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Info-Mac Digest Sat, 28 Dec 96 Volume 14 : Issue 297
Today's Topics:
[*] SoundMaker Demo
[Q] Cannot set screen to black and white!
BigSecret 3.0....but not for long!!!
Corrupted Files!
freePPP init string
Performa 6400/180 Internal Modem
pictures in simpletext
Q:Shutdown items not working
slow printer solutions?
Stylewriter I failure -Chapter 2
TIA
TIA?
WARNING Rubbish Software endorsed by Guy Kawasaki
Which Klone Kwery... and all that JAZ (3 msgs)
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Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 02:39:54 -0800
From: [email protected] (Jeff Baudin)
Subject: [*] SoundMaker Demo
This is the demo version of the commercial application SoundMaker, by
MicroMat Computer Systems.
SoundMaker is the coolest sound editor for Macintosh. Like PhotoShop,
SoundMaker uses a plug in technology for all kinds of different effects.
Included with the package are many effects and many can be found on the
internet. You can even combine existing effects to create your own effect
files.
The demo is fully functional except you cannot save the sound files you
create. Special offer information is included with the program.
Requires system 7 or above.
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/snd/sound-maker-demo.hqx; 1858K]
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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 13:05:59 +0100
From: Patrik Montgomery
Subject: [Q] Cannot set screen to black and white!
For some reason, I can no longer set my screen to black and white. 16
colors/grays is allright, but nothing below that. I know that there are
some machines that cannot use color settings below 256 colors, but mine
has used lower before. Does anyone know what has happened?
Performa 5300 16/1.2
System 7.5.5
Patrik
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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 14:27:13 +0000
From: [email protected] (ab)
Subject: BigSecret 3.0....but not for long!!!
I downloaded this security program since it sounded excellent. Using Norton
Utilities 3.1 Disk Editor it took about 5 seconds to find the file, uncheck
the "invisible" box then see the file on the desktop.
Am I missing something here?
Drew
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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 10:16:27 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: Corrupted Files!
At 3:56 PM -0700 12/26/96, Kevin Lehnert wrote:
>...I have been trying to download the
>latest system upgrade...
If you've got a CD-ROM drive, go to your local newsstand and pick up a copy
of MacAddict.
Overall, I find the magazine extremely annoying, but the CD that comes with
it includes both System Update 7.5 2.0 and System Update 7.5.5. [Along
with a bunch of other stuff]. It's $7, but you won't have to deal with any
corrupted downloads.
Why is MacAddict annoying? The whole tone of the magazine is "Macs rule,
PCs suck; Mac users are smart, PC users should be pitied". It seems like
it's edited by the zealots who have those pointless flamewars in the
advocacy newsgroups.
What I find really funny is that the same publisher, Imagine, puts out a
corresponding magazine directed toward PC bigots, "boot". I haven't
actually read a copy of "boot", but the cover and headlines look exactly
the same, so I can't imagine the content will be any less strident.
chazl
12.27.96
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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 16:56:13 +1100 (EDT)
From: Chicago23
Subject: freePPP init string
Does anyone out there know how to get the modem to stay connected between
crashes? My modem actually stays connected, but disconnects during the
startup process.
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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 13:09:53 -0800
From: Chuck Garrett
Subject: Performa 6400/180 Internal Modem
At 8:46 PM -0800 12/26/96, Info-Mac wrote:
* Has anyone had problems setting up the internal modem that comes with the
* Performa 6400/180? I don't know whether to use Apple's Internet software,
* PPP or FreePPP. I seem to have problems if the line is busy-instead of
* redialing the computer keeps telling me there is a problem with the
* modem/connection. If the line is not busy things are fine. How/where do I
* tell this modem that it can redial 10 times before giving up?! I think the
* documentation is substandard for the Internet sotware (includes fax,
* telephone etc).
I just setup a 180 and a 200 for local internet access. I used MACTCP which
came with the system software and FreePPP 2.5v2. I set the initstring to be
auto detected from the FreePPP database and had zero problems. I cannot
address the fax, telephone, software.
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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 06:21:55 +1100 (EDT)
From: Chicago23
Subject: pictures in simpletext
Can someone out there please tell me how to put pictures into simpletext
documents? This seems like a pretty glaring omission on apple's part.
