New Apple IIgs Library Disks
Copyright (c) 1993 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
GS.DISK #136
A. The first part of this disk is a demo of a brilliant new game for the GS called Pick'n'Pile. Pick'n'Pile is a fast-paced strategy game.
The object of the game is to make the round balls disappear. You do this by stacking them on top of each other. You move a ball by clicking on it, then moving the mouse to where you want the ball to go and clicking again (don't drag).
This demonstration version of Pick'n'Pile lacks features present in the real thing including:
% Two player option
% Several skill levels
% High-score recording
B. The second part of this disk is another demo of a new paint program called "Emerald Visions" by Ronald Mercer. It features 3200 Graphics as well as an amazing array of useful functions.
GS DISK #137
There a two shareware games on this disk.
A. BOGGLED : VERSION 1.0 by Henrick Mock.
This game is intended for LOVERS of word games, and is based on BOGGLE BOARD game (by Parker Brothers). The object is to find, within 3 minutes, as many words as possible on a 4 by 4 grid of randomly generated letters. Words may be formed from any sequence of 3 or more adjacent letters, joined horizontally, vertically, diagonally.
B EUCHRE: VERSION 2.5 by Bill Hamshire
A good implementation of the well-known card game. You and your computer partner are pitted against a team of two computer opponents. Statistics of your performance are recorded to assist your progress.
GS DISK #138
STAR TREK CLASSIC FOR THE IIGS
This disk contains the latest updated game from Joe Jaworski. It is based upon one of the earliest computer based simulation games. Old time Apple II users are bound to remember that game as soon as you run this new version. Of course, it's completely re-done and updated, and has digitized sounds from the actual Star Trek TV show. If you're a trekkie, you're bound to love this game.
This game is Shareware, and Mr Jaworski requests a $20 fee be mailed directly to him. When that fee is mailed, he will send you a printed manual.
GS DISK #139
The GS-IRC Music Disk #1
This disk is the first in series of disks containing Soundsmith song sequences. Each disk will contain several new songs that have been previously unreleased and also some oldies but goodies. Each disk will also include a Jukebox SS player that will play the songs that are on the disk using traditional controls such as those found on a CD player.(FF, REW, skip track etc) Instructions on how to use the player can be found in the file Player.Docs. Please, make sure to read the doc file before you run the player! We hope you enjoy the songs as much as we enjoyed writing and compiling them.
The disk includes the following songs:
Unbelievable - by EMF - arranged for the IIgs by Ian Schmidt.
Get the Balance Right- by Depeche Mode - arranged for the IIgs by James Brookes
Day at the Beach- by Joe Satriani - arranged for the IIgs by Tim Meekins.
Bach 538 - arranged for the IIgs by Tim Meekins.
'Split Demo' Theme - arranged by Quark's.
'Nucleus' Theme - arranged for SoundSmith by Ian Schmidt.
Pressure - by Billy Joel - arranged for the IIgs by DYA Jim Maricondo.
GS DISK #140
This disk contains a collection of programs useful for converting programs from the Macintosh to the Apple IIGS:
A2FX: I've included 2 different versions on this disk, v7 and v8. V8 just came out, and may have a bug or two. V7 seems to work pretty well. A2FX will allow you to read and transfer files from a Mac 800K disk. This is a ProDOS 8 file and can be run directly from Sneeze. This program will become obsolete once System 6.0 is released.
AGATE: This is a telecommunications program that has 2 nifty features. The first one is support for ANSI graphics. That is a form of online graphics that can be displayed by BBS systems run on MS-DOS machines. The major use of Agate, however, is use of its built-in utility called Pizza. Pizza will allow you to extract ZIP files that you've downloaded. It works. It also takes a little getting used to, as it doesn't really allow you to specify pathnames of where you want to store your unZIPed files. Or, if it does, I haven't figured out how. This is a ProDOS 8 file and can be run directly from Sneeze.
AUDIO ZAP: This is a great GS/OS utility for digitized sounds. It does everything Sound Studio does, and more.
Please be aware that you'll need to have TOOL029 installed on your IIGS startup disk. That can be found on the 2nd disk of the System Disk, the one named System.Tools. If you use the ACE sound format, then you must have the ACE Tool installed (TOOL029). Launch Audio Zap from the IIGS Finder.
