HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sl1zm@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Amiga.FST
Date: 28 Jul 92 22:26:49 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

>>
>>Forgetting AMAX II+?  The Color MAC under system 7 emulator?  It can be
>>had on software or hardware depending on whether 2-3 Mhz lost to
>>putting the code into ram as opposed to using rom on a card.
>>The best thing is that an Amiga 3000@33mhz with Amax II+ hardware is as
>>fast a mac as a Quadra 950, and when an Amiga (can be both computers
>>simultaneously) will blow the socks off of a 950.  Did I bother to
>>mention that such an Amiga with Unix in ROM costs about $3900?
>>Just a little less than a Quadra 950 with AU/X... hehe
> 
> AMAX II+ does not run colour. It uses the 128k Mac+ ROM's. It takes over the
> computer completely(i.e. you can't multitask Mac and Amiga programs
> together. You are probably thinking of the "vapourware" Emplant product.
> There is no such thing as an Amiga with Unix in ROM. The only computer
> that had that was the HP Integral many years ago.
>>

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

>>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)

> 
> Philip McDunnough
> nextwave!seacove!philip@epas.utoronto.ca
> 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Flight Simulators?
Date: 31 Jul 92 06:46:36 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In article <uerics.712555663@mcl> uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd) writes:
>The major flight simulators include Sublogic's Flight Simulator and Flight
>Simulator II (FS II is exactly the same thing as the original Flight Simulator
>ofor the IBM PC) and Jet.  These aren't commercially available, although
>you might find some mail order dealers with copies still in stock.  There are
>also several scenery and airport disks for FS II and Jet.
>
>Don't bother with FS I.  It's really pathetic.

If we're talking abouth the GS, there's also Tomahawk, a
helicopter-simulation.

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From: fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: SCSI floticals and RamFAST v3.00+
Date: 23 Jul 92 20:36:39 GMT
Organization: BBS


This is the reply I got from Drew...

  If you haven't gotten a nasty gram from us then we got your board.  The
Cd-Rom support is pretty generic.  We support every SCSI Cd-Rom on the
market.  As for the Flopticals, don't believe everything you hear.  The
RF support standard mass storage devices that are removable (Syquest,
Bernoulli) and I'm pretty sure that the flopticals fall under that
category.  We _used_ to require a partition map under version 2.xx but
we got away from that under 3.0.  Under 3.0 we will mount up a volume
even if it does not contain a partition map.
 
   DRew

So... sounds like the floptical *should* be able to read/write 1.4mb HFS disks.
 Since Drew didn't actually test it, I don't think I can afford to risk $500
just to try it out.  But if I can get it from a place that offers 30 money
back... I'll probably get it.

Later!!

frank m. lin
internet: fmlin@terapin.com
symmetrix...
From: jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Subject: Re: CV Tech GS-Ram Card
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Reply-To: jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:42:52 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.142344.15808@ils.nwu.edu> chauhan@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Amrit Chauhan) writes:

[Some intro stuff axed]

>First of all, I'm not going to want to pay an arm-and-a-let just to get some
>more fast-cashe for the ZIP.  Has anyone (I know there have been people) filled
>their ZIPs with 64k cache on their own?  If you have, can you tell me what
>companies you used to buy your chips, what speed, and anything else you'd
>deam pertinent information for me to have?  I'd really appreciate some help.
>Keep in mind that I'm no electrical engineer, so I know the basics, but that's
>about it.  I would like to get my ZIP up to 64k cache the cheapest way I
>possibly can...and I know I can do it without ZIP Technologies.
>
>See 'ya! Thanks in advance.
>
>Amrit
>


Hello!  Congrats on your purchase of your Zip.  I did the same upgrade from
16K to 64K cache myself, and here is the info:

        The company is called Microprocessors Unlimited, Inc.,
                              24000 So. Peoria,
                              Beggs, OK 74421

                              (918) 267-4961

        They usually have an ad in the Computer Shopper, and here is the info
you'll need when ordering the cache rams:

        4 X  62256-35  (four of the 62256 cache chips, at 35 nanoseconds)

                        You might want to get slower chips and save a few
                        bucks, but the problem with that is IF you get
 			an upgrade to like, 10 Mhz, you will have to spend
			money on faster cache chips again, so with 35 ns
			cache chips to begin with, you'll be set for speeds
			up to around 11 Mhz (hey guys, this is what I read,
			correct me if I am wrong.)

