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1. on w nta tin gether Ci Keep with ne O Keep lines to ETE Single Space Double Space vOpen Space Otett O Right OCentered Justified formats 8M Tabs xI s left sOCenter ORight O Decimal Figure 4 The Document Menu includes three sub menus Layout command MacWrite placed at also place Division Footnote and Running Head and the Repaginate Command J Running Heads replace both Header and Footer commands as they can be the top or bottom of a document You can page number in the head The default pagination if you select automatic numbering is placed at the upper right hand side of the document Division Layout allows you to select where you want to breaks to occur e g column page etc You can select the Page Number Form e g numeric Roman Alphabetic You select where you want the footnotes and the running head to appear and the number of columns for printing 50 May 1985 amp Auto numbeted Reference or Footnote Reference Mark a Division Layout Break Paga Number Format O Continuous Numeric O Column O Nomen upper O Roman tower Footnotes Appear O Alphabetic upper On Same Page O Alphabetic lower O At End of Division Footnote RE Running Head Repaginate nuto Page Numbering From top ER From Left 7 25 Stort Page Numbers At I Running Head Position From Top fr
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3. 32 Ryan Charlene 43 Paragon Technologies Inc eg wee ee 200 Fefer Cyril 30 Swift Lloyd 26s 56 Peripherals Plus eee ee ee 23 Field Bruce F 8 Sall George 40 Robins Inc 1 ee ee ee ee ees e 4 21 Gardner John We 2 48 Thal Jay Me ov 0 av 15 Salmagundi Ltd ees 6 ee ee ee eee 5 Gaugler Ted 4 36 Thal lan M s os sw w 10 Tysons Corner Center 2 ee eee 7 Goldsamt Milton R 14 Trusal LyanR w 55 VF Associates so cet eb sere eas 13 Graham Jim 52 Velke Bob 2 42 Voad Systems e Inside Front Hardis Jonathan E 59 62 Vitak George Mc 16 Wheaton Plaza ee ee ee et ew ee 23 Harvey Dave 17 Walker Bonnie 49 Hayman Gary E 14 Wartow Ronald 33 Husick Lawrence A 40 64 May 1985 Washington Apple Pi Ke Compare C OMPUTER WARE UNLIMITED to Anyone else ACCOUNTING The Accountant 67 The Accountant 5 0 88 AR AP GL PR Cont ea 165 AR AP PR BPI ea 260 Church Management BPI 260 Dollars and Sense 69 General Accounting BPI 260 Home Accountant 51 Inventory Control BPI 260 COMMUNICATIONS ASCII Express Pro 88 P Term Pro 88 Z Term Pro 102 DATA BASE Data Factory 6 0 158 DB Master 160 Perfect Filer 119 PFS File Graph Report ea 86 Record Master 40 EDUCATION Algebra 1 2 3 4 Algebra 5 amp 6 Barron s SAT Basic Skills Body Awareness Cause amp Ef
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5. A final note on performance Creative Calc took six seconds to recalculate a sheet with only seven columns and 14 rows containing only entries no functions Creative Writer With so many word processors both high and low cost on the market there is no dearth of comparisons to make with Creative Writer Creative Writer is a RAM limited word processor in that any one file can be no larger than will fit in memory at one time Documents can be linked together when printed however thus allowing you to handle larger material This is not a what you see is what you get program On the screen you only see the text Format ted material such as page numbering justification or headers appears only on the printed page not on the screen as you edit your material You can get an impression of what the text will look like through a preview option which presents you with a high resolution picture of what a single page will look like ala HomeWord This display does not contain text only horizontal lines representing the approxi mate lay out of each page Creative Writer allows you to create a form letter and merge data from Creative Filer thereby allowing you to conduct a mail merge Margins and justification are set using embedded commands as with Apple Writer or ScreenWriter Each line to be centered must begin with a Ctri key sequence While you can tell Creative Writer to underline or boldface I have not figured out how to te
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7. 21 92 94 The pawn attacks the Bishop all right but the pawn isn t supported by anything and Black can capture it and still retain his other threat such as it is Worse after the capture Sargon s pawns on that side of the board are not only fewer but also much weaker to boot What I think happened here is that Sargon seems to approach every position as though he were born into it he doesn t seem to have any recollection of the history of the game Sargon sees that he is way ahead in material but he also notices that his Knight is under attack and both of the possible squares it can move to will result in its capture Sargon therefore concludes that he will lose the Knight and he will have less material than he has now What he doesn t realize is that he has actually traded the Knight for a better piece He doesn t remember that the Knight has served its purpose nobly and doesn t realize that it s now time to move on to other things I watched Sargon carefully as he thought about this position and he pondered endlessly over various fan tastic plans to save the wretched Knight The more he pondered however the more he came to the conclusion that his advantage was about to shrink from 569 to contd Washington Apple Pi approximately 300 a distressing prospect for him Sargon was obsessed with the plight of his Knight so much so that he used up almost all his time for the move and ended up pushing his pawn after onl
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9. The main features the AE product has that the ALF does not include the four channel output 16 simultaneous voices four of which are white noise generators The white noise can be used to produce percussion like sounds The ALF synthesizer plays 9 voices through 2 channels A utility program is provided to convert ALF songs to AE songs but not vice versa The AE system lists for 159 The ALF synthesizer has been out for several years at least since 1980 Two sets of disks containing ready to play songs are sold seperately for 30 a set Each set contains five disks Also available is another utility disk containing various programs to aid in song composition and manipulation ALF provides more documentation and music theory than AE The ALF sys tem lists for 75 Both products are very good for the money and you can t go wrong with either one May 1985 33 MIEROSDFT BASIC by Robert C When the Apple JL was first introduced BASIC was the programming language most widely available on micro computers Hence it was the most widely used Com puter Science has advanced a great deal since then and so called structured programming languages are now available on micros Hence if you re sophosti cated enough to own a Mac you probably smart enough to use Pascal or Modula 2 and leave BASIC to the computer history museums Yet should you wish to program in BASIC on the Mac or even use a CP M card on an Apple JC you will n
10. by David Thin Mac owners are anxious to have access to the power of the 512K machine and I was no exception But door to door delivery I never expected Who is S2LS see their ad on page 49 of the April Journal and why are they offering such a good price to fatten Macs Two people T K the Executive VP and Eli the VP for software R amp D appeared at my home at 9 00 on a Saturday morning to take my Mac in for minor surgery By Sunday night Mac was back 384K fatter and in fine shape having had a 24 hour test to insure she could remember things Now I too could run all those programs which need more than 128K of memory can provide It turns out that S2LS is the business creation of a group of students at the University of Maryland Most of the participants are in computer science or elec trical engineering They have recently opened a small office in Bethesda but the hardware upgrades may be performed in many of their homes Everyone that I have met has been serious and enthusiastic They seem to me to be committed to doing a quality upgrade and providing any necessary support although my 512K machine has worked perfectly without a hitch While the official Apple upgrade consists of a board swap S2LS removes the old 64K chips and inserts high quality gold plated sockets and new 256K chips into your existing board Of course this method voids your warranty and would probably be considered only by people with a ninety day old
11. horizon Anything sound famil far about that word Another way of looking at Sargon s actions is that faced with the immediate loss of the Knight Sargon found a series of things to do that would push the impending loss of the piece beyond his thinking horizon in effect exhibiting another dark side of the horizon effect There is an old maxim in chess that the threat is stronger than the execution In several games I have seen Sargon play an unexecuted threat turned out to be Sargon s execution I urge you to keep this in mind the next time you play Sargon III or a comparable program Good luck and show no mercy amp 7 Paragon Technologies Inc 4 1 i ae A offers classes in our IBM PC laboratory and Apple lle laboratory in McLean Getting Started With The Micro Computer VISICALC LOTUS 4 2 3 d Base II WordStar Programming in BASIC Computer assisted SAT preparation All classes are hands on with one person per computer Call 556 9659 or write to us P O Box 6128 McLean Virginia 22106 Disks Accessories Maxell Verbatin Flip Nfile 50 SSO 17 Flip File 15 DSDD 24 Amaray 50 Wabash Ring King 70 SSSD 12 50 SSOD 13 50 0500 15 Head Head Cleaning Kit 31 2 SSDD 30 Verbatin Head Cleaning Kit Elephant MX 100 Ribbon Cartridge KX 80 Ribbon Cartridge Prowriter Ribbon Cartridge SSDD 16 Prowriter Premium Cart BASF 3 1 2 5 pack Bkidata Gemini 10X Rib 1 75 SSD 1
12. Get better quality from your Image writer with the new multistrike matrix film ribbon Available at Robins 595 for only ALSO FITS C ltoh Prowriter 8500 8510 NEC 8023 amp DEC LA50 Add a little color to your life with color cloth ribbons Your choice e Blue e Green e Red e Brown Regular black cloth ribbons 595 495 Hours Monday thru Friday 9 00 5 00 amp Saturday 10 00 4 00 8304 Hilltop Road Fairfax VA 22031 560 5900 Specialists in personal computer supplies and equipment May 1985 21 SORE VEIS by Bavid Morgan Creative Calc Writer amp Filer Creative Software For the Apple 10 J e c Price about 50 00 each These three programs are sold separately or together in a single box They provide the most common busi ness functions needed on a microcomputer spreadsheet word processing and data base operations I found them to be a reasonable low cost alternative but not as fully integrated as the box cover might lead you to believe They would be chosen more for home use than for a business application since spending a few more dollars would result in greatly expanded capability Let s begin with an examination of each program and then see how they fit together Creative Calc Assuming that most of you have used spreadsheet before let s compare Creative Calc with competing programs As a low cost alternative two important questions to be asked are What does it give up and how i
13. Single Input The device you re using for input should be the only device you should have to use If it s a mouse for instance the mouse alone should let you do whatever is needed except typing text say Some programs require that you enable and dis able the drawing implement by pressing one or more keys press Space say to turn on drawing press it again to turn off drawing It is also nice however to be able to use the keyboard as an alternative input device see below Drawing It is desirable to have a wide range of drawing utilities free hand lines and curves Free hand drawing on the rather poor resolution of even the high resolution screen is a disappointment at first Hence it is almost necessary to have help Line drawing is a common feature You anchor a point on screen and then move the cursor to another point A line appears connecting the points and keeps moving as you move the cursor until you pin the line down whereupon it becomes a permanent part of the drawing Curve plotting is done by placing dots on screen and then on command connecting them to one another one of the nicest drawing features I ve ever encountered Shapes Most software provides methods for drawing circles and rectangles It is nice to have in addi tion the ability to draw ovals and parallelograms as well I ve yet to encounter a program that will let you draw circles from other than a frontal perspective
14. WiacGORNER Services 512K Upgrade amp RamDisk 375 Maxell Fuji Memorex SSDD box 10 ler SEE 5 Viken Peers ke Haba Drive 800K 1 Meg upg Video apg call MacTablet Summagraphics All conversions amp Upgrades performed in Portable 300b Modem Kensignton house Includes 120 day Warranty TurboTouch Assimilation Extended warr contracts are also available ThunderScan Par Ergotron Stand Drive Holder Networkin Corvus OmniDrive 5 5 meg MicroDesign Hard Drives Private Eye I O Video Okidata 92 Citizen Printers MacPhone intermatrix MacVision Koala Macintosh Peripherals 189 445 45 4339 call call XL Serve Inphosphere WOS MultiUser D Base gt each additional user Corvus OmniDrv 45 meg GP Hardisk Acct Multiuser lomega 5 to 20 meg Servers MacEnhancer Microsoft Popcom 1200 P Modesm amp Straight Talk The Bsrnoul Box 5 msg cartridges tsa Home Education Filevision Dollars amp Sense Forecast MusicWorks DaVinci 1 2 3 ea MS Logo Mind Probe Prollesional Composer Home Mac Accnin SAT hayden Entertainement MacAttack Squire VideoWorks Make Millions Tycoon Hitchhiker s Guide Sargon I AirBorne Ultima 1 lomega 119 95 97 95 48 95 49 95 32 95 94 97 32 95 379 95 94 95 69 95 Hours M Th Ilam 8pm F 9am 5pm Sat 9am 4pm The Washington Apple Pi above created using 359 95 1389 00 54 95 The MacCORNER is finally here It
15. by the U S Chess Federation in my last serious game against a human chessplayer I lost in embarrassingly short order You ll have to decide for yourself whether I m talking through my hat but I think I ve spotted a number of weak spots in Sargon s play and there s no reason that you should not attempt to take advantage of them After all Sargon has been programmed to slit your throat and then dance in your blood and ft s about time that you started to return the favor For the purposes of this discussion I will assume that you are playing Sargon III at Level 3 where he moves fairly quickly but still gives quite a bit of thought If however you are the kind of player the white pieces arrives at this type of es to his moves who with 24 May 1985 then I don t think this article will really be of much practical use to you Sargon s program is sufficient ly strong at almost any level to crush you Basic Chess Strategy If you are not already comfortable with the game of chess you need first to defend yourself against Sar gon s meaner instincts by attempting to do the following e Fight for control of the center of the board by attacking the central squares with your pawns and pieces This area is the strategic high ground of the chessboard and by controlling it you can move your pieces in the shortest route to take advantage of situations that come up on either wing If you con trol the center you can also
16. hope 450 REM And the answer is 460 Once I knew that it was possible to make my Thunder 470 VTAB 16 PRINT The year is Y X clock give me the year detail as well as the rest of 480 END its information I had to write a program which did it The listing which will run under either DOS 3 3 or ProDO S shows an example of the way in which the 300 REM Replace lines 300 350 with these to get data year can be found Rather than write a program which from the clock card reads the card I have allowed the current month day 310 PRINT CHR 4 PR 2 REM Card in Slot 2 of month and day of week details to be read from the 320 PRINT CHR 4 I1N 2 keyboard This allows various different dates to be 330 INPUT 4 MO DW DT HR MN SEC fed in testing that the program actually works 340 PRINT CHR 4 PRAO REM Restore screen 350 PRINT CHR 4 INFO amp When you are satisfied that it does substitute the new lines 300 350 for those in the original listing making sure that you change the slot number to the Pt mmo eo slot number in wh teh you have your Thunderclock and EALE lt 7 S E igi im E the routine is ready to be included in your larger EN a P program For a limited time only Anderson Jacobson is offering You will now be able to automatically print the full their refurbished daisy wheel printer advertised on date and time just like ProDOS If you are still the back of the WAP Journal at a special low price to using yo
17. language programming do If you are interested genuinely interested in learning more about Assembly language I will be teaching a 9 session tutorial on this subject in Fairfax county starting in May June 1985 I plan to cover the following material o Syntax of the allowable opcodes and operands o Selected portions of the F8 ROM code o Selected portions of the Applesoft ROM code Please call me at 703 569 2294 if you are inter ested even if you only think you are interested Let s talk about your particular interests in Assembly language As an instructor my only wish is to convey the knowledge you seek amp VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND The College of Library and Information Services CLIS at the University of Maryland College Park has a small information processing laboratory and admini sters a larger facility for the division of Human and Community Resources There are about sixteen micro computers Apple e IBM PC XT and a moderate amount of software including telecommunications and a local area network The College is interested in finding volunteer retired seniors who are residents of Prince Georges County to help to extend the operating hours of the facilities by providing security for hardware and software and by giving varying amounts of first aid assistance to computer users Computer tutorials training and hands on computer experience with many software packagae
18. yet you will constantly want to turn your circles this way and that and won t be permitted by the soft ware Brushes The ability to use brushes of different size point wide slab several points symmetrically arranged random collection of points etc is a nice feature especially for erasing some malformed part of the drawing Erasing with a single pixel brush is very tedious Surface Some programs permit you to draw on back grounds of any color one usually selects black or white Others restrict you to a white surface only so that you cannot draw on black with a white pen In such a case inverting a white picture with black drawing to create a black picture with a white drawing 12 May 1985 Program Features will work of course but you don t see what you will get while you are drawing it Color You should be able to draw in any color not just black white blue red violet and green Some software restricts you to those primaries and hence limits the special effects achievable by drawing in t concocted colors i e mixtures of the primaries White and Black The Apple has two different whites and two different blacks White One is produced when two bits of a byte are on are 1 and the high bit of the byte is off 00011000 for instance will produce a White One dot on the screen White Two works the same way but the byte s high bit must be on 10011000 Black is produced by zeroed bits in
19. 195 1 1 1 I Gonealog Ii 39 4 I Disk t 1 48K I 2 250 I I Yas Yost l Ts I 1 TL 1 1 1 1 70 I t I Gonealog 80 39 T 1 I Dlsk t 1 48K I 0 250 1 I Yes Yes 1 15 1 1 tr i l 1 I 70 I 1 t I Genesis 80 42 1 384 Olsk 2 48K I 15 658 1 I Yes Yosi Yesi 3 1 1 tt 180 I 139 1 t t I Genesystems 43 183 1 Disk 2 48 K I 2 653 Rel I Yes Yest Yesl t I I I l t I l 129 1 I I I Heritage 48 I 1 3 4 I Diska I 32K I 2 160 1 Rel I Yes Yest l 13 I I Yes Tr 1 I 24 I 1 I I Heritage 48 I 48 4P I Olsk 2 I 68K I 2 350 Rel 1 I Yesi Yest 14 vest 1 9 1 35 I 1 t I Soundex 59 I 183 I Olsk I AK I I Other I 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 io de al 1 I 19 I 1 i Famity Troe 64 I 384 roska 1 32K 1 2 100 I 1 I Yost Yosi 13 1 1 1 rt 1 80 1 30 I 2 I 1 I TI 9974A t I MEMORY t GEN 1 DB Is INDEXS gt ICHARTS gt 14GENI1 D ILIST lt gt 1 CRIHOT 140801 PURCI SHIPILANG I PRODUCT NAME I SUB TYPEIDISK TAPE REQUIRED I PER DISKIR H T O ISUR IFNAMIPED IFGS IBLNKICHRTIMETHINAMEIMAILIFILDILINEIDISPI COSTI COSTIUAGE I Gonealogical Wrkshop 36 1 i Disk t I 48K I 130 1 T I t i Yosi 1 I 1 I 4 J 71807150 I incl 1 I Your Ancestors 63 1 I Disk I 16 TI 128 1 trea 1 T Yesi 1 T4 i 1 1 T 1 1 l 15 I 1 I 38 May 1985 Washington Apple Pi AN 63 GENEALOGIA 05 S COMPANY ADORESSES 63 Ancestry Link Tho Accoloratod Logic 108 East 38th St 90 New York NY 10016 20 Fanlly Roots Quinsept Inc P O Box 16 Lexington MA 0217
20. 49 35 Sensible Speller IV 005 or PRODOS versions 79 The Word Plus super spelling checher for CP K 95 SPREADSHEETS Multiplan state of the art spreadsheet 75 SuperCalc 3a powerful spreadsheet for the JCe 135 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT dBASE II w ZIP screen generator 00 289 pfs File Report or Graph cece ee cree ween 7 The General Manager 2 0 ccc cece eee eee ees 149 Thinktank electronic thought organizer 95 DB Haster 4 latest version 2 cece eee eee 185 BUSINESS amp ACCOUNTING Dollars amp Sense accounting w graphics 69 amp 79 Peachtree Peachpak GL AR API all three 229 Back ta Basics Accounting GL AR AP each 59 BPI Accounting GL AR AP PAY INVENTORY 245 COMMUNICATIONS Ascii Express Professional for 005 3 3 80 Z tera Professional for CP M ccc cee eee 90 CompuServe Starter Kit password amp 5 free hours 29 LANGUAGES Microsoft TASC Applesoft coapiler 000 119 Fortran 80 06 eat eee 125 Terrapin Logo TE IRET 65 0005 amp ENDS Kensington System Saver Fan w surge protector 66 Kraft Joystick TG Joystick Hayes Mach III 35 35 39 KoalaPad Graphics Tablet with graphics software 85 Flight Siaulator II PENES ET EREE 36 Print Shop EEE E ET S EEEE avererser G F
21. 6 President David Morganstein 301 972 4263 Vice Pres Programs Tom Warrick 301 656 4389 Vice Pres SIGs Bob Platt 806 353 9723 Treasurer Edward Myerson 703 759 5479 Secretary Nancy Little 301 762 3215 Directors Bernie Benson 301 951 5294 Peter Combes 301 251 6369 J T Tom DeMay Jr 301 779 4632 Bruce Field 301 340 7038 Nancy Philipp 301 924 2354 Jay Thal 202 244 3649 Rich Wasserstrom 703 893 9147 Editor Bernie Urban 301 229 3458 Associate Editor Genevie Urban 301 229 3458 Journal Staff Advertising Scott Mirman 301 977 3679 Frank Street 301 493 5643 Store Distrbtn Ray Hobbs 301 490 7484 Columnists Apple Charlene Ryan 703 836 0463 DisabledSIG Jay Thal 202 244 3649 EDSIG Peter Combes 301 251 6369 LISA SIG John Day 301 672 1721 SigMac Ellen L Bouwkamp 703 979 4356 Pascal PIG Mike Hartman 301 445 1583 Q amp A Bruce Field 301 340 7038 Telecomm Dave Harvey 703 527 2704 VisiCalc Walt Francis 202 966 5742 Review Coord Jim Burger day 202 293 7170 Hardware Scott Rullman 301 779 5714 Software Raymond Hobbs 301 490 7484 Disketeria Staff John Malcolm 301 384 1070 Dave Weikert Joy Aso Ed Lang Jim amp Nancy Little Pat Foreman Gordon Stubbs John DeMarco Andy Gallant Allen Knapp Shirley Weaver 301 229 5118 Fred Edwards John Dyer 703 538 5636 Tony Anderson 301 277 0386 Rich Wasserstrom 703 893 7143 Evenings 7 0
22. Fonts which I can access from any application program Below you can see how many Desk Accessories and Fonts I currently have in the System file Getting back to S2LS their company is experimenting with some interesting developments that they may be offering to the public at some time They are exploring the possibility of building a 512K board that will fit in your Fat Mac giving you a megabyte of RAM They are working on connecting 20 to 400 megabyte hard disks to the Mac as well Recall that washington Apple Pi MAE MorGanstein the Apple I was developed in a garage by people of lesser years of experience Who knows what we shall see from S2LS in the future Fattening Your Mac ESE Haba Window Dialer WAPIO MockUWrite Toronto Key Caps Seattle Calendor San Francisco Habe Quick Finder Los Angeles Print Greek Magnifying Glass Diskinfo 12c Scrapbook New York Alarm Clock Monaco Note Pad Venice Control Panel London Puzzle Athens Desk Accessories PROGRAMMERS SUB S IG by Jonathan Hargis If you want to do serious programming in the Macintosh environment you should attend the SigMac meetings on the first Thursday of each month at Our Lady of Lourdes School 7500 Pearl Street Bethesda at 7 30 PM At these meetings we discuss Macintosh internals and other issues of interest to program developers The next meeting will be on May 2 To put Inside Mac intosh into perspective we will take as an e
23. J Finkelstein 301 652 9375 Monitor RGB Color John Day 301 672 1721 Jay Jones Balt 301 969 1990 Operating Systems Communications Packages and Hodems Telecom Apple DOS Richard Langston 301 869 7466 Anchor Hark 12 George Kinat 7 10 202 546 7270 John Love 703 569 2294 Jeremy Parker 391 229 2578 Richard Unt fed 609 596 8816 Apple Modems John Day 301 672 1721 CP H Robert Fretwell 703 971 2621 ASCII Express Dave Harvey 703 527 2704 Ray Hobbs 301 490 7484 Marv Redd 301 944 2150 Leon Raesly 301 460 0754 Barry Fox BBS 703 553 0821 Pronos Richard Langston 301 869 7466 BIZCOMP Modem Jeremy Parker 301 229 2578 John Love 703 569 2294 General Tom Nebiker 216 867 7463 Hayes Smartmodem Bernie Benson 301 951 5294 Printers Smartcom I Harmon Pritchard 301 972 4667 Genera Walt Francis 202 966 5742 VISITERH Steve Wildstrom 301 564 0039 Leon Raes ly 301 460 0754 XTALK CP M Comm Bernie Benson 301 951 5294 Apple Color Plotter John Day 301 672 1721 Apple Dalsy Wheel John Day 301 672 1721 Computers Specifice Apple Dot Matrix Joan B Dunham 301 585 0989 Apple c John Day 301 672 1721 Dalsywriter 2000 BITT Etue 703 620 2103 Jorge Osterling 703 671 5797 Henry Greene 202 363 1797 Scott Rullman 301 779 5714 10S 460 Jeff Stetekluh 703 521 4882 Apple e Scott Ruliman 301 779 5714 Imagewriter John Day 301 672 1721 LISA Hac XL John Day 301 672 1721 Scott Rullman 703 779 5714 Don Kornreich 301 2
24. Macintosh Imagewriter Taurus One 05 Macquisition software and Micro soft s Multiplan and Basic for the grand sum of 6 600 or 240 a month for a 3 year lease The Macquisition software itself lists for 695 and is contained on a single 3 5 inch floppy disk The software requires only a 128K MAC and 1 disk drive but since Macquisition software and the required system folder occupy about 320K a second drive greatly increases memory for data storage The pro gram also functions on the 512K Mac and the Macintosh XL operating under MacWorks It is also necessary to have Microsoft s Multiplan which is required for data collection and analysis and Microsoft Basic which is the language of Macquisition P contd May 1985 55 The user first sets up Multiplan templates called Application Output and Analysis The application template serves as an instruction sheet controlling which data are collected and how they are collected Such things as the sequence for data collecting trigger information the number of readings to be taken and the duration between samples may be chosen Macquisition reads this information into the application template and translates that into commands for the Taurus front end Macquisition then executes these commands and collects data into the output template The analysis template may then be superimposed on the output template in order to display both collected data and
25. Michael Wiesenberg ReadySetGo version 1 0 1 by Manhattan Graphics Corporation 163 Varick Street New York NY 10013 212 924 2778 RSG lists for 125 but is widely available for less td contd May 1985 53 54 Start Across Start Down Width Depth Para Indent Left indent File Edit AE font Size Style Special tent Figure 1 Figure 2 Tent Block Specifications 10 2778 in Just Tabs 3 0000 in OL GJ Dec Inches 5 4167 lin Oc OR O in Spacing O 0 5000 Jin single O 0 0000 Jin O 1 1 2 O Cancel O Double O Figure 3 file Edit Create font Size Style Special ae MONTHLY PUI OF THE WSHS BAN saamntmnngonecevoreenne watt Congratulations to all four bands for thetr truly outstanding performance ni a Et PRESIDENT S COLUMN at 3 1 E by Tom Burgess Mon 1 Bardi the recent District Band Festival at Stonewall Jackson High School The weekend of Ban March B and 9 proved to be the most successful two days for the Woodbridge bands Thurs 4 8 Sprin possdhy without precedent in the county fri 12 14 AN Nor th 4i The groups were adjudicated on technique balance blend intonation flisat 20 Solo precision and overall musicianship The judges were tough but Mr Zolman and Mrs Grat Garnmon Chiaramonte had our musicians up for the ocoasion and they never played tues 23 Conce 4 lbetter AN four bands Vars
26. One Resident Program software and then put it away again Programs that are not fully resident the color fill portion say must load every time you want to fill make working on a one drive system a pain in the neck My graphics station is on my second Apple which has but one drive so I know Natural Input Mode Finally the software should permit you to use some device for input that comes as close to pencil and paper as possible The best input methods are pens of some kind working on a surface and I prefer a flat surface myself The input mode is less important when you only do an occasional drawing for the fun of it But when you have to make twenty or thirty at a crack you want to go with long grooved habits and be easy on the old arm COMMENT ON DPAZZLE PRAW by Milton R Goldsamt I was recently trying to shop for because of the DAZZLE DRAW generally excellent reviews it has received such as in the latest BYTE magazine and in the March issue s WAP ABBS comment However I found that two computer stores were selling apparently dif ferent Apple e versions One store had its version of Dazzle Draw in a package which stated as a requirement not recommended for use with RGB moni tors while the other store s version did not have this restriction printed on the otherwise identical package I was trying to please my sons who enjoy art very much and so I called Broderbund in San Rafael CA who
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29. You can order a backup for 10 00 but that doesn t solve the problem file Edit View Speclol ar pH Htorosofl Word i Word Help Printer Drivers 369K ta disk Mie si Search Character ish Le Document WORD FINALLY RELEASED IN EARLY FEBRUARY A SECOND CHOICE AT LAST BY BONNIE L WALKER owners now have another choice In word processing from THE BOTTOM LINE for 129 88 e substantial savings over the 195 00 list price WORD runs on ellhaer e 128K or 512K Mec I am using it on the 512K After a week or so of adjusting to the differences between HecWrite and WORD I began to really enjoy this program Figure 1 WORD has six menus Figure 1 shows the menus and the WORD ruler with its tabs and margin markers You add Washington Apple Pi Microsoft s WORD was finally released in corly February Macintoshi I ordered my copy a tab by clicking on the bottom line of the Ruler The margin on the left allows you to select a line by clicking You can select a word by double clicking anywhere in it You can select a paragraph to perform functions under the PARAGRAPH Menu by placing the insertion point anywhere in that paragraph To the right of the screen is the vertical scroll bar with a split bar the heavy black line at the top which you can click and drag to wherever you want the split to be to see two parts of a document at once At the bottom of t
30. ad gave only an 800 number for ordering and a post office in Pennsylvania as a mailing address Given that the price is similar to that being charged for hard disks on other machines the ad raised my eyebrows only because the price was so much lower than anything that ran on Apple equip ment While I can t guarantee the supplier will be around next year the product is real and performs quite well They offer a 15 day free home trial which should give you ample time to decide for yourself Based on my own experience I suspect they have had few returns A representative from FCP is scheduled to attend our April meeting and provide more back ground on the company The installation software allows you to use the Sider with any of the following operating systems DOS 3 3 Pascal both versions 1 1 and 1 2 CP M and Prodos Two different CP Ms are supported version 2 23 and PCPI s version for the Applicard You must reserve a small amount of space for each of these operating systems even if you are only using one For example if you work only with DOS 3 3 you must dedicate about one half a Megabyte for the other three unused operating systems When formatting the disk you will find that a little over 500K is needed by FCP s moni toring software and sector marks Taking these two losses together a DOS 3 3 only hard disk has a little under 9 Megabytes of available storage equivalent to 63 floppies worth This loss in overhead is common
31. capabilities If you know of any equipment which can serve our needs please contact Bernie Urban Bernie 2 May 1985 CORNER tein A ie has been lugging computers around to various vendors to see what the displays look like in an effort to meet our needs and he would welcome any assistance in his search Volunteers Needed Volunteer Coordinator We are looking for someone who can help co ordinate volunteers This person would keep up on the needs for volunteer help and try to connect the volunteer with the job About six hours a month should do it most of which would be on the phone You need to make sure that the volunteer understands what is needed and check with them period ically to see if they need any help Facilities Coordinator Jim Taylor who has worked with Chet Pletzke at the USUHS to schedule facilities is being transferred away from the DC area We want to extend a sincere thank you to Jim He has taken the time to be at practically every meeting and to work with the USUHS staff and the guards to make sure every meeting met the needs of the membership We are looking for another USUHS or Naval Hospital employee who can provide the kind of liaison Jim has given Disketeria Helpers We need a volunteer to be the new disk librarian for Eamon disks and a volunteer to screen and prepare donation ware disks If you can help call John Malcolm or leave a message for him at the office Vote Counters During late M
32. connector Once the jumper blocks have been 18 May 1985 APPLE DeMay Jr installed the baud rate switches set and the ribbon cables connected you are ready to insert the card The usual precautions should be observed turning off the computer grounding yourself to dissipate any possible static charge and locking the cat in the bathroom etc Since the MULTI I 0 card is compatible with several modems and printers the interface cables required to connect them should come with the devices TESTING THE MULTI I 0 CARD When you are satisfied that everything has been con nected properly you are ready to test the new card There is a tutorial and several useful utility pro grams supplied in ProDOS format This may be a problem for those with Apple J s with less than 48K Are there still 48k Apples The programs can probably be modified to work with DOS 3 3 The utilities are accessed from a menu Option I is the tutorial which is not at all a tutorial by my definition but an explanation of the other portions of the utilities program Option 2 determines which devices are in which logical slots and displays that information It can be used to verify that you have configured the MULTI I 0 card as you wanted Option 3 provides an easy way to set or read the time and date from the clock calendar The next two options 4 and 5 are designed to work with the Imagewriter and com patible printers The former is a text file listing uti
33. edition of IM there will be more revisions before the A W edi tion is published this summer However it reflects all updates to last December or February depending on whom you ask The phone book edition is free if you buy the Apple Macintosh assembler MDS which by the time you read this should be at your dealer MDS has a retail price of 195 If you have bought the MacASM assembler from Mainstay they will sell you a copy for 20 Call Mainstay for details Other companies with Mac pro gramming languages may form similar deals with Apple Call them for the latest information Apple has passed out free copies at trade shows to developers You may also order copy for 25 from the Apple mail ing facility Send 25 Calif residents must add sales tax to Apple Computer Inc Milestone Group learn two word processors data bases spreadsheets Mailing Facility 467 Saratoga Avenue Suite 621 San etc Jose CA 95129 They have been know to accept walk contd on pg 60 62 May 1985 Washington Apple P1 Disks that you want mailed to you Software for Creative Living from Washington Apple Pi s Disketeria are available for purchase WASHINGTON APPLE PI DISKETERIA MAIL ORDER FORM This form is only for ordering disks 5 1 4 DISKETTES Members 5 00 ea Non members 8 00 ea Plus 1 00 ea postage up to a maximum of 5 00 3 1 2 s Note each of these DOS 3 3 Volume Volume Volume Volume
34. future reuse and very powerful IBM PC monitor additional macro commands are available that make this a rather complete programming language within 2 Jazz will be much easier to learn than Symphony the Symphony environment As a result of my With its mouse icons and pull down menus it is a favorable experience with Symphony macros I now much more friendly environment than the environment require the use of macros as a selection criteria for Symphony and most other IBM PC applications for othet IBM software e g dBASE 111 data base and SPSS statistics both have macro capabilities 3 Jazz is able to dynamically link files with a hot view command This is an easier method than the 2 Jazz has no print setting sheets for repetitive file combine command of Symphony reuse of several document files per file This is somewhat the same situation as with macros because 4 Jazz is less expensive list 595 vs 695 than it is only useful if you intend to print out Symphony The mail order house are now discounting different portions of a file several times With Symphony to 60 of list price and so it is Jazz you can set the print parameters you will use reasonable to assume that they will soon discount for a file and this is all you will need if you Jazz to 60 360 will always print out the same part of the file However if you want to print out different parts 5 It is easier to use windows for viewing other files of the file o
