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>>> WELCOME TO THE LAMP! <<<
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THE BEST OF THE A2 BULLETIN BOARD ON Syndicomm Online
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AND THE BEST OF THE DELPHI A2 AND A2PRO MESSAGE BOARDS
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"Teaching the Apple II user how to fish since 1998"
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The Lamp! An Onipa'a Software Production Vol. 6, No. 6
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Publisher................................Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W.
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Editor.....................................................Lyle Syverson
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Internet Email, Publisher.........................thelamp@sheppyware.net
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Internet Email, Editor................................lyle@FoxValley.net
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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June 15, 2003
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HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER---------------------------------------------[OPN]
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The Power of Volunteers
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A2 FORUM AT Syndicomm Online (A2Central.com) DISTILLATIONS------------[DAS]
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Steven Weyhrich Creates GEnie Lamp A2/The Lamp Index-------------[SWC]
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GEnie Lamp A2/The Lamp Index in Library--------------------------[LIL]
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DiskMaker 1.2 Uploaded to Library--------------------------------[DML]
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Prizm on Real IIgs vs Emulator-----------------------------------[PRE]
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Accessing the SIS Web Site With SIS------------------------------[SWS]
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Advantages of Various Programming Languages----------------------[VPL]
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Suggestions Needed for Working With ORCA-------------------------[SNO]
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Programming With Assembly----------------------------------------[PWA]
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Programming With Marinetti---------------------------------------[PWM]
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A2 Fans Might Want to Check Out This Book------------------------[CTB]
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ILLUMINATING THE LAMP-------------------------------------------------[ITL]
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An overview of GEnieLamp A2 and The Lamp!
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Never Can Say Goodbye
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ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM SYNDICOMM------------------------------------------[ANS]
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To Sign up for Syndicomm Online----------------------------------[TSU]
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June 2003 Issue of Syndicommotion is Ready-----------------------[JSR]
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THE TINKERER'S CORNER-------------------------------------------------[TTC]
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Keeping the Apple II Cool Enough
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You are Invited
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR-------------------------------------------------[LTE]
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Letter to the Editor
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An Invitation
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KFEST 2003------------------------------------------------------------[KFT]
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KFest 2003 - Plan to be There!-----------------------------------[PBT]
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KFest Registration Form------------------------------------------[KRF]
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Third Floor Needed for KFest Attendees---------------------------[TFN]
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The Excitement Builds--------------------------------------------[TEB]
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New Products to be Announced at KFest----------------------------[NPA]
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Transportation, Airport to KFest---------------------------------[AKF]
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For More Information Visit The KFest Home Page-------------------[VKF]
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EXTRA INNINGS
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About The Lamp! ------------------------------------------------ [INN]
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[*] [*] [*]
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READING THE LAMP! The index system used by The Lamp! is designed to make
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""""""""""""""""" your reading easier. To use this system, load this
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issue into any word processor or text editor. In the index you will find
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something like:
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EXTRA INNINGS
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About The Lamp! ------------------------------------------------ [INN]
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To read this article, simply use your search or find command to locate
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[INN]. There is a similar tag at the end of each article: [EOA].
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[OPN]-------------------------------
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HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER |
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From The Editor
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by Lyle Syverson <lyle@FoxValley.net>
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The Power of Volunteers
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Not far from the patio High Above The Rock River is a delightful
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little park. A stone path winds through plantings of many species of
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flowering plants... a succession of beautiful color from early Spring
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though late Fall.
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A bench beneath a stately shade tree invites one to rest awhile. The
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small table with seating for two inspires planning a picnic for you and a
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friend.
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This small park was developed and is maintained by volunteers from a
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neighborhood improvement association. A fine example of what can be
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accomplished by dedicated volunteers.
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The casual observer could easily overlook the work of volunteers in
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making KFest happen.
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Over sixty people have registered for KFest 2003. You, too, can take
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advantage of efforts of the volunteers who are making KFest happen. See
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the KFest section of this issue for registration information.
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[EOA]
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ASCII ART BEGINS
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[EOA]
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[DAS]----------------------------------------------
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DISTILLATIONS FROM The A2 FORUM at Syndicomm.com |
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(A2Central.com) |
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by Lyle Syverson <lyle@foxvalley.net>
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[SWC]
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Steven Weyhrich CREATES GEnie Lamp A2/The Lamp INDEX
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""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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I've just uploaded to the A2 library the completed, first-ever
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comprehensive index to both GEnieLamp A2 (9204-9710) and The Lamp
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(9801-Present). The index file is 540K in size, and there is also a ReadMe
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that explains some things in the index file.
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Comments and criticisms are welcomed. Check Cat 2/Top 37 for an
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announcement of when it is released and where it gets placed.
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Steven Weyhrich <IX0YE>--<
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Apple II History
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http://apple2history.org
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(A2HISTORY, Cat 20, Top 20, Msg 93)
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>>>>>
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Thanks, Steve.
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Ryan
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(RSUENAGA, Cat 20, Top 20, Msg 94)
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[EOA]
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[LIL]
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GEnie Lamp A2/The Lamp INDEX IN LIBRARY
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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There are new uploads in the publications/genielamp_the.lamp directory:
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File: index0305.txt
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Size: 546353
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Date: May 18
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File: index0305readme.txt
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Size: 5126
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Date: May 18
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The LAMP INDEX file is a topical index of nearly every individual article
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that was posted in the digital magazines GEnieLamp A2 from April 1992
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through October 1997, and The Lamp! from January 1998 through the present
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(May 2003).
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Uploaded by the author, Steven Weyhrich.
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Tony Ward, A2 Librarian
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(A2.TONY, Cat 2, Top 37, Msg 14)
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>>>>>
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"""""
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In regards to the previous upload announcement, note that the following
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change has been made to the A2 library:
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old - publications/genielamp.a2
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new - publications/genielamp_the.lamp
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No files were harmed in the creation of this new directory.
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Tony Ward, A2 Librarian
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(A2.TONY, Cat 2, Top 37, Msg 15)
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[EOA]
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[DML]
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DiskMaker 1.2 UPLOADED TO LIBRARY
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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There is a new upload in the utilities/16-bit/applications directory:
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File: dmaker12.bxy
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Size: 25856
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Date: Jun 9
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DiskMaker 1.2 is the latest version of the popular disk image to disk
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conversion utility for the Apple IIgs. DiskMaker supports DiskCopy 4.2,
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DiskCopy 6, Universal Disk Image (2mg), and raw disk images on all sizes of
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disks.
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Version 1.2 fixes a bug introduced in version 1.1 that caused strange
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errors dealing with DiskCopy 4.2 and Universal Disk Image files, and makes
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the target disk selection window automatically highlight newly-inserted
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disks.
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Uploaded by the author, Eric Shepherd.
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Tony Ward, A2 Librarian
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(A2.TONY, Cat 2, Top 37, Msg 16)
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[EOA]
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[PRE]
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PRIZM ON REAL IIgs VS EMULATOR
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FWIW, it seems that while the physical GS running Prizm is much slower at
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compiling (duh), it's also considerably more stable.
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Ryan
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(A2.RYAN, Cat 22, Top 28, Msg 7)
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[EOA]
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[SWS]
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ACCESSING THE SIS WEB SITE WITH SIS
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Due to a recent server move, SIS can no longer access its own Web site
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http://sis.gwlink.net/ . The site still works with any other Web Browser.
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SIS users can still access the Web site by going to:
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http://www.gwlink.net/sis/
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I apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.
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Geoff
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(GEOFF, Cat 26, Top 7, Msg 5)
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[EOA]
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[VPL]
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ADVANTAGES OF VARIOUS PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
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Does Pascal have any strengths over C?
