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Washington Apple Pi Journal, November 1987

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1. 182 00 RGB OPTION ON MULTI RAM ADD 40 00 SERI ALL 99 00 e ACCELERATOR 179 00 EDD 4 PLUS EXACT BIT COPY BOARD 69 00 MULTIPLE SLOT CHASSIS 149 00 SINGLE SLOT EXTENDER 29 00 QUICK LOADER PROM BD 149 00 e PROM BURNER 119 00 Ayo 31 INCH DISKETTES 12 00 per box 1200 BAUD EXTERNAL MODEM 99 00 SPECIAL PERIPHERALS COOLING FAN WITH SURGE PROTECT 39 00 POWER SUPPLY 69 00 e SHIFT KEY MOD KIT 8 00 RF MODULATOR 39 00 APPLE SOFTWARE COPY Il 008 29 00 e ESSENTIAL DATA DUPLICATOR 25 00 e PuusWornks RUNS APPLEWORKS ON Yo cee eee 19 00 e WRITE CHOICE WORD PROCESSOR 29 00 PROTERM COMMUNICATIONS 79 00 APPLE lic CORNER e SECOND DISK DR FOR Ilc 109 00 e HOTLINK TO PARALLEL PRINTER 55 00 e GRAPPLERC 95 00 e PRINTER OR MODEM CABLE 20 00 e DISK DRIVE CABLE ADAPTER 15 00 e 9 16 GAME 1 0 ADAPTER 9 00 e MULTI RAM CX 256K 239 00 MULTI RAM CX 512K 270 00 DENOTES NEW PRICE DENOTES NEW ITEM LONG DISTANCE The new VF toll free ordering number is now operating Call 800 666 STAR For local number see below UPS SHIPPING 4 00 per order plus 6 00 per printer or monitor Computers 30 00 PLEASE NOTE Add 10 per 3
2. Entertainment amp Education BILL BALDRIDGE on 09 09 A tip passed on about Dark Castle in this month s MacUser when you re climbing descending stairs or a ladder hold down the duck key and when you reach the top bottom you ll end up walking on air I ve tried this and sometimes you have to fiddle around to get it to work but it s kinda fun You can go over to the guy with the whip in the dungeon without him knowing you re there floating 4 feet off the ground and club him over the head or is that mace him over the head On the first screen of the shield room you can casually stand in the air watching the boulders roll by underneath if you stand at the opposite end of where they come bouncing down from the previous level Fun DALE SMITH on 09 16 A friend at work is considering purchase of a computer with one of the major goals being to help his daughter in school at the Jr Sr High School level After a brief flirtation with IBM clone world he seems interested in the Mac SE But he wants to find out what software is available in this age education range for the Mac Info on any lists catalogs stores etc would be appreci ated BTW he has already checked Egghead Software and the Program Store White Flint and I ll be loaning him my Egghead catalog so we re looking for leads beyond that Thanks much HOLGER SOMMER on 09 16 Many of the public domain programs from universities Drexel CMU Stan
3. 12 Noon to 3 00PM Please note that the office is closed on all U S Government holidays Members are asked to place phone calls to the office during the day hours Monday Friday whenever possible since only one person staffs the office during evening hours and on Saturday EVENT QUEUE Washington Apple Pi meets on the 4th Saturday usually of each month both Apple and Mac at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences USUHS on the campus of the Bethesda Naval Medical Center 4301 Jones Bridge Road Bethesda MD Disketeria transactions Journal pickup mem berships etc are from 8 45 9 30 AM and during the Q amp A sessions times for these vary according to the main meeting topic The business meeting is from 9 00 9 30 A Sign interpreter and reserved seating can be provided for the hearing impaired but we need 5 business days notice Call the office Following are dates and topics for upcoming months November 7 Hypercard Atkinson amp Winkler November 28 Mac VideoWorks II Mark Kanter Apple II Productivity II Garage Sale Location TBA December 19 3rd Saturday The Executive Board of Washington Apple Pi meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 7 30 PM at the office e F Special Meeting 6 e Saturday November 7 USUHS be 9 00AM until _ Bill Atkinson and friend s on HyperCard Definite z Washington Apple Pi November 1987 5 CLASSIFIEDS WANTED Appl
4. 301 946 4526 703 455 7670 Morgan Jopling 301 261 3886 Andy Gavin 703 734 3049 Jim Frison 03 525 9395 Rich Sanders 03 450 4371 Chuck Ward til 9 pm 703 830 3720 Dale Smith 301 762 5158 Jim Frison 703 525 9395 Andy Gavin 703 734 3049 Terry Monks 703 471 4610 Donald Schmitt 717 334 3265 Jim Be 662 0640 Harvey Levine 299 9380 John Love 569 2294 Paul Tabler r 278 8708 Jeff Alpher ke 630 2036 J T Tom DeMay Jr 461 1798 Tom Parrish 654 8784 Jay Rohr 655 0875 Jim Graham 3 643 1848 Marty Milrod 464 5981 Jon Hardis 330 1422 John Day 621 7543 Tom Berilla 434 3256 Tom Parrish 654 8784 Mark Miani 33 009 Jay Lucas 751 3332 Jon Hardis 330 1422 Joyce C Little 321 2989 Herb Schwartz 983 0534 569 2294 David Morganstein 972 4263 Bob Pulgino 797 0879 David Morganstein 972 4263 ark Pankin 524 0937 Jim Graham 643 184 Dick amp Nancy Byrd 978 3440 John Boblitz 356 9384 John Love 569 2294 Walt Francis 966 5742 Ray Hobbs BBS 490 7484 Jim Graham 643 1848 Tom Parrish 654 8784 Marty Milrod 464 5981 Charles Don Hall 301 864 2715 Ray Hobbs BBS 301 490 7484 Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Walt Francis 202 966 5742 Ray Hobbs BBS 01 490 7484 Mark Pankin 03 524 0937 Jeremy Parker 01 229 2578 John ay 301 621 7543 Jeremy Parker 301 229 2578 Bemie Benson 301 951 5294 Harmon Pritchard 301 972 4667 Ray Hobbs BBS 301 490 7484 Walt Francis 202 966 5742 Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Jeff Stetekluh 703 979 8249 Jeff Dil
5. Authorized AE Dealer Practical Peripherals 195 2400 Modem Avatex 1200 Modem 125 Orange Micro C Mac GS 70 Any parallel becomes Imagewriter Compatible Applied Engineering GSRAM 280 1 5 Meg Cables 18 Allan Levy 301 340 7839 Satellite Scientific 15200 A Shady Grove Road Suite 800 Rockville MD 20850 We make things work Service on Apple li Apple Ile IBM and IBM Compatibles We Test Clean and Align Your 5 1 4 Floppy Disk Drives Factory Service on Epson and Okidata Printers Expert Repairs on Other Brands 90 Day Warranty on All Service Work On Site Maintenance Agreements Available For More Information Call 698 0347 Technical Sales amp Service 2820 Dorr Ave Fairfax VA 22031 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 27 DISK BACKUP A E by Allan M Bloom PhD CDP A Beginning Note DISK BACKUP is the newest offering in the Washington Apple PI SIG PD library It was provided by SIG member Allan Bloom for use by our members Below is a complete discription of the program what it does and how to use it Introduction DISK BACKUP is an automatic backup utility for Apple diskettes The program displays side by side directories of a master and a backup diskette By comparing file dates it suggests master files to be backed up You then use keyboard arrows to change those suggestions for any file on either diskette copy master to backup or vice versa
6. INFOWORLD program MicroPhone 15 the easiest communications package we ve seen With reviews like these who needs advertising They say the best advertising is word of mouth So we re reprinting some of the multi tude of words that have already been said about MicroPhone communications software for the Macintosh And what they re saying universally is that MicroPhone created by Dennis Brothers has far outdistanced all its predecessors That for the novice MicroPhone is the sim plest telecom software ever devised That for the expert MicroPhone is the most powerful On line for the lazy MicroPhone gives you the means to create infinitely elaborate macro automated rou tines with infinite simplicity Its powerful script language is written in plain English and it also features a recording mode that watches saves and repeats what you do So no programming skills are required he upshot is that MicroPhone will save you time hassle and on line fees by auto mating virtually every operation you now have to key by hand Log on procedures File transfers And for a good example E mail retrieval routines At a single command from you Micro Phone will dial your E mail service give your ID number and password Navigate its way through the labyrinth to your mailbox Check for mail Log off if there is none And if there is MicroPhone will collect print and save all messages to your disk
7. Works DeluxePaint II MultiScribe IIGS and MouseTalk are all examples of application programs We are about to start an application which does nothing but duplicate diskettes in a fairly efficient manner We could start any application program in the same manner and in this way the Finder is a start up program If all you want to do is run AppleWorks booting from the Finder is probably a waste of time Booting AppleWorks directly would be faster But if you work with several programs and copy and organize files in between then the Finder might prove to be handy Choose the application icon label FASTCOPY SYSTEM With the mouse still pointing at the FASTCOPY SYSTEM icon click the mouse button twice very quickly If done correctly it might take some practice the application will start up When the program is finished loading you will be presented with a screen with a menu with three choices The top choice contd Copy disks should be darkened The mouse isn t used with this application so it s back to the old keyboard Use the up and down arrow keys to make sure the disk copy option is darkened Hit the retum key to start the disk copy option The program then asks about the disk type you want to copy Use the arrow keys to choose 3 5 inch disks The program will then spit your System Disk out of the drive Write protect it by moving the little tab on the diskette so that you can sce through the hole Put the disk back
8. changing Kasper indicated so by taking a partially probabilistic approach he hopes to come up with maximum likelihood indicators that will more accurately forecast the market s future direction He hopes to do this by constructing one big complex filter that s a variable an adaptive filter that seeks the lowest Noise akin to a telephone For further information call 703 620 4071 Future Stock SIG meetings will be on November 12 Decem ber 10 and January 14 at 8 p m at the WAP office 6 IL OVco High Portormance Mcintosh Products 2975 Mac Plus 512 128 4 Megs Ram Proday 4 Prodigy Prime 1615 Mae Plus 68020 1 Meg Ram Prodigy SE 1275 SE 68020 1 Meg Ram 275 Optional 68881 Coprocessor 425 Additional 1 Meg Ram 2 upgrade for 128 512 ene an and SCSI Additional 1 Meg for Mac Plus includes fan Dave Ferris Monster Mac One Plus One 320 includes 15 Wap Discount 202 332 9109 1050 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 300 Washington DC 20036 202 429 6667 A complete desktop publishing company Business Forms Resumes Word Processing Laser Printing Graphics Scanning Digitizing 35mm Color Slide Production Self Serve Computer Rental Newsletters Flyers Menus Overnight Service 202 429 6667 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 55 MAC MEETING REPORT SEPTEMBER 26 The September Macintosh WAP meeting focused on the newly released 4th Dimens
9. in Washington D C at 7 30 pm on the first Wednesday of each month In other news Tom said the opening of the National Bureau of Standards Electronic Publishing Lab will be announced at a press conference on October 30 but that they are not yet ready for a visit by the dPub SIG However Tom said he will try to arrange a tour for us and will be talking with the Lab to see how we can work with them Tom also announced that the dPub SIG will continue to buy the preferred paper for the LaserWriter Plus Frostbright coated stock and sell it at meetings for 9 40 a ream According to Tom some companies are charging up to 27 per ream for the stuff Also available at future dPub SIG meetings will be the latest screen fonts for Adobe s entire library of laser typefaces version 2 01 courtesy of Ron Moore ArtForm Communications 1826 Jefferson Place N W Suite 301 Washington D C phone 202 331 7423 Just be sure to bring five blank 800K disks prefera bly pre initialized so the process goes faster Remember that you can get screen fonts without violating copyright laws what Ron can t give away is the stuff the printer uses to draw the typefaces on paper Quick Takes e in a few months Aldus will introduce Masterpiece to compete with Adobe s Illustrator Aldus s next version of PageMaker will have style sheets in addition to other unspecified improvements e a 14 inch black and white monitor is available for the
10. player x end init procedure showboard var i j integer begin page output clear screen writeln 1 2 37 writeln for i 1 to 3 do begin writeln i 2 I showit grid i 1 15 showit grid i 2 showit grid i 3 I writeln end end showboard procedure getmove function get13 integer var k integer c char begin repeat read c case c of T by Ae 3 end case until k lt 4 and k gt 0 getl3 k end get13 begin repeat pick a blank square write It is showit player s move Enter row gt rw ne 1 2 3 i getl3 write Enter column gt j getl3 until grid i j blank grid i j player end getmove procedure testwin begin test the row and col of move won grid i 1 player and grid i 2 player and gridli 3 player or grid 1 j player and grid 2 j player and grid 3 j player test the diagonals won won or grid 1 1 player and grid 2 2 player and grid 3 3 player or grid 1 3 player and grid 2 2 player and grid 3 1 player if won then writeln showit player won end testwin begin repeat loop for several games init showboard repeat loop until end of game getmove showboard testwin turn turn 1 if player x then player 0 else alternate turns pla
11. 4000A controller board and a Seagate ST225 hard disk follow ing Standing s recommendations from the article I deviated from his assembly instructions in only two instances 1 I DID NOT cuta hole in the rear of the disk drive enclosure and install a DIP switch I used jumpers instead This means I have to open the enclosure and move jumpers if I want to change the SCSI address I personally don t mind having to do this and I think it s a cleaner method than Standing s 2 I DID NOT cut a hole in the rear of the disk drive enclosure and install a cabinet mount fuse holder I installed an in line fuse holder instead Again 1 contd wasn t wild about hacking on the enclosure and opening the case to replace a fuse occasionally doesn t bother me Although I used a20 meg hard disk I see no problem with using a larger capacity hard disk In fact Standing describes building a 40 meg home brew drive in his article You may have to modify SF amp I like I did but that s not an insurmountable problem That s what Inside Macintosh is for right One final point In his article Standing cites an erroncous part number for the 50 pin SCSI connectors that are mounted on the rear of the drive enclosure The correct part number is ID57 50S These connectors don t require solder ing I got em for 8 08 each from Altex Electronics 10731 Gulfdale San Antonio TX Tele 800 531 5369 They advertise in Computer Shopper Other than this I
12. 6 6 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 HELP WANTED Graphic Designer to produce publication quality graphs of economic and statistical data on Mac II for large news organization Must have microcomputer experience preferably Macintosh coursework or experience in data analysis econom ics statistics public policy or market research ability to work well under deadlines Salary 25 000 excellent benefits Call Linda Stratman Surveys Unit Manager Bureau of National Affairs Inc 202 452 4389 Architect Developer seeks dynamic Administrative Assis tantwithconsummate Apple Mac Plus skills and familiarity with Works and Turbo Maccountant programs Accounting experience a plus Flexible hours full or part time 20 hrs week min in Great Falls VA Call Mr Compton 703 430 0060 day or night HLA Computers Vertical Market Specialists LANS Mutlti user Systems needs some outstanding people Experienced Programmers Outside Vertical Sales Inside Sales Entry Level Secretary Tclephone Outstanding Benefits Package 6 1 2 years in business Eric Metzger 345 1123 5700 J Sunnyside Avenue Beltsville MD 20705 Institute Seeking Individuals with expertise in using desk top publishing software ona Macintosh SE to produce a variety of publications from simple brochures to book length manu scripts Production activities include editing proofreading inputting copy page layout cover design and producing camera r
13. FOR SALE One 400K external drive for Macintosh 75 Call Eric McGrath at 703 494 3640 after 5 PM FOR SALE ReadySetGo 4 0 NEW with Registration Card 275 Call Joe Murray days 301 595 2140 or after 5 PM 301 381 9121 FOR SALE Applied Engineering Apple c External Clock in mint condition with extra software Asking 50 negotiable Call Howard at 460 5796 evenings COMMERCIAL CLASSIFIEDS I LOVE APPLE MUSIC The Disk Parts 1 6 Have you been following this series in the Journal but have not had time to type in the listings Now ALL LISTINGS TEXT FILES on a5 1 4 disk Hear and experiment with Apple Sounds immedi ately PLUS several other great programs Send 7 00 to Gary Hayman 8255 Canning Terrace Greenbelt MD 20770 FOR SALE PageMaker templates for SF 171 or SF 129 55 each Call Dan Adkins for information H 822 8052 FOR SALE IIGS CPU 1 25 Meg RAM 3 5 and 5 25 Disk Drives RGB Monitor Detachable Keyboard Mouse Joystick Imagewriter II Printer Software and more 3800 negotiable Call 703 892 1147 FOR SALE Apple c mono color Imagewriter II modem joystick extra paper floppies AppleWorks many extras Call Brian at 340 2782 or 294 9720 anytime before 10 PM CopyShoppe Contact me for bulk copying of your Mac s output 2 cents a page Free delivery HyperTalk Development projects undertaken UNIX conversions handled Contact Wick at 703 323 7356 or MCI Mail ID NWickramasinghe
14. Ido in Double Helix I don t have a handle on how you do things like selectively print cards search only CERTAIN fields etc BILL BALDRIDGE on 09 23 According to Bill Atkinson while it is very possible to build relations with HyperCard it is not as powerful as a true relational database application in relating data and formula building So while HyperCard is certainly capable of relational concepts it is not nor was it ever intended to be a database application in the classical sense Thus all the screaming and yelling of various DB developers is way off base more of a kneejerk or just jerk reaction BILL AMON on 09 29 I just imported a large Omnis 3 Plus file today interesting Statistics file was a name address 4 dates ID number type imported 1019 records in 55 minutes 15 seconds 18 records minute sorted on last name in 2 minutes 5 seconds 603 cards min compacted the stack with about 10 free in stack in 3 minutes note that compacting took longer than sorting Sort is VERRRRRY fast much better than dBASE Mac or 4D Other lessons learned don t be too quick with the COMMAND BACKSPACE when deleting cards I got my first card with the entire IMPORT procedure script ARGGGGGH Also I sure wish HC had a procedure call capability removing those quote marks from all character strings meant for a lot put empty into first and last of Oh well this is just version 1 Graphics amp Desi
15. Interestingly however sales concentration among the top five French firms was not much different than that found in the United States 69 1 percent vs contd Only In November The PL 30 By Peripheral Land 30 Megabytes of FAST RELIABLE and at our prices extremely AFFORDABLE storage Infinity li If you are looking for unlimited storage the Infinity T is just what you need It uses 5 25 10 meg removable cartridges MacComer Mon Sat 10am 6pm TURN amp Thursdays 10am 9pm Prices reflect cash disct i at by 8653 Zeus Av Gaithersburg Md 20877 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 41 8653 Zetts Ave Gaithersburg MD 948 1538 Monday Saturday 10 6 Thursday 10 9 Supe rain of tbe pain programs A greal git Desktop Publishing 8 MacComer with the most exciting DP programs to ever hit our showroom Scoop 399 RSG4 0 389 925 This superb utility allows you to use as many DA s as you cere to lead The spreadsheet with no imis Extremely advanced features amp over 140 formulas SENTINEL 99 SuperLaserSpool 89 42 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 All the new borland introductions R are now at MacComer aS REFLEX oew g EUREKA deS A eT PASCAL Linra ES Ta The most innovative programing language yet I appear Los 4399 Home Accounting This November get your nura beng together m Cone 19 MxComer for a solution 19 your f home er sz
16. MacPlus and the SE for only 395 but it has half the resolution of the Mac screen so it is likely to be a boon primarily for the visually impaired e Cricket is coming out with a presentation program that is supposed to be an improvement over PowerPoint which is now being marketed by Microsoft Tektronics is producing a 300 dpi color PostScript printer that uses wax to make the images yes wax Publisher s Service Bureau in Bailey s Crossroads will support any PostScript file created on the Mac or IBM compat ible computers and can now provide Linotronic 100 output They are located at 4900 Leesburg Pike Suite 310 Alexandria Virginia 22302 phone 703 824 8022 or telecommunicate jobs by dialing 703 824 8024 contd e Jim Stewart will present a four session PageMaker tutorial Starting October 27 and Marty Milrod will give a ReadySetGo 4 class on October 31 see the WAP tutorial registration page at the back of the Journal do not expect MacPluses to be manufactured after January 1988 Questions and Answers I mhaving problems connecting my Mac andIBM computers to my LaserWriter Plus alternately not simultaneously Make sure when you unplug the IBM from your LaserWriter and replug your Mac that you switch the LaserWriter from 9600 baud to AppleTalk and turn the machine off to reset it Do this before you plug in the Mac or you could fry its power supply at the very best you ll lose everything you had in RAM sin
17. and then go back and read the selection at a faster pace The second time around the reader ought to be able to include more of the words in the passage into his or her sight vocabulary Reading teachers talk about a person s sight vocabulary as those words which a reader immediatedly recognizes on sight Some reading teachers believe that strong readers typically have an enormously large sight vocabulary and that the most important skill in learning to read is to increase one s sight vocabulary Whether this view is true or not these programs will invariably improve some facet of reading skills If nothing else they will give the reader s eye muscles a robust workout Some of the programs on the disk are whimsical some are more serious I ve tried to include a good mix of the different types of programs I ve experimented with Frankly it seems as if we have a whole untapped field here 22 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 Previously the display of text on the Apple s monitor has been limited to documentation for programs and text adventure games But while these two applications are useful and interest ing there s no reason to stop at them Why not display short biographies or information packed articles or even poetry for Apple users to read People pay upwards of 10 an hour to read text online so why not create our own text display programs The Reading Fun disk contains a text display progra
18. business socouning needs In House Acent 119 MacMoney 59 Chinon Disk Drive Best Reliability AuicEject button Activity Light 5 yr Warranty Radius Displays The Radius is hands down the bes Full Page isplay available e Coming is November the Radius 19 FPD Call us for availabilities FPD Mac f 399 Instalation rs Thunderscan The Thunderscan now supports up to 256 shades of gra po gt Ready for all y xcs 219 MEGASCREEN The Megascreen SE one of the best 19 system available Limited to stock MacBottom Attack If you ve long hungered for a Macbotiom this is the right time to buy MacCormer bas the best prices ca Machottorss in the nation All drives Include HES Backup e Eureka e Laser spocler 2 Yr full warranty xs x ae 08 HD 32 549 HD45 1189 HD150 2295 Give the Mac I a run for its ae Have one of these boards installed in your Mac SE or Mac and vive la differance Radius 7789 Hyper 1005 Multifinder RAM Get the nena you need lt lt to run Apple s new finder 2 meg Mac II 189 2 meg Mact 449 4 meg all 8997 Tsotettatios editions NEW Run Mac Runt Fast Mouse Let the Turbo Meuse glide you oN through the toughest mouse N capaces with an ease you Personal acer Printer At last a high quality laser printer within the Aid Jaket of the individual
19. delete backup or master file leave things as they are The program then executes your wishes DISK BACKUP requires a 256K Apple and an external diskette drive Until now backing up files on diskettes hasn t been easy unless you copied an entire volume A volume copy may be inappropriate You may want to keep a backup file delete a file on the master instead of backing it up or copy from the backup Until now you had to list each disk directory compare the lists manually then use the System Filer to do the copies and deletes one at a time DISK BACKUP eliminates that bother The program handles everything comparing disk cata logs deciding on what to do with each file and doing it When you boot DISK BACKUP it asks you to insert your master and backup volumes then displays a side by side catalog of the disks The program shows you which backup files are current which master files should be copied to backup and which files on the backup volume either 1 don t exist on the master or 2 are more recent than corresponding master files You may then override the program s suggestions The up down arrows select a file and the left right arrows select a disposition for that file copy or delete master or backup You page through the directory screens with the ESCAPE and RETURN keys When you are ready you press X to execute your selections Then the program enters the delete pass DISK BACKUP d
20. for example when the final product is printed on glossy paper it will look better with the higher resolution the Linotronic provides However your client may not be bothered by the lower quality of laser output printed on glossy paper The cost of Linotronic output is 8 to 12 per page or about 50 per hour Complex bit mapped pages are likely to be charged by the hour rather than the page because they take longer to print than simple text pages Also rather than produce screens on the Mac you can get better quality screens by indicating them with a rubylith overlay on your mechanical And instead of scanning photos you can get better quality by having your printer make halftones of your photos and strip them in during the printing process Comments on ReadySetGo 4 0 Although the failure of the projector stopped his demo John Albino discussed some of the new features of ReadySetGo 4 0 the upgrade from 3 0 is available from Letraset for 75 plus 10 for postage and handling It s a completely new program John said with the tool box on the top instead of the side as before But it works the same as ReadySetGo 3 0 and opens old 3 0 documents plus MacWrite Word 3 xx and WriteNow files Its search and replace feature can now find and change fonts and font styles and you can now reset the zero point on the ruler Other new features John mention include a faster bigger dictionary for spellchecking John said
21. in the drive and the copying starts From this point on follow the directions replacing the System Disk with the blank when prompted Once the copying is finished you may be asked about making more duplicates If you have spare diskettes make a few copies We ll probably destroy a few before we re finished leaming about this system You ll return to the menu when you finish duplicating System Disks Choose quit and again hit return Use the arrow keys to answer yes to the Are you sure prompt You ll soon find yourself back at the Finder s desktop environ ment Now since you ve backed up your disk you can go crazy double clicking on applications and folders randomly choosing menu items moving files around or whatever knowing that if you mess your disk up you have a replacement This kind of experimentation is actually nota bad idea If you pay attention to what you re doing much can be learned When you re through point and click on the File menu at the menu bar on the top of the screen Pull the mouse down so the mouse points at and darkens Quit Let go of the mouse and the Finder will shut itself down Now you can turn your IIGS off or boot another program That s it for now Next month we play some more with the Finder But don t wait for me keep a good backup copy and spend some time experimenting on your own Playing with the Finder can be fun G MINUTES Paul Schlosser reported on the bids h
22. it overwrites your Ram Disk and requires a complete reboot after it s done Another fast performer was the ProSEL Copy utility avail able on Glen Bredon s fabulous 40 ProSEL disk the best Apple II utility package ever in my view The ProSEL Copy utility when set to use extra memory did our test disk in 4 minutes 21 seconds with 16 disk swaps But even when using extra memory it doesn t trash RAMS If you set it to copy to RAMS and then back to disk it requires just one swap Here are the complete results Program 1 Apple Fast Copy using RAMS 3 25 3 2 Diversi Copy uses RAMS5 3 29 1 3 Apple Fast Copy 3 40 3 4 ProSEL Copy preserves RAMS 4 21 16 5 GS Finder SMART Copy Setting 4 25 6 6 Apple Desktop II 4 54 2A 7 Copy II Plus 5 24 21 8 GS System Utilities V3 0 15 25 94 6 Insist on GSRAM When You Buy Your IIGS Expand the Ilcs RAM and ROM with the GSRAM or GSRAM Plus with ROM Pak Available now with 256K to 8 MEG Rona the 16K cards for the I and the 64K cards for the Ile At the time that much memory seemed like a lot But when the owners of these memory cards came to us for more memory many had to throw away their smaller Apple memory cards or uy to sell them Most of our customers told us that had they known about Applied Engi neering s larger memory cards when they bought their Apple they would have pur chased them at the same time GSRAM and GSRAM Plus are available now
23. notes on the same pages as the corresponding footnote numbers in the text The on disk notes Read Me First that accompany Word 3 01 list a number of improvements which users of the program canread for themselves Forexample fonts will now mercifully appear in the font menu and character dialogue box alphabeti cally Let me just mention one other improvement I ve noticed which isn t mentioned in Microsoft s notes When you open the footnote window with bottom of the page footnotes in the middle of a twenty five page chapter you are no longer returned instantly to the first page of the file and forced to scroll back to where you were editing Over the last five months Ihave cursed Microsoft for this feature at least ten times a day But no more with 3 01 the footnote window opens politely to the notes corresponding to your place in the document hallelujua Finally I would like to say something nice about a local dealer I bought a DataFrame 20 hard disk from MacComer in contd on pg 78 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 71 Data Bases MARK OSTROFF on 09 19 This message is to correct some information previously posted about Borland s upgrade for Reflex called Reflex Plus I had an opportunity to talk directly with the folks at Borland yesterday for some technical information and got some info on the new release at the same time It seems what I ve been trying to do in Reflex with great difficulty will actua
24. 13 While we re on the subject of warnings let me put my 2 cents in about Mirror Technology s 800K drive I bought one slightly over a year ago and have had to send it back twice for head alignment problems not recognizing formatted disks Each time Mirror Tech sent me a NEW drive Last week the same thing happened I called to get the scoop on how to get it fixed and the tech support people told me since I bought the first unit over a year ago the warranty had expired I told them that I felt I deserved a new unit because they hadn t sold or given mea drive that had lasted for more than 6 months Needless to say I lost the argument and am contemplating what to do next estimated repairs 80 Any ideas campers Should I come up with the cash or get a new drive from a more reputable firm and use the Mirror Tech one for an unusual paperweight I ve been thinking about going to a 20 40 meg drive what with the prices going down to more reasonable levels One things for sure I ain t gonna buy Mirror Tech hard disks There now I feel better MARK ROVNER on 09 18 Being relatively new to this world I m willing to be the dummy but I bet I m not the only one here who doesn t know what SIMM CMOS and MOS stand for Edification would be greatly appreciated BILL BALDRIDGE on 09 18 SIMM Single In line Memory Module MOS Metallic Oxide Semiconductor CMOS Complementary Metallic Oxide Semi conductor While SIMM is se
25. 3 5 microfloppics NEW APPLE PRODUCTS I didn t go to AppleFest But here s a list of new Apple II products many exhibited there which have been mentioned on CompuServe s MAUG Apple User Forum by many who did attend NOTE I cannot guarantee that these will hit the market any time soon or at all despite vendor promises But all are supposed to be real And their sheer quantity and variety shows the Apple II is very much alive and well ZIP CHIP A replacement CPU for the Ile IIc which suppos edly quadruples computing speed in a completely transparent fashion Lists at 179 anda GS version is said to be in the works But it s a new company with only a one man office in L A according toa MAUG member who dropped by They re still at least a month away from release PERSONAL NEWSLETTER A 60 desktop publishing program from Softsync EPIC MODEM A 2400 baud modem internal version for 175 external for 189 from Epic THEXDER A Japanese designed game for the IIgs Sierra Online GS BASIC Apple Distributed via APDA THE DESKTOP MANAGER A Pinpoint like desktop accessories package for the IIgs Will review in a future column By On Three SPRINGBOARD PUBLISHER Desktop Publishing for all Apple II s MANAGING YOUR MONEY 3 0 New version from MECA with more power FIRST CLASS MODEMS From First Class Peripherals makers of the Sider hard disks Versions in 1200 and 2400 baud plus pocket version Also new models and
26. 341 FOR X 1 TO 10 SO PEEK S 5 PEEK S 5 PEEK S NEXT X 342 FOR X 1 TO 10 SO 15 PEEK S 30 PEEK S NEXT X 343 GOTO 2000 350 LIST 351 351 FOR X 1 TO 30 SO PEEK S PEEK S SO 10 PEEK S 10 PEEK S SO 100 PEEK S 100 PEEK S NEXT X 352 GOTO 2000 360 LIST 361 363 361 FOR X 1 TO 30 SO PEEK S PEEK S NEXT X 362 FOR X 1 TO 30 SO 10 PEEK S 10 PEEK S NEXT X 363 FOR X 1 TO 30 SO 100 PEEK S 100 PEEK S NEXT X 364 GOTO 2000 370 LIST 371 373 371 FOR Z 1 TO 4 FOR X 1 TO 30 SO PEEK S PEEK S NEXT X 372 FOR X 1 TO 30 SO 10 PEEK S 10 PEEK S NEXT X P contd Washington Apple Pi November 1987 19 373 FOR X 1 TO 30 SO 100 PEEK S 100 PEEK S NEXT X NEXT Z 374 GOTO 2000 380 LIST 381 383 381 FOR Z 1000 TO 1 STEP 1 382 SO Z PEEK S Z PEEK S 383 NEXT Z 384 GOTO 2000 999 END 1000 IF PR lt 10 THEN INVERSE PRINT SOUND PR IT S LINE NUMBER S amp CODE NORMAL RETURN 1010 INVERSE PRINT SOUND PR IT S LINE NUMBER S amp CODE NORMAL RETURN 2000 PRINT Select A N P Q or sound number INPUT CHOICES 2010 IF CHS Q OR CH q THEN 999 2020 IF CHS A OR CH a THEN GOTO 90 2030 IF CHS N OR CHS n THEN PV PR PR PR 1 GOSUB 2900 GOTO 90 2040 IF CH P OR CH p THE
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29. Although Word 3 0 may have answered Chapman s prayers for technical writing capabilities on the Mac mine regarding bottom of the page footnotes had to wait for Word 3 01 Using the 3 0 somewhere around footnote 75 in Chapter 2 of my current book I started running into the puzzling phenomenon of randomly non printing footnotes first mentioned in the June 87 issue of the Journal Moreover mine refused to print regardless of the print quality selected as evidenced by the fact that my non printing footnotes were always missing in Page Preview as well Even worse neither my workarounds nor those suggested by Robert Plattin the June Journal helped In fact inserting manual page breaks where Word 3 0 should have done so frequently increased the number of missing footnotes in one case from one to four and the best I could elicit from Microsoft over the telephone was a promise that the bug would be corrected in the next version Well I must confess that I sometimes write very very long footnotes The good news though is that the voice on the telephone at Microsoft wasn t lying Microsoft s on disk notes suggest that the first thing you do should when you initially open a Word 3 0 file with 3 01 is to depress the shift key and select Repaginate To my joy this simple procedure not only fixed the non printing footnotes in the chapter with which I ve been struggling but the pagination even managed to get the beginnings of all 81 foot
30. B67095 B67332 24 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 After the patch you can enter any value from 1 to 255 copies directly PAUL SCHLOSSER ON 08 31 From September s Open Apple The Smartport assembly language command that causes a 3 5 drive to eject its disk causes a SCSI hard drive to REFORMAT itself There are not many programs that eject 3 5 disks but if you have one and a SCSI drive proceed with extreme caution Theabove was discovered by WAP member Tom Vier DOS ProDOS Combos EDWARD DOMBEK ON 09 10 I was at the library today browsing the magazines and I looked through the October issue of Compute They have a machine language program called Double Duty DOS on pages 90 91 The blurb goes The Apple H has two popular operating systems DOS 3 3 and ProDOS If you ve ever been trapped between them you ll appreciate this utility itadds new commands to let you read and write DOS 3 3 files from within ProDOS and move ProDOS files to DOS 3 3 MOHAN PAUL ON 09 10 Nibble Vol 8 No 4 April 1987 also has a program called Double DOS that allows a user to switch between DOS 3 3 and ProDOS But I don t think it adds any commands to either DOS or ProDOS JOHN WAAK ON 09 10 The Nibble program Double DOS will however not work with their UniDOS 3 3 Plus their program to use DOS 3 3 on the Unidisk 3 5 I haven t yet seen the Compute program so I do notknow if it will work with a3 5 drive although I do
31. Computer a local Certified Apple Education Dealer We have arranged with local educators to share a variety of different applications that they are involved in These will be of interest to educators as well as consumers We also have represented today a variety of people involved in adult learning programs in the Washington Metropolitan Area with good ideas for you to increase your computer learning no matter what your age Our program will begin with the speakers and then a question and answer period Afterwards we will have a product fair with a large variety of vendors present who will demonstrate and give you hands on time on lots of new things Representa tives of local institutions are scheduled to also be present to sign you up for classes In addition Apple corporate representatives will be available to demonstrate some of their new software solutions for schools as well as to present new products and programs The Computer Learning Month theme sponsored by Apple Corporate the U S Congress and a national network of software vendors has as its mission to heighten our awareness of comput ers and all their potential in the future We hope this gathering will be a beginning toward that end and that it provides informa tion useful to all 6 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 33 GAMESIG NEWS by Steven Payne On October 1st GameSIG members gathered for their regu lar monthly meeting to witness and cheer on the first
32. Even the code for the sounds follows an easy pattern for you to enter into your program I think you will find it worth your while to type in the program or if not get iton a disk along with all the other listings of the series from the author Lines 10 80 establish the variables and set up the top of the screen Line 90 is the repeated entry point Sub 1000 prints the sound number Line 95 selects the sound depending upon to what PR is set Lines in the 2000 range filter your choices and adjust the variables Sub 3000 is an error noise an example of how you might use the process in your own programs for mistakes instead of the oft used Apple Beep NEW 1 REM VARIOUS SOUNDS 10 TEXT HOME PR 1 PV 1 S 49200 20 MAX 28 30 INVERSE FOR X 1 TO 240 PRINT NEXT X NORMAL 40 VTAB 1 HTAB 13 PRINT VARIOUS SOUNDS 50 VTAB 3 HTAB 2 PRINT lt A gt gain VTAB 4 HTAB 2 PRINT lt N gt ext VTAB 5 HTAB 2 PRINT lt P gt revious 60 VTAB 3 HTAB 20 PRINT Select bynbr 1 MAX VTAB 4 HTAB 20 PRINT lt Q gt uit 70 POKE 34 6 80 VTAB 7 HOME GOSUB 3000 FOR X 1 TO 1000 NEXT X 90 GOSUB 1000 95 ON PR GOTO 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 330 340 350 360 370 380 110 LIST 111 112 111 SO PEEK S 112 REM S 49200 THIS PEEK CLICKS SPEAKER 113 GOTO 2000 120 LIST 121 123 121 FO
33. IIGS are trademarks of pees Computer Inc Apple poroducts are available only from authorized Apple dealers They are not available by telephone or mail order Washington Apple Pi November 1987 1 2 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 Board of Directors President Tom Warrick 301 654 8060 Vice Pres pple Ray mond Hobbs 301 725 5972 Vice Pres Bob Platt 703 486 1466 Treasurer Edward M erson 703 759 5479 Secretary Peter Com 301 251 6369 Directors Bruce Field 301 340 7038 Harvey Kaye 301 493 6875 Priscilla Yemson 703 759 5479 Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Eric Rall 301 596 0004 Jay Thal 202 244 3649 f Lynn R Trusal 301 845 2651 Past President David Morganstcin 301 972 4263 Editor Bernie Urban 301 229 3458 Head Software Libr Jim Little 301 762 3215 Office Managers Gena amp Bernie Urban 301 654 8060 Journal Staff Associate Editor Gena Urban 301 229 3458 Store Distrbtn Ray Hakim 301 649 1891 Columnists Apple Dave Ottalini 301 681 5792 Developer s View Jim Lanford 301 589 6300 EDSIG Peter omis 301 251 6369 GameSIG Steven Pa 202 832 6622 Mac Bits amp Bytes Lynn R fica 301 845 2651 MacNovice Ralph Begleit re 301 340 3296 MacQ amp A Jonathan 301 330 1422 301 565 3951 301 490 7484 703 486 1466 Meetin cal A Reporter Cynthia Yockey Mou LAH le Raymond Hobbs 6 4 amp A_ Bob Platt ey zal Bruce Field 301 340 7038 Softviews amp Excel Dav
34. Just 24 hours before Microsoft s scheduled press conference to announce the formal launch of Microsoft Excel for the I PC and clones Lotus held a press conference to announce that Lotus will develop a version of 1 2 3 for the Macintosh So far Lotus has failed dismally in the Macintosh market Their first offering Jazz did not contain macros or other power features that had been largely responsible for the success of 1 2 3 Their belated attempt to remedy that codenamed Galaxy contd will now be named Modem Jazz and ship in early 1988 The Macintosh version of 1 2 3 will presumably be available later than that In the meanwhile the winter will probably be enli vened by press accounts of the spreadsheet war between Microsoft and Lotus I think Lotus was originally fooled by the user friendliness of the Macintosh and failed to understand that having a simple user interface does not require the underlying software to be simple minded The real trick of writing Macintosh software is to find a simple easy to understand user interface that gives the user access to real power in the software Inventing a simple way for people to access complex and powerful features is one of the challenges that I enjoy in designing Macintosh software Back to the Land Farmers live close to the land with their daily activities often dictated by weather conditions Software developers work with machines not animals or plants so you might think
35. KEYPAD 84 03 11 21 14 1 84 02 02 18 41 1 Ascii lt del LEVEIA 84 03 11 18 05 2 lt Not Present gt Catlg lt del TEXIMAKER 83 08 18 08 01 1 lt Not Present gt Ascii lt Cpy STARTUP 84 01 23 18 44 1 84 03 11 21 13 l1 Ascii Q y gt SYS PRT 84 01 21 12 36 1 lt Not Present gt Binar Cpy gt SYS TAB 81 08 22 00 00 1 lt Not Present gt PasDta 22 TESTO4 lt Not Present gt 84 03 11 18 05 2 Catlg 22 TEXIMAKER lt Not Present gt 83 08 18 08 01 1 Ascii Del gt PRT MISSION 83 11 27 23 25 7 83 11 27 23 25 7 PasDta A The first colum shows the status of each file OK Nothing needs to be done and nothing will be done 223 This may be a file that you wish to delete If you don t change this status D3BACKUP changes it to CK before processing Cpy Copy the file gt MASTER to BACKUP lt BACKUP to MASTER Del Delete the file gt BACKUP file lt MASTER file Delete Delete the file from the MASTER and the BACKUP directories B File names indented to show hierarchical level alphabetized within level C MASTER file date stamp in year month day format followed 24 hour time If a file doesn t exist on the MASTER the date stamp is lt Not Present gt C 1 Available space on the MASTER volume 152 blocks in this case The second line identifies the MASTER directory s name C 2 The number of blocks used by the file in the MASTER directory D The same information as colum C for
36. LC 890 David invites you to visit him at The Press Corps 2025 Eye Street N W Suite 220 in the Park Lane Building Washington D C His office phone number is 202 223 9115 Remember to bring a job to print that will show you how it handles small print gradations of grays and large areas of black David also announced that he is a reseller for Bitstream laser typefaces Bitstream was founded in 1981 and has produced the typefaces for Hewlett Packard s laser printers for the last two years David said Bitstream is a very good type foundry that will be competing with Adobe and can be expected to produce better typefaces than some of the smaller type houses Bitstream will be providing PostScript compatible typefaces for the clones of 50 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 PostScript that are coming out sooner or later Other News Desktop Publishing SIG Chairman Tom Piwowar announced that next month s meeting on Wednesday Nov 4 will feature Jim Mackie of Interleaf demonstrating its 2500 publishing system ona Mac II Interleaf isa product of interest to publishers of long documents like books and technical manuals and until now was only available for mini computer systems And if there is time the demos scheduled for October will be pushed back to November ReadySetGo 4 0 by John Albino and SmartScrap and HyperCard by Tom Piwowar The group also decided to continue to meet at the PEPCO Auditorium 1900 Pennsylvania Avenue N W
37. Mac Programmers meet on the 1st Wednesday of the month at the office 7 30PM Next meeting is November 4 MusicSIG meets on the 2nd Saturday of each month Call Bill Bittle 301 236 9898 for details PIG the Pascal Interest Group meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month at8 00 PM at the office New and prospective users are welcome The next meeting will be on November 19 PI SIG Program Interface meets on the 1st Monday of the month at 7 30 PM at the office See their news elsewhere Stock SIG meetings are on the second Thursday of each month at the office 8 PM The next meeting is on Nov 12 Telecom SIG meets after the regular meeting on the 4th Saturday of the month 6 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 9 STRIPPING YOUR GS SYSTEM DISK by David Todd This article describes how to strip down your System Disk so that programs from the GS Disketeria can be placed on a startup disk It follows up on a response in the Q amp A column in the August WAP Journal Each GS owner will have to be responsible for learning how to use and install the ProDOS16 system Some commercial software is starting to ship without a system on the disk Most WAP GS disks will not have a ProDOS 16 onboard One way to deal with this situation is to boot the GS System disk and use Finder or Basic Launcher to run an application If you have only one 3 5 drive you may be asked from time to time to re insert the System Disk so that other parts of the
