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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 ~ GE Mail: GENIELAMP Internet: genielamp@genie.com ////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ >>> WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE APPLE II ROUNDTABLE? <<< """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" ~ July 1, 1995 ~ FROM MY DESKTOP ......... [FRM] HEY MISTER POSTMAN ...... [HEY] Notes From The Editor. Is That A Letter For Me? HUMOR ONLINE ............ [HUM] CONNECTIONS ............. [CON] Software for suing Microsoft. Virtually Real, Really Virtual. ASCII ART GALLERY ....... [ASA] THE TREASURE HUNT ....... [HUN] Summer Garden. The Best of Music Studio. HARD_VIEW ............... 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Now there are no excuses! *** GET INTO THE LAMP! *** """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" //////////////////////////////////////// GEnie_QWIK_QUOTE //// / If Napoleon had won the battle of Waterloo, there'd have / / been one less Abba song. / /////////////////////////////////////////////// T.KRAJNA //// [EOA] [FRM]////////////////////////////// FROM MY DESKTOP / ///////////////////////////////// Notes From The Editor """"""""""""""""""""" by Douglas Cuff [EDITOR.A2] >>> "WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY, AND HE IS US" <<< """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" As long as there has been science fiction, there have been warnings about how computers will control us or destroy us. They adjust all data so that it fits the database, which is how the average North American ended up with 2.3 children. They blindly follow instructions regardless of context, which is why a grammar checker complains about the repetition in the opening paragraph of Dickens's _A Tale of Two Cities_. Well, relax. The good news is that computers are not going to pigeonhole us into either misery or oblivion. The bad news is that we humans are doing it to ourselves... or, more likely, to one another. The tendency of the computer to reduce everything to ones and zeroes means nothing compared to the eagerness with which some of grasp a tool that only deals with ones and zeroes. For example: I admit, with some shame, that I use a major credit card. About a year ago, the bank that issued the card gave me the capacity to use any convenient telephone to check my last five transactions. I heartily dislike the idea, which strikes me as inviting trouble. Or hasn't anyone at either the bank or the credit company realized that I'm not the only one in the world with access to a phone, and therefore with access to my last five transactions? Here is where I made my mistake: I called up the bank to get them to disable this terrific feature. I explained my request and--here's where I went wrong--my potential problem to the person on the other end of the phone. She thought I was complaining about a merchant to whom I had unwisely given my credit card number. I rephrased the problem. She still thought I was complaining about a merchant. I rerephrased the problems. She thought I was complaining about a hypothetical merchant. Eventually, she passed me on to her supervisor. Needless to say, I had to start at square one, explaining my concern from scratch. The supervisor thought I was complaining about a merchant. So I rephrased the problem. The supervisor thought I was complaining about a merchant.... "Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate." [Isaiah 6:11] It took me three different people, almost an hour of my time, and more frustration than I care to admit to finally get the message across. In the end, I had to raise my voice slightly, interrupt the zombie-like speech, and demand, "Listen to me. Listen to what I am saying." The brains of these three people were so used to dealing with maybe five basic consumer complaints that they routed all requests into one of the five areas. Now, just possibly the poor drones who answer the phones all day can be excused this atrophy of the little grey cells. Possibly. But not their supervisor, and most definitely not the supervisor's supervisor. In the end, I did convey to the Level 2 supervisor just what the heck I wanted. She clearly thought I was a crank for refusing such a convenient service, but she allowed as how she could place what she called a "phone block" on my card... meaning that if I wanted to pay my credit card bill, I could no longer do it over the phone. What's more, she did place that block, and she did it the first time I asked for it. I know for certain that she did it, because all of a sudden, merchants were telling me that they couldn't accept my credit card. It seems the phone block that prevented others from abusing my credit card also prevented certain merchants from accepting my credit card. (Incredibly, the alleged professionals who wrote and installed the credit card company's software hadn't checked for such a conflict.) I may be flattering myself, but this seems to me to indicate that I was the very first person to request a phone block. By the time my credit card company straightened out the problem, I was well on the way to collecting a second example of how some people are good at dealing only with the same scenario, and reject any scenario they haven't prepared themselves for. My doctor had sent me to a specialist, and that very busy, harried specialist, had instructed me to call him if I had certain symptoms before our next appointment. So, like the naif I am, I did call him when the feared symptoms grabbed hold of me and shook me like a milkshake. The receptionist refused--absolutely refused--to put me through to the specialist. If I was in extreme pain, go to emergency. If I was not in extreme pain, consult my physician. What I was absolutely not supposed to do, according to the receptionist, was bother the specialist. Now, I understand that people do make nuisances of themselves, wasting the time of an overworked medical specialist when protocol demands that a G.P. make a referral. I would estimate that the receptionist had already had to deal with a hundred such nuisances that week. What troubles me is that she was no longer capable of listening. Anyone who wants to turn this into a treatise on overwork--and it's not a bad idea--is invited to write his or her own editorial. I still find it chilling how readily people tend to assume that what they're hearing is what they're used to hearing. Most data base programmers make the assumptions that the data is going to be consistent. Real life isn't consistent. It's not merely that humans aren't consistent, it's that what happens to humans is not consistent. Any program that forces you to fit the environment to the computer, rather than the other way around, is a third-rate program. The widespread use of computers in today's work-world isn't the problem. It's just the symptom. [*][*][*] Last month, I tipped you off that you could use Lynx to read Usenet newsgroup such as comp.sys.apple2, merely by visiting the links on Nathan Mates's home page. Well, you can, and it's a fairly non-threatening way of doing it, too. However, for those of you who want to read comp.sys.apple2 without bothering Nathan, it's quite simple. Just press G to go to a specific place, and instead of typing something that begins with "http://", just type: news:comp.sys.apple2 and you'll be taken to comp.sys.apple2. It will also work with other newsgroups, such as comp.sys.apple2.comm, comp.sys.apple2.gno, comp.sys.apple2.marketplace, comp.sys.apple2.programmer, comp.sys.apple2.usergroups, comp.binaries.apple2, comp.sources.apple2, and alt.emulators.ibmpc.apple2. -- 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] [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 <<< """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" [*] CAT2, TOP10 ................... Supporting Brutal Deluxe [*] CAT3, TOP25 ................... The Finder Patch [*] CAT8, TOP25 ................... Point of sale software [*] CAT44, TOP2 ................... KansasFest >>> A2 POT-POURRI <<< """"""""""""""""""""" LEGAL SOURCE OF STAR TREK SOUNDS Regarding the Star Trek sounds. A """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" couple of years ago (Sept/Oct 93 to be specific), Bill Moore (of GS+) coordinated with Sound Source and converted the Star Trek sounds into IIgs format. So, call "Sound Source" at 800-877-4778 or 805-494-9996 and ask for their Star Trek and/or Terminator 2 sounds for the Apple IIgs. They cost $24.95 each, or $39.95 for both. (from the Sept-Oct/93 GS+ magazine). They come in a 3 disk set, ready to play on the IIgs! Wayne Sheffield (Be patient. God isn't finished with me yet!) (W.SHEFFIELD, CAT31, TOP5, MSG:60/M645;1) <<<<< Yes, it's legal. They licensed them for this purpose """"" Since you asked for the sounds on the set, here goes: Star Trek, "The Logical Collection" (rSoundSample Names) (sounds are separated by a semi-colon). Alien Beam 1; Alien Button 1; Aye, Captain; Bridge Button 1; Bridge Button 3; Bridge Button 4; Bridge Button 5; Bridge Button 6; Bridge Buttons 7A; Bridge Click; Bridge Power Up; Bridge to Captain; Bulkhead Door; Button Sequence 1; Button Sequence 2; Button Sequence 3; Communicator; Computing Now, Captain; Contamination; Did It Work?; Disengage Computer Now!; Dramatic Cue 1; Dramatic Cue 2; Dramatic Cue 7; Energize 1; Energize 2; Energy Field; Fascinating; Female Computer; Great Curiousity; Hail Whistle; He's Dead Jim; His Brain is Gone; I Can't Explain it, Captain; I suggest you study this; I'm a Doctor; It Will Never Work!; It's Gone, Sir; Leave That Alone; Main Phasers Firing; Main Theme; Materialization; Maximum Warp; Nothing, Sir; Phasers 1; Photon Torpedo 2; Quickly, Captain!; Red Alert; Reset; Sick Bay 1; Standing By, Captain; Sterilize; Suspense Cue 1; That sir, is illogical; The Ultimate Computer; Theme Cue 1; Time Portal; Transporter; Verified; View Screen 1; Vulcans Never Bluff; What have you done; Where are you going; You Are Relieved; You Earth People; Your logic can be. FYI, this is how they did it. They secured the original soundtrack magnetic tape reels from Paramount Pictures, and converted them to Digital Audio Tape (DAT). From there, they converted/editted selected sound effects into digital code. Wayne Sheffield (Be patient. God isn't finished with me yet!) (W.SHEFFIELD, CAT31, TOP5, MSG:64/M645;1) RUMOR: AOL HELPS VIRUS Just a little note on the lighter side, """"""""""""""""""""""" I just received notification through Air Force channels, that the recently mailed AOL disk was distributed with the BUPT virus on board. Way to go AOL. One more good reason to stick with the Apple. Dave C. (D.CORKUM, CAT2, TOP4, MSG:129/M645;1) DEADEYE DRIVES Hehehe, that reminds me of an incident that happened to me """""""""""""" back when I was still working at Softdisk. A year or so ago, we discovered a very serious bug after we'd mastered and duplicated an issue, but before it had been mailed out. Unfortunately, due to the schedules of some of the larger Softdisk products, we couldn't reduplicate with the big automatic machines, so we had to resort to the old manual disk duplicators (two drives, can duplicate two disks at a time, manual eject button, have to be hand fed). Several people split up the long process of reduplicating all the Softdisk G-S disks with these old machines, and I did my part as well. I had a couple of disk duplicators sitting on my desk, hooked up to a spare power strip (on the floor). Unfortunately, one of the duplicators had an especially strong ejection spring, which shot disks out like toast. A one in a million shot: I pressed the ejection button, the disk ejected (but I missed stopping it), it flew into a perfect arc down onto the power strip, hitting the button at just the right angle to shut off the duplicating machines. Fortunately I didn't hook my computers up to the same power strip! :) -G.T. Barnabas (BARNABAS, CAT44, TOP2, MSG:188/M645;1) QUALITY COMPUTERS ON APPLE II, II ALIVE, APPLEWORKS 5 > It takes bad """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" > management to > have 15% of their sales for a computer platform and EXPECT to start > losing money next year (and perhaps someone can explain how you can LOSE > money selling products at a profit, even if it is only .001% of your > total sales). Actually it takes bad management to concentrate on that 15%. If you do, you'll be out of business quicker than you can sneeze. In order to survive in the business world, you have to look for opportunity. I think the Ferrengi have something in the rules of acquisition about that. In order for QC to continue to support the Apple II, Quality must first survive and thrive. Otherwise, the alternative is that we're not here. Time marches on, the world changes and QC must react to those changes. The good news is that QC at no time even considered dropping any of its popular products. Appleworks, timeout, Six Pack, System 6, Q drives, Memory cards and many third party educational products we have. We did drop products that did not sell. These were not a personal thing. We needed the space for that other 85% of our business. In business, you learn about a dollar per foot formula that calculates just how much space you can spend on a product. If we don't have a product, just call us or email me. I'll tell you where to find it or at least give you a good path to where to get whatever it is you're looking for. We still support the Apple II on our telephones, here on Genie, Eworld, the internet, America Online and there are Apple II sections on theLINQ. > Is Quality going to drop A2 items as soon as they begin to "lose" money > on them? If you asked me two years ago, I would have said "no." But this > is the New QC, the one that has broken promise after promise within the > past two years. Please feel free to list the promises and I'll be glad to answer them. However, I cannot answer something this vague. I understand you're upset, but every customer, including the Apple II customer is important to us. > You have to actively search for subscribers (and customers) if you expect > to succeed. QC charged a premium price for a magazine that was always > late, started shrinking after the 3rd issue, and was not even able to be > subscribed to, as the telephone sales staff repeatedly told potential > subscribers that it was folding -- for the past six months Uncle! We learned one important lesson. Never try to handle a subscription base the size of II Alive if it's not your primary business. We just didn't have the knowledge, the time, and the resources to continue with II Alive and I personally will miss the fun I had writing for it. There still is a Woz interview coming up in a future issue:) > They have yet to print anything other than a press release about why > anyone might want a Second Sight card. This is mostly because the second sight card is late. We don't have it yet. AppleWorks GS tought us to wait and see something before we go right ahead and market it. When it's released, I'm sure it will have plenty of space. After all, it's a neat thing that frees you from the shackles of the IIGS monitor. > Sales of Appleworks 5 disappointing? Perhaps because there was never a > convincing reason for people like me to update to it. I use AW3.0 about > four times per year and have never felt limited. I too used Appleworks 3 since the first day it came out. I bought Appleworks GS before I had a GS. Then I got AppleWorks 4 when it was Quadriga and Appleworks 5 when it was Narnia. You never truly know what it's like on the mountain until you leave the valley. Trust me, without Appleworks 5, you're missing a lot. (QUALITY, CAT42, TOP10, MSG:303/M645;1) FREE IIC UPGRADE DISAPPEARS Some bad news in IIc land, I'm afraid. My """"""""""""""""""""""""""" local dealer (Albany, NY) showed me a msg from Cupertino - Apple will no longer do the //c logic board swap for free, effective May 3, 1995. I'm now sitting with a ROM 01 //c and not happy, but I encourage people to appreciate the length of time that Apple _did_ support this free upgrade. I have had 4 //c's upgraded over the years for free over a 8-9 year period. Pretty good service. The free lunch had to end sometime :( Dave H. (D.HUGGINS1, CAT26, TOP3, MSG:61/M645;1) PATCHES FOR PC TRANSPORTER I thought some of you PCT users might be """""""""""""""""""""""""" interested