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Peters Editor...................................................Douglas Cuff \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////// ~ GenieLamp IBM ~ GenieLamp ST ~ GenieLamp PowerPC ~ ~ GenieLamp A2Pro ~ GenieLamp Macintosh ~ GenieLamp TX2 ~ ~ GenieLamp Windows ~ GenieLamp A2 ~ LiveWire (ASCII) ~ ~ Member Of The Digital Publishing Association ~ Genie Mail: GENIELAMP Internet: genielamp@genie.com ////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ >>> WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE APPLE II ROUNDTABLE? <<< """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" ~ May 1, 1996 ~ FROM MY DESKTOP ......... [FRM] FROM MY MAILBOX ......... [MAI] Notes From The Editor. Letters To The Editor. HEY MISTER POSTMAN ...... [HEY] HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM] Is That A Letter For Me? The Wreck of the Apple II. REFLECTIONS ............. [REF] APPLEWORKS ANNEX ........ [AWX] Automated E-mail Responders. AppleWorks Gazette Follow-Up. FILE BANDWAGON .......... [BAN] THE ONLINE LIBRARY ...... [LIB] Top 10 Files for March. March Arrivals on Genie. PROFILES ................ [PRO] LOG OFF ................. [LOG] Chris Serreau & Howard Katz. GenieLamp Information. [IDX]"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" READING GENIELAMP GenieLamp has incorporated a unique indexing system """"""""""""""""" to help make reading the magazine easier. To utilize this system, load GenieLamp into any ASCII word processor or text editor. In the index you will find the following example: HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM] Genie Fun & Games. To read this article, set your find or search command to [HUM]. If you want to scan all of the articles, search for [EOA]. [EOF] will take you to the last page, whereas [IDX] will bring you back to the index. MESSAGE INFO To make it easy for you to respond to messages reprinted """""""""""" here in GenieLamp, you will find all the information you need immediately following the message. For example: (SMITH, CAT6, TOP1, MSG:58/M475) _____________| _____|__ _|___ |____ |_____________ |Name of sender CATegory TOPic Msg.# Page number| In this example, to respond to Smith's message, log on to page 475 enter the bulletin board and set CAT 6. Enter your REPly in TOPic 1. A message number that is surrounded by brackets indicates that this message is a "target" message and is referring to a "chain" of two or more messages that are following the same topic. For example: {58}. ABOUT Genie Genie's pricing plans are as low as $7.95 per month for up """"""""""" to five hours of email use. Genie services, such as software downloads, bulletin boards, chat lines, and an Internet gateway, are included at Genie's non-prime time connect rate of $2.75. Other plans are available. Prices are subject to change without notice. To sign up for Genie, call (with modem) 1-800-638-8369 in the USA or 1-800-387-8330 in Canada. Upon connection wait for the U#= prompt. Type: JOINGENIE and hit RETURN. The system will then prompt you for your information. Need more information? Call Genie's customer service line (voice) at 1-800-638-9636. GET GENIELAMP ON THE NET! Now you can get your GenieLamp issues from """"""""""""""""""""""""" the Internet. If you use a web browser, connect to "gopher://gopher.genie.com/11/magazines". When using a gopher program, connect to "gopher.genie.com" and then choose item 7 (Magazines and Newsletters from Genie's RoundTables). *** GET INTO THE LAMP! *** """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" //////////////////////////////////////// Genie_QWIK_QUOTE //// / "If I were to design my own GS case, the one thing that / / would be a requirement for me is that all of the cables / / connect _to the front_." / / / / "Come on, Ryan, don't perpetuate myths. They _do_ / / connect to the front, although it was admitedly rather / / clumsy of Apple to put the power cord on the front, too, / / and to put the Apple logo on the back." / ////////////////////////////// R.SUENAGA1 and BYTEWORKS //// [EOA] [FRM]////////////////////////////// FROM MY DESKTOP / ///////////////////////////////// Notes From The Editor """"""""""""""""""""" by Douglas Cuff [EDITOR.A2] >>> WEE PAWS <<< """""""""""""""" My wife and I recently took the day off to visit the Ontario Science Centre in North York (part of metropolitan Toronto--Toronto is the provincial capital). The Centre is a science museum for anyone who is even mildly interested in science but bored by science museums. Translation: Good luck dragging your kids out of there before the Centre closes. My wife and I arrived half an hour after the Centre opened at 10 AM and left only when forced to, at 6 PM. Even then, we didn't get to see everything--there was no time to play in the Internet Cafe, for instance, though that may have been because we tried the rock-climbing exhibit twice. I can't imagine how we would have managed if we'd taken any kids (other than ourselves, that is). I'd better confess here and now that I didn't see any Apple II computers anywhere. Plenty of basic, classic Macintoshes--a disturbing number of which had crashed--but not a single Apple II. I suspect that if Apple Canada still supported the Apple II, the Ontario Science Centre would use 'em. Those who run the Ontario Science Centre seems to understand that while playing with computers is fun, computers can also be used to make other sorts of play more fun. They seem to know that the fun can be spoiled if the computer is allowed to run things, not the visitor. "Land Like a Cat", an exhibit in the Sport hall, relegates the computer to its proper place. You walk up a set of steps, at the top of which is an embedded scale. A color monitor tells you when to jump, and you leap from the steps to the ground, where there's a hidden platform that measures the force of impact. The color monitor draws a picture of a cat landing, plays a sound effect, and tells you "You landed with a force [x] times your own weight." Anyone with children will tell you what kids will do in a situation like this: land with as much force as possible. And why not? The explosion sound effect for landing heavily is much more satisfying than the applause sound effect for landing lightly. In a culture where bigger is better, "24 times" looks more impressive than "2 times". The exhibit was built for wear and tear. It's clearly meant for the younger set. So once again: why not? Darned if I know. But I have to tell you I was a little bemused all the same. Because the exhibit was designed so that even some adults couldn't tell what the point was. After two young boys had taken several turns, my wife and I joined the queue. (If you blush just because you're twice as tall as the next tallest person in line, you might want to avoid the Ontario Science Centre.) Being a hopeless old stodge at the age of thirty-something, I did not try to crush the scales into multiple fragments by landing with the righteous fury of a Juvenal. I tried to land lightly, and did so well enough to garner applause. Only then did the father of the two boys realize that this was the point, at least in the mind of the designer. Should kids care what the designer's point was? Almost certainly not. I could argue that they should be able to figure out what the objective is, even if they decide to ignore it. I'm not going to. I am going to argue that their parents should be able to understand the exhibit. What a parent does with that knowledge is his or her own business. I hope I'm not being overly conformist to be just a shade bemused when an exhibit has a poor design. You don't want to damage a child's self-esteem by constantly yelling "YOU GOT IT WRONG!", but shouldn't it be possible for a child who wants feedback to learn how it did? I don't know. Possibly fostering a child's need for assurances makes him or her less independent. We don't want to overdo approval/disapproval, but we don't want to skimp on guidance, either. These are complex issues. Software design is a complex issue, too. I don't want to pick on this one exhibit--this isn't the first time I've come across software where setbacks were more impressively programmed than achievements. I can't say I have a solution to this issue of esteem vs. feedback. I just hope like heck there's still time to raise a few questions. ADDENDUM AND CORRIGENDUM Last issue, Andrew Roughan wrote in to question """""""""""""""""""""""" the pedigree of John MacLean's DOS 3.3 Launcher v2.1. (Note that v2.0 was not called into question; it's perfectly fine.) Roughan hoped that the A2 RoundTable would change the description; in fact, v2.1 has been removed from circulation. Remember that v2.0 is still available, and that v2.2 is expected soon. In the January issue, we claimed that "LoadPall helps extend the native abilities of HyperCard IIGS by allowing the display of 16, 256, and 3200 color 320-mode graphics in HyperCard". LoadPall author Brian Gillespie points out that 3200-color graphics are not supported. HYPERSTUDIO ANOMALY I've found an interesting difference between the full """"""""""""""""""" authoring version of HyperStudio, which lets you write your own stacks, and the run-time version, which allows you to run stacks created by other. To see it, you'll need to visit the Hog Heaven page. If you are using the full HyperStudio package to view this edition of GenieLamp A2, the Contents button in the bottom left corner of the screen will be labelled with white text on a black background. If you are using the run-time version, you will see the reverse--black text on a white background. This is possibly related to displaying an icon button, with text, over a 320-mode graphic. Has anyone out there noticed other differences between HyperStudio and the run-time version? -- Doug Cuff Genie Mail: EDITOR.A2 Internet: editor.a2@genie.com __________________________________________________________ | | | REPRINTING GENIELAMP | | | | If you want to reprint any part of GenieLamp, or | | post it to a bulletin board, please see the very end | | of this file for instructions and limitations. | |__________________________________________________________| ASCII ART BEGINS _____ _ _ ___ ___ / ____| (_) | | / _ \|__ \ | | __ ___ _ __ _ ___| | __ _ _ __ ___ _ __ | |_| | ) | | | |_ |/ _ \ '_ \| |/ _ \ | / _` | '_ ` _ \| '_ \ | _ | / / | |__| | __/ | | | | __/ |___| (_| | | | | | | |_) | | | | |/ /_ \_____|\___|_| |_|_|\___|______\__,_|_| |_| |_| .__/ |_| |_|____| | | |_| ASCII ART ENDS [EOA] [MAI]////////////////////////////// FROM MY MAILBOX / ///////////////////////////////// Letters To The Editor """"""""""""""""""""" GRAPHICWRITER III PROGRAMMER RESPONDS Thank you for the GraphicWriter III """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" 2.0 review in the April 1996 GenieLamp A2. I'd like to briefly explain the 2.0 designation, which fortunately enough seems to be the only negative issue in your review :-), and also correct one potential misnomer. We've been working on and off this update for almost three years, and right up until January 1996 it was considered version 1.2. Nearing completion, feedback from our beta testers, and our own "look back" at the list of new features suggested that perhaps this should be version 2.0, a starting point for future revisions. After a couple of weeks deliberation and agreement with our beta testers, we decided to go with that designation. The potential misnomer is at the beginning of your review, and suggests that, and I quote, "Australian programmer Richard Bennett is the man behind this update." Yes, I am the programmer, and yes I am Australian, however I am not the man "behind" this update. The man behind most of Seven Hills' products, at least for the six years I've been working with them, is Dave Hecker, and he rarely receives the credit he deserves. While the coding technicalities of updating GrahicWriter III were quite significant, considering the state it was in after leaving DataPak, the design and layout (no pun intended) of the update as well as most of the new features and bug reports were all Dave's. I realise my opinion may be seen as biased, but companies such as Seven Hills deserve our support. While most companies have either gone under or moved on to bluer pastures, others such as Seven Hills, ByteWorks and Parkhurst Microproducts (to name a few) are still writing software for the computer we all love, the Apple II, and making very little out of it. Apple II forever! Best regards, Richard Bennett [RICHARD.B] In the sense that GraphicWriter III v2.0 is a _point d'appui_ for future versions, you have a valid point. This seems to me a programmer's distinction rather than a user's distinction, though, so users do need to be aware of the small functional changes between v1.3 and v2.0. Perhaps I'd better emphasize once more that this question of a version number is quite a minor one. As to the second matter, it seems my words were poorly chosen. Because I knew Dave Hecker was the guiding force "behind" the update, I didn't seen any harm in using the phrase that you were behind it--I meant merely to convey that you wrote the update. Other who don't know of Dave's work may have been misled. Thanks for writing to clear that up and to sing a brief verse (no chorus) for a formerly unsung hero of the Apple II.