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TidBITS#193/13-Sep-93
=====================

This issue comes chock full of news about Adam's new book,
   InterNews 1.0 (a slick MacTCP newsreader from Dartmouth),
   new system software for the Newton, information on developing
   for the Newton, and Rupert Murdoch buying Delphi. Finally,
   you'll find additional details about various energy saving
   utilities, more problems with the Apple Adjustable Keyboard,
   and thoughts about what kind of service you can expect from
   a solvent Apple dealer.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/13-Sep-93
    User Expectations
    MessagePad System Update
    Developing for the MessagePad
    Adjustable Keyboard Problem
    InterNews 1.0
    Reviews/13-Sep-93

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MailBITS/13-Sep-93
------------------
  The release date on my book, The Internet Starter Kit for
  Macintosh, draws ever closer. The 650-some pages of text and the
  disk are out of my hands and should ship by the 24th of September.
  The book should be available to bookstores several days after
  that, although it may not make it on the shelves quite that
  quickly, so you may have to request it.

  I'm pleased about the contents of the disk, and I'd like to thank
  Hayden, my publisher, for going to bat for me on this one. Along
  with InterCon's free InterSLIP, QUALCOMM's free Eudora,
  Dartmouth's freeware/shareware Fetch, and the free TurboGopher
  from the University of Minnesota, the disk includes version 2.0.2
  of MacTCP from Apple. You can retrieve everything else for free
  via the Internet, but the only legal way to acquire MacTCP 2.0.2
  is to buy it or a product that includes it. I think I can safely
  say that my book will be the cheapest way to get MacTCP, given
  that the book will cost around $25 and MacTCP itself costs $52
  with shipping if you order from MacWarehouse.

  I'm especially happy about licensing MacTCP for the book, since
  many people seem to be seeking for it these days. Apple hasn't
  exactly made MacTCP readily available, and frankly, the
  documentation that comes with the package clearly wasn't designed
  for the end user. I figure you can look at it two ways. Either you
  get a neat book free when you buy MacTCP for half-price, or you
  get a $52 program free when you buy a $25 book. Either way, the
  net community wins, which remains one of my major goals in life.


**Murdoch Buys Delphi** -- Speaking of the net community, it
  gained a new mogul recently. The News Corp., a company owned by
  publishing magnate Rupert Murdoch, has purchased Delphi, which now
  claims to be the fifth largest commercial online information
  provider behind CompuServe, Prodigy, GEnie, and America Online.
  Delphi is the only major information service fully on the
  Internet, and it seems likely that many of the newspapers and
  magazines under Murdoch's control will eventually appear on the
  Internet. Of course, such a possibility raises questions about the
  survival of current free electronic publications, although we have
  some ideas percolating.


**DarkStar In hiding** -- We received word shortly after
  publication of TidBITS #191_ that the Info-Mac moderators removed
  the Monitor Energy Saver Control Panel from the FTP archives at
  <sumex-aim.stanford.edu>. Apparently licensing issues caused some
  difficulties. The software is available on AppleLink and from many
  dealers and user groups.


**LaserWriter Pro Energy Star Caveat** -- Matthew Cravit
  <[e-mail]> writes: "I recently installed the
  LaserWriter Pro Energy Star software on a LaserWriter Pro 630,
  which puts the printer into a power saver mode after a certain
  amount of idle time, reducing power usage by 70 percent according
  to Apple. After calling Apple about an unrelated matter, I asked
  about this software, and the representative said that they do not
  specifically recommend installing it because some users have
  reported problems with bands of toner forming on the first few
  pages after the printer wakes up, apparently since the toner is
  not being rotated during the power saving cycle. This software, by
  the way, only works with the LaserWriter Pro 610 and 630." [When I
  called Apple to confirm this, the tech support guy could not find
  any specific problems in the database, but he had heard of some
  unresolved issues. If you experience streaking after your
  LaserWriter Pro has been asleep, stop using the Energy Star
  software. Otherwise, use it to save energy and money. -Adam]


