HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Prodos 8 2.0.1 killing keyboard
From: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 13:54:08 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <1992Aug29.120530.7729@cs.uow.edu.au> jorgi@cs.uow.edu.au (George B Zamroz) writes:
> fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden) writes:
> 
> >- If you are running P8 from GS/OS, make sure you don't have Easy Access
> >  installed (unless you need it).  Ditto for CloseView.
> 
> The problem only started happening when I installed System 6.0 on my hard disk.
> If I boot off System 5.0.4 then everything is fine. Booting System 6.0 off
> floppy doesn't help. I don't have either Easy Access of CloseView installed, so
> they can't be the culprits. As for the ADB connectors, I think not since the
> problem is repeatable, and does not happen randomly. Two of the main cases
> that I have found this problem occurring are as follows:

Are you SURE you don't have Easy Access and CloseView installed?  The
"custom installation" "Hard Drive or FDHD" option automatically
installs them.
The symptoms you describe are exactly those caused by Easy Access when
a program tries to read from the keyboard with interrupts disabled.

It is surprising that the problem also occurs when booting from an 800k
floppy, since Easy Access isn't normally installed on one.
-- 
David Empson

Internet: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz    EMPSON_D@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand
From: mattd@apple.com (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Window Managing Help
Date: 24 Aug 92 23:24:45 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Developer Technical Support, Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <1992Aug21.025859.29356@news.iastate.edu>, irsman@iastate.edu
(Ian Schmidt) wrote:
> 
> if the user clicks in the window (changing
> the position of the selection cursor) while an update event is pending, Bad 
> Things happen (ie, I redraw the cursor, but if its old position isn't part of
> the update region I end up with two cursors [not mouse cursors!] in the window,
> which is obviously messy).  Does anyone know of an easy (or even not-so-easy:) way around this?
> 
>     _IanSchmidt(oINet+irsman@iastate.edu,oBITNET+twbv4@isuvax,$C000)

Yes -- don't draw in your window outside of your window's update routine.

If you move the cursor from one place to another, you should invalidate the
place where the cursor used to be, and invalidate the place where it should
be.  When you get your next update event, your redraw routine should know
where the cursor's supposed to be now and draw things correctly.

If you want to draw in your window outside of your update routines, make
sure you don't wind up drawing something that your update routine will
draw differently, and make sure you set up the Window Manager environment
properly.

============================================================================
Matt Deatherage, Developer Support Center, Apple Computer, Inc.
Personal mail only -- please POST technical questions, questions about
Apple and its policies, where to find documents and related inquiries.
The opinions I express don't represent Apple, which makes us both happy.
============================================================================
From: usr6473a@TSO.UC.EDU (Christopher Tarnowieckyi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Genealogical software experiences?
Date: 1 Sep 92 04:05:01 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

FORWARDED FROM: /mail/64/usr6473a(#4093) From:info-apple-request@apple.com 08/29/92 00:07
Has anyone found/used any genealogical software on an
Apple // (particularly a //gs)? I already have the
Tiny Tafel program from AOL but would like to hear the
experiences of others out there to help me get started.

Thanks.
-- 
Kevin S. Green / lucifer@world.std.com / {xylogics;uunet}!world!lucifer
               /America Online: Gargoth

-----FORWARDED BY: usr6473a(Christopher Tarnowieckyi)
You need to buy and read the Apple II guide.  It has a story in there
about a genealogical users group in Cincinnati, Ohio.  You should be
able to obtain a copy at you local users group or you could call Apple
and order it (but then you'd get a whole case of them.)  It should only
cost about $4.

Also, I
        heard that Shoebox from Seven Hills software has a part that
will record a family tree.  Anyone know for sure?

Chris Tarnowieckyi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: LaserWriter Driver in 6.0.1
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 21:47:01 GMT

In article <hm75799@pro-calgary.cts.com> trentc@pro-calgary.cts.com (Trent Corney) writes:
>With the talk of the release of version 6.0.1, does anyone know if the
>LaserWriter driver has been fixed to work correctly with the IIf and IIg
>printers? There was a bug in trying to print some colors out to it.

Talking about a possible new LW driver, is there any hope that it would 
support Postscript level 2?

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: From Apple Corp. To Us.
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:59:48 GMT

In article <m0mO5q2-0000erC@crash.cts.com> kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan) writes:
>> From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
>> Good. Now that you've received the compliment, when will AudioZap recognize
>> sampling rates and support the Zip GS?! Also, do you know of a NDA which will
>> digitize using the AA (and save to a file).
>
>Huh? I've been using AudioZap the last few nights to digitize some sounds and
>had no trouble's using in on my 10Mhz Zip. What do you mean?

