Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #206 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 20 Dec 00 Volume 17 : Issue 206 Today's Topics: (Q) Can the Cube support a second monitor? (Q) Can the Cube support a second monitor? [*] Colibricks [*] e-20 4 Mac [*] Image SXM 1.6.5 [*] Mac500 Version 1.1 [*] Santa Droppings [*] Tide Stamp Australia 2.0.2 [*] Tide Stamp Canada 2.0.2 [*] Tide Stamp North America 2.0.2 [*] Tide Stamp World 2.0.2 [Q] Zipped files unreadable on iMac Need Help Creating a Mult-Mac Bootable CD PCI card with USB to connect to printer, camera, card reader Video switch for PC/Mac 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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Info-Mac volunteers include Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, Shawn Bunn, Christopher Li, Patrik Montgomery, Ed Chambers, and Chris Pepper. America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V17 #206" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:06:53 -0600 From: "Chaz Larson [mailing lists]" To: Paul Brians , digest@info-mac.org Subject: (Q) Can the Cube support a second monitor? At 10:31 AM -0800 12/18/00, Paul Brians wrote: >I love my Cube at home (the silence, the small footprint), and am >considering one at work as well; but there I need to be able to >support two monitors. My guess is that it can't be done easily, if at >all. My second monitor is a ViewSonic G773. > >I'm very familiar with the advantages of the G4 towers in speed and >expendability, and may go that way; but if I can make a Cube work, >I'd like to. Advice? I think you're out of luck. ixmicro did market a PCI video card that supported two monitors, but I believe the Cube's video card is AGP. chazl -- Someday Mother will die and I'll get the money. Mom leans down and says, "My sentiments exactly, you son of a bitch." - They Might Be Giants, I Palindrome I Chaz Larson - chaz at spamcop dot net - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:27:15 -0700 From: Bruce Johnson To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: (Q) Can the Cube support a second monitor? > Subject: (Q) Can the Cube support a second monitor? > Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:31:17 -0800 > From: Paul Brians > To: digest@info-mac.org > > I love my Cube at home (the silence, the small footprint), and am > considering one at work as well; but there I need to be able to > support two monitors. My guess is that it can't be done easily, if at > all. My second monitor is a ViewSonic G773. > > I'm very familiar with the advantages of the G4 towers in speed and > expendability, and may go that way; but if I can make a Cube work, > I'd like to. Advice? At this point no. What is needed is an AGP card that is a two monitor card that will also fit within the Cube case. Formac is bringing one out 'Early 2001'; but their literature doesn't mention the Cube. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group ------------------------------ Date: 20 Dec 2000 From: Michel Colman To: Subject: [*] Colibricks Colibricks is a new, exciting brick game for the Macintosh. The goal of the game is to destroy all bricks using one or more balls. Unlike other brick games, it features accurate ball behaviour, using very precise physical laws. Balls bounce off corners correctly, and even bounce with each other. Bricks can be rotated by any angle, so no more boring grids of horizontal bricks. Graphics are antialiased with beautiful backgrounds. Of course, it's also a lot of fun. With special kinds of bricks that activate special effects or activate prize balloons. Balls can grow or shrink to any size. The demo lets you play 6 levels of various difficulties. After registering, you'll get access to all 50 levels. [Archived as /info-mac/game/colibricks.hqx; 2884 K] ------------------------------ Date: 20 Dec 2000 From: "Jack" To: Subject: [*] e-20 4 Mac "e-20 4 Mac" is a pretty nice freeware given by Eventi Progetti Speciali, which has been developing CdRoms in Director using Macintosh for years, and is quite depressed because so many products with the "Made with Macromedia" logo are actually only for Windows! This is quite sad because we know that creating the Macintosh version is really easy! So, we've decided to develop in