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~ WELCOME TO GEnieLamp APPLE II! ~
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~ THE TREASURE HUNT: Farewell Potpourri ~
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~ SOFTVIEW A2: FAXination ~
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~ PROFILES: John Van Dam ~
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~ PAUG NEWSLETTER: September Report ~
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~ HOT NEWS, HOT FILES, HOT MESSAGES ~
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GEnieLamp Apple II ~ A T/TalkNET Publication ~ Vol.4, Issue 42
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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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~ September 1, 1995 ~
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FROM MY DESKTOP ......... [FRM] FROM MY MAILBOX ......... [MAI]
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Notes From The Editor. Letters To The Editor.
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HEY MISTER POSTMAN ...... [HEY] HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM]
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Is That A Letter For Me? Fun & Games On GEnie.
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REFLECTIONS ............. [REF] ASCII ART GALLERY ....... [ASA]
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Changing Nature of Friendship. Bossie the Cow.
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THE TREASURE HUNT ....... [HUN] SOFTVIEW A2 ............. [SOF]
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Charlie's Farewell Potpourri. Review: FAXination.
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PROFILES ................ [PRO] PAUG NEWSLETTER ......... [PNL]
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Who's Who: John Van Dam. September 1995 Report
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LOG OFF ................. [LOG]
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GEnieLamp Information.
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READING GEnieLamp GEnieLamp has incorporated a unique indexing system
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""""""""""""""""" to help make reading the magazine easier. To 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 reprinted
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"""""""""""" here in GEnieLamp, you will find all the information you
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need immediately following the message. For example:
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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
|
||
enter the bulletin board and set CAT 6. Enter your REPly in TOPic 1.
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|
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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 $9.95 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 $2.00. 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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prompt. Type: JOINGENIE and hit RETURN. When you get the prompt asking
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for the signup/offer code, type: DSD524 and hit RETURN. The system will
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connect to "gopher://gopher.genie.com/11/magazines". When using a gopher
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program, connect to "gopher.genie.com" and then choose item 7 (Magazines
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and Newsletters from GEnie's RoundTables).
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*** GET INTO THE LAMP! ***
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/ As far as I'm concerned, the only reason to tell the /
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/ waiters it's your birthday is if there's a free dessert in /
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/ it (and even then, if they sing to you, it ain't free). /
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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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>>> GREAT EXAGGERATIONS <<<
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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|
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Rudyard Kipling subscribed to a newspaper which mistakenly published
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a notice of his death. Kipling wrote to the paper: "I've just read that I
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am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers."
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|
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When Bertrand Russell became seriously ill in China in 1920, he
|
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refused to grant interviews to the Japanese press, who retaliated by
|
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reporting that he had died. Russell's requests to cease this nuisance went
|
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unheeded. On his way home to England, Russell again stopped in Japan, and
|
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again the press asked for interviews. Russell had his secretary give to
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each report a slip of paper which read: "Since Mr. Russell is dead, he
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cannot be interviewed."
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|
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When Apple Computer, Inc. stopped supporting the computer that made
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them rich and famous and began their incantation of "But we have a Mac
|
||
that's much better!", many Apple II users felt so betrayed that they
|
||
decided never to buy another computer from Apple.
|
||
|
||
When America Online, formerly AppleLink Personal Edition, locked out
|
||
Apple II users in 1994, they had the nerve not only to indulge in a little
|
||
revisionist history (possibly due to an over-reliance on "boilerplate" form
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||
letters ), but to tell Apple II owners that America Online would be glad to
|
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take their money if they switched to a Mac or Windows computer. AOL users
|
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jumped shipped with alacrity--many to GEnie, prompting a cry of "Where have
|
||
you been all my life?" from many.
|
||
|
||
Of course, America Online didn't go bankrupt when the Apple II folk
|
||
left for GEnie, Delphi, CompuServe, and the Internet. Apple Computer
|
||
hasn't gone bankrupt because the Apple II community shun the Mac. Last we
|
||
heard, Japan still had newspaper reporters. And the newspaper that greatly
|
||
exaggerated reports of Kipling's death didn't fold simply because Kipling
|
||
withdrew his subscription.
|
||
|
||
When a company treats you badly, you are unlikely to be able to
|
||
retaliate effectively. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't retaliate at
|
||
all, and it doesn't mean you won't affect the company at all.
|
||
|
||
Apple Computer has been doing all right. But it could have done
|
||
better. Perhaps they don't miss the revenue they've lost, but they have
|
||
indeed lost revenue with its cavalier treatment of its original customers.
|
||
They're so big, they don't notice little losses... until they start to add
|
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up.
|
||
|
||
Recently, Mark Wade suggested that we gather together all our old
|
||
"Tell Apple About..." cards that lurk in the back of Apple Computer
|
||
manuals--or, occasionally, lurk in original packing boxes--and mail them to
|
||
Apple to arrive on 15 September 1995, the ninth anniversary of the Apple
|
||
IIgs.
|
||
|
||
Someone cautioned that it wouldn't have any affect on Apple, Inc.
|
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They won't care that a lot of Apple II users are out here. Some shmoe in
|
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the mailing room will have more garbage than usual to deal with, that's
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all.
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Probably true. So what? We probably won't improve our lot... but we
|
||
aren't hurting anybody, either. Let's join Rudyard Kipling and Bertrand
|
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Russell in tweaking the nose of those who counted us dead before our time.
|
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|
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Even its heyday, tragically few people at Apple Computer appreciate
|
||
the magic of the Apple II. Let's just remind them that we're still out
|
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here.
|
||
|
||
Someone was heard to wonder aloud, "What would have happened if we'd
|
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sent in our registration cards back when we first bought our Apple IIs?"
|
||
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||
(Well, it my case, it would have been duplication of effort, because
|
||
my Apple dealer--a pretty good guy--assured me faithfully that my equipment
|
||
had been registered at Apple, Inc.)
|
||
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||
No one can say for _sure_ what would have happened if we'd all sent
|
||
our registration cards back "in time". But here's my guess, for what it's
|
||
worth:
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We'd all still be trying to get our names taken off Mac-only mailing
|
||
lists.
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|
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[*][*][*]
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||
|
||
|
||
A couple of goodbyes, this month. First of all, our ASCII artist,
|
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Susie Oviatt has decided that she no longer has the three or fours hours it
|
||
takes it much to dabble in ASCII. (Actually, Susie decided that a couple
|
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of months back, but I've been running old art submitted for all versions of
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GEnieLamp that I personally haven't run yet. I tried to keep her column
|
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"alive" as long as possible, but this month I've run out of art.)
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||
Also, Charlie Hartley, who has been handling the Treasure Hunt
|
||
column, has come to a similar decision. Charlie intends to stick his nose
|
||
in with a profile occasionally, when time offers, though, so let's hope we
|
||
haven't seen the last of him!
|
||
|
||
In the meantime, GEnieLamp A2 is looking for more writers. You can
|
||
write for us regularly, or you can just submit an article for us when you
|
||
have the time, but either way, we'll pay your for it in GEnie credits. If
|
||
your article is accepted, you'll receive credit on your GEnie bill worth
|
||
two non-prime time hours!
|
||
|
||
-- Doug Cuff
|
||
|
||
GEnie Mail: EDITOR.A2 Internet: editor.a2@genie.com
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| REPRINTING GEnieLamp |
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| If you want to reprint any part of GEnieLamp, or |
|
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|
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|
||
|__________________________________________________________|
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ASCII ART BEGINS
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ASCII ART ENDS
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[EOA]
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[MAI]//////////////////////////////
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FROM MY MAILBOX /
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/////////////////////////////////
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Letters To The Editor
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""
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|
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SUPERDRIVE TIP FOLLOWUP I was reading a copy of the October 1994 issue of
|
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""""""""""""""""""""""" GEnieLamp A2, where I noticed a "tip" from David
|
||
Kerwood and Hugh Hood about the SuperDrive Card's self test. The tip
|
||
mentioned in passing that the program MAC.TRANS.GS would read Mac MFS
|
||
formatted disks, but not with the SuperDrive card. Actually, only a small
|
||
tweak is necessary to fix it for any(?) interface card.
|
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Simply add the following lines to the program (another example of the
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advantages of programs written in Applesoft!):
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26 X = (192 + SM) * 256 + 255 : X=PEEK(X) : REM X = PEEK($CnFF)
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27 POKE 803,X : REM Set correct entry offset for the default device
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3106 X = (192 + SM) * 256 + 255 : X=PEEK(X) : REM X = PEEK($CnFF)
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3107 POKE 803,X : REM Set correct entry offset for this device
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Cheers,
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Peter
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P.S. Have I missed something? Has GEnielamp A2Pro disappeared?
|
||
|
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|| Peter A Watson || InterNet : paw@acslink.net.au ||
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||
|| PO Box 493 || MSDOS Utilities: The WRITE way to use MSDOS disks ||
|
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|| Doncaster Vic || "On a clear disk you can seek forever!" ||
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|| Australia 3108 || "XYZZY..PLUGH..MOOF..What is that $%^& password?" ||
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Thanks a lot for the tip, Peter! (For those of you who live
|
||
under a rock, or just skimmed Peter's .sig, above, he's the
|
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author of MSDOS Utilities, which let you write to as well as read
|
||
from MS-DOS disks.)
|
||
|
||
If the above are my only two options, then I guess I'd have to
|
||
say that you're missing something. GEnieLamp A2Pro definitely
|
||
hasn't disappeared. If you'd like to catch up on your back
|
||
issues, then gopher to "gopher.genie.com" or point your web
|
||
browser to "gopher://gopher.genie.com/11/magazines". You'll find
|
||
back issues of GEnieLamp A2, GEnieLamp A2Pro, and all the others
|
||
there!--Ed.
|
||
|
||
|
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|
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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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|
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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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>>> BULLETIN BOARD HOT SPOTS <<<
|
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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[*] CAT2, TOP4 ................ Identify ROM 3 without monitor
|
||
[*] CAT2, TOP7 ................ "Tell Apple About..." cards
|
||
[*] CAT33, TOP2 ............... No CD-ROM of GS+ back issues
|
||
[*] CAT10, TOP10 .............. Teaching Lynx about ShrinkIt
|
||
[*] CAT20, TOP14 .............. Charge for Second Sight developer docs
|
||
[*] CAT44, TOP6&7 ............. KansasFest 1995 and 1996!
|
||
|
||
|
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>>> A2 POT-POURRI <<<
|
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"""""""""""""""""""""
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SOFTDISK G-S PROGRAMMER MOVES ON Just a note here to let folks know that
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" I've taken a new job with an
|
||
up-and-coming firm, Logicware. We do software/hardware/games; I'll be
|
||
doing Sega Saturn programming for starters (but look for all kinds of great
|
||
stuff from us... :)
|
||
|
||
As a result of this new job, I may not be very active here for a
|
||
while (since I'll be moving again, down to the Southern California area)
|
||
and I'll be busy learning new stuff the first few weeks.
|
||
|
||
After that, I hope to resume spare-time work on II Not Disturb and
|
||
some other IIgs programs I've been working on.
|
||
|
||
-Greg Templeman
|
||
(BARNABAS, CAT2, TOP3, MSG:189/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
ADDISON-WESLEY BOOKS ON CD-ROM? Considering that many of the Apple II
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" books are becoming rare, I think it would
|
||
be a good idea if someone approached Apple/Addison-Wesley about allowing
|
||
someone to make the entire set of Apple II (II and II GS) books on CD-ROM.
|
||
I'm sure they already have the text on computer. All that would be needed
|
||
is to either convert it to something more Apple II friendly or make a
|
||
program that could read that format. In addition it would be more then
|
||
helpful to have a program on there as a search engine for finding stuff in
|
||
the manuals. Finally a price below $100 would make it affordable! Am I
|
||
dreaming too much? I suspect this would be a well selling product,
|
||
relatively speaking and be a great help to Apple II development. EVen
|
||
those with most of the manuals would find it helpful in finding things
|
||
fast. It could also have all the current tech notes and other DTS stuff.
|
||
I'm almost sure this could all fit on one CD. What do you think?
|
||
(G.TOLAR, CAT11, TOP3, MSG:132/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
APPLESOFT AND DESKJET 500 Is there anyone here who is successfully
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""" printing to a DJ500 via an Applesoft BASIC
|
||
program? If so, please share the secret of your success. :)
|
||
|
||
I know that simply pointing the program to slot 1 (or whatever slot
|
||
you happen to have the DJ500 linked to) is not enough. Apparently there
|
||
are specific printer codes that are needed so that the printer will accept
|
||
and print straight ASCII text.
|
||
|
||
Charlie
|
||
(A2.CHARLIE, CAT12, TOP8, MSG:268/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
<<<<< My problem with printing to the DJ500 from Applesoft BASIC has been
|
||
""""" solved.
|
||
|
||
I set things up the way Ray Merlin has his, and it works. :)
|
||
|
||
Essentially, his setup is like this:
|
||
|
||
The dip switches are A = U D U D D D D U B = D U D D U D D D
|
||
|
||
The printer port settings are all standard EXCEPT instead of 9600, he
|
||
has his set to 19200. When I made the change from 9600 to 19200 the
|
||
following program worked just fine.
|
||
|
||
10 D$ = CHR$(4)
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20 PRINT D$"PR#1"
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30 PRINT "This is a test."
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40 PRINT CHR$(12): REM FORMFEED
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50 PRINT D$"PR#0"
|
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60 END
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|
||
Thanks to everyone who offered assistence with this. :)
|
||
|
||
Charlie
|
||
(A2.CHARLIE, CAT12, TOP8, MSG:287/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
SYQUEST EZ135 VS IOMEGA ZIP 100 The new SyQuest removable is now
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" available. Here is a comparison of the
|
||
Iomega Zip 100 and the SyQuest EZ135 removable hard drives.
|
||
|
||
Iomega Zip 100 SyQuest EZ135
|
||
------------------ -----------------
|
||
Storage capacity 100 MB 135 MB
|
||
Seek time 29 ms 13.5 ms
|
||
Transfer rate (max sust.) 1 MB / sec 2.4 MB / sec
|
||
Drive size (external) 7.10" x 5.35" x 1.47" 8.45" x 4.80" x 2.08"
|
||
Weight about 1 pound 2.3 pounds
|
||
Power cord included included
|
||
SCSI cable included included
|
||
Terminator yes (ext. switch) yes ***
|
||
SCSI ID selector yes (ext. switch) ???
|
||
Approx street price $199.95 * $239.95 *
|
||
Disk/cartridge price $19.95 ** $24.95 **
|
||
Drive warranty 1 year 2 years
|
||
Disk/cartridge warranty limited lifetime 5 years
|
||
|
||
* MacWarehouse price. Includes one disk/cartridge
|
||
** Price is for a single disk/cartridge. Volume discounts apply.
|
||
*** Method unknown. Either a switch or external terminator plug.
|
||
|
||
I don't know if the SyQuest has a SCSI ID external selector or if it
|
||
uses internal jumpers. I don't know what type of SCSI connection the
|
||
SyQuest uses, but judging by its small size I would guess a 25-pin like the
|
||
Iomega. Performance numbers are the manufacturer's estimates. The
|
||
disks/cartridges are =not= interchangeable, they are different sizes, but
|
||
both are about the size of a double-thick 3.5" disk.
|
||
|
||
MacWarehouse carries both drives and will send you a fax data sheet
|
||
or give voice information by calling 1-800-255-6227. I don't work for
|
||
MacWarehouse, I just happened to get the information from them.
|
||
|
||
- Tony
|
||
(A2.TONY, CAT21, TOP14, MSG: 1/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
IIGS LAB SETUP > I would be very interested in knowing how your lab is
|
||
"""""""""""""" > set up.
|
||
|
||
Well, you asked for it ;)
|
||
|
||
Here goes:
|
||
|
||
We have 22 GSs (not enough - hopefully we can stick in a few more), a
|
||
LaserWriter 360, and an ImageWriterII (with AppleTalk card) hooked to an
|
||
LC575 server that is presently running System 7.1 and AppleShare FileServer
|
||
and PrintServer v.3.0.1 (I think). Each of the GSs has an Apple 3.5" and
|
||
an AE 3.5" drive. (Only 1 GS has a 5.25", and that never gets used).
|
||
About 1/2 of the GSs have a HyperStudio sound digitizer card and
|
||
microphone. Finally, each GS now has a 4Meg RAM card!!! Yay!!!
|
||
|
||
Additionally, there are a half dozen classrooms with either //e or
|
||
IIGS computers that are also hooked to this network.
|
||
|
||
The GS System Software we use is 6.0.1 (necessary due to a conflict
|
||
between GSOS 5.0.4 and either the LC575, Mac System 7.1, or AShare 3.0.1 -
|
||
but better anyway except that there's only room for one printer driver).
|
||
We use Pointless v2.0.3 and access numerous fonts from the server (works
|
||
nicely). Presently, each of the GSs starts up from a 3.5" disk in the AE
|
||
drive and we have one user name that provides access to all programs. That
|
||
user name brings up a menu program called Menu Master (v1.6.5). Pretty
|
||
much all programs are available from the server. We run AWGS from a 3.5"
|
||
disk as it is used quite a bit and loads MUCH faster this way. Now that we
|
||
have the RAM, however, we will be changing to a graphical menu based on
|
||
HyperStudio (which is fast running from the RAM Disk). The additional RAM
|
||
will also allow us to have printer drivers for both the LWr & IWr at the
|
||
same time. BTW, we leave the server on all year and leave the GSs on all
|
||
week. The monitors are supposed to get shut down if the lab will be empty
|
||
for a half hour or more, but they pretty much stay on all day.
|
||
|
||
The next thing that I would like to start fighting for is a router
|
||
from Tribe that would allow us to break the network up into several smaller
|
||
groups to speed things up. The idea is to have an EtherNet connection
|
||
between the server and the router, and then several LocalTalk cables
|
||
running from the router to small groups of machines. Since it is
|
||
LocalTalk, and not the server, that is the bottleneck dividing the network
|
||
up should speed things up. Using the 3.5" disks to start really helped
|
||
speed things up a lot. The TribeStar would help even more. We'll see,
|
||
though.
|
||
|
||
> What software do you run.
|
||
|
||
Let's see? For software, we have pretty much the whole MECC
|
||
collection - both P8 & GSOS (World & USA GeoGraph, StoryBook Weaver,
|
||
Designer Prints, Calendar Crafter, etc.), AppleWorks 3.0n &
|
||
AppleWorksGSv1.1 site licenses, HyperStudiov3.1j, Platinum Paint,
|
||
LogoWriter, TheFactory. In addition, I hope to add licenses to use Quick
|
||
Click Calc (for excellent graphing capabilities) and the discQuest
|
||
encyclopedia, but we'll see.
|
||
|
||
> Is there a source of educational Hyperstudio/Hypercard stacks
|
||
> available for download or purchase?
|
||
|
||
Roger Wagner publishing has a nice catalog of some excellent
|
||
commercial stacks. You could probably give them a call. Of course, there
|
||
are numerous stacks on GEnie.
|
||
|
||
Outside of the lab I will be experimenting quite a bit this month on
|
||
using a video overlay card and a Second Sight card to do presentations on a
|
||
big-screen TV and/or LCD projection panel. I'm anxious to see how that
|
||
works.
