[HEA]
    _____________________   ___                                   _
    |___   ______________| |   |                                 | |
        |  | _             |   |                                 | |
        |  || |            |   |                                 | |
        |  || |            |   |                                 | |
        |  || |            |   |   ____ _   _ _   _   ______     | |
        |  || |            |   |  / __ \ | | / \_/ \  | ___ \    | |
        |  || |__   ____   |   | / /  \  | |  /\ /\ \ | |  \ \   | |
        |  ||  _ \ |  _ \  |   | \ \__/  | | | |_|| | | |__/ /   | |
        |  || | | || |_||  |   |  \___/|_| |_|    |_| | ____/    |_|
        |  || | | || |__   |   |____________________  | |         _
        |__||_| |_|\____/  |________________________| | |        |_|
                                                      | |
         Lighting Your Apple II Path                  | |
                                                      |_|

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 The Lamp!            An Onipa'a Software Production        Vol. 9, No. 8
 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
 Publisher................................Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W.
 Editor.....................................................Lyle Syverson
 Internet Email, Publisher.........................thelamp@sheppyware.net
 Internet Email, Editor..................lutefisk837 at sbcglobal dot net
 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

                            TABLE OF CONTENTS
                            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                             August 15, 2006

HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER---------------------------------------------[OPN]
     The Role of Computers in the Printed Media

A2 FORUM AT Syndicomm Online (A2Central.com) DISTILLATIONS------------[DAS]
     Sweet16 1.6.1 Released-------------------------------------------[SSR]
     What's Your Social Networking Site?------------------------------[SNS]
     http://www.ryansuenaga.com/ Up and Running-----------------------[RAC]
     A2Unplugged, the Apple II Podcast--------------------------------[A2U]
     Ultima IV--------------------------------------------------------[UTA]
     Ken Franklin's Milestones Card Game------------------------------[MCG]
     Testers Needed for New Version of Sweet16------------------------[TND]

ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM SYNDICOMM------------------------------------------[ANS]
     To Sign up for Syndicomm Online----------------------------------[TSU]
     Syndicomm to Transfer A2Central.com Ownership to Sean Fahey------[TAC]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR-------------------------------------------------[LTE]
     No Letters to the Editor This Month
     An Invitation

KFEST 2006------------------------------------------------------------[KF6]
     Comments About KFest 2006----------------------------------------[CAK]
     New Product/Announcement Roundup from KansasFest 2006------------[NPA]

KFEST 2007------------------------------------------------------------[KF7]
     KansasFest 2007--------------------------------------------------[KFS]

EXTRA INNINGS
     About The Lamp! ------------------------------------------------ [INN]


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[OPN]-------------------------------
         HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER |
------------------------------------
From The Editor
"""""""""""""""
by Lyle Syverson  email:lutefisk837 at sbcglobal dot net

                The Role of Computers in the Printed Media
                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     About a half mile downstream from the patio High Above the Rock River
we see the six story landmark called the News Tower.  This building, with
its distinctive shape, originally housed one of the Rockford newspapers and
an apartment occupied by the owner and publisher of the paper.  The
apartment, located in the upper floors, has a beautiful, unobstructed view
of the city.  One of the features of the apartment is an interior fire
escape... a slide within a metal tube... to deliver people using it to the
outside at ground level.

     Through a series of mergers the News Tower is now owned by the
Rockford Register Star.  As the newspaper grew over the years, a series of
additions were made to the building to house the expanding operations.
Recently another building was added... to house their new press... so tall
that the building is as tall as a five story building... even though it has
only one floor.

     The newspaper is very proud of their new equipment... they offered a
tour of their operations.  As we toured the various departments...
classified ad sales, commercial ad sales, promotion, layout, delivery,
online production, printing plate prep... we noticed that every desk had a
computer monitor and a keyboard.  Input to the newspaper by some 350
employees was via their computer network.  The only employees that didn't
use the network were the drivers of the delivery trucks... and their daily
instructions were via a computer printout.

     The new press was the star of the show.  The computer monitor in the
control room could display any one full page of the paper being printed.
Adjustments could be made on the run to the intensity of black and colored
inks.  A storage room to the side housed the four ink tanks, one black and
three colors.

     So you could think of the newspaper production as being as an
elaborate computer driving an elaborate printer.

     So take pride in your Apple II computer(s) and the place they had in
the evolution of the computers in use today.

