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From: rsopicki@pro-amber.cts.com (Randy Sopicki)
Subject: Re: Looking for TransWarp and Zip Chip info
Organization: ProLine [pro-amber] -- Spring Valley, Ca
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 16:45:00 PDT

In <01GOOZSQOWV60071OX@mc.duke.edu> POSTMASTER@MC.DUKE.EDU writes:

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Just for my own curiousity, whats causing this "error" to keep on coming
up?

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From: POSTMASTER@MC.DUKE.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Undelete files - help?
Date: 13 Sep 92 06:51:11 GMT
Organization: Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC, USA

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)
Subject: Re: ByteWorks and Talking Tools (was Re: phonem dictionary)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:51:39 GMT

The latest version of Orca is 
Shell 2.0
ASM65816 2.0
Linker 2.0
C 1.3.3 or something like that
Pascal 1.4


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: shankar@src.honeywell.com (Subash Shankar)
Subject: Re: I might be gone for a while.
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:41:18 GMT

In article <mattd-100992110225@city-lights.apple.com> mattd@apple.com (Matt Deatherage) writes:

>3)  I'm mainly here to help programmers, and the recent failure (again) of
>comp.sys.apple2.programmer says to me there aren't even 100 people reading
>this around the world who want programming help ...

Not really.
I voted, but the vote bounced.
I hope the vote count doesn't make people think that there is no interest in
apple programming.
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From: ztsindi@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (The Independents - SUNY Buffalo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Making Instant Synth do MIDI w/Audio Animator (How To)
Date: 5 Sep 92 21:56:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Howdy All,
	Thought I'd pass along this bit o information. Hopefully its 
not to painfully obvious, like figuring out that the car has to be in
park BEFORE you can start it. OK, for all you people who own the
Audio Animator AND Instant Synth, here goes!
	Step One: MAKE A BACKUP COPY! Don't do the next steps on
the origional! There...that didn't hurt did it?
	Step Two: Break out your favorite sector editor, I use 
Copy II Plus for all my sector editing needs...get into the sector
editor and...
	Step Three: Read Block $295 You will see a number of pathnames
 One of them will have Card6850.MIDI in it. Change that to 
Card8530.MIDI. Save that block back to your back up copy (your NOT 
doing this to the origional are you? Shame, shame!).
	Step Four: Copy the Card8530.MIDI driver from your System Disk
or the disks that came with your AA, into the driver folder on the 
Instant Synth disk.
	Step Five: Turn on your midi keyboard.
	Step Six: Boot up the Instant Synth disk. Once everything is 
loaded get into the MIDI SETUP dialog. Now, you have effectively 
replaced the Passport MIDI driver with the Audio Animator driver. To
turn it on and use your midi keyboard....
	Step Seven: Choose Apple Midi and enable everything. You will
be told that the slot is busy. Get back into the MIDI SETUP dialog and
choose the other option...the Passport one. Once again enable 
everything. I don't know why you have to play around with the other
driver but for some reason it won't let you just load up the 
'passport' (now AA) driver directly.
	Step Eight: Your all set! Now to play an instrument with your
midi keyboard click on the little keyboard at the lower left of your
screen. See the little round dial between 'ADD' and 'DELETE'? Click
on that to turn it on and you can now play it! Sometimes you'll get
warnings about 'bad packets' or 'midi read error'. Just click on
'ok' and ignore them, the program hasn't crashed on me yet because
of them.
	
	Yes I know its not SynthLab but some of the stereo panning 
effects are incredible, and I have yet to here a good female voice
instrument on synthlab, yes the Noise Tracker one is ok but where
talking MIDI here.
	Now that Big Red has wisely picked up a bunch (all?) of 
Electronic Arts Apple II programs you can get Instant Synth and
Instant Music from them for (I believe) 15$. Its not bad, not
great but not bad, worth picking up if you like doing music on your
GS...
							- Buffalo Joe
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)
Subject: Re: Modula-2 for the Apple IIGS
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 12:18:00 GMT

ltchean@rambutan.iss.nus.sg (lim thye chean) writes:

>What is g++ C? Is it a C++ clone?

It's the GNU c++.
It was some sort of front-end, though (again, this is vague memorization :)
not useable with any cc. Since gcc 2.0 (they are now at 2.2.2 or higher,
I lost count), C++ is built into the cc, so you don't need that yucky
front-end any more. Of course, for us it would be perfect, as we don't
have to rewrite the code generator. If lcc can compile the output of
g++: Great! I'm dancing on the table! :) (Now, don't ask which one ...
it's _not_ a lookup-table).

>Do you need Orca/C to run it? Or Orca/M is required?

