HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)
Subject: Re: cirtech
Reply-To: aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)
Organization: The National Capital Freenet
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:57:34 GMT


In a previous article, mark@pokey.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning) says:

>I believe CirTech went out of business several years ago as
>did SirTech here in the U.S.  Other than this tidbit, I have
>no idea how to find out more except maybe to ask someone who
>lives in England to find out something.

The scary thing is that I never noticed the similarity between Sir-Tech
and CirTech before...did these companies have some connection beyond the
obvious aural one?

Is Sir-Tech out of business? Who continued the Wizardry series in their stead?

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From: a3khan@student.business.uwo.ca (Alimudin Khan)
Subject: EA -- Cartooners sound file format followup
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:49:32 GMT

Thanks to those who responded to the EA--Cartooners sound/music
file format question.  Further to a suggestion, I looked at the
beginning of a sound file, in this case "Boing", in the MUSIC
directory:


FORM   0SMUSSHDR    =   IRev                BIAS        INS1   	  
 BOING INS1   	    BOING INS1   	    BOING INS1   	    BOING
NAME    boing (c)     Public Domain TRAK   %  

This file is only 1 block long.  There is also a BOING file in
the INSTRUMENTS directory; its
beginning looks like:

FORM   tASIFNAME    BOING WAVE     BOING        

This file is 18 blocks long. Looks like an ASIF file; but both
files, the MUSIC directory
"boing" file and the INSTRUMENT directory "boing.ins1" file are
needed to create a sound or music (from within Cartooners).

So, does anyone recognize the MUSIC/Boing file header?  Are
there any music or sound programs out there that will manipulate
these files?  Any info is appreciated.

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a3khan@student.business.uwo.ca
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: mark@pokey.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning)
Subject: Re: cirtech
Organization: NASA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:28:35 GMT

I believe CirTech went out of business several years ago as
did SirTech here in the U.S.  Other than this tidbit, I have
no idea how to find out more except maybe to ask someone who
lives in England to find out something.
From: rgshacke@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu (RANDY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:  Help Apple IIGS Roms
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:54:42 GMT
Organization: Wichita State University, Wichita, Ks

In article <9301202130.AA05833@cxr_rs6000>, marc@cxr_rs6000.med.ge.com (Marc Wolfgram) writes:
> It sounds like you've definitely goy a 256k ROM 0 or ROM 1 GS...  I can't tell by the
> part # on the ROM.  Whaen you power the machine up, does the bottom line on the screen
> say ROM 01 or is it blank?
> 
> Marc

It's easy to tell the ROM version from the part number. If it ends with A, it's
ROM 0 and it's ROM 1 if it ends with B. The original poster said his part
number ended with A if I remember right so that makes it ROM 0.

Randy
rgshacke@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu
From: 90taobri@WAVE.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: rSounds -- How to play them?
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:11:06 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: MuGS Research and Development Facility


The following revelation escaped Plague's lips:
> 
> There's an NDA called FextNDA that will allow Finder Extensions to show up
> on any GS Desktop Application.

    Unfortunately, FExtNDA only sends out certain finderSays messages. 
That won't let you use FX's like QuickLaunch or INITMaster.  I'd love to
see an NDA which places an "Extras" menu in every application.

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From: chuckie@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Gunn, C Stephen)
Subject: Extra's menu in all Applications...
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:38:56 GMT

>    Unfortunately, FExtNDA only sends out certain finderSays messages. 
>That won't let you use FX's like QuickLaunch or INITMaster.  I'd love to
>see an NDA which places an "Extras" menu in every application.

Yeah.. but dont forget that the System 6.0 finder has lots of support code
in order facilitate using the Extra's Menu. I'm not saying it couldn't be
done.. But it would take lots of patches to the Menu Manager so that 
Applications didn't get Menu Events from Menu items that it doesn't know
about. I know that I dont do much range checking on desktop applications
that I write. I assume that Im not going to get a menu Item Selection
outside of the range that _I_ defined for my application. Plus It is reasonable
to assume that nobody should stick extra items (Save NDA's which dont count)
in behind my back.