in some of my latest patches to the PCT software. Note: These have only been tested a little. Use at your own risk. Let me know what you think. These are only good for PCT software version 2.0.4 or 2.0.5. As many of you know there is really no difference between the two. Just different versions of ProDOS to fix clock problems. Just Preferred Computing (what an arrogant name, I don't prefer them!) and AE were not honest about this. I'm glad they are gone! Perferred did not offer to give me my money back, BTW. All patches are applied to the file AEPC.SYSTEM. You will need a block editor that will follow files and show you the position relative to the beginning of the file. This first patch was listed earlier but I thought I'd post it again. It makes the PCT control panel show up in bright text. Great for those dim monitors. Start at Byte Bytes there Replace with $1bba: 07 0f Short patch, eh? The next two patches are great for GS users with extended keyboards. This patch resets the keyboard lights on exit. So that your Scroll Lock, Num Lock, and Caps Lock lights, if on at exit, will not stay on when you leave the PCT software. This patch simply intercepts the exit routine and makes a call within the PCT software that tells it to clear all the keyboard lights. I have a init for caps lock light for ROM 01 GS users that I hope to release in the near future that is PCT aware. If you've ever tried other caps lock inits they tend to goof up the scroll lock and num lock lights, mine does not. My init is also fast in that it will not interfere with Apple ][ telecom programs. Encourage me! $80 D5 46 60 5c $3c60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a9 00 8d 88 32 3a 8d 89 32 20 64 32 4c 5d 46 This final patch swaps the function of the Open-Apple (Command) and Solid (Option) keys on the keyboard. Although this patch can be used by GS users without an extended keyboard. Its usefulness comes in the fact that (at least my) extended keyboard's option key is also labeled "ALT". The PCT used the Open-Apple key for the ALT key. This patch fixes this. It also offers the change in the labeling of the keyboard layout map in the PCT control panel. I wish I could edit it to show a real extended keyboard. $1244 04 08 $1248 08 04 $1707 04 08 $170b 08 04 This part of the patch is only needed if you want the keyboard map labeling changed. $725c 53 6f 6c 69 64 2d 41 70 70 6c 65 20 28 4f 50 54 49 4f 4e change to... 4f 70 65 6e 2d 41 70 70 6c 65 20 28 43 4f 4d 4d 41 4e 44 If there are any other patches you would like to suggest I'd like to hear them. I don't know if I can do all of them though, but I might give it a try. One I'd like to see is the PC time syncing with secs. from the GS side. However that would requiring fixing the clock driver on the PC side and I don't know if I can pull that off! Currently the PCT gets the time with a ProDOS GET_TIME call. This only supports Year, month, date, hours, and minutes, no seconds! Happy PCing! (G.TOLAR, CAT14, TOP12, MSG:342/M645;1) MAC SERVER? YOU DON'T NEED ANY STINKIN'... I can't help but mention that """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" you do _NOT_ need a Mac to function as a server for this purpose. A programmer can program a GS to act as a special server to process the specific functions of your point of sale application. I say this with certainty because I know someone who had created a professional, custom, networked database entirely of GSes using nothing but AppleTalk connections! (It was highly impressive.) He wrote the program in two parts: clients, and a server. The server collected data from the clients and generated reports. The clients queried the workers for sales information. Like I said, it was a custom application and could not be repurposed without considerable reprogramming. Michael (ANIMASIA, CAT8, TOP25, MSG:12/M645;1) TRANSWARP IIE HELP I recently got a transwarp for my //e also. No """""""""""""""""" manual. Someone sent me some nice instructions for how to set the two switch groups. But the thing still drops into the monitor if I try to boot from the hard disk (set in slot 7). Is there something I haveto do different if uI use the hard drive. If I take it out the Transwarp works good. But with the HD (some kind of off brand mac drive SCSI) it crashes. If I try to boot slot 6 or 5 after doing a control-reset, the prodos screen comes up, them the computer freezes. So what gives? (B.BAKER22, CAT14, TOP7, MSG:94/M645;1) >>>>> I wouldn't know unless you told me your setup. But let's save some """"" time. Here are all the details you'll probably need. You can put the TW card in slot 3 (yes, finally a use for slot 3!) Block 1 is for Memory cards, of the bank switch type. If you have any of these kind of cards in a slot (rare) OPEN that switch (push it down). If you use a RamWorks in the aux slot (and if you don't, get one!) the TW will accelerate all programs in memory :) Switch 8 on both blocks 1 and 2 should be OPEN for full TW speed (leave them there). Block 2 is for peripheral cards, and here is where the fun begins. Switches 1 to 7 correspond to your slots. Any empty slots (no cards) should be CLOSED. Slot 3 (where the TW should be) should be CLOSED. If you have a serial interface card (like a Super Serial card for printer or modem), that slot should be OPEN. Parallel interface cards can be CLOSED for maximium speed. Your SCSI Hard Drive slot (7) should be CLOSED for maximum speed. Do you have an Apple Hi Speed SCSI card? I ran this configuration with DMA on and had no problems until I added a PCTransporter card. Then I had to turm DMA on the SCSI card OFF. That may be your problem, since the TW uses it's own DMA. You can change speeds (for games, etc) by running these simple basic programs. First, make a subdirectory named SPEED. Get into BASIC and make the following programs - NEW 10 REM START 1 MHZ SPEED 20 POKE 49268,1 30 END LIST the input to make sure it is okay, and then save it as START.1MHZ Then make this one - NEW 10 REM START 3 MHZ SPEED 20 POKE 49268,0 30 END Save as START.3MHZ You can also make this one, if you feel you will ever need it. Just remember that if you use this, you will have to ReBoot to get the TW back into operation. NEW 10 REM DISABLE TRANSWARP 20 POKE 49268,3 30 END Save as DISBLE.TW Now you should have these 3 basic programs under /H?/SPEED/ available- (Where /H? is the name of your HD Partition.) START.1MHZ START.3MHZ DISABLE.TW Simply run the desired choice, and there you go! Ray (R.PASOLD, CAT14, TOP7, MSG:95-96/M645;1) THERE ARE NONE SO BLIND... I had some fun at the office today - we had """""""""""""""""""""""""" open house for 72 new staff workers, and I left my //e running on my desk with a large banner on the screen which said "Apple II Forever!" Quite a few people were surprised to see an "ancient" computer, and they were even more amazed to find out all the "stuff" it's hooked to (accelerator, internal HD, scanner, laser printer, VAX mainframe, high speed modem), but what really blew their minds was seeing a printed brochure done on it. One guy even took a copy just to show others. "No one is going to believe this was done on an Apple //e!" he said over and over - and not just to me - to everyone he met. :) __!