[Blindapple] dosBox and MegaDots and keyNote gold multimedia

Wed Jul 5 22:28:19 EDT 2017

hi

does anyone have full copies of megaDots and keynote gold multimedia for 
talking dosbox?

On 7/5/2017 9:23 PM, Tom Brennan wrote:
> Used to have a print-it card which I found really useful with an Echo gp when I
> couldn't get a program to talk any other way.  It died on me but I sure would
> like to find another one.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, Jayson Smith wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yes, my emulation works just like a real Apple in all respects except
>> that it's not real, and has no physical disk drives, etc. It emulates
>> the Echo synthesizer, and Textalker loads and runs just like it does on
>> a real Apple. I can enter any Applesoft, Integer, Monitor commands just
>> as on a real Apple.
>>
>> I do have a Doubletalk board, got it for Christmas in 2004 when RC
>> Systems was selling them for $30 or so. The Doubletalk Utilities disk
>> that came with my board was actually defective, so someone else on this
>> list imaged theirs and sent it to me. It's a 5.25 disk with a few
>> programs, some LPC files for the TMS chip, and some music files for the
>> tone generators. Do you have other stuff for the Doubletalk?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jayson
>>
>> On 7/5/2017 4:52 AM, Tom Brennan wrote:
>>> Hi Jayson.
>>>
>>> I've got the cffa already set up.  In fact, I have the remote switch for
>>> changing without rebooting.  Just need to start imaging some stuff.
>>>
>>> Things like the Franklin and Laser and some of the Beagle Brothers disks have
>>> altered operating systems and write differently than the Apple on tracks 0 and 1
>>> so I'm not sure if I could get you them any way but on a physical disk.
>>> However, some of the utilities are quite useful.
>>>
>>> Can you run exec files?  Have lots of handy exec utilities but the memory will
>>> need to be mapped the same way it is on a physical Apple so peeks and pokes work
>>> normally with normal addresses .  You'll probably also need to do direct calls
>>> and have 'mon c i o' functional in your emulation.  Also, need to know if you
>>> can directly write hex or other machine code directly in emulation.  I've not
>>> used the emulation programs as I have physical machines available to me.  Think
>>> I even still have a working //+ back there somewhere.  Had a //c but its board
>>> has gone south.  Still have a Cricket and its software and that will run on my
>>> Laser.
>>>
>>> Actually, also have lots of old apple books from manuals to assembly stuff to
>>> cracking texts and even some old books listing pd software.
>>>
>>> I also have a Doubletalk and all its software if you have access.  Some
>>> interesting stuff in there but you have to have a Doubletalk to use it.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>>> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>>>
>>> On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, Jayson Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Okay, here's info about how to image disks with a CFFA3000. First, if
>>>> you haven't already, install the card into a slot. Personally I use slot
>>>> 1, because that won't mess up the GS startup scan behavior. 5.25 and 3.5
>>>> disks will boot, and the CFFA will only boot if nothing is in any other
>>>> bootable drive. That said, wherever you install the card, that slot
>>>> needs to be set to "Your Card" in the Control Panel.
>>>>
>>>> Next you may need to adjust a dip switch. I'm not sure if this is
>>>> necessary, but if the card doesn't think it's running on an IIgs, it
>>>> probably won't show the desk accessory we're about to use.
>>>>
>>>> With the card installed, and looking at the opposite edge of the card
>>>> than where it connects to the GS slot, around midway from front to back,
>>>> near the very top of the card, there's a block of eight dip switches.
>>>> They are numbered from back to front, 1 through 8. If a switch faces the
>>>> left, it's on, if it faces the right, it's off. You need to turn switch
>>>> 7 on. This tells the card to use code intended for an IIgs.
>>>>
>>>> Next, plug a USB thumb drive into the USB port on the front of the card.
>>>> Feel free to use a USB extension and run it out the back of the GS if
>>>> you want, that's what I do so I can easily remove it without having to
>>>> open the GS. Note that the CFFA3000 does support Compact Flash cards,
>>>> but I've only ever used that function to migrate from an old MicroDrive
>>>> CF card to a USB thumb drive. Now close the computer, and boot a
>>>> Textalker-GS disk!
