|||
|
|
in the Apple II Roundtables.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This statement clarifies some of the facts, and answers some of the
|
|||
|
|
questions that have been asked recently both here and on the Internet. I
|
|||
|
|
recommend that you get this file and read it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BLOSSOM.NO1.BXY File #23937 143744 bytes NEWSLETTER
|
|||
|
|
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
The Apple Blossom
|
|||
|
|
by
|
|||
|
|
Steve Cavanaugh
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
According to Steve, "The Apple Blossom is a 4 page newsletter about
|
|||
|
|
current products for the Apple II in AWGS PL format. It uses Bookman,
|
|||
|
|
Palatino and Times (included in the archive if you don't have them.) I am
|
|||
|
|
sending it to local schools who often don't know about things like the new
|
|||
|
|
AppleWorks or Quick Click Calc. If you would like to print this and send
|
|||
|
|
copies, please feel free to do so. I have around 120 names in my database
|
|||
|
|
for my area now, and as I am doing this out-of-pocket, I can't put in too
|
|||
|
|
many more names. Maybe we'll start taking ads in the future? Enjoy."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This version of The Apple Blossom requires that you have AppleWorks
|
|||
|
|
GS and Pointless for TrueType fonts. If you have AWGS, but not Pointless,
|
|||
|
|
then download file #23943, which uses bitmapped fonts instead. Steve
|
|||
|
|
includes Palatino, Times, and Bookman bitmapped fonts with this second
|
|||
|
|
download.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I can't actually comment on this newsletter, since I don't have
|
|||
|
|
AppleWorks GS; but I can tell you that the comments in the bulletin board
|
|||
|
|
about is have been quite favorable.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ANSITRMRTC.BXY File #23874 9472 bytes RTC TRANSCRIPT
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This is an edited transcript of the ANSITerm Real-Time Conference
|
|||
|
|
held on Monday, January 9, 1995. The guest speaker was Paul Parkhurst,
|
|||
|
|
author of ANSITerm Telecommunications Software for the Apple IIGS.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ANSITerm is a full-featured terminal program that offers
|
|||
|
|
compatibility with PC-based bulletin board systems that use PC-ANSI
|
|||
|
|
emulation to display colored text and special graphical characters, as well
|
|||
|
|
as support for VT52 and VT100 emulations.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ANSITerm also works well on GEnie and will support CoPilot.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you are looking for a new telecommunications program, I suggest
|
|||
|
|
you take a look at this file. It provides a wealth of information that may
|
|||
|
|
help you to decide what to get.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[*][*][*]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
SPECTRUMRTC.BXY File #23925 19456 bytes RTC TRANSCRIPT
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This is the edited transcript of the Spectrum 2.0 Real-Time
|
|||
|
|
Conference held on January 16, 1995, in the A2 RTC. Read this transcript
|
|||
|
|
for details on Spectrum 2.0's new features and when it will be available.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Spectrum 2.0, which is a true GS Desktop telecommunications program,
|
|||
|
|
promises to be a nice piece of software, particularly for those who like to
|
|||
|
|
write their own scripts. Even if you are looking for a plug-and-play
|
|||
|
|
program, you should take a look at this transcript.
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[*][*][*]
|
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|
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SLOTSCAN162.BXY File #23871 13184 bytes UTILITY
|
|||
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''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
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SlotScan - Version 1.62
|
|||
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Freeware for Noncommercial Uses
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
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Robert Claney has created this program, which will run on any
|
|||
|
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computer with 16k. It will tell you what kind and version of Apple
|
|||
|
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computer you have, and how much memory you have.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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What gives this program it's name, though, is the fact that it scans
|
|||
|
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your computer's slots and/or ports, telling you what is present in each
|
|||
|
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one. It will describe in detail the individual devices attached to
|
|||
|
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SmartPort cards or ports, and SCSI cards which may be in your system. It
|
|||
|
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will identify the capacity of any drives which are supported by ProDOS.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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If, for some reason, you transfer SlotScan to DOS 3.3, it will work
|
|||
|
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there too. It does require at least 16k in order to run, though. This is
|
|||
|
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probably how you will have to run it on a ][ or ][+.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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The program comes with a detailed documentation file. While it is
|
|||
|
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freeware for noncommercial uses, those who find a need for it in
|
|||
|
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conjunction with a commercial product should contact Mr. Claney. His
|
|||
|
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address is included in the documentation.