__ | Terrell Smith | tsmith@ivcfnsc.fullfeed.com (T.SMITH59, CAT2, TOP7, MSG:125/M645;1) VT100 ON AN APPLE II PLUS What Bill said. Modem MGR has a VT-220 """"""""""""""""""""""""" emulation, which (according to the manual) encompasses VT100 and VT-52 as well. Modem MGR is a SOLID, very powerful telecom program for the II+. It literally has no competition in this market. It's $50 from: MGR Software Suite 101 305 So. State College Blvd. Anaheim, CA 92806 (714)993-0294 They take plastic. TomZ (A2.TOMZ, CAT7, TOP16, MSG:78/M645;1) >>> HOT TOPICS <<< """""""""""""""""" BRUTAL DELUXE AND "SYSTEM 6.0.2" I've explained my position to Joe (who """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" is "shocked" and "appalled" at me, which is of course his right :). I'll stick to my opinion, though: I have no intention of installing the Brutal Deluxe "System 6.0.2 update," (those quotes are there for a reason, folks), and I will not go out of my way to support it in any software I write. Period. That's my feeling on it; let's talk about something more fun now. :) Sheppy [Team PPCPro] (SHEPPY, CAT9, TOP7, MSG:273/M645;1) >>>>> To be fair, Brutal Deluxe has openly invited any able programmers """"" to help them with the system software update. If they can put together a series of patches (or a single large patch program, however they plan on doing it) to improve upon 6.0.1, then more power to them. But these patches must not change any of the functionality of 6.0.1. If there are new features added, it will be up to individual software writers to use them or not (much like the new features that were added in 6.0.1.) If a new piece of software requires the Brutal Deluxe update, it should ship with the patch program since this will obviously not be an official Apple Comp. update. Whether their update is "official" or not is irrelevant. If it works and it's useful, people will use it. There have been quite a few unofficial patches that have been endorsed by the Apple IIgs community. FixFontMgr is a good example. It is included in the latest version of Pointless, and many people consider it a mandatory patch. II Scroll is unofficial but it's so darned useful that many people can't live without it. If Brutal Deluxe can create more of these types of improvements, that's great. - Tony Ward (A2.TONY, CAT2, TOP10, MSG: 41/M645;1) >>>>> Log me in as one more very-experienced GS programmer, and one who """"" has done a lot of low-level work, who wouldn't trust Brutal Deluxe to rewrite an OS. I feel so strongly about this, I might design code to NOT work under it. Let me hasten to add that there are programmers here I would trust to do such a project. The BD folks just aren't in that lot. A lot of these European programs don't even work right between ROM 01's and ROM 3's. That speaks volumes to me about the kind of programming underlying it all. Also, I distrust many of these programs that mess illegally with my Battery RAM. Quite simply, I don't see the right kind of mindset in these types of programmers to do an OS properly, and I don't want a poorly-done OS to kill the GS market by dividing it between the "good OS" and "new OS" camps. I've written SEVERAL bug-patches for the GS (I've lost count of the exact number; many of them were done at Softdisk, of course, but some were done before that). I don't have problems with bug-patch add-ons, but presuming to rewrite the OS is quite a different matter. Also, I know how much time and effort _I_ go to to make my patch programs 100% compatible; it's exhaustive and methodical work. I haven't seen that kind of work ethic in many other programmers. -Greg Templeman (BARNABAS, CAT2, TOP10, MSG:43/M645;1) >>>>> A few months ago, Brutal Deluxe proposed a group programming """"" project that would identify bugs in System 6.0.1 and fix those bugs. They specifically asked for assistance. They stated that they needed help in identifying the existing problems, and they solicited other programmers to join in on the project. I think that if people have concerns about Brutal Deluxe's proposed project that they should get in touch with Brutal Deluxe directly, and either offer to get involved in the project, offer constructive criticisms of their programming skills, or explain to them why their proposed project might be ill conceived or unfeasible. The only programmer I've spoken to recently about the proposed Brutal Deluxe project was most vehemently opposed to any Brutal Deluxe meddling with system software, but was equally vehement about not contacting them to explain why. And, that frustrated me, as I'd rather see the lines of communication opened up. That's my 2 cents.... Joe (JOE.KOHN, CAT2, TOP7, MSG:109/M645;1) KANSASFEST IS COMING This is an official KFest '95 WARNING!!! """""""""""""""""""" We are limited to 80 beds (that's 40 rooms) in the dorms at Avila. We now have registrations for 62 of those beds. If you've been holding off sending in your registration because you are waiting for snow in Phoenix or some other miracle, you had better quit waiting and get in touch with PMP (Paul Parkhurst) as soon as possible. After we reach dorm capacity, you may still register to attend KFest '95, but you will need to make your own arrangements to stay in a motel. Full registration information may be found in the first message of this topic. Be there! July 27-29!! Cindy (C.ADAMS11, CAT44, TOP2, MSG:215/M645;1) >>>>> In Topic 2, there is some discussion about the Kansas City airport. """"" I'm not a resident of the city, but in looking at my city map it appears that there are two ways to get from the Kansas City International Airport (KCI) to the college. 1. Exit through the main gate (Cookingham Drive) onto Interstate 29 heading south. Take I-29 into the city. It will merge with I-35; continue south until it connects with I-70. Take I-70 east to the junction with I-435. Take I-435 south to exit 75A (Wornall Rd.). Follow Wornall south. Avila College is on the left a little ways down. 2. Exit through the main gate (Cookingham Drive) onto Interstate 29 heading south. At highway 152, exit west. It appears to be a four lane, limited access highway. Follow 152 west to I-435. Take I-435 south and follow it around until it reaches Wornall Rd from the west. Then exit to the college. This appears to be a longer route, but it MAY be less crowded. If you take this route, you will pass through Overland Park, Kansas. Charlie (A2.CHARLIE, CAT44, TOP3, MSG:21/M645;1) >>>>> |> """"" |\oute #2 is how I've usually gotten from the airport to Avila. It's very difficult to make a wrong turn or get lost on. Not that I've ever actually driven in Kansas City, myself... But still, this year I'm planning on renting a car and driving from the airport, and I bet I could get to Avila via route #2 without even looking at a map. -= Lunatic (: (A2.LUNATIC, CAT44, TOP3, MSG:22/M645;1) >>>>> I agree 100% with Luny, Route #2 is =the= way to go. Route #1 is """"" probably a few miles shorter, but takes you through a real spaghetti-pile rat's-nest of heavy-traffic intersections and lane changes. Route #2, OTOH, is a straight shot with no changes and has less dense traffic. TomZ (A2.TOMZ, CAT44, TOP3, MSG:23/M645;1) >>>>> I should have included a 3rd route in my list. Thanks, Carl """"" (3) Exit the airport, go under I-29 and follow Highway 291 to the interchange at I-435. Take the first ramp onto I-435. Follow I-435 around the east side of Kansas City until you get to Wornall Rd. Follow Wornall Rd. south to the college. It appears from the discussion that route #1 (through downtown Kansas City) is a bad idea. ;) Charlie (A2.CHARLIE, CAT44, TOP3, MSG:29/M645;1) >>>>> I know some are likely to call this nit-picking, however anyone """"" that actually goes to "KCI" will be very disappointed when they find that KFest is not in Kono, Indonesia B-)> The airport code for Kansas City International airport (the airport you WILL arrive at if you fly) is MCI. -- HangTime [PT Powered] B-)> (HANGTIME, CAT44, TOP2, MSG:227/M645;1) >>>>> Here's some additional information about Kansas City hotels. This """"" builds on the information that Cindy had previously posted. I was able to get prices (__single__ rate) for most of the hotels listed below. The exception(s) were the Marriott hotels. When I called, their local reservation person was gone for the evening and I couldn't get through on the 1-800 reservation line (it was busy). The 24-hour reservation line for the Marriott hotels is 1-800-229-9290. Please use the prices listed below as a __guideline__ for comparison. Your actual mileage may vary :) Kansas City Motels near Avila College (from the AAA Book) Courtyard by Marriott 816-941-3333 500 E. 105th St., Kansas City, MO 64131 (I-435 and Holmes St) Best Western Hallmark Inn 913-383-2550 7000 W. 108th St., Overland Park, KS 66211 (I-435 and Metcalf) [$62, free local calls, phone jack available] Clubhouse Inn - Overland Park 913-648-5555 10610 Marty, Overland Park, KS 66212 (I-435 and Metcalf) [$75, free local calls, phone jack available] Courtyard by Marriott 913-339-9900 11301 Metcalf, Overland Park, KS 66212 (I-435 and Metcalf) Drury Inn - Overland Park 913-345-1500 10951 Metcalf, Overland