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Volume 3, Issue 5 June/July, 1997 Heard It Through The Grapevine KansasFest ’97 On Wednesday evening, 40 or under wraps until the last mo- more attendees traditionally ment. Every summer since 1989, up- gather together at the KC wards of one hundred devoted Masterpiece restaurant for a The cost for KansasFest is $375, Apple II loyalists have gathered scrumptious meal that marks and that price includes all sem- together on the campus of Avila the informal start of Kfest ac- inars, all meals (except for those College in Kansas City to cele- tivities. On Saturday night, a at restaurants) and a bed in a brate the magic of the Apple II similar number are expected to double room in the Avila College computer! attend the informal and unoffi- dorm. If you choose to stay with cial closing ceremonies at Jess friends or at a motel, then the Originally entitled “The Apple and Jim’s Steakhouse. cost for KansasFest is only II Developer’s Conference,” the $300. Please keep in mind, how- event now known to all Apple II In between those two mouth ever, that lots of Apple II ac- users as KansasFest has had watering events, two full days tivities take place each night in somewhat of a change of focus in will be devoted to seminars. As the dorms and for many, it’s recent years. Although there we go to press, the schedule is these late night activities that will still be some technical ses- nowhere near complete, but sev- are often the most fun and the sions devoted to those inter- eral sessions have already been most memorable. ested in programming the Apple formalized. Ryan Suenaga will II and IIGS, the vast majority of once again be the master of cer- The sponsor of KansasFest ’97 sessions and activities are now emonies at the second annual is InTrec Software, the publish- of general interest so that they “Apple II Writer’s and Publish- er of ProTerm. InTrec can accept can be enjoyed and understood er’s Forum,” which will feature checks for registration (make by anyone who has any degree of the publishers of all of the cur- checks payable to InTrec Soft- involvement with the Apple II. rent Apple II publications. ware), or can accept your VISA, MasterCard, Discover, or Ameri- As in previous years, those who Geoff Weiss will be conducting a can Express cards. attend Kfest ’97 can expect to session on Spectrum Internet spend three glorious and fun Suite. Max Jones of Juiced.GS To register for KansasFest 97, filled days sitting in on infor- is scheduled to lead a session on contact: mative and educational ses- desktop publishing. David Ker- sions and seminars and witnes- wood is expected to give a demo KFest ’97 sing new product introductions of the Bernie ][ The Rescue IIGS c/o Intrec Software and demos. And for four very emulator. Shareware Solutions 3035 East Topaz Circle long nights, Apple II enthusi- II will once again be showcasing Phoenix, AZ 85028-4423 asts from all over the world will some new products during a be socializing with old and new demo session on Saturday. 602-992-1345 (voice) friends, eating at some of Kan- Richard Bennett of Sydney, 602-992-0232 (fax) sas City’s finest restaurants, Australia will be the guest of and marveling at all of the new honor at this year’s Celebrity [email protected] Apple II software that is bound Roast. Many more sessions will to be released at KansasFest. be finalized in the coming If you have any questions about weeks, and if previous years are Kfest ’97, you can get them an- The 1997 edition of KansasFest any indication, attendees this swered via e-mail or by pointing will be held this year between year can expect some exciting your favorite web browser at the Wednesday, July 30th and Sun- and perhaps even unexpected KansasFest ’97 home page on day, August 3rd. sessions which are often kept the world wide web.

Shareware Solutions II 1 Shareware Solutions II Cindy Adams is the coordinator paper with holes punched for a of Kfest, and she can be reached standard 3 ring binder. Volume 3, Issue 5 by e-mail at: The books available from The Shareware Solutions II is pub- [email protected] Byte Works, and the prices, are: lished by Joe Kohn, 166 Alpine Street, San Rafael, CA 94901- Cindy maintains the official •Apple IIGS Toolbox 1008. Kfest home page on the world Reference Volume 1: $45 wide web at the following URL: Publisher/Writer: Joe Kohn • Apple IIGS Toolbox Roving Reporter: Cynthia Field http://www.primenet.com/ Reference Volume 2: $45 Contrib. Writer: Steve Disbrow ~adams/kfest.html Proofreader: Jane Kos • Apple IIGS Toolbox The Byte Works Reference Volume 3: $55 Entire contents of Shareware Solutions II copyright (©) 1997 Several years ago, after Re- • Apple IIGS GS/OS by Joe Kohn. All rights are source Central went out of busi- Reference: $30 reserved. Nothing may be re- ness, Mike Westerfield’s compa- printed or reproduced, in whole ny – The Byte Works – took over • Apple IIGS Firmware or in part, in any media without the distribution of the remain- Reference: $30 the prior written consent of Joe der of the technical reference Kohn. materials that had originally • Apple IIGS Hardware been distributed by Apple’s own Reference: $30 Available by subscription only, Apple Programmers and Devel- several options are available: oper’s Association (APDA). At Shipping charges are $5 per that time, the Byte Works liter- order (not per book!) for delivery A) The first 24 issues: $75 for ally became the definitive one in the United States. For over- US/Canada; $100 elsewhere. stop source of information and seas shipping, The Byte Works technical resources for Apple II will charge the actual shipping B) The next 6 issues/Renewal: and IIGS programmers. amount, but due to the weight of $25 for US/Canada; $40 else- the books (the majority of the where. Ever since then, The Byte manuals are more than 500 Works has been attempting to pages) they recommend surface Make all checks payable to Joe secure permission from Apple to shipping. Kohn. US Funds Only. No republish the six definitive charge cards, purchase orders or Apple IIGS reference manuals To order books, or for additional COD orders will be accepted. that had originally been pub- information, contact: lished by Addison-Wesley. All This newsletter was created six of the reference manuals The Byte Works entirely with an Apple IIGS. All were researched and written by 8000 Wagon Mound Dr NW articles written in AppleWorks Apple employees, but Addison- Albuquerque, NM 87120 Classic. Page Layout prepared Wesley stopped publishing in AppleWorks GS. Printing them all when the Apple IIGS 505-898-8183 (voice) was done on a Hewlett-Packard was discontinued. 505-898-8183 (fax) LaserJet IIP Plus, connected to the IIGS courtesy of Vitesse’s Mike Westerfield has recently Mikew50@aol.com Harmonie. The use of TrueType secured the permission he was fonts is courtesy of WestCode seeking from Apple, and the http://www.hypermall.com/ Software’s Pointless. manuals are now back in print! byteworks The Byte Works versions of the E-mail Addresses: manual reprints are laser Additionally, Mike Westerfield CIS: 76702,565 printed from the original Addi- is currently working on a brand DELPHI: JOE_KOHN son-Wesley books; each reprint new Apple IIGS implementation GENIE: JOE.KOHN is a faithful reproduction of the of the BASIC programming INTERNET: [email protected] original pages on 8.5 x 11" language, and if all goes ac-

2 Shareware Solutions II June/July, 1997 cording to schedule, GSoft may terest 12 page quarterly Apple you can add your own. Quarknet be available for purchase at II newsletter. HyperQuarterly is a HyperCard and Spectrum KansasFest ’97. differs from The Apple Blossom based offline message processor because it is disk-based and for the Delphi online network. Mike Westerfield describes because it focuses on a single PostScripter is a utility that al- GSoft as follows: “Many people program: HyperCard IIGS. lows you to resize and reposition know that over the years I have PostScript files you’ve created in repeatedly said that BASIC is If the first two disk issue of a IIGS graphics program and not a good choice for toolbox pro- HyperQuarterly is any indica- print them with stunning clar- gramming. I also gave specific tion of things to come, lots of ity. HC.Word is a HyperCard- reasons: Toolbox programming fans of HyperCard IIGS are based text editor that allows requires records and pointers, going to be thrilled every three you to, among other things, ex- and no Apple IIGS BASIC pro- months. Not since the demise of port your text as html code. A la vides either of those. In fact, no Resource Central’s Script-Cen- Carte automatically creates cus- BASIC that I’m aware of han- tral has there been such a crea- tom menus for your own Hyper- dles pointers well enough for tive or enjoyable outpouring of Card stacks. ScriptMenu places toolbox programming, and that HyperCard related software! a Scripts menu in every stack as includes BASICs on the Macin- you work on it, allowing you to tosh and Windows platforms. The first issue contains short list every object in your stack GSoft fixes that. Without sacri- HyperCard related news items and instantly open the scripts ficing the inherent simplicity of and detailed articles about associated with those objects. BASIC, GSoft adds records, HyperCard. But the real joy in TableMaker allows you to create pointers, dynamic memory and the premiere issue is derived html code with tables. Book- true subroutines with passed from the HyperCard stacks that Mark Manager lets you manage parameters. GSoft drags the are the centerpiece of Hyper- Lynx Bookmark files. HTML-to- BASIC language forward sever- Quarterly. Steve assembled WP converts html source code to al years, providing the correct quite an impressive group of WordPerfect format. mix of features needed for mod- HyperCard experts whose work ern programming. You can use appears in this issue, including Subscriptions to Hyper Quarter- GSoft for quick hacks, and a lot HangTime of Script-Central ly cost $35 for a one year (four of people probably will. But it fame, Brian Gillespie, Gareth issue) subscription in the also has the power for more, Jones, Josh Calvin, and of United States or Canada, or $40 even the most advanced pro- course, Steve himself. in other countries. Single issues gramming tasks.” are available for $11.95 in the Soon after you launch Hyper- US or Canada, $15 elsewhere. Since GSoft is currently best de- Quarterly, you’ll see one of scribed as a “work in progress,” HangTime’s unique creations. For additional information, con- Mike is reluctant to describe His “front end” looks remarka- tact: specific features as they could bly similar to the computer change in the final release. So screens on the Federation Star- Steve Cavanaugh stay tuned for additional infor- ship Enterprise, and it is from c/o Apple Blossom Publishing mation as it becomes available. there that you can sample all PO Box 120434 the tasty treats found in Hyper- Boston, MA 02112-0434 HyperQuarterly Quarterly. [email protected] In early June, HyperQuarterly – The types of HyperCard stacks the newest Apple IIGS-specific included in the first issue are [email protected] publication – arrived in de- quite diverse, so no matter what lighted subscribers mailboxes. your interests might be, you are [email protected] bound to find at least several HyperQuarterly is the second of stacks to be of great interest. Steve Cavanaugh maintains a two Apple II journals published home page on the world wide by Steve Cavanaugh; the other TZ Rolodex is an address book. web that contains information publication is The Apple Blos- Good Eats is a cookbook that about his own efforts as well as som, a paper-based general in- includes dozens of recipes, or providing many links to other

