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Washington Apple Pi Journal, April 1986

1. In the menu below you see the twelve graph types supplied by CG The scatter plot is easy to obtain just click on the two variable names listed in the dialog box one for the horizontal axis one for the vertical axis The polar and quality control charts may be unknown to some readers but of great value to others One thing to note appears in the lower right hand corner of the menu CG provides you with a plain unblemished screen called Text and several tools to create a graphic of your own The tools include text square and round boxes and arrows These features can be used with any CG graph to enhance its appearance ud El Graph Menu A zar m TI i Tools Menu ar Column olar AA a ou ext Your data are entered into a scrollable window in which a column is treated as series The window works the same as the one used in Statworks I prefer Microsofts handling of data windows over the CG approach As you backspace in a cell after erasing the entry you are placed in the cell above it You may find that you inadvertently have begun erasing the entry in that one as well Another weak point of CG s data entry is that the category labels must always be in the data window Frequently you have a single column of numbers which form a series and you want to plot T them To do this you must manually enter 1357911315171 2123252729 313335 3 39 4 4345 4749 51 5355 5759 61 Olumn to be used as the category valu
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4. DB Master Data Perfect Data Factory General Manager PFS Pro 4 Oro 11 isiPlot Gcorge Kinal 7 10 Jeremy Parker John Day Dave Harvey Jeremy Parker Tom Nebiker Bernie Benson Joe England 7 10 Joan B Dunham Joan B Dunham Harmon Pritchard Steve Wildstrom Bernie Benson John Day John Day Steve Hunt Donald Schmitt Rob Clark Terry Monks Steve Hunt Skip Horvath JoAnn Stewart David Morganstcin Steve Hunt David Jamison day Jim Berry Harvcy Levine Jon Hardis Don Landing Carolyn Komada Tom Berilla Mark Miani Jay Lucas Jon Hardis John Boblitz Don Landing Steve Hunt Walt Francis Skip Horvath J T Tom DeMay Jr David Morganstcin Bob Pulgino Ray Hobbs 7 30 10 Marty Milrod Paul Bublitz John Staples Ray Hobbs 7 30 10 Jim Kellock day Leon Racsly Dave Einhorn Leon Racsly Bob Schmidt Normand Bernache Bill Etuc Ginny Spevak JJ Finkelstein John Staples Leon Raesly Calls up until midnight arc ok Washington Apple Pi 202 301 301 703 301 216 301 301 301 301 621 7543 527 2704 1 498 6074 524 0937 350 3283 262 5607 460 0754 460 0754 262 5607 951 5294 978 1816 969 1990 369 3366 960 0787 546 7270 229 2578 621 7543 951 5294 621 7543 621 7543 262 9080 334 3265 04 850 2016 471 4610 262 9080 779 4632 972 4263 797 0879 490 7484 464 2154 261 4124 893 5985 490 7484 986 9522 460 0754 593 8420 460 0754 7
5. FETCH TABLE CONCLUSION r R gt V gt I conclude that ANIMAL PHRASE CR 1SFEB86CHP KNOW I already know that CR 32 1 DO I FETCH TRUE IF ANIMAL I PHRASE IS TRUE 10 CR ENDIF LOOP 32 1 DOI FETCH FALSE IF ANIMAL I PHRASE 11 IS FALSE CR ENDIF LOOP WO 00 dA tn WwW 1 DUP 26 IF IS TIGER ELSE 12 2 DUP 27 IF IS GIRAFFE ELSE 13 WHY v r v r I m working on rule DUP CR KNOW 3 DUP 28 IF IS ZEBRA ELSE 14 OVER Please answer whether ANIMAL PHRASE 4 DUP 29 IF IS OSTRICH ELSE 15 gt 5 DUP 30 IF IS PENGUIN ELSE 6 DUP 31 IF IS ALBATROSS SCR 45 7 ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF 0 1 More statements 15FEB86CHP 8 ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF SRULE r r DUP sonia 36 April 1986 Washington Apple Pi Nan Nu 2 Examining Rule CR 3 4 STORE r n r n v 5 OVER RV 6 OVER OVER irnvnv 7 TABLE rav 8 9 DECISION r n v n 10 ROT nvr 11 Rule deduces that ANIMAL nv 12 PHRASE n 13 DUP FALSE IF IS FALSE ENDIF CR n 14 15 gt SCR 46 ON Request for input data 15FEB86CHP 1 ASK Is this true ANIMAL 2 3 REQUEST A v r A n 4 BEGIN KEY DUP EMIT CR 5 DUP 89 IF DROP DROP DROP 1 DUP ELSE Y yes 6 DUP 78 IF DROP DROP DROP 1 DUP ELSE Vno 7 87 IF WHY 0 ELSE ERROR TRY AGAIN 0 8 ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF UNTIL 9 10 INPUT r v r
6. DRIVER NAME FOR FROM SIZE kkkkKKKKKKKDRINTER SPECIALS kx CONSOLE Apple 7K I CONSOLE Pe iii 10K Citizen 120D 229 QQ MSP18 329 RAM Titan e 13K Price our IBM PC XT s and compatables PPRINT D A Data Systems 2 30K SPOOLER Quark 6K SPOOLSTATUS Quark 6K DISK SPECIAL BOX NASHUA 1D S 8 75 GRAFIX Apple SK ALL ITEMS ADD 5 MD SALES TAX PRINTER Apple Serial 2K CALL ALL HOURS 236 4004 Washington Apple Pi April 1986 15 Q amp A by Bruce F Field I have heard there is a program in the public domain which speeds garbage collection in Applesoft To date 1 have been frustrated in obtaining the specific reference for this code Can you help The program you are looking for was written by Randy Wiggington and was originally published in Call A P P L E January 1981 pp 40 45 It was re published in Call A P P L E In Depth Volume 1 All About Applesoft pp 25 33 A couple of corrections have recently been discovered by our readers and reported in this column First the SBC STREND at line 55 in the All About Applesoft AAA version should be SBC STREND 1 the original version is correct Secondly as published the routine works but actually goes through the garbage collection process twice each time garbage collection is required The solution is to remove the JSR NZTAB at line 60 AAA version line 59 original version and insert a JMP NZTAB immediately before the line labelled FNDVAR2 line 65 AAA versi
7. To date Sierra On Line has only released the Cash Dis bursements module of MacOneWrite which is reviewed below They told me that they expect to release the General Ledger module this month but didn t tell me of any other plans Maccountant from Digital Etc has had an undeserved bad press The version which I first examined had some prob lems but I have experienced no problems with the current release V2 0 Vendor support has been excellent After entering the program a display of icons the Open Book Window is available Fig 1 from which you can select the Company Folder to enter the name of your company and if desired two passwords allowing either unrestricted access or access limited to data entry and retrieval The date defaults to the system clock but may be reset easily Filo Edit Functions Reports Mongh Noncash Journal EH T of Banks CDJ IE Sales Accounts Recelvable a Purcheses Accounts Payoble pe Loure s Lovely Leco Co Debi ts Credits For the month of Jan 1986 is ca Reed t Reed Sam REY CPR s Furniture Supplles 3O0 GON Hoops Spentsnt Sote 0 ds Spanish 5 10N30 pum m Tidy 1 Strung out t800yds Tidy 1 3 10100 Pas 150 35Oyds Delgian 12 03 Lots 0 500001 Oris Delglan 12 3 10190 300001 2050 0001 Figure 1 File Edit Functions enous Heln Index sd USE UF THE HELP WINDOW k al SETTING UP YOUR BOOKS DATING ENTRIES yA DEPARTMENTS WINDOW ENTERING NEW ACCOUNTS C09 J
8. Washington Apple Pi Meeting Schedule Beginning in March 9 00 39 30 11 00 11 15 12 45 2 00 Apple il Macintosh Auditorium Program Program Business Meeting S Macintosh Apple li Special Cafeteria Q amp A Session Q amp Session Interest and announcements and announcements Groups Journal distribution and disk sales begin at 8 45 and go for as long as demand and the supply of volunteers to handle the demand permits IN 12 April 1986 Washington Apple Pi TELECOM SIG NEWS The Telecom SIG met after the WAP meeting on February 22 and was conducted by George Kinal The meeting started off with a question about ASCII Express Professional which concerned a Menu 4 item on the Here Is character This item has to do with situations when dealing with systems like TELEX For most users this item can be ignored The new Hayes Smartmodem 2400 was discussed There are no dip switches on this modem and for the most part the modem is intelligent enough to figure out what should be done What is unusual about this modem is that it has non volatile memory and registers can be set Then when the unit is turned off the memory is not lost It uses no batteries for this capability It can store telephone numbers in addition to settings for the registers There was discussion about failure modes for the X Modem protocol and how this protocol handles bad blocks that are received There seem to be bugs in the procedures of
9. We don t know of any reason why it shouldn t although the Enter key acts as the keypad Enter which is different than the keyboard Enter on the old keyboard Help My copy of the Universe II doesn t work Call Tom Carbone at 203 658 6917 and tell him your woes It seems that a bad batch of disks may have gotten out By the way this game is said to take great liberties with the Mac interface standard game m April 1986 Can I use an Image Writer printer on a PC Yes Mark Herbert recommends the following cable con nections IBM Serial gt ImageWriter 1 gt 1 7 gt 7 2 gt 3 3 gt 2 20 gt 6 8 6 8 gt 4 4 gt 5 5 gt 20 The last four runs sound funny to me though Mario Vano suggests that you tell the IBM software that you re using a C Itoh 8510 printer Using the DOS Mode command set the baud rate to 9600 and use the P option When I choose Open some programs have large dialog boxes that show a lot of the file name and some are small showing little Why I d like them all to be large Those dialogs are controlled by the SFGetFile dialog templates that are stored as resources There is a default dialog box in the System file DLOG 4000 and application programmers are free to create their own variants If you want to experiment you can use the Resource Editor to modify the shapes and sizes of these templates I can t go into details here but I refer you to Chapters 13 and 20 in Volume I of the p
10. later Specific instructions on correction and return FINALLY at line 790 A is entered into A M via GOSUB to line 100 where the large block letter font is designated The A M portion is between lines 50 and 500 not shown in the listing below It is compact and designed for easy incorporation into other programs Looking at it as a utility it permits the selection of up to three alphabets at line 50 53 I chose block letters small standard and Apple Text is entered one letter at a time via a GOSUB in line 100 There is a self protecting ON ERR GOTO routine at line 55 which jumps out of the program on error The large typeface is attractive and of course readymade but it presented several problems The letters are proportionally spaced This gives the text a handsome look but gave me much trouble in two aspects corrections and end of line wraparound Not to burden you with my troubles my solution was to give up on the proportional and assign to each character the same spacing Corrections were still complicated It would have been nice to be able to back up to the beginning of the line and rewrite the whole line the technique which is built into A M but both teacher and child protested With fixed spacing the subroutine which was eventually worked out begins with the last character automatically backspaces and deletes each character to be changed by overprinting in the background color usually black and then ret
11. pac man chomped across the screen gobbling up the ship Notwithstanding the resulting audience hilarity this represents use of a 3 D pointing device that the operator was wearing Alan predicts that this agent will represent computing of the future that the computer will be like a cellular telephone the operator moving from node to node The computer will be his personal agent following him from room to room ready to do his bidding Artificial Intelligence is fine but as an agent it should say what it can do for you and also what it cannot It should be treated not as an oracle but like a librarian as a guide We need new ways to perfect agents to give the user information on the limitations of the computer interface Expert systems are also useful but they do not learn They are like bees with only 24 hour memories So development of Artificial Intelligence systems should not be modeled on insects but also should not be like humans who have language which makes things very complicated to understand what the brain might be doing We should be like the neurobiologists who study a variety of animals look at their behaviour and try to understand how they work The Project The protocol calls for a Vivarium an environment in which animals can roam around Apple has taken on a elementary school in Los Angeles for five years as the project location This is not a special school but it certainly does special things for the children who
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13. Adaptation Electronics 301 948 7440 Custom cables for the Apple c and Macintosh or other computer Call for a quote E PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS Computer Learning for Seniors Inc is sponsoring five sessions for beginners covering Operating Systems Word Processing Databases and Spreadsheets Classes are each Saturday at a Maryland location from 9 30AM to 1 30PM Tuition is free Registration and Lab fee is 25 These classes are for age 50 For information call 971 4490 For reservation send check to Computer Learning for Seniors Inc P O Box 34210 Bethesda MD 20817 Include your SSN date of birth telephone no for day and evenings and your address The Greater Baltimore Hamboreeand Computerfest will take place on Sunday April 6th at Timonium Maryland This event sponsored by the Baltimore Amateur Radio Club Inc W3FT is now in its 15th year and is the largest Ham and electronic event in the Mid Atlantic area The Hamboree started out as exclusively oriented toward Ham radio but with the advent of personal computers and other hi tech electronics now supports both interests Our sales areas Commercial Flea Market and Tuilgate have many vendors that offer great bargains on computers and parts 6 April 1986 Washington Apple Pi WAP SUNDAY MONDAY April 1986 SATURDAY Monday 7th Deadline for Journal Articles 7 Mac Begin Tutorial 1 7 10 PM Office 14
14. While not as easy to use as other features it is powerful and a welcome feature It is somewhat complicated by the need to create a separate join file which requires the use of a word processor The MockWrite desk accessory speeds the operation Also once joined if you update information in one of the earlier files you must change it in the new file that relies on the other manually A truly rela tional file structure such as that established between dependent spreadsheet in Excel would be welcome But the powerful Macro feature helps simply this task The reports feature as noted above permits the storage as menu items of up to eight report forms But you have no font choices The report forms are easy to create The mouse allows easy placement of fields page numbers dates etc The lack of a preview feature however forces you to use the trial and error method of formatting your document This is another feature I would like to see on an enhanced version Also you are limited to 150 characters in landscape mode even using the wide carriage Imagewriter or the Laser So far that hasn t been a problem but I can envision databases where this would be a limitation Support and Documentation Support from ProVUE has been outstanding Their support people are extremely pleasant and anxious to help In fact because of limitations in the XLisa Migration I could not transfer an entire LisaList file The ProVUE customer service peop
