HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bbs.brennan@tsoft.sf-bay.org (Brennan Pang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Blue Helmet & TimeLord
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:24:18 GMT
Organization: The TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238

kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan) writes:

> > From: joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn)
> > Well, since I don't have a ZIP ( I have a TWGS ) and you do, and because
> > Blue Helmet doesn't crash on my system but does on yours...I think it could
> > be safe to assume to the ZIP may have something to do with the problem.
> > Please disable it, or slow it down, and let us know if Blue Helmet acts
> > better.
> 
> Blue Helmet crashes on Zipped or Non-zipped GS's (Rom 01). I did not try it o
> the TWGS. I've not tried it on a ROM 03 (only one Rom 03 among my friends and
> that person has been out of the area for the last couple of weeks). 
>  
> I got my copy from America Online.
> 
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Well, the Blue Helmet that I binsciied off comp.binaries.apple2 seemed to 
be corrupted, but the copy that I FTPed off of ccosun.caltech.edu was 
fine and runs perfectly on my zipped ROM 01.

As far as the disk goes, has anyone played with the soundsmith player 
code or the font editor yet?

Internet: bbs.brennan@tsoft.sf-bay.org
    UUCP: ...apple!tsoft!bbs.brennan

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From: colbyp@pro-freedom.cts.com (Colby Pederson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Games
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:08:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Sep3.090845.1728
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)


  I have been stuck at the end of The Immortal and I don't know the
combination to defeat the dragon.  Does anyone out there know how, I'd
really like to know.  

  Also on Shadowgate, I am stuck at the troll bridge where he asks for
coins.  Does anyone know what to do?   THANKS!!

ProLine:  <LOGIN>@<HOST>
Internet: <LOGIN>@<HOST><DOMAIN>
UUCP:     crash!<HOST>!<LOGIN>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)
Subject: Re: Blackout Virus
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 04:30:50 GMT

In case you were worried about the blackout virus in the Ninja Force demo,
a fixed version of the demo will be forthcoming...


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     Support Alternative Computing: Apple IIgs, C= Amiga, Atari ST
 "I will choose a path that's clear: I will choose free will" - Neil Peart
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: kippley@cwis.unomaha.edu (Kip Kippley)
Subject: Re: Flopticals...any successful usage out there?
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 12:29:09 GMT

Applied Engineering has a Floptical External 21 Megabyte SCSI drive which also
doubles as an 800K and 1.44 Meg external floppy disk drive. SRP is $699.00.

              ** Kip **
              
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From: paul.parkhurst@uttsbbs.uucp (Paul Parkhurst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: TWGS UPGRADE
Date: 1 Sep 92 14:57:00 GMT
Reply-To: paul.parkhurst@uttsbbs.uucp (Paul Parkhurst)
Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591


   I'm sure this has been answered many times before, but....


   Has anyone actually upgraded their TWGS with the new 14mhz Sanyo
chip?  I want to do it, but I need to know 1) will the TWGS (mine is
currently at 6.25mhz) take the full 14mhz, 2) do I need to get the
static RAM upgrade from Applied Engineering (and call their fabulous 900
number) and 3) what sort of clock crystal should I get, as in the part
number and all that (I assume I need to get a 56mhz crystal to get it to
14mhz?).  Any help anyone can give me on this would be appreciated.

   In an unrelated note, I've just finished a series of modem drivers
for ACOS, if anyone is interested.  They will work for the HST line of
modems and the new SupraFaxModem V.32bis, using either the SSC or the GS
modem port.  If you run a board using one of these modems, let me know.
The drivers cost $15...
                                
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: stylewriter questions
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 07:23:04 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.032224.13339@vela.acs.oakland.edu> mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz) writes:

[Lot's re the DeskWriter, Deskjet, Deskjet500, etc...]

While the Harmonie drivers will work with the DeskWriter used in a serial
connection, does that prevent it from also being on a network? What about
support for the colour version of the DW?

[ ]

Philip
philip@utstat.toronto.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: Re: UniDos
Followup-To: comp.sys.apple2
Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 11:14:56 GMT

There were 3 packages for using Dos 3.3 on 3.5" disks.  The first was shareware
by Gary Little, who after that point went to work for Apple.  I think
it's name was Unidos.  He removed it from the market when a lot of folks
took copies from Compuserve but didn't pay the shareware fee.

