The Professor is here to answer your most technical, mind boggling, or downright silly questions.
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HELP ME!
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I am searching for a program or other information that will enable me to combine the super-hi-res (SHR) graphics I have created in my paint program with songs I have created in my music program.
I have seen a disk that was in French that played about 12 songs and at the same time displayed a slide show of 6 or 8 SHR graphics.
I have looked at the directory on the disk, and I don't recognize the type files used for the graphics or music.
I would appreciate any help.
Note: The paint program I use is Cheap Paint, shareware from PDE. The music program is The Music Studio. My computer is an Apple IIgs with 1.2 Meg.
The disk that I saw was "ROCK N ROLL # 1 & 2," also from Public Domain Exchange.
Thanks,
Ray Aguilar
Dear Ray,
At present, there are no programs that will allow you to mix SHR graphics and GS music. You'll need to learn to program and write a program similar to the one from France that will take your graphic and music files and put them to work.
Of course, you could always use Roger Wagner's HyperStudio to display your graphic while it played digitized sounds. It won't be complete songs, but it would be music all the same. If you don't have HyperStudio, you don't know what you are missing. It's all of Hypercard for the Mac and more. It even comes with an amplified speaker and a sound digitizing set up. All for about of $100.00, lower if you buy from a mail order house. The Professor suggests you give Roger a call at 1-800-421-6526 for more information or to place an order.
--KIA
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CROSSING THE BARRIER
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Dear Professor,
I just got AppleWorks GS and started to change all of my spreadsheet files to the GS format. About 90% of them survived the transfer, while the remaining 10% gave me a dialog that said something about not recognizing all of the formulas. What's a casual user to do? How can I get around this?
Confused
Sault Ste. Marie, MI
Dear Confused,
Although the two programs share the same name they were written by two different companies. (Remember AWGS was originally from Styleware who was bought out by Claris.) While Claris tried to maintain a level of compatibility, there had to be a sacrifice somewhere.
In all my workings with the two AppleWorks, my only problem importing files to spreadsheet module has been not having enough memory--a problem all AWGS users must be used to by now.
The AWGS Users Manual states that Title Areas, Calculation Frequency, cell format, display data or formula, and column width are carried over intact. My advice to you would be to check your SS files in AW Classic looking for bad cells--something weird AWGS might try to interpret as a formula.
--KIA
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THE DEFAULT BLUES
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Whenever I turn my GS on, all my Control Panel settings go back to default and the dates are all messed up. I live overseas and all the local dealers say, "buy a Mac." I don't want a Mac; I want my GS to work. Can you help?
Not Happy in South France.
Dear N.H.I.S.F.,
The problem you are going through is a common one to GS users who have had their machines for more than two years. Your lithium battery, rated to last up to five years by Apple, is out of gas. If you take it to an Apple dealer he may offer you a mother board switch out that could cost as much as $200.00. All for a $10.00 battery--sure, that sounds fair.
There is hope though. Nite Owl Productions (out of Mission, KS) is producing a slide-on replacement battery that a child five years old could install. Call 913-362-9898 or write to:
Nite Owl Productions
Slide-on Batteries
5734 Lamar Ave.
Mission, KS 66202
for more information. Be sure to tell them Professor KIA from Softdisk sent you.
--KIA
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AAAAAY! I'M THE FONTS!
.lj
Dear Professor,
A few questions:
1. I now have an Apple IIgs. IS there any way to convert Print Shop fonts into Print Shop IIgs fonts? They work O.K. straight off the DOS 3.3 disks, but when put on a ProDOS disk, Print Shop IIgs says: "No Files."
2. I there any way to use the "Print" function under the file menu to print ASCII text files.
3. I have SHRConvert 1.0. Is there any way I can use it under GS/OS? It crashes right now when I use it.
Ryan Woerth
Beloit, WI
---To answer your questions:
1. Not that I know of.
2. No.
3. Get SHRConvert 2.1. Download it off of GEnie, and send $15 to:
Jason Harper
1480 Michelle Ct. Apt. A
Colorado Springs, CO 80916
Or get The Graphic Exchange from:
Roger Wagner Publishing
1050 Pioneer Way, Suite P
El Cajon, CA 92020
-- KIA
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A PERPLEXING POSER
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Dear Professor,
How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper actually pick?
Rosalie Sez
Rosalie, there are several schools of though about this tongue-twisting tale.
I will offer this:
my hypothesis.
Find out how many pickled peppers are in a peck. That is how many pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. Possible problems preventing us from prevailing in this perplexing puzzle make a prerequisite the position in time that Peter Piper actually picked his pickled peppers. If one is positive Peter picked his peppers at the peak of the planting period, Peter would have picked the pernicious "pixie" peppers that pickle down to a paltry, pulpy portion.
Another potential problem is that peppers are pickled in a post-picking process. This pivotal point proven, Peter Piper couldn't possibly pick a pickled pepper as there is no such thing as a pickled pepper plant.
