A2 News and Notes August 2000 INDEX * New GShisen on the Way * MyEsource Cuts Prices * Eamon Goes CD * Bredon Software Public Domain--What Does it Mean for Merlin? * Delphi Text To Be History? * TIAB and TCL Now Shipping * Zedcor's ZBASIC Goes Freeware * Marinetti to go Open Source * A2Central.com News ** LANceGS Group Purchase ** KFest Sessions Online ** A2Central.com To Expand Services * New GShisen on the Way Kelvin Sherlock, author of the wildly popular GShisen game for the Apple IIgs stated in a message on Delphi that an update to the game should be available soon. At least one bug that affects playing a game by ID will be fixed. * MyEsource Cuts Prices Dain Neater reported in a message on Delphi that he received an email from MyEsource stating that instead of their annual summer sale, they will be cutting prices on all Apple IIgs software. Please check http://www.myesource.com/sevenhills/applesoftware for details. * Eamon Goes CD Tom Zuchowski of the Eamon Adventurer's Guild has put together the ultimate collection of Eamons on CD. 242 public domain adventures, three Softdisk Eamons (with permission), and 16 years of the Eamon Adventurer's Guild newsletter, all for $3 in the U.S. and Canada--including shipping! International users please contact Tom at tzuchow@attglobal.net for details. To order, send your check to: Tom Zuchowski 7625 Hawkhaven Dr. Clemmons, NC 27012-9408 * Bredon Software Public Domain--What Does it Mean for Merlin? It was confirmed by reliable sources that Anne Bredon, widow of the late Glen Bredon, prolific Apple II software author, has placed all of his work into the public domain. However, it's not clear if his excellent Apple II and IIgs assembler, Merlin, can be placed in the public domain by Mrs. Bredon as its rights may be owned by Roger Wagner Publishing. More on this as it unfolds. * Delphi Text To Be History? Delphi premium account subscribers received a letter from Delphi management around the middle of the month, stating that they will no longer support (nor charge for) text access following November 1, 2000. The implications are staggering--every other major Apple II forum that has ceased text access has quickly ceased existing. The Forums can also be accessed via the World Wide Web, and that access will continue to be supported. * TIAB and TCL Now Shipping Juiced.GS announced that the Time in a Bottle CD Collection and The Compleat Lamp on CD are now shipping! Time in a Bottle includes a nearly complete collection of the entire Syndicomm library housed in Genie's A2 RoundTable through 1999--two CDs worth. The Compleat Lamp is a CD collection of every issue of GenieLamp A2, GenieLamp A2Pro, and The Lamp! that has ever been published. See http://www.wbwip.com/juiced.gs/ for details. * Zedcor's ZBASIC Goes Freeware Howard Katz, director of The Lost Classics Project, announced that Zedcor has given permission to reclassify ZBASIC, its excellent BASIC compiler, as freeware. * Marinetti to go Open Source Richard Bennett, author of the IIgs TCP/IP stack Marinetti, has decided to release the upcoming version as open source. For details, please check http://cgi.zipworld.com.au/~kashum/mosp.pl?cmd=index * A2Central.com News Lots of great news for this month from A2Central.com: ** LANceGS Group Purchase As a public service, A2Central.com has coordinated two group purchases of LANceGS cards from ///SHH Systeme of Germany. As of this writing, the first cards have reached the states and are being distributed via U.S. mail, and the second set is due to arrive in the U.S. within days. *** KFest Sessions Online More of the KansasFest 2000 videos are online, including sessions on Apple IIgs emulation, the keynote address, the roast, and others. See http://www.a2central.com/ for your download fix. *** A2Central.com Expanding Services As Delphi bids a slow retreat from the text locked world of the Apple II, A2Central.com announces that it will be working on implementing text based services for Apple II users. Additionally, it will continue the services it hosts now, and provide homes for The Lost Classics Project, The Lamp!, A2 News and Notes, and many, many other services. Check http://www.a2central.com/ daily. You will see it grow before your eyes. * Sign Off A2 News and Notes is produced with real or emulated Apple II computers using Appleworks 5.1 and Hermes with the occasional assist from ProTERM Mac on the Macintosh. Apple II Forever! A2 News and Notes is (c) copyright 2000 by Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W. All rights reserved. Opinions expressed herein are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the copyright holder and publisher. The publisher does not guarantee the accuracy or suitability of any information included herein. We reserve the right to edit all letters and copy. Material published in this edition may be reprinted free of charge anywhere provided this copyright notice is included. Mark R. Percival Montreal, Quebec An Apple II fanatic since 1979.