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From: ftit@engin.umich.edu (waltz)
Subject: Needed: ][+ keyboard
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 15:46:53 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

As the subject implies, I need a keyboard for my Apple ][+.  The one
I've got not is hopelessly flaked-out and I really would like to do some
hacking on the old beastie.  So, if you've got a dead machine you're
keeping around for spare parts and it's got a functional keyboard,
please drop me a line and we'll discuss price, shipping arrangements, or
the Olden Days of Hardware.

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From: Pauley@vnet.ibm.com (Paul Benson)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 11:23:37 EST
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: One keyboard for 2 computers
Organization: IBM Personal Computer Co. - PS/1 Development
Disclaimer: This posting represents my views, not necessarily IBM's.
News-Software: UReply 3.0
            <19930106.070757.947@almaden.ibm.com>

In <19930106.070757.947@almaden.ibm.com> I wrote:
>The power problem would
>be solved by having the keyboard power pin being directly connected to
>one of the computers,

Oh yeah, and tie all the grounds together.

Pauley
GEnie: P.Benson1
From: FORDE@UV6.EGLIN.AF.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Memory test
Date: 6 Jan 93 02:54:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

If you intend to but haven't yet responded to my earlier post, here's some 
more info:

I am now convinced the problem lies with the AE memory test not being 
compatible with ROM 03.  I had my son remove the memory card and try the 
test and it failed in the same manner.  However, I also had him try the 
Appleworks GS memory test and it works fine with the memory card removed 
but fails with the card installed.  For this one I have two possible 
answers.  First, that memory test is incompatible with the memory card 
itself.  Second, the fact that the memory card is only equipped with 512k 
instead of fully populated with 1.5Meg could be causing the problem.  Note, 
I previously checked that card in the same 512k configuration on a ROM 01 
machine and everything was hunky dory (using the AE memory test but not 
AWGS).

By the way, the memory card he has is an original GS-RAM (not GS-RAM II and 
not GS-RAM Plus).  I haven't checked with AE Tech Support yet regarding the 
compatibility of that card with ROM 03.  Anyone have their 900 number 
handy?

Eric S. Ford
forde@uvg.eglin.af.mil
From: jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Subject: Re: Apple ][ Serial Card Technical Info
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 14:49:41 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.060444.6516@nuscc.nus.sg> scip2060@nusunix1.nus.sg (SARDJONO INSANI) writes:
>
>Hi,
>Does anybody know the technical information about apple serial card
>including the pinouts?
>Thanks
>

Hey I just happen to have my Apple II SSC Installation and Operating
Manual with me.

On page 98, under the section called Connector Pin Assignment:

10-pin	DB-25
header	Connector	Signal name
------	---------	------------
1	1		Frame Ground
2	2		Transmit Data (TXD)
3	3		Receive Data (RXD)
4	4		Request to Send (RTS)
5	5		Clear to Send (CTS)
6	6		Data Set Ready (DSR)
7	19		Secondary Clear to Send (SCTS)
8	7		Signal Ground
9	20		Data Terminal Ready (DTR)
10	8		Data Carrier Detect (DCD)

Okay, hope this helps!

>
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From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: DOS 3.3 Launcher
Date: 4 Jan 93 22:39:31 GMT

Say, could somebody put the current version of the DOS 3.3 Launcher on
ccosun for me?  I have a few programs I'd like to run under that.

Thanks!

- Eric S.

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From: cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: New Paintworks $C2 Animations
Date: 7 Jan 93 10:12:12 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In article <2B4AE2DC.10665@ics.uci.edu> jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.061050.2855@walter.cray.com> rl@ferris.cray.com (Randy Lambertus) writes:
>>
>> I down loaded the file, but when I try to open it from Paintworks Gold,
>>I get the error 004A. The file was on my hard drive. I then moved it
>>to a floppy, and the error changed to 004B. These errors both refer to
>>version levels? The HD is formatted under 6.0, and I am booting PW Gold
>>from it's own launcher program. Maybe my PW copy is hosed? Does anyone
>>know how to configure PW Gold to run under 6.0 on the HD? Did it
>>reqire an upgrade that I never got? I will have to dig out the original
>>PW Gold disk and make a new backup and try that one.
>
>Error 004A means "incompatible file format", it's probably because
>PW Gold is unable to display multi-palette animations (I can't verify
>this, since I don't have PW Gold, but this is my guess.)  Jason Harper's
>AniShow will play all animations, and if you like I'll post it BSQed
>to c.b.a2 or email a copy to you.  DreamGrafix, FinderView 3.0 and
>Platinum Paint v2.0 will also play multi-palette animations.

