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Dan Knight - 2003.05.09 - Tip Jar
MS Works and RTFs; NuBus video for 7100
After reading Update: iBook, Jaguar,and More, Chris Kilner writes:
I think it is sad that some poor guy has to put up with Windowsbecause 'AppleWorks 6 does not have a Microsoft Works converter.'
A much better solution would have been to use Works to convert allthe Works documents to RTF (rich text format) when they are archived onCD to use with a Mac. AppleWorks, TextEdit, and just about any otherword processor can open RTF files.
Also, w/r/t upgrading a 7100, Ihave a SuperMac Thunder 24 with theoptional daughtercard, which adds twin AT&T 3210 DSPs, to make thiscard into a SuperMac Thunder II GX1152. I couldn't get it to run properly with OS 9 in the II GXconfiguration, but without the DSP daughtercard it worked fine - butconsiderably slower than onboard video that gets accellerated by theG3. If you know of anyone who wants the card (the ROM is v3.0), let meknow.
I think it's sad that anyone has to put up with Microsoft Works,let alone Windows. But if that's the standard they have to work with,you don't have much choice.
Saving files as RTF may sound like a workable solution, but in myexperience it's not a very good one. Export from MS Works to RTF. Openin AppleWorks and edit. Export from AppleWorks to RTF. Open in MS Works- and I'll bet you'll see changes in anything but the most basicdocuments.
Also, the additonal step of using 'Save As...' instead of simply savingin annoying. A better solution would be MacLinkPlustranslators, which can convert MS Word 4.5 files toClarisWorks/AppleWorks format and back again. It cost $100, but itavoids the need to work with Windows at home if you prefer to use aMac.
I don't know of anyone looking for an accelerated NuBus video card, butyou might try listing it on the Low End MacSwap List. With over 1,400 subscribers, there's a good chancesomeone will be interested.
Using a PC to Download Mac Software
After reading Using a PC to DownloadMac Software, Lyall Moffitt suggests:
Hi, The following may come in useful: HFS Explorer <http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/hfs/>and Nero can be used to make Mac HFS/HFS+ volumes on CD or floppy.
It can also mount HFS HDDs under Windows.
Thanks for the tip. I'll share it with our readers.
More on Using a PC to Download Mac Software
Alykhan Halani writes:
Regarding Keith Oliver's question about downloading Mac software ona PC, I recently found a utility called HFVExplorer, which, accordingto its website, is 'an HFS volume browser for Windows NT and Windows9x'. In other words, it can read and write Mac formatted media. I havenot actually used this utility yet, so I cannot say how well itworks.
HFVExplorer is available here: http://gamma.nic.fi/~lpesonen/
Thanks for the information. PC users may also be interested inBasilisk II, a Mac emulator for Windows, which is also linked on thispage. For more on Basilisk II, see Basilisk II Puts a Mac on a WindowsComputer and Mac Emulation withBasilisk II, vMac.
HyperCard and OS X
Responding to Peter da Silva's remarks in Further Thoughts on Apple Alienation, WalterJ. Ferstl says:
You write:
You make a good point: Apple needs to first win over classic Macusers if they really want to win over Windows users.
My full acknowledgment. One could not have said it more clearly.
As I am the responsible consultant for an organization with about 20Mac users (and still just one Windows PC) who are using variousversions of Mac OS Classic (from v7.6 to v9.2), this is a veryimportant point for me, too.
Some of these users are working on a daily basis with an applicationthat I have written in HyperCard.
I started this programming effort in 1988 on a Macintosh SE with System 6-somethingthat was the first and only computer for years in this organization. Asthings continued to grow (the organization as well as the application),the application went smoothly from System 6 to System 7 to OS8.1 to 8.6 and, on some machines, to OS 9. The hardware path ranfrom MC68000, 8 MHz to G4 800 MHz (currently our top Machere).
Hypercard Software
With all these hardware and software shifts and changes, thesoftware (HyperCard, that is) did not give us any trouble, not once. Onthe contrary, it took full advantage of all the new hardwaretechnologies without a hitch.
Personally, I consider HyperCard to be the most excellent software(in terms of general product quality, clean programming andflexibility) ever running on the Mac platform, if not on allplatforms.
As you know, Apple's chiefs have decided not to take HyperCard withthem into the 'Promised Land' of Mac OS X. (It would not have beena big investment to do this - Kevin Calhoun, one of the members of theoriginal HyperCard development team, estimated it to be six months'work for just two engineers.)
So be it - but I am not going to join the candy-coloured party,either.
I'll stick with the Mac models which are capable of running Mac OSClassic and therefore running HyperCard. There are still current Macswhich boot into OS 9, and after that there will be enoughsecond-hand Macs available that meet our modest computing needs herefor a couple of years.
