Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #258 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 10 Feb 99 Volume 16 : Issue 258 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#466/08-Feb-99 (C) A Cautionary Tale - Eudora is time expiring (Q) Modem for Classic (Q) New G3 with old peripherals (Q) Non-LocalTalk Printer on Network (Q) RealPlayer G2 too buggy for viewing An easy to make Powerbook mistake Copy Problems G3/400 Gives 450 Mhz Pentium II a run for its money Help Finding a program How to convert JPGs to Slide Show iMac joystick recommendation: ADB adapter vs. usb installers ITALY, ANYONE? Mac II wont boot Music software for Macintosh Music software for Macintosh2 One Logon Per Bootup Outlook Express PB1400cs screen problem in Costa Rica Printing Over an NT Network Problems with Powerbook G3 and wall projectors Putting back Apple HD Driver on Apple HD questions about archive... running PC games on a G3/233 Powerbook or OrangePC 620 on a Searching with Sherlock to stop the control strip The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. Email Addresses and Instructions: * To submit articles to the digest, email . * To subscribe, send email to with subscribe in the Subject line. * To unsubscribe, send email to with unsubscribe in the Subject line. * To change your address, unsubscribe from the old address, then subscribe from the new address. 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The news abounds with updates, including Norton Utilities, PowerBook G3 modem software, Virtual PC, StuffIt Expander, and KeyQuencer, plus bits about Connectix's battle with Sony and Extensis's rescue of Suitcase from Symantec. Topics: MailBITS/08-Feb-99 eMediaweekly Folds After Five Months Tools We Use: Desktop Resetter Elementary, My Dear Sherlock [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-466.etx; 30K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 03:02:36 -0800 From: Denny Davis Subject: (C) A Cautionary Tale - Eudora is time expiring At 1:39 AM -0500 2/1/99, abrody@smart.net wittily wrote: > Dear Digest readers, > In a surprise that shouldn't have been, I got a message from Eudora > Pro 4.1b60 today that it was about to expire in a week. How did it > come as a surprise? > > 1. I downloaded the beta after it was recommended by Mac Network > News, and used Anarchie Pro to do so. > > 2. Unfortunately the readme the did not state that it would expire > after a certain period of time. > > 3. Unfortunately the about window did not state that it would expire > after a certain period of time. > > 4. The only place it did so was on the Eudora web page. But since > I had downloaded it with Anarchie, bypassing the notes on the web > page I had no notion until the week before the expiration was set, > that it would do so. > > So what have we learned here? Always go to the web page first of > the publisher of the software before downloading a beta. It may be > only there that it states that the beta is time expiring. > > Now I am in potential trouble with a customer for not warning him of > this expiration. > > Never share beta software with customers unless you are 100% sure it > won't expire. > > The sad thing is, the only stable e-mailer for the Mac that supports: > web pages > automated spell checking > ability to read the listserv version of the digest > and multiple e-mail accounts is Eudora Pro 4.1beta. > And that costs money eventually, or time downloading and installing > the new beta. > > Not to mention the new beta installs an old version of QuickTime on > top of your old version, so you have to move your newer extensions > out before installing Eudora. > > All other e-mailers crash once you exceed a certain folder and or > file limit for mailboxes. > All other e-mailers lack some or all the specific features mentioned above. > > I have tried Outlook Express 4.5. I have tried Eudora Lite 3.1.3l. > I have tried Netscape Communicator 4.0 through 4.5, and Netscape > Navigator 3.0.x. I have tried Cyberdog. I have tried Claris > E-mailer. > What left is there to try? > > And why can't those free e-mailers get it into their heads that > features cost money, and features when not released right can cause > crashes? Rhetorical, but if this message could only go to the > publishers of those free e-mailers, maybe we would see a better > e-mailer for the Mac. > > Sincerely, > abrody@smart.net You might try Mailsmith from Bare Bones Software, I use Eudora Pro 4.02 myself though. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 12:54:41 -0800 From: Paul Brians Subject: (Q) Modem for Classic A graduate student of mine wants to get a modem to use with her Mac Classic. She uses Pine for e-mail and doesn't expect to be doing anything other than e-mail through her dial-up connection, so she doesn't need the latest model. Are there any restrictions as to cabling, etc. to look out for as she shops for a cheap used modem? Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 15:11:20 -0800 From: "Don, Cathy Jo and Cory" Subject: (Q) New G3 with old peripherals A tax return is on the way and the check has "G3" written on it but I'm having a difficult time make a decision on the new (USB, firewire) models vs.the old (adb, serial, scsi, floppy) version. I like the idea of the faster internal bus and the built in graphics acceleration of the new models but I'm having a hard time figuring out if my peripherals will work with it. We have an external scsi zip, brand new GV 56k modem, Color Stylewriter 4000 and midi hookup. The answers I have gotten from local Mac dealers indicate that the cost of adding cards and etc. to a new G3 to accomodate the old peripherals would make it cheaper to get new, USB compatible ones, not likely under current economic models. Has anyone had any experience with making the old technology work with the new technology? I've checked iMacintouch and other sources as well as local retailers, but I suspect the situation is still too new to have shaken out yet. If you will email me directly I will be happy to summarize for the list. Don ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Feb 99 14:54:55 -0500 From: TCS Subject: (Q) Non-LocalTalk Printer on Network If I put a Mac with a serial printer connected to it (say a non-LocalTalk, non-Ethernet Stylewriter of some sort connected to the Mac in standard fashion, with a serial cable) on a small home Ethernet LAN with 2 other Macs, will the other 2 Macs be able to share the printer (since the printer can be connected only to a mac and not the hub)? SERIAL PRINTER I I (serial cable) I MACINTOSH MACINTOSH MACINTOSH I I I I I I (ethernet cables) I I I E T H E R N E T H U B Since we know that this sort of connection works when the serial device connected directly to one of the Macs is a modem (to share internet access), MODEM I I (serial cable) I MACINTOSH MACINTOSH MACINTOSH I I I I I I (ethernet cables) I I I E T H E R N E T H U B it seems that a similar setup for another serial device (printer) set up could be operable, albeit maybe not terribly speedy. Will it work at all? TIA, Lor ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 20:17:29 -0500 From: abrody@smart.net Subject: (Q) RealPlayer G2 too buggy for viewing Dear Digest readers, Granted it is a preview release, but this is so buggy is as to be laughable. Anytime I try to increase the screen size to double, it freezes the mouse pointer and goes nowhere. This on a G3/233 Wall Street Powerbook with @home cable internet. So what gives? Anybody found a way to stabilize RealPlayer G2 so it won't freeze, and it will give you a big enough display that you can see what is going on? Not to mention it is a 70 day demo. Thank goodness it told me that much. Anybody hear anything new from the folks at Real? Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:38:06 -0500 From: abrody@smart.net Subject: An easy to make Powerbook mistake Dear Digest readers, As I found out with the Powerbook G3, it is possible to cause instability inadvertently. Here's how: 1. Shut down after pressing the mute button or having the volume set to zero. 2. Restart from the power button 3. Assume that it is taking too long to restart, and hit the power button again. So you ask what is wrong with this picture? The machine actually has started up, it just hasn't displayed anything on screen. To speed this process up, hold down the shift key for two seconds and let go. Do NOT press the power button again after pressing it once. The reasoning behind this, is that once you press the power button, you need to shut down the Mac properly from the Special menu before you can turn it off again. Otherwise the drivers that did start up upon pressing the power button have a chance to corrupt from an improper shut down. Or you can leave the volume up just enough to know that it has started up. Either way: 1. Press the power button, then the shift button if you shut it down earlier. Another point, Don't close the Powerbook screen until after it has blackened from a Shut Down. Otherwise the Powerbook will attempt to go to sleep, which eats up batteries. You can also shut down from the power button when you have information on screen. Hope this helps. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:33:11 -0500 From: Holleran Greenburger Subject: Copy Problems That translates to meaning there is a bad file name associated with the afflicted files. Try to fix it with Norton Disk Doctor or Disk First Aid. >Re: copy problems: Power Mac 7500, OS 7.5.5, 48 MB > >When I try to copy a file to either the desktop or to a removable >Cartridge, I sometimes get one or both of the following messages: > >1) The file "Whatever" couldn't be read because it cannot be found. Do you >want to continue copying? > >Or: > >2) The file "Whatever" couldn't be read, because an error of type -37 >occurred. Do you want to continue copying? > >Any help would be appreciated. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:32:08 -0500 From: abrody@smart.net Subject: G3/400 Gives 450 Mhz Pentium II a run for its money Dear Digest readers, http://www.apple.com/powermac/splash/opendoor.html Shows the Bytemark tests comparing a G3/400 to a 450Mhz Pentium II. Compare 13.3 to 6.2. More than twice as fast. :-) No difficult arithmetic here! Share with all your Mac hating friends this page, and maybe, just maybe you might win over a few converts. Not to worry, I've been a Mac guy since the beginning, even when I couldn't have a Mac for five years. Rumor has it, the G4 due out later this year is 16 times faster than a Pentium II. I wonder how much faster is it than a Pentium III? Need software to prove your point? Apple has finally published the 12,000 Mac products online at: http://guide.apple.com/usindex.html But of course you all know this. If you didn't, share these tidbits with your non-Mac know-it-all friends. Another link for fun: http://www.ameritel.net/lusers/abrody/mac.html Yosemite should be renamed. How about Hermes? Sincerley, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 16:23:00 +0000 From: "Wayne Stouth" Subject: Help Finding a program I'm looking for a program to put time limits on internet use. When I was on the other side of the fence (Wintel) I had a program that allowed me to give several people access to my internet connection. It keyed off the modem connection. Each person had their own password. I could assign a given daily time limit for each user. Before the modem dialed a box popped up asking the user name and password. Five minutes before the time expired a message popped up warning the connection would be shut down. It also offered the ability on that message box to pull up a Administrator override box. In that box you typed the master password this allowed infinite time in case the person was in the middle of a download when the time was up. Does anyone know of a similar program like this for the Mac Platform? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 12:37:20 -0500 From: mitch.barker@gses.com Subject: How to convert JPGs to Slide Show Howdy, I have about 15 JPEG format graphics which I'd like to assemble into a "slide show". Ideally it should end up as a quick time movie or other cross platform format. I tried importing the graphics into a movie using the Apple Video Player, but the resultant movie, could not pause at each picture, and some pictures were skipped. 1. Is there a way to force the movie to pause at each picture? I would also like to be able to manually move from picture to picture with the next and prev buttons. 2. Any other suggestions for assembling pictures into a movie or slide show? 3. Is there more capable movie editing software which will allow me to do what I need? Thanks. Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 22:57:57 -0500 From: Michael Holtzman Subject: iMac joystick recommendation: ADB adapter vs. usb Greetings, all. I am expecting a new iMac any day now, and I need a recommendation for a joystick. I have a Gravis MouseStick II (ADB). Should I get an ADB to USB adapter, or go for a new USB joystick? (I'm not a hard core gamer, so I don't need the latest and greatest .. I just want a decent controller). Suggestions ?? Thanx. Michael S. Holtzman St. John's University (NY) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 08:51:58 -0500 From: abrody@smart.net Subject: installers Dear Digest readers, I'd like to create a series of disks for Mac users that has all the software they need to get connected to the net with a particular provider. I'd like to be able to have the installer automatically put in the necessary software in the extensions, control panels, and preferences folder. I already have Stuffit Deluxe, but that doesn't seem to have an installer feature other than to build .sea files which will extract anywhere the user wants to. I am dealing with newbies here, who don't know their desktop folder from their system folder, and their Apple menu from their Apple key. Such an installer should be able to detect if FreePPP was already loaded, and remove FreePPP before proceeding with the installation. It should be able to stop installing if InterPPP is present, and inform the user to run Internet Valet setup, as the provider has previously given users Internet Valet for its setup, which is as simply an installer for those machines. Such an installer should be able to recognize the operating system and model Macintosh being used, and recommend upgrading before continuing if they have System 7.5.2 through 7.5.5. If System 7.5.1 or earlier is in use, that installer should be able to extract out and build a segmented Stuffit archive, after the user puts in a series of disks. Anybody know of an easy way to create such an installer that doesn't cost any money? If there is a way to easily edit Apple's own Installer that comes with the operating system that might be the best option. And before anybody recommends AppleScript, I have found certain cases where AppleScript crashes some machines. It should work with extensions disabled. Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 23:25:14 +0900 From: Sato & Shaw Subject: ITALY, ANYONE? Dear Macophiles, I will be moving to Naples Italy this coming Thursday, changing jobs from my current position in Yokohama Japan. The Mac is a big moneymaker in Japan, selling better than even in the states. Just wondering if there're any fellow Mac users who have experience on living and using Mac's in Italy. I'm interested in the usual litany of things: Is the Mac popular in Italy? Are there good ISPs that understand what a Mac is? Are there ISPs that understand English? Are there many stores that sell Mac hardware? Are there Mac user groups? Are there good repair shops around? Any info for this future pasta hall of famer appreciated. Cheers (or should I say Ciao), Ted Shaw satoshaw@gol.