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~ WELCOME TO GENIELAMP APPLE II! ~
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GenieLamp Apple II ~ A T/TalkNET Publication ~ Vol.5, Issue 60
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Publisher.................................................John F. Peters
Editor...................................................Ryan M. Suenaga
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>>> WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE APPLE II ROUNDTABLE? <<<
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~ February 1, 1997 ~
FROM MY DESKTOP ......... [FRM] FROM MY MAILBOX ......... [MAI]
Notes From The Editor. Letters To The Editor.
HEY MISTER POSTMAN ...... [HEY] A2/PRO_ductivity ........ [A2P]
Is That A Letter For Me? A2Pro Bits & Bytes.
SOFTVIEW A2 ............. [HUN] PROFILES ................ [PRO]
Quick Click Morph by Doug Cuff. Slixter by _Juiced.GS_
LOG OFF ................. [LOG]
GenieLamp Information
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READING GENIELAMP GenieLamp has incorporated a unique indexing system
""""""""""""""""" to help make reading the magazine easier. To utilize this
system, load GenieLamp into any ASCII word processor or text editor. In the
index you will find the following example:
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Genie Fun & Games.
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that
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Notes From The Editor
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by Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W.
[A2LAMP]
>>> LOOKING FORWARD AND BACKWARD <<<
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Before I became editor of this publication, I had a number of email
conversations with Doug Cuff, my predecessor. One of the things that we
discussed was his typing up some "notes" for me on how to put _GenieLamp A2_
together. A few weeks before the first issue of _GenieLamp A2_ that had my
name
as editor was to be published, Doug sent me his "notes" via email. I used
Shrinkit to unpack them, saw that it was an Appleworks Word Pprocessor file,
and
used a macro I had written some time ago to load it into Appleworks and print
it
out, while I headed for my morning shower.
I came back to see my printer had run out of paper. Turns out that Doug's
"notes" were 128k of an Appleworks Word Processor file that printed out to 55
pages.
All of this merely serves to point out again that Doug did a remarkable
job
as editor of this publication. I knew it would take a lot of my time to get
GenieLamp together on a monthly basis, but I didn't think it would be quite
_this_ much time. It was, therefore, a disappointment to me that I wasn't able
to match the size of the previous issues of GenieLamp in my debut issue, nor
was
I able to reprint all of the messages that I really wanted to, largely due to
the fact that I was surprised by the time constraints.
However, as I've been known to say, "If it don't kill you, it'll only make
you stronger," I enter my second issue as editor a little more prepared, a
little wiser, and a lot more experienced. Work on GenieLamp this month is
starting earlier than usual: in fact, it's starting on New Year's Day. I guess
you could say my resolution is to make sure GenieLamp lives up to its quality
standard.
Now to see about getting the day extended to thirty hours. . .
[*][*][*]
Sometimes, you get Christmas presents from unexpected shores. As many of
you know, _GenieLamp A2Pro_ is no longer being published. What you may _not_
know is that before there was a _GenieLamp A2Pro_, _GenieLamp A2_ covered
happenings in _both_ the A2 and A2Pro RoundTables on GEnie. I had toyed with
the idea of incorporating some A2Pro coverage into _GenieLamp A2_ again, but
had
thought that it might be best to first get my feet wet in trying to continue
what we had going already before expanding.
So it came as a very pleasant surprise when, on December 30, 1996, a
package arrived in email from my favorite Australian programmer. I unwrapped
it
to find what turned out to be a special Christmas present for the readers of
_GenieLamp A2_.
Richard Bennett, the world famous programmer of _Express_, _GraphicWriter
III_, the _Spectrum_ ANSI display, and an assortment of other Apple II
products,
had taken the time to skim the A2Pro Bulletin Board over the last few months
and
compile a selection of choice postings for presentation in GenieLamp. I was
blown away by the effort he had made with his busy schedule. My thanks,
Richard, and I'm sure that the readers of _GenieLamp A2_ will thank you as
well.
[*][*][*]
It's been pretty common that _GenieLamp A2_ has had some great guest
writers, but in this issue, we welcome a true celebrity to our electronic
pages:
Max Jones, editor and publisher of _Juiced.GS_, the Apple IIgs specific
newsletter, has contributed a special column for this issue.
