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Washington Apple Pi Journal, November 1983

1. A 6 right away TN 9 READ THE FINE PRINT OF OTHER ADS 3 and you ll buy from us Rena STORE HOURS 10 A M to 6 P M Monday thru Saturday WATCH FOR OUR NEW STORE IN ALEXANDRIA SPRINGFIELD OPEN NOVEMBER 83 We re your FULL SERVICE DISCOUNT Micro Computer WAREHOUSE DON T DON T OVERPAY CALL THE DIS CALL THE DISCOUNTERS AT THE MICRO CONNECTION 320 A MAPLE AVENUE EAST VIENNA VA 22180 PHONE 281 1866 32 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi COMPUTERS PRINTERS SOFTWARE amp ACCESSORIES DISK DRIVES COMPUTER SYSTEMS o DISKETTES Disk Drive APL Comp 239 Franklin Ace 1200 1 699 Verbatim SS DD 10 28 5 MB Hard Disk 1 499 Franklin Ace 1000 1499 Verbatim DS DD 10 S40 10 MB Hard Disk 1 899 Eagle PC 2 2 995 o PRINTERS MODEMS PRINTERS Prowriter Par 10 f H Micromodem Il 269 NEC 8023 Grappler No Buffer Hayes M M II 325 Epson FX80 160 cps Par Interface wam Frog Epson MX100 S6 Grappler 16K Buffer Smart Mo Modem 1200 2525 Tante t lor Print 000002 d ranstar Color Printer ACCESSORIES Epson FX100 160 cps 729 PRINTERS Ltr Qual Transtar 140 40 cps 0 Kraft Joystick 49 e ACCESSORIES Printmaster 55 ee lE Applicard Wordstar Wildcard 125 Transtar 120 16 cps 16K RAM Card M Soft CPM Prem Pac 450 E 128K RAM Board 5 Picasso interface 130 MONITORS Micro Spooler 32K System Saver 69 Zeni
2. 61 WAR TUTORIAL REGISTRATION The following four WAP tutorials are being offered on Tuesday evenings from 7 30 to 9 00 PM at the office 8227 Woodmont Avenue Room 202 Bethesda MD The tutorials start promptly at 7 30 if you bring your computer please arrive 15 minutes early to set up You may sign up for any or all of the series They will be repeated monthly A detailed outline of the tutorials was given on page 8 of the September Journal Please check the desired tutorials and return this form with the proper fee s to Washington Apple Pi Ltd Attn Tutorials 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Bethesda MO 20814 Checks should be made payable to Washington Apple Pi Ltd Name Daytime Phone Evening Phone M November 1 INTRODUCTION TO APPLE COMPUTER HARDWARE January 10 November 8 HOW TO USE YOUR APPLE SOFTWARE January 17 November 15 BEGINNING BASIC January 24 November 29 BITS BYTES NIBBLES January 31 The fee for each tutorial is 10 00 with an Apple monitor and disk drive 15 00 without Please note that WAP e not have equipment for you to use if you do not bring your own you will have to look over someone s shoulder Tutorials at 10 00 with equipment Tutorials at 15 00 without equipment Total Enclosed WASHINGTON APPLE PI MAGAZINE MAIL ORDER FORM If you would like to order back issues of the Washington Apple Pi newsletter
3. The Voice Activated 5 Home Control System E For the Apple Waldo has as standard features Waldo is e voice recognition Note Waldo s speaking voice is optional a multi function circuit board with a complete software e real time clock calendar with battery backup for continuous package operation e easily plugged into any Apple li computer e BSR X 1O home control interface with master and remote e a voice link between you and your computer controi modules a control link between your computer and e stereo music and vast and varied sound effect capabilities your home l a disc with a ful library of application programs incuding the the heart ofa system that wil be expanded with HOUSEMASTER voice time control program depicted above a variety of plug in components and new software a complete operating manual Applo o registerod trodomork of Applo Computor Inc en en Un 0 0 UN E Ed US ON US OO BBO OS ED C UP OD GR OD AD OD ED GL 5 ap MO OD aD OD e OD UD D EU E UP OD VD UB UP VD VD UD OR UD SOS SS SSCS 56 56 OL OD UD UD OD OD C OD UD OD UD UN UD D ON an OD wa H Please send me Method of Payment T 1 O WALDO main board with standard features 599 00 Check or money order bs hr VOIGE robo type synthesized voice 199 00 L Visa Mastercard Address Apt H O Additional information i COD add 500 Ciy State ip H Mai to ARTRA INC PO Box 653 Prepad orders shipped f
4. 12 4 BOUNCING BALL A ball bounces around the lo res screen as random colored lines appear and disappear I 12 5 CHECKERS A lo res checkers game with one level of difficulty 12 6 DODGEBALL One or two players try to avoid up to ten lo res balls I paddles 12 7 FLYING SAUCER A lo res game in which two players use paddles to move and try to shoot each other 1 12 8 FOOTBALL Text game Enter plays by number for offense and or defense computer can play errors 12 9 G0 BACK Guide a black dot through a hole in a moving obstacle with paddles Two players Lo res graphics I One or two players or the against itself Contains some 12 10 GOLF REVISED Text golf game simulation of 18 holes Choose clubs and swing strenght 12 11 GOSOEM Game Oriented Study of Economics Management Enter data for two products such as cost advertising etc and try to make money Error may occur if numbers get too high I 12 13 GUNNER Text game to determine a gun eleva tion required to destroy an enemy target 12 14 HAND BALL PONG Handball is same change size 1 Lo res pong for two players as pong Paddles on the screen 12 15 LUNAR 120 Land a spacecraft on the moon by selecting a burn rate for fuel Text Not so easy 12 16 LUNAR 500 Lo res game Burn fuel to land on a flat area of the screen 12 17 MINI TREK Go around trying to kill the Mashington Apple Pi Platt
5. This IDS is a beautiful and elegant product Charles K Conners Ph D Director of Research Childrens Hospital National Medical Center Washington D C One of Applesoft s greatest deficiencies is in the area of formatted print IDS remedies this through definition of print formats David Morganstein Softviews Washington Apple Pi SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE ONLY 85 If IDS does not do everything we say return the package within 30 days for a full refund IDS works with Applesoft BASIC on 48k Apple II Plus and Apple lle computers with DOS 3 3 The 16k language card is supported Apple and Applesoft are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc Improve your productivity today Get IDS now Call 703 471 0328 Write usatthe address below VISA and Mastercard orders accepted IDS from r r MICE inc 7 E Loudoun St Leesburg Virginia 22075 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi GT dq ees President Vice President Treasurer Secretary Directors Editor Associate Editors Journal Staff Bulk Mail Dist Store Distrbtn Columnists Applesoft Business EDSIG Q amp A VisiCalc Group Purchases Head Disk Lib Library Staff New Disks Pascal Lib CP M Lib Head Reading Lib Apple Tea Coord Arrangements Demonstrations General Counsel Membership Program gt Publicity Chairman Rules amp Elections Special Publctns SYSOP Tutorials Volunteer Coord SI
6. y s NU 5 FX FI HOME Word and Print Processor 10 SL 6 DR 1 VL 254 15 PRINT ENTER FILENAME SL DR VL GOSUB 1110 110 PRINT SL 5 SL DR DR VL VL 120 PRINT FX 3FX PRINT FI FI 310 END 410 REM txxxxxxxxxx x END DEMO CODE Gutenberg Jr requires 64K Apple 1 I or e and the Apple DMP List 85 Special introductory offer 70 prepaid de dese 510 GUTENBERG requires 48K Apple 1 J e 610 REM Get Filename Slot Drive Volume Subrout ine or supports Apple DMP C Itoh 8510 710 NEC 8023 Centronics 739 Epson MX100 and 810 REM Inputs None Outputs FX full 1 file descriptor FIS filename only SL Slot MX80 with Graftrax Apple Letter DR Drive Number VL Volume Number Quality Qume Sprint 5 9 C Itoh F10 910 printers List 325 Special Price to WAP Members 270 prepaid Send check for money order to JPV Associates P 0 Box 26074 Lansing MI 48909 Allow 2 weeks for personal checks to clear HO Bank draft shipped within 24 hours 1110 REM Input string with commas 1210 FOR I 1 TO 40 1310 J PEEK 16384 IF J lt 128 THEN 1310 1410 POKE 16368 0 J J 128 IF J lt gt 8 THEN GOTO 1510 1420 REM Rubout Processing 1430 IF I 1 THEN 1310 1440 Is L 1 IF I 1 THEN FX GOTO 1442 1441 FX LEFT FX LEN FX 1
7. I haven t yet published by Byte Books of McGraw Hill h Dan Watt has been busy on these volumes for some University Blvd goes off to Right time and continues his work adapting the book to all 3 Take Right onto Randolph Road the other upcoming Logos Atari IBM Vic 64 4 Take Left onto Georgia Avenue Learning with Logo is designed to be used by a Logo 5 Take Right onto Layhill Road facilitator i e someone helping guiding another 6 LOGOSIG fs at Barrie School on Left at experience Logo a ollow the long drive back to the buildings In addition to the book at 19 95 there is also 060516 is in the building on the right available a companion disk at 15 95 of procedures and tools used throughout the book All of these procedures are provided in the appendix for the more contd 16 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi u Titan ser NEC TEC OCHS Pc x lt 2 e A E o 3 a 5 3 2 e a 3 2 2 5 p ri a a 312313 gt D ADOTONHI3L GIHDYO gvon Y 0 2 0 z 3 E o e Eish ington Apple Pi November 1983 17 YSTEMS EN AE OR EPSON Washington Apple Pi SUPER DISCOUNTS APPLE COMPATIBLE PRODUCTS OKIDATA MODEMS Kaytronics KB5150 Keyboard with 10 function keys full ASCII keyboard and numeric keypad 72 Dur Speci ice 239
8. PI 3 12 amber anti glare screen 20 Mhz MODEMS Hayes Microsodea Jle tone dialing speaker Seartcoa 1 225 Smartsodes 300 300 baud 85 232 direct connect 205 Ssartandes 1200 300 1200 baud as above 489 Novation Apple Cat II w Cosware 1200 baud capable Saart Cat 300 AS 232 direct connect Saart Cat 300 1200 as abovel J Cat 300 miniature R5 232 direct connect 109 SSM ModesCard 300 baud audio monitor esulates Hayes 235 US Robotics Password 300 1200 baud auto dial answer 355 Anchor Automation 300 baud RS 232 direct connect 5 PRINTERS Epson FX 80 160 cps tractor single sheet graphics 545 FX 100 wide carriage version af the above 739 MX 80F T 100 cps tractor single sheet graphics 409 10 0 wide carriage version af the above 575 Okidata 92 160 cps graphics BEST print for price 439 93 132 coluan version of abovel 719 I05 Micropriss 110 cps prop spacing excellent print 479 Prism 80 200 cps buffer correspondence quality 999 Prisa 132 wide carriage version of above 119 NEC 8023 120 cps tractor sheet sase as Prowriter Gemini 10X 120 cps tractor single sheet graphics 315 15 wide carriage sase features as Epson MX 465 Itoh F 10 Starwriter 40 cps daisywheel Quse cospat 1099 Transtar 140 40 cps daisywheel sase as Itoh F 10 call 130 18 cps daisywheel BEST low cost unit 669 Silver Reed 300 14 cps daisyuheel goodbye typewriter 439
9. October Graphics high resolution light pen and an inexpensive graphics tablet November Communications with modems December Garage sale January Game contest ASMSIG meets immediately after the regular Washington Apple Pi meeting Business 516 meets just after the regular Apple Pi meeting Washington CESIG is the new special interest group of computer entrepeneurs See Roy Rosfeld s column elsewhere in this issue 0516 the education special interest group see the EDSIG Page elsewhere in this issue FORTHSIG is in the process of reorganizing If you are interested in using Forth either the WAP library version or commercial versions please attend our organizational meetings to be held immediately after the main meeting on October 22 and November 26 Home Control SIG will meet after the meeting each month regular WAP LAWSIG provides attorneys and those not versed in the law an opportunity to discuss various aspects of com puter applications to the law The LAWSIG usually meets in downtown Washington D C at noon once a week For information call Charles G Field Chair man 265 4040 or Jim Burger 822 1093 LOGOSIG meets monthly at 12 45 after the regular WAP meeting at the Barrie School 13500 Layhill Road Silver Spring MD See map in the LOGOSIG News NEWSIG will meet just after the Apple Pi meeting regular Washington We will answer questions and try to help new owners get their syste
10. While you are in an underground dungeon you must kill some monsters to get the gold Each level has 16 rooms posing a variety of problems DISK 19 COMMUNICATIONS Reviewed by Tom Warrick WAP Disk 19 contains programs written for the D C Hayes Micromodem II one of the first and most widely used modems for the Apple The programs must all be modified to work with other modems or serial card modem combinations Also several of the programs duplicate programs that come on a disk with the D C Hayes Micromodem II the programs on that disk are in the public domain and available through WAP as WAP Disk 116 19 1 BINARY TRANSFER Lists memory in hexadecimal form suitable for downloading by another Apple directly into its memory 19 2 CBBS FROM BILL HYDE Automatically dials one of several computer bulletin board systems CBBS around the country Many of these BBS numbers are probably no longer working Despite the name this is not a bulletin board program 19 3 DATAMOVER A four sector binary program that loads at 800 I could not get it to work 19 4 DEMO PROG 1 FOR MICROMODEM Describes how to dial telephone numbers manually on the Micromodem 19 5 DEMO PROG 2 FOR MICROMODEM Describes how to dial telephone numbers under program control 19 6 DUMB TERMINAL PROGRAM Makes the Apple a dumb terminal for use in calling other computers or bulle tin boards A predecessor of the DUM80 program on WAP Disk 116
11. by Jeff Mason these cliches by matching verbs and phrases Complete 23 8 US PRESIDENTS by Jeff Mason Arrange the presidents according to the chronological order of their presidencies 23 9 TROLLS GOLD Move your man without being eaten by the troll 23 10 COLOR WUMPUS III A text adventure game You are in a 20 room cave hunting wumpuses with arrows You can fall into a pit be carried away by bats or hit with your own arrows Good luck You can either shoot or move to a new room on each turn 23 11 COUNTRY DRIVER Steer your car through a curving road using a paddle Depending upon the dif ficulty level selected you get from 2 to 4 minutes of contd Washington Apple Pi There s only one place to buy apples AT FREDERICK COMPUTER PRODUCTS As an Authorized Apple Dealer we offer a full selection of both Apple Hardware and Software at low low prices Also as an Authorized Service Center we provide fast and efficient service on all Apple products FREDERICK COMPUTER PRODUCTS INC Microcomputer Systems And Peripherals 5726 INDUSTRY LANE FREDERICK MD 301 694 8884 I appie computer e Authorized Dealer Washington Apple P November 1983 39 racing challenge The Apple tells you how often you finished or crashed for your score 23 12 DODGER You can either move or shoot at up to 50 bad guys 23 13 DOGFIGHT A two player aviation game Pad dles required 23 14
12. ing its Autostart ROM disk control card ROMs Apple soft ROM and programs on the DOS System Master Disk Last year a trial court denied Apple s request to injoin the sale of Franklin Ace 100 s pend ng a trial on its copyright claims The judge found that Apple could withstand the harm created by Franklin sales during the lawsuit better than Franklin could with stand an injunction Also the judge questioned whether making an EPROM copy of a copyrighted program was illegal Further the judge questioned whether operating systems such as DOS or the Autostart ROM were entitled to copyright protection Needless to say last year s district court holding caused great concern for software developers who rely on copyright law to protect their products The Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the judge and quieted doubts in these areas The court re affirmed that both source programs and their machine language object code versions are covered by the copy right laws Even though a human cannot read a machine language program stored on a ROM fixing a copy of a program on a ROM does infringe the copyright in the source pro gram The most controversial aspect of the case was the question of whether operating systems should be en titled to less copyright protection than application programs Franklin argued that because the Autostart ROM had so many entry points it was impossible to write a new compatible version of the monitor
13. 19 7 MICROMODEM II AUTO DIALER Same as CBBS FROM BILL HYDE with few additional phone numbers 19 8 PROGRAM tially and firmware of the Micromodem Disk 116 ERRATA Line 110 and 120 of the MICROMODEM SELF TEST PROGRAM should read 110 PRINT PRINT UNPLUG THE MICROCOUPLER FROM 120 PRINT THE TELEPHONE LINE 19 9 MICROMODEM PROGRAM EXCHANGE Despite its name this program exchanges text files with another computer The other computer must have its own software to send or receive text files MICROMODEM II SELF TEST MICROMODEM SELF TEST and SELF TEST PROG MICROMODEM II Essen all the same these programs test the hardware Also available on WAP 19 10 MICROMODEM STORE amp FORWARD Allows very short messages to be sent to the Apple and then for warded to another computer after an interval chosen by the sender Also on WAP Disk 116 38 November 1983 19 11 MICROMODEM TEXT TRANSFER A short but diffi cult to use program for transferring text files to another computer The other computer must have its own software to send and receive text files 19 12 MODEM CHESS Allows two people to play chess via modem Only one player needs to have this pro gram other computer need not be an Apple A pretty useful program for this sort of thing Can also be used without a modem by two players at the keyboard 19 13 PICK UP PHONE IN ANSWER MODE Micromodem to answer the telephone and turn on its carrier Duplicat
14. Each player has a wizard which becomes more and more powerful as time goes on and he can select from up to eight spells Magic is a very important part of this game If used well it can make the dif ference between winning and losing the game The Each action is slow when using computer opponents round of play takes about ten minutes to com plete There are two modes of play to choose from a fight tc the finish or one for only a set number of turns trying to get as many points as possible in that time The player s turn is divided into seg ments or phases for deployment of troops spell casting troop purchase etc With four players this can take a mighty long time The graphics are good Unlike some wargames graphics are not forgotten in Parthian Kings Each type of soldier has a different shape and the terrain is very clear and colorful It is easy to identify mountains trees fields lakes etc The graphics in my opinion make up for the length of time it takes to play the game Of the many fantasy wargames have seen this one has the best graphics There is very little sound I didn t find this to be a drawback as sound is not really necessary in a war game The sounds it does have are simple and well placed fighting and shooting arrows One of the best features of this game is that a player can create his own army Depending on how many spe cial features one wants a soldier to have troops can cost very lit
15. NEC 7710 39 cps daisywheel built like a tank 999 Diablo 620 25 cps daisywheel Quae Sprint 11 40 40 cps daisywheel INTERFACES amp BUFFERS Pkaso printer interface parallel w superior graphics 135 Pipeline buffer BK to 128K w rint amp such aore 173 Grappler printer interface parallel w graphics 129 Buffered Grapplert 64K buffer plus graphics 179 CPS Multifunction serial parallel and clock 165 Wizard BPO 16K 32K buffered parallel w graphics 135 IPI graphics text dusp page forsatting 69 CCS 77104 RS 232 serial for printers amp sodeas 115 VIDEO amp KEYBOARD Videx Ultratera 160 column by 48 row display 275 Videotera 80 coluan w softswitch amp inversel 225 Wespercorp Wizard 80 softswitch amp inverse built in 155 ALS Seartere II 80 coluans at a bargain price 129 Saturn 80 col card w 64K to 192K RAM for Jte Keytronic KB 200 low profile detached keyboard MEMORY EXPANSION Wespercorp Wizard 16K RAM card 2 yr warranty STB Systems 64K RAM card w disk emulation software 199 XXX SOFTWARE WORD PROCESSING Wordstar 3 3 including 6 Mhz 2 80 Applicard Wordstar 3 3 progras alone ScreenWriter II 70 col display spooling more Super Text Professional Bank Street Writer Word Handler 70 col display easy to use Letter Perfect 99 Incredible Jack word processing data base calc 135 Sensible Speller IU checks ANY file type 89
16. O 1 7 Press RETURN 8 Continue using the procedure listed in 2 7 until you have typed in all your symbols with their corresponding ASCII codes 9 Return to the first line of your new glossary using the up arrow 10 Move the the cursor until it is directly on top of the symbol or other control character on top of a shaded in the case of the control character for 10 cpi 11 Load the CONTROLV file using L In other words the screen will look like this when you load the CONTROLV file LJoad CONTROLV The CONTROLV file is used to embed the V function Otherwise once the program is put into memory the computer does not read the V as a command After you have loaded the CONTROLV file press RETURN and you will see a shaded V appear in front of the symbol 12 Next move the cursor to the right until it sits on top of the symbol next to the f In the case of the data processing mode the symbol would be 0 In the case of Apple s Control Code equivalents for the ASCII symbols found on pages C 3 C 5 and C 6 you should move the cursor one space to the right of the Control Code equivalent 1 e to the right of the in the case of the 10 cpi Control Code equivalent 13 Load the CONTROLV file again and press RETURN You will see a shaded V appear in front of the symbols applies to those on C 4 in the case of the data processing mode the V will be in front of 30 November 1983 the 0 or
17. Prisoner 2 oooommmoooo 32 95 24 95 Adam amp Eve Paddles 39 95 29 95 Robot War 39 95 29 50 Sirius Joyport 49 95 39 95 Apple Panic 29 95 20 95 TG Select a port 59 95 44 95 Battle for Normandy 39 95 29 50 System Saver Fan 89 95 69 95 Lat Pak Boots Aen 34 95 25 95 Grappleril 165 00 124 95 Falcons eee des 29 95 20 95 Videx Videoterm 80 345 00 CALL David s Midnight Magic 34 95 24 95 Amdek Color Monitor 449 00 299 95 A Renee ne 39 95 29 95 C Itoh Prowriter 80 col P 495 00 387 95 Nat o 39 95 29 95 Epson MX 80 F T 695 00 495 00 ALL ORDERS SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY OF MERCHANDISE We accept VISA or Mastercard include card and expiration date personal checks allow 2 weeks Mail orders to Per E E or money orders TRI STATE SYSTEMS VA residents add 4 sales tax No credit card penalty Include 2 00 for shipping P O Box 2544 All software products on disk Springfield VA 22152 All prices subject to change without notice or call 703 569 9363 MasterCard We carry a large line of discount software Write us for our free catalog THANK YOU FOR YOUR ORDER Washington Apple P1 November 1983 41 27 1
18. Thanks Dan YER IRIE IO III III IO IIIT IIT II e e WANTED LOGO ITEMS LOGOSIG is developing a hardcopy library and is looking for contributions of LOGO memos books magazines newsletters articles amp items If you have something to share contact me at 691 1619 and I will give you our new librarian s number e ee t H HH e ee HH He X KHAKKAKANKKKKKKKKKKKKKKAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKNKKRKKKNARNNK Here s a pumpkin created in LOGOSIG to play with Make your own and share it with us PPROP AIDS BURY TRUE TO EYE PPROP SYSTEM BURY TRUE PD TO MOVE RT 30 PU SETPOS WRITE REPEAT 3 FD 30 RT 120 RT 90 PU HOME FD 8 S END a TO LTEYE TO OUT PU FD 25 LT 90 PU FD 100 RT 90 FD 60 RT 90 PD CIRCLER 100 EYE END END TO MOUTH n IE RT 90 PU LT 180 FD 35 LT 90 FD 30 LT 90 PD ARCL 80 60 EYE PU HOME PU LT 180 FD 75 LT 90 END PD ARCL 71 105 PU HOME TO NOSE LT 180 FD 35 RT 90 PD PO ARCR 80 60 LT 90 CIRCLER 10 PU HOME HOME LT 180 FD 75 RT 90 END PD ARCR 71 105 PU HIDETURTLE TO QUTLINE END PU FD 100 RT 90 PD CIRCLER 100 TO PUMPKIN OUTLINE PU HOME END NOSE RTEYE LTEYE MOUTH END en Washington Apple Pi bd IMPACT OF APPLE COURT DECISION VS FRANKLIN bU Robert C Platt On August 30 a federal appellate court handed down a decison with far reaching impact upon the micro Processor industry Apple Computer had sued Franklin for infringing its copyrights on 14 programs includ
19. The Ward Plus super spelling checker for CP M 119 SPREADSHEETS amp FORTUNE TELLERS Multiplan state of the art spreadsheet VisiCalc IIe version available also The Financial Planner from the dBASE folks SuperCalc 2 powerful CP M spreadsheet INFORMATION MANAGEMENT dBASE II u ZIP screen generator Quickcode dBASE program generator dUTIL tise savers for the dBASE prograsaer The General Manager 2 0 0B Master PFS File Report or Graph Infostar including 6 Mhz 2 80 Applicard Data Perfect VisiFile Condor III powerful relational database system 449 VersaFora business foras processor DBMS BUSINESS amp ACCOUNTING BPI Accounting AR AP PAYROLL INVENTORY ea acdule 289 Peachtree Peachpak GL AR AP all three 239 Accounting Plus GL AR AP INVENTGRY all four 695 The Accountant double entry bookkeeping sgstea 99 Hore Accountant 3S COMMUNICATIONS Ascii Express Professional for 005 3 3 Z ters Professional for CP M P tera Professional for Pascal ate Capture 4 0 Softech UCSD p 5ystes Digital Research Pascal HT Microsoft Fortran 80 805 C coapiler Microsotion FORTH 79 Terrap n Logo amp ENDS Kensington Systes Saver Fan w surge protector TG Joystick Kraft Joystick 43 Trace ScundTrap acoustic enclosure for printers Wildcard hardware antidote for copy protection 99 KoalaPad Graphics Tablet with graphics software 93 Verbatis Maxell Oysan Wabash disks fr
20. There are commercial programs that will do that for you They convert the formula in some way you re load it into VisiCalc and then print it in the normal manner and instead of the values on the print out you have the formulas Quite nice but also expensive Most of these programs cost between 75 and 125 each If there was only some simple way to do it There is Use your word processor and turn the formulas into labels It works like a charm I use either Apple Writer for medium programs or Screen Writer for large programs Any word processor will do if the word processor uses standard DOS text files Also it must be either of large memory capacity like Apple Writer or disk based like ScreenWriter The secret is how VisiCalc stores the template on disk If you look at one such as LHR CHKBK elsewhere in this issue you will notice that each line begins with nf where n is a cell column and is a cell row i e gt A1 The semicolon acts the same as a RETURN and hence each line is actually a GOTO command such as gt B8 lt RETURN gt If you look at the lines for a template further you will notice that all values of formulas simply write that vaule or formula But labels are preceded with Which is the VisiCalc symbol for a label This means that if we could somehow introduce a quotation mark BEFORE the formula VisiCalc would see it as a label and put the formula in the cell as a label in
21. This is virtually identical to pi up to 1000 digits From Micro No 5 p 15 Aug the previous program 1978 1 25 8 HIRES CHAR TABLE GENERATOR This program 27 10 PRIME NUMBERS Calculates primes up to 32766 fails to perform the activity implied by its name very quickly I because it calls a binary program not present on the disk 27 11 GRAPH I Prints a bunch of asterisks Uses MID function To use add a line with a value for B contd 40 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi M TRI STATE SYSTEMS DISCOUNT APPLE SOFTWARE MONTHLY SPECIALS Our Our Retall Price Retall Price Choplifter 34 95 24 50 Screen Writer Il 129 95 89 95 AE ove site e e e 29 95 19 95 Master Typ eee 39 95 27 95 Kraft JoystickS 64 95 46 95 Bank Street Writer 69 95 49 95 Choplifter w Joystick purchase 34 95 20 00 Snack Attack oo o o o 29 95 19 95 Ultima Il 59 95 42 95 Galactic Adventures 59 95 42 95 086 ii rA Ree 34 95 24 50 Doss Boss amp Utility City 53 50 37 95 Cannonball Blitz 34 95 24 50 Verbatim 10 disks 5 42 00 26 95 Our GAMES Retai price UTILITIES Relall Price WIZATO NY eee eile cw nte nee 49 95 37 95 Home Accountant 74 95 56 95 Wizardry l Knight of Di
22. Volume 135 WAP ABBS Part 1 Volume 136 WAP ABBS Part 2 0 Volume 29 Utilities VIII Volume 30 Games X Lt ee ui O M rm um LOLOL um M pP Volume 31 Plot Utilities Volume 137 IAC 21 Spreadsheet A Volume 700 Assembler Volume 32 Games XI Volume 138 IAC 23 Utilities G Disassembler Volume 33 Accounting Volume 139 IAC 24 Education 3 Volume 701 Full Screen Editor Volume 34 Solar Tutor Volume 140 Education 4 Volume 35 Garden Management Volume 141 Special Data Bases EDSIG Volume 36 Games XII Volume 142 Pinball Games EDSIG1 Elem Math Volume 37 Utilities IX Volume 38 Games XIII Eamon Series Volume 39 IAC VII Volume 180 Dungeon Designer Volume 40 IAC VIII Volume 181 Beginners Cave Volume 182 Lair of Minotaur DOS 3 3 Volume 183 Cave of the Mind Volume 41 IAC 25 Mach Lang Util Volume 184 Zyphur Riverventure Volume 42 One Key DOS Volume 185 Castle of Doom Volume 100 Utilities A Volume 186 Death Star Volume 101 Utilities B Volume 187 Devil s Tomb Volume 102 Games A Volume 188 Caves of Volume 103 Merry Christmas Volume 189 Furioso Volume 104 Bus
23. be considered a tool First choose the applications to which you will apply this tool look for or in desperation develop software packages which do best what you perceive to be your applications and then choose the computer on the basis of the software Al well and good right Recently I carried this one step further The com puter and software do not guarantee improved perform ance and success A computer and word processor do not a writer make It helps of course but you must improve your thought process to improve your writing The insight I submit is the computer software and application together provide you with better tools but it is up to you not the computer to hone your specialty Practice your profession improve your skills and relegate the computer and related para phernalia to their proper status What do you say Some may even be surprised to find that there is no real need for a computer Years ago systems ana lysts worth their salt would say that most of the benefits of automation would accrue while preparing for automation These benefits would persist whether or not one automated This insight is a variant of their observations d 3 WAE fT Le Washington Apple Pi meets on the 4th Saturday usual ly of each month at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences USUHS Building B 4301 Jones Bridge Road Bethesda MD on the campus of the National Naval Medical Center Libra
24. plugged into the auxiliary slot This is the card that has an additional 64K of memory on it As I understand it Apple through its dealers will replace the rev A motherboard for a rev B IF you purchase or have purchased the 80 column extended memory card presumably from Apple It is not possible to use this extra directly from Applesoft special machine language routines are needed Software Development Inc 2053 West 11th Street Brooklyn NY 11223 tel no 212 449 6300 sells a program Doublestuff 39 for double lo res and hi res routines callable from Applesoft resolut ion Q I would like to put new volume numbers on my existing disks other than 254 I have used a disk zap utility to change track 17 sector 0 byte 6 as indicated in the DOS manual However upon rebooting the same volume number 254 appears on tion than the old drive I solved the problem by the disk How can I permanently change the volume contd 10 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi ANNOUNCING MicroMas ter NEW OPERATING SYSTEM FOR APPLE J amp APPLE e complete with OVERLAY CAPABILITY NO MORE CHAINing for LARGE PROGRAMS FULL OVERLAY CAPABILITY JUST LIKE LARGE MAIN FRAME COMPUTERS IS NOU AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME ANYWHERE HAVE ALL YOUR FAVORITE 6502 MACHINE LANGUAGE AND APPLESOFT PROGRAMS RESIDENT IN RAM NAME YOUR COMMANDS YOURSELF CREATE CUSTOM SYSTEMS EASILY WE START YOU OUT WITH OVER 50 NEW COMMANDS AND ENHANC
25. 1 GOTO 470 REM REM CHARACTER SEQUENCES FOR REM PLOTTER MOVEMENTS sees REM PRINT E YOO1 RETURN REM UP PRINT E X001 RETURN REM RIGHT PRINT E 2001 RETURN REM PRINT E W001 RETURN REM LEFT Vos ou DISK DRIVES 1 99 First time under 200 At last you can afford to buy another drive e Siemens drive mechanism uses lead screw instead of rotating cam for very quiet reliable operation Works with your present controller Can be used as 35 or 40 track drive Improved self centering of diskettes Externally adjustable speed control Handles synchronized tracks Manufacturer s 1 year warrantee These superb ready to use drives come with standard size and color casings Disk controller cards available 65 00 No charge cards or COD orders Add 55 for shipping and handling Send money order or certified check for immediate shipment 4 extra for 2nd day delivery VF ASSOCIATES 6327 Western Ave N W Wash D C 20015 202 363 1313 November 1983 51 EAR SIHECIKIBGOI Rev lo 1 re eee Last July I wrote a checkbook template for The Spreadsheet 2 0 and Visicalc and it was published in the August issue of the Pi I have received a number of calls and letters in a positive tone about that template by Leon Three of the individuals indicated that they wished that it would automatically total and save their deducti
26. 1442 PRINT CHR 8 CHR 8 GOTO 1310 1470 REM Check for CR add to string 1510 PRINT CHR J IF J 13 THEN 2010 Washington Apple Pi November 1983 27 p Xe SGC ESI by Roy 2osfelcl Z The first organizational meeting of CESIG Computer Entrepreneur was held on September 17 1983 Eleven members attended to discuss the future of the new group The group was formed to encourage people to band together to assist each other in the general area of entrepreneurship Bernie Urban noted an article in a recent issue of Infoworld concerning a similar group in the Boston area A small group discussed this sub ject after the WAP meeting in August and the idea took wings I must have left the discussion for a moment because somehow I got elected to be the temporary chairperson At any rate I threw together a general outline for the organizational meeting on Sept 17th It is hoped that the group will entice persons who are both idea seekers and contributors as well as tech nique seekers and contributors Plans are being made to have mini lectures at regular meetings and to hold special meetings in which special subjects will be discussed in both lecture and seminar style Some of the subjects suggested were developing business ideas writing business plans creative problem solving questions of law and accounting running a consulting practice marketing dealing with lenders and obtain ing venture capital interpers