Volume 3, Issue 5 Shareware Solutions II 3 Apple II related web sites. You equivalent of 420 5.25" disks or Since that time, repeated re- can access that at the following 75 3.5" disks. Imagine the con- quests for help have been heard URL: venience afforded you when you for just one single level: Tricky can store every single software 19, also known as Postcards http://members.aol.com/ program you use on a single From Lemmingland. That one newblossom/ disk! level has managed to stump lots of skilled players, and for good Focus Hard Drives All Focus drives are shipped reason. with the Operating System pre- For the past several years, All- installed and with utility soft- For the most part, levels en- tech Electronics of Oceanside, ware for either the Apple IIe or countered before Tricky 19 are CA has been manufacturing and IIGS. It’s for this reason that, relatively straightforward; but, selling the Focus Hard Drive, a when you order a Focus Hard that’s not to imply that all lev- low cost internal hard drive for Drive, you need to specify which els prior to Tricky 19 are easy to the Apple IIe and IIGS models. model Apple II you plan to use solve. Some of them are down- Sporting an already affordable with the Focus. right difficult. price tag, it’s almost impossible to imagine that Alltech could In addition to the already low On Tricky 19, you’ll first encoun- lower the price even further price, Alltech will even install a ter a situation that you’ll face than it already has, but they free copy of AppleWorks v3 or several more times on higher have. AppleWorks GS 1.1 if you men- levels; notably, you apparently tion Shareware Solutions II. won’t have enough skills to The Focus Hard Drive is a Plus they’ll even include a set of easily complete the level and speedy IDE-based hard disk original AppleWorks or Apple- lead the LemminGS to the exit. system that includes, on a sin- Works GS disks. Therefore, if you attempt a simi- gle interface card, both the hard lar strategy as employed on pre- disk controller and the hard For additional information, or vious levels, you’ll never be able disk itself. to purchase a Focus Hard Drive, to finish Tricky 19. contact: If you don’t yet have a hard To complete Tricky 19, you’ll drive connected to your IIe or Alltech Electronics need to discover an entirely new IIGS, now is the best time to 2618 Temple Heights approach. If you’d like to be chal- add one, as the price is more Oceanside, CA 92056 lenged by Tricky 19, then please affordable than ever before, and skip the remainder of this arti- it’s simply impossible to imag- 760-724-2404 (voice) cle! ine that the price could ever be 760/724-8808 (fax) lower than it is now. On Tricky 19, LemminGS get [email protected] trapped in a pit, and at first Effective immediately, the new glance, it appears that all you Focus pricing is: http://www.allelec.com need to solve this level are plen- ty of Climbers. But, as many Focus 20: $59 Hint For LemminGS frustrated players have already Focus 60: $99 found out, there just aren’t Focus 80: $119 Soon after Brutal Deluxe’s Lem- enough Climbers available. Focus 120: $159 minGS was completed, I stated Focus 200: $199 via the online networks that, if So, the key to solving Tricky 19 Focus 800: $259 need be, I would supply stymied lies in getting one of your Lem- LemminGS players with game minGS to perform an act that is Please note that a Focus 20 has hints and tips. There was just not in its normal repertoire; a storage capacity of 20 mega- one small condition attached to namely, you’ll need to position a bytes, a Focus 60 has a storage the offer; I would be willing to Lemming near the exit, and capacity of 60 megabytes, and supply only the vaguest of hints have that Lemming dig a mine so on. To illustrate just how and tips, as I just didn’t want to in the opposite direction from much software can be stored on spoil the fun for other Lem- which mines are normally dug. If a Focus, a Focus 60 can hold the minGS players. the mine shaft is lined up

4 Shareware Solutions II June/July, 1997 correctly, it will intersect with to lose the 5.25" drive that was printer on the switch box.” the bottom of the pit, and all “Smart Ported” to Slot 6. the stranded LemminGS will simply be able to walk to the When we had just an Image- • Mitchell Spector of Montreal, exit. Writer II serial printer and a Canada, wrote in to share an modem, we used a mini DIN 8 Easter Egg discovery: A Miner always digs in the di- A/B switch box (straight thru rection it is facing, so the key to cable from the IIGS printer port “If you’re looking for more IIGS solving Tricky 19 lies in turning to the common connector on the Easter Eggs, did you ever find around a Lemming before it switch box) and changed Slot 1 the one in rSounder v3? If you starts digging. To do that, turn in the Slots Control Panel from load a digitized waveform, select a Lemming into a Digger, and “printer” to “modem” as re- the menu option “Buy IBM Ap- after it digs down just three or quired. When we added the HP tiva!” Then you can create some four pixels, turn it into a DeskWriter (not DeskJet) we interesting effects by holding Builder. The Lemming will then changed the switch box to an down either the Option or Apple attempt to build its way out of A/B/C/D variety and talked to keys while clicking on the “OK“ the pit, but it will soon run out the DeskWriter via the Har- button to exit. Option lowers the of room in which to build, and monie drivers. Switching be- waveforms frequency, while Ap- will briefly turn around. As the tween the DeskWriter and the ple increases it. The sample will Lemming turns around, act ImageWriter did not involve play at the same speed, but the quickly by turning it into a Min- changing the Slot 1 settings in pitch will go up or down (this is er, and it will dig in the opposite the Control Panel. We just sel- very neat to try with digitized direction from which it normally ected the appropriate port and speech). A little Easter Egg icon would. printer in the IIGS Direct Con- will appear next to the “OK” nect NDA Control Panel and button if you’ve activated it Letters, We Get Letters switched to the corresponding correctly.” ö

• Sterett Prevost III of Tucson, Arizona wrote in to address an item in Steve Disbrow’s article Modem Madness on “Networking Your Apple IIGS” that appeared in the last issue of the newsletter: Spectrum Internet Suite Syndicomm managing the Apple II forums on both online net- “When setting up a network The SIS project was so secretive works, the technical problems of that includes an Apple IIGS that most Apple IIGS owners broadcasting an online chat to ROM 01, you really don’t have to had no idea that a IIGS web two systems at the same time give up Slot 6 to your hard drive, browser was imminent until were overcome. More than 50 cu- and here’s how: they read about it in the March rious and eager people attended issue of Shareware Solutions II that conference, but sadly, an To set up the IIGS ROM 01 for or Juiced.GS. Once word about online conference held on the AppleTalk, you must go into the SIS did spread, the IIGS com- Internet’s IRC (Internet Relay Slots Control Panel and set Slot munity awaited the eventual Chat) a few weeks later only at- 7 to “AppleTalk.” If you have ac- release of SIS with a degree of tracted a handful of people. cessed the Slots Control Panel anticipation rarely seen before. via the CDA menu, the instant While the rest of the IIGS com- you switch Slot 7 to AppleTalk By the time that SIS started to munity awaited the release of you will see a warning that Slot ship in mid-May, Seven Hills SIS, the beta test team contin- 1 or Slot 2 must be set to “Your had already hosted several on- ued working at a feverish pace in Card.” What we used to do be- line discussions, including one order to determine and eradi- fore the ROM 3 was available that was simultaneously at- cate any remaining problems. was to set Slot 2 to “Your Card” tended by members on both Ge- Although the feature list of SIS and then plug the SCSI card in- nie and Delphi. Nothing like had long before been frozen, to that slot. We set “Startup that had ever happened before there were a number of last min- Slot” to Slot 2 and didn’t have in the Apple II world, but with ute changes made to SIS, with

