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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 30 Dec 96 Volume 14 : Issue 298
Today's Topics:
(A) TIA?
[Q] Converting .DSK Images to DiskCopy for Apple II Emulators
[Q] Guitar Tuning Program Available?
Async sounds possible?
BEWARE Derrat Sorcerum
ClarisWorks 4.0 Problem
Derrat Sorcerum endorsement by Kawasaki - NOT!
DeskJet to Mac summary
Eudora Outbox shows Times vice Dates?!?
No Powerbooks in UTAH's Stores
ObjectSupportLib 1.1.6
pictures in simpletext (2 msgs)
Quicken & Quickbooks
Sigh - Yes another followup about Derrat Sorcerum
slow printer solutions?
slow printer solutions [A]
System 7.5.5
TIA? (2 msgs)
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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 18:12:43 -0500
From: "Peter J. Paul"
Subject: (A) 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: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 23:16:01 -0400
From: Andrew Murray
Subject: [Q] Converting .DSK Images to DiskCopy for Apple II Emulators
I am looking for a way to use the Apple II disk images from the asimov
archives (in .DSK format) on an Apple II emulator on my Mac. Is there any
utility (or any trick) for converting .DSK images into standard Disk Copy
images or ones compatible with emulators like Fast Eddie?
Or is there any way to use these images without converting them? Or is
there another archive like Asimov that has images compatible with Mac
emulators?
Thanks in advance,
Andrew Murray
--
Andrew Murray Point-Blank Software
E-Mail: mailto:[email protected]
Web Page: http://macrealm.kos.net
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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 22:05:36 -0500
From: [email protected] (Jon Stewart)
Subject: [Q] Guitar Tuning Program Available?
While I am experienced Mac user, I am a *very* beginning guitar player. I
vaguely remember that a program was once submitted to the archives that
utilized the Mac as a guitar-tuning aid. Unfortunately, I can't seem to
find this program now. I would be very grateful if someone could point me
in the right direction, or even whether or not such a thing exists. In the
meantime, I am going to try to soothe my injured fingertips and hope that
they develop callouses soon!
TIA,
Jon Stewart, University of Florida
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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 19:25:58 +0000
From: [email protected] (Steve Taylor)
Subject: Async sounds possible?
I'm looking for Mac software (preferably Free/Share) that will allow me to:
1) Assign several Sounds to different Macintosh keyboard keys;
2) ...so that when a key is pressed, its designated sound plays (sounds are
original SoundEdit format, but could be changed);
3) and MOST IMPORTANTLY: that more than one sound can play at once, ie.
that they play asynchronously.
I suppose it's a bit like a "piano" software, but it really can be very
simple provided that I can play sounds async: eg. press key "1" (key 1
sound starts to play), then straightaway press key "2" (sound 2 starts, but
also sound 1 continues to play). Obviously this means that sounds will have
to be able to overlap, not truncate the ones already playing.
I've tried SoundEdit (commercial), but as far as I can see it doesn't
permit key assignments, or any way to play two sounds together while
allowing realtime adjustment of their startpoints.
I'm using a Quadra 650 with 7.5.1, but have access to new powermacs if
that's what it takes to get the above. Is there any software that does it?
Is sound asynchrony possible on 040 macs, do I need particular versions of
QuickTime etc.?
Any help appreciated!
Steve
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Date: 30 Dec 1996 18:04:16 GMT
From: [email protected] (Ry Tweedie-Cullen)
Subject: BEWARE Derrat Sorcerum
>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?
I had a play with the Demo of this game and the Grapplebare is in the
fireplace - click on the fire and he will find the wood - mix all the
ingredients using the recipe in the 'lab' and you get the vision potion which
allows you to read the book on the main table in the library (I think that is
what it is).
--- Sent via Hooked Online
--- Auckland, New Zealand (09) 524-4705
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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 96 23:33 GMT-0400
From: [email protected] (Laurence Hawkins)
Subject: ClarisWorks 4.0 Problem
I am running ClarisWorks, version 4.0, on a Powerbook 190 cs, with system
7.5.2, and can never get a ClarisWorks document to open by double clicking,
as the application freezes before the document is displayed. If I open
ClarisWorks first, and then open the document, I have no problem. I have no
difficulty with Microsoft Works, when trying the same routine, double
clicking a Microsoft document. Any ideas?
Laurence Hawkins
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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 16:58:44 -0500
From: "Bruce R. Troen, M.D."
Subject: Derrat Sorcerum endorsement by Kawasaki - NOT!
