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From: foegelle@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Michael Foegelle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Columns for the //e?
Summary: The author speaks out!
Date: 27 Jul 92 23:15:06 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Well, as the author of Columns //e (and Columns ][+) it's about time I got
on here and did something.  I've heard from a friend that there were recent
complaints online about not receiving the registration version after ordering.
I can guarantee that all registrations which I have received have been shipped
promptly.  To this date, I have received no complaints of un-delivered copies,
so it appears that any lost registrations have never reached me.  It is also
possible that some people have an altered copy of the Columns demo which has
a wrong address.  Although one would hope against it, that does happen.  I 
intend to put an up-to-date release of the demo(s) in comp.binaries.. in the
next few days.  For anyone who HAS sent in a registration which I have not
received, please contact me through E-mail and we can discuss the problem.
I think Columns //e is a great game, and have plenty of happy registered users
who agree with me.  I hope you will too.

Also, although still a ways from release, I have been working on both a //gs
and an IBM VGA version of Columns.  Although I've seen Shareware versions of
Columns on both machines, I don't think the little square blocks can compare, 
and the two player game blows 'em away!  So look for those sometime in the 
not too distant future!

Sincerely,
Michael Foegelle

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Life...)
Subject: Re: Need Telecomm program
Organization: Ursa Minor Beta, 402-476-8047 @ 2400
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:56:12 GMT

In comp.binaries.apple2, CTR55341@VAX1.UTULSA.EDU writes:

>I would appreciate it if someone could post the Monitor version of a
>public domain/shareware telecommunication program, so I can type it into
>my Apple IIc (I currently have no program, so I can't download any files
>directly)......When I say Monitor version, I mean the machine language
>output like this:
>0800:A6 B2 33............etc.
>Thanks a lot in advance......
>Jeff Scoville
>Research Assistant
>Erosion/Corrosion Research Center
>University of Tulsa

Amazing, how the discussion period for moderating comp.binaries.apple2
is at its high point, people are _still_ posting non-binaries in the
group in total ignorance.

Anyway, if someone is going to respond to this person, provide him with
BinSCII in Executioner format (I believe available from tybalt.caltech.-
edu via anonymous FTP), then send the telecom program.  He'll need
BinSCII anyway, so might as well get him started.  Besides, if he is
typing this into the IIc manually, entering BinSCII in executioner
format into a file and EXECing it will be faster than typing in a full
telecom program bytewise.

-- gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Life...)
From: taob@terranet.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Amiga.FST
Date: 31 Jul 92 08:46:49 GMT
Organization: The Internet

scottba@edsi.plexus.COM (Scott Anderson) writes...
>
>ERRRT.  WRONG. DEAD WRONG.  I HAVE seen the beta version of AMAX II+.

    Yup, beta version.  More vapourware, as Philip McD pointed out.

>I would suggest you see what I'm talking about before posting.
>If it were legal, I would send what I used to you. I'm not a beta
>tester of AMAX II+, but AMIGA users have definately taken the piracy
>helps me attitude (and have enough hackers to keep good software around
>without software companies) so I got to see it anyway.

    Oh no, here we go again...  :(
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong)
Subject: Re: HELP!  In need of a GS/OS guru!
Organization: Rice University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:52:44 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.160436.31690@slate.mines.colorado.edu> gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu (DESROCHERS GARY FREDERIC) writes:
>
>By the way who stores source code in an extended storage type file?
>That seems kinda silly to me.

TML Pascal II sotres information (font & size, I think) in a resource.


-- 
Jim Wong (jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: SOFT14@oop.dist.unige.it (Fabrizio Rossi)
Subject: Re: touch tone decoder card
Organization: DIST Universita` di Genova.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 10:33:08 GMT

BTW: is there a program to make the ensoniq generate touch-tones?

						CIAO

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From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: InnerDrive 3rd Partition under ProDOS 8 v2.0.1
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:23:30 GMT

Man, you're lucky to have v5.7 of the ID utilities.  I have v5.5...

Um, the third partition will definitely not work under anything but system
6.0.  I don't know why it doesn't even show up there, unless the InnerDrive
doesn't work well with P8 v2.0.1...

- Eric S.

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From: kjs39186@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (The Plague )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Launching Appleworks question
Date: 26 Jul 92 15:24:14 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

dpj@hubcap.clemson.edu (D. Pokrass Jacobs) writes:

>I am using Appleworks GS 1.1.
>Is it true that Appleworks can be launched
>from the Finder by simply double-clicking
>any Appleworks document?  When I try this,
>the computer seems to be trying to access the
>floppy disk drive rather than the hard drive,
>and then I get an error like "Application Appleworks.GS
>not found".  Any advice?

