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From: isc10327@nusunix1.nus.sg (ONG TAT-WEE)
Subject: Re: AWGS vs System 6
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 07:55:31 GMT

Larry W. Virden (lwv26@cas.org) wrote:
: He has 2.25 meg of memory, no accellerator.  When we shift boot, it appears
: the problem is either lessened or completely resolved.  What we would like
: to find now is what known problems exist, so we can eliminate those DAs and
: leave the rest.  I would rather not go thru the 10 hrs or so of testing that
: would be necessary to resolve this one DA at a time...
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: Same Mbox: BITNET: lvirden@cas  INET: lvirden@cas.org
: Personal: 674 Falls Place,   Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-1614

	If that's the case, then I would suggest you reformat the first
partition of the hard disk and reinstall System 6.0 but AFTER backing up
all the files you want to save.  Sometimes, reformatting is the easiest
way to solve all the problems.

- DOTW -
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: heitke@tellabs.com (Steve Heitke)
Subject: DHR pics to Print Shop [Again :(]
Organization: Tellabs, Lisle, IL
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:53:43 GMT

I have some Double High Res pictures that I'd like to import into "The NEW 
Print Shop" or Print Magic.  Are there any converters out there that can create
graphics pictures that Print Shop can read?  I have access to the PBMplus 
utilities so a ppmto{print shop format} converter would be great.  All of the
conversions could/would be done on a unix machine and "dumped" to my //e.  I 
have a //e with 128k.  Thanks for any help! :-)

-Steve
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		Steve Heitke   -   heitke@tellabs.com
From: tkolstee@comtch.spk.wa.us (Ronald Anthony Kolste)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: new sound card?
Date: 29 Dec 92 15:27:24 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington

I've already posted this in one of the sound discussions, but I am 
looking for information on a new sound card that is supposed to be out 
for the Apple //gs.  Has anyone heard of this card?  What are it's 
features?  is it compatible with the old software I have?

tkolstee@comtch.spk.wa.us

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From: glyn@cs.UAlberta.CA (Reade Glyn Devin)
Subject: Re: archived files with .F suffix?
Keywords: .F archive
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:03:35 GMT

Thanks everyone for the info on Freeze.  I'll download it.

Just to clarify, I was refering to using it on an Apple // _series_
computer, vice unix or others (I needed a port).  Since I'm running
a IIgs/gno, no problem ...

--Devin 	glyn@cs.ualberta.ca



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(Smail3.1.28.1 #7) id m0n7LDf-0001KMC; Thu, 31 Dec 92 00: 25 PST
From: bslog@pro-scat.cts.com (Bill Logsdon)
Subject: Re: Panasonic and //GS compatibility.
Organization: ProLine [pro-scat] St. Petersburg, Florida.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 22:43:30 EST


Well, I dunno if it is a Serial or Parallel type.... but I have the
Panasonic KXP-1124..... and I use the Harmonie printer drivers and an AE
Parallel Pro ta drive it..... works great!

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From: rcollins@nyx.cs.du.edu (rcollins)
Subject: Re: Comments Anyone?
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 03:35:43 GMT

thompson@UMDSUN2.UMD.UMICH.EDU (joshua m. thompson) writes:

>Who cares if a machine discontinued?  Your IIGS is discontinued as of Dec 14th
>you know.  A typical Mac life cycle is 6 months.  Computer technology advances

Where did you get this information from?

Randy
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: chiu@alumni.berkeley.edu (David Chiu)
Subject: Re: InnerDrive to a Mac? (CLARIFICATION)
Summary: Look it up
Originator: chiu@alumni
Organization: University of California Society of Electrical Engineers
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:02:11 GMT

In article <C04013.pv@news.udel.edu> lecates@bach.udel.edu (Roy LeCates) writes:

>I purchased the drive just before AI went out-of-business.
>It is a SCSI drive because it worked using Apple's High
>Speed SCSI card.  I tried returning the drive but AI had
>gone out of business (tough luck for me, REAL tough).

AI orphaned a lot of hard drives out there... :(

>For those who are interested, I wished to return the drive
>because my GS would not produce ANY sound while the drive
>was installed.  I tried EVERY POSSIBLE configuration, but
>it was quite clear that the drive was the problem.  (I took
>several hours is a very systematic method of swapping the
>drive and the GS power supply to get my results.)

Since AI has gone undered, you might as well open up the stupid thing and
find out just what mechanism they're using in the drive, and call the
manufacturer directly.


