HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Subject: FillMaze and others
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Reply-To: jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 9 Jan 93 22:16:27 GMT


Okay, I've just posted FillMaze to comp.binaries.apple2, it was
requested by Tero Sand and another user.

Jimmy

P.S. Oh, I just got my Feb. 93's issue of inCider/A+, and on page 25,
Apple Computers, Inc., has a half page ad.  I noticed this (possibly)
scary fact:  The ad states "We're behind you and your Apple II.",
however, if you look _really_ closely at the bottom left-hand corner,
you'll see the phrase "Offer expires April 20, 1993."  Wow, does
this mean Apple will be behind us until April 20th?  :-)  (c'mon,
it's a JOKE!)



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: isc10327@nusunix1.nus.sg (ONG TAT-WEE)
Subject: Re: New Paintworks $C2 Animations
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:26:30 GMT

Steven T Chiang (stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
: 
: 	How big was the animation, and how much memory did the machine
: have?
: 
: 	From the way it sounds, it sounds as if DG was using the
: virtual memory player.  Which simply means it loads in the animation a
: chunck at a time, and plays it that way.  The virtual memory player is
: used, if DG can't get enough memory.
: 
: 	Other than that, DG should be just as fast as anishow,
: although I haven't checked out anishow.
: 
	It's the Canyon animation, 3.7 megabytes.  DG was using virtual
memory to play it.  I was just wondering if you could make it better.
: 
: Steven Chiang                  Order - DreamGrafix:  The ONLY 16/256/3200
: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu       color paint program for the Apple IIGS.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: shankar@src.honeywell.com (Subash Shankar)
Subject: One keyboard for 2 computers
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:43:59 GMT


I have a Mac IIci and an Apple IIGS (please, no computer flames), which both
use ADB keyboards.  To clear up desk space, is there any way of using the
same keyboard for both computers?  Surely, somebody else has a similar
problem?

Thanks
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From: herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Herbert Fung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: One keyboard for 2 computers
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 18:47:43 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Previously jhs@ipsa.reuter.com (Henri Schueler) wrote:
 
>In article <1993Jan5.184359.18595@src.honeywell.com>
>shankar@src.honeywell.com (
>Subash Shankar) writes:
>>
>>I have a Mac IIci and an Apple IIGS (please, no computer flames), which
>>both use ADB keyboards.  To clear up desk space, is there any way of
>>using the same keyboard for both computers?  Surely, somebody else has
>>a similar problem?
>>
>I haven't had to do this with a MAC, but I have done it with a PC.
>
>For the PC it was relatively easy. The PC keyboard has a 5 pin DIN
>connector. I bought an AB switchbox (that had 3 of those DIN connectors,
>one 'input' and two 'output'), plus 2 male-male DIN cables from my local
>general purpose electronics store. I connect the keyboard to the input
>port of the AB box, and connect each computer to the output ports using
>the male-male cables.
>
>The same technique should work for a MAC, except that you have a
>different connector for the keyboards. I've not seen any AB boxes with
>ADB connectors, but perhaps there are some, or perhaps some conversion
>cable exists.
 
An Apple dealer once told me that a SVHS switch box could do the job but
would cost me $700.00 CAN. Yeeps, with $700.00 bux I could probably buy a
SVHS VCR! But as I mentioned previously a $25.00 keyboard drawer would
solve the desk top space problem
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)
Subject: Re: LC Transwarp?
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 06:47:59 GMT

In article <1im6naINNamt@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au> hinchlif@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe) writes:
> have just read in the January edition of A+/InCider, in the AE ad on page
>13, of a special deal from AE on a "TransWarp LC 25MHz accelerator".Does anyone
>know anything about this animal? Specifically, does it speed up the IIe card? 

   [Hmm, in my copy of InCider, it is on page 25...]

First, I think the special 'deal' of $513 (U.S.) to pump a 16MHz LC to 25MHz
is still ludicrously expensive.

Second, I am pretty sure that you need to remove the IIe emulator card if
you want to plug in the Transwarp LC, so you end up with a small speed
increase and no Apple II capability.

>so, it might actually be worth convincing the powers that be at work that I need


>to budget for an LC. It's not worth it to me at it's present speed, however. I 
>was aiming for a new IIgs, but of course you can't buy 'em any more... :-)
>
>==============================================   _______
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From: kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Turbo mouse
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:46:12 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Wed Jan 06 93 at 01:08:17 (EST)

> From: schultp@wl.com (Paul Schultz)
> Although I don't doubt that the trackball will work, the Mac version
> comes with its own Control Panel program to customize the use of the
> second button on the TurboMouse.  Getting a TurboMouse without such
> an equivalent Control Panel would not allow this added feature on a GS.
> Did the GS version come with its own software?

