HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Brady_David@Tandem.Com (David Brady)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,rec.games.video
Subject: Re: Out of This World (how do I get past...)
Date: 29 Dec 92 16:50:31 GMT
Organization: Tandem, Inc.
X-Xxdate: Tue, 29 Dec 92 16:53:04 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d16

In article <1992Dec28.003930.19556@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Grover Thomas,
grover@emunix.emich.edu writes:
>Out of This World:
>    I have been stuck on level 5 (xddj) for quite a while.  I have flooded
>the cave, gotten across the waterfall/dam, killed a few guards, and shot
>down the light, but now I have a problem:  In one room there is a triple-
>door, a guard (who is well protected by a force field), and a door behind
>him.  If I walk through the triple-door, he shoots me.  If I blow away
>the triple-door and put up my own force field, he sends little bouncing
>energy-balls across the floor which zap me.  If I jump over the energy-
>balls, he shoots me.  Help, how do I get past?

Beware: Spoilers...









Energy-balls bounce.







Another BIGGER spoiler....




Also, did you explore the caves COMPLETELY?  XDDJ isn't all that long and
getting past the water is the 2nd or 3rd thing you need to do.  You get another
password (or 2) before that part.

You're welcome!  :-)
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From: behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)
Subject: Re: How to keep 9600 baud ALWAYS.
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:06:32 GMT

seane@pro-scat.cts.com (Sean Eller) writes:

>I'm using ProTerm 2.0 and was wondering how to stop it from dropping to
>2400 every time it dials out.  The only thing 

Buy PT 3.0. It's worth every single buck you spend for it, it will give
you working Z-Modem, a better macro language, and support for fast
modems.

Soenke
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From: jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Subject: Re: Uh oh! Zip Cache is messed.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Reply-To: jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 27 Dec 92 05:57:11 GMT

In article <Bzs9yy.FEw@darkside.osrhe.uoknor.edu> dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Roy Barrett) writes:
>
>Uh-oh.. I've installed my 64k SRAM Cache, and my Zip Control Panel and
>Zippy have both said that I only have 8k... What's up here?

Did you set the DIP switches to the correct setting?  I believe
they were 1-7 and 1-8 (DIP switch set #1, switches 7 and 8).  I
don't recall the proper settings though, you should be able to
find it in the manual/hyperstudio stack, or someone else might
be able to tell you.

Jimmy
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From: dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Roy Barrett)
Subject: Re: Zip Wide-Narrow sockets
Organization: Okcforum Unix Users Group
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:16:13 GMT

Thanks all who replied, for those who didn't... Happy Holidays anyways.. ;)

I've ordered 4 A502's from DigiKey, and I'll have one of the fastest systems
around here... BBS Competition, it gets hard sometimes.. <g>
From: larry@lablues.UUCP (Lawrance A. Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: GSymbolix price list
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 06:05:12 EST
Organization: L/A Blues BBS - Auburn ME (207) 777-3465 & 7782

Having fianlly gotten back on the board, I see that Phillip has asked 
that the price list for GSymbolix be posted.  Done so here by:

You many order GSymbolix from me at the following rates:

Package                 regular     students    schools/univers.
 
V1.7 with manual        139.00      125.00      115.00
(multi-user:)                                   204.00
 
V1.7 without manual      99.00       70.00       60.00
(multi-user:)                                   149.00
additional manual        40.00       55.00       55.00
 
School/universities only:           multi-user
 
SchoolPack 5/1           230.00     350.00
SchoolPack 5/5           420.00     590.00
SchoolPack 10/1          330.00     590.00
SchoolPack 10/10         770.00    1040.00
 
Delivery:
Fourth Class       $   5
Priority           $  10
Canadian Surface   $   8         Don't bother
Canadian Air       $   8         Use this
Mexican Surface    $   7
Mexican Air        $   8

Insured mail within the USA    $5.00
Insured mail to Canada         $5.00
Insured mail to Mexico          Not Available (needs to be registered)

Note: lost packets won't be replaced!
 
Sincerely for Bright Software,

                        Larry


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From: 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: CDA
Date: 3 Jan 93 01:44:12 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: MuGS Research and Development Facility

The following revelation escaped Clayten Hamacher's lips:
> 
> I was planning on writting a CDA to load all the tools NDAs need and then
> store the SHR screen (in case a game etc is going on) and open a desktop with
> two menus, Apple, and File..File would simply contain. Quit  OA-Q
> 
> This would let people use NDAs from text programs like ProTerm.

