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From: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: GL viewer???
Date: 10 Nov 1992 15:39:30 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: charon.think.com

In article <10912@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> cr@cs.strath.ac.uk (Chris Reid) writes:
>Does anybody know of a GL file viewer for the Mac???

Sort of. I've got one here that displays the sample file it came with,
then freezes my Mac solid (IIfx, system 7.1). Since I haven't run
across any gl files beyond the sample, I haven't worried much about
it. 

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From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: SUMEX on CD-ROM
Date: 12 Nov 92 22:48:54 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Peirce Software
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <0105012B.ibog51@dbmac.fdn.org> (comp.sys.mac.misc), blaise@dbmac.fdn.org (Blaise THAUVIN) writes:
> Hi netters,
> 
> I've just read somewhere that the entire Sumex archive was available
> on CD from a private company, but I've deleted the message.
> 
> I despereatly need this CD because I don't have a ftp link here in
> France, and using my modem would be too expensive.

From the back of the CD-ROM case:

Pacific HiTech, Inc.
4530 Furtuna Way
Salt Lake City, Utah 84124

Telephone: +1.801.278.2042
Fax Line:  +1.801.278.2666
CompuServe: 71175,3152

and since CompuServe is connected to the internet I think you can
contact them at 71175.3152@compuserve.com

Good luck.

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:04:53 EST
From: <TJK111@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: AppleShare 3.0 and 2.Xproblems

Anyone know why networked ImageWriters print out pages with too much space
starting with the second page in 3.0? Will the update fix this?

In 2.X with System 6, when restarting after setting the disk cache down to
0 or some other low number, it always resets to 15XX K? I am relaying these
questions for a friend, so pardon the ambiguity...
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:18970 comp.sys.mac.system:13890
From: yoshio@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Yoshio Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Slow TrueType on 1MB SE
Keywords: system 6.0.7 , truetype , SE
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:24:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Nov9.172435.11326
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department

Thanks for all the replies to my query about
TrueType being slow on my SE.  Here's a rough
summary of the replies:

-----------------------------------------------
1.  Use the old bitmaps for screen fonts, but
leave out the larger bitmaps so the printer will
use the truetype fonts.  Dramatic speed improvement.

2.  Use the WordPrinter Init, upgrade RAM, use
RAMdisk (from sumex) to copy System Folder automagically
to RAM disk.

3.  Upgrade to SE/30 ($$ dancing before my eyes...);
use BitFont (maybe at sumex) to rasterise the truetype
fonts to often-used sizes.

Lots of good info.  Thanks again!

Yoshio Turner
yoshio@cs.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: cormm00@DMI.USherb.CA (MARTIN GUY CORMIER)
Subject: Syquest Help
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. d'Informatique
    
Distribution: universe
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:32:19 GMT

Thank, reply here or by e-mail

Martin G Cormier
cormm00@dmi.usherb.ca

======================
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From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: How to get 7.1 cheap!
Date: 10 Nov 92 01:09:49 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc

In article <933753.2AF16783@cmhgate.fidonet.org>,
Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) wrote:
> 
> mlarson@bach.udel.edu (Michael Larson) writes:
> 
> ML> If it a OS update for reasons of a bug-fix, then it should 
> ML> be made freely available to all legal owners of the system 
> ML> software, however in the case of new technology (ie. OCE, 
> ML> QuickTime, QuickDrawGX) the user should pay a reasonable amount 
> ML> for its use.
> 
> Exactly the point.  7.1 is an set of bug fixes to 7.0, adding absolutely no
> significant features or new technology for the end user.  (And no, making it
> easier for Apple to drop in system extensions for future hardware releases
> does not count as "significant feature for the end user.")

7.1 is most certainly not a set of bug fixes to 7.0, Adam.  It is the
enabling technology for the system extensions that are forthcoming.  It
makes it easier for the user to install those technologies by being able to
drop in the files that have those features without having to reinstall the
entire OS.  It is both easier and harder for Apple this way.  Distribution
is easier; development is easier in that an entire system doesn't have to
be held up because of one or two components of that system.  It is harder
because there are more variables with a modular system than there is with
an integrated one.  Think of the differences between Copernicus and MacWoof
for an analogy.

> When Apple adds new technology, then we'll talk.
> 
> Shame, Apple.  Shame.

