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>>> WELCOME TO THE LAMP! <<<
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THE BEST OF THE A2 BULLETIN BOARD ON Syndicomm.com
AND THE BEST OF THE DELPHI A2 AND A2PRO MESSAGE BOARDS
"Teaching the Apple II user how to fish since 1998"
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The Lamp! An Onipa'a Software Production Vol. 4, No. 10
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Publisher................................Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W.
Editor.....................................................Lyle Syverson
Internet Email, Publisher.........................thelamp@sheppyware.net
Internet Email, Editor................................lyle@FoxValley.net
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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October 15, 2001
HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER---------------------------------------------[OPN]
Changes in the Valley
Changes at Syndicomm Online
A2 FORUM AT Syndicomm Online (A2Central.com) DISTILLATIONS
Announcing Uploads to Library------------------------------------[AUL]
FYI - Morgan Davis-----------------------------------------------[IMD]
Updated Version of Python Script for A2 Forum--------------------[PSF]
SOAR and Four Digit Page Numbers---------------------------------[SFN]
SOAR v1b6 Available----------------------------------------------[SRA]
Old Internet Tools Revisited-------------------------------------[OIT]
Games You Have Programmed----------------------------------------[GYP]
Hammurabi by Thomas A. Compter-----------------------------------[HTC]
Silvern Castle v7.3 Coming---------------------------------------[SCC]
File Submissions-------------------------------------------------[FSS]
Lost Classic Project Info----------------------------------------[LCP]
Apple Release Source Code for Some Items?------------------------[ARS]
RAM for the IIgs-------------------------------------------------[RGS]
Using PING-------------------------------------------------------[UPG]
Learn to Program in Pascal Course--------------------------------[LPC]
Prizm------------------------------------------------------------[PZM]
SAFE Updated to v1.1---------------------------------------------[SFU]
Pointer on the use of SAFE v1.1----------------------------------[UOS]
Icons For Focus Drive--------------------------------------------[IFD]
Focus Utilities Disk Online?-------------------------------------[FUO]
The Future of Sweet16--------------------------------------------[FSS]
Pointers - Programming in C--------------------------------------[PPC]
Getting Started With REZ-----------------------------------------[GSR]
PNG Files--------------------------------------------------------[PGF]
Cell Phone for 911 Emergency Service Only------------------------[CPE]
Copy/Backup Files From Unix Account------------------------------[CBU]
Etiquette Question-----------------------------------------------[EQN]
Multi-Player DIABLO on the Mac or PC-----------------------------[MPD]
The SirCam Virus-------------------------------------------------[TSV]
ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM SYNDICOMM
The Life With Diabetes forum-------------------------------------[LWD]
World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks--------------------------[TPA]
The New Star Trek Series, Enterprise-----------------------------[STE]
New Bulletin Board Software, Page 1600---------------------------[NSA]
New Bulletin Board Software, Mac Bulletin Board------------------[NSB]
New Bulletin Board Software Improvement--------------------------[NSC]
DELPHI A2 DISTILLATIONS
FTP Files to the IIe Via a Mac-----------------------------------[FTE]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
No Letters to the Editor This Month------------------------------[NLE]
An Invitation----------------------------------------------------[LTE]
KFEST 2002
Plan Ahead for K-Fest 2002---------------------------------------[PAK]
EXTRA INNINGS
About The Lamp! ------------------------------------------------ [INN]
[*] [*] [*]
READING THE LAMP! The index system used by The Lamp! is designed to make
""""""""""""""""" your reading easier. To use this system, load this
issue into any word processor or text editor. In the index you will find
something like:
EXTRA INNINGS
About The Lamp! ------------------------------------------------ [INN]
To read this article, simply use your search or find command to locate
[INN]. There is a similar tag at the end of each article: [EOA].
[OPN]-------------------------------
HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER |
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From The Editor
"""""""""""""""
by Lyle Syverson <lyle@FoxValley.net>
Changes in the Valley
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Changes are occurring in the valley seen from High Above The Rock
River. The brisk nighttime air has sent a signal to the trees that the
time has come shut down the function of the leaves and move their nutrients
into the trunk and branches. This has produced a magnificant collage of
color... all shades of reds, oranges, yellows, maroons, browns... even
greens. Autumn at its best.
Changes at Syndicomm Online
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Changes continue to occur at Syndicomm Online. More "interest forums"
are being added. Web access to the bulletin boards is being implemented.
See the Syndicomm announcements section of this issue for more details.
All this in addition to the A2 forum with its busy bulletin board,
chat area, and outstanding library of Apple II software.
To subscribe to Syndicomm Online go to <http://www.A2Central.com> and
select the link 'join'. To learn more about Syndicomm Online go directly
to <http://www.syndicomm.com>
[EOA]
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[EOA]
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DISTILLATIONS FROM The A2 FORUM at Syndicomm.com |
(A2Central.com) |
---------------------------------------------------
by Lyle Syverson <lyle@foxvalley.net>
[AUL]
ANNOUNCING UPLOADS TO LIBRARY
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
The library staff will use this topic to announce new uploads to our
library. As we did previously on Genie and Delphi, we will try to use a
standard message format for the benefit of OLR designers. This topic will
be closed, so if you upload a file to the library please remember to either
upload a separate file description or send it to us via email
(a2.library@syndicomm.com) so we can post it here for you.
Tony Ward, A2 Librarian
(A2.TONY, Cat 2, Top 37, Msg 1)
[EOA]
[IMD]
FYI - MORGAN DAVIS
""""""""""""""""""
FYI
From: Morgan Davis [mailto:mdavis@cts.com]
Wayne,
No, it is no longer a service we offer. A serving site would simply need
the source code (and probably a programmer or two to finish development
work to make it operate under modern Unix-based OS's).
--Morgan
----- Original Message -----
From: Wayne Arthurton [mailto:Wayne.Arthurton@us.didata.com]
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 1:30 PM
To: 'mdavis@cts.com'
Subject: Are UMDSS acnts still available now that you are hosting.com?
If not what would it take to make a umdss serving site?
Thanks,
Wayne Arthurton
----- end original message -----
(WAYNER, Cat 10, Top 31, Msg 1)
[EOA]
[PSF]
UPDATED VERSION OF PYTHON SCRIPT FOR A2 FORUM
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Here is an updated version of the python script to work for the a2 forum.
# Simple Python A2Central.com Message Retriever
import sys, os, time, telnetlib
# Change these to suit
username = '' # A2Central.com username
password = '' # A2Central.com password
savedir = '.' # Directory to store the message file in
#
hostname = 'a2central.com'
port = 23
loginprompt = 'ogin:'
passwordprompt = 'sword:'
mainprompt = 'Page 1'
bboption = 'm645;1'
bbprompt = '1 ?'
readcmd = 'bro nor nos'
byecmd = 'bye'
crlf = '\r\n'
timestamp = time.strftime('%Y%m%dT%H%M%S', time.localtime(time.time()))
filename = os.path.join(savedir, 'a2central-' + timestamp)
if os.path.exists(filename):
sys.stderr.write('File already exists\n')
sys.exit(1)
tn = telnetlib.Telnet()
try:
tn.open(hostname, port)
except:
sys.stderr.write('Cannot telnet to A2Central.com\n')
sys.exit(2)
sys.stderr.write('Waiting for Login\n')
tn.read_until(loginprompt)
tn.write(username + crlf)
sys.stderr.write('Waiting for Pass\n')
tn.read_until(passwordprompt)
tn.write(password + crlf)
tn.read_until('Return')
tn.write(crlf)
sys.stderr.write('Waiting for Main\n')
tn.read_until(mainprompt)
tn.write(bboption + crlf)
tn.read_until(bbprompt)
tn.write(readcmd + crlf)
msgs = tn.read_until(bbprompt)
if msgs:
try:
file = open(filename, 'w')
file.write(msgs)
file.close()
except:
sys.stderr.write('Cannot write file\n')
tn.write(byecmd + crlf)
tn.close()
print 'Done'
(WAYNER, Cat 10, Top 57, Msg 48)
[EOA]
[SFN]
SOAR AND FOUR DIGIT PAGE NUMBERS
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Will SOAR be updated to handle the four digit page numbers?
