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~ WELCOME TO GEnieLamp APPLE II! ~
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~ THE TREASURE HUNT: Very Best 8-bit Utilities ~
~ COMMUNICATIONS: A2 Internet Launch Pad ~
~ plus holiday cheer and fun! ~
~ HOT NEWS, HOT FILES, HOT MESSAGES ~
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GEnieLamp Apple II ~ A T/TalkNET Publication ~ Vol.4, Issue 45
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Publisher................................................John F. Peters
Editor...................................................Douglas Cuff
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>>> WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE APPLE II ROUNDTABLE? <<<
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~ December 1, 1995 ~
FROM MY DESKTOP ......... [FRM] FROM MY MAILBOX ......... [MAI]
Notes From The Editor. Letters To The Editor.
HEY MISTER POSTMAN ...... [HEY] HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM]
Is That A Letter For Me? Christmas Cheer.
SEARCH_ME ............... [FUN] REFLECTIONS ............. [REF]
Online Puzzle Fun. Helping Others Help You?
ASCII ART GALLERY ....... [ASA] THE TREASURE HUNT ....... [HUN]
Christmas Art. Very Best 8-bit Utilities.
COMMUNICATIONS .......... [COM] PAUG MEETING REPORT ..... [PMP]
A2 Internet Launch Pad. Report on November's Meeting.
LOG OFF ................. [LOG]
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GEnie Fun & Games.
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messages that are following the same topic. For example: {58}.
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Notes From The Editor
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by Douglas Cuff
[EDITOR.A2]
Once again this year, my parents have taken pity on their destitute
son and daughter-in-law and have given us a Christmas gift of a flight
home. And usually, by this time, I've ordered several Christmas gifts from
catalogs and made other less material plans to help make the family
Christmas bright. Not this year. Not yet.
It's been a rough year... again. Some are looking forward to the
next year with trepidation because of the announcement that GEIS, the
parent of GEnie, has hired a firm to find someone to buy GEnie. I think
it's worth quoting GEnie's acting president in full:
[*][*][*]
A LETTER FROM GENIE ACTING PRESIDENT, HORACE MARTIN
November 13, 1995
Dear GEnie Subscriber,
GE Information Services, the owner of GEnie Online
Services, announced yesterday that the company is working with
the investment firm of Allen & Company to identify potential
buyers for GEnie.
The decision to seek a buyer for GEnie was a difficult one
for GE Information Services. We feel tremendous loyalty to our
customers, and we considered very carefully the options available
to us. Finally, our business decision was based on a desire to
focus on GE Information Services' main mission -- to provide
business productivity solutions to businesses around the world.
We lead this market, and we derive more than 95% of our revenues
from this market. In 1995, GE Information Services has invested
in GEnie with a new graphical user interface, new multi-player
game offerings, faster access speeds, and simplified pricing. We
believe that GEnie presents a good fit within a company whose
main focus is in the consumer market.
GEnie subscribers are the best in the world, and we are
keeping you front and center as we seek a new owner for GEnie.
We assure you that you will receive top quality service and
support throughout this process. We will make every effort to
make this transition transparent to you. In the long run, we
hope that this transaction will make GEnie a better and even more
exciting service for you, our customer.
Please check GEnie's logon announcements periodically.
Updates will be provided whenever new information can be
released. (Type "GENIE" at any menu prompt and select Item #2
from the menu which is presented to access the announcements if
you're already online, or take a moment to review them each time
you logon.)
Sincerely,
Horace Martin
Acting President
GEnie Online Services
[*][*][*]
I think it's fair to say that all the people on GEnie are anxious,
but particularly the Apple II community. GEnie has become our de facto
home. On GEnie, we don't have to huddle in the "orphaned computers"
RoundTable--heck, we have two RoundTables all to ourselves. Those
RoundTables take an archival approach to both its file library and its
message base. It looks for reasons to keep archival material in place, not
ways to delete last year's hits to make room for this year's hits.
GEnie is one commercial on-line service that still welcomes you if
all you have is a text display. It wants to help you point and click if
that's what you like, but it doesn't turn away the user with lean, simple
hardware. We don't want GEnie to go away.
Okay. Fear is an understandable first reaction. It's a mistake to
stop at the first reaction, though. I think Lloyd de Vries of the Stamps
RoundTable put it best: "'Acquisition' or 'sale' does not mean 'end.'"
Lloyd points out that he works for CBS, who was recently acquired by
Westinghouse. "No one," says Lloyd, "seriously expects CBS to now go out
of business."
Ah... the voice of reason. Exactly what I needed to make this season
a joyous one. Thank you, Lloyd.
I would like to wish all of you--in the words of Commander Susan
Ivanova--"Merry Christmas. Or Happy Hannukah. Whatever."
-- Doug Cuff
GEnie Mail: EDITOR.A2 Internet: editor.a2@genie.com
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FROM MY MAILBOX /
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Letters To The Editor
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TREASURE HUNT ERROR #1: HTML EDITOR In the last GEnieLamp A2, you made
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" a mistake in giving credit for HTML
Editor. You said it came from the Nova Scotia User Group. Actually, I
ported it from the Mac Hypercard stack of the same name. I am not
affiliated with the Nova Scotia Users group.
Since HTML Editor is a port, no new features were added (i.e.
WYSIWYG, verify for valid code, etc). I am working on porting the latest
Mac Hypercard version to HCGS (the only advantage is that it supports more
HTML commands, such as forms). It is taking a while since I have to write
several XCMDs to make it functionally similar. Hopefully, a GS web browser
will soon be made so documents can then be viewed through IPC calls (if it
will support them).
Anyway, I was hoping the correction of where it came from could be
corrected for the next issue of GEnieLamp A2.
Geoff Weiss
>>>>> Our news service has been erratic as of late and I just received
""""" and read the latest issue of the _A2 GEnieLamp_ [sic] (November,
1995) and noticed an error in the Website area (Treasure Hunt).
You list a program we feature in our public download archive as being
"from the Nova Scotia Apple Users Group". The program in question,
HTMLEDIT was created by Geoff Weiss; we merely feature it in our archive as
we do with many fine shareware and public domain programs.
Could you please correct this oversight in your next issue as I would
like to see Mr. Weiss receive the credit for his creation.
Thank you,
Tony Cianfaglione
President
Nova Scotia Apple Users Group
Chebucto Community Net
My apologies to both Mr Weiss and the Nova Scotia Apple Users
Group. In the Treasure Hunt column, I referred to the program
HTML Editor as "from The Nova Scotia Apple Users Group". This is
because the person who uploaded it to GEnie obtained it from the
home page of NSAUG. I was also determined to mention NSAUG,
since they were the closest Apple II user group to me when I
lived in Newfoundland, and I was once a long-distance member.
My thanks to all those who brought this error to my attention,
the first of whom was the inestimable Joe Kohn. No one who
corrected me--and there were quite a few--adopted an accusatory
or shaming tone. (That is, no letters began "Dear jerk" :-)
Read on, dear reader. This was my month for errors.--Ed.
TREASURE HUNT ERROR #2: rSOUNDER I'd like to point out another error you
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" made in the GEnieLamp [A2] for Nov.
You gave the wrong last name for the author of rSounder v3.0. It
should be "Benson". I call this matter to your attention, not as a flame,
but simply so that you may make the proper correction, when you have the
opportunity! I hope you won't be offended, when I mention that I called
the error to the public attention, on our 1WSW Home Page update (11-4-95)
in the politest of nature, I might add, simply because Paul Benson is a
team member of our 1WSW group.
Looking forward to your reply and with my best wishes I remain:
Charles T. "Dr. Tom" Turley
gbmaidsf@wco.com
Absolutely--the author of rSounder was and is Paul Benson, not
Paul Creager. My apologies to both gentlemen.
Although it doesn't excuse it, I'll explain the substitution of
Mr Creager's name for Mr Benson's: The "Shareware Spy" column in
the July/August 1995 _II Alive_ (which magazine I was editing at
the time) incorrectly lists Paul Creager as the author of
lf2crNDA. (It was actually written by Jason Simmons.) I had Mr
Creager on the brain, I guess.
When contacted about the error, the programmer, Mr Benson
replied: "Just as long as the checks are made out to me ;)."
Amusingly, Paul "Wily" Creager also had a comment about my
repeated attempts to credit him with programs he hadn't written:
"Gee, I better start coding! :)" Thanks for your continued good
humor!--Ed.
TREASURE HUNT ERROR #3: GZIP2PKZIP I found a minor omission in the
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" November GEnieLamp [A2] -- For
GZ2PKZ.BXY, the description says that the program uses a command-line
interface. What is left out is that the archive contains a Finder Icon
that allows you to simply double-click on a matching file to convert the
.gz file to .zip format.
Don Zahniser
D.ZAHNISER
Once again, I apologize. As with the two cases above, it was my
own self personally who goofed.
Thanks to all those to spotted my apology messages on
comp.sys.apple2 and wrote into say that they enjoy GEnieLamp A2
despite the occasional error: DOTW (ongtatwe@iscs.nus.sg),
Mitchell Spector (spector@vax2.concordia.ca) and Larry W. Virden
(larry.virden@cas.org).--Ed.
[EOA]
[HEY]//////////////////////////////
HEY MISTER POSTMAN /
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Is That A Letter For Me?
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by Douglas Cuff
[EDITOR.A2]
o A2 POT-POURRI
o HOT TOPICS
o WHAT'S NEW
o THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
o MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT
>>> A2 POT-POURRI <<<
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WHAT'S A .DSK FILE? Does anyone know what a .DSK file would be? A friend
""""""""""""""""""" found a bunch of Eamons on an Internet ftp site, and
they have that suffix. He can't figure out how to use them. ShrinkIt says
it's not an archive.
TomZ
(A2.TOMZ, CAT10, TOP10, MSG:27/M645;1)
>>>>> That is a "disk image" file, representing an Apple 5.25" disk, 16
""""" sector, as follows:
1'st 256 bytes = Track 0, Sector 0
2'nd 256 bytes = Track 0, Sector 1
3'rd 256 bytes = Track 0, Sector 2
etc..
The common formats are:
.DSK - As described above
.DO - Same as .DSK. (Note that these two formats have the data in
"Dos 3.3 ascending logical sector order", data should be handled
as sectors, and not as ProDOS blocks)
.PO - This is essentially the same as .DO, EXCEPT that it is in
"ProDOS ascending block order". That is, it was created by
reading a 16 sector disk with the ProDOS ReadBlock command, and
is ordered Block 0, Block 1, Block 2, etc.
Conversion between .DO/.DSK and .PO formats is relativly trivial,
once one understands the differences.
Most files of this nature are stored as "Name.DSK.GZ" or
"Name.DO.GZ", etc. You need a utility capable of unGZipping these archives
prior to trying to write them back to 5.25" media. I have had =VERY=
limited success using GZ2PKZ followed with Angel or PMPUnZip, and almost
100% success with StuffIt Expander w/Expander Enhancer. [I now have the
source code for a GZ unpacker, but I haven't yet tried to port it to the
GS]
These files are how Apple II emulators manage to deal with Apple
disks without the needed hardware (they don't use a real drive, instead
they work with virtual disks)
-Harold
(HAROLD.H, CAT10, TOP10, MSG:30/M645;1)
[Minor editing at author's request]
WEB PAGE SERVICE Announcing a new service from Apple Blossom Publishing
""""""""""""""""
Have you wanted to put up a personal Web page, but lacked the
resources, time to learn HTML, or an internet service provdier who was
close/reasonably priced enough for you?
Look no further.
If you would like to put your page on the Web, I can host your page.
