Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 15:30:35 PST From: The Info-Mac Moderators Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #20 To: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 22 Jan 97 Volume 15 : Issue 20 Today's Topics: [*] Codebook-v2.7.sit.hqx [*] File for the archive, Meatballs startupscreen [*] Galaxus 1.0.5 - shoot'em'up game with scrolling graphics [*] IBMUG Monthly v1n5 [*] NetSupport Page 1.0.1 [*] Placidos Kaleidoscope Patch 1.0.1 MacOs 8 [*] Tagline 1.2, signature randomizer (resolved) Phantom control of printer port [Q[ - Looking for best extended keyboard for new Mac [Q] Multiple Cyberdog/Internet Config users on single Mac? [Q] Web utilities for the Mac ACAD 13 & Softwindows 95 CSM-Runtime Enabler DTP and HP 600 printers IIci's Won't Shut Down Info-Mac Digest V15 #18 "Tech help" Kaleidoscope hang LCIII external CD problems Microsoft Mac Application Futures Nisus Writer Default Font problem printing from microsoft office apps Re. What's a Plus good for? Re Word 6 speed Simple Alarms app - any suggestions? System calls for Duo screen brightness The arrow pointer...?? Two internal hard drives? Web utilities for the Mac What's a Plus good for? The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of: Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan, Matt Bauer, Brian Wessels, Liam Breck The Info-Mac Archive is available at 50 public and private sites around the world. For the site list, request it by mail (address below), or try: Also accessible by ftp. Help files and indexes are also in info-mac/help/. 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StarNine develops Internet server software for the Macintosh, including World Wide Web and e-mail publishing systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V15 #20" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:36:35 -0500 From: robert@wineasy.se (Robert Edvardsson) Subject: [*] Codebook-v2.7.sit.hqx Finally version 2.7 of the codebook has been released onto the internet. Creator, Robert Edvardsson, has hired a cooperator which helps him make the codebooks and release them much faster. This version is much larger and more complete than any other version, and it's a must if you like Macintosh games. This cheat, code and Walkthrough is completely for the Mac. [Archived as /info-mac/game/codebook-27.hqx; 852K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:36:18 -0500 From: cfeinstein@ossinc.net (Chris Feinstein) Subject: [*] File for the archive, Meatballs startupscreen I've been using the archive for a long time, now I finally have something to submit. Anyone who want's to crack up everytime they startup their mac is gonna' love this one. Thanks for the archive, Chris [Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/meatballs-startup-screen.hqx; 292K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:32:45 -0500 (EST) From: Martin Christen Subject: [*] Galaxus 1.0.5 - shoot'em'up game with scrolling graphics Galaxus 1.0.5 is here (.sit.hqx-Attachment) This Version replaces Version 1.0.3 *********************************************************************** Galaxus is an action arcade game for the MacOS. some features * Action arcade game with real bitmap scrolling * a lot of high quality MOD music * Audio CD Support. Play your favorite soundtracks during missions! * For PowerMacs (native) and 68040 Macs. (FAT Application) * hundreds of enemies with their own tactics * a lot of action and strategy elements * configurable spaceship - buy or find new devices Hardware Requirement: + 68040 or PowerMac (System 7.5.x recommended) + 14" (640x480) Monitor (or bigger) with 256 Colors + 5 MB of free RAM (16 MB of total RAM recommended) + VIRTUAL MEMORY *NOT* RECOMMENDED What's new in this Version 1.0.5 ? * Enemy standard bullets are better visible (color & shape changed) * Scrolling Routines reprogrammed - reduced flickering. * New Direct to Screen write routines for PPC and 68k * Faster Game Play for 68k and slow PPC based Machines * Choose Game Speed with exact FPS Control (smoother animation with VBL) (game Speed Options are in Prefs Menu now...) * Some picts (new title pict,...) added. * Documentation 1.0.5 included * Some little bugs fixes. [Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/galaxus-105.hqx; 2252K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:36:03 -0500 From: rlanctot@mail.okanagan.net (Ryan Lanctot) Subject: [*] IBMUG Monthly v1n5 IBMUG Monthly is the E-Newsletter of the Interior Business Mac Users Group, located in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. January's issue contains a number of columns, including news, Apple Lore, Deals, URLs, and a column entitled 'Metatools Power Tips', contributed by Joseph Linaschke of MetaTools. Visit our Website at http://www.seagull.net/rlanctot/index.html . Regards, Ryan Lanctot, President, IBMUG. [Archived as /info-mac/per/ibmug-v1n5.hqx; 1004K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:36:29 -0500 From: jeff@stepupsoftware.com (Jeff Benjamin) Subject: [*] NetSupport Page 1.0.1 Version 1.0.1 fixes a bug which sometimes generated an error #72. NetSupport Page is a freeware application designed to aid network support personnel and end-users in determining the current and past status of their AppleTalk and TCP/IP network. It automatically generates a World Wide Web page (an HTML document) displaying the current status of specified AppleTalk zones and IP addresses at user-specified intervals. Any web browser can be used to view the web page. If the HTML document is shared by a web server or AppleShare server, any client on the network can view it. Client screens will automatically update every sixty seconds. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/net-support-page-101.hqx; 700K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:32:09 -0500 (EST) From: webmaster@costanet.com Subject: [*] Placidos Kaleidoscope Patch 1.0.1 MacOs 8 Hi! My name is Jose Placido . This is a update of my best patch...!. This patch changes kaleidoscope 1.0.1 to Kaleidoscope 1.0.1 By me... which replaces the blue-ish 3D- looking system folders with the original complete icons of the Copland 3D MacOs 8 designed by me. I worked on these icons very hard... please if you distribute this patch, give me credit...! , and don't change all the resources. Contacting the patch author... Please send direct email to: placido@costanet.com and if you want a complete icons collection set of the copland MacOs 8 design by me... don=B4t forget visit my web http://www.costanet.com Or my Hard Disk http://www.costanet.com/Stuff.html Costa Rica...!! Placido=B4s Kaleidoscope Patch 1.0.1 =A9 1996-1997 By Jose Placido [Archived as /info-mac/gui/placidos-kaleidescope-101.hqx; 354K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:36:25 -0500 From: bclark@flnet.com (Ben Clark) Subject: [*] Tagline 1.2, signature randomizer -Tagline 1.2 - Script Wizards Software January 1997 Tagline's main usage, simply stated, is to create a random e-mail signature. This is accomplished by adding a one line quote or humorous saying (a "tagline") to your e-mail signature. Tagline 1.0, released in August of 1996, did just that, but with one major flaw: a limitation on the number of taglines in the tagline list. This flaw has been addressed with the release of Tagline 1.1 and all future versions. New to this version includes low level AppleEvent support. This means that if you double-click on any tagline list that you download from the official tagline web site (http://www.flnet.com/~bclark/sw/tagline.html) or drag & drop any text file onto the application, that file will be used instead of the default. Read more about this in the documentation. Tagline comes with 281 taglines for you to get started right away. It also comes with two AppleScript(tm) scripts, one called "Signature Maker" which will generate a generic signature based on information you give it, and one called "Add Tagline" which will add taglines you give it to the tagline list you specify. These three additions to the program will make it easy for you to start using Tagline 1.2 right away. Author: Ben Clark --- Be sure to visit our Script Wizards Software web site at: [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/tagline-12.hqx; 72K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:04:11 -0600 From: Wendell Mendell Subject: (resolved) Phantom control of printer port I had a number of helpful replies to my quandry regarding a phantom application taking over my printer port so that I could not use my ColorWriter 2400 (at home). The printer manual said to restart the computer to shake loose the application, but that did not help. The key was that I had zapped the PRAM during a session with SOS-APPL in trying to revive a 15" Multisync monitor that had gone into a coma. The solution turned out to be embarrassingly straightforward. I got a couple of replies suggesting that Appletalk had been made active (by default) after I zapped the PRAM. I looked around for some way to switch off Appletalk and could not remember how to do it. I randomly opened the Chooser and there was the problem! I had never thought to look in the Chooser because, in my mind, I am not on a network. However, there were the printer and Globalfax, fat and sassy. Click on printer. Choose printer port option. Say OK to turning off Appletalk. Everything is back to normal. Thanks for everyone's advice from around the world. Wendell Mendell ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:55:56 -0600 From: "Weber, Marlin C. (Butch)" Subject: [Q[ - Looking for best extended keyboard for new Mac Well, I guess this didn't make it to the digest the first time I sent it so I'll try again. I'm looking for suggestions for a good extended keyboard for a new Mac I'll be buying in about a month. I had an Apple extended keyboard II with my old system, but that went along with it when I sold it. I like the Apple version, but think it's a little high-priced. I've not heard many good things about their other keyboard. I'm considering the Alps Glidepoint keyboard, but haven't heard much about that yet. I'm also looking at the DataDesk models as well. Any opinions would be appreciated. Butch Weber webermc@phibred.