Re: New Powermacs out

[Murdoch Allen]

Geez I remember the hassle of 14.4 modems then paying a small fortune 
for a 28.8 then a bigger fortune for a 54


Now I just lve my adsl
On 27/04/2005, at 11:00 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote:


On 27/04/2005 9:05 PM, "Rod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hi All!

New Powermacs have been announced:

PS Beat ya Daniel-san!


Oh, and did anyone notice that now on the Dual Machines if you want a 
modem

it's now a build to order option. Cost you about $44 to add it.
OK, fair enough,..most of us have ADSL now,...but still, dialup might 
be

good as a backup,..or for faxing. :o)

Yes Rod, you did. You are on the ball my friend. :o)
Must be all those late nights catching up on me,..hehehhe. ;o)

Enjoy!

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Excel help & iTunes query

[Alex Novakovic]

Hi Mates

Mac business first! If I start playing something in iTunes and then 
(usually) start up Firefox, while it is loading I sometimes get a 
"skip" in the music being played just like in the good old days when 
you had a scratch in a record.  Is anybody else experiencing this?


Now for the evil empire.  I have imported some dates into a 
spreadsheet and when I tried to sort them into date order I get 
something like this:  1,11,19,2,21,22,23 etc with no regard to the 
month.  I tried formatting as a date field and a text field - same 
result.


Also having problem getting it to format as dd/m/yy which I can only 
do as a Custom format (not available in the date format list!!)  Some 
dates come out OK but others (I think in the earlier part of the 
month) are switched back to front in month/day/year.


Many thanks in advance for any & all assistance,

Cheers,  Alex
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Re: New Powermacs out

[Daniel Kerr]

On 27/04/2005 9:05 PM, "Rod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi All!
> 
> New Powermacs have been announced:
> 
> PS Beat ya Daniel-san!

Oh, and did anyone notice that now on the Dual Machines if you want a modem
it's now a build to order option. Cost you about $44 to add it.
OK, fair enough,..most of us have ADSL now,...but still, dialup might be
good as a backup,..or for faxing. :o)

Yes Rod, you did. You are on the ball my friend. :o)
Must be all those late nights catching up on me,..hehehhe. ;o)

Enjoy!

Kind Regards
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Re: New Powermacs out

[Shay Telfer]

3. No Dual-Core CPU's
Intel has them...
http://www.intel.com/personal/desktop/dualcore/index.htm
AMD has them...

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_12898,00.html
IBM... hello... is this thing on?


Apple's had dual (and quad) core PowerPC silicon since the late 
nineties. They just don't actually put them into machines outside 
Apple's R&D labs. I can't imagine they'd be easier to manufacture 
than the single core CPUs, and IBM already has enough problems 
supplying those!


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Re: New Powermacs out

[Matthew Healey]

On 27/04/2005, at 9:05 PM, Rod wrote:


Hi All!

New Powermacs have been announced:


*sigh*

I give up.

1. What happened to 3Ghz?
Granted, that's IBMs fault but it's been what.. almost 2 years now?

2. No PCI Express
Guess what ladies and gentlemen. It's 2005 and you STILL can't  
put more than one decent video card in your Mac.


3. No Dual-Core CPU's
Intel has them...
http://www.intel.com/personal/desktop/dualcore/index.htm
AMD has them...
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/ 
0,,30_118_12898,00.html

IBM... hello... is this thing on?

4. ATI Radeon 9600
Gee... Lets release a new Mac and give it a 2 YEAR OLD graphics  
card!

http://mirror.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2003/4615.html

5. 16x SuperDrive
I'll give this one to Apple, but only half a point because these  
are the only DVD burner that Pioneer makes any more.


Well... maybe we'll get decent machines in another 12 months.

- Matt

And another thing....

[Mark Heeler]

Apple monitor prices have dropped on the 20 and 23's

Down $350 and $600 respectively to $1249 and $2299.

How long until revised eMacs and iMacs ?

New Powermacs out

[Rod]

Hi All!