Thanks to all of you at Low End Mac foryour excellent work in general. I visit your pages nearly every day.For a frequent buyer of used Mac hardware like me, there is nothing onthe Web that comes close to Low End Mac as a resource. Thank you.
P.S. On top of all that I wrote above, I am also still a convinceduser of a Newton MessagePad 2100, and so is a friend who is in chargeof approving the hardware and software purchases I recommend.
HyperCard was brilliant. Where MacWrite and MacPaint had made itpossible to be productive with early Macs when you bought them,HyperCard finally made it possible for Mac users to program theircomputers without investing in a programming language.
For better or worse, it joins the ranks of abandonded Apple software -along with Claris Emailer, Claris Home Page, MacWrite, MacDraw,MacPaint, Resolve, CyberDog, and others that Apple just gave up on.(ClarisWorks admittedly made MacWrite, MacDraw, MacPaint, and Resolveredundant.)
But your HyperCard stacks have not been completely forsaken. SuperCardstill exists, and SuperCard 4 even runs as an OS X application.Claiming SuperCard is already 80% compatible with HyperCard, themanufacturer even provides an application to convert HyperCard stacksto SuperCard projects. You can even download a trial version of thesoftware to see if it will work with your stacks.
If you switch, you'll want to upgrade your copy of HyperCard to theSuperCard Developer Version ($129). From there, you can createSuperCard applications using their SuperCard 4 Player, which eliminatesthe need to buy additional copies of SuperCard for each user.
Of course, nobody is going to force you to switch. Keep using theclassic Mac OS until you have a compelling reason to switch. And whenthe time comes, you should be able to migrate your stacks to SuperCardand keep working as you have been for years.
Upgrading a Power Mac 7100 CD-ROM
After reading my comments in Upgrading a Power Mac 7100, Robert MacLeaywrites:
I would take exception to your recommendations regarding a 2x vs.faster CD ROM drive.
While it is true that the older drives are adequate with most, ifnot all, commercially produced CDs, they are most definitely notwith CD-R and CD-RW. I have had plenty of problems with various CDreaders which would not read a homemade disk, and compatibility seemsdirectly proportional to the speed of the drive. (Of course, speed isnot the issue; it merely correlates to newness of the driveelectronics.)
For instance, on my G3-upgraded 9600s, the 12x CD drive cannotread disks which the 24x drive has no problems with. Another examplewould be my WallStreet, whose DVD playerwill read (even without the PC card installed) homemade CDs which mytwo 20x drives report as unreadable.
That said, I'd recommend an external CD drive which could moreeasily be taken along when he upgrades from the 7100, or even better,an early external FireWire CD-RW in combination with a USB/FW PCIcard.
I stand by my recommendation. Unless you actually use the CD-ROMdrive regularly and use it for more than simply installing software,there's not much sense in putting in a faster CD-ROM.
On the other hand, if working with CD-R and CD-RW is an issue, the userhas no choice but to buy a drive that will read them.
One more thing: There's no way to put a PCI card in a NuBus Mac.
Mac Reliability
Continuing our discussion in Update:iBook, Jaguar, and More, Ken. Cavaliere-Klick writes:
Granted that Apple does not make drives - few computer makers areactually making computers but farming out designs to computer mills -but on a premium product that carries a premium price, I had theexpectation of a higher level of quality control. There's enoughchatter on the iBook forum about hard drives and heat to raise a redflag.
I suspect the hard drive did not fail because of bad hard drivedesign, if it is indeed the hard drive. I suspect the fan. I have notheard the fan since I did the 10.2.4 and 10.2.5 update. I think thismay be where the problems lies.
More important is the negative impact that bringing a nearly newiBook into my office for return, an all PC office full of potentialswitchers.
As for AppleWorks, I did a little digging into my old versions, andthere wasn't a current Works converter. Now here's an untapped market!Many home PCs have Works. Once a user starts with Works and itsproprietary format, they are pretty much stuck with Works. This may notstill be true, but even Office does not have a Works converter - butWorks can read some Office files.
Of course, the same could be said of AppleWorks, one of the ultimateproprietary formats. Not to slam either of these programs but it ishigh time we ended these over exclusive document formats.
I'm sure people who bought Ford Explorers with Firestone WildernessAT tires felt the same way as the problems and recallunfolded. To this day the question remains whether it was the tires orFord's recommendation to keep them underinflated that caused theproblem, but the combination was deadly.
Although poor quality control by a memory or hard drive manufacturercan reflect poorly on Apple, it is the manufacturer of the componentwho is responsible for producing a quality product. Apple is not anexpert on hard drive manufacture; they have to leave that to theexperts. All Apple can do is pick vendors; they cannot becomeresponsible for every component in every computer without vastlyincreasing the price of their already expensive computers.
