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From: KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Music.Construction.Set
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:35:39 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

I would like to know as well if a conversion is available.
Thanks in advance.
Ken
From: danw@mitchell.hac.com (Dan White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Music Contruction set to Soundsmith
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:29:34 GMT
Organization: Society for the Prevention of Paronomastic Defenestration

In article <1992Jul21.182437.4765@unislc.uucp>, ma@unislc.uucp (Marlin Allred) writes:
|> Is there a program that will convert Music Contruction Set songs to Soundsmith?

  How about connecting two GS's with MIDI interfaces/cables, then you
play the MCS out through the MIDI (Yes, it has MIDI output) and re-record 
it on the 2nd GS with Soundsmith.

  As for a straight software based file conversion/manipulation -- I have
not heard of any, but I'd like to know if one exists

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Subject: Re:      a hint about sticky keyboards
Reply-To: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:53:41 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.111648.23362@crash.cts.com> johnf@gnh-digibits.cts.com (John Fulton) writes:
>
>    Another reason to buy one of those plastic keyboard covers.  I've bought
>two -- one for my no-longer-used GS keyboard, and one for the Mac II
>(IBM-style) keyboard I now use on my GS.  The membrane, which you 
>really can't detect when using, not only protects against dust, it also
>protects against coffee, colas, cigarette ashes, kids' crayon shavings --
>whatever.  You can even wash the keyboard in the sink, as long as the water 
>runs off the top and DOESN'T get into vents/holes on the bottom.

	Speaking of which, I have a few of these keyboard skins for
the standard GS keyboard.  They are the soft membrane variety, and
they work great for keeping dust, soda, etc out of the keyboard.  If
you are interested, leave me some email.  They are $20, which includes
shipping.



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: wsheffield@pro-ace.cts.com (Wayne Sheffield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Converting Mac sounds
Date: 19 Jul 92 19:20:51 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ProLine [pro-ace]


        Is there any program that will convert the Mac resource sounds into
GS resource sounds?  (As in a SINGLE program - I know it's possible using
GSHK, AudioZap and rSounder, but even this has its problems with some
sounds.)

        Also, please indicate if you would be willing to binscii it to me
(don't do that yet - I'll E-mail you for it so I don't get 20+ copies of
the same program!)

        Thanks!
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From: gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu (DESROCHERS GARY FREDERIC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: PC Transporter Woes...
Date: 23 Jul 92 23:09:14 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

Subject: PC Transporter Woes.
     I haven't used my PCT in about a month.  I turned it on the other day
and I ended up with it switching to graphics mode with real wierd charaters
all over the screen.  I tried a couple of things like swaping slots and the
software and the like and the same thing happened.  Since I have it
normally in slot 6 of my IIgs and I have been using my 5.25, I have not
noticed it but it no longer shows up as a ram disk either.  I tested it out
with pctram.system and the error I got is:

            ADDRESS REGISTER ERROR

The memory checksum I got is 04F6 which I think is the same as the time
when I tested it when it worked.  If anyone knows what the error code above
is (If they give the testing program, you think they would tell you what
the errors mean also but nooooooo, not AE) and/or how to fix it then I
would appreciate it.  Thanks.

Gary
gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu
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From: chauhan@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Amrit Chauhan)
Subject: Looking for Merlin 16
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:38:01 GMT

Is anyone out there selling Merlin 16?  If you are, I'm looking for a copy but
I need the docs that come with it.  If you have a complete Merlin 16 package
that you're willing to sell, please contact me.  Thanks.

Amrit

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From: lpowell@ATL.CALSTATE.EDU (Larry Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Unix on GS
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:20:39 GMT


  How hard would it be to put some version of Unix onto a GS (or
even other 2's :-) ) as the primary operating system? Not on top of
GSOS like GNO is (I think ??), but rather as THE operating system.
  It probably would not even act like an Apple2 any more but I
was just curious. :-(
  What are the requirements to run Unix?
--Larry Powell     lpowell@atl.calstate.edu
From: fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: StyleWriter vs. ImageWriter II
Date: 24 Jul 92 02:49:17 GMT
Organization: BBS


A while back, there were some posts about StyleWriter.  I have one question, is
printint StyleWriter in the best mode faster than the best mode in ImageWriter?