Volume 3, Issue 5 Shareware Solutions II 5 the vast majority of those im- GS, please make sure that the Preferences file and then per- plemented so that SIS would AppleTalk/IRQ option is turned forming the v2.1 update and in- perform better when it encoun- Off, or SIS might have major stallation of SIS. Before you de- tered illegal html code. problems with dropped charac- lete that file, however, please be ters. Spectrum is extremely sen- aware that all of your personal Although SIS supports the cur- sitive to Desk Accessories and preferences, custom options and rent html version 3.2 standards, Inits that generate interrupts, dial list information are con- we discovered during the beta and the problem with the IRQ tained within the Preferences test phase that many web site TransWarp option is related to file. So, you are strongly advised designers don’t conform to those that; if the TransWarp has the to run Spectrum v2.0 one last same standards, and that when IRQ setting set to On, the time, and to write down all of SIS accessed sites containing il- TransWarp slows down for any the numbers and settings in legal and/or non-standard code, program that disables inter- your dial list and to make note it would naturally have a prob- rupts. And apparently, that sys- of all of your personal prefer- lem. So during much of the last tem slowdown is just enough to ences, as you will need to re- month of the beta test, the team cause problems with SIS. Ironi- enter all of that information into went out of its way looking for cally, since changing that Trans- Spectrum v2.1 after you delete sites that caused problems with Warp setting, I haven’t noted the Preferences file. SIS, and then Ewen Wannop anything different about my and Geoff Weiss would issue yet system’s operation, except that Unfortunately, one last problem another update. Finally, by the for now, SIS works great all of surfaced after SIS was com- beginning of May, the beta test the time. pleted, but it had nothing at all team gave Seven Hills the to do with Spectrum Internet thumbs up, and by mid-May, As soon as SIS arrived in the Suite. Instead, Seven Hills Soft- the first copies were sent out to mailboxes of eager purchasers, ware reported that the computer those who had purchased SIS. a minor problem did surface they use to keep track of orders that we on the beta test team failed, and Seven Hills is afraid Unfortunately, during that final had never encountered. The that perhaps some orders for phase of the SIS beta test, I problem only affects those who SIS went astray. Seven Hills experienced a problem that led updated to Spectrum v2.1 from therefore suggests that if you to a slight delay in the release v2.0, and fortunately, there’s a ordered SIS but never received it of SIS. Hopefully, my painful real easy solution. that you should contact Seven experience will spare you from Hills immediately. having to go through a similar After SIS started to ship, some misadventure. people were simply unable to Now that SIS is shipping, Seven run SIS after installing it, due Hills has set up a new site on I have a TransWarp GS in- to an error message that stated the world wide web. The URL is: stalled in my IIGS, and ever that SIS required Spectrum since I first installed this accel- v2.1. What perplexed all who http://www.sevenhills.com erator in the late 1980s, I had it saw that message was the fact set up in the TransWarp Con- that they had just installed If you need to contact Seven trol Panel so that the Apple- Spectrum v2.1. Hills the old fashioned way, Talk/IRQ setting was set to the please note their new address: On position. When I first pur- Spectrum stores a Preference chased the TransWarp, I was file in the Preferences subdirec- Seven Hills Software under the impression that by tory found in the System folder, 1254 Ocala Road setting the AppleTalk/IRQ op- and as it turned out, that older Tallahassee, FL 32304-1548 tion to always be On that my Preferences file from an earlier system would become more sta- version of Spectrum was some- 904-575-0566 (voice) ble. I ran my TransWarp that how interfering with the smooth 904-575-2015 fax) way for eight years, with abso- installation and use of SIS. lutely no problems. Biblical Research So, if you experience that prob- To make a long story shorter, if lem, the solution lies with A number of subscribers have you have SIS and a TransWarp deleting that old Spectrum v2.0 written to Shareware Solutions

6 Shareware Solutions II June/July, 1997 II to inquire about the availa- keep in mind that a 5 megabyte In many ways, the Usenet is a bility of The Bible in an elec- ASCII Text File is larger than microcosm of the real world, tronic disk based format that your word processor will be able where the vast majority of in- could be viewed on an Apple II to handle. For that reason, it habitants are honest, respectful computer. would be best for you to save the and friendly people. Unfortu- file in smaller segments. nately, there are also some par- Due to the immense size of the ticipants of Usenet who are any- Bible, making the entire text of The easiest way to do that with thing but honest, respectful and the scriptures available on the lynx web browser that Apple friendly people. But, you don’t 5.25" or 3.5" disks would be very II owners use to surf the web is have to let a small group of unwieldy, if not logistically im- to access the above link for the maladjusted, immature trouble- possible. Bible with lynx, and once the 5 makers ruin your Usenet experi- megabyte file has been trans- ence, because you can easily However, if you have access to ferred to press the P command filter out many offensive mes- the world wide web, you can that will then “print the file to sages thanks to what are known read the King James Bible on- screen.” Once the entire file has as Kill Files. line, or if you have 5 megabytes been “printed to screen” it will of free disk space on your hard be in the scrollback buffer of To access Usenet newsgroups, drive, you can download that your telecommunications pro- you can use any of a number of electronic version of The Bible gram. From there, you can eas- different software programs for offline viewing. ily choose large segments of the known as newsreaders. Those file which you can then copy who access the Usenet using an As described in previous issues from the scrollback buffer to a Apple II computer via a dial-up of Shareware Solutions II, the file on disk. shell account generally have a stated goal of the online Guten- choice of several Unix-based berg Project is to make as many Unfortunately, the above sug- newsreaders. Some of the more non-copyrighted books as pos- gestion is quite time consuming popular Unix-based newsread- sible available via the Internet, to actually execute, but it does ers are rn, tin, rtin, and trn, and and one of the very first books to work. although they all offer a dif- be transcribed from the printed ferent user interface, different page to the computer screen Kill For Peace options and different command was, not surprisingly, the King sets, they all offer the user the James Bible. There are currently more than option to filter out messages. 15,000 interactive discussion In order for you to read the groups on the portion of the Since each newsreader imple- Bible on the world wide web, Internet known as the Usenet. ments Kill Files in a slightly dif- point your web browser at the These freewheeling groups are ferent manner, you are advised following URL: called newsgroups, and the sub- to read the Kill File Frequently ject matter of any individual Asked Questions (FAQ) file that http://www.w3.org/vl/ newsgroup can be as narrow as can be located on the world wide Literature/Gutenberg/etext92/ a particular TV show or as gen- web at the following URL: bible11.txt eral as the Apple II computer. http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/ To read other books that are Newsgroups attract an inter- hypertext/faq/usenet/ part of the Gutenberg Project, national audience, and some of killfile-faq/faq.html point your web browser at the the more active newsgroups can following URL: generate hundreds of messages In general, most newsreaders al- a day. Although many of those low users to set up a Kill File http://www.w3.org/vl/ messages can and do contain from within the newsreader it- Literature/Gutenberg/ valuable information or in- self via the Control K command sights, some messages posted (press the Control key and K key If you are interested in down- on the Usenet can be disturbing, simultaneously). Once that is loading the Bible to your hard hostile, obscene, repugnant, un- done, newsreaders can be in- drive so that you can consult pleasant, tasteless, obnoxious, structed to filter out messages with it at your leisure, please or just plain offensive. from particular individuals, par-

