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~ SOFTVIEW A2: GraphicWriter III v2.0 update ~
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~ FOCUS ON...: The Apple Blossom and Juiced.GS ~
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>>> WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE APPLE II ROUNDTABLE? <<<
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~ April 1, 1996 ~
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FROM MY DESKTOP ......... [FRM] FROM MY MAILBOX ......... [MAI]
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Notes From The Editor. Letters To The Editor.
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HEY MISTER POSTMAN ...... [HEY] HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM]
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Is That A Letter For Me? You Know You've Been on Genie.
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FOCUS ON... ............. [FOC] PD_QUICKVIEW ............ [PDQ]
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The Apple Blossom & Juiced.GS. In The Breach of Centuries.
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FILE BANDWAGON .......... [BAN] THE ONLINE LIBRARY ...... [LIB]
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Top 10 Files for February. February Arrivals on Genie.
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SOFTVIEW A2 ............. [SOF] LOG OFF ................. [LOG]
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GraphicWriter III v2.0. GEnieLamp Information.
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[IDX]""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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READING GENIELAMP GenieLamp has incorporated a unique indexing system
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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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//////////////////////////////////////// Genie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
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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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>>> NEW WAYS TO READ GENIELAMP A2 <<<
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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Last month, GenieLamp A2 was published in two new formats: HyperCard
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and HyperStudio stacks. The response has been terrific! We've been
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worried about losing readership through the change in Genie's rates. We
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needn't have worried. The March 1996 issue of Genielamp A2 was the second
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most popular since we introduced an Apple II-specific version two years
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ago!
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The AppleWorks word processor file and standard text file versions
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continue to be popular, and they're both here to stay. So those of you
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with classic Apple II's needn't worry. But now IIgs users have a choice of
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a stack version as well.
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Joshua Calvin's GenieLamp HyperCard stack is a marvel. It takes a
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standard text file version of GenieLamp and _automatically_ converts it to
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a HyperCard stack--creating a contents page on the fly!--in less than five
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minutes. Just click on a file, wait a bit, and you're done. Josh's stack
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doesn't just work on the current month's GenieLamp A2. It will work on
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back issues, and it will work on GenieLamp A2Pro, GenieLamp Mac, GenieLamp
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PPC... on any edition of GenieLamp that's available as a text file. If
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you'd like to pat Josh on the back, here's his Genie mail address:
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J.CALVIN.
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For those of you who don't want to convert a textfile into a
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HyperCard stack, we'll be providing a pre-converted stack. The conversion
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is done, so you don't have to wait--just download and enjoy!
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What does the HyperCard version offer that you can't find in the
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standard text versions? It offers an index page, so that you can click on
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the articles you want to read in the order you want to read them. It
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offers a find function, so you can search for a specific word or phrase.
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If you don't have HyperCard IIgs, you can get it! Visit the A2Pro
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(NOTE: A2_Pro_) RoundTable libraries on Genie page 530;3 and download file
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#3900. A hard drive is seriously recommended if you want to run HyperCard
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IIgs; the HyperCard program takes up almost 600K of a 800K disk.
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If you don't have a hard drive, may we interest you in our new
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HyperStudio version? You don't have to own HyperStudio in order to use
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this new version--just download file #24732: HS3.1RJ.BXY
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The HyperStudio version of GenieLamp A2 also offers you an index page
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(like the HyperCard version) so that you can read the articles you want in
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the order you want to read them. There are a few little goodies like
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animated buttons and pretty pictures and sub-menus, but basically we've
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kept the HyperStudio stack very simple. This is for two reasons. The
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first is that if we add too many bells and whistles, this version will
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become a _big_ download. The second is that we have very little time to
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produce a HyperStudio version (and it's not automatic, like the HyperCard
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version), so we need something that will require almost no changes from
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month to month.
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There's an extra goodies in this month's HyperStudio version (I'll
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see if I can figure out how to add it to the HyperCard version, too)--a
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comic strip! Gwendel [Genie mail: SAMWISE] draws and writes a strip
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called Hog Heaven--check it out and let us know if you'd like it to become
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a regular feature.
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Here's what some of you have said about the new hyper-versions of
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GenieLamp A2:
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"A really nice job..."
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"Four Stars!"
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"I =love= the new HyperStudio version of GenieLamp A2."
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"I hope to continue to see both versions."
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"...it's very well designed right down to the neat graphics and
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animated buttons."
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"Nice graphics and interface."
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"...outstanding! I can think of no negatives."
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I'm pretty sure you'll be impressed with our new hyper-editions, too!
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Why not download one? Heck, download both. We don't mind at all.
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[*][*][*]
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In last month's editorial, I echoed the often-heard hope that Genie's
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new management would come up with a billing plan for those of us who cannot
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afford a minimum charge of $18.95 a month (or $23.95 if you're a new
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member). This month, thank goodness, Genie has done just that.
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The new GenieLite option costs just $7.95/month. This method of
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subscribing offers 5 free hours of E-mail use. There are no free
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RoundTable hours whatsoever, but it should be a good deal if you only visit
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RoundTables occasionally--say two hours' worth a month.
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Also, you now have the ability to switch your current Genie account
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to a new subscription plan. Just type the keyword BILL or SET and choose
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option 5 from the menu. Then just follow the prompts!
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-- Doug Cuff
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Genie Mail: EDITOR.A2 Internet: editor.a2@genie.com
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| REPRINTING GENIELAMP |
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[EOA]
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[MAI]//////////////////////////////
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FROM MY MAILBOX /
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Letters To The Editor
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TIMEOUT SHRINKIT-PLUS In the Jan '96 GenieLamp [A2], you mentioned
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""""""""""""""""""""" TimeOut ShrinkIt v5. I have looked for this update
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on all the ftp sites and can't find it anywhere. Can you please suggest a
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place to locate it or perhaps a place to find more information on what new
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features it has? Thank you very much.....
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Brian Wiser
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brwiser@xmission.com
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The reason you can't find TimeOut ShrinkIt-Plus v5 on any ftp
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sites is that it is only available commercially.
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As I mentioned in the November 1995 issue of GEnieLamp A2, you
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can upgrade your v4.x copy of TimeOut ShrinkIt-Plus to v5.x for
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$5.00 plus $2.50 shipping and handling. You can also purchase
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the package new for $29.95 plus $2.50 shipping and handling:
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Office Productivity Software
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P.O. Box 2132
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LaGrange, GA 30241-2132
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E-mail: d.gum@genie.com
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As of 20 March, EGO Systems also carries the full line of Office
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Productivity Software's AppleWorks utilities, including TimeOut
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ShrinkIt-Plus. (See this month's HEY MISTER POSTMAN.) TimeOut
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ShrinkIt-Plus requires AppleWorks v4.0.1 or later and is
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available on 3.5-inch disks only.
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EGO Systems
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7918 Cove Ridge Road
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Hixson, TN 37343
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phone orders: 800-662-3634 (9 am to 5 pm Eastern Time)
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phone inquiries: 423-843-1775 (9 am to 5 pm Eastern Time)
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fax: 423-843-0661 (24 hours a day)
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e-mail: GSPlusDiz@aol.com
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diz@genie.com
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EGO Systems also charges $29.95, plus $3.00 shipping and
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handling. EGO Systems accepts Visa and MasterCard for phone or
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fax orders, plus checks or money orders through the mail.--DGC
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MACLEAN'S DOS 3.3 LAUNCHER G'day Doug,
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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Just a followup on the March A2 GenieLamp:
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DOS33.LNCHR.BXY This program lets you install DOS 3.3 programs--or entire
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""""""""""""""" disks--on your ProDOS hard disk or on 3.5-inch disks.
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You can then launch these DOS 3.3 programs via your favourite program
|
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launcher. This unofficial release (v2.1) supposedly supports networks.
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Daniel Pfarrer assembled this version from the remains of the source code
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on programmer John MacLean's hard disk.
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-----
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The last sentence of this description is factually incorrect. How
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this sentence actually came to be created is really intriguing, I'd really
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like to know....
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I am the person responsible for assembling v2.1. I have John's
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actual hard disk and his actual source code (not remains). I have no idea
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who Daniel Pfarrer is.
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I believe Richard Bennett has written to the A2 Librarians to try and
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correct the file description and the text file addition to the archive.
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I would appreciate it if you could correct the description in an
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upcoming GenieLamp after it has been corrected by the A2 Librarians.
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I spoke to John MacLean recently. He has given his permission for a
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lot of the contents of his hard drive to be distributed for the benefit of
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others. There's some very interesting source code on the drive, some
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finished, some unfinished. The unfinished code includes a PROLOG
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interpreter and an HardPressed(Tm)-type utility. The finished code
|
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includes a LISP interpreter and a personal expense tracker.
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I'll be making the contents available as I find the time.
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The first release, inspired by the mixup with Dos 3.3 Launcher v2.1,
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is...
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An official Dos 3.3 Launcher v2.2, which now can be launched on an
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Apple IIgs from ProDOS, and which can now launch 'disk images' (used by
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Apple II emulators) of Dos 3.3 disks.
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Regards,
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Andrew Roughan
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posty@triode.apana.org.au
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Thanks for the correction, Andrew! My faces is pretty red, but
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I'm afraid I cannot answer your question about how the
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description was written. I was responsible for uploading the
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ersatz DOS 3.3 Launcher v2.1 to Genie, but I obtained it from
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CompuServe over a year ago, and the description I used was based
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on the file description in the CompuServe libraries. Sorry to
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have to pass the buck on this one, but it's really all I know.
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I spotted a posting from Daniel Pfarrer on the Usenet newsgroup
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comp.sys.apple2 recently, and asked him if he could shed any
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light on the puzzle. Here's his reply:
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"Yea, I remember uploading this to CIS a long time ago. No, I
|
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did NOT assemble this version from the remains of the source code
|
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on programmer John MacLean's hard disk. I got it from the
|
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Washington Apple Pi (when I was a member a few years ago) and
|
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just uploaded it to CIS. I have no A2 programming skills
|
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what-so-ever, with the exception of basic and metal (from the bbs
|
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prog)....
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"I just logged on to CIS to get a copy of this program, and it
|
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appears that someone has tampered the orig. file description I
|
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entered many years ago, so I'm going to bug the file admins of
|
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the APPUSER forum on CIS and try to get it fixed."
|
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Likewise, I am sending copies of your letter and Pfarrer's
|
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letter to the A2 RoundTable librarian in hopes of getting Genie's
|
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file description fixed. I'm sorry to have contributed to the
|
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confusion over this file.--DGC
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TIMEMASTER II CLOCK CARD WANTED I have been reading the GEnieLamp [A2]
|
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" and was wondering if it is possible to
|
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find out if an AE TimeMaster II H.O. is being offered for sale. Since I am
|
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in Japan, I can't get into your trading area. I would pay with a U.S.
|
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check and would have it sent to my parents home in Calif. Thanks for any
|
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help you might be able to give.
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Jack Sonnabaum
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Tokyo, Japan
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jsonnaba@asij.ac.jp
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Being a member has its benefits. I guess one of the benefits
|
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being a member of Genie is the chance to post messages in the
|
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RoundTables. I'm afraid I'm not comfortable posting a message in
|
||
the A2 RoundTable on your behalf, but I've printed your E-mail
|
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address above, so if any of our readers has this clock card for
|
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sale, they can contact you.
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I assume that either you've already tried posting in the Usenet
|
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newsgroup comp.sys.apple.marketplace, or that your Internet
|
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account doesn't carry that newsgroup, or that you've tried
|
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c.s.a.marketplace with no luck.--DGC
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[EOA]
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[HEY]//////////////////////////////
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HEY MISTER POSTMAN /
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/////////////////////////////////
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Is That A Letter For Me?
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""""""""""""""""""""""""
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by Douglas Cuff
|
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[EDITOR.A2]
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o A2 POT-POURRI
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o HOT TOPICS
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o WHAT'S NEW
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o THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
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o MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT
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>>> A2 POT-POURRI <<<
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"""""""""""""""""""""
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ANIMASIA AWAY FOR TWO WEEKS Animasia will be away from the online world
|
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""" for about two weeks. If you need to contact
|
||
Animasia, I can be reached until 29-Mar-96 by phone at 407-380-9932. After
|
||
that time, you can send e-mail to animasia@genie.com and I'll reply post
|
||
haste.
|
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|
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Michael Lutynski
|
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Animasia
|
||
(ANIMASIA, CAT13, TOP41, MSG:58/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> BTW, I'm happy to announce that Michael Lutynski will be the latest
|
||
""""" addition to the Logicware team, joining the likes of Eric "Sheppy"
|
||
Shepherd, James (T2) C. Smith, "Burger" Bill Heineman, Steve "Focus Drive"
|
||
Parsons, and of course myself (Greg Templeman).
|
||
|
||
Of course, there are a half dozen other people at Logicware, but as
|
||
they aren't Apple II'ers, I won't mention them. ;-)
|
||
|
||
-G.T. Barnabas
|
||
(BARNABAS, CAT13, TOP41, MSG:59/M645;1)
|
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|
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|
||
WHAT APPLEWORKS HATH BROUGHT TOGETHER... Is there a formula for splitting
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" apart first and last names? I
|
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have a macro that does that, but it would be nice to be able to do it
|
||
through the options menu.
|
||
|
||
:: Dan ::
|
||
(D.CRUTCHER, CAT17, TOP31, MSG:106/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> Absotively! I use it in GEM's Email.Names file for that very
|
||
""""" purpose. It requires two extra categories for precalculation:
|
||
|
||
LAST NAME: @Right([Full Name],(@Len([Full Name])-[Calc2]))
|
||
|
||
FIRST NAME: @Left([Full Name],[Calc2])
|
||
|
||
CALC1: @Find(" ",[Full Name],1+(@Find(" ",[Full Name],1,0)),0)
|
||
|
||
CALC2: @If(@Val([Calc1])=0,@Find(" ",[Full Name],1,0),@Find(" ",[Full
|
||
Name],[Calc1],0))
|
||
|
||
This will include any middle initials with the first names.