(Editor)
>>>>>
"""""
The WTC forum is accessible using a web browser, too, at
http://www.syndicomm.com/communities/wtc/messages
it's preliminary and isn't perfect, but it does work.
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 10, Top 59, Msg 208)
>>>>>
"""""
I have been caught out here. SOAR was written to handle up to the three
digit page numbers that Genie used. If Syndicomm is going to break this,
and have many more four figure numbers in the future, I will release an
update to SOAR.
The SOAR logic needs to be updated in a number of places, and your Setup
files will also need updating, so it is not a simple process to adjust
them.
Ewen Wannop - Speccie - Fri 14 Sep 2001 - 51 days till KFest '01
Delivered without using a IIgs by Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR 1.0b5
Setup: Bernie ][ the Rescue 3.0 and a Blue & White G3/350
http://www.ewannop.btinternet.co.uk/
(CONDUCTOR, Cat 10, Top 59, Msg 209)
>>>>>
"""""
GEnie had a number of forums with 4-page numbers, including White House at
1600, Multimedia at 2000, and others.
Our software supports forums with page numbers up to 32000, for the record,
although I don't expect to ever use any beyond 9999.
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 10, Top 59, Msg 210)
>>>>>
"""""
The Tax forum on GEnie was 1040. The forum I used to run, PowerPC
Programming, was 1440. PPC was also four digits.
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 10, Top 59, Msg 211)
>>>>>
"""""
As I only ever used the A2, A2Pro and Mac Forums on Genie, and my User
Manual was for GEnie not Genie, I had thought that page numbers only ran to
three digits.
I will fix SOAR to handle the larger numbers in due course, but am advised
that the Forum Sheppy has set up uses the new Forum format, so in any case,
it might not work with SOAR as is.
SOAR users please be patient while I sort this out.
Ewen Wannop - Speccie - Sat 15 Sep 2001 - 52 days till KFest '01
Delivered without using a IIgs by Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR 1.0b5
Setup: Bernie ][ the Rescue 3.0 and a Blue & White G3/350
http://www.ewannop.btinternet.co.uk/
(CONDUCTOR, Cat 10, Top 59, Msg 212)
[EOA]
[SRA]
SOAR v1b6 AVAILABLE
"""""""""""""""""""
I have posted SOAR 1b6 on my home pages today.
The main change is that it now accepts 5 digit page numbers, so you can add
'WTC Aftermath' Page 1600, to your list of favorite pages.
As far as I can tell, all the various functions and displays have survived
the changes. You will find that your Forum.Setup and Forum.List files will
be automatically updated, and renamed, to reflect the changes.
If you have any problems, or see any cosmetic problems as a result of the
changes, please let me know as soon as possible.
Ewen Wannop - Speccie - Mon 24 Sep 2001 - 302 days till KFest '02
Delivered without using a IIgs by Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR 1.0b5
Setup: Bernie ][ the Rescue 3.0 and a Blue & White G3/350
http://www.ewannop.btinternet.co.uk/
(CONDUCTOR, Cat 10, Top 59, Msg 220)
>>>>>
"""""
(Reports were posted as to problems with installation of the update.)
(Editor)
>>>>>
"""""
This problem has already been detected, and a fresh upload to my web site
was made yesterday. Only the Updater script was affected, so I have not
changed the SOAR version number, but the upload date is now 27/9/01.
--- cut ---
Ewen Wannop - Speccie - Thu 27 Sep 2001 - 299 days till KFest '02
Delivered without using a IIgs by Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR 1.0b5
Setup: Bernie ][ the Rescue 3.0 and a Blue & White G3/350
http://www.ewannop.btinternet.co.uk/
(CONDUCTOR, Cat 10, Top 59, Msg 223)
[EOA]
[OIT]
OLD INTERNET TOOLS REVISITED
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
When I first started using the Internet, I remember hearing about tools
such as "archie" and "veronica" (but no jughead). I assume these utilities
have gone the way of gopher, but what were they used for in their time?
-Ken
(KGAGNE, Cat 11, Top 11, Msg 25)
>>>>>
"""""
Archie was an FTP search utility that would search FTP sites for files
matching a particular name query.
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 11, Top 11, Msg 26)
>>>>>
"""""
I think there are still a few archie sites left (although there are better
search engines for ftp stuff these days). I vaguely remember using archie
years back, but don't think I ever found anything I was looking for :)
(KWS, Cat 11, Top 11, Msg 27)
>>>>>
"""""
In addition to those, there was also gopher. I haven't run across a gopher
site in some time.
Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W. - rsuenaga@apple2.org - A2's Head Geek
Alpha Testing CoPilot v2.55 and ProTERM 3.1
Offline Syndicomm.com Message Manager
(A2.RYAN, Cat 11, Top 11, Msg 29)
>>>>>
"""""
Try gopher://nic.merit.edu:7055/11/apple/ , an Apple II gopher site.
Mark Percival - Syndicomm.com Apple II RTC Host
"Midweek Madness!" every Wednesday night.
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
(MARK, Cat 11, Top 11, Msg 35)
[EOA]
[GYP]
GAMES YOU HAVE PROGRAMMED
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
Does anyone have any games that they have actually programmed that were
fun? I remember putting together some text based adventures back in the
day and even a simple snake game. I wasn't much of a die hard programmer,
but I did have fun taking basic games and altering them to see what strange
and wonderful things I could do with them.
fun times.
Dain Neater
Keeper of the Boards
A2 Community
Syndicomm
(A2.DAIN, Cat 14, Top 1, Msg 35)
>>>>>
"""""
Dain,
Mostly I tried altering existing 8-bit games to make them more fun. Never
worked though. <g>
Anyone ever played the D&D game "The Missing Ring"?
-Ken
(KGAGNE, Cat 14, Top 1, Msg 36)
>>>>>
"""""
I started writing a tetris-game in applesoft once. I got to the point of
having a falling block that could move, but that was about it.
My favorite 8-bit game is probably a freeware DHR applesoft blackjack game,
though. I don't know who programmed it, it came with a bunch of others on
a collection of PD applesoft games.
(KWS, Cat 14, Top 1, Msg 38)
>>>>>
"""""
Like a lot of kids, I programmed my calculator in high school. I wrote
Blackjack and Red Dog, as well as a maze game (static mazes, not randomly
generated). I tried to adapt the idea behind the maze game to a two-player
"light cycle" game but couldn't get the link code working correctly.