New Powermacs have been announced:

 Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
 1GHz frontside bus/processor
 512K L2 cache/processor
 512MB DDR400 SDRAM
 Expandable to 4GB SDRAM
 160GB Serial ATA
 16x SuperDrive (double-layer)
 Three PCI Slots
 ATI Radeon 9600
 128MB DDR video memory
$3199

Dual 2.3GHz PowerPC G5
1.15GHz frontside bus/processor
512K L2 cache/processor
512MB DDR400 SDRAM
Expandable to 8GB SDRAM
250GB Serial ATA
16x SuperDrive (double-layer)
Three PCI-X Slots
ATI Radeon 9600
128MB DDR video memory
$3999

Dual 2.7GHz PowerPC G5
1.35GHz frontside bus/processor
512K L2 cache/processor
512MB DDR400 SDRAM
Expandable to 8GB SDRAM
250GB Serial ATA
16x SuperDrive (double-layer)
Three PCI-X Slots
ATI Radeon 9650
256MB DDR video memory
$4899

The Apple Store quotes 1-2 days delivery time, so I would assume they 
will be available at resellers in the next week.  Also, the single 
1.8Ghz model is still available for $2399.


Seeya

Rod!

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Re: iTMS: Thursday!

[Rod]

On 27/04/2005, at 5:37 PM, Peder Kristensen wrote:

I guess $1.69 is not to bad, in EU it's Euro 0.99 which is about AUS 
$1.65


Cheers,
Peder





That still works out to US$1.29 per track.


Minus 10% GST comes to US$1.16 per track

So we pay a US$0.17 (AUS$0.22) premium per track for living in
Australia.

Thanks Apple. Can someone please pass me the KY?

- Matt




Also, who knows how much the credit card surcharge is on each 
transaction.  Apple may have had to broker a slightly higher fee thanks 
to the quite low charge for each song.


Anyhow, I couldn't care less if it is $1.29 or $1.80.  For my mind, if 
you can find an album cheaper on cd, buy it.   But the real use for 
iTMS for me is the out of print music that will never make it back to 
cd, the video clips, the celebrity playlists (some are actually quite 
insightful!), and the fact I can preview any album without having to 
queue for ages at a cd shop (*if* the cd shop has it).  This is the 
real gem of iTMS, which has no real peer amongst cd shops or other 
online services.  And it works seamlessly with my iPod  ;-)


Seeya

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Re: iTMS: Thursday!

[Peder Kristensen]

I guess $1.69 is not to bad, in EU it's Euro 0.99 which is about AUS $1.65

Cheers,
Peder


on 27/4/05 16:01, Matthew Healey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On 27/04/2005, at 3:40 PM, Rod wrote:
> 
>> On 27/04/2005, at 3:23 PM, Matthew Healey wrote:
>> 
>>> On 26/04/2005, at 4:40 PM, Shay Telfer wrote:
>>> 
 Hi
 
 Thought folks might be interested in this. Obviously so you can
 buy tunes and play them under Tiger :)
 
 
 
>>> 
>>> When posting links to the Sydney Morning Herald, could every
>>> please remember to remove the "?oneclick=true" part of the URL.
>>> This stops the redirect to the annoying signup page.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> - Matt
>>> 
>>> (A Mac user who certainly won't be using the store at $1.80 a track.)
>>> 
>> 
>> If anyone is an avid reader of Appletalk.com.au, you will know that
>> the tracks will be $1.69 each, and a few people have already signed
>> up and bought tracks.  Apple have somehow left a backdoor open into
>> iTunes, and people have been able to sign up.
>> 
>> I don't mind paying $1.69 a track, if it means I save $17 on an
>> album that has one good song and 11 fillers ;-)
> 
> That still works out to US$1.29 per track.
> 
> Minus 10% GST comes to US$1.16 per track
> 
> So we pay a US$0.17 (AUS$0.22) premium per track for living in
> Australia.
> 
> Thanks Apple. Can someone please pass me the KY?
> 
> - Matt
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Re: Dual layer DVD burning and Macs?

[Mark Secker]

BWAAAHAHA -  $13 ow that's cheap  -  no just used one of the ones 
that the user purchased with the drive.


