RE: PhotoWorks
From Patrick Pietrasz
Thanks! You're recent article on PhotoWorks
for 35mm prints, etc. was very helpful - I've been trying to to find a
good replacement since the last prints by mail place I used folded.
Don't have the money to go digital, nor would I want to (photography's
just a hobby for me) but also because of the shots I can get from my
Minolta XG-1 (and then with a Canon 42-bit scanner, it's easy to get
digital prints).
Thanks again,
Patrick Pietrasz
Hi Patrick,
Delighted to hear that the article was helpful.
Charles
Mac OS X Bible software??
From Tim Clarke
I was wondering if you could help me? Is there any good Mac OS X
Bible software out there, especially with the NLT version?
Thanks for any help?
Tim Clarke
http://www.rosewood-church.com
Hi Tim,
Try iBible
Features:
• Quick jump to Bible verses
• History keeps track of where you're reading
• Bookmarks let you remember important passages
• Strong's Lexicon support lets you see what Bible words' original
definitions are
• Powerful search lets you look for words or phrases in as much -
or as little - of the Bible as you want
• Powerful "Copy Formatted" feature lets you copy and paste Bible
passages as you read them - without carriage returns and verse numbers,
and with the passage location automatically inserted at the end of the
quotation (see below for details)
• Free 30-day feature-unlimited trial lets you kick the tires and
see if you want to keep iBible
Accordance Bible
Software is also available for OS X.
Charles
TextEdit and Web Pages
From Peter Gøthgen
Hi Charles,
This TextEdit trick requires using services. Services are only
available to Cocoa apps, not to Carbon ones. Safari and OmniWeb are Cocoa,
IE is a carbon app. Apparently Netscape is one, too, so I can only
assume that Mozilla is as well. Services are available in any Cocoa
app, but only in Cocoa ones.
Hope this clears up the confusion.
Peter Andreas Gøthgen
Thanks Peter. Something I must ask Tom Bender someday
is how he got the OS X spellchecker to work with Tex Edit Plus, which
is a Carbon app. It doesn't access the spelling through services
though.
Charles
Using AppleWorks Word format for resumes
From Erwin van Bussel
Hi Charles,
I've just read the question from
Alvin in [the Jan. 20] Misc. Ramblings about saving a document in
AppleWorks 6.2 in Word format. While saving a document in Word format
might work very well, it is probably easier and better to save it as a
PDF. That way you can be certain it will open on any computer with
exactly the same layout.
In Mac OS X this can be done by clicking on File => Print =>
Print Preview button in AppleWorks. The document will open in Preview
and you can then save it as a PDF. I'm not sure if you can do this in
the Classic OS, but since Alvin is using AppleWorks 6.2 he is probably
on OS X (if I remember correctly AppleWorks 6.1 is the OS 9
version).
Hope this helps!
Kind regards
Erwin van Bussel
AppleWorks & Word
From Peter Gøthgen
Hi again,
I was reading the question about saving as a Word document through
AppleWorks. If he's using OS X, his absolute best bet is to save
as a pdf (which he can do through the print dialog box) and email it
that way. If it doesn't have to be editable, that's the best
solution.
Peter Andreas Gøthgen
Hi Erwin and Peter,
Good, sensible tip. That's what PDF was for
originally. Thanks.
Charles
USB Modem Woes
From Luis E. Boada
Hi!
I read your article on USB FireWire PCI card.
I have a Performa 6400 fitted
with a Macally PCI card.
My mouse and cameras work fine with this card, but my Elsa Microlink
56k Fun USB modem is not recognized in my System Profiler.
I have the right drivers.
What can I do?
Thank you,
Luis E. Boada
Barcelona, Spain
Hi Luis,
I can only guess. The modem may have compatibility
issues with the PCI upgrade card.
If you are not running OS 9.1 or 9.2, you could try
upgrading to one of these System versions, but I'm only speculating
that doing so might would solve the problem.
You might also try another brand of PCI card. A friend
of mine with a Power Mac
6500 had terrible compatibility and system stability issues with a
Sonnet USB PCI card he had installed. He switched to a Belkin USB PCI
Card, and all the problems disappeared.
Sorry I can't be more help.
Charles
Excel in Classic
From Christian Schlier
Hello Charles,
Do you know which version of Excel is the oldest that can run in the
Classic environment of OS X (or in Mac OS 9)?
Version 4 won't do the job.
Thanks
Christian
Hi Christian,
Version 4 is pretty old. I don't know for sure, since
I don't use Excel, but my guess would be that it's probably the
version that shipped with Office 98.
Perhaps someone can confirm whether this is indeed the
case or not.
Charles
OS 6 on a G3?
From John Cate
It's impossible. OS 6 is written entirely in 680x0 assembly code and
wouldn't even recognize a G3 processor if you somehow got it on a drive
and tried to boot it. You'd need a 680x0 emulator like vMac to get System 6 to run on any PowerPC
processor.
System 6 can run on an 040-upgraded Mac if the machine supported 6
with its original CPU (and it flies in this configuration, as you might
suspect), but 6 on any PPC is a no-go.
System 6 on a G3?
From Ed Hurtley
It is safe to categorically say [System 6] cannot [run on a G3]. How
do I know this?
Simple, System 7.1.2 was the first System to have PowerPC code.
Unlike either AMD's "Hammer" 64-bit chip or IBM's new PowerPC 970,
which can natively support both the older 32-bit instructions and newer
64-bit modes, the transition from 680x0 to PowerPC was a complete
change. The low-level kernel of Mac OS 7.1.2 did all the translation
from 68k code to PPC code.
Before 7.1.2, there was no PPC code in the OS, so there is no way to
make an older system run on any PowerPC based machine, from the 6100 up
to the latest G4. Just as Mac OS 8.1 was the last OS to support the
680x0 series of processors, nothing higher than 8.1 will run on
any 68k Mac (unless it's been upgraded with a PowerPC chip, but
even then, most PowerPC upgrades say that they only work up to OS 8.1.)
There is no core 68k code in 8.5 and above, and there is no core PPC
code below 7.1.2.
In fact, you can't even run System 6 on a Quadra. (It may be
possible, but I have yet to see anyone claim that they have done it.
The fastest system that I know of that can run System 6 is the Macintosh IIfx. And it is most certainly
"wicked fast" on a IIfx.)
While you can run various emulator programs to emulate a Macintosh Plus (or even a Quadra) on
a G3 system, I don't know why he would be interested in using DSL on
the emulator.
Assuming for a moment that he doesn't actually have a G3, but has a
68030 (both have a "3," you see) and can run System 6, there are a
couple options for DSL:
MacTCP runs just fine on System 6, and it supports network cards.
MacWeb
and MacWWW are
very very basic web browsers that will run on System 6, but they
have extremely limited feature sets. The vast majority of websites will
not display properly (some at all) on these Web browsers. MacWWW is the
only graphical web browser that will run on a 68000 machine like a Plus
or SE. (But, it is painfully, pitifully, slow.)
Re: OS 6 on a G3
From Luca Rescigno
I am kind of interested in things like running a really early system
on newer hardware - not emulation, but actually running it.
I think the best you can do is to run system 7.1.2 on a G4/433.
You'd need a first-run 6100, 7100 or 8100 (one that shipped with
7.1.2), then you'd need to upgrade it. I'm actually interested in that
myself.
Thanks for clearing that issue up guys.
Charles
CoolMac keyboard
From John Oswald
Major shortcoming. No USB port for a mouse. Checked [the CoolMac keyboard] at Macworld.
John Oswald
Hi John,
What you need is a USB
mini hub.
Charles
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