And where might I find AniShow?

	Tero Sand
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From: brandon.lacava@uttsbbs.uucp (Brandon Lacava)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: RANA CONTROLLER
Date: 11 Jan 93 19:05:00 GMT
Reply-To: brandon.lacava@uttsbbs.uucp (Brandon Lacava)
Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591

Is anyone familiar with the Rana Elite Controller (disk 2)?

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From: jbush@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (J Eric Bush)
Subject: Re: MAC LC IIe emulator question
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:20:21 GMT

In article <930112095558.2c20059e@BADORF.FNAL.GOV> BADDORF@BADORF.FNAL.GOV (Deb
) writes:
>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.
>
There are a couple of things that I would try.  First, try setting the IIe
Card Control Panel to normal speed rather than fast.  Second, I would make sure
that your type-ahead buffer is set to off.

If that doesn't work, then make sure that Easy Access (a Mac Control Panel)
is set to off.

If those don't work, then perhaps they will lead you in a direction that does.

Eric
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From: wsheffield@pro-ace.cts.com (Wayne Sheffield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Which accelerator?
Date: 8 Jan 93 01:06:55 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ProLine [pro-ace]

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.
From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: DO NOT put more "SoundSamples" on cco.caltech.edu
Date: 11 Jan 1993 11:54:02 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

The next time I see a 10 megabyte directory of sounds on cco.caltech.edu
I will delete it just as fast as I deleted "SoundSamples" this time. There
is a reason I deleted it the first time; it does not justify the space it
occupies. There are plenty of other FTP sites carrying sounds, and it is
extremely wasteful to store multiple megabytes of non Apple II specific
data in an Apple II specific format in a hierarchy dedicated to Apple II
specific material. This "CANYON" thing in the uploads directory had better
be damn impressive, or else it will be summarily nuked as well.

I'm sorry, but the days of cavalier archive bloating on CCO are over.
The pub/apple2 hierarchy is currently 55 megabytes (after I wiped the
SoundSamples directory again), down from _80_ which it was a month ago
when the admins sent me an ominous little email asking me how big the
archive was getting. Back when pub/apple2 was 20 or 30 megs, no one cared.
But it was and still is easily the second largest directory in ~ftp/pub,
and the only thing bigger is X11, which a lot of people want. In fact,
I am surprised that virtually no one noticed or said anything, because
I wiped a lot of stuff, some of which was not bad at all. But 10 megs
of data that does not need to be on CCO simply will no longer be on CCO.

The original idea for tybalt/CCO was to maintain all the really cool stuff
and the unique things that you might not be able to find at the standard
archiving FTP sites. Stuff that is not Apple II specific should mostly stay
on _other_ sites, with enough data files on tybalt/CCO to get somebody
started and whet their appetite when they download something like
NoiseTracker for the first time. Once they get serious, they had better
learn to look on other sites for the mass quantities anyway, so there is no
reason to keep redundant copies in pub/apple2.

If you think this is harsh, then here is something you should know: the
pub/apple2 directory is larger than the free space available on its disk.
Every other pub/ directory (besides X11) is less than 20 megs, and most are
less than 10. Be glad we have not been ejected from Caltech yet.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
From: VBCSC038@VAX.CSUN.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Tapers
Date: 7 Jan 1993 06:02:12 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

	I saw some files up on cco or whatever that needed Taper.  What is
GSTaper and ..  what does it require?