Volume 3, Issue 5 Shareware Solutions II 7 ticular domains, or even mes- Apple II Web Pages” moniker. lier this year as the editor of the sages that contain a particular While you’re there, make sure monthly GenieLamp A2 news- word or phrase that the reader you look for the “Easter Egg” letter, and he just recently set would rather not see on his or that will take you to a hilarious up a site which he calls “the her computer screen. complaint form that you can fill Official Unofficial Home of Ge- out. nieLamp A2 on the World Wide To learn more about setting up Web.” and maintaining Kill Files in A2 Web is very complete and the newsreader you use, you can well organized, so it’s very easy GenieLamp A2 is the premier generally access the newsread- to find exactly what you are freeware publication for Apple II er’s built-in help system by run- looking for. A2 Web is a site users, and it has been continu- ning the newsreader and en- that absolutely must be placed ously produced for more than tering the “H” (for Help) com- into your bookmark file. five years! The content is mainly mand. Similarly, from the Unix compiled from the A2 Round- prompt, you can access your David’s site is sponsored and Table on Genie, but there are al- newsreader’s online manual. To hosted by Syndicomm, the or- ways articles appearing in each do that for the rn newsreader, ganization that manages the issue that have been written by for example, just type “man rn” Apple II areas on both Genie some of the Apple II world’s at the Unix prompt. To access and Delphi. The URL is: foremost experts. the online help manual for other newsreaders, just substitute http://www.syndicomm.com/ If you are unfamiliar with Ge- the acronym of your newsreader a2web/ nieLamp A2, rush right over to in place of rn, as given in the the following URL: above example. • Jeff Robertson’s new Apple II home page was inspired by an http://people.delphi.com/ Just remember that a Kill File article that appeared in the rsuenaga is your friend, and the utili- December 1996 issue of Share- zation of a Kill File can help ware Solutions II – “The Apple • Doug Cuff wrote the delta make your exposure to the Use- II On The World Wide Web.” manual for AppleWorks v5.0 in net a much more friendly and late-1994. Since that time, Ap- rewarding experience. Jeff contacted me to secure per- pleWorks has been updated to mission to convert the article in- v5.1, so Doug expanded and up- New Apple II Web Sites to html code and after permis- dated the manual to encompass sion was readily granted, Jeff’s changes and new features that • David Kerwood jokingly calls site became a launch pad to were incorporated into Apple- his Apple II oriented A2 Web almost all Apple II related sites Works 5.1. You can read Doug’s site “The Mother Of All Apple II on the world wide web. Almost updates to the AppleWorks Web Pages!” The listing of immediately, Jeff started to manual at the following URL: Apple II related sites on A2 expand the listings of Apple II Web is quite extensive, and it’s sites, and it is now as complete http://www.cuff.com/~doug/ also a thing of beauty to behold and up-to-date as is possible. Of writer/AW5.html while using Spectrum Internet course, the world wide web can Suite. change minute by minute, so Apple Link Jeff is constantly updating his David was a beta tester for page and the links to other Ap- It came as somewhat of a sur- Spectrum Internet Suite, and ple II sites that can be found prise, admittedly, a very pleas- that allowed him to get a head there. So, make sure you add ant surprise. On one of Apple start designing a SIS-friendly Jeff Robertson’s Apple II home Computer Inc’s world wide web site. If viewing the A2 Web site page to your bookmark file! The sites, there is actually a link to on SIS, you’ll probably start to URL is: the Shareware Solutions II smile just looking at David’s home page. The URL is: creativity. Yet, once you start http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/ clicking on links, you’ll know ~ds876/apple.html http://www2.apple.com/ why David can legitimately lay documents/shareware.html ö claim to “The Mother Of All • Ryan Suenaga took over ear-

8 Shareware Solutions II June/July, 1997 Bernie ][ The Rescue By Henrik Gudat and Joe Kohn

A Name Change in the Swiss Alps and warming rowed from “Power Mode” and is them up with the finest Swiss now available in the standard Just a week after Bright Soft- cognac. So Bernie the St Ber- (windowed) video display. The ware (aka Fast Eddie Labs) re- nard was chosen as Bright Soft- most spectacular addition, how- leased the Fast Eddie Beta1 ware’s mascot, and “Bernie ][ ever, is the arrival of a new emu- IIGS emulator for PowerPC- The Rescue” was chosen as Fast lation core completely written in based Macintosh computers, a Eddie’s new name. PowerPC assembly language disconcerting e-mail from an that (at least) doubles the per- irate attorney arrived at the of- At the same time, Fast Eddie formance compared to previous fices of Bright Software. The at- Labs was re-named F.E. Sys- releases. On whatever machine torney represented a software tems. Please note, however, that Bernie is running, it’ll out- company named LizardTech; F.E. does not stand for Fast perform a stock IIGS easily. And the e-mail claimed that Lizard- Eddie; it stands for Fast Emu- if you happen to own one of the Tech owns the worldwide trade- lation. higher end machines like a 200 mark for any software products Mhz Macintosh, you will emu- named “Fast Eddie” and it in- Although the Bernie moniker late at speeds around 20Mhz – formed Bright Software that if may sound like a joke, rest as- can you say “fast?” Since this it didn’t change the Fast Eddie sured that Bernie ][ The Rescue speed is way too fast for some name within 30 days, Bright is no dog! applications, SpeedNanny will Software could be sued for give you total control over emu- trademark infringement. Within two weeks of the original lated speed. You can choose Beta1 release, a Beta2+ version among any speed from 0.8 Mhz Rather than being upset, Bright was released, and Beta3 was re- to 4 Mhz in 0.2 Mhz increments, Software decided to use this op- leased a few short weeks later. unless you decide to turn off portunity to have a little fun, With each successive release, SpeedNanny and hum along at and in the release notes for the Bernie has become more power- top speed. Fast Eddie Beta2+ update, a ful and more feature laden. And contest was announced that of- since late April, the most recent Although Bernie is supposedly fered a subscription to Share- incarnation dubbed “Bernie the most user friendly Apple II ware Solutions II to whomever Warp 4” marks the state of the emulator, Warp 4.6 introduces came up with the best alter- art in Apple IIGS emulation. even more “goodies” for more native name for Fast Eddie. straightforward operation. If you Bernie Warp 4.6 have disks you’d like to mount Bright Software, which is based at once, simply put a few aliases in Basel, Switzerland, rejected “Too hot to handle” wrote a long into a folder and drop the folder such submissions as Phoenix, time Bernie user when he in- onto the Bernie icon. And while Freebird, Steady Eddie, The stalled the brand new Warp 4 it’s loading the images, files are Basel Bomber, The Emulator release, and this summarizes scanned and “autotyped” (that Formerly Known As Fast Eddie, the vast number of features and is, the proper file types are ap- and Emulation Station, and top performance quite well. In plied). Power Mode no longer re- instead chose a name that they the user interface department, quires you to remember all hoped would convey Swiss relia- Bernie now features GS/OS those menu commands – func- bility and efficiency. But, in- compatible mouse emulation tion keys now each have their stead of using such recognizable that frees users from having to own functionality and control symbols as a Swiss watch, switch between the Apple II and sound, performance, Power Mode Swiss chocolate or Swiss cheese, Mac mouse. Fast typists will as well as mouse and joystick Bright Software chose a big St appreciate the fact that ADB emulation. Bernard dog as its new corpo- keyboard buffering has been rate symbol. After all, St Ber- added. And, to make everything Since even before the intro- nard’s are known worldwide for just a little bit faster, direct-to- duction of the Beta1 release, rescuing hikers and skiers lost screen drawing has been bor- F.E. Systems has been working

Volume 3, Issue 5 Shareware Solutions II 9 on disk emulation, and while Step 1: Get A Copy Step 3: A Virtual Hard Disk some major parts are still un- der development, a few new or First of all, you obviously need Now that Bernie is fully func- changed functions did make it to get a copy of Bernie ][ The tional, you can start running into the Warp 4.6 release. You Rescue. Shareware Solutions II Apple II or IIGS software on it. can now “lock” disk images subscribers can order a copy of What you most likely would within Bernie. Each time you Bernie Warp 4.6 from the want to do next is install a large launch Bernie, the software Shareware Solutions II library startup volume where you can mounts a disk image or a work- for $5. store the System Software and set of your choice and boots from your favorite applications. To do it. And, Bernie now supports a Alternately, the latest version so, boot into GS/OS from a 3.5" new cross-platform disk image of Bernie is always available for disk. (Remember that the format that is compatible with downloading from F.E. Systems “SystemTools1” disk of the Sys- other emulators and will soon brand new world wide web site. tem Software 6.0.1 disk set is become the standard. Still, you The URL for the F.E. Systems bootable.) When the Finder has can create disk images in as home page is: loaded, create a virtual disk by many as four different formats. selecting “Create Disk” from the http://www.magnet.ch/ File menu. A good start is a vol- Volume sharing has saved Ber- emutech/ ume of about 20 megabytes, so nie users many hours of juggling click the “any size” radio button disks. With volume sharing, you The latest version of Bernie can and enter “20480” into the text can mount an entire volume – also be downloaded from the box. And since you’d like to use for example a hard disk, Zip Apple II emulation home page that volume right after creating Disk, Floptical, or magneto- on the world wide web. The URL it, also check the “mount” check optical disk – in the emulated for that site is: box at the bottom. Click OK and Apple II and access it just as if save the new virtual disk to one it were connected to a real Ap- http://www.emulation.net/ of your Mac volumes. Upon sav- ple II. Due to some deficiencies apple2/ ing the image, the virtual disk with a popular Mac-based third will become available in the party disk driver, Bernie is of- Step 2: A ROM Image Apple II environment. As with fering you two different levels of all new media, GS/OS wants to volume sharing (read-only and Unfortunately, F.E. Systems is initialize it right away. Since full read/write) to make data not allowed to distribute the this is a good thing, pick Pro- transfer as painless as possible. necessary IIGS ROM image DOS formatting and go ahead. Plus, in read-only mode, you can with Bernie. Thus, you will have access the volume on both the to get a copy of the software Step 4: System Software MacOS and the Apple II layer stored in the Apple IIGS ROMs simultaneously. Needless to on your own. The documentation With disk space ad infinitum say, volume sharing is so easy included with Bernie shows you that is waiting to be filled, grab to use that you will love it. precisely how to extract a ROM the System Software disks and dump if you own an Apple IIGS; start installing GS/OS System Using Bernie there is even a small utility 6.0.1. (Note: if you have not program included with Bernie registered Bernie yet, make sure Using Bernie is a snap, and that does the work for you. If you start a new session right once you have the emulator up you do not have an Apple IIGS before installation, otherwise, and running, you can almost for- within reach, just visit the the 30 minute time limit will get you’re running under emu- Bernie section on the Apple II eventually quit the installation lation. Nevertheless, there are emulation home page on the and might leave your virtual two or three minor things that world wide web, and you will disk in a messy state.) can sometimes confuse new Ber- find a link to a zipped ROM nie users. The following steps image that you can decompress Step 5: Software And Bernie explain how you should proceed with a newer version of StuffIt. to get your virtual Apple IIGS to Please note that you must own What if you have an external work without risking a massive a real Apple IIGS to use the hard disk filled with megabyte migraine headache. ROM dump legally! upon megabyte of wonderful Ap-