**SimCity 2000 Bummer** -- Joe Holmes <[e-mail]>
  writes, "I checked out the SimCity 2000 prototype they had on
  display at Expo - until I asked if it could run in 16 colors.
  Nope. Black and white? Nope. I guess Tonya won't be able to play
  on the PowerBook 100. I won't be able to play on my Duo, even
  attached via MiniDock to my Apple Portrait Display. The same goes
  for PowerBook owners unless you have a 165c or 180c." [And then
  your battery won't last long enough to play much on the plane
  anyway. SimCity 2000 is destined to remain on the desktop. Perhaps
  the game needs all the colors to display all the neat new aspects
  of a city. Still, since we mainly play SimCity in airports and
  when we feel sick and want to be in bed, this seems a major trade-
  off -Adam & Tonya]


User Expectations
-----------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor -- [e-mail]
     Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers

  In TidBITS #191_, I casually commented that readers asking local
  dealers to download DarkStar from AppleLink might consider making
  a purchase at the same time, to help defray the dealer's cost of
  accessing Apple's expensive online service. The resulting
  controversy amazes me.

  One reader sent a message expressing his fear that to defray the
  dealer's cost was tantamount to supporting and approving of
  Apple's "ridiculous charges for their own dealer support." He
  feels that retail Apple customers ("as opposed to drop-ins who buy
  mail-order") should expect support from any Apple dealer,
  regardless of where they bought their Apple products. This, he
  says, is an "elementary part of what 'dealer network' means."

  In fact, such an expectation could be considered a key difference
  between what a "dealer network" means, and what a "chain" of
  company-owned outlets means. When you're dealing with an
  authorized Apple dealer, you're dealing with an independent
  business, not with Apple. That business has salaries, rent, and
  other expenses to pay. In the current climate in which hardware
  sales carry much less profit than in the past, and in which
  software and peripheral sales often go to mail-order businesses
  whose volumes permit lower prices, many dealers have become more
  service and support oriented. Such a company cannot and should not
  be expected to devote time and other resources to non-paying
  customers.

  That I work for an authorized Apple dealer undoubtedly colors my
  opinion on the matter somewhat. It also gives me a clear
  perspective of how a dealer operates and stays in business. I can
  state that, when we have a piece of free software or shareware
  readily available, we give it happily to anyone who asks. When an
  Apple update is likely to be of wide interest and use, we download
  it, keep a copy at the store, and give it happily to anyone who
  asks. On the rare occasion when a customer requests something
  unusual that we don't have, we do our best to help the customer.
  It's hard to justify doing so without recouping some of the spent
  resources, though.

  Luckily, users have an alternative when it comes to obtaining
  Apple software updates. AppleLink accounts are available to
  everyone now, rather than just to dealers and developers. In fact,
  PowerBook owners may take advantage of a special offer for lower
  AppleLink costs by calling 800/877-8221. Apple also generally
  places updates and utilities on America Online and other
  commercial online services [and sometimes on <ftp.apple.com>
  -Adam], so users aren't stuck if they don't use AppleLink.

  In an ideal world, Apple would send all such updates, free of
  charge, to all dealers, or even to all customers. However, this is
  an industry whose market pressures have driven down margins, so
  Apple must share its distribution expenses with others. Given the
  choice, would I have preferred to pay more for my new computer,
  but expect more support free of charge down the road? I don't
  know, but it's not a decision I'll have to make. The market has
  made it for us all.

  My suggestion was intended not to bring Apple's software
  distribution policy, or AppleLink's astronomical charges, into
  question. It was intended to make our readers aware of the fact
  that dealers shoulder certain costs. If you can help with those
  costs by patronizing these establishments, you'll be justifying
  the dealers' willingness to help.


MessagePad System Update
------------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor -- [e-mail]

  Showing that old dogs can indeed learn new tricks, Apple last week
  began using several new distribution methods to help new
  MessagePad owners obtain system software updates for the newly-
  released version 1.04 of the Newton OS.

  If you have the Newton Connection Kit 0.9 you will receive an
  update disk when you receive version 1.0 of the Connection Kit.
  Or, you can obtain the update from dealers (some do and some do
  not have the resources to install it), from online services such
  as AppleLink, CompuServe, and America Online, or from local BBSs
  or user groups.

