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~ WELCOME TO GENIELAMP APPLE II! ~
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~ FOCUS ON: KansasFest '97
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~ REAL WORLD APPLE: Reach Out and Touch Someone (or Something)
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~ August 15, 1997 ~
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FROM MY DESKTOP ......... [FRM] HEY MISTER POSTMAN ...... [HEY]
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Notes From The Editor. Is That A Letter For Me?
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FILE BANDWAGON .......... [BAN] REAL WORLD APPLE ........ [RWA]
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Top Ten Files For May and June. Reach Out And Touch.
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FOCUS ON ................ [FOC] LOG OFF ................. [LOG]
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The Very Best Of KFest 1997. GenieLamp Information
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READING GENIELAMP GenieLamp has incorporated a unique indexing system
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this system, load GenieLamp into any ASCII word processor or text editor.
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In the index you will find the following example:
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HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM]
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Genie Fun & Games.
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To read this article, set your find or search command to [HUM]. If
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you want to scan all of the articles, search for [EOA]. [EOF] will take
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you to the last page, whereas [IDX] will bring you back to the index.
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MESSAGE INFO To make it easy for you to respond to messages reprinted
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(SMITH, CAT6, TOP1, MSG:58/M475)
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enter the bulletin board and set CAT 6. Enter your REPly in TOPic 1.
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ABOUT Genie Genie has pricing plans to fit almost any budget. Genie's
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chat lines, and an Internet gateway included at a non-prime time connect
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rate of $2.75. Some pricing plans include uncharged online connect time.
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As always, prices are subject to change without notice. To sign up for
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Genie, call (with modem) 1-800-638-8369 in the USA or 1-800-387-8330 in
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Canada. Upon connection wait for the U#= prompt. Type: JOINGENIE and hit
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FROM MY DESKTOP /
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by Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W.
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[A2LAMP]
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>>> GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS <<<
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I believe it was in the original "Oh God" movie where George Burns is
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asked, if he is indeed God, why he allows people to suffer. His response
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is along the lines of, "I could never figure out how to make things with
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only one side." If there's a top, there's a bottom. If there's an inside,
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there's an outside.
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If there's Good News, there's Bad News.
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KansasFest 1997 has come and gone, and while there was some Bad News
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(the attendance was the lowest it's ever been, and the Avila food was
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nothing to write home about), there was some spectacularly Good News as
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well. Prolific Australian programmer Richard Bennett shocked the entire
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world by unveiling _Marinetti_ at KFest '97. _Marinetti_ is the code name
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for an Apple IIgs Control Panel that brings TCP/IP to the Apple IIgs, a
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totally separate effort from Derek Taubert's long awaited _GS/TCP_ project.
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It will be distributed as freeware. Good News indeed!
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KFesters also got to see hardware that never existed, software that no
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one ever thought would, and got to meet Apple II fanatics from all over the
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world. And while Bad News always exists, Good News is always better.
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In any case, while we usually restrict our "Hey Mister Postman"
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feature to posts on the Genie A2 BB during the previous month, this issue
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we have included quite a few early August posts due to KFest 1997
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straddling both months.
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KansasFest forever.
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Sometimes we don't know if something is Good News or Bad News. Take
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the current status of Genie, for instance.
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Genie management has made clear that there are changes coming to
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Genie. What they have not made clear is just what those changes are. What
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_is_ known is that all of the Genie offline processors (_Aladdin_, _Online
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Servant_, _CoPilot_, _GEM_, and any others) will break. How badly they
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will break (and, consequently, how quickly they can be fixed, if, indeed,
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they can be) is unknown at this time. It also appears the way Genie users
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access Genie will change, but, again, what this will change to is unknown
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as well.
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This _could_ be a change for the better, after all. If Genie dropped
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their prices and allowed a low cost offering such as Delphi does with their
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Content Plan, Genie could continue to be the center of the Apple II
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universe for many years to come. That's an optimistic view, but it's a
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possibility. Again, we just don't know.
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What I _do_ know, however, is that the very production of
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_GenieLamp A2_ is dependent on Genie offline processors, and if they cannot
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be quickly repaired, _GenieLamp A2_, at least in the form it is currently
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known, is dead in the water, kaput, finishd.
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That would be very Bad News indeed. Stay tuned.
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[*][*][*]
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What is definitely Good News is that while KansasFest 1997 is over,
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the momentum of Apple II enthusiasm KFest generated has not been slowed one
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iota. The Delphi A2 Forum has been picking up tremendous amounts of steam
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as Apple II user after Apple II user seeks refuge from the storm that is
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Usenet, and the proliferation of offline processors (_Crock O' Gold_,
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_OLRight!_, and _QuarkNet_) has made life easier for everyone. We are
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anxiously awaiting the arrival of _Marinetti_, _GSoft_, and _MUG_, and
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hoping that NinjaForce can find the time to finish _Kaboom!_ The Big
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Cheese of KFest herself, Cindy Adams, is trying to convince some Apple IIgs
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programmer out there to port _Snood_ from the Mac. Those of us involved in
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writing about the Apple II have more than our usual share of work cut out
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for us with covering KFest, _Marinetti_, Genie, Delphi, and trying to get
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the whole Apple II world up to speed on TCP/IP.
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Finally, after a brief breather, your hard-working KansasFest
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committee has set set the dates for KansasFest 1998 as July 22-26 1998 at
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Avila College in Kansas City, Missouri. Mark those calendars now, and
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we'll keep our monthly series of KansasFest Blatant Plugs going as long as
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possible.
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Good News, indeed.
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-- Ryan
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Genie Mail: A2LAMP Internet: a2lamp@genie.com
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HEY MISTER POSTMAN /
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Is That A Letter For Me?
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by Ryan Suenaga
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[A2LAMP]
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o BULLETIN BOARD HOT SPOTS
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o A2 POT-POURRI
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o HOT TOPICS
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o WHAT'S NEW
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o THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
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o MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT
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>>> BULLETIN BOARD HOT SPOTS <<<
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[*] CAT 1, TOP 29 ....... Picking Up the Pieces of the Merger
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[*] CAT 2, TOP 1 ....... Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
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[*] CAT 2, TOP 45 ....... KFest '97: Live from Avila!
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[*] CAT 28, TOP 23 ....... Marinetti--TCP/IP Artistry
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>>> A2 POT-POURRI <<<
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A2/2PRO MERGER AFTERMATH
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Open Message to all who experienced problems in the merger of A2 and A2Pro:
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We understand your frustration and disappointment. However, given the tools
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and the time frame work that we had, we did the best we could to merge the
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two RoundTables with the fewest number of problems for you.
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Here are the facts as I know them.
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For some time we had discussed the possibility of merging A2Pro back into
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A2 in order to increase discussions in the programming topics. However, the
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necessity of this merger was forced upon us when IDT, the owners of Genie,
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decided that the A2Pro Roundtable did not have sufficient traffic to
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warrant its continued existence. We were essentially given until the end of
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June to decide what to do with it.
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With less than a month to decide, we feverishly discussed our options and
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how we could save A2Pro for you. As soon as we had a plan we began putting
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banners and messages in the bulletin boards letting folks know what was
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happening. I understand that some of you did not see those messages until
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it was too late, but we did the best we could.
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It was decided to merge the two bulletin boards all on one day, June 26,
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rather than stretch it out over several days. This would mean that some of
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you who were unaware of what was happening would experience one day of
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horror, but then it would be over and we could all get on with our lives
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here in A2.
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The next step was to merge the two libraries. That was essentially done
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this past weekend, although some changes may still need to be made.
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Now you have a new bulletin board with lots of new topics, and a library
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that has lots of new files that many of you were unaware even existed. I
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hope that you will see this as an opportunity rather than as a problem.
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Others have tried to explain the limitations of Genie's bulletin board and
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library management utilities and I won't add to it, except to say that we
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did the very best that we could to ease the difficulties that you had to
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experience. Please accept our apologies for your inconvenience.
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Charlie Hartley
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(A2.CHARLIE, CAT1, TOP29, MSG:323/M645;1) C
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A MESSAGE FROM SEVEN HILLS
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I just got off the phone with Seven Hills. I have been asked to post a
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request from them, both here and on Delphi.
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They would like to update information they have on those of us who use
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their products. They would like a preferred email address from us, an
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address other than a Genie one (if there is one). That way they can be
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sure that they can get update information, etc. out to us.
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You can email them at:
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SHSS@IX.NETCOM.COM
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CHunk -- Apples on my Desk -- Songs in my Heart -- :)
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(CHUNK.S, CAT16, TOP2, MSG;166/M645;1)
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LAST CALL FOR BULLETIN BOARD ARCHIVES
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General Announcement
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If there are A2 Bulletin Board topics that you would like to have archived
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and put in the library please let me know here within the next week. I will
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make an attempt to meet all requests within the two weeks that follow.
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After that, I'll probably not be doing any more archives.
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Charlie
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(A2.CHARLIE, CAT1, TOP29, MSG:355/M645;1)
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THE NEW A2/A2PRO SOFTWARE LIBRARY LINEUP
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Apple II RoundTable Software Library
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1. A2 RoundTable General Files
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2. ...Bulletin Board Archives
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3. ...Conference Transcripts
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4. ...Library Indexes and Tools
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5. A2 University
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6. Reviews, Press Releases, Ads
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7. Apple II Publications
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8. FAQs, Digests, Info Files
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9. GS/OS System Files & System Disks
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10. ...Icons
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11. ...Tools, FSTs, Drivers
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12. ...System.Setup, Finder.Extras
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13. ...Desk.Accs (NDA, CDA)
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14. ...CDevs (Control Panels)
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15. ...Sounds (System rSounds)
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16. ...Fonts - Bitmap
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17. ...Fonts - TrueType & PostScript
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18. GS/OS General Files
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19. ...Games
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20. ......Mean 18 Courses
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21. ...Graphics (SHR, 3200, Anim, etc.)
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22. ......Print Shop GS
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23. ...Music (MIDI, MOD, SynthLAB, etc.)
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24. ...Sound (BIN, HyperStudio, etc.)
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25. ...Telecommunications
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26. ...Utilities
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27. ...HyperStudio
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28. ...HyperCard IIgs
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29. ProDOS 8 General & System Files
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30. ...Games
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31. ......Eamon
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32. ...Graphics Programs, Sound, Music
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33. ......Pictures
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34. ......New Print Shop
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35. ...Telecommunications
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36. ...Utilities
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37. DOS 3.3 General & System Files
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38. ...Games
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39. ...Print Shop
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40. AppleWorks
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41. ...AppleWorks GS
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42. ...NAUG
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43. Misc. Graphics (GIF, ASCII, etc.)
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44. Education
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45. Business
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46. Desktop Publishing
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47. None of the Above - Misc. Files
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48. Adult Oriented (Forbidden Fruits)
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49. === A2Pro Libraries ===
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50. Tech & Filetype notes, Sample Code
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51. Help me! ... Problem source uploads
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52. Categorize me! & General Uploads
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53. 8-bit development, Applesoft, HyperC
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54. Theory and general techniques
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55. The Reference Shelf: Specs and Info
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56. Resources: REZ, Tools, and Utilities
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57. Miscellaneous Programming Utilities
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58. Interface files, Macros, & Libraries
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59. Debugging Tools (GSBug, Nifty List)
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60. Other IIgs Languages (BASIC, FORTH)
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61. Shells and Shell Utilities (EXE's)
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62. Desk Accessories and Inits
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63. Desktop Programs and GUI Code
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64. Apple Assembly Lines (EXCLUSIVE!)