The next was a commercial product by Nibble - I forget what it's name was.
Now that Nibble is defunct, I wonder if the GEnie folk could contact them
about getting the rights to the software they published.  Hey GEnie folk,
also think about contacting the A.P.P.L.E. folk and Muse, Inc. folk about
the software THEY published!  And maybe Electronic Arts - I would LOVE
to see some of the software they used to publish for the GS reappear.

Anyways, the last is the only still available commercial product, called
DOS Master, by Glen Bredon.  Check the mail order houses or see if the
comp.sys.apple2 newsgroup has Glen's address and phone number.  Glen has
at least 3 major packages - DOS Master, Prosel (both an 8 bit and 16 bit
version) and Procmd, which is a ProDOS 8/Applesoft set of extentions
which allow one to write more sophisticated Applesoft programs.  I wonder
if Procmd works with Proline?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: Re: Visicalc Lives!
Followup-To: comp.sys.apple2
Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:27:05 GMT

I wonder what the chance is that the GEnie folk could track down the holders
of all the Apple Visi* software and getting it made available for their
Classic library.  I remember a small database lookup program - Visidex or
some such name - whose demo blew me away.  The basic feature that caught
my attention was the fact that the more data in the database, the faster the
lookups were.  It did incremental lookups (as you typed in the 'keys' the
program begin looking...
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From: michael@drutx.ATT.COM (J. Michael Butters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: re: Ultima III
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:17:57 GMT
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO

>Can anyone remember how to neck the snake mark in Ultima III?  I've got
>the four cards and three of the marks (fire, forces, kings).  Where do
>I go to get the fourth?

>Thanks.
>-- 
>William ("Shakespeare") Gulstad          /  So where are the C.S. babes?
>wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu                /  Joni Mitchell for President!
>I vote, so I can complain!               /  Did you vote?  Then don't complain!
>Republican is the opposite of democracy! /  Tune in, drop out, log on.

There is a dungeon on the little island just South of the island that Death
Gulch is located on.  Enter and get to the 8th level.

By the way, what system are you playing on?  I still have my trusty
Apple II+ and am playing Ultima V.  I'm not very far along, though.

J. Michael Butters
AT&T Bell Labs    Denver
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Subject: Re: Ramfast and Tape Backup units..
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: comp.sys.apple2
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 04:04:57 GMT

rwifall@nmsu.edu (Richard J Wifall) writes:

>   I don't care about any of that.. I don't care what programs do and
>do not backup to block devices... What I do care about, and want to
>know is HOW to make my tape drive come up as un-write protected under

It doesn't matter if you care about it or not. The fact is that you are
asking for a solution that is impossible, and I was trying to give you an
idea of what the REAL problem is. I am willing to bet MONEY that you CANNOT
do what you want unless CVT changes something about the way the RF drivers
work.

Here's why: Tape drives are NOT RANDOM-ACCESS DEVICES. They can do only three
things -- rewind, scan forward to block x and read it, and write a block at
the END of the tape. Trying to write a block in the middle of the tape is
very dangerous and you would toast the block immediately following it a good
portion of the time. This is because tape drives are not too precise; it comes
with the ability to use media that is much cheaper per megabyte. The only
reason you can put a tape on the desktop at all is because CVT thought it'd be
cool to let you mount the filesystem and read specific files without restoring
the whole volume, slow as it is.

>GS/OS..  (ie Finder, GNO, or any other program that uses GS/OS)  I can
>handle the backing up myself.. I could write a program to do it if I
>had too... I just want to know how to make the tape drive not come up
>as write protected..  That's it..

Like I said, that is not the real problem. Even if you _could_ make it come
up not write protected, you would quickly regret it. Unless CVT has put some
special logic in their driver SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS USE (not likely) you have
three options:
	1. call the ramfast directly and use SCSI calls to manipulate the tape
drive as a SCSI tape drive.
	2. get somebody (CVT probably) to write a SCSITAPE type driver for the
Ramfast and use the tape drive as a GS/OS character device.
	3. return your tape drive and buy a removable HD (syquest/floptical).

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu

P.S. Current word on the flopticals is that Drew said on Genie "We've gotten
some requests for those and we're considering getting one for testing BUT NO
PROMISES AT THIS TIME." as of tuesday night.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz.au (John MacLean)
Subject: List Manager Optimisations - Programmer - Help
Organization: Tower Technology, Sydney
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:49:06 GMT

This is one for comp.sys.apple2.programmer :

INFO:
When the list manager is scrolling your lists, it does not
always redraw the entire displayed portion of the list.
Sometimes (when the new displayed portion overlaps the old portion)
it optimises this and scrolls the underlying RECT, before redrawing
only those items it needs to.