|
||
|
||
|
|
||
-(+)-
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
...Will (Cat 13, Top 11)
|
||
(W.NELKEN1, CAT17, TOP31, MSG:108/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
CONTEST WINNER: TOUCHED BY THE HAND OF WOZ Last week, I sent a listing
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" of all current Shareware
|
||
Solutions II subscribers to Steve Wozniak, via Steve's employee Auri
|
||
Rahidzedeh. Audi printed out the list of potential winners and gave
|
||
that to Steve Wozniak.
|
||
|
||
I've just received an e-mail from Auri, and this is what he had to
|
||
say:
|
||
|
||
"The winner of the HD is Keith Sagalow. We threw all of the papers
|
||
into the air, then we threw a dart at one. There were three names hit by
|
||
the dart, but only one was legible, so Keith was the winner."
|
||
|
||
By only regret is that they didn't capture the selection process on
|
||
video <g>.
|
||
|
||
In any case, Keith will soon be the proud owner of a 120 Megabyte
|
||
Focus Gold Hard Drive. I hope that it provides Keith with many years of
|
||
use.
|
||
|
||
Thank you, Keith, for your ongoing support of Shareware Solutions II.
|
||
And of course, thank you to everyone who was eligible for partaking in the
|
||
Shareware Solutions II Hard Drive Give Away!
|
||
|
||
Keith...I plan to send it out via the US Mail, and wonder if I should
|
||
ask for a signature to assure that it arrives OK. Are you, or someone in
|
||
your family, around during the day to sign for the package? If not, I will
|
||
simply insure it without requring a signature. Let me know via e-mail what
|
||
would work best for you.
|
||
|
||
Joe Kohn
|
||
Publisher, Shareware Solutions II
|
||
(JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:106/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
APPLEWORKS 5: CAREFUL WITH APPEND TO CLIPBOARD! OK, Mike. You're not
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" going crazy. :) I can
|
||
confirm that you can crash AW 5.1 with append to clip.
|
||
|
||
To make it crash, I appended very large chunks (a 10K file) over and
|
||
over. The crash is spectacular. Drive in slot 6 drive 1 spins, the whole
|
||
screen goes bezerk, mainly with "]" characters. A ctrl-reset partially
|
||
restored things, but made the drive spin again (makes me shudder). AW
|
||
would not restart at all, even though I finally got the Main Menu screen
|
||
back - the keyboard was dead. A three finger (oa-ctrl-reset) didn't work
|
||
the first time, the second time GS/OS crashed into the monitor, as well as
|
||
the third time, the fourth time finally rebooted. Wow!
|
||
|
||
My _guess_ is that the append command can overflow the available
|
||
memory, knocking AW out of memory and control.
|
||
|
||
I'll let Randy know. :)
|
||
|
||
__!__
|
||
| Terrell Smith
|
||
| tsmith@ivcf.org
|
||
(T.SMITH59, CAT17, TOP30, MSG:46/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
APPLEWORKS 5 DATE QUIRK Using an AW 5.1 data base, I discovered that I
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""" cannot search for a date using (say) Mar 6 1978
|
||
or 3/5/78. I have to use Mar 6 1978 (two spaces in front of the 6. I
|
||
understand why this is so, and the work around is to enter the two spaces,
|
||
but I find this inconvenient (and I get forgetting to do it!!! :( ).
|
||
Other than this, I haven't had a single problem with AW 5.3 since I moved
|
||
up from AW 4.3 a couple weeks ago. [Thanks, Randy!]
|
||
|
||
Eric ( o= =o === =ooo oo oo= == )
|
||
|
||
PS I was thanking Randy for AW 5.1, not for anticipated assistance.
|
||
I know he's feeding his kids elsewhere these days.
|
||
(J.SCHONBLOM, CAT17, TOP31, MSG:118/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
MAKING APPLEWORKS 5 GET ALONG WITH GS/OS Has anyone here been bothered by
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" AW5.1 having a decreased amount
|
||
of desktop memory available after multiple launches during a single
|
||
session? (This also occurs after using GS.SYSTEM from the Beagle Compiler,
|
||
BTW.)
|
||
|
||
On a machine with 4 megs or so and few, if any, relaunches, this is
|
||
not a big problem. On a 1 meg machine, though, you can suffer a
|
||
substantial reduction in desktop size on a relaunch.
|
||
|
||
I have discovered why this is happening and have _hacked_ together a
|
||
small machine language program to run prior to launching AW5.1 to fix this.
|
||
|
||
AW _appears_ to do an incomplete job of using the GS memory manager's
|
||
toolbox routines on exit, with the result that some of the memory blocks
|
||
are not de-allocated and the ID number is not deleted.
|
||
|
||
The hack calls the DiposALL and DeleteID tools to 'clear' the memory
|
||
AW used. With the memory cleared, AW can start with a fresh slate, so to
|
||
speak.
|
||
|
||
AppleWorks seems to request ID $1101 to start. On the next launch,
|
||
$1101 is taken, so it gets $1102. Unfortunately, $1101 is still present
|
||
and some of those blocks of memory are still allocated. Will the hack mess
|
||
up some GS/OS application program using blocks with the same ID's? You
|
||
tell me. I don't know.
|
||
|
||
I'll try to post it here this week to get your comments. As always,
|
||
I'd appreciate it if the rest of you would round off the rough edges. The
|
||
hack will be in BASIC (requiring BASIC.SYSTEM). It would be nice to make
|
||
it a SYSTEM file that when executed, would subsequently start
|
||
APLWORKS.SYSTEM.
|
||
|
||
Does anyone want to bother Randy with this? <g>
|
||
|
||
Hugh...
|
||
(H.HOOD, CAT17, TOP27, MSG:290/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
<<<<< I've completed (with the fine help of Harold and ghosts of
|
||
""""" programmers' past) a SYSTEM program that, on a GS, 'nukes'
|
||
(Harold's word, not mine) allocated application memory and memory ID's
|
||
($1001-$1003) prior to running APLWORKS.SYSTEM.
|
||
|
||
It's FRESHER.SYSTEM. Let's call it version 0.9. <g>
|
||
|
||
For use with Appleworks 5.1 on a GS in ProDOS 8 only mode, (although
|
||
I don't _think_ it would hurt under GS/OS) it eliminates the problem of
|
||
diminishing desktop memory that occurs when AppleWorks is re-launched
|
||
during a single session.
|
||
|
||
I'll try to upload it this week. BTW, are there instructions for
|
||
uploading a file correctly on your first try? This will be my first
|
||
program that I feel is semi-worthy of A2.
|
||
|
||
BTW, Harold, getting it to quit to APLWORKS.SYSTEM really made me get
|
||
out the books and disassemble some code as well. Merely passing the
|
||
Startup name and quitting via the MLI doesn't do the trick with the P8
|
||
mini-selector. The program itself must take the startup name and do the
|
||
work.
|
||
|
||
Thanks for challenging me. Obsessive behavior is either a blessing
|
||
or a curse. Perhaps both.
|
||
|
||
Hugh...
|
||
(H.HOOD, CAT17, TOP27, MSG:345/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
THE REAL WORLD I was in a self-storage place near Princeton, NJ,
|
||
"""""""""""""" yesterday, and saw they had their alarm system software
|
||
running on an Apple //e with one Disk II drive. I couldn't get close
|
||
enough to see exactly what software was running, but the display was 40
|
||
column. The counter help didn't know anything about the setup.
|
||
|
||
It's a real pleasure to see a II still hard at work. Anybody else
|
||
have a sighting to report of an Apple II at work?
|
||
|
||
Bill Dooley - Apple II Forever!
|
||
(A2.BILL, CAT2, TOP7, MSG:225/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> I was in Park City Utah a couple of years ago and found several
|
||
""""" retail stores using Apple II GS's as cash registers. I was quite
|
||
impressed. It was the first and only time I have ever seen an Apple doing
|
||
duty in a retail situation. Actually I take that back. I was in a
|
||
gallery in Stowe, Vermont last month and the owner had a PowerBook which
|
||
she used to do accounting for the store and keep mailing lists.
|
||
|
||
Bob
|
||
(BOB.CHERRY, CAT2, TOP7, MSG:252/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> I'm being a little slow on the uptake on this..
|
||
"""""
|
||
I am using a ||gs with DB Master Professional at the front desk of my
|
||
veterinary hospital. Using it as a cash register and reminder system.
|
||
AW5.1 for book-keepeing and inventory and lots of other things. GWIII for
|
||
desk-top publishing of client information things, admission releases, etc.
|
||
|
||
Only shortcoming is that I can't access the veterinary databases,
|
||
either on-line or CD-ROM.
|
||
|
||
Ray
|
||
the Sauer Kraut
|
||
(R.SCHUERGER1, CAT2, TOP7, MSG:255/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> Our Engineering Test Laboratories have some really exotic fast data
|
||
""""" acquisition systems. But there are also two Apple II plus
|
||
computers out in the Environmental Labs that have AE 12 bit 16 channel data
|
||
acquisition cards and TimeMaster II clocks. They work great on some of the
|
||
small tests and any programmer/engineer can add his own data reduction
|
||
program in AppleSoft for quick look data.
|
||
|
||
I bet some of the raw data from those Apples end up in the Cray.
|
||
|
||
Bob, AF6C
|
||
(R.ECKWEILER, CAT2, TOP7, MSG:263/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> The Apple IIGS sometimes shows up in the least likely places..
|
||
"""""
|
||
On April 26, 1996, Basic Books will be publishing a new textbook
|
||
entitled "Textbook of Transpersonal Psychiatry and Psychology." I'm sure
|
||
the publisher has absolutely no idea, but I know, and now you know. It was
|
||
edited entirely on an Apple IIGS.
|
||
|
||
<grin>
|
||
|
||
Joe
|
||
(JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:174/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
DISK DRIVE REPAIR I just recently sent an Apple 3.5 disk drive that had
|
||
""""""""""""""""" been given to me to ISR Floppy Drive Repairs because it
|
||
was not working properly. I was getting i/o errors and there was a rasping
|
||
sound coming from the drive.
|
||
|
||
It seems that there was a foreign object in the drive (looked like a
|
||
small piece of plastic). The drive was also cleaned, lubed, aligned, and
|
||
tested before it was returned to me. The turn around time (from when I
|
||
mailed it until when I received it) was 2 weeks.
|
||
|
||
It appears to be working properly now. :)
|
||
|
||
The cost was $17.00 plus 5.95 for shipping.
|
||
|
||
Here is some additional information about them.
|
||
|
||
Infinite Service & Repair
|
||
2217 Downing Ln.
|
||
Leander, Texas 78641
|
||
|
||
1-800-458-6778
|
||
|
||
They work on 3.5, 5.25, and 8 inch drives. Their labor charges are
|
||
guaranteed to be between $1 and $25, with the average cost of $17. Parts
|
||
are extra, and will be installed with prior customer consent. They
|
||
indicate that most repairs do not require parts at all.
|
||
|
||
The end price is based on the type of drive, the amount of work per
|
||
drive, and the number of drives per month with quantity discounts.
|
||
|
||
There is a $1 minimum Diagnostic fee if the drive is too costly to
|
||
repair or if there is no problem found. ISR will contact you with the
|
||
diagnosis.
|
||
|
||
They require that you call first for a repair authorization number.
|
||
They will use this number to identify your equipment and all work done to
|
||
it. Write this number on your shipping label and have it ready if you call
|
||
them for information about your drives.
|
||
|
||
They offer a 6 month warranty, and accept VISA and MasterCard. They
|
||
also ship UPS COD.
|
||
|
||
Joe Kohn gave me their name. Thanks, Joe. :)
|
||
|
||
Charlie Hartley
|
||
(A2.CHARLIE, CAT4, TOP46, MSG:43/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> HOT TOPICS <<<
|
||
""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
______ _____
|
||
( ) ( ) ____________________________________________
|
||
| | / / ( _____________________________'96____)
|
||
| | / / | |
|
||
| |/ / | | II Infinitum!!
|
||
| / | |______
|
||
| |\ \ | _______) __________ ________ ________
|
||
| | \ \ | | ( _____) ( ___) (__ __)
|
||
| | \ \ | | | |__ \ \ | |
|
||
| | \ \ | | | __) \ \ | |
|
||
| | \ \ | | | |_____ ___\ \ | |
|
||
(______) (________) (_______) (__________) (_________) |___|
|
||
|
||
|
||
KFest is back again! With two Extra Nights!!!!!
|
||
|
||
This summer, in Kansas City, Missouri, you can once again:
|
||
|
||
- spend 3 days and 4 nights guided by Dante Alighieri on a trip
|
||
through the dormitories of Avila College
|
||
- meet friends old and new
|
||
- learn about how to get the most out of your computer and
|
||
peripherals
|
||
- see demonstrations of new products
|
||
- meet the celebrities of our little world <grin>
|
||
- experience the InterNet and all that it has to offer to us and
|
||
our computers
|
||
- take advantage of special KFest '96 offers from Apple II and
|
||
Macintosh vendors
|
||
- and, of course, stay up all night shoot pool and foment
|
||
insurrection, if you want to :)
|
||
|
||
KFest '96 will again be held on the campus of Avila College in Kansas
|
||
City, Missouri. It will take place from July 17-21, 1996. The cost will
|
||
be only $325, which _includes_ use of a double room in the Avila College
|
||
dorms _and_ meals! (If you wish to stay at one of the many hotels or
|
||
motels near the college then the cost is $225, but you would, of course,
|
||
have to find and pay for your own room).
|
||
|
||
***
|
||
|
||
If you have been thinking about attending KFest '96. now is the time
|
||
to sign up. The registration fee will be going up on May 19th to $375 for
|
||
the dormitory and conference, and $275 for the conference only. The last
|
||
date pre-registrations will be accepted is July 13th.
