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From: Pauley@vnet.ibm.com (Paul Benson)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 14:38:41 EST
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:  Old question...
Organization: IBM Personal Computer Co. - PS/1 Development
Disclaimer: This posting represents my views, not necessarily IBM's.
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <9211191818.AA07767@cxr_rs6000> Marc Wolfgram writes:
>- The rSounder program (there was a problem with it not naming the
>  resources properly in an early version - I don't know if it's fixed)

I guess this is the 'p' problem, and it was fixed awhile ago.  The next
version is moving along and I just got a custom put file dialog working.
The 3 main projects are: deciding if I want to include opening rSounds
so that rSounder can manipulate/name them.  This would then involve
using a list manager box (something I've never done by myself).  Digitizing
some sounds for Easter Eggs and digitizing a pic of me for the about box.
The digitizing stuff is just a matter of me pulling in my VCR and stereo
and connecting to the GS (yes, I'm lazy in that respect).

Pauley
GEnie: P.Benson1
From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: speed of text applications...
Date: 22 Nov 92 03:41:41 GMT

Re: Text speed

NiftyList uses custom text I/O routines.  That's a pretty standard route
for people with a real nose for (a) perfection and (b) speed.  I'm not a
speed junkie, but I do generally prefer to write my own I/O routines when
I do text apps., just because going through tool and OS vectors is slow.

A friend of mine has nearly perfected the art of quick text drawing on the
text screen.  He once called me in a panic because he'd just discovered he
was wasting _one_ cycle for each character output to the screen. :)

I used to use the Text Tools for my stuff, but they were so slow I wrote a
library of text I/O routines (very general purpose, but fairly speedy),
which would do simple windowing, and included code for highlighted bar
menus and such.  These routines take some time to do, but once you've
written such things, they can be used again and again. :)

That was an overly technical reply.  Sorry...

Oh, yes... GNO uses its own text I/O routines, but they're routed through
the GS/OS Console Driver and Text Tools.

- Eric S.

--
Eric D. Shepherd                   | Apple II Alliance Charter Member
InterNet: uerics@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu  |           ACM Member
FidoNet:  1:206/2713 Eric Shepherd | Programming Law #1: "When in
AOL:      Sheppy                   | doubt, rewrite from scratch."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.apple2.gno
From: mgd@world.std.com (Matthew G Davidson)
Subject: Stuph4sale
Summary: parts & such
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 04:15:23 GMT

This is a perfect opportunity for an Apple // hardware hacker to 
obtain some nice additional gear.

Here's the deal:
For some reason, the computer is stuck in an 40/80 column mode
and is having a problem booting a disk.  The problem could lie with
the cards or the motherboard.  

Franklin Ace 1000
Apple //+ clone - 64k ; 16pin game port ; upper/lower case keyboard

Apple monochrome monitor ///
Two disk drives - the ones you can calibrate and de-write protect
Disk controller card
80-column card
Modem card
MIDI card

I'm moving to Texas and need to unload some stuff.  
I live in Marlboro, but can deliver goodies to Boston area.

I'm accepting offers - setup goes to the highest bidder.

mgd@world.std.com
From: 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: DOS 3.3 Launcher
Date: 19 Nov 92 04:49:58 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Toronto (Scarborough) Computing Services

The following revelation escaped j.l.walters's lips:
>
> My local Citgo gas staion sells American Express money orders for the
> price I mentioned. The are cashable in most countries.

    Hmmm... I've never heard of gas stations selling money orders.  Then
again, the concept of paying for your gas before pumping it was foreign
to me until I had to tank up in Detroit once...
--
-=+ Brian Tao (taob@r-node.pci.on.ca, 90taobri@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca) +=-
                                   -=+=-
     -=+ MuGS: The Only Internet Mail Reader For The Apple IIGS! +=-

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: migarcia@hfglobe.intel.com (Mike Garcia)
Subject: Gif to apple?
Summary: Gif files to Apple format?
Keywords: bin files
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:15:06 GMT