|
||
|
||
It's all fun, and extremely valuable. Now if I just had more time ;)
|
||
|
||
I\/I ark I<
|
||
Kan't wait for KFest '96!!!
|
||
|
||
Hope you didn't read all of that if you don't give a hoot ;)
|
||
(M.KLINE, CAT15, TOP15, MSG:36/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> HOT TOPICS <<<
|
||
""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
KANSASFEST '95 REPORT--THE TRADITION CONTINUES Up until a few months ago,
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" there was some doubt that
|
||
anyone would ever read the title of this article, because the fate of
|
||
KansasFest was caught in the balance. Over the years, KansasFest has been
|
||
held at Avila College, a small quaint college located on the south side of
|
||
Kansas City Missouri. The sponsors of KansasFest have been numerous - the
|
||
'94 KansasFest was sponsored by a company called ICON (previously called
|
||
Resource Central). When they went out of business last year, it wasn't
|
||
known if anyone would pick up the Apple II torch and conduct another
|
||
KansasFest. But just as the Apple II computer has "kept going, and going,
|
||
and going," so has KansasFest. Through the efforts of people like Auri
|
||
Rahimzadeh, Cindy Adams, Gina Saikin, and Mark Kline, among others -
|
||
KansasFest '95 was made a reality. Parkhurst Micro Systems (Paul
|
||
Parkhurst) was the corporate sponsor of the fest. You might know Parkhurst
|
||
Micro Systems (a company who has supported the Apple II line of computers
|
||
over the years) from their excellent ANSI-Term modem program. So here's
|
||
"one man's story" of KansasFest '95.
|
||
|
||
Being "just a user," I wasn't sure if I should attend KansasFest. I
|
||
think that feeling has kept many others from attending in the past - it had
|
||
for me. But all those trepidations faded away as I communicated to some
|
||
other KansasFest attendees on GEnie prior to leaving for Kansas City.
|
||
During those e-mail exchanges, I learned that KansasFest was going to be
|
||
one big friendly user's group meeting. I found out that I wasn't the only
|
||
KansasFest Rookie that was attending this year, and that the vast majority
|
||
of the attendees were just "average Apple II users." So like a kid on
|
||
Christmas Eve, I anxiously awaited the start of a famous Apple II
|
||
tradition.
|
||
|
||
I arrived at the Kansas City airport on the evening of July 26th, a
|
||
day prior to the official start of KansasFest. After renting a car, I
|
||
drove down to KC Masterpiece. A group of people I met on GEnie had gotten
|
||
together to have dinner at this infamous KansasFest hang out. Entering the
|
||
restaurant was like going on a blind date - although I had seen their names
|
||
on electronic messages, I hadn't met any of them before. But that feeling
|
||
instantly changed to one of meeting "old friends" as I was warmly greeted
|
||
and started talking to everyone. That's the spirit of KansasFest, and I
|
||
think of the Apple II computer community in general, it's one big inclusive
|
||
family! It was neat listening to Joe Kohn, Greg Templeman, and many other
|
||
Apple II lovers. Everyone had such unique and diverse backgrounds, but all
|
||
shared a fascination with the almost unlimited capabilities of the Apple II
|
||
computer. After a delicious BBQ rib meal, great conversation, and finally
|
||
putting some faces to names, I headed to a nearby motel for a good nights
|
||
sleep.
|
||
|
||
Arriving at Avila College at 9 am the next day, I checked into the
|
||
dorms. Spending KansasFest in the dorms is the best way to experience this
|
||
event. Not only is it cheaper, but you get to interact with everyone after
|
||
hours. The rooms were clean, but Spartan. It's been 18 years since I've
|
||
lived in a college dorm room, but I think the surroundings added to the
|
||
total experience. I immediately unpacked and started to visit all the other
|
||
attendee's rooms to see what computer systems they had brought - and it was
|
||
a diverse lot. There were dozens of IIgs computers, with every imaginable
|
||
peripheral attached. There were IIcs, MACs in all flavors, PowerBooks,
|
||
Newtons, and even a II+. It was great to see the new Iomega Zip drive in
|
||
action, how the new SecondSight VGA card looked with different monitors,
|
||
and the various hard drives and CD-ROM drives available for the Apple II.
|
||
|
||
After "hob knobbing" with everyone in the morning, we hit the
|
||
cafeteria for some typical college dorm food. All meals were included in
|
||
the price if you stayed in the dorms, a very good deal. The food quality
|
||
was OK, you could eat all you could stand. There was a salad bar and
|
||
self-serve ice cream in the dining area after you picked up your main
|
||
course. Some of the food over the fest included BBQ chicken, soft tacos,
|
||
bratwurst, spaghetti, hamburgers, and various vegetables at each meal.
|
||
Meal time was another avenue to meet Apple II legends like Tom Weishaar,
|
||
"Burger" Bill Heineman, Roger Wagner, etc, and make new friends.
|
||
|
||
The first activity after lunch was a talk by Apple Computer's Ashley
|
||
Carter, discussing some new computers due out over the next couple of
|
||
months. New Performas, coming out in August 95, will be going over to RISC
|
||
processors and incorporate industry standards like PIC slots. They'll have
|
||
replaceable processors for future upgrades. For example, you can drop in
|
||
DOS Windows chips, when they become available, to run those types of
|
||
applications. In September 95, expect a slew of new PowerBooks to start
|
||
coming out. You'll be able to transmit data to other PowerBooks through
|
||
infrared signals.
|
||
|
||
Following that one hour presentation, each attendee had the choice of
|
||
attending one of three presentations. Talking to the Apple rep about the
|
||
new computers, learning basic soldering (entitled: "Which End is Hot"), or
|
||
attending a "fireside" chat with Joe Kohn - I chose the latter.
|
||
|
||
Joe Kohn has attended six previous KansasFests and this is the third
|
||
year he's given presentations at them. He described starting off with the
|
||
Apple II, he got an Apple II+ and 100 disks of public domain software. He
|
||
was in awe of what was out there. In the mid-80's he started the Apple
|
||
Users Resource Group, which lead to the Apple II Information Exchange. It
|
||
was bought out by Compuserve in '89. Joe wrote a series of articles on
|
||
shareware programs for the Apple II Buyers Guide and transitioned to the
|
||
Big Red Computer Club as their Librarian in '83. From there, he hooked up
|
||
with InCider to write a shareware article. InCider asked Joe to put
|
||
together a disk containing the shareware programs his article covered.
|
||
After much persuasion, Joe finally began supplying those disks to people.
|
||
He mentioned that InCider was making money each month right to the very
|
||
end! But Joe guessed that the magazine wasn't making ENOUGH profit, so
|
||
that's why they pulled the plug. After InCider's demise, Joe thought about
|
||
writing for II Alive. But luckily for us, those plans never came together
|
||
and he struck out on his own with Shareware Solutions II (SSII). When he
|
||
worked for other publications, he use to hate editors - they always changed
|
||
what he wrote. But now he misses having an editor when producing SSII.
|
||
Joe feels SSII is the "Consumer Reports" of the Apple II world. He
|
||
emphasized that Apple II users should "support those who support you." In
|
||
other words, don't delay buying those Apple II products you can use and
|
||
paying those shareware fees, otherwise there won't be anything new in the
|
||
future. Joe has sold about 120 copies of ContactGS - not enough for any
|
||
real profit, but he was glad he made it available to the IIgs community.
|
||
Finally, Joe made an announcement that Symbolix (a powerful mathematics
|
||
program from Switzerland) is being released as shareware. SSII will be
|
||
providing it for $15 for the first month - half the profit will go toward a
|
||
yet to be named non-profit organization.
|
||
|
||
The next period consisted of a demonstration of Mike Westerfield's
|
||
Quick Click Morph (QCM) or Ryan Suenaga's discussion of Personal Digital
|
||
Assistants & PowerBooks. I decided to see Mike's great new program.
|
||
|
||
Mike started off with a quick history behind morphing. The first
|
||
Cray computer ever built didn't go to the defense department, but instead
|
||
went to Hollywood movie studios to do morphing. The first morphing was
|
||
done by Disney, all accomplished by hand. But since almost anything can be
|
||
done on an Apple II computer, Mike brought this morphing capability to the
|
||
IIgs. The user provides a starting and ending picture to QCM. A series of
|
||
reference points are then easily selected on the first and last picture.
|
||
QCM then starts computing the "tween" frames - new pictures that transform
|
||
the first picture into the second. Morphing time increases as the number
|
||
of "tween" frames increases and the number of reference points are
|
||
increased. The time to create a full morph sequence can take from several
|
||
minutes to overnight - an accelerated IIgs is not required but is HIGHLY
|
||
recommended. Those "tween" pictures, when played as a PaintWorks
|
||
animation, provides a smooth morph between the start and ending pictures.
|
||
The visual impact of morphing cannot be overstated. Morphs can be added to
|
||
HyperStudio stacks, used as a screen saver, or any place that can use
|
||
PaintWorks animations. Single frames can also be viewed to see how each
|
||
"tween" picture has changed. Although 16 shades of gray is best for the
|
||
IIgs, QCM supports 320/640 color pallets, custom colors, and 128/256 custom
|
||
color pallets. Mike has also developed a freeware program Quick Click
|
||
Movie - it allows the viewing of QCM animations. So with this freeware
|
||
program, you can easily share your creations with friends and the world.
|
||
Quick Click Morph is a very powerful and unique program - you really have
|
||
to see it to appreciate its impact and ease of use.
|
||
|
||
After supper, the KansasFest '95 keynote address was given. The
|
||
keynote speaker was the (in)famous Roger Wagner of HyperStudio fame. As
|
||
usual, he gave a very animated and entertaining speech. First describing a
|
||
very artistic video produced by a IIgs user in France - combining
|
||
HyperStudio with a video overlay card on a IIgs. The video was done a few
|
||
years ago and won critical acclaim. Following the interesting video, Roger
|
||
described his introduction to computing and the Apple II. He had a sum of
|
||
money to buy either a motorcycle, a stereo, or a computer. He thought that
|
||
if he purchased the motorcycle or stereo, he would just end up spending
|
||
more money on them. The computer, he thought, would be a one time expense.
|
||
He tried selling computers door-to-door, he failed miserably. He then
|
||
wrote some small programs, initial sales were good, but Apple computer
|
||
inevitably released a free program doing the same thing a while later. He
|
||
kept ahead of Apple and eventually produced HyperStudio - a revolutionary
|
||
program that brought Hypermedia to computers. Roger now goes around the
|
||
country showing how schools and individuals can produce outstanding
|
||
presentations with HyperStudio. Although Roger is concentrating on
|
||
developing and marketing products for the MAC and other platforms, he's
|
||
still supporting the venerable Apple II platform.
|
||
|
||
The last series of presentations that day were: Joe Kohn discussing
|
||
changes to the Internet, Erick Wagner presenting how to hook up "real
|
||
world" devices to the Apple, and Eric Shepherd demonstrating two of his new
|
||
IIgs programs (StationKeeper and ShiftyList 2.0). I wanted to attend all
|
||
three, but I ended up listening to Sheppy.
|
||
|
||
Sheppy's StationKeeper is something like a document alias. You
|
||
double-click a document icon, Finder opens up the application that supports
|
||
the document (AppleWorksGS, ShadowWrite, etc) and you start working on it.
|
||
Nothing special so far, but when you save the document, it's saved as a new
|
||
document - you don't mess with the original. This would be good for
|
||
filling out forms, etc. ShiftyList 2.0 will be distributed on a Softdisk
|
||
G-S issue. This version is a very powerful update. By holding down
|
||
different key combinations during booting, you can load different groups of
|
||
INITs, NDAs, CDAs, and CDEVs. The composition of each group is determined
|
||
by the user beforehand. You can also create boot scripts. Scripts could
|
||
run pictures or sounds during booting. For example, you could display a
|
||
picture and play a sound, load some INITs, display a new picture, load some
|
||
NDAs/CDAs, display another picture and play a sound, and load the rest of
|
||
your system - total user control. Sheppy expects ShiftyList to be out at
|
||
the end of the year. He lost three months of work when his hard drive
|
||
crashed. As Sheppy remarked, "apparently back-ups aren't for weenies."
|
||
Sheppy also has compiled a spiral bound book containing documentation for
|
||
all his software. The book can be purchased for about $12, contact him at
|
||
E.Shepherd@genie.com. He is also selling a disk containing all his
|
||
non-Softdisk G-S programs.
|
||
|
||
That ended the first day's formal presentations. That evening
|
||
consisted of seeing what computers people had brought, seeing new software
|
||
and equipment, and discussing every topic you can imagine. Roger Wagner
|
||
generously ordered a couple dozen pizzas and a few cases of soda for
|
||
munching late that night. Right afterward, the infamous Bite-The-Bag
|
||
contest began - a KansasFest tradition. The object is to balance on one
|
||
appendage (foot, hand, etc) and grab the top of an empty grocery bag on the
|
||
floor with your teeth. It's not too hard at the start. But as the
|
||
competition continues, the upper most part of the bag is slowly removed.
|
||
Soon, there's nothing left but the flat bottom of the bag laying on the
|
||
floor. Oh yes, did I mention that if you aren't the first person, you get
|
||
to enjoy the slobber on the bag left by the people in front of you? The
|
||
competition this year was stiff. There were over a half-dozen people still
|
||
able to pick up the bag when it was nothing more than a flat piece of
|
||
paper. It finally came down to who was the fastest. Russ Nielson was
|
||
crowned the King of "Bite -The-Bag" with a time of 1.95 seconds!
|
||
|
||
Because everyone participates in the sleep depravation experiment
|
||
called KansasFest, the dawn of the next day came way too early. For those
|
||
who were sane enough to get a couple hours sleep, or insane enough to get
|
||
no sleep, breakfast was available at 7am. The first sessions began at
|
||
8:45pm - so most could still get a few winks. Roger Wagner provided a
|
||
discussion of using the mulimedia capabilities of the IIgs, Doug Pendleton
|
||
& Dave Ciotti taught the second segment on soldering, and a trio (Richard
|
||
Bennett, Tim Buchheim & Nathaniel Sloan) demonstrated the new Apple IIgs
|
||
front end for GEnie. I picked the GEnie software demo.
|
||
|
||
This stand-alone program is called Jasmine, it's a real-time IIgs
|
||
interface for GEnie - not an off-line reader like CoPilot or GEM. You
|
||
don't need a separate modem program like ProTerm or Spectrum - Jasmine
|
||
handles everything. It requires System 6.0.1 and an error-correction modem
|
||
(the internal Datalink 2400 is not, but all high speed modems are) - a hard
|
||
drive is not required. Jasmine allows 3rd-parties to write add-ons - like
|
||
Balloon (a file compression/decompression program). It supports Zmodem and
|
||
will support batch Ymodem file transfers. The interface is all point and
|
||
click, using familiar IIgs windows, menus, and dialog boxes. It's Lynx
|
||
compatible, so you can access the Internet via GEnie. Jasmine is free and
|
||
should be out shortly.
|
||
|
||
The next series of sessions consisted of Mike Westerfield discussing
|
||
Quick Click Morph (QCM) from a programmer's view point, Mark Kline & Cindy
|
||
Adams discussing AppleShare networking, and Erick Wagner presenting the
|
||
second part of controlling "real world" devices with a computer. Since I
|
||
missed Erick's first session, and I'm not into networking, I decided to
|
||
hear Mike's presentation.
|
||
|
||
Mike gave a good insight into how QCM works. A good way to
|
||
understand how the program transforms a picture is to imagine the first
|
||
picture being made of rubber. You take a pencil point and stick it to one
|
||
of the reference points. You then drag the pencil and stretch the picture
|
||
to the corresponding reference point on the ending picture. This dragging
|
||
and stretching is done simultaneously for each reference point.
|
||
|
||
After lunch another series of sessions were given. Tony Diaz from
|
||
Alltech Electronics showed how to build a tower case for the IIgs, Roger
|
||
Wagner presented new things he's working on, and Glenn Hofman discussed a
|
||
new Apple IIgs GEnie off-line reader called PowerGuide. Since I spend a
|
||
lot of time on GEnie, I thought I'd get the most from Glenn's presentation.
|
||
|
||
PowerGuide is a stand-alone program that does not use another modem
|
||
program like Spectrum or ProTerm. It uses the familiar IIgs interface,
|
||
it's all point and click with keyboard equivalents. It uses Zmodem file
|
||
transfers, employs cut & pastes message quoting, has an address book for
|
||
e-mail messages, supports 30 GEnie RoundTables, and uses it's own installer
|
||
for easy installation. Although still in beta testing, it's available now
|
||
and it functions well.
|
||
|
||
The next sessions were Dave Ciotti showing how to perform some simple
|
||
equipment maintenance operations (change a system saver fan, clean a
|
||
keyboard, etc), Eric Shepherd demonstrating ProTerm MAC, and Greg Templeman
|
||
discussing the GS Lib Programming Library. The choice for me was easy, the
|
||
equipment session. Dave did an outstanding job answering questions and
|
||
showing how even a novice user can fix things on an Apple IIgs.
|
||
|
||
Following those sessions, Richard Bennet gave a short recap of what
|
||
Seven Hills is doing. SuperConvert 4.0 is about to ship - it's just
|
||
waiting for documentation to be printed. The program will squash a few
|
||
bugs and add SecondSight and JPEG support. The new version of
|
||
GraphicWriter III should be out within a month. It fully supports System
|
||
6.0.1 font menu and interface. The spell checker has been re-written, text
|
||
wrapping around objects has been fixed, objects can now be positioned by
|
||
typing in coordinates, objects can be resized, and an extras menu has been
|
||
added so 3rd parties can write add-ons to GraphicWriter III.
|
||
|
||
A banquet and roast topped off the day's event. The roastee was none
|
||
other than Steve Disbrow of GS+ Magazine. Bill Moore, Roger Wagner, Tom
|
||
Weishaar, and Joe Wankerl did a great job putting Steve in his place. Of
|
||
course Roger went high tech, with a mulitmedia presentation. Tom Weishaar
|
||
read a hilarious letter from "Bob Dole" talking about Steve and GS+
|
||
magazine. Joe played a funny song about Steve. Then it was Steve's turn
|
||
to roast the roasters. All in all, it was a great time.
|
||
|
||
Following the banquet, people went back to the dorms for more
|
||
socializing. A debug room was setup so people could get help with
|
||
equipment problems. Some attendees went to see movies, some played Trivial
|
||
Pursuit, and a nerf rocket war erupted. Again, most people ended up
|
||
without much sleep.
|
||
|
||
The next day was bitter sweet. People began moving out of the dorms,
|
||
KansasFest '95 was rapidly coming to a close. But after breakfast, Paul
|
||
Parkhurst gave an excellent demonstration of his new NDA FAX program. He
|
||
created, sent, received, and printed faxes using his new program. Although
|
||
still in final beta testing, it still worked like a charm. Some features
|
||
demonstrated: generations of fax lists/groups (the cover page can be
|
||
automatically personalized for each number on the list), multiple phone
|
||
books, scheduled send, selection of cover pages, use of a dial prefix,
|
||
selection of modem initialization string, and a host of others. The fax
|
||
cover page capabilities were outstanding. The user has a lot of control
|
||
over the data on the cover sheet, including adding
|
||
memos/graphics/headers/footers/page numbers and automatically adding
|
||
names/address/phone numbers. The program works with Express and will be
|
||
compatible with Spectrum. You can print selectable pages from a fax and can
|
||
even send a quick fax (it sends a cover page with a memo you type in). The
|
||
program is expected to ship in a couple months with a price tag in the area
|
||
of $80. There will be a discount when updating from a competitor's fax
|
||
program. It was a very impressive demonstration.
