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From: taob@terranet.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: PostScript font downloader
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:47:58 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


    If I have a Macintosh PostScript font file on an HFS disk, is there
any way to download the font to a LaserWriter IINT printer?  The TrueType
disks in our user group's disk library are part of the Macintosh section
so they also contain the Adobe Type 1 font file along with the AFM file
and TrueType/bitmaps suitcase.  The System 6.0 LaserWriter driver does not
seem to automatically download fonts to the printer.
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From: kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: RFD: alt.sys.newton(was RFD: alt.apple.newton
Date: 28 Jul 92 10:35:50 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Mon Jul 27 92 at 20:54:48 (EST)

> From: fry@tara.harvard.edu (David Fry)
> I also want to point out that Newton is an Apple-owned trademark and
> PDA is not, so I think they're quite serious about calling it Newton
> and I think other companies will use the term PDA for their own.

Since Nabisco has held that name as a trademark for over 100 years, I sort of
doubt that Apple was able to get it throught the Patent and Trademark office.

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From: grover@EMUNIX.EMICH.EDU (Grover Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Avatar & ADB
Date: 29 Jul 92 12:45:22 GMT

>I thought I might add my $1000 worth about Avatar.
>
>Although I am very much interested in it, I will NOT buy it unless it
>can use ADB devices.

I had a chance to speak with Bill at length about this during the
Kansasfest expo, and I asked him that direct question (Will it
have an ADB port?).  Bill was very frank, and said that he contacted
Apple and would sell the ADB chips at $70 each.  This is too
expensive for the initial product, since Bill explicitly says the
machine will have to be below $1000 to sell quantity (something
about the public does not like things that are over 4 digits in
price).  His best estimate is that ADB would add about $200 to
the end price-tag.  So don't expect ADB.

>I definitely need a
>mouse substitute, and a completely transparent one (from the
>machine's point of view).

The Avatar will have IBM slots, so any device that works on the
IBM will probably work on the Avatar.

>How is the Avatar coming along, btw? Or is it?

Bill says that he has all the specs ready, and will be releasing some
summary notes soon (don't ask me what "soon" means, though). Hopefully
these will make it to the internet when available.
From: Herbert_Fung@mindlink.bc.ca (Herbert Fung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: System 6.0.1 Ethernet and MS-DOS FST
Date: 27 Jul 92 04:44:52 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

I found this on my User Group BBS and I thought I'd share it with you all:

Apple publicly announces MS-DOS FST for Apple IIGS
A2 CENTRAL SUMMER CONFERENCE 1992 ("KANSASFEST"), KANSAS CITY, MO., U.S.A.,
1992 JUL 23 (A2 ON GENIE) -- Apple publicly announced today that they are
working on an MS-DOS File System Translator (FST) for the Apple IIGS.
Currently the FST is read-only, and writing ability is being worked on.  It is
not expected that the writing ability will be ready in time for its initial
release. The MS-DOS FST is expected to ship with Apple IIGS System Software
version 6.0.1.
Apple IIGS System Software 6.0.1 is a maintenence release made necessary by the
Apple II Ethernet Card.  When the Apple II Ethernet Card ships, expected by the
end of the year, System 6.0.1 will be made available. Besides bug fixes to
System 6.0, the only other major change announced in System 6.0.1 is the
addition of keyboard navigation to the Apple IIGS Finder.
The MS-DOS FST will work on any MS-DOS volume that can be accessed by the Apple
IIGS.  Currently, the access of MS-DOS 3.5" disks is limited to 720K and 1.44M
MS-DOS 3.5" disks read via an Apple SuperDrive or equivalent, connected to the
Apple II SuperDrive Card (formerly known as the Apple II 3.5 Drive Card).
Other known methods to access MS-DOS data on an Apple IIGS include MS-DOS
formatted Syquest cartridges and MS-DOS 5.25" floppy disks read via an Applied
Engineering Transdrive, connected to an Applied Engineering PC Transporter
card.

Herbert Fung
MindLink!
British Columbia, Canada

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: lsh1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Shane Hebert)
Subject: Imperium Galacticum
Keywords: game apple2
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:04:54 GMT

Hi,
	Does anyone out there remember the old Apple ][ game
Imperium Galacticum?  If I recall correctly, this game was
written in AppleSoft Basic and compiled.  Would anyone out
there have this source?

	I know this is a LONG shot but I figured "hey, what the heck".



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From: cust_ts@kruuna.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Avatar & ADB
Date: 29 Jul 92 07:41:35 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

I thought I might add my $1000 worth about Avatar.
 