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From: voss@i40s16.ira.uka.de (Stefan Voss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: TransWarp GS
Date: 22 Jan 1993 09:00:28 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: i40s16.ira.uka.de

In article <1993Jan20.212451.1@ualr.edu>, rxbrown@ualr.edu writes:
|>   Hey, just picked up a TransWarp GS for $50. Installed and running fine. Are
|> there any problems I should worry about with software? 
|> 
I haven't encountered any software problems so far.

|> Robert Brown
|> RXBROWN@UALR.EDU

Stefan Voss
(voss@ira.uka.de)
From: ST2975@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:Apple ///(not a misprint)
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:22:10 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

The last address / phone number I have for On Three Inc. is :

On Three, Inc.
1802 Mitchell Road
Lake Stevens, WA 98258

(206) 334- 8001 or (312) 338- 2202
From: 90taobri@WAVE.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Keyboard menus
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:11:02 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: MuGS Research and Development Facility


The following revelation escaped Phillip Vandry's lips:
> 
> Does anyone know of an NDA other than WriteIt that puts a menu bar in its
> window? I need to test my utility on bars other than the system one.

    They all seem to be NDA text editors: Big Edit Thing, EgoEd (if you
subscribe to GS+) and ShadowWrite NDA.

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From: irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)
Subject: Re: Adding a resource fork
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:09:13 GMT

In article <C1BGnz.F7K@news.iastate.edu> irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) writes:

>Call _CreateResourceFork on the file.  This will extend the file and setup

Oops, that should be CreateResourceFILE.  That's what I get for not making
sure my brain has spun up before trying to access data :)



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From: wsgentry@ne3005.reston.ingr.com (Scott Gentry)
Subject: Re: TurboREZ and Avatar
Organization: Intergraph Corp., Reston, VA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:56:10 GMT

sadasiva@utkvx3.utk.edu (Sadasivam, Krishna Madur) writes:

>I thought the card was supposed to be shipping now! How come there
>hasn't been any info on it???

Read the transcript of the conference that was posted a while back.
You'll find out that it's not due to ship, yet.  Additionally, there
has been some hardware changes that they are testing as we speak.


>The IIgs video is in bad need of updating! (imagine a 24 bit card, with
>1024 * 768 * 256!! Wow!

Imagine no applications to take advantage of it while you're at it, too.


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From: a.guillaume@trl.oz.au (Andrew Guillaume)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Need text editor
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:28:19 GMT
Organization: The Internet

G'day !

Stefan Voss writes:
|I can remember two PD text editors available via ftp.
|- AppleWriter. Now freeware. 
|- AMACS. Similar to Emacs.
|
|They should be on the major ftp sites for the Apple II (cco.caltech.edu, etc.).

A recent post on comp.emacs states that amacs may not be PD, or at least
not free:

>name: amacs
>version: 3.0 Release 2.8
>implementation language: 6502 assembler
>extension language: macros / loadable libraries (assembled)
>scope of implementation: extensible
>hardware/software requirements: Apple // with ProDOS
>organization/author:
>        Creative Thinking, Included
>        Brian Fox
>        bfox@ai.mit.edu
>not free, contact vendor for price information

My email to bfox@ai.mit.edu has gone unanswered, so I can't verify
this. But I would welcome anybody else's info on the subject.

Andrew Guillaume
a.guillaume@trl.oz.au
From: jsimmons@cs.sunysb.edu (Jason Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Keyboard menus
Date: 24 Jan 93 14:45:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: sbcs.1993Jan24.144551.5309
Organization: State University of New York, Stony Brook

In article <C1Bt99.9JL@CAM.ORG> vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:
>Does anyone know of an NDA other than WriteIt that puts a menu bar in its
>window? I need to test my utility on bars other than the system one.
>
>The problem is that WriteIt handles keypresses itself instead of calling
>MenuKey, defeating my patched MenuKey. (Notice that when you select something
>from WriteIt's menus, the menu doesn't hilight!)
>
GS+'s EGOed and Transfusion NDAs have menu bars.  I think a demo of
Transfusion is available on some FTP sites.

Jason Simmons
From: prisoner@shakala.com (The Prisoner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Help needed...
Date: 23 Jan 93 05:25:49 GMT
Organization: Shakala BBS (ClanZen Radio Network) Sunnyvale, CA 408-734-2289

I just bought a Parrallel card from Jameco recently (today, actually)...

After I installed it, my Mouse will NOT show up in ProTERM, the Finder, 
etc... HELP!!!