15. accurate Furthermore from other material they sent me Pinpoint will not work with early versions of RamWorks Z RAM Applied Engineering or with MultiRam e Checkmate Technology Pinpoint Publishing does offer a 20 RAM enhancement program to take care of these problems It will also not work with a parallel printer hooked up to a c through a black box without the user entering special POKE commands sent to me by the company after misinterpreting my questions conceming non Apple printers None of these restrictions are mentioned in the manual Assuming that none of these problems occurred and that one owns the fanciest and newest Apple equipment does Pinpoint fall into a must have category I think not but it is not expensive retails for a list price of 69 and some of its options may suit the style and convenience of some users The Appointment Calendar is well designed It shows a monthly calendar and you can enter and change appointments for any date That date is then marked with an asterisk so that visually you can see which dates in any month have appointments Then you can zoom into the date and make contd Washington Apple Pi entries These can be printed so that you have a daily record of your schedule Several restrictions apply to the calendar It is only set up to 1990 Presumably after 1990 only 4 years away you would have to purchase a new copy of Pinpoint Second each day having appointments uses ab
16. and cut more notches for flip side use than in the previous year which is expensive space consumptive and pushes my files further into obscurity My rating of 2 Cards defined as poor though meeting essential criteria reflects disappointments as well as a modicum of excitement I expected a one file disk structure but the very serious limitations make this an expensive toy SwyftCard is a fast disk access system with few com mands but many limitations belie the much vaunted simplicity This article is as much a how to as a review Whilst not wishing to be curmudgeonly of a great idea well engineered I look forward to a discounted upgrade when the bugs are banished Insert and Strings files can be named 140K disk capacity utilized and 128K accessed in RAM I acknowledge with gratitude the help of Mr Dave Harvey with Telecomms and the computer literary advice of my colleagues Drs Bob Becker and Brent Hjermstad G Washington Apple Pi y I have evaluated from the communications point of view the SwyftCard that has been so heavily advertised lately In order to properly test the Card I removed the Titan Accelerator lle card that I have in my Apple e Reading the documen tation I discovered that I should use an Apple Super Serial Card I have a Prometheus 1200A card which I am told acts just like a Super Serial Card so I thought I would try running the program with this The tutorial is quite straight forwa
17. capture Alan s presentation as well If you would like to see the February meeting or any of the other recent meetings check with the office and you can arrange to come in and see our videotape If you re interested in borrowing or buying a videotape of WAP meetings call the office at 654 8060 and we ll see what can be arranged W AP may also have available a videotape of the Steve Wozniak s recent Apple World conference talk on his days running Dial a Joke in San Jose and his early college years Finally thanks must go to Adrien Youell our Vice President for Programs who coordinates perhaps I should say choreographs the many program activities that go on at WAP meetings Adrien who is one of the best organized people I ve ever met had even his abilities taxed by all the things that needed to be done at the last minute to get ready for Alan s talk That things went off so well is an example of Adrien s hard work and dedication Gentlemen from all of us Thank you WAP is looking for a few good men and women The annual Washington Apple Pi elections for officers and directors will be held beginning at our May meeting All WAP members are eligible and encouraged to run Jay Heller and Mike Ungerman have agreed to serve as a nominating committee and they re hard at work this month An eo 4 April 1986 PRESIDENT S by Tom Warrick he February WAP meeting with Alan Kay was virtually looking for you
18. e and c That s the good news The bad news is that in designing the program for all of the new equipment the publishers have left the rest of us who have only slightly outdated computers and printers without the use of all of the options of the program I have a 128K c an extra disk drive and an Okidata 92 printer With this combination 1 found Pinpoint to be disappointing and a relative nuisance to use 1 had quite a bit of trouble getting the printer working correctly with Pinpoint and was never able to get my printer to use all options available for it from Pinpoint I had extensive correspondence with the Pinpoint Publishing Company They tried to solve my problems but were slow to respond and twice misread my complaint Their responses indicated to me that Pinpoint was rushed to the market before all final testing and debugging was done And to solve my printer problem they suggested that I purchase a supplemental program Virtually every other program I have ever used has been written to accomodate a wide variety of the most common printers and interface cards Pinpoint was specifically designed for the Apple Imagewriter printers if you own anything else you will have trouble unless you buy a separate disk from Pinpoint Publishing called the Pinpoint Graphic Printing Supplement As of last December this disk was not yet released Pinpoint is a self contained ProDOS program All of its features can be run independently of any o
19. 23 Beginning EDSIG Tutortal 3 7 30 PM 7 30 9 00PM Office Office 27 28 29 30 BBS Comm Apple Office 7 30 Chambr 7 30 PM of Commerce Bldg DC April 1986 Apple SIG meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 7 30 PM in the Chamber of Commerce Bldg 1615 H Street NW DC The April meeting will be on the 23rd Apple c meets each month after the regular WAP meeting DisabledSIG meets on the first Thursday of each month at the Chevy Chase Community Center 7 00 PM The next meeting will be on April 3 See their news elsewhere in this issue dPub SIG Desktop Publishing meets on the second Saturday of the month at 12 Noon WAP Office The next meeting will be on April 12 EdSIG the education special interest group meets on the 4th Thurs day of the month at the office 7 30 PM The next meeting will be on April 24 ForthSIG meets on the third Sat urday of the month at the office 12 Noon GameSIG meets on the first Thursday of each month at the office 7 30 PM The next meeting will be on April 3 See their news elsewhere in this issue LISA MacXL SIG will meet at 8 30AM on April 26 just before the main WAP meeting PIG the Pascal Interest Group meets on the third Thursday of each month at the office 8 00 PM The meeting on April will be on Apple Pascal and Artificial Intelligence AT programming PI SIG meets on the third Monday of each month at the office 8 00 PM SigMac Programmers meet on t
20. 301 946 2642 301 460 0754 6 1656 Bulletin Board Opr Leon Raesly 302 68 day 202 337 7900 Dealer Rel Comm John Alden Jim Burger Rich Wasserstrom General Counsel Jim Burger day 301 337 7900 Membership Dana Schwartz 301 654 8060 Program John Alden 202 686 1656 Publicity Chairman Hunter Alexander 703 820 8304 Public Relations Leon Raesly 301 460 0754 Tutorials Oscar Kramer 301 384 5206 George Sall 703 768 0212 Steve Stern 301 881 2543 Ted Meyer 703 893 6845 Volunteer Coord Sue Ro 703 356 9025 SIG Chairmen Appleseeds lan Thal _ 202 244 3649 Apple David Ottalini amp 301 681 5792 Bill Rosenmund 703 941 5050 appie Iic Chuck Holzwarth 703 751 7575 CP M Charles Franklin 301 997 9138 DisabledSIG Jay Thal 202 244 3649 dPub SIG J Condren 202 269 1098 EDSIG Peter Combes 301 251 6369 Forth SIG Kevin Nealon 703 280 1136 Frederick Slice Scott Galbraith 301 865 3035 GAMESIG Ronald Wartow 1 654 4439 LAWSIG John Weld 202 822 3354 LISASIG _ John Day 301 621 7543 Pie Ala Mode Slice Tom Kroll 703 368 1929 SigMac Don Landing 703 690 1010 ee Prog Grp Timothy Buehrer 703 548 8971 NEWSIG Bernie Benson 301 951 5294 Pascal PIG Larry Taborek 703 960 2250 PI SIG Raymond Hobbs 301 490 7484 STOCKSIG Robert Wood 703 893 9591 Telecomm SIG George Kinal 202 546 7270 Washington Apple Pi Ltd 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 B
21. A Cat 206 The Lost Adventure 415 Orig 350 PL Adventure n Vol 181 required with these disks Vols 121 135 136 must be purchased tog i Use of this disk requires sending moncy directly to the author P gether DATE Note Allow 2 to 3 weeks for mailing Total Order Disks Postage Total Amount Enclosed NAME ADDRESS Washington Apple Pi Ltd Aun Disketeria April 1986 79 Make check payable and send to U S funds payable on a U S bank Telephone Washington Apple Pi WAP TUTORIAL REGISTRATION The following three WAP tutorials are being offered to Apple owners on Tuesday evenings from 7 30 to 9 00 PM at the office 8227 Woodmont Ave Bethesda MD The tutorials start promptly at 7 30 if you bring your computer please arrive 15 minutes early to set up You may sign up for any or all of the series They are designed for the beginner and will be repeated monthly A revised outline of the tutorials was given in the October 1985 issue of the WAP Journal However the 3rd tutorial has been changed as follows It will introduce AppleWorks Apple s integrated Word Processor Database and Spreadsheet for use with Apple c e and J when patched by Norwich Plus Works or similar software An AW Data Disk will be available for use or copying during the tutorial It contains several small less than 10K examples of databases and spreadsheets in addition to instructions in the form of an AW word processor f
22. Basic 2 0 users will find much valuable information here Source code on disk for the programs is also available MacTutor 30 per year check only PO Box 846 Placentia CA 9267 714 993 9939 Excel ing contd from pg 61 rows high by one column wide TRANSPOSE can be used to do some very powerful things but that is for another day This transposing doesn t actually happen on the worksheet In A9 amp A10 the transposed record is copied to the clipboard and then pasted special back to the three high area below the data base PASTE SPECIAL 3 1 says to paste only the values with no operation being performed on the data If you have done a PASTE SPECIAL you have seen two sets of radio buttons The first set allows for pasting all formulas values or formats The third selection is values hence the three as the first argument of PASTE SPECIAL The second set of buttons lets you paste and either make no change or add subtract multiply or divide by a constant The one as the second argument of PASTE SPECIAL says paste as is Washington Apple Pi We now have the first record copied below the data base All undoes what A7 did making a selection of the second row of the data base A12 increases counter by one and A13 checks to see if we have reached the last row of the data base If so we are done otherwise we loop back to the line which defines temp as the current selection and we repeat the process Prett
23. F 165 Happy Holidays 166 Charts and ra ge 167 IAC 40 Pilot Lang 168 IAC 41 amp 47 AW Util 169 Hayes Term Prog 170 Love s Follies Uul 171 Cat Graphix 172 Print Shop Graphics 173 Riley s Pers Instru 500 Master Catalog Listing Eamon Series Volumes 180 Dungcon Designer 181 Beginners Cave 182 Lair of Minotaur 183 Cave of the Mind 184 Zyphur Riverventure 185 Castle of Doom 186 Death Star 187 Devil s Tomb 188 Caves of Treas Isl 189 Furioso 190 The Magic Kingdom 191 The Tomb of Molinar 192 Lost Isl of Apple 193 Abductor s Quarters 194 Quest for Trezore 195 Underground City 196 Merlin s Castle 197 Horgrath Castle 198 Deathtrap 199 The Black Death 200 The Temple of Ngurct 201 Black Mountain 202 Nuclcar Nightmare 203 Feast of Carroll 204 The Master s Dungeon orts C 27 Applesoft Prog 147 A 8 Logo Samp Prog Macintosh i se 6 0 207 The Manxome Foc see above 208 The Gauntlet j ENS dM s 209 Caverns of Langst nson s Ies 210 Future Quest 211 House of Secrets 212 Sewers of Chicago 213 Slave Pits of Kzorland 214 Altemate Begin Cave 3 Fonts 4 MS BASIC Pgms 5 Desk Accessories 6 Mac Paintings 7 Desk Calendar amp MS Basic 215 Lifequest eg aa Programs RA LUE 10 Mostly BASIC ioi dies ae u Mee Recommended m acronts as a pair 4220 Utility li 13 RAM Disk amp Alud Finder 221 Utility III 223 Temple of the Undead 224 Quest for Holy Grail 22
24. File Programmer Mike Ungerman BBS Files List SYSOP Jack Mortimer SYSTEM 4 871 7978 SYSOP Lee Raesly Group Purchase Files SYSOP Rich Wasserstrom The Classified SYSTEM Hardware Software Special Corvus Consultant Tom Vier Misc Employment Pi Officers Volun Boards Indexing Committee Chairman Emil Levine Member Bonnie Walker SYSTEM 5 890 8984 SYSOP Alice Allen Member Jeff Berger The Journal amp Indexes SYSTEM currently on hold SYSTEM 1 986 8085 SYSOP Joe Chelena SYSTEM 6 703 450 6822 Hardware Software General amp SYSOP John Gersic Lafayette Park Boards SYSOP Joe Chelena The Great Falls Download Test Board CP M Board SYSOP Nick Veloz Assistant SYSOP Bruce Johnson dBASE II Board SYSOP Nick Veloz Apple Board SYSOP Carl Bowman SYSTEM 7 301 662 3131 Mat Prog Board SYSOP Tom Parrish SYSOP Scott Galbraith The Frederick Apple Core Slice SYSTEM SYSTEM 2 986 8086 SYSOP Larry Halff The Cracker Barrel BBS MAC Hardware Software amp Macintosh Board SYSOP Kurt Holter Gossip Misc Boards SYSOP Larry Halff Telecommunications amp BBS Committee Chairman Lee Raesly Telecom SIG Board SYSOP George Kinal Members Douglas Canton Jr Joe Chelena Games GameSIG Brd SYSOP Ron Wartow Joan Dunham Barry Fox Larry Halff Dave Harvey BASIC Prog Board SYSOP Mike Ungerman Dave Helfrick David Kemp Emil Levine AppleWorks Board SYSOP Ken DeVito Mike Ungerman Tom Warrick amp YOU if you attend 5 Commnts Sugs Board SYSOP Lee Raesly
25. Gi Ga dey uns an GP SID UP GID ab Gan um ue amm Se 2 Sw dn dr m 4A ki dap fen um ap any an eS an GID E an an an tib dak anm an an n m Today s Date MAR 17 85 Last Name flarons First Hame Bob Street 1234 Anytown City Centerville State MD 21P 20874 Telephone 202 934 0986 Cost 25000 00 Interest Rate 9 25 Total Interest 2312 Omnis 3 Completed Edit Screen for One Record Another handy feature is called Default check This is used to designate two things about each field the default value appearing in a field when a record is first displayed for entry and a range check on the entry The default value is used to fill the field when the data base is first defined For example a status code of active may be used to initialize a data base on employees since they are all likely to be active when they are first added to the payroll When an employee becomes inactive the entry will be modified accordingly The use of a default can save a lot of time during data entry The range check function provides an edit to insure proper data are entered As an example entering Default check as 1 With holding lt 10 would fill the field Withholding with a 1 in all records but prohibit the entry of a value greater than 9 The check operation can be more explicit For example SEX M SEX F checks for the OR condition that the entry for the field SEX be an M or an F One aspect of entry formatting which might ca
26. I ordinarily prefer the puzzle oriented adventures to hack and slash fantasy role playing I ve never even tried my hand at Dungeons and Dragons Perhaps it s my age but I tend to lose interest when characters get killed off simply because my reflexes are slow or the computer arbi trarily decides that my luck had run out But WIZARDRY can make converts of even the most skeptical As most people know by now the game involves explor ing a dungeon of 10 levels each a potential 20 by 20 rooms Washington Apple Pi as to what to do with the Russian I might add that it should have been obvious all the time So I was able to progress and hopefully find better things to talk about The game begins on a Siberian hillside with Bond being chased by a Russian search party As time goes on the storyline takes you to London Paris and San Francisco with action taking place at each place along the way AS one would expect in a James Bond adventure there are women along the way but in general the game does not allow interaction or whatever with them What a disappointment All in all the descriptions given of each location are reasonably detailed and so add color to the game and the parser is reasonable without being sparkling Along the way there are a number of obstacles to progress So to avoid a repetition of my Russian Officer fiasco the maxim of try everything might be more prudently changed to think before you leap It is no