27. 4C 66 D5 JSR 3EA JMP 0566 Bytes 304 and 305 can be changed to any address that you want to JMP to so long as it is the start of an Assembly language routine One of the more advanced ways to deal with reset n a BASIC program is to write an assembly routine to assign RESET an error code Then when RESET is pressed it will be treated just like any other error that can occur in a program RESET will even have its own unique error code Here is an example 300 20 EA 03 JSR 3EA 303 A2 64 LDX 4 305 4C 12 D4 JMP 0412 error handling routine 10 POKE 1010 0 POKE 1011 3 CALL 64367 20 ONERR GOTO 100 30 REM MAIN PROGRAM HERE 90 END 100 IF PEEK 222 100 THEN PRINT RESET PRESSED END 110 PRINT UNEXPECTED ERROR END This program will print RESET PRESSED and end the program if the RESET key is pressed during program execution Any other error such as CTRL C will end the program with a similar message When RESET is pressed Applesoft will set the error code 100 which is normally unused and will jump to 0412 which is an error handling routine in the Applesoft ROM If a program is interrupted by pressing RESET it cannot be continued in the way it could be if CTRL C is pressed i e with CONT This is because the stack a data storage area in the 6502 is messed up by RESET This causes the Apple to for get FOR NEXT and GOSUB RETURN loops All vari ables including strings and arrays are still
28. 7 For the ASCII codes listed on page C 3 C 5 C 6 of the Okidata manual I was able to figure out the embedding procedure after I received a tip from the Technical Services Department of the Okidata Corporation I was told that I needed Apple s Control Code equivalent to the ASCII Code I was able to find some of these control characters on pages 45 and 46 of the Apple e 80 Column Text Card Manual The remaining ones were obtained from Appendix E of Assembly Lines The Book which is kept in the WAP Office Apple s Control Code equivalent for these latter ASCII codes are as follows J for LF M for CR L for FF K for VT CI for HT 0 for DC1 S for 0C3 T for DC4 for J for RS 1 for FS Control for GS 4 for US note that this fs the underline symbol obtained b pressing the SHIFT key and the hyphen key X for CAN RJ for DC2 C for ETX B for STX and N for SO Unfortunately I could not embed the Control M or the for some reason 8 The procedure for embedding the commands on C 3 C 5 and C 6 is as follows Press V then the control character for 10 cpi it is then press V again to turn off the V and presto the commands are embedded Now that you have learned how to embed the functions using the ASCII code it might also have occurred to you that it might be simpler to embed the functions using a symbol rather than the Control V E
29. ABOVE PRICES CABLE NOT INCLUDED Mrs l pm E i N8 FIGIF C8 0 E8 0 MI M 8 GEMINI 10X 10 CARRIAGE 58 399 00 325 00 gt MB FIGIF C8 0 D8 0 GEMINI 15 15 1 2 CARRIAGE 599 00 485 00 AC SA M1 BOTH ARE DOT MATRIX PRINTERS age GOC 89 0 GRM 3510 SERIAL 2500 00 1845 00 AC6 GF GC9 3915 1995 00 1595 00 AB6 FI gt 61 L4 5300 00 2300 00 AAG EU gt M1 L4 oe 00 gt 26 gt N1 L4 3330 00 18 gt Y6 eh gt R1 L7 3330 8 188 INTERFACE 203 COLUMNS BI DIRECTIONAL 350 WPH gt X6 FI gt S1 L7 3500 00 SPELIAL 1895 00 W6 FI gt T1 L7 V6 FI gt UL L7 U6 FI V1 17 LEXITRON LEX 12 TI NODEN ACOUSTIC DIRECT 224 95 195 00 T6 F1 2 W1 L7 BELL 103 COMPATABLE R5232 300BAUD V 86 FI 27 R6 FI Y1 L7 NOVATION N6 gt Z1 L2 AUTO CAT 300 BAUD MANUAL ORIGINATE 249 00 239 00 M6 ACI L2 212 AUTO CAT 300 1200 BAUD 695 00 605 00 gt G6 X E X gt S12 gt AAL APPLE CAT II WITH 212 MODULE UPGRADE 725 00 595 00 APPLE CAT WITHOUT 212 MODULE UPGRADE 389 00 295 00 WORDSTAR FOR I B H AND APPLE II APPLE NES T 80 CP M CARD 495 00 325 00 HAILMERGE I B M AND APPLE I 150 00 115 00 INFOSTAR I B M AND APPLE H 495 00 375 00 SPELLSTAR I B M AND APPLE 11 250 00 185 00 NORDPACKS dp RAMS MAILMERBE AND SPELLSTAR BRE Tu CPI IS 13 DR 16 SECTOR 409 00 390 00 VISICALC 1 B H AND APPLE II I
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31. Klinggons numbered commands I 12 18 POKER Bet against the Apple who nately does not always recognize a win Text 12 19 SCRAMBLE Make your best attempt to descram ble words Take as many tries as you need I unfortu 12 20 SPACE NAVIGATOR Lo res game Guide your blue dot across the screen avoiding the white dots I paddles required 12 21 SUPER HOCKEY Text Enter type of shot and where it goes Summary at end of game 12 22 TV TRIVIA Asks questions about old TV shows If you answer incorrectly you do not get a second chance nor is the correct answer provided I I indicates an Integer Basic program DISK 13 GAMES Reviewed by Doug Waters 13 13 BACKGAMMON By Mr Wizard Works but complex to play 13 2 BLACK BOX II A 15 x 15 reactor with randomly placed atoms You control the particle gun which you shoot at atoms which you cannot see A reaction starts when you hit an atom The object of the game is to locate the atoms by using the least energy The game offers 10 levels of difficulty To play use the I J K and M keys to move the cursor Use RETURN to fire Press 0 when finished to see how many energy units were used and the percentage of atoms found Firings use 1 unit and incorrect guesses use 3 units 13 3 BOWLER A good color graphics game which takes 30 seconds to play The ball moves quickly across the screen so quick relexes are needed This game may be to
32. No more will those templates be so hard to read or follow the logic Just convert the formu las to labels as above and print them all out Thanks for listening amp Washington Apple Pi LHR Checkbook contd from pg 53 gt AA13 LOSSES gt AC5 AC12 AB5 DATA PRICE LIST gt AB12 AB12 V35 gt AA5 SUMMARY MODEL 8 MODULAR PRICE AA12 INTEREST gt 25 gt AC11 bn oni 8 gt AB11 4035 gt X5 PROF 7 IVA 122 AMBER 225 00 AA11 TAXES gt W5 LOSS 6 IVA 123 GREEN 205 00 123 00 X A010 V5 INTS 5 ZVH 134 RGB W I B M CABLE 550 00 440 00 gt AB10 T35 gt U5 TAXS 4 gt AA10 MED INS T5 MINS 3 COLOR 1 13 0 MONITOR 400 00 AC9 5 D0C 2 VIDEO 300 12 GREEN MONITOR i SABI 14535 gt R5 DRGS 1 VIDED 3008 12 AMBER MONITOR gt AA9 DOCTORS N5 DTE AC 300 INTERFC CABLE COLR 1 SALA MS CHKA C 200 0 CABLE VIDEO 00 332 00 gt ABB R35 gt AB1 AB AAB DRUGS 1M T AA FLIP FILES 50 DISKS 29 00 gt 28 qiii Y8 F 8 lt Y RS gt 18 cars OH X 20 8101 SPO RO W SERIAL INTREC 1150 00 548 FSOIF G8 6 H80 630 R155 API RO MULTI INTERFACES SVBi FSIF G8 5 H8 0 WP ENHANCED 2340 00 2095 00 SUB FSRIF G8 4 N8 0 PULi U 630 R147 MPROS 01 RO W SERIAL 2710 00 2350 00 gt TB FS IF GB 3 H8 0 7 INTERFACE gt 58 FS0IF G8 2 H8 0 S IBBON AND THIMBLE INCLUDED IN
33. Now boot VisiCalc and load the FORMULAS template Now set your column width to the maximum that you need If your largest formula was 23 characters long set all columns to 23 The command would be 6Cno maximum width where n is the column width The possible is 36 characters I use The Spreadsheet 2 0 since its variable column width saves me much printed space With VisiCalc you may have to print the template in two or more seg ments then scotch tape it together Since you placed the column letters above the columns and the row numbers on the left it is now very easy to read the template and understand it s logic The formulas are all right there and if the formula refers to cell R10 you can see immediately what is in R10 If you are using a CP M or Pascal based word proces sor then you have two extra steps to do The PI has a program on one of the CP M disks that converts standard Apple DOS to CP M and back again So just buy that disk 5 and use it to convert the text file to a CP M file load it in your word processor and follow the insructions above The same is true if you have a Pascal based word processor On one of the Pascal disks the PI has a program to convert standard Apple DOS to Pascal and another to go back again So use that program to convert to Pascal format load it into your word processor and follow the instructions above Well that s all there is to it You have just saved up to 125
34. ONE POSITION uy 320 REM HORIZONTALLY AFTER 330 REM EACH POINT 340 REM 350 PRINT E P E H 1 E V 40 360 REM 370 POKE 230 P 256 380 FOR Y O TO 191 390 POKE 773 Y CALL 768 400 AD PEEK 38 256 PEEK 39 REM SCREEN ADORESS 405 BUF 0 410 FOR X AD TO AD 39 420 aye PEEK X IF BYTE gt 127 THEN BYTE BYTE 128 425 IF BYTE 0 THEN BUF BUF 7 GOTO 475 427 60508 511 REM FLUSH BUFFER 430 FOR S 1 TO 7 440 BIT BYTE 2 INT BYTE 2 BYTE INT BYTE 2 450 IF BIT 0 THEN PRINT GOTO 470 460 PRINT P 470 NEXT S 475 NEXT X 480 PRINT NEXT Y 490 PRINT E N PRINT PRINT 500 PRINT D PR40 TEXT 510 END 511 IF BUF 0 THEN RETURN 512 N STR BUF N LEN N 513 IF N lt 3 THEN N LEFT Z 3 N N 514 PRINT E X N BUF 0 RETURN 520 REM 530 REM SETUP CALL TO HPOSN WITH 540 REM X Y A REGISTERS SET 550 REM 560 POKE 768 162 POKE 769 0 POKE 770 160 POKE 771 0 POKE 772 169 POKE 774 76 POKE 775 17 POKE 776 244 RETURN Listing 2 SHAPE PRINTER 100 REM 110 REM PROGRAM TO DRAM SHAPES ON 120 REM ANDERSON JACOBSON PRINTER 130 REM 140 REM B F FIELD 21 APR 82 150 REM 155 HIMEM 4096 160 D CHR 13 CHR 4 180 E CHR 27 REM ESCAPE 190 P REM PLOT CHARACTER 200 PRINT D PR
35. PEEK BASE 128 1 RETURN 543 POKE BASE 128 0 POKE BASE 129 PEEK BASE 129 1 RETURN If you are satisfied that you have entered the origi nal program correctly try making the changes de scribed above and see if that helps your problems Of course if you have problems with something other than experience or hit points these fixes won t help you Qther Possible Problem Areas If you are still having problems or your problems are not related to the above fixes there are other things you might try The author chose to use some parameter names which might be a source of problem For instance he uses 0 letter 0 for the alignment good neutral or evil and he uses 0 also the letter 0 as the index for 0 Check lines 310 and 605 to see if you typed 0 0 or 0 0 zero It should be 0 0 lattes There are other places where you may have confused the letter 0 with the number zero so double check this possi bility If you are not reading your backup disk properly you may have a mistake in line 905 This line pokes a short machine language program into locations 300 305 768 773 as well as modifies sane of the parameters DOS uses when reading the disk A typing error here can be disastrous Finally the article mentions the necessity of adding line 912 if your Wizardry disk is the Proving Grounds This line is not in the listing only in the text of the article Summary I do not know mu
36. RESTORE amp WAIT amp HELP amp GPLE amp CRAE amp FP kari thmetic Makes RUN BRUN and EXEC commands obsolete Includes mixed base decimal amp hexadecimal arithmetic Complete error handling and trace back capability Everything you ve always wanted from an operating system is now available Considering its incredible capability and ease of use you ll be amazed at how little room all this requires in your machine and how fast it operates Attractively priced even for home use MicroMaster will be available in late November from MicroPower Ltd 1100 East West Highway Silver Spring Maryland 20910 202 547 5508 Watch for our notice in next month s issue or contact your local dealer Dealer inquiries and advance dealer orders only being accepted at this time MicroMaster and MicroPower are trademarks of NicroPower Ltd APPLE APPLE J APPLE e and Applesoft are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc Washington Apple Pi November 1983 11 gt 12 Please number without re initializing initializes a diskette it writes an address field and a data field on the diskette for each sector The address field contains the volume number of the diskette the track the sector and a checksum Disk zap programs are set up only to read the data field the address field cannot be modified The volume number in the address field is the one that 005 uses so that even if you change the one in the Volume Table Of Contents tra
37. Raesly 301 460 0754 Leon Raesly 301 460 0754 Bob Schmidt 301 736 4698 Loftus Becker 202 338 5217 Ben Acton 301 428 3605 Doug Daje 301 868 5487 John Vaupel 301 977 3054 Jim Eatherly 202 232 6046 Bill Schultheis 703 538 4575 Leon Raesly 301 460 0754 I Integer P Pascal M Machine Peter Combes 301 871 1455 Jeff Dillon 301 422 6458 Mark Pankin 703 370 9219 Leon Raesly 301 460 0754 Bill Schultheis 703 538 4575 reprint without prior permission of the contents herein provided proper ication credits are given shington Apple Pi are 25 00 for 00 per year thereafter begin ned If you would like to join office or write to the office p application will be mailed to the Washington Apple Pi Journal The Journal is distributed as a Please do not call about copied If the person called has an telephone answering machine and your call is not returned Try again Languages contd A I M p 0606 General Multiplan Operating Systems APPLE DOS CP M Paddles Pers Filing Sys Printers Genera Anderson Jacobson Apple Dot Matrix IDS 460 MX 80 Okidata Silentype Statistical Packages Stock Market Tax Preparer H Soft Time Shar ing VisiCalc Word Processors Apple Writer II Gutenberg Letter Perfect PIE Writer Apple PIE Screenwriter II Supertext II Word Handler WordStar software PLEASE keep in mind that the people Respect all telephone restrictions where listed and
38. Swift Prop GOD Marb 4 4 wo ww ee SH 54x A Page from the Stack Robert C Platt Hi Res Graphics for AJ Printers Bruce F Field LHR Checkbook Revisited Leon H Raesly Lardax Word Processor William C Jacobson VisiCalc Formulas Screen Format Leon H Raesly Electronic Mail Through USPS Stephen M Libster Deniers 109738597 94 REDS ee ee ww Apple Tech Notes s 4 5 Ed Schenker Tutorial Registration Magazine Order Form Library Mail Order Form s s A vertissr s IndBE aoe es OS 0 0 00cm 4 LU NN NNN DN ee o o YO ph O O wo ENROLL IN FAST CLASS A few short classes at Computer Ease can save you and your staff long days at the office Computer Ease is the professional fast and easy way to become computer literate Our hands on training is custom tailored to your needs and your system s special fea tures Computer Ease will work with you or your staff in private or group lessons either in your office or ours Classes are offered at advanced intermediate and beginning 42222 a ma 7 levels Computer Ease is not affiliated with any manufacturer and offers impartial assistance to prospective buyers as well as the opportunity to test drive many different systems If you already have a computer but the training you received was too technical or the manuals consume too much time call Computer Ease Comput
39. after the WAP meeting on September 17 Nominations were held for SIG Chairman Nominated were George Kinal for Chairman and Dave Harvey for Columnist There was no formal program at this meeting however general questions presented by the members attending were answered The majority of the questions had to do with using the WAP ABBS One suggestion was that since some members do not have printers it would be nice if a hard copy of the WAP 885 instructions were available It was mentioned that a past issue of the WAP Journal July and August 1982 had a writeup on the 885 and how to use it It was suggested that a copy of that issue be obtained from the WAP office The NEW MEMBER REFERENCE BOOK also has directions on use of the ABBS It was announced that the new MARK 12 Anchor will be arriving in the next week and will be ated by George Kinal Modem evalu Washington Apple Pi OKIDATA MICROLING 92 APPLE WRITER 7e Partnership bu Jean Judging from the contents of the different Washington Apple Pi issues and other computer magazines and from what I have also learned embedding printer com mands in word processing programs is one of the com monest problems facing computer owners I have learned to do the embedding for the Okidata Microline 92 using my Apple e with a Grappler interface and Apple Writer e program When Mr Aronow s column Apple Writer e Okidata 92 Embedded Print Com mands appeared last mont
40. at a time approximately 1 60 The first program Listing 1 which dumps the hi res screen is very easy to use Bload your hi res image from disk or run a program that generates it Then load and run this program You will be asked if you want hi res page 1 or 2 it will accept no other response and then tell you to get the printer ready for printing Press any key when you are ready to start printing however you RESET There is no specific escape sequence can always exit the program by pressing Be prepared to wait a little bit when dumping the screen The printer prints at 30 characters dots in this case per second The hi res screen consists of 280 x 192 53760 dots 53760 30 1792 seconds or 29 minutes 52 seconds In order to speed this up some the tabbing feature of the printer is used to skip over white space in the plot so that graphs and things like that often print in only 10 or 15 minutes You may also gain a slight speed improvement approxi mately 20 by compiling this program with one of the commercial Applesoft compiliers that are available The second program Listing 2 is almost as easy to use This program will take a shape from a standard Applesoft shape table described on pp 92 100 of the old Applesoft Reference Manual and print it on the printer The shape table containing the shape you want to print should be stored on disk You do not need to have only one shape in the table as the program
41. be specific ally customized for the features of a given printer For some of the printers listed on the Zardax setup menu many or most of these commands may already be programmed however they may be modified by the user Such commands may be imbedded anywhere in text This makes tt extremely simple to use italics other fonts and the special features of your printer to full advantage The indent command was used extensively in this arti cle to outdent numbered paragraphs i e have printed text wrap around to a column that is to the right of the paragraph number While the indent feature of Zardax certainly is not simple to use in this manner it is effective as long as you adhere to contd November 1983 55 the following rules 1 Turn off justification NU if it is used so that columns will line up properly being 2 Determine the column settings for the offset char acter number letter bullet and text For this section I selected columns 5 for the indent and 9 for text entry To set the screen tabs however I had to take into account space occupied by the paragraph indent command on the initial line of each indented paragraph Thus I added five characters to the above settings for the command IPnn This means that tabs were actually set at columns 10 5 5 and 14 9 5 even though the printout columns would be 5 and 9 3 Move the cursor to the position of the first para graph to be indented e
42. beginning of your document to invoke the half line spacing Then you may type regularly and get the super scripts and subscripts by using the Wordstar com mands If you want to get back to regular spacing which of course will be double spacing type Ctr PR Thanks Albert and Arnold I have also received some mail on a question a few months ago regarding radiation from TVs or monitors upsetting nearby disk drives The problem in that case was that disks initialized on his machine refused to boot on his machine however disks initialized on other machines would boot on his machine Jeff no last name sent me the following I built a set of wood shelves to go over my Apple and hold my disk drive and TV on top I had no problem until I bought a second disk drive It seems that the new drive with short cable 0 shielding was more sensitive to external RF radia Field a sheet of aluminum foil over the disk drive No problems since Some of my friends have had similar problems and since it is common practice to place a TV over the drives this may happen frequently Your readers may be interested in the simple solution simply placing Readers have pointed out that Heath Zenith monitors in the plastic case seem to be some of the worst offend ers and problems have also been seen with some of the Amdek monitors If you have problems with reading diskettes and the drive speed is okay and it occurs with several more than on
43. capability including and zero suppress thatlets you create professional easy to read output quickly and simply Special editor that lets you predefine data struc tures screens disk records and printlines in terms of Applesoft variables making IDS easy to use in your programs Machine language subroutines that let you access your data structures from Applesoft using a very convenient interface A convenient library for maintaining data structures Excellent documentation with tutorial to guide you In short IDS means that you don t have to reinvent the wheel every time you create a pro gram And IDS opens new doors for you You can do I O programming yourself Even novice pro grammers can follow our documentation and tutorial in defining input and output specifications And with IDS your program is halfway completed 2d lested before you ve typed a single line of code All of these time and money oa benefits are yours because IDS the Integrated Development System is the only easy to use fully integrated combination of Applesoft enhancements That s why Lew Newman and others have found in ita software tool unlike any they have ever known Heres what software professionals and users have been saying about IDS Every serious Applesoft programmer should have a copy of IDS Itis a fine piece of work a very good piece of packaging Doug Carlston President Broderbund Software
44. consider other configurations that can be brought to this level Contact John R Lewis 301 831 7324 DONATIONS SOUGHT Anyone interested in donating Apple equipment software or publications to Bethesda Chevy Chase High School and receiving n acknowledgement for income tax purposes contact Dr Betty Manchak at 654 5264 work or 935 5940 home DONATIONS SOUGHT For an excellent tax deduction donate your outgrown Apple II or II to the Maryland College of Art amp Design a small independent tax exempt two year college specializing in the visual arts Write me at MCAD 10500 Georgia Avenue Silver Spring MD 20902 or call 649 4454 Peggy Pratt Librarian FOR SALE Gemini 10 printer with Grappler Interface Excellent condition Both for 275 Call William Gangloff Sr at 949 6089 FOR SALE Apple 11 with 16K card 765 Apple disk drives 225 with controller card 185 without Apple III monitor 115 all Apple products under AppleCare extended warranty until next June Amdek Color I monitor 275 System Saver 60 Call Karen Rosenbaum 241 5542 amp Washington Apple Pi November 1983 E S M E UFFE ICE The many visitors and phone callers to the generate a lot of useful information We this column to pass some of this on to you Also appearing here will be notices and information of a general nature and notes on the use of the office FROM THE office will use We have
45. different format at print time Each printer driver will make full use of all avail able features of the printer including some that you didn t think was possible For example the C Itoh 8510A manual states that incremental word spacing is available only in proportional font but Gutenberg will justify text incrementally even when monospaced type font is selected This also means no universal print driver is present as some word processors claim to have The variety of paragraph and page layouts you can create is really large but formatting commands must be issued at the appropriate places throughout a text file to do this Mastering the print format command structure is by far the most difficult part of using Gutenberg A number of examples on the datadisk will show you how letters one and two column text multi column tabs tables of contents etc are done In practice you first start with these supplied formats and modify them as needed In all some 112 print for matting commands are available for the Apple DMP Washington Apple Pi don t expect to master all of them the first time you use Gutenberg The following simple example will illustrate how print macros are formed Suppose you want headings always set apart by two blank lines centered and printed in bold and enhanced type Let s call this macro Hl The definition of H1 would be as follows lt SF 1 DN2L B0 PE QO Here SF stands for Save Format and Hl
46. displays the disk s catalog 25 2 GRANDAPPLE This is a cute little program that uses the hi res screen and sound to simulate a clock s tick tock alarm and chimes It can be used as a timer 25 3 DISPLAY COLORS This program does just what the title says it displays the Apple s lo res colors in a right to left scrolling fashion 25 4 BOX 3D This program displays boxes of vari ous sizes and shapes on the hi res screen 25 5 BOX PADDLE Use a paddle to move a box along the hi res screen 25 6 HIRES BIG BOXES This program with the slightly misleading name draws rectangles of various 25 9 CHAR GEN HELP This program gives a source for appending character sets created by the previous program to user programs 125 10 SUPEROSE III This is a graphics program that creates floral designs instructions stands for automatic and the stands for manual When using the M option you must type in two numbers separated by commas The A in the program s 125 11 SUPEROSE II This is similar to the previous program but creates different designs 25 12 PAPER TIGER HIRES DUMP This program dumps the hi res screen to the IDS 440 printer Marning Use Yo program with a different printer at your own risk 25 13 PERSIAN RUG This program creates a beauti ful sparkling picture of a Persian rug on the hi res screen This is perhaps the nicest graphics program on the entire disk 25 14 CHESS CLOC
47. gt 0 AND been required during the program s initial development Fl lt 5 THEN OR Fl GOTO 2910 phase 2810 GOTO 3510 2850 REM Get Volume The following subroutine Get Slot and Drive is in D 2 lt gt V GOTO 3310 tended to help banish single drive Applesoft programs E back to the Stone Age where they belong With rela 3110 FORK J 1 TO LEN FX F1 Fl 18 1 Fl tively little effort Applesoft programmers can put VAL MID FX K 1 NEXT K this subroutine into their libraries and renumber 2510 SPI SERIES VL Fl e i to quick z UICE 3410 NEXT I RETURN The basic idea of Get Slot and Drive is to input the 3910 PRINT CHR 7 PRINT INVALID ENTRY GOTO filename drive number slot number and volume number 1110 d as a single string This string is then parsed to 3610 RETURN produce the outputs variables FX FI SL DR and VL described in the REM statement number 810 The string FX can be passed directly to DOS and the other output variables are available for use by the host program Lines 2 410 are demonstration code lines 1110 1810 comprise a short routine to input a string containing commas semicolons or whatnot and lines 2000 3410 perform the actual parsing of FX to obtain the remaining I 0 parameters THE GUTENBERG amp don dye CUTENBERC JF 2 REM xkxx BEGIN DEMONSTRATION CODE gr NS 3 S E sedestesesedese desee dede ehe
48. has multi rooms we can now more effectively work in teams Team leaders who volunteered for the next three months are NEW USERS Ron Green 301 531 3981 LOGOKIDS Kathy Boyle 717 245 0030 4 Becky BEGINNERS Dave Meaver 871 6200 ADVANCED Ron Murray 328 3553 Multiple BEGINNER and ADVANCED groups will be formed as needed In addition special ad hoc groups will be created i e SPRITE BOARD LOGO and possibly teams for LOGOS on different machines The site for LOGO SIG also has ATARIs and members of LOGOSIG are also using RADIO SHACK and COMMODORE 64 versions Members are encouraged to come and share their Logo experiences If you have written or found any useful Logo procedures please contact me so you can be scheduled to present them informally to the group We are currently developing LOGOSIG disks for each of the versions which will be released as a club disk when finished If you have anything to contribute please provide hardcopy versions of the procedure s with documentation as well as a copy on disk Next month s column will include reports of Logo activities if you would like to share what you have been doing contact me by the lst of November fee e fec e ee de fede ede defe ex CHANGE IN LOGOSIG MEETING LOCATION LOGOSIG has a new location which has and multi rooms We will be meeting at the Barrie School
49. letters to clients with the Zip Code of 20014 Zardax has no facility for making this selection It must be done by some other means Word Juggler is an excellent example of a processor that does have this facility it will permit the nesting of IF THEN ELSE state ments some 27 levels deep DISK I 0 The Zardax procedures for disk interaction could not be simpler For example I wanted to save this arti cle on two separate disks original and backup during the edit session To do this I pressed escape to display the Inner Menu and pressed S to save the document to the data disk in drive 2 I then pressed M to return to the Main Menu and T for the Transfer function Next I entered the appropriate number Bl from the list of files displayed on the screen and pressed the Return key made to the disk in drive 1 The backup was To re enter the edit screen I pressed Escape to return to the Inner Menu and C for the Change fea ture I was then wafted back to the document in memory With a 20K file this process took about 35 seconds with drive 2 located on hard disk and 60 seconds with two floppy disk drives A serious deficiency is the lack of warning messages when you are about to take potentially destruct ive actions For example if you create a new document or edit an existing one forget to save the new or Write It simply is not a replacement for a good revised document and are about to to load
50. maintenance and organization system for disks Depending on catalog size it can hold 64 catalogs on file 24 95 We welcome Dealer and Private Author inquiries We pay competitive royalties Authors using our Forth Write System will receive better royalties from us We are a consumer based company We strive to keep our products affordable and we welcome your suggestions NOTICE mmm ccm umm Gm mS U M mM REED O KES SC ETS mmm Please send check or money order with this order form 06502 Master Kit O Test Master SPECIAL 1096 LS ue DISCOUNT Ce oe when you use CUNY STATE this order form VISA amp MASTERCARD ACCEPTED O Forth Write O Catalog Master NAME and handling fee Allow 3 to 5 weeks for delivery Va residents add 4 sales tax Please add 1 25 Postage ILI IL COMPUTER CHALLENGES n 11110 Gainsborough Ct Suite 11 Fairfax Va 20030 703 591 3326 Washington Apple Pi November 1983 7 oup fe APPLE SIG meets on the second Thursday of the month at 7 30 PM The next meeting will be on October 13 at Universal Computers 1710 Fern Street Alexan dria VA APPLESEEDS is the special interest group for our younger members They meet during the regular WAP meeting Featured are presentations of topics of interest in graphics programming techniques etc as well as question and answer sessions Following are the topics for the next few months
51. many requests from individuals and organiza tions who need services generally of a short term nature Typical requests include printer rental or use programming jobs and tutors We would like to be able to answer these inquiries with specific referrals If you would like to have your name and service included in our referral file please call or write the office John Kapke passes this bit of information along the October issue of SOFTALK has the first of a series of articles on the Epson and the Apple He highly recom mends it for all you Epson owners We have been working on organizing the reading library particularly sorting out donations of back issues of magazines and binding our exchange news letters with other Apple user groups many members confirm that these exchange newsletters are an excel lent source of information We have identified those magazines that are duplicates and members can now check these out Our reading library is growing and is becoming quite impressive Thanks for all your contributions and suggestions Stop by and browse Me have back issues of the WAP Journal for all of 1983 except April most of 1982 and selected issues prior years Check the order form for exact details New members may find these back issues helpful in getting better acquainted with WAP and the Apple Members are volunteers restrictions reminded that the WAP Hotline is run by Please observe the guidelines and as l
52. never even touched an Apple The question being LISA will definitely keep you on the straight and nar addressed here then is Can a reasonably well row educated person with no specific computer experience install and operate LISA without any outside help One of the principal and continuing boasts of all com puter companies is that their product is user friend The answer is I am relieved to say Yes Once one ly But in the case of LISA it is actually true burrows through the myriad boxes of protective wrap The document handling part of LISA that is what ping packing lists and registration forms LISA would be called in other systems loading programs comes out and sits on the desk rather simply looking opening and closing files copying to diskette etc like any other computer except for the mouse There etc can all be learned in less than 15 minutes by a is no problem plugging anything in The various person with zero computer experience And it is abso registration cards are going to ask you questions that lutely true that none of these functions require the even the doctor never asks one of which is the serial operator to touch the keyboard Not only that but number of your machine which is under the overhanging LISA will tell you such things as that a disk is disk drive It is not the serial number under the unformatted and if anything goes wrong LISA will tell keyboard dentist s mirror would have helped The yo
53. no calls after 10 00 PM except where for Richard Untied Dottie Acton Ron Murray eve Dagobert Soergel Terry Prudden Richard Unt ied Robert Fretwell Tom Riley eve Bill Etue Ben Ryan Walt Francis Bill Etue Leon Raesly Joan B Dunham Jeff Stetekluh Jeff Dillon Scott Rullman Bruce Field Jim Carpenter Robert Wood Leon Raesly Dave Harvey Walt Francis Leon Raesly Walt Francis Doug Da je Dianne Lorenz Leon Raesly Tom Warrick Neil Muncy Cara Cira Leon Raesly Jim Graham Peter Combes Doug Daje Peter Rosden John Vaupel David Inouye Calls up until midnight are ok nn E mm Current Office hours are Mon Wed Thu Fri 10 AM to 2 30 PM 12 30 to 2 30 PM amp 7 to 9 30 PM 12 to 4 PM meeting Sat only Tue Sat MEMBERSHIP IN CALL A P P L E Membership listed Users of the Hotline are also reminded that calls regarding commercial software eee should be which you don t 703 241 8678 301 428 3605 202 328 3553 703 823 2840 301 933 3065 703 703 301 703 301 241 8678 971 2621 340 9432 620 2103 469 6457 202 703 301 301 703 301 301 301 301 703 301 703 966 5742 620 2103 460 0754 585 0989 521 4882 422 6458 779 5714 340 7038 371 5263 893 9591 460 0754 527 2704 202 301 202 301 301 301 301 301 301 301 703 301 301 301 301 301 966 5742 460 075