- just found a receipt the other week for the first CD-R that I 
purchased  - 97 or 98 I think -


Kodak Gold CD-R  1 disk for $30 ouch! (ow yea and the 1 speed CD 
burner was $900 which was more about 3 weeks ex tax ex HECS salary 
back then).



 last spindle of 100 TDK's CD-R's I bought about a year back cost 
less than that!



sorted... works good  with toast - now just need the dual layer 
media to come down to acceptable prices


Have you found anything less than $6/disk? (http://netplus.com.au/)

I must admit I've been very frustrated when I coastered a few... But 
they were $13 back then :)


Have fun,
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Re: Dual layer DVD burning and Macs?

[Shay Telfer]

sorted... works good  with toast - now just need the dual layer 
media to come down to acceptable prices


Have you found anything less than $6/disk? (http://netplus.com.au/)

I must admit I've been very frustrated when I coastered a few... But 
they were $13 back then :)


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Re: Dual layer DVD burning and Macs?

[Mark Secker]

sorted... works good  with toast - now just need the dual layer media 
to come down to acceptable prices




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Re: iTMS: Thursday!

[Rod]

On 27/04/2005, at 4:01 PM, Matthew Healey wrote:


On 27/04/2005, at 3:40 PM, Rod wrote:


On 27/04/2005, at 3:23 PM, Matthew Healey wrote:


On 26/04/2005, at 4:40 PM, Shay Telfer wrote:


Hi

Thought folks might be interested in this. Obviously so you can buy  
tunes and play them under Tiger :)







When posting links to the Sydney Morning Herald, could every please  
remember to remove the "?oneclick=true" part of the URL. This stops  
the redirect to the annoying signup page.


Thanks

- Matt

(A Mac user who certainly won't be using the store at $1.80 a track.)



If anyone is an avid reader of Appletalk.com.au, you will know that  
the tracks will be $1.69 each, and a few people have already signed  
up and bought tracks.  Apple have somehow left a backdoor open into  
iTunes, and people have been able to sign up.


I don't mind paying $1.69 a track, if it means I save $17 on an album  
that has one good song and 11 fillers ;-)


That still works out to US$1.29 per track.

Minus 10% GST comes to US$1.16 per track

So we pay a US$0.17 (AUS$0.22) premium per track for living in  
Australia.


Thanks Apple. Can someone please pass me the KY?


Thank the "lovely" record companies we have here.  I'd rather blame  
those who brought us Australian Idol than Apple ;-)


Seeya

Rod!

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Re: iTMS: Thursday!

[Mark Secker]

So we pay a US$0.17 (AUS$0.22) premium per track for living in Australia.



Any news on what a full album costs? in the US itunes shop it's like 
$9 or $9.99 or something like that.


I guess because I tend to buy new music of the non top 40 type  where 
a full length album is $27 + (often $32+)
(ie anybody seen Modest Mouse's "GNfPwLBN" out cheap in Big W? No? 
thought not) as such even without a discounted full album rate  there 
would be a reasonable saving for of around $13 purchasers like me...


my main issue is that the few iTunes  ACC based tracks that I've had 
friends buy for me in the UK and US don't seem to be that much better 
quality than 128kbps MP3's which I don't rate as being listenable 
quality




Thanks Apple. Can someone please pass me the KY?



... not just Apple so tell me why a Canon EOS digital camera's costs 
between 25% and 50%  more here in Australia than in the US despite 
freight costs Japan/Taiwan to Aust and US being much of a muchness? 
factoring  in Aust Federal GST V's  US's easly  avoidable state by 
state sales tax and we are still being shafted by someone.


small market?  or are we just willing to pay more than US consumers?




- Matt


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Re: iTMS: Thursday!

[Matthew Healey]

On 27/04/2005, at 3:40 PM, Rod wrote:


On 27/04/2005, at 3:23 PM, Matthew Healey wrote:


On 26/04/2005, at 4:40 PM, Shay Telfer wrote:


Hi

Thought folks might be interested in this. Obviously so you can  
buy tunes and play them under Tiger :)







When posting links to the Sydney Morning Herald, could every  
please remember to remove the "?oneclick=true" part of the URL.  
This stops the redirect to the annoying signup page.