I've been writing a regular column for Max since the first issue of
_Juiced.GS_, and I had the pleasure of meeting Mad Max in person at Kansasfest
1996, along with a bunch of other Apple II luminaries. Max went from being a
total newcomer on the Apple IIgs scene to a well-known publisher of a
well-respected publication in less than a year. I'm sure he'd agree that life
hasn't been the same since.
It's been often said that the Apple II was the computer that changed the
world. Publishing _Juiced.GS_ certainly changed Max's world, and writing for
_Juiced.GS_ certainly changed mine. Here's hoping that Max's column in this
issue changes your world too.
[*][*][*]
Another columns update: I had hoped to have the FILE BANDWAGON column back
in this issue; it's not. I'm hoping to have it back again next issue, but
whether or not that will happen remains to be seen (I don't like the taste of
leather enough to have it every month).
And Peter Brickell's still dealing with The Real World, so REAL WORLD
APPLE
continues on hiatus.
-- Ryan
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Is That A Letter For Me?
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[A2LAMP]
o BULLETIN BOARD HOT SPOTS
o A2 POT-POURRI
o HOT TOPICS
o WHAT'S NEW
o THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
o MESSAGE SPOTLIGHT
>>> BULLETIN BOARD HOT SPOTS <<<
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[*] CAT 5, TOP 3 ....... The Prodigal Son returns
[*] CAT 9, TOP 11 ....... The standards of SCSI
[*] CAT 9, TOP 23 ....... Stupid Prodos 8 tricks
[*] CAT 11, TOP 7 ....... Superdrive cards resurface!
[*] CAT 12, TOP 8 ....... Deskjets, Deskjets, and more Deskjets
[*] CAT 17, TOP 27 ....... The IIgs: ReFRESH me!
[*] CAT 28, TOP 4 ....... The LemminGS are coming!
[*] CAT 29, TOP 44 ....... At last. . . Jasmine
[*] CAT 35, TOP 30 ....... More about A2 II
[*] CAT 46, TOP 1 ....... Memory problems? Get Sirius!
>>> A2 POT-POURRI <<<
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DEFENDER ARRIVES ON GENIE Happy New Year to all!
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
A couple of days ago, someone (it may have been Mark Wade) posted a message in
the BB about wanting to see the Defender of the World game demo uploaded here.
I've had this game demo on my hard drive since it was released as freeware last
fall by author David Ong Tat-Wee of Singapore.
So, I packed it up in the proper format and uploaded to the A2 RT Library this
evening (Wednesday). When it clears inspection, it should be available for
download as file #28252.
The game itself is far from finished, and it may never be finished. But one
level is playable, and portions of the other levels are available for
inspection. It =is= fun to tinker with. Too bad the author doesn't have time to
complete the project.
Enjoy!
Max
http://users.ids.net/~kerwood/juiced.gs
(M.JONES145, CAT3, TOP25, MSG:146/M645;1)
THE PRINT SHOP: STILL AROUND Does anyone know if Print Shop GS, or any
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""" other Print Shop spinoffs for the Apple II, are
still available for purchase?
I just got an e-mail from a teacher in Tulsa, OK, who had his original Print
Shop GS disks stolen from his classroom. Apparently, no backups.
He's wanting to know how/if he can get new copies of the disks.
Max
(M.JONES145, CAT6, TOP8, MSG:153/M645;1)
>>>>> Tuesday, January 21, 1997 - 10:24 pm
"""""
Max,
National School Products (800-289-3960 Fax; 800-627-9393 voice) has The New
Print Shop, The Print Shop (original) and several add on Print Shop programs
and
disks in their current 94 page all Apple II catalog. I see Print Shop IIGS
Expansion Library but not Print Shop IIGS itself. Sometimes they have things
not shown in the catalog. Worth a call.
MT Steve
It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone or if it
mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.
