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Info-Mac Digest             Wed, 16 Jun 99       Volume 16 : Issue 312

Today's Topics:

      [*] TidBITS#485/14-Jun-99
      
      (Q) Remote Access and Applescript from 8.6 on 7.6?
      [A] Speeding Up a PM 6100
      [Q] QuickTime MIDI Tool?
      [Q] Trouble reading archives
      [Q]Upgrading my PowerBook 550c
      DiamondPro 900u Query
      macosX versus AppleTalkIP(q)
      True Type Fonts

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:00:00 -0700
From: TidBITS Editors <editors@tidbits.com>
Subject: [*] TidBITS#485/14-Jun-99

TidBITS#485/14-Jun-99

It's summer in the U.S., which means many kids are out of school. Why not=
 use the time to teach them programming? Matt Neuburg reviews Stagecast=
 Creator, a visual programming environment geared toward kids but=
 entertaining enough for adults. Plus, Adam suggests an alternative to=
 Apple's confusing naming schemes, and we note the release of QuickTime 4.0=
 and updates to FileMaker Pro and Synchronize Pro. Finally, you can now read=
 TidBITS in Russian!=20

Topics:
    MailBITS/14-Jun-99
    Macintosh Model Implosion: What's in a Name?
    All the World's a Stagecast

<http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-485.html>
<ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/issues/1999/TidBITS#485_14-Jun-99.etx>

[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-485.etx; 30K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:12:31 -0700
From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
Subject: 

I am experiencing an interesting problem:  when a window is closed, it
drops all the way to the back and sits for about 2 seconds before going
away (OS 8.6).  This only started after upgrading to 8.6.  Mac Fixit
reports:

Slow screen redrawing If a desktop picture is redrawn slowly after closing
a window, your computer  might be running low on memory. Set the Appearance
control panel to display a pattern, instead of a picture, to speed up the
redrawing process.

I generally have about 40 Mb free so I don't think thats the issue.
However, I did notice that Finder shows 0 free space.  So I am wondering if
that might be causing part of the problem  How do you increase the memory
allocation for Finder?  It doesn't have the normal Command-I features.

-- Doug

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:45:29 -0400
From: a brody <abrody@smart.net>
Subject: (Q) Remote Access and Applescript from 8.6 on 7.6?

Dear Digest readers,
Has anyone tried to take the Remote Access installation from System 8.6 and
use the same files on 7.6 on a 68k Mac?   Similarly has anyone tried to do
the same with Applescript?

I would like to make one common installation for Remote Access to use as
dialup instead of PPP if possible.

So the real questions are:

What is the earliest MacOS version that Applescript 1.3.7, and
ApplescriptLib 1.2.2 will work on?
Is an installation from PPC going to work on a 68k Mac?  If not, which
Applescript file do I need to get from Apple that will do both?

What is the earliest MacOS version that ARA 3.1.2 will work on?
What is the earliest 68k Mac that it will work on if at all?

I seem to remember Applescript required Thread Manager on certain machines.
Which ones are those, is this OS dependent or machine type dependent?

Thank you.
Sincerely,
abrody@smart.net

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:10:21 -0500
From: Tim Rueger <trueger%csparc109@crystal.cirrus.com>
Subject: [A] Speeding Up a PM 6100

> Im considering a speedup to my 6100 by 
> upgrading the CPU and or Disk.
>  
> CPU: people have reported that they are "tricky"
> to install. Does that mean it was mechanically
> difficult, or was there all sort of software
> conflicts which had to be sorted out?
>  
> Any experiences or recommendations for a PM 6100?

To boost the CPU speed (short of a G3 upgrade), I'd max out the memory,
and add a 1 megabyte level-2 cache module.  I got mine from the L2 Cache
Company ($79 for a 60MHz machine, $89 otherwise):

    http://www.mindspring.com/~l2co/home.html

The L2 cache, in particular, was a big win.  Don't bother with a 256K
cache - go for the 1M.

The 6100's video memory is in main memory (not a good architectural
decision on Apple's part), but that means video speed is boosted a lot
with the L2 cache.

