[HEA] _____________________ ___ _ |___ ______________| | | | | | | _ | | | | | || | | | | | | || | | | | | | || | | | ____ _ _ _ _ ______ | | | || | | | / __ \ | | / \_/ \ | ___ \ | | | || |__ ____ | | / / \ | | /\ /\ \ | | \ \ | | | || _ \ | _ \ | | \ \__/ | | | |_|| | | |__/ / | | | || | | || |_|| | | \___/|_| |_| |_| | ____/ |_| | || | | || |__ | |____________________ | | _ |__||_| |_|\____/ |________________________| | | |_| | | Lighting Your Apple II Path | | |_| ----------------------------------- >>> WELCOME TO THE LAMP! <<< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE BEST OF THE A2 BULLETIN BOARD ON Syndicomm Online AND THE BEST OF THE DELPHI A2 AND A2PRO MESSAGE BOARDS "Teaching the Apple II user how to fish since 1998" :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: The Lamp! An Onipa'a Software Production Vol. 7, No. 9 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Publisher................................Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W. Editor.....................................................Lyle Syverson Internet Email, Publisher.........................thelamp@sheppyware.net Internet Email, Editor................................lyle@FoxValley.net :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: TABLE OF CONTENTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ September 15, 2004 HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER---------------------------------------------[OPN] Two Copper Wires A2 FORUM AT Syndicomm Online (A2Central.com) DISTILLATIONS------------[DAS] Two New Uploads in A2 Library------------------------------------[TNU] Another Upload in The A2 Library---------------------------------[AUL] Yet Another Upload in The A2 Library-----------------------------[YAU] New Version of VNCview GS Released-------------------------------[VNC] Wireless ADB Keyboard Tested-------------------------------------[WKT] Juiced.GS V9I3 on The Way----------------------------------------[JGS] Programmer's Chats Suggested-------------------------------------[PCS] Cooperative Approach to Programing For The Apple II's------------[CPA] Help With The Rez Resource Compiler------------------------------[HWR] Programing Help--------------------------------------------------[PGH] Help With Programing Using The Marinetti TCP/IP Stack------------[MTS] How do You Create an Accented 'e' in Windows?--------------------[CAE] Telnet/SSH Terminal Program for Windows--------------------------[TST] ILLUMINATING THE LAMP-------------------------------------------------[ITL] An overview of GEnieLamp A2 and The Lamp! 2001 ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM SYNDICOMM------------------------------------------[ANS] To Sign up for Syndicomm Online----------------------------------[TSU] September 2004 Issue of Syndicommotion Available-----------------[SSA] New Page Added for Syndicommotion--------------------------------[NPA] LETTERS TO THE EDITOR-------------------------------------------------[LTE] No Letters to the Editor This Month An Invitation KFEST 2004------------------------------------------------------------[KFF] Code for Ken G's HackFest 2004 Entry-----------------------------[KHF] KFEST 2005------------------------------------------------------------[KF5] KansasFest 2005 to be Held July 19-24th--------------------------[TBH] KansasFest Website-----------------------------------------------[KFW] Golf Outing as an Event at KFest 2005?---------------------------[GOK] EXTRA INNINGS About The Lamp! ------------------------------------------------ [INN] [*] [*] [*] READING THE LAMP! The index system used by The Lamp! is designed to make """"""""""""""""" your reading easier. To use this system, load this issue into any word processor or text editor. In the index you will find something like: EXTRA INNINGS About The Lamp! ------------------------------------------------ [INN] To read this article, simply use your search or find command to locate [INN]. There is a similar tag at the end of each article: [EOA]. [OPN]------------------------------- HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER | ------------------------------------ From The Editor """"""""""""""" by Lyle Syverson Two Copper Wires ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Observation of the valley from High Above The Rock River reveals that the cool nights and warm days of early Fall have triggered the start of the annual Parade of Colors. Almost hidden among the changing leaves are the power and telephone lines. Cell phone towers sprout from hills. This leads to contemplation of the evolution of electronic communication during one's lifetime. Back on the farm there were the poles carrying the two copper wires of the telephone system. The wooden box mounted on the kitchen wall was owned by the phone company and serviced by them if needed. Two bells mounted at the top on the outside, a crank on the outside on the right, a hinged arm 12" in length allowed the mouthpiece to be adjusted for height, the receiver hanging on a hook on the left side. And a knife switch on the wall above the box to disconnect the phone during thunder storms. It was a party line. The number of parties varied... at one time there were 27 parties on the one line. Calling someone on the same line involved using the crank to generate the power to ring the bells on all those phones on the line... each party having a different combination of long and short rings. Calling someone on another line in the same exchange involved calling the operator with one long ring and asking for the party by name. Same for calling someone long distance in another exchange. It was easy to listen in on someone else's conversation so it happened often. While you were talking to someone the signal would slowly become stronger as the snoopers decided the conversation was not interesting and would hang up. For a fee the phone company would have the operator give a "general ring" (a really long ring) calling all phones on all lines of the exchange and reading an advertisement. The operators got to learn a lot about people in the community... who was calling who... what they were talking about... etc. By today's standards it was rather crude... but it was possible to talk to your friends and relatives without traveling to their home... order fuel delivery to the farm... check on grain prices before hauling your grain to the elevator for marketing... check to see if a certain spare part was available for your machinery, etc. As time went on there were the dial phones... the party lines where you heard only your own ring... the private lines... the touch tone phones... own your own phones... multiple lines... direct dialing... fax machines... modems... faster and faster modems... wireless (cell) phones. And now DSL... and competition from the TV cable systems... to move data faster and faster... Broadband in the home must be getting quite popular... the local Salvation Army "As Is" store has 56K modems for $1... I picked up a spare and it works! [EOA] ASCII ART BEGINS _________ _ _ _ |__ __| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |___ ____ | | _____ __ ___ _ _ _____ | | | | | ___ \ / __ \ | | /____ \ | v v | | v ___ \ | | | | | | | | | /__\ \ | | ____| | | /\ /\ | | / \ \ | | | | | | | | | _____| | | / ___ | | || || | | | | | |_| | | | | | | | |_____ | |____ | |__| | | || || | | \___/ / _ |_| |_| |_| \______| |______| \____^_| |_||_||_| | |\____/ |_| | | | | |_| ASCII ART ENDS [EOA] [DAS]---------------------------------------------- DISTILLATIONS FROM The A2 FORUM at Syndicomm.com | (A2Central.com) | --------------------------------------------------- by Lyle Syverson [TNU] TWO NEW UPLOADS IN A2 LIBRARY """"""""""""""""""""""""""""" There are two new uploads in the a2/system_software/misc_16-bit/desk_accessories/nda directory: File: myipnda1b2.bxy Size: 6656 Date: Aug 22 MyIPNDA 1.0b2 is the latest version of my simple New Desk Accessory for reporting the IP address of the Apple IIgs it runs on. Version 1.0b2 fixes a bug that may interfere with other NDAs or applications using substitution strings. Freeware by Ryan Suenaga; email a2.ryan@syndicomm.com for assistance. File: theirip1b1.bxy Size: 7552 Date: Aug 22 TheirIPNDA 1.0b1 is the latest version of my simple New Desk Accessory for looking up the IP address of computers on the Internet. Freeware by Ryan Suenaga; email a2.ryan@syndicomm.com for assistance. Uploaded