Path: news1.icaen!news.uiowa.edu!NewsNG.Chicago.Qual.Net!jamie!Qual.Net!nyd.news.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!news.idt.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!205.139.74.16!news.nccn.net!news From: tws Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: CSA2 Software/Hardware in Development FAQ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 13:22:11 -0700 Organization: Nevada County Community Network Lines: 194 Message-ID: <358AC872.440167BC@nccn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.139.74.231 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) Xref: news1.icaen comp.sys.apple2:135794 CSA2 "Apple II Software/Hardware in Development" FAQ Name--------------Function---------Author Software: 1)Marinetti-------TCP/IP for IIgs--Richard Bennet 2)The Mailbox-----POP3/SMTP E-mail-Jeff Blakeney 3)Newstand*-------News Reader------Who? 4)TheFileCabinet*-Ftp Client-------Who? 5)GS-cript--------GS/OS scripting--???? 6)??????----------Not Known--------Asking permission to post. 7)Twilight II-----Screensaver------Nathan Mates 8)Wolf 3D---------3D! Game--------Eric Sheppard Name--------------Function---------Author Hardware: 9)Number Cruncer--Co-processorCard-Andreas Schmidt A)Ethernet Card---Ethernet---------???? B)XXXXX-----------NOT IDE or SCSI--see Note C)GSupgrade-------Upgrade The GS---IIgs users D)ZipAcc. I-------Plain vapourware-Joachim Lange E)ZipAcc. II------Plain vapourware-Joachim Lange F)Mass storage----Plain Vapourware-Joachim Lange Name--------------Function---------Author Brief information. See webpages for more. 1) Marinetti is being coded by Richard Bennet. It is a TCP/IP CDEV for the Apple IIgs. PPP is being worked on. See Richard's page for more info. You can download the beta of Marinetti from the page, as well as a developer kit. This is/will be an EXTREMELY useful software! Marinetti Webpage http://www.zip.com.au/~kashum/marinetti/ 2) The Mailbox (name may change before release) Is being written by Jeff Blakeney. It is a POP3/SMTP E-mail client for use with the "New" (PPP) Marinetti. Screenshots will be posted to Comp.sys.apple2.binaries (right, Jeff? :) This will be an EXTREMELY useful software! Jeff Blakeney's Webpage: What is it? 3) Newstand* News reader. Jeff Blakeney mentioned wanting to create this program (if he ever has time) This may be in development. Does anyone have information? 4) TheFileCabinet* Ftp Client. Jeff Blakeney mentioned wanting to create this program (if he ever has time) This may be in development. Does anyone have information? 5) GS-cript: GS/OS scripting. No information is available on this software yet. There won't be a page for this software 6) ??????: I better ask the person who told me they were working on this SOFTWARE project before I post their name. The Name/Function are not known. I just know that the person is working on a GS project. Webpage pending permission (webpage has no info about this project) 7) Twilight II: Nathan Mates did some update on the Twilight II Screensaver. It is supposed to work with Telecommunications programs without interfering with them (I haven't tried this). It is a very nice program. It is only available to Delphi online service subscribers. It is not available to CSA2 or the internet. Information on this can be found at: http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/ Twilight II Webpage http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/t2/index.html 8) Wolfenstein 3D: Eric Sheppard already completed Wolf 3D. It is an Awesome software for the IIgs. It is a 3D-Shoot the Nazi's game. Wolfenstein 3d GS Webpage http://www.sheppyware.ml.org/software/wolf3d_gs/index.html 9) Number Cruncher: This is a Co-Processor for the Apple II. It supports the FPE SANE patch for speeding up any program that does floating point calculations. You can use any 68881 or 882 in a ceramic package that runs at least 10 Mhz. The NC runs at this speed (more is not necessary since the slot I/O is the bottleneck). The NumberCruncher card is not available at the moment, but the makers are working on a new series. The price isn't set yet. NumberCruncher Webpage http://www.mech.mb.uni-dortmund.de/mech/Dirk/NC.html A) Ethernet Card: The page Apple2.org is Tony Diaz's site. He is NOT (to my knowledge) the person creating the Apple II Ethernet card. Information about Apple Inc's CANCELED project to create an Apple II Ethernet card can be found here. No information is known by me as to the creator of the Ethernet card mentioned. Info on Apple Inc's CANCELED project can be found at: apple2.org B) XXXXX: This is a peripheral card that may be a hoax. It was mentioned on CSA2 by Sönke Behrens. Read information below: >Hi, > >I have received a "teaser" e-mail about some new hardware that's >to be released for the Apple IIgs. I got a picture (which tells >me very little), and a note that: > > There will be a new add-on card for the Apple IIgs > More info earliest April-May 1998 > The card could be quite interesting to "certain" people > It won't be a SCSI or IDE adapter > >Weird. I'm waiting to hear more, anyway :). For a look at the >picture, go to my home page: http://www.arrowweb.com/sbehrens/ > (Sönke Behrens) A picture of this supposed card can be found at: http://www.arrowweb.com/sbehrens/ C) GSupgrade: Mike Morton set up a "Save the Apple IIgs" web page. There will soon be a message board added to the site. The current "goal" is to buy the rights to the IIgs from Apple Inc. *I* don't think this is feasible. ADB and other things in the IIgs are still used in the Macintosh today. It would cost $$$$$$$$ to buy or license the rights to these things. Once the Message board is put on Mike Mortons page, lets discuss creation of hardware to ADD to the GS to upgrade it. "Save the Apple IIgs" Webpage http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/nelson/128/savea2gs.html D) ZIP GS Accessory I: Check Joachim Lange's page. This is a Planned project SHH Systeme's Webpage http://users.ids.net/~kerwood/shh.html E) Zip GS Accessory II: Check Joachim Lange's page. This is a Planned project SHH Systeme's Webpage http://users.ids.net/~kerwood/shh.html F) Mass storage: Check Joachim Lange's page. This is a Planned project SHH Systeme's Webpage http://users.ids.net/~kerwood/shh.html THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES THAT THE PROJECTS MENTIONED HERE WILL EVER BE COMPLETED OR RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC. ALL INFORMATION THAT IS KNOWN BY ME HAS BEEN INCLUDED IN THIS ARTICLE. MORE INFORMATION WILL BE POSTED AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE. If you are developing something for the Apple II, Let me know so I can add it to the list. If you have corrections/additions to the information contained in this article, please let me know.