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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 96 18:40:38 -0600
From: adam gluckman
Subject: Q:Shutdown items not working
I have a 14k sound file in my shutdown items folder that will not play at
shutdown. I have tried trashing my finder and sound preferences btu that
hasn't helped. Does anyone have any suggestions.
Thanks,
Adam
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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 00:41:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Don Turnbull
Subject: slow printer solutions?
my laserwriter iint is damnably slow via apple talk. is there any tips to
help speed it up? i.e.more memory tothe desktop printing appication?
are there any inkjet printers that have ethernet inputs?
Don Turnbull
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 15:27:58 +0100
From: [email protected] (Alessandro Simonetto)
Subject: Stylewriter I failure -Chapter 2
Thanks to all those who replied to my previous posting regarding my
stylewriter I failure. I replied to everyone privately.
Most pointed at some diode failure on the power supply section of the logic
board. Unfortunately further investigation in that direction showed that my
original diagnosis was incorrect, and so here I am again asking the net for
help with the new pieces of information:
Symptoms:
-when the printer is powered it does not switch on, because it blows
systematically the 2.5A, fast fuse of the AC-DC adapter. The adapter
itself is ok (once the fuse is replaced).
Further information:
-I opened the printer and took the logic board out. On the metal plate
underneath there is a black spot where apparently an arc occurred. It is
corresponding to a connection point on the +9 V supply line.
I think I know WHAT happened: I switched the printer ON, and OFF, and ON
and OFF again all in one second (I'going to print it now, no later, now,
later....) (I did make up my mind, eventually....
.Since on the logic board there are several inductances (mainly on the +9V
supply line), this probably caused large voltage spikes.
-using a linear power supply (instead of the AC-DC adapter) and limiting
its output to 2 A in order not to blow the fuse of the board, the behaviour
is as follows: at the switch-on transient the power supply current limiter
acts for a small fraction of a second (I assume this is when the fuse in
the AC-DC adapter blows), and then the current absorption goes to about
150mA, which I assume is normal.
-switching on at this stage does not vary the current absorption, and the
green light (power) goes on, and then starts lighting up intermittently
together with the red light (error). The engines are not operated at all,
and the printer does not emit any noise at all.
-both the +9V and +5V supplies have the correct voltages at this point.
My conclusions (?):
-the large voltage spikes probably blew a capacitor, which could account
for the transitory absorption of current, and something else, which
prevents the printer from working, and is identified by the self-diagnosis
firmware on the board.
The questions: I assume nobody met this problem before (all info-mac-ers
are very quick at making up their mind
, but is there a known list ofweak (or fragile) points on the logic board?
Does anybody have any suggestions (other than trying to change every single
component that I can change on the board)?
Is there any way to get the circuit diagram (I reconstructed a part of it
>From the board, but then I met several SMT devices unknown to me and
without label)?
Thank you in advance.
A happy new year to you all!
Alessandro
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 13:10:59 -0800
From: Chuck Garrett
Subject: TIA
At 8:46 PM -0800 12/26/96, Info-Mac wrote:
* Subject: TIA?
*
* OK, I'm no Net newbie (been online for well over a year), but I've
* yet to figger out what "TIA" stands for! Anyone care to fill in the
* clueless?
Thanks in Advance
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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 10:24:24 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: TIA?
At 1:27 PM +0000 12/25/96, Paul E. Mullen wrote:
> OK, I'm no Net newbie (been online for well over a year), but I've
>yet to figger out what "TIA" stands for! Anyone care to fill in the
>clueless?
Thanks In Advance.
chazl
12.27.96
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Date: 28 Dec 1996 13:25:38 GMT
From: [email protected] (Philip Clarke)
Subject: WARNING Rubbish Software endorsed by Guy Kawasaki
Dear Macway and all Macusers
BEWARE Derrat Sorcerum
It is the worst game? I have ever had the displeasure
of trying/attempting to run on a mac ever.
It barely even qualifies as beta soiftware (yea gods I
could do a better job of programming sourcecode that this lot?)
You advertised this on the mac evangalist maillist in November/Early december
and it is the worst piece of software I have come across
(its even worse than Word 6.0). Please warn other mac userrs on the mail list
wh
at rubbish this is. I tried to mail the message below to
[email protected]
But it bounced (surprise surprise)
Please be careful of what other software you (accidentally)
endorse in the future. I assumed it was something reasonable because it
had the Guy K seal of approval. Sucker that I was eh?