38. Near 270 The Write Service provides com contd WASHINGTON APPLE PI DISKETERIA MAIL ORDER FORM This form is only for orderin ding diska that you want mailed to you 5 1 4 Diskettes all except gs amp Mac Members 5 00 each Non members 8 00 each Plus 1 00 each postage up to a maximum of 5 00 3 1 2 Diskettes IIgs amp Mac Members 6 00 each Non members 9 00 each Plus 1 00 each postage up to a maximum of 5 00 A 1 00 per disk discount on the above prices is offered for orders of 5 or more disks Postage remains as above DOS 33 Volumes DOS 3 3 contd Eamon contd Macintos h S6 41 IAC 25 Mach Lang Util 154 Investments B 226 Orb of Polaris 173a Red Ryder 9 2 42 One Key DOS 155 IAC 33 Miscellaneous 227 Death s Gateway 17 2b Red Ryder Doc 43 IAC 29 Utilities H 156 IAC 22 Applesoft A W e 228 Esc from 31 1 Dun Doom Eliza Talks 44 Utilities I 157 IAC 36 Arcade Games 229 City in the Clouds or disks 32 42 see Sep Jml 45 Diversi Co 158 heals Loro Programs roDOS Volumes Boston II Fonts 46 French Vocab Tutorial 159 Recipe Fi 802 Utilities A Games IV 47 Tic Tac Toe in French 160 Utilities amp Games 803 Filecabinet 46 Games V 48 Boot te Hote 161 oae Worker 804 Shareware 47 Fonts IV 49 l Hote S tory 162 Games E 806 ZAP 48 3 Fonts V 50 Hote 163 Graphs and Displays 807 Imageworks 49 Uiilities IV 51 French oet Tutorial 164 Games F 808 Comm Term 50 Paintings MI 52 A Hinaire iogra
39. PEEK S PEEK S PEEK 9 256 NEXT X 257 GOTO 2000 260 LIST 261 263 261 REM COMBINING LINES 262 FOR X 1 TO 20 SO PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S NEXT X 263 FOR X 1 TO 5 SO PEEK S PEEK S NEXT X 264 GOTO 2000 270 LIST 271 273 271 REM INSERTING MULTIPLIERS 272 FOR X 1 TO 20 S0 1 PEEK S 5 PEEK S 5 PEEK S 1 PEEK S NEXT X 273 FOR X 1 TO 5 50 1000 PEEK S 5 PEEK S NEXT X 274 GOTO 2000 280 LIST 281 281 FOR X 1 TO 15 SO PEEK S PEEK S SO PEEK S PEEK S SO 10 PEEK S 5 PEEK S NEXT X 282 GOTO 2000 290 LIST 291 294 291 REM THREE LOOPS 292 FOR Y 1 TO 5 FOR Z 1 TO 100 NEXT Z 293 FOR X 1 TO 10 SO PEEK S PEEK S 4 PEEK S 10 PEEK S 294 SO 10 PEEK S SO 20 PEEK S NEXT X NEXT Y 295 GOTO 2000 300 LIST 301 302 301 FOR Y 1 TO 5 FOR Z 1 TO 100 NEXT Z 302 FOR X 1 TO 10 SO 10 PEEK S 20 PEEK S SO 3 PEEK S 6 PEEK S SO 40 PEEK S NEXT X NEXT Y 303 GOTO 2000 310 LIST 311 311 FOR Y 1T06 FOR X 1TO5 SO PEEK S 5 PEEK S 10 PEEK S SO PEEK S PEEK S NEXT X NEXT Y 312 GOTO 2000 320 LIST 321 321 FOR Y 1 TO 10 FOR X 1 TO 10 SO PEEK S 4 PEEK S 6 PEEK S NEXT X NEXT Y 322 GOTO 2000 330 LIST 331 331 FOR Y 1 TO 10 FOR X 1 TO 10 SO PEEK S 12 PEEK S 6 PEEK S NEXT X NEXT Y 332 GOTO 2000 340 LIST 341 342
40. PRODOS versions avail 79 Springboard Publisher for Jle c cece eee 85 SPREADSHEETS SuperCalc 3a super spreadsheet graphics for JCe c 129 VIP Professional J gs spreadsheet 195 Hultiplan best spreadsheet for J 70 INFORHATION HANAGEMENT dBASE II the best Apple database requires CP M 299 pfs File w Report oi BN eba WG Bide waves cee arene 19 BUSINESS amp ACCOUNTING Dollars amp Sense accounting w graphics 7 Managing Your Money accounting investeent agat 99 DAC Easy Accounting c cece ese c teen eee n veces 4 Peachtree Back to Basics Accounting GL AR AP 149 BPI Accounting CL AR AP PAY INVENTORY each 159 COMMUNICATIONS Ascii Express Professional best DOS PROOOS progras 80 MouseTalk new w pull downs for e c 69 CospuServe Starter Kit password amp 25 dollar credit 25 0005 amp ENDS Print Shop Print Shop Companion Libraries 36 29 19 Newsraooa Clip Art Collection c0 000 a Pinpoint Desktop Accessaries een ene Infoserge aailserge for Appleworks 3 Spelling Checker pops up in Appleworks 42 Typing Tutor IV sekaa cise dads a tases ee NAGA 36 Kensington Systea Saver Fan w surge protector 64 CH Mach III or Kraft S button joystick 39 KoalaPad Graphics Tablet with graphics software 89 Curtis Eseral
41. Raesly PFS Bill Etue Ginny Spevak Q Pro 4 John Staples Hard Disks Corvus amp Omninet Tom Vier BBS Corvus Leon Raesly Sider Jaxon Brown Otis Greever Languages A Applesoft I Integer P Pascal 4 At eo A A Louis Biggie A Peter Combes Al Jeff Dillon A Richard Langston A Leon Raesly AIM Richard Untied ALM John Love M Ray Hobbs BBS P Michael Hartman Forth Bruce Field Operating systems pple DOS John Love Adam Robie Richard Untied CP M Ray Hobbs BBS Leon Raesly ProDOS Leon Raesly John Love Print Shop Thomas O Hagan Newsroom Carol Thomas Spreadsheets Leon Raesly fi Walt Francis ssh O MagicCalc ban Ravi prdsht 2 0 MagicCalc n Raesly SuperCale Ver 2 0 n Raes Terry Prudden Word Processors Walt Francis Apple Writer Il Dianne Lorenz Leon Raesly Gutenberg Harris Silverstone Gutenberg amp Jr Neil Muncy Can Letter amp Simply Perfect Leon Raesly Magic Window and II Joyce C Little Apple PIE Jim Graham ScreenWriter II Peter Combes Gene Carter Word Handler Jon Vaupel Word Perfect James Edwards Henry Donahoe Word Star Leon Raesly _ _ Dana Riel Calls until midnight are ok 8 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 578 4621 498 6074 524 0937 703 301 703 301 615 703 703 703 301 960 0787 538 2316 369 3366 261 3886 703 578 4621 301 951 5294 301 261 4124 703 255 6955 301 490 7484 301 986 9522 301 439 1799 301 439 1799 703 620 2103 202 362 3887 703 255 6955 A 986 8085
42. System Configuration Program to re configure the SOS DRIVER file to your needs To install this program on a hard disk create a sub directory with any dirname you wish Then copy SYSTEM STARTUP as dimame D3BACKUP CODE and SYSTEM STAR LIB as dimame D3BACKUP LIB If you have Quark s Catalyst or Selector follow the directions for installing simple Pascal programs User Notes Neither MASTER nor BACKUP need be a diskette but they must be directories on different volumes and they must have the same capacities You may use the program to back up a ProFile sub directory to diskette if the diskette has enough capacity to hold all the files The program does not handle files that span multiple volumes Within size and complexity limits you may back up a ProFile to another ProFile or a Micro Sci A143 toa twin Within its design limits DISK BACKUP is superior to Apple s Backup in that you don t have to back up a whole volume to have a complete backup Program Modification The Pascal source code for D3BACKUP is included on side one of the disk as file DDBACKUP SOURCE should you need to modify it in any way It is a big program and you may have to break the textfile in half to do much editing The program presently handles up to 250 files If you want to change that number first use the Pascal Editor s global R eplace command to change 250 to whatever number you like Next globally replace 17 w
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44. Yockey 56 MacNovice Annual Gift Giver s Guide Ralph J Begleiter 58 Developer s View Jim Lanford 60 A View of Big Blue Robert Wolov 62 Macintosh Bits and Bytes Lynn R Trusal 63 Hardviews David Morganstein 64 View from the Hill Rich Norling 66 HyperCard News Robert C Platt 67 Canvas A Review Boy Are You Going to Love These Martin Milrod 69 Radius Accelerator Card and more Barry D Watts 71 Best of the Mac Items from TCS Bill Baldridge 72 Mac Disketeria News Marty Milrod amp Dave Weikert 79 IIGS Disketeria News David Todd 82 Disketeria Order Form Tutorial Registration Indexes to Advertisers and Authors 84 11917L Fair Oaks Mall 10565 Lee Highway 6691 Backlick Road Fairfax Virginia Fairfax Virginia Springfield Virginia 703 385 2758 703 385 2758 703 866 9122 z Co ut Your Authorized Apple Dealer ami mp a Fair Oaks Shopping Center OUR NEW LOCATION Backlick Shopping Center RA enn ene Seen ae Organizational Chart Get Exper Do your newsletters sales reports and new business proposals crack mirrors If so you should attend our free Macintosh Business Seminar where we ll be demonstrating Apple Desktop Publishing We ll show you how you can tum all these things into works of art For the date time and reservations call Don Noll at 644 8440 On Improving Your Output New Store Now Open To Serve You Better Than Ever Hardware Sales Chart Grand Openn
45. and given the pagination and footnote problems I encoun tered with Word 3 0 I have found myself constantly twiddling my thumbs for periods approaching a minute while Page Pre view chugged through the first twenty pages of the chapter I m rewriting so I could check to see if all the footnotes were going to appear As far as I can tell the 4 500 speed increases advertised for word processing functions such as scrolling saving repagination and previewing pages with the 68020 at 16 MHz are for real In addition all the applications I normally use day to day MacDraw 1 7 FullPaint 1 0 Microsoft Word and occasionally MacWrite 4 5 appear to run without prob lems Noise free Macintosh purists will be disappointed to leam that the internal fan which comes with Radius accelerator for the Plus 512E is not exactly inaudible In fact together with the Kensington System Saver I have on the top my Mac Plus now sounds as loud as the IBM AT I have at work On the other hand there are no longer any warm spots whatsoever on the exterior of my Mac Turning to Microsoft Word the articles by Rick Chapman and Harris J Silverstone on Macintosh technical writing and Word 3 0 formulas in the August Journal were both outstanding especially for those of us who originally bought Word 1 05 but have been too busy word processing ever since to bother reading the murky to incomprehensible documentation that came in the mail with Word 3 0 Some years ag
46. as the recent advertisements in MacWorld and elsewhere loudly proclaim The Fool s Errand represents quite a departure from the normal adventure game format and so we couldn t at first make any sense of it After spending a few weeks wrestling with its puzzles I m here to tell you that the program deserves a second look The Fool s Errand is not easy to describe Itisan adventure game of sorts but one in which there is no traveling and exploration at least not of the go east type and no items to discover and manipulate in the usual manner The characters and plot are based loosely on the Tarot deck but without any fortune telling or other occult overtones involved Church Lady can breathe a sigh of relief According to the basic story the Land of Tarot is in disarray and the four kingdoms Pentacles Cups Wands and Swords are on the verge of war duc to the disap pearance of 14 treasures which the High Priestess has cleverly hidden throughout the land Your task as the Fool is to find the names of the treasures and inscribe them in the Book of Thoth A brief animated video sets the scene before you start As you begin the game only a few sections of the 80 part story are available to you more become available as you solve the puzzles corresponding to particular sections of the text Each solution also gives you another piece of the sun s map Once all the initial puzzles are solved and the map
47. bargain Then again you may not need all of the graphics capabilities of the LaserWriter and can settle for one of the cheaper printers on the market Which printer is right for you will depend on such considerations as dots per inch dpi pages per minute ppm duty cycle dc in pages per month and the need for full page graphics Laser printers are available from such vendors as Apple Casio Hitachi NEC Ricoh Xerox QMS Corona and Imagen The guts of each printer is the so called engine or laser printer mechanism and each vendor chooses the engine that is best suited for the dpi ppm and dcrequired The LaserWriter uses the Canon CX engine which was the first low cost engine LBP CX when introduced in 1983 and it has been adopted by about 20 original equipment manufacturers The Canon engine is rated at 300 dpi 8 ppm 3 000 pages a month dc and is contained in a cartridge which is replaced when the dc is over Canon is discon tinuing the CX engine and replacing it with the SX which is smaller rated at 10 pages a minute 4000 copies per cartridge and offers true collating of the output The Konica engine is rated at 10 000 pages a month dc while the Ricoh engine contains no 52 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 cartridge and the printing drum and toner must be added sepa rately when the need arises There is no longer just one type of shutter mechanism used for the printing process In addition to laser printers ther
48. been increasing more rapidly While such a shift may be rooted both in technological and demand factors they may also raise questions about their effect on the long run competitive position of the U S software industry in the world market especially in areas of high and increasing industrialization It may be that in these latter markets the demand for customs and integrated systems will increase more rapidly over the long run The competitive position of an industry can be analyzed within a framework of relevant supply and demand factors On the supply side predominant factors in the software industry have been U S technological preeminence entreprencurial and managerial strengths the size and sophistication of its user markets Technologically aclose connection exists between the development of microprocessing hardware and software Ad vances in the former expanded memories speed modems peripheral and built in networking possibilities all have moti vated development of sophisticated software Greater computer output has been obtaincd quantitatively and qualitatively per unit of input Complementarities exist between sophisticated hardware and software As real prices of the former decline because of changes on the supply side a greater demand for software develops As software becomes more sophisticated requiring larger memories greater speeds and capacity to per form more complex and subtle functions incentives for innov
49. child around that time I m not sure whether I ll be there or not I may be showing our new addition how the Finder works The IIGS SIG meets in the USUHS cafeteria or in Building contd on pg 17 Operant HARDWARE DOT HATRIX PRINTERS Panasonic 10911 160 cps Epson conpatible best buy 219 1080i 120 cps as abovel 189 1080AP Ieagewriter coapatible for J c Mac 249 1072i 240 cps Epson compatible 349 Toshiba S21St 214 cps draft slickest 24 pin avail 519 3415L wide carriage version of above 725 WEC P P7 Pinwriter 24 pin high quality 4751675 P2200 170 cps lowest price copan to date 969 Okidata 192 Plus 200 cps NLQ maode KA NENG fase 369 193 Plus 132 coluen version of abovel 549 292 293 200 cps 100 cps NLQ 1 amp pin call Citizen Tribute 224 200 cps 24 pin wide carriage 475 DAISYWHEEL amp LASER PRINTERS Citizen Premier 35 35 cps fastest for the aoney 479 Qune LetterPro PLUS 45 cps daisywheel 595 NEC Elf 16 cps par amp ser interface NEC Diablo eaul 419 8830 55 cps daisywheel built like a tank 1195 Silver Reed 800 40 cps Diablo compatible 759 Diablo 635 55 cps daisywheel osen 825 H P LaserJet Series II 512k 1 5 neg 8 ppa 1795 2195 Okidata Laserline 6 4 ppm H P Plus compatible 1495 Toshiba PageLaser 12 12 ppa 512k f
50. coaposite RCB analog color 259 INTERFACES amp BUFFERS amp CLOCKS Practical Peripherals SeriALL for modens or printers 99 Graphicard parallel w graphics 69 Printerface par wio graphics 59 ProClock PRODOS compatible 109 ProGrappler printer interface parallel wi graphics 85 Buffered Grapplert 16K to 64K buffer plus graphics 199 Quadran Microfazer 8K to 128K printer buffer 139 MEMORY EXPANSION amp VIOEO BOARDS ALS 80 col card w 64K RAM AppleWorks coppatible 69 Applied Engineering RanWorks III 64K 3 neg 80 col 139 RaaFactor 25 k 1 aeg for t e gs 189 QsRAM 256k 1 5 meg ran for gs 139 Viewsaster 80 coluan for JCt 189 Microtek 16K RAM card for ICH cece cece eee eee 69 CP M amp 6502C SYSTEHS Applied Engineering Z Raa Ultra 3 256K clock CP M 259 TeansWarp 3 6 Hhz 65020 256K RAM 225 Speed Denon 6502C high speed coprocessor Applicard 6 Mhz Z 80 64K to 192K RAM 70 col video Titan Accelerator Ie gives Ite speed of JCgs 5 fii Systems SOFTWARE WORD amp PAGE PROCESSINC Word Perfect new version w speller e eeees 95 Bank Street Writer 64K amp 128K versions 49 pfs Write Jle w speller cece cece teens 19 HouseWrite Jle c gs eaaa anana aaa HaneWord Plus wispeller for Jfe c 4 49 Sensible Speller IV 00S or
51. directory being deleted if it contains files Verify Automatic Delete PATHNAME Y IN Deleting PATHNAME In verify mode press either N to change your mind or Y to confim If you undelete a member of a sub directory its parent will not be deleted As a file is deleted the available space in its colum header increases If you choose to copy any files go to the copy phase Else you proceed to End of Task Copying Files Entering copy pass Verify each copy Y N The copy phase is similar to the delete phase of the program Copying proceeds from the root directory and works down This ensures that a member of a subdirectory has a parent on the destination volume As a file is cop ied available spam on the destination volume is reduced If there isn t enough space on the destination volume to hold a file D3BACKUP will not at tempt to copy it If you decide not to copy a subdirectory none of its mem bers will be copied After all copies have been processed go to End of Task End of Task End of task Back up another disk Y N ESC to Pascal If you have another backup to do or if you d like another backup pass on the same disk pair press Y If you invoked D38ACKUP from Pascal press PROGRAM INTERFACE ESCAPE to return to the Pascal environment Press N to terminate both the program and Pascal If you invoked the pr
52. full sanufacturer s warranties SSSR SESS SSS eet as Oe o we we wan Om 2o u on gt o we wm oo 2a ow Washington Apple Pi November 1987 11 A lot of you are probably aware by now that the Finder Version 1 0 whichis Apple s replacement for the Desktop on the IIgs System Disk was released around September 17th A new System Disk was released Version 3 1 which includes the Finder instead of the Desktop anda few other less majorchanges This new System Disk is available from your Apple dealer for free This disk will also be available from WAP s Disk Library Over the last few months I ve had an opportunity to be a beginner and to try to help a lot of beginners in getting started with the IIgs Many questions have come up about the Finder and RAM disks in the last few weeks At the IIgs beginner s tutorial on September 19th several questions were generated on these two subjects So this month TI presenta brief tutorial on the new Finder and backing it up Have a blank 3 5 inch diskette ready if you want to follow the tutorial Next month we ll continue the Finder tutorial and have a short discussion of RAM disks The Finder is a combination start up program utility pro gram disk organizer program and game all in one It is in many respects similar to the desktop program on the old System Disk But it s also different in a variety of ways For one thing it takes even longer to boot It is more s
53. global and if you use vertical forms and horizontal listing forms it is necessary to change the page orientation in the page setup menu before printing In fact if the orientation is portrait a horizontal listing form will display only one record on the screen until the orientation is changed to landscape Version 2 0 of Double Helix which was announced at the Boston Mac Expo has both these problems corrected along with in creased speed and automatic saves Odesta is making available to registered users a 60 minute video tape 19 95 plus 2 50 shipping detailing the many changes and improvements in version 2 0 Design of custom forms is pretty straight forward but proba bly not as easy as FileMaker Plus which I have read is one of the best databases for form design I found it somewhat tricky to get a border around both a text and data field so they appeared as one box with the data field name and a space for the data itself Helix is very icon intensive and it takes awhile to Icarn all the various icons and what they mean I did not use any of the calculation capabilitics of Helix but they are very extensive and include 80 different relationships I designed one data form that contained all but two of the data fields used in three listing forms and three portrait oriented forms As individual fields of the data entry form are entered they are automatically entered into the listing forms that contain the same field
54. icons Thus data may be input into a central form without reentry into other forms that use the same data I thing this feature is pretty standard for most databases on the market The ability to do single or multiple searches on a database collection is also important The department head wanted to be able to search the files for each pathologist who had outstanding reports as of acertain date He now hasat his fingertips the ability to see who is up to date and who isn t He likes this but I m not sure the other pathologists do Each user has their own serial numbered Multiuser disk to access the pathology database collection We purchased the right for 8 users to use Multiuser Helix Three user disks come with Multiuser Helix and additional ones can be purchased for about 100 each The data collection is opened on a host machine and other users may visit the collection Multiuser Helix supports simultaneous users but no two people can access and change the same record at the same time Helix has very good error checking and beeps at you if you make a mistake The user can find out what the beep means by checking the why menu item under the Apple DA This saves much aggravation and is very useful Printing hundreds of records takes time and it would be nice to use a Laser print spooler to speed the process but Super Laser Spool is not compatible and causes an instant crash that damages the data files Scree
55. in our Mac disks Please expect some problems with software which is run in the new environment and understand that upgrades may be expected shortly If you are a registered owner of shareware the chances are that you will be notified of the needed upgrades if any Once again we plead for your patience and forbearance in handling the perennial problems of revisions and System changes About Shareware Fees Now while you are thinking about it send the authors their requested shareware fees for those programs you have added to your software library Shareware now accounts for over half of the material that we receive for Mac disks and we all need to encourage the authors to continue to use this distribution chan nel Shareware gives us the opportunity to use a program for a while usually 30 days before deciding whether it is useful or not However the shareware concept depends upon the honesty of each of us for success If we don t support the shareware concept with the requested fees the authors will find different distribution channels Disk Catalog Available The Summer 1987 Mac Disk Catalog containing compre hensive information about the entire WAP Disk collection through Mac Disk 109 is still available The catalog costs 4 25 at the office and at general meetings or you may order it by mail for 5 75 to cover postage and handling The catalog lists disks by 1 disk name 2 description of disk contents 3 alphabetic listi
56. laser printers use magenta cyan and yellow to achieve the same effect If you remember your art classes the human eye and brain can be convinced it is seeing a new color by combinations of these three colors Cyan and yellow produce green while all three colors combine to produce the laser printer version of black In typical color printing shops the image to be reproduced in color is scanned and separated into its black magenta cyan and yellow components each of which is scanned onto separate metal photosensitive plates Each plate is inked with its respective colorand transferred toa single piece of paper As youcan guess alignment of each plate and the paper much be very precise or chaos results Why aren t there any color laser printers on the market now you ask The answer is simple The technology is feasible and largely perfected but the cost and perhaps even more important an identified market has yet to emerge The color laser printer technology resembles the above process of a typical printing shop The computer separates the color image into separate bit maps for each of the four colors i e magenta yellow cyan and black and images it separately onto the output paper Naturally the same concern for precise printing registration of the four colors is of paramount importance Thus the process demands high tolerances and is slower due to the four passes necessary to prepare the final image The process is also very memory int
57. move from screen left to screen right and top to bottom off screen INIT Skip StartUp Once installed if Set Startup opens an application when you boot command shift option will skip the Startup application INIT SortMenu Makes the DA menu appear in sorted order for 64K ROM Macs This was not tested due to lack of a Mac of the proper configuration SFScrollInit Keeps your place in a standard Get File dialog list SUS init There was no documentation for this mystery DA so there is no description Who wrote it and what does it do Let us know if you find out AutoBlack 1 5 f AutoBlack 1 5 MacsBug amp MacsBug pem Three versions of the popular AutoBlack screen blank ing program the MacsBug pem version is the one with Mr contd Washington Apple Pi November 1987 79 Muselman s icon AutoBlack Doc describes the installation and use of the Init Shareware 5 Backdrop f Backdrop Places a picture in the background instead of the usual background set by the control panel Place Backdrop in the system folder together with a folder of pictures for it to use Unlike Randomizer described above the picture doesn t have to be in StartUpScreen format The Backdrop Information file tells you all about it Backdrop da An optional way of manipulating the background pictures beepinit f beep init An Init file which when placed in the system file plays a phrase from the BeepSounds folder The documentation be
58. need the whole 6 MEG now you can buy a GSRAM Plus with less memory and easily expand it in the future GSRAM Plus can be expanded up to 8 MEG with an optional piggyback card Easy Expansion Both GSRAM and GSRAM Plus use standard RAM chips that are readily available and just plug right in So unlike other cards you ll find expanding your GSRAM or GSRAM Plus easy convenient and very economical And with our optional ROM expansion module you can even increase the IIGS s ROM space and all in just one slot Quality and Support of the Industry Leader Applied Engineering is the largest supplier of Apple peripherals in the world We invented the first large RAM cards for the Apple With a 5 year no hassle warranty and outstanding technical suppor you can be sure GSRAM and GSRAM Plus will deliver the performance you re looking for or retum them within 15 days for a full refund csRAM with 256K GsRAM with 512K csRAM with 1 MEG asRAM with 1 5 MEG GSRAM with 2 8 MEG GsRAM Plus with 1 8 MEG Order today See your dealer or call Applied Engincering today 9 am to 11 pm 7 days Or send check or money order to Applied Engineer ing MasterCard VISA and CO D welcome Texas residents add 7 sales tax Add 10 00 outside USA AA APPLIED ENGINEERING The Apple enbancement experts 214 241 6060 P O Box 798 Carrollton TX 75006 CP M is a registered trademark of Digital Research Inc Washington Apple Pi November 1
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60. of Power Shanghai Wrath of Denethenor Might and Magic Station fall and Lode Runner III were among those mentioned The next regular GameSIG meeting will convene at 7 30 PM on Thursday November Sth at the WAP Office Look for GameSIG reviews of Ogre Mac version Balance of Power Apple version The Spy s Adventures in Europe The Fool s Errand and Battles in Normandy which follows Ogre is a great game from Origin Systems Inc newly translated to run on the Macintosh See the review of the Apple II version in the August 1986 issuc of the WAP Journal The old review applies equally well to the Macintosh version and goes into more detail The program is based on a board game so there is a window with the hexagonal grid familiar to wargamers Units are moved about on this grid much like pieces are moved on a chessboard Unlike a board game all the burden of calculating odds remembering where a piece moved from rolling the dice and so on are done automatically by the Macin tosh The player must protect his command post from an excep tionally powerful robot tank called the Ogre At the player s command are units of infantry artillery and three types of armor He has a lot of flexibility as to what defensive strategy and what battlefield tactics to use For example my first successful strategy was to allocate my resources exclusively for artillery and place them carefully so as to have overlapping fields of fire T
61. of these activities is not certain It could result in market interventions which might affect the position of Ameri can subsidiaries in France in the computer and related fields It may help explain the concentration pattern noted above Japan In 1982 total software revenues were 1 046 million The top ten firms accounted for 479 million or 45 79 percent of thattotal Total revenues for Japan are not disaggregated among the three broad classes of software packaged custom and inte grated systems It is estimated that 90 percent of those revenues because of consumer preferences come from contract program ming Japanese progress in this industry has been rapid espe cially since it came into being only ten years after its U S counterpart Three special features of the industry are noteworthy a Aoftware production is closely linked to computer hardware manufacturers b The industry never received assistance from the Japanese government c Its sales are concentrated in the domestic market and exports have not attained significant levels Yet revenues have been increasing at close to 20 percent per annum For a variety of reasons sales revenue figures are probably an understatement of the true amount Much software is developed in Japanese corporations which arc its final users Some software included in the price of hardware is not reported separately The Japanese government has provided preferential tax treatment directed a
62. on inte grated and contract systems than on packaged software This focus appears to be a prerequisite particularly in order to estab lish and maintain a strong beachhead in European markets On the other hand total software revenues among all U S firms in the industry in 1982 amounted to 10 3 billion broken down as follows bn percent Packaged software 5 768 56 00 Customs 2 884 28 00 Integrated systems 1 648 16 00 Total 10 300 100 00 Given the U S share in world markets of 70 percent esti mated world revenues therefore were about 14 1 billion By 1985 total software revenues among U S firms was 21 5 billion broken down as follows bn Packaged software 14 0 65 1 Customs 4 5 20 9 Integrated systems 3 0 14 0 Total 21 5 100 0 These revenues of 21 5 billion were about 71 7 percent of world software sales of 30 0 billion Between these two years 1982 and 1985 there was more than a doubling of software revenues and a relative shift away from customs and integrated systems 7 1 percent and 2 0 percent respectively to packaged software 9 1 percent The big change was from customs to packaged software from higher to lower priced merchandise These shifts may reflect price in contd Washington Apple Pi November 1987 39 duced changes the growth of personal computers and therefore alterations in the preferences of consumers Or it can imply that in a total market that was growing certain segments may have
63. one was difficult Strange problems with MacDraw Pict images which are still haunted e g David Morganstein s Hardviews title and problems with formatting Apple text files converted to MacWrite by means of Mac Passport One never knows what the problems will be and what workarounds may work But that is the challenge and the fun of it as well All you aspiring publishers should not be fazed by any of this Try it with both hands and feet and work within some deadlines You will like it To improve our procedures and throughput we are moving to Bethesda MD 20814 Business Office 301 654 8060 Copyright 1987 Washington Apple Pi Ltd upgrade our system First the LaserWriter will be scheduled fora ROM transplant v47 of Postscript as soon as possible They say we can realize a 40 percent increase in speed of processing bit mapped images We surely can use that Next an accelerator card possibly a Radius with the 68020 but not the 68881 Scott Knaster says that the floating point coprocessor is not used by QuickDraw and probably not by Postscript He does not suggest a 68020 in the LaserWriter at this time because of that In the Mac however we should gain some improvements in speed especially in conjunction with our next planned upgrade CMOS SIMMS We plan to bring the Mac up to 2 5 megs minimum and will probably go for 4 megs Finally after the prices drop we will look for a large screen but until the prices do drop we
64. operating system may be loaded A user may wish to install the system on a program disk It can be confusing trying to figure out which files are necessary The following exercises should only be done on a BACKUP COPY of your System Disk version 3 1 Always keep your untouched original locked away somewhere Onto a blank formatted 3 5 disk copy these files from the GS System disk version 3 1 PRODOS SYS SYSTEM DIR be certain to copy over all of the files from this subdirectory BASIC SYSTEM SYS BASIC LAUNCHER SYS ICONS DIR andall files on this subdirectory DIALOG ICONS SCA FINDER ROOT C9 FINDER DATA C9 FINDER DEF C9 Since there are a lot of files on the System subdirectory another somewhat faster approach would be to do a disk copy of the entire GS System disk and then delete all of the files from the main directory except these files and subdirectories You have left off the System Utilities and Applctalk Next go to the SYSTEM DISK SYSTEM DRIVERS subdirectory and re move the files Appletalk Laserprep and Laserwriter If you have a LaserWriter leave these last two files on the disk Make a copy or two of this setup This stripped down System disk contains all that you need to run a Prodos16 or Prodos amp file Just add your favorite programs and Desk Accessories If you prefer to use the old Basic Launcher instead of Finder then go to the SYSTEM DISK SYSTEM subdirectory on another copy of course and delete
65. really can t add anything to Standing s article and I recommend it as a guide for home brew hard disk builders DAVE GIBSON on 09 16 Has anyone purchased the Rodime 45M Falcon has onc on GSA schedule for about 1210 Is ita good machine Is it fast or slow And is it reliable RICK STICKLE on 09 17 I ve gota Rodime 45mb drive on my plus at home and two on the SE s at the office with two more on order They seem to be excellent drives and they are very fast I ve has no problems with any of the three so far they have been in use since mid June Other Hardware BRUCE FIELD on 09 13 After the WAP meeting we had a few months ago where the Turbo Max accelerator board was demonstrated I went out and got one Specs are great especially for a 512K owner 2Meg memory 2 twice the processor speed and a fast SCSI port After 30 days I would intermittently get system bombs even if the machine was sitting doing nothing in the finder Any kind of mechanical vibration would trigger it bumping the Mac insert ing a disk in the internal drive etc I took it back to Mac Corner where I got it originally and they replaced it with an entirely new one 30 days later the problem started again Took it back again and they said they have had other complaints and no longer carry it They took it out and gave me a credit for the original purchase price less installation Thought I d warn anyone else considering getting one MARK BERRY on 09
66. send the fee for the full version McSink da This one is aptly named everything but the kitchen sink For files it lists catalogs renames saves reads locks and deletes For text strings it adds removes line numbers adds removes prefix or suffix strings indents outdents entabs detabs upper lower case change capitalizes words and sentences makes unmakes paragraphs and sorts lines It also columnizes text and can even print Folks this handy Ginsu knife and DA is yours for only MegaCalculator f MegaCalculator This calculator fills the entire screen However its operation is not intuitive so you need the MegaCalculator Docs a help file in MacPaint Mem Watch DA Examine and change the data in any memory location in your computer Message DA This oldie that we somehow missed in our earlier disks scrolls a message that you enter across your screen Mickey Mouse Clock Mickey s hands show the hours and minutes Molasses This DA slows your Mac down There are three degrecs of slowness from slow to excruciatingly slow Mouse o Meter Displays the location of the mouse pointer in screen coordinates pixels New Idlel f New Idle A screen idle with a bouncing Mac See New Idlel Doc to see how to change the icon pattern mover Moves patterns between paint type files MacPaint FullPaint etc without disturbing the file s pictures PocketDA f PocketDA This appears to be an implementation of Forth as a desk accessory
67. software available for the IIgs e Yes There were many announcements at AppleFest In addition the availablity of the Finder a true ProDOS 16 and the APW development environmentas well as other software tools will finally allow the GS to reach its potential gt HGS SIG Meeting Reporting contd from pg 10 A Lecture Room D at 8 a m before the regular WAP meeting From lists of auendees to the SIG meetings we have more than 100 members and we re growing fast If you re a IIGS owner or expecting to be a IIgs owner the meetings are a lot of fun Please join us Save more than 30 on software peripherals and accessories for all Apple computers including Mac and IIGS We sell Laser computers and accessories Call for information and prices We attempt to beat all locally advertised prices COMPUTER DEN LTD 11716 Kemp Mill Road Silver Spring MD 20902 301 649 6868 Call to order Sunday Thursday 10A M 9P M UPS Shipping Available Quantity Discounts Washington Apple Pi November 1987 17 LOVE APPLE MUSIC SIMPLE APPLE MUSIC Part 6 by GARY HAYMAN 01987 I hope you are having fun with the TEXT FILE SONG PLAYER Listing 14 that appeared in Part 5 of the series last month and have tried out the NEW SOUND DRIVER which was prepared with the NEW SOUND DRIVER GENERATOR Listing 15 Since I am writing this part prior to the publishing of last month s article I don t know how the MYSTERY
68. that 4th Dimension has multi user features built in The program is economical for multi user systems he said because companies would not have to fork out 695 per copy but would buy the first copy at 695 and then pay 95 each for copies of 4th Dimension Runtime for each addi tional user in that network To design a database in 4th Dimen sion requires at least a MacPlus but 4th Dimension Runtime can be used on a 512Ke another potential saving A sign that the program is rapidly finding its market came when several audience members promptly formed a 4th Dimen sion SIG after the general meeting Cynthia Yockey a writer and editor with experience in journalism PR and advertising is a freelance desktop publisher and Macintosh consultant ANIMATIONS Send 100 00 7 50 for Shipping amp Handling amp Movies disk to MacroMind 1028 W Wolfram icago Illinois 60657 312 871 0987 Len EEE KI AN GA TI AI KENIA EART FROM YOUR ORIGINAL VideoWorks AND GET THE FEATURES YOU VE BEEN ASKING FOR USE THE OVERVIEW WINDOW TO CREATE ANIMATED BUSINESS PRESENTATIONS AND MULTI MEDIA SLIDE SHOWS USING MacPaint MacDraw or Glue Documents and VideoWorks II VideoWorks NEW FEATURES INCLUDE More advanced animation features better paint tools text editor extended and easier to use score transition and tempo changes film loops better in betweening printing Macintalk and samp Works in color wi
69. the BACKUP files E This is the SOS type of the file of the MASTER file if both present Screen 2 Change Backp Status Once leaving Screen 1 you come to the backup status screen It is the stan dard directory screen accompanied by the following message area Arrows L R sets status Multi page X Executes ESC RET Last Next page X Executes ESC RET Prev Next page X Executes Up Dn to file ESC RET Prev lst page X Executes The arrow keys work within a page of up to 15 files The vertical up down arrows move from ome file entry to the next and wrap around if you go beyond the top or bottom of the page The current file is highlighted The horizontal left right arrows cycle through the aurrent file s backup status highlighted while you are changing the status For multi page directories the ESCAPE key backs you up a page amd the RETURN key moves you forward From the first page ESCAPE wraps to the last page of the directory From the last page RETURN wraps to the first You may press these keys at any time D3BACKUP imposes three restrictions First you may not delete a sub directory until you have deleted all its members Second you may not copy a member of a subdirectory if its parent sub directory does not or will not exist on the destination volume Third you may not copy over an existing directory It might point to valid files and they would be lost You
70. them there was a thrill from the audience Other features Knaster mentioned included the ability to have pictures as a field in 4th Dimension databases a capacity of up to 16 million records the ability to change fields even after data have been entered without any re structuring or re copying eight contd different automatic screen layouts for placing the fields properly plus the ability to create custom layouts no programming code is generated to create the layouts on screen they re just done graphically the ability to design a color database that will show color on a color screen and black and white on a black and white screen and the ability to import ASCII SYLK and DIF files The nice thing about 4th Dimension Knaster concluded is that you can add features because it has a very extensive pro gramming language built in yet you can use it to create a sophisticated database without being a programmer In addition it comes with almost an obscene amount of documentation For potential buyers Knaster noted that most of his demo was so simple it could have been done in a program like Borland s Reflex Plus but 4th Dimension is worth the higher price when you need additional fields customizing features huge text fields picture fields that s where it s the best choice For a questioner who wanted to compare 4th Dimension with Omnis he recommended a call to Ron Del Aquilla at Acius Knaster also pointed out
71. to a free copy of HyperCard The date is Apple s not the dealer s All they have to do is go to the dealer from whom they purchased the system s with their invoice and pick up their copy BILL BALDRIDGE on 09 17 To save a lot of menu pulling and clicking while in scripting mode the highest level hold down the SHIFT key while double clicking on an object and the script dialog box for that object will be called up directly BILL BALDRIDGE on 09 17 From the August 28th issue of MacTalk The TOP TEN greatest things about HyperCard 10 Anybody can be a StackHead for only 49 9 Dealers drool when you show em HC day after Expo and their copies are three weeks away 8 Microsoft is staying away from StackWare 7 Card Mania might take over the world 6 IBM users don t get it 5 Nested HyperTalk code never seems to work 4 It s so easy even Fawn Hall could use it 3 You can t protect stacks enabling the user to fix StackWare bugs not true HyperOp 2 Only 1 click required And the number one greatest thing about HyperCard 1 It weeds out those wimpy 512K owners ALLAN BALLIETT on 09 21 For some reason HyperCard won t talk to my modem correctly MORE dials out just fine So does RR9 4 HyperCard stacks that came with the original pkg as well as any others makes dialing sounds but the calls don t go through I assume I need to add ATDT to the beginning of the phone numbers but I m not finding a mod
72. to say about Japan and other countries later It is clear that in Japan government support programs benefit software pro ducers who seek to improve their world market positions We noted that employment in the U S software industry increased from 224 000 in 1982 to 508 000 in 1985 more than doubling over a four year period The 1982 employment exceeded the combined employment of France 40 000 Japan 38 000 and the U K 8 000 As interesting as these figures are they do not provide great insights into the economics of the industry In 1982 16 of the 20 largest computer software produc ers in the world were in the United States two were Japanese one French and one was in the United Kingdom These 20 firms had total revenues of 4 569 million 88 25 percent of which was reported by the U S firms Morcoever the top five American firms accounted for 68 3 of the total revenues of these 20 largest firms This American dominance was affected by the presence of IBM Still the strength of American firms was even greater than their sheer numbers would imply Onc caveat is required Data for this industry are notoriously incomplete hence other non American firms may fall within the top 20 circle of firms Or if the top 30 firms were considered the American relative position might be altered In any case the basic finding regard ing the position of U S firms would be unchanged it has been stronger than the mere numbers would imply Whe
73. type Since that time Linotype has changed its name several times and is now a division of the Allicd Corporation Note Allied was trying to sell a number of its subsidiaries and Allied Linotype was one of those up for sale Although Allied Linotype has a number of different typesetting systems I will focus on the 100 series that is compatible with the Apple Macintosh the LaserWriter printer and the Postscript language Adobe Systems The Linotronic100 has a raster image port which permits the Macintosh to be connected by Linotype s Postscript raster image processor RIP and AppleTalk network The LaserWriter can be used to proof the layout before type set imaging The Linotronic 100 offers three resolution settings of 1270 635 and 317 dpi while the Linotronic 300 offers 2540 1270 and 635 dpi resolution A new model 500 has a resolution of 1690 and 845 The time required to send a graph or text to the typesetter varies from approximately 1 5 to6 minutes depending on the complex ity of the graph the number of fonts used and the chosen resolution setting Because professional typesetters use photo graphic paper it is necessary to transfer the storage cartridge containing the imaged data to a photographic processor before viewing Linotype uses the ML 314 Processor for resin coated paper and films Developing time takes several minutes and the images come out of the processor dry and ina single sheet which may be cut at approp
74. user The PL gives you superb output atan very affordable price An Dimension The Ultimate Database i e Uniimited Size fies e Programing Language e Background task su 55 lt I The super fast 1 rated postcript 3995 laser printer In stock now 8653 Zetts Ave Gaithersburg MD 948 1538 Monday Saturday 10 6 Thursday 10 9 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 43 Supplies For Your Mac Find Them At MacCorner acintosh is a licensed to Apple C C 44 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 on Sat 10am 6pm Thursdays 10am 9pm Prices reflect cash disct Open 7 Days 9 AM to 7 PM Visa lt Master Charge Choice By Appointment Only Call 301 424 3942 702 Twinbrook Parkway Rockville MD 20851 WorkStation Rental Macintosh workstations are available starting at 10 00 per hour depending on hardware configurations Price also includes use of the latest popular software Whats New At MacTography MacTography and Century Software Merge To allow Century Software do what they do best produce PostScript Fonts they have opened a West Cost division here at MacTography We do all the order processing and shipping as well as first line technical support As a result of this merger we now have the entire line of Century Software fonts in stock We handle dealer as well as end user sales OCR From New Image Technology The wait is almo