|
||
|
||
Following the fax demo, people headed to a swap meet/vendor fair
|
||
where attendees scooped up many bargains. Byteworks, GS+, Digisoft, and
|
||
Shareware Solutions II products were all on sale. Many items were quickly
|
||
sold out. The final official function was one last lunch at the college
|
||
cafeteria. Attendees reluctantly said a fond farewell. Some attendees,
|
||
who were leaving Sunday, arranged to have one last dinner that night at a
|
||
local restaurant. But before things concluded, there was an official
|
||
announcement - a KansasFest will be held in 1996!
|
||
|
||
I can't emphasize enough how much fun it was to attend KansasFest. I
|
||
strongly encourage all Apple II and MAC users to attend next year. You'll
|
||
be warmly welcomed, fit right in, and a have a super time sharing your
|
||
computer interests with others. See you at K'fest next year!
|
||
|
||
Dave Grenda
|
||
Apple IIgs user since 1987
|
||
Sent via Spectrum v2.0 & GEnie CoPilot v2.5.5
|
||
+ Ken Lucke's Replacement Scripts
|
||
|
||
This was kind of long, but I wanted to share my take on the fest with
|
||
others who didn't attend. I plan to edit this down for publication in a
|
||
newsletter.
|
||
(D.GRENDA, CAT44, TOP6, MSG:20/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> I too had a great time at the fest but not as much as in years
|
||
""""" past. It seemed to me that the Avila staff genuinely did not want
|
||
us on THEIR campus.
|
||
|
||
I think the planning committee should seriously look into a different
|
||
place for the fest next year. Kansas is fine but Avila is no jewel.
|
||
Paying for armed guards certainly adds unnecessarily to the cost of such an
|
||
event. Our behavior over the last 5 or 6 years has been exemplary.
|
||
|
||
Yea to the Fest, nay to Avila.
|
||
|
||
Binary Bear
|
||
(BINARY.BEAR, CAT44, TOP7, MSG:33/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> As Sheppy said, there were some SERIOUS problems in 1994. :
|
||
"""""
|
||
The "rent a cops" are the standard security guards at Avila. They
|
||
are there for the entire year, not just for us. Actually, it was nice to
|
||
know they were there considering the amount of equipment that was in that
|
||
dorm.
|
||
|
||
If someone has any good ideas about locations, let me know SOON.
|
||
|
||
Cindy (KFest 1996 is on its way)
|
||
(C.ADAMS11, CAT44, TOP7, MSG:36/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>>>> This is the first year that guards have been present on the Avila
|
||
""""" campus.
|
||
|
||
This is the first year we were not able to stay in the dorms on
|
||
Wednesday night and Saturday night.
|
||
|
||
This is the first year that Avila became a dry campus.
|
||
|
||
This is the first year that smoking was not allowed in the dorms.
|
||
|
||
This is the first year 90% of the rules that were in effect existed.
|
||
|
||
This is the first year we were not in classrooms.
|
||
|
||
This is the first year we had to meet in the lobby of the theater.
|
||
|
||
This is only a partial list, there are other firsts!
|
||
|
||
Lets face it folks Avila sucked this year! Don't get me wrong KFest
|
||
was great but it would have been great in the Okefenokie Swamp because of
|
||
the PEOPLE who came.
|
||
|
||
Binary Bear
|
||
(BINARY.BEAR, CAT44, TOP7, MSG:40/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> This was also the first year they got mad at us for using the
|
||
""""" tunnels.
|
||
|
||
(and it was rather warm outside. the air-conditioned tunnels are
|
||
quite nice..:)
|
||
|
||
(btw, I don't know if it happened to anyone else. But Sloanie,
|
||
Richard (I think he was with us), and I were stopped by an Avila staff
|
||
member and asked not to use the tunnels. That was annoying.)
|
||
(A2PRO.GELAMP, CAT44, TOP7, MSG:42/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> > This is the first year that guards have been present on the Avila
|
||
""""" > campus.
|
||
|
||
I can only say that this can be due to the "signs of the times". I
|
||
doubt that Kfest was singled out for this 'honor'. As Cindy said,
|
||
considering the thousands of dollars of equipment owned by the 'festers, it
|
||
was NOT a bad idea.
|
||
|
||
> This is the first year we were not able to stay in the dorms on
|
||
> Wednesday night and Saturday night.
|
||
|
||
This was attributable directly to the late start we got in planning
|
||
kfest due to problems at the very beginning. We are making SURE that we
|
||
have the time next year we've had in the past...that is, Wed through
|
||
Sunday. Also, there was a MAJOR sports event at Avila that was held in
|
||
Switzerland last year...
|
||
|
||
> This is the first year that Avila became a dry campus.
|
||
|
||
Huh? I thought beer was served/drunk? Since I'm not a beer drinker,
|
||
I didn't pay much attention, but I could swear I saw several people with
|
||
beers in hand walking around???
|
||
|
||
> This is the first year that smoking was not allowed in the dorms.
|
||
|
||
Be glad it was allowed in the dorm ROOMS! Again, this is yet another
|
||
sign of the times...many, many places are banning smoking - many fast-food
|
||
places are doing this. HOw many of us work where we can smoke now? Almost
|
||
any where we have it we'll run into smoking rules and regs.
|
||
|
||
> This is the first year 90% of the rules that were in effect existed.
|
||
|
||
Well, we had little to no complaints about us from the Avila
|
||
staff...that should say something! Also, we did NOT play cop and come down
|
||
hard on you guys! The rules were there and written out...remember, this
|
||
was our first attempt at getting something like this together...and it was
|
||
all done online or by phone. We didn't have Tom's benefit of living on top
|
||
of the college practically! We were concerned about liability and so on.
|
||
|
||
> This is the first year we were not in classrooms.
|
||
|
||
Again, part of this was due to the scheduling and the late start.
|
||
Part was due to last-minute changes when Cindy and Paul got there. For
|
||
instance, we WERE assigned 2 classrooms (2?) but we chose to use only one,
|
||
so that we could have the debug room and the telecom room in an area where
|
||
we had at least a shot at hooking up a phone line!
|
||
|
||
> This is the first year we had to meet in the lobby of the theater.
|
||
|
||
Again, space constraints, late start, etc forced us into this
|
||
situation
|
||
|
||
Also, people have remarked about not using the tunnels. Though I'm
|
||
not certain of the rationale, I would highly suspect security again.
|
||
Remember, more and more places are leaning more and more heavily toward
|
||
security measures...what with all the terrorism, violence and so on (just
|
||
look at OK City). I would suspect the Avila staff preferred we stayed out
|
||
of the tunnels so we couldn't end up somewhere they didn't want us to be.
|
||
Again...security was more than likely the reason.
|
||
|
||
And now to some more firsts.
|
||
|
||
This was the first year it was run by a committee of folks who had
|
||
never really set such a monstrosity up, rather than a company who had set
|
||
it up for years!
|
||
|
||
This was the first year that planning was literally begun four months
|
||
before the event, and inspite of this, we not only filled the Avila dorm
|
||
rooms, but had people staying in hotels/motels outside!
|
||
|
||
This is the first year that we've had so many NEW faces!
|
||
|
||
All in all, I think the committee did one heck of a job with what
|
||
they had to work with...with the short time constraints, the initial
|
||
glitches in getting started and so on. We are already planning NOW for
|
||
next year, which means we should get the best of what we want...and more
|
||
time...Wed through Sunday, for example.
|
||
(A2.GENA, CAT44, TOP7, MSG:48/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> Talk to Tony Diaz at Alltech. He is making a CD of KFest '95
|
||
""""" goodies.
|
||
|
||
And now to get back on topic --- What's happening on "KFest '95, The
|
||
Video"? Will it soon be showing on our local VCR's? Inquiring minds want
|
||
to know.
|
||
|
||
Cindy
|
||
(C.ADAMS11, CAT33, TOP2, MSG:322/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> > I'm not sure how many other Mac sessions there were this past
|
||
""""" > year. . . does someone have a count?
|
||
|
||
Here's the scoop:
|
||
|
||
Apple II:
|
||
''''''''
|
||
A Fireside Chat with Joe Kohn
|
||
Quick Click Morph & Other New Stuff Your GS Can't be Without
|
||
ShiftyList & StationKeeper
|
||
How to Use All the Multimedia Capabilities of the IIGS
|
||
The GS Front End for GEnie
|
||
Inside Morphing
|
||
Building a Case for the GS
|
||
PowerGlide GEnie Navigator
|
||
GS Lib Programming Library
|
||
Demo of New Features in the GraphicWriterIII upgrade
|
||
Demo of PMP Fax
|
||
|
||
Mac/Newton:
|
||
''''''''''
|
||
Apple's New Stuff (General session)
|
||
Apple's New Stuff (Q&A)
|
||
PDA's & Powerbooks: Portability for the Student & Professional
|
||
What's New at Roger Wagner Publishing?
|
||
ProTerm Mac
|
||
|
||
Both (?):
|
||
'''''''''
|
||
Soldering (I)
|
||
Soldering (II)
|
||
InterNet: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
|
||
Controlling Real World Devices (I)
|
||
Controlling Real World Devices (II)
|
||
AppleShare Networking for New Options
|
||
Things You Could Do for Your Computer If You Could Just See Someone Do Them
|
||
Once
|
||
|
||
You may quibble with the placement of a couple of the items, but this
|
||
should give an idea.
|
||
|
||
BTW, for those who are asking for 2 sessions at a time instead of 3
|
||
(which I actually prefer), be sure to note how many time slots that
|
||
requires...
|
||
|
||
I\/I ark I<
|
||
Kan't wait for KFest '96!!!
|
||
|
||
Wow! We really had a great KFest, didn't we :)
|
||
(M.KLINE, CAT44, TOP7, MSG:69/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
AND FOR *NEXT* YEAR... KFest 1996 is officially on the calendar at Avila
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""" College. Mark your calendars now for July 17-21,
|
||
1996 and plan on being there.
|
||
|
||
Now that the dates for next year have been set, I'm going to take a
|
||
break and get ready for school to start.
|
||
|
||
Remember --- July 17-21, 1996
|
||
|
||
Cindy
|
||
(C.ADAMS11, CAT44, TOP7, MSG:89/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
WHY GET A SECOND SIGHT? The current version of the card gives your GS
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""" 640x480x256 resolution (yes, FULL 8-bit color.)
|
||
With the AppleColor RGB, you are limited to 640x400x256 interlaced (some
|
||
flicker) but with a VGA monitor, 8-bit GIFs displayed on your GS will look
|
||
just like they do on a PC or a Mac. An upcoming ROM upgrade will allow the
|
||
card to really show its colors, its FULL 24-bit colors! If you are
|
||
familiar with Mac-Speak, you will have "thousands" mode (Hi-color) at up to
|
||
800x600 and "millions" mode (True-color) at up to 640x480. The maximum
|
||
size the card can handle is 1024x768.
|
||
|
||
The only caveat is that there is no patch for Quickdraw yet (it's
|
||
being worked on though.) This means the standard desktop screens will look
|
||
just like they do now, albeit a LOT bigger depending on your monitor (you
|
||
should see Finder on a 17" monitor!)
|
||
|
||
But the fun doesn't stop there. You know how the GS text screen has
|
||
those unsightly horizontal lines through the text? Well, with Second Sight
|
||
and a VGA monitor you get crystal clear, SOLID text. This is a godsend to
|
||
anyone who spends lots of time in ProTERM or AppleWorks or anything else
|
||
that uses the text screen. With the AppleColor RGB, however, you still get
|
||
the lines but the font is easier to read. It's eerily similar to the
|
||
MS-DOS font, which takes some getting used to, but it's very nice.
|
||
|
||
If all that sounds good to you, you will love Second Sight. Ask
|
||
anyone at KFest who saw it running on a 14" monitor in my room and they'll
|
||
tell you how good it really is.
|
||
|
||
- Tony
|
||
(A2.TONY, CAT20, TOP14, MSG:267/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> FWIW, I already have two freeware utilities written for the Second
|
||
""""" Sight, plus a stack of Merlin interfaces and library code, plus a
|
||
99% complete product ready to go out the door. And this is only the
|
||
beginning....
|
||
|
||
Tip of the day: Buy a Second Sight, they're great.
|
||
(RICHARD.B, CAT20, TOP14, MSG:304/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> At $50 a pop for the Second Sight developer's information,
|
||
""""" Sequential obviously isn't concerned about encouraging development
|
||
for their board.
|
||
|
||
-G.T. Barnabas
|
||
(BARNABAS, CAT8, TOP14, MSG:12/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>>>> > My concern is that developers such as yourself want to see
|
||
""""" > sufficient interest in a new product before putting effort into
|
||
> supporting it, or plunking down $50 to learn more about that product.
|
||
|
||
It CAN be chicken and egg: "we won't develop unless there's an
|
||
interest"; "there won't be an interest unless we develop". However, Seven
|
||
Hills is one of several developers/publishers who are so excited about
|
||
Second Sight that we're not waiting! :)
|
||
|
||
I don't know what's in the $50 developer's package, but I personally
|
||
know two people who are really pushing the SS to the limits without having
|
||
anything more than the information that's been available, so it CAN be done
|
||
without the package. {And I "unpersonally" know of several more developers
|
||
who are working on some nifty things, again without benefit of the
|
||
developer's package.}
|
||
|
||
If you're wondering exactly what can be done with the information
|
||
that's currently available, here's a deal:
|
||
|
||
- IF you own Spectrum v2.0
|
||
- AND you own a Second Sight card
|
||
- AND you dial ANSI boards or use GEnie's Internet access
|
||
|
||
send private email to "SevenHills" and say, "I meet your criteria; let me
|
||
beta-test an ANSI update that'll knock my socks off!"
|
||
|
||
Hmm...do frogs have socks?
|
||
|
||
--Dave
|
||
(SEVENHILLS, CAT20, TOP14, MSG:311/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> Two points:
|
||
"""""
|
||
|
||
Greg's right that any program that writes directly to screen memory
|
||
(well within Apple's guidelines, as long as you did it the right way) will
|
||
not work with my patches. I wasn't aware this was such a wide-spread
|
||
practice.
|
||
|
||
About the SS docs: If all you need is the programmer's library, that
|
||
and its documentation and sample source is all available for free on the
|
||
Internet. From what I understand, the developer's kit will include a Z180
|
||
reference, along with other docs about the SVGA controller. The books
|
||
probably account for a good chunk of that $50. And while I haven't yet
|
||
delved into it much yet, I think for many programs, the library docs will
|
||
be enough. The library needs to be improved and extended, but that will
|
||
happen in time.
|
||
|
||
We're dealing with a different market here. Apple II companies
|
||
simply cannot afford to seed large numbers of developers for free. And
|
||
after all the roadblocks I've hit just trying to get ANY programming
|
||
documentation from several Mac companies, I really appreciate it when the
|
||
stuff is available for a pretty reasonable fee.
|
||
|
||
Mike
|
||
(M.HACKETT, CAT20, TOP14, MSG:317/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> discQuest has been upgraded for the Second Sight! The update is
|
||
""""" available free of charge to registered owners. Call Florence at
|
||
800-759-4549 with your copy's serial number (found on the original disk).
|
||
|
||
-Ken
|
||
(KEN.GAGNE, CAT20, TOP12, MSG:189/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> WHAT'S NEW <<<
|
||
""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
AUTOARK V1.1 IS FINALLY AVAILABLE FOR THE IIGS! August 7th, 1995
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
EGO Systems is pleased (and relieved) to announce that version 1.1 of
|
||
AutoArk is FINALLY shipping!
|
||
|
||
If you've forgotten what AutoArk is (and who could blame you!),
|
||
AutoArk is a file compression utility that works behind the scenes to
|
||
automatically compress and decompress files on your IIGS. With AutoArk
|
||
installed, you can compress the files that you rarely use and regain the
|
||
use of much of the space on your hard drive. When you need to use a
|
||
compressed file, you don't have to run a separate utility, AutoArk will
|
||
automatically decompress the file for you! And, when you've finished with
|
||
the file, AutoArk will automatically recompress the file for you! (AutoArk
|
||
also has the ability to password protect and encrypt any of your files!)
|
||
|
||
With that refresher on AutoArk out of the way, let's look at what's
|
||
new in version 1.1!
|
||
|
||
- * - AutoArk is now 100% compatible with System 6.0.1 and the Finder.
|
||
Specifically, you can once again double-click on an AutoArk file and
|
||
it will be expanded and opened like it should be. (The previous
|
||
version of AutoArk would re-compress the file before it could be
|
||
opened.)
|
||
|
||
- * - Lots of small internal bugs have been fixed. This has given AutoArk
|
||
a general improvement in overall compatibility and stability. For
|
||
example, one of these bugs prevented you from using the ORCA/Shell
|
||
"edit" command to edit a file that had been compressed with AutoArk.
|
||
This now works like it should.
|
||
|
||
- * - Previous versions of AutoArk only re-compressed files when you
|
||
returned to the Finder. This proved to be inconvenient for users of
|
||
other program launchers, like ProSel. To fix this, AutoArk v1.1
|
||
lets the user specify a "home" application. When the user returns
|
||
to this home application, AutoArk will recompress any files that
|
||
have been expanded.
|
||
|
||
- * - If you don't like the idea of AutoArk recompressing files while you
|
||
are in ANY application, you can also set AutoArk v1.1 to wait until
|
||
you shut down your computer before it begins to recompress its
|
||
files!
|
||
|
||
- * - The AutoArk new desk accessories have been enhanced to allow you to
|
||
compress or expand entire folders and all of their contents.
|
||
|
||
- * - AutoArk now has additional Inter-Process Communication facilities to
|
||
allow other programs to tell AutoArk to compress or expand a file.
|
||
|
||
- * - AutoArk v1.1 also comes with a new Finder extension, Smart Names,
|
||
that works with AutoArk v1.1 to automatically compress or expand
|
||
files simply by changing their names! For example, if you have a
|
||
file named "Fred" and you change its name to "Fred.ark", Smart Names
|
||
will instantly tell AutoArk to compress the file! If you delete the
|
||
".ark" from the end of the filename, Smart Names will tell AutoArk to
|
||
expand the file! And, if you set up a folder with a name that ends
|
||
in ".ark" Smart Names will tell AutoArk to compress any files that
|
||
you copy into that folder! (If you have Balloon v2.0 installed,
|
||
Smart Names will work with it also! Just use ".shk" instead of
|
||
".ark" and Smart Names will tell Balloon to compress the file!)