On the Kensington ADB TurboMouse that I have on  my GS, there is a set of
dip switches that control the functionality of the 2nd button on the
Turbomouse. 
 
Oh, and it works fine too.

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          (kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com)  or  (kimbrennan@aol.com)
         {Cathouse BBS (301) 840-8567 3/12/24/9600 V.32 24 hours}
From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: File Info under Finder
Date: 5 Jan 93 07:32:34 GMT
Reply-To: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1993Jan4.220745.19083@news.columbia.edu> stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) writes:
>In article <bclark.0191@jupiter.chi.il.us> bclark@jupiter.chi.il.us (Brian Clark) writes:
>>>       This is accomplished through the rVersion resource (number 1).
>>>I forget the number exactly though.
>>>
>>>       You could add one using Foundation or Genesys, although, I
>>>haven't tried creating an rVersion from scratch from Foundation.
>>
>>Huh?  Did I miss a newer version of Genesys?  I've got version 1.2.2
>>and it doesn't handle rVersion resources (or anything defined for System 6).
>>I know they completed a version 1.2.4, but they never offered an update
>>to it I don't think.  SSSi seems to be in shambles unfornately.   Rez can
>>do rVersions also, but then it'll do anything of course.
>
>	No, but you can still do it by typing in the actual id number,
>I think it is $2029.  Try it, if it doesn't work, I can retrace my
>exact steps.

	I'll quote myself here... I checked it out, and you can create
a Verison resource with Genesys.  It's on the pop-up menu, and the
correct ID number is $8029... $2029 is some gs/os call... :)

Steven Chiang                  Order - DreamGrafix:  The ONLY 16/256/3200
stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu       color paint program for the Apple IIGS.
America On_Line:  DWS Steve
Genie:  S.Chiang4              Apple IIGS Forever!
From: BADDORF@BADORF.FNAL.GOV (Deb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: MAC LC IIe emulator question
Date: 12 Jan 93 15:55:58 GMT
Organization: The Internet

My, what a blessedly active list I've found in you-all!
I hope you Apple II people are willing to speak to a MAC LC IIe-emulator
owner, because that's what my question is about.

Does anyone know a current phone number or address for POLARWARE
company (they're not in Batavia, IL anymore)?   Or, does anyone 
have an answer to my actual problem:  of 5 Polarware games 
(three just yesterday taken out of shrink wrap)   only 1 sorta works
on the MAC LC IIe emulation card.   

"CRIMSON CROWN" seems to work fine with the exception of a 
"Sorry, I don't understand" line after each descriptive text.   
Looks like it's reading an extra input character that I'm not typing.  
"TALISMAN"  and "SPY ADVENTURE IN NORTH AMERICA", 
"SPY ADVENTURE IN SOUTH AMERICA", and "SPY ADVENTURE IN EUROPE"  
all do the following:   the disk begins to boot, I am asked 
"Standard/Double hi-res graphics?", and I get three lines saying 
something like "Hold on, agent H2O, the fate of the world .... etc"
and then nothing else.  If I answered D it stops right there.  
If I answered S it does a brief disk read first, then stops.   
I wonder if it is part of copy protection, that doesn't recognize 
the MAC LC IIe emulator??       Anybody know how to fix it??
From: gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu (DESROCHERS GARY FREDERIC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Which accelerator?
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:54:21 GMT
Organization: Somewhere over the rainbow

wsheffield@pro-ace.cts.com (Wayne Sheffield) writes:
: In <1ifj42INN304@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au>
: hinchlif@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe) writes:
: 
: >Sincere thanks to all those who responded to my post. To a man (no sexism
: >intended :)) everyone said Zip Zip Zip!! So Zip it is. I'm heading for life 
: >in the fast lane folks!
: >
: >Impatience is a vice.
: >
: HOLD ON THERE!  I just read (in the Jan, 1993 NAUG) that Zip Technology is
: in chapter 11.  They cannot find anyone to make their ZipChips (//e, //c
: replacements), and their future is uncertain.  They ARE still manufacturing
: the ZipGS accelerator cards, but before you purchase it, consider their
: financial standing.

