comp.sys.apple2

The (Mis-)Adventures of Dave or A Long Update and a Few Questions

As promised, here's a bit of what I've been doing and how it's turned out.

I try to work on the basis of all's well that ends well, so perseverance
is a necessity for me. I'll often struggle with something's that
meaningful to me, far past rational return for effort, save for
satisfaction.

So I can't tell you how carefully I worked with my failing Franklin Ace
1000 as I tried to b

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

Warren Ernst wrote:
>
> The Google Groups history has my oldest post at November 4, 1990.
>
> (The link:
>
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/tree/browse_frm/month/1990-11/c3db1afde28088f6?rnum=201&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.sys.apple2%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F1990-11%3F#doc_ee06da0488a25c7b
> )
>
> However, I thought I was on still earlier, and indeed, this post
> mentions an

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

In article <dog_cow-1268251400@macgui.com>,
D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:
>Scott Alfter wrote:
>> Been here since sometime in the second half of 1989, when it was still
>> called comp.sys.apple. The email address I was using at the time was my
>> first: saa33413@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu...
>
>Now those must have been the good old days. I don't think that the U of I
>even has a newsfeed

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

On Mar 11, 6:42 am, nyder <nyder...@gmail.com> wrote:
> while I haven't been on this newsgroup all that long, you made me
> search to see if I could see someone of my old posts. lol, found one
> from 93 so far.
>
> I guess this is some proof of our nerdiness, by how old of posts we
> can dig up? lol Almost as good as a 4-5 digit slashdot number. =)
>
> I always liked usenet, glad to

Re: cAndy Apple Google Android Apple //e emulator - need beta testers

On Mar 11, 8:16 am, Garnet Ulrich <garnet1.zero...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I currently have cAndy Apple 1.0 available for free on the android
> market and it is functional. A much improved, 1.5 version is
> available outside the market and I need beta testers to try it out.
> It is available for download athttp://groups.google.com/group/candy-apple-user-group
> . Just install the apk and have

Re: Updating KEGS, have some questions

Christopher G. Mason wrote:
> On 3/10/2010 10:29 PM, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>
>> Christopher G. Mason wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I have been hacking away at the last release of KEGS 0.91, namely the
>>> KEGS32 port that used to be hosted over at geocities. So far I have
>>> added full Uthernet support via WinPCap (using the latest tfe code
>>> from VICE), parallel card support,

Re: Tetris in Basic... applewin shift-ins broken?

On Mar 11, 2:28 pm, rich12345 <aiiad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> with latest applewin, pasting the code in results in several
> errors?
>
> is shift-insert now broken?

No, but you have to eliminate the line breaks. I brought up the cut/
paste data in Notepad, turned line wrap off, and made sure each line
number had its full line of data behind it. It pasted and ran fine in
AppleWin then.

Re: Tetris in Basic... applewin shift-ins broken?

On Mar 10, 8:23 pm, rich12345 <aiiad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 9, 6:50 pm, mmphosis <markwst...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> I wanted to code this and post it to csa2.programmer
>
> repost to it and see if we can make it faster?
>
> you have good applesoft technique. I never got as far
> as putting often routines in < beginning.

with latest applewin, pasting the code in results i

cAndy Apple Google Android Apple //e emulator - need beta testers

I currently have cAndy Apple 1.0 available for free on the android
market and it is functional. A much improved, 1.5 version is
available outside the market and I need beta testers to try it out.
It is available for download at http://groups.google.com/group/candy-apple-user-group
. Just install the apk and have fun. It supports 2 diskette drives,
read/write, runs Ultima V and many other

Re: Updating KEGS, have some questions

Ahh, I missed that last part.

The GUI was specifically what my focus was. That and to allow you to
have more integration with the host OS (specifically disk images).
Reason being that I want to be able to, for example, be editing code
on the host OS and have the ability to freeze the emulator and save my
code over a previous version on a prodos image. There are of course
some complexit

Re: GS Sound Question

On 11 Mar, 12:31, Toinet <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:
> Hi Drew,
> I read several IIgs books yesterday and Mike's answer appears the
> best.
>
> I scanned TN #19 and uploaded it athttp://www.brutal-deluxe.fr/public/tn_iigs_19.pdf
>
> antoine

Brilliant Antoine will check it out :). I take it the card i sent you
is still going well ;-)

Drew

Re: Updating KEGS, have some questions

Christopher,

I started hacking some things in for KEGS 0.91 as well but I'm not
positive it's the same version as yours.
I just started about a month ago and have been somewhat distracted so
I haven't gotten very far. If you'd like someone to work on a Linux
port, that was/is my target platform so I'd definitely be interested
in trying to bring your code over Linux as it sounds like you'

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

while I haven't been on this newsgroup all that long, you made me
search to see if I could see someone of my old posts. lol, found one
from 93 so far.

