Re: What if..........About an A2 Screen Saver

["Ernest" <ernestls@home.com>]

That would be so cool! I'm of the opinion that leaving a system running
(within reason) is more healthy for it than turning it on and off all the
time, especially when it comes to older computers.

How do these screen savers work? Do the SS's become part of the boot disk
(I'm using a dual floppy system) or do I need to get a hard drive? I have
found a SCSI card, with a 40meg external hard drive for $60 that I'm picking
up this weekend but a lot of the software that I have is DOS 3.3. Will I
still be able to use a screen saver?

Also, as pathetic as it sounds, I still haven't figured out how to convert
.SDK files that I download on my WinPC to usable diskettes for my Apple IIe,
which is sad because there are so many useful .SDK images out there but I
can't use them yet.

Is there any way that you could save these .SDK images as .DSK images also,
for us newbies?
Or could you offer me some advice, or point me to a faq that explains how to
convert .SDK files on my PC to useable diskettes? I'm having the same
problem with .SHK (shrinkit) files to.

Thanks for your help.
Ernest


Cturley2 wrote in message <20000410164126.06033.00001822@ng-ch1.aol.com>...
>ernestls@home.com wrote:
>
><<That stuff would be great but I would consider you a hero if you could
make a
>simple screen saver of any kind.  I know. It's just about impossible but I
can
>still hope for it. I'm working on learning my apple programming so maybe
I'll
>figure out how to do it myself one of these days. I even have a kind of
theory
>for one but it's still in the "on the tip of my tongue" phase. "Doctor!
Where's
>my white board?">>
>
>And...the Doctor replies :)  I've also been following the needs and request
for
>an A2 screen saver program, posted by several people over the last few
months
>now.  And, thus...I've located them for DOS 3.3, ProDOS
>and GS/OS.  So, if you'll give me a few days time to get them together,
>archive them in ShrinkIt archive format and upload them to my own PUBLIC
ACCESS
>FREE website and all such Apple2 ftp sites - you'll have them all to check
out
>in one combined archive file.  Some even have the source codes with them.
>
>The archive name will be simply: A2.SS.COL.SHK and I'll make a post to this
>newsgroup when the archive has been uploaded and where it's available from
with
>the URL's.
>
>Cheers,
>Tom
>