	At the time of my purchase (Jan 2, 1992) each chip costed me $14,
and four of them came out to be $56.  With packing, shipping, etc., the total
cost came out to be $63.00, a pretty good deal.  The price should be lower
now (I think, or they might not be.)

Oh, I left out the full detail on the chips, here they are:

	62256-35	32Kx8	35 ns	Sony  CXK58258p-35  CMOS.

Hope this helps, and your are welcome.


Jimmy Shaw



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From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Comp.binaries.apple2 moderation: why not?
Date: 23 Jul 92 04:39:52 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <6986@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>In article <n2fmp7c.payner@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
>>Because the cost of the solution could be very great. Moderation has
>>made the ms-dos binaries group an absolute joke.
>
>Which MS-DOS binaries group are you looking at? The one I'm watching has
>plenty of stuff in it. 

Comp.binaries.ibm.pc, since I last checked it several months ago there
have been 34 new posts. Comparing the volume of the comp.binaries.apple2
group with the comp.binaries.imb.pc group, I would assume that the IBM was
a dead ot dying machine while the apple2 was doing well.

And they cannot even decide on a standard compressor. Everyone seems to want
zip, except the moderator(s?), who want zoo. It is really amusing reading the
.d group. If the apple2 binaries were moderated, we would probably still be
using executioner format.

>                        I find the moderation to be a seriously Good Thing, and
>can't understand why you're so avidly seeking the group you'll get without
>moderation: full of non-binaries, and those that are there are barely tested
>and quite possibly full of viruses. 

We -have- a perfectly servicable binaries group -without- moderation. There
has been no virus problem, and a new virus would not be caught anyway. The
non-binaries posts are just a minor annoyance.

And there have no strong arguments for -changing- something that works quite
well. 

>                                    You need look no farther than alt.sources
>to bear the former out, and what better distribution channel than Usenet for a
>brand new virus?

Vote as you wish, I vote no. There has not been one single strong reason for
the change. Some say that the little things add up to something we need, but
I do not see it, and many others do not as well.
 
>-- 
>Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can


Rich

payner@netcom.com
From: flash@pro-applejacks.cts.com (Glenn Koproske)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Comp.binaries.apple2 moderation: why not?
Date: 28 Jul 92 10:18:45 GMT
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA

This has got to be the longest not-quite-30-days-yet I've ever experienced.
The moderation issue has also caused alot of excess quoting.  I counted a
quadruple-quote a few messages ago.  Can't wait for the CFV.

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From: u9999aec@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David Isaacson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Please help!!! (3)
Date: 19 Jul 92 01:27:00 GMT
Organization: University of Florida, Gainesville

Could whoever sees this please send email to u9999aec@elm.circa.ufl.edu 
I need to see if my posts have been getting through (seeing as i never
get any replies).

Could you please mention in the reply the number that's in the Subject
line so I know which post got through.
-- 
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			VAX:	Fraenhawk@maple.circa.ufl.edu
				X9999BNS@maple.circa.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: cshepher@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Shepherd)
Subject: Out of This World
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 17:49:57 GMT


     Out of This World is an adventure game with a cinematic twist.
The original was done on an Am*ga and took 2 years to make. BurgerBill
has ported it to the GS and Super Nintendo. Due to the fact that the
GS and SNES use the same 65816, some of the source code between the
two versions is exactly the same.
     Hope this helped to shed some light on the topic..

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|    Ask me about Impasse //gs        | cshepher@nyx.cs.du.edu      |

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: cc792@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas M. Schmitz)
Subject: GEnieLamp
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 06:46:25 GMT


Have you seen GEnieLamp A2/A2Pro yet?  A recent issue was 
included on A2-Central on Disk.  This is the official newsletter
of the GEnie Apple II User Group.  Not only does it give a roud-up
of the latest GEnieApple II news, but it has great interviewswith Apple II legends, reviews and tons of other stuff.
                  