Thanx.

frank m. lin
internet: fmlin@terapin.com
symmetrix...
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Amiga.FST
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 06:42:35 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.222649.57595@cc.usu.edu> sl1zm@cc.usu.edu writes:

[Snip...]
>
>Emplant is a Mac emulator that claims it will emulate a color Mac.  It should
>be shipping in the next 2 weeks.

Make up your mind. First you say AmaxII+ and now it's Jim Drew's Emplant.
Emplant would indeed be a very impressive product, probably worth getting
an Amiga for if Jim's description of it holds water. I don't want to say
anything against it, but as you very well know it is still vapourware. No
reviews, no reports by people who have tested even a prototype. All we have
is UU's word.
>
>>>Remember,  Amiga is going to release a new computer within a year.
>>>That means that the price of a 3000 should go down. 
>>>I need an AMIGA, but for now I stick with my GS at 9mhz/16cache and run
>>>GNO.  
>> 
>> I would suggest you get your facts straight before making any decisions at
>> all w.r.t. computer purchasing.
>
>The 500 is being retired and replaced, as is the 2000.
>A new high end machine is also in the works.
>If you don't think so I can show you programs that activate the new graphics
>modes.  (not that it will do you any good)

Well they still sell both the A500 and the A2000 where I work. There are all
kinds of rumours re higher end Amiga's. What we have seen so far are consumer
products like the A600, CDTV, etc...[ which I happen to like.].

Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
From: dsproull@CHARLY.TACLOG.AF.MIL (LTC Daniel P Sproull;HQ ACC/LGSWA;DSN 574-3093)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Path Test
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:46:04 GMT

This is just a test.   Please ignore.
Thanks..
From: ba556@gnh-digibits.cts.com (Matthew McGehrin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:      PROTERM 3.0 -- FTP?
Date: 25 Jul 92 03:18:37 GMT
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA

> Date: Fri Jul 17 01:16:07 1992
> From: netcomsv!mork!derich@DECWRL.DEC.COM ("Scott A. Steinbrink")
> Subject:      PROTERM 3.0 -- FTP?
> To: All
> Size: 618 bytes
> 
> 
> Is there a full working version of PROTERM 3.0 available via anonymous FTP?
>  If so, point me to it.
> 
>  I just inadventurely formatted the Proterm 3.0 disk. :(
> 
> - Scott
> 
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> 
 
I can send you a copy of the proterm 3.0 disk, send me email at
ba556@cleveland.freenet.edu and I will binsci a copy to you. 
 
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From: carndt@zeus.calpoly.edu (Chris Arndt)
Subject: Possible Apple-msdos connection method??
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:04:08 GMT

The recent posts about the possibility of Apple releasing an ms-dos
fst has made me think of another possible way to read ms-dos disks
on an Apple.

There are programs in the MS-DOS world that allow one computer to
access the drives of another as more logical drives, thru a serial
cable. The program I have experience with is FastLynx Expansion Box.

The host machine runs one version of the program in the background,
 and the server runs another in the foreground. If my laptop is the
host, and has A and C drives, it sees the 3 drives in the server as
D, E, and F. Access takes a little longer over the serial link, but
it's still pretty fast.

Could the same thing be done with a GS as the host and a pc as the 
server? All the operating system drivers are there, as is the hardware.

Seems like a little programming for each machine, and a serial cable, and
there you go.

(I know about Crossworks, and I use it. This would be easier and more
transparent.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: gwlester@cpu.com (Gerald W. Lester)
Subject: Re: shell uncompress utility?
Organization: Computerized Processes Unlimited, Metairie, LA, (504)-889-2784
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:22:47 GMT
Reply-To: gwlester@cpu.com

In article <1992Jul24.093323.29654@cheshire.oxy.edu>, prophet@cheshire.oxy.edu (Dale B. LaFountain) writes:
> ...
>I found compress43.bsq on tybalt, but I am assuming (safely I hope)
>that there is a companion exe called uncompress43 somewhere and not 
>just a command line switch in compress.
> ...