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65. 8/16 - Central (EXCLUSIVE!)
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66. Practice: Putting it all together
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67. Seven Hills Beta (Private)
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68. Shepherd beta (Private)
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69. ...reserved
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70. ...reserved
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71. ...reserved
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72. ALL Libraries
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(A2.TOMZ, CAT1, TOP39, MSG:88/M645;1)
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THE BIG CHEESE MAKES THE BIG TIME
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I don't know where to put this, but I picked this topic since maybe we
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might be seeing some new people.
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I subscribe to a bi-monthly publication (disk) called Teacher's Mac that's
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published by Schoolhouse Mac. (It's a great publication if you are a
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teacher, BTW.) In their last issue, there was an article on Apple II
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Resources, but it really didn't have too much in it. So being the Apple II
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fanatic that I am, I wrote a letter to let them know about this RT, the
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Delphi Forum, and the A2 Web site. Much to my surprise when I looked at
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the lastest issue at the Apple II Resource section, it was MY letter.
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Kinda cool, I thought to myself.
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So if any of you reading this have found your way here because of Teacher's
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Mac, WELCOME!!!
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Cindy
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(CINDY.A, CAT2, TOP2, MSG:93/M645;1)
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CHANGE IS GOOD. . . YOU GO FIRST
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I just spotted this announcement elsewhere. I have no further details at
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this time, but will post here as soon as I find out more.
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===snip===
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Genie will be making some exciting new changes this summer and want to
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share them with the world. We are asking you to recommend a free one month
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trial of Genie to a friend, co-worker, baby-sitter, the person sitting next
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to you on your transcontinental flight, anyone at all!
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Your "Buddy" will receive a free one month trial of Genie, and full
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internet access tailored for their home or office system. Not to mention
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access to the best online community in the world.
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Now for the best part : You will receive a free month of basic service, if
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your "Buddy" stays with Genie for more than a month. Even if they decide
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not to stay with Genie, you will receive a complementary gift as a token of
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our appreciation, and be among the first Genie members to get Genie's
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Internet Access Program with higher speed modem connections.
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To sign up for this program - please have your "Buddy" call Genie Customer
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Service. Genie Client Services phone number is 1-800-638-9636. The hours
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of operation for Genie Client Services are 9:00am to 5:00pm EST Monday thru
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Friday.
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===snip===
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CHunk
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(CHUNK.S, CAT2, TOP1, MSG:21/M645;1)
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>>>>> I found this survey from Genie mgmt in my email and I'm surprised
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""""" it only got a brief mention here in A2. I was wondering if ya'all
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thought it was spam and just deleted it. Anyway, I think it is worthy of
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re-posting here for all to see and discuss, because if A2 is to survive
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here on Genie we need to make it known that most of us who use the ][
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exclusively are accessing Genie via an operating system which Genie has
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never even heard of. So what's the best way to answer the "what type
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operating system do you use to access Genie" question? Apple II? ProDOS?
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GS/OS? Other?
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------------------------------- snip ----------------------------------
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Item 3462747 97/07/04 20:49
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From: SURVEY Genie Management
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To: LASZLO Laszlo Girhiny
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Sub: GENIE CUSTOMER SURVEY (E)
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Dear Valued Genie Subscriber,
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Genie Online Services is pleased to announce our plan to make Genie even
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easier for you to access and use.
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In order to effectively accomplish this, we need to know a little about you
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and how you use Genie. Your information and opinions are very important to
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us.
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In addition, we would like to update your records in our database so we can
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be sure that you'll receive any update materials and notifications that we
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will be sending via regular mail. Please let us know your new address
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and/or phone number if you have moved since we contacted you last.
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We are also interested in knowing what type of equipment you are using to
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access Genie. This information will be used to restructure Genie in ways
|
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that are best suited to your personal needs. In addition, we would like to
|
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update your records in our database so we can be sure that you'll receive
|
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any update materials and notifications that we will be sending via regular
|
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mail. Please let us know your new address and/or phone number if you have
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moved since we contacted you last.
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We are also interested in knowing what type of equipment you are using to
|
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access Genie. This information will be used to restructure Genie in ways
|
|
that are best suited to your personal needs.
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|
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With this in mind, please take a moment to fill out the brief survey below.
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We appreciate your input as we work hard to make Genie all that you want it
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to be.
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Thank you,
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The Genie Management Team
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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======================
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Last Name :
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Address (Line 1) :
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Address (Line 2) :
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City :
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State :
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Zip-Code :
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Country :
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Home Phone :
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Work Phone :
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Genie E-mail :
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Internet E-mail :
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COMPUTER SYSTEM INFORMATION
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|
=== ===========================
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Type of Computer :
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Operating System :
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Modem Type :
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YOUR COMMENTS
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================
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--------------------------------- snip ----------------------------------
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Ed Staib
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Delivered by CoPilot 2.5.5 running Ken Lucke's scripts
|
|
via Spectrum 2.1
|
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(E.STAIB, CAT1, TOP29, MSG:324/M645;1)
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>>>>> As much as it may look like spam to some people, that survey is
|
|
""""" indeed legitimate. How best to answer the Operating System
|
|
question? How's this:
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Type of Computer : Apple II (IIgs, IIe, IIc) - NOT a Macintosh
|
|
Operating System : ProDOS (or GS/OS)
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- Tony
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(A2.TONY, CAT1, TOP29, MSG:325/M645;1)
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|
>>>>> There Are Rumors that this survey is the first step in increasing
|
|
""""" Genie's access from the Internet. If you value your capability to
|
|
access Genie through direct lines rather than via the WWW, be sure to let
|
|
them know that when you fill out the survey.
|
|
|
|
Don't forget to include Tony's suggestion as to what kind of computer you
|
|
have (Apple II - NOT A MACINTOSH) so those people won't be confused. <g>
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|
|
|
TomZ
|
|
(A2.TOMZ, CAT1, TOP29, MSG:327/M645;1)
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|
|
|
>>>>> The GEIS phone lines are probably not going to be available under
|
|
""""" the new setup. I don't have any specific information about
|
|
SprintNet lines.
|
|
|
|
Now would probably be a good time to investigate Delphi. Most SprintNet
|
|
numbers can be used there. For more information, call 1-800-245-8000.
|
|
|
|
I sincerely hope that the Apple II RoundTable continues on Genie for a long
|
|
time to come; but I would not want any of you to find yourself without
|
|
access should there no longer be local phone access to Genie for you.
|
|
|
|
Following the scout motto: "Be Prepared!"
|
|
|
|
Charlie
|
|
(A2.CHARLIE, CAT2, TOP7, MSG:182/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
>>>>> I received a survey form from Genie Management the other day, which
|
|
""""" I filled out and e-returned. In the comments at the bottom, I
|
|
enumerated my zmodem download woes, namely the problems I've been having
|
|
with Sprintnet not passing control back to Genie thereby hanging, and/or
|
|
giving me high ASCII screen garbage, and/or totally crashing my system
|
|
where I have to re-boot and then go back in to ProTERM in order to log-off.
|
|
Below is today's reply:
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|
|
|| Nancy, One of the changes planned is to move to a more reliable
|
|
|| dialup network I hope that this will resolve your modem upload
|
|
|| problems. Look for new access numbers in the next month or so.
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||
|
|
|| Laszlo Genie Development Team
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|
|
Hmmmmm. Sounds interesting. Just so they let me know what the new number(s)
|
|
are BEFORE they change them!
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|
|
|
-- nancy
|
|
(N.CRAWFORD, CAT2, TOP9, MSG:215/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
>>>>> The upcoming Genie change is on a vastly greater scale than
|
|
""""" previous changes to the Genie interface. I am not optimistic that
|
|
the Genie offline readers will be fixable after the changevoer. Hopefully I
|
|
am wrong, but it would be prudent for everyone to start hedging their bets
|
|
right now in case the OLR's prove to be difficult or impossible to fix.
|
|
|
|
With regard to joining Delphi:
|
|
|
|
The Apple II community there is growing slowly but visibly. With this
|
|
change in Genie, it may see a major growth spurt in the near future. My gut
|
|
feeling is that, because of the library and OLR situations, six months from
|
|
now the current roles and relative ranking of Delphi and Genie will be
|
|
reversed.
|
|
|
|
Right now the Delphi library only has a few hundred files in it, but plans
|
|
are afoot to automate a large-scale upload to make it into something to be
|
|
proud of like we have here on Genie. Failing that, if A2-Delphi did
|
|
something as simple as organize a hundred users into uploading a few of
|
|
their favorite files, things could start hopping overnight.
|
|
|
|
At this time file transfers on Delphi are reliable only if using Delphi's
|
|
direct-access membership option. Their "content" membership option gives
|
|
you access via your own internet dial-up through a telnet connection. To
|
|
say that file transfers via telnet are unreliable vastly understates the
|
|
case. Having said that, There Are Rumors that Delphi has something in the
|
|
works to greatly improve file transfer capabilities, but I have no word on
|
|
what that might be or when it will surface.
|
|
|
|
In no way am I suggesting that people quit Genie and join Delphi. I myself
|
|
will be here on Genie until the bitter end, whenever that might be. But
|
|
Genie is becoming a terribly frayed basket to be keeping all of your eggs
|
|
in.
|
|
|
|
TomZ
|
|
(A2.TOMZ, CAT2, TOP7, MSG;191/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
>>>>> When you first logon to Delphi, at the logon name prompt type "Join
|
|
""""" Delphi" (without the quotes, of course); and at the password
|
|
prompt type "9610SDI". This will give credit to the A2 Forum for signing
|
|
you up. Of course, if you prefer, you can type "NEW" as the password. Then
|
|
follow the directions to sign up.
|
|
|
|
They will ask you for personal information (address, phone #, etc.) and a
|
|
credit card # to bill. They will also help you find a suitable phone number
|
|
to call from your area. If you telnet in, at the unix prompt type "telnet
|
|
delphi.com" and then follow the directions above. Of course your shell
|
|
access account may have a menu item for telnet, and may even have a menu
|
|
item to access Delphi.
|
|
|
|
If you have other questions, ask 'em here. :)
|
|
|
|
Charlie
|
|
(A2.CHARLIE, CAT2, TOP7, MSG:190/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
>>>>> We do indeed have the entire library backed up, but as Tom said it
|
|
""""" might take quite a while to get it all uploaded elsewhere (ie.
|
|
Delphi.)
|
|
|
|
I think what Tim and Tom were referring to is during Genie's changeover the
|
|
files might be lost, here, at least temporarily.
|
|
|
|
- Tony (wiped out, but home from KFest!)
|
|
(A2.TONY, CAT2, TOP7, MSG:194/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
LOOKING GOOD IN NEWSPRINT I'm amazed and stunned beyond all belief ;-)
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|
Thanks, Ken Gagne, you made my day, my week, and my month!