|
||
|
||
The regular price of AutoArk v1.1 will be $35. As with our other
|
||
products, this price includes first class shipping to anywhere in the
|
||
United States, Air Mail shipping to Canada and Mexico, and surface mail
|
||
shipping to anywhere else in the world. (For Air Mail delivery outside
|
||
North America, add $3, for a total of $38.) However, until October 31st
|
||
1995, the price for AutoArk will be only $30. As an added bonus for new
|
||
AutoArk purchasers, when you send in your AutoArk registration card, we'll
|
||
send you a free issue of GS+ Magazine!
|
||
|
||
If you are a previous owner of AutoArk, the cost to upgrade will be
|
||
$7.50 through October 31st, 1995. After that, the cost to upgrade will be
|
||
$10. For more information, contact us at (615) 332-2087 or write to us at
|
||
the address below.
|
||
|
||
If you want to purchase AutoArk v1.1 and Balloon v2.0 at the same
|
||
time, we have a special deal on that too. Through October 31st, 1995 the
|
||
cost of the AutoArk & Balloon bundle is $45. (You save $15.) After
|
||
October 31st, the cost will be $55. (Balloon is a new desk accessory that
|
||
lets you open, create and otherwise manipulate ShrinkIt archives from
|
||
INSIDE any IIGS desktop program. If you want more information on Balloon,
|
||
just contact us at by one of the means shown below.)
|
||
|
||
To order AutoArk, give us a call at 1-800-662-3634 between 9 a.m. and
|
||
5 p.m. Monday through Friday. (Outside the United States, call
|
||
615-332-2087. We accept Visa and MasterCard for all phone orders.) You
|
||
can also FAX your order to us at 615-332-2634. (Note: On September 11,
|
||
1995, the area code changes to "423".) If you prefer to order by mail, send
|
||
your check or money order (made payable to "EGO Systems" and in US funds
|
||
only), or credit card information to:
|
||
|
||
AutoArk
|
||
EGO Systems
|
||
P. O. Box 15366
|
||
Chattanooga, TN 37415-0366
|
||
|
||
Internet: Diz@genie.com
|
||
(DIZ, CAT33, TOP10, MSG:181/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
GS+ MAGAZINE CEASES PUBLICATION Not a hoax! Not a dream! Not an
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" imaginary tale! What follows is a
|
||
slightly edited version of the "Writer's Block" column that will appear in
|
||
the upcoming issue of GS+ Magazine (V7.N1 - which will be mailed out the
|
||
week of August 28th). Please distribute this information as far and wide
|
||
as possible.
|
||
|
||
Writer's Block By Steven W. Disbrow Believe it or not, I'm writing this
|
||
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' editorial while this issue of GS+
|
||
Magazine is at the printer. This page is actually being substituted for
|
||
the "Writer's Block" that I had already written for this issue. So, what
|
||
you read on this page will take precedence over some of the other
|
||
information that you will find in this issue. Why am I telling you this?
|
||
It's because I've got some very bad news...
|
||
|
||
It is with great sadness that I am forced to announce that this
|
||
(V7.N1) is the last issue of GS+ Magazine. After six years, and
|
||
thirty-seven issues, it has simply become impossible to continue
|
||
publication.
|
||
|
||
As you might be able to guess, the main reason for this decision is
|
||
money. Specifically, the lack of it. As I mentioned an issue or two ago,
|
||
renewals have been off. Since then, renewals went through the floor and
|
||
new subscriptions have been almost non-existent. I've tried everything I
|
||
could think of to reverse this trend, but nothing has worked. The end
|
||
result is that EGO Systems has no more money to publish GS+ Magazine. So,
|
||
I've reluctantly decided to pull the plug.
|
||
|
||
I know what you are thinking, "Ha! Now Diz will show his true colors
|
||
and disappear like all the rest." Well, I'm not gonna do that. While GS+
|
||
Magazine is ceasing publication, EGO Systems will stick around for just as
|
||
long as possible. Specifically, we'll still be selling and supporting all
|
||
of the back issues of GS+ Magazine, as well as our other Apple IIGS and
|
||
Newton products. We will also continue to sell Procyon's, Zip's,
|
||
Animasia's and WestCode's products for just as long as there is a demand.
|
||
Heck, we might even come out with some new stuff after the dust from this
|
||
settles...
|
||
|
||
What About my Money? Of course, if you're thinking ahead, you've figured
|
||
'''''''''''''''''''' that, if there's no money to publish GS+ Magazine,
|
||
there's probably no money left to repay your subscription. Sadly, this is
|
||
true. But, that doesn't mean I don't intend to try. It's been my
|
||
intention since day one of GS+ Magazine to repay every penny of subscriber
|
||
money, one way or another. So, here's what we are going to do:
|
||
|
||
First, check your mailing label. If it says "<*Last Issue!*>" this
|
||
was your last issue of GS+ Magazine, so you've gotten all the issues you've
|
||
paid for. (You can skip to the last paragraph if you want.) Otherwise,
|
||
your label will have a dollar amount and a volume & issue number on it. (It
|
||
will look something like this: "$30.00/V7.N6".) This tells you how much
|
||
credit you have in your account as well as when your subscription would
|
||
have expired.
|
||
|
||
To translate this last issue figure into an actual number of issues
|
||
that you had coming to you, use the following table:
|
||
|
||
V7.N2 = 1 issue V7.N3 = 2 issues V7.N4 = 3 issues
|
||
V7.N5 = 4 issues V7.N6 = 5 issues V8.N1 = 6 issues
|
||
V8.N2 = 7 issues V8.N3 = 8 issues V8.N4 = 9 issues
|
||
V8.N5 = 10 issues V8.N6 = 11 issues V9.N1 = 12 issues.
|
||
|
||
[Note: since you are reading this online, you probably don't have V7.N1
|
||
yet, so you can't look at your mailing label to see how much credit you
|
||
have. Just give us a call at 615-332-2087 (please don't use the toll-free
|
||
line for this!) and we can tell you.]
|
||
|
||
After you figure out how many issues we owe you, you need to decide
|
||
how you want to be repaid for those issues. Here are the options we are
|
||
making available at this time:
|
||
|
||
1) Back issues. You can take back issues for unmailed issues on a
|
||
"1 for 1" basis. So, if you have five issues remaining, you can take five
|
||
back issues. Just send us a list of the ones you want. (We'll pay the
|
||
shipping. I'm not sure HOW we'll pay the shipping at this point, but we're
|
||
going to try. If you'd like to throw in a little money [$3 would be a good
|
||
amount] to help us pay for shipping, I won't complain!)
|
||
|
||
2) Out of print Back Issues. If you have all of our available back
|
||
issues, that first option might not appeal to you very much. So, for the
|
||
first time ever, I'm making available disks containing the text of our
|
||
sold-out back issues. Like regular back issues, you can take these on a "1
|
||
for 1" basis. So now you can have any GS+ Magazine back issue you want.
|
||
We'll also pay the shipping on these. (Here again, if you want to help us
|
||
out on the shipping, I certainly won't pitch a fit! And if you could send
|
||
us some blank disks to copy the text onto, that would be GREAT! ;-} )
|
||
|
||
3) Use the credit that's shown on your label. If you don't just
|
||
want back issues, you can use your credit towards the purchase of anything
|
||
we sell. That includes AutoArk, Addressed For Success, GS+ T-Shirts
|
||
(please!), Balloon, or any of the third party products we sell. You can
|
||
also use your credit to pay for multiple products, or to pay for shipping.
|
||
You should figure shipping costs for the products you order as detailed in
|
||
the ads in this issue. If you don't have enough credit to cover everything
|
||
you want to get, send us your Visa or MasterCard information, and we'll
|
||
bill you for the difference. You can also send us a check for the
|
||
difference if you want, but it will be easier for us to bill an exact
|
||
amount to a credit card. By the way, if you want to use your credit to buy
|
||
back issues, figure their cost using the costs shown on the back issue
|
||
information page in this issue. I realize it's more expensive that way,
|
||
but it's just too much trouble for us to figure all the different costs
|
||
involved. (By the way, the special back issue offer detailed in the
|
||
a.Read.Me file on the GS+ Disk is no longer valid.)
|
||
|
||
Remember, we aren't going out of business! We are just stopping
|
||
publication of GS+ Magazine. So, I intend to do everything in my power to
|
||
keep your trust. (In other words, you needn't worry about sending us your
|
||
credit card info.)
|
||
|
||
This also means that we are retaining the copyrights to all of our
|
||
programs and all of the back issues of GS+ Magazine. So please, if you
|
||
know someone that wants copies, don't make copies for them, just send them
|
||
our way.
|
||
|
||
Special Notes If you are a magazine and disk subscriber, you'll get
|
||
''''''''''''' magazines and disks. If you are a magazine only
|
||
subscriber, you'll just get magazines. When a paper version of a back
|
||
issue is gone, we'll switch to the disk-based text version. If we don't
|
||
have the T-shirt size you request, we'll substitute the next largest size.
|
||
If you use your credit to order some of the third-party products that we
|
||
sell, be sure to list alternate products that you want, just in case we are
|
||
sold out of something and we can't get more! (In fact, be sure to list
|
||
lots of alternate products!) Also, be sure to include a phone number (and
|
||
the best time to call), or e-mail address that we can reach you at.
|
||
|
||
Expiration Date Since we will probably have to move out of our offices
|
||
''''''''''''''' soon (I plan on taking EGO Systems back into my
|
||
basement.), we need to get all of these back issues out of here as soon as
|
||
possible. So, this offer expires on October 31, 1995. After that, I'll
|
||
assume that you've taken pity on me and you've decided to let me keep your
|
||
money. (Not that I still have it...) Frankly however, I'd much rather get
|
||
rid of all these back issues! Otherwise, they'll be going to the recycling
|
||
plant on December 31!
|
||
|
||
Finally, over the next several weeks I'm going to attempt to sell off
|
||
quite a bit of our office and computer equipment. The production of GS+
|
||
Magazine was the main thing that we used it all for, so we really don't
|
||
need a lot of it any longer. So, if you are looking for a particular piece
|
||
of hardware or software, call me. The only catch is that I'll ask you to
|
||
pay the shipping.
|
||
|
||
The Phones As I said earlier, EGO Systems is very cash poor at this
|
||
moment. However, I'm hopeful that this won't be the case forever, so the
|
||
1-800 number is still in service. Until then however, I'd like to ask that
|
||
you not use the 1-800 number for calling to request your back issues or
|
||
credit purchases. Instead, call us at 615-332-2087, or FAX your order to
|
||
us at 615-332-2634. Better still, if you can, please e-mail your orders to
|
||
me at GSPlusDiz@aol.com. (Don't bother sending e-mail to my old Delphi
|
||
account, I had to cancel it in a last ditch attempt to cut costs. It
|
||
didn't work.)
|
||
|
||
The End Well, that's it then. It's been a hard, but enjoyable six years.
|
||
''''''' There were times that I truly thought that it would last forever,
|
||
but there were far more times that I just wanted to curl up in a little
|
||
ball and cry.
|
||
|
||
GS+ Magazine has always felt like my "baby." But it certainly
|
||
couldn't have been delivered by me alone. So, I need to thank the
|
||
following people for helping me to make GS+ Magazine a reality through the
|
||
years
|
||
|
||
First I need to thank my mom. She loaned me the money I needed to
|
||
get this whole thing going. (And some day I might even pay her back!)
|
||
|
||
Even though they weren't around long, Susan Thoeming, Wilma Tucker,
|
||
Michelle Davidson and Bill Moore all deserve recognition for putting up
|
||
with me for as long as they did.
|
||
|
||
Michelle Ribaric deserves a huge thanks for getting GS+ Magazine on
|
||
schedule and keeping it there.
|
||
|
||
Thanks to Robert "Bob" Ribaric for making the workplace more fun and
|
||
for doing all the tiny little crap jobs I could throw at him. He never
|
||
complained and always had a smile and a cheese joke for us when the day
|
||
started.
|
||
|
||
I've always thought of myself as the "Idea Man," but the truth is
|
||
that Joe Wankerl had some great ideas himself. It would be a lie if I were
|
||
to tell you that I could have done GS+ Magazine without him. He always met
|
||
his deadlines and he never wrote a bad program. In fact, I'd say that
|
||
Joe's the best programmer that's ever touched an Apple II keyboard, bar
|
||
none. Whatever platform he ends up on will be damn lucky to have him.
|
||
Thanks for all your help Joe.
|
||
|
||
That brings me to Nory... People, if it weren't for this marvelous
|
||
woman, there never would have even been a GS+ Magazine. When I wanted to
|
||
start this magazine, she was there with all the support any man could ever
|
||
hope for. She helped with editing, layouts, testing, accounting... you
|
||
name it, she did it. And, she never took a dime for any of the work she
|
||
did. She's been with GS+ Magazine from the beginning, and without her help
|
||
and support, the end would have come much, much sooner.
|
||
|
||
I love you Nory!
|
||
|
||
Finally, of course, I have to thank all of you. From our first
|
||
customer (Mark DePeo Jr.), to our last, you guys have stood by GS+ Magazine
|
||
through bad times and worse times. You gave us your monetary and emotional
|
||
support and we couldn't have done it without you.
|
||
|
||
Thanks, and farewell.
|
||
|
||
Diz
|
||
(DIZ, CAT33, TOP2, MSG:47/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
HYPERCARD BOOKS I explored some of the contractual issues behind APDA
|
||
""""""""""""""" with Uncle Tom at KansasFest this year, and to make a
|
||
long story short, I can reprint the HyperCard manuals. Now that I know I
|
||
_can_, I need to decide if I _ _should_... and that's where you folks come
|
||
in.
|
||
|
||
If they are reprinted, the books will be laserprinted on 3 hole paper
|
||
for notebooks. You will need to supply your own notebook, although we can
|
||
see about betting come for non-US customers, who may have trouble finding
|
||
them in the correct size.
|
||
|
||
There are 3 volumes, and of course the disks. Here's the prices we
|
||
will need to charge:
|
||
|
||
APDA 48 Getting Started with HyperCard IIGS 156 pages $15
|
||
APDA 49 HyperCard IIGS Reference 389 pages $25
|
||
APDA 50 HyperTalk Beginner's Guide IIGS 171 pages $15
|
||
APDA 51 HyperCard IIGS Disks 6 disks $20
|
||
APDA 52 APDA 48-51 in a package $60
|
||
|
||
It costs some money to set up the original masters, too, so what I
|
||
need to know is whether you folks want these books, and want them bad
|
||
enough to order them. Here's how I will tell:
|
||
|
||
You can order these books now by credit card. You won't be charged
|
||
right away. If we get 10 orders, we'll put HyperCard back in print. At
|
||
that time, you'll be charged, and we'll start the reproduction process.
|
||
About 2 weeks later, we'll ship your copies of HyperCard.
|
||
|
||
If we don't get 10 orders, we won't put it back in print.
|
||
|
||
Once it's back in print, it stays in print. The cost for us is
|
||
getting things set up and producing the originals for laserprinting; once
|
||
that's done we can print manuals in very small numbers.
|
||
|
||
If you would like to place an order for HyperCard, please do! All of
|
||
the normal contact and shipping apply; specifically:
|
||
|
||
Byte Works, Inc.
|
||
8000 Wagon Mound Dr NW
|
||
Albuquerque, NM 87120
|
||
|
||
AOL : MikeW50
|
||
GEnie : ByteWorks
|
||
Internet: MikeW50@AOL.COM
|
||
Phone : (505) 898-8183
|
||
|
||
Shipping: $5 in US, shipping cost rounded to the next higher dollar
|
||
elsewhere
|
||
|
||
If you order by mail and send a check, please use two checks--one for
|
||
this product and one for everything else, so we won't have to cash the
|
||
check to send what we have now!
|
||
|
||
If you have access to other online services, magazines, or other
|
||
places where Apple II people gather, please spread this message around.
|
||
|
||
Mike Westerfield
|
||
(BYTEWORKS, CAT19, TOP4, MSG:31/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEW APDA PRODUCTS Hopefully some of you have already seen the notice in
|
||
""""""""""""""""" Cat 19, Top 4 about the HyperCard manuals. Here's the
|
||
basic story: The simple version of the APDA contract is that we can put
|
||
pretty much any Apple II technical information back in print, so long as it
|
||
was developed at Apple and published by Apple (i.e., not Addison-Wesley,
|
||
darn it all).
|
||
|
||
That's pretty broad, though. It means we can put some classic as
|
||
well as some useful stuff back in circulation. Everything from the Red
|
||
Book to the Apple //e Applesoft books to the Apple //e Reference Manual are
|
||
fair game.
|
||
|
||
So, if there's an Apple II publication you want to see available
|
||
again, let me know. If I can find a copy to use as a master, and there are
|
||
at least 10 people interested in buying the product, we'll try to put it
|
||
back in print.
|
||
|
||
If you know of a product you'd like to see, send the name of the
|
||
product to me, and watch GEnie or AOL for ordering information and
|
||
announcements of ship dates.
|
||
|
||
Mike Westerfield
|
||
Byte Works, Inc.
|
||
8000 Wagon Mound Dr. NW
|
||
Albuquerque, NM 87120
|
||
|
||
AOL : MikeW50
|
||
GEnie : ByteWorks
|
||
Internet: MikeW50@AOL.COM
|
||
Phone : (505) 898-8183
|
||
(BYTEWORKS, CAT36, TOP34, MSG:33/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
<<<<< I know some people like hearing things straight from the horses
|
||
""""" mouth, but in a nutshell, all of the information you've seen is
|
||
correct. To summarize:
|
||
|
||
1. The 3 books I listed all came with HCIIGS 1.1. They were all
|
||
with my copy.
|
||
|
||
2. The script guide is an Addison-Wesley book. I can't reprint it.
|
||
|
||
3. There was a beta version of the GS/OS reference manual which was
|
||
printed by APDA. It was officially pulled as an APDA product when
|
||
the Addison- Wesley book was printed. We can't repring the
|
||
official Apple/Addison-Wesley version. We can, of course, do our
|
||
own book and may do that at some point. Right now, we're working
|
||
sporadically on a new version of the toolbox reference manuals.
|
||
When that's finished, and if it sells well enough to justify the
|
||
work, we'll consider the GS/OS reference, too.
|
||
|
||
4. I have no real hope of ever getting permission to reprint the
|
||
Addison-Wesley books. As I understand it, that would take the
|
||
agreement of Apple Computer, Addison-Wesley, and some actual work
|
||
by Apple Licensing. The chances of any one of those actually
|
||
happening are slim; the chances of all threehappening are so small
|
||
that I don't intend to put any effort into trying. (I have tried
|
||
on past projects, so I sort of know what the reaction will be.)
|
||
|
||
As of Saturday morning, the official tally was 3 HCIIGS Manual sets
|
||
ordered. I have not checked my mail yet. Once the number hits 10, we'll
|
||
put them back in print.
|
||
|
||
Thanks for all of your interest. And by the way, I don't normally
|
||
scan this area--once the HCIIGS issue dies down, I'll probably stop. If I
|
||
seem unresponsive, and you want an answer directly from me, try posing in
|
||
Cat 45 here in A2 (which I scan several times a week) or in A2Pro Cat 36.
|
||
|
||
Mike Westerfield
|
||
(BYTEWORKS, CAT19, TOP4, MSG:49/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE <<<
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
HOTKEY I APPLEWORKS MACROS However, on August 24th, a new software
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""" release that promises to rock the (A2)
|
||
computer world (slight exaggeration, for effect :), called HotKeys I, will
|
||
include an AppleWorks extension (TimeOut application) called Clipper, that
|
||
will permit appending (however, it will require temporary Desktop space to
|
||
accomplish it). More details soon to come in the Marin MacroWorks topic
|
||
(Cat 13, Top 11).
