teebo wrote:
>>> http://members.aol.com/mjmahon/RTSynth.html and use archive.org to
>>> see where that page have moved to, can easily find it.
>>
>> That's a good idea, and I considered it, but it's way too much
>> trouble for just the last two weeks of AOL presence.
> 
> hehe, well it is only 16 pages (2^4 is such a nice number) and a little
> cut'n'pasting :-) and the point was more so that the last date at
> archive.org for them would have a link to the new place.
> (I guess one have to force archive.org to recrawl them before it
> is too late though, and the result can first be seen 6 months later...)

The actual process of uploading to AOL's FTP space is quite
cumbersome, requiring about 20 "clicks" per file.  So while
the occasional update is not too annoying, a "mass update"
would be a PITA--come to think of it, just about as annoying
as uploading files to Comcast and making them "public".  ;-(

Apparently, "free" services are burdened with extremely poor
tools for maintaining a site, judging from my sample of two.
If I could use a *real* FTP client, it would be easy.

>>> btw, will the Sound Editor work on an europlus(clone)?
>> Yes, it should work fine.  The help messages use lower
>> case, but that's easily changed if it's a problem.
> 
> good to hear. nothing that gets destroyed by 50Hz or things.
> and my clone do have lowercase so thats no problem.
> it is no apple2e though so I guess RTSynth won't work because of
> no Key Down sensing, but I guess it would be possible to create
> a version of it that plays a note until another key is pressed?

Yes it would--kind of a constant "sustain" pedal.  ;-)
It's been a while since I tried reading the AKD port on a
][ or ][+.  There's a possibility that it may already work
that way (it gets the key value from the AKD port read).

>> Or you could just use CiderPress to print out a copy
>> of the program and read the help from there.  ;-)
> 
> mmm... that AppleCommander john has on the page he mentioned in the
> other post looks nice for looking at apple-disks too

I'm pretty addicted to "clicking", myself.  It's not so handy
for "make" files, but it's great for rummaging around, listing
files, and printing them in a format you like.

> I wonder if there are other web sites about apple2 on AOL
> that now have to move or disappear... did AOL inform their users
> just this month (not 3 months in advance as one normally do
> for other things) or?

Yes, it was short notice.  In fact, I first noticed it in a
"heading" on my web pages that AOL added (something else
I can live without).

-michael

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