Thanks

- Matt

(A Mac user who certainly won't be using the store at $1.80 a track.)



If anyone is an avid reader of Appletalk.com.au, you will know that  
the tracks will be $1.69 each, and a few people have already signed  
up and bought tracks.  Apple have somehow left a backdoor open into  
iTunes, and people have been able to sign up.


I don't mind paying $1.69 a track, if it means I save $17 on an  
album that has one good song and 11 fillers ;-)


That still works out to US$1.29 per track.

Minus 10% GST comes to US$1.16 per track

So we pay a US$0.17 (AUS$0.22) premium per track for living in  
Australia.


Thanks Apple. Can someone please pass me the KY?

- Matt

Re: CD+-R

[Mark Secker]

not on CD's but DVD's
"-" is just a dash, not a "minus"  as in this is a DVD R disk. This 
is the original industry standard mostly lead by computing industry 
corporations.

about 80% of  drives sold to date are "DVD-R" or "DVD-RW"

"+" is a second industry group standard lead by mostly consumer video 
corporations - though Sony and others sit on both boards due to 
selling products to both segments. (interestingly until recently Sony 
only sold DVD"-" units in their computers)
I haven't seen a DVD+R or DVD+RW only drive for a while as now they 
mostly are multi format+/-



beyond the "competing industry standards boards" it gets a little 
technical and rather irrelevant for consumers beyond the frustration 
of compatibility issues


but

for making DVDs probably best to use DVD "-" 's to get the most compatibility.

to read best to have a +/- hybrid to ensure you can read most disks 
that come your way...





Could some knowledgeable person or persons please explain the "+" 
and "-" symbols used with CD descriptions.


Thanks you

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Re: iTMS: Thursday!

[Rod]

On 27/04/2005, at 3:23 PM, Matthew Healey wrote:



On 26/04/2005, at 4:40 PM, Shay Telfer wrote:


Hi

Thought folks might be interested in this. Obviously so you can buy  
tunes and play them under Tiger :)





When posting links to the Sydney Morning Herald, could every please  
remember to remove the "?oneclick=true" part of the URL. This stops  
the redirect to the annoying signup page.


Thanks

- Matt

(A Mac user who certainly won't be using the store at $1.80 a track.)


If anyone is an avid reader of Appletalk.com.au, you will know that the  
tracks will be $1.69 each, and a few people have already signed up and  
bought tracks.  Apple have somehow left a backdoor open into iTunes,  
and people have been able to sign up.


I don't mind paying $1.69 a track, if it means I save $17 on an album  
that has one good song and 11 fillers ;-)



Seeya

Rod!
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Re: iTMS: Thursday!

[Matthew Healey]

On 26/04/2005, at 4:40 PM, Shay Telfer wrote:


Hi

Thought folks might be interested in this. Obviously so you can buy  
tunes and play them under Tiger :)





When posting links to the Sydney Morning Herald, could every please  
remember to remove the "?oneclick=true" part of the URL. This stops  
the redirect to the annoying signup page.


Thanks

- Matt

(A Mac user who certainly won't be using the store at $1.80 a track.)

Re: CD+-R

[Shay Telfer]

Could some knowledgeable person or persons please explain the "+" 
and "-" symbols used with CD descriptions.


http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq02.html#S2-48

Perhaps you're thinking of DVD+R?

http://www.videohelp.com/dvd

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CD+-R

[John Thompson]

Could some knowledgeable person or persons please explain the "+" and 
"-" symbols used with CD descriptions.


Thanks you

John Thompson

Re: cpu activity on a web page

[Malcolm J McCallum]

They have absolutely the best Tech support I have come across,
Mac
On 26/04/2005, at 1:03 PM, Nancy McIntyre wrote:



On 26/04/2005, at 7:00 AM, Roger and Rosemary Horton wrote:



On 25/04/2005, at 4:28 PM, Nancy McIntyre wrote:



  They needed telling.  Their member photo site is basically 
inaccessible in Safari and even in Firefox it ain't much chop.