27. IFI gt 18 GOTO 890 830 GET B I 835 IF I gt 12 AND B THEN GOTO 890 840 REM 850 A B I HT 1 2 860 GOTO 740 REM RETURN TO INPUT 890 VT VT 3 REM DOWN 3 LINES 895 HT 1 GOTO 810 REM START NEW LINE 1000 REM 1010 VTAB 21 PRINT YOU PRESSED A KEY THAT DOESN T PRINT 1020 FOR X 1 TO 500 NEXT X 1025 VTAB 21 HTAB 1 CALL 958 1030 GOTO 730 1099 REM 1100 REM CARRIAGE RETURN TO NEXT LINE 1110 VT VT 3 REM DOWN THREE LINES 1120 HT 1 REM BACK TO LEFT MARGIN 1130 GOTO 780 1199 REM 1200 REM CORRECTIONS 1210 REM RETURN FROM 1295 1220 VTAB 22 HTAB 1 CALL 958 1230 VTAB 22 FLASH PRINT PRINT LAST LETTER TO DELETE NORMAL 1240 PRINT WHEN FINISHED PRESS TO CONTINUE 1260 HC 0 REM COLOR BLACK 1270 GET A 1280 IF A GOTO 1300 REM EXIT CORRECTIONS 1283 I 1 1 1285 FT 1 HT 2 I GOSUB 100 1290 REM RETURN FROM 1285 1295 GOTO 1210 REM CONTINUE CORRECTIONS 1300 REM FROM 1280 EXIT FROM CORRECTIONS 1310 VTAB 22 HTAB 1 CALL 958 1320 FT 2 VTAB 22 PRINT TYPE YOUR TEXT ONE LETTER AT A TIME 1330 VTAB 23 PRINT TO QUIT PRESS 1350 VTAB 24 PRINT TO CORRECT PRESS TO CLEAR PRESS 1370 HC 3 GOTO 830 Washington Apple Pi DisabledSIG contd from pg 18 pronounced When the spacebar is touched the preceding string is uttered and when a period is typed the entire sentence is spoken What happened then is most important Once he exhausted the words
28. MD 21044 301 854 2346 April 1986 41 BEST OF THE APPLE ITEMS FROM UBBS by Alexander 9 IS IBM TYPE A BETTER DEAL JOE ENGLAND ON 02 01 TO ALL Has anyone else noticed the large number of very inexpensive IBMPC and XT clones that have been hitting the market lately This has me seriously thinking of committing the trea sonous act of going IBM clone I used to be able to say I can do anything on my Apple that can be done on an IBM at a fraction of the cost Now the reverse is true Compare the price of a for instance Zenith Z 148 with 360K floppy 10 meg hard disk serial and parallel ports 256K memory mono chrome monitor keyboard etc at 1795 with a comparably equipped Apple e with Sider Ramworks serial and parallel etc The Zenith is cheaper Don t like Zenith Take your pick of several others at about the same price or less Some have been getting good recommendations from people whose opinions I have no reason to disrespect This is all very seduc tive and I believe it may mean serious problems for Apple if they don t take some corrective action What action I don t know I m no Sculley and I say that with a certain gladness Don t misread my intent I ve always been happy with my and Apple products in general because they were a good value I believe this may not be true any longer Please someone convince me that I m wrong about this DAVID P KEMP ON 02 02 TO ALL I would t go so far as t
29. Mac Begin Tutorial 2 7 10 PM Office 12 DPub SIG 12 Noon Where 19 FORTH SIG 12 Noon Of fice 21 Mac Begin Tutorial 1 7 10 PM Office Apple Mac 9 00 USUHS Ny WAP SUNDAY 28 Mac Begin Tutorial 2 7 10 PM Office MONDAY SATURDAY Deadline for Journal Articles 12 Noon 19 Mac Begin Tutorial 1 7 10 PM Office 17 FORTH SIG 12 Noon Office 24 WAP Meeting Apple amp Mac 9 00 USUHS Washington Apple Pi 26 Memorial Day Office Closed TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 1 Apple 2 3 SigMac Beginning 7 30PM Lady lt Thurs day Tutorial 1 of Lourdes 3rd contd 7 30 9 00PM GameSIG Off DisabledSIG Office 7 30PM gt 7PM CCCC 8 Apple 9 10STOCKSIG 11 Beginning Executive 8Pm Office Tutorial 42 Board FAC Slice 7 30 9 00PM 7 30 PM 7 30 MRRID Office Office Ft Detrick 15 Apple 16 17 18 Beginning Pascal SIG Tutorial 3 8 00 PM 7 30 9 00PM Office Office 22 23 24 25 Apple JEDSIG 7 30 Chambr 7 30 PM of CommercejOffice Bldg DC 29 30 BBS Comm Office 7 30 PM May 1986 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 1 SigMac 7 30PM Lady lt Thursday ofLourdes 1st contd GameSIG 0ff DisabledSIG 7 30 PM 7PM CCCC 6 Apple 7 8STOCKSIG 9 Beginning 8PM Office Tutorial 1 FAC Slice 7 30 9 00PM 7 30 MRIID Office Ft Detrick 13 Apple 14 15 16 Beginning Executive Pascal SIG Tutorial 42 Board 8 00 PM 7 30 9 00PM17 30 PM Office Office Office 20 Apple 21 22
30. Multiple series like this problem Undocumented Features Not to be confused with consists of several columns or rows Unfortunately if bugs id contd 60 April 1986 Washington Apple Pi e When working with the Laserwriter the reduction factor appears to change the size of the text only not that of the graph e Files created under Finder 4 1 may contain longer length names than those created under 5 0 When Excel using Finder 5 0 tries to display the file names on a disk containing long named files rather than warn you of a problem it bombs e While the values computed in a spreadsheet and graphed in a chart are dynamically updated in the chart when they change in the spreadsheet labels copied from the sheet are not They must be manually maintained in the chart even though they originally were copied from the spreadsheet and pasted in the chart If you click on a Series in a chart you will see the definition of the series at the top of the screen we discussed this last month The first parameter of the series is the label Note that it is merely text enclosed in quotes There is no reference to the sheet from which it was copied Neat Macros Bob Holtzman sent me some material on macros that he obtained from Microsoft to share with all WAP Excel users Some of the routines are more interesting for what they teach than for what they do This month we ll take a look at a mailing list routine which takes a rectangular selecti
31. Nominations will be taken at the April 26 meeting WAP s elected officers are the president a vice president for Apple programs a vice president for Macintosh programs the secretary and the treasurer The Board also consists of seven elected directors at large and three members who serve ex officio the past president the editor of the Journal and the disk librarian If you re interested in running please don t hesitate to contact Jay Mike me or any one of the other officers or directors One important tradition we have though is this anyone who comes to a Board of Directors meeting is eligible to vote whether elected or not unless one of the official board members requests a vote of official members something that happens very infrequently Most decisions are made by everyone who attends So even if you decide not to run you re welcome and encouraged to attend Apple University Earlier this month WAP was invited by Apple Computer Inc to come to Cupertino and talk at a session of Apple University Apple s name for their corporate enrichment program I spoke to about 40 of their rising stars about the benefits of working with user groups Although this was intended as educational for the people at Apple it was at least for me quite an eye opener Apple s User Group Evangelist Ellen Leanse made her office available to me while she was out for a few hours so I returned the favor by taking phone m
32. a super fighter Rum Wertaw was a superfighter With totally Outrageous characteristics he knocked out Rocky Marciano with one punch I also added a few local fighters who aren t on the list and enjoyed them getting creamed One match between Hulk Hogan a creation of mine constructed from Wrestling Today articles and Cassius Clay had interesting results If you like sports simulation games you ll find this game right up your alley Some others will enjoy creating their own boxers Highly recommended but not for the squeamish or morally disinclined not anyone who would read anything I ve written I m sure Washington Apple Pi A A View to a Kill is an interactive fiction adventure game from Mindscape It is based on the screenplay from the James Bond film of the same name Now being from the old country I have a soft spot for the James Bond genre I therefore looked forward to giving this game the once over The documentation is nicely done and tha packaging is attractive so my appetite was further whetted My first session with the game was not highly sucessful Certainly this was largely due to my ineptitude in not finding a way to dispose of a sneering Russian Officer As M always gets his agents home I found myself back in London many many times in complete disgrace That I could take What I really found the most frustrating part was the length of time it took to retrieve the situation by recalling a saved game The
33. a new format containing the changes Data Entry Once data files have been defined data entry screens and report formats can be built Using the Macintosh graphics capabilities Omnis 3 employs a mouse driven screen painting approach to develop data entry and report forms Employing as many as twelve screens per record you design screens containing descriptive labels for the fields of your record I find this technique direct and easy to use To build a multi screen data entry form you put the cursor where you want text to appear click and type in a screen header or descriptions of the fields These labels appear when data are entered In addition to text you can place boxes around fields to make the entry screen more interesting Somewhere near a field label you double click to tell Omnis 3 where the field contents are to be positioned A window opens allowing you to enter the variable s name and display appearance This dialog is very Mac like Below you see both an entry definition window and a completed edit screen with data from the file Database DAVIDTE Screen 1 SS Today s Date 1 h dft HA A P PP HU A AA RBRARARAAnA Last Home 2 Firat Nane 3 POOR NSAARAAA Street 4 4 Cit GARARADAACARA A e State 6 Zips te Telephone 8 arenas Cost 10 Interest Rate 11 Total Interest 12 Omnis 3 Field Definition Window contd Washington Apple Pi See
34. a review of Cricket Graph a just on the market graphics package which has had the opportunity to learn from the competition and of Omnis3 a relational programmable data base package with extensive power Cricket Graph Jim Rafferty amp Rich Norling It could be that knowing Rich amp Jim I am biased about their design and programming skills After all I had the chance to work with them during the development of the Statworks package and as a beta tester of CG However 1 think the examples of their just released graphics program will demonstrate to you that my impressions about Cricket Graph s exceptional capabilities are accurate The Competition Click on Worksheet MS Chart Excel and Jazz CG can make all of the graphs provided by any of these and several others such as polar plots and quality control charts Its special features include better LaserWriter Support that is smooth curves instead of little connected Straight lines color on an Imagewriter II page layout arranging and support for most commercial plotters The competing packages have limits to the number of horizontal points I haven t found the limit in CG yet if there is one The two versions of a normal curve that you see below were printed on the LaserWriter the first with Excel and the second with Cricket Graph I think you can see the difference 1 0 9 0 8 0 7 0 6 0 5 0 4 0 3 0 2 1 20 0 1 A 1 00 0 HAHAHA AHHH Printed with Excel
35. an Apple Club in the Washington area or are interested in volunteering to coordinate helping Apple Clubs from within the Pi please give me a call There s not that much else to report here I m sticking close to my telephone waiting for my authorized Apple dealer to let me know my Macintosh upgrade has arrived Although I understand why Apple has chosen to put all of its new motherboards into Mac pluses rather than upgrade kits Mac pluses make Apple a fair profit whereas Apple may do little more than break even on upgrade kits Apple would be well advised to ship upgrade kits to dealers sooner than they have It s the 512K upgrade problem all over again Old customers resent being forced to wait while new purchasers get the first crack at the latest improvements improvements that were suggested by the experience of the many people who bought early Every time Apple upgrades the Mac the people who bought early feel more and more like pioneers you know the ones you can spot by the arrows in their backs G5 General Information Apple user groups may reprint without prior permission any portion of the contents herein provided proper author title and publication credits are given Membership dues for Washington Apple Pi are 32 00 for the first year and 25 00 per year thereafter beginning in the month joined If you would like to join please call the club office or write to the office address A membership application will be mai
36. and comes in a three ring binder I found the manual to be weak only in the following way Both an overview of what a data base is and an example of starting from scratch to build a series of inter related files are lacking The manual does a good job of discussing the procedure of defining records and reports but fails to walk the novice user through Omnis 3 s screens and how to respond when beginning on your own All the examples relate to changing an existing data base By way of additional docu mentation a sixteen page reference card accompanies the program Several sample data bases are provided each demon strating unique features of the program A common problem for users of a new data base package is the need to import data in file formats from other programs and or computers Omnis 3 provides for the importing of data in any of four formats SYLK DIF field delimited and one field per record The SYLK format is used by Multiplan and other Microsoft products The DIF format dates back to VisiCalc The field delimited format allows for the entry of flat files with each record ended by a Carriage return and each field separated by a special character such as a blank or comma This flexibility should allow access to almost any existing data base Negatives In several areas Omnis 3 is not true to the Mac interface The File menu contains mostly unfamiliar entries such as Select Library and does not include the usual Open and Clos
37. and numbers he knew he reached for printed material that was available and typed that in Regardless of whether or not the print had visual meaning to him it had aural meaning Words which he understood sudden ly had meaning in their written form Stories that were otherwise read to him suddenly became something for him to type in The words had meaning and he was exercising control As suggested earlier Meyers favors exploration and minimal supervision Even otherwise meaningless character strings provide learning as well as a laugh or two Like explorations in LOGO if what you got is not what you intended something is still learned As a parent rather than a therapist or teacher I cannot describe the reasoning behind Meyers approach but it seems to work and it certainly is apPEALing pardon the pun The program s packaging is unique and designed for heavy usage in a classroom setting A colorful stiffened vinyl 12 x 15 inch page is punched for a three ringed binder It contains pockets for the program disk and the program s Helpcard The Helpcard looks like the type of menu you find in a Denny s restaurant It is vinyl covered and folds open to show six 9x12 inch pages Two of those pages describe clearly and graphically how to run and command KEYTALK The front page explains KEYTALK s research basis And the middle three pages give overall suggestions and a total of twelve activities of varying complexity Each activity con
