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~ WELCOME TO GEnieLamp APPLE II! ~
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~ APPLEWORKS ANNEX: AppleWorks 5 Takes on the (Mac) Competition
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~ FOCUS ON...: The Internet, Australia, and the Apple II
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~ PROFILES: Tom Zuchowski ~
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~ THE TREASURE HUNT: Top 20 Eamon Adventures ~
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~ HOT NEWS, HOT FILES, HOT MESSAGES ~
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GEnieLamp Apple II ~ A T/TalkNET Publication ~ Vol.4, Issue 38
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Publisher................................................John F. Peters
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Editor...................................................Douglas Cuff
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>>> WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE APPLE II ROUNDTABLE? <<<
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~ May 1, 1995 ~
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FROM MY DESKTOP ......... [FRM] FROM MY MAILBOX ......... [MAI]
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Notes From The Editor. Notes To The Editor.
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HEY MISTER POSTMAN ...... [HEY] HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM]
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Is That A Letter For Me? Is That Funny or Scary?
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FOCUS ON... ............. [FOC] APPLEWORKS ANNEX ........ [ANX]
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The Internet. In This Corner, AppleWorks 5.
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ASCII ART GALLERY ....... [ASA] PROFILES ................ [PRO]
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Menagerie. Who's Who: Tom Zuchowski.
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THE TREASURE HUNT ....... [HUN] LOG OFF ................. [LOG]
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Best 20 Eamon Adventures. GEnieLamp Information.
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[IDX]"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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READING GEnieLamp GEnieLamp has incorporated a unique indexing system to
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""""""""""""""""" to help make reading the magazine easier. To utilize
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this system, load GEnieLamp into any ASCII word processor or text editor.
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In the index you will find the following example:
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HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM]
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GEnie Fun & Games.
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To read this article, set your find or search command to [HUM]. If
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you want to scan all of the articles, search for [EOA]. [EOF] will take
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you to the last page, whereas [IDX] will bring you back to the index.
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MESSAGE INFO To make it easy for you to respond to messages
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"""""""""""" re-printed here in GEnieLamp, you will find all the
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(SMITH, CAT6, TOP1, MSG:58/M475)
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_____________| _____|__ _|___ |____ |_____________
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|Name of sender CATegory TOPic Msg.# Page number|
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In this example, to respond to Smith's message, log on to page 475
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enter the bulletin board and set CAT 6. Enter your REPly in TOPic 1.
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A message number that is surrounded by brackets indicates that this
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message is a "target" message and is referring to a "chain" of two or more
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messages that are following the same topic. For example: {58}.
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ABOUT GEnie GEnie's monthly fee is $8.95 which gives you up to four hours
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""""""""""" of non-prime time access to most GEnie services, such as
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software downloads, bulletin boards, GE Mail, an Internet mail gateway, and
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chat lines. GEnie's non-prime time connect rate is $3.00. To sign up for
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GEnie service, call (with modem) 1-800-638-8369 in the USA or
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1-800-387-8330 in Canada. Upon connection type HHH. Wait for the U#=
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for the signup/offer code, type: DSD524 and hit RETURN. The system will
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then prompt you for your information. Need more information? Call GEnie's
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//////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
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/ "IIGS is a nice machine; I have one but we have to be /
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/ realistic. When is the last time you went into a store /
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/ and found any software for it?" /
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/ /
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/ "Yesterday!!!" /
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//////////////////////////////////// S.HEWES & R.PASOLD ////
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[EOA]
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[FRM]//////////////////////////////
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FROM MY DESKTOP /
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Notes From The Editor
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"""""""""""""""""""""
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by Douglas Cuff
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[EDITOR.A2]
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I don't own many hats, but I sure wear a lot of them. The hats are
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of course metaphorical, and are just my roundabout way of announcing that
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I've been appointed editor of II Alive magazine, which is published by
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Quality Computers. When I started my career as editor, I was working in
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print, and it's nice to in print again. That doesn't mean I'll be giving
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up my career as videotext editor, though. You're stuck with me for another
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month at least, and for as long as I can continue to juggle both II Alive
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and GEnieLamp A2.
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However, this month the double duties mean that my editorial is a
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little "abbreviated" (which I'm informed is the politically correct term
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for "short").
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[*][*][*]
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It looks as though KansasFest 1996 is a go! I've omitted all
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messages that give sign-up info from this issue of GEnieLamp A2, though,
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because I understand that the messages posted to the A2 RoundTable are no
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longer accurate (partly because the organizers need a minimum number of
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participants). If you're interested in paying the $200 attendance fee, and
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can get to Kansas City this July 27-29, just drop me a line and I'll
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forward your message to the organizers.
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[*][*][*]
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Did you know that you can earn free time on GEnie by writing for
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GEnieLamp A2? Each article accepted for publications gets you a credit for
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three non-prime time hours!
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Of course, that leaves me a little puzzled about how to pay Kevin
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Noonan this month. Kevin's from Australia, and can't afford a GEnie
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account, but he's written an article about the Internet in Australia for
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us. At least I know how to pay Jay Curtis for his continuing AppleWorks 5
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series....
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-- Doug Cuff
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GEnie Mail: EDITOR.A2 Internet: editor.a2@genie.com
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[EOA]
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[MAI]//////////////////////////////
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FROM MY MAILBOX /
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Notes To The Editor
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"""""""""""""""""""
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>>> BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT--"THINKING ABOUT ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS" <<<
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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For the past three years I've been writing a GEnieLamp column titled
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"Thinking About Online Communications." The aim of this column has been to
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reflect upon the nature of the online experience by taking a closer look at
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the social and psychological aspects of online communication.
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E-mail feedback about these essays has been far more positive than I
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expected. Several loyal readers have recently suggested that I compile an
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anthology of the essays.
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With the third anniversary of GEnieLamp A2 occurring last month, I
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felt the time was ripe to act on these suggestions. In the past two weeks,
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I've collected together about twenty five of these essays into a anthology,
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and am in the process of locating an publisher.
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GEnieLamp readers interested in seeing excerpts from this book can
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find them in file number 3646 in the Digipub library. In assembling these
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excerpts from the book, I've tried to collect the most central passages
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from each of the essays in the book.
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In a way, the excerpts contain virtually all the core ideas of the
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book. The rest of the book just elaborates upon these core ideas.
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Thanks, again, to all those who've sent encouraging feedback about
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this column. Your e-mail has served as vital sustenance to the creative
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process.
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Cheers,
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- Phil Shapiro
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[GEnie: p.shapiro1]
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[EOA]
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[HEY]//////////////////////////////
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HEY MISTER POSTMAN /
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/////////////////////////////////
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Is That A Letter For Me?
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""""""""""""""""""""""""
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by Douglas Cuff
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[EDITOR.A2]
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o BULLETIN BOARD HOT SPOTS
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o A2 POT-POURRI
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o HOT TOPICS
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o WHAT'S NEW
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o THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
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o MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT
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>>> BULLETIN BOARD HOT SPOTS <<<
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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[*] CAT3, TOP25 ................... NinjaForce Mega demo
|
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[*] CAT8, TOP24 & CAT12, TOP 13 ... PostScript breakthroughs
|
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[*] CAT10, TOP10 .................. GEnie's new Internet service
|
||
[*] CAT11, TOP16 .................. IOMEGA Zip drives
|
||
[*] CAT17, TOP20 .................. AppleWorks 5 and Phoenix II
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[*] CAT42, TOP29 .................. Bug in AW4/5 spelling checker?
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>>> A2 POT-POURRI <<<
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"""""""""""""""""""""
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TWO "NEW" COMPANIES I called Apple Computer the other day and learned of
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""""""""""""""""""" two mail order companies that specialize in Apple II
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software which I had never heard of before.
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Perhaps these would be of use to someone. I have requested
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catalogs/flyers and when I received them, I'll post some additional
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information.
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B & R (in San Diego)
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(619) 225-8281
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CCV Software (somewhere on the East Coast)
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(800) 843-5576
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They specialize in educational products. Their main customers
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are schools but they will sell to individuals.
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(E.WAGNER10, CAT15, TOP9, MSG:3/M645;1)
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REPORTS OF HIS DEMISE... Hello there! Long time no type. This is Bill
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"""""""""""""""""""""""" Tudor (formerly W.TUDOR here on GEnie). I'll be
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a guest over in A2Pro tonight (hence this account). I have not read all
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the previous posts, but I read about 20-30 of them.
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(1) I left GEnie because I am working on a non-Apple IIgs project
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that requires large file xfers at least 4 times a week. On GEnie I was
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limited to 2400 bd, on AOL I use 14400 for <$10/month, so, I bought a new
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modem and jumped ship. I do miss the traffic over here on GEnie. Of
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course, if GEnie did give me 14400 (from Albany, NY) for $10/month, I'd be
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right back here! (Yes, I did write and tell them this).
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(2) I hardly get any e-mail anymore! My address is "WTudor@aol.com".
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Note the lack of a "period" after the "w". It's just as easy to e-mail me
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as before... just send to "WTudor@aol.com@inet#" (I think). I reply back by
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sending to XXXX@genie.geis.com. Easy as that.
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(3) Sorry I can't be on the BBS a here and in A2Pro anymore. I will
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talk via email, though, if you have any problems/questions with any of my
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stuff.
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Thanks,
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Bill Tudor
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[WTudor@aol.com]
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(A2U.PROF2, CAT13, TOP23, MSG:54/M645;1)
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HANGING VS. CRASHING This is a much different problem than "crashing".
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"""""""""""""""""""" I'd like to take a moment to suggest everyone keep
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the following definitions handy:
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CRASH = Computer went "bonk". The mouse pointer still moves, but
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clicking or typing doesn't do anything.
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HANG/INFINITE LOOP = No "bonk". The mouse pointer still moves, but
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clicking or typing doesn't do anything.
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HANG/IN THE WEEDS = No "bonk". The mouse pointer is frozen (won't
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move). In some cases the speaker sometimes "clicks", or the screen fills
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with lovely colors.
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OTHER PROBLEM = The computer is still working, but the program isn't
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behaving as you expected it to.
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These definitions are helpful to know because saying "crash" or
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"hang" sends me off in one direction. For example, there isn't any known
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cause for Express v2 to crash or hang, so I'll be hunting for/suggesting
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other causes.
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But saying, "Whenever I print something with AWGS, Express prints
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part of the page then starts printing garbage" gets me right on your
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specific problem. :)
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NOTE: I'm not "scolding" anyone; I'm just trying to help everyone get
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better service from all us software publishers! :)
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Back to the problem at hand....
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[text omitted]
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Thanks,
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--Dave
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(SEVENHILLS, CAT43, TOP10, MSG:284/M645;1)
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>>>>> If 'crash' won't do, how about FREEZES
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"""""
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FREEZES = No "bonk". Mouse doesn't move, hitting any key or
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combination of keys does nothing. Everything is frozen. Only shutting off
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the computer will get everything up and running again.
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This is what usually happens to me regardless of what program I am
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using.
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Ron
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(RON.ROYER, CAT43, TOP10, MSG:286/M645;1)
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AUDIOZAP AND .AU FORMAT SOUNDS ON THE IIGS > I don't know of any GS
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" > programs that can
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> play/convert .au sounds.
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All it takes is a (ahem) shareware solution....
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.Au files are sound files that were created on Sun work stations. I
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believe that they are very closely related to what we in the GS world would
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call "raw binary sounds." I'm also pretty sure that any GS sound player
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will play them back, but as noted, they won't sound very good.
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Enter the IIGS sound man, Ian Schmidt, and his AudioZap.
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AudioZap is a $20 shareware program. When you pay Ian your fee, he
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will mail you a different version - AudioZap v2 - that does an excellent
|
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job of playing back and/or converting .au sound files, as well as just
|
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about every other foreign file format sound you'll ever encounter on the
|
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net.
|
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I did an audio test a few months back with some .wav sound files.
|
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Every GS sound program I tried did play the sounds, but it was almost like
|
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listening to old scratchy records. Using AudioZap v2, the sounds were CD
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quality.
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It's just another case of having the right tool to do the job.
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Ian recently moved. I'll drop him an e-mail to find out his current
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address.
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Joe (Shareware Solutions r Us) Kohn
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(JOE.KOHN, CAT10, TOP10, MSG:220/M645;1)
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>>>>> I thought I heard that Ian was no longer taking shareware payments
|
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""""" for AudioZap. It could be nothing more than faulty memory on my
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part, so please let me know if this is not the case.
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- Tony Ward
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(A2.TONY, CAT6, TOP7, MSG:63/M645;1)
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<<<<< Oh, oh
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"""""
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I didn't remember in which category we'd been discussing AudioZap, so
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I followed up on it in Cat 28/Top 4.
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Ian Schmidt wrote to me the other day and says that once his current
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work project is completed, he's going to re-release AudioZap v2 as
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freeware.
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Joe
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(JOE.KOHN, CAT6, TOP7, MSG:73/M645;1)
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LI'L LEAK IN BALLOON I was using Balloon to unshrink some files, and
|
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"""""""""""""""""""" discovered that if I had a file that was already
|
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existing, and selected "skip" the skipped file was deleted. I tried it
|
||
several times with the same result. Choosing to overwrite caused no
|
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problems, but skipping would delete the skipped file every time. If you
|
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unshrink a file, then unshrink it a second time and answer "skip" to each
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report of an already existing file, then delete the original archive, you
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will find you have nothing left and will have to re-download the archive.
