Re: Vote for your preferred Apple II recent software

[Vapor <macarimatt@gmail.com>]

On hardware, I'm a huge fan of the Uthernet card and all software -
Adtpro, Contiki, etc. - I can use to transfer with Uther.

On Sep 3, 10:37 pm, "Christopher G. Mason" <c...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On 9/3/2010 3:47 PM, Toinet wrote:
>
> > Next question, what is the missing Apple II software in our today's
> > world? Integrated Development Environment, Games, Productive software,
> > Internet suite?
>
> > Antoine
>
> Printing via TCP/IP, specifically the HP JetDirect/Port 9100 protocol.
> Appletalk networked printers are getting harder to find as its being
> phased out. Every network printer will accept data on port 9100 though.
> Should be fairly straight forward to implement (CDev to config port/IP
> and a DirectConnect printer port driver), but I lack the GS/OS dev tools
> and experience.
>
> While on the subject of printing... some modern GS/OS printer drivers. A
> color Postscript or PCL5 driver would be nice and work with a large
> variety of printers. Really something more updated then what Harmonie or
> Independence came with.
>
> SMB/CIFS file sharing would be cool too. Once again, Apple is phasing
> out Appleshare over Appletalk, while everything including Windows talks
> SMB. Don't know how lightweight of a client can be made for it though.
> Doesn't need things like domain access, just simple access to drive shares.
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