38. are a representative proportion of the ethnic population of LA They are unusual in that they have ripped up their playground to build a farm Alan is very enthusiastic about this school where the first graders can already write aided by movie frame drawings on the lefthand side of their notebooks Visual feel is a powerful aid to writing The farm is managed by the 2nd and 3rd graders and the 1st graders bake cookies An example from the curriculum is an ocean a complex ecology of many things working together The children study them and write reports One item would be fish and so a fishpond was built in order to study animals Animals are important to the children because they represent real things but in a computer simulation they are caricatures of the real thing They can manipulate the behaviour of the animals in models and pictures but they must be taught that they are not Gods and that animals will express a life of their own People from Disney diffuse this part of the study into fantasy The benefit to the children is that they are presented with multiple levels of understanding There are many ways of understanding a system Marvin Minsky says that we don t understand something until we understand it in more than one way Pterosaur is in the dinosaur history books as the largest ever flying animal This Pteradon had a wing span of 36 feet like a young airplane and had a head crest for balance but lacked posterior sta
39. as recording depreciation or reserve for uncollectable accounts is offered in the Noncash Journal It would be use ful if non critical data such as references and descriptions were correctable without re entry as is allowed in Rags to Riches Subsidiary accounts are well accommodated by the num bering system Thus if accounts receivable is account 1050 then customer 1 is 1050 0001 customer 2 is 1050 0002 Washington Apple Pi etc Accounts Paayable are handled in the same way Depart mentalization of expenses is handled in similar fashion Capacity on a two drive or hard disk system is large enough to handle the needs of a small or medium business A serious non fatal criticism I have is that the journal entry description areas particularly for customers in the Sales Journal and for Vendors in the Purchases Journal is too small to include address and other needed information I understand that Turbo Maccountant a new product from Digital pro vides screens for complete customer and vendor information as well as payroll and other improvements and refinements I m anxious to get a look at it If I get a review copy I ll do a follow up review of it Unfortunately it is not an upgrade from Maccountant but a different product Learning to use Maccountant was made unneccessarily dif ficult by a very poor manual It has been produced in a very difficult to read type face and is also incomplete in that it does not tell the conse
40. carried away I was told by a dealer that ATARI is about to come out with its color Mac for about 1000 with the ability to run Mac software Second drive will cost under 200 double sided of course to go along with double sided internal drive with 1 meg of RAM Returning to the Mac v debate the only word processor I ve ever used is MacWrite but the best gaming machine in the world is the How can I lose EDMON J DONNELLAN ON 02 26 I don t think you are being fair The Mac is very nice has cute little icons and folders and stuff all over it and has this little metal mouse you can roll around and click and double click and everything It s only that Apple s obsession with becom ing Big Businessmen by marketing the Mac seems to have led them to purposely retard the Apple s natural growth which I suppose is stupid to get personal about but it is very annoying EUCLID COUKOUMA ON 02 26 The Apple is a more flexible machine than the Mac because it is modular That nice wedge shape makes it work even better as a wheel chock If you need to prop up a corner of your car the various pieces give you many more options SO you can select your height But I really think you should use your IBM since it has a stronger case especialy if you remove the drives and fill it with concrete Actually each machine has its merits and problems The most important factor is what you can do with it that you want or need to do This is d
41. contains a count of records having that code The computation is not dynamic that is it does not update if the original column is changed Untitled Data toopae N OVDNHUAWNN A 0 YUVONOOCCUUOOCTOO ect kato 54 E AIN CA IIS AA 9 0 de e As A 009 OSE 868 9 qund QA DO rob DOC ID Another transformation offered by CG and few other graphics packages is smoothing You can compute moving averages of varying widths to any variable After scatter plotting two variables you can perform a curve fit using different functional forms show below AS you can see the actual function as well as the smoothed line appear overlayed on the scatter plot In addition you can interpolate a line through the averages for each category Washington Apple Pi Column 2 April 1986 Bia stem Go Polynomial Logarithmic Exponential interpolate RPMBYP Data from CricketTest a Column 2 contd 0 40 50 60 70 80 90 Column 1 100 Goodies The goodies menu provides yet more options to enhance your graphs In as much as CG supports color you need a window to let you set which patterns are what colors You can display either X or Y error bars on certain graph formats Formatting changes include use of a legend or adding depth to the display as you saw earlier switching the axes or removing the plot frame A set of preferences for these various features can be saved and used to start up the next chart saving
42. controls which allow quick removal of the fingers from a key can find an unwanted string of characters flashing across their screen Here s how to rectify the situation Turn off your e and remove the top On the right front quadrant you ll find the Encoder IC it s marked KR 3600 017 GENTLY remove this chip from its socket Pin 1 of the chip is identified by a dot on the case Count back to Pin 5 and GENTLY bend this pin out 90 degrees So that the repeat function is not permanently disabled one of two methods can be used 1 Attach a short wire 4 inches to a mini test clip Radio Shack 270 372 and strip 4mm of insulation from the other end of the wire Insert the bare wire end into the Sth socket and reinsert the Encoder chip CAREFULLY into its socket When you want to activate the repeat function you merely have to attach the test clip to PIN 5 which is sticking out This of course requires that you open the Apple s case each KEYBOARD CONN LI ENCODER CHIP TI DEAD ki L 18 April 1986 time you want to make the change The alternative method though initially more difficult is 2 Solder two long about 12 inches wires to a SPST toggle switch and mount the switch in one of the unused ports on the back panel Each of the wires should have 4mm of insulation stripped from the other end One of the wires should be CAREFULLY soldered to PIN 5 which should be sticking out at 90 degrees The other bare wire end should be pl
43. directly to the postscript computer in LaserWriter and postscript file structuring conventions The manual is designed to give the user information they will need to develop their own Macintosh applications which take advan tage of the unique features of the LaserWriter printer Apple is quick to point out that the manual is not complete and the final version will be sent when it is completed although no date is given This proposed final version will have 4 additional chapters dealing with development of Macintosh or PC applications so that applications will print successfully on the LaserWriter Also included are two 3 5 inch disks One contains pro gramming and debugging aids and the other screen fonts which are resident in the LaserWriter s ROM s The manual does not give technical specifications including setup and maintenance on the mechanical parts of the LaserWriter Once again if you only plan on using the LaserWriter connected to one Mac intosh or a LAN you probably do not need Inside Laser Writer If you want to program the Macintosh in a language other than MS Basic you will need the information in this massive volume Inside Macintosh describes the 600 or so ROM routines of the Mac Toolbox used to create graphics controls windows menus and allow programs to respond to the mouse and other user driven events The ROM programs are divided into 25 groups one per chapter called managers In the Window Manager for
44. disk onto the Ramdisk Changing from one to another through the finder isn t as quick as with the Switcher but it is pretty fast The Switcher plus two appli cations is too big for the Ramdisk With both MacPaint and MacWrite in the Ramdisk it takes me 36 seconds to quit MacPaint open MacWrite and paste a picture Going the other way it takes 24 seconds to quit MacWrite open Mac Paint and paste To paste a MacPaint document into Word takes a little longer 40 seconds because Word is bigger If I m working on a newsletter page I can save for example this document 7K as text only go through the Finder to Ready Set Go and paste the text into a block in one minute And I still have all those fonts sizes and styles to doll up my newsletter with By using these techniques I minimize disk swaps have all the fonts I can possibly need available with any application and can move from one application to another as quickly as is possible without using the Switcher C5 Disk Conversion Apple to IBM and Back Over 90 formats 3 day turnaround Manuscripts transmitted at 2400 Baud to Typesetters RAEDATA Inc 7411 Riggs Road 104 Adelphi MD 20783 301 439 1799 Washington Apple Pi N Mac Hardware Thunderscan BOB MASSO ON 02 05 TO ALL The announcement re Thunderscan upgrade to handle the new Mac without the DC voltage lines To use a Thunderscan with a Mac you will need to connect a plug in power supply which goes b
45. e arrow keys in Apple Writer plus Ctrl B or E are also very satisfactory ways of getting about a document Keep that word document in memory for the discussion under Limitations The Card s watchword is simplicity but Apple systems are not the most difficult to understand and learn A good grounding in an accepted operating system has relevance to many of a computer s applications and helped me unravel some of SwyftCard s mysteries I think Telecommunications deserves a specialist heading as it is a less rarified aspect of computing than hitherto In this regard SwyftCard has great merit in limited respects Dave Harvey devoted his professional attention to SwyftCard Comms and was not happy I found that logging on to a BBS works but is tedious Communicating with another SwyftCard equipped Apple works like a telegraphic conversation Typing and quickly highlighting text gets one into a nervous twitch Telecomms is very memory intensive with all the menus and messages coming from the host contributing to earlier than expected out of memory leeps 300 baud is set by SE 5641 or 1200 baud by SE 6153 highlighted and embedded in BASIC by the CALC command Carriage Returns are pre set by LE 29 Special bit and parity settings are achieved by comprehensively esoteric calculations These manipulations are not intuitive and require study time trial and error I set Serial Card dip switches as suggested in the Manual but did not
46. example routines that create move and dispose of windows are listed along with the information they require from the programmer To use the routines it is necessary to have a programming language like Pascal or 68000 machine language The text of Inside Macintosh is very difficult to read due to poor indexing and the fact that most ROM routines require other routines to be invoked at the same time in order to function properly Those already familar with a language like C or Pascal will still require a few months to learn effective use of the ROM The promo tional edition of Inside Macintosh printed on telephone book paper and just as thick costs 20 and can be ordered from Apple Computer Inc 467 Saratoga Avenue Suite 621 San Jose CA 95129 408 988 6009 An updated version of the above is being published by Addison Wesley in three vol umes It will be considerably more expensive than the phone book version Several other books detailing the Mac ROM are now available and although they are expensive they are also better organized Chernicoff two volumes Hayden Book Company 1985 Pascal orientation but useful to every one Using the Macintosh Toolbox with C Takatsuka Huxam Bumard one volume Sybex 1986 Many good pro gramming examples in C I also recommend subscribing to MacTutor a monthly magazine detailing use of the Toolbox for virtually all programming languages available for the Mac Even MS
47. for propor tional size characters AppleWorks assumes all the characters are the same width I have Cali Waiting service on my telephone but whenever I am using my modem with a BBS and a call comes in it disconnects me Is there anything I can do about this When the other call comes in it temporarily disconnects the line and the modem hangs up because the carrier from the other modem has disappeared With some modems Hayes Hayes compatibles and possibily some others you can set the amount of time the modem waits ull it hangs up after loosing the carrier Of course it has to be set long enough on your modem and on the BBS modem I have the newer version of AppleWorks and as you can see from the top line I am having problems I just need to get rid of the ON that gets printed on the top of the first page For hardware I have an enhanced e Wesper Micro Wizard SOB serial buffer card and a Diablo 620 printer None of the manuals give a clue as to proper control codes Do you by chance have an answer I think I ve answered a question like this before but since it seems like a common problem once more won t hurt As long as you are using version 1 2 or later it shouldn t be difficult to fix it AppleWorks sends an initialization string to the printer interface card when it first begins printing The default value for this string is Ctrl I 80N and this is supposed to be trapped by the interface card and set it to print 80 columns on t
48. game is very disk intensive It accesses the disk after virtually every command during the game The initial boot up is quite lengthy but that is true of many games Under Fire from Avalon Hill for example However to retrieve a Saved position requires replacement of the game disk by the data disk only one disk drive can be used and then waiting quite a time for that to be read Then replace the game disk Now it appears that the game disk boots up again so that takes quite a time The whole process takes all of three min utes You can imagine the process I went through with this pesky Russian Officer insert the data disk and wait switch to the game disk and wait type in a command result he shoots James in the leg repeat the process and so on Well finally I received a hint actually exact instructions The makers of WIZARDRY Sir Tech Software 59 95 could hardly complain of being neglected by Washington Apple Pi Their product was named All Time Favorite in a recently published GAMESIG poll and the December 1985 and January 1986 issues of the journal contain articles by Ron Wartow describing the Mac version in great detail and recounting his trials and triumphs as one of its Beta testers Still Sir Tech was kind enough to send a review copy for the Mac and Ron thought it might be worth hearing the views of a newcomer like myself who had not previously been exposed to WIZARDRY s delights I have to confess that
49. ifs Here is what it produced You can read the Pascal source program from the lines that begin with double comments string format 0 Program NestedIf input output 5 test Nested if statement 5 varij integer xdef input input ds b 14 xdef output output ds b 14 xdef PAS Xfer PASS Xfer jmp nestedif begin xdef i i ds b 2 xdef j j ds b 2 xdef nestedif nestedif link A6 0 jsr PAS InitMacEnv pea 112 pea input AS pea Output A5 jsr PAS CreatePWnd if i l then j 1 cmpi w 1 1 A5 bne w 114 else if i22 then j 2 move w 81j A5 jmp 115 il cmpi w 2 1 A5 bne w 116 else if i 26 then j 26 move w 2 j A5 jmp 117 116 cmpi w 26 i A5 bne w 118 else j 0 move w 26 j A5 jmp 119 il8 clr w j AS il9 il7 il5 5 dej end move w j A5 i A5 dc w A9F4 Washington Apple Pi 112 String_format 2 dc w nestedif xref PAS InitMacEnv xref PAS CreatePWnd The above listing shows the prolog and termination routines added by the compiler for a plain vanilla program that relies on TML to initialize a window etc Unlike UCSD Pascal TML does not generate a jump table to implement a case instruction Thus a series of cmpi w and beq w instructions are generated for each value listed in a case instruction TML holds great promise but additional work needs to be done In my next column I will cover conversion between TML and MacPascal After that we will tackle conversion between TML and MacAdvanta