-- Martin Mull
(S.BERNBAUM, CAT6, TOP8, MSG:154/M645;1)
>>>>> Max,
"""""
I know an Apple dealer who had one on the shelf less than 2 weeks ago. I'll
be
over that way again within a week (or whenever my TranswarpGS is ready) and I
can check if it's new or re-wrapped and verify the price. Seems I remember it
being $25-$35. Email me if you want me to pursue it for you.
Ed Staib - here till the lights are out...
(E.STAIB, CAT6, TOP8, MSG:156/M645;1)
TULIN TUMBLES Monday, January 20, 1997 - 7:57 pm
"""""""""""""
I received an email from Wing Cheung today in response to email that I had sent
to Tulin. Tulin is no longer in the drive business. Wing is a former employee
of Tulin, who has acquired their left over hard drive and floptical stock. He
asked me to post his offering here.
He is offering refurbished Insite flopticals for sale:
$50 for a bare floptical drive, suitable for an internal drive or
to put in your own case
$80 for a fully set up floptical drive in an external case
He also has some hard drives but requests people contact him specifying what
they want and he will quote a price.
He can be reached via email at: 104465.3171@COMPUSERVE.COM@INET#
Be patient if he does not reply right away. We have exchanged two messages
so far and it has taken him a couple of weeks to reply each time.
MT Steve
P.S. That's all I know. Contact Wing for further info.
(S.BERNBAUM, CAT4, TOP40, MSG:58/M645;1)
DO-IT-YOURSELF .FL FILES Don, Bob: Sometime when I first acquired the
"""""""""""""""""""""""" LaserJet (1/95?) I did upload a Harmonie .FL file
for
it but doubt that is what I am using today. I presently have TT/PCL mappings as
follows: Courier/Courier(22), Garamond/Garamond(156), Geneva/Omega(3),
Arial/Arial(19867), Monoco/UniversMed(4), Symbol/Symbol(23),
Times/CGTimes(20), ZapfChanc/Marigold(18), ZapfDing/Wingdings(13),
Aspire/Coronet(2418). The numbers represent IIGS font families in decimal.
These
typefaces now print instantly via Harmonie EXTERNAL without the long dreadful
delays.
Am sure the mix of built-in fonts is different on the InkJets, but the
principal
is probably the same. Basically each entry in the xxx.FL table looks like this:
(For example, Aspire)
byte 0-1 Family number in HEX 72 09
byte 2 Length of print command 0A
byte 3-n Print command in CHAR <esc>(slp4116T
Don't forget the GS's bizarre need for placing the L/O byte of family number in
the rightmost position (as in 2418 = 0972 above) ;^{ You will need a block
editor of some sort to set this up properly.
Margot (18:30 PST - Sun 1/19/97) Spectrum v2.0/CoPil v2.55
(M.TAYLOR66, CAT40, TOP9, MSG:88/M645;1)
<<<<< > to use Letter Gothic font instead of Geneva to tell the DeskJet
""""" > to use Letter Gothic.
I suppose if you could find a bit mapped or TT font for LetterGothic, you could
simply replace the family ID for Geneva (03 00 in bytes 0-1) with whatever is
correct for LetterGothic in the xxx.FL table you are using. See previous post.
Margot (18:49 PST - Sun 1/19/97) Spectrum v2.0/CoPil v2.55
(M.TAYLOR66, CAT40, TOP9, MSG:89/M645;1)
>>> HOT TOPICS <<<
""""""""""""""""""
SUPERDRIVES: HISTORY AND APPLICATION Is the SuperDrive controller card,
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" that's been mentioned, the same thing as
the Apple II 3.5" disk controller card? Thanks.
Dave Stewart
Delivered by:
Spectrum 2.1, and CoPilot v2.55
(D.STEWART2, CAT11, TOP7, MSG:18/M645;1)
>>>>> Dave,
"""""
The manual calls it [Apple II 3.5 Disk Controller Card], so I'd say yes.
--
Carl Knoblock - Telephone Tech
cknoblo@delphi.com
cknoblo@novia.net
(C.KNOBLOCK, CAT11, TOP7, MSG:20/M645;1)
>>>>> Jim and Dave and Carl,
"""""
>> The SuperDrive Controller Card aand the Apple II 3.5" Disk Controller
>> Card are one and the same...