by the author, Ryan Suenaga. Tony Ward, A2 Librarian (A2.TONY, Cat 2, Top 37, Msg 37) [EOA] [AUL] ANOTHER UPLOAD IN THE A2 LIBRARY """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" There is a new upload in the programming/a2pro_general_files/source.code.samples directory: File: waitctrl.bxy Size: 13824 Date: Aug 22 WaitCtrl.bxy - A custom IIgs control and example NDA code to utilize it. Draws a rotating "barbershop pole". Copyrighted Freeware / BSD license. Uploaded by the author, Kelvin W Sherlock / kws@syndicomm.com Tony Ward, A2 Librarian (A2.TONY, Cat 2, Top 37, Msg 38) [EOA] [YAU] YET ANOTHER UPLOAD IN THE A2 LIBRARY """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" There is a new upload in the system_software/misc_16-bit/desk_accessories/nda directory: File: theirip1b3.bxy Size: 7552 Date: Sep 5 TheirIPNDA 1.0b3 is the latest version of my simple New Desk Accessory for looking up the IP address of computers on the Internet. Implements a bug fix for the redrawing of controls, and fixes a significant bug introduced in 1.0b2. Beta freeware by Ryan Suenaga; email a2.ryan@syndicomm.com for assistance. Tony Ward, A2 Librarian (A2.TONY, Cat 2, Top 37, Msg 39) [EOA] [VNC] NEW VERSION OF VNCview GS RELEASED """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" I've released a new version of VNCview GS, version 1.0b1 (it's at beta status now, since it includes most of the features I have planned for a 1.0 release and has been demonstrated to work for some people other than me). The main change is a considerable performance improvement in Raw mode; whenever the server's display changes, the screen is updated much more quickly than in previous versions. This version also includes support for resizing the server's screen while connected to it (some servers don't support this, but RealVNC 4.0 and OSXvnc do) and for using servers with screen dimensions smaller than the IIgs's. VNCview GS 1.0b1 can be downloaded at: http://www.syndicomm.com/~s.heumann/VNCviewGSb1.bxy Stephen Heumann (S.HEUMANN, Cat 11, Top 37, Msg 11) [EOA] [WKT] WIRELESS ADB KEYBOARD TESTED """""""""""""""""""""""""""" I just finished testing a wireless ADB keyboard with both a Mac and a GS--this puppy works on both! It's made by Acer, and while it doesn't have the same feel as a real GS keyboard, it's nice to be "unwired" once in a while. There's a description of it on the seller's webpage: http://www.macsruscomputers.com/ Later.................Howard (A2.HOWARD, Cat 17, Top 19, Msg 30) [EOA] [JGS] Juiced.GS V9I3 ON THE WAY """"""""""""""""""""""""" I declared the pending Volume 9, Issue 3 of Juiced.GS final on Wednesday night and passed it on to the publisher, so blame any shipping delays on him :-) Ryan Editor-in-Chief, Juiced.GS magazine (A2.RYAN, Cat 23, Top 2, Msg 622) >>>>> """"" Volume 9, Issue 3 has been mailed to all subscribers. Enjoy! Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com Building communities, bit by bit. (SYNDICOMM, Cat 23, Top 2, Msg 627) [EOA] [PCS] PROGRAMMER'S CHATS SUGGESTED """""""""""""""""""""""""""" After a chat with Ryan and a couple of others last night, it occurs to me that something that might be good is to have a chat or two scheduled where people could get together and discuss some ideas for developing software that interacts with each other. For example, instead of someone trying to write an email program, one person could write an address book NDA, someone else could write a send email program, and another person could write a read email program. Designed to interact using IPC, these can become a fairly substantial email package. Similarly, a good all-around Uuencode/Binhex/Binscii/yEnc encoder and decoder NDA, with some IPC calls, becomes an engine that can be used by web browsers, news readers, and email programs to deal with file archives. Nobody in our community has time for huge projects anymore -- we need to find ways to develop lots of small, individual projects that work together to do big things. So I'd like to suggest that the staff here could host one, or a series of, RTCs where programmers and prospective programmers could talk about ideas for how to do this and what sorts of projects could be done. I've already taken a step toward this by changing the design for my context menu manager (formerly PapaSan, now SideClick), so that any Apple IIgs program or DA can install items into the contextual menu, instead of having to be done through SideClick-specific plugins. Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.co Building communities, bit by bit. (SYNDICOMM, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 111) >>>>> """"" This sounds like a pretty good idea. I'm still in the learning stages here. I'm trying to do some small programs and learn a thing or two. I like the new name of "Sideclick". It will be interesting to see how this turns out. Dain (A2.DAIN, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 112) >>>>> """"" I think that this is a promising idea; where's that Kirk Mitchell guy to look at a schedule? I would like to address some of your other comments--let's move this over to Category 50/topic 5, "Programmer's Cafe". Ryan Chief Sysop (A2.RYAN, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 113) >>>>> """"" I'm willing to schedule something. I wonder if the forum might not be just as important in assisting programmers in deciding what to work on, as well as how. I know nothing about IPC, while Sheppy may explain it very well, so that even a dope like me could understand, he's not going to want to do that live for every ignorant programmer that comes along to an RTC. The nature of the RTC does shine when brainstorming for ideas though. Any particular evenings that folks would like to see this on, and should we move it to one of our rarely used other rooms to avoid annoying nonprogrammers? I'm always open for any RTC comments and requests! Kirk (A2.KIRK, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 114) >>>>> """"" I've always thought that the multiple rooms per forum was a greatly underutilized* feature of Syndicomm, and I would say that this would be the perfect opportunity to use it. _________ | homas (TCOMPTER, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 115) >>>>> """"" I like the idea of using one of the other rooms, so non-programmers don't have to put up with us. :) Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com Building communities, bit by bit. (SYNDICOMM, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 117) >>>>> """"" I'm wondering if this scheduled conference is to focus on TCP/IP applications in particular or just applications? One way or another, it may be helpful to invite some of our friends who only occasionally jump in here (like Richard Bennett-Forrest, for instance; Ewen seems to be absent now too). Also, maybe a couple of conferences would make some sense as well. Ryan Chief Sysop (A2.RYAN, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 118) >>>>> """"" I would think any kind of applications could benefit from this notion. Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com Building communities, bit by bit. (SYNDICOMM, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 119) >>>>> """"" I am not absent, just somulent! I check in about twice a week these days, as until Henrik gets Sweet Sixteen sorted out for OS X, I have to reboot my Mac to get to OS 9.0. It would certainly help to get a lot of these things into the desktop. Most of the Internet related stuff I have written has revolved round Spectrum for obvious reasons. Ewen Wannop - Speccie (CONDUCTOR, Cat 2, Top 6, Msg 120) [EOA] [CPA] COOPERATIVE APPROACH TO PROGRAMING FOR THE Apple II's """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" In another world (well, Cat 2, Top 6), Sheppy typed: >> Nobody in our community has time for huge projects anymore -- we need to find ways to develop lots of small, individual projects that work together to do big things. << I've been thinking (and conversing with you similar ideas) on this for quite some time. If we look at the example of, say, a stand alone email program (not SAM, that works, thanks, Ewen, but not everyone owns Spectrum :) I think that one has not yet gotten done in some part because of feature creep, but also that--and we don't usually think of this, since email is such a part of everyday life--an email program is a -huge- undertaking. To address feature creep--I think that some