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There are 11 messages totalling 344 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Star NX1000c printer
2. your mail
3. QLink files
4. Fido/Internet and CBM
5. Q-Link files (3)
6. Text Grabber for GEOS (2)
7. Points of Interest on the NET!
8. Playing c64 games on pc
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 03:44:24 -0500
From: Robert Johnson <accolon@PLAYPEN.COM>
Subject: Re: Star NX1000c printer
I haven't used the 1000c in a long time, however my nl-10 (nl-1000) is
almost the same from what I remember... If I remember correctly, you
should have a bold switch (on the left) a font switch (in the middle)
and an online/offline switch on the right. The on/offline switch is used
to set the state the printer is in: online means the computer will be
able to access it though you will have no access to the other panel
switches (like font, form feed if you have that), offline means the
computer cannot access the printer and you can change the settings with
the other panel switches... bold is just that... boldface printing, the
fonts will likely be courier and maybe Sans Serif or something like
that... should be LED's to show which mode is currently selected...
Other than that, I really haven't much else to tell you... The 1000C is
capable of decent graphics printing (in color no less!) but finding
ribbons for Star equipment is a nightmare anymore <g>... Most commercial
software will have drivers for the Star 1000C (like FGM, Print Shop,
etc. as well as WP's, and GEOS) which will take care of the nitty-gritty
:)
Denny Springle
Accolon@playpen.com
Sent Via The Playpen BBS...Washington DC's Premier Online Service
..TELNET: PLAYPEN.COM...MODEM: (703)591-4567
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 07:32:21 -0500
From: Gordon Wilson <gwilson@PRAIRIENET.ORG>
Subject: Re: your mail
On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Steven A Cavanaugh wrote:
> Are you talking about Quantum Link?I tried to get on that,but all access
> numbers are down.
>
Quantum-Link or Q-Link was the progenitor of AOL! The people in Vienna,
Virginia apparently jump into anything that looks profitable and drop
anything that slips a little. For instance, now that there is a
challenge to the on-line services, they are jumping into direct internet
access providing.
Maybe someone at aol knows wher those files are!
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Gordon Wilson Keyboard Studio
voice 217.328.3975 304 N. Maple Street
fax 217.328.3983 Suite 203
toll-free 800.821.1197 Urbana, IL 61801
e-mail gwilson@prairienet.org
home page http://www.cu-online.com/~gwilson
"Music? Computers? Both!? We want to help!"
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 07:36:21 -0500
From: Gordon Wilson <gwilson@PRAIRIENET.ORG>
Subject: Re: QLink files
On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Steven A Cavanaugh wrote:
> You can still get commodore machines..
>
Yes, and pardon me for saying...I can get them for you!
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Gordon Wilson Keyboard Studio
voice 217.328.3975 304 N. Maple Street
fax 217.328.3983 Suite 203
toll-free 800.821.1197 Urbana, IL 61801
e-mail gwilson@prairienet.org
home page http://www.cu-online.com/~gwilson
"Music? Computers? Both!? We want to help!"
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 13:04:42 -0400
From: Michael Bendure <mbendure@INFINET.COM>
Subject: Fido/Internet and CBM
> BTW, all, I have resolved that it is impossible to utilize a TCP/IP
> protocol in conjunction with a c64 BBS unless the majority of the actual
> BBS was written in ML. Considering that is a major headache, I am
> choosing to drop the TCP/IP research for now... I may pick it up again
> once I have a running system and try and figure out a hardware solution
> to the timing problems and irq problems incurred.
You know, in a way I'm doing something similar. Although I'm not going
to attempt the TCP/IP, I am bringing Internet access to Commodore 64 BBS's.
I'm approaching it in a way that allows the PC BBS's to be our gateway.
I'm working with a Wildcat BBS sysop that is writting a conversion program
that converts Fido and Internet mail to our CommNet format. All we do is
connect to the Wildcat BBS, just like we do any other CommNet BBS and
pickup our packets. The Wildcat BBS will convert the ASCII or ANSI to
PETSCII and compile the packets in our CommNet structure.
I went this approach for two reasons. First, the PC BBS can do the
conversions at a much faster rate. For us to convert the large packets we
transfer everyday, into straight ASCII and a Fido format would take far too
long with the sorting we already do. Second, this allows us in CommNet to
use the Fido systems as a piggy back for our network. Any CommNet system
can connect to any Fido system and still pickup the CommNet subs and email.