|
||
|
||
***
|
||
|
||
KFest this year is being sponsored by Kellers' Auto Electric, Inc.
|
||
You can send your completed registration forms to:
|
||
|
||
KFest '96
|
||
c/o Kellers
|
||
PO Box 391
|
||
Brielle, NJ 08730
|
||
|
||
* Please make checks payable to: Kellers' / Kfest '96
|
||
|
||
***
|
||
|
||
Credit Card registration is also available. Just call Kellers' Auto
|
||
Electric, Inc with your VISA, MasterCard or American Express number at
|
||
(908) 775-0371, Mon-Fri 8:00AM-5:00PM Eastern Time. If you prefer, you can
|
||
FAX your registration with VISA or MasterCard account number and expiration
|
||
date to: (908) 223-0678 Mon-Fri 8:00AM-5:00PM Eastern Time.
|
||
|
||
If you prefer registering by Email, and are using a VISA, MasterCard,
|
||
or American Express for payment, you can send the completed registration
|
||
form via InterNet Email to:
|
||
|
||
timothyk@injersey.com
|
||
|
||
***
|
||
|
||
If you have questions about KFest, or wish to make suggestions, you
|
||
can find answers via the InterNet. Just send an email message to
|
||
kfest.info$@genie.com, or visit the World Wide Web page at
|
||
http://www.primenet.com/~adams/kfest.html
|
||
|
||
****** (cut here)******
|
||
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|
||
|
||
|
||
KFest '96 Registration Form
|
||
|
||
Name:
|
||
|
||
Address:
|
||
|
||
City, State, Zip:
|
||
|
||
Phone (w): (h):
|
||
|
||
Email address:
|
||
|
||
Roommate preference (if any):
|
||
|
||
Do you prefer a smoker or non-smoker?
|
||
|
||
Hey! Howbout a frighteningly collectible, soft and thrilling KFest '96
|
||
T-Shirt? Yes I want One (Many)!!! [ ]
|
||
|
||
T-shirts are $15.00 each and are available in Small, Medium, Large, X-
|
||
Large.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Please circle size(s) Small Medium Large X-Large
|
||
|
||
Check here [] for additional X's on your X-Large T-shirt and indicate size
|
||
needed: _________
|
||
|
||
Send this completed registration form and fee to:
|
||
|
||
KFest '96
|
||
c/o Kellers
|
||
PO Box 391
|
||
Brielle, NJ 08730
|
||
|
||
* Please make checks payable to: Kellers'/KFest '96
|
||
|
||
For Credit Card registration please check: [] Visa [] MasterCard
|
||
|
||
|
||
[] American Express
|
||
|
||
Please charge my account number: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
|
||
Expiration: _ _ / _ _
|
||
(CINDY.A, CAT44, TOP8, MSG:49/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
NOW _THAT_'S A SPECIAL GUEST! Actually, I've heard from a somewhat
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" reliable source that the Woz has been
|
||
informed and is considering attending KFest.
|
||
|
||
Seriously.
|
||
|
||
And if that's the case, we can have one heckuva birthday party :)
|
||
|
||
Ryan--new preferred email: rsuenaga@kestrok.com
|
||
(R.SUENAGA1, CAT2, TOP24, MSG:125/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
TOP 10 AT KANSASFEST THE TOP TEN CATEGORIES FOR WHY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""" KFEST '96 OVER LIFE, AS USUAL:
|
||
|
||
NUMBER 10! TELEVISION: YOU'VE EXHAUSTED YOUR 30 DAY CALL IN ALLOWANCE TO
|
||
'''''''''' C-SPAN FOR THE NEXT 6 MONTHS
|
||
|
||
NUMBER 9! FAMILY: YOU'VE ASSIGNED YOUR FAMILY PRODOS PATHNAMES, AND YOUR
|
||
''''''''' MATE RETURNS AN $0046 ERROR
|
||
|
||
NUMBER 8! EXTRA TERRESTRIALS: STEVE FORBES HAS ALREADY FLAT TAXED MARS
|
||
'''''''''
|
||
|
||
NUMBER 7! STAR TREK: YOU WONDER IF DATA CRASHES WHEN TWILIGHT II KICKS IN
|
||
'''''''''
|
||
|
||
NUMBER 6! APPLETALK: YOU THINK APPLE SHARE IS A USER GROUP SCAM
|
||
'''''''''
|
||
|
||
NUMBER 5! POLITICS: YOU KNOW THAT BOB DOLE WILL BE BUSY ELSEWHERE AND
|
||
''''''''' KANSAS IS A SAFE PLACE TO BE
|
||
|
||
NUMBER 4! MICROSOFT: YOU WANT TO BREAK ANY MORE THAN 95 WINDOWS YOU COUNT
|
||
''''''''' AT AVILA COLLEGE
|
||
|
||
NUMBER 3! POWERMACS: YOU DON'T CARE HOW FAST MACDONALD'S MAKES A
|
||
''''''''' CAFEINATED HAMBURGER
|
||
|
||
NUMBER 2! TRIVIA: THE ANSWER TO THE 1995 TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS FINAL
|
||
''''''''' JEOPARDY QUESTION: WHAT THE HECK IS AN APPLE II?
|
||
|
||
AND THE NUMBER ONE REASON FOR ATTENDING KFEST '96....
|
||
|
||
REALITY: HECK, WE NEED THE MONEY!!!!
|
||
|
||
(KELLERS, CAT44, TOP8, MSG:51/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
A RIDE TO/FROM THE AIRPORT KFest 1996 is just around the corner!! Now is
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""" the time to be making your travel plans to
|
||
take advantage of cheaper airfares.
|
||
|
||
We can begin checking in at Avila on Wednesday, July 17th. We have
|
||
to be out of the dorms by noon on Sunday, July 21st.
|
||
|
||
This topic is a good place to let others know when you will be
|
||
arriving in Kansas City so you can coordinate rides from the airport. For
|
||
the record, the Kansas City airport is called KCI, but that's not the code
|
||
that is on luggage tags.
|
||
|
||
Quicksliver is a shuttle service that can be reached at 1-800-888-8294
|
||
|
||
As of today, their rates to Avila are:
|
||
|
||
$21.50 for 1 person
|
||
$28.50 for 2 people
|
||
$35.50 for 3 people
|
||
$37.50 for 4 people
|
||
$50.00 for 5 or more
|
||
|
||
They only need a few days advance reservation. People can arrive on
|
||
different flights and different airlines but need to be within 5-10 minutes
|
||
to take the same shuttle.
|
||
|
||
Cindy
|
||
(KFest Big Cheese)
|
||
(CINDY.A, CAT44, TOP4, MSG:1/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
IIGS IN A TOWER CASE WISH LIST If you could design your own "Tower GS",
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" without the limitations of an
|
||
off-the-shelf case, what features would you like to have? That is,
|
||
assuming you start with a stock GS logic board...
|
||
|
||
A few have been mentioned before, like a headphone and ADB jack
|
||
mounted in the front, or a hard drive activity light. Any other brainwaves
|
||
out there?
|
||
|
||
Just curious...
|
||
|
||
:froggie
|
||
(FROG.MAN, CAT12, TOP31, MSG:142/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> A. 3.5 floppy drive bays with switches for eject mechanisms
|
||
""""" (wouldn't have to line up with the actual mechanical switches, you
|
||
could use a paperclip, ala Macintosh for manual eject).
|
||
|
||
B. A better speaker (amplified, with volume control, would be nice,
|
||
but not mandatory). (A small amplifier with external outputs would be
|
||
really good.:)
|
||
|
||
C. INTERNAL bays for a minimum of two 3.5 form factor drives, and
|
||
external bays for a minimum of 3 5.25 form factor drives. (With wiring for
|
||
hard drive activity lights from the internal bays to the case front.)
|
||
|
||
D. Front mounted LEDs connected to leads with snap on clips for
|
||
connecting to the activity lights on things like ZIPs and TWGSs.
|
||
|
||
E. Here's a biggy.....
|
||
|
||
A "slot" for a PC style internal modem. This would simply be a card
|
||
edge holder with the appropriate fingers wired to a serial cable
|
||
appropriate for plugging into the modem port. Done properly, this rig
|
||
would include a front mounted switch to power cycle the modem, and an LED
|
||
to show power status. (I'm not sure if the signals are present at the card
|
||
edge, and standard enough, to allow the inclusion of REAL activity lights,
|
||
but it would be nice. :)
|
||
|
||
F. Serious fannage. (You KNOW how I feel about fannage. :)
|
||
|
||
G. A "dimple" suitable for mounting the little metal Apple logo from
|
||
the front of the GS case. (It would probably have to be round or square to
|
||
avoid copyright problems, but that metal logo pops right out if you do it
|
||
right.)
|
||
|
||
H. Some switched outlets on the back to handle the monitor, printer,
|
||
etc. While you're at it, it would probably be good to have at least three
|
||
switches, one for "system power" which would fire up the hard drives and
|
||
monitor, one for "CPU power" which would fire up the motherboard, and one
|
||
for "peripheral power" for anything else hooked up. You can figure that
|
||
out better than I can, probably, but a LOT of people like to turn on thier
|
||
hard drives and monitors first....
|
||
|
||
And of course, a SERIOUS power supply. :)
|
||
|
||
Give me a case like that, and I'd buy it REAL quick (and probably a
|
||
Second Sight card and a bigger monitor as well :).
|
||
|
||
Gary R. Utter
|
||
(GARY.UTTER, CAT12, TOP31, MSG:144/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> I'd like a case that had the following
|
||
"""""
|
||
1) At least 5 bays, 3 of which could be accessed externally for
|
||
things like CD-ROM, Floptical, Zip or SyQuest, etc.
|
||
|
||
2) Headphone and Sound input (maybe we should get R. Wagner's
|
||
digitizer as an add on to this)
|
||
|
||
3) Game Port and ADB in the front
|
||
|
||
4) Several switches (as Gary noted) for turning on power...to
|
||
peripherals, to devices in the case, to the CPU
|
||
|
||
5)Something that was not platinum (grey) :)
|
||
|
||
6) Comes with the connector converter so that the motherboard can be
|
||
plugged right in.
|
||
|
||
Steve
|
||
(S.CAVANAUGH1, CAT12, TOP31, MSG:145/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> One nice feature to have in a IIXS would be a separate "chamber"
|
||
""""" for floppy drives, tape backup drives, and the like (drives which
|
||
don't generate much heat or are used seldomly). This chamber would be
|
||
sealed and separated from the rest of the case and not subject to
|
||
ventilation by the fan for the rest of the Tower. That way one wouldn't
|
||
have to worry as much about dust being pulled into those drives.
|
||
|
||
Also, a bottom "chamber" tall enough to let you easily mount the GS
|
||
in there "vertically" so that ventilation of a motherboard and lots of
|
||
cards would be more efficient. (The case I got doesn't have enough height
|
||
in the bottom part to do that).
|
||
|
||
I\/I ark I<
|
||
|
||
Hmmm... more ideas:
|
||
|
||
Extra AC power outlets would be dandy.... oh, I see Gary mentioned
|
||
that one. All of the ideas people mentioned are great!
|
||
|
||
It's too cool to see that you're really thinking of building a case,
|
||
Froggie! I'd like to let you know that I'd be interested in purchasing one
|
||
from you, also :)
|
||
(M.KLINE, CAT12, TOP31, MSG:150/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> Lots of great suggestions so far! I'd like to add one more: a
|
||
""""" swinging or sliding door on the exposed drive area. My tower (a
|
||
Jaba case) has a swinging door and it has done wonders for my dust
|
||
problems. In its old external enclosure, my tape drive used to have a
|
||
significant build-up of dust around the drive shutter in only a few days.
|
||
It's been in the tower for over 2 months now, the tower fan on all the
|
||
time, and not a speck of dust in it! I'm not at all worried about mounting
|
||
my floppy drives in there now.
|
||
|
||
Give me that, a nice suitable front display (e.g. drop the speed readout
|
||
and turbo button, unless it can be somehow tied to a Zip/TW), and a full
|
||
set of accessible ports (on a full tower, I'd prefer them at the top of the
|
||
back panel, since the tower typically sits on the floor -- I hear one of
|
||
Apple's new models may have the ports on the top!), and I'd be pretty
|
||
happy.
|
||
|
||
I'd love to be in your position, as I did design my own "ideal" case when I
|
||
was trying to find one last fall. I settled for a case that was nowhere
|
||
near as functional or unique as my own, but I do not possess the skill to
|
||
actually take my design to a finished product as you do. I wish you the
|
||
best of luck, that we might all benefit from your work!
|
||
(M.HACKETT, CAT12, TOP31, MSG:155/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> WHAT'S NEW <<<
|
||
""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
APPLE BLOSSOM NEWSLETTER The Apple Blossom's first issue of 1996 will be
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""" mailed tomorrow, to Apple II users in 30 states
|
||
and Canada. Thanks for the great support and encouragement that you've
|
||
given me so far. I hope that those of you who have subscribed will enjoy
|
||
the issue that reaches you next week.
|
||
|
||
For those of you who have not yet subscribed, you still can :) As an
|
||
incentive, I have offered a printed copy of the Apple II Vendor Directory,
|
||
which has been updated constantly by me over the past year (and was being
|
||
updated up until 10 seconds before I printed it last night). It weighs in
|
||
at 11 pages, and gives mail, email, Web and product info, along with phone
|
||
numbers for over 90 vendors of Apple II hardware, software and services.
|
||
|
||
All subscriptions post marked by March 7th will be entitled to a free
|
||
copy of the Vendor Directory, which will be mailed via first class postage
|
||
with your first issue.
|
||
|
||
Over the weekend I will be uploading a HyperCard Stack that is
|
||
described in the newsletter. Later, I will post a description of this
|
||
issue's contents (but I'll let some of the subscribers get their copy
|
||
first...seems fair, no?).