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If you just cancel, all is well, also.
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Carl Knoblock - Telephone Tech
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(C.KNOBLOCK, CAT33, TOP9, MSG:28/M645;1)
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>>>>> That's a known problem with Balloon. It silently slipped by beta
|
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""""" testing. When we get around to putting out a Balloon update (I
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don't know when this will be... probably not for a while) this will be
|
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fixed.
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(WANKERL, CAT33, TOP9, MSG:29/M645;1)
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EXTENDED POSTSCRIPT GRAPHICS Great News! This probably belongs in Cat8
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Top13 (PS) but it was here that the issue
|
||
came up. Mentioned that Steve had sent me an EPS graphic last night & that
|
||
I was having trouble. All is well & very exciting!
|
||
|
||
In the dead of night I changed the FT from UNK to TXT, reviewed it in
|
||
ShadowWrite, and all _seemed_ well and complete, but when I fed it to PI4
|
||
all he could say was "getting errors trying to read file". Took a closer
|
||
look today & found it contained a resourse fork. Could not decipher what
|
||
was in that resource. It was not PS code and it was not the author's
|
||
message (at least I don't think so). It may have been a bit-mapped version
|
||
for the screen or something?
|
||
|
||
Next I tried to delete the resource fork, but Reslin threw up and
|
||
said it was not formatted properly. MAC? Since ShadowWrite could deal
|
||
with the data portion I simply saved it under another name (yet another
|
||
_great_ for SW). Voila! The next thing that emerged from my printer was a
|
||
full-page sized image of Beethoven in splendid, true-blue PostScript-drawn
|
||
form ;-)
|
||
|
||
And yes, we -can- scale EPS graphics, simply be reducing the size of
|
||
the text window which contains the PS code on the PI4 page (and the reduced
|
||
image is as clear as ever)! You can even change LVB's apparance by making
|
||
the window square instead of rectangular. So NOW, I'm off to spend some
|
||
money on EPS files in order to have some graphics available. Isn't life
|
||
wonderful?! Bless you Steve, & =thanks=. Anyone gave any good (cheap)
|
||
sources for this stuff?
|
||
|
||
Margot (20:23 PST - Fri 4/7/95) Spectrum v1.0/CoPil v2.50
|
||
(M.TAYLOR66, CAT12, TOP13, MSG:237/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
MEGA DEMO BY NINJA FORCE REQUIRES ACCELERATOR here's a statement from
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" NinjaForce regarding the
|
||
Mega Demo:
|
||
|
||
Hi folks on GEnie,
|
||
|
||
seems some of you are having problems with our demo. Sorry! Well,
|
||
the disk exchange problem is indeed a ROM 03 incompatibility. The ROM 03
|
||
patch fixes this problem. This has NOTHING to do with the AE Drive. The
|
||
Ninjaforce Megademo HAS BEEN DEVELOPED ON AN AE 800K DRIVE!
|
||
|
||
However, the demo won't run with the latest Apple disk controller
|
||
supporting High Density drives or the Blue Disk controller card. There may
|
||
be problems with AE High Density drives.
|
||
|
||
Speed problems: TransWarp users MUST turn off the AppleTalk delay.
|
||
Users reporting problems with their ZIP: The demo has been developed on a
|
||
ZIP 8/16 and 9/32 configuration. The ZIP MUST be configured as follows, or
|
||
the demo will complain that your GS is too slow: AppleTalk IRQ delay MUST
|
||
be off, Counter Delay MUST be on.
|
||
|
||
Do not try to boot the demo from ProDOS 8 if you're under GS/OS. The
|
||
demo will crash (our fault, sorry!). The best way to launch the demo is to
|
||
set the startup slot to slot 5 and making a warm boot. If you cold boot
|
||
into the demo, remember that the DIP switch settings of the ZIP override
|
||
the settings from the ZIP CDA!
|
||
|
||
Why did it take us 2 years to do? Well, after all, it wasn't really
|
||
two years. We just don't hack the GS all the time!! However, we had to
|
||
develop a whole programming enviroment which contains the Ninjaforce
|
||
Assembler (ProDOS 8 based, as fast as Merlin 16, macro support and nice
|
||
editor), the Ninjaforce Debugger (works in conjunction with the Assembler),
|
||
the NinjaTracker (music player based on the Soundsmith player, heavily
|
||
enhanced to handle most Amiga MOD effects correctly), MOD Convert (Amiga
|
||
Module converter to NinjaTracker), and other stuff...
|
||
|
||
Also, please do not compare the Ninjaforce Megademo to Brutal Deluxe
|
||
software. While we have a very good relationship to Brutal Deluxe, they
|
||
just do very SIMPLE games. SIMPLE does not mean they are bad, but from a
|
||
coding, graphic and music standpoint, they are nothing amazing at all.
|
||
Anyway, they do something, and they do it for free. Something we highly
|
||
appreciate.
|
||
|
||
Ahh, speaking of games...
|
||
...we'll strike back!
|
||
|
||
Ninjaforce / Germany
|
||
(U.HUTH, CAT3, TOP25, MSG:54/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> HOT TOPICS <<<
|
||
""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
IOMEGA ZIP 100 DRIVES: EARLY REPORTS Mercer County Community College
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" received 25 IOmega Zip 100 drives
|
||
today. The extra carts we ordered are on backorder. I took a driver home
|
||
for evaluation purposes and:
|
||
|
||
Plugged in the Wall Wart 5V 2A variety
|
||
Turned termination switch ON
|
||
Set SCSI ID switch to 5 (6 was already taken)
|
||
Fired the muther up
|
||
|
||
RamFast screen came on indicating a new device has been attached. In
|
||
the RamFast SCSI Utilities screen the device uses a non standard block
|
||
size. Must format device to use, Format the drive (very slow). 98272K
|
||
total size, Install 3 partitions, 32768K 32768K and 32736K. Name them and
|
||
quit RamFast utility and Finder sees them just fine.
|
||
|
||
Started testing,
|
||
|
||
Disk to Disk copy 65535 blocks
|
||
From To Time
|
||
Quantum LP240S Syquest 44meg 3:00
|
||
Quantum LP240S IOmega Zip 100 3:40
|
||
|
||
Verify 65535 blocks
|
||
Device Time
|
||
Quantum LP240S 0:44
|
||
Syquest 44meg 1:15
|
||
IOmega Zip 100 0:50
|
||
|
||
Validate 1544 files
|
||
Device Time
|
||
Quantum LP240S 3:23
|
||
Syquest 44meg 4:10
|
||
IOmega Zip 100 3:47
|
||
|
||
Boot AWGS
|
||
Device Time
|
||
Quantum LP240S 0:19
|
||
Syquest 44meg 0:20
|
||
IOmega Zip 100 0:20
|
||
|
||
It takes 7 seconds for the first disk icon to appear on the desktop
|
||
after a disk insertion. Then another 10 seconds for the other 2 icons.
|
||
The disks that come from IOmega are not recognized by the RamFast/Finder
|
||
probably because the first partition on the cart is a driver or a map. The
|
||
drives are dark blue and are very light and quiet.
|
||
|
||
The disk eject button works fine to remove a cart and dim the icons
|
||
on the desktop. The drive is ejected on shutdown. There are two lights on
|
||
the cart, a green power LED and a amber activity LED.
|
||
|
||
It is hard to tell here when the drive stops spinning but it clicks
|
||
when it restarts. IOmega says that the drive spins down to preserve media
|
||
life in the manual. It comes with Mac and IBM software.
|
||
|
||
The carts are about the size of a 3.5" floppy but twice as thick.
|
||
The shutter is about one fifth the size of the shutter on the 3.5" floppy.
|
||
Each cart comes in a jewel case and is warrantied for the life of the
|
||
cartridge.
|
||
|
||
I like IT!!!
|
||
|
||
Binary Bear
|
||
(BINARY.BEAR, CAT11, TOP16, MSG:195/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
<<<<< Here's some info on the ZIP I'm writing for an newsletter article.
|
||
""""" I will be uploading a couple of SHR's later tonight as well.
|
||
|
||
Using a ZIP Drive with an Apple IIGS The ZIP drive by Iomega Corporation,
|
||
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' maker of Bernoulli drives, is a
|
||
small, removeable SCSI drive unit that uses 3.5" cartridges (well, more
|
||
like 3.6S) in 25 MB and 100 MB densities. The drive comes in two models, a
|
||
SCSI model for use with PC's or Mac's (or Apple IIGS's, as we have now
|
||
found) or a Parallel port model for use with PC's. The unit is quite
|
||
small, only 7 by 5.5 by 1.75 inches, has a termination switch and a SCSI ID
|
||
selector switch (it can only be set to ID 5 or 6), and dual 25 pin SCSI
|
||
ports. There is no power switch on the unit, which draws power from a very
|
||
bulky power block. The ZIP drive can be laid flat or stood horizontally
|
||
(there are rubber feet attached for this) The front has an eject button
|
||
and dual LEDs, a green one to indicate power on and an amber one to
|
||
indicate disk access. The unit sells for $199.00 in most of the Macintosh
|
||
mail-order catalogs like MacMall, MacWarehouse or MacConnection, and the
|
||
media cost about $19.95 for the 100 MB cartridges (less if you buy 5 packs)
|
||
and $9.95 for the 25 MB cartridges. However, at the present time, the
|
||
cartridges (except for the 100 Mb cartridge that ships with the unit) are
|
||
seriously back-ordered.
|
||
|
||
I tried out a ZIP drive with two Apple IIGS configurations. Both
|
||
were ROM 01 GS's with 4.25MB of RAM, hard drives and Apple CD-ROM drives.
|
||
Computer #1 has a TransWarp GS accelerator and an Apple HighSpeed SCSI
|
||
card, and Computer #2 has a RamFAST SCSI card with 256K cache.
|
||
|
||
On the first GS, I started up with my Hard Drive at SCSI ID set to 6,
|
||
the ZIP drive set to 5 and the CD-ROM drive set to 0. The ZIP disk was the
|
||
last drive in the SCSI chain and was terminated. Once in Finder, the drive
|
||
mounted (the cartridge was a 100 MB disk with HFS formatting), but I twice
|
||
got a message saying that with the installed file system translators the
|
||
device could not be read. I was given the choice to initialize or eject.
|
||
I twice chose eject, and the drive remained mounted. I was able to copy to
|
||
and from the ZIP disk with no problems.
|
||
|
||
I ejected the ZIP disk (dragging the disk to the trash unmounted it
|
||
but did not eject the disk...I had to do that manually) and started up GS
|
||
ShrinkIt to decompress a file...but with the ZIP disk ejected, I was unable
|
||
to navigate disks and partitions in the open file dialog box. Inserting
|
||
the ZIP disk solved the problem.
|
||
|
||
I then connected the ZIP drive to my PowerBook 170 and turned
|
||
FileSharing on. I went to AppleShare in the Control Panels NDA on my IIGS
|
||
and linked with the PowerBook, and mounted the ZIP disk on the IIGS
|
||
desktop...it worked like a charm, and I was able to open the first part of
|
||
this review, which I had exported from WordPerfect 3.1 in RTF format, in
|
||
EGOed 2.0.
|
||
|
||
Next, I hooked up the ZIP drive to my RamFAST equipped IIGS. This
|
||
procdure took a little more time, although this was not all due to the
|
||
RamFAST. As owners of a RamFAST probably know, when you add or subtract a
|
||
device from the SCSI chain, the RamFAST Utilities are presented upon
|
||
booting up so that you can add the disk/partitions to the cards "map" of
|
||
volumes. It will be worth your time to get the manual out if you don't do
|
||
it very often. The problem for me came in the area of SCSI ID's. The ZIP
|
||
drive, as a cost-cutting measure I suppose, only has two ID's selectable, 5
|
||
or 6. Since the computer boots from the highest numbered SCSI device, that
|
||
means that your IIGS hard drive needs a SCSI ID of 6 or 7. Mine, of
|
||
course, were numbered 1 and 3, so I had to dig out a manual to reconfigure
|
||
the DIP switches on my old CMS drive and set it to 6. My other drive is
|
||
even older, and you need to open the unit up to change its SCSI ID, which I
|
||
wasnUt about to do at 12:30 am! After doing that, I finally managed to get
|
||
the ZIP disk mounted on the desktop, and from there it was treated like any
|
||
other disk...except that it was a large one. In fact, I opened this review
|
||
from the cartridge in the ZIP drive in EGOed 2.0 to finish typing this
|
||
segment.
|
||
|
||
Just how cost effective is this drive. Well, for the initial
|
||
investment of $199.00, you get a 100 megabyte hard drive. For less than
|
||
$100.00 you can add 5 cartridges and now have 600 MB of disk space...which
|
||
can grow along with your storage needs. These may even work with IIe's,
|
||
especially if using the 25 MB cartridges, which could be formatted as
|
||
single ProDOS volume. So as backup, or even a second, expandable hard
|
||
drive, this seems to be a worthwhile investment. It is not as sturdy as a
|
||
hard drive, however, with its plastic case, and I would not recommend it
|
||
for use around young children who might decide to play with it. It may be
|
||
sturdy enough, but it certainly doesn't have the steel case that my hard
|
||
drives do.
