New GS WorldView EE Hunt Contest Announcement!

[Charles Turley <gbmaidsf@wco.com>]

GS WorldView announces an 'All New' - Easter Egg Hunt Contest!  The contest will
start at exactly 12 NOON (PDT) on 4/12/96!  The first person to find the 'All
New' Easter Egg, then and follow the instructions correctly wins the prize.

The GS WorldView EZine URL, where you can find the 'All New' Easter Egg, starting
at exactly 12 NOON (PDT) on 4/12/96 follows:

http://www.wco.com/~3d5d1wsw/gsezine

AN ALTERNATE PRIZE OF EQUAL VALUE CAN BE ARRANGED, SHOULD THE WINNER ELECT NOT TO
TAKE THE PRIZE MENTIONED!

ABOUT THE PRIZE:

The 100% - absolutely FREE selected prize (valued at $60) is: 'The Golden Orchard
Apple II CD-ROM'.  For those of you not aware of what this great prize is, read
on for an in depth review of what it contains, with some useful questions and
answers about it also.


SOME QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT THE CD - AS PRESENTED BY THE CD'S AUTHOR - JIM
MARICONDO

Q: What is Golden Orchard?

A: Golden Orchard is the largest Apple II CD-ROM made to date.  It contains over
600 megabytes of files useful to Apple II owners, including tons of freeware,
shareware, utilities, games, graphics, sounds, music, source code, and much more,
all in uncompressed, easy-to-navigate form. It is primarily targetted at the
Apple IIGS owner, and can be fully accessed on a Mac or Apple IIGS equipped with
CD-ROM drive.  (Apple IIe owners can access the ProDOS partition only.)


Q: Will the CD be readable on a PC?

A: No.  The ISO 9660 file system (needed for the CD to be PC readable) is just
too restrictive and thus not very feasible for our needs.  Instead the CD has
ProDOS and HFS partitions.


Q: Will the CD be readable on a Mac?

A: Yes.  The CD has six HFS partitions (this was due to bugs in the HFS FST, but
it also allowed us to fit a LOT more on the CD since it reduced HFS overhead
considerably) and one ProDOS partition, all of which are capable of being mounted
on a Mac.  However, you will need Mac CD drivers that will recognize multiple HFS
partitions and ProDOS partitions.  The only driver we know of that will do this
is FWB's CD-ROM Toolkit.  It will mount the 5 HFS partitions, and if you have the
ProDOS File System extension (part of the Apple IIe card software for the Mac) it
will also mount the ProDOS partition as well. Almost all files should fit on an
800k disk so you could read them on a Mac with CD-ROM drive and transfer them to
the GS manually.  800k disk images are one exception, but you can convert them
into their original disk format on the Mac or the IIGS using included programs,
so it shouldn't be a problem.


Q: Will the CD be useful to an Apple IIe owner?

A: Somewhat.  The ProDOS partition is around 18MB.  It contains lots of
AppleWorks files, ProDOS 8 utilities and programs, BASIC programs, and other
items of interest to Apple IIe owners.  However the definite focus of this disc
is the IIGS.


THE GOLDEN ORCHARD APPLE II CD-ROM CONTENTS SUMMARY: (Partial listing)

Applications 81mb, Demos 10mb, Games 27mb, Graphics & Sound Demos 7mb, Graphics
Utilities 5mb, Sound & Music Programs 10mb, System Utilities 4mb,
Telecommunications 5mb, Disk Images 145mb, FTA Software 22mb, Graphics 51mb, 3200
Color Pictures 8mb, Animations 10mb, APF Pictures 5mb, GIF Pictures 12mb, Music
64mb, MIDI Songs 5mb, MODs 22mb, SoundSmith Songs 16mb, SynthLab Songs 12mb,
Sounds 13mb, Apple Software 28mb, System Software HyperCard IIGS AppleWorks 10mb,
BASIC Programs 1mb, Stacks 28mb; HyperCard IIGS 6mb, HyperStudio 22mb, Bitmap
Fonts 2mb, TrueType Fonts 28mb, Deprotects & Cheats 6mb, Icons 1mb, CDAs 2mb,
NDAs 2mb,Inits 1mb, Finder Extensions 1mb, Patches & Updates 1mb, Text Files
25mb, Programming 124mb, From Apple 31mb, Data Compression 2mb, Assembly Source
8mb, C Source 10mb, Utilities 18mb.

REMEMBER THE URL TO GO TO FOR THE EASTER EGG HUNT:

http://www.wco.com/~3d5d1wsw/gsezine

THE GOLDEN ORCHARD APPLE II CD-ROM IS THE PRIZE YOU'LL WIN (IF YOU'RE THE
WINNER)! SO, GO HUNT FOR THAT EASTER EGG, STARTING AT 12 NOON (PDT) ON 4/12/96
AND GOOD LUCK!

Charles Turley 
Editor - GS WorldView