|
||
|
||
Volume 2 Number 1 is 14 pages (2 extra pages, couldn't keep it at 12)
|
||
of densely packed 10 pt type (well, my wife said it was pretty dense, at
|
||
least...hey, you don't suppose she meant something other than the print
|
||
density, do you?).
|
||
|
||
Steve Cavanaugh
|
||
The Apple Blossom
|
||
http://members.aol.com/newblossom/
|
||
(S.CAVANAUGH1, CAT13, TOP17, MSG:253/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
NAUG PUBLIC DOMAIN AND NAUG-ON-DISK As I'm sure most of you know,
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Shareware Solutions II has been
|
||
chosen by the National AppleWorks User Group (NAUG) to be the repository of
|
||
all of the disk based AppleWorks resource materials that had been compiled
|
||
and distributed by NAUG.
|
||
|
||
There are now 2 types of disks available from SSII...the NAUG Public
|
||
Domain Library disks, and the monthly NAUG-On-Disk disks.
|
||
|
||
Many, but probably not all, of the NAUG PD Library disks are also
|
||
available here on GEnie. The NAUG-On-Disk series of 60 disks, however, can
|
||
only be purchased through Shareware Solutions II.
|
||
|
||
To let folks know what is currently available from SSII, I've
|
||
uploaded a few informational files to the A2 library over the past 2 days.
|
||
Unfortunately, I didn't note their file numbers when I uploaded them ;-(
|
||
|
||
In any case, the first file I uploaded was a file that described all
|
||
of the AppleWorks public domain disks currently available from SSII.
|
||
|
||
The 2nd file I uploaded was a series of AW Database files that listed
|
||
all the articles that appeared in the AW Forum newsletter from 1/90 to
|
||
12/95. For that second upload, I created one database for each year, so
|
||
that the files are manageable by anyone, as the biggest one is only about
|
||
40K. They are AW v3.0 files. For each month listed in those databases,
|
||
there is a corresponding NAUG-On-Disk disk available from SSII for $5.
|
||
|
||
Feel free to download and pass around the files to anyone.
|
||
|
||
Joe
|
||
(JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:131/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
EGO SYSTEMS NOW CARRIES OPS APPLEWORKS UTILITIES March 20, 1996 -- EGO
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Systems is pleased to
|
||
announce that it now carries the full line of Office Productivity
|
||
Software's AppleWorks utilities. These titles include:
|
||
|
||
About Time v1.1 This is an AppleWorks TimeOut module that allows you to
|
||
''''''''''''''' quickly and easily perform date and time calculations and
|
||
then move the results into your AppleWorks documents.
|
||
|
||
About Time performs many different types of calculations involving
|
||
dates and times including: day-of-week, number of days/weeks/months/years
|
||
between two dates, number of minutes/hours between two times, and unit
|
||
conversions. It also converts between Gregorian and Julian Calendar
|
||
systems, and can change the current system time for your computer to any
|
||
date or time you choose. About Time can input data from Data Bases or
|
||
SpreadSheets and output its results to any file on the AppleWorks desktop.
|
||
|
||
About Time requires AppleWorks v2.0 or later and it even works with
|
||
Deja ][ on the Macintosh! About Time is just $14.95 from EGO Systems, and
|
||
that price includes First Class or Air Mail shipping to anywhere in the
|
||
world!
|
||
|
||
(Note: This product is available on 3.5-inch disks only.)
|
||
|
||
TimeOut ShrinkIt-Plus v5.0 This is an AppleWorks TimeOut module that lets
|
||
'''''''''''''''''''''''''' you manipulate ShrinkIt archives without ever
|
||
having to leave AppleWorks!
|
||
|
||
TimeOut ShrinkIt-Plus can extract files from archives, add files to
|
||
archives, remove files from archives, and even create new archives! And,
|
||
better still, TimeOut ShrinkIt- Plus allows you to extract files from an
|
||
archive directly to the AppleWorks desktop! You can even take a file
|
||
that's on the AppleWorks desktop and put it directly into a ShrinkIt
|
||
archive, and you never have to leave AppleWorks!
|
||
|
||
TimeOut ShrinkIt-Plus requires AppleWorks v4.0.1 or later and it even
|
||
works with Deja ][ on the Macintosh! TimeOut ShrinkIt-Plus is just $29.95
|
||
from EGO Systems, and that price includes First Class shipping in the USA
|
||
or surface mail shipping to anywhere else in the world. Air Mail shipping
|
||
is $3 extra.
|
||
|
||
(Note: This product is available on 3.5-inch disks only.)
|
||
|
||
TimeOut Statistics v1.0 This is an AppleWorks TimeOut module that lets
|
||
''''''''''''''''''''''' you perform complex statistical analysis on the
|
||
data in your AppleWorks databases.
|
||
|
||
TimeOut Statistics comes with three different utilities that allow
|
||
you to analyze single-sample databases, multiple-sample databases, and
|
||
nonparametric databases. Among the many different types of statistical
|
||
operations you can perform are: Variance, Mean, Standard Deviation,
|
||
Hypothesis Testing, Linear Regression, Two Sample t-Test, Analysis of
|
||
Variance, Histogram, Wilcoxon Rank Sum, and more!
|
||
|
||
TimeOut Statistics requires AppleWorks v3.0 or later and it even
|
||
works with Deja ][ on the Macintosh! TimeOut Statistics is just $79.95
|
||
from EGO Systems, and that price includes First Class shipping in the USA
|
||
or surface mail shipping to anywhere else in the world. Air Mail shipping
|
||
is $3 extra.
|
||
|
||
(Note: This product is available on 3.5-inch disks only.)
|
||
|
||
TimeOut Disk Tools v5.0 This is an AppleWorks TimeOut utility that makes
|
||
''''''''''''''''''''''' several powerful disk utilities available from
|
||
within AppleWorks. These utilities are:
|
||
|
||
TimeOut Compare WP - This utility allows you to compare the contents
|
||
of any two AppleWorks WP files. The two you select are presented in a
|
||
'split screen' view with the differences between the two files hilighted.
|
||
|
||
TimeOut File Backup - Like the name implies, this TimeOut utility
|
||
lets you perform file-by-file backup and restore operations without ever
|
||
having to leave AppleWorks!
|
||
|
||
TimeOut Volume Backup - This utility allows you to create or restore
|
||
disk- image backups from within AppleWorks!
|
||
|
||
TimeOut Wherzit? - So, you know you wrote that angry letter to your
|
||
Congressperson, but you can't find it? This utility will let you search
|
||
your hard drive for any file, using a variety of search criteria (file
|
||
name, type, date, and more)!
|
||
|
||
TimeOut Disk Tools requires AppleWorks v3.0 or later and it even
|
||
works with Deja ][ on the Macintosh! (Note that some of the utilities
|
||
provided with TimeOut Disk Tools only work with ProDOS disks, so not all
|
||
utilities will function on Mac disks while running under Deja ][.) TimeOut
|
||
Disk Tools is just $49.95 from EGO Systems, and that price includes First
|
||
Class shipping in the USA or surface mail shipping to anywhere else in the
|
||
world. Air Mail shipping is $3 extra.
|
||
|
||
(Note: This product is available on 3.5-inch disks only.)
|
||
|
||
Special Bundle Offer If you are an AppleWorks lover, you'll probably want
|
||
'''''''''''''''''''' to have all four of these great utilities. If so,
|
||
you can buy them all at once from EGO Systems for just $150 and save
|
||
$24.80! To get this special price, just ask for the OPS bundle when you
|
||
place your order. (If you live outside the USA and want Air Mail shipping
|
||
for this bundle offer, please add $9 for shipping.)
|
||
|
||
How to Order To order any of these products, or to request a catalog of
|
||
'''''''''''' our Apple II, IIGS and Macintosh products, you can contact
|
||
EGO Systems by one of the following means:
|
||
|
||
Orders ONLY: 800-662-3634 (9 am to 5 pm Eastern Time)
|
||
FAX: 423-843-0661 (24 hours a day)
|
||
Inquiries: 423-843-1775 (9 am to 5 pm Eastern Time)
|
||
|
||
Ground Mail:
|
||
EGO Systems
|
||
7918 Cove Ridge Rd.
|
||
Hixson, TN 37343
|
||
|
||
e-mail: GSPlusDiz@aol.com or diz@genie.com
|
||
|
||
We accept Visa and MasterCard for phone or FAX orders. If you prefer
|
||
to send a check or money order, make it payable to "EGO Systems". Orders
|
||
for in-stock items ship no later than the next business day. If you order
|
||
an in-stock item before 10 am (Eastern Time), it will ship the same day.
|
||
All orders ship via First Class mail.
|
||
|
||
Macintosh and Apple II are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
|
||
AppleWorks is a trademark of Claris. About Time, TimeOut Disk Tools,
|
||
TimeOut ShrinkIt-Plus and TimeOut Statistics are trademarks of Office
|
||
Productivity Software. ShrinkIt is a trademark of Andrew E. Nicholas.
|
||
Deja ][ is a trademark of JEM Software.
|
||
(DIZ, CAT33, TOP2, MSG:14/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
IIGS GAMES FIND NEW HOME Shareware Solutions II is pleased to announce
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""" that it has been named by Seven Hills Software
|
||
as the exclusive distributor of Bright Software's games for the Apple IIGS:
|
||
The Gate and Space Fox.
|
||
|
||
The Gate blends action, adventure, aesthetic pleasure and
|
||
intellectual challenges to create a stimulating adventure game for the
|
||
IIGS. You must battle enemies and solve puzzles to escape a castle's
|
||
prison. Ultimately, your goal is to find and defeat your captor to bring
|
||
peace to the land. The Gate features brain-teasing challenges, lots of
|
||
action in smooth, synchronized animations plus exciting stereo music and
|
||
sound effects.
|
||
|
||
The Gate requires a IIGS with 1 megabyte of RAM. Although The Gate
|
||
is not copy protected, it cannot be installed on a hard drive.
|
||
|
||
Space Fox is an exciting arcade game where you are the ace pilot who
|
||
must guide your space ship through nine levels of assorted bad guys. Your
|
||
mission is to destroy The Brain at level ten but you'll need to collect
|
||
fuel, shield power and new weapons as you destroy your enemies. Skill and
|
||
a bit of luck are needed to complete your mission because the higher the
|
||
level, the harder it is to survive. Space Fox features fast action,
|
||
smooth, synchronized animations and sixteen voice stereo music.
|
||
|
||
Space Fox requires a IIGS with 1 megabyte of RAM and at least one
|
||
3.5" disk drive.
|
||
|
||
The Gate and Space Fox are available for $20 each, plus $3 s/h per
|
||
order.
|
||
|
||
Shareware Solutions II can accept payment by check or money order
|
||
only, made payable in US Funds, to "Joe Kohn." Send all orders to:
|
||
|
||
Joe Kohn
|
||
c/o Shareware Solutions II
|
||
166 Alpine Street
|
||
San Rafael, CA 94901-1008
|
||
USA
|
||
(JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:184/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE <<<
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
MS-DOS UTILITIES DESK ACCESSORY Here's what Peter Watson had to say:
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
"Sometime in the next month or two I'll be sending you a disk for
|
||
your library containing version 1 of a new NDA called MUG!, which will be
|
||
the long awaited (by some anyway :-) GUI version of my MSDOS Utilities
|
||
(MUG! = MSDOS Utilities Graphic !nterface). Apple II Forver."
|
||
|
||
The hits just keep on coming...
|
||
|
||
Joe
|
||
(JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:73/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
SPECTRUM V2.1 AND KERMIT If I remember correctly, the Kermit download
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""" protocol is in beta testing. If you have it,
|
||
you have to run a script file to use it. When you run the script, you get
|
||
the icon.
|
||
|
||
David W.
|
||
(D.WALLIS2, CAT43, TOP15, MSG:257/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> Yes it is... but no bugs have been found for some time. Spectrum
|
||
""""" v2.1 adds the ability for an XCMD to easily add menu items to
|
||
Spectrum itself. So Kermit shows up on the 'Send' and 'Receive' pop-ups,
|
||
and the Settings menu, with the rest of the protocol commands.
|
||
|
||
We are in final Beta testing of v2.1, so hopefully it will not be too
|
||
long before it is released.
|
||
|
||
Ewen (Speccie)
|
||
Delivered by: CoPilot v2.5.5 and Spectrum 2.0
|
||
(E.WANNOP, CAT43, TOP15, MSG:260/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
RICH TEXT FORMAT FOR GRAPHICWRITER OK everybody.... I've been looking it
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" over, and I think the first thing I'm
|
||
going to try to get done is the RTF translator for GraphicWriter III. So,
|
||
does anybody out there know of any problems with the RTF translation that's
|
||
in EGOed v2.0? If so, let me know about it ASAP so I can correct the
|
||
problems when I move that code from EGOed into a GWIII translator.
|
||
|
||
Diz EGO Systems
|
||
(DIZ, CAT33, TOP4, MSG:67/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
SPELLING CHECKER NDA > I think Softdisk GS has been working--for years--
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""" > on a spellchecker NDA.
|
||
|
||
Correction: Softdisk G-S had a partially-completed spellchecker NDA
|
||
waiting for time to work on it for years. When I left Softdisk, the
|
||
spellchecker project was effectively killed (as no GS people remain at
|
||
Softdisk).
|
||
|
||
I have plans for another, VERY clever and innovative way to make a
|
||
spelling checker NDA. When time is found...
|
||
|
||
-G.T. Barnabas
|
||
(BARNABAS, CAT33, TOP4, MSG:103/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
LIVE BRUTUAL DELUXE ANNOUNCEMENTS I wonder if we set an all-time record
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" for attendees at an online RoundTable
|
||
discussion? At one point, I counted 32 people.
|
||
|
||
I'd like to thank everyone for giving Olivier Zardini such a warm
|
||
welcome to GEnie. He certainly enjoyed his 3+ hours online.