>-Roy



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From: dockery@griffin.cuc.ab.ca (Sean Dockery)
Subject: Re: re-entrant programs
Organization: Synchrotron Software Group, Calgary, Alberta
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:55:15 GMT

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

>Well, normally you use the term "reentrant" for routines (or algorithms).
>Of course, "routine collections" like an OS or a Toolbox or a Library
>can also be called reentrant, meaning that all their routines are
>reentrant.

Correct.  I did mean an application as something to which the
techniques are applied.

>Reentrance means that you may, for example, interrupt a routine, and,
>while it is interrupted, call it again (this can be nested ad infinitum,
>of course :)

Wouldn't this be as easy as having the initialization stage of the
routine save the old values of the variables in an internal buffer or
external stack, and restores the previous values when it reaches the
end of the routine?

I have previously implemented this inside some of my programs.  Oh,
well.  I guess it was bound to happen.  (Never mind: it's an inside
joke going around my programming group about me re-inventing the
wheel.)

>>	o What are some examples of re-entrant software?
>
>Unix kernals.

Actually, I have wrestled with the idea of programming a Unix
environment on the eight bit level, (I know: ick!) but have decided
that it would not be a reasonable course of action (simply because you
would require expanded RAM -- 128K is just not enough.)

>Soenke
>-- 
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>electricity. I need it for my dreams.      !    tu-muenchen.de
>(RACTER)                                   !  FIDO: 2:246/13 Soenke Behrens

Thankyou for your reply; I wasn't sure if it was being posted
properly, or not.

sean
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From: david@cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)
Subject: How does Eject work on an Apple 3.5 drive?
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 06:18:50 GMT

I have looked at the IWM pinout description in tn-misc-006 and read
descriptions of the 5.25" disk drive, Unidisk 3.5 Smartport and everything
else I could find but have never been able to find out what the controller
does to cause an Apple 3.5 to eject. The only additional signal the 3.5
has over the 5.25 is the head select. How then can the drive be told to
eject the disk?

Additionally, what precisely is the difference between the Macintosh 3.5
interface and the Apple 3.5 interface (apart from the pulse width modulation
signal required by the old 400k drives)?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can answer either question.

Happy 1993.
-- 
David Wilson				+61 42 213802 voice, +61 42 213262 fax
Dept Comp Sci, Uni of Wollongong	david@cs.uow.edu.au
From: edward@pro-ren.cts.com (Edward Floden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: CD-ROMs and Apples IIGS
Date: 25 Dec 92 14:32:14 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Technological Renaissance Information eXchange

gachot@bonnet.enet.dec.com writes:

>     Does anyone here know anything aobut CD-ROM and Apple systems?  What,
>     if anything, is available that I could use on my IIGS if I were so
>     fortunate as to stumble across a CD-ROM reader?

Not a lot, unfortunately. Apple's Developer CDs contain some Apple II
information, which is probably your best source for help if you're a
programmer. But for games, applications, etc., the only disc of which I know
(and I know :) is the "GEM / Apple II, Volume 1", which was released in April
1990. It has about 150 megabytes of various files, mostly IIgs, with a LOT of
MacPaint graphics that are useful for clip art.

But that disc's almost three years old... :(
From: rodriguez@vnet.ibm.com (Robert J. Rodriguez)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 13:39:38 EST
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: PC Transporter 5.25-inch drive from AE

Is there any way to connect an Applied Engineering 5.25-inch TransDrive
(for use with PC Transporter) to a PS/2 Model 57-SLC as a regular IBM
5.25-inch external drive?
From: co057@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven H. Lichter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple II Networks
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:27:59 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Ogg-Net has 17 boards and is growing again with 2 more expected on line
in a few weeks.
.
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From: sadasiva@utkvx3.utk.edu (Sadasivam, Krishna Madur)
Subject: Re: Interplay
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:24:00 GMT

In article <2B3F80F3.1238@ics.uci.edu>, jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw) writes...
>In article <1992Dec28.205838.14504@utkux1.utk.edu> sadasiva@utkvx3.utk.edu (Sadasivam, Krishna Madur) writes:
>>Are there any other IIgs programs to be released by Interplay, besides OOTW
>>(which I'm still playing!)?? I think that OOTW has got to be the BEST game I've
>>played on my IIgs, and that a sequel of some sort should be in the offing!!
> 
>I'll forward your message/question to BurgerBill himself :-)  He is on
>a networked Apple II BBS that started in Los Angeles.  I was hoping
>BattleChess II would be ported, but a lot depends on the sale of OOTW.