35. grouped together as one family even though none have a DOS compatible with any other Commodore The same is true for TRS 80 which is well known for incompatibility between the various DOS s even on the same machine Also no program written for one TRS 80 will run on another Atari is not as bad as these however In terms of the machines the TRS 80 Models have by far the most programs with 14 programs that will run on it Next surprising to me was the IBM PC Tine with 10 programs Apple trailed 3rd with 8 programs On the IBM PC the Personal Ancestry File was written and s sold by LDS The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints All of the programs are written in Basic for the particular machine described and hence are little slow in sorting And at this time there are no programs available for the Mac but the Mac is not an Apple anyway Let s look at the chart A blank in the chart s field means that no formation was available And under PC if it does not say jr do not assume that it will run on a PCjr there have been many complaints of NONCOM PATABILITY so we only listed those that stated that theirs would run on the jr COLUMN HEADINGS PRODUCT NAME amp NUMBER The number is the reference for the company name on the separate chart Washington Apple Pi Racsluy ee SUB TYPE The model type of Microcomputer DISK TAPE Either Disk or Tape GEN PER DISK The first number is the amp of gen
36. had already seft me descriptive literature on the program which did not mention this restriction A very helpful and friendly technical support repre sentative explained to me that the newer package is the one with the restriction on it and it is needed since words on the pull down menus are very blurry on RGB monitors including my Applecolor Monitor 100 In his words Apple revised their specifications after sending Broderbund an initial set for program design purposes Broderbund is now revising the program to adjust for this problem but the revision could be issued in anywhere from several weeks to several months I could go ahead and buy the current version 14 Mav 1985 I assume packaged in either form and obtain a free replacement when the revised version is available I therefore assume that member WP5394 who made the ABBS comment either has stil another version of Dazzle Draw has a composite rather than a RGB moni tor or has found a way to bypass or ignore the blurry words I would be interested in knowing perhaps I don t have to delay my sons enjoyment THE WAF SHES In y Gary Hauman How many of you have been using Broderbund Software s The Print Shop and The Print Shop Library but have developed your own graphics for use on your greeting cards banners letterheads signs etc There are probably some good original WAP member developed graphics out there in Computerville that you w
37. him is very favorable such as capturing material then he will go ahead and do it You can take advantage of this by offering him short term gains If your own moves are not accurate though Sargon will slither away keeping his booty Now back to the game Sargon grabs the pawn of course and now rates his position as 169 meaning that he expects you to win some material back but 26 May 1985 thinks that he will still come out ahead Your next move is a real shocker however Ll cee ee ee C5XD4 12 cl a3 Now Sargon really is in a quandary since he faces a seeming abundance of riches He sees enough to real ize that if he takes your Knight you will check him by moving your other Knight in front of your King His only legal move at that point will be to capture your pawn at which point you will finally be able to win his Knight with by the way checkmate Since that is out of the question Sargon s mind fills with hunger for your Bishop and he rates his position as 485 but the horizon effect now applies with a vengeance 12 0005 eo D4Xa3 13 f4xc4 At long last Sargon III begins to realize the conse quences of his stroll deep within your encampment and his assessment of the position now takes a dizzying nosedive to 9994 meaning that he thinks checkmate is inevitable Ever hopeful nonetheless he moves his King down to attack your Rook and find a temporary haven but you check him with your Que
38. in 0 8 seconds rather then in 32 seconds from a disk drive under 00S 3 3 With all these features available DOS 3 3 is a hard act to follow Indeed all you get under ProDOS and Pascal is one large RAM drive RAM in Prod0S Volume 9 in Pascal In addition to these operating systems AppleWorks users the latest sales figures indicate that a few exist out there have been included in the RAMWORKS family There is a package additional cost that allows for the expansion of the desktop work area in concert with the size of the board This is achieved through a one time modifica tion to the Appleworks Startup and Program disks with the option to automatically load the program into RAMWORKS for increased access speed Similar software exists for VISICALC Well by this time I am sure we all agree that this is a fine product but does it speed up the Apple Using a friend s inherited stopwatch not as sophisticated as an atomic clock but reasonably accurate especial ly at the racetrack according to my friend I timed several applications using the RAMWORKS board These were 1 Compilation of a 30 block Pascal workfile 2 Retrieval and display of 1400 records 274 blocks 3 File search of 133 records 27 blocks 4 Loading of a 65 sector BASIC program APPLICATION DISK RAMWORKS RATIO 1 Compilation 2 15 2 05 1 08 2 Retrieval 17 15 15 28 1 12 3 Search 0 09 0 05 1 80 4 Loading 0 16 0 00 6 26 67 With respect to impr
39. is represented by a small orchestra with a separate icon for each instrument surrounding a conductor Pause Continue Start Over and Repeat Piece Continuously are also avail able One major limitation of MusicWorks is the maximum length of each piece 64 4 4 measures thus limiting music to very short pieces or excerpts from longer ones In ConcertWare the maximum piece length available is 10 000 notes on a 128K Mac 10 15 mins and 125 000 on a 512K Mac several hours To compose music you use the Music Writer This is a visual music editor based on a word processing para Professional Creation Gardner digm Thus you have all the usual word processing functions available such as a blinking insertion point highlighted selections cut copy paste undo backspace delete scrolling etc Music entry is fast and efficient as opposed to MusicWorks how many times do you put the note on the wrong staff line reach for the eraser to erase it then try again The notes are represented by ovals on a large staff on the left side of the screen To insert a note you move the insertion point to the appropriate spot with the mouse as in MacWrite choose the note length by clicking on the note length boxes or from the key board and click on the oval for the note you wish to enter keyboard entry is also available Since ovals are much easier to hit than lines mistakes are un usual The note is inserted in the current key
40. is taken a little longer than expected but the Rockville Store should be ready by the time you read this Please drop by to see our Graphics Corner amp Networking Corner with Hard disks Floppy Drives printers digitizers VO devices amp more than 100 packages in to test drive Incidentally our Catalog spans over 300 products with constant additions Give us a ting for opening amp Is Call Us At 301 340 7032 or Write To RAREntps Business Software Brock Keystroke DaVinci Comm Interiors 1st Base Hayden Speller Hayden Base MS Word MS Multiplan MS File MS Chart MS BASIC Mac LION MacForth Il MacMemory Disk MacTracks Mac The Knive II Fonts MegaMax C Compiler Think Tank 512 Slide Show Magician Overvue MacForth Megaform fnssmble Lotus Jazz Helix MS Businsss Pack Lsvel l MacCORNER PO Box 1248 Rockville Md 20850 Policy Free Handling amp Delivery for orders above 101 on all SW and selected HW packages Call for specific rates COD s ad 2 Credit Cards 3 Md Res 5 Tax Pers checks clear in 2 5 days We take CHOICE amp AMERICAN EXPRESS Available pending release available mid 2d quarter the Apple May 1985 Laser Writer and MaeDraw 57 JAZZ by Donald W On YS March 9 a presentation on Lotus Jazz was made by SYMPHONY Kornreich JAZZ DEFICIENCIES Lotus representative Since Lotus is expected to assist Apple Computer with its penetration
41. later that there are different ver will recognize sions of the Macintosh Finder and not all versions work the same way Just an example Some early contd 46 May 1985 Washington Apple Pi o versions of the Finder reserved New York fonts for system use by the Macintosh In the later versions New York was replaced by another Geneva font Maybe that seems insignificant but there are times when it s good to know which fonts are mandatory in which Finders The Clipboard and Scrapbook files are storage places for the documents you copy into your clipboard and scrapbook If you throw those files in the trash Mac will re create them the next time you put some thing in the clipboard or the scrapbook on that disk As you become more experienced with your Mac you ll discover that you can label Scrapbook files differ l ently when they contain different sets of saved Give your Macintosh the Freedom of Speech documents Then you can duplicate them and move them to new disks without having to re enter each of your documents in the new disk scrapbook Suppose you re a lawyer You create a disk for drawing up wills In the scrapbook on that disk you include lots of boilerplate language used frequently in making a will You label that scrapbook file Wills Scrap book When your first wills disk is full you create a new one using the same scrapbook file and ar all your boilerplate langu
42. needs an informed judgment on games to buy for themselves or as gifts for others will find the results very useful This was followed by Apple series demonstrations of the new strategy fantasy game BELOW THE ROOT the space fantasy SUNDOG the strategy arcade hit ARCHON and the monster hi res graphic adventure TIME ZONE It seems that several people did not believe that such a massive game existed Some Macintosh games were demonstrated including another look at the only game released by Apple ALICE which also contains an incredible maze generator CYBORG a great old adven ture converted to the Mac an entertaining business simulation called MAKE MILLIONS and the famous chess program SARGON III REMINDER GAMESIG meets the first Thursday of every month at the Office beginning at 7 30 p m All club members are encouraged to attend and participate i Washington Apple Pi FOR bY Benson Bernie With the recent attention music synthesizers have been getting ie The Musical Apple by Raymond Hobbs WAP Journal April 1985 I thought it was time for me to review the Applied Engineering Music Synthesizer Actually I promised to do this for Rich Wasserstrom last fall how time hums along The AE Applied Engineering product is an ALF look alike with a few extra features See Feb 1981 WAP Journal for a discussion of the ALF synthesizer Both products fall into the low end or entry level of the music synthesizer produc
43. new stuff in the Lisa Mac XL arena My personal thanks to him for sharing his time with US The general agreement of the members is for our meet ings to be held at the same place as SigMac and for them to start after the main SigMac meeting ends For planning purposes count on this to be the regular time and place from now on LISA NENS The big news of the month is that there is now a Lisa Workshop 3 1 Pascal supplement available It contains new objective files intrinsic libraries and sev eral patched auxiliary programs such as a newer Mac com I will have more details on the 3 1 supplement in the June column after I have had some time to play with it The bottom line is that the 3 1 Workshop supplement is designed to bring the Workshop libraries in line with the 3 1 Office System libraries There I EU EIT Tha LEVADO IG Ea Consortium of Associated Schools and Educational Resources University of Nebraska at Omaha 60th and Dodge Omaha Nebraska 68182 Again more details in the June column Rumor has it that Absoft the makers of MacFortran 77 also have a Fortran 77 that runs in the Lisa Workshop I will get all the details and report in the near future The newly available RamStak 2 Megabyte memory board from AST will run all your Lisa software perfectly Mary Sato marketing director of AST has provided me with an evaluation board for 60 days with the intent to show our members ho
44. of New England Inc P 0 Box 397 4 Limbo Lane Amherst NH 03031 603 673 0228 I first ran across an advertisment for Macquisition in an issue of Computer Applications in the Labora tory CAL Huethig Publications which publishes original articles on the use of microcomputers in research laboratories I called the company and re quested that they send some literature on Macquisi tion which they did promptly In addition I purchased a demo disk 10 00 which neatly presented in text and graphics the capabilities of Macquisi tion The packet that the company sent included a demo disk a sheet on how to run the demo a 17 page handout on the use of Macquisition a price list and product literature on the hardware that interfaces between the Mac and the scientific equipment I wish to point out that I have not purchased Macquisi tion for my laboratory since at the present time I do not need its capabilities My article is based on the literature supplied by Small Business Computers Inc Since I feel that this product fulfills a capa bility previously unavailable for the Macintosh I think it is worthy of report even without personal Washington Apple Pi Trusal HOTLINE MEMBERS 301 845 2651 301 695 9416 301 663 4199 301 473 4566 301 371 8181 Lynn R Trusal Randy Pasley Kurt Holter John Colaluca Bruce Taylor The above members of the Frederick Apple Core FAC have agreed to fie
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46. of the l Jazz has no macros ability to program a string of office market of personal computers now dominated by related commands and then call them for execution IBM it is of interest to compare the capabilities of with only two or more as ren for repetitive Lotus Jazz for the Macintosh to Lotus Symphony for the tasks In my opinion this is the most serious IBM PC family I have worked steadily with Lotus deficiency in Jazz and it is not one that will Symphony for four months and I have attended two Jazz likely be corrected in the near future In our presentations I have worked with LISA Macintosh XL office where I have access to both the Apple LISA including MacWorks for over a year The following are with MacWorks and the IBM PC XT I generally will my current impressions use the IBM when I set up a spreadsheet or data base management routine that will be used JAZZ STRENGTHS repetitively The use of macros both speeds up the development run procedure as well as minimizes the 1 The superfor bit mapped display and graphics of the chance of command errors This is especially true Macintosh make it much easter for a person to spend when I have to do a lot of cut and paste between several hours at one time in front of the monitor documents with Apple software Macros are easy to Also I find the white background of the Macintosh use e g in the learn mode Symphony will record monitor preferable to the black background of the the steps for
47. office All members are welcome to attend Some times an alternate date is selected Call the office for any late changes amp MART POSITION WANTED computer instruction in the general Frederick Instruction on the Apple e Macintosh and assorted software Personalized service and reason able rates Call Lynn R Trusal 301 845 2651 evenings with no calls after 10 00 PM Apple MD area HELP WANTED are needed at the University of Technology Papua New Guinea to teach aspects of com Between one and three pople are needed to teach system design and analysis data structure COBOL and Pascal and data processing Salary is between 1400 and 1900 per month with 2 1 2 days per month vacation Airfare and housing are provided Equipment is Apple with Corvus and Prime 550 Contact Richard Muffley VITA 1815 North Lynn Street Arlington VA 22209 703 276 1800 eee EE EE NE EE EE EA EE EE NE EE DISK DRIVES SPECIAL PRICES Lecturers in Lae puter science SHUGART SA400 100 00 MCI APPLE COMPATIBLE 140 00 IN CASE WITH DATA CABLE HARD DISK SCALL 5 ALIGN 30 00 5 REPAIR 55 00 SALMAGUNDI LTD 144 Church St N W Suite 100 E eS Vienna Virginia 22180 X eee eee eR Ke EEE eS NE NE E GE GE SEE RHR gt Phone 703 938 1212 s PETE RVECTOOCVOCCOTOCCTCCTICTSL OLY oo May 1985 5 LUAIP Have a HOTL NE For Use by WAP Members Only problem The following club members have agreed t
48. or moving ranges of information that 1 Jazz is best for new or other users requiring mini you do not accidently write over some other part of mum time to learn and less than 10 hours per week the worksheet with valid data You must also of use It would be much more difficult for exercise care when adding or deleting columns rows someone to learn Symphony unless they had previous One way around this is to place movement Lotus 1 2 3 experience than to learn Jazz restrictions on the various windows with a settings sheet However the use of these restrictions is 2 Symphony is best for experienced or heavy users often inconvenient and therefore is not often done requiring the power of program micros Symphony is The Jazz use of separate files instead of the not for the casual user of personal computers A Symphony worksheet windows is much easier and casual user would find a need to consult the safer Symphony Reference Books 6 You are able to generate new documents faster with 3 The best application in both programs is the mouse and pull down menus under Jazz than with a spreadsheet Each is 256 columns by 8192 rows keyboard input and line menus under Symphony This Each is fast and has a large number of functions is particularly important when you are generating Each needs a lot of RAM to utilize its size documents which usually are used only once recommend 640 KBytes for Symphony g 58 May 1985 Washington Apple Pi FATTENING YOUR
49. resized and moved until it appears correct The frames which contd Washington Apple P1 surround all screen blocks are not printed on the paper copy but are on the screen to allow sizing and movement handles Adjustment of the active block can also be accom plished by using the MODIFY menu selection This specification sheet see Figure 3 allows extremely fine tuning of the location size and internal characteristics of any block Selections include thickness of lines shading and patterns of solids and spacing justification and tabs for text Pictures can be brought into RSG on the clipboard or in the scrapbook making sure that the scrapbook on the system disk has the picture desired I find the clipboard method to be preferable particularly on a two drive system An interesting feature is that the full picture on the clipboard is sized and propor tioned into the picture block as the block appears on the screen so it is possible to get distorted graph ics the first several times This can be offset simply by choosing CLEAR reproportioning the block then pasting again Solids and frames are equally simple By choosing to CREATE either and then resizing on the screen it is easy to get column dividers space fillers text perimeters and other pleasing effects To SAVE a page a choice must be made whether to save the entire page i e block specifications and block contents or just specifications By saving only
50. still only dis tributed officially as the RAM based version 2 2 A more devious mind might wonder if Apple and Micro soft had reached some kind of understanding regard ing Apple products which might challenge new Microsoft entries If you were Apple you would find yourself between the often referred to rock and a hard place Either risk losing the much sought after support of Microsoft to develop for the Mac or withhold from a starved but captive audience lower priced alterna tives which have been rumored and demonstrated but not officially released What would you do if you lived in Cupertino May 1985 3 wae APPLE SIG meets on the second Thursday of the month at 7 30 PH SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY at varter Retd val ne on May SEN SST KE S ie er va Ke rate TE PTE issue AN 1 q q 1 1 2 SlgMac 4 3 9 4 q q q 97 30PM Ladyfi lt Thurs dBASE II Apple c meets each month after q q q Jot Lourdes 2nd contd ATutor ial the regular Wap meeting q 1 q ID Isab ledS1G9GAME SIG 49 00 AM q q q 97PM CCCC gt 97 30PM Of f SOF f Ice APPLESEEDS is the special interest emmem ef mm mm meme fm mm mm J on en ne f 5 of Group for our younger members 5 gt 4 6 Apple 1 7 1 8 1 9STOCKSIGI 10 4 tl StgMac They meet during the regular WAP Deadline 9 Tutr Beginning Executive 18PM Off Ice 1 Em Mk bd for Journal17 30 Off IcefTutor lal 1 Board fApple I 1L ISA USUHS Me SNE Artic
51. the master disk It sets the date and time then automatically calculates the correct day of the week And its large inverse screen shows a digi tal clock with the seconds ticking by that is ulti mate assurance your clock is working While still in BASIC note that there are two reserved variables DATE and TIME neither mentioned in the manual nor listed in the table of reserved words Apple must not have wished to call attention to its unfulfilled promise Try for instance PRINT TIME I use the variable in timing programs to show elapsed time etc With the clock set to current date and time your files will be automatically time stamped by SOS That alone is well worth the minimal expense and modest investment of time required to insert the clock chip Why didn t Apple take care of this long ago SAMS COMPUTERE AST 3 A Rewiew by Ed Lang The APPLE same as any other fruit of the electronic age sometimes tends to go sour rot or just hang up Its chips many not be as chipper as they once were Judging by the interest shown in a previous meeting many users are seeking the means of caring for their ailing apple audible APPLES Well don t lose hope Uncle Sam of SAMS PHOTOFACT now markets a series of help yourself to your own electronics problems in his new series SAMS COMPUTERFACTS Also help in the form of hardware7sof ware is becoming available in composite packages of chips diagnostic disks and backup
52. the waveform The waveform can then be edited freehand if desired At any time you can listen to your instrument by playing on the piano keyboard at the bottom of the screen Instruments also have varying envelopes which distinguishes a plucked from a bowed string instrument for example This is usually referred to as ADSR attack decay sustain release However instead of simply giving you ADSR control ConcertWare allows you to draw freehand the entire envelope By drawing straight lines you can simulate ADSR but by using freehand drawings you can create special effects such as cow bells or drum rolls To complete your instrument you can customize it by drawing an icon to represent it this is what is displayed in the Player Concert Ware gives you freedom in instrument design not available on any other computer music system I have not yet found any bugs in the programs I guess in entering the two hours of music they worked out most of the problems but the disk is shipped so full that it is nearly unusable If you try to print from it it will behave as if all is ok but no printout Luckily ConcertWare is not copy protected so you can easily make a copy get rid of lots of the music and have a very usable system The documentation is very good especially on the Instrument Maker which describes waveforms harmonics and envelopes quite clearly Problems that ConcertWare has that MusicWorks does not have were discu
53. whole thing back together again OK easier said than done Keep in mind that this modification is not for the faint of heart or screwdriver In order to get inside the c something frowned upon by Apple it may void your warranty you must remove 10 screws of 3 different sizes so don t mix em up Then it s time to pry open the case by pushing on the plastic snap at the front The authors of the purple book are clear again Should the snap break off it is of little consequence as it is only used by Apple so that they can put the c together a few seconds faster When you reassemble the c the screws on the back hold it together firmly Once inside the case the rest is easy Simply pry out the 65C02 chip under the keyboard insert the 65C02 into the socket on the 280c plug in the 280c connect the wire with the spring clip to pin 2 of the TMG chip and close up the case again No sweat Now that it s firmly in there what next Place the disk in the drive and turn on the c and you see a CP AM 4 0 the AE version of CP M boot message and the heartwarming A gt DIR brings a surprise since CP AM adds file sizes to the display Aside from that all is fine Boot WordStar even with my old CP M 2 23 from Microsoft on the disk and the Z80c jumps right into it This article was done with WordStar on the rc How for the technical stuff the 280c fits into the 65C02 chip socket and uses a custom ROM to ma
54. with Apple member 20 with non member 20 w o Apple member 25 w o non member PFS File amp Report Jenny Spevak Saturday May 18 9 00AM 12 00 15 with Apple member 20 with non member 20 w o Apple member 25 w o non member Please check the desired tutorials and return this form with fee s made payable to Washington Apple Pi Ltd to Washington Apple Pi Ltd Name Attn Tutorials 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Daytime Phone Evening Phone Bethesda MD 20814 Total Enclosed INDEX TO ADVERTISERS INDEX TO AUTHORS Anderson Jacobson se e e Back Cover Barnes Alexander 61 Kornreich Donald W gt 58 Computer Den Ltd sss ee ee ee e35 Begleiter Ralph J 46 Lang Ed so ee ee 45 Computer Ware Unlimited Inside Back Benson Bernie 33 Langford Duncan 20 Frederick Computer Products ll Black Marilyn esaeo 37 Moore Paul 4 24 First Byte meter ST Get ae 47 Combes Peter 7 Morganstein David 2 19 22 59 Future Furniture gre cies B s cies abs es Darnay Arsen 12 Osterling Jorge P 41 Galfal Software ss 0 0 0 008 29 Day John F e e 60 Pearce Steven s 21 MacCorner 2 1 ee eee ee ee we 51 de Jong M D Rudolph H 44 Platt Robert C 34 Micro Roots s soes eee ee ee ee 39 DeMay Jr J T Tom 18 Raesly LeonH 37 Operant Systems 6 ss oe ee ee oe 27 DiSandro Vincent M
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56. 0 AM in the cafeteria at USUHS lan ITEM VOA Voice of America as many of you know was doing a story on computer users groups and WAP was one of the clubs featured as well as many of its SIG s Seeds was also featured Has anyone heard it I don t have shortwave ITEM Joshua Goldberg has resigned as editor of the AppleSeeds News which means I am now editor instead of acting editor ITEM We AppleSeeds in general have decided to change Tim Sweeney s office of Treasurer to Officer at Large due to the fact that we do not have a treasury Manogemont Counsel Orgoniration Development and Automation Advertising Public Rolations e Graphics Design Systems Psychology Sociology Administration Association Manegement Finance Training Please note new ad ress after Merch 30 The phone number hes also changed to 703 370 3309 and we ere connecied to the outside world with e 300 1200 baud modem Vill you please chenge oll your records and mailing lists accordingly Many thanks for your usual fine cooperation I very much appreciate it and 10 does Unclo Sam s Postal Servicelit VASHINGTOR APPLE PI LID 0227 Vood mont Avenue Suite 201 Bothosda Maryland 20814 Many thanks I don t dara miss a copy of the Journallt aul PS Please givo mo e password or number or whetever for my modem so I can call the Bullctin Board It costs WAP 30 cents for each Washingto
57. 03 13 CP M CP M seems to be a waste of time unless you buy com mercial software Anyone with CP M disks does not seem to want to donate any of them to the library I keep hearing about all of the public domain software available for CP M but you won t find any in our club From WP4649 to ALL 03 13 CP M The main reason anybody with a modem would want CP M is as follows in the U S there seem to be more CP M BBS s than any others FORUM 80 TRADE 80 COLOR 80 RCP M RBBS Now I regret having a c for that rea son Most of those BBS s have software for download Walter Kohl IAS IDE MACINTOSH by Jonathan Hargis Inside Macintosh is the standard reference book for programmers using the built in facilities of the machine If you want to use menus dialogs fonts quickdraw graphics the file system or any other of the things that make a Mac what it is this is the book for you The final edition until late this of IM is not expected to be out summer It will be published by Addison Wesley and will be available wherever finer computer books are sold As you may also know an expensive continually updated looseleaf version has also been available for sometime Now there is a third option which can put IM into the hands of the rest of us A paperback version is out printed on very thin paper in small type It is like a telephone book which means that you can expect it to wear quickly It is not the final
58. 15 members attended The first question concerned the use of an Apple com puter for remote control of an IBM PC Since no one knew of a program for the IBM that would do this it was suggested that an IBM users group be contacted Another question involved the making of backup copies of ProDO S formatted disks such as ASCII Express Pro ProDOS version Two methods will work for this The first is to use DOS 3 3 COPYA and the second is to use the FILER program on the ProDOS master disk We next discussed the pros and cons of external versus internal modems The Prometheus 1200A internal modem looks like an Apple Super Serial Card to ASCII Express Professional and does not act like true internal modem as does the Hayes Micromodem or the Novation Applecat George Kinal again announced that he is looking for volunteers to test out the different configurations of the CP M communications program Modem 7 He also announced that the Telecom Sig now has its own disk that will be put in the Disketeria the first of hope fully many more to come We learned that the Microcom modem does not work with the CP M operating system It also does not support the Grappler printer card A member who is just starting out with communications asked if there were any good books that he could use that would give him advice on buying modems and soft ware and would have a comparison of the different modems and what to look for George thought there wa
59. 16287 Open Apple and 16286 Solid Apple one can determine whether either of the keys have been pressed The enclosed short program is an example which uses the Open and Solid Apple keys under Pascal 1 1 The program will read the keyboard for about 15 seconds and print the words Open Apple Pressed or Solid Apple Pressed whenever these keys are struck The loop can be terminated by pressing any other key Obviously the BOOLEAN functions OPEN APPLE and SOLID_ APPLE could be moved to any other program I hope Pi Pascal programmers will find the information useful PROGRAM KEY DEMO USES APPLESTUFF TYPE BYTE 0 255 TWOBYTES PACKED ARRAY 0 1 OF BYTE TRIXREC RECORD CASE BOOLEAN OF TRUE PTR TWOBYTES FALSE ADR INTEGER END VAR COUNTER INTEGER FUNCTION PEEK ADDR INTEGER BYTE FUNCTION PEEK USES VARIANT RECORD IN PASCAL TO DUPLICATE THE PEEK COMMAND AVAILABLE IN APPLESOFT SEE ae 18 OF THE APPLE PASCAL LANGUAGE REFERENCE MANUAL VAR TRIX TRIXREC BEGIN TRIX ADR ADOR PEEK STRIX PTR 0 END FUNCTION OPEN APPLE BOOLEAN BEGIN OPEN APPLE PEEK 16287 gt 150 END Washington Apple Pi pa NOT KEYPRESS AND COUNTER lt 1000 DO BEGIN IF OPEN APPLE THEN WRITELN OPEN APPLE PRESSED IF SOLID APPLE THEN WRITELN SOLID APPLE PRESSED COUNTER SUCC COUNTER END END amp ROBINS ZS The Small ye Computer Store AE For Your N EW Apple Imagewriter
60. 260 NEXT I there Why had I never managed to find it from BASIC 270 in the fairly lengthy time I d been using the card 280 REM Y holds the year 1984 1987 29 Well as readers of the March Pi will know thanks to 300 REM Get current date Bruce Field Happy New Year Bruce I finally found 310 the answer the current year is not available from the 320 TEXT HOME Thunderclock ProDOS uses an algorithm to calculate 330 VTAB 10 INPUT Month 1 12 M0 it based on the day of the week the current year 340 VTAB 12 INPUT Day of month 1 31 DT started When you think about it in a normal year 350 VTAB 14 INPUT Day of week 0 Sun 6 Sat 7 0W the 365 days will divide into 52 weeks and one day 50 360 DW DW 7 NOT DW REM Make Sunday 7 rather that January lst will be one day later each year For than 0 example it falls on Monday in 1984 Tuseday in 1985 370 Wednesday in 1986 and Thursday in 1987 If you can 380 REM Calculation find out on which day of the week January Ist fell it 390 is therefore possible to work out which year from 400 Q M MO 1 DT REM Total days 1984 to 1987 is the current one 1988 is a leap year 410 X I X Q INT Q 7 7 REM less than a week F X gt DW THEN X X DW GOTO 470 DW X REM Count back with 366 days so ProDOS s algorithm will fail on 420 February 29 1988 In 1988 of course the Apple JC 430 will be 10 years old Ed Note A mere youngster we 440
61. 3 I Ancestor se Ancestors Pa Os Box 2434 Harbor R 97415 2t Foally Tlos Computer Services 1050 East 800 South Provo UT 84801 2 Ancestor File Programs Je Davis 10650 Hickory Ridge Road Comubta MD 21044 22 Faally Treo Michtren Corporation 1691 Eason Pontiac MI 48054 3 Ancestors Chr tstoper Mook 4132 Lay Stroet Des Holnas IA 50317 23 Faatly Tree Gonoa logica Software Pe O Box 1451 Port Huron Mi 48061 4 Ancestry 17101 ot t Gono tl John Swift Road Acton MA 01720 26 First Feally Conputerology Inc Pa O Box 30113 San Antonio TX 78285 6 Arbor Aldes Software Solutions 7378 Zurawsk Court Guster VI 54423 27 Fonily Troe Syston Tho Frotvolls 2605 Highview Avenue Waterloo IA 50702 7 Branchos ysco Software 3595 Clovorleaf Drive Boulder CO 80302 M Gonos logy on Display Melvin Duko Pe 0 Box 20836 San Jose Cb 95160 I1 FGS amp PEOC 8 Mint Utl By fovare 906 Wost Avenue Monaouth IL 61462 36 Genealogy Workshop Tonex Pa 0 Box 6378 South Bend IN 46660 12 Faally Petrocel Freelance Assoc 65t North Houghton Rood I Tucson AZ 05748 t 1 13 Fanily Connection Thot Discovery Software I P O Box 68821 indianapolis IN 46268 37 Conaalogy Compt ling Arastrong Gone Systons 5009 Utah Drive Groanville TX 75401 39 Gene log Il Genoa log Software 111 Woodgate Road Middiotown NJ 07748 14 Fanliy File Compugen Systens Pe 0 Box 15604 l
62. 4 3 30 The final aspect of this grand adventure that needs to be mentioned is the price for this gadgetry I actu ally had to pay for all this stuff The small version 64K of RAMWORKS can be found advertised by one of the vendors in the journal for 139 00 This is 40 00 less than buying directly from Applied Engi neering Upgrading can be accomplished with 256K RAM chips that can be purchased locally and seem to be decreasing in price fairly rapidly Ram Drive e software is offered by Applied Engineering it is not mentioned in the local ad for 29 00 and Super Apple Works Expand for 39 00 The Titan board has de creased significantly over the past few months and can currently be found for 209 00 by checking the vendors in the journal Surely many have no need for such enhancements and probably find it amusing that someone actually bought these things I must confess that my purchase was more whimsical than practical I am however quite pleased with the results It is not difficult to imagine situations where one or both of these boards would be of true practical value for increasing pro ductivity Perhaps some can benefit from my findings in the search for an accelerated Apple Washington Apple Pi TELECOM SIG MEWS by Dave Harvey The Telecom SIG meeting was held after the regular WAP meeting on March 23 and was conducted by George Kinal In the absence of a formal program there was a question and answer session About
63. 4 863 1333 amp Telecom SIG News contd from pg 17 use the conversion utility APDOS to convert to a CP M formatted disk AE Pro has the ability to filter out carriage returns from incoming data However no one thought that AE Pro could be used to strip carriage returns from data going out We next discussed word processing and text editors that could be used for processing data prior to trans mission over a modem It was noted that the new Apple Writer e ProDO0S version has a built in communica tions program review of the program would be helpful Lastly we discussed the modems marketed by Anchor and what the differences are The Mark XII had some prob lems when it first came out but now apparently they have been rectified The Anchor Express is pretty much a beefed up Mark XII with several new features added such as status lights automatic dial and internal memory The Volksmodem 12 is quite similar to the Mark XII and in that regard will probably not support the break signal at 1200 baud May 1985 19 GETTING THE CURRENT YEAR FROM A THUVUMDERCLOCK whieh is impossible by Duncan LanGford When a year or two ago I purchased a Thunderclock from the next leap year cycle 1988 1991 Then card for my Apple J I didn t know that the Thunder you ll be right and ProDOS wrong What a pity we ll clock was eventually to become the official Apple have to wait until 1988 to see it clock card Although I alw
64. 5 MODEMS Hayes Microsodea JCe tone dialing speaker Smartcos I 145 Saarteodea 2400 2400 1200 300 baud RS 232 609 Snarteades 1200 1200 baud R5 232 auto dial Snartaoden 300 300 baud as abovel 0 145 Novation Apple Cat II w Coauare 1200 baud capablel 199 Snart Cat 300 RS 232 direct connect 159 Seart Cat 300 1200 as above P saw eG 389 Proretheus Proaodem 1200 300 1200 baud RS 232 309 Proaodee 1200A 300 1200 card wi software 309 Microcom ERA 2 300 1200 baud card with softwarel 349 ZooaNadea JCe 300 baud Kicrosodes cospat wisoftware 125 US Robotics Password 300 1200 baud auto dial answer 249 Anchor Autosation Express 1300 1200 loaded wi features 289 Volksmoden 12 300 1200 baud RS 232 199 DISK DRIVES HicroSci A2 drive 100 Apple conpatible Shugart 390 189 A 5 half height 100 Apple conpatible 195 A 5c half height for Apple J c 199 Rana Systens Elite One drive 40 track 163K 219 Elite Two 40 track double side 326K Elite Three 80 track double side 652K 425 10 HEG Winchester drive 0ceeee 1125 Davong Corvus and Corona Winchester drives call CP M amp 6502C SYSTEMS Applicard 4 Mhz Z 80 64K to 192K RAM 70 col videol 249 Microsoft Softcard Ile 7 80 80 col amp 64K on one card 265 Softcard II includes CP M 2 2 and HBASICI 239 Titan Accelerator JCE 3 4 Mhz 6502C copr
65. 55 THEN PRINT Stopped GOSUB 1450 GOTO 360 1380 IF NOT E 20 OR E 21 THEN PRINT Error number E in line EL GOSUB 1450 GOTO 360 1390 PRINT P X is busy 1400 PRINT Close this open file N End GET Q2 1410 IF NOT ASC Q2 121 OR ASC Q2 89 THEN PRINT GOTO 360 1420 GOSUB 1450 1430 GOSUB 1200 1440 RESUME 1450 PRINT File s closed 1460 PRINT D CLOSE P X 1470 RETURN DISKCAT assumes a c or an 80 col card in slot 3 If you are using a 40 column display take the follow ing steps 1 add this line 220 H 16 R 24 S 0 2 you may want to alter the headers in line 9550 570 3 remove the ending semicolons in line 9650 720 970 4 add these lines 735 PRINT 985 PRINT Regardless of your screen width you may want to take steps 2 3 and 4 above if your ProDos disk uses sub directories more than four levels deep and long file names This will avoid formatting problems May 1985 43 PUT A TIMER FOR by Rudolph H de The ads said time stamp your files well yes and no At first I used the SOS set date and time command in Apple Writer or in the Utilities Device Handling menu of routines to set today s date and current time but I never relished going back every so often to increment the hours Later I dis covered the unheralded TimeSet module in Business Basic which made it a lot easier to reset the system clock without having to retype the