All you need to do is send me a text or AppleWorks file that includes the
information you want on your page, a list of any links you want on the
page, any small gifs you would like embedded on the page, and a fee of
$30.00 which will put you on the Web for one (1) year. If you e-mail me
your text file, I should be able to have it up within one week. You can
then use Lynx or some other browser to check it out, and if you are
satisfied, send in the fee. If not, make your suggestions and I'll fix it
up, then when you are satisfied, you can send in your fee.
Any interested parties, please e-mail me here.
Steve
(S.CAVANAUGH1, CAT13, TOP17, MSG:100/M645;1)
<<<<< Earlier I posted that I could design/host a Web page for anyone
""""" interested. I have had some questions for more details, and this
post is the result of going back and forth on this. Hope this clarifies my
earlier post.
If you are interested in having your own World Wide Web page, I can
create your page for you; you may chose to have the page hosted elsewhere,
or I can host it for you via America Online. The table below (which should
be set in a monospaced font to look right) details prices of the service.
SERVICE | PRICE
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
| Creating one page | |
| with two GIFs & | $20.00 |
| up to 10 links | |
|=======================|===========================|
| Creating one page | $30.00 |
| & hosting same | |
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| Additions/deletions | $1.00 per with |
| or changes to page | minimum of $5.00 |
|=======================|===========================|
| Creation of graphics | $5.00 per image |
| Scan of photos | |
|=======================|===========================|
| Larger projects | Customer must submit |
| (multi-page, etc.) | detailed list of des- |
| | ired work for bid. |
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(S.CAVANAUGH1, CAT13, TOP17, MSG:107/M645;1)
THE VIRTUAL SERVICE BUREAU If you have ever wanted to have some documents
"""""""""""""""""""""""""" laser printed, but lacked the money or
inclination to purchase one for yourself and don't have access to a service
bureau that understands Apple II programs and files, consider having me
print your documents. I have a large arsenal of Apple II software,
including AppleWorks, AppleWorks GS, GraphicWriter III, PublishIt! 4,
MultiScribe, as well as Macintosh programs that don't look down on their
Apple II cousins. I have been laying out newsletters and doing desktop
publishing for more than 5 years (I began my desktop publishing career
printing a newsletter for BirthRight in Vermont using PublishIt! 2) and am
familiar with most issues surrounding Apple IIs and printing.
There are three classes of work that I will be accepting:
A) word processing/layout/printing
B) layout/printing
C) printing
In practice that means something like the following:
A) you send me a hand written newsletter or resume, etc., and I type
it, design and execute a layout, then print it;
B) you give me files saved as a word processing or ASCII file, and I
simply pour that text into a page layout program, and print that;
C) you send me a file that is already laid out in a program like
GraphicWriter III or AppleWorks GS, and I simply print that for
you.
Just about any document will be accepted: labels from a database
file, newsletters, resumes, pamphlets, short books, invitations.
What You Need to Send Me If you are asking me to do a complete job, then
'''''''''''''''''''''''' all you need to send me is the manuscript. If
you want me to do the layout then you should send me a sketch or
description of how you want the document laid out (if you have a
preference), the word processing files, and a list of requests such as font
(typeface, size, etc.), clip art, etc. If you only want me to print your
file, then you need to send me the page layout file and the needed fonts (I
will need the fonts to be sure I have the same version and your layout is
not disturbed. (Fonts will be retained only long enough to print the
document, and will not be kept afterward. This is standard practice in
publishing when files are sent to a service bureau, and is not an attempt
to pirate.) If you have graphics in the document, please send those as
well, as I will try print them separately with SuperConvert which gives a
better result.
How to Get the Document to Me You can of course mail the document to me
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' (and will need to do so if you want me to
type the doc :) via the postal service, but better yet, compress your file
and email it to me. This will be cheaper for you and faster as well. If
you have Internet access, you can also ftp files to me. The URL for my ftp
drop folder is <ftp://users.aol.com/stevec1021/incoming>. If you do send
the file via email or ftp, please compress it with ShrinkIt and upload it
with Binary II or binscii the file to reduce chances of file corruption and
down time.
What I Will Do With Your Files If you have a particular program that you
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' want me to use to print your program, I
will follow your instructions. If not, I will use my best judgment. I
have over 500 fonts here, and should be able to meet any request of yours
for a particular typeface or "look". I also have several CDs of clip art
(added together there is more than 147,000 images) so I should be able to
meet your requests for clip art.
Schedule of Rates When I mail your finished document back to you, I will
''''''''''''''''' send two copies (unless you have specifically requested
more) just in case of accidents (*%#! I knew I should've moved that
coffee!). If you find any errors that I have made, I will of course, send
you a corrected replacement copy free.
A) Word processing/layout/printing
The fee for this service will be $2.00 per manuscript page for
typing, $3.00 per page for layout, and $3.00 per page for printing
(printing includes 2 copies per page). This service includes one fax to
you of the completed layout for your review/approval if you so desire. So
if you sent me a 10 page manuscript, the cost would be:
word processing 10 pages x $2.00 = $20.00
layout* 4 pages x $3.00 = $12.00
printing 4 pages x $3.00 = $12.00
TOTAL $44.00
B) Layout/printing
This is of course much cheaper, as it is based on the number of final
pages. This service also includes one fax to you of the completed layout
for your review/approval if you so desire.
layout* 4 pages x $3.00 = $12.00
printing 4 pages x $3.00 = $12.00
TOTAL $24.00
C) Printing
printing 4 pages x $3.00 = $12.00
Corrections I will of course, not charge for any printer errors that I
''''''''''' should make, and will reprint your document if you discover
any. If the error is in your original word processor files, however, then
it is not my error. You are responsible for your own spell-checking. Any
corrections, deletions, or additions your request after the document has
been finished will be charged to you at $1.00 per revision.
Shipping Unless a customer requests a different method of shipping (for
'''''''' example, overnight), printed documents that weigh 4 pounds or
less will be mailed to whatever address the customer specifies by one of
the following means, at the following rates.
Destination | U.S.A. | Canada | Mexico | Other Countries|
____________|________|________|________|________________|
Surface | | $ 5.00 | $ 6.00 | $ 8.00 |
____________|________|________|________|________________|
Air | $ 3.00 | $ 6.50 | $10.00 | $10.00-$30.00* |
____________|________|________|________|________________|
*Latin America, Europe and Asia have different postal rates. Inquire for
specifics. Prices based on publication 51 of the USPS, July 1995.
For packages heavier than 4 pounds, special arrangements or prices
will need to be negotiated.
Payment Payment should be in U.S. funds made payable to "Stephen
''''''' Cavanaugh". I will ship your work first, unless it is unusually
large or expensive, and you can then send me the fee when you have approved
the work (yes, I'm counting on your honesty).
I know I've probably left some detail out that I need to cover. If
you have further questions, please email me.
Regards,
Steve Cavanaugh
publisher of The Apple Blossom
(S.CAVANAUGH1, CAT13, TOP17, MSG:101/M645;1)
WE ARE IN CONTROL This last week I visited a very large, modern church,
""""""""""""""""" Willow Creek Community Church. They showed an
impressive multi-media show, using a combination of video and a battery of
slide projectors. In the midst of all the modern equipment was ---> an
Apple //e !! The //e controlled the whole thing. :)
I was told that the only software to run such a show runs on an Apple II.
Neat! :)
__!__
| Terrell Smith
| tsmith@ivcfnsc.fullfeed.com
(T.SMITH59, CAT2, TOP7, MSG:286/M645;1)
>>>>> The last time I visited the Griffith Observatory in LA, a IIe was
""""" used to control the telescope.
The last time I visited the LA Museum of Science and Industry, many
IIe computers were seen in an interactive exhibit on health.
Frequent NAUG contributor Keith Johnson uses AppleWorks/UltraMacros
to control the Planetarium in Reno, Nevada.
I also seem to remember reading an article in inCider (before I was
involved with them) about a IIc being sent up in the Space Shuttle.
Joe
(JOE.KOHN, CAT2, TOP7, MSG:292/M645;1)
ASK A SIMPLE QUESTION... Well, I can say I've been on the internet, but
"""""""""""""""""""""""" boy it sure is confusing. I've figured out how
to get to page 5000 and enter via Lynx. Joe, I've made it to your home
page. I've Telnet(ed) to the UofM, but they wouldn't let me in without the
password. I wanted to go to comp.sys.apple... but I guess I have to wait
until GEnie has Usenet capability.
Boy, all I can say is a person has to want to get there REAL BAD! It
reminds me of how frustrated I was trying to use PRODOS after years of
booting DOS3.3 and basic. I just couldn't get the concepts straight.
For any of you looking for a beginner's point of view, I would liken
it to hearing of a wonderful swimming pool, where everyone is laughing and
having a good time, and I can hear it, but I can't find it.
"How do I get to the pool?" I ask... And I get a discussion of the
merits of the butterfly stroke vs the Australian Crawl.
"But how do I _get_ to the pool?" And someone cautions me
(helpfully) to enter at the shallow end.
"But how do I get to the _pool_?" And someone points out the merits
of one pool versus the other.
"But _how_ do I get to the pool?" And someone talks about the games
played in one area vs another.
Everyone is being helpful, but I am having to learn for myself
EXACTLY which door to open, how to unlock it, which turns to make to get to
the pool and where to enter. All I want to do at first is dip my toe in...
later I will make decisions on which pool games to play.
() ()
Rich ('-')
(R.HARE2, CAT10, TOP10, MSG:56/M645;1)
BOO! I mentioned in another spot that I was building a Halloween robot.
"""" Well, I did, and it worked great.
The robot features a moveable jaw, LED eyes, and a speaker, all
controlled from an Apple IIGS. To put it mildly, it was a great hit on
Halloween night!
I'd like to find a venue for a magazine article, but all of the
magazines I've worked with in the past that would take an Apple II article
are either gone, or will be well before next October, when I expect the
article would be run.
Does anyone have a line on a magazine that might take an article
about this robot as a general hardware/robotics article? Or perhaps a
magazine that covers all sorts of computers, and wouldn't mind that the
robot is controlled by an Apple II?
Unfortunately, the obvious solution won't work. Making the robot
work with a non-Apple II computer would be a nightmare--and very expensive,
too! Our favorite computer is an absolute natural for this kind of
project. Seriously, you can buy a used Apple IIGS for less than it would
cost for the hardware to connect this robot to a Mac!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Mike Westerfield
(BYTEWORKS, CAT2, TOP3, MSG:116/M645;1)
APPLEWORKS SAVES THE DAY--A TRUE STORY "It started out as any other day
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" for IBM owners their DOS/WIN boxes
were filled with virus, and then along comes a saviour with an Apple II and
Appleworks on hand. The cure was simple, always use an Apple II and
Appleworks when working on important matters."
I finally was able to hand in my group's assignment for our
management class today. It started out as a simple task, but as time went
on it got worse. The group that I worked with all had IBM computers, and
one by one each computer caught a virus (in total 3, IBM computers became
useless). Then I came along with my trusty Apple IIgs and Appleworks 5.1,
and in moments I retrieved the IBM disks, transferred all the information
to the Apple IIgs. I did this by saving the WordPerfect v6.0 for Dos file
in Rich Text Format on the IBM Then loading the IBM disk into my floptical
drive and used Egoed to open the Rich Text Format file, then resaved the
file in Ascii format.
I then loade the file Ascii file into AppleWorks v5.1, and long after
that I reformated the whole text, and printed it out to my laster printer.
The group was thankful, and couldn't believe the performance of Appleworks
v5.1. They kept saying, "How did you get rid of all those carriage returns
like that in seconds?", and "Wow that was easy"...and of course I had this
big grin on my face throughtout the whole crisis. :)
Sam Latella [A2World]
"Apple II Forever, IBM Never!!!"