--DGC LAMP A2 ON COMP.SYS.APPLE2 Any chance of getting this month's GenieLamp """""""""""""""""""""""""" posted to, say, csa2? Tom [TDON@delphi.com] If by this you mean you'd like my forecasting of the probability, I would answer that the chances are excellent. Matthew Pearce has been posting GenieLamp A2 (I assume you mean the A2 edition; aside from the A2Pro edition, there are at least three others for other computer platforms) to the comp.sys.apple2 newsgroup, unasked, for many months now. I'm sure he'll get around to it eventually; he usually does. I don't know who the heck he is or why he has volunteered for this, but I bless him for it. If by this you mean to ask if I will be posting it, the answer is no. I do not have an Internet account, only a Genie account. Genie does allow for some Internet access, but it is possible to post only though Lynx. Try using Lynx to post a document as short as 100 lines to a newsgroup, and you'll understand why I cannot myself post GenieLamp A2. I keep hoping that sometime soon it will be possible for me to ensure that GenieLamp A2 gets better distribution outside of Genie. I'm well aware that a lot of Internet denizens read Lamp A2 too. As editor, technically my job might be over once the issue "goes to press", but these days, I have to take on a lot more of the publisher's duties, which includes making sure people who want our magazine can read it.--DGC [EOA] [HEY]////////////////////////////// HEY MISTER POSTMAN / ///////////////////////////////// Is That A Letter For Me? """""""""""""""""""""""" by Douglas Cuff [EDITOR.A2] o BULLETIN BOARD HOT SPOTS o A2 POT-POURRI o HOT TOPICS o WHAT'S NEW o THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE o MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT >>> BULLETIN BOARD HOT SPOTS <<< """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" [*] CAT 20, TOP 13 ......... Experimental RamFAST driver; TransWarp GS [*] CAT 28, TOP 4 ......... Joe Kohn "roast" at KansasFest? [*] CAT 33, TOP 6 ......... Rich Text translator for GraphicWriter [*] CAT 33, TOP 7 ......... Proposals for backup software [*] CAT 44, TOP 8 ......... KANSASFEST 1996! >>> A2 POT-POURRI <<< """"""""""""""""""""" YOUR GUIDE TO H-P DESKJET PRINTERS I suspect it is confusing some that """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" two DJ series numbers overlap. The "old" series The "new" series with "DIP" switches with "software activated" switches DJ DJ 520 DJ Plus DJ 540 DJ 500 DJ 600 DJ 500C DJ 600C DJ 560C DJ 660C Yet another bird: DJ 850C and DJ 855C And the 310, 320, 340, 400 ???? (Confidently awaitng corrections!) Jim, in Munich (J.DWYER8, CAT12, TOP8, MSG:171/M645;1) SUBSCRIBERS RALLY 'ROUND, PART I Yikes! When I took the premiere edition """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" of Juiced.GS to the printer in late February, I ordered 50 copies over and above the number of subscriptions sold at that point. Well, only two (2) copies of the newsletter remain on my desk, and one of them is MINE! I mailed the 151st, 152nd and 153rd copy today (Monday). And to think that I was worried that I might end up eating the overrun. :) I placed an order for another batch of copies last week, and will pick them up on Tuesday. There will be no "sold out" sign hanging anywhere around here. Thought you all might like an update from the editor's desk ... Things are going =very= well! Max Jones Juiced.GS (M.JONES145, CAT13, TOP43, MSG:115/M645;1) SUBSCRIBERS RALLY 'ROUND, PART II Whew; what a relief! """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" When Shareware Solutions II hit that magic number of 1,000 subscribers, my printer started giving me a 10% volume discount on printing costs. Now that all of the original charter subscriptions have expired, I've been concerned recently that I was going to lose that discount. However, it looks like the postcard renewal project worked, and the 10% volume discount is now assured. I am breathing a sigh of relief. Once again, thank you to all of the loyal Shareware Solutions II subscribers! Obviously, you're too numerous to mention by name, but you know who you are . Thanks for your support! Joe (JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:237/M645;1) CHANGING THE APPLEWORKS GS DEFAULT FONT The following was posted by """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" A2.MARTIN in November 1992: (This is a quote from a older issue of my users group NewsLetter, and I quote it as it is. I have no idea if it will REALLY work and I never tried it. Please use this patch only on a backup disk, NEVER on your original disk. You'll need a copy of the original v1.1 AppleWorks GS program disk and a disk editor, like Block Warden from Glen Bredon). 1) Page Layout module: Look for block $49B, byte $9C (version 1.0v2: block $24F, byte $EC). You should find the following sequence there: A9 03 00 LDA #3 (family #) 8D 73 1B STA store family A9 00 00 LDA #0 (style word) 8D 75 1B STA store style A9 0C 00 LDA #$C (size word) 8D 77 1B STA store size A9 19 99 LDA #$10 justification 8D 71 1B STA store justification A9 01 00 LDA #1 (spacing) 8D 6F 1B STA store spacing 2) Word processor: This patch is divided into two steps: a) block $609, by $93 (version 1.0v2: block $4EE, byte $02) A9 03 00 LDA #3 (family #) 87 0B STA [$B] A9 00 0C LDA #$0C00 (size(high) and style(low) ) A0 02 00 LDY #2 97 0B STA [$B],Y b) and again on block $64F, byte 141 (version 1.0v2: block $533, byte $18) A9 03 00 87 08 A9 00 0C A0 02 00 97 07 So what do you have to patch in here? These are the descriptions (we're looking at 1) for reference): - font family number ($03=Geneva, $14 would be Times) - style (0=plain, 1=bold, 2=italic, 4=underline, 8=outline, $10=shadow, $40=superscript, $80=subscript) - size ($0C=12 point) - justification ($10=left, $20=center, $40=right, $80=full) - spacing (1=single, 2=double, 4=quadruple (right word??? :-) ) end of original post --------------------------------------------------------------- I've used it to change the WP default to Shaston 8. For v1.1, I found the above string of bytes to look like this: A9 03 00 87 0B A9 00 0C A0 02 00 97 0B and I changed it to this: A9 FE FF 87 0B A9 00 08 A0 02 00 97 0B |__|___________|__|__________________Family (Shaston = $FFFE) |__|__________________Style |__________________Size (8) This may be more than a little cryptic to a lot of folks. If anyone problems finding what and where to patch, give me shout and I'll try to explain in more detail. --= Jim Parker =-- end of original and quoted message Udo - ... with the IIGS into the next millennium - (U.HUTH, CAT17, TOP22, MSG:279/M645;1) DOUBLE-SIDED, DOUBLE-DENSITY 800K 3.5" DISKS Howard put me on to a """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" wonderful source for DD disks. I called them and got a price check. I will prolly be ordering 500 3.5's for some work I do for a music software company. (500 disks - $130 plus $8.75 for UPS ground). Disk Movers, Inc 8534 N. McCormick Blvd. Skokie, IL 60075 phone: (847) 679-3727 fax #: (847) 679-0414 CHunk- Apple IIs on my Desk, Songs in my Heart ... & more each day :) (CHUNK.S, CAT13, TOP17, MSG:295/M645;1) MORE APPLECOLOR MONITOR REPAIR TIPS I thought that this info might help """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" you or any other techies in the future when you have an AppleColor RGB monitor to repair. Since there is no service manual available and it took me a year of on and off work to clear up two troubles in this spare monitor which looks good now. Here are 3 mini-lytic numbers to look for: No Raster- C407 3.3 @ 350 Hot and plastic cover had shrunk making it obvious. Vertical weave in video slowly moving up the screen. Looked like the old fashion ac troubles but after I was told that the ps was a 25khz job I moved into the horizontal. By moving the raster off to the left I found a nice straight edge on the right side of the raster. Found C532 470 @ 16 near front of board with a pf of 50. Found C519 22 @ 25 small cap near front IC with no capacity. Finally finished and now have a spare monitor for my TN summer house. Won't have to drag a monitor back and forth every six months. Wish I could afford a laptop. (Grin). Thanks All. Roy R. Retired Solder Slinger. (R.RANDALL13, CAT12, TOP25, MSG:82/M645;1) IIGS SURVERY The following is a survey that I am conducting concerning GS """""""""""" owners/users. Please send the corresponding numbers with your answers to me via email. PLEASE DO NOT POST THEM IN THIS CAT. or TOPIC. I will post a summary of this survey in about 2-3 weeks. Please let others know about this survey. Thanks 1. How much memory in your GS? 2. Do you own a Hard drive? How many megs? What System Software? 3. Do you own a CDROM drive? 4. What other Peripherals do you have? 5. Slot Occupancy: 6. Do you own another computer besides the GS? 7. What is the primary use of your GS? 8. Do you write programs for the GS? 9. Do you belong to an Apple Users' Group? If so, which one(s)? 10. What is your favorite GS software? For the next three or four questions, please don't answer with items currently being worked on and/or upgraded. Also be very realistic, if possible. AWGS 2.0 is a dead issue so don't put that as an answer. 11. What piece of software that has been written would you like to see upgraded? What kind of enhancements would you like to see added to it or improved? 12. What new program would you like to see come out for the GS? 13. Any new hardware/peripherals you would like to for the GS? 14. Any you would like to see revised? 