|
|
|
|
Ken, who lives in Worcester, MA, sent me the front section of the July 6,
|
|
1997 edition of the Worcester "Sunday Telegram" newspaper. The note Ken
|
|
included said:
|
|
|
|
"Check the 'Trivia' on the back page. I thought this a strange find for a
|
|
local paper; figured you'd like to see it."
|
|
|
|
Of course, Ken figured right.
|
|
|
|
The Trivia column is a Q & A column, written by Rogers Cadenhead, and it
|
|
looks to me as if it's a syndicated column that originally appeared in the
|
|
Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
|
|
|
|
Here's the item that Ken wanted me to see:
|
|
|
|
Q: Where can I find programs for an Apple IIc computer, other than
|
|
AppleWorks? - J.P.C.
|
|
|
|
A: A good place to start would be a newsletter devoted to Apple II users,
|
|
hardware and software. Yearly subscriptions to Shareware Solutions II are
|
|
$25 from Joe Kohn, Shareware Solutions II, 166 Alpine St, San Rafael,
|
|
Calif. 94901-1008.
|
|
|
|
My gosh. I made the news!
|
|
|
|
Thanks, Ken, for thinking about me; I really appreciate it!!
|
|
|
|
Joe
|
|
(JOE.KOHN, CAT19, TOP4, MSG:116/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
GOOD DEALS ON REMOVABLE STORAGE Comp USA (1-800-266-7872) is selling
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" 6-packs of Sony Zip disks with storage
|
|
rack for $69.94. Then there's a $10.00 rebate bringing the cost to $59.94.
|
|
That's only $9.99 each, plus a free storage rack (which I can't seem to
|
|
find =anywhere=.) Grab 'em while you can.
|
|
|
|
I don't work for Comp USA, I just read the newspaper. :)
|
|
|
|
- Tony
|
|
(A2.TONY, CAT11, TOP43, MSG:237/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
ANSITERM OLR BUG FIX This is to anyone who has had dialing problems with
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""" Genie CoPilot for ANSITerm (and OLRight! for
|
|
Delphi):
|
|
|
|
I think I have found a potential problem in the portion of the dial scripts
|
|
that detects whether your modem is connected. I have used the same routine
|
|
for all of my dialing scripts, and may have been this way when I took over
|
|
from PMP in supporting the CoPilot scripts.
|
|
|
|
I have had a very few users of both CoPilot and OLRight! who have had
|
|
problems making connections. Some of these problems have defied all
|
|
attempts to fix. What I am about to describe _may_ be part of the problem.
|
|
|
|
The following is the stock detection script from both applications. The
|
|
label names may change, but the same conditionals are used:
|
|
|
|
#rget
|
|
loc 0 0
|
|
as s1 "*&*&"
|
|
rget s1 40 120 up s1
|
|
if s1 "*&*&" #noconn
|
|
fi "CONNECT" s1 if su #logon
|
|
fi "BUSY" s1 if su #busy
|
|
fi "VOICE" s1 if su #noconn
|
|
fi "NO CARRIER" s1 if su #noconn
|
|
fi "NO DIAL" s1 if su #nodial2
|
|
go #rget
|
|
|
|
#logon
|
|
|
|
The script assigns a default value to the string variable s1, and then
|
|
waits for up to 2 minutes for a line from the modem. If it receives a line
|
|
from the modem, it tests against the contents of the line to determine
|
|
whether a connection has been made.
|
|
|
|
The Problem: If the modem returns an empty line (i.e. a carriage return
|
|
only) before another string, the script may exit thinking there is no
|
|
connection. I have run into situations in some of the commands in which
|
|
attempts to put a null value into a variable that already has a value
|
|
results in the variable not being changed. I seem to recall that the rget
|
|
command is one of these, but it is tough to test that command.
|
|
|
|
So...
|
|
|
|
If you are having problems connecting, try changing the script to the
|
|
following:
|
|
|
|
#rget
|
|
loc 0 0
|
|
as s1 "*&*&"
|
|
rget s1 40 120 if fa #noconn
|
|
up s1
|
|
fi "CONNECT" s1 if su #logon
|
|
fi "BUSY" s1 if su #busy
|
|
fi "VOICE" s1 if su #noconn
|
|
fi "NO CARRIER" s1 if su #noconn
|
|
fi "NO DIAL" s1 if su #nodial2
|
|
go #rget
|
|
|
|
#logon
|
|
|
|
If you compare the script fragments, you can see that I have deleted the
|
|
parts relating to detecting the default value of s1, and added a
|
|
conditional to the rget command line.
|
|
|
|
|
|
If you are having connect problems and this fixes them, _PLEASE_ let me
|
|
know!
|
|
|
|
If you want to test a small script that demonstrates this 'feature' of the
|
|
ANSITerm scripting language, try the following (copy to a new file and run
|
|
it with Command-Z):
|
|
|
|
as s9 "Gotcha!"
|
|
get "Press Enter or type a string" s9
|
|
note s9 exit
|
|
|
|
If you simply press Enter when you see the 'get' dialog, you should see
|
|
"Gotcha!" in the following 'note' window.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Don V.Zahniser - CoPilot for ANSITerm Support
|
|
Delivered by:
|
|
CoPilot 2.5.6 and ANSITerm v2.13b
|
|
(D.ZAHNISER, CAT21, TOP18, MSG:148/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
|
|
>>> HOT TOPICS <<<
|
|
""""""""""""""""""
|
|
KFEST BEFORE Help!!! I have too many roommates at KFest.[970723] Some
|
|
"""""""""""" time ago, I was on line, asking about a roommate for KFest/
|
|
|
|
Someone saw my message and volunteered.
|
|
Since then I inadvertently cleared all my files on downloads off A2/RT. I
|
|
have forgotten who it was that responded to my inquiry. I failed to inform
|
|
Cindy that we had made this arrangement.
|
|
|
|
In the last few days, Russ Alman, knowing that I have had computer
|
|
troubles, Contacted Cindy and suggested that he and I room together so that
|
|
he can give me help. I think it would be of value to me if I could room
|
|
with Russ. Cindy has put us together.
|
|
|
|
I am concerned that someone else is expecting to room with me. I wish I
|
|
could contact him- but I do not know how, since I have lost my information.
|
|
I hope he can see this and respond.
|
|
|
|
I do not want to inconvenience anyone.
|
|
|
|
Ephraim Wall <c.wall4>
|
|
Delivered by:
|
|
CoPilot v2.55
|
|
Offline GEnie Message Manager
|
|
(C.WALL4, CAT2, TOP45, MSG:240/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
>>>>> This is to hereby award 3rd place of the "Most Requested KFest
|
|
""""" Roommate" to Ephraim Wall. He is running a distant 3rd behind
|
|
Cindy Crawford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Unfortunately, the 2 others are not
|
|
on Genie and won't know about receiving this coveted award.
|
|
Congratulations Ephraim!!
|
|
|
|
Unless I receive strenuous objections from someone else, Russ Alman will be
|
|
your lucky roommate this year. I'm sure all of the runner-ups will do
|
|
their best to spend as much time with you as possible.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cindy (KFest Big Cheese)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
cindyadams@delphi.com - - - - GO COM POW or GO COM A2
|
|
Posted by ProTERM Mac Messenger
|
|
(CINDY.A, CAT2, TOP45, MSG:241/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
>>>>> No sleep last night (pre KFest training) but the ridiculously early
|
|
""""" flight got me to KC before 9AM and I've had some time to check
|
|
things out, etc.
|
|
|
|
For a start, K C Masterpiece and Jess & Jim's are still here:) What really
|
|
amazed me is the preparations Kansas City and Avila have made for us!
|
|
They've put up "Avila College" exit signs on I-435 and have repaved the
|
|
road to Jess & Jim's just for KFest!!
|
|
|
|
When I stopped at Avila they were trimming the bushes - again, most likely
|
|
JUST FOR US!! And your KFest Committee is still hard at work. I think I
|
|
passed Cindy on Wornall Road - I was running up north and she was going
|
|
south. There's nothing we won't do to make this another fabulous year:)
|
|
|
|
The weather may be a further indication of how great this year's KFest will
|
|
be. It's a beautiful day here - better than what I left! If you haven't
|
|
noticed, I'm just too excited to get the sleep I should:) EVERYTHING has
|
|
been just perfect today and I can't wait for all you lucky people to get
|
|
here!!
|
|
|
|
I even feel good about those that just couldn't arrange to be here. I think
|
|
we're gonna have enough impromptu RTCs on Delphi and Genie for you to
|
|
almost experience the thrills of being here this year. Enough to keep you
|
|
going until you CAN be here next year!
|
|
|
|
Oh, almost forgot. For those who haven't departed yet, the "emergency"
|
|
number at Avila is 816-943-5320. They'll be someone there during normal
|
|
hours and you'll get an answering machine (with instructions on how to
|
|
contact a real person afterhours). Hope no one will need to use this number
|
|
but it IS comforting to know the Avila personnel are there to respond 24
|
|
hours a day. PLEASE be just as considerate and only use that number for
|
|
actual emergencies.
|
|
|
|
Hmmm. I've also been too excited to eat. I think I'll take care of that
|
|
now:) Later good people!
|
|
Godzilla
|
|
(MAC.BB, CAT2, TOP45, MSG:266/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
>>>>> Nope, it wasn't me, but I'm in Kansas City now too!! And Steve is
|
|
""""" right, the entire city is getting ready for Kfest! They have
|
|
finished the road construction on I-435 too!!
|
|
|
|
I haven't made it by Avila yet (late flight, long delay getting luggage
|
|
with the KFest t-shirts, and long wait to get rental car), but I did stop
|
|
at a really cool knitting store. (if any one cares) :)
|
|
|
|
I'm excited and looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow. Have on your
|
|
BBQ colored shirt, and come with a BIG appetite.
|
|
|
|
Momma Cheese
|
|
(in beautiful Overland Park, KS)
|
|
(CINDY.A, CAT2, TOP45, MSG:267/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
KFEST DURING I'm here!
|
|
""""""""""""
|
|
Steve was right, the gorgeous weather that he found yesterday continues
|
|
through today. Not too hot, not too humid.
|
|
|
|
Keven Thornton is here, as well as Richard Bennett, Jim Blair, Erick
|
|
Wagner, Hamish Donaldson (from Winnepeg!), and a few others that are
|
|
arriving as I type this on Wednesday afternoon.
|
|
|
|
I'm hungry!
|
|
|
|
David K.
|
|
(A2.DAD, CAT2, TOP45, MSG:272/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
>>>>> Registration is over. I sat at the table from 1-4 so that I
|
|
""""" wouldn't miss Geoff Weiss this year, and of course he was late. :)
|
|
|
|
|
|
The weather is still beautiful. It's nice to be able to go outside and not
|
|
be in a sauna. :) I'm sure the weather will change and provide me a
|
|
thunder storm before the week is over.
|
|
|
|
One thing I forgot to mention is that we have a 25% newbie rate this year.
|
|
Not too shabby for an "old" computer.
|
|
|
|
Momma Cheese
|
|
(CINDY.A, CAT2, TOP45, MSG:273/M645;1)
|
|
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>>>>> Well, I can't believe it, but I'm actually here at KFest! It was a
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""""" pretty long drive, especially if one is not used to driving for
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long stretches of time, but the weather was beautiful and the driving was
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very pleasant. (...well, until I hit the traffic coming into St. Louis! ;)
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I know I said that I planned to be online for my RTC tonight, but I've been
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so busy finding my way around and meeting people...and I'm just getting
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started! <G>
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Stan
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s.marks3@genie.com stanmarks@delphi.com
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Delivered by: CoPilot v2.55 & Spectrum v2.1
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(S.MARKS3, CAT2, TOP45, MSG:275/M645;1)
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>>>>> > News is suspiciously slim from Kansas this morning. But this?
