GREYELF@WPI.BITNET (03/30/89)
>Which makes me wonder: what is happening out there right now? I am intensely >interested in hearing what wonderful things people are working on in their >spare time. > - Andy Nicolas has just recently made big splash with ShrinkIt. > - Dave Lyons has put out a number of wonderful programs, topped off > with that most wonderful of all utilities, Nifty List. > - Scott Lindsey tossed of a little integrated package now being > published by Claris. > - I myself have written a memory resident disk editor in the spirit > of Watson and The Inspector, and have also written an online help > system for BASIC.SYSTEM (it would describe commands, explain why the > error that just occured did so, had a built-in calculator, number > base converter, notepad, and calender...all available in their own > little text windows by holding down Open-Apple and another key). >What else are people working on? What other gems can we find in the dark >corners of people's hard disks and floppies? I think that if we get some ideas >flowing, we could start a new generation of "neat hacks" that made the Apple >II the coolest computer a person could possibly have! >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Keith Rollin --- Apple Computer, Inc. --- Developer Technical Support >INTERNET: keith@apple.com > UUCP: :decwrl, hoptoad, nsc, sun, amdahl:!apple!keith >"Argue for your Apple, and sure enough, it's yours" - Keith Rollin, Contusions Well Keith, one of us just came up with disk-based commands for the apple, and just sent off a multitasking driver to apple2-l that can process background tasks, at minimal slowdown of the processor, and in addition to only requiring .5 K for itself and its buffers, doesn't require the person writing a task for it to know a thing about multitasking or interrupt drivers. Anybody tried Daemon yet? -- Michael J Pender Jr Box 1942 c/o W.P.I. I wrote SHELL and Daemon, greyelf@wpi.bitnet 100 Institute Rd. send bug reports, suggestions, greyelf@wpi.wpi.com Worcester, Ma 01609 checks to me. P.S. I help people too.
shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley) (04/04/89)
>>Which makes me wonder: what is happening out there right now? I am intensely >>interested in hearing what wonderful things people are working on in their >>spare time. >> >[...] >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>Keith Rollin --- Apple Computer, Inc. --- Developer Technical Support >>INTERNET: keith@apple.com >> UUCP: :decwrl, hoptoad, nsc, sun, amdahl:!apple!keith >>"Argue for your Apple, and sure enough, it's yours" - Keith Rollin, Contusions > Heh. I guess you could say I'm obsessed with working on my Apple IIgs 65816-assembly-coded BBS. I've been working on the BBS since 1985, when I had it in 6502 under DOS 3.3 on an enhanced Apple //e with a California Peripherals clock card and two Unidisk 3.5 drives. It went to 65C02 under ProDOS, from the S-C Assembler to Merlin Pro, and it's been under ProDOS in 65816 (via the Byte Works ORCA/M macro assembler), completely ProDOS 16 capable, for over a year now. It makes use of the Apple IIgs clock and interrupts, which allowed me to get rid of the clock card... :-) But lately? I'm never done with it. I work on it because it's fun, and because I have this underlying suspicion that a changing BBS is good for the users too. I'm always working on several parts of it at once. It's a topic-oriented BBS with an online game. The system is single-user, mainly because I have friends that can't afford the hardware I have but want to be able to use the BBS on their Apple IIgs machines, so I keep it to a certain memory and disk space requirement. Right now, with the BBS I'm working on: o Networking. o Expanded file transfer ability (although the U/D section is mainly programmer-oriented; I don't want it to become a U/D BBS). o Game modifications that are beyond the scope of this message... :-) o General Feeping Creaturism additions. If you're ever interested in what exactly it consists of at this time, give it a call at 612/933-6427. It's pretty busy, as I have about 150 regular users, but it's easier to get on during weekends. UUCP: {uunet!rosevax, amdahl!bungia, chinet, killer}!orbit!pnet51!shawn INET: shawn@pnet51.cts.com