75. will continue to suffer with tunnel vision We ll keep you posted Washington Apple Pi November 1987 3 i ries You may recall a few monihs ago I told several NAH stories concerning my law E firm s acquisition of a few Macintoshes for some of our secretaries and attor neys That series clicited a lot of interest from Pi members pcople called m me from as far away as f Minnesota So now that our firm has decided to buy twenty more Macin A toshes bringing our count to 03 1 I thought I would follow up witha few more stories of the small business computer shopper This time as before we solicited bids from a number of authorized Apple dealers and VAR s In our latest round of bidding we found a new for us participant who made a very impressive showing FC Business Systems a subsidiary of Family Computers of Springfield Virginia They were as compcetitive in price as some of the arca s other Icading dealer ships including Clinton Computer Discovery Data of Fairfax and Falcon Microsystems In addition we were particularly impressed by the candor and professional attitude of thcir salc speople At the other extreme I was once again surprised by a number of dealers who showed no interest in the small business market place Some did so in the strangest ways When we wrote all the prospective vendors about a dozen in all we got acall back from onc of them asking us what other firms we were contact
76. 0 tiye onher Mac Business Sense accounting And for the Novice sao 9 who s ready to upgrade without buying a new Macintosh Plus Computer machine there are mem 1700 ory and other internal en Macintosh SE Computer hancements available 2400 which can make the Mac virtually sing with speed and power to handle today s most advanced programs Most of the prices quoted in this article are the least expen sive available at time of publication and most are available only through mail order houses Expect to pay more at a local com puter store but if you do make sure the store understands that you expect to get more for your money in customer support advice and instruction Happy hunting for the holiday season G COLOR YOUR MAC black granite lavender blue platinum red Why don t computers Mac come in colors E They do now Just about any color Creating Colorful Computers Who says ADP people aren t artistic and G 0 our creative Introductory prices til 15 Nov To order call 644 1309 Other colors available including walnut and marble Mac Colour The Ultimate Christmas Gift MacCarols For the Mac 512K Plus SE Plays and sings 20 traditional Christmas carols including Deck the Halls Joy to the World Silent Night Good King Wenceslas God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman The Holly and the Ivy and many more Santa Claus sez If you haven t heard the Macintosh sing you
77. 0 days for purchase orders Prices change often Price on day of purchase applies SSOCIATES 8231 Woodmont Avenue Bethesda MD 20814 amp 301 652 4232 STORE HOURS Monday through Thursday 12 noon 8 p m Friday 12 noon 6 p m Saturday 11 a m 5p m CALL FOR OUR FREE CATALOG Washington Apple Pi November 1987 7 Have aproblem The following club members have agreed to help other members PLEASE keep in mind that the people listed are VOLUNTEERS Respect all telephone restrictions where listed and no calls after 10 00 PM except where indicated Users of the Hotline users are reminded that calls regarding commercial software packages should be limited to those you have purchased Please do not call about copied software for which you have no documentation Telephone numbers are home phones unless otherwise specified When requests are made to retum calls long distance will be collect General Dave Harvey Robert Martin Accounting Packages s Accountant Dec Sup Mark Pankin Programs Jaxon Brown Otis Greever Home Accountant Leon Raesly Howardsoft Tax Leon Raesly Otis Greever APPLE SSC Bemie Benson Apple TechNotes Joe Chelena AppleWorks Ken DeVito Charles Baumgardner Ken Blac AppleWorks Data Base Morgan Jopling Communications Packages ASCII Express Dave Harvey XTALK CP M Comm Bemie Benson Data Bases dBase If Paul Bublitz John Staples dBase II amp HI Ray Hobbs BBS Jim Kellock day Leon Raesly Data Perfect Leon
78. 0Mb drive software etc 8300 Maybe we could DAVID GURSKY on 09 15 Has anyone out there scen used heard about a fairly new comm package for the Mac called Mac240 It is a DEC terminal emulator supporting VT100 and VT240 Does it do XModem YModem Kermit What about MacBinary extensions Macros Follow Me Mode Shoelaces DAVID BOYD on 09 17 I have an early copy of a VT240 package from White Pine Software 603 673 8151 It has been updated believe I have version 1 1 The package is fairly good although my version has a few problems It does Xmodem MacBinary and Kermit The Kermitimplementation is fairly rudimentary for example it does not support wild cards I require a detailed implementation of the VT125 regis since the main frame driver I wrote docs selective erase Unfortunately this is not implemented correctly in the White Pine program The 240 driver I have access to does not support selective erase and therefore the 240 mode is not useful to me The 240 mode does support cursor movement with the mouse the 125 mode does not There docs not seem to be any support for macros or a script language but I haven t looked very carefully DAVID GURSKY on 09 21 Thanks but I bought Versaterm It does a terrific job of VT102 which meets my basic requirements and it also does Kermit incredibly well Versterm also supports the MacBinary exten sions to Kermit and has an excellent reputation for support Frankly I th
79. 1 02 the hallmark of a decent user support company Conclusion All the best of MacDraw and MacPaint in one up to date package Better in my opinion than SuperPaint or Graph icworks and with a level of user support that is pleasing Its shortcomings remain its intractable native format which limits import export functions the absence of more template designs and the virtual necessity for serious users of having more RAM memory than the 1 Meg standard Its relatively low cost represents a solid buy Canvas Deneba Systems Inc 7855 NW 12th Street Suite 202Miami FL 33126 305 594 6965 Tech Support 800 6CANVAS 195 list or 99 95 for just the DA version FIKESAND DEALER SUPPORT by Barry D Watts Jim Lanford s upbeat review of the Radius accelerator card forthe Mac SE in the August 1987 issuc of the Washington Apple Pi Journal led me to take the plunge and have the basic 68020 board installed in my Mac Plus While I m delighted with the results overall I would note two differences from the SE version The Radius 68020 accelerator for the Mac Plus 512E comes with a fan on the board Also there is inexplicably I thought no control panel which means once the board is installed you cannot elect to run programs with the 68000 Regarding performance I wanted the card mainly to speed up features like Page Preview in Word 3 0 I m working ona book with 50 100 footnotes per chapter positioned at the page bot toms
80. 143 14 3 dis pap Logo Util 221 Utility HI 2005 Demo Source Code 1 113 Fonts 150 EDSIG1 Elem Math 223 Temple of Undead 2006 Demo Source Code 2 114 DAs XI 152 TAC 31 Miscellaneous 224 t for Holy Grail 2007 M18 Courses 115 Telecom IV 153 Investments A 225 Caves of Mondamen 116 DAs Igs Systems Disk 117 Utilities XIX Vol 181 required with these disks DATE 118P k is y Note Allow 2 3 weeks for mailing Total Order ___ Disks Postage Total Amount Enclosed 119 punt x 120 Inits I NAME Make check payable amp send to U S funds on a U S bank 12t puliga XXI As ADDRESS Washington Apple Pi Ltd Telephone 123 Graphics II Atm Disketeria 124 Paintings VI CITY STATE ZIP 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 WAP Membership No Bethesda MD 20814 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 83 WAP TUTORIAL REGISTRATION Apple II The following three WAP tutorials are being offered to Apple II owners on the first three Tuesday evenings of the month from 7 3 to 9 00 PM at the office 8227 Woodmont Ave Bethesda MD We are experimenting with alternating the Ist two sessions between Appl IIgs and other Apple II The tutorials start promptly at 7 30 if you bring your computer please arrive 15 minutes carly 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 The fec for cach session is 10 00 You are urged to bring an Apple monitor and disk drive Moni
81. 2 30 M F Duties include answering the phones and assisting the office managers in running the office 6 50 per hour Ideal for parent of school age children or retiree Informal non smoking office Call Gena at 654 8060 between 10 AM and 2 30 PM M F 6 MACINTOSH CORNER e OS DD DISKS BOX OF 10 12 00 e DS DD DISKS CASE OF 50 55 00 10 DISK STORAGE BOX 2 50 36 DISK STORAGE BOX 9 00 e IMAGEWRITER CABLE 19 00 e MODEM CABLE 19 00 e IMAGEWRITER RIBBON 9 00 MAC TO MAC CONVERSION CABLE 7 00 5 INCH DISKETTES amp STORAGE e SS DD BOX OF 10 5 00 e SS DD PAK OF 25 11 00 e SS OD CASE OF 100 39 00 e SS DD CARTON OF 500 175 00 2 NOTCH DS DD BOX OF 10 6 00 e 2 NOTCH DS DD PAK OF 25 13 00 e 2 NOTCHOS DD CASE OF 100 45 00 10 DISKETTE CASES 2 25 EACH 5 for 10 00 SPECIFY COLOR CHOICES BEGI DLACK GUUS GREEN GREY RED YELLOW e 75 FLIP TOP DISK CASE 11 00 PRINTERS STAR NP 10 159 00 PANASONIC 1080 2 120CPS 189 00 e PANASONIC 1091 2 229 00 e CITIZEN MSP 15 WIDE 399 00 e PANASONIC P3131 LQ 329 00 NECP6 LO 495 00 e OKIMATE 20 COLOR 209 00 PRINTER ACCESSORIES 1000 SHEETS OF PAPER 19 00 2500 SHEETS OF PAPER 29 00 PANASONIC CITIZEN EPSON RIBBONS 7 00 GRAPHICS PARALLEL INTERFACE CA
82. 4 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 As an aside if you use SuperPaint you will need to get version 1 05 as pointed out in the MacScan manual Version 1 0 leaves a large white swath down the middle of scanned images Compressed TIFF ee a 4 At A an pil OUncompressed HEE you only work with MacPaint O Generic EPSF Macintosh EPSF O PageMaker 1 2 MacPaint or FullPaint for editing you will only need the 75 dpi set ting If your output will be on the LaserWriter you will want the 300 dpi choice for the best SuperPaint resolution However be aware PICT Actual Size T T Seta eupalotof memory in PICT Maximum Size RAM and on disk In fact you PostScript may need more than 1 Meg of RAM toscana full page of 300 dpi graphics MacScan provides a Margins window which will tell you how large an image you can scan with the memory you have available Note the thin horizontal dotted line appearing at 6 3 8 In this case MacScan has a 700K RAM partition in MultiFinder and is saying that it can only produce a half ofa 300 dpi document The margins can be reduced by manually clicking and dragging on them They can only be expanded by neuro surgery on your Mac Margins contd I can tell you that PICT formats can be very large When saving one half page image in PICT the resulting file which took over than 3 minutes to save required more than one megabyte of disk spac
83. 5 79 was closer to that in the United States In 1982 there were about 8 200 programmers and systems analysts in the British computer industry The British software industry faced with a shortage of skilled workers has experi enced therefore an inhibited growth Nevertheless British software technology is of high quality in database management electronic mail videotex and other sophisticated uses Some observers consider computer science departments in British universities among the best in the world These conditions have probably induced leading American companies including Digi tal Equipment Hewlett Packard Honeywell and IBM to estab lish key software development facilities in the United Kingdom British shortcomings in the computer ficld are primarily in marketing skills and in inadequate financial resources for invest ments in morecomplex systems required for mainframe comput ers The British Government through its Department of Industry has established an 80 million pound fund to be drawn on over four years The aim is to support information technology The funds channelled to firmsand users throgh a series of grants will be employed to develop advanced technologies for fifth genera tion computers Funds will also be deployed to assist in software engineering Other countries with evolving software industries include Ireland Singapore Taiwan and India Ireland Ireland which enjoys tariff free access to the mar
84. 68 x 24 bit image is about 2 5 Meg If you have 1000 slides that you wish to store you will need a large capacity optical worm drive As you can see it was a great way to tell people about our archival and retrieval system RasterOps has lent us a 24 bit card and we are using it with our SuperMac 19 Sony color monitor RasterOps will be selling their card for 2795 and a 19 Hatachi color monitor for 2795 This makes it the lowest cost 24 bit color system on any computer I ll be happy to bring my Mac II and 24 bit card to give ademo ata WAP meeting if someone else brings a 19 monitor The only problem with any of the 24 bit systems is that Apple has not filled all of the 24 bit hooks in Color Quick Draw RasterOps is not waiting for Apple to do the work and has a programmer working on the patches Micro Dynamics will be working with RasterOps to ensure compatibility If some of the color graphic programs assume only 8 bits of color they will not give the full potential of a 24 bit card The RasterOps will only operate in 24 and 8 bit mode so programs such as SuperPaint will not work because they only run on the Mac Il in single bit mode Radius FPD on the Mac II Radius has just released a Mac II card for their monitor It has all of the features of their Mac SE version menus with 20 point type screen saver and double wide quick scroll They lent us one for use at our booth for the Seybold conference and we liked it so well we bought i
85. 7 Misc 201 Black Mountain 420 Small C Compiler 94 Paintin 123 French Vocabulary 202 Nuclear Nighimars Apple Volumes 95 Fun amp eN XX 124 Utilities E 203 Feast of Carroll 1001 Games Volumes 1 amp 2 96 Fun amp Games XXI 125 IAC 18 Misc 204 Master s Dungeon 1002 Basic Utility Vol 1 97 Fonts VII 126 Sights and Sounds 205 The Crystal Mountain 1003 Bes Utility Vol 3 98 DAs IX 127 Math Science 206 The Lost Adventure Utils 2 Data 99 Inits I 128 Games D 207 The Manxome Foe 1008 N ke Member Disk 100 Fonts VIII 130 Diversi DOS rev 208 The Gauntlet 1006 Word Proc amp WPL 101 Fonts L X 131 Personal Educ 2 209 Caverns of Langst 1007 Games for Kids 102 Soun 132 IAC 19 Utilities F 210 Future Quest 1008 ue Best of MAUG 103 Uulues XVII W P 133 IAC 20 Pascal amp DOS3 3 211 House of Secrets 1009 The Best of the Source 104 Fun amp Games XXII 137 IAC 21 Spreadsheet A 212 Sewers of Chicago 1010 The Best of TAU 105 Fun amp Games XXII E IAC 23 Utilities G 213 Slave Pits of Kzorland 1011 D3 Backup 106 Fun amp Games XXIV 139 IAC 24 ag wng 3 214 Alternate Beginner s Cave 107 DAs X 140 Education 4 215 Lifequest pple TIGS Volumes 6 108 Fun amp Games XXV 141 Special Data Bases 216 Swordquest cn pune amp Pcs A 109 Sounds I ees C 28 Pinball Games 217 Priest of Xim Demo Di Disk A 110 Fonts XI 43 Spori 218 Heros Castle 111 Sounds IH IAC 27 Applesoft Prog 220 Utility I 5004 teat Show I 112 Utilities XVII
86. 87 EDSIG NEWS by Patricia Kirby EDSIG is delighted to host the main WAP meeting this month October which by happy coincidence is COMPUTER LEARNING MONTH Many Apple enthusiasts have contributed their time and effort to this first annual EDUCATIONAL amp TRAINING EXTRAVAGANZA especially Ginny Stange who directs educational sales for Clinton Computer Co Ginny helped us locate a number of presenters and resources Next month we will write up the main points of the presenters for the Journal As it goes to press in mid October we are still fine tuning the program Weare hoping that everyone will feel at least some measure of awe when confronted at the October 24 meeting with just some of the wonderful things going on in this field Nothing would make us feel better than a few converts among those who may not realize how much their lives are touched by education and training through the computer You need not march down the aisle as you convert EDSIG small but committed plans a more concerted effort to fostering educational and training within WAP and invites your help Watch this column which will include reviews and discussion of issues not just write ups of our SIG meetings AR Aw Vaan ARAA NA fa NA Aw Roe 2 The following comments are submitted by Ginny Strange of Clinton Computer Computer Learning Month is the theme of the October 24 Washington Apple Pi meeting co sponsored by EDSIG and Clinton
87. 987 15 Send your Apple II and II questions to the WAP office for our resident experts 0 A What is the latest IIgs System Master Disk System Disk 3 1 features ProDOS 8 ver 1 4 Basic System ver 1 1 Loader ver 1 3 ProDOS 16 ver 1 4 and Launcher ver 2 1 The most notable improvement over System Disk 2 1 is the arrival of the long awaited IIgs Finder program ver sion 1 0 It also includes a new disk copy program FASTCOPY SYSTEM in the Utilities folder and works as fast as DiversiCopy Be sure to use the RAM Disk to allow it to copy disks in one swap What are the differences between the IIgs Finder and the DeskTop program A Unlike the Apple II DeskTop program which runs under gt O Q A ProDOS 8 Finder runs under ProDOS 16 The Finder gives you more control using the Preferences dialog accessed through the Special menu You can specify whether icon information will be saved or not on each disk and folder usinga FINDER DATA file If your data disks are tight on space you can select the no save option which is not available on the Mac You can also specify whether the FINDER DATA files are visible or invisible Another important time saving option is Do a smart block copy when copying disks of the same size In gencral using the IIgs Finder takes longer to boot than the DeskTop but saves time when copying disks on a single drive machine The Finder copies disks with
88. A 64 129 161 413 76 109 66 77 19 5 u u M 4 ses Up ee t Receivers a E meee IN EN TENG EEN garai 172 31 176 192 123 136 63 35 40 13 106 6 17 8 120 x PENANG es me J Thinness AKE NGA NENG S a TT A 74 3 2 30 159 149 81 30 107 166 103 175 y sp1 4 pinner jalanah annan aieea anih jamani ERA EE BS Op dding Attock n m l cs ees es ee 130 9 t942 34 63 6 194 30 144 135 134 10 865 73 45 171 2 Honblanase tobe u ODS Saman m o aman o ee a aa L Foreci Judgeaant mme aman me m me e 39 61 173 04 96 143 100 180 163 t62 39 110 80 137 134 60 6 Roslsting 09 jen ame amene amma ee ee aa N Postry 9s 90 124 119 5 725 29 163 106 155 66 25 167 1 100 41 LA K Has Repeal e a o a a pa 12 26 22 141 43 4 ANSWERS TO LAST MONTH S WAP Words A Acetylene I Poodle Q Erupts X Entwist ACROSTIC B Profaning J Unisex R Rhenium Y Cofactor HyperCard is a powerful new medium for creating and exhang C Panama K Terrific S Charwoman Z Hoaxes ing information It is an extension of Mac technology that puts new D Lightfoot L Errant T Awning a Semipro power into the hands of all Mac users People without special training E Enwinding M Rumpus U Rewind b Platonic in programming can Create entirely new uses for the Mac F Canary N Hogging V Deface c Ewes Author Apple Computer G Omelets O Yachtsmen W Treenail d Cahoots Work HyperCard Tech Spec H Mufti P Plinth 6 32 Washington Apple Pi November 19
89. Apple and EZ Pieces Taylor Pohiman discussed Apple Business Basic and its new more powerful cousin GS Basic more on that below sessions on the future of Apple hardware and software and finally the demonstrations by Bill Atkinson of HyperCard that literally blew everyone away and made us all want to buy Macs The lowlight of the conference The no show of The Magazine s Frank Moore He had reserved a booth and agreed to be a speaker but never bothered to contact anyone when he apparently decided not to come Rumor had it he was in Florida putting together a network of IBMs Necdless to say his standing in the Community has hit rock bottom with many this only added to the problems since his magazine has not published since February The bottom line for the was simply this and best described by On Three s Bob Consorti The Apple is still an excellent machine that can continue to doa number of things well It does not have the glitz of the GS or Mac but so long as it can continue to do the work you need to have done it will remain a useful computer But as WAP s and s Company BBS GURU Ed Gooding added the ability of vendors to support the is dwind ling and it is becoming more and more incumbent on the com munity and more specifically each owner to provide his or her own support including writing your own programs That s why your SIG and other groups are becoming more
90. Apple Pascal 1 3 for a reduced price of 75 plus shipping APDA is also selling TML Modula 2 for the Mac for a new price of 69 95 BASIC I have ordered Apple s new GS BASIC through APDA for 50 This is the only BASIC available to date with full support of the IIgs tools Pecan Software s BASIC runs under 16 bit mode but does not yet support all gs ROM routines MPW Pascal 2 0 APDA shipped version 2 0 for atwo week period and then recalled the Pascal compiler when it discovered fatal bugs in the program If you have version 2 0 you may return it for a free upgrade to version 2 0 1 Mike Hartman reports that 2 0 1 is faster than version 1 0 However he is now addicted to his Mac II and has not been running iton a mere mortal Mac The documentation points out seven bugs which were not fixed in 2 0 1 1 After reporting a method not declared as override error the compiler will crash 2 Bad code may be generated when using a Btest function on an element of a packed array 3 Large source file containing enough procedure names to over flow a 32K buffer will generate a defective object file leading to link errors 4 Bad code will be generated from source in the form k a t i where t is a packed array of 0 1 and k is allocated to a data register 5 If your program attempts to exit program and the main program has been reduced in size by compiler optimization the program may crash 6 Thecompiler should flag record definiti
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92. Dana Schwartz 301 654 8060 Pro John Alden 202 686 1656 Public Relations Charles Redmond 202 363 3184 SIGs amp Slices Coord Jay Thal 202 244 3649 Telecom Sys Opr Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Tutorials Bob Platt 703 486 1466 Volunteer Coord David Morganstein 301 972 4263 SIG Chairmen Annapolis Slice Steve Toth 7033 757 3280 AppleWorks Ken DeVito 703 960 0787 Apple Il Ted Meyer 703 893 6845 Apple mi David Ottalini 301 681 5792 Tom Bartkiewicz 703 435 3295 CP M Charles Franklin 301 997 9138 DisabledSIG Jay Thal 202 244 3649 dPub SIG Tom Piwowar 202 223 6813 EDSIG Peter Combes 301 251 6369 Federal SIG Gordon Stubbs 703 750 0224 Daniel Adkins 202 822 8052 Frederick Slice Scott Galbraith 301 865 3035 GameSIG Charles Don Hall 301 864 2715 Chrmn Emeritus Ron Wartow 301 654 4439 LawSIG John weld day 202 463 0662 Mac Prog Grp Bob Shaffer 703 671 1194 Charles Weger 703 836 5150 Music SIG Bill Bittle 301 236 9898 Pascal PIG Mike Hartman 301 445 1583 PI SIG Bob Golden 301 593 6165 StockSIG Ron Grognet 301 296 5444 Ben Fogle 301 469 5822 Telecomm SIG Allan Levy 301 340 7839 Washington Apple Pi Ltd 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Telecommunications System 301 986 8085 The difficulty of preparing issues of the Journal varies from month to month Some are easy and everything goes smooth as silk Others require 4 wheel drive and jackhammers This
93. ELE KA ngaral mA i ject 1 2 mod 6 ete Pen reek mer eed ede ao a K CelendarMaker yy Mill dae E Sj _viewPaint 1 5 ce si You can casily install any DA or Bie program place them on a Page locate all files within your computer environment for each application such as MS Word and designate one default file foreach application I use my letterhead for MS Word as my default contd Washington Apple Pi November 1987 69 Word3 Documents O LIVLtrhd WAP Mac 1 119 9 10 87 Print amp P Open other Print other Install st J Document icon pops up menu Dedicate ihe application bow to this dacument In fact PowerStation can substitute for the Finder although I haven t had the nerve to quite do this It opens and closes things very rapidly since it is RAM intensive in remembering where on your disk s hard or floppy an item is stored Anything which runs in RAM runs much faster than anything that accesses a physical head reader device such as a floppy disk drive PowerStation works within the MultiFinder environment System5 0 Finder6 0 not yet released as this article is written with one slight flaw To return to the normal Finder from Pow erStation within MultiFinder you must click on Restart or Shutdown in the PowerStation screen if you click on the Finder button within PowerStation you crash For those of you not using MultiFinder PowerStation sails you from applic
94. II s color and graphics capabilities CotorLab will ship later this fall I don t want to misuse the free space for this column to promote my own product so we ll buy an ad to tell you about ColorLab s features when it begins to ship 66 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 Industry Changes Lots of changes have happened in the companies that bring you Macintosh software since my last column Forethought which had been founded by two former Apple employees was purchased by Microsoft for 14 million Fore thought had published PowerPoint the first Macintosh applica tion directly aimed at the Desktop Presentation market and that was the reason Microsoft bought the company The developers of FileMaker another of Forethought s products exercised the option in their contract to take the product back if Forethought changed ownership and will be selling FileMaker themselves Ansa publisher of the Paradox data base program for those machines identified by three letters beginning with a vowel has merged into Borland Ben Rosen the well known venture Capitalist who was instrumental in the creation of Lotus and Compaq was also involved with Ansa so he now sits on Borland s Board of Directors Borland started as a competitor on price but has recently started finding reasons to raise the prices on its software It will be interesting to see whether reviewers will become less tolerant of shortcuts taken in the design of Borland s so
95. If you already know how to use the Macintosh you already know how to use the Linotronic typesetter Once the Linotronic is instatied it is as simple as selecting chooser and selecting the Linotype instead of the ImageWriter or the LaserWriter The data are first sent to the Postscript RIP where they are converted into postscript commands and then on to the Linotype for imaging The time required is largely dependent on the amount of graphics and combined text The entire process might range from 2 to 20 minutes depending on its complexity The Linotronic 300 gives the user more flexibility in resolu tion and output speed but I don t think the ability to double the resolution from 1270 to 2540 dpi is worth the extra 22 000 in price I think that only a trained eye could tell the difference between 1270 and 2540 dpi without the use of a magnifying glass If both LaserWriter 300 dpi and Linotronic 100 1270 dpi output were side by side you could definitely tell the difference but my subjective opinion was that typesetting was not four times better I also had the impression that an IBM PC could be hooked to the Postscript RIP through an RS 232 port provided the IBM software package supported Postscript by using a Postscript print driver Word Perfect is one IBM program that now comes with a Postscript driver It may also be possible to attach an IBM computer to AppleTalk with the newly released PC AppleTalk card fo
96. M while the Laserjet Plus has a 395K RAM and 117K ROM memory If both these printers had the contd capability of the LaserWriter they would cost considerably more In addition the HP printers make use of font cartridges to produce printed output in various fonts and point sizes Since each font cartridge costs 225 to 400 it is not hard to sce that only four cartridges add another 1 000 to 1600 to the cost Now you can see what I meant earlier about comparing apples to apples If you don t have a need for full page graphics then you may not necd the capabilities of the LaserWriter Although the Macintosh and LaserWriter are sufficient for much of the desktop publishing industry they are not adequate for some needs The typesetting industry is now releasing products that although expensive costs significantly less than earlier models It was often necessary to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to achieve the capability available today for a fraction of the price These new models seek to capture the market area between expensive printing methods and the lowend desktop industry What follows is a description of onc of these companies and its Macintosh compatible laser typesetter Allied Linotype Typesetter Allied Linotype was founded in 1886 by Ottmar Mergen thaler who introduced the first typesetting machine called the Linotype It used a technique called hot metal casting to set each line of
97. N HOLD PR PR PV PV HOLD GOTO 90 2050 IF VAL CH 0 THEN PRINT You have typed an incorrect choice GOSUB 3000 GOTO 2000 2060 IF VAL CH lt 1 OR VAL CH gt MAX THEN PRINT That number is out of range GOSUB 3000 GOTO 2000 2070 PV PR PR VAL CHS GOTO 90 2900 IF PR gt MAX THEN PR 1 RETURN 2910 RETURN 3000 FOR Z 1 TO 5 FOR X 1 TO 20 SO PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S NEXT X FOR Y 1 TO 300 NEXT Y NEXT Z RETURN SAVE VARIOUS SOUNDS Listing 17 THE SOUNDS Now let s look at the sound codes lines 110 through 384 Separate sound codes begin on line numbers that end with a zero To find out what sound number it is just subtract 100 and drop the zero Thus line 160 represents the start of Sound 6 160 100 60 drop the zero and 6 remains Sound 1 110 The basic PEEK S Use the lt A gt gain to discover the now you hear it now you don t phenomenon Please notice that I have set the variable S 49200 throughout the listing so thatinstead of doing a PEEK 40200 each time a PEEK S will suffice Sound 2 120 Hear the difference when you PEEK twice Compare sounds 1 and 2 using the lt P gt revious selection Please notice that lt A gt gain does not destroy the previous selection so you can listen to a sound many times using the lt A gt and then listen to the previous sound with a lt P gt You can go back and forth with the lt P gt making your comparison
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99. OM simulations is offering a 50 upgrade policy for current owners On Line Programmer s Companion Steve Capps one of the original Macintosh development team wrote a marvelous little 29 utility which livesasaPC style contd RAM resident routine which can pop up at any time and give complete reference for that tool box routine and the Inside A Macintosh page number It will also attempt to paste thecalland argumentinformation into whatever editor youhaveopenatyour cursor By notbeinga DA itcan co exist with mostdevelopment systems If you write software for the Macintosh you might want to look at this little gem Finder Tune One of the nicest features of the Macintosh is the ability for each user to customize his or her environment Other than fonts and desk accessories I usually do notcustomize anything Ihave just discovered what many of you may know and that is the Icon Vertical phase setting in the Finder LAYO 1D 128 from Finder icon Vert phase This setting affects how every other folder will be vertically lined up on the desktop The default setting is zero Setting itto 3 16 will give a nice offset to every other icon when you use the clean up window command If you do not know how to use ResEdit have a friend show you The LAYO resource lives in the Finder file Scroll down to the bottom of the list to the Icon Vert Phase Do this on a COPY of your Finder Jim Lanford is the architect
100. ON 09 22 Called both Data Pak and Styleware this week Data Pak demoed version 2 0 of GraphicWriter at AppleFest and it will be shipped to registered owners of versions 1 0 amp 1 1 in two to three weeks The lady on the phone said I d really enjoy it It has more sophisticated page layout features how could they be less sophisticated Asked her if there were any exciting Desktop Publishing programs introduced for IIgs at AppleFest and she contd on pg 27 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 25 PHASE After waiting so long for Phase it s now hard to believe the conference is actually over It was a wonderful experience to finally meet many of the people your SIG Co Chairman has been talking to for these past few years It was disappointing however that more people did not show up In fact I was told that the attitude of some on the West Coast was Why Come Well the fact is the conference was excellent and well worth the effort and money spent to get there Lavona and Richard Rann Randall Jackson and all the other TAU folks who put this conference together deserve a great deal of thanks from the entire community Financially this event ended up in the red But it was well organized and came off with few problems HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS Among the highlights Former Apple Sales Manager Don Williams now President of Productivity Software provided not one but two glimpses into the history of the
101. Pocket DA and Pocket Glo Forth are related documentation but they don t explain the DA Sorry folks I am not familiar with Forth and don t think that I want to be so this one has not been tested other than to ensure that the DA can be called up Any volunteers to document this one Poker Game Las Vegas style five card draw video poker in a DA Shareware 5 poly da A screen idle that generates a moving pattern of lines formed from polygons Preferences 1 01 f Preferences 1 01 A replacement Control Panel with more features than Apple s 3 1 version The Pref erences 1 0 txt tells you all you need to know Mac Disk 123 Graphics II BlockBall A block anda ball bounce around your screen tracing patterns as they go As the traces cross over one another the patterns grow more intricate Click the mouse to exit Lines When you start the program groups of sticks move rapidly across the screen tracing patterns as they move Under the Variations menu you can change the sticks pattern to boxes ovals and wave plots The program allows you to open multiple windows so you can fill your screen with several windows with different patterns being traced simultaneously Pattern Maker 2 0 This onc is billed as a tool to help youexplore the many patterns available on a Mac screen Available displays include Bouncer Wriggler Life Pattern Soup and Arcs You can open multiple windows and you can capture patterns to the Clipboar
102. R X 1TO2 122 SO PEEK S 123 NEXT 124 GOTO 2000 130 LIST 131 131 SO PEEK S PEEK S 132 GOTO 2000 140 LIST 141 143 141 FOR X 1 TO 200 142 SO PEEK S 143 NEXT X 144 GOTO 2000 150 LIST 151 153 contd 151 FOR X 1 TO 200 152 SO PEEK S PEEK S 153 NEXT X 154 GOTO 2000 160 LIST 161 163 161 FOR X 1 TO 200 162 SO PEEK S SO PEEK 5 163 NEXT X 164 GOTO 2000 170 LIST 171 173 171 FOR X 1 TO 200 172 SO 1 PEEK 9 173 NEXT X 174 GOTO 2000 180 LIST 181 183 181 FOR X 1 TO 200 182 SO 100 PEEK S 183 NEXT X 184 GOTO 2000 190 LIST 191 193 191 FOR X 1 TO 200 192 SO 0 PEEK 9 193 NEXT X 194 GOTO 2000 200 LIST 201 203 201 FOR X 1 TO 200 202 SO PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S 203 NEXT X 204 GOTO 2000 210 LIST 211 213 211 FOR X 1 TO 200 212 SO PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S 213 NEXT X 214 GOTO 2000 220 LIST 221 223 221 FOR X 1 TO 200 222 SO PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S 223 NEXT X 224 GOTO 2000 230 LIST 231 233 231 FOR X 1 TO 20 232 SO PEEK S PEEK S PEEK 9 233 NEXT X 234 GOTO 2000 240 LIST 241 243 241 FOR X 1 TO 20 242 SO PEEK S 5 PEEK S PEEK 9 243 NEXT X 244 GOTO 2000 250 LIST 251 256 251 FOR X 1TO 10 252 SO PEEK S PEEK S 253 NEXT X 254 FOR X 1 TO 13 255 SO
103. RD 59 00 PRINTER STAND 14 00 e SWITCH BOX 2 WAY 39 00 SWITCH BOX 4 WAY 59 00 DISK DRIVES FLOPPY DRIVE 109 00 CONTROLLER 49 00 MONITORS eMED RES COMPOSITE 89 00 HI RES COMPOSITE GREEN 129 00 e HI RES COMPOSITE AMBER 139 00 RGB COLOR 319 00 MODEMS 300 1200 EXT 99 00 300 1200 2400 EXT 229 00 SOUND amp VIDEO DEVICES MUSIC SYNTHESIZER 149 00 e eCOMPUTEREYES 119 00 CHIPS EPROMS 2716 2732 2764 6 00 e EPROMS 27128 27256 8 00 e 64K SET OF 8 10 40 256K SET OF 8 28 00 GENERAL ITEMS SURGE PROTECTOR 9 00 6 OUTLETS WITH SURGE PROTECT 25 00 MINI POWER CENTER 58 00 e CABLE GENDER CHANGER 9 00 e CABLES S OR P 19 00 e GLARE FILTER 29 00 COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS LASER 128 395 00 e VF PC APPLE II amp IBM COMPATIBLE 929 00 e VF PC IBM COMPATIBLE 580 00 e VF AT IBM COMPATIBLE 1040 00 VF 386 IBM COMPATIBLE 2540 00 GAME 1 0 DEVICES e CH MACH II JOYSTICK 33 00 e CH MACH Ill JOYSTICK 39 00 VO PORT EXPANDER 25 00 e 9 16 OR 16 9 ADAPTER 9 00 MOUSE 75 00 SLOT EXPANSION MULTI RAM 64K MEMORY 119 00 320K MEMORY 150 00 512K MEMORY
104. SONG Listing 16 is coming along Now I would like to depart from the song aspect and cover another topic NO DRIVER SOUNDS The music and sounds that we have been reading about and listening to throughout Parts 1 5 of this series have been emanating from a little speaker housed in our Apples We have produced many fine tones by passing information to a machine language program Sound Drivers which caused our speaker to vibrate and produce sounds We don t have to use these Sound Drivers to access the speaker We can produce sound more like noise than music by PEEKing at a memory location in our Apple Most texts state that each time your program references memory location 16366 or 49200 using the following statement or something similar a click is emitted SOUND PEEK 16366 or SOUND PEEK 49200 THIS IS NOT quite TRUE and you will prove it for yourself It seems that each time the PEEK is performed the paper cone of the speaker either moves in or out from its current position I suspect that only when the cone moves out can you hear the click If you type the PEEKs in immediate mode several times in arow you will only hear the click every other time Now this informa tion may not be of outstanding value to you since we seldom are interested in just one click by itself By using Applesoft to PEEK at the memory location repeat edly we can generate tone frequencies unfortunately only low frequencics can
105. START FINDER and FINDER DATA Rename LAUNCHER to START In each subdirectory you should find and delete a file called FINDER DATA On the root volume delete the files FINDER ROOT FINDER DATA FINDER DEF and the ICONS subdirectory If you would like more detailed information on the GS System Disk I strongly recommend the Article GETTING STARTED WITH THE APPLE IIGS by Wesley Felty in the 10 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 September 1987 issue of Call A P P L E magazine You should be aware however that this article focuses on version 2 0 of the System Disk and the Finder that is referred to in the article is the old Desktop program Another reference you may wish to consult is the article ANATOMY OF THE IIGS SYSTEM DISK by Ken Kash marek in the April 87 Call A P P L E This earlier article centers around version 1 1 of the System Disk but most of the information is still valid 6 IIGS SIG MEETING REPORT by Ted Meyer September s mecting was something of an impromptu affair since the change in meeting place caused the cancellation of our planned demonstration on digitizing with the IIgs Officially the meeting was cancelled However at least 30 of our stalwart band met in a noisy and cramped cafeteria at NIH Although David Todd and I brought a IIgs to demonstrate the GS Finder and the new System Disk lack of electrical outlets turned the meeting into a kind of Q amp A session I began the discu
106. T HBJ 28 Math Blaster Plus 32 Calculus amp Physics 70 SAT Improvement 70 Create a Calendar 22 Springboard Publisher 92 Leisure Hollywood Hyjinx 29 Mean 18 Ultimate Golf 29 MacDraft Powerpoint Comicworks World Cup Soccer Applesoft Compiler 127 Lightspeed C Turbo Pascal 3 0 CP M 50 Lightspeed Pascal Planner s Choice 29 VIP Professional GS 205 Excel 1 04 MacCalc Talking Text Writer GS 170 MORE 512K Word Perfect 1 1 101 MS Word 3 01 New recently published software APPLE MACINTOSH 816 Paint Bookmark ASCII Mousetalk DBaseMac Award Maker Plus Eureka Beyond Zork McMax California Games Nord amp Bert Maniac Mansion PT 109 Music Studio gs Ragtime Post Card gs Spellswell Med Dict 64 SoftSwitch gs Superlaser Spool 96 Visualizer II gs Tops 148 Ask for a copy of our Apple or Macintosh catalog containing hundreds of other programs Also ask about our volume discount prices for 10 or more of any onc item 3 shipping and handling per order UPS 4 MD residents add 5 sales tax No charges or COD s Prices subject to change Call for items not listed COMPUTER WARE UNLIMITED P O BOX 1247 COLUMBIA MD 21044 301 854 2346 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 13 APPLE NEWS AND NOTES by Walt Mossberg This month s column reports on a host of new Apple II related products many displayed at AppleFest And we present a comparison of disk copying programs for making one drive copics of the new
107. TY COMPUTER PRODUCTS WE WILL MATCH OR BEAT HELLO WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO A NEW COMPUTER STORE WE ARE SMALL BUT FEEL THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS ON HAND SERVICE TO OUR CUSTOMERS SO IF YOU NEED HELP TO FIND THAT CERTAIN SOFTARE OR HARDWARE PLEASE GIVE US A CALL OR STOP BY AM SURE WE CAN HELP ANY LOCAL PRICE CENTRAL POINT COPY II MAC 27 95 CREIGHTON MACSPELL 59 95 EPYX WINTER GAMES 34 95 ROGUE 95 FIREBIRD THE PAWN 34 95 LASER AUTHOR 169 95 FORE THOUGHT FILE MAKER PLUS 199 95 FACT FINDER 94 95 MICROSOFT EXCEL CALL CHART pices naja 89 95 PILE 149 95 MULTIPLAN 149 95 WORKS 199 95 WORD 2 0 2c eeee 259 95 MINDSCAPE COMIC WORKS 59 95 MONOGRAM DOLLARS amp SENSE 97 95 PBI SOFTWARE DESK SCENE 27 95 ICON SWITCHER 19 95 ICON LIB 1 amp 2 19 95 SILICON BEACH DARK CASTLE 39 95 ENCHANTED SCEPTOR 34 95 SUPER PAINT 69 95 TARGET SOFTWARE MAC LIGHTING 69 95 THESAURUS 42 95 MANHATTEN GRAPHICS READY SET GO 239 95 800 K EXT DRIVE 199 95 FANNY MAC FAN 79 95 SONY 3 5 DS DD 19 95 3M 3 5 DS DD 19 95 DISKFILE 3 5 2 29 DISK STORAGE 3 5 8 95 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 31 Using the Definitions fill in Words Transf
108. The last general point to discuss is the need for full page graphics All laser or shutter printers that are rated at 300 dpi can produce full page text at this resolution but the ability to produce similar resolution with graphics is largely a function of RAM memory Mr Lamont Wood Government Computer News describes the importance of RAM for graphics as follows and I quote If you want to print graphics the most direct way to do itis to use the all points addressable method in which every dot to be printed on the page is mapped out in internal memory This requires a bit for each dot or one byte for every eight dots For an 8 5 by 11 inch sheet of paper at 300 dpi you need slightly more than a million bytes not counting the memory needed for program storage and fonts And to get these bytes arranged fast enough you need a high speed processing unit This adds up to a rather sophisticated computer system Therefore you can understand why the LaserWriter has 1 5 million bytes of RAM 0 5 million bytes of ROM anda Motorola 68000 microprocessor and why it was initially described as the most powerful computer that Apple produced The LaserWriter Plus has 1 megabyte of ROM and seven additional fonts resident in ROM The above description also describes why the Hewlett Packard HP Laser jetcan only do a small portion of the page in 300 dpi graphics and why the Laserjet Plus can only do one half page at 300 dpi The Laserjet has a 59K RA
109. The last line will be the GOTO 2000 4 SAVE your altered program Give it a new name in order to protect the original program 5 RUN it COMING UP Commercial Programs Outside Speakers And More READING FUN A NEW SHAREWARE DISK by Phil Shapiro One of the best kept secrets about the Apple II is the amazing power of the Applesoft SPEED command Even a beginning programmer can compose an amusing interesting reading selec tion using the SPEED command A few months ago I decided to explore what could be done with the Applesoft SPEED command The shareware disk titled Reading Fun contains fifteen of these text display programs The disk starts out with my personal favorite a short story titled Drive Your Eyes The story draws an analogy between reading speeds and driving speeds The story itself progresses from first gear a slow speed of display to fourth gear where the text comes out so fast that you ll have to hold onto your hat Alsoon the diskisa short story titled Random Story where the words of the story bounce out randomly all over the screen Each time you run it the story will look different from the time before About four of the programs on the disk were specifically written for young readers i e second grade to fifth grade readers These programs give the users a choice of display speeds The idea is for a beginning reader to read the selection slowly the first time
110. Then politely log off Let s get technical box 50 to 57 600 Baud Supports XMODEM YMODEM ASCII 1K BLOCKS MACBINARY MACTERMINAL 1 1 Emulates TTY VT52 v7100 Capture file On Of Printer On Off Auto log on scripts for infor mation utilities provided Cc SOFTWARE VENT URES Scripts Invoked by Button Menu Command Key Scripts have full logic constructs Works with ALL Macintosh models amp Laser Writer Works with all async modems Hayes included Includes Switcher amp CompuServe subscription e Includes text editor licensed from Dreams of the Phoenix Inc Documentation by Neil Shapiro If you prefer you can direct MicroPhone to initiate this sequence simply by inserting the disk Or automatically at any specified time day night Or at regular intervals Anything else you need to do from collect ing stock quotes to sending and receiving files is just as simple Try it out at home or office You can find out firsthand just what a remarkable program MicroPhone is Without risking a cent We give you a thirty day moneyback guarantee no questions asked Which is virtually unprecedented in software 4 Since MicroPhone is not copy j protected we obviously have vast j confidence both in our program H N And in you muh Communications Software for the Macintosh MacUser Editor s Choice Award 2907 Claremont Avenue Suite 220 Berkeley CA 94705 415 644 3232 Washington Ap
111. Washington Apple Pi The Journal of Washington Apple Pi Ltd Volume 9 November 1987 Number 4 Beginner s Start at the IIGS Finder 4 Love Apple Music Part 6 Disk Backup 9 Laser Printing amp Mac Typesetting A View of Big Blue You re Going to Love These suitcase powerstation Pyro Officers amp Staff Editorial President s Comer General Information Classifieds Commercial Classifieds Job Mart WAP Hotline WAP Calendar SIG News Stripping Your GS System Disk IIGS SIG Meeting Report Beginner s Guide at the IIGS Finder Walt Mossberg 14 Robert C Platt amp Bruce F Field 16 I Love Apple Music Part 6 Gary Hayman 18 Reading Fun A New Shareware Disk Phil Shapiro 22 Documax A Review Dave Doherty 23 Best of the Apple Items from TCS Lou Pastura 24 On the Trail of the Apple David Ottalini 26 Disk Backup for the Apple Allan M Bloom 28 Program Interface PI SIG News Robert Golden 30 Dana J Schwartz 32 Patricia Kirby 33 Steven Payne 34 Jeff Stetekluh 34 Philip Greco 35 EDSIG News Spy s Adventures in Europe A Review Chris Hancock 36 Battles in Normandy A Review Chris Hancock 36 The Fool s Errand A Review Steven Payne 37 Software Industry Econ Struct Part 2 Joseph A Hasson 39 Robert C Platt 48 Cynthia Yockey 50 Lynn R Trusal 52 dPub SIG Meeting Report Oct 7 Laser Printing and Mac Typesetting Stock SIG News Andrew D Thompson 55 Mac Meeting Report Sept 26 Cynthia