On the Apple II, I wrote an Applesoft version of "Space Ship of Death", a
BBS door game for the IBM PC and Atari ST. My version ran under Warp Six
BBS software. SSOD was a text-based adventure-style game ("go north", "get
item", etc.) where players wander a maze, collecting weapons and defenses
with which to hunt and kill other players. It was a lot of fun back then.
:) With v1.1 I introduced interchangeable modules, so that instead of a
space ship, the sysop could also use a hotel or summer camp as the
scenario. I never finished the D&D castle scenario.
For Spectrum, I've written Hangman and Mad Libs games to play with other
people in the text-based conference rooms of CompuServe, GEnie, Delphi, or
Syndicomm.
Funny... all these programs actually worked, yet I'm probably best known
for Maxster. :p
-Ken
(KGAGNE, Cat 14, Top 1, Msg 39)
>>>>>
"""""
Well, I can't say that it was fun, but I did program a simple war game in
Applesoft that I sure had fun programming :) When I get my stuff together,
I'll try to have it available from my website.
I called it STRIKEFORCE, and it was based on the fulda gap scenario of the
early eighties.
_________
| homas
(TCOMPTER, Cat 14, Top 1, Msg 40)
>>>>>
"""""
Well, in addition to YahtzeeNDA and Shipwrecked! I wrote a couple of games
in Hyper C, a Star Trek one and a rendition of the board game Payday. The
family has had fun playing them from time to time.
Kim Howe
Newton Forum Host
(KIMHOWE, Cat 14, Top 1, Msg 41)
[EOA]
[HTC]
Hammurabi by Thomas A. Compter
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Well, I'd almost forgotten about this. I've been meaning to upload this
here for a while, but there's been a problem with my account that has
thankfully been resolved, and Hammurabi for the Apple IIGS should soon be
available here.
Anyone who wishes to is welcome to upload this to any of the reputable
Apple II archives, as long as you don't change or delete any of the files,
etc.
Below is the readme file included in the archive.
************************************************************
Program Name: Hammurabi
Author: Thomas A. Compter
Version: 1.0.1
************************************************************
This project came about from the combination of two goals that I had.
First, I wanted to learn how to write a desktop application program for the
Apple IIGS, and wanted a very simple project to start with. Secondly, I
wanted to experiment with portability of modular programming.
This is a rendition of an old text based Apple ][ Integer Basic game of the
same name, wherein you take the role of the King of a city-state and
allocate resources within the city in order to increase the wealth and
well-being of the city. I sort of think of it as the original Sim-City.
Please don't expect anything nearly as cool as that, though. Remember,
this is my first attempt at a GS/OS desktop program, and I purposely wanted
to tackle a SMALL project for my first one. You should keep that in mind
as you judge the quality.
****** For Programmers ******
The core of the program has been written in what I hope is completely
portable, pure ANSI C. In other words, this code should compile and run
correctly on any ANSI C compliant compiler. Furthermore, although C is not
in itself object-oriented, I have attempted here to write the code in an
object-oriented fashion. The files ham.h and ham.c try to mimic the sense
of a "class," in that all the code that affects the hamtype structure is
performed in ham.c. The goal was to minimize the effort needed to port the
program to a GUI system by creating a pair of files (ham.h and ham.c) which
could be included with any main program and still work perfectly. Since
this is C, and not C++, there is nothing to force the programmer to respect
the "wall", but if (s)he does, then the ham.x files should behave as a
class. Source code is included in the archive.
***** For Everyone Else *****
There are two versions of the program, both are S16 executables. Hammurabi
is the Desktop version, while HamText is the text-based version (the one
that should compile under any C compiler).
Installation is accomplished by copying the files to a folder of your
choosing. Or you can run it off a floppy or floppy disk image, if you're
running an emulator. If you like using aliases, by all means make
yourself one! :-)
************************************************************
Instructions for the Desktop Version
************************************************************
I really hope that game play for the desktop version is self-explanatory.
but just in case, here goes:
You are in charge of allocating resources for your City-State. You can buy
and sell land, and choose to feed your people more or less. Heed the
warnings you are given when the game begins!
The goal of the game is to maximize the amount of land that your city owns
and utilizes, while keeping the populous fed. Remember that it takes
people to farm the land!
To accomplish any of the allocating, simply click on the appropriate
buttons. When you are done allocating for the year, click on the "Go To
Next Year" button.
************************************************************
Instructions for the Text Version
************************************************************
The goals are the same as for the desktop version, but you make your moves
by typing the letter that appears in (p)arentheses at the bottom of the
screen.
************************************************************
Legal Stuff
************************************************************
This game is distributed as Shareware. The price of a legally licensed
copy is exactly 1 email message to me per version that you download telling
me what you think of the game, how it can be improved in either aesthetics
or gameplay, etc. You can reach me at TomCompter@aol.com.
The Source code is also Shareware, under the same stipulations as above. If
you decide to use my code in a project of your own, I'd appreciate some
on-screen credit and a copy of your project.
Thanks for trying my game.
_________
| homas
(TCOMPTER, Cat 14, Top 2, Msg 32)
[EOA]
[SCC]
SILVERN CASTLE v7.3 COMING
""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Just wanted to announce the imminent upcoming release of Silvern Castle
v7.3. This release will mainly fix a few errors I discovered, including a
nasty bug in the automap routine that crashes when activated inside the
moat (although the Extra's Menu automap feature works).
By the way, who at syndicomm is now in charge of disk admissions?
Jeff Fink
Silvern author
(FINKSTERJ, Cat 14, Top 7, Msg 78)
[EOA]
[FSS]
FILE SUBMISSIONS
""""""""""""""""
>> By the way, who at syndicomm is now in charge of disk admissions? <<
Well, I think it would probably be most appropriate to call them "file
submissions", and that would be Tony Ward, better known as A2.TONY or Conan
the Librarian.
Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W. - rsuenaga@apple2.org - A2's Head Geek
Alpha Testing CoPilot v2.55 and ProTERM 3.1
Offline Syndicomm.com Message Manager
(A2.RYAN, Cat 14, Top 7, Msg 79)
>>>>>
"""""
You can always email A2's current librarian by emailing
a2.library@syndicomm.com -- in fact, this routes your message to everyone
with the ability to release library files.
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 14, Top 7, Msg 80)
[EOA]
[LCP]
LOST CLASSIC PROJECT INFO
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
We're still looking for copies of the Vitesse software for inclusion in the
libraries and FTP sites. I do have Salvation awaiting upload--does anyone
have the other titles? (Remember that Harmonie and Faxination weren't
included.)
Thanks!
Later.............Howard
(A2.HOWARD, Cat 15, Top 3, Msg 12)
>>>>>
"""""
I've got several titles I'm uploading tonight or Wed. depending on work
schedule, and I don't have the list at hand. I don't think I've got all
the titles from Vitesse you mentioned, but I'll check to find out. :)
We're in the process of getting a bunch of manuals scanned for ascii format
thanks to Greg Nelson and Erick Wagner, so more on that front soon too.
Later........Howard
(A2.HOWARD, Cat 15, Top 3, Msg 18)
EOA]
[ARS]
Apple RELEASE SOURCE CODE FOR SOME ITEMS?
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Now that Apple has released Darwin and Quicktime streaming server as public
source (even though Darwin is BSD and Mach, 2 open source projects), do you
think they could be convinced to release source code for some of their A2
stuff? Maybe they wouldn't want to release the Finder or WindowMgr code,
but original prodos, gs/os, hypercard, etc. would be nifty.
