HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: 2frjbits@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Preston J. Park)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: synthLAB problem
Date: 10 Apr 92 22:11:05 CDT
Organization: Macrocosm BBS: 913-841-9446

In article <8dsvpMm00WAJJjUQkI@andrew.cmu.edu>, Gregory Ross Thompson <gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> 
>   Or you could always hit OA-Q, and select previous application, or
> whatever the name is, so you get back to the launcher thingie, and run
> SynthLAB from there...

I could never get that to work for me (for the two days I only had one Meg
of Memory this year), I still had to set the startup, probably because just
loading the finder fragmented things enough.
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From: tcomtaob@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: "Choose Font..." dialog
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:28:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: chasm.9204090128.AA10309
Organization: The Internet


    The "Choose Font" dialog of System 6.0 still has a bug carried over
from System 5.0 (or maybe even before that).  If a particular font of a
particular size has multiple styles, that size shows up multiple times in
the Size list.  I usually have Plain, Bold, Italic and Bold-Italic
versions of my fonts.  This means each point size available as a bitmap
shows up 4 times.  Since the list is limited to 24 items, some of my
larger point sizes aren't directly accessible.  Typing in a numeric point
size while the Size list is highlighted makes the Font list active again.
It would make more sense to activate the Size edit box at that point.
Interestingly enough, HCGS's custom "Choose Font" doesn't have this
problem.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: bp664@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Grover Thomas)
Subject: Re: Apple ][ stuff for sale
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 13:55:14 GMT


>>post.. Nobody else minds except you..
>
>Not quite true.  Several of us mind, it's just that Ian is the only
>one with enough gonads to speak up.  If anyone wanted what you
>are/were selling, they would have contacted you by now.
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[Plopping my gonads on the table...]
I actually LIKE to see a few ads for Apple II forsale stuff. Its much
easier than wading through 900+ messages each week on misc.forsale.comp.
From: sjordan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Steve Jordan)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 00:24:23 GMT
Subject: Still no luck: AWGS 1.0v2
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2

On Wed, 8 Apr 1992 09:37:00 U <GHBLEE@NTIVAXD> said:
>>On Mon, 6 Apr 1992 22:21:33 GMT,
>>Steve Jordan <hplextra!hpfcso!sjordan@HPLABS.HPL.HP.COM> wrote:
>>
>>>I tryed using Appleworks GS version 1.0v2 with system 6 and discovered
>>>that modules won't load.  The program launches ok, but when I actually
>>>select a module (word proc, spreadsheet, graphics, etc.), I get a message
>>>such as: "Unable to load word processor module."
>
>>I've got AWGS 1.0 running fine with System 6.  The only time I got the
>>"Unable to load xxxxx module" message was when I *renamed* the Appleworks.GS
>


Maybe AWGS1.0 works, but AWGS1.0v2 doesn't.  Renaming?  So that's what causes
the message to appear.  (I wonder if anything else could make the message
appear?)  So the next logical question:  Why would the pathname or filename
of the Appleworks.GS file be different under sys6 than under sys5.02?
Ideas anyone????????????


>Another reason this may happen is because you may have had JUST enough free
>RAM under 5.0.4 to load the modules, but since 6.0 takes up more memory,
>you probably don't have enough.  Go to the control panel and see how much
>free RAM you have after you've started up AWGS.  You probably need at LEAST
>1.5MB total to run AWGS under 6.0.  I don't know for sure, just making an
>educated guess.


That was my first idea, too.  But I have 5M RAM & there's still lots free after
I've started AWGS.  (before I've opened any modules.)
From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: GS Moria Source Code...
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:23:32 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1992Apr9.180547.19939@acsu.buffalo.edu> ztsindi@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu (The Independents - SUNY Buffalo) writes:
>	Now, since I wasn't going to change the code anyway, just
>slap on some additions, I didn't want to 'reinvent the wheel'. I
>wrote to Jason Harper and he sent me the source code for Moria GS
>(4.83). I have it sitting here on a disk and its really huge. Its in
>Orca/C. How many people would like it? PLEASE POST ANSWERS HERE! If
>I see a bunch of letters titled 'Yes! Upload Moria Source!' or
>something like it I'll shrink the whole disk down and put it on 
>comp.binaries.apple2 for those with the equipment and desire to
>play with it.

I don't think that posting it to c.b.a2 is really necessary, but putting it
on an FTP archive site would be a very nice thing.

Are you sure it's Orca/C?  I thought Moria came out before Orca was released.