|
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|
|||
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[*][*][*]
|
|||
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|
|||
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AW5MACROS.BXY File #23883 5632 bytes APPLEWORKS 5 MACROS
|
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''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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Steve Beville has uploaded a corrected version of the AppleWorks 5.0
|
|||
|
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Macros file which contains a description of the default macros for this
|
|||
|
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program.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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This file contains a list of the default macro set contained in
|
|||
|
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SEG.UM and SEG.AX on the AppleWorks 5.0 disk. These macros are
|
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|
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automatically installed when AppleWorks is booted with UltraMacros
|
|||
|
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activated.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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If you have AppleWorks 5.0, and especially if you use macros with it,
|
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|
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you should download this small file.
|
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|
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|
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[*][*][*]
|
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While we're on the subject of AppleWorks 5.0, there are five archives
|
|||
|
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of bulletin board messages related to this program now available in the
|
|||
|
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library. These are archives of the messages posted to the "AppleWorks 5.0
|
|||
|
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Is Shipping!" topic. Download the following files and read through them to
|
|||
|
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gleam some jewels of information about AppleWorks 5.0 from folks who know
|
|||
|
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it well.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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The files are
|
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|
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|
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23917 AW5GENDIS01.BXY Messages from 8/5/94 - 10/16/94
|
|||
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23918 AW5GENDIS02.BXY Messages from 10/17/94 - 12/9/94
|
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23919 AW5GENDIS03.BXY Messages from 12/10/94 - 12/23/94
|
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23920 AW5GENDIS04.BXY Messages from 12/24/94 - 12/31/94
|
|||
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23921 AW5GENDIS05.BXY Messages from 1/1/95 - 1/13/95
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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[*][*][*]
|
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|
|||
|
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That's it for this month. I hope you have found something here to
|
|||
|
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whet your interest. Drop me a line and let me know what you think of this
|
|||
|
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column and offer any suggestions you might have about what should be in it.
|
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|
|||
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|
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|
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Until next time, happy downloading!
|
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|
|||
|
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-- Charlie Hartley
|
|||
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|
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|
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[EOA]
|
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[PRO]//////////////////////////////
|
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PROFILES /
|
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/////////////////////////////////
|
|||
|
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Who's Who In Apple II
|
|||
|
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"""""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
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by Charlie Hartley
|
|||
|
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[C.HARTLEY3]
|
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|
|||
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|
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|
|||
|
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>>> WHO'S WHO? <<<
|
|||
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""""""""""""""""""
|
|||
|
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~ GEnieLamp Profile: Doug Cuff ~
|
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|
|||
|
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This month we will profile our own editor, Doug Cuff. Doug is not
|
|||
|
|
only the editor of the GEnieLamp A2, he is also the editor of the monthly
|
|||
|
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disk magazine A2-Central, and the author of the delta manual for the new
|
|||
|
|
AppleWorks 5.
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
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GEnieLamp> Tell us about your job as editor of GEnieLamp A2.
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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Cuff> About the most interesting thing about it is how I got the job! I
|
|||
|
|
'''' had just rejoined GEnie after a short absence, and heard that Dean
|
|||
|
|
Esmay was looking for an editor for GEnieLamp A2. Since it had been
|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp A2 that was responsible for making me come back to GEnie--I
|
|||
|
|
couldn't bear to be left out of the fun any more!--I applied, despite the
|
|||
|
|
fact that almost no one knew who I was. I got the job, for the usual No
|
|||
|
|
Good Reason (no, I was not the only one to apply :-), and GEnieLamp
|
|||
|
|
editor-in-chief John Peters showed me the Reader's Digest version of the
|
|||
|
|
ropes.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
An important part of each edition of GEnieLamp is the HEY MISTER
|
|||
|
|
POSTMAN column, in which each editor selects a digest of the messages
|
|||
|
|
posted that month on the respective RoundTable. This requires me and my
|
|||
|
|
fellow editors to read every single message in every single category. (You
|
|||
|
|
don't know how much I sometimes long for the luxury of IGNoring a category
|
|||
|
|
PERmanently.) Actually collecting the messages only takes three hours a
|
|||
|
|
week, but reading them takes much longer. I have to read every message
|
|||
|
|
carefully, too, since I'm always on the lookout for Quik Quotes to sprinkle
|
|||
|
|
throughout the magazine.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
My favourite part of the magazine has always been the profiles. I'm
|
|||
|
|
not sure what I've done that's worth profiling. I only report the news,
|
|||
|
|
after all. Others--like Jawaid Bazyar, Randy Brandt, "Brutal Deluxe", Bill
|
|||
|
|
Heineman, Michael Lutynski, Steven McQueen, Greg Templeman, Bill Tudor,
|
|||
|
|
Eric Shepherd, Dan Verkade, Joe Wankerl, Mike Westerfield, and dozens of
|
|||
|
|
others, most of whom I'm just offended by not thinking of their names off
|
|||
|
|
the top of my head--MAKE the news (by writing the programs).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
My least favourite part of the job is its deadline. GEnieLamp A2 and
|
|||
|
|
A2-Central are both due on the same day! Do you have any idea what it's
|
|||
|
|
like to edit two monthly magazines, both of which depend on the previous
|
|||
|
|
month's events, and both of which are due on the same day? I manage, but
|
|||
|
|
anyone who thinks it's a lot of fun would have made an ideal companion for
|
|||
|
|
the Marquis de Sade.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp> Tell us about your job as editor of the A2-Central.
