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Editor.....................................................Lyle Syverson Internet Email, Publisher.........................thelamp@sheppyware.net Internet Email, Editor................................lyle@FoxValley.net ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::                            TABLE OF CONTENTS                            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                              June 15, 2003HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER---------------------------------------------[OPN]     The Power of VolunteersA2 FORUM AT Syndicomm Online (A2Central.com) DISTILLATIONS------------[DAS]     Steven Weyhrich Creates GEnie Lamp A2/The Lamp Index-------------[SWC]     GEnie Lamp A2/The Lamp Index in Library--------------------------[LIL]     DiskMaker 1.2 Uploaded to Library--------------------------------[DML]     Prizm on Real IIgs vs Emulator-----------------------------------[PRE]     Accessing the SIS Web Site With SIS------------------------------[SWS]     Advantages of Various Programming Languages----------------------[VPL]     Suggestions Needed for Working With ORCA-------------------------[SNO]     Programming With Assembly----------------------------------------[PWA]     Programming With Marinetti---------------------------------------[PWM]     A2 Fans Might Want to Check Out This Book------------------------[CTB]ILLUMINATING THE LAMP-------------------------------------------------[ITL]     An overview of GEnieLamp A2 and The Lamp!          Never Can Say GoodbyeANNOUNCEMENTS FROM SYNDICOMM------------------------------------------[ANS]     To Sign up for Syndicomm Online----------------------------------[TSU]     June 2003 Issue of Syndicommotion is Ready-----------------------[JSR]THE TINKERER'S CORNER-------------------------------------------------[TTC]     Keeping the Apple II Cool Enough     You are InvitedLETTERS TO THE EDITOR-------------------------------------------------[LTE]     Letter to the Editor     An InvitationKFEST 2003------------------------------------------------------------[KFT]     KFest 2003 - Plan to be There!-----------------------------------[PBT]     KFest Registration Form------------------------------------------[KRF]     Third Floor Needed for KFest Attendees---------------------------[TFN]     The Excitement Builds--------------------------------------------[TEB]     New Products to be Announced at KFest----------------------------[NPA]     Transportation, Airport to KFest---------------------------------[AKF]     For More Information Visit The KFest Home Page-------------------[VKF]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 thisissue into any word processor or text editor.  In the index you will findsomething 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 |------------------------------------From The Editor"""""""""""""""by Lyle Syverson <lyle@FoxValley.net>                          The Power of Volunteers                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     Not far from the patio High Above The Rock River is a delightfullittle park.  A stone path winds through plantings of many species offlowering plants... a succession of beautiful color from early Springthough late Fall.     A bench beneath a stately shade tree invites one to rest awhile.  Thesmall table with seating for two inspires planning a picnic for you and afriend.     This small park was developed and is maintained by volunteers from aneighborhood improvement association.  A fine example of what can beaccomplished by dedicated volunteers.     The casual observer could easily overlook the work of volunteers inmaking KFest happen.     Over sixty people have registered for KFest 2003.  You, too, can takeadvantage of efforts of the volunteers who are making KFest happen.  Seethe KFest section of this issue for registration information.[EOA]ASCII ART BEGINS_________  _                     _                                      _|__   __| | |                   | |                                    | |   | |    | |                   | |                                    | |   | |    | |___     ____       | |       _____   __ ___ _   _ _____   | |   | |    | ___ \   / __ \      | |      /____ \  | v   v | | v ___ \  | |   | |    | |  | | | /__\ \     | |       ____| | | /\ /\ | |  /   \ \ | |   | |    | |  | | | _____|     | |      / ___  | | || || | | |    | | |_|   | |    | |  | | | |_____     | |____  | |__| | | || || | |  \___/ /  _   |_|    |_|  |_| \______|     |______| \____^_| |_||_||_| | |\____/  |_|                                                            | |                                                            | |                                                            |_|ASCII ART ENDS[EOA][DAS]----------------------------------------------DISTILLATIONS FROM The A2 FORUM at Syndicomm.com  |                                  (A2Central.com) |---------------------------------------------------by Lyle Syverson <lyle@foxvalley.net>[SWC]Steven Weyhrich CREATES GEnie Lamp A2/The Lamp INDEX""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I've just uploaded to the A2 library the completed, first-evercomprehensive index to both GEnieLamp A2 (9204-9710) and The Lamp(9801-Present). The index file is 540K in size, and there is also a ReadMethat explains some things in the index file.Comments and criticisms are welcomed. Check Cat 2/Top 37 for anannouncement of when it is released and where it gets placed.Steven Weyhrich <IX0YE>--<Apple II Historyhttp://apple2history.org(A2HISTORY, Cat 20, Top 20, Msg 93)>>>>>"""""Thanks, Steve.Ryan(RSUENAGA, Cat 20, Top 20, Msg 94)[EOA][LIL]GEnie Lamp A2/The Lamp INDEX IN LIBRARY"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""There are new uploads in the publications/genielamp_the.lamp directory: File: index0305.txt Size: 546353 Date: May 18 File: index0305readme.txt Size: 5126 Date: May 18The LAMP INDEX file is a topical index of nearly every individual articlethat was posted in the digital magazines GEnieLamp A2 from April 1992through October 1997, and The Lamp! from January 1998 through the present(May 2003).Uploaded by the author, Steven Weyhrich.Tony Ward, A2 Librarian(A2.TONY, Cat 2, Top 37, Msg 14)>>>>>"""""In regards to the previous upload announcement, note that the followingchange has been made to the A2 library:old - publications/genielamp.a2new - publications/genielamp_the.lampNo files were harmed in the creation of this new directory.Tony Ward, A2 Librarian(A2.TONY, Cat 2, Top 37, Msg 15)[EOA][DML]DiskMaker 1.2 UPLOADED TO LIBRARY"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""There is a new upload in the utilities/16-bit/applications directory:File: dmaker12.bxySize: 25856Date: Jun 9DiskMaker 1.2 is the latest version of the popular disk image to diskconversion utility for the Apple IIgs.  DiskMaker supports DiskCopy 4.2,DiskCopy 6, Universal Disk Image (2mg), and raw disk images on all sizes ofdisks.Version 1.2 fixes a bug introduced in version 1.1 that caused strangeerrors dealing with DiskCopy 4.2 and Universal Disk Image files, and makesthe target disk selection window automatically highlight newly-inserteddisks.Uploaded by the author, Eric Shepherd.Tony Ward, A2 Librarian(A2.TONY, Cat 2, Top 37, Msg 16)[EOA][PRE]PRIZM ON REAL IIgs VS EMULATOR""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""FWIW, it seems that while the physical GS running Prizm is much slower atcompiling (duh), it's also considerably more stable.Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 22, Top 28, Msg 7)[EOA][SWS]ACCESSING THE SIS WEB SITE WITH SIS"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Due to a recent server move, SIS can no longer access its own Web sitehttp://sis.gwlink.net/ .  The site still works with any other Web Browser.SIS users can still access the Web site by going to:http://www.gwlink.net/sis/I apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 26, Top 7, Msg 5)[EOA][VPL]ADVANTAGES OF VARIOUS PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Does Pascal have any strengths over C?(KGAGNE, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 4)>>>>>"""""My guess is in C you could cause more damage than with Pascal.Of course..I've caused damage with both.  I seem to remember (It's been along time), Pascal being easier to learn.Dain(A2.DAIN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 5)>>>>>""""">> Does Pascal have any strengths over C? <<To me, mostly in being easier to read and learn.  C still looks like linenoise to me.In the real world, there's about zero demand for Pascal programmers(although Delphi has kind of usurped the Pascal guys).  C (and C++)programmers are wanted everywhere.  But on the IIgs, Pascal is as useful alanguage as C (and as good as anything short of 65c816 assembly. . .Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 6)>>>>>"""""Pascal was designed as a teaching language, and won't let you do a lot ofstupid things that C will let you do (but won't let you do a lot of cleverthings that C will let you do, either).I prefer C since it doesn't make you type so much, and it gives you morecontrol.  Pascal seems to me like driving with a learners permit, and yourmother is nagging the whole trip.For IIgs desktop programming, Pascal is just as usable as C.  AndOrca/Pascal supports object pascal, which has some neat features.Kelvin(KWS, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 7)>>>>>""""">> Does Pascal have any strengths over C? <<In the IIGS world, I think that Orca Pascal is the only "object-oriented"language available for the Apple II.  That is, it's the only language thatallows objects in the OOP sense.   (But maybe Modula 2 also has them? I'venever delved into Modula 2)_________  | homasP.S.  I see that Kelvin already mentioned that...   while I was typing thisresponse  :)(TCOMPTER, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 8)>>>>>"""""Are there any speed variations between the two languages?  I rememberreading comments that this program or that ran slowly because it waswritten in Pascal.(KGAGNE, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 9)>>>>>"""""Speed is always an issue in computing, regardless of language that's used.If all things are equal, assembly would be faster than anything, but "allthings are equal" is not always possible.I don't think that ORCA/Pascal vs ORCA/C will show an appreciabledifference in speed.  Assembly vs either of the other two, sure, butoptimizing code will of course make a huge difference :)Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 10)>>>>>"""""ORCA/Modula-2 does allow object programming.  It's actually a really neatlanguage for doing GS programming in, but I don't think anyone ever reallyused it that much.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 11)>>>>>"""""Sheppy Said:>> ORCA/Modula-2 does allow object programming. <<That's good to know.  I might have to give it a try after school is done.>> It's actually a really neat language for doing GS programming in, but Idon't think anyone ever really used it that much. <<I would imagine that it was not popular because:a)  it came out late in the IIGS's life cycle, andb)  it came out when Java and C++ were the "hot" languages on otherplatforms._________  | homas(TCOMPTER, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 12)>>>>>"""""Reason 3 why Modula-2 wasn't popular on the IIgs:It's not popular in the rest of the world either.Kelvin(KWS, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 13)>>>>>"""""Yeah, what Kelvin said.  Modula-2 was never more than a computer scienceproject, really.  Nobody ever deployed it for real world use in any realway.  But it's a darned neat language, very much like Pascal but with somecool added features that make it worth trying out.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 14)>>>>>"""""Fooling with Pascal the last couple of weeks has really helped me get overthe hump in terms of programming.  I usually got a week or two into alanguage before I had no clue what I was doing.  I'm a couple of weeks innow and things are kind of making more sense.To me, Pascal is helpful in that it forces you to be pretty structured andgenerally doesn't allow you to do sloppy things that other languages(Applesoft being a prime example) will.  I kind of wonder how things wouldbe different right now if Pascal had been taught instead of BASIC.Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 15)>>>>>""""">> To me, Pascal is helpful in that it forces you to be pretty structuredand generally doesn't allow you to do sloppy things that other languages <<Yes, that's very true.Pascal was taught instead of BASIC once I got to high school.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 16)>>>>>"""""You guys are lucky.  My high school had "computer typing" as a class, and"computer applications" as another.  The latter was word processing,spreadsheet, and database.  No programming whatsoever.I took the applications final the first week of the class and got a 97%,but the school refused to give me credit for the course since I didn'tactually take it.  Apparently they expected me to sit through the class andnot learn anything to actually get credit.  We compromised: the gradedidn't apply to my GPA, but I was waived from taking the course as agraduation requirement.Last week I taught a high school junior how to count in binary.  I thoughtthese young kids were born with this knowledge. :)-Ken(KGAGNE, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 17)>>>>>""""">> Last week I taught a high school junior how to count in binary.  Ithought these young kids were born with this knowledge. :) <<Unbelievable! Binary, Octal and Hex should all be taught in high school. Carl Knoblock - Telephone Tech - Wed  21 May 03  9:31:32 pm cknoblo@cox.com - Via Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR v1.0b10 KFest 2003, July 22-27, 2003 - 62 days till KFest On cable via LANceGS & Marinetti 2.0.1 - Thank you, Richard. A2 RTC Staff - Sunday Night House Party - carlk@syndicomm.com(CARLK, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 18)>>>>>"""""My high school offered a word processing class (formerly typing, but theygot computers the first or second year i was there).  They also had aQBASIC based class (which I didn't take).  The computer lab had the box forTurboPascal, I don't know if anyone ever used it :)I don't remember being formally taught binary/octal/hex until amachine-language course in college (2nd or 3rd year).  Of course, havingseen my fair share of a2-code, hex and binary weren't foreign.  Octal isentirely useless if not for unix's chmod command :)  My mother told me thatshe had to learn binary and punch cards when she was in school.Kelvin(KWS, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 19)>>>>>"""""When I was in high school (and now that was awhile ago :) we didn't haveapplication courses, but we did have programming, in BASIC.  