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"""""
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Seriously, here's the real news:
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On Thursday night of KFest, in a session on the Apple II and the Internet,
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our own Richard Bennett shocked the entire Apple II world by announcing a
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TCP/IP stack for the Apple IIgs. This is an entirely separate effort from
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Derek Taubert's ongoing GS/TCP project that has kept Apple II faithful in
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suspense for several years.
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There is no official name for the product as of yet. It is a Control Panel
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and currently supports SLIP connections, although PPP is also in the works.
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There also are no currently available programs that will work with this.
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However, Richard showed a quick and dirty hack of a telnet application that
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took him about half a day to get together and allowed as many as =20=
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concurrent telnet sessions!
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It is meant to be distributed as freeware and has no requirement for GNO/Me
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or any other environment.
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The TCP/IP Control Panel, code named "Marinetti", should be available in
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less than a month. Programming and user documentation should also be
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available at that point. Already, our A2Pro Geek Gang present here at
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KFest (Todd Whitsel and Just Dave Miller) have spent several hours late
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last night/early this morning working on applications for it. A whole new
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world is awakening. . .
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Ryan
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Editor, GenieLamp A2
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Reporting Live from KFest!
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(EDITOR.A2, CAT2, TOP45, MSG:282/M645;1)
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>>>>> Hmmm. Well, how about this for news .... :)
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"""""
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Richard Bennett, Australian programmer and loyal member of Genie A2-A2Pro,
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shook the Apple II world Thursday evening when he announced -- and demoed
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-- a TCP/IP stack for the Apple IIGS!!!!!!!
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The ramifications will be, in a word, "dramatic".
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Richard also demoed a Telnet client application that runs on his TCP/IP
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stack, and connected to several ISPs in the area.
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Needless to say, Kfest '97 is buzzing with excitement. And I suspect the
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rest of our world will be as well -- once the word spreads near and far.
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If you want to read more about the TCP/IP demo and other Kfest happenings,
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visit A2-Web (http://www.syndicomm.com/a2web). Webmaster David Kerwood was
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up late last night updating the page and posting the latest news.
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More later ....
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Max
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(M.JONES145, CAT2, TOP45, MSG:284/M645;1)
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>>>>> >TCP/IP stack for the Apple IIGS!!!!!!!
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"""""
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!!!!! :)
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(WMD, CAT2, TOP45, MSG:285/M645;1)
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>>>>> At the moment, the only thing that uses TCP/IP is MiniTalk and some
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""""" tester apps.
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Of course it's possible for apps such as SIS or Spectrum to be modified to
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use it, but that's really up to Geoff, Ewen and Seven Hills. We'll see. :-)
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Regards,
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Richard
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(RICHARD.B, CAT2, TOP45, MSG:290/M645;1)
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>>>>> Geoff Weiss seems truly enthusiastic about the possibility of
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""""" making SIS work with a TCP/IP connection, but no official
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commitment has been made. Nor has any timetable been discussed. First
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priority for Richard and those programmers jumping on the bandwagon (and
|
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there seem to be several at this point) is to get the TCP/IP stack in final
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form so developers can begin writing new applications (Telnet client,
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e-mail program) for it.
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Max
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(M.JONES145, CAT2, TOP45, MSG:291/M645;1)
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KFEST AFTER KFest '97 was GREAT!!! I'd like for everyone to get there at
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""""""""""" least once but have to admit that everyone you attend just
|
|
gets better. This was THE best Fest I've attended - and will be until KFest
|
|
'98, the 10th Anniversary! I have NO doubt '98 will be the one you just
|
|
can't miss so start planning NOW!
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There is one important thing I have to mention. The KFest '97 Committee
|
|
received a lot of compliments (and they deserved it - what a pleasure to
|
|
work with such outstanding people). But the real reason for the success of
|
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KFest goes WAY beyond the committee.
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I don't need to mention them by name, they know who they are and take pride
|
|
in their extraordinary contributions. They do it because they love the
|
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Apple II community, a VERY special community.
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|
There is one thing that many of you may not be aware of though. Everyone
|
|
that attends KFest adds something special! You just have to be there to be
|
|
a very special contributor and I'd like to thank everyone that made it to
|
|
KFest this year for adding to the glory that IS KFest!
|
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|
I was especially impressed with our "rookies":) Virgin KFesters but very
|
|
experienced Apple II users that "made the pilgrimage" and added so much to
|
|
KFest!
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|
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|
No matter what level user, everyone attending shared the "family" tradition
|
|
that we have - contributing and receiving as needed. Is there any wonder
|
|
WHY I want everyone to experience KFest at least once?
|
|
|
|
If you haven't attended it's difficult to explain the magic of KFest.
|
|
Please make plans to attend in '98 so I don't have to keep struggling to
|
|
explain the magic:)
|
|
|
|
Thanks to all attendees that again made KFest so very special!
|
|
"Godzilla"
|
|
(MAC.BB, CAT2, TOP45, MSG:292/M645;1)
|
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|
|
>>>>> RE: KFest (Everyone)
|
|
"""""
|
|
I guess I'm probably the last Kfester to leave Kansas City, so I thought
|
|
I'd work on a KFest report while I'm waiting on my plane. Just to let
|
|
everyone know, the temperature and humidty are much higher today (Monday)
|
|
than they were during Kfest.
|
|
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|
I just want to say that I hope everyone learned lots, made new friends, got
|
|
re-aquainted with old friends, didn't sleep enough, ate too much, and
|
|
generally had a good time. I know that I certainly did!!
|
|
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|
Wednesday was check-in. I had fun sitting at the table waiting for
|
|
familiar faces to show up, trying to guess who the new people were, and
|
|
making sure I was sitting there when Geoff showed up. :) Then it was on to
|
|
an already packed K C Masterpiece, but we all eventually made it in. Good
|
|
food, good fun, and a great way to start off KFest '97.
|
|
|
|
Thursday morning stared bright and early with breakfast at 7:00 and that
|
|
was followed by the Keynote Address by David Kerwood. The text of his
|
|
speech can be found on the A2web page. Then the wonderful sessions were
|
|
started. After a busy day of sessions, grabbing a 10 minute nap, and Avila
|
|
cafeteria food, we were all treated to the unveiling of Richard Bennett's
|
|
TCP/IP for the GS!! What a wonderful thing to see! Following the world
|
|
premier of TCP/IP for the IIgs, the annual Bite the Bag competition began.
|
|
After a very exciting competition, the crown was awarded to Paul Zaleski
|
|
and Scott Johnson. Both men were previous winners so they graciously
|
|
agreed to share this year's title.
|
|
|
|
On Friday everyone got to sleep in an extra few minutes because the Apple
|
|
representative canceled. I have to say that having breakfast an hour later
|
|
brought out more programmers than I've ever seen at that meal before. :)
|
|
Once again, it was a day full of sessions that Steve "Godzilla" had to
|
|
change around. And for dinner, we roasted Richard Bennett. Oh wait, we
|
|
had a banquet and then Joe Kohn MC'd the roast after dinner. Max Jones,
|
|
Goeff Weiss, and Ryan Suenaga did their best to help Joe. Andrew Roughan,
|
|
another Australian at Kfest (actually we had 3 there), provided the visuals
|
|
for the roast. (Richard was such a cute little boy!!) After Richard had
|
|
his say, we all moved out to the patio to teach Richard about s'mores.
|
|
|
|
After a short night, and the obligatory run to Denny's, Saturday was filled
|
|
up with demos and the vendor fair. I know I spent plenty of money, and I'm
|
|
now the proud owner of a very stylish Juiced.GS T-shirt. DINNER!! We all
|
|
piled in the cars and headed down Wornall to Jess & Jim's for a wonderful
|
|
steak dinner. They were expecting us, so we got in fairly quickly and were
|
|
able to sit near each other. Joe Kohn received an extra glass of water,
|
|
just in case. The weather was clear, so I didn't need to go outside to see
|
|
rain. (as I did last year)
|
|
|
|
As we came back into the dorm, we saw Godzilla's final schedule change for
|
|
this year. He was apologizing for being unable to find anything to change
|
|
on Sunday. (Thanks to Steve for being such a fantastic and flexible
|
|
schedule-meister!!)
|
|
|
|
Sunday morning was a sad time as we all left Avila, and went back to the
|
|
real world. I think the first load left at 5:00 am, and there were about 6
|
|
of us that finally drove out of the parking lot about noon. I have to tell
|
|
everyone that the staff of Avila said we were the first group all summer
|
|
that turned in all of the keys. (Heck, thanks to a certain A2Pro
|
|
librarian, they got an extra key left from four years ago - thanks Todd.)
|
|
They were even impressed with the cleanliness of the rooms.
|
|
|
|
Over the years, it seems like each Kfest is the "year of" something. I
|
|
would vote that 1997 was a tie, just like Bite the Bag. 1997 was the year
|
|
of the Australian (thanks to Richard Bennett), and the year of Snood. (Now
|
|
if some wonderful GS programmer will port Snood to the GS!)
|
|
|
|
Well, it's about time for my flight, so I will soon be returning to my real
|
|
life too. KFest '97 is just about over. ::sob:: (This is being written in
|
|
KC, but will be posted after I'm back in Phoenix.)
|
|
|
|
But one bright spot on the horizon is that plans for KFest 1998 have
|
|
already started. As soon as I get the date finalized with Avila, I will
|
|
tell the world! BTW, KFest 1998 will be the 10th anniversary of KFest, so
|
|
start making plans to attend and it will be the biggest and best ever!!
|
|
|
|
Cindy
|
|
|
|
(aka Momma Cheese)
|
|
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|
|
cindyadams@delphi.com - - - - GO COM POW or GO COM A2
|
|
Posted by ProTERM Mac Messenger
|
|
(CINDY.A, CAT2, TOP45, MSG:296/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
|
|
WAITING FOR GUS Is GUS available now? If so what Mac would you buy to be
|
|
""""""""""""""" able to retire my tired IIGS and still use all the
|
|
programs that I have accumulated over the last 10 years on HD, CD, 3.5 and
|
|
5.25?
|
|
R.Randall13
|
|
(R.RANDALL13, CAT5, TOP14, MSG:291/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
>>>>> Nope, not yet. . . . otoh, Bernie II the Rescue is getting closer
|
|
""""" and closer to prime time.
|
|
|
|
> If so what Mac would you buy to be able to retire my tired IIGS and still
|
|
> use all the programs that I have accumulated over the last 10 years on
|
|
> HD, CD, 3.5 and 5.25?
|
|
|
|
Unless/until one of the Apple IIgs emulators supports serial ports as well
|
|
as a real IIgs does, I wouldn't buy any Mac to replace a IIgs (and this is
|
|
said by a guy who has four Macs between home, the road, and the office).