You would probably need GNO/ME and lcc to run it.

>>  Anyway, g++ is free.  The system as a whole (g++->lcc->asm->link)
>>won't be terribly fast, but big deal, it's another language.

>Seems to be like a very long process just to get one program run. And it
>will be half the speed of Orca/C.

As for the "very long process": It's just one more step, the g++->lcc one.
Now, with ORCA/C, you have cc->asm->link, though cc and asm are (of course)
under a common interface (in the case of ORCA/C, you even cannot get at
the intermediary ASM ... oh well), and if you only have one sourcefile,
link is under there, too.

Please understand the concept of a cc front-end ... when all this is done,
you just call your cc like you did all the time, and cc will decide for
you if it needs to link files, compile files, or send files through the
C++ CPP.

As for the speed: I don't know about compilation speed, it will probably be
slower, though ORCA/C itself is not a speed demon :) Execution speed
should (hopefully) be faster.

Soenke
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,misc.forsale.computers
From: joseph@synapse.bms.com (Seymour Joseph)
Subject: Apple IIGS TranswarpGS
Organization: Bristol-Myers Squibb PRI
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:39:50 GMT


Get your Apple IIGS running at much faster speeds for only a little
moolah. 

I have an Applied Engineering Transwarp GS for sale.  This unit worked
perfectly in my ROM 01 Apple IIGS for two years until I replaced it
with a faster, more expensive accellerator.  

It just plugs into slot 3 or 4 of your GS and away you go.

I am asking $100 plus UPS shipping for this card, which comes with
documentation and everything required to get you going at transwarp
speeds. 

send replies to:
joseph@synapse.bms.com

Seymour Joseph
From: seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Help with Epson and GS/OS (was Re: Epson-compatible printers are icky... NOT)
Date: 9 Sep 92 04:53:08 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Univ of Rochester, College of Engineering and Applied Science

In article <1992Sep8.115416.10696@cco.caltech.edu> toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>Well _my_ printer does 300 cps in draft mode (perfect for program listings),
>but that's not the point -- you're right about text; it's the large bitmaps
>that I wanted the parallel card for. Maybe the Imagewriter just has a pokey
>or nonoptimizing controller, but my Panasonic zooms through the blank areas
>of the page at about 11K/sec and doesn't do too shabby on lines that print,
>either. When I'm printing half-page letters this really makes a difference.

I've been having trouble getting GS/OS to coexist with my printers.
Currently, I have a Panasonic KXP-1124i printer running off of an ancient
Grappler+ interface card.  Drivers installed are BurgerBill's Grappler
driver (thank goodness for that) and the Epson compatible driver.

The problem is that every GS/OS application I have thinks that my paper is
about an inch longer than it really is, so everything prints past the bottom
margin and formfeeds.  The printer and the application then get out of sync
as to where the paper perfs are, and everything gets shot to hell.  I haven't
been able to print _any_ document or graphic page correctly from 16-bit aps
since I got the GS in 1987. 

I've tried the various paper sizes...doesn't appear to make a difference.
Do applications just assume that everything is 72dpi and screw the Epson's
different rez graphics printing?  Help!  Help!

-- 
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[Internet] seah@ee.rochester.edu, AFCDaveS@aol.com   [America Online] AFC DaveS
From: tmplee@TIS.COM (Theodore Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: which is the right GSHK1.05?
Date: 15 Sep 92 22:08:17 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

In trying to reconstruct a hard drive partition I find I have
run across two versions of GS-Shrinkit 1.05 -- the one I just
got from the Brown archives (its only copy) has a length of
127,728 bytes, creation date 1/11/91, mod date 3/21/92.  The
one that was still left on my disk has length 127,693, creation
and mod dates both 3/31/92.  (I don't remember where I
got that one.)  Which is the right one?  (I vaguely remember there
being a problem with LZW (.Z) decompression that I think was
ultimately fixed, but I'm not sure.)

tmplee@tis.com
From: phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Harker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Woz certificates
Date: 14 Sep 92 11:07:45 +1000
Organization: Physics Department, Monash University, Australia

In article <1992Sep13.182848.21288@cis.ohio-state.edu>, meekins@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu (Tim Meekins) writes:
> In article <1992Sep13.163019.153005@zeus.calpoly.edu> carndt@zeus.calpoly.edu (Chris Arndt) writes:
>>In article <id14186@pro-harold.cts.com> dcgreen@pro-harold.cts.com (David Green) writes:
>>>Someone just told me that Apple sent certificates of authenticity to
>>>registered owners of IIgs Woz Limited Edition models. Is that true? I 
>>>never received one, if it is. Does that mean my Woz is a forgery? I also
>>>have a second Woz that I bought used, and I didn't get one with it either.
>>>
>>Boy, I haven't thought of THAT in years. Got it right here... Still in
>>the original envelope postmarked Mar 5'87. Sandwiched between 2 pieces
>>of cardboard, with a letter from WOZ. Always meant to frame it and hang
>>it.
>>
> 
> Odd, I never got a certificate....and I'm sure I sent in any registration
> materials hat were included.