    You will have to load a lot more than just the tools to pop up a simple
desktop screen while in ProDOS 8.  You'd basically have to reload all of
GS/OS while not stepping on the ProDOS 8 program.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: mcobb@scott.skidmore.edu (mary cobb)
Subject: Fatal Error 0911
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:33:34 GMT

I get this sucker all the time.  The only solution is to power off, give
the CPU a good *WHAP*, and turn it back on.  Never fails, Prosel pops up.
Now, I don't like doing this, because I'm running a rusty old InnerDrive 40
(remember those from Applied Ingenuity?) which is the only storage device
that is operational on my GS (5.25" Apple and 3.5" HD AE are both shot! =( ) 
so I don't want to take the chance of like making the HD R/W head fall off
or something.  Is there anyway to get rid of this rather annoying Error?

Eric

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: rcollins@nyx.cs.du.edu (rcollins)
Subject: Re: ProDOS files vs. disk
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 03:19:06 GMT

ST2975@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU writes:

>I seemed to have noticed that files on my disks aren't exactly
>contiguous.  There seem to be 512 byte 'holes' on the disk that
>separate different files' data.  Is this an optimization of
>ProDOS?  Can I write a disk utility that can move the files'
>data closer together and change the directory structure to reflect
>the change using read_block/write_block and read/write?
>I'm using ProDOS v1.9 currently.  Am I imagining things as usual?

Andy,

Hi!  I believe Prosel does the optmization of data you are speeking of
here.  I'm not aware of any PD/Sharewae utils available to do this though.

Have a happy New Year.
Randy
 
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From: nagendra@csa.bu.edu (nagendra mishr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Patching the menu manager
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:09:45 GMT
	<BzGv1o.1zC@CAM.ORG>
Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department
In-reply-to: vandry@CAM.ORG's message of 18 Dec 92 17:53:45 GMT

>
>   Okay. I want to write some sort of accessory (either an Init or an NDA) so
>   menus can be accessed without using the mouse, in a manner similar to
>   MicroSoft's (on the IBM) or ProTerm (but on the desktop).
>
>   The options I considered are:
>
>   1. Completely fake mouse movements so that the entire system thinks the user
>      is actually using the mouse.
>
>      Drawbacks: The mouse pointer would jump around as the user presses keys.
>		 It's hard and long.
>
	......
>
>   Suggestions?

What's wrong with option 1?  Just do a hide-cursor so that your cursor
is not visible.  Move it around all you want...  select things.  ShowCursor

Besides, I think that having the cursor visible may cause problems
with the menu code: (I think it's safe to assume that the menu manager
is assuming that the cursor will be what is causing the picking to
happen and so it check's it location)

ex:
	Assume you're navigating with the arrow keys and the mouse
cursor is visible:

	let's say right under the menu, the menu somehow opens, the
cursor moves (accidently) --> takes a snapshot of screen under cursor,
the menu is closed, the cursormoves again --> the old snapshot is
placed on the screen ...  You're gonna have a ghost image of the menu
left on the desktop.  Sort of like how Showpic screws up the screen
while it is decoding pictures.


******* better yet  ********************

make a new device driver which responds to key events, and fakes the
mouse around the screen whenever you hit option or command or
whatever.

****************


Nagendra

Nagendra@csa.bu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn)
Subject: Re: really basic question
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:44:04 GMT


Thanks Andy Werner for telling me how to access the net. But, what's this Mr
Kohn stuff? The name's Joe...

Your method of access is covered in the FAQ.

I also want to thank everyone else who sent emails. So far, it sounds like
everyone is either coming into the net on a Unix box or via a VAX, and maybe
then there are just two sets of commands.

I really want to simplify net access. It's amazing how many of us who hang
out here in c.s.a2 all the time have written and said something like "I've
been here for 2 or 3 years and still consider myself a novice".

This really is an amazing system.

Oh, one more question. For those who either post or email messages, could
you tell me whether you're accessing the net via a terminal at school or
work or whether you're calling in on your Apple II.

If it's OK with everyone, I'd like to synthesize (is that the right word)
all the info, re-write it with some basic info on how to gain net access,
and publish it in inCider in my Grapevine column. Any objections to that?