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Cuff> It gives me the chance to pretend to be Tom Weishaar (which I
|
|||
|
|
'''' ain't, however much I'd like to be), and it gives me the chance to
|
|||
|
|
work with Steve Weyhrich. Steve is great. He'd written columns for
|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp A2 for quite some time before he started working at A2-Central,
|
|||
|
|
but we didn't meet until KansasFest 1994.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It's also great fun working with Uncle DOS, who writes our letters
|
|||
|
|
column. As fictional characters go, he's pretty three-dimensional. It's
|
|||
|
|
an amazing kick to be the editor of a newsletter you're a charter
|
|||
|
|
subscriber of.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Professionally, it's an odd sort of situation. ICON, which publishes
|
|||
|
|
A2-Central and almost a dozen other disk newsletters, is a not-for-profit
|
|||
|
|
group. Yet A2-Central pays for submissions (not much, I'm afraid, but we
|
|||
|
|
do pay), and ICON pays me a small amount (out of which I have to pay the
|
|||
|
|
authors, which is kind of unusual). I suppose it's this anomaly that
|
|||
|
|
causes people to assume we're a major magazine, instead of the newsletter
|
|||
|
|
Tom Weishaar always envisioned us as being.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Anything else you'd like to know about working at A2-Central? I'm so
|
|||
|
|
close to the subject, I can't imagine what anyone would find interesting
|
|||
|
|
about it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp> Some of our readers may be interesting in submitting to
|
|||
|
|
''''''''' A2-Central. Tell us what you might be looking for in the way
|
|||
|
|
of articles, etc.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Cuff> If I knew the answer to that, I'd probably write and research the
|
|||
|
|
'''' articles myself! I guess what I'm looking for is something I
|
|||
|
|
haven't thought of so far. I have two pieces of advice for aspiring
|
|||
|
|
authors, both good for all magazine and newsletter markets: First, be sure
|
|||
|
|
you're not submitting an idea that your market has already handled.
|
|||
|
|
Second, realize that "think pieces" are the prerogative of the editor.
|
|||
|
|
I've had a few submissions in which the author is basically trying to point
|
|||
|
|
out that the future isn't so bleak for the Apple II... whether to console
|
|||
|
|
him/herself, or to console A2-Central's readers, I don't know. None of
|
|||
|
|
this is bad, but neither is it good enough.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To simplify: Only editors of literary magazines are likely to be
|
|||
|
|
interested in a piece based on what an author _thinks_. Editors of news
|
|||
|
|
magazines are more likely to be interested in what an author _knows_.
|
|||
|
|
(Editors particularly like authors who research to fill in the gaps where
|
|||
|
|
they _don't_ know.) I've got dozens of people who can give me their wry
|
|||
|
|
observations on the Apple II's mistreatment by Apple Computer, but no one
|
|||
|
|
so far who has offered to explain exactly what Big Red Computer will be
|
|||
|
|
offering in 1995.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Of course, A2-Central is still interested in what Apple II users
|
|||
|
|
think, same as always. Just write Uncle DOS and tell him--he's glad to
|
|||
|
|
listen! If you have a question or an answer to one, he's just as glad to
|
|||
|
|
get those. Be sure to use the new address, though: 6405 Metcalf Avenue,
|
|||
|
|
Ste. 106, Box 22, Overland Park, Kansas 66202-4080.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp> Tell us about your experiences as you wrote the Delta manual
|
|||
|
|
''''''''' for AppleWorks 5.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Cuff> It was complete and utter madness, and I'd do it again in a minute
|
|||
|
|
'''' if they asked me to.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It began when Jerry Kindall asked me, in early September, if I'd be
|
|||
|
|
interested in the job. When I said yes, he asked me how much I charged.