Apple is responsible for designing an environment where the componentswill work well. If the drives or CPUs or other parts Apple installs areoverheating, Apple is responsible for the poor airflow or whatever elseis causing the problem. And Apple is usually very good about handlingproblems, such as replacing the noisy (wind tunnel) power supplies onearly Mirror Drive Door G4s for free.
As the manufacturer of the computer and company responsible forintegratinig components purchased from various other manufacturers,Apple is responsible under warranty to replace defective components -but in the case of hard drives, they simply turn around and send themback to the manufacturer for replacment.
Mac users have been dealing with hard drive issues since the sticktionproblems of the 40 MB hard drive era. Hard drives are one of the fewmoving parts in a computer. They tend to produce a fair bit of heat andare the most likely component to fail. Apple has to pick theirsuppliers carefully to keep from damaging their own reputation, andthey generally do a very good job of it.
As for MS Works files, the MacLinkPlus translators should solve yourproblem.
GeForce PCI Cards Unsupported
Drew Beckett inquired about drivers for PCI Nvidia cards in Performa 6200 Unlisted Upgrade. Adam Hopewrites:
Apples drivers do not really support PCI GeForce cards. No PCIGeForce card has ever been released for the Mac, and it is only throughcross-flashing that any PCI GeForce cards have ever worked in aMac. Even then these will only work in B/W G3s and above.(Incidentally the GeForce 2MX PCI/AGP and non-Ti versions of the AGPGeForce 3 are still the only PC GeForce cards that can be flashed witha Mac ROM).
Quite frankly though, the thought of putting a GeForce FX 5200 in a6500 is ridiculous! Mostmodern graphics cards are designed to be fed from an AGP port, and whenPCI versions are released they spend most of their time waiting for thecomputer to provide them with more data. That holds true even formodern Macs and PCs. Any modern graphics card is going to be completeover kill in a 6200/6500.
Besides, for the cost of a card like this you could probably buy asecond hand beigeG3.
I think the reader should accept that his 6500 is not going to getmuch faster. The money he considers spending on upgrades would be far,far better spent on a much newer second-hand Mac. Truthfully, any moremoney invested in this machine is wasted money.
However, if he really wants to upgrade the video, his best bet iseither a VooDoo 3 or a Radeon 7000. If he goes the route of the Radeon7000, it is only worth it if you flash a PC R7000 (Google will turn up plenty ofresults on how to do this). A retail R7000 for the Mac costs around 100USD, 25 USD more than the average price of a Beige G3, which overallwould be a much better machine.
At a certain point the cost of upgrading any machine will be morethan the cost of a completely new machine; when this happens it's timeto think rationally and really consider the maths.
We're definitely on the same page there. One upgrade at a time maymake economic sense, but three or four all at once will invariably costmore than a newer Mac that's better in almost every respect.
I have almost no experience with the PowerPC Performas, aside froma 'road apple' 5200/75 in thebasement that I used to verify that these machines are fine afreestanding computers but a really, really bad when connected to othercomputers.
From my reading, the best PCI video card for Macs is the Radeon MacEdition, not the newer Radeon 7000. In Bare Feats testing,the older Radeon Mac Edition beat the 7000 in every test. If you checkcompleted auctions on eBay, you'll see that word is getting out - the older Mac Editionis selling for a lot more than the newer 7000.
Of course, that's the card to pick whether it's going into a 6500,7600, or beige G3, sobuying it for the hybrid 6200/6500 today means having a great videocard for the next second-hand Power Mac.
eMac Prophecy
Matt Gallagher writes:
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Hypercard Tutorial
I was reading the Low End Mac's 'on this day in Mac and LEM History'and I noticed that exactly 2 years ago today(-ish) you put forward thoughts that Apple shouldintroduce an iMac for education called the 'eMac' with a 17-inch screenat $699 for education.
Okay, the eMac has been out for a while (did you get royalties forthe name?) but yesterday it finally hit your exact price-point. Due toyour almost exact 2 year lead-time on this prediction, I thought I'dtell you...
I'm not worthy.
That is kinda frightening. I suggested Apple could keep the costdown by eliminating the modem, which is unnecessary on a networkedcomputer. The CD-ROM eMac had no modem.
I suggested Apple offer CD-ROM, CD-RW, Combo, and SuperDrive options.Lo and behold, the eMac was offered in all of these forms - and alsowith a DVD-ROM drive.
I suggested Apple only offer the eMac in a single color. Snow itis.
I also explained why a 15' display on a Mac provided as muchinformation as a 17' display on a PC (well, it did before OS X).Today 17' is pretty much a minimum for a CRT, as it very nicelydisplays 1024 x 768 - and displays 1280 x 960 reasonably well,too.
And the oddest thing of all is that I'm actually considering buying aneMac for Low End Mac to become my main computer, replacing my TiBookwhile it goes in for service - and then making my 400 MHz TiBook mybackup and field computer.
Too bad I didn't think to trademark the name....
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