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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- day’s 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 conference’s 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 ware’s 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. GS/OS add-ons have been iden- be removed from your system tified as the cause of problems and Babelfish will continue to Space Fox, an outer space shoot on some IIGS systems: work just fine. ’em up arcade game, requires a steady trigger finger and split • LE.Fix is a freeware Initial- • EditMenuIcons is a freeware second timing. But, there’s a ization File, written by Apple Initialization File that places cheating option built into the employee Dave Lyons. In the small graphic icons into GS/OS’s program that makes the game documentation, Dave states Edit Pull Down menu. In a re- player invincible! By activating that this Init fixes a problem cent discussion on Delphi’s A2 the Easter Egg, anyone can with the LineEdit Toolset. But, forum, a number of people re- easily complete all ten levels of LE.Fix was released back in ported that their system became the game. 1989 and whatever problem it much less reliable after the originally addressed has since installation of EditMenuIcons, The Easter Egg was actually in- been fixed in the IIGS System and conversely, their systems serted into the game for a useful Software. LE.Fix is no longer returned to full dependability purpose, as it served as a diag- needed, and in fact, its con- after removing this Init. nostic tool that permitted the tinued use can lead to problems programmers to complete all when attempting to enter Despite the fact that no solid ten levels in order to determine keyboard input into a LineEdit evidence existed to prove that if their code worked properly or control. Check to see if you have EditMenuIcons was indeed the not. LE.Fix installed on your sys- cause of my problems, I person- tem, and if you do, remove it. ally removed it from my system, In order to activate the Space as AppleWorks Classic has on Fox Easter Egg, launch the pro- • SANE.Fix is a freeware In- rare occasion crashed on my gram, and when the title screen itialization File from Seven normally dependable IIGS sys- appears, type the word “gemini” Hills Software that at the time tem. Since removing EditMenu- and when the first level starts, of its release fixed a problem Icons, AppleWorks has become, press the Tab key on your key- with the SANE Toolset. How- once again, 100% dependable. board to become invincible. ever, whatever problem the Init So if you are having intermittent file originally addressed was in problems with your IIGS, check Conflict Resolution an older and now obsolete ver- to see if EditMenuIcons is sion of GS/OS. Apple’s System installed on your system, and if When a previously well behaved programmers have since fixed it is, chances are that if you Apple IIGS starts to exhibit that problem in System 6.0.1. remove it, your system will problems, one of the first troub- SANE.Fix is no longer needed become much more reliable and le-shooting tests that many and in fact can cause problems dependable. ö

Volume 4, Issue 3 Shareware Solutions II 3 Modem Madness ProTERM Listserv subscribe proterm-list-digest teach the various DOS 3.3 com- mands, instruct how to format InTrec, the publisher of Pro- Once you’ve successfully sub- disks with DOS 3.3 and de- TERM, has recently started the scribed, you will receive confir- scribe how to format and make ProTERM-List, an online inter- mation almost immediately via ProDOS self-booting disks. active Internet forum conducted e-mail. through e-mail which fosters the To visit the Apple II Message exchange of hints and tips and New Apple II Web Sites Board, point your favorite web technical support among a large browser to the following URL: group of Apple II and Mac Pro- The world wide web continues to TERM users from around the grow and with each passing http://www.educate.net.au/ world. month, more and more sites ap- ~apple2 pear that are dedicated to sup- InTrec would like to invite all porting the Apple II computer. • Long time Apple II enthusiast ProTERM users to join the list As evidence of that, the Apple II and programmer Dave Tribby which is available in two dif- Web Ring, of which Shareware accepted Terry Allen’s offer of ferent formats. If you sign up for Solutions II is a proud partici- setting up a web site on the the Immediate format, you’ll be pant, now consists of nearly 40 Apple II Message Board site, e-mailed every message as soon sites that are linked together. where you can download most of as it is posted. If you sign up for the software that Dave has the Digest format, all of the The world wide web continues to written over the years. day’s messages will first be col- mature, and several of the new lected, a table of contents will web sites offer features that In addition to Dave’s boastful, be added, and then you’ll be e- were simply impossible to offer yet amusing and true assertion mailed a single message which until quite recently, including that he is one of the only people contains all of the messages interactive message boards and who has ever actually visited posted the previous day. chat rooms. “The Shareware Solutions II Galactic Headquarters,” he has You can easily sign up for either • The Apple II Message Board, distinguished himself over the version of the ProTERM-List an Australian web site that is years by writing many Apple II from the following URL: hosted by Terry Allen, offers an and IIGS programs and by interactive message board as having programming articles http://www.intrec.com well as several other sections published in Nibble, GS+, Soft- which offer informative and edu- disk G-S, and Juiced.GS. To sign up for the Immediate cational articles not available ProTERM-List via e-mail, send anywhere else on the web. There are four general catego- a message to: ries of software that you can Terry Allen contacted the Aus- download from Dave’s site: Ap- [email protected] tralian division of Apple Com- ple Pascal, IIGS specific soft- puter and was able to secure ware, MIDI Synth related soft- You must include only the fol- permission from their legal de- ware and GNO/ME utilities. lowing in the body of the mes- partment to make available the sage: contents of several of Apple’s If you’re not familiar with the copyrighted manuals, including work of Dave Tribby, make sure subscribe proterm-list the “Apple IIGS Owner’s Manu- that you download some of the al” and the “Apple IIGS – Get- musical selections which can be To sign up for the Digest Pro- ting Started” manual. played back with SynthLAB. TERM-List via e-mail, send a And if you’ve ever dreamed of message to: Additionally, Terry has secured “making a killing” in Las Vegas, permission to place re-printed you really owe it to yourself to [email protected] articles on his site from “The download Dave’s Blackjack Tu- Australian Apple Review.” He tor program for the IIGS. In that e-mail, include only the also has a section devoted to as- following in the body of the mes- sisting beginners in the Apple II To visit Dave Tribby’s site, point sage: world; there are articles that your favorite web browser to the