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(KGAGNE, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 4)
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>>>>>
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My guess is in C you could cause more damage than with Pascal.
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Of course..I've caused damage with both. I seem to remember (It's been a
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long time), Pascal being easier to learn.
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Dain
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(A2.DAIN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 5)
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"""""
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>> Does Pascal have any strengths over C? <<
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To me, mostly in being easier to read and learn. C still looks like line
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noise to me.
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In the real world, there's about zero demand for Pascal programmers
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(although Delphi has kind of usurped the Pascal guys). C (and C++)
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programmers are wanted everywhere. But on the IIgs, Pascal is as useful a
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language as C (and as good as anything short of 65c816 assembly. . .
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Ryan
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(A2.RYAN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 6)
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"""""
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Pascal was designed as a teaching language, and won't let you do a lot of
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stupid things that C will let you do (but won't let you do a lot of clever
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things that C will let you do, either).
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I prefer C since it doesn't make you type so much, and it gives you more
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control. Pascal seems to me like driving with a learners permit, and your
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mother is nagging the whole trip.
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For IIgs desktop programming, Pascal is just as usable as C. And
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Orca/Pascal supports object pascal, which has some neat features.
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Kelvin
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(KWS, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 7)
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>> Does Pascal have any strengths over C? <<
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In the IIGS world, I think that Orca Pascal is the only "object-oriented"
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language available for the Apple II. That is, it's the only language that
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allows objects in the OOP sense. (But maybe Modula 2 also has them? I've
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never delved into Modula 2)
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P.S. I see that Kelvin already mentioned that... while I was typing this
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response :)
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(TCOMPTER, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 8)
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"""""
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Are there any speed variations between the two languages? I remember
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reading comments that this program or that ran slowly because it was
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written in Pascal.
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(KGAGNE, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 9)
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"""""
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Speed is always an issue in computing, regardless of language that's used.
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If all things are equal, assembly would be faster than anything, but "all
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things are equal" is not always possible.
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I don't think that ORCA/Pascal vs ORCA/C will show an appreciable
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difference in speed. Assembly vs either of the other two, sure, but
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optimizing code will of course make a huge difference :)
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Ryan
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(A2.RYAN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 10)
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"""""
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ORCA/Modula-2 does allow object programming. It's actually a really neat
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language for doing GS programming in, but I don't think anyone ever really
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used it that much.
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Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
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Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
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Building communities, bit by bit.
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(SYNDICOMM, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 11)
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>>>>>
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"""""
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Sheppy Said:
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>> ORCA/Modula-2 does allow object programming. <<
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That's good to know. I might have to give it a try after school is done.
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>> It's actually a really neat language for doing GS programming in, but I
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don't think anyone ever really used it that much. <<
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I would imagine that it was not popular because:
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a) it came out late in the IIGS's life cycle, and
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b) it came out when Java and C++ were the "hot" languages on other
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platforms.
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(TCOMPTER, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 12)
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"""""
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Reason 3 why Modula-2 wasn't popular on the IIgs:
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It's not popular in the rest of the world either.
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Kelvin
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(KWS, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 13)
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"""""
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Yeah, what Kelvin said. Modula-2 was never more than a computer science
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project, really. Nobody ever deployed it for real world use in any real
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way. But it's a darned neat language, very much like Pascal but with some
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cool added features that make it worth trying out.
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Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
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Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
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Building communities, bit by bit.
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(SYNDICOMM, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 14)
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>>>>>
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"""""
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Fooling with Pascal the last couple of weeks has really helped me get over
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the hump in terms of programming. I usually got a week or two into a
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language before I had no clue what I was doing. I'm a couple of weeks in
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now and things are kind of making more sense.
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To me, Pascal is helpful in that it forces you to be pretty structured and
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generally doesn't allow you to do sloppy things that other languages
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(Applesoft being a prime example) will. I kind of wonder how things would
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be different right now if Pascal had been taught instead of BASIC.
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Ryan
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(A2.RYAN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 15)
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>>>>>
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"""""
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>> To me, Pascal is helpful in that it forces you to be pretty structured
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and generally doesn't allow you to do sloppy things that other languages <<
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Yes, that's very true.
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Pascal was taught instead of BASIC once I got to high school.
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Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
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Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
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Building communities, bit by bit.
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(SYNDICOMM, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 16)
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>>>>>
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"""""
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You guys are lucky. My high school had "computer typing" as a class, and
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"computer applications" as another. The latter was word processing,
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spreadsheet, and database. No programming whatsoever.
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I took the applications final the first week of the class and got a 97%,
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but the school refused to give me credit for the course since I didn't
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actually take it. Apparently they expected me to sit through the class and
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not learn anything to actually get credit. We compromised: the grade
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didn't apply to my GPA, but I was waived from taking the course as a
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graduation requirement.
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Last week I taught a high school junior how to count in binary. I thought
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these young kids were born with this knowledge. :)
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-Ken
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(KGAGNE, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 17)
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>> Last week I taught a high school junior how to count in binary. I
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thought these young kids were born with this knowledge. :) <<
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Unbelievable! Binary, Octal and Hex should all be taught in high school.
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Carl Knoblock - Telephone Tech - Wed 21 May 03 9:31:32 pm
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cknoblo@cox.com - Via Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR v1.0b10
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KFest 2003, July 22-27, 2003 - 62 days till KFest
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On cable via LANceGS & Marinetti 2.0.1 - Thank you, Richard.
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A2 RTC Staff - Sunday Night House Party - carlk@syndicomm.com
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(CARLK, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 18)
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>>>>>
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"""""
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My high school offered a word processing class (formerly typing, but they
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got computers the first or second year i was there). They also had a
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QBASIC based class (which I didn't take). The computer lab had the box for
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TurboPascal, I don't know if anyone ever used it :)
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I don't remember being formally taught binary/octal/hex until a
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machine-language course in college (2nd or 3rd year). Of course, having
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seen my fair share of a2-code, hex and binary weren't foreign. Octal is
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entirely useless if not for unix's chmod command :) My mother told me that
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she had to learn binary and punch cards when she was in school.
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Kelvin
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(KWS, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 19)
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"""""
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When I was in high school (and now that was awhile ago :) we didn't have
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application courses, but we did have programming, in BASIC. You had your
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choice between a TRS80 Model I, III, or IV.
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When I was a junior, they got an Apple IIe. One.
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When I was a senior, they started teaching another class in programming, on
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a mini. In COBOL.
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Poor planning, in retrospect. :)
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Ryan
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|
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(A2.RYAN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 21)
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|
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>>>>>
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"""""
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|
In any case, learning Pascal now is really a fun experience, and I'm
|
|
finally understanding a lot of the things I couldn't grasp in other
|
|
languages, like C and assembly.