15. For questions 11-14, how much money would you be willing to pay for each. (Try to consider the program writers or hardware developers time and effort) 16. With such a small and limited market for the GS, do you feel there should be competition among software or hardware? (For example: AutoArk and HardPressed) 17. Feel free to add anything else about the GS: Again, Please email your answers (I don't need the questions) to L.MIDDLETON3 Thanks Again Andy (L.MIDDLETON3, CAT5, TOP4, MSG:235/M645;1) EAMON AND APPLE II EMULATION For those of you playing with emulators """""""""""""""""""""""""""" these days, =the= place to get Eamon DSK files is ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/appleII/eamon/guild/. The stuff on asimov is a mess and I cannot recommend it as an Eamon source. TomZ (A2.TOMZ, CAT16, TOP2, MSG:73/M645;1) >>> HOT TOPICS <<< """""""""""""""""" NEW RAM CARDS FROM ALLTECH My Sirius 8 meg board arrived on Wednesday so """""""""""""""""""""""""" here's my assessment: THe layout wasn't what I expected but it was really well thought out. THe Simms lie to the right of the board. Not like usual Ram cards where the chips are on the left. I dig the drawing of the GS on the board. If you have one of those "covers" for cables and stuff on by the memory slot, you'll need to take it off or turn it so it is straight up and down. Any other way will cause the end of the board to stick up and not allow you to put the cover on. You can also break what appears to be connected jumpers on the board. A memory check and utilites disk comes with the board. My was either blank or corrupted but I'm getting another one. As I mentioned before the price was $199, $212 for UPS blue from CA to NJ. Great Job AllTECH and thanks! Andy (L.MIDDLETON3, CAT46, TOP7, MSG:293/M645;1) MINIMUM REGISTRATIONS--MAXIMUM REGISTRATIONS Just a Word from the Kfest """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Sponsor and Financial Big Cheese... This year's KansasFest's registrations have sped up to a blinding Email blur over the last week. All those who wish to take advantage of the $325 'pre-registration' offer are advised that the 80 beds we have at Avila College for this summer's conference are a maximum. In English, this means that if you register for Kfest before the deadline, but are after prior registrees fill up the 80 available beds at Avila, at best you will be 'waiting-listed' for a dorm room at Avila and, at worst, doomed to the several hundred more potential dollars it will cost you to navigate the intrigues of Kansas City in mid July. May 1st is hard upon us, as we reach our minimum. Register now for the 20th anniversary of the Apple computer, or the 10th anniversary of the Apple IIGS! And, if you have a Mac or a Newton, be advised that Apple Computer, Inc, will be at KFest '96 to divulge secrets of the latest computer systems. If you miss Kfest '96, hang it up and buy a DOSBox, though we in A2 will pity and love you anyway ;-) Tim K KFEST'S DRIVING FORCE (PPC.HELP, CAT44, TOP8, MSG:133/M645;1) TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS There is, but it's really an "alpha version" """""""""""""""""""""""""""" right now:( Coordinating events, speakers, times, etc. results in a lot of changes. Rather than mislead anyone, it's best to wait until the schedule is a little closer to "finalization". BTW, now would be a good time for any input on what YOU would like to see at KFest! As far as the 20th, the major event we know is scheduled would be the "Vendor Fair". If you don't have to leave too early, you wouldn't miss that. Other sessions may be scheduled concurrently depending on the conflicts we have on the 18th and 19th. With luck, there won't be a "Part II" scheduled on the 20th. Hope this helps your KFest planning a little. Please follow the discussion here and don't be shy about any suggestions/comments. Also remember that KFest will be what everyone here wants it to be, if we work together on it! Looking forward to seeing everyone at KFest, Steve (S.GOZDZIEWSK, CAT44, TOP8, MSG:147/M645;1) >>> WHAT'S NEW <<< """""""""""""""""" RTF TRANSLATOR FOR GRAPHICWRITER III April 9, 1996 -- EGO Systems is """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" pleased to announce the upcoming release of a new RTF Translator module for Seven Hills Software's GraphicWriter III page layout program. "RTF" stands for "Rich Text Format." This is a file format specifically designed to allow formatted text information to be easily moved from one computer platform to another. So, using this translator, GraphicWriter III users can import RTF files created on ANY computer! When you import an RTF file into GraphicWriter III, here's what the translator sqeezes out of the file for you: -*- Font Information: Typeface (Times, Helvetica, etc), size (10 point, 24 point, etc.) and style (bold, superscript, etc.) information is all preserved! -*- Text Colors: Colored text in your RTF file is automatically given the best matching GraphicWriter III color! -*- Paragraph Justification: Was that paragraph originally centered? Or was it right justified? No need to guess, the RTF Translator figures it out for you! -*- Paragraph Indentation: Each paragraph's indentation is recreated in GraphicWriter III, relative to the columns in your page layout! -*- The Text: Of course, all of the above would be useless if the text itself wasn't imported! And, the RTF Translator for GraphicWriter III doesn't just import RTF files, it exports them as well! This is a great way to share the text you create in GraphicWriter III with all those non-IIGS-owning computer users out there! Requirements, Availability & Pricing The RTF Translator for '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' GraphicWriter III requires GraphicWriter III v1.1 or later (version 2.0 is recommended but NOT required). It comes on a single 3.5-inch disk and includes printed user's documentation. It will ship on or before May 1st, 1996. After that date, the regular price will be $24.95. However, if you order BEFORE May 1st, the price will be just $19.95. Both prices INCLUDE shipping to anywhere in the world! To order, send a check or money order for the appropriate amount (in U.S. funds) to: EGO Systems 7918 Cove Ridge Rd. Hixson, TN 37343-1808 USA (When sending a check or money order, Tennessee residents MUST add 7.75% sales tax.) If you prefer to order by credit card, you can use your VISA or MasterCard by calling us toll-free at 1-800-662-3634. Outside of North America, please call 1-423-843-1775. You can also FAX your order to us at 1-423- 843-0661. Phone orders and inquiries can be placed between 9 am and 5 pm Eastern Time. Our FAX line is available 24-hours a day. (Order before 10 am and your order will ship the same day!) You can also e-mail credit card orders to us at either: Diz@genie.com -or- GSPlusDiz@aol.com (For your protection, we recommend that you call or FAX us with your credit card orders. No credit cards will be charged and no checks will be cashed, until the product actually ships. GraphicWriter III is a trademark of DataPak Software, Inc. RTF is a trademark of Microsoft, Inc. All other names are the property of their respective owners.) (DIZ, CAT33, TOP4, MSG:170/M645;1) <<<<< The IIGS market small? NO! I'd never have guessed that! :- """"" Seriously, though, I'm not looking to sell thousands of RTF translators. (I'd consider 100+ copies a success... does that sound unreasonable?) But If I can't sell enough to justify even the small amount of time (relatively) that I've put into it, then it stands to reason that I couldn't sell a lot of any other product... Given my 6.5 years of IIGS market experience, I think that's a pretty well thought out conclusion. Diz EGO Systems (DIZ, CAT33, TOP2, MSG:17/M645;1) <<<<< Well, It looks like I'll start shipping the RTF translator for """"" graphicwriter III on about April 15th. (The press release says may 1 to give me some room for any bugs that the testers find. So far, they haven't found any :-) Anyway, in addition to the info in the press release you should know that: -*- This translator IS based on the EGOed translator code -*- But I fixed every problem I knew about (the ':' problem is an example) and I added a BUNCH of stuff (detailed in the press release) that EGOed simply couldn't support because it is textedit-based. -*- That's all I can think of :-) Questions? Let's hear em! Diz EGO Systems (DIZ, CAT33, TOP6, MSG:1/M645;1) NEW APPLE II/IIGS & MACINTOSH CATALOG EGO Systems is pleased to announce """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" that its second Apple II/IIGS & Macintosh products catalog is in the mail! If you live in the U.S.A., Canada or Mexico and you've ordered from EGO Systems in the last year and a half, you should be receiving your copy of this new catalog soon. If you aren't on EGO Systems' mailing list and you'd like a copy of this new catalog, just contact us by one of means shown below and we'll get a copy of the catalog out to you ASAP. If you live outside North America you'll need to contact EGO Systems and request a copy of this new catalog. (Sorry, but postage costs make it impossible for us to do a mass mailing to our foreign customers.) Regardless of where you live, if you represent a User Group and you would like multiple copies of our catalog for your group, just let us know how many you want, and we'll send them right out to you! To request your catalog or catalogs, contact EGO Systems at: EGO Systems 7918 Cove Ridge Rd. Hixson TN 37343-1808 USA Voice Phone: 423-843-1775 (9am to 5pm Eastern Time) FAX: 423-843-0661 (24 hours a day) (DIZ, CAT33, TOP2, MSG:19/M645;1) LOWER PRICE ON ZIP GS April 2, 1996 -- EGO Systems is pleased to announce """"""""""""""""""""" that we has been able to reach a new purchasing agreement with REMCorp (the makers of the ZipGS accelerator card) that should mean faster turnaround on orders for ZipGS boards as well as a lower price! Effective immediately the ZipGS 8MHz/16K cache accelerator is only $174.95 from EGO Systems! As before, this new price INCLUDES shipping to the USA, Canada, Mexico, and surface mail to the rest of the world. Air Mail shipping to anywhere else in the world is just $10 extra. To order, send a check or money order for the appropriate amount (in U.S. funds) to: EGO Systems 7918 Cove Ridge Rd. Hixson, TN 37343-1808 USA (Please call us at 1-423-843-1775 to confirm availability before sending a check or money order. When you do, we will hold any product for you for one week. When sending your check or money order, please do not forget to include shipping costs (if any)! Tennessee residents MUST add 7.75% sales tax.) If you prefer to order by credit card, you can use your VISA or MasterCard by calling us toll-free at 1-800-662-3634. Outside of North America, please call 1-423-843-1775. You can also FAX your order to us at 1-423-843-0661. Phone orders and inquiries can be placed between 9 am and 5 pm Eastern Time. Our FAX line is available 24-hours a day. (Order before 10 am and your order will ship the same day!) You can also e-mail credit card orders to us at either: Diz@genie.com -or- GSPlusDiz@aol.com (For your protection, we recommend that you call or FAX us with your credit card orders.) (DIZ, CAT33, TOP2, MSG:16/M645;1) >>> THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE <<< """"""""""""""""""""""""""""" SHIFTY LIST STATUS, SHORT AND SWEET FYI: I intend to finish Shifty List """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" 2.0 by KFest this year. :) Sheppy [Team PPCPro] (SHEPPY, CAT33, TOP4, MSG:146/M645;1) UPDATE ON POWER GS (DISK MAGAZINE) So, now I need to update everybody on """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" PowerGS :) I've been working with Steve for the past 3 months (starting in January), working on many projects and on school (this is an internship of sorts). I want to have PowerGS Issue #6 out soon, which means within two months, and it should be seen at Kfest. I will be at Kfest this year! :) If anybody has any suggestions for PowerGS #6, email me at auri@woz.org or here on GEnie at A.RAHIMZADEH. If you live in California and want to hang out and toy on computers for awhile, or go rollerblading or something, I'm out here for a year or so in Los Gatos. l8r! -Auri (A.RAHIMZADEH, CAT13, TOP38, MSG:218/M645;1) A+ TECHNOLOGIES Tracy Cook may or may not be moving, but he is moving """"""""""""""" most of his warehouse items to Orange County. So he told me. I didn't mention this before, but he is also not planning much further Apple II activity. Chuck (A2.CHUCK, CAT2, TOP4, MSG:74/M645;1) FALLOUT--GENIE'S CHANGES FOR EUROPEAN CUSTOMERS As the word might already """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" have spread, I too will be kicked out on the 10th next month. This will have several consequences: a) I won't write new programs any more. b) I'll try to finish PG 1.3 beta and release it ASAP c) I will make the source code available for all my projects. two of never released programs that are in various stages of development are: -) PGP for GS (self explaining) -) Triage B (a triage simulation (medical)) I won't be able to visit this RT very often, so I want to thank everybody here in this RT (and A2Pro). It was truly an amazing experience for me. Farewell and stay clean Alex PS: Just for reference after 050596 my address is: Alexander Corrieri Turmburggasse 2/6/9 A-1060 Wien AUSTRIA you also could try (but I usually check it once every month) @ e8825642@student.tuwien.ac.at (A.CORRIERI, CAT29, TOP31, MSG:91/M645;1) FALLOUT--SEQUENTIAL I recently found out from Dave at Seven Hills that """"""""""""""""""" since Jawaid and Sequential have parted ways, Seven Hills has had problems getting firmware references from SS for their true Ansi Online Display for Spectrum and the Second Sight. Andy (L.MIDDLETON3, CAT20, TOP14, MSG:277/M645;1) NEW GAME(S) FROM BRUTAL DELUXE Brutal Deluxe has started coding their """""""""""""""""""""""""""""" next game for the IIGS, and Olivier Zardini sent me an interesting e-mail offer yesterday. He said that if I had any curiousity about the process, he'd be happy to send me updates each week. I imagine that a complex game takes months and months of steady programming, so there would be many interim revisions. I've already seen the graphics and the sprites, as those are the starting off point. It'll be fascinating to see those come to life over the next few months. The game I refer to is depicted in an Easter Egg in Convert 3200. I can almost envision describing the creative process in an article for Shareware Solutions II. Would folks be interested in reading something like that? Joe (JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP6, MSG:111/M645;1) <<<<< Brutal Deluxe learned a difficult lesson from The Opale Demo """"" Although the coding of the Opale program wasn't difficult for them, they were stymied and had to stop the project because they could never find a graphic artist to replace the one who created those stunning graphics you see in the Opale Demo. If they had had more Opale graphics, Olivier and Antoine would have been able to create a really amazing Opale game. So these days, they are going about their programming projects differently. They are first working on the graphics, and when those are completed, then the coding begins. And let me tell you...they have amassed a stunning collection of graphics for at least several more games. Looking back at the release dates of their software, it looks to me like it takes Brutal Deluxe about 8 or 9 months to complete a project. So, I'd say that we can expect some really amazing Brutal Deluxe games over the next few years. Joe (JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP6, MSG:129/M645;1) UNIVERSE MASTER UNLIKELY TO BE UPDATED? Well, D's a perfectionist and the """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" problem, as far as I can tell, is that he doesn't want to sell it to me (or anyone) until he's fixed it. (Remember the long delay in shipping AutoArk v1.1, that was the same story). And apparently, UM needs a LOT of work before D would be happy with it. Diz EGO Systems (DIZ, CAT33, TOP4, MSG:126/M645;1) PREPARING FOR THE UNTHINKABLE As Tony said, our libraries are not in any """"""""""""""""""""""""""""" danger. (And that is entirely enough said about that, let's not discuss it at ALL. :) If worst comes to worst, and Genie is suddenly not here anymore, get on the net and go to http://www.syndicomm.com There is really nothing there but a little promo for Syndicomm, but if there is any NEWS to report (like a new location to rendevous) it will appear there. Think of it as an emergency signpost. :) (And keep checking, because it will be a bit before the news goes up.) Gary R. Utter HARD DRIVE BACKUP PROGRAM OK, I'm not saying I'm absolutely going to """"""""""""""""""""""""" write this thing... but I'm VERY interested to know what all you folk would like to see in a NEW IIGS backup application. Here's my ideas for some common ground starting specs: File and Volume backups supported. Compression supported. ALL devices recognized by GS/OS supported. Now, let's build something cool on top of that. Diz EGO Systems (DIZ, CAT33, TOP7, MSG:1/M645;1) GRAPHICWRITER III FUTURE When updating GW, we did keep in mind the """""""""""""""""""""""" possibility of adding new object types or undisplayable object types. Hopefully the next version should have something complete in this regard. Regards, Richard (RICHARD.B, CAT8, TOP19, MSG:92/M645;1) <<<<< FWIW, yes there is a 32K text limit to text objects in """"" GraphicWriter. We did look into raising the limit, but all the main control blocks and layout code are based around it, and yes it would have been beyond the scope of a simple update. I'm still looking into what changes need to be made to raise it, even just a simple one like 64K, so who knows what might happen. :-) Regards, Richard (RICHARD.B, CAT33, TOP6, MSG:43/M645;1) TIGER LEARNING COMPUTER I'll be attending the Electronic Entertainment """"""""""""""""""""""" Expo (E3) in L.A. next month, where all the new video games for dozens of systems (PC included) will be on display. Included will be the latest in 3D displays, 64-bit consoles, analog input devices, AM3 coin-op boards, etc. The other day I got a postcard in the mail from Tiger Electronics (maker of the handheld games you may've seen advertised on television), inviting me to visit their E3 booth. The postcard proudly states: "Come see the Tiger Learning Computer! Based on APPLE 2e technology, a solid state computer for children that will retail for less than $200. Dozens of Apple LICENSED SOFTWARE TITLES available." Talk about full circle, eh? :) -Ken (KEN.GAGNE, CAT2, TOP3, MSG:160/M645;1) >>>>> My understanding is that the computer will be based on software ROM """"" cards. There were no planned disk interfaces for it, but that doesn't mean an enterprising designer couldn't develop one for it. Last info I had was a planned release of the computer this fall. I didn't know who was developing it, just that it was being developed. Joat (A2.TIM, CAT2, TOP3, MSG:161/M645;1) >>>>> For a full description of the Tiger Learning Computer, look for the """"" next issue of The Apple Blossom, being mailed this week (yup, we've been in touch with Tiger about this for the past couple of months). Steve (S.CAVANAUGH1, CAT2, TOP3, MSG:162/M645;1) WAITING FOR II ALIVE is there really a new issue coming out soon? """""""""""""""""""" (J.LOFTIS, CAT42, TOP11, MSG:278/M645;1) >>>>> That's what I heard """"" BTW, Carl Sperber, who was QC's art director before I even started working there, recently moved on to a job as marketing director at BrassCraft, a local furniture manufacturer. (JERRY.K, CAT42, TOP11, MSG:279/M645;1) >>>>> Gee, that must have been REALLY recently. I just got an email """"" from him last week, acting as the marketing director or something. ________ |homas (T.COMPTER, CAT42, TOP11, MSG:281/M645;1) >>>>> Yeah, last Friday was Carl's last day """"" (JERRY.K, CAT42, TOP11, MSG:282/M645;1) RTF FOR GWIII ARRIVED; RTF FOR APPLEWORKS GS COMING? Working around the """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" 32K limit was something I TRIED to do, but it looked like just TOO much work for the release date (and price point) that I was shooting for. This is really something that needs to be fixed in GraphicWriter itself... but I'm going to keep thinking about how to work around it. As for the sub/superscript ending problem... that's very odd. I am pretty sure I put ALL of the RTF v1.3 "end mark" codes in for super/subscript. E-mail me the file and I'll take a look at it. Which reminds me... someone here said they had a RTF file created by Word For Windows v2 that was giving them trouble, but I haven't heard anything else about it. If the file is still a problem, PLEASE e-mail it to me so I can figure out what's wrong. As for an AWGS translator for GWIII, I've already got the code (in EGOed) for an IMPORT-only translator. Would it have to be IMPORT & EXPORT? Or would simply importing be enough for folks? I ask because I've sold about 20 RTF translators already... Which is actually pretty good considering that I've only advertised it here on GEnie and the 'Net. This makes me hopefull that I'll get a big response when the new catalog goes out next week! ...So I'm thinking that an AWGS translator might also do quite well. Diz EGO Systems (DIZ, CAT33, TOP6, MSG:35/M645;1) >>> MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT <<< """"""""""""""""""""""""" Category 28, Topic 6 Message 130 Mon Apr 29, 1996 JOE.KOHN [SSII] at 16:55 EDT In another topic, we're vbeen discussing Convert 3200, and when the discussion turned technical, I had to write to Olivier Zardini for clarification. The following message is from Olivier, and it discusses some problems that folks have had with Platinum Paint, and it also expands greatly on Convert 3200's documentation on how to use different palettes within the same graphic. As you read it, please remember that English is Olivier's second langauage. Joe Kohn [*][*][*] Hum, about the advanced users of Convert 3200, don't worry it's sad but I think I am the only Power User of C3200... But with a little work, everybody will be able to use the software. You don't necessarily need to know all the features to use the software. You can learn it step by step. About the problem with Platinum Paint, it is not difficult to understand. For the 16 palettes mode - PP doesn't handle it, I have no solutions to give... For the 1 palette mode (16 colors), the desktop program use the black and the white color to draw the menus, the windows... The used colors are usually in the palette at the first position (0 : black) and the last one (15 : white). But when these colors are not in these positions in the palette, the display can be strange. If the first and the last colors in the palette are black, all the menu, windows... will be full black, and you won't see anything... It exactly what happens with PP and some pictures comming from Convert or any other converter... If your picture is full black, with only black colors in the palette, your screen will be full black... Hopefully, some good drawing software as DreamGraphix use a specific palette for the menu bar, so you can see the menu bar everytime. Convert 3200 sorts the colors in the palettes, from the darkers ones to the ligthers ones. So, if your picture has at least 16 colors, the first color will be certainly black, and the last color will be certainly light, so you will be able to use PP, even if the last on is not realy white. You will be able to see the menu bar and other bottons... Sadly, if your picture has less than 16 colors, the non used colors of the palette will be turn into black, so the first one and the last one will be black and you could have problem with PP. I will modify this in the next update. I will force the last color, if it is not used, as a white instead of a black. But the problem comes more from PP than for C3200. PP is unable to handle well all the graphics modes... About the 16 palettes modes and the capability to choose how many palettes you can use, here is an explanation. First of all, this is ONLY for the 16 palettes mode, that won't work for the 1 palette or the 200 palettes mode... In the 16 palettes mode, you can use up to 16 palettes on the screen. You can consider the 1 palette mode as a 16 palettes mode picture where you use only 1 palettes (from the 16 available). So, as you can use 16 palettes, you have to decide which lines will use which palette. For exemple, if you have decided to use only 4 palettes, you can use the first palette for the first 50 lines, the second palette for the lines from 51 to 100, the third palette for the line from 101 to 150 and the fourth palette for the lines from 151 to 200. So each quarter of the screen will have one palette. In Lemmings, you can see such the same thing the Ma in screen, the scrolling area has a palette (blue and yellow tones) and all the rest of the screen has another palette (brown and green tones). So you have to things to decide : - How many palette do you want to use - Where to use them (which lines...) Go into C3200, load the Happy picture, go into the statistics screen (the stat will be computed there) and go into the Convert Area screen. Choose the 16 palettes mode (red circle). Click now on 'Convert Area' button, you can see the window with text as 'Palette : xx' where xx is a number from 1 to 16. Here, C3200 use the whole 16 palettes. When the conversion will be ended, click on 