     I just purchased a ZipGS straight from the company.(Can you beleive it
was only about 5 dollars more then mail order and mail order said they
weren't expecting any for 1 or 2 weeks.  I wanted it now.)  I got it a
couple of days late but I think that was the shipping company.  I say the
shipping company because you should have seen the condition of the package
I recieved.

   What I suggest is this.  Think about this senario.  You are a company
that has given a three year warrenty on the product you produce.  The
manufacturer of an important part of your product said they cannot
make that part anymore.  You cannot find another manufacturer.  You have an
inventory of 10 more of this part.  Now 9... Now 8...     Now 1.  What do
you do when someone sends you a defective product.(It is bound to happen.)
That is what I have gathered what happened.(believe me I have looked into
it pretty extensively before buying my ZipGS)  If anyone wants to correct
me then go right ahead.  The way I see it, Zip is not the problem it is the
company that was supplying the part.  They are (or were) doing the most
sensible thing to do.

Gary
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gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu

I be gone in 6 months.  Anyone know a good internet site in New Hampshire.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Zip Chapter 11 ... Not anymore
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:13:42 GMT

In article <C0q8sv.Hzt@eis.calstate.edu> lcornel@eis.calstate.edu (Louis Cornelio) writes:
>While we may hope they stay in business, I for one hope they improve their
>business practices. If you EVER mail them anything, send it registered &
>keep the receipt. I have it from experience & word of the post office that
>even that doesn't stop them from frequently claiming they never received
>the registered item, as happened to me (although they had) so beware... 

I've received nothing but good service from them. The only difficulty I ever
had returning a product to them was caused by the US border random checking.
It turns out that they randomly check items heading into the country. Even
if it is a returned defective item, as was the case recently (not with Zip),
and the product was made and bought in the US, they will charge you a $10
handling fee (even though no customs, duties, etc...are due). I thought our
border police were bad. The land of the free?
 
Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu


Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: isc10327@nusunix1.nus.sg (ONG TAT-WEE)
Subject: Re: New Paintworks $C2 Animations
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 08:24:33 GMT

Jimmy Shaw (jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu) wrote:
: 
: Thanks, it feels good to know that they weren't wasted hours :-)
: Of course, without DreamGrafix, multi-palette animations would not
: have been possible.
: 
: [ stuff deleted ]
:
: Yeah, I knew this would be a problem for many users. (the inital
: debate was to lower the picture quality, or block out the full
: 320x200 screen by making black borders around the edges, so the
: resulting animation would be smaller.  But I decided not to compromise,
: the GS deserves the best!  However, if there are enough requests for
: 
: [ stuff deleted ]
: 
: You're welcome!  I knew my insomnia would be of use one of these days! :)
: Read the included README file for sneak preview of upcoming conversion.
: 
	Don't compromise picture quality or size please.  The GS does
deserve the BEST and your insomnia is never wasted!  I'm sure there are
lots of other appreciative IIGS users out there who have yet to voice
their thanks.  Why I stayed awake up till 3 am in the morning just
downloading your X29.Show and stoned out in school the next day.
(OK, don't anybody lecture me, it's just this once :)
	It's really marvelous that we can get this kind of animations on
the IIGS.  I wonder does Animasia produce animations of this quality?
If so, I would seriously considering buying it.  I always wanted a
"Studio 3D GS".
: 
: Jimmy Shaw		      RamFAST, ZipGSX and 6.0... Apple II Forever!
: jimmys@ics.uci.edu
:
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From: jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Subject: Looking for ftn $D8/0001 (ACE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Reply-To: jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 6 Jan 93 01:29:29 GMT


I am looking for file type notes $D8/0001 for the file type
ACE.  According to the ATN.INDEX.92.06, ACE files are described
in $D8/0001, and I was unable to find it in ftp.apple.com,
in the dts/aii/ftn directory.  I've also download the update
to the ftn, and it was not in the update either.

Thanks.

Jimmy



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From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Looking for DOS 3.3 Launcher v2.0
Summary: Where can I get it?
Keywords: DOS Launcher 2.0
Date: 12 Jan 93 20:38:30 GMT

I can see DOS Launcher 2.0 is the expired articles in
comp.binaries.apple2, but I can't actually download it.  Could somebody
please either email it to me or post it on ccosun?  Thanks.

- Eric S.