10 Shareware Solutions II June/July, 1997 ple II and IIGS software? No images much faster than real that it runs at a speed that Ber- problem! Just connect the hard 3.5" disks. nie users are used to. In fact, disk to your Power Macintosh starting Modulae is now about and mount it in MacOS. (You • Disable extensions and quit as fast as on a real Apple IIGS might need third party tools other applications that might running at 7 Mhz. such as PC Exchange or FWB’s slow down your Power Macin- Hard Disk Toolkit.) Take your tosh; close all Finder windows But that’s not the whole story; hard disk’s icon and drag and because they need quite a lot of F.E. Systems is also working on drop it onto the Bernie appli- attention. adding an exciting, integrated cation icon and all of your soft- printing solution that is so cool ware will become instantly • Last but not least, sporadi- you will love it. The first incar- available in the emulated Apple cally check the F.E. Systems nation will be limited to text II environment (Caution: please home page on the world wide printing from AppleWorks Clas- read the notes about volume web for updates and informa- sic and similar software. Hope- sharing very carefully!). tion on Bernie ][ The Rescue! fully a complete printing pack- age will follow later on this year. Step 6: Once And For All On The Horizon: Warp 5 F.E. Systems is also hoping to implement serial port emu- After a couple of sessions, you F.E. Systems is already hard at lation on a hardware level in will probably get tired of re- work, planning the next major order to enable Bernie users to mounting the startup disk you Bernie update to Warp 5. These network a virtual IIGS or attach have just created. Luckily, you plans for Warp 5 include IWM MIDI devices. can tell Bernie to boot from a emulation that will be inte- disk of your choice each time you grated into the emulation core Eventually, F.E. Systems hopes launch Bernie. To do so, choose and user interface. If all goes ac- to fine-tune Bernie’s disk inter- “Select Startup” from the Setup cording to plan, Warp 5 will action, support a wider range of menu. feature full read/write 3.5" IWM disk images and add 5.25" disk emulation with dynamic RAM support. Step 7: Register Bernie! caching for very fast access times. A Warp 5 prototype is Keep In Touch Once you’ve taken these steps, currently running the FTA’s your Power Macintosh will be a Modulae and a wide range of en- In the meanwhile, if you have very different computer – it will tertainment software. Because additional comments or ques- offer you the best of both worlds. IWM emulation is much slower tions about Bernie, feel free to To make your life even easier, because it transfers data byte- contact F.E. Systems by di- keep the following in mind: by-byte and not by entire disk recting your Internet e-mail to: blocks, F.E. Systems still needs • GS/OS System 6.0.1 has at to optimize IWM emulation so [email protected] ö least a few bugs that can cor- rupt a volume. Bernie allows you to mount volumes in “read- only” mode that keeps your vol- umes healthy. Such A Deal!

• You can write-protect any Vitesse ly one or two orders were being mounted device by selecting it placed each month, and because in the “Disks” window and then Several months ago, the rumor of those slow sales, Vitesse was clicking on the “Lock” button. mill was abuzz with word that “slowly easing out of the Apple Vitesse had gone out of busi- II marketplace.” • Though Bernie can deal with ness. At the time, I contacted ProDOS, HFS and MS-DOS 3.5" Vitesse’s owner Kevin Johnson To help ease that transition and disks in the built-in drive, con- for confirmation of that rumor. to ensure that products pub- sider making disk images of He stated that sales of Vitesse lished by Vitesse remain avail- your favorite disks with Apple’s products had slowed down so able to the Apple IIGS users of DiskCopy. Bernie accesses disk much over the past year that on- the world, Shareware Solutions

Volume 3, Issue 5 Shareware Solutions II 11 II has been able to secure per- tions II subscribers for only $5, printers, and for Apple’s original mission from Vitesse to distrib- which includes postage to any- StyleWriter I printer. ute several of the IIGS software where in the world. products that had been brought Harmonie also provides driver to market by Vitesse. Those two Please note that in order to support for several Parallel In- products are Quickie v3.2 and make use of the Quickie soft- terface Cards including the AE Harmonie v2.11. ware, you must actually have a Parallel Pro, Grappler Plus, Pro- Quickie hand held scanner at- Grappler, Epson APL, Finger- • Back in 1991, Vitesse stunned tached to your Apple IIGS; with- Print G, II Print and the Marcey the Apple II world when it re- out a Quickie installed, the soft- Parallel card. Harmonie also in- leased the Quickie hand held ware will not even load. So es- cludes a special high speed seri- scanner. The Quickie scanner al- sentially, this offer is limited to al Port Driver that enables lowed IIGS owners to capture those of you who already own a those printers that have a serial images from printed media such Quickie but who have an earlier interface to be used with Har- as books, magazines or photo- version of the software. monie (Note: Most HP printers graphs, and to recreate those manufactured in the last few images on the IIGS monitor as • In addition to the Quickie years include only a Parallel in- standard IIGS Super Hi Res software, an agreement has also terface; some older DeskJets in- graphics. Those scanned graph- recently been reached between cluded only a serial interface.). ics could then be saved to disk, Harmonie author “Burger Bill” printed out, used with paint Heineman, Vitesse, and Share- Harmonie works with all stan- programs, or used as clipart for ware Solutions II that results in dard IIGS programs that use desktop publishing projects. Shareware Solutions II be- the IIGS Print Manager, such as coming the new publisher of the Addressed For Success, Apple- In its day, the Quickie was a Harmonie set of GS/OS printer Works GS, HyperCard IIGS, huge seller, in large part be- drivers. Platinum Paint, and Quick Click cause it was so much fun to use. Calc; the most notable exception But several years ago, the Japa- Harmonie is a large collection of of programs that will not work nese company that manufac- GS/OS printer drivers that per- with the Harmonie drivers is tured the scanner discontinued mits IIGS owners to output The Print Shop GS. Aside from the model that Vitesse had their data onto the printed page The Print Shop GS, Harmonie adopted for use on the IIGS, and using three different types of should work just fine with all of about a year or more ago, high performance, high quality your GS/OS based software. Vitesse’s supply of the scanners printers: laser printers that dried up completely and the emulate the widely used Hew- To see the results of the Har- Quickie itself had to be discon- lett-Packard LaserJet stan- monie GS/OS printer drivers, tinued. dard, including the LaserJet look no further than the news- IIp, III, IV and 5L; inkjet letter that you are now reading; Prior to it having been discon- printers that emulate Hewlett- it was printed on an HP Laser- tinued, Vitesse had issued a Packard DeskJet printers, in- Jet via the Harmonie drivers. number of software updates, cluding the DeskJet 340, 400, with each update offering more 500, 520, 550c, 560c, 600, 660c, Harmonie allows you to take full and more features and options, 670, 672c, 680c, 682c, 690c and advantage of high quality print- all of which made the capture 800 series printers which are ers, up to a certain point. On HP and manipulation of images not designated as Windows only laser printers, Harmonie will more efficient. The final update printers; and 24-pin dot-matrix output data to the printed page to the Quickie software was printers that emulate Epson LQ at a maximum of 300 dots per version 3.2 and that was printers, including models man- inch resolution, even on those released in mid-June, 1994. ufactured by Epson, NEC, Pan- laser printers that are capable asonic, and many others. of printing at higher resolutions. As a parting present to Quickie On DeskJet printers, Harmonie owners, Vitesse has authorized Additionally, Harmonie also in- is limited to printing in color at Shareware Solutions II to make cludes greatly improved GS/OS 300 dots per inch, and at 600 x that final Quickie v3.2 disk drivers for the ImageWriter II 300 dots per inch resolution in available to Shareware Solu- and ImageWriter LQ dot-matrix black and white. Despite those