4 Shareware Solutions II Spring, 1999 following URL: • The last of the really large Ap- longer as widely visited as it ple II trade shows took place in once was, and the number of new http://www.educate.net.au/ mid-1993 in San Francisco. At uploads has suffered. But, if you ~apple2/software/tribby/ the time, Herbert Fung travel- wish to access the Cal Tech ftp led from his home in British site, the current URL is: • DejaNews is a web based sys- Columbia to attend Apple Expo tem that for the past several West. Herb had a camera with ftp://apple2.caltech.edu/ years has provided a keyword him, and after all these years, pub/apple2/ driven search engine to help he has just recently set up a those on the web to quickly find historical web site that includes • The newest of the large Apple Usenet newsgroup articles. photos of some of the attendees, II ftp sites is also the most or- including Eric Shepherd, Burger ganized. Begun in late 1997, the In recent months, DejaNews Bill Heineman, and Joe Kohn. Trenco Apple II Archive is quite has sought to expand its scope These photos are in Jpeg convenient to use. As soon as and to that end has set up what format, and can be found at the you access the site, you’ll see it calls “DejaNews Communi- following URL: links for “New This Month,” ties.” In essence, DejaNews now “New This Week,” and “New To- provides free space on their http://persweb.direct.ca/ day” items which include lists of computer servers to individuals mystix/AEW93.HTM newly uploaded software. who want to set up and main- tain web sites. FTP Sites If you haven’t yet turned to Trenco for your Apple II down- Kirk Mitchell, a high school lev- FTP may stand for File Trans- load needs, visit either of the el teacher from Kansas, has fer Protocol, but the term is following URLs: availed himself of DejaNews’s generally used to denote sites free offer, and has set up the on the Internet which contain http://www.gno.org/ “Apple IIGS DejaNews Commu- file archives that can be down- pub/apple2 nity.” In his statement of pur- loaded using ftp. pose, Kirk wrote, “Before the ftp://ftp.gno.org/pub/apple2 Mac, there was the Apple II. Both of the major Apple II ftp This computer inspired a great sites on the Internet have new Spectrum Internet Suite deal of loyalty, and one of the addresses. most friendly and knowledge- Geoff Weiss has just presented able group of folks in computer • The Ground ftp site, located at to his beta test team what he history. Welcome to another of the University of Iowa, has a 1.7 hopes will become the release the many communities that gigabyte hard drive that was version of Spectrum Internet share our love of the Apple II.” purchased several years ago Suite v1.1. Although the long through donations made by awaited SIS update has been Although Kirk’s site is quite more than 50 Apple II users close to completion since Janu- new, it already offers a message who each pledged $20 or more. ary, one relatively minor prob- base, interactive voting polls, The current URLs are: lem has held up its release. The and chat rooms. Although the beta test team is expected to site is accessible to Apple II http://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/ take several weeks to fully test users who traverse the web with SIS v1.1, and upon their ap- the lynx web browser, lynx users ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/ proval, the final version will unfortunately cannot partici- then be sent to Seven Hills Soft- pate in the chat rooms. • Before the acquisition of the ware for their approval. Exactly large capacity hard drive at the how much longer the entire pro- To visit the Apple IIGS Deja- ground ftp site, the largest In- cess will take is unknown, but it News Community, point your ternet based Apple II download appears as if the final obstacle favorite web browser to the fol- library was found at Cal Tech. has just been overcome, and the lowing URL: Over the past several years, the release of Spectrum Internet Cal Tech site has been plagued Suite v1.1 is imminent. http://www.dejanews.com/ with periodic outages, and due ~appleiigs to its inaccessibility, it’s no Although the newest Seven Hills

Volume 4, Issue 3 Shareware Solutions II 5 web site is currently experi- tinues to deteriorate. site will be accessible at the encing major problems that following URL: render it temporarily inacces- Enough is enough. sible, it is expected that Seven http://www.concentric.net/~joko Hills will soon fix those prob- In the next month or so, Share- lems and announce on that or on ware Solutions II will be moving The new e-mail address and web their older site the actual re- its Internet base of operations site are already activated. In the lease date and specific ordering to another Internet Service Pro- meanwhile, both the old and information including costs. For vider, one which comes highly new web sites will be main- additional information, visit recommended by many fellow tained for another month or two, either of the following URLs: Apple II users – Concentric. at which time, the account with crl.com will be deactivated. http://www.sevenhills.com/ The new Shareware Solutions II applesoftware/iigs/sis/sis.htm e-mail address is: In the meanwhile, please feel free to start using the new e- http://www.nettally.com/ [email protected] mail address and web site at shss/IIGS/ Concentric, effective immedi- The Shareware Solutions II web ately. ö When ISPs Go Bad

We live in a mobile society, and since so many people move each year, traditional businesses DeskJet Alert such as telephone companies and the Post Office routinely of- Incompatible DeskJets confidence that it would work on fer forwarding services so that his or her computer. those who do move can count on During the past several years, receiving mail and phone calls Hewlett-Packard DeskJet print- That changed in June of 1997 at their new residence. ers have become extremely pop- when HP released the DeskJet ular for use on the Apple II and 820c series of printers, the first Unfortunately, most Internet IIGS, primarily because Desk- DeskJet models designed to be Service Providers do not provide Jets provide incredibly high used strictly and exclusively similar forwarding services, and quality printed output at a rela- within the IBM PC-based Win- so many people who have had tively low cost. dows 95 environment. Fortu- the same e-mail address for nately, those first Windows-only years are somewhat hesitant to With “street prices” starting as DeskJet models sported a silk- give up on an ISP whose serv- low as $99 for the HP DeskJet screened designation on the ices have deteriorated. 420c model, all current models front of the printer that clearly of the DeskJet offer up to 600 x and unambiguously displayed: That’s the situation that Share- 300 dots per inch (dpi) reso- “For Windows.” ware Solutions II finds itself in lution for printing in black and now. white, and 300 dpi resolution The “For Windows” DeskJet for printing in color. DeskJets 820c was a short lived model, Shareware Solutions II has had have finally caught up to laser but since then Hewlett-Packard the same Internet e-mail ad- printers and now actually offer has released a number of new dress for many years, and has higher printed resolution than DeskJets which will not work, hosted a web site at crl.com ever was available, as recently as under any circumstances, with since the debut of the world just a few years ago, on high end any Apple II. The following wide web. For that very reason, and expensive laser printers! DeskJets are simply incompati- Shareware Solutions II has con- ble with the Apple II computer: tinued to subscribe to a system Until mid-1997, an Apple II that continues to deteriorate. owner who wanted to purchase a DeskJet 710c The problems started nearly Hewlett-Packard DeskJet could DeskJet 712c two years ago, and instead of simply purchase any model of DeskJet 720c getting better, the service con- DeskJet, and have complete DeskJet 722c

6 Shareware Solutions II Spring, 1999 DeskJet 820 series consequently, all of the compu- Printers” link where you will DeskJet 1000 series tational controls are now han- find a listing for the current dled by the computer and the models. The information you To add slight confusion to the printer driver. Unfortunately, will need to find is listed in the matter, only the printers in the HP has not released any tech- “Printer Specifications” section 820 series have the “For Win- nical programming information of each electronic document. If dows” silkscreen designation on for PPA-based printers, and so the specs for any DeskJet in- the front of them. However, once those models will only work clude the following – “Print Lan- you understand the reasons why with the Windows 95/98 printer guages, Std. HP PCL 3” – it will some DeskJet models work on drivers which are supplied with work with an Apple II. the Apple II and IIGS and why the printers by HP. others don’t, purchasing a Desk- • Hewlett-Packard states on Jet should once again become as All DeskJet models which are each model’s sales brochure or easy and routine as it was be- compatible with the Apple II on the side of the shipping car- fore mid-1997. have two things in common: ton whether a printer is based they all support PCL Level 3 on the PPA or PCL protocol. PCL vs PPA (and since PCL is backwards compatible, PCL Levels 4 and Best Buy Models Until mid-1997, every single 5) and they are all compatible DeskJet model ever produced with IBM PC and clone com- Conducting the above research, included support for HP’s own puters which run under the MS- it didn’t take more than a few Printer Control Language, oth- DOS operating system. minutes to determine that both erwise known as PCL. Program- the DeskJet 420c and 697c mod- ming documentation for PCL Conversely, if a DeskJet sup- els are very affordable printers was, and still is, readily avail- ports PPA, it will not work on that will work just fine with the able from HP; it was this tech- an Apple II. If a DeskJet works Apple II or IIGS. nical documentation that al- only with Windows 95/98, then lowed IIGS programmers to it too will be incompatible with Since both models support PCL learn enough about PCL to cre- the Apple II. Level 3, connect to an Apple II ate the Harmonie and Inde- via a Parallel connection, and pendence packages; both of Equipped with this critical in- produce the same 600 x 300 dpi these GS/OS based printer driv- formation, it’s still not readily black and white resolution, what ers work with all PCL-based HP apparent simply by looking at exactly are the differences be- printers. any particular DeskJet model tween a $99 DeskJet 420c and whether the printer in question the slightly higher priced $149 The DeskJet 820c series was in supports PCL or PPA. Since DeskJet 697c? some ways an attempt by HP to that determination must be lower the manufacturing cost of made, there are several ways In a word, convenience. producing inkjet printers. This available to find out this critical was accomplished in part by HP information: • The 420c can accommodate introducing a brand new set of only one ink cartridge at a time, protocols named Printing Per- • Hewlett-Packard’s Customer whereas the 697c can accommo- formance Architecture, other- Information Center can be date two ink cartridges simul- wise known as PPA, which reached at 1-800-752-0900. taneously. When a 420 owner replaced PCL as the standard wants to print using black ink, protocol. • Hewlett-Packard maintains he or she must first physically an informative web site at the remove the color ink cartridge All HP printers, whether Desk- following URL: and replace it with a black ink Jets or LaserJets, which sup- cartridge; owners of the 697c port PCL have sophisticated http://www.hp.com/ simply deselect the Color option electronic components and cir- cgi-bin/peripherals/pandi.pl in the Print dialog box. cuitry built in which essentially control the printer. Much of that To locate technical information • Both a color and black ink car- electronic circuitry has been re- about all of the current DeskJet tridge are included with the moved in PPA-based printers, models, follow the “Personal 697c. Only a color ink cartridge