Shame, but not on Apple.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: etheredg@iugate.ucs.indiana.edu (Wil Etheredge)
Subject: AutoDoubler with Powerbooks
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 23:11:53 GMT

I was what the thoughts were about setting up AutoDoubler on a Powerbook.
What this would have on the performance?
Battery Life Time?
etc.

Thanks,

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From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What are the different flavors of Mac?
Date: 10 Nov 92 00:57:45 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: comp

In article <MAS.92Nov5162948@mipl8.jpl.nasa.gov>, mas@mipl8.jpl.nasa.gov
(Marc Sarrel) wrote:
> 
> 
> What are the different flavors of Mac that Apple currently markets?
> What are the hard disk/RAM/CPU permutations for each model?  I looked
> in the FAQ, but to no avail. :-(

Mac Classic II/Performa 200
Mac LC II/Performa 400
Mac IIci
Mac IIvx/Performa 600 (but not quite identical)
Mac IIvi (but not in the states)
Mac Quadra 700
Mac Quadra 950
Mac PowerBook 100 (selected overseas locations only)
Mac LC (selected overseas locations only)
Mac PowerBook 145
Mac PowerBook 160
Mac PowerBook 180
Mac PowerBook Duo 210
Mac PowerBook Duo 230

Discontinued models
Macintosh
Mac 512K
Mac 512K enhanced
Mac Plus
Mac SE
Mac SE/30
Mac Classic
Mac II
Mac IIx
Mac Iicx
Mac IIfx
Mac Quadra 900
Mac Portable
Mac XL/Lisa/Lisa II
Mac Powerbook 140
Mac LC (in most areas)
Mac PowerBook 100 (in most areas)

(Did I miss any, or get anything wrong???)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: pw4963@sarah.albany.edu (Peter G. White)
Subject: Powerbook 145 vs 160
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 05:07:29 GMT

One other question.  How would a student attending a university that does not
sell macs take advantage of the student prices?

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From: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple //e (DOS, ProDOS) programs on Mac?
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:50:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov12.175025.24418
Organization: University of Washington

jwells@netcom.com (Jason Paul Wells) writes:

>starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes:

>>I'd heard there was a way to run Apple //e-type programs on the Mac, assuming
>>one can get them on a 3.5" disk first.  Is there such a utility/program/init/
>>whatever that will let me do this, and if so, where can I get it?  (FTPable?)

>>Thanks...

>Well, one way is to get an LC and the Apple IIe Card. You can then even get
>a 5.25-inch drive to connect to the card.

Well, I do have an LC, and that card did look interesting, but perhaps it's
a little expensive?  (Does anyone have a price on it?)

>Of course, maybe you don't have an LC... I do remember seeing a flyer about
>some program that enabled you to run ProDOS applications on a Mac. It was
>a long time ago, so I think it even worked on the Mac Classic models...
>Unfortunately, I can't remember where it was from, and I have since lost
>the flyer... =)

Arrgh!  Okay, can ANYONE help me with this?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: pug@cs.curtin.edu.au (Greg Barron)
Subject: Atari St or Amiga emulators
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:10:01 GMT


Does anyone know of any for the mac????

Thanks

--
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From: jwells@netcom.com (Jason Paul Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple //e (DOS, ProDOS) programs on Mac?
Date: 12 Nov 92 05:12:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Nov12.051227.26992
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes:

>I'd heard there was a way to run Apple //e-type programs on the Mac, assuming
>one can get them on a 3.5" disk first.  Is there such a utility/program/init/
>whatever that will let me do this, and if so, where can I get it?  (FTPable?)

>Thanks...

Well, one way is to get an LC and the Apple IIe Card. You can then even get
a 5.25-inch drive to connect to the card.