50. leaving enough RAM for printing etc There is 57K of available disk space At present I have on this system the following fonts Athens 18 Bostonll 9 10 12 14 18 20 24 Minibostonll 12 24 Cairo 18 Cartoon 12 Chicago 12 18 24 Dallas 12 DoverPS 12 Geneva 9 10 12 14 18 20 24 Greenbay 18 Istanbul 12 24 this is font which is like Geneva but writes Turkish London 18 Monoaco 9 12 pica 12 Saigon 18 24 Ultra 12 24 and Venice 14 I won t bore you with explana tions of why these particular fonts each of us has his favorites no doubt Additionally I have disks with smaller systems single applications such as Dollars amp Sense MSBasic Microsoft Chart MacDraw and MacProject and various sizes of Ramdisks on them as well as what I call my Word Processing Disk with MacPaint MacWrite Microsoft Word and Ready Set Go on it but no System When I have a sizeable job to do let s say I want to work on my Memoirs using Microsoft Word l first boot my startup disk When the Finder comes on showing that disk and the Ramdisk I eject the startup disk and put in my Word Processing disk drag Microsoft Word into the Ramdisk and open it If I want to work on a chapter already started I put the Memoirs data disk in drag the current chapter into the Ramdisk and open it instead of Word Mac asks me to put back the startup disk which I do I ve gone through three or four disk swaps depending on whether I had to go get an existing documen
51. less than the normal amount of space allocated to the storage of the directory By doing this you get about 5K more usable space on a disk Lister by J Pitts Jarvis III and Brian Bechtel A nice little print formatter for ASCII files Those are files created by a number of text editors or documents from MacWrite saved with the text only option used It paginates the text places a time and date header on each file and prints a nice border around the text April 1986 77 SuperCopy by Ron Gibb Will allow you to make a backup copy of some of your protected software This is only for the copying of software for which you have a license Memory A very thorough memory test routine Living Art Sort of a utility for the mind Just click the mouse to return to the desktop In the Disk Librarian Folder Disk Librarian by Little Bit Finally get a handle on all those disks This utility will read the directory on a disk and keep a little database of your collection Now if you could only get labels on those disks Librarian Doc by Little Bit How to use Disk Librar ian In the System Modifiers Folder Autocursor by Kevin Mitchell Modifies the system files so that any wait of more than about half a second will cause the arrow pointer to change to the watch BigCursor Sets the arrow cursor to double in size to 32 X 32 points MacWait Quite amusing Try this in combination with BigCursor JClock by James T Sulzen Displays the time
52. my philosophy on the subject The Sider is of course a hard disk and most hard disks on the Apple don t really have any convenient method for making backup copies It just takes so many floppies and so much time that people don t bother The one exception to this is the new B Sider unit that provides tape backup for the Sider and Sider II Anyone that stores unrecov erable data on a hard disk without backup is looking for trouble The only useful purpose I see for a hard disk without backup capability is to transfer programs to it from floppy disks so they are readily accessible When not if but when the hard disk fails the programs can be reloaded from floppy If on the other hand you mostly use one or two programs that require large amounts of data the 3 5 Unidisk may be a better deal Be sure you get two though so you can make backups I get any number of calls from people asking if its easy to recover data from a damaged diskette 1 reply Sure just get out your backup copy Washington Apple Pi THE PRICE IS RIGHT ON Apple Software Macintosh Software AR AP PR BPI ea 235 MacOneWrite ea 165 Dollars amp Sense 83 RagstoRichesea 14 ASCII Pro 88 Straight Talk 55 Compuserve Starter 26 HabaDex w Comm 68 pfs File Report ea 86 OverVue 2 0 200 DB Master 4 160 Megafiler 120 Education Barron s SAT 74 Speed Reader Il 48 Create w Garfield 21 Typing Tutor III 42 Graphics Fontrix 1 5 65 ReadySetGo 2 0 85 Printograp
53. n 11 OVER SWAP DUP rrvv 12 TABLE DUP E rrvAn 13 DUP 0 14 IF rrvA SCR 47 ON Request for input continued 15FEB86CHP 1 ASK ROT ROT DUP rArvy PHRASE SWAP rAvr REQUEST rAn DUP ROT rn ELSE SWAP DROP SWAP DROP SWAP DROP irn ENDIF on OV CA A Ww t gt SCR 48 0 LIST OF INPUTS 1 FORMAT NAME v INPUT HAIR 1 INPUT 3 GIVES MILK 2 INPUT 4 EATS MEAT 3 INPUT 5 POINTED TEETH 4 INPUT 6 CLAWS 5 INPUT 7 FORWARD EYES 6 INPUT 8 9 15FEB86CHP t3 HOOFS 7 INPUT CHEWS CUD 8 INPUT 10 FEATHERS 9 INPUT 11 FLIES 10 INPUT 12 LAYS EGGS 11 INPUT 13 TAWNY COLOR 12 INPUT 14 DARK SPOTS 13 INPUT 15 gt SCR 49 ON List of inputs continued 1 LONG LEGS 14 INPUT 15FEB86CHP Washington Apple Pi 2 BLACK STRIPES 15 INPUT 3 CANT FLY 16 INPUT 4 LONG NECK 17 INPUT 5 BLACK AND WHITE 18 INPUT 6 SWIMS 19 INPUT 7 FLIES WELL 20 INPUT 8 11 USE STORE DECISION SCR 49A 0 List of inputs continued 1 LONG LEGS 14 INPUT 2 BLACK STRIPES 15 INPUT 3 4 LONG NECK 17 INPUT 3 BLACK AND WHITE 18 INPUT 6 SWIMS 19 INPUT 7 FLIES WELL 20 INPUT 16FEB86CHP 10 11 USE STORE DECISION 13 CANT FLY 16 RULE FLIES NEGATE USE 15 gt SCR 50 OX RULE and ATTRIBUTE calls 1 RULE 1 RULE 2 HAIR TRUE IF 1 ELSE 3 GIVES MILK TRUE IF 1 ELSE 4 1 ENDIF ENDIF USE 5 MAMMAL 21 FETCH DUP 0s
54. need SmarTeam modem switch changes The biggest intuitive problem is to highlight text to Send and then press Cul SEND After chasing text across my screen trying to keep up with my correspondent I thought I should have used telegraphese to send over at the end of each emanation I hesitate to suggest the most efficient use of SwyftCard as a Telecomms function but modem sending of a pre composed letter would seem to justify the telephone expense The way Dave and I communicated through our SwyftCards was a definite plus for AT amp T Performance and Reliability I was quite thrilled to see remarks in the tutorial reminding me that I am in charge and not the computer If the computer gets rambunctious and throws you off the track turn it off catch your breath and tum it on again sounds reassuring I had to turn the computer off several times when block moves INSERT for instance and printing fouled up I do not like prematurely turning off the computer but thank goodness I am using a Kensington System Saver see below I think there are firmware bugs in the Card As long as material is saved I found that many problems are cured by restarting I consider this a definite performance defect My printer produces strange spaces but these were cured also by switching off and on and reprinting A single line feed is sent by PR CHR 1 without a as indicated in the manual page 62 I find string searches by the CALC comm
55. of high profits and minimiz ing potential competition with the Mac Look through the last issue or two of BYTE and be saddened by what is happen ing which is NOT being made available for the Apple I also wish someone would reassure me but I guess when you go from a garage to a large corporation you change 42 April 1986 MIKE UNGERMAN ON 02 02TO JOE ENGLAND For the first time computer user I have always felt that Apple products were far superior to IBM The user friendliness of popping in a disk and going is not matched by IBM where you have to do extensive configuration on most programs like DB II or R BASE or 1 2 3 etc I spent almost 4 hours figuring out Word Star II and getting it up and running on an IBM portable in our office and I like to feel that I have some computer knowledge I have never had similar problems with an Apple TOM O HAGAN ON 02 03 TO MIKE UNGERMAN Try installing Pinpoint Appleworks Ramworks Five hours and it s up and working but I have configuration problems to resolve IBM APPLE CLONE JOE ENGLAND ON 02 12 TO DEBBY STAR The sum total of my knowledge of the IBM Apple clone is what I read in the advertisement Does it run ALL Apple and IBM Software In my opinion not even real Apples and IBM s do that JOE ENGLAND ON 02 12 TO BRETT PARKS Actually an IBM or slot compatible clone with one of those Apple emulation cards I forget the name will actually read an Apple formatted disk right fro
56. of the best games available for the Macintosh anywhere Be a pinball wizard with PSC Player or get behind the eight ball with Billiard Parlour Play the favorite sport of the informa tion age Silicon Volleyball or play one of the solitaire games of an earlier age canfield Silicon Volleyball by R Malissa This is a version of a game ATARI made popular in its heyday At that time it was called Breakout canfield by Michael A Casteel A delightful version of a popular solitaire game Highly detailed graphics of the cards music and an excellent user interface combine to make this a very addictive application Bomber This program does not qualify as a game but it sure can be fun It is a rewrite of an early Microsoft Basic program This one is a compiled version of the same idea Washington Apple Pi Make this the start up application on a disk and watch as you ask some unsuspecting MacUser to boot it up I don t want to spoil the fun by telling you what it does but to avoid rebooting the system remember to click on the RESUME button n Billiard Parlour by R Crandall S Gillespie S Lew This is an incredible simulation of a Billiard Table You can play a whole menu full of different games The game itself is great but in addition there is detailed information in it about how it was developed This application is an example of what can be done with a new Macintosh programming language called Rascal Billiard Parlour Help This
57. on the menu bar at the top of the Mac s screen It remains there even when you start an application Scrolling Menu Installer by Michael C O Connor Now have as many fonts on the disk as you need If there are more than can normally be displayed just pull down to the bottom of the list and the others will scroll into view PRAM by Ken Winograd The Mac s clock chip also contains some memory This memory is call Parameter Ram Use this utility to view the memory and change it KeyBoard 0 1 by Loftus E Becker Change any key to produce any character Change Application Font by Loftus E Becker Does what it says The application font is used by the finder for titles Now you can have a choice In the Launch Folder Launch Launch allows you to create a disk that will automatically start up in an application with a specific docu ment loaded Now you can start up MacWrite with a document already loaded Do not start this application before reading the documentation Without properly named documents on the same disk as this application it will bomb Launch Documentation The instructions for the above In the File Handlers Folder Compact by Steve Brecher Compress application files to save space The Encoder Decoder by Micro Technology A compression routine that works on any Macintosh file but the file must be decompressed before it can be used TabUtil by Chet J Graham This routine allows the user to convert tabs to spaces a
58. owned Macintosh 512K s priced hundreds of dollars less than new Macintoshes AppleCare contracts available Call Clinton Computer p s at 856 2500 and ask for Mike or Mark Rebates Offered If you purchased your Macintosh between Nov 17 1985 and January 15 1986 you can qualify for up to 450 in rebates directly from Apple Computer when you upgrade to a Macintosh Plus Call either of our stores for details CLINTON COMPUTER is ars to offer Washington Apple Pi members a 25 DISCOUNT OFF THE LIST PRICE on all Apple brand peripherals and __ software and on AppleCare Discount is available to persons who have been Pi members for at least three months Discount applies to cash and certified check purchases of Ape peripherals and software no CPU s and may not be applied retroactively Ift members n ed to present their ID cards up front Discount cannot be used in 7 combination with other pio Members should primarily utilize the Pi ler he product is not in stock we can take your prepaid order Pi network of experts for after sale support No phone or mail orders please This newsletter was produced on a Macintosh and LaserWriter using MacDraw Apple and the Apple logo are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc Macintosh is a trademark of McIntosh Labora tory Inc and is being used with express permission of its owner LaserWriter is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc 1986 1 a E The Computer
59. programs I with your applause thundering in my ears agreed Took a while though Now read on for a discussion of one of them e 9 WHY BIG LETTERS The program BIG LETTERS displays letters that are about twice the size of the normal Apple characters It was written originally for a kindergarten aged child with a disabil ity tied in some way to seeing problems it was directed toward helping her type any letters she chose to recognize the letters she wrote and then tie them into words DISCUSSION Lets take a look at what makes this kind of program different and in its way helplful And as a guide let s use a set of principles listed in my article in the September 1985 WAP Journal Support the teacher Treat the computer as a tool Use computer technology that exists Use existing program Use computers to increase the independence of the user Make use of whatever capabilities the person may have Keep it simple The program started when the teacher described a kindergarten student We don t know whether she s mildly retarded afflicted with some unique vision problems or both There were computers at the school but she had not reacted to the displays Would larger letters be of any help Perhaps Let s try Where to get large letters As they say in industry Make or Buy To be brief I settled on an existing program Apple Mechanic here abbreviated A M By so doing I avoided re inventing the wheel and muc
60. re a Good Man Charlie Brown I used a Kliegl Bros Performer II comput erized light board to control the lighting Now I ve been told that this piece of equipment costs over a hundred thousand dollars whether that s true or not I can t say for certain I wouldn t be surprised if it were however It looks like one of those old Southwest Technical Products Corporation computers big bulky and very ugly but it has a numeric keypad some special keys and ten manual backup faders on the front instead of a typewriter keyboard The software which is actually in ROM functions perfectly but the hard ware is slightly unreliable The point of all this is that for about a fiftieth of the cost of one of these Performers one could probably assemble a much more reliable and user friendly not to mention much better graphics control system using a Mac or an Apple There s an opportunity here for some enterprising developer Completely random comment Have you ever noticed the terminology of computers For instance the machine itself is hardware the programs you put into it are software but programs that are built into the machine are firmware Then you have bugs which foul up your software and glitches which affect hardware And so on The most amusing thing to me though is that all of these terms are used with straight faces by executives government employees and even lawyers I know one lawyer who constantly talks ab