Please, if anyone out there can give me some advice on this, either 
E-mail me here at prisoner@shakala.com, or call me... I don't know what 
to do... (I'm going to try to change the settings to see if that fixes it 
with a simple non "Your Card" setting... :( )

Thanks in advance.
-Kent

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: csokolo@eis.calstate.edu (Christopher Sokolov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Bought a Franklin Ace 1000: Questions..
Date: 22 Jan 93 05:54:51 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services

madhatter@pembvax1.pembroke.edu writes:
> 
>      I just bought a Franklin Ace 1000 at a really low price of $10,
> and I'm not familiar with the Apple scene so if anybody could answer
> a few questions like:
> 
>      How are the expansion slots different from a normal apple?

They ought to be the same.

> 
>      Is it compatible with the apple IIe or IIc or etc?

It is an Appple II+ compatible.  (The FAQ can give you info on the II+)
 
>      Where do I get the manuals for it?

Apple II/II+ manuals (easy to find) should give you enough information.
 
>      Did I pay to much for it?

No.  You got a very good deal, actually, but you can get a genuine II+ for
about that price

>      Is Franklin Ace still in business?

I believe they make devices such as spell checkers now.

> 
>      Which slot does the 80 col/memory expansion board go in?
>        (There are 8 slots 0 through 7)

Is this a IIe expansion card, or a II+ one, or a Franklin card?  The IIe
one wouldn't work, a normal II+ one would go into slot 3, and the Franklin
one might go into slot 0 or three.

>      How much memory does in have?
(Without the above board) > 

I think 64K.

A couple of notes on the Franklin Ace 1000: It is a II+ clone with,
supposedly, 64K on board and a few other "improvements."  The problem is,
however, that ProDOS doesn't work with it, without a patch.  Some software
may not work with it, as well, because of minor changes to the ROM.

>                                  Thanx in advance,
> 
>                                             Jason Jones
> 

Your welcome.  BTW, if you want to trade the ACE for a 64K II+..

-Christopher Sokolov
From: chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU (James Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: AI Innerdrive ERROR
Date: 24 Jan 1993 17:12:47 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsee.berkeley.edu
Summary: Drive Choked during Format
Keywords: AI, InnerDrive, Choked

Does anyone knows what error $090F means? This error code was produced by
AIFORMAT.SYSTEM v2.0 when I tried to low level format the drive.

Any help in this matter is appreciated.
From: PKBRANDON@MSUS1.MSUS.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: gwiii<>clarisworks
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:10:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

No easy way, and you'll probably lose formatting!
GraphicWriterIII has translators for ASCII (text) and I think AppleWorks files.
ClarisWorks will save files as ASCII (text) files, so, save the CW file to an
800k Mac disk *as a text file*, then *import* it into a new GWIII file.
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From: derek@slab.slip.uiuc.edu (Derek Taubert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Western design chip
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:08:59 GMT
Reply-To: derek@slab.slip.uiuc.edu (Derek Taubert)
Organization: Damage, inc.

> Oh, one caveat, just because mine runs a 13.75MHz, don't expect yours
> to, the chips are only rated at around 12 MHz...you'll have to be damn
> luckly like I was and get a chip (or maybe I got a good TWGS) that
> will go all the way w/o problems...I should add, though, that for $100,
> it was darn fine investment...

Heh.  It's time for me to enter this speed race.  From this wonderful
university (cough), I now have 24 hour access to a 200MHz logic analyzer, and
a font of 100MHz digital storage scopes.  I've also found some 8ns 32K * 8's
(that is the format of the SRAM's on the 32K Transwarp upgrade, isn't it?),
so I'm almost ready to boogie.  Are there any of those fast PAL kits still in
existance that haven't already been sold to someone?

Derek
From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Dave Lyons isn't _just_ a great programmer...
Date: 22 Jan 93 09:13:47 GMT
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.

He's also one hell of a funny guy.  Check this out...

[ Sorry to drag your sordid history out like this, Dave, but I thought
  the Apple community deserved to know. ]
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From: dfarber@serpente.eecom.gatech.edu (FARBER)
Subject: Re: FTP Archive Site
Organization: Computer Engineering Group, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0250
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:03:03 GMT

In article <C19oxq.AqE@well.sf.ca.us> joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn) writes:

>Howard - I just tried FTP to uu.net and got back a "unknown host".

>Joe Kohn

  Um, uu.net is an unknown host, but _ftp.uu.net_ is the address that
Howard gave you. So try 'ftp ftp.uu.net'.

----Dave

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From: Nick Phillips <nwp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Winchester drive question
Date: 28 Jan 93 10:39:02 GMT
Organization: The Southampton Net.Cabal :-)
Originator: nwp90@turner

In <11060017@hplsla.hp.com> billh@hplsla.hp.com (Bill Harris) writes:

>It seems like this occurred in the mid 1970's.