(S.LATELLA, CAT2, TOP7, MSG:41/M645;1)
SYQUEST EZ135 PLEASES I added a syquest EZ135 to my system this week.
""""""""""""""""""""" The hardest part of setting it up was crawling
under my disk to plug in the brick-on-a-rope. I am using a ROM 01 GS with
a Ramfast SCSI and it's almost exactly the same speed as my quantum 105
drive (prosel 16 used for speed test). Backups are a lot faster and easier
then with my old Apple 40mb tape:-) All those pictures, FAQ files, and BBS
archives are no longer plugging up my HD.
One happy camper.
Tom.
(T.SMITH52, CAT21, TOP14, MSG:99/M645;1)
>>> HOT TOPICS <<<
""""""""""""""""""
NEW SECONDSIGHT ROM I just installed the new Second Sight ROM. The chip
""""""""""""""""""" is labeled as
"rev 1.4-BEEF"
David K.
(D.KERWOOD, CAT20, TOP14, MSG:57/M645;1)
>>>>> Can you tell us what the new ROM chips do? I've been trying to
""""" drag the information out of the folks at Sequential for weeks. :)
I'd also like more details about Second View Pro. Anyone have it yet?
- Tony
(A2.TONY, CAT20, TOP14, MSG:58/M645;1)
<<<<< I'm sure there's more to it than this, but the only real difference
""""" my bloodshot eyes can see is that some random horizontal streaking
that would appear from time to time when displaying 320-mode graphics seems
to have gone away.
Installing the chips took all of about 2 minutes, btw.
David K.
(D.KERWOOD, CAT20, TOP14, MSG:61/M645;1)
>>>>> I installed the new SS chips today - v1.4-BEEF. First thing I
""""" noticed is that the Double Hi-Res display causes a freeze. This
occured with my Appleworks/Afterworks screensavers. Halp?
From the SecondViewPro read.me:
SecondViewPro Supports the following image types:
JPEG 8-bit grayscale
24-bit full color
TARGA 15-bit
16-bit
24-bit
RLE compression not supported
TIFF 8-bit color & b/w
AST Vision Plus
Raw image files
'3200 Color' RAW
GIF Normal
Interlace
PICT 8-bit, pixel maps only
(KEN.GAGNE, CAT20, TOP14, MSG:69/M645;1)
>>>>> Have you tried viewing JPGs with SecondView Pro? Does the hardware
""""" upgrade actually allow it to display in 24-bit color, or is it
converted down to 8- bit color?
- Tony
(A2.TONY, CAT20, TOP14, MSG:70/M645;1)
>>>>> I don't know if it's SVP or the JPGs, but it seems to crash quite
""""" often. How could I tell between 24-bit and 8-bit color?
-Ken
(KEN.GAGNE, CAT20, TOP14, MSG:71/M645;1)
>>>>> Unless Second View Pro displays image statistics (like SuperConvert
""""" does) you will have to use your eyes. You could compare the IIgs
screen to a Mac or PC capable of viewing 24-bit color JPGs. Or if you have
a shell (ORCA, GNO, etc.) you could use "djpeg" (available in the A2
Library) to convert the JPG to a GIF. View them both and see if there's a
major difference in quality. If the GIF looks a lot worse, the JPG was
most likely displayed in 24-bit color (GIFs, by definition, get whitled
down to 8-bit.) If they look the same, either the JPG was only 8-bit or
Second View Pro (or the SS ROM) can't do 24-bit color.
I really hope this new ROM is "the one" that we've all been waiting
for so Seven Hills can finish the SuperConvert update. Does the new ROM
give you larger dimensions than 640x480?
- Tony
(A2.TONY, CAT20, TOP14, MSG:72/M645;1)
NEW SECONDSIGHT SOFTWARE What does the new SecondView Pro do? Is this
"""""""""""""""""""""""" the latest version to SecondView? What type of
Graphics does it handle ie.. Gif, Tiff etc... What other features does this
program have? Lastly, do you need the SecondSight card to use this
program.
Sam Latella [A2World]
"Apple II Forever, IBM Never!!!"
(S.LATELLA, CAT20, TOP14, MSG:62/M645;1)
>>>>> All I know about Second View Pro is that it can display JPEG
""""" pictures. Other than that, I have no idea what's new. Yes, it
does require a Second Sight card.
- Tony
(A2.TONY, CAT20, TOP14, MSG:63/M645;1)
>>> WHAT'S NEW <<<
""""""""""""""""""
JEM SOFTWARE SHIPS DEJA ][ ARVADA, COLORADO, 1995 OCT 30 -- JEM Software
"""""""""""""""""""""""""" announced today that it began shipping version
1.0 of Deja ][, a System 7 software package allowing users to run
AppleWorks 5 in native mode on both 68k and PowerPC Macintoshes. AppleWorks
has been the most popular integrated package for the Apple II for more than
a decade, and is currently published by Scantron Quality Computers under
license from Claris Corp.
When asked if Deja ][ was similar to SuperWorks for MS-DOS, JEM
Software owner Randy Brandt responded, "You're not running software similar
to AppleWorks, you're actually running AppleWorks 5 on your Mac. We provide
the 'Apple II emulation engine', but you'll still need AppleWorks 5 to use
Deja ][. Of course, that also means your favorite macros and TimeOut
applications will work on the Mac."
While Deja ][ provides an "Apple II" environment for AppleWorks, it
is also tightly integrated into the Macintosh environment, providing the
ability to read and write files from a user's Macintosh hard drive as well
as to copy and paste between the Macintosh clipboard and the AppleWorks
Word Processor clipboard. Users of System 7.5 (or those with PC Exchange
installed) will also be able to read and write directly from ProDOS 3.5"
disks.
Deja ][ includes more than two dozen UltraMacros dot commands which
interact with the Macintosh environment. One such command allows AppleWorks
to speak text with a macro, another will play Macintosh sounds, and others
allow you to set background and text colors, the font size, the error beep,
and more.
Deja ][ was developed by Mark Munz and Randy Brandt. Mark Munz is
renowned for writing "The UltraMacros Primer", programming TimeOut
TextTools, and working for Beagle Bros, Inc. Randy Brandt was the lead
designer and programmer for AppleWorks 4 and 5, and is also known for
UltraMacros, Outliner, and many other AppleWorks add-ons over the past
decade.
Deja ][ lists for $128, but through November 1995 is available at an
introductory price of $75 plus $3 shipping.
[ JEM Software, 7578 Lamar Ct., Arvada, CO 80003 Fax: 303-422-4856
Email: rbJEM@aol.com ]
TIMEOUT CENTRAL REVISITED Available again, and shipping now!
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
Marin MacroWorks is pleased to offer all 26 back issues of TimeOut
Central, an 800K disk magazine of tips, techniques, templates, tools, and
programs for enhancing AppleWorks. Including tools for AppleWorks 3 (circa
1990) through AppleWorks 5 (January, 1994), TimeOut Central offers sound
advice from the people who made AppleWorks what it is today.
Disks include:
TOC#01 - WP File Format, AW3.0 Patcher, Check Register, CheckWorks 1.2,
Credit Card, GradeSheet Macro, PowerMacros II, Resurrection
(repair program), QD Inventory, Sales Invoice, Screen Macro,
UltraMacros tips
TOC#02 - Banjo Tab Translator, InvestingWorks 3, Nicholas Pyers Macros,
SuperFonts Activity Guide review, Calendar/Schedule Generator
TOC#03 - Age macros, Bible macros, Chess macros, Grammar Checker, Baseball
Statkeeper, Draw Poker, MasterMind, Scott Young macros
TOC#04 - Bud Simrin macros, Dick Honn macros, Essential TimeOut, Jim Hebden
macros, Font Lore, Random Number Generator, Macros to Menus,
BasicCat, Ultra-AppleWorks 1-2
TOC#05 - Essential TimeOut (DeskTools), NASA data, Late Night Patches,
Patcher 1.61, Ultra-AppleWorks 3-5
TOC#06 - QuickView, Essential TimeOut (FileMaster), Geometry, Huck Finn
text, Font Lore, Ultra-AppleWorks 7, Barclay Clemesha macros
TOC#07 - Football macros, Graph Art, Lynx, Huck Finn text, Ultra-AppleWorks
8, DHGR Viewer
TOC#08 - Area Code macros, Clemesha macros, Auto-Hyphen, David Kilzer
macros, Essential TimeOut (Graph), Total Control, Huck Finn text,
Double Data, Super Ultra, Matrices, Ultra-AppleWorks 9, Envelope
Maker
TOC#09 - Essential TimeOut (PowerPack), Inits 2.0, Lynx update,
Ultra-AppleWorks 10, Nicholas Pyers macros, Bob Merrill macros,
Randy Brandt macros
TOC#10 - Bruce Shanker macros, Calendar Maker, Kilzer macros, Essential
TimeOut (SideSpread & SpreadTools), Keith Johnson macros, big
fonts, Ultra-AppleWorks 11, Brandt macros, 1992 Payroll System,
Zip Chip macros
TOC#11 - Checkbook macros, Finance templates, Essential TimeOut fonts,
TO.MouseText, Homework macros, Ultra-AppleWorks 12, Page Layout,
Rod Young macros, TF Plot macros, Joe Walters macros
TOC#12 - TimeOut PicStack, Ultra-AppleWorks appendices
TOC#13 - Apple II History, DeskJet macros, Dictionary macros, Dutch macros,
Finance templates, Ultra 4 Inits, ULTRA-to the Max (1-2)
TOC#14 - Dan Crutcher macros, Films data base, John Tegelaar macros,
ULTRA-to the Max (3-6), Wally Bradford macros
TOC#15 - Canada Tax macros, Dan Verkade macros, Dutch macros, Computer
Jargon text, ULTRA-to the Max (7-8), 1993 Payroll System, Sensible
Speller converter, Ultra 4.2 updater
TOC#16 - Angelo Rubino macros, Chris Serreau macros, Verkade macro, DB
macros, Doug Brower macros, Brandt macros, Lorne Walton macro,
ULTRA-to the Max (9-10), Rod Young macros, Roy Barrows macros
TOC#17 - Angelo Rubino macros, AppleWorks Educator tips, IIgs KeyFind,
Clark fonts, CLemesha macros, ULTRA-to the Max (11-12), Young
macros, Barrows macros
TOC#18 - A2 Central excerpts, Rubino's Syllabize It, CHange-a-File &
Resurrection updates, Club List, Crutcher's TCXpress, Geraldine
Engleman's Font Maker, ABC Kinetics, BatchFiler, FileDoctor,
ULTRA-to the Max (13-14), TEXAS II
TOC#19 - A2 Central excerpts, A2 Reader, Custom dictionaries, DeskJet
notes, Auto-Hyphen update, ULTRA-to the Max (15)
TOC#20 - AfterWork modules, A2 Central excerpts, Columnist, Finance
templates, Stan Hecker's FootNoter, Laser SEG.ER, Nicholas Pyers
macros update, AppleWorks tips, Randy's Free Patcher, Rod Young's
FindFile, 1993 Form 1040
TOC#21 - A2 Central excerpts, Roy Barrows macros, Wally Bradford's macros,
GEnie Master, GEM Plus, Dialer macro, MAKE402 AppleWorks update,
AmperMacros patch, Randy's Free Patcher update, Trigonometry
TOC#22 - A2 Central excerpts, AppleWorks Data Base CDA, Barrows macros, GEM
Plus fixes, AppleWorks tips, 1994 Payroll System, Serreau's AW4.0
First Kit
TOC#23 - A2 Central excerpts, Calendar macros, World Clock, FileView, Bob
Fischer's Batch Loader, GEM Cost, GEM manual, PickFonts
TOC#24 - A2 Central excerpts, (AFTYHODLS) Add File That You Had On Desktop
Last Session, AW4 First Kit updates, Barrows templates and macros,
AppleWorks 4.3 update, AppleWorks tips, (OMCP) One More Check
Program, TimeOut Menus, TimeOut Link, TimeOut ReportWriter update
TOC#25 - A2 Central excerpts, AppleWorks 4.3 update, GEM updates,
AppleWorks tips, AppleWorks Resources list, AW4 First Kit update,
ShrinkIt
TOC#26 - A2 Central excerpts, AppleWorks 5 Checkbook, Barrows WordMaster
and macros, Browser updates, Double Hi-Res graphics, Laser SEG.ER
update, LastPatch patch, LivingWill, LibraryTracker, Help Screens,
TimeOut Import Teach
Prices are:
1 to 5 disks -- $4.95 each, postpaid.