Director this small "engine" which allows Mac users to see most of the onlyWindows-CdRoms - as long as they are created with Director (you can recognize them as they have the "Made with Macromedia" logo somewhere, usually in the booklet). I hope you find it usefull!! [Archived as /info-mac/dev/e-20-4-mac.hqx; 3872 K] ------------------------------ Date: 20 Dec 2000 From: Steve Barrett To: Subject: [*] Image SXM 1.6.5 Image SXM is a version of the public domain image analysis software NIH Image that has been extended to handle the loading, display and analysis of scanning microscope images. Image SXM supports images from the following systems: Burleigh Instruments Digital Instruments NanoScope DME Rasterscope Gatan DigitalMicrograph (DigiScan) JEOL SEM, WinSem and SPM LEO SEM Molecular Imaging Noran Vantage Omicron and Omicron SCALA Oxford Instruments TOPSystem Park Scientific Instruments Philips Quesant Instruments RHK Technology TopoMetrix Vacuum Generators WA Technology Zeiss LSM To keep up to date with news of the latest version of Image SXM, check the web page http://reg.ssci.liv.ac.uk/ If you have problems, or any comments or suggestions for new features that you would like to see in future versions of Image SXM, then please email me. Steve Barrett December 2000 S.D.Barrett@liv.ac.uk [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/image-sxm-165-1.hqx; 3500 K] ------------------------------ Date: 20 Dec 2000 From: David Risvold To: Subject: [*] Mac500 Version 1.1 Mac500 is a Macintosh version of the popular card game Five Hundred. You and a computer partner play against two computer opponents. Mac500 allows you to choose some of the most popular variations of the rules of Five Hundred, and it keeps a history of games and bids won and lost by you and your opponents. You can name your players and change the bidding styles of the computer players. If you are new to the game, you can have Mac500 suggest bids and cards to play. Version 1.1 makes some improvements in the play of the computer players, adds the option allowing the winning bidder to raise his or her own bid, and fixes some bugs in the suggestions routines. The registration fee is $10 US. If unregistered, the program quits after 15 minutes each time you use it, and preference settings are not saved. Mac500 will run on a 68030 Mac with Mac OS 7.1 A PowerPC is recommended. David J. Risvold daveris@mac.com http://homepage.mac.com/daveris/mac500.html [Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/mac-500-11.hqx; 2081 K] ------------------------------ Date: 20 Dec 2000 From: Dale Penndorf To: Subject: [*] Santa Droppings Santa is in trouble and he needs help delivering all the Christmas presents this season! You are Erni, the Aeternitas mascot, and it is up to you to save Christmas this year by dropping presents down everyone's chimneys. Minimum requirements: PPC 603 or greater, 32MB free memory License: Freeware [Archived as /info-mac/game/santa-droppings-mac.hqx; 3285 K] ------------------------------ Date: 20 Dec 2000 From: Brian C Burke To: Subject: [*] Tide Stamp Australia 2.0.2 Tide Stamp is a tide and current predictor. Tide Stamp Australia 2.0.2 calculates tides or currents for 393 locations in or near Australia for the year 2001. Tide Stamp will run on any Mac with System 7 or later. [Archived as /info-mac/app/tide-stamp-australia-202.hqx; 274 K] ------------------------------ Date: 20 Dec 2000 From: Brian C Burke To: Subject: [*] Tide Stamp Canada 2.0.2 Tide Stamp is a tide and current predictor. Tide Stamp Canada 2.0.2 calculates tides or currents for over 1000 Canadian locations for the year 2001. Tide Stamp will run on any Mac with System 7 or later. [Archived as /info-mac/app/tide-stamp-canada-202.hqx; 555 K] ------------------------------ Date: 20 Dec 2000 From: Brian C Burke To: Subject: [*] Tide Stamp North America 2.0.2 Tide Stamp is a tide and current predictor. Tide Stamp North America 2.0.2 calculates tides or currents for 900 locations in or near North America for the year 2001. Tide Stamp will run on any Mac with System 7 or later. [Archived as /info-mac/app/tide-stamp-northamerica-202.hqx; 536 K] ------------------------------ Date: 20 Dec 2000 From: Brian C Burke To: Subject: [*] Tide Stamp World 2.0.2 Tide Stamp is a tide and current