Elite Macintosh Community Volume #1 12/2/95
Introduction
Welcome to EMC, issue #1!.
I've decided to create a newsletter for the elite Macintosh community, as I was inspired by a newsletter out there for the elite IBM community. I figured, what the hell, might as well go for it since the elite scene has been kind of slow these days.
Many things could come from this, and I hope there are a few people out there willing to help me out in my efforts, e-mail emc@ntbbs.mmbbs.com for any information regarding EMC. In the future, I may also include an h/p/a/c/v portion to this newsletter, as I find tons of the new stuff quite interesting, whether it be hacking, phreaking, or anarchy.
As for the warez, well, this won't tell you where to get them, but what has been released this week, and the ratings will give you an idea of what's hot, and what's not.
I'm not an avid game player (except for Marathon!), so I'll need from people for rating new games that are released each week.
The overall purpose of this newsletter is to provide the elite Mac community with information on new releases, new SN#'s, urls to check out in your spare time, and general run of the mill BS that may or may not interest you. Hope you enjoy it, feel free to send any comments our way!
Contents
- Warez - Week in Review - This week's hot releases
- Games - News & Reviews - This week's games and their ratings.
- SN#'s - Serial Numbers
- Utils - Dynamite Programs to check out
- Articles - Articles, Advice, etc.
- Internet - Urls & Internet information
- Ads - For Sale, BBS Ads, urls
- Closing - Wrap up of this week
1. Warez - Week in Review
Ahh, the release of two fine games this week: Marathon II and Descent. Both were huge files, as both came from CD's this time, but who cares, it was worth the wait for them.
* In no particular order *
EIAS 2.5.2
In case you missed it, version 2.5.2 of EIAS was released this past week. This version only contains bug fixes the to the recent 2.5, as no new features were installed. It's an 8mb+ archive.
DeltaGraph Pro v3.5.3.FAT
Deltagraph Pro v3.5.3 was released this past week as well, only a one disk ware, but still worth your download credits. DeltaGraph Pro 3.5.3 is the award winning charting and graphing program that meets your charting needs. DG's vast import, export, and data linking options make it easy to add charting power to your current applications. Simply load data from your spreadsheet or database directly into DG, then export an eye catching chart to your document or presentation, or print directly from DG for sharp and clear results. Requires as little as a Mac Plus and 4mb's of RAM.
DriveCD v5.2
Brought to you buy NEC, their latest cd-rom driver for any of their drives, and mainly for the multi disk units they've been selling. Users of the multi disk version have noticed that when opening folders and displaying file types and icons, the multispin cd-rom drive liked to switch disks on them, all due to the way the MacOS is structured. This current version fixes some of those problems, so make sure you get this if you've got anything older! It's only a 330k file.
Dabbler 2.0.FAT
Version 2.0 of this ware was released this past week, and tops over 9mb's. This is more of a beginner's ware than a hard core graphic artist, as it is only $30 and requires as little as 4mb's of ram. Go figure.
Painter 4.0
Topping out at a mere 11mb's, Painter 4.0 has come out of the beta stages. New in this version: Interface improvements like pull-down menus, a Mask edit modem, a QuickCurve selection tool, and rules and guidelines, Web Painter for creating Web graphics in gif and jpeg formats, improved scripting and much much more.
Access PC 3.0.2
This was a small release, as it was only an update to version 3.0.2, but nonetheless you should still get this if you're a DOS fan and absolutely need to run DOS on your mac. The alternative to running the bloated SoftWindows 2.0. 2.8 mb's.
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Do note, this was a rather small list, as I wasn't keeping track of a huge list of releases this past week, this above list only focuses on major releases.
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2. Games
Marathon II: Durandal v1.0
Hey, what can I say? This monstrous 32mb archive made it's way around the country this week, as thousands are now enjoying the kick ass Marathon II. Much better than the original, and much better network play. Hopefully Bungie will release a modem <-> modem play feature sometime soon.
Descent 1.0 *RELEASE*
After a long awaited release, this game is finally, here. I haven't played it much, but most DOS-heads rave about it.
3. SN#'s
For WebSTAR enter:
WEB*-pyye-9t@r-7twr-etTR
For ListStar for SMTP enter:
L*SM-wr8q-q7pW-Tuue-pwTW
For ListStar for POP enter:
L*P3-9w97-t3RQ-pYte-uyYW
For ListSTAR for QuickMail enter:
L*QM-u397-7rey-yrYr-epWR
For ListSTAR for Microsoft Mail enter:
L*MS-p8ye-9rYt-RyRy-ttTW
Case sensitive, these make WebStar and ListStar good until Jan 1, 1996.
MiniCAD 6.0
1601-A01V34XY-000000
1600-Z0LMWFGC-016019
Painter 4.0
PM400RAZ0000455-EPCK-001-000UUUU
4. Utils
With so much software out there now, and so little time to check out everything, this section is for dynamite programs that everyone should take a look at.
StickyClick 1.2
A freeware program that enables your menus to stay down when clicked, much like a Windows environment. It's quite handy when you have several hierarchial menus, this way you don't need to be holding the mouse button down while dragging the mouse all over the place. A very small file, requires very little ram as well, I haven't come across any conflicts.