This cost me AUD$65 (US$29.95 + US$20.00 P/H) what a complete
waste of money. Last time I buy a game for my nephew that was "endorsed"
by Guy K and the macteam.
Yours not just disgruntled but pissed off
(so much for a surprise xmas pressie for my nephew)
Philip Clarke
Dear [email protected]
I was unfortunate enough to purchase Derrat Sorcerum
It is version 1.03 and it is 1) impossible to solve
2) has a very unintuitive interface (it keeps doing things
I dont expect, like I cannot tell if it is in "hand" mode
or "foot" mode, irrespective of what I have selected.
I cannot get past the "dining room" before I have to force quit.
Basically as soom as I select any table other than the master table
I get a message saying something like" this table has nothing to offer
try the master table" And although the box appears to be like a close box
(with an "ok") it acts like a modal box, and I cannot get rid of
it short of aborting the game (command option escape).
Even if I "avoid not selecting the master's table"
This program seems so buggy and unintuitive that I have
1) an extreme difficulty in actually using the game
(it keeps wandering off to other rooms when I am trying to
select some sort of (hand icon) action.
2) It does not seem to have a solution (I have read the hints
file and there is NOTHING that has any suitable wood equivalent to
Grapplebare?
3) This game was a xmas present for my nephew who basically
threw it back in my face as complete crap. Thus I was compelled to play it.
4) Did it actually go through beta testing? No I didnt think so.
I have not seen a commercial release that isnt even 1.00000
that has been such a complete waste of time effort and money as this
thing. Even I could write something better than this.
I would very much like at the very minimum my money back for this
faulty (at the very least) game.
Yours unfortunately
Philip Clarke
CC [email protected]
Dear Guy K,
Normally I wouldn't ask you for a reply, but since this "game"
was "advertised on macway as a final product, I thought you should know how
dangerous/useless and waste of money this thing is, I feel like
I'm a beta tester except the AUD$65 I had to pay!
(US$29.92+US$20 postage)
Please warn all other macusers via the evangalist of this rather
buggy and poor interfaced thing called a game.
Please reply as a matter of urgency.
Philip
Dr. Philip Clarke, Soil Science, Waite Solid-State NMR Facility
University of Adelaide, PMB 1, Glen Osmond, SA, Australia, 5064
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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 15:51:10 +0100
From: Andrzej Przybyla
Subject: Which Klone Kwery... and all that JAZ
I want to give myself a belated Christmas present in the form of a
Mac clone. Unfortunately, the latest news comes to Poland with a huge jet
lag - by the time you adjust to the new reality you realise you're a month
behind the times. I read a favourable review of the Power Computing's
PowerBases in Macworld so I asked a friend to bring me one from the States
- only to discover a few days later in the next issue that the APS's
M*Powers were already on sale.
Now the questions:
1. Am I right in thinking that a 200 MHz 604e ~(M*Power) should be
faster than a 240 MHz 603e (PowerBase)?
2. Since I'm promoting my old 12 meg Duo 230 to the new position of a
doorstop (there was nothing I could salvage from it) the memory I invest in
now should serve me for many years to come - wouldn't it be wiser to get a
Tanzania motherboard machine that uses the new type of RAM chips?
3. Does anyone know if the clones are 110V/220V switchable like the
Macs? Or can one order a 220V option?
4. How about the JAZ drives and the SyJETS? How are they powered? I
hate the adaptors as they make the thicket behind my desk even more
unpenetrable so I was overjoyed when I found out that LaCIE's Jaz drive's
"exclusive metal case icludes power supply" until I realised it would
prolly be 110v.
I solved a similar problem I had last year when I bought an EZDrive
by buying a cheap transformer in RadioShack - but now when I want to use it
at the school there's only one extension cord in the whole building that I
can plug it into (and usually somebody else is using it at the moment).
At home I place the adapter-transformer combo on a pyramid of books
so that it could plug into a surge protector (since then my Spanish has
deteriorated dramatically as the Spanish dictionary serves the purpose best)
BTW, APS advertises two kinds of "APS (JAZ) removable drives" -
SR1000 and SR2000. I deducted (deduced?) that they mean different kinds of
enclosures (cases?). But how do they differ? Anybody got any idea?