54. number game 102 13 102 14 DOG FIGHT Hi res battle in space age jets Paddles needed 102 15 15 cent hand game SOUND DEMO A variety of music and sounds Arange the 15 numbers in order in 100 2 LHS DISK MAP Shows used unused and the 16 squares damaged sectors on the lo res screen 102 16 SMALL MARQUEE Guess the names of classic 100 3 LHS CATALOG An improved catalog that shows movies with all vowels and spaces removed ntd 42 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi FIFTEEN GAME A text screen version of the We have them all HLA Computers is about the only place in the Washing ton area where you can pick and choose from a wide variety of personal computers We have them all the versatile and powerful Apple for the office home or classroom the affordable and easily expandable IBM D for the professional the Osborne you can take with you wherever the functionally designed Corvus Concept with its dual orientation display and a full page word processor Digital s high per formance Rainbow and flexible Professional 350 the incredible powerful Sage for the computer programmer the multi user Altos Xerox and the Corvus Local Area Net LAN 64 T d workstation system And then some Off the shelf hardware and software for all of these computers and our professional expertise to custom design software especially for your needs Stop in and take yo
55. page number so our machine language routine can find it Lines 380 to 480 consist of a big loop to print each of the 192 lines from the screen First we com pute the memory address of the start of the screen line program lines 390 and 400 and then we enter another loop to print each of the 40 bytes in the screen line Here it gets a bit tricky We get a byte from memory and remove the eighth bit which is the color shift bit line 420 Then if the byte is zero i e no dots plotted we increment variable BUF by 7 the number of dots that would have been plotted and go get the next byte If the byte is not zero we first go to lines 511 through 514 and print a string that causes the printer to tab over the number of blank dots in variable BUF We return to lines 430 to 470 which breaks the byte up into individual bits and either prints a period or a space depending on whether the bit is set or not Now I 1 try to describe the shape printer Listing 2 Lines 160 through 310 again setup miscellaneous strings and variables prompt for the shape table name and the shape number The shape table is always loaded starting at 6000 just above the second hi res screen This leaves plenty of room for a big table Lines 360 through 390 draw the shape on the screen prompt for you to get the printer ready and set the printer to the plot mode Lines 450 and 460 compute the address of the start of the shape and line 470 gets a byte of the shape Each b
56. routine that can be called from Applesoft using the amp command It loads binary files from disk more rapidly than the corresponding PRINT CHR 4 BLOAD commands The command has two forms amp NAME 0 amp N 6000 where NAME is the name of the binary file in or N quotes is a string variable that has the name of the file The number or arithmetic expression following the comma is the starting address of the location where the file should be placed in memory If the file is to be loaded to the same memory locations from where it was saved leave out the comma and the value Note that the value must be in decimal not hexadeci mal See line 230 in file WAP 142 for a sample QLOADER was contributed by POM S the French magazine for Apple users NEW EAMON DISKS The following descriptions were prepared by Brad Simpson WAP s resident Eamonologist These disks are 48 November 1983 Pla oT ALIS tt only a part of those we recently acquired from CALL A P P L E The E number following the name of each disk refers to its CALL A P P L E designation Disk 196 MERLIN S CASTLE E 17 Remember King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table Well it seems that some nasty little elves deposited you in the castle of King Arthur s wizard The elves are telling you to find Merlin s Singing Sword or else Disk 197 HORGARTH CASTLE E 18 Fair Rowina has been captured YOU are her only hope for rescue Boy is s
57. six months to find out that this is a symbolic instruction code I don t know what a symbolic instruction code is I ll never know I may be too tired to care have struggled to learn Now I m told I need software to gain full use of my outdated computer I m going back to my checkbook Not this fossil Maybe I don t know what a spread sheet is and I m certainly dubious about data bases but I m doing just fine thank you At least I m having fun I wrote a BASIC program that showed me my mortgage company was 31 cents off on the monthly payment That alone was worth the struggle Unfor tunately it seems I owe them the odd 31 cents so I haven t mentioned it to anyone Young Squirt No 1 said to me You really should have started with Assembly you wouldn t be wasting all those milliseconds Young Squirt No 2 said to me You really ought to learn Pascal it s the only way to go Young Squirt No 3 said to me You really need to Washington Apple Pi BASIC I mean BASIC just still Maybe Props invest about 800 in software you don t know what you re missing My reply to these Young Squirts is always the Ed Note Deleted same My life has not been an easy one but I sure am enjoy ing it JENS THART HELP WANTED WORD PROCESSING job for typist with Apple II 5 tapes to transcribe papers indicies Final project 150 pgs intermediate approx 300 Call 699 169
58. text would always appear at the top of the screen Zardax does not use on screen word wrapping Instead of shifting a word that exceeds the right hand margin to the next line the standard word wrap function used by most processors Zardax splits the word The first part of such a word appears on one line and the remainder on the next Thus the word processor might be split proce and ssor if the letter e were placed in the last 80th column of a line 0b viously there is no resemblance between the format of data on the screen and that which appears on the printed page The Videoprint print to screen fea ture must be used extensively to spot and correct format and other errors another very cumbersome pro cedure Word splitting makes it very difficult and time con suming to proofread a page Words that have been split cannot be read as entities and proper spacing and punctuation are almost impossible to check accu rately Also because every line breaks at the same column the screen takes on an aura of sameness that becomes somewhat oppressive during a long editing session The numeric readout at the bottom of the edit echoes the current position of the cursor in a para graph e g character 239 of a 543 character para graph The counter is reset to zero at the beginning of each paragraph This is a meaningless statistic after the first line screen Characters to be underl ned are shown in inverse vid
59. to the right of the symbols in the case of those on C 3 C 5 and C 6 for example the V should be to the right of the shaded in the case of the 10 cpi control character 14 Continue doing this for the rest of the glossary It is somewhat tedious but the results are rewarding 15 When you have completed embedding the V function for all the glossary symbols you have created save the file I saved my glossary to the Master Disk although according to the Apple Writer e manual you are not supposed to save files to the Master Disk I think this is one of the except ions to the rule To save the file you use the S command 16 Once the glossary of embedded printer commands is saved to the disk you use the Q E followed by the name of your glossary file whenever you want to use your SPECIAL glossary That is at the beginning of each word processing session after booting the Apple Writer e Master Disk you would load the new glossary file using the fq E sequence and the name of the new glossary file You would then insert the disk on which you wanted to work Refer to page 51 of the Apple Writer e manual if you are not sure about this procedure 17 Once the glossary file is loaded type G the glossary function command followed by your symbol for the command desired In the case of the data processing mode the screen will look like this after I type 6 followed by my symbol D G lossary D 18 Press RE
60. up It should be noted that in the two examples the member is actually receiving something of value in the way of educational information in essence a freebie The next meeting will be held on October 22 1983 after the general WAP meeting at the WAP office In addition to regular business there will be an elec tion of officers Chairperson Librarian and Col umnist If you are interested in joining with our group and share our goals and expectations please come to the meeting In the meantime if you have any questions please feel free to call me at 301 340 7962 or call Bernie Urban at the club office amp 28 of M a November 1983 TELECOMA b y gt Cw Harvey The August meeting of the Telecomm SIG was held at USUHS on August 27 after the main meeting Several announcements were made the most important was that the new Anchor Automation Mark 12 modem which is a smart 300 1200 baud 212A type modem has been seen in a local store which implies that it is finally on the market Recently advertised prices for this modem are in the 280 to 320 range The SIG Chairman has been promised one of these units for evaluation pur poses If this evaluation is positive a group pur chase will be arranged and it is also possible that the WAP group purchase will carry it The ABBS will also employ two of these modems that is two phone lines ea
61. versatility of user created fonts and graphics November 1983 23 AM WHAT mm by John A Love Although I have been programming on the Apple for only one year I have found myself digging into Apple machine language The reason behind this new found investigation is really three times removed First I was working with someone s intensely puzzling L data base a data base I was convinced was SAVEd with a name containing some imbedded control characters Second by virtue of the utility I was constructing it was necessary to load into memory the name s of the file s on the diskette without doing a CATALOG After all CATALOGing a diskette will not show you the imbedded non printing control character that some sneaky so and so included in the name of his file If I can automatically access the file name say via use of the RWTS routine I don t need to know its spelling So the search was on for such a subroutine As a direct result of this search I was thrown into two very large new worlds The first was the Apple Disk Operating System DOS and the second was Apple machine language THe purpose of this article is to share with you a few of my discoveries in the world of machine language Other discoveries including those within DOS will be treated another day For this article today I have six sources 1 Apple Machine Language by Don and Kurt Inman Reston Publishing Company 2 Jock Root s Eve
62. well There were two problems with the program but a little investigation of the input buffer shed clues to the problems and soon led to fixes There have been a number of messages left on the WAP bulletin board relating to WIZFIX most of them asking for help to make it work Since we have been success ful I decided to share our experiences with the rest of the WAP membership in the hopes that someone else will benefit from what we learned The problems were associated with the characteristics experience and hit points In both cases the origina WIZFIX didn t utilize all of the bytes it should have In the following paragraphs I will explain what was missing and provide a copy of the changes we made to fix each problem In the program statements additions and or changes are shown in CASE and the original text is shown n lower case Hit Points 5 WIZFIX was designed the hit points are calculated from byte 134 present hit points and byte 136 maximum hit points This limits the maxi mum value for either of these characteristics to 256 but hit points can exceed this value It turns out that each of these items is really a two byte parame ter present hit points being contained in bytes 134 least significant byte and 135 most significant byte and maximum hit points in bytes 136 and 137 This oversight needs to be accounted for twice once in line 250 where the hit points are read and again in lines
63. which are unavailable on the Apple personal correspondence the user can transmit a com II or II MAILCOM lacks a preview mode to examine pletely different letter to any number of addresses the E COM message in the format as it will be printed Each message must be no longer than two pages the It would be advantageous to have a program that would extra page costs five cents facilitate the sorting of address records by zipcode For my previous example the program would scan zip To route an E COM letter from the D C area to the San codes and copy into a file all addresses nearest tons Francisco area the user first dials the telephone the San Francisco SPO This technique would ensure number of the desired SPO and then completes a series that all messages would be transmitted to a SPO of access codes At this writing an E Com message closest to their ultimate destination Digisoft can be sent to any SPO for delivery anywhere in the informed me that certain enhancements will be made U S However only messages sent to specific zip shortly codes within the destinating SPO s service area will receive one or two day delivery In the case of the In conclusion E COM software could be a valuable San Francisco area the two day zipcodes begin with addition to a business microcomputer library It is 894 895 897 and 936 969 Moreover the Postal especially attractive to frequent mailers who demand Service may soon require that all E COM letters be one
64. will ask you which shape you want printed You must of course know the shape number of the shape you want Run the program and it will first ask you for the shape table name There are several possible responses The best is to type in the shape table name You can stop the program by typing STOP without the quotes Or if you have previously printed a shape and just want to print another shape from the same shape table press only RETURN You will then be asked for the shape number The number must be in the range of one to the number of shapes in the table and this range is shown on the screen Once you answer th s question the printer will draw the shape on the screen to verify it is what you want and then prompt you to setup the printer Pressing any key other than RETURN will take you back to the beginning of the program Set up the printer so that the print carriage is at exactly the spot on the paper FOR AJ PRINTERS Field Line 180 GOSUBs to a subroutine that pokes a short machine language program into page 3 of memory This machine language routine calls another routine that computes the memory addresses of the vertical lines on the hi res screen Lines 190 through 280 setup miscellaneous strings and var ables prompts for the hi res page number etc Line 350 initializes the printer to the plot mode with the carriage to move 1 60 horizontally and 0 60 vertically after each character dot is plotted Line 370 pokes the hi res
65. with a modem CP M Operating System and E COM text formatting software can transmit E COM Two Disk Drives letters I have included a brief review of E COM Modem software at the end of this article Communications Software Here are some of the details of E COM service and MAILCOM costs 195 a high price considering the rela usage To begin a user must become certified Cert tive simplicity of the programs on the disk One ification is a one time procedure consisting of the program is a screen type text editor The user can transmission of test messages Upon completion the substitute WordStar or any other CP M based editor A user pays an annual 50 fee and makes an advanced second program edits address files This too can be deposit against which postage is automatically replaced by any program that produces CP M text files deducted E COM costs 26 cents per one page letter There are two other programs to assemble the messages including the first class stamp Of course the mailer and address files for transmission MAILCOM does not also pays the telephone bill for transmitting the include a communications package messages In general I found this software to be fairly easy to E COM accomodates several different text formats It use However it did contain several disappointments can handle form letters including the customized The screen editor made use of the cursor up and text insert formats common to mail advertising For cursor down keys
66. without duplicating the one that Woz wrote Hence Apple was trying to use copyright law to protect a utilitarian work rather than a literary expression For example in previous cases courts had held that copyright laws could not be used to protect accounting book formats because copyright laws protect only an expression of an idea not the idea itself The court rejected this claim noting that the 1976 Copyright Law covers all Computer programs without making a distinction between application programs or operating systems As a result software developers will be more likely to make the investment necessary to develop first rate user friendly Systems such as those found on the Lisa However software authors and users should be more sensitive when incorporating utility or operating system routines as a part of their packages Check out the licensing policy of any operating sys tem before you write software for it As for Franklin s fate the Court remanded the case to the trial court who must soon decide whether to halt further sales of Franklin Ace 100 computers Conceiv ably a court order could extend to all Ace 100 s ever sold QUALITY DISKWARE FOR APPLE II AND OTHER COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS SPORTS POOL eK SPORTS POOL computerizes the neighborhood or office Sports Pool All the record keeping and form generation is done by the computer in cluding calculation of per centages Put the fun back in wagering on y
67. 0 210 HOME VTAB 21 220 INPUT SHAPE TABLE NAME STOP TO END T 230 IF T STOP THEN HOME TEXT END 240 IF T THEN 280 REM USE TABLE ALREADY LOADED 250 PRINT CHR 4 BLOAD T A 6000 260 POKE 232 0 POKE 233 96 TB 96 256 270 SCALEs 1 ROT 0 280 N PEEK TB 290 VTAB 22 PRINT SHAPE NUMBER 1 N 300 INPUT Nl 310 IF N1 lt 1 OR NI gt N THEN 290 320 REM 330 REM SETUP PRINTER TO PLOT 340 REM 350 HGR vewr 360 DRAW N1 AT 140 80 REM DRAW SHAPE ON SCREEN 370 23 PRINT SETUP PRINTER AND PRESS RETURN 380 PRINT D PR 2 PRINT GET A 385 IF ASC A gt 13 THEN 200 390 PRINT E P REM SET PRINTER TO PLOT MODE Washington Apple Pi 400 410 420 430 440 450 460 470 480 490 500 510 520 530 540 550 560 570 580 590 600 610 620 630 640 650 Ask for free 74LS125 chip with order REM PLOT SHAPE ON PRINTER REM SHAPE NUMBER IN N1 REM START OF TABLE IN TB REM AD TB N1 2 AD PEEK AD 256 PEEK AD 1 TB CM PEEK AD IF CM 0 THEN 200 REM END OF SHAPE C 3 INT CM 64 REM SEPARATE COMMANDS C 2 INT CM C 3 64 8 C 1 CM C 3 64 C 2 8 N 3 IF C 3 0 THEN N 2 IF C 2 0 THEN N 1 FOR I 1 TON IF C I gt 3 THEN PRINT P C I C I 4 ON C I 1 60508 620 630 640 650 NEXT I AD AD
68. 0 PHILA PINBALL Couldn t fully check this one for lack of paddies 122 21 RANDOM LINES Just as it says it draws random lo res white lines horizontal and vertical until RESET is pressed 122 22 SKUNK have none This one requires paddles and I Washington Apple Pi November 1983 122 23 SLOTTS Works easily 122 24 SLOW MEM TEST Same as FAST MEM TEST but slower because it does a more complete check It still freezes up at line 32 however 122 25 STARWARS RESCUE No paddles so couldn t check 1122 26 STATES AND CAPITALS Good for children learning their States and Capitals as they try to answer correctly to complete the U S flag This one even requires that the capital be spelled correctly to be scored 122 27 THE HART PIANO After a couple of samples it gives you PIANO 2 which is a Keyboard Piano 122 28 TITLE DEMO Demonstrates the ability to generate multi color lo res advertising promot ional titles 122 29 TWINE TYPE GR FIRST The only difference I see between this program and BEGINNING is that this one requires more effort to get running 122 30 TWO CIRCLES Hi res circular elliptical moire patterns drawn two at a time 122 31 WINGS TYPE GR FIRST More circular ellip tical moire patterns THE SMALL COMPUTER SUPPLIES STORE LABELS 3 15716 5 000 PAPER g X 11 All weights RIBBONS TRS 80 line printer Daisywhie
69. 0 Friday through Monday Let s make a deal WANTED TO HIRE Someone to transfer Apple II files to a HP 9000 via RS232 modem or Contact Phil Dinenno 949 1414 Data direct TYPIST wanted for word processing Evening or time 3 50 5 00 per hour on call basis train Call Cara Cira 468 5718 evenings day will RETAIL COMPUTER amp SOFTWARE SALES Growing chain of computer stores is expanding and seeking to add several sales assistants to our on either a FULL TIME or PART TIME basis locations are in Vienna Va Alexandria Silver Spring MD Call for a confidential view 703 255 2054 PC PROGRAMMERS to work part time or full time on contracts as independent contractors Call 762 3333 retail we are staff Store Va or inter MICRO SCI APPLE e UPGRADE MICRO SCI APPLE disk drive 239 MICRO SCI 64K 80 column card 170 Dis Qi onnection fata 6641 Backlick Rd Suite 206 Springfield VA 22150 703 451 4100 November 1983 47 a PAGE FROM THE bu Robert C This issue contains some of the results from our disk documentation project As you can see from the com panion article our disk library offers both diversity and depth The WAP Library reached this point only through your volunteer efforts Please keep those contributions coming Remember you get a free library disk for every disk of programs which you con tribute I will be at the library sales desk before the monthly meeting to di
70. 1983 PRUCEOSUR Jacobson mands which allow you to temporarily modify standard default settings by imbedding commands in the text of a document These are one time changes that must be re entered for each document C The Main Menu A second screen contains the Main Menu for Zardax User options shown on the left side of the screen in clude document create print retrieve load trans fer delete lock and unlock In addition the Main Menu has glossary and disk ini tialization options as well as two unusual features Multipr and Vidmulti Multipr permits sequential printing of several related documents the combined length of which may exceed available memory To use this function create a file that contains the identi fication numbers of files to be printed save it and press M for Multipr Then enter the number of the special file and the print routine will begin Vidmulti does the same thing except documents are printed to screen rather than to paper You may pre view files and determine if page numbering sequences formatting commands and other settings are compatible prior to document printing The balance of the main menu screen displays the names of files located on the default drive In addition to file name each document is assigned a number by Zar dax e g B1 which must be used for any disk related commands If you wish to load a document for example press R for Retrieve and enter the docu
71. 2 SQUARING BINOMIALS SUMMONS Does a coin flipping simulation and a binomial squaring drill The program provides the correct answer after two incorrect responses At end student gets a perform mance summary I mo COIN TOSSING SIMULATION SUMMON See above I 27 14 HEADS BINOMIAL See above I 27 15 HISTOGRAM Reads data statements and pro duces a histogram sideways Adjusts to some strange scale Text 27 16 PYTHAGOREAN TRIPLES Ccalculates Pythagorean triples and draws them in hi res graphics Also prints the length of each side 27 17 DEMO OF SPEEDY MATH Satire of the flashing light know it all computer in calculation mode sterotype 27 18 APPLE PI CALCULATED Same as BISHOP CALCU LATES PI I 27 19 GAUSS JORDAN Solves simultaneous tions using Gauss Jordan elimination method 27 20 ANGULAR DISTANCE Computes angular distance between two points on a sphere To use enter the latitude and longitude of each point equa 27 21 ELEMENTARY MATH Uses lo res drill in simple addition I graphics to 27 22 UNIVERSAL BASE CONVERSION Converts numbers between bases 2 and 16 27 23 tine SHELL METZNER SORT Standard Shell sort rou 127 24 27 25 POLYNOMIAL REGRESSION PLOT Lo res No remark statements Answers presented as variable value E g B 1 0 gives mean and standard deviation 27 26 BAR GRAPH GENERATOR Creates a lo res bar graph of up to 19 bars sca
72. 36 gt R36 gt N36 gt M36 gt 636 gt AC35 135 gt Y35 gt X35 gt W35 lt 35 U35 lt 35 35 gt R35 gt AC34 234 Y34 X34 W34 lt 34 gt U34 T34 gt 34 gt R34 gt N34 M34 gt 634 gt AC33 Washi CE gt ut u u iet o FSOSUM Y8 Y33 FSOSUM X8 X33 FSOSUM H8 W33 FSOSUM V8 V33 F OSUM U8 U33 F 8SUM T8 133 F 8SUM S8 533 F 8SUM RB R33 pe o 086 8 PROF 7 LOSS 6 INTS 5 TAXS 4 MINS 3 7 PROFESSN W35 contd on pg 59 ngton Apple Pi The company that has over 18 000 Apple Il owners using DATA CAPTURE 4 0 now brings you DATA CAPTURE is An all new modem program for the Apple e 300 1200 Baud Operation 80 or 40 Column Display Automatically takes advantage of the Apple e 80 column card if it is present All New Manual Includes Table of Contents Tutorial Refer ence Section Troubleshooting Guide and Index Editor for preparing text files for transmission or editing received data Editor features include Insert Character Delete Character Delete to End of Line Find Character in Line Editor can be used to scroll forward and backward through Capture Buffer Capture Buffer List Save Print or Transmit all or part of the Capture Buffer Disk Files Transmit List Print Edit or Delete Disk Files One Key Commands for output of
73. 37 November 1983 ZAIRDAR AN UNUSURL WORD by Uilliam Es Various reviews of this software from Down Under have rated Zardax an outstanding word processing program I cannot agree with those assessments Zardax has some innovative and powerful fatures but it also has a number of idiosyncrasies and serious deficiencies All of these matters are discussed at length in this article Solutions of Mt lardax is a product of Computer Gravatt Queensland Australia It is distributed in the United States by Action Research Northwest of Seattle Washington The list price of Zardax is 210 but discounts are available The program can be configured for all versions of the Apple II including the e Document work space with a 48K machine and a 40 column screen is 13 500 charac ters This figure increases to 31 000 characters with a 64K version II with a 16K card or standard e and an 80 column card Once fully booted the entire Zardax program is loaded into memory and will operate with a one floppy disk drive system My review was conducted on a e with 128K of RAM The additional 64K of RAM on my computer has no effect on the size of edit screen memory but it may be used for other purposes At several places in the article I make reference to the special Open Apple Delete and up down arrow keys of the Apple e The commands invoked by these keys also exist on other versions of the Apple They simply requi
74. 4 966 5742 868 5487 530 7881 460 0754 656 4389 251 9330 468 6118 460 0754 643 1848 871 1455 868 5487 229 2288 977 3054 422 8926 in Call A P P L E a users group in Kent Washington is available at a discount to WAP members The one time application fee is 5 instead of 25 and the annual dues of 20 remain the same making a total of 25 for the first year Call the WAP office for further details and an application blank November 1983 Washington Apple Pi have no To Find More Advanced More Sophisticated Apple9 Software For Less We ve taken a byte out of the competition with advanced easy to use programs for your Apple Computer at pared down prices FORTH WRITE One of the first programs to conform to the Fig Forth 1983 Standard Includes hi res color graphics string functions RWTS Interface assembler and versatile screen editor Available by Dec 115 95 TEST MASTER Developed by an educator using the Forth Write System this program emphasizes the skills necessary for successful test taking Through testing and analyses you will develop better skills in reading studying and decision making It also allows the user to enter his own questions 44 95 6502 MASTER KIT All the tools needed for an assembly language program This disk now gives Apple users the benefit of Automatic Flowcharting as well as an assembler editor and debugger 124 95 CATALOG MASTER A catalog
75. 525 and 526 where the updated values are put back in the buffer 250 le peek base 132 peek base 133 256 ph peek base 134 PEEK BASE 135 256 th peek base 136 PEEK BASE 137 256 ac peek base 176 if peek base 177 gt 0 then ac ac 256 525 k peek base 136 IF K 246 then poke base 134 k 10 poke base 136 k 10 POKE BASE 135 PEEK BASE 137 RETURN 526 POKE BASE 134 K 246 POKE BASE 135 PEEK BASE 137 1 POKE BASE 136 K 246 POKE Bytes 124 and 125 are the least significant syllable and bytes 126 and 127 are the most significant sylla ble the syllables being added after multiplying the most significant syllable by 10000 Once again there is more to include Bytes 128 and 129 are also a part of the experience points this syllable being multi plied by 100 000 000 before being added to the others Here also the changes appear in two places lines 244 and 247 where the experience points are being read and lines 540 through 543 where the updated values are put back in the buffer 244 E5 PEEK BASE 128 E6 PEEK BASE 129 247 EP EP E5 E6 256 100000000 540 if peek base 126 lt 254 then poke base 126 peek base 126 1 RETURN 541 POKE BASE 126 0 IF PEEK BASE 127 lt 254 THEN POKE BASE 127 PEEK BASE 127 1 return 542 POKE BASE 127 0 IF PEEK BASE 128 lt 254 THEN POKE BASE 128
76. AL TUTORING and hope that the library will be a useful resource CLASSES TAUGHT FOR YOU for educators who need to browse through large soft EE ware packages before making a purchase decision OFFICE CENTERED TRAINING David has also been working on a list of periodicals A to be bought by the library This list was approved Staff Hand Holding a Specialty at the EDSIG meeting on October 11 and was passed on for action at the Apple Pi Board Meeting on October 12 amp Leon H Rasely L C S W LRO 460 0754 Paragon Technologies Inc Paragon Technologies Inc offers classes in our laboratory in McLean Introduction to the Information Age lecture Getting Started with the Personal Computer Programming in the BASIC language VISICALC dBasell WordStar Computer Fundamentals for Students All classes except where noted offer ample hands on practice on Apple lle s Call 556 9659 for a schedule or write to us at 1350 Beverly Rd Suite 220 McLean VA 22101 Washington Apple Pi November 1983 15 Me UJ Ioue db Xu C Lo TURTLE TRACKS October Meeting Date October 22 1983 Time 12 45 PM Place Barrie School See Map Below The LOGOSIG Meeting today will include elections for LOGOSIG officers a demonstration of the Commodore 64 LOGO and team projects LOGOSIG has tried for some time to use separate activity or interest teams for part of each meeting With our new facility which
77. AND Responding with only N always results in a STRING ERROR message and responding with only a Y Lone Ines results in a STRING ERROR and stops execu ion calling it COLOR MATH is a gross misnomer all it does is display in color lo res numbers between 0 and 99 that you specify in the color that you have pre selected There is NO math involved 122 7 COMPUTER ART When you follow the directions in the INSTRUCTIONS program and then hit RETURN this generates automatic random hi res elliptical moire patterns until interrupted by a RESET Some may find them more interesting and attractive than the moire pattern generator that comes on the DOS Master disk 122 8 CRYPTOGRAM Offers automatic creation and practice in solving simple substitution ciphers In fact it s one of the best programs I ve seen on the subject Unfortunately the directions do NOT give you any hints on how to go about solving ciphers not a word about frequency lists or examples so you d best go to the public library for a book on simple ciphers before you tackle this one If you are inter ested in the complete subject try to find the book The Codebreakers by David Kahn since it is a rela tively complete history of secret codes and ciphers and tells a great deal about how to solve them 122 9 DATA DISPLAY AND SAVE I could not get this one to run properly at all What I did see of it looked to be almost useless for any pr
78. EMENTS TO APPLESOFT Do NOT confuse MicroMaster with other simple programs that play with the amp vector MicroMaster is a totally unique concept a co resident operating system and dynamic subroutine library MicroMaster allows you to structure your Applesoft programs using true subroutine capability Swap subroutines or other sections of code in and out and modify your operating system while your program is executing Swap entire operating systems in and out while your program is executing So simple even a beginner can do it Overlaying is done with simple LOAD and DELete commands actually EASIER than CHAINing Automatically relocate 4502 machine language programs without using relocatable code or relocation dictionaries MicroMaster enhancements to Applesoft include a PRINT USING that is fully integrated with Applesoft TAB and and actually remembers your formats Automatic STORE and RECALL of arrays Locate substrings Over 50 new commands in all amp MENU amp LOAD amp ADD amp DEL amp HOLD amp MERGE amp TRUN amp REN amp DL amp DLIST amp RETURN amp CLEAR NEW amp RUN amp FIXS amp FIX amp ERRMS amp P amp OFF amp SAVE amp SSQR amp FRE amp MEM amp MON amp FLEN amp BLEN amp amp BEEP amp BOOT amp CEOL amp CEOP amp APEEK amp MAP Qu amp MPOKE amp CAT amp SUBSTR amp INPUT amp GOSUB amp GOTO amp UNDIM amp STOP amp TAB amp STORE amp RECALL amp SWITCH amp PRINT amp APOKE amp TONE amp
