HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: giovin@medr3.ecs.umass.edu (Rocky J Giovinazzo)
Subject: Re: Hard Drives for Apple IIGS
Reply-To: giovinaz@hks.hks.com
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:19:35 GMT

In article <6936@news.duke.edu> you write:
>I have an Apple IIGS with 1.25M of memory and I am looking at
>purchasing a hard drive, although I have a couple of questions...
>
>	o  It looks like I'm going to order this by mail-order, what
>	   companies/brands can anyone recommend?  (I'm looking at
>	   40MB Hard Drives)
>
>	o  What other things will I need beside the hard drive itself?
>	   (i.e. cards, etc.)
>
>Post responses here or email to sstein@afs.acpub.duke.edu

You can get a GS-specific hard drive (like Vulcan) that requires
no extra card-- just stick the whole thing in your machine.
About 2 years ago, when I bought my drive, I found that Vulcan and
others like this were extremely expensive.  I bought an Apple SCSI 
card (about $120) and an external hard drive.  It takes up
more desk space, but it's much much cheaper.  Plus the external hard
drive I bought is a Quantum which is better (faster) than 
the internals you might find-- and is either #1 or #2 in MacUser
buyer guides (or some Mac magazine).  

I bought my apple SCSI card from Programs Plus (slightly better price 
than Quality Computers, but almost the same at the time) and my
hard drive from Hard Drives International.  The price of the drive
itself completely depends on the size you want.  I bought a 52MB drive,
($300 at the time) but sort of wish I bought the 110MB drive (I think
it was $400-$420). If you order a drive like this, make sure 
you specify that you want an external drive *WITH* a case and power
supply.  They might assume you're putting it in a Mac or something and
don't need that stuff. 

You might also want to consider buying a RAMFast SCSI card instead of
the Apple one.  It's about $180 I think but apparently gives you faster disk
access plus a bunch of other nice features.  With RAMFast you're able
to tell your computer to boot from different partitions (normally 
there is only 1 boot partition).  ... and there's other stuff that I
can't remember.  You should ask someone with a RAMFast to give you
more info.

You can find the phone numbers for Programs Plus and Quality Computers
in Incider/A+ (Quality will try to sell you their Q-drive which you
might to look into also) and Hard Drives International's # is 
in most Mac magazines.  Or... call 1-800-555-1212 and ask for 
their 800 numbers.  I'm pretty sure Programs Plus got rid of their
800 number, so you'll have to call them in New Hampshire normally.

When looking for the best price on your SCSI card, I would also check
TMS Peripherals and Preferred Computing. Other places advertise in 
A+/Incide but the 5 names I've mentioned are all ones I've purchased
things from. 

Rocky Giovinazzo
giovinaz@hks.hks.com
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From: mrr1@Ra.MsState.Edu (mark r rauschkolb)
Subject: Spreadsheet available?
Reply-To: mrr1@Ra.MsState.Edu
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:58:08 GMT

	Is there a PD ore Shareware spreadsheet available for the apple2?
I've been looking through ftp sites and haven't seen any, but I don't
know a name to be looking for.

Thanks

Mark
mrr1@ra.msstate.edu



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From: jmk3@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Jay M. Krell)
Subject: Re: >paper docs re:newPort/killPort
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date:  8 Nov 92 04:34:07 GMT

>From: mattd@apple.com (Matt Deatherage)
>Organization: Developer Technical Support, Apple Computer, Inc.
>Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 02:12:43 GMT
>Subject: Re: >paper docs re:newPort/killPort
 
>>In article <jmk3.720913252@crux1.cit.cornell.edu>,
>>jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay M. Krell) wrote:
>>
>> >Dave
>>   You said there were paper docs for newPort. Where? Was the for -sale
>>Source  Code Sampler updated to include the May 1990 sample code?
 
>> Jay
 
><sigh> Nope, it never was.  The printed documentation was available free of
>charge to those who attended KansasFest '90 (where it was introduced), and
>it went in the Developer Mailing about 3 months later to all
>Partners/Associates of that time.  It's never been available any other way.
 
>Matt Deatherage, Developer Support Center, Apple Computer, Inc.
>The opinions I express don't represent Apple, which makes us both happy.
 
Arg. This isn't good (for me, that is.)
 
If the docs are small (say, <5 pages), could one of you lucky
Parnters/Associates generously make me a photocopy and snail-mail? Send me
email if willing.
 
 
Thanks,
 
 
 
  --Jay, jay.krell@cornell.edu
From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Out of this World is shipping.
Date: 7 Nov 92 21:04:53 GMT

Looking for reviews in all the wrong places...

Would anybody who gets Out of this World please give their opinion
thereof!? :)

- Eric S.