Nor can you use their backup service if you have a mac

all this quite a flaw in their otherwise excellent service.


Yes.  However I want to emphasise that westnet's service - where it 
matters most - in provision of network and the absolutely best support 
desk in the known universe is streets ahead of the next competitor.
For example, I recently tracked a transient DNS problem down to "most 
likely" in their network - using apple's troubleshooting pages - and 
an intelligent and switched on Beau twigged immmediately that I had 
missed a notice about DNS number change.   Somehow I just know if I 
had wanted help at another isp,  I would have first had to wait for 
half an hour to speak 'live' and then would have got on to a timid  
trainee with hearing problems ;-/

And most importantly, the support staff are all very mac inquisitive.
And too, I think everyone would agree that the reply re the flash 
problem was well researched and helpful - as far as it went.  By the 
way, I haven't yet had a reply to their offer to follow up and in my 
experience, this usually means that something is getting investigated.
If people are annoyed by the website stuff like we have pointed out, 
maybe an email or two from several different mac users might tickle 
management along?


Nancy M


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Re: An old question about Warcraft 2

[Craig Ringer]

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 08:22 +0800, Rosie Cable wrote:
> Thanx Daniel
> 
> Tried out what you suggested but even when I tried running the program 
> from the hard drive, it still asked for the disc to be inserted, and 
> the same problem kept happening,,, and happening... and happening.

Sounds like copy protection. It's probably trying to use some low-level
hack to read the drive in raw mode and finding it won't work in Classic.
One of the many reasons why copy protection hurts legitimate users but
doesn't stop abusers (*sigh*).

Unless there are patches for OS/X compatibility or some trick to enable
it to do what it wants to do in classic, I'd say you're out of luck.
Unless you can find a patch to disable the copy protection (you own the
darn thing after all!), of course, but they're of dubious legaility and
may be very hard to find for old Mac games.

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Re: Dual layer DVD burning and Macs?

[Robert Howells]

On 27/04/2005, at 11:49 AM, Mark Secker wrote:

Would I be correct in assuming that Toast 6 can burn to dual layer DVD 
drives even though the built in OS burning software doesn't seem to 
recognise the (external FireWire ) drive?


I have a user who  has just purchased such a drive and is unable to 
burn even CD's to it.


My DIL purchased such a machine ... LACIe external firewire ..
WHich I tried out on my special set up ..

7600-G3/500 - Firewire/usb PCI card.

Used Roxio Toast 6 updated to 6.0.9

burnt CD's no hassled using the Bit Under Run Prevention facility

also Single layer DVD with BUP active. successful
Need a special disk for Dual layer, and have not tried that.

Just one problem. She has taken the DVD back and of course you cannot 
read the disk on a CD reader.


Have fun

Bob







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Re: Dual layer DVD burning and Macs?

[Daniel Kerr]

On 27/04/2005 11:49 AM, "Mark Secker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Would I be correct in assuming that Toast 6 can burn to dual layer
> DVD drives even though the built in OS burning software doesn't seem
> to recognise the (external FireWire ) drive?
> 
> I have a user who  has just purchased such a drive and is unable to
> burn even CD's to it.
> 
> 
Yes, Toast 5 and 6 will burn DVD DL's fine. I have an external A09 burner
and Toast 6 and it works fine with all CD and DVD media (including DVD±R and
DVD DL).
(From memory the OS Burning Software (Disc Burner) will only work with
internal burners.)
You can also look at PatchBurn as well.



Hope that helps.

Kind Regards
Daniel
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Dual layer DVD burning and Macs?

[Mark Secker]

Would I be correct in assuming that Toast 6 can burn to dual layer 
DVD drives even though the built in OS burning software doesn't seem 
to recognise the (external FireWire ) drive?


I have a user who  has just purchased such a drive and is unable to 
burn even CD's to it.