|
|
|
|
Ryan
|
|
http://www.keystroke.net/~rsuenaga
|
|
"There's no shortage of windmills to tilt at."--Logan
|
|
ANSITerm and CoPilot v2.55
|
|
(A2LAMP, CAT5, TOP14, MSG:292/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
HIERARCHIC STEPS UP I downloaded Hierarchic v1.6.3 last night, and am
|
|
""""""""""""""""""" using it with SuperMenuPack. I found that I had to
|
|
sort the directory order so that Hierarchic loaded before SMP. Works
|
|
great.
|
|
|
|
OTOH, When I installed Kangaroo from the original disk (copied, not using
|
|
Installer so I would not install the old Hierarchic), my system blew up
|
|
rather spectacularly :^( This should be taken with a grain of salt,
|
|
because I have a long history of difficulty keeping Kangaroo stable on my
|
|
system.
|
|
|
|
When I tried Kangaroo, I was unable to set preferences (Unknown Error
|
|
$1101), several .prefs files for other inits/CDevs got changed, and it
|
|
appears that the Phantasm init also got changed. At least those were the
|
|
ones that showed date/time changes about the time I tried Kangaroo, and
|
|
that I hadn't accessed yesterday. I removed Kangaroo, and found this
|
|
morning that something (Phantasm?) got changed in my system that interfered
|
|
with ANSITerm - zillions of dropped characters even on a 9600 baud Genie
|
|
node. Booting into p8 and also from a shift-boot cured the problem.
|
|
Fortunately, I had a 3-day old backup of my boot partition :^)
|
|
|
|
After scraping the carbon off the toast that was my bootable partition, I
|
|
am now ready to try Kangy again. Wish me luck.
|
|
|
|
BTW - the hierarchic menus in Kangy worked, I just had a few other minor
|
|
problems to deal with.
|
|
|
|
- Don
|
|
(D.ZAHNISER, CAT16, TOP2, MSG;140/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
>>>>> Richard,
|
|
"""""
|
|
I saw the v1.7 on CompuServe without your name anywhere in the docs, and
|
|
meant to ask you if it's legit. What makes it so great that it has to be
|
|
unofficial?
|
|
|
|
Will Spectrum know when it's run how to load the CDev instead of the init,
|
|
if it's not already?
|
|
|
|
Time to go update my Shifty List, ah, list.
|
|
|
|
-Ken
|
|
(KEN.GAGNE, CAT16, TOP2, MSG:143/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
>>>>> Regarding Hierarchic and Spectrum:
|
|
"""""
|
|
>> Will Spectrum know when it's run how to load the CDev instead of the
|
|
init, if it's not already?
|
|
|
|
If you do a normal system boot, the new Hierarchic CDev will be loaded in
|
|
memory and seen by Spectrum just like the original Hierarchic. Spectrum
|
|
will be happy...
|
|
|
|
If you shift-boot to run Spectrum, then you need to move your old
|
|
Hierarchic into the Spectrum folder so when Spectrum asks, it can find it
|
|
there and use it instead of the CDev.
|
|
|
|
Any future versions of Spectrum will know how to load the new Hierarchic
|
|
CDev...
|
|
|
|
Or alternatively you can use Sheppy's Shifty-List if you like shift-booting
|
|
Spectrum...
|
|
|
|
Ewen (Speccie)
|
|
Delivered by: CoPilot v2.5.5 and Spectrum 2.1
|
|
(E.WANNOP, CAT16, TOP2, MSG;144/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
<<<<< An update on my experience with the new Hierarchic:
|
|
"""""
|
|
Since my initial problem with Kangaroo blowing up my system, solved by
|
|
putting Kangaroo first in the System.Setup folder, my system has been
|
|
rock-solid. I was the first one besides the librarian to download
|
|
Hierarchic 1.6.3, and installed it right away. This is the longest that I
|
|
have been able to keep Kangaroo active on my system without it blowing up
|
|
on me (and I don't mean Kangy fixer :^). I am attributing this to the new
|
|
Hierarchic.
|
|
|
|
Thanks, Richard!
|
|
|
|
Now, if there was only a way to get Kangy to show the nice icons in the
|
|
Sys.Icons init, I would _really_ be happy ;^)
|
|
(D.ZAHNISER, CAT16, TOP2, MSG:148/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
>>>>> My experience with the new Hierarchic:
|
|
"""""
|
|
Unpacked it, hid the old one, dropped the new one on my System Folder,
|
|
rebooted.
|
|
Kangy worked fine, Spectrum had no trouble finding it.
|
|
I'm happy.
|
|
|
|
Uncle Duck .........
|
|
(VACC.DAVE, CAT16, TOP2, MSG:149/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
EARLY MARINETTI QUERIES What knowledge is required to program for
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""" Marinetti? C, Pascal, assembly...? GSoft? :)
|
|
|
|
-Ken
|
|
(KEN.GAGNE, CAT28, TOP27, MSG:6/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
>>>>> Marinetti is called via IPC, so any language which uses the
|
|
""""" toolbox, and supports records, pointers and handles (ie. all the
|
|
ones you mentioned, C, Pascal, assembly, GSoft) will work with it.
|
|
|
|
Regards,
|
|
Richard
|
|
(RICHARD.B, CAT28, TOP27, MSG:7/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
>>>>> Mike Westerfield came up with a fifteen line GSoft BASIC program at
|
|
""""" KFest that almost was successful in being a telnet client for
|
|
Marinetti. This is the kind of thing that could only have happened at
|
|
KFest: one programmer from New Mexico, one from Australia, up late hacking
|
|
one night and trying to get the Apple IIgs directly connected to the
|
|
Internet. It's called, to borrow the phrase of David Kerwood, "Critical
|
|
mass." Think about it: No KFest '96, no SIS, no Marinetti. No KFest '97,
|
|
no hook from Marinetti to GSoft, which could make all kinds of things
|
|
possible. . .
|
|
|
|
Ryan
|
|
Support KFest '98!
|
|
(A2LAMP, CAT28, TOP27, MSG:8/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
>>>>> Technical information will be available in the libs (once I've
|
|
""""" uploaded it :-) on Genie and Delphi, and on the Marinetti home
|
|
page:
|
|
|
|
http://www.zip.com.au/~kashum/marinetti
|
|
|
|
There's going to be a listserv for programmers as well.
|
|
|
|
At this stage I don't really have any more details. Stay tuned.
|
|
|
|
Regards,
|
|
Richard
|
|
(RICHARD.B, CAT28, TOP46, MSG:3/M645;1)
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Cambridge, MA (July 15, 1997) -- For the first time in its 14 years of
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service, Delphi Internet's acclaimed communities are now available for free
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on the Web (http://www.delphi.com). Delphi, one of the early pioneers in
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building communities, features more than 100 rich and welcoming
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special-interest forums where members discuss everything from Apple
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With all the fanfare about "communities" on the Web, Delphi expects to set
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a new benchmark for quality. Its message boards and chat areas are hosted
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by energetic experts in their fields, so Delphi forums generally hone to
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all about the user experience--people sharing their intelligence,
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Delphi forums integrate bulletin board-style message boards and chat rooms
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featuring live guests, as well as articles, tutorials, contests and other
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Formerly dependent only on subscriptions from loyal users, Delphi will now
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Delphi Internet, formerly owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., was
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http://www.delphi.com.
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Contacts at Delphi Internet:
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Bill Louden or Jon Levine Senior Vice President
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Vice President/Editorial Director (617) 441-4545
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(617)
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441-4547 Email: blouden@delphi.com Email: jonlevine@delphi.com
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---
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Dean Esmay -- http://www.syndicomm.com/esmay
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(SYNDICOMM, CAT28, TOP23, MSG:2/M645;1)
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BUT YOU CAN'T SIGN UP FOR FREE DELPHI WITH LYNX That's great news about
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Delphi! However, there
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are a few things an Apple II user needs to know.
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First of all, you'll need a web browser that can handle cookies. The latest
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version of Lynx will work fine, but older versions (noticeably the one used
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here on Genie) will not work. Unfortunately, SIS doesn't handle cookies so
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it will not work either.
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Second, you need a web browser that supports secure HTML (shtml) in order
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to sign up for the free service. I don't know why shtml was needed since
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you're not (I haven't tried it, but I hope not!) giving out credit card
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information for a free service. I would guess you give them your name and
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email address so they can track spammers and other weasels. Unfortunately
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Lynx does not support shtml as shipped due to the munitions export laws
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governing encryption. SIS does not do shtml either.
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What this means is that you'll probably have to use a PC or Mac to do the
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initial sign up, but an Apple II can be used to access Delphi as long as
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you're using the most recent version of Lynx.
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- Tony
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(A2.TONY, CAT28, TOP23, MSG:3/M645;1)
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>>>>> Since LYNX does not support .shtml (Secure HTML) documents, you
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""""" won't be able to log in for the free access using LYNX. This is
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very unfortunate. I'm not sure if it's fixable.
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As for the floodgates: nah, we've handled traffic in the past that's much
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higher than what comp.sys.apple2 has these days, and have been dealing with
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online jerks for years. We aren't going to have a problem there. We are
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going to have a problem if people can't get on through LYNX though. Argh.
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---
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Dean Esmay -- http://www.syndicomm.com/esmay
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(SYNDICOMM, CAT28, TOP23, MSG:11/M645;1)
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OR CAN YOU? I couldn't decide whether to post this here or down in topic
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""""""""""" 42 (Security Programming on the 'net.) Actually, I did
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decide. Here it is. :)
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After mentioning last week that Lynx does not ship with the ability to
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handle https (secure) URLs, I decided to find out what was involved in
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getting the extra "stuff" Lynx needs to do it. Well, after a 4 hour jam
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session on my ISP's UNIX shell I have finally compiled a version of Lynx
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that =can= do https URLs. As a bonus, I compiled in the color ANSI (slang)
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stuff (which my ISP already did for tin) and it looks great.
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What this means is that it =is= possible to get a secure connection with
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Lynx so you can safely transmit personal information across the web. One
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specific example is that you can now signup for Delphi from their secure
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server. Pretty cool.
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I was going to post some simple (sic) instructions on how you can do it
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yourself, but after what I went through I'm not sure that's such a good
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idea. I would probably end up confusing more people than I help. If you are
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handy with your ISP's compiler, here's basically what you need:
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Read this! http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month0497/msg00263.html
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Then grab all this source code:
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Lynx 2.7.1: http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/fote/ [NO OTHER VERSION]
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Fote's patches: http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/fote/patches/
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SSL hook replacements: email to tzeruch@ceddec.com [*See below]
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SSLeay: ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/SSL
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(That's a LOT of code. This is not for the feint of heart.)
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The reason Lynx does not ship with SSL built-in is because of the lame
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munitions laws governing encryption. In order to get the SSL hooks you have
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to write to the above address and say something like, "I am a US citizen, I
|
|
can legally use it, I won't illegally export it." There's more about this
|
|
in the first "Read me" URL above.
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Stir it all together, pray, and voila! If anyone really wants some more
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specific instructions, I'll see what I can do.