I have a feeling sales were really good on OOTW. Now all we need are some
favorable game reviews from the likes of GS+ Magazine and (sadly) Incider!

>>
>>Oh, and here's some totally unrelated information. The Transformers are being
>>revived...a new cartoon mini-series is in the works, along with new toy
>>figures. Just thought I'd share that.
>>
>Following up on your "totally unrelated information":  Cool!  I used to
>love the Transformers, that is, until all the stupid characters started
>to appear, and they started to make plastic toys, instead of the nice
>metal die-cast ones :(  Everything after the DinoBots pretty much sucked.
>(Yeah, I know, further discussions should be moved to alt.fan.transformers.)

Is there such a group (alt.fan.transformers), or just some Decepticon ploy? :)
>--
>Jimmy Shaw		      RamFAST, ZipGSX and 6.0... Apple II Forever!
>jimmys@ics.uci.edu
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Krishna
From: green@plains.NoDak.edu (Brad Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: DOS3.3 launcher/selector
Date: 3 Jan 93 19:07:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.C0AL3q.JBB
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

Here's the problem, maybe someone has a solution.

I've got some interesting DOS 3.3 programs occupying only parts of disks
(like some space programs from NASA).  I'd like to be able to put them
together on a smaller amount of disks.  It would be nice, for instance, to
put all the parts of a program into a directory, and put several directories
on one disk and then use a selector to launch them.

Is this realistic?  Can you suggest a launcher that will work?  Suggestions?


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From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
Subject: Re: re-entrant programs
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:17:27 GMT

dockery@griffin.cuc.ab.ca (Sean Dockery) writes:

>This is a repost of a message which (should have) appeared on
>comp.sys.apple2 a little while ago.  I received no responses to the
>message so I can only assume that it was lost in the internet.

>---repost starts---

>I have often heard the term describing software to be "re-entrant."
>The context under which I have heard it most used was an opinion that
>the Apple IIgs tools and GS/OS would be easier to work with if they
>were re-entrant.

>Would someone please enlighten me with the answers to the following:

>	o What qualifies an application as re-entrant?

   're-entrant' means that more than one process may execute the program
at the same time.  Usually the term is applied only to subroutines
of a program.. recursive subroutines are reentrant, and that should
give us a starting point.
  
>	o What are some examples of re-entrant software?

  As I mentioned above, recursive subroutines.  Usually, program
segments that are reentrant store all variables on the CPU stack;
thus, as long as each process (concurrently running programs that might
share tool calls, for example) has a different stack, reentrant 
libraries and tools greatly simplify the other work that's necessary
to make multitasking work.

>	o What are some advantages and disadvantages of an application
>	   that is re-entrant?

  Reentrant code may or may not be larger than non, but it usually is 
slightly larger and slightly slower than non-reentrant code.

>	o Are re-entrant applications significantly larger that
>	   others that perform the same task?

  No, I'd say 'slightly'.  But it depends on the task.  On average
(and from experience) they're about the same.  Of course, in a multitasking
system, reentrance actually speeds things up because you then don't
have to manage global variable arbitration, which can involve lots
of CPU time.

>From reading comp.sys.apple2, I believe that Jawaid Bazyar and Dave
>Lyons appear to have a handle on what I want to know, and I would
>appreciate a response from either of you.

  Hey, there ya go! :-)

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 Procyon, Inc.              |   for the Apple IIgs!   
 bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu         |   P.O Box 620334
 --Apple II Forever!--      |   Littleton, CO 80162-0334   (303) 933-4649
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: woody@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Michel Bois)
Subject: Out of this World
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 21:33:52 EST

Hi everyone. Just curious, has anyone reached level 6. This is the next 
level past the caves with the falling rocks. I came up to this large 
empty room with nothing to do. Is this a dead end? Do I have to go back? 
Or did I forget something along the way. Just a hint please. 
BTW this an excellent game for the GS and the graphics are "Out of this 
World". I was hoping to delay getting a Zipchip but this game is so 
addictive I have no choice now.

Woody.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)
Subject: Re: Fatal Error 0911
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 07:01:16 GMT

In article <1993Jan1.162659.2463@scott.skidmore.edu> mcobb@scott.skidmore.edu (mary cobb) writes:
>
>I already have two cooling fans on my GS.
>
>My InnerDrive has a cooling fan built-in, and I have a System Saver on as well.
>Doesn't seem to help.