Of course, maybe you don't have an LC... I do remember seeing a flyer about
some program that enabled you to run ProDOS applications on a Mac. It was
a long time ago, so I think it even worked on the Mac Classic models...
Unfortunately, I can't remember where it was from, and I have since lost
the flyer... =)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: add@is.rice.edu (Arthur Darren Dunham)
Subject: Re: Mac IIvx and color depth.
Organization: Rice University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 06:37:30 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.234352.23370@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c60a-bw@danube.Berkeley.EDU (James Wang) writes:
>In article <Bx94w5.Myz@rice.edu> add@is.rice.edu (Arthur Darren Dunham) writes:
>>> 1).  When a IIvx is in 8 bit mode can it do 256 greys? (yes?)
>>> 2).  When a IIvx in in 16 bit mode can it do 256 greys?
>>
>>1). Yes, it just puts 256 shades of grey in the CLUT (color look-up
>>table). The CLUT can have any 256 colors out of the palette of 16 million.
>>
>>2). Not when "Colors" is selected in the control panel. 16-bit mode does
>>NOT have a CLUT (it would take up too much memory). Since 16-bit mode
>>is 5 bits red, 5 bits green, and 5 bits blue, and grey is R=G=B, there
>>are 5 bits worth of greys, which is 32 total greys. By the way, the
>>extra bit is unused ("Reserved" in official Apple-lingo).
>>
>>If you are in "Greys" mode, you would get 16 bits worth of
>>greys, which is 65536 greys. Maybe 15 bits (as I have not verified this).
>
>wrong, there is no way to get 2^16 (65536) grays because you need to
>specify the same number to all three of the primary colors and that
>means 256 combinations of each color since 8 bits are devoted to each
>color.  but you will get 256 grays nonetheless.

Actually, I finally got a chance to try it (assuming the 16bit mode in a
IIvx is the same as a Q900).  And Hitting grays in 16bit mode has
absolutely no effect.  The screen remains in color, and only 16 grays
(or any primary color) are possible.  So to have 256 grays, you must be
in 8bit or 24bit modes.  No other will work.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: arch1l@Rosie.UH.EDU
Subject: Royce Waltrop?
Reply-To: arch1l@Rosie.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 01:17:07 GMT

Who is Royce Waltrop?
How could one person gain such fame and status as to have his name
published in numerous Apple manuals from time long ago to today?

Perhaps an Apple evangelist killed in the line of duty...
Perhaps a best friend of Steve Jobs...
Perhaps the largest Apple stock owner...
Perhaps the dog of someone; here Royce, here Royce...
Perhaps...

Tell us what you think.

Scott
From: peterc@cubetech.com (Peter Creath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Send me Clinton sound bites! (please)
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 19:07:23 CDT
Organization: Cube Technologies
Reply-To: peterc@cubetech.com

Well, ladies and gentlemen, seeing how we here in the ol' U.S. of
A. have a new president to look forward to, I figured I'd get prepared
my sound library prepared for his inauguration.

Please mail me all the audio clips you have of either Clinton (ie:
Hillary or Bill).  Please mail me and describe the sound (a rough
transcript or whatever) before you mail the sound itself.

As much as I'd like 60 minutes of sound, I don't want 20 people mailing
me the 60 minutes.

Also, I need each Clinton speaking ALONE.  As little background noise
as possible.  Ideally the debates, radio spots, TV voice-overs, speeches
w/ quiet audiences, talk show interviews, and so on.

Adv(thanks)ance!

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From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Powerbook 100. still being manufactured?
Date: 11 Nov 92 15:02:21 GMT
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Amos Tuck School
Disclaimer: I don't represent Dartmouth and Dartmouth doesn't represent me.

In <etheredg-101192102443@lib102b_695525.ucs.indiana.edu> etheredg@ucs.indiana.edu (Wil Etheredge) writes:

>What does this mean about production of batteries for the PB100?
>Are they to become rare as well?

I doubt it. Apple is quite good about making parts available for some
time. You can still get parts for a Mac 128K for god's sake!

-Geoff
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		"I'm not perfect but I'm honest."
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From: Holland_Thomas@Tandem.Com (Tom Holland)
Subject: Opening a window on a Sun as a second monitor on a Mac??
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Tandem Computers
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 01:32:29 GMT

Hi,

 I have a Sun  on my desk running Openwindows and next to it is an SE/30.
 What I would like to do is open a window on my  Sun and have it appear to 
 the Mac as a large (bigger than 9") second screen.Has anyone else done
this? 
 Are there any products/PD stuff which already allow this? Thanks. 

Tom Holland

Holland_Thomas@Tandem.Com,     |Soap and education are not as sudden as a 
Tandem Computers, Cupertino Ca.|massacre but are more deadly in the long
run.
                               |    - Mark Twain
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ra_novy@dal.mobil.com (Robert A. Novy)
Subject: World Maps Available?
Organization: Mobil E&P Technical Center
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:55:30 GMT

I've been hunting on the sumex and umich archives for PICT or EPS world maps. 
Just an outline of the continents would be fine; I don't really need all or
most of the countries' borders drawn in.