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|
|
Ryan
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|
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|
(A2.RYAN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 22)
|
|
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|
>>>>>
|
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"""""
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|
Because It's a hobby, I just love programming. Just wish I had more time to
|
|
do it. Pascal seemed like a good choice - to help me learn NOT to make
|
|
those stupid mistakes I do:) Still probably haven't learned THAT but
|
|
everything helps when you're playing around and trying to come up with
|
|
something worthwhile:)
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|
|
Steve
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|
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|
(KFESTSTEVE, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 31)
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|
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|
>>>>>
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"""""
|
|
Assembly isn't for everyone. I enjoy it, but it takes a good bit more
|
|
thinking to get stuff done. :)
|
|
|
|
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
|
|
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
|
|
Building communities, bit by bit.
|
|
|
|
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 23)
|
|
|
|
>>>>>
|
|
"""""
|
|
Jumped into Assembly right after BASIC. BASIC allowed me to do some "basic"
|
|
stuff I needed but assembly taught me MORE about my computer and allowed me
|
|
to get a few more things done.
|
|
|
|
May have had some "brilliant" ideas for a program but never had the
|
|
experience to write them. Mostly, just did what I needed to get done - sans
|
|
any interface that would permit anyone else from actually finding the
|
|
programs useful:)
|
|
|
|
Steve
|
|
|
|
(KFESTSTEVE, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 32)
|
|
[EOA]
|
|
|
|
|
|
[SNO]
|
|
SUGGESTIONS NEEDED FOR WORKING WITH ORCA
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|
I've been trying to get some stuff done in ORCA but I always run into the
|
|
fact the thing is incredibly crashy on me. (usually during compiles).
|
|
Even on the examples provided. Usually I have tried to mess with the C
|
|
coding, but I never get far. Is Pascal less prone to this behavior, or do
|
|
I need to have some Magical GS setup that prevents all these problems from
|
|
occurring?
|
|
|
|
Thanks,
|
|
|
|
Dain
|
|
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|
(A2.DAIN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 24)
|
|
|
|
>>>>>
|
|
"""""
|
|
The latest versions of the ORCA stuff seemed pretty stable during the edit
|
|
and build stages. (Execution is always suspect, but then you have to wonder
|
|
who to point the finger at. For example, the programmer...)
|
|
|
|
Of course, I used the text interface - the Orca command shell and text
|
|
editor. Mainly because I found the GUI unstable... ;-)
|
|
|
|
Peter peterw@syndicomm.com
|
|
Palm OS Community Bulletin Board Manager
|
|
|
|
(PETERW, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 25)
|
|
|
|
>>>>>
|
|
"""""
|
|
Thanks. I'll try and see if the Text Interface works any better for me.
|
|
|
|
Dain
|
|
|
|
(A2.DAIN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 26)
|
|
|
|
>>>>>
|
|
"""""
|
|
I never was able to get the Prizm GUI to not do unpredictable things, which
|
|
is why I always used the text interface.
|
|
|
|
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
|
|
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
|
|
Building communities, bit by bit.
|
|
|
|
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 27)
|
|
|
|
>>>>>
|
|
"""""
|
|
I don't find Prizm to be all that stable, but it's a lot less frustration
|
|
now with a really fast emulator and an easy way to back up boot partitions,
|
|
then years ago when it would futz my actual IIgs. :)
|
|
|
|
Ryan
|
|
|
|
(A2.RYAN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 29)
|
|
|
|
>>>>>
|
|
"""""
|
|
That's true. :)
|
|
|
|
Well, anyone who has a copy of Opus ][ The Source can try to find and fix
|
|
the problems with Prizm; if they get them back to me, I can distribute
|
|
them. Same goes for any other Byte Works product.
|
|
|
|
To date, none of you whiners has actually done that. ;)
|
|
|
|
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
|
|
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
|
|
Building communities, bit by bit.
|
|
|
|
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 30)
|
|
[EOA]
|
|
|
|
|
|
[PWA]
|
|
PROGRAMMING WITH ASSEMBLY
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|
I'm writing an assembly program that is for kids. One thing I want to do
|
|
is minimize the impact of them hitting the reset key.
|
|
|
|
I know a lot of stuff happens in the fraction of a second from when the
|
|
reset key is hit to the very last thing which is a branch to the address
|
|
stored in $03F2. What are some of the things I need to be concerned with?
|
|
What happens to things like registers and stack pointers?
|
|
|
|
Mark Percival - Apprentice
|
|
Delivered by Spectrum v2.5.1 & SOAR v1.0b10
|
|
The Apple ][ Fanatic and Wednesday Night RTC Host
|
|
"Midweek Madness!" from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Pacific Time
|
|
|
|
(MARK, Cat 51, Top 3, Msg 1)
|
|
|
|
>>>>>
|
|
"""""
|
|
Actually, if you patch that vector, reset does absolutely nothing. All the
|
|
reset key does is trigger the line that causes an immediate jump to that
|
|
vector; the code there is responsible for actually resetting the machine.
|
|
|
|
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
|
|
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
|
|
Building communities, bit by bit.
|
|
|
|
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 51, Top 3, Msg 2)
|
|
|
|
>>>>>
|
|
"""""
|
|
I ended up doing a little digging of my own and found out the following
|
|
answer to my own question.
|
|
|
|
First of all the (ctrl) reset key sends a signal directly to the processor.
|
|
When the key is depressed (and held) it stops everything dead in its
|
|
tracks. If you try this you will notice that everything is totally
|
|
suspended. Upon releasing the reset key a seven cycle wait happens during
|
|
which time the processor initializes itself and retrieves the reset address
|
|
contained at $FFFC & $FFFD.
|
|
|
|
Everything above is specific to the 6500 series of microprocessors and not
|
|
Apple II itself. The same happens in any machine (Commodore 64, etc) using
|
|
this series of processor.
|
|
|
|
From here the processor basically does a JMP ($FFFC) and this is where the
|
|
Apple II specific part takes over. In an Apple ][ plus or IIe (what I
|
|
happen to have handy to check) $FFFC and $FFFD contains "62 FA" so the 6502
|
|
in effect does a JMP $FA62. Here the following happens within the
|
|
autostart ROM:
|
|
|
|
- flips the soft switches which control video to display page 1 text
|
|
mode with low resolution off.
|
|
- Opens the text window to its full (24x40) size and places the output
|
|
cursor to the bottom of the screen.
|
|
- sets video to normal mode.
|
|
- sets COUT and KEYIN to use the internal keyboard and video display.
|
|
- flips annunciators 0 and 1 ON and annunciators 2 and 3 OFF on the
|
|
Game I/O connector.
|
|
- clears the keyboard strobe.
|
|
- turns off any I/O Expansion ROM.
|
|
- sounds a "beep!"
|
|
|
|
Following this sequence it checks for a valid Soft Entry Vector located at
|
|
$3F2-$3F3. If invalid it assumes a cold restart is required which involves
|
|
clearing the screen and putting "APPLE ][" or "Apple //e" at the top of the
|
|
screen and then scan the slots for a valid boot device. If the Soft Entry
|
|
Vector is valid then a JMP ($3F2) is executed. Normally this vector
|
|
contains the warm start address for either Applesoft, DOS or ProDOS.
|
|
|
|
The Soft Entry Vector is the earliest point where I can interrupt the reset
|
|
cycle and return control to my program. This sequence also shows me that I
|
|
have to keep all of the above in mind when doing so since (most
|
|
particularly my video) settings have changed and almost for certain my
|
|
registers and stack pointers are trashed.
|
|
|
|
REFERENCES:
|
|
===========
|
|
- SY6500/MCS6500 Microprocessor Family Programming Manual
|
|
August 1976 MOS Technology, Inc.
|
|
- Apple II Reference Manual
|
|
1979 Apple Computer, Inc.
|
|
|
|
Mark Percival - Apprentice
|
|
Delivered by Spectrum v2.5.1 & SOAR v1.0b10
|
|
The Apple ][ Fanatic and Wednesday Night RTC Host
|
|
"Midweek Madness!" from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Pacific Time
|
|
|
|
(MARK, Cat 51, Top 3, Msg 5)
|
|
|
|
>>>>>
|
|
"""""
|
|
Historically the idea was always that you could *trap* the reset key, not
|
|
suppress it. So typically the reset key would cause the program to restart
|
|
(in some cases literally!) at a known "checkpoint" such as the main menu in
|
|
an application, or the beginning of the current level in a game.
|
|
|
|
The usual idea is that trapping the reset key is a part of the copy
|
|
protection process. If it isn't needed for copy protection, then you could
|
|
argue that by definition the reset key should be allowed to "reset" - in
|
|
other words to recover when something goes wrong. And typically recovery
|
|
was just enough to allow files to be saved, etc. since if a reset was
|
|
needed, there were probably other problems.