|
||
(S.CAVANAUGH1, CAT11, TOP16, MSG:201/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
APPLEWORKS 5 ON THE MAC [Continued from last month] We could ship a lot
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" sooner if we didn't
|
||
try to print from within Phoenix. Since we have a "wp clip-to-mac clip"
|
||
feature, would most of you settle for printing from within a normal Mac
|
||
application?
|
||
(BRANDT, CAT17, TOP20, MSG:21/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> "Settle"? Yes, if it means getting Phoenix faster. But I know that
|
||
""""" I would want direct printing from Phoenix before too long.
|
||
Speaking of which, what printers will Phoenix (when it has direct printing)
|
||
print to? LaserWriters (he asks hopefully)?
|
||
|
||
And if LWs will be supported, would that have any bearing on AW5's
|
||
ability to print directly to a LaserWriter via Appletalk? It seems that if
|
||
you can get the Mac version to do it, you might learn something that would
|
||
allow it on a GS. If I could access the Appletalk network at work for file
|
||
sharing and/or printing directly from AW on my GS, I would be several steps
|
||
closer to heaven.
|
||
|
||
Whatever, I can barely wait for Phoenix. Thanks.
|
||
|
||
:: Dan ::
|
||
(D.CRUTCHER, CAT17, TOP20, MSG:25/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
<<<<< If Phoenix supports "direct" printing, it will be an ImageWriter
|
||
""""" emulator sending an image to any Mac printer. You'd have a lot
|
||
more flexibility just dumping the text into another app for fancy fonts and
|
||
the like. One other possibility is setting up AppleEvents to send a file
|
||
to Kitchen Sink's AW to RTF, which would then generate a file for another
|
||
Mac app like Word or ClarisWorks, with most of the formatting still intact.
|
||
|
||
> And if LWs will be supported, would that have any bearing on AW5's
|
||
> ability to print directly to a LaserWriter via Appletalk?
|
||
|
||
None at all. The Phoenix emulator and the Mac toolbox would be doing
|
||
the work. AW5 would think it was printing to a directly-connected
|
||
ImageWriter, so there's nothing to be learned that could apply to the IIgs.
|
||
|
||
It's just too difficult to get information on AppleTalk. I spent
|
||
money on books and made several serious efforts, and was unable to acquire
|
||
enough information to do anything beyond identifying that AppleTalk was
|
||
present and active. People at Apple would say things like, "Try this and
|
||
see what happens. If that doesn't work, I can't really help you." Of
|
||
course, when I tried their suggestions, nothing useful ever happened.
|
||
(BRANDT, CAT17, TOP20, MSG:26/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
<<<<< Thanks for the printing feedback. We won't rule it out for v2.0
|
||
""""" (if sales warrant such a beast), but for now we'll go with saving
|
||
text files or using the Mac clipboard to transfer data.
|
||
|
||
UltraMacros now includes new dot commands to get and set the text and
|
||
background colors, the font name, and the font size. You can also play
|
||
sounds, get the Mac time with seconds, and call various external Macintosh
|
||
commands. Ultra can also save or open snapshots, which are images of the
|
||
entire session. On Mark's PowerMac, it takes about 2 seconds to restart a
|
||
session with 27 files on the desktop!
|
||
(BRANDT, CAT17, TOP20, MSG:29/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
<<<<< Phoenix is currently for AW 5.1 only (upgrade files are included
|
||
""""" for 5.0 owners). Mark has contemplated making a similar program
|
||
which will let you launch any ProDOS system file, but the problem is ROM
|
||
support. AppleWorks doesn't use any ROM routines (except for printing,
|
||
which we're not currently supporting), so there are no legal complications.
|
||
(BRANDT, CAT17, TOP20, MSG:36/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
II ALIVE ISSUE COMING SOON... The March/April issue is currently in
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" production. We're thinking of renaming it
|
||
at this point. %)
|
||
(II.ALIVE, CAT42, TOP10, MSG:156/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
...THANKS TO THE NEW EDITOR! I'm now in charge of theLINQ and no longer
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""" am able to devote the time II Alive
|
||
deserves. For this reason, the March/April issue (and subsequent issues)
|
||
will be edited by Doug Cuff, who will also be using this account. If you
|
||
need to e-mail me, I'll still be online; my other account is JERRY.K.
|
||
(II.ALIVE, CAT42, TOP11, MSG:149/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> WHAT'S NEW <<<
|
||
""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
ANNOUNCING THE COOLEST IIGS ICON EDITOR YET! EGO Systems is pleased to
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" announce the release of ICE!
|
||
ICE is the first and ONLY IIGS icon editor that allows you to edit both
|
||
old Finder Icon files as well as rIcons! With ICE, you can finally get
|
||
at, and CHANGE, all those icons that have been out of reach since System
|
||
6.0 was introduced!
|
||
|
||
Sound good? Just check out these features:
|
||
|
||
- * - ICE can edit old-style Finder Icon files.
|
||
- * - ICE can edit ANY rIcon from ANY type of IIGS file.
|
||
- * - ICE can have as many Finder Icon and rIcon files open as memory will
|
||
allow.
|
||
- * - ICE can copy and paste icons between Finder Icon and rIcon files.
|
||
- * - ICE can create new Finder Icon files and new files containing
|
||
rIcons.
|
||
- * - ICE can append rIcons from one file onto another file.
|
||
- * - ICE can save icons (either kind) out to disk as REZ source code.
|
||
- * - ICE allows you to paste a PICTURE from the IIGS clipboard for use as
|
||
an icon!
|
||
|
||
But, the best thing about ICE is the price! ICE is just eight bucks!
|
||
|
||
That's right! ICE is only $8! And that price includes printed
|
||
documentation! In fact, at $8, ICE costs less than the shareware fee for
|
||
an older icon editor, and ICE isn't shareware, and it isn't old! It's a
|
||
brand-new, commercial-quality program from a company that's been
|
||
supporting the IIGS for almost six years!
|
||
|
||
So, what's the catch? Well, the only catch is that ICE is part of
|
||
the latest issue of GS+ Magazine. That means that not only do you get the
|
||
ICE program and its documentation, you also get an issue of GS+ Magazine
|
||
complete with two MORE programs, reviews of four IIGS products, and a whole
|
||
bunch of other great stuff crammed inside it! (It also means that if you
|
||
already subscribe to GS+ Magazine, you'll be getting ICE as part of your
|
||
regular subscription!)
|
||
|
||
And it's all just eight bucks!
|
||
|
||
So, what are you waiting for? If you want to order ICE with your
|
||
VISA or MasterCard, we'll even pay for the phone call! But hurry! After
|
||
June 30th, 1995 the price of ICE goes up to $10!
|
||
|
||
Pricing & Shipping
|
||
ICE (GS+ V6.N5 Magazine & Disk) - $8 ($10 after June 30th, 1995)
|
||
Delivery to Canada or Mexico - $2 extra
|
||
Surface mail delivery outside North America - $2 extra
|
||
Air Mail Delivery outside North America - $5 extra
|
||
|
||
VISA & MasterCard Orders Only: 800-662-3634 (9 am - 5 pm Eastern
|
||
Time)
|
||
FAX: 615-332-2634 (24 Hours a day)
|
||
Delphi: GSPlusDiz
|
||
GEnie: Diz
|
||
Internet: Diz@genie.geis.com
|
||
|
||
Checks or Money Orders
|
||
ICE Offer
|
||
c/o GS+ Magazine
|
||
P. O. Box 15366
|
||
Chattanooga, TN 37415-0366
|
||
|
||
Need More Information?
|
||
Call 615-332-2087. (9 am - 5 pm Eastern Time)
|
||
|
||
Steven W. Disbrow
|
||
Publisher of GS+ Magazine
|
||
(DIZ, CAT33, TOP5, MSG:235/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
KANSASFEST '95 (TENTATIVE) For everyone who is interested in attending
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""" KansasFest '95, here is a tentative list of
|
||
seminars (times are not set yet):
|
||
|
||
A Fireside Chat with Joe Kohn Discuss the future of the Apple II in the
|
||
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' 90's and beyond with Joe Kohn, publisher of
|
||
Shareware Solutions II.
|
||
|
||
The Apple II and the Internet: Part II (Joe Kohn) Discuss the World Wide
|
||
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Web and the internet,
|
||
it's uses, and it's applicability and use on an Apple II.
|
||
|
||
Building an Apple IIGS Portable (Tony Diaz) Find out how to put the most
|
||
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' powerful Apple II into a form
|
||
that can be taken with you! Tony Diaz tells all!
|
||
|
||
Connecting Real World Devices (Erick Wagner) The name says it all -- how
|
||
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' to connect real world
|
||
devices to an Apple II.
|
||
|
||
Animation and 3D on the Apple IIGS (Michael Lutynski) Michael Lutynski,
|
||
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' author of Animasia
|
||
3D, the premier three-dimensional modeling and animation program for the
|
||
Apple IIGS, tells how to apply three-dimensional strategies to make
|
||
presentations more powerful and how to use Animasia 3D.
|
||
|
||
HyperStudio and Education (Roger Wagner)
|
||
|
||
Explore the possibilities of the powerful HyperStudio environment and
|
||
what it can do for you, your classroom, and your productivity.
|
||
|
||
So far that is the list, but there are two other seminars being worked on:
|
||
|
||
Second Sight and DiscQuest Demo
|
||
GNO and the Apple IIGS
|
||
|
||
(A.RAHIMZADEH, CAT4, TOP12, MSG:44/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
PRINT SHOP REPLACEMENT EDITOR I have written an 8-bit program that lets
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" you create full color graphics for the New
|
||
Print Shop, and I would like to get a few people to beta test it before I
|
||
release it. If any one would like to try it out and inform me if they find
|
||
bugs or if I have left out some essential feature, please contact me by
|
||
sending me a GEnie E-mail. The program requires a IIc or an enhanced IIe
|
||
with an 80 column card, and a color monitor.
|
||
|
||
This program is the result of an effort to "fill in the gaps" in the
|
||
graphics editor included with the New Print Shop. That graphics editor
|
||
only lets you create monochrome graphics, and does not display them on the
|
||
screen at the same aspect ratio as the printed pictures. People with a
|
||
IIgs can create the low resolution full color graphics with the Print Shop
|
||
gs Companion, and export them to the New Print Shop format, but I was
|
||
unable to find any software for the IIc/IIe to do this. Version 1 of the
|
||
program I wrote lets you only make the low resolution full color graphics
|
||
for NPS, but I plan to upgrade it to be capable of the high resolution full
|
||
color graphics.
|
||
|
||
Gerry (the Applesoft-aholic)
|
||
(G.WRIGHT12, CAT6, TOP34, MSG:157/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
ANIMASIA MOVES TO A NEW ADDRESS Effective May 1, 1995, Animasia's new
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" mailing address will be:
|
||
|
||
Animasia
|
||
12175 Science Drive, #3
|
||
Orlando, FL 32826
|
||
USA
|
||
|
||
The change in address reflects a need for additional space to
|
||
accommodate business operations. Support for Animasia 3-D will continue
|
||
unabated.
|
||
|
||
The phone number, 407-380-9932, and Internet e-mail address,
|
||
animasia@genie.geis.com, will not change.
|
||
|
||
Contact: Michael Lutynski
|
||
(ANIMASIA, CAT13, TOP41, MSG:49/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE <<<
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
MORE ON PMPFAX Well, to answer some of Steve's questions...
|
||
""""""""""""""
|
||
You'll basically be able to view, print, and export received faxes.
|
||
For sending, I will probably write a fax translator to import received fax
|
||
pages as a send page, so you will be able to import them directly into a
|
||
send job. As for editing received fax pages... not sure how I'd go about
|
||
doing that... cover sheets will basically be an object- oriented page
|
||
layout program. They will have the ability to import SHR and APF files as
|
||
picture objects, and have the ability to export coversheets as APF files,
|
||
so theoretically you could use the coversheet generator to edit a fax page.
|
||
All coversheets will be b&w (for obvious reasons), but you could view a
|
||
received page, export it to an APF file, then open a coversheet, import the
|
||
APF, edit the layout (add text, rects, ovals, lines, etc), then export that
|
||
to an APF file, THEN import it using the APF fax translator when you send
|
||
(quite a few steps). However, i'm still not sure about the actual format I
|
||
will be using for received files yet (they will be stored as raw T.4
|
||
encoded data, but I may do some translating first... not sure yet), so all
|
||
this might change :)
|
||
|
||
As for "printing"... to send a print job as a fax, you will just hold
|
||
down the Option key while you choose the Print menu item. That's it.
|
||
Instead of the JobDialog, you'll get the PMPFax dialog. Page Setup will be
|
||
the same (that is, it will be the same for whatever printer you have
|
||
currently chosen); PMPFax will get all page information from the print
|
||
record created by your actual print driver. This method has a couple of
|
||
benefits... 1) you don't have to go into the Control Panel and choose
|
||
another print driver, and 2) you don't have to reformat your document to
|
||
work with whatever paper sizes happen to be available with a fax driver.
|
||
You can have your document formated for, say, an Imagewriter, and when you
|
||
fax it, it will use the paging information that the Imagewriter driver
|
||
uses. If, the next time, you actually want to print, just choose Print
|
||
without the Option key and you'll be printing as usual.