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 22:39:01 +0000 From: Ian Burt Subject: Mac II wont boot Hi Macsters, once more need forces me to come out of lurk mode and show my ignorance. I help to run a couple of small cyber cafes and IT Resource Centres where underprivileged kids can get some hands on experience. It is usually PC cast off kit we get given to play with, but of late there has been a breakthrough since word has spread there are Mac nuts about. There has been an influx of Macs, well only two, but it's a start. So I've had a Mac II since before Christmas which wont boot. It is about eight years old and has 2MB RAM, plus 4 ext, RGB card, Ethernet and a beautiful Radius Monitor, all 19 inches of it. Wont boot though. Apparently it worked for years no problems then was put away after being superseded. Guy who donated it says he tried to boot it one day and it just stood there looking more like a door stop by the minute. His theory is a dud I/O micro switch or a fuse gone. A German web site led me to being told it may just be a battery needed. I hope. If it is a write off there are spares to be salvaged, and I kinda fancy having a 19 inch monitor myself to go with a Pios Keenya, Tanzania 4400 clone, 200 Mhz, 32 MB RAM. It wont just plug and play,,tried it. I guess it needs the RGB card from Mac II? Or am I being unrealistic? Any advice is most welcome. TIA Ian B But you who walk facing the sun,what images drawn on the earth can hold you? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 03:22:26 -0800 From: Denny Davis Subject: Music software for Macintosh At 3:43 PM +0100 1/26/99, Paolo Bartoli wittily wrote: > I'm new to computer music, and I'd like to find shareware applications to > compose/edit music and mix audio tracks. > What is available on th shareware market? > > ** Arch. Paolo Bartoli > ** pbartoli@iname.com > ** > ** http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba SoundEffects v0.9.2 by Alberto Ricci PlayerPRO Both of them are available on the Info-Mac Mirrors as far as I know, which is where I would get them. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 14:15:15 -0800 From: Denny Davis Subject: Music software for Macintosh2 At 3:43 PM +0100 1/26/99, Paolo Bartoli wittily wrote: > I'm new to computer music, and I'd like to find shareware applications to > compose/edit music and mix audio tracks. > What is available on th shareware market? > > ** Arch. Paolo Bartoli > ** pbartoli@iname.com > ** > ** http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba In the latest MacAddict of March 1999, they have a feature on music for the Mac and the featured application is Myriad Software's Melody Assistant 3.0.1 and included on the MacAddict CD is Myriad Software's Melody Assistant 3.0.1 So I would say get Myriad Software's Melody Assistant 3.0.1 which is $15 shareware. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 16:02:01 -0800 From: Gerry Subject: One Logon Per Bootup --============_-1293687855==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I've asked before on usenet but have never managed to get any significant aid on this. I logon via TCP/IP to a server, do my business and log off, an hour later I try to log on and it simply sticks at the "establishing communications phase? It has ALWAYS done this going back to 7.5, i'm now at the newest OS at 8.5.1. Using Eudora or Netscape or whatever. Every once in a while I can manage to get logged on successfully the 2nd time if I connect directly rather than letting the program itself establish it's own communication. But then the server never responds to my requests for send/receive mail, usenet, whatever. Two different modems completely different. Changes in initialization string. Turning modem off and on. Using PPC 7600, Microcom or Cardinal modems, FreePPP 2.6.2, OT-TCP/IP 2.0.2, OS 8.5.1. Any ideas on this? \\\--- Gerry --------------------------------------------------- All great truths begin as blasphemies. -- George Bernard Shaw --============_-1293687855==_ma============ Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" GenevaI've asked before on usenet but have never managed to get any significant aid on this. I logon via TCP/IP to a server, do my business and log off, an hour later I try to log on and it simply sticks at the "establishing communications phase? It has ALWAYS done this going back to 7.5, i'm now at the newest OS at 8.5.1. Using Eudora or Netscape or whatever. Every once in a while I can manage to get logged on successfully the 2nd time if I connect directly rather than letting the program itself establish it's own communication. But then the server never responds to my requests for send/receive mail, usenet, whatever. Two different modems completely different. Changes in initialization string. Turning modem off and on. Using PPC 7600, Microcom or Cardinal modems, FreePPP 2.6.2, OT-TCP/IP 2.0.2, OS 8.5.1. Any ideas on this? Geneva \\\--- Gerry --------------------------------------------------- All great truths begin as blasphemies. -- George Bernard Shaw --============_-1293687855==_ma============-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 13:41:22 +0900 From: "Magnus Hoek" Subject: Outlook Express Hi there everybody I just decided to dump my old trusted Eudora and installed Outlook Express. In relation to this I have a couple of questions... 