|
|
|
|
Peter peterw@syndicomm.com
|
|
Palm OS Community Bulletin Board Manager
|
|
|
|
(PETERW, Cat 51, Top 3, Msg 6)
|
|
[EOA]
|
|
|
|
|
|
[PWM]
|
|
PROGRAMMING WITH MARINETTI
|
|
""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|
I am working a bit with Marinetti and trying to figure out what to do while
|
|
waiting for a resolution of the TCPIPDNRNameToIP procedure; since there
|
|
really isn't anything else for me to do, is it logical for me to run a
|
|
do-while loop calling TCPIPPoll until DNRStatus no longer equals zero?
|
|
|
|
Ryan
|
|
|
|
(A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 3)
|
|
|
|
>>>>>
|
|
"""""
|
|
That is the way to approach it.
|
|
|
|
Call TCPIPDNRNameToIP, then enter a loop where you keep checking DNRStatus
|
|
for a non-zero value. Within the loop you will need to call TCPIPPoll, and
|
|
you may well want to call GetNextEvent so you can see if a keypress has
|
|
been made to abort the waiting. Alternatively, or in addition to looking
|
|
for a keypress, you may want to have some form of timeout, though
|
|
TCPIPDNRNameToIP will time out by itself in due course.
|
|
|
|
Ewen Wannop - Speccie - Wed 4 Jun 2003 - 48 days till KFest '03
|
|
Delivered without using a IIgs by Spectrum v2.5.3 & SOAR 1.0b11
|
|
Setup: Bernie ][ the Rescue 3.0 and a dual G4/800Mhz GeForce3
|
|
http://www.ewannop.btinternet.co.uk/
|
|
|
|
(CONDUCTOR, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 4)
|
|
|
|
>>>>>
|
|
"""""
|
|
What I did in gsAIM was have a state machine where it basically would have
|
|
a variable called onlineStatus, which would be set to, say:
|
|
|
|
0: offline
|
|
1: resolving
|
|
2: connecting
|
|
3: online
|
|
|
|
Then when I send the DNR request out, I set the onlineStatus to 1,
|
|
indicating that I'm waiting for resolution of DNS, and continue in my event
|
|
loop, so I can handle cancel requests. The event loop would then contain
|
|
code like:
|
|
|
|
if onlineStatus = online then
|
|
(* handle online events *)
|
|
else if onlineStatus = resolving then
|
|
(* look to see if resolution is complete *)
|
|
if resolutionComplete then
|
|
onlineStatus = 2; (* we're connecting now *)
|
|
end if
|
|
else if onlineStatus = connecting then
|
|
(* handle connecting to the service *)
|
|
else if onlineStatus = online then
|
|
(* we're online, handle that *)
|
|
else
|
|
(* oh no, we're screwed! *)
|
|
end if
|
|
|
|
Obvious pseudocode. :)
|
|
|
|
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
|
|
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
|
|
Building communities, bit by bit.
|
|
|
|
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 5)
|
|
|
|
>>>>>
|
|
"""""
|
|
Thanks, Ewen and Shep.
|
|
|
|
Another question: there is a TCPIPConvertIPToASCII call, but apparently no
|
|
equivalent TCPIPConvertASCIIToIP?
|
|
|
|
I don't mind doing the math myself, I was just hoping it'd be easier :)
|
|
|
|
Ryan
|
|
|
|
(A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 6)
|
|
|
|
>>>>>
|
|
"""""
|
|
You would use TCPIPConvertIPCToHex as the opposite call...
|
|
|
|
Ewen Wannop - Speccie - Thu 5 Jun 2003 - 47 days till KFest '03
|
|
Delivered without using a IIgs by Spectrum v2.5.3 & SOAR 1.0b11
|
|
Setup: Bernie ][ the Rescue 3.0 and a dual G4/800Mhz GeForce3
|
|
http://www.ewannop.btinternet.co.uk/
|
|
|
|
(CONDUCTOR, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 7)
|
|
|
|
>>>>>
|
|
"""""
|
|
Thanks, Ewen.
|
|
|
|
Of course, I'm back with more stuff :) Now that I actually can open the
|
|
connection, it's time to read and write to the port. Here's where I'm
|
|
having a little trouble. It's pretty obvious to me that after TCPIPLogin,
|
|
which returns an ipid, I do TCPIPOpenTCP to that ipid.
|
|
|
|
I am guessing after this that I also do TCPIPPoll for awhile until
|
|
TCPStatusTCP indicates a connection has been made.
|
|
|
|
Once that connect is made, assuming I'm expecting data back from the port,
|
|
I am guessing I do a TCPIPReadTCP. Do I also here do TCPIPPoll and check
|
|
for tcpError?
|
|
|
|
Thanks.
|
|
|
|
Ryan
|
|
|
|
(A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 8)
|
|
|
|
>>>>>
|
|
"""""
|
|
>> I am guessing after this that I also do TCPIPPoll for awhile until
|
|
TCPStatusTCP indicates a connection has been made. <<
|
|
|
|
More or less. I suggest putting a call to TCPIPPoll in your main event
|
|
loop. Keep a state variable that keeps track of what you're in the middle
|
|
of doing. After you do your TCPIPOpen call, set the state to something
|
|
that means "waiting to connect" and each pass through the event loop, after
|
|
doing TCPIPPoll, if the state is "waiting to connect", check to see if
|
|
you're connected yet. Once you are, set the state to "connected". The
|
|
rest of your code can then be watching that state variable, and only do
|
|
sending and receiving when the state is "connected".
|
|
|
|
>> Once that connect is made, assuming I'm expecting data back from the
|
|
port, I am guessing I do a TCPIPReadTCP. Do I also here do TCPIPPoll and
|
|
check for tcpError? <<
|
|
|
|
You need to keep calling TCPIPPoll, at least once each time through your
|
|
event loop. Possibly more often, depending on how long your loop is. :)
|
|
|
|
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
|
|
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
|
|
Building communities, bit by bit.
|
|
|
|
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 9)
|
|
[EOA]
|
|
|
|
|
|
[CTB]
|
|
A2 FANS MIGHT WANT TO CHECK OUT THIS BOOK
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|
There's a new book out that might be of interest to Apple II fans. "Masters
|
|
of Doom," by David Kushner, is the story of id Software founders John
|
|
Romero and John Carmack, the guys who created Doom and Quake.
|
|
|
|
I haven't read it yet, but according to Entertainment Weekly's review there
|
|
are mentions of the Apple II, Jobs, Woz, Softdisk, and Burger Bill. Sounds
|
|
like a winner to me!
|
|
|
|
Tony Ward
|
|
|
|
(A2.TONY, Cat 2, Top 13, Msg 111)
|
|
[EOA]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
[ITL]------------------------
|
|
ILLUMINATING THE LAMP |
|
|
-----------------------------
|
|
|
|
An overview of GEnieLamp A2 and The Lamp!
