A Mac Business Toolbox
- Alphabet Soup (crawlspace) Mac Os Catalina
- Alphabet Soup (crawlspace) Mac Os Pro
- Alphabet Soup (crawlspace) Mac Os X
Mac OS X significantly changes the way your Mac deals with networks. After years of juggling multiple control panels, seemingly random collections of extensions, and network terms that read like alphabet soup, OS X has only 'Network,' a single panel in the System Preferences. Mac OS using PC Exchange stores its various dates, file attributes and long filenames in a hidden file called 'FINDER.DAT', and resource forks (a common Mac OS ADS) in a subdirectory called 'RESOURCE.FRK', in every directory where they are used. From PC Exchange 2.1 onwards, they store the Mac OS long filenames as standard FAT long filenames. Dalam seri tutorial ini, Anda akan belajar cara membuat Game Alphabet Soup minimalis. Tujuan dari permainan ini adalah untuk memungkinkan pemain untuk. In this tutorial series, you will learn how to create a minimalistic Alphabet Soup game. The goal of this game is to allow the player to pick words out from a jumbled set of letters.
Databases
A database system has to ensure accuracy. It has to be fast. And it has to scale well as the business expands. Those features are now taken as a given. To gain an edge, though, businesses ought to pay attention to database design :
- how you organise the data
- how you present information to an end user
- how you make it clear that there are controls available for digging deeper into the data
A good database design ought to make it easy for users to see patterns in the data - to review how they got from there to here, and decide where they want to go next. The computing environment, as a whole, has to make it easy for the users to extract data from the system, and re-use them in other tools that can help them communicate those plans.
A useful synergy exists if we can take things we learnt from desktop publishing and apply them to database design. There is a tradition in desktop publishing to pay attention to the use of fonts on a page, to the balance of white space versus text, and the use of colours, all in the service of helping people understand information with the minimum of effort.
In all the years of the PC's dominance, there was very little cross-over whereby corporate systems benefit from the refinements we have come to expect as readers and television viewers. With the Mac, however, even software developers pay attention to good interface design, simply because that is just the expected culture among the user base.
(There is a short article by Derrick Story at O'Reilly called, 'Rendezvous is French for JXTA'. To me, never is the gulf between the technologists and the human race more revealing than in the name given to quite similar technologies. Further proof, if you need, that Apple does get it.) |
Prior to OS X, there were less opportunities to demonstrate the value of that aesthetic sensitivity because we had less choices in databases. The databases created using FileMaker Pro were pretty to look at and easy to use, but they had limited conceptual power. For example, it was never possible to build an accrual-based (double-entry, rather than cash-based) accounting system using it. A posting to Income is often accompanied by a posting to Accounts Receivable. If one fails, due to deadlock for example, (remember, there are other processes updating the system at the same time) the other will have to be rolled back gracefully.
With OS X, we've now got powerful new tools at our disposal. We can install databases like MySQL, PostgresSQL, and Oracle natively on OS X (which is just another flavour of Unix). These are all first-class, scaleable, multi-user, fast, popularly-supported databases that can support mission-critical applications (we are now so buzzword-compliant). And of course, MySQL and PostgresSQL are gloriously free.
More importantly, with all these databases appearing on OS X, we are getting the drivers we need to connect front-end applications to databases. For example, we can now once again pull data out of Oracle (or MySQL) into Excel on OS X. This was a capability which languished in OS 9. With this feature on the Mac again, we can provide accountants, managers, and analysts with pre-packaged queries which they can use to extract data from corporate databases.
So the opportunity comes again, where we get the data circulating to where it could be better used. Now, this is where the IT industry can make a real contribution to business productivity - if we realise we're really in The Understanding Business, rather than in the technology business. If we realise that we're really in the business of helping people understand information better, we'll know how all the desktop publishing, digital media, and visual design tools fit within the larger scheme of things. Databases and networking form the plumbing. If we fit in a convoluted, difficult to use contraption for a tap, we'll never get the understanding flowing where it matters (no matter how much fun the technologists have playing with the plumbing).
Mac users and Mac developers are quite united in the understanding that good design matters. I believe we are only beginning to see the consequences being played out as former Unix/Linux geeks discover the Mac via OS X, absorb the culture's aesthetic sensibility, and deliver applications that combine power with simple usability.
Programming Environment
Let's say we agree that working within the traditions of the Mac will implicitly encourage an adherence to good design principles. And now, all the necessary plumbing are in place - databases, conformance to networking standards so that the Mac becomes a good corporate citizen, etc.. What other tools exist to create custom solutions for business users? We now turn to the OS X programming environment.