12 Shareware Solutions II June/July, 1997 limitations, tens of thousands mit a copy of your receipt from left me very little time for any- of Apple IIGS owners who pur- Vitesse. thing else. I’ve also been doing chased Vitesse’s Harmonie are some freelance writing (which thrilled with the high quality In order to achieve the highest has resulted in even more con- output that they can achieve at quality printing possible on a sulting), so I just don’t have the 300 dots per inch or at 600 x IIGS, Harmonie provides only time to continue to run the mail 300 dots per inch. 50% of the working solution; order business.” Harmonie simply provides you Harmonie is, in essence, an ex- with the ability to use ink jet or As you know, Steve Disbrow has tension to the GS/OS Operating laser printers on a IIGS. West- also been writing for Shareware System. Once the Harmonie Code Software’s Pointless pro- Solutions II since the demise of drivers are installed and you’ve gram provides the missing piece GS+ Magazine, and although he gotten used to having a high of the formula, and Pointless is has been offered a permanent quality ink jet or laser printer a virtual requirement for any- position on the Shareware Solu- connected to your IIGS, you’ll one who prints text from any tions II masthead, I’m sorry to soon come to think of Harmonie GS/OS based program. Please report that his continued in- as such an integral component read on to learn a little bit more volvement with this newsletter of GS/OS that you’ll be printing about Pointless. is uncertain at this time. Per- to those high quality printers haps if his fans were to write to with nary a second thought and EGO Systems him to offer words of encourage- with all of the ease of use you ment, they might have better now associate with the Image- Steve Disbrow’s EGO Systems success than I have had in trying Writer. In other words, thanks has remained quite active in the to convince him to remain on to Harmonie, printing on laser Apple IIGS marketplace since board as we continue our “ex- and ink jet printers is simply a the demise of GS+ Magazine, citing Apple II journey into the matter of “plug and print.” and in recent years EGO has future.” You can write to Steve gained quite a reputation as a Disbrow at the following Inter- Vitesse has been selling the respected and valued mail order net e-mail address: Harmonie package of printer source for Apple IIGS hardware drivers for $29.95, and Share- and software. EGO Systems has [email protected] ware Solutions II is pleased to carried both its own in-house be able to lower the price to $20, developed IIGS software titles Because Steve and I had such a which includes postage to any- as well as selling products from close working relationship over where in the world. other companies. the years, as both one time com- petitors and later as co-workers, Because Vitesse’s activities in Sadly, in mid-May, Steve Dis- his departure from the Apple II the Apple II world have been brow announced that the EGO world saddens me quite a lot. decreasing for the past year or Systems’ mail order business But, looking at it another way, two, the v2.11 update was never would shut down operations my loss will be your gain. really promoted, and many cur- permanently on June 27, 1997. rent owners of Vitesse’s Har- For the past few years, EGO monie have absolutely no idea Steve offered two compelling Systems has been distributing that Harmonie had ever been reasons for closing up shop at software from WestCode Soft- updated to support 600 x 300 this point: time and money. In ware, including such phenome- dpi printing. For that reason, the message he posted online, nal and useful products as Shareware Solutions II would Steve said, “The Apple II mail Pointless and HardPressed, like to extend a low cost update order business is about as dead TypeWest and TypeSet, and In- offer to those of you who have as it can get.” So, in order to Words. So in recent weeks, all older versions of Vitesse’s Har- stay one step ahead of the bill involved parties have agreed monie. The cost of the update is collectors, Steve was forced to that Shareware Solutions II will $7, but in order to qualify for seek work as a part time com- take over from EGO Systems as that lower cost update, you puter consultant. His online the distributor for WestCode’s must return your original Har- farewell went on to state, “I’ve product line. Steve Disbrow will monie disk for verification (it been far more successful at this be packaging up any remaining will be returned to you) or sub- than I had anticipated, and it’s WestCode Software inventory

Volume 3, Issue 5 Shareware Solutions II 13 and shipping it to Shareware with Courier font in 24 point porated into both the MacOS Solutions II. It is anticipated, type, but didn’t have Courier.24 and Windows 95 Operating Sys- therefore, that by mid-July, all stored on disk, the IIGS would tems. If you want to put your of the following software titles re-size the 12 point font to 24 best foot forward in print, you will be available from Share- points, but in the process, would can do so by using TrueType ware Solutions II at typically recreate characters that are fonts. And, the only available discounted “Such A Deal” price somewhat blocky and less than way to use TrueType fonts on a levels. legible. This re-sizing process, IIGS is with WestCode Soft- called scaling, often results in ware’s Pointless! • Pointless offers an impressive characters that have a staircase and powerful improvement to like effect commonly called “the In order to encourage all of you the GS/OS operating system by jaggies.” who have not yet purchased incorporating TrueType font Pointless to do so, Shareware technology into IIGS desktop TrueType font files, on the other Solutions II is lowering the price applications. hand, store each individual to only $20, and that includes character as a series of mathe- postage to anywhere in the TrueType font technology, origi- matically derived lines and world. Such a deal! Pointless nally developed by Apple Com- curves that define the outline of requires System 6.0 or 6.0.1. puter Inc for inclusion with Mac- the character. The mathemat- intosh System 7.0 software, of- ical formulas that define the • Two of the other products from fers the latest advancements in outline are so precise and so WestCode Software are add-on professional and high quality exact that only a single font file products for Pointless: Type- font imaging technology. Al- is required for each font family, West and TypeSet. The “Such A ternatively referred to as out- and TrueType fonts can success- Deal” pricing is now $15 for each line fonts, or scalable fonts, fully and accurately be scaled to of these Pointless add-ons. TrueType fonts look crisp, clear any point size, from 1 to 255, and laser sharp at any point and remain perfectly formed, no TypeWest is a collection of 40 size, whether displayed on the matter how big or small they professionally designed True- computer screen or printed out become. As only a single True- Type fonts that you can use in on paper. Type font file is needed to gener- any of your GS/OS documents. If ate all the different point sizes, you’ve just bought Pointless, Before Pointless, all standard there will be no further need to TypeWest is a great way to start IIGS application programs re- clutter your IIGS System Disk your TrueType font collection! If lied upon the bit-mapped fonts with multiple point sized font you already have Pointless, the that are supplied by Apple on files; hence, the name Pointless. TypeWest fonts will help add a the IIGS System Disk. Bit- professional touch to all of your mapped font files contain infor- Pointless will breathe new life documents! TypeWest requires mation about the typeface as into all the GS/OS derived word Pointless for use on a IIGS. well as graphic representations processing documents printed of all of the alphanumeric and on any Direct Connect printer TypeSet is an add-on utility pro- special characters that can be attached to a IIGS, even an gram for Pointless that helps typed from the Apple IIGS key- ImageWriter, and will allow you you manage your TrueType font board; each graphic represen- to take full advantage of the collection by providing you with tation of the different charac- highest quality text printing three useful utilities in one New ters is composed of thousands of imaginable on an HP inkjet or Desk Accessory: a WYSIWYG tiny dots. All bit-mapped font laser printer. But, no matter (What You See Is What You Get) files contain characters of the which Direct Connect printer font pull-down menu in which same height, or point size, and you use, all printed output de- the font names are displayed several different sized bit- rived from using TrueType fonts using each font’s actual typeface, mapped font files are supplied will look far superior to the out- switchable font sets (to make on the IIGS System Disk for put derived from using older bit- sure you only use the fonts you each font family; for example, mapped fonts. need), and an extensive set of both a Courier.10 font and a font reports that will help you to Courier.12 font are supplied. If It’s no wonder that TrueType create and print out a catalog by chance you wanted to type font technology has been incor- that contains sample printouts

14 Shareware Solutions II June/July, 1997 from all of your TrueType fonts. LightningScan hand held scan- When InWords was first re- ner, InWords lets you scan a leased, it sold for $129! But, at • The last of the WestCode piece of paper, whether it’s a its new special “Such A Deal” product line that Shareware So- newspaper or textbook, and it pricing, you can own this inno- lutions II will distribute is captures the text into its word vative program for only $20, HardPressed, a wonderful util- processor-like editor. It further which includes postage to any- ity program that will effectively allows the manipulation of this where in the world. InWords allow you to nearly double the text, and lets the user save it to works on a IIe or IIGS, and in capacity of your hard disk drive. disk as either a standard ASCII order to use it, you must already Text File, or as an AppleWorks own a Quickie or LightningScan HardPressed is compression word processing document. hand held scanner. software that works behind the scenes to give you up to twice as Using InWords is easy. It has • Lastly, Shareware Solutions II much disk space on all of your an AppleWorks style filecard in- has purchased Addressed For IIGS hard drive partitions! terface, and several sophisti- Success from EGO Systems, and HardPressed will transparently cated scan options are offered. A has become the new publisher of compress and expand files as Standard Scan is used for text that GS/OS program. Of all the you use them. Open a file and that is narrower than the scan- software published by EGO Sys- HardPressed expands it auto- ner’s 4 inch scan head. A Merge tems, this one title in particular matically. Save a file and Hard- Scan is used when scanning text was of special interest because Pressed compresses it auto- wider than 4 inches. When using it serves as the perfect comple- matically. It’s that simple! the merge option, the left side of ment to Contacts GS, a name the text is scanned first, then and address New Desk Acces- Although it takes a new Hard- the right side, and InWords sory database program that is Pressed owner a while to learn automatically combines the two also published by Shareware which of the various compres- scans into a single document. A Solutions II. sion methods will work best for Column Scan is used when him or her, once HardPressed is scanning from newspapers, and Addressed For Success is a so- in operation, you’ll barely re- InWords ignores all text except phisticated desktop-based IIGS member that it’s there. When that which is contained in the database and label design pro- launching programs that have column directly under the center gram for the IIGS that is power- been compressed with Hard- of the scan head. ful, versatile and extremely easy Pressed, it will add, at most, to use. It allows IIGS users to just a few seconds to the start- Every periodical or book is easily maintain mailing lists up process, as HardPressed un- printed using a particular style and create and print a wide compresses the programs “on and size of type, referred to as a variety of labels from those the fly.” typeface. Because there are so lists. many different typefaces used, HardPressed is compatible with InWords comes with the ability Each mailing list can be easily all hard disk drives, and re- to read a variety of different sorted on any field (a bulk mail quires that you have System 6.0 typefaces, and more important- sorting option is also included to or 6.0.1 installed. ly, InWords can be trained to help reduce your postage costs), recognize virtually any other and records can easily be The new “Such A Deal” pricing typeface. InWords operates by searched and selected using Ad- for HardPressed is only $20, comparing the characters it dressed For Success’s powerful with postage to anywhere in the scans to a font table that is “Query By Example” feature. It world included. stored on disk. InWords comes also allows you to easily import with a number of pre-trained lists from AppleWorks v3.0 or • InWords is an Optical Charac- font tables for popular publica- 4.x database files, or from any ter Recognition (OCR) software tions such as Time, Newsweek, tab-delimited ASCII text file. program that provides an en- US News, Forbes, and Money. It tirely new method to enter infor- also comes with a Standard font Once you’ve got your list created, mation into an Apple IIe or table that is capable of already the program lets you design and IIGS computer. Working in con- reading a wide variety of dif- print a wide variety of labels on junction with either a Quickie or ferent typefaces. any printer connected to your