I guess this is some proof of our nerdiness, by how old of posts we
can dig up? lol Almost as good as a 4-5 digit slashdot number. =)

I always liked usenet, glad to see it's still around.

You know whats sort of funny? finding po

Re: GS Sound Question

Hi Drew,
I read several IIgs books yesterday and Mike's answer appears the
best.

I scanned TN #19 and uploaded it at http://www.brutal-deluxe.fr/public/tn_iigs_19.pdf

antoine

Re: Apple II cassettes now reaches 234

On Mar 11, 4:34 am, Toinet <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:
> Thanks to a new Softape catalog, the number of identified Apple II
> cassettes reaches the huge number of 234 cassettes.
>
> Eight new cassettes are available for download in the Softape section:http://www.brutal-deluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/
>
> Will that project end at 256?
>
> Antoine Vignau
> Brutal Deluxe Softwarehttp

Apple II cassettes now reaches 234

Thanks to a new Softape catalog, the number of identified Apple II
cassettes reaches the huge number of 234 cassettes.

Eight new cassettes are available for download in the Softape section:
http://www.brutal-deluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/

Will that project end at 256?

Antoine Vignau
Brutal Deluxe Software
http://www.brutal-deluxe.fr/

Re: GS Sound Question

On 10 Mar, 22:15, Polymorph <mike.a.steph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 11, 12:09 am, lyricalnan...@dosius.ath.cx (Steve Nickolas)
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Drew wrote:
> > > Hi,
>
> > > I am trying to work out what the correct left and right channel is for
> > > GS audio as had some conflicting information and before isstart to put
> > > the GS stereo cards together i want to make sure 100%

Re: Updating KEGS, have some questions

On Mar 10, 8:15 pm, "Christopher G. Mason" <c...@my-deja.com> wrote:

> I do have other things I would like to add to KEGS first though.... like a
> real configuration GUI.

That sure would be nice. I would probably use it

Rich

Re: Tetris in Basic

On Mar 9, 6:50 pm, mmphosis <markwst...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>

I wanted to code this and post it to csa2.programmer

repost to it and see if we can make it faster?

you have good applesoft technique. I never got as far
as putting often routines in < beginning.

Re: Updating KEGS, have some questions

On 3/10/2010 10:29 PM, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> Christopher G. Mason wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have been hacking away at the last release of KEGS 0.91, namely the
>> KEGS32 port that used to be hosted over at geocities. So far I have
>> added full Uthernet support via WinPCap (using the latest tfe code
>> from VICE), parallel card support, and virtual color printer support
>> (Epson

Re: Updating KEGS, have some questions

Christopher G. Mason wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been hacking away at the last release of KEGS 0.91, namely the
> KEGS32 port that used to be hosted over at geocities. So far I have
> added full Uthernet support via WinPCap (using the latest tfe code from
> VICE), parallel card support, and virtual color printer support (Epson
> LQ based, from an unofficial CVS build of the DOSBOX

Re: Franklin Ace 500 serial port - SSC compatible?

Bill Garber wrote:
> "schmidtd" <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:3b5d2e00-461a-457d-88cc-be0f40cd7c8b@q23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
> On Mar 10, 6:31 pm, "Bill Garber" <willy4...@garberstreet.com> wrote:
>
>>>In that case, the Apple IIc must also be SSC compatible,
>>>being the Franklin Ace 500 manual says that it is Apple
>>>IIc compatible, for reference see Page 10-4 below

Re: v0.04 Re: Work in progress free firmware substitute

I guess I been pushing it, I just released 0.04 earlier today and now I
release again o.0;

http://usotsuki.hoshinet.org/gameware-0.05.zip

I get a register dump now (SAVE and RESTORE, black code; the rest of the
code is my own) on a guru, so I was able to identify two functions - BASCALC
and BELL1 - which, although having some sort of implementation in GameWare,
were not implemented in

Re: Updating KEGS, have some questions

Christopher G. Mason wrote:
> 2. I would like to implement ImageWriter II emulation, but I am running
> into issues with GS/OS. Its Imagewriter driver queries the printer using
> ESC-? to determine if there is a color ribbon installed and assumes B&W
> only printing if it receives no response. Even though it isn't possible
> in real life, I would like to route data via the parallel inte

Updating KEGS, have some questions

Hello all,

I have been hacking away at the last release of KEGS 0.91, namely the
KEGS32 port that used to be hosted over at geocities. So far I have
added full Uthernet support via WinPCap (using the latest tfe code from
VICE), parallel card support, and virtual color printer support (Epson
LQ based, from an unofficial CVS build of the DOSBOX project). Anyway I
had a few questions.