Volume 4, Issue 3 Shareware Solutions II 7 is included with the 420c; an releasing new DeskJet models ware Solutions II newsletter optional black ink cartridge for every few months, and so it’s was going to press, the first of the 420c retails for an ad- quite possible that both the the new APOLLO inkjet print- ditional $30. 420c and 697c will be available ers was released. The APOLLO for sale for only a short period of P-1200 carries a list price of $80 • The print speed of the 697c is time. and because it meets the two much faster than that of the criteria – it supports PCL 3 and 420c. Although the numerical When these current models are works from MS-DOS – it is fully figures used by printer manu- replaced, HP is sure to release compatible with the Apple II facturers to designate page per newer models, with similar and IIGS computers! minute speeds are theoretical model numbers and similar ca- and rarely achieved in real pabilities, to replace these older The APOLLO P-1200 sports a world applications, the 697c is models. So, if you are not quite silkscreened designation on the capable of printing up to five ready to purchase a DeskJet case: “Powered by Hewlett- Black and White pages per min- now, just remember the two Packard InkJet Technology.” ute while the 420c is capable of keywords that define Apple II Nowhere else on the printer nor printing up to two Black and compatibility: PCL3 and MS- on the shipping carton is Hew- White pages per minute. For DOS. lett-Packard named as the man- color printing, the 697c is capa- ufacturer. Additionally, there is ble of printing up to .8 pages per No matter what new features no mention of the P-1200 printer minute, while the 420c can take HP adds to DeskJets in the fu- on HP’s web site, nor is any 4-7 minutes to generate that ture, the ground rules which de- information available from HP’s same one page color document. termine Apple II compatibility Customer Information Center. will remain unchanged. So, just Several calls to Hewlett-Pack- • The 420c comes with 16K of make sure that any future ard’s corporate offices revealed resident RAM memory; the 697c DeskJet is designed to work that not even the corporate comes with 512K of resident from MS-DOS (sometimes re- telephone operators had ever RAM memory. ferred to as DOS 3.3) and PCL, heard of HP’s newest subsidiary as it will also work on the IIGS, and had no contact information • The paper tray on the 420c with the Harmonie or Independ- whatsoever. can hold 50 sheets of paper; the ence drivers. If, on the other paper tray on the 697c can hold hand, a DeskJet is designed to In any case, the APOLLO P- 100 sheets of paper. work only from Windows, Win- 1200 looks remarkably similar dows 95, Windows 98 or Win- to the Deskjet 420c, and one • The 697c is a much more rug- dows NT, then it will not work look under the front cover of the ged and durable printer, rated with any Apple II or IIGS. APOLLO P-1200 revealed a with a duty cycle of up to 1000 printer that looks indistinguish- pages per month; the rated duty Stop The Presses!! able from the DeskJet 420c. cycle of the 420c is only 416 Additionally, the technical spec- pages per month. In late January, 1999, Hewlett- ifications of the P-1200 are Packard issued a press release exactly the same as the DeskJet • To achieve the best printed which “announced plans to enter 420c, and the P-1200 even uses results possible on the 420c, the the ultra-low end of the inkjet- the exact same ink cartridges as 560c Harmonie driver should be printer market – printers under does the 420c. used for black and white print- $100 – through the formation of ing, and the 500c Harmonie APOLLO Consumer Products, The shipping carton of the P- driver should be used for color Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary. 1200 yields but one bit of in- printing. To achieve the best APOLLO-branded printers will formation that could possibly printed results possible on the serve this market, the fastest- explain how this new printer can 697c, only the 560c Harmonie growing segment in the indus- cost less than the DeskJet 420c: driver is necessary. try, with products combining Made in Thailand. style and function at a low price In The Future point.” Apparently, Hewlett-Packard has adopted yet another strat- Hewlett-Packard seems to be Just as this issue of the Share- egy to lower the cost of their

8 Shareware Solutions II Spring, 1999 printers, and in the case of HP’s probability will also become a- following Internet address: APOLLO wholly owned subsidi- vailable in the near future from ary, the first of the new DeskJet several other national chains of [email protected] “clone” printers sounds made to electronic superstores, including order for Apple IIGS owners on Circuit City and The Good Guys. If you do not have access to the a budget who wish to purchase a world wide web, you can find out new high quality printer that is Additional information about more about the APOLLO P-1200 capable of printing at 300 dpi or APOLLO Consumer Products and where it can be purchased in higher. and the P-1200 can be found on your locality, by dialing the the world wide web at the fol- following telephone numbers: The APOLLO P-1200 is cur- lowing URL: rently available only at Wal- 1-214-503-2222 or Mart and The Office Depot for http://www.myapollo.com 1-877-MYAPOLLO $79, and it includes a color car- tridge. According to an APOLLO Questions about the P-1200 can (Note: Harmonie is available ex- spokesperson, the P-1200 in all be submitted, via e-mail, to the clusively from Shareware Solu- tions II for $20.) ö Bernie ][ The Printer by Henrik Gudat, FE Systems

From Eddie To Bernie ments from the screen onto the printer. Each method has its printed page. share of advantages, and ulti- Since its initial release as Fast mately this article should help Eddie in 1996, Shareware Solu- This article makes several wild you to pick the best one. tions II has provided on-going assumptions, namely that you coverage of Bernie ][ The Res- are somewhat familiar with InkDirect: The Direct Way cue, the Apple IIGS emulator Bernie and that you already for Power Macintosh computers. have a complete installation of InkDirect is Bernie’s direct con- With each successive release, Bernie, along with a ProDOS nect, serial printing solution for we the programmers at FE Sys- and GS/OS startup disk. If you all of your classic Apple II soft- tems have made Bernie faster, are new to Bernie and in need of ware such as AppleWorks Clas- more powerful and much more an Operating Manual, we’ve pre- sic and Applesoft BASIC pro- capable, and with the recent re- pared two valuable resources: grams. Think of it as a contin- lease of v2.0.2, many Bernie the user’s manual (included in uous flow data meter: whatever users are now reporting that the Bernie package and view- you feed into slot 1 (which hap- their emulated IIGS computer able with any web browser) and pens to be the printer slot) will runs all their Apple II and IIGS a number of very detailed tours be passed on to the Mac’s serial software at speeds of 50 Mhz or that guide you through various port. Because neither Bernie nor faster! common tasks. These how-to the Mac attempts to figure out guides are readily available on- what exactly is sent to the print- Although there’s always some- line from our web site: er, only your software cares what thing new and exciting hap- printer you have connected. pening in the Bernie world of http://www.magnet.ch/ IIGS emulation, the specific emutech/SupportCenter Note: InkDirect printing is purpose of this article is not to available only with registered provide yet another overview of Which Flavor? copies of Bernie ][ The Rescue. Bernie’s features, but to de- scribe Bernie’s printing options This issue could well be titled Serial vs LocalTalk and capabilities, in order to Printing Solutions III, as Bernie assist Bernie users who would offers three distinct printing InkDirect can only drive serial like to transform their docu- methods for controlling your printers. Printers designed for