'View Area' to have a look to the picture. The picture is ok. Now click again on 'View Area' but this time press the Apple key (Command) in the same time. Now, instead of the picture, you can see the palettes used. You can see the 16 palettes and you can see which lines used which palettes. Here, each palette is used by the same number of line (13 lines/palette). This is the default choice for the 16 palettes mode. But you can choose to tell to C3200 which palette to use and where. Click now on the 'Convert Area' button. What happen ? Nothing !!! It is ok. As C3200 has already converted the area in this mode, it doesn't do anything. Hopefully, you can force it to convert in this mode again. So press the Apple key (Command) and click on 'Convert Area' button. The conversion is launched again... and the result will be the same than before. There are several reasons to force it to convert the area again. For example you can modify the number of colors (with '+' and '-' buttons) and launch again the conversion to see the difference. But the best reason is for the 16 palettes mode, and especially for the selection mode of the palettes. Here we go. So, don't remember to press Apple key in the same time than clicking on the 'Convert Area' button for all the following conversions. Press on the Option key (and on the Apple key too) and click on the 'Convert Area' button. You will see the Happy picture displayed in grey scaled tones (but darker than the grey scale mode). Move the mouse you will see a little cursor moving. Hit the Tab key (or Apple-Tab) and the color of the border will change... Click on the mouse button and move the mouse, you will be able to paint the lines of the pictures with the same tones (blue, red, yellow...) than the border color. Each color (there are 16 colors) represent one palette. Each line colored will used t he associated palette. At the beginning, all the lines of the screen use the same palette, so the picture is nearly full black. Use now 4 palettes and put them as describle above (one for the first 50 lines...). You can choose th colors you want, the color of the palette is only here to see the different 16 palettes, there is no link between the colors (red. bleu, green...) and the tones really used in this palette at the end of the conversion. When you will have filled the screen with the 4 palettes, hit ESC key and that will launch the conversion process. But this time, in the 'Palette : xx' message, xx will only goes from 1 to 4, because you use only 4 palettes (instead of 16 as before). Click on the 'View area' button to see the result, and don't forget to have a look to the palette (press Apple key and click on 'View Area'). You will see clearly the 4 palettes used... Now that you have understood, you are able to decide yourself how many palettes you want to use and where you want to use them. This can be very usefull to put a lot of palettes on one part of the screen to have a more colors on this part and to put only 1 palette in large part of the screen where you don't need a lot of colors. Olivier. ps : the update of Convert progesses... the Tiff will be completly recognize this time (Off course, the non true colors pictures...) [*][*][*] While on Genie, do you spend most of your time downloading files? If so, you may be missing out some excellent information in the Bulletin Board area. The messages listed above only scratch the surface of what's available and waiting for you in the bulletin board area. If you are serious about your Apple II, the GenieLamp staff strongly urge you to give the bulletin board area a try. There are literally thousands of messages posted from people like you from all over the world. [EOA] [HUM]////////////////////////////// HUMOR ONLINE / ///////////////////////////////// An Apple II Parody """""""""""""""""" by Steven Weyhich [104024.432@compuserve.com] Many of you know Dr Steven Weyhrich as the unofficial Apple II historian; his 23-part history of our favorite computer is well-received as it is widely known (and widely available!). Some of you also know that he writes song parodies. This month, Dr Weyhrich's latest parody appears for the first time--a GenieLamp A2 exclusive! When the "death" of the Apple IIe was announced, Dr Weyrich wrote "Apple Pie" (to the tune of Don MacLean's "American Pie") and posted it to Genie's A2 RoundTable. GenieLamp A2 reprinted it in the January 1994 issue. In honor of Brian Tao, a Genie user who was the A2 RT's Internet liasion, Dr Weyhrich wrote "Internet Fileman" (to the tune of Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman"), which we reprinted in the June 1994 issue. The following parody, his latest, was written specifically for GenieLamp A2. [*][*][*] >>> THE WRECK OF THE APPLE ][ <<< """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" (to the tune of Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald") The legend lives on from the management on down In the big town they call Cupertino At Apple, it's said, they will shoot products dead When the stocks and the market turn gloomy With a load of RAM chips, forty-eight thousand bytes fit That the Apple ][ main board weighed loaded That good CPU was a bone to be chewed When reality distortion came early The ][ was the pride of Wozniak's side Of the Homebrew Computer Club meeting As the new units went it was better than most With a ROM and dot graphics well reasoned Concluding some terms with that Microsoft firm It shipped fully loaded with firmware But within a few years we confirmed our worst fears It would be the Mac wind we'd be feeling The blurbs out in print made it seem we were safe When they said the Mac's RAM was too tiny But the Mac team knew, as their Captain did, too That the Apple ]['s cash they'd be stealing The IIe came late, sixteen bits had to wait While the Mac and its sales they were flailing When '86 came the GS staked its claim In the face of a hurricane Mac blitz When '91 dawned, the ROM 04 was spawned And on satellite link they would show ya But with a last minute cut, the ]['s shut down began We thought, GS, it's been good to know ya MacWeek wrote again, the old ][ would just end It's publicity STILL was an outrage By late '93, when more Macs came in sight Came the end of the Apple ][ voyage Does anyone know where the brains of men go When cash for promotion's allotted? The reviewers all say she'd be here today If they'd put some more ad space behind her It might have VGA, a big hard drive inside Perhaps thirty-two bits with SIMMs in 'er But all the remains are the faces and the names Of the millions who've known and have loved her Microsoft rolls, Intel sings In the 95 Windows promotion Ol' IBM steams with its OS/2 dreams The Mac clones all try for their portion And farther below, the World Wide Web goes Taking in what the modems can send her But the Apple folk go (at least we hope so) With mistakes of the A2 remembered In a virtual room there on GEnie they met In the A2 Roundtable's big chat room The ]['s speaker chimed, and it rang 64 times For each page of the old ][ Plus memory. The legend lives on from the management on down In the big town they call Cupertino At Apple, it's said, they will shoot products dead When the stocks and the market turn gloomy Copyright 1996 by Steven Weyhrich (104024.432@compuserve.com) [*][*][*] (Please don't copy this item--in your newsletters, in your E-mail, in newsgroups--WITHOUT asking permission first. That's what the copyright notice is there for. It is not enough merely to ATTRIBUTE the article; you must get PERMISSION first. Normally, GenieLamp is happy to let you assume permission. Not this time. Ask the author for permission first.) [EOA] [REF]////////////////////////////// REFLECTIONS / ///////////////////////////////// Thinking About Online Communications """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" by Phil Shapiro [pshapiro@aol.com] >>> THOUGHTS ON THE POWER AND CONVENIENCE OF AUTOMATED EMAIL RESPONDERS <<< """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Technology commentators think the world wide web is a big deal. I sort of agree. But I've come to believe that there is something in cyberspace far more powerful and far-reaching than the web. Automated email responders are by far the most convenient way of making information accessible to others. Consider this. Of the ten to twenty million people who are online, only a fraction of them have easy web access. And of the fraction who do have web access, only a fraction of these people have the time (and skill) needed to surf the web. Consider how long it takes to get to a web page, and the possible obstacles that could occur. It takes at least a minute to boot your web browser. Then the web server you're trying to reach could be busy. Line noise could drop your connection halfway over to the web page. Your web browser could freeze (or crash). And when you get to the page you're aiming to reach, it may or may not be obvious where on the page the document you're looking for is located. Unless you have a high speed, highly reliable online connection, it takes an average of about four to five minutes to get to a web page. This doesn't sound so long as a single unit of time. But if you multiply four to five minutes several hundred times, you're starting to look at some serious impositions on your time. Compare this with the speed and ease of retrieving a file from an automated email responder. The time span between the moment you see mention of the file to the moment you're actually seeing the file itself can be as little as one minute. If the mention of the file happens to reach you at your email mailbox, then it takes just a flick of the wrist to copy and paste the email address and corresponding file request command into a new email message. If you're skilled at using your computer, this task can be done in twenty seconds (or less). In my experience, email responders tend to return the requested file within one to two minutes of their receiving the request. You just can't beat that for convenience. Not only is it easier for people to retrieve files via automated email responders, but the potential audience for any responder file is magnitudes larger than the audience of people on the web. Every single person who is online, by definition, can send and receive email. Even total newbies can master automated email responders with a minimum of effort. Last month I set up the capability of distributing text files via automated email responder from my local internet service provider. The cost? Just $10 per month to set up a majordomo mailing list with automated file archive retrieval. As the owner of this list, I can put whatever files I want in the file archive for this list. My internet service provider tells me I could put several hundred separate messages in this list's file archives. I like that. Makes it easy for me to deliver files to people who could benefit from the things I write about. To test how this mailing list works, I typed up a whimsical file giving detailed instructions of how to train golden retrievers to retrieve email. You (or your dog) can retrieve this file by sending the following request: get phils-ideas golden.retrievers.txt to the address: majordomo@his.com Within about a minute, you (or your dog) will be able to read about golden retrievers doing what they do best. Having assured myself that this magic really does work, I went about placing some other files for people to retrieve. To help other teachers learn how to use their Apple II computers online, I made available instructions on how to use ZLink, the most popular shareware communications program. This file can be retrieved by sending the request: get phils-ideas zlink.howto to the address: majordomo@his.com Having tasted how powerful this communications channel can be, I followed a third whim and made available a large text file I captured, containing all of the 1996 books acquired by the Montgomery County, Maryland library system. This local library system has an excellent online card catalog which allows you to search by the year the book was published. To retrieve this file (which is