folks start working on their email program thinking they'll bring Eudora 6 to the IIgs, when the reality is, it took a team of programmers many years and revisions to get Eudora 6 on the platforms it's done completed. It might be better to think more along the lines of Claris Emailer Lite 1.0. :) Then there is just the issue of a big project. It's much more likely small projects will get done than big ones, because of the time and size of such projects, and then there's the psychological factor--there's a certain reward psychologically of getting something finished and out the door. Like many other things in life, a completed program is likely to result in more completed programs, and it can be contagious, which is only good for the Apple II community :) In any case, I think that the idea of a bunch of small programs working together is a great one. Just last night I was thinking about the feasibility of a CDev something like the old Internet Config on the Mac. I don't know enough about IPC yet to say how useful it could be, but it was just a thought. Ryan Chief Sysop (A2.RYAN, Cat 50, Top 5, Msg 16) >>>>> """"" We actually talked about doing an Internet Config type of CDev years ago; Geoff and I discussed it in particular and I was actually working on one at one point but didn't get very far. I'm not sure there are enough network programs of any given kind to make this really necessary. :) Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com Building communities, bit by bit. (SYNDICOMM, Cat 50, Top 5, Msg 17) [EOA] [HWR] HELP WITH THE Rez Resource Compiler """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Lots of Rez code in this message alert! I regret to say that I have spent way too much time away from working on code and I have lost what little I knew about Rez. I am currently drawing a window with a small title bar, a close box, and a small content region. I need to put a static text control in the content region (the whole region) and for the life of me I just can't get it. Here's my Rez code for the window currently: #include "types.rez" #define linedColors 1 /*- Document Window --------------------------------------------*/ resource rWindParam1 (1001) { $C0A5, /* wFrameBits */ nil, /* wTitle */ 0, /* wRefCon */ {0,0,0,0}, /* ZoomRect */ linedColors, /* wColor ID */ {0,0}, /* Origin */ {0,0}, /* data size */ {0,0}, /* max height-width */ {0,0}, /* scroll ver hors */ {0,0}, /* page ver horiz */ 0, /* winfoRefcon */ 0, /* wInfoHeight */ {50,50,62,225}, /* wposition */ infront, /* wPlane */ nil, /* wStorage */ $0800 /* wInVerb */ }; /*- Standard color table for lined windows ---------------------*/ resource rWindColor (linedColors) { 0x0000, /* frameColor */ 0x0F00, /* titleColor */ 0x020F, /* tbarColor */ 0xF0F0, /* growColor */ 0x00F0, /* infoColor */ }; I think I need to make wInVerb $0802 and add a resource value for wStorage, then add a static text control, but no matter what I do I can't get it. Help? Thanks. Ryan Chief Sysop (A2.RYAN, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 9) >>>>> """"" Hi Ryan. It's been a while for me, but looking at some code I have here: wStorage should be the id of a rControlList listing the ids of the controls on the window wInVerb I have as $0809 So for example, you might have: wStorage 1101 wInVerb $0809 Then resource rControlList(1101) { { 2001, } }; rControlTemplate (2001) { 1, /* control ID */ {2,10,180,600}, /* control Rect */ statTextControl {{ $0000, /* Flags */ $1002, /* More Flags */ 0, /* refCon */ 3003 /* Title Ref */ }}; }; resource rTextForLETextBox2 (3003) {"The text for the static text box"}; This is from my sketchy memory, and looking at a couple of listings here. I hope it's of some use :) Kim (KIMHOWE, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 10) >>>>> """"" Thanks, Kim, that helped, although since I only had one control, I didn't need an actual rControlList (but I ended up going that route anyway, because I was having so many problems). In any case, that along with remembering I had to use local instead of global coordinates for the resource and using a DrawControls call (duh) fixed most of my problems. Now I have to figure out how to do substitution strings for the static text box. . . Ryan Chief Sysop (A2.RYAN, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 11) >>>>> """"" I am at least starting to remember what I've done with Rez in the past and started getting some of my more simple resources done as you can see with MyIP.NDA (and I have a few more projects I'm working on, one more might be out before the end of the month). What I've never really figured out is how folks get their custom icons done and into their resources. What's the secret(s)? Ryan Chief Sysop (A2.RYAN, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 12) >>>>> """"" I use an icon editor. I think IconED can save as source code. I don't recall if it saves as rez code, but it should save as asm code (hex strings) which can be converted to rez code fairly easily. GS+ published an icon editor (ICE?) which can save as a resource or old-fashioned icon file. (I don't recall if it will save as rez code directly). Genesys also allowed add/editing resource icons. If you have a resource file, the derez utility can convert it back to rez source code: (orca/gno prompt) # derez your_file_here Types.rez > source.rez there are options to only derez certain types or resource ids. "help derez" for more information. If you have too much free time, you could also write a utility to convert an icon file to rez source code. I wouldn't be surprised if such a beast already existed. Lots of stuff is lurking in Time In A Bottle (and the syndicomm a2 library). Kelvin (KWS, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 13) >>>>> """"" I use ICE to create my icons. Be aware of the bugs in ICE that allows you to create illegal icon files, though. I keep the icons in their own resource icon file. When I want to add the icons to the resource fork of my application, I use the include command in the rez file: include "icon.file"; You don't have to worry about having to derez the icon file. You can include multiple icon files if needed--just make sure you use unique IDs across your icons. Geoff (GEOFF, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 16) >>>>> """"" Keeping the icons in an icon file also allows greater flexibility to edit the icons with your favorite icon editor. You edit the source icon file and then rerun rez to create your final resource fork (and then copy the fork to your app). Geoff (GEOFF, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 17) >>>>> """"" Here's another Rez question that must be stupid (but I can't find the answer tonight): How do I make the text in a static text control appear boldfaced? Ryan Chief Sysop (A2.RYAN, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 19) >>>>> """"" Take a look on page G-34 in Toolbox Ref 3. That shows an example of a static text resource with several different style implemented. TBStyleBold enables bold face. TBStylePlain is for plain text. Take a look in 13:rinclude:types.rez and you can find all the different LETextBox2 styles that rez knows about. Geoff (GEOFF, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 20) >>>>> """"" Thanks, Geoff. That helps. Ryan Chief Sysop (A2.RYAN, Cat 52, Top 48, Msg 21) [EOA] [PGH] PROGRAMING HELP """"""""""""""" Okay, my NDA is essentially finished, with one problem that I'm not really sure how to fix. When I move my NDA window, the windows underneath it are erased and not redrawn; I assumed TaskMasterDA would help me fix this, but my reading is telling me that the Event Mask in TaskMasterDA is not used? I am basing this largely on the Byteworks example in Desktop Programming in Pascal, and Mike's example does the same thing, which at least makes me feel like I didn't break anything :) Suggestions? Thanks. Ryan Chief Sysop (A2.RYAN, Cat 55, Top 21, Msg 1) >>>>> """"" It sounds like update events aren't being delivered to the other windows. Are you somehow swallowing events that don't belong to you? I'd be curious to see your event loop. Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.co Building communities, bit by bit. (SYNDICOMM, Cat 55, Top 21, Msg 2) >>>>> """"" I now think I understand what the problem is, but it's not really a bug, more that I want the IP to update automatically even if in the background; I'll explain more in a bit (gotta run--literally, got a few miles to put in :) Ryan Chief Sysop (A2.RYAN, Cat 55, Top 21, Msg 3) >>>>> """"" Ryan, If you're doing what I think you're doing, marinetti sends a message whenever marinetti connects or disconnects to the network. If you call AcceptMessages() with a name of "TCP~RyanWare~MyIP", marinetti will call your function whenever the network connects/disconnects. As always, check the marinetti documentation for more information. If you use resources and try to do anything with them (the window, controls, etc), you need to save the old resource app (oldApp := GetResourceApp), set it to yours (SetResourceApp(myResourceID)), do your stuff, then restore (SetResourceApp(oldApp)). Kelvin (KWS, Cat 55, Top 21, Msg 4) >>>>> """"" Ah. Okay, that helps. Now that I know this, I probably need to rewrite the whole thing from scratch :) I was polling for any change in IP manually, but clearly that's not needed. Ya learn somethin' new every day. Ryan Chief Sysop (A2.RYAN, Cat 55, Top 21, Msg 5) [EOA] [MTS] HELP WITH PROGRAMING USING THE Marinetti TCP/IP STACK """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" After executing a TCPIPReadTCP or TCPIPReadLineTCP and getting the data expected into rrBuff, is there some way (or just some need) to flush the rrBuff before attempting another read? Or does Marinetti take care of this automagically? Thanks. Ryan Chief Sysop and Head Geek (A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 25) >>>>> """"" When you use TCPIPReadTCP or TCPIPReadLineTCP, you are retrieving it into either a buffer that you set up, or a buffer that Marinetti has allocated on your request. In either case the buffer is your ownership, so do with it what you like, just remembering to dispose of it correctly when you are finished. Ewen Wannop - Speccie (CONDUCTOR, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 26) >>>>> """"" Make sure you always retrieve data from TCPIPReadTCP as a handle. Never read to a pointer since Marinetti will purge its data when a connection gets closed (the reason why older version of gwFTP hangs when closing a connection). To handle different speeds of systems (non-accelerated, accelerated, and hyper-accelerated via an emulator), I found the best implementation to get the number of bytes that Marinetti wants to hand to you. So before calling TCPReadTCP, call TCPIPStatusTCP and get the number of bytes in the receive queue. You now know how many bytes to read for TCPIPReadTCP. Geoff (GEOFF, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 27) >>>>> """"" I'm not sure I explained myself clearly the last time, so let me try this again: I am currently doing a TCPIPReadLineTCP into a buffer that Marinetti has set up for me. If after getting some data using TCPIPReadLineTCP I do another TCPIPReadLineTCP, how do I make sure that this is new data rather that the same thing I read previously? Does Marinetti flush the buffer automatically or do I need to do something to compare the results of TCPIPReadLineTCP vs the previous result? Thanks. Ryan (A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 28) >>>>> """"" Well, I deleted that message I posted last night that had new code in it because it was obvious I was in a state of delirium when I wrote it :) I'll pose that question again a bit later. Ryan Chief Sysop and Head Geek (A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 30) >>>>> """"" I never use TCPIPReadLineTCP since there are plenty of broken servers out there which use an EOL which differ from the RFCs. For example, SIS and gwFTP supports the EOL being a CR, LF, or CRLF. To support this, you have to parse the buffer returned by TCPIPReadTCP by yourself. But to answer your question, I see no reason to not trust that TCPIPReadLineTCP works as documented since Andrew's newsreader uses it and appeared to work correctly. Granted, it was written for Marinetti 1.x, but I doubt that much would have changed for later versions of Marinetti. I just question the real world use of needing to use it. Also, I'm not sure what will happen if there are multiple lines left in the receive queue and the socket is closed--you will either get one line and lose the rest or you will get multiple lines at once. Either way, I'd recommend not to use this tool call. Geoff (GEOFF, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 31) >>>>> """"" Okay, now I think I have my wits more about me than last night. After implementing Geoff's suggestions re: TCPIPReadTCP, I need some help on figuring out why I am consistently losing the first character in the data I'm getting from Marinetti: while mysrBuff.srRcvQueued = 0 do begin {check on the buffer size} dummy := TCPIPStatusTCP(ipid,@mysrbuff); TCPIPPoll; end; {end the check on buffer size} {Read in data the size of the buffer} dummy :=TCPIPReadTCP(ipid,2,0,mysrBuff.srRcvQueued,@myrlrBuff); HLock(myrlrBuff.rlrBuffHandle); HandToPtr(myrlrBuff.rlrBuffHandle,@recieveddata,myrlrBuff.rlrBuffcount); HUnlock(myrlrBuff.rlrBuffHandle); receivedata ends up with the leading "+" cut off from the expected "+OK someotherstuffhere" data. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Ryan Chief Sysop and Head Geek (A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 32) >>>>> """"" How do you know that receivedata ends up with the leading "+" cut off? Are you looking at the buffer in GSBug? If you are trying to write receivedata as a string, you won't see the first character since pascal strings use the first byte as a length. Can you show your code how you prove receivedata^ points to an 'O'. Geoff (GEOFF, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 33) >>>>> """"" >> If you are trying to write receivedata as a string, you won't see the first character since pascal strings use the first byte as a length. << I was going to mention the same thing. This would be the first thing I'd check. - Aaron (A2PROGEEK, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 34) >>>>> """"" Another problem I noticed is this: HandToPtr(myrlrBuff.rlrBuffHandle,@recieveddata,myrlrBuff.rlrBuffcount); You have made an assumption that the recieveddata is at least myrlrBuff.rlrBuffcount long. But you have no idea how big myrlrBuff.rlrBuffcount really is (i.e. if recieveddata is 256 bytes long and myrlrBuff.rlrBuffcount is 257 bytes, you will corrupt memory in the 257th byte since it does not belong to recieveddata). It would be better to allocate a new handle that is myrlrBuff.rlrBuffcount long and copy the data into that. But you don't even need to do that. You already have the received data in myrlrBuff.rlrBuffHandle so you are just wasting cycles performing a memory copy (and the tool calls to allocated and deallocate the extra memory). As far as Marinetti is concerned, the data in myrlrBuff.rlrBuffHandle is yours to mess with (you are to deallocated this handle when you are done with it too). Geoff (GEOFF, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 35) >>>>> """"" >> If you are trying to write receivedata as a string, you won't see the first character since pascal strings use the first byte as a length. << This is true, but I have done all the usual things I do to try to get the string to be a proper P-string and I still haven't seen the +. Yes, I am writing it as a string; I am going to try some other stuff (it's clear that coding in the mornings or late at night after I teach is not the best idea). Thanks. Ryan Chief Sysop and Head Geek (A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 36) >>>>> """"" >> You have made an assumption that the recieveddata is at least myrlrBuff.rlrBuffcount long. But you have no idea how big myrlrBuff.rlrBuffcount really is << Point taken, although for the purposes of this exercise (and right now, that's all this is, an exercise. Remember: I'm a social worker, not a professional programmer, and this is all about learning, not making a living--for me anyway) I don't think that'll be an issue. >> You already have the received data in myrlrBuff.rlrBuffHandle so you are just wasting cycles performing a memory copy (and the tool calls to allocated and deallocate the extra memory). << While the point is also taken, there is a reason why I called HandToPtr; there's a procedure I use later down the line that I specifically wrote for a pointer and I -really- didn't want to change it. Thanks, content appreciated. Ryan Chief Sysop and Head Geek (A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 37) >>>>> """"" Instead of