|
||
|
||
Among the highlights of his visit were (semi) announcements...
|
||
|
||
A free Convert 3200 update is being worked on that will offer some
|
||
support for the Second Sight.
|
||
|
||
Brutal Deluxe's "DeluxeWare" CD-ROM, packed with 643 megabytes of
|
||
well organized Apple IIGS programs and files (33,000 of them) will be
|
||
available shortly. At present, it is available only in France, as there
|
||
are many many many text files included on that disk that are written in
|
||
French. So, the CD-ROM needs to be re-worked a little bit before it can be
|
||
released for the International market. When completed, that CD-ROM will be
|
||
available from Shareware Solutions II.
|
||
|
||
At the conclusion of the rtc, James Gray was chosen to be the
|
||
recipient of a present from Brutal Deluxe. Since he already owns Convert
|
||
3200, James will receive a free copy of The DeluxeWare CD-ROM.
|
||
|
||
Brutal Deluxe has authorized me to upload to A2Pro their Merlin 16
|
||
library of routines for the Second Sight card. Look for that within the
|
||
next week or so.
|
||
|
||
Olivier hinted that Brutal Deluxe is working on several new IIGS
|
||
games.
|
||
|
||
There was some discussion of Brutal Deluxe's System 6.0.2 update, and
|
||
Olivier admitted that it is currently installed and running on my ROM4
|
||
computer. What he failed to mention is that everything is in French, and I
|
||
have to be quite honest and say that my high school French isn't making it
|
||
easy for me to understand what has, or hasn't, been worked on. Olivier
|
||
also said that it was the other half of the Brutal Deluxe team that is
|
||
working on that update, and unfortunately, he had a hard drive crash. So,
|
||
I am quite in the dark about the status of that update. He did say that
|
||
he'd be happy to share the source code with folks on A2Pro.
|
||
|
||
As I sat back and watched the rtc, I was aware that Olivier had some
|
||
difficulties understanding some of the English being used, and I hope that
|
||
everyone understood Olivier's English. As he stated, and as I can confirm,
|
||
English is not his native language.
|
||
|
||
All in all, I'd say that a good time was had by all. Thank you for
|
||
making it possible.
|
||
|
||
Joe Kohn
|
||
(JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP6, MSG:31/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
<<<<< I'm afraid that some of the French gems on the DeluxeWare CD-ROM
|
||
""""" may also be lost to the rest of the world. I'm not sure that I
|
||
want to distribute the CD because of the inclusion of some X rated
|
||
materials. I've asked Brutal Deluxe to substitute those graphics and
|
||
animations, to no avail.
|
||
|
||
It seems counter-productive to me to include 630 megs of phenomenal
|
||
Apple II materials, and a few megs of porno stuff. Personally, I don't
|
||
want to deal with anything that even one person might find offensive.
|
||
|
||
Joe
|
||
(JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP6, MSG:38/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
II ALIVE (NOW QUARTERLY) Any word on when the next issue is being planned
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""" for?
|
||
(J.LOFTIS, CAT42, TOP10, MSG:222/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
>>>>> I have no idea. I pitched a proposal to SQC for me to edit and
|
||
""""" publish the publication, but they couldn't afford me. The magazine
|
||
is now being edited by SQC's art director, Carl Sperber. Articles are being
|
||
gathered by reviews editor Jeff Hurlburt, who's not online as far as I
|
||
know.
|
||
(JERRY.K, CAT42, TOP10, MSG:223/M645;1)
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT <<<
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
Category 11, Topic 2
|
||
Message 176 Thu Mar 28, 1996
|
||
HAROLD.H [Hdwr Hacker] at 23:38 EST
|
||
|
||
Sticktion problems on Quantum drives:
|
||
|
||
Series: ProDrive
|
||
Included models: Q-40-S, Q-80-S, Q-105-S, etc.
|
||
|
||
If your drive is starting to show signs of what is commonly known as
|
||
'sticktion' (doesn't want to start spinning, particularly when cold, may
|
||
need a gentle 'thwack' or 'snap spin' to get it going) there appears to be
|
||
some hope for extending it's usable lifespan.
|
||
|
||
Looking at the board that is mounted on the bottom of the drive
|
||
itself, locate the spindle motor controller chip. This is the chip that
|
||
has a heat sink tab sticking out of it, this tab is mounted to the cast
|
||
aluminum chamber with two small screws. (Chip designation is U212, chip
|
||
itself is marked HA13441 and is made by Hitatchi)
|
||
|
||
Immediately next to this chip (twords the 'rear' of the drive) you
|
||
should find a ceramic bodied resistor, typically blue in color. This
|
||
resistor is noted as being R202 on the board's silk screening. This
|
||
resistor is a 0.47 ohm power resistor. (the value is stamped on the
|
||
resistor in text, NOT color code bands)
|
||
|
||
If the value of R202 is reduced to 0.25 ohms (approx) many of these
|
||
drives will start reliably, even when they suffer from extreem sticktion
|
||
symptoms. This change in value is best effected by adding a second 0.47
|
||
ohm 1 watt resistor in parrellel with the original one.
|
||
|
||
CAVEATS:
|
||
|
||
R202 limits the current thru U212 (and the spindle motor windings)
|
||
during the initial starting of the spindle motor. Reducing it's value too
|
||
far, or shorting it out, will very likely cause irreparable damage to the
|
||
spindle motor itself, the spindle motor controller chip, or (in extreem
|
||
cases) may cause the stuck heads to be ripped away from their suspension
|
||
springs inside the sealed chamber. This can result in a totall useless
|
||
drive.
|
||
|
||
Reducing the value of R202 increases the current drawn thru the
|
||
spindle motor windings, the spindle motor controller chip, and increases
|
||
the starting torque of the spindle motor. It =MAY= also have other effects
|
||
that I am not aware of, such effects MAY cause other problems as time goes
|
||
by. (I have not encountered such, but am covering myself just incase :)
|
||
|
||
I have come up with this modification totally on my own, and with no
|
||
support of any kind from Quantum, LaCie, Hitatchi, or any other company or
|
||
individuals. After having personally modified several drives in this
|
||
manner, with no ill effects being noted, and full 'recovery' from the
|
||
-symptoms- of sticktion being the only apparent change, I =THINK= that it
|
||
is a safe modification. In any event the =ONLY= party responsible for
|
||
=ANY= results achived by anyone attempting this modification shall be the
|
||
person =making= the modification. Under no circumstances whatsoever shall
|
||
Harold Hislop, Syndicomm, Quantum, and / or LaCie be liable in any manner
|
||
for any end results, be those results desirable or catostophic in nature.
|
||
|
||
Note: This is =NOT= a cure for sticktion on these drives. The cause
|
||
of the sticktion (deteriorated platter lubricant) is still present and
|
||
totally unaltered by this modification. The intent of this modification is
|
||
to increase the starting torque of the spindle motor, typically -HIDING-
|
||
the pre-existing sticktion problem. One should still seriously consider
|
||
timely replacement of any such drive as it is nearing the end of it's
|
||
reliably usable lifespan.
|
||
|
||
Note: There are often two different versions of drives from the
|
||
ProDrive series... 'Generic' ones, and 'Apple' ones. The Apple ones have a
|
||
small Apple sticker on the chamber somewheres, and are recognised by the HD
|
||
SC Setup program on a Mac as being an Apple drive. The Generic drives are
|
||
not 'seen' by HD SC Setup. The only difference between these drives is the
|
||
rom (or eprom) that is installed in a zero profile socket on the drive's PC
|
||
board. The Generic rom provides a HIGHER starting torque than the Apple
|
||
rom. (sometimes higher enough to hide symptoms of sticktion, sometimes not)
|
||
These roms (eproms) appear to be -directly- interchangable, with no loss of
|
||
data ever having been noted by myself.
|
||
|
||
This message MAY be freely reproduced in any group newsletters, etc.
|
||
without securing prior permission from myself, PROVIDED that the entire
|
||
message as originally posted on Genie (including message header, tag line,
|
||
and all text between) is reproduced without -ANY- alterations of ANY kind
|
||
being made (the only exception to this would be for formatting purposes.
|
||
NO wording changes (incl spelling corrections) may be made!) The original
|
||
source of this message (A2 RoundTable on Genie) must be suitably
|
||
attributed.
|
||
|
||
-Harold
|
||
Resident Solder Slinger
|
||
Live Free or Die - New Hampshire state motto
|
||
|
||
[*][*][*]
|
||
|
||
|
||
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's A2 RoundTable
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
by Gary Utter and Mike Westerfield
|
||
[GARY.UTTER] [BYTEWORKS]
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> YOU KNOW YOU'VE BEEN ON GENIE TOO LONG WHEN... <<<
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
o you're on a road trip, and you see a sign for the "RT 15 Cafe", and you
|
||
automatically translate that into the "RoundTable 15 Cafe" and wonder
|
||
why you've never heard of RoundTable 15.
|
||
|
||
o you notice that you've just filled out a hotel registration card with a
|
||
period between your first and last names.
|
||
|
||
(Gary R. Utter)
|
||
|
||
o you think it's odd that someone seems to know you on the phone or in
|
||
person, but can't place who it is until they tell you their screen name.
|
||
|
||
(Mike Westerfield)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
[EOA]
|
||
[FOC]//////////////////////////////
|
||
FOCUS ON... /
|
||
/////////////////////////////////
|
||
The Apple Blossom AND Juiced.GS
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
by Douglas Cuff
|
||
[EDITOR.A2]
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> NEW APPLE II NEWSLETTERS <<<
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
In my February 1996 editorial, "Read All About It", I worried a good
|
||
deal about duplication of effort. As with most worrying, I might just have
|
||
well have not bothered. Having taken a look at the two new Apple II
|
||
newsletters on the scene, there is remarkably little _editorial_
|
||
duplication of effort. (Mind you, each editor has to print address labels
|
||
and lay out the pages and worry about just how late the printer will be.
|
||
So I guess there's still that duplication of effort.)
|
||
|
||
This article is going to look at both newsletters. What's it not
|
||
going to do is compare them. No charts or tables laying them out side by
|
||
side. They're both fine publications and can stand on their own merits.
|
||
|
||
|
||
THE APPLE BLOSSOM The first issue of _The Apple Blossom_ that paying
|
||
""""""""""""""""" subscribers received was Volume 2, Number 1. The first
|
||
volume was distributed freely. The _Blossom_ started in January 1995 as a
|
||
4-page product review, and publisher/editor Steven Cavanaugh produced four
|
||
free issues in 1995.
|
||
|
||
Now that the _Blossom_ is a commercial venture, it's 14 pages long.
|
||
It has a newsletter feel still--it's single letter-sized sheets bound by a
|
||
single staple in the top left corner. The layout is clean but has a
|
||
slightly rushed feeling. Still, good use is made of tables, and the tables
|
||
themselves are very clean and clear, which helps.
|
||
|
||
Here are the contents of this first "commercial" issue:
|
||
|
||
From the Publisher
|
||
HyperTalking: Drawing a Calendar
|
||
Talking II: Cindy Adams [by Ryan Suenaga]
|
||
The Other Side of the Rainbow: Cartoon Clip Art CD-ROM
|
||
The Right Type: Dingbat "Clip Art"
|
||
The Dialog PDS No CLK Program [by David S. Stodolsky]
|
||
Announcements
|
||
Review: Convert 3200
|
||
Webster's Unabridged: Cruising the Web
|
||
|
||
The presence of writers other than Cavanaugh helps is encouraging.
|
||
That's not a knock; one voice, no matter how mellifluous, can seem to drone
|
||
after a long time--or even a short time!
|
||
|
||
The HyperTalking column looks to be a draw. It shows by example how
|
||
to use the simple but powerful programming language that's built into
|
||
HyperCard IIgs. I predict this column will encourage others to explore
|
||
HyperTalk, and perhaps at long last people will warm up to HyperCard.
|
||
|
||
If the first issue has a focus, it's how to use material "for the
|
||
other guys" on your Apple II. Cavanaugh looks at the Cartoon Clip Art
|
||
CD-ROM, which is intended for Windows users, and manages to slip in a
|
||
mini-review of Convert 3200 in the process. (There's a full-fledged review
|
||
of Convert 3200 later in the issue.) The article on using TrueType and
|
||
PostScript dingbat fonts as clip art has a similar feel. Scrounging from
|
||
other platforms is a great way to extend the life of your Apple II!
|
||
|
||
The Announcements column contains news from the Apple II world, and
|
||
Cavanaugh has managed a scoop or two. This section doesn't have any space
|
||
between the news items, though, and runs together, making it harder to read
|
||
than it needs to be.
|
||
|
||
You won't be surprised to hear that I recommend you subscribe to _The
|
||
Apple Blossom_. As of mid-March, Cavanaugh had just under 100 subscribers
|
||
in 35 states, 2 provinces, and in France. If you were one of them,
|
||
congratulations. If you weren't you can still get the first issue by
|
||
subscribing now.
|
||
|
||
Cavanaugh hints that the next issue will review 2 CDs of sounds that
|
||
can be used on an Apple IIgs, and explain how to print "two up" on a
|
||
PostScript printer, plus more.
|
||
|
||
The Apple Blossom
|
||
1117 Maple Street
|
||
Wilmington, DE 19805
|
||
|
||
published 6 times a year (bi-monthly)
|
||
|
||
$12 for U.S./Canadian Subscriptions
|
||
$18 for overseas
|
||
check or money order made out to Steve Cavanaugh
|
||
|
||
|
||
JUICED.GS Max Jones has been in the newspaper business for over 20 years,
|
||
""""""""" so it shouldn't surprise you that his newsletter is both
|
||
professionally and attractively laid out. Very good use is made of
|
||
half-tone photographs and of illustrations (often screen captures, never
|
||
clip art for clip art's sake) and the newsletter has the feel of a magazine
|
||
as result. Jones also knows how to use pull-out quotes--the Mike
|
||
Westerfield quote on the bottom of page 11 is particularly
|
||
arresting--though they do get overused just a little.