Well, I used to have to turn off the Zip (10/64k) in order to get things to
work. Perhaps 6.0 helped. What I was referring to was the information which
would set the sampling rate to the playback rate (as opposed to guessing).

By the way, I need colour Postscript Level 2! Is their hope for that?

[ ]

Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Video Boards And The Toolbox
Date: 30 Aug 92 04:45:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: cco.1992Aug30.044549.6364
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

This is the most feasible VGA board plan I've seen yet; the only question I
have is how do you intend to plug it into the system (so that $E2-E5 can be
mapped to it) and if you're going to use the CPU socket how will it deal
with accelerators. You probably should get a scope and see what the bus does
when you acces $e2-e5 -- the system may attempt to do a mega II access and
that could really get in the way unless you get sneaky and add bus interface
hardware.

I'd also want to be able to upgrade the VRAM to a meg.

Much of the tough questions as to toolbox support have already been answered,
or at least we know what the problems would be. Jawaid can probably tell you
more about that.

As far as buying it, let me put it this way: I'll buy one so I can use it with
LHG (which is not dead, in case anyone's wondering, Binscii II is just taking
priority over it).

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: mvats@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mudit P Vats)
Subject: Re: Dragon's Lair II for the GS?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 18:45:56 GMT

In article <hn05097@pro-scat.cts.com> bslog@pro-scat.cts.com (Bill Logsdon) writes:
>
>Well, I know the original Dragon's Lair was released for the GS... As well
>as Space Ace, two very similar (in appearance) programs, on a heck of alot
>of disks (about 7 if I remember right)....

Where can I get a hold of Dragon Lair I ???????  Is is marketed by the same
people that make Dragon Lair II ??

thanks.


-- 
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From: pauley@VNET.IBM.COM ("P. H. Benson ", Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ProTerm 3.0/VT-100 emulator/vi editor
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:47:16 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

derich@netcom.com (Scott A. Steinbrink) writes:

>I'm having a problem having my Proterm 3.0 emulate VT-100 on my APple IIGS

There are a couple of things you can do.  You can reset the keys on the
UNIX by the stty command.  I forget the actual values, but they are pretty
obvious.  Or, you can just use the j, k, l, & m keys to move the cursor
while in vi.

Pauley
GEnie: P.Benson1
The opinions are my own and not IBM's.
From: marc@cxr_rs6000.med.ge.com (Marc Wolfgram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:  SHR -> TIFF/PICT converters?
Date: 3 Sep 92 21:45:37 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

There is a Mac Shareware app called Imager which we used to take SHR shots
into PageMaker for the Foundation manual.  It works very well!

Marc
From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: hfs fst
Date: 30 Aug 92 22:32:08 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin

In article <1992Aug29.075706.8761@serveme.chi.il.us> kgapp@gagme (Kevin Gapp) writes:
> Ok, here is a question about the HFS fst.  The other day I pooped a
> old mac disks (1-2 years old) into the gs.  A dialog box came up
> telling me that this was a MFS disk, and that System 6.0 can only read
> HFS disks.  Now I have two questions, the first is: What mac os used
> mfs?

There's a program called MacTransGS that will read MFS disks and
convert files to ProDOS... if you can ftp, it's on
wuarchive.wustl.edu
/mirrors3/archive.umich.edu/apple2/8bit/util/mactransgs.bsq
(whew!). If you can't ftp, send me some email and I'll mail you a
copy... :)
-- 
David Huang                                 |
Internet: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu          | "Microwaves: They're not just
UUCP: ...!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu!daveh   |     for cooking anymore."
America Online: DrWho29                     |
From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tuu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: When is the tick counter incremented?
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:44:36 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


In article <1992Aug27.033705.14955@cco.caltech.edu> toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
}heh ... //e history time folks. The //e has a vertical blanking signal you can
}read at $C019 if I remember right. The Mega II in the IIgs, seeing as how it
}was originally designed for a low-cost //e model and not the IIgs, also

I never heard about that.. Are there any more interesting details?
-- 
/unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu   used ADB trackball WANTED          Apple II Forever!\
\Mail me:Get INFOCOM GAMES RERELEASED for //s, ULT VI GS done,for UNIX GS info/
What the world needs now is another folk singer like I need a hole in my head.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: max@isis.eng.hou.compaq.com (Max Heffler)
Subject: Re: UniDos
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:51:31 GMT

lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:

>There were 3 packages for using Dos 3.3 on 3.5" disks.  The first was shareware
>by Gary Little, who after that point went to work for Apple.  I think
>it's name was Unidos.  He removed it from the market when a lot of folks
>took copies from Compuserve but didn't pay the shareware fee.