|
||
|
||
As for the outside line thing... because the method for using long
|
||
distance, and accessing outside lines varies so much, what I will be doing
|
||
instead is having a single dial prefix string definable in the station
|
||
setup dialog. This prefix will be sent before any phone number before
|
||
dialing. So, if you want to put in your LD service number, you can. I will
|
||
probably also add a check box for each phone entry so you can tell it to
|
||
use the dial prefix or not when dialing. This is so you can have local
|
||
numbers that will be dialed normally, and LD numbers that use your prefix,
|
||
etc... its still not too late to change any of this, so if anyone has any
|
||
suggestions, let me know.
|
||
|
||
As for phone books... I could add a comment field if you like. Right
|
||
now, I have First Name, Last Name, Organization, Fax Phone, and Voice
|
||
Phone. Entries will be displayed sorted by any of the above fields. Since
|
||
they are displayed in lists, just typing the first few letters of a name
|
||
will bring that name up, so no extra indexing is necessary.
|
||
|
||
One of the substitution fields for cover sheets is a Memo. You will
|
||
be able to edit a memo whenever you have chosen a coversheet with the send
|
||
job. I will also have a Quick Fax menu item in the fax center to allow you
|
||
to just choose a cover sheet, choose a receipient, and edit a memo, and
|
||
send that imediately as a single-page fax.
|
||
|
||
I don't know about any laws requring sender info on each sheet in a
|
||
fax, but you will be able to add Titles (headers and footers) to each page.
|
||
Titles are broken down into six zones, three at the top and three on the
|
||
bottom, left, center, and right. You can edit the text you want displayed
|
||
in any of these zones, and choose whether you want top titles, bottom
|
||
titles, or both. The text can use any font style, and size (as long as it
|
||
fits into the box defining the zone) and can be justified however you want
|
||
it to be. PMPFax includes quite a number of substution fields that can be
|
||
used in titles (more can be used in coversheets), such as all station ID
|
||
information, page number, total pages, time, date, etc. This allows you to
|
||
customize how you want the titles of each of your fax pages to look like.
|
||
|
||
Anyway, that's a bit of how things work. I've been getting quite a
|
||
lot done on this lately, so I'm hoping to get it to beta test in a month or
|
||
two. This turned out to be a much larger project than I had anticipated (it
|
||
does quite a bit). Note PMPFax will also support external modules that
|
||
other parties can support, such as fax translators, import/export
|
||
facilities for phone books and received faxes, "Extras" in the fax center
|
||
menu, etc. So, if PMPFax lacks some feature, someone can always just write
|
||
a module to do that function.
|
||
|
||
Paul
|
||
(PMP, CAT38, TOP15, MSG:205/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
WOLFENSTEIN HELD UP Unfortunately, we are still involved in a contract
|
||
""""""""""""""""""" dispute regarding Wolfenstein. We have been using the
|
||
extra time to do a lot of testing and I can tell you that the game looks
|
||
and sounds fantastic! It will be well worth the wait.
|
||
|
||
It does look like we might be resolving the dispute shortly, but
|
||
don't hold your breath...
|
||
|
||
Lowell Erbe
|
||
Vitesse, Inc., Technical Support
|
||
(VITESSE, CAT40, TOP6, MSG:61/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
THE COLLABORATORS / II NOT DISTURB Are you interested in helping the
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Apple II world, but don't know what
|
||
you have to contribute?
|
||
|
||
Are you a writer? an artist? a musician? or an avid user who'd like
|
||
to test? Do you have great ideas for software? Perhaps you like to lay
|
||
out menus and windows in Genesys, even if you don't program? Do you have
|
||
some spare time and a willingness to lend a hand?
|
||
|
||
If so, I'd like you to join the ranks of The Collaborators:
|
||
individuals contributing what they can toward new software for the
|
||
AppleII. Right now, it looks like I'll have 4 months of free time to write
|
||
software for the Apple II. Let's make this a group effort to maximize the
|
||
results!
|
||
|
||
Right now, I'm working on a program called II Not Disturb. It's
|
||
designed to make more system add-ons work with telecom software. If you're
|
||
a Spectrum user, and have had problems with certain extensions (like clock
|
||
DAs) while online, let me know right away. I particularly need testers
|
||
with high-speed modems, but anybody who's had trouble in the past should
|
||
let me know.
|
||
|
||
Even if we can't use your talents right this minute, sign up for
|
||
future reference and we'll try to make use of your talents on future
|
||
programs.
|
||
|
||
-G.T. Barnabas [Greg Templeman]
|
||
(BARNABAS, CAT13, TOP9, MSG:1/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
<<<<< OK, I've sent II Not Disturb v1.0d2 out to volunteer testers who
|
||
""""" have Spectrum. Get cracking, folks! I'm curious to see the
|
||
improvement (I've never had problems with clock software and Spectrum... so
|
||
why am I writing this?!? er... because other people needed it, I guess! :)
|
||
|
||
:::walking away in disgust, knocking self on the forehead for writing a
|
||
program that I don't personally need right now...::: ;)
|
||
|
||
-G.T. Barnabas
|
||
(BARNABAS, CAT13, TOP9, MSG:31/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT <<<
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
Category 45, Topic 3
|
||
Message 149 Thu Apr 06, 1995
|
||
BYTEWORKS at 22:12 EDT
|
||
|
||
Dave, I understand your points about wanting to do serious work on
|
||
the GS, and agree (although I like to have fun, too). I also know that
|
||
there are a lot of people who still buy for their GS. That's why we're
|
||
still here. The issue for me is, and always has been, whether there are
|
||
_enough_ people who would buy the word processor. In terms of the needed
|
||
raw numbers, I haven't seen very much to encourage me lately, but I'm still
|
||
on the lookout for good signs. :)
|
||
|
||
Mike Westerfield
|
||
|
||
-/-/-
|
||
|
||
Category 45, Topic 3
|
||
Message 150 Thu Apr 06, 1995
|
||
BYTEWORKS at 22:33 EDT
|
||
|
||
> No offense but my GS is not a hobby computer it is my business
|
||
> computer.
|
||
|
||
Good. But understand that 100 customers won't tempt me to write a
|
||
word processor. While you are not unique, though, surely you know that you
|
||
are unusual. About 2/3 of all GSs were sold to schools, and most of those
|
||
were actually used as accelerated //e computers. I've had zilch luck
|
||
selling into that market. About 1/3 were sold into homes, where it's fair
|
||
to call them hobby computers--even though a lot of people do serious things
|
||
with their hobby. (And that's what I meant--to characterize the market,
|
||
not to demean a particular use.) The number of GSs sold as business
|
||
computers were a minor blip.
|
||
|
||
So does that mean there is no need for serious tools? Of course not.
|
||
But there's also little call for Word and Lotus 1-2-3.
|
||
|
||
> I hate to see someone as well respected as yourself referto this
|
||
> computer as anything but a real computer.
|
||
|
||
I never said it wasn't a real computer. But hobbiests are real
|
||
people who use real computers, too, and there are a lot of them. I would
|
||
characterize the vast majority of my customers as hobbiests. That may
|
||
change as more and more of you come to our company for productivity tools,
|
||
but _very_ few of the people who are using our other products are using
|
||
them to earn a living.
|
||
|
||
Also, FWIW, I find hobbiests to be more informed and more likely to
|
||
use their computers for a variety of reasons that business users. To me,
|
||
hobbiest is _not_ a dirty word. Hobbiests are the people who _enjoy_ their
|
||
computer, who stay after work to play games, who read technical magazines,
|
||
who learn to program, who learn to repair or even build parts for thoer
|
||
computer--not because they get paid to, but because they love it!
|
||
|
||
Finally, sitting here at my desk, I have a PowerMac, a fairly
|
||
heavy-duty Compaq, and an Apple IIGS. I program on all of them. I do my
|
||
business work on the Mac. But when I want to have fun--after work, when
|
||
it's time to program or play just for myself--it's invariably the GS you'll
|
||
find on! And at that point in time, I'd call myself a hobbiest... maybe an
|
||
overqualified one, but a hobbiest none the less. :)
|
||
|
||
Mike Westerfield
|
||
|
||
[*][*][*]
|
||
|
||
|
||
While on GEnie, do you spend most of your time downloading files?
|
||
If so, you may be missing out some excellent information in the Bulletin
|
||
Board area. The messages listed above only scratch the surface of
|
||
what's available and waiting for you in the bulletin board area.
|
||
|
||
If you are serious about your Apple II, the GEnieLamp staff strongly
|
||
urge you to give the bulletin board area a try. There are literally
|
||
thousands of messages posted from people like you from all over the
|
||
world.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
[EOA]
|
||
[HUM]//////////////////////////////
|
||
HUMOR ONLINE /
|
||
/////////////////////////////////
|
||
Dept. of I Can't Tell if that's Funny or Scary
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
by Andrew Burke
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> MICROSOFT UNVEILS NEW JOE-BOB(tm) SOFTWARE <<<
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
REDMOND, Wash. -- April 10, 1995 -- Microsoft today announced the
|
||
release of Joe-Bob(tm), a new software package that the company hopes will
|
||
open up a huge untapped computer market. With the motto "The software for
|
||
the rest of y'all(tm)," Joe-Bob reaches out to the same demographic group
|
||
that buys 4x4s, supports the gun lobby, and drinks Miller Lite.
|
||
|
||
"Computers have been commonly seen as for leftists and
|
||
intellectuals," explains Microsoft spokesperson Willy Maclean, "but we've
|
||
recently seen people like Newt Gingrinch embracing new technology -- the
|
||
time is right for the rest of America to get wired!"
|
||
|
||
Instead of a desktop or office metaphor, Joe-Bob(tm) puts the user in
|
||
a garage. "Click on the Lynyrd Skynyrd tapes, and get a complete music
|
||
library in digital stereo. Click on the pinups, and get hooked up to the
|
||
Internet's hottest gifs," the promotional materials explain.
|
||
|
||
The package does not include a word processor or spreadsheet, but
|
||
does have software that keeps track of the football season, lists the best
|
||
roadhouses between Florida and Nevada, and can even order spareribs and
|
||
beer at the click of a mouse.
|
||
|
||
"This is righteous software, man," says beta-tester Billy Grugg. "It
|
||
thinks like I think." Brad Cunningham agrees: "I take it everywhere," he
|
||
says, pointing to a Pentium laptop racked under his 12-gauge in his pickup
|
||
truck. Microsoft is offering desktop users a special clip-on beer holder
|
||
for their monitors.
|
||
|
||
"Look at what's popular out there," says Microsoft Chairman Bill
|
||
Gates. "Four of the top-10 Usenet newsgroups are about sex, and splatter
|
||
video games like Doom and Mortal Kombat are bestsellers. We're just
|
||
catering to a demand, that's all."
|
||
|
||
Microsoft is reportedly distributing badges and bumper stickers
|
||
saying things like "Joe-Bob: Make Your Disk Hard," "Go Microsoft -- Go
|
||
Intel - - -- Go America," and "QuickTime is for Pinko Hippie Wimps."
|
||
|
||
Apple declined to comment.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
[EOA]
|
||
[FOC]//////////////////////////////
|
||
FOCUS ON... /
|
||
/////////////////////////////////
|
||
The Internet
|
||
""""""""""""
|
||
by Kevin Noonan
|
||
(knoonan@cleese.apana.org.au)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> THE WIZARDS OF OZ--THE INTERNET AND THE APPLE II IN AUSTRALIA <<<
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
Australia is a big, empty place--roughly 4000 km by 4000 km with a
|
||
population of only around 18 million. Cities are separated from one
|
||
another by up to 2500 km. In these days of a rapidly shrinking Apple II
|
||
community, the sensible way for denizens of Oz to keep in touch with each
|
||
other is by e-mail.
|
||
|
||
Of course we do things differently here in Australia so a brief
|
||
report might assist: Technically we "Internet" users in Oz use the
|
||
AARnet--the Australian Academic Research Internet. The American term
|
||
Usenet is unknown in Oz. This Internet is "owned" by the collective heads
|
||
of our universities. We have an British-style university system, with a
|
||
chancellor in charge of each university. This is a largely ceremonial
|
||
position; the real power lies with the vice-chancellors. This Internet was
|
||
set up for research communication and the like but has grown as rapidly in
|
||
Australia as in other parts of the world.
|
||
|
||
Our university system is almost totally funded by government out of
|
||
taxation revenue. There are only a handful of privately-owned universities
|
||
in Oz and they have all come into being in the last few years. As with
|
||
many other government-funded institutions, it is considered politically
|
||
expedient to decrease the level of this funding and expect the universities
|
||
to find the money in other ways.
|
||
|
||
The explosion in Internet usage has led the vice-chancellors to bring
|
||
in a new "pay-for-use" system to make money for other areas of university
|
||
life. This create some limits for those in Australia who use the Internet.
|
||
|
||
Let me give an example based on my own experience. I am a member of
|
||
a public access network called APANA, which charges me $50/year for access.
|
||
My local server, a machine called cleese, also charges me $50. (I use
|
||
dial-up access, but I could use SLIP for the same price.) I get unlimited
|
||
hours, unlimited access to all Internet facilities: telnet, ftp, WWW, irc,
|
||
etc. That is a good deal!
|
||
|
||
We expect charges to rise based on our usage. This will tend to
|
||
dampen the enthusiasm for growth in Oz, but it will also create a
|
||
marketplace for commercial Internet suppliers which will probably tend to
|
||
oppose that dampening. There are a number of such companies that have
|
||
sprung up in the last year or two (DIALix, ozemail, iinet, connect.com, and
|
||
pegasus to name a few) and all are apparently doing quite well.
