Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!hoss!hoss.unl.edu!greg
From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Hammer T. H.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: a talk with an apple person....
Message-ID: <1990Nov23.203757.3532@hoss.unl.edu>
Date: 23 Nov 90 20:37:57 GMT
References: <1990Nov17.052755.29141@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Sender: news@hoss.unl.edu (Network News Administer)
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lines: 32

In <1990Nov17.052755.29141@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> rtyu@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Rafael T Yu) writes:


>   Well, Since I got my GS I haven't used my IIe softwares at all, exept for
>AppleWorks and Proterm.  So I can hardly believe that only 5% of GS users use
>GS-specific softwares.

Hmm, myself, I've been using mostly //e software, but a very limited
library thereof.  I run ProTERM, several packing programs, and a BBS
running in ACOS (same OS that GBBS "Pro" uses).  I've found that one can
make real simple modifications to programs that were in DOS 3.3 that
wouldn't run in ProDOS (due to size mostly) and be able to use GS
techniques (temporarily relocating them in upper banks of memory with a
little code) to get them to work.  In fact, I'm about to rewrite the ACOS
ProTERM video driver so that it is located in an upper bank of memory, and
will recognize more ProTERM codes than it does.

But I assure you, the moment I get myself a hard drive (still on a 3.5"
and 5.25" and 1 MB RAMdisk) I'll be using GS specific software more
often.

>==============================================================================
>               Rafael Yu
>               Internet:    rtyu@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu
>               America Online:   Veraguas
>==============================================================================

--
     __  _____________  __
     \ \_\ \__   __/ /_/ /    "I'm working the Eight Minus Zero Shift..."
      \greg@hoss.unl.edu/     "Eight Minus Zero Shift?"
       \_\ \_\|_|/_/ /_/      "Yup, the Happiness Patrol."