You had yourchoice between a TRS80 Model I, III, or IV.When I was a junior, they got an Apple IIe.  One.When I was a senior, they started teaching another class in programming, ona mini.  In COBOL.Poor planning, in retrospect. :)Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 21)>>>>>"""""In any case, learning Pascal now is really a fun experience, and I'mfinally understanding a lot of the things I couldn't grasp in otherlanguages, like C and assembly.Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 22)>>>>>"""""Because It's a hobby, I just love programming. Just wish I had more time todo it. Pascal seemed like a good choice - to help me learn NOT to makethose stupid mistakes I do:) Still probably haven't learned THAT buteverything helps when you're playing around and trying to come up withsomething worthwhile:)Steve(KFESTSTEVE, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 31)>>>>>"""""Assembly isn't for everyone.  I enjoy it, but it takes a good bit morethinking to get stuff done. :)Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 23)>>>>>"""""Jumped into Assembly right after BASIC. BASIC allowed me to do some "basic"stuff I needed but assembly taught me MORE about my computer and allowed meto get a few more things done.May have had some "brilliant" ideas for a program but never had theexperience to write them. Mostly, just did what I needed to get done - sansany interface that would permit anyone else from actually finding theprograms useful:)Steve(KFESTSTEVE, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 32)[EOA][SNO]SUGGESTIONS NEEDED FOR WORKING WITH ORCA""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I've been trying to get some stuff done in ORCA but I always run into thefact the thing is incredibly crashy on me.  (usually during compiles).Even on the examples provided.  Usually I have tried to mess with the Ccoding, but I never get far.  Is Pascal less prone to this behavior, or doI need to have some Magical GS setup that prevents all these problems fromoccurring?Thanks,Dain(A2.DAIN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 24)>>>>>"""""The latest versions of the ORCA stuff seemed pretty stable during the editand build stages. (Execution is always suspect, but then you have to wonderwho to point the finger at. For example, the programmer...)Of course, I used the text interface - the Orca command shell and texteditor. Mainly because I found the GUI unstable...   ;-)Peter               peterw@syndicomm.comPalm OS Community Bulletin Board Manager(PETERW, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 25)>>>>>"""""Thanks.  I'll try and see if the Text Interface works any better for me.Dain(A2.DAIN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 26)>>>>>"""""I never was able to get the Prizm GUI to not do unpredictable things, whichis why I always used the text interface.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 27)>>>>>"""""I don't find Prizm to be all that stable, but it's a lot less frustrationnow with a really fast emulator and an easy way to back up boot partitions,then years ago when it would futz my actual IIgs. :)Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 29)>>>>>"""""That's true. :)Well, anyone who has a copy of Opus ][ The Source can try to find and fixthe problems with Prizm; if they get them back to me, I can distributethem.  Same goes for any other Byte Works product.To date, none of you whiners has actually done that. ;)Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 50, Top 7, Msg 30)[EOA][PWA]PROGRAMMING WITH ASSEMBLY"""""""""""""""""""""""""I'm writing an assembly program that is for kids.  One thing I want to dois minimize the impact of them hitting the reset key.I know a lot of stuff happens in the fraction of a second from when thereset key is hit to the very last thing which is a branch to the addressstored in $03F2.  What are some of the things I need to be concerned with?What happens to things like registers and stack pointers? Mark Percival - Apprentice Delivered by Spectrum v2.5.1 & SOAR v1.0b10 The Apple ][ Fanatic and Wednesday Night RTC Host "Midweek Madness!" from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Pacific Time(MARK, Cat 51, Top 3, Msg 1)>>>>>"""""Actually, if you patch that vector, reset does absolutely nothing.  All thereset key does is trigger the line that causes an immediate jump to thatvector; the code there is responsible for actually resetting the machine.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 51, Top 3, Msg 2)>>>>>"""""I ended up doing a little digging of my own and found out the followinganswer to my own question.First of all the (ctrl) reset key sends a signal directly to the processor.When the key is depressed (and held) it stops everything dead in itstracks.  If you try this you will notice that everything is totallysuspended.  Upon releasing the reset key a seven cycle wait happens duringwhich time the processor initializes itself and retrieves the reset addresscontained at $FFFC & $FFFD.Everything above is specific to the 6500 series of microprocessors and notApple II itself.  The same happens in any machine (Commodore 64, etc) usingthis series of processor.From here the processor basically does a JMP ($FFFC) and this is where theApple II specific part takes over.  In an Apple ][ plus or IIe (what Ihappen to have handy to check) $FFFC and $FFFD contains "62 FA" so the 6502in effect does a JMP $FA62.  Here the following happens within theautostart ROM:- flips the soft switches which control video to display page 1 text  mode with low resolution off.- Opens the text window to its full (24x40) size and places the output  cursor to the bottom of the screen.- sets video to normal mode.- sets COUT and KEYIN to use the internal keyboard and video display.- flips annunciators 0 and 1 ON and annunciators 2 and 3 OFF on the  Game I/O connector.- clears the keyboard strobe.- turns off any I/O Expansion ROM.- sounds a "beep!"Following this sequence it checks for a valid Soft Entry Vector located at$3F2-$3F3.  If invalid it assumes a cold restart is required which involvesclearing the screen and putting "APPLE ][" or "Apple //e" at the top of thescreen and then scan the slots for a valid boot device. If the Soft EntryVector is valid then a JMP ($3F2) is executed. Normally this vectorcontains the warm start address for either Applesoft,  DOS or ProDOS.The Soft Entry Vector is the earliest point where I can interrupt the resetcycle and return control to my program.  This sequence also shows me that Ihave to keep all of the above in mind when doing so since (mostparticularly my video) settings have changed and almost for certain myregisters and stack pointers are trashed.REFERENCES:===========- SY6500/MCS6500 Microprocessor Family Programming Manual   August 1976 MOS Technology, Inc.