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fadden <
thefadden@gmail.com> writes:
> I`m looking for a copy of the old AppleLink Conversion Utility
(ACU), which I`ve been
> calling the AppleLink Compression Utility but the manual says
otherwise. I managed to
> find a copy of AppleLink
> (
https://www.apple.asimov.net/images/gs/communications/AppleLink.zip), but
while it has an
> ACU.SYS16 that looks promising, it turns out just to be a note
telling you where to find
> the real thing online.
>
> Does a working copy of ACU still exist? I`ve looked through
various FTP sites and CD-ROM
> images. It got replaced by ShrinkIt almost immediately, so it
didn`t get much traction,
> and it seems like you could only get it by being an
AppleLink-PE subscriber, which cut
> distribution down significantly.
>
> On a related note...
>
> From that same directory, I ran ALINK.SYS16 instead, which got a
little strange. It
> starts out well enough, but if you click "work offline", you go
to an 80-column text mode
> desktop environment. It appears something is mis-configured, so it
only draws every-other
> column. The leftmost (column zero) is blank, as are all
even-numbered columns. The
> behavior was the same in old KEGS (v0.91, ROM 01) and GSplus
(v0.14, ROM 03). I haven`t
> tried it on a real IIgs.
>
> The behavior is the same whether you run it off of the floppy,
which boots ProDOS-16, or from GS/OS.
Shrinkit 3.4 can open ACU files ($e0/$8001), if that`s any help.
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