|
||
|
||
I guess I should also explain to our rather more libertarian northern
|
||
hemisphere friends that there is almost no history of public works being
|
||
paid for by commercial companies. Almost all of Australia's infrastructure
|
||
has been paid for by taxation, and built by government. There are
|
||
exceptions but they are few. The commercial aspect of the Internet in the
|
||
USA (in particular) is a brand new venture in Oz.
|
||
|
||
No matter what many may say about the Internet, I suspect that it is
|
||
more of a dirt track than an information superhighway and will remain that
|
||
way until the technology takes another step. Programs like Mosaic (sadly
|
||
not available for the Apple II) and the whole World Wide Web system may yet
|
||
make a liar of me.
|
||
|
||
One aspect of USA support that I wish we had in Oz is the support of
|
||
politicians. (That statement may cause some sharp intakes of breath!)
|
||
Whatever his faults, US Vice-President Al Gore at least knows about and
|
||
uses the Internet. In Oz we know of no politician who uses the
|
||
Internet--certainly none have ever said anything that indicates this,
|
||
though they do talk in vague generalities (since when do politicians do
|
||
otherwise?). Certainly our Prime Minister, Paul Keating, has made a small
|
||
amount of funds available for things like CD-ROM technology support... but
|
||
for the Internet, only indirect cut-backs.
|
||
|
||
Nonetheless the place of Australia in the Internet is important.
|
||
Recently the head of the Internet Society (structured to allow for better
|
||
planning of the Internet's future) was an Australian. I also believe that
|
||
in terms of computers connected to the Internet, Australia ranks in second
|
||
place (though a very distant second to the USA).
|
||
|
||
The main news gateway for Australia is at the University of
|
||
Melbourne. There is apparently no censorship of newsgroups but for reasons
|
||
I have not been able to discern, we don't get the thousands of newsgroups
|
||
that the USA apparently has (last count on my server was around 4500
|
||
groups--friends on the Internet in the USA often speak of 10000 groups).
|
||
I know many of the USA newsgroups are local to particular communities or
|
||
states and have no wider interest base.
|
||
|
||
Which brings me to a troublesome point for we Oz users. I read many
|
||
newsgroups and subscribe to many list server newsgroups and every few weeks
|
||
I read statements that show that many forget that the Internet is not
|
||
exclusively for US citizens. No serious criticism is intended but it would
|
||
be good if some of the more smaller minded Internet users did not assume
|
||
that everyone using the Internet is an American. Also, it is possible on
|
||
most systems to limit the distribution of your message--"world" is often
|
||
the default distribution, but it isn't always appropriate. Try using
|
||
"local", "usa", and "na" (North America) as appropriate.
|
||
|
||
As with everything else, PCs dominate the Internet in Oz, there are a
|
||
smaller number of Macs, and I am sure other "serious" computers such as
|
||
Suns. We Apple II users make do with our usual programs (I use both
|
||
ProTERM and GNO/ME as my means of connecting) which means we miss out on
|
||
things like live sound and graphics via the WWW.
|
||
|
||
We in the state of South Australia have tried to convince the last
|
||
few Apple II users here to use the Internet as source of help and news. So
|
||
far out of the 10-15 Apple II members of the South Australian Apple Users
|
||
Club, we have managed to persuade 8 to use the Internet. Many are lurkers
|
||
(they read all the news but make no postings of their own), but a few are
|
||
active in asking and answering questions.
|
||
|
||
We also maintain regular e-mail contacts with Apple II users in the
|
||
rest of Australia. We still have a sense of community even though we have
|
||
never met face-to-face.
|
||
|
||
One problem I have found at times is that with the sheer volume of
|
||
electronic traffic on Australia's links to the rest of the world, we get
|
||
very slow links for things like ftp and I often find that chatting on the
|
||
irc can sometimes be pointless as there can be lags of over 5 minutes.
|
||
Even news can suffer. I have seen some news take a week to get to my site
|
||
(so much for instantaneous communications).
|
||
|
||
Maybe I am being too picky. The ability to connect to a computer at
|
||
Caltech to get the latest Apple II public domain files at no cost is rather
|
||
impressive. If it takes 20 minutes to get a file instead of 5 minutes I
|
||
guess I can still manage to wait!
|
||
|
||
One of the very important uses of the Internet for those of us
|
||
outside North America is that it can now be used to contact companies that
|
||
maintain a presence on CompuServe, GEnie, and Delphi. This makes it
|
||
possible for us to order goods. Companies often advertise 1 800 telephone
|
||
numbers but these are of no use to people in Australia (and most other
|
||
countries as well). Companies I have dealt with have taken the sensible
|
||
method of allowing me to simply make an order after they have my credit
|
||
card number on record (NEVER, never send a credit card number via e-mail;
|
||
it is not entirely safe). This requires me to make one order via a phone
|
||
call or snail mail (i.e. the regular postal service). I have ordered many
|
||
things from a range of companies and have never had any worries with this
|
||
method. It has required some detective work at times as companies always
|
||
quote a 1 800 number but rarely give an e-mail address.
|
||
|
||
I know it is now possible to telnet to GEnie and get a GEnie account
|
||
(I tried it late last year). It works well and is a better and cheaper way
|
||
of accessing GEnie than through our Australian telecommunication companies,
|
||
but it is still quite expensive with an hourly surcharge applied for telnet
|
||
users.
|
||
|
||
In the end, it needs to be understood that in Australia we have a
|
||
small, fragmented Apple II community and that for many of us our ability to
|
||
get help on software or hardware is dependent on the Internet. We in South
|
||
Australia do what we can to help our local Apple II users but when the
|
||
really difficult questions come we resort to the Internet. People on the
|
||
Internet have so far been terrific in assisting. I know that on a good day
|
||
I can get answers to questions in just a few seconds via the irc, a few
|
||
hours via e-mail, and a few days via the newsgroups. These are vital
|
||
services.
|
||
|
||
[*][*][*]
|
||
|
||
|
||
GLOSSARY
|
||
""""""""
|
||
|
||
ftp or file transfer protocol, is a program you can use to transfer files
|
||
''' from a far-off computer to the local computer that you use to connect
|
||
to the Internet. (Keep in mind that once you transfer a file from the
|
||
far-off computer to your local Internet provider, you still have to
|
||
transfer the file from your local provider to your own microcomputer.)
|
||
GEnie's Internet Services now offer this option.
|
||
|
||
IRC or Internet relay chat, is used to talk "live" with other Internet
|
||
''' users. On GEnie, the closest equivalent is a RTC, or real-time
|
||
conference/chat.
|
||
|
||
SLIP stands for Serial Line Internet Protocol, and is a way of allowing
|
||
'''' full Internet access over a normal modem. Most Internet modem
|
||
access is _not_ SLIP access. SLIP allows you to use graphic interfaces
|
||
like Mosaic and Netscape.
|
||
|
||
WWW or World-Wide Web (also known as w3) is like hypermedia for the
|
||
''' Internet. People create documents that contain links to pictures,
|
||
sounds, and other documents. For example: If I create a document about
|
||
myself, then I might explain that I am interested in the Apple II. The
|
||
phrase "Apple II" would be highlighted, indicating that there was a link
|
||
for that phrase. If you select that link, you'd be taken to places of
|
||
interest to Apple II users.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
[EOA]
|
||
[AWX]//////////////////////////////
|
||
APPLEWORKS ANNEX /
|
||
/////////////////////////////////
|
||
In This Corner, AppleWorks 5
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
by Jay Curtis
|
||
[J.CURTIS8]
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> APPLEWORKS 5 TAKES ON THE COMPETITION <<<
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
In the Apple II world, AppleWorks really has no competitor,
|
||
especially now that AppleWorks 5 has been released. As we mentioned last
|
||
month, JEM Software is preparing to release an emulator that will let you
|
||
run AppleWorks 5 on a Macintosh.<1> How will AppleWorks fare when faced
|
||
with competition from other -Works programs?<2>
|
||
|
||
Although AppleWorks 5 doesn't have the graphic capabilities of either
|
||
Microsoft Works or ClarisWorks, it DOES have several important advantages
|
||
that make it competitive with both of them. Included among these
|
||
advantages are AW5's relational database, extensive library of utilities
|
||
and templates and its excellent file access and management features. AW5's
|
||
speed, and its economic use of disk space and memory will also help to make
|
||
it competitive.
|
||
|
||
Unlike Microsoft Works and ClarisWorks, AW5 has no menu bar, no
|
||
scroll bar and no movable and resizable window.<3> There is no built-in
|
||
capability for including graphics within text files or for manipulating
|
||
data and displays through such features as "object linking and embedding"
|
||
or "publish and subscribe." AppleWorks has no WYSIWYG (what you see is
|
||
what you get) interface with changeable and scalable fonts, nor does AW5
|
||
come with a full drawing and painting module or a telecommunications
|
||
module.<4> However, what AppleWorks lacks in its ability to DISPLAY data,
|
||
it makes up for in its capability to MANIPULATE and PROCESS data with speed
|
||
and efficiency.
|
||
|
||
Many of today's object-oriented, GUI (graphic user interface)
|
||
applications have become RAM hungry and lethargic. Unless they are run on
|
||
the latest hardware and system software and/or with substantially increased
|
||
memory, they are practically guaranteed to frustrate those users who update
|
||
their software without upgrading their hardware. AppleWorks is an
|
||
exception. Not only has it remained a character-based product but, over
|
||
the years, programmers Alan Bird, Dan Verkade, Rob Renstrom, Mark Munz and
|
||
Randy Brandt have poked and prodded AppleWorks to do more within the
|
||
65c02's 64K addressing limit. They have refined the program, fixed the
|
||
bugs, added new features, made it faster, and made it more efficient.
|
||
|
||
The result is that AppleWorks is now a larger program with greater
|
||
capability, but WITHOUT the bloat and lethargy of many of today's GUI
|
||
products. In a recent review of Microsoft Works 4.0 the writer noted, "the
|
||
recommended full installation fills a whopping 16 MB."<5> Even the
|
||
conservatively-sized ClarisWorks 3.0 fills a hefty 9.5 MB on disk. With
|
||
software of this size, disk access can slow down a program considerably.
|
||
In contrast, the requirements for Appleworks 5 are small (around 1 MB for
|
||
full installation on disk and less than 1/2 MB in RAM). AppleWorks is also
|
||
fast because it is coded in assembly language (which also keeps it small).
|
||
Also, it has been coded to make the best possible use of the Apple II's
|
||
architecture and it runs without disk access.
|
||
|
||
Randy Brandt said that virtually "thousands of lines of code have been
|
||
added" to AppleWorks since version 3.0 came out. He said that the only
|
||
constraint in using Apple II hardware with AppleWorks has been the
|
||
hardware's limited "graphic capability." However, "in terms of adding
|
||
features," he said, "there was no intrinsic impediment" with Apple II
|
||
hardware. Brandt added, "We literally spent hours on end pawing through
|
||
code to squeeze out a few bytes." He said, "We crammed in code, shoehorned
|
||
in code everywhere that we could." According to Brandt, in some places in
|
||
AW5 the user will notice that messages have been shortened and that this
|
||
was done "just to get more bytes."
|
||
|
||
Although larger and more feature-packed, AW5 is still an 8-bit,
|
||
character-based program that continues to possess most of the same,
|
||
familiar menus, key commands and procedures that it has always had,
|
||
regardless of whether it is running on an Apple II or on a Mac. Therefore,
|
||
although it has changed, anyone who used AppleWorks ten years ago could
|
||
easily sit down with AppleWorks 5 today and quickly learn how to access its
|
||
new capabilities.
|
||
|
||
|
||
DIRECT COMPARISON Admittedly, many of AW5's newest features are shared
|
||
""""""""""""""""" by MS-Works and ClarisWorks. For example, AW5's split
|
||
window viewing capability in the word processor and spreadsheet is
|
||
available in all ClarisWorks documents and in the MS-Works spreadsheet.
|
||
Like AppleWorks 5, ClarisWorks also has a capable outliner available in the
|
||
word processor. However, no outliner exists in the most current version of
|
||
MS-Works. The ability to embed cell notes and memos in spreadsheets is
|
||
shared between AppleWorks and MS-Works, but not ClarisWorks (which still
|
||
lacks this capability in even its most recent version).<6> Like
|
||
AppleWorks, both MS-Works and ClarisWorks offer multiple database views.
|
||
However, neither program offers AppleWorks' MIXED single record layout and
|
||
multiple record layout display.
|
||
|
||
All three programs offer calculated database fields with both logical
|
||
and numerical operators, and all three offer the considerable power of 3-D
|
||
referencing, i.e. the ability to reference worksheet cells in other
|
||
spreadsheets. All three software packages offer adequate mail merge
|
||
capability. However, unlike MS-Works, AppleWorks can call up merged
|
||
AppleWorks word processor files and display their data independently of the
|
||
linked database.
|
||
|
||
An advantage of both MS-Works and ClarisWorks is that each can link
|
||
files and to update and share data automatically between the files.
|
||
Microsoft Works uses what it calls Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) to
|
||
accomplish data sharing (in version 4.0), while ClarisWorks uses what it
|
||
calls "frames" with System 7's "Publish and Subscribe" feature to share
|
||
data between documents. In both MS-Works and ClarisWorks, linked documents
|
||
in WP, DB and SS modules can automatically be updated when information is
|
||
changed in a key document. This feature can have distinct advantages,
|
||
especially in documents that include graphic displays and that need to be
|
||
reposted with new data regularly. However, the information in these
|
||
documents is updated in linked files ONLY according to how it is changed in
|
||
the key file.