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
|
By Steven Weyhrich
|
|
|
|
|
|
NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE
|
|
|
|
I like writing about good things, positive things, things that make you
|
|
smile and laugh. Humor is good medicine, if you don't mind that old phrase
|
|
being repeated once again. I'd sooner tell a funny story, or relate a
|
|
clever parody, than to get sober and serious and have to deliver bad news.
|
|
Yet, as I tried to come up with some upbeat introduction to this edition of
|
|
my review of the Lamp publications, I just could not find the right tone to
|
|
make it sound positive. Several great events happened for the Apple II in
|
|
1994, the year that we covered last time. But as I reviewed the monthly
|
|
issues for 1995, it just seemed that there were fewer things that happened
|
|
that were favorable for the A2 world.
|
|
|
|
Part of this was the realignment of the producers of Apple II hardware and
|
|
software, as the available customer base continued to contract, which
|
|
caused a reduction of those producers, and continued the cycle.
|
|
|
|
Perhaps some of the sobering events in the outside world were reflecting
|
|
onto the decreased energy in the A2 RoundTable. The federal building in
|
|
Oklahoma City was destroyed by a powerful car bomb in April. The province
|
|
of Quebec defeated a referendum on independence from Canada by only a very
|
|
narrow margin. The deadly Ebola virus hit the country of Zaire in Africa.
|
|
|
|
Sun Microsystems introduced Java, with microprocessor-independent "applets"
|
|
in May. Internet mania continued to build, as a small bookseller named
|
|
Amazon.com opened business in July. Netscape announced its initial public
|
|
offering (IPO), which doubled in value during its first day on the stock
|
|
market. Microsoft "Bob" was released as a more user-friendly interface for
|
|
Microsoft Windows 3.1. Microsoft Windows 95 also became available, and sold
|
|
over one million copies during its first four days on the market. And as if
|
|
they weren't busy enough, Microsoft formed an alliance with NBC, creating
|
|
the cable news channel MSNBC.
|
|
|
|
Over at Apple Computer, the PowerPC 603e was released, with a 100 MHz
|
|
speed. Power Computing released the first Mac clones, with militant
|
|
advertising campaigns promising to help "kick Intel's ass". Few other
|
|
companies were licensed to produce Macintosh clones, leading many to
|
|
question Apple's commitment to allow other companies to make Macs.
|
|
|
|
|
|
GENIELAMP INFO
|
|
|
|
Editor Doug Cuff continued to produce a quality issue of GEnieLamp A2 each
|
|
month, but his scope became more constricted by the declining number of
|
|
contributing writers. The September issue saw Charlie Hartley's final
|
|
"Treasure Hunt" column; Cuff ultimately added this to his own list of
|
|
things to do and continued it his own. Also, Susie Oviatt's final "ASCII
|
|
Art" picture appeared that same month.
|
|
|
|
In addition to his usual responsibilities of collecting interesting
|
|
postings from the A2 RoundTable and doing the final assembly of the
|
|
newsletter, Cuff also found it necessary to contribute more or his own
|
|
articles for the newsletter. These included an introduction to using the
|
|
Internet from GEnie, Lynx and VT100-compatible telecommunication programs,
|
|
and software reviews. He did the "Treasure Hunt" column in June and then
|
|
for the final three months of the year, and wrote the last "PAUG
|
|
Newsletter" for the year.
|
|
|
|
General Electric Information Services (GEIS), the organization that owned
|
|
the computers on which the GEnie service ran, made a worrisome announcement
|
|
at the end of the year. Their press release stated that they were looking
|
|
for a buyer for GEnie, but among A2 denizens it was not as yet clear
|
|
whether this would be a good or bad thing in the long run.
|
|
|
|
|
|
ROUNDTABLE NEWS
|
|
|
|
Susan MacGregor became the Chief Sysop for the A2 RoundTable, with Tom
|
|
Zuchowski as her assistant. Lunatic E'Sex became Chief of Apple II
|
|
Operations on GEnie over both the A2 and A2Pro RT's. Hangtime remained the
|
|
A2Pro Chief Sysop. Gina Saikin became the A2 RTC manager.
|
|
|
|
Richard Bennett of Australia was progressing in his development of an Apple
|
|
IIGS front-end program for GEnie. Bennett had been mentioned in GEnieLamp
|
|
A2 in the past for his freeware Finder Extension, "Scarabaeidae", as the A2
|
|
Special Projects coordinator, and for his giving a talk at KansasFest in
|
|
1993. The June issue of GEnieLamp published the results of a poll for
|
|
possible names for the new program. The top choice was "Jasmine GS". The
|
|
product was ready for an initial preview by KansasFest in July, which was
|
|
presented by Bennett and Nate Sloan.
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HARDWARE NEWS
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Some Apple IIGS ROM 03 discoveries were posted in the A2 RT, and reproduced
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in GEnieLamp. The January issue mentioned that the keyboard "mouse key"
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feature in the ROM 03 supported use of a two-button mouse. Also, an A2 RT
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member named Fred Starkey had found a IIGS with some non-standard ROM chips
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in it, and which displayed "Turbo->28" at the top of the screen instead of
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"Apple IIgs" when booting. Sheppy recognized it as a prototype ROM 03 IIGS.
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The Second Sight VGA card and TurboRez cards continued development, vying
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for position in the market for alternatives to Apple IIGS RGB monitors. By
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June, the Second Sight card was finally getting to the hands of end users,
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who were in general quite happy with the result. Several software companies
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committed to working on making their products compatible with the new card.
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Also discussed were issues of compatibility with certain original graphics
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modes on the IIGS.
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Iomega's Zip 100 drive with the RamFAST SCSI controller was evaluated and
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results posted in the May issue. In September, though not a formal review,
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Tony Morales posted comparisons between the Zip 100 with the new SyQuest
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EZ135 cartridge drive.
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SOFTWARE NEWS
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Sales of Apple II software continued to soften during 1995, with some new
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products but few major innovations making an appearance. As before, we'll
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look at them by category.
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:: PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE ::
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The AppleWorks 5.0 upgrade was released in December 1994, with an update to
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5.1 in April to correct some major bugs in the database module. Author
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Randy Brandt made several posts about various bugs that were identified and
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how to correct them. Kitchen Sink Software released a Macintosh program
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"AppleWorks to Rich Text Format (RTF)", which made it easier to translate
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AppleWorks word processing files to use on that platform. Brandt also made
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created some excitement with announcement of a project code-named Phoenix
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II, which was an AppleWorks-only emulator for the Macintosh. This product
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was released later in the year, with the name "Deja II".
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Emulator interest extended to Tony Morales, who planned a PowerPC-based
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IIGS emulator, which was code-named "Hindenburg".
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Will Nelken of Marin Macroworks announced HotKeys I (later called
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TouchTwo), a TimeOut and macro add-on for AppleWorks 5.0 and 5.1. Office
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Productivity Software also promised updates to their TimeOut Statistics and
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TimeOut ShrinkIt Plus programs.
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The Byte Works updated Quick Click Calc to v1.2, and also released the
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Quick Click Morph, the second in the Quick Click series. Animasia 3-D, an
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animation program written by Michael Lutynski, finally began to ship.
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Your Money Matters author Steve Peterson decided to NOT release a new
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version of the program, but rather to discontinue further development on
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it. He did choose to release it to the Lost Classics Project, so it would
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not disappear forever.
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Seven Hills Software gave out a little more info about the coming update to
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GraphicWriter III, announcing support for XCMDs to extend its usefulness,
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similar to the way in which Spectrum could be extended. By the end of the
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year, it was ready to ship. They also released SuperConvert 4.0, an update
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to Jason Harper's classic IIGS graphic conversion utility.
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:: TELECOMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE ::
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Seven Hills also kept Ewen Wannop busy, with a version 2.0 update to
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Spectrum in January 1995. This was also made available in some special
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bundles involving Balloon (an NDA that unpacks ShrinkIt archives) from EGO
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Systems, as well as Talking Tools from The Byte Works. Also, several new
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XCMD extensions were released to use with that program.
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FAXination, Vitesse's fax software for the IIGS was shipped in mid-January,
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though there were some early problems with bugs that had to be sorted out.
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Vitesse also claimed to still be close to finishing the IIGS port of
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Wolfenstein 3D (see below).