>						- Joe Nowakowski 

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fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Quick Launch
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:34:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Grant -- while playing around with QuickLaunch I noticed something that
might be related to your problem.  After setting up a list of
applications I made the QuickLaunch file read-only so that it would be
less likely to be clobbered.  The next time the Finder came up the
Extras menu did not appear -- my guess is that when QuickLaunch
initialized itself it attempted to open its resource fork for r/w access
and when it couldn't just gave up.  After restoring write access it
worked fine.
From: $CSP606@SN01.SNCC.LSU.EDU ("John G. Mills")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Orca <-> System 6: Weirdness Rules
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:32:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

>I have a couple of questions about Orca that have been bothering me.
>
>1:  Whenever I run Orca now, it always loads two source files into the
>    desktop environment (they just happen to be the ones I'm working on).
>    Is it supposed to do this?  I am double clicking the Orca.Sys16
>    application and not anything else.

  Have you changed any of the preferences lately? Its been doing this to
me since I saved my preferences (the file was open at the time).

>2:  Well, ok, so I only have one question.
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From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: JPEG executables posted
Date: 7 Apr 92 17:09:18 GMT
Reply-To: fadden@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

I posted the JPEG revision 3 executables on comp.binaries.apple2.  These
were based on sources released 17-Mar-92 by the Independent JPEG Group;
this posting should replace the previous JPEG posting on FTP sites.

For those who haven't a clue about JPEG, it's a graphics compression format
named after the group which developed it (Joint Painters Something Something).
Basically it's a lossy compression format; you get better results by allowing
the algorithm to throw more of your picture away.

(Those of you interested in extremely efficient lossy compression methods
should read the man page for the "rm" command under UNIX.)

There are two programs, "cjpeg" and "djpeg".  "cjpeg" allows you to create a
.JPG format file from a graphic image in Portable Pixmap Format (PPM) or
Targa format; you'll need a separate conversion utility to convert from SHR
to PPM.  "djpeg" unpacks a .JPG picture into PPM, Targa, or the popular GIF
format (which you can then view with a utility like SuperConvert).

These programs are *NOT* exceptionally quick.  For example, given:
    4K  JPG file
    15K GIF file
    93K PPM file

JPG to PPM takes 6 minutes
JPG to GIF takes 7.5 minutes
PPM to JPG takes 12 minutes

These times are on a //gs with an 8MHz/16K ZipGS.  The image was 125x125
pixels, with a small amount of color.  Full size (640x480 or thereabouts)
images may take 30 minutes or more to convert to GIF.  I have included the
sample files which came with the original distribution.  You may want to
play with the various djpeg options; I think you can get a better output
picture of you do.

Still, they pack images EXTREMELY well, and the output is fairly good.  These
are intended primarily for "real world" images, not cartoon or hand-drawn
pictures (which will likely compress well with GIF anyway).

The sources have been placed in the uploads directory on tybalt.caltech.edu;
the archive is around 450K (680K after BinSCII).  If you're really curious,
go take a look at that.  Note that the sources have been de-ANSIfied, since
I compiled the whole thing with APW C.

The original distribution can be found on ftp.uu.net (do an archie on "jpeg").

I AM NOT MAINTAINING THIS PROGRAM.  It looked very portable so I d/led it
and built it.  The whole process took about six hours (part of which was
spent trying to figure out why the images were coming out partially messed
up... turns out I did an LF->CR conversion on them :-( ).  It seems to work;
if it doesn't work for you, I probably can't help.  I just compiled it, I
don't understand it.

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fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown Matt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: NTSC-->AppleColor RGB?
Date: 7 Apr 92 02:28:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: darkstar.32233
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing


In article <92097.172453CTCOLE@MTUS5.BITNET> CTCOLE@MTUS5.BITNET writes:
}Is it possible to get or build a converter that will allow me to view
}an NTSC signal on my IIGS's monitor?  If so, how?

	Through the computer?  Get a Video Overlay Card.. (an Apple product)

	If you mean to use it as a TV monitor, you'd be better to buy a
cheap color TV.
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|WANT to get INFOCOM GAMES RERELEASED |  Also will pass on -UNIX GS-          |
\& ULTIMA VI GS written? ---mail me   |     & CHEAP CD info - mail me         /
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: TrueType fonts--Help
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 21:56:15 GMT

In article <32655@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (99E99) writes:
>
>	To use Truetype fonts, you need a program called "Pointless", written
>by Alan Bird.  You can buy it through the mail order companies that advertize
>in InCider/A+.

Better still, you can get it from companies that advertise in GS+ which is
also an excellent magazine/disk($36/year) for the GS. It seems more 
interesting than InCider though that is subjective.