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- Tony
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(A2.TONY, CAT28, TOP14, MSG:138/M645;1)
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NEW STUFF FROM THE SLIX ONE
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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-*-*-*-*-*-> S l i x t e r p r o u d l y p r e s e n t s <-*-*-*-*-*-
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___ ___
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//__ //__ The latest in our fine line of quality,
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___// LIX ___// ECURITY... high-performance Apple IIgs software.
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-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
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So, you've got a problem. Your problem is that you love your Apple IIgs
|
|
and you love your four-year-old kid. But you don't love how your kid tries
|
|
to launch his "Math Munchers" game by selecting your hard drive and
|
|
choosing "Format". Or how he cleans up your desktop by filing the
|
|
"Unbelievably.Important.Documents" folder under "Trash". Oh, how often you
|
|
thought about filing your entire IIgs under "Trash" and buying a Mac, along
|
|
with some cheesy "At Ease"-ish security software to prevent the unwanted
|
|
intrusions by your progeny. But you held on, in the hope that Slixter,
|
|
after already ripping off every other software idea in the known universe
|
|
and porting it to the IIgs, would eventually get around to this one. Well,
|
|
he did. And here it is -- SlixSecurity.
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|
HOW'S IT WORK?
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
SlixSecurity is a desk accessory/Finder extension that password
|
|
protects your computer. If the correct password is not entered, the user
|
|
gets only limited access to your files. That means, little Johnny can only
|
|
touch files that are in his own special folder, and he can't trash, format,
|
|
open, or otherwise manipulate anything you don't want him to. You can
|
|
decide whether he gets access to desk accessories or Finder extras. And
|
|
the best part is that SlixSecurity works directly from within the Finder,
|
|
so you don't have to learn how to set things up. If you know how to use
|
|
the Finder, then you can use SlixSecurity already!
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HOW DO I GET IT?
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|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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|
SlixSecurity is already in the Genie A2 file library as file #30596:
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30596 SLXSECURITY.BXY X B.VICTOR1 970725 16572 13
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Desc: SlixSecurity child-protection NDA
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SlixSecurity is shareware, and this is a fully functional version of the
|
|
program. Download it today! When you install it, a message pops up every
|
|
minute or so reminding you to send in your shareware fee. The shareware
|
|
fee is $10, and when I receive it from you, I will send you a password to
|
|
disable the message.
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|
--> SlixSecurity is (c) 1997 Bret Victor. Apple IIgs forever! <--
|
|
(B.VICTOR1, CAT13, TOP3, MSG:141/M645;1)
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|
|
|
NEW HIERARCHIC FROM DOWN UNDER
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|
SEVEN HILLS SOLUTION SPECIALISTS ANNOUNCES:
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|
|
HIERARCHIC v1.6.3 - HIERARCHICAL MENUS FOR THE APPLE IIGS
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|
|
|
Just a quick note to announce Hierarchic 1.6.3, which many folks may have
|
|
missed in the earthquake that was 2000 odd A2Pro files being added to the
|
|
A2 library.
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|
|
|
I recently found some time to consolidate some of our pending projects, and
|
|
complete Hierarchic 1.6.3, which includes a number of bug fixes, some menu
|
|
drawing/handling speed improvements, Gus support and some new developer
|
|
functions. Oh, and it's now a CDev instead of an INIT.
|
|
|
|
It has just been cleared by the A2 library goblins, and is file # 28883.
|
|
|
|
Owners of Spectrum, Transprog III, Kangaroo and other miscellaneous Seven
|
|
Hills products which use Hierarchical menus, may like to take a look at
|
|
this new version. While not mandatory, it is a newer, less buggy version of
|
|
Hierarchic.
|
|
|
|
Please note that there is an UNOFFICIAL French version 1.7 floating around,
|
|
which includes only some of the features in this OFFICIAL U.S. version
|
|
1.6.3.
|
|
|
|
Regards,
|
|
Richard Bennett
|
|
(RICHARD.B, CAT16, TOP2, MSG:139/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
FINALLY. . . TCP/IP FOR THE IIGS
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|
MARINETTI ANNOUNCED AT KFEST '97
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|
|
|
Marinetti is a freeware standalone TCP/IP stack for the Apple IIGS.
|
|
|
|
Currently, there are no big time applications which support
|
|
Marinetti,however, a very simple desktop GUI Telnet application will be
|
|
included, closely followed by the release of MiniTalk 1.8, which also
|
|
supports Telnet.
|
|
|
|
AVAILABILITY
|
|
|
|
The first release of Marinetti will be what the 'net clique refer to as
|
|
beta software. It will be available online, for a short period of time, but
|
|
in a "not yet complete" form. Technical support will not be directly
|
|
available, except that provided via the various Apple II online
|
|
communities.
|
|
|
|
The software will only be available from the following locations:
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|
|
|
Delphi A2 - go com a2
|
|
Delphi A2Pro - go com a2pro
|
|
Genie A2 - m645
|
|
Marinetti Home Page - http://www.zip.com.au/~kashum/marinetti/
|
|
|
|
The public release will contain a very annoying dialog which pops up all
|
|
the time, reminding you to register your copy. Registering is free, and
|
|
gives us a way to find out how many people are using their Apple IIs to
|
|
access the Internet. Details will be included with the package. Only KFest
|
|
'97 attendees will be able to register before 1st September 1997.
|
|
|
|
TECHNICAL
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|
|
|
Marinetti supports TCP, ICMP, UDP, IP, custom datagrams, plug-in link
|
|
layers, SLIP (includes scripting and up to 57600 serial speed) and an easy
|
|
to use IPC interface.
|
|
|
|
A developers' kit will be available shortly after the initial version, and
|
|
will include sample source code, a bloated Marinetti which includes
|
|
debugging utilities, and various articles on TCP and code porting for the
|
|
Marinetti environment.
|
|
|
|
Interested developers should send email to kashum@ozemail.com.au
|
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|
|
MISCELLANEOUS
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|
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|
Marinetti is a single CDev, requiring System 6.0.1, 50K of boot volume disk
|
|
space, and at least 30K of free RAM.
|
|
|
|
Because of the expected message traffic, email will not be responded to.
|
|
All official Marinetti discussion may be found on Delphi A2 or Genie A2.
|
|
All official announcements and the latest release can be found on Delphi
|
|
A2, Genie A2, and the Marinetti Home Page.
|
|
|
|
** Early and recent beta testers are now released from their relevant
|
|
NDAs.
|
|
|
|
Marinetti is copyright (c) 1996-1997 by Richard Bennett
|
|
This announcement may only be reproduced in its entirety.
|
|
(RICHARD.B, CAT28, TOP27, MSG:3/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
|
|
>>> THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE <<<
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|
|
|
SSII: THE APPLE II BIBLE
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|
>> But, returning to the subject of The Bible...if anyone does know of
|
|
>> other electronic forms of The Bible that can be read/used/studied on an
|
|
|
|
>> Apple II, please let me know.
|
|
|
|
Ohmigosh. Based on the e-mail I've received in the past 24 to 48 hours, it
|
|
most definitely looks like there will be a follow up item in the next issue
|
|
of the newsletter about The Bible.
|
|
|
|
Several people have written in with info on sources for other electronic
|
|
versions of The Bible (unfortunately, with no real details provided about
|
|
price or availability) and one person wrote to me and even described a
|
|
TimeOut application that he'd developed to help him find certain passages.
|
|
|
|
|
|
So, in addition to collecting information about The Bible on disk, I'd be
|
|
pleased to collect together any custom Biblical related programs that
|
|
anyone has developed.
|
|
|
|
In addition, I have a number of public domain disks here that would be of
|
|
great interest to those who have an interest in The Bible. Had I realized
|
|
that there would be such a great interest, I would have made those disks
|
|
available years ago.
|
|
|
|
Oh well; better late than never.
|
|
|
|
Joe
|
|
(JOE.KOHN, CAT19, TOP4, MSG:80/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
<<<<< I imagine that most people know that Will Nelken and I are
|
|
""""" neighbors and good friends, but I don't know if you're also aware
|
|
that Will, when he's not sitting in front of his Apple II, is the Pastor of
|
|
the Trinity Community Church here in San Rafael, CA.
|
|
|
|
As I said before, that short item in the latest issue of the newsletter
|
|
about The Bible generated more mail than any previous 5 articles combined,
|
|
and so it was quite clear to me that a follow up article would be
|
|
appreciated by many, many SSII subscribers.
|
|
|
|
I may know a lot about the Apple II computer, but Will knows a lot about
|
|
the Apple II computer AND The Bible. So, we plan to get together to discuss
|
|
an article about Biblical resources available to those who use Apple II
|
|
computers.
|
|
|
|
And, in the best "kill two birds with one stone" traditions, Will also just
|
|
happens to have a number of different CD-ROMs that contain various versions
|
|
of the Bible. So, those can used as part of my research about accessing and
|
|
using info on Mac and/or PC CD-ROMs.
|
|
|
|
Will also said that he has The Bible on 3.5" disk in AppleWorks format that
|
|
he'd be happy to donate to the SSII Library.
|
|
|
|
I just thought you'd want to know that...
|
|
|
|
Joe
|
|
(JOE.KOHN, CAT19, TOP4, MSG:164/M645;1)
|
|
|
|
>>> MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT <<<
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|
|
|
Category 19, Topic 4
|
|
Message 166 Mon Aug 04, 1997
|
|
JOE.KOHN [SSII] at 18:30 EDT
|
|
|
|
I averaged 3-4 hours of sleep each night during KansasFest, and I'm
|
|
completely exhausted at the moment, but I honestly think I can say that
|
|
this past weekend was the best weekend I've _ever_ had. Kfest '97 was
|
|
nothing short of phenomenal. Thank you Cindy and Godzilla and all the
|
|
others on the Kfest organizing committee. You sure know how to throw a
|
|
great party!
|
|
|
|
And, a very special thank you goes out to the true hero of Kfest 97:
|
|
Richard Bennett! Thanks, Richard, for your friendship, your sense of humor,
|
|
and for your vision of the future of the Apple II.
|
|
|
|
My voice is hoarse from carrying on until 3AM every night, but let me tell
|
|
you....I just loved Kfest 97. It was truly magical. I love the Apple II and
|
|
the people who comprise our community. Although completely exhausted, I'm
|
|
almost shaking with excitement.
|
|
|
|
For those who are curious about my "bomb-shell," I demo'ed how to format an
|
|
MS-DOS disk from the IIGS Finder. And, I really enjoyed showing people how
|
|
to do something that's impossible ;-)
|
|
|
|
Of course, I couldn't have done it without Peter Watson's MUG!
|
|
|
|
That soon-to-be released shareware NDA is the promised update to Peter's
|
|
MS-DOS Utilities. It works, and it works well, but an update (which I'm too
|
|
exhausted to download today) to the Kfest version I demo'ed is waiting in
|
|
my e-mailbox for some additional testing.
|
|
|
|
I'd like to go on and on, but I just can't; I need some more sleep...much
|
|
more sleep.
|
|
|
|
But, it was just a wonderful, wonderful Kfest, and I really, really enjoyed
|
|
myself. It was a joy to meet so many new friends, and it was splendid to be
|
|
able to spend time with so many old friends.