From the umich archive, I downloaded the files
  1. mac/graphics/draw/worldmap.pit.hqx
  2. mac/graphics/eps/maps.cpt.hqx

I believe the 'pit' extension means PackIt, but I haven't been able to unpack
file #1.  From sumex, I downloaded packit3-13.hqx, but it promptly bombs when I
try to run it.  Perhaps it's not System-7 compatible. The versions of PackIt on
umich are a couple of years old, and they bomb, too. So what else can I try?

As for the files in #2, they decompress as EPS files, but they simply appear as
an X in a box when I import them into Persuasion 2.0.  They do print OK, but I
need to see them on the screen in order to add annotations.

So does anyone know of a world map that can be downloaded and manipulated on
the screen?

Bob Novy
ra_novy@dal.mobil.com
Dallas, TX

"So, what you're telling me, Percy, is that something you have never seen is
slightly less blue than something else you have never seen."
                                                             The Black Adder
From: maynard@leah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Subject: semi-technical QuickTime info required...
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 09:19:42 GMT

I've been playing with QuickTime a bit and wondered if anyone out there
could help me with the following few questions.

1) All right. I know the two principals for JPEG compression are taking
DFTs of 8x8 cells and discarding hi-frequency info, along with decomposing
the image into YUV planes (or something like them) and sampling color info
at a lower frequency than lightness info. 
Based on the way Apple and others claim the Apple animation compressor
should be used, I would guess that it performs RLE encoding. Does it just
do the standard PICT RLE encoding? Is this simply along the x direction, or
is it done along both x and y directions?
"None"-encoding. Is this truly none, or does it do the basic PICT
compression?
Apple graphics---what gives here? The only thing I know about this is that
I have yet to find anything for which it works nicely. Does it insist on
the system pallette? Does it needs globs of the same color?
Apple video. Looks like it does the JPEG scheme of blocking, but what else.
I
guess it's not simply JPEG diddled a bit, cause of the speed.
The new Apple compact video. What's this based on? Wavelets? It produced
artifacts unlike anything I've seen elsewhere.

2) Is ANY form of inter-frame compression performed when making movies? I
thought that when you gave a key-frame rate, that meant that each key-frame
was stand-alone, but other frames were based on inter-frame encoding. But
I've tried varying the key-frame rate from zero to every frame and in
between, and the file size seems to change each time by about 2K, which
seems to imply not much is happening. The various key-frame rates also
seemed to have no effect on quality of playback, either forwards OR
backwards. Is this just a bogus field that will be used in later versions
of QuickTime?

3) What is the major bottleneck in playback speed? It seemed to me that
this would be decompression. However on my SE/30 a (grey-scale 150x200)
movie made at
15fps plays back rather more smoothly when compressed with either Apple
Animation or Apple Compact Video than with no compression, and compact
video gave better playback than animation. (At ten fps all three schemes
were equal so I guess the machine wasn't yet maxed out.) Is this because in
fact most of the time is data transfer time, and the compressed movie have
to pull less data off disk? Or is it some effect of grey-scale? I haven't
yet got around to experimenting seriously with color movies so I don't know
what would happen there. 

Thanks for any info people may have on this matter, both empirical and the
official Apple word.

Maynard Handley
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Dictionary Manager
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:37:18 GMT
 <1992Nov2.001221.8607@netcom.com><yjc-011192212616@b61539.student.cwru.edu><19
 92Nov2.040731.26759@netcom.com><jenkinsj-021192092428@tseng.taligent.com><1992Nov6.105903.29478@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

Damn! This is one of the best ideas I've seen in a long time. This would
definitely be very cool and well worth extra cash and disk space to me.

smittie
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From: bower@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Tyson Bower)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MaxAppleZoom
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:04:58 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark

Speaking of MAZ, I've got a small problem with it.

I have a Mac II, Toby Frame buffer, and the Apple 13" Hi-res display.
When I use MAZ (even with the display set to the right, or with the
sync on for those of you who are still using MAZ 1.3) I still lose about
3-4 pixels worth of space at the left hand edge of the screen.  That's
when it's in 8-bit color mode.  In 1-bit or 4-bit it's even worse; I lose
about 10 pixels.  In 2-bit I seem to get the whole screen; however, I
don't want to use 2-bit color.  

Anyone else have this problem?  Know how I can fix it?  Or does this
happen to everyone, and I just need to live with it?

Thanks...