66. 6 a bulletin board security system 217 programs supporting various terminals a plethora of MODEM communications pro grams and other communications programs such as KERMIT 113 and SIGNON 112 130 In addition to 8 volumes on the Yale Catalog of Bright Stars there are smal subgroups dealing with statistics 71 131 182 212 75 sorting 75 and curve fitting amp plotting graphing 194 5 181 144 131 75 Music composition and related software 120 56 8 as well as 3 D 69 and other graphics 75 and various dungeon and adverture games are also included in the disk library And finally the most numerous and varied program category could be termed miscellaneous CP M utilities for want of a better rubric Only a few of these can be noted in this cursory overview ZCPR3 184 192 and earlier versions a 2 80 assembler 95 a UNIX like shell for CP M 180 SYSLIB assembly language utility subroutines for the M80 assembler 88 90 106 8 cross reference and catalog master catalog programs 52 70 18 a file merge program 16 an unerase command for erased programs 44 a program to speed up CP M 76 and a host of other goodies CP M 86 Although probably not of much interest to Apple owners this collection does include versions of FORTH and Small C MODEM programs ZCPR and other CP M 80 favorites Washington Apple Pi 65 GENEALOGICAL DATA BASES by Leon H Copyright 1985 amp writte
67. 7 Mac Transfer 36 ea 86 Deadline BUSINESS WORD PROCESSING Forecast 42 Addressbook Mail List 35 Management Edge 165 Bank Street Speller Writer ea 49 Sales Edge 165 Format Il 102 Stock Portfolio System 78 Newsroom 35 PIE Writer 103 UTILITY GRAPHICS Print Shop 35 i Print Shop Library 18 Alpha Plot 20 par Apple Mechanic 27 va Th s Complete Graphics System 56 creenwritar I ra Super Text Professional 121 Data Plot 42 L k Super Text Home Office 87 DOS Boss 17 dr ene SR Think Tank 102 Fontrix 51 Word Handie 56 Graphics Magician 42 Saimanen i Graftrix 43 MISCELLANEOUS Printographer 28 Pronto DOS 20 Micro Barmate 28 Silicon Salad 17 Micro Cookbook 128 Triple Dump 28 Appetizers 9 Utilty City 20 Soups amp Salads 9 Wizard s Toolbox 28 Desserts 9 Zoom Graphics 35 Mind Prober 34 MAC CATALOG 2 PFS Report File 134 Sales Edge 165 Speller 55 Stock Portfolio System 142 Think Tank 99 TK Solver Word EDUCATIONAL Mastertype 35 S Score Improvement SAT 80 er bi gg Typing Tutor III 41 bier Planetfall ng og Run For The Money GRAPHICS Sargon Ill i Sorceror Art Portfolio 41 Starcross Card Shoppe 41 Suspended Clickart Publications ea 41 Transylvania Macpic 1 2 ea 34 Trivia Savant Macvision 275 Add Question Disks Macpublisher 93 Disque Francais Slide Show Magician 42 Smooth Talker 102 Jocks The Me Generation LEISURE Cutthroats Showbiz Cyborg Enchanter Frogger Fun Pack Hitchhi
68. 7 Centronics Zip pack 2 50 Menor ex SSOD 16 Paper Memorex 3 1 2 965 X 11 208 350 shycln edge 6 S5DD 33 Same except 1000 sh 11 50 ARYALALINILINIALIALIT Same except 2400 sh 24 bulk disks as low 4 9 5 X 12 208 1000 shper 11 x as 95 per disk 1 KINK NSKK TETEN SEL Naber Surge Protectors TYKK IKKE EKNE 6 avtlet wall surge only 15 x Quantity discounts available 1 4 outlet strip suree only 26 I Software Hardware available r outlet strip surge noise 38 r upon request x 2 outlet wall surge noise 32 Pesstosteseteetotsestireses iets 23m 3 5 934 1 outlet wall surge only 19 P 0 BOX 7332 Washinaton De Ce 20044 Washington Apple Pi May 1985 29 DIG by G INGS IATO Cyril fefer PURPOSE BORN OUT OF DISCONTENT In the halcyon days following the introduction of the Apple computer information about how the Apple and its languages worked their inner details and their mysteries was free and free flowing As weeks rolled into months and years more and more details about the subtleties and quirks of the Apple and Apple s version of BASIC were made available publica tions of organizations such as Washington Apple Pi and Call A P P L E as well as Apple Computer s own staff contributed to this flow This very open community nurtured interest and feverish activity and certainly gave Apple an early edge in popularity an edge main tained for years by its users enthusiasm It seems that these days a
69. 85 17 EXFAOP INS by J T YOUR Tom There is a relatively new product available from AST RESEARCH INC which combines three useful enhance ments to the Apple JL e series of computers It is an interface card which provides a serial printer port a modem terminal port and a clock calendar with battery backup that is compatible with ProDOS The package consists of a single board two six inch connectorized ribbon cables a disk of utility pro grams ProDOS 1 1 and a thirty page Users Manual The board is approximately 3 inches high by 8 inches long and looks well manufactured The manual is informative and easy to understand I would however recommend reading the entire manual before attempting to install the board As you may know the Apple operating system was designed to access physical devices printers modems etc using physical locations slots 1 thru 8 AST RESEARCH INC has cleverly devised a hardware scheme that allows three physical devices to be located in the same slot but logically mapped to other slots There are two identical configuration blocks which are used to identify which devices are inserted in which slots The actual mapping is done by installing or removing shorting plugs The card comes configured for what has become the standard for peripheral device locations Printer in slot 1 Modem in slot 2 and Clock calendar in slot 7 If this would conflict with your existing hardware it is a s
70. 92 9225 HX 80 Jeff Dillon 301 434 0405 Macintosh NEC 8023 BIT Hark 301 779 8938 General Steve Hunt 301 262 9080 Okidata Fred Feer 703 978 7724 Scott Rullman 301 779 5714 Michael Proffitt 301 874 2270 Donald Schmitt 717 334 3265 Dan Robrish 301 530 4202 Rob Clark 804 850 2016 Scribe Phil Leber 703 378 4391 Chart Terry Honks 703 471 4610 Stlentype Bruce Field 301 340 7038 Comm 8 Modems Steve Hunt 301 262 9080 Tom Warrick 301 656 4389 Spreadsheets Leon Raesly 301 460 0754 Digitizers JoAnn Stewart 703 527 4072 Walt Francis 202 966 5742 File Vision Steve Hunt 301 262 9080 Lotus 1 2 3 Walt Francis 202 966 5742 Hard Disk David Jamison day 301 589 8841 Roy Rosfeld 301 340 7962 Hardware Jay Heller 301 948 7440 Hult fplan Terry Prudden 301 933 3065 Inside Hac Jon Hardis 301 330 1422 VisiCalc Walt Francis 202 966 5742 Don Landing 703 690 1010 Leon Raesly 301 460 0754 HacDraw Tom Bert Ila 301 434 3256 Spreadsheet 2 0 Leon Raesly 301 460 0754 MacLion DBMS Hark Miani 202 362 8123 Hag1Catc MacProject Jay Lucas 703 751 3332 SuperCalc Ver 2 0 Leon Raesly 301 460 0754 Tom Warrick 301 656 4389 MacWrite Mary Hockmeyer 301 897 5495 Statistical Packages Jim Carpenter 301 371 5263 MacTterminal Jon Hardis 301 330 1422 Mark Pankin 703 24 0937 Hary Hockmeyer 301 897 5495 HS Basic Tom Warrick 301 656 4389 Stock Market Robert Wood 703 893 9591 Multiplan John Boblitz 301 356 9384 Don
71. Bernie Benson 301 951 5294 Pascal PIG Larry Taborek 703 960 2250 PI SIG Raymond Hobbs 301 490 7484 STOCKSIG Robert Wood 703 893 9591 Telecomm SIG George Kinal 202 546 7270 Washington Apple Pi Ltd 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Bethesda MD 20814 Business Office 301 654 8060 ABBS 301 986 8085 24 hours day ABBS Mac 301 986 8086 24 hours day ABBS Buy and Sell 301 871 7978 7 30 PM to 7 30 AM Copyright 1985 Washington Apple Pi Ltd 8 Fc i a Rambling Ruminations Got a call at the office the other day It was from a young man who called to let us know that he was not going to renew his WAP member ship No he was not miffed about anything Rather he was moving on to other things and had sold his Apple JC He said that WAP had been very helpful to him in the past but now he could not justify renewing He said he had enjoyed the newsletters and the meet ings immensely and that we should keep up the good work I reminded him that we will be here ready to help when he James Underwood rejoins as a Macintosh owner In a similar vein our WAP member Duncan Lang ford from Canterbury England see his article in this issue called a while back and said that he was most grateful to the WAP He had received considerable support from us in the early days of the Apple J when he felt quite alone Now he is the proud owner of a Mac also and says that once again WAP has come to his rescue with the Mac art
72. COME TOTALINCOME LET BIGQUANTITY BIGQUANTITY QUANTITY PRINT ITEM QUANTITY UNITPRICE DISCOUNT ZS P TOTALDISCOUNT TOTALINCOME IF NOT EOF 1 THEN GOTO 190 PRINT NUMBER OF SALES NUMSALES PRINT NUMBER OF SALES WITH DISCOUNT NUMDISC PRINT TOTAL QUANTITY OF ITEMS SOLD BIGQUANTITY PRINT TOTAL DISCOUNT BIGDISCOUNT PRINT TOTAL INCOME FROM SALES BIGINCOME PRINT AVERAGE INCOME PER ITEM BIGINCOME BIGQUANTITY PRINT AVERAGE INCOME PER SALE BIGINCOME NUMSALES PRINT AVERAGE DISCOUNT PER SALE BIGDISCOUNT NUMSALES PRINT AVERAGE DISCOUNT PER SALE SUMOFDISC NUMSALES CLOSE 1 END INVENTRY BAS WE SELL HARDWARD COMPANY SALES STATISTICS QUANTITY UNIT DISCOUNT PRICE 3 130 10 3 200 25 5 03 NUMBER OF SALES 3 NUMBER OF SALES WITH DISCOUNT 2 TOTAL QUANTITY OF ITEMS SOLD 45 TOTAL DISCOUNT 565 TOTAL INCOME FROM SALES 2235 AVERAGE INCOME PER ITEM 49 666666666667 AVERAGE INCOME PER SALE 745 AVERAGE DISCOUNT PER SALE 188 33333333333 Washington Apple Pi COMPUTER DEN Ltd Don t let your APPLE take a bite out of you We meet or beat most advertised prices for all your computer needs 20 or more off on all software for all APPLE computers including Mac rice on all printers 375 00 Special Okidata ML 92 C Itoh Color 180 CPS 560 00 Epson RX 80 wee eee eee eee eres 215 00
73. D was finally released in early February MacIntosh owners now have another choice in word processing I ordered my copy from THE BOTTOM LINE for 129 88 a substantial savings over the 195 00 list price WORD runs on either a 128K or 512K Mac I am using it on the 512K After a week or so of adjusting to the differences between MacWrite and WORD I began to enjoy using this program The WORD Master includes the MicroSoft WORD program MEMO a sample document the WORD Help file a file with online information about most WORD features the System Folder and the Printer Drivers Folder Only Geneva New York Monaco Chicago and two fonts for Daisy Wheel printers Dover and Dover PS propor tional are included You may of course add or delete fonts To get some extra space on the disk you can delete the Memo printer drivers you won t be using and eventually the Word Help document Al though you can use WORD with one disk drive two disk drives are recommended One little annoyance is Microsoft s copy protection scheme which allows you to copy WORD freely but forces you to put in the Master WORD disk to read the identification from the master disk when you start WORD the first time after turning the computer on You can boot your copy but when you try to open WORD it asks for the Master WORD disk which Mac then ejects and asks for the copy It only takes a minute but it means keeping the Master and the copy ready at all start ups
74. EII toolkit library 217 a demonstration dBASEII modular database 110 an order and inventory system including a FASTBASE search program 129 a phone amp address database and a mailing list amp record management program 199 a property management program 198 9 a series of programs for date validation periodical tracking letter mailing amp member tracking and a banking system 155 SuperCalc programs include templates for interest 193 accounts receivable 177 and depreciation 110 Wordstar enhancements include a routine to set the printer from Wordstar 202 programs for generating footnotes and removing high bits 196 VT52 terminal and Epson MX 80 printer patches 177 and a Wordstar indexing facility 143 Other word processing editing programs in the library include the ROFF 4 text formatter V1 6 174 V1 5 126 a simple word processor The Secretary 109 a text formatter along with expansion compression programs 40 a line editor and typing tutor 83 and a mail label system 26 There are also specialized database programs an information management system 61 a library fil ing amp utility system 119 and an accounts receiv able payable system 28 Hardware related programs concern utilities for interfacing clocks 147 143 130 1 74 72 printers and hard disks 111 172 Communications programs in the library consist of RBBS s 92 60 bulletin board support programs 87 65
75. EN SWITCHER DRIVE STEPPER APPLE SOFTWARE WORDSTAR PRINT SHOP 39 00 179 00 8 00 74 00 75 00 LONG DISTANCE CALL TOLL FREE WITH TOUCH TONE PHONE DIAL 950 1088 WAIT FOR TONE DIAL 363 1313 NOTE IF 950 1088 DOES NOT WORK IN YOUR LOCATION CALL 1 800 446 4462 WAIT FOR TONE DIAL 363 1313 UPS Shipping 400 per order plus 600 per printer or monitor CALL FOR OUR FREE CATALOG SPECIAL MEGABYTE MEMORY ONLY 13 the drawing This close up i e at the level is very desirable for close editing of pixels The crabby method Apple uses to produce high resolution colors often requires that you fix the bits of a specific byte The best implementation of this feature lets you look at a byte including its high bit which is not actually shown on the screen That let s you adjust for the White Black problems discussed above Specials Some features that are really not necessary but nice to have are 1 mirroring which mirrors what you are drawing on the opposite side of the screen this is great for drawing figures that are naturally symmetrical the Grecian urn a face 2 cut and paste which lets you cut portions of the picture and stamp them in other parts of the picture and 3 enlarge and reduce which lets you make a part of the picture smaller or larger but I ve yet to find one that works properly the figures tend to get distorted in the process I like to load
76. If you have any doubts about this use the Ctrl J option to peek into Sargon s thought processes immediately after he has emerged from the chess open ing book that is built into his program You will often find that he sees himself as losing even though he has been following a list of moves distilled from decades of games played by the grandmasters This is so because Sargon knows a lot of opening moves but doesn t have a clue to what the ideas behind them are and he will habitually attempt to hold onto an opening gambit pawn often by horribly contorting the position of his pieces when the whole idea behind his book having him accept an opening pawn is that he should return it later for some other nonmaterial advantage such as winning time improving piece position or strengthening pawn structure About the first good opportunity you will usually encounter against Sargon therefore comes right after he has spun the disk drive for the second time From contd Washington Apple Pi this point on you will no longer be up against the chess lore of the ages but instead will be confronting Sargon the Pawngrabber Some extremely interesting things can happen at this juncture Let me illustrate what I have to say from this point on with examples You have the white pieces and have set Sargon III at Level 3 Sargon responds to your very common first move with a somewhat unusual response and you reach the position below aft
77. It will include closed loop control within the spreadsheet to include branching and more logic functions and will be available after April 15 1985 The company also 56 May 1985 informs me that they are working with Lotus to inte gr te the soon to be released Jazz with Macquisi tion In conclusion I feel that programs such as Macquisi tion will further open new frontiers for the Macin tosh by expanding its ability to be taken seriously as a data capture and analysis instrument Although I have not personally used Macquisition it appears to have all the necessary ingredients for collection of digital and analog outputs required in the research laboratory As such it is at least worthy of consid eration for those individuals with data capture needs g RAMD I SK WITH MICROSOFT WORD by Lloyd S r I Microsoft WORD uses 126K The slimmest System I have been able to come up with for word processing with necessary fonts Finder Imagewriter uses 145K If you need a Notepad or Scrapbook it will be fatter With the Standard Glossaries file all this will come to at least 275K The biggest Ramdisk seems to be 316K So if you put the System and Application on the Ramdisk there is ony 41K maximum to work with for print files and the like Besides I haven t found way to put Microsoft Word on Ramdisk without it asking for the Master Disk while the Ramdisk is being created which is a drag Kevin at the Apple
78. KILLS Our April meeting was held at The National Learning Center s school OPTIONS Established under a Ford Foundation Grant and further supported by an Apple Education Foundation grant of computer equipment it is designed to upgrade educational and functional competencies OPTIONS Director Sharon Hemphill together with Candace Sullivan explained the school s goals and techniques and guided the SIG s members through the facility Using computers about 1 3 of the time the curriculum offers individualized self paced instruc tion The courses cover basic literacy through read ing writing mathematics high school level science social studies and literature Students completing the program can obtain not only a GED but practice for the SATs Designed to address the needs of the economically disadvantaged OPTIONS presently provides services to nearly 70 students ranging between the ages of 18 and 42 Some of the students are referred by employment services others walk in off the streets If econom ically disadvantaged there is no cost Otherwise the cost is 750 for a three month session But what do the students achieve Generally the goal is one grade increase in twelve weeks but given individualized instruction and personal motivation faster gains have been attained The computer portion of the course is generally Computer Assisted Instruction CAI and there is Washington Apple Pi heavy reliance on the Mi
79. LIC UNDERLINE OUTLINE or SHADOW Command key shortcuts are provided but they are not toggles as we have come to expect Instead once such features are turned on PLAIN must be selected to turn them off SPECIAL has three choices SHOW PAGE an extremely useful command which allows viewing of the entire page and dragging the screen window around on that page somewhat like the show page command in MacPaint and the active screen is selected in the same way See Figure 1 for an example HIDE GRID SHOW GRID is a toggle type selection which turns the 1 2 inch grid lines on the screen page on or off SEND BEHIND is a command much like those in MacDraw or Filevision which allows blocks to be stacked in the order desired USING ReadySetGo Briefly to place text on the page simply choose CREATE TEXT and a box appears at the point 1 inch down 1 inch over on the screen relative to the top left corner see Figure 2 The cursor also appears in the box and typing will put text in the block The block can be moved by dragging the top center margin and sized by dragging the lower right corner to a new location Either of these produces a light gray image of the block as it moves or changes size until the mouse button is released Text can be imported into RSG on the clipboard and when pasted will go into the active text window where the cursor ts located If the window is not large enough it will still be pasted in and the window can be
80. Landing 703 690 1010 Time Sharing Dave Harvey 703 527 2704 Steve Hunt 301 262 9080 Walt Francis 202 966 5742 Word Processors Walt Francis 202 966 5742 Mult iplan Chart Bob Pulgino 703 379 0512 Apple Writer II Dianne Lorenz 301 530 7881 Hus tcWorks Skip Horvath 703 536 4091 Leon Raesly 301 460 0754 Word Marty Hilrod 301 464 2154 Executive Secretary Louis Biggie 301 967 3977 Format II Nenry Donahoe 202 298 9107 Data Bases Gutenberg Neil Muncy Can 416 298 3964 dBase I Paul Bublitz 301 261 4124 amp Jr Harris Silverstone 301 435 3582 John Staples 703 759 3461 Letter Perfect Cara Cira 301 468 6118 Leon Raesly 301 460 0754 Leon Raesly 301 460 0754 DB Haster Dave Einhorn 301 593 8420 Magic Window and II Joyce C Little 301 321 2989 Data Perfect Leon Raes 301 460 0754 Peach Text Carl Elsen 703 354 4837 Data Factory Bob Schmidt 301 736 4698 PIE Writer Apple PIE Jim Graham 703 643 1848 General Hanager Hormand Bernache 301 935 5617 Screenwriter If Peter Combes 301 251 6369 Leon Raesty 301 460 0754 E E Carter 202 363 2342 List Handler Jon Vaupel 301 977 3054 Supertext Il Peter Rosden 301 229 2288 PFS BIT Etue 703 620 2103 Word Handler Jon Yaupel 301 977 3054 Ben Ryan 301 469 6457 Word Juggler e Carl Eisen 703 354 4837 Jenny Spevak 202 362 3887 Word Star Leon Raesly 301 460 0754 QuickFile II J J Finkelstein 301 652 9375 Calls up until midnight are ok Expedtter Comptter Pet
81. NEW ROMS R Just a few questions Does the e remain able to use all past software made for the e or able to run on the e What are the advantages speed etc If you don t plan to use a mouse why should you get the mouse ROM Does cost include installation If your e is under APPLECARE is this a free ha ha upgrade Do you know the MHz on the 65C02 they are using In your opinion where is the best dealer to get the upgrade performed in the Springfield Alexandria area That is a lot of questions to put to someone who was just trying to get the word out and if you can answer any of them I am sure it will be appreciated by all Thanks Bob Wood From WP3274 to ALL 03 11 e Enhancement When upgrading your e with the four new chips to make it into what Apple calls an Enhanced e be aware of some compatibility problems At least 2 programs I know of ASCII EXPRESS The Professional and FAMILY ROOTS may not work right unless you reinstall them to select options telling the programs you have a c In AE PRO the key is the Local Console menu in INSTALL If choice 4 which most e people pick specifies c as well as e you re already okay This applies to version 4 30p ProDOS and to later editions of v4 20 DOS 3 3 On earlier v4 20 disks and on all pre 4 20 disks where c isn t listed try selecting choice 3 which is called Type 6 Pascal 1 1 Walt Mossberg From WP4795 to ALL 03 27 Enhanced e Has anyone acc
82. OES IT 00 First of all ReadySetGo delfvers on its promises It requires a 512K Mac and comes with a simple but for the most part adequate manual on the order of Apple written Mac documentation It allows preparation of a standard 8 x 10 1 2 inch or legal sized page of mixed MacPaint generated graphics externally or internally generated text and two other types of figures frames and solids It will print tall or wide orientation and when wide is selected with the legal size page the result is an 8 inch high by 13 5 inch wide page The screen page on which this is done can be ruled off in a 1 2 inch increment grid or left blank Blocks are placed on the screen for text graphics solids or lines and they can be activated or deactivated by simply clicking on them Blocks can be moved behind other blocks to permit considerable flexibility in achieving exactly what you want with the combination RSG is compatible with Apple s new Laserwriter printer The program is amazingly complex in what it will allow you to do and remarkably simple in that it does all this with logical and straightforward commands Fol low the manual through the learning steps and play around in the reference section for a bit Then look at the sample provided In my opinion there is no reason one could not be productively using ReadySetGo within an hour 52 May 1985 A Review by Jim Graham FEATURES The program is very Mac like in most ways It lo
83. Officers amp Staff Editorial President s Corner Classifieds Commercial Classifieds s socso WAP Calendar SIGNews Minutes Meeting Report General Information Event Queue Job Mart e coos WAP WOENE aaa ae eee HS EDSIG News Q amp A Appleseeds News gt Daisywheeling Graphics Comment on Dazzle Draw The WAP Print Shop Library DisabledSIG News An Accelerated Apple Telecom SIGNews Expanding Your Apple Sider Gets a Lot of Press Getting the Yr from Thunderclock Duncan Langford Dealer s Corner 2 p ice G Unitstatus Softviews 2 ss Playing Against Sargon III Digging Into Logo Part l Mod to WAP Vols The Journal of Washington Apple Pi Volume 7 Mau 1985 Ltd Number 5 Playing Against Sargon III Digging Into LOGO 63 Genealogical Data Bases ReadySetGo David Morganstein TETTE ea Peter Combes Bruce F Field Ian Ma Thal Arsen Darnay Milton R Goldsamt Gary E Hayman ose a OF M Mal George M Vitak Dave Harvey J T Tom Demay Jr 1 David Morganstein ony oaournrns wn re rr eee aor NO ee oud NNN me mm OO wo Open amp Solid Apple Steven Pearce David Morganstein Paul Moore Cyril Fefer Vincent M Disandro Ronald Wartow Bernie Benson N N 208 w w N nos 100 amp 111 ww MS Basic Disk File Example Family Roots Apple SIG News s Robert C Platt T
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85. One final interesting difference between MS BASIC and Applesoft sequential disk files is that in MS BASIC commas are used to separate the various data items in each record with carriage returns separating the records In contrast Applesoft uses carriage returns to separate each data item So that if you were to use a text editor to create a data file for an Apple soft version of Listing 1 it would look like MONITOR 5 130 10 etc contd Washington Apple Pi Listing 1 200 220 230 240 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 330 340 350 360 370 380 390 400 410 420 ES SE INN SSS REM REM PROGRAM NAME REM REM REM REM REM REM REM REM REM OPEN FILES PRINT WE SELL HARD WARD COMPANY PRINT SALES STATISTICS PRINT PRINT ITEM QUANTITY UNIT DISCOUNT TOTAL TOTAL INCOME EN dt o ERLEEK SAN f UIACOUNTS SERON OPEN Platt to WAP Sales Dat FOR INPUT AS 1 LET NUMSALES 0 LET NUMDISC 0 LET BIGDISC 0 LET SUMOFDISCOUNT 0 LET BIGINCOME 0 LET BIGQUANTITY 0 INPUT 1 ITEM QUANTITY UNITPRICE DISCOUNT LET TOTALDISCOUNT UNITPRICE QUANTITY DISCOUNT 100 LET TOTALINCOME UNITPRICE QUANTITY TOTALDISCOUNT NUMSALES NUMSALES 1 IF DISCOUNT O THEN GOTO 270 LET NUMDISC NUMOISC 1 LET BIGDISCOUNT BIGDISCOUNT TOTALDISCOUNT LET SUMOFDISC SUMOFDISC DISCOUNT REM ROUTINE FOR BOTH DISCOUNTED AND NON DISCOUNTED ITEMS LET BIGINCOME BIGIN
86. P HTAB 9 INPUT P 1 430 LN LEN P 1 IF LN 0 THEN P 1 CP GOTO 450 440 GOSUB 1100 P 1 UC 450 IF LEFT P 1 1 lt P 1 gt THEN P 1 7 42 460 470 480 490 500 510 520 530 540 550 560 570 580 590 600 610 620 630 640 650 660 670 680 690 700 710 720 730 740 750 760 770 780 790 800 810 820 830 840 850 860 870 880 890 900 910 920 930 940 950 960 970 980 990 1000 1010 1020 1030 1040 1050 May 1985 IF RIGHT P 1 1 OR RIGHT P 1 THEN P 1 MIO P 1 1 LEN P 1 GOTO 460 PRINT O PREFIX P 1 IF N lt 3 THEN 520 1 1 HOME PRINT Locate pathname s within sP 1 7 INPUT Search for which string LF LN LEN LF IF LN 0 THEN 500 GOSUB 1100 LF UC IF N 22 INT N 2 THEN PRINT Be sure printer is turned on and hit lt RETURN gt GOSUB 1220 IF N lt 3 THEN 560 GET N HOME PRINT Searching for CHR 34 LF CHR 34 HTAB 56 PRINT TYPE MODIFIED CREATED GOTO 580 HOME PRINT Pathname P 1 PRINT NAME cc cece ometom TYPE BLOCKS MODIFIED oo CREATED ENDFILE PRINT D OPEN P X TOIR PRINT D READ P X INPUT L1 L1 L1 REM INFO gt INPUT F IF F THEN 900 IF MID F 18 3 DIR THEN 760 IF N gt 2 THEN 680 PRINT MID SP 1 LV X 2 HTAB HT PRINT MID
87. P 0 Box 216 Lexington MA 02173 Or call and have the information sent more quickly 617 641 2930 The people there are very polite and helpful and TRUTHFUL Or send a SASE to me and I will try to help you too Let me close by saying that I do not in anyway work for Quinsept I am just a very happy owner of the Family Roots software Washington Apple Pi Name Cut out place in ta envelope and mail to MICRO ROOTS 7411 Riggs Road Suito H 104 Adelphi Maryland 20783 Yes enclosed s my check or money order for 24 95 Please send me a subscription for Microroots USE YOUR HOME COMPUTER TO TRACE YOUR FAMILY ROOTS WITH MICROSE ROOTS 7411 Riggs Road Suite A 104 Adelphi MD 20783 301 439 1799 The bi monthly newsletter for the personal home micro computer user Details cost source and availability of 57 genealogical pto grams amp features for 21 differant personal home computers e Articles written by other users and professionals Clearing jer house for genealogical Remote Bulletin Board Systems RBBS e Questions answered problems solved information and experi ences shared Ideal newsiet terfhournal for the user at any level including beginners Fram MMO Hagn Accress May 1985 State om Paen LE 39 7 Zo FOR THE A by Lawrence A Having owned an Apple JL and a Microsoft SoftCard for several years I was sligh
88. Pi office said Put your data file on the Ramdisk I did and it worked Here is what I did 1 Booted a startup disk with System Microsoft Word Standard Glossary and an empty Ramdisk formed by making no selection when asked what files to copy on the Ramdisk when opening I elected to open a Ramdisk of 200K to leave room in memory for the Application and System 2 Ejected and put in the data disk with the file I wanted to work on the one I used for trial was about 55K in size 3 Copied the pertinent file into Ramdisk This asks for one disk swap You end up with the startup disk System and Application in the Internal Drive and the data file on Ramdisk 4 Opened the data file from the Ramdisk If you are starting with a new document you would open Word from the Finder and Save as to the Ramdisk for printing etc Edited and printed It did all these procedures without asking for any disk swaps 5 Saved the file back to the data disk requires disk swap s number depending on file size etc As usual with Ramdisk you have to be careful not just to Save your file every once and a while since that only saves it to the Ramdisk and you are still vulnerable if the current goes off However if you are going to go on writing or editing it is desirable to Save to the Ramdisk before you Save as to the data disk as this updates the Ramdisk file which you are going to continue to work on amp Washington Apple Pi
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90. SCRIPTION by Winston D Gayler Howard W Sams amp Co Inc 4300 West 62nd Street P 0 Box 7092 Indianapolis Indiana 46206 May 1985 45 SE LA If you re just getting to know your Macintosh and especially if you ve never used a computer before you re probably discovering a lot of computerese you don t understand Apple has tried in its software design to eliminate much of the computer language others must use to get along with their machines but there is still some with which you ll have to contend In fact it s probably a good idea to get to know at least some computerese because some of the companies making software for the Mac seem to be unable to shed it when writing their manuals You re probably seeing a lot of it right here in the WAP Journal and hearing it in WAP meetings But you can understand even without having to learn a whole new language And understanding the language will actually help you use your computer in ways you might not have thought of yet Here s an example You ve just picked up one of those great Washington Apple Pi disks of public domain soft ware and you re dying to try it out You plug in your new disk and try to open one of the icons The Mac testily informs you that an application can t be found to open this document What s an application anyway Computer people still use the word application in connection with the Mac even Apple uses it in its ma
91. STAR MITAC GAMMA e llc CABLE FOR ABOVE DRIVES DISK CONTROLLER DENOTES NEW PRICE OR ITEM 269 00 349 00 319 00 595 00 21 00 49 00 99 00 e AX 5500 425 00 e LEADING EDGE IBM COMPATIBLE QUADLINK FOR APPLE SOFTWARE GAME 1 0 DEVICES e CH PADOLE STICKS e CH MACH II JOYSTICK e CH MACH III JOYSTICK 1 0 PORT EXPANDER 9 16 ADAPTER FOR lic STORE HOURS 75 00 1295 00 119 00 395 00 149 00 14 00 37 00 37 00 45 00 25 00 9 00 99 00 31 00 M TH FRI SAT 159 00 149 00 126 11 5 301 652 4232 Washington Apple Pi May 1985 ASSOCIATES 8231 Woodmont Ave Bethesda M0 20814 SLOT EXPANSION 16 RAM CARD e RAMWORKS 64K RAMWORKS 128K e RAMWORKS 320K e RAMWORKS 512K 49 00 139 00 164 00 239 00 295 00 590 00 RGB OPTION FOR RAMWORKS e SERI ALL SERIAL INTERFACE CARD 119 00 e 80 COLUMN CARD VIEWMASTER WITH SOFT SWITCH 129 00 e CENTAURI APS 2 80 CARD 59 00 e Z 80 PLUS CARD CPM FOR APPLE 115 00 TITAN ACCELERATOR Ile 259 00 e TIMEMASTER II CLOCK CALENDAR CARD 109 00 e QUICK LOADER PROM BOARD e ANALOG DIGITAL BOARD 99 00 e SUPER 10 BOARD 49 00 e MULTIPLE SLOT EXPANSION CHASSIS 149 00 e SINGLE SLOT EXTENDER 29 00 WILDCARD I COPY 109 00 149 00 109 00 119 00 SPECIAL PERIPHERALS e COOLING FAN WITH SURGE PROTECTOR e LIFETIME POWER SUPPLY e SHIFT KEY MOD KIT e SCRE
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93. a bona fide 80 column board From YOU to WP1095 03 08 Not REALLY 80 col George I ve seen you say this more than once that the Apple 80 col boards are not REALLY 80 col boards What do you mean by that Alexander From WP1095 to YOU 03 09 REAL 80 col A REAL 80 column board has its own character genera tion and screen management firmware It does not use the 6502 and main memory to manage the screen display The e 80 column board simply alternates between two interleaved 40 column managers it demands a lot from the 6502 Therefore it cannot keep up with 1200 baud data From WP3505 to ALL 03 06 65C02 VS 6502C My accelerator e has I think a 6502C CPU that replaces the stock 6502 CPU that came with my e Question is the 6502C the same as the CPU that is used in the c From WAP371 to WP3505 03 06 65C02 vs 6502C R NO The 65002 is a 1MHz processor which is made by a different process than the 6502 The 6502C is a 6MHz contd May 1985 61 processor which runs faster than the 6502 even be a 65C02C which has all of the listed above but I ve never heard of it There may advantages From WP2208 to WP2521 03 10 PEEKS POKES CALLS Two sources of CALLS are 1 the PEEKS POKES and POINTERS chart that comes with many Beagle Bros disks and 2 a download file on the NOVAPPLE BBS Two not listed in these sources are CALL 3100 shows HIRES 1 without a screen clear and POKE 33 99 will scramble AppleSoft and
94. ad as an EXEC type file that will load your binary data into the APPLES memory FP MON 1 0 C CALL 151 your text BSAVE filename That ought to do it From WP1095 to YOU Brett 03 10 CP M Funny I was just writing up a chart on why CP M for tutorial next Saturday First it should be said that ProDOS goes a long way towards meeting the compe tition of CP M 3 0 Reasons for Faster disk I 0 and boot lots of public domain s ware no copy protec tion a better programming environment e g the TYPE command PIP Best business grade software is available only in CP M dBase II Wordstar Super Calc likewise for serious language buffs C BASIC Turbo Pascal Also CP M software supports storage of numerical data files without the stupidity of conver sion to text strings Last CP M is closer to PC DOS if you need to transfer files or don t like to From WP4496 to LYOU 03 12 R CP M Advantages of CP M depend on what you want to do with it If you ve got a system with 360K disks or a hard disk the multi level USER areas offer increased precision in file handling Word processing and data base s ware available for CP M might be considered better than other operating systems for business applications You ought to try it at a dealer with a variety of s ware packages and compare some of the stuff that s available on DOS and CP M like MULTI PLAN to see what you think of it From WP2788 to ALL
95. age by machine in the Journal Unfortunately there is little that the office can do to change that balance That task remains on the members shoulders We can at best ask for articles in various areas and hope that owners of that machine will respond Macintosh owners want to see more Mac articles Apple owners want to see more Apple articles The Editor wants to see more articles period Meanwhile we print Just about everything we receive within a month of its receipt We now have over 300 Apple c owners We would love to include articles which benefit these folks We can only do that if you c members will write about your machine The same point holds true about our software collec tion We have had an Apple e owner ask why there have been number of Macintosh disks released in the past few months and only one Apple disk The rea son is simple Our members have not contributed any new software to our collection from which we can generate a new disk Fred Edwards our DOS 3 3 disk librarian stands ready and willing to accept contri but ions Remember you get a free disk of your choice in swap for the one you give us which contains your contribution Our collections are built in large part on your generosity If you write a useful program or type in from a magazine a public domain program give it to us to share with everyone else and help our collection to grow Help At The Office We want to thank yet ano
96. age is at your fingertips Speaks for itself again on the new disk The Imagewriter file contains instructions to your printer If you throw it in the trash you won t be able to print your documents If you later use a different printer you can throw away the Image writer file being sure you first have a new printer instruction file which computerese calls a printer driver 24 Hour Demonstration 213 427 0178 From First Byte offices 213 595 7006 The point I m trying to make here is a lot of the lingo seems alien to non computer experts But a lot of it is easily understandable And if you take the time to learn some of it you ll discover new tricks to making your work easier using the Mac g ee RR ma mere ee meene massene nere eee meeee nen m ale al ol ol waleleleleleaetelelalelnlalsielalalal feialet el alelaiaialalalsialaialzia APEDASPRSSSANPERA oPpdoomoddedrdndoodpppddrddppodmndeddoddendprdmpmdpernddddnddne ndddd COMPTAN ELECTRONIC PUANITUNE SALE SAVE ane OFF LIST PRICE Badin ainia L e ele sige REE Just bring this ad or your club ID to qualify pon des OUR SHOWROOM IS LOCATED AT BBE atals 1042 ROCKVILLE PIKE ROCKVILLE MD poo alate pod iss Fu TURE Fu RNITURE noo SEP The Complete Electronics Furniture Center nn HAr DO BEE cal 340 1106 EG a als tt a DO Soo Doo BER sisiajeialsiaialnalaea salslalalsjaajainsiaajainiaiaiajajaialsajajajsisieialejals ejejajsi
