HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: isc10327@nusunix3.nus.sg (ONG TAT-WEE)
Subject: Re: New GS Freeware
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 05:34:35 GMT

R. Anthony writes:
: There is no doubt that there are some very talented freeware programmers in
: the GS world.  These programmers work off the support and feedbackl that we
: give them.  There is a very talented programmer named Quinn.  If people would
: mail him, he has a mod player done in C (NT tool), a new version of his game
: Cyberwar, Lazerball Demo (clone of Speedball on the Amiga) and with some 
: response, I am sure he could be persuaded to finish his game Warrior Saga,  
: like a GS Knights of Legend.  This just names some of his work.  
: 
: His address is quinn@griffin.cuc.ab.ca
: 
: Support GS freeware/shareware authors. . . 

Hey, how come he's not around here?  Why don't you ask him to join the
conference over here and get to communicate with all those GS gurus like
Steven Chiang, Jawaid Bayzar, Tim Meekins, Dave Lyons, hmmm... who else
have I missed out?

- DOTW - :)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: yasu@ll.mit.edu (Alan Yasutovich)
Subject: Nobody knows the answer to my "memory expansion" question?
Summary: Replace the chips.
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 12:20:46 GMT



	I posted a question about memory expansion on an apple IIc.

	Can I simply replace the dram's with bigger ones?

	Nobody has answered me.


	Thanks

-- 
	Alan Yasutovich
	"inquiring  (and nosey) minds WANT TO KNOW!!!"
	I can remember when "safe sex" meant having a padded headboard!!
	Tick Tock.....Tick Tock......Tick Tock .....Tick Tock......
From: ncp@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Neal Pitts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: gs.os.FST?
Date: 20 Aug 92 09:49:47 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Wed Aug 19 92 at 21:52:41 (EST)

>>  I have 3 32mb prodos and 1 105+mb HFS.  HFS is slow!

Why can't there be a simple new "gs.os.FST" be written.  It should be as
similar to prodos a possible ( easier to program? ), just remove the 32mb
limit. <<

I believe that there is supposed to be an 18% speed increase in the HFS FST
when System 6.0.1 (yay!) comes out.  I agree about the "GS/OS FST".  I've been
hoping something like that would come since System 5.0; I always thought some
company would come out with such a thing, but Apple never released the specs. 
I guess this will never happen since Apple feels they have better things to
do...

I guess it takes a good amount of time to make an FST...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: aaronson@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David Aaronson)
Subject: Still testing my .sig
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:45:21 GMT

>: Just testing my great sig file for all you apple hackers.
>
>: --
>: < > --------------------------------------------------------- < >
>: < > Armpit Chauhan                 | chauhan@ils.nwu.edu       < >
>: < > GENIE-in-a-bottle             |  amrit and the hindugods  < >
>: < > --------------------------------------------------------- < >
>: I am still a dork!        
>       ^^^^^
-- 
|- David Aaronson   aaronson@casbah.acns.nwu.edu   Northwestern University -|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-"Nothing in the world is uglier than a midwestern city" --F.L. Wright    -|
|-The official .signature of the 1992 U.S. Olympic Bungee Jumping Team     -|
From: taob@terranet.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Shrinking Mac Disks
Date: 13 Aug 92 08:22:41 GMT
Organization: The Internet

jspinnow@netcom.com (John Stewart Pinnow) writes...
>
>The program I need is something that can decode BINHEX that a mac can
>run.

    Just use the GScii+ NDA to unpack BinHex archives directly to a
Macintosh disk with the HFS FST (assuming you are using System 6.0).
Then give it to your friend and he will be able to use the disk right
away.
--
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Dept. of Exobiology   | :::::> generic!terranet!taob@zoo.toronto.edu <:::::
University of Toronto | "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: 11hlayton@gallua.gallaudet.edu (Ryan 'Cybe' Layton)
Subject: 3.5 800k WOES
Organization: Gallaudet University
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 22:11:31 GMT



Dudes & dudettes...

Wondering if you could help me out with a problem I got.