Joe Kohn
From: kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Pointless 2.0
Date: 30 Dec 92 10:36:43 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Thu Dec 24 92 at 23:55:58 (EST)

> From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
> FYI, there's a v2.0.1 release now.  Apparently there was a problem where
> you'd end up with several different copies of the font appearing in the
> font menu.

Well, there was more to fix than that, but I'm not at liberty say what all was
changed. Suffice it to say that 2.01 is smaller, faster and more memory
efficient than 2.0

                    -=> Message from Kim Brennan <=-
          (kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com)  or  (kimbrennan@aol.com)
         {Cathouse BBS (301) 840-8567 3/12/24/9600 V.32 24 hours}
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Switch-It! Press Release
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 11:12:58 GMT

In article <76047@apple.apple.COM> unknown@Apple.COM (Matt Ackeret) writes:

[ ]
>
>yeah I complained about the same thing you did and think it should be
>compared to Switcher..  Maybe it could say something like "SwitchIt 
>compares to the old Mac program Switcher, the non-multitasking predecessor
>to MultiFinder"

MultiFinder is considered by most people to not be a multitasking OS. You
can play all the word games you like with cooperative multitasking but that's
just not going to convince anyone who knows the situation.
 
Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
From: karsten@pnet51.orb.mn.org (E. Karsten Smelser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: IIGS and IDE Drives?
Date: 27 Dec 92 22:25:02 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.


        As I was parsing thru the latest batch of messages, I happend into the
middle of an interesting one.  Is someone saying that you can use IDE drives
with the IIGS?

 
PROJECT EARTH   612/731-2665   300/2400 bps   24 Hrs/Day   60 Megs
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: knauer@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Knauerhase)
Subject: Re: Why didn't my apple need a screen saver?
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:59:12 GMT

In <bazyar.725786539@teal> bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
>mmelez@vax.clarku.edu writes:
>>I've been wondering about something for a long time.  Almost every Mac I've
>>worked with has had a screen saver installed, ostensibly to prevent screen
>>burn-in.
>  Well, see, you're one of the special few who have come to realize that
>'screen saver' is a marketing term.  The more appropriate term is
>'user bilcher' (No offense, Jim :-).  These days, pretty much all screen
>savers do is provide something for the computer to do and for the user
>to look at when the computer isn't being used for anything else.

Time for another apropos quote:

	It has often been said that something like 25-50% of all the CPU
	cycles in the world are used to sort data.  In terms of CPU cycle
	usage, I guess that makes sorting algorithms second only to
	screen-savers.

I have seen Apple II screens with images burned in, the worst of which was a
BBS at a computer store I worked in 7 or 8 years ago (THOSE were the days,
my friend.  Anyone remember T-net? :).  The rationale on Macs and Windows
boxes is that there is an area of the screen (mainly the menu bar) that
never changes and this is subject to burn-in.  However, Jawaid is right --
most screen savers are just cutesy accessory programs.

Rob
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn)
Subject: Re: Interplay
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:15:13 GMT


>>  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!

If you're going to make backhanded negative comments, at least have the
courtesy to spell the name of the magazine correctly.

There will be a rave review of OOTW in inCider/A+. I submitted it a week
or two ago.

Joe Kohn
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Roy Barrett)
Subject: Re: AWGS vs System 6
Organization: Okcforum Unix Users Group
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:25:55 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
X-Posted-From: okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

>For reliable DTP work, buy GraphicWriterIII. AWGS is evil.

Nahh, AWGS is cool, GWIII hasn't been updated for years, and I don't like it.

I know, I know, don't flame me, but what I need is something like PageMaker..
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Subject: Re: Shanghai II -- who wrote it?
Reply-To: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:42:19 GMT

In article <76032@apple.apple.COM> unknown@Apple.COM (Matt Ackeret) writes:
>
>	I just read the A2Central and Resource Central (mail order 'catalog'
>that comes with it) today and saw that there's a Shanghai II for the GS.
>I'd heard of this for the Mac and other computers and was surprised to see
>it was written for the GS..  I guess there are a few projects out there 
>that aren't known about by all of the net.