Dale,

	There is a compress.shk on pindarus.cs.uiuc.edu that does both.  The
uncomress is an alias for compress with some switches.  Downloaded and look at
the docs.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,from.socal.com
From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: FLAGRANT SOFTWARE PIRACY ALERT!!!!! (mabye)
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:55:21 GMT

pro-palmtree!bkogawa (Bryan Ogawa) writes:
>I have seen the file (I live near pasadena, and it was on a non-pirate IBM
>bbs i call) and they look pretty obviously like pirate files. I don't have
>an IBM to d/l them to, but maybe I'll see if he hasn't taken them off yet
>and unpack them and look at the files...but probably not...
>but I DO think that they are pirated...obviously, I could be wrong too.

Well, I downloaded Bolo, Wavy Navy, Stellar 7, and Karateka, because I
own the originals for those.  They are indeed disk images of cracked
versions of the games that will run with the Apple II emulator for the
IBM. 
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: mccla_d@aelle.cs.odu.edu (dennis mcclain-furmanski)
Subject: Need A New GS CPU
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
Distribution: comp.sys.apple2
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 04:19:28 GMT

After removing everything from the old Rom 1 machine and still getting a 
serial error, it's pretty clear the mamaboard is shot.

The owner is ready willing and able to purchase another CPU (only). He's
willing to pay a decent price (he mentioned hearing of a CPU which sold
used for $400 last week). UPS C.O.D. overnight is desired. He's a brave
soul who actually uses his machine for business, and as such, can't afford 
downtime.

Please e-mail me ASAP with any news of CPUs for sale, or call me at
804-455-8537. He'd like to get this done today.

Dennis McClain-Furmanski

BTW, he already has all the rest of an extensive system which works, so
CPU offers only please -- he doesn't need the rest.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira)
Subject: Re:      Re: System 6.0
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC., Orleans (Ont)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:11:47 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.183439.23519@ee.rochester.edu> seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah) writes:
>In article <1992Jul27.204528.7754@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>>Sorry to add to this, but there is another error which is really
>>annoying. This happens to me whenever I use either Relicator (from
>>GS+) or Teach. Upon quiting you get this message telling you that
>>the System needs 300k or whatever free and that you should remove
>>da's, init's, etc...and then it asks you to restart. I've got 5 megs
>>of RAM. 
>
>I have 4M of RAM, and get this error from time to time, usually after I
>run and quit from a few applications.  Someone told me that it might
>be overheating causing memory corruption (dunno about that).

I don't think so either...I've had this happen when I shift boot sometimes...
the irony is that I'm usually able to do a normal boot in those situations.
That is, it tells me to remove DAs etc. if I boot without them, and if I
boot with about a meg of them, it works fine. Definitely some sort of bug,
I think.

 

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From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: unpacking .hqx TrueType fonts with GScii & GSHK 1.06
Date: 21 Jul 92 08:07:01 GMT

You're right, I think.  StuffIt has a couple of different compression
formats, and different versions of StuffIt work differently.  ShrinkIt
doesn't handle all of them...

- Eric S.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,from.socal.com
From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: Re: Comp.Binaries etc...
Followup-To: comp.sys.apple2,from.socal.com
Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 12:00:23 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.163220.19016@pro-palmtree.socal.com> pro-palmtree!rstern (Ryan Stern) writes:
:um, I got a question.... whats all this about comp.binaries.Apple2 (or
That is a currently free and unmoderated group available for USENET sites.
It contains freely posted programs directly from users which will run on
various combinations of Apples.  There is a final call for discussion of
limiting the free format of postings to that group in return for a number of
structured benefits.
:something like that...)  I can't seem to find it on Pro-Palmtree... is it
:availible to ALL internet feeds?????

Yup and to all NNTP feeds, uucp feeds, etc.  As to whether it is available
to all Proline feeds (since I dont think any proline site is really an internet
site - do we have a Ethernet card and TCP softwar eon the Apple II yet?) -
yup, I believe so.
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From: ALBRO@VAXE.NIEHS.NIH.GOV
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Prosel not quite perfect
Date: 30 Jul 92 22:10:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

An error on the boot block would not interfere with anything in ProSel,
only with booting.  I suspect your problem was either with loading
devices into the GS/OS device list (i.e. a bad OS program block, which
ProSel wouldn't find because it only tests for block readability and
directory information) or with what was stored in cache memory.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)
Subject: Re: Shareware collection agency?
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:49:15 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.222938.26203@julian.uwo.ca>, hackett@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Mike Hackett) writes:
|>     I personally think that if there was a convenient way to purchase
|> shareware programs, such as a phone number or an email address that accepted
|> credit card orders, more people would take the plunge.  But most shareware
|> authors don't do much business, and are often just hobbyists, and so don't
|> justify setting up the facility to accept credit card orders.  So I propose
|> to centrallize this collection and set up just such a service: allowing
|> both phone or email registration, as well as a regular mail service that
|> accepts Canadian or U.S. cheques and credit card orders.  And all payments
|> are made to a central location so you don't have to send off four cheques
|> to four different people for four programs that you want to register.