You may need to edit the icon's application path.  Use DIcEd to do that - it's
an Icon Editor that Dave Lyons wrote - I use it all the time.  I think it's on
tybalt.caltech.edu (not sure about which path though).

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: sadasiva@utkvx3.utk.edu (Sadasivam, Krishna Madur)
Subject: KansasFEST
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: What's going on at KF?
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 03:51:00 GMT


Anyone have any info on the latest happenings at Kansasfest this year?? The
latest I've heard is System 6.0.1 and the long awaited MS-DOS FST!!!!
Any other news?


Krishna
From: seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: NES in Asia (was Re: All this Avatar Stuff)
Date: 21 Jul 92 09:46:25 GMT
Organization: Univ of Rochester, College of Engineering and Applied Science

In article <1992Jul20.015541.19300@nuscc.nus.sg> ltchean@iss.nus.sg (lim thye chean) writes:
>In article <1992Jul19.200231.28725@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> benson@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Paul BaJa Benson) writes:
>> and bought some really crappy game for $3.  The crappy game's crypto-chip
>> was then hot-wired to the 200 game cartridge and all is well in the world.
>> Apparently, there is no crypto-key required in parts of Asia and India.
>> Thye Chean?
>
>Since I never play Nintendo and Sega, I don't know... honest.
>Perhaps you can ask David Seah?

:)

Well, since my name seems to have been invoked, I've seen plenty of knock-off
game systems in Taiwan that are Nintendo or Sega compatible.  Last time I
was in Taiwan (February 92), I didn't see any knock-off SNESs...some places
were carrying the actual thingy from Japan.  I didn't really explore
Gwang-Hua market or the Shi-men-ding electronics area that thoroughly, as it
was a rather depressing event for which I went back.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: gopher@bnr.ca (Jeff Robertson)
Subject: HELP!  In need of a GS/OS guru!
Keywords: GS/OS
Reply-To: gopher@bnr.ca (Jeff Robertson)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:55:09 GMT

HELP!

Last night I was starting a new program in TML Pascal II.  I
had just compiled (to memory) and executed.  The system
crashed.  Badly.  My Innerdrive was readable, but didn't
want to boot.  Evidentally some system files got corrupted,
because when I replaced a whole slough of them, I could boot.
Thinking myself lucky, I tried to reload my source code.

No joy.  The file was corrupted.  The TML editor, and Teach,
would load the same thing - about 3K (6 blocks) from a couple
of other files from my hard drive.  This made me think that
the Index Block was damaged.

A little snooping with APT Zap showed that the Key Pointer in
the directory file pointed to what looked like a corrupted
Index block.  The Data Blocks for my file were scattered
nearby.  Unfortunately, I can't figure out the Index Block.
I was sure it was just scrambled, until I looked at the
Index Blocks of other files (TML pascal sourcefiles as well)
that I knew were intact, yet looked the same.

This would be a good time to point out that my understanding
of Index Blocks is derived from the old ProDOS 16 Reference
Manuel.  Its description does not match what I was observing
for my "known-good" files.

By now, it was 2:30 AM, so I packed it in for the night, but
today I was thinking about the problem.  My guess is that
the old Index Block format applies only to "flat" files,
i.e. no resource fork.  The file type of TML source is
$5 - which my ProDOS 16 manual has never heard of.

So.  What I need is some kind GS/OS guru to bring me up to
date.  What does the Key Pointer of a type $5 file point to?
Or, more generally, how the heck can I get my file back?
It wasn't huge, but I'm more interested in not having a
corrupt file on my drive.  (And the pursuit of knowledge...)
Oh yes, I'm running System 6 (of course).

Please post any suggestions to the net, or mail to my
account - gopher@bnr.ca

Thanks for your time...

---
Jeff Robertson
4A Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo / Bell Northern Research
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: woody@micor.ocunix.on.ca (MICHEL BOIS)
Subject: SetStart system 6
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 18:42:57 EDT

 
I would like to thank everyone who sent their response concerning my problem
with SetStart. The problem was, the Start file was the Finder. So I made a 
copy
of the start file from the Install disk to my boot disk ( 60 Meg Hard Drive 
)
as well as the Finder program itself. I used the installer the first time to
install System 6 on my hard drive. But I think that during my 
experimentation
using prosel 16 has my boot up program I had the original start file deleted
then I renamed Prosel 16 as Start. After a period of time I realized the 
power
of the Finder so I manually renamed Start as Prosel.16 and copied the Finder
program itself onto my boot disk and renamed it Start. Oh well.
 
