SharewareShareware SolutionsSolutions IIII An Exciting Apple II Journey Into The Future Volume 3, Issue 1 Spring, 1996 Heard It Through The Grapevine Hard Drive Give Away following e-mail message: The There was also quite a bit of dis- winner of the HD is Keith Saga- cussion about Brutal Deluxes Everyone whose subscription low. We threw all of the papers System 6.0.2 update, and Oliv- was current at the end of Febru- into the air, then we threw a ier admitted that his program- ary, 1996 was automatically en- dart at one. There were three ming partner suffered from a tered into the Hard Drive Give names hit by the dart, but only hard drive crash and that much Away Contest, and the winner one was legible, so Keith was of the work had been lost. of that contest is Keith Saga- the winner. low, a IIGS owner from Central The freewheeling online chat Valley, New York. Keith is now Thanks to Tony Diaz for do- session was attended by more the proud owner of a 120 Mega- nating the drive. Thanks to Auri than 30 people, and a good time byte Focus Hard Drive. for acting as an intermediary to seemed to be had by all. Steve Wozniak. Thanks to Woz From the time the contest was for choosing the winner. But Upon his return to France, Oliv- announced in the last issue un- most of all, thanks to all of you ier started work on the next Bru- til the time that Keith received for supporting Shareware Solu- tal Deluxe release, a IIGS game his hard drive, several unexpect- tions II. that is inspired by a very popu- ed developments occurred. Tony lar game that is already availa- Diaz of Alltech Electronics, the Brutal Deluxe Visit ble on other computer platforms. sponsor of the contest, informed He expects that the game will be me that he would be unable to Olivier Zardini of Brutal Deluxe completed in the late summer of donate the planned 80 Mega- Software recently visited the 1996, and it will be available as byte Focus Hard Drive, as All- Shareware Solutions II World- a Limited Edition from Share- tech was completely sold out of wide Headquarters and we were ware Solutions II for $5, but them; instead, Alltech donated able to spend five or six enjoy- only to those people who have a 120 Megabyte drive. able and educational days to- purchased Convert 3200. gether. Olivier arrived with his In the last issue, no mention homebrew SCSI hard drive and Olivier has been sending me a was made of the method that from examining the contents of weekly update of the game, and Shareware Solutions II planned that drive, it certainly appears it has been fascinating to watch to use to choose the lucky win- as if the Apple IIGS world has a his programming efforts evolve ner. After that issue was com- lot to look forward to; two new into a completed game. At this pleted, I contacted Auri Rahim- Brutal Deluxe arcade games point, it is a work-in-progress zadeh to ask whether he might should be available before the that is lovely to behold but it is be able to convince his boss to end of the year not yet playable. Given Brutal choose the lucky winner. Auris Deluxes history of creating IIGS boss, as many of you know, is During his visit, arrangements versions of other popular com- Steve Wozniak, the inventor of were made to conduct a chat puter games, the next game the Apple II computer. Auri was session over the GEnie online should prove to be yet another pleased to get Woz involved. network, and some of the high- smash hit. As Olivier recently lights of that three hour session told me, The new arcade game On the morning that Woz was included a long question and will be our best program ever. going to choose the winner, I answer session about Convert Stay tuned for details. generated a text file from the 3200, with Olivier announcing AppleWorks based subscriber that a free update is planned; Magic Eye Graphics database and sent it to Woz, via that update will offer some sup- Auri, and later received the port for the Second Sight card. If youve been in a bookstore in Shareware Solutions II 1 Shareware Solutions II the last few years, chances are celerator cards, back issues of that youve seen the Magic Eye GS+ Magazine and several IIGS Volume 3, Issue 1 series of books. Those books software titles that they pub- contain graphic images that at lish, including Addressed For Shareware Solutions II is pub- first glance look like a jumble of Success, AutoArk, and Balloon, lished bi-monthly by Joe Kohn, colors, but if you look at them in but their product line now 166 Alpine Street, San Rafael, a