<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:v =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type>
<META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.23532">
<STYLE>@font-face {
font-family: Tahoma;
}
@font-face {
font-family: Calibri;
}
@page {mso-endnote-separator: url("cid:header.htm\@01D2F40B.06005B70") es; mso-endnote-continuation-separator: url("cid:header.htm\@01D2F40B.06005B70") ecs; }
@page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in; margin: 1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; }
P.MsoNormal {
MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; FONT-SIZE: 12pt
}
LI.MsoNormal {
MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; FONT-SIZE: 12pt
}
DIV.MsoNormal {
MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; FONT-SIZE: 12pt
}
P.MsoHeader {
MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; FONT-SIZE: 12pt
}
LI.MsoHeader {
MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; FONT-SIZE: 12pt
}
DIV.MsoHeader {
MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; FONT-SIZE: 12pt
}
P.MsoFooter {
MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; FONT-SIZE: 12pt
}
LI.MsoFooter {
MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; FONT-SIZE: 12pt
}
DIV.MsoFooter {
MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; FONT-SIZE: 12pt
}
A:link {
COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline
}
SPAN.MsoHyperlink {
COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline
}
A:visited {
COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline
}
SPAN.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {
COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline
}
SPAN.EmailStyle17 {
FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; mso-style-type: personal-reply
}
DIV.Section1 {
page: Section1
}
</STYLE>
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></HEAD>
<BODY lang=EN-US link=blue bgColor=#ffffff vLink=purple>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>If I recall right for prodos it was textalker and
pt.obj</FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=beroberts@hughes.net href="mailto:beroberts@hughes.net">Blake
Roberts</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=blindapple@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:blindapple@bluegrasspals.com">'Blind Apple Discussions'</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, July 03, 2017 11:45
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Blindapple] new member and
reading archives</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Hello
Jeff,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Welcome to the
Blind-Apple list.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I also created a
batch file for launching a disk image. I find a batch file to be more
convenient than typing the command at a dos prompt every time I want to use
the emulator.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">You might be able to
extract a .tz file using the free 7-zip utility. It can open/extract many
compressionformats.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A
href="http://www.7-zip.org">http://www.7-zip.org</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Disk images can be
found online from various sites. For example:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A
href="ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/">ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A
href="http://apple2online.com/index.php?p=1_33_Games-Library">http://apple2online.com/index.php?p=1_33_Games-Library</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">These disks probably won't boot up talking. However,
it is possible to add TexTalker and the necessary Hello program from a talking
disk onto a non-talking disk using a utility called CiderPress. I have not yet
figured out what TexTalker/startup files need to be copied between ProDos
disks to make ProDos disks talk.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Blake<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">
BlindApple [mailto:blindapple-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Jeff Weiss<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Monday, July 03, 2017 2:06
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B>
blindapple@bluegrasspals.com<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Blindapple] new member and
reading archives</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Hello,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">My name is Jeff
Weiss and I just joined the blind apple
list.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I used to publish
a disk magazine for blind Apple users originally
called<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Apple
Talk.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Due to a problem
with licensing Dos for the magazine, I later changed the name
to<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">A-Talk.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">First, how do I
read the archives? I downloaded some files that end with .gz. I
guess this is some type of zip file, but where can I get the program to unzip
the files?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">My next question
is how do most of you boot your apple disks on the pc? I have started
launching mine with batch files, which makes the process much easier than
typing out the entire launch commands.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Also, I think
Jason said that there are additional disk images available. Are they
available for download, or directly from
Jason?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">That's enough for
now, and I look forward to comments from other list
members.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Jeff
Weiss<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
<P>
<HR>
<P></P>_______________________________________________<BR>BlindApple mailing
list<BR>BlindApple@bluegrasspals.com<BR>http://jaybird.no-ip.info/mailman/listinfo/blindapple<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>