[HEA] _____________________ ___ _ |___ ______________| | | | | | | _ | | | | | || | | | | | | || | | | | | | || | | | ____ _ _ _ _ ______ | | | || | | | / __ \ | | / \_/ \ | ___ \ | | | || |__ ____ | | / / \ | | /\ /\ \ | | \ \ | | | || _ \ | _ \ | | \ \__/ | | | |_|| | | |__/ / | | | || | | || |_|| | | \___/|_| |_| |_| | ____/ |_| | || | | || |__ | |____________________ | | _ |__||_| |_|\____/ |________________________| | | |_| | | Lighting Your Apple II Path | | |_|----------------------------------- >>> WELCOME TO THE LAMP! <<< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE BEST OF THE A2 BULLETIN BOARD ON Syndicomm Online AND THE BEST OF THE DELPHI A2 AND A2PRO MESSAGE BOARDS "Teaching the Apple II user how to fish since 1998" :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: The Lamp! An Onipa'a Software Production Vol. 6, No. 10 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 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 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: TABLE OF CONTENTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ October 15, 2003HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER---------------------------------------------[OPN] Day Trip Field of Dreams Syndicomm OnlineA2 FORUM AT Syndicomm Online (A2Central.com) DISTILLATIONS------------[DAS] VHS Tape in Carry-on Luggage-------------------------------------[COL] Spam Has Slowed Down on Syndicomm Online-------------------------[SSD] Moving Data - Apple IIe to Mac Via IIgs--------------------------[MDM] Silvern Castle v8.0 in A2 Library--------------------------------[SC8] PPPoE------------------------------------------------------------[POE] Orca/Pascal Bug Found--------------------------------------------[OPB] How to Reach My eSource?-----------------------------------------[MES] Revision Control in IIgs Programming-----------------------------[RCP] Compiling Pascal Programs Under GNO/ME---------------------------[CPP]ILLUMINATING THE LAMP-------------------------------------------------[ITL] An overview of GEnieLamp A2 and The Lamp!ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM SYNDICOMM------------------------------------------[ANS] To Sign up for Syndicomm Online----------------------------------[TSU] SyndiChat 1.1----------------------------------------------------[SCO] Announcing the Opening of Showbits-------------------------------[AOS] October 2003 Issue of Syndicommotion Available-------------------[OSA]THE TINKERER'S CORNER-------------------------------------------------[TTC] The Slotbuster II Card You are InvitedLETTERS TO THE EDITOR-------------------------------------------------[LTE] No Letters to the Editor This Month An InvitationKFEST 2004------------------------------------------------------------[KFF] KansasFest 2004--------------------------------------------------[KF4] Watch for More Information at 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 Day Trip ~~~~~~~~ It was one of those mornings when you close the window, pull up thecovers, roll over, and catch a little extra sleep. A visit to the patio High Above The Rock River was a bit chilly. Butyour sunny side was comfy warm. Add the beautiful trees against the deepblue sky and a good measure of wanderlust and you had -Day Trip- ! Field of Dreams ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The movie, a fantasy, is about this farmer, hearing voices out in thefields, determines that he needs to plow up part of his corn field andbuild a baseball field. "Build it and They Will Come". And, yes indeed, ghosts of great ball players of the past come out ofthe corn field and use the ball field. Turning off the highway near Dyersville, Iowa, the narrow road led tothe movie set for Field of Dreams. There it is... a Baseball field with acorn field right next to the outfield. Sales are brisk at the two souvenir shops which raise the fundsnecessary to preserve and maintain the ball field. Out on the field there are many individuals who do not know eachother, fulfilling their fantasy of being part of the movie... taking turnspitching, batting, running the bases, catching, fielding balls, etc. Thereis this feeling of kinship among these people brought on by their commoninterest. Syndicomm Online ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here is a Field of Dreams for you... and it is not a fantasy.Membership in Syndicomm Online includes bulletin boards, chat rooms, filelibrary, email address, personal web site, and Lynx browser. Access is viatelnet or WWW. The Apple II library contains most of the A2 files fromGEnie and Delphi. All this for a very modest subscription fee. Go tohttp://www.syndicomm.com for more information and to join.[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 [COL]VHS TAPE IN CARRY-ON LUGGAGE""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I'm planning an airplane trip on which I'd like to carry a VHS tape in mycarry-on baggage. Will such media be destroyed by the x-ray? How canI carry and protect it?Thanks,-Ken(KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 440)>>>>>"""""I don't think an xray machine would be bad for a VHS tape. Camera film andhard drives aren't affected.I brought back a VHS tape from my last vacation. I haven't watched it yet,so I don't know for sure if my theory holds :)Kelvin(KWS, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 441)>>>>>"""""The new security for checked luggage is bad for camera film! They suggestthat you carry film with you rather than having it in your luggage.Cindy(CINDYADAMS, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 443)[EOA][SSD]SPAM HAS SLOWED DOWN ON Syndicomm Online""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I'm not sure what happened, but (knock on wood) the spam that comes to my@syndicomm.com address has slowed down. I used to get at least 20+ everynight, and that doesn't count what comes in during the day, but for thepast week I've only been getting 2.I like this!Cindy(CINDYADAMS, Cat 2, Top 9, Msg 55)>>>>>"""""We upgraded our spam filtering software a few days ago to a new version.You should notice less spam for a while, until the spammers find waysaround the new version. It's a constant back-and-forth battle of wits.