trying to write the text string, print each byte of the receiveddata buffer (with a space between each number). You'll need an ASCII chart to convert the numbers to ASCII characters. This is also a way to make sure that your string manipulation routine is working correctly. Geoff (GEOFF, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 38) >>>>> """"" Even with a handle, you would dereference it to get a pointer. Then your routines later on that use a pointer will work correctly. Geoff (GEOFF, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 39) >>>>> """"" I'm having some issues with my TCPIPReadTCP routine. On Geoff's sage advice, I switched from doing a TCPIPReadLineTCP to TCPIPReadTCP. The routine appears to work the first time it's called but not a second time. Code looks like: dummy :=TCPIPStatusTCP(ipid,@mysrbuff); while mysrBuff.srRcvQueued = 0 do begin {if no data in the queue} TCPIPpoll; dummy :=TCPIPStatusTCP(ipid,@mysrbuff); end; {if no data in the queue} dummy :=TCPIPReadTCP(ipid,2,0,mysrBuff.srRcvQueued,@myrrBuff); There's a routine later to get rid of excess data if the rrMoreFlag is true. The first time it's called, the routine seems to work fine; the second time, it loops forever as if it gets no data. My sending routine (which sends data) is called before this to send some data out and appears to work, but I tend to hang right here. Ideas? Thanks. Ryan Chief Sysop (A2.RYAN, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 40) >>>>> """"" First, it appears that you are unsure if the data you sent before calling this routine a second time is actually getting sent. That is the first area of suspect. This is easily identifiable if you run a POP mail server on your local UNIX box. Run tcpdump while the GS is communicating with your server and you can see what it is sending/receiving. This makes troubleshooting much easier. qpopper should be pretty trivial to set up on the UNIX side. Second, you need to determine which area of the code is hanging. Assuming memory is in a state where it is not trashed or to a point where it is slightly trashed, the two areas where the problem is the while loop _or_ the TCPIPReadTCP. Unless you add some debugging code, you will need to use GSBug to figure that out. If memory is getting very trashed, TCPIPStatusTCP could fail and you have bigger problems since all it does it copy values of a few socket variables. Again, GSBug or adding debug code will help. It also isn't a good idea to just toss any data from the receive queue if the rrMoreFlag is set. If _TaskMaster is being called by any app, then TCPIPPoll can get called automagically and you could purge data that you are expecting. It is a good idea to parse the data manually to make sure what you get meets RFC specs (and modify your code accordingly for servers which don't meet RFC specs). Geoff (GEOFF, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 41) >>>>> """"" Ryan, The latest Juiced.gs mentioned you were using Marinetti v2 (to review VNCView). I would recommend using the v3 beta, as it's more stable and seems to have fewer bugs. Not marinetti related, but 2 options to debug pascal (or C, integer basic, etc) code are Splat! (by Michael Hackett, formerly sold by Procyon, but no longer available) and Orca/Debugger (available from Syndicomm, included on Opus II). I have Splat! and love it. There are some limits (mostly imposed by the Orca debug format), but it lets you step through your high-level code line-by-line and examine variables, look at structures, etc in an 80-column "windowed" text screen. I have Orca/Debugger, but I can't comment on it since Splat! is so good to me :). We all make logic/programming errors, and stepping through your code can be the only way to find the problem sometimes. My 2 cents. Kelvin (KWS, Cat 57, Top 31, Msg 42) [EOA] [CAE] HOW DO YOU CREATE AN ACCENTED 'e' IN WINDOWS? """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" I'd previously asked how, on a Macintosh, to create an accented 'e' as appears in the French pronunciation of my surname; the solution was to press Option-E then 'E' again. Now I'm wondering how to replicate this product in Windows? Right now, all I know to do is open Microsoft Word, go to Insert->Symbol, and select that link - then if I need that character in another application, I can cut and paste. Surely there's a keyboard equivalent of this process? Thanks, -Ken (KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 25, Msg 21) >>>>> """"" With Word 97, the insert->symbol window shows the keyboard shortcut at the bottom of the window (ctrl-',e in your case) and lets you reassign the shortcut as well. You could also record a macro while you insert the key. Macros can also have key-equivalents. Kelvin (KWS, Cat 2, Top 25, Msg 22) >>>>> """"" Kelvin, That works! :) Too bad it's not the same key equivalent across Windows and Mac. Thanks, -KEn (KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 25, Msg 23) [EOA] [TST] Telnet/SSH Terminal Program for Windows """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Can anyone recommend a good telnet/SSH terminal program for Windows - preferably one that supports split-screen chat? Thanks, -Ken (KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 25, Msg 24) >>>>> """"" I'm not sure if it does SSH, but take a look at NetTerm. It offers not one, but TWO chat panes (one for short answers and one for long). _________ | homas (TCOMPTER, Cat 2, Top 25, Msg 25) >>>>> """"" Thanks, Thomas. http://www.securenetterm.com offers a related program, Secure NetTerm, that works for both telnet and SSH. I think that it, like its predecessor, is $30 shareware. The last time it was updated was last week. -Ken (KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 25, Msg 26) [EOA] [ITL]------------------------ ILLUMINATING THE LAMP | ----------------------------- An overview of GEnieLamp A2 and The Lamp! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By Steven Weyhrich FOOL ON THE HILL Well, my one month hiatus on this column extended, unfortunately, to be SIX months. For that I must apologize. The problem was simply too much to do and not enough time to do it (again). HELP! World events at the start of 2001 were, as usual, unsettled. The result of the U.S. Presidential election was finally decided amid much controversy in favor of George W. Bush, and he was inaugurated in January 2001. Race car driver Dale Earnhardt was killed at a race in the Daytona 500 when his car struck a wall at 180 mph in the final lap. California's energy situation worsened, and with record shortages of electricity, rolling blackouts occurred over the state. Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was executed on June 11th. And on Tuesday, September 11, the United States sustained a major terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York and on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The uncertainty of the source and extent of the attacks led the government to take the unprecedented action of grounding ALL air traffic in the country until the causes could be clearly determined. A part of the aftermath to the devastating attack included a major drop in the stock market, although this had improved by the end of the year. Anthrax-tainted mail was discovered at major media outlets and government offices, which further disrupted the economy. While investigators sought clues to the source, the offices of the postal system had to cleaned of any remaining particles of the infectious agent. The Taliban-controlled government in Afghanistan came under direct attack [by] of a coalition of nations led by the United States, in an effort to capture Osama bin Laden, the suspected organizer of the September 11th attacks. Microsoft announced on January 1, 2001 that Windows 95 had been reclassified as a legacy product, and would no longer be sold or shipped. The company also introduced its own entry in the console gaming market, the XBox, which was the first gaming system to contain a hard drive. By October, Microsoft also updated its Windows operating system with the introduction of Microsoft Windows XP. In April, Dell became the largest PC maker in the U.S. USB 2.0 was introduced as a higher-speed upgrade to the original Universal Serial Bus interface. CPU's running at 1.4 Gigahertz began to become available. Excite@Home.com went into bankruptcy, as the dot-com bust further expanded. At Apple, new models of the Power Mac