I don't think that's true:( There is an "Apple II 3.5" Disk Controller
Card" that is used for "non-SuperDrive" 3.5" disk drives.
Godzilla
(S.GOZDZIEWSK, CAT11, TOP7, MSG:21/M645;1)
>>>>> I think that Apple made two versions of the 3.5 Disk Controller;
""""" the first dealt with 800k drives, the later version handled 800 and
1.44 Mb disks. If memory serves, the =name= of the card didn't change, but I
=think= the part no. did.
Ed Lundberg
(EDMUNDL, CAT11, TOP7, MSG:24/M645;1)
>>>>> Steve,
"""""
>I don't think that's true:( There is an "Apple II 3.5" Disk Controller
>Card" that is used for "non-SuperDrive" 3.5" disk drives.
Yes, and it only supports the Unidisk 3.5. The card and manual I described is
the SuperDrive controller card. I hav an AE HD 3.5 on it and can read AOL
disks.
;) And erase them, and use them as ProDos 1.44M disks.
--
Carl Knoblock - Telephone Tech
cknoblo@delphi.com
cknoblo@novia.net
(C.KNOBLOCK, CAT11, TOP7, MSG:25/M645;1)
>>>>> I have the Apple II 3.5 Disk Controller Card and it supports the HD
""""" drive.
On Page 2 of the manual it says:
The disk controller card works with these floppy disk drives:
- Apple SuperDrive
- Apple 3.5 Drive
- Apple II UniDisk 3.5
So there you have it. I bought this card from Shreve systems 6 weeks ago
and they have since sold out.
JB
(J.COLE63, CAT11, TOP7, MSG:26/M645;1)
>>>>> There was no name change or model number change when the Apple II
""""" 3.5 Disk Controller Card went from supporting only the 800k GCR format
to supporting both the 1.4 meg MFM and 800k GCR formats. This was documented
in
A2 Central.
Ryan
http://www.keystroke.net/~rsuenaga
"There's no shortage of windmills to tilt at."--Logan
ANSITerm and CoPilot v2.55
(A2LAMP, CAT11, TOP7, MSG:27/M645;1)
<<<<< I'm looking for comments on my game plan. I plan to connect an
""""" Apple SuperDrive to my GS. While using Netscape on my PC, I'd like to
be able to download something (say a Richard Bennett driver), remove the floppy
from the PC, insert in the SuperDrive, and install the driver on the GS. Is
this doable? How will the stuff be packed and which machine will I do the
unpacking? Any comments will be appreciated from the remaining audience.
Dave Stewart
Delivered by:
Spectrum 2.1, and CoPilot v2.55
(D.STEWART2, CAT11, TOP7, MSG:33/M645;1)
>>>>> > Is this doable?
"""""
Yep.
> How will the stuff be packed and which machine will I do the unpacking?
Usually, Apple II stuff is packed in a NuFX format, with or without a Binary II
wrapper.
If you're grabbing stuff off of the 'net, it is sometimes also Binscii'd,
Binhex'd, or UUencoded (or otherwise textually encoded). A number of Apple II
programs can handle some or all of these formats, including GSCII+, Speckie
2.1,
and Binscii.
And you ought to do the unpacking on a IIgs.
Ryan
http://www.keystroke.net/~rsuenaga
"There's no shortage of windmills to tilt at."--Logan
ANSITerm and CoPilot v2.55
(A2LAMP, CAT11, TOP7, MSG:35/M645;1)
PRODOS 8 SLOT SWITCHING AND LASER BACKUPS Is there a way to make slot 7
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" on an IIe be remapped as slot 5? I
have an unusual need to be able to switch it back and forth without having to
move the board in the slot.
Thanks in advance.
_____
/ \
)=====(
\___+_/
..:... Hans
(H.HAUMANN, CAT9, TOP23, MSG:2/M645;1)
>>>>> Hans:
"""""
I am not certain, but I _think_ a strategic poke to the ProDOS device driver
table at $BF10+ _might_ serve temporarily to remap a slot 7 device to slot 5.