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 2, Top 9, Msg 56)[EOA][MDM]MOVING DATA - Apple IIe to Mac VIA IIgs"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I have a database on an Apple IIe and am trying to bridge the gap to theMacintosh. I got an Apple IIGS hoping that would be the solution. ButI can't get the GS to read a disk in the 3.5" drive. When I power up, themachine checks the drive, the light goes on and then it ejects the disk.Any ideas about why this might be happening and how I could overcome it?Thanks.(SQUIRE, Cat 2, Top 19, Msg 6)>>>>>"""""Hi Squire,While I'm assuming this is a classic Appleworks database, that is, ofcourse, an assumption. What type of database is this?Are you saying that the GS can't read -any- disks, or just this disk inparticular?Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 2, Top 19, Msg 7)Hi Ryan.The database is in DBMaster. But I can export the data to a .dif or .txtfile which I should be able to import to my new database. Unfortunately,the GS won't read any 3.5"disks. It appears to check them and eject themimmediately. Not sure how to proceed. Any ideas.Thanks,Sue(SQUIRE, Cat 2, Top 19, Msg 8)>>>>>"""""Sue,How are you booting the GS? It won't boot from a disk that contains just atext or .dif file. Do you have a system disk that you are booting?-Ken(KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 19, Msg 9)>>>>>"""""Yes, I have tried booting on the Apple IIgs system disk and the Apple IIgstour disk. I also have a number of disks with games and programs but theywont boot either. I have been able to boot on a 5.25 copy of appleworks.(SQUIRE, Cat 2, Top 19, Msg 10)>>>>>"""""Do you just have the one 3.5 drive? Do you have it connected directly tothe GS, with the 5.25 drive(s) daisy chained after it? The 3.5 drives MUSTcome first in the chain. Carl Knoblock - Telephone Tech - Tue 15 Jul 03 11:33:25 pm cknoblo@cox.com - Via Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR v1.0b10 KFest 2003, July 22-27, 2003 - 7 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 2, Top 19, Msg 11)>>>>>"""""Carl,I disconnected the 5.25" when I realized the problem with the 3.5" drive.So at the moment it is the only one connected.Sue(SQUIRE, Cat 2, Top 19, Msg 12)>>>>>"""""In about 95% or more of these cases, the drives heads just needs to becleaned. The best way to clean the heads is to pick up a head cleaningdisk. They can be picked up at just about any computer store.Wayne(WAYNES, Cat 2, Top 19, Msg 13)>>>>>"""""Wayne,Thanks, I just cleaned the heads but it is still ejecting the disks.I thought it would at least give a message that said that it didn'trecognize the disk. but it seems to read for a few seconds and then eject.Any ideas.Sue(SQUIRE, Cat 2, Top 19)>>>>>"""""Okay, so the IIgs isn't booting -any- disks at all? Just rejects themperiod?Weird.You'll need some startup disks for sure to go any further. If you have noway to make sure you have good originals, you may want to order them fromstore.syndicomm.com.Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 2, Top 19, Msg 15)>>>>>"""""Do the disks work in a Mac?Dain(A2.DAIN, Cat 2, Top 19, Msg 16)>>>>>"""""If you have a suitable Mac available, try the drive on it. If you canborrow another drive, try that on the GS. One way or another, you need tofind out if the problem is the GS or the drive. Carl Knoblock - Telephone Tech - Thu 17 Jul 03 8:39:43 pm cknoblo@cox.com - Via Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR v1.0b10 KFest 2003, July 22-27, 2003 - 5 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 2, Top 19, Msg 17)>>>>>"""""CarlI now have access to a Mac SE and a Power Mac 6100. I plugged the 3.5"drive into the Mac SE. It appears to be the drive that is the problem.When I insert the disk the drive reads but then it asks me if I would liketo initialize the disk. I check the disk in the Power Mac so it is good.When I ask it to initialize it asks me to 1-sided or 2-sided and then itask me what to call the disk and then it asks me if it is okay to erase thedisk. Then the initialization fails. Is it possible to fix these drives ordo I need to find a new one? Thanks,Susan(SQUIRE, Cat 2, Top 19, Msg 18)>>>>>"""""If indeed the drive is the problem, the simplest solution would be toacquire another drive, but sometimes it is difficult to find the drives.Sometimes it is easier to find older Macs with superdrives and remove themech from the drive case and replace it with the drive from a known workingdrive in a Mac. I've done this before a long time ago. I don't remember itbeing overly difficult. I think there might be other on here that rememberit better than I. It will have the added benefit of being usable (with aSuperdrive card) as a 1.44MB floppy drive.Does anyone know of any detailed instructions for doing this?Thanks,Dain(A2.DAIN, Cat 2, Top 19, Msg 19)>>>>>"""""I agree with Dain. It's probably cheaper to replace it. I haven't beenreading messages here since last week, before I left for KFest. Carl Knoblock - Telephone Tech - Wed 30 Jul 03 6:45:28 pm cknoblo@cox.com - Via Spectrum v2.5.2 & SOAR v1.0b10 On cable via LANceGS & Marinetti 2.0.1 - Thank you, Richard. A2 RTC Staff - Sunday Night House Party - carlk@syndicomm.com(CARLK, Cat 2, Top 19, Msg 20)The GS is up and running. I got a new drive on ebay and it works fine.Thanks for all your help.Susan(SQUIRE, Cat 2, Top 19, Msg 21)>>>>>"""""Back again. I have my Apple II GS up and working. I can export data to.txt or .dif files on 3.5" disks. Does anyone know how I can get Macintoshto read these disks. I tried the disk in a Mac SE and a Power Mac6100/60AV. Neither of these machines recognized the 800k ProDos disks fromthe Apple II GS. Thanks for any help.Susan(SQUIRE, Cat 2, Top 19, Msg 24)>>>>>"""""What you need to do is, on the Apple IIgs, format the disk using HFSformat. This is only an option if you're using System 6.0 or later on theIIgs.If you're using an older version of the IIgs system software, you can trythis: Turn on PC Exchange (called File Exchange on some versions of MacOS), turn off File Sharing, and then put the ProDOS disk in. See if thatworks.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 2, Top 19, Msg 25)>>>>>"""""If you are using System 6 or System 7 on a Mac you can install the "ProDOSFile System" extension on the Mac.This extension is part of the IIe Card software package available fromApple at:ftp://ftp.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Apple_II/For_Macintosh/Apple_IIe_Card_2.2.1.sea.binLyle Syverson Editor, _The Lamp!_published monthly at: http://lamp.a2central.com/(LYLE, Cat 2, Top 19, Msg 26)>>>>>"""""As an alternative to getting the files exchanged on floppies, LocalTalk isalways an option for machines of that genre.Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 2, Top 19, Msg 27)[EOA][SC8]SILVERN CASTLE v8.0 IN A2 LIBRARY"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""There is a new upload in the games/adventure/prodos8 directory:File: scupdv80.bxySize: 339456Date: Sep 24Silvern Castle v8.0 UpdateMajor New Features:-Character transfer utility between Silvern Castle rosters-Character undelete utility-New SYSTEM startup; BASIC.SYSTEM not required!-Tome viewer online reference available; DOGPAW not required!Bug Fixes:-Combat action sort routine fixedPlus more!Tony Ward, A2 Librarian(A2.TONY, Cat 2, Top 37, Msg 22)[EOA][POE]PPPoE"""""After more than a week of really good performance on my cable modem, I cangladly say I'm back online. :)If the cable had continued to give me problems, I was seriously going tolook into Verizon DSL; while it uses PPPoE (which I hate) and I'm not muchof a Verizon fan, it is about $9 cheaper a month than cable here.In other areas of the country, SBC DSL is cheaper still.Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 11, Top 20, Msg 22)>>>>>"""""I am using DSL and PPPoE via Earthlink/Verizon. What's so bad about PPPoE?(LUMITECH, Cat 11, Top 20, Msg 23)>>>>>"""""PPPoE adds the overheard of PPP, so your real upload/download rates are xx%lower than they would be with plain ethernet. Also, it's not as wellsupported (Marinetti doesn't support it).Kelvin(KWS, Cat 11, Top 20, Msg 24)>>>>>"""""So, does that mean that when I'm running GS/OS inside a window on my Macthat the PPPoE negotiation is done by my Mac/Router combo and notMarientti?Jeff(LUMITECH, Cat 11, Top 20, Msg 25)>>>>>"""""I'm unaware of any way to access a Mac's TCP/IP connection via a IIgsemulator, so I'm not really sure how to answer that question. . .Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 11, Top 20, Msg 27)>>>>>"""""PPPoE is a really strange thing that combines two almost totally unrelatedtechnologies (Point to Point Protocol and Ethernet). I've never reallyseen the point of it when DHCP could be used instead to assign a dynamicaddress to an Ethernet connection.Mac support for PPPoE was really poor pre-OS X (remember MacPoet fondly?I don't :) but better now, and now that more routers support PPPoE, I thinkthat the only real issue is the overhead imposed on the connection.Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 11, Top 20, Msg 26)>>>>>"""""From what I understand, the main point to PPPoE is that it can actuallyterminate the Ethernet link when it's not in use, and instantly reactivateit when it's needed. Personally, I don't think that's a very good reasonto kill bandwidth. :)Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 11, Top 20, Msg 28)[EOA][OPB]Orca/Pascal BUG FOUND"""""""""""""""""""""I've found a bug with Orca/Pascal. If you define an object without anydata fields (i.e. only procedures), a flag isn't being initialized and youcan wind up with compile time errors (unable to assign file) or bad code.The good news is, I've found the problem and it's a simple fix :)file Pascal.2.2.1.b1/parser.paslines 997 - 1008 currently look like this:-- snip -- {set up the type} lsp := pointer(Malloc(sizeof(structure))); with lsp^ do begin form := objects; objname := nil; objsize := 6; objlevel := 1; objparent := nil; size := ptrsize; end; {with} {handle inheritance}-- snip --add this line after 1005 (size := ptrsize;): hasSFile := false;This problem is present in the non-beta compiler as well. I haven't checkedto see if the line numbers changed, but the fix should be the same.Kelvin(KWS, Cat 22, Top 6, Msg 12)>>>>>"""""Thanks, Kelvin. I'll look into getting that into a build for people touse.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 22, Top 6, Msg 13)[EOA][MES]HOW TO REACH My eSource?""""""""""""""""""""""""Anyone have a clue how to reach My eSource these days? We really need toget all their software released from their death grip. :)Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 25, Top 2, Msg 2)>>>>>"""""I sent a letter to them about a year ago (a real physical letter, notemail) asking about it and got no reply.Even when they were in business at the end there were strange things thatwent on with them. I once faxed them an order three times that I gotsuccessful fax receipts for and they claimed each time they never got theorder. I had to eventually snail them the order with payment.One day I'll try again. When I will get to that, I'm not sure.Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 25, Top 2, Msg 3)[EOA][RCP]REVISION CONTROL IN IIgs PROGRAMMING""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""What do other people use for revision control for IIgs programming? Ifyou're cross-compiling with MPW, you probably could use RCS, CVS, etc.Is there any native solution other than making backups?Kelvin(KWS, Cat 58, Top 2, Msg 1)>>>>>"""""I wrote a little set of utilities for ORCA shell that I never completed,but did use for Wolf 3D and a couple of other projects, called QRCS. Itdoesn't have any whiz-bang features, but did let you check in and out filesand it would keep old versions, with history. It didn't keep diffs oranything like that, but it would let you revert to old versions and look atold code.One of these days I should finish it. :)Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 58, Top 2, Msg 2)[EOA][CPP]COMPILING PASCAL PROGRAMS UNDER GNO/ME""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I just noticed a peculiarity with compiling pascal programs under gno/me...{$append 'filename'} doesn't seem to work, at least not if you're switchinglanguages./act thinks back fondly to the days when the source wasn't available, andsubmitting a bug report was sufficient to get things fixed...Kelvin(KWS, Cat 58, Top 15, Msg 1)>>>>>"""""Only under GNO/ME? Sounds like a GNO bug to me.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 58, Top 15, Msg 2)[EOA][ITL]------------------------ ILLUMINATING THE LAMP |----------------------------- An overview of GEnieLamp A2 and The Lamp! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~By Steven WeyhrichCAUSE I TRY AND I TRY AND I TRY AND I TRY When last we talked, I was in the process of recovering from variousdata losses of my mainline tools. In the interim, I've had two otherunfortunate events happen. The screen on my Palm Tungsten C developed a crack, which rendered itunusable. Although Palm agreed to replace it for free, it appears thattheir supplies are short, just as Apple's supplies for PowerBook logicboards were short. The result was about three weeks without a tool that Iuse daily at work, let alone using it to work on the Lamp Index. So THAT slowed me down. And just as I thought I was ready to get goingagain, I opened up the PowerBook, with its newly replaced innards, andfound a black screen. No picture. Not even a pulsing light when it was"sleeping". Interestingly, everything else was still working; I was able torestart and hear the usual tone. After it had completed the process I useda keyboard utility to start iTunes, and pressing the space bar started asong in the play list. I simply could not see what I was doing. A call toApple Technical Support could provide no other solution than to send itback in. There it is, even as I type these words on the Windows computer Ipreviously used at work. I'm trying not to complain to that computer abouthow it works differently; at the rate things are going, I don't need the"blue screen of death" coming up repeatedly, necessitating a reinstall ofWindows!(I CAN'T GET NO) SATISFACTION Well, enough whining. Let's get back to the Lamp, the reason thatwe've been having this little get together each month. In the last (real)installment of this column, we covered 1995 and the difficulties andchallenges that occurred during that year. Moving into 1996 finds ourintrepid band of Apple II enthusiasts dealing with damage to their home onGEnie, and the consequences of that damage. Let's synchronize with the historical context: In 1996, the O.J.Simpson murder trial begins. Princess Diana and Prince Charles aredivorced. The school board of Oakland, California elects to recognize BlackEnglish, termed "Ebonics", as a separate language. British citizens arealarmed by the outbreak of "mad cow" disease. Intel continues the processor arms race by releasing the 200 MHz P6(Pentium). IBM and Sears sell Prodigy to Internet Wireless, which thenre-launched it as an Internet-based service. CD-RW (read/write) technologybecomes available. In August, Microsoft introduces its Internet Explorerweb browser, challenging Netscape's Navigator browser. U.S. Roboticslaunches the Palm Pilot, its own version of a Personal Digital Assistant(PDA). MSNBC (sponsored by Microsoft and NBC) debuts on cable TV channels. Following low Christmas sales that resulted in a loss of $61 million,Apple CEO Michael Spindler lost his position as Apple's third CEO, and wasreplaced by Gil Amelio. Amelio tried to help improve Apple's bottom line byreducing Macintosh motherboard designs to only two, and the hardwarearchitectures into a single system, as well as streamlining the corporatestructure. On April 1st, Apple celebrated its 20th birthday, and releasedthe 20th Anniversary Macintosh to commemorate the occasion. IBM releasesthe 603e and 604e PowerPC chips, first clocking at 166 MHz, and going up to200 MHz by mid year. At that time they also made the first announcement ofthe G3, the third generation PowerPC processor. Apple also continued toflounder with its efforts to update its Macintosh operating system, and theCopland Project was discontinued. During the year, much speculation wasmade about whether Apple would base it's next operating system on formerexecutive Jeane Louis-Gasse's BeOS, or exiled CEO Steve Job's NeXTStep. Thefinal decision was made at the end of the year with Apple's purchase ofNeXT, Inc. for $430 million. Amidst all of these struggles, the company'sstock price dropped to a 10-year low of $18 per share.GENIELAMP INFO GEnieLamp A2 editor Doug Cuff began the year by giving his ownassessment of the ups and downs that occurred in 1995. He did a much betterjob summarizing what happened than I did; so much so that I'd like toreproduce it here: ________________________________________________________________________| || In fact, we made out like bandits in 1995. We got new hardware: ||the SecondSight card and, along with the rest of the micro world, ||IOmega ZIP drives. We got new software: Quick Click Morph, TimeOut ||Statistics, Convert 3200, Quick Click TIFF Reader, Deja II (AppleWorks ||5.1 for the Mac), Opening Line, TouchTwo AppleWorks macros, Print 3200, ||and PMPFax, not to mention shareware/freeware efforts such as II Not ||Disturb, Blockade (game from Brutal Deluxe), and Pix Whiz (New Print ||Shop color pix editor). || || We also got significant updates and upgrades for some of our ||software: Spectrum v2.0, Balloon v2.0, AppleWorks v5.1, rSounder v3.0, ||AutoArk v1.1, TimeOut ShrinkIt v5, One Touch Commands 5, GEnie Master 5,||CoPilot for GEnie v2.5.5, The Tinies (with a new construction set), an ||improved variable-time SHR screen saver, and a patch for the HFS FST. || || Sure, it wasn't all good news. There were some new products we ||haven't gotten yet--the TurboRez card, Wolfenstein 3-D, SimCity, Tracer ||Sanction, Mind Shadow--and some updates that still haven't arrived: ||GraphicWriter III v2.0, Kangaroo, TransProg III, SuperConvert, and a ||decidedly unofficial System 6.0.2 from Brutal Deluxe. We even suffered ||a few losses in 1995: Your Money Matters and free Apple IIc ||motherboard/ROM upgrades, to name just two. || || Our biggest losses in 1995 were our magazines and newsletters: ||A2-Central, TimeOut-Central, Script-Central, Studio City, GS+ Magazine, ||Softdisk (but not Softdisk G-S), and AppleWorks Forum all ceased ||publication. In March/April 1995, we were told that II Alive "is not ||going quarterly any time soon". As of December, it seems that this is ||exactly what's going to happen. There are about four more issues to ||come, so II Alive will probably finish in late 1996 or early 1997. || || So we lost ICON (International Computer Owners Network) and NAUG ||(National AppleWorks Users Group)... Softdisk Publishing and EGO ||Systems are still with us, not to mention Shareware Solutions II and ||PAUG (Planetary Apple User Group). Two replacement newsletters have ||come along: Apple Blossom by Steve Cavanaugh and II Something by Clark ||Stiles, both of which are distributed freely. Thanks to the efforts ||of Joe Kohn and Will Nelken, Script-Central back issues and ||TimeOut-Central back issues are again available. ||________________________________________________________________________| In March, Cuff discussed the new change in ownership of GEnie, whichGeneral Electric had sold to Yovelle Renaissance Corp. The new name for theservice was "Genie", without the uppercase "E" that had always