(KWS, Cat 15, Top 4, Msg 21)
>>>>>
"""""
It might be worth making the attempt. I don't see it as likely, since the
only reason Darwin is open source is because it was open source code when
Apple cribbed it from FreeBSD. :)
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 15, Top 4, Msg 22)
[EOA]
[RGS]
RAM FOR THE IIgs
""""""""""""""""
Does anybody have any idea where I can purchase memory chips for a GS Ram
Plus? I can no longer get Spectrum to run, although simple programs will
work for while. When I run BitBanger, it consistently finds bad memory in
memory bank $08 (of $02-$61). Since the only way I can currently
successfully boot is not have any inits or DAs loaded, is the entire card
bad? Should I really be looking for a whole new memory card? Where would
I find one of those for sale?
David R. Pierce
(DAVIDP, Cat 17, Top 24, Msg 12)
>>>>>
"""""
If I were you I would look into picking up a 4MB or 8MB Sirius RAM card
from Alltech Electronics http://www.allelec.com or calling.. Toll Free
Sales Only 888/404-8848
You can check out some of their Apple II wares at
http://www.allelec.com/indexa2.html
The 4MB Sirius Card is 79.00 and the 8MB Card is $99.00. I have heard
nothing but good things about them. I think the 4MB card is also
upgradable to 8MB provided you can find the Ram chips (It uses an older
memory type that used to be used quite a bit in PCs).
If any of this info is incorrect I apologize in advance.
Good Luck,
Dain Neater
Bulletin Board Manager at A2
Syndicomm Rocks!!!!!
(A2.DAIN, Cat 17, Top 24, Msg 13)
>>>>>
"""""
While I'm not sure where you'd get chips at this point, I need to point out
that Harold was pretty clear that BitBanger wouldn't get reliable results
with AE memory cards.
If you do want to get a new card, in addition to the places Dain mentioned,
eBay is worth checking out.
Ryan
(A2.RYAN, Cat 17, Top 24, Msg 14)
>>>>>
"""""
Thanks Dain, I'll give Alltech a call. And Ryan, BitBanger worked fine for
me a few (okay, many) years ago, so my gut feeling is that something
happened to my memory (take that either way and it is still right).
David R. Pierce
(DAVIDP, Cat 17, Top 24, Msg 15)
>>>>>
"""""
Yaa! I'm back! Just got the Sirius 4Meg board (they were out of the
8Meggers and I didn't want to wait). Stuck it in, ran BitBanger just
enough to feel comfortable, opened up SOAR and couldn't connect (: But it
was just a minor setback due to the fact that the connection had not been
shut down the last time I used it (many months ago it seems). Anyway, now
I am off to see if I can get the latest updates to SOAR and SAFE.
Boy is it nice to be able to use the GS programs again.
David R. Pierce
(DAVIDP, Cat 17, Top 24, Msg 16)
[EOA]
[UPG]
USING PING
""""""""""
Background:
My ISP's Tech Support has asked me to ping their mail server to help figure
out why it has suddenly stopped responding to my GS accessing it via SAM.
No one else is having this problem. I can access Syndicomm's mail server
fine, using SAM. Their mail server's log shows no response from my GS
after connecting. My SAMlog and the SAM debug log both show no response
from the ISP mail server after connecting. The problem started the day
after they changed the IP on their server. (I have already tried using a
different DNS and using the new dotted IP address of their server with no
success.)
I have Geoff's Ping EXE program.
My questions:
I dropped Ping into ProSel's exe commands folder. I then connected with my
ISP using the Marinetti CDEV, dropped into the Prosel shell and gave the
command "ping mail.montana.net". (mail.montana.net is the server in
question.) Ping displayed its initial message and then the GS immediately
crashed into the monitor.
1. Will Ping run properly from the Prosel shell?
2. If so, how do I use it, since what I tried did not work?
3. If not, which shells will it work from?
(I have the full Orca suite of programs, shell, Prizm etc, and a many years
old version of GNO/ME. However, I have not gotten around to installing or
using either shell. If one of these will work, can someone give me a quick
and dirty how to do it, so I can report back to the Tech Support quickly?
If I need to get the current GNO/ME, where can I get it? I do not have any
computer except for various Apple IIs.)
Thanks,
MT Steve
(S.BERNBAUM, Cat 20, Top 13, Msg 39)
>>>>>
"""""
I've used ping successfully under GNO/ME 2.0.6. I'm fairly certain I've
seen it crash, as well (as all Marinetti apps do at times...). the latest
version of gno/me can be found at the ftp.gno.org ftp site. See
www.gno.org for the exact location. Installing gno.me is probably overkill
for just pinging a mail server, though :)
Installing ORCA/Shell is much easier and requires less disk space. If you
run prizm, I believe there is an option to start a shell window. You could
try running ping from there.
I'd also suggest trying to ping again from ProSel. Try it without starting
Marinetti in the Cdev. Try running the telnet app first.
You could also try telnetting to port 25 and 110 (the smtp and pop3 ports,
respectively) of mail.montana.net from spectrum to see if they can connect.
If you have shell access, you could try pinging the server from their to
find the ip address, and then try connecting with that instead of the
mail.montana.net (Marinetti DNS is flaky, sometimes).
(KWS, Cat 20, Top 13, Msg 40)
>>>>>
"""""
Kelvin,
>> If you have shell access... <<
Unfortunately, there is currently no ISP offering shell access in Montana.
>> ... the latest version of gno/me can be found at the ftp.gno.org ftp
site. <<
Can this be downloaded using Syndicomm's Lynx? SAFE does not work for me.
>> Installing ORCA/Shell is much easier and requires less disk space. If
you run prizm, I believe there is an option to start a shell window. <<
Thanks for that advice. I have a partition on my hard drive set aside for
Orca. So far, all that is on it is GSoft Basic. I have been planning on
installing the Orca shell, Prizm, Orca C, Orca M, and Orca Pascal but have
not gotten around to it. It looks like I now have found a round tuit ;),
at least for the shell and/or Prizm.
>> I'd also suggest trying to ping again from ProSel. Try it without
starting Marinetti in the Cdev. Try running the telnet app first. <<
That sounds like the thing I should try first.
>> You could also try telnetting to port 25 and 110 (the smtp and pop3
ports, respectively) of mail.montana.net from spectrum <<
I do not know how to telnet to a port. I assume that I just fill in a
dotted address in the telnet dialog box in Spectrum's Services window.
I got the dotted address for <mail.montana.net> from tech support (Ewen
also found it for me). It is <216.146.116.1>. Do I add another dot and
the 25 or 110 to that or what?
Thanks for your help. :)
MT Steve
(S.BERNBAUM, Cat 20, Top 13, Msg 41)
>>>>>
"""""
Kelvin,
I left the connection open when I finished with Spectrum, went to Prosel
and ran Ping from the shell to <mail.montana.net>. It worked fine. Thanks
for the advice!
Is there any way to extract any more information from the ping connection
than just that it sent and received an ICMP (whatever that means) echo four
times? My ISP tech support gave me the impression that I would be
receiving detailed information regarding packets received, order of the
packets, etc. That was what he wanted me to report to him.