Thanks Again.
 
Woody
From: spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: memory on the GS (was:Re: multi-tasking GNO)
Date: 24 Jul 92 05:05:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Jul21.194701.7454@micor.ocunix.on.ca>, toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca 
(Marc Sira) writes...
>And Silent Service...which was why I bought it (I couldn't be convinced that
>256k was necessary for a long time...after all, my //c had only had 128k!).
>There were a couple of others, too...Silent Service was probably the best,
>though.

Don't forget Music Construction Set GS! It was a fairly impressive program for
the amount of memory it ran on. Too bad Electronic Arts never finished and
released DeLuxe Music Construction Set GS. 

  I started off with 256k on my GS. I was then forced to move up to 512k 
a few days later when the software I bought wouldn't run (unfortunately,
this was before Apple Computer included the memory expansive card free, so
I paid $150 Cdn for the card, and another $175 Cdn to bring Apple's card
up to 1 MB! --back when 41256-15's were $9 per/chip!). 

>Marc Sira               |
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From: cjs@ausom.oz.au (Cameron Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: 'Frozen Machine'
Date: 28 Jul 92 09:21:08 GMT
Organization: AUSOM - The Apple Users Society of Melbourne

A friend of mine with a GS has informed me of a recently occuring problem. While
using AppleWorks GS for a while, the machine will (apparently) lock up. The time
will continue to update in the menu bar, the cursor still blinks, the mouse moves, but the program doesn't respond to any keypresses. Reset does work, and I'm
quite (90%) sure that easy access, and close view are not installed. They have
a transworp 7MHZ, 2 or 1.5 meg ram, Quickie Scanner, Vulcan 40 meg hard drive
and a rom 1 machine.

Please reply by e-mail. Auto reply probably will work. If it doesn't, use the
internet address below.

thanx in advance!
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: chauhan@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Amrit Chauhan)
Subject: Re: Comp.binaries.apple2 moderation: why not?
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:38:00 GMT

jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
: In article <n2fmp7c.payner@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
: >Because the cost of the solution could be very great. Moderation has
: >made the ms-dos binaries group an absolute joke.

: moderation: full of non-binaries, and those that are there are barely tested
: and quite possibly full of viruses. You need look no farther than alt.sources
: to bear the former out, and what better distribution channel than Usenet for a
: brand new virus?

Do you know anything about the Apple II?  Obviously not.  There are _no_
potential viruses for this computer.  Sorry, but I will continue to drive this
point out of validity...it carries no weight, and since you mention nothing
but "viruses" as a reason for moderation, I have to tell you that this is not
a good enough reason (on it's own) to vote for moderation...do you have any
others you'd like to offer up?

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From: cjs@ausom.oz.au (Cameron Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Printer Driver/CDEV
Date: 28 Jul 92 09:17:42 GMT
Organization: AUSOM - The Apple Users Society of Melbourne

Ok, i was wondering whether it was possible to set the settings in the 'Page
Setup' window, and save the settings. I always have verticle condence checked
when ever i print stuff, but i always have to manually set it. Is there any way
to set the vertical condence, and gaps between pages to default to being
checked? .. I would really appreciate a prompt reply!

Reply through E-Mail .. auto reply probably does work now. If it doesn't, my
internet address is below!

Thanx in advance
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Reader Rabbit Fix, etc...
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 03:02:45 GMT

Someone recently posted a note on how to get this program to work
with 6.0. That information is years old, and was given to people
at the time due to RR not working with different HD controllers.
Basically you edit the file MISC.RTNS and it removes the copy
protection.

The Learning Company charges a lot for their programs. They made lot's
off GS users, schools, etc...Here is a good example of why people 
are reluctant to spen $60 for a program. The Learning Company is a
reputable company. Their programs, which cost a fortune no longer
work on the GS. RR used to be one program that was demoed along with
Cartooners on the GS, as the pC versions were terrible. RR has improved
on the PC but where is the Learning Company when you need them? What do
you tell the people who spent $300+ and find themselves with junk because
of copy protection, etc...And people wonder why so few are willing to
pay for sw.
 
The GS and NeXT markets are too small to let down the developers using
and supporting them. However I feel little sympathy for many, many
companies who milked the platform dry and left.
 
Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
From: flash@pro-applejacks.cts.com (Glenn Koproske)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Spellchecking IBM
Date: 24 Jul 92 11:16:18 GMT
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA

We've tried this and it works.  In Ami Pro 2.0 (Windows), when you run the
spellchecker against "IBM", the first suggested alternative it gives you is
"BIMBO".

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From: dsdd@okcforum (Roy Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Modem hook-up for the Apple IIc (pin # question)
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:04:36 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Originator: news@kittyhawk.ecn.uoknor.edu
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

yasu@ll.mit.edu (Alan Yasutovich) writes:
: 
: 	I just bought a used (obviously) Apple IIc.  When I
: 	looked at the modem connector, I counted 19 pins.
: 
: 	Someone told me INMAC carries the cable.  I called.
: 	They have a 9 pin variety.
: 
: 	She suggested that the connector I have is "pre-takeover"
: 	of apple, before the "standards" were adopted.
: 
: 
: 	Anyone have any knowledge or experience with this
: 	odd connector size?
: 
: 
: 	Can I change the connector?
: 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira)
Subject: Re: Yet more software piracy
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC., Orleans (Ont)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:21:49 GMT

Senator Joseph Bazyar said B-):
 
>software, and release it for free.  Fine.  But then we have near-communists
>like Richard Stallman who will try to convince you that selling software is
>somehow morally wrong.
 
There have never been Communists, Senator - only State-Monopoly-Capitalists.
And those are currently a laughing-stock in Eastern Europe.
 
Is Richard Stallman the GNU guy? Isn't there a certain irony in your
statement, then? B-)
 
>  Folks, capitalism works.  It's messy sometimes, but it works.  Is it
 
Jawaid, it seems to me that this is a tenet you've bought into without
really thinking about it. How messy would it have to be before you'd decide
that it _didn't_ work? How much ecological devestation, social inequity,
and paradoxical lawmaking is worth it for a point of ideology? This part
of the thread should probably die, I suppose...if you still believe this
strongly in the muzzy ideas of one R. Reagan, you simply haven't thought
about it enough (IMO), and I probably can't change your mind with any
argument B-|.
 
Re: your other point about piracy "killing the IIGS" - you can't kill a
tool. What has happened is that the mass preference has moved to another
tool. Why has this happened? Apple isn't entirely guiltless - though to
speak of "Apple" these days encompasses too much. The company has gotten
a bit too large, and operates at cross-purposes in this area. But Apple's
past decisions condemning the Apple ][ line were driven by capitalism
(and greed & fear in the higher echelons). Is capitalism working for you,
then? If you really believed in the big C to the degree you espouse, you'd
be developing software for Windows - because that's what the system demands.
That you're not doing so indicates to me that you're still saveable B-).
 
btw, _within the capitalist framework_, one of the major things that
adversely affected ][ software development was probably AppleWorks. The
only company that really managed to gain anything from that product was
Beagle, and they did it in a rape-it-and-leave-it kind of way.
 

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From: grover@EMUNIX.EMICH.EDU (Grover Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Info on Switch-It! ??
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:09:07 GMT

Paul Schultz:

>Does anyone have any info on Procyon's Switch-It!
>
>Someone posted that it was demo'd at Kfest and I was wondering if it
>was a finished product or if it was still in the works? Does this
>program return to suspended programs exactly where they were left off
>or is it simply a fast way to quit and open another program?

From what Tim Meekins showed me at KFest, it does indeed freeze programs
and allow you to switch between them.  I was fooling around with AppleQuirks
GS and Shrinkit, switching between them nearly instantly.

There are programs to allow you to quit from one app and launch another
(Transprog and Desktop Utilities type of thingies), but Switch-It is
different.  You can have multiple desktop programs loaded and ready.

>If it is a switcher program that leaves applications suspended in the
>background and also can use the clipboard to cut and paste between
>applications then this is what I've been waiting for!!

Procyon is advertising two Desk Accessories that help move information
between applications.  They illustrate cutting and pasting "Formulate"
stuff into another program.  These come with Switch-It.

The funny thing about all this: I remember just last week people arguing
that it "couldn't be done!!" right here on the net, while quietly behind
the scenes Jawaid and Tim were biting their tongues getting the Switch-It
stuff ready to show at the KFest Expo.
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From: pfmj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: FORSALE-APPLE//c COMPLETE SYSTEM-CHEAP!!!
Date: 22 Jul 92 22:49:44 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

I have a complete Apple //c system forsale.
It has:
-128K RAM
-5,25" Drive
-Matching monochrome monitor
-Mouse
I am asking $425 for this system in excellent condition.
I will accept all reasonable offers.
Thanks,
Seenu