79. G Coordinator SIG Chairmen Appleseeds APPLE ASMSIG Business CP M DISABLEDSIG i or phone EDSIG FORTH SIG Home Control SIG LAWSIG LOGOSIG NEWSIG Pascal PIG SIGAMES STOCKSIG Telecomm SIG RS E David Morganstein Dana Schwartz Edward Myerson Sarah Lavilla Bernie Benson Peter Combes Bruce Field Nancy Philipp Gordon Stubbs Rich Wasserstrom Bernie Urban Betsy Harriman Genevie Urban ETI Geib Ray Hobbs James T DeMay Jr Leon Raesly Peter Combes Bruce Field Walt Francis Rich Wasserstrom STAFF 301 301 703 301 202 301 301 301 703 301 202 301 301 301 301 301 301 301 202 703 972 4263 725 6281 759 5479 926 6355 546 0076 871 1455 340 7038 924 2354 750 0224 229 3458 363 5963 229 3458 229 8095 490 7484 779 4632 460 0754 871 1455 340 7038 966 5742 448 0984 7 00 9 30 PM Mon Fri John Malcolm 301 384 1070 Dave Weikert Scott Rullman Bob Hicks Ben Acton Ed Lang Gabor Laufer Michael Leavitt Jim amp Nancy Little Van Kozak Terry Prudden Bruce Redding Gordon Stubbs Jerry amp Dave Waller Bob Platt Mike Hartman Kit Leithiser Walt Francis Paula Benson Marge Gildenhorn Mike Koenig Signe Larson 202 301 703 202 202 301 301 703 223 1588 445 1583 569 8037 966 5742 546 0076 460 5540 948 5371 524 4541 Jim Burger Shaw Pittman Potts amp Trowbrid
80. GOLF After selecting which club to use the Apple will tell you how far you are from the hole 23 15 JIG SAM Solve a 9 piece puzzle The blocks are numbered but start with 1 in the upper left 3 in upper right and 9 in lower right 23 16 JUGGLE paddles required Try to keep the balls in the air You control the number of balls with 10 points awarded per bounce 23 17 MARTIAN INVASION A basic invader game with 10 skill levels Shoot you lazer at the aliens before they stomp on you upon landing 23 18 PORK BARREL You vote on bills and decide on advertising Up to 4 players can serve a two year term Note putting too much money in one area will result in any fixes an illegal quantity error in line 5250 23 19 MASTERMIND is to guess 7 colors by Robert J Davis The object Five skill levels offered DISK 25 UTILITIES VII Reviewed by Ross Lenet This disk is primarily a collection of programs that show off the Apple s graphics and sound capabilities The title utilities is a bit misleading only a couple of the programs fall into this category Any one fascinated by computer graphics would enjoy many of the programs on this disk but children would be especially likely to enjoy them With a few notable exceptions the on screen documentation for the pro grams on this disk is rather poor Trial and error is the order of the day 25 1 WAP GRAPHICS 9 This is the greeting program and
81. I 250 00 210 00 VISIDEY 1 B M AND APPLE 11 230 00 210 00 VISITREND PLOT I B H AND APPLE 11 300 00 260 00 VISINORD I B H 375 00 295 00 VISISCHEDULE I B M AND APPLE II 1I 300 00 200 00 VIRCO O SULLIVAN AND BUSH FURNITURE ALL MODELS CALL 80 BOARDS APPLE II RND II tJ 3 The al de has it now your Apple can 1 DATADISK call 881 2543 after 3PM MOST ITEMS DELIVERED WITHIN 48 HOURS UPON FIRM CONFIRMATION BY PHONE OR NAIL TERNS ARE C 0 D ONLY PERSONAL CHECKS CERTIFIED CHECKS CASHIERS CHECK CASH OR BUSINESS CHECKS ARE ACCEPTED Ht ITEMS ARE UNDER MANUFACTURE WARRANTY FOR INFORMATION OR TO PLACE AN ORDER CALL 301 340 1987 OR WRITE M C S 9105 COPENHAVER DR POTOMAC s vts Washington Apple Pi November 1983 59 ELECTRONIC MAIL THROUGH THE POSTAL SERVICE by Stephen M Libster E COM Electronic Computer Originated Mail is a new Recently Digisoft Inc sent me a copy of its MAILCOM U S Postal Service product permitting businesses to tm software for review My MAILCOM version 1 2 runs send letters anywhere in the 48 states within one or on an Apple II or II with the following configura two days E COM messages travel via phone lines to tion one of 25 specially equipped post offices SPOs At AN the SPO the message is printed using dot matrix 16K RAM Card style enveloped and dispatched for delivery as a Eighty column Board conventional letter Any microcomputer
82. Inside Apple Pi a compendium of our 1979 1980 articles or the New Member Reference Book and or disk please check the appropriate box es below If you order 5 or more back issues we will pay the postage U S only for 1 4 issues add 50 postage each The price for Inside Apple Pi and the New Member Reference Packet FEN or book alone includes U S Postage 1 50 October 1980 Volume 2 No 10 2 00 January 1982 Volume 4 No 1 1 50 June 1981 Volume 3 No 6 2 00 Feb 1982 Volume 4 No 2 1 50 Jul Aug 1981 Volume 3 No 7 1 50 Sept 1981 Volume 3 No 8 2 00 April 1982 Volume 4 No 4 1 50 October 1981 Volume 3 No 9 2 00 May 1982 Volume 4 No 5 1 50 Nov 1981 Volume 3 No 10 2 00 June 1982 Volume 4 No 6 1 50 Dec 1981 Volume 3 No 11 2 00 July 1982 Volume 4 No 7 2 00 August 1982 Volume 4 No 8 2 00 January 1983 Volume 5 No 1 2 00 Sept 1982 Volume 4 No 9 2 00 Feb 1983 Volume 5 No 2 2 00 October 1982 Volume 4 No 10 2 00 Mar 1983 Volume 5 No 3 2 00 Nov 1982 Volume 4 No 11 2 00 May 1983 Volume 5 No 5 2 00 Dec 1982 Volume 4 No 12 2 00 June 1983 Volume 5 No 6 2 00 July 1983 Volume 5 No 7 5 50 Inside Apple Pi 2 00 August 1983 Volume 5 No 8 8 50 New Member Reference Book and Disk 2 00 Sept 1983 Volume 5 No 9 4 00 New Member Reference Book 2 00 Oct 1983 Volume 5
83. K screen and sound to between two persons This program uses the lo res simulate a timer for a game 125 15 HIRES SKETCH BIN This program purports to save hi res pictures to disk but does not seem to work properly Before it crashes it succeeds in telling where to obtain documentation DISK 27 MATH Reviewed by V Khera 27 1 FOURIER SPECTRUM ANALYZER 10 Based on Dec 1979 Byte article Input data beginning and end coordinates scale Output frequency in radians and Hertz amplitude modulus 27 2 FFT A machine language fast fourier trans form routine 27 3 FFT TEST Demonstration of FFT routine written by Bruce Field 27 4 FFT SCR Source code for FFT in S C Assembler format 27 5 FFT INFO FFT documentation 27 6 EC ERFC X GOSUB 8 22 80 Calculates the error function and its complement used in heat flow and other boundary value problem solutions The formulas used are ERF X 2 SQR PI the integral from x to infinity of EXP X 2 Delta x ERFC X 1 ERF X ERFC 60508 REMARKS Documentation on the above pro gram DISK TO WAP 8 23 80 Same as ERFC GOSUB REMARKS 27 73 GREATEST COMMON DENOMINATOR Uses algorithm to calculate the GCD 127 8 Euclid s EIGHT QUEENS PROBLEM Calculates solutions to sizes on the hi res screen to create some interesting the classic chess problem Text Slow designs 27 9 BISHOP CALCULATES PI Calculates the value of 25 7 HIRES BOXES
84. LUS for one year from date of purchase Quantum Leap software systems are designed to give you the user powerful professional and business tools with which to get the day s work done faster more pleasantly and more professionally We live in and exciting age for personal com puting Multitasking and Virtual Memory promises to make any computer substantially more Gwe ul ihan is possible with currently limited memory Byte Magazine Editorial March 1983 Only MegaTASK PLUS offers you these technologies PLUS standard Applications Packages to capitalize on them all available for your APPLE II QLT Distributing P O Box 7713 Silver Spring Maryland 20910 301 565 4656 495 November 1983 49 HIRES by Bruce GRAPH CS F At the urging of Lee Raesly I am going to describe a couple of programs to draw graphics on Anderson Jacobson daisy wheel printers The first program dumps the entire high resolution screen either page 1 or page 2 to the printer while the second allows you to plot a single shape from a shape table I have used a variation of the second program to make over head transparencies My shape table consisted of large ASCII characters I simply typed in what I wanted on the transparency and the printer printed it in large type letters With only a little modifica tion these programs can also be used for any daisy wheel printer that has a plotting mode you must be able to move the carriage one period width
85. No 10 Includes postage Total No of issues at 1 50 Total No of issues at 2 00 5 Inside Apple Pi at 5 50 af New Member Ref Book amp Disk at 8 50 o New Member Ref Book at 4 00 See Postage if any f U S 1 4 back issues add 50 each TEGERE Foreign add 1 50 for each back issue add 2 50 for Inside Apple Pi TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP Make check payable to Washington Apple Pi Ltd and send to Washington Apple Pi Ltd Attn Magazines 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Bethesda MD 20814 62 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi WASHINGTON APPLE PI DISK LIBRARY MAIL ORDER FORM Washington Apple Pi s library disks are available for purchase This form is only for ordering disks that you want mailed to you PROGRAM DISKETTES Mailed to you 1st 5 Members 6 00 ea Non members 9 00 ea u remainder 5 00 ea 2 8 00 ea Diskettes picked up at the meeting or at the office are 5 00 for members 8 00 for non members 005 3 2 DOS 3 3 contd Volume 195 Underground City Volume 1 Utilities I Volume 109 IAC 11 Applesoft Volume 196 Merlin s Castle Volume 2 Utilities II Tutorial Volume 197 Horgrath Castle Volume 3 Games 1 Volume 110 Personal Educat ion Volume 198 Deathtrap Volume 4 Games II Volume 111 Games C Volume 199 The Black Death Volume 5 Games III Volume 112 Utilities C Volume 200 The Temple of Ngurct Volume 6 Game
86. OGO followed a question in the sign on questionnaire that asked which languages were available at home However BASIC was not offered for 14 November 1983 the 6 8 age group Children were assigned two to a computer with a 6 1 pupil teacher ratio Each ses sion had 36 children The first camp had a 1 1 ratio of irls to boys but the second one had 60 males and the third 70 A music utility a modified version of Apple Mechanic was used a great deal By means of this utility the children succesfully produced the music they wanted The sessions lots of fun in which 9 11 year olds used LOGO were In fact the only part of the LOGO sessions that were actually taught were the ones involving music The current implementation of music in LOGO obtained from LOGOSIG is very cumbersome and takes up a lot of memory but the children seem to understand it At the end of each session the child ren would put together combinations of graphics and music Carolyn s personal feeling is that LOGO is much more understandable to ten year olds than is BASIC The BASIC curriculum was revised for each ses sion Next year the camp will certainly be repeated and will keep its focus on Computers and the Arts Some way will be sought to increase the children s computer time still further as it was the children would cut out their snack time in order to have more time on the computer Barrie School is no stranger to computers ha
87. Power Ltd oo we ew we eee 11 Micro Star Co 2 ee ee eee 35 MinuteWare cer fet Ses bende 31 Modular Computer Systems 59 Operant Systems 21 Option Analytics Inc 49 Paragon Technologies Inc 15 Quantum Leap Technologies 49 Ra R Michaels Inc 2 Ramada Computer Products 7 EE Robins INC 57 Sacon INC o ew ee eae 17 Southeastern Software 53 Tri State Systems ay fe a Al VF Associates eh e ee 45 51 64 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi appic computer 0 gt Dealer amp Service Center GET YOUR HANDS ON A COMPUTER the DLJINTONM CORP 7 TES LEARNING CENTER NEW AFFLE OWNERS COURSE 4 hours 150 Alternate Saturdays Learn the basic operating procedures of the world s most popular small computer Course includes five proaram disks 4 hours 150 Alternate Saturdays Hands on dard operating system A must for new owners of MEW CE M OWNERS COURSE instruction in this star ZP M based computers APFLEWRITER Ile 2 hours 60 9 22 10 20 11 17 12 8 Understand what a word processing system is and how it works Learn how to create revise letters and documents quickly and easily 9 13 20 27 10 4 and 10 11 A University y LOGO GRAFHICS 10 hours 75 an Aekreduck ion to a computer languag
88. R the INPUT OUTPUT 1 0 BUFFER and the KEYBOARD DECODER The latter directly translates a keypress to its binary equivalent Let s see Zz CHR 90 low byte or CHR 218 high byte According to the Apple II Reference Manual The keyboard sends seven bits of information which togeth er form one character These seven bits along with programmer Mr Root states that Assembly language another signal which indicates when a key has been contd 24 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi pressed are available to most programs as the con tents of a memory location Programs can read the current state of the keyboard by reading the contents of this location When you press a key on the key board the value in this location becomes 128 or NEWBORN Davidi born 9 25 83 o greater and the particular value it assumes is the Presents the fol wing Specials numeric code for the character that was typed 3 Printers So this is why Z is initially represented as CHR TTX Daisy Wheel 455 00 218 rather than CHR 90 Anyway deciaml 218 is NEC 80234 AAA a a hex DA or a binary 11011010 But this is eight C Itoh ProWriter 350 00 bits not the seven bits referenced above The answer Okidata Microline 92 475 00 is that once the keypress has been accepted and under Epson MX 80 F T III 420 00 stood by the INTERPRETER the binary representation RX 80 F T 450 00 stored in th
89. S DD 4 269 nesame 30500 sends the character to either the screen or the printer as specified by the user The ROM character In stock word processing utilities generator actually displays the character Once cr and game specials is pressed the 255 or less characters in the 1 0 Letter Perfect 75 00 BUFFER are released to memory beginning at decimal Super Text 40 80 II II 70 00 location 02048 the beginning of the user area for Visidex n oooononnnosonsnonsa 163 00 Applesoft Basic programs and variables Desk Top Plan II 149 00 VL Directory Master 15 00 Mr Wagner explains that programs are executed by the LEXICON ooosacnananooo o 25 00 6502 scanning through memory Addresses in memory are Thunderbombs 2 ooo ooo non n n 15 00 analogous to line numbers in Basic Cri tical Mass 2 4 n00 0x0n nx0nx0nu0c0000 00 00 23 00 The Serpent s Star 23 00 I m going to make a giant leap at this point I m The Arcade Machine 30 00 going to assume that I haven t made any large goofs in ENOCH Seu se acs ere sn mann ru 20 00 this article Based on this assumption it still Frazzle ooooonoonononoanssrn 14 00 remains that I have a seemingly infinite amount to Choplifter 11 11 20 00 learn about Assembly language programming I will s m d a ac Glee miu a n a ain a a Rcs urb L4 OO continue to share with you in the future my trials an
90. SC or Control character Control V sequence Apple Writer e has just this ability called a glossary How ever as you may have already found out the glossary listed on the bottom two thirds of page 58 only applies to either the Apple Letter Quality or Dot Matrix printer not surprisingly After much trial and error using the directions on page 59 of the Apple Writer e manual I managed to make my own glossary of the functions listed on page C 3 and C 4 of the Okidata manual Several points should be made about symbols which are permitted in the glossary First of all through trial and error I learned that I could only use one symbol for each ASCII code That is when I tried to use CQ for correspondence quality it did not work So I reduced it to C The only other restrictions are that you not use the character or the character Upper and lower case characters are interpreted differently so you may use both Int tially I thought I could not use C r Q n up arrow down arrow 0 2 7 B b because as you can see on page 58 of the Apple Writer e Manual they are already listed in the SPECIAL file The solution to this problem is to temporarily delete these symbols from the screen after you boot the SPECIAL file to begin making the glossary Then when you save your new glossary file the Apple s contd November 1983 29 SPECIAL file symbols won t override your symbols That is how I was able
91. TION 2 ORGANIZATION Each special interest group shall elect from among its own members a Chairman and Journal Columnist The election of special interest group officers shall be conducted annually during the month of October under the supervision of the Board of Directors Each special interest group shall pub lish an account of its activities in the WAP Journal Sale Sale Sale OKIDATA Microline 92 455 Other Printers Included in This Sale 900 0 i Dis Gionnection PEN 6641 Backlick Rd Suite 6 Springfield VA 0 703 451 4100 RE INKER for DOT MATRIX EN RIBBONS ww y Re inking machine for ALL Dot matrix printers Basic unit uses BLACK ink 79 95 4 packing amp shipping Also color add on kits available 25 Includes new wick bottle of ink and new ribbon of desired color Available in RED BLUE GREEN amp BROWN Each custom built to your order Please allow three weeks for delivery Md residents add 5 sales tax DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED 14288 Weeping Willow Drive 32 Wheaton Hd 26986 LRO inc 460 0754 VF ASSOCIATES A Family Store Game I O Extender Twin Port oystick Gorilla 4 Button Nibble Notch Diskette Tool 12 Extra Hires Green Monitor ranstar 120 Letter Qual Portable ranstar 315 7 Color Printer Basic Dot Matrix Printer F 9 Voice Music Card arallel Printer Cards w Cable also with Graphics Dump omplete 300
92. TURN You will then see the 0 appear on the screen where the cursor was last sitting I think this symbolic glossary of embedded commands is somewhat faster for a touch typist than typing the ASCII codes themselves I know this process seems long and tedious but actu ally once you master it it is really quite simple to carry out I purposely broke down the procedure into small steps to insure that there would be no misun derstanding and also to make it simpler I hope this will help some people who as I have been struggling to embed their printer commands I have included my set of embedded symbols below on the far left as they would appear in the SPECIAL glossary file The first letter or number on each line is my symbol for the particular printer command Thus if I want to go into the correspondence quality mode I would press 6 C or if I want to go into to the 6 LPI mode I would press 6 6 etc Remember that in your SPECIAL glossary file the V shown after your glossary symbol and the or Control character is shaded 4 e in inverse Also the symbol and the Control character symbol which follows the V are also in inverse in your SPECIAL glossary file The inability to show the shading or inverse is hopefully the only inac curacy in my reproduction of the SPECIAL glossary file I did not include the symbol for designating number of lines for page length ESC F page C 4 Okidata manual as the number of l
93. Washington Apple Pi The Journal of Washington Apple Pi Ltd Volume 5 November 1983 Number 1 UOTE EERO AND GUTENBERG JR Fox DISK ROUNDUP Sme UNUSUAL WORD PROCESSOR V 6 8 FORMULAS EL FORMAT Officers 8 Staff Editorial Event Queue President s Corner David Morganstein Program Previews ws a ss a a Cara Cira Minutes Notes From the Office o o Classifieds Commercial Classifieds WAP Hotline General Information Call A P P L E STENOSES dates e a sE ScreenWriter Hotline Peter Combes UA as a e a e BAC FE Field The Fourth Dimension Drive Richard A Untied EDSIG NEWS sa v se v os ow Pater Combes LogoSIG News s sawe aa Nancy C Strange Apple vs Franklin Court Decision Robert C Platt Gutenberg and Gutenberg Jr Word Proc P K Wong ToAm Whst I Am ss e JORN A Love III Apple Tracks Richard Langston II Developing Multi Drive Software Daniel J Blum ASNGW SIG GESIG amp e oasa os a Roy Rosfeld Telecomm SIG News o Dave Harvey Okidata Apple Writer e Conn Jean Panagakos Games People Play Two Reviews Leslie Shriner 65809 80198909 gt au wv v vs s e Jeff Bruner MDZRIX PIE s xwv iow x BVT Guron Fall Disk Roundup sw Robert C Platt LISA From a Standing Start Lewis H Strauss The Struggling Dinosaur a Co
94. actical data storage except for very specialized applications 122 10 FAST MEM TEST This one keeps freezing up at 32 and I cannot tell if it s doing its job or not 122 11 HANGMAN This is all fouled up If you guess a letter that appears in the word it hangs you If you guess a letter that does not appear in the word it kicks you out of the program 122 12 HANGMAN 2 This is more like it It works properly HELLO This is the BOOT program for this disk INSTRUCTIONS This program reveals the instructions for the programs BEGINNING COMPUTER ART TWINE and MUSIC 122 13 LAS VEGAS SLOT MACHINE This program osten Sibly recreates a Las Vegas Slot Machine Unfortu nately it freezes up after each display and you must RESET and RUN to go again 122 14 LIFE Best and easiest LIFE I ve ever seen in that the instructions explain how the game actually works The lo res graphics are well done 122 15 MOON LANDER The instructions on this one go by too fast The graphics lo res are simple and to the point Unfortunately I have no game paddles so I could not check the game operation 122 16 MUSIC This program presumably is supposed to play music Unfortunately if you follow the directions in INSTRUCTIONS you get 32767 ERROR STOPPED AT 125 If you LIST 125 you find 125 CALL PEEK 220 256 PEEK 221 27 REM SGN P LOAD F This according to a complet
95. adisk containing tutorials and sample formats on both sides The necessary utilities to format data disks copy and delete files etc are included The 200 page manual comes in a three ring loose leaf notebook inside a slipcase and is itself printed with the Gutenberg and a NEC 8023A printer If you buy the Gutenberg Jr you get only one copy of the program and everything including the manual is contained on two sides of the diskette A short tutorial explaining how you can use your own printer to produce a copy of the 100 page manual is also on the program disk The Jr costs only 85 while the regular Gutenberg costs 325 Users of the IBM PC will be disappointed to learn that the Gutenberg will not boot on the Quadram Apple Link so this very powerful software is still limited to Apple However an optional preboot utility will per mit the Gutenberg to run on the Franklin Booting and Initialization After the program is booted you will be asked to spec ify the printer interface and slot it s residing in The Gutenberg does this with a screen menu listing all the interfaces it supports and you select the one you have by letter The Jr on the other hand will pre sent you with the list in sequence so you must type an N for No until your interface appears This initiali zation procedure must be repeated each time you boot so it is somewhat inconvenient After this you will be able to load any special fonts from disk before going to ot
96. again for the October meeting It is located approximately 10 miles from USUHS WAP Meeting Follow the map and join us there Any questions contact me at 691 1619 Directions to the new LOGOSIG location mult i computers 1 Take Rt 495 Beltway East to Connecticut Avenue Exit 33a Go North 2 Take Left at Y staying on Connecticut Avenue trange 3c de ede fe he de de he e efe ehe fe he he e fe fefe de fede fe fe dede IT S HERE TOOL KIT amp SAMPLER FOR APPLE LOGO The final version of the Apple Logo Tool Kit utili ties disk and Sampler has been formally released by Apple The original Apple Logo package comes with two copies of the Language disk and no utilities so this Tool Kit and Sampler will provide Apple Logo users with many new capabilities Logo Computer Systems Inc LCSI has previously made available to us the development versions of these disks The final ver sion on three disks is now available from me and I have permission to place it in the WAP disk library For more information contact me or WATCH for its RELEASE NOTICE as WAP Disks If you have Apple Logo co are a must Note They will not work on MIT Logo c He e fe e fe ee ee fece eee ee eode oe e e e e e LEARNING WITH LOGO Review As promised I would like to share my review of Dan Watt s recent books Learning with Logo for MIT Logo and Learning with Apple Logo if you can find it
97. ains printer codes for Epson 1 81 Geaini Apple 5 Prints characters that follow as GIS NEC Prowriter end Okidata How to get your Epson MI suParscrifts or stoPs subscriPts printer to do underlining and superscripts on the Apple S UL rie a Ile Contains step by step instructions for the basic A operating procedures and an easy user s quide to word EOP AAA printing Gib processing Contains many suggestions procedures and moves paper up one ling GIL instructions not found in the Apple Writer e manual FVLV form food GIF Contains an entire chapter on printing and formatting TVKV feeds paper to tab position of selected channel 7 number ag pre programmed in Vertical Format Unit Apple Writer Glossary Disk for the J and e Codes HVIV moves printhead to next pre programmed GJH tor Epson Beaini Apple NEC Prouriter Okidata 9 98 horizontal tab position eti releases printer from Print Suopress Mode 621p Minute Manual For DB Master 12 95 id Madea GJP Get David Einhorn s highly acclaised book on DB Mast VVTV begin loading tab positions in VFU GIV 0 3 ane wee oV V 10 cpi 610 Contains practical explanations inforsative tutorials 2 12 cpi tGle and sound advice along with step by step instructions 70 417 cai 617 fer designing a data base searching sorting report WV_V Caouuble width G1W generation file restructuring and reblocking c
98. alftime cartoons he wants The game begins easily enough but speeds up as you reach higher levels The level of difficulty can be changed by re setting the Zerks characteristics On the easiest settings one can easily reach the 20th level or higher while raising the attributes to maxi mum makes the first level a real challenge So no matter what level game player you are this game will stay interesting and fun to play for a long time Another thing that makes this game so playable is its responsiveness to the keyboard and joystick controls The graphics and animation in Spare Change are just about the best I ve ever seen The animation has no flickering at all and the whole thing is very colorful and fun to watch Between levels are a series of car toons which are very appealing and humorous As just about every part of the game is animated the Zerks move in a variety of ways when they run toss tokens dance get mad etc The sound jis excellent Unlike many games Spare Change has great sound effects as well as good graph ics The jukebox plays a variety of tunes and the popcorn machines and telephones are very realistic Each of the Zerks activities moving kicking toss ing etc has its own sound I have never played a game with such good sound effects There is also a sound toggle for loud soft and off The doucumentation is good Included in the instruc tions are details on all special features The instructions f
99. amonds 34 95 25 95 Sensible Speller 125 00 94 95 Wizardry Ill Legacy of Llyigamyn 39 95 29 95 Screenwriter Pro 199 95 149 95 Wizardry amp UMM 84 90 59 95 Transend l o o oooooooo o 89 00 69 95 Castle Wolfensteln 29 95 20 95 VisiCalC ooomo oooo 250 00 CALL ThunderbombsS 19 95 15 95 VisiPlot VisiTrend 300 00 CALL Transyivania 19 95 15 95 PFS FIG es tace 125 00 89 95 Spy s Demis8e 19 95 15 95 PFS Report 95 00 74 95 Pie M n cee cc ccc eee eens 19 95 15 95 PFS Graph cerent 125 00 89 95 Serpentin 34 95 25 95 Word Handler 199 00 144 95 Zork Il or WM 39 95 29 50 DB Master 229 00 CALL Star Blazer 31 95 22 95 HSA 2 5 ESD o ESSE dus 79 95 63 50 R pton ero ees 39 95 29 50 GraForth oooooomommcoc 75 00 56 95 Pinball Construction Set 39 95 29 50 The Graphics Magician 59 95 44 95 Deadline 49 95 37 95 Arcade Machine 59 95 44 95 Jawbreaker 29 95 21 50 Cytron Masters 39 95 29 50 HARDWARE Star ro88 occa bs tah weds 39 95 29 50 16K RAM Card 149 00 59 95
100. amp a soccer camp and the computer camp running together we felt the plates were spinning all summer Doug Adams Director of the computer camp explained that originally four courses were planned Intro duction to LOGO Introduction to BASIC Advanced BASIC and Pascal but it was found that no one was interested in Advanced BASIC or Pascal so these two contd Washington Apple Pi never got off the ground Again daily two hour ses sions were scheduled There was no age restriction With 7 maximum enrollment of 24 both BASIC classes were full Instant Freeze Dried Basic by Gerald Brown was used as a textbook for BASIC and was popular In the camp CONSULTING amp Nobody was bored and there was nobody who had no fun However BASIC was found to be much more diffi cult than LOGO TEACHING Enthusiasm for LOGO was evinced by all three camps though it was remarked that it was difficult to get the younger children to write procedures they pre ferred to stay in immediate mode Indeed in 3rd 4th grade some children seemed prepared to go on doing DATA BASE WORD PROCESSING the same thing almost indefinitely and had to be BUSINESS PROGRAMS ACCOUNTING PROGRAMS pushed to progress BUSINESS SYSTEMS Other News OPERATION PROCEDURES WRITTEN David Wyatt will be working with Gordon Stubbs on the educational component of the commercial software li brary We already have some material from publishers PERSON
101. and ready for a second drive affected me however because my program now had to What cinched it was the dramatic drop in drive prices allow for two revolutions to write all sectors and so this last year But what drive to buy Was the cut into the speed efficiency I was trying to achieve quality up to Apple snuff Back in April 1 packed up Again no standard DOS CPM or Pascal application my disk test software and went to the dealers to find even the DOS speedups would be affected out Turns out most of the offerings are signifi cantly better performers than the Apple drive And A letter and phone conversation with the manufacturer most of them at half the price I picked the Fourth uncovered that they were aware of the difference Dimension FDS 40A as the best bang for my buck It but that I was the first to report it They indicated demonstrates very accurate head positioning and that some protected Hayden and Sensible products would repeatability and reliably steps track to track at not work with the Fourth drive for this reason and twice the rate provided by DOS while Apple drives that they had switched to a new design analog board have problems with a 25 speedup Also while it is inside the drive for drives assembled after July 1 rated at forty tracks I find that I can actually which does not have this delay They provided a fix access 43 on my drive for the pre July analog board clip either lead of the 33nf capacitor C25 at t
102. and the manual contains over 50 pages of examples showing how these can be used in various situations They include samples for printing form letters two column newsletters with headline fonts vita etc Surmrnary The Gutenberg Jr is a simplified but still very powerful word processor that will meet the needs of many users It requires 64K of RAM and offers 80 character per screen line in double hi res if you have a e with extended 80 column card It also has an improved editor and direct access to the print program from the editor as the latter is loaded into the com puter s memory along with the editor Some commands have been changed slightly from the Gutenberg to pro vide greater protection against accidental erasure and a uniform exit from all modes via the ESC command It will be 100 compatible with the to be released Guten berg Sr so files created with one can be read by the other Owners of the current Gutenberg will be able to update their program disks so enhancements to the editor already present in the Jr will be included Additional utilities such as large headline fonts chemical ring diagrams translation tables for some typesetting devices etc may be offered As higher density dot matrix printers 18 x 18 or better become available Gutenberg will no doubt support one or more of them so the printed copy will be virtually indis tingushable from that produced by letter quality printers but still offer the power and
103. another file contd 56 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi an action which erases the file in memory or exit lardax there is no warning that you must save the file you created edited or lose your hard work Even the most experienced of computer addicts will occa sionally commit such errors of omission In addition there is no double check when you execute the delete file command from the Main Menu e g Are you sure you want to delete filename Because this command executes as soon as a file number is entered the potential for a disasterous mistake is great I believe that it is absolutely essential that your word processor take the worry out of being for rgetful Zardax does not do this SUMMARY Zardax has some of the best and worst features that I have encountered and quite a few somewhere between these extremes Its best features are printer amp disk related 1 0 load save backup videoprint etc which are easy to use The RAM card and spooling functions of Zardax are interesting but not that use ful given their limitations The worst of Zardax s functions are screen display and mistake prevention related The word splitting and poorly designed cursor movement commands make document creation and editing a time consuming and unnerving process In addition the lack of mistake prevent ion measures makes the use of many essential commands very risky For me the interaction of machine and user must be tr
104. ansparent and not intrude on my thought process 1 want to concentrate on what I am doing and not on extraneous matters I did not have this level of com fort with Zardax despite spending a considerable amount of time and effort working with it Experiences and needs vary widely so my observations Should be used as a guide not gospel Nonetheless prospective buyers should spend considerable time try ing out Zardax to make certain they can live with its peculiarities If you are an Apple e owner with 128K of RAM on your computer you may want to give Word Juggler and its companion spelling checker Lexicheck a try These well designed programs have many marvelous features and are exceedingly easy to use Another good pro cessor is Executive Secretary It can be configured for almost any model of the Apple and has many bells and whistles that you may find attractive Word Juggler without Lexicheck and Executive Secretary are about the same price as Zardax Fall Disk Roundup contd from pg 44 122 18 NJ LOTTERY It appears to work right but I personally fail to see the fascination 122 19 PHILA COLOR ORGAN This is another varia tion on the old Keyboard Organ only you set the note duration at the beginning and cannot change it as you go along I have a version of Keyboard Organ that my younger brother modified that is much better it uses the paddle pots to change the duration during execution 122 2