  Owners of a Newton Fax Modem will soon be able to instruct their
  MessagePads to dial a toll-free number and download the update
  directly into the MessagePad (users outside the U.S. will be able
  to use a separate number that will incur usual toll charges).
  We'll provide the phone numbers when this service is activated.

  Anyone in the U.S. without the above options may call 800/242-
  3374, and Apple will send a PCMCIA card containing the update,
  along with a postage-paid envelope to return the card.

  According to Apple, version 1.04 addresses certain issues
  regarding memory and power management. Apple recommends that all
  MessagePad users take advantage of this free system update. Most
  MessagePads shipped to dealers earlier this month contain version
  1.03, and many first-round purchasers have 1.02 or earlier. To
  check your version, tap the Extras button then Prefs, and look at
  the bottom of the screen. Users with questions about the update or
  the processes for obtaining it can call 800/SOS-APPL or contact
  <[e-mail]>.


Developing for the MessagePad
-----------------------------
  by Tom Thompson, BYTE Senior Tech Editor -- [e-mail]

  If you want to develop Newton applications, you need the Newton
  Toolkit (NTK), which runs on a Mac. Minimally speaking, the Mac
  should be 68020-based Mac running System 7.0.1 with 3 MB RAM. You
  tether the MessagePad to the Mac via a null modem cable, and -
  after using the NTK to design the interface, write the code, and
  build the application - you download the resulting binary image
  into the MessagePad, where you can test it.

  The Toolkit provides tools for project management, application
  building, editing, object-template browsing, and View layout
  design. (Views are visible objects.) For Views layout, the NTK
  provides a set of customizable prototype templates for buttons,
  icons, sliders, and other user interface objects. The layout tools
  also let you preview results in a Mac window the same size as the
  MessagePad screen.

  The programming language for the MessagePad is the object-oriented
  NewtonScript. The NTK compiles a compressed bytecode
  representation of the source code, similar to p-code. This
  bytecode image is executed by a run-time interpreter in the
  MessagePad ROM. This design makes the code fully portable.
  Currently, there are two run-time interpreter implementations: an
  ARM610 version for the MessagePad, and a 680x0 version for
  debugging in the NTK environment.

  NewtonScript is a high-level language that lets you manipulate
  objects. Such objects could be a soup of contact numbers, or a
  View object that changes in response to a user action.
  NewtonScript's syntax is an amalgam of Pascal and C, and it
  supports messages and exception handling. The language is powerful
  enough to serve as real code, and in fact, the MessagePad's user
  interface was implemented with about 47,000 lines of NewtonScript.

  NewtonScript requires little memory, and importantly, does
  automatic memory management and garbage collection. There's no
  memory allocation calls and all references are to objects, not to
  handles or pointers. This makes the programmer's nightmare of
  memory leaks and dangling pointers a thing of the past. Also,
  objects have latent typing, and NewtonScript performs type
  checking on operations before they are performed. This nails
  argument errors as they occur, and not after the trashed stack
  causes problems dozens of instructions later. This simplifies
  debugging and makes the operating system more robust.


Adjustable Keyboard Problem
---------------------------
  by Christian Smith -- [e-mail]

  I've seen a bit of grumbling lately on comp.sys.mac.games and on
  various Mac BBSes about the way the new Adjustable Keyboard works
  with many games. The problem is caused by the fact that the system
  treats the two parts of the keyboard (referred to as Key Board and
  Key Pad for clarity) as independent parts (which they are), and
  the fix involves tricking the system into thinking they are a
  single device.

  For example, imagine you're playing Spectre, using the arrow keys
  on the Key Pad for movement and the spacebar to fire, a common key
  layout for games. Pressing the spacebar while moving causes the
  tank to stop moving. The arrows must be released and repressed in
  order to move the tank further. In short, any key pressed on the
  Key Board interrupts key repeats from the Key Pad, and vice versa.

  One solution, albeit a risky one, is to boot the Mac with only the
  Key Board attached, and - after the Mac boots - attach the Key
  Pad. Of course, this means attaching an ADB device with the Mac
  turned on, which can fry the ADB chip on the motherboard, possibly
  resulting in an expensive motherboard replacement. If you succeed
  with this ruse, the Mac will not recognize that the Key Pad is
  attached; yet it will respond to key presses on the Key Pad,
  presumably thinking these key presses come from the Key Board. In
  this case, key repeats will not be interrupted and you can play
  along happily.