|
||
|
||
|
|
||
-(+)-
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
...Will
|
||
(W.NELKEN1, CAT17, TOP30, MSG:31/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
TIMEOUT STATISTICS AND TIMEOUT SHRINKIT PLUS I have been asked about an
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" AppleWorks 5.0 version of
|
||
TO.ShrinkIt Plus. The upgrade from version 4.0 to v5.0 will be made
|
||
available through O.P.Software in the very near future. The upgrade price
|
||
will likely be in the range of $7.50.
|
||
|
||
Also, O.P.Software is very close to releasing it new TImeimeOut
|
||
Statistics package. This application will be compativble with AppleWorks
|
||
3.0 through 5.1.
|
||
(D.GUM, CAT13, TOP7, MSG:87/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
<<<<< RE: TO.ShrinkIt Plus. --> Either Upgrading from AW4 version or
|
||
""""" Purchasing new AW5 version will be through O.P.Software.
|
||
(D.GUM, CAT13, TOP7, MSG:91/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
REVISED PC TRANSPORTER MANUAL? Would anyone be interested in a new and
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" revised PCTransporter manual (AE has left
|
||
alot of missing items in their manual that an independent update should
|
||
occur). The Update would include:
|
||
|
||
1. The advantages of MS-DOS v6.22, setting up it properly
|
||
2. Hidden secrets of the parallel port.
|
||
3. High-density access with the PCT via floptical, BlueDisk, and
|
||
Apple Superdrive.
|
||
4. A list of known programs that work with the PCT and are readily
|
||
available.
|
||
5. Possibly expanding the 640k barrier of PCT memory to 1meg.
|
||
6. Advantages of the 8087-2 math-coprocessor with the PCT
|
||
7. A Utilities Disk with important IBM freeware/shareware programs
|
||
that work great on the PCT.
|
||
8. Possible PCT bug fixes (not exactly updates)
|
||
9. Tips, hints, tricks, and troubleshooting the PCT.
|
||
10. How to use the TRANSFER.EXE program to your advantage... and much
|
||
more...
|
||
|
||
The Updated PCT manual is open to any suggestions (let me know what
|
||
you would like in it besides the few items I've listed), and I will begin
|
||
work on it in the following weeks to come if there is enough interest.
|
||
(S.LATELLA, CAT14, TOP12, MSG:47/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> -MORE AVAILABLE MEMORY WITH DOS 6.22
|
||
"""""
|
||
Yup, Dos 6.22 is a smaller version because some of the functions of
|
||
the program have been moved out of COMMAND.COM, and placed as EXE files or
|
||
have become part of other EXE files. Overall, its better for PCT owners
|
||
because it saves some memory.
|
||
|
||
-BE CAREFUL USING DOUBLESPACE FROM EARLY VERSIONS OF DOS6.0/6.2/6.21-
|
||
|
||
Be very careful when using DoubleSpace with version 6.0/6.2/6.21.
|
||
Doublespace was available with v6.0 but once you compressed a drive you
|
||
couldn't uncompress it. As for v6.2 it had the uncompress feature, but it
|
||
wasn't stable. So far it seems that v6.22 has all the bugs worked out.
|
||
|
||
-POSSIBLE CD-ROM SUPPORT WITH THE PCTRANSPORTER-
|
||
|
||
I've been working on getting the PCTransporter to recognize a CD-ROM
|
||
Drive, and everything looks really promising right now. I haven't tested
|
||
it out yet, because the CD-ROM Drive I ordered from Vitesse still hasn't
|
||
arrived.
|
||
|
||
Everything is one paper right now so it should work, but I can't 100%
|
||
sure until I test it out. If it does work then GS owners with a PCT will
|
||
have access to a several more CDs. I said several more because most CDs
|
||
require having a Windows based system with a 386 machine as a minimum to
|
||
run (and the PCT will is only an 8086 Dos System). I've found several Dos
|
||
based CDs, so they are still available, but you'll have to do some
|
||
searching.
|
||
|
||
Of course this will all be in the updated manual :)
|
||
|
||
Sam Latella [A2World]
|
||
"Apple II Forever, IBM Never!!!"
|
||
(S.LATELLA, CAT14, TOP12, MSG:67/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
LATEST ON CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN 3-D With reguard to Vitesse being out of
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" business, etc. I just received
|
||
Faxination today, and called their number. They are definately not out of
|
||
business!! The nice lady I talked to said that Wolf3-D is out of the legal
|
||
snaggles, but is having a couple bug snaggles. She said that Vitesse is
|
||
waiting for Bill Heineman (sp) ada Burger Bill to spray some Raid or Black
|
||
Flag so Wolf can ship.
|
||
|
||
Bill
|
||
(B.HANDLER, CAT40, TOP7, MSG:266/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
[*][*][*]
|
||
|
||
|
||
While on GEnie, do you spend most of your time downloading files?
|
||
If so, you may be missing out some excellent information in the Bulletin
|
||
Board area. The messages listed above only scratch the surface of
|
||
what's available and waiting for you in the bulletin board area.
|
||
|
||
If you are serious about your Apple II, the GEnieLamp staff strongly
|
||
urge you to give the bulletin board area a try. There are literally
|
||
thousands of messages posted from people like you from all over the
|
||
world.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
[EOA]
|
||
[HUM]//////////////////////////////
|
||
HUMOR ONLINE /
|
||
/////////////////////////////////
|
||
Fun & Games On GEnie
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
McDonnell Douglas
|
||
AIRCRAFT-SPACE SYSTEMS-MISSILES
|
||
|
||
Important! Important!
|
||
|
||
Please fill out and mail this card within 10 days of purchase.
|
||
|
||
Thank you for purchasing a McDonnell Douglas military aircraft. In
|
||
order to protect your new investment, please take a few moments to fill out
|
||
the warranty registration card below. Answering the survey questions is
|
||
not required, but the information will help us to develop new products that
|
||
best meet your needs and desires.
|
||
|
||
1. [_] Mr. [_] Mrs. [_] Ms. [_] Miss [_] Lt. [_] Gen. [_] Comrade
|
||
[_] Classified [_] Other
|
||
|
||
First Name____________________Initial____Last Name_________________________
|
||
|
||
Latitude________________________Longitude__________________________________
|
||
|
||
Altitude________________________Password, Code Name, Etc.__________________
|
||
|
||
2. Which model aircraft did you purchase?
|
||
|
||
[_] F-14 Tomcat [_] F-15 Eagle [_] F-16 Falcon [_] F-19A Stealth
|
||
[_] Classified
|
||
|
||
3. Date of purchase: Month___________Day___________Year____________
|
||
|
||
4. Serial Number____________________
|
||
|
||
5. Please check where this product was purchased:
|
||
|
||
[_] Received as Gift/Aid Package
|
||
[_] Catalog Showroom
|
||
[_] Sleazy Arms Broker
|
||
[_] Mail Order
|
||
[_] Discount Store
|
||
[_] Government Surplus
|
||
[_] Classified
|
||
|
||
6. Please check how you became aware of the McDonnell Douglas product you
|
||
have just purchased:
|
||
|
||
[_] Heard loud noise, looked up
|
||
[_] Store Display
|
||
[_] Espionage
|
||
[_] Recommended by friend/relative/ally
|
||
[_] Political lobbying by Manufacturer
|
||
[_] Was attacked by one
|
||
|
||
7. Please check the three (3) factors which most influenced your decision
|
||
to purchase this McDonnell Douglas product:
|
||
|
||
[_] Style/Appearance
|
||
[_] Kickback/Bribe
|
||
[_] Recommended by salesperson
|
||
[_] Speed/Maneuverability
|
||
[_] Comfort/Convenience
|
||
[_] McDonnell Douglas Reputation
|
||
[_] Advanced Weapons Systems
|
||
[_] Price/Value
|
||
[_] Back-Room Politics
|
||
[_] Negative experience opposing one in combat
|
||
|
||
8. Please check the location(s) where this product will be used:
|
||
|
||
[_] North America
|
||
[_] Central/South America
|
||
[_] Aircraft Carrier
|
||
[_] Europe
|
||
[_] Middle East
|
||
[_] Africa
|
||
[_] Asia/Far East
|
||
[_] Misc. Third-World Countries
|
||
[_] Classified
|
||
|
||
9. Please check the products that you currently own, or intend to purchase
|
||
in the near future:
|
||
|
||
Product Own Intend to purchase
|
||
Color TV
|
||
VCR
|
||
ICBM
|
||
Killer Satellite
|
||
CD Player
|
||
Air-to-Air Missiles
|
||
Space Shuttle
|
||
Home Computer
|
||
Nuclear Weapon
|
||
|
||
10. How would you describe yourself or your organization? Check all
|
||
that apply:
|
||
|
||
[_] Communist/Socialist
|
||
[_] Terrorist
|
||
[_] Crazed (Islamic)
|
||
[_] Crazed (Other)
|
||
[_] Neutral
|
||
[_] Democratic
|
||
[_] Dictatorship
|
||
[_] Corrupt (Latin American)
|
||
[_] Corrupt (Other)
|
||
[_] Primitive/Tribal
|
||
|
||
11. How did you pay for your McDonnell Douglas product?
|
||
|
||
[_] Cash
|
||
[_] Suitcases of Cocaine
|
||
[_] Oil Revenues
|
||
[_] Deficit Spending
|
||
[_] Personal Check
|
||
[_] Credit Card
|
||
[_] Ransom Money
|
||
[_] Traveler's Check
|
||
|
||
12. Occupation You Your Spouse
|
||
|
||
Homemaker
|
||
Sales/Marketing
|
||
Revolutionary
|
||
Clerical
|
||
Mercenary
|
||
Tyrant
|
||
Middle Management
|
||
Eccentric Billionaire
|
||
Defense Minister/General
|
||
Retired
|
||
Student
|
||
|
||
13. To help us understand our Customers' lifestyles, please indicate the
|
||
interests and activities in which you and your spouse enjoy participating
|
||
on a regular basis:
|
||
|
||
Activity/Interest You Your Spouse
|
||
Golf
|
||
Boating/Sailing
|
||
Sabotage
|
||
Running/Jogging
|
||
Propaganda/Disinformation
|
||
Destabilizing/Overthrow
|
||
Default on Loans
|
||
Gardening
|
||
Crafts
|
||
Black Market/Smuggling
|
||
Collectibles/Collections
|
||
Watching Sports on TV
|
||
Wines
|
||
Interrogation/Torture
|
||
Household Pets
|
||
Crushing Rebellions
|
||
Espionage/Reconnaissance
|
||
Fashion Clothing
|
||
Border Disputes
|
||
Mutually Assured Destruction
|
||
|
||
Thanks for taking the time to fill out this questionnaire. Your
|
||
answers will be used in market studies that will help McDonnell Douglas
|
||
serve you better in the future -- as well as allowing you to receive
|
||
mailings and special offers from other companies, governments, extremist
|
||
groups, and mysterious consortia.
|
||
|
||
Comments or suggestions about our fighter planes? Please write to:
|
||
|
||
McDONNELL DOUGLAS CORPORATION
|
||
Marketing Department
|
||
Military Aerospace Division
|
||
P.O. Box 800
|
||
St. Louis, MO 55500
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
[EOA]
|
||
[REF]//////////////////////////////
|
||
REFLECTIONS /
|
||
/////////////////////////////////
|
||
Thinking About Online Communications
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
by Phil Shapiro
|
||
[P.SHAPIRO1]
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS AND THE CHANGING NATURE OF FRIENDSHIP <<<
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
Online communication is transforming how human beings interact with
|
||
one another.
|
||
|
||
The nature of the medium is such that it helps people connect with
|
||
others of similar interest. So if you're interested in fly fishing and you
|
||
live in Calgary, Alberta, online communications allows you to easily make
|
||
contact with other fly fishing aficionados in other parts of the world.
|
||
|
||
But say your interest in fly fishing centers around a particular
|
||
aspect of the sport. Suppose that your interest in fly fishing centers
|
||
around building your own lures out of natural material. You have nothing
|
||
to say to fly fishing fans who don't build their own lures. And you have
|
||
even less to say to fly fishing fans who build their lures out of man-made
|
||
materials (heaven forbid).
|
||
|
||
The Internet allows you to zero in on just those people who share
|
||
your own particular interest. Without the Internet, you would have to
|
||
settle for putting up with fly fishing enthusiasts in your own
|
||
neighborhood. The locals may or may not be people you'd like to spend a
|
||
lot of time with.
|
||
|
||
It's a good thing when people connect with others who share their
|
||
interests. Society is formed by a web of individual human bonds. The more
|
||
individual bonds there are, the stronger the fabric of society.
|
||
|
||
And every connection between human beings opens up new possibilities,
|
||
new opportunities. Is it not true that every advance ever made grew out of
|
||
the interaction between two (or more) human beings? Conversely, it would
|
||
be fair to say that there is no human being alive now (or alive ever) who
|
||
created something meaningful and lasting entirely on their own.
|
||
|
||
But what is really intriguing is that the nature of friendship is
|
||
changing. Friendship used to be a predominantly social things. The new
|
||
friendship blurs the boundary between friends and colleagues.
|
||
|
||
A year or two ago I had an experience which got me thinking about the
|
||
nature of online friendships (o-friendships). The small software company I
|
||
run had a news story written about it in Newsbytes, the online news service
|
||
for international computer news. It just so happened that this Newsbytes
|
||
story contained a fairly significant factual error.
|
||
|
||
This error was brought to my attention by an o-friend of mine who
|
||
happened to spot the story an hour after it had been posted online. Within
|
||
two hours of the story being made public, I was able to explain the mistake
|
||
to the reporter who wrote the story. Newsbytes posted a formal correction
|
||
the next day.
|
||
|
||
What this experience taught me is the value of having o-friends
|
||
looking out for your own interests. The modern day world is far too
|
||
complex for any individual to pay attention to all its myriad aspects. But
|
||
the more o-friends you have, the greater are the chances that you will be
|
||
clued in to something that's of interest to you.
|
||
|
||
Instead of having just one pair of eyes, online communications allows
|
||
you to have a hundred pairs of eyes. The extra pairs of eyes come in
|
||
handy, I've come to learn. People watch out for each other in brand new
|
||
ways out here.
|
||
|
||
Since every friendship is based on mutuality, every act of friendship
|
||
begets another act of friendship. Mutuality is rife in the online world.
|
||
It's rife and it's flourishing and it's coming soon to a disk drive near
|
||
you.
|
||
|
||
Remember the quaint old days when friends were people you used to
|
||
spend time with in person? Sure those friendships were great. There's no
|
||
denying that face-to-face friendships (ftf friendships) have a certain
|
||
esthetic appeal. But online friendships have far more promise in the
|
||
larger scheme of things, precisely because they allow a bond to be formed
|
||
based on genuine shared interest, rather than on a blurred blend of
|
||
geographic proximity and general shared interest.
|
||
|
||
Online communication magnifies the benefits of friendship. The more
|
||
people you know online, the more opportunities you will have to benefit
|
||
from their particular knowledge and expertise.
|
||
|
||
If it's true that the more online contacts you have, the greater the
|
||
overall benefits in your life, then it's just one extra step of logic to
|
||
say that online communications tends to make people more sociable, more
|
||
extroverted.
|
||
|
||
There can be no denying that technology itself is changing how we
|
||
relate to one another. The effects of these changes are becoming
|
||
increasingly apparent in the world around us.
|
||
|
||
-Phil Shapiro
|
||
|
||
[*][*][*]
|
||
|
||
|
||
[The author takes a keen interest in the psychological and
|
||
social dimensions of online communications. This essay is one of
|
||
a collection of 25 essays in the "Thinking About Online
|
||
Communications" series. Feedback is invited at:
|
||
pshapiro@aol.com]
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
[EOA]
|
||
[ASA]//////////////////////////////
|
||
ASCII ART GALLERY /
|
||
/////////////////////////////////
|
||
Bossie the Cow
|
||
""""""""""""""
|
||
by Susie Oviatt
|
||
[SUSIE]
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
ASCII ART BEGINS
|
||
|
||
.a@@@@@a. ,a@@@@@@@@a, .a@@@@@a.
|
||
.@@@@@@@@@@@a,a@@@@@@@@@@@@@@a,a@@@@@@@@@@@.
|
||
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|
||
@@@@' `@a@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@a@' `@@@@
|
||
`@' @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ `@'
|
||
.########################## @@@@@@@@@"@@@"@@@@@@@@
|
||
.##############################`@@@@@@@@a@@@a@@@@@@@'
|
||
.#####################;;#########,@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@,
|
||
,;;;;;######;;;;#####;;;;;;;##;;;,@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@,
|
||
,;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;###;;;;;;;;;;;;;@@@@@( )@@@@@@@@@@( )@@@@@
|
||
;;';;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;`@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@'
|
||
;;';;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;`@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@',
|
||
;;' ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; """""""""""""",;; ',
|
||
;;' ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ',
|
||
;;;; ###;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;####;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;
|
||
`;;' ####;;;##;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;###########;;;;;;;;;;; ,'
|
||
` ##########;;;;;;;'''''''''''''''''''''''''''###;;;;;;;;;; ;
|
||
#############;;' #;;;;;;;;;;;; `,
|
||
############# ;;;;;;;;;;;;; ()
|
||
############# ;;;;;;;;;;;;;
|
||
#oOOOOOOOOOo# ;oOOOOOOOOOo;
|
||
oOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo oOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo
|
||
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
|
||
OOOOOOO () OOOOOOOO OOOOOOOO () OOOOOOO
|
||
`OOOOOOOooOOOOOOOO' `OOOOOOOOooOOOOOOO'
|
||
`OOOOOOOOOOOOO' `OOOOOOOOOOOOO'
|
||
""""""""" """""""""
|
||
ASCII ART ENDS
|
||
|
||
[FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED READERS: The preceding was a cartoon of a cow, with
|
||
wheels instead of hooves.]
