HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: xnybpf01@serss0 (Brian P Feeny)
Subject: FOR SALE!
Organization: Florida International University, Miami
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:37:25 GMT


-=:* F O R  S A L E *:=-
	
	All items come with original packaging and manuals.  All were used very 
little.
 
1 Apple //e with enhanced chipset
  80 column card w/ 128k		
  Comes with full set of Applesoft 
  Manuals, and System Disks             $ 175.00 
 
1 Apple Monitor with green display	$ 50.00
 
4 Apple Disk ][ 5.25 Drives		$ 35.00 each
 
2 Apple Disk ][ Disk Controller Cards	$ 15.00 each
 
1 Apple DMP Printer			$ 75.00
 
1 Applied Engineering DataLink 2400
  baud internal modem.  Comes with
  DataLink Communications Software	$ 50.00
 
1 Kensington Microware System Saver //e $ 50.00
 
1 Sonus MIDI Interface			$ 50.00
 
1 Sonus SuperSequencer 128		$ 50.00
 
1 CH Mach III Joystick			$ 20.00
 
1 Grappler+ BUFFERED w/16k		$ 35.00
 
 
	I will pay for the shipping on all items.  Please send a Money Order for 
fastest delivery.  Out of state checks (FL), will be held until they are cleared.
 
						Brian
 
Also, please Email me first to make sure the item is still availible before you
send your money.  For fastest response call me at 407-798-5126.
 
 
 
I do not normally read this newsgroup so use email/.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Subject: Re: Apple II RWTS codes.
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 23:38:26 GMT

johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz.au (John MacLean) writes:

>However, since they pack so much on a track, you couldn't possibly have
>a real file system sitting on top, as the simple overheads of calling
>a RWTS routine would mean you would miss the next block (assuming 1-1
>interleave).
>What he did was to have calls to his RWTS that let you read/write N
>blocks starting at block A on track T.

This is not a problem -- have your file manager analyze the block numbers and
when it finds a straight run it makes a single call and that's that. Since all
GS/OS drivers are designed to take a starting block and byte count, the ProDOS
FST already does this sort of analysis. The HFS FST has it built in to the
filesystem.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell)
Subject: getting a keypress
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 11 Sep 92 19:42:47 GMT

>>But to the point.  Does there exist in Orca pascal a function that
>>will return a keypress without waiting for return to be pressed?
 
(My first internet post, forgive me if I screw up.)
 
No, but the Calendar example CDA with Pascal shows how to read the
keyboard directly, though rather incorrectly. I'm pretty sure it
accesses a word of memory at a time ie - C000 and C001 which is in
general not a good thing, and it is only for when the Event Manager
isn't active.
 
Anyway, try something like this:
 
function ReadKey: integer; extern;
 
        ReadKey start
                pea     0
                _EMStatus
                pla
                beq     hardware
        loop    ~GetNextEvent #$ffff,#EventRec
        ; you might want to restrict the mask
                pla
                beq     noKey
                lda     what
                cmp     #keyDownEvt
                beq     key
                cmp     #autoKeyEvt
                bne     noKey
        key     anop
                lda     message
                rtl
        noKey   anop
                lda     #0
                rtl
 
        hardware        anop
                shortm
        hloop   lda     >$E0C000
                bpl     noKey
                sta     >$E0C010
                and     #$7F
                longm
                rtl
 
        EventRec        anop
        what    dw
        message dl
        when    dl
        where   dl
        mods    dw
 
                end
 
NOTE: this routine originally waited for a keypress but I _just_
modified it to not wait and return zero if there's no waiting keypress.
So, it's _not_ tested.
 
 
Jay
 
PS - Bryan 'Zak's SmartMacros are used here.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.apple2:19920 comp.sys.mac.misc:16080
From: jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Appleworks Translator
Keywords: Appleworks, AFE
Date: 6 Sep 92 06:48:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: rice.Bu59LL.2pv
Organization: Rice University

As I'm sure someone else has mentioned, using the "Works to Works" translator,
available via anonymous ftp at sumex-ain.stanford.edu, Apple File Exchange
will gladly translate AppleWorks files to Microsoft Works files, which can
be read into Microsoft Word 4.0.

-- 
Jim Wong (jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: tracadas@athena.mit.edu (Philip W Tracadas)
Subject: SCSI cards
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:16:58 GMT


Can someone say something about the RamFast SCSI and the Apple SCSI and any
other apple // SCSI cards?  

Also, what about the Roger Wagner Publishing deal on 4mb memory?  Is his 
memory card compatible with everything else?  What makes a good memory card?

Thanks for any insight.