Volume 4, Issue 3 Shareware Solutions II 9 the Macintosh are mostly Local- choose “Preferences.” You have set up your emulated Talk printers – a subtle but IIGS and you have configured very important nuance. Local- • In the Preferences window, Bernie. Now it’s printing time! Talk means that the printer click the “Communications” icon plugs into one of the serial ports in the left side bar. Eventually, InkMeister and talks to your Mac in Apple- you’ll need to scroll down a little Talk lingo – something that is bit. If for some reason your printer not supported in Bernie. For ex- does not meet InkDirect’s re- ample, some laser printers de- The Preferences window should quirements, Bernie has some- pend on the AppleTalk protocol, now reveal a number of Ink- thing else for you; it’s called and if you’d like to print with Direct controls: InkMeister and it prints ASCII them you are advised to shop text to any printer for which your around for another printing so- • Port: pick the port your printer Mac has a driver. Please note lution, as described below. is connected to on the Mac. that InkMeister only works from within classic Apple II, or more Set Up A Virtual Apple IIGS • Baud: choose the speed (baud precisely from within software rate) at which your printer is that is using Apple IIe-style To print with InkDirect, you communicating, typically 9600. printing through slot 1. need to check the settings of both your emulated Apple IIGS • Data/Stop bits: the format of InkMeister does quite a lot of and Bernie. Assuming that you a data byte, usually set to 8/1. processing: it reads each charac- have started Bernie and emu- ter that was originally intended lation is running, first have a • Parity: the parity of each data for the printer and spools the look at the slot settings. The byte, which is most likely set to entire document into a Preview classic control panels (press “none.” window. When the document has Command, Control and Escape) been processed, you can browse feature a “Slots” screen where • Handshake: if your printer is through all the pages. you can switch each slot be- expecting a particular hand- tween its built-in function and shake option, you can tell that Configuring Your IIGS “Your Card.” Bernie’s InkDirect to Bernie here. feature is like an expansion As with InkDirect, slot 1 must card that is sniffing in slot 1 – The baud rate, data/stop bits, be set to “Your Card.” Please re- hence slot 1 must be set to parity and handshake settings read the section above – “Set Up “Your Card.” It is very impor- can be set to any value you pre- A Virtual Apple IIGS” – for de- tant that if slot 1 was not set to fer as long as both the printer tails on how to do this. “Your Card”, you must restart and Bernie are using identical the IIGS in order to have the configurations! Tell Bernie About InkMeister changes take effect. This is accomplished by opening Ber- Lastly, two check boxes let you Lastly, Bernie needs to know nie’s Setup menu and choosing overcome unwanted behavior. If that you would like to use Ink- the last item, “Reset.” your printer is not advancing to Meister. You won’t find a switch the next line after a carriage for turning on InkMeister; in- Set Up Bernie return, “add LF after CR” keeps stead, Bernie assumes that the paper going. The other check when you turn off InkDirect, you Since Bernie is given the mun- box, “Strip MSB”, ensures that intend to use InkMeister: dane task of transmitting every text characters are within ANSI bit, the emulator must know ex- limits; some software is always • Open the “Setup” menu and actly at what speed the printer setting the highest bit which choose “Preferences.” is communicating and in what may confuse your printer and form the data is expected. All you’ll get alien style documents • Click the “Communications” these settings are fully custom- with out-of-this-world charac- panel in the left side bar. izable in Bernie’s Preferences ters. By checking this box, Ber- window: nie strips the most significant • Find InkDirect’s “Port” popup bit and your Master’s Thesis menu and set it to “Off.” • Open the Setup menu and turns out to be less bewildering.

10 Shareware Solutions II Spring, 1999 InkMeister is now active. unable to copy the margins, font • Boot Bernie into GS/OS. face and font size, but it sports The Preview a dedicated InkMeister panel • Open the “File” menu and where you can adjust the page choose “Mount Disk.” Bernie’s “Window” menu has a to your needs. You reveal the “Printer” item and when you InkMeister configuration panel • In the file dialog, locate the click it, the InkMeister window in the Preferences window that InkMeister Pro disk image and appears. When you’re now print- you’ve seen before. Locate the mount it. ing, Bernie is grabbing all char- “InkMeister” icon and click it acters and displays them in the once. After some housetraining, Upon completing these steps, InkMeister Preview window. InkMeister will deliver beauti- the InkMeister Pro disk ap- Doesn’t it? Well, yes, but it ful pages. pears on the Apple IIGS desk- takes half a minute of idle time top. The only file on it is the for Bernie to automatically ter- InkMeister Pro custom printer driver that you minate a print job. If you are need to move to the folder: impatient, like yours truly, put The previous printing solutions, on your eyeglasses, move the InkDirect and InkMeister, re- *:System:Drivers: mouse cursor to the small red portedly only work with classic down arrow in the Preview win- Apple II software because they Once the file has been moved to dow’s button bar and push it. emulate a serial controller card the “Drivers” folder, InkMeister This button adds a form feed in slot 1. What if you’d rather Pro is ready to perform. You will and completes a pending print print from a GS/OS application have to restart the Apple IIGS, job. such as GraphicWriter III or though, in order to make GS/OS AppleWorks GS? aware of the freshly installed Let’s have a look at what you driver. have printed so far. If you have InkMeister has a big brother, spooled more than a single and it’s called InkMeister Pro. A Printer That’s Not There page, you’ll notice that another As with InkMeister, the Pro ver- small red arrow button has sion is a cross-platform solution Back in GS/OS with InkMeister become active – the red right which means that you print on Pro loaded, tell your IIGS that arrow button. With its help you the IIGS and Bernie shuffles it’s time to print with Ink- can advance to the next page. the data to the Mac from where Meister Pro. Open the IIGS Con- The functionality of the little you can print it with the usual trol Panels (from the “Apple” left arrow button may be the Mac printing tools. InkMeister menu) and choose the “DC Print- subject of a contest to be held at Pro uses the exact same preview er” panel. What you will see is a later time. window, so be prepared for a an upper list box that we re- major deja vu. spectfully discard, plus a lower The little trash can removes all list box. That’s where the music spooled pages. If you’re starting Teach Your Dog A New Trick is. The “InkMeister” will appear to print multiple documents, in this last box as a possible they will be appended to what- InkMeister Pro does not need to option, and upon highlighting it, ever has been spooled before, be configured in Bernie or on everything’s settled for an Ink- thus the little trash can is your your Apple IIGS, but it needs to Meister Pro session! friend when you prefer to start be installed. It’s actually a cus- from scratch or are getting close tom printer driver that makes One remark from the FE Sys- to the 99 page limit to which your IIGS believe that there’s a tems Quality Assurance Team: Bernie adheres. printer connected, but that fake when filling in the “print” dialog printer is nothing but our pet box, be sure to enter a starting Fine Tuning The Page dog Bernie. and ending page number. Some applications, including Apple- It’s always possible that your The Bernie distribution comes Works GS, are subject to a ma- printed page will not look prop- with a folder that’s entitled jor hiccup if you do not provide a er; the font may be too small or “InkMeister Pro.” When you page range. the margins may be off. Due to open this folder, you’ll find a technical difficulties, Bernie is tiny disk image: While InkMeister Pro does a