This will eventually mean that the CommNet systems won't have to deal with
LD costs in most cases. Since there are so many Fido systems around, a
CommNet BBS local to a Fido system can use them as their Hub.
The PC BBS's also have access to Internet mail and some can even get a
few of the newsgroups. As far as Fido and the Internet goes, we are only
interested in the CBM related material. This means we will only be pulling
the Fido CBM, CBM_128 and CBM_GEOS as well as Netmail. On the Internet, we
only need comp.sys.cbm and the Netmail. This doesn't mean they can't
pickup any other Fido echo or Internet newsgroup, just that these are the
only ones we really want at this time.
I realize this isn't TCP/IP, but it does bring Fido and Internet access
to the Commodore BBS's and leaves us free of having to process that
information into our format or deal with the protocols that we don't
support. Our connections are made just like we do to any other CommNet BBS
using Punter protocol to transfer the single packets back and forth.
It took all of one day to write the conversions and they work like a
champ. We are now looking into the connection procedure which shouldn't
take very long either once we get time to sit down and write it. The
programmers doing all of this is Dave Smith of Smith Brothers Computers and
myself. Once the Wildcat gateway is finished, we will be porting it to a
few other IBM BBS's and we will ship the programs to all the CommNet nodes,
so they can give it to their local PC BBS to make the connections. We will
also make it available to any PC BBS that is interested.
.
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:12:40 -0500
From: Robert Johnson <accolon@PLAYPEN.COM>
Subject: Re: Q-Link files
Someone asked "Maybe someone at AOL knows where these files are"...
The answer to that question is an outstanding YES! They DO know where
the files from Q-Link are... they're GONE hehe...
I spoke with people at AOL immediately and some time after the sudden
disappearance of Q-Link... immediately, they didn't even want to talk
about Q-Link... and the Q-Link CS lines were gone already...
Some time later I finally was able to discover that all the hardware
from Q-Link was "ported" to AOL... more likely story is that AOL was
"ported" to Q-Link (hence the closing of areas and DL's and no more
uploading allowed, etc.... I figure the "bug" issue was bogus... *I*
even offered to go through the library and help find the problems... I
was told that they "hired" people to take care of that... two or so
months later AOL is going into full swing and Q-Link dissapears...
Hmmm...
Anyway, to make a long story short(er), Everything on Q-Link was
completely wiped. Every last bit of information is gone... even the
server software they utilized (which I was interested in to run a scaled
down version of Q-Link) I was told was erased.. "no copies remain" if I
remember correctly...
Many of us in MD made a valiant effort to DL as much software as we
could... unfortunately I haven't lived there in 4 years so I really
couldn't tell you where it all went... I know about 80 mb of Q-Link
files used to be on Fred's Colors 64 HQ board... I can't remember the
phone number though... anyone remember that phone number? <eg> Other
than that it got split up (what we did manage to get, that is) between
the individuals who actually did the downloading... I still have about
20 or 30 mb of Q-Link stuff if you tell me what you're looking for I'll
see if I have it...
Denny Springle
Accolon@playpen.com
Sent Via The Playpen BBS...Washington DC's Premier Online Service
..TELNET: PLAYPEN.COM...MODEM: (703)591-4567
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 17:46:14 -0400
From: Christopher McLeod <Craftyc@CRIS.COM>
Subject: Re: Q-Link files
Robert, I have been loking and looking for the disk utility called
OmegaQ2. Do you happen to have it or do you knpnow whre I might find it?
I would be SO gratefull!!! :-))
That's it for me!
Chris McLeod (of the clan MacLeod)
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 18:05:45 -0400
From: Christopher McLeod <Craftyc@CRIS.COM>
Subject: Text Grabber for GEOS
This is a long shot, but does any one out there know of a Text grabber
file for GEOS which will convert any LATE version (i.e., OLD) Word Perfect
or Word files?
In other words, I am trying to convert Word files to C= and back again,
while keeping all (or at least MOST) of the formatting.
I have converted Word files sucessfully back and forth using a "Rich Text
Format" (in Word) but it strips most of the formatting away. It keeps the
paragraphs and indents (which is VERY nice!), but I would like to be able
to keep headers and footers, bolding and indenting too.
Before you come out of the woodwork sauying, "It's never gonna happen!!!"
please give it some serious thought. The formatting codes that Word and
Word Perfect use are simply that -- codes. GEOS ALSO uses codes. Why
can't these codes be converted back and forth?
