HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Scanlines??
Date: 16 Nov 1992 10:24:16 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens) writes:

>  Lode Runner GS does an amazing trick when you pause the game--it scrolls a
>message in large characters in the BORDER below the super hires screen, so
>evidently a stock standard 2.8 Mhz GS can toggle colours every couple of
>pixels (but I haven't worked out the maths yet).

That sort of thing is _only_ possible in the border area, or in text modes if
you have a real thing for pain. The resolution you can toggle at is limited
very strictly: the finest position you can get is a one-microsecond sweep of
the video beam (in 320 mode that counts for 8 pixels) and the fastest you can
change the color that's being drawn is every three microseconds (if you fire
those demos up again you will see that this is indeed the case with their stuff
as well). Most of this has to do with the fact that you are changing the value
of the border color register in real-time and must have the processor at 1 mhz
in order to guarantee that you won't lose synchronization with the video beam
once you've got it.

I've actually written one of these as a heartbeat task; it's not fun. It makes
for great demos that are supposed to suck up the machine, but I wouldn't get
all enamored with the idea for any kind of general use.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
From: jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Scanlines??
Date: 15 Nov 92 20:15:36 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: hairball.ecst.csuchico.edu

In article <1992Nov15.110258.29066@cis.ohio-state.edu> 
meekins@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu (Tim Meekins) writes:

>3. I only said two reasons, but here's a 3rd :) You can't read the
>   horizontal position accurtely, so the point of palette change on
>   a scanline could be quite a few pixels off, making the colors change 
>   at the wrong place.

You can at 1mhz, can't you?  Of course, #2 (deleted) above would still
preclude 32 colors/scan line.

>TIM MEEKINS                    Ask me about GNO/ME! - MultiTasking on a IIGS!
>meekins@cis.ohio-state.edu     Procyon, Inc., 11738 Aqueduct Drive
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From: erictayl@aludra.usc.edu (Eric Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: About High Speed Modems and the SSC
Date: 22 Nov 1992 09:43:53 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

I have once again come in in the middle of the thread.  I missed a couple
of days of the feed and I missed the most important discussion...

About the high speed modem stuff...  Was there a fix or something for
the SSC and the CTS/RTS problem?  I see a bunch of discussion about
the GS and every so often somebody mentions the SSC, but they do not
say what the deal is with it.

Has someone found a new cable or setting to fix the corruption of the
first character after a CTS/RTS transition when using the SSC?  I am 
most interested in the SSC/ACOS setup if there is one.  I am expecting
the new High Speed HST Drivers for the HST and ACOS anyday, but I want
to know if I am going to have to make a new cable for my SSC to HST
connection.

If anyone knows what this cable is, please post the pinouts.  I want to
use RTS/CTS flow control with my SSC/HST/ACOS setup and I want to be
ready when the drivers arrive.

If someone could post or even mail me the answer, I would be most
appreciative.

Oh yeah...  And another thing.  My sight only keeps about 200 - 300
of the messages around.  I looked all over and through the FAQ, but
I was unable to find the answer to the next question.  Is there a
sight were the c.s.a2 messages are archived?  If so, I could have
answered the question myself by looking back through them.

Thanks,
Eric Taylor
erictayl@usc.edu
From: ncp@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Neal Pitts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: PD communication programs
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:14:24 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Tue Nov 17 92 at 06:43:56 (EST)

There is a VT100 emulator called ZLink with Xmodem and Ymodem that runs under
ProDOS 8.  But beware: I have problems using file transfers with this program.
 If they would work, I would pay the fee.  For now, I use other 'ware.

NCp
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From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: RamFAST & GS/OS cache
Date: 21 Nov 1992 11:33:51 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:

>It really shows with the CD-ROM drive.  I mean, since the drive's access time
>is slow, I can tell that lot of the time is spent on reading the directory.
>After the directory is read, it looses it pretty fast...  if I close like 2 or
>3 folders, and then try to go back, it would be re-reading it.

This may be because CD-ROM's have a vastly different directory structure than
what you'd expect. They are designed to make searching for one file on a HUGE
directory tree as fast as possible given the technology. Unfortunately the
method they end up with isn't too friendly for directory listings. If you have
a Rev D then upping the cache to 1 meg will probably fix it, but I haven't
actually tried this (don't even have a CD-ROM), so get a second opinion
(preferably from somebody who's got 1 meg) before you plunk down the cash.

>1. How smart is the GS/OS cache??  Does it know when to flush the cache if the
>directory information has been changed?