- Apple II Reference Manual   1979 Apple Computer, Inc. Mark Percival - Apprentice Delivered by Spectrum v2.5.1 & SOAR v1.0b10 The Apple ][ Fanatic and Wednesday Night RTC Host "Midweek Madness!" from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Pacific Time(MARK, Cat 51, Top 3, Msg 5)>>>>>"""""Historically the idea was always that you could *trap* the reset key, notsuppress it. So typically the reset key would cause the program to restart(in some cases literally!) at a known "checkpoint" such as the main menu inan application, or the beginning of the current level in a game.The usual idea is that trapping the reset key is a part of the copyprotection process. If it isn't needed for copy protection, then you couldargue that by definition the reset key should be allowed to "reset" - inother words to recover when something goes wrong. And typically recoverywas just enough to allow files to be saved, etc. since if a reset wasneeded, there were probably other problems.Peter               peterw@syndicomm.comPalm OS Community Bulletin Board Manager(PETERW, Cat 51, Top 3, Msg 6)[EOA][PWM]PROGRAMMING WITH MARINETTI""""""""""""""""""""""""""I am working a bit with Marinetti and trying to figure out what to do whilewaiting for a resolution of the TCPIPDNRNameToIP procedure; since therereally isn't anything else for me to do, is it logical for me to run ado-while loop calling TCPIPPoll until DNRStatus no longer equals zero?Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 3)>>>>>"""""That is the way to approach it.Call TCPIPDNRNameToIP, then enter a loop where you keep checking DNRStatusfor a non-zero value. Within the loop you will need to call TCPIPPoll, andyou may well want to call GetNextEvent so you can see if a keypress hasbeen made to abort the waiting. Alternatively, or in addition to lookingfor a keypress, you may want to have some form of timeout, thoughTCPIPDNRNameToIP will time out by itself in due course. Ewen Wannop - Speccie - Wed 4 Jun 2003 - 48 days till KFest '03 Delivered without using a IIgs by Spectrum v2.5.3 & SOAR 1.0b11 Setup: Bernie ][ the Rescue 3.0 and a dual G4/800Mhz GeForce3 http://www.ewannop.btinternet.co.uk/(CONDUCTOR, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 4)>>>>>"""""What I did in gsAIM was have a state machine where it basically would havea variable called onlineStatus, which would be set to, say:0: offline1: resolving2: connecting3: onlineThen when I send the DNR request out, I set the onlineStatus to 1,indicating that I'm waiting for resolution of DNS, and continue in my eventloop, so I can handle cancel requests.  The event loop would then containcode like:if onlineStatus = online then   (* handle online events *)else if onlineStatus = resolving then   (* look to see if resolution is complete *)   if resolutionComplete then      onlineStatus = 2; (* we're connecting now *)   end ifelse if onlineStatus = connecting then   (* handle connecting to the service *)else if onlineStatus = online then   (* we're online, handle that *)else   (* oh no, we're screwed! *)end ifObvious pseudocode. :)Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 5)>>>>>"""""Thanks, Ewen and Shep.Another question: there is a TCPIPConvertIPToASCII call, but apparently noequivalent TCPIPConvertASCIIToIP?I don't mind doing the math myself, I was just hoping it'd be easier :)Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 6)>>>>>"""""You would use TCPIPConvertIPCToHex as the opposite call... Ewen Wannop - Speccie - Thu 5 Jun 2003 - 47 days till KFest '03 Delivered without using a IIgs by Spectrum v2.5.3 & SOAR 1.0b11 Setup: Bernie ][ the Rescue 3.0 and a dual G4/800Mhz GeForce3 http://www.ewannop.btinternet.co.uk/(CONDUCTOR, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 7)>>>>>"""""Thanks, Ewen.Of course, I'm back with more stuff :)  Now that I actually can open theconnection, it's time to read and write to the port.  Here's where I'mhaving a little trouble.  It's pretty obvious to me that after TCPIPLogin,which returns an ipid, I do TCPIPOpenTCP to that ipid.I am guessing after this that I also do TCPIPPoll for awhile untilTCPStatusTCP indicates a connection has been made.Once that connect is made, assuming I'm expecting data back from the port,I am guessing I do a TCPIPReadTCP.  Do I also here do TCPIPPoll and checkfor tcpError?Thanks.Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 8)>>>>>""""">> I am guessing after this that I also do TCPIPPoll for awhile untilTCPStatusTCP indicates a connection has been made. <<More or less.  I suggest putting a call to TCPIPPoll in your main eventloop.  Keep a state variable that keeps track of what you're in the middleof doing.  After you do your TCPIPOpen call, set the state to somethingthat means "waiting to connect" and each pass through the event loop, afterdoing TCPIPPoll, if the state is "waiting to connect", check to see ifyou're connected yet.  Once you are, set the state to "connected".  Therest of your code can then be watching that state variable, and only dosending and receiving when the state is "connected".>> Once that connect is made, assuming I'm expecting data back from theport, I am guessing I do a TCPIPReadTCP.  Do I also here do TCPIPPoll andcheck for tcpError? <<You need to keep calling TCPIPPoll, at least once each time through yourevent loop.  Possibly more often, depending on how long your loop is. :)Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 9)[EOA][CTB]A2 FANS MIGHT WANT TO CHECK OUT THIS BOOK"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""There's a new book out that might be of interest to Apple II fans. "Mastersof Doom," by David Kushner, is the story of id Software founders JohnRomero and John Carmack, the guys who created Doom and Quake.I haven't read it yet, but according to Entertainment Weekly's review thereare mentions of the Apple II, Jobs, Woz, Softdisk, and Burger Bill. Soundslike a winner to me!Tony Ward(A2.TONY, Cat 2, Top 13, Msg 111)[EOA][ITL]------------------------      ILLUMINATING THE LAMP |-----------------------------     An overview of GEnieLamp A2 and The Lamp!     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~By Steven Weyhrich     NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYEI like writing about good things, positive things, things that make yousmile and laugh. Humor is good medicine, if you don't mind that old phrasebeing repeated once again. I'd sooner tell a funny story, or relate aclever parody, than to get sober and serious and have to deliver bad news.Yet, as I tried to come up with some upbeat introduction to this edition ofmy review of the Lamp publications, I just could not find the right tone tomake it sound positive. Several great events happened for the Apple II in1994, the year that we covered last time. But as I reviewed the monthlyissues for 1995, it just seemed that there were fewer things that happenedthat were favorable for the A2 world.Part of this was the realignment of the producers of Apple II hardware andsoftware, as the available customer base continued to contract, whichcaused a reduction of those producers, and continued the cycle.Perhaps some of the sobering events in the outside world were reflectingonto the decreased energy in the A2 RoundTable. The federal building inOklahoma City was destroyed by a powerful car bomb in April. The provinceof Quebec defeated a referendum on independence from Canada by only a verynarrow margin. The deadly Ebola virus hit the country of Zaire in Africa.Sun Microsystems introduced Java, with microprocessor-independent "applets"in May. Internet mania continued to build, as a small bookseller namedAmazon.com opened business in July. Netscape announced its initial publicoffering (IPO), which doubled in value during its first day on the stockmarket. Microsoft "Bob" was released as a more