[HEA] _____________________ ___ _ |___ ______________| | | | | | | _ | | | | | || | | | | | | || | | | | | | || | | | ____ _ _ _ _ ______ | | | || | | | / __ \ | | / \_/ \ | ___ \ | | | || |__ ____ | | / / \ | | /\ /\ \ | | \ \ | | | || _ \ | _ \ | | \ \__/ | | | |_|| | | |__/ / | | | || | | || |_|| | | \___/|_| |_| |_| | ____/ |_| | || | | || |__ | |____________________ | | _ |__||_| |_|\____/ |________________________| | | |_| | | Lighting Your Apple II Path | | |_| ----------------------------------- >>> WELCOME TO THE LAMP! <<< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE BEST OF THE A2 BULLETIN BOARD ON Syndicomm Online "Teaching the Apple II user how to fish since 1998" :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: The Lamp! An Onipa'a Software Production Vol. 9, No. 8 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Publisher................................Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W. Editor.....................................................Lyle Syverson Internet Email, Publisher.........................thelamp@sheppyware.net Internet Email, Editor..................lutefisk837 at sbcglobal dot net :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: TABLE OF CONTENTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ August 15, 2006 HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER---------------------------------------------[OPN] The Role of Computers in the Printed Media A2 FORUM AT Syndicomm Online (A2Central.com) DISTILLATIONS------------[DAS] Sweet16 1.6.1 Released-------------------------------------------[SSR] What's Your Social Networking Site?------------------------------[SNS] http://www.ryansuenaga.com/ Up and Running-----------------------[RAC] A2Unplugged, the Apple II Podcast--------------------------------[A2U] Ultima IV--------------------------------------------------------[UTA] Ken Franklin's Milestones Card Game------------------------------[MCG] Testers Needed for New Version of Sweet16------------------------[TND] ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM SYNDICOMM------------------------------------------[ANS] To Sign up for Syndicomm Online----------------------------------[TSU] Syndicomm to Transfer A2Central.com Ownership to Sean Fahey------[TAC] LETTERS TO THE EDITOR-------------------------------------------------[LTE] No Letters to the Editor This Month An Invitation KFEST 2006------------------------------------------------------------[KF6] Comments About KFest 2006----------------------------------------[CAK] New Product/Announcement Roundup from KansasFest 2006------------[NPA] KFEST 2007------------------------------------------------------------[KF7] KansasFest 2007--------------------------------------------------[KFS] 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 email:lutefisk837 at sbcglobal dot net The Role of Computers in the Printed Media ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About a half mile downstream from the patio High Above the Rock River we see the six story landmark called the News Tower. This building, with its distinctive shape, originally housed one of the Rockford newspapers and an apartment occupied by the owner and publisher of the paper. The apartment, located in the upper floors, has a beautiful, unobstructed view of the city. One of the features of the apartment is an interior fire escape... a slide within a metal tube... to deliver people using it to the outside at ground level. Through a series of mergers the News Tower is now owned by the Rockford Register Star. As the newspaper grew over the years, a series of additions were made to the building to house the expanding operations. Recently another building was added... to house their new press... so tall that the building is as tall as a five story building... even though it has only one floor. The newspaper is very proud of their new equipment... they offered a tour of their operations. As we toured the various departments... classified ad sales, commercial ad sales, promotion, layout, delivery, online production, printing plate prep... we noticed that every desk had a computer monitor and a keyboard. Input to the newspaper by some 350 employees was via their computer network. The only employees that didn't use the network were the drivers of the delivery trucks... and their daily instructions were via a computer printout. The new press was the star of the show. The computer monitor in the control room could display any one full page of the paper being printed. Adjustments could be made on the run to the intensity of black and colored inks. A storage room to the side housed