-philip

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: hackett@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Mike Hackett)
Subject: Re: FAX software for the GS
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 22:23:04 GMT

In article <2AB41D84.16038@ics.uci.edu> jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw) writes:
>Are there any FAX software available for the GS?  I am looking for sendFAX,
>receive FAX would be a nice dream, though...
>
>                   I think Quality Computer will soon have Send Fax
>on their Q-modems (which are SupraModems with Q-stickers, I think :)
>
>--
>Jimmy Shaw			 RamFAST, ZipGSX and 6.0... Apple II Forever!
>jimmys@ics.uci.edu
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

   Wow!  Does that mean it would work with the real Supra Modems?  And could
you get the software separately.  My roommate just got a 14.4Kb Supra w/Fax
for his Mac, but he got a long cable so that I could hook it up to my GS
too.  (We haven't tried it out yet.)  That would be very nice if I could do
at least Send Fax from my GS as well.


=====================================================================
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<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_
From: YCSP322@LSUVM.BITNET (John Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Textronix emulation
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:06:46 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Hey Mark!
  Could you contact me about your plans for Kermit. I'm currently working
on a port of MacCKermit (9.40) for the GS and have quite a bit to do in the
way of emulations.

  --- John Mills
==================================
INet: mills@max.ee.lsu.edu(pref)
Bitnet: ycsp322@lsuvm.Bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz.au (John MacLean)
Subject: DOS 3.3 Launcher for 8 bit Apple //
Organization: Tower Technology, Sydney
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:38:56 GMT

A number of people have asked me for an equivalent to my DOS 3.3 Launcher
for 8 bit Apple //s.
I almost have such a program - it was the origin of my GS DOS 3.3 Launcher.
It works by copying the block list into bank $01, and then simulating the
RWTS by doing calls directly to the smartport firmware of the drive it
is launched from.

The major problem with making this thing really useful for 8 bit Apple //s,
is that it is not easy to quit back to ProDOS 8.
This is necessary because many DOS 3.3 programs don't have quit options
[and when they do, they do not exit through a common code point which is
easy to trap - they usually just reboot or quit to BASIC]
On the GS version, I install a CDA on launch, which when selected enables
you to quit back to the launcher (usually the Finder).

I was about to ask for any bright ideas on how to force a quit back to
P8, but I think I just thought of one.
When running DOS 3.3 binary programs (such as games), I can set up the
reset vector before handing over control.
When running RWTS based disk images, I can set up the reset vector from
within the RWTS routine (it is useless setting it up before handing over
control, because DOS 3.3 and most other RWTS based programs set the reset
vector themselves later in the boot process. Thus ctl-reset should send
you straight to the quit code, and perform a P8 quit.

What do people think of this?
I could do it, but is it actually worth my while?

John MacLean.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: swiet@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Alexander Swietlicki)
Subject: Re: Binscii and Unix
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 21:04:55 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.014030.28916@doug.cae.wisc.edu> feiges@cae.wisc.edu (Howard Feiges) writes:
>Hello people - its feiges here
>
>What I was wondering was - if theere was a way to un-binscii a file ON MY
>UNIX ACCOUNT - before downloading.....  so then I can download the program
>in half the time adn not have to worry about using more disk space --- etc..

	There is a utility called sciibin which does this.  It and other
apple2 files can be found at wuarchive.wustl.edu in /systems/apple2.

	Alex
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: feiges@cae.wisc.edu (Howard Feiges)
Subject: Meta key for the GS
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 5 Sep 92 16:44:11 CDT


HEllo people -its feiges here

WEll, I own an apple IIGS and I also own a 9600 baud modem....  I
also have a computer account for my courses here at UW Madison....

Anyways, I was real interested in using EMACS to do my editing instead
of vi...  But, you see, emacs requires the use of the meta key to
enter in certain commands.... .And the GS has no meta key like the
workstations in the lab have....

I have proterm 3.0  -  Is there any way to emulate the meta key in
proterm 3.0?????  Is there another terminal program I can get that can
emulate the meta key????   

I know you can simulate the meta key with like a control-c or
something (or was that control-x??)  but I would much rather emulate
it directly like a control or an open-apple key....

please get back to me...

feiges@cae.wisc.edu

thanx for your time... I do appreciate it

Howard Feiges

TPK
From: rustle@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Russell Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: random numbers/time
Date: 15 Sep 92 09:25:59 GMT
Organization: Purdue University

In <19920914.054756.181@almaden.ibm.com> Pauley@vnet.ibm.com (Paul Benson) writes:

>In <01GOOYKWJQYA006T9I@mc.duke.edu> POSTMASTER@MC.DUKE.EDU writes:
>>********************* DEMPO Error Message ***********************
>>UNSENT MAIL!
>>NO NAME SPECIFIED!
>>From:   BITNET::INFO-APPLE@APPLE.COM
>>To:
>>Subj:   random numbers/time
>>
>>********************* DEMPO Error Message ***********************
>>
>>To:
>>

>Is anyone else getting these or is it just my site?  There have been about
>15 of these over the weekend.