FAZ II: This is a program that will allow you to change the filetypes of files. Every once in a while, when you convert a file from another computer, the filetype may be TXT or UNKnown or might even be a BINary file. You may need to change the filetype. As an example, some IBM word processors save their data in such a way that when you unZIP it, it'll save itself as a BINary file. You can use FAZ to change the filetype to ASCII Text, and then you'll be able to load it into your favorite word processor. This is a ProDOS 8 file and can be run directly from Sneeze.
GIF.STRIPPERS: You'll find 2 programs in this folder that do the same thing. Use whichever one you prefer. In the Mac world, files are often uploaded with a "MacBinary Header". That header needs to get stripped off before you can do anything with the file. If you try to view a GIF file and nothing happens, or your system crashes, or other odd things happen, process the download through one of these first. Once the MacBinary header is stripped, then go back and try to view it. These are ProDOS 8 files and can be run directly from Sneeze.
HFS.LINK: Does the same thing as A2.FX. Personally, I like A2FX a little better, but, maybe you'll like HFS.Link better. This is a ProDOS 8 file and can be run directly from Sneeze. This program also will become obsolete after System 6 is released.
ICON APPLICATOR: If you get Icons from the Mac, or from a friend, they will not be set up to work on your system. Instead, you'll need to enter what are called file attributes, which is simply pathname information so that the Finder can find a program on your system. In a sense, Icon Applicator is built into System 6.0 (not the actual program, but 6.0 will allow you to easily edit file attributes). By changing file attributes, you'll be able to set up a disk so that you can click on an AppleWorks data file, and the AppleWorks program itself will run. Although no documentation is provided, the documentation for Icon Ed tells about setting attributes. Please read those. This program is a GS/OS file and needs to be launched from the Finder.
ICON ED: What a great Icon editor! This GS/OS program, launchable from the Finder, will let you colorize those drab Mac icons you'll be getting soon. It'll let you create icons from scratch, and set the pathname attributes. This is a GS/OS file, and needs to be launched from the Finder.
RESOURCE SPY: On the Mac, some files are stored in Resource forks. This file allows you to open up a Mac resource fork, and extract Icons and Bit Mapped Fonts from them. Of course, the Mac files will have to be on a ProDOS disk, first. This is a GS/OS file, and should be run from the Finder.
SHRINKIT: If you own a modem, I'm sure you already have this program. This is THE standard compression/decompression utility for the Apple II. The GS version of ShrinkIt can decompress some files created on Mac and IBM's that have been compressed using either the ARC format, or StuffIt format. Apparently there are several different types of ARC and StuffIt archives, and ShrinkIt can unpack most of them, but not all of them. You'll just have to experiment. This is a GS/OS file that should be launched from the Finder. The version on this disk is 1.1 which can create self-extracting archives.
STS: This is a Classic Desk Accessory that's been around since early 1987, and it works great with every version, so far, of the IIGS System Disk. CDA's get installed in the exact same manner as NDA's (see ShowPic above) and get accessed by pressing down 3 keys at the same time: CONTROL-OPEN APPLE-ESC. Once you scroll down the list of CDA's, and rest your cursor on the SHR 10-sec Timed Save and press Return, you'll have 10 seconds to "back out of" the control panel, and get back to your desktop. After 10 seconds, anything that's displayed on screen will be saved as a Super Hi Res graphic. The graphic will get saved in the form SCREEN.A and SCREEN.B.
FONT.ID.FIXER: by Robert Mueller. (Version 1.0) This program is used for adding a font id to fonts ported over from the Macintosh. Incorrect font id's can cause strange effects when printing.
GIF.TO.3200: by Lane Roath. A program used to convert GIF files to 3200 pictures. It has more features planned but not implemented (it is only version 0.2); but it does the job nicely.
ICON.APP.CHECKER: by Bill Tudor (ShareWare Version 1.0)
Apple IIgs icon files contain icons to represent your disks, folders, applications and documents. Each icon may have associated with it an "Application Pathname". If a document icon (data file) contains an application pathname, double clicking on it from the Finder will cause that Application to run, loading in the document when it starts up.
IconAppChecker can examine ALL the icons in ALL your icon files, and let you know which ones have invalid application pathnames. Furthermore, it can also SUGGEST a new application path by searching all your disks for the old application name and finding its new location on your disks.

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