the four ink tanks, one black and three colors. So you could think of the newspaper production as being as an elaborate computer driving an elaborate printer. So take pride in your Apple II computer(s) and the place they had in the evolution of the computers in use today. [EOA] ASCII ART BEGINS _________ _ _ _ |__ __| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |___ ____ | | _____ __ ___ _ _ _____ | | | | | ___ \ / __ \ | | /____ \ | v v | | v ___ \ | | | | | | | | | /__\ \ | | ____| | | /\ /\ | | / \ \ | | | | | | | | | _____| | | / ___ | | || || | | | | | |_| | | | | | | | |_____ | |____ | |__| | | || || | | \___/ / _ |_| |_| |_| \______| |______| \____^_| |_||_||_| | |\____/ |_| | | | | |_| ASCII ART ENDS [EOA] [DAS]---------------------------------------------- DISTILLATIONS FROM The A2 FORUM at Syndicomm.com | --------------------------------------------------- by Lyle Syverson email:lutefisk837 at sbcglobal dot net [SSR] Sweet16 1.6.1 Released """""""""""""""""""""" I've released Sweet16 1.6.1, which addresses a couple of minor bugs (although not the ones that I get the most email about, which are going to take more work to fix). For details or to download it, visit: http://www.sheppyware.net/software-mac/sweet16/index.html Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com Building communities, bit by bit. (SYNDICOMM, Cat 29, Top 39, Msg 5) [EOA] [SNS] What's Your Social Networking Site? """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Back in Message 494 uptopic, I mentioned the Friendster online networking service. Since then, the similar site MySpace has exploded, currently boasting more than 100 million members. I've also seen several Apple II users on Orkut, though not lately. What is the social networking site y'all are using, if any? -Ken (KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 639) >>>>> """"" Syndicomm A2 Chat. :) I really don't want strangers to know all about me. Carl Knoblock - Retired - Thu 27 Jul 06 3:25:03 pm cknoblo@cox.com - Via Spectrum v2.5.3 & SOAR v1.0b10 KFest 2007, July 17-22, 2007 On cable via LANceGS & Marinetti 2.0.1 - Thank you, Richard. A2 RTC Staff - Sunday Night House Party - carlk@syndicomm.com (CARLK, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 640) >>>>> """"" i'm not sure I'd call it a social networking site, but my blog is on livejournal: http://rsuenaga.livejournal.com/ Ryan Chief Sysop and Head Geek (A2.RYAN, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 642) >>>>> """"" My blog is out there few read it. ;-) I use AIM to keep in touch with some of my kids. I also read Showtalk on delphi forums still. I have supported the lady who has run that for close to 20 years now. Bruce (BBAKER, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 643) [EOA] [RAC] http://www.ryansuenaga.com/ Up and Running """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Finally, after fooling around months on it.... http://www.ryansuenaga.com/ Ryan Chief Sysop and Head Geek (A2.RYAN, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 645) [EOA] [A2U] A2Unplugged, the Apple II Podcast """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Until I get things better set up both here and elsewhere, here's just a quick announcement: The premier episode of A2Unplugged, the Apple II Podcast, has just been released. Show notes and many other details are all being worked out still, but in the meantime, you can check the show out at http://www.a2unplugged.com/ Ryan Chief Sysop and Head Geek (A2.RYAN, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 646) >>>>> """"" A somewhat improved volume-wise version of A2Unplugged episode one is being uploaded now. It's a learning process, and I'm hoping the audio quality will be better with the next episode. I'm working on it... Ryan Chief Sysop and Head Geek (A2.RYAN, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 647) >>>>> """"" Thanks for the continuous work, Ryan! I look forward to subscribing to the podcast in iTunes and downloading it to my iPod... Apple II to go! -Ken (KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 648) >>>>> """"" I subscribed to it by just dragging the RSS feed link to iTunes. Shouldn't that work as well? Dain (A2.DAIN, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 649) [EOA] [UTA] Ultima IV """"""""" Ultima IV was reclassified as freeware awhile back; it's now available for Windows, Linux, and OS X: http://xu4.sourceforge.net/ (KGAGNE, Cat 14, Top 1, Msg 123) [EOA] [MCG] Ken Franklin's Milestones Card Game """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" I recently found a freeware Mac version of Ken Franklin's