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 21:50:38 +0000 From: Quentin North Subject: [Q] Multiple Cyberdog/Internet Config users on single Mac? I currently use Eudora and Nafscape for email and web browsing. By having different prefs files/folders for me and other users of my Mac (my girlfriend) it allows us to have seperate mail accounts etc. I am considering using Cyberdog which uses Internet Config for prefs and account info. Is there a convinient way that I can support multiple users on the same machine with this set up? Cheers, Quentin. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 17:42:52 -0500 From: Randy Alan Yeip Subject: [Q] Web utilities for the Mac At 12:29 PM -0500 on 1/21/97, Florin Neumann pounded out the following: > A query from a friend: > > Hi there... > > I was just wondering if there are any programs like these for > the Mac... > > * L View (PC program) - it is a photo compression program to > make photos small in file size for the web... > > * Map Edit (PC program) - it allows you to put hot spots over > pictures, graphics, etc. for the web... > > If anyone knows of any programs that are similar for the Mac > it would be very appreciated...Thanx... > > Sandra Wardell There is an equivalent to both that I've tried out. The first, for reducing the size of photos, is ResFork Killer. As for mapping software, try ImageMapper. Both are available at Info-Mac. Randy A. Yeip yeiprand@pilot.msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/user/yeiprand ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:48:54 CST From: "Tom Kirke (312) 413-5539" Subject: ACAD 13 & Softwindows 95 Has anybody had any experience with ACAD R13 ( for Windows ) & Softwindows 95? We are contemplating running this on a P.Mac 7100 w/ 32M RAM. Save bandwith! Send your responce to & I will summarize for the List. Thank you, Tom Kirke ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 21:23:11 +0000 From: Ian Burt Subject: CSM-Runtime Enabler Greetings Mac Guru's, I was today sent a CDROM with a beta copy of AOL's UK Mac software. I can participate in the beta testing for the duration and for free. Wanting to be one of the few to get something for nothing from AOL I loaded up the disk and proceeded to install. After a reboot,which was necessary because the software places extensions and system stuff on your startup drive, I tried to open the programme. I got a dialog box saying CSM Runtime enabler is needed to run it. Ho hum. Apple tell us that the extension is very buggy and should be avoided by 68k Macs. I will let the following clipping from TidBITS # 356 explain: >MailBITS/02-Dec-96 >------------------ > >**Disable the CFM-68K Runtime Enabler** -- If you use a Macintosh > with a 68K processor, Apple is recommending that you disable the > CFM-68K Runtime Enabler either by using an extensions manager or > by removing it from your System Folder. Some applications that use > the CFM-68K Runtime Enabler can crash your Macintosh, possibly > causing data loss and other problems. This problem does _not_ > affect Power Macs. > > > > The Code Fragment Manager (CFM) was originally developed for Power > Macs and lets Power Mac applications use shared code libraries > (trust me, they're neat). Later, Apple ported the CFM backwards to > 68K machines to make it easier for developers build 68K versions > of Power Mac applications. Those 68K applications are just now > starting to appear, although plenty more are in development. > > However, Apple now admits to a problem with the 68K version of > CFM, and it can't be used reliably in all cases. Though this bug > doesn't impact every program that uses CFM-68K, there's no simple > way to know which applications are affected. Programs using CFM- > 68K include OpenDoc, Cyberdog, Apple Media Tool, LaserWriter 8.4 > and 8.4.1, Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0b1, and the preview of > AOL 3.0. If you use any of these programs, Apple recommends you > revert to earlier versions or stop using them. If you disable the > CFM-68K enabler and try to use one of these applications, you'll > see an error, but no damage will be done. Apple is working on a > fix, but there's no public timetable for when a solution might be > available. [GD] > I couldn't go to bed knowing there might be 68k Maccies using this buggy init possibly by default. G'night, Ian Burt ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:02:37 -0500 From: Richard Friedman Subject: DTP and HP 600 printers Does anyone know why I can't get an icon for my HP Deskwriter 600 using DTP 2.0. I selected the printer in the chooser and expected to get a DTP icon for it like the one I got for my LW-LS/300 but nothing happened. I downloaded the latest printer drivers from HP for this printer, but still nothing. -Rich rfriedma@thunder.ocis.temple.