EvangeList Digest Wednesday, April 1 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1141
In this issue:
!! - MacRacing Petition Followup Corrections to Woodworking Post !! - ZDNet QuickPoll - Should Jobs Stay PR - MSIE IAD 1.02 Job - Tech Support Specialist (Southern CA) PR - Everchanging Announces Release of New Press Release PR - All-in-one (Artemis) G3 Macintosh PR - Troi TEXT Plug-in 1.0 BETA for FileMaker 4.0 Tidbit - FREE - Learning Interchange ?? - Australian Could Use Some Moral Support Followup - IPSEC and VPNs (Virtual Private Network) PR - Mythos 0.9.1 Now Available
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Mike Moser / Absolute DVD, <gnomepark@earthlink.net>
MacRacing, a Macintosh racing league using Papayrus's ICR2, has posted a petition that will be forwarded to companies and individuals involved in the marketing and designing of new racing simulation games and hardware.
As you probably know, Macintosh always seems to be left behind when it comes to marketing new racing sim games. We hope with this petition, we can raise awareness of the market and keep racing simulation alive and growing along with the new technology, like those being made available on the PC platform. ie: Microsoft Precision Racing, NASCAR 3 and Grand Prix Legends scheduled for PC in July of 98, just to name a few.
You can find the petition at MacRacing's website:
<http://macracing.simplenet.com>
Webmasters will also find source code to place the identical Petition Banner on their site. Also, if you are interested in adding your website to the petition, you can find instructions at the petition site to do so.
MacRacing receives no financial gain from those coming to our site and if the truth be known, we have plenty of interested "racers" running our series, so we're not doing this for more "traffic" We just want more "interest" shown by companies making racing sims.
Thanks for your time and support.
Mike Moser MacRacing
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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 12:31:05 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Followup Corrections to Woodworking Post
This follow-up message is from:
Robert A. Reichert, <rapidrob@digital.net>
Some EvangeListas correctly pointed out the following errors in my follow-up posting in V1 # 1121
<http://www.delatawoodworking.com> should be: <http://www.deltawoodworking.com>
In the formula for Compound Miter Settings For the Table Saw
tanMG = 1 ~ [cosS x tan(360 ~ 2N)] (for all joints) should be: tanMG = 1 / [cosS x tan(360 / 2N)] (for all joints)
Apparently some email programs (or something) changes the divide sign to the tilde sign
Bob
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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 02:10:34 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: !! - ZDNet QuickPoll - Should Jobs Stay
This action item from:
Guy Algot, <guya_gdc@agt.net>
There is a QuickPoll underway at
<http://www.zdnet.com/>
as to whether or not Steve Jobs should remain with Apple. Let them know how we feel!
The Internet Address Detector (IAD) actions for Internet Explorer that shipped with IAD 1.01 and 1.02 don't work well with Internet Explorer 4.0 because Microsoft removed support for the ApplScript "activate" command, so I updated them.
Currently they are avaialable from:
More Info: <http://msem26.eng.ohio-state.edu/rogeware/> Download: <http://msem26.eng.ohio-state.edu/rogeware/MSIE_IAD.hqx>
ASD Software in Southern California is looking for a Tech Support Specialist to provide telephone and e-mail support for its line of award-winning security products for the Macintosh, FileGuard and DiskGuard.
The ideal candidate will have a very good understanding of Macintosh hardware, system software and networks. You are also familiar with the Windows environment and internet/web site maintenance.Good communications skills, both written and oral, are essential. You will be the main interface between end-users and the developers and you will also provide internal tech support to ASD Staff.
E-mail inquiries and resumes to <fdubois@asdsoft.com>
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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 02:11:23 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: PR - Everchanging Announces Release of New Press Release
Keyword: Newton
This announcement is from:
John Anderson, <anderson@everchanging.com>
Okay, so when we announced the FilePad 1.6 beta program, we decided to throw a little sarcasm into our PR. What's funny is that people with no interest in the product whatsoever were responding to the press release, complimenting its intrinsically humorous value.
So there was an overwhelming fact about the final release of 1.6 that stood out from the other collective synapses. Make the press release funny. So basically we have to be entertainers in addition to programmers. Interesting situation.
So while the main purpose of this press release is to announce the availability of FilePad 1.6, an update to the first flat-file database for the Newton, and FilePad Synchronicity, a FileMaker Pro to Newton synchronization tool bundled with FilePad, we will also be providing a subset of the Alternaprep Handbook for your reading pleasure.
What are Alternapreps? Well, they are typically Generation-X'ers, usually in their early twenties at this point. The first law of the Alternaprep is highly descriptive of the group:
1) Be a nonconformist. Exactly like all your friends.