6 or more disks -- $3.95 each, postpaid.
All 26 disks -- $85.00, postpaid.
OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA, please add $3.00 for 1-5 disks, $6.00 for 6-10
disks; $9.00 for 11-15 disks; $12.00 for 16-20 disks; $15.00 for 21+ disks.
To order, please send prepayment (check or money order in U.S. funds)
to:
Marin MacroWorks
1675 Grand Avenue, Suite 1
San Rafael, CA 94901-2211 USA
To contact by phone, please call (415) 459-0845.
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...Will (Cat 13, Top 11)
(W.NELKEN1, CAT13, TOP11, MSG:80/M645;1)
RESIGNATION OF II ALIVE MANAGING EDITOR (7 November 1995) Waterloo,
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Ontario--Doug Cuff wishes to
announce his resignation as managing editor of _II Alive_. He intends to
remain editor of _GEnieLamp A2_ at least until he completes his third year
in that post.
Oh, to heck with the third-person voice.
In fact, I resigned after my first issue (July/August), but agreed to
stay on for a second issue when I found out that no one officially
connected with Scantron Quality Computers (as it is now) had received the
resignation! Rather than inconvenience the publishers by making them
search for an editor about two weeks before the August deadline for the
September/October issue, I agreed to oversee my second issue, which I
expressed to them on August 17.
(In fact, the person who I was most anxious not to inconvenience was
Carl Sperber, who handles design and layout of all SQC's print material.
I've enjoyed working with Carl.)
On a related note, Carl Sperber tells me that _II Alive_ Volume 3,
Number 2 is "almost done". Carl asked me for a few words of farewell to
appear in this issue, which I E-mailed to him this morning. I presume
that's the last piece of copy needed to put the issue to bed. With any
luck, you should all see it soon.
Until the new editor takes over, all mail sent to the II.ALIVE
account will be forwarded to the QUALITY account.
Doug Cuff
former managing editor, II Alive
(also former editor, A2-Central; editor, GEnieLamp A2)
(EDITOR.A2, CAT42, TOP11, MSG:237/M645;1)
EGO SYSTEMS IS MOVING Effective November 16th, 1995 EGO Systems will be
""""""""""""""""""""" moving to a new location. After this date, you can
contact by one of the following means:
Voice phone: 423-843-1775
FAX: 423-843-0661
ORDERS ONLY: 800-662-3634
Snail Mail:
EGO Systems
7918 Cove Ridge Rd.
Hixson, TN 37343
e-mail:
Diz@genie.com
GSPlusDiz@aol.com
In order to get everything moved on time (so we don't have to pay
another month's rent on our old office) EGO Systems will be closed on
November 13th through November 15th. We will re-open on November 16th at
our new location. As before, our hours will be 9 am to 5 pm Eastern Time,
Monday through Friday.
Please pass this new contact information along to every Apple IIGS
owner that you know!
Diz
EGO Systems
(DIZ, CAT33, TOP2, MSG:186/M645;1)
APPLEWORKS FORUM CEASES PUBLICATION Yep, it's true. Here's the full text
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" of NAUG's announcement, snif...
The Time Has Come
by Warren Williams and Cathleen Merritt
This is a difficult note for us to write, but after ten years of
service to the AppleWorks community, NAUG will close its doors on December
31, 1995. It was a hard decision, but with declining memberships and
rising costs, the writing is on the wall.
Now that the decision is made, we are turning our efforts to making
sure that NAUG goes out in style. You trusted us with your ideas, with
your writing, and with your money. Our job is to make sure that we handle
these responsibilities fairly and honestly.
We will save our personal goodbyes for next month's AppleWorks Forum.
But an announcement like this raises important questions. Here are answers
to some of those questions:
Question: What will happen to the AppleWorks Forum?
Answer: The December 1995 issue will be the last issue of the AppleWorks
Forum. We want that issue to be spectacular, so we've asked
important contributors to the AppleWorks community to submit
articles, thoughts, and their heartfelt "goodbyes" for publication
in the Forum.
The December issue will also include a timeline of memorable
AppleWorks events, and we need your help with that project.
Please send us any important dates you think we might miss...like
the date someone introduced your favorite AppleWorks add-on and
any other dates you think we should remember.
Your December AppleWorks Forum will arrive in mid-December, about
two weeks later than usual. That will give us the time we need to
prepare these late-arriving articles for the issue.
Question: What will happen to the balance of the money you sent us?
Answer: We will send the balance of your money back to you if you like.
However, we have five other options to offer you. These include
full-year subscriptions to major magazines (values up to $39.95),
membership in the ClarisWorks Users Group, a complete set of back
issues of the AppleWorks Forum, and popular AppleWorks products at
unbelievably low prices. The details of these offers appear on
pages 22 and 23 of this issue of the AppleWorks Forum.
Question: What will you do with the money that is not reclaimed by
members?
Answer: We will use any remaining funds to continue to operate our
electronic services (including NAUG's electronic bulletin board
service). We will keep those services open until we run out of
money.
Question: I just sent in my renewal payment. Will I have to request a
refund?
Answer: We realized in early October that NAUG would have to close. Once
we made that decision, we immediately changed some policies
regarding member renewals. Members who paid by credit card or by
purchase order were only charged to extend their membership
through December. Members who paid by check should fill out the
forms on pages 22 and 23 to exercise one of their refund options.
Question: What will happen to the NAUG staff? Will anyone lose his or her
job when NAUG closes?
Answer: At its peak, NAUG had 13 full-time and part-time staff members to
manage the membership list, fill your orders, copy disks, and
perform the other jobs necessary to maintain an organization with
more than 16,000 members. But in recent years the staff spent
increasing amounts of time working with our sister organization,
the ClarisWorks Users Group (C-WUG).
No jobs will be lost when NAUG closes.
Question: Will I be able to get disks and templates from NAUG after
December 31?
Answer: You will be able to download any files you want from NAUG's areas
on America Online, CompuServe, GEnie, and from the NAUG bulletin
board service. But you will not be able to order disks from NAUG
after December 31.
The special offer on page 23 lets you order public domain disks
for as little as $1 per disk, so now is the time to complete your
collection. This month's issue of NAUG on Disk contains an
updated copy of NAUG's Public Domain Catalog that you can use to
choose the disks you order. NAUG on Disk costs $10 postpaid
(international postage additional) and requires a 3.5-inch disk
drive. If you do not have a 3.5-inch disk drive, the Public
Domain Update articles in each issue of the AppleWorks Forum
describe the different disks we added to our library.
Our software licensing agreement with Apple Computer prohibits us
from distributing Apple's system software electronically. If you
want those disks, please order them before our December 31
deadline.
Question: What will happen to the disks in NAUG's Public Domain Library?
Answer: We will archive and protect those disks in case they are of
historical interest to future generations. We will also try to
identify a library or other institution that will care for the
disks and make them available to researchers and others with a
legitimate interest in their contents.
Question: What will happen to 1040Works?
Answer: Dan Verkade, the developer of 1040Works, is trying to decide if
the size of the Apple II market justifies updating 1040Works for
the 1995 tax year. Mr. Verkade plans to make his decision by the
end of November and will notify previous 1040Works users by mail
in early December if he will update the package. If you bought
last year's version of 1040Works, you will receive a letter if Mr.
Verkade decides to produce a 1995 version of the package.
Mr. Verkade is anxious to hear your suggestions and comments, but
because of the anticipated volume of mail and messages, he will
not be able to respond to your contacts. Please direct your
encouraging comments to Mr. Verkade, not to NAUG.
[Dan Verkade, 51 Bowen Road, Perris, California 92571; (909)
943-5500; Internet: danbv@aol.com]
Question: How can I contact NAUG after December 31?
Answer: To save money (which will let us keep our electronic services
operating longer), we will disconnect NAUG's telephones on
December 31. In an emergency, you can use the ClarisWorks User
Group's phone lines to contact NAUG. The voice line is (313)
454-1969. The fax number is (313) 454-1965.
(NAUG, CAT17, TOP37, MSG:188/M645;1)
KITCHEN SINK SOFTWARE ONLINE SUPPORT DECREASED Kitchen Sink Software,
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Inc. is consolidating its
online support to our new server. You can contact Kitchen Sink Software in
the following ways:
Kitchen Sink Software, Inc.
903 Knebworth Ct.
Westerville, OH 43081
800-235-5502 (continental US)
614-891-2111 (central Ohio and elsewhere)
Guy Forsythe: gforsyth@kitchen-sink.com
Eric Bush: eric@kitchen-sink.com
You can connect to our world wide web site at:
http://www.kitchen-sink.com/
This in no means that we are not supporting our products. We are
just streamlining our online support. GEnie has been good to us over the
years and GEnie's customers have as well.
We check these e-mail accounts daily if not more often, so feel free
to contact us if you need anything.
Sincerely,
Kitchen Sink Software, Inc.
(KITCHEN.SINK, CAT25, TOP2, MSG:7/M645;1)
APPLE IIGS EMULATION? (September 15, 1995) I am pleased to announce the
""""""""""""""""""""" Hindenburg Project. Hindenburg is the code name
for a forthcoming, software-based Apple IIgs emulator. Upon completion,
virtually all existing Apple IIgs software will run, without modification,
on non-Apple II computers. Hindenburg is designed to execute on Macintosh
systems equipped with a high-performance 680x0, or a PowerPC-based,
microprocessor.
For the latest up-to-date information on the Hindenburg Project,
please visit the official Hindenburg Project home page. The URL is:
http://www.best.com/~hexman/hindenburg.html
If you do not have access to the World Wide Web, or if you would
prefer to receive some Hindenburg literature via E-mail, please send a
request to:
hexman@best.com
Permission is hereby granted to distribute the preceding text, in
it's [sic] unmodified form. The Hindenburg Project is copyright (c) 1995
by Tony Morales.
>>> THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE <<<
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
II ALIVE TO PUBLISH QUARTERLY I just talked with Quality about II Alive.
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Here is the news:
According to the operator who took my call, she never heard of the
magazine.
She transferred me to Michael, who said that there would be only five
more issues, sent quarterly. The next issue would be #14, the "Winter
Issue," to be sent in December.
I then talked with Carl in the advertising department. He told me
that the reason they were going to a quarterly issue was that there simply
was not enough material coming in to fill a magazine.
I asked if they had asked anyone for articles. Carl said that they
have few staff, and that they cannot devote much time to the magazine,
because sales of Apple II stuff and interest in the magazine had declined
so rapidly.
I pointed out that it was Quality who had killed it, by not taking
any renewals. Carl said that they decided to not offer renewals because
the renewals had dropped off so much from the 30,000 original subscribers.
