by Shekhar Govind -- [email protected] editing by Craig O'Donnell -- [email protected] and Nick Rothwell -- [email protected] MIDI Software for the Mac: Application Software -- For simple purposes, MIDI application software can be considered to have two main elements - a recorder/player (sequencer) with tools for editing the MIDI performance data, and a music-notation editor to create printed scores, or "notation." (Other classes of MIDI software esoterica will be dealt with later.) Until a few years ago, the Amiga and the Atari ST, with their built-in MIDI capabilities, boasted some of the best MIDI software

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Information Electronics followed up on their recent announcement of a new SMTP mail gateway for Microsoft Mail with word that a limited-time evaluation version of the gateway is available for download, free of charge, from their support bulletin board

Double-sided Printing -- Several people wrote to warn against printing on the back of already-printed sheets of paper, as recommended in TidBITS #175. Joe Gurman relayed information from a repair person who claimed that some high-speed printers (the one in question was an older Ricoh engine used in the Talaris 1590 printstation) were more likely to jam when using reused paper because of changes in the paper when it was exposed to the high heat in the laser engine the first time through. Another reader claimed that some laser printers contaminate the paper with small quantities of fuser oil, and reusing printed paper can cause this contaminant to migrate to places it doesn't belong, such as the rollers that grab the paper

A friend from Apple writes to clarify the LC III/FPU issue raised a while back in TidBITS #169. I understand the following to be the case: If there is no FPU on the motherboard, and none on the card, no problem. If there is no FPU on the motherboard, and there is one on the card, the system uses the one on the card, albeit at 16 MHz. If there is an FPU on the motherboard, and there is none on the card, the system uses the one on the motherboard, at 25 MHz. If there is an FPU on the motherboard, and there is one on the card, the system uses the one on the motherboard, at 25 MHz. The FPU on the motherboard, since it is physically linked to the CPU, takes priority, in a manner of speaking

I recently uploaded Easy View 2.32, the latest version of Akif Eyler's free structured text file browser. Easy View recognizes the following formats: setext, including TidBITS Info-Mac, comp.sys.mac.programmer, or similar digests Mail collections: Internet, Navigator, Notebook, etc. Text with "simple" format Dictionaries Plain text However, there's nothing new in that list - I just wanted to grab the interest of people who haven't yet come out from under their rocks to try Easy View

Are you experiencing strange line-noise problems with your modem sometimes, but not all the time? I'd like to share a recent experience and perhaps spare some of you the full agony of troubleshooting such a problem. One of my fellow user-group members and a user of my bulletin board, Memory Alpha, had been complaining that he could call CompuServe when his PowerBook's PowerPort/Gold modem was hooked to his upstairs phone jack, but when he plugged the PowerPort/Gold into his downstairs phone jack, his connections always failed; the screen quickly filled with garbage

by Shekhar Govind -- [email protected] editing by Craig O'Donnell -- [email protected] and Nick Rothwell -- [email protected] This Mac-MIDI musical offering is organized in three movements, an introduction and discussion of MIDI, a look at MIDI software on the Macintosh, and finally, some information on MIDI hardware, some of it specific to the Mac

ClarisWorks for Windows -- This week Claris announced the release of ClarisWorks for Windows, the company's second internally-developed Windows application

FirstClass Client for Windows -- SoftArc announced the Windows client for its graphical BBS FirstClass this week, promising features nearly identical to those in the Macintosh client, including asynchronous multiple file transfers, electronic mail, and conferencing

Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers Several months ago, Apple introduced a special bundle consisting of its 16" color monitor and an E-Machines DoubleColor SX graphics card

Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers As we reported in TidBITS #173, at last month's Seybold conference Apple introduced the Japanese Language Kit, the first product to take advantage of the company's WorldScript technology

VAMP (Vereniging Actieve Mac Programmeurs - Association for Active Mac Programmers), a Dutch non-profit association, is organizing a programming competition for After Dark module programers. Unlike similar contests sponsored by After Dark developer Berkeley -- Systems, VAMP will choose a winner based solely on programming creativity and skill, rather than visual aesthetics

Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers Readers who have an ADB model of the TelePort modem from Global Village Communication and are about to install one of Global Village's newer serial modems (the TelePort/Silver or TelePort/Gold) should be aware of problems with using both modems with one Macintosh. The first problem occurs when you install the TelePort serial software - the installer erases the TelePort ADB software during installation

I recently attended an interesting talk about PowerBooks in space. It was given by Bill Shepard, a NASA astronaut and shuttle crew member, who took a PowerBook 170 up with him on his flight last year