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From: Herbert_Fung@mindlink.bc.ca (Herbert Fung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Modem problem
Date: 13 Aug 92 20:23:44 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

Previously Edward Geoffrey Winsto wrote:

>Also, It seems that  on my apple /gs, the modem port does not work
>with proterm.  This is an older version but it still has the option
>for using the modem port.  It was working once, but I did something
>that messed up the computer and now it does't work.  I can use the
>modem with a super serial card, so I know the modem is fine.  I have
>bought a new cable for the modem and it still didn't work.  The modem
>is a hayes compatible 2400 baud.  The thing that I noticed is that the
>Terminal Ready light does not come on when I am using the modem port.
>Any suggestions?

Hmm.. I do remember this happening to me a while back when I was still
using my ROM 01 GS. Basically my set-up at the time was a ROM 01 GS, a
DataLink Express, and a Mac Classic. Since the DataLink Express has two
inputs, a MiniDin-8 and a DB-25, I could have both computers plugged into
the modem. I didn't run into a problem until one day I was downloading
with my GS and I decided to turn on my Mac. Since then I've noticed a
problem with my serial port on my GS similar to you problem, the TR light
occasionally decides not to turn on, and ProTerm 2.1 had problems
initializing it. I think I tried to use the printer port and went to the
control panel and made the changes. However ProTerm didn't have a setting
for using the modem on the printer port. (ProTerm 3.0 had the same
probelem)
So I set everything in the control panel back to normal, and guess what?
The TR light went on strong. However this has proved only a temporary
solution, after awhile the TR light would go off again. Now that I have a
ROM 3 GS and don't worry about it anymore, I just make sure that both
computers aren't on when the modem is on. As for my ROM 01, my sister uses
it with a PCTransporter to run WordPerfect 5.1.  Go figure.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: paulz@bluemoon.rn.com (Paul Zaleski)
Subject: Dos 3.3. Launcher
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 13:30:52 EDT

Re: DOS 3.3 Launcher

> What about accelerators? I have code to slow down and restore
> ZIPs and TransWarps, but I'm not sure whether its necessary when
> you switch the machine to 1Mhz via the standard softswitch.
> I think it would be still necessary - can someone confirm this?

John MacLean: Please dont slow the machine down to 1mhz.  Make a setting
for it.  I've got a Rocket Chip 10.  You would also have to be compatible
with a lot of "weird" acellerators.  ie. Rocket Chip 5mhz, 10mhz, The 8mhz 
Transwarp II.  I also enjoy playing some of the older //e games at 2 or 3 
mhz.  Load Runner is great at a little faster speed.

The concept is great.  I'm all for the DOS 3.3 launcher.  Keep up the 
work!

 This is from
     paulz@bluemoon.rn.com
who doesn't have his (or her) own obnoxious signature yet
From: samp@pro-gallup.cts.com (Sam Pemberton - SysAdmin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: recommendations on GS word processor prog. wanted
Date: 13 Aug 92 04:21:54 GMT
Organization: ProLine [pro-gallup]

In <1992Aug12.074629.4336@nuscc.nus.sg>
ltchean@rambutan.iss.nus.sg (lim thye chean) writes:


>1. Is WordPerfect System 6 (or even 5.04) compatible?
>2. Is it still supported by WordPerfect Inc?

The latest version of WordPerfect GS is compatible with GS System Disk 5.04
and 6.0.

Competent technical help is available from WP Corp, but I don't believe any
upgrades for either the //e or IIgs versions are forthcoming.

I believe Apple II and Amiga users got cards offering a deep discount on the
Mac and IBM versions of WordPerfect.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: anthony@seas.smu.edu (Richard Anthony)
Subject: Large HDs
Summary: How to Make 
Organization: School of Engineering and applied science; S.M.U.; Dallas, Tx
Distribution: World
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:03:10 GMT

Last night I borrowed a LARGE HD (my ramfast says 198xxxK on HD) from
a friend.  It formatted ok and I made some 32 meg Partitions.  I want
to make the rest of the drive a HFS partition.  How do I go about
doing this?  I have a Ramfast rev C. With the 2.0 roms. I checked out
the advanced disk UTils from sys 6 and it will let me format HFS but
only the existing 32 meg partitions?  According the the RAMFast ad, you
can make partitions as large as you want, (HFS), Is this a ROM3.x
feature?

	thanx in Advance!