Brenden


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From: 90taobri@wave.scar (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Sound Resource Files
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:33:35 GMT
Organization: MuGS Research and Development Facility

The following revelation escaped Alan Stein's lips:
> 
> The various programs I have which deal with sounds, Hyperstudio and
> synthLab, don't seem to be able to create sound resource files.

    The version of Sound Shop that comes with Hyperstudio 3.1 can save
sounds as Sound Resource files.  I don't remember the exact version number,
but the mod date on it is around May 1992.  There's also rSounder by Paul
Benson which is a quick and simple utility for turning raw sound files into
a Sound Resource file.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: oususawm@Msu.oscs.montana.edu (Mark Wistey)
Subject: Booting from System 7 file server?
Reply-To: oususawm@Msu.oscs.montana.edu (Mark Wistey)
Organization: Montana State University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 06:59:23 GMT

I'm using a Mac Classic with System 7.0.1 as a hard drive for my 
Apple IIgs...  It's wonderful, but I can't startup from the Mac.
My question: Is it possible to directly boot a IIgs from a System 7 
Mac (boot from slot 7)?  If not, is there some other way I can use
the Mac as my System disk?  I ran the File Server Setup from the IIgs
Installer and tried starting the IIgs with a "Local network startup 
disk" created by the Installer.  When I tried to log into the server 
as a regular user or guest, the IIgs responded: "Contact the network 
administrator.  An unknown system error occurred."  When I tried to 
log in as the Mac owner, the IIgs reported: "Your startup 
configuration has not been set up properly.  Contact the network 
administrator."  
 
My systems: a ROM 01 "Woz" IIgs with 1 Meg RAM, no hard drive, System
6.0, one 3.5" and one 5.25" floppy, connected via serial cable to a 
Mac Classic, System 7.0.1 (with Tuneup), 40Mb hard drive, 4Mb RAM.  
AppleTalk is enabled on both machines.  Every IIgs folder on the Mac,
including the hard drive itself, has been set to allow sharing.
 
(For those of you who don't have a hard drive or who transfer a lot of
IIgs files through a Mac, you should still try this.  Even if you 
can't boot from your Mac's hard drive, it's still cheaper than buying 
a separate hard drive for your IIgs!)
 
I appreciate any suggestions and advice, and I'll answer e-mail 
questions promptly.  Please respond through e-mail; I miss a lot of
news articles.  Thanks!
 
 - Mark Wistey
ieeug330@eagle.oscs.montana.edu or gmw1142%msu.dnet@mtsunix1.bitnet
Quad E #23B, Bozeman MT 59715, (406) 994-4844 after Jan. 11.

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From: cd248@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Coop. vs preemptive multitasking (was Re: SwitchItpress release)
Date: 8 Jan 1993 07:48:46 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: cd248@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Sherman)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu



>Indeed.  MultiFinder is touted as multitasking but that's pushing it a
>bit; without *pre-emptive* multitasking it's still just
>Super-Switcher.  As Scott Anderson (I think) said, it's at the mercy
>of disk drive/SCSI/serial port/etc. access, which is often VERY
>annoying (STUPID PROGRAM! I DIDN'T *REALLY* WANT TO UNSTUFF THAT 20MB
>ARCHIVE!).
 
 
Actually, I thought Multifinder was just a switcher and didn't really
RUN all the programs at once, as opposed to system 7.0.  I could be
wrong about this.
 
Also, what is the big advantage of preemptive multitaksing on a single
user system?  I asked this same question on comp.sys.mac.system and what
it came down to was that cooperative multitasking (system 7.0) only
hands control over to the background programs when the foreground
program is  waiting for user input (most programs spend about 80% of
their time waiting  for user input).  While preemptive multitasking
hands control over after a designated time period.  What makes
cooperative multitasking bad is that a program could hog the cpu if it
weren't written right.  This might be valid for other computers but on a
mac (and a GS I think), control is  given to the background programs
whenever GetNextEvent is called.  The programmer would have to write the
program without using GetNextEvent for it to take over the cpu.
 