	You can add me to the list of those who purchased Woz limited
editions, sent in the registration, but did not receive any such
certificates.  I don't know of anyone locally (Melbourne, Australia) who
has received such a certificate and have never heard of them before.  Of
course I sent my registration to Apple Australia and who knows what they
did with it.  

P.S. I purchased my GS in November 1986, and sent the registration in
straight away.

-- 
Stephen Harker			phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Monash University		Baloney baffles brains: Eric Frank Russell
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: posty@socs.uts.edu.au (Andrew Roughan)
Subject: AE Flopticals...RamFAST & TAPE DRIVES
Organization: Computing Sciences, Uni of Technology, Sydney.
Date:  9 Sep 92 00:17:25 GMT


AE FLOPTICALS:
--------------

Four of my fellow Kansasfest travelling companions purchased the floptical
drives offered by Applied Engineering through LRO at the show.

The mechanism is the same as the Tulin drive that Todd mentioned (Insite
I325VM).

HOWEVER, Richard managed to fry one of the drives and another is currently
very flaky..... the cause of this is unknown at this stage.
Possible explanations are: the 240v to 110v step down transformer is doing
nasty things to the power supply on the drive (They did buy the drives from
the US afterall).
OR, these drives may have the "active termination" feature which caused
Todd to blow his PLI drive up.
If someone can confirm/deny this last point it would be appreciated.

Richard "SCSI Part, The Snail" Bennett has written a GS/OS SCSI driver for
these drives. He is currently waiting on Insite to deliver the technical
doco on the mechanism before he releases it.

Just for your information:
1)There are currently 3 known drivers for floptical drives.
-Tulin sells one with thier drives.
-There apparently is a shareware driver available on Compuserve.
-Richard's driver is FREEWARE.

2)The current floptical drives only use MFM encoding. This means that 800k
GS disks (GCR encoding) can not be read by these drives.

3)The AE Floptical drive requires a "mode sense call" before either a "write"
call or a "format" call.

RamFAST & TAPE DRIVES:
----------------------

Todd writes (about RamFAST and Tape drives):
>1. order the RF programmers docs and write your own tape driver into your
>program.

Richard has done this and expects to make his tape backup program "The Snail"
work with the RamFAST. He "may" look into writing a GS/OS SCSI driver for
tape drives on a RamFAST.

Todd writes (about OS's and peripherals):
>The tricky part here
>is that GS/OS supports two types of peripherals: block devices (which are
>random access) and character devices (which aren't). The RF only provides a
>block device driver, and to use the tape properly you need a character device
>driver like Apple's SCSITAPE.

BTW: According to Richard (so don't flame me) tape drives are actually
block orientated devices. Apple's SCSITAPE is a character device driver only
because it is more logical to think of a tape drive as a sequential medium.

My feeling on this is that SCSITAPE will work with both character and block
orientated tape drives (IF character orientated tape drives exist).

Regards,
Andrew Roughan

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From: gunncs@feserve.cc.purdue.edu (C. Stephen Gunn, A2PRO SysOp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Folder Jump now at Tybalt
Keywords: Folderjump tybalt system6
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:03:18 GMT
Organization: Purdue University

In article <kh0ym1n@rpi.edu> kentm@aix.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent) writes:

>Soundsmith is shareware again?  When did that happen?

I didnt think that it was shareware.. I thought Huibert Aalabars got ticked
at the GS world becuase we were all "Pirates" however he has missed the fact
that the FTA and FUN were mostly pirates anyways.. Oh well..

I know nothing about it.. but if it is shareware now, and someone has a copy..
Put it on a  FTP site, or stick it in CBA2 please.. Id love to see it.

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    Freshman Engineering CEE    Ask Me about A2 University on GEnie!
From: POSTMASTER@MC.DUKE.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Star Trek program
Date: 12 Sep 92 01:06:02 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC, USA

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: >>>Sell me an HD!!!<<<
From: dbrock@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:41:25 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

Hello all...
 I am looking for a harddrive for my GS...


 If anybody has on to sell... please contact me.
 Preferably 40megs or more, I already have a scsi.