Re: Franklin Ace 500 serial port - SSC compatible?

"schmidtd" <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:3b5d2e00-461a-457d-88cc-be0f40cd7c8b@q23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
On Mar 10, 6:31 pm, "Bill Garber" <willy4...@garberstreet.com> wrote:
>>
>> In that case, the Apple IIc must also be SSC compatible,
>> being the Franklin Ace 500 manual says that it is Apple
>> IIc compatible, for reference see Page 10-4 below the
>> picture. Even

Re: Franklin Ace 500 serial port - SSC compatible?

On Mar 10, 6:31 pm, "Bill Garber" <willy4...@garberstreet.com> wrote:
> "schmidtd" <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
>
> news:402fabf4-1c21-45a3-8926-0a8828ec9769@33g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
> On Mar 2, 9:40 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> >> I have one on its way to me now, so hopefully I'll learn more soon.
>
> > Ok, the '500 arrived today. ADTPro decides that

Re: Franklin Ace 500 serial port - SSC compatible?

"schmidtd" <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:402fabf4-1c21-45a3-8926-0a8828ec9769@33g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
On Mar 2, 9:40 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>> I have one on its way to me now, so hopefully I'll learn more soon.
>
> Ok, the '500 arrived today. ADTPro decides that there's a SSC in both
> slots 1 and 2 (even though slot 1 is actually a parallel por

Re: Franklin Ace 500 serial port - SSC compatible?

On Mar 2, 9:40 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> I have one on its way to me now, so hopefully I'll learn more soon.

Ok, the '500 arrived today. ADTPro decides that there's a SSC in both
slots 1 and 2 (even though slot 1 is actually a parallel port). I'll
see if I can make a better determination about that. But anyway...
once I switched to SSC slot 2, it ran like a champ at

Re: GS Sound Question

On Mar 11, 12:09 am, lyricalnan...@dosius.ath.cx (Steve Nickolas)
wrote:
> Drew wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I am trying to work out what the correct left and right channel is for
> > GS audio as had some conflicting information and before isstart to put
> > the GS stereo cards together i want to make sure 100% its all
> > correct :). Is there a program that anyone knows of that shows this
> >

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

Scott Alfter wrote:
>
> Been here since sometime in the second half of 1989, when it was still
> called comp.sys.apple. The email address I was using at the time was my
> first: saa33413@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu. They'd given all incoming freshmen a
few
> hours a week on that machine. I started poking around in it to see what
> was
> available, found this newsgroup's predecessor...
>

No

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

In article <dog_cow-1268173094@macgui.com>,
D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:
>Has anyone here been posting all the way since March 1990? Who is the oldest
>continual poster? Does anyone have any good (or bad!) memories of the old
>days?

Been here since sometime in the second half of 1989, when it was still
called comp.sys.apple. The email address I was using at the time was my
fi

v0.04 Re: Work in progress free firmware substitute

http://usotsuki.hoshinet.org/gameware-0.04.zip

The big change here is that I altered some of the binary to fool ProDOS's
version checking better. It no longer needs the patch to BASIC.SYSTEM.

-uso.

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

To: dog_cow
dog_cow wrote:
> Has anyone here been posting all the way since March 1990? Who is the oldest
> continual poster? Does anyone have any good (or bad!) memories of the old
> days?

I first started accessing the internet in 1991 or 1992. At that time I
was living in North York (the northern part of the Greater Toronto Area)
and was accessing it through one of the pro- BBS'

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

Google shows my first post was July 1992, although I suspect I'd been
lurking well before that.

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Re: GS Sound Question

Drew wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to work out what the correct left and right channel is for
> GS audio as had some conflicting information and before isstart to put
> the GS stereo cards together i want to make sure 100% its all
> correct :). Is there a program that anyone knows of that shows this
> easily? (or a demo).
>
> What i had thought was the right channel was questioned yest

GS Sound Question

Hi,

I am trying to work out what the correct left and right channel is for
GS audio as had some conflicting information and before isstart to put
the GS stereo cards together i want to make sure 100% its all
correct :). Is there a program that anyone knows of that shows this
easily? (or a demo).

What i had thought was the right channel was questioned yesterday when
i plugged in my Aud

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan) writes:

> Jerry wrote:
>>
>> Not under this email address, but I've been reading/posting
>> (occasionally) since 1988. It was comp.sys.apple back then.
>>
>
> Nice! That makes you almost as historic as Mr. David Empson. ;-)

Thanks, but David is demonstrably more prolific than I.