G4 were released, with processor speeds going beyond 500 MHz for the first time, with the support of a 133 MHz system bus. Later in the year, the speed increased to 667 and 733 MHz. The higher end Power Mac G4 also included the SuperDrive, this time the name indicating the ability to read and write CD-ROM and DVD formats. The titanium PowerBook G4 also was introduced, starting at speeds of 400 and 500 MHz. Updated consumer desktop Macs were the Flower Power and Blue Dalmation iMacs, at speeds from 400 to 600 MHz. Beginning in March, Apple began to ship Mac OS X 10.0, and version 10.1 appeared in September. Finally, new iBooks were released, receiving a speed increase to 500 and 667 MHz. The form of the computer was also changed, from the original colored clam-shell appearance to a more standard-sized white form. THE LAMP! INFO The year 2001 began with a near-emergency involving the production of The Lamp! itself. Just as Delphi had promised (threatened? warned?) during late 2000, the text-based part of the service began to experience failures within six weeks of the November 1st date that maintenance on that part of Delphi was due to be discontinued. Editor Lyle Syverson used this as an opportunity to promote the new bulletin board system available in the Syndicomm.com service. By February, he found it necessary to depend on the postings in the Apple II forum on Syndicomm.com for much of his material, as the message traffic on Delphi had declined considerably since the failure of the text side of Delphi. DELPHI A2 FORUM This malfunction of Delphi's text side, which had long been accessible via telnet, occurred during late December 2000. The Delphi system programmers were focused almost exclusively on the web-based message boards, which had been set up to take a message posted on the text side, move it to the web side, and then back to the text side again for display. The function of this failed, came back and worked inconsistently, and then by mid-January 2001 was not functioning at all. As the Internet boom of the late 1990's began to wind down, services whose business model was based on advertising traffic began to see that this revenue model was not working very well. Many services that had been hoping to make a killing in the online world were instead finding THEMSELVES being killed. As Delphi was increasingly feeling the squeeze, its president, Rusty Williams, posted a message in January announcing the need to reduce some support positions on its staff. During 2000, Delphi and another Internet service called "Well Engaged" (which originated years earlier as "The Well") had combined forces to form Propsero Technologies, a business dedicated to managing message boards and chat services. Williams' letter went on to discuss ways in which services would be automated in order to make do without as much staff. The consequences of this, as well as the inconsistent functioning of the text access to the service, caused a significant decline in activities in the Delphi A2 Forum. Making official what was obvious to those trying to use the service, Delphi announced on February 22 that the text and web forum access would no longer be connected (that is, a message posted on one side would no longer appear on the other side). Finally, text subscribers were told in an e-mail on March 12 that as of May 1, 2001, all text-based services would be completely discontinued. This included e-mail accounts, text messages, and text-based chat. Because of this, and the significantly decreased participation in the Monday (or Thursday) Night Chats, Joe Kohn decided to discontinue his sponsoring of those special nights on Delphi. Archives of many of the bulletin board messages on Delphi A2 that were posted while Syndicomm had managed the forum were made available on A2Central.com. A2CENTRAL.COM / SYNDICOMM A2Central.com added e-mail service for its members in early January 2001. It was made to work with any POP3-compatible e-mail program for reading mail, and required the use of the mail menu at the site in order to send mail. Addresses were . In February, Syndicomm began the testing of enhanced account services for A2Central.com. These enhanced accounts included 10 megabytes of storage space, accessible via FTP, which could be used for storing anything, including a personal web site. At a rate of $15 per month, or $35 per quarter, some might have considered it too expensive; however, if you compared this to the costs of subscribing to GEnie or Delphi or CompuServe in their prime ($6-$9/hour), this was quite reasonable. One advantage of the enhanced service was the offering (in April) to these subscribers of an SSL-capable version of Lynx (a text-based web browser). By August, the enhanced service was expanded to be available to ALL subscribers, without any additional cost. Members of the A2Central.com service were encouraged to write articles for the web site's news and reviews section, and a month of free service was offered to stimulate interest. Starting in April it was also announced that Dave Miller had begun working as Syndicomm's first full time employee, continuing the programming work necessary to build the service up into more than just a text-based Apple II community. Specifically, he was focused on fully upgrading the interface and the coordination between the telnet and web-based sides of the service. He also upgraded the forum bulletin board software to give much faster results when scanning. As part of the conversion of the forum and other parts of the service to Syndicomm.com, e-mail addresses were changed from to . Furthermore, personal web space was now accessible at . Payment of the subscription to Syndicomm was also now possible via credit cards. Around the time Miller began to work further on the system, instructions were posted instructing users to start accessing Syndicomm by telnet to "syndicomm.com" instead of to "a2central.com" as it had originally been designed. The reason for this was the beginning of differentiation of the service into more forums than just the pioneering Apple II forum. Other new forums that opened during 2001 included the Palm OS forum (which started in May), and the Gamebits forum (hosted by Ken Gagne) and the Singles Forum (which opened during the summer). After the September 11th attacks, a WTC forum was opened to discuss the events and their aftermath. In July, the new Syndicomm online store opened. To enhance its product offerings, Sheppy negotiated arrangements to distribute Balloon, AutoArk, Shrink II, the line of Parkhurst Micro Products, and all of The Byte Works and APDA products. HARDWARE NEWS During 2001, the theme of many postings in the A2 forum focused on help with old hardware. These discussions included: o ADB device hot-swapping problems o Apple II Video Overlay Card and its pinouts for cable connection o Apple IIe to IIGS upgrades and how to perform them o Apple IIe and IIGS favorite RAM cards o Apple IIGS accelerators and how they work(ed) o Apple IIGS recommended upgrades o Apple SCSI card DIP switch settings o DSL vs Cable modems o Dvorak keyboard modification instructions for the Apple IIe (thanks to Chuck Stiles) o LocalTalk connections between a Mac and a IIGS o Monitors used on Apple II computers in the past, including the use of a Commodore 1040 monitor on the IIGS o MS-DOS disk formatting for optimum use with the MUG! utility EMULATOR NEWS F.E. Systems' Bernie ][ The Rescue 3.0 Preview, announced at KansasFest 2000, was released in January. It had improved full-screen mode, improvement in sound, and various speed improvements. Charlie Danemark released FishWings in April. It was a freeware disk image management tool for Windows. An update in May added limited DOS 3.3 support. "KEGS" (Ken's Emulated GS) had been mentioned only briefly in The Lamp! before this month. In 1999, the contents of a future Juiced.GS issue indicated that it was to be discussed in that issue, but thus far it had not appeared to any extent in The Lamp!. KEGS was designed for X-Windows (Unix) and KEGS32 was a port designed to run under Windows. In April, Thomas Compter released DiskChanger, a disk-mounting utility to simplify management of disk images used with KEGS32. SOFTWARE NEWS :: COLLECTIONS :: During March, collections of Apple II software on various FTP sites were discussed. Also, Thomas Compter listed in the April issue the various pieces of software he has written for the Apple II+, IIGS, Windows, and