Dear Dr. Clarke -
I just read your posting to the Info Mac digest (V14 #297), and I
agree with and appreciate your frustration. However, I feel that the title
of your post and its contents are markedly misleading and unfair to Guy
Kawasaki. As you probably know, the Evangelist contains several different
types of postings that are clearly prefaced by certain characters. Derrat
Sorcerum's posting contained the "$$" in front of it. As you know, these
postings are not "endorsed" by Guy. Rather, Guy alerts us to the
commercial nature of the post and has in the past reminded us of "caveat
emptor".
Your post to the Info-Mac digests suggests that Guy has endorsed this
program. As a reader of the evangelist for several years, I would never
have reached that conclusion without seeing an explicit note from Guy. I
believe that the MacWay Evangelist is a tremendously useful source of
information as long as one remembers to categorize the posts I can
understand that your frustration is great, but it may be appropriate to
send another post to the Info-Mac digest clarifying the issue and
delineating more accurately Kawasaki's role. (Perhaps an apology would
also be in order.)
Sincerely,
Bruce Troen
Bruce R. Troen, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
6301 MSRB III
1150 West Medical Center Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0642
Phone: (313) 647-1786
Fax: (313) 936-9220
[email protected]
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~btroen/
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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 12:11:50 -0600
From: Dan Becque
Subject: DeskJet to Mac summary
I posted the following message to Info-Mac 294. Here's a summary of the
replies.
>We've got a few DeskJet printers in our lab hooked up to PCs and I'd like
>to take one and hook it up to my Mac. I seem to recall that this is
>possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
1. A number of individuals advised me of the free drivers at
http://www.hp.com .
2. Jim Bishop advised me to check what kind of connectors the DeskJet and
Mac had. The connectors would ultimately determine the type of connection
that could be made.
3. Anwaar Bhatti, B.J. Major and Mark Gadzikowski suggested:
Insight Design's MacPrint or GDT Softwork's PowerPrint. It is a
combination of a software and cable
(hardware) solution that allows printing from a serial port on a Mac to the
parallel port on a printer.
4. Jens Peter Franke wrote:
>1. Make sure that there is a Serial Port build to your DeskJet. This is
>the easiest way for a connection.
>(I don't know when HP stopped building that to the DeskJet printer. The
>600 doesn't have one.). For a parallel connection you need some other,
>costly harware.
>
>2. This Serial Port should be a 25pin Port. For the connection of my
>Performa 5200 to the Printer this means that I need a Mini Din8 (male)
>to DB 25 (male) Printer (or Modem) cable. At a length of about 1.8
>meters you should get this cable for about 10 Dollars, I guess. I'm not
>sure if you're Mac contains of such a Mini Din8 Port, but it probably
>does (RTM or have a look at the printerport. You may also use the
>modemport instead).
>
>3. Get yourself the necessary Driver. I know of two of them, they're
>shareware. Look in the Info-Mac Printing directory (prn) for HPDJ 3.1 or
>Chuck's Printer Driver. And there's a background printing util by HP on
>its WWW-site for the DeskJet/Mac use.
>
>4. There are at least two newsgroups that seem to frequently cover this
>Mac/DeskJet subject: and .
I'll be trying these solutions over the next couple of weeks.
Thanks for your help.
Dan Becque
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 00:19:27 -0800
From: [email protected] (Glen Warner)
Subject: Eudora Outbox shows Times vice Dates?!?
Greetings.
I posted this question to the Eudora mailing list, but I got a canned (and
useless) response.
Basically, with my last ISP account (about a year ago), each time I'd send
or recieve a message, it would give a date in the "Date" column. Now it
gives either a day ('Saturday'; which Saturday?!?) or a time ('10:11 AM
-0800'), but not the date I prefer ('12-29-96').
I can't find anything in the Help menu, either.
Any clues?
--gdw
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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 20:25:35 +0000
From: Curtis Coy
Subject: No Powerbooks in UTAH's Stores
Someone tell me WHY!!
I have been going to different Super computer stores and not one
had a
powerbook to try. All they had were PC notebooks. When I was at these
stores I asked the so-called salesperson where are the Macintosh
Powerbooks ? He replied "We don't sell enough of them to stock 'em".
This was at Computer City, Incredible Universe,Circuit City and Future
Shop. I want to show our computer technician a few tricks that you can
do using Apple Share. The only place I can think of that would have a
PowerBook is The University of Utah but that would not do me any good if
I wanted to purchase the machine. This is an outrage that these so
called Super Stores can't stock a few PowerBooks so the customers can
look at both PC and Mac's. Do these stores get more money by selling or
"pushing" a brand name like Compaq and there is just not enough profit
to sell Mac's ?