Milestones card game: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29690 http://www.timac.org/MacBornes/ (KGAGNE, Cat 14, Top 2, Msg 94) [EOA] [TND] Testers Needed for New Version of Sweet16 """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" I've got a new version of Sweet16 in the works that among other things will include compatibility with non-ASCII file and pathnames by using UTF-8 instead of ASCII for pathname manipulations. This is a substantial change, and needs some serious testing. I'm looking for one or two people that regularly and extensively use non-ASCII characters in the names of disks, folders, and files, to do some intensive testing of the next version of Sweet16. The odds are good that you'll run into some problems -- although the program is working great for me, I can't test this feature nearly as well as someone who uses a lot of non-Roman characters in filenames. "Problems" might be anything from it simply not working to actually corrupting your GS disk images. I'd ideally like to find one or two people that use lots of files and folders in non-Roman scripts, such as Greek, Cyrillic, or any of the very cool Asian scripts. If you'd like to help, and are willing to back up your images and take the chance you might have to recover them from backups, please post a follow-up to this message. Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com Building communities, bit by bit. (SYNDICOMM, Cat 50, Top 3, Msg 3) [EOA] [ANS]------------------------------- ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM SYNDICOMM | ------------------------------------ by Lyle Syverson email:lutefisk837 at sbcglobal dot net [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] [TAC] SYNDICOMM TO TRANSFER A2CENTRAL.COM OWNERSHIP TO SEAN FAHEY """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" August 6, 2006--Syndicomm(tm) announced this morning that over the next few weeks, management of A2Central.com, the popular Apple II portal web site, will be transferred to Sean Fahey. Initially, A2Central.com will continue to be running on Syndicomm's system, but it will likely be relocated at some point in the future to complete the separation. Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd, the owner of Syndicomm, indicated his enthusiasm for the transfer. "Syndicomm's role in the Apple II world has grown so much since I first founded A2Central.com in the summer of 2000 that I just don't have time to keep up with everything anymore. It was time to give something up, and A2Central.com is the easiest thing to separate from the whole. I'm thrilled that someone with Sean's enthusiasm, integrity, and passion for the Apple II is taking the reins." "I've always wanted to run an Apple II portal," Fahey said when asked why he was taking over A2Central.com. "When Sheppy indicated that he was looking for someone to take A2Central.com forward, I jumped at the chance. I'm excited for the opportunity to find new and engaging ways to improve the services offered by A2Central.com, too." This ownership change for A2Central.com does not affect the Syndicomm Online online service or the Syndicomm online store and other products. PRESS CONTACTS Eric Shepherd - sheppy@syndicomm.com Sean Fahey - sfahey@a2central.com Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com Building communities, bit by bit. (SYNDICOMM, Cat 2, Top 2, Msg 8) [EOA] [LTE]------------------------------- LETTERS 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, lutefisk837 at sbcglobal dot net 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] [KF6]------------------------------ KFest 2006 | ----------------------------------- [CAK] Comments About KFest 2006 """"""""""""""""""""""""" Another KFest and a record number of attendees placed their life in my hands as I drove through the streets of Kansas City (and that isn't counting those who don't ride in my car ;). And for the first time, I had to turn down a passenger who specifically wanted to ride in the Geoffmobile. Due to the highly popular Geoff-drive-fest, I'll be putting a passenger sign-up list on my door next year to ensure that those who want to experience it will experience it. And to my shock, even Sheppy willingly got into my car. I'm sensing partial forgiveness for POTA. Perhaps even this much -> <- :) KFest was a blast--I'm so glad that I went. And I was considering not going, after ten consecutive years. All of the new faces brought a fresh perspective to what Apple II computing has come to. And it came to my attention that there is still an active Apple II base at least in the thousands (I had thought the number was much smaller than