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SharewareShareware SolutionsSolutions IIII An Exciting Apple II Journey Into The Future Volume 4, Issue 3 Spring, 1999 Heard It Through The Grapevine KansasFest ’99 Kansas City. Avila campus, or whether you stay off-campus. Each summer since 1989, Apple The 11th annual KansasFest II users and programmers from conference is scheduled to take When making your plans to at- all over the United States and place from July 21 to 25, 1999! tend Kfest 99, please remember Canada, and from as far away that much of the fun and excite- as Europe and Asia, have gath- Past Kfests have traditionally ment occurs at night after each ered together on the campus of offered two full days of informa- days formal sessions are con- Avila College in suburban Kan- tive and educational seminars cluded. For that reason, all at- sas City, MO for the Apple II which have been conducted by tendees are encouraged to stay conference known as Kansas- Apple II programmers, publish- in the Avila dorm in order to Fest. For four long nights and ers, engineers and hobbyists. partake of and enjoy the fullest five fun filled days, KansasFest But, the KansasFest 99 Coordi- Kfest experience imaginable. participants celebrate the mag- nating Committee has, after ic and experience the excitement soliciting feedback from past For those staying on the Avila that continues to surround the attendees, decided to add an campus, the cost of the confer- Apple II computer more than extra day to Kfest 99! ence registration is included in two decades after its release. the room rate. All meals from The dorms at Avila College will Wednesday night through Sun- Over the years, KansasFest has therefore be open a full 24 hours day morning, with the exception come to mean different things to earlier than ever before. On of Saturday dinner, are also different people. For program- Tuesday night, July 20th, early included in the room rate. mers, Kfest is a new product arrivals are expected to make showcase where they can debut the customary visit to the world The various rates to attend their latest software. For end famous KC Masterpiece Res- KansasFest 99 are as follows: users, Kfest is a learning experi- taurant. Wednesday will be a ence with many different educa- free day during which time at- Double room: $275 tional seminars and tutorial tendees can visit local area at- Single room: $325 sessions to attend. For software tractions. The conferences key- Spouse rate: $225 publishers, Kfest is a trade note address will be delivered Conference only: $225 show where they can publicize by Juiced.GS publisher Max and sell their products. For mo- Jones on Wednesday evening, The rate for early arrivals who dem owners, Kfest is an oppor- followed by the first formal con- wish to stay on campus Tuesday tunity to meet friends with ference sessions. All of Thurs- night is: whom they have corresponded day and Friday will be devoted only through e-mail. For user to seminars, tutorials and per- Double room: $25 group officers, Kfest is a place to haps a slew of new product Single room: $33 learn about other user groups. introduction sessions. Saturday Yet, no matter why they come, morning will be devoted to Registration for Kfest 99 is once all Kfest attendees share in the software and hardware demos, again being managed by InTrec excitement and enjoyment of and on Saturday afternoon, a Software, the publisher of the meeting and spending days on Vendors Fair will take place. ProTERM telecommincations end with fellow Apple II enthu- program. Contact InTrec at: siasts who are all more than There are several different reg- eager to share their knowledge istration rates available, de- InTrec Software of the computer that brings pending on whether you stay in 3035 E Topaz Circle everyone together each year in a single or double room on the Phoenix, AZ 85028-4423 Shareware Solutions II 1 Shareware Solutions II 602-992-1345 Voice John Bull 602-992-0232 Fax Volume 4, Issue 3 (Note: The humorous message [email protected] which is displayed by activating Shareware Solutions II is pub- the Define Trigger Easter Egg lished by Joe Kohn, 166 Alpine Additional information about script is different in Spectrum Street, San Rafael, CA 94901- KansasFest 99 can be found on v2.1 and v2.2.) 