Little Bits
By Andrew Roughan
Copyright (c) 1997 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
o Yes, an Apple IIgs is serving web pages - check it out at http://www.stolaf.edu/people/handel and then click on "Check out my web page, served from my Apple IIGS!". Note that it's only up from 11am to 11pm CST (4am - 4pm Sydney time?).
o Yes, there is now a web browser available for the Apple IIgs. See the announcement from Seven Hills about their Spectrum Internet Suite elsewhere in this magazine. Initial reports are that the functionality is equivalent to Netscape in 'graphics off' mode. Apparently the downloading and rendering of JPEG graphics would just make the experience too slow.
o The Apple IIgs SIG is currently without a meeting place. The BBS will have the latest information. Make sure you check it, or call me, before turning up on Monday 12th May. If we do manage to find a venue then I plan to do a demonstration of the Spectrum Internet Suite.
o Softdisk G-S, a magazine and programs on disk for the Apple IIgs, has announced that issue #82 will be the last issue. Softdisk G-S published programs that were exclusively developed for it. There has been no word on whether or not back issues will continue to be available or whether their programs will be reclassified for general distribution. Softdisk G-S paid good money to developers for programs and as such their passing may be a loss of incentive for those developers.
o An Apple IIgs demonstration, NinjaForce's MegaDemo, has taken out first place in the Wild category (use any hardware) of the German demoscene event, the Mekka/Symposium '97. This annual event which was held over Easter this year, drew 600 people to witness the cream of computer aided music composition, graphics, videos, "intros" and "demos".
http://www.space.ch/scene/meksym97

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