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106. baud Modem 489 462 195 138 6327 Western Ave NW 363 1313 ashington DC 20015 a m amp eves Washington Apple Pi November 1983 45 ESAS FRUN A STARRING START by Lewis H STRAUSS AEN Back in the weeds yes that s where I was waiting with LisaCalc thus many formulas must be written with for things to settle down but when LISA was more clumsy notation announced I couldn t resist and bought one for the E office in Washington D C and one for my home 4 500 4 The number and specific nature of LISA messages is miles to the west on the Big Island of Hawaii truly astounding For example if as in 3 above you Installation in Washington by the dealer was easy I write an incorrect formula LISA will tell you in wasn t there but the one in Hawaii arrived on my plain English that The formula you have typed is lanai in several boxes like large unaccompanied missing a right hand parenthesis or whatever I am minors With no authorized LISA dealer within 2 000 tempted to write to Apple and say Okay you guys I miles and the LISA 800 support number not operating in give up How many help warning and stop messages are Hawaii it looked very much like a do it yourself there really in LISA You will understand that with operation My total experience was limited to hand 900 000 lines of internal housekeeping instruct ions held calculators and a paperback on BASIC I had 40 000 in assembly language and 860 000 in Pascal
107. berg textfile and convert it into a DOS 3 3 textfile This means you can use a spelling pro gram such as the Sensible Speller to check your spelling The method is admittedly somewhat round about A more powerful use of GLOBAL is this Sup pose you want to prepare your documents say a monthly newsletter with your word processor and transmit it directly to a typesetter without having it retyped again Since each typesetting device has its own print and formatting commands you must first create a translation file which contains all the relevant Gutenberg formatting and print commands and their corresponding commands for the particular typsetting device Then GLOBAL will automatically substitute the Correct typesetting command for the corresponding Gutenberg commands and the resulting DOS 3 3 textfile will be ready for transfer to the typesetter This means you can enter edit and even preview your layout with the Gutenberg and save time and expense of retyping as well Gutenberg has its own communications utility called COMM which permits the transfer of files using the Novation CAT You can of course use whatever communi found on the Gutenberg but not on the Jr WSTOGB will be replaced by a CP M equivalent of GLOBAL in the near future Disk Format amp DOS The Gutenberg and Gutenberg Jr use a special DOS and the program disk is copy protected When you buy Gutenberg you get a two sided master a backup togeth er with a dat
108. ble The situation is somewhat comparable to using typewriters with inter changeable elements namely one is limited to those symbols and characters available on the elements and one must pause to change elements each time a differ ent character font is needed Enter the Gutenberg and Gutenberg Jr word and print processors These two programs are suitable not only for everyday use but more importantly they offer features not readily found on any other word processing software when used in conjunction with one of the supported dot matrix printers This article will highlight the major features of the Gutenberg and the newly released Gutenberg Jr The Jr is a scaled down and reworked version of the former with some fea tures omitted It has also been improved in several ways to make it easier to use Only one printer driver is supplied with the program At present only the driver for the Apple Dot Matrix Printer DMP is available A version for the Epson MX100 and 0 with Graftrax will be available shortly to be fol lowed by one for the FX On the other hand several dot matrix and daisy wheel printers are supported by the Gutenberg Foreign Languages anda Mathematics The most significant feature of the Gutenberg and Gutenberg Jr is the availability of user definable character fonts of up to 115 symbols each That is in addition to the normal printable ASCII characters both the Gutenberg and Gutenberg Jr have an utility t
109. ch about Wizardry so the testing that has been done on the modified WIZFIX may be incomplete But the program does read the backup disk modify the parameters and write them back to the disk Furthermore we have been successful in transferring the backup disk to the scenario disk and BASE 137 PEEK BASE 137 1 return going adventuring with the modified characters Experience Points The situation here is simitar to the above w an added twist The original WIZFIX used four bytes to calculate the experience points 36 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi FALL DISK ROUNDUP by Robert C Here are the initial results of the Documentation Team s summer efforts They include a brief descrip tion of each program on the disk known bugs and hints on using the disk Documentation for the remainder of the WAP Library can be found on pages 12 to 34 of the New Member Reference Book Each program has been assigned a unique serial number enclosed by brackets Programs are referenced in the subject index by this number but it is not a part of the program name on the library disk DISK 12 GAMES VI Reviewed by V Khera 12 1 AIR DEFENSE A lo res shootup game I 12 2 AIRPORT Use keys 1 2 and 3 to guide an airplane through a slot on the left side of the screen lo res graphics I 12 3 APPLE KINGOOM You are the leader of an agrarian community and must decide how to distribute and maintain the wealth of your nation
110. ch with 300 1200 baud capability will be supported George Kinal then reviewed the subject of using an Apple for amateur radio teletypewriter RTTY There are three approaches 1 Several companies sell packages consisting of a TU equivalent to a modem and the appropriate Apple software Examples include Kantronics and Macro tronics 2 Some companies supply the software only any com mercial or home made TU can be used One of the earliest such programs was the GALFO sotware A newer package with very interesting features is Super RATT This program provides an RBBS radio bulletin board capability It interfaces via the game port It might be of some interest to the hearing impaired community since it operates in Baudot code Most RTTY work on the lower short wave frequencies in Baudot ASCII is used on the VHF bands 3 The EGBERT program is unique in that no TU is required reception re The generation of tones modulation and demodulation are done by the software connection to the radio equipment is via the cassette jacks On the short wave bands where there is a lot of static and interference an active filter is advisable to clean up the received signal but an active filter is still cheaper to buy or build than a TU In fact one of the distributors of the EGBERT package is now also selling an active filter board kit which plugs into an Apple slot The Telecom SIG held its September meeting
111. check Grappler Printer Card Specify Printer Buffer Board for Grappler 16 K 135 Micro Buffer Il 32 K 5 190 200 G I S Uninterruptable 4 Power Source SAFT 200 VA Standby Power System Softcard Prem Sys 280 16 K amp Videx Videx Videoterm E Z Ledger Highlands E Z Invoice Highlands 10 5C um 415 450 240 45 45 Stock Option Analysis Program H amp H Scientific Stock Option Scanner H amp H Scientific d Base Il Dow Jones Analyzer Dow Jones Manager Easy Writer LJK Letter Perfect Easy Mailer Wordstar Visicalc Visipak Microsoft Multiplan General Manager Screenwriter Il Sensible Speller Prices subject to change Shipping handling 5 MD residents add 5 tax Mail order only CALL FOR ITEMS NOT LISTED RAMADA COMPUTER PRODUCTS A Division of H amp H Scientific 13507 Pendleton St Ft Washington MD 20744 Tel 301 292 2958 8 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi occ erus ITER 70 EE IE bu Peter Combes Do you get an answering machine when you call a hot line Those of us who run hot lines cannot man them 24 hours a day and an answering machine seems a good solution Generally we manage a call back the same or the next day but you would be surprised how many people perhaps in the excitement of the moment fail to leave their name or their telephone number or leave them in some i
112. ck 17 sector 0 you still get the old volume number I suppose it is possible to rewrite just the address field however I don t know of any program to do this The closest I can come is to use the program in Bag of Tricks Quality Software Reseda CA to reinitialize individual tracks When 00S A time consuming but effective method would be use FID from your System Master diskette to copy all the files over to a newly initialized diskette The wildcard character may be used instead of typing all the file names I don t necessarily recommend this because I would be afraid that an error might be introduced during the copy process I may be paranoid but I avoid unnecessary copying If you had a program that could compare both disks after copying then maybe explain the use of the ampersand to access subroutines How would you program this in Applesoft The ampersand is a reserved word in Applesoft i e command that allows you to run machine language programs from Applesoft When Applesoft executes the ampersand it jumps to a special memory location that tells it where to find the machine language program to be run In order to use the ampersand you must have first loaded in a machine language program and set the special memory locations 3F5 3F6 to point to the address of the machine language program All is not lost if programming in machine code is not one of your greatest joys in life There are a number of comm
113. culate with data and when finished Next you need to save it to disk SS filename I use the month in the filename since I will be sav ing one copy each month An example is LHR CHKBK NOVEMBER Then you will need to DIF the summary data to the disk for use in the new template that will give you the summary of all your deductables Go to the column AB and position the cursor over the first cell of the data The command to save in DIF format is S filename I use the month name and the word data as the file name so that I can distinguish the file as a DIF file i e LHR CHKBK NOVEMBER DATA Well that s all for now Next month I will present the template and procedures that will allow you to have the data from this template at your finger tips for 12 months and in a tax summary form without having to re enter any of the data Thanks for listening gt B45 WRITTEN BY LEON H RAESLY 644 COPYRIGHT 1983 gt With The Spreadsheet 2 0 you can move the entire block 643 at one time and with VisiCalc you will have to move 642 TS it a row at atime You can use the R eplicate 641 gt command for this GAO gt lt 639 39 teanas gt Now just type the partial template listed at the end 638 E gt contd 52 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi gt 637 gt AC36 gt AB36 gt AA36 136 gt Y36 X36 6 V36 gt U36 gt T36 gt S
114. d Global War oo acoo nanossras 14 00 tribulations in the sounds Greek to me world of the Three Mile Island o o oo o 22 00 6502 microprocessor Hyperspace Wars 17 00 Free Fall 6 17 00 Frogger ooosococracononasoss s 21 900 Mouskattack ooonononn non 21 00 Beagle Bag 20 00 Bill Budge s Space Album 20 00 017 Free A On e Dar rystal es RENT TIME ON A LETTER QUALITY David s midnight Magic 21 00 PRINTER Raster Blaster 17 00 Lunar Leeper 17 00 7 Apple Dids 2 P BW B E M M M B M B BR 9 18 00 Write your paper on your word Firebug uvvu 17 00 processor and print it on our Creature Creator 27 00 lit rinter Spectre 18 00 letter quality p Buzzard Bait cesesscscaenesses 27 00 Sammy Lightfoot 19 00 COMPUTER DEN Ltd 11716 KEMP MILL ROAD C C amp ASSOCIATES SILVER SPRING MARYLAND 20902 301 549 6868 Hourly Rates Call for an appointment or to order Sunday Thursdays 10 A M 9 P M Free delivery to ADO City UPS ze ping 4 00 extra Quantity Discounts Available Washington Apple Pi November 1983 25 APPLE TRACKS by In this column with the editor s permission I will feature the details on the Apple s DOS and Applesoft BASIC If you have any thou
115. d in the form of hexadecimal operators and operands Third the 6502 CPU only accepts input in binary On first glance it appears to be a floating shell game And this isn t all we also know that the programmer can POKE machine language instructions into specific memory addresses e g the address range 00768 01023 decimal can be utilized for short machine language instructions As you can see the memory address is in decimal so too are the operators For example to multiply a number already stored in the accumulator by 2 the programmer could use POKE 788 10 to be subsequently executed by CALL ing 788 This last approach to machine language program ming using Basic is labelled the BASIC Operating Sys tem by the Inmans Okay who exactly has the elusive shell in this game If you think this is confusing just listen to this gambit One can directly enter machine language via the System Monitor by CALLing 151 thereby producing an prompt on the screen The System Monitor resides in the address range decimal 64488 65535 or hex FBEB FFFF and controls all programs Both the address and the two part instruction are input in hexadecimal for example the above multiplication by 2 example would appear on the screen as 0314 0A decimal 788 equals hex 0314 This instruction would be executed by 0314G Enough is enc h let s untangle this web This untangling is partially accomplished by the BASIC INTERPRETE
116. e diskettes you might try moving your disk drives away from your monitor and see if this helps Q Creative Computing Oct 83 p 283 mentions that the Apple II motherboard has undergone revisions through IFR Rev D Can you briefly inform me on what they accomplished A I believe that basically these revisions were to make the motherboard somewhat cheaper or easier to manufacture The original rev 0 board only had 2 colors green and violet in addition to black and white Rev 1 and all subsequent boards could produce 4 colors green violet blue and orange Early motherboards had RAM configuration blocks that could be strapped to allow use of 4K dynamic RAM chips or the newer 16K RAM chips When memory prices came down the configuration blocks were eliminated Imagine a 4K Apple Rev 7 and later Apples use a 2716 compatible ROM for the video character generator Thus modifying rev 7 Apples to display lower case involves replacing only one chip Earlier Apples require a small plug in circuit board Later revisions were also made to reduce the amount of RF interference generated by the Apple Q Apple Inc is upgrading rev A motherboards in the le for 560x192 pixel resolution free of charge Note that if value is inversely proportional to publicity this must be a gold mine Is there some procedure for upgrading A First 560x192 graphics resolution is only avail able if you have an 80 column extended memory card
117. e 1 0 BUFFER drops down to low byte FX 80 F T cooonoo on nora 525 00 decimal 90 3 hex 5A 3 01011010 FX 100 700 00 So far the KEYBOARD ENCODER has translated your key Accessories press to its high byte binary equivalent The high Micro Sci Disk Drive A2 240 00 byte result is stored in the 1 0 BUFFER The BASIC FingerPrint MX Series 40 00 INTERPRETER then steps in to understand the binary Grappler 2 ooooononnaneansa 129 00 equivalent that is stored in this BUFFER Once the PKA ecccssuacsevseecsocescea 135 00 Stored value has been accepted by the INTERPRETER the Kraft Joystick II II 41 00 6502 CPU tells the I 0 BUFFER to release the high Quick ViS des vacas nmm oe ee 15 00 byte Z it is holding and to prepare to receive a new ASTROFIRE Rapid Fire 15 00 one At this juncture the BUFFER s content changes APPLEsurance Diagnostic to low byte Controller Card 80 00 Verbatim diskettes 10 packs SS DD 2 2eee27 woes ir nine 32 50 In Applesoft one can have one line containing up to 255 characters Each character is stored in the 1 0 DS DD BUFFER Each stored character is that accepted by the Holiday Packs 10 disks in plastic INTERPRETER and becomes therefore low byte The case head cleaning kit 6502 which I ve said controls all programs calls the SS DD aia a e a 26 00 Monitor Character OUTput routine COUT or FDED and D
118. e Gutenberg Jr does not support user created down loadable fonts but has built in BOLD italics and headline fonts ready for use Pictures amp Graphs A second powerful feature of the Gutenberg is its ability to produce graphics images and print them in specified location within a textfile without cut and paste operation This utility called PAINT lets the contd Washington Apple Pi Operant Systems XXX HARDWARE xes DISK ORIVES MicroSci A2 drive 100 Apple cospatible Shugart 390 239 Rana Systeas Elite One drive 40 track 163K 265 Elite Tug 40 track double side 326K 423 Elite Three 80 track double side 652K 549 TEAC Thinline drive 40 track 100 Apple cospatible 259 Davong 3 10 and 15 MEG Winchester drives call Corvus Winchester Ceninet Mirror Concept 68000 call CP M SYSTEMS Applicard 6 Mhz 2 80 64K to 192K RAM 70 col video 260 Microsoft Softcard Jla 2 80 80 col amp 64K on one card 335 Softcard includes CP M 2 2 and MBASIC 229 ALS CP M Plus System 6 Mhz Z 80 64K RAM CP M 3 0 Saturn Systems Accelerator JC 3 6 Mhz 6502 processor 445 MONITORS 001 300G 12 green anti glare screen 16Mhz 3004 18 aaber anti glare screen Color I 40 coluan text color graphics NEC J8 1801 12 green anti glare screen 20Mhz JB 1260 12 green 15Hhz best value for aoney JB 1212 12 colar composite video USI PI 2 12 green anti glare screen 20 Mhz
119. e and of Maryland accredited course applications to creative design in the classroom and home BASIC FROGRAMMING I 6 hours 65 9 12 19 and 26 11 7 14 and 21 Hands on instruction for computer novices in this simple programming language Classroom exercises and optional homework assignments BASIC PROGRAMMING II 6 hours 65 10 3 10 and 17 11 28 12 5 and 12 12 Learn new Hasic commands and additional programming techniques Classroom exercises and homeword assignments Frerequisite Basic Frogramming I or equivalent T WORDSTAR I 2 hours 60 9 28 11 2 12 7 Learn how to create documents quickly and easily by using this popular word processing system WORDSTAR II 2 hours 60 10 1233 11 710 12 14 Experiment with more advanced Wordstar commands and learn file merging techniques Frerequisite Wordstar I or equivalent INTRODUCTION TO SFREADSHEETS 2 hours 60 9 21 10 19 11 7165 12 15 Create useful financial models for your business using two popular spreadsheet programs COMPUTER CAMF FOR KIDS 10 hours 110 Every Saturday in October 2 4pm Optional Lab with instructor 4 5pm Introduce your child to the world of small computers Hands on programming and instruction in practical applications j The Learning Center also provides custom designed instruction on site or in our classroom Course discounts available wi th system purchases Contact us at 301 856 2500 for details amaiga TT
120. e as LHS RECST VTOC 100 6 AMPER INTERPRETER Provides PRINT USING and other text formatting routines using the ampersand amp Run PRINT USING AMPER DEMO for more information 100 7 TAPE INPUT SPEAKER RNTE and TAPE LOADING AID Make loading tape programs easier Since I don t use tapes I could not test these programs DISK 102 GAMES A Reviewed by Richard Langston II 102 1 BLACK BOX An Applesoft text game 102 2 BLACK HOLE by Dick Johnson A lo res Integer game Escape from the black hole by avoiding its inhabitants 102 3 CARIBBEAN CRUISING Use your paddle to steer your hi res ship around the islands 102 4 CONCENTRATION An excellent lo res Integer basic version of the popular game Select squares with the paddles 102 5 DIGITAL CLOCK Type in the time and sit back to watch your Apple display the time in big lo res numbers 102 6 HORSE RACE A day at the races including betting odds and a simulated horse race 102 7 I AM BUDDA Ask the computer a question get an answer 102 8 IT S A SMALL WORLD Listen to the Apple play this tune 102 9 MAGIC CAVE Avoid being captured by the forces of evil and escape with the treasure Use the keyboard to find your way through the lo res maze 102 10 102 11 102 12 ROM THE ROBOT Control ROM the Robot He will climb walk run and do other interesting maneu vers on the lo res screen NO MIS Computer Simon REVERSE A
121. e formal elections within SIGs to occur in the month of October under the supervision of the Board and to require publication of SIG activities in the newsletter The Board approved the purchase of an Apple e starter system CP M system and an 80 column 64K card for the commercial software library and proposed an approximate expendi ture of 3000 for ABBS expansion SEPTEMBER GENERAL MEETING WAP LTD met at USUHS on September 17 1983 at 10 00 AM Vice President Dana Schwartz presided The mem bers voted to spend approximately 3 000 to expand the ABBS Those interested in the beginners tutorials on Tueday evenings at the office were encouraged to pre register and to cancel 48 hours in advance if unable to attend Bob Smith volunteered to be the panelist for Data Factory at the next meeting on data base management software Volunteer parents are needed to supervise Appleseeds SIG A volunteer is needed to lead a special NEWSIG meeting at the office on Thurs day evenings Bob Platt announced the new procedures for SIG elections as provided in the amendment to the Bylaws Hosts and experts are needed for Apple Teas Group purchase of software is planned Health and Human Services requested volunteers to assist in their Tools for Independence technical fair to occur October 3 6 CLASSIF p eb WANTED TO BUY 686 1226 Used Apple Logo Call Alice Gregal WANTED Apple II or e preferably with 48K and disk drive but will
122. e on the same disk Moreover a NF for next file command is available to link one file to the next at print time so working with shorter files is generally easier Screen Format vs Page Format With both versions of Gutenberg you will normally see only 40 characters per screen line People who insist on seeing 80 characters per screen line will need the Gutenberg Jr and an Apple e with the Apple extended 80 column card With this system you will not only see all the ASCII characters in 80 column mode but any special character fonts you have created as well This is because the Gutenberg Jr will utilize part of the upper 64K of memory to produce a hi res page with 192 lines of 560 pixels each This is the so called double hi res mode available only on the e with extended 80 column card If you have the e with the standard 80 column card then you will see 80 screen columns only when your text is limited to the normal ASCII characters In either case on screen formatting is still not possible as the number of characters per printed line in proportion font actually varies from line to line with the average near 96 and not 80 More importantly the Gutenberg was designed to permit you to create documents that closely approximate a printed page in the typographic sense rather than a typed page The print formats can be stored separate ly as a FORMAT file so the same textfile can have a totally different appearance by simply calling up a
123. e program listing is part of a relocatable tone generator Why it bombs like this I shall leave to those more expert in Integer BASIC and the various PEEKs and CALLs 122 17 NEVADA CRAPS The graphics lo res are 122 6 COLOR MATH This is NOT the same as the adequate to the task and it would probably be inter Apple Contributed Program of the same name In fact esting to those with an interest in Craps contd on pg 57 44 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi BYLAWS AMENDMENT by Robert E Platt Our Special Interest Groups SIGs provide a valuable opportunity for the exchange of technical expertise and for small group interaction SIGs are the life blood of the WAP Although our SIGs have evolved informally WAP has reached the point where a bit of structure may be useful In particular talented potential SIG leaders may have been reluctant to volunteer to chair a SIG because the term of office was open ended Accordingly the Board has amended the Bylaws to establish annual SIG elections each October Each SIG will then elect a Chairman a WAP Journal columnist and whatever other officers it wishes to serve a one year term Elections will be held at each SIG s regular meeting time in October with two exceptions The PIG has just held its election and its officers will serve through October 1984 0516 will hold its election on November 1 The Bylaws amendment changes Article X Section 2 to read as follows SEC
124. ek letters and math symbols were added for this sample Jusqu la saison nouvelle Je vous paierai lui dit elle Avant l ao t foi d animal Inter t et principal Meine GroBmutter war allein im Haus als mein Gro vater gestorben war Die Kinder schrieben sich Briefe ber das Problem was mit ihr zu geschehen hatte 5 5 2 sint Ded 37 sine 2 00 gt DK g 2 km K C K n 1 The Apple DMP also supports font downloading and the Gutenberg is fully able to utilize this very powerful capability A downloaded font for this printer is created with another utility called DOWNLOAD which permits the user to create characters using cells of 8 rows by up to 16 overlapping dots each These fonts can be loaded from disk into the printer s RAM any time a document is being printed and the printer will maintain its normal print speed of up to 120 charac ters per second Since the matrix cell has much higher horizontal density much smoother characters can be created this way Up to 21 such fonts can be called up within a textfile during the printing pro cess This offers the linguist an unusually powerful tool not readily available otherwise For example a text paragraph may be printed in English to be fol lowed by ones in French German Greek Swedish and Russian etc all without stopping to change print thimbles or elements Indeed one can even have several language fonts appearing in the same sentence Th
125. elp distribute them Bob Platt and Walt Francis our Visi Columnist will be organizing them after which you can expect to see them on our library list LIBRARY DISKS BY MAIL We have lowered the price of disks purchased by mail to reflect the actual cost as suggested by several members who have moved from the area We have done this to encourage mail orders since we now have the paid staff needed to meet a large scale mailing effort for them HELP NEEDED We can use volunteers in a few areas 1 DISK LIBRARY Bob Platt can use an indexer This person would take the recently developed disk docu mentation and index it for inclusion in a revision of the new member manual Please contact Bob SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS We need someone to work with Betsy Harriman on a compendium of the Question and Answer columns Several months ago we published the work of one of our members who indexed the questions from all the columns We would like to assemble all of the questions and answers in one reference document MEMBERSHIP PROCESSING Our Vice President Dana Schwartz has just about finished setting up our 3000 4 November 1983 CORNER Morsanstein member file on the Vista semi hard disk drive Dana has benefitted from many hours of help given by Paul Malachowski of Brillig Systems We chose Paul s General Manager data base package to implement our mailing list requirements and he has spent a lot of time helping us get the most fro
126. eo on the edit screen Position the cursor at the first character to be underlined and press Open Apple Z as many times as necessary To remove underlining use the Open Apple Y command D Text Deletion Copying and Movement There are three methods available for the deletion of text Washington Apple Pi DELETE KEY Characters to the left of the cursor OPEN APPLE DELETE The character over which the cur sor is located WIPEOUT FUNCTION Any Section S of marked text the current Paragraph P or everything after A or before B the cursor position As the authors of Zardax indicate the Wipeout func tion should be used with great caution Text deleted with these commands is not retrievable The Section delete command may be the safest to use Simply enter Control X at the beginning of the text to be deleted position the cursor at the end of the section and press Control W You will then be offered the above mentioned options of P A B S Enter S for Section and the marked text wil be removed Commands which Zardax does not have include word and line delete This is unfortunate as the word delete command in particular is a great assist in the editing process The Section delete protocols are also used for copying text Mark the text to be copied and press Control P to execute the command Enter a disk file name for the text to be saved Press the Return key and the text will be written to disk and dele
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128. ercially available programs that use the ampersand to perform special functions usually formatted printing inputting strings with commas sorting etc A rather complete description of a number of ampersand utilities appeared in the March 1983 issue of Call A P P L E I ve just noticed something about my Apple II with two disk drives Apple Disk II and Micro Sci with an Apple controller When I turn off my Apple the IN USE lights on the front of the drives flicker on briefly Does this imply impending disaster Not really When the power is turned off to the Apple all the voltages in all parts of the circuit do not immediately go to zero Capacitors in dif ferent parts of the circuit maintain some parts of the circuit on momentarily longer and peculiar things can happen This is the case with your flickering LEDs it does not mean that something is happening to the disks I don t know if Apple has ever published a comment on whether you should leave your diskettes in the drive when you turn the power off but I think you should take them out first There is no guarantee that when you turn the power off a stray signal to the read write head won t destroy some data on the diskette To prevent this possibility from happen ing I always open the disk drive doors and usually November 1983 remove the diskette before turning the power off In a way the same concern applies when you turn the power on Before the Apple really gets g
129. es the IN slot command in the Micromodem firmware Also on WAP Disk 116 19 14 copyright notice as required by law 116 19 15 TELEPHONE ALARM CLOCK PROGRAM If you have an Apple clock card in addition to a Micromodem this will allow you to set a time for the Micromodem to call a pre selected number and play a distinctive series of tones Also on WAP Disk 116 as ALARM 19 16 TELEPONG Allows two players with Apples and this program to play Pong with each other Allows the PICKUP Same as previous program but missing Also on WAP Disk WAP COMMUNICATIONS 1 Displays a greeting and a CATALOG DISK 23 GAMES VIII Reviewed by Doug Waters 23 1 BATTLESHIP paddles required The object is to sink the Apple s battleships before it sinks yours Each side has 5 ships One player 23 2 FOUR by Jeff Mason Same as Connect 4 on Disk 13 The object is to get four squares in a row Two players 23 3 GROCERY STORE by Jeff Mason Guess a product in a grocery store from the first letter of its name Don t be fooled by the number of blanks on the screen 23 4 HANGMAN by Jeff Mason A classic hangman game where you must guess the word before losing your life 23 5 J MASON MENU A menu for accessing some of the other programs on this disk 23 6 THAT S RIGHT by Jeff Mason Select the true statement from among the five presented Includes a challenging set of questions 23 7 TWENTY QUESTIONS
130. et 1 Ricoh DIABLO 620 tilm Hytype NEC 5500 7700 tim 5500 7700 cloth 3500 tim cioth 8023 cioth ITOH Prownter 495 es QUME 1 film cioth 33 50 doz W tim 54 00 doz DS 560 575 ea EPSON Mx 70 80 8 50 Mx 100 18 00 ca LOAD YOUR OWN AND SAVE Retiits tor Diablo Quine PRINTWHEELS Diablo Plastic 6 40 41 50 amp 49 95 16 00 26 95 650 ea 475 ea 745 ca 46 50 doz 63 00 doz 69 90 doz 1190 ea 495 es Diablo Metal Qume SPECIAL Bulk Pack Diskettes 55 00 SCOTCH 5 16 sec 1 65 While They Last We also stock Verbatim Kybe NEW world s Best Floppy The Brown Disk 48 TPI 29 95 96 TPI 39 95 Ricoh NEC 150 Epson MX 70 80 8304 Hilltop Road Fairfax Virginia 22031 Epson MX 100 8 99 Hours Monday thru Friday 9 5 Ups shipping FOB Fairfax VA Diablo 620 5 10 sec 1 85 SS DD Wabash Memorex IBM Maxell 5 Single and Double Side 560 5900 Prowtiter NEC B023 350 Merrifield Area Saturday 10 2 57 WISICALE FORMULAS SCREEN FORMAT by Leon H It is very difficult to follow the logic of someone s template when you read the formula printout in that long column of figures And it is just as difficult if you enter or load the template and try to move all around the screen from cell to cell trying to follow the logic How nice it would be if you could not only print the template in it s screen format but have it print the formulas in the screen format
131. ete with cartoon drawings These are cleverly included to assist the helper with under standing Logo ideas to pursue teaching tips and common mistakes and bugs to watch for Each of these are extremely useful but I would suggest that the author separate these sections from the main text so that the user does not constantly trip over them The functional index is outstanding for finding them as well as all the other pertinent portions The car toons and frequent Logo examples add to the comprehen sion of its users especially those that show the Logo Language executing Beware however of the drawing on page 27 that represents the wrap mode of screen display Looking at it one might deduce that when one wraps from the right to the left of the screen the turtle must travel not only the back side of the screen but also along two sides in depth which is erroneous There is only 1 step from right edge to left edge sect ions In summary I would recommend LWL for all Logo users Preferably purchase the version for the Logo you are using but do not wait for the exact version This edition for MIT Logo is very usable by those with Apple Logo and TI Logo and most likely any other Logo if the user is new to Logo I appreciate the thorough 18 November 1983 further This and refer job Dan Watt has done only wishing he went into the application of the Logo Language its counterparts are likely to become classic ences for LOGO