|
|||
|
|
I'd already been helping in the beta testing of AppleWorks 5, knew about
|
|||
|
|
how much work had been done on the program, and made a guess of a week, or
|
|||
|
|
two at the most.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Two weeks to write the update manual for AppleWorks 5. Right. You
|
|||
|
|
know, if they held a contest for estimating time to project completion,
|
|||
|
|
Randy Brandt, Jerry Kindall, and I would all tie for last. I ended up
|
|||
|
|
working over 30 days on the manual, and they weren't 9-5 days, either.
|
|||
|
|
Over the entire period, I think the earliest I went to bed was midnight,
|
|||
|
|
and there were quite a few nights when I kept working until 3 AM. All this
|
|||
|
|
despite the fact that Randy had already written huge chunks of the manual!
|
|||
|
|
(For instance, I adapted the portion on the Outliner from his Outline 3.0
|
|||
|
|
manual.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
All the time I was writing, AppleWorks 5 was still in development, so
|
|||
|
|
it was possible to write a page in the morning and have it be either
|
|||
|
|
obsolete or flat-out wrong by the evening. (It was also possible to spend
|
|||
|
|
three hours trying to circumvent a bug that prevented me from being able to
|
|||
|
|
document a feature.) Randy Brandt couldn't have been nicer. He read
|
|||
|
|
several drafts of the manual, and corrected my errors with patience and
|
|||
|
|
good humour.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I wrote the manual using AppleWorks 5 itself, but the last few days
|
|||
|
|
were spent putting the document into a Rich Text Format, so that Jerry
|
|||
|
|
Kindall could read it on his Mac with my original formatting intact. This
|
|||
|
|
saved Jerry so much time, he actually arranged for me to be paid a bonus!
|
|||
|
|
I uploaded my final draft in mid-October... and that same night, Randy
|
|||
|
|
phoned me to say he'd added one last feature and ask if it was too late to
|
|||
|
|
have it in the manual. (Jerry added those paragraphs, so it wasn't really
|
|||
|
|
too late.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp> How did you first get interested in the Apple II computer?
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Cuff> It's all thanks to--or possibly the fault of--my younger brother
|
|||
|
|
'''' Leslie, who in turn owes his interest to his high-school chum Steve
|
|||
|
|
Garland. My brother Les used to play games on his friend's Apple II-Plus,
|
|||
|
|
and asked for an Apple II for Christmas of 1982.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
On Christmas morning, Les had an Apple II-Plus to play with. He
|
|||
|
|
wrote a simple program in BASIC that drew random dots on the hi-res screen,
|
|||
|
|
and that looked pretty cool. Not only was it my first glimpse of a
|
|||
|
|
personal computer--which explains why I was impressed by a pretty quick
|
|||
|
|
hack--but the hi-res display of random dots looked like a star field.
|
|||
|
|
(Years of Star Trek had convinced me this was the loveliest possible view.)
|
|||
|
|
The computer kept drawing dots, which quickly became boring, and the other
|
|||
|
|
members of the family drifted away.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"How many dots is it going to draw?" I asked Les.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Five thousand," Les replied.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Can you make it show how far along it is?" I asked.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Sure," said Les, and he interrupted the program. He added one
|
|||
|
|
line--one line!--of code, and started the program going again. Sure
|
|||
|
|
enough, it was now counting the dots it was drawing. That was it. I was
|
|||
|
|
hooked. You could make the darned thing respond to your wishes.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In retrospect, I realize that all Les did was insert a PRINT
|
|||
|
|
statement in the middle of a FOR-NEXT loop. Never mind. At that time, I
|
|||
|
|
was enormously impressed at how easily you could control the machine.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp> Do you have any anecdotes you can share with us about your
|
|||
|
|
''''''''' first experiences with the Apple II?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Cuff> Not long after my younger brother Les wowed me with a simple PRINT
|
|||
|
|
'''' statement, I picked up the Applesoft BASIC manual that came with
|
|||
|
|
the machine and started writing programs. These programs, when run, were
|
|||
|
|
singularly unimpressive... but I didn't write them to run them. I wrote
|
|||
|
|
them to list them, to remind myself of how various commands worked and what
|
|||
|
|
their syntax was.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
My favourite early moment came when Les borrowed Mission: Asteroid
|
|||
|
|
(Hi-Res Adventure #0) from his pal Steve Garland. For weeks, Steve and Les
|
|||
|
|
had been stuck at the first screen of the game, where you have to get past
|
|||
|
|
a receptionist by giving a password. I watched Les type increasingly wild
|
|||
|
|
guesses for the password, then walk away from the computer in frustration
|
|||
|
|
with the game still running. I quickly sat down in his place, never having
|
|||
|
|
seen an adventure game before. I had seen Les type "INVENTORY", so I tried
|
|||
|
|
that. Practically all that "I" was carrying was a watch, so I typed "LOOK
|
|||
|
|
WATCH". It had a button on it, so I typed "PRESS BUTTON"... and the game
|
|||
|
|
told me the password! I gave the password to the receptionist, and
|
|||
|
|
proceeded with the game. At that point, Les came back into the room. It
|
|||
|
|
was a couple of seconds before he could choke out, "How did you _do_ that?"
