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From: acct069@carroll1.cc.edu (Ron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ProTerm 3.0/VT-100 emulator/vi editor
Date: 28 Aug 92 03:02:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: carroll1.3293
Organization: Lightning Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug27.141016.15472@news.iastate.edu> irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) writes:
>[PT3 and vi don't get along]
>
>Dunno 'bout vi (ick) but Proterm 3.0p's VT-100 gets along quite nicely with
>both Emacs and the VAX EVE Editor.  Therefore, if you have the patched PT3
>maybe you need to rebind some keys or something.
>
>
I'm currently using the vt-100 emulation in ProTERM v3.0 on my //e with
'vi' without too much trouble.  I much prefer to use ProTERM Special
Emulation with 'vi', and am only using vt-100 because of an incompatability
earlier with the 'more' command on this system.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Renaissance...
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 11:20:38 GMT

In article <m0mP9WM-0000NpC@crash.cts.com> ncp@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Neal Pitts) writes:
>>> Will Harmonie drive DeskWriter? <<
>
>Harmonie will drive DeskWriter.  If the add says it will drive DeskJet, then
>don't worry because the DeskJet and the Desk Writer are the same printer; one
>for the Mac (Writer) and one for the PC (Jet).

The DW and the DJ are not the same printer ( direct from HP technical
support). It's not just an issue of different coloured cases.
 
Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.toronto.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: pbauer@athena.mit.edu (Paul H Bauer)
Subject: SCSI CARD WANTED!!
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 04:05:30 GMT

I am looking for a Rev. C Apple SCSI card. Does anyone have one they would
like to get rid of?

	pbauer@athena.mit.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: schultp@wl.com (Paul Schultz)
Subject: Re: Renaissance...
Organization: Warner Lambert / Parke-Davis
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 04:16:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.112038.11821@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>In article <m0mP9WM-0000NpC@crash.cts.com> ncp@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Neal Pitts) writes:
>>>> Will Harmonie drive DeskWriter? <<
>>
>>Harmonie will drive DeskWriter.  If the add says it will drive DeskJet, then
>>don't worry because the DeskJet and the Desk Writer are the same printer; one
>>for the Mac (Writer) and one for the PC (Jet).
>
>The DW and the DJ are not the same printer ( direct from HP technical
>support). It's not just an issue of different coloured cases.
> 
>Philip McDunnough
>philip@utstat.toronto.edu

I'm sure I will be quickly corrected but I believe this to be correct:

The DeskWriter (being designed specifically for the Mac) does not have
built-in (resident) fonts while the DeskJet does.  For this reason, the
DeskWriter can not be used with ProDOS 8 applications -- in other words,
if you have an application that sends the ASCII code for characters to
a printer, the DeskWriter won't understand them! -- the DeskJet will.
For this reason, it is a better idea to buy the DeskJet if you will be
printing from any 8 bit applications.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: MSDOS FST
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 06:03:03 GMT

In article <1992Aug29.130455.22148@slate.mines.colorado.edu> gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu (DESROCHERS GARY FREDERIC) writes:
> David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
> : 
> : The MS-DOS FST will probably only support 5.25" drives connected to
> : the PCT, NOT Apple 3.5 Drives.
> 
>      Really?  The finder already gives an error identifying the disk in the
> Apple 3.5 as a MSDOS volume.  It seems as though any MSDOS FST aught to
> find the same thing.

Do you mean an Apple 3.5 connected to a PC Transporter?  Finder
certainly doesn't recognise MS-DOS volumes in a 3.5" drive connected to
the IIgs drive port.  It DOES recognise them in a SuperDrive with the
Apple 3.5 Disk Controller Card.

I don't use the Apple 3.5 with my PCT, since I have a SuperDrive card.
It was so slow accessing 800k disks through the PCT that I never
enabled the drive.

The PC Transporter goes to a lot of trouble to get the Apple 3.5 Drive
to access MS-DOS disks, but it can't do it perfectly (e.g. a disk
formatted on the Apple 3.5 Drive cannot be read on most real PCs).

> [MS-DOS FST accessing the PCT hard drive file]
>
> : Hey, neat idea!  Unfortunately, I think this falls into the "too hard"
> : basket.  The main problem is that the MS-DOS hard drive file is a file
> : on a ProDOS volume.  You would therefore have to have the MS-DOS and
> : ProDOS FSTs interacting with each other.  Ugly!
> 
>      Hey it may be too hard for Apple but there is something that can
> access and read MSDOS Hard drive-files called DOS2GS.  You can copy files
> and stuff like that.

Not too hard for APPLE to do, just too hard to support in GS/OS.  The
best way to do it would be to allow a device driver to perform GS/OS
calls (via another file system).  Since GS/OS isn't re-entrant, this
is not possible.