112. a tions occur on the hardware side There can be a reciprocal and integrated relationship as the total technology moves onto higher planes of attainment A major factor is that U S software and new operating systems are adopted world wide Anew gencration of personal computers is beginning to enter the market based on Intel s new 80836 microchip which is very high speed and can perform several operations simultaneously Wall Street Journal 1 19 87 In this instance hardware devel opments have outpaced those in software Machines with the new chip can run existing software two to three times faster than the fastest machines now on the market The new chip can handle memory several times larger than currently in use it permits a computer to perform several tasks at the same time While integrated software exists software with sufficicnt power fully to hamess the new technology remains to be developed Hence lags in the development of different segments of an expanding industry occur not a novel condition but one that has occurred many times in the history of technological evolution On the other hand there has been a rapid growth in the demand for software Computer users supported in many ways special classes user groups a proliferation of books and periodicals have been eager and responsive to get into the market Networking has occurred data bases expanded other vehicles have broadened user horizons Computer languages for
113. age of that total will be exported India India has an estimated 120 software companies with about 5 000 workers They have a strong export orientation Indian firms have entered into joint ventures with U S computer manufacturers Indian advantages in software production in clude a strong intellectual base and very low wage rates Soft ware production costs are 30 to 50 percent lower than in devel oped countries LDC s In general lesser developed countries consider evo contd lution of a computer industry as a vehicle for stimulating economic growth National changes to achieve this goal will have to occur either through the entry of foreign firms and or government support In Mexico and Brazil fiscal and financial assistance measures will be invoked Certain forms of trade restrictions will protect infant industries Specifics may differ from market to market The general inference is that U S firms will have to tolerate burdensome systems of public control if they are to partici pate in the computer markets of these countries VII Issues in the Software Industry Whatare some of the critical issues that will confront the software industry Generally the industry is strong and growing in the United States given the quality and sophistication of its programs U S software producers encoun ter a serious problem in foreign markets which arises from inadequate protection of intellec tual property rights and piracy A compr
114. ain t heard nothing yet Only 17 95 for Apple Pi Members regularly 19 95 Order one for each of your Mac using friends Order line 1 800 622 4070 g o garam Please specify Apple Pl member when ordering Park Row Software 1135 C Garnet Ave San Diego CA 92109 619 581 6778 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 59 DEVELOPER S VIEW 24 Bit Color HyperCard Boston and Seybold by Jim Lanford 24 Bit Color The Hardware product of the MacWorld show this summer was 24 Bit Color cards for the Mac II 1024 1024 8 bits 24 bits 768 768 SuperMac Technology was showing a system in their booth using three of their 8 bit Spectrum cards using three Mac II slots and RasterOps was showing their single card system in their hospitality suite What is exciting about 24 bits is that it allows 16 million colors to be displayed simultaneously The human eye cannot resolve that many colors which has led the color graphics industry torefer toa 24 bit system as True Color Tome a 24 bit system makes very impressive color It looks better that my seven year old Sony TV at home An 8 bit card on the Mac II only gives 256 colors out of a palate of 16 million Some images look great if the palate is chosen correctly but others especially flesh tones look terrible Micro Dynamics borrowed a RasterOps system for our booth at the Seybold Desktop Publishing Conference to show off our collection of 24 bit images A 1024 x 7
115. allowing up to 8 MEG of memory expansion Thats 8 times the memory capacity of Apple s card and just look at the benefits that only GSRAM and GSRAM Plus have over Apple s card e Lower cost e Has 6 RAM banks Apple s card has 4 e Has memory expansion port e Has ROM expansion port e No configuration blocks to set e No soldered in RAM chips e Expandable to 8 MEG e Expands AppleWorks intemal limits e Built in Hi Res self diagnostic software e 5 year hassle free warranty Apple has a 90 day warranty e Made in USA csRAM for More AppleWorks Power Only GSRAM and GSRAM Plus eliminate AppleWorks intemal memory limits increas ing the maximum number of records avail able from 6 350 to over 22 600 and only Gs RAM and GSRAM Plus increase the number of lines permitted in the word processing mode from 7 250 to over 22 600 And only GSRAM and GSRAM Plus offer a builtin printer buffer so you can continue using AppleWorks while your printer is printing GSRAM and GSRAM Plus even expand the number of lines in the dipboard from 255 to 2042 and will auto segment large files so they can be saved on two or more disks You can even have Pinpoint or Macroworks and your favorite spelling checker in RAM for instant response GSRAM and GSRAM Plus will even display the time and date right on the AppleWorks screen Nothing comes close to enhancing AppleWorks so much Turn Your Ics into a Giant Simply plug GSRAM into the IIcs memory
116. anda friend of mine showed me Dollar and SenSe Unfortunately he has since moved and I cannot reach him to get any additional information Some people tell me that it is too complex for just personal checking I am looking for someone who is currently using Dollar and Sen e who could help me out with a few questions about the software If it is good I m going to purchase the program If you know of some better software that is easier to use please also let me know RAY COOPER ON 09 28 Atthe Apple Pi meeting on 9 26 in the Apple portion of Q amp A several people said that QUICKEN is a good personal account ing program I m sure some of the actual users of it can give you better details PAUL SCHLOSSER ON 09 28 Quicken from Intuit will write checks keep your checking account s up to date and even balance your account And it s easy to use The old version of Quicken was in Pascal the new version is ProDOS and much better Ilc Hard Drive ROBERT GIBBS ON 09 07 I am interested in finding a hard disk for my c Any hints KIM BRENNAN ON 09 07 Currently there are few Hard Disks that work on the c The ProAPP series docs very niccly though you won t be able to boot from the ProAPP if you also want to use a 3 5 drive Also you will not be able to use an external 5 25 drive with the ProAPP Quark also makes hard disks that supposedly interface with the c I ve not seen them Ile Flicker MOHAN PAUL ON 10 03 Iha
117. andom at startup Also selects at random or associated with particular screens a sound from a Start UpSound file and a beep from a beeps file Random r is a listing of Randomizer resources and Random pas is the Pascal listing for Randomizer aSound Init Plays a sound file atstartup BeepInit Plays a sound file instead of the Mac Beep Randomiser and Backdrop 2 16 How to customize Ran domizer with ResEdit so that version 2 16 of Backdrop can be used with it Mac Disk 121 Utilities XXI This disk is primarily for users of Microsoft Word for the Mac Typewriter This utility tums your Mac and ImageWriter printer into a standard typewriter Just like a typewriter it has no editing capability except for the delete backspace key Share ware 5 Printer Wheel f Printer Wheel This calculator helps you figure the percentage enlargement or reduction necessary to fit a graphic into a specific sized space Printer Wheel docs tells you all about it Note that Printer Wheel is a Desk Accessory that installs itself when you open it Scholar s Aid 9 72 f Scholar s Aid 9 72 This utility uses the print merge capability of MS Word and the sorting capability of MS File to produce automatically numbered lists and references The Scholar s Aid Tutorial walks you through the program and the rest of the files in the folder including SA 9 72 notes SA Demo Text 1 and 2 SA Demo Ref File SA Ref List Format SA Demo New Refs SA Demo Ref File Ind
118. ant to protect your electronic equipment during thunderstorms unplug it So software developers keep an eye on the weather Some times we even call each other to warn of thunderstorms coming through I won t try to push the analogy between farmers and software developers too far however Software developers have a reputation for working late into the night and many of us do I don t want to think about how early in the moming I would have to get up to feed the livestock if I were a farmer Rich Norling is coauthor of StatWorks and Cricket Graph and the author of Pict O Graph a recently published Macintosh appli cation that draws picture graphs He wrote the book BASIC published by Osborne McGrawiHill Rich is Chairman o Language Systems Corp a Macintosh software company HYPERCARD NEWS The next meeting of the HyperCard SIG will be immediately after the main WAP meeting on October 24 We will then set a permanent meeting time and place The SIG s organizational meeting produced two dozen en thusiastic HyperUsers and HyperScripters We decided to focus the SIG so as to appeal to both groups One significant develop ment was the group purchase of Danny Goodman s book for 17 95 plus tax If you want a copy drop by the office phone ahead to sce if it s available Several people have downloaded Stackware from Compu serve and GEnie SIG volunteers will assemble these as well as your creations into WAP library dis
119. anvas permits 1 rotational increments of objects or paint images a continuous working area of 8 x 4 feet full Bezier curves and the ability to fully adjust brush spray paint and fill patterns It can blowup your graphic by up to 3 200 magni fication Canvas also comes with some standard shapes readily available see below and has the ability to store combinations of objects in what is incorrectly called Macro Sets You can also skew and distort any object or paint image and create one or two point perspectives contd on pg 70 by Martin Milrod Suitcase Beginners seldom find the need for a variety of Desk Acces sories DAs and hardly ever have enough knowledge or suffi cient space within their floppy disk Systems to load many fonts Now we have a breakthrough utility called Suitcase which lifts the burden of manipulating DAs and fonts It s all run by asimple init placed into your System Folder and is excellent for the 70 percent of us who now use Hard Disks and where space limita tions are no longer critical The init called Suitcase is initialized upon startup It auto matically opens all up to ten each of the DA suitcases or font suitcases or FKeys Function Keys which you have also placed into the System Folder They are all immediately avail able to you without having been installed into your System and without using the horrible Font DA Mover Apple s utility for adding DAs an
120. ar page then create a normal text block wherever you d like itand select Bring To Frong to make sure the text block is in front of the graphic Do your stuff as usual in the text block and then print It may look funny on screen but should print out just fine on paper RSG4 fixes this with the arbitrary graphic run around feature for lack of a better thing to call it RSG4 doesn t seem as bad as it was on first impression it s nice and quick Convert RSG3 documents at your own risk though DAVID GURSKY on 09 23 The following appears in the September 14th issue of Macintosh Today p 17 Denver Responding to criticism from its custom ers Quark Inc will remove copy protection from its XPress contd desktop publishing program Effectively immediately the company will supply protection free program disks tocustomers who return or have already returned their warranty registration cards said Quark president Fred Ebrahimi The company initally decided to install copy protection under pressure from its foreign distributors who feared counterfeiters would cut into their business Ebrahimi said We were heavily advised to do this because of problems in places like Hong Kong where pirated versions of PageMaker sell for 15 to 25 he said But the policy hurt innocent honest people and we got clobbered for it so we changed it XPress which retails for 695 is designed for newspapers and multi article publications
121. are now DOS compatible Things are indeed changing The U S Army is in the process of dropping operating system specificity from their bid requests for small computer systems opening the door to Apple The Navy has acquired about 10 000 Macs for various applications and evaluation The Merchant Marine Academy has specified Mac Pluses for their midshipmen in order to tie into the system at nearby Dartmouth College Can the other services be far behind The Harvard Business School where pinstripers are made and not born has announced that the Mac is the machine of choice for their students starting this Fall More and more articles are appearing citing the not so hidden costs of training personnel on MS DOS systems The point is the rest of the small computer world that part that looks towards the blue light from Armonk NY rather than Cupertino is no longer laughing By trying to direct their customers to start over with new hardware IBM has allowed them the option of a second look at all contenders including Apple This time around with regards to the previous Lisa and Apple machines Apple has some thing to show them Many like what they see For the near future the MS DOS world seems more then somewhat fragmented My own personal appreciation of the Mac Mac evangelists would call it salvation in part had to do with this fragmentation I learned to like the Mac really the Mac interface when you get right down to it without i
122. arget Deneba is now producing and selling its own software directly Both Deneba and Target have promised to continue user support of their products even though these named products will no longer be developed and they are in the midst of legal proceed ings Target Software produces Scoop one of the latest desktop publishing page layout programs Deneba s new products expanded versions of some prior products include Comment replacing Memorandum and Spell ing Coach and Spelling Coach Professional which works with MS Word 3 01 replacing MacLightning One of its truly new products is Canvas a combination Draw Paint product Canvas is similar to SuperPaintin conception and shares considerable familial tendencies with Graphic Works and Silicon Press in its ability to deal with both object oriented and bit mapped materials Both SuperPaint and Canvas provide lay ered images in either object PICT or bit mapped Paint form some form of translucent or opaque layering the ability to work at 300dpi LaserWriter or 72dpi Imagewriter and the ability to work in much enlarged or duplicated versions of graphics Both also share a common problem and that is their relative inability to import or export ma terials in their native formats to almost any other application Both SuperPaint and Canvas almost require saving in MacDraw PICT of Mac Paint format in order to utilize their products
123. at HUMBLE for use with Small talk 80 HOLGER SOMMER on 09 15 I use a program call MacKit from Knowledge Systems Environ ments Inc cost only 80 I believe For writing programs I use experLisp Prolog and OPSS I try to put it into one environment for software development but still have to use Switcher to move between OPSS and Lisp Tech Notes ERIC RALL on 09 05 There is a new ul dl area number 18 with Mac tech notes These notes came courtesy of Jay Heller Ihave two more to upload that I got from another source and then we should be up to date Jay if you see this thanks on behalf ofall the Mac owners looking for tech notes I hope all is well or at least better with your eyes contd Telecommunications BILL BALDRIDGE on 09 06 Hiding on the back pages of the September MacWorld is anew on line information service called Telefolders It s a Mac only service and 49 95 or 50 for the rest of us gets you a complete startup package I called them and found the line Sprint clean and they re in California According to the ad and the person the interface is not menu driven but finder driven all files and services appear as icons on a desktop metaphor Sounds intrigu ing BTW on line charges are 1 cent per minute so you ll have to decide if a long distance call to CA will offset the cheap connect charge P S They also sell a complete on line package for startup services i c 512E Mac 6 port serial interface 2
124. ation to application rapidly and safely It s ncatas all get out and the best of any mini finder with which I ve worked o Included with either Suitcase or PowerStation is a screen darkener similar to MacsBug or AutoBlack It neatly appears in the Control Panel if you are using System 4 1 Finder 5 5 or later versions and you can control a variety of features see inset Control Panel General Sleep Now Never Sleep Corner Corner Keyboard Idle minutes after which the screen will sleep O1 O2 5 O15 O30 O60 Q120 During screen sleep background tasks such as alarms spoolers AppleTalk eto will be Enabled Postponed Pyro 1987 Sgftvore 70 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 When initiated Pyro generates an annoying ad for Software Supply Steve Brecher s company which produced these items and only then goes on to show either a bouncing white apple on a blacked out screen or optionally fireworks which appears in color on color supported monitors I found Pyro slightly unreliable It interrupted long print jobs I had when not using a print spooler Nothing was lost it just froze the printing while Pyro was engaged and then continued when Pyro was disengaged by touching any key or moving the mouse Because of this I returned to Autoblack1 5 and content ment with my screen darkener Conclusion Suitcase and PowerStation are well developed smooth effi cient effective and safe util
125. attendees He was askcd after the initial demonstration how he came to develop HyperCard He said that when he had completed his last programming project he sat back and thought about what future computers would be like fantasizing about a dream machine that could be developed if moncy and time were no object After culling out all the things currently technologically impossible HyperCard was what was left It s hard to describe but I d call the program a powerful data base that is much more than adata base It can combine graphics textand buttons which are icons that let you do things like dial a phone and link them together in various ways You build stacks of information one card at a time and the stacks can be saved like any other file Apple is bundling this with all new MAC SE s and IIs and selling it to current owners basically at cost 50 from dealers of which 26 goes to Apple Apple is reportedly looking intoaGS version as well But for many Mac users this could be the only program they will ever really need And Apple is basically giving it away No wonder other Mac vendors are upset MEETING QUEUE Please note that because our December meeting would fall near Christmas eve we will meet one week earlier on the 16th Time and Location remain the same We will have a graphics demonstration with On Three s Graphics Manager and a new WAPPD offering Sketchpad a little sister to Draw On writte
126. automating routine y computer chores is available i at this price with a macro program called tempo And your writer can check his spelling with any number of available programs which work with word processors Some of the best Mac graphics programs are also available in this price range Wi ANNA Vast Variety of Games Smart Alarms Utility 38 Tempo Macros 55 ACTA or Voila Oufliners 36 Spelling Checkers 35 50 FullPaint 50 SuperPaint 54 StatWorks statistics 75 Learn to Type Programs 40 MacTilt Stand for Mac 75 Under 175 MicroPhone 120 Microsoft File database 110 Trapeze database 170 Cricket Graph 125 Mulfiplan spreadsheet 105 MORE presentations 160 Write Now 100 Cricket Draw 175 Accounting Programs 100 Central Point Disk Orive 175 Under 175 For less than 175 your MacNovice could begin using some of the Macintosh s software superstars D MORE the outlining program which A made the genre famous Multiplan WE which broke the mold in spreadsheets Write Now one of the new word proc l essing entries Microphone the computer communica tions program which makes it easy And by shopping carefully you can even find an external double sided disk drive for this price from Central Point Under 300 If you re willing to spend as much as 300 you can givea truly powerful Macintosh gift The best
127. be produced One author states that using Applesoft the highest frequency of tone that can be produced is 72 Hz cycles per second Thatis why we use machine language sound drivers to produce higher frequency tones But still we have enough available to us so that we can do some interesting experimentation with the PEEK method of producing sound although in most cases we can call it Con trolled Noise You may by stretching your imagination a little be able to produce and hear clicks ticks tocks buzzes missiles rockets explosions sirens creature voices tanks cars lasers and other weird noises THE PROGRAM The following program Listing 17 VARIOUS SOUNDS is designed to allow you to easily experiment with this particular way of generating sounds It allows you to choose the sound by number or lt N gt ext repeat the sound using lt A gt gain and listen to the previous different sound using lt P gt revious It allows you examine two sounds repeatedly for comparison purposes an extremely useful feature Not only will it produce the sound but 18 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 it will also DISPLAY THE LINES OF CODE responsible for the sound The actual program is short and consists of lines 10 95 a couple of lines of additional programming at the end and a few one or two line subroutines The major part of the code that you sce in the listing are the 28 different sounds that you will be working with and hearing
128. canning is one of the exciting outgrowths of desktop publishing Graphic images can be converted into graphic files which can be en hanced and then pasted into word processors and page layout programs Text can be optically scanned and converted into machine readable information in a document database or spreadsheet There are a number of manufacturers of systems which enable you to scan a graphic or text document What You Get New Image Technology a local company offers MacScan a package consisting of three components First you have the scanner New Image offers the LS 300 scanner from Princeton Graphic Systems It is a proven product used by other value added resellers Capable of 300 dots per inch dpi resolution the unit is quiet fast and compact It can scan an8 1 2 x 11 page in ten seconds Compare this to the low cost Thunderscan that may require more than five minutes to scan the same document Next New Image adds an interface box This box connects the scanner to the Mac s SCSI connector Both the scanner and the interface box require A C power i e you ll have to provide two outlets Last New Image provides software the MacScan progam which activates the scanner receives it s signals and creates a Mac file as output You run the program insert a document in the scanner and select the Scan command from the File menu That is all there is to it Before going on letme point out that New Image does not yet offer o
129. ce you last saved your data Does anyone have comments on the Daynafile A new model is coming out that is less clunky than the older model which works and does convert IBM files to Mac files Be aware that Apple is talking about bundling a file transfer program with all Macs starting in November and plans to sell it bundled with HyperCard and MultiFinder to current Mac owners for 49 This new program will convert files among Macs Apple s and IBMs The NBS s Electronic Publishing Lab mentioned above has set the creation of file conversion standards as its first priority Will 2 5 megs of RAM be enough memory with MultiFinder You never have enough but that will probably be sufficient to run PageMaker Word and MultiFinder which is all you ll usually need at one time Don t get it until you need it because prices now could drop Apple lists its 2 meg memory upgrade at 599 Clinton s WAP price for a 2 meg is 449 installed while others are rumored to offer upgrades installed for 450 Memory prices have recently increased due to Toshiba being punished for the sale of advanced technology that let Russia make quicter submarines but Apple has dropped its memory upgrade prices anyway probably to help get its installed user base up to speed with HyperCard and MultiFinder Members who have used MultiFinder to the max said it works very well it only crashed with CricketDraw but several CricketDraw users said they wouldn t blame Mult
130. ced computer programs now available for the Macintosh Everything from games to graphics and account ing software is taking advantage of the newer Macs increased memory You could have your MacNovice s machine upgraded se cretly by taking it into a Macintosh shop on the sly The operation can often be completed in a few hours sometimes while you wait But an equally classy way to give this gift is to arrange with a computer shop for a gift certificate worth the price of the upgrade Or even just to make your own certificate perhaps even on the Mac Under 30 Believe it or not despite the reputation of the Macintosh as an expensive computer it s possible to purchase a wide variety of gifts for less than 30 Here are some suggestions Under 30 You d be surprised at DEEE how welcome a fresh box Mouse Pad 8 of disks or some Dust Cover 10 children s programs Disk Case 20 would be around the Mac And a collection of clip art can really dress up your Mac Novice s publi cations Box of Blank Disks 20 Communications Source Subscription 25 Clip Art Collection 30 Font Collection 28 Chess Game 29 Childrens Educational Programs 30 58 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 Under 75 For a little more money you can open up the handy world of outlining to your MacNovice These are desk accessories able to help organize a Macintosh user s thoughts Another world
131. ch sound Does sound 15 sound alittle different each time you play it with the lt A gt option Do you notice a slight hesitation in the sound as it switches between the two loops Sound 16 260 Here we put the complete loop on the same Statement line Sound 17 270 I now insert a couple of multipliers Compare sounds 16 and 17 17 appears lower and more raspy Sound 18 280 I use a combination of s s and s Compare with 17 Have we reduced the raspy quality somewhat Sound 19 290 Here I use three loops Y the how many times loop Z the pause loop and X the sound frequency loop Examine this Do you find it a more useful sound Sound 20 300 Similar set up to sound 19 but I play around with different multipliers Compare the two contd Global communications Down to earth price Introducing the DataLink modem Get instant access to networks and databases plus network memberships and discounts worth 177 95 Now you can tap into a world of information without draining your resources Our DataLink modem lets your Apple IIGS He or II communicate with other computers download free software from networks and bulletin boards access database services and more For a remarkably low price The world at your fingertips With the DataLink modem you ll be able to draw informa tion from thousands of databases Send and receive electronic mail even overseas Join clubs and bulletin b
132. d Shareware 10 00 Extra 10 00 for manual SpeedBlockBall Very similar to BlockBall with a ball and a block bouncing around the screen tracing patterns Click to exit Tree A QuickDraw demonstration that draws a tree using recursive algorithms The shape and size of the tree changes as you vary factors such as complexity and scale pen shape mode pen pattem and background pattern Tree amp Fish This is a demonstration of picture animation functions with balloons and a witch flying across a picture of a tree Youcan movea giant fish across this scene by moving your mouse Requires a Mac Plus Vanlandingham The Mac s answer to the Amiga s boing demo this amazing animation shows a three dimensional ball bouncing across the screen It takes a while to warm up but during the wait you can read the advertisement for the Boston Computer Society It doesn t work on the Mac XL ViewPaint 1 5 A utility that allows you to manipulate Paint and StartUp Screen documents Has a nice built in help function Shareware 5 00 Super MandelZoom 1 01 f Super MANDELZOOM 1 01 This is a tough one to describe so I ll quote from the author s abstract The Mandelbrot Set and a program for plotting pictures of it are described The program presents a simple modeless user interface which allows the user to easily select the desired region to plot on the screen adjust the settings and shading tables used to draw it and sel
133. d Surge Protector 4 outlets amp cord 45 Microsoft Works word proc calc dbase cona 189 Word new version 3 011 259 Excel best Mac spreadsheet available 245 Basic Interpreter Cospiler 991125 M Chart presentation business graphics 85 A File easy to use database 119 C ReadySetGo PageMaker latest versions call I dBASE MAC from the dBASE folks ae 315 N HcMAX dBASE compatible database 185 T 4th Dimension the Silver Surfer has arrived call Oo Dollars amp Sense home accounting w graphics 95 S Peripheral Land 30 aeg internal for SE fast 685 H 30 aeg external SCSI drive 649 Infinity 10 neg resovable floppy reads IBM disk 895 Video Tech 800K external floppy 05 215 Dove MacSnap 6 SIMM memory upgrades call SuperPaint FullPaint ccceeeeeeceeevens 69 65 Kensington Mac Systea Saver fan E surga protector EZZZAGCEODZO0IUN z CALL FOR PRICES OF ITENS NOT LISTED mama Please Coapare Our Prices If you find a lower price give us a chance to beat it 15 pa aa Feel free to call for answers to technical questions TO ORDER Call Jeff Dillon at 301 434 0405 or Write or visit OPERANT SYSTEMS 7676 New Haapshire Ave Suite 312 Langley Park Md 20783 Md sales add 5 tax UPS shipping is available All items carry
134. d fonts By placing any combination of suitcase containing DAs and fonts you can have virtually unlimited access to them from within any application that support DAs What a bonanza Artisto BigCaps Camera Chooser Control Panel DiskTop Key Caps Laser Queue LaserSpeed Lookup McSink MenuFonts MenuKey miniWRITER New Scrapbook NumCaps 2 01 PB Retriever Open Font DA File 30 Close Font BA File s 38C TT Suitease 1 0 1 0 by Steve Brecher Copyright 1987 Software Supply RY AN Rights Reserved Desktop publishers graphics artists and just ordinary Mac users will love this utility About 4K of its codes are placed into RAM Random Access Memory which calls upon the Suit case icons within the System Folder to open up In using Suitcase I encountered two problem one with a screen dark ener called Pyro which is bundled with Suitcase discussed below and its occasional failure to automatically open all my DA suitcases I spoke with Brecher about this and he stated that he was aware of this anamoly To avoid using the Command K instruction locating the suitcases and opening them a minor inconvenience youcan place your DAs and fonts suitcases into BOY ARE YOU GOING TO LOVE THESE one folder named Fonts DAs Once I did this Suitcase func tioned beautifully Suitcase runs within any environment having 512K or more of RAM and lists for 59 95 Steve Brecher the aut
135. date is the end of October My problem with all of this is that he never wrote in all this time to let me know what was happening I am not pleased but at least I heard something Word Processors DAVID BELL on 09 05 You mean that Word 3 01 does NOT have WYSIWYG column display Or just editing I thought that was one of the things MS was plugging BILL QUALLS on 09 06 That s right MS Word DOES NOT have WYSIWYG column display In other words when you re working with a multi column document the text in displayed as one long stream of text One column is not displayed along side another It s a major shortcoming as far as I m concerned After FullWrite Profes sional comes out I think the heat will be on Microsoft to add this feature to Word contd Washington Apple Pi November 1987 77 PETER COMBES on 09 12 I am looking for potential consultants trainers helpers advisors on the following processors MacKorean MacCyrillic MacHe brew Super Greek EG Word Japanese Al Kaatib Arabic If you have experience on any of these please give me a call on 251 6369 voice BILL QUALLS on 09 13 Wow I m impressed If I may be so forward exactly what is that you do thatrequires knowledge of these word processors By the way are all of these products Macintosh word processors If so I d like to know who makes them name address and telephone number If you can provide this info I ll put it in a library file Mac for
136. e MacScan kindly displays a gauge indicating the percent of the file saved or loaded to help you know when a cup of coffee might be a good idea The scanning options include two value normal two value thinline and halftone alternatives Halftone is the standard choice for gray scale images Two value normal works best for text images as it produces an graphic with only white and black content In addition you can scan the image a little lighter or a little darker 1d guess the change is about a half stop to a camera buff by selecting a different menu choice Once an image has been scanned it can be viewed at any of seven magnifications normal and 2X 4X and 8X magnified or reduced The magnification is useful for fine editing while the reduction allows you to see the entire image and to crop away parts you do not need After cropping the sub image alone can be saved i At the left of the MacScan window are a set of tools for editing Most of these will be familiar to MacPaint users The plus and minus signs at the top increase and decrease the size of the square diamond shaped or round pens shown below the plus sign The fourthiconon the right prah is the cropping tool which can be used to bring in any of the four borders to eliminate the area around a sub image The patterns at the bottom are used with the fill icons The textured pattern between the two arrows is justone of many random patterns available for filling T
137. e I have seen it advertised for less I would like to have seen the interface box and scanner powered together avoiding the need for two plugs and a lot of wires running all over the place If you need a scanner give them a call New Image Technology 10300 Greenbelt Rd Seabrook MD 20706 Phone 301 464 3100 6 A View of Big Blue contd from pg 62 like watching grass grow compared to the speed of the Plus The story goes that there is enough similar code in Windows that Microsoft pays royalties to Apple In spite of these legal arrangements perhaps to avoid the look and feel contro versy that tripped up Digital Research s GEM interface much of Windows housekeeping tasks i e file copying etc involve a pull down menu but then require typing into a dialog box Atwo to three step operation compared to Mac s quick click and drag Add to this the fact that little if any software is written to run under Windows then there is no convenient way to patch data from one application to another While Mac ers bemoan having to use the clipboard and await Multifinder Juggler the IBM ers don t even have that option I may amuse you at some future time over the memory conflict wars and system crashes that result from what are called TSR programs terminate and stay resident for the IBM Desk Accessories for the Mac Apple s equivalent of TSR s are generally well behaved and well handled in an organized fa
138. e Writer II DOS 3 3 program with com plete documentation 703 893 5766 day or evening FOR SALE For the Apple II Transwarp card 150 Accelerator 140 Buffered Grappler 64K 90 Grappler 40 Multiram CX with 512K and software 130 Instant Pascal 100 Hayes Micromodem e 100 AppleWorks 2 0 with manuals 150 Original boxes and manuals for most items Daytime 202 363 2342 FOR SALE Apple e 128K with Apple DuoDisk Street Business Card 2 serial ports and clock calendar Apple Mouse lle Kensington System Saver Apple Color Monitor Imagewriter II printer Dust covers All manuals Software 1500 Call 703 455 9019 after 6 PM FOR SALE Mac 512e with 10MB Hyperdrive Hard Disk very fast Included Software Mac Write MacPaint Switcher Misc Shareware MacTerminal Hyper Backup and Disk Man agement Utilities 800K internal disk 400K external Mac Plus keyboard and original keyboard Also Software for the Mac DB Master MacLion Helix 2 0 Hayden Commercial Interiors and Hayden Building Blocks Software for Apple e WordPer fect State of the Art Accounting BPI Time Accounting AgDisk Farm Accounting Landlord Rental Management S W Software for the IBM State of the Art Payroll Versaform XL Database Call Greg Allen 301 732 9130 day or evenings FOR SALE Cricket Draw 150 and Hard Disk Utility 45 In original shrink wrap never opened Warranty card included Call Joc Klimek on 301 299 5137
139. e are now liquid crystal display LCD shutter printers light emitting diode LED shutter printers and ion deposition printers IDP The LCD shutter printer functions by shining a light onto the printing drum through a long narrow LCD shutter When the liquid shutter tums dark light is blocked so the drum is selectively sensitized It is also possible to use tiny light emitting diodes LED s to achieve the same effect The LED printers use an array of individually addressable non laser LED s The Casio printer is an example of a LCD shutter mechanism while the NEC and Kodak models use LED technology LCD printers generally have a slightly lower resolution of 240 dpi while the LED may be 240 or 300 dpi This slight decrease is often offset by higher PPM and DC ratings in the range of 12 ppm and adc of 24 000 Laser printers usually have a dpi of 300 a ppm of 8 to 12 and a dc of 3 000 to 5 000 pages a month Ion deposition printers use a hardened aluminum drum anda pressure roller These two components generate high pressures to fuse the toner to the paper This process is generally more economical and faster than laser technologies CIE Systems produces such a printer which produces 45 pages a minute but lists for 15 540 A laser model that can produce the same throughput costs considerably more Obviously such a printing rate is beyond the printing needs of most personal or small business users and the cost is gencrally prohibitive
140. e button and a menu will appear Continuing to hold the mouse button down pull the mouse down until the arrow is pointing at the word OPEN Assuming that you had earlier chosen the System Disk OPEN should be blackened as the arrow points at it By letting go of the mouse button you will execute the command OPEN on the chosen object the System Disk When this is done the System Disk will expand into a window In this window you ll see a whole mess of icons just begging to be chosen and opened Across the top of the window is the title bar The name of the window SYSTEM DISK in this case is right in the middle of the bar In the right corner of the window s title bar you ll find the expansion box This expansion box looks like two small Squares one inside and in the top left corner of the other Move your pointer to this square and click The window should expand to encompass the entire screen You should be able to see all of the contents of the system disk now Somewhere in the window you should see an icon called SYS UTILS that looks like a file folder Choose this folder and open it by using the menu bar at the top of the screen just as you chose and opened the System Disk A new window will open with yet more icons Several of these icons will look vaguely like a hand writing on a diamond shaped piece of paper Use your imagination This icon generally represents application programs Apple
141. e had obtained for printing the Journal The present printer has also presented anew competetive quotation and this is being discussed further The Board decided to continue the custom of distributing Joumals at main meetings Susan Meehan reported on the issue of Call Waiting interrupting modem calls C amp P does not support Call Waiting disabling by the user The Board voted to investigate the matter further Tom Warrick reported on membership trends Last month was one of the best in quite a few months for number of new members The absolute decline on 6502 memberships has reversed GS numbers are increasing rapidly as are Macin tosh SEs We are starting to see a signficant increase in the new models The current high Apple sales suggest an opportunity for new membership publicity Relationships with out of area groups who wish to be associated with Apple Pi were discussed We have had requests from as far as Florida and Sweden The 501 c 3 effort is awaiting the arrival of forms from the IRS Pins will be presented to active volunteers at the October meet ing Many letters have been filed about the FCC access fee THE PRICE IS RIGHT ON Apple Software Macintosh Software DAC Easy Acct 51 On Balance Back to Basics Sys 153 70 MacOneWrite Sys 64 C icati Commworks 60 Smartcom II 104 Point to Point 80 Straightalk 21 Bank St Filer 128K 50 Omnis 3 Plus 295 pfs Workmates f r p w 170 Reflex 72 i Computer SA
142. e medium for all Apple II s On the IIgs these rugged little high capacity disks are the standard already But most Apple II owners who use 3 5 s have only a single 3 5 drive making copying the disks a procedure so potentially tedious it can seem like a lifetime job For instance using even the newest version of Apple s GS System Utilities it can take 15 minutes and 25 seconds with 94 disk swaps to copy a 3 5 disk with around 700K of its 800K in use Fortunately there are a number of competitors out there that do the job much faster and some which REALLY speed it up on a GS if you re willing to allow any RamDisk you ve set up on RAMS to be overwritten Below are the results of a bench mark comparison using as a test disk thenew GS System Disk 1371 blocks used The fastest of the programs is Fast Copy anew utility Apple included on GS System Disk 3 0 and which runs under ProDOS 8 meaning it may well work on IIe s and IIc s though I m not sure When set to overwrite RAMS Fast Copy copied the test disk in 3 minutes 25 seconds with 3 disk swaps required Even when set so it preserved RAMS Fast Copy took only 3 minutes 40 seconds and 3 disk swaps Diversi Copy a 30 shareware program by Bill Basham of DSR Inc was a few seconds slower than Fast Copy but required only 1 disk swap Diversi Copy available on many BBS systems did our test disk with only a single disk swap in 3 minutes 29 seconds But in doing so
143. e populated files tocome Second the error message is abysmal The manual was of little help simply making reference to the ProDOS Manual The sanitized manuals Apple ships for general con sumption are of no help in decoding a hexadecimal MLI error code and this one sent me scrambling for my ProDOS Technical Reference Manual a document many users don t have Most errors are trapped properly but encountering an empty file is not really unusual For example it happens when you OPEN a file from BASIC and the program stops executing prior toa WRITE to the file Operations This isa very fast program It will searcha large text file ona hard disk in seconds For example it searched a 57 block 28k text file in 16 seconds on my ProFile It will search a full 5 25 floppy disk in less than two minutes There are some very neat and easily accessible utilities built into this program such as copy file and create or sort a directory and menus are gencrally a keystroke away Overall Conclusions This is a very fast and inexpensive utility program but you mustconsider its limitations If you have six textfile directories on your hard disk for keeping your correspondence organized you will have to do six separate searches to check all your files There is no way to search an entire disk for references to a particular subject which would be an outstanding improvement nor is there a way to search for program titles or file names which wou
144. e regular WAP meeting in the USUHS cafeteria For information call Ted Meyer at 703 893 6845 Apple SIG meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 7 30 PM in the WAP office Next meeting is Novembr 25 AppleWorks SIG offers two meeting options 8 00AM before the regular WAP meeting and 12 Noon after the meeting Attend either or both DisabledSIG Call Jay Thal at 344 3649 for info dPub SIG Desktop Publishing meets on the Ist Wednesday of the month at 7 30 PM in the PEPCO Auditorium at 1900 Penn Ave NW The next meeting is on November 4 EDSIG the education special interest group meets on the 4th Thursday of the month at 7 30 PM at the office Fed eral SIG usually meets on the third Wednesday of the month Call the Chairman for details 8 Apple Igs 9 7 30 9PM Office f Office 16 7 30 9PM Office Office 22 Mutual Fund 23 Sub Group Stock SIG 8 PM Office 2 Mac Progmrs 7 30 PM Office dPub SIG 7 30 9PM Office 7 30 PM PEPCO Beginning Executive Board Stock SIG Tutorial 2 7 30 PM Apple 5 Word 3 0 Tutorial 1 3 PM Office 12 Frederick Slice Annapolis Slice Music SIG 19 WAP Mecting Garage Sale Location TBA _ 8 00 PM Pascal SIG 8 00 PM Christmas Eve Office Closed Christmas Day Office Closed GameSIG meets on the 1st Thursday of the month at the office 7 30 PM The next meeting will be o November 5
145. e s PDP 11 Xerox 2700 I have a number of longtime Mac er friends who warned me off of the Imagewriter II for mechanical reasons main complaint they jam a lot It does seem like someone is bringing a sick I 2 into Clinton every time I m there Does anyone have any experience with other printers Anybody tried the Softstyle Microsoft MacEnhancer that MacCorner wants to sell me Any advice is welcome JERRY OPPENHEIMER on 09 18 My wife is using a Panasonic 1080 now called 10801 which costs 139 on today s market She has a program from Sofstyle called Epstart You place the Imagewriter emulator patch in the system file Epson FX80 I believe and there you go It totally emulates the Imagewriter text and graphics albcit a bit slower You need however a serial to parallel adaptor There are several on the market including the one you mentioned 76 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 ALLAN LEVY on 09 21 I just received several grappler c mac gs and they plug into the c mac se and gs Mac thinks it is talking to Imagewriter Grappler plugs in parallel printer Seems to work fine JOHN PELKEY on 10 02 Saw an ad for anew NEC postscript laser Model LC890 Does anybody know anything about this unit MIL TRATENSEK on 10 02 John I ve been using one for the last three weeks and love it I have no experience whatsoever with the LaserWriter or other PS based printers so I cannot compare output or throughput Those who hav
146. e seen the printer s output as well as I have been very impressed by the sharpness of the printed page I do not recall ever having to wait more than 30 or so seconds before a page output I have used with Word 3 01 Excel RSG3 MacDraft amp Cricket Graph Additionally blacks are black and do not exhibit streaking of the Canon based engine as I have heard It has 3MB of RAM the same font set as the Laser Writer you can directly hook up an IBM PC horrors emulates an HP laser printer and best of all with comparative shopping beat the Laser Writer price by 500 to 600 our cost was 3800 Rumor Manager JONATHAN PAFF on 09 30 AST will begin shipping the first MAC286 cards next week The first evaluation units have arrived but we are awaiting the final non Beta software to test it out supposed to come Fed EX this AM Look for the boards in small quantities in about two weeks The SE version 8086 is still scheduled for late 4th quarter I ll try to report preliminary results by the weekend Software Misc TIM LEE on 09 14 Does anyone have any knowledge or experience with expert system software for the Mac I m interested in finding some thing fairly inexpensive if it exists under 200 I ve seen something called MacSmarts advertised in AI Expert Magazine for 150 anyone know anything about it Also something called Humble by Xerox for several computers including Apple Macin tosh workstations make th