certain way and for a certain boasts many new additions. CA 94901-1008. length of time, they are magi- cally transformed into three di- EGO Systems was able to track Publisher/Writer: Joe Kohn mensional images that literally down a former Apple II vendor Roving Reporter: Cynthia Field come to life and jump off the who had unsold inventory, and Contrib. Writer: Steve Disbrow page. was able to secure a limited Proofreader: Jane Kos number of copies of PublishIt v4, Called random dot stereograms, the premiere desktop publishing Entire contents of Shareware thousands of images similar to program for the IIe/IIc, and is Solutions II copyright (©) 1996 Magic Eye graphics can be now offering it for $39.95. Also by Joe Kohn. All rights are found on the Internet. Unfortu- available in limited quantities reserved. Nothing may be re- nately, those images were cre- is the PaceMark IIGS 4 Mega- printed or reproduced, in whole ated on computer systems with byte RAM card for $109. or in part, in any media without resolution greater than the IIGS the prior written consent of Joe can display on a single screen, EGO continues to program new Kohn. and the 3-D effects are com- IIGS software, and is now of- pletely lost when those images fering several translators for Available by subscription only, are converted to the 320 x 200 Seven Hills Softwares Graphic- several options are available: graphic mode that the IIGS Writer III desktop publishing displays best. program. The RTF Translator A) The first 18 issues: $55 for ($24.95) allows GWIII to import US/Canada; $75 elsewhere. Are Apple IIGS users therefore Rich Text Format files into a unable to enjoy random dot page layout document with all B) The next 6 issues/Renewal: stereograms? Not anymore, formatting remaining intact, $25 for US/Canada; $40 else- thanks to Lee Golden, the Man- and their new AWGS Translator where. aging Editor of Softdisk G-S. ($14.95) allows AppleWorks GS Lee has granted Shareware Sol- word processing documents to be Make all checks payable to Joe utions II permission to distrib- imported into GWIII with all Kohn. US Funds Only. No ute ThreeDer, a program that font information, text, text col- charge cards, purchase orders or originally appeared on Issue 67 ors, and paragraph justification COD orders will be accepted. of Softdisk G-S. ThreeDer will and indentation remaining in- convert any IIGS Super Hi Res tact. This newsletter was created graphic into a random dot stere- entirely with an Apple IIGS. All ogram, and display it on screen In addition to their own soft- articles written in AppleWorks or let you print it out. ware, EGO now carries the en- Classic. Page Layout prepared tire catalog of TimeOut based in AppleWorks GS. Printing Effective immediately, Three- AppleWorks enhancements from was done on a Hewlett-Packard Der is available from Share- Office Productivity Software, in- LaserJet IIP Plus, connected to ware Solutions II for $5. De- cluding About Time ($14.95), the IIGS courtesy of Vitesses spite its low cost, ThreeDer is ShrinkIt Plus ($29.95) and Harmonie. The use of TrueType not shareware or freeware; it re- Statistics ($79.95). fonts is courtesy of WestCode mains copyrighted by Softdisk. Softwares Pointless. If you havent yet seen EGO Sys- EGO Systems tems brand new 20 page catalog, E-mail Addresses: you owe it to yourself to contact CIS: 76702,565 The number of products avail- them and request a free copy. GENIE: JOE.KOHN able from EGO Systems just Please contact EGO before or- INTERNET: [email protected] keeps growing and growing. dering any products, as some of They continue to sell ZipGS ac- them are available only in lim- 2 Shareware Solutions II ited quantities. you are away from your comput- Dr Buggie continues to tune up er for more than a few minutes. Disk II disk drives for $5. But, EGO Systems If you are unfamiliar with those he now offers to supercharge 7918 Cove Ridge Road commands, you may want to set those drives by adding a front Hixson, TN 37343-1808 up a self starting disk that au- panel three position manual tomatically runs the program. write protection toggle switch or 800-622-3634 (orders only) In order to easily do that, for- by adding a front panel speed 423-843-1775 (questions) mat a ProDOS disk, copy Pro- adjust knob. Each of these en- 423-843-0661 (fax) DOS and Basic.System to that hancements can be added by Dr disk, and then startup that Buggie for $5, plus $4.50 per Basic Screen Blanker disk. Then, enter the above pro- drive for shipping and handling.