Little Bits
By Andrew Roughan
Copyright (c) 1992 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
o The Alliance International has begun advertising the Apple II in major American magazines. A small advertisement appeared recently in the "National Review". The Alliance is a support group for Apple II owners helping each other. Their mission is to promote and advance the use of the Apple II computer in home, business, education, and other markets. More information can be obtained from the back page of April 1992 "A2-Central" or directly from:
The Alliance International Inc.
P.O. Box 20756
Louisville, KY 40250
o A new Group on the Apple II support front is getting more serious. The European GS Project will try to get Apple IIGS Software and Hardware to European IIGS Owners faster and at less cost to the Europeans. For Hardware and Software developers, this could mean an expansion of their Overseas market. Any Developer or Publisher wanting to take advantage of this new group should contact them at:
The European GS Project
941 Di Giulio Avenue
Santa Clara, CA 95050
o The rumour mill has Alan Bird from Westcode Software developing Multifinder GS. This would be a very interesting accomplishment.
o Burger Bill (who immortalised Tass Times In Tone Town and Tracer Sanction with 'easter eggs') has got his hands full at the moment. Among his many projects are Out Of This World (a port of the Amiga game, Another World), BTIII (Bards Tale 3 maybe?) and BTCS (Bards Tale Construction Set?). Space Harrier and Bouncing Inferno, FTA developments, are apparently being completed by Bill. FTA supposedly sent huge amounts of source code to Joe Kohn (A+ shareware solutions column). Joe forwarded most of it to Burger Bill.
o A tip for GS programmers: If you have a lot of menus, you may not want to make them resource-based in the traditional way (rMenuBar, rMenu, rMenuItem, rPString hierarchy). Consider using rCString resources instead, which you can load, dereference, and feed to NewMenu2 as NewMenu-style strings. This method saves disk space, RAM space, and load time.
o Another tip for those of you playing with rSoundSample resources converted from the Mac: The rSoundSample resources have to have names. You can use the 6.0 call RMSetResourceName from a program, or find a resource editor that lets you assign names. (The names are stored in rResName resources, as documented in Appendix E of Toolbox Ref Volume 3).
o Seven Hills Software continues to avidly support the GS as demonstrated by the recent release of Express. Express, written by our very own Richard Bennett, is a GS/OS print spooler which allows GS users to continue working while
documents are being printed. Under ordinary circumstances one has to wait for printing to finish before moving on. Express is available locally from II Series Software (02)606-9343.
Also be sure to look out for Spectrum, a IIGS-specific telecommunications program, which is rumoured to challenge ProTERM's dominance in the communications field.

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