147. eady copy on the Macintosh using an Apple LaserWriter Plus Please send resumes to Mark Odum Publications Director Georgetown University NCEMCH 38th and R Streets NW Washington DC 20057 Customer Support Manager Wanted DC based software publisher with powerful new database management application needs your Mac talent We seek bright dedicated and enthusi astic Mac techie to establish and manage national customer services department Must understand software support and be available to travel Duties include customer interface and training programs user group management and all technical support activities Must possess strong Macintosh background Exciting growth opportunity offers excellent salary potential with full company benefits Send cover letter resume and salary history to Pres TPS 1725 K Street NW Washington DC 20006 No phone calls please Consultant sought to provide high quality quick turn around day night and or weekend off site graphics support All work must be processed using a Macintosh computer Artis tic inclination a keen eye for design and ability to work under pressure is required Work would be transmitted by courier to your location Projects will be sporadic and haveextremely short deadlines possibly only a few hours possibly overnight Please contact Frank Grantham at 202 232 6261 Washington Apple Pi will have an opening soon for a part time position approximately 22 hrs week 10
148. ect portions of the image to be drawn in greater detail The user may select a point in the image and obtain its count value the period of its attractor and a plot of its Julia curve The program has highly optimized math routines and a sophisticated executive which prioritizes the execution of multiple commands from the user Share ware Public Domain but small donation if you REALLY like it Super MZ doc Read me first is a short MacWrite document that explains how to use the lengthy documentation contained in Parts 1 and 2 Super MZ doc part 1 is a 19 page contd Washington Apple Pi November 1987 81 document that is formatted in a 6 point Monaco font Before reading or printing the documentation you must install the Narrow Monaco 9 font The author explains how to do this in the Read Me First file Super MZ doc part 2 The rest of the documentation XVT Draw f X VT Draw 1 0B2 A neat little shareware draw ing program very much like MacDraw It is the first applica tion written under the Experimental Virtual Toolkit XVT which is an attempt to make applications with modem user interfaces such as Macintosh and Microsoft Windows port able across computers and operating systems Shareware 25 00 XVT Draw hlp This is an indexed help system that is available within the program or outside of it The help function serves as the documentation for the program lics DISKE TERIA NEWS Mac Disk 124 Paintings VI Th
149. eded to test assemble and annotate Tele communications disks for the Mac 3 Someone with a Mac II is needed to test assemble and annotate disks for the Mac II which will be on 800K disks If you do not want to volunteer Dave will at great personal sacrifice accept any member s offer of a long term loan of a Mac II so he can put these disks together If you can write have a fair knowledge of the Mac and can spare 10 to 30 hours a month please contact Dave Weikert at 301 948 9646 metro area or the telephone number listed in the masthead suburban Maryland This Month s New Disks This month we issue five new disks These include one Inits disk one disk of utilities one disk of desk accessories one disk with graphics and one disk with paintings This month s sub Missions are brought to you by William Jones Bob Soule and Dave Weikert and the efforts of all the duplicators listed under the masthead The folder information where appropriate pre cedes the listing of program contents Folder information is par enthesized programs and files are printed in bold with shareware price information printed in bold italic print Mac Disk 120 Inits II Init Text A description of the process by which Paul Muselman created icons for various Inits written by others represented on this disk by MacsBug pem JClock Skip Startup Cursor Wrap Sort Menu Narrator Im mortality and MacWait INIT CursorWrap Lets the cursor
150. eeting site is announced on the message tape after office hours so call any time In addition the HyperCard Special Interest Group an nounced its first meeting which was held in the WAP offices immediately following the regular member meeting The next HyperCard SIG meeting will also be held at the WAP offices after the October 24 general meeting to decide on a regular meeting time and place Tom also displayed the new WAP pins shaped like the WAP bitten apple logo In recognition of their work on designing and obtaining the pins Tom awarded the first and second pins to Charlie Ryder and Deacon MacCubbin The pins will go onsale to all members for 5 00 at the October meeting About the Meeting When the federal government asked local computer consult ant Melvin Laney to create a database application to keep track of its civilian employee personnel files he knew he would have to supply something that could be used easily by the lowest level clerks Despite having spent the formative period of his 25 year background in computers with XXX he told WAP members he chose the Mac for the job over IBM and VAX saying I m impressed with the Mac because of the user interface We often say the training and maintenance of a system cost more than the software more than the hardware I believe the Macintosh is the wave of the future in the user interface Laney s next step was to call Apple to see if there were any new applications to sol
151. ege of having an IBM PC as the sole computer on the cover But for the most part there has been little if any mention of activities in the MS DOS world Mac ers just didn t care Not so for the IBM ers Since this Spring there have been more comments articles and analysis by industry pundits on the impact of the new Macs than in all the time since the Mac was introduced Most if not all are quite favorable Stewart Alsop who is as well known to IBM ers as Lon Poole is to the Mac ers has already said in print that he will continue to own an IBM in order to evaluate and comment on MS DOS software After all it is his job but for his personal use he lusts for a Mac II PC Tech Journal which deals solely with the nitty gritty of programming and hardware for the Intel family of CPU s has favorably editorialized on the Mac II a notable and quite radical departure from their usual focus This would be the same as MacTutor taking up the cudgel for the IBM Model 80 Jerry Schneider long time IBM advocate recent columnist Washington Apple Pi November 1987 62 for InfoWorld and president of the Capital PC Users Group not so tongue in cheek asked the membership in the June CPC Monitor whether they should cover Mac SE and II happenings since by definition Capital PC s mandate is to cover MS and PC DOS compatible machines With the addition of AST coproces sor cards guess which machines from a company in Cupertino
152. ehen sive analysis of this problem is beyond our scope This problem is so serious that steps to deal with it are incorporated in current trade legislation in the U S Congress Existing laws are considered inadequate Trade negotiations at Punta del Este will provide a forum and an opportunity to develop and strengthen interna tional rules and procedures for international property right protection and enforcements In addition amendments to Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 would provided greater pro tection to domestic industries that rely on intel lectual property rights from foreign imports In addition the U S Special Trade Representative will be instructed to identify those foreign countries that limit market access to U S per sons that rely on intellectual property protec tion A timetable will be established for consul tations and negotiations Countries with the largest potential markets for intellectual property rights and with the most onerous acts policies or practices will be identified Negotiations with them will be en tered into aimed at the harmonization reduc tion elimination or prohibition of restrictions barriers fees or other trade distorting acts policies or practices in order that United States persons that rely upon intellectual property protection will obtain fair and equitable market access In negotiating with foreign govern ments the U S will try to induce them to adopt corrective
153. eign language word processors so that WAP members can reference it Unfortunately I can t help with experience I studied Hebrew as my classical language in col lege but that was ten years ago However I ve often had an urge to check out the new Hebrew word processors I could have used one of those 10 years ago PETER COMBES on 09 18 The programs are available from Linguistics Software 106R Highland Street South Highland Mass 01982 Thanks for your interest Mac SE II JONATHAN PAFF on 09 08 We Clinton have both monitors Contrary to earlier assurances you are right The Sony is a very good monitor I m using one at home right now on my Mac but the Apple monitor AHHH it is the best color display I have ever seen They are in very short supply right now on allocation from Apple so I can t get one myself customers come first Otherwise I d take one for myself I don t know about the bandwidth but the Apple monitors allow the user to adjust the convergence from acces sible controls in the back of the monitor making for a seemingly perfect crisp display notice the convergence pattem option on the MaclI s system control panel BILL BALDRIDGE on 09 09 CE software will be releasing a new utility to take advantage of the enhanced keyboard s function keys allowing you to tum dead plastic into macros or keystrokes I m not sure what all Its name is Quickeys and will be out the end of this mont
154. either a human or the computer A game played entirely by the computer is also possible It is a corps level game with individual units representing batallions of infantry armor etc Orders are issucd to regimental size groups which then attempt to execute these general orders under computer control As in all SSG games orders are entered using a set of menus which are easy and logical to access The object of the game is to secure anumber of objectives and to destroy as many enemy units as possible Victory points are earned in varying proportions for these actions with the victor being determined by a direct comparison between Axis and Allied point totals after taking into account any handicap multi pliers selected Included in the game are eight scenarios each dealing with fighting in and around the beach heads of the Allicd invasion of Normandy in 1944 The scenarios range in length from 19 to 55 turns As usual SSG has included a complete design kit which allows for variations to be made to existing scenarios or for the creation of new oncs The player s manual is probably the best yet from SSG It contains extensive scenario notes and a section on tactics for 36 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 BATTLES IN NORMANDY A Review game may bc saved at any time directly to the game disk in any of 9 positions I found little need for this feature because a game can easily be played in an hour Both standard and double hi res graph
155. eletes first so that the maximum disk space is available for copies You may let the program do your deletions automatically or require approval of each and every one After the delete pass the program enters the copy pass As in the delete pass you may require verification of every copy or let things happen automatically After copying you may exit the program or back up another diskette pair As you will see the program checks your work carefully It will not let you do anything impossible and it always lets you try again The following sections tell you in detail how DISK BACKUP works You will find ita powerful program that is easy and safe to use for backing up your disk files Installation D3BACKUPis supplied on two sides of WAP SIG diskette 28 Washington Apple Pi November1987 1011 Side One isa Basic boot disk for the documentation and source code Side Two contains the actual Pascal D3Backup program BACK IT UP Copy each side preferably onto separate single sided disks before doing anything else Put the master disk in a safe place and only use it to make another work copy Always execute from your work copy D3BACKUP comes on a bootable diskette You need do nothing if your system is configured with two Apple Disk drives A ProFile driver is included for your convenience If your system includes other disk drives or if you do not like the Standard type font use the
156. em menu anywhere for that matter the number prefixes etc in the provided stack are a little hard to deal with also in that I can t write into their fields and yet they come up in the dial msg box Anyway Is there amodem menu Do have to prefix my phone numbers with modem commands And just what s the deal with the APPLE HyperCard manual BILL BALDRIDGE on 09 23 The section on dialing out via HyperCard is three pages Allan I don t feel inclined to type three pages in here thanks Basically to output the number to your modem you ll need to add with modem to the script dial command Let s say you wanted to dial the number 555 1212 and have the modem go off line after dialing so you could pick up the receiver after the dialing we contd Washington Apple Pi November 1987 73 complete this is what the command would look like for a Hayes compatible modem dial 555 1212 with modem ATDTS7 1 the S7 1 tells the modem to go off line 1 second after dialing Hope you can wait long enough for your Hand book it s worth the wait BILL AMON on 09 24 For those of you who purchased Sidekick from Borland the audio interface cable that ties to your phone should work fine with HyperCard proper DTMF tones are generated at the audio jack all you need to do is use the very inexpensive interface from Borland ALLAN BALLIETT on 09 22 Is it going to be possible to do relational lookups with hyper like
157. ensive since 1 MB is necessary to store a bit map for a full 8 5 x11 page at 300 dpi This must be multiplied by four to hold the bit maps for the four colors In addition four separate toner cartridges have to be used which result in a non desktop photo copier size color laser printer The cost of building color laser printers today has been estimated to be 20 000 or more If you 54 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 want to produce color output for distribution to a large number of people you make one copy and then mass produce it on acolor photocopier Offset printing would be a second method Apple Computer who now produces the LaserWriter and LaserWriter Plus have no immediate plans for development of a color laser printer since they do not see a market in the near future QMS hopes to market a production model in late 1987 using a QMS controller and a Colorocs print engine that will produce 10 ppm but cost a whopping 20 000 to 40 000 This laser printer combines laser beam technology with electropho tographic color copier technology Eventually QMS will add PostScript compatibility AST Research is also interested but only if it can bring it in for 10 000 Toshiba unveiled a color laser printer 10 000 to 15 000 at last Fall s COMDEX show but it was only capable of producing two color output in black and then either blue red or green Toshiba is also working ona four color laser printer Source The Color of the Future b
158. ent or if you wish as the USSR General Secretary you try in a number of ways to strengthen your allies and overthrow your enemies Atthe beginner level you can send military aid to either a government or insurgents secking to overthrow it or you can send in the Marines on either side of the conflict You don t even have to get Congressional approval todoit In the intermediate game you have additional options of sending in the CIA or KGB to do various things to subvert an unfriendly government or giving economic aid to frustrate the opposing superpower s attempts at subversion At the most advanced levels you also can try to bully a government into supporting you what the game creator terms Finlandization or bolster up a friendly government by signing various treaties with it Of course your opposite number human or computer oppo nent is trying to do the same At certain points each side has a chance to protest the actions of the other This is potentially followed by a few rounds of escalating protests until one side backs down If acquiescence occurs early there is no loss of face in the game prestige points although one side has gained some Strategic advantage The longer the confrontation the more prestige points are lost by the side that backs down After a few exchanges of protests and threats assuming war hasn t already broken out accidently the side that lodged the initial protest is faced with the decisi
159. epinit docs tells you all about it Use the sounds from the beep sounds folder following or from any of the prior sounds disks bcep sounds f Beep 1 through Beep 5 Sounds from a collection of 20 short sounds on Mac Disk 111 Rename any one of these to BeepSound and placc it in the system folder along with the beep init file Big Screen INIT f Big Screen Init Makes your small Mac screen look like a window into a big screen view A reasonable alternative to Stepping Out but without all its features This version 1 02 is described in the Big Screen Documentation along with an explanation of how it works Shareware 5 Fontsie 3 05 f Fontsie 3 05 Allows you to have access to fonts stored in font files on disk in addition to fonts installed in your system file The use of Configure Fontsie 3 0 is detailed in Fontsie 3 0 Doc along with an explanation of how to use Fontsie Shareware 10 immortality 0 94 f immortality 0 94 amp immortality 0 94 i Immortality automatically calls up a selected desk accessory each time a new application is launched just as though you d selected it from the Apple menu It was designed to launch the spelling checker Thunder In order to change the accessory it will launch use ResEdit Immortality Docs tells how kind of Init Keyboard f Init Keyboard Two Inits for System 4 1 Only The Tilde Init changes the keyboard configuration to retain the old keystroke sequence to get a tilde over
160. er less disastrous There have also been some changes to artillery and off board support effectiveness together with some allow ance for combined arms bonuses on defense HQ units now have a separate movement allowance Finally there are some modi fications to the game design options Battles in Normandy scenarios will run under the Battle front system with the various refinements being ignored Likewise Battlefront scenarios will run under the Normandy system but may require some minor adjustments to the artillery and off board support points I found the scenarios in Battles in Normandy altogether more interesting and satisfying than those in the original Battle front offering Each offers different challenges and frustrations The lack of off board support in poor weather can really be felt and one usually feels that itis missing just when itis needed most In one Omaha beach scenario I played I may have found a bug On two separate occasions an Axis unit rushed toward the Allied lines for no reason I could discern Allied attempts to attack the unit failed and then they simply were removed from the contd on pg 38 THE FOOLS ERRAND A Review Not long ago was partially responsible fora disastrous demo of The Fool s Errand Miles Computing Mac 512K or better at our regular GameSIG gathering In our eagerness to show something for the Macintosh we had opencd the review copy just received and immediately booted it up But
161. er each letter into the correspond ing square of the grid The resulting quotation will read across The first letters of the Words column spell out the Author s name and the Title of the work reading down E EE ilih WAN Win Wik a a BANA BRR Wiki ii le WAH a A Id Ba Wai BR aa E E M MO WAPACROSTIC by Dana J Schwartz eon ak i BADA Uaa PA a a PA BA KANA A E TT BA Wiki Wk kii am adil i ll a Wi BANA WA Wika Wi Mai panang gg TT Definitlone Words Definitions Words A Country House eg ee E jamaning 0 Carried Out a es akik adang 116 15 46 36 17 6 63 87 98 31 169 139 517 B Itsraelite fa ce aR Sanan akarana eaters P Vermont Skl Areo WL LL 101 160 146 114 99 15 30 121 20 3 16 C Ralse ee ameng tk an aeng anana Q Weeding tore ee ee ee kag ai Medhan sarana 3 es 47 164 sa 126 Noter 72 131 123 60 141 30 162 193 107 D Crocks Ce n e aie ee A R Annie s Pole Se ee 7 9 02 136 142 133 Uere Ones 136 53 166 122 4 49 191 E Eorly em a E E N AER Win Nore a T aeii ije ai rae oai ag CS Educattono 161 21 SS 62 13 76 140 4866 42 97 70 170 105 190 79 864 109 14 28 152 132 Experlence T Bray Neocles ani Gaman ain jaba kamangi F Sounter aeng ka aan Jana ee E jaman 179 146 12 133 06 im 10 24 145 92 32 33 U Phonetic Sound aan apang Manga a aaa ahi ne r Wan ajaka T a Jani G Interior 40 176 165 126 104 9 Tia 150 115 69 34 44 29 94 102 2 141 Ax OUBON messen gt ammo w a a awa H Teeth a a KANGA P
162. ere Europe This software is similar to the Carmen Sandiego series but with some notable differences which I will touch on later The object of the game is to locate the fiendish Dr X While travelling through Europe one encounters informants who have clues to the location of Dr X They will reveal these clues when bribed with cash or jewels The latter are hidden through out Europe and may be found by chance or from clues given by friendly agents whenever they are encountered The effectiveness of one s search is judged by an efficiency rating During the play of the game one may keep track of this by accessing the clues screen which also displays details of the jewels in one s possession the location on informants and all clues This feature means that there is little reason to make notes except perhaps to keep track of which countrics one has visited The game plays quickly and easily with all the information required for playing being stored on disk Just three keysare used for all commands For those nasty irritating interruptions the by Chris Hancock Battles in Normandy Apple II series with 64K 40 list is the latest offering from Strategic Studies Group It uses the same basic game system as their Battlefront game Indced for those of you familiar with Battlefront there is very little change in the play of the game One can once again play either the Axis or Allied side with your opponent being
163. es Adobe version 47 0 of Post Script dual 250 sheet paper hoppers Apple Talk interface parallel interface serial RS 232 and 422 interfaces face down correct order output LCD status display HP Laserjet emula tion Diablo 630 emulation and a weight of 65 pounds David says the LC 890 uses LED array imaging technology with fewer moving parts than other laser printers including Apple s and is therefore more reliable ensures a cleaner image edge to edge produces blacker blacks and handles paper better He estimates the life of the machine at 600 000 copies and says that is two or three times the life expectancy of most other laser printers In addition while Apple is using the slower PostScript version 38 it has announced it will ship PostScript version 47 0 forits laser printers David says the LC 890 is using version47 0 now and that it is compatible with the current printer drivers The LC 890 s three megs of RAM give it more speed and higher capacity for downloadable fonts than the LaserWriter Plus It also has a two line LCD display like those on current photocopiers that offers a menu system to select various printer options and displays diagnostic messages According to David the LC 890 does have some drawbacks it is not always available the day you buy it due to demand and support and repair are still coming up to speed because the machine has just been introduced However if you arc interested in checking out the
164. ete left Openapple R Arrow Delete right The same as Message C for the backup volue D3BAKUP is constructing its internal paired directory F Identifies the MASTER and BACKUP volumes and the number of files in each Press Y to Change Backup Status or press N to go to End of Task Possible Error Messages Go to End of Task C D ERROR SOS Input Output Error Message Enter RETURN to retry Abort to terminate program No pathname entered Press any key Please use SOS device name as the first level Press any key MASTER and BACKUP pathnames may not be the same Press any key E PATHNAM2 is not a valid directory Press any key Program handles only 4 levels of directories Press any key Both MASTER and BACKUP are blank Press any key Two volures with the same name I am changing D2 name Press any key The Directory Screen After the initial screen everything locks like this directory screen Brackets are used here to show highlighted items D3BACKUP Back Up Disk Files AMB v 06 84 D1 edit the pathname RET Accept bracket contents A B C C1 C 2 D E Backup Master 152 Blk Backup 89 Blk Status File Name MLM UTILITIES Blk MLM UT BACKUP Blk F Ty lt Not Present gt 22 ATEST 84 03 11 22 15 2 Catlg OK MLMPRT 83 04 21 13 37 1 83 04 21 13 37 1 Catlg a AWBCOPY 84 03 11 18 04 2 84 03 11 18 04 2 Catig Cpy gt GLOS
165. ex SAWORKFILE and ScholAid Packing List All of the documents in the folder are in Word 1 XX format but the utility works for Word 1 XX or 3 XX Shareware 35 gets you a comprehensive 35 page manual Word Stuff f This folder contains four MS Word documents that have information that may be useful to Word users Word 3 01 Commands The authoritative listing of MS Word 3 01 commands It includes listings for Command keys Command Shift keys Command Option keys Special Keyboard Commands Key Pad Commands Formula Commands Find Change Special Codes and Special Hidden Text entries all in only four pages Word 3 0 Menu tip Describes a method to shorten MS Word Menu width with FEdit Plus since Microsoft didn t provide resources that may be easily changed with REdit or ResEdit MW 3 01 Bug List Describes bugs and design errors in Word 3 XX and incompatibilities between Word 1 XX and 3 XX Also notes design issues raised by users requests for new or expanded features and solicits reports on new bugs MS word referencer More bugs and limitations of Word 3 along with work arounds and hints for using some of the features obscured by the deathmore sorry prose in the Word manual Word Count 3 01 f Word Count 3 01 Counts the number of words in a Word 3 XX document As noted in the Word Count 3 01 Doc you must use the Normal Save and not the Fast Save option if you want to use this utility contd Mac Disk 122 DAs XIII Illus DA f Ill
166. expansion slot and you ve got up to 8 mega bytes of RAM at your fingertips all of it instandy and automatically recognized by the Ilcs GSRAM is compatible with all Iics software induding AppleWorks as well as BASIC ProDos DOS 3 3 PASCAL C and CP M Grow by Kilobytes or Megabytes We offer GSRAM in two configurations so you can increase your memory 256K at a time GSRAM or a megabyte at a time Gs RAM Plus Both offer full compatibility lower cost than other boards and easy expandabil ity And both are extremely low in power consumption A fully expanded GSRAM oper ates at only 375 ma and GSRAM Plus at only 270 ma even with 6 megabytes on board GSRAM for Normal Memory Requirements GSRAM is available with 256K 512K 1 MEG or 1 5 MEG of memory already on board If you don t need the full 1 5 MEG now you can choose a GSRAM with less memory and expand it up to 1 5 MEG in the furure or upgrade to GSRAM Plus for a In quality performance compatibility eapandability and support Applied Engineering s GRAM and GSRAM Plus are number one Steve Wozniak the creator of Apple Computer With an optional piggyback card you can expand GSRAM even higher than 1 5 MEG Other cards are only expandable to 1 MEG GSRAM Plus for Growing by Leaps and Bounds GSRAM Plus is the first Apple memory card to use 1 MEG RAM chips on the main board Its available with 1 to 6 MEG on board If you don t
167. f the square is on a diagonal the diagonal must also be tested Because it takes longer to test whether the square is on a diagonal than to test the diagonal for a winner we test the two diagonals each time One diagonal has the subscripts 3 1 2 2 and 1 3 Can you tell what the subscripts are of the other diagonal The integer variable turn is used to count up to 9 to check for games which end in a draw This game is designed for character based output The PIG suggested several additions including using turtlegraphics to draw a more intricate gameboard by revising procedure show board or accepting mouse based input by revising procedure getmove This program can also be turned into a educational program by displaying a short answer question before each move and allowing the player to move into the square only if the answer is correct Finally you could expand the program so that a human player could challenge the computer Bring your own enhancements to a PIG meeting contd program TicTacToe type owner x 0 blank var i j tum integer grid array 1 3 1 3 of owner ch char won boolean Have a winner player owner current player function showit c owner char begin case c of o showit o x showit x blank showit end case end showit procedure init var i j integer begin for i 1 to 3 do for j 1 to 3 do gridli j blank won false tum 1
168. factors V Position of Leading Competitors The competitive position of American firms must be placed in proper perspective We alluded to the status of the software industry among our closest competitors Those early observa lions are brought together here where we focus on individual countries France Japan and the United Kingdom our major competitors France In 1982 the top 10 French firms had total revenues from software of 631 million broken down as follows mnsv S percent Packaged software 22 3 49 Contract programming 534 84 63 Integrated systems 75 11 89 Total 631 100 0 The top 100 French firms had total sales revenues of 825 million Hence revenues of the top 10 firms constituted 76 48 percent of that total The revenue breakdown among the top 100 firms was as follows mus perseni Packaged software 123 0 14 91 Contract programming 592 0 71 76 Integrated systems 110 0 13 33 Total 825 0 100 00 Among both the top 10 and top 100 firms in France contract ing programming has been most important as a source of soft ware revenues Packaged software has played a relatively minor role This profile of software demand is in sharp contrast to that found in the United States It implies that the personal computer may play a considerably less important role there than here Also since the French do not have an IBM counterpart their industry concentration pattern on a priori grounds can be ex pected to be different than ours
169. fewer disk swaps Although there are a few differences from the Mac s finder Mac users will feel more at home on the Finder than on Apple II DeskTop How can I test my c for the ROM update Use the following procedure 1 Switch on the c and press Control Reset to stop the drive from spinning 2 Type CALL 151 lt return gt to enter the Monitor You should have an asterisk prompt 3 Type Shift 1 the key and press lt return gt If the prompt changes from to you have the new ROMs if it remains an you have the old c ROM which won t work with 3 5 disks or Apple s memory expansion card When I start an Apple c with the AppleWorks Startup Disk it asks for the program disk After I insert the program disk and press return the computer locks up Any clues First check that your AppleWorks Program Disk is NOT write protected Second make sure that your copy of the AppleWorks program disk has the SAME name as the original APPLEWORKS Also be sure that your data disks are not also named APPLEWORKS lt When I visited my Apple Dealer to install an Applied Engi neering board in my c he told me that my MMU is soldered 16 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 tomy c s motherboard I also want to usea 3 5 drive which I borrowed from a friend and my ROM is apparently an older version which does not support 3 5 drives Can I get a free upgrade Regarding the ROM upgrade m
170. ford are suitable for high school use Check at Kinko s Copy store they have an agreement with the Apple University Consortium to distribute the software produced through Apple supported projects Also any PD distributer like the WAP would have some helpful software for schools Some times the titles of the programs don t reflect what they realy can do so you have to try some BILL BALDRIDGE on 09 16 Suggest your friend subscribe to Wheels for the Mind an Apple Inc sponsored publication from Boston College It is a quarterly compilation of the latest educational and applications software being developed and worked on by schools mostly colleges amp universities all over the country Most of the soft ware available is either available immediately at very good prices or in beta test form There are copies at the WAP office JESSICA WEISSMAN on 09 19 Broderbund is coming out with another one of its tutorial packages like Geometry This one is for Calculus Should be decent Also there are some excellent interactive math things by Kurtz and Kemeny who invented BASIC and now sell True Basic They have Calculus Analytic Geometry and a few others that retail for around 40 and are good Mostly for exploration rather than tests or direct instruction HyperCard JONATHAN PAFF on 09 15 Any purchasers of a Mac Plus SE or II who bought their system on or after August 11th from an authorized Apple dealer are entitled
171. ftware now that their prices are higher Living Videotext publisher of ThinkTank and MORE has merged with Symantec another company more involved with I machines than Macintoshes until now Symantec recently announced that its Living Vidcotext division is beginning devel opment of an application for the Desktop Presentation market Claris Apple s software spinoff has not done many visible things yet Claris officials attended Macworld Expo in August but had no company booth Rumors abound as to which Macin tosh software publishers or products Claris will acquire The first outside product appears to be a forms design program Claris is also expected to publish MacDraw Plus an expanded version of MacDraw that has been under development at Apple for some time While Claris has not yct entered the market in its own right I suspect that the existence of Claris has been at least partly responsible for some of the mergers and company purchases noted above The Macintosh now has an installed base large enough to attract publishers previously involved only with other machines When they look at the market and weigh the possible effect of Claris as a major actor it suddenly begins to look more attractive to buy a company that is already established in the Macintosh market than to try to enter it from scratch Spreadsheet War Jockeying among the two largest microcomputer software companies continues and an all out war may be in the offing
172. gn Software NANCY SEFERIAN on 09 15 How can I move a full page picture 8 1 2 x 11 from MacPaint to a MacWrite document HOLGER SOMMER on 09 16 There is a utility called PaintMover which does the trick I think also Artisto and ArtGrabber will move a full page picture Artisto is in the Graphics file section BILL BALDRIDGE on 09 16 There are several options Nancy Holger s suggestion is proba bly the easiest Artisto is a desk accessory and is available in our downloads section PaintMover is also there but will not do as it only moves paintings from one paint file to another at least 74 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 the PaintMover I know Another option is to download the SuperPaint demo from our downloads section and select the whole document and copy it to the clipboard then quit SP and open MacWrite and paste it With Artisto you will be able to open a paint document from within MacWrite and select the entire document by double clicking on the marquce tool BILL BALDRIDGE on 09 26 Silicon Beach says version 2 0 of SuperPaint is upon us Im provements will include but not be limited to the ability to rotate text in the draw layer in 90 degree increments work sideways in the document automatically smooth LaserBits upon creation align objects to the grid and select line patterns of none hairline orarrows Moving palettes trace edges brush mirrors and an air brush are also planned RICK STICKLE o
173. h RSG 4 alittle bit over the last couple days Looks good but there are more than a few bugs Atleast I ve had nothing but problems working on along RSG3 file which I converted to RSG4 For instance the font character istics are off by about 8 characters in many text blocks so what I want to appear in Times prints in Dingbats and Dingbats prints in whatever fontand style that follows etc Also a global change took 5 hours what do you bet the machine had hung up Tabs still seem strange and even less intuitive than before And the kicker is that some files become corrupted and can t be opened or fixed by RSG 3 or 4 Other than that I like it It is much faster than RSG3 and many of my problems could be caused by a faulty document converter We shall see EDWARD BARNAKO on 09 17 In FullPaint I ve done an 8 5 by 11 border I move it to the clipboard or bring itup in Get Picture in RSG 3 and zap there it is on a page But I ve put it there by defining the page as a picture How can I put text inside the border Ican tdoatext box What can I do CHARLES OSTROFSKY on 09 18 Well you could put the border on a master page and then you can enter text over it on a regular page EDWARD BARNAKO on 09 20 Thanks for the tip That did it Boy the RSG 3 manual is about as useful as Webster s Dictionary would be for finding a good restaurant RICHARD MARTIN on 09 22 The other way to do itis to put the border on the regul
174. h at 99 95 HEY It coulda been 100 so just be glad you saved a nickel Look for it JONATHAN PAFF on 09 15 The Sony 1302 doesn t plug into the back of the Mac II Though I suppose it could with the right type of power cord The apple color monitor which I m using right now does but again with the right type of power cord can plug directly into the three prong outlet hopefully surge protected you normally use The Apple color monitor is indeed dual voltage presumably auto switching like the Mac II I was inside of one this morning boy is it ever well built All Sony on the inside The entire system is RF shielded The picture tube is entirely caged to prevent interference with data and other RF sensitive devices The power supply is modular and held onto the main chassis by 78 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 4 screws for easy replacement It is the best built electronic device I think I have ever seen I must confess I have never been inside the 1302 but I doubt that Sony took as much pains on that as it did with the Apple monitor I understand Apple pressed Sony very hard to get what it wanted It apparently succeeded Last thing I bought a monochrome monitor first but even with tweaking I didn t find it to provide as crisp an image as either of the color monitors BILL BALDRIDGE on 09 15 Apple is offering a 100 rebate to purchasers of the Apple monochrome monitor when they purchase an Ap
175. he couldn t confirm it in the documentation but he thinks hyphenation is probably still by algorithm the ability to make 25 point rules but no half point rules automatic flowing of text around both regular and irregular graphics tiling registration marks and style sheets While ReadySetGo 3 0 was a slim 139K 4 0 is 278K still much smaller than PageMaker 6 HARD DRIVES IZ ME Pre Christmas Sale Macintosh only 80MEGCMS 1050 40 MEG Sider Back up Tape Drive 40 MEG w integral Tape 1295 60 MEG CMS 895 Us only ProAPP 10 or 20 MEG Special Price 50 above manf cost All ProDOS or CP M Conversion for Siders 45 Increase SIZE amp SPEED by 15 20 All above plus shipping PLS Inc 301 439 1799 ask for Lee Raesly Washington Apple Pi November 1987 51 LASER PRINTING AND MACINTOSH TYPESETTING by Lynn R Trusal The Macintosh computer and the LaserWriter printer have spawned a new cottage industry by bringing desktop publish ing down in price and more available to the masses Advertise ments offering laser printed output have appeared in the WAP Journal which itself is produced by a Macintosh page layout program and the LaserWriter printer I will start by discussing laser printers in general and the LaserWriter specifically and then move into the use of the Macintosh for actual typesetting applications Laser printers are intelligent photocopying machines Basically they functio
176. he yin yang symbol is used to invert the textured pattern The dancing ants rectangle can be used to select an area of the scanned image MacScan then allows you to rotate or invert the selected portion Besides scanning editing and saving the MacScan program can also print to a LaserWriter but not to an Imagewriter Other Comments The accompanying man ual is well written and explains practically every thing you need to know about using both the hardware and the software One minor annoyance about the software Certain functions only work when using certain magnifications The user could be helped if MacScan would dim those functions not available at any point in its use This is not a major criticism but would represent some improvement in user friendliness Given the overall quality of the product I was alittle disappointed at the type of connectors used by New Image The ribbon cable from the inter face box to the SCSI connector uses very inexpen sive plastic connectors without screws This type of connector can easily pull out at either end i computer or interface box The power supply which feeds the interface box isa biggy barely under the size of a brick While itis not heavy it is bulky and takes up a lot of space where several devices computers modems printers etc are already connected Summary I found the MacScan product to be a good buy The list price of 1499 is competitive I believ
177. hics to show characters An exception is Guttenberg Also these word processors send straight ASCII character codes rather than graphics to the printer when printing files Fortunately the Image writer has various selections of characters with diacritical marks built in but you must set the DIP switches on the printer to indicate the appropriate language Check your manual From the control panel set the Display Language and Keyboard Layout to the desired language Reboot the IIgs to update parameter memory with the control panel changes This controls what symbol the IIgs will display for a given keystroke Remember that the control panel affects only the screen display and that the imagewriter DIP switches must also be set correctly for printed output to also read correctly Specifically the upside down question mark is created with a lt Shift 2 gt For an fi type the key and lt Shift gt yields an upper case N with a tilde over it See Appendix A and p 90 of Fischer s Apple IIgs Technical Reference Osborne McGraw Hill for various languages keyboard layouts and screen display characters am trying to run a bunch of public domain programs that use high resolution graphics under DOS 3 3 on my IIgs They don t work Try selecting the Alternate Display Mode from the Desk Accessories Menu lt control open apple escape gt This will help if the programs use both pages of the high res memory Some o
178. his may be after 2000 hours of use so it s all subjec tive I personally use a mouse pad and have used mine for over two years with no problems I just vacuum it every week or two to keep dust from clogging up the surface DAVID BELL on 09 29 Now there s something I didn t think about Misc Programming WICK WICKRAMASINGHE on 09 07 The SmaliTalk version I m using is currently available for 50 via APDA is the real McCoy and pretty robust on the 1M Mac even with no HD extdrive A newer version of it slated for Apr 88 is said to have a capability to convert code directly into MacPascal so that with MPW one can have a pretty neat contd Washington Apple Pi November 1987 75 professional development environment With Apple running SmallTalk and c on the Cray and Seymour designing his next Cray on a Mac SmallTalk is headed for the BigTime KARL WOLF on 09 08 A slightly newer version of Smalltalk is available from APDA for 75 Itis version 0 4 1 am thinking of buying it Asa side note I LOVE Smalltalk At work I am writing some applications in Smalltalk ona SUN 3 160 workstation Itis a wonderful software development environment I find that I miss the browser when I have to do some of my other software in C I would really like to see the Mac have a decent Smalltalk however I am concerned that a Mac other than the IT many not be fast enough Smalltalk on the SUN sometimes bogs the system down and it gobb
179. his worked about half the time The Ogre as controlled by the computer is a very challeng ing opponent Often it will move steadily towards the command post destroying many defenders on its way despite the best efforts of the defenders to stop it The manual recommends first slowing it down then destroying its offensive power but I suspect the opposite is more effective The game is addictive After 34 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 many tries each about one hour I found two strategies that worked The Macintosh user interface is well done but do not over look the keyboard shortcuts as they speed things up a lot Hint for the enthusiast The tiresome task of directing many units to fire at the Ogre s treads can be sped up greatly by first ensuring that the treads are targeted and then repeatedly moving the cursor to the unit that is to fire without clicking the mouse button and hitting keys T Return and F I would like to have seen a key for target at treads and fire Although slow compared to an arcade game this is paced fast enough so that many of those who do not like wargames should enjoy it I recommend Ogre highly I have worked professionally with computers for some time now So acting on operant conditioning I first write locked the Ogre disk After that I found I could not make a backup copy since Ogre is copy protected Without a backup I always had some worry that I would lose my only c
180. hor of Suitcase and PowerStation is one of the true Mac experts and his list of credits to his Beta testers reflects the cream of nationally known Mac mavens John Love III finally became convinced to buy Suitcase he took some convincing at the time he had the older 64K ROM Read Only Memory Mac and he reports another minor prob lem with Suitcase To have it work smoothly in older Macs the 128K and 512K RAM machines with 64K ROM you must patch some of the Suitcase code as follows Using Resedit or getting an advanced user to do it for you find and change the following code within Suitcase 30280010 to 4A404E71 Don t worry please about what all of this mystical stuff means If you have an older machine you ll be best off patch ing Suitcase as described above For John Love who has since gotten the Mac SE and for all Macers with newer machines 128K or 256K ROMs Suitcase works like a dream just as it comes our of the box PowerStation PowerStation is a mini finder similar to its predecessor Way Station Oasis and a host of other Finder speeder uppers which permits you to move rapidly from one program to another without having to first return to the desktop PowerStation permits you to have 27 items per screen called a Page with up to 16 Pages available Of course I ve got to better organize my Page 1 one of these days File tdit Special a er Fg epee tsa ES ADE i AR Nn