I pointed out that magazines such as Shareware Solutions II were
growing. Carl was glad to hear that, but said that the numbers for II
Alive were just not enough. That the five remaining issues would be their
attempt to fulfill their obligations to subscribers.
I asked about subscriptions that go past five more issues. They have
not decided what they will do, and will cross that bridge when they come to
it, Carl said.
I asked about what Doug had sent in. Carl said that they were
working on it right now, and that the December issue was definitely coming
out in December.
Carl and Michael were polite and listened to what I had to say.
At the close of our conversation, Carl said, "It been fun while it
lasted."
What sort of content shall we send them, so that the magazine gets
"fat?"
I look forward to the next five issues with a lump in my throat.
__!__
| Terrell Smith
| tsmith@ivcfnsc.fullfeed.com
(T.SMITH59, CAT42, TOP10, MSG:124/M645;1)
SAN RAFAEL = CENTRAL-CENTRAL? Well, well, well. It looks like San
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Rafael, California is fast becoming the new
home for ICON's former publications. First, Shareware Solutions II started
distributing Script-Central. Then, Will Nelken announced that
TimeOut-Central back issues will soon become available again from Marin
MacroWorks.
And, now....
Studio City back issues will become available again from Shareware
Solutions II.
Say, Will...do you think we'd having any luck getting the San Rafael
City Council to change the name of our town to Appleton?
Joe
(JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:222/M645;1)
FOUR PROJECTS AT SHAREWARE SOLUTIONS II Hi all. I just wanted to mention
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" a few new SSII developments....
o I had another talk last week with Warren Williams, and it now
looks like NAUG _will_ supply Shareware Solutions II with a complete set of
NAUG Library disks.
o It's going to be a while before Studio City actually becomes
available. The current copyright
holder wants to supply me with a new set
of master disks that contain current and up-to-date copyright info. Since
the copyright holder is a teacher, he plans to do that over his Christmas
break. So, look for the re-release of Studio City in early 1996.
o Despite my original intentions, Phase 2 of "The Computer That
Could Have Changed The World Project" (the discovery phase) does not really
lend itself to being videotaped. After all, there would be very long gaps
of silence in the tape, punctuated by an occasional "hmmmm" and "wow" and
"what on earth is that?" type of statements and questions. But rest
assured, Phase 2 has begun.
o All that is holding back Convert 3200 from being released is one
more stab on my part at translating the documentation into understandable
English <grin>. That should be completed soon...possibly later on this
week.
Joe Kohn
(JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:271/M645;1)
CONVERT 3200 UNOFFICIALLY AVAILABLE I still have one major unanswered
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" question regarding Convert 3200.
That question is whether Brutal Deluxe still plans to distribute the
program in Europe.
Once I have that answer, I will post an official press release
announcing the availablility of Convert 3200.
That said...unofficially, Convert 3200 is now completed and shipping.
Joe
(JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:286/M645;1)
JAWAID BAZYAR LEAVES SEQUENTIAL for anyone wants to reach sequential, I
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" got his msg from Jawaid Bazyar:
> Please send post to seqjoea@aol.com, as I am no longer
> associated with Sequential Systems.
> -- Jawaid Bazyar
so I've done. Hope it helps. If anyone wants to reach me by email, try
a.flemming@eworld.com (there I can look with my Newton) Hope to be back,
when I'm getting the new Chips from sequential.
Axel
(A.FLEMMING, CAT20, TOP13, MSG:141/M645;1)
>>>>> Ah, the cat's outta the bag. Since two and a half weeks or so,
""""" actually. Jawaid's apparently busy setting up his
Internet-provider cum small-firms-web-consulting company (what other person
does that remind you of? ;-).
I'd say get your SS's while you can ... who knows what kind of impact
this will have. On a cheery note, check out
http://www.winternet.com/~taubert/gstcp.html
and prepare to be awed. The mind boggles with the kind of potential this
page opens ... but see for yourself.
Soenke
(S.BEHRENS1, CAT20, TOP13, MSG:146/M645;1)
DEJA ][ SPEED I've been collecting performance data on various A2 and Mac
""""""""""""" models running a test macro designed by Mark Munz. It
measures about 10 operations and averages the times. The best scores were
a 100mhz PowerMac 7500 and a IIgs with a 10mhz Zip when the screen display
was off (4.1 seconds).
Here are a few models and average times with the display active:
4.4 IIgs 10mhz Zip
5.0 PowerMac 7500 (100 mhz)
6.5 IIgs 7mhz Zip (mine)
7.3 PowerMac 7100
13.4 IIgs 3mhz (mine)
15.8 Performa 5200
21.3 Quadra 605
23.6 Centris 610 (my 25 mhz 040)
30.9 IIgs 1mhz (mine)
161.5 IIsi (20mhz 030)
That shows why we recommend 040's or PowerMacs, or fast 030's. The
drop-off to a slow 030 like Terrell Smith's IIsi is amazing. Keep in mind
that the test areas can vary a lot. For example, my Centris scored roughly
midway between my IIgs at 3 and 1 mhz, but it loads files much faster than
my 7mhz IIgs, even without the snapshot option.
Eventually, we expect to have a faster Deja ][, especially on PPC
machines. Mark has to learn more about optimizing for them first, but
speed gains are definitely possible. When that happens, a 100mhz PPC
should easily top a 10mhz IIgs, so you can imagine how a 150mhz PPC will
perform!
(BRANDT, CAT17, TOP20, MSG:122/M645;1)
BIG RED COMPUTER (FINAL?) CHRISTMAS GAME SALE Big Red Computers still has
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" a limited stock of games
for the Apple IIGS computer. They will continue to take orders for these
products until December 31, 1995. You can order by mail using this
address:
Big Red Computer
423 Norfolk Ave
Norfolk, NE 68701
You can also order by phone with a MasterCard or Visa. The phone
number is 402-379-4680. You can usually reach them between 9:30 am and
5:00 pm Monday through Friday. If they don't answer, try again later.
BRCC's fax number has been disconnected.
The following games are still available. Most require at least 1.25
Megs of RAM and System 5.0.4 or higher.
Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye: Shanghai II gives you 8 beautifully
detailed tile sets, over a dozen different layouts, animated tilesets and
over 100 sound effects. Several ways to play # Solitaire, Challenge &
Tournament. Beyond all this there is the interactive version of the
Dragon's Eye, a special challenge for superior Shanghai players. Product
number BR92 is $25.
Lost Treasures of Infocom: A compilation of 20 captivating games in
one package including Zork, Planetfall, Deadline, Sorcerer, Spellbreaker,
Infidel, Ballyhoo, Suspect, Witness and other classics. A fortune in
Interactive Mystery, Fantasy and Science fiction Adventures. Now available
in GS specific format with menus and GS/OS compatibility! Product number
BR93 is $30.
Ancient Glory: This is an arcade action game based on the mythology
of Hercules. Use a joystick to guide Hercules past raging bulls, centaurs,
the Hydra, and the Minotaur. Your goal is to defeat Medusa and carry her
head to Athena. The gods are watching and they will both aid and hinder
your journey. Product number AG50 is $15.
Blackjack Academy: The ultimate tutorial program for learning to
play Blackjack, the most popular Vegas card game. It features a five
player table, multiple table rules like in Las Vegas, Reno and Atlantic
City and different play strategies. Are you good enough to bust the bank?
Order BR91 for $8.
Tunnels of Armegeddon: An arcade game by California Dreams that will
leave you dizzy. Feel the G-Forces as you navigate through the tunnels.
Use your blaster to clear out whatever gets in your way. Lavish detail.
Great action. Unbelievable feeling of warp speed motion. A+/Incider gave
it a 9 out of 10 rating! Order product number CD53 for $10.
Vegas Gambler: Four exciting games to play: Blackjack, Roulette,
Video Poker and the Slot Machine. Experience the thrill of Las Vegas and
see if you can break the bank. This program has excellent graphics and
great sound effects. You won't want to miss it! Product number CD52 is
$8.
Blockout: It's like Tetris* but it's 3-dimensional. Your job is to
rotate and maneuver various 3-D blocks as they fall into a pit. The idea
is to make the blocks fall into the proper positions to form complete
layers. As each layer is completed, it vanishes, giving you more room to
work with. Product number CD54 is $10.
(JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:273/M645;1)
OFFLINE MESSAGE READER COMING FOR HYPERCARD GS Currently in development
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" is an Offline message
processor for Genie, written in Hypercard. This product is pushing
Hypercard's text capabilities to the Max! Post here, and help to shape a
useful new GS product!
I already have the "paste as reply" feature worked out, automatic
scanning of the message files for 2 or 3 separate strings, 20+ archive
files selected from a pop-up, save position in a file and restore. Now, I
need your input to make this the best supported offline processor yet!
In addition, it supports a 50% larger font for ease of reading, and
keyboard control for most functions. LONG internet addresses are a snap,
thanks to Hypercard's text handling abilities. In addition, I plan
autoreply to Internet messages!!
(B.GILLESPIE3, CAT13, TOP40, MSG:{1}/M645;1)
WOLFENSTEIN 3-D IIGS LANGUISHING For your info. If you want to see Wolf
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" GS please contact Bill Heineman, the
programmer. Vitesse is not to blame for its lack of release. They have
been doing everything possible to get Bill to finish it.
I'd really like to see it too since I put a lot of work into it.
It's really too bad since it was so close to being finished.
-Scott Everts
(S.EVERTS, CAT40, TOP6, MSG:137/M645;1)
TOUCHTWO MACROS FOR APPLEWORKS UPDATE on progress of TouchTwo for
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" AppleWorks 4 and 5.
TouchTwo (formerly called HotKeys I) is very nearly at the point of
distribution. We were all but ready to ship on November 18th, as
predicted, but on that very day we discovered a single bug in one of the
programs. It's rather obscure, but the crash it occasions is rather
fantastic. :) We have located the problem and it has to do with one
segment of AppleWorks code (not our program). We are working with Randy
Brandt to figure out how to resolve it right now.
I will keep you posted here.
BTW, our next release, UltraMax, is also nearing completion. We're
aiming for a December 16th shipping date. It's gonna be a great Christmas
for AppleWorks fans!
|
-(+)-
|
|
...Will
(W.NELKEN1, CAT13, TOP11, MSG:108/M645;1)
>>> MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT <<<
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
Category 28, Topic 4
Message 253 Sat Nov 11, 1995
JOE.KOHN [SSII] at 18:54 EST
It started out as an impossible mission and soon turned into a
maniacal mission. For 3 weeks, I have had one thing, and one thing only,
on my mind.
Phase 1 is now complete.
The details and technical specifications of the Apple IIGS ROM4
computer...the machine that could have changed the world...the fabled
GS+....the Macintosh killer...will no longer have to be the subject of
rumors and speculation.
The Apple II world has waited patiently for more than 4 years to
learn what could have been.
That long wait will soon be over.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Joe Kohn has promised to "blow the lid off" the ROM 4 in a
coming issue of _Shareware Solutions II_, probably Volume
3, Issue 1. For subscription info, mail joko@crl.com or
joe.kohn@genie.com.--DGC]
[*][*][*]
While on GEnie, do you spend most of your time downloading files?
If so, you may be missing out some excellent information in the Bulletin
Board area. The messages listed above only scratch the surface of
what's available and waiting for you in the bulletin board area.
If you are serious about your Apple II, the GEnieLamp staff strongly
urge you to give the bulletin board area a try. There are literally
thousands of messages posted from people like you from all over the
world.
