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- With the arrival of the new year, everyone tries to
- predict what will happen in the coming months and
- years. The staff and patrons of the Apple II
- RoundTable (A2 RT for short) are no exception. Here
- are some of our predictions for 1995 and beyond.
-
- Donnie Grimes: I predict an Apple IIgs emulator for
- the PowerPC computers will come out in late 1995.
- This emulator will be designed by Steve Wosniak, and
- will coincide with his return to Apple as Chief
- Executive. The IIgs emulation mode on the PPC will
- run all Apple II applications, and will seem to be an
- Apple IIgs on Steroids, running at an effective 50
- MHz. (Okay, so this is more wishful thinking than a
- prediction. Sue me.)
-
- Mark Kline: The next release of the Newton PDA will
- provide a very useful piece of hardware with a quick
- and efficient operating system. Now that Eric
- Shepherd has bought one of these guys, we'll be
- getting lots of software to provide connectivity with
- it for the IIgs. Users will find that the Newton will
- exchange data much more efficiently with the IIgs
- than with PCs and Macs. There will be a great
- increase in the market value of used IIgs systems as
- Newton owners pay a premium to get back the machines
- they abandoned in the past couple of years.
-
- Michael Lutynski: Apple's new "Mac/OS" logo will be
- replaced with a design that is more appealing.
-
- Harold Hislop: A famous Apple II vendor will begin
- selling the Blue Disk Card and IBM style drives as a
- package. This combination will be wildly successful.
-
- Doug Pendleton: The Apple II series computers will
- see the most new commercial software and hardware
- released in recent years. I expect to see new
- releases of an SVGA Video card, an upgraded
- telecommunications program, an all new fax program
- for the IIgs and two new games. These will be highly
- successful. Oh, and Apple II computers will continue
- to be highly visible in education.
-
- Gary Utter: Apple will continue to upgrade the
- Macintosh Operating System until it finally
- approaches the utility of the IIgs Operating System.
-
- Joe Kohn: Someone will write a SLIP connection for
- the Apple IIgs and with the release of an SVGA video
- card, Mosaic for the IIgs will be introduced, making
- the Apple II a full-fledged contender on the World
- Wide Web.
-
-
- And finally, here are some good files to download
- that will continue to work for you in 1995 and
- beyond:
-
- 23636 GSCII.2.3.1.BXY,
- NDA unpacks internet packed files.
-
- 23350 SYSFAIL2.3.BXY,
- Improved System Death Manager.
- 23533 SONOBOX.BXY,
- New Desk Accessory that plays MODs.
-
- 23606 HP.LJ4.CODE.BXY,
- HP LJ 4 AppleWorks Printer codes.
-
- 23480 STALACTITES.BXY,
- Stalactites for the IIgs.
-
- 23290 AW43B.BXY,
- Updates AppleWorks 4.0x to 4.3.
-
- 23288 RW41F.BXY,
- Updates ReportWriter for AW4.
-
- 23287 DT4.BXY,
- Updates files now on DeskTools IV.
-
- 23252 FILEFINDER.BXY,
- Finder Extension to Find Files.
-
- 23203 DESKDOCTOR.BXY,
- Finder Ext checks/fixes desktop file.
-
- 23193 MINIMIZER.BXY,
- Adds Minimize feature to windows.
-
- 23128 XMANAGER.BXY,
- Finder Extras Manager.
-
- 23121 DESKDOCTOR.BXY,
- Rebuild AND fixes Desktop/icon files.
-
- 23120 MINIMIZER.BXY,
- CDev minimizes windows.
-
- 23118 SHOWCLIPNDA.BXY,
- Show Clipboard NDA.
-
- Happy New Year from your A2 staff on GEnie!
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