Park, KS 66210 (I-435 and Metcalf) [$69, free local calls, phone jack available] Embassy Suites - Overland Park 913-649-7060 10601 Metcalf, Overland Park, KS 66212 (I-435 and Metcalf) [$119, local calls are $0.75 each, phone jack available] Fairfield Inn - Overland Park 913-381-5700 4401 W. 107th, Overland Park, KS 66207 (I-435 and Roe) [$53, free local calls, phone jack available] Hampton Inn - Overland Park 913-341-1551 10591 Metcalf E. Frontage Rd, Overland Park, KS 66212 (I-435 and Metcalf) [$66, free local calls, phone jack available] Overland Park Marriott 913-451-8000 10800 Metcalf, Overland Park, KS 66210 (I-435 and Metcalf) Red Roof Inn - Overland Park 913-341-0100 6800 W. 108th St., Overland Park, KS 66211 (I-435 and Metcalf) [$43/50, free local calls, phone jack available] >>>> new entry to list <<<< Motel 6 - Kansas City - Lenexa, KS (Southwest) 913-541-8558 9725 Lenexa Drive, Lenexa, KS 66215 (I-35 @ 95th St. Exit 224) -- NE corner of I-435 & I-35 $33.14 (including tax), free local calls, phone jack avail (E.WAGNER10, CAT44, TOP2, MSG:236/M645;1) >>> WHAT'S NEW <<< """""""""""""""""" (San Rafael, CA. June 7, 1995) Shareware Solutions II, a general interest bi-monthly newsletter devoted to the Apple II computer, is pleased to announce that it is now the exclusive distributor of "The A+ Home Organizer." Created by Dr Cynthia Field, "The A+ Home Organizer" is a collection of AppleWorks GS templates designed to assist you in organizing your personal and family information. There's a credit card registry, a personal balance sheet that allows you to create a statement of net worth, several mortgage related templates that will help you through the maze of refinancing your home, a vacation planner, a template to create address labels, a template that lets you enter information about friends and family and that serves as a reminder for important dates, a medical authorization form, a home inventory worksheet, and a template that tracks the details of your financial life. All documentation is provided on disk. Originally available through inCider/A+ Magazine for $29.95, Shareware Solutions II is making "The A+ Home Organizer" available for only $5. There are no additional charges for shipping and handling, and air mail delivery to anywhere in the world is included as part of the $5 cost. Despite its low cost, "The A+ Home Organizer" is not freeware, shareware or public domain; it is professionally created commercial software for the Apple IIGS. In order to use these templates, you MUST own AppleWorks GS. Shareware Solutions II can accept checks or money orders, in US dollars (or drawn on a US account) and made payable to "Joe Kohn." Sorry, but no credit cards or school purchase orders can be accepted. Joe Kohn c/o Shareware Solutions II 166 Alpine Street San Rafael, CA 94901-1008 USA (JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:40/M645;1) >>> THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE <<< """"""""""""""""""""""""""""" SCRIPT-CENTRAL BACK ISSUES I've dropped a few hints concerning a few of """""""""""""""""""""""""" the projects that Shareware Solutions II has on tap... HangTime has secured the copyrights to the excellent HyperCard based Script-Central magazine-on-disk that he edited/created for ICON. HangTime and I have reached an agreement for Shareware Solutions II to distribute those, once again. There's a lot that needs to be done before all those back issues will become available once again. In no particular order.... 1) We need to set a price for each issue and we need to determine a price for the entire collection. 2) I need to go through all 20+ issues and re-acquaint myself with them in order to be able to describe what's contained on each issue. 3) I do not yet have a complete set of disks. So, in the midst of preparing the next issue of SSII, I have some other time consuming tasks. I imagine that we'll be able to set an equitable price in the next few weeks, so that should be included in the next issue. I'd just thought you'd want to know... Joe Kohn (JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:348/M645;1) IIGS MS-DOS UTILITIES Recently I spoke via internet mail with Peter """"""""""""""""""""" Watson. One of the things I asked was if he planned on releasing a "desktop version" of his MSDOS Utilities. Here is his reply: Re: The "desktop version". I have started designing it, but time is a real issue. It will probably be an NDA, which means I won't try to implement some of the bells and whistles that would be easy in a full application. On the other hand, you will be able to transfer files from within any other application, which is as close as we're going to get to a "real" MSDOS FST. I have no idea when it might be available, but he _is_ working on it! -Doc Internet: WEL378@prb.mhs.compuserve.com (M.WELTE, CAT9, TOP17, MSG:51/M645;1) UPDATED SUPERCONVERT Our goal is to have it finished by KansasFest. """""""""""""""""""" Don't know how much [it will cost] yet. We'll announce complete details here as soon as SC is ready. (SEVENHILLS, CAT43, TOP5, MSG:217/M645;1) STATE OF FAXINATION As near as I can tell, we have one problem where the """"""""""""""""""" program sometimes doesn't know that it's supposed to turn on the Print Manager; one where the Finder is doing screen updates and we have a Resource Manager bug; and one where a certain model of Zoom modem doesn't handle the ends of pages the same way that everybody else does, and therefore FAXination quits after sending one page. Most of our users seem to be pretty happy with the last version (v0.1.6) so I'll release another after I check out the fixes for the problems mentioned above. Then there are a couple of features that need to be added, and a couple of suggestions on making things a bit easier to deal with, and I will finally be able to declare Version 1.0! Yes, fax software is a *colossal* pain, but where would the fun be if it was easy? :) Have I mentioned today that I hate modems? Da Programmer (S.MCQUEEN1, CAT40, TOP2, MSG:276/M645;1) >>> MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT <<< """"""""""""""""""""""""" Category 9, Topic 6 Message 100 Sat Jun 03, 1995 M.EWEN [Michael E] at 01:44 EDT Yesterday at about 6:30 I posted a message in A2 about the problems I was having with accessing my P8 programs. It turns out that the problem was my RamFast mapping. Everything is back to normal and I am ever so grateful for all the help. In my desperation I also posted the same message on Usenet.comp.sys.apple2. In A2 I had 3 suggestions within a couple of hours and a solution within 24 hours. On the famous Intenet I had not responses with the first 24 hours, none. Now if I ever needed (which I don't) any encouragement to stay on GEnie I just got it. To me it makes very short work of the discussion in Usenet.comp.sys.apple2 about the costs and usefulness of GEnie. Once again thanks to all. Michael E. Delivered by: Spectrum 2.0/CoPilot v2.55 [*][*][*] 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 / ///////////////////////////////// Fun and Games on GEnie """""""""""""""""""""" Microsoft Announces New CD-ROM Software to Aid Consumers In Suing MS """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" (REDMOND) In an effort to make it easier for computer users everywhere to file a law suit against itself, Microsoft Corporation today announced Microsoft Litigation '95, a multimedia reference library complete with 139 frequently used legal writs, briefs, templates and forms which are accessible from within other programs with a single click. With this handy tool, a user will be able to combine elements of the popular Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Professional desktop productivity suites in conjunction with the Litigation '95 CD-ROM package to quickly and efficiently bring suit against Microsoft for a variety of reasons, whether legitimate or frivolous. What is new this year: Litigation Builder Located on the QuickSuit information retrieval """""""""""""""""" toolbar, Litigation Builder provides instant access to an enormous variety of case law and civil code from within any program on the Windows platform. Suit Wizards (tm) Suit Wizards (tm) guide the user through the many mazes """"""""""""""""" of 'legalese' required to bring suit against Microsoft, whether in city, county, state, Federal, Appellate, or Supreme Court. Localized versions of Litigation '95 will provide for the equivalent of lawsuits in any nation's format. Year in Review The Year in Review section highlights lawsuits, findings, """""""""""""" settlements and other legal events of the past year which affect Microsoft, including the Justice Department suit, Judge Sporkin's refusal to approve the settlement and the Stacker suit. All New Forms View more than 650 legal templates and forms from around """"""""""""" the world, 930 country-specific case law findings, and 180 bar associations. Also click a Latin legal term to hear it pronounced. Nothing could make it easier for a non-lawyer to bring suit against Microsoft. More Multimedia Elements Litigation '95 contains all new video for a """""""""""""""""""""""" total of 45 clips, 150 new audio clips for a total of five hours of sound, and 550 new images for a total of 3,000 pictures. The law dictionary contains more than 80,000 spoken pronunciations (the feature can be turned off if desired). [EOA] [CON]////////////////////////////// CONNECTIONS / ///////////////////////////////// Online Thoughts """"""""""""""" by Al Fasoldt [A.FASOLDT] >>> VIRTUALLY REAL, AND REALLY VIRTUAL <<< """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Copyright (c) 1995 By Al Fasoldt. All rights reserved. I was adjusting the sound level of my virtual CD player the other day when I suddenly realized how strange this act would have seemed a few years ago. But "virtual" is the buzzword of the mid-'90s for computer users, so no one who has mastered a modern personal computer is likely to find anything strange in what I was doing. I turned a knob in the middle of my computer screen. Not a real knob, of course -- that would really have messed up the display when I was doing my word processing. It was a virtual knob. Then I pushed the "pause" button when the phone rang. It isn't a real button, mind you. I mean, it _is_ a real button, since it does a real thing -- it puts the CD player on pause. But it's not a real button, if you know what I mean. Don't feel bad. Sometimes I don't know what I mean or what others mean, either, when talk comes around to the latest virtual machines. I don't know of any other term for them. They're all around us when we use personal computers. You're told to click on a window. It's not a window, of course. It's a virtual window. And you're told to press a button. It's really a picture of a button. Things can get complicated fast. In our standard PC setup at the newspaper where I train journalists in the new technologies of our trade, reporters click on a typewriter to start up their word processor. It's not a typewriter, of course. It's not even a picture of a typewriter, if you are thinking along the virtual reality path. It's a picture of a virtual typewriter. And so I have my virtual CD player. The controls look just like the knobs and buttons on the Technics CD player that sits on the shelf beside my computer, but it's a lot more fun to use. Any time I want to listen to a compact disc, I can just slide the disc into my CD-ROM drive and put my virtual player on the screen. I can even slide the virtual player out of the way if I'm doing something else. It sure beats trying to lug my Technics around. What this means to the non-virtual CD-player business is anybody's guess. I know typewriters all but disappeared when word processors and cheap computer printers took over. Sure, you need a computer if you want to use a virtual CD player, but that's no problem; every office has computers, and maybe 40 percent of all homes do, too. Computers can be turned into virtual telephones, too. And virtual TVs. I guy I know has a virtual stereo FM receiver on his computer screen. One of my friends made a big discovery in the area of virtuality the other day. He found a virtual keyboard on his computer screen. It comes with Microsoft Windows. If you press a virtual key on this virtual keyboard you get a virtual letter on the screen, I suppose. It would have been a lot easier for him to press the real letter on the real keyboard, but it wouldn't have been, well, virtual. And it wouldn't have been as much fun. 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As Doug told you last month, there are several "Best of" disk collections in the Apple II library. This month I'd like to give you some extra information about the "Best of Music Studio Songs" file, as well as information on the other Music Studio files available in the library. This file, titled BEST.OF.MS.BXY (#18976) was uploaded in June 1992. Since then there have only been a handful of new files uploaded for Music Studio. If you have Music Studio, or have seen it for sale used and wondered about it, here is the information you need to get the best of the already recorded Music Studio songs. [*][*][*] Here is a list of all of the songs available on the Best of Music Studio Songs file. This file is designed to fit on a single 800K 3.5" disk. To make this list, a song had to be special to some folks. I'll make no attempt to evaluate them, since I have a tin ear. :) ALLATRK.SNG Alla Turea - Wolfgang A. Mozart ANNIES.SNG Annie's Song by John Denver BEETHVN5TH.SNG Beethoven's 5th BENHUR.SNG Ben Hur Chariot Race March BLACKBIRD.SNG Blackbird - The Beatles BLUE.MOON.SNG Blue Moon - Hart & Rogers BO.RHAPSODY.SNG Bohemian Rhapsody BOLERO.SNG Bolero by Ravel BRICKWAL.SNG Another Brick on the Wall BRISTL.STMP.SNG Bristol Stomp - The Dovells BTVNS5THPNO.SNG Beethoven's 5th BUMBLEBEE.SNG Flight of the Bumble Bee CAN.CAN.SNG Hooked On a Can Can by Eric CANTINA.B.SNG Cantina Band CLOSER.SNG Closer to the Heart by Rush COLOUR.SNG Colour My World CONCERTO.SNG Concerto in the Italian Stype DOWNUNDER.SNG Down Under by Men at Work DWARVES.SNG March of the Dwarves ENTERTAINER.SNG The Entertainer by Joplin EVERY.DAY.SNG Every Day FALCON.CRST.SNG Falcon Crest Arr: Greg Dib FLASHDANCE.SNG Flashdance - What a Feeling GAMES.PLAY.SNG Games People Play GBUSTERS.SNG Ghostbusters- Ray Parker Jr. GGROBAR.SNG Grandma Got Run Over - Brooks GHOSTRIDERS.SNG Ghostriders HEARTBREAK.SNG Heartbreaker by Pat Benetar HELP.RONDA.SNG Help Me Rhonda by Brian Wilson HERE.THERE.SNG Here, There, and Everywhere HILL.ST.SNG Hill Street Blues Theme I.HAV.2.DO2.SNG All I Have To Do Is Dream INVENTION10.SNG Invention #10 in G Major INVENTION12.SNG Invention #12 in A Major INVENTION15.SNG Invention #15 in B Minor LINUS.LUCY.SNG Linus and Lucy - V. Guaraldi LION.SLEEPS.SNG Wimoweh Mbube - The Tokens LOLLIPOP.SNG Lollipop LONELY.SNG You're Only Lonely LUCIFER.SNG Lucifer - Alan Parsons Project MORK.SNG Mork & Mindy Theme MPLE.LF.RAG.SNG Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin NACHT.MIDI.SNG Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Mozart NINETOFIVE.SNG Nine To Five ONE.UR.WITH.SNG Love The One You're With OVERTURE.SNG Overture - Rush PAINT.BLAK.SNG Paint It Black - Rolling Stones PEOPLE.EAT.SNG The Purple People Eater PETERGUNN.SNG Peter Gunn PLAY.W.FIRE.SNG Play With Fire - Rolling Stones ROCK.ROUND.SNG Rock Around the Clock ROCKUSA.SNG Rock in the USA RUDOLPH.SNG Rudolph Song RUNNING.SNG Running With The Night S.L.T.WIND.SNG She's Like the Wind - P. Swayze SD.SILENCE.SNG The Sound of Silence SILANCEAG6O.SNG The Sound of Silence SINFONIA12.SNG Sinfonia Nolz in A Major SOLILOQUY.SNG Soliloquy - Rush SOMETHING.SNG Something for Nothing SOOLAIMON.SNG Soolaimon by Appletree SPAULDING.SNG Hooray for Captain Spaulding SPIRIT.SNG Spirit of the Radio by Rush ST.ELSE.SNG St. Elsewhere Arr: Greg Dib SURFIN.USA.SNG Surfin' USA - Beach Boys SYRINX.SNG The Temple of Syrinx UNDER.SEA.SNG Under the Sea VINCENT.SNG Vincent (Don McLean) WONDERFUL.SNG Wonderful! Wonderful! YAKETY.YAK.SNG Yakety Yak - The Coasters Z812.SNG 1812 Since this file was uploaded, there have been only four other Music Studio files uploaded. They are: File# Filename Description 22510 CANNON.SNG.BXY Tune for Music Studio .01 19924 PEACE.BXY Music Studio song 'Peace, Peace' 19625 UNDERSEA.BXY Under the Sea from "Little Mermaid." 