At IBM's lab in Winchester, funnily enough.

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From: FORDE@UV6.EGLIN.AF.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Finder Extensions
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:57:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet


wsheffield@pro-ace.cts.com writes...

>Finder Extensions are INITS.  If you want them available all the time (not
>just while in the Finder), put them in your System.Setup folder.

How are Finder Extensions accessed, if installed in this manner?  Do they 
show up in the menu bar of other desktop programs?

I have installed SYS 6.0 onto my ROMDisk (Ramkeeper) but put the Finder on 
my harddisk and used Setstart to run it from there.  It may seem like a 
strange setup but I usually boot into ProDOS (since most of my time is 
spent on Appleworks or ProTERM) and only run GS/OS when necessary.  Having 
my system setup this way gets me up and running most expeditiously and 
preserves space on my ROMDisk for other things (like Timeout applications).
 However, to get the Finder "Extras" to show up I had to move the folder
onto the harddrive and in the same directory as the Finder.  If I left it
in my system.setup folder on the ROMDisk the "Extras" item never appeared. 


Eric S. Ford
forde@uvg.eglin.af.mil
From: co057@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven H. Lichter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: scsi hd on apple ][e
Date: 25 Jan 1993 11:42:58 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Dding on how old the drive is you will need an Apple SCSIrd or one 
of the newer High Speed SCSI's like Apple's or RamFast. Also you may or may
not need a terminating plug along with a SCSI cable. As far as software 
it would depend on the SCSI card, but any good Utility program would work. 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Plague)
Subject: GS.SPY was half the trouble, but what about....
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:02:27 GMT

OK....GS.SPY is responsible for "ALERT! ALERT!", but does anybody know why my
GS freezes up when I hit ESCape or DELETE?

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From: mark@pokey.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning)
Subject: Re: Odd Hardware Question
Organization: NASA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:25:55 GMT

It is kind of hard to tell exactly what is going on from the diagram.
However, if this is the kind of cable I am thinking it is (a ribbon
cable) then taping it is not going to do much good.  The most likely
reason the system is crashing is because the wires are touching in
the ribbon cable.  This means that somehow you have to separate the
wires with some kind of insulation.  And on a ribbon cable this is
not an easy task.  I would suggest contacting the manufacturer to see
how much a replacement would cost.  If this isn't feasible, then I'd
take the entire thing out and meditate. (Just joking :) )

Actually, I would take the entire thing out, open it carefully (if
possible) and see if you can replace the ribbon cable.  If this is
possible, then Radio Shack or any number of other good electrical
outlet stores could get you a replacement cable.  If it is a cable
which is stuck into a socket chip then you should look for that.
If, however, you can not find a cable and chip assembly, then you
will have to get out your solder gun, call the manufacturer, and
go over how to create the thing.  Again, you will be on your own
when you create the new cable and there is always the possibility that
you will do more damage than good - you just have to decide if that
is what you want to try.

For me, I'd rather call the manufacturer and see what they can do
for me rather than mess around and maybe mess up my computer.  But
then I have taken all of the chips off of my //e's motherboard,
cleaned them, and put them all back too.  So it is just a matter of
need I guess.  I hope this helps.  :)
From: C1PD@SDSUMUS.SDSTATE.EDU ("Darin C. Fast")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: How to retrieve GSHK 1.1
Date: 22 Jan 93 14:11:25 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

I've seen a few requests on how to correctly retrieve GSHK 1.1.

This is basically a very short summary from another message.

Instead of using GSCII+ use Binscii--I'm not 100% sure why to do it,
but it works.  It creates the self-extracting file and that runs fine
for me.

I don't remember the technical reason behind it but it had
to do with how a few bits were converted differently with GSCII+.

I hope this helps.

Darin C. Fast, User Services Consultant, South Dakota State University
C1PD@SDSUMUS.SDSTATE.EDU
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From: Clayten_Hamacher@mindlink.bc.ca (Clayten Hamacher)
Subject: TAR'd files
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:27:04 GMT

Does anyone have an unpacking program for the //GS that will unpack tar'd
files?

P.S. Also unpackers for any uncommon formats would be appreciated, I already
have pmp.unzip, gsk1.1, digipack, shk3.4, ddd5.0, Lhext, and GScii+ (the
NDA). If you have any programs for standards that those I mentioned won't do,
or newer version of those, please post them on c.b.a2.

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