that). Hackfest projects show some originality. The difficulty of the task that Margaret tackled really impressed me. I wish her the best of luck as she continues her development (if you get stuck coding, there will be plenty of help in your favorite programmer's forums). And special thanks to Jeri who offered a very interesting suggestion of a program which has never been attempted before on a IIgs. Not that every problem was resolved which might still make it impractical, but new ideas got generated for what an accelerated IIgs might be able to do with modern data formats. I learned that there was a strong correlation between Dr. Who and Apple II. Dr-Who-Fest lasted 1.5 hours this year. This should be continued and maybe even extended next year. There was a comment that thinking of new tie ideas for the formal dinner was getting harder and harder. Perhaps something in Dr. Who can be an inspiration--even hanging a dalek around your neck shows some thought was put into it. The trip home was happily uneventful. Time to catch up on sleep. Geoff (GEOFF, Cat 5, Top 8, Msg 24) >>>>> """"" It was good to see you again Geoff. I'm thinking that your driving reputation was highly exaggerated or perhaps I've just been exposed to, too many drivers that are "in your league". I had a great time as well. I'm still hoping that you give some more thought to the easter egg we spoke about. I forget how much KFest gets me excited about the Apple II again. Missing last year really made my push my II further back in my mind. I'm even contemplating cracking my programming books and taking another stab at coding again. I just need a good idea and I think the rest will come easily. Dain Still constantly amazed he hasn't had any roommates opt to leave Kfest early:) (A2.DAIN, Cat 5, Top 8, Msg 25) >>>>> """"" >> I'm thinking that your driving reputation was highly exaggerated << Shh. Don't let out all the secrets. I have a reputation to keep :) Geoff (GEOFF, Cat 5, Top 8, Msg 26) >>>>> """"" >> I'm sensing partial forgiveness for POTA << Ha. :) Seriously, I think you're getting old -- your driving wasn't nearly as scary this year as it used to be. :) Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd sheppy@syndicomm.com Owner, Syndicomm http://www.syndicomm.com Building communities, bit by bit. (SYNDICOMM, Cat 5, Top 8, Msg 27) >>>>> """"" I don't think my driving has changed. Perhaps you are just more mellow :) Geoff (GEOFF, Cat 5, Top 8, Msg 28) >>>>> """"" That was certainly one of the more fun KansasFests I've attended, definitely the most fun one I've had since 2003. Maybe it's because I didn't ride with Geoff once during that time :) Ryan Chief Sysop and Head Geek (A2.RYAN, Cat 5, Top 8, Msg 29) >>>>> """"" >> Maybe it's because I didn't ride with Geoff once during that time :) << Andy Molloy and I had the pleasure to ride with Geoff. We were laughing so hard it hurt. At one point Andy looked over at me and said "When we stop we're going to roll out of the car and start kissing the ground!". That was my first driving experience with Geoff. :) Mark Percival - Apprentice Delivered by Spectrum v2.5.3 & SOAR v1.0b11 The Apple ][ Fanatic and Wednesday Night RTC Host "Midweek Madness!" from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Pacific Time (MARK, Cat 5, Top 8, Msg 30) [EOA] [NPA] New Product/Announcement Roundup from KansasFest 2006 """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" New product/announcement roundup from KansasFest 2006: Sweet16 for Mac OS X The Definitive GS Plus Volumes 2 and 3 Marinetti 3.0b3 Deja II (phoenixrebirth) for OS X universal binary A2Unplugged Ryan Chief Sysop and Head Geek (A2.RYAN, Cat 5, Top 8, Msg 32) [EOA] [KF7]------------------------------ KFest 2007 | ----------------------------------- [KFS] KansasFest 2007 """"""""""""""" is scheduled for July 17-22, 2007. Go to for details. [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 2006 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. Forum messages are reprinted verbatim and are included in this publication with permission from the individual authors. A2Central.com, Delphi Online Services, Syndicomm, Ryan M. Suenaga, and Lyle Syverson do not guarantee the accuracy or suitability of any information included herein. We reserve the right to edit all letters and copy. Material published in this edition may not be reprinted without the expressed written consent of the publisher. Registered computer user groups, not for profit publications , and other interested parties may write the publisher to apply for permission to reprint any or all material. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [EOF]