Thanks again,
Steve
(S.BERNBAUM, Cat 20, Top 13, Msg 42)
>>>>>
"""""
ping is pretty simple. Fancy ping clients can tell you how long it took
the data to be sent, and if the data fragmented or not, but what's most
meaningful is knowing if you can locate the host and they're responding
(and it sounds like they are).
I've never tried, but you should be able to append ":25" or ":110" to the
address to specify which port you want to connect to. I think the topic
cops should probably start moving this conversation elsewhere :)
(KWS, Cat 20, Top 13, Msg 44)
[EOA]
[LPC]
THE LEARN TO PROGRAM IN PASCAL COURSE
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
I'm currently enjoying the Learn to Program in Pascal course. I'm only on
chapter three; hope to get through five a week until I'm done, then tackle
Toolbox Programming in Pascal.
Ryan
(A2.RYAN, Cat 22, Top 6, Msg 3)
>>>>>
"""""
Enjoy that! It's a great course, and I personally like pascal better than
C. You still have to deal with pointers, but it seems to me that they're
handled a little better in pascal than in C.
FWIW, (which may be very little :) I've included the source to hammurabi
in the archive that should be up here soon.
_________
| homas
(TCOMPTER, Cat 22, Top 6, Msg 4)
>>>>>
"""""
Pascal is definitely an easier language to pick up than C, but I find C to
be easier for doing Toolboxish programming.
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 22, Top 6, Msg 5)
[EOA]
[PZM]
PRIZM
"""""
After fooling with it for a few weeks, I really like Prizm. I just wish
the GS had a bigger desktop to use it with :)
Ryan
(A2.RYAN, Cat 22, Top 28, Msg 1)
>>>>>
"""""
The screen is just too small for a GUI environment. That's why I prefer to
do my GS programming using MPW on the Mac these days.
And of course, now that MPW is free, and MPW IIgs ORCA/C can be had for a
vastly reduced price... ;)
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 22, Top 28, Msg 2)
>>>>>
"""""
Sheppy, I know I've been in this discussion before (Deja vu?) but wasn't
there some limitation, like MPW only working with an older, buggy version
of Orca C, or something?
And MPW IIGS Orca/C is on Opus I, is it not?
_________
| homas
(TCOMPTER, Cat 22, Top 28, Msg 3)
>>>>>
"""""
MPW IIgs ORCA/C is basically ORCA/C 2.0.3 instead of 2.1, which is a down
side -- although the source is now available through the Opus ][ package,
so perhaps an update might happen?
The MPW IIgs ORCA/C compiler is indeed on the Opus ][ CD.
Which reminds me -- if you share changes you make to sources on Opus ][ The
Source with me, I do have authorization to redistribute them to other Opus
][ owners, so please do!
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 22, Top 28, Msg 4)
>>>>>
"""""
I was going to say that I thought MPW IIgs Orca/C was equivalent to 2.1,
but looking at the product blurb:
--
MPW IIGS ORCA/C is a port of ORCA/C 2.0.3 ...
MPW IIGS ORCA/C is almost a straight port of ORCA/C 2.0.3 to the MPW
environment. The exceptions are some oft-requested extensions to C,
like // comments and multibyte character constants.
--
But since the source for both is available ... :)
BTW - great news about the opus ][ source code change redistribution,
Sheppy. Any plans to set up a registered owner site? (yeah, I know you're
busy :)
(KWS, Cat 22, Top 28, Msg 5)
>>>>>
"""""
No decision yet on how to handle redistribution. I have permission to do
it but there are some conditions I need to go over before doing anything
about it.
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 22, Top 28, Msg 6)
[EOA]
[SFU]
SAFE UPDATED TO v1.1
""""""""""""""""""""
I have posted an update to the SAFE script set on my web site today.
SAFE 1.1 fixes the problem some of you had double-clicking the List boxes
to navigate folders. No other fixes have been made.
We still wait an upgrade to Marinetti to fix the 'empty directory'
syndrome, and hosts that require more secure authentication.
Ewen Wannop - Speccie - Tue 18 Sep 2001 - 55 days till KFest '01
Delivered without using a IIgs by Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR 1.0b5
Setup: Bernie ][ the Rescue 3.0 and a Blue & White G3/350
http://www.ewannop.btinternet.co.uk/
(CONDUCTOR, Cat 26, Top 6, Msg 21)
[EOA]
[UOS]
POINTER ON THE USE OF SAFE v1.1
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
A note about the latest version of SAFE 1.1 on my web site.
As Marinetti does not yet seem able to open local listening ports, despite
its docs saying they should work, please make sure that you check the 'Use
passive (PASV)' box in the settings dialog. You will sit forever waiting
for directories to be opened otherwise!
The list box double clicking has been fixed with this release, but you
still me have problems opening directories on some hosts due to the other
bugs in Marinetti.
Ewen Wannop - Speccie - Fri 5 Oct 2001 - 291 days till KFest '02
Delivered without using a IIgs by Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR 1.0b5
Setup: Bernie ][ the Rescue 3.0 and a Blue & White G3/350
http://www.ewannop.btinternet.co.uk/
(CONDUCTOR, Cat 17, Top 24, Msg 17)
[EOA]
[IFD]
ICONS FOR FOCUS DRIVE
"""""""""""""""""""""
At KFest this year, a few of us noticed that when Max Jones powered up his
IIGS that his desktop had a different icon for his Focus drive than the
usual. Where most have the standard hard drive icon, Max has one that is
of the Focus card itself. When I asked him about it, he believes that his
drive came that way. I asked Tony Diaz about it and he had never seen that
icon before. Tony looked around Max's hard drive and found a FOCUS.ICN
file in his Icon directory. Max had no idea where he got it though.
Tonight I was thinking about it and figured that if it were anywhere, it
would be on the Time In A Bottle CD. So I checked it out and sure enough.
Number: 26122 Name: FOCUS.ICN.BXY
Address: CHUNK.S Date: 951206
Approximate # of bytes: 1240
Number of Accesses: 42 Library: 10
Description:
If you have one of AEC's new FOCUS HardDrive cards, you'll love this
ICON. It is a picture of the card. Your card's name must begin with 'F'
for it to work. If you have an Icon Editor you may change this attribute
yourself. Enjoy! Packed with ShrinkIt GS 1.1.
Keywords: icons,Focus HardDrive,hard drives,gs
On the CD itself it can be found at:
/Time.In.A.Bottle.Volume.1/Lib10.Icon/Icons/E-F/focus.icn.bxy
The "Your card's name must begin with 'F' for it to work." has me puzzled a
bit. I tried to change one of the partition names to begin with a 'F' but
that didn't help. Perhaps the boot partition has to begin with a 'F'?
I'll have to try that next.
Mark Percival - Syndicomm.com Apple II RTC Host
"Midweek Madness!" every Wednesday night.
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
(MARK, Cat 28, Top 3, Msg 18)
>>>>>
"""""
If you take a look at the icon with an icon editor (ICE would be my first
choice), you'll notice there's only a large icon and it's set to match the
filename (or volume name, whatever :) F*.
Why it's not working for you when you change a partition to beginning with
an F I have no idea. However, with an icon editor, you ought to be able to
get it to match whatever you want.
Ryan
(A2.RYAN, Cat 28, Top 3, Msg 19)
[EOA]
[FUO]
Focus UTILITIES DISK ONLINE?