97. als that there are two ways to terminate branching housekeeping byte 08 and zero s for a left or right branch ONO COCR REECE EE DEE HHO ED E HEEL EO LET OLE SCE EEE EEE ES OF OA 5341 A257 SA 57A2 1A 5600 A342 42A3 1A 4500 0000 FIGURE 2 more complete node tree for procedure SAVE COOH SHS OHH OEE ESE SEH EHS CE EHEHO HEE HOHE HEED EEE OH HEM OLE To be continued next month amp MODIFICATIONS TO WAP VOLs 190 amp by Vincent M DMiSandro I recently purchased two utility disks from the club library Volume 100 Utilities A and Volume 111 Utili ties C I found them to be extremely educational and useful I made some small changes to two of the pro grams which I think may be of some interest and may possibly extend their usefulness On Volume 100 the Hello program assumes that you have a language card and it automatically attempts to load Integer Basic into the card It is then supposed to run the WAP menu program The problem arises if you do not have a language card the disk will boot but all you get is a system prompt To correct this since I don t have a language card and I like the WAP menu I just changed line 280 in the program by adding GOTO 240 This solved the problem rather neatly because line 240 is BRUN CAT On Volume 111 I like the program Letter Typer but I wanted to be able to print the screen The way the program is set up you need a program called TIGER 0BJ to do that With just a few c
98. aluate for 60 days The Datatower is truly an awesome system to behold with storage capacity of epic proportions a built in streaming tape back up system and much faster access times due to it s eight inch voice coil actuated hard disk Mark gave an excellent discussion on hard disk technology and answered a host of questions Our thanks to him and the super people at Priam for making this whole thing possible Next month s WAP Journal will carry my complete article on the Datatower For further information on the Datatower call me at 301 672 1721 or call Mark Taber at Priam phone 201 938 2740 Our April 6th meeting was a presentation on Lisa programming given by Kurt Schmucker Kurt is the author of The Complete Book of Lisa by Harper and Row and a genuine expert on the Lisa His talk was an opportunity for us to get some real insight into the programming behind the Lisa and Mac and his explanation of the Lisa Toolkit Quickport and Lisa Workshop gave us all some invaluable information about the flagship of the Apple computer line Kurt told me that he was equally impressed by WAP and the reception he got from the SIG and plans to attend our meetings in the future Kurt also told us about his latest project a book about MacApp the Mac equivalent to the Lisa Toolkit Kurt s book about MacApp will be included in each copy of MacApp sold by Apple so believe me when I tell you that Kurt is a super gold mine of info on
99. ample Appleworks spreadsheet provides up to 1 000 rows For some the limits of these programs will present no problem while providing features they need at an affordable price Creative Software Box 61688 Sunnyvale CA 94086 Price about 50 00 per packi age de Use your Find Event Ideas and Mer cess Num RM Ace 4 1301 933 07 3 Director y gt Gift From Peripherals Plus the area s foremost mail order supplier Maxell Diskettes 10 SS DD 17 00 DS DD 21 75 Data Diskettes 10 SS DD 14 50 DS DD 17 75 The unheard of value Individually tested with a lifetime guarantee Printer paper 1000 sheets 13 50 20 1b bord 9 1 2 x 11 paper with clean edge perforation MX 80 and FX B0 ribbons in cartridge Labels package of 1000 3 00 Quality 3 1 2 x 15 16 one up labels 4 50 Call anytime 24 hours a day to cnarge by phone or send check or money order to Peripherals Plus 9838 LaDuke Drive Kensington Md 20895 301 565 0511 Delivery within 3 4 busiress days Ged 2 50 per order for postage anc handling Maryland residents adc 5 sales tax May 1985 23 PEAYING AGAIAST SARGON IIl by Paul Moore Note from GAMESIG Chairman GAMESIG is proud to have one of its participants make this timely contribution to the Journal Many Apple owners have been frus trated and befuddled by Sargon III Although I have seen many articles describing how tough the progra
100. an t refuse 9 f3 f4 e5xd5 10 bl c3 d5 c5 11 b2 b4 I think by now you ll be able to guess that Sargon s first instinct is not to run for the safety of his own camp but rather to say to himself Why shouldn t I take that free pawn At the risk of digressing slightly from what happens in the game this position and some of the others that preceded it exemplify the main weapon you can use against Sargon and the other chess programs It s called the horizon effect When Sargon sees a move it seems to me that he takes several seconds and then comes up with a few candidate moves He then tries to crunch the position out looking at your every pos sible response to each of his candidate moves and his every response to each of those When he runs out of time he moves selecting the series of moves that looks most favorable to him The key thing about this fs that Sargon wastes a lot of time analyzing ridicu lous moves and he usually isn t able to look deeply enough at the best moves His view of the future course of the game is limited by a definite horizon beyond which he cannot see This horizon is heavily influenced by the amount of time available to him each move which in turn is determined by the playing level you select The most important thing however is that what is beyond Sargon s horizon does not exist for him If Sargon can t see an immediate reason not to do something which his programming tells
101. and performs the intended functions In contrast Micro soft BASIC has a special set of commands built into BASIC so that no PRINT CHR 4 commands are needed A second major difference is the method of referring to files In Applesoft only one file can be used at any given time and it is activated by using its name in a READ or WRITE statement Thus if the next file to be used in accessing information from the disk is called SALES DATA the Applesoft commands 120 PRINT CHR 4 OPEN SALES DATA 125 PRINT CHR 4 READ SALES DATA are needed to tell Applesoft where data in subsequent INPUT statements will be found In contrast Microsoft BASIC allows more than one disk file to be active at the same time MS BASIC assigns numbers to refer to the various active files The OPEN command is then used to associate these reference numbers to file names on the disk For example 120 OPEN SALES DAT FOR INPUT AS 1 tells BASIC that future references to file 1 will be 34 May 1985 DUSK LER he tT AAMPLE treated as refering to file SALES DAT In Applesoft when INPUT statements follow a READ DOS command the data are automatically taken from the disk instead of from the keyboard But in MS BASIC a special form of INPUT command must be used to read from the disk For example 190 INPUT 1 ITEM will cause file 1 to be used for the value of the variable ITEM By adding 1 after the word INPUT MS BASIC knows that a disk com
102. at figuring things out As I do not use CP M I did not purchase the other disk With DOS 3 3 the board is segmented into 192K RAM disks based in slot 3 The venerable Apple FID pro gram modified to recognize up to six drives is provided for file transfer Copy programs which format disks can not be used and the INIT command disables the RAM DRIVE but does not disturb stored eae which is retrievable upon reactivating the oard Various default RAM DRIVE parameters can be modified by POKEing values supplied in the documentation There is a visual indicator of activity inverse R W and for even greater enjoyment an optional audio indicator click click Double high resolution graphics are supported and any of the 64K banks can be 16 May 1985 ACEL or how to avoid boredom while the e does its thing f a Ix locked from use as a drive For those who are troubled by the use of Slot 3 there must be some since this option exists the machine can be fooled into thinking that the board is in another slot I wonder if it s not nice to fool Mother Apple As an added touch the Applied Engineering folks have provided a utility to replace the trusty COPYA Their version uses the additional memory on the board to copy greater chunks thus working faster than the Apple program And while on the subject of faster a public utility program named Speed Dos is included which can load a 131 sector binary file from the RAM card
103. ay and early June we need to count votes cast in the annual election We need two or three people to give one evening If you are willing to help out please contact the office This job requires no computer knowledge Questionnaire In the next few months we will be sending out a short questionnaire to a random sample of about 450 WAP members If you receive a question naire please take the ten minutes or so needed to answer the questions and return it to us It is being sent so that we can learn what you want from our organization We are in need of help to enter the results into the computer for tabulation It will take about six to eight hours total to enter the data If you have a statistical package which can do the tabulations and want to carry out the summarization fine However that is not necessary as we already have sources for that part of the effort Software Speculation If you look in the April 1984 issue of BYTE magazine you will see a review of an about to be released product called MacBASIC In December of last year the alpha test number had reached version number 975 By the start of the year two books had already appeared on the market about this remarkable Apple program although no official release had yet been made Anyone who has used Microsoft s version 1 0 BASIC certainly knew of its deficiencies in editing and access to the Mac s ROMs In early 1985 Microsoft released their much improved version 2 0 an
104. ays missed the current year being available it kept excellent time and I was Listing otherwise pleased with it When I eventually updated from DOS 3 3 I was delighted to find that ProDOS read 100 REM Year from month demo the card automatically making note of the date and 110 REM Duncan Langford 11 Hillview Road time Canterbury Kent England 120 REM All date variables are as in the Thunderclock What really astonished me however was that ProD0S manual remember it ONLY WORKS UNTIL 1987 managed not only to read the current month and day of 130 month as well as the usual hours minutes seconds from 140 REM Set variables my clock card but also appeared to know the year 150 which was then 1984 Since in two years I had never 160 DIM M 12 managed to read this information from the clock card 170 FOR I 1 TO 12 I naturally thought that ProDOS had the year detail 180 READ M M I M I 1 M programmed in and expected that it would remain as 190 NEXT 1984 On the offchance though I took time out 200 DATA 31 28 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31 from New Year celebrations to check my Apple Was 210 ProDOS still assuming it was 1984 Well no it 220 REM M Month accumulated days so far at wasn t To my astonishment at midnight the screen month s end changed to January 1 1985 230 240 FOR I 1 TO 3 How did the Apple manage to get more information from 250 LET Y I 1984 1 my Thunderclock card than even the manual said was in
105. back in the 40 column mode You should now be able to use your printer with the PR 2 command i e PRINT CHR 4 PRE2 When you are finished printing turn the 80 colum card back on with PRINT CHR 4 PRA3 The 80 column card not only hooks into the output so stuff can be printed on the screen it also looks at the keyboard so it can trap keystrokes like ESC Ctrl Q that control the operation of the card When you disconnect the output part and connect it to your printer the 80 column card gets confused and doesn t want to work properly I have an Apple J that I would like to expand to 128K of RAM memory Is it possible to adapt one of the Apple e 64K 80 column expansion cards for this purpose No Aside from the electrical considerations the e 80 column memory cards are designed to plug into the auxiliary slot which is physically larger than the standard ies or e peripheral slots The reverse will work however You can take memory expansion cards designed for the Apple and use them in the e These cards can be used with some programs but they are not exactly the same as the fe extended 80 column cards You will not be able to take advantage of double hi res graphics or the ProDOS RAM disk Because most new software is being written for the e type cards I don t recom mend buying the old J cards for use in the e ra a Are the new ROMs for the enhanced e any easier to read AD No
106. ber 31 In any case until 1999 then the clock resets to the year 1900 instead of 2000 In the interim SOS Version 1 3 even cor rects the clock calendar for leap years Note that the clock data register is written to FFDO in the 32 byte block VIA region of uppermost RAM FFDO to FFEF This area normally is off line hence write protected during re boot it can be addressed directly only by 8F extended addressing Rebooting a new disk thus does not overwite the clock data register In other words as long as your Apple HI 4s powered up the clock continues ticking and if battery power is supplied the clock will continue count ing in low power mode Apple clearly intended to put a battery on the board to keep the clock going independent of power inter ruptions In fact if you looked carefully around the motherboard you would have spotted another unfilled slot a circular dime sized depression labeled BATT for the back up battery of course Frankly rather than clipping or soldering wires to the board I would just as soon reset the clock each time I restart the machine Just the idea of a dying battery corroding the precious motherboard is enough to deter me Speaking of which if you worry about mounting the clock yourself buy the chip and have your friendly dealer install it I believe the current labor rate hovers around 30 per hour If you have Business BASIC you ll love the TIMESET Washington Apple Pi routine on
107. cable gets in your way unplug its small ivory terminal connector but do mark the socket for being small it is hard to find back While getting some elbow room you ll see a myriad spider like IC s resistors and other elec tronic parts on the motherboard Now that the board rests without stretching any cables note that each socket on the board is labeled in white ink with its contents Moreover the board is organized in sections with horizontal capital let ters along the left side and numbers along the short side facing you so as to help you localize a specific area of the board for instance intersection G 1 for the power cable receiver plug Try to identify the area B 3 near the left lower corner If you can t find it no worry inspect the left lower corner of the board till you spot an empty black rectangular chip holder socket with two rows of 12 small holes It is the second socket from the long left edge of the board just one row above the several resistors capacitors and small chips on the short edge facing you about midway between that edge and the two story memory tower assembly in a 256K Apple Surprise The empty clock chip holder is clearly labeled with 58167 Having located the empty socket for the MM 58167 chip the rest is easy The only mistake you can possibly make is to reverse the chip in the holder Align the lettering on the top of your chip the same direction as its neighbors probably wit
108. card you see that the inside text is upside down on the page I used the Fontrix Script font to generate the text saved the Fontrix graphics screens transferred them to MousePaint use the flip horiontal flip vertical commands to invert them and then sent them back to Fontrix Since MousePaint is ProDOS and Fontrix is DOS 3 3 ProDOS Convert has to be used to transfer the files Data Transforms says they don t have a ProDOS version even though Apple Inc shows it on their list of ProD0S software No doubt a ProDOS version will soon show up Q I purchased some time ago a Switch A Slot from Southern California Research Group and used it quite successfully for some time At one point I had a John Bell 6522 card a Hayes Micromodem and a Mockingboard in it Then I bought an Apple Mouse for my e I cannot put the Mouse card in the Switch A Slot If it is there and the switch set to the Mouse card s location fine But no other card in the Switch A Slot can be used If the Mouse interface card is removed no problems As I understand it the Switch A Slot has all cards connected to the Apple but only applies voltage to the one selected Have you any idea what the trouble is A It s difficult to tell exactly what the problem is without using some diagnostic equipment to look at the electrical signals but what is apparently happening is that the Mouse card is pulling one or more of the signal lines low even when it is no
109. compilers 162 a PL I 80 library 79 LISP 71 136 148 and XLISP 118 interpreters a Little AUR compiler 92 and a regular expression compiler for 8080 to 8086 conversion 164 7 173 213 5 There is also aCP M 80 emulator for the CP M 86 operating system 217 and a CP M 80 to CP M 86 translator 203 as well as a 68000 cross assembler 92 140 and an M68000 compiler 171 More esoteric offerings include the TINCMP compiler the Pidgin Programming System 43 and PISTOL Portably Inplemented Stack Oriented Language in the footsteps of FORTH and STOIC V1 0 59 V2 0 114 One of the more useful contributions is a collection of HELP files on various languages CBASIC FORTRAN Pascal etc 14 13 In addition scattered throughout the disks are various routines amp utilities to supplement major languages CBASIC utilities 163 BASIC 80 routines 139 an MBASIC variable mapper 40 cross reference utility 78 and disassembler 23 FORTRAN routines 13 140 and benchmark tests for comparing the efficiency of various languages 78 Other compilers in the CP M collection include one for JRT Pascal 82 and utilities 129 and a variety of FORTH compifers as well as utilities for Pascal FORTH and C FORTH COMPILERS These include FORTH 83 V2 0 205 V1 154 68000 FORTH 151 728000 FORTH 150 FORTH130 116 FORTH V1 1 70 and FIG FORTH V1 1 13 Pascal Z Users Group The 27 volumes in t
110. computer with an expired warranty They offer a 90 day limited warranty which as I read the fine print covers only the cost of the parts installed Their advertised price in the April issue was 412 00 for the entire operation They appear willing to offer lower prices especially in light of the falling price of chips The latest price I have heard is 5 75 each in quantity one hundred In my case I provided the 16 RAM chips and paid 200 00 for the installation labor and a few other components In addition to the hardware S2LS provides a disk with two useful programs One is a RAM disk program and the other a memory test Besides using the extra memory to support certain RAM intensive programs I have found the RAM disk to be one method of reducing the time spent during those over long waits while the Mac swaps things in and out of memory I set up my RAM disk with a System Find er Imagewriter and perhaps one application program such as MacWrite If you put MacPaint on the RAM disk note that you do not need the Imagewriter Icon for printing purposes In this way I save a lot of program loading time In addition I can set up other disks with two or more applications and no System or Finder When switching between applications I still save considerable time in overhead since the Mac uses the same System and Finder in the RAM disk This second method allows me to fill a Master System file with a lot of Desk Accessories and
111. d yellow e JUMBO SIZE FLIP TOP 70 DISKETTE FILE CASES 140 DISKETTE LOCKING WOOD FILE CABINET MODEMS e ZOOM TELEPHONICS 300 BAUD le MODEM WISOFTWARE e CENTAURI 300 BAUD PRO MODEM 1200 PRO MODEM 1200A INTERNAL GRAPHICS DEVICES POWER PAD amp STARTER KIT VIDEO amp DISPLAY EQUIPMENT MICRO WORKS DIGITIZER B amp W CAMERA e COMPUTER EYES SYSTEM GENERAL ITEMS e 6 OUTLET POWER STRIP 6 OUT LET WITH SURGE PROTECT e SURGE PROTECTOR e RF MODULATOR e COMPUTER STAND e MODEM ELIMINATOR CABLE COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS 11 00 159 00 159 00 349 00 33 00 199 00 299 00 339 00 359 00 369 00 399 00 399 00 495 00 549 00 PRINTERS 319 00 e PANASONIC P1090 e PANASONIC P1091 e CANON PW 1080 160 CPS e CITIZEN MSP 10 160 CPS e OKIDATA MICROLINE 92 PANASONIC P1092 EPSON RX 100 129 00 299 00 195 00 109 00 e CITIZEN MSP 20 200 CPS CITIZEN MSP 15 e SILVER REED 400 LETTER QUALITY e AJ 831 w KEYBOARD e TOSHIBA DOT MATRIX amp LETTER QUALITY PRINTER INTERFACES AND ACCESSORIES e STANDARD PARALLEL INTERFACE CARD APPLE lic TO PARALLEL GRAPHICS INTERFACE e GRAPHICS PARALLEL INTERFACE CARD s FINGERPRINT PUSH BUTTON GRAPHICS CARD e MICROFAZER PRINT BUFFER e PRINTER STAND e SWITCH BOX 3 PARALLEL PORTS e 2500 SHEETS OF PAPER FLOPPY DISK DRIVES e FOURTH DIMENSION FULL OR SLIMLINE e DI
112. d commands I particularly find the Command S for SAVE and Command P for PRINT to be great time savers Keyboard commands are provided abundantly by WORD For example Shift Command B produces bold print Shift Command S produces Shadow Also Shift Command gt selects the next larger type size and conversely lt selects the next smaller type You can also change the font by typing Shift Command E plus the number of the font Keeping track of page breaks is infinitely easier in MacWrite but it can be done with WORD When you ask contd Washington Apple Pi WORD to repaginate it marks the line at the top of each new page with an mark You can insert a page break anywhere you choose by typing Shift Enter Although MacWrite is easier WORD is more flexible You can have one Header in a MacWrite document with WORD you can have a different one on each page if you like The size of file is limited only by disk capacity however I still prefer to save documents in several parts because saving a long file or renumbering the pages takes so long Mac s slow disk drive is still its major limitation as far as I can see People who compose only straight text letters essays reviews will find that MacWrite is adequate and easier to use WORD however is superior for more complex manuscripts or documents which require multiple columns The WORD ruler takes some getting used to You can set tabs for the entire document or selec
113. d find a reasonably priced 256K board but unfortu nately was never able to obtain software supporting Pascal 1 2 Somewhat shell shocked from this experi ence I was hesitant about trying another board until quite by accident I came across an ad for product called RAMWORKS by Applied Engineering P 0 Box 798 Dallas Texas 75247 The RAMWORKS board replaces and is functionally ident ical to the Apple extended 80 column card in the e auxiliary slot Instead of a single set of 64K chips RAMWORKS supports two sets either 64K s or the newer 256K s with an optional piggy back card con taining two more sets of slots for a possible config uration as high as one megabyte From a programming standpoint this RAM is addressed by bank switching using the same soft switches as the Apple board The additional memory is accessed in 64K groups with the active bank identified by an address called the bank register Matters of this nature however can best be handled by those 16 fingered types who like to assemble programs Applied Engineering offers disk emulation software supporting DOS 3 3 ProDOS Pascal 1 1 1 2 and on a separate disk at a separate price CP M The Pascal 1 2 programming does not support the 128K Pascal con figuration Documentation is contained on the disk and when printed out consists of six pages for DOS one page for Pascal and one paragraph for ProDd0S Obviously ProDos and Pascal users are much more clever
114. d offered purchasers of version 1 0 a 57 00 upgrade This new upgrade has the editing strenghths and ROM routine access ascribed to MacBASIC in the BYTE article As of April 3 more than a year after BYTE had to have received the Mac BASIC review article no MacBASIC program Do these facts have any connection contd on pg 3 Washington Apple Pi CEOS IP Leos DONATIONS WANTED If you are upgrading your computer why not consider making a tax deductible donation of your old Apple JC to a non profit organization Our conservation oriented group needs to enter the computer age and we would appreciate it if someone would donate an Apple J Call John at 245 7488 M F 8 00 4 30 Thanks WANTED TO BUY Apple with 256K 549 7331 days Call Geri 703 WANTED Apple computer Time II clock card with software and documentation Was sold by Applied Engineering of Dallas TX among others Desperately needed for research project Willing to buy rent or borrow for 1 week Call Donald Mayes 301 589 4190 WANTED LISA 1 0 Capability If you have a LISA 1 0 hardware software configuration there is need of your help to recover some files that NTIS still has on some 5 25 inch floppy disks If you can help please con tact Allen Betts NTIS S 2028 Springfield VA 22161 703 487 4760 WANTED A turnkey mailing label system for Quick File II on Apple e with 128K 2 drives Apple Writer II word processing and Imagewriter printe
115. date every time But it really never was a fully satisfactory arrange ment for a sophisticated machine Like most of us I kept waiting for the promised clock with battery backup you know that one by heart If you need help ask your dealer N Then I stumbled on the November 1982 issue of Softalk magazine where I found the article It s o UTock and All s Well by Apple expert John Jeppson What follows is nothing original other than the good news that the clock chip works extremely well plus a few more details to encourage the electronically timid like myself ATT you need I learned from Dr Jeppson is a timer chip and he didn t mention that one the guts to open the s underbelly The mounting socket for the chip not only is present and labeled on the motherboard the circuits are completely pre wired and the software calls already are unbeknownst to owners installed in SOS KERNEL In other words once you slip the timer chip in its socket you are finished your clock starts ticking as soon as the power is turned on The procedure turned out to be simpler and quicker than anticipated First you need to buy the clock chip model MM 58167 or MM 58167A which you may be able to locate in an electronic parts store To save time I ordered mine by phone and charged the purchase Without recommend ing one supplier over another I found Do Kay Computer Products in Santa Clara 800 848 8008 in California he
116. drives controller card monitor stand Apple 80 column card with additional 64K for a total of 128K 1150 Also Z 80 card 90 Kensington System Saver fan and surge suppressor 50 Apple joystick 30 Epson FX 80 printer 375 adjustable tractor feed for Epson FX 80 30 Practical Peripherals serial card 115 Grappler parallel printer card 90 Applesoft manual set of 3 40 Apple e Reference Manual 20 Call Lynn at 301 845 2651 evenings RECEIVED a 50 Gift Certifcate for software from the Washington Apple Pi Software Center but need the money for something else Are you planning to buy something there soon Please contact Dorothy Moore 762 1683 FOR SALE Apple Super Serial Card for Apple 1 or te New never used 100 Apple Silentype thermal printer with interface card and cable paper 75 Call Dave Aiken 703 476 4309 after 6 00 PM FOR SALE 1 Cipher Data 9 track high performance NRZ computer mag tape read write head with Prom module and others for small cassette amp 8 track drive Used only 100 hours Original 1000 asking 30 for all 2 RF signal generator old time but works great for hobbyist applications Asking 20 or best offer 3 Assorted meter movements including volts amps and db Also assorted finned power rectifiers and OC hobby motors for cassette drives robots etc Asking 50 for the lot or negot 4 Power supply for laser applications develops 10K volts made b
117. e mainly because I like the additional keyboard commands and a_ few features such as Mail Merge which lets me print form letters and the two column printing which helps with the two newsletters I prepare Still I have some WISHES for MicroSoft or other software developers I wish I could search a document and change character formats e g make all of a certain word bold or underlined I really wish I could have a line count for each page and a word instead of a character count for documents Most of all I d like a faster disk Concertware contd from pg 48 ple It will also allow you to play the Mac keyboard as if it were a piano and enter music this way You cannot change instruments within a voice as you can in MusicWorks which I found to be a major limi tation But you do have a large variety of instru ments to choose from for each voice and if you don t like the ones provided the Instrument Maker allows you to design and save your own As in MusicWorks instruments can be designed by drawing the waveform freehand However as we all know it is very diffi cult to get nice sounding instruments by drawing them Instead instruments are usually characterized by their harmonic content The ConcertWare manual has a good discussion of the basic principles of waveforms and envelopes which was very educational for me and my children ConcertWare allows you to specify the harmonic content of the instrument and it then calculates
118. e a dic tionary entry for that word That starting place is the address of what is called a node A node con sists of 5 bytes In this article I follow the con vent ion that the address of a node is the address of its first byte For example the primitive procedure SAVE has its primary first node at 57AC The 5 bytes starting at 57AC are 14 00 40 A7 and 57 In other words 14 is at 57AC 00 at 57AD 40 at 57AE and so on Note that I use hexadecimal notation to refer to addresses and bytes most of the time the prefix is omitted in this paper I assign names to each of the 5 bytes of a node according to their position The names are mine and may not be the names used by the disigners of this version of logo One one occasion for example they used the LISP words CAR and COR for my left branch and right branch I ve assumed the small prerogative of my own names since the information that follows is derived from my own empirical and time consuming trial and test method The first byte of a node appears to be used for housekeeping it is used for any or all of these purposes garbage collection the identification of the next four bytes in the node among other things I have not yet analyzed every function of this housekeeping byte The next two bytes contain an address with the usual convention of low byte appearing first I call these two bytes pointer to the left branch The last two bytes
119. e disk capac ity Fields can be added to but not deleted from an existing record format Creative Filer allows you to use the first field as a key variable to order the records The program automatically tracks the value of this field and stores each new record in sort sequence using it Thus for a phone list if you make the first field Last Name Creative Filer would maintain the list in name order When searching through the data base using the key will produce the quickest results however you can search on any field or even on combi nations of fields For conventence you can define an alternate key field but once defined it can not be changed The report writing features are very handy Creative Filer allows you to create a report format and store it for later repetition You select the fields to be included and the spacing to be used You have the ability to derive fields of the report from the fields in your file For example commission on each sale can be derived as the selling price times the commis sion rate if these later two fields are in your file Commission on each sale is computed when each record ls ee and printed in the report it is not stored in e e Creative Filer will work well for simple problems It will not handle hierarchical records one record type per household and a second record type for each house hold member Its single record structure can not handle complicated problems which can be solved wi
120. e hard to get used to As mentioned the STYLE commands BOLD ITALIC etc should be toggles Instead they require the user to always go back to PLAIN text to change style And the cursor does not disappear when typing begins within a text window as it should picky picky And finally I wish there were a hand a 1a MacPaint to move the active screen location Alas no software is perfect yet Washington Apple Pi SOME INFO FROM THE PUBLISHER I spoke with Manhattan Graphics about their plans to fix some of the above features upgrades and future product directions First they will be releasing a major upgrade Version 2 0 toward the end of summer 1985 Its main features will be dynamic linkage between blocks text flow between linked blocks as content changes and multipage capability with link ing across pages as well In addition they have identified and fixed some of the problems above com mand key shortcuts will be fully implemented and the text select remove replace feature will be operative They were interested in the other points mentioned so other features may be included in the new release as well Upgrade cost to registered users will be very nominal but final pricing has not been determined as yet The program was copy protected up to now but as of early April Manhattan Graphics removed copy protec tion Apparently there were some unclear interactions between the protection scheme and the p
121. ed Gaugler Leon H Raesly e Marilyn Black 7 80 for the Littlest Apple Lawrence A Hus ick Printers for the c o George Sall Bugs in c Systems Disk Jorge P Osterling Diskeat ss a BOO Velke Charlene Ryan Rudolph H de Jong ae a er B D Apple CP M Disk Library 63 Genealogical Data Bases A Review Put a Timex in Your Three SAMS Computerfacts A Review MacNovice MacLingo Ralph J Begleiter Concertware Music Creation John W Gardner MacWord A Second Choice Bonnie L Walker ReadySetGo A Review Jim Graham Frederick Apple Core Data Acquisition for the Mac Lynn R Wad Ramdisk with Microsoft Word Lloyd Swift Jazz vs Symphony Donald W Kornreich Fattening Your Mac s David Morganstein Programmers Sub SIG Jonathan E Hardis LISA Mac XL SIG News John F Day The Best of the WAP ABBS A lexander Inside Macintosh eooo Disketeria Mail Order Form Tutorial Registration 2s sees Author Index Index to Advertisers GE EEE ee 34 36 37 37 40 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 48 49 52 55 55 56 58 59 59 60 61 62 gt 63 64 64 ING your MAG Swap your own board 1 20 day warranty Free Mac Memory Disk by Assimilation Process Dealer inquiries welcome For more information or to pion your order call 213 207 8866 12301 Wilshire Bivd Suite 101 Los Angeles CA 80025 OFFICER
122. ee Agen USA Mystery Sentences Tales of Discovery amp Math Man s raner nar nn are varen a00 COPY II PLUS for II Ile IIc 28 00 COPY II MAC ss nav nr rep nere arrene n 8 00 This ad is written a month in advance Since prices are subject to change please call for current pricing We attempt to meet all advertised prices COMPUTER DEN Ltd 11716 KEMP MILL ROAD SILVER SPRING MARYLAND 20902 301 649 6868 Call to order Sunday Taur enay 10 A M 9 Free ge vr o Crystal City UPS shipping Quantity Discounts Available P M May 1985 35 PAN D Gaugler APRLUE Tec S K IN t The Apple JL CP M Library 217 volumes 2 disks per volume is available for 10 per volume Apple JL CP M Library at either P 0 Box 477 Kulpsville PA 19443 or P 0 Box 4273 Cherry Hill NJ 08033 Most of these disks converted from 8 to 5 1 4 format require CP M 80 but some are for CP M 86 In the discussion below an attempt is made to categorize the disks by function and the disk volume numbers are cited those already acquired by WAP are underlined The directory disk Vol 0 includes a program SHOW that displays the two squeezed directory listings CPM 80 Compilers amp Interpreters One advantage of having a 2 80 co processor card for the Apple JL is the extensive availability of compilers and interpre ters for CP M Included in this SIG M collection are a COBOL compiler 209 Concurrent Pascal and PL O
123. emory to run making it an XL only product I have been playing with several of the newer experi mental Finders lately the latest is Finder 3 0 and have been impressed with how much faster they are than good old Finder 1 19 Expect great things to happen to your XL when the newer Finders are at last released to the public That s it for this month See ya at the SIG meeting Inside Macintosh contd from pg 62 ins also if you have friends in San Jose Their phone number is 408 988 6009 It is difficult to get through a recording during off hours advises you to phone between 1 4 PM EST is a new product available which lets you print Once you have the IM in hand what do you do next mailing labels on your Lisa The product is called See SigMac Programmers Sub SIG elsewhere in this LabelList and costs 50 It is available from The issue amp 60 May 1985 Washington Apple Pi THE BEST OF THE WAP ABBS by Alexander From WP4168 to ALL 03 04 NEW ROMS Apple has finally announced it They have finished beta testing new roms that give a e all the special functions of a c The kit includes the following a new autostart ROM a new monitor ROM w mouse text a 65C02 MPU a new character generator w mouse text The kit should appear at dealers in late March Mid April Estimated cost is around 70 Must be installed by authorized Apple Dealer and old ROMs are kept by dealer From WP4795 to WP4168 03 04
124. en and allow him to capture your Rook Even this does no good for you are able to slide your Queen back to the first rank and administer the final blow contd Washington Apple Pi Washington Apple Pi Operant HARDWARE PRINTERS Epson FX 80 160 cps tractor single sheet FX 100 wide carriage version of the above LX 80 replaces RX 80 call for specs LQ 1500 200 eps fantastic letter quality node 995 Okidata 192 replaces Oki 92 call for specsl call 193 132 coluan version of above call Toshiba 1340 144 cps draft BEST letter qual matrix 559 Texas Instruments TI 855 150 cps draft 35 cps NLQ 795 NEC P2 P3 high quality natrix printingi Herd eee 519 725 Panasonic amp Citizen printers 0ccce ce eees call Gepini 10X 120 cps tractor single sheet graphics 269 15X wide carriage same features as Epson MX 375 Powertype 18 cps daisywheell erassesr 335 PCPI Laser Printer 8 pages ain slicker than H P 2825 C Itoh F 10 Starwriter 40 cps office qualityl 925 F 10 Printaaster 55 cps same as above 1075 Silver Reed 550 18 cps daisywheel BEST at this speed 439 500 14 cps daisywheel same as above 335 NEC 8830 55 cps daisywheel built like a tank 1749 Diablo 620 API 25 cps daisywheel c ee eee 775 Qume Sprint 11 40 40 cps daisymheell assernr 129
125. entered the numbers as 003 012 and 850 then they would be sorted properly In BASIC when EXECing a DOS file which starts with a number there is a point in time when disk 1 0 has stopped and the ASCII code in the file resides in a buffer but nothing has been done with it The code will then be passed by DOS to the Interpreter and converted into a BASIC line Why can the user not POKE the ASCII values into the same buffer set the appropriate pointers and flags and change a running Applesoft or Integer BASIC program on the fly without extra machine language routines I have tried everything I can think of to accomplish this without success Any suggest ions Your EXECed explanation of how BASIC program lines get into an existing program is mostly correct May 1985 One key point you have neglected is that in order for the interpreter to input program lines it must not be running a BASIC program The interpreter can either be in the command mode where it displays a prompt and is waiting for commands or program lines to be typed in or it can be in the run mode running the BASIC program When DOS EXECs a file it temporarily sets the interpreter to the command mode POKEs the BASIC line into the keyboard buffer calls the interpreter to parse convert the line and then start the program running again from where it left off If you stop the BASIC program from running you can t use POKE to tell the interpreter to parse
