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From: Nick Phillips <nwp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Symbiotic Hard Disks
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:21:25 GMT
Organization: The Southampton Net.Cabal :-)
Originator: nwp90@turner

I have recently acquired a Symbiotic 'SyMBfile' hard disk.
Having repaired it, I still have a problem in that it requires
a password to access its 'utilities/task addition' menu. Without
being able to get to this menu I can do nothing useful with the
drive. I have the (some?) Symbiotic Operating System setup/diagnostics
disks, which have allowed me to reformat it, and re-initialize it.
I would guess that the password on it will be some default after a
fresh format and init of the disk. Can anyone confirm this and tell
me what it is, or does anyone know anything more about it?

Thanks,

Nick

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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple 2 SuperDrive Controller card problems.
Date: 12 Jan 93 01:42:31 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA

In article <platkus.726649352@roby.ecn.purdue.edu> platkus@roby.ecn.purdue.edu (Shawn W Platkus) writes:
>[...]
>Secondly, and most important, I installed the card in slot 5 as recomended by
>the owner's guide.  I of course switched the control panel setting for slot
>5 to "your card".  I have a high density SuperDrive as the first drive to the 
>card, and an older apple 3.5" 800k drive daisy chained to the SuperDrive.
>The problem is that now my ramdisk no longer remaps to slot 2 drive 1 with
>the new controller card, and thus it is inaccessible.
>
>What do I need to do to get the ramdisk back[? ...]

This is an unfortunate fact of life--RAM5 shows up only when slot 5 is
set to Smart Port.  If you had a slot free, you could put the SuperDrive
card in another slot and leave slot 5 set to Smart Port.

If there were a RAM-based GS/OS driver for RAM5, it could make RAM5 show
up even when slot 5 is set to Your Card.  It -might- even be able to make
RAM5 show up under ProDOS 8, but that's much harder!  (I can't, of course,
speculate about when (or whether) you might see such a driver from Apple.)
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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.
From: PKBRANDON@MSUS1.MSUS.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: wordperfect for Apple //
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:20:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

WordPerfect for the GS is clunky but usable if your GS is accelerated.  Its
files are imported with formatting intact by WordPerfect Mac (save your GS 
file on an HFS-formatted disk).
The IIe version of WordPerfect is very primitive.
ClarisWorks on the Mac imports AppleWorks 3.0 files very nicely, also.
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From: rxbrown@ualr.edu ("MR.FANTASTIC")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Signing off
Date: 8 Jan 93 03:10:32 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


  I can't remember how to sign off this list. I will be able to read this
list from news. Since I graduated and found a real job I don't have as much
time to keep account clean as I used to. Please help me. :}

Robert Brown
rxbrown@ualr.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn)
Subject: Re: Out of this World
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:28:24 GMT


I just find it kind of amusing that everyone likes to bad mouth inCider. Why
I find it especially amusing is that all these questions about how to clear
the first level of Out of This World, yet I published the walk through to
that in the last issue of inCider.

Oh well...

(The walk through for the first level only, that is. And, in the current
issue is one of the Easter Eggs. And, in the next issue, a masterpiece of a
review of OOTW will appear. Too bad so many of you won't see it...)

Joe
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: dstarr@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dwight Starr)
Subject: Re: Out of this World
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:49:49 GMT

In article <6JAN199306055009@vax2.concordia.ca> spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) writes:
>
>no one else has. Try shooting the rock wall at this dead end, but let your
                      ????????
>gun charge build to maxium-blast so it knocks it out. (This will help you
 ???
>later on in the game. In fact, you'll get stuck later on if you don't blow
>out that wall). BTW, is Out of This World really slow on an unzipped IIgs
>at 2.8 MHz? It's probably slow at "full screen", but what about in "TV size"?
>Mitch
>

What gun?  

I must admit this game has got me flummoxed!!  I can walk, run, jump with
the joystick or keyboard.  Is there a way to do the old adventure game
look, get, inventory etc.???   