Although I am very much interested in it, I will NOT buy it unless it
can use ADB devices. The reason for this is that I am quadriplegic,
and for a mouse I use the the Mach IV+ joystick. I definitely need a
mouse substitute, and a completely transparent one (from the
machine's point of view).
 
How is the Avatar coming along, btw? Or is it?

-- 
-Tero Sand
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  (if that doesn't work, try                    Nordenskioldinkatu 20
   cust_ts@kruuna.helsinki.fi)                  00250 Helsinki 25, Finland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: ratter@b8.ingr.com (Ray Ratte)
Subject: Re: <None>
Summary: Info request
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:42:25 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.151348.510@whscdp.whs.edu>, alumn123@whscdp.whs.edu writes:
> Could someone send me some information on newsletters, magazines and such
> that still support the Apple II machine.
> 
> A list of software companies would help to if possible.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> --
> John S. Pinnow    /|\ Net: alumn123@whscdp.whs.edu  Postal: On Request 
> Tmoh Systems     /_|_\     jpinnow@world.std.com    Phone : (414) 761-1537
>                            jspinnow@netcom.com 

Check the FAQ file posting.

Ray. R.
From: kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: RFD: alt.sys.newton(was RFD: alt.apple.newton)
Date: 28 Jul 92 10:35:34 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Mon Jul 27 92 at 20:53:19 (EST)

> From: fry@tara.harvard.edu (David Fry)
> Newton is *not* a code name, it is THE real name.  The first PDA
> itself may not be named Newton, but Newton is the name of the
> technology and Newton is the name of the operating system.  And these
> are the things most people are talking about.

And if Apple or anybody else tries to market a device with the Newton name on
it, expect a trademark infringment suit from the Nabisco Co. which has held a
trademark on that name for over 100 years.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: jasonp@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Jason Perez)
Subject: Re: need help with SFGetFile
Keywords: SFGetFile 
Reply-To: jasonp@fantasia.UUCP (Jason Perez)
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:45:15 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.221425.12406@oakhill.sps.mot.com> jasonp@fantasia.UUCP (Jason Perez) writes:
>  i've just started toolbox programming and i need help with SFGetFile.
>i'm using orca/c v1.3, gno 1.0, gs/os 6.0.  i have all three toolbox
>manuals, but vol.3 is at unfortunately at another location.
>  anyway, the problem i'm having is getting the filter procedure to
>filter out all files that aren't $C1 (SHR pics).  i do the following
>to call SFGetFile:
> 
>     SFGetFile(30,30,OpenFilter,NULL,LoadReply);  <i think that's it>  

actually, after looking at my program, it's:

      SFGetFile(50,40,"\pLoad which pic:",OpenFilter,NULL,&LoadReply);   


>and :       
>     pascal int OpenFilter(ptr);  <function prototype at top of program>
>
>     pascal int OpenFilter(ptr DirEntry)
>      {
>        return noSelect;   <this should simple not let me select ANY file>
>      }
>
>  what happens is that SFGetFile is called, the open file dialog box comes up,
>  and ALL files are displayed and selectable.  i can accept a file and the dialog
>  box goes away.  so it looks like the filter function is NOT being called.  
>     


-- 
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From: spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: MUSIC WRITER GS information needed!
Date: 31 Jul 92 10:19:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Jul29.162249.21506@utstat.uucp>, philip@utstat.uucp 
(Philip McDunnough) writes...
> 
>Pyware did upgrade MusicWriter to version 2.0 and supported 5.0x. They added
>midi, miditranslators (which don't work properly) and fixed quite a few things.
>I'm not sure if they still support the GS as I haven't heard anything from
>them since 6.0. It's a pretty good program, although they did charge way too
>much for it. I suspect that for entering musical scores one would be much
>better off doing it on a PC or a Mac and a full page monitor. The output of
>MW Pro is very good though as it uses the Adobe Sonata font. Tough call...

  I have an older version 1.3 (Professional) which seems to work with MIDI
output to my keyboard, but the input to the GS never worked (i.e. Playing
scores on my MIDI keyboard to be converted into musical notation on screen).
The sound quality MusicWriter produces through the Ensoniq chip is simply
awful, sounding like music produced on a Macintosh Plus (or worse)!

>What would be nice would be a midi (standard) translator which would take 
>files from other systems and translate them into SL or DT sequences.