I'm getting them all over the place, also...

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: cranem@edsi.plexus.COM (Mike Crane)
Subject: A question or two
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 17:46:34 GMT

I have had a Transwarp GS and a PC Transporter installed in my machine
(ROM 01 GS) for 3-4 years now, and there is a "feature" on each one that
I would like to know the purpose of.  Each one has an unused row  of
pins that look like a ribbon cable connector of some sort could be
attached to, but the manuals don't make any metion of what they are
meant to be used for.  Do they have any *real* use, or were they just put
there for "future expansion" posibilities?

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From: POSTMASTER@MC.DUKE.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: GSHK 1.0.6 - NASTY bug zapped my disk!
Date: 13 Sep 92 05:56:06 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC, USA

********************* DEMPO Error Message ***********************
UNSENT MAIL!                            
NO NAME SPECIFIED!                      
From:	BITNET::INFO-APPLE@APPLE.COM
To:	
Subj:	Re: GSHK 1.0.6 - NASTY bug zapped my disk!

********************* DEMPO Error Message ***********************


To:
From: larry@lablues.UUCP (Lawrance A. Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: EPROMer for the //
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 03:57:44 EDT
Organization: L/A Blues BBS - Auburn ME (207) 777-3465

behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens) writes:

> ferret@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Brendan Hoar) writes:
> 
> >Hey, if Soenke doesn't come up with his EPROMMER system pretty soon...  :)
> 
> Umm ... *guilty look*. It sits beside me, and I have already programmed quite
> some EPROMs with it ... it works like a charm. Things that hold me back:
> - The exchange rate of the Dollar. I would have to request payment in DM.
>   Yuck.
> - How the heck do I word that "contract"? I am not good at such things.
> 
> Any and all suggestions welcome :)
> 
> Soenke
> -- 
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> electricity. I need it for my dreams.      !    tu-muenchen.de
> (RACTER)                                   !  FIDO: 2:246/13 Soenke Behrens


While I still want mine, I'm affaird that it will need to wait for the 
demise of Bush so our currency will not be so worthless!!!      What is 
the big deal with the contract?         Larry

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id <m0mSK6o-0000jNC@crash.cts.com>; Tue, 8 Sep 92 21: 56 PDT
	id <i874334@pro-nsdapple.cts.com>; Tue,  8 Sep 92 20: 38 PDT
From: glennl@pro-nsdapple.cts.com (Glenn Levine)
Subject: Re: Undelete files - help?
Organization: ProLine [pro-nsdapple] - North San Diego Apple Users Group
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 20:35:01 PDT

do you have a version of copy II plus that works on the Apple III.
If so go ahead and try the undelete function and see if that will 
work.  As long as you have not saved anything to that disk after the
original files were deleted the file should be retrieveable
From: fred@pro-aasgard.cts.com (Fred Gotfredson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: IIgs telecom programs...
Date: 7 Sep 92 17:02:44 GMT
Organization: ProLine [pro-aasgard] -- Minneapolis, MN  (612)/557-2811


>I was looking forward to Paul's ANSIterm.  But it doesn't support vt100 ( which
>I must use ).  I thought the desktop version of ANSIterm was still in the
>works?  It's ready?

Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't ANSI use the same cursor movement
codes as VT-100? I thought the only difference was that-
1) ANSI has special BS and delet codes
2) ANSI supports special effects (i.e. color, boldface, underline) 

but, of course, ANSI term just uses color. Is the desktop version of it 1.1?
if so, it is out, just call him or mail him.
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Subject: Re: Accelerator Performance
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 10:45:08 GMT

isc10327@nusunix3.nus.sg (ONG TAT-WEE) writes:

>	Hello, :), I was using 70ns chips on my 8mhz Zip GS before I
>upgraded to 9mhz.  Now I'm using 20ns chips with my 9mhz and when I
>compare them to the 70ns, I get better performance with the newer and
>faster chips.

That performance increase comes from the 9mhz, and if you increased the memory
size of the cache then that will make it faster too. Faster cache ram does not
affect the speed of the machine, it only allows you to run the CPU faster
(which _will_ affect the speed of the machine).

Jawaid is essentially correct; your cache ram is either:
	fast enough, and everything works
	almost fast enough, and the Zip acts flaky when it's warm
	not fast enough, and the Zip doesn't work at all
FOR the clock frequency and CPU chip that is installed.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
From: jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Subject: fast 65816s and WDC
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Reply-To: jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:45:44 GMT

First off, I like to thank Brian Tao for posting the informative
file about the 14 Mhz 65816 upgrades for the ZipGSX and TWgs.