>The next was a commercial product by Nibble - I forget what it's name was.

AmDOS
-- 
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Compaq Computer Corporation             uucp: ..!uunet!max@compaq.com
P.O. Box 692000 - M050701               phone: (713) 378-8366
Houston, Texas  77269-2000              fax:   (713) 374-7305
"The views expressed here are my own, and not those of my employer."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: bbs.brennan@tsoft.sf-bay.org (Brennan Pang)
Subject: Apple //c LCD screens
Organization: The TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:04:02 GMT

I am looking for an Apple //c LCD display. Does anyone have one for sale 
or know where I can purchase one?

Also, anyone have any info on //c internal hard drives?

Brennan

--
Brennan Pang (bbs.brennan@tsoft.sf-bay.org)
From: arb@sunsrvr3.cci.com (Anthony Bean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: GS RAM board for sale
Date: 25 Aug 92 15:27:04 GMT


	I have a 2MEG RAM board for sale.
It is (was) made by CheckMate Technology. 
It is NOT DMA compatable
It is NOT compatable with a CVTech board (I tried it).
AND It didn't seem to work with a ROM3 machine.

Dispite all the NOT's it works fine with a ROM1. I used it for about 2 years.
I know some people still have ROM1's with 1.25 MEG.
If would like to have 2.25 MEG, give me a reply.
I will sell it cheap. 
I'm going to ask $70.00, but feel free to make an offer, cash or trade.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo)
Subject: Ramfast scsi card for sale
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:41:44 GMT

One ramfast scsi interface, with just upgraded roms, $100 obo

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:   CIS Eng Ohio State        : NeXTMail>  shane@kiwi.shws.ohio-state.edu :
:GS:::: Apple II forever!! ::::::GO BUCKS!::::::: Play Lacrosse! :::::::GS:

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: mmunson@intruder.es.com (Mark Munson)
Subject: Perspective View 3D Animation Toolkit
Followup-To: PV stuff, whoever posted, PLEASE READ! 
Keywords: graphics HiRes 3D 3d 3-D animation Apple
Reply-To: mmunson@intruder.es.com (Mark Munson)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:01:50 GMT


Keith:

Perspective View is an animation tool that allows you to add real-time 3-D graphics
to an 8-Bit Apple II program.  Interfaces are included to allow the binary code to
be added to an existing AppleSoft BASIC or 6502 assembly program.

The program uses page flipping and color dithering to allow up to 16 possible color 
combinations on the standard Apple // Hires screen.  There are several drawing modes
that allow OR, AND, and XOR (non-destructive) graphics to be displayed.

PV will animate up to 16 seperate shapes at the same time, while displaying accuate 3-D
perspective.  All models are constructed from wire frame images that you generate via a
graphical editor.

A manaual is available that describes how to program in both assembly and BASIC.  Sample
programs are provided that demonstrate how to use most of the features within the PV package.

A flyer is available that describes PV in more detail, and lets you order the manual.  I seem
to recall that a copy of the manual with disk ran about $25 (just enough to cover costs).

[MGM]
From: marc@cxr_rs6000.med.ge.com (Marc Wolfgram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:  Apple SCSI card
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:47:21 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

That is a Rev C card... only one jumper is required to set the scsi address,
I believe putting the jumper in the front-most position will give you the
correct Apple II host address of 7... Somebody else may be able to confirm
this.

Marc
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: t_captain@bluemoon.rn.com (Tc Wilson)
Subject: Re: Finder
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 10:39:54 EDT

larry@lablues.UUCP (Lawrance A. Schneider) writes:

> When you quit the "Finder," you are given a dialog box.  The
> normal highlighted option is "Shut Down (Turn..." I would like
> the normal highlighted option to be "Quit to previous
> application." i.e. ProSel.  HOW???      Thanks    Larry

Simple to do - use a resource editor such as Genesys or Foundation and 
change the dialog. Finder doesn't override the default for that particular 
dialog, so you can (and I have, since I boot into Out2Launch) change the 
default.

Other interesting things to do....

o Change the icons
o Change the menu selections (Close All is now Shut Mouth)
o Change the help text (just for yits and yiggles)
o Change the Error.Msg file from "...Shut the GS down safely" to "shoot
  the GS full of holes"


Tc Wilson/The Captain           "Programming is an art form
t.captain@bluemoon.rn.com        that fights back."
.... or try: TCQ, The Captain's Quarters (614) 294-0556, 300-38400 hst
From: deviant@yang.earlham.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: SuperInfo III
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:38:56 GMT
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

SuperInfo III is now available!
Does anyone want it posted to c.b.a2?  If so I could do it.  I'd like to 
check with Jim Lazar first, but since there isn't any way of contacting 
him via internet, I'm stuck.  But just recieved my upgrade yesterday and 
it's great!