[EOA]
[HUM]//////////////////////////////
HUMOR ONLINE /
/////////////////////////////////
Christmas Cheer
"""""""""""""""
by Marty Knight
>>> A VISIT FROM SAINT WOZ <<<
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
'Twas the night before Christmas, no sound in the house.
My GS is dusty and so is my mouse.
My dealer's gone Mac; he's too brainwashed to care.
Apple marketing smells like that old dairy-air.
My children are nestled, all snug in their beds,
While visions of Mac LCs (ugh) dance in their heads.
The GS is dead, I've heard them all say.
They might just be right; things look pretty gray.
When all of a sudden a great noise I did hear.
I woke with a start and fell flat on my rear.
Awakened from slumber I jumped up to see,
Tripped over the cat and twisted my knee.
The moon brightly shone on the new fallen snow.
I looked but saw nothing, then turning to go,
Stopped short... What's that?... Is that synthLAB I hear?
Why yes! Yes it is! That's good reason to cheer!
I jumped and I shouted and I danced then because
I knew right away that it must be Saint Woz.
More rapid than Zip Chip, old Wozniak came.
He whistled and shouted and called out by name:
"Now Quickie! Now Allison! Now AppleWorks GS!
Go Claris! On SuperConvert! I love you Vitesse!
Platinum Paint is so cool! Twilight Screen blanker rules!
Who needs those old Macs when you've got Apple IIs?
"If you have been true I've got presents to dole,
But if you're like inCider you'll get lumps of coal."
So up to the housetop with the Green Team he flew;
Jim Merritt, Andy Nicholas, and Saint Wozniak, too.
I kept very quiet so that I might hear
SoundSmith tunes softly playing, spreading Apple II cheer.
Then I heard a slight scrape and as I turned 'round,
Down the chimney Saint Wozniak came with a bound.
He wore blue jeans and sneakers and a T-shirt that said
II-Infinitum ... II-Forever... I had nothing to dread!
A sack of great software he had slung on his back
And he looked like a hacker there searching his pack.
His eyes twinkled brightly, his dimples so merry,
his cheeks red as apples, his nose like a cherry.
His droll little mouth smiled a smile oh so grand.
And a full bearded chin, GDL labels in hand.
A thick slice of pizza he held tight in his teeth
And the steam from it circled his head like a wreath.
A plump little face and a round little belly.
He laughed and it shook like a bowl of grape jelly.
He was chubby and plump; a right jolly old elf.
I laughed when I saw him, for he looked like myself.
He winked right at me then he twisted his head,
So I knew deep inside I had nothing to dread.
He said not a word. He went straight to work,
Programming in ORCA, then he turned with a jerk.
Then placing his finger on top of that mess,
And giving a nod... _games_ for the GS!
He jumped to his sleigh and it rose from the ground.
But before it took off I saw him turn 'round,
And I heard him exclaim, ere he flew out of sight,
"Apple II Forever, and to all a good night!"
[EOA]
[FUN]//////////////////////////////
SEARCH_ME /
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Online Puzzle Fun
"""""""""""""""""
by Scott R. Garrigus
[S.GARRIGUS]
>>> SEARCH_ME! <<<
""""""""""""""""""
Christmas Time
""""""""""""""
BOWS I I V D K C N F Z C X I H P C
CANDLES V P K U Q V Z R I X T N O G W
CANDY CANE A E N A C K Y D N A C A K Y S
CARDS E I B K C B K C Q I V H V O D
CAROLS T V U O N U G J O L L Y A P R
EGGNOG L U L F W L S E G G N O G C A
ELVES V F P A R W Y T F I G Q A G C
EVERGREEN E V E R G R E E N S C N R A M
FLOCK Y T T S Q Q Y I E E D I Z S X
FROSTY Z J N L M V L V Z L N B T W E
GIFT WRAP T R K O L O L U E C X H U B F
GRINCH Y J V R H E O S H K G Z O K L
HOLLY M L B A N O H N F I K W C O C
JOLLY U Z W C O M B S L I S O X Y K
LIGHTS G E F R O S T Y R Y P O M Y U
[*][*][*]
GIVE UP? You will find the answers in the LOG OFF column at the end of
"""""""" the magazine.
This puzzle was created with a shareware program called Word
Search Puzzle Maker by Impact D. Publishing.
[EOA]
[REF]//////////////////////////////
REFLECTIONS /
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Thinking About Online Communications
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
by Phil Shapiro
[pshapiro@aol.com]
>>> MAKING IT EASIER FOR OTHERS TO HELP YOU <<<
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
A friend of mine is the director of a women's shelter here in
Washington DC. Two months ago my friend asked me if I could help her find
some computers she could set up for the women at the shelter.
My first suggestion to her was that she should get herself online.
By getting online she could make it far easier for others to help her.
As it happens, my friend already owned a laptop computer. Within a
week I received a friendly "hi there" E-mail message from her. Last week
she sent me a message saying she took delivery of several donated computers
for the shelter.
How is it that being online makes it easier for others to help you?
People who help charities and nonprofit organizations often have quite busy
lives themselves. Help-givers really appreciate being able to communicate
online with others because E-mail communication allows them to offer more
assistance to more people each day.
Imagine this scenario: Someone in your community is known to be
willing to offer computer help to charities and nonprofit organizations.
He or she takes an interest in getting technology into the hands of people
who otherwise could not afford it.
Would it be a productive use of that person's time to be playing
phone tag with all the different people he or she is trying to help? Just
keeping track of who needs what kind of help could strain the patience of
even the most reasonable person.
Here is where the magic of E-mail kicks in. Your request for
assistance can pop up as an E-mail message on the screen of a help-giver.
If you include your name, phone number, organizational affiliation, and
address in your first message, that information can be quickly saved to the
help-giver's hard drive.
Once information is in electronic form (i.e. sent within an E-mail
message), it can easily be referred to. It can forwarded to someone else.
It can be reposted as a public message on an electronic bulletin board
system (BBS). It could even be forwarded to sympathetic journalists in the
press.
Help-givers are always thankful when people needing assistance reach
them via E-mail. By getting online, people looking for assistance are
helping themselves as well as helping their neighbors. The streamlining of
communication that takes place via E-mail can free the help-giver to give
extra assistance to others.
Here is another example. Last month I helped the director of a
nonprofit adult literacy organization get online. It turns out this person
already had a computer with a modem on his desk. All that was needed was
an hour's worth of time to help him get set up online.
Three days later the person had already dashed off a dozen E-mail
messages and had a long list of questions about the online world to ask me.
Within the span of a week this person was transformed from being a person
who had never used E-mail to being an active, enthusiastic online user.
How will online communications help this literacy organization? It
will help in countless ways. It will allow easy back-and-forth
communication with foundations and other grant givers. It will allow the
director to engage in quantities of communication without the constant
interruption of phone calls. Every phone call that is averted by using
E-mail is one less interruption in his day. And one less interruption is
one more opportunity for him to attend to other important work.
It would be no exaggeration to say that online communication is one
of the best ways of making the gears of society turn smoothly. The
telephone, on the other hand, is a communication device that makes the
gears of society sputter along in fits and starts.
This is not to say that there is no place for telephone communication
between people needing assistance and help-givers. It is just that
benefits are often maximized when phone communication is kept to a minimum.
If you take an interest in helping broaden access to technology, one
of the most effective thing you can do is to help the leaders of community
organizations get online. By helping to empower them with an e-mail
address, you can give them the gift of being connected.
Being connected online puts nonprofit agencies and charities in a
much better position to raise their arms upward for assistance. Online
communication narrows the distance between the help-giver's arm and the
help-requester's arm. Increasing the chance of these two arms grasping
each other firmly is what all of us hope for, isn't it?
Phil Shapiro
[*][*][*]
[A hard copy anthology of these essays, along with six related
book reviews, is now available for purchase. Copies of "Thinking
About Online Communications" may be purchased directly from the
author for $15 (including postage in the United States and
Canada). Overseas postage is $5 for surface mail and $10 for air
mail.
[Orders for this book can be sent to:
Phil Shapiro
5201 Chevy Chase Parkway, NW
Washington, DC 20015-1747
USA
[Excerpts from each of the essays in the book can be found on
the author's home page, at: http://users.aol.com/pshapiro/
[The author can be reached via e-mail at: pshapiro@aol.com.]
[EOA]
[ASA]//////////////////////////////
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"Christmas is for children of all ages."
[FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED READERS: The preceding was a picture of Santa Claus
kneeling to build a snowman, which he has topped with his own cap.]
[EOA]
[HUN]//////////////////////////////
THE TREASURE HUNT /
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Yours For the Downloading
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
by Douglas Cuff
[EDITOR.A2]
>>> THE VERY BEST UTILITIES <<<
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Welcome back to the Treasure Hunt. This month, we're going to look
at another in the series of the "Very Best of A2" archives that were
created back in 1991 and 1992. These files were designed to fit on a
single 800K 3.5" disk. Since the short descriptions only present an
overview of these archives, I thought GEnieLamp A2 should provide detailed
guides.
Here are the 9 "Very Best of A2" archives:
17180 BEST.A2.ART.BXY 2 Dec 1991 double hi-res pictures
18761 BEST.OF.SHR.BXY 2 Jun 1992 super hi-res pictures
17586 BEST.3200.BXY 1 Feb 1992 3200-color pictures
18976 BEST.OF.MS.BXY 31 Jun 1992 Music Studio songs
17897 BEST.UTILS.BXY 1 Mar 1992 8-bit utilities
17356 BEST.GAMES.BXY 1 Jan 1992 8-bit games
16957 BEST.ICONS1.BXY 2 Nov 1991 icons
19399 BEST.FONTS.BXY 13 Sep 1992 fonts
16728 BEST.EAMONS.BXY 29 Sep 1991 Eamon adventure games
We've already examined the three picture collections--double hi-res,
super hi-res and 3200-color--in Vol.4, Issue 39 (June 1995). We also
looked at the Music Studio songs in Vol.4, Issue 40 (July 1995).
This month, we'll look at BEST.UTILS.BXY, a collection of the best
8-bit utilities... programs that will run on an Apple IIe, Apple IIc, and
often on an Apple II Plus. (Which is not to say that they won't work on a
IIgs, just that you don't need a IIgs to run them.) A few of these
utilities don't work well with the most recent version of ProDOS, but don't
worry, we'll be sure to point them out as we go. By the same token, the
passage of time means that there are good utilities in the A2 library
uploaded since 1991 and 1992, so keep in mind that this list is no-longer
all-inclusive.
[*][*][*]
LCASE.KILLER (Lower Case Killer) is a simple but invaluable tool for
"""""""""""" older Apple IIs that can't display lower case. This utility
will let you run Applesoft BASIC programs that use lower case. Just load
your program and BRUN LCASE.KILLER. All the lower case--in PRINT
statements, REM statements and DATA statements--will quickly be converted
to upper case. You can then SAVE your modified BASIC program if you want
to. It appears first in the list because you might need to use it to run
some of the other programs. Public domain.
CAT.ALL.OG by Jon C. Thomason creates print-outs or text files of a disk
"""""""""" or prefix. The text files it creates are done by "printing to
disk", as ProSel's "Info Desk" program does:
/sample.disk
FILENAME TYPE BLK MODIFIED CREATED
TREASURE.HUNT................DIR 1 28-NOV-95 21:07 26-NOV-95 15:51
FILE.LIBRARY...............ADB 22 28-NOV-95 21:07 28-NOV-95 21:07
This handy little program comes with a documentation file, and is freeware.
CKDISK is a directory containing two separate programs:
""""""
Status.Checker by Tom Vier is a simple program that checks a ProDOS disk
'''''''''''''' or volume to see if can correctly detect when the disk is
write protected. Freeware.
