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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 11 Jan 96 Volume 14 : Issue 10
Today's Topics:
[*] aNetscape_Splash-2
[*] AutoLaunch 1.0.4
[*] Drive Zipple
[*] Hyperland 2.0.2; for SCUBA divers
[*] I-Spy 1.0b2; an AppleScript applet that monitors FTP sites
[*] MacPipes 2.1; a game
[*] MasterMind Game v1.1
[*] MoreFiles 1.4.1; example source code
[*] Much Music 1.0; Interactive Quicktime Video
[*] Sonata 4.0 (HyperCard music recorder/editor)
[*] The Book of Items 2.4; for Realmz
[*] The Ultimate Warrior 2.0; a game
[*] Tiny 1.0.5; an AppleScript library
[*] Type/Creator Database v2.3
[A] 'Clean rebuild' of desktop?
[a] Re: clean desktop rebuild
[Q] Applescripting 'Sound & Displays'
[Q] Faster Mouse?
FoolProof and PowerMac
Looking for Mac Specifications (R)
mounting second internal HD
Printer problems at startup
Resolved: MacTools Pro 4.0 problem
Three questions (problems): HD; Monitor; Clock
Upgrade suggestions (R)
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:13:56 -0600
From: [email protected] (Fusion)
Subject: [*] aNetscape_Splash-2
Just another Netscape splash patch... This one is a little on the artsie
side but it looks nice. A little more graphically inclined than my 'Alien
Netscape' splash screen so people that are yuppies may want to update to
this ;P
**Note** This should be used insted of 'aNetscape Splash.hqx' because it
has been updated. Notice the lady insted of the man holding hands... much
better:) And the small netscape type looks a little better during netscap's
opening scan.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/web/artsy-netscape-splash-20.hqx; 134K]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:14:04 -0600
From: [email protected] (Jon Gotow)
Subject: [*] AutoLaunch 1.0.4
AutoLaunch is a screen saver "engine" that launches an application after
your Macintosh has been idle for a specified amount of time. It's great
for running stand-alone MacroMedia Director movies as screen savers,
executing AppleScript applets during idle time, restarting demos after a
person walks away from an in-store Mac, etc.
AutoLaunch is capable of locating an application anywhere on a Mac's hard
disk, making distribution of Director presentations much easier - you don't
have to worry about installation procedures or that users will move the
presentation to another folder - it'll always work.
Also included with the AutoLaunch control panel are AppleScript examples
for using JPEGView to run a slide show, and to turn file sharing on during
idle time and off at wake-up.
- Jon Gotow
[Archived as /info-mac/app/ss/auto-launch-104.hqx; 116K]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:13:18 -0600
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Drive Zipple
Here's a zipple I wrote about about a year ago with Zipple version 1.9.1
for import into your prefs file.
So what's it like? You are in a car travelling down a road, a car passes
by, then another as the sun begins to set on the mountains in the distance.
The road bends to the right as the sky darkens and you see a mountain
tunnel ahead. Through the dark tunnel another car passes as their bright
headlamps whizz by. Finally you exit the tunnel and return to the beginning
of the sequence.
Sounds pretty vivid but let's face it, we're not talking photo realism
here, we're talking a Zipple. So have fun and enjoy.
It's Email-ware which means reply and it's free.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/drive-zipple.hqx; 12K]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:13:44 -0600
From: Hidetaka Mizohata
Subject: [*] Hyperland 2.0.2; for SCUBA divers
Hyperland is a shareware which allows you to maintain a SCUBA dive log and
download data from a popular scuba dive watch called Hyper Aqualand made by
Citizen. With this you can record: date, dive number, dive time, surface
interval, water temperature, max. depth, average depth, depth data
collected every 5 seconds and water temperature every 5 minutes.