  Another solution is to configure the game to use only keys from
  one device, but this is often inconvenient.

  I have talked to people at Apple, and they can "Neither confirm
  nor deny"[tm] that this is a bug, but they are looking into it.

  [This problem - it's actually a feature to make it harder for
  people suffering from RSI to play games - makes sense, since ADB
  devices send signals separately. For instance, I use a Curtis MVP
  Mouse trackball with foot switch (the foot switch attaches via a
  custom cable to the trackball) but I leave my mouse hooked up for
  others to use. I can move the mouse and click with the footswitch,
  since those are separate events, but I can't drag with the mouse
  and click with the footswitch. When the mouse signals that it is
  moving, those signals override the mouseDown signal from the
  footswitch. All in all, this is yet another reason to avoid the
  Apple Adjustable Keyboard, which gets good grades for basic design
  and marketing audacity, but fails miserably in essential
  execution., both for healthy folks who wish to play games and
  those of us who suffer from repetitive stress injuries. -Adam]


InterNews 1.0
-------------
  The following article comes from the text I wrote about InterNews
  in The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh. I made a few minor
  changes to take out mentions of screen shots and to avoid the
  transition from the NewsWatcher discussion and to Nuntius
  discussion. InterNews is an excellent MacTCP-based newsreader
  released a week or so ago from Dartmouth College, the same folks
  who gave us the popular FTP client Fetch. Needless to say, I can't
  provide all the background a reader of the book would have by the
  time she hit this section, but suffice it to say that you need
  MacTCP, and either a network connection or a modem and an
  implementation of SLIP or PPP. If you currently use Eudora and
  Fetch, you can probably use InterNews with little trouble.


InterNews
  Continuing with the excellent newsreaders, I come to a new program
  from Dartmouth College, InterNews. Programmed by Steve Maker and
  Roger Brown, InterNews is yet another take on an interface for
  reading news, presenting you with a three-paned window that
  displays a list of newsgroups at the top, a list of subjects in
  the selected group in the middle, and the articles in a selected
  thread at the bottom. In addition, InterNews works on the concept
  of the subscription, which is a personalized set of newsgroups.
  You can create any number of subscriptions, so I have, for
  instance, a subscription for the Mac groups, a subscription for
  the ClariNet groups I read, and so on. Subscriptions work well for
  organizing your reading, and can make starting up news less
  daunting than staring at a long list of all the groups you read.


Installation and Setup
  Double-click on InterNews to launch it for the first time. A Site
  Configuration dialog box immediately opens. You must fill it in
  before you can read any news, since some of the settings are
  necessary to connect.

  The Authentication pop-up menu is the most confusing part of this
  configuration process because you must ask your system
  administrator what sort of authentication your host provides. You
  also must find out the name of your news server, of course, so you
  may as well ask the system administrator that question at the same
  time, along with the name of the mail server. If you don't use
  authentication, InterNews doesn't let you send replies via email,
  which is a bit of a pain. Forging email as a joke was once, and
  briefly, considered a neat trick. Now it's just considered stupid
  (although I hear that feature was added to combat what amounted to
  "electronic stalking" - anonymous harassing messages).

  After you finish setting up this dialog with the news server and
  mail server information (and you can always change it later by
  closing all windows and choosing Configure for Your Site from the
  Edit menu), InterNews connects to your news server and downloads
  the full list of groups and then sorts it before presenting you
  with the Subscriptions window. As you might expect, retrieving the
  full list of groups takes a long time, and sorting them is also
  slow (although faster machines probably sort faster than my
  SE/30). The first time that I connected my SLIP host got disgusted
  with the length of time it took to sort the newsgroups and timed
  out, hanging up the modem. Because I use Manual addressing in
  MacTCP, I was able to connect again without quitting the program;
  if you use Server addressing you must quit the MacTCP program
  before reconnecting! This could pose a major problem for InterNews
  if your connection times out before InterNews finishes sorting the
  groups, forcing you to quit InterNews without letting it finish
  its job.