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Hi. I seem to have misplaced my Focus Utilities disk. Is there an online
source for this disk? A disk image perhaps?
Thanks,
Dain Neater
Keeper of the Board
Syndicomm A2
(A2.DAIN, Cat 28, Top 3, Msg 20)
>>>>>
"""""
You can get the Focus software (as well as some other relatively hard to
find Apple II driver software) at the Alltech web site:
http://www.allelec.com/apple2sw.htm
Ryan
(A2.RYAN, Cat 28, Top 3, Msg 22)
[EOA]
[FSS]
THE FUTURE OF Sweet16
"""""""""""""""""""""
One of these days I'll find time to work on Sweet16 some more... Syndicomm
has been keeping me extremely busy. And of course the uncertainty
surrounding BeOS lately has been dampening my enthusiasm just a little bit.
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 29, Top 32, Msg 13)
>>>>>
"""""
Sweet16 really needs to be ported to a different OS. I know that a Windows
port isn't going to happen too soon but perhaps a Linux port?
Mark Percival - Syndicomm.com Apple II RTC Host
"Midweek Madness!" every Wednesday night.
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
(MARK, Cat 29, Top 32, Msg 14)
>>>>>
"""""
A Linux port has been authorized but the person that was going to do it has
been too busy and hasn't touched it.
I'd frankly prefer a Mac OS X version, but I doubt that would be tolerated
by the Bernie boys. :)
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 29, Top 32, Msg 15)
[EOA]
[PPC]
POINTERS - PROGRAMMING IN C
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Pointers in C are pretty inconsistent at times, especially when strings and
characters are involved.
Let's start at the beginning, shall we? A pointer is very much like an
arrow that points at a memory location. It's a number that specifically
indicates the address in memory of a particular piece of data -- very much
like an address, like 500 North Main Street, refers to a particular piece
of land. Where a pointer in a computer indicates the address of, say, a
variable containing the number 50, a home address indicates the address of,
say, Bob Smith.
Why are pointers important? For several reasons. Here are a few examples:
1. At the lowest level, some important information in your computer's
memory is kept at a fixed memory location, which you must address using a
pointer. For example, the low-level keyboard input register is at the
address $E0C000. So if you need to read the keyboard at the low level from
C, you might do something similar to:
char *keyboard = 0xE0C000;
char thekey = *keyboard;
We'll get into the oddities of this syntax later on in this and/or other
posts.
2. If you're going to pass a structure from one function to another in C,
it's far more efficient and practical, in most cases, to pass a pointer to
it instead of the entire structure itself. This way, instead of dumping a
copy of the entire structure through from one function to another, only the
four-byte pointer to the structure has to be passed around.
3. The Toolbox uses pointers. A lot.
Now that we have some idea what pointers are and why they're important,
let's take a look at how they work in C.
A pointer, in C, is a particular type of variable, which is defined by
indicating the type of variable that will be pointed to, and using the
asterisk "*" before the name of the variable, as follows:
char *letterPointer;
int *intPointer;
WindowPtr *myWindowPtr;
The first is a pointer to a character. Through a quirk of how C works, a
pointer to a character is the same thing as a string. They're
interchangeable, with some caveats; we'll look at strings in C in a minute.
The second is a pointer to an integer. Integers on the IIgs are 2 bytes.
The third is a pointer to a window record structure. You might pass this
into Toolbox functions such as ShowWindow or HideWindow, or even SetPort.
Creating a pointer variable, such as intPointer above, does *not* create a
memory location to actually store the value pointed to by the pointer. It
creates a variable into which the address of a value can be stored. So
never, ever, do this:
int *intPointer; /* create an integer pointer */
*intPointer = 0; /* store 0 at the address pointed to */
The value of intPointer -- the address of the integer variable -- is never
set here. You're trashing memory when you stuff 0 into a random memory
location. Instead, be sure to do something more like this:
int myInteger; /* create an integer variable */
int *intPointer; /* create an integer pointer */
intPounter = &myInteger; /* make intPointer point to myInteger */
*intPointer = 0; /* store 0 at the address pointed to */
This is safe. Clearly this is a simple example that doesn't make much
sense, but in a context of really making use of the pointer, it can be very
handy.
Let's look closer at the syntax.
The ampersand "&" translates into English as "the address of". So
"&myInteger" is "the address of myInteger".
The asterisk "*" unfortunately has two meanings (and therein begins the
confusion). When declaring a variable, like this:
int *intPointer;
It means "this variable is actually a pointer". In this case, a pointer to
an integer.
When accessing a variable, like this:
int j = *intPointer;
It means "the value pointed to by". In this case, it means "the value
pointed to by the intPointer pointer".
OK, what's with strings?
A string in C is defined using a character pointer, like this:
char *mystring = "This is a string";
This creates a pointer to a character, called mystring, which points to the
string "This is a string". This is the first of C's annoying special
cases.
Let's compare:
int *intPointer = 0;
char *mystring = "This is a string";
The first of these creates a pointer to an integer, intPointer, and sets it
up to point to the address $000000.
The second creates a pointer to a string, mystring, but also tells the C
compiler to insert the string "This is a string" into your program code and
set up mystring to point to it. This isn't very consistent at all.
Strings in C are basically an array of characters with the last character
in the array being the byte value 0 (also called the null character).
We'll look at the relationship between arrays and pointers in a future
post, perhaps.
We'll continue this look at pointers in C soon.
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 52, Top 13, Msg 1)
[EOA]
[GSR]
GETTING STARTED WITH REZ
""""""""""""""""""""""""
What's the best way to get started with Rez? I'm always confused by it.
Ryan
(A2.RYAN, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 1)
I learned rez from a tutorial on ground called rtutor. This was way back
when ground was grind, and not just a pile of mud :) I'd bet TIAB has it,
or possibly other rez info. rTutor included C and rez code, as well as
tutorial information.
To learn rez, I think you need to just stick your hands in it, by looking
at rez files, disassembling resource forks, and looking at resources in
your favorite programs with something like Genesys or Foundation. Or skip
rez entirely and use one of the above :)
(KWS, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 2)
>>>>>
"""""
Best way to learn Rez is to just copy existing Rez code and alter it. It's
actually a pretty simple "language".
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 3)
[EOA]
[PGF]
PNG FILES
"""""""""
What is it about PNG files that people think is so great, other than it not
being Unisys-impaired?
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 60, Top 7, Msg 1)
>>>>>
"""""
Two of the biggest reasons PNG is better than GIF:
1) Alpha transparency support. GIF supports transparent pixels, but it's
an all-or none proposition, which can cause hard edges and transparent
pictures can look like crap on the wrong color background. PNG has
transparent pixels, but a pixel can be a colored and 50% transparent.
2) Unlimited colors. GIF is limited to 256 colors (255 with transparency),
which doesn't work well for photos or smooth color blending. PNG supports
pretty much unlimited colors.
But, there's 2 advantages GIF has over PNG:
1) Not all browsers deal with png natively (I think all modern ones do,
though).
2) GIF animations.
And just to be thorough, 2 advantages of PNG over jpeg:
1) Transparency.
2) non-lossy compression (PNG compression is generally as good or better
than GIF).
(KWS, Cat 60, Top 7, Msg 2)
>>>>>
"""""
Significant disadvantage to GIF vs. PNG is Unisys's patent insanity.
Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W. - rsuenaga@apple2.org - A2's Head Geek
Alpha Testing CoPilot v2.55 and ProTERM 3.1
Offline Syndicomm.com Message Manager
(A2.RYAN, Cat 60, Top 7, Msg 3)
>>>>>
"""""
The claim that modern browsers support PNG seems to be a load of hooey
though. We spent a couple hours trying to get them to consistently work
the other day, hoping to use them on our webside board, and no matter what
we did, some browser or another wouldn't recognize the files. We finally
gave up and went with GIF instead.
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 60, Top 7, Msg 4)
>>>>>
"""""
I think Unisys' lzw patent expires soon. And I think most European
countries don't accept the validity of software patents.
Some browsers do behave erratically with png pics, though. IE 4 (pc), in
my experience sometimes shows them, sometimes doesn't. and sometimes shows
them with quicktime (and takes forever to display). It may be that some
pictures are stored slightly differently, or invalid, or something.
(KWS, Cat 60, Top 7, Msg 5)
[EOA]
[CPE]
CELL PHONE FOR 911 EMERGENCY SERVICE ONLY
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Awhile back we were talking about cell phones, and Gary noted that even
those not subscribed to a service can dial 911. I stopped by the local
Cingular store today and they confirmed this, but presented me with the
dilemma of acquiring a phone. A cell phone costs $219 by itself, but only
$19.95 or so with a minimum one-year service plan, which comes with a $150
early termination fee, so no matter, what it's an expensive piece of
hardware.
Does anyone know of cell phone providers who specialize in emergency usage
plans?
Or does anyone have a cell phone they're no longer using? :)
-Ken
(KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 226)
>>>>>
"""""
There are many cellulars at local Goodwills and such for just about
nothing.
Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W. - rsuenaga@apple2.org - A2's Head Geek
Alpha Testing CoPilot v2.55 and ProTERM 3.1
Offline Syndicomm.com Message Manager
(A2.RYAN, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 228)
>>>>>
"""""
I've seen ads for cheap cell phones ($20 or so) that don't come with a
plan, but instead come with xx minutes of usage (sort of like a phone
card), and you can buy additional time as well. I think I've seen these
advertised at office supply stores (like Staples) as well as general
department stores (like Ames).
(KWS, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 229)
>>>>>
"""""
My son has an ATT Wireless phone like that. The unused time expires after
90 days, but adding more time with a new card extends it to 90 days from
the date you activate the new card. You can buy in sizes you actually use,
so for small volume use, it's cheaper than any monthly fee plan.
For regular users, the monthly plans are cheaper, but do require a
commitment, and good credit.
If all you want is to be able to dial 911, a used phone is the way to go.
Carl Knoblock - Telephone Tech - Thu 4 Oct 01 9:59:25 pm
cknoblo@home.com - Via Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR v1.0b6
KFest 2002, July 23-28, 2002 - 292 days till KFest
On cable via LANceGS & Marinetti 2.0.1 - Thank you, Richard.
A2 RTC Staff - Saturday Night House Party - carlk@syndicomm.com
(CARLK, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 230)
[EOA]
[CBU]
COPY/BACKUP FILES FROM UNIX ACCOUNT
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Dunno if this is the right topic.
Now that I've graduated, my college account is about to expire. I need to
copy/backup all the files from my Unix account before they disappear on
Friday. Any suggestions as to the best/quickest way to do this from my
PowerBook?
Some ideas:
- telnet and sz the files, or ftp the files, one-by-one.
- telnet, zip, and sz/ftp the collected files.
- Mount the account via AppleTalk and copy the files in the Finder.
- Mount the account via AppleTalk and Drop stuff the files onto a local
volume.
-Ken
(KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 221)
>>>>>
"""""
>> - telnet, zip, and sz/ftp the collected files. <<
This is what I'd do.
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 222)
>>>>>
"""""
It's also what I would do, but I wouldn't sz, just ftp.
Ryan
(A2.RYAN, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 223)
>>>>>
"""""
Thanks guys. Which is quicker: FTP over TCP/IP, or sz over direct dial-up?
(I have a 56K modem.)
Also, many files in my account have filenames beginning with a period. If
I use the command "zip backup .* *", as recommended in the man pages, the
zip command tries to archive everything in the parent directory, as well as
directories located in the parent - ie, just about the entire server - when
it tries to zip ".". Any idea how to get around this?
-Ken
(KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 224)
>>>>>
"""""
Ah! I solved what ailed me. I'd forgotten I'd long ago aliased "zip" to
"zip -gr", and the "r" flag causes the zip command to recurse through all
available directories. I unaliased it and backed up all my files into
backup.zip using these two commands:
zip backup .*
zip -gr backup *
Thanks,
-Ken
(KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 225)
[EOA]
[EQN]
ETIQUETTE QUESTION
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I have an etiquette question.
I write a weekly newspaper column which I would like to submit for
syndication. There are at least three syndicates I am interested in
pending proposals to, but I think I once read or was told that it is not
kosher to solicit the same material to multiple vendors simultaneously.
OTOH, each syndicate can take as long as ten weeks to return a response,
and I'd rather not take 30 (7.5 months!) weeks to get all my responses in!
Any suggestions on if it is acceptable to mail my material to three
syndicates at nearly the same time?
-Ken
(KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 34, Msg 53)
>>>>>
"""""
I would say that, yes, it's kosher. Be aggressive. They are when they try
to sell the stuff.
Go get 'em, Ken.
Oh, by the way, did I ever return your call when you approached me about
purchasing your column? :-)
Max
(JUICEDGS, Cat 2, Top 34, Msg 54)
>>>>>
"""""
I would do it.
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 2, Top 34, Msg 55)
[EOA]
[MPD]
MULTI-PLAYER DIABLO ON THE MAC OR PC
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I'm trying to get a few Apple II folks together this evening to play a
network game on their Mac or PC together, as kind of a group effort to get
our minds off the news.
So far, most of the people I've talked to have either Diablo I or
Civilization II Gold, so I'd suggest we play one of those games. Anyone
interested in a game starting at, say, 5:00 PM Pacific time?
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 212)
>>>>>
"""""
Sheppy,
I'd be interested in making this a weekly event. I'm not around next week
but please keep us updated. I have both the games you mentioned, but have
never played Diablo and suck as Civ II. Plus I'm on dial-up, FWIW.
-Ken
(KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 213)
>>>>>
"""""
Well, I'm hanging around for a while tonight hoping someone will play with
me, but I like the idea of a weekly event.
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 214)
>>>>>
"""""
Dain and I played Diablo together tonight. We had fun but got ourselves
into a sticky situation we weren't ready for and got nailed hard. We're
going to play every Sunday. :)
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 215)
>>>>>
"""""
Arrgh! I didn't read the forum yesterday, so I missed some multiplayer
diablo!! I hope I don't miss it next week :)
(KWS, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 216)
>>>>>
"""""
Not sure what time we'll start next week; I hope earlier in the day than
this time. :)
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 217)
[EOA]
[TSV]
THE SirCam VIRUS
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A tec support email I received states that "the SirCam virus has its own
SMTP engine." That can't possibly mean what I think it means, so could
someone tell me what it means, and how that's possible?
-Ken
(KGAGNE, Cat 11, Top 11, Msg 32)
>>>>>
"""""
I assume it means that instead of relying on the existence of an email
program like Outlook to send copies of itself to others, it has its own
SMTP client built in.