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Re: An old question about Warcraft 2

[Daniel Kerr]

On 27/04/2005 8:22 AM, "Rosie Cable" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanx Daniel
> 
> Tried out what you suggested but even when I tried running the program
> from the hard drive, it still asked for the disc to be inserted, and
> the same problem kept happening,,, and happening... and happening.
> 
> I checked the disc this morning on an old performa, and it loads up
> perfectly okay, so I know the disc is okay, but for whatever the
> reason, the EMac doesn't like it.
> 
> Regards
> Rosie :-)
> 
> 
> On 27/04/2005, at 12:49 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote:
> 
>> On 27/04/2005 12:33 AM, "Rosie Cable" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>>> This may be an old question, but I wasn't able to find anything in the
>>> archives (using the search box). I'm hoping someone out there may know
>>> the answer.
>>> 
>>> I have an EMac G4 Superdrive (just over a year old) and I can't play
>>> the Warcraft II (Tides of Darkness) game.  When I insert the disc, it
>>> appears on the desktop as two CD icons - one is Audio CD and the other
>>> is Warcraft CD. The Audio CD icon has only music from the game on it,
>>> but the Warcraft CD will let me load (to a point).
>>> 
>>> When I load the Warcraft disc, it plays through the introduction,
>>> right
>>> through to the menu that asks about what type of campaign I want to
>>> play. When I press 'single player', the message box appears asking me
>>> to insert the game disc (which at this time is already inserted). I
>>> press OK to say that disc is inserted, and the same message box
>>> appears
>>> asking the same question again. Each time I press OK the same thing
>>> happens again.
>>> 
>>> I contacted Blizzard, but their only solution related to the patches
>>> on
>>> their website. The patches didn't make a difference.   I have tried
>>> everything that I can.
>>> 
>>> This may possibly be the most stupid question ever asked (but hey, I'm
>>> not computer savvy, only a part time user!), Is it possible that the
>>> game CD can't be read because I have a DVD drive as opposed to a CD
>>> drive?
>>> 
>>> If that's not the problem, does anyone know if there is any way of
>>> fixing this problem?  I have Warcraft III but have never been able to
>>> get into it.  prefer playing Warcraft II.
>>> 
>>> Please help me feed my addiction
>>> 
>>> Rosie  :-)
>>> 
>>> 
>> At a guess I would think you may need to copy the game to the drive.
>> (Assuming you haven't done this already).
>> On the CD it will either be an installer (which you need to run and it
>> will
>> install the game onto the hard drive), or it's the game itself and you
>> need
>> to copy this to the hard Drive. (Somewhere like the applications
>> folder).
>> Once it's installed (or copied) try running it from this new location
>> (Applications folder) and if I'm correct you should find it works. I
>> would
>> assume that running it from the CD, won't allow it to create the
>> necessary
>> files it needs (A CD being a locked media).
>> 
>> Try that and let us know how you go.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Enjoy!
>> 
>> Kind Regards
>> Daniel
>> (Whose bought World Of Warcraft, but hasn't loaded it in fear of not
>> actually getting any work done then!) :o)

Hi Rosie

As Rod mentioned, it would appear that the game doesn't like playing in
Classic. You could try downloading some of the patches and run them and see
if they work. Otherwise it looks like Warcraft 3 (which runs in OSX) may be
the way you have to go I'm afraid. (It's actually very good, I finished both
that game and the expansion pack) :o)

Here are some links that I hope help.





Hope something there helps.
Enjoy!

Kind Regards
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Re: An old question about Warcraft 2

[Rod]

On 27/04/2005, at 8:22 AM, Rosie Cable wrote:


Thanx Daniel

Tried out what you suggested but even when I tried running the program 
from the hard drive, it still asked for the disc to be inserted, and 
the same problem kept happening,,, and happening... and happening.


I checked the disc this morning on an old performa, and it loads up 
perfectly okay, so I know the disc is okay, but for whatever the 
reason, the EMac doesn't like it.


Regards
Rosie :-)




It is entirely possible that Warcraft II is not compatible with 9.2.2 
in Classic mode.  As you can't boot into OS 9 directly on your eMac, 
there is no way of finding this out.  Guess the old Performa might have 
a use after all :-)  I'm figuring 8.5 or 8.6 was the OS of choice at 
the time Warcraft II was released.