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
[EOA]
|
||
[HUN]//////////////////////////////
|
||
THE TREASURE HUNT /
|
||
/////////////////////////////////
|
||
Yours For the Downloading
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
by Charlie Hartley
|
||
[A2.CHARLIE]
|
||
|
||
|
||
Welcome back to the Treasure Hunt! This month we will take a look at
|
||
a variety of things.
|
||
|
||
[*][*][*]
|
||
|
||
|
||
18881 FNDRVIEW3.0.BXY 40k
|
||
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
||
|
||
Finder-View 3.0 is a Finder Extension that works with the Finder in
|
||
System Software 6.0 and later. Finder-View is a joint effort. The main
|
||
program is written by Brian Clark; the 3200 color routines are by Mike
|
||
Fleming; the $C2 animation routine is by Nate Trost and Mike Fleming; and
|
||
the title screen and icons by Marco Busse. I have lifted most of the
|
||
following documentation from the help notes in the file, since the authors
|
||
can explain what it does better than I can.
|
||
|
||
Finder-View is, simply stated, a Finder invoked picture viewing
|
||
program. With version 3.0, you will no longer even have to leave the
|
||
Finder to view pictures. The file formats Finder-View v3.0 will handle
|
||
are:
|
||
|
||
PaintWorks Packed Picture
|
||
Packed Super Hi-Res Screen Image
|
||
Apple Preferred Format Picture
|
||
Super Hi-Res Screen Image
|
||
SHR 3200 Color Image (Brooks, French, and APF)
|
||
PrintShop GS Color Graphic
|
||
PaintWorks Animation
|
||
|
||
There are two methods of how to use Finder-View to view pictures.
|
||
|
||
The first method is the most straightforward, and works well when you
|
||
want to view only one or two pictures at a time. Simply double-click on
|
||
any picture's file icon. You can select multiple file icons and still use
|
||
this method, but the second method is more suitable for slide-showing
|
||
multiple pictures.
|
||
|
||
In the second method, select the pictures you want to view, and then
|
||
select the View Pictures... menu item from the Extras menu. When using the
|
||
second method, you will not be returned to the Finder screen between each
|
||
picture, and you'll also be able to traverse both forward and backward
|
||
through the slide-show as well as abort the slide-show at any time.
|
||
|
||
The command keys and actions that are available while a picture is
|
||
being displayed are:
|
||
|
||
KEYS:
|
||
|
||
Numerical keypad keys 1-9 - Picture movement
|
||
CapsLock or Holding Open-Apple - Multiply movement rate by 5
|
||
Escape or Open-Apple-period - Abort slide-show
|
||
Return or '-->' - Move forward in slide-show
|
||
'<--' - Move backward in slide-show
|
||
Space - Pauses slide-show
|
||
'I' OR 'i' key - Present picture information
|
||
'+' key - Speed up animation
|
||
'-' key - Slow down animation
|
||
|
||
MOUSE:
|
||
|
||
Movement - Picture movement
|
||
Button click - Move forward in slide-show
|
||
|
||
There are a couple preference settings in Finder-View that let you
|
||
choose how the program should operate in certain instances. The
|
||
preferences dialog is displayed any time the Finder-View... menu item is
|
||
selected from the Extras menu. The state of Finder-View's menu item
|
||
changes based on what icons are selected. If any files or folders are
|
||
selected, the menu item will read View Pictures.... Otherwise, you'll be
|
||
presented with the menu item to allow you to display the preferences
|
||
dialog. The preferences available are:
|
||
|
||
Slide-Show Seconds - Choose how many seconds to wait between pictures
|
||
'''''''''''''''''' during a slide-show.
|
||
|
||
Auto Slide-Show - If this is checked, Finder-View will automatically
|
||
''''''''''''''' progress through the selected pictures. All the regular
|
||
action commands are still available. The slide-show timer is reset if you
|
||
scroll the picture, pause and unpause the slide-show, or bring up the
|
||
picture information dialog.
|
||
|
||
Launch Application First - If this is checked, Finder-View will let the
|
||
'''''''''''''''''''''''' Finder try to launch any application that may be
|
||
linked to the picture file icons instead of displaying the picture. The
|
||
Control key can be used while double-clicking to change this preference
|
||
setting on the fly.
|
||
|
||
Handle 3200's - If this is checked, Finder-View will display 3200 color
|
||
''''''''''''' pictures. This option is present because the displaying of
|
||
3200 color pictures may cause problems in a networked enviornment.
|
||
|
||
Finder-View is ShareWare. To legally use Finder-View, you must send
|
||
a $10 payment to Jupiter Systems within 2 weeks, otherwise you should
|
||
delete it. The address given in the documentation is:
|
||
|
||
Jupiter Systems
|
||
P.O. Box 1396
|
||
Barrington, IL 60010 U.S.A.
|
||
|
||
Finder-View v3.0 is a Finder Extension and should be placed in your
|
||
System:System.Setup folder. Finder-View will become active the next time
|
||
you boot.
|
||
|
||
[*][*][*]
|
||
|
||
|
||
22096 VOLUMESNAKE.BXY 25k
|
||
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
||
|
||
This "Volume Snake" utility by Dan Jones will print all files on all
|
||
subdirectories on one volume (or even for all volumes). It will run on a
|
||
64K machine. The output can be directed to the screen, your printer, or a
|
||
file.
|
||
|
||
Run it, and tell it where you want the results. Then tell it which
|
||
slot and which drive to check and it will list a catalog of all the files
|
||
located there.
|
||
|
||
[*][*][*]
|
||
|
||
|
||
23871 SLOTSCAN162.BXY 13k
|
||
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
||
|
||
This program by Robert Claney will tell you what kind and version of
|
||
Apple II computer you have and tells you how much "normal" memory you have.
|
||
What gives this program its name though is the fact that it scans your
|
||
computer's slots and/or ports, telling you what is present in each one. It
|
||
will describe in detail the individual devices attached to SmartPort cards
|
||
or ports, and SCSI cards which may be in your system. It will identify the
|
||
capacity of any drives which are supported by ProDOS. This program will
|
||
run on any computer which will run ProDOS.
|
||
|
||
SlotScan includes extensive documentation to help you to get the most
|
||
out of it.
|
||
|
||
[*][*][*]
|
||
|
||
|
||
206680 DOS33.LNCHR.BXY 40k
|
||
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
||
|
||
This utility allows you to store and run older DOS 3.3 software on
|
||
your previously non-DOS 3.3 compatible ProDOS hard drive or 3.5" floppy
|
||
drives. Version 2.0 now works with 8-bit Apple IIs! It also now allows
|
||
saving to disk images, and making double-sided disk images on the Apple
|
||
IIgs.
|
||
|
||
Written by the author of Roger Wagner's The Graphic Exchange, John
|
||
MacLean, this is a $10 shareware utility. It's very easy to use, and it
|
||
even has the ability to slow down your system to 1 Mhz when running DOS 3.3
|
||
software, but returns you to your launcher at full fast speed. Supports
|
||
DOS 3.3 BIN files and single or double sided DOS 3.3 disks.
|
||
|
||
I am not personally familiar with this utility, but Tim's
|
||
recommendation makes this an interesting utility to get. [Your editor
|
||
recommends it, too.--Ed.]
|
||
|
||
[*][*][*]
|
||
|
||
|
||
24324 QUIKVIEW1.1.BXY 9k
|
||
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
||
|
||
This is an update for Mark Munz's freeware AppleWorks word processor
|
||
file viewer program. This version displays AppleWorks 5.0 inverse
|
||
uppercase characters correctly. It was updated by Christian Serreau.
|
||
|
||
If you don't have AppleWorks 5, and you need to view word processing
|
||
files created with it, this is a handy utility. [We recommend it for
|
||
reading the AppleWorks version of GEnieLamp A2.--Ed.]
|
||
|
||
[*][*][*]
|
||
|
||
|
||
17717 SHR.VIEW3.5.BXY 23k
|
||
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''
|
||
|
||
SHR View 3.5 was written by Ron Mercer, the author of Emerald
|
||
Visions' 3200 color paint program and the commercial program Prism. This
|
||
little program acts as a slideshow viewer for all SHR graphics, 3200 color
|
||
pics, and even large GIFs. According to the documentation, graphics up to
|
||
4096x4096 are supported, though Lunatic, the uploader, had problems with
|
||
some 1024x800 GIFs. All GIFs are displayed in 16 shades of grey.
|
||
|
||
According to the docs, this viewer supports the following image types:
|
||
|
||
$C0 Paintworks 1.0 $C1 Raw Image Data (Screen Pic)
|
||
$C0 PackBytes $C1 3200 Color Screen
|
||
$C0 Apple Preferred $C1 Allison Raw Data
|
||
$C0 Apple Preferred 3200
|
||
$C0 Apple Preferred 3200+ $C2 Paintworks Animation
|
||
$C0 Paintworks Gold 640
|
||
$C0 3200 Colors (New)
|
||
|
||
BIN French APP 3200 Colors BIN/TXT GIF87a
|
||
BIN Hi-Res BIN/TXT GIF89a
|
||
BIN Double Hi-Res (single file)
|
||
BIN 3200 Color Screen
|
||
BIN ComputerEyes IIgs Raw Data (old)
|
||
|
||
$F8 PrintShop GS
|
||
|
||
This neat little program is shareware. The author asks for a small
|
||
fee of $10-$20. His address is included in the docs.
|
||
|
||
According to the docs, the main purpose of this program is to view
|
||
all of the images in the current prefix (directory/folder). SV doesn't
|
||
physically have to be in the directory with the images that are to be
|
||
displayed. By following this example you can have it in one directory
|
||
while displaying images in another:
|
||
|
||
SHR View is located in the directory "/HARD2/UTIL".
|
||
The images are located in the directory "/HARD2/GRAPHICS/PICS.3200"
|
||
|
||
]prefix /hard2/graphics/pics.3200
|
||
]-/hard2/util/shr.view
|
||
|
||
<that's it!>
|
||
|
||
From GS/OS, you will probably want to have this program in each of
|
||
your graphics directories so you can just double-click on it to view all of
|
||
your pics without having to go into BASIC and play around with the prefix.
|
||
|
||
[*][*][*]
|
||
|
||
|
||
This edition of the Treasure Hunt will be my last. It's not that
|
||
there aren't a lot more treasures available in the Apple II library; it's
|
||
just that I must cut back on the amount of time that I devote to writing
|
||
for GEnieLamp A2.
|
||
|
||
I'll be around from time to time with something for you whenever I
|
||
get the chance.
|
||
|
||
I want to thank Doug Cuff for giving me the opportunity to write for
|
||
the Lamp. It has been a delightful experience.
|
||
|
||
Until later...
|
||
|
||
Charlie
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
[EOA]
|
||
[SOF]//////////////////////////////
|
||
SOFTVIEW A2 /
|
||
/////////////////////////////////
|
||
Review: FAXination
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""
|
||
by Douglas Cuff
|
||
[EDITOR.A2]
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> DIAL NO LINE BEFORE ITS TIME <<<
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
PROGRAM: FAXination
|
||
VERSION: 0.1.5
|
||
AUTHOR: Steven McQueen
|
||
PUBLISHER: Vitesse Inc, P.O. Box 929, La Puente, CA 91747-0929
|
||
PRICE: $79.95
|
||
REQUIREMENTS: Apple IIgs, System 5.0.4 or later, 1.5 megabytes RAM,
|
||
hard disk drive, external fax/modem
|
||
|
||
|
||
[*][*][*]
|
||
|
||
A fax (short for facsimile) machine is a combination of a modem and a
|
||
digitizing scanner, with built-in software, or "firmware". The firmware
|
||
can encode and decode (image into data; data into image) and can send and
|
||
receive data across a phone line. You always need two fax machines... one
|
||
to send and one to receive.
|
||
|
||
There's a special kind of a modem called a fax/modem that can
|
||
communicate with fax machines (in addition to its normal telecommunications
|
||
functions). It pretends to be a standalone fax machine. A fax/modem can
|
||
persuade the fax machine that it's okay to accept the data that the
|
||
fax/modem sending, or that the fax machine can begin to send its data now.
|
||
|
||
Fax/modems are nothing new. The modems need software in order to
|
||
work, though. Nothing new there, either. What is new? Fax software for
|
||
the Apple II; specifically, FAXination from Vitesse.
|
||
|
||
FAXination sets out to let you do three main things: create faxes,
|
||
send them, and receive them. It also lets you view faxes on the screen,
|
||
and print them on a printer.
|
||
|
||
FAXination comes in two parts: a New Desk Accessory and a printer
|
||
driver. The New Desk Accessory allows you to send and receive faxes, as
|
||
well as view and print them. The printer driver is necessary only to
|
||
create new faxes.
|
||
|
||
To create a fax, you go to the Apple menu of any desktop-based IIgs
|
||
program and select "Control Panels", a process familiar to most of you.
|
||
From that menu, you select "DC Printer", and change the "printer type"
|
||
_from_ ImageWriter or whatever other device you normally use, _to_
|
||
FAXination. Then you tell whatever application you're using (for example,
|
||
Teach or AppleWorks GS or GraphicWriter III) to open a document and print a
|
||
copy of that document. The application prints not to a printer but to a
|
||
file. FAXination will be using that file shortly.
|
||
|
||
When printing the document, you have the option of setting the
|
||
resolution at either 100 dots per inch (fast but not much detail) or 200
|
||
dots per inch (slow but greater detail). You also have the option of
|
||
having the document sent as soon as the printing is finished, or sending it
|
||
manually later.
|
||
|
||
Once you've printed the document and created a fax file for
|
||
FAXination, you can set the printer device back to your normal printer, if
|
||
you like. It really doesn't matter if you do this or not... as long as you
|
||
remember to change it back before you want to print something!
|
||
|
||
SENDING A FAX With the fax file safely on disk, you should pull down the
|
||
""""""""""""" Apple menu again and choose FAXination from the list of
|
||
NDAs. The FAXination NDA gives you six options:
|
||
|
||
o Receive log;
|
||
o Send log;
|
||
o Receive fax;
|
||
o Phone book;
|
||
o Local station ID; and
|
||
o FAXination options.
|
||
|
||
When you select "Send log", FAXination shows you what fax files it
|
||
has waiting to send. You can select one with the mouse, then send it, view
|
||
it on the screen, or print it to the printer. You can also delete it, or
|
||
address it.
|
||
|
||
When you view a fax, only a part of it will fit on the screen at a
|
||
time. You have to use the scroll bars to slide various parts of the fax
|
||
into the viewing window. This allows you to see details of the fax
|
||
clearly. A chance to get an overview would be nice, too, but FAXination
|
||
doesn't allow it. Note that you cannot change a fax file as you view it.
|
||
Once a fax file has been created, the only way to change it is to use your
|
||
application to make the changes, then "print" it again.
|
||
|
||
When you print a fax (you didn't forget to change the Direct Connect
|
||
printer in the Control Panels, did you?), you may be a little distressed at
|
||
the fuzziness of the image on an ImageWriter II. For a fax you're sending,
|
||
this doesn't matter very much, since the limitation in resolution is due to
|
||
your printer and its printer driver, not FAXination. In other words, the
|
||
fax won't appear that fuzzy to the person who receives it. Unfortunately,
|
||
the same limitation applies to printing faxes you receive. Unless you have
|
||
an inkjet or laser printer, you may have to both print _and_ view a fax
|
||
you've received in order to decipher it all, since the printed version
|
||
gives you an overview and the onscreen version gives you sharper detail.
|
||
If you do have an inkjet or laser printer, you're more likely to be
|
||
satisfied with the FAXination printout.
|
||
|
||
When you click on Send, FAXination sets up your fax/modem for
|
||
transmission, and dials the number you assigned to it on the "envelope".
|
||
Unfortunately, what is supposed to happen then is a mystery to this
|
||
reviewer. I was utterly unable to get FAXination to send a fax to anyone,
|
||
despite three different fax machines and numerous tries. I couldn't
|
||
shift-boot to eliminate all Desk Accessories and Inits, since FAXination
|
||
itself is an NDA, so I trimmed my active DAs and Inits as follows:
|
||
|
||
Temporary Init ZipInit
|
||
''''''''''''''
|
||
New Desk Accessories Control Panels
|
||
'''''''''''''''''''' FAXination
|
||
|
||
CDEVs Direct Connect Printer
|
||
'''''
|
||
File System Translators Pro.FST
|
||
''''''''''''''''''''''' Char.FST
|
||
|
||
Drivers RAM5
|
||
''''''' AppleDisk3.5
|
||
Console.Driver
|
||
Printer
|
||
Modem
|
||
RamFAST
|
||
FAXination
|
||
|
||
That didn't help, either. In short, I absolutely could not get
|
||
FAXination to send a fax. This was particularly discouraging, since I had
|
||
received Vitesse's special hardware/software bundle of a 14.4 modem and a
|
||
copy of FAXination (priced at $189.95). I badly wanted FAXination to work
|
||
for me, and I thought by ordering the modem that Vitesse themselves were
|
||
selling, I'd avoid the proverbial vicious circle of the software publisher
|
||
blaming the hardware manufacturer, and so on ad infinitum.
|
||
|
||
RECEIVING A FAX After admitting defeat in my inability to send a fax, I
|
||
""""""""""""""" moved on to the part that was really important to me.
|
||
After all, as a GEnie user, I can use their fax service to at least send
|
||
ASCII-only fax messages. What I was really looking forward to was the
|
||
ability to receive faxes from others.
|
||
|
||
FAXination's Receive Log menu offers you the chance to view, print,
|
||
or delete a fax you've already received. To actually receive a fax, you
|
||
can either select "Receive Fax" from the FAXination NDA's menu when the
|
||
phone rings--in effect saying "Hey, get that, will you?"--or you can select
|
||
"Auto Receive" from the "FAXination Options" menu, which allows FAXination
|
||
to receive a fax "in the background"... that is, FAXination will answer all
|
||
incoming calls, even if you happen to be typing a letter in AppleWorks GS
|
||
at the time.
|
||
|
||
Unfortunately, I didn't have any success in receiving faxes in either
|
||
mode. So I can't tell you any more about the process.
|
||
|
||
THE MODEM BUNDLE As I've said, I was shipped the hardware/software
|
||
"""""""""""""""" bundle. Apart from the FAXination disk and manual, it
|
||
included a high-speed modem cable and a 14.4EFX external data fax modem
|
||
that seemingly doesn't have a brand name. Other GEnie users tell me it's
|
||
an Aspen modem. I can't verify this, but that's what they say, for
|
||
whatever that's worth.
|
||
|
||
As I've also said, I decided on the bundle to avoid problems. That
|
||
was a mistake. This is a very cheap modem. It's the smallest modem I've
|
||
ever seen: it's not as long as two 3.5" disks laid side by side. It's
|
||
only slightly wide than a 3.5" disk. It's as thick as a stack of 6 disks.
|
||
The first modem I received was clearly defective. The second modem would
|
||
not connect at all, so I put it away in a box for several months. I took
|
||
it out again this August, and to my surprise, it sort of worked! I could
|
||
connect to the local GEnie line at 2400 baud, and to the local university
|
||
line at 14,400 baud. (I was not able to connect to a local BBS, no matter
|
||
what speed I tried.)
|
||
|
||
It's just barely possible (I'm trying to give Vitesse every break I
|
||
possibly can, for reasons that will shortly become apparent) that the Aspen
|
||
modem doesn't get along well with Bell Canada. Another Canadian purchaser
|
||
of the bundle was heard to complain of symptoms similar to mine. So it's
|
||
unlikely but possible.
|
||
|
||
SUPPORT Let's turn to a more pleasant topic: support from Vitesse. I've
|
||
""""""" found it to be just fine, thank you... within certain limits.
|
||
|
||
The first modem I received in my hardware/software bundle was
|
||
evidently no good. It would not dial unless I lifted the receiver of my
|
||
telephone as I issued the dial command. When I made them aware of the
|
||
problem, Vitesse replaced the modem as promptly as international post and
|
||
customs would allow.
|
||
|
||
Vitesse has been providing updates of FAXination to registered owners
|
||
on its BBS. As this is in California, it is prohibitively expensive for me
|
||
to call from here in Canada. This, frankly, is a little galling. "Having
|
||
to pay to be a beta tester," one GEnie customer called it. Since my bundle
|
||
was a Christmas present, and since I'm every bit as poor as you would
|
||
expect a freelance editor and writer to be, I resented the perceived
|
||
implication that anyone with anyone money to buy the software in the first
|
||
place has sufficient expendable income to pay for support.