	That's a comforting thought that the net isn't the center of
the II world.  :)

>	Anyway, does anyone know who this was written by? I got Shanghai a 
>few years ago (from an Egghead Discount Center), and don't play it
>much so most likely won't get Shanghai II..  I'm just very curious about it.
>
>	Is the game (or any of the other versions of it at least) distributed
>by Activision, the author/distributor of the first one?  Activision seems to
>be clinging to life.. They filed Chapter 11 a while ago but haven't completely
>dissolved, as far as I know.  (Has the Lost Treasures of Infocom helped
>keep 'em alive?  at least the Mac/IBM versions, since BRCC does the
>GS version) 

	Shanghai II was written in house by John Wrenholt.  BRCC
basically owns the rights to a lot of games (and has packaging for a
bunch as well), so they are doing some of the development in house,
and are probably willing to do some outside contract work, for those
who can do it.

>unknown@apple.com		Apple II Forever


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)
Subject: Re: wanted: apple stickers and schtuff
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 16:49:54 GMT

In article <Bzot6u.Ipn@sdf.lonestar.org> smj@sdf.lonestar.org (Stephen M. Jones) writes:
>I want some apple computer stickers agian.. and maybe a white t-shirt
>with the apple logo.. anyone have anythign??

Speaking of stickers, I kind of want a 5.25" disk drive label that says
"1" on it for my platinum 5.25" drive.  Many years ago, when I first opened
my GS, I inadvertently stuck the "2" on my 5.25" drive thinking "Oh, well
the 3.5 will be drive 1..."  not then realizing what the smartport was
all about.  

Does anybody have these stickers, or at least the part number so I can
try to "order" one?
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From: co057@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven H. Lichter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Comments Anyone?
Date: 21 Dec 1992 19:26:07 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


The post was not on Internet (at least I never saw it), it was on
Ogg-Net which I'm one of 16 SysOps. The post came from Scully's
Revenge in Gardina and there is no real way to fake the return header
unless the SysOp changed his code so that incorrect information would
be sent out over the net and then all the posts would be that way from
his system for at least that feed. I don't know what your problem is
all I did was point out that is where it came from and not if it was
real or fake. A lot of users all over out net including me have asked 
the same question. I suggest that you call one of the systems in look
in the Apple II message base and you will see it.
.
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From: gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu (DESROCHERS GARY FREDERIC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: PC Transporter
Date: 24 Dec 92 14:58:01 GMT
Organization: Somewhere over the rainbow

robbie@GCNEXT.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU (Robert Honerkamp) writes:
: Hi..
: I'm getting a PC Transporter for Christmas, and I have a few questions for 
: anyone who has one....
 
: 1: Is the AEPC RAM disk automatically accessible from the Finder?

    Yes.  Once you add the AEPC.DISKS stuff to your ProDOS then it will
show up.  It will be called RAMAEPC.

: 2: Has anyone designed a joystick driver for it?

    No!  If you ever figure out how to right any driver at all give
me a call.  I think AE made it a trade secret or something.

: 3: Any reccomendations for which slot to place it in? My current config is:

: 1: Printer Port
: 2: <switchable> Modem port/Sonic Blaster
: 3: Transwarp GS (can also go in slot 4 if needed..)
: 4: Vulcan HD controller (can go in any slot, it is pseudo-slotted to slot 7)
: 5: SmartPort
: 6: SCSI controller card
: 7: Pseudo-slotted HD card (See slot 4)
 
: As you can see, I am running out of slots. I have been messing with different
: configs, so far I have no idea where to put the card. I have seen reccomendations to put it in slot 4, but I want to use my mouse in DOS.

     I guess you are running out of slots!  Hmmm.....   One consolation is
that I haven't found much use for a mouse using the PCT.  Anything that
uses the mouse that really needs it is real slow anyways.  It would take
someone better then me to figure that one out.
  Allright.
  Who's better...:-)

: H E L P!!!!!!!!!!!
: 
: Robbie "Shorty" Honerkamp
: robbie@gcnext.gac.peachnet.edu
: shorty@blackwlf.gwinnett.com
-- 
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gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu

I be gone in 6 months.  Anyone know a good internet site in New Hampshire.
From: co057@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven H. Lichter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Real Basic Questions
Date: 29 Dec 1992 22:07:28 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I access Internet via UC Riverside's indial's from home and then access
Cleveland FreeNet from there over the T1 system that ties most large
Vax systems together. From Cleveland's system I can access and have an  
Internet account. I have not tried the FTP system yet even though a couple
people wanted me to send them something. It just seems to be a pain, maybe
I don't understand it. I have used a computer for over 15 years and have
run a BBS since 1987.
.
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