I got a walkthru from someone (sorry I don't have his name here) that says
to kill the little creatures in the second and third screens.  How?  
    
I am using an unZIPped, rom 1 with no hard drive. Just booting from floppies.
The speed in TV size is believable.  The guy sort of strolls across the screen.
If your used to playing Nintendo you will probably be disappointed in the
speed of this game.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: ohlanm@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Matthew William Ohland)
Subject: Apple ][ stuff for sale....
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:51:31 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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Reply to Matthew Ohland (904) 375-6902 or ohland@ce.ufl.edu  
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No offer will be overlooked.  Response assured.
From: jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Subject: Elite GS (was Re: Spy Hunter GS???)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Reply-To: jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 8 Jan 93 16:56:45 GMT

In article <19930108.064317.377@almaden.ibm.com> Pauley@vnet.ibm.com (Paul Benson) writes:
>
>My favorite would be Elite.  Imagine: Solid space craft would be extremely
>easy with the GS line fill capability not to mention quick; nice colors;
>great sound; even larger universe (remember it was made for a 48K machine);
>Blue Danube would play while you are auto-docking (like it did for the
>C64); even faster animation if the game took advantage of people with
>math coprocessors.  This is about the only old game I play; and I keep
>hoping that I may have the time to do this just for myself (but I never
>see this happening).  I can honestly say I would pay $100 for this game
>if it were spiffed up for the GS (and of course was at least as functional
>as the old one).  Nothing better than becoming a bounty hunter and just
>warping into an anarchic world to kill the bad guys then getting there
>cargo.  What is the trick to get into the alien warp space? Control-W?
>or was that just on the C-64?  Oh well, to dream.

YES!  Elite GS would be a dream come true!  I remember how excited I
was when I bought the game, and read through the cheezy "background"
novella _DarkWheel_, and play the game.  I think we would basically
need something like WingCommander GS, if we were to soup up Elite.

But Elite becomes pointless after awhile, after you get all the extra-
equipments for your Cobra Mark IV, the game becomes boring...

>
>Pauley
>GEnie: P.Benson1

Jimmy

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From: bird@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (j.l.walters)
Subject: Re: ByteWorks via Internet
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:18:26 GMT

From article <9301050847.AA16647@gaga.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de>, by dirk@GAGA.MASCHINENBAU.UNI-DORTMUND.DE:
> Is there a way to reach ByteWorks via Internet?
> I have no access to GEnie and would like to ask for bug 
> fixes etc.

No, however, post your problems here and any number of us will
pick it/them up and pass them on to Mike. (He expressed interest
in getting internet posts when I called him a couple of months ago
so I routinely package them up and send them to him on GEnie. One
caveat, I remove the mail header, but not the .sig portion so if
you want him to know who you are, etc., be sure to elaborate in
that area.
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		Joe Walters att!ihlpm!bird, IH 2A-227 (708) 224-7189
		To know, and not to do, is not yet to know
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: astein@nysernet.org (Alan Stein)
Subject: Sound Resource Files
Keywords: rsound
Organization: NYSERNet, Inc.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:34:53 GMT

I'd like to take some of the sound files available and turn them into
sound resource files so that I can use them with the Sound CDev.  The
various programs I have which deal with sounds, Hyperstudio and
synthLab, don't seem to be able to create sound resource files.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)
Subject: Re: OOTW
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:48:08 GMT

In article <wZ5TwB1w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> philippe@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Philippe Benichou) writes:
>I have a very simple question... how much memory (ram) does Out Of This 
>World need!!! Thank you!!!

OOTW requires 1MB minimum RAM, and System 5.0.4 or later.  It does not
self-boot.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Apple 3.5 drive woes
Summary: Well, they both flaked out.
Keywords: sudden, catastrophic
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 06:48:33 GMT

	Here's a strange one.  I loaned a 3.5" drive to a friend of
mine, keeping the other for myself.  He returned it, I attached it
(yes, I powered down the machine and waited), and it worked fine.