|
||
|
||
To their great credit, when I E-mailed Vitesse here on GEnie, and
|
||
pointed out this expense, they sent me an updated version via E-mail (using
|
||
GEnie's "File-mail" option). Why on earth they don't ask for a private
|
||
library in A2Pro is beyond me, but at least Vitesse is doing something.
|
||
|
||
DOCUMENTATION The documentation is fair. It gets points for being clear.
|
||
""""""""""""" Its overview tells you the history of faxing--beginning in
|
||
1843--in two pages, which is nice, but largely irrelevant.
|
||
|
||
One big problem is that the manual is organized from the point of
|
||
view of a programmer--introduction, installation, NDA, printer driver,
|
||
status dialog, and technical support--rather than a user--creating a fax,
|
||
sending a fax, receiving a fax, printing, viewing, address book, and so on.
|
||
Chapter 5, The FAXination Status Dialog, provides an important clue to
|
||
"what's wrong with this picture". It has just four paragraphs (three of
|
||
which are one sentence long). The first paragraph is this self-evident
|
||
sentence: "The FAXination status dialog is simply a dialog that indicates
|
||
that status of a transmission." Apparently, a equals a! I think they call
|
||
this the reflexive axiom, fellas. This would be the ideal point to list
|
||
the possible messages in the dialog (particularly since this reviewer got
|
||
to see only two, "Dialing" and "Establishing Connection").
|
||
|
||
Overall, though, the manual is adequate. To its great credit, it
|
||
only puns on "fax/facts" once.
|
||
|
||
SUMMARY FAXination doesn't work, at least not for me. No way, nohow.
|
||
""""""" This is almost certainly because it was released too soon.
|
||
Notice that the version number, 0.1.5, indicates a pre-release version.
|
||
(Version 0.1.6 has been released by now, but I've heard no word of version
|
||
1.0.)
|
||
|
||
Because I wasn't able to get FAXination either to receive or send a
|
||
fax, it's difficult for me to comment on it in detail. Others have
|
||
reported limited success, but I have not heard anyone say they got it to
|
||
work, first crack out of the box. (Indeed, a friend of mine also bought
|
||
FAXination, and has had no luck getting it to work with his IIgs and his
|
||
LineLink 144e modem.)
|
||
|
||
I recommend you wait for a stable and reliable version of FAXination
|
||
before buying. If you're the adventuresome type and would like to give
|
||
FAXination a try, I'll see you my copy, bundled with the Aspen 14.4 modem,
|
||
for less than half price. No kidding.
|
||
|
||
RATING
|
||
""""""
|
||
(_|_) It is with some reluctance that I award FAXination the
|
||
(o o) GEnieLamp Turkey Award, and a rating of 0 out of 5 points.
|
||
()v() I know that programmer Steven McQueen has worked hard on
|
||
_| |_ FAXination. When I asked Vitesse for help, I found them to
|
||
\(( ))/ be very easy to get along with.
|
||
q( ~ ~ )p
|
||
\ ~ / Nevertheless, I cannot in good conscience give
|
||
|~| FAXination a better score. I tried my absolute best to make
|
||
^ ^ it work, and I cannot. What a computer newcomer would do if
|
||
(0 out of 5) faced with FAXination is not something I care to consider.
|
||
|
||
Let's hope that Vitesse gets a really reliable version 1.0 of
|
||
FAXination to market before word of mouth completely destroys the
|
||
reputation of this piece of software. Come on, guys, you can do it!
|
||
|
||
RATING SYSTEM
|
||
"""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
5 LAMPS.........What? You haven't bought this program YET?
|
||
4 LAMPS.........Innovative or feature-rich; take a look!
|
||
3 LAMPS.........Good execution, stable program.
|
||
2 LAMPS.........Gets the job done.
|
||
1 LAMP..........A marginal program.
|
||
0 ..............GEnieLamp Turkey Award!
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
[EOA]
|
||
[PRO]//////////////////////////////
|
||
PROFILES /
|
||
/////////////////////////////////
|
||
Who's Who In Apple II
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
by Charlie Hartley
|
||
[A2.CHARLIE]
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> WHO'S WHO? <<<
|
||
""""""""""""""""""
|
||
~ GEnieLamp Profile: John Van Dam, a/k/a Froggie ~
|
||
|
||
This month we are featuring John Van Dam, a frequent visitor to the
|
||
Apple II RoundTable Bulletin Board. John is better known as Froggie, and
|
||
all of us in the bulletin board enjoy his ASCII art signatures immensely.
|
||
|
||
Although Froggie has been visiting the bulletin board for less than a
|
||
year, he has made his presence felt with timely tips and advice in a wide
|
||
range of subjects. We feel certain that you will enjoy this interview.
|
||
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> John, you are known online for your unique ASCII art
|
||
""""""""" signatures depicting a frog. What made you decide to use this
|
||
signature?
|
||
_ _
|
||
(o)-(o)
|
||
( _ ) In my first grade class in school, there were FIVE
|
||
__ooo_)_____(_ooo__ boys named John in the same room, so a nickname
|
||
""""""""""""""""""" seemed imperative when I logged on to GEnie. I had
|
||
to change my GEnie address because I was assigned J.VANDAM. One of my
|
||
major peeves has always been that there MUST be a space in "Van Dam" and
|
||
this has been a major battle over the years. :-( I realized that I needed
|
||
to do this before I started posting, to avoid later confusion.
|
||
|
||
I work at frogdesign, inc and everybody who works there are known
|
||
affectionally as "frogs". Even earlier, in high school my changing, often
|
||
croaking voice, blonde hair and glasses led to the appellation "froggie"
|
||
after the famous member of Our Gang. My choice of address was fairly easy
|
||
with that history. Online communication has an inherent tendency to be
|
||
terse and impersonal, so I wanted something that would help define the tone
|
||
of my messages. I had no idea if I could even make an ASCII frog, but I
|
||
gave it a go one night. He seemed kinda cute, so I began posting him in my
|
||
messages despite online concerns about using elaborate sigs. I wasn't sure
|
||
how elaborate was too elaborate. The frog was greeted kindly, and has
|
||
apparently gained his own fan club of sorts. Someone actually said that I
|
||
didn't post him often enough :-)
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> Your frogs have certainly caught on in the Apple II Bulletin
|
||
""""""""" Board. We will feature some of them throughout this article.
|
||
|
||
Are computers a part of your daytime job? Please tell us a little
|
||
about what you do between 9 and 5.
|
||
_ _
|
||
(o)-(o)
|
||
( _ ) I use several platforms at work. Macs, PeeCees, SGIs
|
||
__ooo_)_____(_ooo__ (Unix), and two different machine tool controllers.
|
||
""""""""""""""""""" I am a professional modelmaker for a leading
|
||
industrial design firm. It is a German company which was contracted by
|
||
Steve Jobs at Apple to create a design language for them, starting with the
|
||
IIc. We did the NeXT computer, the new Packard Bell design, Motorola
|
||
Envoy, ATT/EO personal communicator, and a new design language for a PeeCee
|
||
company that should make quite a splash when it's released very soon.
|
||
Everything I work on is very confidential, so it's good that I'm =not= a
|
||
PeeCee user in the IBM RT, or I'd be biting my tongue all the time. Ouch!
|
||
|
||
I've built models ranging from toothbrushes to supercomputers, and
|
||
everything in between, usually full-size. I usually build appearance
|
||
models (that is, no electronics, etc), but I also make working models and
|
||
prototypes. Most people don't realize my profession exists, which in a way
|
||
is a nice compliment. The public sees models all the time without
|
||
realizing it. The pictures found on product packaging are usually photos
|
||
of models for two reasons: 1) The models look better, being hand-made for
|
||
that purpose rather than mass-produced; 2) If they waited until the product
|
||
came off the assembly line to photograph it, then print up the boxes, then
|
||
put the product in the boxes, THEN ship it, production schedules would be a
|
||
nightmare.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> What caused you to go into modelmaking?
|
||
"""""""""
|
||
_ _
|
||
(o)-(o)
|
||
( ,_, ) Good question... most of the modelmakers I know
|
||
__ooo_)_____(_ooo__ started out in a different vocation. I trained as a
|
||
""""""""""""""""""" drafter and found out about modelmaking when an
|
||
instructer from another college gave a slide presentation to my drafting
|
||
class. I immediately realized I was heading the wrong way... I didn't want
|
||
just to draw the parts, I wanted to build the parts. It seems obvious in
|
||
retrospect, because object visualization was what had always intrigued me.
|
||
An idea is the spark, but bringing that ideal form into reality is the
|
||
challenge.
|
||
|
||
Modelmaking provides that in a big way. It is a renaissance art,
|
||
involving design, materials science, fabrication, purchasing, color
|
||
matching, painting, etc. In my field, which is basically R&D modelmaking,
|
||
we rarely make more than one of whatever we're building. Every project is
|
||
radically different, and the deadline is usually less than two weeks,
|
||
sometimes two hours, often at a moment's notice. This goes well with my
|
||
short attention span and the urge to be doing several different things at
|
||
once :-)
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> What sorts of things do you like to do for fun (i.e.
|
||
""""""""" non-computer hobbies)?
|
||
|
||
Froggie> I like to design and build furniture, I love good food and
|
||
""""""" microbrewed beer, and I'm a big Star Trek fan, but not
|
||
necessarily in that order.
|
||
_____)))))
|
||
___ (6)-(6)
|
||
Warp Factor II! ___ ( _, )
|
||
______ooo_)_____(_ooo
|
||
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> What is your favorite Star Trek episode/movie? Why?
|
||
"""""""""
|
||
|
||
Froggie> That's a tough one. There are so many great ones, I'd almost
|
||
""""""" have to pick one for every character...
|
||
|
||
If I had to choose one, I think it would be DARMOK (season 5, episode
|
||
2). This episode takes place at El'A'Drel where Picard encounters Captain
|
||
Dathon, member of a race whose language is metaphoric in structure.
|
||
"Darmok and Jelad at Tanagra" refers to mythical characters who meet at a
|
||
place called Tanagra, fight a common foe, and become good friends. Captain
|
||
Dathon is hoping the same will happen between him and Picard.
|
||
|
||
This episode shows the Enterprise crew struggling with the Starfleet
|
||
database, trying to locate and make sense of the historical archives,
|
||
something every GEnie A2 user can appreciate. I've always been fascinated
|
||
with different forms of communication, whether it is in the form of
|
||
drawings, other languages, secret codes, and this episode illustrates the
|
||
struggle to impart the internal imagery one has to another person very
|
||
effectively, IMHO.
|
||
|
||
I also appreciated that in DARMOK, the bridge crew suffers a critical
|
||
misunderstanding of the situation, and in trying to rescue Picard, may have
|
||
contributed to the demise of poor Captain Dathon. Even Picard wasn't
|
||
getting any breaks this time. After saving the universe with seconds to
|
||
spare on countless occasions, it was refreshing to see the Enterprise crew
|
||
baffled throughout the encounter, with only a glimmer of understanding at
|
||
the end of the episode.
|
||
|
||
___\\\\\\\
|
||
___ (o)-(o)\
|
||
ENGAGE! ___ ( _, )
|
||
______ooo_)_____(_ooo
|
||
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> How did you first get interested in the Apple II computer?
|
||
"""""""""
|
||
|
||
Froggie> About 1983, I went to a party and the host had an Apple II. I
|
||
""""""" remember playing Castle Wolfenstein on it. The seed was
|
||
planted, though I didn't realize it at the time. About 1986, my sister's
|
||
boyfriend at the time was the son of an Apple engineer, and they had a IIc
|
||
system at their house. When I went to visit them, she did an Appleworks
|
||
demo for me. Then she showed me this dungeon game which displayed a
|
||
perspective view down the corridor. I spent the weekend playing that game.
|
||
Still, I resisted.
|
||
|
||
Then I became a modelmaker and saw a CNC mill which cut really cool
|
||
shapes by computer and I discovered that computers can give a person the
|
||
freedom to accomplish things that would otherwise be impossible or
|
||
impractical, and I finally got the computing bug. One day, I asked my boss
|
||
if I could buy one of the IIc computers that were in storage. She said
|
||
they were needed for the archives, and instead just gave me a IIe system.
|
||
I was elated! Later I came to appreciate that the IIe was the right choice
|
||
for me. Now I can't imagine owning a computer without lots of slots :-)
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> Do you have any anecdotes you can share with us about your
|
||
""""""""" first experiences with the Apple II?
|
||
|
||
Froggie> That first IIe ignited my latent hacker tendencies. I quickly
|
||
""""""" learned that it was a rev. A motherboard in a prototype IIe
|
||
case. After a logic board upgrade, I was set. Until the gremlins hit.
|
||
One day, while playing Montezuma, my poor little guy just kept jumping up
|
||
and down uncontrollably. Hmmm, joystick? Nope. It also happened without
|
||
any joystick attached. Later, using Yo-Yo Duck [utilities], I discovered
|
||
quite by accident that if I lifted the front of the IIe an inch or two, the
|
||
"button" would stop being pressed. I took it to the dealer, they scratched
|
||
their heads, swapped the board for free, and the problem remained. I was
|
||
bummed. No games!!??
|
||
|
||
By this time I had gotten a second IIe for my daughter, so I took
|
||
them both apart and began swapping components determined to find and fix
|
||
the problem. I was on my own now. Even the dealer couldn't help me. I
|
||
finally discovered that the power supply was going bad. I replaced the
|
||
power supply and the joystick button problem was fixed. It was then I
|
||
learned that computers aren't cold, calculating, unfeeling machines. They
|
||
are talented, twisted, and need to be nurtured and understood for the
|
||
relationship to be successful. Now I have two IIgs computers, and our
|
||
whole family loves them. They are part of the family. I'd sell my cats
|
||
before I'd sell my GSes.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> Describe your current hardware setup for us.
|
||
"""""""""
|
||
,,,,,
|
||
(b)-(d)
|
||
( _, ) We've got two "Woz" ROM 01 IIgs computers at home.
|
||
__ooo_)_____(_ooo__ They both have RamFAST SCSI cards. The main GS has a
|
||
""""""""""""""""""" 240MB and a 40MB hard drive, 2x CD-ROM drive,
|
||
Bluedisk with two 1.44meg drives, one Apple 3.5 drive, one Apple IIc 5.25
|
||
drive, extended keyboard, TurboMouse, System Saver, 4.25MB RAM, ZIP 8/64,
|
||
Soundmeister hooked up to my stereo system, Grappler+ parallel interface
|
||
hooked to a DeskJet 500c inkjet printer, and a 15" SVGA monitor w/Second
|
||
Sight card.
|
||
|
||
The other GS has a 20MB hard drive, Quickie scanner, 1.75MB RAM,1 MB
|
||
Ramfactor, RGB monitor, standard keyboard, TurboMouse, and lots of room for
|
||
expansion. I'm planning on getting a Bluedisk setup for this GS, and I've
|
||
also got my eye on one of those new Syquests.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> What do you see as the future for the Apple II and its owners?
|
||
"""""""""
|
||
|
||
Froggie> I feel that the Apple II is a mirror of its owner. The whole
|
||
""""""" concept of the Apple II is adaptability, versatility, and
|
||
expandability. The sky was the limit and still is.... We went to the moon
|
||
using computers less powerful than the IIgs, yet the true limits of the
|
||
Apple II are defined by our own limitations. I think the success/failure
|
||
of products like Second Sight and BlueDisk will say a lot about the future
|
||
of the Apple II. Are we willing to take risks, adapt and find new and
|
||
innovative uses for our computers, or do we just want to play it safe?
|
||
|
||
To me, the Apple II is like a classic roadster. You really need to
|
||
know what's going on under the hood, and the local dealer isn't going to be
|
||
much help beyond trying to sell you a new [computer]. You need to find
|
||
fellow enthusiasts who share your interest, where you can benefit from
|
||
others experience and likewise offer assistance. It may not be the newest,
|
||
the fastest, or the most expensive, but the ride is an unforgettable
|
||
experience, the distillation of a moment in time when an assembly of parts
|
||
becomes pure poetry in motion. Can you imagine someone telling you to give
|
||
up your '36 coupe and buy a new Lexus? You might end up with both, but
|
||
give up the coupe... never!
|
||
__________ _ _ __________
|
||
| (o)-(o) |
|
||
| IIGS ( _, ) FEVER | The Apple II is a classic design.
|
||
|______ooo_)_____(_ooo______| Computers just haven't been around long
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" enough for many people to realize it yet.
|
||
Right now, it's just old. My dad still talks about the classic cars he has
|
||
owned, wishing he had kept them. My Apple II is one classic that isn't
|
||
going to get away!
|
||
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> Can you offer some advice about software and hardware that a
|
||
""""""""" new Apple II user might want to invest in? What do you have
|
||
and use?
|
||
|
||
Froggie> Get a hard drive, and software to manage it. I've got
|
||
""""""" ProSel-16, Universe Master, UtilityWorks and I also want to get
|
||
the Salvation series by Vitesse. One utility just can't do it all, but
|
||
together they've saved me on countless occasions. A modem and a GEnie
|
||
account are a must. I sure could have used a lot of help when I first
|
||
started out, and all of that assistance is available right here in A2!
|
||
System 6.0.1 is another requirement. I would also recommend a Softdisk
|
||
subscription, and for IIgs users a GS+ magazine/disk subscription. A lot
|
||
of people seem to think it's only for programmers, but they've produced
|
||
some absolutely indispensible programs, whatever the skill level. Oh, and
|
||
get a fan like a Kensington System Saver to keep your system cool and
|
||
long-lasting. Beyond that, whatever you can afford... there is a lot of
|
||
great stuff available, it just depends on your interests.
|
||
|
||
YAHOO!!
|
||
|
||
|||||||
|
||
(@)-(@)
|
||
( O )
|
||
______OOO_)_____(_OOO______
|
||
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> Have you done any Apple II programming?
|
||
"""""""""
|
||
|
||
Froggie> I've done some Applesoft BASIC programming. For the last three
|
||
""""""" years, though, I've concentrated my programming efforts at work,
|
||
content to enjoy my GS purely as a user. I've done some code-snooping and
|
||
byte twiddling, but I've finally succumbed to my IIgs programming urges.
|
||
|
||
I've acquired ORCA/M and ORCA/C, now I just have to take the time to
|
||
learn them. I probably wouldn't even try if I didn't know that A2Pro is
|
||
just next door ;-)
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> How do your children use computers?
|
||
"""""""""
|
||
,,,,,
|
||
(d)-(d) My 9 year-old daughter Brandy loves to compose
|
||
( ,_, ) stories using EGOed, and she likes drawing
|
||
___ooo_)_____(_ooo___ pictures with DreamGrafix. Of course, games are
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""" also popular. My 4 year-old son Isaac loves to
|
||
draw on the computer, as well. Most games are still pretty frustrating for
|
||
him, but he likes tic-tac-toe and concentration. Mostly he's interested in
|
||
how the computer works. I think I've got a born hacker on my hands. I
|
||
knew I was in trouble a little over a year ago when he showed me his hand
|
||
puppet. I asked about a rectanglar object he had drawn on the front of it.
|
||
"That's his hard drive" was the immediate reply. = :-()
|
||
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> How long have you been a member of GEnie? What new services
|
||
""""""""" do you think GEnie should provide its subscribers?
|
||
|
||
\|||||/ I signed up on Stardate 9411.14, so that's makes
|
||
(o)-(o) nine months now.
|
||
( O )
|
||
______ooo_)_____(_ooo______
|
||
|
||
I'm just scratching the surface of what is already provided :-) How
|
||
about official 14.4 connects, and more comprehensive Internet access.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> Where do you see the future of telecommunications moving in
|
||
""""""""" the next five to ten years?
|
||
|
||
)) There is a lot of hype about telecommunications in
|
||
(( general, and the Internet in particular, but my
|
||
(%)-(%) interest is in the everyday effects. Being online
|
||
( _ ) gives you an immediacy and a reach which makes
|
||
___ooo_) (_ooo___ it seem very unnatural to be distant and dis-
|
||
fried frog connected. I think soon not being online will
|
||
be like not having a television.
|
||
|
||
I see the dream of the "information appliance" really coming true in
|
||
the next 5-10 years, where people who wouldn't dream of buying a computer
|
||
today will be studying the recipes from the cooking show they just
|
||
downloaded on the TV/computer/mailbox/etc that's sitting on the kitchen
|
||
counter, so they can whip it up in time for dinner.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> How can the Apple II Roundtable be improved to serve you
|
||
""""""""" better?
|
||
|
||
Froggie> The main thing I would like to see is more lurkers participating
|
||
""""""" in A2. With any endeavor, you only really get out of it in
|
||
proportion to what you put into it, so the more participation from A2
|
||
users, the more we all benefit from it...