[EOA]



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   | |    | |  | | | _____|     | |      / ___  | | || || | | |    | | |_|
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   |_|    |_|  |_| \______|     |______| \____^_| |_||_||_| | |\____/  |_|
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ASCII ART ENDS
[EOA]



[DAS]----------------------------------------------
DISTILLATIONS FROM The A2 FORUM at Syndicomm.com  |
---------------------------------------------------

by Lyle Syverson  email:lutefisk837 at sbcglobal dot net

[SSR]
Sweet16 1.6.1 Released
""""""""""""""""""""""
I've released Sweet16 1.6.1, which addresses a couple of minor bugs
(although not the ones that I get the most email about, which are going to
take more work to fix).

For details or to download it, visit:

http://www.sheppyware.net/software-mac/sweet16/index.html

Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com
                     Building communities, bit by bit.

(SYNDICOMM, Cat 29, Top 39, Msg 5)
[EOA]


[SNS]
What's Your Social Networking Site?
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Back in Message 494 uptopic, I mentioned the Friendster online networking
service.  Since then, the similar site MySpace has exploded, currently
boasting more than 100 million members.  I've also seen several Apple II
users on Orkut, though not lately.

What is the social networking site y'all are using, if any?

-Ken

(KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 639)

>>>>>
"""""
Syndicomm A2 Chat. :)

I really don't want strangers to know all about me.

 Carl Knoblock - Retired - Thu  27 Jul 06  3:25:03 pm
 cknoblo@cox.com - Via Spectrum v2.5.3 & SOAR v1.0b10
 KFest 2007, July 17-22, 2007
 On cable via LANceGS & Marinetti 2.0.1 - Thank you, Richard.
 A2 RTC Staff - Sunday Night House Party - carlk@syndicomm.com

(CARLK, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 640)

>>>>>
"""""
i'm not sure I'd call it a social networking site, but my blog is on
livejournal:

http://rsuenaga.livejournal.com/

Ryan
Chief Sysop and Head Geek

(A2.RYAN, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 642)

>>>>>
"""""
My blog is out there few read it.  ;-)

I use AIM to keep in touch with some of my kids.

I also read Showtalk on delphi forums still.  I have supported the lady who
has run that for close to 20 years now.

Bruce

(BBAKER, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 643)
[EOA]


[RAC]
http://www.ryansuenaga.com/ Up and Running
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Finally, after fooling around months on it....

http://www.ryansuenaga.com/

Ryan
Chief Sysop and Head Geek

(A2.RYAN, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 645)
[EOA]


[A2U]
A2Unplugged, the Apple II Podcast
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Until I get things better set up both here and elsewhere, here's just a
quick announcement:

The premier episode of A2Unplugged, the Apple II Podcast, has just been
released. Show notes and many other details are all being worked out still,
but in the meantime, you can check the show out at
http://www.a2unplugged.com/

Ryan
Chief Sysop and Head Geek

(A2.RYAN, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 646)

>>>>>
"""""
A somewhat improved volume-wise version of A2Unplugged episode one is being
uploaded now.  It's a learning process, and I'm hoping the audio quality
will be better with the next episode.

I'm working on it...

Ryan
Chief Sysop and Head Geek

(A2.RYAN, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 647)

>>>>>
"""""
Thanks for the continuous work, Ryan!

I look forward to subscribing to the podcast in iTunes and downloading it
to my iPod... Apple II to go!

-Ken

(KGAGNE, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 648)

>>>>>
"""""
I subscribed to it by just dragging the RSS feed link to iTunes.  Shouldn't
that work as well?

Dain

(A2.DAIN, Cat 2, Top 8, Msg 649)
[EOA]


[UTA]
Ultima IV
"""""""""
Ultima IV was reclassified as freeware awhile back; it's now available for
Windows, Linux, and OS X:

http://xu4.sourceforge.net/

(KGAGNE, Cat 14, Top 1, Msg 123)
[EOA]


[MCG]
Ken Franklin's Milestones Card Game
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
I recently found a freeware Mac version of Ken Franklin's Milestones card
game:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29690
http://www.timac.org/MacBornes/

(KGAGNE, Cat 14, Top 2, Msg 94)
[EOA]


[TND]
Testers Needed for New Version of Sweet16
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
I've got a new version of Sweet16 in the works that among other things will
include compatibility with non-ASCII file and pathnames by using UTF-8
instead of ASCII for pathname manipulations.

This is a substantial change, and needs some serious testing.

I'm looking for one or two people that regularly and extensively use
non-ASCII characters in the names of disks, folders, and files, to do some
intensive testing of the next version of Sweet16.

The odds are good that you'll run into some problems -- although the
program is working great for me, I can't test this feature nearly as well
as someone who uses a lot of non-Roman characters in filenames.  "Problems"
might be anything from it simply not working to actually corrupting your GS
disk images.