61. scor ing method with acknowledgement to InfoWorld provides useful headings for criticism I will briefly describe the basics of operation and discuss my interpretation of the features A highly favorable read glowing review appeared in A in November 1985 page 86 which was realistically questioned in a letter to the magazine February 1986 page 14 The SwyftCard has been advertised in A every month since October apparently enthusiastically endorsed by WOZ It is not completely clear to whom in the user community this product is aimed but it purports to be a better solution to your day in day out word processing and data management needs We ll see ing 1award the SwyftCard 2 Cards out of 5 5 being the highest So why do I rate this revolution in technology only 2 out of 5 Have I sent it for decent burial Am I going to sell it at the next garage sale Patience I have been using SwyftCard version 1 21 1985 for several months for all my correspondence in order to give you my sweaty palms experience for this review I have examined and used all the functions and Dave Harvey has kindly evaluated communications in depth Dave reports his experiences else where This article is written on a Mac to facilitate the Editor in preparing it for publication as Mac medium is preferred where possible SwyftCard Text can be converted to a ProDOS file for manipulation by ProDOS based word processors such as Apple Writer and Apple
62. share of the dialog A second sample dialog is also given below These two samples show the type of operation given by TOY R15 R13 R14 Black and White Eggs contd Washington Apple Pi e Hello I will use my rules to try to establish one of the following 7 hypotheses ANIMAL IS ALBATROSS ANIMAL IS PENGUIN ANIMAL IS OSTRICH ANIMAL IS ZEBRA ANIMAL IS GIRAFFE ANIMAL IS TIGER ANIMAL IS CHEETAH Please answer my questions with Y yes N no or W why Examining Rule 15 Is this true ANIMAL FLIES Y Examining Rule 3 Examining Rule 4 Is this true ANIMAL LAYS EGGS Y Rule 3 deduces that ANIMAL IS BIRD Is this true ANIMAL FLIES WELL N Rule 15 deduces that ANIMAL IS ALBATROSS IS FALSE Examining Rule 14 Examining Rule 16 Rule 16 deduces that ANIMAL CANT FLY IS FALSE Rule 14 deduces that ANIMAL IS PENGUIN IS FALSE Examining Rule 13 Examining Rule 16 Rule 16 deduces that ANIMAL CANT FLY IS FALSE Rule 13 deduces that ANIMAL IS OSTRICH IS FALSE Examining Rule 12 Is this true ANIMAL HAS BLACK STRIPES W I m working on rule 12 I already know that ANIMAL FLIES IS TRUE ANIMAL LAYS EGGS IS TRUE ANIMAL IS BIRD IS TRUE ANIMAL CANT FLY IS FALSE ANIMAL FLIES WELL IS FALSE ANIMAL IS OSTRICH IS FALSE ANIMAL IS PENGUIN IS FALSE ANIMAL IS ALBATROSS IS FALSE Please answer whether ANIMAL HAS BLACK STRIPES Y Examining Rule 2 Examining Rule 7 Examining Rule 1 Is this true ANIMA
63. stored in a memory or carried over to the text spreadsheet or other work in progress on the screen All in all the calculator is a good idea but would be much better if it performed a variety of functions beyond the basic four had results that could be printed and could be accessed and removed quickly The Communications package is useful The set up program for it is flexible and permits a variety of modems to be used It accomodates both 300 and 1200 baud rates It can be used for electronic mail information data bases and sending and receiving files There is also an automatic dialer with provisions for special log in numbers etc The Notepad permits short memos up to 32 lines to be created and stored The notes are windowed on the screen The editing instructions are very similar to those of the AppleWorks word processor You can also directly print the note In addition if you are using Pinpoint in conjunction with AppleWorks you can save the note as an AppleWorks file The notepad is a useful tool if you are using Pinpoint alone I do not see any real advantage to it if you are already in AppleWorks as it is just as easy to create a new Apple Works file with unlimited length and more editing functions Furthermore without a hard disk or an expanded RAM it takes more time to create a note than a new AppleWorks file The QuickLabel program is quite useful It scans the text and puts the cursor on the closest thing in the text
64. talk No they don t start at 1 What can I say If you must have a disaster you might as well have communications The audio visual complexity currently at USUHS is a recipe for disaster Harmann in Germany 1960 showed 10 000 slides to 20 people at 10 seconds apart of this myriad of images all 20 demonstrated gt 90 recall even after three months Apparently we have three major mentalities muscular visually image based and symbolic Pointing at things is muscular These are our icons The hard thing is making visually concrete things symbolic A 12 year old girl wrote a Smalltalk 72 program based on Sketchpad in 1975 in 50 lines for an Altos graphics program A 15 year old wrote an 80 line program to help him design ham radio circuit diagrams The computer problem is that these examples are great but they do not relate to ordinary people using computers Apple has achieved half of the equation with the user interface but the user tailoring is terrible The Mac is beautifully dressed but the handshake is soggy Film of a particularly intriguing individual with a handsome wristwatch showed some neat tricks on a huge screen This was a map simulation at Atari in which the Operator pointed to parts of the screen in answer to the computer asking where to place graphic items This clip ended with creation of a red cruise ship named Corporate April 1986 9 Research and then to the command Delete Corporate Research
65. the data base The possibilities are numerous Besides the usual numeric operations many mathematical and string functions are provided absolute value power square root integer part string comparison concatenation and subselection You can use boolean tests such as Dept Mngr which evaluate as one if true and zero if false to increase the reporting power Omnis 3 allows you to enter a look up table to convert an abbreviation to a longer code in the report For example the code M could appear as Male and the code F as Female A mail merge would be a very easy thing to perform with the Omnis 3 reporting capability Your form mailing label invoice etc is designed using the multi screen painting mode employed to define record formats Numerous field display formats similar to those described earlier for file definition are available Among the most common are justi fication and number of decimal places You may embed commas in numbers and have negative values printed within parentheses On the negative side Omnis 3 report capability does not support mixing of the Macintosh s many fonts A entire report can be designated for printing in only one font 1 have some trouble even making Font selection work properly under Finder 5 1 on the Apple Hard disk 1 can not get a single font or font size selected check marks appear next to more than one font and size regardless of what 1 check Sorting amp Searching Beside ente
66. the Journal we tried this time to prepare it all except for the ads electronically with the assistance of David Morganstein s HD 20 on our Mac Nope it didn t pan out yet We ran into unexpected difficulties here and there Come hear about them at the dPub SIG meeting on the 2nd Saturday in April at the office April 1986 3 Mes everyone would agree one of the best meetings WAP has ever had the best most said since the Woz came here to introduce the Macin H tosh in January of 1984 Alan s presentation cov ered a wide range of sub Mi jects which is only right for someone like him who is involved in so e x Se many projects on the fron o a tier of computer science See Adrien Youell s summary of Alan s talk elsewhere in this issue Thanks Alan for lifting all our spirits with a look at what we can do with tomorrow s computer technology And thanks also to Mrs Kay Alan s mother for coming as well Everyone s thanks should also go to three WAP members whose behind the scenes efforts made Alan s presentation such a multimedia tour de force Leon Moore who handles our arrangements with our host USUHS used his contacts and persuasive skills to make available some of USUHS s first rate equipment Thanks also to John Alden our Program Chairman whom few members get to see at meetings becuase he s the fellow peering into a videocamera John s been videotaping the last few WAP meetings and he managed to
67. the ring itself where the boxers pile blows on each other The animation is excellent screen refresh rates are fast even by Macintosh standards and the image masking is well executed Though the game is quite exciting it would quickly become boring if you didn t have control over the boxers play Championship Boxing allows control over the boxers in three ways For the stout of finger there is Arcade Mode Apologies to Fowler Arcade mode lets you control each move that your boxer makes from uppercuts to cowering It is the only real way to have complete control over the player Admittedly I am a klutz when it comes to arcade games and my heavyweight boxer was willing to lose to any lightweight This brings to mind an old maxim Those who can do Those who can t teach Sierra has accomodated The rest of us with a coaching mode You can 22 April 1986 tell you fighter to go for the kill or to hang loose and wait for the opponent to tire Playing this mode I had better luck 25 wins against the computer controlled opponents Okay so I m not a good coach That leaves the final hope for revenge The Training Room The Training Room is my favorite part of the game You can almost smell the sweat Oh never mind That s my laundry basket sitting next to the Mac Here you can add to Sierra s already impressive stable of fighters past and present by answering a series of questions on your new fighter s career I created
68. those of you who have a Mac Plus connected to a LaserWriter Plus in your living room as I do hang it up if you re trying to use PageMaker version 1 1 First you have to use LaserNamer to give the LaserWriter Plus the name LaserWriter even after you do that it still treats the additional font sets as bit mapped fonts instead of vectors While version 1 2 is supposed to correct this little problem it sure does take all the fun out of being the first one on your block with a LaserWriter Plus DPub SIG s next meeting will be on April 12 from noon to 2 at a location to be determined probably PEPCO in downtown Washington Stay tuned to the BBSs and the WAP phone line for final location See you then 5 Washington Apple Pi Here s more information on directly driving the Laser Writer with a e using the new Synergetics program and utilities 39 95 direct mentioned during the February meeting and in the March Journal Most of this is based on a reading of the long tutorial provided on Volume III of the three disk package The disks glossary listings and other information are available from Don Lancaster Synergetics Box 809 Thatcher Ariz 85552 602 428 4073 A copied Volume II from this set which contains the operating part of the utility has so far refused to run return ing when pushed too far an error message that reads Uh that wasn t one of my disks We hope to have a report in a future issue on actual resu
69. to connect modems to our machines It just so happens that there is a product called Tumover that consists of a half size card and software for the PC that allows the PC to read and write 5 1 4 disks in Apple format It is produced by Vertex Systems Inc Suite 3 6022 W Pico Blvd Los Angeles CA 90035 16 Q April 1986 floppy and hard disk on the PC The Turnover board plugs into the PC the standard PC floppy disk drives are plugged into the Tumover board and a small jumper from the Tumover board plugs into the original disk controller board in the PC When disabled the board is transparent and the PC functions as a normal PC When the Tumover software is used you can transfer files written in Apple DOS 3 3 ProDOS Softcard CP M Apple Pascal and Apple SOS to an MS DOS formatted disk Similarly you can initialize a disk in Apple format and write selected PC files to it in DOS 3 3 ProDOS CP M or SOS format A utility program is also included to modify the MS DOS files to strip the high bit add or remove line feeds and Carriage returns or replace strings This is claimed to permit Apple VisiCalc files to be used with Lotus 1 2 3 There is also a utility to convert Apple binary files to MS DOS binary files by stripping off the address and length header of the Apple binary file Of course this may be only part of the problem If you are interested in transferring ASCII text files then Tumover should work f
70. translate it is FAST It also shows us that Mac software does run on the 68020 Future Apple products 64 April 1986 l m specializing in Mac sofware and training Js will probably use this super fast microprocessor In the meantime those of us who need fast number crunching have a Mac based solution A 12 5 MHz 68020 68881 based com puter used at Berkeley did floating point operations as fast as a Vax 780 When I saw the demonstration Andy Hertzfeld Berl Smith and John Captain Crunch Draper were eyeing this product and suggesting ways to make it go even faster Hottest Soft Product MacLiehtni As I am typing this article a spelling checker called MacLightning is checking my spelling It is a desk accessory that works in the background while you type in most ANY Macintosh program If you make a mistake you just type CMDI and a dictionary window appears so you can click on the right word it tries to find the closest word to it browse through the dictionary or add the word you typed to the add list If you want to make a correction type CMD 2 and the program will paste the corrected word in for you You can also have MacLightning check an entire document or a selected area of text I have found some bugs in MacLightning For example about once a week when using MacLightning I have had the Mac lock up and freeze Ed Note Zap maybe Because I save my work early and often it has not been too bad However you
71. wave of the future of course is computer aided design CAD which would eliminate much of the mechanical aspects of design and free the scenographer to fully express his art I want to see if I can implement some sort of CAD sys tem for theatre with what I ve got available to me and maybe a couple of inexpensive peripherals Any suggestions More on this as I begin fooling around Pardonez moi s il vous plait Sorry this has been so short but this month wasn t the world s most relaxing for me Next month I promise an in depth look at Apple s latest moves complete with my usual commentary a survey of the rumor mill and a glance into the ol crystal ball Keep sending in your comments about mail order places so I can pass them on Also drop me a line or two if there s anything at all that you want to talk about I haven t been too good about it lately but I m going to start writing back to all of you who ve sent me mail See y all next month G5 Q amp A contd from pg 17 Spreadsheets are the most popular reason for adding memory data bases probably come next Once you have decided what program you are going to use select a Ram card that works with that program Q Iuse my computer mainly to keep track of my finances and telecommunications I also have a number of games Do you think an Aple Unidisk 3 5 would be better for me than say a 10 MByte Sider A I really think that must be your decision However I can give you
