Re: What do YOU want?!!

[foegelle@sleepy.cc.utexas.edu (Michael Foegelle)]

In article <1994Feb11.202618.20122@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
Steven Nelson <snelson@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote:
>How about some appletalk file-sharing utilities, so users with IIGS or
>appletalk IIe machines could at least exchange files over appletalk.  GS
>server software would be even better.  I think the product would be unique
>enough that users would register shareware fees, buy a license, whatever.  I
>also doubt you would recover your investment if you had to buy IIe appletalk
>cards, IIGS's, etc. to test your software.  But, such are the things dreams
>are made of ...

This has been suggested, and I know someone who's getting out of the Apple 
biz, and if he'll sell his //e boards as cheap as he bought 'em, I might
be willing to give it a shot.  Another thing I was thinking of (and someone
else suggested, which got me back to thinking of it) is a serial port network
for the //e, gs, etc.  It could be made into a Prodos device (may require 
losing disk ][ access though) so that you could access hard drives over a 
simple rs-232 network.  With a dedicated server it wouldn't take much in 
special hardware.  Peer to peer would require special adapters for each 
serial card.  Still if I knew that someone would pay for it, I'd give it a
try.

>Other wishes >>>  CD-Rom access software (like diskQuest).

Talk to the CD ROM people...

>                  Color GIF viewer (GIFview, SuperConvert etc. seem to
>                    blow the images up, giving R,G,B on interleaving lines.
>                    Mac viewers give very pleasing color TV quality images
>                    as detailed as the GS black-white images.  Why can't the
>                    GS display a color GIF in color?)

Why?  Because you only have 16 colors a line to work with.  So you either end
up with poor 16 color images, or dither it to give you 16 DIFFERENT colors on
each line that result in a better looking picture.  If you want better, you'll
have to improve the hardware, not the software.  I don't think I could do 
better than what currently exists.  (However I have had requests for a non-
shell base JPEG viewer, but I think I'll wait on the reaction to the just 
released version I read a message about.

>                  A program that would allow me, and only me, to correctly
>                    predict the winning numbers in Powerball lottery :)

Sure, I can give you one.  Only problem is, it won't give you the answer until
after the drawing has occured.

>                  GS/OS System 7.x, with powerPC emulator - including the
>                    68k emulator that would be faster that a native 68k
>                    emulator.

So, you want the GS to emulate a power PC?  Ok...  Why?  It could be done, but
it would be slower than slime growing on a shower wall.

>That should be enough to keep you busy this semester ;-)
>
>Happy Computing.
>
>  --Steve                             steven-nelson@uiowa.edu
>

Michael Foegelle

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