--
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InterNet: uerics@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu  |           ACM Member
FidoNet:  1:206/2713 Eric Shepherd | Programming Law #1: "When in
AOL:      Sheppy                   | doubt, rewrite from scratch."
From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: 5.0.4 and Mac FST?
Date: 5 Nov 92 17:42:24 GMT

NO!  Don't do it!  There are stories going around that it works just fine
to run the HFS FST under non 6.0 versions of the System Software, but it's
not true!  It might _look_ okay, but there are serious incompatibilities
that will eventually destroy data!

You have been warned. :)

- Eric S.

--
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InterNet: uerics@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu  |           ACM Member
FidoNet:  1:206/2713 Eric Shepherd | Programming Law #1: "When in
AOL:      Sheppy                   | doubt, rewrite from scratch."
From: AKARPENKO@ALBION.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Bouncing Bluster
Date: 13 Nov 92 03:12:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet

I downloaded Bouncing Bluster from UTARLVM1 and I can't get disk 1 to run
no matter what I do to it.  Launching it from system 5.0.2 or 3.0 simply
returns me to the finder.  I got the extra tools and added them to my
System Disks but the result was the same.  I also tried using the Bouncing
bluster system file as the start program from 5.0.2 with the added tools
installed.  This time the screen was blue after getting the Welcome to the GS
thermometer.  The screen would flask to black and then back to blue this would
continue until I reset my computer.  I have a Woz with ROM 01.  Any suggestions?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)
Subject: Re: Digital joystick conversion?
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 04:56:19 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.201702.6924@gallant.apple.com> Matt Ackeret <unknown@apple.com> writes:
>In article <viking.720693175@vincent1.iastate.edu> Dan Sorenson,
>viking@iastate.edu writes:
>>	Thus, the question: has anybody seen a box, for lack of
>>a better word, that converts from digital to analog with respect
>>to joysticks?  It's worth a good ten to fifteen bucks, I figure,
>>to just plug in an Atari joystick and have only 0 and 150 ohms
>>being seen by the joystick port on my IIgs.  There should be a
>>market for these things, so has anybody seen one?

	Sirius Joyport?  I have one.  It plugs into the 16 pin game I/O.
Allows you to use two analog or two digitial joystick.  Not exactly
what you're looking for (convert the digitial signal to analog), but
allows you to use those 'ole Atari Sticks.

>These have existed for a long time. I wouldn't be surprised if nobody made
>them anymore, but the one I remember was the Atari Joyport.

>Made the $2 cheap as hell (in more ways than one) joysticks work on IIs.
>Remember Miner 2049er? It asks you if you are using an Apple joystick or
>an Atari Joyport..  WHY? I don't know.. maybe it has to do with tolerances
>in the numbers it reads.

	Why?  because it doesn't translate those (digitial) signals into
something that you could read via PDL(x).  The joystick positions and
button status' were converted into various combinations of the push
button switches & things (been a long time, can't remember too well)
I still have the manual around here somewhere, 'should dig it up.

	I suppose one reason they stopped making it is because of
(ready for this?) the Apple //e.  Before the //e there was no
such thing as Ctrl-OA/CA-Reset, so the Joyport was able to make use
of what was to become the Apple Keys.
	When you have the joyport set to digitial (you could use analog
sticks, or digitial sticks, but not both) and nothing plugged in, it
causes the computer the think the game buttons are being pressed.  So
if the joyport was like so and you reset the computer, it thinks you're
doing a Ctrl-OA-CA-Reset, throwing it into the self-test with the high
pitched screech.  (what caused that anyway? =^)


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From: kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Plague)
Subject: Re: What is .bsq?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:11:15 GMT

rheinze@lrc.edu writes:

>What does the suffix  .bsq  mean?
>How do you download/unpack/use a file with .bsq?

.bsq means that the file in binary encoded.  For your GS, get GScii+ (NDA) 
written by Derek Taubert.  If you're using a //e, //c, use BinSCII, if you're
using Unix, use SciiBIN.

Those programs should be available on ccosun.caltech.edu

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From: toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira)
Subject: Re: GEnieLamp
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC., Orleans (Ont)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:23:20 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.164127.9816@b8.b8.ingr.com> scott@b8.b8.ingr.com (Scott Gentry) writes:
>CD46@DKAUNI2.BITNET (Volker Herrmann) writes:
>
>>Hi all,
>>I think Scott Gentry was right for all those boys and girls about ten
>>years old who cannot distinguish between pure advertisement and
>>information mixed up with some ads. Since I'm a little older than ten
>>I can read through GEnieLamp, pick up the interesting infos and skip
>>the word GEnie.
>
>Yo, back...
>
>The issue isn't whether you're ten years old or fifty years old.  The
>issue is wasted bandwidth (the wastage is comprised of fluff and what
>appear to be ads).  

