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From: tcomtaob@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Sound Cards, etc.
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:38:46 GMT
Organization: The Internet

The following revelation escaped Paul Schultz's lips:
> 
> Is this true? I've been thinking of getting a sound
> card and was thinking of waiting for the new card by
> ECON to come out before I decide on what to buy.

    Are there any specific details on the Soundmeister's hardware and
sound capabilities?  I'd love to see some dedicated sound RAM on the
card itself (starting at maybe 256K, expandable to 4 megs) plus a
memory controller which would "feed" the Ensoniq's 64K whenever appropriate,
relieving the CPU of the burden.  As I understand, most of the CPU time
dedicated to playing MOD's goes into swapping instruments.  We could also
get seamless waveform playback even during disk access if the Soundmeister
connects directly to the Ensoniq instead of through the system bus.
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From: rheinze@lrc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Self-analysis on IIGS
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:08:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: lrc.1992Oct2.100804.387
Organization: Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC

I need some help.

What are the keys you press on a IIGS to get it to do a
self-analysis?
Will this check all the memory for bad chips?
From: slhood@bluemoon.rn.com (Stephen L. Hood)
Subject: Re: StyleWriter for GS
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 17:52:09 EDT

schultp@wl.com (Paul Schultz) writes:

> In article <1992Oct3.232203.5618@gw.wmich.edu> x91shafer1@gw.wmich.edu writes
> >I'm think about a StyleWriter for my IIgs.  Does anyone have one or know how
> >well it works with a gs?  How fast is it?  What is the output for both text 
> >graphics?
> 
> I recall that the current driver in System 6.0 for the Stylewriter will not
> support printing in landscape.  Someone please confirm or correct this for us

        Not only that, but since the StyleWriter is a QuickDraw printer, 
it does _not_ include internal fonts and hence cannot print straight text. 
This is a major bummer for GS users that would need the printer from 
inside non-GS/OS applications...

        I highly recommend the Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 500 as an 
alternative.  It has 300dpi resolution, several built-in fonts (kerned, 
both portrait and landscape), two cartridge slots (for memory or extra 
fonts), a paper tray, a slick output tray, and is nearly silent when 
running.  All you would need is a serial cable and a printer driver 
(either Vitesse's "Harmonie", which I own and recommend, or Seven Hill's 
"Independence", which I haven't tried...but intend to.).  If you shop 
around, you can find the DeskJet 500 for under $400.  A _very_ good price 
for laser-quality output.  When combined with Pointless, you've got 
yourself a regular DTP station!

(BTW, I don't work for HP, of course.  I just admire their products.  :)



| Stephen L. Hood                  Ask me about GNO/ME, the multitasking |
|  Micro Center, Inc.                    environment for the Apple IIGS! |
|  slhood@bluemoon.rn.com                  "My Woz, my Woz, why have you |
|  slhood@pro-works.cts.com                               abandoned me?" |
From: mccla_d@azalea.cs.odu.edu (dennis mcclain-furmanski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: RE: IIGS Monitor Problem
Date: 2 Oct 92 16:48:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: azalea.MCCLA_D.92Oct2114801
Distribution: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

billh@hplsla.hp.com says:

> Does anyone know where (or if) you can get schematics for the Apple RGB...?

Can't get them from any places that I've tried, and I've tried a bunch.
Your problem is a drifting horizontal output. It could be any of several
pieces. Try e-mailing to afa.donb@aol.com. He sketched out part of the
Apple RGB schematics himself while coming up with the solution to the solid
green screen. He might be able to send you a sketch, or even tell you a test
process to nail it down.

Before that, you might just try cleaning the control. It's not very likely, but
it's a possibility, cheap, and easy. Use NON-abrasive contact cleaner.
From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Keyboard buffering save/set/restore.
Date: 1 Oct 92 01:01:03 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

In article <1992Sep23.221904.480@fawlty.towers.oz.au> johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz.au (John MacLean) writes:
>It looks like the best way to save/set/restore keyboard buffering (and
>anything else that is editable throught the control panel) is to use
>GETBPARAM to save current values, to use SETBPARAM to update the battery
>RAM buffer with appropriate values, and then to call $E1/0094 to set the
>system into the state indicated by the battery RAM buffer. [...]

Problem is (as someone pointed out), the user might power down or forcefully
reboot while your changed Battery RAM setting was in effect.  See attached
GS Technical Note #106 for an alternative (with its own drawback).