Additional information can be added. i.e., Name, Buddy, Location,
Temperature, Air Consumption, Purpose, Visibility, Tank Pressures and
Weights. Remarks can be quickly entered by selecting from list based
menus or by typing in text. Hyperland supports System 7 Finder features:
Drag and Drop, Printing and Double Clicking. For more information, read
the User Guide. The author's e-mail address is: [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/data/hyperland-202.hqx; 103K]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:13:46 -0600
From: [email protected] (Igor Livshits)
Subject: [*] I-Spy 1.0b2; an AppleScript applet that monitors FTP sites
Hi,
Internet Spy 1.0b2 is a collection of AppleScript and Perl scripts that
together monitor remote FTP sites for changes. I intend this beta release
to ferret out bugs and problems as well as to solicit your feedback.
This distribution includes extensive documentation and examples. The
documentation itself is a set of HTML pages, and you will need a web
browser (like Netscape or Mosaic) or an HTML viewer to properly display
them.
Changes since b1:
o Recompiled with Tiny 1.0.5 (.txt suffix on log files to please Netscape)
o Removed some unforgiving debugging code
o Fixed a compatibility problem across versions of ACME Widgets
I-Spy is free and may be freely distributed.
Share and enjoy,
Igor
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/i-spy-10b2-as.hqx; 182K]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:13:28 -0600
From: [email protected] (Federico Filipponi)
Subject: [*] MacPipes 2.1; a game
MacPipes 2.1 (an update).
MacPipes is a small game similar to Pipe Dream for windoze (it's in fact
the Macintosh rendition of an ancient Amiga game called Pipeline).
[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/mac-pipes-21.hqx; 295K]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:13:24 -0600
From: [email protected] (Wing)
Subject: [*] MasterMind Game v1.1
[Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/master-mind-11.hqx; 198K]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:13:38 -0600
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] MoreFiles 1.4.1; example source code
A collection of File Manager and related routines
by Jim Luther, Apple Macintosh Developer Technical Support Emeritus
with significant code contributions by Nitin Ganatra, Apple Macintosh
Developer Technical Support
Copyright c 1992-1996 Apple Computer, Inc.
Portions copyright c 1995-1996 Jim Luther
All rights reserved.
You may incorporate this sample code into your applications without
restriction, though the sample code has been provided "AS IS" and the
responsibility for its operation is 100% yours. However, what you are not
permitted to do is to redistribute the source as "DSC Sample Code" after
having made changes. If you're going to re-distribute the source, we require
that you make it clear in the source that the code was descended from Apple
Sample Code, but that you've made changes.
What is MoreFiles?
MoreFiles is a collection of high-level routines written over the last couple
of years to answer File Manager questions developers have sent to Apple
Developer Technical Support. The routines have been tested (but not
stress-tested), documented, code-reviewed, and used in both my own programs
and in several commercial products.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/more-files-141.hqx; 521K]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:14:01 -0600
From: [email protected] (unsung)
Subject: [*] Much Music 1.0; Interactive Quicktime Video
This video was created as a demonstration/ marketting tool for a television
network in Canada.
Thank you.
Marc Lamoureux
[Archived as /info-mac/art/mov/much-music-10-qt.hqx; 1775K]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:13:21 -0600
From: [email protected] (Jonah Knobler)
Subject: [*] Sonata 4.0 (HyperCard music recorder/editor)
Sonata 4.0 is the world's most feature-laden, user-friendly HyperCard music
editor in existence! It allows you to create and edit music to be played in
Apple's HyperCard multimedia development environment. Sonata can be used
to create complex, beautiful tunes for use in your own HyperCard stacks, or
use Sonata to play them back directly. All in all, Sonata is THE simple
solution for music creation and playback on the Macintosh! Period.
Sonata 4.0 offers a host of new features, making music composition easy and
powerful. These exclusive features, including the Recording Studio, the
Instrument Workshop, and the Auto-Scripter cover every part of the music
composition process, from tinkering around on the keyboard to scoring to
installation into your HyperCard stacks. You can record sounds, copy
resources, and change tempos and dynamic levels -- all from within Sonata!
Welcome to Sonata! Just take one look and you'll be convinced it's for
you. If you've ever used HyperPiano, Sonata's predecessor, you'll know
what ease of use means. Now get ready to be blown out of the water!
Sonata offers more features in a package easier to use than anything
available. Guaranteed.