PROBLEM:
I have a list box where this optimisation doesn't work (because each
list item is drawn with a custom "item draw" routine which modifies
the corresponding palettes - the scrolling does not scroll the palettes
of course, only the data).

QUESTIONS:
I find it hard to believe that such an obvious problem has always been
in my software without anyone reporting it previously.
Has this optimisation always been in the list manager, or is it new
for System 6.0?
How can I code around it, and force the list manager to always redraw
all visible items?

John MacLean.
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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tuu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Flopticals...any successful usage out there?
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:19:35 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


In article <1992Sep1.112426.11997@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
}Not to defend AE too strongly, but I do take exception to this. Lot's of 
}companies have 900 numbers. Most don't have 800 numbers for tech support
}and virtually none have neither from Canada.

	If they didn't have an 800 number and just had a regular long distance
number, I wouldn't mind.

	Yet they are making a profit off of the 900 number, which is used 
by Apple II people (did they do the same thing to the Amiga folks?).. 

	If Apple II people are still buying their products, which apparently
people are, why would it cost any more to support II users than anyone else?
They're just being discriminatory in a VERY unusual way.
-- 
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\Mail me:Get INFOCOM GAMES RERELEASED for //s, ULT VI GS done,for UNIX GS info/
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: sledbett@nyx.cs.du.edu (Shawn Ledbetter)
Subject: CD-ROMs
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 02:26:08 GMT



Does anyone here on the net know if drivers are needed to connect a NEC
74CDR to the IIgs?  Its SCSI and its the new one with Multispin.  If a
company seels these drivers, could you please point me in the right
direction.  Thanks
 
--
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sledbett@nyx.cs.du.edu

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From: carndt@zeus.calpoly.edu (Chris Arndt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: GS system wanted
Date: 29 Aug 92 04:05:54 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Here's a switch. I need a backup GS. All I NEED are the CPU, keyboard,
a 3.5" drive, and a color monitor. Pluses considered are Apple High Speed
card, harddrive, Transwarp, Imagewriter II, and 4 meg memory card. No
programs.

Email me with your list and price.

Thanks,

Chris

carndt@pan.calpoly.edu
From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Prodos 8 2.0.1 killing keyboard
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:26:16 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1992Aug28.122438.29471@cs.uow.edu.au> jorgi@cs.uow.edu.au (George B Zamroz) writes:
>Under some programs that use Prodos 8, I have found that the keyboard seems
>to get lost. No input gets accepted, and even the Reset key is disabled. I
>have also had the problem occur under the Orca shell. Anyone else having
>similar problems?

- If you have a //e, I don't know what's going wrong.

- If you have a //gs, wiggle your keyboard cable when it happens.  Sometimes
  the keyboard ADB connectors go bad.

- If you are running P8 from GS/OS, make sure you don't have Easy Access
  installed (unless you need it).  Ditto for CloseView.

General comment: if you want help diagnosing a problem, give as many details
as you can think of.

>George B. Zamroz, University of Wollongong, Australia

-- 
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[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: nparker@cie.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)
Subject: Re: Apple II RWTS codes.
Organization: The Universal Society for the Prevention of Reality
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 09:19:25 GMT

In article <philip.714956593@labtam> philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Philip
Stephens) writes:
>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...
>
>  ProDOS's way is faster.  Since ProDOS reads and writes data in blocks (two
>sectors at a time), having the two sectors of a block physically adjacent means
>they can be read and written quicker.  And to top it off, this arrangement
>allows the interleave to be 2:1, compared to DOS 3.3's interleave of 3:1.

Actually, DOS 3.3 uses a 2:1 interleave.  The difference is it's
backwards--going in order around the disk you encounter (logical) sectors
0, 7, 14, 6, 13, 5, 12, 4, 11, 3, 10, 2, 9, 1, 8, and 15.  DOS 3.3 allocates
sectors in descending order, so in effect it's getting an interleave
pretty much equivalent to ProDOS's.

Interestingly enough, the bottleneck in DOS 3.3 isn't coming from RWTS's
habit of decoding after the sector is read--it's coming from the fact that
the DOS 3.3 file manager tells RWTS to read the sector into its own
internal buffer, and then it doles out that buffer one byte at a time to
the user's code.  By the time it's copied out the whole buffer, the next
sector has already spun by, so you have to wait for another disk
revolution.  If the file manager's "middleman" buffer can be eliminated
from the picture, the remaining code is fast enough to catch the next
sector BEFORE it spins by, and a dramatic improvement in speed occurs--an
entire track can be read in 2 revolutions instead of 16, and hi-res
pictures load in roughly 5 seconds.  I know of more than one "fast DOS"
patch that worked by eliminating the "middleman" buffer (I even wrote one
myself once).