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Just to keep some competition in the market, Parkhurst Micro Products
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continued work on PMPFax, which was ready for beta testing in July, and
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began to ship in December.
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InTrec began shipment of its new ProTerm Mac product in March.
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Derek Taubert began to make news with his work on a TCP stack to use on the
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IIGS, which would make it possible to use new methods of connection to the
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Internet at large, without the need of using a gateway such as the one that
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GEnie was beginning to implement. (If you recall, I made an analogy
|
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previously in this column about online services being like cities. There
|
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were no roads to connect these cities to each other at all, but some dirt
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paths had been created to start making such connections possible. Taubert's
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TCP stack would be akin to digging a hole under the city wall, and being
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able to hitch a ride on the highway outside of that wall, regardless of
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whether or not the city was ready to allow such traffic.) By August, GS-TCP
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was supposed to be progressing from beta versions, but little more was
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heard about it for the rest of the year.
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:: SYSTEM SOFTWARE ::
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Brutal Deluxe programmer Olivier Zardini announced his work on a 6.0.2
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version of GS/OS, based on his disassembly of it. He had planned to have
|
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Brutal Deluxe work on correcting bugs, and possibly enhancing it in some
|
|
small ways. This effort was not well received, however, by some experienced
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programmers in the U.S. who stated that they didn't feel that Brutal Deluxe
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had the skills necessary to patch and update System 6.0.1 to anything else.
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:: UTILITY SOFTWARE ::
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Sheppy announced continued work on his version 2.0 update to Shifty List.
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EGO Systems introduced the ICE icon editor. Peter Watson was beginning work
|
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on a GUI version of his MSDOS Utilities. Bret Victor made his debut in the
|
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Apple IIGS world with the release of Opening Line, his GS/OS boot-up splash
|
|
screen enhancer. AutoArk, a disk compression utility, was updated to v1.1
|
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by EGO Systems.
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Greg Templeman released II Not Disturb. This utility kept other processes
|
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on the computer from interrupting data transmission at higher baud rates.
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:: GAMES ::
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Vitesse made a December 1994 announcement (which appeared in the January
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1995 issue): "We're just wrapping up Wolfenstein 3D and should begin
|
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shipping within the next two weeks." They were a bit too optimistic about
|
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this schedule, however, and delays began to crop up. The programmer (Bill
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Heineman) found himself being unable to allocate sufficient time to both
|
|
this game and another project; later there were some contractual problems
|
|
with the holders of the copyright. Furthermore, some problem developed
|
|
between Heineman and Vitesse, which made it impossible for him to continue
|
|
to work on the project. By August, Vitesse was still hoping it would be
|
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completed "soon", but it was not to be. However, late in the year Vitesse
|
|
stated that they had been unable to get Heineman to complete his work on
|
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the game, and that they would have to cancel the project. This greatly
|
|
disappointed many who had eagerly anticipated it and those (like Scott
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Everts, who did the artwork) who helped with the work on it. (Ultimately,
|
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the game did not see final completion until 1998, and then after completion
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by a different programmer than Heineman, and as a freeware product instead
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of the $39.95 price that Vitesse had originally.)
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Somewhat fitting into the game category was the Megademo by Germany's
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Ninjaforce. This demo required an accelerated IIGS, but there were problems
|
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with it for users of some 3.5 inch drives.
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Charlie Hartley featured some of the best Eamon adventures in the May
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issue, along with an interview of Eamon-man Tom Zuchowski.
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PUBLICATIONS
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Much of the discouraging news that came out during 1995 was in the loss of
|
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some long-running Apple II publications. It began in March with the
|
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announcement of the final collapse of Resource Central and ICON, and the
|
|
discontinuation of A2-Central, which was by this time a disk-only
|
|
publication. Doug Cuff had also been editor of that publication, and gave
|
|
it a fitting obituary in his GEnieLamp A2 editorial that month. Tom
|
|
Weishaar also posted his own thoughts about the end of his publishing
|
|
efforts.
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|
TimeOut Central, also gone with the loss of Resource Central, was
|
|
re-released in the form of back issues through the help of former editor
|
|
Will Nelken.
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The AppleWorks Forum ceased publication in November, as NAUG (National
|
|
AppleWorks User Group) shut down. Their back issues and disks were
|
|
ultimately made available through Shareware Solutions II.
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|
Adding to the bad news was the final issue of GS+ Magazine in August.
|
|
Editor Steve Disbrow's final editorial was reproduced in the September
|
|
issue of GEnieLamp A2. Although the magazine was going to stop, Disbrow
|
|
stated that he wanted to keep the EGO Systems programming business going
|
|
for as long as was possible.
|
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|
|
Softdisk Publications notified its subscribers that Softdisk, their
|
|
original disk publication, would stop publication with issue #166. Softdisk
|
|
G-S was to continue publication until further notice.
|
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|
|
II Alive announced that there would be six more issues of the magazine
|
|
until they stopped publication. Jerry Kindall, who had been involved with
|
|
the magazine from the start, also announced that he was no longer going to
|
|
be working with Quality Computers. He made it clear that there was no
|
|
animosity between himself and Quality in making this decision. Doug Cuff
|
|
briefly was managing editor of the magazine (for just two issues). They
|
|
also changed their publishing schedule to quarterly.
|
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|
On the other hand, Joe Kohn's Shareware Solutions II proudly passed the
|
|
1,000 subscriber mark, and was being distributed to all 50 states in the
|
|
U.S. In July, Kohn announced that Cynthia Fields' "A+ Home Organizer" would
|
|
be available exclusively through SSII. Kohn also announced plans to
|
|
distribute back issues of Script-Central, the HyperCard-based
|
|
magazine-on-disk formerly sold through Resource Central. SSII also extended
|
|
its activities to the sales of some of the Big Red Computer Club's
|
|
merchandise, Convert 3200. In addition, Steve Disbrow agreed to contribute
|
|
articles to SSII.
|
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|
PowerGS Diskazine by Auri Rahimzadeh announced an interview with Steve
|
|
Wozniak in issue #5. Auri also had the opportunity to work for Wozniak
|
|
during the summer, helping create web pages for Woz's web server.
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COMPANIES
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|
|
The Big Red Computer Club decided to stay open during at least part of
|
|
1995, while owner John Wrenholdt was making changes to allow him to market
|
|
software for the Macintosh.
|
|
|
|
Office Productivity Software cut back on most of its Apple II business,
|
|
again due to insufficient sales to justify full activity in making updates
|
|
that were compatible with AppleWorks 5.0.
|
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|
|
DigiSoft finally began to sell its Golden Orchard CD of Apple II software.
|
|
|
|
Quality Computers, also hit by the decline in sales of Apple II products,
|
|
posted in July some responses to comments made about their efforts to move
|
|
into other platforms. They were accused of phasing out the Apple II in
|
|
order to make money on something else. Quality's response was that they
|
|
were adding other products in order to survive as a company and be ABLE to
|
|
continue to support the Apple II as it had been doing. The post also
|
|
acknowledged the difficulty they had in handling II Alive's subscription
|
|
base, when their primary business was a mail order catalog. Then in the
|
|
August issue it was announced that Quality Computers had been sold to
|
|
Scantron Corporation, and renamed to Scantron Quality Computers.
|
|
|
|
Softdisk Publishing, possibly as the result of the closing down of Softdisk
|
|
magazine, lost the services of Greg Templeman, as he left to work with
|
|
Logicware, a game publishing company.
|
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|
|
The Byte Works had a house-cleaning sale to get rid of old printed manuals
|
|
for their products.
|
|
|
|
As mentioned above, The National AppleWorks User Group closed operations in
|
|
November 1995.