user-friendly interface forMicrosoft Windows 3.1. Microsoft Windows 95 also became available, and soldover one million copies during its first four days on the market. And as ifthey weren't busy enough, Microsoft formed an alliance with NBC, creatingthe cable news channel MSNBC.Over at Apple Computer, the PowerPC 603e was released, with a 100 MHzspeed. Power Computing released the first Mac clones, with militantadvertising campaigns promising to help "kick Intel's ass". Few othercompanies were licensed to produce Macintosh clones, leading many toquestion Apple's commitment to allow other companies to make Macs.GENIELAMP INFOEditor Doug Cuff continued to produce a quality issue of GEnieLamp A2 eachmonth, but his scope became more constricted by the declining number ofcontributing writers. The September issue saw Charlie Hartley's final"Treasure Hunt" column; Cuff ultimately added this to his own list ofthings to do and continued it his own. Also, Susie Oviatt's final "ASCIIArt" picture appeared that same month.In addition to his usual responsibilities of collecting interestingpostings from the A2 RoundTable and doing the final assembly of thenewsletter, Cuff also found it necessary to contribute more or his ownarticles for the newsletter. These included an introduction to using theInternet from GEnie, Lynx and VT100-compatible telecommunication programs,and software reviews. He did the "Treasure Hunt" column in June and thenfor the final three months of the year, and wrote the last "PAUGNewsletter" for the year.General Electric Information Services (GEIS), the organization that ownedthe computers on which the GEnie service ran, made a worrisome announcementat the end of the year. Their press release stated that they were lookingfor a buyer for GEnie, but among A2 denizens it was not as yet clearwhether this would be a good or bad thing in the long run.ROUNDTABLE NEWSSusan MacGregor became the Chief Sysop for the A2 RoundTable, with TomZuchowski as her assistant. Lunatic E'Sex became Chief of Apple IIOperations on GEnie over both the A2 and A2Pro RT's. Hangtime remained theA2Pro Chief Sysop. Gina Saikin became the A2 RTC manager.Richard Bennett of Australia was progressing in his development of an AppleIIGS front-end program for GEnie. Bennett had been mentioned in GEnieLampA2 in the past for his freeware Finder Extension, "Scarabaeidae", as the A2Special Projects coordinator, and for his giving a talk at KansasFest in1993. The June issue of GEnieLamp published the results of a poll forpossible names for the new program. The top choice was "Jasmine GS". Theproduct was ready for an initial preview by KansasFest in July, which waspresented by Bennett and Nate Sloan.HARDWARE NEWSSome Apple IIGS ROM 03 discoveries were posted in the A2 RT, and reproducedin GEnieLamp. The January issue mentioned that the keyboard "mouse key"feature in the ROM 03 supported use of a two-button mouse. Also, an A2 RTmember named Fred Starkey had found a IIGS with some non-standard ROM chipsin it, and which displayed "Turbo->28" at the top of the screen instead of"Apple IIgs" when booting. Sheppy recognized it as a prototype ROM 03 IIGS.The Second Sight VGA card and TurboRez cards continued development, vyingfor position in the market for alternatives to Apple IIGS RGB monitors. ByJune, the Second Sight card was finally getting to the hands of end users,who were in general quite happy with the result. Several software companiescommitted to working on making their products compatible with the new card.Also discussed were issues of compatibility with certain original graphicsmodes on the IIGS.Iomega's Zip 100 drive with the RamFAST SCSI controller was evaluated andresults posted in the May issue. In September, though not a formal review,Tony Morales posted comparisons between the Zip 100 with the new SyQuestEZ135 cartridge drive.SOFTWARE NEWSSales of Apple II software continued to soften during 1995, with some newproducts but few major innovations making an appearance. As before, we'lllook at them by category.:: PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE ::The AppleWorks 5.0 upgrade was released in December 1994, with an update to5.1 in April to correct some major bugs in the database module. AuthorRandy Brandt made several posts about various bugs that were identified andhow to correct them. Kitchen Sink Software released a Macintosh program"AppleWorks to Rich Text Format (RTF)", which made it easier to translateAppleWorks word processing files to use on that platform. Brandt also madecreated some excitement with announcement of a project code-named PhoenixII, which was an AppleWorks-only emulator for the Macintosh. This productwas released later in the year, with the name "Deja II".Emulator interest extended to Tony Morales, who planned a PowerPC-basedIIGS emulator, which was code-named "Hindenburg".Will Nelken of Marin Macroworks announced HotKeys I (later calledTouchTwo), a TimeOut and macro add-on for AppleWorks 5.0 and 5.1. OfficeProductivity Software also promised updates to their TimeOut Statistics andTimeOut ShrinkIt Plus programs.The Byte Works updated Quick Click Calc to v1.2, and also released theQuick Click Morph, the second in the Quick Click series. Animasia 3-D, ananimation program written by Michael Lutynski, finally began to ship.Your Money Matters author Steve Peterson decided to NOT release a newversion of the program, but rather to discontinue further development onit. He did choose to release it to the Lost Classics Project, so it wouldnot disappear forever.Seven Hills Software gave out a little more info about the coming update toGraphicWriter III, announcing support for XCMDs to extend its usefulness,similar to the way in which Spectrum could be extended. By the end of theyear, it was ready to ship. They also released SuperConvert 4.0, an updateto Jason Harper's classic IIGS graphic conversion utility.:: TELECOMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE ::Seven Hills also kept Ewen Wannop busy, with a version 2.0 update toSpectrum in January 1995. This was also made available in some specialbundles involving Balloon (an NDA that unpacks ShrinkIt archives) from EGOSystems, as well as Talking Tools from The Byte Works. Also, several newXCMD extensions were released to use with that program.FAXination, Vitesse's fax software for the IIGS was shipped in mid-January,though there were some early problems with bugs that had to be sorted out.Vitesse also claimed to still be close to finishing the IIGS port ofWolfenstein 3D (see below).Just to keep some competition in the market, Parkhurst Micro Productscontinued work on PMPFax, which was ready for beta testing in July, andbegan to ship in December.InTrec began shipment of its new ProTerm Mac product in March.Derek Taubert began to make news with his work on a TCP stack to use on theIIGS, which would make it possible to use new methods of connection to theInternet at large, without the need of using a gateway such as the one thatGEnie was beginning to implement. (If you recall, I made an analogypreviously in this column about online services being like cities. Therewere no roads to connect these cities to each other at all, but some dirtpaths had been created to start making such connections possible. Taubert'sTCP stack would be akin to digging a hole under the city wall, and beingable to hitch a ride on the highway outside of that wall, regardless