Truetype also comes with Windows3.1 and 7.xx on the Mac, so that there are
lot's of fonts out there. The Mac ones seem to translate fine although it's
not clear re the Windows3.1 ones. They should though. Anyone?

Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
From: edw@caligula.cts.com (Ed Watkeys)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: yet more software for sale...
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:40:37 GMT
Reply-To: edw@caligula.cts.com (Ed Watkeys)
Organization: Guerrilla Networking Project
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4

Sorry about this repeated for sale stuff, but I am currently unearthing new
stuff as I look for disks to send to people...

Micol BASIC for the IIe/IIc       $25 (This is a *really* nice Pascal-esque
                                       implementation with a great environment)
Apple Desktop Toolkit             $15 (Text and DHR Apple User Intf.)
ProDOS Assembly Tools             $15 (If you are *desperate* for an assembler)

I also have the Filecard Toolkit from apple and ZBASIC. My price for Micol
BASIC is unchanging, while for everything else you're free to haggle w/ me...

Ed

(This is the last one for a long while...)

--
Ed Watkeys (Drexel U. Comp Sci)  "...if you wish to strive for peace
edw@caligula.cts.com              of soul and pleasure, then believe;
edw%caligula@phlpa.pha.pa.us      if you wish to be a devotee of truth,
ls.com!phlpa!caligula!edw         then inquire...." -- Nietzsche
From: bb252@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James L. Brookes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Andy departs... (was Re: System 6 Launcher!)
Date: 11 Apr 92 17:17:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Apr11.171702.6709
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)


I'm surprised noone has responded to this yet...
 
shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas) writes:
 
>In article <PFuyiB4w162w@micor.ocunix.on.ca> toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc
>Sira)
>writes:
 
>>Good idea...next Finder, perhaps? Andy?
 
>While I keep close tabs on what Dave's doing to the Finder now, I no longer
>work for IIGS System Software.  I work for Ron Lichty with the Macintosh
>Finder Team.  I -do- contribute every now and then (like trying to get the
>Keyboard Navigation INIT written in one night at Dave's), but I'm no longer
>directly responsible for the Apple IIGS Finder.
 
Well, I suppose it was inevitable.  No less depressing / frusterating /
saddening, but inevitable.
 
So, I guess the question should be - do you still plan to work on your
non-Apple projects for the // and GS? (namely GSHK and p8 Shrinkits).
 
What this means, I suppose, is more work for Dave (how much can one guy, no
matter how talanted, handle?)  Anyways, I think I speak for all GSers out
there, thanking you for some very nice software over the years.
 
(geeze, just after the Achivement Awards ... this is just like "Coach of the
Year in the NBA!! ;-)
 
>andy
 
>--
>Andy Nicholas                   GEnie & America-Online: shrinkit
>Apple Computer, Inc.                          InterNET: shrinkit@apple.com
 
Hm, looking over this post, it seems a bit disjointed.
 
Oh well.
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From: johnp@pro-angmar.alfalfa.com (John Palaima)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Gif for the //e
Date: 16 Apr 92 02:39:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-angm.df81835
Organization: ProLine [pro-angmar]

DID anyone make a GIF converter for the //e OTHER than A2gif that used
Dithered Double high res, and more scale factors? Ie like the various
versions of Doublehigh res in Mandel 8 by Lim They Chen.. I need a decent
gif viewer..and i need to scale.
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From: greis@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gayla Ann Greis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: ir2
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:33:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: uwm.1992Apr10.183325.4944
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Originator: greis@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

Matt, everything unpacked OK, but when I try to reboot with IR in the
system.setup folder, I get a system setup error $1104. Has anyone else had
this problem, or did I somehow manage to corrupt the file?
From: dlw@falcon.bcm.tmc.edu (David Louis Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Why no Small C?
Date: 7 Apr 1992 19:16:58 GMT
	<DLW.92Apr7101045@falcon.bcm.tmc.edu>
	<1992Apr7.175431.19412@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
Organization: /home/swift/dlw/.organization
In-reply-to: mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov's message of 7 Apr 1992 17:54:31 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.175431.19412@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning) writes:

   Sounds kind of wild.  Do they know about this bug?