This is an ideal area for third-party utilities to deal with (it just
can't be done transparently).

[Ah, the old "it can't be done" statement.  I'm just waiting for
someone to prove me wrong...]  :-)
-- 
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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn)
Subject: Re: Blue Helmet & TimeLord
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:43:29 GMT


To: Philip McDunnough
Re: Blue Helmet

If you downloaded Blue Helmet from c.b.a2 (or Genie or CompuServe), then you
have the version that was patched to let those with ROM3's steer to both the
left and right.

I'd sure appreciate hearing back from you, because, I just have no way of
testing to see if the patch does indeed work. If you downloaded the version
I uploaded with the patch, and it does indeed let you steer to the left and
right, then I'll sleep a little sounder tonight.

BTW, the Blue Helmet patch was the brain child of Matt Keller of the DYA.

Joe Kohn
From: foegelle@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Michael Foegelle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: The Perennial Piracy Debate (was Re: Bilestoad)
Date: 30 Aug 92 16:43:47 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <a9cnbba.payner@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
>In article <19776@fritz.filenet.com> ung@fritz.filenet.com (Bill Ung) writes:
>>In article <m#4m!3l.payner@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
>>|In article <19474@fritz.filenet.com> ung@fritz.filenet.com (Bill Ung) writes:
>>||In article <!frms1j.payner@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
>>|||In article <15cv1aINN1md@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tuu) writes:
>>||||
>>||||In article <avnmy+_.payner@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
                <Garbage deleted for brevity.>

Lord, I thought we were through with this!  I think I probably speak for most
everyone on the net that this topic is more than a little out of date, and any
more flaming you two have to do to each other should be done in private E-mail
and not be wasting money and space on the net.  (You'll notice the last 4 posts
have been just between Bill and Rich.)  So take it to the E-mail or give it a
rest!  

Michael Foegelle
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From: marc@cxr_rs6000.med.ge.com (Marc Wolfgram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:  NDA Ideas
Date: 25 Aug 92 13:49:29 GMT
Organization: The Internet

There IS a tetris NDA for the GS - can't remember the name or author though!
Marc
From: gurman@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (JOE GURMAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS system for sale
Keywords: Apple II, IIGS, for sale, TransWarp GS
Date: 23 Aug 92 18:24:00 GMT
Organization: NASA/GSFC-Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

In article <gurman.714530799@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov>, I wrote:

>    Apple IIGS system for sale:
> 
>	IIGS system box with SCSI controller card
>	Apple 12-inch RGB monitor
>	AE RAM card with 1.5 Mbyte
>	External 20 Mbyte AMR SCSI disk
>	3.5-inch floppy drive
>	5.25-inch floppy drive
>	standard keyboard
> 
>	+lots of software:
>		Orca C
>		GraphicWriter III
>		games: Shadowgate, Revolution '76, Silent Service,
>			Bard's Tale I&II, Stickybear ABC, Russia, others
> 
>Asking $1,000 or best offer (not including shipping), but will listen to
>any reasonable offer.
> 
>Please reply by e-mail to: gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov

    I forgot the reason this system is worth $1K (to me, anyway): the
**** TransWarp GS card! ****
> 
>				Joe Gurman
From: masstor@netcom.com (Masstor Systems Corp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Request: whither Sharedata?
Date: 31 Aug 92 23:42:59 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Reply-to:slan@west.darkside.com

My legal, but never registered, copy of Sharedata'a Classic Concentration
has died of bit rot.  This leaves my 4-year-old quite distraught (He's
pretty good for an illiterate).  Does anyone know what has become of the
remains of Sharedata, Inc.?  The Arizona numbers from the box are dead,
and Arizona directory assistance has no knowledge of the company.  I
see a PC and NES version of Jeopardy described on the TV Jeopardy, so at
least one of Sharedata's products survived.  Any help out there?

Thanks,
  Paul Thrasher
  slan@west.darkside.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: jeremy@hal.isc.toronto.ibm.com
Subject: MSDOS FST
Summary: PCT and this FST 
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:23:08 GMT
Organization: IBM Canada RS/6000 Support Center
Keywords: FST PCT MSDOS

  Well, I am finally posting.  And I've got a suggestion for this FST.  I
  have a PC Transporter and I realize that devices off of the PCT chain
  will work (according to reports I've heard) as MSDOS devices with this
  forthcoming FST.  What I would like is for the FST to recognize the MSDOS
  volumes that are created to simulate hard drives.