Smart.Test by Tom Weishaar and/or Dennis Doms (I think) detects what
'''''''''' kinds of disk devices you have in your various slots. It's
based on a simpler program that appeared in the January 1987 issue of
_Open-Apple_. Freeware.
CYBERFIND.1.1 by Eric Mueller searches for the two most common ProDOS
""""""""""""" viruses, Festering Hate and CyberAIDS. It does not
disinfect contaminated files, but it will give you the option to delete
them. NOTE: Viruses have never been very common in the Apple II
community. Don't panic, okay? Freeware.
DBLRES.IIPLUS by Richard Napoli converts double hi-res graphics into two
""""""""""""" single hi-res files. This is handy for Apple II Plus and
those who got extremely early Apple IIes that cannot handle double hi-res.
This utility will handle double hi-res graphics in either Dazzle Draw or
Beagle Graphics format. It will take the original graphic and save it in
two halves... the two file names will be the same, except one will end in
.R (the right half of the picture) and the other in .L (the left half of
the picture). WARNING: The program may hang after finishing the
conversion with the most recent version of ProDOS. Don't worry, your
original and converted files are still intact. Freeware.
DEARC2E was brought to all Apple IIs by David R. Larsen and Michael
""""""" Crane. (There was an earlier IIgs version by Tim Swihart.) This
program will unpack files with the .ARC extension, an older but once quite
popular archive format devised by System Enhancement Associates. In the
telecommunications game, it's important to have as many file unpackers as
possible.
DISK.TEST by Craig Peterson performs three basic speed tests: it reads
""""""""" block 0 repeatedly 1024 times; it does a sequential read block
0-1023 (or to the maximum block number); and it does a seek test across
one-third of the drive. You can print out the results and do comparisons
of various disks, disk drives, and other devices. Freeware.
FREEPRINTER by Elliot Lifson allows you to send text files to your
""""""""""" printer. It correctly interprets many Apple Writer dot
commands (.LM for left margin and so on). Now that Apple Writer v2.1 is
freely available (file #20706 in the A2 libraries), you might want to
consider downloading it instead of using the comparatively limited
FreeWriter and FreePrinter programs. WARNING: This program hangs under
the most recent version of ProDOS. (This makes downloading Apple Writer
v2.1 an even better idea!) Freeware.
FREEWRITER by Paul Lutus is a free but stripped-down version of his
"""""""""" classic program Apple Writer. FreeWriter is not as powerful,
it loads just 30K of text, and it has no means of printing the text (which
is why FreePrinter was developed). FreeWriter still works well, but with
Apple Writer v2.1 now freely available (file #20706 in the A2 libraries),
you won't need FreeWriter much any more. Freeware.
FAZ.II (File Attribute Zapper II) by Bruce A. Mah allows you to change
"""""" the primary type and the auxiliary type of files. It provides a
comprehensive list of available types so that you don't have to type number
or have a book of file types in your lap as you work. FAZ II also lets you
type in the numbers of filetypes it doesn't know. As a bonus, FAZ II lets
you change the access bits--delete, rename, backup, invisible, read, and
write--for a file. Public domain.
FILE.CHOPPER by Tom Hoover lets you chop text files into smaller, more
"""""""""""" manageable segments. You can chose from 9 smaller sizes,
from 25K to 225K (rising in 25K increments). Freeware.
FILE.COMPARE by Karl Bunker compares files so that you see exactly where
"""""""""""" the differences in two similar files are. In the
documentation, Mr Bunker has some amusingly caustic remarks about the user
interface of the three file compare utilities that existed when he wrote
this one. These remarks have a kernel of truth, but unfortunately they
don't address the major flaw in this program: it's too slow. Still, it's
free, it does work well--and it is written in BASIC, after all. Requires
an enhanced Apple IIe, or any IIc or IIgs. Freeware.
FILE.DIR (presumably written by G.BUNEVITCH1) is another program that
"""""""" turns your CATALOG listings into text files. Unlike CAT.ALL.OG,
though, this program creates _delimited_ text files, which can be read into
the AppleWorks data base. The author has given his MD-BASIC source code,
which will be of interest to fellow MD-BASIC fans. Freeware (I think).
FLIST is an uncredited utility that's really meant for programmers, not
""""" users. It produces a nicely formatted listing of BASIC programs,
with each statement on a separate line. It assumes that you have a
printer, and that the printer is in slot 1. Either freeware or public
domain.
GECONV3 by Robert E. Phillips is powerful utility that converts GEnie
""""""" file library listings into AppleWorks data base files. This is
incredibly handy. There are no intermediate steps! You don't have to load
the text file into AppleWorks and convert it; the file that GECONV creates
can be loaded right to the desktop. This program is very
situation-specific, but it does a great job. Public domain.
HEXDEC is a directory contain two cleverly simple conversion utilities
"""""" that both operate on the same principle. Author Peter J. Paul
(presumably!) has taken a single line of BASIC and stuffed in a text file
so that you can EXEC that file to convert from hexadecimal (base 16) to
decimal (base 10), and vice versa. It's almost as easy as using a desk
accessory on the IIgs. Freeware.
IIGIF by Jason Harper allows viewing of GIF files on any Apple II with
""""" double hi-res capability. Some Apple IIc users will need to patch
this program; download either IIGIF.PATCH.BXY (#17447) or PATCH.IIGIF.BXY
(#22983). This program also loads RLE files. Freeware.
INFO by Clark Stiles is yet another utility for viewing and changing file
"""" types. This utility uses a command style interface (you can type
"INFO" and the correct parameters from the BASIC command line) and requires
that you know the correct number for the filetype. Freeware.
KOCO.LAUNCHER by Douglas Konitzer is a simple program launcher--just 18
""""""""""""" ProDOS blocks!--that lets you launch SYS files as well as
BAS programs, plus view or print text files. It also lets you load, lock,
and delete files, and has the capacity to move up a directory... a nifty
feature. This program uses MouseText in its display. If you use a hard
drive, you might want to consider another launcher, since Koco Launcher has
a maximum of 36 valid files on a screen. (It filters out file types it
doesn't know about... including AppleWorks word processing files.) If you
have more than that, the display will be messed up, and the program may
even crash. The "change drive" interface is also not geared to hard drive
users. Freeware.
LINEFEED.IR (Linefeed Inserter/Remover) by Karl Bunker does just what
""""""""""" you think! It strips or adds linefeed characters to a text
file. (MS-DOS requires a carriage return and a linefeed at the end of a
line or paragraph, but the Apple II requires only a carriage return.
_That's_ why you'd want to perform either operation.) Freeware.
PRODIR by Lane Roath is another program launcher that shows you 26 files
"""""" at a time, and uses the space bar to move through the groups of
26. You can also lock, delete, and rename files, and the left-arrow key
brings you up a directory. Freeware.
QUIT.CMD7A by David D. Ely patches the BASIC quit command "BYE" so that
"""""""""" it looks for BASIC.SYSTEM on the highest active volume (that
is, devices in slot 7 are checked first, then those in slot 6....). Of
course, when BASIC.SYSTEM is launched, it looks for a file named STARTUP.
This program was more useful when the BYE command was more primitive, as it
was in earlier versions of ProDOS, but you may still find it handy.
Freeware.
SF.GET by Karl Bunker is a programmer's ampersand utility for that allows
"""""" Applesoft BASIC to have a rough equivalent of the IIgs SFGetFile
toolbox call. Users won't have to remember and type a filename or
pathname--this program allows users to point-and-click the file from an
on-screen list. Optionally, SF.Get will let you restrict the list of files
to a certain file type (TXT, AWP, etc.). Freeware.
SHLPD.SYSTEM (Super Hires Loader) by Thomas Dorris, lets Apple IIe and
"""""""""""" IIc users view IIgs graphics. You must have double hi-res
capability--and you should have MouseText--to run this valuable utility.
Once you load a IIgs graphic, you can view it through a scrolling window...
and the double hi-res color approximations are pretty faithful. If you
want to substitute one color for another, the adjust palette option lets
you do that. You can get a thumbnail sketch or overview of the picture,
and when viewing through the scrolling window, you can toggle whether the
pixel width is doubled or not. The function to save the converted file has
been disabled. The program claims to be crippled public domain software,
but in fact, the author retains his copyright, so it's really crippled
freeware.
| SIDEBAR: PUBLIC DOMAIN, FREEWARE, SHAREWARE |
| |
| Back in 1991, the concepts of public domain, freeware, and |
| shareware were less clearly defined. It's not surprising that |
| programmers occasionally slipped up and called their programs |
| "public domain" when they meant "freeware". |
| |
| What exactly is the difference? If you allow something you've |
| created--a program, an article, a song, a poem--to be ceded to the |
| public domain, then you've lost all rights to it. The public owns |
| it. Any member of the public can do whatever he or she wants to |
| with it, without charge. In that sense, the work is free. (Though |
| any member of the public can sell a copy of your work for $50 a |
| copy if enough suckers can be found. No, you can't stop them, even |
| though you meant the work to be free. You gave up all your rights |
| when you ceded the work to the public domain, remember?) |
| |
| If you want to retain your copyright but still allow everyone to |
| enjoy your work without charge, that's called freeware. If you |
| want your work to be distributed without charge, but want users to |
| pay voluntarily if they keep a copy of it, that's called shareware. |
| (It's also called boundless optimism, apparently.) |
| |
| Somewhere between freeware and shareware is beggarware, also known |
| under other names. With beggarware, the author tells you are not |
| obligated to send any money--the program is free--but suggests |
| sending a donation if you'd like to. If a shareware author has |
| boundless optimism, then a beggarware author might actually be |
| straying into naivete. |
SNEEZE by Karl Bunker is a great little program launcher... probably the
"""""" best one available in this archive; the best of the best! It will
let you launch files, delete files, print and/or display TXT or AWP files,
plus display graphics, copy files, and even unshrink files (though this
last feature is not documented--in order to activate it, all you have to do
is download AUTOII.BXY, file #18062, and place it in the same directory as
Sneeze). Also in this directory and a subdirectory are some of tools that
Sneeze uses--or which you can use with Sneeze--or both! We'll discuss
these tools separately below. Sneeze itself requires MouseText. Freeware.
NOTE: The version of Sneeze available in this archive is 2.0. You
can download the most recent version--v2.2--by getting
SNEEZE.BXY, file #21357. This version documents and explains
the ability to automatically unshrink files using Sneeze.
Dogpaw by Karl Bunker adds a command to BASIC so that you can display
'''''' and/or print text and AppleWorks word processor files. You can
view the file a page at a time, going forward or back, on either the 40- or
80-column screens, and DOGPAW can also display in upper case only for you
Apple II-Plus users. Also, DOGPAW lets you search for a string within the
file. DOGPAW can read COMPRESSOR files (see below). Sneeze uses this
utility, but you can use it on its own or include it in your programs.
Freeware.
Beexter by Karl Bunker turns your text file of documentation into a
''''''' BRUNABLE file. You user can view your documentation on the
screen, or print it out! Best of all, this utility works under DOS 3.3 as
well as ProDOS. Freeware.
Compressor by Karl Bunker compresses AppleWorks word processing files and
'''''''''' simple text files so that they take up less space on your
disk. They can still be read by DOGPAW (above), even in their compressed
form. Freeware.
Doc.Getter by Karl Bunker will convert a TXT or AWP file into a
'''''''''' collection of strings for Applesoft BASIC. This means you can
have a BASIC program display your instructions to the user, but you can
still have the luxury of creating those instructions in a full-fledged word
processor. If you want to display in 40-column mode, your file must be 21K
or less; in 70-column mode (requires 80-column card), your file can be 24K
or less. Freeware.