 ________________________________
 <      			>____
 < Dagen Brock DBROCK@vax1.umck.edu >
 <__________________________________>

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: eam@gumbee.mlb.semi.harris.com (Ed A. Mills)
Subject: A little help pleeze..
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:35:14 GMT
Organization: Melbourne FL

I figured out most stuff on my apple ][ on my own, but there are a couple of
questions I have.  The local library doesn't offer anything that might appeal
to anyone under 55 (after all, this IS Florida..), so I'm appealing to you
apple ][ experts (that's a matter of opinion!)...

1.)  There is a board in my ][+ which simply says Microsoft on it.  It has
an LED which says "In Use" or something like that.  Also, it has a bunch of TTL
and a Z80 uP.  Is this is infamous Language card, or is it something else?  And
if it is "The Language Card", what is it for?

2.) I figured out that ]catalog will give me a directory of the disk.  However,
what if I want a directory on the other drive (labeled B:)?  I noticed that 
after some programs run, the B: drive seems to become the default drive somehow.

3.) Lastly, how can I determine how much memory I have, and how much is used?

Thanx for your help.. I gno that gnu users can be a pain!

Ed
From: tooly@zelator.in-berlin.de (Theo Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: SCSI ID
Date: 13 Sep 92 19:10:35 GMT
Organization: Puplic-Access-Xenix-System


Hi there.
 
i play a little with the DStatus subcalls and my SCSI HD.
Now i know, how i can see the Serial # and the Name from my HD,
but how can i see what SCSI ID my HD has ??
 
(NO, i don't like open the box and look on the SCSI ID pins)
 
Best regards from Germany
 
  Theo
 
 

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From: kentm@aix.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Folder Jump now at Tybalt
Keywords: Folderjump tybalt system6
Date: 14 Sep 92 21:43:37 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

In article <blaby.716199712@sfu.ca> blaby@fraser.sfu.ca (John Edward Blaby) writes:
>Is anyone going to post the shareware version 1.01 of Soundsmith soon?
>I would like to see that.

Soundsmith is shareware again?  When did that happen?

Mike

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)
Subject: Re: System Bad: C000005 (anyone know?)
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 00:55:30 GMT

Hi,

0C is the sound test, and the 05 at the end means "Oscillator interrupt
timeout". In short, your sound hardware is probably cooked ... though
I do not know enough about the GS's internals to be sure ... it could
only be a syndrome, not the cause.

Soenke

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From: Pauley@vnet.ibm.com (Paul Benson)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 12:47:44 EDT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Simulated Dithering
Organization: IBM Personal Computer Co. - PS/1 Development
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <1992Sep6.224946.9203@fawlty.towers.oz.au> John MacLean writes:
>What algorithm should be used to simulate the 640 mode SHR dithering in
>software?
>ie: Given two RGB values, what is the closest RGB value to the color that
>will appear on the screen, if these two colors are placed side by side in
>640 mode?

Well, this is not really an answer, just something to consider.  Have you
tried converting the RGB values to HCB (hue, contrast, brightness) (?)
values?  Then the new = (old1 + old2)/2 might yield a better result.
I don't know the RGB->HCB formula offhand, but I know I've seen it.

Pauley
GEnie: P.Benson1
From: C1PD@SDSUMUS.BITNET ("Darin C. Fast")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Archive.Umich.EDU status?
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:38:35 GMT
Organization: The Internet

> Is anyone else having problems accessing the apple2 files on the subject
> node?  I can cd to the apple2 directory and ls the files there but
> attempting to get any of the files or access any of the lower
> subdirectories only gets me an I/O error message.
>
> forde@uvg.eglin.af.mil

There seems to be the complete archive at wuarchive.wustl.edu
under one of the MIRRORS directories.

Just my observation.
Darin C. Fast, User Services Consultant, Computing Services
South Dakota State University.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.apple2:19928 misc.wanted:8224 misc.forsale.computers:32279 misc.forsale:25478
From: hackerb9@carson.u.washington.edu (Smurfkiller Bob)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,misc.wanted,misc.forsale.computers,misc.forsale
Subject: *** WANTED: fast modem, SSC, ProTERM 3.0
Keywords: v.32bis SuperSerial Card Apple //e
Date: 6 Sep 92 14:08:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Sep6.140822.16227
Organization: University of Washington

Hiya! Have you got one of these you want to sell me?

      o	   V.32bis or V.32 (14.4k or 9600 baud) modem

      o	   Serial Card for the Apple ][

      o	   ProTERM 3.0 (or the address of the company that makes it)

      o	   Enhancement kit for the //e

      o	   Some sorta speed multiplier chip (ZipChip?) for the //e

If you've got something I want just email me the details.
Thanks!

			Benjamin Wong
			HackerB9@u.washington.edu
			1-(206)-767-3787
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2