about 200 kilobytes in size), you can send the request: get phils-ideas mcpl.books.1996 to the address: majordomo@his.com The potential uses of automated email responders are just beginning to be appreciated. Commercial uses are the ones that seem to have gained the fastest foothold. I can also imagine nonprofit organizations benefiting in a large way from automated email responders. A simply-phrased text file named "volunteers" could list in detail the kind of volunteer help that a nonprofit could benefit from. The volunteer coordinator for this organization could update this file daily (or even several times daily), spelling out the organization's volunteer needs in the most easily accessible form imaginable. How can people publicize the availability of their automated email responder? One of the most sensible ways is via an existing mailing list whose subscribers might likely have an interest in your announcement. The best part is that the announcement itself can be very short and sweet, minimizing the intrusion on other people's time. They themselves can decide whether they have any interest in the information being provided by the automated email responder. Yes, there is an alternative to getting all tangled up in the web. You can unstick your feet by using (and creating) automated email responders. Phil Shapiro [*][*][*] The author takes a keen interest in the psychological and social aspects of the online world. He can be reached at pshapiro@his.com (preferred) or pshapiro@aol.com Excerpts from his first book, "Thinking About Online Communications," can be retrieved by sending the message: get phils-ideas taoc.excerpts to the address: majordomo@his.com [EOA] [AWX]////////////////////////////// APPLEWORKS ANNEX / ///////////////////////////////// The AppleWorks Gazette Follow-Up """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" by Douglas Cuff [EDITOR.A2] In the March 1996 issue, we took a look at the premiere issue of _The AppleWorks Gazette_. The second issue arrived in our mailbox recently, so we'll take a quick peek to see how the issue stacks up when it doesn't have to include so much "obligatory" material, such as the AppleWorks 5.1 update. As with the first issue, there are three parts to this magazine on disk: the newsletter itself, software, and data. Overall, the second issue looks much as the first one did, only slightly better. NEWSLETTER The second newsletter (still an AppleWorks word processing """""""""" file) stacks up like this: 1. Actively AppleWorks 2. The Main Menu 3. The NewsReel 4. At the News Stand 5. Letters to the Editors 6. How to Modify the AppleWorks Default Macros 7. One Touch Commands [review] 8. AppleWorks on the Mac--A First Look 9. Shrink II 10. More Features I Wish I Had in AppleWorks 5.1 11. New Utilities for AppleWorks 4.3 and 5.1 12. Do It Yourself Hard Drives 13. Inside AppleWorks: Questions and Answers 14. Inside AppleWorks: AppleWorks Segments 15. How to Cook Your Own oa-H Command 16. How to Reach Us For readers who are Genie regulars, the NewsReel continues to be little more than a rehash of old news. There are a few gems from the Internet's comp.sys.apple2 newsgroup and from CompuServe's AppUser forum. A new column, At the News Stand, examines the most recent issues of other Apple II newsletters. (We editors are able to eke out a meagre living by taking in one another's laundry.) In the letters to the editor, one reader points out--as I did, here in GenieLamp A2, two months back--that the premiere issue of _The AppleWorks Gazette_ was geared to AppleWorks 5 users, and geared toward screen layout rather than printed layout. The editors seem to prefer to run their publication that way, but are willing to make changes to make life easier for readers, as evidenced by Serreau's editorial. Once again, the newsletter has some good articles. Howard Katz expands on Chris Serreau's wish list for AppleWorks, which I liked very much, and I was pleased to see that Will Nelken and Ryan Suenaga are guest writers for this issue. As before, no serious complaints with the newsletter, but the spelling-checker still doesn't get used enough. ON THE DISK The software on the premiere issue gave the disk a sparse """"""""""" feel, since so much room was taken up with the AppleWorks 5.1 update and with ShrinkIt 3.4. Things are little better this month--the only "golden oldie" is Harold Portnoy's Change-A-File program. This is an indispensable utility, but hardly new. Also on the disk this month are two new inits--one to bring a monthly calendar to AppleWorks 5.1, and one to manage inits by enabling and disabling them--bug-fix updates for TimeOut File Librarian and Word Count, an index of TimeOut-Central, a collection of Roy Barrows' macros, and Joe Walters' Merlin macros. This month's non-Apple II feature is H. G. Wells's "The Island of Dr. Moreau". In the premiere issue, ShrinkIt was used on everything but the newsletter, everything else in the main directory, and of course ShrinkIt itself. In this issue, the macros and other data have been packed with ShrinkIt, but the inits, update scripts, and Change-A-File have not. PROGRESS REPORT _The AppleWorks Gazette_ has made some improvements and """"""""""""""" is in the process of making others to be sure they serve their readers well. There continues to be good stuff here, both for the AppleWorks user and the UltraMacros programmer. [EOA] [BAN]////////////////////////////// FILE BANDWAGON / ///////////////////////////////// Top 10 Files for March """""""""""""""""""""" by Douglas Cuff [EDITOR.A2] This feature lists the ten most popular files for the month. To give files a chance to seek their own levels, no files will be added to the list until they've been in place at least a month. This month, we look at the files uploaded 1-31 March 1996. This isn't the Academy Awards ceremony, folks; it's more like the People's Choice Awards (both of which are trademarked, by the way). The Top 10 doesn't necessarily tell you what's new and interesting--what files _you_ might find interesting--it simply tells you what files have been downloaded a lot--what other people found interesting! This month, I'm pleased but a little embarrassed to find that three different editions of GenieLamp A2 occupy three spots in the Top 10. This month, I'll let it stand because I'm so proud of the new hyper-editions, but if it occurs again, I'll list additional files so that the list has 10 different files, not just ten different file names. File # Filename Bytes DLs Short description ------ --------------- ------ --- ------------------------------------- 26711 A2.DOM.9603.BXY 461056 207 A2 Disk of the Month, March 1996 26700 NEWPT3FIX.BXY 3456 105 New GS modem port driver for PT3.1 26698 ALMP9603.HC.BXY 81152 90 GenieLamp A2, Mar. 1996 (HyperCard) 26862 NAUG.CAT.BXY 87168 89 AppleWorks Resources Catalog 26866 GSE4.32.BXY 177280 82 GS Entertainment version 4.32 26927 KEYBOARD.BXY 9216 75 Displays keyboard layout 26752 ALMP9603.HS.BXY 96384 74 PROTOTYPE HStudio vers GenieLamp A2 26820 LETITRIDE.BXY 18048 73 A casino stud poker game. 26697 GLAMPA29603.BXY 75648 72 GenieLamp A2, Mar. 1996 (AppleWorks) 26749 A2.LIB.ADB.BXY 516780 70 ADB Index of entire A2 Library A2.DOM.9603.BXY The A2 RoundTable Disk of the Month continues to be a """"""""""""""" favorite download. The March issue contains three newsletters--GenieLamp A2 (March), GenieLamp A2 (January), and II Something (January 14). Apple IIe and IIc users will enjoy DOS 3.3 Launcher, IMunger, and a BASIC game called Treasure. For the Apple IIgs user, there are 10 pics from Bloofadoofa, a small HyperStudio word processor called MicroWord, and two New Desk Accessories, one to print the screen and another to save the screen as a picture. NEWPT3FIX.BXY PT3FIX by John Kielkopf patches ProTERM's normal modem port """"""""""""" driver (PT3.CODE0) to allow interrupts so that software such AppleTalk and Twilight II will operate without data loss from the modem. This patch works only with ProTERM v3.1, and only with the Apple IIgs modem port. It requires a high-speed modem with hardware handshaking, and the appropriate cable. Freeware. ALMP9603.HC.BXY The March 1996 GenieLamp A2 in HyperCard IIgs format. """"""""""""""" Thanks to HyperCard programmer Joshua Calvin, you can enjoy GenieLamp A2 without having to leave HyperCard. Calvin's stack can automatically generate a table of contents for _any_ issue of GenieLamp. (If you don't already own HyperCard IIgs, consider downloading file #22200, HCGSSTARTER.BXY.) Freeware. NAUG.CAT.BXY This ASCII text file contains a catalog of all of the """""""""""" National AppleWorks User Group (NAUG) disks that are currently available from Shareware Solutions II. GSE4.32.BXY GS Entertainment by Clayburn W. Juniel, III is a kind of """"""""""" jukebox that plays music and shows pictures too. It can display PNT graphics, PIC graphics, 256 and 3200 color graphics, INI desktop graphics, and ANI animations! It can simultaneously play music from Music Composer, Music Studio, SoundSmith, or SynthLab, as well as rSounds, HyperStudio and HyperCard IIgs formatted sound files, and "just plain sound files". (Earlier versions were featured on last month's bandwagon.) Shareware ($10). KEYBOARD.BXY Keyboard NDA v1.0.1 by Wilfried Ricken lets you see which """""""""""" keys to press to generate special characters. If you hold down a modifier key such as Option or Shift, the layout changes to reveal characters not normally available. Includes the numeric keypad in its display. Click near the bottom of the NDA window to change the font. (Keyboard translation must be set to Standard first.) Freeware. ALMP9603.HS.BXY The March 1996 GenieLamp A2 in HyperStudio IIgs format. """"""""""""""" This prototype version convinced me to produce a HyperStudio edition every month, to accompany Josh Calvin's HyperCard edition. Since this is a prototype, it's not tidied up and it uses a little more memory than it needs to, but there aren't any serious problems. (If you don't own HyperStudio, you can still view this stack by downloading and using file ##24732 HS3.1RJ.BXY.) Freeware. LETITRIDE.BXY Let It Ride by Thad T. Taylor is a single-player version of """"""""""""" the Nevada casino game. It lets you play five card stud poker. The game is a little crude and the instructions sketchy, but on the other hand, it's a relief to see more software for the IIgs with a 1996 copyright date. Freeware. GLAMPA29603.BXY The March 1996 GenieLamp A2 in AppleWorks word processor """"""""""""""" format. This "old standard" Apple II-specific edition has been available since April 1993, yet some people still think you _have_ to own AppleWorks to view it. Not so. Download file #16674, QUICKVIEW.BXY or file #24324, QUIKVIEW1.1.BXY and you'll be able to read the same GenieLamp A2 that the editor uses as the basis for all other versions. Freeware. A2.LIB.ADB.BXY This index of the A2 RoundTable libraries, collected by """""""""""""" Tom Zuchowski, lists the whole of the software collection in one AppleWorks data base file. For AppleWorks users with large desktops! Indices of separate libraries are also available for AppleWorks users with smaller desktops, as are text file indices, for those who don't use AppleWorks. Freeware. [EOA] [LIB]////////////////////////////// THE ONLINE LIBRARY / ///////////////////////////////// March Arrivals """""""""""""" by Douglas Cuff [EDITOR.A2] This month, I'd like to list all the files that have been uploaded to the A2 RoundTable libraries during March. Since there are so many--149--I can't examine them in detail, but the short description provided should give you an idea of what the file is all about. >>> PROGRAMS <<< """""""""""""""" File # Filename Bytes Short description ------ --------------- ------ --------------------------------------- 26887 BORDTRACK11.BXY 30 Color borders for Second Sight v1.1 26793 DSK2FILE.BXY 53 Converts dsk and po files 26866 GSE4.32.BXY 73 GS Entertainment version 4.32 26703 GVIEW.BXY 54 Graphic viewer for Second Sight 26927 KEYBOARD.BXY 42 Displays keyboard layout 26700 NEWPT3FIX.BXY 99 New GS modem port driver for PT3.1 26704 PIX.WHIZ2.0.BXY 