Objective-C. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, he brought along the NeXTStep software development environment, whose primary language was Objective-C. NeXTStep has since become Cocoa, and we can now also program in Cocoa using Java. But Cocoa remains a very productive development environment. What this means to users is that we are once again getting a lot of hot new products appearing first on the Mac, all coming from independent developers. Example : NetNewsWire. You can look up Version Tracker to get a feel for the pace of the innovation.
Java. Java is a god-send to OSX. Although Apple's own Objectice-C is arguably more elegant and productive as a programming language (Mac is better than PC; Betamax is better than VHS, etc..), the Java developer community is huge. As a developer, I am starved for access to databases, and I have drunk deep from the Java well. JDBC (Java Data Base Connectivity) drivers exist for so many databases, including Oracle and MySQL. They all work out-of-the-box on OS X. Java programs call these drivers in a consistent way. So you can swop in and out databases at will. (Check out Luca, an accounting system on OS X written using Java, Cocoa and MySQL).
PHP, Perl, etc.. These languages, which are a staple in the Unix/Linux world, are supported out of the box in OS X. If you need more recent releases than are provided in a stock OS X installation, or you need even more alternatives as to language and libraries, there is a project called Fink which has done a fantastic job of porting Unix/Linux applications onto OS X.
The point about listing all these alphabet soup of programming languages is to describe how the Mac is not isolated as a platform any more. If an OS X developer is at a loss as to how to implement a certain business solution, he has the whole Linux/Unix/Windows community on tap on who uses the exact same language as him. Just like on Windows or Linux, OS X-based systems are infiintely tweak-able. That should reassure the techie.
Yet the user base remains very cognizant of good design. Look up Perversion Tracker (a hilarious parody of Version Tracker) to see how poorly working software get mercilessly lambasted.
Project Management Software
Projectory. There is one Project Management System that was written specially for Mac OS X users, called Projectory by Corey Ehmke, but it will run on any platform with Apache, Perl, and MySQL installed. It was created completely on Mac OS X.
Web Servers
Apache. On OS X, when you turn on Personal Web Sharing, you are actually turning on Apache, the world's most popular web server. Once you modify the web pages, that's it. You move on.
But to the techie, there is a CGI-Executables folder (under /Library/WebServer) he can drag Perl scripts into that makes the web server even more useful, e.g., for hosting weblogs from the simple (Bloxsom) to the baroque (Moveable Type).
Actually, you can extend the capability of OS X's built-in web server to run Perl, PHP and AppleScript scripts and Java servlets, among others. The point here is that you have choice - lots of choice - to fashion a custom e-commerce solution to a business problem. Did you notice, Apache, PHP, Perl, Java are all license-free? There is a cost for the techie who does the custom work. But you get no Microsoft tax.
Mail Servers and Others
The 'free' theme continues when we look at offerings available for hosting the company mail server. SendMail, the veritable workhorse in the Unix world for e-mail servers, is built into OS X. You just have to know how to turn it on. If you need to run your own Domain Name Server, you guess it, that other work horse called BIND for DNS is also built in. All these on a plain-vanilla OS X installation.
Summary
Macs may be a little more expensive but Apple continues to make the most appealing hardware, in terms of looks, portability and usability. How else could they have gotten such a loyal customer base?
What we usually forget to add to the equation is the amount of robust applications that are built into the system out-of-the-box. These applications solve real-world problems and cost nothing to use.
It is ironic that in today's Internet-based world, a Mac user ends up with greater choices than a Windows user. A business whose applications run on Macs can move these over to Windows, Sun, Linux, IBM, HP hardware easily, depending on the trends the future holds. A Windows user using Windows-only applications like .Net is locked into Microsoft's proprietary architecture, no matter what advances emerge in the rest of the world.
A business should use the right tool for the right job. In a day when we have established standards at the Internet level, we only impoverish ourselves when we settle on the lowest common denominator. If we can find an edge to do things better, if we can find better ideas, don't you think we should at least give it a try?
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- ZoomFloppy
Alphabet Soup (crawlspace) Mac Os Catalina
- ZoomFloppy
- ZoomFloppy
ZoomFloppy
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Alphabet Soup (crawlspace) Mac Os Pro
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Product Description
Archive your Commodore floppies (and CMD HD partitions) to your contemporary PC, without the hassles of external parallel ports, IRQ settings, special adapters, bulky cables, or the alphabet soup of disk drive cable adapters. ZoomFloppy replaces all X*-1541 cables with a simple USB-based hardware device guaranteed to work with today's machines using today's multitasking operating systems. Simply plug into any free USB port, connect your CBM drive via a serial cable, and transfer data to or from your software collection.