181. hould be It will allow you to cut and paste among files using the SEGMENT and MERGE commands which are standalone functions and are not contained in the editor It will compress and decompress files Compressed files occupy much less disk space than standard files The compres sion decompression technique used recovers all characteristics of the original file but a compressed file will not be recognizable to an application like Appleworks until it is decompressed This can be a great time saver when transmitting large documents by modem and a great space saver when archiving old documents Documax works with compressed or standard files although somewhat slower with compressed files What Documax won t do The program will search text files in a directory but will not extend the search to subdirectories each of which must be set up fora search individually Therefore it is of limited value on a well structured hard disk with many subdirectories It will search but will not do global search and replace This is a good idea since such a function would be extremely dangerous on a large directory Problems Documax doesn t know what todo with an empty file one with a header but with no data yet placed in it When it encounters one it returns the following statement Error Code 4C detected Consult ProDOS Manual Here are two failings in the program First the error aborts the processing with the empty file even if there ar
182. i November 1987 65 VIEW FROM THE HILL by Rich Norling My apologies to those who have looked for this column in the last few issues of the Journal I took my planned summer vacation from the August issue then missed the September issue because I was so busy getting ready for my company s booth at Macworld Expo in Boston At the beginning of September I had actually started to write acolumn for the October journal when I received an invitation from Apple to join John Sculley s press conference announcing the beginning of Apple s major push to develop Desktop Presentations into a scparate market segment like Desktop Publishing So 1 jumped on a plane for Silicon Valley and the column did not get finished before the Journal deadline Desktop Presentations What makes presentations different from publishing Pres entations often involve a dynamic element and interaction a progression from one idea to another to a logical conclusion The purpose of a presentation can be to provide a background briefing report progress prepare fora decision provide training sway opinion or make a sale Publishing delivers a uniform message efficiently to a large number of people Presentations are usually delivered to smaller numbers of people and are often customized to speak directly to the interests and concerns of each specific audience The computer output for publishing is usually paper For presentations the output can include paper fl
183. iFinder for the crash Does anyone have some good uses for HyperCard yet Tom Piwowar said one company he knows is using itto demo software it is creating A WAP HyperCard SIG has already formed and will decide when and where to meetafter the October WAP general meeting Marty Milrod said that 60 percent of the stuff available now on commercial bulletin boards are Hyper Card stacks Commenting on HyperCard Tom said Comparable pro grams like Guide by OWL were interesting but clunky Hyper Card is simple but elegantly done it s the MacPaint of pro gramming languages Lots of details work like MacPaint It s an object oriented programming language plus hypertext it s a combination of many ideas so it s hard to characterize And it s expandable by writing extracommands It was designed to work with CD ROMs having that kind of storage space is one thing but you also need the software to use it Note that Bill Atkinson author of both HyperCard and MacPaint will talk at a special WAP meeting on Saturday 20 MEG Sider November 7 9 am When and how do you use a Linotronic output service Laser print when you are ina hurry when your final product will be printed on newsprint paper because it can t take a sharp image when you have to save money any time when 300 dots per inch dpi resolution will do don t go to 1200 or 2400 dpi on the Linotronics Gear your production process to what you re producing
184. ibility at Pi meetings he should have his staff come and watch Bob Fimiani of Falcon Microsystems For years I suspect many Pi members in the government thought Bob Fimiani was Falcon Microsystems Bob has recognized that two things make for an effective dealer presence at user group meetings regular low key attendance and a willingness to help when he can even when there is no prospect of an immediate sale Bob Pi member 4778 has been a regular attendee at Pi meetings for several years On those few occasions when someone asks a question that stumps even Jon Hardis and Marty Milrod particularly when the question is one conceming what Apple has or hasn t officially announced Bob has often been able to supply the answer After meetings you can often find Bob part of a small group of people discussing the latest developments in the Macintosh market Many of those people may end up being Bob s customers Dealers and sale speople can play a constructive role in user groups as illustrated by people like Bob and another Pi member Jonathan Paff branch manager of Clinton Computer s Rockville store Large screen monitors for the Macintosh II a mini review Two of the computers in our order were fully loaded Macintosh IIs Shopping for Macintosh II monitors took a surprising amount of time during our computer acquisition but we were glad we spent the amount of time we did We started off by looking at the top of the line 19 Supermac c
185. ic modes are provided Play is much quicker using the standard mode but the graphics are certainly more satisfying with double hi res A number of play options are available It may be played solitaire cooperatively with up to six players working together to find Dr X orcompcetitively where each player searches for his or her own villain The game ends with the location of Dr X One has three guesses at finding his location In solitaire play one tries to achieve ever higher scores in efficiency rating I will not spoil things by telling all in this area While this series shares the same general theme as the Carmen Sandiego games I would recommend this more highly for younger gamers since it is more forgiving and less competitive The graphics are also better Indeed the documen tation mentions enhanced school editions being available so it is obviously geared to the younger generation I certainly enjoyed playing this game and it seems well worth the quite modest price each scenario In addition suggested variations for each sce nario are included While this game uses essentially the same system as Battle front there have been some refinements made The effect of changing weather conditions has been added creating different distributions of the basic weather types This makes the play of a scenario quite different on occasion Units now have a chance for resupply even if they have no line of supply making the latt
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187. imiliar to the Macintosh s Finder program but again has a few differences like color The Finder is set up on the new System Disk to be the program that first appears when a user boots the disk It takes quite a while to load about 90 to 120 seconds so after starting your IIgs up you might want to turn your TV on and watch a couple of commercials or go to the kitchen and get a snack Once the Finder is loaded you should see a blue desktop with a white menu bar along the top On the right side of the screen you should see each of your mass storage devices disk drives represented by little pictures These pictures are called icons and can be manipulated in what is hoped will be an intuitive manner to execute what might otherwise be fairly complicated tasks Across the menu bar on the top of the screen you ll find an icon of an apple and the words File Edit View Special and Color Each of these represent a list or menu of commands or options which you can execute The mouse is an absolute necessity when playing with the Finder Your ability to point click click and hold and otherwise handle the mouse will play an important role in how you get along with this program If you re still unfamiliar with the use of the mouse you might try rerunning the tutorial disk that came with your ilgs It starts you off with the basics of mousing around You might also take a look at some of the early MacNovice colum
188. in Special g 150 Marla Rodime 20 meg Hard Disk Drive 9699 No other purchase necessary Offer good with this coupon only Authorized Apple 0 5 10565 Lee Highway X Fairfax Va 22030 703 385 2758 ne ja ak a ee Express Service When your Apple equipment breaks down you need it fixed not excuses That s why we re introducing ServiCenter Express Service for Apple a members at a special rate But what does Express Service mean to you Express Service means fast repairs at reasonable aee for you As an Apple z member in good standing you pay only regular labor rates for Express Service It means that if we have parts in stock for your Apple brand peripheral you can have it repaired while you wait in most cases To take advantage of this special offer you must do two things First call for an appointment before bringing you machine in for repair Second you he ie Apple z membership card when you present your equipment for repair to receive the special Apple z discount on Express rvice labor rates For appointment call our service department 644 8442 Apple and the Apple logo are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc Apple and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc 8032 Leesburg Pike Vienna VA 703 442 3800 277 S Washington St Alexandria VA 703 838 9700 6 Authorized Dealer Clinton Computer Your 1 Apple Dealer 6443 Old Alex Ferry Rd Clinton MD 301
189. in other applications This is a special problem for desktop publishers and presentation graphics users Finally they share a common problem in RAM memory management when dealing with larger than 4 square images at the 300dpi level Mind you this a problem common to all programs which permit editing at this level including Illustrator LaserPaint and all scanned 300dpi TIFF files 4 1 bit com pressed TIFF in the case of Thunderscan If you plan to edit at this level you had better have 2 4 Megs of RAM available or 68 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 eee Another DS Application You must select a paint object before using any of the Paint tools Do you want Canvas to convert this object into a Paint object 72 d p i MacPaint 300 d p i Scanners Duplicate Options ra Number of Copies Cm Rotate Each Copy o Offset Each Copy Ax 4y O To a Line Resize Each Copy AH y Aah o D Increment Patterns Center of Rotation OtTop Left O Center Bottom Left OBottom Hight O Top Aight look forward to repeated crashes Canvas permits you to control dot by dot resolution up to 2400dpi a first and a super mem ory hog of course Canvas also supports grouping of objects Snap to Grid alignments the use of arrowheads and line weights Canvas represents onc of the best attempts to provide a useful and relatively complete graphics environment for most of us C
190. in the knowlege that if you chal lenged him you would have to back down eventually or both of you would lose the game While this game is not for every one I recommend it highly I think that many people who are not nrmally computer game players will be tempted by this product Battles in contd from pg 36 map after a turn or so Further inves tigation of this is required once I can play that scenario a few more times The most recent edition of Run 5 magazine published by SSG con tains details of a campaign variant linking the Cherbourg and Utah sce narios in the game The continued support of their games through this medium greatly adds to the value of SSG products Although SSG says that only a monochrome monitor is necessary I have always found that a color dis play is to be highly recommended Others may not find this a handicap but I do This is certainly a worthwhile addition to any wargamer s library The added diversity in scenarios over those in Battlefront will surely persuade you to part with your money even though the game system is essentially the same Part 2 by Joseph A Hasson IV U S Competitive Position In 1982 the U S software industry nearly ten times larger than in France and Japan its nearest competitors obtained 56 percent of world wide revenues from packaged software Japan and France derive their major revenucs from custom software 95 percent and 70 percent respect
191. ing in our initial request for proposals When we mentioned that one of them was Clinton Computer this dealer said that he was not interested in competing for our business because he did not try to compete on price alone he was a full service dealership Necdless to say this came as quite a surprise to us if there is anyonc in the arca who is a full service dealership it is Clinton This was also our last conversation with that dealer Another dealership was in the running for the final contract until the moment they told us that even if we purchased on site service contracts for our LaserWriter Pluses the dealership would not even fora premium price agree to loan usa substitute LaserWriter if one of ours had to go in for repairs The winning bidder on the other hand agreed to do so and got the contract in no small part because of that reason Granted this convenience to us carried a price but given the cost of laser printers today no one can afford to buy an extra one merely to have it available as a spare when a critical unit breaks down when we really need it But neither can we afford to be short a key laser printer for more than a few hours when the printer needs repair which our experience shows occurs only on days ending in y Price is not 4 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 PRESIDENT S CORNER by Tom Warrick everything and flexibility in service arrangements is worth quite a bit to small busines
192. ink we should all bag RR10 and get this instead Great package that is very Mac ish LOUIS M PECORA on 09 22 I recently received VersaTermPRO The price is high at 295 but what a hunk of software This version of VersaTerm has macros Tek 4014 and Tek 4105 emulation with full pan and zoom Graphics can be saved as MacPaint or PICT for MacDraw or MacDraft It s loaded with other features which I m just leaming but like it s little brother the 99 Versaterm it is Straight forward and easy to use Some other features that come to mind are full support for all sorts of mouse editing saving all graphics for instant recall if you like wild card in Kermit and help for all menu items If you have the bucks I couldn t recommend it more Utilities DAVID HARRIS on 09 08 How do I use UNPIT BIN file 1 on the Mac Utilities download area Where do I go for info Also what is are good book s to start learning more about the Mac for novice ERIC RALL on 09 08 I lidownload UNPIT BIN and try to get back on later witha blow by blow explaination As for best intro to the Mac try Mac Insights by Lon Poole Itis published by Microsft Press and lists for 18 95 Itischock full of shortcuts tips even explains how to use ResEdit todo some basic stuff All in all a bargain In no time at all you can impress your MacFriends by pretending to be a power user whatever that is HOLGER SOMMER on 09 08 OK here are some in
193. ion database management system and featured presentations by both Scott Knaster one of its creators and local computer consultant Melvin Lancy How ever the meeting began with some confusion because it was changed on short notice from the usual site at USUHS to nearby Maser Auditorium at NIH The next meeting will be back at USUHS at 9 am on Saturday October 24 Taking Care of Business Before the meeting copies of Danny Goodman s The Complete HyperCard Handbook which lists at 29 95 were on sale for 17 95 Fifty more copies of the book will be available at the October meeting according to Rich Wasser strom and WAP will continue to order copies as long as the demand is strong In addition the WAP Journal was distributed and WAP disks were on sale Leading off the mecting with announcements WAP Presi dent Tom Warrick told the audience that Bill Atkinson creator of MacPaint and HyperCard is scheduled to speak to WAP about HyperCard at a special meeting Saturday November 7 9 am at USUHS Details will be announced at the October 24 meeting or you can call the office or watch the bulletin boards Other announcements included notification that WAP is still planning to move the meeting site permanently after the Octo ber meeting perhaps to Georgetown University or the Univer sity of the District of Columbia thus members are cautioned to verify the meeting site by watching the bulletin boards or calling the office the m
194. ip charts full page acetates for overhead projectors 35mm slides speaker s notes handouts and many other media By creating a special market segment for Desktop Presenta tions Apple is broadening the types of output associated with Macintosh technology and is positioning the Macintosh as the leader in yet another important activity that is conducted in business science and government Studies of presentations have shown that graphics are more effective than words in gaining and keeping the attention of the audience getting people to remember what was presented and persuading people to adopt a point of view or take an action Since the Macintosh is the outstanding graphics machine among desktop computers the Macintosh is the best machine to use for creating and making presentations Apple s emphasis on Desktop Presentations should result in lots of new software that will make the Macintosh unbeatable for this application On the hardware side the slots in the Macintosh II and SE provide obvious opportunities for companies to design cards that connect the Macintosh directly to film recorders videotape machines and other devices The reason I was invited to attend John Scullcy s press conference announcing Apple s push for Desktop Presentations is that my company Language Systems Corp announced at Macworld Expo in August that we are developing ColorLab desktop presentation software that will make full use of the Macintosh
195. is disk contains a series of MacPaint compatible files with the theme of human figures There is a Japanese Ukiuyo e painting of a wrestler done around 1835 A Sumo Wrestler Kunisada 1835 There are a number of scanned images including Beatles Circa 1964 Clint Eastwood with a mes sage for the IBM ers Kareem and Larry from the Sth game of the 1987 NBA finals Lynda Ronstadt an unidentified blond in Prone and Moe Curly and Larry as the three Stooges Other offerings include Broken Family Mother amp Child and Lisa For those not quite so real figures there are MAC HEADROOM through MAC HEADROOM IV and Scrooge McDuck in Paparone 2 Make no bones about it the last drawing is Anat omy Any one of these would make a unique startup screen or desktop for your daily pleasure The big news this month is the release of System Disk 3 1 8 27 87 with the long awaited FINDER Some of the tools have been slightly updated to eliminate bugs Your prayers and curses have been heard WAP2001 and WAP2002 have been revised as bootable disks There were no new programs added on these disks only operating systems One of Apple s older operating systems DOS 3 3 took less than 16K of disk space ProDOS8 with a Basic Interpreter takes about 26K on the disk In contrast a stripped down ProDOS16 system uses around 320K of disk space It would be impractical for us to dedicate this much space on each library disk since every GS owner should al
196. ith the new maximum number of 15 file directory pages filecount div 15 plus 1 D3BACKUP handles up to 4 hierarchical file levels You may increase that to 8 First decrease the number of front end blanks added toa file name in the dir_line procedure to one per level from two Then scan the program for the number 4 and replace it with 8 if it refers to hierarchical level The program s SOS directory reading routines are adapted from Volume 1 Number 2 of ON THREE magazine The program s library contains two special files Apple s SOSIO unit for making SOS calls from Pascal and the author s own PLUTIL unit containing several generally useful Pascal utility routines contd 67 L86I IQWAON Id Addy uomBurnyse A Screen 1 Initial File Check DSBACKUP Back Up Disk Files AB v 06 84 Enter pathname of the MASTER volume D1 Enter pathname of the BACKUP volume D2 MLM UTILITIES contains 15 files MLM UT BACKUP contains 20 files Master File Backup File Insert MASTER and BACKUP volumes Press any key RETURN to accept default else edit pathname as needed Are these the right files Y N A The program identifies itself as D3BACKUP ard specifies its revision date B A beep alerts you that D3BACKUP is ready to begin C If MASTER is not a diskette in the internal drive in brackets ESC Default D1 reappears L R Arrows Move cursor Qpenapple I Toggle insert Openapple L Arrow Del
197. ities which do not damage anything I ve used them for They are responsive and clean well worth their costs are not copy protected and have solid clear docu mentation Jean Louis Gass e Senior VP for Apple is quoted as having said that PowerStation is easy to install good aesthetics smart assumptions In my opinion the best of the lot I recommend them to you without reservation Software Supply 599 N Matilda Ave Sunnyvale CA 94086 408 749 9311 59 95 each program Order phone 800 443 0100 x 451 Canvas contd from pg 68 Neither SuperPaint nor Canvas currently uses the new PICT 2 protocol the enhanced color window version of PICT used in the Mac II color environment but both will be using that protocol in 1988 upgrades The most pleasing aspect of Canvas is that ithas a DA version of its program with 80 of the features of the full application This means that you can have a full featured object or paint working environment within any application which supports DA s a major breakthrough in my opinion The DA shareware Scribbler Paint and a few others and other commercial software such as DeskPaint the DA by Zedcor 59 95 list can be tossed out the window they cannot begin to compare with Canvas features The user manual is sparse yet serviceable Canvas has direct phone user support 800 6CANVAS is not copy protected and Denebahas already sent me a free upgrade to version
198. ively The United Kingdom relies more on integrated systems 54 percent Japan and France each had 5 to 7 percent of world market shares the U K 2 to 4 percent Among the world s top computer firms total revenues came to 40 2 billion in 1979 In 1981 the total had increased to 54 4 billion more than 35 percent over a two year period The share of the market of U S firms increased from 73 6 percent to 80 8 percent of Japan from 8 41 percent to8 92 percent Shares going to France Italy West Germany the United Kingdom and the Netherlands all declined The share increase for the U S was 4 12 percentand for Japan 6 1 percent Hence the share increase for Japan was 50 percent greater than for the United States even while the U S maintained its predominant position For software there are 1981 data for Europe and the United States The total market for software in the United States and Europe came to 20 670 million 39 5 percent of which was in Western Europe and 60 5 percent in the United States The fastest growing markets in Europe were Portugal 35 9 percent Spain 22 1 percent and Norway 21 2 percent These growth rates compared with 15 3 percent for Western Europe and 14 8 percent in the United States Aside from growth rates the largest European markets were in France the UK and West Germany with 4 430 million sales compared with 12 500 million in the United States Noseparate figures are shown for Japan We have more
199. ix months to design a veterinary database at USAMRIID It is the most difficult Macintosh program that I have worked with but only in the sense that it has a lot of features that need to be learned I approached the task like most Macintosh programs put the disk in the drive and started experimenting I quickly found I needed to read the manual extensively and occasionally call the com pany I needed a multiuser database and the original choice only left Omnis 3 and Multiuser Helix Since that time Fourth Dimension has arrived and dBase Mac will soon be available Since one of my fields had to contain several paragraphs of data I chose Helix because it permitted much larger data fields up to 32 500 characters than Omnis 3 Plus which had a limit of 70 characters Odesta Helix also has a good reputation for customer service and I would have to agree that my many telephone calls were always handled very well Ifsomeonecould not talk to me immediately they always retumed my call the same day On the negative side they no longer have a toll free 800 telephone number The one major fault that I have found in Double Helix is the potential for loss of data on experiencing system errors If a system bomb occurs you lose all your data files which become corrupted in the process The use of backups is of paramount importance I used two copies on the hard disk and two copies on a floppy Another problem is that the page orientation command is
200. kets of the European Economic Community has an incentive program administered by the Irish Development Authority The objective is to attract foreign hi tech industries into the country To date cash grants and tax breaks offered to foreign software firms have attracted IBM DEC and other firms By 1990 software production will triple and employ 10 000 software specialists Singapore Singapore officials intend for their City State to become a leading producer and exporter of software by 1990 They have established an 80 million training program three training institutes and subsidies for the development of software Several foreign companies including Nixdorff of West Ger many DEC Hewlett Packard and Sperry before it merged with Burroughs from the United States have located multimillion dollar software centers there In 1983 sales revenues from software were 24 million exports were 17 percent of this amount Itis expected revenues of 200 million and employment of 4 000 in software production will be reached by 1990 Taiwan Taiwan has more than 100 software firms many with fewer than 20 workers Most output is applications software Tax incentives and skilled but low cost labor have induced American firms including Wang IBM and Hewlett Packard to establish software development groups In 1983 firms in Taiwan exported 500 000 of applications software A production goal of 3 2 billion by 1990 has been set A substantial percent
201. ks Remember that you get a free WAP library disk for every disk of software youcontribute JOB OPPORTUNITIES A variety of positions are now available at MacCorner the leading Macintosh third party productcompany in the Washing ton arca Please call Mr DeArriz or Mr Benites at 948 1538 or submit a resume to MacCorner Attn Personnel Manager 8653 Zetts Avenue Gaithersburg MD 20877 2121 Crystel Orivo Arlington Virginia 22202 703 521 9292 MacSource a mostly Mac store We were the first in town to offer Microsoft Word 3 01 4th Dimension dBase Mac DaynaFile MS DOS Drive Dynamac Portable Computer Land of the Lounge Lizards And we will be the only storefront in the area taking orders for the COLBY WALKMAC laptop order now available late Nov early Dec We previewed the WalkMac on September 7 8 and the WalkMac demo video is still available for viewing We are also taking orders on the Dynamac Our prices are competitively discounted and we continue to offer Macintosh Workstation rentals Including scanning and laserprinting Or one of the first based on a telephone survey Washington Apple Pi November 1987 67 4A fl Q 02 a DA Canvas Helper Canvas Prefs Deneba Software is a Florida based firm which has produced a host of Mac software such as MacLightning and Memoran dum These and some others had been marketed by Target Software but after an acrimonious break with T
202. ld make it a real disk management utility As it stands it is most appropriate as a file search utility for someone who has a lot of files contained on floppies or in only a few directories on a hard disk or as an archival utility where you might place old correspondence files or reports in com pressed form into one directory and go looking for a subject months or even years later 6 LOWEST PRICES ANYWHERE IMEG 80 COL BD w 2S6K Software Ile IMEG RAM BD for IGS w 256K 6 eee 89 Abovo w 512K add 39 1 MEG add 99 64K 80 COL BD New Lower Power Ile 35 16K RAM Board 11 aaa 35 128K RAM BD Now Lower Powor Me 69 80 Column Board Videx Comp lit 49 Super Sonal Board 1919 8 6 cee eee eee 49 Graphic Par BO w 6FT CBL Ile e gs 45 280 CP M BD Microsolt Comp e gs 38 Cooling Fan w surge protect il o GS Super Cooling Fan Ngs Numeric Keypad 16 Keys Ito Joystick Specity H c 0 gs Joystick w Fire on stick c e gs Mini Vacuum Cloaner w Attachments gt 10 A B Switchbox Parallel or RS 292 28 Disk Orwe H H Specify tle c o gs e 12 Dish Controltor Board 1144 0 93 oee 39 Eprom Programmer 19 6 03 J E 49 ONE YEAR WARRANTY ON ALL PRODUCTS 4 CALL WRITE FOR COMPLETE LIST ADD 3 SHIPPING Per ORDER not per item NEXO DISTRIBUTION 914 East 8th Street Suite 109 National Cit
203. ld programs use PEEKs and POKEs which are not supported on the IIgs ROM or the ROM of the e or c Try running the program with 40 column mode display mode For example Flight simulator Also try to run the program at normal system speed There are many other possible sources of problems and solutions What BASICs are available to run under native mode on the IIgs There are now several APDA sells a beta version of Apple s 16 bit BASIC interpreter for 50 It supports the toolbox Next Pecan Software sells a BASIC compiler which runs under their 16 bit implementation of the p System This has the advantage of being able to link to Pascal Fortran and Modula subprograms Finally TML advertises a compiler which is compatible with Apple s GS BASIC interpreter which should be available on November 30 TML lists for 125 Roger Wagner Software is alsoreportedly working on a BASIC amp extension to Applesoft to provide access to the toolbox Q Is it possible to use Apple s GS Demo program on WAP Disk 2002 to display your own graphics slide show A Yes Use a disk zap program to change the file type of your Deluxe Paint screen images from C0 to BIN 06 The demo program will run through a display of all of the binary files in the PICTURES folder Q Are there any commercial programs which will not work with the new GS ROMs A Bard s Tale and Hacker II for the GS do not work with version 01 ROMs Will there be more
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205. les up memory for lunch One last thing the latest full implementation of Smalltalk for the Mac is available from Parc Place in Palo Alto Calif This is where all the major releases come from The cost is steep towering at 695 for the basic system or 995 for the developer s version more classes and things At my work we have the 4000 developer s version for the SUN It includes COLOR and the ability to talk directly to UNIX sockets really nice KARL WOLF on 09 24 On Oct 4 8 I will be attending the 1987 OOPSLA Object Oriented Programming Systems Lanquages and Applications in Orlando Fla Parc Place has asked my company to demo some of our prototype Smalltalk software in their booth Guess who gets to go I have my mouse ears all packed Anyhow I should be able to get low down about whats happening in the Smalltalk world By the way I have obtained a chart of benchmark results for various Smalltalk implementations Here are a few just the overall performance rating Mac Plus 27 Mac SE 33 Mac II 102 SUN 50 60 160 260 HP 9000 350 C 151 Apollo 3000 75 Cadmus MSW 185 250 Note most of these machines are 68020 based The little Mac 68000 is trying Printers MARK ROVNER on 09 17 I have a question for anyone familiar with hooking the Mac up to non Imagewniter dot matrix or daisy wheel printers I ve had a Mac for about 6 months but didn t buy a printer I telecommu nicate to the offic
206. lf explanatory the other terms delve into the mumbo jumbo world of the ultra techie And while I probably have read several articles on the whats and wherefores of semiconductors I didn t retain enough of the specifics to give a satisfactory dissertation on the jargon DAVID BELL on 09 27 lam getting pretty fed up with my mouse and have decided to buy maybe a new one The two that come to mind are the Turbo Mouse from Kensington and a new one I saw in the latest issue of MacWorld A Mouse from Mouse Systems Since I have occasion to use a SUN at work I think I would opt for the latter Any suggestions or advice BILL BALDRIDGE on 09 27 I ve been using my mouse for over 3 years what s the gripe DAVID BELL on 09 28 The surface on my desk makes for great mousing UNTIL it gets cleaned no mistake At that point there is not enough friction to make it turn well And it will get stuck on dust that gets settled Now I have a mouse pad but that only worked as long as the surface was rough too The mouse will not react on that very well either I saw the ads around and was wondering I would like to buy some things for my Mac and that was one thing though I know that there are other more important ones BILL BALDRIDGE on 09 28 I guess the A mouse being optical vice mechanical would be the betterchoice but I ve heard of problems with the A mouse wearing out the grid on the special pad that comes with it of course t
207. lly be very easy to do in Reflex Plus As has been posted before MOST of the changes in Reflex Plus are indeed cosmetic Things like More numeric and date formats e More fonts allowed etc However there ARE some REAL improvements to the program as well These include such things as e Table style ie multi record data entry Ability to renumber a sequence field based on the now current sort order Ability to group items in a report by a key field The first item is very useful when entering records that have sub fields which must line up in a print out The second item cannot be done in Reflex at all unless you export every field except the sequence field and then import the entire database into anew file Clumsy The third item would eliminate the current need to create reports with multiple repeating collections with criteria such as people WHERE STARTS Last_Name A or be forced into using an overly complex relational setup with nested repeating collections in order to get a report that only prints each unique key field entry like a catagory once The price of the upgrade for all registered owners of Reflex will be 95 The program IS NOT YET SHIPPING BILL AMON on 09 21 I could add that even though dBASE Mac will read binary versions of dBASE II HI files as well as some other formats I found it was easier to importa flat ASCII file from dBASE II than go in with a simple editor like QUED and add a
208. lon 301 662 2070 Michael Proffitt 301 874 2270 Dan Robrish 301 530 4202 David Morganstein 301 972 4263 Robert Wood 703 893 9591 Eric Rall 301 596 0004 Dave Harvey 03 578 5621 November 1987 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 3 Apple I Beginning Tutorial 1 7 30 9PM Office 10 Apple II 9 Introduction to Macintosh Beginning Tutorial Office Tutorial 2 7 15 10 PM 7 30 9PM Office 16 Intermediate Mac Skills Tutorial Office 7 15 10 PM 23 Productivity on Your Mac Tutorial Office 7 15 10 PM 17 Apple II Beginning Tutorial 3 AW 7 30 9PM Office 24 Mutual Fund Sub Group Stock SIG 8 PM Office 25 Office 29 4 Mac Progmrs 7 30 PM Office Veterans Day Office Closed Apple 7 30 PM 7 HyperCard Special Mecting 9 AM USUHS Bill Atkinson 14 Frederick Slice Annapolis Slice Music SIG Pascal SIG 8 PM 28 WAP Meeting Thanksgiving Office Closed December 1987 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Apple IIgs Beginning Tutorial 1 7 PI SIG 7 30 PM Office 14 Introdiction to Macintosh Tutorial Office 7 15 10 PM 21 Intermediate Mac Skills Tutorial Office 7 15 10 PM 28 Productivity on Your Mac Tutorial Office 7 15 10 PM SIGNEWS Apple IIGS SIG meets at 8 00 AM before th
209. lson Saturday October 31 9 am 12 Noon Office Fee 15 20 Hands on introduction to Apple s new data base and presentation driver Bring your Mac HyperCard and hard drive ReadySetGo 4 Martin Milrod Saturday October 31 1 4 pm Office Fee 15 20 Learn how to use this popular page layout program Bring your copy of RSG and a blank disk Introduction to Word 3 01 Leon Moore and Rochelle Long Saturday December 5 1 3 pm Office Fee 15 20 Hands on experience No prior knowledge of Word required but familiarity with Mac assumed Bring Mac and Word Requires 1 800K drive or 2 400K drives Come 15 30 min early for setup Limit 12 Using PageMaker 2 0 Jim Stewart 4 Tuesday Evenings Oct amp Nov 7 30 9 00 pm 1101 16th St NW Floor 1C Fee 15 S20 each session 60 80 for all 4 Leam this popular desktop publishing program Bring Mac and PageMaker Enrollment limited to 10 October 27 Designing Your Publication November 10 Preparing and Placing Text November 3 Graphics in PageMaker November 17 Typographic Commands Please check the desired tutorials and return this form with fee s made payable to Washington Apple Pi Ltd to Washington Apple Pi Ltd Attn Tutorials Name Membership No 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Bethesda MD 20814 Day phone Eve phone Total Enclosed INDEX TO AUTHORS Baldridge Bill ssssesssees 72 Lanford Jim csssssscecssseeseeees
210. m which gives instructions on how to write and save your own programs Also included on the disk is a text display program giving a detailed explanation of the workings of the Applesoft SPEED command Anyone interested in trying their hand at writing BASIC programs might enjoy dipping their feet into the water by writing a text display program Anyone interested in the educational uses of computers might note that text display programs can be used to introduce beginning readers to the joys of reading One program on the Reading Fun disk titled Ten Reasons to Read a Lot of Books Magazines or Anything is especially aimed at inviting young readers into the world of print we adults so often take for granted Reading Fun is a shareware disk the author of the pro grams ask for 12 if you decide you like the programs and want to keep the disk The disk is not protected and copying distribution to friends and colleagues is encouraged The disk is a DOS 3 3 disk with all text displayed in capital letters Therefore the disk should be able to run on the Apple as well as the e c and IIgs 6 DOCUMAX gt A REVIEW by Dave Doherty Documax V2 02 is authored by Arthur St Hilaire Ph D and Robert Tripodi Ph D and is published by Signum Mi crosystems Inc 120 Mountain Avenue Bloomfield CT 06002 Equipment Apple c or e with 128k 5 25 floppy disk and 80 column card 100 compatible with Apple s It i
211. may not leave a file by pressing the vertical arrow ESCAPE RETURN or X key in an illegal backup status Ycu ll be beeped at and invited to Press any key to erase the error message and correct your entry You may change the status of as many files as you like as often as you like You may page through the file to your heart s content L861 JOQWIOAON Iq Addy uorurysem OE When you are satisfied with each Backup Status entry press the X key to Proceed If you haven t seen all pages the program tells you am gives you a chance to reconsider If any files are to be deleted D3BACKUP goes to Screen 3 s Deleting Files phase else it goes directly to Screen 4 s Copying Files phase Possible Error Messages Return to file status Please delete all members before deleting a sub directory Press any key You cannot copy a non existent file Press any key You cannot delete a non existent file Press any key Sub directory already exists on destination volume Press any key Parent sub directory does not exist on destination volume Press any key 3 Deleting Files Entering delete pass Verify each delete Y N Press N to make all deletes automatically Press Y for verification of each delete Verification is slower but it may be a valuable double check Deletions begin at the lowest hierarchical file level and work up to the root directory This ensures no sub
212. ment and addressing structure As promised here is our tic tac toe game This program illustrates the use of arrays An array is a collection of data items all of which have the same data type This contrasts with a record which can be a collection of different types Specific items in the array are referenced by subscripts A subscriptis like a post office box number In addition an array can have more than one dimension The number of dimensions and the range of legal subscripts are set when the array is declared In our program the tic tac toe board has two dimensions so two subscripts are required to reference a specific element The upper left comer has the subscript 1 1 which can be read row 1 column 1 The board uses these subscripts 1 1 1 2 1 3 2 1 2 2 2 3 3 1 3 2 3 3 The program uses a3 x 3 matrix called grid to store the current state of the board Itis declared array 1 3 1 3 ofowner Each square can have three possible values belong to x belong to y or blank Hence we define the enumeration called owner to symbolize these three possible values The variable player which keeps track of who has the next move is also of type owner Function showit is necessary to convert a variable of type owner into a character for output One tricky feature of the game is procedure testwin Each time a player moves into a square the row and the column must be tested to see if that player won In addition i
213. messy DOS and therein hangs a tale But by so doing I ve gotten to see both sides from a fresh perspective I still own my PC and keep up with the popular and trade press for both communities For many years Apple and MS DOS crowds existed separate and as far as their opinion of each other s machines unequal But a funny thing happened this Spring Apple released their serious business machincs the SE and II And IBM contrary to all of their talk of compatibility effec tively declared their old architecture null and void Suddenly company procurement officers were confronted with a choice IBM was asking them in so many words to scrap what they had and start over with the PS 2 line mindful that all of their old expansion cards and 5 1 4 media were no longer usable and to wait for nearly 18 months for an operating system torunitall An operating system that in its final iteration would be graphics based and more Mac like In the meantime Apple plus third parties released a series of products to make Macs connectible to the IBM world Apple now had machines with all respect to the Plus and fat Mac 512 ers that no longer looked like expensive etch a sketches Mac ers it seems have gloried in their rebelliousness to wards the pin striped button down world of MS DOS There have been a few articles of late on connectivity to IBM systems The most recent issue Aug 87 of MacWorld has committed the sacril
214. n by Apple s Richard Williams We have also finally added D3 Backup by Dr Al Bloom and an accompanying article in the Journal this month describes the program and how to use it Best of the Apple Items from TCS contd from pg 25 said only a couple Publisher which is a 128K program and something called Publish It She didn t seem too excited about the competition but what would you expect Stylware s ad for Multiscribe 3 0 in InCider s October issue is a little premature That ad said 3 0 would offer an 80 000 word dictionary and thesaurus Sounds nice They hadn t decided what to charge upgraders from version 2 0 but don t look for it until December Merry Xmas GS Finder Bug KIM BRENNAN ON 09 27 Well a significant Finder bug bit me on Saturday It hurt so bad that I m resigned to putting Finder in the bit bucket If ithad only happened once I would have suspected something else but the bug occured on both a 3 5 and on my hard disk Somchow or other Finder trashed a directory header making it impossible to delete a file This happened on a 3 5 earlier in the week but it didn t concern me much at the time However on Saturday it zapped my Hard Disk This is unforgivable since it forced me to reformat the Sider Seems a shame too since I liked the looks of Finder I ll wait now for a newer version Dealers Don t Understand Apple Macintosh Peripherals So Founded Satellite Scientific Representative Prices
215. n 09 28 If I can rotate text in the draw mode it will be worth the price I think I heard that Superpaint was one of the programs that are going upin price so that people will take the program seriously BILL BALDRIDGE on 09 28 I would think that if someone were contemplating purchasing version 2 0 not necessarily you Rick the best approach would be to buy the current package at around 60 via mailorder and then get a cheap or maybe even FREE upgrade to version 2 0 when it comes out Something to consider Hard Disks BILL QUALLS on 09 06 Success With the help of a friend I was able to format my homebrew hard disk with SF amp I The secret was in the mode select command If anyone is interested in this homebrew proj ect I can provide details Bottom line The hard disk works great and ended up costing in the neighborhood of 550 about the same as a low end commercial HD because I purchased all new quality components BILL BALDRIDGE on 09 07 I m ready How about a Journal article on your experiences I want to build an 80 meg HD BAD If you don t want to do an article how about recommending a source of information which MacTutor issues or expertise BILL QUALLS on 09 10 I built my hard disk following Tim Standing s article in the February 87 issue of MacTutor I got a friend to help with assembly since he had more electronics background and expe rience assembling kits than I had I bought an Adaptec ACB
216. n as follows The laser printer drum is first given a positive electro static charge The desired image is transferred to the drum by firing the laser beam and deflecting it onto the drum with rotating mirrors This neutralizes the positive charge of the drum only in areas where the image is to be formed As the drum passes the toner cartridge positively charged toner is attracted to the neutralized area of the drum Negatively charged paper is then fed past the drum and this attracts positively charged toner remember your physics to form the image on the paper The final step is passage of the paper between two heated rollers which permanently fixes the toner to the paper If a paper jam occurs and you have to remove the copy before it goes through the rollers you can wipe the image off the paper with your hand I believe the toner is really a fine plastic based toner and not carbon based like photocopy machines Laser printers are often described as producing near typeset quality with 300 dot per inch dpi resolution If you look closely or use a magnifying glass you can sce the output is made up of individual dots This is particularly evident with diagonal lines Ofall the low cost lt 5 000 laser printers on the market the Apple LaserWriter appears to offer the most for the money I have seen articles saying it is overpriced but if you get down to comparing apples to apples the so called inexpensive laser printers are no
217. n dimmers also cause Helix problems including Fade to Black and Stars 1 3 Therefore both automatic and manual screen dimmers are not totally compatible with Helix If the host has opened the collection on one machine and uses a manual or automatic screen dimmer other users can not visit the data collection I hope Odesta is able to improve the compatibility of Double Helix with both screen dimmers and laser spoolers In all faimess Helix was on the market befof either of these type of programs existed All in all I found Helix to be a good database Although it makes good use of the Macintosh interface it is not as intuitive as most Macintosh applications and can be frustrating until you get the hang of it I would recommend it for business use but not for home or personal use unless you need the power and many capabilities it offers I think version 2 0 will be a significant improvement Lynn R Trusal may be reached at 301 845 2651 to answer ques tions about material that appears in the Bits and BytesColumn HLA Computers 5700 J Sunnyside Avenue Beltsville MD 20705 Vertical Market Specialists LANS Multiuser Systems Div needs some outstanding people Experienced Programmers Outside Vertical Sales Inside Sales Entry Level Secretary Telephone Outstanding Benefits Package 6 1 2 years in business Call Eric Metzger 345 1123 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 63 MacScan New Image Technology Document s