So if you're a GenX'er with a sense of humor, go to:
<http://www.everchanging.com/allyson/AP.html>
(Thanks to Allyson Eddy for this humorous piece)
And of course, we invite you to check out everchanging's products, including everchanging FilePad 1.6, at:
<http://www.everchanging.com/>
__________________________ Digital Guy Sez:
You know, I was so depressed about the death of the Newton OS that I wasn't going to post any more releases that were Newton related. I own a 120, and couldn't face looking into it's orphaned virtual eyes through the pages of Newton based PR's.
This PR single handedly changed my mind, at least this once. :-)
Apple Computer, Inc. today brings the high performance of the popular Power Macintosh G3 to education with a new integrated all-in-one design. Built from the ground up to fit the needs of classroom and education laboratory settings, the Power Macintosh G3 All-in-one represents one of the best price/performance systems ever offered to education customers. Apple's Power Macintosh G3 All-in-one, with innovative design, PowerPC G3 processor performance, and built-in multimedia capabilities, provides educators with a powerful, flexible, and affordable tool that enables students to unleash their creativity.
Unlike Pentium-based alternatives, the Power Macintosh G3 All-in-one was designed through collaboration with students and teachers to incorporate features that address the needs of the classroom. Innovative design features include:
space-efficient all-in-one design with built-in 15.1-inch (diagonal) multiple scan monitor dual front headphone jacks to allow two students to share a computer rounded corners on casing and monitor designed for safety tilt and swivel stand adjustable for students of all ages and heights desktop lockdown cable loops to provide simplified security
The Power Macintosh G3 All-in-one is designed with the powerful PowerPC G3 processor to deliver incredible performance for advanced multimedia capabilities, a must in today's classrooms. Technologies to enhance the learning experience include, a powerful graphics accelerator chip, 24x-speed CD-ROM, built-in microphone and stereo speakers, 16-bit stereo sound input and output, and powerful and easy-to-use video editing and multimedia authoring features.
Other unique features valued in education settings include a lockable logic board tray that protects internal components while allowing easy access for expandability, built-in 10Base-T Ethernet, and four drive bays.
The Power Macintosh G3 All-in-one is available to Apple's education customers in the United States and Canada after April 4, 1998. To complement its education hardware offerings, Apple also provides the Apple Education Series, a suite of software and curriculum products and programs for K-12 and general education settings. Each collection is designed for a specific age group and subject and includes over 10 educator evaluated software titles along with curriculum support.
For more information on the Power Macintosh G3 All-in-one and Apple Education Series, please check the Education Price List at www.apple.com or call 1-800-800-APPL.
Power Macintosh G3 All-in-one education configurations: 233 MHz G3 processor with 512K level 2 backside cache comes with 32 MB SDRAM, 4 GB hard drive, 24x CD-ROM, 16-bit audio in/out
266 MHz G3 processor with 512K level 2 backside cache comes with 32 MB SDRAM, 4 GB HD, 24x CD-ROM, 16-bit audio in/out, 24-bit NTSC and composite video in/out
Troi Automatisering announces the beta release of Troi Text Plug-in 1.0, for FileMaker Pro 4.0 both on Macintosh and Windows.
This Cross-platform FileMaker Pro 4.0 plug-in adds the SumText function to FileMaker Pro 4.0. With this you can create a dynamic field, that concatenates all the text from a field in a related file. Everytime records get added or deleted to the related file the SumText is automatically updated. It is the text equivalent of the Sum() function for numbers.
Peter Baanen, company president, states "After the release of Troi FM Plug-in we were asked to find a solution to this problem. Luckily we could do it. The SumText function is very handy for building a list of contact persons of a company, or multikeys. Why limit yourself to the sum of a number. Just try it out".
A fully functional version of Troi Text Plug-in 1.0b1 is available for downloading at Troi's Web site at: <http://www.troi.com/>. On the site there is a Macintosh (.hqx) or a windows version (.zip) of the package. Each package contains BOTH the Macintosh version as well as the windows version of the plug-in. Only the compression and (text)formatting is different. This is a beta version that will expire on 30-Jun-98.
Troi TEXT Plug-in will be available as try-before-you-buy software. A single user copy will cost $ 15 (Site license: $ 100). A special license for Solution Developers is available at $ 80.
About Troi Automatisering
Troi Automatisering is developer of databases, plug-ins and utilities such as ProMaker Utils, a utility to paste complete scripts into FileMaker Pro. For more information, visit our Web site at: <http://www.troi.com/>.
Contact: Peter Baanen <mailto:peter@troi.nl> Troi Automatisering Telephone: +31-172-426606 Vuurlaan 18 Fax: +31-172-470539 2408 NB Alphen a/d Rijn, The Netherlands
As a crazy one who is working to improve education for all students I thought you might want to VISIT AND JOIN OUR NEW EDUCATION WEBSITE. The Apple Learning Interchange. It's an online resource for teaching, learning, research and collaboration <http://www.apple.com/education/ali> Membership is FREE! Check it out and let me know what you think. And please share this opportunity with other folks like yourself who are crazy enough to think they can change the world. I'm betting that we'll do it! Thanks.
