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From: wrowe@reed.edu (Wayne S. Rowe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Quicktime Filled In
Date: 20 Nov 92 02:22:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Nov20.022258.4341
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon

Awhile ago I asked for some help with the basic workings of Quicktime, and more
specifically with viewing the movies. For anyone else just now upgrading to a
CPU that can handle Quicktime, what follows is a verbatim collection of the
informative responses I received. Thanks to all who helped fill me in!

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When I installed System 7.1 recently, it had a separate disk for Quicktime.
After installing it correctly, the Scrapbook contained the two movies!

   According to your question, the answer is yes; you need a program which
will _play_ quicktime movies. The quicktime extension only _allows_ you to
play quicktime movies not view or play them.
  So what you need is the program that plays quicktime movies and there is a
shareware one which you can get from ftp.apple.com under the directory (I
think) dts/mac/quicktime/simple_player.hqx.

You can also get movies from this archive site but the files are very large
and a waste of time to download if you have less than a 14.4 baud modem.
However, there are other movies which take less space and therefore less time
to download. These files can be obtained from sumex-aim or archive.umich.edu

You will also need some application that knows how to play a movie, or how to
cut it into the clipboard (so it can go into the scrapbook). The canonical
example is Simple Player, which is probably available on ftp somewhere. Also,
just last night I noticed a bunch of stuff on the Developer CD from Apple that
appears to both play and create movies.

I think I got my original copy of Simple Player from the QuickTime 1.0
diskimage on ftp.apple.com.  QT 1.5 is about 800K, QT 1.0 is about 450K, so
perhaps they just don't have room for the player on the disk anymore.

In any event, the extension just provides the code to decode the movies and
play them. It doesn't provide code to load a movie or buttons to play it. That
is what Simple Player is for.

There are also several PD/SW movie players on sumex & mac.
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From: ccmlh@buitc.bu.edu (Mark Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: How to reset modem port?
Date: 20 Nov 92 19:39:34 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: ccmlh@buitc.bu.edu

I just got a fax modem, and I'm having a little problem with it.
If I use the modem to dial into an online service using ZTerm,
then hang up and quit ZTerm, then try to send a fax, the fax
program complains that the port is still in use by another program.
Even though ZTerm is no longer running. So far, the only way I've
found to clear the problem is to reboot. Anybody know a better way?
A little port-resetter program or something?
						Mark
From: v065hjku@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Jason Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: What does 'unimplemented trap error' refer to?
Date: 23 Nov 92 13:58:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I was playing this game called Darkwood, which is really cool, but I keep 
getting these error messages- even after I removed all extensions.  I
am hoping it is a bug in the program,
because I can't figure out what is causing it.  could it be a conflict
with sys7 tuner?

Any help appreciated! 
______________________________________________________________________________
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              |   That depends on how you cook them..."- WC Fields
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: barretpj@cs.aston.ac.uk (Phil J Barrett)
Subject: Re: StarTrek Screen saver
Reply-To: barretpj@cs.aston.ac.uk
Organization: Aston University (Comp Sci)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:16:51 GMT

In article 16549@uts.uni-c.dk, povlphp@uts.uni-c.dk (Povl H. Petersen) writes:
>Berkeley System has announce a StarTrek screen saver. Has anybody seen 
>it yet and can give some information ? Is it stand alone ? or is it plug-ins 
>for After Dark ?

It was demonstrated at Apple Expo London a month or so ago. Very nice graphics
and sound, as would be expected, and guaranteed to reduce productivity.

It's a set of After Dark modules, but it also comes with a custom version of the
After Dark cdev so you don't need a separate copy of AD.

My copy's due any day now, according to MacLine....

Phil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky)
Subject: Re: memory and IIci speed (again)
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:34:36 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.163712.3263@nic.csu.net> marc@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU (Marc Matteo) writes:
>Hi all,
>
>  Ok, I've seen it before, I even understood it once, but with the advent of 
>the not-as-fast-as-it-should-be IIvx people have been talking about the IIci 
>and the effect its memory has on its speed.
>  What's the deal with that again?
>  Something about if you run with 5 megs there's only 1 meg in bank A you can 
>set your RAM cashe to something and thing will be faster.  But, if you have 8 
>megs the ci might be slower 'cause there's 4 megs in bank A.  If you have a 
>video card installed then blaa blaa blaa ad nauseum.
>
>  Could somebody email me with a rundown of the problem/its fixes/and things 
>to avoid?