48 New Print Shop color pix editor 26713 QSL.V2.0B1.BXY 12 Ham Callsign Database Program 26818 QSL.V2.0B2.BXY 6 Ham Callsign Database Program >>> GAMES <<< """"""""""""" File # Filename Bytes Short description ------ --------------- ------ --------------------------------------- 26827 E.DOS33.120.BXY 48428 DOS 3.3 Eamon "Orb of My Life" 26760 E.DOS33.UTL.BXY 72888 DOS 3.3 EAG Eamon Utilities 26707 EAMON.DOS12.BXY 725508 Eamon Collection: DOS 3.3 Disk 12 26748 FIRE.STAR.BXY 37376 A new game for Warp6 BBS Software 26820 LETITRIDE.BXY 18048 A casino stud poker game. 26708 TUFFENUFF2.BXY 37948 Course for Mean 18 26758 TUFFENUFF3.BXY 33532 New course for Mean 18 26826 TUFFENUFF4.BXY 33160 Course for Mean 18 26706 MERLIN.GS.BXY 126720 Merlin GS v1.0 HCGS Electronic game >>> HYPERMEDIA <<< """""""""""""""""" File # Filename Bytes Short description ------ --------------- ------ --------------------------------------- 26717 CALENDAR.HC.BXY 2944 Calendar Stack from Blossom V2N1 26710 A2LAMP.RDR.BXY 16128 Import GenieLamp into HCGS 26819 HCLAMP.FIX.BXY 4864 Adds Quit button to GenieLamp Reader >>> APPLEWORKS (CLASSIC AND GS) <<< """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" File # Filename Bytes Short description ------ --------------- ------ --------------------------------------- 26862 NAUG.CAT.BXY 87168 AppleWorks Resources Catalog 26895 NAUG.DISKS.BXY 113152 Index of NAUG-On-Disk disks >>> DATA AND TEMPLATES <<< """""""""""""""""""""""""" File # Filename Bytes Short description ------ --------------- ------ --------------------------------------- 26877 A2.EMUL.FAQ.BXY 58992 FAQ for Apple II emulators (IBM,Mac) 26894 BRUTAL.RTC.BXY 20608 Transcript of Brutal Deluxe RTC 26799 KFEST96.REG.TXT 4696 Kfest '96!! The registration form! 26916 ORBICORR.SHK 171172 Example of a bad Internet file 26838 PAUG.3.96.BXY 14080 PAUG, the Publishers Transcript!! 26755 PGNOTES.BXY 42752 tech notes for PowerGuide scripting 26875 PLANET.TXT 2048 Description of PLANET.BXY (#18805) >>> PERIODICALS <<< """"""""""""""""""" File # Filename Bytes Short description ------ --------------- ------ --------------------------------------- 26711 A2.DOM.9603.BXY 461056 A2 Disk of the Month, March 1996 26698 ALMP9603.HC.BXY 81152 GenieLamp A2, Mar. 1996 (HyperCard) 26752 ALMP9603.HS.BXY 96384 PROTOTYPE HStudio vers GenieLamp A2 26697 GLAMPA29603.BXY 75648 GenieLamp A2, Mar. 1996 (AppleWorks) 26765 IIS.960303.BXY 27904 II Something - Issue 19 - Mar 03 96 26848 IIS.960310.BXY 30464 II Something - Issue 20 - Mar 10 96 26878 IIS.960317.BXY 13696 II Something - Issue 21 - Mar 17 96 >>> GENIE A2 ROUNDTABLE TOOLS AND FILES <<< """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" File # Filename Bytes Short description ------ --------------- ------ --------------------------------------- 26744 A2.1319.ADB.BXY 20120 ADB Index of Libraries 13-14, 16-19 26733 A2.1319.TXT.BXY 19952 TXT Index of Libraries 13-14, 16-19 26743 A2.15A.ADB.BXY 36480 ADB Index of Library 15 (1989-1994) 26732 A2.15A.TXT.BXY 36428 TXT Index of Library 15 (1989-1994) 26742 A2.15B.ADB.BXY 25376 ADB Index of Library 15 (1995- ) 26731 A2.15B.TXT.BXY 25132 TXT Index of Library 15 (1995- ) 26741 A2.3238.ADB.BXY 37328 ADB Index of Libraries 32-38 26730 A2.3238.TXT.BXY 36412 TXT Index of Libraries 32-38 26740 A2.3940.ADB.BXY 36368 ADB Index of Libraries 39-40 26729 A2.3940.TXT.BXY 35920 TXT Index of Libraries 39-40 26739 A2.4144.ADB.BXY 10948 ADB Index of Libraries 41-44 26728 A2.4144.TXT.BXY 10732 TXT Index of Libraries 41-44 26738 A2.4553.ADB.BXY 59656 ADB Index of Libraries 45-47, 50-53 26727 A2.4553.TXT.BXY 59080 TXT Index of Libraries 45-47, 50-53 26737 A2.5462.ADB.BXY 45272 ADB Index of Libraries 54-62 26726 A2.5462.TXT.BXY 45508 TXT Index of Libraries 54-62 26746 A2.8BIT.ADB.BXY 101828 ADB Index of ProDOS/DOS3.3 Libraries 26735 A2.8BIT.TXT.BXY 100248 TXT Index of ProDOS/DOS3.3 Libraries 26745 A2.GENL.ADB.BXY 164624 ADB Index of Gen. Interest Libraries 26734 A2.GENL.TXT.BXY 164772 TXT Index of Gen. Interest Libraries 26747 A2.GSOS.ADB.BXY 252584 ADB Index of GS/OS Libraries 26736 A2.GSOS.TXT.BXY 248748 TXT Index of GS/OS Libraries 26749 A2.LIB.ADB.BXY 516780 ADB Index of entire A2 Library 26750 A2.LIB.INFO.TXT 6912 Description of A2 Library Indexes 26808 A2NDX.MKR.BXY 8736 A2 Bulletin Board Index Maker 26923 ATCOP.X.GEN.BXY 10112 CoPilot/AT Sprint mail bug helper 26810 GEM5.1.LIB3.BXY 3392 Replacement LIB3 file for GEM5 26828 GEM5.1.UP2.BXY 102676 Updates GEM5 to version 5.1 26906 POWERONOBRK.BXY 5760 Scripts to avoid SprintNet break bug 26873 SCRIPT.UPD.TXT 1152 Update older GEM scripts to work >>> SOUNDS <<< """""""""""""" File # Filename Bytes Short description ------ --------------- ------ --------------------------------------- 26844 ANTHEM.BXY 9600 Star Spangled Banner in MIDI/synth 26876 CANON.VAR.BXY 26112 Canon in D for MIDI/SynthLab 26846 HALLELU.BXY 23424 Hallelujah Chorus MIDI/Synth 26716 IRSH.MID.BXY 213632 Irish songs in general MIDI format 26715 IRSH.SEQ.BXY 471808 Irish songs for SynthLab 26805 IRSHDAY.BXY 35200 MIDI and sequence of An Irish Day 26806 IRSHROSE.BXY 5632 MIDI and sequence of Wild Irish Rose 26836 PERSIAN.BXY 40320 Sequence and MIDI of Persian Market 26795 SYM40.BXY 116608 Classical song for SynthLab 26845 TIPERARY.BXY 17280 Long Way to Tiperary MIDI/synth 26796 VALK.BXY 64256 Valkyrie for SynthLab >>> FONTS <<< """"""""""""" File # Filename Bytes Short description ------ --------------- ------ --------------------------------------- 26867 ANDESITE.T1.BXY 39380 T1 PostScript UC display font 26788 AQUILLIA.T1.BXY 47928 T1 PostScript casual oblique txt fnt 26789 ASHLEY.T1.BXY 30328 T1 PostScript print handwriting font 26868 BALLET.T1.BXY 92800 T1 PostScript art deco display font 26821 CLASSICA.T1.BXY 81164 Graceful T1 PostScript body txt font 26869 DUNCAN.T1.BXY 22408 T1 PostScript tall thin display font 26870 DUNCAN.TT.BXY 8212 TrueType tall thin display font 26763 ELGARRET.T1.BXY 81776 T1 PostScript script font 26724 FLINTSTO.T1.BXY 35024 Bold T1 PostScript display font 26705 GOODFELO.TT.BXY 53424 TrueType Victorian display font 26785 KINIGSTN.T1.BXY 57328 T1 PostScript drop caps display font 26722 KLINZAHI.T1.BXY 42680 T1 PostScript Klingon-alphabet font 26786 LEE.CAPS.T1.BXY 59272 T1 PostScript drop caps display font 26787 LEFTYCAS.T1.BXY 29200 T1 PostScript hand printing body fnt 26723 ORNAMENT.T1.BXY 72636 T1 PostScript woodcut symbol font 26764 PIGNOSE.T1.BXY 107688 T1 PostScript broad font 26822 ROOSTHVY.T1.BXY 69704 Bold T1 PostScript display font 26725 SANSSERI.T1.BXY 31272 T1 PostScript sans-serif text font 26823 SHOWBOAT.T1.BXY 62312 T1 PostScript fancy caps poster font 26721 STYLE.T1.BXY 22988 T1 PostScript bold script font >>> GRAPHICS <<< """""""""""""""" File # Filename Bytes Short description ------ --------------- ------ --------------------------------------- 26859 A26.GIF 156768 Color GIF of an A26 plane 26834 ACE.GIF 5800 Color GIF of an airplane 26924 ANIMEINI.BXY 51176 3 Anime Desktop INIs. R-Rated. 26860 B17.GIF 257628 Color GIF of the B17 plane 26856 B1B.GIF 99612 Color GIF of the B1b plane 26855 B52.GIF 195712 Color GIF of a B-52 26802 BABIES.GIF 72380 Color GIF of rabbits 26702 BACKDROPIII.BXY 26368 More Backdrops for use w/ Backdrop 26714 BACKDROPZ.BXY 75904 Marble textures for Backdrop NDA 26775 BUNNIES.GIF 10120 Color GIF of bunnies for Easter 26863 CHART.GIF 40708 Color GIF Hyakutake comet chart 26701 DESKENVICNS.BXY 3584 Floptical and DocAlias Icons 26841 DUCKS.GIF 5992 B&W GIF of a duck 26840 EAGLE5.GIF 21740 This is a color GIF of an Eagle 26919 EAST.DESK96.BXY 354020 Easter desktop background INIs. 26774 EGGS.GIF 267660 Color GIF of Easter eggs 26797 ESTR.BUN.GIF 26204 Color GIF of a cute Easter Bunny 26779 ESTR.BUNY.GIF 3496 B&W GIF of an Easter bunny 26780 ESTR.EGG.GIF 100272 Grayscale GIF of an Easter Egg 26781 ESTR.EGG2.GIF 67596 Color GIF of an Easter egg 26777 ESTR.GIF 180952 Color GIF of an Easter picture 26883 F3F.GIF 8700 Grayscale GIF of a Gruman F3F-2 26884 F4F.GIF 210908 Color GIF of a F4F and a F6F 26896 FINALFOUR96.BXY 123416 NCAA Final Four desktop INIs. 26926 FRACINI.BXY 43176 4 Fractal INIs for your Desktop. 26843 FROG.GIF 11532 Color GIF of a green frog 26925 FSERRORINI.BXY 36488 INI of Atomic Bomb Detonation. 26762 GUAVA.SAMP1.BXY 93836 Guava Graphics EPS sampler 26858 GUNFT.GIF 53008 Color GIF of a P-51 plane 26864 HAMBRG.GIF 6608 Color GIF of a hamburger 26842 HEN.GIF 3904 Color GIF of a hen 26778 LILY.1.GIF 16500 Color GIF of an Easter Lily 26773 LILY.GIF 2440 Color GIF of an Easter Lily 26776 LST.SUP.GIF 53064 Color GIF of The Last Supper 26865 MACAW.GIF 21576 Color GIF of a macaw 26851 MANTLE.GIF 149712 Mickey Mantle socks a homer, GIF! 26850 MANTLE.JPG 68128 Mickey mantle goes Deep, the Jpeg! 26804 MUSIC.GIF 14292 B&W GIF of music clipart 26835 MUSTANG.GIF 18864 Color GIF of a P-51 Mustang plane 26803 P38.GIF 78652 Color GIF of a P 38 airplane 26854 P47.GIF 3996 Color GIF of a P-47 plane 26829 P51.2.GIF 2912 Little color GIF of a P-51 26857 P51.3.GIF 20616 Color GIF of a P-51 26830 P51.GIF 157428 Color GIF of a P-51 Mustang plane 26831 P51RR1.GIF 102972 Color GIF of a P-51 on a runway 26832 PLANE.GIF 59128 Color GIF of a P-51 plane 26833 STANG.GIF 101704 Color GIF of a P-51 Mustang plane 26886 STARSNSTUFF.BXY 38272 Backdrop patterns for the desktop. 26709 STPAT.DESK2.BXY 186944 St. Pat desktop backgrounds. Part 2 26794 STPAT.DESK3.BXY 188512 St. Pat destop INIs. Part 3. 26837 WLLPPR1.BXY 117248 Desktop Inits from II Something... REMINDER: The message archives--37 of them--are excluded from this month's column. I won't reinstate them unless I hear from YOU! [EOA] [PRO]////////////////////////////// PROFILES / ///////////////////////////////// Who's Who In Apple II """"""""""""""""""""" >>> WHO'S WHO <<< """"""""""""""""" ~ Christian Serreau and Howard Katz, editors of _The AppleWorks Gazette_ ~ _The AppleWorks Gazette_ is a new disk magazine for AppleWorks users and programmers. This month, we visit with the two editors--Christian Serreau (France) and Howard Katz (United States). [*][*][*] GenieLamp> Would you tell us how you first became interested in the """"""""" Apple II? Was it your first computer? Serreau> An original Apple ][. I bought it in November 1977 from a """"""" colleague that didn't want to spend more time trying to load programs from the tape recorder. It still work well, though I must admit I don't power it up very often :) My first contact with computers dates back to 1973 when I used punch-hole cards on a mainframe to handle a MA degree paperwork data. Katz> A friend of mine had a ][+ that he had to sell for business """" reasons, and he made me a deal for the whole package. However, this wasn't my first computer. When I was a pre-teen, my parents bought me a kit that was a _mechanical_ computer--you set some slides, and push/pulled on the handle to make it work. I never did figure how to read the answer, tho. And I did make an abacus at Boy Scout camp. GenieLamp> When did you first become interested in AppleWorks? """"""""" Katz> It took a while. I started my Apple II career with the purchase of """" a second-hand ][+, and stuck with the word processor I use on it when I moved to my //e. It took quite a bit of coaxing from a friend of mine to prove to me that AppleWorks wasn't as complicated as I thought it might be. Serreau> I've been using it from the start. I still have a few notes """"""" about v1.0 and v1.0R, though I'm not sure I could easily locate the disks. Those who already owned an Apple ][ in the late '70s and early '80s sure remember a few milestones in software: they were QuickFile, ProDOS, and then AppleWorks. AW really changed the way the Apple //e could be used: a true word processor, and a data base you could use without first quitting the program. The release of AppleWorks could be compared to the introduction of the "Shugart" 5.25" drive: you suddenly saw you cpu with different eyes. It should also be remembered that, when AppleWorks was first introduced, no comparable software was available for other platforms, even for the IBM PC. Considering the whole thing ex post, I would bet that, if Apple