	Jim


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I am a guest on this account.  My opinions are my own.
From: Rob_Long@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Rob Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Software Question
Distribution: world
Date: 21 Aug 92 01:07:52 EST
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

     I have a question, I have heard that most apple // software has been

enteredinto the domain of freeware/pd.  I've been out of the Apple // scene

for a number of years (presently trying to set up a //e sys.) so excuse the

lack of information on my part.. Just wanted to know how true this is.

                                   Thanks  Rob


-- Via DLG Pro v0.995
From: marc@cxr_rs6000.med.ge.com (Marc Wolfgram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:  Woz //gs's
Date: 13 Aug 92 17:04:02 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Jeff Woods said:
>Any IBM compatable joystick should work fine with an Apple ][.

WRONG ANSWER!  Suncom made a nice joystick designed for use on both Apple II
and IBM PC boxes.  The cable had 3 connectors: Apple 16pin DIP, Apple 9pin D,
and the IBM funny joystick connector.  The joystick ALSO has a slide switch
on the bottom labled Apple/IBM.  My 3 year old (who amazingly has lived to be
7) was having fun rolling marbles over the cliffs in Marble Madness and after
tiring of that, discovered the switch... IBM mode will blow the buffer of the
joystick port without fail!

Marc
From: jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Menu caching, monitors
Date: 15 Aug 1992 06:20:56 GMT
Organization: Rice University

Thanks for the advice; I'm not enabling or disabling anything at all, though.
Does anyone know if TML Pascal II's resource editor creates menu resources
with the cacheable flag set?  (I'm still at a loss as to why my Apple menu
works fine, though).
-- 
Jim Wong (jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu)
From: chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU (James Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ST:FC
Date: 13 Aug 1992 21:32:48 GMT
Organization: University of California Society of Electrical Engineers (UCSEE)
Reply-To: chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsee.berkeley.edu
Summary: Lookin' for it

Would someone be so kind as to point out if ST:FC is available via FTP?
If so, which FTP site?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: various
Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 22:47:07 GMT

In article <caHsPB4w165w@lablues.UUCP> larry@lablues.UUCP (Lawrance A. Schneider) writes:
>What is tosintro.shk?  There are 18 segments and would cost me
>a lot to down load.  WHAT IS IT??

A description is in part 1...it's the opening music to Star Trek (the
original series).  I posted it so SoftDAC users would have something
ready to play, but it's playable on the GS as well as a raw-audio
file.

  _/_   Scott Alfter                             Internet: sknkwrks@cs.unlv.edu
 / v \  Call the Skunk Works BBS today!                      Fidonet: 1:209/765
(IIe (  TEMPORARILY OFFLINE    Apple II/IBM                     GEnie: S.ALFTER
 \_^_/  Ask me about SoftDAC--digital audio for your IIe/IIc! Apple II Forever!
From: paw@ausom.oz.au (Peter Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Volume size on GS/OS system
Date: 15 Aug 92 04:54:43 GMT
Reply-To: paw%ausom.oz@sol.cc.deakin.oz.au
Organization: AUSOM - The Apple Users Society of Melbourne

ma@unislc.uucp (Marlin Allred) writes:

>I have not seen the answer in any of the documentation that I have read
>but does anyone know if it is possible to have a volume size that is
>greater than 32 megabytes without using the HFS FST? Since GS/OS has its
>own calls can they be used to open files on a big volume without using
>the ProDOS FST? It appears from the documentation that files on a disk
>can only be accessed through one of the FSTs installed on the system.

Your last statement is correct - you _must_ go through an FST (unless you
want to do everything yourself using device driver calls!). Basically,
the 32 Mb limitation is in the ProDOS FST, so all(?) the other FST's will
handle larger volumes, ie. HFS, AppleShare, High Sierra, etc. Or to put
things another way, it is easy enough to create partitions that are larger
than 32Mb, but GSOS can't use them with the ProDOS filing system!

