Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #314 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Sat, 19 Jun 99 Volume 16 : Issue 314 Today's Topics: (Q) Best Star Trek game for the Mac? [A] Upgrading my PowerBook 550c [Q] Calendar software [Q] drive mounting kits for Power Computing [Q] Trouble reading archives civilization: call to power G3 Powerbook S video out Help! Desktop rebuilds (improperly) on each start up True Type Fonts Window Closing Problem The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. 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Or, click . * A full list of Info-Mac mirror sites is available at the URL below: * Search the archive at . Info-Mac volunteers include Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Michael Bean, Liam Breck, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, and Shawn Bunn. The Info-Mac Digest is sponsored in part by StarNine Technologies, developers of Internet server software for the Macintosh, including Web and email publishing systems. We'd also like to thank AOL for the main Info-Mac machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V16 #314" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:30:40 -0400 From: a brody Subject: (Q) Best Star Trek game for the Mac? Dear Digest readers, Ages ago there was Star Trek the 25th Anniversary in 1993 from MacPlay. Now that MacPlay has stopped making Mac games I was wondering if anyone wants to pick up the baton by making another Star Trek adventure for the Mac. There was Star Trek the Rebel Universe for the PC which was pretty good for an EGA graphics game. You would collect treasures, visit 100s of different solar systems, and use some treasures to solve other puzzles. A fictitious Star Wars game would be nice too. Anybody know of any other games that one can play around the Star Trek or Star Wars philosophy? Something science fiction based? Should be playable on a G3 processor. These old games are so old the G3 is too fast to play any of the battle scenes. I have to be a computer to fight them. And also they should work fine on a Powerbook G3 with only 4 MB of video RAM. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 20:42:45 -0400 From: Marlon Deason Subject: [A] Upgrading my PowerBook 550c I would strongly recommend against upgrading a 500 series PowerBook. Unless the upgrade card can be had cheap (<$100) it would be much more economical to save the money for a new G3 PowerBook. The only time I recommend a CPU upgrade is when you are completely satisfied with all the other aspects of your machine. Are you happy with the screen resolution, size and number of colors? Are you hampered by a small hardrive? Do you wish you could add more RAM than the 'Book can accept? All of these are symptoms of a greater ill. The lower end G3 PowerBooks are now less than $2000. A 500 series PowerBook is going on six years old. I think you will get a lot more milage out of your money and be set up well for Mac OS X if you go for the new 'Book. Marlon Deason marlond@earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~marlond/macguerrillas/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:26:27 +0100 From: Nigel Bevan Subject: [Q] Calendar software We are looking for calendar software to run across Macs and PCs. We currently use Now Up-to-Date on the Macs, and although we have a PC version we never found out how to share the calendar information, and the PC version is nolonger supported. Chronos's Consultant would have been a good choice, but apparently there are no plans to produce a version for the PC. Does anyone know of any other solutions? Suggestions appreciated. Thanks .. Nigel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:47:06 +1200 From: "Nigel Stanger" Subject: [Q] drive mounting kits for Power Computing I've been thinking of buying a CD-RW drive to put in my Power Computing PowerWave, but I remember the last time I bought an internal device I had a devil of a time finding mounting rails for the thing. Basically I need these rails that screw onto the side of the device, then the whole thing just slides into the (5.25") bay and locks into place. Very nice, but seemingly rather unusual, at least around here (every local PC shop I asked at looked at me as if I was a lunatic). I've had a dig around on the web, but all I've managed to find are mounting kits for the likes of 8500s/9600/etc. I did find a couple of places with "mounting rails", but with no pictures so I couldn't tell if they were the right sort or not. Does anyone know whether any of the Apple mounting kits are compatible with a PowerWave, or point me in the direction of something that is? Thanks. -- Nigel Stanger, mailto:nstanger@infoscience.otago.ac.nz Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND. http://strange.otago.ac.nz:800/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 20:13:43 -0700 From: Denny Davis Subject: [Q] Trouble reading archives At 9:07 PM -0700 6/14/99, Chris Schram wittily wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Ken Laskey wrote: > > [snippage] > > >Now to make matters worse, I haven't gotten Info-Mac issues 308 or any > >thereafter. So if you have any suggestions, please send these to me > >directly while I check for subscription problems. > > Uh Oh! I also have not gotten issues 308+ in my email, though they are > still showing up in comp.sys.mac.digest. Something must be broken. > > I said "Uh Oh" because I just sent in another subscription request. Now > I'm concerned that I may soon be getting duplicate issues. > > Chris Schram schram@mail.coos.or.us http://www.coos.or.us/~schram/Chris/ > This came in Info-Mac issue 312 [digest] to me, so check to see that you are subscribed with info-mac listserver, I don't think you have to subscribe to do that. I think that you won't get two duplicates unless you use a different email address though. Also check your email app and email service there could be a problem with one of them. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:40:20 -0400 From: dead nancy Subject: civilization: call to power hi, everybody. so: i must play civilization: call to power. MUST. problem: mac version release date is approximately xmas 99. so my choices are: 1. buy a cheap pc to play this game. 2. install linux on one of my macs and play the beta. 3. run civ:ctp under emulation. i'm hoping for no. 3. i have virtualpc 2 with windows 95 installed on a greige 233mhz g3. seems like it should work, but activision's civ:ctp hardware requirements keep repeating "100% windows-compatible." anyone have firsthand accounts? thanks. dead nancy http://www.merkins.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:38:15 -0700 From: David L Hirschberg Subject: G3 Powerbook S video out Hi, I am playing around with a DVD drive in a powerbook G3/233. I have so far been unable to send video out though the s video port. I have plugged in the adaptor cable and run a video patch cord to the video in on my TV but the TV does not seem to be getting any signal. Is the s video port always enabled or is there some place I have to turn it on? I saw some Apple documentation on the Apple TIL site. The TV monitor control strip that they referred to does not load on my PB G3/233 or on a new 333mhz PB G3/333 that we have so I assume that it is not compatible. Is there a resolution or number of colors that I should be using? There is no setting for the S-video out port in the monitors and sound control panel. Thanks, David daneel@stanford.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 10:21:56 -0400 From: refried@email.unc.edu (Howard M. Fried) Subject: Help! Desktop rebuilds (improperly) on each start up Sys 8.1, PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet). Every time I boot up, the desktop gets rebuilt, on its own, no user intervention. But it's rebuilt incorrectly. The icons all look OK (not generic) but files are no longer associated with their applications; click on a file and nothing happens, click on an alias and the "...application that created it could not be found" error pops up. Amazingly (to me anyway), when I start up with extensions off (Shift key down), the desktop does not rebuild and files are now associated with their applications. I tried booting with only the Apple base extensions loaded, but to no avail. I used File Buddy to replace the desktop file, but File Buddy also created a defective desktop, that is, files and aliases were still unassociated with their applications. This behavior began when I installed some shareware (an update of something I already had) that dumped an extension into the Sys folder, so restarting was necessary. When I did restart, the desktop was rebuilt, and that's been going on incessantly ever since, even when the new extension removed. Norton Antivirus does not report anything fishy and, so far at least, everything else seems to work OK. I'd be grateful if anyone could clear this up or suggest where to start looking for a culprit. TIA, Howard Fried ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 20:39:40 -0700 From: Denny Davis Subject: True Type Fonts At 12:23 AM -0700 6/16/99, Doug Hardie wittily wrote: > There are a number of True Type fonts available on the web and appear to be > configured for windows xx. The files are usually zipped. When opend up > they have names of the form xxxx.ttf. Is there a way to conver t these to > Mac font suitcases? > > -- Doug It is not hard if you use one of the utilities to convert Fonts. I use TTConverter 1.5 and it works fine for me using 7.6.1. You might have to search around for it. If needed I can send a copy. I can't say if it works for 8.6 or not. :-} Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 00:33:18 -0700 From: Doug Hardie Subject: Window Closing Problem >I am experiencing an interesting problem: when a window is closed, it >drops all the way to the back and sits for about 2 seconds before going >away (OS 8.6). This only started after upgrading to 8.6. Mac Fixit >reports: > Thanks to all who responded. I received more good ideas than I could handle. I did fix the problem but don't know why. What I did was to go the Appearance Manager and select another appearance and let it take effect. Then I went back to yet another one. However, the desktop picture was gone. So I added it back in and now windows close lightning fast. I did notice that the custom appearance I use before changed radically when I selected another appearance. I didn't go back to that one but used another since I had to modify it anyway. Perhaps something didn't convert properly from 8.5 to 8.6 for the active appearance. -- Doug -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************