I'm not sure what you mean by "at the mercy of disk and serial port
interrupts".  I do know that you can do other things on a Mac with
system
7.0 while your copying files etc.  I also know that it's possible to use
other parts of AWGS while you're downloading a file with its (useless)
communications module.
 
I know preemptive is a better multitasking algorithm but so far I
haven't been convinced that it's the only "real" multitasking.  This
idea seems to have been made up by people trying to sell Amigas.
 

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From: lurch@eskimo.com (Erik Kloeppel)
Subject: Re: Spy Hunter GS???
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 04:08:54 GMT

... my vote gos to the Might & Magic pair... I STILL play those when I have
time (about an hour a week, these days).  Joystick games are too boring.


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From: noahm@pro-freedom.cts.com (Noah Magram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: **FOUND: Cryptograph!**
Date: 5 Jan 93 04:12:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1993Jan4.211218.8243
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)

I now have recived the program, thanks to all who helped.
 
Noah.

ProLine:  noahm@pro-freedom
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: scott@ne3005.reston.ingr.com (Scott Gentry)
Subject: Re: Gif to apple?
Organization: Intergraph Corp., Reston, VA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 22:58:16 GMT

zardini@taliesin.greco-prog.fr (zardini Olivier) writes:


>	You can use on the IIgs Supert Convert 3.1 (commercial) or
>GIF3200 (freeware). 

GIF3200 is shareware... though I don't know if Jonah would ever get the
money if you mailed it to him.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Prisoner
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:16:41 GMT

RPG118@URIACC.URI.EDU (Sean Dunstan) writes:
>Is this Prisoner game based on the TV series? (Y'know, "I am not a number?")

It does a pretty damned good job of trying to reproduce the feel,
that's for sure.  It's not an exact copy, i.e. the ball that gets you
if you try to escape looks sorta like Pac Man now, but...  It is truly
bizarre (in a good way).


>If so, I want info on a copy!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: ohlanm@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Matthew William Ohland)
Subject: Apple ][ equipment...
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:47:58 GMT

Hardware (Apple ][)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  Apple ][c system -- mint condition -- CPU/keyboard unit, power supply, 
               ][c monitor and monitor tilt stand, monitor cable,
               carrying case.  Acquired with copy of Apple Works,
               which I would say is of dubious origin.  I got
               machine in a surplus bid lot, and since the original
               Apple Works software was probably purchased with a CPU
               license, it might actually be a legal transfer of the 
               program.  Tested for hours.  System and software
               fully functional.  Looks like the U. of Florida system
               bought it and hardly used.  

  Apple ][ Plus -- CPU/keyboard unit, recognizes cards when installed,
                   cannot test further - do not have disk controller card.

  Apple ][e -- CPU/keyboard unit, recognizes cards when installed,
               cannot test further - do not have disk controller card.

  Apple Disk ][ -- 5.25" disk drive, cannot test, do not have controller card.

  Apple ][ cards:  128K RAM card (have two of these)
                   Serial ][ Card - ROM says "Super Serial"
                   Prometheus PRT-1 2.31A rev C, (printer controller, I assume)
                   AST SprintDisk A-SD-256 202089-301 C (don't know)    
                   Grappler+ printer interface ROM rev. 3.3
                   Prometheus Applesurance 3.1 rev B, Diagnostic Disk Controller
                   ][e 80 col/64K expansion card
                   Yih Lung I.C. Tester card (no idea)

        ** cards all look O.K., present diagnostic capabilities only  **
        ** suggest that expansion card and RAM cards are functional.  **

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Subject: Re: Program idea?
Reply-To: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 06:40:51 GMT

In article <C0KEFJ.CtB@utstat.toronto.edu> philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>
>LaunchPad is pretty neat although everytime I used to used it, it would set
>my Zip (10/64) back to 8Mhz (or maybe 9). Has this been fixed?

	Dunno, I don't use it, nor do I have a Zip... :(  You might
try sending Dave email.  He has a TWGS, which is why Zip support has
been added recently.  I believe Dave's email address is:
Davel32@aol.com.  Isn't the AOL-Internet gateway great?

>Philip McDunnough

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