been used.The most obvious change that came about because of this sale was asubstantial increase in the cost of an account, from $8.95 per month to$18.95 per month. A new customer was treated to the bargain rate of $23.95per month. This change had resulted in the loss of many members, of the A2RT as well as from other RT's. This had a particular impact on Genie'sEuropean customers, whose rates became VERY high. Cuff also had to rescind his previous offer to pay potential GenieLampwriters with credits for online time; the new management had also takenaway that privilege. In March, GenieLamp A2 was also released as HyperCard and HyperCardand HyperStudio stacks, to a very favorable response. The HyperCard stack(and conversion stack) was written by Joshua Calvin. Although the HyperCardedition did not vary much from the text version, the HyperStudio versionadded a unique feature - a comic strip called "Hog Heaven". April's editorial saw Cuff announcing an attempt by the new Geniemanagement to retain subscribers. "Genie Lite" offered five free hours ofe-mail use per month, but no free access to the Roundtables, and chargedonly $7.95 for month (compared to the much higher rate for the normal typeof access). However, Yovelle decided that this was not a financiallyattractive proposal, as many users flocked from the higher costsubscriptions to the Genie Lite version, and on May 9, 1996 this option waswithdrawn. July's issue found GenieLamp A2 as the one remaining GenieLamppublication and that due to the dedication of Doug Cuff in taking the timeto write and edit nearly all of the material in each issue. During thatmonth, Genie management closed down the DigiPub Roundtable. This had been agathering place for writers of the various Genie publications, and withoutthat convenience GenieLamp A2 emerged from the fallout as the lastremaining Lamp digital publication. The strain of doing all of that workeach month, with the additional costs involved in connecting to Genie underits new rates, began to increase his difficulties in continuing in the job. In October, Cuff discussed his efforts at preserving GEnieLamp A2 bymoving the issues from the DigiPub library before it closed down) anduploading them to the A2 library. Finally, the GenieLamp A2 masthead exactly the same at the end ofCuff's run as editor as it was at the start of 1996: ________________________________________________________________________| ||\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\////////////////////////////////////|| GenieLamp Apple II ~ A T/TalkNET Publication ~ Vol.5, Issue 57||""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""||Publisher................................................John F. Peters || Editor...................................................Douglas Cuff ||\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\////////////////////////////////////||\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\////////////////////////////////////|| ~ GenieLamp IBM ~ GenieLamp ST ~ GenieLamp PowerPC ~ || ~ GenieLamp A2Pro ~ GenieLamp Macintosh ~ GenieLamp TX2 ~ || ~ GenieLamp Windows ~ GenieLamp A2 ~ LiveWire (ASCII) ~ || ~ Member Of The Digital Publishing Association ~ || Genie Mail: GENIELAMP Internet: genielamp@genie.com ||////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\||________________________________________________________________________| Although the other digital publications had disappeared, their memorylived on at least in this location.ROUNDTABLE NEWS With the changes in Genie management to Yovelle, it began to look alittle more uncertain as to where text-based Apple II's could communicateonline. Syndicomm owners Gary Utter and Dean Esmay began to make plans onwhat to do if Genie suddenly disappeared, and in May there appeared thevery first announcement of a new web site, "www.syndicomm.com". Also related to the change from GEnie to Genie were some A2 RT memberswho said their good-byes, as they moved on to CompuServe or Delphi, wherethe online rates were more reasonable. In July, Delphi was for the firsttime mentioned as a potential alternative to Genie, as Ken Gagne pointedout that it was STILL a text-only service.HARDWARE NEWS Early in the year, Mike Hackett was working on QuickDraw II supportfor the SecondSight VGA card, in order to make it possible to have the IIGSFinder display correctly on the card. He was somewhat limited by the amountof programming information that Sequential Systems was willing to release,and the apparent unwillingness of the company to do necessary firmwareupdates to improve performance. Sequential Systems introduced a version of the RamFAST SCSI cardspecifically for use on the Apple IIe with ZipChip. However, it appearedfrom later posts that although it worked fine on a IIGS and on a IIeWITHOUT a ZipChip, it still didn't work reliably WITH a ZipChip. Alltech released the Sirius 8 meg RAM board. Mike Westerfield gave a little more information about the Mark Twain("ROM 04") IIGS prototype that had been discovered in Albuquerque. Later inthe year, Joe Kohn made available videotapes of his Gravenstein Apple UserGroup demo of the Mark Twain he had discovered. Various RT members discussed ways to build a tower version of theApple IIGS (that is, putting the guts of the computer into a tower case),with proposals of various improvements to make it work better. Resident solder slinger Harold Hislop offered technical informationabout how to repair AppleColor RGB monitors, and how to (temporarily) helpwith "sticktion" problems on aging Quantum hard drives. Ken Gagne reported on the Tiger Learning Computer, an Apple-approvedApple IIe clone that was to be introduced at the Electronic EntertainmentExpo (E3) in Los Angeles. His brief description was to be followed by amore detailed article in Volume 2, Issue 2 of The Apple Blossom newsletter. September's issue included information by Doug Pendleton about how tobuild a reliable faster Zip GS card. Also that month, Peter Brickell begana series in which he described ways in which to interface an Apple II with"real world" devices.SOFTWARE NEWS:: PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE :: PMPFax was released late 1995. February discussions revolved aroundways in which to deal with some early bugs in the program. Brutal Deluxe introduced Convert 3200, a graphics conversion utility.Sales for the product were handled by Shareware Solutions II. SSII also hadbeen granted permission to release disks from