SpeedDoubler 1.0.2
You would be stupid not to get this sweet ware. If you have a PPC, this is a must have, as it definitely has an increase in 68k emulation in your system, faster menus, faster windows display, faster ANYTHING 68k! Make sure to get the updater for version 1.0.2, that is the most stable version around.
DragStrip 2.0
THE launcher of all launchers. DragStrip is an unbelievable program that fully supports drag and drop features, popup style menus when you click and hold any icon, user configurable key commands allow you to navigate through open programs without the use of your mouse or the application menu. Is quite fast as well! DragStrip allows access to applications, folders, control panels, ANYTHING by the click of a button. Not a doubler click, but a single click (which most other launcher programs do not support), and this means instant access to a file/program/whatever it may be.
I strongly encourage you to check it out, as it does require a significant amount of RAM (800k--but this is with 4 loaded palettes running all at once), but well worth it.
InstantInit 1.0.2
Initialize your floppies in 3 seconds, erases Mac disks in not time, as well as IBM disks. IBM disks are converted to Macintosh disks within 3 seconds. THE formatting utility of choice by many Mac users!
Retrospect 3.0.FAT
Need to schedule backups? This is THE backup program for the Mac, very simple to figure out and use, as it provides several ways to back up your files. Scheduling is completely configurable, as you can run scripts at any time of the day, any time of the week, however many times you want. You should also use this for making DAT's, or any other backups of Macintosh files, as it is completely reliable (and FAST too!).
5. Articles
PopUp Folder 2.0.x or Apple Menu Options?
The more I used PopUp 2.0.x on my 6100, the more I found it conflicted with. NowMenus and PopUp are a big no-no when run together. PopUp and Greg's Buttons 3.7.3 have their incompatibilities as well, as Pop up fucks things up when Greg's Buttons has the menus different colors than the traditional black on white. PopUp folder 2.0.x was more buggy than 1.5, but is far superior in that of speed and features.
After installing a new system several times, I found that Apple Menu Options is very fast, as you get instant access to hierarchial menus. PopUp always had to go and Ôget' the files within a hierarchial menu, where as AMO is instantaneous.
Even hierarchial menus in regular programs, like ClarisWorks for example, function much faster when AMO is installed vs. PopUp 2.0.x. Sure PopUp 2.0.x was great when navigating in the finder, but AMO can be an alternative if you just put aliases of your main volumes in your Apple Menu Items folder.
PopUp seemed to run fine, with no other extensions (other than 7.5.x extensions) installed--but who wants a Mac like that? I say Apple Menu Items.
OpenTransport & MacSLIP woes
Subj: OpenTransport and MacSLIP
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From: Jorn
To : All
Date: Tue, Nov 28, 1995 7:50:36 AM
Okay, after almost two months and numerous support calls to Apple, here it is.
Open Transport and MacSLIP still DO NOT work together! This is as of OT 1.0.8 and MacSLIP 3.0.1.
You can install both components and have your system run fine. You can even make a SLIP connection just fine - ONCE! You see, OT writes some patches into the system, but those patches seem to get garbled once MacSLIP is used. From that point on, your computer will crash on startup if you have the OT libraries loaded. If, by chance, you can get by that crash, your Mac will not open some applications, it may freeze randomly, etc.
Sure, the solution to your Internet SLIP connection is to downgrade to MacTCP and blow out the OT libraries and the TCP/IP control panel. That WILL get you a slip connection on your computer once more, but now you can no longer network. The new version(s) of AppleTalk are dependent on Open Transport. AppleTalk will complain that you do not have OTGlobalLib installed. If you remember, the OT libraries are hosed.
Here is the solution: Use a PPP connection. Get either FreePPP (The guy at Apple really liked this one) or MacPPP. Both are very easy to set up, and are stable with Open Transport.
If you own a Power Mac x500, or any other Mac that uses Open Transport, read the above very carefully. (You can tell right away if OT is on you computer if the Network control panel has been replaced with a control panel called AppleTalk.)
These results were determined in part by painful trial-and-error on the following system:
Power Macintosh 9500/120
System 7.5.2 CD release 2.0
Open Transport 1.0.8 (upgrade from 1.0.6)
MacSLIP 3.0.1
NOTE: Be sure to use MacPPP 2.2.1. This version is compatible with OT.
6. Internet
Check out the following sites:
http://www.winternet.com/~achilles/
http://redbox.newhackcity.net/
http://www.uccs.edu/~abusby/k0p.html
As for oB's site, it's been taken down temporarily due to AOL lamers that reported there being AOL hacking programs on his site.
7. Ads
Running a Hermes BBS? Join the UnionNet message network! E-mail union@ntbbs.mmbbs.com to receive your copy of the UnionNet setup procedures.
8. Closing
A short, but sweet issue of this newsletter for the elite Macintosh Community. I'll be looking for help in the up and coming issues, especially in game reviews and new release reviews, anyone interested in helping out with this newsletter, please send e-mail to: emc@ntbbs.mmbbs.com
Any of you interested in advertising your BBS or url, send e-mail to emc@ntbbs.mmbbs.com as well, and what you specify will be included in the next issue in the Ads section.
As for the release of these newsletters, I'll try to get them out on a weekly basis, look for them floating around every Saturday.