The IIci's built-in video shares Bank A of RAM with the operating 
system.  Thus, if you're running the built-in video, operating
system access to Bank A has to compete with the video subsystem, and
is considerably slower than access to Bank B.  Additionally, Bank A
is used *before* Bank B, so the first applications you run get
loaded into Bank A until it fills up, and only then is Bank B used
(turning virtual memory on confuses things somewhat, so you can't
tell what gets loaded where).  Hence, if you have lots of RAM in
Bank A, most of your apps will load there and you'll take a
performance hit.  It's best to leave four 256K SIMMs in Bank A and
replace the four 1MB SIMMs in Bank B with 4MB SIMMs, rather than put   
1MB SIMMs in Bank A.  If you buy a video card and don't use the
built-in video, this problem goes away.
  
--
Steve Kanefsky
From: zeller@vax.sonoma.edu (ERIC ZELLER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: graphics
Date: 21 Nov 92 00:44:00 GMT
Organization: Sonoma State University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Anyone have any idea where I can get hold of a library of source code for 
taking various images off of disk (gif, TIFF, QRT etc) and displaying them 
on a 24-bit display card. I need source code so I can modify them to work
with our system and to send a signal to the VTR to record them when done.
(this is for an animation). Thanx in advance..




'and take my intestines to use for guitar |     EZ Writer
strings, that someone can play as they    |     zeller@sonoma.edu
sing this sad song.' --"As I walked"      |  	P.O. Box 64
		     Garisson Keilor      |	Cotati, CA, 94931-0064
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From: kvd@acpub.duke.edu (Karen Van Dusen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: StuffIt Expander 3.0 (was Re: HQX files)
Date: 18 Nov 92 21:51:28 GMT
 <1992Nov16.185144.28176@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> 
 <1ealo7INNljn@iraul1.ira.uka.de>  <1992Nov17.195527.28171@netcom.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Duke University
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In article <1992Nov17.195527.28171@netcom.com>
leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:

> 	Look for a new and improved version of StuffIt Expander (version 3.0)
> in the next 7-10 days which will solve all of your downloading/expansion needs -
> including support for BinHex files (Multipart ones too!), and a "Downline-like"
> feature called "Watch Folders".

COOL!  Looking forward to it.  Thanks a lot!

I think it's terrific that Aladdin chooses to distribute Stuffit
Expander as freeware.  I hope you get as much good net-feeling out of
it as you deserve.

-Karen


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Karen Van Dusen                           (919) 660-6917
Macintosh Systems Specialist              kvd@acpub.duke.edu
Duke University
From: sjmz@otter.hpl.hp.com (Stefek Zaba)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:27:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Apple Crippling Systems?!?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc

In comp.sys.mac.misc, avery@ccrma.stanford.edu  (Avery Wang) writes:

> ....  It's hard to imagine a chip design failing for the FP operations being  
> not "up to spec".  After all, it's not an analog circuit.  And digital logic  
> is, by definition, up to spec. So it would have to be intentional, I surmise. 

Oh, if only!  If only!  Down at the electrons on the chip doing their pretty
quantum dance, it *ain't* usefully "digital".  It's noisy, ugly, stochastic,
statistic.  It isn't (with apologies to Stanislaw Lem) a dream of a machine
at all.  There's a range of voltage levels we choose to call "high", a range
of levels we choose to call "low", and a spread in between during which the
signal's rising and falling which all good chip designers PROMISE ON THEIR
GRANDMOTHERS GRAVES not to sample.  Chip layout is more and more of a black
art the closer you are to the bleeding edge, and Motorola got as least as
close to that edge as they wanted to with the '040.  Add to that the unwanted
impurities and crystal defects you get in silicon wafers, and you understand
why chip yields are *NOT* exactly 100%, and why the same semiconductor
fabrication line can produce an 80% yield of 80ns memory chips one day, and
next day be down to 60% at 100ns only.  (I exaggerate for effect; nor are
these yields suggestive of typical experience.  First run chips have been
known to yield 5% or lower, and it certainly gets worse as the chip area
increases, since you're that much more likely to hit a flaw in the silicon.)

Hence it's feasible --- nay, common --- to test chips as they are minted,
and put them in suitably labelled packages according to the test results.
It also makes simple sense that a smaller surface-area '040 WITHOUT the
large chunk of silicon devoted to floating-point ops will give a higher
yield than the larger-surface-area full function '040.

Final piece of well-known context: each wafer of silicon which goes through
the fab line (say, 4 inch diameter) has multiple copies of the "chip" etched
onto it --- it's then cut up into the individual chips.  So, making "larger"
chips doesn't mean using bigger wafers, but means putting fewer copies of a
larger design onto the same wafer.

End of "chip fab 101"... from a software weenie.