By Jonah Knobler
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/snd/sonata-40-hc-demo.hqx; 466K]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:13:35 -0600
From: [email protected] (Dan Ilut)
Subject: [*] The Book of Items 2.4; for Realmz
I just resubmitted The Book of Items 2.4 to the ftp site. This Book of
Items is to replace the previous book_of_items.sit.hqx. The upgrade
contains items from the Castle in the Clouds scenario, unique items flags,
new items in 2.4, a few items that were left out by mistake in the previous
version, many fixes to mistakes, some new info in the About chapter, and a
new chapter organization.
Please maintain the orginal blurb for the book of items that describes in
more detail what this book is.
If you have any problems with this upload, please e-mail me at
[email protected].
[Archived as /info-mac/game/adv/rlmz/book-of-items-24.hqx; 266K]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:13:32 -0600
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] The Ultimate Warrior 2.0; a game
[Archived as /info-mac/game/adv/ultimate-warrior-20.hqx; 2015K]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:13:40 -0600
From: [email protected] (Igor Livshits)
Subject: [*] Tiny 1.0.5; an AppleScript library
Hi,
Tiny is an AppleScript library. The only purpose of this distribution is
such that other people have access to it should they wish to recompile my
script applets.
In addition to Tiny and this brief overview, you should also find Skinny
applet. It is a demonstration applet that inherits most of its behaviour
from Tiny. A more useful example, I-Spy inherits most of the log file and
error handling functionality from this library. Tiny also provides it
mechanisms for learning about working directories, handling user
interrupts, and cleaning up before quitting. I-Spy 1.0b2 should be
available in the comm/tcp/ directory of Info-Mac.
Changes since 1.0.4: Added a .txt. suffix to log file names to please the
new version of Netscape.
Tiny is free and may be freely distributed. Should you wish to use it and
have questions, comments, suggestions, or gripes, please let me know...
Share and enjoy,
Igor
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/osa/tiny-105-as.hqx; 54K]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:13:12 -0600
From: [email protected] (Ilan Szekely)
Subject: [*] Type/Creator Database v2.3
7368 entries now ! This is getting large
With the help of Daniel Azuma the information is now supplied as
a ($10 shareware) program with a nice Data Base interface.
Files included are:
Type/Creator 2.3 ReadMe
Type/Creator Database 2.3 (program)
Latest version is available in FTP site:
Directory structre may change. Look for TYPE_CREATOR_DB.HQX or the
like. Please use Fetch or Netscape for downloading. This is a VAX/VMS
site and Anarchie does not recognize its DIR list format.
Ilan Szekely
E-mail - [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/info/sft/type-creator-database-23.hqx; 253K]
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 00:41:45 -0600
From: [email protected] (Gib Henry)
Subject: [A] 'Clean rebuild' of desktop?
On Wed, 10 Jan 96 14:24:00 PST, Chuck Spalding wrote:
[...snip...]
> Regarding the loss of "Get Info" comments, one person pointed out that
> Netscape uses those comments to store the URL from which a page was saved.
> He added that "the new 'System 7.5 Update 2.0' which will update any
> version of System 7.5 to 7.5.3 is supposed to save the Get Info comments
> even after a desktop rebuild". (I have read about other utilities that
> preserve the comments during a rebuild, but I don't recall their names.)
Super Comments 2.0.7, shareware by Flux Software and available from
Info-Mac, replaces Comment Keeper. In addition to preserving Get Info
comments across desktop rebuilds, it will also (optionally) add the comment
box to save and open dialog boxes, allowing you to save comments with new
files, and read comments of existing files.
This software FINALLY makes Get Info comments useful by preserving them and
by making them accessible at the appropriate times.
Hope this helps. Cheers!
--
Gib Henry
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 01:00:35 -0800
From: [email protected] (L. M. Nelson)
Subject: [a] Re: clean desktop rebuild
Try techtool v108, its on info-mac. Otherwise, try locating the desktop
file with Resedit - maybe you could delete it or something?
L. Mills Nelson
LeMoN Concepts Inc.
