Little Bits
By Andrew Roughan
Copyright (c) 1995 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
o At the September meeting, Richard Bennett very kindly demonstrated his SecondSight VGA card. This new peripheral allows an IBM style VGA monitor to be connected to an Apple IIe or IIgs. A number of new screen resolutions are supported by the card as well as more colours. All who attended were amazed that the images we saw were being generated by an Apple IIgs! The GIF images looked fantastic on the VGA screen. The text character set could take some getting used to but the lack of black horizontal lines in the display will soon make you wonder how you ever managed to use an Apple RBG display!
A number of developers are working on supporting the SecondSight with their software, so this card is destined to become as necessary as an accelerator. The QuickDraw patch in progress will allow properly written software to take advantage of the SecondSight without specific updates. For example, Apple's own Finder could have double the vertical resolution.
o The Apple II BBS has been unoperational for an extended period of time due to a hard disk crash. We have been waiting for a new hard disk to be purchased and installed. Unfortunately the backup could not be fully restored and the message base has been lost.
o KFest 1996 is officially on the calendar at Avila College. Mark your calendars now for July 17-21, 1996 and plan on being there.
o discQuest has been upgraded for the Second Sight! The update is available free of charge to registered owners. Contact Florence on 303-666-4549, (303-665-0933 fax) with your copy's serial number (found on the original disk).
o ByteWorks have announced that they are able to put pretty much any Apple II technical information back in print, so long as it was developed at Apple and published by Apple and not Addison-Wesley. So, if there's an Apple II publication you want to see available again, let Mike know. If he can find a copy to use as a master, and there are at least 10 people interested in buying the product, he'll try to put it back in print.
Mike Westerfield
Byte Works, Inc.
8000 Wagon Mound Dr. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87120
Internet: MikeW50@AOL.COM
505-898-8183 phone
o TimeOut Shrinkit Plus will soon have a version for AppleWorks 5.0. Also, O.P.Software is very close to releasing its new TimeOut Statistics package. This application will be compatible with AppleWorks 3.0 through 5.1.
For more information contact:
D.GUM@GENIE.COM
o The telnet method of connecting to GEnie through the hermes.merit.edu host has been terminated due to security concerns. info@genie.com assures me that once the security issues are resolved telnet access to GEnie will again be made available.

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