126. er Rosden 301 229 2288 Graphics BIN Schulthefs 703 538 4575 VistPlot Lee Raesly 301 460 0754 May 1985 Washington Apple Pi MELIS r Pagi omloes R EDSIG Calendar Thursday April 25 at 7 30 p m Making making lessons systems Peter Combes easy some new authoring Thursday May 23 at 7 30 p m Apples for High School English All EDSIG meetings are now held in the Washington Apple Pi offices at 8227 Woodmont Ave Bethesda MD Meeting Report Tuesday March 28 1985 Apple Computer Clubs in Schools Obviously Apple Pi believes that Apple clubs are a good idea Apple has been encouraging the idea of having computer clubs run in schools Computer Publishing Services Inc of Lowell Massachusetts is contracted by Apple to manage Apple Computer Clubs At the EDSIG meeting we saw an example of the kit supplied by CPS to help teachers start clubs in their schools The kit includes twenty student activity posters the book The Apple Guide to Personal Com puters in Education three recruiting posters and an advisor organizing manual The manual has advice on the Goals and purposes of a club how to start one networking parent involve ment preliminary groundwork publicity meetings membership setting up a computer room club activi ties and fund raising Sample membership cards and even press releases are also included A small newsletter Computer Student is publis
127. er these moves l e2 e4 g8 f6 2 e4 e5 f6 d5 3 d2 d4 d7 d6 4 fl c4 d5 b6 This ts a standard opening position in Alekhine s Defense one of the openings covered in Sargon s open ing library After some pondering novel idea occurs to you and after some analysis you decide to advance your King Pawn The first thing Sargon does in this position is to turn on the disk drive indicating that from now on he will be on his own A look into his calculations reveals that he sees himself as having a 275 advantage which means that he thinks he is winning piece your Bishop to be exact If you watch Sar gon s calculations at great length however you will see that he considers almost no alternative to the taking of the Bishop His mind is so totally filled with the primitive thought want Bishop that he can t think of anything else This indicates that Washington Apple Pi Sargon has an insufficiently developed sense of smell Where the human player would at least pause to ask himself why his opponent is willing to part with the Bishop Sargon only looks a few moves ahead sees that he is in no immediate danger of losing the Knight that captures the Bishop and then resolves to make the capture regardless as we shall see of its eventual consequences for the safety of his King Sargon takes ensue your Bishop and the following moves 5 e5 e6 b6xc4 6 e6xf7 e8xf7 7 d1 f3 At this point Sargo
128. erations per disk The second number is the amp of RECORDS per disk DB is R H T 0 Is the 0B Relational Hierarchical Tree Other INDEXES SUR FNAME Indexes the records on Surname or First Name CHARTS PED FGS BLNK Does the DB prepare Pedigrees Family Group Sheets amp Blank Charts GEN CHRT Number of generations per chart Much variation here I D METH What method of record identification is used Two types Serial supplied by program your own method or both LIST NAME MAIL Does the program provide Name lists and Mailing list of living relatives CR FLD characters per field 4080 DISP 40 or 80 column Display PURC COST Purchase cost SHIP COST Shipping cost if any LANG UAGE Program Language Good shopping contd FAMILY A Review by Marilyn I would like to tell those of you who are both family ROOTS Black historians and computer owners about a new software program called FAMILY ROOTS Systems required include Apple JC or e IBM PC or PC XT Kaypro or Epson Victor 9000 or Commodore 64 and most need at least 64K I am using the Apple e with 128K The most appealing quality of Family Roots is its unlimited capabilities You can never run out of room for more names and each name can have its own number With the complete setup you can enter all your names and data then print out the same data for an individ ual or the family or entire line You can change
129. erial number The sticker has a prominent white arrow pointing to 44 May 1985 YOUR LESS THAN TEN J ong TAREE m p the adjoining smaller shiny rectangular plate with the warning never to remove it as it holds the power supply Not to worry we want to remove the large metal plate because attached on the reverse side is the Apple s motherboard To get to it unscrew the 11 eleven small Phillips head machine bolts that secure the cover with attached motherboard to the Apple s frame Now gently nudge the cover plate assembly away from the frame lifting at the small notch cut into the edge of the plate where it adjoins the power sup ply cover using the opposite long edge of the rec tangular cover plate as a hinge As you gently rotate the plate on its long outer edge a few inches a taut grey cable soon limits your free dom to expose more of the board we have to unplug that cable This low voltage power supply cable con taining ten multi colored wires terminates in an Opaque plastic 10 pin female plug with a black plastic cover The plug mates to a male connector clearly labeled POWER in the G row fixed to the motherboard The female plug stides off very easily Once the power cable is unplugged you can flip over the motherboard on its backcover to get at the components being careful not to stretch bend or press on sane of the other longer cables you ll see in the far cor ners If the two wire black speaker
130. f their interest for the purpose of Journal review articles Of course all software sent to the club will be kept at the Office except for the above purpose for all club members to evaluate A report on what is expected to be a flood of hope fully quality gaming software in the next few months for the Apple series and Macintosh computers seemed to whet people s appetites The possibility of a rotating list of GAMESIG members on the HOTLINE list to help club members with any gaming matter was dis cussed A lively show and tell then ensued with everyone Tetting everyone else know what games they were cur rently doing and their critical evaluation thereof The pros and cons of THE BOOK OF ADVENTURE GAMES was discussed centering on how it can be a terrible temptation to have a book with all the answers and maps to the great adventure and fantasy role playing games The members then proceeded to go through an oral horror list of those games that should be avoided like the plague Everyone thought it would be a great idea to survey the WAP members to ascertain the club s likes and dislikes in game software Sometime in the next few months a survey form will appear in the Journal and at the Office The responses will be collated and in plenty of time for end of the year holiday buying the results will be published in the Journal and kept at the Office for reference purposes We envision that newer club members and any WAP member who
131. fect red blue Cogito Computer ACT GRE Computer SAT Fact or Opinion red blue Foreign Languages Gertrude s Puzzles Secrets Hands on BASIC prog KinderComp Learning w Fuzzywomp Mastering the College Bds Mastering the SAT Mastertype Math Blaster Math amp Social Studies Number Farm PSAT Word Attack Skills Rocky s Boots SAT Word Attack Skills Speed Reader II Davidson Sticky Bear ABC Numbers Terrapin Logo U S Geography Word Attack FNLime Trax Sune amp date oriented calender rogram incl a Creative Peripherals Unlimited dute gt des Iree clock moduz u Sm LEISURE Arcade Machine 42 Beyond Castle Wolfenstein 25 Computer Ambush 43 Deadline 35 Decathlon 24 Enchanter 28 Infidel 31 Karateka 24 Knight of Diamonds 24 Lode Runner 24 Sargon III 35 Seastalker 28 Ultima III 42 Wizardry 34 Zork I 28 Zork Il Ill ea 31 SPREADSHEET Calcstar req CP M 140 Flashcalc 71 Magicalc 107 Multiplan 98 O BUSINESS HOME Back to Basics AP AR GL ea 128 Back to Basics MAC 262 Chart 98 Communication Edge 155 Davinci Building Blks 55 Comm l Interiors 138 House Interiors ea 35 Landscapes 35 DB Master 140 DB Tests Drive Kit 245 Desktop Calculator 61 Dollars amp Sense 103 Ensemble 200 File 145 Filevision 132 Forecast 49 Helix Home Accountant 68 Mac Basic Interpeter Megafiler 128 Megaform 512K 202 Megamerge 98 Multiplan Overvue PFS File Report 202 302 11
132. files whose pathname contains that string prints the pathname of all locked files 7 APR 85 finds all files created or modi fied on that date TXT prints the pathname of all text files Upper and lower case inputs are supported DISKCAT can be downloaded from the WAPABBS or from The Crystal City Connection 553 0821 which was my source for some of the original code 100 REM 110 REM ProDos DiskCat 120 REM VERSION 3 0 130 REM 140 REM by Bob Velke WAP148 150 REM 160 REM Directory access technique adapted 170 REM from a program by Curt Rostenbach 180 REM 190 ONERR GOTO 1300 200 FOR Y 1 TO 50 SP SP NEXT 210 D CHR 4 220 H 24 R 56 8 230 PRINT D PR S 240 HT HiRM R 250 DIM P 50 01 50 LV 50 260 HOME REM lt MAIN gt 270 PRINT DISKCAT MENU PRINT 280 PRINT 1 290 PRINT 2 300 PRINT 3 Catalog a ProDos disk to the screen Catalog a ProDos disk to printer Locate pathname s to the screen 310 PRINT 4 Locate pathname s to printer 320 PRINT 5 End PRINT 330 PRINT Which would you like 1 5 3 VAL N PRINT N 340 ON N GOTO 390 390 390 390 360 350 GOTO 260 360 PRINT D PREFIX 370 PRINT Current prefix is 380 END 390 L 1 X 1 LV 1 400 PRINT D PREFIX prefix is CP 410 PRINT Hit lt RETURN gt for default GET N N INPUT CP sCP 0 INPUT CP PRINT Current 420 PRINT PREFIX C
133. h the top of the letters facing to your left A second check is to face the small half circle notch in one of the two short sides of the roof of the chip the same direction as the other chips in the B row probably facing you Ed Note Lettering may not always be the same It is more important to perform the second check Now very gingerly place the chip with prongs down into the holder so that every one of the 24 prongs slides into the corresponding socket contact without bending Once again read the instructions accompanying the chip regarding static electricity precautions When positioned lightly in the socket and without bending or forcing nudge the chip tn evenly and steadily till contd Washington Apple Pi it seats firmly Test by trying to rock the chip it should feel snug in its berth That s it done With the motherboard out in the open anyhow this might not be a bad time to make sure that all chips are seated firmly in their holders The several problems that befell the Original Apple no stight to the club intended reputedly were caused by chips shaken loose during transportation Gently press down each chip into its holder socket without undue force Leave the other electronics such as capacitors or resistors alone Merely look for components that are black and rectangular like the clock chip you just pressed home Start the motherboard cover plate assembly back to its original location by using the out
134. hange the spreadsheet or data base report and reprint the document quickly Another dimension of integration is the similarity of commands to perform the same function in each package In Creative Calc moving the cursor up or down one line requires Ctrl 0 or Ctri L while in Creative Writer Ctri W and Ctrl Z are used Documentation Each package comes with a 5 by 7 saddle stitched manual of about 45 pages in length The manuals have both a table of contents and an index They do a good job of teaching you how to use the programs The Creative Calc manual provides you with an easy to search reference section The Crea Washington Apple Pi tive Calc and Filer diskettes contains a sample appli cation referenced in the manuals which gives you an opportunity to begin practicing with the programs immediately Each program is accompanied by a handy reference card Summary The challenge of integrated software is to provide strong capability in each of its many func tions These three packages worked well and revealed no errors tome However as I mentioned they are three separate programs You can buy a more powerful word processor spreadsheet or data base and still have the ability to share information much as these three programs do You may want to consider Apple s own trilogy Appleworks which can be purchased at a price slightly higher than the combined price of these three programs and obtain considerably more power for ex
135. hanges I was able to make it print the screen on my printer I proceeded as follows Change line 20060 to PRINT D PR 1 Add line 20065 PRINT CHR 9 HGR Change line 20070 to PRINT D PREO Add line 20095 PRINT D RUN TYPER DN A few words of explanation I have a NEC 8023 printer with a Pkaso interface card in Slot 1 So PR l activates the printer CHR 9 is a control I which is the Pkaso command lead in character and of course HGR specifies the hi res graphics screen PRIO deactivates the printer Line 20095 reboots the program so you can start again This is necessary because when you load the print part of the program you overwrite the first part of the program Of course you have to adapt these instructions to your own printer and interface card but I hope the general approach may be illustrative Washington Apple Pi GAMES IG byu Rana ve de Wartow APRIL MEETING odseplera Our second meeting since revival was well attended with several newcomers joining the group Adventure and fantasy role playing continues to dominate the preferences of the members with a few war and arcade gamers thrown in It was decided to keep GAMESIG unstructured to maintain the pleasant informal atmos sphere that prevails at the meetings The group was advised that more companies have agreed to send demo or review copies of gaming software to the club and that GAMESIG members will be doled out games o
136. hat this node has two branches other at 423A indicates One at 4230 the If we look at the node at 4230 we will find the bytes 08 BE 9B 2B 42 The housekeeping 08 signals that the left branch 9BBE is a Logo subrou tine that controls the turtle graphics screen output so that it wraps around TAMPERING WITH LOGO In Logo if we make REDEFP true which allows us to erase or change Logo primitives we can erase WRAP To do this type MAKE REDEFP TRUE lt return gt ER WRAP lt return gt contd May 1985 31 After these two steps are accomplished we find that the initial node of the word WRAP is located at its usual address 424E the same as it was before it was erased and that the 5 bytes there are also the same However the bytes at right branch are changed to 33 00 40 3A 42 The left branch of this node no longer refers to 4230 but to 4000 4000 is a dead end It is the lower limit of the node space and there are no more branches pointed to by 4000 Oddly enough the bytes at 4000 are 33 00 40 00 40 seemingly referring back to itself The subroutine at 9BBE is no longer mentioned in wrap s node tree SUMMARY LOGO PRIMITIVE WRAP Node contains 4249 is 33 30 42 3A 42 ERASED WRAP Node contains 4249 is 33 00 40 3A 42 WRAP no longer refers to 4230 a node that itself referred to Logo subroutine WRAP the primitive procedure is gone There is an almost word WRAP still i
137. he care and feeding of the system s fonts file System File Empty Folder If you work with a single drive Macintosh every disk you use should have a system file on it Otherwise you ll be swapping disks constantly to allow the Mac to retrieve all those messages from the the startup disk If you work with a two drive Macintosh you can keep a system file on one disk probably the disk with the applications you use and keep the second disk full of stored data Remember even when you use a two drive Mac the machine needs a system file so always make sure at least one disk you re using has a system file on it If you ve opened the System Folder on any of your Macintosh disks you ve discovered a raft of other strange files which can t be opened There s one called Finder another called Imagewriter and more files for Clipboard and Scrapbook You really don t need to know how to open those files because unless you re a computer programmer you shouldn t be opening them anyway But you should understand what they re for because you can move them around to accomplish some useful things The Finder is the file which helps you know what s later on remember where it puts all the things you ll on your disks and where it is It s the file which store on it Mac asks you to give your new disk a contains all those icons of disks folders and files name so the computer can refer to it in a way you You may discover
138. he program and made the correction the program ran fine I could list it modify it do anything but save it If I saved the corrected version it ended up wrong on the disk Eventually I found that accessing a certain memory location one that DOS happened to use caused another completely different location to be changed weird A clue that it might be a hardware problem is that you call the input routine in line 5090 before any changes occur in the program By the time you get to line 5180 where you say the change happens you aren t using the input routine at all Try running your program on a different computer and see if the problem still occurs I have a problem with printer interface cards and perhaps you could provide a solution My system is an Apple e with extended 80 column card I have a Microtec Dumpling 64 parallel card in slot 1 and an Apple Serial card in slot 2 The only case where the serial card will not work is from a BASIC program or keyboard using the PRE command with the 80 column card installed This is the case with both DOS and ProDOS I would very much appreciate knowing if there is a way to get this configuration working from BASIC According to the Apple manual for the 80 column card you must first turn the card off before you can use a printer To do this from Applesoft use contd 9 Q A Ta fo the following command PRINT CHR 21 This turns the 80 column card off and puts you
139. he screen is the horizontal scroll bar which allows you to create a document up to 19 1 2 inches wide At the bottom left information is dis played about the number of pages in your document the current page number is Shana and the number of char acters To get the current data you select Repagina tion from the DOCUMENT Menu or type Command J WORD has several sub menus which are indicated by an ellipsis after the selection File Edit and Search are fairly similiar to the MacWrite menus See Figure 2 The File Menu includes the Print Merge command which allows you to print form letters by merging the mailing list and other variable informa tion with the form letter document Edit includes the show ruler command and a sub menu called Preferences which allows you to change the Ruler measure from inches to pica settings 10 or 12 You can Search matching upper and lower case with WORD You can also Goto specific pages of your document ACE Edit Search Character Poragraph Document New Open Close RU Save RS op unn ack WARD to repaginate It marks the Ine Save R ACL Search Che Page Setup fant Undo 2 0 x You cen insert a page breok Print RP er Although HacWrile is easter Print Merge Printer Setup Quit amp 0 Lut R Copy fr Poste U h each page If you like fenr e ATT Charac ae er Find fF however still heks a long flte or Show Ruler R had dra Show 4 RY Preference
140. hed One of the things this explains is the Apple Computer Clubs Competition 85 a contest for young people and computer club advisors to see who can devise and create the best unique and useful things to do with their Apple computers App leworks include Virginia adventure York Prizes include an Apple e and Apple Logo Last year s winners a class of fifth graders in Midlothia who wrote an extensive language arts story A middle school in Schenectady New designed a program to help travelers at Albany County Airport A fifth and sixth grade teacher in Berlin Maryland wrote a simulation of The War of 1812 Apple Computer Clubs claim over 15 000 clubs over 300 in Maryland involving over 300 000 young people However a quick telephone investigation was dis appointing Although everybody we rang had heard of such clubs and some even admitted to having the manual none said that he had a club currently run ning If you are running one of these clubs EDSIG would like to hear from you If we get sufficient responses we will set up a round table meeting to exchange experiences EDSIG is also looking for high school teachers have used Apples in the teaching of English not EFL this for the May meeting 251 6369 Washington Apple Pi who Call the chairman at 1200 hn A Love EE Over the past year I have been publishing a regular series in the Washington Apple Pi Journal on Assembly
141. his series encompass a variety of utility routines and other programs These include public key cryptography 148 a UCSD Pascal to CP M Pascal conversion program 144 plotting and sorting pro grams 131 24 program cross referencing 64 97 24 25 and prettylisting formatting 81 62 text form tting indexing key word search 85 94 21 and editing 80 random number generation 64 a fast copy program 63 billing and home remote control programs 28 locating bad CP M disk sectors and file comparison 24 and scores of other utilities C Utilities These are provided for various C com pilers but primarily BDS C BDS C utilities consist of a bulletin board 178 a linker 174 78 a catalog program 87 a supplemental BDS C library 75 and a HELP file 14 Utilities for other C compilers include a trace facility and a program for Aztec C CP M calls routines for Micro C and a submit file for Software Toolworks C Other pro grams and utilities include a routine to check braces in C programs 212 179 CITADEL a bulletin board in C 150 a C benchmark program and a C source file lister 78 a screen based editor in C 76 and programs for screen handling 178 and assorted utili 36 May 1985 a ed el ties 179 Another cluster of CP M 80 programs focuses on en hancements to database spreadsheet and word proces sing programs i e dBASEII Supercalc and Wordstar dBASEII programs include a dBAS
142. ial and error method A Almost all cards that work in a J or J should work in the e There might be some minor problems with the software on the card not being incompatible with the e software stored in ROM but this will not cause any damage Just make sure that you have the power off when you insert or remove any cards or I guarantee you will generate lots of damage Q Is there any way to consolidate several spread sheets into one automatically using the contd Washington Apple Pi Q Washington Apple Pi I have just updated to an Apple e spreadsheet functions in Appleworks There doesn t appear to be any way to consolidate spreadsheets with the formulas intact You can print the spreadsheets to DIF files and load them back in but you get only the text and numbers you lose the formulas You could also print to the clipboard and load multiple spreadsheets into the word processor This is a one way street it is not possible to go back from the word processor to the spreadsheet I think your only solution is to type in your spreadsheet again On my old J I used a word processor that expected a shift key mod to enter upper and lower case characters Obviously the e doesn t need a shift key mod Well the word processor now only enters lower case HELP What do I do Some word processors have a mode where they can be locked into upper case only characters After you do this release the caps lock
143. ic That public deserves more A new version of Logo the Logo Computer Systems variety now has been introduced for use with the c or with any e that has an extra 64K This version is supposed to have more node space and several pro visions not available in the original version The ability to call machine language programs is one such provision This article will describe how to provide for this option with the original Logo on the J or the e without the added 64K memory In order to do this the anatomy of Logo must be examined this pro cess may be a bit tedious but it will turn out to pro vide a valuable source of options wore neseeresceseneees The version of Logo that we are going to look at the original one for the J and e put out by LCSI was not designed to be tampered with by the curious or foolhardy Little information concerning the internal workings of the Logo interpreter was provided in the reference manual There are even cautions in the man BIG Fari advice provided we do not have the knowledge of how Logo works But what about those of us who are curious and fool hardy I will share the discoveries I have made about the structure of Logo s nodes and provide examples of how this information can be used to do more in Logo LOGO S NODES Every word in Logo whether a primitive procedure a user defined procedure or a name has been assigned a starting place in memory which is much lik
144. ic class until May 6 Please call me if you would like to attend Try to bring your computer There are plenty of moni tors in the Apple Pi Office Our May meeting will be at the Walter Reed site April s meeting was at the Convention Center Inn on 12th and K Streets There is plenty of street park ing and it s very easy to get to The March tutorial took place on March 11 at the Apple Pi office John Chapman guided us through the files and menus and enlightened us about drivers One thing I thought I would mention is the tutorial fee It s 5 00 per person per evening The standard fee for most other Apple Pi tutorials is 15 00 We picked the figure before we realized there was a standard We give half to the instructor and keep the other half for postage and postcard costs Where else can you go out for an evening of fun for 5 00 If any of our SIG members have the opportunity to travel to Europe and visit computer stores perhaps you would look into the possibility of mail order purchases for us The Apple is still selling in Europe and Canada I heard they still make them in Sweden but I don t know how reliable my information is Any news in this area will be appreciated One letter that I received last week was from Ronald Corbett who lives in Panama and is trying to make a living with his Apple He was full of questions mostly about accounting If anyone is interested in helping Ron out by correspondence I will be happy t
145. icles public domain disks etc Washington Apple Pi Take particular note of the change of address notice in this issue sent to us by Paul Funk Paul does quite interesting original work with his Mac Would that he and others using Apple s with the Print Shop or whatever might contribute materials to liven up our white space Took a2 1 2 hour breather this Saturday AM to attend the SigMac meeting Not enough time for Steve Hunt to prepare a written record of it for inclusion in this issue However here are one or two observations There were approximately 400 folks who showed for the presentation of Thinktank by Scott Love of Living Videotext Excellent presentation but for the slightly blurred projection of the Mac screen produced by the Limelight projector We re working on that Steve also prior to the main presentation reminded all attendees that the WAP does not permit copying of copyrighted software to take place at any of the meetings This statement also includes any activity sponsored by WAP or at the WAP office May 1985 1 PRESENT S by David Morgan Serving All Our Members As each new Apple product has appeared the WAP has endeavored to meet the challenge of serving owners of that equipment Even after Apple has dropped a product from production we try to serve anyone who needs the help when we can The office frequently receives comments from people who would like to see a different balance of cover
146. if you bring your computer please arrive 15 minutes early to set up You may sign up for any or all of the series They are designed for the beginner and will be repeated monthly A detailed outline of the tutorials was given in the January 1985 WAP Journal May 7 INTRODUCTION TO APPLE COMPUTER HARDWARE June 4 May 14 HOW TO USE YOUR APPLE SOFTWARE June 11 May 21 BEGINNING APPLESOFT BASIC June 18 May 28 INTERMEDIATE APPLESOFT BASIC June 25 The fee for each tutorial is 10 00 with an Apple monitor and disk drive 15 00 without monitors available for Ist 5 registrants call office Please note that WAP does not have equipment for you to use if you do not bring your own you will have to look over someone s shoulder __ Tutorials at 10 00 with equipment __ Tutorials at 15 00 without equipment er ew mn mm mem eens cee es eee mm nmm maa ov mv mv to The following non regular tutorials for the Apple are being offered on Wednesday evening and Saturday mornings also at the office Please register in advance AppleWorks 2 sessions Walt Mossberg Attendees should have an Apple e or c and AppleWorks Saturday April 20 amp May 11 9 00 AM 12 00 Noon 30 both sessions with Apple member 40 both sessions with Apple non member 40 both sessions w o Apple member 50 both sessions w o Apple non member dBase II Paul Bublitz Saturday May 4 9 00AM 12 00 15
147. ilevision graphics database systea we MG Odesta Helix database for the serious user 249 Dollars amp Sense accounting w graphics 95 Microsoft Word what HacWrite should have beenl 125 M Chart presentation business graphics 85 A FLG E S E TTE viss 185 Cc Basic new version iio iain A EE EN 99 I Hultiplan L essarsessironsrikeiagdersier 125 N HacEnhancer has the ports Apple forgot 175 T Lotus Jazz word proc database graphics more call o Assinilation Process Menory Disk eooosorvooreenene 25 Ss Ionega Bernoulli Drive 5 MEG removable cartridge 1395 H Shugart Micrafloppy 3 5 second drive for Mac 299 MacForth Level II esesvavarrovenansnennanennene 149 Hippo Giss isse Gr desse ed reka es 99 Kensington MacModen 300 baudl eerronavnnanesr 9 Surge Protector replaces power cord 39 DR TRIE L Sait Doo Bl LSA Geo arret al CALL FOR PRICES OF ITEMS NOT LISTED H Please Coapare Our Prices t If you find a lower price give us a chance to beat it H Feel free to call for answers to technical questions je EE re t TO ORDER Call Jeff Dillon at 301 434 0405 or Write or visit OPERANT SYSTEMS 7676 New Hampshire Ave Suite 312 Langley Park Md 20783 Hd sales add 5 tax UPS shipping is available All iteas carry full vanufacturer s warranties l x ou a c oe oo w H H t 4 1 i May 1985 27 13 i cies gees c
148. ill not sell you the set outright and you have the above software try to keep the old char acter ROM Joe Chelena From WP3274 to ALL 03 29 Enh e Compat These programs won t boot with the new enhanced e SEA FOX and DAVID S MIDNIGHT MAGIC by Broderbund and MINER 2049 ER These programs run fine but display odd characters in some places Apple Writer e DOS 3 3 PFS Write and ProDOS User s Disk Walt Mossberg From WP4795 to WP3432 03 29 Subject Enhanced e I suggest that you see your dealer and look at the compatability list he should have It tells you what SW amp HW has been tested that works with the e enhanced and also gives update info for some programs As you have found out AW e and VisiCalc were on the list as not being compatible I have the same problem with Smartcom at least it is not a big problem Maybe a letter to Hayes would result in a fix Also did you get the book for programmers called About your Enhanced Apple e Apple part 030 1143A It is a free included in the price book but my dealer said he had them on order That may answer some more questions I have not had any problems with AppleWorks Sensible Speller Dollars amp Sense or Print Shop Programs From WP1095 to WP4772 03 05 e 80 col board Sorry like I said the e 80 column board is not a real 80 column board and will drop characters at 1200 The only cures are to write special screen drivers or get
149. imple matter to move the phantom card by merely changing the location of the jumper blocks WHAT GOES WHERE The following assignments can be made DEVICE PHYSICAL SLOT Printer port 1 or 2 Communications port 2 or 3 Clock calendar 4 or 7 The MULTI 1 0 card can be physically located in any slot to which one of its functions is mapped Because there cannot be another physical card in the same slot as phantom card Apple owners who already have expansion cards may have to make some decisions It is possible to disable any of the devices on the MULTI 1 0 card by removing the jumper blocks that are associated with the device to be disabled Decide which functions you want to use and which slots to map them to then remove or install the jumper blocks accordingly If you are just beginning to add to your Apple I would suggest that you install the card just as it comes out of the box Before actually inserting the card be sure to select the desired baud rate Although both I 0 ports can communicate at baud rates from 50 to 19200 most applications can be satisfied with those set at the factory 1200 baud for the communications port and 9600 baud for the printer These baud rates are selected by setting a combination of four DIP Dual Inline Pin switches for each port The ribbon cables have an RS232 type connector on one end female for the printer and male for the comm port On the other end you will find a fourteen pin female
150. ing tax at the Office 11 00 by mail aananeannaanaaaaaaannennnaanaenesrarsaanesannannnanrennaan Washinaton Apple Pi N DISABLEDSIG NEWS de BY JAY M THAL La as as SE SE aE SE SE SE SE eae EE AE EG HA RE ER DISABLEDSIG MAY MEETING SPEAKER Susan Brummel General Services Admin SUBJECT Computers and Adaptive Devices Available to Assist Disabled Federal Employees THURSDAY MAY 2 1985 7 00 P M Chevy Chase Community Center Connecticut Ave amp McKinley St N W DC JE EE AE AE DE AE AEG AEG AG KERR RHR EK The CEC Software Conference The best laid plans sometimes go awry The CEC con ference was scheduled for May 2 amp 3 at the new Radisson Hotel in Alexandria However as time approached it was realized that the Hotel wouldn t be finished construction by then So the conference has been pushed back a month to June 6 amp 7 For further details on the rescheduling or participation call Elsa Glassman 703 620 3660 X261 Such situations do create problems in rescheduling speakers as well as for attendees Therefore the list of names we had to share with you is up in the air At this moment the only names we are sure of are the Hagens of Closing the Gap The two days will be broken up into several categories design use and evaluation as well as a variety of panels Again the DISABLEDSIG is hoping to coordinate its meeting around the conference so we hope to see you there OPTIONS A SCHOOL FOR NEW S
151. ins 64K of fast RAM chips which supersede the Apple s main memory An addi tional 16K on the board is reserved as a pseudo ROM to hold and speed up access to the resident language DIP switches are used to indicate slots containing time sensitive devices disk drives modems and removable jumpers indicate those containing memory boards The literature indicates that all memory boards are sup ported except the Saturn 32K which is only recognized as a 16K board Since the Accelerator uses the Direct Memory Access channel for its own operation it is not compatible with other DMA devices Microsoft 2 80 softcard Cor vus Omninet Little benefit is realized from 7 80 cards containing their own memory Screen access is controlled by the Apple s video circuit and continues to operate at 1 MHz reducing the effective speed of video intensive programming Software is provided pre boot to slowdown the board for game applications or to disable it for use with DMA devices To determine if this electronic wizardry really worked I ran the same tests except the BASIC program loading I used with RAMWORKS and added the following 4 Two field alphabetic sort on 133 records 5 1500 simple VISICALC arithmetic operations 6 BASIC HGR plotting program APPLICATION APPLE ACCEL RAM RATIO 1 Compilation 2 15 1 00 2 25 2 Retrieval 17 15 8 02 2 15 3 Search 0 09 0 02 5 3 60 4 Sort 2 12 0 40 3 30 5 VISICALC 0 20 0 06 3 33 6 HGR Plot 3 31 1 0
152. itu 1 Varsitu 11 Concert and Sumohonic received a Bard Figure 4 May 1985 Washington Apple Pi gt FREDERICK APPLE CORE A SLICE OF THE WASHINGTON APPLE PI OFFICERS amp CHAIRMEN President Lynn R Trusal Vice President Tony Svajlenka Secretary Treasurer Bruce Taylor Librarian Kurt Holter John Lee John Colaluca Randy Pasley Program Chairman Newsletter Chairman Membership Chairman UPCOMING PROGRAMS April 11 Panel discussion on word processing programs May 9 ProDOS discussion and demonstrations PATA ACQUISITION FOR MAE IATOSH by Lynn R Apple Computer Inc is now in a drive to penetrate IBM s grip on the office environment of corporate America Spearheading this advance is the Macintosh Office A smaller and lesser known application of microcomputers is in research laboratories where the personal computer is gaining increased acceptance as a means of data acquisition and analysis see Popular Computing April 1985 p 67 This market has Tong Deen dominated by such companies as Hewlett Packard and Digital Equipment Corporation More recently IBM PC s and Apple it computers have gained acceptance as suitable and reasonably priced means for data acquisi tion in research laboratories Until recently there was no software available to enable the Macintosh to serve as an instrument for data acquisition This has been corrected by the release of Macquisition by Small Business Computers
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154. key on your e and see if you don t get proper upper and lower case using the shift key normally If not it s time for a new word processor When using the Super File Cabinet program which uses the machine language Ampersort routine I m finding that Ampersort is failing to sort two digit numbers correctly i e 20 3 1 1 6 are sorted to 3 1 20 1 6 How can I fix this Don t only or care sort those numbers Seriously Ampersort sorts strings of characters and doesn t know if they are actually numbers Each character in the string is represented by an ASCII code value and Ampersort uses these code values to do the sort In your example the two characters 2 and 0 are ASCII 50 and 48 3 1 is ASCII 51 46 and 49 1 6 is ASCII 49 46 and 54 These values can be found by looking up the characters in any ASCII table In your example you appear to be sorting in reverse alphabetic order from highest ASCII value to lowest rather that lowest to highest as is normal In any case the highest valued first character is 51 so 3 1 comes first next is 50 so 20 comes next last is 49 and thus 1 6 is last When Ampersort is used like this it is not possible to correctly sort numbers that contain decimal points All is not lost however if you just want to sort whote numbers If you use numbers like 3 12 and 850 these will be sorted to 12 850 and 3 This is because the numbers do not each have the same number of digits If instead you