I'd ideally like to find one or two people that use lots of files and
folders in non-Roman scripts, such as Greek, Cyrillic, or any of the very
cool Asian scripts.

If you'd like to help, and are willing to back up your images and take the
chance you might have to recover them from backups, please post a follow-up
to this message.

Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com
                     Building communities, bit by bit.

(SYNDICOMM, Cat 50, Top 3, Msg 3)
[EOA]



[ANS]-------------------------------
      ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM SYNDICOMM |
------------------------------------

by Lyle Syverson  email:lutefisk837 at sbcglobal dot net

[TSU]
TO SIGN UP FOR SYNDICOMM ONLINE
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Please visit our web site at http://www.syndicomm.com for information or to
sign up!

(Logon message)
[EOA]


[TAC]
SYNDICOMM TO TRANSFER A2CENTRAL.COM OWNERSHIP TO SEAN FAHEY
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
August 6, 2006--Syndicomm(tm) announced this morning that over the next few
weeks, management of A2Central.com, the popular Apple II portal web site,
will be transferred to Sean Fahey.  Initially, A2Central.com will continue
to be running on Syndicomm's system, but it will likely be relocated at
some point in the future to complete the separation.

Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd, the owner of Syndicomm, indicated his enthusiasm
for the transfer.  "Syndicomm's role in the Apple II world has grown so
much since I first founded A2Central.com in the summer of 2000 that I just
don't have time to keep up with everything anymore.  It was time to give
something up, and A2Central.com is the easiest thing to separate from the
whole.  I'm thrilled that someone with Sean's enthusiasm, integrity, and
passion for the Apple II is taking the reins."

"I've always wanted to run an Apple II portal," Fahey said when asked why
he was taking over A2Central.com.  "When Sheppy indicated that he was
looking for someone to take A2Central.com forward, I jumped at the chance.
I'm excited for the opportunity to find new and engaging ways to improve
the services offered by A2Central.com, too."

This ownership change for A2Central.com does not affect the Syndicomm
Online online service or the Syndicomm online store and other products.

PRESS CONTACTS

Eric Shepherd - sheppy@syndicomm.com
Sean Fahey - sfahey@a2central.com

Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com
                     Building communities, bit by bit.

(SYNDICOMM, Cat 2, Top 2, Msg 8)
[EOA]


[LTE]-------------------------------
             LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
------------------------------------

NO LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THIS MONTH
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
The mail box for Letters to the Editor remained empty this month.
[EOA]


AN INVITATION
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Express your opinions about the comings and goings in the world of the
Apple II computers.

Send your comments to Lyle Syverson, lutefisk837 at sbcglobal dot net

The Editor reserves the right to edit any material submitted.

The Editor reserves the right to reject any material he considers
unsuitable for publication in _The Lamp!_.
[EOA]



[KF6]------------------------------
                       KFest 2006 |
-----------------------------------

[CAK]
Comments About KFest 2006
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
Another KFest and a record number of attendees placed their life in my
hands as I drove through the streets of Kansas City (and that isn't
counting those who don't ride in my car ;).  And for the first time, I had
to turn down a passenger who specifically wanted to ride in the
Geoffmobile.  Due to the highly popular Geoff-drive-fest, I'll be putting a
passenger sign-up list on my door next year to ensure that those who want
to experience it will experience it.  And to my shock, even Sheppy
willingly got into my car.  I'm sensing partial forgiveness for POTA.
Perhaps even this much -> <- :)

KFest was a blast--I'm so glad that I went.  And I was considering not
going, after ten consecutive years.  All of the new faces brought a fresh
perspective to what Apple II computing has come to.  And it came to my
attention that there is still an active Apple II base at least in the
thousands (I had thought the number was much smaller than that).

Hackfest projects show some originality.  The difficulty of the task that
Margaret tackled really impressed me.  I wish her the best of luck as she
continues her development (if you get stuck coding, there will be plenty of
help in your favorite programmer's forums).

And special thanks to Jeri who offered a very interesting suggestion of a
program which has never been attempted before on a IIgs.  Not that every
problem  was resolved which might still make it impractical, but new ideas
got generated for what an accelerated IIgs might be able to do with modern
data formats.

I learned that there was a strong correlation between Dr. Who and Apple II.
Dr-Who-Fest lasted 1.5 hours this year.  This should be continued and maybe
even extended next year.   There was a comment that thinking of new tie
ideas for the formal dinner was getting harder and harder.  Perhaps
something in Dr. Who can be an inspiration--even hanging a dalek around
your neck shows some thought was put into it.