Hello out there...  I'm really not into Apples but I have a friend
that has asked me to look into how to change gif files into a readable
Apple format.  I have seen refference to a conversation program.  I have
never been on an Apple and I don't have a clue as to what format is used.
I'm an IBM and UNIX/DOS user right now.  If anyone can help me please 
drop me a line at  migarcia@dt1s08.intel.com 

Thanks

Hawk


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id <m0mrk0o-0000qdC@crash.cts.com>; Tue, 17 Nov 92 23: 39 PST
	id <kh83446@pro-nsdapple.cts.com>; Tue, 17 Nov 92 23: 10 PST
From: tomk@pro-nsdapple.cts.com (Tom Kelly)
Subject: Re: Joystick 8pin-->9pin?
Organization: ProLine [pro-nsdapple] - North San Diego Apple Users Group
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 23:07:32 PST

In <If2FedG00WBL42SYlE@andrew.cmu.edu>
"Benjamin S. Yu" <by24+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>Could anyone tell me where i can get a 8 pin to 9 pin cable for my
>joystick or how i can make one?  Thanks
>
>Ben Savageley
>


I've never heard of it.  Do you mean 16 pin DIP to DB-9?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: Matt Ackeret <unknown@apple.com>
Subject: Re: SEAs?
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:05:21 GMT
X-Xxdate: Mon, 16 Nov 92 12:06:53 GMT
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A72D3F5DD80103CF@kip2-18.apple.com>
Organization: Apple

In article <92321.123328TS8RBOTW@MIAMIU.BITNET> Radagast,
TS8RBOTW@MIAMIU.BITNET writes:
In article <92321.123328TS8RBOTW@MIAMIU.BITNET> Radagast,
TS8RBOTW@MIAMIU.BITNET writes:
>Why are Sefl-Extracting Archives (particularly GSHK) called self-
>extracting when they don't?  That's annoying having to change the
>file type and aux type like we have to do with GSHK.  Is GSHK the
>only SEA like that, or do all have to be manipulated?  GSHK is the
>only SEA I've ever seen.

Well, many files are either Binsciied (which protects filetype
information,
assuming you actually unbinscii it on an Apple II) or have a Binary II
header,
which also protects the filetype/auxtype info. I realize this is all
stating the
obvious, but it's only when you transfer via a method that doesn't
protect the
filetype and auxtype where you'll have to manually muck with them.
(Presumably this type of a pain in the neck is why some of the other
online
services require files to always be Binary II encoded)

GSHK is the only SEA you've seen since that capability is still new and 
self-extracting archives aren't absolutely necessary, except in
transferring
GSHK itself.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: Bob Hayosh <hayosh@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: SyQuest and HFS FST
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 02:06:44 EST
Organization: Lynx, Apple II, Mac fan
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X-Xxdate: Mon, 16 Nov 92 07:52:07 GMT

Has any one used a SyQuest with both a Mac and a IIGS?

I wanted to use my SyQuest with both a Mac and my GS but
when I tried it (Finally got Sys6.0 up and running...) I found out
that GS/OS won't read (Mac formated) HFS SyQuest carts.  GS formated
HFS carts can't be read by the Mac either.

Am I doing anything wrong... Is there any way to get an HFS cart to
be recognized by both the Mac and the GS?

If any one has any experience with this, please mail me.  I'll try to
keep up with the posts, but if you mail me, I'll be sure to get it.

Thanks,
-Bob

hayosh@engin.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: wsquires@lonestar.utsa.edu (William H. Squires)
Subject: Re: Lost ADVSYS thread...
Followup-To: article 30783
Summary: Ignore previous post!
Keywords: ADVSYS, adventure
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:15:14 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.015751.27115@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> wsquires@lonestar.utsa.edu (William H. Squires) writes:
>
>
>

  #@(*&^!@$ mailer!!! Oh, well. Let's try again.
  Awhile back, I had found someone with an Apple ][ version of ADVSYS, but he
stopped sending, and now I don't know where to reach him. If you're the kind
soul who responded the first time, please reestablish the interface (via email)
so I can figure out where I left off...
  Mucho gracias! Thanx! :)
                                        wsquires@lonestar.utsa.edu
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From: larry@lablues.UUCP (Lawrance A. Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: about my survey - 2
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 16:38:10 EST
Organization: L/A Blues BBS - Auburn ME (207) 777-3465 & 7782

When I posted my survey about Apple and its computers, a number of
people (MANY) asked that I give them the results.  DONE SO HERE BY!