|
||
|
||
The "premier" issue is 24 pages long, and is saddle-stitched (that
|
||
is, bound with staples through the fold). The contents are as follows:
|
||
|
||
Cover story: The Roller-Coaster Ride of '95
|
||
GreetinGS: We have liftoff!
|
||
Feature: The Lost Generation of the IIgs
|
||
Review: discQuest Encyclopedia 2.0
|
||
Review: PMPFax 1.0 [by Tim Kellers]
|
||
Shareware spotlight: Sounding off (rSounder, MegaBox, SoundIt!)
|
||
DumplinGS: News from the Apple II world
|
||
II Be Named Later: Power for the People [by Ryan M. Suenaga]
|
||
|
||
The best part of the premiere issue is clearly the feature article on
|
||
the prototype "Mark Twain" Apple IIgs. Jones took some trouble to dig deep
|
||
for details, and yet diplomatically avoids stealing Joe Kohn's thunder.
|
||
(Kohn is expected to have an expose on the "Mark Twain" in the next issue
|
||
of _Shareware Solutions II_.)
|
||
|
||
The reviews of discQuest Encyclopedia and PMPFax are also extensive
|
||
and good--plenty to sink your teeth into. The shareware reviews are
|
||
(appropriately) shorter. This section drew my attention to a couple of
|
||
pieces of shareware I might otherwise have missed.
|
||
|
||
Ryan Suenaga makes an appearance here, too. This, of course, comes
|
||
as a surprise to no one. Ryan has contributed to _GS+_, _GenieLamp A2_,
|
||
_The Apple Blossom_, _Juiced.GS_, and is said to have an article in the
|
||
upcoming second issue of _The AppleWorks Gazette_. Plus he's a regular in
|
||
the A2 RoundTable. Where he gets his energy I do not know--must be all
|
||
those macadamia nuts.
|
||
|
||
Max Jones's DumplinGS column, a news round-up, shows that Jones knows
|
||
how to research even the briefest story--there are facts in his coverage of
|
||
the SecondSight card and Wolfenstein 3-D, for example, that I haven't read
|
||
anywhere else. This effort to talk to the people making the news, rather
|
||
than just reporting it, is a must for every newsletter, newspaper,
|
||
magazine, and broadcast... so why is it often overlooked?
|
||
|
||
Jones reports that he has subscribers in 37 states and 4 foreign
|
||
countries, and that he is accepting submissions and story proposals. The
|
||
next edition of _Juiced.GS_ will be published in late May 1996.
|
||
|
||
In a recent real-time conference, Jones said that his is "now
|
||
beginning to hear from folks who have no on-line access, who are hearing
|
||
about the newsletter from user group newsletters". This is good and
|
||
significant news. Apple II users who arrive on Genie are likely to behave
|
||
like a desert traveller arriving at an oasis. It's terrific to hear about
|
||
Apple II users who aren't online, and to know that help is available for
|
||
those who don't own a modem.
|
||
|
||
Mind you, if you already own a modem (which is pretty likely if
|
||
you're reading this issue of GenieLamp A2), a subscription to _Juiced.GS_
|
||
still couldn't hurt.
|
||
|
||
Juiced.GS
|
||
2217 Lakeview Drive
|
||
Sullivan, IN 47882
|
||
|
||
publisher 4 times a year (quarterly)
|
||
|
||
$14 in U.S. and Canada
|
||
$20 overseas
|
||
check or money order made out to Max Jones
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
[EOA]
|
||
[PDQ]//////////////////////////////
|
||
PD_QUICKVIEW /
|
||
/////////////////////////////////
|
||
Yours For The Asking
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
by Douglas Cuff
|
||
[EDITOR.A2]
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Program Name : In The Breach of Centuries
|
||
Filename : HB.FREE.1.BXY
|
||
Library Area : 29
|
||
Program Number : 16498
|
||
File Size : 275584
|
||
Program Type : HyperStudio stack
|
||
Author : Paul Wayne Hiaumet
|
||
File Type : Freeware
|
||
Requirements : HyperStudio run-time module
|
||
(file #24732, HS3.1RJ.BXY)
|
||
|
||
[*][*][*]
|
||
|
||
|
||
Have you been wondering how on earth you're going to use nine free
|
||
hours each month? Have you realized yet that you can now download some of
|
||
the larger files in the library, which you previously thought of as being
|
||
beyond your means? The file we're going to look at this month should take
|
||
approximately 21 minutes to download at 2400 baud, or 7 minutes to download
|
||
at 9600 baud. If you happen to have a 14,400 baud connection, then I guess
|
||
you're going to have to find another way to use up your nine hours!
|
||
|
||
ABOUT THIS PROGRAM "In The Breach of Centuries" is a HyperStudio stack
|
||
"""""""""""""""""" reprinted from HyperBole #4, a magazine on disk
|
||
published in 1991. Although it was distributed on disk, the focus of
|
||
HyperBole was literary--it was not a magazine about computers.
|
||
|
||
This stack is a mixture of fact and fiction. It tells the story of
|
||
Galveston Island in September 1900, using historically accurate
|
||
information--actual telegrams, correspondence, and news stories of the
|
||
time--and fiction. And what a story! Although you will sense the ending
|
||
from the very beginning--even if your history is a little sketchy--I want
|
||
to avoid giving anything away here.
|
||
|
||
[*][*][*]
|
||
|
||
|
||
. __
|
||
(^) <^> /~ ~\
|
||
\-=======_/"\_======-/ \)
|
||
PD_Q RATING "\. 1 ./"
|
||
""""""""""" "\._ _ _./"
|
||
. __ (_____) . __
|
||
(^) <^> /~ ~\ (^) <^> /~ ~\
|
||
\-=======_/"\_======-/ \) \-=======_/"\_======-/ \)
|
||
"\. 2 ./" "\. 3 ./"
|
||
"\._ _ _./" "\._ _ _./"
|
||
(_____) (_____)
|
||
. __ . __
|
||
(^) <^> /~ ~\ (^) <^> /~ ~\
|
||
\-=======_/"\_======-/ \) \-=======_/"\_======-/ \)
|
||
"\. 4 ./" "\. 5 ./"
|
||
"\._ _ _./" "\._ _ _./"
|
||
(_____) (_____)
|
||
|
||
FIVE LAMPS (1-5)
|
||
|
||
|
||
PD_Q COMMENTS This is the most effective hypermedia presentation I have
|
||
""""""""""""" ever seen. It really got to me.
|
||
|
||
The stack begins with a short prologue, gives you the chance to
|
||
explore five supplementary areas and one broad area, then presents a brief
|
||
epilogue. The prologue warns you to adjust your perceptions: "During the
|
||
later years of the nineteenth century, Galveston, Texas was one of the
|
||
largest cities in the south.... she was the envy of her neighbours,
|
||
including the struggling infant, Houston, to her north."
|
||
|
||
After the prologue, you're presented with a map. As the story
|
||
unfolds, numbered markers appear on the map, giving you the chance to be
|
||
drawn deeper into the story. (WARNING: For your own enjoyment, do not
|
||
click on the city of Galveston until after all five markers have appeared.)
|
||
|
||
An often-heard complaint about HyperStudio and HyperCard stacks is
|
||
that they don't give the user enough to do. They make you sit there as
|
||
they drag the information they wish to present past your weary eyes, like
|
||
an old-time panorama. That's not the case here. Each of the five markers
|
||
leads you to a page with a standard layout. You're shown the time and the
|
||
date, and there's some text to read that's central to this chapter.
|
||
|
||
Up at the top of each chapter page, there are four graphics you can
|
||
click on. The rightmost graphic of telegraph workers lets you read a
|
||
telegram. The graphic of a photographer shows you an photograph from the
|
||
archives. The graphic of a newsboy shows you a headline or story from the
|
||
newspaper. The leftmost graphic lets you read an account--sometimes
|
||
factual, sometimes fictional--of one (or more) of six people who lived
|
||
through the events: a juvenile vagabond named Thaddeus; chief weather
|
||
observer Isaac Cline; a nurse named Rebecca; Father Breeland, a priest; and
|
||
two nameless narrators--one a sailor on board the _Kendall Castle_ and the
|
||
other a shanty dweller.
|
||
|
||
In terms of keeping you interested, the design of the page is
|
||
adequate, not more. What really draws you in is the text. The words. The
|
||
writing. The stories. You get to know these people and care about what
|
||
happens to them in an astonishingly short time.
|
||
|
||
While you're reading, the stack plays a song that you may know the
|
||
chorus of, though uou may not recognize it at first. My advice is that you
|
||
leave it playing for as long as you possibly can. It can increase the
|
||
tension and add to the atmosphere of the stack. If it merely irritates
|
||
you, by all means switch it off.
|
||
|
||
By the time you get to the fifth marker--the closest on the map to
|
||
Galveston--you should have a sense of foreboding. This isn't alleviated
|
||
any when you visit the fifth chapter and click on the telegraph graphic.
|
||
The message that you read is simple but stark.
|
||
|
||
Once you've passed all five markers, you can click on the city of
|
||
Galveston. The map of the coast will be replaced with a map of the city
|
||
itself, and you'll have the chance to click on six unlabelled and
|
||
unnumbered locations in the city and find out what became of Rebecca,
|
||
Father Breeland, Isaac, Thaddeus, the sailor and the shanty-dweller. Feel
|
||
free to visit these locations in any order you like.
|
||
|
||
You would have to have a heart of rock not to be affected by the
|
||
final entry in Isaac Cline's journal.
|
||
|
||
When you have visited all six locations on the map of the city, click
|
||
the exit button in the bottom right corner of the screen for the
|
||
disquieting epilogue.
|
||
|
||
To be sure, there are a few flaws in this stack. In one case, a
|
||
button is missing, leaving you stranded on the screen! Once you click on
|
||
the third marker, you'll see the familiar chapter page. When you click on
|
||
the leftmost graphic, you'll get to scroll through the story of Rebecca,
|
||
the nurse. Once you've finished, you're stranded! Instead of clicking,
|
||
press OA-~. (The ~ character is immediately to the left of the space bar.)
|
||
This is HyperStudio shorthand for "go back", and should return you to the
|
||
chapter page.
|
||
|
||
Another curious feature of this stack is that it discourages
|
||
returning to a chapter you've already seen. If you've reached the fourth
|
||
chapter and want to re-read part of the first chapter, you can accomplish
|
||
that without hindrance. The problem comes when you want to return to the
|
||
fourth chapter--you can't, not without visiting each chapter page all over
|
||
again. To make this as painless as possible, click on each numbered marker
|
||
as it appears on the map. This will take you to a chapter page. Then
|
||
click on the small map of Texas in lower right corner to return to the map.
|
||
Keep doing this until you are back at the chapter you last read.
|
||
|
||
One final caution: because this stack uses pre-System 6 tools, it do
|
||
things to your IIgs that will cause it to crash soon after you have
|
||
finished it. Therefore you should save anything volatile before running
|
||
this stack. By the time the music has sped up or slowed down, you'll know
|
||
something bad has happened, but it may be too late to do anything about it.
|
||
|
||
This stack has earned every one of its five lamps. Its may not be a
|
||
perfect stack, but it's so good that a few imperfections cannot affect its
|
||
perfect score. My only fear is that your expectations have been raised too
|
||
high by my praise, and that you will come away disappointed. I hope not.
|
||
"In The Breach of Centuries" is a wonderful example of the power of
|
||
hypermedia and the power of good writing woven together almost seamlessly.
|
||
|
||
RATING SYSTEM
|
||
"""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
5 LAMPS.........What? You haven't downloaded 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 download.
|
||
0 ..............GEnieLamp Turkey Award!
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
[EOA]
|
||
[BAN]//////////////////////////////
|
||
FILE BANDWAGON /
|
||
/////////////////////////////////
|
||
Top 10 Files for February
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
by Douglas Cuff
|
||
[EDITOR.A2]
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
This feature lists the ten most popular files for the month. To give
|
||
files a chance to seek their own levels, no files will be added to the list
|
||
until they've been in place at least a month. This month, we look at the
|
||
files uploaded 1-29 February 1996.
|
||
|
||
This isn't the Academy Awards ceremony, folks; it's more like the
|
||
People's Choice Awards (both of which are trademarked, by the way). The
|
||
Top 10 doesn't necessarily tell you what's new and interesting--what files
|
||
_you_ might find interesting--it simply tells you what files have been
|
||
downloaded a lot--what other people found interesting!
|
||
|
||
Because two versions of the same program appear in the Top 10 this
|
||
month, we've added an eleventh file to the list, so that you get ten
|
||
different files, and not just ten different file names. Does that make
|
||
sense? I hope so, because here comes the list:
|
||
|
||
File # Filename Bytes DLs Short description
|
||
------ --------------- ------ --- -------------------------------------
|
||
26573 PUYOPUYO.BXY 479744 262 An awesome addictive new IIgs game!
|
||
26554 JPEGSV10.BXY 139496 212 JPEG image viewer.
|
||
26501 CHRONOS2.1.BXY 7552 136 Menu Bar clock and MUCH more!
|
||
26589 MARK.TWAIN.TXT 9316 129 Review of the Mark Twain IIgs
|
||
26646 INTERNET.BXY 121624 125 HyperStudio Internet Directory
|
||
26531 RPACKER1.0.BXY 12120 115 Finder Extra to compact resources
|
||
26583 DALEKS.BXY 23168 105 GS Desktop version of Daleks!
|
||
26522 GSE.V4.30.BXY 177408 104 GS Entertainment version 4.30
|
||
26601 GSE4.31.BXY 177408 101 GS Entertainment version 4.31
|
||
26516 MONITOR.FIX.BXY 12252 96 Harold Hislop's monitor fixes
|
||
26479 BEG.HTML.BXY 17292 95 Beginner's Guide to HTML
|
||
|
||
|
||
PUYOPUYO.BXY PuyoPuyo IIgs by "Slixter" (Bret Victor) is a game where
|
||
"""""""""""" colored balls fall down to the bottom of the screen in
|
||
pairs, and you try to keep the resulting pile from reaching the top. The
|
||
only way to make balls go away is by having four balls of the same color
|
||
touch. It's kind of a hyped-up cross between Tetris and Columns, but even
|
||
more fun, especially for children, who will enjoy the faces on the colored
|
||
balls. Can be played by one or two players. Colorful graphics, music and
|
||
sound effects. A Right Triangle Production. Freeware.