Curtis Coy
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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 17:46:39 -0800
From: Douglas Anderson
Subject: ObjectSupportLib 1.1.6
Dear InfoMac Readers,
I updated to the new (ObjectSupportLib1.1.6) from (ObjectSupportLib1.1) and
I find that sometimes when I try to open Stuffit Lite 3.5, I get,
(The application "unknown" has unexpectedly quit, because an error of type
3 occurred.)
or
(The application "unknown" has unexpectedly quit, because an error of type
1 occurred.
I am wondering if I'm the only one this is happening to? It only happens
when (ObjectSupportLib1.1.6) in installed.
Thanks!
Doug.
Sincerely,
Doug Anderson
email:[email protected]
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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 15:46:14 -0800
From: Chris Schram
Subject: pictures in simpletext
On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Chicago23 wrote:
>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.
You can compose your document in ClarisWorks, then save it as a
SimpleText file, and your graphics will be intact (though the text
formatting may be screwed up). Other word processors that use XTND
filters may be able to do the same thing.
Chris Schram -- [email protected] -- http://www.coos.or.us/~schram
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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:20:27 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: pictures in simpletext
At 6:21 AM +1100 12/29/96, Chicago23 wrote:
>Can someone out there please tell me how to put pictures into simpletext
>documents?
Here's the manual way.
Create your SimpleText document. Everywhere you want to put a picture,
type option-space on a line by itself. Type a bunch of blank lines after
it [enough to accommodate the picture]. Save the document.
Open the document in ResEdit or Resorceror. Paste your pictures into the
resource fork of the document. Number them in the order in which they are
to appear, starting at 1000 [the first picture should be ID 1000, the
second ID 1001, etc.]. Save the document.
Open the document in SimpleText again, and adjust the number of blank lines
you've allotted to each picture so the text doesn't overlap them.
Save the document, then change the filetype from "TEXT" to "ttro".
There used to be a utility called "TeachTextMaker" which made this process
much less icky. I can't find that program in the info-mac archive anymore.
Maybe something has taken its place.
chazl
12.30.96
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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 10:21:25 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: Quicken & Quickbooks
At 7:56 AM -0800 12/25/96, zab & mike wrote:
>I've been pretty happy with Quicken, and I've also seen many comment in a
>positive way on Quickbooks Pro.
Just an FYI: QuickBooks and QuickBooks Pro for Mac have been dropped by
their publisher, Intuit.
Quicken is unaffected.
I use Quicken, as well, and am very happy with it, other than the bug I
keep running into where that "balance" number is always too small.
chazl
12.27.96
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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 17:14:00 -1751
From: Philip Clarke
Subject: Sigh - Yes another followup about Derrat Sorcerum
Hi again to all fellow macusers,
Since the original post to infomac (Who did post it?)
on Derrat Sorcerum, I have compiled all the current correspondance
on the subject. Its at
http://www.waite.adelaide.edu.au/~pclar ... lcome.html
I must say one thing though, Ben Spees (President
of the Software company Mixed Metaphor that created the game)
has been most frank and helpful in redressing my problems.
Finally my mail difficulties (espoused in the original post
Info Mac digest (V14 #297) ) probably caused me to go
into rant mode, so any software companies out there.....
(I offer this as an explanation of my ranting, not an excuse
I suspect I should be demoted to "newbie" for a while, eh?)
I have no other complain or difficulty whatsoever
with Mixed Metaphor or Hopkins Technology and to my best knowledge
everything described in the web page above is all I
have ever had to do with either company.
Regards to all
and thanks for listening to my gripes
Philip (Derrat Sorcerum Gammatester)
--
Dr. Philip Clarke,
Ph +618 8303 7385 Ph/Fax/Ans +618 8303 7399
Email [email protected]
URL http://www.waite.adelaide.edu.au/~pclarke/
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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:39:29 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: slow printer solutions?
At 12:41 AM -0500 12/27/96, Don Turnbull wrote:
>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?
It really depends on exactly why it's slow.
If you're printing documents that require large amounts of data to be sent
to the printer, then the network speed may be a gating factor. You can't
make the network any faster, really [you could upgrade to Ethernet, using a
router of some flavor to connect the printer, but the printer is still
accepting only LocalTalk], so about the only simple option you have is to
examine the documents you are printing, and see if they can possibly be
made smaller. Are you sending big images with each job? Maybe they can be
made smaller. Are there lots of downloaded fonts? Maybe the job could be
broken up so that each job would contain fewer fonts. That sort of thing.