So what?!?!?!?!?!?!  The point of this paper is to find out if there
is a "so what" in a marketing sense.

So I start with a few premises:

A)  Apple Computer Inc. has "done to the Apple II."

B)  A "standard" in selling is that if one customer has a bad
experience, 250 people will hear about the problem.

C)  Another "standard" is that it takes five times more effort to sell
to a new customer than to sell to a customer to whom you have already
sold.  

D)  The Apple II started in 1977 is sold still in 1992; The Apple II
computer has a loyal following.

From Apple Computer Inc. I was given the following information:

|I can give you the following:
| 
|-between 5.5 million and 6 million Apple IIs sold WW
|-about 1 million Apple IIc's sold WW
|-estimate about 2.9 million active Apple IIs in schools
|-about 70% of all Apple IIs were sold to schools
| 
|That's about all I have since historical sales records are
|non-existent


With the above in mind, I made the following survey.  The survey was
placed on a number of national bulletin boards (internet and Fido
net), a local bulletin board and given to my local user group.  I made
a similar survey for Macintosh owners and place it on the Fido
network; however, I did not receive enough replies to make any
conclusions from the Mac survey; my local board has had trouble
connecting to the distribution node for Fido.  I had one person
complain that the survey was biased.

more in the next post
From: herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Herbert Fung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: ProTERM freed
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 20:52:30 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Previously Setphen Bennett writes
 
>Mmm...  in addition to the potential problems with a really fast
>accelerator, I find it's a good idea to hit Ctrl-Reset on GSs after 
entering
>PT3... stuff about clearing the interrupt buffer, and all that...  :)
 
That still didn't work.
 
>If that doesn't help, it's possible that it's a problem in your
>TransWarp, or some other piece of your system hardware -- as 
inconvenient as I
>know it is, you might try pulling various system accessories, and see if 
that
>helps...
>Personally, I'd start with the TransWarp since accelerators tend, more 
than
>other stuff, to be the cause of flakiness, in my opinion...  it at least 
gives
>a good starting place...  :)
 
My TransWarp has been working flawlessly for over 3 years. I did pull out
everything and put it back in, and since then everything works fine. I 
think
that 1600km drive from Vancouver to Edmonton may have loosened something.
--
Herbert Fung                    | "Hard work doesn't make miracles,
Edmonton Remote Systems         |   Miracles just make hard work!"
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada       |       The Herbster! 1988

Herbert Fung              herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Roy Barrett)
Subject: Re: 3.5 head
Organization: IDG Communications-inCider/A+ (NOT)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:26:03 GMT

That won't always work.. some drives don't use a phillips head, but they do use
a 6-sided screw (Like a phillips is 4, this is 6)

--

=====================================
dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu #1@#31
=====================================

Roy Barrett... Yep, that's my name...

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: ddkilzer@iastate.edu (David D Kilzer)
Subject: Re: Genie Gateway charges?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:50:44 GMT

In article <92321.183803KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu> <KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Does the Genie person get charged upon receipt or sending of mail or both?

Both, I believe.  I don't subscribe to GEnie, but from what a friend of
mine says (who does have a GEnie account) says, he has to pay both ways.

Dave
-- 
David D. Kilzer               \                ST:TNG _Relics_
ddkilzer@iastate.edu          /       Capt. Montgomery Scott ("Scotty")
Computer Engineer 3rd Class   \   "I may be a captain by rank, but I never
Iowa State University, Ames   /    wanted to be anything but an engineer."
From: TBARNER@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Hard Drives for Apple IIGS
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:10:16 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

I like the Vulcan Gold by applied engineering. Some people use the quantum
drive with a scsi but most say that it wears out their IIGS power s
upply in a short time. That might be something to think about.
The Vulcan drive has a power supply built in and replaces the IIGS power supply.Hope this starts you on your quest. Tom Barner TBarner@RCN.mass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Are flopticals compatible with those mini cd's?
Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
Date: 23 Nov 92 02:01:22 GMT

In article <fmlin.2bk2@terapin.com> fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:
>So that means strong magnetic field will affect data integrity of floptical
>disk?