155. ld questions on Apple computer hardware and software for FAC members Please no calls after 10 00 P M UPCOMING EVENTS Armed Forces Day Participation Saturday May 18 1985 Ft Detrick MD Frederick Hamfest Sunday June 16 1985 Frederick County Fair grounds THE experience It also opens up another use for the Mac which will help establish its credibility as a serious microcomputer First let me address the hardware portion of Macquisition The Taurus One 05 A 2595 list price is the data acquisition peripheral which serves as the interface between the Macintosh and the research equipment It consists of a 17 75 x 14 25 x 5 25 chassis containing a Z80A microprocessor two serial channels 16 analog input channels 12 bit 16 digital 1 0 channels and an 8K expandable memory The Taurus One also allows program selection of gains from 1 to 1 000 analog inputs and direct thermocouple input The two serial channels support RS 232 communications but one is equipped with an RS 422 driver for data transmission up to 4 000 ft without a modem In addition the optional Taurus One 05 B 2975 list price offers two analog outputs 12 bits and 4 counter accumulators 16 bits in addition to the above capabilities Optional acces sories include up to 32K additional RAM 300 list price and an IEEE 488 I 0 port for 175 list price Small Business Computers Inc will also sell you the whole outfit including the
156. le Pi BUGS IN by JEF Se As a new member of the Apple c family one of the first things I did in late October 1984 was to test the system utilities disk ProD0S 1 0 2 15 Feb 84 I booted it I tried all its menus and to my sur prise I discovered that it was impossible to escape from one menu to the main menu therefore I got caught in Bug fl That same day working with the Identify and Catalog a Disk menu 7 I tried to list on my serial non Apple printer the files that appeared on the screen Previously I had carefully read all the c manuals as well as the printer manuals and had set Port 1 within the system utilities disk menu 8 at 166 1124 and correspondingly adjusted my printer s DIP switches To my surprise Cespite the fact that I had a catalog displayed on the screen when I ordered a printout nothing happened Bug 2 My first reaction was that as a neophyte I had done something wrong I thought to myself How can Apple sell a system utilities disk with two bugs I went to my dealer and his answer was that a With an Apple c you should avoid using a non Apple printer and b we have never heard about the two bugs you are reporting The dealer one of the largest and most respected in the area promised to contact the Apple Computer s Rockville MD office and call me again All this occurred in late November 1984 He never called back Back home I wrote a letter to Apple Computer head quarters in Cupe
157. les Business 17 30 PM 17 30 PM 17 30PM 1 1App leWorks A 18as Ic sOfflce YOttlce Walter Reed Tut SAN OF Jay Da nec SRE eae he hussases see orbsnkosneiatet anipk n Secrtisesosssese fissassesence Jae ine Enna eana abledSIG column elsewhere in this 12 f 13 T 14 4 15 1 16 9 17 I 18 PFS lissue Call Jay Thal for detatls q Weginning 4 Pasca SIG 1 TF I e Report q Tutorial 21 18 00 PM q S9AM Off Ice i EDSIG the education special q 17 30 PM I IOf f Ice Hard1 fFforth SIG interest group meets on the 4th q 10f f Ice q Disks q VIOAM Of f Ice Thursday of the month at the eseeseeeces Yee oe E ew eo Jn ee nn ff ne Jen ee E 1 E fice See the EDSIG page else 19 4 20 121 122 123 T24 125 ee in this issue TPI SIG fBeginning 4 JEDSIG q IWAP Meet Inc 18 00 PM WTutorlal 39 17 30 PM 9 IOAN USUHS ee DE NS NERE E FOF f Ice 97 30 PM 9 10f f Ice q Printers line yap offica y q 10f t Ice q q 1 1Bal lot Ing eeeccocnsce f mmmm Power wn enna Jann nn nn nnn Jenn nn eon n ee nen nnn nnn Tenner GAMESIG meets on the first Thursday 26 q 27 1 28 1 29 1 30 q 31 i of each month at 7 30 PM at the fMemor lal Beginning 1 q 1 q office The next meeting Is May 2 Way Tutorial 49 q q 1 10f f Ice 47 30 PM 1 i 1 q LAWSIG has been reorganized Watch Closed J0f f Ice q q q q the Journal for more news LISA Macintosh XL SIG meets after the SigMac meeting on the second Saturday of the month See LISA June 1985 MAC XL SIG News elsewhere in this issue
158. lities 2 Volume 405 Utilities 3 Volume 406 ZCPR2 Install Volume 407 ZCPR2 Documentation Volume 408 ZCPR2 Utilities Volume 409 Modem 730 Volume 700 Assenb ler Disassenbler Volume 701 Full Screen Editor Volume 702 GoForth Tutorial Volume 703 F ig Forth Volume 704 Floating Point Arithmetic Macintosh 7 00 see above Fr PE teens Leaman Ream came Come com tea ame Lee Ne ee es es ee SigMac Siac SigMac SigMac SigMac SigMac 1 MS BASIC Pgms 2 Atkinson s Goodies 3 Fonts 4 MS BASIC Pgns 5 Desk Accessories 6 Mac Paintings SigMac Sighac SigMac S tgMac 7 Desk Calendar amp MS BASIC 8 MacFORTH Programs 9 Not One Byte 10 Mostly BASIC SigMac 11 MacFonts Recommended as SigMac 12 MacFonts a pair SigMac 13 RAM Disk and Altered Finder SigMac 14 Filevision Templates SigMac 15 Progammer s Playground Vols 121 135 136 must be purchased together Total Order Make check payable and send to ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP TELEPHONE Washington Apple Pi disks postage Total amount enclosed US funds payable on a US bank Washington Apple Pi Ltd Attn Disketeria 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 WAP MEMBERSHIP NO May 1985 Bethesda MD 20814 DATE 63 WAP TUTORIAL REGISTRATION The following four WAP tutorials are being offered on Tuesday evenings from 7 30 to 9 00 PM at the office 8227 Woodmont Ave Bethesda MD The tutorials start promptly at 7 30
159. lity which prints any text file in 132 column format with the date and time at the top of each page The latter is a graphics dump utility which can be used to produce a hard copy of your latest master piece Option 6 is a digital clock calendar which reads the time and date from the MULTI I 0 card and displays it on the screen The remaining two options a printing terminal program and a telephone dialer are used to exercise the communications port OPINION First the clock calendar I have had a Thunderclock for several years and am very pleased with it The MULTI I 0 clock is Thunderclock and therefore ProDOS compatible The programs that I normally use with my Thunderclock work just fine with the MULTI 1 0 clock In addition it is Mountain Computer compatible That means it will store the year as well as the date and time another item in its favor The only complaint I have about the printer port is its inability to recognize XON XOFF characters to control data flow It does however respond to DSR DTR signals so this is no real handicap The default parameters are 8 bit words 2 stop bits and no parity These may be changed by a POKE from BASIC The only other parameter that can be changed is the number of characters transmitted before issuing a CARRIAGE RETURN LINE FEED The default is 255 but this can also be changed by a POKE It would have been nice had some screen dump program been included on the firmware The communica
160. ll it what control characters must be sent to the printer to make this happen It appears to be sending default values which work with most printers The manual does not address this point Creative Writer allows you to merge material generated from Creative Filer or Creative Calc when printing I found Creative Writer fairly easy to learn Unlike the Calc program it uses the e arrow keys for cur sor movement By striking esc you can view help screens which remind you of the various commands needed As a memory aid the top of the screen re veals single letter abbreviations of the commands Creative Filer To quote from the manual Crea tive Filer does not have all of the features of full blown data base management programs It is a straight forward single record structure program Its basic functions are to define a file to design a screen entry form to enter modify and search rec ords and to prepare summary listings of sub sets of your records I found it to be easy to learn and to use even though it is not fancy The records you define may have 128 fields each and consist of 6 400 characters The limit on fields per record while fairly generous for small applications will present more of a problem than the limit on characters per Multiplan and VisiCalc seem less confusing than a record Since each record is read from the disk the contd 22 May 1985 Washington Apple Pi only limit on the number of records is th
161. ll should 1 work rapidly some programs are very slow 2 allow filling any color over any surface some programs restrict you to filling only surfaces that are white or are colored white black blue red green and violet and 3 permit you to undo the last fill Concerning the last point very often the boundary line around the surface you want to color has a gap in it and consequently the color you are using to fill with spills out and destroys a picture If you haven t saved the masterpiece before the fill you may have lost an hour s hard work It s nice to change your mind after the fact get the picture back close the gap and then try again Fonts A professional quality software package will let you place text on the screen in various typefaces large and small A nice feature is the ability to use fonts produced by anybody not just those provided by the manufacturer of the software Zoom This feature allows you to look at a portion of contd Washington Apple Pi 5 s DISKETTES amp STORAGE HARD DISK DRIVES SS DD BOX OF 10 e SS DD 10 BOXES DOUBLE NOTCHED DS DD BOX OF 10 DOUBLE NOTCHED DS DD 100 STAND UP DISKETTE LIBRARY CASES CALL MONITORS e GORILLA 12 INCH GREEN e USI 12 INCH GREEN 94 00 e USI 12 INCH AMBER 99 00 e PANASONIC 1300 COMPOSITE 239 00 109 00 84 00 125 00 2 75 each 4 for 10 00 specify color choices beige black blue green grey re
162. lpful and fast The price of the chip is less than ten dollars a mere 8 90 plus 0 58 tax in Calif ornia Add 7 00 UPS shipping if you don t want to pick it up Speaking of picking it up be very careful handling the chip as static electricity can ruin it in a flash Alternately a Clock Kit with parts and instructions can be purchased for 60 00 plus 2 00 shipping from Apex Information Systems 415 885 1633 in San Francisco according to the September 1982 Gazette Now the scary part exploratory surgery on your baby First flip off the Apple power switch on the rear panel Then unplug everything from the rear panel including the power cord just to be sure Ed Note some folks suggest leaving the power cord plugged in to bleed off any residual charge because you are going to turn the machine over belly up With the four rubber feet facing up orient the Apple so that the upside down rear panel points away from you and the keyboard keys down fronts you If you can find something the right height prop it under the keyboard so as to stabilize the machine and keep it from rocking while you work on it Covering the bottom of the Apple are two rectangu lar metal plates extending from front to rear one large one small The large metal plate covers about three fourths of the bottom contains a row of vent holes over actually under the keyboard and has affixed a large red sticker with the s
163. m is I have rarely seen the kind of article that Paul Moore has done a thoughtful and interesting insight into how the program thinks In other words how to beat the expletive deleted program CAUTION This article could be considered a form of hint sheet in playing Sargon III Those wishing to fend for them selves should probably stop reading now except for a peak at Paul s excellent summary of basic chess strat egies early in the article The purpose of this article is to provide some advice from an experienced chessplayer on various strategies you can employ to improve your chances of winning against your microcomputer chess program Although my comments are made about Sargon III which is probably the strongest chess program available for the Apple or the Mac they will also likely be of at least some help to you if you have Mychess or one of the other programs First as for the advice offered in this article I give you the same guarantee you get with all your software purchases as regards their quality performance merchantability or fitness for any par ticular purpose Chessplayers are certainly no more generous than software publishers but in this case I should also point out that my comments are based on my inductive observations as a chessplayer and not on familiarity with the programming structures of the various chess programs currently in use Worse I should also point out that although I am rated an Expert
164. make Sargon take the long way around when he attempts to redeploy his pieces to attack you Move your pieces to places where they have scope to exercise their powers i e Rooks crave open files Bishops lust after long and open diagonals Knights have more mobility when they re away from the edge of the board the King prefers to cower in a _ castled position safely away from a potential crossfire in the center of the board Most importantly try to develop your pieces and pawns so that they are protecting one another Sargon is at his best when your forces are scattered and unprotected and in such circumstances it is only a matter of time before he attacks two things at the same time only one of which can be defended Sargon s Weaknesses Although this might sound like something out of a text on Chinese philosophy it is nonetheless true that some of Sargon s greatest strengths are also the source of his major weaknesses and in some situations you can cause Sargon to work against his own inter ests There are a number of key elements in chess among them material mobility time and position but Sargon s program does not seem to place equal stress on all these Sargon is obsessed usually relentless ly so with fantasies of gobbling and hoarding pawns and pieces In my opinton the basic way he evaluates any position except one where there is an immediate checkmate is simply to tote up who has more pieces or pawns
165. mand is intended Applesoft does not provide an easy way to tell if all of the records in a file have been read Fortunately MS BASIC includes the EOF function that is true when the end of a file has been reached Thus the line 310 IF NOT EOF 1 THEN GOTO 190 will cause the program to loop back to line 190 only if more records are in the file to be processed The number 1 in parenthesis indicates which file is to be tested In Listing 1 lines 320 to 400 will calculate the necessary statistics only after all records have been processed One more line in this program is noteworthy 410 CLOSE 1 ends the association between reference number 1 and file SALES DAT This is the equivalent to the Applesoft command 410 PRINT CHR 4 CLOSE SALES DATA Again the CLOSE command is built into MS BASIC To see this program in action type in Listing 1 using MS BASIC on either the Mac or under CP M and save it in a file Next enter Macwrite and type the following three lines in a new file MONITOR 5 130 10 PRINTER 10 200 25 DISKETTES 30 5 0 Save the file with the name SALES DAT on your MS BASIC disk using the Text only option If you are using CP M use the editor to type these three lines When you return to the finder you will see that SALES DAT has a different icon than the icons of your normal MacWrite files Open the file that has the copy of Listing 1 which you saved This will automatically execute the program
166. manipulated data Analysis abilities include any capability included in the Multiplan program Over 15 000 data points can be stored in a single template and Macquisition soft ware can handle multiple output and analysis templates for each application The ability to both collect and merge data into a spreadsheet and also perform auto matic analysis on that data all under software control is a very useful characteristic Once the data have been collected and analyzed results may be printed out or merged with other Microsoft software including Chart File or Word It is also possible to place data in MacWrite by using the Clipboard or Scrapbook Macquisition hardware and software are not cheap and cost between 3290 and 4145 if a fully configured system is desired This cost also assumes that the user already has a Macintosh and Multiplan If not then the cost would be increased accordingly Keep in mind that this data acquisition system is intended for laboratory use and such products are priced considerably higher than items for personal use Because of a limited market there are fewer potential sales and R amp D costs must be spread over fewer pur chases The only item that I feel is unreasonably priced is additional memory for the Taurus One hardware The basic system comes with only 8K bytes of system RAM which is expandable by 32K additional bytes for 300 I am told the memory chips are expensive because of thei
167. manuals The book stores are stocking repair manuals which throw much light on the growing APPLE repair problems SAMS 37 pages of specific get to the facts data on the physical electrical oscillographical diagram matical and part ical information follows the line of approach satisfactorily carried out in the Photo Facts series so successfully over the years Volume ccl contains information covering Apple JL Revisions 0 1 2 3 4 7 RFI and Apple J Revisions 7 RFI A glance at the Index should encourage even some timid souls to do it myself Adjustments Block Diagram Disassembly Instructions Grid Trace Location Guide Encoder Board Logic Main Board Logic Chart Parts List Photos Safety Precautions Schematics and Troubleshooting Armed with all of these photofacts voltages and logic probe readings one s confidence should be elevated to high levels Perhaps one may be inspired to delve into the solution of problems in other micros similarly dissected by Uncle SAMS elec tronic circuit expositors There s no need for discouragement and feeling timid about creating motherboard applesauce by delving into Dr Woz s orchard In addition to the above Apple road maps Uncle SAMS is ready to bolster your courage with yet another APPLE AID a dictionary of sorts that penetrates the roots of the APPLE tree mother board and fills in any of the gaps of information not covered by CCl above It is titled THE APPLE JI CIRCUIT DE
168. mes of files associated with that directory In ProDOS you can have a number of separate directories each with it s own list of files To make things even more complicated direc tories can also contain the names of other direc tories A pathname is a road map from the disk volume name to the file through the directory names For example MYDISK LETTERS GEORGE is a pathname that looks for the file GEORGE in the directory LETTERS on the disk MYDISK ProDOS will look in both drives if you have two to find the disk MYDISK you don t have to tell it where the disk is physically located If you have the extended memory 80 column card the one with the extra 64K of memory in your e all c s have this card you can use it as a RAM Disk Instead of saving to slow disk you can use the memory on the card as a fast temporary disk The May issue of A magazine had two articles on ProDOS written with beginners in mind Q Is there any way to change the Imagewriter to print sideways when using a program like Sideways A No The Imagewriter and all other dot matrix printers that I know of are designed to print only in the normal way To get other kinds of printing special programs must be used that generate graphics characters and use the printer in the graphics mode Q In changing from an Apple J to a e are the old peripheral cards transferrable Micromodem II Softcard Parallel printer card Can damage be done when using a tr
169. month joined If you would like to join please call the club office or write to the office address A membership application will be mailed to you Subscriptions to the Washington Apple Pi Journal are not available The Journal is distributed as a benefit of membership Current Office hours are Monday Friday 10 AM to 2 30 PM Tues Thurs 7 to 9 30 PM Saturday 12 00 to 3 00 PM Note change in Saturday hours Washington Apple Pi JER ETE EEE SEES EEE EEE SER ETE SS EEE kl EVENT BUENE Washington Apple Pi meets on the 4th Saturday usual ly of each month at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences USUHS Building B 4301 Jones Bridge Road Bethesda MD on the campus of the National Naval Medical Center Library transactions Journal pickup memberships etc are from 8 45 10 00 AM From 9 00 to 10 00 AM there is an informal Help session in the auditorium The main meeting starts promptly at 10 00 at which time all sales and services close so that volunteers can attend the meet ing A sign interpreter and reserved seating are provided for the hearing impaired Following are dates and topics for upcoming months May 25 Printers June 22 Garage Sale Dates for SigMac are May May The the 2 Programmer s Meeting at Our Lady of Lourdes 11 Main Meeting at USUHS Executive Board of Washington Apple Pi meets on second Wednesday of each month at 7 30 PM at the
170. mportant are those features As with several other spreadsheets on the Apple Creative Calc allows you a 255 rows by 64 columns sheet Apple works allows you 1 000 rows The columns are labeled AA AB and so forth The rows are numbered from 1 to 255 At the top of the screen you see information about the current sheet and around the border you find the row and column labels On a 128K Apple e you have 71256 bytes of space available for your work You specify a cell by typing the column letter a comma and the row number e g AB 23 I found this method more confusing than alternatives such as AB23 VisiCalc and MagiCalc or R23C2 Multiplan particu larly when the cells appear in formulas The cursor is moved around the screen through the use of control commands For unknown reasons Creative Calc does not support the handy arrow keys of the e and c The developers chose Ctrl J to move left Ctrl K to move right Ctri 0 to move up and Ctri L to move down You would be better served by a diamond pattern such as is found on Multiplan or at least with the option to redefine the key assignment The entire screen can be shifted up or down by 17 lines and right or left by one screen full The W Z A and S control keys to perform these functions do forma diamond pattern which is easy to memorize Typing a Ctri C reveals a list of twelve commands Most of the common spreadsheet operations are there Copy Format Load Quit Disk Got
171. ms That s what WAP is all about Dear You asked about my experience using a dot matrix printer with a IIc Enclosed are three personal let ters that have been printed on an Epson RX 80F T two are originals using 12 characters per inch and six and eight lines per inch justified right and left One is a Xerox copy of a letter using 10 characters per inch and six lines per inch unjustified This letter an original is prepared using 10 characters per inch and six lines per inch unjustified I am certainly happy with the printing quality of the Epson and haven t even considered getting a Daisy wheel printer You fuzz can readily see that making a Xerox copy does up the areas between the dots But I believe the originals are good too I am much more inter ested in getting a second disk drive than a letter quality printer Delores and I paid 379 for our printer last plus 30 for a cable I see from the April Washington Apple Pi that Operant Systems same printer for 305 Others may have even lower prices but I didn t do a thorough job research I don t know if a cable is included I have also seen ads in trade magazines for an Epson RX 80 not F T for 225 Hy advice would be to buy from a local dealer He is easier to get in touch with if you have problems July issue of sells the advert fsed of If you have any other questions please let me know Sincere George Sall amp Washington App
172. n Apple Pi There s only one place to buy apples AT FREDERICK COMPUTER PRODUCTS As an Authorized Apple Dealer we offer a full selection of both Apple Hardware and Software at low low prices Also as an Authorized Service Center we provide fast and efficient service on all Apple products FREDERICK COMPUTER PRODUCTS INC Microcomputer Systems And Peripherals 5726 INDUSTRY LANE FREDERICK MD 301 694 8884 I apple computer e Authorized Dealer Washington Apple Pi May 1985 11 DAI SYUWHEEL I NG Graphics by Arsen Darnay By way of introduction to an article to follow this one I d like to discuss what makes for a good graphic design program on the Apple J family of computers Graphics are a somewhat arcane subject Most people don t get into it because you really need a color monitor to use graphics software and unless you have some occupational requirement to create graphics you don t go to the expense in money and learning For that reason information about desirable specs is not as widely available as say information about spreadsheets word processors and data base programs I d like to make an effort to correct that in a small way Here then ds a personal view of what kind of fea tures you might be looking for when searching for a graphics program Next month I 11 compare two pro rams the Digital Paintbrush and the Gibson Light en and show how each measures up or falls short
173. n X Y plotting Complete electronic forms control e 256 character buffer Asynchronous RS 232 interface Printwheel ribbon cartridge and cable included 30 day parts labor warranty Suggested selling price excludes options and is subject to change without notice Model shown includes certain options Offer available only in the contiguous U S Selectric i is a trademark of IBM ANDERSON JACOBSON 8653 Grovemont Cir Gaithersburg MD 20877 We service IBM personal computers and 4191 ER peripherals at your home or office j
174. n by Leon H Raesly L C S W Researchers Madeline Lay Terri Pigford WOW Are there DB s really 63 Genealogical Data Bases Yes and No depending on how you count We culled from five separate software program source books Any program to be included had to be listed in at least two of those lists This gave us 64 companies offering programs Since one was a utility for anoth er Genealogical program we were left with 63 pro grams thus our title However when you count the number of programs on dif ferent machines the count raises to 93 And if all the CLONES were counted we stopped counting Of course after it was complete one more came in so that makes 65 or is it 647 Not all are represented We sent three different letters over 4 months with a questionnaire If they did not respond they were left off the list I learned a lot from this effort and if I ever do another chart I will change the questions completely At least I learned what questions to ask In terms of the machines we selected the major fami lies Apple also includes Basis and the Franklin although they went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy 3 months ago and have since gone out of business com pletely there are still quite a number of machines out there Under the IBM PC are all the CLONES Generic MS DOS machines are under MS DOS and those semi clones of the PC Such as Sanyo Epson etc are listed separately All of the Commodores are
175. n existence I say almost because it is a word without meaning it does not refer to a procedure or a thing Instead it is merely an empty entry in a dictionary Logo s node space waiting for a definition SOHC HORE EO HEHE OEE HEE EERO CHEE EEE OBOE EOS veseeeeresereer S7AC 14 0040 A757 40 00 57A7 33 9357 9057 5793 08 FAFC 8E57 FIGURE 1 OO so0reerenrere eeccee Figure 1 represents the node tree of the procedure SAVE that we have looked at earlier At the node located at 57A7 we looked at only the left branch Now it is time to follow the trail on the right NODE S ADDRESS 5790 BYTES OF NODE OA 53 41 A2 57 HOUSEKEEPING BYTE OA The housekeeping byte OA signals that the next two bytes are ASCII code in this case the letters and A and therefore there is no left branch there is however a right branch namely 57A2 NODE S ADDRESS 57A2 BYTES OF NODE 1A 56 00 A3 42 HOUSEKEEPING BYTE 1A The housekeeping byte 1A signals that there is only one byte representing ASCII code it is 56 which fs letter V Therefore there is no left branch only a right branch at 42A3 NODE S ADDRESS 42A3 BYTES OF NODE 1A 45 00 00 00 HOUSEKEEPING BYTE 1A Once again the housekeeping byte 1A indicates that only one ASCII character the letter E 45 is to be connected to previously designated letters Thus there is no left branch And it seems that zeros in each of the last two bytes signal the branch And 32 May 1985 this reve
176. n s evaluation of the position is 247 meaning that he s still approximately a piece ahead and his calculations are all aimed at thwarting the threats you have of checking him on the white squares of the board and winning the piece back What does not enter his mind is the concept that even ff you do win the piece back the material will be even From this point on Sargon s every fiber will be straining with the desire to protect the Knight He therefore advances his King into the potentially hos tile terrain in front of the protection afforded by his pawns something a good human player would do only with the greatest reluctance You advance your Queen Pawn to give check and again Sargon advances his King ee evecec ee fl 706 F d4 d5 e6 e5 May 1985 25 Now Sargon evaluates the position as 57 I think he s finally becoming concerned about the threats to his King but not so much that he s prepared to aband on the defense of the Knight In this position by the way please take my word for it that the mind of a good human chessplayer becomes as obsessed with check mating Sargon s King as Sargon is with protecting the stupid Knight You therefore advance your Queen one square giving check to Sargon s King but also aband oning the defense of your Queen Pawn Sargon is forced to capture the pawn since it s his only legal move Your interests clearly lie in enticing Sargon closer to your position so you make him an offer he c
177. n several occasions the print setting with Jazz because it is faster to double click on sheets each with it own name are a real time icons to open and then to use the size box in the saver I doubt if this capability will be added to lower right corner to resize the window With Jazz soon Symphony you must go through at least three layers of commands to retrieve the file and then you must 3 Jazz has no datevalue or timevalue functions as cursor through the names in the proper subdirectory alternatives to date or time for automatic in order to highlight the required file for interpretation of normal formats for dates e g selection You then must go through three layers 3 9 85 or times Although you can work around of commands to use the named window Some of this this it is a handy convenience can be shortened if you remember the proper sequence of keystrokes but this only happens after 4 Jazz has no automatic transfer of blocks ranges several hundred hours of use of data between Jazz files such as File Combine with Symphony This must be done as cut and 5 There is no need to keep track of Symphony work paste with Jazz This is again an inconvenience sheet ranges since these can be separate Jazz when you have to move a great many files files Symphony starts with one large spreadsheet If you develop several files or different documents CONCLUSIONS within that worksheet you must be very careful when copying
178. nerr Goto 930 Call 768 5 Enter the following commands to unlock the file save the changes to disk and relock the file to prevent accidental damage List 900 Check once again that line 900 reads properly as in step 4 then type Unlock SU S6 Save SU S6 Lock SU S6 Regarding the printer problem I informed her that with the exception of the system utilities software non Apple serial printers attached to c s worked very well on 8 data bits However when working with the system utilities program or when booted with the sys tem utilities software most printers could only work on 7 data bits Ms Hopkins said that she would refer me to Apple s technical division and to wait for a response Finally on April 8 1985 almost five months after my complaining letter I received a second telephone call from Terry Davis an Apple North Carolina technical advisor I explained our problem with non Apple printers and informed him that some c users had discussed the problem with their respect ive dealers and were waiting for Apple Computer to solve the problem of having to adjust their printers from 8 data bits to 7 everytime they needed to print some thing with the system utilities software Mr Davis comment was that he had never heard of the problem that it was standard Apple policy to deal with all complaints exclusively through dealers regardless and he advised to me to ask a local dealer any dealer to please contact Apple
179. nnesota Educational Computer Consortium s and McMillan software They are explor ing the possibility of interactive computer con trolled video disks They are also looking to expand their assistance towards the disabled specifically youth who because of their handicaps have been excluded from or have been unable to achieve their potentials in normal educational settings For further information call 212 543 80 x254 WANTED A FEW GOOD HACKERS On March 19 CBS aired a program called First Steps It was not the story of the typical hacker so often portrayed as breaking into banks computers or the memory banks at the CIA This docudrama portrayed the activities of Dr Jerrold Petrofsky who is doing some remarkable things at Wright State University in Dayton Ohio He has studied normal muscular movement and used computers including Apples to stimulate those movements in paraplegics whose spinal chords have been severed As further miniturization and sophistication evolves more people who are severely injured will not have to see their bodies degenerate and many may achieve bioengineered independant movement But what of the title to this segment Well the DISABLEDSIG doesn t expect several WAP members to pop out of the woodwork and emulate Dr Petrofsky s work What we would like to do is to link together sane of WAP s able software and hardware hackers with some of the SIG s members to accomplish small tasks de
180. no ques tions It contains fairly clear diagrams to help you when connecting cables But at about fifty pages it contains little background or technical information It is readable and you should have no trouble getting underway tt is just that more is needed One reason for getting a hard disk is to speed up operations where a lot of data is being read or writ ten The Sider may give you as much as a factor of ten reduction in processing time if you do a lot of input output to the disk While it makes more noise than a fan I didn t find it to be noisy After watching prices drop for other personal computer users I m just glad that FCP is offering an afford able hard disk for the rest of us Expanding Your Apple contd from pg 18 text files were transferred to the Mac with no prob lems However if you intend to do any serious data communications you will want to use a commercial program like ASCII EXPRESS or DATA CAPTURE Considering that the discounted price for two serial cards and a clock card is around 300 the MULTI 1 0 sard from AST RESEARCH INC which lists for 235 is a very attractive alternative The fact that a full one year warranty is provided suggests that AST has confidence in their product The compatibility of each of the devices assures that they can be used with mary popular hardware and software packages For more information contact AST RESEARCH INC 2121 Alton Avenue Irvine CA 92714 71
181. nuals because it seems to be the best available word to de scribe a software program which enables you to create or work with your computer in a certain way If you want to draw pictures you need the MacPaint application If you want to write a letter you need the MacWrite application If you want to open that icon on your WAP disk chances are you need the MS BASIC application The disks don t tell you that and most people at WAP assume you already understand that when the disk is labelled MS BASIC you need the software program called MS BASIC to use the things on that disk By the way if you re try ng to use some of those WAP disks you ll need to copy MacWrite application the program you want to use onto another disk that already contains the application MS BASIC Then when you open the icon you want to use you won t get that message about an application can t be found Think of the word application as computerese for tool You ve probably tried to use a brand new disk out of the box only to have Mac tell you This disk is unreadable Do you want to initialize it What s initialize anyway In the old days of the paper covered computer disks used with most other kinds of computers initializ ing was called formatting Either way it s computerese for encoding the disk with some very basic information which tells the computer that the disk has a name and some
182. o New Recalc Erase Insert Print and Save Conspicuous by their absence are the ability to move rows or columns and to create two windows which can be viewed simultaneous ly but manipulated separately Creative Calc does not allow you to sort rows a useful option found in Multiplan An important measure of the usefulness of a spread sheet is the list of mathematical functions which it can perform Creative Calc provides only the follow ing sum sin cos atn exp log and abs There are no economic functions such as net present value and no boolean functions to make choices based on evalu ating a true false condition On page 37 of the documentation there is reference to an AVG function to compute the average however this is the only mention of it When I tried AVG it was not accepted by Creative Calc Creative Calc uses a gt sign to indi cate a range of variables e g SUM AB 3 gt AB 10 says to add up rows three through ten in column AB Symbols such as and which are used on Tein greater than sign Windowing has become a popular buzz word On compet ing spreadsheets the word window describes the ability to view two parts of the same spreadsheet simultaneously while manipulating data in either part Creative Calc provides an option called Window which provides for stationary titles at the top or left of the screen Creative Calc does not allow you to view two parts of the spreadsheet at once