  "Music Modifier" can convert pc/mac/amiga/atari/etc MIDI file into either
Diversi-Tune or synthLAB sequences. It also does conversion of SL->DT or
visa-versa. The version I have is exteremly slow, runs under GS/OS although
uses a poorly designed ASCII text display, and rarely does successful 
conversions.  If a newer version exists I'd like to know. I've also heard
of something called "MidiMate", but have never seen it. Most SL sequences
have been converted from DT, Music Studio, and MIDI files, so there's some
program out there capable of doing proper conversions!

  At the moment synthLAB is my favorite of music programs! The tone quality
of instruments is incredible! (especially the Orchestra wavebank, and no
longer supported "INSTF.BNK" with pipeorgan, tubularbells, harpischord, etc)!

> 
>Philip McDunnough
>philip@utstat.toronto.edu

Mitchell Spector
spector@vax2.concordia.ca
From: cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Yet more software piracy
Date: 31 Jul 92 06:41:09 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In article <1992Jul31.010903.2753@micor.ocunix.on.ca> toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira) writes:
>In article <1992Jul30.202149.29101@micor.ocunix.on.ca> toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira) writes:
>> 
>>btw, _within the capitalist framework_, one of the major things that
>>adversely affected ][ software development was probably AppleWorks. The
>>only company that really managed to gain anything from that product was
>>Beagle, and they did it in a rape-it-and-leave-it kind of way.
>
>I'd better qualify that. What I mean is that AW made it ridiculous for any
>third-party company to consider selling a word pro, DB, or SS package. Beagle
>compounded this problem by making AW even more useful, and thus impossible
>to compete against...the problem being that this further destroyed the
>possibility of innovation in the market, which in the end helped destroy the
>market itself. You don't see many //e utilities that don't follow the AW
>interface...in terms of standardisation this is nice, but it ignores the
>fact that the AW interface may not be as good as it could. Innovation gets
>strangled.
>(Interestingly, AW doesn't even follow the "selection-then-action" paradigm
>which is rather holy at Apple these days...ie. you have to choose whether
>you're deleting, moving, etc. and _then_ choose the data you want to act on).
>
>And I shouldn't have used "rape" in that metaphorical way...rape isn't the
>least bit metaphorical. "Not to be crossposted", as they say.
>

Somehow, I can't quite swallow this argument. Are you seriously
suggesting that companies shouldn't make programs as good as they can?
-- 
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From: david@cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: PS to mousetext & hyperc
Date: 23 Jul 92 14:15:26 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

> If I print two mousetext chars as the first two in the string,
> with no trailing newline, they show up properly.
> Then as soon as I hit return, the first character is changed to inverse
> uppercase.

I noticed this as well when I defined an apple2e terminal type under curses/
terminfo on my UNIX system. I defined the MouseText characters as the alternate
character set but found that sometimes they would not appear - depending on the
way the screen was updated.

If I made the cursor invisible then it worked properly every time.

I think the code that displays the cursor (and then restores the character
below when it moves) cannot handle MouseText (after all, there is no matching
inverse MouseText characters).
-- 
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Dept Comp Sci, Uni of Wollongong	david@cs.uow.edu.au
From: pfmj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: FORSALE:APPLEIIGS POWER SUPPLY
Date: 22 Jul 92 22:53:26 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

I have an APPLE IIGS power supply I would like to sell.
It has never been used and is perfect condition.
I took it out of my brand new IIGS because the hard drive I have
requires another power supply. I would like to get $39 for
it but all reasonable offers will be accepted.
Thanks,
 Seenu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: pbauer@athena.mit.edu (Paul H Bauer)
Subject: Re: InnerDrive 3rd Partition under ProDOS 8 v2.0.1
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 03:30:53 GMT

Hope this helps.
From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Yet more software piracy
Date: 30 Jul 92 04:46:26 GMT
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.

fuller@athena.cs.uga.edu (James P. H. Fuller) writes:
   
>    So I count as an independent observer -- I have no vested interest in
>stealing software *or* in publishing it for sale.  And in my opinion as an
>independent observer software piracy is indeed a wrong and a crime, but it's
>about on the same level of wrongness and criminality as jaywalking or illegal
>left turns.  

  Ahem.. Fine.  When the IIgs software market completely crumbles because
of piracy, _you_ can write the software that a million people are demanding
but don't feel they have to pay for.
  Granted, there are some people that have a brain and realize that the
only way the IIgs will stay afloat is by supporting software developers;
and these people I thank for supporting us.  But 

>My feeling is that there *should not be* a market in software --
>programming should be done for fun and to impress one's colleagues, exactly
>the way mathematics has been done (and very successfully too) for centuries.