NAUG (the disbanded NationalAppleWorks User Group). Apple II emulation software for the Macintosh began to appear during1996. Steve Cavanaugh commented on his experience with one program called"Squirt", and another called "IIe 1.0". More significantly, Andre Horstmannand Henrik Gudat made an announcement mid-year about an Apple IIGS emulatorthat they were working on. Their software had previously been releasedunder the name "Bright Software", but for this major project they hadchanged the name to "Fast Eddie Labs", since the code-name for the productwas "Fast Eddie". Fast Eddie would require a PowerMac, and although theywere initially asking for alpha testers to assist them, by the end of theyear the emulator was nearing the beta testing stage. EGO Systems announced an update to Addressed For Success, a labelprinting database program, to v1.1. The company also began to carry theOffice Productivity Systems AppleWorks utilities, including TimeOutShrinkIt-Plus, Statistics, and Disk Tools. Steve Disbrow also began work ona RTF (Rich Text Format) translator for GraphicWriter III. Soon afterwards,an AppleWorks GS translator module was released for GW III. Other software that became available during 1996 includedTimeOut.Statistics by Office Productivity Software; TouchTwo AppleWorksmacros by Marin MacroWorks; an update of Quick Click Calc to v1.3 by MikeWesterfield and The Byte Works; Music Composer 4.00 by Clayton Juniel; andGraphicWriter III v2.0 by Seven Hills Software.:: TELECOMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE :: Rumors began to appear about one or more programmers who were workingon attempts to design a graphic-based web browser for the Apple IIGS. Themain limitation then (as now) was the processing power needed to displayboth web page textual information AND the graphics for those pages in GIFor JPG format. Also limiting the development of such a product was the lackof basic utilities to directly connect a IIGS to the Internet. GNO/ME 2.0.6was planned to include TCP/IP access, and was expected to be a prerequisiteto IIGS web browsing. In March, a post was reproduced in which Derek Taubert discussed hisefforts at creating what he called "GS/TCP", an Apple IIGS TCP/IP handler,which was intended to interface with GNO/ME 2.0.6. He had successfully beenable to connect to the Internet with this utility, and was makingimprovements to it, to the great excitement of many Apple II users onGenie. Max Jones of Juiced.GS visited Taubert in May, and also saw "GS Web"demonstrated, Taubert's efforts at a graphic web browser. Jones planned anarticle all about GS/TCP in the Spring issue of Juiced.GS.:: SYSTEM SOFTWARE :: Jawaid Bazyar & Dave Lyons released a significant patch for the HFSFST from System 6.0.1. A mysterious data-trashing bug had been plaguingthose trying to use large HFS volumes on the IIGS. The bug had caused adelay in the release of Jim Maricondo's Golden Orchard CD-ROM collection in1995. This single-byte fix resolved this major problem. Dave Lyons, who wasemployed at Apple, had searched out the problem on his own time, and sharedthe info with Jawaid Bazyar, who wrote the patch program to correct it.Although it was distributed as a Procyon product, it was made available asfreeware. Later in the year, a different HFS problem was in discussion,regarding a problem that would occur if files dragged to an HFS volumeexceeded the available space on that volume. If this happened, a "diskfull" error occurred, and the folder into which the files were beingdragged was corrupted to the extent that it could not be deleted from theFinder. Back in 1995, Brutal Deluxe had announced their efforts at creatingsource code for GS/OS System 6.0.1, with the goal of applying patches andbug fixes. This "System 6.0.2" was available on a trial basis to a limitedaudience; Joe Kohn was one who had a copy of it, installed on his MarkTwain IIGS. Brutal Deluxe, however, did not take sufficient care to haveextra copies of this effort; it was all lost when a hard drive crashed, andthey apparently felt the task was too much work to reproduce.:: UTILITY SOFTWARE :: The hack to Print Shop IIGS sought by Joe Kohn that would allow betterprinting was again mentioned in July. The reason that the patch neverappeared was that the graphics in the program were hard-coded to 72 dotsper inch, and increasing the print quality simply was not possible. A September article by Doug Cuff described how to start fresh with anApple IIGS system, and what programs and utilities to add to a newlycreated system disk to make it most workable and productive. This wasfollowed up in the following month by reader comments about other utilitiesthat they considered indispensable.:: GAMES :: In January, Vitesse was still promising Wolfenstein 3D to be availablesoon. However, this promise was complicated by the need to get programminghelp from someone other than Bill Heineman (who had started but notcompleted the conversion), and by the demands of id Software for a newcontract. The gradual disappearance of Vitesse from the Apple II worldduring this year also contributed to the problem. The project eventuallyfell to Logicware programmers, specifically Eric Shepherd, and by late inthe year he had a package ready for beta testers. Other games that appeared in this year were Operation Lambda by BretVictor, and LemminGS by Brutal Deluxe.PUBLICATIONS Despite the losses of Apple II publications in 1995, other individualsstepped up and did their best to fill the gaps left behind. January saw theannouncement of three new publications: The AppleWorks Gazette, The AppleBlossom, and Juiced.GS. Howard Katz and Chris Serreau created The AppleWorks Gazette. Releasedas a disk publication with articles and sample files, the first issue wasmailed out in January 1996, and was reviewed by Doug Cuff in the Februaryissue of GenieLamp A2. Their intent was to send out a new issue bi-monthly,but soon fell behind in this goal, distributing only three issues duringthe year. Steve Cavanaugh had started The Apple Blossom as a freely downloadableproduct for its first four issues in 1995. With the start of 1996 hechanged it to a subscription-based print publication, to be released on abimonthly basis. During 1996 he kept this promise, and produced six issues.(Samples of articles from these issues and other issues are still availableat this web address:http://homepage.mac.com/appleblossom/tab/blossomonline.html) By the end ofthe year Cavanaugh had to abandon his Genie account, though he had plans tocontinue his newsletter. Newspaper veteran Max Jones also joined the field of new Apple IIpublishers during 1996. Juiced.GS was started as a quarterly printedpublication dedicated to coverage of the Apple IIGS. Initial subscriptionswere priced at $14 per year, and the promised four issues were distributedduring the year. Joe Kohn's Shareware Solutions II continued to publish. He was alsoable to make available for sale much of the inventory of the defunct BigRed Computer Club, as well as other products. II Alive, the last remaining glossy print Apple II publication,announced that it was planning about five more issues, after the release ofthe Nov-Dec 1995 issue. The Spring 1996 issue arrived in early summer, andwas reported to be thinner than previous issues. Less money was spent on itthan previously, and after the first quarter of 1996 its former artdirector, Carl Sperber, was acting as editor, with articles being collectedby former reviews editor Jeff Hurlburt. Another disk magazine, Dark Castle Magazine, was briefly mentioned inMarch, and then never again appeared in GenieLamp. (Being available only inDutch may have had something to do with this.)COMPANIES Greg Templeman announced the addition of Michael Lutynski (ofAnimasia) to the Logicware programming team, which also included EricShepherd, James Smith, "Burger" Bill Heineman, and Steve Parsons. ///SHH Systeme, makers of the TurboIDE and BlueDisk cards, was alsoaffected by the change in Genie rates. Being based in Munich, Germany madethem subject to the costs of European access, which had undergone aconsiderable increase. Consequently, they moved their online support to theInternet and to CompuServe. During the latter half of the year, an increased numbers of postsappeared in the A2 Roundtable complaining about Sequential Systems, due toa lack of response to customer requests (or complaints) regarding theSecond Sight card. EGO Systems and Steve Disbrow had to announce the cessation of itstoll-free order line and a reduction of hours, primarily because of hisreal employment interfering with what had been forced to become aside-business.KANSASFEST Doug Cuff's article, "The Accidental Tourist At KansasFest", appearedin the July issue, providing the first official FAQ about the event. Attendance at the event that year was over two hundred. Gary Uttergave a stirring and memorable keynote speech, and the subject of the annualroast was Joe Kohn. Roger Wagner (even though he was unable to attend) andMike Westerfield sponsored pizza. Attendees Carl Knoblock and "Big Cheese"Cindy Adams were among those whose posted comments about the event appearedin GenieLamp in the August issue. Among the presenters were Andy Nicholas of Apple Computer, whodemonstrated "Gus", an Apple IIGS emulator for the Power Macintosh. EricShepherd announced the coming beta test of Wolfenstein 3D, and that thefinal product would be released as freeware, rather than as the commercialproduct that Vitesse had originally intended it to be. Seven Hills Software announced the Spectrum 2.1 update, which wasavailable to ship by September.REVIEWS Despite a dearth of contributing writers, there were quite a fewproduct reviews that appeared in GenieLamp A2 during the year:o Jay Curtis reviewed "Deja II", JEM Software's newly released AppleWorks5.0 emulator.o James Keim, Ed Lundberg, and Douglas Cuff all reviewed the teachingprogram "Where In Hell Is Carmen Santiago?", which had been designed toteach about Dante's "Inferno". This unusual method of having three peoplereview the same program resulted in a very interesting look at the productfrom more than a single point of view.o Charlie Hartley reviewed PostScript fonts available in the Apple IILibrary, along with an interview of Margot Taylor, who had uploaded many ofthe fonts. Cuff was the source of most of the rest of the reviews that wereprinted:o The AppleWorks Gazette, issue #1o The Apple Blossomo Juiced.GSo "In The Breach Of Centuries" and "Sounds Of History" (HyperStudio stacks)o GraphicWriter III v2.0, (rewritten) by Richard Bennetto LoadPall XCMD for HyperCard IIGS by Steve Cavanaugho Convert 3200, from Brutal Deluxeo Beagle Basico Sorry (game)o Lordlings Of Yoreo Wolfenstein 3D Cuff also started a new column in February, a Top Ten list of the mostpopular files in the GEnie A2 library. The list was based on the number ofdownloads of a file, after it had been in the library for about a month.Thus, the February list dealt with December's uploads, and so on. Beginningwith the March issue, he also began offering brief reviews of new uploadsto the A2 library.WRITERS Phil Shapiro concluded his "Thinking About" series with a discussionof the use of mailing lists to share common interests, including nursinghomes in the national information infrastructure, and the convenience ofautomated e-mail responders. In additional to his other responsibilities, Doug Cuff presented theDelta manual for the AppleWorks 5.1 update in the July issue. David Marriott wrote about "The Disposable Computer", referring to thetendency for computers to be in need of replacement every several years.INTERVIEWS Fewer of these appeared during 1996, but included the following:o Max Jones, of Juiced.GSo Steve Cavanaugh, of The Apple Blossomo Christian Serreau and Howard Katz, of The AppleWorks GazetteMISCELLANEOUS FEATURES In April, a number of messages were reprinted about the use of AppleII's in businesses. Editor Cuff wrote an interesting article in the August. "FileMechanic" took the approach of explaining how to modify an old BASICprogram in the A2 library so it was functional on the Apple IIGS and underProDOS, taking the reader step by step through the process. Cuff also wrote in October about the Apple II BBS that he ran for fouryears in the 1980's. In November he presented his own history ofGenieLamp's first five years. David Kerwood described his plans to create a web site that would be acentral repository of information about the Apple II and support for it. Marc Wolfgram reported in December that former A2Pro sysop MarkCollins had passed away from a massive stroke. The two had collaborated onseveral Apple IIGS projects, including "Lithium Grease" (which could saveand restore IIGS battery RAM settings from a disk) and the GS/OS resourceeditor, "Foundation".HUMOR ONLINE Ryan Suenaga listed his Top Ten things to do when GEnie was down. TimKellers gave his own top ten list of why to attend KansasFest. In March, the "Apple II Brainwash Test" was printed. Gary Utter andMike Westerfield teamed up to create "You Know You've Been On Genie TooLong When..." Several more song parodies that I wrote appeared during the year(which are now reproduced on the Apple II History website athttp://apple2history.org/parodies/parodies.html). Jerry Cline pointed out a way of getting free 3.5 floppy disks simplyby NOT signing up for America Online (i.e., you continue to receive in themail those disks encouraging you to sign up). Alan Meiss' "Some Famous Last Words" appeared in December (his humoris still available at this web site: http://www.aaaugh.com/meiss/humor.htmlSTATS Here are statistics for the first five 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 125K1996 80K 192K 116K19TH NERVOUS BREAKDOWN As I write these concluding words, my lovely PowerBook G4 remains inthe hands of the competent physicians at the Apple Service Center, awaitingits next logic board transplant. I'm quite hopeful that THIS time it willnot be rejected. In the meantime, I think I'm getting the hang of thishistorical writing stuff again, and so I'll do my best to get the nextchapter in the Lamp review ready for you. Even if I'm to do it with asecond-best choice.Steven Weyhricha2history@syndicomm.comhttp://apple2history.orgReferences for 1996 historical info:Apple Computer, Inc.: A History http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3682/applehistory.htmlApple History Timeline http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/history.htmlThe Apple Museum http://applemuseum.bott.org/Computer History For 1990-2000 http://www.computerhope.com/history/19902000.htmHistory of Computing Industrial Era 1994-2000 http://www.thocp.net/timeline/1996.htmInformation Please: 1996 http://infoplease.lycos.com/year/1996.htmlTimeline of the 90s, 1996 http://www.inthe90s.com/generated/time1996.shtml[EOA][ANS]------------------------------- ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM SYNDICOMM |------------------------------------by Lyle Syverson [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][SCO]SyndiChat 1.1"""""""""""""Announcing - SyndiChat 1.1What is it?SyndiChat is a RTC chat program for Syndicomm Syndicated Communities thatrequires a PC running Window 95 or better.Features- Selectable font size from 6 to 15 points. <-- NEW FEATURE- Simple installation and configuration.- Basic telnet client with separate chat window.- Resizable window with auto line length adjustment.- 30,000 character scrollback buffer.- Scrollback search.SyndiChat is freeware.Where do you get it?http://www.syndicomm.com/~mark/SyndiChat/Enjoy!(MARK, HelpDesk, Cat 3, Top 4, Msg 16)[EOA][AOS]Announcing the Opening of Showbits""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Announcing the opening of Showbits! Syndicomm's newest community caters tothe showbiz crowd, covering the many aspects of Hollywood's excitingindustry. All members of Syndicomm Online are invited to discuss theirfavorite films, both current and past, as well as television shows, actorsand actresses, movie memorabilia, news, rumors, and more.Showbits can be accessed at Page 840, by typing the keyword SHOWBITS at anySyndicomm prompt, or surfing to the Showbits web site:http://www.syndicomm.com/communities/showbits/(KGAGNE, HelpDesk, Cat 3, Top 11, Msg 16)[EOA][OSA]October 2003 Issue of Syndicommotion Available""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""The October 2003 (Volume 2, Number 10) issue of Syndicommotion has beenemailed to subscribers. The HTML edition can be found online at thefollowing URL:http://www.syndicomm.com/syndicommotion/v2n10.html(KGAGNE, HelpDesk, Cat 5, Top 4, Msg 14)[EOA][TTC]------------------------------- THE TINKERER'S CORNER |------------------------------------By Lyle Syverson The Slotbuster II Card~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Many different cards were manufactured for use with the Apple II computers.Many people find all of the slots of their favorite Apple II filled and adesire to add more cards so as to make the computer even more versatile.What if you could find a card that would use only one slot but provideseveral functions?Slotbuster II to the rescue. Modules are available for these functions:Buffered serial printer port, buffered parallel printer port, speechsynthesis, clock, modem port, and BSR control (remote control of lights andappliances, etc.)This card and the modules are available from the manufacturer, RC Systems.Go to: http://www.rcsys.com/apple2.htmfor more information and an email address to check on availability andprices.[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 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 |------------------------------------NO LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THIS MONTH"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""The mail box for Letters to the Editor remained empty this month.[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 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][KFF]------------------------------ KFest 2004 |-----------------------------------[KF4]KansasFest 2004"""""""""""""""KansasFest 2004 is planned for July 20-25, 2004 at Avila University inKansas City, Missouri.(Heading: Cat 5, Top 22)[EOA][VKF]WATCH FOR MORE INFORMATION AT 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. All rights reserved. * To reach The Lamp! on Internet email send mail to thelamp@sheppyware.net * All issues of The Lamp! are available at The Lamp! Home Page, http://lamp.a2central.com/>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Opinions expressed herein are those of the individual authors, and do notnecessarily represent the opinions of A2Central.com, Delphi OnlineServices, Syndicomm, Ryan M. Suenaga, or Lyle Syverson. Forum messages arereprinted verbatim and are included in this publication with permissionfrom the individual authors. A2Central.com, Delphi Online Services,Syndicomm, Ryan M. Suenaga, and Lyle Syverson do not guarantee the accuracyor suitability of any information included herein. We reserve the right toedit all letters and copy.Material published in this edition may not be reprinted without theexpressed written consent of the publisher. Registered computer usergroups, not for profit publications , and other interested parties maywrite the publisher to apply for permission to reprint any or all material.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<[EOF] .