Re: GUI for //e

["Nathan Olson" <natolson@linkup.net>]

And this will work on an Apple IIe with 128K of RAM?

I'm hoping this isn't a stupid question...but what can a 1MHZ computer
really do?  Has anyone found any "neat" applications?

Obsbedia2 wrote in message <19981020205041.01104.00003088@ng134.aol.com>...
>Geos?
>I think that you can't beat DeskTop 1.1.  It has a QuickLauncher to get in
and
>out of your programs fast, a GS/Mac-style finder to launch programs that
are
>deeply buried in subdirectories or in subdirectories with too many files
for
>the Desktop windows to handle, and a Desktop that comes complete with Desk
>Accessories and a trash can.
>
>I looked for this program for a little over a year.  It is a
third-generation
>MouseDesk program and one of the designers is currently back on staff as
the
>head of the/a department working on System X for the Mac.
>
>I'm going to ask later, when I can get home and look it up, how to find an
>Apple II User from 9 years ago in old West Germany.  He first wrote about
this
>program in a letter to Nibble Magazine and that started my search.  He
>suggested that the Apple II Community take over the development of this
>program, since Apple now had a true 16-bit operating system for the IIgs.
>
>I've gotten in touch with a couple of the team members for MouseDesk and
>DeskTop 1.1.  They both had fond memories of the program and their teams.
One
>mentioned that there were other Desk Accessories developed for the program,
but
>he didn't know where they were anymore.  I figure that if anybody know
about
>improvements to this program, it would be that Apple II User in the pages
of
>Nibble who first gave the call to arms.
>
>He suggested improvements such as an icon editor, a way to change the
desktop
>backgroud (maybe with a HR or Double HR image) and more desk accessories!
I've
>played around with the program a bit and discovered that it is set up to
handle
>EIGHT DAs, not the five that it now sports.  Gee, a notepad or a calendar
would
>be nice.  Heck, I'd just like to have the date and the time up on the right
>hand side of the menu bar!
>
>Anyway, you can download the program at the Nova Scotia Apple Users Group
at:
>
>http://www.ccn.cs.dal.ca/Technology/AppleUsersGroup/NSAUG.html
>
>Or, if you have as much problems downloading as I do (just made my first
>successful ones last night!  But I still have a lot that I can't download.)
>Then you can find the program on an old Apple IIgs System Disk (version 2.0
or
>earlier), on the old ProDOS16 system disk (or so I've read), or on Roger
>Wagner's SoftSwitch program disk (this version has two desktop
accessories).
>
>Jay Edwards