GEnieLamp A2/A2Pro is free to GEnie subscribers and can be uploaded
to other systems and passed around at user group meetings.  If you
know someone on GEnie, ask them for a copy.  This online magazine
is as good (if not better) than some print publications.
                
And while it does promote GEnie (It would be foolish not to),
the emphisis is on the Apple II World News & Events.
     
If you have seen it, tell us your opinion.  How does it stack-
up to the print magazines?
                  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: chauhan@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Amrit Chauhan)
Subject: *WANTED* Memory of any kind!!!!
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 13:33:13 GMT

Well, I'm back looking for memory again.  If you have a memory card that's
just sitting around, or if you have 3 banks of 256k chips that you don't need,
please contact me.

I'm looking for either 768k in RAM for an AME card, or if you have a card
with at least 1 MB on it, I'm interested in that as well.  So, whatever you
can offer, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks much.

Amrit
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu (DESROCHERS GARY FREDERIC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: HELP!  In need of a GS/OS guru!
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:04:36 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines


By the way who stores source code in an extended storage type file?
That seems kinda silly to me.

Gary

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)
Subject: Re: ZIp GSX upgrades
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:54:27 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.131106.25381@utkux1.utk.edu>, sadasiva@utkvx3.utk.edu (Sadasivam, Krishna Madur) writes:
|> If there is a 14 MHz 65c816 chip available, when will Zip Technologies
|> notify registered owners of an upgrade to that processor?? I think running at 8
|> MHz is fast as it is....14 MHz would be heaven!!! 

I asked Zip about this the other day and got some info.  Apparently they have
already sent out a flier to registered owners, and the response has been
overwhelming.  You have to order it now, and then call them back in a couple
of weeks to see if they're ready to do the work on your card.  The cost is
$339 + $7.75 s/h, plus the cost of the SRAM upgrade if you need it (if you
already have 64K, they will replace the chips with 15ns ones for free).  They
have to replace the CPU, oscillator, and "a few other little things" that
they wouldn't describe.  Apparently they have a 12 MHz upgrade too, but why
bother?

Is AE upgrading the TransWarp too?

--
John Townsend                     Internet:   johnt@meaddata.com
Mead Data Central                 UUCP:       ...!uunet!meaddata!johnt
8891 Gander Creek Dr.             GEnie:      J.E.Townsend
Miamisburg, OH  45342             Telephone:  (513) 865-7250 
                                  Telefax:    (513) 865-1755
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: PC Transporter Woes...
From: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:04:07 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <1992Jul23.230914.16442@slate.mines.colorado.edu> gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu (DESROCHERS GARY FREDERIC) writes:
>
> [PCT no worky, as either PC or RAM disk]
>
> 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.

This is just an educated guess: the 'address register' is probably the
set of three I/O locations that the Apple uses to access memory in the
PC Transporter (this 'address register' is used on all slot-based
memory cards that are based on the Apple II Memory Expansion card,
including the RamFactor and the PC Transporter).

This means that the software running in the Apple is unable to
reliably access the memory in the PC Transporter.

This means your PC Transporter is dead.

I suggest you contact Applied Engineering.  There is probably only one
chip faulty, but it is almost certainly a custom chip.
-- 
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Internet: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz    EMPSON_D@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand
From: joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: memory on the GS (was:Re: multi-tasking GNO)
Date: 30 Jul 92 23:50:59 GMT
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link


RE: RAM Expansion for the IIGS

I'm just starting to recuperate from a couple of sleepless nights at
KansasFest, but the first note I saw after logging back on to c.s.a2 was
about RAM for the IIGS, so I wanted to respond.

I picked up a 4 meg GS-RAM card at Kfest for only $129. It's from Sequential
Systems, a new company that was started by a person formally associated with
Chinook. It uses a type of RAM chip designed by Mitsubishi but that never
caught on in the IBM or Mac world. I think it's called a ZIP RAM chip. In
any case, I've had it plugged in for a couple of days, and it appears to be
working great.