	The next day, neither drive will read a disk from GS/OS,
and only occassionally from Prodos 8.  In addition, every format
fails and reading is very spotty on a file-by-file basis.  The
format in Copy II Plus gives the error at block 0006, if that's
any help.

	Thus, the question: anybody know of a place that repairs
Apple 3.5" drives for a reasonable cost?  Apple dealers just like
to replace them, and I see no reason to pay $75 each to exchange
them with some place.  There has to be some place that will replace
drive heads, or set alignment, or whatever is wrong on a part-by-
part basis, or at least quite cheaply.

	Ideas?  A phone number is great to include.

< Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
<  ISU only censors what I read, not what I say.  Don't blame them.  >
<  "Are you *SURE* he's worth a Harley-Davidson?" -- my grandmother  >
< to my girlfriend, about me.  "I'd better not say" -- my girlfriend >
From: FORDE@UV6.EGLIN.AF.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:SoundSamples on CCO
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:04:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

I've noticed a trend toward using .SHK format files on CCO rather than the 
more massive .BSQ format.  Perhaps if that were adopted 100% some of the 
volume "visibility" would be reduced.  Not to say that I disagree with Todd 
regarding the sound files, in particular since most of them were of 
questionable use anyway.  There were few I'd want to hear more than once 
and that hardly makes the time to upload worthwhile.  Now, if someone were 
to digitize some of the old sound effects records/tapes/CDs so they could 
be incorporated into programs THAT might be worthwhile and even merit some 
space on CCO.

Eric
forde@uvg.eglin.af.mil
From: bf795@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James Abendschan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: The GS & an AppleCat ][ modem ??
Date: 9 Jan 1993 22:44:03 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Does an AppleCat work inside a GS?  When the GS came out, I heard
that no one could get their Cat to work properly with the GS.

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From: jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Subject: New Paintworks $C2 Animations
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 17:05:26 GMT

Hello, the first one of my recently converted $C2 Animations
for the GS was just uploaded to cco.caltech.edu, under the
/pub/apple2/uploads directory.  The file name is "X29.SHOW.SHK".

The archive is 461K, and here is a brief description:

The experimental X29 jet zooms into the center of the screen from
the lower left corner, and exits at the upper right corner, but
does something special in between...

Here is another question for you:

I have a $C2 animation that is 3.7 megabytes (yes, 3.7MB), it is
a full 320x200 grey scale animation of flying through and above
a canyon. (fractals?)  The problem is that I am not sure if
enough people out there can view this thing (I have 6 megs on my
system, so that's no problems.)  And if you view it with DreamGrafix,
that also shouldn't be a problem, since according to the docs,

   the second method [of showing animations] uses virual memory
   and therefore does not require as much memory.  DreamGrafix
   will read in the animation file in 64k segments, play the
   segment, read more, play more, until  the animation is finished.

I have never seen this method, so I am so sure if the animation,
played in this fashion, will be slow and jerky. (Steve, please correct
if I have mis-stated any of these.)

Should I bother to upload this on to cco?  Please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

Jimmy


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From: marc@cxr_rs6000.med.ge.com (Marc Wolfgram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:  Switch-It! Press Release, Number 2
Date: 6 Jan 93 15:25:52 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Jawaid spews:
.... with the unadulterated design genius of Procyon :-) ...

c'mon Jawaid, it's still morning here, and this is getting awful sticky - I
haven't had time to finish my first coffee, and  get to read this stuff.  If
I didn't know you, I _might_ think you were a tad egotistical... then again
I might anyway :)

Marc Wolfgram
AOL: M Wolfgram   GEnie: M.WOLFGRAM2   inet: marc@cxr_rs6000.med.ge.com
There are two ways to write bug-free code and only the third one works!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: platkus@roby.ecn.purdue.edu (Shawn W Platkus)
Subject: System Saver GS on the blink
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:45:49 GMT


I've seen posts on here before about problem with the Kensington System Savers,
so maybe someone can help.  The other day, the master switch no longer provided
power when I pushed it on.  It didn't light up and the fan didn't spin, but 
it was plugged in and the Aux switch worked.  So, I took it apart to see if
I could spot any loose wires, but everything looked ok, and when I plugged it
in with it apart, it worked again.  Then, of course, after I get it put back
together, it worked for the rest of that day, but then the next day it was not
working again.  