72. you have performed Part 1 the following must be typed from the external keyboard of course DDT SF386 lt cr gt F386 B5 69 lt cr gt At this point neither display will be active so you must type in the blind FE lt cr gt CTRL C Output should now be via the external device Washington Apple Pi AN sories Part 5 April 1986 PART III To make these patches permanent on a system disk RUN CONFIGIO and Write the IOCB to disk Keep in mind that for external keyboard use you only need to do Part 1 Also there really is no absolute need to use a BASIC program to perform these POKEs A compiled Turbo PASCAL program also ought to work Anyway after the POKEs simply warm boot the WordStar dBase or any other disk that you actually want to use in the system A disk can also be set up that will automatically boot up for external keyboard do Parts 1 and 3 only While we re on WordStar its worth mentioning to those of you who haven t learned the hard way that WordStar uses the eighth bit of each byte for its own internal special uses e g to mark the end of the word There are available utility programs that strip away this bit But if you are transferring from WordStar TO your lap computer just employ the 711 parity option Actually in an emergency that can be one way of filtering WordStar files pass them through a lap computer with 7I1 parity Later on in this series I plan to report on my investigatio
73. you the time to repeatedly select the options you use frequently ANANN Formats Show Tools Show Colors H Error Bars Y Error Bars Hide Legend Add Depth 3863 Remove Plot Frame 3 F Sipifch Bes nid niup Labels 4660082440950 50003290099 0000009 0994044000909 099099909009 9 9099594999029909 44000909000 12290000009 Record Preferences T contd 55 Below is an example bar chart with depth added a simple CG option Data from Business Data N SN ES meet AO Cn ats a a fue M a du SS 1983 aa n eee tan a 196 1973 1978 Year Documentation 1 found the manual to be readable and easy to use It contains both a Table of Contents and an Index It begins with a tutorial and includes a reference section by menu The disk contains two sample data files which help you to get started Summary Cricket Graph is a very well done package It is not copy protected and can be loaded onto a hard disk without difficulty Other than my comments about the data window I found no other weaknesses It supports the Mac interface in every way possible You can easily copy data from and to it via the clipboard It works with Switcher and it produces beautiful output on the LaserWriter Cricket Software 3508 Market St Suite 206 Philadelphia PA 19104 Phone 215 387 7955 List Price 195 00 Omnis 3 A good data base package should give you ease of file definition and modification va
74. you want the bricks to be red like many real brick are you have to get a paint and brush and hand paint it on the screen Crayons are also an exceptable color adding tool JOE ENGLAND ON 02 25 I ve noticed that since the Macintosh came out a faint but pervasive aura of chauvinism has developed among both Mac and users sometimes even rising to the level of antagonism Why this should be is beyond my feeble powers of understanding but I think that in all fairness we should stand back and take a good look at the relative merits of both microcomputers I think it would be fair to say that while the Apple is functional well supported by both the hardware and software after markets and pleasing to look at the Macintosh is about the right size and shape to be useful for chocking your car wheels while changing tires And with only a hack saw and a half hour of time a Mac could be transformed into a truly stunning ashtray or planter Other well reasoned and impartial views are welcome contd on pg 46 April 1986 43 The second meeting of the Desktop Publishing DPub SIG was held on March 8 and was so well attended that there was standing room only as the meeting began Since WAP s meeting room is going to be too small we have begun investigating the possibility of using some other place for future meetings Our next meeting on April 12 will be at a location that will be posted on the DPub BBS and the WAP answering machine pri
75. your machine will be not only FONTASTIC re cheaper it will be better FRONT DESK 1 0 I can design for you an IBM PC X T compatible that adheres fully to IBM HAYDEN SPELLER 1 2 hardware and software standards yet enhances those standards in SE AUG da ways that do not interfere with conventional operation or future expan UNTANT sion JAZZ 1 0 MACDRAFT 1 1 Your generic version of the IBM PC XT will come with each component MACDRAW 1 9 individually selected for cost effectiveness and tested for performance MACLABELLER 2 0 and quality My PC s are better systems dollar for dollar than any other MACNOSY 2 0 IBM clone you ll find MACPAINT 1 5 MAC PLOT 1 7 And now you can get as much as three megabytes of free programs with MACPROJECT 1 0 the computer Included is software for word processing project data MACPUBLISHER 1 6 base and spreadsheet management investment analysis telecom MACTERMINAL 1 2 munications graphics for design charting and advertising a Sidekick MACWRITE 45 like notepad and alarm clock and even an array of video games Hard MICRO PLANNER disk systems have all software properly installed and linked by appro MS BASIC 2 1 priate custom help screens MS FILE 1 02 MS FORTRAN 2 1 Prices start at 1240 for a fully warranted fully supported computer MS WORD 1 05 with 256K RAM two floppy disk drives multiple serial and parallel MULTIPLAN 1 1 ports clock calendar monitor bundled software and lots of room t
76. 0 is a local firm that intends to better the out of towners They are also work ing on an adapter box to provide 5 and 12 volt power no longer provided by the Mac to the peripherals that need it Apple dealers do sell cables to connect the Mac to other things but some don t know it To connect the Mac to a Hayes Smartmodem or equivalent order product number A9C0313 part number 590 0335 A The wiring DIN 8 pin gt DB 25 pin is 1 gt 20 2 gt 6 8 3 gt 2 4 gt 7 5 gt 3 6 N C 7 N C 8 gt 7 and shell gt 1 To connect a Mac to an ImageWriter I use the cable product A2C0311 part number 590 0331 B The wiring DIN 8 to DB 25 is 1 gt 6 8 2 gt 20 3 gt 3 4 gt 7 5 gt 2 6 N C 7 N C 8 gt 7 shell gt 1 To connect a Mac to a LaserWriter in those cases where there are no other devices on the AppleTalk bus you can use the 512K Mac to ImageWriter II cable as a direct connection Sorry I don t have the number You do not need the AppleTalk isolation boxes Better if you can build one yourself wire it as DIN 8 gt DE 9 1 gt 7 2 gt 6 3 gt 9 4 gt 3 5 55 6 gt 8 7 N C 8 24 This is the balanced way to wire it Note for those of you trying to figure out the Mac pinouts on page 64 of the March Journal Apple reverses the usual meaning of and on the RS 422 signals Is a new keyboard required as part of the Mac intosh upgrade packages No Will the new keyboard work on a 512K Mac
77. 1 ELSE 14 BLACK STRIPES FALSE IF 1 ELSE 15 1 ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF USE gt SCR 54 0 RULE calls cont 15FEB86CHP RULE11 11 RULE UNGULATE FALSE IF 1 ELSE LONG NECK FALSE IF 1 ELSE DARK SPOTS FALSE IF 1 ELSE LONG LEGS FALSE IF 1 ELSE 1 ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF USE IAA bh WD 8 RULE12 12 RULE 9 BLACK STRIPES FALSE IF 1 ELSE 10 UNGULATE FALSE IF 1 ELSE 11 1 ENDIF ENDIF USE 12 gt 13 14 15 SCR 55 OX RULE calls cont 1SFEB86CHP RULE13 13 RULE BIRD FALSE IF 1 ELSE BLACK AND WHITE FALSE IF 1 ELSE CANT FLY FALSE IF 1 ELSE LONG NECK FALSE IF 1 ELSE LA fa YN 38 6 1 ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF USE 7 8 RULEIA 14 RULE 9 BIRD FALSE IF 1 ELSE 10 CANT FLY FALSE IF 1 ELSE 11 BLACK AND WHITE FALSE IF 1 ELSE 12 SWIMS FALSE IF 1 ELSE 13 1 ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF USE 14 gt 15 SCR 56 0 RULE calls cont 16FEB86CHP 1 RULE15 15 RULE 2 FLIES FALSE IF 1 ELSE 3 BIRD FALSE IF 1 ELSE 4 FLIES WELL FALSE IF 1 ELSE 5 1 ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF USE 6 7 8 9 CHEETAH 25 FETCH DUP 0 IF RULES ENDIF TRUE IF 9 CONCLUSION ELSE REJECT ENDIF TIGER 26 FETCH DUP 0 IF RULE10 ENDIF 10 TRUE IF 10 CONCLUSION ELSE CHEETAH ENDIF 11 GIRAFFE 27 FETCH DUP 0 IF RULE11 ENDIF 12 TRUE IF 11 CONCLUSION ELSE TIGER ENDIF 13 ZEBRA 28 FETCH DUP 0 IF RULE12 ENDIF 14 TRUE IF 12 CONCLUSION ELSE GIRAFFE ENDIF 15 gt SCR 57 0 RULES concl INITIALIZATION 1
78. 2 va n BR sea 10 00 Disk holder for S 1 4 10 00 Alphabits Card 73 00 gael I Graphics Pkg 1 275 00 Koala Pad Touch Tablet 0 90 Koala Pad Adapter for II 6 00 Mi cro Sci Dis 6 Dri ve a2 e a av 165 00 Mac Enhancer Microsoft 186 75 MACBCOOL Cool your MAC 125 00 Verbatim Maxell disks 9 1 4 S8 14 00 10 1 30 00 100 DS 18 00 10 170 00 100 3 1 2 SS 15 00 5 29 00 10 DS 31 00 10 Buy 10 boxes of disks and receive a holder fOr EE Head Cleaning Kits 1 20 FingerPrint FX Series 32 30 Record Master Complete Data Base System Sone a aa 40 00 Special on Scholastic Ed Series sert Tree Agent USA Mystery Sentences Tales of Discovery Y Math Man a w esnesenossenssnsn 22 00 COPY II PLUS for II Ile IIc 28 00 COPY 11 MAC me sansuqasesnasessnnoeonnsnsn 28 00 DAVID DOS 11 eseeeuveeeuuutunsnen 32 00 DOLLARS amp SENSE for MAC 105 00 MacModula 2 Language System 80 00 This ad is written a month in advance Since prices are subject to change please call for current pricing We attempt to meet all advertised prices COMPUTER DEN Ltd 11716 KEMP MILL ROAD SILVER SPRING MARYLAND 20902 301 649 6868 Call to order Sunday osa de 10 A M 9 P M Free deliver o Crystal City UPS shipping Quantity Discounts Available t t it it it t EA EJEA AZ PSA AS April 1986 65 REVIEW CORRER by Jam
79. 36 4698 935 5617 620 2103 362 3887 652 9375 893 5985 460 0754 Games Apple Games Mac Hard Disks Corvus amp Omninet Sider A A Epe on I Integer P Pascal M Machine UTP gt gt gt gt gt gt zz MS Basic Math OR Appius Monitor RGB Operating Systems Apple DOS CP M ProDOS Printers Gencral AJ 831 series Apple Color Plotter Apple Daisy Whcel Daisywniter 2000 Ip 460 magewriter MX BO NEC 8023 Okidata Scribe Silentype Spreadsheets Lotus 1 2 3 Multiplan Ms ht 2 0 MagicCalc rdsht 2 0 MagicCalc SiperCalc Ver 3 0 Stat Packages Stock Market Time Sharing Word Processors Apple Writer Il Format HH Gutenberg amp Jr Letter Perfect amp Simply Perfect Magic Window and II Peach Text PIE bl cido ts PIE ScreenWriter Supertext II Word Handler Word Juggler e Word Perfect Word Star April 1986 PLEASE keep in mind that the Charles Hall Ron Wartow Tom Vier ABBS Jaxon Brown Otis Greever Louts Biggie Peter Combes Jeff Dillon Richard Langston Mark Pankin Richard Untied John Love Raymond Hobbs Donn Hoffman Bruce Field Fred Nacf Ray Hobbs 7 30 10 Mark Pankin John Day Richard Langston John Love Adam Robic Richard Unticd Ray Hobbs 7 30 10 Leon Racsly Richard Langston John Love Walt Francis Leon Racsly Joan B Dunham Joc England 7 10 John Day John Day Bill Etuc tare Greene Jeff Stetekluh John Day Jeff Dillon
80. 4K MEMORY 119 00 e 320K MEMORY 153 00 e 512K MEMORY 187 00 e 1 MEG MEMORY 292 00 e80 COL CARD 49 00 e 80 160 COL CARD 189 00 e SERIAL CARD 39 00 e MODEM CARD 39 00 e SUPER SERIAL INT CARD 69 00 eSERRALL L 99 00 e CLOCK CARD 95 00 eSLOT3CLOCK 109 00 e 2 80 BOARD 39 00 e TITAN ACCELERATOR lle 249 00 e APPLICARD FAST Z 80 129 00 e APPLICARD PLUS WORDSTAR 199 00 e WILDCARD li COPY CD 109 00 e MULTIPLE SLOT CHASSIS 149 00 e SINGLE SLOT EXTENDER 29 00 e QUICK LOADER PROM BD 149 00 e PROM BURNER 119 00 e 8231 WOODMONT April 1986 SPECIAL PERIPHERALS e COOLING FAN WITH SURGE PROTECT e 58 W POWER SUPPLY 59 00 e SHIFT KEY MOD KIT 8 00 e SCREEN SWITCHER DRIVE STEPPER 74 00 e RF MODULATOR 19 00 APPLE SOFTWARE e PINPOINT iie e 55 00 e COPY IE Y ica 29 00 e ESSENTIAL DATA DUPLICATOR 59 00 e INCOME TAX PREPARER 175 00 e PLUSWORKS RUNS APPLEWORKS ON IP Peas ui oia bacs 19 00 e WRITE CHOICE WORD PROCESSOR 39 00 e WORDSTAR 33 99 00 e PRINT SHOP SPECIALS PARALLEL INLINE BUFFER 32K 128K 79 00 COMPOSITE COLOR MONITOR 189 00 PLEASE NOTE BECAUSE U S DOLLAR IS DROPPING SOME PR
81. 5 Washington Apple Pi The Journal of Washington Apple Pi Ltd Volume 8 Aumber 4 A Presentation by Alan Kay SwyftCaro Toy Expert System in Forth Cricket Graph amp Omnis 3 softviews Accounting on the Macintosh DETICENS 4 SENT EGTRONTET 4 4 wa d a xr ssyo SwyftCard and Telecommunications Dave Harvey 31 PresTd nt s Corner aa nana lom Warrick 4 Pinpoint A Review Henry R Hertzfeld 32 General Information Event Queue Classifieds 5 A Toy Expert System in Forth Chester H Page 34 Commercial Classifieds Pub Serv Announcements 6 Pascal 1 3 Upgrade Offer Michael Hartman 39 WAF GEIGHCRY STONBWE w d 59 ve Haws T The View From Durham Chris Klugewicz 40 Meeting Report February 27 Adrien Youell 8 Best of Apple Items UBBS Alexander 42 Research Project on Computer Agents Reptd by AY 9 UB SOU a j n mw en os sw d 0 Condren 14 NAN MANI ENN NN S IN m Ts ee eee s MM e Apple Writer LaserWriter Utility Martin Kuhn 45 WAP Bulletin Board Systems Meeting Format 12 Assembling a Panel for Comic Strip Paul E Funk 46 Telecom SIG NEWS so Dave Harvey 13 Mac Q amp A i o Jonatan E Hardis 48 Lisa SES NEMS 5 5 5225 JONN Preston 13 MECHNOV T G 259 os s s RAIAN 9 Begleiter 52 Apple Teas ai cess Amy Te Billingsiey 13 DOTEVIENS 5 aw us a wo David Morganstein 54 Forth SIG NewS o vin Neaton 13 Mac Softw
82. 5 Caves of Mondamen 14 Filevision Templates 15 Progammer s P ayground 16 New Members Disk 1985 17 Red Ryder 5 0 1557 ere eae 18 MusicWorks Collectn I 228 Es Je Lai 19 Mock Accessories scape from Orc s Lair 20 MacPaintines 11 229 City in the Clouds 51 Utilities I SEd ProDOS Volumes 22 Desk Tools 802 Utilities A 23 Fonts 111 24 Telecom I 25 Util II Switcher 4 4 26 Am Sign Lang Font 803 Filecabinet 804 Shareware 805 85 Tax Templates AW 806 ZAP 27 Cyclan Develop Sys Forth Volumes 28 World Mapping Prog 700 Assembler Disassemb 7 Fun and Games 701 Full Screen Editor 0 Education I 702 GoForth Tutorial 31 Dungcon of Doonv 703 Fig Forth Eliza Talks 704 Floating Point Arith 32 Fun and Games Il ascal Volumes Sce also Fe 33 Desk Accessories II 300 PIGO ATTACH 1 1 B OS 34 Excel Tax Temp 85 301 PIGI 35 Fun and Games Ill wa Fi SUP 0 O u d Z ac 201 Pic Olea d Set of 3 disks 15 305 PIGS PIGII are 306 PIG6 re issucs 307 PIG 308 PIGS 309 PIGS 310 PIG10 311 PIG11 312 PIGI2 313 PIG13 Gucrilla Guide 314 PIGI4 P M Volumes 401 Master Catalog 402 Utilities 1 403 Communications 404 Utilities 2 405 Utilities 3 406 ZCPR2 Install 407 ZCPR2 Documentation 408 ZCPR2 Utilities 409 Modem 730 410 Essential Utilitics 411 Text Editor 412 Spreadsheet 133 AC 20 Pascal amp DOS 3 3 413 N DM 70C IV 134 New Members Disk 205 The Crystal Mountain 414 MDM740C m D 7710 amp
83. 5FEB86CHP 1 OSTRICH 29 FETCH DUP 0 IF RULE13 ENDIF 2 TRUE IF 13 CONCLUSION ELSE ZEBRA ENDIF 3 PENGUIN 30 FETCH DUP 0 IF RULE14 ENDIF 4 TRUE IF 14 CONCLUSION ELSE OSTRICH ENDIF 5 ALBATROSS 31 FETCH DUP 0 IF RULE15 ENDIF 6 TRUE IF 15 CONCLUSION ELSE PENGUIN ENDIF 7 8 INTRO Hello CR 9 I will use my rules to try to establish one of the following 10 7 hypotheses CR 11 5 SPACES ANIMAL 31 PHRASE CR 12 5 SPACES ANIMAL 30 PHRASE CR 13 5 SPACES ANIMAL 29 PHRASE CR 14 5 SPACES ANIMAL 28 PHRASE CR 15 SCR 58 OX RUN and START final screen 15FEB86CHP 1 5 SPACES ANIMAL 27 PHRASE CR 2 5 SPACES ANIMAL 26 PHRASE CR 3 5 SPACES ANIMAL 25 PHRASE CR CR CR 4 Please answer my questions with Y yes N no or W why 5 CRCRCR CR 6 7 START RESET ALBATROSS 8 9 RUN INTRO START 10 April 1986 Washington Apple Pi APPLE PASCAL 1 3 UPGRADE OFFER by Michael Hartman Last December Apple Computer released the latest version of its Pascal system for the Apple family of computers Apple Pascal 1 3 has a number of new features and enhancements to the operating environment and the language The two most significant features of the new release are support for the UniDisk 3 5 800K drive and all devices which follow the ProDOS block device protocol and an excellent 950 page manual covering the operating system and language Enhancements to the language its