I ordered an 800k External drive from Mac Sale Int'l, for use with my GS, since 
it was my understanding that Apple brand external 800k drives work with either 
Macs or GSes.  I got it today, and it isn't working.  It's in a beige case...
and it says on the bottom "800K external drive" but it won't be recognized by
anything I try to use like Copy ][ +, ProTerm, etc.  When I try to set the 
default slot to boot from to slot 5, for the drive, I get that apple moving
across the screen error, "Device not ready" or something like that.  Copy ][+
says it's a non prodos or dos 3.3 disk.  Aaarrggh.  Is this an older model that 
doesnt work with the GS?  I dont have a copy of the current system software, but
was planning to FTP it off ftp.apple.com.  Could anyone binscii & ShrinkIt the 
system disk (by file not by disk!) and send it to me?  Can anyone help me with 
the drive problem, I called MAc Sale and they will exchange it for a platinum 
one...but I have to wait til Monday to call back and check if they have any.

Thanks!
Ryan

11hlayto@gallux.gallaudet.edu 
11hlayton@galluj.gallaudet.edu

(Pls e-mail to BOTH, since galluj will be down tonight & tmw)



Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: koby@libra.math.tau.ac.il (Gabai Koby)
Subject: monitor help
Organization: School of Math & CS - Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , ISRAEL.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 10:17:07 GMT
From: Herbert_Fung@mindlink.bc.ca (Herbert Fung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Dragon's Lair II for the GS?
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:32:09 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

Has anyone heard of Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp by ReadySoft Inc. for the
GS? It is advertised for $47.54US for both the Apple IIGS and Macintosh
computers. I put in an order over a month ago at Educational Resources. I
called them again today and they said that it was on back order and should
be shipping in about five days. What I couldn't understand is how could it
be on back order when it appears that is hasn't been widely advertised?
Can anyone else verify the existence of this game for the GS?
                                __________
Herbert Fung                      |    |
MindLink!                         |    |  GS Forever!
British Columbia, Canada        __|____|__

(OK, I know, a very tacky looking sig but what can you expect in 1 minute?
Maybe I should just sit down one day and take the time to make a
respectable one)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: gs.os.FST?
From: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:18:29 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <m0mL8YL-0000olC@crash.cts.com> ncp@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Neal Pitts) writes:
> 
> I believe that there is supposed to be an 18% speed increase in the HFS FST
> when System 6.0.1 (yay!) comes out.  I agree about the "GS/OS FST".  I've been
> hoping something like that would come since System 5.0; I always thought some
> company would come out with such a thing, but Apple never released the specs. 
> I guess this will never happen since Apple feels they have better things to
> do...

I was thinking about a hypothetical GS/OS-specific file system last
night, and had a few ideas that others may like to comment on:

It should support file and disk sizes up to the full limit of GS/OS
parameters, i.e. 4 gigabytes per file or disk.

Filenames should be less restrictive.  I like HFS: 31 characters,
only illegal character is colon.

Dates stored on disk should include seconds (for those of us who
frequently compile programs, and use date/time comparisons to work out
whether a source file needs to be recompiled).

Filetypes should be two bytes and auxiliary types four bytes (to allow
for "future expansion").

HFS information can be stored somewhere (possibly in the directory,
though it seems a waste of space to have it for all files).

The fields required to handle the resource fork should be in the
directory, not in an extended file key block.

Otherwise, there is no reason why it cannot be an expanded version of
ProDOS.  To handle disks larger than 32 megabytes, mutiple disk blocks
could be combined into "allocation blocks".  To make a 4 gigabyte
disk, you would need 64k allocation blocks (64k of them).

Since the allocation block size varies, "sapling" and "tree" files
suddenly get bigger.  With a 512-byte allocation block, a sapling
file can be up to 128k and a tree file up to 16 megabytes.  Every
doubling of the allocation block size quadruples the maximum size of
that storage type (you wouldn't need tree files any more with the
largest allocation block sizes).