Cheers, Stefek
From: tjhendry@mcs.drexel.edu (Jonathan Hendry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple Crippling Systems?!?
Date: 22 Nov 92 19:28:01 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Drexel University

In article <1992Nov22.045325.23107@leland.Stanford.EDU> avery@ccrma.stanford.edu (Avery Wang) writes:
>In article <torrie.722399595@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan  
>Torrie) writes:
>> avery@cmn7.Stanford.EDU (Avery Wang) writes:
>> 
>> >Well, let me point out that the NeXT doesn't have a FPU either, and  
>> >although it could benefit from a coprocessor, it does reasonably.  The  
>> >reason is that the 040 has half a math coprocessor built in.  It does  
>> >+,-,*,/, sqrt, abs, and a few others, but not the trancendentals.  On the  
>> 
>>   Ahhh, misinformation reigns supreme.
>>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>   There is no such thing (as far as I'm aware on the market) of a 
>> separate math coprocessor for the 68040.  The 68040 has a built-in
>> math coprocessor, albeit does not include transcendentals (in 
>> this respect, it is just keeping up with the RISC chips).  
>
>
>Wait a minute--I didn't claim that there was a coprocessor for the '040! And  
>the rest of what you said is just what I said!  Where's the misinformation?  
>
>-Avery

The point is that you misunderstood the original post. There is no separate
FPU chip. No one in this thread has claimed otherwise. The issue is that 
Apple will sell computers which use Motorola's "crippled" 040. That chip's
floating-point capabilities are non-existent. In other words, the on-chip
fpu is non-functional.
-- 
Jonathan W. Hendry
Drexel University College Of Information Studies
Anderson Financial Systems "Programmer-in-Exile" :)
hendryjw@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu (No NEXTMail :( )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: world
From: david_b._hauer@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:48:09 PST
Subject: Re: This is not a Mac disk...?!

>> Forgive a "newbie" a FAQ, but I am stumped.  This Mac disk, >>which contains
Mac
>> files, (Pagemaker, Word, etc...) is no longer readable.  My >>(new) Mac
wants to
>> format it.  Would Disk FirstAid help ?
>Two possibilities here.

Actually I would say there are more than two possibilities. Though it's most likelyespecially since you say it's a new machine-that the problem is indeed with
the disk, you might be having a problem with your drive. Or, the head
alignment of the drive that wrote the floppy in the first place is too far off
from that of the one on which you are trying to read it. The diagnostic
questions are pretty obvious:does this symptom occur on the same drive with
numerous floppies? Does the floppy read in another drive?

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From: conan@tron.gun.de (Dirk Taggesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re:Atari St or Amiga emulators
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neurath, Germany
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:54:00 +0100

Am 12.11.92 schrieb PUG%CS.CURTIN.EDU.AU@USENET.ZER 
unter dem Betreff Atari St or Amiga emulators:

> From: pug@cs.curtin.edu.au (Greg Barron)
> Subject: Atari St or Amiga emulators
> Message-ID: <pug.721566601@marsh>
> Organization: Curtin University of Technology
> 
> 
> Does anyone know of any for the mac????

Emulating an Atari ST should not be a great problem, but unfortunately
I don't know any existing ST-Emulator for the Mac.

Emulating an Amiga seems to be impossible. 
Because: Amiga's have a lot of CustomChips and Coprocessors with
DMA-Ability. They are excessively used by the operating system and so
You have to emulate them by software. If (If!) this would be possible,
it would extremely slow down any PC or Mac or Atari ST and the
performance, let's say on a Quadra 950, may be, hmm, at about 50% of an
7MHz-Standard-Amiga.  
Some features of these famous Amiga-Hardware (Praise Jay Miner!) won't
be able to be emulated.  I.e.  the Copper:  It has it's own Program called
"Copperlist" and You can give him instructions to wait until the
Kathode Ray reach a X- or Y-Position and the Copper then will write any
data into a specified Address in the Chip-RAM (or the
Custom-Chip-Addresses?).  
Tell me, how to emulate these time-critical things!  
Then there are the Floppies...  On an Macintosh it may possible to read
and write the Amiga-Format-Disks, but Pissies and Atari ST's are
definitely not able to do this :-)

Yes, it would be a great deal, if anyone would make an Amiga-Emulator
without Hardware-Enhancements on ANY Machine, but, I don't believe that
it will be possible...

Remember: ONLY AMIGA MAKES IT POSSIBLE! :-)

(Yes, I am an Amiga-User and a German One too, and this is the reason
for my fu***ng bad english, sorry).

> Thanks


Absender: Dirk Taggesell
          CONAN@TRON.ZER

Wieviele Programmierer braucht es, 
um eine kaputte Gluehbirne zu wechseln?
         Gar keinen, das ist ein Hardwareproblem!