I've just got off the phone with Deb at WDC, and I'll save those of
you who haven't call the trouble:  this is what I found out (sort
of a "first-step"):

Send a $0.52 business sized SASE (self addressed stamped envelope) to WDC,
attn: Deb, and write a short note about wanting the info on the 14 Mhz
816 and upgrades.

And after you've gone through the tech. sheets, then you can call her
back and order the 816.

Now my question is (hopefully this will be covered in the info):

Do all upgrades on the ZipGSX v1.02 are simple CPU and crystal swaps?
Or do I actually have to do some soldering of additional resistors,
chips, whatever?  I would hope that no major additions are needed,
since it's been 8 years since I held a soldering iron (took electronics
when I was a freshmen in HIGH SCHOOL!)

I currently have 4 Sony Srams on the 8Mhz Zipgsx. 35ns, and they make
64K. (exact chip #:CXK58258P-35 CMOS)  How fast can I push these
srams?  I got tthe impression that this will do 10 Mhz fine, and may even
go 13.75 Mhz (which is the recommanded speed for 5V).

That's it for now, and thanks in advance.

P.S. Has anyone got a split 128K cache in theirs?  A guy around here
(in Los Angeles) has a 128K cache on his ZipGSX, it's split 64/64,
and it's awfully impressive.  What he did was he piggy-backed four
SRAM on top of 4 existing srams, and soldered them together!


Jimmy
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jimmys@ics.uci.edu
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From: spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Blue Helmet
Date: 11 Sep 92 04:57:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <Bu7tIz.46z@well.sf.ca.us>, joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn) writes...
> 
>To: Fred Gotfredson
>Re: Blue Helmet
> 
>If you downloaded Blue Helmet from c.b.a2, that copy had already been
>patched so that people on a ROM3 could steer to the left and right,
>correctly.
> 
>If you got Blue Helmet from somewhere else, and are handy with a sector
>editor, check block $01C3, Byte $01AD. If you find a $40 at that loation,
>change it to a $50. That should allow you to steer both ways.


   I've noticed that once your off-road, steering to the left or right is very
difficult, if not almost impossible. I've tried it on both my ROM 01 and ROM 03
machines with the same results. Steering left or right _on_ the road (grey area)
seems to work fine otherwise. My copy came from ccosun.caltech.edu FTP site, so
I'm uncertain whether or not it had the patch applied.

   Once on the subject of FTA, I'd like to see "Oil Landers" and "Bulla" made
available on GEnie, c.b.a2, and FTP. I know how pressed for time you are, but
perhaps someone else would be willing to distribute the copies. (I can just 
imagine how incomplete these are, yet I'd very much like to see them. As I'm
sure the rest of the Apple II community would! ;-)  

>Joe Kohn

Mitchell Spector
spector@vax2.concordia.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Subject: Epson-compatible printers are icky... NOT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 11:54:16 GMT

sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:

>Epson-compatible printers are icky...you can't get a 72x72 or 144x144
>dpi matrix out of 'em for graphics.  I tried plugging one into my

Aww... what's wrong with 60x60, 120x120, 180x180, & 360x360 ?  AWGS figures
out from the Page Setup that it's using slightly better resolution, and it
adjusts everything. 72 dpi is not God.

>Also, the interface matters little.  Your printer can only go so fast.
>Mine (an Imagewriter) runs at no more than 120 cps...a 1200-baud
>serial connection would be fast enough for text.  I run mine at 9600,

Well _my_ printer does 300 cps in draft mode (perfect for program listings),
but that's not the point -- you're right about text; it's the large bitmaps
that I wanted the parallel card for. Maybe the Imagewriter just has a pokey
or nonoptimizing controller, but my Panasonic zooms through the blank areas
of the page at about 11K/sec and doesn't do too shabby on lines that print,
either. When I'm printing half-page letters this really makes a difference.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
From: mattd@apple.com (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Needed: synthLAB file format
Date: 8 Sep 92 19:05:10 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Developer Technical Support, Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <1992Sep6.234915.19384@news.iastate.edu>, irsman@iastate.edu
(Ian Schmidt) wrote:
> 
> Well, I got this info elsewhere so I don't need it anymore.  Thanks to Mike
> Nuzzi for making up a great HCGS stack that explains everything you need to
> know about MIDISynth :)
> 
> 
> -- 
>    _IanSchmidt(oINet+irsman@iastate.edu,oBITNET+twbv4@isuvax,$C000,Data)
Incorrect.  "Programmer's Reference for System 6.0" is the official
documentation for MIDI Synth, and it is not optional if you're using
MIDI Synth in a program you intend to release.

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