Vancouver, BC Can
e: [email protected]
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 02:22:03 -0500
From: [email protected] (Marty Lindower)
Subject: [Q] Applescripting 'Sound & Displays'
Hi-
I've been trying to write a simple script which would turn on the internal
speaker of my PM 7500/100. I sometimes leave headphones plugged into the
external speakers miniplug, which shuts off the speaker, and I want to have
an easy way to turn it back on. I've tried all kinds of variants of:
tell application "Sound & Displays"
set soundOutput to "Internal speaker"
end tell
but none work. Can someone give me the magic word I'm missing, or direct me
to where Apple's wizards have hidden it?
TIA,
Marty Lindower
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 16:11:00 -0800
From: "Carter, Michael H."
Subject: [Q] Faster Mouse?
I am in need of a program to speed up my mouse
tracking. I already have Mouse2 v1.4a by Ryoji Watanabe and it still is not
fast enough.
Is there another product out there to speed up the mouse or is there a
ResEdit hack that I can do?
Thanks for information,
Michael Carter
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 22:48:26 -0600
From: [email protected] (Jesse Hall)
Subject: FoolProof and PowerMac
The journalism computer lab at my high school bought two PowerMac 5200/75
LCs about a year ago, and a PM 7500/100 about a month ago. We have been
using a program called FoolProofto restrict access to the computers since
we had problems with users trashing software and otherwise damaging the
systems. It has worked fine with our non-PowerMac computers (Classic IIs
and LC 520s), but since we installed in on the PowerMacs (starting this
school year) they have frozen periodically. The computers will freeze
randomly, sometimes as much as every five minutes, and require a forced
reboot. This problems seems to happen more often in Pagemaker 5.0, but it
happens often in Freehand 5.0 and Ofoto (Apple's scanning software) as
well. We haven't had any problems with the 7500, but we haven't done much
more than install the software yet as we are still early into this issue.
My question is: Has anyone know of conflicts between FoolProof and
PowerMacs? We have tried turning off most other extensions, and that hasn't
helped. I checked for the flaw in the PPC 603 chip that some 5200s shipped
with, but it came up clean. I have not been able to convince our adviser to
remove FoolProof for a week or two to see if the problem goes away. I plan
on buying Conflict Catcher 3 soon, and I'll use it to try to find the
conflict. I am not sure that FoolProof is the problem, but that is my best
guess at the moment.
BTW, FoolProof is not PowerMac native, and I believe (I'm not sure) that it
is pre-System 7.5.
Any help in solving this problem would be appreciated, because our 5200s
and possibly our 7500 are almost useless until this problem is fixed. These
are our primary page layout and graphics computers, and are essential to
publishing our newspaper.
---------------------
Jesse Hall
2650 Ross Ave.
Idaho Falls, ID 83406
(208) 524-0423
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 18:05:47 -0500
From: [email protected] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: Looking for Mac Specifications (R)
If you head for http://www.zdnet.com/~macuser/ you can download the
Macintosh Catalog Database 450, which is kept up-to-date.
Graeme Forbes
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 08:02:42 -0600
From: [email protected] (Paddy Atherton)
Subject: mounting second internal HD
Allan Hunter asks
>
Call ProLine Distribution, the hardware division of Casa Blanca Works:
(415) 461-2227 Fax (415) 461-2249
These people carry the darnest line of brackets, bezels and other goodies
to install stuff inside your Mac (e.g., an internal Zip).
Note: this is very much a do-it-yourself company--you get the parts and you
figure out what they do--but the products work, are inexpensive, and the
techies are great!
I'm 2,000 miles and 60 degrees F from California--just a satisfied consumer.
Paddy Atherton
=46rostbite Falls, MN, USA
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:35:17 -0600
From: [email protected] (Jack S. Yee)
Subject: Printer problems at startup
I have a Macintosh Centris 610 and since I've upgraded to System 7.5 every
time I turn on my computer my printer wants to print out half a page of
garbage.
I have an HP deskwriter and I have updated the driver software to the most
recent version.
If you can help please reply via my email address.