Seeya

Rod!

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Re: An old question about Warcraft 2

[Rosie Cable]

Thanx Daniel

Tried out what you suggested but even when I tried running the program 
from the hard drive, it still asked for the disc to be inserted, and 
the same problem kept happening,,, and happening... and happening.


I checked the disc this morning on an old performa, and it loads up 
perfectly okay, so I know the disc is okay, but for whatever the 
reason, the EMac doesn't like it.


Regards
Rosie :-)


On 27/04/2005, at 12:49 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote:


On 27/04/2005 12:33 AM, "Rosie Cable" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


This may be an old question, but I wasn't able to find anything in the
archives (using the search box). I'm hoping someone out there may know
the answer.

I have an EMac G4 Superdrive (just over a year old) and I can't play
the Warcraft II (Tides of Darkness) game.  When I insert the disc, it
appears on the desktop as two CD icons - one is Audio CD and the other
is Warcraft CD. The Audio CD icon has only music from the game on it,
but the Warcraft CD will let me load (to a point).

When I load the Warcraft disc, it plays through the introduction, 
right

through to the menu that asks about what type of campaign I want to
play. When I press 'single player', the message box appears asking me
to insert the game disc (which at this time is already inserted). I
press OK to say that disc is inserted, and the same message box 
appears

asking the same question again. Each time I press OK the same thing
happens again.

I contacted Blizzard, but their only solution related to the patches 
on

their website. The patches didn't make a difference.   I have tried
everything that I can.

This may possibly be the most stupid question ever asked (but hey, I'm
not computer savvy, only a part time user!), Is it possible that the
game CD can't be read because I have a DVD drive as opposed to a CD
drive?

If that's not the problem, does anyone know if there is any way of
fixing this problem?  I have Warcraft III but have never been able to
get into it.  prefer playing Warcraft II.

Please help me feed my addiction

Rosie  :-)



At a guess I would think you may need to copy the game to the drive.
(Assuming you haven't done this already).
On the CD it will either be an installer (which you need to run and it 
will
install the game onto the hard drive), or it's the game itself and you 
need
to copy this to the hard Drive. (Somewhere like the applications 
folder).

Once it's installed (or copied) try running it from this new location
(Applications folder) and if I'm correct you should find it works. I 
would
assume that running it from the CD, won't allow it to create the 
necessary

files it needs (A CD being a locked media).

Try that and let us know how you go.

Thanks!
Enjoy!

Kind Regards
Daniel
(Whose bought World Of Warcraft, but hasn't loaded it in fear of not
actually getting any work done then!) :o)
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Re: DVD Player Lost?

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 26/04/2005, at 4:06 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:

Am I best to Delete the above folders, use Pacifist to obtain the 
Application DVD Player & reinstall it?


Thanks for any advice.




You can try this, and if it works - fine. Be prepared, though, to have 
to do a clean install with archive, and re-apply whatever updates you 
need to get back to 10.3.9.


I haven't had to call on the services of Pacifist very often, but when 
I have used it, the results have been mixed.


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Re: Safari, and Security and OSX Updates

[Diana & Graham Stevens]

Kelly Duffy wrote:

Also, if there's a more recently updated email archives I'd 
appreciate the URL.


Paul replied:


http://wamug.org.au:8100/Lists/wamug/List.html


But the link on the top of each email is broken!
http://wamug.org.au:80/Lists/wamug/List.html

Diana

Re: cpu load at westnet

[Nancy McIntyre]

On 27/04/2005, at 5:04 AM, Ronni wrote in the Digest #636:


  By the way, I haven't yet had a reply to their offer to follow up
and in my experience, this usually means that something is getting
investigated.
If people are annoyed by the website stuff like we have pointed out,
maybe an email or two from several different mac users might tickle
management along?

Nancy M


Rest assured it is being investigated.
And, Management are aware.

Cheers,
Ronni



Ooh, I only get the digest so our posts crossed.  I am chuffed at your 
original westnet status.  Great to hear about them moving at last on 
macs.  It sounds like you don't need a crowbar to get them to listen , 
ay.

