Info on Deja ][ - the AppleWorks Mac emulator program

[cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2)]

FIRST brought to the attention of CSA2 users - with a post from Bev (of Texas
II) who mentioned that Deja II was in the process of being reclassified as a
freeware title, if my memory serves me correctly, I think her post was around
the first or second week of this past October and was made on comp.sys.apple2.
Bev, please correct me if I'm wrong on the above.

So, today (11/22/99) while browsing the messageboard of the A2 Delphi forum (as
a guest of course :)  I noted this post from Howard Katz (who MAY post to Apple
II
newsgroups on occasion and whom some A2 users feel may use -aka- Penman).

Howard's quoted post is noted below for the general info of this newsgroup.

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"I'm please to announce the Lost Classics Project has now secured the
reclassification of Deja II.

Deja II Allows a Macintosh user running at least OS7 to run their
persnal copy of AppleWorks 5 on their Mac, using most of the Mac's
features includig the hard drive.  Most of the users favorite TimeOut
applications and UltraMicros will also work within the DejaII shell.

Please remember this is a Macintosh program, and it does NOT supply
AppleWorks 5 - the user must supply that in order for this program to
work.

DejaII has been reclassified with the premission of the authors, Randy
Brant and Mark Munz, and will be available for downlading as soon as
it's been reviewed and released by the librarian.

The program will also be available for download from the trenco ftp
site."

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For the readers general information the authors website page for Deja II
information follows:

http://www.jemsoftware.com/mac/

This webpage gives a good outline of what Deja II is all about, for the
visitor to read and review.

Their ftp site has made the following Mac archive available 
for public access and download dated from October 7th.

ftp://ftp.jemsoftware.com//pub/D2.hqx

For those wishing to access by IP number, I've referenced and noted the 
ftp site IP number: 206.117.150.32


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Gee, I finally made it as #1 with something at last :)

Relating to the Ref. from the above ftp site when I accessed it and
downloaded the D2.hqx archive, see the message I got notice of below :)

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230-Welcome to JEM Software's FTP server.
 
 You are user #1 out of unlimited allowed.
230 Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply.

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I downloaded the above noted "D2.hqx" archive and found it unstuffed
to a Disk Copy v4.2 image file, which I instructed the Disk Copy v4.2
to copy to a Mac 1.4MB - 3.5" disk.  It did and the disk was indeed the
Deja ][ disk containing the program v1.0.2, with docs and other info files 
for understanding the use and installation of the Deja ][ Mac application
with all of it's bundled files for use with it.

The documentation text file was on the disk and is presented below for your
information also.

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Deja ][� by Mark Munz & Randy Brandt
Copyright 1995 Mark Munz
A Puppy Dog Production published by JEM Software

Welcome
Welcome to AppleWorks 5 for MacOS! Before long, you'll be using your favorite
AppleWorks templates and running your favorite macros on your Macintosh or
clone. But first, there are a few things you should note.

Version 1.0.2 Change
This update modified Deja ][ so that JEM Software's Online Army Knife�
real-time
spell checking and auto-correcting would work in AppleWorks.

Version 1.0.1 Changes
This update fixes several problems that customers have found since the release
of Deja ][ 1.0.

Changes include:
��Task files are now properly saved so that Ultra Options can recognize them.

��The Enter key is now properly supported, so spreadsheet users can enable that
feature.

��A Power Computing font conflict with the Apple font was fixed.

��Database formulas now support division correctly.

The last problem was actually a bug in AppleWorks itself since v4.0, but due to
an odd quirk, the DB returned the correct answer on Apple II's in all cases
except when a divide by zero was attempted.

Power Macintosh Users
Deja ][ has been recompiled with improved scheduling. What does that mean? It
means that if you are running a Power Mac, the performance should be slightly
improved over v1.0. On our Speed Test macro, Deja ][ 1.0.1 was 15% faster in
some CPU intensive areas (such as find & replace), and that was on the same PPC
601 that Mark has been using all along. PPC 604 machines should see a slightly
better performance.

Legal Stuff
AppleWorks is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. licensed to
Quality
Computers, Inc. Claris is a trademark of Claris Corporation. Lots of other
things are trademarks of somebody or other, and/or copyrighted by somebody or
other. Microsoft, Inc. plays absolutely no role in any of this.