              - Neil Parker
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From: kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: .hp to laserwriter print
Date: 4 Sep 92 10:57:37 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Thu Sep 03 92 at 14:43:48 (EST)

> From: raghu@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Raghu B)
> 	I want to print .hp files on a laserwriter. How can I do
> 	it? Can some one help me? Are there any softwares available
> 	for it?

I seem to recall a Postscript program that emulated an HP Laserjet, but can't
remember where, or when I heard about it. 
 
I'd guess that a ".hp file" is a file that is a HP Laserjet specific file
needing you to dump it to a Laserjet or compatable. Unless your printer has an
HP emulation mode (some of the Laserwriters do, I think) there isn't much
you'll be able to do with it.

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From: ustai@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Problems with changing voltage??
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:15:41 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University

Hiya,
        I brought my HD home to Malaysia (240V/50Hz).  It's a FROG 210e with
one of those autovoltage thingies.  About every other time I boot, Finder will
report that there seems to be some damage to my hard drive, would I please back
it up, etc.  I brought it back to US, and it boots perfectly well each time
(well, I haven't encountered that message anymore... :)).  Also, I bought a
transformer and stuck it out the back of the hard drive, and stuck my modem to
that transformer and my modem did not work while I was in Malaysia (the output
voltage was correct at 9V), but once back in US, it works again.  While in
Malaysia, the self test (modem) that starts when you switch it on also seems to
take a longer time to complete.
        Does anybody know what is happening?  Is there something wrong with the
voltage/Hz ?  I would like to bring back my hd and a modem when I go back, but
if it gives me problems like this....
        Thanx in advance for any help.  Ciao.
 
-Tai
From: ncp@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Neal Pitts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: hfs fst
Date: 31 Aug 92 11:14:39 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Sun Aug 30 92 at 10:59:55 (EST)

[Question about reading MFS disks on the GS...]

I can't answer all of your questions, but I do know that MFS originated with
the original 128k Mac, and I think was discarded for HFS around the time of
the Mac 512 and System 4.0.  A way you can probably use the disk on the GS is
to take a Mac running System 5.0 or later; format a disk under the Finder;
copy the FILES from the MFS disk to the newly formatted HFS disk.  Then you
should be able to read the disk as well as the files.

Hmph.  And had thought that during development that the FST was being made to
read MFS as well.  Oh well...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn)
Subject: Re: Looking for TOM PHELPS
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:59:21 GMT


To Paul Benson:

The re-release of the Infocom Lost Classics wasn't "incider information".

Apparently, Tom Phelps had mentioned my name in the docs, and when Dean saw
that, he figured that I'd know a way to get in touch with Tom.

In any case, I was pretty surprised, as I used to work for BRCC, and tried
to track down Infocom's Lost Apple II Classics. That was 6-8 months ago, and
I was told at that time that Infocom had lost the originals. I guess Dean
wasn't as easily discouraged as I was. He kept on them, and finally
succeeded. He told me that the Lost Classic package will contain 20 games.

Sure sounds to me like BRCC is doing fine without me <g>.

Joe Kohn
From: mock@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Kenrick Mock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: PD Wordsearch Program . . .?
Date: 2 Sep 92 21:29:47 GMT
Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering

In article <9209022045.AA22832@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> lchavas@CSD4.CSD.UWM.EDU (Linda Catherine Havas) writes:

>Does anyone out there know of a PD Word Search program? I'd like to
>use my IIc to generate these lovable little puzzles for my students.

I don't have one for the IIc, but I have some word-search routines for
the GS.  If you've seen Boggled (also, LetterSlide and VIAD are coming
soon) then thats what I use the routines in.   If you (or anyone else)
would like it then let  me know via email.


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From: max@isis.eng.hou.compaq.com (Max Heffler)
Subject: IIGS Modem port problems and 0b030000
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:50:39 GMT

I just started having problems with my IIGS modem port.  Garbage
comes across with nothing connected.  I can use the printer port to
drive the modem successfully.  I ran the Control-OA-Option-Reset test
and it gave me:

System Bad: 0b030000

Does anyone have a translation for this?  Does it imply the modem port?
Thanx in advance...
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