Cheers,
Peter
-- 
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|| PO Box 493     ||     InterNet : paw%ausom.oz@sol.cc.deakin.oz.au   ||
|| Doncaster  Vic ||       "On a clear disk you can seek forever!"     ||
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From: djredick@bluemoon.rn.com (Darrin J. Redick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ][C Empty slot
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:08:36 GMT
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])

green@plains.NoDak.edu (Brad Green) writes:

> I have a question.  I've got a memory expandable ][C, and when I opened
> it up to clean the keyboard, I noticed an empty socket (slot?) about
> 2" long, on the left side of the motherboard.  Any idea what this is for?
> 
> 
> 

Sounds like the slot where the memory expansion goes.  I had a IIc, but 
not the mem. exp. motherboard, but this sounds like the most obvious use
for that 'slot'.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: bp664@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Grover Thomas)
Subject: Re: Buffering in software
Reply-To: bp664@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Grover Thomas)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 05:45:17 GMT


[...Sean Eller tired of waiting for computer back while Imagewriter prints]

>for it.  The Orange Micro ImageBuffer offered more features than did the one
>offered from Apple.  including being expandable to 64k and, I believe,
>128k (4 256k chips).  They occasionally turn up for sale at local computer
>swap shows. Also, Quality Computers sells Q-Buffer, an internal 32k Imagewriter
>printer buffer (about $60).

I'm still not sure if a small (32K) print buffer is big enough to hold
enough information to free up the computer.  Maybe text, but not font
based documents...
-- 
 __                                                                   __
(__) Grover Thomas            InterNet: grover@emunix.emich.edu      (__)
(__)                               or   bp664@Cleveland.Freenet.edu  (__)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: anthony@seas.smu.edu (Richard Anthony)
Subject: Bouncin Ferno
Summary: Now on the Binaries
Organization: School of Engineering and applied science; S.M.U.; Dallas, Tx
Distribution: World
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 20:07:34 GMT

Bouncin Ferno, with source code translated to english is now on the 
Binaries.  If you have any problems Email me.  thanx

The newest version of CyberWars (which is on Tybalt) should be on the
binaires in the next day or so.


JIm
From: pl3x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: An APPLE // in 1992: Resources?
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:12:33 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University


Is the Apple // dead? After working on Macs for the last several
years and pricing the cost of buying one for myself, I am coming
to the realization that my Apple // is pretty much all the micro-
computer I've ever needed, and more computer than most people
really do need.

Anyway, so after a 2 year hiatus from my //c, I am trying to find
a source to purchase hardware and software for it. 
Pre 1989, I usually wnt to a grocery store to pick up the latest
edition of InCider or A+ to read reviews and find mailorder houses.
Do any Apple // mags exist anymore?
Do Apple // mailorder places exist?
Does Apple // now mean only Apple //gs?

I am pondering the addition of the following to my system:
accelerator Zip chip (does this exist? how much? how fast? good/bad?)
Unidisk 3.5 or (gulp) harddrives?
memory expansion?
programming compilers, for C and Pascal?
Beagle Brothers - do they still exist?
Appletalk and Laserwriters? Do these work with the //? How? Good/bad?
How has the 16bit ProDOS come along? 16bits in general - only GS?
Clock for the //c - Applied Eng still does //s?

I've been helped in terms of Modeming and everybody here loves ProTerm 3,
but where can I get it?

I have AppleWorks 1.1 - Can I get an upgrade to 3.0? How? How much$?
Any other great Apple // developements I should know about?

Should I go //gs for all my desires($650 in mac mags)?

I am tired of planned obsolesence. I like my //. There is nothing wrong 
with it, and compared to the all too friendly bombing macs, my //c
is like an old simple friend that gets the job done.

Help and thank you,
Todd S.
pl3x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
From: Rob_Long@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Rob Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Wanted
Date: 21 Aug 92 05:18:54 GMT
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch


     Wanted, Apple // software, Applications, Games, Utilities, BBS stuff

communications etc.  Whatever you have!!  Email here or send me a list,
Whateveryou have PD, Commercial, Shareware ETC.....