The "wasted bandwidth" thing is invoked so often, and consumes so much
bandwidth, that it carries no weight at all anymore. If we were all really
so concerned about bandwidth usage, Usenet would not exist, or barely exist.
Let's be between 10 and 110 and admit that one person's fluff is another
person's treasure (or something to that effect).

For the record, I have pretty mixed feelings about seeing ads for GEnie
(or any other we-own-our-information service) on csa2. But certainly not because
of bandwidth...even an ad for GEnie is of better use than half the tripe around
here. The issue is presumably one of principle.


-- 
Marc Sira               |
toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca  |  "Your god drinks...P-P-Peach nectar!"
                        '
From: CLARK8@SNYCANVA.BITNET (Miark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Joystick wanted
Date: 8 Nov 92 20:58:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


 kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:
>Well, my joystick finally died and is irrepairable.  Does anybody have one they
>wanna get rid of?

  My joystick seems to be sick too. One of the buttons doesn't work. It's an
Apple one, and it doesn't seem to have any screws to open her up. Is there any
"nice" way to crack the SOB open and fix it, or are Apple joysticks disposible?
If they are, we can get Apple back by telling Greenpeace about it ;-)

  I almost never use it, so if it's not repairable, I won't lose any sleep over
it. Thanks for anysight!

                                  Miark
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From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
Subject: Re: the Demise of DeskTracker...
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Distribution: comp.sys.apple2
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:15:33 GMT

anthony@seas.smu.edu (Richard Anthony) writes:

>and i am sure Ian has
>his reasons for why he wont let richard use the code.

  Not really.

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From: musjndx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Jonathan N. Deitch)
Subject: Re: Apple Overtakes IBM?
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:31:29 GMT

herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Herbert Fung) writes:

>I found this on the ProTERM BBS last night and thought it was kinda
>neat:
> 
> Subject: Apple Overtakes IBM
>    From: JERRY CLINE [#1]
>  Posted: 10/26/92 at 11:14:19
>  Thread: /CLINE
> 

This was in MacWeek a couple of weeks ago ...
 
> 
>Apple to outsell IBM, analyst says The Associated Press
> 
>BOSTON
> 
>Apple Computer Inc. will overtake International Business Machines in
>sales of personal computers this year, an analyst has estimated.
> 
>Kimball Brown, director of PC hardware research for International
>Data Corp., a market-research firm headquartered in Framingham,
>Mass., based his estimate on the number of units shipped by each
>company during the past several years.
> 
>In 1990, IBM had 12 .9 percent of the total units shipped worldwide
>compared with Apple's 7.2 percent, Brown said.
> 
>By 1991, the margin had narrowed, with IBM shipping 11.3 percent of
>units to Apple's 9.7 percent. That translated to 2.9 million units
>for IBM and 2.5 million for Apple.
> 
>However, in the first nine months of this year, Apple shipped 2.04
>million units, compared with IBM's 1.85 million, Brown said.
> 
>"The year isn't over yet," Brown said. "The question is: Can IBM come
>back?"
> 
>"But even if they did, I think Apple would still come out on top."
> 
>--
>Herbert Fung                    | "Hard work doesn't make miracles,
>Edmonton Remote Systems         |   Miracles just make hard work!"
>Edmonton, Alberta, Canada       |       The Herbster! 1988

>Herbert Fung              herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 
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From: jmk3@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Jay M. Krell)
Subject: Re: Incompatible software?
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date:  8 Nov 92 02:48:31 GMT

A lot of AppleDisk3.5 dependent software won't work on 800K partitions.
FTA's stuff doesn't even work with the SuperDrive controller, because
they were too lazy to lookup the offsets to the SmartPort entry point.
Assuming slot 5 for the disk drive, this is about 2 lines of assembly.
 
  --Jay, jay.krell@cornell.edu
From: Pauley@vnet.ibm.com (Paul Benson)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 12:59:18 EST
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: >Joe K, 13 sector disks
Organization: IBM Personal Computer Co. - PS/1 Development
Disclaimer: This posting represents my views, not necessarily IBM's.
News-Software: UReply 3.0
            <BxB0DE.3Ko@well.sf.ca.us>

In <BxB0DE.3Ko@well.sf.ca.us> Joe Kohn writes:
>I agreed to help Tim Tobin's Lost Classic Project. Tim is the librarian on
>
>The only thing I'll say further is that I now have the answer to the
>question that always comes up when a bunch of Apple II old-timers get
>together. That question, of course, is..."What ever happened to Bill Budge?"

I know! I know! I know!  Joe, that was one hell of a hint!  This should be
great, since I only remember it from playing games at school, I've always
kinda wanted _________ in my collection for old times sake.  Way to go Tim!

Pauley
GEnie: P.Benson1
From: bohy6489@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: vt100 emulation for apple2
Date: 6 Nov 92 11:33:38 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

Hi.