Any comments?
-- 
David Empson

Internet: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz    EMPSON_D@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand
From: kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: PDware clearing house
Date: 20 Aug 92 10:40:46 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Thu Aug 20 92 at 05:17:09 (EST)

> From: joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn)
> Unfortunately, GS+ has a very small circulation. Steve Disbrow told me
> exactly what it is, confidentially. For my purposes, which is spreading the
> word on great II and IIGS shareware and freeware, inCider, with a
> circulation of 100,000, is the way to go.

Is that figure of 100,000 the PRINTING number or the actual number of hard
subscribers to A+/Incider?
 
While your work has been good, there are some writers (Statt, not to name
names) whose work should never have appeared at all. Due to his work, I never
buy A+/Incider anymore. 
 
I was most amazed at the best of A+/Issue, where they reprinted a statement 
that P.Statt had written when the GS first came out. It was wrong when it was
printed. It was wrong when it was reprinted and it is wrong today. If I had to
I could undoubtably locate the exact statement. However, my point is that
writers such as P.Statt do little good to the II community by passing on
incorrect information. 

                    -=> Message from Kim Brennan <=-
                      (kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com)
         {Cathouse BBS (301) 840-8567 3/12/24/9600 V.32 24 hours}
      * "This is Rumor Control, and here are the facts." (Alien 3) *
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: bp664@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Grover Thomas)
Subject: Re: Dos 3.3. Launcher
Reply-To: bp664@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Grover Thomas)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 07:59:58 GMT


>> What about accelerators? I have code to slow down and restore
>> ZIPs and TransWarps, but I'm not sure whether its necessary when
>> you switch the machine to 1Mhz via the standard softswitch.
>> I think it would be still necessary - can someone confirm this?

Some way for the user to choose his own configuration would probably
be best.
-- 
 __                                                                   __
(__) Grover Thomas            InterNet: grover@emunix.emich.edu      (__)
(__)                               or   bp664@Cleveland.Freenet.edu  (__)
From: bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Bob Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Databases
Date: 18 Aug 1992 19:22:53 -0400
Organization: Not much!
NNTP-Posting-Host: mthvax.cs.miami.edu

In <9208180338.AA21613@eis.calstate.edu> lpowell@EIS.CALSTATE.EDU (Larry Powell) writes:


>  Does anyone know of any databases for the apple2? I know of Appleworks
>and Dbmaster. Are there any others? Are any of them freeware/shareware?
>  Perhaps most important, are there any that can access multiple databases
>simultaneously (meaning relationally (?)). (I think that Appleworks wit
>Timeout REportwriter and DBMaster Professional can do this but have been
>unable to confirm (or obtain them yet)).
>  Does anyone have any additional ideas or suggestions?

Yes, DB Master Professional is a fully relational database program.. I use
it almost every day, so I speak from using the program. 

Just recently, Barney Stone adivsed he still had the program for sale
for $100.


-- 
   bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu |                         | MCI MAIL:BSHERMAN 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: SGenius@world.std.com (Bill G Carver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: IMagewriter II buffer
Date: 18 Aug 92 03:51:35 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

The Imagewriter II 32K option card is not discontinued.  It is alive and
well and on the shelves at the Apple dealer where I work.

Just for those who wondered.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: jbardt@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joshua Bardt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: MS-DOS FST
Date: 20 Aug 92 02:37:40 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo


A while ago, Dave Lyons wrote something about wanting some suggestions
on file type conversions from ms-dos to prodos.  Now, here's a silly
question - how about making this definable (or at least changable) by the user?
This seems like the more flexible (substitute "Apple ][" :) approach.

So, think it's possible to make an FST setup file that's read at boot for
the configuration of an FST?  Whould that be way too much work? 


Josh

jbardt@eros.calpoly.edu
jbardt@nike.calpoly.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: cc792@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas M. Schmitz)
Subject: GEnieLamp A2/A2Pro
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 04:08:31 GMT


Well, now that you have had a chance to see an issue,
what do you think?
                   
              
Also:
                                   
                Should we keep it here or in Comp.Binaries.Apple2?
  
Tom
From: samp@pro-gallup.cts.com (Sam Pemberton - SysAdmin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: tosintro.shk
Date: 20 Aug 92 00:35:06 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ProLine [pro-gallup]

Has part 13/18 of tosintro.shk been posted to comp.binaries.apple2?