Volume 4, Issue 3 Shareware Solutions II 11 marvelous job with text and line If reader demand calls for it, FE Bernie software from Shareware art, it does not support a few Systems will be back soon with Solutions II for $5. more complex drawing objects more in depth coverage of other such as bitmaps. A detailed dis- parts of Bernie. In the mean- Please bear in mind that be- cussion of InkMeister’s capabili- while, if you have any specific cause FE Systems is based in ties is included in the User’s suggestions or would like to Switzerland, we cannot rely Manual. contact the doghouse, send an e- upon traditional mail services to bone to [email protected] or provide speedy answers to any of Conclusion for more information about your questions, and for that Bernie, fire up your web browser reason, we are compelled to con- This article explained how you and check out the FE Systems duct all of our correspondence can print from classic Apple II web site at the following URL: through e-mail. You will there- software with InkDirect and fore need to have an e-mail ac- InkMeister, and from GS/OS http://www.magnet.ch/emutech count to register your copy of applications with InkMeister Bernie and to avail yourself of Pro. Printing with emulators is If you do not feel comfortable technical support from me and rocket science, but once you get downloading Bernie, you can al- my fellow programmers at FE past the liftoff, it’s a great ex- ways order the latest version of Systems. ö perience. the Macintosh PowerPC based Y2K And The Apple II

Time Waits For No One One of the first clock cards pro- DOS-8 (v2.0.3) was released in duced for use on a IIe was the 1993, the time had simply come Many Apple IIe owners who Thunderclock. The Thunderclock for Thunderclock owners to up- have clock cards installed were followed an efficient model of date their lookup table. more than just a little surprised timekeeping that became the de when they turned on their com- facto standard for all IIe clock Of course, the programmers at puter for the first time in 1999 cards, and support for the Thun- Apple anticipated that the look- and saw that their IIe reported derclock was even incorporated up table would need to be up- that it was 1993. into ProDOS itself. dated every six years, and so they included an Applesoft As Apple II users march col- The clock keeps track of the BASIC program on the final lectively towards the next mil- time, but it has to calculate version of the ProDOS-8 based lennium, was this the first which year it is by referring to a System Disk (v4.02). Written by glimpse of upcoming Y2K prob- lookup table that is a part of Greg Branche and later updated lems and impending doom? the ProDOS kernel. However, by Dave Lyons to work with that lookup table holds only ProDOS-8 v2.0.3, the program is Not at all. seven values, one for each day of named “Clock.Patch,” and after the week. Each entry corre- it was run in 1999, Apple IIe Apple II models that preceded sponds to the year in which Jan- computers with clock cards in- the IIGS did not include any uary 1st falls on the day of the stalled once again knew what electronics that kept track of week for that table entry. But, year it was. the date or the time. Since there needs to be at least one saving files with date and time year duplicated within the look- While those who use PCs may information is so important, up table to account for the in- have reasons to be concerned Apple’s oversight presented a tervening leap year, and there- about what will happen to their golden opportunity for third fore, the ProDOS lookup table computers on January 1, 2000, party developers to build and must be updated every six years Apple II owners can, for the market interface cards that to keep it current. most part, rest easily. included clocks that permitted the date-stamping of files. Since the final version of Pro- GS/OS itself will have no prob-

12 Shareware Solutions II Spring, 1999 lems with dates until 2039. available through low cost disks receive as part of their sub- that are now available by mail scription the actual Y2K solu- Time Out Of Mind order from TEXAS II. tions, the TEXAS II newsletter is highly recommended as the However, there are a handful of Due to Bev’s primary focus on absolutely best source to stay ProDOS-8 based application AppleWorks v5.1, she initially abreast of the latest Apple II programs which will not work focused her research and inves- related Y2K developments. properly in the next millennium. tigations into potential Y2K Some of the problematic soft- problems with AppleWorks, and Bev also maintains an ex- ware will exhibit minor prob- she eventually discovered Y2K tremely informative TEXAS II lems that some will consider to problems in all versions of web site that is open and ac- be merely cosmetic, but other AppleWorks except for v4.0 cessible to the general public, software will exhibit problems through v4.3. and it is on this site where she which will make the continued provides complete details of all use of that software next to im- Those discoveries opened the of the potential Y2K problems possible. door for additional Y2K investi- that may be encountered while gations, and Bev spent hun- using any of the above software. One such problematic program dreds of hours trying to deter- Of course, she also provides de- is Quicken, a personal finance mine what other software had tails about the available solu- program. On 1/1/00, Quicken Y2K problems and when pos- tions, as well as information will behave as if it were 1900 sible, she created updates or about all of the other products instead of 2000, making it im- patches that overcame the en- available from TEXAS II. If you possible to use Quicken to print countered problems. have access to the world wide out checks with a date of 2000 web, visit the following URL for or later. Although Bev continues to in- complete details on all that vestigate the problems with TEXAS II has to offer to the Time Is On My Side Quicken, at this time, it is un- Apple II users of the world: known whether she will find a Fortunately, several Y2K so- solution that will permit the http://members.aol.com/a2mg lutions are already available, continued use of that software thanks to the foresight and hard to print out negotiable bank Alternately, if you do not have work of Beverly Cadieux, the checks after January 1, 2000. access to the world wide web, publisher of the highly ac- you can mail Bev a self ad- claimed, AppleWorks v5.1 Fortunately, Bev has had better dressed stamped envelope, and oriented newsletter, TEXAS II. success with identifying and by return mail, she will send you fixing Y2K problems in the fol- information and a product price Bev is one of the world’s fore- lowing software: list about the various Y2K solu- most experts in AppleWorks tions that are available from Classic, and she routinely •All versions of AppleWorks, TEXAS II. shares her discoveries and except for v4.0-v4.3 teaches AppleWorks v5.1 users • Karl Bunker’s Sneeze Bev provides several different how to get the most from Apple- • ProSel 8’s Mr Fixit methods to overcome Y2K prob- Works through her subscription • ProSel-16 lems. For power users, she pro- based TEXAS II newsletter. •Randy Brandt’s TimeOut File vides two different 3.5" disks She also routinely provides Ap- Librarian from TEXAS II on Disk that pro- pleWorks v5.1 related software, •Harold Portnoy’s Change-A- vide specific instructions on how such as updates or patches or File to patch the problematic soft- workaround solutions, on the • Dollars & Sense ware, and in some cases, there companion TEXAS II on Disk • Managing Your Money are replacement files included collection. on the disks that must be copied Subscribers to the TEXAS II to your program disks. Since mid-1998, Bev has taken newsletter are generally the it upon herself to find solutions first people who learn of Bev’s For those of you who are wary of to potential Y2K problems, and latest discoveries, and since all patching software yourself, Bev she is making those solutions TEXAS II subscribers routinely also offers what she calls the