I turned a pretty unusable 6100 into a nicely snappy machine this way.
It'll even play Ambrosia's Mars Rising reasonably (it was laughingly
slow before the cache upgrade).

Hope this helps...
-Tim
-- 
Tim Rueger             Crystal Semiconductor
Phone: (512) 912-3420  4210 S. Industrial Dr., Austin, TX 78744
Fax:   (512) 445-2831  Email: trueger@crystal.cirrus.com

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:43:52 -0600
From: Jon Fullmer <jon@soft-link.com>
Subject: [Q] QuickTime MIDI Tool?

Hi-diddly ho, Info-Mac!

I'm trying to find a program that will allow me to put together a QuickTime
MIDI file using QuickTime Musical Instruments.  I have sufficient MIDI
sequencing tools, but I would like to find something that will specifically
allow me to access the instruments in QuickTime (preferrably QT3) and punch
out a tune.  Any thoughts?

  -- Jon Fullmer

-----------------------------
The package said: "Requires Windows 95 or better," so I bought a Mac.

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:07:34 -0700
From: Chris Schram <schram@mail.coos.or.us>
Subject: [Q] Trouble reading archives

On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Ken Laskey <kenneth.j.laskey@cpmx.saic.com> wrote:

[snippage]

>Now to make matters worse, I haven't gotten Info-Mac issues 308 or any
>thereafter.  So if you have any suggestions, please send these to me
>directly while I check for subscription problems.

Uh Oh! I also have not gotten issues 308+ in my email, though they are
still showing up in comp.sys.mac.digest. Something must be broken.

I said "Uh Oh" because I just sent in another subscription request. Now
I'm concerned that I may soon be getting duplicate issues.

Chris Schram schram@mail.coos.or.us http://www.coos.or.us/~schram/Chris/

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:23:51 +0900
From: tamura-t@tokyo.shinko-elec.co.jp
Subject: [Q]Upgrading my PowerBook 550c

Hi Listers,

I use PowerBook 550c with 68040 CPU. And I am thinking of upgrading my Book
to PowerPC by upgrading kit, since I found some in local market.

Here's a question; I mainly use my Book for Internet(e-mail, www, simple
web-authoring), simple photo-retouching, word processing and spreadsheets.
Not much complicated photo-retouching and 3D stuffs.
Is it good idea for me to upgrade my Book to PPC, or stick with current CPU?
I am not sure whether upgrading is effective for me or not.

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Regards,
Tomy

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Tomoyuki "Tomy" Tamura
Shinko Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
E-Mail: mailto:tamura-t@tokyo.shinko-elec.co.jp
Private Website URL: http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~tomyt
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 00:19:25 -0400
From: "Milad Doueihi" <miladus@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: DiamondPro 900u Query

We own a Ge 350 and it has been connected to a DiamondPro 900u.  The monitor
was supposed to be USB, but we had to plug it in the back of the G3.  It had
been running fine for 3 months, but tonight, it started crashing every 15
minutes or so.  We get the following message:
Signal Frequency out of Range FH>137 ok Hz
FY D149 Please change signal timing.

Any ideas or suggestions?  I contacted Mitsubishi, but so far no help yet.

many thanks in adavce.

Miladus

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:16:01 -0700
From: David L Hirschberg <daneel@stanford.edu>
Subject: macosX versus AppleTalkIP(q)

Hi,

I am in the process of setting up a G3 server that is going to 
support about 50 Macs (10 of them imacs). We basically will use it as 
a file server but I also want to set up a web site and provide ftp, 
IMAP email and smtp  and DNS services.  I would also like to log in 
and do updates remotely by IP.

AppletalkIP or MacOSX with a program like communigate running?  What 
are the pros and cons of each?

Thanks, David
daneel@stanford.edu

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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 00:23:58 -0700
From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
Subject: True Type Fonts

There are a number of True Type fonts available on the web and appear to be
configured for windows xx.  The files are usually zipped.  When opend up
they have names of the form xxxx.ttf.  Is there a way to conver t these to
Mac font suitcases?

-- Doug

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