My site has all the other seventeen parts -- just missing part 13 of 18.
From: foegelle@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Michael Foegelle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Mockingboard
Date: 16 Aug 92 00:54:30 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <9208130436.aa12074@generic.UUCP>
   taob@terranet.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes:
>foegelle@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Michael Foegelle) writes...
>>
>>The chances of writing such a routine that would work reliably are
>>remote indeed.
>
>    Hmmm... I had no idea it would be this difficult.  Would the Apple II
>programmer slogan "Never say it can't be done" apply here?  :)

Sure, that'd hold.  I didn't say it COULDN'T be done, just that it wouldn't
be easy, and that it probably wouldn't work reliably on all programs if
done.  Not that the GS is known for programs that work reliably anymore, 
(grimacing at the stack of program disks that I can't make work on my 
new hard drive under system 6.0)!  Se la vie.  (sp)

Michael Foegelle



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: lucifer@world.std.com (Kevin S Green)
Subject: SuperConvert version# request
Summary: what is it?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:59:32 GMT

What is the current version of SuperConvert and if the
latest is 3.01 is there a newer version planned soon?

-- 
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               /America Online: Gargoth
From: taob@terranet.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: FinderBugs
Date: 13 Aug 92 08:24:07 GMT
Organization: The Internet

toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira) writes...
>
>I found a reproducible hang today...when doing a one-3.5 file copy
>from the Finder, try a) dragging a file from the disk in the drive to
>a dimmed (absent) disk b) hitting "Cancel" when it asks you to insert
>the destination disk.

    I just tried it and it works for me.  The disk icons just blink a
bit when the desktop is refreshed after the dialog box goes away.
--
Brian T. Tao    =*8-) | ::::::::> tcomtaob@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca <::::::::
Dept. of Exobiology   | :::::> generic!terranet!taob@zoo.toronto.edu <:::::
University of Toronto | "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
From: marc@cxr_rs6000.med.ge.com (Marc Wolfgram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Low Level Format
Date: 18 Aug 92 21:36:21 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

David... The Technical Ref for the Apple HS SCSI Card has an APDA #
on it, therefore is/should be available from Resource Central... the
p/n is A2G0029.

Marc
From: mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: TN/FTN on ftp.apple.com
Date: 22 Aug 92 05:47:07 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

After a long delay caused by too many things, ftp.apple.com [130.43.2.3] now
contains the complete set of Apple II Technical Notes and File Type Notes in
text format.  You can find these in /ftp/dts/aii/tn and /ftp/dts/aii/ftn.
There is also a BinSCII file of the complete set at the /ftp/dts/aii/ directory.

Thanks for your patience, and have at.

__________
Apple II
Technical Notes
_____________________________________________________________________________
                                                  Developer Technical Support

Text File Thanks and Credit

Developer Technical Support (DTS) has always written Apple II Technical Notes
and File Type Notes to be read on paper, where typographical conventions,
formatting and diagrams can often make points much, much clearer than simple
ASCII text can.  However, for internal reasons of author convenience this makes
the source material in a format unusable on the Apple II, and the lowest-common
denominator for conversion to a native format is ASCII text files.

Converting these files to text is hard, tedious and thankless, and DTS wishes
to thank those people who have spent their own time and effort to provide this
service for the Apple II development community.

For June/July 1992:

Developer Technical Support wishes to thank Eileen Crawford and Tammy Dimas in
Apple's Engineering Support group for working to make the tools for text file
conversion of these Notes available quickly.

We also thank Softdisk Publishing for the preliminary use of a program that
makes converting Apple IIgs/Macintosh high-ASCII characters to standard ASCII a
lot more painless than it used to be.

But the biggest thanks go to Steve Gunn of New Castle, Indiana, who's worked
long and hard (and given up part of his summer) to make these Notes available
before the big conference in Kansas City.  Now Steve's agreed to reconvert the
existing Technical Notes and File Type Notes so they're all consistent and
accurate.  Thanks, Steve!