>[Note that $E1/0094 needs to be called in 8 bit native mode - which the
>firmware reference does not tell you].

It's noted in the Firmware Reference Updates technical note (has been for
quite a while).



Apple II
Technical Notes
_____________________________________________________________________________
                                                  Developer Technical Support
Apple IIgs
#106: ADB Addendum

Written by: Dave Lyons                                              May 1992

This Technical Note documents some bits in the ADB SendInfo data byte for
setModes and clearModes.
_____________________________________________________________________________

SendInfo is documented in Volume 1 of Apple IIgs Toolbox Reference, but it
doesn't tell you what any of the bits in the setModes/clearModes data byte are
for.  Well, here are the useful ones:


    Bit  Value  Description
    ---  -----  -------------------------------
     6    $40    Shift+CapsLock=Lowercase mode
     4    $10    Keyboard buffering
     3    $08    Dual-speed keys
     2    $04    Fast space/delete keys


For example, to turn off keyboard buffering without altering the user's
Battery RAM, you can do the following:

             pea 1                   ;number of data bytes
             pushlong #modesToClear  ;pointer to data byte
             pea 5                   ;modeCmd = clearModes
             _SendInfo
             ...

modesToClear dc.b $10                ;bit 4 = keyboard buffering


Note that the user's control panel setting will become current again if they
hit Command-Ctrl-Esc (the system calls the TOBRAMSETUP vector at $E10094 to
update the system from Battery RAM).


Further Reference
_____________________________________________________________________________

   o   Apple IIgs Toolbox Reference, Volume 1


-- 
David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc.      |   DAL Systems
Apple II System Software Engineer         |   P.O. Box 875
Internet:dlyons@apple.com                 |   Cupertino, CA 95015-0875

My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: blaby@fraser.sfu.ca (John Edward Blaby)
Subject: Re: Trouble with VIAD
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 05:26:42 GMT

schultp@wl.com (Paul Schultz) writes:

>Has anyone had trouble getting Disk1 of VIAD to un-shrink?
>I grabbed it off c.b.a2 when it came through, Disk2 un-shrank
>but disk1 coughed up a lung! So, I went to ccosun.caltech.edu
>and grabbed VIAD.D1.SDK (using "binary" transfers all the way)
>but I got the same results! Normally, I have no troubles with
>binscii'd or SHK/SDK file transfers. 

>Anyone else with similar problems or is it just me?

I also had trouble with disk1 from c.b.a2 and I also grabbed the disk
from ccosun . I had no problems with that one at all. The VIAD game
ran just fine after that.

Maybe you should try again with a fresh copy from ccosun :)

John
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From: swh54716@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott W. Henson)
Subject: TransWarp IIgs Problems
Summary: TransWarp causes unexpected system crashes.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 23:24:13 GMT
Keywords: transwarp problems

I have a TransWarp IIgs card that I purchased.  However, whenever I install
in in my IIgs, the system begins to unexpectedly crash.  This can occur when
I am using any program, but I have noticed it repeatedly in such programs as
AppleWorks 3.0, ProTerm 3.0, and Copy II Plus 9.0.

I also have an external 105 MB hard disk on the system.  At one point, the
system (with the accelerator installed) overwrote parts of the directory and
corrupted file names so that they contained characters like #, $, and %.  This
occurred while running the system 5.0.4 finder.  Since then, I have installed
system 6.0 on my system.  I have not yet reinstalled the TransWarp card to test
it with the new system software.

One of my friends mentioned to me that he had also experienced this problem, and
that he returned his accelerator to AE for repair.  The new card was reported to
work fine.

Has anyone else had such problems?  Does anyone know what the source and or
solution for them might be?

My system configuration is:

   Apple IIgs CPU, ROM Version 1
   1.25 MB RAM (AE GS-RAM Card)
   Apple High Speed SCSI Card
   External 105 MB Hard Disk
   System v.6.0
   TransWarp IIgs

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From: tcomtaob@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Fast modems FAX software for the GS
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:26:44 GMT
Organization: The Internet

The following revelation escaped Mark Spaeth's lips:
> 
> I just picked up a zoom v.32bis faxmodem for $289 external, and I'm having
> touble makeing the damn thing go! 

     Wow, amazing price!  Why the heck would anyone want a USR modem now?!?

> What driver I should use?
> What init string I should use?