The trip home was happily uneventful.  Time to catch up on sleep.

Geoff

(GEOFF, Cat 5, Top 8, Msg 24)

>>>>>
"""""
It was good to see you again Geoff.  I'm thinking that your driving
reputation was highly exaggerated or perhaps I've just been exposed to, too
many drivers that are "in your league".

I had a great time as well.  I'm still hoping that you give some more
thought to the easter egg we spoke about.

I forget how much KFest gets me excited about the Apple II again.  Missing
last year really made my push my II further back in my mind.  I'm even
contemplating cracking my programming books and taking another stab at
coding again.  I just need a good idea and I think the rest will come
easily.

Dain

Still constantly amazed he hasn't had any roommates opt to leave Kfest
early:)

(A2.DAIN, Cat 5, Top 8, Msg 25)

>>>>>
"""""

>> I'm thinking that your driving reputation was highly exaggerated <<

Shh.  Don't let out all the secrets.  I have a reputation to keep :)

Geoff

(GEOFF, Cat 5, Top 8, Msg 26)

>>>>>
"""""
>> I'm sensing partial forgiveness for POTA <<

Ha. :)

Seriously, I think you're getting old -- your driving wasn't nearly as
scary this year as it used to be. :)

Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd                                sheppy@syndicomm.com
Owner, Syndicomm                                  http://www.syndicomm.com
                     Building communities, bit by bit.

(SYNDICOMM, Cat 5, Top 8, Msg 27)

>>>>>
"""""
I don't think my driving has changed.  Perhaps you are just more mellow :)

Geoff

(GEOFF, Cat 5, Top 8, Msg 28)

>>>>>
"""""
That was certainly one of the more fun KansasFests I've attended,
definitely the most fun one I've had since 2003.

Maybe it's because I didn't ride with Geoff once during that time :)

Ryan
Chief Sysop and Head Geek

(A2.RYAN, Cat 5, Top 8, Msg 29)

>>>>>
"""""
>> Maybe it's because I didn't ride with Geoff once during that time :) <<

Andy Molloy and I had the pleasure to ride with Geoff.  We were laughing so
hard it hurt.  At one point Andy looked over at me and said "When we stop
we're going to roll out of the car and start kissing the ground!".

That was my first driving experience with Geoff. :)

 Mark Percival - Apprentice
 Delivered by Spectrum v2.5.3 & SOAR v1.0b11
 The Apple ][ Fanatic and Wednesday Night RTC Host
 "Midweek Madness!" from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Pacific Time

(MARK, Cat 5, Top 8, Msg 30)
[EOA]


[NPA]
New Product/Announcement Roundup from KansasFest 2006
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
New product/announcement roundup from KansasFest 2006:

Sweet16 for Mac OS X
The Definitive GS Plus Volumes 2 and 3
Marinetti 3.0b3
Deja II (phoenixrebirth) for OS X universal binary
A2Unplugged

Ryan
Chief Sysop and Head Geek

(A2.RYAN, Cat 5, Top 8, Msg 32)
[EOA]



[KF7]------------------------------
                       KFest 2007 |
-----------------------------------

[KFS]
KansasFest 2007
"""""""""""""""
is scheduled for July 17-22, 2007.


Go to <http://www.kfest.org> for details.
[EOA]



[INN]------------------------------
                    EXTRA INNINGS |
-----------------------------------
About The Lamp!   The Lamp! is published on the fifteenth of every month on
"""""""""""""""   the WEB at:   http://lamp.a2central.com/

This publication produced entirely with real or emulated Apple II computers
using Appleworks 5.1 and Hermes.  Apple II Forever!

     * The Lamp! is (c) copyright 2006 by Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W.  All
       rights reserved.

     * To reach The Lamp! on Internet email send mail to
       thelamp@sheppyware.net

     * All issues of The Lamp! are available at The Lamp! Home Page,
       http://lamp.a2central.com/

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Opinions expressed herein are those of the individual authors, and do not
necessarily represent the opinions of A2Central.com, Delphi Online
Services, Syndicomm, Ryan M. Suenaga, or Lyle Syverson.  Forum messages are
reprinted verbatim and are included in this publication with permission
from the individual authors.  A2Central.com, Delphi Online Services,
Syndicomm, Ryan M. Suenaga, and Lyle Syverson do not guarantee the accuracy
or suitability of any information included herein.  We reserve the right to
edit all letters and copy.

Material published in this edition may not be reprinted without the
expressed written consent of the  publisher.   Registered computer user
groups, not for profit publications , and other interested parties may
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