the Web. Juiced.GS publisher Max Jones prepared to release a Friends For Life Volume 2 CD. Eric Shepherd released The Totally Sheppyware CD in May, and Joe Kohn released the A2-Central-On-Disk collection on 3.5 disks in July. Howard Katz announced new additions to the Lost Classics Project in July, not only software (Beneath Apple Manor, Babble, and Linker) but also books (Beneath Apple DOS, and Bag Of Tricks). :: PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE :: Along with the various discussions of hardware that appeared during 2001, software also received some attention. In April, favorite word processors were debated and compared, ranging from Apple Writer (DOS 3.3 version), Magic Window, Letter Perfect, SuperText, and Word Handler, to AppleWorks and AppleWorks GS, to EgoEd, ShadowWrite, and Hermes. Geoff Weiss updated SCAP (Spectrum Create A PDF) to v1.1.1. Lucas Scharenbroich released a beta of his project, GTE (Generic Tile Engine), which helped in production of graphic tiles consistent with games used on various console games (i.e., Nintendo). (The current version of this product cam be found at http://iigs.dreamhost.com/gte/gte.html) :: TELECOMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE :: Since A2Central.com was beginning to become a gathering place for the Apple II faithful, a new offline reader was needed to help automate its use. One that was announced in January was written by Ewen Wannop and released as an open beta. SOAR was a collection of scripts made to work with Spectrum 2.5.1 or greater, Marinetti 2.0 or 2.1, and an internet provider with TCP/IP access. It was updated several times during the year. Not to be outdone, ProTERM 3.1 also got into the act with a free script for offline reading of A2Central.com written by Ryan Suenaga. Furthermore, Sheppy issued a programming challenge to anyone who could produce ports of CoPilot (for ProTERM 3, Spectrum, Talk Is Cheap, or ANSITerm) or GEM (GEnieMaster) to work with A2Central.com. Since the structure of the new service was quite similar to GEnie in its prime, this was certainly possible. A reward of $25 off of KansasFest registration was offered. Wannop also released another Spectrum-scripted product in June. SAFE (Spectrum Automated File Exchange) v1.0 was a freeware FTP client for the Apple IIGS. Kim Howe released his Telnet NDA for the Apple IIGS in April, and in May, Ninjaforce released Samurai, an Classic Desk Accessory-based IRC client for the Apple IIGS. IPNetRouter for the Mac was discussed in February as a way to allow a IIGS equipped with a LANceGS card to share an Internet connection with a Macintosh. Kim Howe's Arachnid web browser for the Apple IIGS was updated to Preview 3. (It is still available today at http://www.a2central.com/~kimhowe/arachnid.html, rather than at the link mentioned in the Lamp article from 2001.) :: UTILITY SOFTWARE :: February's issue of The Lamp! included a discussion of various available IIGS programming languages and their advantages or disadvantages. In March, one topic of discussion was methods of translating (porting) programs from one language to another. It was suggested in April that a "net install" version of System 6.0.1 for the Apple IIGS made, one that had the full set of disks combined into one large file. This would simplify the installation for those who were installing it on an emulator. (Whether or not anything came of this suggestion has never been revealed in The Lamp!) :: GAMES :: Jeff Fink continued to be busy during 2001 revising Silvern Castle. An update to version 6.0 was released in December 2000, and by mid-January 2001 he had produced version 7.0. It was re-written to run completely under MicroDot BASIC. Further updates to the game come out during the year, up to version 7.3. Fink also uploaded several other games and utilities that he had written, all as freeware. Sheppy's Lemonade Stand GS was updated to v1.0.2 to correct a bug, and Thomas Compter released his Apple IIGS game "Hammurabi", in both text and IIGS desktop versions. PUBLICATIONS Juiced.GS continued to publish, concluding its fifth year and starting its sixth year. A surprise was announced at KansasFest: Max Jones, who had been editor and publisher of the magazine since its start, was turning over the magazine to Ryan Suenaga as editor, and Syndicomm as publisher. A web site was discovered for The Apple Blossom, which had been out of print since 1998. (This site, www.appleblossom.net still works today.) Syndicomm announced in May that it would be able to distribute past issues GS+ magazines and copies of EGO software, having been granted permission by Ross Falconer. KANSASFEST Registration for KFest 2001 opened in March. As in recent years, it was sponsored by InTrec Software, Inc. The KFest FAQ, written by Ryan Suenaga, was updated to version 3.0 and appeared in the May issue. Also in that issue were recollections of fond memories of KFest events by past attendees. Webcasting of the event was again planned for this year. Sheppy announced that he was going to use Sorenson Broadcaster this year to simplify the production of the webcasts. He also planned to design the setup to not overload the Avila network with webcasting as happened in 2000. KansasFest's keynote speaker for 2001 was Eric Shepherd, and the recipient of the annual roast was Juiced.GS publisher Max Jones. The sessions presented at the conference ranged from the technical (the LANceGS card, by Geoff Weiss, and ways of getting the Internet to a IIGS, by Ryan Suenaga), to games (Silvern Castle Exposed, by Bruce Baker), to the historical (Tony Diaz's tour of his Apple2.org site). Margaret Anderson won first place in HackFest, and Joe Kohn won the GShisen tournament. The "Bite The Bag" contest was again held, won this year by Geoff Weiss. WRITERS For the third year in a row, Ryan Suenaga presented the Apple II Achievement Awards in the January issue. The Best Commercial Product award was given to The Byte Works' Opus ][ CD collection. The Best Shareware Product was Lemonade Stand GS, by Eric Shepherd, with Sarah Shepherd's GS ROM Grabber given runner-up status. The award for Best Freeware Product was given to Jeff Fink's Silvern Castle, which had changed status from shareware to freeware during 2000. The honor for Best Publication again went to Max Jones' Juiced.GS. The outstanding Apple II-Related Development was given to //SHH Systeme's LANceGS Ethernet card. Finally, the award for Outstanding Individual Achievement went to Eric Shepherd for his many contributions to the Apple II community both in 2000 and in past years. Another major article by Suenaga in January was one describing the new Syndicomm.com online service (called initially by the same name as the web site, A2Central.com). MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES Sheppy announced plans to update and reproduce the Apple II Technical Notes, which had not been touched for quite a while. He asked for help in creating these updates. The merits of the use of PayPal for sales of items on eBay was discussed in March. Ways to become a programmer were also debated that month. Memories of the introduction of the Apple IIGS were related in the July issue. In November, the Apple II Documentation Project was announced. STATS Here are statistics for the first ten years of GEnieLamp and The Lamp! The numbers refer to the size of each issue in "K" (kilobytes): Year Min Max Avg ---- ---- ---- ---- 1992 116K 212K 156K 1993 80K 256K 172K 1994 124K 216K 165K 1995 92K 176K 125K 1996 80K 192K 116K 1997 44K 124K 85K 1998 68K 156K 102K 1999 59K 120K 91K 2000 47K 81K 60K 2001 47K 96K 71K MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR I have decided to do one additional ITL column during 2004, to cover the events of the year 2002 for The Lamp! After that, ITL will re-emerge some time during 2005, and deal with 2003 and 2004. Although life has significantly slowed down, it is still a bit hairy at times, and to keep ME from being too spaced out on my own magical tour will require some more time to work on other projects I've had to set aside for quite a while. Steven Weyhrich a2history@syndicomm.com http://apple2history.org References: "About Prospero" http://www.prosperotechnologies.com/about.htm Computer History For The Year 2001 http://www.computerhope.com/history/2001.htm "Delphi, Well Engaged To Form Propsero 01/25/00", Newbytes (link no longer available) The History Of Computing