First, try unplugging your mouse, and if the problem seems to clear up
you might have a bad mouse.  Next, try unplugging the keyboard from the
back of your GS and plug in just the mouse (you can use the Video Key-
board NDA for "typing").  If this works, you probably just have a loose
or bad connector in your keyboard sockets.
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From: behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)
Subject: Irrelevant
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:26:50 GMT

Dunno if this interest anyone at all, anyway:

I am moving on December 30th, and don't have a phone at my new location
yet, so it might be I don't reply for a while.

Soenke "Merino" Behrens
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From: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple II Networks
Date: 23 Dec 92 21:09:00 GMT
Reply-To: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

To: tgeer@pro-gumbo.cts.com

SA|Of course there is!  Try the Proline network - there are a good number of
  |them in your home state.  Check out some BBS lists.  Any system which has
  |a name in the form of pro-xxxxx is part of the proline network.

Can someone tell me if there is a Proline system in the 214 area code?
I'm new here, and would like to hit one of these system as well.   
I've never actually been on one, and wanted to take a look.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: gachot@bonnet.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: CD-ROMs and Apples IIGS
Reply-To: gachot@bonnet.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 08:09:08 GMT

 	Hello,

     Does anyone here know anything aobut CD-ROM and Apple systems?  What,
     if anything, is available that I could use on my IIGS if I were so
     fortunate as to stumble across a CD-ROM reader?
     
 
 	Merry X-Mas,
 
 			-Erik.
From: badbunny@tfsp.saic.com (Brendan Hoar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Switch-It! Demo
Date: 28 Dec 1992 20:41:55 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

I'd just like to be the first on csa2 to say.....

WAY COOL!

Thanks Jawaid et al.  Now that I don't have the dreaded job of cleaning out my  
/h1/icons folder so that Finder doesn't take 10 minutes to load (since its
already loaded...), I think I may be taking advantage of the desktop a whole
lot more.  Er, to clarify (since I don't know exactly how to edit that... :(),
I'll only have to load finder ONCE per reboot instead of 1000 times between 
applications.  This is cool.

As usual, a couple of odd things:

In the demo version, you might want to remove the 'DO NOT COPY' etc message
from the about box.  Don't want the AOL/Genie/etc people panicing and pulling
it, do you?  Er...panicking?

BTW, I've had some strange behavior with the 10 minute time out...how is that
detected and when can it pop up that message?  I've had ModZAP crash, but I
wasn't shift booted at the time, so maybe I should keep my mouth shut about
it...nevermind. :)

Keep Sequential Systems on their toes and get that product out FAST!

I think you have a real winner on your hands, Jawaid!

(grin)
			   

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Work|Brendan_Hoar@notes.pw.com|_______so_defined__  | Recognizing our lives as
Play|badbunny@tfsp.saic.com        (703) 998-5687 | | pinpricks, we conclude
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From: jblass@cibbs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Apple //c memory cards
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 23:09:18 EST
Organization: DataSoft Consulting (Toronto, Ont. Canada)

 
 I just purchased an Apple //c and I am in desperate need of a RAM card for the
thing ... 
 It can be populated or unpopulated, but I would appretiate it having a clock.
 
 Anyone have any suggestions on what I should get????
 
J.Blass

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From: grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)
Subject: Re: rom 1 to rom 3 upgrade
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:44:02 GMT

In article <ls11443@pro-scat.cts.com> bslog@pro-scat.cts.com (Bill Logsdon) writes:
>
>I beg yer pardon.... some of the machines sold in Europe and Canada, when
>booted, show "Rom 02"..... I have SEEN this... it did exist, and is rare..

    This sounds like somebody just wrote a cute hack to display this
on bootup.  Just exactly HOW MANY machines did you witness this on?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)
Subject: H E L P !
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:52:23 GMT

What could be wrong, when when I try to run Appleworks 3.0 from my hard
disk, the title page appears and then the machine beeps and the cursor
is blinking at row 0, column 2? From my floppy it works, but then when I
copy it to another directory on my hard drive.. *beep* and crash.

The only thing that I can think of is that I've accidentally enabled the
remapping of volumes on my RamFAST. In that case, please help #2: How do
I disable that? I seem to have lost my v3 manual.

Thanks for *ANY* help!

	Tero Sand
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intestinal disorder, not a revelation." - Reverend Jerry Falwell
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