|
|||
|
|
Only then did he tell me how long he and his friend had been working on the
|
|||
|
|
problem.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
With that, I was hooked on adventure games. Les and I finished the
|
|||
|
|
game in no time, returned the disk to his friend, and started buying our
|
|||
|
|
own adventure games. I remember buying Mystery House (Hi-Res Adventure
|
|||
|
|
#1)--_years_ after its original release--and finishing it in one weekend.
|
|||
|
|
I bought Softporn Adventure, the text adventure that later metamorphosed
|
|||
|
|
into Leisure-Suit Larry, and finished it in one day. Don't get me started
|
|||
|
|
on the Infocom adventures, or GEnieLamp A2 will be twice its normal size
|
|||
|
|
this month!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
For the same reason, don't get me started on when I used to run a
|
|||
|
|
BBS. That doesn't qualify as "early years" material anyway.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp> Running a BBS sounds like an exciting adventure. Tell us
|
|||
|
|
''''''''' about your experiences.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Cuff> Not letting me off that easily, eh?
|
|||
|
|
''''
|
|||
|
|
My fondest memories of running a BBS are of the friends I made,
|
|||
|
|
people I wouldn't otherwise have met, and whom I still keep in touch with
|
|||
|
|
via E-mail. One of my bulletin board system's leading lights was a young
|
|||
|
|
lady named Kirsten, who took to dropping by in person every second week or
|
|||
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so. One day she brought along her best friend... which is how I met Tara,
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the lady who is now my wife!
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I made other friends, too (didn't marry a one of 'em!) and got to
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visit with them this Christmas just past. After I closed my BBS, about a
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dozen of us gathered in my living room for a wake! We celebrated with a
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parody of Poe's poem "The Raven", co-written by my wife and myself.
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(You'll find it reproduced in the October 1994 issue of A2-Central.)
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Running a BBS also provided me with an education--one I needed, but
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one I didn't much relish at the time. "The astonishing thing," someone
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once said, "is not that most people have a price, but how low that price
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is." It was frightening to learn how many people considered that they had
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a right to break the rules, because they personally were on the side of the
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angels. In practice, it didn't matter much, but I lost a few of my
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illusions about human nature.
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More of a problem was a user named Ron who began by applying for
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accounts in several names. He rapidly moved on to trying to hack in to
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other accounts, including the system operator's (mine), which is a black
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crime. Fortunately, he wasn't very good at it. I banned him from the
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system. In his attempts to get back on, he tried blackmail, he tried
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bribery, he tried threats, he tried ruining my reputation, and he tried
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portraying himself as persecuted. All of this stopped when his employer
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had him arrested for stealing equipment to the value of--I think--$75,000.
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He was convicted and sentenced to jail. To replace my lost illusions about
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human nature, I gained some respect for the justice system.
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GEnieLamp> Tell us a bit about your family.
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'''''''''
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Cuff> Well, my wife Tara and I have been married for three years, and we
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'''' haven't any children yet, so we're an abbreviated family. We both
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come from Newfoundland, Canada's easternmost province. (You pronounce
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"Newfoundland" to rhyme with "understand": nyu-fnd-'LAND. People who
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stress the middle syllable drive Newfoundlanders crazy.) We're living in
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London, Ontario while Tara takes her computer science degree at the
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University of Western Ontario.
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My mother and father were both teachers, though by the time I was
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born, my mother had become--well, a mother--and my father was a university
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professor. I have three brothers: Jeff and Bob, both older, and Les, who
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is younger.