My guess is that it is the switch itself that is bad.  
Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

Shawn

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From: sill@zoe.as.utexas.edu (Daniel Sill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: where to find software?
Date: 4 Jan 93 18:53:36 GMT
Organization: McDonald Observatory, University of Texas @ Austin

hello all,

during the break i had a relative
ask me a question about where to find
apple II software...as i have never used
one myself,i know nothing about them (disk,
cassette i haven't a clue)...

if anyone has any ideas on software/hardware
sources i would appreciate that info...

please email me as i do not subscribe to this
news group...

thanks in advance!

daniel sill
sill@zoe.as.utexas.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: dfarber@serpente.eecom.gatech.edu (FARBER)
Subject: Re: ByteWorks via Internet
Organization: Computer Engineering Group, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0250
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:14:18 GMT

In article <9301050847.AA16647@gaga.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de> dirk@GAGA.MASCHINENBAU.UNI-DORTMUND.DE writes:
>Is there a way to reach ByteWorks via Internet?
>I have no access to GEnie and would like to ask for bug 
>fixes etc.
>
>Thanks
>Dirk

  Um, you could reach him through the GEnie or America Online gateways,
but be warned, Mike takes his time when it comes to email. You would be
alot better off if you a friend had access to 'conference areas' on
GEnie or America Online.

  But, Mike can be reached on America Online as MikeW50@aol.com

  Hope that helps.

----Dave


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From: jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Subject: Re: Prism graphic converter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Reply-To: jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 7 Jan 93 09:15:25 GMT

In article <C0H7LL.IE6@fiu.edu> richard@serss0 (Richard A Simm) writes:
>Can someone email me the blurb on the Prism utility that converts TIFF and
>GIF pictures. I know it converts to 3200 colors. Does it convert to 256
>colors?
>
>Also, can the user add conversions (plug-in modules)? Has anyone used the
>program?

I don't believe Prism (by Ron Mercer) has been official released yet.
The last bit of info he gave was that the program is done, however,
contract negotiation with the publisher is holding it up, and that
was a least a good 2 months ago.

>Albert	richard@serss0.fiu.edu
>  Genesys for sale...$25.

Jimmy


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From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Fatal Error 0911
Date: 10 Jan 1993 08:32:03 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

nparker@cie.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker) writes:

>  After sending the Sync command, the ROM gives the controller
>time to act on it, and if the ROM times out before the controller is ready
>to receive the data bytes, then error 0911 happens.

Ok, this makes a lot of sense. It sounds to me like the microcontroller is
encountering a problem that is delaying its readiness. Next time this happens,
I'l going to try things like like scrubbing the contacts of the
microcontroller (don't laugh, dust and humidity can cause very real problems
for low-power CMOS) and re-connecting all my ADB cables in case the connectors
are loose. I stopped getting 0911's soon after I switched on the heater for
winter, so I may not have a chance to investigate this for a while.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
From: ST7759@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Help w/ IIe enhancement kit!
Date: 9 Jan 93 01:58:25 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

I finally bought the IIe enhancement kit, went to put it in, and noticed
a problem.  The IIe I have is a Euro version PAL.  The enhancement kit
has a chip for the character generator which is too small for the socket
my old one is/was in.  Do I need the German char gen chip, or can I
leave the old one in with the new chips, or can I get the US chip
swapped for a German one at no additional cost to me, except for mail or
gas?  What are my options here?  I would actually prefer to keep the
German characters available, if not always in use.  Help?

BTW- I guess putting the smaller US chargen chip in the socket would be
pretty stupid.... Or not?  I have no idea...

Thanks.

Alex Falkenberg
st7759@siucvmb.bitnet /OR/ st7759.siucvmb.siu.edu (Internet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2