19528 AMERICANPIE.BXY Song, American Pie by Don McLean. Of the four, only PEACE.BXY caught my attention (but don't forget my tin ear ;) Below is a list of all of the other Music Studio songs available in the Apple II library. It includes all of the songs on the BEST list, as well as a number of others. File# Filename Description 17378 LINUS.LUCY.BXY Peanuts theme song for MS 2.0 17377 GGROBAR.BXY GGROBAR for Music Studio 2.0 17267 FAREWLL.SNG.BXY Rush: A Farewell To Kings for MS 17159 THETREES.MS.BXY The Trees by Rush for Music Studio 17018 CLASSICAL..BXY A bunch of classical songs for MS 17016 OLDIES.BXY A bunch of oldie songs for MS 17015 RUSH.TUNES.BXY A bunch of RUSH tunes for MS 17014 ROCK.TUNES.BXY A bunch of tunes for MS 16574 PAPA.PRCH.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16573 SINFONIA12.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16572 SINFONIA09.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16570 SINFONIA07.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16569 SINFONIA03.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16567 IF.I.FELL.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16566 NIGHTINGALE.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16565 WONDERFUL.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16564 SUNDAY.GIRL.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16563 GAMES.PLAY.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16562 LUCIFER.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16561 BE.LIKE.U.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16560 RISING.SUN.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16257 TRUE.COLORS.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16256 CAL.GIRLS.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16254 I.GET.AROUN.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16253 PURPLE.PEPL.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16252 FR.OVRSPILL.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16251 ROKROLL.SND.BXY Sound file for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16247 FALCON.CRST.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16246 MAPLE.LF.RG.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16245 GO.YOUR.WAY.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16244 DOWN.UNDER.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16243 RUDOLPH.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16242 SURFR.GIRL.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16241 BARBARA.ANN.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16240 BERETTA.SNG.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16230 POSMNTATERS.BXY Ragtime song for MusicStudio 2.0. 16174 CANTINA.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16173 CAN.CAN.SNG.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16172 SPAULDING.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16171 AMERICA2.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16170 CAL.DREAMIN.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 16169 BROADWAY.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 15722 MUSICON.BXY Icons - Music Studio and SoundSmith 15552 WITCHY.BXY Song for Music Studio 15551 STAIRWAY.HV.BXY Song for Music Studio 15550 KILLING.ME.BXY Song for Music Studio 15549 EVERYBREATH.BXY Song for Music Studio 15483 BOADWAY.BXY Song for Music Studio 15456 SOLACE.BXY An original piece for Music Studio 15419 FALLING.2.BXY New version of Twin Peaks theme 15368 TWIN.PEAKS.BXY Twin Peaks Theme for Music Studio 15271 VINCENT.BXY Song for Music Studio 15216 MTRIBUTE.BXY Michigan Tribute for Music Studio 15201 BACH.BXY Song for Music Studio 15194 WE.R.WORLD.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 15193 CELLO.WBNK.BXY Wavebank for Music Studio (Re-Up) 15190 STELSEWHERE.BXY Song For Music Studio (Re-UP) 15163 PSN.PIGEONS.BXY by Tom Lehrer for MusicStudio 15139 COLOUR.SNG.BXY Song for Music Studio (Re-Up) 15138 MS.1812.SNG.BXY Song for Music Studio (Re-UP) 15137 BUTLOVE.SNG.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 15136 GHST.BUSTR.BXY Song for Music Studio (RE-UP) 15134 SAIL.AWAY.BXY Song for Music Studio 2.0 15029 AGNST.ODDS.BXY Song for Music Studio 15028 AXEL.FOLEY.BXY Song for Music Studio 15027 ANOTHR.BRIK.BXY Song for Music Studio 15026 ON.BROADWAY.BXY Song for Music Studio 15025 AMERICA.BXY Song for MusicStudio 14923 DONT.BE.SHY.BXY Song for Music Studio 14502 IN.MY.ROOM.BXY Song for Music Studio 14498 INVENTION.13.BXY Song for Music Studio 14497 SOOLAIMON.BXY Song for Music Studio 14217 GOD.REST.YE.BXY A Christmas song for Music Studio 14216 GHOSTRIDERS.BXY Ghost Riders song for Music Studio 14209 W.CHRISTMAS.BXY Christmas Music For Music Studio 14208 WHAT.CHILD.BXY Christmas Music For Music Studio 14207 SILENT.NITE.BXY Christmas Music For Music Studio 14206 MANGER.BXY Christmas Music For Music Studio 14205 KING.W.BXY Christmas Music For Music Studio 14204 JOY.2.WORLD.BXY Christmas Song For Music Studio 14176 FIRST.NOEL1.BXY Christmas Music For Music Studio 14172 DECK.HALLS1.BXY Christmas Music For Music Studio 14167 BETHLEHEM.BXY Christmas Music For Music Studio 14066 XMAS.CAROL.BXY by Tom Lehrer for MusicStudio 2.0.1 13962 NEVER.ENDIN.BXY Song for Music Studio 13961 JUMP.BXY Song for Music Studio 13960 HEARTBREAKR.BXY Song for Music Studio 13959 FLASHDANCE.BXY Song for Music Studio 13957 DANCER.BXY Song for Music Studio 13938 MARTHA.BXY Song for Music Studio 13901 SND.SILENCE.BXY Song for Music Studio 13900 GT.CHARLIE.BXY Song for Music Studio 13899 CLEMENTINE.BXY A Music Construction Set Song 13898 BUMBLEBEE.BXY Song for Music Studio 13897 BOHEMIAN.RP.BXY Song for Music Studio 13896 BOLERO.BXY Song for Music Studio 13895 BOOKENDS.BXY Song for Music Studio 13639 TRIO.K1.BXY Song for Music Studio 13638 TCHAIKOVSKY.BXY Song for Music Studio 13637 PRE.BELLS.BXY Song for Music Studio 13636 MOZART.3.BXY Song for Music Studio 13635 MOZART.2.BXY Song for Music Studio 13634 MINUET.T.BXY Song for Music Studio 13633 MINUET.F.BXY Song for Music Studio 13632 MINUET.2.BXY Song for Music Studio 13631 FANFARE.M.BXY Song for Music Studio 13630 DWARVES.BXY Song for Music Studio 13629 ALLEGRO.F.BXY Song for Music Studio 13590 AMANDA.BXY Song for Music Studio 13574 HITCHCOCK.BXY Song for Music Studio 13410 HLLSTRT.MS.BXY Hill Street Blues for Music Studio 13377 SONSDAUGH.BXY Song for Music Studio 13376 SEVENWORDS.BXY Song for Music Studio 13375 SACREDHEAD.BXY Song for Music Studio 13374 PRAISE.LORD.BXY Song for Music Studio 13373 OVERSPILL.BXY Song for Music Studio 13372 NINETOFIVE.BXY Song for Music Studio 13371 MORK.MINDY.BXY Song for Music Studio 13370 PETER.GUNN.BXY Song for Music Studio 13344 CHRISTVER2.BXY Song for Music Studio 13343 CHRISTVER1.BXY Song for Music Studio 13341 CHIEFSINNER.BXY Song for Music Studio 13340 CHARIOTS.BXY Song for Music Studio 13339 AMADEUS.BXY Song for Music Studio 13338 LORD.GUIDE.BXY Song for Music Studio 13337 I.KNOW.BXY Song for Music Studio 13335 HOLYHOLY.BXY Song for Music Studio 13334 ENTERTAINER.BXY Song for Music Studio 13333 CROWNHIM.BXY Song for Music Studio 13239 MUSKRAT.BXY Muskrat Ramble for Music Studio 2.1 13023 UNDER.SEA.BXY from The Little Mermaid for MS 2.0 13020 STREN.LIFE.BXY a Ragtime Two Step by Scott Joplin 12953 MEDIT.BXY Bossa Nova tune for Music Studio 12674 REQUERO.BXY 3 Classic Guitar Music Studio Songs 11818 SNDSMITH.94.BXY Version 0.94 of an awesome sequencer 11747 ANNIES.SNG.BXY MS file of Annie's Song by J Denver 11190 POPULAR.BXY 30's,40's & modern popular music 11189 CLASSICS.BXY classic music for Music Studio 2.0 10998 OLDIES.ROCK.BXY 18 Music Studio files 10019 RUSH.WIND.BXY Song by Keith Green for MS2.0 9754 SIDE.BYSIDE.BXY side by side for Music Studio 9049 XMAS.BXY White Christmas for Music Studio [*][*][*] That's it for this month. I hope you have found something here to whet your interest. Drop me a line and let me know what you think of this column and offer any suggestions you might have about what should be in it. Until next time, happy downloading! -- Charlie Hartley [EOA] [HAR]/////////////////////////////// HARD_VIEW // ////////////////////////////////// Hardware and You """""""""""""""" by Bill Quinn [QUINNIE] o ADD SOME ZIP