ofwhether or not the city was ready to allow such traffic.) By August, GS-TCPwas supposed to be progressing from beta versions, but little more washeard about it for the rest of the year.:: SYSTEM SOFTWARE ::Brutal Deluxe programmer Olivier Zardini announced his work on a 6.0.2version of GS/OS, based on his disassembly of it. He had planned to haveBrutal Deluxe work on correcting bugs, and possibly enhancing it in somesmall ways. This effort was not well received, however, by some experiencedprogrammers in the U.S. who stated that they didn't feel that Brutal Deluxehad the skills necessary to patch and update System 6.0.1 to anything else.:: UTILITY SOFTWARE ::Sheppy announced continued work on his version 2.0 update to Shifty List.EGO Systems introduced the ICE icon editor. Peter Watson was beginning workon a GUI version of his MSDOS Utilities. Bret Victor made his debut in theApple IIGS world with the release of Opening Line, his GS/OS boot-up splashscreen enhancer. AutoArk, a disk compression utility, was updated to v1.1by EGO Systems.Greg Templeman released II Not Disturb. This utility kept other processeson the computer from interrupting data transmission at higher baud rates.:: GAMES ::Vitesse made a December 1994 announcement (which appeared in the January1995 issue): "We're just wrapping up Wolfenstein 3D and should beginshipping within the next two weeks." They were a bit too optimistic aboutthis schedule, however, and delays began to crop up. The programmer (BillHeineman) found himself being unable to allocate sufficient time to boththis game and another project; later there were some contractual problemswith the holders of the copyright.  Furthermore, some problem developedbetween Heineman and Vitesse, which made it impossible for him to continueto work on the project. By August, Vitesse was still hoping it would becompleted "soon", but it was not to be. However, late in the year Vitessestated that they had been unable to get Heineman to complete his work onthe game, and that they would have to cancel the project. This greatlydisappointed many who had eagerly anticipated it and those (like ScottEverts, who did the artwork) who helped with the work on it. (Ultimately,the game did not see final completion until 1998, and then after completionby a different programmer than Heineman, and as a freeware product insteadof the $39.95 price that Vitesse had originally.)Somewhat fitting into the game category was the Megademo by Germany'sNinjaforce. This demo required an accelerated IIGS, but there were problemswith it for users of some 3.5 inch drives.Charlie Hartley featured some of the best Eamon adventures in the Mayissue, along with an interview of Eamon-man Tom Zuchowski.PUBLICATIONSMuch of the discouraging news that came out during 1995 was in the loss ofsome long-running Apple II publications. It began in March with theannouncement of the final collapse of Resource Central and ICON, and thediscontinuation of A2-Central, which was by this time a disk-onlypublication. Doug Cuff had also been editor of that publication, and gaveit a fitting obituary in his GEnieLamp A2 editorial that month. TomWeishaar also posted his own thoughts about the end of his publishingefforts.TimeOut Central, also gone with the loss of Resource Central, wasre-released in the form of back issues through the help of former editorWill Nelken.The AppleWorks Forum ceased publication in November, as NAUG (NationalAppleWorks User Group) shut down. Their back issues and disks wereultimately made available through Shareware Solutions II.Adding to the bad news was the final issue of GS+ Magazine in August.Editor Steve Disbrow's final editorial was reproduced in the Septemberissue of GEnieLamp A2. Although the magazine was going to stop, Disbrowstated that he wanted to keep the EGO Systems programming business goingfor as long as was possible.Softdisk Publications notified its subscribers that Softdisk, theiroriginal disk publication, would stop publication with issue #166. SoftdiskG-S was to continue publication until further notice.II Alive announced that there would be six more issues of the magazineuntil they stopped publication. Jerry Kindall, who had been involved withthe magazine from the start, also announced that he was no longer going tobe working with Quality Computers. He made it clear that there was noanimosity between himself and Quality in making this decision. Doug Cuffbriefly was managing editor of the magazine (for just two issues). Theyalso changed their publishing schedule to quarterly.On the other hand, Joe Kohn's Shareware Solutions II proudly passed the1,000 subscriber mark, and was being distributed to all 50 states in theU.S. In July, Kohn announced that Cynthia Fields' "A+ Home Organizer" wouldbe available exclusively through SSII. Kohn also announced plans todistribute back issues of Script-Central, the HyperCard-basedmagazine-on-disk formerly sold through Resource Central. SSII also extendedits activities to the sales of some of the Big Red Computer Club'smerchandise, Convert 3200. In addition, Steve Disbrow agreed to contributearticles to SSII.PowerGS Diskazine by Auri Rahimzadeh announced an interview with SteveWozniak in issue #5. Auri also had the opportunity to work for Wozniakduring the summer, helping create web pages for Woz's web server.COMPANIESThe Big Red Computer Club decided to stay open during at least part of1995, while owner John Wrenholdt was making changes to allow him to marketsoftware for the Macintosh.Office Productivity Software cut back on most of its Apple II business,again due to insufficient sales to justify full activity in making updatesthat were compatible with AppleWorks 5.0.DigiSoft finally began to sell its Golden Orchard CD of Apple II software.Quality Computers, also hit by the decline in sales of Apple II products,posted in July some responses to comments made about their efforts to moveinto other platforms. They were accused of phasing out the Apple II inorder to make money on something else. Quality's response was that theywere adding other products in order to survive as a company and be ABLE tocontinue to support the Apple II as it had been doing. The post alsoacknowledged the difficulty they had in handling II Alive's subscriptionbase, when their primary business was a mail order catalog. Then in theAugust issue it was announced that Quality Computers had been sold toScantron Corporation, and renamed to Scantron Quality Computers.Softdisk Publishing, possibly as the result of the closing down of Softdiskmagazine, lost the services of Greg Templeman, as he left to work withLogicware, a game publishing company.The Byte Works had a house-cleaning sale to get rid of old printed manualsfor their products.As mentioned above, The National AppleWorks User Group closed operations inNovember 1995.KANSASFESTWith the downfall of Resource Central/ICON, the continuation of the annualA2-Central Summer Conference (which ICON had sponsored) was in question.But enthusiasts of the event decided that they would do whatever wasnecessary to make it happen. These dedicated people, including AuriRahimzadeh, Cindy Adams, Gina Saikin, and Mark Kline started the effort.Paul Parkhurst of Parkhurst Micro Systems sponsored it, and the eventdeveloped a life of its own. By May 1995, it was official that the eventwould be held. In June, editor Doug Cuff posted info about the newlyestablished KFest Internet