    I assume the Zoom modems use the standard Hayes AT command set.  Have
you tried manually dialing numbers and monitoring what sort of messages
the modem sends to the screen?  Recent revisions of Proterm 3.0 include
drivers for the Supra Faxmodem but none for the Zoom (other than the
2400).  Maybe you could try the Supra drivers.
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University of Toronto | "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn)
Subject: Are you in France?
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 20:30:50 GMT


If you're accessing the net from France, or from another European country
nearby, I could use your help, and I could use it fast. I have a special
favor I need to ask.

I nned to ask Olivier Goguel a question, and I need a response just as soon
as is possible. Olivier lives in Dijon at 3200 Rue de Rotondes, and his
telephone number is listed with information. If it's convenient and
inexpesive, could you call Olivier and ask him the following question (he'll
know what it means):

"Is it OK with you if Joe Kohn gives those checks to Doctor Tom?"

Thank you very much, in advance. If you get a response (yes or no is all I
need to know) please send email to me at: 76702.565@compuserve.com or to
joko@well.sf.ca.us or to joko@aol.com

Thank you.

Joe Kohn
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: richard@serss0 (Richard A Simm)
Subject: DSP for IIgs
Organization: Florida International University, Miami
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 02:16:16 GMT

As already noted, Pete won't be doing any more work on the DSP. So, instead
of mailing to ask him to reconsider, ask him to give all the work he's done
on the project to someone willing to continue it.

But, I can do without the DSP. I just want 1024x768. 640x400 doesn't cut it.

Albert
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: max@isis.eng.hou.compaq.com (Max Heffler)
Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Backup
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 03:52:49 GMT

johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend) writes:

>I need to get a tape backup drive for my RamFAST-equipped //gs and its 200MB
>hard drive.  Will any ol' SCSI tape drive work?  Are some better than others?
>What's a good capacity and cartrige type to get?  I'd swear I've seen some
>that use the same 8mm tapes that are used in camcorders -- are these available
>with SCSI interfaces?  Thanks for your help!

Any standard SCSI should work.  I use a 150M/250M Archive Viper that I got
for around $500 (Power supply and enclosure was about another $500).
The 8mm drives you have seen are quite a bit more expensive but have
capacities starting at about 2G.  The are available in generic SCSI from
Exabyte (and probably others)...
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Compaq Computer Corporation             uucp: ..!uunet!max@compaq.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: irsman@iastate.edu (That Ian Guy)
Subject: MIDI -> synthLAB (was Re: GS Sound files - need a summary)
Followup-To: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Iowa State University of Censorship and Repression
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:45:24 GMT

There are a couple of programs out which do this conversion...

1) is THE MUSIC MODIFIER (no relation to my MODifier (tm) program) which 
converts among MIDI, synthLAB, and Diversitune.  Its very slow and not too
reliable, but it does support both common types of midi files.

2) is MIDIMate by Lindsey Hough.  This is avalible only as a demo, you have to
pay the $18 shareware fee to see how it actually works...its also very slow
(TML Pascal II) and only works on MIDI Type 1 files.

3) is an unnamed program in development by myself.  In a test it converted a
38k MIDI file into perfectly working synthLAB format in less than 2 seconds
(nothing like assembly :).  Watch for it at some point in the future.

-- 
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From: huang2@husc8.harvard.edu (Howard Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Infocom interpreter
Date: 4 Oct 92 17:09:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc8.HUANG2.92Oct4100946
Organization: Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: irie@husc11.harvard.edu's message of 3 Oct 92 10:50:37

irie@husc11.harvard.edu (Robert E. Irie) writes:

   uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd) writes:

      I'm working on porting the InfoTaskForce 2.16 beta interpreter to the
      Apple IIGS right now.  

   Well, I ported one of the versions of the InfoTaskForce interpreter
   for GNO/ME

Big Red Computer Club has an ad out that says the Lost Treasures
(Volume 1) will be available in a IIgs (not IIe/c/+) version on
December 10.

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From: kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Help with Epson and GS/OS (was Re: Epson-compatible printers are icky... NOT)
Date: 3 Oct 92 09:34:35 GMT
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Fri Oct 02 92 at 15:43:50 (EST)

> From: henigan@quando.quantum.de (Kevin Henigan)
> OK, I've just got a GS, so novice question :-
> 	this means I can use my parallel Grappler+ interface
> 	card from me //e with my epson printer, good.
> 
> Where can I get these othre Epson printer drivers?

Almost any of the standard Apple II mail order places sell Harmonie. I'm not
sure about what places in Europe are like, but TMS Peripherals in Florida is
my first choice for most things.

