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Subject: Mixed Bag
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Date: 4 Apr 88 23:40:37 GMT
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Do any Music Studio owners out there have some interesting music?
Activision allegedly has a BBS in California but it doesn't answer.
It is supposed to have technical support, updates, forums, songs and
instruments.

Oh yes,  one thing that is really upsetting is Music Studio CRASHES if you
have a ProGrappler enabled.  So much for printing sheet music.  Yet another
reason to dump this piece of crap.  Does anyone want to buy a relatively
trouble-free ProGrappler for their Apple //e?  The cable doesn't
sit good on the connectors but it works.  I'll lose it for $50, cable
included and manual too.  Sorry, but already sent in the registration
card.  I still have the proof-of-purchase, though.

WANTED: info on Orange Micro's GRAPPLER C/MAC/GS protocol converter.
It is supposed to latch onto your printer's Centronics port and make
it speak  in digestable Imagewriter-compatible chunks through the
GS/C/MAC serial port.

According to a blurb in the Music Studio box,  Paintworks Gold has
EPSON printer drivers for Grappler compatibles for the Apple IIgs.

Has anybody seen ALIEN MIND from PBI software or FIREPOWER by
Microillusions?  The one ad I saw for ALIEN MIND looked a lot
like ALIENS (the movie) with all kinds of weapon options.  I am
suspicious of PBI because they have released junk so far in terms
of playable GS games.  I have heard that FIREPOWER for the Amiga
is pretty awesome and can be played through the Modem.  I am hoping
that the GS version will be the next Thexder for us.

On another tangent, is it true that there is a Apple ][ Plus version
of Flight Simulator that has play-by-modem built into it?  I heard
another rumor that subLOGIC is getting an Apple //GS version out
pretty soon.  While we are on the topic of flight simulators, what
is EOA's Chuck Yeagers Advanced Flight Trainer like?  Also,  Sierra
On-Line has something for the GS called 3D HELICOPTER SIMULATOR,
which I haven't seen around yet.

 Dave Seah --- Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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