218. n the top SOFTWARE INDUSTRY ITS ECONOMIC STRUCTURE American firms are examined more closely we find that their sales revenues by source is broken down as follows mns _ percent Packaged software 2 595 64 28 Contract programming 1 320 32 70 Integrated systems 122 3 02 Total 4 037 100 00 An interesting difference arises when the top 20 firms are compared with the total software industry The larger firms obtain a greater proportion of their revenues from contract programming and a smaller share from integrated systems Revenues from packaged software for the larger firms are proportionately closer to revenues from this source for the total industry A deeper analysis of the economics of the industry would be required to better understand this asymmetric pattern between large firms and the aggregate industry On the other hand more than 60 percent of total sales by the largest American firms was from packaged software A considerably smaller proportion came from contract programming and still less from integratcd systems Overall these top 20 firms accounted for only one third of the estimated total revenues in world markets in 1982 This detailed assessment throws some light albeit in a preliminary way on the international structure of this industry Present projections of future markets in software suggest that if the U S is to maintain its competitive lead in the world market it may have to focus more research and development
219. nan demonstrated the installation of Roger Wagner s SoftSwitch into the Desk Accesory Menu He emphasized the importance of properly partitioning RAM memory for containing this program and for use with other programs I realized that setting aside 832K RAM in the ram card was not so smart as there was not enough memory to install SoftSwitch and upon booting this program it would be immediately kicked out of the disk drive By reducing RAM disk memory the disk could be booted and then installed A gencral question and answer session followed with questions and comments flying around the room As the meeting closed I left with a much greater appreciation for the need to carefully read understand and implement exactly the caveats of the program designers and value the comments of those who have paved the way ahead 6 MACINTOS ACCOLADE HARDBALL 34 95 ALTSYS FONTASTIC 67 95 ANN ARBOR FULL PAINT 69 95 BATTERIES INCL TIMELINK 39 95 HOMEPAK 52 95 BERKELY SYS STEPPING OUT 74 95 BORLAND REFLEX 69 95 SIDEKICK 69 95 TURBO PASCAL 69 95 BRAVO TECH MAC CALC 99 95 BRODERBUND ANCT ART WAR 34 95 GEOMETRY 69 95 LODE RUNNER 34 95 PRINT SHOP 45 95 TOY SHOP 39 95 ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY NETWORKS TWIN CHIMNEYS OFFICE PARK 10724 BALTIMORE AVE RT 1 BELTSVILLE MD 20705 CALL 301 937 3605 3606 ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY NETWORKS YOUR MAIN SOURCE FOR QUALI
220. new first linc to auto define the field names and formats This makes loading your data base a lot easier EDWARD BARNAKO on 09 29 I m anew Mac SE owner Moved over from a c where I hada twenty four month love affair with AppleWorks But can you believe it MS Works doesn t do all the things AW does I d like to hook up with someone who knows MSWoarks Got lots of questions about it like how to print to disk or print a formatted report from the database to the clipboard Help BILL BALDRIDGE on 09 30 I was going to suggest you call one of the Hotline volunteers but I see we have no MS Works specialists listed Check your Journal Hotline for one of the Excel specialists maybe one of them could at least point you in the right direction As a 72 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 WG 63 665 stots Le D va lt 6 e GGO OOOO se 0 POI ai a C NEEE Naat aa atata SPO 0 4 GOH AA SSSI OSA oxy 5 o akah A amp 6 e OY rates ras 5 XS 65 ate carats PA gag AN e xd 505 san p ae ote Se z KEARE 56 suggestion if the section you re trying to print to the clipboard copy to the clipboard would be more accurate is not over 32K you should be able to copy that portion and paste it into the word processor in Works and format it to your heart s content Desktop Publishing RICHARD MARTIN on 09 13 Have hada chance to mess around wit
221. ng of files across all disks and 4 by type of file listing across all disks Desk Accessory Series Update Production snags and a last minute decision to include recent updates have delayed the issue of the Desk Accessories series until next month All of the DAs in the current library have been grouped into one series of nine disks with the DAs arranged alphabetically These DAs have been tested and annotated by William Jones in what is truly a monumental undertaking The latest DAs to be included in the DA series but not previously in the library have been issued on disks 116 122 and 126 Desk Accessories XII XIII and XIV respectively If you want any of the current DA disks buy them within the next two months After the first of the year the new DA series will replace all of the DA disks in the Disketeria Help Requested Help Received Brook Grayson librarian of the recently organized SIG for HyperCard and StackWare has volunteered to test assemble and annotate this material for the Disketeria StackWare will be issued on 800K disks Thanks Brook Help Still Wanted Westill need volunteer help in three areas library restructure Mac II and Telecommunications as follows 1 We need volunteer help in assembling testing and anno tating the Fonts FKeys System Utilities Programmer Hacker Utilities and miscellaneous Utilities disk series 2 A volunteer with a working knowledge of telecommuni cations programs is ne
222. nly the developer can That included the new GS version of Desktop Manager and Graphics Manager Both workessentially the same as the version but have a nicer look about them Bob Cook brought a whole contingent with him from Logan Utah and was showing off his Lisa Professional line as well as offering a number of specials for the conference I ll provide you with additional information from the confer ence over the next few months I managed to record many of the _ Sessions on audio tape and will make acopy available at the WAP office for those interested in listening THE NEW GS BASIC The new GS Basic is an implementation of the Apple Business Basic that surprisingly enough works on the GS Apple s Taylor Pohlman who was intimately involved in devel oping Business Basic also worked on the GS version It is powerful Taylor demonstrated a version of the GS demo program that was written entirely in GS Basic and you could not tell the difference It retains everything we are familiar with in Business Basic including invokable assembly language mod ules Italso allows the user to designate devices by number such as d1 rather than volume or slot drive designations you II folks will get spoiled not having to designate slot disk or volume names anymore GS Basic essentially contains everything we originally wished for in Business Basic and much much more It has direct access to the GS s Quickdraw routines i
223. not less important to users especially new ones who are inhcriting their s from relatives or businesses moving to newer technologies Sun System s Bob Cook announced he has in hand now a letter from Apple letting him search for any information about the that he might be interested to find That includes as I understand it the source code to SOS etc What he might do with it after that was not clear Cook also donated a BBS program Infonet to the public domain It may be used as a Starting point by some ers trying to put together a Pascal BBS that can help tie together Apple crs around the nation On Three s Bob Consorti also agreed to provide his mailing list to groups to help improve communications among users 26 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE a by David Ottalini Apple SIG Co Chairman I m proud to say your SIG Co Chairman also won an award for his series of bibliographies and data bases called Three Works Other award winners at the Forever luncheon were Ed Gooding s Company BBS Bob Consorti On Three Bob Cook Sun Systems Rob Turner Apple and formerly of On Three and Taylor Pohlman Apple Apple by the way was one of the exhibitors at the confer ence as was On Three and Sun Systems Bob Consorti and Tim Harrington of On Three demonstrated a number of products even Dr Mel Astrahan was showing his Draw On program as o
224. notexpect that it will EDWARD DOMBEK ON 09 11 The Nibble program allows you to switch BETWEEN the operating systems The Compute program allows you to ACCESS DOS 3 3 disks from ProDOS by adding commands to ProDOS when this program is BRUN The new commands are DCAT catalog a DOS 3 3 disk DLOAD load a DOS 3 3 program from a DOS 3 3 disk DSAVE save a ProDOS file to a DOS 3 3 disk All the commands allow you to specify disk location and if appropriate starting addresses in the normal fashion JON THOMASON ON 09 12 That s fantastic Does the DLOAD command do the same thing for type A files as well as B I T R and S files ED DOMBEK ON 09 13 Jon as soon as I can get some time next weekend and type this bugger in I ll let you know The limited docs don t say anything about the other types I assume hope that it will B T W the contd Starting address is 3000 and goes thm 3A17 FOUR full col umns of machine code Disk Fixer RICKY JUDGE ON 09 13 Does anyone know if there is a program in the public domain or otherwise that will detect bad blocks ona large ProDOS volume and either fix or lock out those blocks I have a Kodak 3 3 meg floppy drive that works like a ProFile amp have some floppies that have a few bad blocks Since the disks cost 15 each I d like to salvage them Also is there sucha thing as a backup program for ProDOS thatonly backs up thechanged files instead of the whole disk Takes a loooo
225. ns by Ralph Begleiter in earlier issues of WAP s Journal Some of the ones that deal with the Mac Finder might also be appropriate for the GS version The first thing you can try doing with the Finder is to use it as a Start up program The Finder can be used to easily search your disks to find the program you want to run The icons along the right side of the screen represent the disks and disk drives that are presently hooked up to your system Slide your mouse across a surface e g mousepad so that the arrow on the screen rests on top of the icon in the top right hand 12 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 comer shaped like a 3 5 inch disk If you booted from the System Disk the icon should be labeled SYSTEM DISK This is called pointing By pointing at an icon and then pushing the button on the mouse once quickly clicking you will have chosen the icon When an icon is chosen it will turn black Once you have chosen an icon you can do things to the disk and the data on the disk that the icon represents Go ahead and choose the System Disk icon Once chosen the icon will turn black and stay black even if you move the mouse away If you click somewhere else on the desktop though you will unchoose the System Disk Make sure the System Disk icon is darkened Now move your mouse so you are pointing at the word File on the menu bar The arrow should cover part of the word Click and hold your mous
226. o I got involved in revising a locally produced symbolic logic textbook that is still used by the philosophy department at the U S Air Force Academy and Istill remember vividly the utter horror of having toenter by hand every piece of notation that did not appear on an IBM Selectric typewriter in 1975 quantifiers implication symbols etc Thus my reaction to the two articles was to rush immediately to my Macintosh and try to generate some formulas with integral and Summation signs To my chagrin and disappointment however I found myself getting the symbol D in place of f and X in all my formulas The reason of course was that following my last hard disk crash I had not bothered to put the Symbol font back in my system file Without this font you don t get the lovely sigmas and all the other Greek letters some of us fondly remember from assorted mathematics and physics courses in college I thought this fact might be of general interest for two reasons First it was not explicitly mentioned by either Chapman or Silverstone although the careful reader might have avoided my problem by drawing the obvious inference from Chapman s comment that the Word 3 0 spelling checker flagged sequences containing Symbol characters as misspelled words Second perusal of my Word 3 0 reference manual revealed that Micro soft didn t bother to mention this minor detail either or at least not in any of the places where it seemed logical to look
227. o order or for more informa ere te tion see your dealer or call Applied Engineering today 9 a m to 11 p m 7 days Or send check or money order to Applied Engineering MasterCard VISA and C 0 D welcome Texas resi dents add 614 sales tax Add 10 00 outside U S A A Applied Engineering The Apple enbancement experts P O Box 798 Carrollton TX 75006 214 241 6060 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 21 Sounds 21 23 310 320 330 Variations on a theme Compare all three with each other Sound 24 340 I make the sound occupy two statement lines See if you can hear the two different parts Sounds 25 amp 26 350 360 Another comparison of one and three line sound statements Sound 27 370 Gives you sound 26 four times in a row Sound 28 380 Designed to produce variable multipliers There is very little change even though Z goes from 1000 to 1 There is more of a change between by itself 0 and 1 see sounds 7 8 and 12 than 1000 and 1 INSTALLING YOUR OWN SOUNDS FOR TESTING This is an easy task Here s what to do 1 Line 20 Increase MAX to cover the number of sounds that you are inserting 2 Line 95 Add the appropriate line numbers to the ON PR statement Remember they have to end in 0 3 Put in your code starting with line 390 The first line will be your LIST statement See examples The next short group of lines will be the sound producing code
228. oards to exchange software or solve computing problems with other Apple users Download free public domain software And share files with personal computers and mainframes There s nothing missing on DataLink Unlike the Smartmodem DataLink comes with its own easy to use communications soft ware in ROM and on disk that supports macros file transfers on line time display data capture and datascope mode The soft ware also allows you to store hundreds of phone numbers for auto dialing and log on Because DataLink is 100 Super Serial Card compatible you can also run virtually all other communication software includ ing Point to Point Apple Access and ASCII Express to name a few d trademark of Hayes Micro Computer Products Applied Engineering The compact design allows DataLink to fit in any slot including slots 1 and 2 of the IIGS with a cooling fan installed DataLink operates at 1200 or 300 baud Built in diagnostics check for accuracy of data transmission and DataLink lets you track the progress of calls either elec tronically or via an on board speaker Introductory offers from popular networks included When you purchase DataLink you ll get a fee waived membership to The Source worth 49 95 60 00 worth of free on line time from NewsNet A free 50 00 subscription to the Official Airline Guide A free subscription to the GEnie network worth 18 00 And information on MCI Mail me Order today Rete T
229. ogram from Quark s Cata lyst you will retum to the Catalyst main menu Otherwise INSERT SYSTEM DISKETTE AND REBOOT PI SIG NEWS by Robert Golden Report on meeting of Monday October 5 1987 This mecting in the WAP conference room was typical of many of our past meetings consisting of very different highly motivated intenscly interested indi viduals focusing on one aspect of computing program interfacing By the very nature of the diversity of their interests within the group their focus moved from one area to another With an Apple IIgs provided for the evening by a member Walter Urban demonstrated programs he created with much patience and good detective work He created a graphical background and displayed plots of sine waves sawtooth functions and a Fourier series in which amplitude varied with angular displacement in radians on the horizontal axis This was done in a plain vanilla format least complicated using Pascal It was inspired by musical programs made available by Ray Hobbs at a previous meeting for use with the IIgs Ensoniq chip This kind of demonstration while of limited application at present was designed as an exercise using Pascal a high level language and toolbox functions to evoke the desired response from the IIgs to specific commands This programming is a way of learning to use the tools available for a computer not completely understood and not yet fully documented Next Kim Bren
230. olor monitor but we were very disappointed with its picture which lacked contrast and looked washed out next to the 13 AppleColor Hi Rescolor monitor The Apple color monitor is areal knockout contd one of the best peripheral devices Apple has ever produced It uses a Sony picture tube but even Sony s own 13 monitor looks second class in comparison The only problem with the Apple monitor is thatithas arelatively high amount of glare so you will have to be able to adjust the light in your room for best results If you need color and can live with only a 13 monitor I really recommend the Apple model even if you have to wait for it Making a decision on color monitors turned out to be rela tively easy however compared to shopping for monochrome monitors Among monochrome monitors we looked at the 19 SuperMac thanks to Pi member Don Webster of Arthur Young in Reston the 19 LaserView the 17 E Machines Big Picture and the Radius Full Page Display The SuperMac was good but lacked the contrast of the E Machines and the Radius Also the SuperMac monitor screen uses 80 dots per inch dpi compared to the native Macintosh screcn which has 72 dpi This turns out to be areal problem when contrast is not good periods and colons in particular became smaller and appeared to disap pear from the screen when you weren t staring right at them The Big Picture also uses 80 dpi however but its superior contrast made it a ver
231. on whether to actually launch a nuclear war or back down with great loss of prestige If war is opted for by either side you are presented with the final screen which chides you for your bloodthirstiness and the game is lost The game can be won only by avoiding war for 8 years while accumulating more prestige points than your opponent This is one of the finest educational games I have ever seen I was entranced by the way the designer analyzed and simplified one of the key conflicts affecting all our lives It made me think as few games have about the world I live in I can imagine this game being assigned in high school or even college government courses not because it accurately reflects the world political scene any game must inevitably be simplified far too much to do that but as a springboard for thought and discussion It presents a hypnotic and frightening perspective on how super powers try to win and lose points in a world where total destruction is justaround the corner The extensive bibliography provided in the manual gives further opportunity to understand and explore these crucial issues Even at the beginner level the computer opponent plays a very challenging game It is constantly probing your weaknesses and seems ever ready to go to war when its vital interests are threatened Therein lies my main frustration in the game Even for apparently insignificant issues the computer s version of the Gencral Secretar
232. ong time to backup 3 megs at floppy speed DAN HUGHES ON 09 13 Try Bag of Tricks 2 It has a very good ProDOS Zap editor DAVE HARVEY ON 09 25 When you buy Glen Brendon s ProSEL disk he includes a bunch of utilities on the two disks One is called CAT Doctor Youcan copy files to another disk and specify that you only want to copy those that have been changed since the last time you copied He also has a program call Fixit that finds bad blocks and I think locks them out ProSEL costs 40 direct from Glen His address is 521 State Road Princeton NJ 08540 Tax Preparer Woes PAUL KELBAUGH ON 09 20 Time for my annual bashing of HowardSoft and their support of Tax Preparer I m a legal owner and have supported them on annual updates so I figure I m entitled Received the annual We re here to help you and send us 75 for the latest Tax 87 update in the mail yesterday In past ycars it was a one sheet send money form This year it is several pages long and full of language between the lines indicating they caught a lot of doodoo last year over their totally inadequate support of users late issuance of usable updates and major errors in the program which was finally shipped I d like to see these folks eat a lot more humble pie As far as Pi members are concerned Paul Koskos has made this expensive piece of software obsolete Check it Out JOE HARAB ON 09 27 I ve been looking for a good check writing program
233. ons exceeding 32K as an error but it generates bad code instead 7 If you use the MC68881 option and a procedure is passed an extended parameter which in tum has a subprocedure that accesses the parameter directly then reading the parameter will return bad data and writing into the parameter will overwrite memory Needless to say many APDA products are in debug mode MS SS An acronym for Microsoft is shortsighted A litle known fact is that Microsoft uses its own p System for generating its Mac products While UCSD p System followers debate the relative merits of 16 bit vs 32 bit p Systems Micro soft has been quietly using a system with 20 bit long addresses This allows Microsoft to develop programs on a VAX and then port them to the Mac and hopefully other machines This obscure fact came to light when someone realized that Excel 48 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 Word and other famous products would not run properly on systems with memory greater than 22 Hence Macs with more than a meg of RAM running Multifinder discovered problems However as proof of Microsoft s clout with Apple Multifinder was revised to automatically move any Microsoft program into low memory This does not solve the problem of running several Microsoft programs with large RAM partitions at the same time The moral of the story is that when you work with any p code interpreter be sure that it works well with your host s memory manage
234. opy I wanted to make a file of the screen for this review but did not want to write to the only copy of the Ogre disk Origin Systems agreed to send me some files of the screen but mailed a35mm slide instead Those of you who like to store your programs on your hard disk and those of you who like to make a backup for peace of mind are wamed in advance BALANCE OF POWER APPLE Il A Review by Philip Greco There you are President of the United States The Soviet Union has just sent troops to help insurgents depose a pro Western government You send them a note in protest They send back a strongly worded reply saying the diplomatic equiva lent of drop dead The whole world is watching you What do you do Do you back down and risk losing a valuable ally as well as prestige throughout the world or do you escalate the protest and bring the world closer to nuclear destruction Such is the dilemma you face over and over in Mindscape s Balance of Power a game depicting a world dominated by power politics at its Machiavellian best Available for a couple of years on the Mac and IBM it has now been adapted for the fe Jc and HGS 128K required It is in short the most fascinating and admirable computer game I have ever played Note though that I did not say the mostenjoyable since there are significant frustrations as well as numerous pluses The game unfolds over 8 years from 1987 to 1994 during whichas the U S Presid
235. or heavy use 2495 PS Jet Postscript upgrade for Canon H P lasers 2150 AST Postscript TurboLaser Postscript at super price call QMS PS 800 Plus 8 ppa LaserWriter compatible call Epson Quadras Quae TI Canon NEC lasers eall MODEMS Hayes Saartroden 1200A 1200 300 card for JCt Jfe 249 Micromodea Jfe 300 baud card for JC Ile wisft 12 Saartaodea 2400 24007 1200 300 baud R5 232 Suartuoden 1200 1200 baud RS 232 Seartaodea 300 300 baud AS 232 ia States ial anga Anchor Autosation Express 1200 300 loaded w features 219 Lightning 24 2400 1200 300 RS 232 325 Prometheus Prosodes 12006 1200 3900 baud AS 2392 Promodea 1200A 1200 300 card w software 209 Applied Engineering DataLink 1200 300 card w software 175 US Robatics Courier 2400 2400 1200 300 baud AS 232 389 Courier 1200 1200 300 autadial ans 219 Sportster 1200 300 external best buy 135 Zooatodes Je Plus 300 baud card wadu software 119 DISK ORIVES Sider II 20 aeg hard disk for Ile t gs 549 Video Technology half hi floppy for Jle c gs 125 Applied Engineering half hi floppy for IEt e 119 Controller for 2 drives 55 MONITORS Andek 300G 300A 12 green asber anti glare 18Mhz 125 139 Color 600 13 cowposite RGB color 16 whz 369 Taxan 115 116 green anber cosposite 20Hhz Thoason 4120 14
236. ord processor file in the window press lt Open Apple P gt 2 Choose from the beginning then select A text ASCII file on disk This option prints your formatted file to disk rather than to a real printer 3 AppleWorks will ask for the Path Name Specify a disk and file name separated by slashes DISKNAME FILE NAME where DISKNAME is the name of your disk and FILENAME is the name under which you wish to save the file 4 Youcan now L oad the file into AppleWriter using the same Path Name that you used to save the file in step 3 Q How can I reverse the process and read Apple Writer text files into AppleWorks A From the AppleWorks main menu select Add file to Desktop and create a new file for the Word Processor indicate From contd a text ASCII file and provide the proper PathName when prompted How do I delete formatting codes such as headers footers and page breaks from AppleWorks A Press lt Open Apple Z gt to display all formatting codes Q A Highlight the codes using the cursor keys and then press lt Open Apple D gt to delete them How can a IIgs produce foreign language printed output specifically German Spanish and Swedish When I go to the control panel I get the keys rearranged but don t get the appropriate letters with diacritical marks that I need Most current word processors e g AppleWorks use the Apple s text display mode not grap
237. ose But until now we could not use AppleWorks Now we can The answer was in the newsletter I made a BASIC program out of it bunnied it and put it on Area 1 AW Templates etc It is file 35 Just download it unbunny it and run Presto 255 copies now possible If you upload it to Genie or CI please give credit to all THREE Authors IMPORTANT PS Only use these patches with AppleWorks 2 0 and with ProDOS Version 1 1 1 dated 14 September 1984 or a LATER version Using it with ProDOS 1 0 or 1 0 1 will cause it to truncate your SEG M1 file making AW unusable Also only use it on a COPY of Apple Works NEVER on the original Editor s note the excerpt from Open Apple is as follows Beagle Bros Software Touch AppleWorks guru Alan Byrd provided us with the following Patch to change the maximum number of copies to 255 AppleWorks 2 0 only POKE 768 255 BSAVE SEG M1 T 00 L1 A768 B36074 for WP BSAVE SEG M1 T 00 L1 A768 B9 185 for DB BSAVE SEG M1 T 00 L1 A768 B65895 for SS For other versions of AppleWorks Alan suggested searching the SEG M1 file for the byte sequence A9 09 20 35 DO and replacing the 09 with a larger value Dennis looked at Apple Works 1 2 and 1 3 and discovered the actual sequence you have to look forin SEG M1 is A9 092032 D0 This sequence occurs four times change the first three as Alan did for 2 0 Equivalent B parameters for AppleWorks 1 2 and 1 3 V 12 V13 B34049 B34253 B9151 B9151
238. ost Apple Dealers seem to require that you purchase a UniDisk in order to qualify for the free upgrade Borrowed equipment does not seem to count Apple soldered in the MMU chip to increase the reliability of the c Logic Board For owners who wish to purchase third party peripherals Apple has an inventory of motherboards with socketed MMU chips The bad news is that if your c is out of warranty including AppleCare then you will have to pay for the motherboard exchange Q I am trying to print labels with AppleWorks but it is not recognizing my form size A Follow these steps 1 From the main menu select number 5 Other Activi ties 2 Select number 7 Specify information about your printer s You should now see a Printer Information menu 3 Under the heading Change printer specifications select the name of the printer you want to use 4 Change item number 2 Accepts top of page com mands to no This trick will not print two or three labels across Instead try MacroWorks from Beagle Brothers MacroWorks also adds Macro capability to AppleWorks You can contact Beagle Brothers at 619 296 6400 How can I transfer a word processor file created in Apple Works to Apple Writer ProDOS version A AppleWorks files cannot be read by Apple Writer directly To transfer the file to Apple Writer you must print the file to disk Use the following instructions 1 With your AppleWorks w
239. phy 165 Hanoy olidin 809 86 Tax Tmplate AW 51 2 Telecom II no sys 53 Albert Camus Interview 166 Charts and Graphs 810 Haunted House 52 1 Utilities 54 Tic Tac Toe in Spanish 167 JAC 40 Pilot 811 Adventures Disk 53 Utilities VI 55 Rafel Boot 168 IAC 41 amp 47 AWU Ba Toddlers and Kids Games VI 56 Rafel 169 Hayes Term Prog 3 TAWUG 1 55 cme VII 57 Rafel Quiz 170 Lave s Follies Utilities ata TAWUG 2 56 Games VII 58 Matute 171 Cat Graphix 815 TAWUG 3 57 1 New Memb Disk 86 59 Lo Fatal 172 Print Shop Graphics 816 TAWUG4 58 Desk Accessories IV 70 Business Math Statistics 173 Riley s Pers Instrum 817 Telecom 59 1 CE Sampler II 71 Music 174 Imageworks ascal Volumes so 133 Desk Accessories V 72 Keyboard Games 175 No Name Yet 300 PIGO A Ch T BIOS 66 Desk Accessories VI 73 Text Adventure Games 500 Master Catalog Listing 301 PIG1 HA pa 67 Desk Accessories VI 74 Paddie Games 501 Util Beginner s Choice 303 PIG3 PIG4 68 Utilities VII 75 Color Graphics for Fun 502 Uutil Intermediate User 305 PIGS 306 PIG6 69 Utilities VII 76 Education DComm 307 PIG7 308 PIG8 70 Utilities IX 77 Utilities 504 Database LOGIC 309 PIGS 310 PIG10 71 Utilities 90 Spreadsheet C Genl Bus amon Series Volumes 311 PIG11 312 PIG12 72 Utilities X Sys Grph 91 Spreadsheet D Investment 180 Dungeon Designer 313 PIG13 314 PIG14 Word Processin 92 Spre adsheet E Bus Recd 181 hegne Cave Volumes 74 Fun amp Games 93 VisiPlot amp VisiTrend 182 Lair of Minotaur 401 Maste
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241. ple color monitor The offer pertains to those who would like the color monitor but cannot obtain one and must settle for the mono chrome monitor The offer ends on October 3 1st so if you want a color monitor but can t get one this is a viable alternative BTW they Apple are projecting wide availability of the color monitor by the first quarter of next year but then that means on the Rumors board ed The Mac Fed SIG JERRY WALZ on 09 29 Note that Apple has reduced its prices considerably for memory expansion for the Plus SE and Mac II The Falcon GSA price for 1Meg is now 188 down fron 276 and for a 2Meg upograde gives the Plus and SE 2 5 Meg price is down from 756 to 452 I would recommend thatall upgrade or make their initial buys for at least 2 5 Meg on Plus and SE and 5Meg on MaclI HyperCard and Multifinder need RAM JERRY WALZ on 10 01 We got our Abaton MultiTalk the other day and although I have only had time to get one modem up on it I m tentatively pleased that it will do the trick MultiTalk is connected as an AppleTalk node and can have three serial devices connected to it All devices can be accessed simutaneously by different user on the net Our use will be to connect three modems so all lawyers on the net can have access to stuff like LEXIS and Westlaw without having to buy a modem for each Mac and all of the extra phone lines Its rated to 9 6K so should satisfy our telecommunications needs for now as
242. programming have proliferated and while they have been mas tered with relative ease there have been some dysfunctions Schools and universities have integrated computers into their curricula A higher than average rate of return from software and other computer products has generated financial resources which have been plowed back into research and development A general and revolutionary change wrought by the computer actual and potential is sweeping American society One can 40 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 perceive a moving horizon with its ultimate destination still undefined As computer literacy seeps through all the crevasses of our society a spiralling and self perpetuating cycle of growth will be the consequence Based on a recent survey by a computer magazine the relative importance of selection criteria relied on by purchasers and users of computers were identified The prime criterion users consider very important is assigned a value of 100 those of lesser importance are expressed as a percent of this leading factor Cy ony Evaluati Documentation 100 0 Ease of use 98 1 Performance 82 2 Support 70 4 Compatibility with other software in use 57 0 Error handling 49 7 Compatability with other hdwre 27 3 Price 25 7 Vendor reputation 20 9 Clearly non price factors are of much greater importance than price A simple listing of this kind does not however reveal what inter correlation there may be among the
243. ptical character reading software Such a program would convert scanned text into a text file either by doing the scanning itself or by reading a graphic image file previously created by the MacScan program New Image had hoped to offer such a program as an extra cost option but current plans indicate it will not be available till the end of the year The equipment is very easy to set up You plug the scanner into the interface box and the interface box into the Mac SCSI connector If you already have a device hooked to the SCSI port you unplug itand reconnect it to the MacScan cable which offers asecond SCSI just for daisy chaining the SCSI devices together The Software In addition to operating the scanner and saving the scanned image as a graphic MacScan offers several other useful features For one it allows considerable editing of the scanned image In addition it provides for saving scanned image in one of ten different formats see below Not all of these formats were familiar to me but they are coming into greater use as page layout software expands I was a little surprised to see only PageMaker 1 2 appearing as a choice since PageMaker 2 0 has been available for five months now TIFF which stands for Tag Image File Format is used by a number of page layout packages on both the Mac and MS DOS machines EPSF stands for encapsulated postscript I know very little of the meaning of these two formats or how to choose between them 6
244. r Catalog un amp Games X 95 Spreadsheet F Coin Coll 183 Cave of the Mind aoa Utilities 1 76 Fun amp Games Kl 100 Utilities A 184 Zyphur Riverventure 403 Communications 77 Fun amp Games XII 101 Utilities B 185 Castle of Doom 404 Utilities 2 78 Fun amp Games XII 102 Games A 186 Death Star 405 Utilities 3 79 Fun amp Games XIV 104 Business A 187 Devil s Tomb 406 ZCPR2 Install 80 Fun amp Games XV 106 Science Engineering 188 Caves of Treas Isl 407 ZCPR2 Documentation 81 Utilities XII 107 Games B 189 Furioso 408 ZCPR2 Utilities 82 Utilities XDI 108 IAC 10 Gra hics 190 The Magic Kingdom 409 Modem 730 Telecom 109 IAC 11 Applesoft Tutrl 191 The Tomb of ola 410 Essential Utilities 84 Fun amp Games XVI 110 Personal Education 192 Lost Isl of A 411 Text Editor 85 Fun amp Games XVII 111 Games C 193 Abductor s pple rs 412 penine 86 Utilities XIV 112 Utilities C 194 Quest for Trezore 413 MDM740 SSC amp Com 87 Utilities XV 113 Business B 195 Underground City 414 MDM740 7710 amp A Cat 88 DAs amp Fkeys VII 115 IAC 12 13 Mise 196 Merlin s Castle 415 Orig 350 Pt Adventure 89 Fun amp Games XVII 117 Picture Packer 197 Horgrath Castle 416 Kermit Source Code 90 Utilities XVI 118 Utilities D 198 Deathtra 417 Kermit Documentation 91 Fun A Games KIK AC 15 Misc 199 The Black Death 418 Kermit Running Code 3 Education II 120 IAC 16 Misc 200 The Temple of Ngurct HA yu Z83 REZ VDE 93A amp d 5 93B Fonts VI 122 IAC 1
245. r the IBM PC and this in turn to the Linotronic More MS DOS programs will now support PostScript dueto IBM s recent endorsement of this printer language The Linotronic 100 lists for 31 950 while the Linotronic 300 lists for 53 900 Both prices include the postscript RIP The model 100 has a rated imaging speed of 100 lines per minute Ipm while the model 300 is rated at 225 Ipm A higher speed throughput of 400 Ipm is available on the 300 for an additional 3 950 The ML 314 processor costs an additional 3 950 and is a necessity to develop the output with both typesetters All of these prices may not be current by the time this article appears Instead of photographic paper you may also use rolled acetate which produces a very high quality transparency output suitable for mounting in cardboard frames for briefing presenta tions The Linotronic paper cost about 60 cents a foot and the transparency acetate 1 50 a foot The Adobe type font library is additional and if both the LaserWriter and Linotype are to be used it is necessary to purchase font packages for both If you want to purchase most of the currently available fonts plan on adding several thousand dollars more to the total cost Adobe now has about 50 fonts and the number is growing rapidly contd Washington Apple Pi November 1987 53 Hopefully in the future the cost of typesetting will decrease and the available equipment will continue to increase bringing true typese
246. ready have a SYSTEM DISK As a general policy we will issue GS library disks that will boot under ProDOS 8 and display a disk description In order to run the programs you will have to either boot up with a system disk or install the programs ona Startup disk Help files will describe how to setup and use the programs See the article MASTER COPY INC SELF SERVICE MACINTOSH amp LASER PRINTING ary We also offer 35 mm color slides produced on the MAC copying binding amp facsimile service 8601 Westwood Center Drive Vienna VA 22180 Next to Moore Cadillac in the American Cafe Building 703 893 7878 82 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 elsewhere in this journal on how to setup a stripped down System Disk This month s GS Disk is a collection of courses for Mean 18 Golf NOTE you will need to have Accolade s Mean 18 Golf in order to use this disk WAP2007 M18 COURSES contains Watery M18 Desert M18 Bungle M18 Snake M18 Mule M18 PGA M18 Walden M18 We currently have members who scan Compuserve and Genie for GS Public Domain and Shareware Are there any volunteers willing to keep an eye on other systems Contact Ted Meyer Sherman Lewis or David Todd if you are interested Laserprinting For 50 Per Copy 5 00 Minimum No Additional Charges Create on your Macintosh and print on our Laser Writer Plus Flexible Hours appointment required Conveniently located in Rockville Maryland
247. riate lengths I was interested in comparing the quality and resolution of the LaserWriter output to the Linotronic I printed output from MacWrite MacDraw PageMaker and More I compared both the LaserWriter and Linotronic output side by side The typeset Output is on a white matt finish photographic paper and therefore looks slightly different than the same output on regular copier paper from the LaserWriter As such it may be somewhat unfair to present comparisons in this manner and actual comparisons should be made with original output from both sources Ata quick glance to the nakedeye the difference between 300 dpi and 1270 dpi is not overwhelming The most obvious difference is in the quality of diagonal lines and shading patterns Diagonal lines produced on the LaserWriter are more obviously dot like while the Linotronic output is sharper and darker In a similar manner shaded patterns are sharper more homogeneous and tess dot like with the Linotronic One of the major complaints about LaserWriter output is the darkness of large solid areas Such areas are often slightly gray or irregular in consistency of the toner darkness This problem is corrected with typesetting which is always very black In all fairness it is not fair to compare a toner based system to a photographic based one but the end result is better and more consistent with typesetting Another major advantage of the Linotype based system is the ease of use
248. rognet and Ben Fogle Grognet opened the floor for discussion of the election process The group concluded they would submit nominations for next year s chair s to a nomina tion committee consisting of Stock SIG s secretary Andrew Thompson 270 6790 and Grognet 296 5444 They will propose nominations to initiate discusion and an election to be held at the October meeting 4 SHARE WARE LIBRARY DONATIONS NEEDED Bob Johnson requested that Stock SIG members examine their personal disk libraries and other potential sources to find stock market related public domain disks that can be made available for Apple and Mac users To make donations or gain further information call Jim Little 762 3215 or leave materials or messages for him at the WAP office 5 OVERVIEW OF CYCLE ANALYSIS Peter Kasper updated participants on the on going research which Mercari Inc has been conducting with regard to forecast ing future stock market moves Sometimes cycle analysis has little value as in the last couple of months But now they may be coming back Kasper said By developing proprietary software written in Pascal for use on the Mac his recent research has been exploring the question what s beyond cycles This approach begins with the assumptions that the stock market contains a certain amount of random noise and that the non stationary stock market has indicators or warning lights which come in and out of favor The rules of the game keep
249. rror detection and correction e CCITT V 22 V 22 bis amp Bell 103 212A standards MIMIC or A AI operation Nonvolatile memory EEPROM e Integral speaker for call progress monitoring Convenient front panel status indicators The AJ 2412 STH all this for a suggested list price of 395 ANDERSON A JACOBSON Anderson Jacobson Inc 8653 Grovemont Circle Gaithersburg MD 20877 4191 301 840 5700 Powell Pendergraph 301 921 4200 Commart 301 261 4344 Comsel 301 734 3880 400 bps 2400bps 2400 bps 2400 bps 2400 bps 2400 bps Washington Apple Pi November 1987 61 A VIEW OF BIG BLUE by Robert Wolov Let me confess right now from the onset that I am a defector Like some Soviet spy coming in from the cold I marched into the WAP office declared my intentions put my membership money where my mouth was and joined the fold I have been a proud even smug owner of a true blue IBM PC from the earliest days of the breed I relished the fact that sitting on my desk was a real computer from a real computer company not a kludge of breadboards and wire Those magic three letters gave me as much as it distresses me to admit it now a warm fuzzy feeling at night When the 128K Mac was unleashed I was there amidst the mob hooting and jeering at the overpriced etch a sketch But like a sinner saved I too have seen the light I ve come around to the Mac from the turmoil of the MS DOS world
250. s This holds true throughout the program Sound 3 130 See a new way of PEEKing twice or more by using the sign between the PEEKS SO PEEK S PEEK S You can t hear itat this point but there is a value to this technique by enabling higher frequencies since the code can be accomplished quicker if it is on one line Compare sounds 2 and 3 using the lt P gt option Sound 4 140 Now you hear a hum as the PEEK is done 200 20 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 times Could this be a note or tone Sound 5 150 Almost the same thing but this time we used added PEEKs on a line Notice that the tone is higher and the duration is slightly longer Use lt P gt to compare sounds 4 and 5 Sound 6 160 Same idea but we used two separate state ments with a colon in between on one line SO PEEK S SO PEEK S When compared with sound 5 it is lower but when compared with sound 4 it is higher Try the comparison out Why s produce a higher sound s a little lower separate statements but on the same line and separate statements on separate lincs lower yet Sound 7 170 Notice that a multiplier was placed before the PEEK SO 1 PEEK S This lowers the sound a little more Italso makes it slightly erratic or harsh Compare this sound with sounds 4 5 amp 6 Sound 8 180 If we increase the multiplier such as 100 PEEK S the sound becomes lower yet Compare with sound 7 Increase the m
251. s are integers When I realized the problem I called up the manufacturer of the LaserView I was referred to someone in sales and when I told her what I thought about her monitor s 72 dpi mode she insisted that the monitor did indeed use 72 dpi I went through the math with her using the numbers in her ad after which she said Just a minute I ll have to check with onc of our technical people Long pause Then she came back on the line and said Well it appears you re right So you re going to change the ad right Uh we ll have to see about that 6 Apple user groups may reprint without prior permission any portion of the contents hercin provided proper author title and publication credits are given Membership ducs for Washington Apple Pi are 32 00 for the first year and 25 00 per year thereafter beginning in the 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 Mailing Notice Change of addrcss must be postmarked at least 30 days prior to effective date of move Journal issues missed duc to non reccipt of change of address may be acquired via mail for 2 50 per issue Current office hours are Monday Friday 10 AM to 2 30 PM Tues amp Thurs 7PM to 9 00 PM Saturday
252. s available directly from Signum 19 95 with documentation on disk or 39 95 with printed manual What Documax Will Do Documax is a text file utility that performs a number of functions It will search a file or a collection of files for one string two strings either of two strings or one string and not a second If there is a match it will stop and display the contents of the file in the area of the match and give you the options of ignoring printing the display printing the document or reviewing the document using the cursor keys for positioning You may also edit the file using a supplied editor As a user option it will generate a file containing a list of match locations by document and line number It will display part or all of a ProDOS directory filtering out the following file types CMD PAS INT IVR BAS VAR REL SYS ASP and DIR This allows other file types including AWP ADB and TXT There is an option to pass only TXT files It will create a ProDOS directory or sort one alphabetically or chronologically It will crunch aProDOS directory A new ProDOS directory entry will overwrite the first available position in the directory If this happens to be a deleted file it may leave the directory out of chronological order This utility sorts the directory so that all deleted files are placed after the last active file Your new file will then show up last on the listing when you catalog it which is probably where it s