|
||
|
||
JPEGSV10.BXY jpeGS v1.0 by Mark Marr-Lyon displays JPEG graphics on the
|
||
"""""""""""" IIgs. Supports the SecondSight card, but does _not_ require
|
||
one. Has a preview mode, and supports scaling of graphics (1:1, 1:2, 1:4,
|
||
1:8), which is helpful, since JPEG graphics are often large and will not
|
||
fit on the IIgs screen. Freeware.
|
||
|
||
CHRONOS2.1.BXY Chronos II v2.1 by Kris Olsson is a menu-bar clock from
|
||
"""""""""""""" 1991 that still works nicely under System 6.0.1. What
|
||
makes Chronos II special is that it doesn't just offer you the time and
|
||
date--just by clicking on the menu bar, you also have a stopwatch, a free
|
||
memory indicator, a report on the largest free block of memory, and mouse
|
||
cursor coordinates. Chronos II can be positioned anywhere in the menu bar
|
||
so that it doesn't interfere with the legitimate menu-bar real estate in
|
||
your favorite desktop program. Shareware ($7-10).
|
||
|
||
MARK.TWAIN.TXT This 1600-word article by Jim Pittman about the legendary
|
||
"""""""""""""" "Mark Twain" Apple IIgs originally appeared in the
|
||
AppleQuerque Computer Club's publication AppleTalk. Learn how AppleQuerque
|
||
got their hands on one of these legendary prototypes!
|
||
|
||
INTERNET.BXY This HyperStudio stack collects an amazing amount of
|
||
"""""""""""" information about Internet resources. The information is
|
||
organized alphabetically. No author credit is given in the stack. It was
|
||
uploaded to Genie by B.MASON4.
|
||
|
||
If you don't own HyperStudio, you'll need to download file #24732:
|
||
HS3.1RJ.BXY. This runtime version of HyperStudio will allow you to use the
|
||
stack.
|
||
|
||
RPACKER1.0.BXY The rPacker Finder Extra v1.0 by Brian D. Wells helps cut
|
||
"""""""""""""" down on wasted space in a resource fork by compacting that
|
||
resource fork. This can mean that your favorite programs and data take up
|
||
less space on your hard drive! (rPacker ignores and does not compact
|
||
TrueType fonts.) Requires System 6.0.1. Freeware.
|
||
|
||
DALEKS.BXY Daleks! v1.0 by Roy LeCates is a classic game where you are
|
||
"""""""""" being pursued by determined but stupid killer robots
|
||
("Exterminate! Exterminate!") and you try to lead them such a merry chase
|
||
that they crash into one another. Shareware ($5).
|
||
|
||
GSE.V4.30.BXY and GSE4.31.BXY GS Entertainment by Clayburn W. Juniel, III
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" is a kind of jukebox that plays music and
|
||
shows pictures too. It can display PNT graphics, PIC graphics, 256 and
|
||
3200 color graphics, INI desktop graphics, and ANI animations! It can
|
||
simultaneously play music from Music Composer, Music Studio, SoundSmith, or
|
||
SynthLab, as well as rSounds, HyperStudio and HyperCard IIgs formatted
|
||
sound files, and "just plain sound files". Shareware ($10).
|
||
|
||
(NOTE: If you want to download the most recent version of GS
|
||
Entertainment, download file #26866, GSE4.32.BXY. This version fixes bugs
|
||
in the two versions mentioned above.)
|
||
|
||
MONITOR.FIX.BXY This archive of a bulletin board message posted by Harold
|
||
""""""""""""""" Hislop will be extremely helpful to those trying to fix
|
||
an AppleColor RGB monitor. The file lists common symptoms and simple
|
||
fixes. GenieLamp A2 readers take note!: This message appear in the HEY
|
||
MISTER POSTMAN column in the March 1996 issue.
|
||
|
||
BEG.HTML.BXY This is A Beginner's Guide to HTML. HTML stands for
|
||
"""""""""""" HyperText Markup Language, and is a way of formatting text
|
||
for use on World Wide Web pages. If you want to create your own web page,
|
||
start by reading this 4800-word file! Also available on the web at:
|
||
|
||
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/general/internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
[EOA]
|
||
[LIB]//////////////////////////////
|
||
THE ONLINE LIBRARY /
|
||
/////////////////////////////////
|
||
February Arrivals
|
||
"""""""""""""""""
|
||
by Douglas Cuff
|
||
[EDITOR.A2]
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
This month, I'd like to list all the files that have been uploaded to
|
||
the A2 RoundTable libraries during February. Since there are 141 of them,
|
||
I can't examine them in detail, but the short description provided should
|
||
give you an idea of what the file is all about. If you'd like more
|
||
in-depth coverage, please let me know!
|
||
|
||
This month, I haven't included 36 message archives in the file
|
||
listing. So technically, there were 177 uploads in February, not just 141.
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> PROGRAMS <<<
|
||
""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
||
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
||
26627 ANIME.BXY 16064 Animation utility for paint programs
|
||
26501 CHRONOS2.1.BXY 7552 Menu Bar clock and MUCH more!
|
||
26498 DOS33LNCHR.BXY 41692 Load and launch DOS33 frm HD or 3.5"
|
||
26522 GSE.V4.30.BXY 177408 GS Entertainment version 4.30
|
||
26601 GSE4.31.BXY 177408 GS Entertainment version 4.31
|
||
26554 JPEGSV10.BXY 139496 JPEG image viewer.
|
||
26602 MPLAYER.CDA.BXY 8832 Music Player CDA version 1.3
|
||
26485 NULIB324.ZIP 63488 UnShrink files under MS-DOS
|
||
26531 RPACKER1.0.BXY 12120 Finder Extra to compact resources
|
||
26581 WINFLATE122.BXY 10112 NDA minimizes window to menubar
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> GAMES <<<
|
||
"""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
||
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
||
26583 DALEKS.BXY 23168 GS Desktop version of Daleks!
|
||
26491 EAMON.DOS09.BXY 794904 Eamon Collection: DOS 3.3 Disk 9
|
||
26569 EAMON.DOS10.BXY 770088 Eamon Collection: DOS 3.3 Disk 10
|
||
26591 EAMON.DOS11.BXY 784152 Eamon Collection: DOS 3.3 Disk 11
|
||
26573 PUYOPUYO.BXY 479744 An awesome addictive new IIgs game!
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> HYPERMEDIA <<<
|
||
""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
||
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
||
26646 INTERNET.BXY 121624 HyperStudio Internet Directory
|
||
26530 MM.BXY 24832 Hyperstudio Daily Journal Program
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> DATA AND TEMPLATES <<<
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
||
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
||
26647 BB.DRFT.ADB.BXY 13544 AWGS draft templ. for Little League
|
||
26479 BEG.HTML.BXY 17292 Beginner's Guide to HTML
|
||
26618 BWPRICES.960221 12160 Byte Works Prices, 21 Feb 96
|
||
26520 CINDYCRD.BXY 10240 Publish It template for cards
|
||
26691 HP.PCL.BXY 3200 HP PCL Printer Codes
|
||
26589 MARK.TWAIN.TXT 9316 Review of the Mark Twain IIgs
|
||
26516 MONITOR.FIX.BXY 12252 Harold Hislop's monitor fixes
|
||
26585 TWGSCACHE32.BXY 6400 New TransWarp GS Cache available
|
||
26467 WIHICS.DOC.TXT 15340 Where In Hell Is Carmen Santiago DOX
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> PERIODICALS <<<
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
||
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
||
26477 IIS.960204.BXY 24532 II Something - Issue 15 - Feb 04 96
|
||
26535 IIS.960211.BXY 38656 II Something - Issue 16 - Feb 11 96
|
||
26590 IIS.960218.BXY 19840 II Something - Issue 17 - Feb 18 96
|
||
26652 IIS.960225.BXY 25984 II Something - Issue 18 - Feb 25 96
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> GENIE A2 ROUNDTABLE TOOLS AND FILES <<<
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
||
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
||
26568 A2.JAN.ADB.BXY 7436 ADB Update of A2 Library Index - JAN
|
||
26567 A2.JAN.TXT.BXY 7268 TXT Update of A2 Library Index - JAN
|
||
26465 A2NDX9602DB.BXY 18424 A2 BB Index 2/96 TXT for ADB REV.
|
||
26466 A2NDX9602TX.BXY 18760 A2 BB Index 2/96 ASCII ver. REV.
|
||
26692 A2NDX9603DB.BXY 18444 A2 BB Index 3/96 TXT for ADB REV.
|
||
26696 A2NDX9603TX.BXY 18756 A2 BB Index 3/96 ASCII ver. REV.
|
||
26529 ATCOP.ANN.BXY 11520 CoPilot/AT - read GEnie announcement
|
||
26562 CP.S.YOVFIX.BXY 5816 Required Update for CoPilot Spectrum
|
||
26645 GEM.COST511.BXY 51584 GEM COST 5.1.1 - GEM 5.1 macro
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> SOUNDS AND MUSIC <<<
|
||
""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
||
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
||
26622 BANANA.BXY 27520 SynthLAB song: Banana
|
||
26640 CARIBEN.BXY 91008 SynthLab sequence
|
||
26641 FANFARE.BXY 93824 SynthLab song: Fanfare for Man
|
||
26624 ISTANBUL.BXY 19968 SynthLAB song: Istanbul
|
||
26623 RHAPBLUE.BXY 29824 SynthLAB song: Rhapsody In Blue
|
||
26644 TILTHERE.BXY 26752 SynthLab song : Til There was You
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> FONTS <<<
|
||
"""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
||
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
||
26536 ADINEKIR.T1.BXY 41828 T1 PostScript Art Nouveau scrpt font
|
||
26537 ANIMALS.T1.BXY 71688 T1 PostScript animals font
|
||
26680 BLUEPRNT.T1.BXY 51304 T1 PostScript architectural font
|
||
26538 BORZOI.T1.BXY 115844 Good T1 PostScript body text font
|
||
26539 BRASSFLD.T1.BXY 47592 Good T1 PostScript body text font
|
||
26681 BUBBALOV.T1.BXY 133856 T1 PostScript thin display font
|
||
26523 FRANKS.T1.BXY 26044 T1 PostScript bold causal disp. font
|
||
26524 FRANKS.TT.BXY 16880 TrueType bold casual display font
|
||
26682 FRANKTIM.T1.BXY 38828 T1 PostScript body-text font
|
||
26683 GOODFELO.T1.BXY 37248 T1 PostScript Victorian display font
|
||
26684 INFORMAL.T1.BXY 31928 T1 PostScript casual font
|
||
26685 MACHBLOK.T1.BXY 13428 T1 PostScript bold headline font
|
||
26686 MONOTONY.T1.BXY 50352 T1 PostScript mono-spaced font
|
||
26687 MURIEL.T1.BXY 90020 T1 PostScript beautiful script font
|
||
26525 NIXON.T1.BXY 25908 T1 PostScript Chinese menu font
|
||
26534 NIXON.TT.BXY 19072 TrueType Chinese menu font
|
||
26527 OCTAVIAN.T1.BXY 31584 T1 PostScript font for body text
|
||
26688 PARKHAVN.T1.BXY 22720 T1 PostScript popular script font
|
||
26689 PLAYBILL.T1.BXY 28400 T1 PostScript western display font
|
||
26690 SCHZWALD.T1.BXY 25140 T1 PostScript bold display font
|
||
|
||
|
||
>>> GRAPHICS <<<
|
||
""""""""""""""""