Strong magnetic fields will affect the integrity of any magnetic
media, be it a floppy disk, a hard drive's platters, a Floptical disk,
or a Bernoulli or Syquest cartridge.  (MO cartridges might be a little
more resistant since, if I'm not mistaken, it takes a combination of
heat (from a laser) and an applied magnetic field to change them.)

The only media that are totally safe from the effects of magnetic
fields at this time are CD-ROMs and related optical storage methods.

  _/_   Scott Alfter                             Internet: sknkwrks@cs.unlv.edu
 / v \  Call the Skunk Works BBS today!           Ask me about SoftDAC--digital
(IIe (  (702) 894-9619 300-14400 V.32bis          audio for your Apple IIe/IIc!
 \_^_/  --==## "Apple II Forever" is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. ##==--
From: st1dr@elroy.uh.edu (Frankfort, David C.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Joystick IBM->Apple2
Date: 15 Nov 1992 23:51 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: elroy.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

This is the requested conversion from an IBM joystick to an Apple joystick.
The materials required to do it is a shielded 6 wire cable to any length
desired.  Also include a 15 pin sub d male and a 9 pin sub d male.  Of course
you'll need a soldering iron and solder or else get the crimping kind of pins
for the sub d connectors.

Pin assignments - looking into the d
--------------------------------          ------------------------
 \    o  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  /            \  o  o  o  o  o    /
  \   1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8 /              \ 1  2  3  4  5   /
   \                        /                \               /
    \  o  o  o  o  o  o  o /                  \ o  o  o  o  /
     \ 9 10 11 12 13 14 15/                    \6  7  8  9 /
       -------------------                      ----------

Now with the knowledge of the pin assignments the actual dirty work can begin
  The layout is with respect to the 15 pin IBM connector.  Pins not
mentioned on the 9 pin connector are not used.  Note the jumper between pin 1
and pin 4 on the 15 pin sub d.

     15 pin connector          9 pin connector
   +--->1------------------------->2 +5V
   |    2------------------------->7 Fire Button 1
   |    3------------------------->3 X Control
   +--->4                            +5V
        5------------------------->5 GND Used for sheilding and nothing alse
        6------------------------->8 Y Control
        7------------------------->1 Fire Button 2
        8
        9
        10
        11
        12
        13
        14
        15

        Once all the connections are put together put the screws to hold it
all together.  A suggestion is to put a nut with a one piece screw and nut
like the one used on the Super Serial Card for the 15 pin sub d.  This will
allow for the screws on the IBM joystick.  BTW I will not held responsble for
any subsequent faults or failure due to the above information.  To send
comments or suggestions please mail to st1dr@jetson.uh.edu.

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*David F.				No silly quote.			       *
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: jmk3@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Jay M. Krell)
Subject: >replies, sparse, HFS formatting, ...
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 20 Nov 92 22:57:31 GMT

>>>some replies

>John MacLean, sparse files
Have you read the somewhat new technote on sparse files? It is the most official, complete info I know of. I'm not sure if it answers your questions, but you definitely should check it out.

>Soenke, bad formatting on my posts
Sorry about the formatting. It happens when I post from a Mac and not from my IIGS; I don't think I can fix it automatically.

>connecting 2 monitors
The VOC supports 2 monitors with, I'm pretty sure, 2 seperate displays. I'm not sure how much work it would be to take advantage of this.

>WindowShade thing
A few people liked the idea. I will keep it in mind, but no guarantees.