Rob Long   218-365-6396

Box 83

Winton, MN 55796

 

Please enclose your asking price in any list, I will buy complete software

Collections if the price is reasonable.  Thanks Rob.

 



 


-- Via DLG Pro v0.995
From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Has the 2GS been dropped?
Date: 18 Aug 92 00:01:12 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

In article <1992Aug14.035916.3261@edsi.plexus.COM> trimper@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg Trimper) writes:
>[...]
>No sources, really, just some observations:
>1) Apple has laid off or moved to other projects all the Apple II people
>where they are no longer officially Apple II project people.

I am still employed by the Apple II group, not called Apple II Continuation
Engineering.  (And No, I am not the only one.)

I am working on Apple II projects.  Anybody who went to KansasFest or heard
the summaries has a good idea what hardware and software we're doing.


About APDA--I, for one, am perfectly happy with Resource Central distributing
products to Apple II Developers.  Resource Central is in the Apple II business;
at APDA Apple II products had to fight for attention.

By the way, Apple II developer products *are* still being revised as needed.
For example, the GSBug package was recently updated to 1.6, and updates to
the MPW IIgs and APW/ORCA utilities & interfaces are coming soon.
-- 
David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc.      |   DAL Systems
Apple II System Software Engineer         |   P.O. Box 875
Internet:dlyons@apple.com                 |   Cupertino, CA 95015-0875

My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
Subject: Re: Moderation: good, bad, or what...
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 15:47:05 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <bazyar.713941698@teal> bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
>payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
>
>>Give it careful consideration. It seems almost impossible to unseat
>>a moderator once enthroned. If they die without notice, or get a life
>>or something, but do not want to give the responsibility to someone
>>who is willing and able, the group is SOL, and dead.
>
>  Haven't they been discussing just this subject on news.groups?  It's
>_not_ impossible to do.  

Yes, notice the words "seems" and "almost".

>                           If the moderator dies, moderation can probably
>be removed or transferred in very little time (i.e., a new RFD/CFV is
>not necessary).  

It might be difficult to tell that a moderator has died. I suspect that they
might not answer their email. 

>                This is especially true since comp.binaries. moderated
>has three backup moderators.

Wait for the results of the vote please. As of right now, c.b.a2 has exactly
zero moderators. And as I have pointed out, things change.
 
> Jawaid Bazyar              |   Ask me about the GNO Multitasking Environment


Rich

payner@netcom.com
From: dcgreen@pro-harold.cts.com (David Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Woz //gs's
Date: 13 Aug 92 09:08:42 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Harold Network -- An Alliance For Creative Communication

In <1992Aug11.205559.25293@news.columbia.edu>
stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) writes:

>	But when the GS first came out, I remember hearing 20,000 as
>the number of Woz machines they were going to produce.  

I thought I remembered hearing/reading 50,000.


>But it sure
>seems like everybody I know has a Woz... :)

I have _two_ Woz LEs. :D


dcg :>

===========================================
David Green      dcgreen@pro-harold.cts.com
-------------------------------------------
     System Operator of Pro-Harold BBS
   "Moral Support For Intelligent Sorts"
===========================================
From: dig@pro-iisysops.cts.com (Doug Granzow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: A2 Central
Date: 15 Aug 92 23:37:41 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ProLine [pro-iisysops]

Amrit my friend,

I'm afraid you have violated the
never-ask-the-same-question-so-dag-gone-many-times rule.  You're going to
have to pay the penalty. You're going to have to MEMORIZE the Resource
Central phone number.

The number is: 1-913-469-6502.

Memorization steps:

1. (The easy step.)  What type of CPU chip is in an unenhanced IIe?  6502! 
Very good. Now you have the last four digits of RC's phone number.

2. Huh? HOW did RC manage to get that as part of their phone number?!?!? To
find out, spell HOW on a phone: 469. Now you have all seven digits of RC's
local phone number.

3. The area code is 913. You're just going to have to remember it.

FOLLOW THESE STEPS!  There will be a quiz. :-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)
Subject: Re: No, no.. Not an IDE drive!
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 16:05:24 GMT

taob@terranet.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes:

[About the problem of IDE drives not to be low-level formatted by user]

>    But something *could* go wrong.  Our user group's monthly Hardware
>SIG meeting usually sees at least two or three bad drives.