132. ew manual runs to 320 pages as against the 190 in the previous version Presumably this activity means that shipping the e Screenwriter is imminent If you have a J or J you won t notice the difference with the new version though it will run on an Integer only machine as some of the current versions will not If you have a e with 80 column card you can enjoy using the features of ScreenWriter with the 80 column character set from the card This works well though 1 find the new inverse inequality sign a poor replacement for the old elegant carriage return sym bol If you have a e without an 80 column card you will have to recustomize the new version back into the old version to get 70 columns The same is true if you want to use a custom character set COSTED o o m e a o o o a o man o e a m aa a mamo oT Dn DO YOU TRADE STOCK OPTIONS If you use your computer to trade stock options you know how difficult it can be to pinpoint the most profitable trades Even with the best software you can spend hours of time and many hundreds of dollars in data base charges Let the Option Value Reporter save you time and expense You get State of the art fair value analysis for puts and calls on over 300 stocks weekly Best positions selected for a minimum 30 probable annual return Incisive commentary examples etc Make it easy to find the best trading opportunities Send us your name and address with 15 for y
133. frequently used commands to remote systems Supports auto dial hangup and answer with all popular modems Menu Driven for ease of use by the beginner Fast Menu Feature for the experienced user allows skipping of menu screens Technical Support We have a history of fully supporting you when you purchase our modem software Not Copy Proctected We trust you Drive 1 Capture ON Transmit ON Lines 2 FillLine ON Duplex Baud 1200 ICSE OFF Linefeed SOUTHEASTERN SOFTWARE Dear Bob lam using DATA CAPTURE e to prepare this letter before sign onto the system and send it to your mailbox I aiso use the program to capture my mail stock quotes and any other data from the system without worrying about any complicated file handling protocol And the best part is itis so easy to use DATA CAPTURE e is available from your Local Dealer or direct from Southeastern Software the people who help you communicate with DATA CAPTURE e DATA CAPTURE 4 0 and DATA CAPTURE pc Price 90 00 c Requires Apple e Computer Standard DATA CAPTURE ss a trademark of Southeastern Software or Standard or Extended 80 Column Text Card One or Apple e ts a trademark c Apple Comput more Disk Drives or hard disk Micromodem Il Smart Modem or other autocial modem or acoustic coupler SOFTWARE DESIGNED WITH YOU IN MIND Southeastern Software 7743 Briarwood Drive New Orleans LA 70128 e 504 246 8438 or 504 246 79
134. ge day 202 Dana Schwartz Cara Cira Hunter Alexander Bob Platt Betsy Harriman Tom Warrick Leon Raesly Steve Stern Boris Levine Bob Platt David Stern Bill Hershey Ray Hobbs John New Dave Neumann Curt Robbins John Molineaux Peter Combes Russ Eberhart Charles Field Nancy Strange Bernie Benson Harry Bishop Jim Harvison Jim Eatherly Robert Wood George 4 1 301 301 703 202 202 301 301 301 301 202 301 301 301 301 301 822 1093 654 8060 468 6118 820 8304 223 1588 363 5963 656 4389 460 0754 881 2543 229 5730 223 1588 881 2543 588 1992 490 7484 577 7959 776 6133 ABBS WAP428 or write 8805 Barnsley Court Laurel MD 20708 301 301 301 202 703 202 703 703 202 703 202 Washington Apple Pi Ltd 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Bethesda MD 20814 Office 301 654 8060 ABBS 301 657 4507 Copyright Washington Apple Pi Ltd Mash ngton Apple Pi 1983 341 7391 871 1455 596 4995 265 4040 691 1619 546 0076 931 4937 593 2993 232 6046 893 9591 863 6489 November 1983 as ea a a Insights Some are happy some are not Let me share a happy one with you For many years now I have been advising others professional and novice alike that a computer should not be considered an end unto itself unless one considers oneself an irreconcilable inveterate hacker A computer I have said should
135. ghts or questions feel free to call me at 301 258 9865 or drop me a line My address is Richard Langston II 18 Brian Court Gaithersburg MD 20877 In this first column I shall explore what happens when the RESET key is pressed I shall assume you have an Apple with Autostart ROM and at least 48K of memory After RESET program execution jumps to a routine in ROM This routine switches on the primary text Screen sets the text window to full screen and sets normal video mode Then it selects the keyboard and Apple screen as the standard input and output 1 0 devices turns off any expansion ROM such as modem firmware and beeps Next the ROM examines two special bytes of memory to see if it has been RESET before or if power up has just occured If the Apple has just been powered up a cold start it searches for a disk controller card When it finds such a card the ROM on it is executed If the Apple is not being powered up however a warm start executed Two bytes of memory contain an address that the computer jumps JMP like GOTO to Normally it is 003 Applesoft s warm entry point In the above discussion three RAM addresses were used in the RESET process These addresses are 3F2 3F3 3F4 1010 1012 3F2 and 3F3 are called the soft entry vector They contain the address the computer jumps to in the final step of RESET 3F2 is the high byte 3F3 the low Location 3F4 is called the p
136. gnated strings 105 2 DATA STATEMENT CREATE Shows how data state ments can be made from disk files 105 3 REMINDER GENERATOR Helps create REM state ments in boxes of stars 105 4 ROWSTER An Applesoft disk ZAP Read Write individual sectors shown in hex and ASCII utility Data on each sector is 105 5 SCREEN OUMP A routines for an IDS 440 variety of screen dump DISK 122 IAC 17 Reviewed by James F Cumber Jr 122 1 AUTOMATIC BINGO This program is a hi res graphic program that automatically generates and dis plays Bingo numbers at the rate of one every two or three seconds when RUN 122 2 BEGINNING You must RUN INSTRUCTIONS first in order to find out how to make this program go When you finally RUN this program it automatically does unlimited hi res plots of random ellipses 122 3 BINGO Basically the same as AUTOMATIC BINGO except that you must prompt for the next num ber rather than having them generated at a rapid automatic rate 122 4 BINGO CARD This program randomly generates text mode Bingo cards every time you hit RETURN If you have a Silentype printer on your Apple and enter the PR 1 command before you RUN BINGO CARD the Silentype will print a new card every time you hit RETURN 122 5 BLACKJACK This is a standard BLACKJACK pro gram run in text mode When it asks you if you WANT A CARD you must respond with YES HIT NO or ST
137. h I had almost completed this article I was lacking some of Apple s Control Code equivalents those for the ASCII Codes on C 3 C 5 and C 6 of the Okidata User s Manual Because I wrote this column from a slightly different viewpoint and also because I was able to use some Okidata print er commands which were not included in his article I decided to submit my guideline for embedding anyway Mr Aronow s listing of the Keystroke commands gave me the idea to list them as well in my article I think my procedure will work with other interfaces besides the Grappler as I did not use any informa tion from the Grappler manual to do the embedding All I required was a tip from Diane Lorenz about using the ESC key for embedding the Apple Writer le manual the Okidata Microline 92 manual and printer my Apple e and lot of trial and error a lot I also received a tip from Okidata s Tech nical Support section I used Appendix C of the Okidata User s Manual and Appendix E of Assembly Lines The Book for the contro codes In the first section I will cover the procedure for embedding the functions within the body of the typed material This method is not difficult once you learn that Control V is necessary as well as ESC or another Control function To demonstrate the tech nique of embedding I will use the situation of want ing to change from the data processing mode to the correspondence quality mode Furthermore in t
138. has been true for over forty years Take the automobile for instance I learned to drive with the old fashioned stickshift Then came the automatic transmission I learned to tune my car Then came electronic ignition And telephones without elaborating let s just say that I miss the operator You youngsters won t even know what that means Or electronics I had just gotten used to thinking tubes when some meddler had to invent the transistor So 1 learned transistors whatever happened to them anyway Now it s chips to my continuing dismay because to me a chip is still something to be avoided while strolling through the pasture But undismayed I ploughed today most say plowed on The efforts I put into learning a slide rule went by the wayside when the calculator came along Some times I get out the old slip stick dust it off and just hold it close Somehow it doesn t seem fair to push a button to find the square root And then came the HOME COMPUTER Summoning up all my will power I went forth into the marketplace and after much soul searching and acquiescence to the times I grasped my checkbook firmly and bought the Apple II Three months later the Apple e came on the market More memory lower case 80 columns convenient ports less expensive who knows what all My life has not been an easy one Still undaunted I Surely that would be a good start had to be basic It took me
139. hat will allow a user to create mathematical symbols or foreign language fonts using a dot matrix cell consisting of 12 rows of 7 dots each Larger charac ters can be constructed using two or more of these character cells next to each other Each of these user created fonts can be saved to disk and loaded into the computer s memory for use The user can freely mix them with the normal ASCII characters in text entry and edit modes These special symbols will appear on the screen because both Gutenbergs use the hi res screeh to display 14 lines of 40 characters each However if you have an Apple e with the Apple extended memory card installed then the Guten berg Jr will allow you to see 14 lines of 80 charac ters each with English and other characters inter mixed If you have the Apple 80 column card on the e then you will only be able to use the 80 column mode in lowres i e only the ASCII characters but no special fonts 20 November 1983 Once the textfile has been created and supplied with appropriate print formatting commands it can then be printed using one of the supported dot matrix printers in proportional font and fully justified whenever such features are available The paragraphs below are printed on an Apple DMP using a modified version of the default systems font of the Gutenberg Jr which contains all necessary accent marks for French Ger man Italian and Spanish in its alternate character font Some Gre
140. he am ANP WHAT I AM bd is simply a logical model in human type symbols of the electronic processes that go on in the integrated Circuits that make up the brain of the Apple Mr Wagner extends this thought by saying that Basic itself can be thought of as an extreme case of the assembler No denying it instructions like LOAD SAVE and PRINT must be mnemonics The object of the operator s affection can be a mem ory address a register or just a plain number For example the Assembly language mnemonic operator Arithmetic Shift Left ASL is represented by the machine code operator 0A its object is the accumu lator not be be confused with object code or machine language By the way one 0A is equivalent to multiplication by 2 0A on 0101 1010 or 2 X 5 10 neat huh By by the way 0A is the hexa decimal equivalent to decimal 10 which brings me to the following The Inmans state that When you communicate with the computer in Basic you are talking through an inter preter The 6502 microprocessor or Central Proces sing Unit CPU only understands on and off equivalent to a binary 1 and a binary 0 respec tively How do my keyboard instructions get trans lated to this binary world of machine language I never was very adept at Morse Code Or do they at all What do we know so far First the keyboard accepts commands in Basic Second machine language is depicte
141. he in trouble Match wits against the evil Prince Hogarth in trying to regain Rowina for her father and a thousand gold pieces Disk 198 DEATHTRAP E 19 You have been chosen to take up a bet made by one of your enemies He bet 20 000 gold pieces that you would not be able to sur vive the cave known to the mountain people as Death trap You had better be a good warrior to go through this one Disk 199 THE BLACK DEATH E 20 Journey to the Mad Doctor s hideout to find a cure for the plague that enshrouds the land In spite of the fact that the hideout is well defended you go anyway Disk 200 THE TEMPLE OF NGURCT E 23 Dark tales of fearsome beasts and strange happenings are coming to your ears from travelers who use a little known moun tain pass They say that anything that could be n a nightmare comes from a temple near there The King will pay you 5 000 gold pieces to rid his country of these things upon the return of a certain gold medallion and any loot you can carry out Disk 201 BLACK MOUNTAIN E 24 The Chief Guard at the palace has summoned you to the kingdom s Justice Department Black Bark the infamous murderer and all around terrorist is to be tried for his crimes Your mission is to go after Bark and return him to the palace for trial If you decide not to volunteer for this mission other alternatives await 1 Find the mayor that Black Bark took hostage 2 Retrieve the Queen s priceless ant
142. he left rear of the board This summer while developing a routine to write 6 Easier said than done that bugger is snug against sectors in a single revolution I found that it would the board and requires either a trace cut or de work on the Apple drive but not on the Fourth drive soldering to eliminate it They also made an offer to Analysis uncovered that the Fourth drive took about swap out the analog board which they said I could 1 3 milliseconds before it could switch from write pass on to you If you own a pre July 83 Fourth mode to read mode This meant that after completing a FDS 40A and wish to have it upgraded send it back sector write the markers for the next sector would and the company will exchange it out However keep in pass under the read head before the drive could detect mind that even without this upgrade the drive is them The Apple drive recovers immediately As DOS fully compatible with DOS CPM Pascal formats and never sequentially accesses physically adjacent sec almost all protected software tors except during INIT this anomaly will not affect normal use except that when initializing a new disk Overall I am impressed with the quality and per DOS will form a larger than usual gap between the formance of this product Ne O Meet Waldo will turn your Apple Il into the Wal d i i command center of your home aan HE LL BE WATERING E LAWN MONDAY D TV ON AT 6 de COME AND GET IT
143. her tasks Text Entry amp Edit With the program and fonts in memory the top center of the screen will show the word READ with a flashing cursor in the form of underscore below the colon This is the ready state or command mode and all tasks within Gutenberg and Jr are initiated from this state To open a textfile you simply press RETURN and enter the name you want to use File names are limited to 12 characters long Once you press the return key or reach the 12th character Gutenberg will automatically search through the currently active disk s directory for the file you have just named If found it will be loaded into memory for you If not a FILE NOT FOUND message will appear Pressing the return key at this point will create a file under that name for you Typing I for Insert will allow you to start entering text into that file The word INSERT in inverse will be displayed on the upper left corner of the screen This spot is the status display and it always shows the current status of the editor Most cursor movement and editing commands require one or at most two easily remembered keystrokes For example K stands for kill and is used to kill one character at the cursor position while DW will delete a word and OL will delete a line Cursor movement from top to bottom of screen is done with the spacebar while typing 4 then RETURN will move the cursor down 4 lines The Esc key is used to escape or terminate whatever you a
144. his demonstration the word September will be the first word n the correspondence quality mode From this point on I will use the convention of using the brackets with the letter inside to indicate that you should press the CONTROL key plus the letter inside the brackets Thus V Control V Without further ado let us begin our embedding journey using the procedure below 1 Press V I have assumed that you realized that the Apple Writer e program has already been booted RETURN has been pressed your printer is dn to your computer and the printer is n on a 2 2 Press the ESC key 3 Press 1 the ASCII code for correspondence quali ity is ESC 1 By the way don t type the quotations marks They are just included for clarity 4 Press again to turn off the embedding 5 Type without a space between the last V and September September 6 Press P and fill in NP next to the P rint which appears on the screen The printer will then start printing and you will see that the word Washington Apple Pi Panasakos September is in the correspondence quality mode Please note that the printer will continue to print in the correspondence quality mode until you change the command back to the data processing mode This procedure will work for the functions listed on C 4 of the Okidata Microline 92 manual The informa tion on Control V was found on page 57 of the Apple Writer e manual
145. ines would vary and the symbol would be different I also did not include commands which would not apply to Apple Writer e such as the com mands for entering and exiting the graphics mode and down line loadable character generator As ment ioned above in the first section procedure 7 I could not get the carriage return ASCII Code CR Apple Control Code equivalent CR and end of VFU load sequence to work For this reason they were not included in my SPECIAL glossary file The lines with asterisks next to them do not actually demonstrate the command described contd Washington Apple Pi My SPECIAL Dofinition Glossary MINUTE MANUALS Glossary Fila Command DVIVO data processing mode GID Minute Manuals provide the best in software docunenta 0 1 correspondenca quality moda cG3C tion Our step by step procedures make learning easy tVEVS Sets TOF first line of printing Git and quick Minute Manuals have a proven track record 606 dasignates 6 LPI G16 being used extensively in aany schools and universities BVLVB designatos 8 LPI G18 and being carried by the largest book store chain in UVLCVC t ar ra th 60 the country 8 Dalton Having a Minute Manual is like UVIVD stops underlining Glu having your oxn private consultant half dot enhanced printing CGIN MVCUT half dot emphasized printing CGIM Minute Manual For Apple Writer e 7 98 mV CVI stops omphasized or enhanced printing 678 Cont
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147. ing Most TVs are rated for 60 Hz but may work on 50 Hz although the picture may shrink in size or be wavy However foreign TV signals are different than those used in the U S so the TV can t be used to receive foreign TV programs You may be able to find a monitor in the U S that is rated for 50 or 60 Hz If you go to Europe or some other place where U S military troops are stationed you will find TV sets able to receive NTSC U S type PAL or signals These sets should work with your Apple be usable as a TV overseas and still be useful when you return home Tom Riley points out that if you buy a 220 110 volt converter it should be a transformer type Some of the cheaper converters use silicon controlled rec tifiers SCRs and produce a non sinusoidal wave form The Apple wil probably work with this but TVs or monitors may have problems Transformer type voltage converters are readily available overseas Make sure you get one with a large enough power rating to handle the Apple monitor and whatever else you are going to use The power consumption of the Apple depends on what you have plugged into it a maximum value is probably less than 100 watts Newer monitors or small screen TVs use about 30 to 75 watts Washington Apple Pi NOTES On THE FOURTH 0 DIR INE cby Richard A Untied After four years of working with a single drive first and last sectors of each track The problem system I was primed
148. ing the B00T13 program on the DOS 3 3 master diskette instead APPEND The APPEND command will open a sequential file and read through all the records in that file until it finds the end Then the next WRITE command will append information to the end of the file Unfortu nately there are some problems with APPEND When the last carriage return being written out is also the last byte in the last sector of the file 00S v doesn t bother allocating another sector for the end of the file mark So the next APPEND never finds the end of the file and the file pointer gets left at the beginning of the file The next WRITE command will write over the next record One way to tell if this will happen is to try a READ after the APPEND command If the read returns an OUT OF DATA error then you can do a normal APPEND I m assuming you re using ONERR GOTO in Applesoft A successful read means that APPEND will overwrite the file In that case the only way to add to the end of the file is to copy the entire file into another and write the new information into the new file after the old information is there Then you can delete the old e n rename the new file with the old name HUH If you write out a file of 255 sectors and then use APPEND to add more information to the file you will wipe out random sectors in your file VOLUME NUMBER The volume number on a DOS diskette is kept in the address field of every sector of every track of the d
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150. intact however For a description of the ONERR GOTO statement look in the APPLESOFT REFERENCE MANUAL For more information on RESET read pages 36 38 in the APPLE II REFERENCE MANUAL j q Washington Apple Pi DEVELOPING MULT I DRIVE SOFTWARE bu Daniel J Blum Writing programs to handle 1 0 to more than one disk 1710 FX FX CHR J drive can be tedious to the programmer especially in 1810 NEXT I the case of quick programs not originally intended 1910 GOTO 0 for outside distribution However there are two good 2000 REM Parse String arguments to resist the temptation to take the easy 2010 FOR I 1 TO LEN FX way out and neglect to program in the multi drive 2110 IF MID FX 1 1 lt gt THEN FIS FIS mode MID FX 1 1 GOTO 3410 2210 FOR J I 1 TO LEN FX In the first place the user of single drive software 510 m Peres eee eer is constrained by the programmer s laziness Second z 1 1 lt when the programmer or perhaps a user modifying the 2410 Fl VAL MID FX J 1 1 IF Fl 0 AND program decides to add a multi drive capability a11 Fl 8 THEN SL Fl GOTO 2610 of the original momentum built up during the first 2510 GOTO 3510 programming session has been dissipated Thus the 2540 REM Get Drive effort to add multi drive capability may consume more 2610 IF FI lt gt D THEN GOTO 2910 programming time as an enhancement than would have 2710 Fl VAL MIO FX J 1 1 IF Fl
151. iques dangerous weapons and keepsake momentos which were stolen by Black Bark 3 Find the weapon believed to be a mace used in Black Bark s last mur der 4 Return the evidence that would help convict Black Bark All in all a very good adventure with good tricks and traps Disk 202 NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE E 25 DOOMSDAY is here unless you can stop the Mad Scientist who is thinking of using his new weapon to destroy the King dom You must travel to the Mad Scientist s hideout to destroy the weapon kill the Mad Scientist and capture the top secret plans Note that Disk 181 is required to use these Eamon adventures Please let us know your reaction to these disks if interest warrants it we will add more Eamon disks to the WAP Library Washington Apple Pi APPLE il Outperforms IBM PC with Supermini Virtual Memory Technology If you need to get SERIOUS POWERFUL PROFES SIONAL results from your Il e for Business or Engineer ing applications nothing comes close to MegaTASK PLUS Modelled on and developed from minicomputer based com mercial timesharing software available to large corporations for thousands of dollars annually MegaT ASK PLUS is primarily designed for the APPLE Il owner who demands quick effective analytical solutions to business pro blems and immediate RELIEF from the frustrations and limitations of using hundreds of dollars of mutually incompatible canned software packages or WORSE pro gra
152. is the name assigned DN2L tells the printer to move DowN 2 Lines BO is BOld and PE stands for Proportional Enhanced Finally QC stands for Quad Centered Sup pose we save Hl along with other macros on another file for use Then whenever we want a heading we simply issue an H1 just prior to the actual heading within the text Both the text and FORMAT files must be specified at print time and the printer will auto matically center and print in bold proportional enhance type whenever it sees the H1 command If Hl is defined differently in a second format file then loading that other format file at print time will obviously produce a different result altogether Incidentally on screen formatting is possible only if you are willing to settle for monospaced type in the single column mode such as an ordinary typed page in everything you do No Apple or other micro computer based word processing software will be able to show on screen a two column newsletter layout fully justi fied and in proportional font Such pagination systems are available but certainly not for home or small office use I happen to believe the lack of on screen formatting is a small price to pay for the power and flexibility of Gutenberg but then as an ex printer who never learned to use a typewriter prop erly I am somewhat biased The Gutenberg Jr does not permit the creation of your own formats Instead a very comprehensive set of for mats is supplied
153. iskette There is no way to change this information other than re initializing the diskette MISC The number of sectors required for a DOS file can calculated SECTORS LENGTH 256 LENGTH 256 122 The first part of the expression is the physical num bers of sectors required to hold the data This will Washington Apple Pi November 1983 be 2 bytes higher for a program and 4 bytes higher for a binary file The second part is for the Track Sector list There will always be a Track Sector list and a sector for data even if there is no data so the minimum number of sectors for a file is two Numeric data that is stored in a DOS text file is not stored in a packed format The information is on the disk in the same ASCII format that a printer would have received Example 3 14159 7 bytes a carriage return 3 1 byte a carriage return There is no way for DOS to store packed variables Ed Note There are ways but they require trick programming techniques Let ElFHutton talk to your computer e Huttonline Investment Briefs e Hutton Research Information e Electronic Mail A new low cost service will turn your personal computer into a powerful investment tool using the same data communications facilities that E F Hutton uses in its worldwide network Contact George V Hart E F Hutton amp Company 1825 Eye Street N W Suite 1000 Washington D C 20006 202 331 2587 or 800 368 5811 Hutton
154. isted in the Hotline column Please note that if the Hotline volunteer has an answering machine and you leave a message for a return call don t assume your call was not returned Perhaps he she tried to call you several times and you weren t home It is the caller s responsiblity to keep try ing We also need new volunteers for the Hotline If you have an expertise please let us know The WAP membership file has been transferred to a new data base system Your mailing labe now has a slightly changed format Please check it for accu racy and report any errors to the office SOMMER IAL ouo qu ES FOR SALE Apple e Disk II Monitor 11 Pro Writer and joystick Condition good as new Only two months old Call 977 8200 between 9 00 AM and 5 00 PM FOR SALE Flippy disk containing a trajectory target shooting game a 3 D maze game and Dots the connect the dots to complete the box game PLUS num erous programs demonstrating the use of hi res graphics including polar co ordinates and assembly language sound production BONUS Flip the disk over and discover four exciting video pinball games Only 30 from Data Now PO Box 122 Dickerson MD 20842 LAR Have a problem The following club members have agreed to help are VOLUNTEERS indicated limited to those you have purchased documentat ion assume that he did not try to call you perhaps you were not home General APPLE SSC A
155. l Bublitz List Handler Jon Vaupel Directories Used with Echo II Synthesizer Com puter Aids Technology for Print Handicapped Al Carter Thank you data base representatives for your support For any additional information call me Cara Cira on 468 6118 Thanks go to Lee Raesly and Tom Warrick for their data base questionnaire input November 26 Use of Personal Computers for Disabled Jay Thal a member of our DISABLEDSIG will be orches trating a program devoted to the uses of personal com puters by disabled individuals featuring new educa tional techniques Watch Jay s DISABLEDSIG NEWS for more details If you have input please call him on 244 3649 December 17 Garage Sale Have you ve any software you re bored with Any hardware outgrown Want to do a little trading or buy ing We are running another garage sale so gather your extras tired withs and bring your coins to splurge during this pre holiday sale amp Washington Apple Pi MATES SEMPTEMBER BOARD MEETING The Executive Board of WAP Ltd met on September 14 1983 at 7 30 PM at the WAP office The Board dis cussed the beginners tutorials SIGs the office copy machine large screen projector an amendment to the Bylaws concerning SIGS and group purchase of McIntosh computers Group purchase membership commercial software library 885 programs disk library and Pascal SIG were also discussed The Board voted to amend the Bylaws to requir
156. lears buffers resets print modes except Gld Optional data disks generate reports in book 9 95 for HT VF FF and left margin to default You thought it was hard NOW IT S EASY setting ERY Eu Maru pagor one ling without 631 Minute Manual For Apple Writer 1 Plus 67 95 Used by aany schools and universities Second Printing Disk Connection Ltd s User Group Special SM ae AMERICA S INFORMATION UTILITY SPECIAL 60 LIST 100 Virginia Residents 4 sales tax 40 Discount 40 VISA amp MASTER CARO accepted i Add 2 0 shipping C OD s add 1 65 c ub Price 60 NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE 6641 Backlick Rd Suite 206 Springfield VA 22150 703 451 4100 Available at Cosa Center amp other corputer book stores Send Check to MinuteWare PO Box 2392 Colusbia MD 21045 Add 1 00 shipping 301 995 1188 Call Send for Info dBASE II BUSINESS APPLICATIONS SEMINAR Presented by MICRO CONSULTING FINANCIAL DATA SYSTEMS INTRODUCTION to Relational Database Information Retrieval A Must for Managers INTERMEDIATE Programming Formatting For Data Processing Operators amp Programmers ADVANCED Business Programming For Experienced Programmers CALL 703 759 3461 x Registered Trademark of Ashton Tate Washington Apple Pi November 1983 31 8 REASONS TO VIST THE MICRO CONNECTION Here are 8 good reasons j to buy your computer system combi hardw
157. led to fit the screen I 27 27 MATRIX OPERATIONS Adds subtracts multi plies by a scalar or multiplies by another matrix To use enter the matrix elements and the dimension of the matrix FUNCTION PLOT Lo res plot of a function 27 28 MATRIX the input matrix INVERSION Calculates the inverse of Must input a square matrix 27 29 HEX DEC CONVERSION CHART Prints values in hex increments of 100 and their decimal equivalents Then prints values and equivalents of 00 to FF I DISK 100 UTILITIES A Reviewed by Richard Langston II 100 1 LHS RECST VTOC Lawrence Hall of Science Reconstruct Volume Table Of Contents This program checks a disk for errors in the YVTOC or sector allocation It corrects any errors it finds If you have any HELLO files 99 sectors long or three line a that occupy 67 sectors this program will fix em file type length in sectors binary start address and length in bytes Information can be in hexadecimal or decimal and can be displayed on the screen or a printer 100 4 FRE X Displays the number of sectors free on a disk 100 5 MASTER CATALOG Helps keep track of your program library Catalog your disks into this program and it will sort them by name type or volume You can print the listings to the screen or printer and you can add or delete entries See WAP Vol 5 No 8 for information about using it with the NEC 8023 printer FIX SECTORS Sam
158. m it Thanks Paul SHARING RESOURCES We have been discussing office space needs with other microcomputer user groups The Capital PC group has indicated they see some benefits from sharing resources We will continue these dis cussions in the hope of joining forces at some level and introducing some economies in our activities WHAT S UP MAC A source of mine at Drexel confirms that the university is still expecting to receive 4 000 MacIntosh like personal computers this Jan vary As you may know a number of colleges and universities have added the cost of a micro to their tuition and give one to all incoming freshmen It appears that Apple still plans on meeting a January schedule for release of at least one version of the Mac amp d Too s e PROGRAM PREVIEWS Lara Lira October 22 Data Bases and here it is As indicated in the WAP board election time data bases interest as a program We will be discussion format with each program representative giving a brief description of his her data base followed by a questionnaire of common interest for all data bases and a Q amp A session with the audience Data bases and panelists are You asked for it survey taken at scored high in following a panel General Manager Loftus Becker DB Master Dave Einhorn Data Perfect Leon Raesly Personal Filing System Jim Cumber Data Factory Hal Meinstock D BASE II Pau