Volume 3, Issue 5 Shareware Solutions II 15 IIGS. Each label can have a pre- well, we’d also like to make a take up at least two or three en- defined return address and up package deal available that in- tire issues. to three Super Hi Res graphics cludes both programs. The cost on it. The font, size and style of of the Contacts/AFS Bundle is Instead of writing about it here, the label text can be changed to $35. it’s been decided that the very any font that you have installed best approach would be to have on your system, and graphics A2-Central-On-Disk the actual editor of A2-Central- can be scaled both horizontally On-Disk tell you himself about and vertically to ensure the best In the last issue of Shareware each issue and describe the con- results when printing. Solutions II, I wrote: “Before the tents of each disk. A2-Central-On-Disk collection In the past, Addressed For Suc- can be made available, a lot of On every issue of A2-Central- cess has sold for up to $50, but effort needs to be devoted to On-Disk, there was an intro- the new price for Addressed For cataloging and indexing those ductory text file that described Success is now only $20, which disks.” the contents of that issue. So, all includes postage to anywhere in 66 of these text files have been the world. Addressed For Suc- As it turned out, the cataloging compiled onto two 3.5" disks, cess requires a IIGS with 1.5 and indexing of the disks was and these disks will have to megabytes of RAM and System the easiest part of the process. serve as our catalog. These two 6.0 or 6.01. The hardest part was deciding catalog disks are available now the best and most efficient way from Shareware Solutions II for Additionally, Shareware Solu- to make the catalog of all those $3. tions II has a “try it before you disks available. After all, there buy it” demo version of Ad- are a total of 66 disks in the A2- Each individual A2-Central-On- dressed For Success available Central-On-Disk collection, and Disk is available for $5. The cost for only $2. all of them are filled with soft- for any 3 issues is $10. And the ware. If the contents were de- cost of the entire collection of 66 Because Addressed For Success scribed within the Shareware disks is $120. All costs include complements Contacts GS so Solutions II newsletter, it would postage to anywhere in the world. ö Shareware Solutions IIe/IIc/IIgs Bronze Dragon proof” was supplied by the pi- rent status as supplied by the rating pranksters. copyright holder, and provides a Willie Yeo, a resident of Singa- link to ftp download sites on the pore who attends college in Aus- Due in large part to that elabo- Internet where the software can tralia, took it upon himself to rate and disconcerting hoax, be obtained. Willie Yeo was also start the world wide web-based Willie Yeo established the successful in setting up “mirror Treasure Chest Project. Treasure Chest Project to help sites” so that web surfers could ensure that any further at- connect to a Treasure Chest site The Treasure Chest Project tempts to get older Apple II closer to home. As of mid-June, came into being after several software reclassified were legit- the Treasure Chest Project could devious denizens of the Usenet's imate, lawful and sanctioned by be found at the following URLs: comp.sys.apple2 newsgroup per- the copyright holders of the soft- petrated a deceptive hoax on the ware. http://www.tals.dis.qut.edu.au/ Apple II community by stating staff/willie/treasure.htm that Word Perfect for the Apple The first thing Willie Yeo did II and IIGS had been reclas- was to set up a site on the world http://www.spots.ab.ca/ sified as shareware and was wide web. The Treasure Chest ~bduhreen/treasure.html now available for downloading site contains listings of formerly from the Internet. The hoax was commercial software, includes http://www.geocities.com/ so elaborate that even “written e-mail verifications of the cur- SiliconValley/Vista/4558/

16 Shareware Solutions II June/July, 1997 Despite Willie's initial stated Yeo contacted me to ask for as- Although similar in nature and goal of simply providing verifi- sistance. Because Adam West plot to adventure games in the cation of the status of newly re- no longer owned an Apple II, he Eamon series, Bronze Dragon is classified software, Willie Yeo's wanted to play Bronze Dragon a little more sophisticated be- first success came when he was on his PC using an Apple II cause instead of typing in two instrumental in getting a com- emulator. To make a long story word commands as in the Eam- mercial game reclassified as short, Adam mailed to me a on games, all commands are is- public domain software. Bronze Dragon package and re- sued in Bronze Dragon from a quested that I create for him a menu using your arrow keys. Bronze Dragon was originally disk image that could be used released in 1985 by Common- on the emulator. After I did Bronze Dragon is supplied on wealth Software, and approxi- that, Adam posted the disk two double-sided 5.25" disks, mately 1,000 copies were sold images to his own world wide and the documentation is sup- at the time. Many years later, web site. If you use an IBM PC plied on a third disk. And now, Adam West of Commonwealth and an Apple II emulator, you all of these Bronze Dragon disks Software sold his Apple II, can download the disk images are available from the Share- bought an IBM PC, and started at the following URL: ware Solutions II library for only working on an updated version $5. of the game for the PC. http://www.iquest.net/~adamw Kitchen Share Recently, Adam posted a mes- At the time, Adam also re- sage on the Usenet that provid- quested that Bronze Dragon be For the past dozen years, Kitch- ed details about Bronze Drag- added to the Shareware Solu- en Sink Software has been pro- on's history and Adam's future tions II library so that those ducing innovative and creative plans for a Windows 95 version without access to the Internet Apple II software for two diverse of the game. In the message, could also play the game. audiences: educators and com- Adam clearly stated that puter programmers. Bronze Dragon had started out Bronze Dragon is an elaborate as a game for the Apple II, and text-based fantasy role-playing Kitchen Sink Software was an Apple II owner read those adventure game that could best founded by Guy Forsythe, a long- remarks and passed along the be described as a dungeons and time teacher who implemented information to Willie. Willie dragon genre game. It is so elab- his dream of supplying fellow wrote to Adam West, and much orate that Adam West states: teachers with sophisticated Ap- to his surprise, the following e- “Bronze Dragon has an esti- ple II software that could assist mail response from Adam soon mated play time of 30 hours for them in their job of educating arrived in Willie's mailbox: the module and 20 hours for students. For many years, Kitch- each plot, or 150 hours alto- en Sink's software was created “Bronze Dragon: Conquest of gether.” by Guy and fellow teacher and Infinity for the Apple II can now friend Eric Bush, with addition- be freely distributed in the Pub- As in all adventure games of al programming input contrib- lic Domain. I waive all rights to this sort, you start the game by uted by Apple II programming the original classic – Bronze choosing a party of adventurers. whiz Jerry Kindall. Dragon: Conquest of Infinity. Then, you can visit various ven- The disks, manual and hint dors to purchase weapons, ar- As an example of Kitchen Sink's booklet can be freely distributed mor or magic spells. You can educational focus, the Amazing as well. I reserve all rights to choose among various difficulty Window Gradesheet helped to the new version for Windows 95 levels, and can designate how free educators from the drudgery – Bronze Dragon: The Land Be- many rooms your adventure will of student record keeping using yond – as well as reserve the traverse. Whether you chose 10 paper and pencil, and AccuDraw rights to any additional add-on rooms or 100, those rooms will provided fellow drafting teach- disks and scenarios to Bronze contain zombies, monsters, ers with powerful Computer Dragon for the Apple II or any dragons, and all sorts of evil en- Aided Design software that op- other platform.” tities whose sole purpose in life erates like a paint program. is to kill you and your party. Following that e-mail, Willie Sounds like fun, doesn't it? In order to create such powerful