                    -=> Message from Kim Brennan <=-
                      (kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com)
         {Cathouse BBS (301) 840-8567 3/12/24/9600 V.32 24 hours}
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From: nparker@cie.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Joystick readings from ML
Summary: ...oops...sorry...
Date: 6 Oct 92 09:20:37 GMT
Organization: The Universal Society for the Prevention of Reality

In article <73110@apple.Apple.COM> dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons) writes:
>In article <1992Oct3.112436.4289@nntp.uoregon.edu> nparker@cie.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker) writes:
>>[...]
>>On the GS, I recommend doing this in SLOW speed, with interrupts disabled.
>>The GS version of PREAD runs does this, and you need to do likewise to make
>>sure your loop runs at the same speed.
>[...]
>>     LDA $C036
>>     PHA
>>     ORA #$7F
>>     STA $C036
>[...]
>
>That ORA should be an AND.  AND #$7F clears bit 7 (the speed bit), leaving
>the other stuff along.  (ORA would leave the speed bit along but set all
>the other bits.)

[insert sheepish expression here]

Sorry.  How embarrassing.

Stupidity In Action:  I wrote that fragment of code only moments after
staring right at the ROM code that slows down the system for a paddle read
(the Visit Monitor CDA is a wonderful thing).  The ROM quite clearly says
"AND #$7F".  The Internet Gremlins made me transform it into "ORA #$7F".

(Will this make me come to my senses and stop trying to write machine
language in the wee hours of the morning?  Probably not...)

               - Neil Parker
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From: piglet.caltech.edu!nathan (Nathan Mates)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Cool Apples
Date: 3 Oct 1992 23:39:11 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: piglet.caltech.edu
Keywords: Fan
Originator: nathan@piglet

   This is my first time online, so if I'm in the wrong category, please
tell me what the right one is!

   I'm currently a Frosh at Caltech, and I've brought my IIGS with me.
I've gotten a little concerned about heat, as the dorms unfortunately 
aren't air conditioned. My roommate, for some reason, brought along a
small fan which seems to have the right connector to fit in at the back
of the motherboard. I could rest the fan inside the computer, and use
electrical tape to insulate it from the slots. The volt/watt ratings
are listed on the fan, but I've forgotten them.
  
   If someone with a manual could tell me what the recommended volt/
watt levels, and a recommendation about RF interference from the motor,
I'd be most grateful.

   <ADVERTISEMENT> As soon as I get fully online, expect to see some 
nice programs (Mouse Mileage, 2 Tetris spinoffs, etc) on Caltech's FTP
site. Start looking next week. (10/10/92)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: scanf discussion ... help me :)
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 08:03:11 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.181443.2125@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens) writes:
> Hi,
> 
> yes, scanf hangs during whitespace scan and EOF. It is _not_, I repeat _not_
> a compiler bug, though ... it's a library bug.

It IS a compiler bug.  Read on.
 
> What happens is this: There is a loop where characters are read and checked to
> be whitespace ... this is done by using a special lookup-table into which
> the char is the index. Now, $FFFF (they have an unsigned index) gives random
> results ... so it hangs. The solution is, of course, simple ... check for
> EOF in there.

I disassembled the code and came across the same code as above.
HOWEVER, note that the array being looked up is the one used by the
character classification macros in ctype.h, in this case isspace().
It has 129 entries, for character codes -1 through 127.  Each bit is
used by one of the isxxx() macros in a bitmask.

For example, isspace is defined as:

#define isspace(c)  ((__ctype+1)[c] & __space)

__space is defined as 0x20.


Macros are expanded at COMPILE time, and any expansion of
isspace(variable) or isspace(expression) will generate the wrong code
if the variable or expression evaluates to -1 - as you mentioned, it
indexes $FFFF bytes past (__ctype+1) rather than one byte before it.

Therefore fscanf() etc. are written in C, and have used isspace(), and
this error is induced if fgetc happens to return a -1.

I have verified this bug in separate code, and reported it to Mike
Westerfield.


Note: isspace(-1) DOES work, because the expression is optimized to
just refer to the first entry of the __ctype array.  The problem only
arised when a variable, function call or other expression is passed to
isspace (or the other character classification macros).


> I reported the bug to Mikew50@aol.com, but never got a reply ... I don't know
> if that address is correct.

I've also sent mail to this address, to find out what happened to my
System 6 package from Byte Works.  They never replied by E-Mail, but
the package arived in the mail a few days later.

Perhaps they don't answer mail from Internet?
-- 
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