The GS/OS cache is not used by the RAMfast driver. The RF's point of view is
that it's faster to DMA stuff into memory wherever the GS wants it rather than
spend time letting GS/OS look around trying to remember where it cached a block
-- the GS/OS cache works great for slow devices but not for fast ones.

>3. Do all 16 bit programs benefit from GS/OS cache?  Do certain toolsets have
>to be started by the application?

Nope. It's built into GS/OS and is always there when 16 bit stuff is running.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: derek@slab.slip.uiuc.edu (Derek Taubert)
Subject: Re: IIGS sound sampler!
Reply-To: derek@slab.slip.uiuc.edu (Derek Taubert)
Organization: Damage, inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:19:59 GMT

> Attention: the following may be common knowledge, but assuming that
> everyone else is as ignorant as i am...

Fortunately, no...  :-)

> Here's how to make a sound sampler for your GS, reeeel easy.  I notice
> that many companies are charging $50 and upwards for digitizing cards. 
> This is a total ripoff.  To make a sampler to receive input from a tape
> player, CD player, whatever, all you need is:
>  1  1/8" phono jack.  This is the same size as on walkmen.  
>  1  molex connector
>  2 molex sockets.

But what you fail to mention here is that any bad signal or spike that you may
feed into this circuit will completely blow up your Ensoniq chip.  Unless
you've got "connections" and can order one directly from the company, you're
looking at a motherboard swap to fix this.  Oops.

What you get for your $50:  a cheap REPLACEABLE op-amp that will happily die
in place of the Ensoniq when you decide to feed it a really nasty signal.

One more thing that you should at least do if you haven't listened to me, is
to add a capacitor in series with the signal input so that you can get rid of
DC offsets.  This is what killed mine when I did the exact same thing a few
years back.  Take my advice, it's REALLY not fun trying to get ahold of a new
Ensoniq chip.

Derek
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,rec.music.synth
From: 6o25@sdf.lonestar.org (Stephen M. Jones)
Subject: MIDI for the //c???
Organization: Super Dimension Fortress - Public Access Unix - Dallas, Tx.. 
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 13:02:10 GMT

is this possible to do? 
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz)
Subject: Re: .hqx Files
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:14:54 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.191634.713@ualr.edu> hdgarner@acs.harding.edu writes:
>Does anyone know if there is a program for the IIgs that will extract '.hqx' files. I am pretty sure it is some kind of Mac format, but I cannot find out much more about it. Is it anything like stuffit ('.sit')? If it is I could use Shrinkit. Any help you could provide would be appreciated.

.hqx is like .bsq or .uue.  Basically, it's a way of converting files to
text for email transmission.  I believe that GScii+ will decode this file.
Normally, after that, you get a shrinkit file (.sit) which GSHK (GS ShrinkIt)
can unpack for you.

	Later,
		...Mike


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From: tehyang@sal-sun21.usc.edu (Teh Kao Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Apple II Classic Games
Date: 23 Nov 1992 18:57:39 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: sal-sun21.usc.edu

Hi there. I was wondering if anyone is interested in discussing some of the
really old games for the Apple II. I'm talking about stuff like Odyssey,
Odyssey 2, Aztec, Cranston Manor, and stuff like that. What were your 
favorites? 

My favorite RPG has got to be Questron I. Even now I feel that it's one of
the best adventure games ever. I'm sure everyone's played Archon and Skyfox,
but does anyone remember these?: Captain Midnight, Black Magic, Minit Man,
Cavern Creatures, Sputnik Attack, DROL, Cannonball Blitz,... And who could
forget Castle Wolfenstein, Robot War, Caverns of Freitag, Conan, Bruce Lee,
Tawala's Last Redoubt, Realms of Darkness, Gemstore Warrior, Earth Orbit 
Stations, etc.... Does anyone still have a copy of any these games?

I'm sure almost everyone has played Taipan and used the infamous "cheat". 

BTW, does anyone have a copy of a book called "Apple II Games" or something 
like that? I'm not sure about the title but it was a huge book discussing
all the games that were available at around '82 or '83.  Anyone got a copy
they would be willing to sell?

-Teh Kao
From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: speed of text applications...
Date: 24 Nov 92 04:34:38 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

In article <fmlin.2amy@terapin.com> fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:
>What does NiftyList use for I/O anyway?  It scrolls so FAST! I don't use it (
>don't know how :), but I occationally call it up just to "feel" like a real
>toolbox programmer :P
>
>If enter "???????????????????" or "llllllllllllllllllllll", NiftyList will then
>print them on the screen _really_ quickly, faster anything I know on the GS.  I
>notice that GSbug scrolls fast too ( gsbug is another "real programmers tool"
>which I don't use :).  Why?  Is it because interrupts are disabled when you're
>in CDA and/or GSbug?  Other CDA don't scroll anywhere near the speed of NL or
>GSbug.