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> What one piece of advice would you pass along to a new
|
||
""""""""" Apple II telecommunications enthusiast?
|
||
|
||
Froggie> Get an offline navigator! Before I started using one, I found
|
||
""""""" it difficult to keep track of topic threads, I was reluctant to
|
||
post because of the effort involved, and archiving was a chore. Now I
|
||
frequent four RTs daily and my wife visits another RT as well, using
|
||
CoPilot. I still log on manually to explore new areas, but the lion's
|
||
share is done offline.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> What do you consider your proudest accomplishment?
|
||
"""""""""
|
||
|
||
Froggie> Hmmmm, I don't really think that way... I'd say my two children,
|
||
""""""" but they're not finished yet ;-)
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> Who do you look up to as your mentors?
|
||
"""""""""
|
||
|
||
Froggie> Jesus Christ. My parents. I'm a big fan of Bucky Fuller.
|
||
""""""" Other than that, I try to learn from everyone I can.
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> Well, I think I can safely say that folks in the Apple II
|
||
""""""""" bulletin board have learned a few things from you as well.
|
||
|
||
Froggie, this has been an enjoyable experience for me. I know that
|
||
our readers will enjoy it just as much as I have.
|
||
_ _
|
||
(o)-(o)
|
||
___(@ _, @)___ Thank you for having me here.
|
||
o| Oh, Gawrsh! |o
|
||
8| ::blush:: |8
|
||
'^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^'
|
||
|
||
GEnieLamp> Here are some more of Froggie's ASCII art frogs for you to
|
||
""""""""" enjoy.
|
||
|
||
_ _
|
||
(9)-(9)
|
||
( ,_, )
|
||
<O<O>O>
|
||
__ooo(_______)ooo__
|
||
~~~~~\^/~~~\^/~~~~~
|
||
froggie
|
||
|
||
|
||
This is my wife's signature on the FOOD RT:
|
||
|
||
:froggietta (m)-(m)
|
||
( _, )
|
||
*)._.(*
|
||
|
||
|
||
\|||||||/ Oh no, it's the TOPIC COP!
|
||
(+)-(+)
|
||
( O )
|
||
____OOO_)_____(_OOO____
|
||
|
||
_ _
|
||
(o)-(o)
|
||
( _, )
|
||
ooo_) (_ooo
|
||
|
||
_ _
|
||
(o)-(^)
|
||
( _, ) My motto: NO RISK, NO FUN!
|
||
______ooo_)_____(_ooo______
|
||
|
||
_ _
|
||
(o)-(o) __________ _ _ __________
|
||
( ___ ) | GS+ (o)-(o) since |
|
||
___ooo_)_____(_ooo___ | reader ( _, ) V3.N5 |
|
||
| KANSASFEST | |______ooo_)_____(_ooo______|
|
||
| OR BUST! |
|
||
"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"
|
||
_ _
|
||
(o)-(o)
|
||
______ooo_( _, )_ooo______
|
||
| GS+ subscriber since V3.N5 |
|
||
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
|
||
_ _
|
||
(p)-(q)
|
||
( ___ )
|
||
______ooo_)_____(_ooo______
|
||
(~)-(~)
|
||
( _, )
|
||
______ooo_)_____(_ooo______
|
||
|
||
(+)-(+)
|
||
( ___ ) *@#$=^&%!!
|
||
______ooo_)_____(_ooo______
|
||
|
||
__________ _ _ __________
|
||
| (o)-(o) | (^)-(^)
|
||
| ( o ) | ( _, )
|
||
|______ooo_)_____(_ooo______| ______ooo_)_____(_ooo______
|
||
|
||
_ _
|
||
(*)-(*)
|
||
( ___ ) MANUAL! I don't need no STEENKING MANUAL!
|
||
______ooo_)_____(_ooo______
|
||
|
||
__________ _ _ __________
|
||
| (=)-(=) | _ _
|
||
| ( __ ) | (+)-(+)
|
||
|______ooo_)_____(_ooo______| ( __ ')
|
||
______ooo_)_____(_ooo_____
|
||
|
||
(*)-(*)
|
||
( ___ )
|
||
______ooo_)_____(_ooo______
|
||
|
||
(~)-(~)
|
||
( <@> )
|
||
______ooo_)_____(_ooo______
|
||
_ _
|
||
(p)-(q)
|
||
( '___ ')
|
||
___ooo_)_____(_ooo___
|
||
|
||
I have not yet begun to fight...
|
||
|
||
(~)______________________
|
||
|| _ _ |
|
||
|| (X)-(o) |
|
||
|| ( ___ ) |
|
||
|| _)_____(_ |
|
||
||______________________|
|
||
|| Jolly Frogger
|
||
||
|
||
__________ _ _ __________
|
||
| (o)-(o) |
|
||
| ( __ ') | II INFINITUM
|
||
|______ooo_)_____(_ooo______|
|
||
|
||
[*][*][*]
|
||
|
||
|
||
A note to our readers: If you want to know more about a particular
|
||
person and want him/her to be interviewed for the GEnieLamp A2 profile
|
||
column, send E-mail to A2.CHARLIE or EDITOR.A2 and we'll see what we can
|
||
do. In your E-mail message, tell why you think this person is a good
|
||
candidate for the profile.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
[EOA]
|
||
[PNL]//////////////////////////////
|
||
PAUG NEWSLETTER /
|
||
/////////////////////////////////
|
||
September 1995 Report
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
by David R. Kerwood
|
||
[D.KERWOOD]
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
The mission of the Planetary Apple User's Group (PAUG) is to serve as
|
||
the online heart of the worldwide Apple II Community. PAUG's goals include
|
||
providing help and support for folks who may not have a local group nearby,
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and to create a virtual link between both the online and offline user group
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community. PAUG sponsorship of an online user group is focused on
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promoting the fact that the Apple II is still alive, and doing very well.
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There _is_ support; PAUG can provide it, or help you find it! We
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meet the third Sunday of every month at 7:00 P.M. Eastern in the Apple II
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RoundTable Real Time Conference area. With no dues to pay or miles to
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drive, PAUG offers the Apple II user a friendly and comfortable association
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with others with similar computing interests, plenty of accurate
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information, hints, tips, and the security that comes with knowing that you
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have all the computing support you could possibly need right at your
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fingertips. What could be more convenient?
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THE MAIN EVENTS In our last newsletter we briefly described the
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""""""""""""""" history of PAUG, and some of the more significant goings
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on since this virtual user group came about. Since that time, the Apple II
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user community has seen quite a bit of activity, with perhaps one of the
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high points being the KansasFest celebration this past July. If you are
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able to read this newsletter, then you have probably already heard enough
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about KFest to last you till next year, so we won't rehash anything from
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that.
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Central to the philosophy of what this user group should be about
|
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(helping others with similar interests to get the most out of their Apple
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II computers) has been a resurgence of interest in increasing the
|
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capability and utility of these machines. The online PAUG community has
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been right there in the thick of things, testing new setups, reporting
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results and, most importantly, helping others to get the most out of their
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systems. The theme of this edition of the PAUG newsletter will be how we
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have been helping Apple II online users in upgrading, repairing, and
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enhancing their favorite machines, often at an amazingly low cost.
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"YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON AN APPLE II!"? As mentioned above, the KansasFest
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" social festivities were not the only
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thing of interest in the Apple II universe this summer. The hottest things
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happening online have been on the hardware front, with several items of
|
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high interest that have sparked the online and user group communities.
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First among these was that the distribution of Sequential Systems' Second
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Sight VGA video board finally went into high gear. Designed for use on the
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Apple IIgs or IIe, it is an expansion card that allows the use of
|
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relatively inexpensive VGA or Super VGA monitors, or will even accommodate
|
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the standard IIgs Applecolor RGB monitor up to a resolution of 640x400,
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with 256 colors.
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This card has piqued the interest of many, particularly so since many
|
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of the monitors originally purchased for the IIe and IIgs are nearing the
|
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end of their useful lives. So it has arrived upon the scene in just the
|
||
nick of time for many Apple II users, who were getting tired of dim and
|
||
fuzzy displays, or who simply wanted to enhance their existing setups.
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PAUG members (if you have a GEnie account, then YOU are a member!) have
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been most active in buying, installing, testing, and critiquing the various
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ways the Second Sight card can be used. We have forwarded our findings to
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the developers, who are working on a user-installable ROM upgrade to the
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card which will further enhance its already formidable capabilities. Most
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importantly, we have been working with the online community in assisting
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with installation, answering questions, and otherwise providing information
|
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to help the Apple II user make an informed purchasing decision.
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So, if you have a need to know anything and everything about the
|
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Second Sight VGA video card, then drop by during any of our Real Time
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Conferences (RTC) each evening, or read the messages in the Second Sight
|
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topic in the A2 Roundtable, Category 20, Topic 14 (Sequential Systems
|
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Online - Second Sight VGA Card).
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One other bugaboo which has frequently vexed Apple II users has been
|
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the question of what to do with all those disks we keep getting from AOL.
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For many Apple II'ers these disks present limited utility beyond being a
|
||
coaster, due to the fact that they are High Density disks. While it is
|
||
possible to reformat these to the standard 800K floppy, differences in the
|
||
media between regular 800K disks and the 1.44 MByte floppies add some
|
||
additional risk, as far as the integrity of your archived data are
|
||
concerned.
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|
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There have been several solutions to this problem, starting with
|
||
Apple's own high density Superdrive unit. This drives requires an
|
||
additional controller card, which is no longer available from Apple. It
|
||
was recently noted in the A2 Roundtable that another supplier may step in
|
||
to fill this void, that being ABC Direct (800-800-3630). PAUG members have
|
||
been in contact with the CEO, David Hardaway (formerly with Applied
|
||
Engineering, RIP), in an effort to get an ABC Direct presence online in the
|
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A2 RT. We'll keep you informed of any progress.
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|
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Another solution has been offered by our own Joachim Lange
|
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[J.LANGE7@genie.com], with his BlueDisk controller card and a 3.5" HD disk
|
||
drive. This supremely flexible setup not only allows you to read and write
|
||
to high density floppy disks, but will also let you do it using inexpensive
|
||
drives commonly used in the MS-DOS world. Extensively tested and reported
|
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upon by our own Harold Hislop [HAROLD.H@genie.com], the BlueDisk setup has
|
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proved to be just what the doctor ordered for many Apple II users. If you
|
||
want to find out more, then drop by during any RTC, or read the messages in
|
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Category 46, Topic 12 (Independent Hardware Companies Online - BlueDisk
|
||
Card -- ///SHH Systeme).
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In a late breaking and related development, still another solution to
|
||
high density disk capability has been offered by our old friend Chua Lin,
|
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from Tulin Technology. Some years ago, Tulin began shipping a device
|
||
called a Floptical disk drive, a SCSI device that used 21 MByte 3.5" floppy
|
||
disks. As a bonus, the unit also functioned as a high density floppy drive
|
||
as well, bringing 1.44 MByte disk capability to the Apple II. With the
|
||
appropriate file system translators provided in the IIgs system software,
|
||
the Floptical drive allows the IIgs user to utilize both MSDOS and
|
||
Macintosh-format high density disks, in addition to high density disks
|
||
formatted for ProDOS.
|
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|
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The upside to the Floptical drive is that it gives this flexibility
|
||
without taking up a precious slot in the computer. The downside to the
|
||
Floptical drive has always been that they were a bit pricey, however,
|
||
retailing for about $400. Tulin has rectified this handicap, when in
|
||
August 1995 they posted an offer in the A2 Roundtable, announcing the
|
||
availability of refurbished Floptical disk drives for $129! For more
|
||
information, you can contact Tulin at 408-432-9057, or email at
|
||
T.TULIN@genie.com.
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||
|
||
Speaking of disk drives, PAUG members have jumped right in with two
|
||
new affordable removable media SCSI disk drives; the Iomega "Zip" drive, an
|
||
SCSI device that uses unique ejectable 100 MByte disks, and a similar
|
||
device from SyQuest, the EZ 135-Drive, with 135 MByte removable disks. The
|
||
bottom line for both is that they cost in the $200 range, and they both
|
||
work well as Apple II SCSI devices. The popularity and interest in these
|
||
units was enough that we opened a special topic for each in the A2
|
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Roundtable; see Category 21 (Add On II Online), Topic 13 - Iomega ZIP
|
||
Drives, and Topic 14 - SyQuest Drives. In addition, the Zip Drive was
|
||
recently the topic of a Real Time Conference (RTC), and enough valuable
|
||
information was presented that it warranted a special archive of the
|
||
transcript of the RTC. Just download file #25002 (IOMEGA.ZIP.BXY) for the
|
||
whole story. And if you're not familiar with A2 Real Time Conference
|
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sessions, this transcript will give you a good idea of what the RTCs are
|
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all about!
|
||
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WHAT'S NEW IN GENIE'S A2 ROUNDTABLE? In keeping with the theme of
|
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" this edition of the newsletter, we
|
||
are proud to announce that our favorite Topic Cop, Charles Hartley
|
||
[A2.CHARLIE@genie.com], has completed a top to bottom reorganization of the
|
||
A2 Roundtable's buying and selling arena, Category 4 (The A2 Free Trade
|
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Zone). What follows is a breakdown of the topics as they now exist,
|
||
allowing the online Apple II user to quickly and easily find exactly what
|
||
it is they want to buy, or a place to post what they want to sell.
|
||
|
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CATEGORY 4 : The A2 Free Trade Zone (Items For Sale, Items Wanted, Etc.)
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===========================================================================
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No. Subject Msgs Status Author
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1 Guidelines For Posting 2 Closed A2.CHARLIE
|
||
2 General Discussion on Buying & Selling 89 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
3 ...reserved... 1 Clo/Ma A2.CHARLIE
|
||
4 === Used Software For Sale === 1 Clo/Ma A2.CHARLIE
|
||
5 Used 8 Bit Software For Sale 75 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
6 Used 16 Bit Software For Sale 62 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
7 Used CD-ROMs For Sale 6 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
8 Used Software Auctions 12 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
9 ...reserved... 1 Clo/Ma A2.CHARLIE
|
||
10 ...reserved... 1 Clo/Ma A2.CHARLIE
|
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11 === Used Hardware For Sale === 1 Clo/Ma A2.CHARLIE
|
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12 Used Computers For Sale 29 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
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13 Used Monitors For Sale 12 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
14 Used Floppy Drives For Sale 51 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
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15 Used Hard Drives For Sale 37 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
16 Used Tape Drives For Sale 6 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
17 Used CD-ROM Drives For Sale 11 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
18 Used Printers For Sale 39 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
19 Used Modems For Sale 39 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
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20 Used Interface Cards For Sale 43 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
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21 Used RAM Expansion Cards For Sale 19 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
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22 Used Systems/Bundled Items For Sale 36 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
23 Other Used Hardware For Sale 121 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
24 Used Hardware Auctions 15 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
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25 ...reserved... 1 Closed A2.CHARLIE
|
||
26 ...reserved... 1 Closed A2.CHARLIE
|
||
27 Used Books/Periodicals For Sale 58 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
28 ...reserved... 1 Closed A2.CHARLIE
|
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29 === Items Wanted === 1 Closed A2.CHARLIE
|
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30 Software/CD-ROMs Wanted 36 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
31 Hardware Wanted 108 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
32 Books/Periodicals Wanted 1 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
33 Other Items Wanted 8 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
34 ...reserved... 1 Closed A2.CHARLIE
|
||
35 === Vendor Items For Sale === 1 Closed A2.CHARLIE
|
||
36 Vendor Software For Sale 12 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
37 Vendor Hardware For Sale 8 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
38 Vendor Books/Periodicals For Sale 2 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
39 Vendor Products Press Releases 70 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
40 Vendor Re-sellers Only 13 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
41 === Miscellaneous Topics === 1 Closed A2.CHARLIE
|
||
42 Computer Shows and Fairs 1 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
43 Apple /// Hardware And Software 1 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
44 ...reserved... 1 Closed A2.CHARLIE
|
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45 Apple II Product Recommendations 48 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
46 Apple II Vendor Reviews 56 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
47 Apple II Vendor Phone Book 52 Open A2.CHARLIE
|
||
|
||
Charlie's reorganization has worked out well in bringing both sellers
|
||
and buyers together. Of particular interest to many are topics 36 through
|
||
40, where the A2 Roundtable has taken the initiative in inviting our
|
||
favorite resellers online. This is where the announcement of Tulin
|
||
Technology's low cost Floptical Drive offer was made, for example. Another
|
||
new vendor on the scene that has been active in these topics has been Tracy
|
||
Cook of A+ Technologies, whose business is buying used Apple II hardware
|
||
and software by the truckload (literally!), cleaning it up, making sure it
|
||
works, and then offering it for resale to Apple II users worldwide. He has
|
||
been offering some fantastic bargains on hardware and software, some rare
|
||
items, and many which have not been seen for some time. Take a look!
|
||
|
||
IN CONCLUSION Remember, the goal of the Planetary Apple User Group is to
|
||
""""""""""""" be _your_ primary Apple II resource! If you have any
|
||
suggestions, insights, or ways to help us help you...let us know! Future
|
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plans include working with groups on the "outside" to create a stronger
|
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bond within the Apple II community. Just email C.ADAMS11@genie.com or
|
||
A2.GENA@genie.com, or if you are already online with GEnie (good move!)
|
||
make a post in Category 3, Topic 34 (Planetary Apple Users Group) in the A2
|
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Roundtable Bulletin Board (m645;1).
|
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