|
||
|
||
In contrast, AppleWorks provides the capability to link files and
|
||
share data INTELLIGENTLY (i.e, according to user-defined rules) through its
|
||
relational database capabilities. In response to a recalculation or to
|
||
field input, AW5 can search fields or cells in related files on the desktop
|
||
(or on disk) and import the variable data in those files. Data sharing may
|
||
vary depending on the kind of calculation that was made, the rule that was
|
||
linked to the cell or field, or the input that a spreadsheet cell or DB
|
||
field had received. Additionally, AppleWorks can also EXPORT data to
|
||
linked files when a rule has been met. All of this is done not through
|
||
simple object linking, but according to conditions that the user has
|
||
prescribed beforehand.
|
||
|
||
The relational database capabilities of AppleWorks 5 are regarded by
|
||
some as its strongest feature. These capabilities were originally built-in
|
||
to the AppleWorks 4.x engine that runs inside AW5, and they evolved from
|
||
the "Total Control" AppleWorks enhancement that was developed for
|
||
AppleWorks 3.0. In effect, it is now possible to program AppleWorks to
|
||
automatically generate sophisticated, full, narrative reports from brief
|
||
alpha-numerical data alone. Users of either ClarisWorks or MS-Works may
|
||
sneer at AppleWorks' 60-category limit per record, but this limitation is
|
||
really only a limitation of the mind when you consider the power of AW5's
|
||
true relational capabilities. More about these capabilities will appear in
|
||
a future article.
|
||
|
||
AppleWorks' file management features are SIMPLY superior to either
|
||
Microsoft Works or ClarisWorks. Both of those programs depend totally upon
|
||
the Mac desktop and operating system to perform such tasks as file
|
||
deleting, moving, copying, or renaming. In order to access those
|
||
capabilities, it is necessary to either close the MS-Works or ClarisWorks
|
||
window (or quit the application altogether), select the Mac desktop and
|
||
then manipulate files by selecting and opening file folders from the
|
||
desktop.<7> Once the file maintenance activities have been completed, then
|
||
the program can be reselected or relaunched and program tasks resumed.
|
||
|
||
On the other hand, with AppleWorks, all necessary file maintenance can
|
||
be performed from within the program, including deleting, renaming,
|
||
copying, moving, lock, unlock and even change of file type. Additional
|
||
file and disk management functions available from the "Other Activities"
|
||
menu include copy, erase, format and verify disks, AND create, copy and
|
||
rename subdirectories.
|
||
|
||
Randy Brandt noted that, when running under Phoenix II on the Mac,
|
||
"Phoenix disables the Disk Activities menu in AW5." However, he added,
|
||
"File activities continue to work." This means that it will NOT be
|
||
possible to copy, format, erase, verify, or rename disks from within
|
||
AppleWorks on the Mac, nor will it be possible to create or copy
|
||
subdirectories. However, deleting, renaming, copying and moving files will
|
||
continue to be possible on the Mac just as it is on the Apple II.
|
||
|
||
AppleWorks 5's file access is VASTLY superior to either ClarisWorks or
|
||
MS-Works. Neither of those programs, for example, has AW5's capability to
|
||
remember the last 9 files accessed during a previous session and then make
|
||
the files available through a desktop organizer when the program is
|
||
relaunched. Additionally, neither program allows the user to preselect
|
||
commonly used data paths for saving and opening files. This "Quick Path"
|
||
menu is created through AW5's "Select standard settings for AppleWorks"
|
||
feature. Up to 8 data paths can be pre-selected. Unlike either
|
||
ClarisWorks or MS-Works, AppleWorks makes it possible to select and open
|
||
multiple files in one operation instead of opening them one at a time (an
|
||
extremely time-consuming process when multiple files are required). Users
|
||
can select files by scrolling through a subdirectory, checking them with a
|
||
MouseText check mark then open them with a single key stroke.
|
||
Additionally, a range of files can be selected with a command-arrow key
|
||
stroke and then opened.
|
||
|
||
Randy Brandt explained that when AW5 is run in emulation under
|
||
"Phoenix II" and Macintosh System 7.0 and System 7.5, files are written to
|
||
and read directly from subdirectories on the Mac's HFS volume(s). AW5
|
||
potentially has access to any of the Mac's online volumes. According to
|
||
Brandt, AppleWorks itself "can even be run from a directory that doesn't
|
||
have a legal ProDOS path." Brandt said, "We've defined /* as the directory
|
||
or folder where Phoenix resides, so we can ship with things like TimeOut
|
||
and inits active, since their paths are defined as /*/aw.inits and
|
||
/*/timeout, allowing them to work no matter what the real path is."
|
||
|
||
Under Phoenix and System 7.0, if the user wishes to copy files to a
|
||
ProDOS-formatted disk in the Mac's SuperDrive, then it is necessary to run
|
||
the files through Apple File Exchange before they can be saved to the
|
||
ProDOS disk. However, under Macintosh System 7.5, it is possible for AW5
|
||
to read and write AppleWorks files directly to ProDOS-formatted disks in
|
||
the Mac's SuperDrive and/or to a ProDOS volume on the Mac's HD, bypassing
|
||
AFE altogether. This is made possible by System 7.5's "Macintosh Easy
|
||
Open" (MEO) file translation capabilities. Perhaps even more important for
|
||
some users, "[u]nder System 7.5 you should be able to load and save MS-DOS
|
||
text files directly, using MS-DOS disks," said Brandt.
|
||
|
||
Steven Beville's "ChangeTextType" macro program should come in handy
|
||
for saving AppleWorks files directly to MS-DOS disks under Phoenix and
|
||
System 7.5. This short program can be compiled and saved as a TimeOut
|
||
application. It gives the user the opportunity to save files from the
|
||
AppleWorks desktop as "Word processor, AppleWorks Text and MS-DOS Text."
|
||
As it has currently been written, the program is designed to save files as
|
||
ASCII text in MS-DOS format (with added linefeeds). These files can then
|
||
be copied to an MS-DOS disk using a GS application such as Peter Watson's
|
||
MS-DOS utilities or the Mac's Apple File Exchange. For those running AW5
|
||
on the Mac under System 7.5 and Phoenix, however, direct access to MS-DOS
|
||
volumes and text files should make those intermediate steps unnecessary.
|
||
|
||
One final advantage to the use of AppleWorks 5 over either
|
||
ClarisWorks or Microsoft Works is the enormous library of AppleWorks files
|
||
that is available to users. Nothing like this library exists for either of
|
||
the other two integrated software programs. New and old users alike can
|
||
potentially save tremendous amounts of time over the creation of their own
|
||
task files and templates by simply downloading what they need from bulletin
|
||
board services at no cost beyond online charges. On GEnie alone, there are
|
||
more than 800 AppleWorks-related files containing virtually thousands of
|
||
utilities, database and spreadsheet templates, macro programs, payroll,
|
||
home finance and small business worksheets, and organizational management
|
||
templates that can be used directly with AW5 or converted to AW5 use.
|
||
|
||
Many of the AppleWorks utilities and files available online are from
|
||
the National AppleWorks User Group (NAUG) and many others are from
|
||
independent AppleWorks users and enthusiasts. New AppleWorks users,
|
||
whether they choose to run AppleWorks on a Macintosh or an Apple II, should
|
||
consider the potential value of this library when comparing programs.
|
||
Eventually, if Brandt and Munz can produce a DOS version of Phoenix II,
|
||
users may be able to save or access AppleWorks files with full formatting
|
||
and control characters directly to MS-DOS disks for use with AppleWorks
|
||
running on DOS systems.
|
||
|
||
In effect, AW5 may eventually run nearly everywhere, with full file
|
||
interchange and access between systems, as a completely
|
||
hardware-independent program. It's ideal for people who must work on
|
||
multiple platforms. If you are a dedicated AppleWorks 5 user, it may not
|
||
matter what kind of computer you use; you will have access to AppleWorks
|
||
and its extensive library of files wherever you are. This amazing
|
||
possibility is very real. In the next installment, we'll talk more about
|
||
AW5's capabilities and about ways in which these amazing capabilities can
|
||
be used.
|
||
|
||
[*][*][*]
|
||
|
||
|
||
NOTES
|
||
"""""
|
||
|
||
<1> It was suggested in last month's installment that AW5 might be
|
||
bundled and sold with the Macintosh "Phoenix II" emulator. As of this
|
||
writing, Randy Brandt has indicated that there are no such plans, and that
|
||
he is only interested in selling the Phoenix II emulator by itself through
|
||
JEM software. The emulator will sell for less than the IIe card, but no
|
||
final price has been determined.
|
||
|
||
<2> Programs such as Microsoft Works and ClarisWorks are in fact
|
||
descended from AppleWorks. AppleWorks was there first.
|
||
|
||
<3> This is not entirely accurate if AppleWorks 5 is running in
|
||
EMULATION on the Mac. The "Phoenix II" emulation and System 7 provide a
|
||
menu bar with certain capabilities that can be used with AW5 such as "Save
|
||
Snapshot." Also, the window that AW5 runs in can be moved around the
|
||
desktop. In emulation, scrolling is done from within the program, however.
|
||
|
||
<4> TimeOut Paint is included with AW5, but it does not function as
|
||
an integrated part of the program in the same way that the paint and draw
|
||
modules function in MS-Works and ClarisWorks. Additionally, previous
|
||
versions of AppleWorks would allow use of TimeOut TeleComm from within
|
||
AppleWorks, but use of this feature is no longer available with AW5.
|
||
|
||
<5> Norr, Henry. "Microsoft Works 4.0." MacWorld (January 1995),
|
||
p. 64. These figures refer, of course, to hard drive space, not space in
|
||
memory.
|
||
|
||
<6> "ClarisWorks 3.0/ Compact and well integrated, ClarisWorks now
|
||
costs less and still does it all." MacUser (April 1995), p. 60.
|
||
|
||
<7> It is also possible to use the desktop's "Find" capability from
|
||
the "Edit" cascade menu on the Mac's menu bar in order to locate a desired
|
||
file or set of files. However, those with older, 4MB Mac systems like the
|
||
LC-II or LC-III know that even the simple act of performing file
|
||
maintenance may over-tax the system RAM and result in an out-of-memory
|
||
error, depending on how many applications have been left open. For this
|
||
reason, it may be prudent to quit applications rather than just closing
|
||
their windows. Unfortunately, this may mean additional time required in
|
||
relaunching.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
[EOA]
|
||
[ASA]//////////////////////////////
|
||
ASCII ART GALLERY /
|
||
/////////////////////////////////
|
||
Menagerie
|
||
"""""""""
|
||
by Susie Oviatt
|
||
[SUSIE]
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
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|
||
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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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[A2.CHARLIE]
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>>> WHO'S WHO? <<<
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""""""""""""""""""
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~ GEnieLamp Profile: Tom Zuchowski ~
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This month we will profile the man who probably knows more about the
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Eamon adventures and the world of Eamonauts than anyone else.
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GEnieLamp> You seem to be the resident Eamon guru on GEnie. Why don't
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""""""""" you begin by telling us what the Eamon adventures are, and how
|
||
you came to be so involved with them?
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Tom> Eamon adventures are text-based games of exploration and combat.
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""" Eamon is similar to, though usually much simpler than, the old
|
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Infocom series of games. Basically, the computer tells you what you see,
|
||
and you type in simple commands such as GET POTION, GIVE POTION TO FRODO,
|
||
DRINK POTION, etc. Eamon is a public-domain gaming system that began as
|
||
nothing more than a small set of tools for writing Eamon adventures. Over
|
||
the years, the tools have become much more sophisticated, and many dozens
|
||
of people have written some 230 different Eamons. By the way, nobody knows
|
||
why Donald Brown named it "Eamon", so don't ask. <grin>
|
||
|
||
I first discovered Eamon back around 1982 or '83 by ordering some
|
||
from a mail-order public-domain software house. I become enamoured with
|
||
the concept of a system that enabled anyone to design and write text
|
||
adventures, and best of all, they were comparatively cheap to buy. When
|
||
John Nelson began the first national Eamon club, I became an active
|
||
contributor, especially in the bug-fix department. For some reason, I used
|
||
to get a lot of entertainment from fixing other people's bugs.
|
||
|
||
But it was when I actually wrote my first Eamon that I discovered
|
||
just how much FUN Eamon can be. Writing an Eamon adventure is perhaps the
|
||
most engrossing thing I've ever done with a computer. Of course, different
|
||
people like doing different things and everyone won't share my enthusiasm,
|
||
but I know people who were forced to quit writing Eamons because they
|
||
became obsessed with them to the point of neglecting their real lives. I
|
||
know that feeling well!
|
||
|
||
In 1986, John Nelson bought a PC, and he soon let his Eamon club
|
||
slide into total neglect. After many months of nagging him, he transferred
|
||
the tattered remains of his club to me. I began the "Eamon Adventurer's
|
||
Guild" newsletter, and got most of the public-domain vendors on board with
|
||
me so that we would have a common Eamon numbering system.
|
||
|
||
Then Dean Esmay called me in 1989 and got me online with GEnie as
|
||
A2's "Eamon guy". I eventually became the "8-bit" guy for the library
|
||
crew, but Eamon remains my true love in Apple II gaming.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> What are your duties as the "8 bit" guy for the library crew?