  Once InterNews presents you with the Subscriptions window, the
  only remaining configuration work comes with your preferences.
  From the Edit menu, choose Preferences. InterNews displays a large
  preferences dialog with a pop-up menu to configure different
  aspects of the program.

  Although you want to go through each of these screens and fill
  them in with your preferences and personal information, the most
  interesting are the Subscriptions preferences that control
  automatic display and sorting of articles when you open windows.
  By clicking on any of the yes/no markers in the matrix, you can
  modify the behavior of any subscription. It's a clever interface
  and a good idea.

  After you set your preferences, the time has come to subscribe to
  newsgroups. First, you must create your own subscription, so from
  the Subscriptions menu, choose New Subscription and then name the
  icon that InterNews creates. Double-click on it to open its
  window. Then double-click on the subscription labeled All
  Newsgroups. You must somehow figure out how to show both windows
  on the screen at once. You can click on and drag down the double
  lines under the top pane that lists the newsgroup names to make it
  larger, and I highly recommend doing so, because scrolling through
  that list is hard enough as is.

  When you see an interesting group, click on it and drag it over to
  your personal subscription window. Keep clicking and dragging
  until you've subscribed to all the groups you want to for that
  subscription, and repeat the process as necessary until you have
  all the subscriptions you want.

  Double-clicking on any subscription opens the window for that
  subscription, and you can size the window and its three panes so
  that you feel comfortable working with them. If you don't wish to
  see the contents of a group before subscribing, you can open a
  Subscription and then choose Add Newsgroup from the Reading menu
  to pick from the full list in a scrolling dialog.


Basic Usage
  Double-clicking on any newsgroup in its top pane causes InterNews
  to retrieve the subjects for the articles in that newsgroup and
  place them in the middle pane. Then double-clicking on any subject
  retrieves all the articles in that thread and places them in the
  bottom pane. You scroll using either the scroll bars or the
  Spacebar shortcut, but unfortunately, you can't scroll while
  InterNews retrieves the articles, and particularly with a long
  thread, retrieving the articles can take a while.

  If you're reading a thread, each article that scrolls by in the
  bottom pane is selectable with the mouse. You need to select an
  article specifically if you want reply to or save that article,
  obviously, but because InterNews scrolls a bunch of articles
  through that bottom pane, the concept of selecting one is a little
  odd. With an article selected, though you can do all the standard
  replying in mail or to the newsgroup, but you can also forward an
  article to someone else via mail, which I approve of, because I
  always seem to want to do that.

  When replying, you can quote selected text and also insert a text
  file using commands in the Compose menu. On the whole, the message
  composition window is fairly standard looking, although it does
  have four radio buttons that enable you to change whether a
  message is a mail or news message, which might help take flames
  into email rather than clutter news with them.


Special Features
  Like NewsWatcher, InterNews can import and export .newsrc files so
  that you can easily synchronize your news reading between
  InterNews and a Unix newsreader. InterNews also sports a Windows
  menu that lists all your subscriptions along with the open windows
  (and a useful Send to Back command). Selecting any of your
  subscriptions from the Windows menu opens it immediately, saving
  you the trouble of closing all the other windows to get back to
  your subscriptions window. Finally, a Help menu sits alongside the
  Windows menu and provides online help and tips for using
  InterNews, including the keyboard shortcuts that aren't otherwise
  documented.


Overall Evaluation
  InterNews is a fine effort, and much of its interface looks slick
  and well-done. However, I personally always feel cramped by the
  three-pane approach to displaying the newsgroups because the top
  pane especially wastes a lot of space to the right of the rather
  short newsgroup names, and the separators take up space as well.
  If you have a monstrous 21-inch monitor, you won't even notice
  what I'm talking about, but on a 9-inch screen InterNews might
  drive you mad. I'd prefer to see the top pane instead live on the
  left or right of the others because it's inherently fairly thin.

  I also continually have trouble with the concept of selecting an
  article from the bottom reading pane, although I suppose I would
  get used to it given enough time. Although InterNews has keyboard
  shortcuts for moving around so that the left- and right-arrow keys
  move you to the previous and next newsgroup and the up- and down-
  arrow keys move you to the previous and next subject, enough
  different keys are involved that I found the capability somewhat
  clumsy. Perhaps it would help if you didn't have to press Return
  or Enter to open each newsgroup or subject after you select using
  the arrow keys.