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(SYNDICOMM, Cat 11, Top 11, Msg 33)
>>>>>
"""""
Egads. If we're talking about the same virus, and I think we are, I spent
hours over the weekend trying to help a friend who caught that virus on her
PC. Whatever you do, if your virus checker IDs the virus but says it can't
fix it, do not let your virus checker delete the 2 infected files, or the
PC won't be able to run any programs.
What it does after infecting your system, is that it sends it out to others
in your address book. But, it may be even more insidious that just that, as
my friend got it in e-mail from someone she didn't know.
The very latest McAfee DAT file has the cure for it. It also requires the
very latest McAfee engine. That is, if you can go online to download those.
In any case, enter the virus name into Google, and look for the entry from
the University of Maryland. They have a link to a stand-alone program you
can download from Norton that will nuke the virus. They also have
step-by-step instructions on exactly what to do to get the PC up and
running again.
In my friends case, I had to come home to download the Norton file, which
fits on a 3.5" disk, and then could only run it on her machine from DOS,
after booting the computer from a Win98 Startup disk.
That whole experience really made me appreciate my IIGS even more. It's a
dangerous world out there for PC users.
Joe
(JOKO, Cat 11, Top 11, Msg 34)
[EOA]
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ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM SYNDICOMM |
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by Lyle Syverson <lyle@foxvalley.net>
[LWD]
The Life With Diabetes forum
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has now opened at page 955, keyword DIABETES. Share your experiences with
diabetes, and talk to others with this disease.
(Opening Banner, Syndicomm Online)
[EOA]
[TPA]
World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks
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Syndicomm has opened a new community for discussing the World Trade Center
and Pentagon attacks. Share your feelings, share your sorrow, share your
thoughts. Keyword WTC, page 1600.
(Opening Banner, Syndicomm Online)
[EOA]
[STE]
THE NEW STAR TREK SERIES, ENTERPRISE
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Talk about the new Star Trek series, Enterprise, in the HelpDesk forum's
category 50, topic 1, at page 150, keyword HELPDESK.
(Opening Banner, Syndicomm Online)
[EOA]
[NSA]
NEW BULLETIN BOARD SOFTWARE, PAGE 1600
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The World Trade Center/Pentagon discussion forum at page 1600 is running
our new bulletin board software. The software isn't finished yet, but is
making rapid progress. You may visit it on the web at
http://www.syndicomm.com/communities/wtc/messages.
So far this week, we've done some major revamping to the look and feel, and
URLs are now clickable in messages.
We have lots more to do, but it's moving along, and we thought we'd share
our progress with you.
Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com
Building communities, bit by bit.
(HelpDesk Bulletin Board, SYNDICOMM, Cat 4, Top 6, Msg 1)
[EOA]
[NSB]
NEW BULLETIN BOARD SOFTWARE, MAC BULLETIN BOARD
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This forum has now been upgraded to our new bulletin board software.
Some textside commands don't work yet in this version of the software, but
you can now access this board using your web browser:
http://www.syndicomm.com/communities/mac/messages
Enjoy!
Sheppy
(Mac Bulletin Board, SYNDICOMM, Cat 2, Top 1, Msg 2)
[EOA]
[NSC]
NEW BULLETIN BOARD SOFTWARE IMPROVEMENT
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The new version of the bulletin board software (currently in use on pages
605 and 1600, MAC and WTC) now has scroll prompt support on textside. It
does not yet automatically determine your screen height from the window
size reported by your terminal program yet like the old version does, but
that's coming in the next day or two. For now it just assumes 24 lines.
Dave Miller justdave@syndicomm.com + justdave@justdave.net
Lead Software Engineer/System Administrator, Syndicomm Online
http://www.syndicomm.com/ http://www.justdave.net/
(HelpDesk Bulletin Board, JUSTDAVE, Cat 4, Top 2, Msg 36)
[EOA]
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DISTILLATIONS FROM DELPHI A2 |
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by Lyle Syverson <lyle@foxvalley.net>
[FTE]
FTP FILES TO THE IIe VIA A MAC
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I've found some files that are available as FTP files for the Apple II --
programs and discs from Nibble Magazine.
What I don't know how to do is how to get those files through my G3 Mac in
a manner that will allow me to use them on my IIe.
The download says that the files can be unpacked with Shrinkit. I have
Shrinkit on my IIe
I capture the files on the Mac and they appear on the desktop, but when I
try to copy them to a Prodos formatted disc I get error messages.
Do I need to do something special to get usable Apple II files when
downloading them via the Mac ??
Thanks
Stan Sztaba
(SSZTABA, 3516.1, Delphi A2 web side)
>>>>>
"""""
ProDOS file names are picky so make sure you are using a valid prodos name
for the file. I had a similar problem when I transferred files via MS-DOS
disk. For instance, ProDOS can't accept spaces. Try using periods.
C'est moi! http://www.facelink.com/wrstrutts
Email: wrstrutts1@home.com
(WILLIAM7622, 3516.2, Delphi A2 web side)
>>>>>
"""""
Dear William,
Thank you. That was exactly the problem. The file name I was trying to copy
had 16 characters, and Prodos only allows 15.
HOWEVER, that doesn't completely solve my problem.
Now that I have the file on a Prodos disc, Shrinkit doesn't recognize the
file. Copy II Plus shows the file with a FileType of $00
Trying to VIEW the file as with Copy II Plus gives an I/O error in Block
$FBAA
Any suggestions ??
Thanks
Stan Sztaba
(SSZTABA, 3516.3, Delphi A2 web side)
>>>>>
"""""
Did you download the file using Netscape? There is a known bug in Netscape
which is referred to as "cooking" the file. There is a program called
"uncook" which fixes it or you could try downloading it using Internet
Explorer.
C'est moi! http://www.facelink.com/wrstrutts
Email: wrstrutts1@home.com
(WILLIAM7622, 3516.4, Delphi A2 web side)
>>>>>
"""""
I did in fact use Netscape.
I don't see any message in my Netscape book about 'cooking' or 'uncooking.'
Any idea where I'll find the 'uncook' program ?
I'll also try the Inet Explorer route.
Thanks
Stan Sztaba
(SSZTABA, 3516.5, Delphi A2 web side)
[EOA]
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
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[NLE]
NO LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THIS MONTH
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The mail box for Letters to the Editor remained empty this month.
[EOA]
[LTE]
AN INVITATION
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Express your opinions about the comings and goings in the world of the
Apple II computers.
Send your comments to Lyle Syverson, Editor <lyle@FoxValley.net>
The Editor reserves the right to edit any material submitted.
The Editor reserves the right to reject any material he considers
unsuitable for publication in _The Lamp!_.
[EOA]
[KFT]------------------------------
KFest 2002 |
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[PAK]
PLAN AHEAD FOR K-Fest 2002
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KansasFest 2002 is scheduled for July 23 through 28 of 2002. Plan ahead.
Mark your calendar. Start saving your money. Join us for K-Fest 2002!
[EOA]
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EXTRA INNINGS |
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About The Lamp! The Lamp! is published on the fifteenth of every month on
""""""""""""""" the WEB at: http://lamp.a2central.com/
This publication produced entirely with real or emulated Apple II computers
using Appleworks 5.1 and Hermes. Apple II Forever!
* The Lamp! is (c) copyright 2001 by Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W. All
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