159. machine language speeds to interpretive Basic Powerful instructions comprise extensions to Applesoft that include many of the most useful com mands found in FORT COBOL PL 1 ADA PASCAL and LOGO Enormously simplified ease of programming modular insulated routines localized variables ability to pass variable names Dependence on line numbers totally removed Substantially increased speeds program execution 3x 10x file access 6x 10x alpha data transfer rate 2x 6x and numeric transfer gt 20x On the applications side the PLUS portion of MegaTASK PLUS includes Hardcopy and screen Business Graphics Calc Database Management and Word Processing Appli cations Packages plus Custom Modifiability Editing Systems amp Format Related Commands e Communications Corporate Data Capture programs QUANTUM LEAP TECHNOLOGIES Washington Apple Pi Text Manipulators and better than TSO Program Editors Database Management Systems capable of main taining and sorting Supermini Size Datafiles Max imum singe transparent file 5 5 million records if 80 chrs ea File access time independent of file size Report Generators and Strategic Business Analysis programs similar to those used by most of America s Fortune 500 Corporations The only system capable of taking full transparent advantage of one or more Corvus s Profile s Ram disks 5 Megabyte replaceable hard disk cartridges and the co
160. ment number This procedure eliminates the chore of typing in a file name If there are a large number of files on the default drive the Main Menu screen is literally crammed with information making it somewhat hard to read This is particularly acute on 80 column screens where two col umns of files may be displayed in addition to the document options mentioned above This menu also Space readouts shows file size and remaining disk C The Edit Menu and Screen A third screen the Inner Menu contains a series of document input output commands In addition to a readout of remaining edit screen memory the following options are displayed CHANGE Edit the document DRAFT Print a draft of the document in memory MAIN MENU Return to the prev ous menu PRINT Print a copy of the document in memory RENAME Change the name of the file VIDEOPRNT Print the file in memory to screen The commands listed below are also accessible but not displayed on the Inner Menu from 01 Draft print but not from page 1 02 Videoprint but not from page 1 03 Write formatted copy of document to disk 04 Unformatted dump to printer 00 Continue loading of too large document 00 Turn on concurrent printing spooling OCN Turn off concurrent printing spooling OCW Concurrent printing pause wait contd Washington Apple Pi The edit screen contains a flashing cursor the name of the document in memory and a cursor positio
161. ming Laser Disk units bringing the APPLE II up to minicomputer performance The MegaTASK PLUS product package includes Manuals for MegaTASK MegaDOS and MEGABASE ll in sparkling white binders 1 SMARTCHIPTM Memory Management Micro processor Six diskettes PACKED with applications programs including Mega GRAPH Mega EDIT Mega TEXT and several Report Generator examples A One year Replacement Warranty on all products A 60 day Financial Risk Free Return Policy If you are not completely satisfied you can return the pro duct in good condition with proof of purchase for a complete refund A 14 hour per day telephone Hotline to support you in your use of the entire MegaTASK PLUS series of software packages Because of the much larger amount of memory that is available to the Apple s microprocessor through Virtual Memory the increased processing speed and the integration of major applications packages PLUS custom modifiability by users who now Basic MegaTASK PLUS may well surpass or replace most of the worthwhile APPLE 11 program packages currently available on the market With the in troduction of this product Quantum Leap has made a commitment to be the technology leader in the area of busi ness software systems for personal computers This will be achieved through Quantum Leap Technologies continuing Applications Software Package Series quarterly diskettes and manuals mailed free to purchasers of MegaT ASK P
162. mming in Applesoft assembly or Apple DOS MegaTASK PLUS is a combined multi product hardware and software package that provides an instant Virtual Memory expansion an Applesoft compatible SuperBASIC and a series of Business Management packages that greatly enhance the power and value of the APPLE II in both systems programming and business applications areas MegaTASK and MegaDOS employ multitasking virtual memory optimization and virtual storage technology which until now were limited only to mainframes and the super minicomputers The SMARTCHIP an Intel 8748 Single Chip Plug In Microcomputer provides sufficient processing porer to enable your APPLE II to outperform both the IBM C and Apple s new Macintosh computer Yet all you need to begin is an APPLE II series computer plus one diskette drive And generally no modification to your existing Applesoft programs assemblies and DOS 3 3 files is necessary MegaTASK and MegaDOS accordingly generate an enor mous enhancement to the power available to the APPLE II owner specifically Multitasking System processing techniques As many as 16 PROCR MS or TASKS can execute at one time The MegaDOS VS OS Virtual Memory Operating System can place within reach of your system EGABYTES of Virtual Memory Largest program size 8 Megabytes Largest ISAM file 451 Megabytes Largest transparent core array 75 million FP numbers 100 400 new Mainframe Basic commands bring
163. ms up and running We will also explain how our club operates The follow ing members have agreed to answer questions over the phone when someone gets stuck and needs help between meetings Bob Chesley 560 0120 Sarah Lavilla 926 6355 Steve Sondag 281 5392 831 7433 229 5730 Paul Hoffman Boris Levine PIG the Thursday Pascal Interest Group meets on the third of each month at 7 30 PM at the Club Office SIGAMES is the special interest group of computer hobbyists interested in using their APPLEs for entertainment They meet immediately following the monthly meeting of Washington Apple Pi STOCKSIG meetings are on the second Thursday at 8 00 PM and are currently held at the home of the chairman Robert Wood 703 893 9591 Telecomm SIG usually meets after the regular WAP meeting d sss DISCOUNT PRICES sss Synetix Disk Emulator 0 Monitors Amdek Color 1 2 300 Amdek RGB Color 1 4425 3685 NEC 1260 Green NEC Color Composite FCH RES 8890 NEC 12 Amber 165 Modems D C Hayes Micromodem II D C Hayes Micromodem II with Terminal Program D C Hayes 120 305 300 Baud Smartmodem D C Hayes 1200 Baud Smartmodem SSM Modem 300 Baud Printers NEC 8023 NEC 3510 Spinwriter IDS Microprism 480 Okidata Micro 82 A Okidata Micro 83 A Okidata Micro 92 Okidata Micro 93 Prowriter 8510 A Epson VISA MC Add 3 money order certified
164. n read out The cursor is fixed at the second line from the bottom of a screen Thus the cursor does not move around among lines of text like most word proces sors Instead text lines move to the cursor i e all lines move up or down the screen respectively when the appropriate arrow keys are pressed Regardless of how much text may be below the cursor line you will only see the line that is being edited and the one immediately after it While this is not a problem for original entry of data the next line is blank it makes editing of existing text difficult if you need to reference any information that is two or more lines below the cursor I found the fixed cursor line very cumbersome to use One of the processors available for the new DEC com puters uses a similar feature Cursor motion and scrolling are accomplished by arrow keys for line and character movement Open Apple key left right arrow key for jumping 10 characters to the left or right Open Apple key up down arrow for mov ing 10 lines up or down Control E for end of file Control B for beginning of file The 10 line vertical jump makes scanning of a series of screens difficult The Zardax screen is 21 lines in height Therefore a jump of only 10 lines will place the lst line of the next screen in the middle of a mish mash of text making it very difficult to lo cate A total screen scroll would be far preferable so that the next line of new
165. n the classroom has been the small amount of time that children actually spend at the machines The round table that Carolyn Adler gathered together had an opportunity to find out what happened when children were allowed on computers for extended peri ods at computer camps Carolyn had run a camp at Electronic Learning Facili tators ELF on Computers and the Arts The starting point of this camp had been the frequent observation that many more males than females attended computer classes This has been said to be the result of the way computer studies are focused in schools One aim of the camp was to see if a focus on art and music would change the relative populations of the students The camp had an all day schedule swimming tennis and other sports being offered Computers formed a two hour component each day The camp cur riculum was very structured and the computer work was integrated into the work in the arts The children would have one hour of Art one hour of Music and two hours on the computers For example children might study repetition patterns in art and music there was a room full of musical instruments and move on to using similar patterns on the computers The popula tion included 6 to 14 year olds but was predominantly 9 10 and 11 year olds Mostly they already had a background in the arts or had parents who wanted them to have one Students could use either BASIC or LOGO The choice between BASIC and L
166. ndecipherable form It is a good idea to leave your name and number FIRST as some of the machines cut out after a fixed time interval Mine does not but an overenthusiastic explanation of a problem by one caller once ran the tape out com pletely leaving following calls unrecorded So if the hot line does not get back to you call again How do you put text into ScreenWriter so that it is NOT printed A caller wanted to put a paragraph into a paper he was writing but wanted to be able to go on printing the paper without that paragraph until the information could be confirmed This can be done with ScreenWriter with the rather unlikely embedded command IF 2 0 The paragraph that follows should end with a carriage return a and another carriage return This command comes from the form letter func tion IF 3 lt 100 would print out the following paragraph only if the information in field number three of the current record were less than 100 By putting an impossible condition 2 0 we ensure that the paragraph is never printed out To reverse it simply change it to 2 0 and delete the This technique could be used for putting reminder notes in your text n much the same way as you use REMS in BASIC We have now seen a review copy of the manual for the lle version of ScreenWriter Another writer Judith Wilton of Sierra On Line has been added to the team and she seems to have been working hard the n
167. ning Printer Spooling This permits concurrent use of the print function and text editor That is the document in memory is directed to a floppy disk hard disk or RAM disk emulator for printing freeing the console device for document editing If you have a 128K Apple le Zardax uses only the basic 64K so the additional 64K may be used for spooling To activate any type of spooler device go to the Inner document edit Menu and enter OCY along with information on the disk device to be used For exam ple the additional 64K of RAM on a 128K e may be accessed by the command OCY51 The latter numbers indicate slot 5 and drive 1 Any printing activi ty will be directed to the named spooling device until the feature is shut off or Zardax is exited Like most spoolers the speed of keyboard to computer interaction is much slower during concurrent printing This statement holds true even for the Apple Lisa when attempting to use the spooler feature of Lisa hardware buffer like Microfaser or the Wespercorp BPO interface card With a buffer the document in memory is directed to an external device Once the document has been transferred to the buffer a matter of sec onds for relatively short documents the full func tioning of the computer is restored RAM Card To use an additional 64K of e memory as a RAM card go to the main menu and set the default drive to slot 5 drive 1 All save actions will be directed to
168. nter IP08 press the tab key once enter the offset character the number 1 in this section press the tab key again and enter text The actual indent column setting must be one less than the desired column number for text entry because you are indenting from column 1 to column 9 a difference of 8 columns 4 Repeat the steps in item 4 for each paragraph you want to indent 5 Turn justification back on Using these paragraphs will wrap setting rules you may enter as many indented as needed with the expectation that text around when printed to the second tab Again this section verifies that the pro cedure works and works very well It just sounds strange The indent features of many other proces sors including Word Juggler are far easier to understand and implement You must make certain to align the paper in your printer six lines above the printer element or head if you want top and bottom margins of one inch each Zardax does not have automatic top and bottom margin functions that can be invoked by a software command The six line setting must be readjusted manually if you want to locate a header in any part of the top margin This is a rather primitive way of making these settings and certainly is not typical of most sophisicated processors OTHER FEATURES To say that Zardax is loaded with features is a major understatement In addition to those discussed pre viously the following are worth mentio
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171. o fast for some 113 4 CONNECTION A Basic connect 4 game The object is to get 4 blocks in a row horizontally vertically or diagonally before your opponent The game is played on a 7 x 7 grid by two players 13 5 CRIBBAGE Requires a prior knowledge of the game to play 13 6 DOG STAR An adventure game Would someone with the instructions please contact the librarians FORT Another name for Dog Star Adventure 13 7 way and Roger ORBIT MATCH requires paddles by Gene Broad Clayton You set the thrust and direction of your spaceship using the paddles The object is to dock with a satellite without crashing into the Sun or the edge of the screen 13 8 SHOOTING GALLERY Fire your Cozar gun at items that float slowly across the screen The 1 key fires You get 10 points for each hit with 300 needed to end the game 13 9 SUB KILLER requires paddles by Bob Mini contd November 1983 37 litch Drop depth charges and detonate them to destroy submarines A good test of hand eye coordina tion You have 30 depth charges per game with your score based upon the number of subs hit 13 10 SUPER NIM The object is to remove from 1 to 3 pieces from the display on your turn so as to take the last piece off the board The computer s skill level and the number of displays can vary Theoretically you can win every game Fun communicating with your Apple 13 11 DEVILS OUNGEON A text adventure game
172. oing strange things could happen I don t think this is a major worry as thousands of Apole owners turn their computers on with disks in the drive without any problems I have been told that users would have even fewer problems with booting disks if they let the drive start turning before closing the door on the diskette This apparently helps in center ing the diskette on the spindle Where can I get my Apple II upgraded to a e There is no policy for upgrading II s to e s If you went to your dealer he could replace the motherboard keyboard and case probably for more than the cost of a new e The best solution is to sell your II and just buy a e If recent speculation holds by January 1984 or so the price of the e may be sharply down A company Computer Classified Bluebook P 0 Box 3395 Reno Nevada 89505 has compiled a Bluebook with the current selling prices of used computers analogous to the Bluebook for used cars At 85 a year it may be a bit expensive for an individual but maybe a club could swing it If we buy a computer and TV set in this country and take it to another country where the power supply is 220 V and 50 Hz cycles per second will it work if we use a 220 110 V transformer Even though we convert the voltage what about the frequency does it need to be converted and will TVs and monitors The Apple is not frequency sensitive happily work on 110 V at 50 Hz may not be quite so forgiv
173. om 20 Computer furniture tables printer stands etc call 2 2 PLEASE COMPARE OUR PRICES aaa if you find a lower price give us a chance to beat it Feel free to call for answers to technical questions We can supply HUNOREDS of other accessories programs and cosputer systess sost WITHIN 24 HOURS 4 LI i 1 TO ORDER Call JEFF DILLON at 301 434 0405 i or i Mail cashiers certified check or 4 0 to 1 t t OPERANT SYSTEMS 7676 New Haspshire Ave Suite 312 Langley Park Hd 20783 All itess carry full sanufacturer s warranties and are fully tested by us prior to delivery Md residents add 3X tax UPS shipping is available Washington Apple Pi November 1983 21 user create drawings and graphics images and store them to disk to be used later In fact if you already own a graphics utility that saves your masterpiece as a standard 34 sector binary file under DOS 3 3 then the PAINT utility can read this image and convert it to a Gutenberg picture file for later use In the paint mode you first decide whether the picture you are about to create will be horizontal or verti cal The largest horizontal picture you can draw with PAINT is two full screens wide which will produce a printed picture about 7 inches wide by 2 6 inches high Furthermore you can write directly on the screen using any of the screen fonts The four writ ing modes available are positive negative or and exclusive or It is even possible to w
174. onal relations and many more As a group we hope to study both success and failure stories to learn the goodies and the baddies from each We also expect that the knowledge and experi ence of the sum of the total group membership will contribute greatly to the education of its members In order to learn who has what to offer the group has solicited a Talent Inventory from each member In this way the group will be able to draw upon the tal ents and experiences of all the members and to reap the benefits of total group participation It was generally agreed that the purpose of the group should be educational and that it should not be expected to be a substitute for legitimate profession al assistance Accordingly the purpose ts rather to have professionals make themselves available to others in the getting started or growing pains aspects of the business world An example might be for an attorney to inform members of the various forms business organizations sole proprietorships nerships corporations and the relative and disadvantages of each If a member then elected to organize as a corporation it would seem proper that that member would be expected to pay a fair com pensation to the attorney for any efforts in drawing up and filing the necessary incorporation papers Similarly explaining what a business plan is and what part advantages it should contain is quite different than actually participating in drawing one
175. ons for tax purposes each month So this is a two part article The first part will show you how to expand the original checkbook to identify and total the deductions each month and the second part will give a template for totaling your deductions for the year without having to enter them again It will also allow you to complete your taxes next April with a 1040 template in about 30 minutes So on to the entered the first part I am assuming that you checkbook listed in the August issue of the PI So the first step is to boot The Spreadsheet 2 0 or Visicalc and then load your SAVEd copy of that template The planned expansion has three parts I will take each part in order The first part is to enter a column for an account number for the deductible items I have used the following account numbers and account names but you can use any that make sense to you You can also expand the number of deductible items as much as the memory in your machine will allow 01168 PROF 7 LOSS 6 INTS 5 TAXS 4 MINS 3 006 2 08651 The abreviations stand for OTHR any OTHeR deductable expenses PROF PROFessional expenses LOSS any casualty LOSS INTS INTereSt of any kind TAXS TAXeS of any kind MINS Medical INSurance DOC DOCtors and Dentists 0865 DRuGS and Medicines To add the expanded portion to your checkbook go to column G and insert a column with the command IC This will become a ne
176. or the game are concise and easy to understand Broderbund Software always has had com plete documentation and this game is no exception Spare Change runs on any Apple II or e system with 48K and at least one disk drive It is joystick or keyboard operated The game works well with a self centering TG type joystick or an Atari type joystick with a Wico adaptor because reaction time is a little better than with a non centering joystick It does work quite well with a non centering joystick though especially after some practice The keyboard option also works fairly well after some degree of practice There is even an option to change keys if the player doesn t like the keyboard set up they offer Some other features I liked are that the player can save his high scores restart game or change options during game play see any cartoon desired at the Zerk Show and use the pause feature to cut down on tiring by the graphics and ease of command entry Other than This game fs very well written It is creative and the speed my only real complaint about the game is basically non violent The graphics animation and that it is hard to tell who is attacking whom If one sound are about the best I ve seen Because it has pays close attention he can usually tell but not such a wide range of level settings young children always This is a fun game to play and at a list and advanced gamers alike can have fun playing it price of only 24 95 it is
177. or two day delivery and can accomodate their transmitted to the SP0s nearest to their destination messages to the E COM format While more expensive In this example any letter for delivery to the above than first class mail it offers significant savings zipcodes must be transmitted to the San Francisco SPO over MAILGRAM rates and may save on letter production For a nation wide mailing the E COM user might make costs as well as many as 25 separate phone calls one to each SPO under this proposal Once the user accesses the appropriate SPO he she ES PE gee euge then transmits a message or messages followed by an DEALER Q CORI 1 address list in the case of a form letter The SPO bod computer automatically processes the message and mails it to the addressee Upon completion of the The MICRO CONNECTION INC is having a GRAND OPENING E COM processing the SPO provides an acknowledgement sale to announce the opening of their new store at through the mail 8228 Fenton Street Silver Spring MD The telephone number at the new store is 495 5960 The hours are A number of firms market E COM software Programs are from 10 AM to 6 PM Monday through Saturday with available for the Apple IBM CP M and Radio Shack plenty of parking right next door Super SALE SPECIALS computers ranging from roughly 200 to 500 Some and our MONEY SAVING COUPON will give you even greater also include communication programs while others
178. our 5 week trial subscrip tion Six 6 months 25 issues is 100 1 year 50 issues is 180 Maryland residents add 5 sales tax OPTION ANALYTICS INC Scientific Stock Option Analysis Department A P O Box 529 Bowie MD 20715 Washington Apple Pi 0 4 Y h y 00999 SAVE ON DISKETTES Wabash SS SD 15 box of 10 25 or more boxes 17 box of 10 10 to 24 boxes 18 50 box of 10 1 to 9 boxes SOFTWARE list your price price for communication ASCII EXPRESS 129 95 93 the professional gor writing BANK STREET WRITER 69 95 50 for game playing DEADLINE 49 95 36 AND MORE FROM DISCAT the user friendly menu driven Apple compatable catalog on a diskette ready to serve your ft ds E ur software needs DISCAT 1 O 1983 For a look at the complete DISCAT with software at discount prices send 3 15 sales tax if you are a Maryland resident to COMPUTER WARE UNLIMITED Dept W11 P 0 Box 1247 Columbia MD 21044 When ordering diskettes or software add 3 fon shipping and handling and g you are a Maryland resident 5 state sales tax Add 2 weeks to delivery time if payment is by personal or company check No CODs or charges accepted Apple is a Registered Trademark of Apple Computer Inc November 1983 9 Q amp A by Bruce F Kinal has corrected me on one of my answers in last month s column The question was on lo
179. our favorites with SPORTS POOL e tro SOFTWARE DIVISION 6502 Micro Drive Dayton MD 21036 Telephone 301 854 0058 PROFIT MOTIVE Business A seek Simulation 7 7 PROFIT MOTIVE makes Mon Suggested Retail Price S95 393 Contact your local dealer Dealer inquiries invited Washington Apple Pi noply seem like easy street Its a realistic big business simulation in which you pro duce and market several products One to ten players may compete in two levels of play A fun mind teasing challenge Copyright 1982 Hy Tek Ltd All Rights Reserved November 1983 19 THE GUTENBERG AND GUTENBERG JR WORD AND PRINT PROCESSORS by P K Wong Most word processing programs for microcomputers on the market today are directed at the business or home user whose needs are relatively simple and straight forward In short when a good word processing program is used in conjunction with the microcomputer and printer one has a highly efficient replacement for the typewriter as a writing tool Spelling programs and other related software will further enhance the capabilities of such a system making it far superior to the way letters and documents were prepared even few years ago However ordinary word processing programs simply will not do if you must use foreign languages and or mathematical equations in your writing Dedicated word processors on the other hand are often costly and inflexi
180. our in any order Our instruc tors have received very good reviews from the attend ees One frequent comment is the possiblility of expanding the amount of time available for some of the topics We will explore this with these and other instructors The objective for the course was to be very introductory and hopefully get you started A reminder that our four tutorial series will continue in November and January If you wish to attend please preregister so that we can maintain control of the group size If you need to cancel just let us know a few days in advance We can always rearrange your attendance for another session If you can not plan ahead call the office on the day of the session you are interested in and we can tell you if there are any seats available We are looking for a tutorials coordinator to help organize the regular tutorials as well as arrange longer one shot tutorials on subjects of your choice You could accomplish this in one to four hours per month Please call me or the office if you want to help This is ideal for someone with no knowledge of the Apple You need only be willing to make a few phone calls each month COMM CENTER DONATION Mike Teller recently arranged an all day seminar on VisiCalc held at the Comm Center As a part of the program Mike asked for and received VC models on every subject imaginable He and the Comm Center have graciously put these in the public domain and asked the WAP to h
181. ower up byte It contains the Exclusive OR of the high byte of the soft entry vector and the constant 165 A5 The Exclusive OR of two numbers is impos sible to figure out in BASIC so a routine is provided in ROM to do it for us The routine is located at 64367 FB6F It is used by CALLing 64367 in BASIC or JSR FB6F in assembly Using these memory locations it is possible to make the RESET do almost anything Just put the address of the routine to be executed in locations 3F2 and 3F3 and CALL 64367 The easiest type of change is one to make the RESET key reboot the system To do that simply POKE almost any value into 3F3 1011 This makes the exclusive OR in 3F4 invalid and forces a cold start To make the RESET key RUN the BASIC program currently in memory change 3F2 to 66 and 3F3 to D5 In BASIC POKE 1010 102 and POKE 1011 213 Then CALL 64367 005 is disconnected every time the RESET key is pressed and since we have jumped out of the normal RESET routine it is never reconnected The easiest way to reconnect DOS is to CALL 1002 from BASIC or JSR 3EA in assembly The first lines of the BASIC pro gram should look like this 26 November 1983 Richard Langston 10 POKE 1010 102 POKE 1011 213 CALL 64367 REM CHANGE RESET VECTOR 20 CALL 1002 REM RECONNECT DOS It may be preferable to write an assembly routine to reconnect DOS and jump to a routine Here is an example of such a routine 300 20 EA 03 303
182. pple TechNotes Basis 108 EO TE A PRE Communications Packages and Modems Telecom Anchor Sig 8 BIZCOMP Modem Apple CAT II ASCII Express CompuServe Data Capture General Hayes Smartmodem Omn inet Source amp Transcend VISITERM XTALK CP M Comm Corvus Hard Disk Expediter Compiler Data Bases dBase II OB Master Data Perfect Data Factory General Manager InfoMaster List Handler Games Graphics Home Accountant Languages A Applesoft A I A A A I P M GENERAL INFORMATION Apple user groups may any portion author title and publ Membership dues for Ma the first year and 18 ning in the month joi please call the club address A membershi you Subscriptions to are not available benefit of membership 6 Dave Harvey 703 527 2704 Robert Martin 301 498 6074 Bernie Benson 202 546 0076 Ed Schenker 301 977 7349 Lance Bel 703 550 9064 Loftus Becker 202 338 5217 Jeremy Parker 301 229 2578 Ben Acton 301 428 3605 Dave Harvey 703 527 2704 Jerry Michalski 703 442 8835 Howard Simkowitz 202 882 4645 Ben Acton 301 428 3650 Tom Nebiker 216 867 7463 Bernie Benson 202 546 0076 Tom Vier 1 6 PM 703 860 0083 Jerry Michalski 703 442 8835 Steve Wildstrom 301 564 0039 Bernie Benson 202 546 0076 Tom Vier 1 6 PM 703 860 0083 Peter Rosden 301 229 2288 Loftus Becker 202 338 5217 John Staples 703 759 3461 Doug Daje 301 868 5487 Dave Einhorn 301 593 8420 Leon
183. re a different sequence of keys as explained in the Zardax manual I used Zardax to write this article cessor is WordStar My normal pro OVERALL FEATURES A User Manual The manual is mounted in a loose leaf binder which is indexed but not tabbed It is well organized and written but is primarily textual There are very few illustrations of how materials will appear on screen an excellent training aid used extensively in many manuals including those for the PFS e series of programs and WordStar Version 3 3 B Installation The procedure for setting up Zardax is simple and straightforward Select the Setup option from the initial screen insert the Zardax utility disk and follow a series of well written procedures Setup information including printer drivers and other rou tines is contained on a separate utility disk and read into the Zardax master From time to time up dates of these utilities are made available to owners at no cost The setup procedure may be too simple as many default settings for document formatting are not included as user modifiable options e g left and right margins page size etc These default settings can be changed only by modifying an Applesoft program resi dent on the Zardax utility disk While this is not a difficult procedure it does introduce the possibility of errors and is very cumbersome to use As explained below Zardax has print formatting com 54 November
184. re currently doing so you can go on to do something else Global search and replace as well cations software of your own once the files have been as other editing commands found on better vord created using GLOBAL COMM GLOBAL and WSTOGB are processors are also present contd 22 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi A very handy feature in the text entry mode is key board macros This means you can redefine any key in any one of three modes so that key will automatically generate an entire phrase for you This is done with the CHG command which is activated by typing CTRL C Suppose the name Alexander Lyapunov appears repeatedly throughout your document then you can redefine a key say so that every time you strike twice in a row Alexander Lyapunov will automatically be entered for you The key is still there for normal use as it is very unlikely that you d need to use under normal circumstances The change buffer holds 256 characters so several frequently used phrases or print format commands can be stored for use this way There are some 44 cursor movement and editing commands available in Gutenberg The files created with Gutenberg can be up to disk capacity or about 120K long However I don t person ally recommend anyone writing such long files Guten berg offers a split screen editing capability so two files can be accessed simultaneously You can copy and transfer blocks of text across two files as long as they both resid
185. red For ordinary typing another 15 to 30 minutes should take care of Of course no computer is without its peculiarities the word processing function LisaMrite LisaList and especially in the early stages of its appearance requires about the same amount of study LisaDraw is in the marketplace Some of them might be amusing to a lot of fun and to make good dimensioned engineering all you pros drawings requires another 30 minutes or so of study LisaCalc Apple s version of the spreadsheet program 1 When you turn the LISA on or off the procedure it is naturally the most demanding and an hour or more goes through takes several minutes This has nothing could easily be consumed especially if one intends to to do with the hard disk drive reaching speed it is write complex mathematical or logical formulas It is merely housekeeping and self testing Since you have the only program with a help screen an impressive to wait until the LISA is off before turning off the display of ifs sins and ors ints abs etc Profile you can t wait until closing time and turn off the LISA and run out the door You have to wait Whither from here one may ask Like most computers around until LISA tells you it s okay to turn the Pro LISA appeared on the scene with a little slow program file off A similar situation exists with the floppy and insufficient software The release labeled 1 0 disks if you request that they be ejected It takes will obviously be updated