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The family history really got interesting when my father decided to
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start a publishing company, Harry Cuff Publications. I started there as a
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shipping clerk, and taught myself most aspects of the business. I'm
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insufferably proud--according to my brothers, anyway--of the fact that I am
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neither the eldest son, nor the one who joined the firm first, yet was
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still the one who was second in command until I let the firm to join Tara
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in London, Ontario. Whoops, I've started talking about myself again, and
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not the family. Next question, please?
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GEnieLamp> What do you consider your proudest accomplishment?
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'''''''''
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Cuff> Our marriage. It's a wonderful thing. My wife and I communicate
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'''' in extremely efficient but sometimes confusing ways. At a casual
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get-together, we once utterly confounded our hostess--my wife by uttering
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the sentence, "Well, that went through my head like a pregnant earwig!" and
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me by _understanding_ it. (All Tara meant was "That remark went over my
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head.") Understanding someone that well produces a warm feeling. Like
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Fezzik in _The Princess Bride_, my private picture of hell is being left
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alone with everybody going "BOOOOOOOOOOO" at me forever. Now that I've met
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Tara, I don't have to worry about that any more, and neither does she.
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GEnieLamp> Who do you look up to as your mentors?
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'''''''''
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Cuff> These days, I find it's hard to find anyone with the time to act as
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'''' a mentor, don't you? In any case, I prefer jobs that have a
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certain amount of autonomy. With those sorts of jobs, your superiors throw
|
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you in at the deep end. They don't hang about to give advice. Some of
|
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them only check back months later, presumably to see if they need to have
|
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your remains fished out of the pool.
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While they may not have been my mentors, I'd like to use this
|
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opportunity to compliment a few people: Jerry Kindall, managing editor of
|
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|
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_II Alive_, is the best editor I've ever written for. He often finds a way
|
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|
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to make my articles just a little bit better and still remains sensitive to
|
|||
|
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the author's original intentions. GEnieLamp chief John Peters provides his
|
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clear head--none clearer!--when mine is muddled, volcanic, or narcissistic,
|
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and often provides a shoulder to sob on, too.
|
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|
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Probably the closest thing I've had to a mentor is my father, whom I
|
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love dearly. Oddly enough, he rarely gave me professional advice when I
|
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|
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was working for the family firm, but outside the office, he sure shapes my
|
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values and behaviour.
|
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|
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GEnieLamp> What sorts of things do you like to do for fun (i.e.
|
|||
|
|
''''''''' non-computer hobbies)?
|
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|
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|
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Cuff> I guess programming doesn't count, does it? I like programming,
|
|||
|
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'''' but it will never be more than a hobby.
|
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|
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|
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I enjoy theatre. For several years, I was a stage manager with
|
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|
|
amateur theatre groups in Newfoundland. I enjoy theatre-going, too, but
|
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|
|
that's definitely a luxury when you're looking for work, as I am these
|
|||
|
|
days. Before I started working on A2-Central, I'd occasionally volunteer
|
|||
|
|
to usher at one of the professional local theatres, which meant I could see
|
|||
|
|
the show for nothing, but there's no time for that now. This past summer,
|
|||
|
|
my wife and I splurged to see _Othello_ at the world-famous Stratford
|
|||
|
|
Festival. I've wanted to attend ever since I was a young'un, and since
|
|||
|
|
Stratford is only 50 minutes' drive from where I live, the temptation was
|
|||
|
|
too great.
|
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|
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|
|
I enjoy reading and writing, and am starting to worry at how little
|
|||
|
|
time I have for reading now that I'm writing for GEnieLamp A2 and
|
|||
|
|
A2-Central regularly. I agree with Stephen King's assertion that authors
|
|||
|
|
who say "I don't have time to read" are like people who start up Mount
|
|||
|
|
Everest while claiming that they didn't have time to buy rope or pitons.
|
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|
|||
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|
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|
|
GEnieLamp> What do you read for pleasure?