1008. the world wide web at the following URL: •To see a special message appear Publisher/Writer: Joe Kohn at the bottom of the About box, Proofreader: Jane Kos http://www.kfest.org hold down the option key while choosing “About Spectrum” from Entire contents of Shareware Easter Egg Contest the Apple Pull Down menu. Solutions II copyright (©) 1999 by Joe Kohn. All rights are Shareware Solutions II, in as- • Select the “About Spectrum” op- reserved. Nothing may be re- sociation with Seven Hills Soft- tion in the Apple Pull Down menu printed or reproduced, in whole ware, is more than pleased to and leave the About dialog box on or in part, in any media without announce that two winning en- the screen for 1-2 minutes without the prior written consent of Joe tries have been received in The doing anything. You’ll see the Kohn. Great Easter Egg Contest. The same thing as the “John Bull” contest challenged readers to Easter Egg described above. Available by subscription only, find the hidden Easter Eggs in several options are available: Spectrum, GraphicWriter III According to Perry Watson: and Space Fox. The contest was A) The first 24 issues: $75 for initially announced in Volume Launch GraphicWriter III, and US/Canada; $100 elsewhere. 3, Issue 6, but was extended un- once the programs loads, access til Easter Eggs in those pro- the Apple Pull Down menu. B) The next 6 issues/Renewal: grams had been uncovered. Choose the About item, and when $25 for US/Canada; $40 else- that screen appears, hold down where. We are pleased to announce the Option Key and click on that Paul Schultz of Ann Arbor, Richard Bennett’s name, or any Make all checks payable to Joe MI correctly identified several place close to it. A list of credits Kohn. US Funds Only. No Easter Eggs in Spectrum, and will scroll by and will continue to charge cards, purchase orders or Perry Watson of Raleigh, NC scroll until you click the mouse or COD orders will be accepted. correctly identified one Easter press the space bar. Egg in GraphicWriter III. This newsletter was created For their efforts, Paul and Perry entirely with an Apple IIGS. All According to Paul Schultz: were awarded one software pro- articles written in AppleWorks gram of their choice from each of Classic. Page Layout prepared Here are some Easter Eggs from the contest sponsors. Paul in AppleWorks GS. Printing Spectrum 2.2. Some or all of Schultz elected to receive Trans- was done on a Hewlett-Packard these may have been in previous Prog III from Seven Hills and LaserJet IIP Plus, connected to versions, or are already fairly WebWorks GS from Shareware the IIGS courtesy of Harmonie. well known. There may be a more Solutions II. Perry Watson chose The use of TrueType fonts is “proper” way to activate some of Express II from Seven Hills, but courtesy of WestCode Soft- these Easter Eggs but, if so, I instead of naming a program wares Pointless. haven’t discovered them yet! published by Shareware Solu- tions II, asked if it would be pos- CIS: 76702,565 • In the editor window type in sible to receive AccuDraw from DELPHI: JOE_KOHN any of the following and then Kitchen Sink Software. Thanks GENIE: JOE.KOHN choose to “Run Editor as Script” to Eric Bush of Kitchen Sink, INTERNET: [email protected] or from the Script Pull Down menu: Perry got his wish. [email protected] Play Real Audio Meanwhile, Ewen Wannop has http://www.concentric.net/~joko Define Trigger been dropping some hints online 2 Shareware Solutions II Spring, 1999 about a new Easter Egg that he IIGS users perform is the pro- if it remains installed. Seven included in the recent Spectrum cedure known as the Shift-Boot. Hills Software does confirm that v2.2 update. Ewen stated at one If the Shift key is depressed as finding, so if you still have point that his latest Easter Egg GS/OS starts up, add-ons such SANE.Fix installed on your sys- was inspired by a very impor- as Initialization files and Desk tem, remove it. tant utility program that Apple Accessories are not loaded. If had included on the DOS 3.3 GS/OS becomes more reliable SFUtility is another freeware Operating System disk. and stable after a Shift-Boot, Initialization File from Seven then in all probability, nothing Hills that was included with the To activate this very important more serious than a Desk Ac- initial release of Babelfish. utility, launch Spectrum v2.2. cessory or Init conflict was the After the Babelfish Installer Once the program loads, hold cause of the problems. copied SFUtility to the System down both the Open-Apple and folder, some IIGS users were Closed-Apple (Command and Conflicts among GS/OS add-ons dismayed to discover that they Option) keys, and then choose can be responsible for all sorts were unable to successfully start the Status item from the Set- of unpredictable or intermittent up GS/OS. Ewen Wannop and tings Pull Down menu. After you problems including system Seven Hills Software confirm enter your date of birth, Spec- crashes. For that reason, please that SFUtility can result in trum will display your Bio- be aware that the following problems and state that it may rhythm Chart.