Subject: A2 News and Notes September 2000 From: cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2) Newsgroups: tnn.sys.apple2 Lines: 121 NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder07.news.aol.com X-Admin: news@aol.com Date: 05 Oct 2000 21:11:35 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <20001005171135.18098.00000358@ng-bd1.aol.com> A2 News and Notes September 2000 INDEX * Shareware Solutions II News ** Spectrum Author On The Virtual Move ** SSII To Distribute Spectrum ** Brutally New CDs * Sheppy Updates Two Titles * A2Central.com Auctions Apple II Equipment * Silvern Castle Updated And Reclassified * GShisen 2000 On The Loose * Byte Works Contemplates CD * LANceGS Price Decrease * Lost Classics Reclassifications * Shareware Solutions II News Several news items related to Shareware Solutions II this month: ** Spectrum Author On The Virtual Move Ewen Wannop, author of the powerhouse Apple IIgs telecommunications program Spectrum, has announced his World Wide Web home page is now at http://www.btinternet.com/~ewannop/ How is this related to Shareware Solutions II? Read on. ** SSII To Distribute Spectrum On a related note, Shareware Solutions II has reached an agreement with MyESource, formerly known as Seven Hills Software, to become the exclusive distributor of Spectrum. Prices, details, and availability are yet to be worked out. ** Brutally New CDs Finally, Shareware Solutions II will be selling a two CD ROM set from Brutal Deluxe--Deluxeware and Le CD-ROM. Once released, they will be available for $25. Please see the Shareware Solutions II web site at http://users.foxvalley.net/~joko for the latest news. * Sheppy Updates Two Titles Noted Apple II software author Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd has released Sweet16 1.5.1 for both x86 and PowerPC flavors of the BeOS as well as ImageMaker 2.0. The new Sweet16 releases provide a few new features as well as fixing a few bugs. ImageMaker 2.0 now adds a "batch mode" which allows the mass production of disk images, as well as a few other features. * A2Central.com Auctions Apple II Equipment After a discussion of the eBay auction site as a business and promotional tool, A2Central.com decided to auction off some donated Apple II equipment. Its first auctions included an Applied Engineering Ramworks III card and an Apple High Speed SCSI Card. Check http://www.a2central.com/ for more details. * Silvern Castle Updated and Reclassified Jeff Fink, author of Silvern Castle, made a number of announcements this month: Silvern Castle v5.1 is now available. This new version includes a bug fix as well as some changes and new features. Silvern Castle v5.1 is also now reclassified as freeware. It had formerly been shareware. * GShisen 2000 Kelvin Sherlock, author of GShisen, has released an update he dubs GShisen 2000. GShisen 2000 (aka GShisen 1.2.1) includes a bug fix for the "New Game By ID" problem. GShisen 2000 is available through the Delphi A2 Database and A2Central.com. * Byte Works Contemplates CD Mike Westerfield of The Byte Works posted a message to the A2 Forum on Delphi asking for feedback on a possible CD project that would include virtually all Byte Works programs. Feedback on pricing, content, and format was welcomed, and it appears that the CD may become reality. Keep watching Delphi A2 for details. * LANceGS Price Decrease Joachim Lange of ///SHH Systeme has lowered prices on the hot new LANceGS Ethernet Card for the Apple II. Prices now start at $155 for a single card, and group discounts are available. See http://lancegs.a2central.com/ for more details. * Lost Classics Reclassifications Howard Katz, director of Lost Classics, announced three major new reclassifications this month: Photonix II from the legendary FTA, an Apple IIgs disk copying program; DuelTris, an Apple IIgs Tetris-like game; and DreamGrafix, an Apple IIgs paint program, both from DreamWorld Software, were all reclassified as freeware. * Sign Off A2 News and Notes is produced with real or emulated Apple II computers using Appleworks 5.1 and Hermes with the occasional assist from ProTERM Mac on the Macintosh. Apple II Forever! A2 News and Notes is (c) copyright 2000 by Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W. All rights reserved. Opinions expressed herein are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the copyright holder and publisher. The publisher does 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 be reprinted free of charge anywhere provided this copyright notice is included.