had developed what was then known as the Apple IIx--i.e. a 16-bit text-based Apple II--and a compatible, which means faster, version of AppleWorks, things would have been much different. GenieLamp> Chris, some of our readers will remember your AppleWorks First """"""""" Kit. For those that don't remember, what was it? Serreau> It was an attempt to make AppleWorks 4.02, then 4.3, more """"""" flexible. There are a lot of features in those versions that can easily be customized so that they're closer to what the user needs, but you can't find any built-in menu to do it. The Kit contains a number of init files that do the job. Except for the last version, that includes a fileviewer, the Kit does not add any feature to AppleWorks. I hope there will be versions for 3.0 and 5.1 in the future, but I'm afraid I don't know when I shall have time to make them. GenieLamp> What was the significance of the name, AppleWorks First Kit? """"""""" Serreau> I wanted to name it "Tool Kit", but I thought someone had """"""" already used that name. As it was the first time AppleWorks could be patched with init files (and not the old on-disk patches), I changed "Tool" to "First". GenieLamp> Howard, I believe you had some articles published in NAUG's """"""""" _AppleWorks Gazette_. What can you tell us about that? Katz> I was a NAUG member for around 5 years before I 1st wrote anything """" for them. My first article happened because of a printer problem. I had just gotten a laser printer after trial, error, and numerous phone calls to the manufacturer, I found out that fonts weren't additive like my dot matrix. I then came across John Majka's Font Downloader program, and realized that his program, plus information in the printer manual meant AppleWorks users could use virtually any font. I simply put two pieces of information together and then submitted the article to Warren Williams, who published it. After that, Warren asked me to do several projects for NAUG, including the SEG.ER printer drives disks, and the US Government disks, as well as several software reviews. GenieLamp> How did you two first "meet"? """"""""" Serreau> Howard registered his copy of the First Kit, and asked for a few """"""" more features. Katz> ...after trying it out, I contacted him with a few suggestions, for """" which he let me beta test the next few versions of the kit. All of our contacts have been made via e- and snailmail. GenieLamp> So you've never actually met. Any plans to meet? """"""""" Any reason to? Serreau> It's actually a matter of time. I went to DC last year, but """"""" never had time to take a plane to Chicago and meet Howard. I'm pretty sure I won't be able to attend this year's KansasFest (I wasn't able to come last year and the year before, either :), as July is the month when university professors are asked as chairmen for the French "baccalaureat" (the equivalent of your high school diploma), and when we make some kind of plans for the coming university year, too. Maybe later... GenieLamp> How is it that you decided to produce a magazine together? """"""""" Who had the idea? Who approached who? Katz> It's hard to recall to be honest. I think we both were lamenting """" the demise of NAUG, and decided that there was still a market for an AppleWorks-related publication. I think the idea just grew out of our discussions. Serreau> When ICON stopped the publication of TO Central, I thought there """"""" was room for an AppleWorks-related publication. I even designed a four-page paper-based magazine, named "YAAWN!" (Yet Another AppleWorks Newsletter!". I soon realized that going further would mean spending a lot of time in page layout and printing, and the project was stopped there. When NAUG stopped publishing the Forum and closed its doors, Howard suggested that there could be a continuation to the NAUG publication. Howard also brought the name. GenieLamp> How often will you publish? """"""""" Katz> 6 times a year. """" Serreau> We go bimonthly. I first thought of a quarterly publication, """"""" but Howard convinced me that 6 disks a year would be even better. GenieLamp> How much will a subscription be? """"""""" Serreau> U.S.$35 a year, worldwide mail included. """"""" Katz> For our non-US friends, I've made arrangements with a financial """" company that will cash foreign-drawn checks for an additional $2.50/check. I have to rely on the subscriber to find out and figure out what the check amount should be in relation to currency exchange rates. GenieLamp> What do you see as the focus of _The AppleWorks Gazette_? """"""""" Katz> Well, AppleWorks. However, with 800k of room to work with, we're """" finding that we're becoming more like a cross between RESOURCE CENTRAL and NAUG's FORUM. The 1st two issues have had a mix of software reviews, and technical information, and we've received feedback from our readers which we'll use to tailor the contents of future issues. Serreau> And Apple ][-related issues, too, as you can't run the software """"""" without the computer :) GenieLamp> Do you produce one version for all subscribers, or do you have """"""""" versions specially tailored to load into AppleWorks v3.0, v4.x, v5.x, etc? Serreau> We're working on the "one size fits all" principle. The """"""" newsletter comes in AppleWorks 5.1 word processor format, and we provide an updated version of Mark Munz's QuickView for pre-5 users. This is far from being perfect, but we couldn't have three versions of a 200K newsletter on the same disk without reducing the amount of software and data. And producing three different disks would have been a nightmare for the one that puts disks into envelopes :) Katz> Most of the information can be read with AW3, but since we're """" making heavy use of AW4 and AW5's ability to display Mousetext characters as well as inverse characters, users of the later versions will get the full impact of the formatting. GenieLamp> Do you offer _The AppleWorks Gazette_ in 3.5" and 5.25" """"""""" formats? Serreau> The standard size is 3.5". It _is_ possible to subscribe for """"""" 5.25" disks, but we cannot include some of the software or data files on the disks. Katz> ....the vast majority of our subscribers have requested 3.5" disks. """" GenieLamp> Will you be having "outside talent" write for _The AppleWorks """"""""" Gazette_, or will you do it all yourselves? Katz> I think both of us would burn out quickly if we had to do """" everything ourselves. Serreau> We already had Will Nelken and Ron Suenaga for articles, and Roy """"""" Barrows and Joe Walters for software. A few others are expected. GenieLamp> I think you mean Ryan Suenaga. """"""""" Serreau> My apologies for that [the typographical error]. The paper came """"""" in with "Ron M. Suenaga" in the header, and I didn't check with the bio footer. GenieLamp> So you perceive your contributors as coming from your """"""""" subscribers? Katz> We're hoping to have contributors from across the Apple II """" spectrum. Serreau> We hope that many files will come from the readers, as they are """"""" the ones who know how they use AppleWorks on a daily basis. Katz> If any of our subscribers wish to submit an article, and we publish """" it, we'll extend their subscription by 1 month. GenieLamp> What can we look forward to in future issues of The AppleWorks """"""""" Gazette? Serreau> As far as articles are concerned, I'll write a number of papers """""""" in the "Inside AppleWorks" series. The next one should be about AppleWorks inits, with a focus on the PatchManager and dot commands (two different topics). In the "tips and techniques" column, we'll have something about machine language and macros, and how to assemble a file without an assembler. The software subdirectories will contain updates for a number of TimeOut applications (either never updated or updated with bugs), some new applications and init files, and a few new dot commands. Of course, that is my own stuff only, and as more people contribute to the Gazette, there will be much more than that. GenieLamp> Does Howard mail out the issues to the subscribers closest to """"""""" him and Chris handle the rest, or how is it handled? Serreau> If things go well, that's how it should work in the end. Right """"""" now, all disks are duplicated, labelled and shipped from France. GenieLamp> Does it cost a lot to mail an issue from France? """"""""" Serreau> $1.64 per disk. It may seem a lot, but it's actually less that """"""" what we would have to pay to get the disks duplicated in the US. I have a free access to what seems to be one of the last GCR disk duplicators in Paris. GenieLamp> Are computers a part of your daytime job? Please tell us a """"""""" little about what you do between 9 and 5. Serreau> I'm currently teaching political science in Paris, London, and """"""" Moscow, which implies that I don't work much on a 9am-5pm basis. The use of computers is part of the work, since the only way to find the document you need is to maintain a very large data base. That part of the work is done with the help of a Mac connected to a mainframe. But I may read documents with the Apple //e I have at my office in Paris, provided that they're not too long. Katz> My college training was supposed to lead me to be a high school """" teacher, so of course I ended un in another field. I ended up in the medical insurance field, where I've done everything from claims to training underwriters. I've also become Adjunct Faculty at a couple of local medical schools working with 2nd year Med students. GenieLamp> What sorts of things do you like to do for fun (i.e. """"""""" non-computer hobbies)? Katz> I'm active in local politics and am currently running for a County """" Commissioner position. I do a fair amount of public speaking on behalf of several organizations, and I also enjoy reading, mostly SciFi, as well as skydiving. Serreau> I'm collecting stamps and Rolls-Royce cars. But, if you have a """"""" spare RR in your garage you want to dispose of, don't bother sending it to me. In order to keep my monthly gas bill within reasonable limits, I decided I would collect 1/43 RR model cars only. GenieLamp> How did you get involved in telecommunications? """"""""" Katz> I got my 1st modem in 1985, and stumbled upon a small online """" service called Mnematics out of NY. I became their Politics SIG leader, and conducted weekly online discussions. Serreau> Well, I really began to use telecoms when I moved back to France """"""" in 1989, first for email. I used the french CalvaCom network first,and then moved to CIS when they made their services available in France. Before that, I had been using CIS and The Source when in Berkeley, but that was many years ago, I'm afraid... GenieLamp> Howard, I seem to recall you're an old America Online hand. """"""""" How long have you been a member of Genie? What new services do you think Genie should provide its subscribers? Katz> Actually, I was a Genie member up until around 1988. At that time, """" they changed their billing methods (I forget the details), and I remember not caring for the open vein into my credit card. I became a charter member of AOL (then called AppleLink), and was a regular over there until they dumped us text-based users off the system in November 1994. As far as new services go, I'd REALLY like to have the ability to order chinese food from my local restaurant while online from within Genie! :) GenieLamp> What one piece of advice would you pass along to a new """"""""" Apple II telecommunications enthusiast? Katz> Don't let anything throw you--keep trying. Remember, you rally """" CAN'T make the other computer blow up by hooking into it, so if you can experiment to find out what you need to know, do it. [*][*][*] If you'd like more information on _The AppleWorks Gazette_, contact the editor nearest you: Christian Serreau Howard Katz 12, rue de la Censerie 1104 Lorlyn Circle #2D 49100 Angers Batavia, IL 60510 France U.S.A. 100316.14@compuserve.com h.katz@genie.com //////////////////////////////////////// Genie_QWIK_QUOTE //// / Oooooh, you TEASE, you! You, you, virtual vixen! 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