Volume 4, Issue 3 Shareware Solutions II 13 “just hand me a finished disk so TimeOut File Librarian. Subscriptions to the printed I can GO!” method. This second TEXAS II Newsletter are $18 approach may be a little more If you would rather have Bev for six issues. Additionally, all costly if you have more than one perform the Y2K updates for back issues of the printed product to update but it is ad- you, she currently provides this TEXAS II newsletter are avail- vised for those who don’t en- service for $10 per program, or able for $40, and all 25 back tirely trust themselves to per- $15 for overseas delivery. issues of TEXAS II on Disk are form the actual patchwork or available for $66. copying of updated files. She will update the following software for you, provided you (Texas residents, please add Most of the Y2K patches re- mail her a backup copy of all 8.25% sales tax.) leased to date are available on startup and program disks: TEXAS II on Disk, Volumes 29 Beverly Cadieux and 30. The cost of each disk •Any version of AppleWorks, 2503 Sherbrooke Lane volume for non-TEXAS II sub- except v4.0 to 4.3. McKinney, TX 75070-4766 scribers is $15. • Dollars & Sense • Managing Your Money 972-562-6335 (11 AM to 5 PM) Volume 29 includes patches 972-548-0591 (All other times) and/or replacement files for the Additionally, Bev will mail out following software: AppleWorks updated versions (for $10 per a2mg@aol.com v2.0, v2.1, v3.0, v5.0, v5.1 and program or $15 for overseas Sneeze. delivery) of the following soft- (Note: System 4.02, including an ware, without the need for you already patched ProDOS-8 Volume 30 includes updated re- to submit proof of ownership: v2.0.3, is available from Share- placement files (not patches) for ware Solutions II for $5. Please the following software: ProSel 8, • ProSel 8 specify with your order whether ProSel-16, Change-A-File and • ProSel-16 you prefer 5.25" or 3.5" disks.) ö ProSel Placed Into Public Domain ProSel Status lute best, most comprehensive each one offering more and more and powerful set of utility pro- and more features than the pre- In early March, Chuck Newby grams ever written for the Ap- vious version. dropped a startling and truly ple II family of computers. exciting bombshell on an unsus- Available in two versions, Pro- Several years ago, Glen retired pecting Apple II community by Sel 8 for use with the Apple IIe, to the foothills of California’s posting the following announce- IIc, and IIc+, and ProSel-16 for mighty Sierra Nevada mountain ment online: “September will use with the Apple IIGS, ProSel range, and no additional up- end 10 years that Charlie’s Ap- has long been the undisputed dates have been issued to pleSeeds has published and tool of choice to use when trying ProSel since his retirement. sold ProSel and ProSel-16 for to fix or retrieve data from a cor- Then again, no updates were Glen Bredon. Demand for things rupted or otherwise damaged really necessary, as both ver- Apple II is almost nonexistent Apple II disk. sions of ProSel are quite stable and for that reason, I asked for and already so packed with fea- and was granted, by e-mail, per- ProSel was written by Rutgers tures and options that it’s hard mission to announce that Pro- University math professor Glen to imagine how Glen could have Sel and ProSel-16 will be moved Bredon, and for many years, possibly improved upon such a to the public domain.” Glen himself marketed ProSel treasure. and provided all the technical Since its initial release in 1985, support for it via the various on- The final released version of Glen Bredon’s ProSel has line services. In the early years, ProSel 8 was v4.0 and the final reigned supreme as the abso- update followed update, with released version of ProSel-16

14 Shareware Solutions II Spring, 1999 was 8.84. These versions, and turn, or by using a mouse. When to files. For programmers, those these versions only, have been you stop working with a pro- who are technically inclined, and placed into the public domain. gram, you are then returned to for hunters of Easter Eggs, your customized Prosel menu there’s Block Warden and Zap, According to Duhaime’s Law screen. sector editors that allow you to Dictionary, public domain is “a examine a disk right down to term of copyright law referring When first setting up your cus- each individual byte. ProSel-16 to works that are not copyright tomized “run list” of programs, also features virus protection, a protected, free for all to use you only need to enter path- reverse polish notation calcula- without permission.” Therefore, name information once; after tor, and a sophisticated perpet- by placing ProSel into the public that, everything is on autopilot. ual appointment calendar that domain, Glen Bredon has volun- Using Prosel as a program can help you to keep track of im- tarily withdrawn all his legal selector and launcher makes it portant events. claims to ProSel’s copyright and very easy to navigate through to the protection that a copy- high capacity disk drives. A pro- If that isn’t a complete set of right supplies. gram does not even have to be utilities, consider Mr Fixit in included as part of your run list Prosel 8, or its Prosel-16 coun- Once something is placed into to be run; there is a File Finder terpart, Volume Repair, which the public domain, anyone is utility which can search your addresses a problem that all of free to copy it or use it in any disk drives for any program, and us have unfortunately encoun- way they wish, as the author re- when it is located, it can be run tered at some point, namely, a tains none of the exclusive simply by pressing the “R” key. damaged disk from which stored rights which apply to a copy- files cannot be retrieved. righted work. Since ProSel 8 Using ProSel as a program v4.0 and ProSel-16 v8.84 are no launcher is completely optional. ProSel has the ability to repair longer copyrighted, anyone is Those who like to use the IIGS disks that have been damaged now free to use the ProSel soft- Finder as a program launcher by 12 different problems. These ware, or if so desired, to make may continue to do so after Pro- utilities are generally successful changes or improvements to the Sel is installed, and may simply in fixing disks that have dam- software and to give the deriv- make use of ProSel for its aged directory structures or ative work away or to sell it. sophisticated and powerful disk where bad blocks occur. But, management utilities. they are such powerful utilities ProSel Features that they can even retrieve infor- In addition to its program mation on a disk that has been Both ProSel 8 and ProSel-16 op- launching capabilities, Prosel’s accidentally formatted. erate in very similar manners, legendary utilities are the most and provide the same basic set complete set of Apple II utility Additionally, ProSel includes of useful utilities, although the programs available. Prosel al- hard drive utilities that are component names may be lows Apple II or IIGS users to without peer. When a hard drive slightly different in the different quickly batch copy files or disks, is used for any length of time, versions. display the contents of any type files on disk become fragmented, of file, lock/unlock and hide/ resulting in less than optimal Prosel is actually two programs unhide or delete files, exhume a performance. Over time, frag- in one: it is a complete set of deleted file, verify the integrity mentation really slows down all powerful and highly effective of a file, perform an alpha- disk operations. To make disks utility programs, and it is a betical sort of a directory or sub- as responsive as the first day program launcher. directory, change file dates, they were used, it is necessary to move files, compare directories defragment the disk. In Prosel, As a program launcher, Prosel or compare files, locate a string that is done by using the Opti- allows you to create a custom- or a file name anywhere on disk, mization module which offers ized menu that contains the display graphics upon bootup two different methods to defrag- names of your most commonly (Prosel-16 only), blank the ment a disk: Turbo, which oper- run programs, which can then be screen after a certain amount of ates on files, and Complete, a launched from ProSel by using inactivity, and it even allows method which defragments all the arrow keys and pressing re- you to add password protection files in all subdirectories. In ei-