--
Jerry awanderin at yahoo dot ca

Looking for Robert Roemer

I need your email address Robert.

Working on your disks some more and finding that
a new device is enabling me to read more of them.

Also, I am trying to clean the surfaces of some
of the ones that have lines in the mag surfaces.

Get in touch with me, please.

Bill Garber

Re: Tetris in Basic

On Mar 9, 7:41 pm, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> wow... that works well! is it possible to print text values instead
> of using lo-res drawing routines? Would it be faster? e.g. you could
> write these characters as text and they show in lo-res as solid
> blocks: ] * ; L n
>
> -Brendan

Thanks. It works, but it's slow! If my memory serves me, I wrote
this in 1992.

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

On 3/9/2010 6:26 PM, D Finnigan wrote:
> Mike Spurgeon wrote:
>> On 3/9/2010 2:18 PM, D Finnigan wrote:
>>> I meant to post this on the exact day, but oh well! March 5, 1990 is the
>>> date of the first post in this newsgroup, and 20 years later, we are
>>> still
>>> at it! Back in the early 1990's, the average posts per month was around
>>> 1,500. That began to decline after the year 200

Re: Tetris in Basic

wow... that works well! is it possible to print text values instead
of using lo-res drawing routines? Would it be faster? e.g. you could
write these characters as text and they show in lo-res as solid
blocks: ] * ; L n

-Brendan

Re: Tetris in Basic

10 GOSUB 1000
100 W = W + 1: IF W > LV THEN W = 0: GOSUB 350
110 K = PEEK (KB): IF K > = H THEN POKE KC,H:K = K - H: GOSUB 300
190 GOTO 100
200 PY = PY * A2: VLIN PY,PY + A1 AT PX: RETURN
225 PY = PY * A2: HLIN X1,X2 AT PY: HLIN X1,X2 AT PY + A1: RETURN

300 ON E(K) GOTO 30000,330,340,350,360,30100
310 RETURN
330 X = X - 1: GOTO 400
340 X = X + 1: GOTO 400
350 DN = 1:Y = Y + 1:

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

Mike Spurgeon wrote:
> On 3/9/2010 2:18 PM, D Finnigan wrote:
>> I meant to post this on the exact day, but oh well! March 5, 1990 is the
>> date of the first post in this newsgroup, and 20 years later, we are
>> still
>> at it! Back in the early 1990's, the average posts per month was around
>> 1,500. That began to decline after the year 2000, with brief surges in
>> late
>> 2006 and a

Re: FC5025 5.25" USB floppy controller available

Dave Rawson wrote:
> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>
>> Next step--the two-sided index pulse mod... ;-)
>
>
> I'm happy to report (with long and tortuous detours of heroic
> proportion) that I've ported the oldest of my Apple sides over to PC as
> proof-of-concept. I purchased the FC5025 and the Teac FD55GFR and the
> combination worked. I took note of Mike's notes about ProDos being

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

On Mar 10, 8:18 am, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:

> Has anyone here been posting all the way since March 1990? Who is the oldest
> continual poster? Does anyone have any good (or bad!) memories of the old
> days?

A google search reveals posts from a very wet-behind-the-ears Matt in
July 1995 ...

Gosh, almost 15 years. How did that happen again exactly ? ;-)

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

gmail -- an elm-like reader for IIgs (from a 1995 post).
Looks so different now... oh wait, different product...

Re: FC5025 5.25" USB floppy controller available

Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> Next step--the two-sided index pulse mod... ;-)

I'm happy to report (with long and tortuous detours of heroic
proportion) that I've ported the oldest of my Apple sides over to PC as
proof-of-concept. I purchased the FC5025 and the Teac FD55GFR and the
combination worked. I took note of Mike's notes about ProDos being
faster and it worked as well as ".ds

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

On 3/9/2010 2:18 PM, D Finnigan wrote:
> I meant to post this on the exact day, but oh well! March 5, 1990 is the
> date of the first post in this newsgroup, and 20 years later, we are still
> at it! Back in the early 1990's, the average posts per month was around
> 1,500. That began to decline after the year 2000, with brief surges in late
> 2006 and a few other periods.

Where did you g

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

"Steve Nickolas" <lyricalnanoha@dosius.ath.cx> wrote
in message news:lyricalnanoha-1268178175@macgui.com...
>D Finnigan wrote:
>> Steve Nickolas wrote:
>>> dagz wrote:
>>>> Makes sense that it was just comp.sys.apple.
>>>>
>>>> I mean are there really any other Apple computers
>>>> besides the Apple II? ;)
>>>
>>> Certainly none worth mentioning... ;)
>>
>> Actually, we are allow