  Here is the situation for people that don't own a PCT.  The software creates
  a file on a prodos volume, which it fools DOS into thinking is a hard drive.
  What I would like is for the new FST to recognize this file and treat it
  like a folder.  Then you could click on the file and copy things into and
  out of your MSDOS hard drive, without going into the PC Transporter software.

  Is this possible?  Can an FST be written to do such a thing?  I am unfamiliar
  with the design of FST's but I realize that this may cause problems because
  the ProDOS FST is used to access the volume to begin with.  Also, is the 
  format of the file released from Applied Engineering (or is this a stupid
  question)?  Thanks for all your help with this.

  Jeremy Rand
  jeremy@toronto.ibm.com
  (My views are my own and do not represent those of my employer, even the
  stupid ones)
From: seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple II RWTS codes.
Date: 28 Aug 92 06:20:43 GMT
Organization: Univ of Rochester, College of Engineering and Applied Science

In article <m0mNh96-000130C@crash.cts.com> 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...

There is no speed penalty under ProDOS...it's faster than DOS 3.3's sector
read routine.  DOS 3.3 reads the 6+2 encoded disk bytes into two buffers,
then performs the conversion into 8-bit bytes after the sector has been
completely read.  ProDOS does the analysis on-the-fly through some
clever look-up tables with pre-shifted values.  It's able to do this as
bytes are flying in "live" from the disk...way cool.
-- 
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From: tomk@pro-nsdapple.cts.com (Tom Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Can I use a II+ power supply in a IIe?
Date: 28 Aug 92 05:56:45 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ProLine [pro-nsdapple] - North San Diego Apple Users Group

The ][+ supply should work fine in the ][e.
Even better would be splice a "old" pc supply onto the cable from the bad
supply and have a external PS.   It will have TWICE power rating of the
original (at least).
From: spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Blue Helmet & TimeLord
Date: 29 Aug 92 08:18:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


  I just saw a copy of FTA's "Blue Helmet" and DWS's "TimeLord" demo floating
around on a local BBS. Unfortunately, it's very unlikely I'd be able to get
these from there, yet I'm wondering why someone hasn't uploaded the two 
demo/games to comp.binaries.apple2 or an FTP site. I'm fairly sure they've
been put into the public-domain as they're merely demos....

  I'd -very- much like to see both! Can someone let me know if they're already 
available on certain online services (GEnie, AOL) or an FTP?


Mitchell Spector             
spector@vax2.concordia.ca
From: fisher2557@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ProTerm 3.0/VT-100 emulator/vi editor
Date: 28 Aug 92 09:53:02 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

>> I'm having a problem having my Proterm 3.0 emulate VT-100 on my APple IIGS
>> When I use an UNIX editor (vi for example), it would not function the 
>> up/down arrows and right and left arrows do strange things. That's why
>> whenever I need to edit a file or to response alongside a reply, I use another
>> computer. I much rather use my own.  Any ideas?

I just remembered I had changed my macros in ProTERM!  If you are using the TPU
editor, you can redefine keys.  This allows you to redefine the control
characters that are your apple's arrow keys into the proper escape sequence. 
It takes two lines of macro space to define all arrows.  Work with it a little
and I'm sure you'll get it.
-- 

later,
 Nathan                           (this tag line is umop ap!sdn)
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From: chris.lambertus@uttsbbs.uucp (Chris Lambertus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: RE: ADVICE ON CONVERSION?
Date: 27 Aug 92 22:34:00 GMT
Reply-To: chris.lambertus@uttsbbs.uucp (Chris Lambertus)
Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591

-> >My question is this: I have all sorts of old programs and things
-> that I used t >deal with, and they're ALL in DOS 3.3.
-> >[...] So, I'd like to move it all to
-> >3.5" disks, but what is the best way to do that?  Do I have to
-> convert >everything over to ProDOS?

Well, archiving is fine, but if you want to retain the usefullness of
the DOS 3.3 files, use AMDOS..it's a shareware utility that patches DOS
and FID to work with 800k disks.  It splits the disk into 2 400k
volumes, s5,d1 and s5,d2.  I've used it myself, and it works great.

-Chris
                                                                                   
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Blue Helmet & TimeLord
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 00:17:21 GMT

In article <1808vfINNjgj@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tuu) writes:

[ ]
>
>	Well, I can't steer to the right, and I've got a ROM 1. Apparently
>from what you've said, this is expected.

I have a ROM03 and can steer both ways. It would be nice if someone were to
write a program along the lines of Blue Helmet. It's kind of like Super
Hang On from Sega. Nevertheless, for the moment I couldn't think of a better
game than Pick'n'Pile and that is available at a very reasonable price. It's
from the GNO people. Great addictive game.
 
Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
From: gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Question...
Date: 27 Aug 92 22:02:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.UebQ65C00WB30pNtJW
Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


  I've seen mention of Out of This World and TimeLords demos.  Are
they available to the public?  Will the games themselves be available
soon?

		-Greg T.
		 InterNet: gregt+@cmu.edu
		       or: gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu
		 BITNet  : R746GT0T@CMCCVB
		 AOL     : GRThompson
From: deviant@yang.earlham.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: SuperInfo III sent to binaries
Date: 28 Aug 92 21:14:16 GMT
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

Okay, now it's done.  Off and away to be archived at whatever those 
archive sites are across the country (world?).

SuperInfo III has now been posted to the binaries newsgroup.
Remember, it's shareware.
   (and I didn't include the non-shareware module, find file, which is new 
and marketed towards REGISTERED users.  it's smooth and includes similar 
functions to the find file on the mac's sytem 7)

-- 

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: gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu (DESROCHERS GARY FREDERIC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: MSDOS FST
Date: 29 Aug 92 13:04:55 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
: 
: The MS-DOS FST will probably only support 5.25" drives connected to
: the PCT, NOT Apple 3.5 Drives.

     Really?  The finder already gives an error identifying the disk in the
Apple 3.5 as a MSDOS volume.  It seems as though any MSDOS FST aught to
find the same thing.

: Hey, neat idea!  Unfortunately, I think this falls into the "too hard"
: basket.  The main problem is that the MS-DOS hard drive file is a file
: on a ProDOS volume.  You would therefore have to have the MS-DOS and
: ProDOS FSTs interacting with each other.  Ugly!

     Hey it may be too hard for Apple but there is something that can
access and read MSDOS Hard drive-files called DOS2GS.  You can copy files
and stuff like that.

: Another problem: you can have a split MS-DOS volume covering two
: files.  There isn't any easy way to associate these files with each
: other (no standard naming conventions; they don't even have to be on
: the same drive).

     Yeah, that is a real problem.

Gary
gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu
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From: djredick@bluemoon.rn.com (Darrin J. Redick)
Subject: Re: Blue Helmet & TimeLord
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 09:43:43 EDT

spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) writes:

> 
>   I just saw a copy of FTA's "Blue Helmet" and DWS's "TimeLord" demo floating
> around on a local BBS. Unfortunately, it's very unlikely I'd be able to get
> these from there, yet I'm wondering why someone hasn't uploaded the two 
> demo/games to comp.binaries.apple2 or an FTP site. I'm fairly sure they've
> been put into the public-domain as they're merely demos....
> 
>   I'd -very- much like to see both! Can someone let me know if they're alread
> available on certain online services (GEnie, AOL) or an FTP?
> 
> 
Don't waste your time with Blue Helmet.  It's unfinished, and you cannot
turn the car very far going through curves.  It's simply not worth it.


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From: donaldf@pro-applebcs.UUCP (Donald Franklin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: KFest stuff
Date: 27 Aug 92 01:31:30 GMT
Organization: Proline [pro-applebcs] Boston Computer Society


Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: kippley@cwis.unomaha.edu (Kip Kippley)
Subject: Re: Apple's Education sales & stats
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Distribution: World
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 12:23:39 GMT

Don't believe it in the state of Nebraska!  I'm an Apple Education Sales Consultant
for Computer Systems, Inc. We are the largest selling Apple Computer dealer
in the state and 78% of all computers sold to schools in 1991-1992 were Apple.
There were still respectable number of Apple II GSs but mostly Macintosh.

                ** Kip **
                

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)
Subject: Re: Ramfast and Tape Backup units..
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 00:45:57 GMT

toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:

>behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens) writes:

>>b) tape units can be used for other things than backing up some MB of data.
>>   I'd like to use it for exchanging data with friends in tar format.
>>   Of course, I can't, because I cannot write to the tape. *Sigh*
>Here is the fallacy. You CAN write to the tape; just not the way you think you
>should be able to. I said this before: Tape Drives Are Not Random Access.

I do not want Random Access. Did I ever say I did? No. 'tar' was never based
on random access. BTW, you can random access some tapes ... but that requires
vendor specific commands (and special drivers), of course.

Now, for writing to the tape ...

>You have essentially three options, in order of increasing feasability:
>	1. order the RF programmers docs and write your own tape driver into
>          your program.

Aha. A bit strange ... this entity called "OS" is usually supposed to handle
all peripherals. Oh well, never mind.

>	2. wait for CVT to write a GS/OS tape driver for the RF.

What I am doing right now. I just wished they would actually write one ...
I do not know if they will do it or when.

>	3. buy an Apple DMA SCSI and use the SCSITAPE driver.

Didn't we all have a good laugh on this one ;-) I am _not_ bathing in money.

Soenke
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