Volume 4, Issue 3 Shareware Solutions II 15 ther case, optimization often re- hours or less. tracking down potential Y2K sults in dramatically noticeable problems within each version of speeded up disk access. If you Restoring a hard drive from the ProSel, and she spent many have no idea whether you have backup disks couldn’t be easier. more hours figuring out exactly sufficient fragmentation to slow Just choose Prosel’s Restore op- what needed to be patched in down your computer’s perform- tion, and Prosel will tell you both versions of ProSel so that ance, just access ProSel’s Info when to insert the next disk. there would be no Y2K problems Desk, and with a single key- Restoration takes a little longer at all come next year. press on the file fragmentation than backing up the drive, and a counter, Prosel will tell you ex- 32 megabyte partition will be Now that ProSel is no longer actly how many files on your restored in three hours or less. constrained by copyright, Bev drive are in need of opti- has released her Y2K complaint mization. Apple II Users may not realize versions of ProSel which are for that they need Prosel, but they sale directly from her. Please Another major concern of hard cannot find a more complete set note that Bev’s updated versions disk owners is protecting the of indispensable utility tools of ProSel are not in the public data on their drive. If using anywhere. There are other pro- domain. 5.25" or 3.5" disks, it’s relative- grams that back up hard drives, ly simple to periodically make a and others that provide ProDOS Please see Page 14 for infor- duplicate copy of all disks you utilities, yet there are no other mation about ordering Beverly’s can’t afford to be without. On a programs in existence that do so Y2K fixes for ProSel and other hard drive, there is space for so much as ProSel! Glen Bredon programs. much information that hard does not make false or exag- disk backup is a procedure that gerated claims when he states ProSel Availability many hard drive owners follow that ProSel is “the first, best scrupulously. If hard drive own- and most complete hard disk By the time you read this, Pro- ers don’t take precautions, they management system for the Sel 8 v4.0 and ProSel-16 v8.84 could lose everything in an elec- Apple II.” Thousands of Apple will be available via download trical storm, or if the hard drive II users whose corrupted and from all of the online networks develops mechanical problems. damaged data have been saved and ftp sites on the Internet, as by ProSel, including the author well as from most Apple II user Prosel allows for several types of this article, know that Glen’s groups worldwide. of hard drive backups. It can claims about ProSel are 100% back up the entire drive, or it accurate. Shareware Solutions II admit- can be used to incrementally tedly has some misgivings about back up only files changed since ProSel and Y2K making available software that the last backup, or to back up will have Y2K problems, but in only files added to the drive Beverly Cadieux of the TEXAS order to assure as wide a base of after a particular date. When II newsletter has identified sev- distribution as possible for Pro- backing up a hard drive, Prosel eral Y2K problems which ProSel Sel 8 v4.0 and ProSel-16 v8.84, performs compression on the users will encounter on or after it is nonetheless making these files, so that it is possible to January 1, 2000. After that versions available. store more than 800K of data on date, ProSel 8’s Mr Fixit and a 3.5" disk. When first running ProSel-16’s Volume Repair Please note that ProSel’s Y2K the backup utility you are in- modules will report that files problems will not manifest formed how many floppy disks saved in 2000 will have an in- themselves until January 1, it will take to store all the con- correct date-stamp, and when 2000 and that the use of either tents of the hard drive. The these utilities attempt to fix the version of ProSel is quite safe process of backing up a hard problem dates, the “fixed” files until then. You will have to drive is very straightforward. will display a date of 00/00/00. modify the program if you intend Prosel asks you to insert disk Bev has also identified a less to use it in 2000, and for that after disk, and it takes care of critical date related problem in very reason, Shareware Solu- all the formatting of disks. ProSel-16’s File Finder. tions II has thoroughly evalu- Backing up a 32 megabyte par- ated the updated versions which tition to 3.5" disks takes two Beverly spent hundreds of hours are currently available through

16 Shareware Solutions II Spring, 1999 Bev Cadieux’s TEXAS II organ- v8.84 available in conjunction page program manual. This Pro- ization, and can confirm that with a working ProSel-16 demo Sel-16 manual is still available they are fully Y2K compliant. disk which will demonstrate for directly from Chuck Newby for you some of ProSel’s program $14. Additionally, Chuck has ProSel 8 v4.0, for use by IIe, IIc launching capabilities. This two pledged to split the net proceeds and IIc+ owners, includes 70 3.5" disk set is available from from the sale of the ProSel-16 pages of documentation on disk, Shareware Solutions II for $5. manual with Glen Bredon! To and is available from Share- purchase the ProSel-16 manual, ware Solutions II on either ProSel-16 Documentation send your check or money order 5.25" or 3.5" disk. Please specify to: whether you prefer 5.25" or 3.5" For many years, documentation disks. The cost for either is $4. for ProSel-16 was included on Chuck Newby disk. However, since ProSel-16 9081 Hadley Place ProSel-16 v8.84 can be used has grown so much in size with San Diego, CA 92126-1523 only on an Apple IIGS. No docu- each successive update, the doc- mentation is included, so Share- umentation has in recent years [email protected] ware Solutions II is making been published in a bound 140 Shareware Solutions IIe/IIc/IIgs Q Labs Freeware allows IIe owners who own a processing and database files bank-switched memory card to for AppleWorks v3 or v4. For many years, Scantron Qual- easily set up and create a RAM ity Computers (SQC) was the disk of up to 1 Megabyte in size. The Q Labs Freeware software largest and most popular Apple is available from Shareware So- II mail order company. In ad- QDrive IIe is a program for con- lutions II on 5.25" or 3.5" disk dition to distributing other com- figuring a hard drive connected for $5. Please specify with your panies’ software and hardware, to a IIe computer. The software order which size disk you prefer. they employed several top-notch will copy and set up the neces- Apple II programmers who sary system files, and includes Lamps Plus developed software for SQC’s Q partitioning and verification Labs division. software. Each month, Ryan Suenaga col- lects all the messages posted on Thanks to the efforts of Howard Since SQC has reclassified the Apple II forums on Delphi, Katz, SQC has just reclassified these software titles as free- combines those messages with four of their Q Labs software ware, they will no longer offer informative articles and re- titles for the Apple IIe as free- technical support for any of it, views, and makes it all avail- ware! and they make no warranties able as The Lamp newsletter. regarding the software or its Each issue is approximately EasyDrive is a suite of 8-bit performance. Lastly, no docu- 100K in length, which would be software for hard drive mainte- mentation is currently available approximately 20 pages or more nance. It includes a program for this software. if printed out. launcher, backup and optimizer software, as well as file mainte- Also included in this collection Just as it did with the old nance software. is a second set of AppleWorks GEnieLamp, Shareware Solu- Classic utilities and repair pro- tions II is pleased to make The RepairWorks recovers and re- grams that have also recently Lamp available to Apple II pairs some damaged Apple- been reclassified as freeware. users who do not participate on Works Classic word processing Formerly available as share- Delphi, because each issue is and database files. ware, Harold Portnoy’s Resur- well written, informative, hu- rection and Change-A-File can morous and timely. For those QRam IIe is a program that repair some damaged word not currently online, it provides