  Finally, although InterNews is speedy enough, it doesn't feel
  quite as quick as NewsWatcher. I didn't have time to make real
  speed comparisons, so this objection may just be a feeling, but
  for most of us, perception is reality.

  I feel a little bad talking about InterNews in this negative
  fashion because it is a great program, just not one that happens
  to match with my preferred method of reading news. It may fit
  better with your style, and it's definitely worth a look if you
  currently use NewsWatcher or Nuntius.


Administrative Details
  InterNews is distributed under the same system as Fetch, which
  means that educational and nonprofit users can use it for free,
  and for everyone else it's shareware. You can find it via
  anonymous FTP at <ftp.dartmouth.edu> as:

    /pub/mac/InterNews_1.0.sit.hqx


Reviews/13-Sep-93
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 06-Sep-93, Vol. 7, #35
    LANsurveyor 1.01 -- pg. 51
    Rae Assist 1.02 -- pg. 51
    MarcoPolo 2.0.3 -- pg. 56

* MacUser -- Oct-93
    Astound -- pg. 46
    PowerBook Utilities -- pg. 48
      PBTools
      Power To Go
      CPU 2.0
    Ofoto 2.0 -- pg. 50
    Radius PrecisionColor Pivot -- pg. 51
    Apple LaserWriter Select 300 -- pg. 52
    PowerTeam -- pg. 53
    DateBook Pro and TouchBASE Pro -- pg. 54
    Freedom of Press Classic and T-Script -- pg. 58
    Local Expert and NavigaTour -- pg. 62
    powerbox -- pg. 71
    ColorUP -- pg. 71
    Lunicus -- pg. 71
    Eight Ball Deluxe -- pg. 72
    StrataType 3d -- pg. 73
    AV Macs & Technologies -- pg. 76
    Newton MessagePad -- pg. 101
    Double-speed CD-ROM Drives -- pg. 110
      AppleCD 300
      OAI CD/Turbo 6-Pak
      Toshiba TXM3401E1
      Texel DM-5024
      NEC MultiSpin 74

* Macworld -- Oct-93
    Acrobat Exchange 1.0 and Acrobat Distiller 1.0 -- pg. 44
    CoSA After Effects 1.1 -- pg. 45
    OrangePC -- pg. 47
    Working Model 1.0 -- pg. 49
    Common Ground 1.0 -- pg. 51
    PowerTeam 1.0 -- pg. 51
    Kodak ColorSense 1.0 -- pg. 53
    Stacker for Macintosh 1.0.1 -- pg. 55
    BrushStrokes 1.0 -- pg. 55
    MarketMaster Manager 3.5 -- pg. 57
    CA-Cricket Draw III 2.0 -- pg. 59
    eDisk 1.0 -et- pg. 59
    mira 35 -- pg. 61
    Sum Total 1.01 -- pg. 63
    Computer Crayon -- pg. 63
    Macintosh Common Lisp 2.0 -- pg. 65
    Calendar Maker 4.0 -- pg. 65
    PowerPacks 2.0 -- pg. 67
    Safe or Sorry 1.0 -- pg. 67
    Seven Days in August -- pg. 69
    Gulliver -- pg. 69
    Musicshop 1.0 -- pg. 71
    PaintBoard Turbo -- pg. 71
    Spelling Coach Professional 4.0 -- pg. 79
    V for Victory: Utah Beach -- pg. 79
    StatView 4.01 -- pg. 81
    Daily Sports Quiz 1.0 -- pg. 81
    CLImate 1.0 -- pg. 83
    Address Express -- pg. 83
    BlackJack Trainer -- pg. 85
    Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis -- pg. 85
    The AV Macs -- pg. 88
      Quadra 840AV
      Centris 660AV
    16" and 17" Monitors -- pg. 98
      (too many to list)
    High-speed Fax Modems -- pg. 106
      (too many to list)
    Statistical Programs -- pg. 116
      (too many to list)


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