|
||
"""""""""
|
||
|
||
Tom> It might be more accurate to call me A2's "8-bit advocate". Most of
|
||
""" the A2 staff are, or course, hard-core GS enthusiasts. I sort of
|
||
appointed myself as the staff voice for 8-bit users, to keep everyone
|
||
mindful of the needs and limits of the 8-bit platforms.
|
||
|
||
As far as the library goes, my area got expanded from just Eamon to
|
||
include the 8-bit games and utilities libraries back when Dean asked me to
|
||
handle those areas during the big clean-up project four or five years ago.
|
||
We went through every file in the library, converting everything to BXY,
|
||
eliminating redundant files, and removing stuff that just didn't work. In
|
||
the course of this, I became familiar with everything we had. Since then,
|
||
I made up a few "Best of A2" 8-bit uploads and still try to make sure that
|
||
we don't release new uploads of things we already have. I sometimes do
|
||
things like verify compatibility, or may be called upon to help II+ users
|
||
with their special problems.
|
||
|
||
My main library work these days isn't so much as an 8-bit specialist,
|
||
but is simply to help A2.TONY out with whatever he asks me to do: fix
|
||
descriptions, move files, do research, fill in when he takes off for a few
|
||
days, and so on. This takes some of the load off of him and makes it
|
||
easier to stay ahead of library developments at all times. I also do the
|
||
monthly Library Indexes.
|
||
|
||
I've always liked using my IIe more than a GS. This is undoubtedly
|
||
at least partly because my IIe has a lot of enhancements and my GS does
|
||
not, but I've never been a huge fan of rodents.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> Tell us about your present project of uploading all of the old
|
||
""""""""" Eamon adventures to the GEnie library.
|
||
|
||
Tom> Well, there are only two or three public-domain vendors left that
|
||
""" carry the entire Eamon set, and I recently realized that some Eamons
|
||
could possibly become lost forever if something wasn't done to preserve
|
||
them.
|
||
|
||
I am uploading everything I have to A2's library. This way, it will
|
||
always be available to the public, no matter what happens to me or the
|
||
Apple II public-domain mail-order business. A2 will not only have ALL of
|
||
the DOS 3.3 and ProDOS Eamons, but also a lot of other utilities and stuff
|
||
that has never been available anywhere. Sam Ruby's custom Eamon editors
|
||
for many of his landmark Eamons are one example. I'll be uploading more
|
||
reviews and tutorials, too.
|
||
|
||
Note that there are DOS 3.3 Eamons, and also ProDOS Eamons in
|
||
40-column and 80-column format. People who are looking for specific Eamon
|
||
stuff should not despair of finding it among the hundreds of files that
|
||
will eventually reside in the library. I am using specific file naming
|
||
conventions so that a search on the keyword EAMON will result in sorted
|
||
lists that are not only sorted by number but also by operating system and
|
||
display, too.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> [We asked Tom to list his Top 20 all-time favorite Eamon
|
||
""""""""" adventures. They are listed and described in the Treasure
|
||
Hunt column this month.]
|
||
|
||
How did you first get interested in the Apple II computer?
|
||
|
||
Tom> My first exposure to computers was a job assembling and reconciling
|
||
""" computer runs for a big mainframe in a bank. This got me interested
|
||
in them, and I learned to work on them in the Air Force back in the late
|
||
70s. Getting my own computer was very high on my list of things to do when
|
||
I became a civilian in 1979, and I bought my first II+ in 1980. It had 64K
|
||
and one Disk II floppy drive, and cost me something like $2,500 or so.
|
||
|
||
I had originally intended to buy an Ohio Scientific computer, which I
|
||
judged to be the most interesting and capable computer on the market. But
|
||
it happened that one of my co-workers in my new job had an Apple II, and he
|
||
convinced me that we could have a lot more fun together if we used the same
|
||
computer. As it turned out, Visi-Calc killed off all of the Apple II's
|
||
competitors, so I got lucky.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> What would you consider to be the top five programs ever
|
||
""""""""" written for the 8 bit Apple II series of computers?
|
||
|
||
Tom> These choices are based on my personal experience. I don't doubt
|
||
""" that there are some candidates for this list that I've simply never
|
||
used, and I may have let some worthies slip my mind, but here goes:
|
||
|
||
1) ProTERM 3 The best telecom program I've ever used. I'm still
|
||
looking for a program for my 486 that is more than half this good.
|
||
|
||
2) AppleWorks No list would be complete without this program.
|
||
AppleWorks is the best program I've ever used for "quick and dirty"
|
||
databases and word processing. Perhaps I should specifically single out
|
||
AppleWorks 3.0, the version that (in my opinion) made AW into a serious
|
||
program. Having said that, I should perhaps also mention that the later
|
||
versions are even better!
|
||
|
||
3) Diversi-DOS Bill Basham's DOS 3.3 replacement is MUCH superior
|
||
to ProDOS for 5.25-only systems. It's just as fast as ProDOS, makes fewer
|
||
demands on system resources, and is easier to use. But it's only good for
|
||
DOS 3.3 disks, which limits its utility these days.
|
||
|
||
4) ShrinkIt 3.4 Where would we be today without Andy Nicholas?
|
||
This is the program I always use to show PC-snobs what a lowly 13-year-old
|
||
Apple II is STILL capable of. (If only all of our programs were this
|
||
good!)
|
||
|
||
5) Copy II+ 8.4 Not the best disk utility that was ever on the
|
||
market, but it's the one that I use the most often. I think it's the
|
||
easiest to use, and it gives me some features I need that I don't see
|
||
anywhere else.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> Do you have any anecdotes you can share with us about your
|
||
""""""""" first experiences with the Apple II?
|
||
|
||
Tom> Gosh, I don't know. I was totally consumed by programming and
|
||
""" gaming. My job had me working out of my home on an "on call" basis,
|
||
and I had a lot of free time. I'll bet I spent upwards of 70-80 hours per
|
||
week programming and playing games in 1980-81. No social life at all.
|
||
|
||
Back then a low-end printer cost about $800, and I didn't get a
|
||
printer or an assembler until '81 or '82, and so I used to spend absolutely
|
||
absurd amounts of time working with pen and paper and typing things in by
|
||
hand. This is a very time-consuming way to write and debug machine-code
|
||
programs! Fortunately, I had the foresight to get that Disk II at the
|
||
beginning.
|
||
|
||
I had an inventory of about 400 small parts that I carried for my
|
||
job, and it was a tedious task to reconcile it four times a year. So I
|
||
built a speech synthesizer and wrote a program that read my inventory to me
|
||
while I checked my stuff. It was a wonderfully productive program and
|
||
quite successful. Of course, I spent much more time constantly making it
|
||
"better" than I ever saved by merely using it. It was great fun!
|
||
|
||
The early days were great. I wrote several small articles that I
|
||
sold to the many Apple II magazines of the day. Anybody could do it back
|
||
then, when they published entire articles about how to save a single byte
|
||
in a routine. Ah, the days of 16K computers!
|
||
|
||
I was late to come to ProDOS, still using my II+ and DOS 3.3 up until
|
||
1989. ProDOS just didn't have anything to offer to me that I thought I
|
||
needed, and cost more resources than DOS 3.3 did. (There are still legions
|
||
of such Apple II users out in the World; you'd be amazed.) It took coming
|
||
online to GEnie to expand my needs beyond what I could do with the ol' II+.
|
||
These days I use a souped-up IIe, a stock GS, a 486, and the II+, pretty
|
||
much in that order.
|
||
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> Tell us a little bit about yourself.
|
||
"""""""""
|
||
|
||
Tom> I was born and grew up in northwest Missouri, near Kansas City.
|
||
""" Since I was 8 years old, all I ever wanted to do was design rocket
|
||
hardware, and the year I graduated from high school was the year they
|
||
pulled the plug on Apollo. I drifted for two years in college and then
|
||
joined the Air Force in search of an interesting career. I learned to
|
||
repair computers in the Air Force, and got my AA Electronics degree. The
|
||
Air Force stint included two years in Japan, where I would have gladly
|
||
lived the rest of my life, if they would have let me stay there. I wound
|
||
up in North Carolina, which is a pretty nice place, so I can't complain. I
|
||
live in a small rural housing development a few miles out from a
|
||
medium-sized city, and really like the peace and quiet. I listen to a lot
|
||
of music of the hard-rock variety, and watch far too much TV. I'm 43 years
|
||
old.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> What do you consider your proudest accomplishment?
|
||
"""""""""
|
||
|
||
Tom> I never really thought about it before. Probably my proudest
|
||
""" accomplishment is the fact that my father is proud of how I turned
|
||
out and what I have become. That means a lot to me. It rather dazzles me
|
||
that my wife thinks I'm good enough for her, because she is quite an
|
||
exceptional woman, very wise and smart.
|
||
|
||
Computer-wise, I take great pride in the esteem that my own Eamon
|
||
adventures are given by many Eamon gamers. The best Eamon authors are
|
||
darned good, and it's a real honor to be included in that select group by
|
||
people whose opinions I value. There's an awful lot that goes into a top
|
||
Eamon adventure that no one but another Eamon author would ever notice.
|
||
Like many things, when it's done right, the user doesn't even know it's
|
||
there.
|
||
|
||
Online, I'm darned proud of the job the library staff does in A2.
|
||
A2's library was a real mess at one time, and Dean put together a great
|
||
crew that cleaned it all up. We put a lot of work into keeping things that
|
||
way that the users never see. Tony does a great job and it's a real
|
||
pleasure to work with him.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> Who do you look up to as your mentors?
|
||
"""""""""
|
||
|
||
Tom> I really never thought of it before. My dad, of course. He taught
|
||
"""" me to be honest and do the best work I know how; I always have, and
|
||
it's stood me well over the years. I took much inspiration in my youth
|
||
from the honorable heroes in Robert Heinlein's teenager stories. I learned
|
||
a lot about how to live an honorable life from many people I knew when I
|
||
was younger.
|
||
|
||
I guess I'm old enough now that I don't look to anyone for
|
||
inspiration or direction. Possibly this is a consequence of becoming the
|
||
defacto head of my extended family, as my parents get old.
|
||
|
||
I don't really have any aspirations to become a better programmer
|
||
than I am now, so I don't look to anyone in that regard. Don't
|
||
misunderstand me, I have no doubt that my programming ability could use a
|
||
lot of help, but I have to be inspired by a project to get motivated, and
|
||
nothing new looms on the horizon.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> What sorts of things do you like to do for fun
|
||
""""""""" (i.e. non-computer hobbies)?
|
||
|
||
Tom> Heh. I do spend too much time playing with computers. I am a
|
||
""" member of the local astronomy club and own a small astronomical
|
||
reflecting telescope that I'd like to use more than I do. I have a
|
||
motorcycle and a '61 Austin-Healy Sprite sports car that I haven't even
|
||
driven in a couple of years, but I keep telling myself that someday I will
|
||
get tired of the computer....
|
||
|
||
My main hobby these days is High Power Rocketry. HPR is the adult
|
||
version of the little Estes rockets that many of us flew as kids, but uses
|
||
much larger airframes and motors that are only available to certified adult
|
||
fliers. The old saying, "the only difference between men and boys is the
|
||
price of their toys" very much applies to rocketry, I'm afraid. My
|
||
crowning achievement in HPR to date is a 1/12th-scale V-2 that was very
|
||
well received at last year's National meet in Kansas.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> Tell us a bit about your family.
|
||
"""""""""
|
||
|
||
Tom> I'm married to a wonderful woman named Tina; we just got married
|
||
""" last August and I am the luckiest guy on earth. We have no
|
||
children, but we do share the house with ten cats, two of which were
|
||
actually intentionally acquired. The rest just sort of showed up and moved
|
||
in, as we seem to live in a popular pet dumping ground area. Actually, ten
|
||
cats aren't as bad as you might think, once you get used to the idea that
|
||
you can't have anything nice in the house. I imagine that it's much like
|
||
having small children, in terms of dirt and destructiveness. Though I
|
||
doubt that children shed so much in the spring.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> Are computers a part of your daytime job? Please tell us a
|
||
""""""""" little about what you do between 9 and 5.
|
||
|
||
Tom> I have worked for the past 15 years servicing CAT scanners, a job
|
||
""" that once required considerable technical ability above all else but
|
||
now requires a great deal of customer-handling skill as the technology has
|
||
matured. I work for a national independent service provider and work on a
|
||
variety of types and brands of scanners. As you might expect, CAT scanner
|
||
repair isn't a huge field, and though I work for the largest independent
|
||
outfit in the business, my immediate supervisor lives in Atlanta, and his
|
||
supervisor is in California. I work out of a bedroom office in my house,
|
||
as do most people in my line. This means that I have a lot of free time in
|
||
which I sit around waiting for a customer to call in a problem. This fact
|
||
of my life had a lot of bearing in my taking up Eamon as a hobby, as it is
|
||
something I can do and enjoy, yet quit on an instant's notice without
|
||
needing to clean up when I get called to work.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> What new services do you think GEnie should provide its
|
||
""""""""" subscribers?
|
||
|
||
|
||
Tom> I'd like to see better Internet coverage and more competitive rates
|
||
""" for high speed and daytime use. And of course we need more and
|
||
faster high-speed nodes! It would be great if GEnie could get involved
|
||
with some of the magazines and such that presently restrict themselves to
|
||
CIS or AOL. I sincerely hope that they never rework their software to
|
||
require a proprietary front end. I'd like to see a really easy way to do
|
||
email across the services.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> Where do you see the future of telecommunications moving in
|
||
""""""""" the next five to ten years?