>Dave Empson, fooling ADU to get Mac driver on non-Apple disk
I've suggested (a few times) the method you just mentioned, but no one
has gotten back to me to say if it works. Do you have confirmation? (I know -- it definitely _should_ work.)
What I did was Derez ADU, get the driver, and Rez just that. It was a few months later that I thought of just using the ADU file itself (duh!). And you're right, the not-so-generic (not meant to be) driver does not recognize cart exchanges.

re: Mac formatted drive not working on IIGS
You say formatting on the Mac _should_ be fine, and I agree, but it isn't. When I formatted a Syquest cart on a Mac, Finder saw something like 40 unrecognizable devices and ADU was so confused it wouldn't even re-format, zero, initialize or anything. It took the 8-bit SCSI utils to overwrite the junk the Mac put on. It _seems_ that what happened is the Mac formatter left a continuous stream of some number (I forget) instead of zero in empty parts of the partition map. When I read it in, the valid info was 


followed by the same hex number and the
messed up partitions ADU saw all had the same size and name, both consisting of this hex number. It worked fine on 2 Macs, though.

 -Jay, jay.krell@cornell.edu
 
ps- Ack! I see my easy idea for formatting didn't work. I'll try manual CR's
next time. Sorry.
From: dsblack@iastate.edu (Vilkata TDK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Help! No sound from my GS!
Keywords: sound GS Ensoniq
Date: 15 Nov 92 19:16:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: vincent2.dsblack.721855019
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA

In <BxqDML.KFE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> mjk31124@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (the Weasel...) writes:

>My GS seems to have become mute.  Let me explain, I recently d/l soniqTracker
>and NoiseTracker from ccosun and prceeded to play around with them... no 
>problems.  After I quit soninqTracker my GS froze and when I rebooted, I had
>sound!  My Finder sounds weren't working but the system beep was.  This led
>me to believe that there was nothing wrong the speaker or the connections.
>It isn't the system software 'cause I don't get any sound from disk or HD.
>I even booted my old Nucleus demo and still no sound... I played around
>with the control panel and same thing.

>I get the system beep but no other sounds!  When I have the volume all the
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>way up I can hear faint noises of the music so I believe the Ensoniq is 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This makes me think maybe there's a volume control on the sound card you don't
have turned up.  On my Sonic Blaster, there are (I believe) two little dials on
the actual card that we had to turn up to about medium volume level.  They 
usually come boxed with the volume all the way down, so you don't accidently
blow your ears out if you hook it to an amp the first time you use it.  I'd try
looking back through the instructions for a manual volume control.  At least
with Sonic Blaster, I think it says to keep it at medium volume if you plan to
use an amp (I have it hooked to my stereo) and up farther if you don't.

>working properly which means I guess that it is a hardware problem.  Maybe
>the amplplifier is shot?  Could any of you hardware folks give some insight
>to fix this problem?  I've tried everything including removing all my cards,
>etc.  I seriously think it is my motherboard that's misbehaving...

>A friend suggested I find and replace the transistor that amplifies the
>Ensoniq output but I wouldn't even know where to begin.  BTW: I have a
>SonicBlaster card and the output is the same as the internal speaker and
>headphone jack.... just a faint sound...

I'd still try checking the manual volume (on both/all of your sound cards).  If
that's not it, I don't know...

Good luck!

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From: st1dr@elroy.uh.edu (Frankfort, David C.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: AB20 mods
Date: 15 Nov 1992 23:54 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: elroy.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <5tt1r_-@rpi.edu>, kentm@aix.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent) writes...
>A while back there was a lot of MODs on an ftp site at ab20.larc.nasa.gov.
>That site shut down, but I thought it was mirrored at wuarchive.wustl.edu.
>However, I searched through most of wuarchive today, and I can't find them.
>Does anyone know what happened to all those MODs?

Try wuarchive.wustl.edu in directory /systems/amiga/audio/music/st-nt
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: lang@cs.tulane.edu (Raymond Lang)
Subject: archive help needed (was: uemacs311c)
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-4095]: diana
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:32:10 GMT

I used binary mode to ftp the uemacs archive from two different sites,
but when I get it down to my IIgs, Binscii doesn't know what to do with
it, and GSHK reports it as an unknown archive type.  I'm using ProTerm's
kermit transfer to download it from the school's unix system to my II,
but obviously I'm must be leaving something out.  Any help is appreciated.
(Replies by email preferred so as to avoid newsgroup clutter.)

thanks again,

Ray Lang
lang@cs.tulane.edu