|
||
|
||
File # Filename Bytes Short description
|
||
------ --------------- ------ ---------------------------------------
|
||
26518 ADAMS.GIF 45172 Color GIF of the Adams family
|
||
26608 ALAMO.GIF 26768 Color GIF of the Alamo
|
||
26619 AMER.GOTH.GIF 255460 Color GIF of An American Gothic
|
||
26514 ANDRMA.GIF 563832 Color GIF of a Delcroix painting
|
||
26576 APPLEII.GIF 140288 Apple II Guide Cover
|
||
26473 BEARS.GIF 221504 Color GIF of grizzly bears
|
||
26513 BOATS.GIF 806724 Color GIF of a Braque painting
|
||
26504 BOQUT.GIF 620912 Color GIF of a Renoir painting
|
||
26621 BORDERS1EPS.BXY 94436 10 nice EPS borders for PostScript
|
||
26503 BOWLS.GIF 589672 Color GIF of a Picasso painting
|
||
26519 CHUNK.GIF 27112 Color GIF of Chuck Stites
|
||
26507 CHURCH.GIF 601068 Color GIF of a Sisley painting
|
||
26609 CLOWN.GIF 6468 Color GIF of a clown
|
||
26532 CLUE.BXY 75680 Pictures by Ninjaforce's artist
|
||
26476 CNY.ASCII.TXT 122160 ASCII art for Chinese New Year
|
||
26508 CRAGS.GIF 704212 Color GIF of a Renoir painting
|
||
26632 DESERT.GIF 13092 Color GIF of a desert border
|
||
26607 EASTER.GIF 2128 B&W GIF of Jesus for Easter
|
||
26506 GEORGE.GIF 24024 Color GIF of George Washington
|
||
26512 GRTWV.GIF 399848 Color GIF of Hokusai painting
|
||
26493 GULL.GIF 93448 Color GIF of a seagull
|
||
26505 HARLQN.GIF 464932 Color GIF of a Picasso Painting
|
||
26517 HEARTS.BW.BXY 57276 Hearts Alphabet graphics. B/W SHR.
|
||
26560 HEARTS.DESK.BXY 77808 Hearts desktop background INIs.
|
||
26544 HEARTS.GIF 8416 Hearts border in a color GIF
|
||
26606 HELLCAT.GIF 244428 Color GIF of a Hellcat airplane
|
||
26597 IRELAND.GIF 1168 Color GIF of the flag of Ireland
|
||
26610 KNIGHT.GIF 34760 Color GIF of a knight in armor
|
||
26469 LEPRA.BW.GIF 10004 B&W GIF of a leprechaun
|
||
26592 LEPRE.GIF 21496 Color GIF for St. Patrick's Day
|
||
26593 LEPRECH.GIF 26520 Color GIF for St. Patrick's Day
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26611 MAID.GIF 14268 Color GIF of a drawing of a mermaid
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26630 MAP.GIF 3716 Color GIF of map of Ireland
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26478 MARDICRAB.BXY 46712 MardiGras Crab Poster - great EPS
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26575 MARKTWAIN.GIF 232192 Cover Photo for Apple II Guide
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26486 MONALS.GIF 24868 Color GIF of the Mona Lisa
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26634 ONEWAY.GIF 8548 Color GIF of a oneway sign
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26582 ONHOLD.BXY 3584 Rotating beachball cursor init
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26490 PALTTE.GIF 2620 Color GIF of an artist's pallette
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26620 PARIS.GIF 563280 Color GIF of a Cailleliotte painting
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26633 PARROT.GIF 22904 Color GIF of a parrot
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26487 PENGN.GIF 3460 Black and white GIF of a penguin
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26488 POPCRN.GIF 3572 Color GIF of popcorn and ice cream
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26636 PTGLD.GIF 30740 Color GIF of Rainbow and pot of gold
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26492 RNBOW.GIF 7276 Color GIF of a rainbow
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26540 ROSE1.GIF 5328 Color GIF of a yellow rose
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26541 ROSE2.GIF 4704 Color GIF of pink rose
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26542 ROSE3.GIF 8184 Color GIF of a pink rose
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26667 RYB.GIF 302136 Color GIF of a Mondrian painting
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26474 SCIENCE.GIF 29660 B&W clipart of science stuff
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26489 SEAL.GIF 13512 A sea lion in 16 shades of gray
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26468 SHAMRK.GIF 9268 Color GIF of a shamrock
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26631 SIESTA.GIF 18832 Color GIF of naptime under a cactus
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26494 SKI.GIF 69488 Color GIF of a skier
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26475 ST.PAT.GIF 3492 B&W GIF for St. Patrick's Day
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26496 STHWST.GIF 12208 B&W Southwestern clipart objects
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26599 STPADDY1.GIF 23616 Color GIF for St. Patrick's Day
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26598 STPADDY2.GIF 21988 Color GIF for St. Patrick's Day
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26596 STPAT01.GIF 3860 B&W GIF for St. Patrick's Day
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26595 STPAT02.GIF 2436 B&W GIF for St. Patrick's Day
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26594 STPAT13.GIF 7136 B&W GIF for St. Patrick's Day
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26603 STPATS3.GIF 8648 B&W GIF for St. Patrick's Day
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26605 STPATS8.GIF 2620 Color GIF for St. Patrick's Day
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26604 STPATS9.GIF 21248 B&W GIF for St. Patrick's Day
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26472 SUNBW.GIF 28896 B&W GIF of 4 different suns
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26495 SUNRS.GIF 24216 Color GIF of a sunrise painting
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26497 SUNSET.GIF 35012 Color GIF of saguro cactus at dusk
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26515 TELSCP.GIF 491380 Color GIF of a Magritte painting
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26668 TEXTR1.DESK.BXY 595704 Desktop texture backgrounds. Mar.96
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26471 TONTO1.GIF 33520 Color GIF of Tonto Monument
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26470 TONTO2.GIF 58752 Color GIF of Tonto Monument
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26584 TWGSCACHE32.GIF 42176 New TransWarp GS 32K Cache (GIF)
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26555 VALEN2.DESK.BXY 619392 Valentine Desktop background INIs.
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26543 VALEN9.GIF 20032 Color GIF for Valentine's Day
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26635 VIPER.GIF 264076 Color GIF of '96 Dodge Viper
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26666 WALKWORK.GIF 499768 A color GIF of a Millet painting
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I know I've mentioned it already, but I'll just repeat that the
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message archives are excluded from this month's column. I won't reinstate
|
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them unless I hear from YOU!
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[EOA]
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[SOF]//////////////////////////////
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SOFTVIEW A2 /
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/////////////////////////////////
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GraphicWriter III v2.0
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""""""""""""""""""""""
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by Douglas Cuff
|
||
[EDITOR.A2]
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>>> WHAT'S IN A NUMBER? <<<
|
||
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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|
||
GraphicWriter III is a page layout program for the Apple IIgs. Until
|
||
recently, users had to be satisfied with v1.1, written in 1991. In
|
||
February, Seven Hills Software began shipping v2.0.
|
||
|
||
Australian programmer Richard Bennett is the man behind this update,
|
||
despite the fact that he was not the original author of the programmer.
|
||
(It can't have been a lot of fun trying to update someone else's code.)
|
||
Bennett rewrote and optimized some code, and updated the program so that it
|
||
was more System 6 compliant.
|
||
|
||
For example, GraphicWriter III now:
|
||
|
||
o supports the standard system clipboard;
|
||
|
||
o supports the standard font menu;
|
||
|
||
o supports the Finder in that you can click on a GWIII document, and
|
||
this will cause GWIII to launch and open that document;
|
||
|
||
o supports AppleShare networks for its preferences;
|
||
|
||
o supports system event sounds;
|
||
|
||
o recognizes keyboard shortcuts such as Return for accepting a
|
||
default button, OA-. for Cancel, and--most importantly--OA-w to
|
||
close a document. (In GWIII v1.1, OA-w displayed your document so
|
||
that it fit in the available window and you could see the whole
|
||
page.)
|
||
|
||
Many of these changes are important, since the lack of them made the
|
||
previous version of GraphicWriter III a pain to use. GraphicWriter III
|
||
didn't get along with all sorts of other utilities. Now it does. It gets
|
||
along with the Twilight II screen saver now, too.
|
||
|
||
Although these changes are important, it's hard to work up any real
|
||
excitement over them. The program did things in a non-standard way, and
|
||
now it does them a standard way. Everybody else has been doing things this
|
||
way since System 6.0.1 was released. Not the sort of thing that's going to
|
||
make for a gripping demonstration at your next user group meeting.
|
||
|
||
Fortunately, Seven Hills included a few goodies with v2.0 as well.
|
||
The most significant is the new Object Specs feature. This allows you to
|
||
enter the position and size of an object in precise terms, by typing
|
||
numbers in the specification box. This allows you to be more accurate in
|
||
the placing of objects--no more struggling with the mouse!
|
||
|
||
Also useful are the reduction and enlargement buttons in the Object
|
||
Specs window. You can quickly reduce an object to half- or quarter-size,
|
||
or enlarge it to twice or four times its original size. These reductions
|
||
and enlargements are based on the object's original size--clicking the
|
||
"1/2" button does not continue to reduce the size of an object by 50%.
|
||
|
||
These reduction buttons make it possible to get very sharp-looking
|
||
graphics when you print! If you copy a picture while in a standard paint
|
||
program such as Platinum Paint, you can now paste it into a GraphicWriter
|
||
document... but wait! If you click the Object Specs "1/2" or "1/4"
|
||
reduction button immediately after pasting your picture, GraphicWriter will
|
||
reduce the size of the graphic but attempt to keep the original resolution
|
||
when it prints. You owe it to yourself to try this out--it's very slick!
|
||
|
||
If image quality is important to you, don't get too used to being
|
||
able to paste graphics into GraphicWriter. If you're keeping the graphic
|
||
its original size--no reduction--then the old method of import a graphic
|
||
sometimes yields better quality than pasting at the original size. I tried
|
||
both importing and pasting a MacPaint graphic, and got better image quality
|
||
with importing.
|
||
|
||
The concept of master pages is important to most page layout
|
||
programs, and GraphicWriter III is no exception. GraphicWriter has always
|
||
had master pages, but now there's an option to erase the guides on whatever
|
||
page you're working on, and replace them with the guides from the master
|
||
pages.
|
||
|
||
That about wraps up the major functional changes to GraphicWriter III
|
||
v2.0, which is kind of disappointing. There are still some minor but still
|
||
convenient changes.
|
||
|
||
My favorite minor change is in the OA-Jump to page window. Until
|
||
now, you had to use the mouse to select the page from a scrolling list.
|
||
With this update, you can type the number of the page you want, and get
|
||
there _fast_! You can enter L or R instead of a number if you want to jump
|
||
to the left or right master page--now that's slick!
|
||
|
||
Another handy feature is the way the "next page" function operates if
|
||
you are on the last page of a document and there _is_ no last page: a
|
||
window pops up so that you can insert more pages after the last page.
|
||
|
||
If you chose to have GraphicWriter measure in inches (instead of
|
||
centimetres, picas, or points), then you'll be glad to know that the
|
||
horizontal and vertical rulers are now marked in sixteenths of an inch, not
|
||
tenths of an inch. This is a considerable relief.
|
||
|
||
There are other cosmetic changes, some of which the user will
|
||
applaud, and others of which the user will scarcely notice. For example,
|
||
the paragraph and page layout windows now use different colors, which is
|
||
noticeable but unexplained. The old colors didn't seem to do any harm, but
|
||
the same can be said of the new colors. It's still possible to use either
|
||
version with a monochrome monitor. Other windows have been changed is
|
||
similarly minor ways. For example, the descriptive labels in the Text Wrap
|
||
window have been made shorter.
|
||
|
||
One design change that's well worth noting is in the Align Objects
|
||
window. Instead of short descriptions ("Tops", "Bottoms"), there are radio
|
||
buttons in appropriate positions around the example window. There's no
|
||
longer any need for the user's brain to translate from words to visual
|
||
effect, which is a nice touch.
|
||
|
||
GraphicWriter III v2.0 now supports extras, which make it easier for
|
||
programmers to write add-on modules. This is potentially exciting, but
|
||
practically worthless for now. No one has yet written an extra, which
|
||
means that the Extras menu doesn't even appear in v2.0.
|
||
|
||
There's now a help menu, which new customers will appreciate. The
|
||
help is fairly extensive--it will sure save you the trouble of scrabbling
|
||
for the manual if you just need to be reminded how to mix and match pica
|
||
measurements and inch measurements in the same document, so it has value to
|
||
old-timers, too.
|
||
|
||
This new version fixes a few bugs in GraphicWriter. It does not,
|
||
however, address all the changes that were crying out to be made. (My pet
|
||
peeve: If you want to print one page of a ten-page document, GraphicWriter
|
||
III "builds" every last page. This takes time, especially in a
|
||
font-intensive document.) No serious flaws remain, but irritants do.
|
||
|
||
Slightly more serious is Seven Hills' claim that the spelling checker
|
||
now handles "curly" apostrophes correctly. In v1.1, "you'll" with a
|
||
straight apostrophe was not flagged as incorrect, but "you'll" with a curly
|
||
apostrophe was queried. (How I wish I could demonstrate the difference
|
||
between straight and curly, but ASCII text doesn't allow for it!) This new
|
||
version may handle curly apostrophes correctly more often, but I was still
|
||
able to make it choke by the simple expedient of using the sample files
|
||
included on the update disk!
|
||
|
||
The list of new features also claims that Snap to Guides "code was
|
||
greatly improved so that objects will snap to the same position even if
|
||
they are slightly left/right or above/below the guide being snapped to."
|
||
This may be a subjective thing, but I found v1.1 lacking in this respect,
|
||
and I don't notice any difference in v2.0. Possibly I need to spend more
|
||
time with the updated package.
|
||
|
||
One feature has been removed from GraphicWriter III v2.0--the ability
|
||
to auto-save files. Gone! Gone without a cry! I never used it and don't
|
||
miss it, and admit that it's not the sort of thing you mention in an
|
||
advertising campaign, but surely it should have been mentioned in the
|
||
manual, shouldn't it?
|
||
|
||
As is usual, this new version fixes some bugs and introduces one or
|
||
two new ones. I haven't found any serious bugs; no guaranteed crashes or
|
||
hangs. There's a cosmetic flaw: the vertical ruler sometimes overdraws
|
||
the "- Page +" box slightly, but no harm is done. I've had problems with
|
||
Find/Change that I didn't have before, but I suspect these are DUE TO INIT
|
||
CONFLICTS, AND NOT THE FAULT OF GRAPHICWRITER, because they disappear when
|
||
I shift-boot. After all, you the user are responsible for what you add to
|
||
your system.
|
||
|
||
GraphicWriter III v2.0 is a welcome update, but not an impressive
|
||
one. With the update package, Seven Hills Software included a notice that
|
||
they are suspending phone support for the products, so perhaps we should be
|
||
grateful that any update was possible. I have no bone to pick with Seven
|
||
Hills, but users who have been led to expect great things by the fact that
|
||
the version number jumped from 1.1 to 2.0 should temper their enthusiasm
|
||
with reality.
|
||
|
||
GraphicWriter III is a good program, and now it's better. Long-time
|
||
users will want this upgrade, and new users no longer have any reason to
|
||
delay their purchase. Just keep in mind that it's been refurbished, not
|
||
remodeled, and you'll be happy when v2.0 arrives in your mailbox.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
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|
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|
||
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|
||
/ I think it was either 1986 or 1987. /
|
||
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|
||
|
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|
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|
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|
||
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