|
|
|
|
On the plane going home, I got really stoked up thinking about how I can't
|
|
wait for GSoft to be released, as I want to learn how to use it, and then
|
|
use it create a two player version of Pong that can be played over the
|
|
Internet in real time ;-)
|
|
|
|
I've never been this excited before about the Apple II. I'm just ecstatic.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Thanks everyone for such a good time. And, it goes without saying, but I'll
|
|
say it anyway...thanks for the incredible outpouring of support for
|
|
Shareware Solutions II.
|
|
|
|
And, to think...people thought I was kidding when I talked about all the
|
|
guys named Joe at SSII. But, as Kfest attendees can tell you...the SSII
|
|
PR-Joe doesn't even look like me ;-)
|
|
|
|
Joe
|
|
|
|
|
|
[*][*][*]
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|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
[EOA]
|
|
[BAN]//////////////////////////////
|
|
FILE BANDWAGON /
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|
Top 10 Files for May and June
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|
by Douglas Cuff
|
|
[D.CUFF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Normally, this feature lists the ten most popular files for the month.
|
|
This month, it looks at the ten most popular files over two months--because
|
|
this column didn't appear last month. This month, we look at the files
|
|
uploaded 1 May-30 June 1997.
|
|
|
|
Even though it's now August, we're still looking at files from May and
|
|
June. We're not looking at the July files yet because we like to give
|
|
files at least a month to seek their own levels. (Just think what would
|
|
happen if I started writing about the July files on August 1! Files
|
|
uploaded on July 31 would only have been downloaded a few times.)
|
|
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
This month, the two issues of GenieLamp A2 occupies four spots on the
|
|
list, but we're counting that as two--it really doesn't make sense to count
|
|
the AppleWorks and text file editions separately. We hope this explains
|
|
why there are 12 files on the Top 10 list.
|
|
|
|
File # Filename Bytes DLs Short description
|
|
------ --------------- ------ --- -------------------------------------
|
|
28541 DESKSETS2.BXY 38156 64 Update to Desktop2. Change desktops.
|
|
28554 SISBK1B1.BXY 22144 63 SIS Bookmarks Editor
|
|
28586 COG.BXY 189824 55 Crock O' Gold - Delphi Messenger
|
|
28585 ALMP9706AWP.BXY 41216 47 GenieLamp A2, June 1997 (AppleWorks)
|
|
28550 ALMP9705AWP.BXY 40320 40 GenieLamp A2, May 1997 (AppleWorks)
|
|
28536 DEBASED.BXY 10752 37 textfiles of base64 data => binary
|
|
28546 FF101.BXY 11456 36 Finder Flipper V1.0.1
|
|
28551 ALMP9705TXT.BXY 36352 35 GenieLamp A2, May 1997 (text)
|
|
28584 ALMP9706TXT.BXY 37120 34 GenieLamp A2, June 1997 (text)
|
|
28545 WS101.BXY 10840 32 WorkSets V1.0.1
|
|
28596 A2NDX9707TX.BXY 27620 31 A2 BB Index 07/97 ASCII ver rev
|
|
28558 DICT.V1.BXY 7680 29 HONEYBEE'S GOOFY DICTIONARY
|
|
|
|
|
|
DESKSETS2.BXY DeskSets v2.0 by Larry Badten is a utility that lets you
|
|
""""""""""""" change the background of your IIgs desktop environment from
|
|
a standard periwinkle blue to any pattern or picture you can imagine.
|
|
DeskSets goes beyond that to automatically change the pattern every time
|
|
you boot (or every second time, or third time, et cetera) or change the
|
|
pattern every day. JesusAware (similar to freeware).
|
|
|
|
SISBK1B1.BXY Bookmark Editor 1.0b1 by Geoff Weiss allows you to edit the
|
|
"""""""""""" bookmark file maintained by Spectrum Internet Suite. (Note
|
|
that this is a beta version, which means that it hasn't been fully tested.)
|
|
Bookmark Editor allows to create new bookmarks, edit existing ones, sort
|
|
your bookmarks, and even import Lynx or Netscape bookmarks! It also allows
|
|
you to cut, copy, and paste, so you can order your list of bookmarks
|
|
however you like. Freeware.
|
|
|
|
COG.BXY Crock O' Gold by Ewen Wannop (based on scripts by Kit Graham) is
|
|
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""""""" an offline reader for Spectrum v2.1 for Delphi. Using only
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Spectrum scripts and external commands (XCMDs), COG log you on to Delphi
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and quickly collect messages from however many forums you like. COG then
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hangs up and lets you read the messages without your connect time clock
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racking up the expenses. You can write replies as you read the messages,
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and COG will post them next time you log on. You can mark files for
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download, and COG will grab them too, next time you tell it to connect to
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Delphi. (Note: This file contains v1.0; v1.3 was the most recent version
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at press time.) Freeware.
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ALMP9706AWP.BXY Two editions of the June issue of GenieLamp A2 (edited by
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""""""""""""""" Ryan Suenaga) grace our Top 10 list this
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month--AppleWorks word processor and text file. Both editions feature the
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same articles--an article about getting permission for web page material,
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my own File Bandwagon column, and all the regular goodies. Freeware.
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ALMP9705AWP.BXY Two editions of the May issue of GenieLamp A2 (edited by
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""""""""""""""" Ryan Suenaga) grace our Top 10 list this
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month--AppleWorks word processor and text file. Both editions feature the
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same great articles--Peter Brickell's "Real World Apple" column, my own
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File Bandwagon column, and all the regular goodies. Freeware.
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DEBASED.BXY DEBASED by R. Hardman is a base64 decoder for 8-bit Apple
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""""""""""" II's like the IIe and IIc. It runs under ProBASIC (available
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separately in the Genie A2 library). Freeware.
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FF101.BXY Finder Flipper v1.0.1 by Chris Vavruska is a Finder extension
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""""""""" that lets you use the keyboard to select the active window,
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useful for those times when your desktop is cluttered with windows. (These
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metaphors don't mix very well, do they? I've never had framed panes of
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glass cluttering the top of my desk!) With Finder Flipper, you don't have
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to move windows aside to uncover the one you want, nor move the mouse to
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the "Windows" menu. Freeware.
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WS101.BXY WorkSets v1.0.1, also by Chris Vavruska, is a Finder extension
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""""""""" that lets you record a list of the folders open on the desktop.
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Needless to say, it also lets you retrieve the list of open folders.
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Shareware ($10).
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A2NDX9707TX.BXY This file is an index of topics and categories in the
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""""""""""""""" bulletin board of the Genie A2 RoundTable. It's always a
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good idea to get the most recent index, but this index was particularly
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popular because of the recent merging of A2Pro with A2. Freeware.
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DICT.V1.BXY This file from J. "Honeybee" Shaver has over 200 humorous
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""""""""""" one-line definitions ("All new: the software is not
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compatible with previous versions.") and explanations of acronyms ("IBM:
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I'll buy Macintosh."), compiled from various sources.
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[EOA]
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[RWA]//////////////////////////////
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THE REAL WORLD APPLE /
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/////////////////////////////////
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Reach Out and Touch Someone (or Something)
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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by Peter C. Brickell
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[P.BRICKELL]
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>>> PART 5: THE ANNUNCIATORS - ACT 1 <<<
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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Up until now I have shown you how to make your Apple listen to the
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real world and tell you what is going on. We have looked at measuring
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time, temperatures, whether a button has been pressed, and how quickly.
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Other than beeping its speaker, your Apple has been doing a lot of
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listening but no talking. In this installment we will take a look at the
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basic feature of most Apple II models that allows them to actually do
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things in the outside world.
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This feature consists of the annunciator output lines from the 16 pin
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game I/O port. Unfortunately for //c and //c+ users, these models have
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only the 9-pin game port which does not have these lines. As I have
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mentioned before, if you have one of these models and are serious about
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interfacing, it is worth looking around for an old II+ which can be had for
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a song these days and has a complete set of game port I/O lines.
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Today's lesson is a simple introduction to the annunciators with a
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description of what they are and how they are controlled. In a subsequent
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installment we will look at how to wire them up to do useful work.
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There are 4 annunciator lines on the Apple II named AN0, AN1, AN2,
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AN3. These lines are TTL (Transistor-Transistor Logic) output signal
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lines, for those who are familiar with such things. Since they are
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digital signals, they can have only one of two states - high or low (on or
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off). In strict electronics terms this means that when they are high (on)
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an annunciator line has a voltage of 3 volts DC or higher present on it.
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When the line is low (off) the voltage is less than 1 volt DC. In actual
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use, you will typically see a voltage of +5 volts when it is turned on and
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almost zero volts when turned off.
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The annunciators can be turned on and off by means of Applesoft or
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machine language. Each annunciator has two memory locations associated
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with it. To turn the annunciator on, store a number (any number from 0 to
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255) in the "on" memory location. To turn that annunciator off, you store
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a number of your choice in that annunciator's "off" memory location. For
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those of you familiar with machine language and the inner workings of the
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Apple II, these are soft switches which are set by either a read or write
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operation to the appropriate memory location.
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Here are the memory locations associated with the annunciators on the
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Apple II:
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ON OFF
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AN0 decimal -16295 -16296
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hex $C059 $C058
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AN1 decimal -16293 -16294
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hex $C05B $C05A
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AN2 decimal -16291 -16292
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hex $C05D $C05C
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AN3 decimal -16289 -16290
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hex $C05F $C05E
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I have used the negative decimal numbering system for the addresses.
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You can, of course, use the positive notation in Applesoft if you wish.
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The negative addresses are however, compatible with both Applesoft and
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Integer Basic. The hexadecimal version of these addresses will be useful
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for machine language programmers.
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Let's look at how to use these addresses. As an example, to turn on
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annunciator 0 and then turn it off again you could use the following basic
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program:
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10 HOME
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20 PRINT "PRESS '1' TO TURN ON ANNUNCIATOR 0"
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30 PRINT "PRESS '0' TO TURN OFF ANNUNCIATOR 0"
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40 PRINT: GET A$
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50 IF A$ = "0" THEN GOTO 100
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60 IF A$ = "1" THEN GOTO 200
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70 GOTO 10
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100 POKE -16296,0: REM TURNS AN0 OFF
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110 GOTO 10
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200 POKE -16295,0: REM TURNS AN0 ON
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210 GOTO 10
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Lines 20-40 ask you for an operation to perform, lines 50 and 60
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direct the program flow depending on the operation selected, and lines
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100-210 do the actual switching of the annunciator. To switch the other
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annunciators only the addresses in lines 100 and 200 need to be changed.
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One peculiarity to be aware of when using the annunciators is how the
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annunciators are set when the Apple II is turned or reset by a CTRL-RESET
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key press. During the reset cycle on an Apple II Plus annunciators 0 and 1
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are turned ON and annunciators 2 and 3 are turned OFF. This is important
|
|
to know if you are using AN0 and AN1 to operate equipment when the computer
|
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is unattended. If a power failure occurs, you don't want to create a
|
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hazardous condition by turning on certain equipment (such as heaters)
|
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indefinitely. For such safety-sensitive applications it is wise to select
|
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the annunciators which default to the off state on a power up. Users of
|
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other Apple II models should consult their technical reference manuals to
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find out which annunciators, if any, are set on at power up.