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 17:02:18 -0500 (EST) From: MarvinT204@aol.com Subject: IIci's Won't Shut Down I had a client having the same problem with a IIci restarting apparently by itself. The problem was solved by replacing the lithium system battery on the motherboard. If your problems are still persisting perhaps replacing the battery will also solve your problems. Marvin Tubbs marvint204@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:29:22 -0800 From: Bob Wall Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #18 "Tech help" I too have a Performa 6400/200 with 32MB. I also have a 17" monitor and was frustrated that I could only get 256 colors. In spite of what I was told when I bought the machine, a VRAM upgrade is not available. I recently installed the 4meg version of the Xclaim VR video card by ATI Technologies. It only cost about $300 and it performs beautifully. Great color. The graphics are much improved. It also has video-in and video-out. I highly recommend it. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:23:23 -0500 From: dek@resource.ca.jhu.edu Subject: Kaleidoscope hang As the son of a painter, I find Kaleidoscope irresistable for fooling around with the user interface. But I am having problems with my Mac Centris 610 (OS 7.5.5) freezing on start-up ("error 10"). When this happens, I must restart with extensions off, take Kaleidoscope out of my control panels folder, also remove from the extensions folder whatever color scheme I was using, then restart. If I reinsert the Kaleidoscope cdev (but not the color scheme extension), my Centris restarts without problems and runs fine. Could certain color schemes be the culprit? For example, this morning I hung up with Tetsuya Asanuma's "Luminary 1.0" as the color scheme (Kaleidoscope 1.0.1). I took it out of my extensions folder, restarted, selected a new color scheme, and have been running without problems. Anyone else experiencing similar problems? Dale Keiger ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 14:16:55 -0500 From: Scott Sarama Subject: LCIII external CD problems I have an LCIII, MacOS 7.1, a Pioneer 4.4x external CDROM drive, and FWB CDROM Toolkit 2.0.1. Problem: 1. I get a screen message that says my CDROM may take a while to get ready even though nothing is in the drive 2. My machine "checks" the drive every so many minutes, even though there are no cd's in the drive. That causes everything on my screen to freeze, until the CDROM light goes off. Suggestions on what is happening here and how to correct it would be appreciated. Scott ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:20:03 -0500 From: Randall Meadows Subject: Microsoft Mac Application Futures On 1/21/97 at 12:29 PM -0500, intertec@mbox300.swipnet.se (Michael Brostr=F6= m ) wrote: > So does anyone know of a preliminary date for Office 97? I am using > Microsofts products on my Win95-machine and must confess to liking them >for > their usability in that environment. Unfortunately I've tried using Word > 6.0.1 on the Mac (in order to maintain a common working environment) and > it's just too darn slow! (That's on a Performa 6400/180 w 32 MB RAM). A message I read on another list (Mac-L) came from a guy at MS's Bay area office, saying that Office would appear in the fall. This office is committed to creating genuine Macintosh Microsoft products (like IE 3.0), instead of (very bad) Windows ports (Word 6.0). He wasn't any more definitive than "fall 97". ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:44:26 +0000 From: "Paul L. Moses" Subject: Nisus Writer Default Font problem Hi, Testing out Nisus Writer (4.14) and I've run into a problem: All my old documents open set to the Geneva font. When I open them in their "native" apps (Word 5 or TexEdit), they display the correct "Default Font" (ie not Geneva). Also, any *new* Nisus docs I make when I save text from Netscape, Newswatcher, or Eudora, also open up set to Geneva : ( I have followed the instructions on how to make Nisus create new docs with the other Default Font, but it will be a huge nuisance to convert every single old document, as well as every new doc I make with other apps. Any help out there? -- Paul ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 19:57:17 -0500 From: "Peter J. Paul" Subject: printing from microsoft office apps > I've run into a problem printing from my Microsoft Office applications > (word 6 and excel 5 etc...). Each time I go to print my computer crahses > with an 'unimplemented trap'. I've tried running different combinations > of > extentions and I've tried printing with background printing and all the > extentions off but the same thing happens. Are you running QuickDraw GX. If so, it is a known problem with a fix (an extension) widely available. It can certainly be found on the Microsoft sites and 'probably' on the Info-Mac sites as well. << Peter J. Paul >> ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 09:15:39 BST From: Ian.Goldby@powertech.co.uk Subject: Re. What's a Plus good for? Paul Mullen asked "What's a Mac Plus good for?" A Mac Plus will run System 7.1 quite happily, although it is noticably slower than System 6. If you are on a network (and it sounds that you are not) it is worth it for the aliases alone. Otherwise, I would think there is not much benefit. I wouldn't try running current versions of any software on it. I suspect that Claris Works probably requires Color QuickDraw (this is a guess). If so, it would not run on a Mac Plus. A Mac Plus running Microsoft Word version 4 is very acceptable. I found Word 5 on a Plus unusably slow, but I'm quite fussy. I can't think of anything in Word 5 that isn't in Word 4 that I used to write my dissertation, and I do use things like glossaries, outlining, styles, frames, etc. Ian. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 09:07:10 BST From: Ian.Goldby@powertech.co.uk Subject: Re Word 6 speed Michael Brostrom asked how to get Word 6.0.1 to speed up at all from a crawl on a Performa PowerMac. (Apologies if I've spelled your name wrong - Lotus cc:Mail doesn't like accented characters.) We found at our lab in Birmingham that Word 6 on a PowerMac 7100 gets stifled if there is not enough memory. I would guess that you need at least 16 MB and probably more. Symptoms are that it takes ages to redraw equations or go into the equation editor. I don't think virtual memory will help though. Also, make sure you don't have any memory hungry extensions loaded that you don't need. We removed something to do with ODBC (?) and that freed up an incredible amount of system memory. Ian. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:25:10 +1100 From: G.Barker@unsw.EDU.AU (George Barker) Subject: Simple Alarms app - any suggestions? For some years I've been using an extension called Smart Alarms8 - its worked with Sys 6.7 on a Classic and it worked with Sys 7.5.1 on a 680X0 Performa, but has finally said "Enough!" when I tried to get it up and running with Sys 7.5.5 and a PowerPC chip. It has a simple and efficient interface with the ability to reassign the alarm at the time of notification (this was the bit that I really liked). So...does anyone have a suggestion for a similar device that will run with sys 7.5.5 and a PowerPC chip - it doesn't need to have contacts, logs and schedulers (in fact that could be a disadvantage) but it should be fast and simple to use? regards George B ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:49:54 -0500 From: "b. smith-mannschott" Subject: System calls for Duo screen brightness The cheap little buttons on my Duo 230 that are supposed to control the brightness of screen backlighting don't work anymore. Are there any simple utilities (FKEY's maybe?) that dim and brighten the screen? Does anyone know the toolbox calls to manipulate the backlight brightness? I've searched Apple's tech-info and read up on the PowerManager and haven't found what I'm looking for. Any help would be appreciated. -- ben smith-mannschott bsmith@cs.oberlin.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:39:18 -0500 (EST) From: Co-op Chris <755COOP3@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> Subject: The arrow pointer...?? Is it possible to modify the color and/or appearance of the arrow pointer? I have seen it done in macmine sweeper, but nothing else. It eludes me when I search with Resedit as well. Thanks, Chris 755coop3@rit.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 06:06:07 -0500 (EST) From: layne@concentric.net Subject: Two internal hard drives? Hi, I was wondering if I could install a second internal hard drive in my PPC 7500/100. I am looking on adding a two to three gig hard drive. Also, any suggestion on what brand of hard drive to use, internal or external. TIA layne@concentric.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:20:31 -0500 From: Randall Meadows Subject: Web utilities for the Mac On 1/21/97 at 12:29 PM -0500, Florin Neumann wrote: > I was just wondering if there are any programs like these for > the Mac... > > * L View (PC program) - it is a photo compression program to > make photos small in file size for the web... There is a Web site (therefore, cross-platform!) that will manipulate GIFs to make them smaller with no visual degradation (or you can degrade it if you want. -- Randall B. Meadows - meadowsr@FGM.com - Herndon, VA - (703) 478-9881 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:19:15 -0800 From: Chuck Garrett Subject: What's a Plus good for? At 9:29 AM -0800 1/21/97, Info-Mac wrote: * What good is your old Mac Plus these days? I have a writer friend * who desperately needs a computer (mainly for word processing, of course), * and I'd love to set her up with a Mac. Alas, my budget won't allow * anything better than a Plus, it seems (sad, isn't it?). How useful is a * Plus nowadays? Can it successfully run System 7? Current versions of * ClarisWorks? I have read the specs on the Plus as provided in the * c.s.m.hardware FAQ, but that doesn't tell me much about real-world * performance (I don't expect much from a 68000, just reliable basic * stuff). Any insight would be appreciated. The current issue of MacAddict has an excellent article on configuring and using a Plus including recommendations for software for the net and home type things. (they recommend system 7.5.5) chuckg@kingsnet.com Youth is a gift of Nature, Age a work of art. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************