Genie & Lamp Feb97 10/20

[norman.dodge@techall.wa.com]

Hello News!

>>>>>>>>>> CSplit: Version 2.2 >>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> CSplit: Begin part 10/20 >>>>>>>>>>

Since none of the other previous 20 versions misbehaved in the least bit
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on my
system, a bit of detective work was required. I finally spotted 3 files
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that had
been modified since the last beta version, and noticed that one of them
\

was 5
bytes shorter. I insisted that Brutal Deluxe look at that file, and
sure enough...those 5 bytes were critical to the program.

I just downloaded the update, and...

Brutal Deluxe's LemminGS will start to ship on Monday, January 13,
1997.

It's completed, it works great, and I think it's the most enjoyable game
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I've
ever played on my IIGS! I think you'll agree...

Joe Kohn
                    (JOE.KOHN, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:229/M645;1)

>>>>>   I spent some time playing the LemminGS demo last night and it's
"""""   just great!

Normally when I'm doing my file releasing chores I'll take a quick look
at \

the
program to make sure it works, get back to Genie and release the file,
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then go
back and play some more if I liked it. Well, ummm, ::cough::, this time
I \

played
all 10 demo levels before I suddenly realized that I'd better go release
the file so others could check it out. For those of you who had to wait
a few \

extra
hours for the demo (even though you would never have known without me \

telling
you this), I apologize. :)

Being a Second Sight owner, I have very little use for Convert 3200 even
\

though
I hear it's a great program. But LemminGS looks so darned good, and is
so \

fun to
play, that I'm going to buy Convert 3200 anyway so I can play the \

remaining 80+
LemminGS levels.

 - Tony
                     (A2.TONY, CAT28, TOP4, MSG:231/M645;1)


                           >>> MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT <<<
                           """""""""""""""""""""""""
Category 2,  Topic 7
Message 358       Wed Jan 01, 1997
H.MOST [Hindmost]            at 02:04 EST

Well, gang, this is my last night on Genie.

After something more than 8 years, I'm leaving.

I was tempted to post this with my original DISPATCHER account (which
has  \

had a
name change to SOAPY.SUE and is being used by The Lovely Susan).

(Come to think of it, the ORIGINAL name on that account was G.UTTER.)

I want to talk about all the good times I've had here, I want to
reminisce \

about
so many of the friends I've made here (many of whom left a long time
ago), I want to say a LOT of things, but there doesn't seem to be much
point. I'll \

just
start crying, and won't be able to read the screen anyway.

I'm on Delphi now, committed to Delphi now. I'm over there because I
believe very strongly that Genie is doomed, that Genie will die in mere
months. I \

can't
bear to watch. It's been hard enough already.

If Apple II support has a future, its on Delphi. Genie only has a past.

That's a hard thing to say, and many of you won't want to hear it, or \

accept it,
but I think it is true.

(I certainly wouldn't leave if I didn't.)

I don't know what I mean to say here, and I know I'm not doing it well,
\

but this
is HARD people, REAL hard.

I'm not going to say how much I'll miss you all, because I really hope
\

that you
all will join me on Delphi.

GO COM A2                                        APPLE II FOREVER!!!!

Gary R. Utter....................................utter@delphi.com

                                   [*][*][*]


    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]
[A2P]//////////////////////////////
                A2/PRO_ductivity /
/////////////////////////////////
By Richard Bennett
       [RICHARD.B]



                           >>> A2PRO BITS & BYTES <<<
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NO BUFFERS AVAILABLE   What kinds of things can cause the NO BUFFERS
""""""""""""""""""""   AVAILABLE error under ProDOS?  Can anythign
besides \

lack
of free memory cause this error?

A guy named Adam Myrow is randomly seeing this message as he is writing
an \

Eamon
adventure.  He is blind and uses talking software.  The Eamon program
uses a machine-code extension that resides in protected space at the top
of free \

RAM.
I'm guessing that the talking software is conflicting with the Eamon ML
extension, but the problem surfaces randomly and Adam has not seen any
\

patterns
that would point to anything specific. He says he has seen it when
FRE(0) \

shows
6K of free RAM.

I don't actually expect to work out a solution here, and Adam says he
can  \

live
with it, but I am posting in case someone has any insights on what might
be going on and how to avoid it.

TomZ
                      (A2.TOMZ, CAT7, TOP7, MSG:84/M530;1)

>>>>>   No Buffers Available can occur if one of these commands (append,
"""""   cat, catalog, exec, open, or -[dash]) is used when eight files
are already open, or if there is not enough free memory for a 1K buffer
to be assigned.

Charlie
                    (A2.CHARLIE, CAT7, TOP7, MSG:85/M530;1)

>>>>>   NO BUFFERS AVAILABLE will happen any time you try to load data into
"""""   memory that's marked as USED in the global page.

F'rinstance, if you try to load a file on top of BASIC.SYSTEM's memory
(or ProDOS's memory), you'll get this error.

Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd
Logicware, Inc.
http://www.logicware.com

                      (SHEPPY, CAT7, TOP7, MSG:86/M530;1)


THOSE WACKY JPEGS   About a year (or so) ago, Tony Ward helped me figure
out """""""""""""""""   how to determine the dimensions of a Jpeg.
Shortly \
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