Apple II Technical Note and File Type Note Text File Hall of Fame
=================================================================

Mark B. Johnson
Jim Luther
Matt Deatherage
Eric Mueller
Dave Ely
Tim Swihart
Steve Gunn
-- 
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Developer Technical Support                         domain: mjohnson@Apple.com
Apple Computer, Inc.         UUCP:  {amdahl,decwrl,sun,unisoft}!apple!mjohnson

"You gave your life to become the person you are right now.  Was it worth it?"
                                                         - Richard Bach, _One_
From: spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Picking a SCSI-hardrive
Date: 13 Aug 92 06:40:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Scott Alfter writes:
>...and you're about to hear some more. :-) Someone in the local user
>group bought a HD from LRO recently.  She could never get the thing to
>work right, nobody else could get the thing to work right, and LRO
>"tech support" was, as I understand it, less than helpful.  Avoid
>these clowns like the plague.

  Well then, I doubt I'd buy anything from LRO at this point, even if they
do have better-priced, better equipped hardrives. Also, I live in Canada, so
having problems with a company arcoss the border can be a nightmare!
At the moment I think I'll stick with TMS for the purchase of a hardrive, and
RamFast SCSI. I may wait until they ship their drives with ELS Quantums though.

>I'd also recommend against the 3.5-floppy-sized HDs.  Hard drives get
>fairly warm in normal operation.  There's not enough space inside
>those little boxes to stick a fan, so your HD fries.  Find the desktop
>space for the bigger cases with fans.  The HD mechanism is likely to
>make more noise than the fan anyway, and your HD will last longer.  If
>you don't have enough desktop space, you can get a longer cable and
>stick the HD under your desk...I had mine set up that way for quite
>some time.

  Are you sure about that? The TMS Shadow contains nothing inside the
case that could cause any heat build up, especially since the powersupply
(brick-on-a-rope) is kept outside the case. Even so it may use convection
cooling, by air vents, so any small amount of heat that's produced (if any)
would circulate out. If there's another source of heat in a TMS Shadow, please
let me know... Then I'll probably stick with the TMS external "Pro" (would
have to move my floppy disk boxes off the desk, but.... :)

> _/_   Scott Alfter                             Internet: sknkwrks@cs.unlv.edu
>/ v \  Call the Skunk Works BBS today!                      Fidonet: 1:209/765
>IIe (  TEMPORARILY OFFLINE    Apple II/IBM                     GEnie: S.ALFTER
>\_^_/  Ask me about SoftDAC--digital audio for your IIe/IIc! Apple II Forever!

Mitchell Spector
spector@vax2.concordia.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: R. Anthony
Subject: Re: Shareware Solutions
Summary: Flame
Keywords: Flame
Reply-To: Joe Kohn
Organization: Bell Northern Research
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:24:41 GMT

In article <Bt3C3y.L8o@well.sf.ca.us> joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn) writes:
>
>As a follow up to my previous post, I just want to say that I am extremely
>upset and very angry about getting those flames via email.
>
>I'm not going to get on a high horse and tell people all I have done for the
>Apple II and IIGS. I don;t need to. Every day I get mail from people aroung
>the world, thanking me.
>
>I'm serious when I say I do not want, nor do I deserve, flames.
>
>I'm mad as hell, and am not going to take it.
>
>Not being a student, I have to pay $$$ to access the net. If flames persist,
>I'm just not going to hang out here any more. I don;t need this crap from
>people that have never done one thing to further our community, as I have.
>
>So, I'll say it again: If you need to flame someone, flame someone that is
>deserving of flames.
>
>Joe Kohn
>

I have to admit that I have not seen the flames or talked to Joe about this,
but whoever is sending Joe flames through E-Mail, you really better stop and 
think what you are doing.  Joe does A LOT for the // world, more than we all
know, I am sure.  He is an incredible resource who works for the // out of a 
love for what he does.  Whoever is sending him flames really ought to be 
ashamed. 

Joe, Thanks for doing all that you do to keep the Apple // world in touch.

Rich