Thanks and Credits
Thanks to everyone who supported this effort by purchasing pre-release copies.
Thanks also go to Dr. Warren Williams at NAUG for publicity, and to Ross
Lambert
and Jay Curtis for enthusiastic support for the whole crazed concept.

Special thanks to these especially hyperactive testers: Robert Boucher, Wally
Bradford, Chris Budewig, Doug Corey, Ken Henke, Scott Shapiro, and last, but
certainly not least, James Stevenson.

Deja ][ was developed using C++ under the Metrowerks CodeWarrior environment.
The new Mac dot commands were written using Merlin-Pro on the IIgs. This
project
could not have been completed without a few hundred America Online flash
sessions.

Getting Started
Before you do anything else, send an Email note to rbJEM@aol.com to let us know
you have an online account (unless of course you ordered via email). This will
let us keep you informed of any updates. We hope to make ongoing performance
improvements in Deja ][. This is supposed to be a "living" product, not a
"one-shot" deal, as we've shown by releasing v1.0.1. Now to work...

Drag the Apple II Keyboard file on to your System Folder. It will be stored in
the System file for use by Deja ][, allowing keystrokes and macros to function
just as if you were running AppleWorks 5 on a IIgs.

Drag the AppleWorks folder to your hard drive. This folder contains the Deja ][
application and the AppleWorks 5.1 update files. You'll need a few AppleWorks
5.0 files before you can run AppleWorks. You can copy directly from the
AppleWorks 5 ProDOS disks with System 7.5, PC Exchange, or Apple File Exchange.

Copy SEG.IM, SEG.EL, and SEG.SN from your AppleWorks 5 startup disk to the
AppleWorks folder before you attempt to run Deja ][! If you want to use the
spelling checker, copy the main and custom dictionary files as well.

Open the AppleWorks folder and double-click the Deja ][ application to get up
and running. The documentation is found in the "Deja.Docs" word processor file
in the default directory, so just use Add files to load it. Additional macro
files are stored in the AW.FILES directory inside of the AppleWorks folder.

Have fun!

Survey
We'd like to find out if there's interest in an MS-DOS or Windows version of
Deja ][. Due to the hardware design of IBM-compatibles, it would likely be
faster than the Mac version running on comparable hardware. If you'd be a
potential customer, or know of someone who would, please let us know. Thanks.

Tip
We recommend that you create an alias of the application and add it to the
Apple
Menu Items folder in the System Folder. That way, you can run AppleWorks at any
time by selecting it from the Apple menu.

AppleWorks 5.1 for the Apple II
To create an AppleWorks 5.1 program disk for the Apple II, simple use System
7.5, PC Exchange or Apple File Exchange to copy the files from the AppleWorks
folder to a copy of your AppleWorks 5.0 program disk. Copy the TIMEOUT and
AW.INITS files to their folders as well, but do not copy SEG.ER, or the files
stored in AW.Files.

RFP Note
The RFP program for AppleWorks 5.1 is also included with Deja ][, but it only
runs under Basic on an Apple II, not on the Mac. It's included in case you
still
have access to an Apple II.

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As I've noted above in this post - the current website URL for Jem
Software's Mac software titles page is:

http://www.jemsoftware.com/mac/


Anyway, observing that it's now available from the above authors ftp
site for public access and download...I'd conclude that when this Mac
archive becomes available for public access and download from the trenco
ftp site, it would also be proper and legal to make it available from
other Apple2 ftp sites as well.

By all means, I urge anybody that downloads the A2.hqx archive and uses
Deja ][ - to send an email to the authors of the program, thanking them 
for creating it, undating it, maintaining it and most of all -for making 
it available for public access, download and use.

I've had Deja ][ for some time now, having inherited it on a Mac hard drive
I obtained last year. It's an amazing and very user friendly AppleWorks 
emulator program for the Mac (with a really cool Mac sound file included for 
you to listen too) and I think everybody that has a Mac and enjoyed using 
AppleWorks will really find it a useful addition for their Mac.

Looking forward to some feedback on this post from everybody interested.

Cheers,
Tom