TO YOUR LIFE! o ZIP DRIVE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS [Editor's note: This column was originally written for GEnieLamp IBM. I've presented it here, in a slightly abbreviated form, because much of the information is applicable to those who wish to run a Zip drive on their Apple II.] >>> ADD SOME ZIP TO YOUR LIFE! <<< """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Author's note: This is an article I wrote for a computer club's monthly """"""""""""" magazine. Since I wrote the article I have purchased an AC adapter that will work world-wide and I must say that it is half the weight of the one that comes with the Zip drives. To the person who wanted to know if you can run programs from the drive--yes. Just remember the parallel-port drive has a speed like an old AT hard drive--the Seagate 4038 at about 29 Ms. I Have a Zippy Drive A couple of months ago I heard rumors that the """""""""""""""""""" Iomega Company was going to release a new external portable drive. The name of this new drive is Zip. From the preliminary information I learned that: It would be small, measuring about 5 x 7 x 1-1/4 inches. It would weigh about one pound. The disks would hold 100 Mb of data. The disks would measure about 4 x 4 x 1/4 inches. The drives were made as a SCSI or Parallel port drive. The parallel Zip Drive has a Printer Pass-Though Connector. The cost would be about $200 for either drive. The 100 Mb disks would sell for about $20. The 25 Mb disks would sell for about $15. In my opinion the most important information was the cost of the new drive and the cost of those 100 Mb disks. Because Iomega makes the excellent Bernoulli drive, I was most interested in adding one of these new drives to my portable computer in order to reduce the weight we carry when traveling. We use a Compaq Aero, a sub-notebook computer, which weighs only about four pounds. We also carry the Bernoulli Transportable drive and about four Bernoulli 90 Mb cartridges. The transportable and cartridges weigh about 12 pounds; about three times the weight of the computer. This Zip drive has reduced the weight of our computer gear by over eight pounds. When traveling eight pounds is a lot of computer weight to loose. Try to lose eight pounds of body weight in a week's time. I purchased the parallel port Zip drive because I wanted the ability to move the drive around to our various computers. I wanted the ability to connect the drive to other peoples machines without a lot of configuration hassles as well. The Zip Drive comes with one free 100 Mb Zip Tools Disk which has about 20 Mb of Iomega programs to install and support the Zip drive in either DOS or Windows. The one 3.5 inch (1.44 Mb) installation diskette furnished allows you to boot your computer with the Zip drive and to install the software for DOS or Windows from the Zip 100 Mb disk. There is an external power supply (a cube 2x2x3 inches) along with a Data Cable furnished with the Zip Drive too. My only criticism of the Zip Drive is the Power Supply cube which plugs directly into an electrical outlet. This method necessitates the use of a power strip for conveniently switching on or off the Zip drive. If a power strip is not used, the cube will not allow you to plug any other gadget into the same outlet. The same type of power cubes are used for portable printers and modems and I don't like them either. I would rather they use a short 12 to 18 inches pig-tail wire with a plug on the end. This system would allow you to plug several other items into a power strip or a wall outlet box. Installation on my various systems was very easy. If you need more information or if you have installation problems, there is a 130-page manual and a couple of short "read me" files on the 3.5 installation diskette. These cover just about everything you would need should you experience any problems. Well... maybe the Crash Queen would need some help. (grin) I used the new Iomega drivers that came with the Zip drive on our Tower computer. These drivers allowed me to boot with the two Bernoulli drives and the Zip drive when attached. On the portable computer and some other computers I use the Iomega GUEST program. The GUEST program is a system driver which allows you to use your Zip drive temporarily almost anywhere. It uses about 25 Kb of memory and it may be loaded in either high memory or conventional memory. This GUEST driver may be used as a permanent system driver as well. When installed, the Zip drive becomes just another drive on your system. You can run programs. You can copy files and programs to and from the Zip drive. If you use Stacker you can store over 200 Mb on each disk. Performance of this drive has been more than adequate for me. The access speed of the Zip drive is about 29 ms which equates to the speed of the old Seagate 4038 series drive I had in an old 286 computer. The speed of data transfer to and from the Zip drive will depend on the model you purchase. SCSI will be faster. If you have a bi-directional parallel port or an EPP chip set, you may be able to use a faster mode of data transfer which will significantly improve the performance of your Zip drive. Caching will also speed up drive access. Make sure you load the Zip drivers before loading your cache program. I have been running several programs from the Zip drive and I can see a small difference in the speed of loading the programs. The speeds of my hard drives are about 10 to 12 ms, which is about three times faster than the Zip drive. With the cost of the 100 Mb disks at $20, however, I can put up with the slower speed. To make the most of your Zip drive Zip disks may be used to extend your hard disk (hard disk upgrade alternative). Are you constantly running out of hard disk space? Your Zip drive and disks give you unlimited storage for all your information. By placing files on Zip disks you have ready access to them without filling up your hard disk. Zip Tools software will help you find any files you need, and Zip drive's hard-disk-like performance will let you access information quickly. Do you need to move information between different work locations? Between home and work? To and from clients? Your Zip drive and disks offer complete mobility. Zip disks fit in a shirt pocket. The Zip drive is easy to carry and is quickly set up. The GUEST program allows you to use your Zip drive temporarily almost anywhere. Back up your hard disk. Your Zip drive makes backups fast and simple. You don't need special backup software just copy critical files to a Zip disk. Copying is lightning fast and it will give an exact duplicate of your original files. Should you need to restore a file simply copy it back to your hard drive, or just access it directly from the Zip drive. Create a multimedia library (images, sounds, and video). Because of their high capacity, being removable, and random access, Zip disks are ideal for storage-hungry image, sound, and video files. Clips may come from a variety of sources including scanners, CD-ROMs, and video input devices. Multimedia presentations and demonstrations may be created and stored to include video which may be replayed directly from the Zip disk. Do you need to keep files for a number of years? Archive your valuable files on a Zip disk and store them in a safe place. Whenever you need them you can access them quickly. Get organized. If you work on several different projects or with many different clients, try segmenting your work onto different disks. You can organize your information by project, client, date, or whatever. Zip disks give you the capacity to get all associated files onto a single disk. Switching between projects and customers is as simple as inserting another Zip disk. To keep sensitive or confidential information safe, store it on a Zip disk and use your Zip Tools software and assign to it a password which must be used in order to read from or write to the disk. At work you can protect sensitive information such as personnel files, company directories, and product plans or designs. At home you can secure personal information such as tax records, budgets, and computerized checkbooks. 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