Volume 4, Issue 3 Shareware Solutions II 17 an accurate representation of Randy’s freeware add-ons, Ap- been based on a series of e-mail the fun those of us on Delphi pleWorks users will have more messages, all received at press have. It also provides up-to-date computational power than they time. It will take a while to de- information about new soft- have ever dreamed possible. termine exactly which of Randy ware, and it always has useful Thanks Randy! Brandt’s TimeOut modules will hints and tips that might help be reclassified as freeware, and you to gain a greater mastery • Doug Gum, yet another pro- much work remains to be done over your Apple II. grammer whose commercial Ap- getting manuals and documen- pleWorks Classic add-on prod- tation transferred to disk. In The Lamps Plus disk includes ucts have been marketed by any case, Shareware Solutions all issues of The Lamp produced Scantron Quality Computers, II hopes to have all the details so far in 1999, along with some has just begun the process of in the next issue, as well as or- other useful and informative reclassifying his TimeOut appli- dering information. If you would files collected online this year. cations as freeware. Two of like to be informed as soon as Available on 3.5" disk only, the Doug’s most significant Time- the above software becomes cost of the Lamps Plus disk is Out applications which are available from Shareware Solu- $5. slated to become freeware are tions II, please send a self ad- TimeOut Statistics and Time- dressed stamped envelope, and Coming Attractions Out ShrinkIt. as soon as all the details be- come available, they will be • For years and years, Randy • The above information has mailed to you. ö Brandt wrote add-on programs for use with AppleWorks Clas- sic. He produced a number of highly regarded TimeOut mod- ules, first for Beagle Bros, later Shareware Solutions IIGS on through his own JEM Soft- ware company, and finally for Animasia 3-D and helix tools. It comes with Scantron Quality Computers. on-screen alignment guides, and Randy has just confirmed the Due in large part to the efforts a multitude of graphic tools that rumor that all of the appli- of Max Jones, the publisher of are truly unique; for example, cations that were written by the Juiced.GS newsletter, Mich- Animasia 3-D allows objects to him as add-on products for Ap- ael Lutynski has reclassified wrap around the screen and of- pleWorks Classic have been re- his astounding animation work- fers hierarchical object relation- classified as freeware. shop, Animasia 3-D, as share- ships that allow designers to ware! create sophisticated models of Randy Brandt is well known for real world objects. such applications as Outliner When the commercial version of for AppleWorks 3, and powerful Animasia 3-D was released in Animasia allows for flexible TimeOut applications such as 1995, it cost $99. The share- time based animations of any UltraMacros, FileMaster, and ware fee that Michael requests objects on-screen by moving the PowerPack. As Randy was also is only $10; this latest version mouse. Another impressive fea- the author of AppleWorks v4 is an update that now runs 33% ture allows designers to add and v5, many of the functions of faster than the original! variable ambient lighting, per- his TimeOut and other earlier mitting special effects like shad- add-ons for AppleWorks v3 were Animasia 3-D is a sophisticated ows to be cast from the sun. incorporated into those later re- object oriented animation sys- leases of AppleWorks. tem for the Apple IIGS that can Animasia 3-D is a masterpiece be used to produce flicker-free which can be used to create Therefore, those who continue to “movies.” It employs a point, beautiful and breathtaking ani- use AppleWorks v3.0 will bene- click and drag method for mations; spread across the four fit the most from Randy’s gener- placing objects on screen, and it 3.5" Animasia disks are many osity, as there are no additional allows for the creation of 2 or 3 stunning examples that illus- add-ons built into that version. dimensional shapes using oval, trate what can be accomplished Upon the impending release of rectangular, polygon, cone, lathe with the program. There are also

18 Shareware Solutions II Spring, 1999 tutorials, an XCMD that per- Sheppy has also reclassified thereby permitting you to chat mits you to integrate ani- KeyNotifier and SysFail Plus as with your Mac and PC using mations into HyperCard IIGS, freeware. Since Kfest ’98, he has friends and family who also and a HyperStudio stack that also issued new updated ver- have a free AIM account. With exhibits how easily animations sions of LotsaTools, ProBOOT, gsAIM, you can set up a “Buddy can be used to enhance hyper- Cleaner Clean Up, and Shifty List” and once you connect to the media presentations. List. AIM server, you’ll be notified when any of your buddies be- Animasia 3-D requires a IIGS In addition, he has also re- come available to chat. with at least 2 megabytes of leased two brand new share- RAM memory, and System ware programs that have be- Eric Shepherd has authorized 6.0.1. Although neither a hard come incredibly popular: gsAIM Shareware Solutions II to collect drive nor an accelerator are re- and ImageMaker. together all his recent utility quired, they are recommended. software, including freeware, His latest program, Image- shareware and updates to Web- Animasia 3-D is available from Maker, is a $5 shareware pro- Works GS, and to make the Shareware Solutions II for $10. gram that should prove to make SheppyWare ’99 disk available life easier for those who use for $5. SheppyWare ’99 IIGS emulators such as Bernie ][ The Rescue. ImageMaker can Crock O’ Gold In February, 1998, Eric “Shep- easily convert IIGS RAM disks, py” Shepherd completed and floppy disks, and hard disks Upon the completion of the released Wolfenstein 3-D, one of into disk images for use under Spectrum v2.2 update in late the most highly acclaimed and Bernie. According to Sheppy, 1998, author Ewen Wannop enjoyable freeware arcade shoot “simply select a disk to create turned his attention back to ’em up games ever created for an image of, and ImageMaker Crock O’ Gold and he has re- the Apple IIGS. will create the image file in the cently released v3.0 of the COG format of your choice. For the offline reader for use in acces- In the year since then, Sheppy first time, you can create stan- sing the Delphi online network. has turned his attention back to dard disk images from your creating useful utility programs, Apple IIGS disks without using COG v3, just like Spectrum v2.2, and this past year has been a Macintosh!” now supports Marinetti and can perhaps the most productive be used to establish a SLIP or year that Sheppy has ever had. Sheppy’s gsAIM is a $10 share- PPP connection to the Internet He has updated some of his ware program that works in and a Telnet connection to Del- older utility programs, reclas- association with Marinetti v2.0, phi. Of course, it still permits a sified several of his shareware and it permits IIGS modem direct dial connection to Delphi. programs as freeware, and has owners to engage in up to 20 created some incredible new different one-on-one private COG v3 is much, much faster IIGS programs that “push the chat sessions over the Internet. than any previous version, and envelope” of IIGS computing. provides many elegant additions gsAIM is provided as a New to an already wonderful pro- Sheppy’s most significant re- Desk Accessory, and since it gram. Among some of the many lease in the past year has been uses Marinetti to dial up and new and improved features are: the commercial program Web- establish a PPP or SLIP con- automatic extraction of encoded Works GS, a GS/OS based html nection to the Internet, it’s now e-mail files, hierarchic menus editor that is available from actually possible to engage in for choosing options, a powerful Shareware Solutions II for $20. online chatting from within any new “Threads” feature to assist Since its release at Kfest ’98, IIGS program that displays the in reading individual messages, WebWorks GS has already been Apple Pull Down menu! much faster posting of e-mail updated several times, provid- and forum messages, a new ing IIGS users with even more gsAIM is compatible with AIM, “Log” file which keeps a record of power and flexibility than ever America Online’s Instant Mes- your session actions, and in- before for creating or updating senger software, and it actually ternal support for NiftySpell web sites. logs you onto the AIM server, that guarantees that all your

Volume 4, Issue 3 Shareware Solutions II 19 out-going messages are spelled via the Internet. has been active on the Apple II correctly if you have NiftySpell Usenet newsgroups for years. installed. (Note: NiftySpell is a European Orchids Most of Marvin’s online com- universal spell checker New ments are accompanied by Desk Accessory for the IIGS Boris Gunther of Mannheim, quotes from “The Hitchhiker’s which is available exclusively Germany has released a fas- Guide to the Galaxy” that some- from Shareware Solutions II for cinating three disk shareware how always seem to address the $20.) HyperCard IIGS stack that is discussion at hand, and are devoted to educating IIGS own- appropriate yet wacky. Marvin Soon after COG3 was released, ers about the many varieties of obviously helped Boris to create several minor problems were re- European Orchids. While the this stack; click on any graphic ported, but by the time you read stack is educational in nature, to see Marvin’s philosophical this, Ewen should have already it is also colorful, musical, comments and quotes. released an updated version sometimes amusing, sometimes and it is this update which is sad, and perhaps even a little A lot of time and effort went into available on 3.5" disk from controversial. the creation of this stack, as Shareware Solutions II for $5. evidenced by the multitude of Apparently, some varieties of graphics and biological descrip- Also included on the COG3 disk orchids are endangered plants, tions and explanations, and it are two other programs that and the stack also details the was clearly produced as a labor also work with Marinetti v2.0: tale of Boris’s frustrating at- of love; a love of both orchids and Sheppy’s gsAIM and Geoff tempts to preserve some rare the IIGS. Weiss’s GW-FTP. GW-FTP is an orchids. exact clone of the Unix based The European Orchid Hyper- version, and it allows you to Many of you may know Boris’s Card stack is available from upload and download software online alter ego, Marvin, who Shareware Solutions II for $10. ö

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