Re: What's up on the A2 forum of Delphi access???

[Joe Kohn <joko@crl.com>]

Delphi's A2 forum is the center of the Apple II online universe. It's a
friendly area where Apple II users and developers get along great, and
where accurate answers can be found for your Apple II technical questions.
 
Rather than having to rely on hearsay or rumors, people on Delphi's A2
often get answers to their questions from the programmers who actually
wrote the software they are using. That happens, in large part, because
Delphi's A2 is where most of those who continue to create new Apple II
products hang out.
 
There's two means of accessing Delphi's A2...one is for free and one costs
$35 for an entire year.
 
Free access is via the web at www.delphi.com
 
With free access, you can participate in the message area and in chats.
Admittedly, if you use lynx as your browser, this is not the best way to
access Delphi's A2, but I understand from others that using Netscape to
access Delphi works quite well. So, for those of you like me who also use
your Apple II to dial into a Unix Shell Acct, Option #2 is much better...
 
The $35/year access gives you complete access via telnet to everything a
large online service has to offer. With this option, you have access to the
Apple II message base, chats, the download library and to hundreds, maybe
thousands, of non-Apple II areas that reside on the Delphi system.
 
In addition to A2, there's also A2Pro for programmers.
 
With an in-bound Telnet account, you can use Offline Reader software
that'll automate your session if you're using a Shell acct, or if you have
a SLIP or PPP dial-up, you can use Marinetti 2.0 with its Telnet client, or
you can even use Marinetti 2.0 in conjunction with the recently released
Spectrum 2.2 running the recently updated v2.6 of the freeware Crock O'Gold
offline reader.
 
IMHO, one of the coolest things available on Delphi's A2 Forum is the
weekly multi-system chat where Apple II chat rooms on Delphi, Genie and
CompuServe are all linked together in real time, making it a cross-system
Apple II chat. OK, so maybe I'm a little biased; I did, after all, set up
the multi-system chat and host it each week ;-)
 
For those who have never been on Delphi's A2, please don't do yourself a
disservice by judging Delphi without having ever tried it. You might even
love the place, as 99.999% of all the other Apple II users do.
 
Joe Kohn
http://www.crl.com/~joko