  Mathemeticians are paid for by taxes.  There are mathematicians who get
paid _commercially_, by banks, etc.  Nothing in a capitalist economy is
free.  There are folks who take a couple hours (or more), write neat
software, and release it for free.  Fine.  But then we have near-communists 
like Richard Stallman who will try to convince you that selling software is 
somehow morally wrong.
  Folks, capitalism works.  It's messy sometimes, but it works.  Is it
wrong to charge for books?  Books and software are both collections of
ideas.  The creators of these ideas deserve to be compensated for it.
I can give you a million examples similar to this.
  Go to the Apple Central Expo and listen to how many developers are
trying to figure out how they're going to stay in the IIgs market.
  SoundSmith 1.0 was killed because it was pirated.  Several years
of work down the drain.  Is this fair?  Did the author do it for fun?
It's understood, it's a very basic legal concept.  Joe Programmer
writes software, and you can use it if you pay him.

>    Heh, heh, heh.  Imagine a "freelance mathematician" who'll write you out
>a definite integral for a fee -- and you get to *use* it but you only get to
>install it in one brain at a time and you can't make any copies.  Software
>publishers are making exactly this kind of offer, and then wondering why
>prople get offended.

  If you don't like the conditions, you don't buy it.  It's simple.  Take
Richard Stallman's example and write your own damn software, but don't
steal mine.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: isc10327@nusunix3.nus.sg (ONG TAT-WEE)
Subject: Re: High-Speed Help Needed
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 04:36:35 GMT

Thanx: Michael Foegelle

Thanks Mic for the info.  I'll check out the cable connection again and
try out what you suggest.  Hopefully it'll work 'coz I don't believe the
Apple IIgs is too slow to support 14400 bps.

- DOTW - :)
From: gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu (DESROCHERS GARY FREDERIC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: HELP!  In need of a GS/OS guru!
Date: 29 Jul 92 13:34:41 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

gregd@pro-desert.cts.com (Greg DaCosta) writes:
: Gary,
: 
: I'm pretty sure that TML Pascal II and Complete Pascal (updated version of
: TML II) both use extended files for their source code as they use the
: TextEdit tools with font information in the source file.  
: 
: Greg

     Well that would explain it.  

     Gary
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: rwifall@nmsu.edu (Richard J Wifall)
Subject: Re: Shareware collection agency?
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05:41:08 GMT

[Stuff about a centralized shareware fee collection agency]

My $.02 ..
I don't think it will make any difference.  In my view people are too
lazy to mail in money no matter where they are mailing it, and not
only that, many people figure that either they don't use it often
enough to justify paying for it, or they have the full version, so
they won't gain anything from paying for it.
	I think it's a neat idea, I just don't think it will work..
DeskTracker has had over 150 downloads from GEnie and AOL alone.. have
I seen one shareware payment?  Nope... not a single one..
	I don't think people would be much if any more willing to pay
shareware fees to a single entity as opposed to a couple entities..
					Richard
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: ah499@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John Daniels)
Subject: Re: Hardware Hall of Fame
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 07:05:12 GMT


I would second the Novation Apple-Cat II to head the list of impressive cards
for the II series.
 
I'd like to add the alphaSyntauri digital synthesizer to the list and in
particular the Mountain Computer Music System cards that are the heart of the
setup.  Really a neat piece of equipment.
 
                                                John Daniels
                                                ah499@cleveland.freenet.edu
From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: GSHK 1.06 problem with HFS?
Date: 22 Jul 92 02:53:47 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <9207200421.AA16989@pd-dom.wl.com> schultp@wl.com (Paul Schultz) writes:
>                                                 Now here's the
>problem: sometimes I download the files to an 800K HFS disk at work
>on a Mac.(on my free time of course :-)  ).  Then, I take them home,
>un-binscii with gscii 2.3.1 and then under GSHK 1.06 I get a
>"damaged" archive!  The funny thing is that I can copy the binscii'd
>file from the 800K HFS disk to my ProDOS formatted Hard Drive and
>then the file un-binscii's and unshrinks just fine!

There's a bug in the HFS FST relating to NewLine mode which causes GSCii+
to not work very well on HFS volumes.  I suspect the problem is with GSCii+
on HFS, not GSHK on HFS.

In any event, it's an FST bug, and Apple knows about the problem.  The
temporary solution is to do what you've been doing, which is to copy the
BinSCIIed files off of the HFS volume onto a ProDOS volume.

-- 
fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]