mailing list, and how to access it from GEnie.The planned festivities included a roast of Steve Dizbrow of GS+ Magazine,and a keynote address by Roger Wagner. During the event, Mike Westerfielddemonstrated Quick Click Morph, Joe Kohn had a "fireside chat", discussinghis involvement with the Apple II business, and "Internet: The Good, TheBad, and The Ugly". Ryan Suenaga (attending for the first time) presentedsessions about PDA's and PowerBooks. Dave Ciotti and Doug Pendletondiscussed soldering techniques for electronics. Roger Wagner hosted theannual "Bite The Bag" competition and provided a late night pizza and sodafestival.Even Apple Computer attended the event, and introduced some of the newMacintosh computers that would be released in the fall.REVIEWSAs mentioned above, Doug Cuff wrote a review of Quick Click Calc 1.2, aswell as gave an overview and review of Apple II terminal programs thatsupport VT100 display mode. He also reviewed the new Vitesse product,FAXination. Also appearing in GEnieLamp during the year was Bill Quinn'sreview of the Zip 100 drive.WRITERSCharlie Hartley continued presenting his Treasure Hunt column up throughSeptember, presenting the best of the files in the GEnie A2 library, fromanimation files for the IIGS through SoundSmith music.Gina Saikin irregularly contributed the PAUG (Planetary Apple User Group)newsletter column during the year. In March, Dave Johnson did the writingfor the newsletter, and David Kerwood took up the task in June, September,and October. Ray Pasold took up the task in November, and finally Doug Cuffdid the newsletter in December.Phil Shapiro continued his "Thinking About Online Communications" serieswith columns about online romance; e-mail communication between students,teachers, and parents; the concept of "notching" (one e-mail or forummessage building on another, and branching out into other directions);online friendships; and personal web pages. He also began to look for apublisher for a collection of twenty of his columns.Jay Curtis wrote several articles about AppleWorks 5 and the comingMac-based AppleWorks emulator. Kevin Noonan wrote about the Apple II inAustralia in the May issue.As part of remembering the ninth anniversary of the release of the AppleIIGS, Ryan Suenaga and others helped promote a campaign to remind Appleabout the many Apple II users who still existed, despite their non-statuswith the company. They did this by sending in their "Tell Apple"registration cards, but telling about the IIGS. Most of the replies peoplegot back appeared to be form letters.Our favorite telephone tech and prolific A2 RoundTable / Delphi A2 Forum /Syndicomm A2Central poster, Carl Knoblock, made his first appearance inGEnieLamp during 1995 with a comment about a memory leak associated withBalloon, and about KansasFest.INTERVIEWSFewer of these appeared during 1995, but included the following:o Susan MacGregor, new Chief Sysop of the A2 RTo Doug Cuff, by Charlie Hartleyo Tom Zuchowski, by Charlie Hartleyo John Van Dam (Froggie), by Charlie HartleyMISCELLANEOUS FEATURESGary Utter and Michael (Animasia) wrote a list in the November issue ofways in which GS/OS was still better than the Mac OS.HUMOR ONLINEThe Pentium math error problem continued to be a source of merriment.Terrell Smith poked more fun at it in the form of a "FAQ" about it for hisoffice mates who had PC's.Doug Cuff and I had a written two Apple II Top Ten Lists: "Reasons TheApple IIe is Better Than The IIGS" and "Reasons the Apple II Plus is BetterThan The IIe or IIGS". This had appeared in one of the last issues ofA2-Central. Microsoft, often a focus of humorous posts in the A2 RT, had two featuresappear. Andrew Burke poked fun at Microsoft's "Bob" software with a storyabout Microsoft "Joe-Bob" software for those of the redneck persuasion."Litigation '95" was announced, a new program from Microsoft to aid peopleor companies who wanted to sue Microsoft. It included Litigation Builder,Suit Wizards, and more.Other humor stories included a poem about computers in the style of Dr.Suess; a list of Top Ten Computer light bulb jokes; a registration card fora McDonnell-Douglas aircraft missile system ("please check a box indicatingwhere this product will be used"); Murphy's laws for computer; and aDecember poem by Marty Knight, "A Visit From Saint Woz" (parodying theclassic "Visit From Saint Nicholas").Humor also appeared in posts to the A2 RoundTable. In July, Greg Templemanrelated a story about a disk duplicator, which ejected a disk so brisklythat it flew over, hit the switch on the power strip, and shut itself off.STATSHere are statistics for the first four years of GEnieLamp. The numbersrefer to the size of each issue in "K" (kilobytes):Year    Min     Max     Avg----    ----    ----    ----1992    116K    212K    156K1993     80K    256K    172K1994    124K    216K    165K1995     92K    176K    125KRAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS ALWAYS GET ME DOWNWell, I'll pull myself together and see if there can't be some better newsfor the next installment of this column. In the meantime, I suppose I'dbetter stop listening to those lonesome Carpenters songs from the early1970's. See you again next time!Steven Weyhricha2history@syndicomm.comhttp://apple2history.orgReferences for 1995 historical info:Apple Computer, Inc.: A History     http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3682/applehistory.htmlApple History Timeline     http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/history.htmlComputer History For 1990-2000     http://www.computerhope.com/history/19902000.htmHistory Of Hypertext Timeline     http://www.robotwisdom.com/web/timeline.htmlTimeline of the 90s, 1995     http://www.inthe90s.com/generated/time1995.shtml[EOA][ANS]-------------------------------      ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM SYNDICOMM |------------------------------------by Lyle Syverson <lyle@foxvalley.net>[TSU]TO SIGN UP FOR SYNDICOMM ONLINE"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Please visit our web site at http://www.syndicomm.com for information or tosign up!(Logon message)[EOA][JSR]JUNE 2003 ISSUE OF SYNDICOMMOTION IS READY""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""The June 2003 (Volume 2, Number 6) issue of Syndicommotion has been emailedto subscribers.  The HTML edition can be found online at the following URL:http://www.syndicomm.com/syndicommotion/v2n6.html(KGAGNE, Cat 5, Top 4, Msg 10)[EOA][TTC]-------------------------------             THE TINKERER'S CORNER |------------------------------------By Lyle Syverson <lyle@foxvalley.net>Keeping the Apple II Cool Enough~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~When you have a lot of cards in the slots of your Apple II you might findthat your computer overheats.  This is especially true if you are using anaccelerator.As a temporary expedient you might try operating it with the cover off.A somewhat neater trick with the IIgs is to lay the power supply on thedesk back of the computer, feed the lead through the back, and connect itto the IIgs.Operating the computer this way moves the heat produced by the power supplyoutside the case.In the future we will discuss other methods of keeping the Apple II cool.[EOA]YOU ARE INVITED"""""""""""""""You are invited to submit your favorite Tinkerer's Project for the Apple IIcomputers.Send your write up or idea 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 considersunsuitable for publication in _The Lamp!_.[EOA][LTE]-------------------------------             LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |------------------------------------LETTER TO THE EDITOR""""""""""""""""""""Fri, 16 May 2003From: Donald LeeTo: Lyle Syverson, Editor, The Lamp!Subject: Apple II HistoryGood Evening,Well, I guess I'll just add a letter to the editor for "The Lamp!"It's great you guys are reviewing the history of the Apple II and GenieLampespecially the past year of 1994.1994 (and later in 1995) was the year that I realized my Apple IIe was morethan just a regular home computer.  The classes I took at my junior college(basic word processing, spreadsheet, database) showed me what a PC coulddo.  But I had Appleworks and discovered what I learned in my class couldtranslate.  In fact, if someone still has their issues of II Alive, I notedthat in a letter to the editor.Despite the fact that Apple II's were formally discontinued, in 1994, myten year old Apple IIe was definitely still alive and in use.Perhaps I should save this for your next issue, but in 1995, after I hadtransferred to a 4 year university, I discovered the wonders of theInternet (email, browsing, newsgroups).  Sometime after that (late 1995 orearly 1996) I purchased a modem for my Apple IIe and began my journeyonline.And what a journey it has been.  Though my IIe finally died on me a fewyears ago (it still works, but the video can't be seen) and I don't useApple II programs anymore, I have toyed with the idea of picking up a usedIIe or IIGS to mess with some of the old games I still have at home.THe Apple IIe was one of the big blessings in my life and I feel I am allthe better for it!Donald=====Donald C. Leehttp://www.geocities.com/smcoach41[EOA]AN INVITATION~~~~~~~~~~~~~Express your opinions about the comings and goings in the world of theApple 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 considersunsuitable for publication in _The Lamp!_.[EOA][KFT]------------------------------                       KFest 2003 |-----------------------------------[PBT]KFest 2003 - PLAN TO BE THERE!""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""KansasFest 2003 is planned for July 22-27, 2003 at Avila University inKansas City, Missouri.(Entrance banner, Cat 5, Top 5)[EOA][KRF]KFest REGISTRATION FORM"""""""""""""""""""""""The KFest registration form with instructions in PDF format can bedownloaded here:http://lamp.a2central.com/klo/registration_forms/KFestRegForm2003g.pdfIf you can not access PDF documents with your computer contact Jerry Clineat Intrec Software and request a form by mail.  Contact information can befound below.Sponsored by:InTrec Software, Inc.3035 E Topaz CirclePhoenix, AZ 85028-4423Voc:602/992-1345Fax:602/992-0232kfest@intrec.com[EOA][TFN]THIRD FLOOR NEEDED FOR KFest ATTENDEES""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""As posted on the A2central home page, a third floor is now needed for KFestattendees.  When was the last time KFest attendees actually needed threefloors.  The first year I was at KFest was in 1996--I think I remember thesoccer kids were on 4 and KFest attendees were on 5 and 6.  Were there anyKFest attendees also on 4?  Or was I just confusing 1997 with 1996?Nevertheless, it is incredible to see the surge of attendance this year.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 58)>>>>>""""">> When was the last time KFest attendees actually needed three floors. <<Not sure but 3 floors were probably required in '95 (80 attendees) or '96(73 attendees). Don't remember how Avila sandwiched us in those years - butcould look it up:)What matters is the surge and interest THIS year. Incredibly exceptionalpeople were attracted to the Apple II. They represent a very specialcommunity and preserving this unique "mindset" is probably one of the mostimportant aspects of KFest.I don't think I care too much about which computer you are now using (withperhaps a few exceptions), it's the special person that you are byattending that's most important!Steve(KFESTSTEVE, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 62)>>>>>"""""According to my room list from '95, we only had 2 floors. The overflow hadto stay off-campus. Carl Knoblock - Telephone Tech - Sat  31 May 03  10:33:01 pm cknoblo@cox.com - Via Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR v1.0b10 KFest 2003, July 22-27, 2003 - 52 days till KFest On cable via LANceGS & Marinetti 2.0.1 - Thank you, Richard. A2 RTC Staff - Sunday Night House Party - carlk@syndicomm.com(CARLK, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 63)>>>>>"""""Wow.  My memory had always told me we had 100 attendees in '95, the firstKFest I went to.We're gonna have a good time no matter what. :)Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 64)>>>>>"""""That was my memory, too, but the only list I could find was a room list. Carl Knoblock - Telephone Tech - Sun  1 Jun 03  9:45:45 pm cknoblo@cox.com - Via Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR v1.0b10 KFest 2003, July 22-27, 2003 - 51 days till KFest On cable via LANceGS & Marinetti 2.0.1 - Thank you, Richard. A2 RTC Staff - Sunday Night House Party - carlk@syndicomm.com(CARLK, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 65)[EOA][TEB]THE EXCITEMENT BUILDS"""""""""""""""""""""It's only June, but I am getting really excited about yet another Kfest.My only regrets I've had at Kfest is usually that I didn't get done all thethings I wanted to.The GS and the Powerbook are coming for sure.  Not sure what else I amgoing to be able to hold yet.  I'll have to see what kind of a load Ken andRyan have:)It should be a lot of fun.  I can't wait to see you all there.Dain(A2.DAIN, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 66)[EOA][NPA]NEW PRODUCTS TO BE ANNOUNCED AT KFest"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Yes, this will be a great one. :)Syndicomm will have some products to announce at the show. :)Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 61)[EOA][AKF]TRANSPORTATION, AIRPORT TO KFest""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""For those flying in on commercial airlines (or taking the train) we havebeen very successful in supplying ground transportation from your terminalto Avila in past years, and intend to continue the tradition this year.About the first day of Summer (or Winter depending on which hemisphere youlive in) we will start putting together the taxi list. Carl Knoblock - Telephone Tech - Mon  24 Mar 03  5:38:20 pm cknoblo@applelinc.org - Via Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR v1.0b10 KFest 2003, July 22-27, 2003 - 120 days till KFest On cable via LANceGS & Marinetti 2.0.1 - Thank you, Richard. A2 RTC Staff - Sunday Night House Party - carlk@syndicomm.com(CARLK, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 23)[EOA][VKF]FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THE KFest HOME PAGE""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""KFest Home Pagehttp://www.kfest.org/[EOA][INN]------------------------------                    EXTRA INNINGS |-----------------------------------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 computersusing Appleworks 5.1 and Hermes.  Apple II Forever!     * The Lamp! is (c) copyright 2003 by Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W.  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