Technical information
6.96
A2-Central
notes on the procedure indicate that the test
page
should be lell enabled on a LaserWriter
NTX
with attached
SCSI
hard disk
as
a
means
of
verifying that your disk is still func·
tioning.-DJD
Apple
bashing?
As
much
as
I enjoyed reading the article in
'
The
Ides
of
October'. I'm beginning to won·
der
if
all this "anti·Apple' bashing
is
going
to
really do
us
all really good.
Not that
I don·t
agree
with everything said.
Most
of
it
is true. It's
just
that
if
Apple
deddes not to put out another Apple
IIgs, or
push it in
any
way
(which
is
what apparently
is happening);
I don'l really wanl to promul·
gate the advocation
of
moving over to
M5-
DOS
clones.
I like Apples. I work on
an
IBM
PS/2
at my
job
, and I
have
no intention
of
going that
way
for a long time.
They
just
don't interest me.
The
Apple IIgs is more
of
a
Mac
than you
real-
ize.
Of cours
e,
everyone
is
angry with Apple.
However,
on
the other hand, technology
marches
on.
The
computer
you
buy today
won
't
be
worth much
in
three, maybe four
years.
When
I bought
my
App
le IIgs
in
1986,
I
was
considering purchasing
an
MS-DOS
Xl.
Well,
the
Xl
is now a doorstop, while my
Apple IIgs
Is
still a viable machine (although
it
could
be
upgraded). I've had some wonder-
fut
use
out
of
my
Apple IIgs; I certainly have
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gotten
my
money's worth.
And
I will be using
it
for
years.
Of course,
it
may
not
be
getting much
more new software.
I'm disappointed,
as
is
everyone els
e,
that things
have
slowed down.
But
I still won't
go
the
IBM
route. I like the
finder, and the
Mac
has
more to offer
me
than
an
IBM
machine.
It's true that Apple isn't
th
e company it
used to be; but
I've enjoyed the company
they keep.
It attracts
the
best programmers
and
has
the best users
of
any
computer
equipment
I'
ve
seen.
I
was
angry all9ut Apple
not upgrading
my
Appte IIgs, but I
see
no
allernative available ...
The
other companies
aren
't all that endearing
to
their users.
Why,
IBM
or it's clones don't
even
write thetr
sys-
tem software!
50
if
you have to get a new machin
e,
a
Mac
is worth considering.
Lynda Botez
Redondo Beach, Calif.
There are many people that can't (
or
won
'
t)
deal with the
1'15.oOS
alternative, and
having used
I'IS-DOS
since the
days
of
the
IBI'I
PC
/
AT
I can sympathize. I think I hold a
lot in common with
IIgs
owners that rea/ly
want to feel better about Apple's treatment
of
them
so
that buying a Hac could be a less
traumaUc decision.
However, I would guess that · although
most
I/gs users (and Apple II users
in
gener-
al)
are
not grossly disappointed
in
what
th
ey
have purchased, they are justifiably
indigo
nant about Apple working to shorten the
useful life
of
the· systems they Invested in.
And there are
not
many
ways
to rationalize
away this realization; although Apple is now
trying to reverse part
of
the trend through
enhancements to the Apple
n platform,
an
ine>cuseable amount
of
damage continues
to be done by inept dealer support and
mar-
keting.
It
remains to be Se
en
whether the new
Apple
/I
business unit
can
restore faith; I
can
accept a valiant attempt that fails, but Apple
has
barely managed to throw the Apple II
community
an
occasional bone in recent
years and should not expect alienated Apple
/I
users to be easily appeased.
If
someone
sells me a we
ll
and then poisons it,
I'd
be
reluclant to buy another from
the same
source,
no
matter how appealing the
prospect appears.-DJD
More
on
the
New
Print
Shop
I would like to
add
a little to Harry
W.
Barr's very helpfut comments
on
the
New
Print Shop (
A1,Centrai
, p. 6.77).
firs(, according to the October issue
of
A
t/
inCider, owners
of
the original Print Shop
can
call Br0derbund for a $20 upgrade at
800-999-3256.
for
those who bought
th
e
original version after
May
25, t989, the
upgrade is
free.
Second, people like yourself
and
Harry
who praise Br0derbund Software for giving
us
a
ProDOS
8 version without copy protection
are missing a chance to exhort
readers to
buy the program or the update rather than
make
and
use
an
illegal copy. Only in this
way
will publishers like Br0derbund continue
Vol.
6, no.
12
to take
the
risk
of
offering
us
unprotected
software.
Third, contrary
to
Harry's experience, I
have
had
no compatibility problems
SO
far
with
the
lip
Chip.
I have a lie with
an
8
MHz
lip
Chip
and
I
have
used
the Convert routine
to convert ten disks
of
old Print Shop graph-
ics, borders,
and
fonts to the new
ProDOS
format at full speed (at default
lip
Chip sel-
tings for all slots) with no problems. Harry
advises people not to try the Convert routine
with the
lip
Chip on.
My
advice is, try it;
it
might work.
If
it
crashes, then try
it
again
with
th
e
lip
Chip off.
Fourth,
I
have
experienced a minor com-
patibility problem with Applied
Engln
ering's
Timel'laster II
H.O.
clock
card
(in slot 2
).
Every
time t attempted to
use
the Installation
option to install the
New
Print Shop on my
hard disk,
the
program successfully created
the subdirectory
I
PS
, then stopped to report
a disk error. Br0derbund's technical support
suggested
I remove the clock card during the
installation
and
then put
it
ba
ck
in
. It worked,
and
has
been working fine since.
The
incom-
patibility is only with the installation option.
Paul
Edwards
Roswell,
New
Mexico
I'm wailing
to
see
if
I
get
a letter n
..
t
month
that
says
'Gee, I installed the
/Yew
Print Sbop on
my
hard disk with the
TimeMasler
".0.
installed without a prob-
lem'
(sigh
)
...
-DJD
In
search
of
BPI
I come to
you
with a whisper
of
hope
as
I
throw my appe
al
to the
masses.
for
over a
year
I have tried to locate
BPI
single entry
series software modules that
run
on
ProDOS.
Specifically, I
ne
ed General Accounting,
Accounts
Payable
, and Accounts Receivable.
I have pleaded with Computer Associates
to sell
me
the software without
any
warranty.
They
tell
me
they have none. However,
when
a "glitch" showed up on
my
Inventory soft-
ware
, they sent
me
a new set
of
disks.
I
have
called software
and
computer
stores.
I have called people that totd
me
to
. call other people which
in
turn told me to call
other people,
Are
there
any
out there?
Should
I call the Smithsonian or maybe
Sathe
by
'
s?
You
might wonder
why
the obsession.
Well
, I think
BPI
software is tops. I
hav
e
used
it since its inception with the old
DOS
pro-
grams.
Then
they came out with the
ProDOS
version
and
made it fully compatible with
AppteWorks.
What
else
can
a small business
owner like
me
ask
for?
Unfortunately,
by
th
e
time
I had enough money to upgrade all
th
e
files
to
the rroDOS versions,
BPI
sold out and
Computer Associates dropped the Apple
II
line.
If
anyone out there knows
of
where or how
I
can
get the rest
of
the
ProDOS
versions I
need, please call me.
You
can
reach me toll
free
at 800-777-9992.
Max
Poggio
President
GMG
Products Inc.
Springville,
Utah
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