1) Where are the E-mails saved. What files ? I need to know what to backup... 2) Is it possible to import Eudora mailboxes to new Outlook Express mailboxes. I really don't want to forward all those old E-mails while there are thousands of them... TIA Magnus ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 15:15:26 -0600 From: Rick King Subject: PB1400cs screen problem in Costa Rica Please help me! I'm in Costa Rica on a work trip and unable to get phone calling card to work, so I'm sending this via a friend to try to find a hardware saavy mac person to help diagnose my screen problem. Two weeks ago, my PB 1400cs (OS 8.5, 44Mb) fell off a bedside table onto a concrete floor and the screen became almost unreadable. There are no outward signs of trauma to the casing and I believe it hit on the right side (I saw the modem card eject). I was able to continue work by renting an external monitor and adapter cable (I have a 24 bit Newer video card installed) but when I return to US Feb 10 I must leave the monitor here and then my problems begin all over again--I will be traveling 2 more weeks in the US before returning home to Charlottesville, VA. I hope to avoid renting a monitor in each city, or buying one I don't need and schleping on planes. My hope is to diagnose the problem by email and get the correct part by mail (I have been repairing Kaypros since 1983, my Mac Plus, and cleaned up a floppy on my PB 170 that people said couldn't be fixed). I have taken, or seen taken, everything out of this computer but the mother board. Here's the situation: When it boots, the grey screen is normal, the smiley mac is fine, but when color enters the scene (the OS 8.5 logo) things get bad. I had hoped that turning the display into a grey scale with monitors and sound would work. It does not change anything. There are vertical black and white streaks, anywhere from one pixel wide to several pixels, which constantly shimmer, making vertical lines--like a really badly scratched movie. As you know, the screen is divided into top and bottom half, and the behavior in each half, while similar, is independent, ie, the streaks do not usually line up with each other on the two halves of the screen. The desktop is relatively readable--the streaks are white (contrast and brightness at max) and actually do line up in this instance only. Windows are another matter. If small and relatively centered above and below the horizontal center line, they can be read--are blood red, tending towards black, the larger they are. Menus are barely readable. Application windows are similar--if I am able to find the rt lower corner of a window (the top and bottom are not clearly defined, as the streaking continues off top and bottom of screen at same width as window) and drag it to half the monitor's height, and athen position it evenly centered above and below the horizontal line dividing the two halves of the screen, it becomes bright enough that I can then read it. The Clue: The shimmering vertical lines within any window ARE INDEPENDENT of their screen location but stay fixed relative to each other's position within that window, ie, when moving a window, the streaks in that window move WITH the window, and they stay EXACTLY the same relative to each other within that window, no matter where I drag the window on the screen. For redundancy, because I think this is really important: The streaking immediately to the right and left of the moved window stays the same, but the streak patterns in the window move with the window. Logic tells me that the problem is occuring at an earlier level than the screen itself or the circuitry that generates the "sweep" for the screen. (I'm talking CRT lingo here, not knowing LCD signal technology--I'm an old vacuum tube tester from the 50s). ICON, the authorized apple dealer at the University of Costa Rica, had it for 5 days, initially reassuring me that it was likely a broken wire to the display. That proved wrong (they didn't say how they thought so, my spanish is not that good, nor their english, and they didn't know it had a reset button either--another story). They didn't have another mother board or a screen to test it with. Not knowing what happens to the display signal at the point it is passed off TO the video card (where it's OK) and when it arrives at the screen, the streaks must be being generated at the level that generates the windows for the internal display (but it seems odd that it would be after the video card). I.e., since the external display is ok, there must be some circuitry between the main logic board and the display that generates the window info for the flat panel display. What I don't know is of what components this circuitry might be comprised, and if it's replaceable separate from the mother board. I don't see how it could be at a later level if the streaks move around with the window. I'm in a remote town in Costa Rica, reachable only by email which I check twice daily (with difficulty). I hope this will make sense to someone who'll know exactly what part I need. thanks, John W. Travis, MD, MPH ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:33:11 -0500 From: Holleran Greenburger Subject: Printing Over an NT Network If it's a fully network-capable printer, simply select it in the chooser like any Apple device, selecting first the Laserwriter driver, then the device. Ex: HP 5000N laser printer, in default mode, can be printed to with those simple steps. For more demanding users, addition of the HP PPDs for that specific printer may be desireable, but by no means required. :-) >> I'm the only Mac on a NT network full of PCs. I'd like to print to the >> network printer from my Starmax 300/180. Is this possible? If so, how do >> I set things up? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Rob >> > >I can tell you that it's possible, because my office is a mixed Mac/PC >network running off Windows NT, and we print to a variety of printers on >the network. How to set it up is beyond my expertise. >-- >Jeff Frankel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 18:02:26 +0100 From: Jacob Palme Subject: Problems with Powerbook G3 and wall projectors I have a Powerbook G3 with a built in 600x800 pixel screen. I have problems connecting it to various wall projectors, which have less resolution than 600x800 pixel. The Powerbook G3 is obviously capable of sending out screen control signals with less resolution than 600x800. When I connect it to a CRT screen, it can do this. But when I connect it to various wall projectors, it refuses to show, in its menu of screen resolutions, anything else than 600x800. Probably, if I could just set it to another resolution and using the external screen only, all would work. The problem is that it does not provide me with this setting option. I have had the same problem with several different kinds of wall projectors and with one system which converted the signal to ordinary television video signals. Can anyone help? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 15:02:49 -0800 From: Dieder Bylsma Subject: Putting back Apple HD Driver on Apple HD How do I go about putting back an Apple HD driver on an HD that was perviously 'taken-over' by another drive formatting utility. Backing up and reinitializing is an unpreferred option since all my 100s of aliases will be broken and will have to be manually fixed. -- Dieder Bylsma | ______________________________| ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 01:30:51 EST From: Luskin@aol.com Subject: questions about archive... How quickly do files get uploaded to the archive. Four files listed today, including info-mac/font/amphiareocaps-font.hqx; 96K] and /info-mac/font/cuzco-regular-font.hqx; 220K] do not seem to be in the AOL version of the archive. Should I look elsewhere? Michael B. Luskin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 20:40:16 -0500 From: abrody@smart.net Subject: running PC games on a G3/233 Powerbook or OrangePC 620 on a Dear Digest readers, I have tried running Douglas Adams StarShip Titanic and EA's John Madden Football 98. I have tried this both with Softwindows 95 version 5.0 on a G3/233 with 30MB given to the Softwindows program, and with OrangePC version 3 on an OrangePC 620 card with 64MB of RAM. Neither allows me to get past the Play Game button. The program abruptly quits upon clicking play game, and gets me back to the Windows 95 desktop. Now I have seen advertisements selling Virtual PC G3 with John Madden 98. Does it work? I don't care how slow it is. How do I get John Madden to work? Would getting a Mac Gravis gamepad make any difference? Similar questions for StarShip Titanic. Is VirtualPC G3 worth it? Does it come with Windows 95 or Windows 98 on disk, or do I have to use a separate copy of Windows 95 or Windows 98? Does Simcity 3000 work on any of these? I hear also that Lego's Mindstorm is compatible with PCs with an infrared transmitter. Does Apple's IrDa on a G3 Powerbook work with the Mindstorm Lego bricks? If the answer to any or all of these is no, then I implore any of you developers who want to make it possible to run these systems to make it possible on a Mac with emulation. I'd be happy to buy the first system that works well for under $200. But it has to work. I do not want to purchase a PC. Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 22:43:12 -0500 From: steina@e-math.ams.org (Alan H. Stein) Subject: Searching with Sherlock I need to find occurrances of a string containing a period, such as index.html, within files on my hard drive. When I enter index.html as the search term, Sherlock finds all files containing either index or html. Is it possible to do any sort of boolean search or a search of a string including special characters such as spaces and periods? -- steina@member.ams.org http://www.alanstein.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 14:05:58 +0100 From: bromo@flashnet.it (Vittorio Barabino) Subject: to stop the control strip > > Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 15:15:14 -0600 > From: "Cody Kleven" > Subject: > > Hello. I was wondering if there was a way to stop the control strip from > moving places on the screen. It seems to keep creeping upwards! Is there a > way to move it or fix this problem? Move it while pressing the option key -- Ciao, \+----------+ "La risposta e' dentro di te... Vittorio --| : ) o | ...MA E' SBAGLIATA!!!" 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