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''
|
|||
|
|
Cuff> In my early adolescence, I read Agatha Christie; while a university
|
|||
|
|
'''' undergraduate, I read P. G. Wodehouse; and as a graduate student, I
|
|||
|
|
read Harlan Ellison.
|
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|
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|
|||
|
|
That's actually a gross oversimplification, and worse, it doesn't
|
|||
|
|
address the question of what I'm reading now. Alas, I no longer read as
|
|||
|
|
much fiction, though I do try to pick up everything by Spider Robinson, and
|
|||
|
|
occasionally dip into my wife's Heinlein collection or try to borrow a
|
|||
|
|
Vonnegut I haven't read. And I still read Harlan Ellison. When I feel
|
|||
|
|
like a touch of humour, I'll re-read William Goldman or British author
|
|||
|
|
Keith Waterhouse. As a stage manager, I read hundreds of play scripts, and
|
|||
|
|
still enjoy reading those and television scripts from British series such
|
|||
|
|
as "A Bit of Fry and Laurie", "Yes, Minister", and so on. I've read and
|
|||
|
|
enjoyed exactly one Stephen King book--_Misery_--because it dealt with the
|
|||
|
|
horrors one human being can inflict on another. Now _that's_ terrifying.
|
|||
|
|
Vampires and devils don't do a thing for me, not on the printed page.
|
|||
|
|
Running into one in real life, however...!
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
I read a lot of "light" reference books, ones that present
|
|||
|
|
information in an entertaining way--Trivial Pursuit could well have been
|
|||
|
|
invented as a way to make me appear clever--and am constantly searching for
|
|||
|
|
a well-written biography. It's astonishing how many poorly-written bios
|
|||
|
|
there are. People are fascinating, so why are so many books about them
|
|||
|
|
dull?
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp> Are computers a part of your daytime job? Please tell us a
|
|||
|
|
''''''''' little about what you do between 9 and 5.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Cuff> Unless you count editing GEnieLamp A2 and A2-Central, I don't have a
|
|||
|
|
'''' daytime job. (I don't really consider either a day job. I don't
|
|||
|
|
get paid for editing GEnieLamp A2, and while I do get a small amount for
|
|||
|
|
editing A2-Central and that _is_ my only income at present, it pays too far
|
|||
|
|
below poverty level--which isn't ICON's fault, by the way--to be considered
|
|||
|
|
a day job.) I'm looking for work, and that--plus keeping the household
|
|||
|
|
running--takes up most of my daytime hours.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp> How long have you been a member of GEnie?
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Cuff> Boy, I'm lucky I keep all my credit card statements--I wouldn't
|
|||
|
|
'''' have been able even to estimate the answer to that one: I joined
|
|||
|
|
in 1988, when Tom Weishaar began promoting GEnie in A2-Central. I called
|
|||
|
|
infrequently at best, partly because the nearest node was an extremely
|
|||
|
|
LONG-distance call from Newfoundland, and partly because of the atrocious
|
|||
|
|
user interface. I didn't become a regular caller and full-fledged member
|
|||
|
|
of GEnie's A2 community until 1993.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp> What new services do you think GEnie should provide its
|
|||
|
|
''''''''' subscribers?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Cuff> It should provide better access for modems operating at 9600 baud
|
|||
|
|
'''' and higher, and it should do so as soon as possible. It's already
|
|||
|
|
waited too long. It should provide a more efficient upload protocol than
|
|||
|
|
XMODEM. It should provide full access to the Internet, and of course
|
|||
|
|
they're actively working on that last one.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
One service GEnie doesn't have that CompuServe does is Phone*File, an
|
|||
|
|
online telephone book--the "white pages"--for the USA. There's also a
|
|||
|
|
"Yellow Pages" version that covers Canada and the US. I like it a lot, and
|
|||
|
|
hope that GEnie will implement something similar.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
An "old" service GEnie should keep is ASCII-level service, so that
|
|||
|
|
you don't have to use a fancy-shmancy graphics interface just to log in.
|
|||
|
|
Businesses that don't have time for the lowest common denominator are going
|
|||
|
|
to find that their supply of new customers is limited.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp> What one piece of advice would you pass along to a new
|
|||
|
|
''''''''' Apple II telecommunications enthusiast?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Cuff> First of all, join GEnie. I realize that sounds as though I'm
|
|||
|
|
'''' drumming up trade for the service that publishes GEnieLamp A2, but
|
|||
|
|
it's genuinely what I advise. GEnie is _the_ place to be if you use an
|
|||
|
|
Apple II. These days, you have to be online to get the best support for
|
|||
|
|
your Apple II. CompuServe is no longer the fun place it was. America
|
|||
|
|
Online doesn't want to know you any more. Delphi is still an unknown. The
|
|||
|
|
Internet has too much strife too often. GEnie is the clear winner.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The only problem is that GEnie's user interface is about as intuitive
|
|||
|
|
as the second law of thermodynamics. Therefore, my second piece of advice
|
|||
|
|
is that you start using an offline message processor like CoPilot or GEnie
|
|||
|
|
Master (GEM). I resisted using message processors for years, figuring they
|
|||
|
|
would require me to abandon the spontaneity of being online. I was wrong.