Again, we could have the conversion occur between GEOS and an OLDER
version of WP or Word. Those two programs could do their own conversions
to and from the CURRENT version of their software.
This ability would prove MOST helpful to me for doing work at home. :-)
Thanks in advance for all of you help!!
Chris McLeod (of the clan MacLeod)
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 20:12:42 -0500
From: Robert Johnson <accolon@PLAYPEN.COM>
Subject: Re: Q-Link files
Chris,
I believe you can find Omega-Q II at anonymous FTP site:
ccnga.uwaterloo.ca
If not there try ftp.funet.fi... I know it is in one of these two
places in Disk Utilities (/64utils/DISK for example) the path to the cbm
files on both of these ftp sites is: /pub/cbm. If you can't get it by
FTP for some reason, let me know and I will uuencode it in mail for you.
Denny Springle
Accolon@playpen.com
Sent Via The Playpen BBS...Washington DC's Premier Online Service
..TELNET: PLAYPEN.COM...MODEM: (703)591-4567
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 21:23:00 -0500
From: Robert Johnson <accolon@PLAYPEN.COM>
Subject: Points of Interest on the NET!
Well, I found a couple interesting places on the web tonight... quite a
few actually... here are a couple...
Remember that 128 someone said was telnetable... well I found it... it
is called Zelch 128 BBS, the telnet address is 147.26.162.107
(taz.cs.swt.edu)... login as: zelch. Unfortunately, the BBS is
apparently temporarily down for some reason?? In any case... keep
checking back there...
Another interesting site I found was for the A65 Computer and operating
system... a C64 compatible pre-emptive operating system on a
(relatively) c64 compatible computer (basically a modified 64) with
support for IEEE and serial and parralel drives... unfortunately my
connection is a little buggy, so I've asked the owner to upload the
information and source to an FTP site... I'll let you knwo what he
says... the web page is: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fachat/csa/
Also, for those interested in checking out BBS systems for the C64,
(until mine is finshed anyway haha)... check out C-Net 64 DS2. I lost
the page address, but you can likely email him and he'll send you the
information (that's what I did :>) at mbendure@infinet.com
There were about 50 links on the main page altogether... do a search at
yoohoo.com (on the web) with the search phrase "Commdore computer"...
Unfortunately, as I said, my connection to the web is buggy so I only
got through the first few of them without problems... the funny part is
it's a local telco problem... nothing to do with my ISP's or anything :(
Oh well... anyone have any other intereting sites they've come across?
Denny Springle
accolon@playpen.com
Sent Via The Playpen BBS...Washington DC's Premier Online Service
..TELNET: PLAYPEN.COM...MODEM: (703)591-4567
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 21:30:49 PST
From: Steven A Cavanaugh <stevenc1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Playing c64 games on pc
I had a similare question of that nature,but I can't rermember whoo
answered it.Ask around alot and you will get a response..
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 20:21:54 -0700
From: Michael Weathers <mikew@MAIL.COOS.OR.US>
Subject: Re: Text Grabber for GEOS
do you have the original Geos-Disks 64/128 Berkeley had a text grabber on
these disks! if you havent send me a address & I will help you out!
On Sun, 28 Jul 1996, Christopher McLeod wrote:
> This is a long shot, but does any one out there know of a Text grabber
> file for GEOS which will convert any LATE version (i.e., OLD) Word Perfect
> or Word files?
>
> In other words, I am trying to convert Word files to C= and back again,
> while keeping all (or at least MOST) of the formatting.
>
> I have converted Word files sucessfully back and forth using a "Rich Text
> Format" (in Word) but it strips most of the formatting away. It keeps the
> paragraphs and indents (which is VERY nice!), but I would like to be able
> to keep headers and footers, bolding and indenting too.
>
> Before you come out of the woodwork sauying, "It's never gonna happen!!!"
> please give it some serious thought. The formatting codes that Word and
> Word Perfect use are simply that -- codes. GEOS ALSO uses codes. Why
> can't these codes be converted back and forth?
> Again, we could have the conversion occur between GEOS and an OLDER
> version of WP or Word. Those two programs could do their own conversions
> to and from the CURRENT version of their software.
>
> This ability would prove MOST helpful to me for doing work at home. :-)
>
> Thanks in advance for all of you help!!
>
> Chris McLeod (of the clan MacLeod)
>
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