183. o forward a copy of his letter to you Ron Askew will be conducting a Pascal seminar for the Washington Apple Pi NEWS R Yan May meeting If you interested in attending watch for details in the Journal or a postcard notice Attendees at the April meeting will also enjoy the expertise of Ron sharing with us information on what people are doing with their Apple s these days Unfortunately this article will be on the streets after the meeting takes place Ron s Pascal expertise will be followed with a Pascal Tutorial but the instructor has not been roped er employed yet Please call me if you have any comments corrections or contributions to our column meetings or tutori als 836 0463 home and 697 2219 office ce a EN Diskcat contd from pg 42 1060 GOTO 260 1100 REM lt change lower case to upper case gt 1110 UC 1120 FOR Y 1 TO LN Z PEEK 511 Y 1130 20 i UC CHR Z Z gt 96 AND Z lt 123 2 1140 NEXT Y 1150 RETURN 1200 REM lt Turn on printer 1210 IFN 2 lt gt INT N 2 THEN GOTO 1240 1220 HT 24 RM 56 1230 PRINT D PR 1 1240 RETURN 1300 REM lt Error hand1ing gt 1310 HT H RM R PRINT D PR40 1320 PRINT CHR 7 1330 E PEEK 222 1340 EL PEEK 218 PEEK 219 256 1350 IF E 6 OR E 7 THEN PRINT Pathname P X not found PRINT GOTO 400 1360 IF E 16 THEN PRINT Syntax error GOTO 270 1370 IF E 2
184. o help other members PLEASE keep fn mind that the people listed are VOLUNTEERS Respect all telephone restrictions where listed and no calls after 10 00 PH except where Indicated Users of the Hotline are reminded that calls regarding commercial software packages should be limited to those you have purchased Please do not call about copted software for which you have no documentation Telephone numbers are home phones unless otherwise specified Hot line Proctor Paul Koskos 301 279 0671 Hard Disks Corvus Omninet Tom Vier 4 11AM 202 687 7588 General John Day 301 672 1721 Sider Jaxon Brown 301 350 3283 Dave Harvey 703 527 2704 Barry Fox BBS 703 553 0821 Robert Martin 301 498 6074 Languages A Applesoft I Integer P Pascal H Hachine Peter Combes 301 251 6369 Accounting Packages AI Jeff Dillon 301 422 6458 Accountant Dec Sup Hark Pankin 703 524 0937 A Richard Langston 301 669 7466 BPI Programs Jaxon Brown 301 350 3283 A Hark Pankin 703 524 0937 Home Accountant Leon Raesly 301 460 0754 A 1 M Richard Untied 609 596 6816 Howardsoft Tax Leon Raesly 301 460 0754 AL H John Love 703 569 2294 H Raymond Hobbs 301 490 7484 APPLE SSC Bernie Benson 301 951 5294 P Donn Hoffman 412 578 8905 Forth Bruce Field 301 340 7038 Apple Techtlotes Lance Bell 703 550 9064 LISP Fred Haef 703 471 1479 Shirley Weaver 301 761 2479 Hath O R Appins Hark Pankin 703 524 0937 AppleWorks Carl Efsen 703 354 4837 J
185. oN WAP LOGOSIG watch for further details SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNE SDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY i SATURDAY lina later issue of the Journal 2 2 2 2 EE EF q 1 q q 1 q 1 NEWSIG will meet just after the 1 q q q q q regular Washington Apple Pi meeting q q 1 1 q q and conducts a drop in for new q q 1 q q q Apple owners on Thursday evenings t q q q q q from 7 30 9 00 PM in the office ao uesnenen nn ee nf en ee nn ene fn eg They will answer questions and try 2 13 1 4 I 5 1 6 SigMac 9 7 a8 Hal Mp ed yes ESA 1 Weginning Weadline 7 30PM Lady lt Thursday SIgMac P g q Tutoriali lfifor Journalfof Lourdes f th contd T9AM USUHS PIG the Pascal Interest Group q 17 30 PM Articles GameS Ig WisabledSIGILISA Mac XUmeets on the third Thursday of each 1 10f t Ice q 97 30 Of f gt 9 7PM CCCC TUSUHS month at 8 00 PM at the Club Sceeoesusss ee C2 ih et fe ste The topics for the next 9 1 10 GC VI 9 12 I3STOCKSIGE 14 q 15 two meetings are q 4Beginning WTExecutive V8PM Off Ice f q ITutor lal 2 80ard Apple 1 q May 16 Hard Disks and Apple PM at 4 q ae q q June 20 PACKED in Apple Pascal Ya Yn a mm mm mm Jr sm mm mm mm mf mm mm mm me mm J seen nn nnn aaa 2 16 417 q 18 119 1 20 q 21 1 22 PI SIG formerly ASMSIG meets on the third Monday of each month at PI SIG Beginning 1 Wascal SIG 4 WAP Meet Ingig a9 PM in the WAP office For 48 00 PM WTutorlal 39 18PM Of fice 1 19AM Garage further details call Ray Hobb
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187. of the node contain another address I call these two bytes pointer to the right branch To simplify things I drop the words pointer to and use the phrases right branch and left branch Of course there is a difference between a pointer to an address a signpost so to speak and the place pointed to but this distinction can be clouded without resulting in trouble here Each of these addresses left branch and right branch can point to other nodes or as we will see later even point to other things If the two branches point to other nodes then those two nodes can be examined and analyzed in the same way as the node from which they came into housekeeping byte left branch and right branch This branching can continue for quite a while An example helps clarify the structure of Logo s nodes PRIMITIVE SAVE NODE S ADDRESS 57AC BYTES OF NODE 14 00 40 A7 57 ual warning users to save the workspace before using HOUSEKEEPING BYTE 14 self examining primitives such as Bpt Deposit LEFT BRANCH 4000 Examine or Contents And I agree this is good RIGHT BRANCH 57A7 contd 30 May 1985 Washington Apple Pi NODE S ADDRESS 57A7 BYTES OF NODE 33 93 57 9D 57 HOUSEKEEPING BYTE 33 LEFT BRANCH 5793 RIGHT BRANCH 579D NODE S ADDRESS 5793 BYTES OF NODE 08 FA FC 8E 57 HOUSEKEEPING BYTE 08 LEFT BRANCH RIGHT BRANCH FCFA 578E Note that in this example each node generates two more nodes and that only one branch
188. of the two branches shown at each generation is displayed and analyzed The right branch is examined first and then the left branch of the right branch Obviously this branch ing can go on endlessly unless some signal is given for a node to stop referring to other nodes The housekeeping byte 08 does just this The byte 08 seems to indicate that the left branch of that node is the address of a machine language routine in Logo which in this particular case is a routine that turns on the drive and saves the workspace Since the left branch is in this case not another node the housekeeping byte 08 in effect ends the tree s branch ing on the left side but allows the right branch to continue growing Here is a bit more of SAVE s the primitive procedure examined above branching tree Since the last node examined above had a housekeeping 08 the left branch stops branching at FCFA but the right branch con tinues FCFA is not an address of a node It is a Logo sub routine a machine language program that does something In this case it saves workspace to the disk NODE S ADDRESS 578E BYTES OF NODE 30 01 00 02 00 HOUSEKEEPING BYTE 30 LEFT BRANCH 0001 RIGHT BRANCH 0002 The housekeeping byte 30 signals that both left branch and right branch do not continue growing in the usual manner but instead will use information stored at 0001 and 0002 In a crude fashion here is what happens when we type in SAVE BIGPROGRAM and p
189. oks and works like most of the software packages Mac owners have gotten used to using There are some shortfalls in this area which I 11 cover later but they don t reduce the amazing capabilities of the software The first selection on the menu bar is FILE NEW OPEN CLOSE SAVE SAVE AS PAGE SETUP PRINT and QUIT FILE works pretty much the way we ve come to expect EDIT includes UNDO CUT COPY PASTE CLEAR MODIFY and DELETE UNDO currently works only on desk acces ories clearly a place for improvement which Manhattan Graphics has recognized CLEAR works on an entire block of text or graphics and will clear block con tents after a warning message leaving the specifica tions of the block unaffected MODIFY allows changes to the specifications of a block and is at the heart of what is good about ReadySetGo more later on this DELETE removes a block and its structure entirely CREATE includes choices to create Text a Frame a Solid or a Picture FONT and SIZE work practi cally as we would expect them to using the fonts that are in the system file Two new typesetting fonts are on the RSG master disk Times and Helvetica There is also an interesting addition which allows selection of any size for the font even a size not loaded This produces some interesting results but whether they will be useful is yet to be seen STYLE is also similar to that for MacWrite with a choice of PLAIN BOLD ITA
190. om Bottom Number of Columns Column Spacing Figure 5 On line help Command or the Apple Menu screens are obtained by either typing by selecting About Microsoft Word from Figure 6 below shows the Help Menu Getting Heip Opening Windows Closing Windows amp Quitting Saving Documents Printirg Printing Form Documents Editing Documents Using Glossar tes Showing The Ruler Showlng Special Chat acters Changing Unit of Measure Finding Text Changing Text Character Menu Commands The Charecter Formats Command Paragraph teny Commands ee The Paragraph For mats Command Setting Tabs Designing Documents Creating Footnotes Word version t 00 January 22 1985 9 1985 Microsoft Corp 98 free memory Figure 6 WORD s new features include Multiple windows up to four which allow you to see other parts of the same file or a different file You can Cut and Paste between windows Split screens into two windows A glossary function that lets you type short codes in your text in place of frequently used words or Phrases Horizontal scrolling Mail Merge a feature that automatically inserts names and addresses from a mailing list into a form letter Footnotes placed at the end of the text or at the bottom of each page Multiple printing formats including multicolumn printing useful for newsletters or brochures The most useful feature to me is the extended number of keyboar
191. omplished the enhancement to the e the 70 00 4 Chip Change I did and have been satisfied but have noticed some things different now like the Self test does not return a Kernel OK any more just some graphics screens then nothing no error message either so I guess all is OK at least all works fine Seems to be compatible with all programs that I have as all my application programs work fine It is cute to see a real Open Apple on the screen and not the 0 I had the work done at Uni versal Computer during the week in about 45 min Super service I did not get the manual About your Enhanced Apple e Apple 4030 1143 A but I am on the waiting list for it Quest ions Comments From WP3432 to ALL 03 28 Enhanced e So far I have had display problems with 1 Apple Writer e the data line has mousetext characters and blank spaces in it If one uses the tab line display as I do there are no problems 2 VisiCalc e the column letter display is all mousetext 3 PFS file e the highlighted areas are a mess Hayes Smartcom l each time a lt CR gt is sent by this board the cursor Washington Apple Pi remains on the screen Also a cursor block is always lit in the lower right corner of the screen The dealer sold me the chip set outright so I still have my old chip set It took me less than ten min to swap the chips Because I now use AppleWorks the above problems are only a small pain in the 2 amp If your dealer w
192. ot be able to rely upon your knowledge of Applesoft BASIC In most cases you will have to master Micro soft BASIC which has many subtle differences from the Applesoft dialect One of the most important areas of difference is in the use of disk files This article will illustrate the difference in reading sequential disk files For a sample problem suppose that you are programming a sales analysis for the We Sell Hardware computer store Each sale is listed as a separate record on a disk file with the item name quantity sold unit price and discount separated by commas You are to display this information on the screen and then calcu late various statistics for the discounted and undis counted items This suggests that the program should be divided into three parts First you will need the instructions that will initialize the program Next a series of instructions will be repeated for each record in the file Finally a set of instructions to calculate and print a report will be needed after all of the records in the file have been read and pro cessed Listing 1 is such a program Applesoft and Microsoft BASIC took different approaches to sequential disk files In Applesoft disk commands are separate from the programming lan guage DOS is constantly checking over the shoulder of Applesoft for PRINT commands that begin with a Ctrl D also known as CHR 4 Instead of displaying such commands on the screen 00S intercepts them
193. ould be willing to share with the other members via the WAP Disketeria PRINT LIBRARY I have volunteered to put together a disk for the WAP Library containing a collection of YOUR GRAPHICS which you developed on the Print Shop s Graphic Editor Let s see if we have enough to produce a disk or two Submit your graphic s on a DOS 3 3 disk to at Hayman 7315 Wisconsin Avenue Suite 605W Bethesda MD 20814 I will collect the various drawings and place them on a master disk for WAP Your original disk will be immediately returned to you if you include a self addressed mailing label and correct additional post age As a surprise some additional graphics from some of the previous submittals will be included on your returned disk for your use until the master disk is complete All submittals must be original work so that there is no copyright infringement Drawings must be in good taste Credit will be given for your drawings in a text file on the master disk Release for publication will be assumed upon submittal Some of us already own the new Print Shop Library containing many additional pieces of art work but we are hungry for more drawings that we can use Here is a chance to share our creations at a very low cost gg PERFECT PASCAL PROGRAMS WASHINGTON APPLE PI Edited by Robert C Platt Published by Tab Books Inc A Compilation of Pascal Articles and Programs In hardback or paperback your choice 9 50 includ
194. ovide the primary node addresses of every Logo procedure primitive or user defined in the current workspace TO DIS N If DEFINEDP ITEM N CONTENTS PRINT EXAMINE ITEM N CONTENTS DIS N 1 END BY CONVERT ITEM N CONTENTS TO DISCOVER CATCH ERROR DIS 1 THROW TOPLEVEL END The procedure DISCOVER contains an error trap because the LIST CONTENTS has only so many elements Even tually N as input to procedure DIS will exceed that number of elements and result in a rather bulky error message The LIST CONTENTS which is a Logo built in dynamic list it keeps growing of all words and pro cedures either entered by the user or provided by Logo as primitives provides a handy summary for procedure DISCOVER to canvass CONTENTS also contains pure trash misspellings names of procedures that have been erased and bits and pieces of detritus The first instruction of procedure DIS insures that the word being processed is a viable procedure Try either the procedure DISCOVER or FINO on the primitive WRAP You will see that the Logo primitive WRAP s first node is at 424E In order to look at the contents of a node we could use the BPT primitive and look at the bytes stored at specific addresses Doing this reveals that the bytes of the first node of wrap are 04 00 40 49 42 Looking at the right branch of this node we will see that the bytes at 4249 are 33 30 42 3A 42 The housekeeping byte 33 just encountered t
195. oving operational speed the rea merits of the RAM board are to be found in applica tions requiring extensive switching of programs I downloaded a disk containing twenty two menu linked astronomy programs BASIC and had the selected applications appear virtually instantaneously on the screen The greatest value in the disk emulator however is probably the reduced drive utilization I am not familiar with the technical aspects of disk head life speed and alignment but am convinced that a significant increase in longevity can be achieved through the use of RAM drives With the resolution of my disk drive concerns I looked into another product for increasing overall operational speed the Accelerator e by Titan Technologies 310 West Ann Ann Arbor MI 48104 I must note that this company is one of the most pleas ant I have ever dealt with courteously responding to contd Washington Apple Pi my questions both by phone and by letter The Accelerator contains a CMOS 6502 running at 3 5 MHz which magically replaces the puny 1 MHz Apple proces sor As result all those machine instruction clock cycles which I am told the HEX types love to count execute three and one half times faster If nothing else with name like ACCELERATOR e you can always mention it out of context and wow the neighbors by giving the impression you are engaged in high energy particle physics research in your basement The Accelerator board conta
196. p the 40 LITTGEST APPLE Hu 1 i May 1985 ick address spaces Card uses lots speed is 4MHz for the two processors The old Soft of discrete logic for that The clock faster than the original SoftCard and equal to the Premium SoftCard e Finally the utilities supplied include a RAMDRIVE utility which converts the upper 64K of RAM into a disk emulator any drive letter This emulator even survives COLD Ctrl OA Reset boots are you listening Apple The engineers at AE even tell me that the 280c draws no power when the c is not running CP M At a price of 159 00 the 280c is an inexpensive way for the c owner to get into the world of CP M It is compatible with ALL known Apple CP M software Since the c already has 80 column capability pro grams for CP M run without any modification Addi tionally the need for two disk drives is greatly reduced by the presence of the RAMDRIVE utility since all work can be done on the emulated drive and trans ferred to a floppy at the end of the session All in all Applied Engineering 75006 214 241 6060 PRITITERS AE the 280c Carrollton FOR from TX amp THE I can highly recommend P 0 Box 798 The following was prepared by a recent WAP member in response to a telephone inquiry from an even newer member It is being published to encourage others to seek assistance in finding answers to individual prob le
197. parameters to suit your own interests and needs whether it be print size or the number of generations You can go from predecessor backward or from descend ant forward You can also print out the commonly called crowfoot In Sheets you use forms like those of the Mormons An individual can be printed out with wives and data and all the children and notes Family sheets include more data on children The Search program does what it s called be it name part of a name ID number or a date etc There are several more programs to help the researcher do his work A big help is that the computer does all the cross reference work for you if you want it to I had notes here there and everywhere which were put together in neat order with the computer asking me the whole time if that s what I wanted The researcher stays in control which isn t always the case with some software contd on pg 39 May 1985 37 I APPLE tantly I PRODUCT NAME NUMBER I Family 12 I Roots amp Relatives 55 i Family Roots 20 I Family Connection 13 I Fretware Famliy Tree 27 1 All 1 Genealog i l 39 I My Roots 49 Patriarch 51 I Ancestry Link 65 I EM PC PCjr amp Clones I PRODUCT NAME amp NUMBER I The Ancestor File 2 I Family Flle 14 I Family Roots 20 I Family Tles 21 I Family Reunlon I 19 First Family 26 I INDEXS gt ICHARTS gt ASEN 1 0 IL I ST gt 14 CRIHOT 140804 PURCI
198. r If you have it please call Otto Bernath 301 598 4820 day or evening AVAILABLE LISA 2 0 Software If you want the LISA 2 0 Software System and Applications programs Office System Guide Write Calc Graph Project Draw and List please contact Donald Kornreich 202 472 5840 during the day until 4 00 PM or 301 292 9225 evenings If you are a government agency you can have it free Otherwise y ou must offer something in return e g ten new 3 5 inch floppy disks FOR SALE 512K Macintosh 1695 With second drive 2075 Phone Linda or David 301 972 4263 FOR SALE Apple e two Disk II drives Apple monitor 80 column card Apple numeric keypad Apple paddles Hayes CH joystick System Saver fan and suppressor Hayes Micromodem e with Smartcom Grappler with 16K print buffer RF modulator ProDOS dozens of disks tutorials VisiCalc Apple Writer e and over 100 other programs Includes warranty cards books and all documentation 1600 Bill Shepherd 301 262 0155 anytime FOR SALE 512K Ramboard for Mac XL Call Linda 301 972 4263 FOR SALE Magnetic core memory Two ferrite core memory modules 8 x 512 bits with built in timing and control circuitry Removed from military computer equipment compact small size Comes complete with all available documentation and wiring connectors Asking 30 apiece Negot Contact Don Mayes 301 589 4190 David or FOR SALE Apple e Monitor two disk
199. r special design necessary to fit into the Taurus expansion slots The company informs me that unless the user needs to collect more than 5 data points per second the additional RAM is not needed The demo disk is a very well done series of MacPaint images which form the basis for a slide show demon strating Macquisition s capabilities Next or Back dialog boxes guide you effortlessly through the slide presentation while Quit exits you from the demonstration You may also sit back and let the demo disk automatically move through the slide show at a predetermined rate The demo disks give you a better feel for the capabilities of Macquisition than any literature can short of an actual demonstration I commend Small Business Computers Inc for their use of this means of presenting what their software will do and at a reasonable price Small Business Com puters Inc used the Slide Show Magician program to create their demo disk Although other companies have used similar approaches for the Apple J and IBM PC this is one of the first that I am aware of that provides a demo disk for Macintosh software The ability to use bit mapped graphics and the outstanding capabilities of MacPaint give new meaning to the term Demo Disk Small Business Computers Inc is also about to release a program called Maccontrol 695 list price includes Macquisition which will increase the capabilities of their existing software
200. re gone it is almost as if the Apple bunch has taken on the remote personality of other corporate giants Tales are currently told concerning important internal information the Tool Kit being withheld from Mac users Unfortunately such seems to be the case with Logo the inner workings of Apple s Logo the version provided by Logo Computer Systems Inc LCSI apparently with Apple Computer s blessings seem to be intentionally hidden from the user by design a practice that is becoming customary throughout the industry and there seems to be little likelihood of more information thawing out Person ally I feel constrained when locked away from knowing how things work It is true that several years ago LCSI provided two disks one with sample programs and the other with utilities by coincidence called Tool Kit These were supposed to be provided without cost They were not For many of us documentation was not provided or was discouragingly difficult to secure I was able to see some material only recently two years after the fact and also after finishing this article One of the disks contained a few procedures that did get into the workings of Logo and would have been valu able stimulating and a real contribution to the growth of Logo had it and its documentation been made more readily available a genuine part of the public domain In retrospect those two disks of LCSI were but token gestures to the publ
201. ress return The primitive SAVE is worked on for a while prob ably moving along the the tree described above and then the node address of the word BIGPROGRAM is entered at 0001 and 0002 with the low byte at 0001 In effect SAVE is given the name of the file that is being saved by being provided with the name s address READER PARTICIPATION IS INVITED TRY THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURES The method for finding the first node of any Logo word is to type PRINT EXAMINE ANYOLDWORD Logo responds in this instance with an address in decimal of the first of 5 bytes of the initial node of ANYOLDWORD Since we can look at the node s bytes by entering the Monitor via the BPT primitive and typing in hexadecimal addresses it is convenient to construct Logo procedures that convert a decimal address to hexadecimal TO CONVERT NUMBER OUTPUT CONV NUMBER 16 END Washington Apple Pi TO CONV NUMBER BASE IF NUMBER 0 OUTPUT OUTPUT WORD CONV QUOTIENT NUMBER BASE BASE HEX RENALNDER NUMBER BASE TO HEX NUMBER IF NUMBER O OUTPUT 0 OUTPUT ITEM NUMBER 12345 6789ABCODEF END See Abelson s Apple Logo pp 137 140 or Ross Intro ducing Logo pp 139 148 for an explanation of how the above three procedures work Here is a procedure that gives in hexadecimal the first node s address of any word in logo TO FIND WORD PR CONVERT EXAMINE WORD END The procedure DISCOVER will pr
202. rograms used to copy it resulting in problems for both disks Never theless before I knew of this I had no trouble making a backup with Copy II Mac with no damage as far as I know But deletion of copy protection especially for this reason is a welcome step by Man hattan Graphics OVERALL EVALUATION I haven t used any other page layout program so I compare ReadySetGo first against what I would do without it and second against the Macintosh conven tions which have become standard in good Mac software On the former count ReadySetGo achieves a solid A On the first night I did a newsletter with RSG I took about one third as long to produce a much better pro duct and I think 11 get better with time I have a feeling that I still have much learning to do on fully using the power of this software On the second count there are a few shortcomings and I guess a B is fair for this version considering that many of these will be removed by Manhattan Graphics in the next release In conclusion ReadySetGo is a tremendous asset for anyone wanting to prepare newletters advertising or any other standalone type of mixed text and graphics material I recommend it strongly based on my own experience For more detail on this subject and considerably more on typesetting applications I also recommend a related article in the May 85 issue of A Magazine entitled Desktop Publishing by John Barry Frederic Davis and
203. romise to considerably simplify the task of preparing camera ready pages on which text and graphics are mixed This article describes ReadySetGo from the perspective of one who has owned it only a short while WHO NEEDS IT AND WHY First some background I ve been preparing a newsletter for a band booster organization for about three years I ve gone through three iterations in trying to achieve a quality product which doesn t require an inordinate amount of time First I used Apple PIE PIE Writer to prepare columnar articles with justified margins and used my trusty MX 80 to print them in condensed print for cutting out and pasting up into a master That worked well for several years it really WAS better than the alternative Second the Mac and MacWrite came into my life Seeing exactly what I was getting made the job more satisfying if not quicker I found that I could sometimes even print two columns of text on a master by running the page through the Imagewriter twice and moving the paper to the left while moving the screen margins to the right But what a pain I found myself messing up as often as not simply because I wasn t always sure where the printing would start or end or if I had the margins just right Third and finally along came the promise of page layout programs for the Mac and I felt I could see relief on the horizon And sure enough I think one way to spell relief is R e a d y S e t 6 0 WHAT D
204. rtino CA reporting the two bugs and questioning the compatibility of all the e software when used on c s In December I received a PR response from Apple Computer thnaking me and promising me that I would receive a prompt technical answer from their Regional Technical Support Center in Charlotte NC In early March I received a telephone call from Ms Lynn Hopkins of Apple Computer CA who had been asked to solve my problems Ms Hopkins commented that yes there was a bug in the system utilities disk that did not allow it to escape back into the main menu and promised to send me a printout with the instructions for correcting the bug The instructions suggested the following Getting Error 900 When Using the Apple c Systems Utilities Disk If after you boot your system with the Apple c System Utilities Disk that has a new port configura tion saved to it you select any menu option then press the Escape key to return to the main menu you ll drop into the monitor with error 900 dis played The workaround is 1 Duplicate your Systems Utilities disk select the main menu option 5 Boot your system with this new copy 2 Select main menu option 9 to exit from System Utilities 3 From the Basic prompt type in the following Load SU S6 List 900 Washington Apple Pi THe Jets Sho Peis Daal Pm Ostarling You will see the listing 900 Call 768 Poke 216 0 Onerr Goto 930 4 Change line 900 to 900 Poke 216 0 O
205. s Header In a HacWrite document the size of fil prefer to save documi renumbering the pages major limitation as fe Figure 2 The Character Menu contains the sub menu Formats Figure 3 which contains font changes and style selections for individual characters which have been selected You can change the font and style for your selection without affecting the rest of the document You can go Command D directly to the Formats Menu by typing contd May 1985 49 Plain tert Bold Halle Undertine Cutina Shadow Small Caps Superscript Subscript The Menu of the Word cd Paragraph and Docum and Style O Underline OD Outline U Shadow E Small Caps Position Normal O Superscript O Subscript Formats Font Neme Chicago New York Geneva Figure 3 The Paragraph Menu contains the commands that affect paragraphs such as margins spacing formats and tabs The sub menu Formats Command M allows you to keep a paragraph or lines together when printing WORD has orphan control but this feature helps keep lists or parts of an outline together You can also set tabs for a particular paragraph You can select alignments and leaders between columns periods blanks dashes or lines File Edit Search Choracter MAME vocu Normal Lett Centered
206. s Rockville office to help us I replied inviting the Apple people to attend our SIG c meeting where we vari ous members would happily take our c and printers to demonstrate the existence of the bug His answer was that he was not authorized to make such a commit ment and again he invited us to request a local dealer to please make the arrangements for us I thought that sharing this kind of merry go round and ping pong experience with other Apple users is important to set the record straight on what consum ers rights are regarding defective i e with bugs software sold as an essential part of our computers how Apple Inc treats its millions of users and what rights and options users and user groups have open to them in this era of high technology amp May 1985 41 DI SKERT by Bob Velke The following program displays or prints complete ProDOS directory or selected parts 1 and 2 list the entire contents of a direc tory or a specified subdirectory to the screen or printer respectively Nested subdirectories and files are displayed in an indented outline form Options Options 3 and 4 search the directory or specified subdirectory for all files whose complete pathname or file characteristics contain a given character string and lists the pathname of that file to the screen or printer respectively For instance when searching for WASHPOST LTR prints the pathname of that file LTR finds all
207. s at TOF f Ice 17 30 PM 1 SPACKED In f Sale 490 7484 1 JOf f Ice 1 App Pascalf q PEET f a nan e f mmmemmmmmmfonnmmmmmem J ne enn nn nnn Jon nnn nnn nnn Fon enen SigMac meets on the Ist Thursday of 23 T 24 125 4 26 1 27 1 28 v 29 each month programmers s meeting q fBeginnlng 1 YEDSIG q at 7 30 PM at Our Lady of Lourdes q Tutorial 49 97 30 PM q q School 7500 Pearl Street Bethes q 97 30 PM 1 Of f Ice q q da MD and usually on the 2nd q Of f Ice q q g q Saturday general meeting from BU nwa wee Sae ne PTEE EEN gees as 9 00 AM to 12 30 PM at USUHS o a ae a rr 1 1 50 1 l 1 p STOCKSIG meetings are on the second 1 T 1 Thursday at 8 00 PMat the WAP q q 1 I 1 A office q q q q q q 1 q 1 q I 1 Telecom SIG usually meets after the regular WAP meeting amp May 1985 Washington Apple Pi May 1985 IG Mews MLE SUMMARY OF MARCH EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING met near The Executive Board of Washington Apple Pi Ltd on March 13 1985 at the WAP office In the future we will arrange for Visa and Master Charge cards to be accepted by the office The limitations of the WAP ABBS were discussed The Board voted not to renew membership in IAC A random sample of members will be polled about various aspects of WAP MARCH GENERAL MEETING WAP Ltd met at the USUHS on March 23 1985 at 10 00 AM with David Morganstein presiding The meeting was recorded for Voice of America New member 6502 was announced A call wa
208. s made for nominations of offi cers Nominations will be accepted until the end of the April general meeting Members are urged to volunteer their time new ideas will help WAP Rich Wasserstrom announced the return of volunteers to WAP s group purchase activity and the new phone num ber will be announced when installed A location is needed for the summer garage sale tentatively set for the June meeting A site in Virginia is pre ferred WAP s Pascal book Perfect Pascal Pro grams edited by Bob Platt is available in the WAP office for 9 50 and by mail order for 11 00 Bernie Urban announced that advertising would be allowed on the Buy Sell ABBS at the rate of 10 per 255 charac ters per month Members were asked to express their willingness to pay for an ABBS password if the fee would result in an expanded system The main presentation was on ProDOS given by Richard Langston II MEET GS MARCH 25 The report of the ProDOS presentation at the March 23 meeting of Washington Apple Pi will be delayed until the June issue due to a broken elbow sustained by Richard Langston II We wish him a speedy recovery REPORT GENERAL INE ORMAT TOR Apple user groups may reprint without prior permission any portion of the contents herein provided proper author title and publication credits are given Membership dues for Washington Apple Pi are 27 00 for the first year and 20 00 per year thereafter begin ning in the
209. s will be provided for these volunteers For administrative information please call Helene V Husbands Project Director Acting Retired Senior Volunteer Program 301 699 2675 For technical information please call Bill Pitt Associate Librarian CLIS Library 301 454 6003 amp HOmEInform Information on Store Names Sales Events Restaurants Theatres Gifts Metrobus Schedules and Much More Computer Access Number 703 893 0874 May 1985 7 Q amp A by Bruce fF There has been considerable interest in using the MousePaint program with printers other than the Imagewriter the only printer that is supported by the program S C Kim Hunter wrote to describe a solu tion he developed to print Christmas cards and I pass along some of his comments Fontrix software by Data Transforms has unique Virtual Memory system for multiple screen graphics which allows one to merge several graphic screens together for editing and simultaneous printing such that an entire printer page can be filled But it has rather limited drawing ability far below MousePaint MousePaint can be used to create the screens which can then be transferred to Fontrix for printing and fang supports many printers including the NEC 8023 My Christmas card consists of eight Apple graphic screens two on each quarter page of the folded card The Christmas tree on the front is two screens done entirely with MousePaint If you unfold the
210. send your BASIC program off in an un known direction Richard From WAP538 to WAP580 03 20 ABBS Inventory 1 Apple II 2 modified CCS 7710 serial cards 2 Anchor Mark 12 modems 1 256K Legend RAM card 1 Axlon RAMdisk 320 1 Mt Hdw CPS Multifunction card 2 Rana Elite III disk drives Rana controller card 1 Apple Disk II drive Apple controller card on loan to Lee Raesly I should also mention that one Rana is on loan 1 5MB Corona hard disk w controller From WAP538 to WP4772 03 23 ABBS Inventory The ABBS runs on most but not all of the equipment in the above message It doesn t use the RANA ELITE III as I could not get that drive to handle text files longer than 1 track sector list Tom Warrick From WP5018 to ALL 03 05 AE PRO Downloading I am using AE PRO on a Franklin with a Hayes 1200 When I use XMODEM to down load programs KERMIT I receive it as a Text file How do I convert it to Binary for execution Where can I get the conversion program From WP1095 to WP5018 03 05 AE Pro that you are receiving a binary file using Christensen protocol from a non Apple computer therefore AE Pro tags the file as text You need my change file type in catalog utility which was pub lished in WAP Aug 83 and also appeared in the WAP library on disk 944 It s too bad there isn t a better understanding of this problem at the AE Pro factory I assume From WP2243 to WP5018 03 07 AE Pro Text Bin Set up your text downlo
211. siaja JEBE 00OGND0 Bielenjen mene noe een mene ener njn cise emnene Washington Apple Pi May 1985 47 COMNTERTUARE Quality Music by LJ After experiencing the demonstration of MusicWorks at the November SIGMAC meeting I got it for our family for Christmas I thought it was great allowing music composition on the Macintosh and even printouts of the scores I tried hooking it into our hi fi system which greatly improved the sound quality of the music However in February I received a copy of Concert Ware which was not only cheaper 49 95 vs 79 95 but seemed to have even more features What follows is a review of the ConcertWare Package from the per spective of a MusicWorks user John The ConcertWare disk contains 3 applications 34 instrument files and 35 music files The music files are mostly complete renditions of classical and rag time favorites many lasting over 5 minutes When played in succession they play for 2 hours The instruments range from stringed instruments both bowed and plucked to brass instruments and include a few originals such as Bee and Wild Man The applications are Music Player to play the music files Music Writer to compose music and create the music files and Instrument Maker to design your own instruments To ease the process of using one appli cation after the other each application includes a Transfer menu which allows quick transfer to any of the other applications