I too think this is an excellent idea.  It seems to me that Big Red would be
the ideal organization to do it, too.  They already have most of the infra-
structure that would be needed, including a large mailing list and lots of
advertising, and already distribute shareware programs.  This could be a very
natural extension of their current services, IMHO.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: kourakos@cardinal.ncsc.org (Alexander W. Kourakos)
Subject: Problems with a IIgs Sound Program
Summary: SoundStudio zaps hard drives
Keywords: soundstudio sound hard drives
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:55:17 GMT

   I have a big collection of sounds on my IIgs, and I like to record and
edit a lot of my own samples. I use an old program (1988) called
SoundStudio v1.2, by Paul James. The main reasons I use it are that you can
accurately place the cursor in the sound and it has a "Fade In" and "Fade
Out" effect, that I use to make sounds with a lot of background noise sound
better.  But the trouble is, it seems that every time I run it, my hard
drive magically has some more corrupted files appear! I hadn't used the
program in a long time up to today, and then it happened again...some files
in the sounds directory became corrupted, with numerous errors from the
Finder, etc.

   Before I blame SoundStudio, has anybody else ever had this problem with
this program? If not, what other programs are there to edit sounds? I have
AudioZap, but its cursor-placement accuracy isn't that great and looped
sounds come out wrong...a list of the latest versions of sound editing programs
would be _greatly_ appreciated.

   Please send e-mail to "kourakos@ncsc.org" as I don't get this newsgroup
any more.

   Thanks very much for any help...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)
Subject: Re: Fast Zips
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:14:02 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.210031.20138@micor.ocunix.on.ca>, toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira) writes:
|> Ok, I just got off the phone with Zip...I was interested in knowing whether
|> one could obtain just the ASIC upgrade, and install the 14MHz 65816, the
|> crystal, and the faster SRAM oneself. This was in line with the suggestion
|> someone made here that the gate array was bottlenecked at 12.4MHz or so.
|> The word from the person I talked to:
|>  
|> "The gate array is the fastest thing on that board."
|>  
|> In other words, she says that there is no bottleneck, and no ASIC upgrade
|> is needed. The gate array can go to 19MHz or so. The main problem, she says,
|> is getting 15ns SRAM in a wide package (I didn't broach the question of why,
|> if 15ns is needed for 14MHz, they ship 9MHz Zips with 70ns RAM).
|>  
|> Of course, she wasn't big on the idea of user upgrades in general, but I
|> did get her to begrudgingly admit that it was possible (but will certainly
|> void your 1 year warranty).

Fooey!  My Zip GS is over a year old and out of warranty, and they want to
charge me an extra $75 for the upgrade.  Fat chance!  Whenever you (or anyone
else) figure out exactly what's required for this upgrade, please post the info
to the net (along with good sources for the parts).  I thought the fact that
the Zip uses all standard components (except for the ASIC) was one of the big
reasons for owning one.  My question is, how does one tell from software what
the maximum speed of the Zip GS is (e.g. on the Zip control panel)?  Does it
do a timing loop or is there something on the board that indicates the speed
(which might have to be changed in addition to the components)?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,from.socal.com
From: pro-palmtree!bkogawa (Bryan Ogawa)
Subject: Re: FLAGRANT SOFTWARE PIRACY ALERT!!!!! (mabye)
Organization: The Palmtree BBS - 310/453-8726 - Santa Monica, CA
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 01:02:05 GMT

I have seen the file (I live near pasadena, and it was on a non-pirate IBM
bbs i call) and they look pretty obviously like pirate files. I don't have
an IBM to d/l them to, but maybe I'll see if he hasn't taken them off yet
and unpack them and look at the files...but probably not...
but I DO think that they are pirated...obviously, I could be wrong too.