Mark Weston Director, State Initiatives Apple Computer, Inc.
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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 02:11:55 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: ?? - Australian Could Use Some Moral Support
Digital Guy Sez:
Normally I would reduirect this one to various sites, but it sounded like he needed some moral support as well. I'll work on getting him on the list, you guys give him all the ammo he needs! :)
This request is from:
Matthew Wegener, <mattweg@hotmail.com>
G'day. I've been led to you by a trust Mac friend who said you could help me out. You see I'm a teacher at a Primary school in Adelaide, Australia. I'm on the computer committee, and I want the school to purchase Macintosh computers. However I'm in the minority and I have been given an opportunity to present my case to the committe and the school council. I've lookep up the Apple internet site for some information, however I was wondering if you could also help me to increase my armour for the presentation. I love Macs and don't want to work with DOS machines.
I would also be interested in joining your evangelist list, however I was unable to enter the internet site (wouldn't let me).
Anyway, here's hoping this email finds you soon, and that you can help me
This is a follow up to my request for help re: IPSEC standards-based VPN (Virtual Private Network) solutions for Mac which appeared in Evangelist Digest #1104.
First of all, thank you to each of the list readers who took the time to respond to my request. I am grateful. The helpfulness of the Mac community is another reason to use a Mac.
Summary of what I learned:
IPSEC is a standard in the process of being developed. Many of the proprietary VPN solutions on the market are working toward an IPSEC standard, but the solutions are still proprietary.
A number of cross-platform IPSEC VPN solutions are available. Following is a list of cross-platform IPSEC VPN solutions. I have not tried any of them, but have confirmed that they each have a Macintosh client.
Competing with the IPSEC standard is the PPTP and L2TP standards being developed by IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, and others. Network Telesystems has a cross-platform VPN solution based on PPTP and plans to support L2TP when it emerges.
Network Telesystems, <http://www.nts.com>
Several people suggested a product called Dave from Thursby Systems. But Dave does not run Windows applications on a Mac and the VPN software I need runs as an application.
Several people said that I should be able to run Virtual PC on my PB 1400 even though it is 117mghz and not the recommended 133mghz for Virtual PC. But I have tried Virtual PC on my current configuration and it constantly crashes. Upgrading is a possibility, but then I have to justify the expense of upgrading when it is easier for the tech support people to give me a Windows PC that they have on-hand. One reader doubts that Raptor's Eagle VPN client would run under emulation.
I received many other suggestions which for one reason or another do not seem to fit my situation. I am by no means, however, an expert or technician. If you would like to see the fifty-two responses I received, I would be glad to send them. Some very knowledgeable people were kind enough to share their thoughts.
Unfortunately in my case I didn't have the information about the cross-platform IPSEC VPN solutions in time. Our tech support people told our company's administration that there are no cross-platform IPSEC VPN solutions. By the time I had more accurate information a decision had already been made to invest heavily in Raptor's Windows-only solution. If you see a VPN on your company's horizon, spread the word early that there are a number of cross-platform VPN solutions on the market.
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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 02:11:18 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: PR - Mythos 0.9.1 Now Available
Keyword: Market by market, Games
This announcement is from:
Geoffrey Reiss, <midgard@mindspring.com>
I'm pleased to announce that Mythos version 0.9.1 is now available!
Things are going like gang-busters on Mythos development: Tons of new art (got a great new sprite animator), bug fixes, added stability (especially for 680xx machines), and a lot of other enhancements...
The documentation is behind schedule and peripherals (Avatar Evolver, demo Campaign) lacking, but all is otherwise progressing nicely in the Mythos multiverse...
I'll probably have the next upgrade in June '98 with a whole new Monster schema (with a social structure!) and a new, improved GuyDead Toore demo Campaign, new artwork, new capabilities for the Registered version and more...
*****
Described as "Rogue on steroids," Mythos is a heavily-randomized Macintosh fantasy role-playing system that allows the addition of user-defined adventures into the otherwise randomly-defined Worlds. Mythos is known as "Evoware"...though currently quite playable, the system is constantly under development with new enhancements, bug-fixes & art, and updated through quarterly upgrades, available only on-line. In the Locked freeware version, only 3 of 9 worlds are used, it won't allow the inclusion of additional adventures, and you can not be Knighted (and engage the other factions of Mythos for ultimate power!).
Requirements: Prefers a fast Quadra/PPC,13"> 256-color monitor, 8mb RAM, 8mb HD space (12.5 for full vers).
