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File Compression software for Apple IIgs

I have two original disks, and only one original manual. The manual is twenty pages.

The FIRST BUYER will get the original manual, while the second buyer will get a photocopy of the manual.  I will also enclose a backup 3.5 disk of the software.

 

Price: 8.00 each set, plus $4.00 first class mail shipping.

Free local pickup available at Gallup NM 87301

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BIG DISCOUNTS

ON COMBINED SHIPPING!

(USA only)

Look at my other items also. If you buy two or more items at the same time, shipped together combined, you pay shipping only on the one item with highest shipping; other items shipped together get free shipping!

 

 

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INTERNATIONAL: SALES TO OTHER COUNTRIES

I will ship to other countries, but special conditions will apply:  Insurance is unavailable. Payment must be via PayPal, in U.S. dollars. I will mail to you separately the post office receipt as PROOF OF MAILING, but I cannot guarantee safe delivery (You, the buyer, must bear any risk of theft/loss from international mail.) The "extra items shipped combined are shipped free" rule applies only on shipments within USA;  for foreign shipments, the shipping cost is based on the actual combined total weight. Also, I must guess at the weight / postage cost. I will guess slightly high, but I will refund any excess amount paid for shipping/postage, to the buyer's PayPal account, after the item is mailed. [I must do it this way because a buyer in Thailand balked when I guessed low on postage and I tried later to collect the extra postage that was spent.]

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COMING SOON:  AUTUMN 2011:

THE COMPUTIST
The most controversial Apple II magazine!
The Computist was published for twelve years, 1981 to 1993, with 89 issues.
My collection of the magazines is 90% complete.
The magazine was controversial at the time because it focused
on softkey cracks --- removing copy-protection code from software.
You learn much about Apple II programming by reading its issues.
Check Wikipedia for the full story of The Computist.
Advertisers shyed away from it.
I will sell my Computist magazine collection this fall, when I locate
the large carton that contains the issues.
Its in my garage, and I expect to locate it during the Fall months.
The total collection will be sold as a lot.
Don't miss my ad!!!


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[The following is a Wikipedia historical essay on The Computist]
    The Computist was a magazine devoted to the Apple II personal computer that was published by Charles R. Haight under the SoftKey Publishing name, between 1981 and 1993, for a total of 89 issues. Originally launched as Hardcore Computing, the magazine was quickly split into two sister publications, Core and Hardcore Computist. The word "hardcore" was later given reduced emphasis in the title after a young subscriber complained that his mother was throwing the issues away, believing them to be pornography. The word was formally dropped from the title with the 27th issue. Only three volumes of Core were published: "All About Graphics", "Utilities" and "Home Computer Games." Originally, the "Games" topic was scheduled for Issue 4, but that issue was scrapped and "Games" became the theme for Issue 3. The "Databases" topic originally planned for Issue 3 later appeared as a feature article in Hardcore Computist #6. Core itself became a regular featured column in Hardcore Computist.
    While it was billed as a magazine "for the serious user of Apple computers," in fact much of the narrative content in Computist was devoted to the removal of copy protection from Apple software. At the time, it was commonplace for software publishers to prevent users from making copies of software by distributing the programs on floppy disks that had been written with a modified version of Apple DOS. Each issue of Computist included several "softKeys," short code snippets and instructions designed to circumvent software copy protection routines. Many of the softkeys were based on sector-edits, using popular copy programs such as Copy II Plus. In a sector-edit, a specific location in the software program would be located and a small section changed and written back into the program. Often these SoftKeys were designed to be used in conjunction with a program called Super IOB, which could reconstruct the publisher's DOS modifications, circumventing the copy protection for a particular program or group of programs. The Super IOB program partially automated the kracking procedure with a wide variety of copy-protected software. Typically, following the steps in a published softKey resulted in a disk free of protection, which could be duplicated with any disk copier, such as Apple's COPYA program.
    Early in its run, Computist was the subject of controversy, when other computer magazines of the day (notably Nibble, Creative Computing and Compute!) refused to run ads for Haight's publications, citing their unwillingness to promote what they viewed as the facilitation of widespread software piracy; (they had also vetoed ads for bit copy programs, such as Essential Data Duplicator (E.D.D.) and Locksmith). Letters debating the merits of piracy versus the free exchange of information and the right of users to make legitimate backups of their programs, were exchanged between Haight and the other editors; several of these appeared in early issues of Hardcore Computist. When Creative Computing later closed down, Computist ran an obituary in Issue 28, reprinting one of its previous articles about the debate, as well as a response from a CC editor, George Blank.
    The magazine changed publishing formats several times, going from a thick cardboard-style cover with color graphics, to lighter paper stock covers with expanded content and increased page count; and finally to a large format (11" by 17") newspaper style publication. This last, beginning with issue 66, was intended as a cost-saving measure as subscriptions and reader contributions began to fall off with the waning popularity of the Apple II line. The final issue (#89) listed only four contributors, including Krakowicz, whose "submission" was nothing more than a section of his series on cracking protected software that had been circulating the BBS community for a while.


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