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KANSASFEST
|
|
|
|
With the downfall of Resource Central/ICON, the continuation of the annual
|
|
A2-Central Summer Conference (which ICON had sponsored) was in question.
|
|
But enthusiasts of the event decided that they would do whatever was
|
|
necessary to make it happen. These dedicated people, including Auri
|
|
Rahimzadeh, Cindy Adams, Gina Saikin, and Mark Kline started the effort.
|
|
Paul Parkhurst of Parkhurst Micro Systems sponsored it, and the event
|
|
developed a life of its own. By May 1995, it was official that the event
|
|
would be held. In June, editor Doug Cuff posted info about the newly
|
|
established KFest Internet mailing list, and how to access it from GEnie.
|
|
|
|
The planned festivities included a roast of Steve Dizbrow of GS+ Magazine,
|
|
and a keynote address by Roger Wagner. During the event, Mike Westerfield
|
|
demonstrated Quick Click Morph, Joe Kohn had a "fireside chat", discussing
|
|
his involvement with the Apple II business, and "Internet: The Good, The
|
|
Bad, and The Ugly". Ryan Suenaga (attending for the first time) presented
|
|
sessions about PDA's and PowerBooks. Dave Ciotti and Doug Pendleton
|
|
discussed soldering techniques for electronics. Roger Wagner hosted the
|
|
annual "Bite The Bag" competition and provided a late night pizza and soda
|
|
festival.
|
|
|
|
Even Apple Computer attended the event, and introduced some of the new
|
|
Macintosh computers that would be released in the fall.
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REVIEWS
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|
|
As mentioned above, Doug Cuff wrote a review of Quick Click Calc 1.2, as
|
|
well as gave an overview and review of Apple II terminal programs that
|
|
support VT100 display mode. He also reviewed the new Vitesse product,
|
|
FAXination. Also appearing in GEnieLamp during the year was Bill Quinn's
|
|
review of the Zip 100 drive.
|
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WRITERS
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|
|
Charlie Hartley continued presenting his Treasure Hunt column up through
|
|
September, presenting the best of the files in the GEnie A2 library, from
|
|
animation files for the IIGS through SoundSmith music.
|
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|
|
Gina Saikin irregularly contributed the PAUG (Planetary Apple User Group)
|
|
newsletter column during the year. In March, Dave Johnson did the writing
|
|
for the newsletter, and David Kerwood took up the task in June, September,
|
|
and October. Ray Pasold took up the task in November, and finally Doug Cuff
|
|
did the newsletter in December.
|
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|
|
Phil Shapiro continued his "Thinking About Online Communications" series
|
|
with columns about online romance; e-mail communication between students,
|
|
teachers, and parents; the concept of "notching" (one e-mail or forum
|
|
message building on another, and branching out into other directions);
|
|
online friendships; and personal web pages. He also began to look for a
|
|
publisher for a collection of twenty of his columns.
|
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|
Jay Curtis wrote several articles about AppleWorks 5 and the coming
|
|
Mac-based AppleWorks emulator. Kevin Noonan wrote about the Apple II in
|
|
Australia in the May issue.
|
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|
|
As part of remembering the ninth anniversary of the release of the Apple
|
|
IIGS, Ryan Suenaga and others helped promote a campaign to remind Apple
|
|
about the many Apple II users who still existed, despite their non-status
|
|
with the company. They did this by sending in their "Tell Apple"
|
|
registration cards, but telling about the IIGS. Most of the replies people
|
|
got back appeared to be form letters.
|
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|
|
Our favorite telephone tech and prolific A2 RoundTable / Delphi A2 Forum /
|
|
Syndicomm A2Central poster, Carl Knoblock, made his first appearance in
|
|
GEnieLamp during 1995 with a comment about a memory leak associated with
|
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Balloon, and about KansasFest.
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INTERVIEWS
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Fewer of these appeared during 1995, but included the following:
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o Susan MacGregor, new Chief Sysop of the A2 RT
|
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o Doug Cuff, by Charlie Hartley
|
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o Tom Zuchowski, by Charlie Hartley
|
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o John Van Dam (Froggie), by Charlie Hartley
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MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES
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Gary Utter and Michael (Animasia) wrote a list in the November issue of
|
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ways in which GS/OS was still better than the Mac OS.
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HUMOR ONLINE
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|
|
The Pentium math error problem continued to be a source of merriment.
|
|
Terrell Smith poked more fun at it in the form of a "FAQ" about it for his
|
|
office mates who had PC's.
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Doug Cuff and I had a written two Apple II Top Ten Lists: "Reasons The
|
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Apple IIe is Better Than The IIGS" and "Reasons the Apple II Plus is Better
|
|
Than The IIe or IIGS". This had appeared in one of the last issues of
|
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A2-Central.
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Microsoft, often a focus of humorous posts in the A2 RT, had two features
|
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appear. Andrew Burke poked fun at Microsoft's "Bob" software with a story
|
|
about Microsoft "Joe-Bob" software for those of the redneck persuasion.
|
|
"Litigation '95" was announced, a new program from Microsoft to aid people
|
|
or companies who wanted to sue Microsoft. It included Litigation Builder,
|
|
Suit Wizards, and more.
|
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|
Other humor stories included a poem about computers in the style of Dr.
|
|
Suess; a list of Top Ten Computer light bulb jokes; a registration card for
|
|
a McDonnell-Douglas aircraft missile system ("please check a box indicating
|
|
where this product will be used"); Murphy's laws for computer; and a
|
|
December poem by Marty Knight, "A Visit From Saint Woz" (parodying the
|
|
classic "Visit From Saint Nicholas").
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|
Humor also appeared in posts to the A2 RoundTable. In July, Greg Templeman
|
|
related a story about a disk duplicator, which ejected a disk so briskly
|
|
that it flew over, hit the switch on the power strip, and shut itself off.
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STATS
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Here are statistics for the first four years of GEnieLamp. The numbers
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refer to the size of each issue in "K" (kilobytes):
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Year Min Max Avg
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1992 116K 212K 156K
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1993 80K 256K 172K
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1994 124K 216K 165K
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1995 92K 176K 125K
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RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS ALWAYS GET ME DOWN
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Well, I'll pull myself together and see if there can't be some better news
|
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for the next installment of this column. In the meantime, I suppose I'd
|
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better stop listening to those lonesome Carpenters songs from the early
|
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1970's. See you again next time!
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Steven Weyhrich
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a2history@syndicomm.com
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http://apple2history.org
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References for 1995 historical info:
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Apple Computer, Inc.: A History
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3682/applehistory.html
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Apple History Timeline
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http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/history.html
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Computer History For 1990-2000
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http://www.computerhope.com/history/19902000.htm
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History Of Hypertext Timeline
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http://www.robotwisdom.com/web/timeline.html
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Timeline of the 90s, 1995
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http://www.inthe90s.com/generated/time1995.shtml
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Keeping the Apple II Cool Enough
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When you have a lot of cards in the slots of your Apple II you might find
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that your computer overheats. This is especially true if you are using an
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accelerator.
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As a temporary expedient you might try operating it with the cover off.
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A somewhat neater trick with the IIgs is to lay the power supply on the
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desk back of the computer, feed the lead through the back, and connect it
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to the IIgs.
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Operating the computer this way moves the heat produced by the power supply
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outside the case.
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In the future we will discuss other methods of keeping the Apple II cool.
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Fri, 16 May 2003
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From: Donald Lee
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To: Lyle Syverson, Editor, The Lamp!
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Subject: Apple II History
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Good Evening,
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Well, I guess I'll just add a letter to the editor for "The Lamp!"
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It's great you guys are reviewing the history of the Apple II and GenieLamp
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especially the past year of 1994.
