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 RezTek developers of the TurboRez video display and effects card have announced that work on the TurboRez project has ceased due to the release and pricing of the Sequential's Second Sight product (see announcement elsewhere in this issue).
o Kitchen Sink Software has announced that OmniPrint is now available for AppleWorks 5. OmniPrint gives you complete control over the downloadable font capability of an ImageWriter II printer. It comes with several fonts which can be transferred to the printer's memory and then print at the same speed as regular text.
You can use all of the special characters for foreign language printouts or a special font for math symbols. You can create custom borders to go around text you want to highlight. You can even print letters rotated 90 degrees. The single user price for OmniPrint is US$49.95. Or, you can get a lab site license for US$99.95.
Send your cheque, School Purchase Orders, or VISA/Master Card to:
Kitchen Sink Software, Inc.
903 Knebworth Ct.
Westerville, OH 43081
o Balloon users beware! If you unshrink an archive which includes a file that already exists, and select "skip", the skipped file will actually be deleted. Ego Systems intend to fix the problem but no date has been set for the release of an update.
o A rival for the Syquest removable hard drives is about to be made available in Australia. Iomega, renowned makers of Bernoulli optical drives, have developed a 3.5" removable drive called the Iomega Zip 100 Drive. The drive compares favourably with a fixed hard drive in terms of disk access and data retrieval times. Cartridges come in 25MB or 100MB capacities. A SCSI unit is available which makes it easily interfaced with an Apple II or Macintosh. These units are currently available in the USA for US$200 with the 100MB cartridges in scarce supply at US$20. At these prices the Iomega unit is even more cost effective than the Syquest 270 which I thought was great value.
o AppleWorks 5 will shortly be available on the Macintosh. Mark Munz, a former Beagle Brother, and Randy Brandt are developing an emulator (codenamed Phoenix) for 68020 or better Macintoshs, including a native PPC version for PowerMacs. Phoenix will let you run your actual copy of AppleWorks 5 on a Macintosh. Pricing will be competitive with II in a Mac, another commercial Apple II emulator.
o Ego Systems, who publish GS+ magazine are employing some interesting marketing techniques. Their first is the way they are plugging ICE, a new Icon editor which handles both older style icon files and rIcon resources. ICE comes as a program on the disk which accompanies issue V6.N5. So what's interesting about that? Well, they say that buying ICE for US$8 is worthwhile all on it's own without the added bonus of receiving a disk and issue of their magazine.
ICE (GS+ V6.N5 Magazine & Disk) - US$8 (US$10 after June 30th, 1995)
Surface mail delivery US$2 extra
Air Mail Delivery US$5 extra
Their second technique was to ask the question "Why don't you subscribe to GS+ magazine?". Respondents with constructive answers will receive a free issue of the magazine.
GS+ Magazine
PO Box 15366
Chattanooga, TN 37415-0366
615-332-2087 phone
615-332-2634 fax
Diz@genie.geis.com
o Animasia 3-D, the new 3D modelling package for the Apple IIgs, is proving to be so popular that the author Michael Lutynski has had to move to larger premises to cope with the demands of the business:
Animasia
12175 Science Drive, #3
Orlando, FL 32826
USA
407-380-9932
animasia@genie.geis.com
o Seven Hills Software is now selling discQuest-compatible CD-ROM titles at great discounts. The following CD-ROM titles are only US$24.95 each. Foreign shipping is charged at actual cost, minimum of US$3.50.
Great Literature, Monarch Notes, Multimedia World Fact Book, U.S. History, The Family Doctor, Multimedia Audubon's Birds, Multimedia Audubon's Mammals, Parenting--Prenatal to Preschool, Sherlock Homes, Total Baseball
NOTE: If you don't see a title listed that you know works with discQuest, ask Seven Hills for a price quote!
Seven Hills Software
2310 Oxford Road
Tallahassee FL 32304-3930
904-575-0566 phone
904-575-2015 fax
seven.hills@genie.geis.com

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