Product Features
- Attach any CBM serial device to your PC, including printers
- Works with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
- Open Source solution, no vendor lock-in
- Active development community
- Minimal footprint, no external power supply needed
- Parallel access hardware support
NOTE: ZoomFloppy requires an IEC cable (sold separately), an IEEE cable if using the IEEE version and targeting IEEE drives (sold separately), and a USB to mini-USB cable (available at many computer stores).
More information is available at: http://www.go4retro.com/products/zoomfloppy/.
Stocking Note: The non-IEEE and the IEEE version differ only in the presence or absence of the IEEE connector. That said, they are stocked as two separate items and we are sometimes out of one or the other. If the IEEE version is out of stock, we can often solder connectors to the non-IEEE version, but the reverse is not true. Thus, if the non-IEEE version is showing as out of stock, please consider the IEEE version or check back, as we try to keep both in stock at all times
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Alphabet Soup (crawlspace) Mac Os X
Excellent
Posted by Scott on 26th Oct 2018
Does exactly as it says. I even connected it to a raspberry pi running VICE and it gives me full access to actual hardware. Its a little slow but it does work.
Fantastic device.
Dont touch that mac os. Posted by Unknown on 30th Sep 2018
Along with open CMB, nibtools and an additional parallel port in the 1541 drive, this device allows me to transfer .g64 or .nib images to real floppies for my c64, including their protection scheme.
Since I'm more interrested in old 1541 protection schemes than in the protected games, this device is the only one that let me do this.
A 'must have' in my opinion.ZoomFloppy, works great !
Posted by Carl HERVIER on 24th Aug 2018
Worked great for transferring my GEOS floppies.
i use 1571 drive for nibbler mode..
a very, very good product.Best product for the Commodore Computers
Posted by John S on 22nd Aug 2018
I have always wanted to archive my Commodore computer disks as I break them out about once a year to make sure they are still working. I take each disk out and make sure they still turn in the sleeve. If they were hard to turn I would put them in the C128 and get them loose again. Now I don't have to break out the disks and I can still play games on the PC or C128.
Backup those old floppies, use real disk drives with WinVICE
Posted by Unknown on 19th Aug 2018
A very nice piece of kit. I've had zero issues creating physical floppies from .D64 and .D80 images, as well as creating .D64 and .D80 files from actual floppies.
Do note that you will have to download and install the OpenCBM program to use it, but I found that easy to do. Torn apart mac os. If you want a case, you'll either have to make one or get one elsewhere as this is the board minus any case.
Seems to work a treat on Windows 10.
Pastured ewe mac os.Works fine
Posted by Glenn on 13th Aug 2018
Connects up and works fine with XP, now if I can just find the D64 files that work..
Writes great to 1541. Haven't tried 1571 yet.
I probably should have got all the other optional connectors added. You should consider it, it's better to have it than not.Fantastic gadget to transfer files from PC to Commodore 1541 Drive
Posted by Tomeu Capó Capó on 12th Aug 2018
Find any device to able to transfer disk images of C64, VIC20 or some PETs like 8032-SK and found ZoomFloppy. With this device can transfer disk image of PET software using 1541 disk drive. Great :)
Very pleased with the ZoomFloppy-hardware
Posted by Ikkie.org on 11th Aug 2018
The package arrived safe and in good order. When I tried the ZoomFloppy, I first got some problems with installing the drivers (due to not good reading the several documents). But after doing some good RTFM, it finally works with my 1571-drive. I could easily copy all my old CBM64 disks (and 1 Vic-20 disk). I have them in storage from at least the year 1987 and the _most_ of them were still readably error free. I copied all to my PC-Harddisk.
I love to thank Retro-Innovations for developing (and manufacturing) the ZoomFloppy. It was worth it to wait for it, even while some connectors had were not present at the moment of ordering.Great device!
Posted by Arno from Germany on 10th Aug 2018
Thanks for this great device! I have searched a long time for a working solution for backup my old floppydisks and I found the best working solution with ZoomFloppy! It was very awesome seeing that all my disks works even after more than 30 years! A big thank you for building these great devices for our 8bit-machines!
110% happy!!!
Posted by Jeffrey Grzanich on 29th Jul 2018
Recently put an order in for a couple of these, but had to wait as they were on back order status. Held out and waited patiently - glad I did.
They arrived, good communication from the seller, and guess what - It actually worked and worked very well. I had tried another version listed as 'XU1541' which had alot of issues and limited success.
Overall, I would have to say - if you need to transfer files from a PC to a commodore disk - this is the best there is!
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