There's one for paying you shareware fee!

-- 

ala the Deviant@Yang.Earlham.Edu
   "You think you are ever so cleaver, however, you won't trap me there.
     Its turtles all the way down."
From: CAPTANSKI33@SNYCORVA.BITNET (CHRIS TANSKI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple's Education sales and stats
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:45:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

I don't think that teachers are turning to PC's in fact I think that most
schools are continuing to buy Apple II's and Macs. Mostly because IBM's
seem to be to complicated to use. And those companies know it. Why else do
you think Microsoft created Windows. Because they wanted IBM's to be more
like Mac's and the IIGS. No, I don't think apple's losing business to IBM.
It's probably the opposite.
From: kozlowij@UWWVAX.UWW.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: 8-bit FORTH available on GEnie
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:02:54 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

unsubscribe info-apple John Kozlowicz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)
Subject: Re: Blue Helmet & TimeLord
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:35:21 GMT

I suspect that what Phillip means is that you drive for 3 or 4 mins and then
it brings your system down in a fairly random fashion...this happens to me
and everyone I've talked to...


-- 
    _IanSchmidt(oINet+irsman@iastate.edu,oBITNET+twbv4@isuvax,$C000)
     Support Alternative Computing: Apple IIgs, C= Amiga, Atari ST
 "I will choose a path that's clear: I will choose free will" - Neil Peart
From: fisher2557@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Nibble and RWTS Information
Date: 1 Sep 92 10:40:42 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

There has been an incredible response to both the posting I made on the DuoDisk
article in Nibble and to the direct drive access info I have.  To avoid putting
my tongue in a splint due to stamp licking, I have elected to muddle my way
into figuring out BinScii and simply type in and upload the info to the .BIN
group.  The DuoDisk I can possibly transfer tonight, (if all goes well with
BinScii!!) but the drive info will take a while to enter in.  Hang on...

-- 

later,
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From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Apple's Education sales & stats
Summary: Stats from Macweek
Keywords: some interesting stats
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:15:52 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University

These are some stats about Apple's Education sales: (ripped w/o
permission from Macweek)

Apple, IBM Corp. and Tandy Corp. computers received good grades from
the nation's K-12 public schools for the 1992-1992 school year.  The
three companies accounted for 82% of an estimated 3 million personal
computers purchased, according to Quality Education Data Inc., of Denver.


                             Installed     Market Share
                                  Base     Percentage

Apple (total)................ 1,503,639    65.6
  Apple II................... 1,326,528    57.8
  Apple II GS................    78,353     3.4
  Macintosh..................    99,758     4.4
IBM Corp.....................   324,214    17.0
Tandy Corp...................   185,782     7.2
Commodore International......    87,982     3.8


I thought some of you might get some interest out of this....

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:GS:::: Apple II forever!! ::::::GO BUCKS!::::::: Play Lacrosse! :::::::GS:
From: jcooper@utkvx4.utk.edu (Jonathan Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Nobody knows the answer to my "memory expansion" question?
Summary: Replace the chips.
Date: 24 Aug 92 05:43:00 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Aug19.122046.15716@ll.mit.edu>, yasu@ll.mit.edu (Alan Yasutovich) writes...
> 
> 
>	I posted a question about memory expansion on an apple IIc.
> 
>	Can I simply replace the dram's with bigger ones?

no.  the machine will not recognize that it now has more memory.

>	Alan Yasutovich
>	"inquiring  (and nosey) minds WANT TO KNOW!!!"
>	I can remember when "safe sex" meant having a padded headboard!!
>	Tick Tock.....Tick Tock......Tick Tock .....Tick Tock......
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens)
Subject: Re: Apple II RWTS codes.
Organization: Labtam Australia Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:03:13 GMT

ncp@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Neal Pitts) writes:

>>> The stuff in DOS 3.3 reads the raw data and then analyzes it,
>while the ProDOS routine analyzes it while it's reading (where analyze ==
>convert from 6+2 encoding to plain data). <<

>Is there any good reason for ProDOS to do this?  I would think that it would
>have taken the speed penalty for a good reason...

  ProDOS's way is faster.  Since ProDOS reads and writes data in blocks (two
sectors at a time), having the two sectors of a block physically adjacent means
they can be read and written quicker.  And to top it off, this arrangement
allows the interleave to be 2:1, compared to DOS 3.3's interleave of 3:1.
  So there you go!

  Philip Stephens
  Labtam Australia Pty Ltd
  philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2