Interrupts are enabled while you're in GSBug or Nifty List; they both have
their own routines to blast directly into screen memory.

GSBug *has* to do that, since you can be using GSBug to trace through the
Text Tools, or the Console Driver, or whatever, one line at a time.  GSBug
has to be pretty careful about how it calls the toolbox or OS.

Nifty List used to use the Text Tools (still does *when* you redirect output
to a slot).  It didn't crawl, but it was slow enough to be a little annoying.
I kept claiming I'd speed it up some day, and I kept not doing it.

Then one Saturday, Matt D doubted The Dave's Word that he could or would
ever make it fast.  So in the wee hours of Sunday, January 13, 1991, I
wrote some fast output routines.  As I recall it took 4 to 6 hours.  It
wound up being 400 lines of assembly (15-20% comments).  Some of the time
was fiddling with the rest of Nifty List to fit the new routines in--finding
leftover calls to the Text Tools, etc.

There's no special trick.  The bulk of the speed comes from scrolling
the screen quickly.  Once you assume you're on a GS and only worry about
the 80x24 text screen, it's pretty easy.

I don't recommend everybody go out and write directly to the screen.  But
for special-purpose tools like GSBug and Nifty List, it makes sense. 

Specifically, I do *not* agree with the FTA philosophy of re-inventing
the wheel as a matter of principle.  Life is too short not to leverage
off other people's work, or to do work which other people can build on.

I would prefer to see people build *better* tools for their own use
and to give or sell to others, rather than avoiding tools.

-- 
David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc.      |   DAL Systems
Apple II System Software Engineer         |   P.O. Box 875
Internet:dlyons@apple.com                 |   Cupertino, CA 95015-0875

My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: jmk3@crux1.cit.cornell.edu (Jay M. Krell)
Subject: Re: Files with F2 filetype
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 21 Nov 92 08:15:59 GMT

F2 is one of the user types (F1-F8, I think). It could be used by anything for
anything, and the filetype notes won't touch it.
 
  --Jay, jay.krell@cornell.edu
*d

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: mccla_d@offa.cs.odu.edu (dennis mcclain-furmanski)
Subject: VAMPS NoiseTracker Disks #6
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
Distribution: comp.sys.apple2
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 05:54:52 GMT

The sixth release of the VAMPS series is now up on c.b.a2.
I hope there's no problem with it because I'm moving from the CS system to the 
univiersity mainframe, and won't have this account. Send any problem reports
to me at   dynasoar01@aol.com  .

Check out the latest NoiseTracker and VAMPS jukebox. Don't accept cheap
imitations, in software or in opinions. Listen and decide for yourself.
And if you're still not sure, well then just call the author. He can tell you 
better than anyone (especially anyone completely ignorant of the uses and 
methods of psychoacoustics, TIG...) how to best make use of a technique
which can radicaly improve the music you make/play.

And check out the future of some nice pieces of software, either upcoming or
rerelases. In fact, he could still use some help in finishing some of them.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)
Subject: Re: GS Setup (slots)
Summary:  Move stereo card to slot 6
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 05:55:29 GMT

In article <By1IA5.9pr@rice.edu> jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong) writes:
>Is there any way I can connect a modem to my system without losing
>access to my printer or hard disk?  My setup is as follows:

[Slot setup deleted]
>
>Could I drop a serial card in one of my empty slots without losing access
>to the functionality of the "internal" slot?

Your best bet is probably to move the stereo card to slot 6, and put
your SCSI card in slot 7.  I'm not too familiar with the MDIdeas card,
but it should still output fine.  To digitize, you will lose the
functionality of your 5.25" drives (by setting slot 6 to "your card")
but that is usually not a big loss.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: steve@chama.eece.unm.edu (Steve Jorgensen-S)
Subject: Re: Out of This World - Out of My Mind
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 20:23:46 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

	Please excuse my ignorance, but what kind of game is Out of This
	World, and who can you order it from?

					Steve

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From: karsten@pnet51.orb.mn.org (E. Karsten Smelser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: FOR SALE!!!
Date: 23 Nov 92 02:45:02 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.


        I would prefer to sell the entire system as a whole, but after
receiving a couple letters I would also like to offer the system in parts
(however, unless I can get enough people to buy enough parts I can not sell
the majority of them.)

