Little Bits
By Sean Craig
Copyright (c) 1993 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
o For all you Infocom fans, Big Red Computer Club have released 'The Lost Treasures of Infocom'. This four disk set of adventure games originally appeared on the Apple //'s but now, thanks to Mike Howard and John Wrenholt, they now sport a new GS interface. Titles that appear in this set include the following: Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Beyond Zork, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Sorcerer, Spellbreaker, Moonmist, Starcross, Deadline, Witness, Suspect, Ballyhoo, Suspended, Infidel and Horror.
o Quality Computers will soon be releasing Finder Helper, a collection of System 6.0 Finder Extensions and Desk Accessories written by Bill Tudor that provide useful new tools that can be used when using GS/OS. It includes an Alarm Clock (appears in the IIgs menu bar), a CDEV Alias that allows you to control your Control Panel Deviced from a New Desk Accessory; SuperDataPath allows you to easily instruct Finder where it can find your data files; HotKeys allows you to launch your favourite programs directly from the IIgs's numberical keypad; Catalog will save a a disk catalog's contents to a file on disk; File Peeker shows you the contents of Text, Teach, Pictures, Sounds, Icons and Filetype documents; Workset allows you do double click on one small icon and have AppleWorksGS, for example, launch and load multiple documents; Crypt allows you to encrypt all your sensitive personal files, and MoreInfo provides, among other things, the ability to lock and unlock files right from the Finder's Extras menu. Due to the fact the Apple has trademarked the word 'Finder', when this set of utilities is actually released, it may have a different name.
o Quality Computers has announced a major upgrade to AppleWorks 3.0 - Quadriga. Nicknamed AppleWorks 4.0, Quadriga will still be compatible with a 128k enhanced Apple //. At least 256k is recommended for the all new Macro Player. Timeout, the init manager and an ultramacros player will already be a part of AppleWorks. The release date, according to Bill (from Quality Computers), is 1st October, 1993. See the article by Cameron Brawn for more information.

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