Volume 3, Issue 5 Shareware Solutions II 17 educational software, Kitchen the highly acclaimed gradebook mands to incorporate custom Sink was literally forced to cre- system that works like a icons onto the System II desk- ate programming aids to assist spreadsheet. It's easy to use top. them in the creative process, and is quite flexible. Amazing and eventually those program- Window Gradesheet still costs In addition to the software, ming enhancements were re- $50 to those who don't subscribe there are several files on disk fined and offered for sale to oth- to Shareware Solutions II! that provide a technical over- er programmers to assist them view of System II and offer much in their projects. System II is Kitchen Sink's a- valuable information to help the stonishing utility program that aspiring and/or professional pro- In January, 1997, Eric Bush be- brings a ProDOS-8 based IIGS grammer. came the sole owner of Kitchen style, Finder-like graphical user Sink. Eric has been a wonderful interface to 128K Enhanced Ap- Upon payment of a single $20 source of support and inspira- ple IIe and IIc computer sys- shareware fee, payable directly tion for Shareware Solutions II; tems. System II was created to Kitchen Sink Software (plus after all, it was Eric who set up with a combination of Applesoft $4 for shipping to a US address, the original Shareware Solu- Basic programs and machine or $6 for shipping elsewhere), tions II home page on the world language routines, all of which you will receive a treasure chest wide web. At this point, Eric can be examined and studied of materials from Kitchen Sink would like to thank the Apple II and used in your own software. in the mail, including: community for supporting the With the routines from System efforts of Kitchen Sink for 12 II, you can actually create your • Source code in Merlin format long and wonderful years, and own Applesoft Basic programs and a bound manual for Easy II, his way of giving thanks is by of- with pull-down menus, dialog the System II Developer's Kit. fering some incredibly powerful boxes, buttons, check boxes, cur- tools to aspiring Apple II pro- sor controls, and graphic draw- • Source code in Merlin format grammers. ing tools. System II works in for KickStart, a fast volume to both single and double hires volume copy utility. Although the entire Kitchen graphic modes. It works with Sink Software product line has both 5.25" and 3.5" disks, and • Source code in Merlin format previously been offered to Shar- with hard disks. for Routines Volume I, which in- eware Solutions II subscribers cludes a Copy command and a through a number of special So, if you want to run programs List command which will allow “Such A Deal” arrangements, with Finder-like ease or want to you to view AppleWorks Classic Eric Bush is now literally giving develop truly sophisticated Pro- word processing files and ASCII away the kitchen sink. DOS-8 software, System II will text files from Applesoft Basic. fit the bill and make computer Under a special and exclusive life much easier for you. • Source code in Merlin format arrangement between Kitchen for Simple Text Editor. Sink Software and Shareware II Utilities is a program which Solutions II, Kitchen Sink is functions like ProSel or Copy II • A bound manual for Amazing pleased to make some of their Plus, but it is written in Apple- Window Gradesheet. software available exclusively soft Basic. II Utilities provides to Shareware Solutions II sub- a menu driven interface, a direc- • A bound manual for Shape scribers as shareware! For all tory browser, access to auxtypes Editor. others, the entire Kitchen Sink and file types, access to file at- software catalog remains com- tributes, a disk formatter, file • Source code in Merlin format mercial software! copying, directory copying, and for an 8-bit Program Selector. many other standard utility The programs included in this functions. • Source code in Merlin format special offer are Amazing Win- for the System II Utilities. dow Gradesheet, System II, II Shape Editor is an easy to use Utilities and Shape Editor. system that allows you to create The Kitchen Share disk is avail- shape tables which can be used able from the Shareware Solu- Amazing Window Gradesheet is with the System II shape com- tions II library for $5. Please

18 Shareware Solutions II June/July, 1997 specify whether you prefer a 3.5" shareware fee when you order where shareware fees can be or 5.25" disk. the Kitchen Share disk; specific submitted. ö instructions are provided on the Please do not include your $20 disk that describe how and Shareware Solutions IIGS Life After SIS stalling it and using it within tured Ewen’s imagination; he Spectrum Internet Suite. started to create the first Apple Immediately upon the release of IIGS web browser immediately Spectrum Internet Suite, Geoff Although it works a little on the after returning home to Great Weiss – the person responsible slow side, the SIS Bookmark Britain. The Spectrum Internet for the Spectrum scripts that Editor allows you to easily im- Suite project took up most of control how SIS interacts with port your already existing lynx Ewen’s programming time until the Internet – went to work cre- bookmark file, and it lets you it was eventually released in ating a freeware Bookmark Edi- perform a sort on your SIS mid-May, 1997. tor add-on for SIS. Within just a Bookmarks so that they will ap- few days, Geoff asked the SIS pear in the pull-down menu Coincidentally, it wasn’t long af- beta test team to try it out. Al- alphabetically. It also allows ter KansasFest that Kit Gra- though there were minor prob- you to move the placement of ham also got the idea to create a lems with that initial beta ver- any item in the Bookmark pull- Spectrum-based offline reader. sion, it worked, and it worked so down menu via the standard Kit started working on his Spec- well that in just another day or cut, copy, and paste commands, trum scripts in October, and by two, Geoff released the Book- and lastly, it allows you to edit mid-November he had “The Del- mark Editor through what he the wording of each item that phi Messenger” up and running. called an “open beta test.” It appears in the pull-down menu. was uploaded to all the stan- Kit’s scripts, in essence, insulate dard Apple II ftp sites on the Geoff Weiss wasn’t the only SIS Delphi users from having to Internet, and made available author who hit the ground run- learn how to master the Delphi through Genie’s A2 library. ning after the release of SIS. interface. It does that, as do all Ewen Wannop also immediate- offline readers, by recreating all As we’ve seen several times in ly went to work on a wonderful of the various Delphi menu op- the past year, a programmer re- freeware add-on program for tions in a familiar and friendly leases a program as an “open Spectrum. IIGS window. So, before even beta test” when it has pro- dialing up Delphi, users of Kit’s gressed to a point that it’s quite At KansasFest ’96, Ewen Wan- scripts can automate their on- usable, but where there may nop concluded his session about line sessions without ever really still exist some small problems Spectrum by talking about having to deal with the Delphi that need to be worked out. If Crock O’ Gold. At the time, he interface. there are any major problems described how his next project with the SIS Bookmark Editor, would result in an XCMD driven Kit Graham was able to recruit I certainly haven’t noticed them. add-on program for Spectrum the assistance of Gary Utter, that would provide a universal one of Delphi’s Apple II Sysops, Despite the lack of apparent offline messaging system that and with Gary’s help more and problems, people who use would automate access to all more features were added to The Geoff’s Bookmark Editor are re- the online services where Apple Delphi Messenger. quested to submit detailed e- II people congregate. mail reports directly to Geoff if Then, after Spectrum Internet they do find any problems. Little did anyone realize at the Suite started to ship in May, There are sure to be a few minor time, but the seeds for Spec- Ewen Wannop got involved with problems yet to be discovered, trum Internet Suite were sown the project. Ewen promptly but don’t let the “open beta at KansasFest ’96, and it was changed the name of Delphi test” status scare you from in- SIS that really fired up and cap- Messenger to Crock O’ Gold, and

Volume 3, Issue 5 Shareware Solutions II 19 he recruited a small team of power user utilities. IIGS Classic Desk Accessory avid beta testers to help test that will play your audio CDs and complete the project. The formerly commercial Chi- from ProDOS-8. It requires a nook SCSI Utilities provide sev- RamFAST SCSI card and works After just a few weeks of work, eral useful functions for hard with all CD-ROM drives sup- Crock O’ Gold was released as drives connected to Apple brand ported by the RamFAST Media freeware on Delphi, Genie and SCSI cards, including for- Controller drivers. Shifty List is CompuServe. matting and partitioning, scan- a powerful shareware utility ning for bad blocks, displaying a which allows you to select a In addition to being available drive’s list of mapped out bad group of trustworthy Finder Ex- online, Geoff Weiss’ freeware blocks, and the mapping out of tensions and Desk Accessories Bookmark Editor and Ewen bad blocks. Deskplay is a New to be loaded when you shift-boot Wannop’s freeware Crock O’ Desk Accessory that plays MOD your Apple IIGS. StolenBASE Gold are available from Share- music files. Drilldown is a IIGS allows IIGS modem users to ware Solutions II. The “Life Finder Extension which eases decode Base 64 and MIME en- After SIS” disk is available for Finder navigation by allowing coded attached e-mail mes- $5. In order to use the contents you to navigate folders using the sages. Virtual Data is a IIGS of this disk, you must own Spec- same familiar “Standard File” Finder Extension which keeps trum. dialog that you use when you track of Finder’s open directory want to open or save a file in- windows, their positioning and Power Tools GS side an application. FDOS is a format, on write protected vol- ProDOS application which al- umes such as CD-ROMs. A slew of useful and powerful lows you to run DOS 3.3 pro- Apple IIGS utilities have been grams on a Focus Hard Drive. The Power Tools GS disk, with released in recent months, and GUPP v1.04 is a patch program all these programs and more, is the “Power Tools GS” collection which fixes nearly 20 problems available from the Shareware includes all the best of these with System 6.0.1. Play CD is a Solutions II Library for $5. ö

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