Doc.Screener by Karl Bunker displays the strings created by DOC.GETTER in
'''''''''''' 40-column mode. DOC.SCREENER.80 is the 70-column version,
which requires an 80-column card. Both are freeware.
Image2.MouseTxt by Karl Bunker is a small BASIC program that produces a
''''''''''''''' chart of MouseText characters on an ImageWriter II
printer. Freeware.
SCLU is a SCreen Layout Utility by Karl Bunker which lets you quickly and
'''' easily design 40-column text screens, complete with MouseText if you
want, and translates your design into a BASIC program to display the
screen. A big time-saver. Freeware.
SNOOPER.SYSTEM (File Snooper) by Jay Jennings lets you display
"""""""""""""" AppleWorks word processing files and text files. It has a
limit of 60 files per subdirectory. Requires 128K and MouseText. It's
labelled "public domain", but the author has left a copyright notice, so we
know that he really meant freeware.
STARTUP.F is a simple program launcher/runner. Yes, simpler even than
""""""""" Koco Launcher. This one is just 4 blocks, and all it will let
you do is run or launch a program. It presents a scrolling window of 12
files. It will try to launch SYS files, run BASIC programs, BRUN BIN
files, EXEC TXT files, and open directories. No author credit appears
anywhere in this program, so we have to assume it's public domain.
ST.BYE.SYSTEM (Saint's Bye) by St. John Morrison is a patch for the BYE
""""""""""""" command. It makes BYE always launch a specific program on
a specific volume. It includes a utility to customize ST.BYE. When using
the customizer, don't use the slash (/) _at all_ when entering the volume
name. Instead of "/HARD1/" or "/HARD1", just type "HARD1" and let ST.BYE
take care of adding the slashes. If you use a slash in the volume name,
ST.BYE will refuse to accept it but it won't tell you why. Freeware.
TYPE.CHANGER by Jim Mensch is another program to let you change file
"""""""""""" types (but not auxtypes), and even provides a large
scrolling list of popular. It works extremely smoothly for a BASIC
program--it lets you move up a directory, and you can press D to cycle
through the online volumes--and of course, since the file types it knows
are in DATA statements, you can easily update the program. Freeware
(beggarware).
TYPEUTIL by Richard Kaapke is an extremely simple BASIC program that lets
"""""""" you type--that is, view--a text file. You can get a catalog of
the active disk or directory, but that display is cleared before you get to
type in the filename... which means you have to remember how to spell it as
you're typing it. Still, it's free....
[*][*][*]
That's it for this month's Treasure Hunt. Next month, we'll take a
look at another "Very Best of A2" archive. If there's a particular archive
you want examined, be sure to write and let me know!
[EOA]
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COMMUNICATIONS /
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A2 Internet Launch Pad
""""""""""""""""""""""
by Douglas Cuff
[EDITOR.A2]
>>> THE INTERNET... WITH TRAINING WHEELS <<<
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
As part of its ongoing Internet services, GEnie has created "launch
pads" in key areas. (Hey gang... where else but on GEnie does the Apple II
hangout qualify as a key area?) These launch pads ease you gently into the
world of the Internet, in a slightly more organized fashion.
More organized than _what_? Essentially, the Internet is chaos.
That's its great strength and great beauty. Its chaos is what keeps
newcomers away. The new launch pads attempt to organize the chaos. (Just
a bit. The bit at the beginning.)
The launch pad for Apple II users is located at the main A2 menu.
Once on GEnie, you always type "A2" or "m645" to visit the area to read
messages, download files, or join a live chat, right? Now there's a new
option on that same familiar menu:
GEnie A2 Page 645
Apple II RoundTable
1. A2 Bulletin Board
2. A2 Real-Time Conference
3. A2 Software Libraries
4. About the A2 RoundTable
5. A2 RoundTable News
6. GEnie Manual for Apple II Users
7. Download an Apple II Automatic Navigator
8. Download the Latest Disk Of The Month
9. GEnieLamp Apple II Newsletter
10. GEnieLamp Apple II Programmers Newsletter
11. Free LiveWire Download
12. Apple II Programmers RoundTable
13. Gallery 44 Graphics Exhibit
14. Internet Launch Pad
You can see how simple it is to find and start the launch pad. Just
type "14"! You'll see a bunch of the standard cautions, and then you'll
see another more interesting menu:
Table of Contents
1. Electronic Magazines & Newsletters (1 items)
2. FTP Sites (7 items)
3. Gopher Resources (4 items)
4. Newsgroups (20 items)
5. World Wide Web Resources (12 items)
6. Other Collections of Resources (2 items)
7. Wide World of General Computing (36 items)
8. Wide World of General Computing - Newsgroups (499 items)
These all look pretty manageable, don't they? (Except maybe that
last one: 499 items... phew! In fact, the last two are computer-oriented,
not Apple II computer-oriented, so just ignore them for now.) The largest
number of items you have to deal with is 20!
You all know what magazines and newsletter are, so I won't
overexplain the first item. If you make this choice, you'll be taken to
the electronic home of Shareware Solutions II, a bi-monthly 20-page
newsletter produced by Joe Kohn. Not only can you get information about
Shareware Solutions here, but Joe has set up a guide to these places that
popular with Apple II folk. It's sort of a mini-launch pad.
The next item, "FTP Sites", is just Internet-ese for file libraries.
Here's where you can go to download Apple II programs from the Internet.
As of late November, you have 7 choices here, but as you'll soon find out,
there are other places to go.
The third item, "Gopher Resources", isn't as simply explained--but
you'll be relieved to hear that it's easily demonstrated. Once you try a
gopher area, you'll see it's like running a text-based file launcher.
There's nothing to it!
The fourth item, "Newsgroups" points to discussion areas similar to
the A2 RoundTable's bulletin board. You'll find lots of public messages,
but it may seem disorganized, even chaotic, compared to A2's message area.
Don't worry, this feeling will pass. Let's have a look at the newsgroups
available:
o alt.emulators.ibmpc.apple2
o bit.listserv.apple2-l
o comp.answers
o comp.binaries.apple2
o comp.emulators.apple2
o comp.sources.apple2
o comp.sys.apple2
o comp.sys.apple2.comm
o comp.sys.apple2.gno
o comp.sys.apple2.marketplace
o comp.sys.apple2.programmer
o comp.sys.apple2.usergroups
o tri.comp.apple
o uiuc.sys.apple2
o zer.z-netz.rechner.apple.allgemein
o zer.z-netz.rechner.apple.binaer
o zer.z-netz.rechner.apple.hardware
o zer.z-netz.rechner.apple.programmieren
o zer.z-netz.rechner.apple.spiele
o zer.z-netz.rechner.apple.viren
(Those last six groups are for the German-speaking among us, by the way.
Remember, the Internet is global in nature. On GEnie, the vast majority of
denizens are from North America, usually the United States. There's
nothing that says the Internet has to be that way!)
The fifth item, "World Wide Web Resources" will point you to many of
the Apple II oriented electronic homes, or "home pages" on the Internet.
If you've gotten this far, you'll have noticed that every path you follow
seems to have other paths leading from it. Sometimes you'll find that
following the paths leads you in a circle! Not to worry, you're not doomed
to travel the same ground forever. Just pick a different path next time.
If you've noticed that each link along the way leads you to different
links, you'll understand why it's almost impossible to ever tame or
organize the Internet. But these launch pads can help. You can always
return here if things get confusing, and start from first principles.
A note for the mildly advanced: When you're using the launch pad,
you're actually running a special version of Lynx, a web-browser. Under
normal circumstances, Lynx will let you press G to manually type the name
of the next place you want to visit. This is not possible when using the
launch pad, but don't be discouraged! Once you've comfortable enough with
Lynx to try this, you should visit GEnie's main Internet area. Here you
can use a full-fledged version of Lynx that WILL permit you to decide where
you want to go!
As soon as you get to feeling overwhelmed, all you have to do to
leave the launch pad is type "Q". You'll be returned to GEnie's A2 area.
On familiar ground at last!
[EOA]
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PAUG MEETING REPORT /
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Report of November 1995 Meeting
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
by Douglas Cuff
[EDITOR.A2]
EDITOR'S NOTE We regret that the full PAUG Newsletter is not available
""""""""""""" this month. Instead we present a brief summary of the
monthly PAUG meeting for November. Ray Pasold will be back
with the PAUG newsletter next month--look for it here!
WHAT IS PAUG? The mission of the Planetary Apple User Group (PAUG) is to
""""""""""""" serve as the online heart of the worldwide Apple II
community. PAUG's goals include providing help and support for anyone who
may not have a local user group nearby, and for user groups that want a
virtual link to the Heart of the Apple II world. Creating a link between
PAUG and both the online and offline user group community is one of our
priorities. PAUG sponsorship of an online user group is focused on
promoting the fact that the Apple II is not only still alive, but doing
very well.
PAUG meets the third Sunday of every month at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time
in the Apple II RoundTable (A2) Real Time Conference (RTC) area. Type
"m645;2" to join in the discussion.
[*][*][*]
November's PAUG meeting focussed on using the A2 with other
platforms. Not only can you transfer data to your Apple II from a MS-DOS
machine or a Macintosh (or vice versa), but you can create a network of
Apple II and other computers that share the same printers and other devices
(like CD-ROMs). The most common network is the AppleTalk network. Once
the network is activated on your Apple II, you must also turn on file
sharing on your Macintosh. This done, you can use your Apple II to run
programs that are stored on the Macintosh's hard drive! (Apple II
programs, of course, not Macintosh programs!)
Another popular issue is how to use graphics from Macintosh areas on
the Apple II. Of course, most Mac graphic formats are not compatible with
the Apple II, but you can run into problems with GIF graphics, even though
they can be read on any machine. The problem arises because of the
Macbinary header that sometimes gets attached to GIFs. To get rid of it,
you can download the graphic using the commercial telecommunications
software Spectrum v2.0, if you own it, or you can process the file with
file #24744, MACBIN.BXY. After stripping the MacBinary header, you may
need to change the filetype so that you GIF program will recognize the
graphic.
Other gems overhead during the PAUG meeting were:
"The guy that made Prism lives near me but he does not like the apple
II any more." (Heh heh heh. We know where you live, guy.)
"Actually, I think that it would be best if GEnie was bought."
(Finally! An optimist!)
"You were trying to print a 3200, and that can't be done." (That
used to be true, but John Wrenholt of Big Red Computer Club has just
released a utility to do just that! Download file #26092, PRINT3200.BXY.)
This month's meeting will be on Sunday, December 10, from 7 p.m. to 9
p.m. Eastern time, and PAUG will be celebrating Sights and Sounds of the
Season. Last year PAUG brought in several guest speakers to our December
online meeting, and it was a rousing success! Each brought their own
special talents to bear on demonstrating how well the Apple II family of
computers can help you celebrate the holidays, and we barely scratched the
surface on all the wonderful things you can do with your computer to help
bring the holiday spirit home to those you love.
This year, PAUG is determined to outdo itself. We've invited our
friends from last year, and we have also uncovered some new talent as well!
Whether your interests lay in playing (or creating!) holiday music on the
Apple II, using Christmas and Hanukkah fonts and graphics to make cards,
invitations, gift tags, or placecards for the holiday table, or even just
finding neat little holiday images to bring the spirit of the season to
your own personal computing environment, we'll have the best tips, tricks,
and answers for you at the December PAUG meeting! Remember: Sunday,
December 10, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. EST.
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/ I was browsing the self-help section and noticed a /
/ particular title: "Surviving Schizophrenia". The title /
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