Project http://www.thocp.net The History Of The World Timeline http://www.historychannel.com/timeline/index.jsp?year=2001 Macintosh History: 2001 http://www.lowendmac.com/history/2001.shtml [EOA] [ANS]------------------------------- ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM SYNDICOMM | ------------------------------------ by Lyle Syverson [TSU] TO SIGN UP FOR SYNDICOMM ONLINE """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Please visit our web site at http://www.syndicomm.com for information or to sign up! (Logon message) [EOA] [SSA] September 2004 Issue of Syndicommotion Available """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" The September 2004 (Volume 3, Number 9) issue of Syndicommotion has been emailed to subscribers. The HTML edition can be found online at the following URL: http://www.syndicomm.com/syndicommotion/v3n9.html or by selecting menu option #1 from Page 155 on Syndicomm Online (type "m155;1" without the quotes at any menu prompt). (KGAGNE, HelpDesk, Cat 5, Top 4, Msg 24) [EOA] [NPA] NEW PAGE ADDED FOR Syndicommotion """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" I've just added page 155, keyword SYNDICOMM, for Syndicommotion. You can subscribe and unsubscribe from the emailed version, view the current issue, and browse back issues. Enjoy! Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com Building communities, bit by bit. (SYNDICOMM, HelpDesk, Cat 5, Top 4, Msg 23) [EOA] [LTE]------------------------------- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | ------------------------------------ LETTER TO THE EDITOR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NO LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THIS MONTH """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" The mail box for Letters to the Editor remained empty this month. [EOA] AN INVITATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Express your opinions about the comings and goings in the world of the Apple II computers. Send your comments to Lyle Syverson, Editor The Editor reserves the right to edit any material submitted. The Editor reserves the right to reject any material he considers unsuitable for publication in _The Lamp!_. [EOA] [KFF]------------------------------ KFest 2004 | ----------------------------------- [KHF] CODE FOR KEN G's HackFest 2004 ENTRY """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Here's the code to my HackFest 2004 entry. It's simplistic and I'm sure could be neater or cleaner, but I wasn't interested in writing good code. :) 10 TALLY = 50:PAUL$ = " " 50 HOME : PRINT "Let's begin with a base of 50 attendees...": PRINT 100 INPUT "What year is it? ";A$ 120 IF LEN (A$) < > 4 THEN GOTO 100 130 A = 1990 - VAL (A$) 140 GOSUB 1000 200 PRINT "Did postcards go out this year (Y/N)? "; 210 GET A$: PRINT 215 IF A$ < > "Y" AND A$ < > "N" THEN PRINT : GOTO 200 220 A = - 1: IF A$ = "Y" THEN A = 3 230 GOSUB 1000 300 PRINT "How much has the price changed from last year?" 400 PRINT "1) -5%": PRINT "2) Same": PRINT "3) +5%": PRINT "4) +10%" 410 GET B: PRINT 415 IF B < 1 OR B > 4 THEN 410 420 IF B = 1 THEN A = 2 422 IF B = 2 THEN A = 0 423 IF B = 3 THEN A = - 2 424 IF B = 3 THEN A = - 4 430 GOSUB 1000 440 PRINT "When was registration information made available?" 450 PRINT "1) November": PRINT "2) February": PRINT "3) March": PRINT "4) May" 460 GET B: PRINT 465 IF B < 1 OR B > 4 THEN GOTO 460 470 IF B = 1 THEN A = 4 471 IF B = 2 THEN A = 2 472 IF B = 3 THEN A = 1 473 IF B = 4 THEN A = - 4 480 GOSUB 1000 500 PRINT "Have SARS, terrorists, or mad cows been in the news this year (Y/N)? "; 510 GET A$ 520 IF A$ < > "Y" AND A$ < > "N" THEN PRINT : GOTO 500 530 A = 3: IF A$ = "Y" THEN A = - 3 540 GOSUB 1000 600 PRINT "Who is the keynote speaker this year?" 610 PRINT "1) Steve Wozniak" 620 PRINT "2) Steve Jobs" 630 PRINT "3) Steve Weyhrich" 635 PRINT "4) Steve Gozdziewski" 640 PRINT "5) Steve Hawking" 650 PRINT "6) Steve Gagne, Esq. (my brother)" 660 GET B: PRINT 665 IF B < 1 OR B > 6 THEN 660 670 IF B = 1 THEN A = 13 680 IF B = 2 THEN A = 5 690 IF B = 3 THEN A = 2 700 IF B = 4 THEN A = 2 710 IF B = 5 THEN A = 8 715 IF B = 6 THEN A = - 2 720 GOSUB 1000 730 PRINT "Is Floppy Disk Ninja being played this year (Y/N)? "; 740 GET A$: PRINT :A = - 1:PAUL$ = " Paul Zaleski " 745 IF A$ < > "Y" AND A$ < > "N" THEN GOTO 730 750 IF A$ = "Y" THEN A = 1 760 GOSUB 1000 999 GOTO 2000 1000 TALLY = TALLY + A 1005 IF A = 0 THEN PRINT "No change there...": PRINT : RETURN 1010 PRINT : PRINT "Okay - that's "; ABS (A); 1020 IF A < 0 THEN PRINT " fewer"; 1030 IF A > 0 THEN PRINT " more"; 1040 PRINT PAUL$;"coming...": PRINT :PAUL$ = " " 1050 RETURN 2000 PRINT "Computing tally...";: GET A$ 2010 PRINT : PRINT "This year's KFest will be attended by "; 2020 IF TALLY > 1 THEN PRINT TALLY;" people this year." 2022 IF TALLY > 60 THEN PRINT "(could this be a renaissance?)": GOTO 2040 2024 IF TALLY > 50 THEN PRINT "(you must've done something right!)": GOTO 2040 2025 IF TALLY > 40 THEN PRINT "(not bad!)": GOTO 2040 2026 IF TALLY > 30 THEN PRINT "(must be an off-year...)": GOTO 2040 2027 IF TALLY > 20 THEN PRINT "(what, did someone blow up Nebraska?"): GOTO 2040 2028 IF TALLY > 10 THEN PRINT "(that's not a convention, that's a coven!)": GOTO 2040 2029 IF TALLY > 1 THEN PRINT "(could this be the end??)" 2030 IF TALLY < = 1 THEN PRINT "one person this year. (Thanks, Tony!)" 2040 END (KGAGNE, Cat 5, Top 6, Msg 50) [EOA] [KF5]------------------------------ KFest 2005 | ----------------------------------- [TBH] KansasFest 2005 to be Held JULY 19-24th """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Mark your calendar and start saving some money. [KFW] KansasFest Website """""""""""""""""" Is located here: http://www.kfest.org [EOA] [GOK] GOLF OUTING AS AN EVENT AT KFest 2005? """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Now that I've actually been there I feel more comfortable to bringing a group. I am very awful at golf but enjoy the walk. One lives for the good shots and pretends to forget the bad ones. By myself I can do a lot of do overs with no problems, especially if there is no one waiting impatiently behind me. If we do it in the AM the crowds will be light. As I was leaving around 1, the groups were lining up to get on the course. This is a pretty nice course. Of course I hit from the red tees. I also prefer few water hazards to lose my ball in. There are few here. Bruce Baker (BBAKER, Cat 5, Top 7, Msg 10) >>>>> """"" If time permits I'd be interested in a "golf outing" with the KFest crew, Bruce. Won't lug my clubs so I hope I can rent them there? (I seem to be able to play just as bad no matter which clubs I use). WHERE would we play - how far from Avila? Also, Cost? Just "relim" questions, would probably go with you anyhow if time permits:) Steve (KFESTSTEVE, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 108) >>>>> """"" Minor Golf Club is right over on Minor. It's maybe a mile away. I've walked over there, in my walk exploring I found it across from the YMCA. Now they have several restaurants, a grocery store and a couple of gas stations. Minor is parallel to Wornall, the next major street over the opposite way of how we usually go places, to the east. It looks like a pretty nice suburban public course. Renting clubs? Do places do that? Not many do in Houston, that's for sure. I can't speak for K.C. Hopefully something can be worked out. Whatever you rent will probably be better than my garage sale clubs. :) Bruce (BBAKER, Cat 5, Top 5, Msg 109) [EOA] [INN]------------------------------ EXTRA INNINGS | ----------------------------------- About The Lamp! The Lamp! is published on the fifteenth of every month on """"""""""""""" the WEB at: http://lamp.a2central.com/ This publication produced entirely with real or emulated Apple II computers using Appleworks 5.1 and Hermes. Apple II Forever! * The Lamp! is (c) copyright 2004 by Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W. All rights reserved. * To reach The Lamp! on Internet email send mail to thelamp@sheppyware.net * All issues of The Lamp! are available at The Lamp! Home Page, http://lamp.a2central.com/ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Opinions expressed herein are those of the individual authors, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of A2Central.com, Delphi Online Services, Syndicomm, Ryan M. Suenaga, or Lyle Syverson. 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