253. s become key shaped I tried it too soon and ended up having to restart the game because of some glitch The Fool s Errand is not copy protected and comes on three single sided disks one for the game itself one for the puzzles and one for the animated preview and finale After you save a game for the first time the program will automatically update and save your current position every time you quit This prevents you from losing your latest puzzle solving achieve ments but can also be annoying if you want to go back to an earlier stage of the game I resorted to the Save As command in order to preserve a duplicate of earlier positions I didn t want to lose In short this game will not be everyone s cup of tea It is definitely not Zork like involves no killing of yourself or others is fairly stingy with clues and expects you to know how to spell words like onyx and amethyst But for those who enjoy jigsaw and crossword puzzles The Fool s Errand is ideal The package indicates that this is the first in The Arcanum Series If Miles Computing can now find a story to match the quality of the puzzles their next release in this series could be spectacular a second person In its black hand was a crysta mouths that wailed incessantly Oh the fool mumbled not really kno Yes the Empress sighed My husband himself of that wretched little bird but I am cursed wi
254. s ranging from the complexity of tracking open interest and stock market cycles to the house keeping matters of electing a new chairperson and sharing public domain software 1 MUTUAL FUND SUB GROUP REPORT The monthly mecting was held on its traditional 4th Tuesday of the month August 25 the day the stock market hit its historic high by reaching 2 722 on the DOW Participants discussed the findings of their various methods for tracking the performance of various funds especially the select sector funds within the Fidelity group Future meetings will take place on October 27 November 24 and December 22 2 DISCUSSION OF OPEN INTEREST Asa spontancous warm up for October s Stock SIG meeting members launched into a discussion of how to understand ways open interest figures can be used to forecast future moves that the stock market is expected to take Some said that by tracking the ratio between puts and calls as reported daily in the financial press they have an indication of which way smart money is leaning For many members this discussion of contracts fu tures options and methods for computing put call ratios was new information which peaked their interest and primed the pump for a systematic discussion scheduled for October 8th 3 ELECTION OF CHAIR FOR 1987 88 YEAR Participants noted that the one year term of leadership for the Stock SIG has been competently fulfilled this past year by co chairs Ron G
255. s sharing files with Sun workstations over AppleTalk HyperCard The software hit of MacWorld was HyperCard Bill Atkin son gave the best demo of MacPaint that I have ever witnessed At MacWorld he also gave an incredible demo of HyperCard Earlier demonstrations by Apple sales reps left me wondering what all the excitement was about After watching Bill s the entire meeting hall went wild Because everyone else has written about it and many of you have already bought it I will not describe it I will describe my feelings on it I think HyperCard is wonderful even though it killed three products we had on the drawing board I might feel differently if it affected any of our main products or we were publishing something like Guide HyperText PictureBase File Vision or Record Holder which will be directly affected by HyperCard What we will do now is include tutorial and help stacks with our main programs TMON monitor My favorite programmers monitor has been upgraded to run on the Mac II a ragan Programmer s Key TENEI TMON When used on an SE or Mac II it features an INIT resource which utilizes the Mac II power on Key When the option key is held down and the Programmers key is pressed it has the same effect as pushing the programmers interrupt switch on the side of the Mac If your Mac is located in a way which makes these switches hard to reach you ll really appreciate this feature The new version costs 150 IC
256. ses A word to the wise Another observation I had is that dealerships whose sales representatives visited our offices seemed to do better than those whose salespeople did not come to our offices As I have said before many small businesses cannot have people visit com puter dealerships to talk to a salesperson Outbound sales forces are essential and not just because Apple requires them of dealers who want to sell the Macintosh II Even in the case of stores with primarily inside salespeople it would not have hurt for the inside salesperson to visit his or her prospective customers even if only to get a better feel for the customer s needs During one discussion with a sales manager for one dealer ship our conversation turned to Washington Apple Pi The sales manager said he thought his salespeople would bencfit from attending Pi meetings not just for the educational value of the programs themselves but just as importantly from being able to hear what Pi members were saying He recognized however that his people must not be scen as pushy because that would be counterproductive I told him I thought he was very percep tive about the attitude of Pi members toward salespeople at Pi meetings People recognize when someone is trying to sell them something and that would clearly be viewed as inappropriate at a uscr group meeting I said though that if he wanted his staff to look at a salesperson with just the right level of vis
257. sh MacWrite and other applications formerly pub lished by Apple except 4th Dimension which was picked up by Acius which Guy Kawasaki left Apple to form as a U S subsidiary of the application s French publisher ACI Knaster noted that Apple will still continue to publish system software under its own name and said wryly it seems to regard Hyper Card and MacTerminal as system software When I first saw 4th Dimension Knaster said I was really astonished by it 4th Dimension lets you program the Mac without having to fight it The big books are for the programmer and not the user and that s as it should be But there s this great interface and programmers don t get the advantage Now 4th Dimension V I P and HyperCard give those advantages to the programmer For example in conventional languages to make a button takes a lot of code In 4th Dimension you just draw the button To me this is a revolutionary step Although 4th Dimension costs 695 Knaster said the price includes unlimited technical support because We don t charge you fot the right to call us and tell us about our bugs Acius is also planning to offer support through MacBiz in MAUG on Compuserve Knaster then went through the steps of creating a simple database of cities and states explaining that there are usually two shortcuts for everything in 4th Dimension And when he showed how two fields could be linked simply by drawing a line between
258. shion by the Mac OS but I won t So as a defector how have things changed Well I ve given up my smug self assured attitude as a former member of the Empire of Armonk for the smug self assured attitude of the Rebel Alliance of Cupertino obviously a character flaw Pickpockets scratch their heads in bewilderment as they find both Capital PC and WAP membership cards in my wallet My local newsstand has long since given up trying to figure my purchases of PC World PC Magazine and Mac User and MacWorld On the down side I ve always envied the fact that software for the Mac was cheaper than for the IBM But as the Mac goes mainstream this too shall pass Compare the 2 digit prices of Mac Connection to the 3 digit prices of her sister store PC Connection just for historic interest FYI Reflex for the Mac may be the first casualty of respectability as Borland has announced that the next version which was shown at MacWorld in Boston will be triple the price Philippe Kahn himself is quoted in InfoWorld as saying that it s low price was hurting its credibility Welcome to the pinstripe world folks I got involved with computers because as well as being quite useful computers are simply fun I ve found Mac ers in general still to have that sense of fun and adventure with their machines More fun than the button down crowd of IBM I m glad I came to the party and I m not looking back 6 Washington Apple P
259. sizes of the Sider PRINT SHOP IIGS Very nice upgrade from Broderbund Prints in color allows designs to be saved and previewed complete onscreen List is 59 95 A 20 upgrade supposedly available for Ile version owners FANTA VISION IIGS SHR graphics sound from Broder bund List is 59 95 A 20 upgrade supposedly available for Ile version owners SHOWOFF A 59 95 package from Broderbund for mak ing presentation graphics DELUXEPRINT II Electronic Arts Note that s Print not Paint A sort of souped up Print Shop type program for the IIgs Lists at 49 95 DELUXEWRITE Graphic oriented GS word processor from Electronic Ants Has built in spell checker Lists at 99 95 POSTCARDS Postcard printing program from Activision LIST MANAGER An Activision database which can be used with Writer s Choice elite to do mail merge THE PERSONAL PUBLISHER or MEDLEY A still unfinished desktop publisher for the GS from Milliken 14 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 MULTISCRIBE GS 3 0 New version from StyleWare is expected to include built in spell checker thesaurus and en hanced graphics DESKWORKS A IIGS desktop accessory package from StyleWare It features NDA s including calculator macros clipboard calendar etc Lists for 59 95 MDIDEAS GS ACCELERATOR Shown in prototype version ONE DRIVE COPYING OF 3 5 DISKS The 3 5 microfloppy holding 800K is gradually supplant ing the 5 25 floppy as a storag
260. solo flight of Charles Don Hall as our new GameSIG Chairman Charles began by mentioning the extension of the World Builder Contest deadline to make it more competitive So far only one entry has been received Next we shared rumors regarding the present whereabouts of our previous chairmen Ron Wartow and Thomas Johnston both currently undergoing major life transitions Charles reported that Ultima V Wizardry IV and V Beyond Zork and so on are due out any day now while Infocom s latest games Plundered Hearts a historical romance and Nord and Bert Couldn t Make Head or Tail of It a serics of 8 storics involving puns cliches spoonerisms and other verbal trickery have already been released He also gave high marks to Maniac Mansion Lucasfilms Activision Meanwhile the following software was distributed for review Darkhorn Realm of the Warlords Avalon Hill Apple series with 64K real time arcade war game Guderian Avalon Hill Apple series with 64K World War II simulation of German invasion of Moscow arca using Gulf Strike system Riddle Magic Mindscape Apple series with 64K educa tional program for learning how to devise riddles OGRE FOR THE MAC A by Jeff Stetekluh Because the display equipment was not available we were unable to have the usual game demos Instead members dis cussed the programs they were currently playing Ultima I The Lurking Horror Plundered Hearts Balance
261. spreadsheet program on any computer today is Excel available for 225 The all pur pose program called Works combines spreadsheet word proc contd essing communications and da tabase One of the best page layout programs ReadySetGo 3 isavailable in this price range as are several powerful and use ful databases And if your MacNovice hasn t tried communi cating via phone line yet there are excellent qual ity modems available in this price category Ac tually there are good quality modems avail able in the under 175 category too but shop ping carefully is a must Even a small mem ory upgrade from 128K to 512 or from 512K tol megabyte can be purchased for less than 300 too Over 300 If your MacNovice has grown into a Mac power user this season could be the year to upgrade toa newer Mac Prices are holding steady on the MacPlus at about 1700 even at dis count houses Top of the line desktop publishing and accounting programs as well fre Under 300 Communications Modem 200 Small Memory Upgrade 275 Omnis 3 or Helix Databases 275 Reflex Plus Database 200 PowerPoint presenter 210 Microsoft Excel 225 Microsoft Works 190 ReadySetGo 3 250 as an external floppy disk drive or even a hard disk drive which holds vastly more data are gifts to 370 500 consider for someone who Hard Disk Drive 800 has become truly produc PageMaker 42
262. ssion by recruiting Hotline Volunteers About seven brave souls signed up so you should find the GS adequately represented in the Hotline page in this issue The discussion then evolved into more interesting topics including the new Finder and the ROM and VGC chip upgrades The Finder is the new desktop environment for the Ilgs It replaces the desktop that was on the System Disk and is available on System Disk Version 3 1 This new system disk is now available free from any Apple dealer they really have them this time or from WAP s Disk Library Look for a more complete discussion of the new Finder in another article in this issue of the journal Also available free from any Apple dealer are the chip upgrades These were mentioned in the President s Corner article in the last journal See this month s Q amp A article by Bruce Field and Bob Platt about software that won t run with the new ROM chip before you take your IIgs into an Apple dealer October s meeting will be a discussion of programming on the IIgs We ll try tocover the languages available programming methods types of programs and programmers and the IIgs programming environment The IIgs is a real playground for both hackers and software developers as well as students and dabblers The November meeting needs a subject and some volunteers to be leaders One possible topic for the pre Christmas season Games Since my wife and I are expecting our first
263. sssoesesssesasonse 51 Astley INteriors seeesssssevssseossorsssessressoosreerssseesreses 54 Mac Carols irasan agih aaa oa nane naon anane 59 Quick Brown FOX seess0s 57 CACI Graphic Services e 47 Mae Colour assoosasoa oo aen0n na ona aane aana an anan ane 59 Sateniite Scientific eesse 27 Clinton COMPULET osoneoonoeononononae nenen anaanean 1 MacCorner sseesseeee 424 45 44 Software Ventures Inside Back Computer Den Ltd ssscssssssssesseesseversessescens 17 MacroMind 57 Takoma Computers 61 Computer Ware Unlimited 0000000000000000 13 MacTography one Technical Sales amp Service 27 Family Computer Center 0000 Inside Front MacSource essesssesereess i Tempest Products Inc 2 HLA Computers i scssictzonsnveecennccivenoniovessviatannn 63 Master Copy Inc VE ASSOCIAUCS 0 00 a02an 7 Kinko s Copies cssssssecssceceseceessenseesesesnsonoee 49 Nexo Distribution 0ce0se00n00 eaaa saenonananana ne 23 Write Source aaonooesenesenene 82 84 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 lt 3 u MicmPhone is a trademark of Software THE NEW YORK TIMES MicroPhone is a breakthrough in communications software LOS ANGELES TIMES The program is more sophisticated and easier to use or the Mac than any on eit MACWORLD her the PC brings together the best traits of every Mac communications
264. st over Come in and see the new OCR software from New Image Technology A Demonstration disk is now available The software is expected to be ready in the early part of September Pricing was not available at press Call for more information NA Daha DN NA ANAA L Aa Ose R MA Scanning Service and Sales e MacScan e PC Scan Plus e LaserMagic SORES 30303090S ENRETE a MAA AAN N NNA AAAA EA MA ES Also New From New Image Technology Flat Bed Scanner New Image Technology will shortly be shipping their new Flat Bed Scanner The scanner will work with their current interface and software Come in for a demonstration of this new product from the innovative people at NIT Pricing was not available at press Call for more information SONA AAA OOS POMONA AOS apeg a Kg NGNE NGO NG EN SON AG NGGONE NT bat ga NEG Gah ana OCR Service mM PC Scan Plus Dest MacScan NIT IBM to Mac File Transfer Washington Apple Pi November 1987 45 69 3 percent The French government has declared that it will practice preferential treatment for national sources in computer and software acquisition It has established a super ministry for Industry and Rescarch which can affect software develop ment Ithas adopted the Farnoux Plan to help mobilize private nationalized and public sector sources in scientific electronic markets including the increase of research funds by 50 percent The effects
265. structions and explanations for Mac file transfer Most of the files on this and other BBsystems are stored in MacBinary format file extension BIN if you use MacTermi nal RedRyder or Microphone or other Mac communication software use the MacBinary option This has the result that the downloaded file is converted during the transfer But that s not alli some clever people came up with some programs to save storage memory and to pack several files like a program and its documentation into one file usually with the extension PIT or P3T These files need to be unpacked or unpited For this purpose you need a program call PackIt III or similar If you have this program double clicking the P3T file usually opens the PackIT III program and gives directions RICHARD BROSNAHAN on 09 26 Well here is what I found out about Fedit version 2 0 First a recap I am a registered user of Fedit and was sent a letter from MacMaster saying I could upgrade to Fedit for 15 On 6 10 87 I ordered the update to 2 0 from 1 0 4 I had not received the upgrade or an explanation by the end of July so I sent a letter asking about it on the 31st Still no reply On 8 18 87 I sent another letter still more stern No reply On 9 17 87 I sent both John Mitchell a letter as well as The United States Postal Service Today I received a letter from John Mitchell He explains that 2 0 has some bugs and that he is trying to fix them His possible release
266. t it s just another 680XX box by inadvertently trying to build one the hard way Bear with me gentle readers as we briefly journey into the dark recesses of the IBM compatible world First it started with adding a special memory board called an EMS expanded memory system to get around DOS s self imposed limit of 640K Until OS 2 appears in the real world 80X86 machines can only address 640K of system memory Some programs can be fooled by paging blocks of additional memory on the EMS but unlike the Mac you can t keep adding memory and have your old software address and utilize it My switch to MS Word for the IBM necessitated the addition ofa mouse and the loss of one of my two serial ports Unlike the Mac where Apple assumed you would connect it to the real world i e printers monitors graphics tablets plotters IBM unbundled all ports so that all connections had to be added by means of alacarte plug in cards atextra cost using precious slots and creating the multifunction card industry just to achieve mundane interconnection chores The final step was the addition of MS Windows the proto type graphics environment which is to become the interface to OS 2 the competition to Finder It was pleasant at first until I borrowed a Mac Plus Windows on an 8088 based machine is contd on pg 65 BITS AND BYTES by Lynn R Trusal Multiuser Helix Impressions Ihave been using Multiuser Helix for the past s
267. t instead of returning it The only thing which it does not offer is gray scale The monitor is sharp and flicker free Other Big Screens Last year was the year for introducing big screens at Boston This year it seemed like everyone had them New Image Technology was showing one for the SE using the Princeton 60 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 Monitor At a list price of 995 it makes it one of the least expensive monitors They triggered a lot of show specials from other vendors to match their price One problem with big screens is their lack of ability to work with various 68020 accelerator cards Radius claims their FPD works only with their accelerator card Levco works with the MegaScreen and Moniterm The E Machines display does not work with either the Radius or Levco For us we will be using the Radius accelerator and monitor on our traveling demo SE A case company in Berkeley makes a carrying case for the Radius FPD which is only slightly larger than a Mac Plus carrying case If you find yourself lugging your Mac and FPD around you might want to spend the 100 InterLeaf on the Mac II The hottest new software announcement at the Scybold conference was InterLeaf on the Mac II InterLeaf has been selling a wonderful high end desktop publishing system for Sun workstations for several years They now have a version for the Mac II which runs under the Finder not AJUK Using Centram s TOPS they were demonstrating Mac II
268. t software 50 percent of software income realized can be set aside in a tax free reserve to defray future software development costs tax deductions are allowed for annual cost increments incurred for training software engi neers Government loans amounting to 5 billion yen will be made for joint software programs These developments are broadly consistent with industrial policy support in Japan This kind of support has been effectively managed in the past and adequately funded Industrial targeting in other Japanese indus trial areas has led to high performance results and considerable gains in foreign markets Hence efforts in the computer field must be taken seriously since they could encroach on the U S share of world computer markets United Kingdom In 1982 more than half total software revenues in the U K estimated at 700 million came from integrated software the balance was about equally divided between custom and packaged software The following are estimates of this breakdown mos pement Packaged 175 25 0 Customs 175 25 0 Integrated 350 50 0 Total 700 100 0 The top ten firms accounted for 556 million or 79 43 percent of the total The concentration ratio among the top 10 firms was greatest for the United Kingdom and lowest for the United States 35 13 percent Concentration in France 76 48 prcent was closer to that in the United Kingdom concentration 46 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 in Japan 4
269. th ALA VILE SHADOW and its unrelenting BIN MMMA L i have been unable to sleep ever since it a O W MIR The fool expressed his most solemn SYM pererstec orterveq d from the unhappy couple R IUIN The Empress fragment of the story with its corresponding puzzle superimposed The puzzle is revealed by clicking on the button in the lower lefthand corner of the scroll contd Washington Apple Pi November 1987 37 Z Strength The duggier The Farmer The Knight of Fentactes The Blacksmith The Cathedral The Chapel The Humbuy The Merchant The Maze of Hedges The Maze of Thoras The Queen of Pentacles The Peatacie The Page of Pentacles 4 The World Strength Temperance This picture puzzle is solved by clicking on any two pieces to exchange their positions Different parts of the story and their corresponding puzzles can be reached via the pull down menus The Emperor FMOXPIUF CGGJFSSSRDSDBZ READ GERN Aan Rai DE bR au H G Two puzzle screens The one behind involves clicking and dragging over letters forming the names of 25 kinds of birds In the forefront is a cardgame 6 38 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 Balance of Power contd from pg 35 different and less satisfying Instead of opposing a difficult but ultimately fairly predictable and rational in its own way opponent you would be facing someone who knows what he has to lose in terms of points and could do all kinds of irrational things
270. th a Mac II The Quick Brown Fox Laser Typesetting amp Graphics 36 South Paca Street e Baltimore Maryland 21201 301 547 0777 Modem 301 547 2410 PP LI OEY 7 4 a AA ASO TT ed sounds Ae Si naan IE ke AAN eT Ss MacroMind 1987 MacroMind Inc EE Washington Apple Pi November 1987 57 MacNovice Column by Ralph J Begleiter By Annual Gift Givers Guide If you haven t given any thought yct to your MacNovice s holiday wish list here are some suggestions to help you get started on the shopping spree In the 1987 gift giving season it s more important than ever to know what kind of Macintosh system your Novice is using There are probably some Macintosh users who still have the original limited memory 128K Mac and many of the programs available today won t work properly on that mini Mac To a lesser degree the same is true of the un enhanced Fat Mac 512K machine But if your gift recipient is using any of the following Macintoshes you re pretty safe buying almost any Mac program available today 512e enhanced Fat Mac MacPlus 1MB Mac SE 1MB and Macintosh II Stepping Up For the owner of a small memory Mac such as the 128K or even the 512K computers perhaps the most appreciated holiday gift would be an upgrade to a Mac with more intemal memory This isn t a frill anymore It s quickly becoming a necessity in order to use the advan
271. the capital letters O and A The Toggle Init maintains the period and comma keys for shifted characters rather than the gt and lt keys which are available from the option shift keys Init Keyboard Docs tells all about it Init SoftDisk f Init SoftDisk Create partitions on your hard disk with this handy Init Use these partitions to reduce hard disk fragmentation and for all the other reasons discussed in the SoftDisk doc The SoftDisk DA is used to create and open Soft Disks Shareware 45 for full featured version Jclock 31 f Jclock 31 Puts the current time in the menu bar The JClock doc is a comprchensive write up of the current Init and also tells how to remove older versions using ResEdit MacWait f MacWait 1 2 Puts working hands on the wrist watch cursor Don t use it with the latest systems which have the feature already READ ME FIRST tells what you must do to make it work MacWait asm MacWait r and MacWait link are provided for you programmers who want to see how it was done Narrator f The Narrator An Init which used in connection with Macintalk will speak aspeech at startup StartupSpeech is the text that is spoken replace this text by your own 80 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 Remember you need MacInTalk in the system folder of the boot disk Shareware A few dollars Randomizer f Randomizer Used in connection with the fol lowing sets a StartUpScreen as desktop background and changes it at r
272. the fastest we presently have is 2400 Radius Accelerator Card contd from pg 71 March that worked flawlessly for about three months Then I had the XP up grade added and the thing crashed three times in one week trashing numerous files that of course I had not com pletely backed up The people at MacCorner however cheer fully reformated the disk after the first two crashes Then after the third they gave me a new one with the same up grade and it has been problem free ever since The source of the problems with the first disk once it was upgraded remains a mystery to all concerned Aside from the agony of lost files the unexpected experience of knowledgeable computer sales people willing take care of my problems on the spot even though they had already pocketed my money was a refreshing first in my three plus years of owning a personal computer 6 MAC DISKE ERIA NOTES Here We Go Again Folks In November Apple will release its new System 5 0 and Finder 6 0 which includes MultiFinder The significance of this change affects not only the need for multiMeg Macs some 2 5 Megs of RAM are recommended for running MultiFinder and HyperCard and the increasing desirability of Hard Disk envi ronments because of more frequently occuring massive pro grams but will also create an inevitable wave of problems with all kinds of software including those produced by shareware freeware providers such as those included
273. tors are available for the 1st 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 November 3 WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF APPLE December 1 IIgs specific November 10 HOW TO USE YOUR APPLE SOFTWARE December 8 Hgs specific November 17 POPULAR APPLICATIONS APPLEWORKS December 15 Tutorials for the beginners are regularly given on the 2nd 3rd and 4th Monday evenings of the month at the office from 7 15 10 PM The fee for each session is 10 You may sign up for 1 2 or all 3 sessions You are strongly urged to bring your Macintosh WAP does not have equipment for you to use These tutorials fill up quickly call the office to verify space before mailing in your registration Monday November 9 or December 14 Introduction to Macintosh Prerequisite Guided Tour to Macintosh Monday November 16 or December 21 Intermediate Mac Skills Prerequisite Familiarity with Desktop disk copying etc Monday November 23 or December 28 Personalizing Your Mac for Productivity Prerequisite First two sessions or equivalent Non Regular Tutorials The following tutorials are being offered in the next two months The fee for these tutorials is 15 S20 for non members A more detailed description is given elsewhere in this publication ANon Programmer s Introduction to HyperCard David Michae
274. ts own powerful editor and it follows Apple s SANE numerics standards as well For users and vendors it provides an excellent upgrade path Developers of Basic programs should have few problems porting them over to the GS and in fact many programs already out there for the should with only a few changes be directly portable to the GS That means many of the Basic programs in our WAP SIG library can provide an excellent beginning for those GS folks wishing to leam this new Basic language Pohiman says it s not been determined if Apple will distrib ute GS Basic or not at this point It is being distributed by APDA for 50 One more version will be distributed through them before Apple has to make a final decision But overall I d say GS Basic is a real winner It is the loving work of folks who continue to make the power of the live on elsewhere Pohiman by the way did donate his Softalk articles on Business Basic into the WAP and TAU public domain That includes the programs as well contd HYPERCARD I know it may seem heretical for a person to be talking about a Mac program but Bill Atkinson s demonstration of this powerful tool at Phase was a real treat Hopefully you will haveachance to see what it can do at the special WAP HyperCard demo November 7th at USUHS Atkinson came to Chicago after a seven nation tour and was very gracious to show off the program not once but twice to Phase
275. tting to the masses Color Laser Printers No one buys black and white televisions any more and users want color monitors for their personal computers I ve generally felt that color displays weren t that important unless you could output the color to a printer plotter or laser printer Well there are color dot matrix printers color plotters and color ink jet printers but color laser printers remain elusive and will probably continue to do so until 1990 or beyond The first color laser printer was offered by Xerox back in 1978 and was called the 6500 Color Graphics Printer 39 000 for use with mainframes and minicomputers Its lineage was derived from the 6500 Xerox Color Copier and could either act like a color copier or printer It produced 100 dpi resolution at 3 pages a minute and used argon lasers Xerox was also the first company to offer a black and white laser printer in 1977 called the 9700 laser printer The 6500 is no longer made but is still supported by Xerox At the present time many companies are working on perfecting color laser printers but there are no commercial versions available from any manufacturer Canon Ricoh QMS and AST are several of the companies working on color laser printers The technology used to make color photocopiers is being adapted to the production of color laser printers This technol ogy is not new and is based on combinations of the three primary colors red blue and green RGB Instead color
276. ultiplier much more and the sound goes lower and becomes more harsh Sound 9 190 Suppose we multiplied by 0 a strange thing todo 0 PEEK S The sound goes higher Why Idon tknow but there it is Compare with sounds 7 and 8 Sound 10 200 Let s place a longer string of ed PEEKs together Wow The sound is higher yet Compare sounds in this order 10 5 6 4 9 7 8 Sound 11 210 Some authors prefer to write the stringed ed PEEKs alternating between s and s I don t know why it scems the same to me Let s test it and see if there is any difference Sound 11 is the same as sound 10 except that every other was changed to a Listen to sound 11 first and then compare with sound 10 Is there a difference You be the judge Sound 12 220 Here we use the on the compound line SOUND PEEK S PEEK S PEEK S Notice the raspy quality of the sound Sound 13 230 Instead of the we will go back to the and compare sound 13 with sound 12 You may find sound 13 useful in your programs Sound 14 240 Let s stick a multiplier in the works multiplying one of the PEEKs by 5 Notice the sound is slightly lower than sound 13 Sound 15 250 Here we make a compound sound placing everything in one statement line Compare it with sound 13 Do the sounds appear to have the same pitch Could it be that this is due to the PEEK being accessed approximately 60 times in ea
277. unscrambled you are ready to figure out the names of the treasures based on clues found in the map and story At this point the program allows you to print out the whole story all 21 pages foreasy reference Whenall the names are correctly inscribed the program takes you into a final animated sequence in which the High Priestess gets an appropriate comeup pance for all of the trouble she has caused This may sound obscure and in fact the story line often seems contrived little more than a framework on which to hang the puzzles with the language distorted to fit the elaborate verbal clues embedded in the text But it is the puzzles themselves which make the program truly special There are scrambled pictures and letters hidden words mazes including a tricky roller coaster version jigsaws a card game coded sentences wandcring control buttons ncarly 60 initial puzzles of all kinds before you even get to the endgame Bestof all The Fool s Errand makes splendid use of the Macintosh interface the graphics are excellent and most of the time you can simply point click and or drag to trace lines select cards exchange letters and soon HINT The most fiendish puzzle belongs to the File High Priestess where you have to click on the numbers 1 to 99 in descending order as they appear randomly about the screen I advise not even attempting it until you have seen all the Keys of Thoth and your pointer ha
278. ust DA Another of those superb looking DAs that list the short cuts for applications this one for Adobe Illustra tor The commercial andacopy of the DA screens are provided in the Illustrator DAs Doc LockOUT v1 2 f LockOUT v1 2 Protect your work from prying eyes and roving fingers This DA allows you to pass word protect your work from casual observation or change while you are away from your desk This is not foolproof protection however the password is removed by re booting Release Notes LockOUT describes Lockout Lookup DA v1 00 f Lookup DA v1 00 A generic DA that accesses up to five columns of data stored in a text file You can create your own data lists of telephone numbers names etc using a word processor or DA such as MockWrite or miniWriter that creates a text file The DA is described in the file OpenMeWithLookup The ASCII Table is an example of the type of data that could be generated for Lookup Mac s Headroom That electronic character Max animated in a Desk Accessory Macros Demo f Macros Demo A demo version of a DA that gencrates keyboard sequences including control key se quences control C control M carriage return control escape etc Up to ten of these macro sequences may be invoked in the full version which is available for 20 The Macro File is the demo file and this may be edited with a resource editor to change the key sequences The MACROS TXT file describes the program and where to
279. ve an Apple c with a monochrome monitor and every now and then the screen flickers sometimes for as long as a minute It seems to happen randomly Somedays I have no problem with the flicker then on other days it seems to happen all the time Has anyone had the problem and is there something I can do about it short of buying another monitor HARVEY KAYE ON 10 04 Abouta year and a half ago I was having a similar problem with the identical equipment Finally I discovered that the male phono plug from the monitor to the c had a loose fit into the socket and I very slightly pressed the circular flange which surrounds the central pin on both sides with my fingers to slightly tighten the fit of the plug around the socket This corrected the problem for me and it has not occurred since GS Software Stuff GREGORY KING ON 09 15 Has anyone with the new GS Roms had problems running Hacker IIgs by Activision The program run from the Launcher attempts to load but freezes with an Unclaimed Sound Inter rupt requiring a reboot Any ideas WALT MOSSBERG ON 09 15 Gregory Hacker IIgs is one of two Activision programs that don t work with the new ROMs The other is Music Studio You can fix Music Studio by simply deleting the file Intro SNG But there s no user doable fix for Hacker that I know of Activision is aware of the problem and is supposedly going to do a frec upgrade to a fixed version of both for registered users DAN HUGHES
280. ve his problem and was soon into 4th 56 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 Dimension which would make much cuter copy if only it had been named The 4th Dimension In less than three weeks one of Laney s associates Dr Jim Hoffer had mastered the applica tion and produced the required civilian personnel database dubbed CiPers by Laney amp Associates Dr Hoffer was on hand to demo CiPers which he made to resemble a standard government form on screen hole punches and all using drawing functionsin 4th Dimension For the lucky clerks who will be using CiPers on Mac Ils the forms will appear in colors Yes that is just like buying a fleet of Lamborghinis _ to deliver the mail isn t it Following the demo of CiPers Scott Knaster author of How to Write Macintosh Software and the soon to be released Macintosh Programming Secrets former head of Apple s Tech Support department and now formerly of Acius 4th Dimension s publisher demoed the program he helped to re write for the U S market Knaster explained that 4th Dimension was developed in France by Laurent Ribardi re and was France s single most popular Mac program So Apple brought Ribardi re to the U S to adapt the product for the American market under the code name Silver Surfer Then Apple decided it would get out of the software business so it wouldn t compete with third party devel opers Apple formed a new company called Claris which will now publi
281. ve me a far better glimpse into the workings of the game and left me better able to win the game legitimately Surprisingly there is little random ness in the game with the same outcomes occurring over and over from the same set of conditions with only minor variations in the points scored A game at the most advanced levels can take a rew nuar if you are trying your utmost to win since there is quite a lot of information that must be obtained at each turn before decisions are made and there are many countries to make decisions about I never played the Mac version but one review read said it contained 66 countries This version has 54 which despite the obvious oversimplification is more than enough for the game although I did wonder what happened to Australia The basic game screen is a world map with options of obtaining detailed summaries of each country or overview indications on the map of various bits of crucial data Selections may be made by joystick keyboard or mouse Although there is the option of having another person playing the other side my estimate is that the game would be very contd on pg 38 Washington Apple Pi November 1987 35 THE SPY S ADVENTURES IN EUROPE A Review by Chris Hancock New from Polarware is the Spy s Adventures series Apple II with 64K This is a series of travel adventures for the entire family setin Asia Africa the Pacific North and South America and in the game reviewed h
282. we have little in common with farmers However the weather is often a matter of great interest to software developers too Even though the computer work is performed indoors I find that I keep an eye on the weather just like farmers do The particular weather of interest to a software developer is thunderstorms They can cause power surges and outages and sometimes more direct harm to the computer equipment When ever notice a thunderstorm in the neighborhood I shutdown my computer and remove the plug from the wall socket I am not being paranoid about this the danger is real Cricket Software lost the power supply on one of their first Macintosh IIs during a thunderstorm in Pennsylvania Closer to home the house of some friends in Great Falls was hit by lightning last month Everything on the electric circuit where the lightning hit was destroyed lightbulbs burnt out fuses blown wall plugs fused plastic on off switches melted or exploded and a stereo tuner destroyed Any computer plugged into that circuit would have been dead silicon Luckily the computers in my friends house were on a different circuit in the end of the house away from the lightning strike But the warning should be clear just turning a switch off does not provide complete protection to your equipment The major surge that accompanies a lightning strike can easily jump the small amount of air between the connections of an average on off switch If you really w
283. y CA 92050 619 474 3328 10am 6pm Mon Fri UNIV amp SCHOOL P O s WELCOME VISA MC OKAY C O D ADD 2 00 WG Washington Apple Pi November 1987 23 THE BEST OF THE APPLE ITEMS FROM TCS by Lou Pastura WordPerfect Real Soon Now BOB COSGROVE ON 10 01 Received a letter today from Roger Bell Manager for Apple Marketing at WordPerfect To quote We expect to release an update version 2 0 November 1 1987 Version 2 0 will feature a mouse interface with the ability to assign your own keystroke equivalents to any of the menu commands WordPerfect 2 0 will include such features as 115 000 word spelling checker thesau rus mail merge macros footnotes and endnotes headers and footers automatic page numbering etc Current users of WordPerfect for the Apple IIGS will reccive a free update to version 2 0 I was also sent a brochure on version 2 0 Overall it looks like a pretty powerful program even if it doesn t have sorting functions Maybe on 2 1 Open Apple Goodies LEE RAESLY ON 09 29 Well got Tom Weishaar s Open Apple yesterday and there it was the answer to a very aggravating problem for me Apple Works will only let you print 9 copies of a document We do all our pre printed forms on a word processor set them up with 2 3 part carbon and turn on the machine at 5 PM set to 150 or more copies and go home Next morning all copies are there and ready to use even with color ribbon if we cho
284. y Wes Nihei in PC World February 1987 Adobe recently previewed a color PostScript printer at the Seybold conference in September 1987 It is not a laser printer but use thermal transfer technology with a Mitsubishi G650 engine capable of 300 dpi resolution with a seven color output An estimated price is around 12 000 Adobe has no plans to go into the color printer market but want to demonstrate what PostScript output looks like in color Color laser printers will undoubtedly take more time Lynn R Trusal may be reached at 301 845 2651 to answer ques tions about material that appears in this column 6 ASTLEY nteriors Marcia F Astley INTERIOR DESIGNER e Residential e Commercial e Associate Member ASID 10118 Renfrew Road Silver Spring Maryland 20901 301 593 0312 PC Resources wonna 860 1100 lt Mac IBM Connectivity with the 5 25 Dayna File DOS disk drive lt New Quality LaserCopies on Pro Tech bond coated color 5 amp parchment 3 paper e 3 Different Macs 512K 512Ke amp SE you print on the same generation machine as you create e Toner Cartridge Recharging like new just pull the tab amp print lt Free pickup amp delivery Mon Fri 8 30 a m 5 30 p m lt Evenings amp Weekends On Request 1850 Centennial Park Drive lt Reston VA 22091 STOCK SIG NEWS by Andrew D Thompson The monthly gathering of STOCK SIG conventd on Septem ber 12 and discussed topic
285. y can be quite intransigent Even one miscalcu lation about its intentions can leave you in the position of either caving in and giving your opponent an insurmountable lead or pushing the button and ending the game in a most unsatisfying manner After a few tries where I did not get beyond 1989 without either losing outright or getting in a hopelessly lost position I decided to use the classic adventure and fantasy game ploy I saved the game before making a crucial decision and rebooted if I made a bad choice It turned out that saving at the beginning of a year wasn t a good idea since if you had to reboot the saved game included all your opponent s actions as having already been accomplished without any further protest from you being possible If you save at the end of the year however just before you are ready to tell the computer to go to the next year then you can protest to your heart s content the next year with the knowl edge that a disastrous decision can be redone without penalty Also since the computer opponent lodges protests right before going to the next year if you later reboot then all of your actions are left intact without your opponent being able to stop you This enables you to try all kinds of provocative actions without fear of reprisal In this manner was able to trounce the USSR and make the world safe for democracy It is of course cheating but not only was it emotionally satisfying but it also ga
286. y good choice I had heard that carly Big Pictures were considered barely adequate but E Machines seems to have improved its act The LaserView was the strangest monitor we saw It adver tises two modes one with something like 1 600 dots across the screen horizontally Before you get overly impressed go see one this works out to 110 dpi You practically have to press your nose against the glass of the monitor to see the characters To get an idea of how small this is imagine a square of 72 pixels on each side on the ordinary Mac screen it would take up one square inch On the LaserView however 72 pixels would be 72 110 of an inch so that a square of 72x72 pixels would be only 0 42 square inches Even more outrageous about the LaserView is their claim that they have another mode that gives you the original Macin tosh resolution of 72 dpi When I saw this in person something seemed very strange about this it seemed that everything was bigger than it was on my Mac Plus When I saw the specifica tions I found out why The numbers they give for pixels on the screen in this mode work out to only 55 dpi half the linear resolution of the high resolution mode This has the effect of making your 19 LaserView into a 14 5 monitor As my college math books used to say Proof of this is left as an exercise Assume that the aspect ratio of a television picture tube is 4 3 Do you remember the smallest right triangle where all three side
287. yer x until won or turn gt 9 if not won then writeln It s a draw write Play again y n read ch until ch N or ch n end i Complete Copy Sho e LaserWriter Plus e Self Service Macintosh Plus e Volume Priced Coples e Binding e Stapling e Folding Capitol Hill 547 0421 611 Penn Avenue S E Fairfax 691 9011 10683 Braddock Rd Open Seven Days A Week WAP Members receive a 10 Discount Washington Apple Pi November 1987 49 dPUB SIG MEETING REPORT OCTOBER 7 The failure of WAP s large screen projector torpedoed plans for an evening of desktop publishing software demos at the October meeting but the time was well spent on questions answers and the introduction of a special offer for WAP members only on a new laser printer The NEC LC 890 PostScript LED Printer David Geller president of Electric Logic Inc and The Press Corps an IBM desktop publishing oriented service bureau spoke to the group about the newly introduced NEC LC 890 laser printer His ad for the machine in the October Capital Computer Digest quotes its list price as 4795 and says his price is 3995 the price he quoted at the meeting However when I spoke with him before writing this story he said he would sell it to WAP members for 3599 Features of the NEC LC 890 include three megs of RAM eight pages per minute output 300 dots per inch resolution 35 resident Adobe typefaces us

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