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Subject: Re: //GS compatability
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Date: Mon, 16-Mar-87 10:15:00 EST
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Don't dispair.  You are expressing the same feelings I have last December
about my upgrade, but everything works out okay. 

Re communications software:  I am using Mousetalk which is fully compatible
with the GS serial ports.  It is part of the AE Pro family from United
Software.  I understand there is a new package coming out from someone
named Greg Schafer (sp?) which is also GS compatible and includes Kermit.
Can't give you any pointers to that package.

Re cable for GS serial port to Hayes:  use a standard Apple cable (or make
one yourself).  The way Apple has designed the serial ports lets them work
like RS-232.  If you get the Apple cable for connecting an Imagewriter
printer to the Super Serial Card, it will work right out of the box.  That
is what I am running on now.

Re word processing software:  I have both Appleworks and Word Perfect.  I
find that I favor Appleworks because it is so friendly and mucho faster
than Word Perfect.

Re software development tools:  join APDA (Apple Programmer's and
Developer's Association). Phone: 206-251-6548.  My experience has been that
they are terribly backlogged.  Options:  use Apple APW shell or get Byte
Works Orca/M for the GS.  TML Pascal for the GS is (theoretically) shipping
as of last Friday (3/13).  Megamax reportedly is working up a C compiler,
but it is not ready yet.

If you are hot to start C programming, get both Byte Works Orca/GS shell and
Orca/M (version 4.1 is current).  Their Small-C compiler is a nifty subset
of C (integer only, but I don't really find that much of an inconvience).
You could then run the 8-bit shell under the 16-bit shell, which is nice
if you have a hard disk, but cumbersome otherwise.

Bud

P.S., I hope I addressed all the issues in your message.  Also, I have no
connection with companies mentioned above, except as a customer.

PPS, Byte Works is in Albuquerque NM.  I have never found a company more
supportive of their customer base than Byte Works.