Bad drives or bad file systems? If the former: Eek. What mechanisms are
these?

> Most of the time, the problem can be fixed simply by backing up the
> data and doing a low-level format.

Well. What kind of error would require a low-level format, really? If
your file-system gets screwed up, all you have to do is re-format your
media ... high-level. If some blocks are bad, they are locked out (happens
seldom, to say the least). I do not see the problem, really.
Ask some people who use IDE drives .. do they send their drives in con-
stantly because it screwed up? No. With a normal, healthy drive, there is
usually (meaning in near to 100%) of the cases absolutely no reason through-
out the lifetime of the drive to low-level format it again.

Soenke
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,misc.forsale.computers
From: gordo@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu (Gordon Yuen)
Subject: Message for Greg Galcik
Followup-To: Logitech Scanman for sale
Organization: /local/lib/rn/organization
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:17:24 GMT

Email to you bounced back to me, so hope you get this message:

The ScanMan has been sold.
Thanks for enquiring.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Subject: Re: SoftDisk GS
Reply-To: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 08:09:43 GMT

In article <1992Aug16.054012.4145@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> brudiakg@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Rudiak-Gould) writes:
>joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn) writes:
>
>>Now that America Online has an Internet Gateway, you could always try
>>sending mail to: bryan zak@aol.com
>
>>Bryan works for Softdisk, and I generally send my monthly SoftdiskGS
>>articles to the above address.
>
>Slight correction: you should remove spaces from user names when
>sending mail to aol.com.  The address should be:
>
>bryanzak@aol.com

	Actually, zak@aol.com is the correct address.  Bryan is just
his first name, which was included for reference.  But you bring up a
good point, as if I didn't know his screen name, I may have been
confused.

>Ben Rudiak-Gould

Steven Chiang                  Order - DreamGrafix:  The ONLY 16/256/3200
stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu       color paint program for the Apple IIGS.
America On_Line:  DWS Steve
Genie:  S.Chiang4              Apple IIGS Forever!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: hackett@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Mike Hackett)
Subject: Re: PD clearing house
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:26:24 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.195202.3524@feline.uucp> gray@feline.uucp (Kelly Gray) writes:
>  What I wouldn't mind seeing is a clearing house that would accept
>shareware payments, and pass the money on to the author regardless of
>which country the money is going to.
> 
> It's a real pain for me to send shareware payments to anyone outside of
>Canada, since most authors want payment in a form they can esily handle,
>and a cheque from a bank in Canada isn't that easy for someone in
>Australia to handle :-(
>
> It would be real easy for both the user and the author if I could
>obtain a program from my usual online service/user group/whatever, try
>it for a while, and then pick up the phone and use my credit card to pay
>for it. The clearing house would take the program name, the author's
>name, and my credit card info; pay the author the shareware fee, and
>charge the fee and a service charge to my credit card.
>
>The clearing house could also handle mailing out of the latest version
>of a program, or simply pass the customer's name and address back to the
>author for further support.
> 
>     <o_o>    Kelly Gray        Gray@feline.uucp
>                                Gray@admin.humberc.on.ca
> 


    Well just hang on a little while there Kelly.  If you are new to the
group or missed my earlier post, I am intending to open exactly such a 
service, assuming the response from users and authors is there (and it
seems to be).   I'm just waiting for my business to be officially registered
with the government so that I can open up my Cdn. & US bank accounts and
get my Visa vendor's license (and possibly others).  If all goes well, then
the service could be ready as early as the beginning of September.  Please
feel free to email me, Kelly, if you'd like more info.

    Soon I'd like to start discussing acceptable terms with interested
shareware authors, so that we can work out something quickly.


=====================================================================
Mike Hackett                  | "She wouldn't make love,
<hackett@gaul.csd.uwo.ca>     |  but she could make good sandwich"
Honors Computer Science IV    | -Ian Anderson, "Budapest"
University of Western Ontario |                - _Crest of a Knave_