I don't read this newsgroup, but am posting for a friend (who doesn't read news
at all).  He has an Apple II-plus (or e, I am not sure at this point), and
needs vt-100 emulation so he can dial in to our campus library catalog.  Can
anyone point me to a possible source?  Please e-mail responses.

Thanks!

===============================================================================
Jim Bohy                                        | "...I mean, in some ways,
Graduate Student - Computer Science Education   |  chasing the beast is easier
University of Northern Iowa                     |  than living with people..."
Cedar Falls, IA  50614                          | 
bohy@att1.uni.edu                               |  - King Pellinore
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From: marc@cxr_rs6000.med.ge.com (Marc Wolfgram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:  Softdisk's Internet Address
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:22:50 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Try sending to bryanzak@aol.com or just zak@aol.com.  Bryan can route the
info to the proper parties.

Marc
From: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Double low/hi Res
Date: 12 Nov 92 07:22:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: actrix.1992Nov12.072259.302
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <1992Nov9.235907.3531@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> sledbett@nyx.cs.du.edu (Shawn Ledbetter) writes:
> I've read somewhere about the Apple ][e/][c/][gs that it can handle
> double lo-res/hi-res.  Does anyone know the poke values or any other
> information I need.  Thanks in advance.

Double Lo-Res is not documented anywhere as an official graphics mode.
Despite this, Applesoft Basic has support for it!  I'm not sure about
the original IIe, but it definitely works on the enhanced IIe, IIc and IIgs.

To enable Double Lo-Res mode:

1. Get into 80-column mode using PR#3.
2. Turn on Annunciator 3 by doing a POKE 49246,0.
3. Use Lo-Res graphics commands as normal, starting with GR.

To restore normal Lo-Res graphics, POKE 49247,0 then do a GR again.

[I'm not sure about the ordering of these pokes - they might be around
the other way.  The manual isn't nearby.]

Note that you have to be in 80-column mode to use Double Lo-Res (or
Double Hi-Res).


Double Hi-Res is enabled in the same manner - 80 column mode, poke the
annunciator, and enable Hi-Res graphics using HGR or whatever.  The
big catch: Applesoft has no support for Double Hi-Res mode, so
you'll get alternating vertical stripes of random data and black
stripes, and drawing will only affect the 'black' areas.

Double Lo-Res requires an 80-column card; Double Hi-Res requires an
extended 80-column card (i.e. 128k RAM).
-- 
David Empson

Internet: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz    EMPSON_D@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
Subject: Re: AVATAR
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:07:51 GMT

isc10327@nusunix1.nus.sg (ONG TAT-WEE) writes:

>Jerry Penner (jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca) wrote:
>: 65265 (do they exist?) will likely slow things down.
>: -- 
>: Jerry Penner   jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca   Try a 1-line .sig today.

>	Yes, 65265s do exist.  It's a parallel coprocessor for the
>65816, something like a Cray on a chip.  Ask Thye Chean if he can post
>more news on the chip; I think he has a copy of the specs.

  No, the 65265 is hardly a "Cray on a chip".  The 265 is an embedded
microcontrolled version of the 816, containing in addition to the
standard stuff two serial ports, ROM, and RAM on the chip.

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 Procyon, Inc.              |   for the Apple IIgs!   
 bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu         |   P.O Box 620334
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: rischarc@icd.ab.com (Charles M. Rischar)
Subject: Apple //e 5 1/4 Disk problems. 
Organization: Allen-Bradley Company, Inc.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:52:20 GMT

Our local school system (K-5) has 19 //e systems.  They all work O.K. with the
exception that diskettes formatted and copied on some machines will not work
on others.  This is quite frustrating for our teachers.  We suspect that the
drives are not properly alligned.  I am wondering if anyone has had similar
experiences (ie. is this a reasonable diagnosis), and if so, are there are any
utilities and procedures for alligning the drives.

Please e-mail responses.   
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: amakkawy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (AbdelAziz Makkawy)
Subject: Apple IIe software wanted
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:46:38 GMT


I am looking for any Apple II software. Please let me know if you happen
to have any you want to get rid of or sell. My particular interested is 
in educational software and games for young children.  Please E-Mail your 
response.  Thanks.
From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Status of Apple IIGS Ethernet Card?
Date: 10 Nov 1992 10:10:34 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons) writes:

>BTW, someone asserted that the card handles "a couple of the lower level
>AppleTalk protocols."  More than that--it does all the protocols that the
>IIgs does.

Including AppleShare? Muy cool!

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: ltchean@rambutan.iss.nus.sg (lim thye chean)
Subject: Re: DOS 3.3 Launcher
Reply-To: ltchean@iss.nus.sg (lim thye chean)
Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 07:16:23 GMT

BTW, a question to game player out there,


What is your favorite DOS 3.3 game?



Thye Chean
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     My address: LTCHEAN@ISS.NUS.SG, or 9, College Green, Singapore 1129 
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