Thanks,
Jack
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 7:50:25 -0600 (CST)
From: "Tom Duke 214-575-4686 TDUK [email protected]"
Subject: Resolved: MacTools Pro 4.0 problem
Folks,
In Info-Mac Digest V14 #7, I wrote:
I use MacTools Pro 4.0 for backups and maintenance on my a Quadra 660AV
running System 7.1. I have used the software for a year without ever
trying the FastCopy tool. This weekend I thought I'd try it.
When I try to launch FastCopy, I get an error window that displays
error code -51 with a sentence indicating it can't find a file.
Another sentence indicates to look for the file in another location.
The name of the missing file is not displayed.
I simply needed to update MacTools FastCopy 4.0 to 4.0.1. I downloaded
the updater, which fixes a problem specific to 660AV & 840AV Macs.
I want to thank the following people for quickly responding with
the solution and other useful information:
[email protected] Tom Thatcher
[email protected] Al Bloom
[email protected] James Smart
[email protected]
Tom Duke
email: [email protected]
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 19:23:03 -1000
From: Leon Pereira
Subject: Three questions (problems): HD; Monitor; Clock
> A friend is faced with three problems:
>
> 1. Ever since he opened his Qudra 605 CPU to install a new hard drive, his
> clock has been showing the wrong time. No re-setting has been succussful;
> at every startup it reverts to the same/wrong time.
>
> Would zapping the PRAM help? Could it be that he damaged the battery?
>
> 2. Is it possible to install his (old) internal Quantam 80 mb drive into a
> case of a La Cie (Quantam) 50 mb external drive? (Of course after removing
> the 50 mb drive.) The problem seems to be that the smaller ribbon cable
> >From the drive terminates in a plug that's a little mismatched from the
> pins on the case.
>
> Would there be a problem in getting enough power supply--in going from 50
> to 80 mb?
>
> 3. For the past few weeks, his monitor does not come on unless he rapidly
> turns it on and off repeatedly.
>
> Any explanations?
>
> TIA
> - Leon
> Leon Pereira
> [email protected]
> http://www2.hawaii.edu/usr-cgi/ssis/~lpereira/
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 18:05:45 -0500
From: [email protected] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: Upgrade suggestions (R)
"A friend has a Quadra 840/AV with 8 MB of RAM and a 230 MB hard
drive....Are Power PC accelerators, CPU upgrades or logic board upgrades
viable alternatives to buying a new system?"
I certainly hope so. I am waiting for Apple to start shipping its promised
logic board upgrade for machines with the Quadra 800 form (includes the
Quadra 840AV and certain 601 Power Macs). The upgrade would turn these Macs
into a PowerMac 8500 with a 120MHz 604 PPC. I think it would be wasteful,
at this point, to upgrade a Q800/840 to anything less, since the 8500
upgrade *ought* to be available in the first half of this year, at a price
(I'm guessing) in the $1750-$2250 range.
If your friend absolutely must have PowerPC performance now, there are two
main options: DayStar's PowerPro and an Apple logic board upgrade to a 601
Power Mac. I think the latter option is only a few hundred more than the
DayStar board, i.e. around $1600 for a 100MHz system. (And I wonder if the
Daystar board works in an 840 - it runs its PPC at a speed that's a
whole-number multiple of the original '040 chip's speed, so 4x in a Q700
(for 100MHz) and 3x (for 99MHz) in a Q800. But a Q840 runs at 40MHz and I
think 100MHz is the top speed of the Daystar board - maybe it drops the
clock speed of the 840's '040...something to check.) Another drawback of
the Daystar board is that it looks as if it won't run Apple's Copland
system software. But the latter, like the 8500 upgrade board, may be
vaporware for quite a while. Or Apple may relent and do a version of
Copland that will run on machines with PPC cards instead of logic boards
(if enough people scream loudly enough).
If chip availability problems continue to delay the 8500 upgrade I will go
for one of Power Computing's 604 machines, which aren't larded with
8500-style video-capture capacities I'll never use. It's worth checking out
http://www.powercc.com/ and linking to the "Build Your Own Box" page. You
can construct a customized system, submit your configuration description,
and get a price back automatically. Made me salivate.
Graeme Forbes
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