>>>>
>>>> Whenever the disk comes to a stopping point, hit Ctrl+Apple+Escape to
>>>> open the desk accessory menu, hit Down arrow until you hear CFFA3000,
>>>> then hit Return. Now hit 5 to select the Import from Disk option, then
>>>> hit Return. Textalker-GS will say a number. At this point, it wants the
>>>> slot from which you're imaging, so enter that number and press Return.
>>>> Now it wants the drive number, 1 or 2, so enter that and press Return.
>>>> If you're trying to image from a smartport device and there's no disk in
>>>> that drive, it'll beep at this point and return you to the main menu,
>>>> with the correct option still selected so just hit Return to try again
>>>> with entering the slot and drive.
>>>>
>>>> If it finds a disk or you're imaging a 5.25 disk where it can't tell if
>>>> there's a disk in the drive, it'll ask for a filename. It will offer a
>>>> mostly useless suggestion of DISKNNNN where NNNN is a sequence number.
>>>> Hit Delete until it beeps, then type in a new name, maximum of eight
>>>> characters. It will fill in the extension for you, .DSK for 5.25 disks,
>>>> .PO for 3.5 disks.
>>>>
>>>> Now make sure the disk you want to image is in the correct drive and hit
>>>> Return. It should now go about its business imaging the disk. The
>>>> imaging of 5.25 disks is very fast, when it starts it sounds like the
>>>> 5.25 drive is booting. 3.5 disks will take longer, but this can be
>>>> decreased somewhat if you have DiversiCache installed.
>>>>
>>>> When it's done, use your Textalker-GS review to look at the screen. Hold
>>>> down Ctrl and hit 7 on the num pad a few times. It should say it
>>>> finished. Keep holding down Ctrl and hit 7 a few more times, if there
>>>> were any bad blocks, it'll tell you.
>>>>
>>>> Now hit Return to return to the main menu. If you want to image another
>>>> disk, you can just hit Return again, since that option is still
>>>> selected. If the new disk is from the same slot and drive, you can hit
>>>> Return twice more, since it remembers the last slot and drive you used.
>>>> Then you'll need to delete the suggested name and enter one of your own,
>>>> insert the disk, hit Return, and away you go again.
>>>>
>>>> When you're done imaging disks, from the main CFFA3000 menu, hit Escape,
>>>> Return, to go back to the desk accessory menu, then Escape, Return again
>>>> to return to whatever program was running.
>>>>
>>>> If you are able to download files from the Internet and get them to a
>>>> Windows machine, a program you will definitely want is CiderPress. It is
>>>> an indispensable tool for managing disk images and files, copying,
>>>> deleting, creating new images, extracting text or Applesoft/Integer
>>>> Basic listings, etc.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>>
>>>> Jayson
>>>>
>>>> On 7/5/2017 2:38 AM, Tom Brennan wrote:
>>>>> Now that I think of it, I have a master disk for the old Franklin 1000 series
>>>>> which has some slightly different stuff from Apple's stuff that they did so they
>>>>> didn't have as many copyright problems.  Its copy.obj loads differently and its
>>>>> intbasic also loads differently.  Also havesome of the old Beagle Brothers stuff
>>>>> which was some really nice tools for manipulating things.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tom
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>>>>> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, Tom Brennan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> nFor simple stuff like workstation I could tell you the crack and just send that
>>>>>> on a plain disk and let you modify your init command by changing, for example,
>>>>>> a47505 and a48302 r4om 222 to 223 or could send you exec files to make the
>>>>>> patches for you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tom
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>>>>>> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, Jayson Smith wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Okay, a few more questions. Do you have a USB thumb drive you could fill
>>>>>>> with disk images, then mail to me? Do you have a copy of Textalker-GS?
>>>>>>> If so, I can definitely show you how to use your CFFA3000 to image
>>>>>>> standard format 5.25 and 3.5 disks. By standard format, for 3.5 disks, I
>>>>>>> mean 80 tracks, 1600 blocks. For 5.25 disks, I mean 35 tracks, 16
>>>>>>> sectors/8 ProDOS blocks per track, no funny business like copy
>>>>>>> protection, etc. Like I said, I don't know of a way to read 13-sector
>>>>>>> disks, but if you have some stuff on them, there's probably a way.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Let me know if this would work.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jayson
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 7/4/2017 9:31 PM, Tom Brennan wrote:
>>>>>>>> I am using da shell through a university but they've blocked zmodem, xmodem,
>>>>>>>> ymodem, kermit, and ftp so I really can't upload anything into it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have a //gs but somewhere I do have a super serial.  Also have a Laser 128ex.
