SneakPeek summary for comp.sys.apple2 for 8/14/1998

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SUBJECT: Re: What's New From SSII

*** Joe Kohn:
If You Can Use A Mouse, You Can Spell Correctly!

Shareware Solutions II, in association with Chris Vavruska, is pleased to
announce that NiftySpell - the first and only Universal Spell Checker for
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*** Adrian Whichello:
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British or American spelling? ("two peoples separated by a common language...")


*** Joe Kohn:
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NiftySpell will ship with two main dictionaries - one is a US dictionary, 
the other is a UK dictionary. Of course, only one main dictionary can be 
used at any one time, but they can be swapped 'on the fly.'
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SUBJECT: What is UniDisk ?

*** Jack Meoff:
Will somebody tell me what's UniDisk ???


*** Wayne Stewart:
There were two unidisks.
One was the 5.25 unidisk which is identical except in
color to the platinum Apple 5.25 drive normally found
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*** Benjamin Summers:
The Unidisk 5.25 was Apple's replacement for the venerable Disk II.  It
featured an updated design, was tan in color, had a DB-19 cable and a
daisy-chain port on the back to which other drives could be connected.  The
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SUBJECT: Sound Boards

*** Jeff Lemke:
Can anybody give me a comparison of the sound capabilities of the
Applied Engineering Phasor and the native sound capabilties of the IIgs?

Jeff Lemke


*** Edhel Iaur, Esq.:
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Modified from the old sound FAQ:

Source   Wavetable voices   WT bits   FM voices   Stereo?   Digitize?


*** Mitchell Spector:
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The Phasor:

    Well the Phasor was an optional plug-in board designed for the
Apple II Plus and IIe (which had no sound capabilities built-in,
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SUBJECT: A2 USB ?

*** Rick:
Has anyone heard if an A2 USB is in the works anywhere?.


*** Steve Mentzer:
Dont call me a skeptic, but I *highly* doubt that any form of apple II USB 
support will ever exist. Most USB-destined peripherals already have 
deeply-rooted support within the A2 line. 
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*** Simon C.Hall:
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There ARE USB <--> LocalTalk adapter's !


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SUBJECT: Programming information

*** Emmanuel ORAIN:
Hi everybody ...

I have a quesion for the Apple II programmers :
Do you know where I could find information on how to ...
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*** TWS:
Email me and I'll give you the info for disk reads (from Benath apple
dos)
I don't know how to do the serial card.
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*** David Cross:
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See the DOS manual for a simplified explanation of the RWTS routines, or get 
one of these two (preferably both): Beneath Apple DOS, or The DOSTalk 
Scrapbook - those two go into more detail.
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