|
||
|
||
Tom> Well, we'll be seeing 9600 quickly become the default "slow" speed,
|
||
""" especially as the commercial online services continue to try to
|
||
outdo each other. I see just about everyone who moves about in their job
|
||
telecommunicating many times on a daily basis. Cell phone modem and fax
|
||
links will become very commonplace for business travellers. More and more
|
||
correspondence will travel direct through the wire rather then via the mail
|
||
or Fed Ex.
|
||
|
||
I don't share the general enthusiasm for the Internet as the upcoming
|
||
"Information Highway"; I just don't think that it has the underlying
|
||
infrastructure to handle the need. This probably means that the Federal
|
||
government will get involved in the "highway" construction, which will
|
||
result in poor performance, massive bureaucratic overhead, and endless
|
||
Federal meddling in our lives and business. I think we'll wind up with a
|
||
Federal system that is about as intrusive and friendly as the IRS.
|
||
(Cheerful guy, ain't I?) If we don't want this, then it is up to all of us
|
||
to keep up with what Congress and the Clinton Administration is up to and
|
||
LET THEM KNOW when we disagree. Our telecommunications rights are NOT
|
||
defined in the Constitution, and it's up to each of us to make sure that
|
||
the Feds don't ruin everything.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> What one piece of advice would you pass along to a new
|
||
""""""""" Apple II telecommunications enthusiast?
|
||
|
||
Tom> Gosh. ONE piece? Spend the bucks and buy a decent telecom program.
|
||
""" If you're using some old piece of telecom trash, you'll find that
|
||
this is the single best investment you can make. If you already have one,
|
||
then find and learn the tools and methods that you need to interact with
|
||
the PC and Mac worlds, and accept the fact that they will seldom meet you
|
||
halfway. Enjoy the fact that you can actually get to know the movers and
|
||
shakers in our cozy Apple II world and that they may actually get to know
|
||
you.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> Tom, this has been an enjoyable interview. Thank you for
|
||
""""""""" sharing with us.
|
||
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Welcome back to the Treasure Hunt! This month we will take a look at
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the best 20 Eamon adventures available in the Apple II library on GEnie.
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As explained in this month's Profile column, Eamon adventures are
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text-based games of exploration and combat that allow you to type simple
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commands such as GET RING and DRINK POTION and see how the game responds.
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There are hundreds of Eamon games. Each module is loosely referred to as a
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"dungeon", despite the fact that it might take place entirely in the
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outdoors, or in outer space... or even in a dungeon!
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>>> THE BEST 20 EAMON ADVENTURES <<<
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Like anyone else, I am very fond of my own Eamons and can't be
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objective when deciding where to place them in a list of "Top 20" Eamons.
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So here is the top 20 as determined by the Eamon Adventurer's Guild's
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Ratings Poll.
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Sorry for the low number of raters, but for some strange reason many
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people are very reluctant to rate the Eamons they've played, even when they
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write to bawl me out because they strongly disagree with a given rating!
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Go figure.
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Everyone has his own special likes and dislikes when adventuring.
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Everyone's tastes may not specifically agree with this list, but it is
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probably a fair guideline for a few adventures that most will enjoy.
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The scale is 1-10 with 10 the best, and no Adventure has been rated
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by its author:
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GEnie Average # of
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file# Adventure rating raters
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----- ---------------------------- ------- ------
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15698 124 Assault on Dolni Keep 9.2 6
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15697 114 Thror's Ring 9.0 6
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15747 78 The Prince's Tavern 9.0 3
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16034 194 Attack of the Kretons 9.0 2
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15872 120 Orb of My Life 9.0 1
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18011 204 Sanctuary 9.0 1
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15948 161 Operation Endgame 8.9 5
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17522 150 Walled City of Darkness 8.8 2
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15748 147 The Dark Brotherhood 8.7 3
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17162 129 Return to Moria 8.6 4
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20058 166 Storm Breaker 8.5 2
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18039 148 Journey to Jotunheim 8.4 5
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19648 145 Buccaneer! 8.3 3
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16798 108 The Mines of Moria 8.2 4
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19683 121 Wrenhold's Secret Vigil 8.2 2
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17043 169 The Black Phoenix 8.1 5
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16248 91 FutureQuest II 8.0 5
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14384 117 Dungeon of Doom 8.0 3
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16503 118 Pittfall 8.0 1
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24516 225 Adventure in Interzone 8.0 1
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124 Assault on Dolni Keep Set in J.R.R. Tolkein's Middle Earth, you and
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''''''''''''''''''''''''' two hardy companions are tasked to rescue a
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wise High-Elf from an Orc stronghold. This Eamon is nearly unique in that
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each of your two companions has knowledge and skills that you yourself
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lack. They are capable of some independent action, will offer advice, and
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won't hesitate to argue with you if they think you are making an unwise
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choice. It's a smallish dungeon, because all the special programming for
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the companions used up a LOT of memory.
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[Note: Tom is too modest to tell you that he is the author of this
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top-rated Eamon Adventure.--CH]
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114 Thror's Ring Also set in Middle Earth, this time you and your two
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'''''''''''''''' companions are tasked to recover the last Dwarven Ring
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of Power from the depths of Moria. I did a fair amount of research on the
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setting and style, and lots of people have told me that they enjoyed the
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richness of the descriptions. This Eamon broke some new ground
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program-wise and was an early forerunner of what eventually became the
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Eamon 7.0 MAIN.PROGRAM. Still, it was my first Eamon, and there's a lot I
|
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would do different now that would have made it even better.
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78 The Prince's Tavern Here, in this adventure by Bob Davis, you are
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''''''''''''''''''''''' tasked to recover a 600-year-old bottle of scotch
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from the depths of a rather silly tavern. Lots of laughs; just when you
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think it finally turned serious, something silly happens.
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194 Attack of the Kretons This is absolutely the funniest Eamon ever
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''''''''''''''''''''''''' written, as well as being one of the
|
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finest-crafted titles in the list. I REALLY enjoyed it. Basically, your
|
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quest is to rescue a besieged city from the Kreton horde and the god of
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cheese dip. If I had to pick just one Eamon to show people, this one might
|
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well be it. It was written by Nathan Segerlind.
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120 Orb of My Life John Nelson had a real gift for using the basic Eamon
|
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'''''''''''''''''' programming tools to turn out really decent Eamons in
|
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just a day or two; I could never figure out how he did it. This is his
|
||
best. This Eamon is one of a gaggle of Eamons that were entered in a
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||
long-forgotten Eamon club contest involving a quest for the recovery of a
|
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wizard's Life Orb.
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204 Sanctuary Sam Ruby is absolutely the finest Eamon author who ever
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||
''''''''''''' lived. This Eamon broke new ground with an all-new combat
|
||
system that takes distance into account. But this is not one for
|
||
"hack'n'slash" fans! Everything you do requires careful reading and
|
||
forethought, with dozens and dozens of obstructions and difficulties to
|
||
solve. Even the combat requires a careful selection of the best weapon for
|
||
the job. I highly recommend this one!
|
||
|
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161 Operation Endgame Your special-ops team has been tasked to infiltrate
|
||
''''''''''''''''''''' an enemy stronghold and take out their sole
|
||
nuclear-tipped missile. Sam Ruby was inspired by the movie "Predator" for
|
||
this, and your team is very reminiscent of Dutch's. Sam's specialty is
|
||
combat, and this one fully incorporates modern weapons and adds many, many
|
||
realistic touches to the play. I've played it a half-dozen times, and this
|
||
one of a very few that gets better with each play.
|
||
|
||
150 Walled City of Darkness My goal here was to design a comparatively
|
||
''''''''''''''''''''''''''' difficult, puzzle-oriented Eamon that could
|
||
not be completed in a single session. It has several multi-part
|
||
interlocking puzzles. My inspiration was Roger Zelazny's "Creatures of
|
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Light and Darkness", and the play has a similar style, I think. You must
|
||
find means to defeat a number of supernatural foes in your quest to attain
|
||
godhood, so that you will have sufficient power to defeat a god of great
|
||
Evil.
|
||
|
||
147 The Dark Brotherhood Pat Hurst did some pretty sophisticated stuff
|
||
'''''''''''''''''''''''' here. This Eamon plays on several subtle levels
|
||
that help determine your eventual success, and is my favorite among his
|
||
work.
|
||
|
||
129 Return to Moria Sam Ruby went through a period where he was trying to
|
||
''''''''''''''''''' turn ALL of the Middle Earth story into Eamon
|
||
adventures. This one is his best of the lot, as you quest in the depths of
|
||
Moria for several things that Minas Tirith must have to survive. Very
|
||
well-written.
|
||
|
||
166 Storm Breaker This fantasy pits you against an evil god who has just
|
||
''''''''''''''''' awakened from a thousand-year sleep and is feeling his
|
||
oats, so to speak. An awesomely good play for puzzle fanciers. Sam
|
||
manages to cram an incredible number of locales, creatures, peoples, and
|
||
events in this Eamon, and does it in a most entertaining and believable
|
||
style.
|
||
|
||
148 Journey to Jotunheim This Eamon is mostly "true", being based on
|
||
'''''''''''''''''''''''' several Norse legends. Here you accompany Thor
|
||
into a land of Giants on a desperate bid to recover his stolen war-hammer.
|
||
I did quite a bit of research for this one, but I confess that I got the
|
||
original idea from "The Last Trump", a great novella by Fletcher Pratt and
|
||
L. Sprague de Camp. This Eamon has a unique feature: it has a very large
|
||
vocabulary and will respond meaningfully to commands involving pretty much
|
||
everything you see.
|
||
|
||
145 Buccaneer! By far, the best seagoing Eamon ever written. A
|
||
'''''''''''''' two-parter: in part one you must buy, crew, and provision
|
||
a ship to put to sea in part two. Both parts are excellent. This was also
|
||
written by Pat Hurst.
|
||
|
||
108 The Mines of Moria This Eamon is very reminiscent of the "Moria"
|
||
'''''''''''''''''''''' portion of the "Fellowship of the Ring". Like the
|
||
book, the passes are blocked and you and your companions must cross Moria
|
||
to deliver vital information to Gondor. Good stuff! Another Sam Ruby
|
||
classic.
|
||
|
||
121 Wrenhold's Secret Vigil This Bob Davis creation is another of the
|
||
''''''''''''''''''''''''''' entries in that old "Life-Orb" contest. This
|
||
is a very well-written, serious fantasy Eamon. It has just about the
|
||
wickedest maze in the entire series; by the time you realize what you've
|
||
stumbled into, you're in trouble!
|
||
|
||
169 The Black Phoenix Pure, unabashed space opera. No doubt strongly
|
||
''''''''''''''''''''' inspired by Heinlein's "Starship Troopers", you are
|
||
a soldier in one of the toughest outfits in the galaxy. Roger Pender
|
||
writes great "pulp" science fiction dialogue, not letting facts get too
|
||
much in the way of a good story. You have six missions to fulfill,
|
||
starting with a simple reconnoiter and progressing to a very tough "hold
|
||
until relieved" firefight. With LOTS of special features, this one is not
|
||
to be missed by military SF fans.
|
||
|
||
91 FutureQuest II This a is "classic" 50s-type SF offering. You must
|
||
'''''''''''''''''' steal into the Krell Empire, where you must kill the
|
||
evil scientist Mordor Kang and destroy his doomsday device, the Zontar Ray
|
||
Machine. Really keeps you on your toes surviving. Roger Pender does the
|
||
best SF in Eamon.
|
||
|
||
117 Dungeon of Doom This was the very first "pure" 80-column Eamon
|
||
''''''''''''''''''' adventure, with true 80-column lower-case text and
|
||
some pretty sophisticated programming. A very nicely executed Eamon by Dan
|
||
Knezek.
|
||
|
||
118 Pittfall This is a basic "kill'n'loot" Eamon scenario. What elevates
|
||
'''''''''''' it to the Top 20 is clean writing and lots of well-done
|
||
special stuff. Even so, it is not particularly difficult and is a good
|
||
choice for beginners. A very relaxing play by Scott Starkey.
|
||
|
||
225 Adventure in Interzone This adventure by Frank Kenze is a landmark
|
||
'''''''''''''''''''''''''' Eamon from the player's point of view, with
|
||
the cleanest player interface ever done in Eamon. The actual plot and play
|
||
is probably more like a "7" rating, but interface is such a pleasure to use
|
||
that the overall effect is much enhanced.
|
||
|
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[*][*][*]
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|
||
Note: To play any of the above adventures you will need to download
|
||
the ProDOS Eamon Master and Main Hall by Don Brown & John Nelson (file
|
||
#16219). This Eamon Master contains the Main Hall, where your character
|
||
buys spells and armaments and where he stays between outings; the
|
||
Beginner's Cave, a VERY simple adventure for first-timers; an extensive
|
||
player manual; and various character editing programs.
|
||
|
||
I want to thank Tom for sharing his knowledge of Eamon Adventures
|
||
with us. I encourage folks to try out some of these adventures.
|
||
|
||
That's it for this month. I hope you have found something here to
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
Until next time, happy downloading!
|
||
|
||
-- Charlie Hartley
|
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