Sure, they list it in the manual. It's not a bug, it's a feature. :-)
--
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dlw@cmb.bcm.tmc.edu
From: wat@akgue.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: One possible Vulcan solution.
Keywords: Vulcan
Date: 8 Apr 92 11:11:08 GMT
Organization: AT&T

I have a 40 meg Vulcan hard drive and I purchased the gold upgrade.  On my
first attempt to install system 6 I used the old Vulcan driver from the 
pre-gold Vulcan utilities disk.  After some time, I finally remembered I 
had upgraded to the Vulcan gold and was not using the new driver.  I then
copied the new gold driver to the system 6 installer disk and everything 
has been great with system 6 and the Vulcan since then.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Subject: Re: Minimum RamFAST ROM's
Reply-To: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 23:47:51 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.215403.14808@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kreme@isis.cs.du.edu (Dave Sim's Ugly Brother) writes:
>
>From the things I have heard from CV people, I don't think I have any
>interest in buying a product from them.  Besides, my HS-SCSI serves me
>quite well and is compatible with everything, something I can't say for
>the RAMFasts which seem to have numerous problems with the current OS.

	Why do people say stuff like this?  What is it that you have
heard from CV people?  So a CVTech person says "Apple stole it from
us" as a joke or whatever, what does that have to do with their
products?

	Anyway, the 5-10 people that post about their problems with
the RamFAST hardly constitute every RamFAST owner.  If you're not
having problems, why post?  I haven't had any problems with the
RamFAST and System 6.0 (including p8 v2.01).

	For what it's worth, and I know this is pretty pointless.  I'm
very happy with CVTech.  They offer a LIFETIME warranty on new
RamFASTs, and their memory boards (?).  How many companys have that
much faith in their products to make that claim.  AE's was pretty
long, when it was 5 years... but a lifetime is a long time.

	I've had a little trouble with my RamFAST board, and CVTech
took care of it... no questions asked.  I got an RMA, mailed in my
card, and got it back within a week.  That's faster than AE by a long
shot.  I paid for postage there, and that's it.

	The RamFAST is awesome.  The firmware and built in utilities
are awesome, and the speed is great.  The card comes with tape backup
utilities (which will backup in the background), formatting and
partitioning utitlies, etc.  You can inactivate, boot from, or write
protect any partition.  I can verify 32 megs in under 2 minutes...
whereas the Rev C card takes about 15 minutes.

	I'm happy the HS-SCSI works for you.  But I hate seeing a
great product with great support being bashed on for trivial reasons.

>   | kreme@isis.cs.du.edu | The Coven BBS [303/777-2911] 1st METAL in MST |

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!
From: swarde@unf6.unf.edu (Rico Swarde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: IIGS accelerators
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:53:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: sinkhole.1992Apr8.005305.12000
Organization: University of North Florida, Jacksonville

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to upgrade the cache on a
TransWarp GS without buying Ae's upgrade kit?  It seems as if all
one would have to do is change out a chip or add a chip to the
board.  Any do-it-yerselfers out there?


Sean Warden                                     | ___       ___ 
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From: dan@cafws1.eng.uci.edu (Dan Harkless)
Subject: II+ game connectors
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:40:44 GMT

	One quick question:  The II+ only has a 16-pin connector, no 9-pin
one, correct?  Email response is preferred.  Thank you very much.

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From: gray@ibis.cs.umass.edu (Lyle H. Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: System 6
Date: 7 Apr 92 10:06:44 GMT
Reply-To: gray@ibis.cs.umass.edu (Lyle H. Gray)
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

In article <1992Apr6.140212.4643@klaava.Helsinki.FI> cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand) writes:
>In article <m94siB1w164w@bluemoon.rn.com> t.captain@bluemoon.rn.com (Tc Wilson) writes:
>>I -do- know that if I put in the Ramfast.Driver into System 6, it dies 
>>before it gets off the ground. So obvously, that went. As did the 
>>SCSI.Manager and etc - they aren't used, and System 6 DOES work as long as 
>>I'm within GSOS (no problems execept as mentioned before).
>
>My drivers folder has both the SCSI.MANAGER and the RAMFAST.DRIVER, and
>everything works fine (I have RamFAST rev. C). There are others on the
>net that also say everything works (insofar as RamFAST is concerned,
>anyway). You're not assuming they're lying?
>

Has anyone thought of the possibility that it might be the _order_ in which
the drivers load that is the problem?  In these messages, two people have very
similar systems (at least as far as they're described), and one works, the
other doesn't.  If you have the same files, the same hardware, what's left?
The order of the files is the only thing I can think of.

All right, what do you both have?  How much memory, whose, and how much is
allocated to a RAM5 disk?  Which ROM do you have?  What drivers (other than
RAMFAST.SYSTEM and SCSI.MANAGER)?  What order are the drivers stored in
(delete the Finder.Data in that folder to find out the real order)?

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