|
|||
|
|
(This happens sometimes.) Now I recommend CoPilot and GEM every chance I
|
|||
|
|
get.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp> What do you see as the future for the Apple II and its owners?
|
|||
|
|
'''''''''
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Cuff> I prefer not to prophesy. All I can tell you is that it's not over
|
|||
|
|
'''' yet. I have a feeling that some of us will use our Apple II
|
|||
|
|
computers until there is no longer a way to patch them up. Probably Joe
|
|||
|
|
Kohn and I will be duking it out for the title here, but don't schedule the
|
|||
|
|
match for any time soon.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
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|
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|
|
GEnieLamp> Can you offer some advice about software and hardware that a
|
|||
|
|
''''''''' new Apple II user might invest in? What do you have and use?
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Cuff> Much depends on what they want to do! I love AppleWorks, and
|
|||
|
|
'''' wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone who has a need for a
|
|||
|
|
word processor or a data base or a spreadsheet. (UltraMacros also provides
|
|||
|
|
a satisfying programming environment.) I _would_ hesitate to recommend it
|
|||
|
|
to someone who wants to play games.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
I happen to like Talk is Cheap, the telecommunications program by Don
|
|||
|
|
Elton. It's easy to write scripts for it, and it works on Apple IIe's and
|
|||
|
|
IIc's as well as IIgs's. If it had ZMODEM, I might never need anything
|
|||
|
|
else.
|
|||
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|
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|
|
I personally prefer a monochrome monitor because I work with my Apple
|
|||
|
|
II all day, every day, and the eyestrain that a colour monitor causes in
|
|||
|
|
ridiculous. Luckily, I use text-based applications 95% of the time, since
|
|||
|
|
I'm either using a word processor or telecommunications software, and
|
|||
|
|
colour is not likely to be vital to either task. I can't say I recommend
|
|||
|
|
it for anyone who doesn't do at least 8 hours of word processing in a day,
|
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|
|
though.
|
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Our computer equipment consists of a ROM 01 IIgs with 4 megs of RAM,
|
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two monitors (one monochrome and one RGB colour), a 105-meg hard drive, a
|
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|
|
21-meg Floptical drive, a 9600-baud modem that only connects reliably at
|
|||
|
|
2400, and an ImageWriter II printer. There's also a IIe with a 20-meg hard
|
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|
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drive and a 1200-baud modem.
|
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|
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|
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We also have a 286 laptop on extended loan from my eldest brother,
|
|||
|
|
but I haven't used it since I dragged it to KansasFest. It literally
|
|||
|
|
gathers dust. MS-DOS is not my friend.
|
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|
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|
|||
|
|
GEnieLamp> Where do you see the future of telecommunications moving in
|
|||
|
|
''''''''' the next five to ten years?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Cuff> This is a difficult question for those who try not to prophesy! I
|
|||
|
|
'''' have fears that the Internet as we know will be taxed or legislated
|
|||
|
|
out of existence, but I don't really know how likely that is. I predict
|
|||
|
|
that, in ten years, telecommunications will have evolved even beyond my
|
|||
|
|
capacity to predict. We're all in for some thrilling, frustrating times.
|
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|
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|
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|
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GEnieLamp> Doug, it as been a pleasure talking with you. The Apple II
|
|||
|
|
''''''''' world is blessed by dedicated, articulate folks like you.
|
|||
|
|
Keep up the good work! :)
|
|||
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|
|
|||
|
|
Cuff> Thanks very much for speaking with me. If anyone has any questions
|
|||
|
|
'''' about GEnieLamp A2 or A2-Central, I hope they'll drop me a line at
|
|||
|
|
editor.a2@genie.geis.com (or just EDITOR.A2, on GEnie). I love to get
|
|||
|
|
mail!
|
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[*][*][*]
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A note to our readers: If you want to know more about a particular
|
|||
|
|
person and want him/her to be interviewed for the GEnieLamp A2 profile
|
|||
|
|
column, send E-mail to C.HARTLEY3 or EDITOR.A2 and we'll see what we can
|
|||
|
|
do. In your E-mail message, tell why you think this person is a good
|
|||
|
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candidate for the profile.
|
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