212. side long edge as a hinge holding the board by the inside notched long edge and rotating the latter back to its spot next to the power supply When the inside edge is nearly home plug the dangling power supply cable back into the motherboard socket labeled POWER Check that all other cables and parts are free in particular check out the two grey wide flat ribbon cables feeding to the rear panel s floppy disk drive socket When all is secure seat the bottom cover tighten the 11 screws flip the Apple right side up connect the cables for power monitor disk and so on Then insert the System Utilities disk hold your breath and toggle on the Apple power switch When the Utilities are loaded select the Device Handling Commands from the menu Now look at the upper right corner of the screen for the date and time header If the clock is working you should see the time updated every second even though the date right now reads 00 Jan OG Select option T set Time and Date from the menu and enter the correct date and time as requested As soon as you hit return the right upper corner display is updated and the new information written to SYSTEM MISCINFO on the Utili ties disk if not write protected As long as the power is on the clock updates every millisecond advances minutes and hours and changes days and months but it does not update the year That is done by SOS software which increments the year at midnight of Decem
213. signa ture which is also shown on the large staff To insert an accidental you click on the accidental boxes or from the keyboard before clicking on the note Using the keyboard in conjunction with the mouse makes music entry quite fast I was able to enter the entire Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah in about an hour and a half MusicWorks allows only one key signature one time signature one initial tempo and one volume same on all 4 voices ConcertWare has none of these limita tions Key signatures time signatures tempo changes and volume changes independent volume on each voice can be inserted anywhere within the piece with absolutely no restriction on the number of such commands Also ConcertWare allows repeats with first endings MusicWorks doesn t allow any type of repeats and carefully keeps track of measure count ing across first and second endings Also available are slurs no break between notes as it plays and transposition by octaves or half steps during half step transpositions the key signature is also trans posed allowing the piece to be entered in one key and transposed to another And ConcertWare doesn t insist on changing sharps to flats and vice versa as you enter them In short ConcertWare allows you to enter music quicker and give a much more realistic representation of the music than does MusicWorks And the printouts from ConcertWare are quite striking in comparison instead of leaving blank s
214. sn t anything that would stay current for long He suggested that his notes from a previous tutorial that had a lot of that type of information might be useful for the purpose A newcomer to communications asked exactly what could be done with a modem and a terminal program He knew about bulletin boards but wanted to know if there was anything else worthwhile We then discussed MCI Mail ITT Dialcom and other electronic mail services In formation utilities such as Compuserve and the Source were also mentioned as being potentially useful The ability to download programs was considered one of the main advantages of getting a modem There are many programs out there in the public domain that are available for downloading These are usually on information utilities such as Compuserve or on loca bulletin boards One participant sadly reflected that not many programs were available on the WAP board Hopefully when the new WAP bulletin board is imple mented there will be room for a large number of programs In terms of quantity CP M programs are available from a large number of local boards The type of programs available for CP M are mostly utili ties although there are other types mainly for scien tific use Most local CP M boards require protocol transfers so your terminal program must support that In order to download CP M files using a DOS 3 3 termi nal program first download to a DOS 3 3 disk and then contd on pg 19 May 19
215. space on it for storage The disk is divided into imaginary sectors by the Mac so it can MacNovice Column by Ralph J Begleiter MacLingo Before you actually use any disk you must initial ize it But later after you ve got data already on the disk don t initialize the disk again or Mac will erase your data If you turn on your Mac and insert first a freshly initialized disk the computer won t let you work You ll get an X fn the little icon on your screen informing you that there s something wrong with the disk you inserted How come After all you just initailized the disk Here s another bit of computer ese worth learning When you turn on your Mac before you can do anything else you have to feed it a startup disk In the old days of other comput ers this was called booting up and you may still ke people refer to starting their Mac as booting up A startup disk is a disk on which there is already some encoded informa tion which helps Mac operate That information is usually contained in the icon called the System File It holds for instance all the texts for those messages Mac gives you such as This disk is almost full or Do you want to initialize this disk The System File also contains other important information you need to Startup Disk work including the fonts used in word processing I plan another MacNovice column in the future dealing exclusively with t
216. ss 283 DZ 14 c4 b3 b2xal 15 b3 bl checkmate Fe z fy p NS cla Braga pit rae TLL ceiaee 2 RRN Shs TM ass r t In case you re interested Sargon III set at Level 3 will play this line all the way against you every time just as in the game This therefore constitutes a forced win against him whenever he responds to your opening King Pawn move by advancing his King s Knight Show everyone what child s play it is to beat Sargon Impress your friends Let me tell you about one other weapon you can use against Sargon Actually I have a total of eight ways to lead Sargon astray but not enough space to go over all but the most basic of them Consider the following position where Sargon was playing the white pieces against a friend of mine It s Sargon s move and he correctly assesses the position as being 569 in his favor There has been quite a bit of action but Sargon has emerged with two extra pawns and no real weaknesses Moreover he is about to capture the black Rook with his Knight a good deal almost any time you can get it Sargon captures the Rook and my friend moves his black squared Bishop to a square where it prevents the Knight from escaping while the remaining Rook threat ens to capture the Knight 28 May 1985 20 c xa8 f8 d6 In this position Sargon came completely unglued For no sensible reason I can think of he advanced his King Knight Pawn to attack his opponent s Bishop
217. ssed above Problems that ConcertWare has that MusicWorks also has include lack of triplets lack of stemming of eight and sixteenth notes lack of 32nd or non standard note lengths lack of text within the music lack of a MIDI interface and lack of other musical embellishments such as fermatas and staccato The future of ConcertWare Great Wave Software is organizing a users group of ConcertWare users to dis tribute instruments and original musical compositions Upgrades they are working on include triplets inclu sion of text ability to change instruments within a piece stemming and possibly a MIDI interface Great Wave Software apparently considers Professional Com poser 495 to be its main competition rather than MusicWorks Great Wave gave an indication that these drive I ve heard one is on the way soon amp enhancements would be added in an upgraded version at slightly higher cost They also implied that they might only be available for 512K Macs The ConcertWare Package can be ordered by sending 49 95 to Great Wave Software P 0 Box 5847 Stan ford CA 94305 415 852 2280 Visa MC accepted Or it is available from several dealers and mail order houses Washington Apple Pi May 1985 51 Re adySelGo ReadySetGo ReadySetGo Several page layout programs for the Macintosh have appeared in the past few months notably MacPublisher from Boston Software Publishers and ReadySetGo from Manhattan Graphics These programs p
218. t powered interfering with the operation of the other cards Even if we know exactly which signal line is causing the problem there is no simple solution The only alternative is to rearrange your cards so that the Mouse card can be put inside the Apple and a card that is compatible with the Switch A Slot be moved there At least you have sounded a warning to other potential users of Switch A Slot Q What are the advantages in upgrading my Apple e from DOS 3 3 to ProD0S 8 May 1985 Field There are actually no modifications that have to be made to your hardware to use ProDOS Apple and J owners must have a Language card installed Commercial programs that run under ProDOS will come with a copy of ProDOS on the disk and you boot it Tike any other disk you won t know the difference If you wish to write your Applesoft programs using ProDOS you will need the ProDOS User s Kit a disk and manual available from your dealer The advantage of ProDOS is mostly that it is faster than DOS 3 3 in loading and saving programs and files Although ProDOS uses the language card you will still only have about 36K of memory left for Applesoft programs after loading Prodos ProDOs has a special garbage collection function that works much faster than Applesoft ProD0 also supports pathnames and directory files to make it easier to use a hard disk that contains hundreds of files A directory file is another catalog that contains the na
219. t sections with different tabs However this is one feature which is easier in MacWrite You can also use the TAB command Command T to select Tab settings One warning WORD doesn t put documents back in the folders when they are opened for editing It also creates files named MW0000 when you eject a disk from the MiniFinder You may be surprised to find yourself mu disk space if these files are not trashed regu arly You can convert a MacWrite document to a WORD docu ment simply by opening WORD and then opening the MacWrite document from the MiniFinder You cannot directly open the MacWrite document All of the formatting features are saved You can convert a WORD document to a MacWrite document only by first saving it as a textfile and then opening it with MacWrite The WORD manual is satisfactory better than most but still not as complete as I d like For example ft doesn t explain the appearance of those MW0000 files These are not the same as WORD Rescue files which are created when you lose power Too often to suit me all the information I need about a given feature is not in the same section you have to page through the entire manual to get all the facts you need Like most documentation it is at its weakest when you want to undo or change a feature It was much easier to figure out for example how to create a running head and a footnote than to delete them from my document WORD is a helpful program for m
220. t spectrum While they can simulate various instruments without some tricky arranging they tend to sound like an electronic chord organ The AE package contains a circuit board disk and documentation The board is small and contains no firmware therefore it can be installed in any peripheral slot in your Apple J J or e even slot 3 with an 80 column board resident in the auxiliary slot of the e The board has connectors to output 2 channel stereo or 4 channel quadraphonic sound Like all the AE products the board is well constructed and comes with a three year warranty The disk contains two main programs and several sample ready to play songs One program is used to enter songs for storing and playing The other program plays the songs The programs are so similar to the ALF programs it would be very hard to determine which one is better probably the one you learn first The programs are well written require little documenta tion are easy to learn and utilize the hi res color graphics and joystick on the Apple The software is not protected allowing programs to be modified for use in other basic programs Disks called Albums containing many songs can be made up and songs played in any predetermined order No programming experience is necessary to run the programs However a general understanding of music theory is required to arrange and enter songs that sound dynamic and use the fea tures of the synthesizer
221. taffs off the edge of each line the notes are all proportionately spaced so that each line is full and still ends on a measure boundary Each line begins with a staff and key signature and each page contains about 20 30 measures depending on size etc ConcertWare can print in large small 50 reduction and sideways Printing 50 reduction sideways I fit the entire Hallelujah Chorus on a single sheet of paper One thing I really miss on ConcertWare is the ability to play the music as you write it so you can see if you like what you are composing The only way to play music is to save it and transfer to the Player which then plays it from the beginning A phone call to Great Wave Software the publishers revealed that a new ConcertWare version will soon be released late April or early May which will contain a Draft Play option in the Writer This system will allow you to make a selection and play it or start at the inser tion point and play to the end All four voices will play the same instrument and repeats will be ignored Play can be interrupted at any time by clicking a Stop button or by clicking Stop and Move Insertion Point which scrolls to the point in the music that was just digm as opposed to the MusicWorks MacPaint para playing This would make error correction very sim contd on pg 51 48 May 1985 Washington Apple Pi MACUWORD Second AL b s Ro 16 by Bonnie L Walker Microsoft s WOR
222. th a relational data base which allows you to combine information from two or more files one file for schools a second for teachers and a third for stu dents The manual thinks of a Creative Filer record as an index card ina filing system For these limited types of data base problems Creative Filer will work well Integration The three programs are not truly inte grated although the packaging box used the word integrate in four places They are three separate programs with the ability to share data in several ways You can save your spreadsheet results to a file which can be merged at print time into a document Creative Filer can provide data for the spreadsheet in two ways First it can save a formatted report which can be embedded in text by the word processor just as the spreadsheet can Second Creative Filer can be used to build a file of information such as names and addresses which can be merged with a form letter However you don t need to buy all three packages to share data Almost every spreadsheet or data base package allows you to print your output to a file instead of the printer Practically every word pro cessor permits you to merge a file into an existing document Creative Writer and several other word processors uses the include approach which causes the merge to happen when the document is being printed The two files are never actually merged as one This is a big advantage since it allows you to c
223. the case of Black One the high bit of the byte is off when drawing in Black Two you turn the high bit of the byte on Software useful to a professional should allow you to select which white or black to use This is important because White or Black One matches Violet and Green White or Black Two matches Blue and Red If you use the wrong white or black on a color you produce odd discolorations White One on Red for instance is likely to change portions of your red surface to green Some software only lets you use one of the whites and blacks and is thus severely limiting Control Towering frustration is likely to be your emotion when trying to be precise on the hi res screen using any analog input device like mouse joystick paddle or pen The mere beating of your heart can translate into fine movement on the screen and when you push the button to draw a dot the dot is as likely to be half an inch away as where you thought you d placed ift Normally this is not a problem when you have drawing utilities to help Occasionally you need real control Thus it is nice if the soft ware permits you to move the cursor from the keyboard one pixel at atime as an alternative to using an input device Color Fill This phrase refers to an ability to fill any area surrounded by a continuous line with a color of your choice Some programs don t let you fill at all or only circles and rectangles That is a severe limitation Ideally fi
224. the specifications for a page identical layouts can be preserved for recurrent use Figure 1 shows the page layout for a typical news letter with the screen window in the upper left hand corner note the dotted line Figure 4 shows that section of the page as it appears in final on the screen with text graphics and several solids hori zontal and vertical lines included A FEW SHORTCOMINGS The PRINT FINAL function prints text heavy two strike but prints pictures single strike This produces different quality graphics and text and reproduction will sometimes show this disparity This shortcoming is shared however by MacWrite when MacPaint graphics are pasted into a document There are a few distinctly non MacWrite features in ReadySetGo which are glaring mainly because I have come to belfeve that certain things belong in a text processor of which RSG is a very specialized example Some of the keyboard shortcut commands don t seem to work all the time Specifically Command X C and y CUT COPY and PASTE in the EDIT menu seem to work erratically Sometimes they will cause a clip board item to be saved cut or pasted and sometimes not The mouse driven commands do work well in every case as far as I can tell The backspace key does not eliminate text when a selection of text is highlighted Further and even worse when text is highlighted and new text is typed in the old text remains This is a littl
225. the line in the buffer How can you execute Applesoft instructions if Applesoft isn t running You will always need some kind of machine language program DOS for example that can perform this function Two articles have appeared in Call A P P L E that discuss machine language programs to add lines to running Applesoft programs David Lingwood had a program in the January 1981 issue that allows you to replace a dummy REM with a string that is typed in during execution of the program A program by Cornelis Bongers in the September 1982 issue was somewhat more ambitious allowing execution of strings from within a program as Lingwood but also execution of strings in the immediate mode Why does the Penultimate Input Nearly Anything Subroutine cause a Basic program to sometimes modify itself Enclosed are listings of a program that exhibits this phenomenon The G in line 5085 gets changed when the program is run During the trouble shooting process it was noted that the change did not occur until the variable I in line 5180 reached the value of 6 I have looked over the program listings you sent and don t see anything wrong with them I suspect that you may have a hardware i e memory problem Memory errors can be particularly troublesome and hard to track down On my e I had a bad memory chip that changed a program line in one particular Applesoft program only when the program was loaded from or saved to disk If I loaded t
226. the new character generator ROM has replaced some of the lesser used characters with special graphics characters that are useful for drawing boxes and whatnot on the text screen These characters are used with among other things the Apple Mouse to create Mac like pull down menus and dialog boxes The basic resolution of the Apple which mostly controls the readability remains at 280 dots horizontal by 192 dots vertically in the text mode What is a good book for learning about the inner workings of DOS 3 3 or ProD0S Beneath Apple DOS and Beneath Apple ProDOS by Don Worth and PTeter Lechner published by Quality Software are probably the best books on the subject They have some information that is useful for beginners who want to know how DOS works as well as more detailed information useful for machine language programmers amp tip rwarding of a piece of mail ke 10 May 1985 from Paul and keep the office posted on your change of address It isn t necessary to be as fancy as Paul s notice but we do enjoy the artwork i s Wa Gi 0 APPLESEEDS NEWS a buy M Thal Well those of you who do regularly read this column will have noticed that last month James Gwertzman wrote it due to my absence Now for those of you who do not normally read this column AppleSeeds is a young person s special interest group our membership ranges from 9 16 years of age which meets during the main meetings 10 0
227. ther member for volunteering her time to help our much overworked office staff Bonnie Palevich has been lending an extra pair of hands one day a week and it helps Thanks Bonnie Anybody else out there got a few extra hours Garage Sale We are scheduling the bi annual garage sale held in honor of the Apple s humble origins for June We would like to hold the event in Northern Virginia to save time for all the many faithful who travel round the Beltway to reach Bethesda The prob lem is that the USUHS cafeteria being free is a tough act to follow Can you folks in Virginia find a location that can match the price Any old cafeteria or other large open space that will permit 500 700 people and three to four dozen tables and costs little or nothing will do We would like to stick with the fourth Saturday in June if possible Please determine if the space is available for us and then contact Adrien Youell program co ordinator Video Projector The club has for some time been looking for a video projector which can be used with alt Apple equipment The toughest constraints are imposed by the Macintosh with its higher scan rate Up till recently we were looking for one machine which could provide good low resolution color and good high resolution monochrome displays We are now thinking instead of two machines one for color and one for monochrome These thoughts have been precipi tated by the lack of an affordable machine with both
228. tions port parameters are set like those of the printer port In addition several commands can be entered from the keyboard Ctrl A Ctrl F will enter FULL DUPLEX Ctri A Ctrl H for HALF DUPLEX Ctrl A Ctrl X will exit from the Terminal mode I connected a Macintosh to the communications port and used the Mac as a terminal for the Apple e Several contd on pg 19 Washington Apple Pi SIDER GETS by David Until recently we Apple and e owners have had to watch jealously as users of other personal comput ers purchased lower and lower priced hard disks When they were buying 10 Megabytes of storage for under 1 000 we were facing 5 Megabytes for over 1 000 Apple s 5 and 10 Megabyte Profiles lists for 1495 and 1995 repectively I am glad to inform you that our day has come Unfortunately I have no such news for c owners As you may have seen in magazine ads or read in reviews in our Journal see Jim Kellock s The Sider Hard Disk in the April 1985 WAP Journal issue the Sider is a 695 00 hard disk with 10 Megs of space equivalent to about 70 flop pies Not only is that a lot of capacity for the price at least for the Apple world you can daisy chain two Siders together hook one to another if you need 20 Megabytes of disk space I can still remember how incredulous I was when the first Sider ads appeared especially since First Class Peripherals distributer of the Sider is a direct order operation and the
229. tly dismayed when I realized that my new Apple c was destined never to know the power of my old standby favorites like WordStar dBase II or XMODEM The tradeoff however of being able to carry the c in its case with the LCO Panel seemed more than worth the price of losing the CP M capability I should have known that the wizards who continually update the Apple to make it a viable and useful com puter after 8 years on the market an eternity in microprocessor years would put the best of both worlds into my c all I had to do was wait for a little while It was therefore only a mild surprise to see the Applied Engineering 280c advertised in A in January Because I knew the quality of other AE products RAM works I had no hesitation in calling the number listed in the advertisement and giving my credit card number I was told that the Z80c was back ordered but that I would receive mine in about 6 weeks Less than 4 weeks later a slim cardboard box arrived at my door from Applied Engineering Inside I found 20 page purple User Manual some promotional litera ture a floppy disk and a plastic bag containing a small circuit board and a piece of double sided foam tape While I knew that the card had to be small to fit inside my c this card was tiny I had my doubts about this thing The instructions in the purple book were clear enough s just open up your Apple c huh put in the Z80c and put the
230. to just about all hard disks systems Setting up the Sider is pretty easy You only need a screwdriver and needle nosed pliers The Sider inter face card initially goes in slot 7 typical for hard disks but can be moved to another slot after the first set up Once the hardware is together a fif teen minute job and you have decided how to parti tion the disk into operating systems it takes about twenty minutes for the disk to be formatted You should take your time deciding how you want to set the disk up Once you have formatted the partitions you must live with them until you are willing to copy all your files onto floppies and repeat the entire format ting process over again The Sider comes with several valuable utility pro grams The program for allocating space to each operating system is menu driven and easy to use FCP provides a utility much like an enhanced FID Apple s Washington Apple Pi R LOT OF PRESS MorGanstein file manipulation program that is on the DOS 3 3 master Their FID lets you copy an entire floppy to a given volume number There is a back up restore program which makes it easier to make archival copies of information on the hard disk The manual indicates that the back up program does not support ProDOS a fact which I have not checked Perhaps the only weak link in the Sider is the accom panying manual It is adequate to get the disk up and running as long as all goes well and you have
231. ur Apple in 1988 it would be a simple matter WAP members Through June 30 1985 the price will be to reset the baseline of my program to read the year 295 Contact AJ as described in their ad amp 20 May 1985 Washington Apple Pi SPT STATUS A Wau to Check the a EE Open and Solid Apple Keys Q p 2 by Steven Pearce Late last year Apple released a new version of Pascal FUNCTION SOLID APPLE BOOLEAN version 1 2 which has a number of improvements over BEGIN a the older version One such change is a function SOLID APPLE PEEK 16286 gt 150 UNITSTATUS which allows the programmer to read the END T Open and Solid Apple Keys on the e keyboard This is useful function for two reasons it allows the BEGIN MAIN PROGRAM programmer to use all the keys on the keyboard but COUNTER 1 more importantly it allows keyboard input which bypasses the keyboard strobe locations at C000 and C010 For example one could use the APPLESTUFF function KEYPRESS in a WHILE loop to allow keyboard entry and use the Open Apple key to terminate the loop without interfering with the KEYPRESS function This occurs because the Open and Solid Apple keys are not wired into the keyboard ROM the way all the other keys are The UNITSTATUS function is not available in Pascal 1 1 but can be easily duplicated The Open and Solid Apple keys are hard wired into the same locations as the buttons on the game paddies By using variant record to peek at locations
232. velop ing simple adaptive devices specialized computer interfaces and software modifications to overcome special needs Please call we need you g CALL FOR PARTICIPATION DISABLEDSIG IS SPONSORING SEPT MEETING NEEDS PAPERS PRESENTORS A ARTICLES eGd amp EXHIBITS May 1985 15 we Ist la H FECeELElFATEDR af Z i G zZ a 5 j I imagine that there are those e owners who revel in watching the steady progression of dots marching across the screen during the compilation of a Pascal program Undoubtedly there are others who are lulled by the rhythmic whirling of the disk drive during a long file search Personally I find that as programs increase in length and files expand to fill whole disks the seemingly interminable wait for the machine to finish its business is akin to the excitement generated by watching a cactus grow on a cloudy day My propensity for misplacing semicolons in the last procedure of Pascal workfiles and a growing concern for the life and vitality of my disk drives prompted me to check some of the electronic gizmos on the market which could alleviate these problems My initial inclination was to investigate memory cards with disk emulation software I defined several sim ple parameters to aid in my search compatibility with all known and planned operating systems unlimited RAM capacity exceptional low price For some reason my search wasn t successful Seriously a year ago I di
233. w the RamStak works The jini tial results are incredible In addition to doubling your memory the board gives the user a genuine increase in operating speed I will have a separate article on the RamStak ina future issue of the Journal My thanks to Mary and the folks at AST for providing the board for our use The RamStak will also run your Mac stuff as well MAC XL NEWS If you have 1 Meg or more of memory in your XL and aren t also using the Assimilation Process Mac Memory Disk to give you a ramdisk in your XL your missing one of the best bets of the year This product lets you create a ramdisk of up to 737K and use it for any purpose you would like Immediate uses that come to mind are use as a second disk drive use as a super high speed Mac by placing the system folder along with an application on the ramdisk and running the whole thing at ram speed etc etc The evaluation copy provided to me by Cassie Stahl of Assimilation ran flawlessly My thanks to Assimilation for a super product It is a best buy at 29 95 from your local Apple dealer For those of you who are programming types and have hungered for Smalltalk 80 to run on your machine wait no more Smalltalk 80 is available from Apple for 40 The address is Apple Computer Inc 467 Sara toga Avenue Suite 621 San Jose CA 95129 This Smalltalk runs only on the Mac XL under MacWorks and takes 2 5 Meg of disk storage to hold all the language and over 512K of free m
234. without having to return to the Finder One of the first things you notice after starting the Player is the quality of the music much nicer than MW s with a richer sound tempo and dynamics varia tions and more realistically sounding instruments The Player allows you to play music in succession by selecting a number of pieces from the Finder so you can use your Mac to play a pre arranged concert It will even play it over and over if you wish to leave your Mac unattended forever This is not possible in MusicWorks since you have to press the play button to start playing and if you select more than one piece from the Finder the extras are ignored ConcertWare is fun to just sit back and listen to and as you listen you can enjoy the scrolling display representa tion of the music and read the historical notes about the current piece which are displayed on the screen One thing I would definitely suggest is that you con nect your Mac up to your hi fi system the quality of the sound is truly amazing when played over a good fidelity system It isn t quite the same as an orchestra but you d have a lot of trouble distin guishing it from a full feature organ Also in the Player you can adjust the tempo but not save it and you can change the instrumentation for each of the four voices though each voice can have only one instrument per piece without stopping and changing them by hand mid stream that 15 The current instrumentation
235. xample an application we all know well MacWrite We will dis cuss which aspects of the program are done with subroutine calls into the Mac ROM which aspects the program developers had to construct on their own and we will make educated guesses about how they did it We hope this overview of a typical application will lead to more detailed discussion about the individual managers and how they work together How do you put a scroll bar in a modal dialog in a desk accessory The meeting is open to all WAP members whether or not you have a copy of Inside Macintosh amp May 1985 59 LISAZMAZ by AL SIG JEg Fe Doy It seems as if every month brings more exciting things to the world of Lisa and Mac XL First I am happy to report that the SIG has over 60 members as of this month and is growing at a pace that I never thought possible Even more interesting is the fact that many of the members of the SIG own or supervise more than one Lisa or Mac XL and that a third of the members own a Lisa and a regular Mac Two thirds of the SIG members also own an Apple JL of one type or another The SIG is a rather cosmopolitan group indeed The February meeting of the Lisa Mac XL SIG featured a demonstration of the Priam Datatower a 75 Megabyte yes 75 hard disk drive system Mr Mark Taber of Priam s office in New Jersey was nice enough to come to DC to show us the Datatower and to provide us with a Datatower to use and ev
236. y Hughes Corp Asking 40 or best offer 5 Keyboards for Timex Sinclair computer and other assorted calculator type membrane keypads Asking 15 ace for keyboards and 2 50 for the numerics 6 DEC LA 36 terminal type keyboard with numeric functions Fully ASCII encoded ready to plug in Asking 50 or best offer 7 Apple II disk drive Excellent condition asking 150 8 Apple J computer keyboard encoder circuit board with ROM chip New condition Asking 110 or best offer Call Donald Mayes 301 589 4190 COMMERCE I AL UN FEN FOR SALE Apple c 128K an Apple sales award never out of box full warranty 725 Call Geoff 703 845 0296 FOR SALE Apple e Pro System 128K duo disk Panasonic 1091 printer AppleWorks software misc supplies Only 3 months old 1 895 or take over payments Call 972 7191 after 5 00 PM President s Corner contd from pg 2 In late 1984 MacWorld magazine reviewed the about to be released virtual memory version of MacWrite the word processor that comes free with the Mac All Mac owners especially those with only 128K began to quiver at the expanded possibilities they would soon experience Unofficial copies of this new MacWrite versions 3 18 3 6 3 8 and more recently 4 0 appeared in the underground network of starved Mac ovites In early 1985 Microsoft began shipping WORD their virtual memory word processor the only competi tion to the lower priced MacWrite
237. y Systens Pe 0 Box 295 Brigham City UT 84302 63 Your Ancestors Your Ancestors Pa 0 Box 140 Groat Falls NT 59401 64 Your Faalty Tree Acorn Software Products 353 W Loncester Avenue Wayne PA 19087 EEE Tho following did not respond They wo listed below vith thelr Micro s 3 Apple Troe III Cyber Services Inc 701 Sooner Park Drive Bartlesville OK 74006 8 Calendar G J Edwart Swart IBM PCJr 3 276 Boochlawn Waterloo On CanadaN215W71 9 Computer Assis Index Brian Harnay TRS 80 I Rt 2 Loufsville Road Franktort KY 40601 10 Computerized Gensal Lou Pero TRS 80 Pe O Box 488 Bend OR 97709 I 15 Family Gonorations J Rosalie Schoren Apple I 12126 SE Sequota I Milwauklo OR 97222 i Family Roots contd from pg 37 The drawbacks include the Text program After repeated tries I still keep erasing my text from mem ory However I found it easier to put my text into my word processor Also there is the price The complete setup with everything is 185 00 however not everyone is going to need this complete setup For these people some programs can be purchased separately and then later upgraded if needed Line ages 69 Family Charts 97 Family Sheets 97 and the manual only is 15 You can make backups for those of us who tend to damage disks every now and then If anyone would like more information or would like to check current prices write QUINSEPT
238. y information to you in the Apple SIG column is the timing of our monthly meetings and the deadline of the magazine It happens to be three days before the monthly meeting Our illustrious editor has been gracious enough to fit our material into the mostly completed layout and I know what a chore it is to do layout plus alter any other mentions in the publica tion about our meeting and tutorial decisions without any further explanation from me As a result of this column we have made contact with Apple owners who haven t been active for one rea son or another or have heard about our increased activity through Apple J friends who saw the articles in the WAP Journal Last week the Apple Pi office forwarded a bonanza of material from fresh new sources One gentleman from Aberdeen Proving Grounds included two articles in hard copy and diskette ASCII files which will be printed where space permits The first article is a review of the Titan Emmulation Board we ve all been wondering about how well that performs and the second is a tutorial article about how to build an inexpensive Apple clock Look for both of these in this month s or future issues And thank you VERY much Col de Jong for your efforts You will be rewarded in Heaven We did not have a tutorial this month April We planned to teach Business Basic but couldn t get anyone to present it It s a busy time for us income tax and such We will postpone the Bas
239. y very little contemplation of the move Black captured the pawn Sargon attacked the Bishop along the now open file and when Black moved his Bishop back where it had been before Sargon then advanced another pawn 2levvenere F5XG4 22 hi gl g4 f5 23 f2 f4 To his great credit my friend quickly realized what was going on and redeemed his earlier poor play by taking what Sargon offered him Moreover he showed admirable ruthless instincts by delaying the capture of Sargon s attacked Knight This went on move after move with Sargon spending almost all his time each move thinking about the doomed Knight and then quickly making an inferior move His opponent meanwhile made a whole series of moves which improved his posi tion and by the time he finally captured Sargon s Knight Sargon was in a hopeless position and lost miserably Let me try to explain what I think went on in Sargon s mind After thinking at great length about the 250 or so evaluation points the loss of the Knight would cost him Sargon decided to lose a pawn instead in his estimation coming out 100 points instead of 250 points on the transaction He did this for each pawn in each case justifying his sacrifice by the notion that he was only losing a pawn instead of a piece I don t think that the fact that his Knight was still trapped after his sacrifices occurred to him for he had used so much time that the loss of the Knight was beyond his immediate

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