You could turn off background [or desktop] printing altogether. This will
make your jobs print somewhat faster, but at the cost of tying up your Mac
until they're done.
Another option would be to upgrade the printer. Your IINT can be upgraded
to a IINTX, IIf, or IIg with a logic board swap.
Any of these would give you faster printing generally, plus the ability to
connect external hard disks to the printer to store downloaded fonts, in
case you're spending lots of time now sending fonts with each job. All
three of these use standard SIMMs for memory expansion. The IIg has
Ethernet. I believe these upgrades would run in the $400-700 range.
I don't think more memory to the Desktop Printing software will help
significantly. It's probably worth a try, however, as it won't cost
anything to find out
.I am unaware of any desktop-class inkjet printers with Ethernet.
LaserMaster's DisplayMaker inkjets have Ethernet input, but I don't imagine
you're looking for a $20,000 poster printer.
If you are, they fullyrock.
chazl
12.30.96
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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 96 00:42:23 -0500
From: "Rick Q. Chin"
Subject: slow printer solutions [A]
Subject: slow printer solutions [A]
Sent: 12/28/96 5:23 PM
To: Info Mac Messages, [email protected]
BCC: Don Turnbull, [email protected]
>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?
The LaserWriter IINT has a slow processor by today's standards. It also
is limited to the 2MB of built-in memory it came with - no upgrading.
Those two factors are probably much more to blame than LocalTalk.
Nevertheless, Ethernet can shovel the data to the printer faster _if_ the
printer can keep up with it. Otherwise a slow processing printer on
Ethernet will just receive data at _its_ maximum rate, which may or may
not be faster than LocalTalk speed. Some printers use additional RAM to
store additional incoming data while the processor is working on what it
has already. Most newer printers would be faster than a IINT in almost
every way, especially since they will use Postscript 2, which is more
effiecient.
>are there any inkjet printers that have ethernet inputs?
The Hewlett Packard 1200C and 1200C/PS (Postscript) have a slot for an
Ethernet card. They have been replaced by the (better) 1600c and 1600CM
(Postscript). I can't remember if the 1600CM comes with the Ethernet card
or not. Also I believe the Tektronix Phaser 140, also a Postscript
printer, supports Ethernet. The Phaser is around $1,500 and the HP is
slightly more, if I remember correctly.
Rick Q. Chin (the "Q" is silent) [email protected]
Accounting and Computer Consultants, Inc.
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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 09:15:26 -0800
From: Ras & Galadriel
Subject: System 7.5.5
Hello,
I have a 6115CD with 72M Ram. I just installed sys7.5.5 and it consumes
17.5M (yes, seventeen) of Ram! Sys 7.5.3 used about 8M. Does anyone
know what happened or is this normal?
I use Netscape 3.0 often, Excel 5, Word 5, Pagemaker, ...
Any help would be appreciated, thank you,
Rex
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 13:36:25 -0800
From: kee nethery
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
BTW the clueless are those who wonder and never ask. You do not qualify as
clueless.
Kee Nethery
kagi
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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:53:48 +0100
From: [email protected] (Alexandre S. Simionovici)
Subject: TIA?
On 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?
Alphabet soup...
Duh..., that's a good question - maybe someone kind enough has thought of
assembling a list of "abwebriations" - if you hear of one let me know.
Meanwhile, to put you out of your misery here are some wellknown ones:
TIA == thanks in advance
BTW == by the way
IMHO == in my honest opinion
CUL8R == see you later
-| Dr. Alexandre S. Simionovici Tel. 33 (0)4.76.88.23.46 |-
-| High Energy Scattering Group Fax. 33 (0)4.76.88.27.07 |-
-| ESRF, BP 220 email: [email protected] |-
-| 38043, Grenoble, FRANCE |-
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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 14:37:02 -0800
From: Gerald Lee
I have an external Jaz and recently tried to defrag it using Norton
Utilities' Speed Disk v3.2.3. when the app was scanning the drive, i got a
message saying the directories were incorrect and that i should run disk
doctor to "fix the problem." i rand DD, and then went back to speed disk.
unfortunately, i got the same problem. i've been over to symantec's site,
and there's no mention of this problem. i haven't had any problems with my
jaz drive/cart, so i'm wondering if there's an incompatibility that may
have been documented somewhere. any ideas, anyone?
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