Re: AOL for Apple II

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

In article <19990730012618.04810.00004826@ng-bk1.aol.com>,
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
> The user who proposed patching the IIGS version to identify itself as the
> GeoWorks version has a good idea.  It would be fun to try.
Well, there was a few problems when I patched between mac versions (broken
images and a few things would bring up a debugger-like window bitching at
me about invalid commands)...it was far from perfect, but it did manage to
log on. How close are the IIgs and Geo versions, truly? I mean, they may
look the same but do you suppose any of the information is passed in a
different manner or anything? I have never used it myself.
 
> Also, if AOL 1.0 for the Mac was a HyperCard stack, maybe it could be
> hypermoved to the IIGS.  The user also said he was able to patch an earlier
> Mac version and make it self-ID as a later Mac version and thus log on.
> It would be fun to log onto AOL from a HyperCard for the IIGS stack.
Well, the HC bit was pure speculation, I've never seen AOL 1.0 other than
a screen shot (which did admittedly look HC-like) but no one has actually
really answered that fully to me. And, most likely, it would have been
built into a self-running stack (can one of those be devolved into a
regular stack?) and used a host of mac-centric XCMDs and XFCNs, which
AFAIK didn't translater into HC GS.
Anyway, many, many things would break if that was tried. If someone can
tell me more about the GW version I guess I could hunt around for the
right data...but I'd need a copy of the Geo binary as well...<sigh> let's
hope the two are very, very alike.