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1994 (and later in 1995) was the year that I realized my Apple IIe was more
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than just a regular home computer. The classes I took at my junior college
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(basic word processing, spreadsheet, database) showed me what a PC could
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do. But I had Appleworks and discovered what I learned in my class could
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translate. In fact, if someone still has their issues of II Alive, I noted
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that in a letter to the editor.
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Despite the fact that Apple II's were formally discontinued, in 1994, my
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ten year old Apple IIe was definitely still alive and in use.
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Perhaps I should save this for your next issue, but in 1995, after I had
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transferred to a 4 year university, I discovered the wonders of the
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Internet (email, browsing, newsgroups). Sometime after that (late 1995 or
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early 1996) I purchased a modem for my Apple IIe and began my journey
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online.
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And what a journey it has been. Though my IIe finally died on me a few
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years ago (it still works, but the video can't be seen) and I don't use
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Apple II programs anymore, I have toyed with the idea of picking up a used
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IIe or IIGS to mess with some of the old games I still have at home.
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THe Apple IIe was one of the big blessings in my life and I feel I am all
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the better for it!
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Donald
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Donald C. Lee
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http://www.geocities.com/smcoach41
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[EOA]
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AN INVITATION
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Express your opinions about the comings and goings in the world of the
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Apple II computers.
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Send your comments to Lyle Syverson, Editor <lyle@FoxValley.net>
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The Editor reserves the right to edit any material submitted.
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The Editor reserves the right to reject any material he considers
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unsuitable for publication in _The Lamp!_.
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[EOA]
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[KFT]------------------------------
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KFest 2003 |
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[PBT]
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KFest 2003 - PLAN TO BE THERE!
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KansasFest 2003 is planned for July 22-27, 2003 at Avila University in
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Kansas City, Missouri.
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(Entrance banner, Cat 5, Top 5)
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[EOA]
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[KRF]
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KFest REGISTRATION FORM
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The KFest registration form with instructions in PDF format can be
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downloaded here:
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http://lamp.a2central.com/klo/registration_forms/KFestRegForm2003g.pdf
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If you can not access PDF documents with your computer contact Jerry Cline
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at Intrec Software and request a form by mail. Contact information can be
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found below.
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Sponsored by:
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InTrec Software, Inc.
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3035 E Topaz Circle
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Phoenix, AZ 85028-4423
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Voc:602/992-1345
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Fax:602/992-0232
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kfest@intrec.com
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[EOA]
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[TFN]
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THIRD FLOOR NEEDED FOR KFest ATTENDEES
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As posted on the A2central home page, a third floor is now needed for KFest
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attendees. When was the last time KFest attendees actually needed three
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floors. The first year I was at KFest was in 1996--I think I remember the
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soccer kids were on 4 and KFest attendees were on 5 and 6. Were there any
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KFest attendees also on 4? Or was I just confusing 1997 with 1996?
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Nevertheless, it is incredible to see the surge of attendance this year.
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Geoff
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(GEOFF, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 58)
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>>>>>
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>> When was the last time KFest attendees actually needed three floors. <<
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Not sure but 3 floors were probably required in '95 (80 attendees) or '96
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(73 attendees). Don't remember how Avila sandwiched us in those years - but
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could look it up:)
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What matters is the surge and interest THIS year. Incredibly exceptional
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people were attracted to the Apple II. They represent a very special
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community and preserving this unique "mindset" is probably one of the most
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important aspects of KFest.
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I don't think I care too much about which computer you are now using (with
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perhaps a few exceptions), it's the special person that you are by
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attending that's most important!
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Steve
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(KFESTSTEVE, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 62)
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>>>>>
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According to my room list from '95, we only had 2 floors. The overflow had
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to stay off-campus.
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Carl Knoblock - Telephone Tech - Sat 31 May 03 10:33:01 pm
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cknoblo@cox.com - Via Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR v1.0b10
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KFest 2003, July 22-27, 2003 - 52 days till KFest
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On cable via LANceGS & Marinetti 2.0.1 - Thank you, Richard.
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A2 RTC Staff - Sunday Night House Party - carlk@syndicomm.com
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(CARLK, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 63)
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>>>>>
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"""""
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Wow. My memory had always told me we had 100 attendees in '95, the first
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KFest I went to.
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We're gonna have a good time no matter what. :)
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Ryan
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(A2.RYAN, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 64)
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>>>>>
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That was my memory, too, but the only list I could find was a room list.
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Carl Knoblock - Telephone Tech - Sun 1 Jun 03 9:45:45 pm
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cknoblo@cox.com - Via Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR v1.0b10
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KFest 2003, July 22-27, 2003 - 51 days till KFest
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On cable via LANceGS & Marinetti 2.0.1 - Thank you, Richard.
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A2 RTC Staff - Sunday Night House Party - carlk@syndicomm.com
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(CARLK, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 65)
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[EOA]
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[TEB]
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THE EXCITEMENT BUILDS
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It's only June, but I am getting really excited about yet another Kfest.
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My only regrets I've had at Kfest is usually that I didn't get done all the
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things I wanted to.
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The GS and the Powerbook are coming for sure. Not sure what else I am
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going to be able to hold yet. I'll have to see what kind of a load Ken and
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Ryan have:)
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It should be a lot of fun. I can't wait to see you all there.
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Dain
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(A2.DAIN, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 66)
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[EOA]
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[NPA]
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NEW PRODUCTS TO BE ANNOUNCED AT KFest
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Yes, this will be a great one. :)
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Syndicomm will have some products to announce at the show. :)
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Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
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Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
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Building communities, bit by bit.
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(SYNDICOMM, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 61)
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[EOA]
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[AKF]
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TRANSPORTATION, AIRPORT TO KFest
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For those flying in on commercial airlines (or taking the train) we have
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been very successful in supplying ground transportation from your terminal
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to Avila in past years, and intend to continue the tradition this year.
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About the first day of Summer (or Winter depending on which hemisphere you
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live in) we will start putting together the taxi list.
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Carl Knoblock - Telephone Tech - Mon 24 Mar 03 5:38:20 pm
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cknoblo@applelinc.org - Via Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR v1.0b10
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KFest 2003, July 22-27, 2003 - 120 days till KFest
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On cable via LANceGS & Marinetti 2.0.1 - Thank you, Richard.
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A2 RTC Staff - Sunday Night House Party - carlk@syndicomm.com
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(CARLK, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 23)
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[EOA]
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[VKF]
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FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THE KFest HOME PAGE
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KFest Home Page
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http://www.kfest.org/
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[EOA]
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[INN]------------------------------
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EXTRA INNINGS |
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About The Lamp! The Lamp! is published on the fifteenth of every month on
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""""""""""""""" the WEB at: http://lamp.a2central.com/
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This publication produced entirely with real or emulated Apple II computers
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using Appleworks 5.1 and Hermes. Apple II Forever!
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* The Lamp! is (c) copyright 2003 by Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W. All
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rights reserved.
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* To reach The Lamp! on Internet email send mail to
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thelamp@sheppyware.net
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* All issues of The Lamp! are available at The Lamp! Home Page,
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Opinions expressed herein are those of the individual authors, and do not
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necessarily represent the opinions of A2Central.com, Delphi Online
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Services, Syndicomm, Ryan M. Suenaga, or Lyle Syverson. Forum messages are
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reprinted verbatim and are included in this publication with permission
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from the individual authors. A2Central.com, Delphi Online Services,
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Syndicomm, Ryan M. Suenaga, and Lyle Syverson do not guarantee the accuracy
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or suitability of any information included herein. We reserve the right to
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edit all letters and copy.
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Material published in this edition may not be reprinted without the
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expressed written consent of the publisher. Registered computer user
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groups, not for profit publications , and other interested parties may
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write the publisher to apply for permission to reprint any or all material.
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