predictor. Tide Stamp World 2.0.2 calculates tides or currents for 880 locations world wide (not including North America locations) for the year 2001. Tide Stamp will run on any Mac with System 7 or later. [Archived as /info-mac/app/tide-stamp-world-202.hqx; 460 K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:41:05 -0800 From: Laurence Hawkins To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [Q] Zipped files unreadable on iMac >I am trying to transfer applications and files from a PowerMac >6500/225 running OS 7.6.1 via a Zip Drive to an iMacDV+ with OS >9.0.4, but the iMac refuses to accept any files, protesting "The item >"XYZ" cannot be read, because a disk error occurred. Do you want to >continue". Occasionally, the odd file and application does get read >and transferred, but very rarely. However, all these files on the Zip >disk can be opened from the zip disk itself by double clicking on >them, when the appropriate application on the iMac opens with no >problem, displaying the file contents. > >What is holding me up in this simple procedure? > >Laurence Hawkins Sorry for the return address error in my original posting. It should have read ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:29:12 -0600 From: "Gib Henry" To: Bill Waits , "Info-Mac List" Subject: Need Help Creating a Mult-Mac Bootable CD >Date: 19 Dec 2000 09:47:48 -0500 >From: Bill Waits >To: "Info-Mac" >Subject: Need Help Creating a Mult-Mac Bootable CD > >Could someone PLEASE give me some insight as to how to create a >bootable CD to be used with multiple PowerPC Macs (All capable of >using MacOS 9.0.4)? > >If you create one using your own Mac, the MacOS 9.0.4 is only taylored >to that Mac and will not boot other machines. Actually, half my tries >have failed on the original machine as well. > >Then, I have tried using the bootable portion of utilities that we own >such as TechTools and Norton Utilities, but they will not work as well. > >I know that you need to use Toast (I have v4.1.2) and select "Make >Bootable" on the Data Setup, but everything I have tried has failed >miserably, and I am tired of making coffee coasters. > >I would appreciate any help or words of wisdom. Please email me >directly, and I will followup with a summary. I understand that the Mac OS 9 installer leaves a clean-up init which must run and modify the newly installed system folder before it can boot. Since in your case it's on a CD, this isn't possible. Suggestion: Try installing the new OS on a volume, then booting from that volume. Now, use that "used" System Folder on your CD. I'd appreciate any further details anyone could add to this mystery. Cheers, -- Gib ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:03:22 -0600 From: "Chaz Larson [mailing lists]" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: PCI card with USB to connect to printer, camera, card reader >At 16:32 -0500 12/15/00, Pieter Stouten wrote: > >HINP078 ADS ADS PCI card 2 USB ports 44 > > > >I am mostly concerned with compatibility and quality. Does anybody > >have any experience with the above cards? Will they work with the > >printer, camera, card reader? Any recommendations for the above or > >other cards? I have an ADS 2-port card in my PowerCenter. Apple's PCI card drivers, MacOS 9.0.4. Works great with everything I plug into it: Microsoft Intellimouse, Zip 250, UMAX scanner, Microtech CameraMate, Saitek Cyborg joystick, iShock gamepad, Epson 740, etc. chazl -- Someday Mother will die and I'll get the money. Mom leans down and says, "My sentiments exactly, you son of a bitch." - They Might Be Giants, I Palindrome I Chaz Larson - chaz at spamcop dot net - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:10:02 +0200 From: "Michael S. Silverstein" To: Info-mac Subject: Video switch for PC/Mac I am trying to connect one 19" monitor (Nokia 446Pro) to both a G4 Mac and a PC. I tried using a manual video switch (listed as VGA) but the Mac looked very fuzzy (resolution: 1024 X 768) when connected through the switch. There was no problem when the Mac was connected directly. Do I need to use a special video switch to connect both a Mac and a PC to the same monitor? Thanks! michael silverstein materials engineering technion -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************