5. Has anyone have any preferences in their choice of the JAZ drives?
Apart from Iomega and APS there are also LaCIE's - and I read a review
which recommended Micronet's Jaz - because it was cheaper and because
Micronet has a lot of experience with SCSI devices.
I have a vague feeling that JAZ is becoming another industry
standard - just like the ZIP drive. Its opposite number in the SyQuest's
"shadow cabinet", EZDrive was supposed to be better in many respects and
look where it landed: the EZ cartridges are not even advertised anymore in
the MacWarehouse catalogue. Is the same fate going to meet the SyJet
?6. If a machine has an IDE HD or CD-ROM they don't count in the SCSI
chain, right? How many "seats" are there on the IDE bus then?
I hope this sets a few brains steaming and a few keyboards
clicking. A Happy New Year to you and a prosperous one to Apple Computers.
And if yoy're still waiting for the Twelth Night to get your prezzies I
wish you one equally nice as mine.
Andrzej
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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 12:03:53 -0600
From: "Laurence A. Bates"
Subject: Which Klone Kwery... and all that JAZ
My recommendation would be to wait until the new CHRP hardware is available
sometime around March '97 since it is more likely to run whatever OS Apple
build out of their purchase of Next Computers than anything that is
available today. It also gives you the time to see what Apple will do with
the Nextstep OS.
At 03:51 PM 12/27/96 +0100, you wrote:
> I want to give myself a belated Christmas present in the form of a
>Mac clone. Unfortunately, the latest news comes to Poland with a huge jet
>lag - by the time you adjust to the new reality you realise you're a month
>behind the times. I read a favourable review of the Power Computing's
>PowerBases in Macworld so I asked a friend to bring me one from the States
>- only to discover a few days later in the next issue that the APS's
>M*Powers were already on sale.
> Now the questions:
>1. Am I right in thinking that a 200 MHz 604e ~(M*Power) should be
>faster than a 240 MHz 603e (PowerBase)?
>
>2. Since I'm promoting my old 12 meg Duo 230 to the new position of a
>doorstop (there was nothing I could salvage from it) the memory I invest in
>now should serve me for many years to come - wouldn't it be wiser to get a
>Tanzania motherboard machine that uses the new type of RAM chips?
>
>3. Does anyone know if the clones are 110V/220V switchable like the
>Macs? Or can one order a 220V option?
>
>4. How about the JAZ drives and the SyJETS? How are they powered? I
>hate the adaptors as they make the thicket behind my desk even more
>unpenetrable so I was overjoyed when I found out that LaCIE's Jaz drive's
>"exclusive metal case icludes power supply" until I realised it would
>prolly be 110v.
> I solved a similar problem I had last year when I bought an EZDrive
>by buying a cheap transformer in RadioShack - but now when I want to use it
>at the school there's only one extension cord in the whole building that I
>can plug it into (and usually somebody else is using it at the moment).
> At home I place the adapter-transformer combo on a pyramid of books
>so that it could plug into a surge protector (since then my Spanish has
>deteriorated dramatically as the Spanish dictionary serves the purpose best)
> BTW, APS advertises two kinds of "APS (JAZ) removable drives" -
>SR1000 and SR2000. I deducted (deduced?) that they mean different kinds of
>enclosures (cases?). But how do they differ? Anybody got any idea?
>
>5. Has anyone have any preferences in their choice of the JAZ drives?
>Apart from Iomega and APS there are also LaCIE's - and I read a review
>which recommended Micronet's Jaz - because it was cheaper and because
>Micronet has a lot of experience with SCSI devices.
> I have a vague feeling that JAZ is becoming another industry
>standard - just like the ZIP drive. Its opposite number in the SyQuest's
>"shadow cabinet", EZDrive was supposed to be better in many respects and
>look where it landed: the EZ cartridges are not even advertised anymore in
>the MacWarehouse catalogue. Is the same fate going to meet the SyJet
?>
>6. If a machine has an IDE HD or CD-ROM they don't count in the SCSI
>chain, right? How many "seats" are there on the IDE bus then?
>
> I hope this sets a few brains steaming and a few keyboards
>clicking. A Happy New Year to you and a prosperous one to Apple Computers.
>And if yoy're still waiting for the Twelth Night to get your prezzies I
>wish you one equally nice as mine.
>
>Andrzej
>
>
>
>
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