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From: jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Subject: Re: wordperfect for Apple //
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Reply-To: jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 4 Jan 93 14:54:04 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.071328.22164@eskimo.com> lurch@eskimo.com (Erik Kloeppel) writes:
>fergus@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (George Fergus) writes:
>
>
>>I recently learned that there is a version of Word Perfect for the Apple
>>//. Does anyone have any experience in using it. I have been looking for
>
>ah don' know about a version for the ][e/c, but there efinately was a version
>for the GS.. I have a copy..  The problem is, it's so old I wouldn't know
>whre to BEGIN looking for a new one.. (I'm on my third backup).  I suppose
>you could try Big Red or Quality Software.. it's a start..
>

I didn't see the original message, so I am reply to both posters:

For the IIe:  I am pretty sure there is an IIe version, however,
I don't know where you would get one.  I would contact WordPerfect
Corporation directly, they might still have copies of it left.

For the GS: The lastest/and unfortunately last version for the GS is
something like 2.1h (h or j, I forget,) and I think if you are still
registered with WordPerfect, you can get a upgrade.  There are some
bugs in it still, but all of them can be avoided and workarounds are
there.  WordPerfect might even give you a deal if you upgrade to a
different format (like Mac, MSDOS, etc) but why you would want to
do that?  :)
>
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From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Coop. vs preemptive multitasking (was Re: SwitchItpress release)
Date: 10 Jan 1993 08:24:32 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:

>  Try copying files over an AppleTalk connection; try formatting a 
>floppy disk.  Any time a Mac or IIgs does a disk access or otherwise
>takes its attention away from the serial ports, it will lose data
>big-time.

Actually on the Mac this still works because of a lot of low-level hacking
to keep polling the serial ports no matter what. When you have a lot of
built-in hardware, this not such a bad idea because you can make it work.
However, it is virtually impossible when you use a truly modular device
system (like GS/OS does) -- which is vastly superior for everything else.

The real solution is to do what the IIfx did and have real coprocessors
on the I/O so you don't even _have_ these interrupt blackouts, since the
main CPU is not the one working with the floppy or the serial ports.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
From: marc@cxr_rs6000.med.ge.com (Marc Wolfgram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:  ByteWorks via Internet
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:24:09 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

address mail to mikew50@aol.com

Marc
From: dirk@GAGA.MASCHINENBAU.UNI-DORTMUND.DE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Coop. vs preemptive multitasking
Date: 8 Jan 93 15:58:09 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Fre, 8. Jan 1993 16:27:25 Uhr

To Richard Sherman:

It's really easy to write programs for the Mac that 
support background applications. You just have to call 
WaitNextEvent in your event loop or SystemTask during long 
tasks.
But it's not so easy to write a program that can work in 
the background. When programming a time-consuming loop, 
you can't do it with "for i:=1 to n do" or alike, instead 
you have to watch the time you need, remember your counter 
and return control to the system when your time is gone.
It isn't (a lot of) fun to change a tested program to 
support cooperative multitasking.
With preemptive multitasking you don't have to worry about 
that and you could even write short and simple programs 
that do what they are supposed to, even in the background.
Not every program needs a desktop interface and the 
Macintosh Toolbox.
So better buy a GS and GNO!

Dirk

|Dirk Froehling - dirk@gaga.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de|
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From: terry@pro-applejacks.cts.com (Terry DeSmet)
Subject: Re: Turbo mouse
Organization: ProLine [pro-applejacks]
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 05:43:16 CST

Since I started all this, let me tell everyone what Kensington had to say
on the subject.  According to their tech people (800 number), version 3.0
will work fine on a GS, but 4.0 will act weird on a GS because the software
needed to use it is available only for a Mac.
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From: ltchean@rambutan.iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)
Subject: Re: Program idea?
Reply-To: ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)
Organization: Institute Of Systems Science, NUS
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 07:11:48 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.072823.4889@news.columbia.edu> stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) writes:
>
>	There are some launchers out there, like LaunchPad, the new
>TransProg III (commercial) which will slow down the TWGS or Zip, and
>launch the application.  But that wasn't why I was posting... :)

What is LaunchPad? I never heard of it.

TransProg III? Where to get it? The TransProg II is cool. Is it System 6
compatible? How come I never heard of it? (I read this newsgroup almost
everyday)

>Steven Chiang                  Order - DreamGrafix:  The ONLY 16/256/3200
>stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu       color paint program for the Apple IIGS.
>America On_Line:  DWS Steve
>Genie:  S.Chiang4              Apple IIGS Forever!


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