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From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: HQX files
Date: 17 Nov 1992 11:40:55 GMT
Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG
NNTP-Posting-Host: irau30.ira.uka.de

In article <1992Nov16.185144.28176@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> troc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (John A Savage) writes:
>I personally use Downline to unbinhex files, it works in the background rather
>well, it also unstuffs (still need to use compact pro as well, for compacted
>files)

Downline was the PERFECT program for me until I upgraded to System 7.
Or is there a new version of Downline which is 7-compatible?

olaf
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From: v065hjku@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Jason Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Phonetic symbol font
Date: 21 Nov 92 17:13:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

>Does any body know if there is a phonetic symbol font available for the 
>macintosh?
>I have a language specialist who could make good use of one.
> 

Techphonetic is probably the best, available through most major FTp sites.

______________________________________________________________________________
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              | "Do you like children?
              |   That depends on how you cook them..."- WC Fields
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From: jkonton@unison.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: StarTrek Screen saver
Date: 20 Nov 92 03:16:51 GMT


povlphp@uts.uni-c.dk (Povl H. Petersen) writes:

> Berkeley System has announce a StarTrek screen saver. Has anybody seen 
> it yet and can give some information ? Is it stand alone ? or is it 
plug-ins 
> for After Dark ?

The StarTrek screen saver is a stand-alone extension, it can play
After Dark modules in addition to its own.

Joe Konton
Unison-Tymlabs
jkonton@unison.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: cmcdowel@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Charles E. McDowell)
Subject: BBS Software.
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 21:12:34 GMT

This may not be the appropriate place to post this, but can anyone direct me
to a good software package to set up a BBS on a Mac Plus?  Disk space is not
a problem, but I'd like to find something with some good flexibility in
configuration.  Any help would be appreciated.  Also, please reply by mail.

--Charles McDowell  (cmcdowel@ecn.purdue.edu)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: dave@gergo.tamu.edu (Dave Martin)
Subject: Re: Stylewriter and Greyscale?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Geochemical & Environmental Research Group, Texas A&M University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:05:00 GMT

In article <Bxx0B8.y7@netnews.jhuapl.edu>, ygor@aplexus.jhuapl.edu (Daniel E. White  (F2C)) writes...
}  Honestly, I do not thiink the SW is capable of greyscale.  It's a black
}and white printer.  You might achieve it with dot-screen, but it won't be
}the same.

I believe (though I may be mistaken) that what the original post was asking
was essentially how to get the StyleWriter to halftone a gray or color image.
Apple still has not developed a driver for the SW which will do this -- they
claim that you can get halftones from any program which does the halftoning
itself (which are very few and often limited -- PageMaker only halftones
TIFF images). If I print a color image from Canvas, for instance (or one with
Canvas' grayscale fill pattern -- or any pattern, for that matter) the color
image comes out mostly black (non-white colors print as black), and the fills
are low resolution (the pattern is bitmapped at 72dpi rather than the SW's
360dpi).
I've been meaning to check into the BetterWriter drivers -- anyone know
first hand if they can do what Apple has seen fit not to? 

 - Dave Martin - Geochemical & Environmental Research Group, Texas A&M - 
 - DAVE@GERGA.TAMU.EDU - DBM@AOL.COM -- My views, my life, my right... -
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Leigh_MacKay@mindlink.bc.ca (Leigh MacKay)
Subject: Re: Apple menu is acting very strange! HELP!!!
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:24:18 GMT

If you have Norton Disk Doctor get it working on your drive.  Sounds like the
aliases in the apple menu items folder have become orphans.

Just a guess.


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From: rags@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Robert A. G. Seely)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps,rec.music.classical,rec.music.folk,rec.music.misc,rec.music.synth,comp.music,rec.music.early
Subject: Re: Music editor for Apple Mac
Date: 20 Nov 92 21:30:50 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

Lime sounds fine - but is there anything equivalent for a PC?  I am aware of
the TeX macro package MuTeX, but a non-TeX-ish friend would loke something a
little more friendly...

-rags
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: rss19@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Richard S Sucgang)
Subject: Re: Print GENERIC PostScript to file?
Keywords: PostScript printer drivers
Reply-To: rss19@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Richard S Sucgang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:54:23 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.194551.24338@netcom.com> lewis@netcom.com (David Lewis) writes:
>	I'd like to be able to print to a generic PostScript file,
>i.e. one which can be sent over the net to people with non-Apple
>printers. Is there a print driver, either PD or commercial, which will
>do this?
>-- 

Check it out: Modify the LaserWriter driver with
Don Markuson's LaserWriter Utilities, available
in sumex and your favorite archives (YFA).

-rich
rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu