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An Onipa'a Software Production       Vol. 7, 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, 2004HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER---------------------------------------------[OPN]     Conservation of Natural Wildlife Habitats     Conservation of the Apple II'sA2 FORUM AT Syndicomm Online (A2Central.com) DISTILLATIONS------------[DAS]     Welcome, Magnus--------------------------------------------------[WMS]     Impressed With the AMD64 Systems---------------------------------[AMD]     Patch Written for the LANceGS Driver-----------------------------[PLD]     New Upload to A2 Library-----------------------------------------[NAL]     The Prizm Debugger-----------------------------------------------[TPD]     Emulator Issue With Regard to Future Development-----------------[EFD]     Version 1.2 of the Contiki OS------------------------------------[COS]     Help With the Rez Resource Compiler------------------------------[HWR]     Marinetti: Interacting With a POP3 Server------------------------[IPS]     How to Tell From an NDA if a Toolset is Already Started up-------[TSS]     SideClick Contextual Menu Manager--------------------------------[CMM]     Internet Settings CDev-------------------------------------------[ISC]     Address Book NDA-------------------------------------------------[ABN]     URL Handler------------------------------------------------------[UHR]     Possible Projects for Software Development-----------------------[PPD]     Email Fetcher----------------------------------------------------[EMF]     Email Sender-----------------------------------------------------[EMS]     Programming Conference-------------------------------------------[PGC]     New WEB Location For MUD History Articles------------------------[MHA]     List of Top 25 Most Influential Games----------------------------[MIG]ILLUMINATING THE LAMP-------------------------------------------------[ITL]     An overview of GEnieLamp A2 and The Lamp!          2002ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM SYNDICOMM------------------------------------------[ANS]     To Sign up for Syndicomm Online----------------------------------[TSU]     September 2004 Issue of Syndicommotion Available-----------------[SSA]     October Issue of Syndicommotion Available------------------------[OSN]LETTERS TO THE EDITOR-------------------------------------------------[LTE]     No Letters to the Editor This Month     An InvitationKFEST 2005------------------------------------------------------------[KF5]     KansasFest 2005 to be Held July 19-24th--------------------------[TBH]     KansasFest Website-----------------------------------------------[KFW]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>                 Conservation of Natural Wildlife Habitats                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     The deep blue sky against the many colors of leaves in the earlymorning scene from High Above The Rock River confirms that this will be agreat day for a drive in the country.     The back roads to the town of Apple River in Northwestern Illinoiswill let us move at a slower pace... giving us more time to savor the Fallcolors on display among the many hills... patches of multicolored woodsinterspersed with irregular shaped fields of mature corn awaiting harvest.     The Annual Fall Eagle Fest, honoring the Bald Eagle, is sponsored bythe Eagle Nature Foundation, which is headquartered in Apple River.  Theactivities include a program on birds of prey... including a live BaldEagle and other live examples.     Food, baked goods, garden produce, nature art, postcards, shirts,decals, bird feeders, etc. are available for purchase.     A talk by the Executive Director outlines the purpose of theorganization... conservation of the habitat of the Bald Eagle in the statesof Illinois and Wisconsin.                      Conservation of the Apple II's                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     It is suggested that you work for the conservation of Apple IIhardware.  Most of the hardware is no longer being manufactured.  Rescue itfrom sources that might otherwise end up in a landfill.  Sell it or give itto "good homes" when you no longer have a need for it or no longer have adesire to keep it.[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>[WMS]WELCOME, MAGNUS"""""""""""""""hi, my name is Magnus Ericson, I'm from Sweden and I been to Kfest 1995...long time ago, but maybe an anniversary for me next year, who knows.. :-)I'm the current chairman of AppleUSerGroup here in Sweden, since its onlyA2-users in our club we only have around 30 members here. We have also thelast years founded an real Apple II Museum, so when you are aroundGothenburg in Sweden don't, hesitate to contact me for a visit...:-)kindly/ Magnusps. I know lots of people here from GEnie... but do they remember me ? :-)(MAGNUS, Cat 2, Top 7, Msg 163)>>>>>"""""I remember you Magnus!It would be great if you made it to another KFest!Cindy(CINDYADAMS, Cat 2, Top 7, Msg 164)>>>>>"""""Hello.  I wasn't around in the GEnie days, but it's great to see you here,Magnus.  I've been to a few Kfests, and it would be great to see you at thenext one.Welcome Aboard.Dain(A2.DAIN, Cat 2, Top 7, Msg 165)>>>>>"""""It would be great to have you back. Cabella's has a big new store North ofKansas City, just off the road from the airport, if you are still lookingat such things. :) Carl Knoblock - Retired - Tue  28 Sep 04  7:17:22 pm cknoblo@cox.com - Via Spectrum v2.5.3 & SOAR v1.0b10 KFest 2005, July 19-24, 2005 - 294 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 7, Msg 166)>>>>>"""""Hi Cindy & Carl & all you others !Very interesting about Cabela, thanks for keeping me updated :-)  I'm veryimpressed that you remember such a thing....In fact that is a very good reason to go to the Kfest. ;)/Magnus(MAGNUS, Cat 2, Top 7, Msg 167)>>>>>"""""Hi Magnus,I had lots of contact with Andreas Wennborg in the old days. He is stillactive in the Apple // world?Regards - Ewen Ewen Wannop - Speccie - Wed 6 Oct 2004 - 286 days till KFest '05 Delivered without using a IIgs by Spectrum v2.5.3 & SOAR 1.0b11 Setup: IIgs running at 95Mhz thanks to Bernie ][ the Rescue 3.0(CONDUCTOR, Cat 2, Top 7, Msg 168)[EOA][AMD]IMPRESSED WITH THE AMD64 SYSTEMS""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""The AMD64 systems look pretty sweet.  And with direct support by all themajor OS's (and even some that have small market shares), it is alreadyproven to be a winner.  And the real bonus is that IIgs emulators willeasily exceed 100MHz (if anybody has numbers running on the top of the lineprocessors, I would be interested to see them).  It is so nice to get thenext generation of computational power without losing the risk of backwardscompatibility.  It reminds me a lot of the situation when the IIgs wasreleased as a step above its 8-bit cousins.The price tag is already starting to drop which is making it a moreattractive option.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 2, Top 10, Msg 19)>>>>>"""""The AMD-64 processor looks to be a pretty nice processor.  You can get amotherboard for about $99, a processor starting near $125 (up to like $700if you dare).  So technically you could put together a system fairlycheaply.  I have an AMD Athlon system here that ran like a champ for a yearor so , but while upgrading the memory the other night it seems to havedied.It would be cool to say I have an 8 bit computer, a 16 bit computer, a 32bit computer and now a 64 bit computer:)  Of course I could do that with anApple G5 though.  To run either in 64 bit mode you'd have to go Linux fornow though.Dain(A2.DAIN, Cat 2, Top 10, Msg 20)[EOA][PLD]PATCH WRITTEN FOR THE LANceGS Driver""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I have written a patch for the LANceGS.Driver, the routing version.  Thearchive patchlance1.shk has been uploaded to the Syndicomm library.From the README, this is what it fixes:* Correct behavior for Link Layer restart.  Both the TCP/IP control paneland Spectrum support restart and without this update, a restart will causeconnections not to work.* Support for broken LanceGS cards "fixed" by LanceHack.  The most commonfailure of LanceGS cards is the EEPROM losing its data.  It will cost overUS$20 to have a card sent to Germany and back and any support charges.Just repair with LanceHack plus use of this driver (and running the setupsoftware to reset the configuration) will get you up and running* ARP requests are handled more intelligently, especially for fastersystems.* Only IP packets are passed to Marinetti.  Non-IP packets can causeMarinetti to hang.* Odd-sized ethernet frames now get sent.  An extra byte was being addedbefore.* No extra bytes are added to received IP frames when passed to Marinetti.* Corrected hanging bug on busy network segments such as cable modem orDSL.  Most LanceGS systems are connected to private networks so unless itis physically connected to the cable/DSL side, this isn't noticed.* Compatible with future ethernet emulation in KEGS.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 20, Top 13, Msg 83)>>>>>"""""I should probably add that the patch is not supported by SHH Systeme and isto be used at your own risk.  If you find any problems with the resultingLANceGS.Driver and can back up your claim with data from NiftyList, GSBug,etc. I'll help you the best I can.  Be prepared that I may give you mysource and have you fix it yourself :)Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 20, Top 13, Msg 84)>>>>>"""""Thanks, Geoff!!!!!!!!Kelvin(KWS, Cat 20, Top 13, Msg 85)>>>>>"""""Kelvin, it really should be I thanking you.  You gave me the best beta testreport ever during the beta cycle of this driver.  Additionalacknowledgements goes to Ryan, Mark, Carl, and Dain who have differentsystems than I do who verified that the software worked as expected.I should probably add this driver still has the same problem as theoriginal where packets will still be sent even if ARP fails.  Unlike theoriginal, my driver will always send the packet to the broadcast MACaddress.  This is really a bad thing, but it almost guarantees that anetwork connection will work.  The fix is to track a lack of an ARP replyand not transmit packets to that IP address.Additional features that would be nice include:* ARP timeout (someone [not me] needs to create a utility to let the userspecify the ARP timeout and then the driver can read the value and use it)* change the "timing" loops to use the event manager to track cyclesinstead of a relying on the CPU speed (loops have to be given extra time torun on an accelerated system, resulting in potentially slower response timefor slower GS's or not enough time for hyper accelerated GS'S).(GEOFF, Cat 20, Top 13, Msg 86)>>>>>"""""I would also like to thank Geoff for his work on the patch for the LANceGSdriver (as well as all of his other work recently).RyanChief Sysop and Head Geek(A2.RYAN, Cat 20, Top 13, Msg 87)>>>>>"""""No Kidding Geoff.  I've gotten lots of use from your programs over theyears, Thanks.Dain(A2.DAIN, Cat 20, Top 13, Msg 88)[EOA][NAL]NEW UPLOAD TO A2 LIBRARY""""""""""""""""""""""""There is a new upload in the telecommunications/applications/16-bitdirectory:File: patchlance1.bxySize: 18304Date: Sep 16PatchLance1 by Geoff Weiss (geoff@apple2.gs)This is the first update available to patch the LANceGS.Driver link layerfor Marinetti.  Several bugs are fixed as well as additional enhancementshave been implemented.This software has not been sanctioned by SHH Systeme so it is to be used atyour own risk.See Category 13, Topic 20, Message 83 (or the included ReadME file) forfurther details.Tony Ward, A2 Librarian(A2.TONY, Cat 2, Top 37, Msg 40)[EOA][TPD]THE Prizm DEBUGGER""""""""""""""""""I recently discovered the debugger that existed within Prizm and was veryimpressed by it.  I thought I had found a problem with it which I laterlearned was my ignorance after reading appropriate section of the manual.I didn't like that the caret character is used for pointers in thevariables window (considering I was using C).  I was wondering what thegeneral consensus is if Prizm supported both the asterisk and the caret forpointers.  This would maximize compatibility between C and Pascaldevelopers.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 22, Top 28, Msg 18)>>>>>"""""I think that would be nice, if there were an option to choose whichnotation to use for pointers.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 22, Top 28, Msg 19)>>>>>"""""Choice is good.I use Prizm, although I rarely use the debugger.  I just wish the GS hadmore screen real estate.RyanChief Sysop and Head Geek(A2.RYAN, Cat 22, Top 28, Msg 20)>>>>>"""""Prizm is one of the few programs where the lack of screen real estate makesit cumbersome to use.  Or maybe I'm just used to 1600x1200 resolutiondisplays for the last six years.  A interesting project for someone totackle would be to write an X client on the GS so windows are accessible onlarger displays.  This would require patches to the Window Maner, EventManager, Quickdraw, etc.  Because the graphic drawing is offloaded to theclient instead of being needed to be done by the GS, it could prove to be aworkable solution.  And with X servers available on virtually all modernOS's, there's an immediate base of compatibility for usefulness.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 22, Top 28, Msg 21)[EOA][EFD]EMULATOR ISSUE WITH REGARD TO FUTURE DEVELOPMENT""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I have been following Richard Bennett-Forrest's series of emulationarticles in Juiced.GS and have been enjoying the content.  As someone whohas added a feature or two into KEGS, it is refreshing to see the point ofview of another approach.  I am very curious to see where Richard is goingbased on his May 2004 article about emulator identification from the IIgsstand point.I have found that the suggested format of using $C04F ID Byte to beextremely limiting and poorly designed for any type of expansion.  Theversion number that it presents is in the form of X.Y.  KEGS is still inthe development stages and the version number hasn't even reached 1.0 yet.Its version number appears as .XY, or using  the $C04F notation, 0.X,losing the second version number digit.  Also, the version number formatbreaks once the major version exceeds 9 (or 15 if BCD is not assumed).  Themouse code changed from 0.85 to 0.86 in KEGS so an application may want totake advantage of the two different scenarios, but can't since the versionnumber returns $08 for both.And how should the emulator ID be defined?  Sweet 16 is Bernie ported to Beso it gets a different ID than Bernie.  KEGS has been ported to manydifferent platforms and comes in many flavors so should it get a differentID for each? KEGSwin, xKEGS, KEGSMac, CasaGS, KEGS32, ActiveGS, andKEGS-Xbox are several ports that have been made.  Something like xKEGS hasdifferent functions depending on which underlying OS it was built on, noteven mentioning that there are assembly versus C cores for specific systemstoo.  A single ID byte may not provide enough information.I await anxiously to see what Richard has come up with.  Hopefully, some ofthese areas of concern would be addressed.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 29, Top 6, Msg 12)>>>>>"""""Well, Sweet16 isn't actually Bernie ported to anything; it's based onBernie but has some key differences (such as the fact that on x86 it's atotally different, C-based, emulation core).  That's why it gets its ownID.  It might actually have made sense for it to report a different ID onPPC versus x86 for that reason.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 29, Top 6, Msg 13)[EOA][COS]Version 1.2 of the Contiki OS"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Version 1.2 of the Contiki OS has been announced.  Some of the new featuresare:# Service layer providing dynamic loading and unloading of system services# Multi-threading library# Protothreads: extremely light-weight, stackless threads# Optional socket-like network API based on protothreads# Generic filesystem interface# Kernel rewritten with cleaner API# CTK terminal driver for providing text-based GUI over TelnetIt is amazing that it now has surpassed GS/OS in its capabilities.  Thelast feature mentioned sounds pretty neat since that is essentially VNCusing text (resulting in fast operation for slower computers).Has anybody looked at converting the released LanceGS 8-bit driver into alibrary for Contiki to give Apple II users the ability to take advantage ofits TCP/IP capabilities?Heck, a IIgs port would be neat to take advantage of a full color GUI.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 51, Top 63, Msg 1)>>>>>"""""Contiki's ETH64 ethernet driver uses the same chip as the LanceGS so mostof the work is already done to add LanceGS support for Contiki.  TheLanceGS driver could be easily based on what exists for the ETH64.Obviously, the big difference would be EEPROM access.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 51, Top 63, Msg 2)[EOA][HWR]HELP WITH THE Rez RESOURCE COMPILER"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Anyone with some Rez sample code for rectangle controls (as well as whatthe resulting box looks like)?  I have not yet used this control so I coulduse this direction.ThanksRyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 22)>>>>>"""""From the SIS source code:#define PrefBaseRect $8014resource rControlTemplate (PrefBaseRect) {PrefBaseRect,{1,1,123,538},rectangleControl {{0+2,fctlProcNotPtr,0}};};This draws the black rectangle that makes up the border of the index cardof the preference window.  A portion of this rectangle gets erased wherethe active tab is displayed by drawing an icon over it.One of the grey rectangles in the General Preferences was drawn by this(based on the coords, this should be the upper-most grey rect):resource rControlTemplate (gPrefLRect) {gPrefLRect,{10,10,35,260), /* coords local to window */rectangleControl {{0+1,0x1000,0}};};Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 23)>>>>>"""""Thanks, Geoff.Ryan(A2.RYAN, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 24)[EOA][IPS]Marinetti: INTERACTING WITH A POP3 SERVER"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I am currently doing some more work on interacting with a POP3 server andam seeking opinions as to what length of time to implement for a "timeout",meaning, "If we don't receive a response from the server within x amount ofseconds, we assume this connection is toasted."  I realize that there are alot of variables with this (primarily the speed of the connection) andwould like some opinions as to how long this time out ought to be.  I'mthinking 10 seconds, but would value some input.Thanks.RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 43)>>>>>"""""Optimally, this should be a user preference with the default being fairlylarge such as 60 seconds.Users on a modem versus those on broadband have different speedexpectations.  Broadband has brought us closer to the "7 second maximum"immediate response time (as specified by the HCI research of BenShneiderman,  http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ ).  Factors outside user controlis the speed of the mail server (is it busy processing spam) and speed ofthe connection to the server (is it on the other side of the country).So a modem user connecting to a busy server on the other side of thecountry over a slow connection can easily need 60 second timeouts.The POP protocol, especially if the server uses mail format instead ofmdir, may also take a while to generate the information before it will getsent.  Software such Eudora and Exchange have a 30-60 second time out and Ihave seen where the servers needs to process information longer than thattimeout.I hard-coded SIS to use a 30 second time out since that is a decent medianfor slower and faster access users.  Server time-outs are not a commonpreference item to be found in user-level applications.  I personally wouldlike a quicker time-out since it can be a PITA waiting 30 seconds for atime-out, but I kept the higher value since I wasn't the only user of SIS.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 44)>>>>>"""""Thanks for your input, Geoff.I wasn't thinking I was actually going to release this little program sinceit was mostly to help me work out my POP3 logic, but I probably will.  Iagree that a user defined timeout is ideal, but given that it's such asmall thing I'm hard coding a 30 second timeout.After this thing is done, I'm looking at a couple of small projects, thefirst of which is a dict client suggested by Dain.  That'll take awhile. :)RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 45)[EOA][TSS]How to Tell From an NDA if a Toolset is Already Started up""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""You'd think I know this by now, but I apparently don't (or I'm so sick Ican't remember it):How do I tell if a given toolset is already started up from a NDA?  I needto use TextEdit in my NDA and I can figure out how to use StartOneTool tostart it (since I'm not supposed to use StartUpTools from a NDA) but how doI find the status before I figure out if I need to start it?Thanks.RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 55, Top 21, Msg 6)>>>>>"""""You have to call TEStatus.  If the returned value is 0, then you know thetoolset is not active.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 55, Top 21, Msg 7)>>>>>"""""Under System 6, you can use StartUpTools from an NDA, IIRC.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 55, Top 21, Msg 8)>>>>>"""""Ah; okay, I did use StartUpTools and it appears to work.I'm having some TextEdit issues, but I'll bring those up later in a moreappropriate forum :)RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 55, Top 21, Msg 9)>>>>>""""">> You have to call TEStatus.  If the returned value is 0, then you knowthe toolset is not active. <<You should also check for a toolerror -- if the tool isn't loaded in memoryat the time, the return value won't be meaningful.Kelvin(KWS, Cat 55, Top 21, Msg 10)[EOA][CMM]SideClick Contextual Menu Manager"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I've got a first draft of the API for SideClick.  I'd welcome any feedback.It's in PDF format, at this URL:http://snipurl.com/9ohn-HHXJ5Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 24, Top 21, Msg 1)>>>>>"""""Just gave you some feedback in conference :)What I'm thinking I'm going to try first with SideClick is with MyIP.NDA;having the menu that SideClick displays be something like, "Show my IPaddress" and when it's selected, opening the NDA.It also occurs to me that instead of having the app or NDA actually do therequested task, it could also be a type of "handler" that passes the taskon to something appropriate; for instance, there could be an init thatinstalled "Send an email" in the SideClick menu, then when it was selectedbroadcast an IPC message to another application that would actually sendthe email.At least, that's what I think I think. :)RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 24, Top 21, Msg 2)>>>>>"""""I've just posted version 0.2 of the SideClick spec.  It's been updated alot, with a new IPC call added, and a section describing a possible usagescenario.http://homepage.mac.com/sheppy/projects/sideclick/SideClickAPISpecs.pdfEric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 24, Top 21, Msg 3)>>>>>"""""So I am interpreting this as meaning that, for instance, if I had MyIP.NDAinterface with SideClick, I could have the SideClick menu add two menuitems, say "Display IP address" and "Copy IP address to clipboard"?Also another question: any (practical) limitation on the length of thestring used for the menu item?RyanChief Sysop and Head Geek(A2.RYAN, Cat 24, Top 21, Msg 4)[EOA][ISC]Internet Settings CDev""""""""""""""""""""""Here's a place for us to talk about creating a CDev that users can use toset options related to Internet settings, such as email address, serveraddresses, preferred applications to handle various URL types, and soforth.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 30, Top 26, Msg 1)>>>>>"""""The idea for this would be that the user could configure everything in oneplace.Then it could have an IPC call that would let someone ask it whatapplication to use to handle a particular type of URL, or fetch specificsettings.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 30, Top 26, Msg 2)>>>>>"""""Some thoughts about stuff this should be able to configure:Email   Address   POP server   SMTP server   IMAP server   Full name   Password for authentication   Preferred reader   Preferred senderUsenet   News server   Username   Password   Preferred reader application   Preferred poster applicationWeb   Proxy settings   Preferred web browserFTP   Preferred FTP clientWhat else would make sense to have?Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 30, Top 26, Msg 3)>>>>>"""""I've yet to write a CDev :)That said, I think that looking at older versions of InternetConfig/Internet Control Panel on the Mac OS may be a place to start.There's also a Mac OS X System Preference (third party) called "MoreInternet" that has a pretty simple interface but I think just definesapplications to use with various forms of URLs, not gives people anywhereto store their actual settings.RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 30, Top 26, Msg 4)>>>>>"""""Yeah, if anyone has a machine with Internet Config on it, it would behelpful if they could grab screenshots and post them somewhere for us touse as reference.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 30, Top 26, Msg 5)>>>>>"""""Looking at this from a low level, structures that I see needed are:* 16-bit ints* 32-bit ints* GSStrings (16-bit length followed by data)Each of these would have a 16-bit structure ID and a 16-bit location ID.The structure ID is a value for each low level structure.  ID 1 for 16-intcould be the port number of a Web proxy server.  ID 1 for a string could bethe email address.  The location ID would be associated with something likehome, work, etc. (i.e. you can have different mail settings to access yourmail from work or home).This would allow for expansion, without requiring the need to specify allthe preference items up front.  The CDEV could just handle a few preferencesettings and let applications maintain others.Geoff(GEOFF, Cat 30, Top 26, Msg 6)>>>>>""""">> Yeah, if anyone has a machine with Internet Config on it, it would behelpful if they could grab screenshots and post them somewhere for us touse as reference. <<Google helps to make this unnecessary :)  A quick search brings this, forinstance:http://www.umanitoba.ca/campus/acn/remote/mac/clients8/It's not all of the preferences, but it's certainly a start.RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 30, Top 26, Msg 7)>>>>>"""""See, I think you're thinking too level.  I think the CDev should implementa series of IPC calls:askInternetSettingsGetSMTPServeraskInternetSettingsGetPOPServeraskInternetSettingsGetNewsServerAnd so forth.  This would be much more flexible, and tons easier for theclient programmers to deal with.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 30, Top 26, Msg 8)>>>>>""""">> "See, I think you're thinking too level" <<Hum.  That was supposed to be "See, I think you're thinking at too low alevel." :)Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 30, Top 26, Msg 9)>>>>>"""""iirc, back in the days of Internet Config on the Mac, usually the Internetapplications had a checkbox in their preferences that the user checked ifthey wanted to use Internet Config for the preferences or its ownpreferences.  I am guessing that some kind of equivalent would be indicatedhere.RyanChief Sysop and Head Geek(A2.RYAN, Cat 30, Top 26, Msg 10)[EOA][ABN]Address Book NDA""""""""""""""""The goal would be to have an address book that's useful on its own but canalso be integrated with email clients and the like.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 30, Top 27, Msg 1)>>>>>"""""I don't know much about using the list control (which is probably the bestcontrol to use for an address book), so I don't think I'm much of acandidate to write it at this point, but I think that this is a reallyneeded thing.iirc Aaron has written an AddressBook NDA that was still in alpha the lastI saw.RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 30, Top 27, Msg 2)[EOA][UHR]URL Handler"""""""""""The URL Handler would basically take an URL string and pass it along to theapp that the internet settings CDev says wants to handle those.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 30, Top 28, Msg 1)>>>>>"""""See technical note 200 at:http://www.sheppyware.net/tech/tn/iigs/iigs200.htmlThis note covers the askAnyoneOpenURL IPC call, which hasn't beenimplemented yet, but was designed to handle dispatching an URL.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 30, Top 28, Msg 2)>>>>>"""""I've also been thinking (after reading technote 200) of a simple NDA thathad only a Lineedit control and a button to enter a URL in, that would thenbroadcast an IPC message to whatever applications were listening.RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 30, Top 28, Msg 3)[EOA][PPD]Possible Projects for Software Development""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""This is a place for us to talk about possible projects, or topics we needto create.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 30, Top 29, Msg 1)>>>>>"""""I have a partially completed notification manager type of extension thatlets applications flash an icon in the menu bar, so that it alternates withthe Apple menu's logo.  That might be useful for email and other types ofsoftware; I'll have to finish it.gsAIM 1.5 has that ability built in, but I started pulling it out as aseparate init when I realized I might want to use it in other projects.Never finished the work.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 30, Top 29, Msg 2)>>>>>"""""I've posted version 0.1 of my Notification Manager specification.  Pleasehave a look and let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions!http://homepage.mac.com/sheppy/projects/notification/NotificationAPISpec.pdfEric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 30, Top 29, Msg 3)>>>>>"""""I take it this is something (well, very vaguely :) like a bouncing icon inan OS X dock to draw the attention of a user if something 's happening in ahidden window?RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 30, Top 29, Msg 4)[EOA][EMF]Email Fetcher"""""""""""""Here's a place to talk about a utility to fetch email.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 30, Top 30, Msg 1)[EOA][EMS]Email Sender""""""""""""Talk about writing a program that can be shared among many applications forsending email.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 30, Top 31, Msg 1)[EOA][PGC]Programming Conference""""""""""""""""""""""That was a great programming conference last night.  Thanks to everyone whostopped in (we also had a substantial international contingent with twoAustralians and two from Canada--one a Canadian and one an American inCanada).We're going to be holding these monthly to see where we get to :)RyanChief Sysop(A2.RYAN, Cat 50, Top 5, Msg 20)>>>>>"""""Whoops!  Sorry I missed this one.  Will there be a transcript posted?_________  | homas(TCOMPTER, Cat 50, Top 5, Msg 21)>>>>>"""""Kirk says there will be a transcript.  We also decided to hold monthlyprogramming meetings; the next will be on November 12.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.comOwner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com                     Building communities, bit by bit.(SYNDICOMM, Cat 50, Top 5, Msg 22)>>>>>"""""Yes, the transcript is uploaded and awaiting release.A poor second to actually being there live, but it'll give you an idea ofwhat happened.  B-{)Kirk(A2.KIRK, Cat 50, Top 5, Msg 23)[EOA][MHA]NEW WEB LOCATION FOR MUD HISTORY ARTICLES"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""The MUD history articles mentioned in message 45 in this topic are nolonger available at Happy Puppy.  Instead, try this URL:http://www.gatecentral.com/shared_docs/Timeline1.htmlThe new home page of "Biting the Hand", the article written by authorJessica Mulligan (hence the "bth" in the original filename), ishttp://www.skotos.net/articles/bth.html-Ken(KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 121)[EOA][MIG]LIST OF TOP 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAMES"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Issue #138 (October 2004) of Game Informer magazine presents a list of "TheTop 25 Most Influential Games of All Time".  The list is presentedchronologically, spanning from 1971 to 2001.  Only one Apple II game madethe list; at 1979, FS1 Flight Simulator is the third game listed.Several other listed games were also made available for the Apple II, orare known to its users: Zork (TRS-80); Pac-Man (arcade); Adventure (Atari2600); Gauntlet (arcade); Super Mario Bros. (NES); Tetris (PC); Prince ofPersia (PC); and SimCity (PC).(KGAGNE, Cat 14, Top 1, Msg 113)>>>>>"""""We're talking 23+ years ago, but I could have sworn that Zork came out onthe Apple II before the TRS-80.Speaking of Zork, "Zork I" was one of the first programs I ever bought formy Apple II+. And to this day I have no regrets that it was! (I also havegreat memories of the weeks while several people all worked towards solvingit. One person would solve one puzzle, another a different puzzle, withexcited phone calls to share the news! Ah, the good old days!)Peter               peterw@syndicomm.comPalm OS Community Bulletin Board Manager(PETERW, Cat 14, Top 1, Msg 114)[EOA][ITL]------------------------      ILLUMINATING THE LAMP |-----------------------------An overview of GEnieLamp A2 and The Lamp!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~By Steven WeyhrichTHE LONG AND WINDING ROAD      These days, I am enjoying the benefits of digital photography. It isSO convenient to be able to take a picture and immediately see the results;to be able to take many shots, and eliminate the bad ones; to be able toelectronically transmit my photos to others via the Internet or a CD. Butback before I had a digital camera, I had a standard film-based camera. Theparticular camera that gave me the best results for my photographicendeavors was my Minolta SLR (single-lens reflex) camera. It had automaticfilm advance, it would set the white balance by itself (which means I couldsuccessfully take photos in dim light), and detachable lenses that wouldlet me do long distance photography.     In order to know that the subject I was about to snap was in focus,the lens system would show a two half-circles. The upper one and the lowerone had to be in line with each other, going from            ____                  ____           /    \                /    \        __/______\              /______\       \      /                 \      /        \____/                   \____/          this         to         this.     The image goes from being disjointed to being lined up; when thathappens, the image is in focus.     This final (for now) edition of Illuminating The Lamp brings me backto "the present", so to speak. It was in June of 2002 that I re-connectedwith the Apple II community after an eight-year hiatus, since I left GEniearound 1994. For years, I had been bothering my Apple II author colleagueson the IIScribe mailing list when I had questions about the Apple II forthe purposes of updating or adding to my Apple II History. I had heard (orbeen told) about the benefits of a Syndicomm online membership, and decidedit was time to give it a try. I have not regretted that decision (andprobably the IIScribe people have felt the same way).     When I started looking at the GEnieLamp and Lamp newsletters fromstart to finish, my original purpose was to learn about what were, for me,the "silent years", in which I had very little information about what I hadmissed while I was away. As I read through them, I was re-acquainted withthe parts I remembered, from GenieLamp's origin in 1992 through 1995, andthen onward to the present. And the feeling I had as I approached 2002 waslike focusing the lens on my Minolta camera; the image was becoming moreclear and more "in line" with what I knew the present Apple II world to belike. An interesting feeling, to say the least.WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS     The response to the events of September 11, 2001 continued in 2002, asthe United States gathered a coalition and toppled the Taliban regime inAfghanistan, and continued its search for al Queda leader Osama bin Laden,finding evidence that he was indeed still alive. Focus now began to turn toIraq and Saddam Hussein, amid concerns that weapons of mass destructionwere being produced and hidden there. Within the United States, the energycompany Enron collapsed amid corporate scandal, and WorldCom, the world'ssecond largest long-distance telephone and data service company, filed forbankruptcy in June.     In May, after an eight-month battle, Hewlett-Packard bought CompaqComputer Corp., forming the largest information technology company in theworld. David Smith, creator of the Melissa virus (which caused millions ofdollars of damage to computer networks in 1999), was sentenced to 20 monthsin a federal prison and a $5,000 fine. Intel PC processors achieved speedsof 1.8 GHz, and hard drive capacity hit 60 gigabytes.     Apple CEO Steve Jobs continued to press for faster, more powerful, andmore stylish models of the Macintosh. The iMac transmogrified from acandy-colored and shaped desktop appliance to something that resembled thelamp that symbolized Steve Jobs' other company, Pixar Studios. The newflat-panel iMac, powered by a G4 processor, had a round base and an arm toadjust the flat screen to any desired position. The Power Mac G4 line alsogot a speed bump up to 1 GHz, some models with dual processors to furtherenhance speed. Mac OS X became yet another cat, with the release of"Jaguar", also known as 10.2. It included better graphics management("Quartz Extreme"), an e-mail client with an adaptive spam filter, theAddress Book, Rendezvous networking, iChat (an Apple rebranding of AOL'sInstant Messenger), and speed improvements throughout.THE LAMP! INFO      Controversy and drama was mostly absent from the Apple II world thisyear, now that the exodus from Delphi to Syndicomm had settled down to acomfortable routine. Editor Lyle Syverson began the first of his Tinkerer'sCorner series of articles on hardware projects. KansasFest promotions,Syndicomm postings, a little Delphi scattered in the mix, all togetherrounded out another fine year of reporting on the doings of the lastorganized Apple II community in the online world. And I began to make myown new contribution to the community, related to The Lamp; my own reviewsof the entire series prompted me to begin creating a comprehensive index tothe series of newsletters, with the first edition uploaded in July.DELPHI A2 FORUM     At the start of 2002, it was still possible to access Delphi in textmode via telnet. (However, the address that worked at that time is nolonger effective today). The files that made up the Delphi A2 library weremade available on Syndicomm.com.A2CENTRAL.COM / SYNDICOMM     In January, it was announced in The Lamp! that all of SyndicommOnline's forums had been converted to work with the new bulletin boardsoftware. The same month, new lower prices for Syndicomm were announced.The web side of the Syndicomm was enhanced with additional features,including a display of the count of how many members were in chat. Further,a web-based chat was introduced at that time. Cargotha, an online "MUD"(multi-user dungeon) was opened.     Ken Gagne introduced a new monthly electronic newsletter,Syndicommotion, which had the purpose of helping promote Syndicomm'svarious forums.     The Prolific Quill forum started a plan to have a collaborative storywritten online, about a person named "Douglas". A $20 gift certificate forthe Syndicomm online store was offered to those wishing to contribute tothe story. Unfortunately, to this day additional authors are still beingsought, in order to have the minimum number necessary to make it possiblefor this interesting concept of a group story to get started.     Some of the regulars in the Apple II forum revealed their trueidentities (the jobs they do in the "real" world) in the March issue. Somealso made their Apple II software wish lists (things they'd like to see getwritten).     Also in March, Syndicomm hosted a special online chat with veteranApple II programmer Dave Lyons, with a transcript later posted in thelibrary. Later in the year, another special chat was held featuring RichDreher, the creator of the CFFA Compact Flash reader for the Apple II.     Syndicomm began using an anti-spam filter on mail passing through itsserver in April. In July, the online store was updated to support overseasairmail, as well as payment by check or money order. Additional productswere added for sale at the store.     Eric Shepherd announced in October that Syndicomm would be relocatingto Maryville, Tennessee. As part of the preparations for this move, the newCargotha online RPG was temporarily taken offline. One enhancement that wasto be offered by the move was an upgrade to higher performance servers anda higher bandwidth connection.HARDWARE NEWS     Various topics were addressed in the A2 Forum this year:o Keyboards compatible with the Apple IIGSo Setting the ID on a SCSI hard driveo Refilling and/or disposing of used inkjet printer ink cartridgeso Apple IIe revision differenceso Current sources of No-Slot Clock-compatible hardwareo Keyboard cleaning after a spillo The story of the Mark Twain Apple IIGSo Use of an ImageWriter II on a PCo How to network an Apple IIGS to an iMac or PowerBook     The first mention of Rich Dreher's CFFA compact flash reader for theApple II appeared in the February issue.EMULATOR NEWS     The identity of the first Apple II emulator was debated in April. Useof Bernie ][ The Rescue to get a IIGS (emulated) onto the Internet wasdiscussed in July. A new version of KEGS for Windows (KEGS32) was mentionedin February. How to compile KEGS for Mac OS X was discussed in October.INTERNET NEWS     January saw discussion of how to post e-mail addresses on a web sitein such a way as to avoid making those addresses available to spammers.Other methods of dealing with spam were discussed in later issues.SOFTWARE NEWS:: COLLECTIONS ::     Howard Katz of The Lost Classics project was able to get permissionfrom Mike Harvey, former publisher of Nibble, to have all of Nibble'ssoftware disks released as freeware. A specific collection was notavailable, due to the need to collect working copies of the software.:: PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE ::     Platinum Paint was recovered as a Lost Classic release in January, aswas Beagle Bros GSFont Editor, and Quality Software's Bag Of Tricks 2.:: TELECOMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE ::     Delphi's A2 Forum discussed:o connecting a PC to an Apple IIGS using Marinettio connecting an Apple IIe to the Internet via a Linux PCo suggestions for potential improvements to Marinetti (specifically makingan alternative TCP/IP stack)o turning on AppleTalk under Mac OS Xo how to make it possible to network a IIGS to a Mac under that newer OS     The A2 Forum on Syndicomm discussed:o various telecommunication software that they had used over the yearso methods of creation of PDF files from a word processing document (notApple II)     Ewen Wannop updated SOAR, his offline message reader for Syndicomm, tov1.0b9, and then soon after to v1.0b10.:: UTILITY SOFTWARE ::     Although not specifically a utility, discussion in April involved theproper way to move a text file from a Mac to an Apple II via a 3.5 disk,while avoiding creation of a resource fork (which 8-bit Apple II programscannot handle).     A test of the MUG! (MS-DOS utilities) NDA by Ryan Suenaga found that,running on Bernie ][ The Rescue, it was possible to read an MS-DOS volumeon a digital camera attached to a Mac via USB.     NiftyList was made available as freeware by Dave Lyons.:: GAMES ::     Jeff Fink continued his updates to Silvern Castle, with 7.4 beingreleased early in the year. Tips on use of the game also appeared in theMarch issue.     The March issue also included a post by Ken Gagne posted an addressfor an article describing the history of online gaming. Although the linklisted there is no longer correct, the article exists today at thisaddress:http://www.gatecentral.com/shared_docs/Timeline1.html     The author, Jessica Mulligan, uses another web site to write articlesgiving her viewpoint on gaming:http://www.skotos.net/articles/bth.htmlPUBLICATIONS     As mentioned above, Syndicommotion was started in January by KenGagne.     Juiced.GS got a face-lift on its web site early in 2002, and itcontinued its publication under new editor Ryan Suenaga. Some of theinfamous upside-down pages began to appear, related to the company withwhom Syndicomm had contracted to do the actual printing and mailing. Thefirst (and possibly last) Juiced.GS swimsuit issue appeared in the summer.A price increase was announced, to account for postage rate increases overthe previous three years.KANSASFEST     Registration forms became available in April's issue, a bit later thanusual. Ryan Suenaga's KFest FAQ, version 3.0, again appeared in April. Apre-KFest 2002 chat was held on Syndicomm on June 17.     Topics discussed at KansasFest this year included RichardBennet-Forrest and his announcement of Florence, a Java-based Apple IIGSemulator, and Jeff Blakeney and IN: The Mailbox, an e-mail client for theIIGS (which he thought would be ready by December). Howard Katz and SandraWarnken had a presentation about user groups, Bruce Baker gave a talk aboutgames published by Softdisk, Sarah Shepherd described Syndicomm's darksecrets.     KansasFest's keynote speaker for 2002 was Tony Diaz (in which heshowed clips of KFest past - all fourteen years that he has attended), andthe recipient of the annual roast was Ryan Suenaga.     The GShisen contest was again held, and was won by Geoff Weiss.     Back in June, I had made a post about my inquiries to the currentowners of Softdisk as to whether or not they would make back issues oftheir disk magazine available for download in their web site's store. Aconsequence of that conversation was getting Softdisk and Sheppy connected,which resulted in an announcement at KFest of Project Barney, a CDcompilation of Softdisk G-S, with a later CD to include the older Softdiskissues.     At the end of event, the dates for KFest 2003 were announced.WRITERS     Ryan Suenaga again wrote his Apple II Achievement awards column for2001, appearing in the January issue of The Lamp! The Best CommercialProduct was given to Juiced.GS' Friends II CD-ROM, with runner-up beinggiven to Ken Gagne's Esprit de Apple Corps CD-ROM collection of graphics,MOD music files, and games. Best Shareware Product went to Kim Howe'sTelnet NDA. Best Freeware Product went to SAFE (Spectrum Automated FileExchange) and Thomas Compter's IIGS translation of Hammurabi. Best WorldWide Web Site was given to A2Central.com, the Best Publication went toJuiced.GS, and the Outstanding Apple II Related Development was awarded toSyndicomm for its efforts to re-release products from EGO Systems,Parkhurst Micro Products, The Byte Works, APDA, and the continuation ofpublication for Juiced.GS magazine. The Outstanding Individual Achievementwas awarded to David Miller, the programming powerhouse behindSyndicomm.com, and to Max Jones, for turning over Juiced.GS to new handsrather than letting it die.MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES     Ken Gagne mentioned in January a web site on which MP3 sounds of anApple II disk drive had been stored.     The floating-point precision limits of Applesoft were reviewed, withdifferences noted between a calculator's solution to 9 to the 9th power andApplesoft's answer to the same math calculation.     In June, A2 Forum members described the ways in which they werecurrently using their Apple II computers.STATS     Here are statistics for the first eleven years of GEnieLamp and TheLamp! The numbers refer 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    116K1997     44K    124K     85K1998     68K    156K    102K1999     59K    120K     91K2000     47K     81K     60K2001     47K     96K     71K2002     34K     78K     54KHELLO, GOODBYE      I'll say goodbye for now, but I'm not fading away as I did in 1995.I'll return some time next year to do another couple of Illuminating TheLamp columns for 2003 and 2004. Until then, don't forget to compliment oureditor, Lyle Syverson, for his continued diligence in producing thisnewsletter each month, and don't forget to PARTICIPATE in the Apple IIonline world.Steven Weyhricha2history@syndicomm.comhttp://apple2history.orgReferences:A Brief History of Mac OS Xhttp://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/history.htmlComputer History For The Year 2000 To Todayhttp://www.computerhope.com/history/2000.htmComputer History Triviahttp://www.cedarville.edu/departments/compserv/history.htmThe History Of Computing Projecthttp://www.thocp.netThe History Of The World Timelinehttp://www.historychannel.com/timeline/index.jsp?year=2002HP-Compaq: A fight to the finish | CNET News.comhttp://news.com.com/2009-1001-852197.htmlMacintosh History: 2002http://www.lowendmac.com/history/2002.htmlWikipedia - Mac OS Xhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X#Versions[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][OSN]October Issue of Syndicommotion Available"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""The October issue of Syndicommotion, our free newsletter covering thelatest events on Syndicomm Online, is now available.  If you don'tsubscribe, you can read the issue at<http://www.syndicomm.com/syndicommotion/>.(Login Banner, Syndicomm Online)[EOA][LTE]-------------------------------             LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |------------------------------------LETTER 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 <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][KF5]------------------------------                       KFest 2005 |-----------------------------------[TBH]KansasFest 2005 to be Held JULY 19-24th"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Mark your calendar and start saving some money.[KFW]KansasFest Website""""""""""""""""""Is located here:   http://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 2004 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]
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