        The following is a list of all the parts of the system - on some will
be a suggested price, others, none.  Please feel free to make me an offer. 
Thanks.

        Apple IIGS ROM 01 (Woz)

        AppleColor RGB Monitor

        Apple 800K 3.5" Drive

        Apple 5.25" Drive

        ImageWriter II  w/paper         $380

        Mouse           $40

        Keyboard        $55

        4MB Memory expansion card       $75

        4 1x8 80ns SIMMs                $36/each

        PC Transporter (640K DOS)       $400.00

        8087 math co-processor          $45

        MegaBoard (DOS HD to SCSI HD)   $200


        3 42MB MFM Hard Drives (one needs $75 repair)   $195/ea (-$75/broke)

        200W Power Supply (for HD's)    $100

        Kensington System Saver IIGS    $85

        Practical Peripherals 2400bps modem     $90

        MDIdeas SuperSonic Stereo card  $60

        MDIdeas SuperSonic Digitizer    $60

        1 pair Acoustics speakers       $50

        Joystick                $15

        Powerstrip (w/ Phone jacks)     $8

        MIDI Interface          $69

        BURPLE comm. card       $25

        Apple comm. card        $5

        Grappler+               $15

        Apple Parallel card     $5

+ Software


Cables are included where necessary

 
PROJECT EARTH   612/731-2665   300/2400 bps   24 Hrs/Day   60 Megs
 
UUCP: {tcnet, crash, quest}!orbit!pnet51!karsten
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Roy Barrett)
Subject: Re: SEAs?
Organization: Okcforum Unix Users Group
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:01:18 GMT

>1. Download the BinSCII archive to your IIgs, then decode it using the
>BINSCII program.  You can't use GSCII+ at present, because it adds a
>few dummy bytes to the end of the file.  This should be fixed in a
>future version.  The ProDOS-8 BINSCII program doesn't have this
>problem. This isn't a problem for most files, but IIgs executable
>files must have exactly the right length, or the IIgs won't load them.
 
Not, I used GSCII+ and it worked 100%.... All I did was save them to my
account, download them, and used GSCII+ (The NDA, not the S16 Program)
 
=======================================================================
Roy Barrett                              dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: behrenss@hphalle6.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Soenke Behrens)
Subject: Re: CV-Ram 8MB card
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:35:30 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Darrin J. Redick (djredick@bluemoon.use.com) wrote:

: > CV-RAM
: > The NEW CV-Ram comes with 4Mbs already installed and is user expandable to
: > 8Mbs utilizing standard 1x4 DRAMs.  Fully DMA comaptible...etc,etc,etc...
: Can I assume that this is a GS-only card?  I would LOVE to go beyond the
: 3megs I currently have in my IIe, up to about 6megs.

Yes, it is GS-only. The memory connector has a different pinout than a slot.

Question: Now how are they expandable? DIP or SIMM? SIMM would be great,
as I could use the memory I already have to go to 8MB :)
Definite answers please, no rumours :)

Soenke

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
Subject: Re: uemacs311c
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:32:12 GMT

<SAB121@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>Jawaid, is it already up there?  Is this all a waste of time (and
>bandwidth?) :)

  MicroEmacs 3.11c is indeed already resident on pindarus.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Artillery
From: jcportwood@miavx2.ham.muohio.edu
Date: 19 Nov 92 02:12:44 EDT
Organization: Miami University, Hamilton campus

Has any one ever heard of the game Artillery.  The last time I saw it was
around five years ago.  The game has two sides red/blue and you fire back and
forth between each other.  You could probably call it the GrandMother of
Scorched Earth.  I was wondering if this game is available through Mail order
or ftp site.  Is it public domain????  Though simple the game is pretty fun.

comments,any, and all help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Jason C. Portwood   //  JCPORTWOODMIAVX0.HAM.MUOHIO.EDU
now a amiga user  \X/   I Started on Apple though..I think a lot of people did
From: bellaire@cs.tulane.edu (TV's Steve)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Out of This World - Out of My Mind
Date: 18 Nov 92 17:17:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Nov18.171755.11809
Organization: Gizmonic Institute
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-11766]: venus


In article <1echv7INNlm7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, cd866@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Marc Sira) writes:
> 
> In a previous article, joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn) says:
> 
> >
> >Admittedly, playing OOTW takes some getting used to, but after you've
> Um, exactly...perhaps when giving hints like the deleted one above, it

I am sure I missed it, but where can one purchase this game? Is it possible 
to copy it to a hard disk?  How much is it?  And what of Martha's love for 
Ben?

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