186. ree 1 7 Exp dote Arlington VA 2226 703 527 0455 VA residents odd 4 sales tax sige i Washington Apple Pi November 1983 13 ta Trews bu Peter Combes EDSIG Calendar Tuesday November Ist at 7 30 p m What s Good in Educational Software Demon strations of a wide range of early childhood through 12th grade programs recommended by WAP members A discussion and demonstration session chaired by David Wyatt All WAP members interested in educational software for their children or students are warmly invited to this PARTICIPATORY session If you want to come along just to see others demonstrate some good soft ware fine However if you would like to bring along commercial software that you can personally recommend all the better If you would like to do a brief demonstration of some software please call David Wyatt 652 8468 in advance of the meeting to make scheduling easier Elections will be held at the meeting All EDSIG meetings are now mostly held in the Audi torium Building B of the Uniformed Services Univer sity of the Health Sciences on the campus of the National Naval Medical Center 4301 Jones Bridge Road Bethesda MD Check with Security when you come in in case the room has been changed Meeting Reports Tuesday October Lith at 7 30 p m Computer Camps 1983 A Report Carolyn Adler A recurrent theme in EDSIG s discussions of the use of computers i
187. rite on a picture using optional large headline fonts to create letterheads and logos After you have finished your masterpiece you can then crop it and test print it to see your handiwork The horizontal density is adjust able from 40 dots per inch to 160 dots per inch for the Apple DMP but the vertical density is always 72 dots per inch The PAINT utility is not available on the Gutenberg Jr Mail Merge Suppose your organization wants to send the same let ter to 300 persons but you d like to have each one appear to be individually typed With the Gutenberg you first create a special file called a J file consisting of all the names and addresses and special greetings for each one on your mailing list These names and individualized greetings can then be merged into the same form letter at print time using one of the supported daisy wheel printers Tables and pic tures can likewise be merged into a document using J files With the Gutenberg Jr this feature is available but only on the particular dot matrix printer you are using Conversion and Communication If you already have a number of files created with Wordstar then the WSTOGB utility will convert Word star textfiles into Gutenberg files for you On the other hand suppose you have some DOS 3 3 textfiles created by some other word processor then the GLOBAL utility will turn them into Gutenberg files for you In fact GLOBAL is a two way converter that will also take a Guten
188. ry transactions journal pickup memberships etc are fron 8 45 10 00 AM From 9 00 to 10 00 AM there is an informal Help session in the auditorium The main meeting starts promptly at 10 00 at which time all sales and services close so that volunteers can attend the meet ing A sign interpreter and reserved seating are provided for the hearing impaired Following are dates and topics for upcoming months November 26 Uses of Personal Computers by Disabled December 17 Garage Sale The OISABLEDSIG is interested in trying something new at the November 26 meeting They would like to video tape parts of the proceedings edit voiceover etc in order to produce a promotional tape for the Pi Anyone with a portable VCR camera lighting and the willingness to assist please contact Jay Thal at 202 244 3649 The Executive Board of Washington Apple Pi meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 7 30 PM at the office All members are welcome to attend PRESIDENT S by David SECOND COMPUTER We have added a second computer to our office This machine will be used for several purposes First you can use it to experiment with commercial software that we are collecting Second it will be available for use by SIGs that meet at the office In addition it can be used by the instructor of a tutorial TUTORIALS Speaking of tutorials our fall series has proven quite popular You can select from four eve nings or attend all f
189. ryone s Guide to Assembly Lan guage a series currently being published in Softalk 3 Roger Wagner s Assembly Lines The Book published by Softalk Books 4 Nibble Magazine 5 Apple II Reference Manual 6 Conversations with Bruce Field Apple P1 Richard Untied Apple Pi Mr Magner above and Paul Coletta Reston Publishing Company consultant All six are positively excellent 1 personally feel that the Inmans s book Wagner s book and Root s series serve as very effective complements every detail worth absorbing One very important caveat before I continue any mistakes in this article are clearly mine in total and not those of any of the referenced sources Thanks to these sources I m beginning to understand some of the code published in Nibble I think In Part I of Mr Root s series I discover that there is a difference between machine language and Assembly language In the micro machine language consists of the arrangement of on and off pulses generated by the massive array of circuitry within the silicon chips assembled for example inside the Apple The logical corollary to machine language is Assembly language or source code The same rules and pat terns logically apply to both however in Assembly language letters numbers serve as operators and operands The combined mnemonic tells the micro processor what to do and what to do it to thereby replacing the blinking pulses on and off for t
190. s IV Volume 113 Business B Volume 201 Black Mountain Volume 7 Games V Volume 114A Adventure INIT Volume 202 Nuclear Nightmare Volume 8 Utilities III Volume 1148 Adventure kk Volume 9 Educational I Volume 115 IAC 12 13 Misc Pascal Volume 116 IAC 14 MicromodemII Volume 300 PIGO ATTACH BIOS Volume 117 Picture Packer Volume 301 7 Volume 118 Utilities 0 Volume 302 Volume 119 IAC 15 Misc Volume 303 PIG3 Volume 120 IAC 16 Misc Volume 304 PIG4 Volume 121 ABBS Program Volume 305 PIG5 Volume 122 IAC 17 Misc Volume 306 PIG6 Volume 123 French Vocabulary Volume 307 PIG7 Volume 124 Utilities E Volume 308 PIG8 Volume 125 IAC 18 Misc Volume 309 PIG9 Volume 126 Sights and Sounds Volume 310 PIGIO Volume 127 Math Science Volume 311 PIG11 Volume 128 Games D Volume 10 Math Science Volume 11 Graphics I Volume 12 Games VI Volume 13 Games Volume 14 IAC Utilities IV Volume 15 Games VII Volume 16 Utilities V Volume 17 Graphics II Volume 18 Educational II Volume 19 Communications Volume 20 Music Volume 21 Apple Orchard Volume 22 Utilities VI lum m Volume 129 GLAQ CP M TUE 2 Run n Volume 130 Diversi 00S Volume 401 CPMSIGO1 Volume 25 Utilities VII Volume 131 Personal Educ 2 Volume 402 CPMSIGO2 Volume 26 Stocks Investments Volume 132 IAC 19 Utilities F Volume 403 CPMSIGO3 Volume 27 Math Volume 133 IAC 20 Hybrid Volume 404 CPMSIGO4 Volume 28 Planetfinder Volume 134 New Members Disk Volume 405 5
191. savings Call the MICRO CONNECTION at the following incorporate mailing list databases The prospective numbers for specifics purchaser should ensure that the software vendor will VIENNA VA 281 1866 320 A Maple Ave East update its software to reflect future E COM service SILVER SPRING MD 495 5960 8228 Fenton St changes such as those discussed above ANDERSON JACOBSON would like to call your attention to N Below is a review of one brand of E COM software The the pricing change offered only to WAP members on reader who desires further information on other E COM their AJ 831 KSR printers See the back cover of this programs should consult the July 1983 issue of issue Personal Computing 60 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi fae TECA qme by Ed Schenker 7 This month s column deals with DOS BASICS DISKETTE The Basics diskette that ships with DOS 3 3 and the Language System is a Pascal diskette that will boot a 13 sector diskette in a 16 sector drive It has a Pascal directory that can be seen from the Pascal filer but not from DOS The DOS 3 3 COPY and COPYA programs will successfully copy the BASICS diskette Pascal users can copy the BASICS diskette with the Filer like any other Pascal diskette The BASICS diskette MUST boot from slot 6 drive 1 because it is a Pascal diskette The BASICS diskette will not allow all 13 sector diskettes to boot Some software protection schemes do not accept that form of boot Try us
192. scuss your contributions and answer questions TEMPLATES WANTED Several members have donated VisiCalc templates to the library I hope to add at least two more library disks in our Spreadsheet series but I need a few more templates to round out the disks Our contributions included several 1982 tax templates but we hope to revise them for 1983 in time for April 15 In addi tion to club contributions we have just received from the Comm Center the disk assembled from their VisiCorp exchange seminar If you are a spreadsheet user why not donate your favorite template or utility to round out our collection Seven disks will premiere this month Disk 142 Pinbal Games and six new EAMON Adventures DISK 142 PINBALL GAMES Bill Budge s Pinball Construction Set program creates Hires pinball games according to a users specifica tions Although the Pinball Construction Set is a copyrighted program the resulting game programs can be distributed This disk contains four such games FLIP IT MAXX S MADNESS SUPER BLAST and THE MAXX MACHINE To play one of these games merely BRUN the file The space bar can be used to select the number of players To start the ball in play press game paddle button 1 The Apple game paddle buttons are used to operate the left and right pinball flippers If you have an Apple e the open and closed Apple keys can be used instead of the game paddle buttons The QLOADER program is a machine language
193. stead of as the actual formula that would compute The procedure is relatively simple First boot VisiCalc and load the template in the normal manner Then I nsert a row at the top of the template Then enter the row letters across the top Then I nsert a column at the left side of the template Then place 2 in cell A2 Then place this formula in cell A3 A2 1 Then replicate that down however many rows you have Now save it to disk in the normal manner Use a different suffix so that you can distinguish it in the future Now boot your word processor in the normal manner then load the template into the word processor s memory by whatever procedure is appropriate for your word processor Then do a global Search amp Replace using the apropriate commands In Apple Writer the command would be CTRL F a 58 November 1983 Racsly IN Y What you are doing is replacing each in each line with a semicolon and quote i e Since all lines have the this means that all formulas are now preceeded by a All lines that where labels now have two quotes and one of them would show on your printout So to clean up the printout do another Global Search 8 Replace replacing the two quotes with one In Apple Writer the command would be CTRL F a Now save it to disk with a different suffix I add the FORMULAS as the suffix thus also letting me know both the name and that it is converted to formulas
194. t notice Model shown includes certain options Offer available only in the contiguous U S Asynchronous RS 232 interface Printwheel ribbon cartridge and cable included 30 day parts labor warranty ANDERSON JACOBSON FOR WAP MEMBERS ONLY You can now buy an AJ 831 for 888 This e includes a 90 day full warranty with any repairs being done at your home or office Please call Sean Belanger at 840 5700 for details
195. ted from memory If you wish only to copy this text not delete it you must use the insertion procedure described in the next paragraph to restore these data To insert VisiCalc and other text files into memory position the cursor at the desired insertion point and press Open Apple I Enter the number of the document to be loaded from the list of disk files displayed on the screen e g B1 and the entire file will be inserted If you want to move a single paragraph a short distance Zardax provides a simple method to accomplish this Position the cursor in the text of the paragraph to be moved and press Open Apple M You may then press U or D to move the text up or down in the document The paragraph will move with you Once you have reached the desired place press the space bar to terminate the move function relatively All of the cut and paste commands described above work very well and help facilitate the edit process E Document Formatting amp Printing Like most processors Zardax has an extensive menu of formatting commands that may be imbedded in the text of a document These commands modify the standard page size margins and other defaults for the document in memory and initiate boldface printing headers footers line spacing justification centering and a wide variety of other features I will discuss only two of these special printer commands and indenting There are seven commands 21 27 that may
196. th Logo are Before You Start Reading This Book Getting Started The World of the Turtle Special Turtle Activities Shoot amp Quickdraw Teaching the Computer Turtle Projects 1 Design Turtle Projects 2 Drawings Variables Poly and Its Relatives Conversations with the Computer Activities with Numbers Words amp Lists SHOOT An Interactive Turtle Game a Hit the Target game of estimating QUICKDRAW A Turtle Drawing Activity for Young Children a single key proc Animating the Turtle Building a Racetrack Game Meet the Poet How The Special Tool Procedures Work Appendices Giving LWL Procedures for Terrapin Krell Apple Logo and Ti Logo Explaining how to use this book with Apple Logo and TI Logo Initializing amp Copying Logo Workdisks Summary of Logo Commands Functional Index The book is excellent for the new Logo users or those helping new Logo users parents teachers It is what I would consider to be the best possible curriculum guide for those teachers who must have one Logo if done the way Papert proposes would not follow a regi mented curriculum but I have discovered teachers need a basic structure to work from LWL if used proper ly should not be followed step by step but rather as Dan Watt suggests should be used by kids and adults as they help each other discover Throughout the book the Logo user will find of powerful ideas exploration helper s hints and pitfalls compl
197. th Monitor Micro Spooler 64K Computer Desk 125 12 GRN 18 Mhz Micro Buffer Il 16K 80 col crd Videx 250 AMDEK 300G GRN Micro Buffer I 32K CPM Card Microsoft 249 AMDEK 300A Amber f Comp Paper 9 x 11 519 Multifunction Card 159 Color 1 13 AMDEK THE MICRO CONNECTION MONEY SAVING COUPON 500 OFF ANY PURCHASE OVER 5099 5109 OFF ANY PURCHASE OVER NAME C STATE 7 ZIP o Limit One Coupon Per Person Limit One Coupon Per Sale Coupon Valid Thru 12 31 83 Store Hours 10 AM to 6 PM Monday thru Saturday 2d DON T OVERPAY CALL THE DISCOUNTERS AT Bi MICRO CONNECTION 320 MAPLE AVE EAST 8228 FENTON STREET VIENNA VA 22180 SILVER SPRING MD 20910 281 1866 EE 495 60 Washington Apple Pi November 1983 33 GAMES PEOPLE PLAY bu Leslie Shriner PARTHIAN KINGS Parthian Kings by Avalon Hill is based on city state rivalry and is as good a fantasy wargame as any now on the market While it is not overly complicated the game definitely has depth It also has some new fea tures not found in any other fantasy wargame The game is interesting to play and real strategy is needed to win There are only a few hindrances that I found while playing the game In this game one to four players fight for superiority over five cities The player must regulate taxes too many taxes and people pack up and leave in order to buy an army made up of four different levels of sol diers
198. the RAM device Needless to say any save or load action is almost instantaneous You should use such a device with caution Once you exit Zardax all data in RAM card memory will be lost In addi tion if you decide to use the RAM device for data storage and printer spooling any data previously saved on that device will be overwritten during the spooling process FORM LETTERS amp LABELS Data from an existing data base or a file created with Zardax may be used for the generation of form letter and address label variables The only requirements are that the bracketed names of each variable be listed at the beginning of the file to be used and each variable in a record be located on a separate line To set up a form letter document locate variable names where needed in the letter or label e g first name gt To print the document press escape to enter the Inner Menu and press P for print You will be asked for the name of the data file Enter this information press return and the merge print process will begin It is that simple Data variables may be used out of sequence and as many times as needed This means that you may refer to a variable lt First Name as many times as you need to personalize business letter Zardax will not permit conditional printing Thus you must edit a Zardax data file or use a separate data base to select only those records that you want to process For example if you wish to send
199. tle or they can add up to quite a sum Features are strength armor class movement and fir ing ability The secret of winning this game is in building a good army Deployment of these forces is also important Strategy goes a long way but let s face it you can t win with an inferior army The documentation s complete but some parts are dif ficult to understand The game comes with an instruc tion book of 20 pages The sections that seem the most difficult to understand are for building an army and deployment of troops By reading trying to play then re reading the manual the game becomes much clearer Parthian Kings runs on any Apple II or e with 48K and one disk drive Commands are entered from the keyboard with simple one or two key instructions I enjoyed this game The slowness of play was offset Two Reviews SPARE CHANGE Spare Change by Broderbund Software is a cute non aggresive game which has good graphics and can become addictive in a hurry In this original hi res action game you own an arcade and the stars of your most popular game are loose and are trying to steal enough tokens to retire You can for a token distract the Zerks They can t resist the jukebox popcorn machine or telephones In the meantime you must fill up two hoppers with tokens When you fill the hoppers you can go on to the next level After every four levels the player gets what are called Zerk Shows at which time one can see any five h
200. to use p B b 0 2 and 7 for my own symbols If you did not delete the Apple symbols for p B b 0 2 and 7 from the screen then the control characters for these symbols which are different from yours would appear since Apple s symbols with their control characters are listed first on the SPECIAL file instead of your control char acters Now that I have given you a few cautionary words about the symbols to use I will go on to the actual technique for making a glossary of printer commands l Load the SPECIAL file on the Master Apple Writer lle disk this helps make the special glossary using the L function 2 Type your symbol for the specific function For ex ample my symbol for the data processing mode was 3 Press V 4 Press ESC You will see something similar to the appear in the case of the commands listed on C 4 For those listed on C 3 press the CONTROL key 5 Type in the number or letter next to ESC under the ASCII Code column for the particular function desired this applies to the commands on C 4 For the data processing mode it was 0 For the commands listed on C 3 type in the letter or character within the brackets for the desired function i e after having pressed the CONTROL key in step 4 See procedure 7 above for the Control Code equivalents 6 Then press V again to turn off the embedding My line for the data processing symbol plus the embedded code looked as follows
201. top reading right here ARS Publications the distributor even says in their advertisements CHEAT Make yourself a 1000th level superhero Honestly I believe that s going a little too far After using Wizmaker I dis covered that a 250th level fighter strikes for 120 hit points has affected Wizardry is now practically invincible Some of the things you can adjust with Wizmaker are age experience points gold attributes levels and spells Other than that your new characters on Wizmaker should have a merry time romping through the Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord CHEATS aka patches Before you do these you must BLOAD the game and enter the monitor CALL 151 Cannonball Blitz A E 6315 60 harmless cannonballs 1 1 of men you 3C01 EE infinite number of men want 76 Alien Ambush 4608 20 12 46 EA EA auto fire 609 7 of ships max 80 40006 starts game starts game Washington Apple Pi Professional joystick Metal the only disadvantage is that s he yes ERA amp The only thing that the program does not have f is the ability to change your characters possessions 7FDG starts game FREE SHIPPING on 219 Disk drive controller 60 2 804 card 4MHz 90 80 column card 99 55 16K RAM card Zenith 12 88 monitor 115 ZVM 123 Amdek color 1 plus monitor 295 non glare screen ear phone jack 379 459 649 549 70 case w 2 fire buttons a
202. u what do do about it how to isolate the offending set up documentation is like the rest of LISA docu component and finally the part number LISA can be mentation spectacular down to the color photographs completely disassembled without tools It can be on how to put an electric plug into the wall and where honestly said that the handling of data with LISA is to put one s fingers when opening a box and picking as easy as moving one s wrist and index finger very things up I really can t believe this detail is slightly provided one s thumb and middle finger are necessary There is also a good bit of repetition in enclosing the mouse at that time that the set up procedures for LISA itself the Pro file hard disk drive and the printer have a great That is not to say that 30 minutes will suffice for deal of overlap and the same can be said for the all LISA studies The individual software programs documen tation of the six onboard programs each of which are loaded by pointing at a pad of the which comes with its own volume of documentation appropriate paper in the file cabinet Profile Since Apple boasts that all LISA programs operate in each have their own special functions and using them the same general way it follows that there is at requires additional study How far one wishes to least one chapter in common in each of these sets of penetrate into the complexities of each program deter in structions mines the amount of time requi
203. ur pick Apple amp IBM 5700 J Sunnyside Avenue National Account Dealer Beltsville Maryland 20705 GSA Schedule 345 8170 301 345 1123 Washington Apple Pi November 1983 43 102 17 COMPUTER HANGMAN An excellent hi res adap tation of the pencil and paper game DISK 105 FIG FORTH UTILITIES Reviewed by Richard Langston II FIG FORTH 78 Forth Interest Group Forth is implemen tation of the popular Forth language for a 48K Apple Only one disk drive is needed to use this language but two are supported Forth has been used to write operating systems and major software for other com puters such as the IBM PC Forth is a stack oriented language that is operations are performed on two first in last out data structures called stacks similar to the Apple s 6502 stack The major parts of the language are the two stacks the Data Stack and the Return Stack the Dictionary and the Disk Screen Area The disk includes extensive docu mentation discribing each of the Forth commands called words Additional information on the Forth language for the Apple can be found in Bill Wurzel s Speaking of Forth articles in WAP January 1983 July 1983 and Bob Platt s A Page From the Stack article in May 1983 WAP For an interesting look at Forth and other languages read Jerry Pournelle s article The Debate Goes 0n in BTYE Vol 8 No 8 August 1983 105 1 APPLESOFT SEARCH REPLACE Searches Applesoft programs for desi
204. uto center and 2 fine trimer MICRO STAR CO 2000 Grosvenor Century Plaza Suite 230 Columbia MD 21044 301 730 7172 ES Add 1 00 handling fee MD resident add 5 tax Personal or company checks allow 2 weeks to clear COD accepted by m o or cashier check add 1 65 COD charge Prices are subject to change without notice Epson RX 80 Epson MX 80 F T Epson MX 100 Epson FX 80 Parallel printer card cable included Verbatim diskette SS DD plastic library case Quantity discount available on Mitac disk drive 100 Apple compatible Shugart 390 Verbatim diskette joystick and all cards November 1983 35 WIZF IK FIX boy Bill Wizardry buffs Guion got a real treat in the August 1983 issue of inCider magazine That issue included a program called WIZFIX billed as a utility that enables you to examine your Wizardry characters on a backup disk and change their characteristics WIZFIX the end result of a lot of work by the author Kerry J Lantz who investigated a backup character disk until he was able to decode the characteristics information WIZFIX is the result of his remarkable effort My son the Wizardry player in our household and I typed in WIZFIX carefully following the directions in the article After proofreading what we had entered against the listing in the magazine we then proceeded to the acid test running against a backup disk Things seemed to work pretty
205. ving bought its first one 15 years ago There is currently a commitment by the school to have one computer for every child within the decade There is already a computer in every classroom Ataris and Apple clones and soon assignments will require children to have an Apple at home homework being handed in on disk Tim Selwyn is the director of the school and David Weaver is Director of Computers They ran the Computer Camp as part of a much larger camp of 650 children Barrie is the largest Montessori school in the hemi sphere and a burning question is What is the Monte ssori way to teach computers The camp takes kids where they are and works through a clear sequence There were a maximum of 20 children in each classroom and an adult in charge in each classroom Ages ranged from 3rd grade to the beginning of high school Older children wanted to work in BASIC but those who were experienced in LOGO soon wished to return to it In grades 3 through 6 there were equal numbers of girls and boys but in grades 7 8 and 9 the ratio was in favor of the boys The classrooms were set up in science laboratories with the computers set up in a circle so that the children could see what everybody else was doing Peer learning turned out to be a strong influence Children who arrived two weeks late caught up in two days St Stephen s is an all male private school in Virgin ia They bought 12 new Apples for their camp With a lacrosse c
206. w column G and insert TWO new columns column M and column N The go to column M These will become the new This will mess up slightly the appearance of the reconcile area at the bottom of the template so go to this area now and move the labels and formulas over to the left one column so that it looks pretty again Raesluy JO of this article into you template exactly as This will actually be only the information at the head of the new columns and at the end the monthly summary information plus one row of formulas You will notice that you still have some large blanks in the template so now fill them in with the R epli cate command Go to cell G8 and replicate this down the column to G32 Then go to cell M and R eplicate cells M8 and N8 down to row 32 If the cursor is in cell M8 the command would be R MB N8 M9 M32 Now go to cell R8 and R eplicate R8 through Z8 down to row 32 If your cursor is at cell R8 the command would be R R8 28 R9 R32 That is all there is to it As before if you wish to add additional rows just move to row 32 and I nsert as many rows as you wish The formulas are set so that they will automatically adjust themselves to the new number of rows After I nserting R eplicate row 32 to fill as many rows as you added and then The command would To use the template load it into memory turn off the automatic recalculate be GRM Then enter your make it recal
207. w cost modem kits The questioner wanted to know if you could use the game I 0 port to drive a modem George says it is possible to use the game port for simul taneous send and receive at 300 baud Bizcomp and MFJ George sell software for their modems which does exactly that Also XICOM 801 E Ogden Naperville IL sells a bare board communications card for 18 I have received some fan mail on how to do super and subscripts with Wordstar and the C Itoh printer from Albert Feldman and Arnold Rosenberg I pass along their observations The first thing is to select the line feed printer choice in Wordstar s Install program This selec tion would ordinarily cause the C Itoh printer to print double spaced However by installing a com mand for half line feed in User Patch 3 and invok ing that command at the beginning of the document the superscript and subscript commands in Wordstar will work perfectly So using the Install Program then N for NO when you are asked Are the modifications now com plete and type the following hex numbers exactly in the locations shown 0603 04 0604 18 0605 54 0606 31 0607 32 This corresponds to ESC T12 which is the C Itoh printer command for setting the printer to half line spacing 12 144 Now to return to regular spacing type the fol lowing numbers in which correspond to ESC A 06D8 02 0609 18 060A 41 When using WordStar type Ctrl PE at the
208. when someone gets around to 30 seconds or so for the housekeeping procedures to be converting the remaining 860 000 lines of Pascal completed before the physical ejection occurs instructions into machine code Three months after the introduction LISA still does not have a program 2 When adding outboard items to LISA one has to go to drive a modem although it is promised weekly and to the Office Systems program in the Profile and tell no programs to help the financial managers statisti it what has been added and at which port and then cians etc among us It is reported that 142 com power down and back up again through the housekeeping panies here and abroad are writing programs for LISA logic to take the new peripheral on board and that they will be merged into LISA s unique program structure by Spring By that time my LISA 3 The optional keyboard which contains lots of which resides in my bedroom in Hawaii will be explod interesting symbols such as the gt is not yet operable ing with abilities 46 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi THE STRUGGLING DINOSAUR ith E Swift My life has not been an easy one Now that I ve gotten that off my chest I want to explain why It s not that the world has been cruel to me quite the contrary But the very contrariness has been mixed with paradoxes First of all I m too old to learn new tricks Well not DEAD you understand but operating below maximum efficiency This
209. worth the cost This is one of Broderbund s best releases 34 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi GAMEV I1 uJs by Jeff Bruner Got any cheats or patches for any of your games Give me a call at 301 977 0835 or WP1738 on the ABBS so I can pass them on to other readers Thanks Also I know you ALF people are out there so Jet me know Name A E Maker Broderbund Price 29 95 First there was Choplifter then Serpentine and fi nally A E The people at Broderbund just seem to get better How they plan on outdoing A E is beyond me Although designed as pollution fighting robot the A E has managed to slip through quality control into the unsuspecting universe The player s job is to control this nuisance Of course this is easier said than done The firing mechanism in A E is difficult To fire press the button To make it explode you have to release it Well timed and placed shots can kill the A E and give you a perfect attack You must have three perfect attacks before you can move onto the next level The graphics and sound in A E are great and the game gives you the urge to play just one more game This game is in the top of its class A four star product Name Wizmaker v Maker ARS Publications 3710 Pacific Ave 216 Venice CA 90291 Price 20 00 Wizmaker is a utility program for your Wizardry and Knight of Diamonds characters If you are a Wizardry fanatic who doesn t beleive in cheating s
210. yte can contain 1 2 or 3 plot move commands lines 490 through 520 sepa rate the byte into 1 to 3 commands Lines 530 through 560 print a period if the command is to plot and then call the appropriate subroutine to move the carriage to get ready to plot the next point The shape address pointer is incremented in line 570 and another byte is obtained The process stops when the end of the shape table is reached which is indicated by a zero byte and this is detected in line 480 Lines 390 the plot mode setup and lines 620 650 are the only lines that are printer specific Listing 1 HIRESDUMP 100 86 665 6666 6 ma 110 HIRES DUMP ROUTINE TO 120 REM ANDERSON JACOBSON PRINTER 130 REM 140 REM B F FIELD 21 APR 82 150 REM 7 9255R 95 2 45e eene 160 REM 170 HIMEM 4096 180 60508 520 REM SETUP MACH LANG where you want the shape to start and then press 190 D CHR 13 CHR 4 RETURN 200 E CHR 27 REM ESCAPE 210 P REM PLOT CHARACTER For the more adventuresome I offer the following 215 Z 000 comments on how the programs work First the hi res 230 INPUT WHICH PAGE 1 OR 2 P dump program Listing 1 240 IF P lt 1 OR P gt 2 THEN 230 250 P P 8192 contd 50 November 1983 Washington Apple Pi 260 PRINT PRINT SETUP PRINTER AND PRESS ANY KEY 270 PRINT D PR21 PRINT 280 GET A 290 REM 300 REM INITIALIZE PRINTER 310 REM MOVE

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