Re: An old question about Warcraft 2

[Daniel Kerr]

On 27/04/2005 12:33 AM, "Rosie Cable" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This may be an old question, but I wasn't able to find anything in the
> archives (using the search box). I'm hoping someone out there may know
> the answer.
> 
> I have an EMac G4 Superdrive (just over a year old) and I can't play
> the Warcraft II (Tides of Darkness) game.  When I insert the disc, it
> appears on the desktop as two CD icons - one is Audio CD and the other
> is Warcraft CD. The Audio CD icon has only music from the game on it,
> but the Warcraft CD will let me load (to a point).
> 
> When I load the Warcraft disc, it plays through the introduction, right
> through to the menu that asks about what type of campaign I want to
> play. When I press 'single player', the message box appears asking me
> to insert the game disc (which at this time is already inserted). I
> press OK to say that disc is inserted, and the same message box appears
> asking the same question again. Each time I press OK the same thing
> happens again.
> 
> I contacted Blizzard, but their only solution related to the patches on
> their website. The patches didn't make a difference.   I have tried
> everything that I can.
> 
> This may possibly be the most stupid question ever asked (but hey, I'm
> not computer savvy, only a part time user!), Is it possible that the
> game CD can't be read because I have a DVD drive as opposed to a CD
> drive?
> 
> If that's not the problem, does anyone know if there is any way of
> fixing this problem?  I have Warcraft III but have never been able to
> get into it.  prefer playing Warcraft II.
> 
> Please help me feed my addiction
> 
> Rosie  :-)
> 
> 
At a guess I would think you may need to copy the game to the drive.
(Assuming you haven't done this already).
On the CD it will either be an installer (which you need to run and it will
install the game onto the hard drive), or it's the game itself and you need
to copy this to the hard Drive. (Somewhere like the applications folder).
Once it's installed (or copied) try running it from this new location
(Applications folder) and if I'm correct you should find it works. I would
assume that running it from the CD, won't allow it to create the necessary
files it needs (A CD being a locked media).

Try that and let us know how you go.

Thanks!
Enjoy!

Kind Regards
Daniel
(Whose bought World Of Warcraft, but hasn't loaded it in fear of not
actually getting any work done then!) :o)
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An old question about Warcraft 2

[Rosie Cable]

This may be an old question, but I wasn't able to find anything in the 
archives (using the search box). I'm hoping someone out there may know 
the answer.


I have an EMac G4 Superdrive (just over a year old) and I can't play 
the Warcraft II (Tides of Darkness) game.  When I insert the disc, it 
appears on the desktop as two CD icons - one is Audio CD and the other 
is Warcraft CD. The Audio CD icon has only music from the game on it, 
but the Warcraft CD will let me load (to a point).


When I load the Warcraft disc, it plays through the introduction, right 
through to the menu that asks about what type of campaign I want to 
play. When I press 'single player', the message box appears asking me 
to insert the game disc (which at this time is already inserted). I 
press OK to say that disc is inserted, and the same message box appears 
asking the same question again. Each time I press OK the same thing 
happens again.


I contacted Blizzard, but their only solution related to the patches on 
their website. The patches didn't make a difference.   I have tried 
everything that I can.


This may possibly be the most stupid question ever asked (but hey, I'm 
not computer savvy, only a part time user!), Is it possible that the 
game CD can't be read because I have a DVD drive as opposed to a CD 
drive?


If that's not the problem, does anyone know if there is any way of 
fixing this problem?  I have Warcraft III but have never been able to 
get into it.  prefer playing Warcraft II.


Please help me feed my addiction

Rosie  :-)

Re: Amazon are going to get in trouble,.....

[Mark Secker]

ow ... just a upgrade - I'm sure a nasty look from Steve will go 
their way but not quite like they stuck up ads for some unannounced 
but hotly rumored item like a  G5 PowerBooks and did other "Time 
Magazine's G4 iMac on the cover before announced by Steve  fsck up"



For those interested.new PowerMac G5s?
Not released yet...but rumoured,.







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Daniel
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