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So what can you do with all this new found information? Perhaps I
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should tell you what you can _not_ do with it first! You can not use the
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+5 volts from the annunciator lines to operate any real-world device
|
|
directly. The TTL logic chips which turn these lines on and off are very
|
|
low power devices. They are not designed to operate electrical or
|
|
electronic equipment. Trying to use the current from the annunciator lines
|
|
to run something directly will certainly result in damage to your Apple.
|
|
The only truly safe use for the annunciator lines is as a signal to trigger
|
|
a circuit which can provide a higher power level which can do useful work.
|
|
Depending upon the voltage and power requirements of the device that you
|
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wish to run, several successive stages of power step-up (amplification) and
|
|
electrical isolation may be required.
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|
The issue of electrical isolation is a very important one for your
|
|
personal safety and the for the reliability of your Apple. Many electronic
|
|
components that are used in amplifying circuits (such as transistors) can
|
|
allow current from the high power circuit to feed back into the low power
|
|
circuit (i.e. your Apple) if they fail for some reason. This can be
|
|
dangerous and fatal (at least to your computer). For this reason circuits
|
|
which provide total electrical separation (isolation), between your
|
|
computer and the high power device are essential in the design of systems
|
|
for using the annunciators for real-world operations. These circuits will
|
|
be discussed in the next installment of this series. In the meantime don't
|
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plug your blender into your Apple's game port ;-)
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|
To summarize this installment, we have seen that many models of Apple
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II have electrical signal lines called annunciators with can be made to
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change from +5 to 0 volts and back again under software control. These
|
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lines are very weak signals which can not be used to operate anything
|
|
directly, but must be amplified by an external circuit first. In addition
|
|
to this, it is crucial to isolate them electrically from the final device
|
|
which is controlled by the amplifying circuit. This protects both the
|
|
computer and more importantly, its human operator. We will look at these
|
|
external amplifying and isolating circuits next time.
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I hope that for now you can begin to appreciate how your Apple may be
|
|
useful in controlling things in the outside world using the four on/off
|
|
signals which can be generated in the computer with Applesoft or machine
|
|
language commands. Your assignment for next time: think about what
|
|
devices in your environment you might wish to have your computer control.
|
|
You will have to figure out how they might be operated by a few on/off
|
|
switches and what kind of information your Apple might need to know for
|
|
operating its switches (time, temperature, etc.)
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|
NOTE:
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|
In the next article of this series I will be referring to a specific
|
|
Vernier Software project on operating real world devices with the
|
|
annunciator signals. I recommend that you get your Vernier books out, or
|
|
beg, borrow or buy a copy if you want to actually build such a project.
|
|
Either "How to Build a Better Mousetrap" or "Chaos in the Laboratory" will
|
|
do as both have a version of this project (Optically Isolated Switches).
|
|
See one of my early installments for Vernier's address and phone number.
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|
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In the meantime, happy dreaming!
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[EOA]
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|
[FOC]//////////////////////////////
|
|
FOCUS ON... /
|
|
/////////////////////////////////
|
|
KansasFest 1997
|
|
"""""""""""""""
|
|
by Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W.
|
|
[A2LAMP]
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|
>>> THE BEST OF KANSASFEST 1997 <<<
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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|
|
|
This is not your ordinary KansasFest review. As you've seen in this
|
|
month's _HEY MISTER POSTMAN_ column just a few lines above, there's news
|
|
galore emanating from Avila College, and much of it has already been
|
|
covered by the faithful in the A2 RoundTable Bulletin Board. So instead of
|
|
your typical rundown of the happenings of KansasFest, we here at _GenieLamp
|
|
A2_ would instead like to recognize the best that the Apple II Community
|
|
has to offer: the best of KansasFest 1997.
|
|
|
|
BEST DEBUT Steve Cavanaugh, publisher of _The Apple Blossom_ and _Hyper
|
|
"""""""""" Quarterly_, had for years said he wanted to come to
|
|
KansasFest, yet nothing came of it until this year, when some of his fellow
|
|
Apple II newsletter editors, in combination with his lovely wife Laurie,
|
|
bugged him incessantly until he submitted. He ended up doing a session on
|
|
HyperCard IIgs, a demonstration of _Hyper Quarterly_, and making friends
|
|
everywhere he went with his disarming smile and New England accent.
|
|
|
|
BEST COMEBACK Not only did A2Pro's Todd Whitsel make it back to Kfest
|
|
""""""""""""" after four years of absence, so did a lost room key from
|
|
his last trip to Avila.
|
|
|
|
BEST DOOR SIGN While there were many entrants, David Kerwood's Rhode
|
|
"""""""""""""" Island Apple Group banner, the size of a Ridgway dorm room
|
|
door, was certainly an impressive site. More impressive was the fact that
|
|
the club made it up special for his keynote address at Kfest '97!
|
|
Runner-up: Cindy Adams, The Big Cheese of Kfest, who wasn't able to bring
|
|
her Cheesehead hat but did manage to post a new Momma Cheese sign on her
|
|
door.
|
|
|
|
BEST DEALS AT KANSASFEST 1997 Mike Westerfield of The Byteworks had some
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" wildly exciting pricing on most of his
|
|
products--so good I bought backups to some books I thought irreplaceable.
|
|
Honorable mention: Max Jones of _Juiced.GS_ had arranged with well-known
|
|
Apple IIgs programmer Eric Shepherd, a.k.a. Sheppy, to sell ten copies of
|
|
the ultimate Apple IIgs power users tool; within an hour, he had sold out
|
|
of all the copies of Shifty List 2.0 he had.
|
|
|
|
BEST ROOMMATE IF YOU WANTED TO SLEEP The hero of Kfest '97, Richard
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Bennett, was definitely the best guy
|
|
to share a room with if you wanted to sleep--he might've spent a total of
|
|
an hour in his room all Kfest. Despite all of this, his roomie, Tony Ward,
|
|
a.k.a. Conan the Librarian, was as wiped out as anyone at the end of Kfest.
|
|
|
|
BEST ROOMMATE IF YOU DIDN'T WANT TO SLEEP The schedulemeister himself,
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Steve "Godzilla" Gozdziewski,
|
|
who didn't want to, either.
|
|
|
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BEST USE OF EMAIL Non-KFest attendee Loreen Miller, wife of A2Pro's Just
|
|
""""""""""""""""" Dave Miller, who mailed some of the Kfest attendees to
|
|
let them know that Dave was coming in on an earlier flight than expected.
|
|
The KFesters managed to get Carl Knobloch dispatched to the airport in time
|
|
to get Dave before his baggage got through.
|
|
|
|
BEST COLLABORATION Mike Westerfield of The Byteworks and Richard Bennett,
|
|
"""""""""""""""""" author of Marinetti. A late night hack session on
|
|
Friday came within a few lines of source code back in Sydney of resulting
|
|
in a fifteen line telnet program written in _Gsoft_ BASIC.
|
|
|
|
BEST BIT OF TELECOMM HACKING FROM AN AIRPORT Your _GenieLamp A2_ editor,
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Ryan Suenaga, managing to
|
|
get onto the Internet from a public phone in the Kansas City International
|
|
Airport with his Powerbook but without a quarter. This allowed the prompt
|
|
pickup of Michael Hackett, Tony Ward, and Jerry Cline, who had sent email
|
|
with their arrival information.
|
|
|
|
BEST IMITATION OF A DENTIST The Mad Hacker, Tony Diaz of Alltech
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Electronics, and his able assistant, Dremel,
|
|
creating both a mess and another production run of one portable Apple IIgs,
|
|
this time in a DynaMac case, using a Mark Twain motherboard.
|
|
|
|
BEST DAY OF SCHEDULING Every day, thanks to the tireless effort of Steve
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""" Gozdziewski, who posted notes everywhere every
|
|
night to keep the entire congregation updated. Steve either dazzled or
|
|
disappointed everyone with his apology note on Saturday night due to his
|
|
not being able to find a single thing to change on the Sunday schedule.
|
|
|
|
BEST SHOW OF SPORTSMANSHIP Scott Johnson and Paul Zaleski, both past
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""" winners of Bite The Bag, who agreed to a tie
|
|
after they found themselves facing each other in the ultimate test of
|
|
KansasFest fitness.
|
|
|
|
BEST JOB OF NAVIGATION The team of Steve Cavanaugh, Steve Gozdziewski,
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""" Richard Bennett, Joe Kohn, Tony Ward, David
|
|
Kerwood, Michael Hackett, and Jerry Cline, who kept your editor from
|
|
getting lost all of KansasFest, through trips to the UPS terminal, Kansas
|
|
City International Airport, CompUSA, K.C. Masterpiece, and Jess & Jim's
|
|
Steakhouse.
|
|
|
|
BEST BLATANT PLUG Max Jones, publisher of _Juiced.GS_, who was revealed
|
|
""""""""""""""""" to actually be Joe the Promotions Manager at _Shareware
|
|
Solutions II_.
|
|
|
|
BEST SHOWING BY A COUNTRY NOT NAMED THE UNITED STATES Australia, with
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" three KFesters
|
|
(Brian Pinch, Andrew Roughan, and Richard Bennett), just beat out Canada
|
|
(Hamish Davidson and Michael Hackett).
|
|
|
|
BEST LICENSE PLATE Russ Alman of Missouri, who drove his car to KFest
|
|
"""""""""""""""""" with the vanity plate reading: APL-2GS.
|
|
|
|
BEST REAL-TIME COVERAGE The tireless David Kerwood went from making
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""" history with his keynote address to making pages
|
|
with his constant updates of the A2-Web World Wide Web page at
|
|
http://www.syndicomm.com/a2web. Regular updates of KFest events kept the
|
|
online world up-to-date with the big bash. For an encore, David went up to
|
|
MacWorld days later and continued his real-time reports from there.
|
|
|
|
BEST REASONS TO MISS KFEST, BUT DIDN'T USE THEM Stan Marks, who had a
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" wedding anniversary just
|
|
after KFest, had his first grandchild born just before KFest, but he still
|
|
drove over from Mississippi to make the 1997 celebration. Runner up: Carl
|
|
Knobloch, who had a grandchild born around the same time Stan did.
|
|
Congratulations, guys.
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|
|
|
BEST FOOD The Avila Cafeteria. NOT! Jess & Jim's Steakhouse had some of
|
|
""""""""" the world's largest baked potatoes and such great steak you'd
|
|
think you went to cattle heaven.
|
|
|
|
BEST SESSION THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN Apple Computer, Inc., canceled their
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" yearly KFest presentation for early
|
|
Friday morning, which allowed everyone to get a little more sleep and let
|
|
breakfast start a little later. This lent to a record turnout for a KFest
|
|
breakfast.
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|
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And finally. . .
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BEST APPLE II SHOW OF THE YEAR KansasFest 1997, of course. Thanks to
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Cindy Adams, Jerry Cline, and Steve
|
|
Gozdziewski for heading up the planning of the best Apple II event ever.
|
|
Apple II Forever!
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//////////////////////////////////////// Genie_QWIK_QUOTE ////
|
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/ " Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs." /
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//////////////////////////////////////////// J.SHAVER ////////
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[EOA]
|
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[LOG]//////////////////////////////
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LOG OFF /
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/////////////////////////////////
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""""""""""""""""""""" month in library 55 of Genie's A2 RoundTable (page
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