>>>>>>>> Have an old win98 machine and an xp machine but no internet for them.  Have a
>>>>>>>> running dos machine but no internet for it.  I'm typing on a Mac right now.  I
>>>>>>>> do have a cfa3000 but have never messed with it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> kTom
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>>>>>>>> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, 4 Jul 2017, Jayson Smith wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I noticed through the message ID of your message that you're using Pine.
>>>>>>>>> Are you using a dial-up shell account? If so, I could probably find a
>>>>>>>>> modem somewhere (believe it or not, there are USB modems now) and you
>>>>>>>>> could send disk images, archives, etc. directly to me, just as in the
>>>>>>>>> olden days, lol!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Before I continue, I want to say, please don't be offended by any of the
>>>>>>>>> following questions, I truly don't know what type of equipment you have.
>>>>>>>>> Do you have a Windows PC or just DOS? Do you have a CFFA3000 on any of
>>>>>>>>> your Apples? If not, do any of your Apples have a Super Serial card or a
>>>>>>>>> hardware compatible? As I said earlier, the IIc serial ports are
>>>>>>>>> compatible, the IIgs ports are not.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I would be glad to image disks you send me, but I really don't want to
>>>>>>>>> have you send me your only copies of stuff through the mail, just in
>>>>>>>>> case something happened to them. You might literally have the only
>>>>>>>>> remaining copies of some of this stuff. Do you have enough blank/spare
>>>>>>>>> floppy disks that you could make copies of stuff to send to me?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm just trying to figure out a way to get this stuff archived and
>>>>>>>>> preserved. The standard Apple 5.25 .dsk image is 140K, 35 tracks, 16
>>>>>>>>> sectors. I don't know of a disk image format specific to DOS 3.2
>>>>>>>>> 13-sector disks, or any other oddball disk format.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Jayson
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 7/4/2017 12:07 AM, Tom Brennan wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Jason, I have an odd situation.  I can't upload any stuff with the isp I'm
>>>>>>>>>> using.  If you can read them we can talk about my directly sending you either
>>>>>>>>>> 3.5 or 5.25 disks of programs themselves.  Have v3.0 and 3.1 of DOS as well as
>>>>>>>>>> several versions of prodos and the gsos Davex version of DOS that APH did.  Also
>>>>>>>>>> have pascal, graforth, pilot, cp/m, and several other operating systems for the
>>>>>>>>>> Apple.  Even have a version of logo I modified to sort of talk although that's
>>>>>>>>>> obviously kind of silly.  Got a lot of that stuff boxed up but can probably dig
>>>>>>>>>> it out.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> If anyone's got it, I'm looking for the version of wlrd.talk that was written
>>>>>>>>>> for the pc.  Have I think v3.1 for the Apple but would really like to have the
>>>>>>>>>> pc version.  Used to have it but it seems to have gotten lost.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Tom
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>>>>>>>>>> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, Jayson Smith wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I would love, love, love to get my hands on images of software you have,
>>>>>>>>>>> as you probably have some treasures. I hope this can happen somehow,
>>>>>>>>>>> sometime.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Jayson
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 7/3/2017 4:02 PM, Tom Brennan wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Welcome to the list, Jeff.  I fondly remember the magazine and still have
>>>>>>>>>>>> several of its disks along with lots of programs that came from it.  Still run
>>>>>>>>>>>> that stuff on my Apple and Laser computers.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Tom
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>>>>>>>>>>>> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, Jeff Weiss wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> My name is Jeff Weiss and I just joined the blind apple list.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I used to publish a disk magazine for blind Apple users originally called
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Apple Talk.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Due to a problem with licensing Dos for the magazine, I later changed the name to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> A-Talk.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> First, how do I read the archives?  I downloaded some files that end with .gz.  I guess this is some type of zip file, but where can I get the program to unzip the files?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> My next question is how do most of you boot your apple disks on the pc?  I have started launching mine with batch files, which makes the process much easier than typing out the entire launch commands.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Also, I think Jason said that there are additional disk images available.  Are they available for download, or directly from Jason?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> That's enough for now, and I look forward to comments from other list members.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jeff Weiss
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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