After the Apple Expo Central show, I think the price was going to climb to
the 'street price' of about $150, still a good bargain. Highly recommended!

Joe Kohn
From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Flight Simulators?
Date: 31 Jul 92 04:07:43 GMT

The major flight simulators include Sublogic's Flight Simulator and Flight
Simulator II (FS II is exactly the same thing as the original Flight Simulator
ofor the IBM PC) and Jet.  These aren't commercially available, although
you might find some mail order dealers with copies still in stock.  There are
also several scenery and airport disks for FS II and Jet.

Don't bother with FS I.  It's really pathetic.

- Eric S.

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From: taob@generic.UUCP (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Amiga.FST
Date: 31 Jul 92 08:37:00 GMT
Reply-To: taob@generic.UUCP (Brian Tao)
Organization: Terra*Net Technologies Corp Toronto

scottba@edsi.plexus.COM (Scott Anderson) writes...
>
>ERRRT.  WRONG. DEAD WRONG.  I HAVE seen the beta version of AMAX II+.

    Yup, beta version.  More vapourware, as Philip McD pointed out.

>I would suggest you see what I'm talking about before posting. 
>If it were legal, I would send what I used to you. I'm not a beta
>tester of AMAX II+, but AMIGA users have definately taken the piracy
>helps me attitude (and have enough hackers to keep good software around
>without software companies) so I got to see it anyway.

    Oh no, here we go again...  :(
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From: m-jk8594@GRANNY.CS.NYU.EDU (James Kyriannis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Bilestoad
Date: 28 Jul 92 01:33:08 GMT
Organization: Courant Institute, New York University

> I doubt that software written for the 6502 or 65816 chips will run on the

Well, sorry, but you're wrong -- in part.  In theory, a PC could be made to
emulate a GS, but you would need a way to get a Soundblaster card to handle
all the sound stuff.  Too much of a pain.  However, the guy who wrote
APL2EMU did a great job -- and it IS freeware.  He uses ROM dumps and hooks
them into his code (he includes all the assembly sound code for you to 
compile/modify it yourself).  To prove it to you, I would be willing to
e-mail you a uuencoded copy of APL2EM just to show you that you're wrong.



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From: sysadm@pro-cajun.cts.com (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Hypercard GS upgrade
Date: 25 Jul 92 12:16:25 GMT
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA

Is there an upgrade available for HCGS? If so, could someone send me the
details? Thanks.
-John
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From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: shell uncompress utility?
Date: 24 Jul 92 20:23:28 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

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.

compress, uncompress, and zcat are all the same program, just invoked
differently.  On the //gs you can either make two copies of the program (ugh)
or invoke compress with an option which tells it to uncompress rather than
compress.  I use a shell alias under Orca to do this.

So grab compress43.bsq, it's what you're looking for.  It's also one hell of
a lot slower than GSHK.  (Jawaid...?)

>Dale LaFountain   +1 (503)628-1059           Occidental College

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: scalawag@milton.u.washington.edu (Keith Frederick)
Subject: Apple II and IIGS Software/Books for sale
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 23:51:46 GMT

Apple II and IIGS Software and Books for sale

ALL PRICES INCLUDE SHIPPING IN THE UNITED STATES.
ALL SOFTWARE IS ORIGINAL WITH ORIGINAL DOCUMENTATION.

Apple II Software
-----------------
War in Russia           - $15
Go                      - $10
Tsushima                - $10
Nam                     - $10

Super Sunday Master Game,
General Manager Disk, and
1986 Season Disk        - $20

The Hobbit              - $10
Flight Simulator        - $15


Apple IIGS Software
-------------------
Graphics Supermarket    - $15
Music Studio v2.0       - $15
Micol Macro Assembler   - $20

Books
------
Inside the Apple IIGS by Larry Bond                     - $12
Apple IIGS Technical Reference by Fischer               - $12
Programmers Introduction to the Apple IIGS by Apple     - $15
(with disk containing Assembler, C, and Pascal source)

Apple Assembly Language by Gilder                       - $10
6502 Systems Programming                                - $12


Again, all prices include shipping. Please leave mail if you
have any questions.
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