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85. 802 4833 4881 4899 4938 4977 4987 5005 5009 5016 5034 5046 5060 5062 5076 5079 5103 5121 5126 1134 1181 1298 1313 1340 1406 1425 1469 1530 1534 1556 1588 1611 1718 1723 1725 1730 1759 1778 1801 1043 1820 1065 1876 1128 1881 1898 1920 1922 1938 1947 1965 2005 2065 2088 2099 2159 2196 3453 3475 3477 3511 4092 4133 4157 4230 4239 4244 4258 4379 4395 4429 4438 4445 4481 4525 4556 4558 4564 4569 5228 0503 76 5144 5697 5738 5744 5758 5789 5810 5823 5835 5839 5870 5875 5883 5895 5901 5933 5945 5963 5992 5998 6018 6020 6024 April The Directory will include ONLY the following infor mation first and last name home phone number city and zipcode There will be two lists one sorted alphabetically and the other sorted by zipcode The Directory will be distributed only to those persons who have given WAP permission to include their names There will be a nominal cost for the Directory to cover printing costs and details of pre ordering will be included in next month s Journal If the information below is incorrect or if you wish to change your directions to the club please fill out and return the form in the back of this issue Changes and corrections MUST be received in the WAP office no later than April 27 Information arriving after that date will not be included in this edition of the Directory 6064 6462 6781 7006 6092 6475 6806
86. AL 3 1 A11 SELECT OFFSET ACTIVE CELLO row counter col 0 OFFSET ACTIVE CELLO row counter col col 1 OFFSET ACTIVE CELLO row counter col 0 A12 SET NAME counter counter l A13 IF counter row RETURNO GOTO A6 The first three commands SET NAME s create three vari ables row col and counter referred to later in the macro Row contains the number of rows in your selected data base and col contains a count of columns Counter is set to one and will be increased by one after each mailing label is created In cell A5 the first row of your data is selected The SELECT command contains two arguments the first indicating the upper left hand comer of the area to be selected and the second identifying the lower right hand corner The selected corners are described using OFFSET which contains three arguments OFFSET s first argument is an area and the next two describe a row and column displacement from the top left of the area OFFSET results in a reference of the same size as the area listed as its first argument here ACTIVE CELL Since the first displacements are 0 0 the upper left hand corner of the area being selected is the current active cell The displacement for the lower right hand comer are O col 1 indicating the same row as the ACTIVE CELL but col 1 columns to the right of it Remember that col contains the number of columns here three in the selected area of your database The results of all
87. Alan performed from 9 30 to 10 50 to a packed audience representing all sections of the membership Tax packages for the Mac took over at 11 00 in the auditorium whilst the Apple Q amp A was held in the cafeteria The Mac Q amp A was at 12 15 until 1 45 in the auditorium We really do intend to have something for everyone and the future programs prove we are trying My grateful thanks are extended to Ed Myerson who chaired the Mac Tax meeting so praciously and to Tom Gross TaxPro which requires Excel John Hudson MaclnTax and Lynn Trusal Excel templates Ed presented TaxPrep which requires Excel These members put a lot of time into their preparation for the meeting Thank you Audio and video tapes of the auditorium meetings are available We need an A V tape library volunteer to co ordinate and arrange the mounting volume of this material E JOB MART HELP WANTED Secretary for congenial office in my home in Colesville White Oak area Must have good typing filing phone skills computer experience preferred Good salary and benefits 384 8877 TUTORIAL SERVICE AVAILABLE Apple Macintosh computer instruction given in the general Frederick MD area Instruction on the Macintosh and assorted software Help with pre buy decisions Personalized service and reasonable rates Call Lynn R Trusal 301 845 2561 evenings with no calls after 10 00 PM E 8 April 1986 Washington Apple Pi RESEARCH PROJECT ON Alan K
88. Bill Mark Michael Proffitt Dan Robrish Phil Leber Bruce Field Leon Raesly Walt Francis Walt Francis Ray Hobbs 7 30 10 Terry Prudden Walt Francis Leon Racsly Leon Raesly Mark Pankin David Morganstcin Robert Wood Dave Harvey Walt Francis Dianne Lorenz Leon Raesly Henry Donahoc Neil Muncy Can Harris Silverstone Leon Raesly Joyce C Little Carl Eisen Jim Graham Peter Combes E E Carter Peter Rosden Vaupel Carl Eisen James Edwards Joe England 7 10 Dana Reil Jon mt Boi 301 Em 301 c listed are sers of the Telephone numbers are home phones unless otherwise 330 4052 654 4439 986 8085 350 3283 262 5607 967 3977 251 6369 422 6458 869 7466 524 0937 596 8816 569 2294 490 7484 578 8905 340 7038 471 1479 490 7484 524 0937 621 7543 869 7466 569 2294 460 6537 596 8816 490 7484 460 0754 869 7466 569 2294 966 5742 460 0754 585 0989 953 1949 621 7543 621 7543 620 2103 972 4263 893 9591 527 2704 966 5742 530 7881 460 0754 298 9107 298 3964 435 3582 460 0754 321 2989 350 3283 11 AS Bulletin Board Operator Leon H Raesly L C S W SYSOP Emeritus Tom Warrick SYSTEM 3 986 4715 Special Consultant Barry Fox Desktop Pub Board SYSOP Mark Walter Hard Disk Consultant Dave Harvey Press Releases Board Programming Consultants Rick Mlodoch Tech Notes Board Eric Rall EDSIG Board SYSOP Peter Combes Karen Rall Apple Link Board SYSOP Bernie Urban Library
89. Call me at 301 229 9154 for further information 65 Washington Apple Pi APPLE TEAS by Amy T Billingsley What s an Apple Tea An opportunity for Apple users to get together in a small group setting to learn about a specific phase of Apple computing or just to share information and ask questions How can you have one in your area Plan to host one at your home or another suitable location Think of a topic of general interest settle on a date and call me at 622 2203 How could something so helpful be so simple Start working on yours today The following two teas are scheduled for April and May Washington Apple Pi Northern Virginia Apple Tea Wednesday April 30 7 9 PM on APPLEWORKS THE WORKS Database Word Processing and Spreadsheets at the home of George amp Delores Sall 7850 Southdown Road Alexandria VA 22308 Refreshments Please RSVP to George Sall 768 0212 Bring computer if convenient the more hands on the better Get directions from George when you call It s on the river between Alexandria and Mt Vernon close to American Horticultural Society Washington Apple Pi Silver Spring MD Apple Tea Thursday May 8 7 30 PM on GRAPHICS with Janice Hillman at the home of Ed and Varda Fink 13325 Old Forge Road Silver Spring MD 20904 RSVP to the above address or call the Finks at 301 384 3545 Bring computer if convenient Directions Take Route 495 to New Hampshire Ave N exit Dri
90. Diablo 633 53 cps daisywheel replaces 630 modell 1099 Quone LetterPro 20 20 cps daisysheell MEA 429 MODEKS Hayes Microsodea Jle tone dialing speaker Ssartcoa I 145 Saartaodea 2400 2400 1200 300 baud RS 232 599 Saartaodea 1200 1200 baud RS 232 auta dial 389 Suartacden 300 300 baud as above 145 Novation Apple Cat II w Cosware 1200 baud upgradel 209 Prometheus Promodea 1200 1200 300 baud RS 232 289 Prosodea 12004 1200 300 card w software 289 US Robotics Password 1200 3900 baud auto dial answer 229 Courier 2400 2400 1200 300 autodial ans 439 Anchor Automation Express 1200 3900 loaded w features 249 Volksaodes 12 1200 300 baud RS 232 199 Lightning 24 2400 1200 300 RS 232 389 ZoosModea JCe 300 baud Hicrosodes coapat w softwarel 125 DISK ORIVES MicroSci A2 drive 100 Apple coapatiblel 169 Excel best Mac spreadsheet available 245 A Sc half height for Apple JCcl 179 Basic interpreter ooommommooommooo o 99 Corvus Winchester driveS oooomonoooommcocno call Chart presentation business graphics 85 CP M E 65020 SYSTEMS M A O es 119 Applicard 6 Mhz 2 80 64K to 192K RAM 70 col video 125 A MUU ALO L AN MEET 119 Microsoft Softcard Jle Z 80 80 col 8 64K on one card 265 C MacEnhancer has the ports Apple forgot 175 Softcard II includes CP M 2 2 and MBASIC 239 I Filevision graphics data
91. E 45 TESTS FOR CURSORS IN PLACE BY PEEK 16384 40 REM LOADSCURSORS ONLY IF NOT ALREADY THERE 4S IF PEEK 16384 12 THEN FLAG 1 GOTO 51 501 REM 599 REM 600 REM INSTRUCTIONS OR QUIT 610 POKE TXT 0 REM RETAIN TEXT LINES 615 HOME 620 VTAB 22 PRINT TO QUIT PRESS 630 VTAB 23y PRINT TO CONTINUE PRESS ANY OTHER KEY 640 GET A IF A lt gt GOTO 700 650 VTAB 24 HTAB 1 PRINT IF YOU DO WANT TO QUIT PRESS AGAIN 660 GET A PRINT A IF A lt gt CHR 47 GOTO 700 670 PRINT PRINT SO LONG 680 FOR X 1 TO 1000 NEXT X TEXT 690 PRINT CHR 0 PRINT CHR 4 RUN HELLO 699 REM 700 REM INPUT TEXT 710 HOME POKE TXT 0 730 FT 2 VTAB 22 PRINT TYPE YOUR TEXT ONE LETTER AT A TIME 735 VTAB 23 PRINT TO QUIT PRESS 737 VTAB 24 PRINT TO CORRECT PRESS TO CLEAR PRESS 738 GOTO 800 740 REM FROM 860 750 IF A CHR 13 GOTO 1100 REM CARRIAGE RETURN 760 IF A CHR 47 GOTO 620 REM Y TO QUIT d contd Washington Apple Pi Nanm 770 IF A CHR 35 GOTO 1200 REM TO CORRECT 775 IF A CHRS 42 GOTO 1300 REM TO RETURN AFTER CORRECTION 777 IF A CHRS 37 THEN PRINT HGR HT 1 VT 1 GOTO 700 780 IF ASC A lt 32 GOTO 1000 REM REMOVED 90 TO USE LOWERCASE 785 IF A CHRS 32 THEN HT HT 1 790 FT 1 GOSUB 100 REM APPLE MECHANIC LOOP 795 GOTO 820 REM RETURN FROM 780 800 REM INPUT AS ARRAY 810 1 0 820 I 1 1 825
92. ELSE 9 DUP 20 IF FLIES WELL ELSE 10 DUP 21 IF IS MAMMAL ELSE 11 DUP 22 IF IS CARNIVORE ELSE 12 DUP 23 IF IS UNGULATE ELSE 13 DUP 24 IF IS BIRD ELSE 14 DUP 25 IF JS CHEETAH ELSE 15 gt SCR 42 0 PHRASES concluded 15FEB86CHP 9 ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF 10 ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF 11 DROP 12 Corresponding variables in TABLE have same number 13 Y as phrase 14 RESET 32 1 DO 0 I TABLE LOOP 15 gt SCR 43 01 Rule to appropriate variable number R gt V r v DUP 1 IF DROP 21 ELSE DUP 2 IF DROP 23 ELSE DUP 5 IF DROP 22 ELSE DUP 3 IF DROP 24 ELSE 16 ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF 15FEB86CHP ru WO 00 J ON CA a UJ t3 REJECT Data supplied do not match any animal in my list 10 CR 11 1 Stack notation r rule number v variable number 12 n variable value A variable address 13 gt SCR 43A 01 Rule to appropriate variable number 1 R gt V r v 2 DUP 1 IF DROP 21 ELSE 3 DUP 2 IF DROP 23 ELSE 4 DUP 5 IF DROP 22 ELSE 5 DUP 3 IF DROP 24 ELSE 6 7 8 9 16FEB86CHP DUP 16 IF DROP 16 ELSE 16 ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF 10 REJECT Data supplied do not match any animal in my list 11 CR 131 Stack notation r rule number y variable number 14 Vn variable value A variable address 15 SCR 44 0 Statements 1 TRUE1 2 FALSE 1
93. ERPRINT PUSH BUTTON GRAPHICS CARD 109 00 e MICRO BUFFER IN LINE 79 00 e PRINTER STAND 14 00 e SWITCH BOX 3 PARALLEL OR 3 SERIAL PORTS 49 00 e FORMS CATCHER BASKET 17 00 DISK DRIVES O DISTAR 109 00 e CONTROLLER 49 00 MONITORS e 12 INCH US AMBER 89 00 e AVT AMERICA 22 Mhz 149 00 e COMPOSITE COLOR 189 00 e RGB COLOR 299 00 MODEMS e CENTAURI 300 INT 125 00 e SMARTEAM 1200 EXT 189 00 e US ROBOTICS 1200 EXT 219 00 e PROMETHEUS 1200A INT 259 00 e US ROBOTICS 2400 419 00 Washington Apple Pi APPLE GRAPHICS DEVICES e POWER PAD amp STARTER KIT 125 00 CHIPS e EPROMS 2716 2732 2764 4 00 e EPROMS 27128 27256 7 00 e64K SETOF8 9 60 256K SETOF8 30 00 GENERAL ITEMS e SURGE PROTECTOR 7 00 e SURGE PROTECTOR 3 OUTLET 11 00 e 6 OUTLET WITH SURGE PROTECT 25 00 e CABLE GENDER CHANGER 9 00 COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS e LASER 3000 80 COL 1 DA 375 00 e VF PC APPLE 4 IBM COMPATIBLE 1190 00 GAME 1 0 DEVICES e CH PADDLE STICKS 33 00 e CH MACH II JOYSTICK 33 00 e CH MACH Ill JOYSTICK 39 00 e 1 0 PORT EXPANDER 25 00 e 9 16 OR 16 9 ADAPTER 9 00 SLOT EXPANSION e 16K RAM CARD FOR II 49 00 e 64K RAM CARD FOR I 159 00 e 6
94. HOTLINE For Use by WAP Members Only Have a problem The following club members have agreed to help other members VOLUNTEERS Respcct all telephone restrictions where listed and no calls after 10 00 PM except where indicate Hotline are reminded that calls regarding commercial software packages should be limited to those you have purchased Please do not call about copied software for which you have no documentation specified When requests are made to return calls long distance will be collect General Accounting Packages Accountant Dec Sup BPI Programs Home Accountant Howardsoft Tax APPLE SSC Apple TechNotes AppleWorks John Day Dave Harvey Robert Martin Mark Pankin Jaxon Brown Otis Greever Leon Racsly Leon Racsly Otis Greever Bernie Benson Joe Chelena Jay Joncs Balt Ken Black Ken DeVito 301 03 30 Communications Packages and Modems Telecom Anchor Mark 12 Apple Modems ASCII Express BIZCOMP Modem General V t Smartmodem MDM Robotics Modem SeriAll Comm Card Smartcom VisiTerm XTALK CP M Comm Computers Specific App e c LISA Mac XL Macintosh General Chart Comm amp Modems Concertware Digitizers Excel File Vision Hard Disk Helix Inside Mac Lang C Pascal XLis Mach p raw MacLion DBMS MacProject MacTerminal Muluplan Music Works OverVue Spreadsheets Spreadsheets amp Graphcs Sidekick Word Data Bases dBase II dBase II amp III
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96. IF RULE ENDIF 6 7 8 9 1SFEB86CHP Note format of OR rule RULE7 7 RULE DROP MAMMAL FALSE IF 1 ELSE X Note format of AND rule HOOFS FALSE IF 1 ELSE 1 ENDIF ENDIF 11 RULES 8 RULE DROP 12 MAMMAL FALSE IF 1 ELSE 13 CHEWS CUD FALSE IF i ELSE 14 1 ENDIF ENDIF 15 gt SCR 51 OX RULE calis cont 1 RULE2 2 RULE RULE7 TRUE IF 1 ELSE RULES TRUE IF 1 ELSE ENDIF ENDIF USE 1SFEB86CHP RULEA 4 RULE DROP FLIES FALSE IF 1 ELSE LAYS EGGS FALSE IF 1 ELSE 1 ENDIF ENDIF O 0 OV CA amp UY NN 10 11 RULE3 3 RULE 12 RULE4 TRUE IF 1 ELSE contd 1986 37 13 FEATHERS TRUE IF 1 ELSE 14 1 ENDIF ENDIF USE 15 gt SCR 52 OY RULE calls cont 15FEB86CHP 1 RULE6 6 RULE DROP 2 POINTED TEETH FALSE IF 1 ELSE 3 CLAWS FALSE IF 1 ELSE 4 FORWARD EYES FALSE IF 1 ELSE 5 1 ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF 6 7 8 9 RULES 5 RULE RULE6 TRUE IF 1 ELSE EATS MEAT TRUE IF 1 ELSE 10 1 ENDIF ENDIF USE 12 CARNIVORE 22 FETCH DUP 0 IF RULES ENDIF 14 UNGULATE 23 FETCH DUP 0 IF RULE2 ENDIF 15 gt SCR 53 OX RULE calls cont 15FEB86CHP 1 BIRD 24 FETCH DUP 0 IF RULE3 ENDIF 2 3 RULES 9 RULE 4 MAMMAL FALSE IF 1 ELSE 5 CARNIVORE FALSE IF 1 ELSE 6 DARK SPOTS FALSE IF 1 ELSE 7 TAWNY COLOR FALSE IF 1 ELSE 8 1 ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF ENDIF USE 9 10 RULE10 10 RULE 11 MAMMAL FALSE IF 1 ELSE 12 TAWNY COLOR FALSE IF 1 ELSE 13 CARNIVORE FALSE IF
97. KEMP ON 02 11 TO MIKE UNGERMAN The best scheme for protection involves a manual issued with the original purchase A nice manual and the promise of updates can t be copied Of course if the software is over priced one could live with a pirated copy and a copied manual but for 29 95 why bother B 27 Ad This is definitely a different card a totally new concept in word processing with the ability to do and include arithmetic calculations within text The SwyftCard when placed in Slot 3 autoboots all its functions within 5 seconds at power on It is disabled by booting with a program disk The Card can send and receive text by modem communication acting as terminal emulation software and BASIC programming is equally avail able All this from a shirt pocket size card is yours for 89 95 exclusively from Information Appliance Inc 1 800 982 5600 There are only ten control and command keys and they are labeled with decals It is simply amazing to switch on and be typing within 5 seconds before one has sat down save to a blank out of the box disk in 5 seconds and print with a flick of the wrist Done A Magazine advertisement states SwyftCard finds and displays any piece of information in less than 300 milliseconds So why isn t this page miraculously self illuminating Maybe the SwyftCard is a minor miracle Contrary to usual review practice I will start with my product rating to try to get things into perspective The
98. Klugewtcz Chris 40 Kuhn Martin 45 Lanford Jim 64 Levine Boris 19 Litman Regina 73 Little Jim 33x 17 Morganstein David 54 59 60 Myerson Ed 70 Nealon Kevin 13 Ottalini David 14 15 Page Chester H 34 Payne Steven 23 Platt Robert C 68 Preston John an 13 Raesly Leon H 26 Schwartz Dana J 76 Swift Lloyd B 71 Mal VAY a es 18 Trusal lyann R 62 Warrick TOM 4 Youell Adrien 8 28 Washington Apple Pi WASHINGTON APPLE PI DISKETERIA MAIL ORDER FORM Software for Creative Living This form is only for ordering disks that you want mailed to you l 1 4 DISKETTES Members 5 00 cach Non members 8 00 cach Plus 1 00 cach postage up to a maximum of 5 00 3 12 DISKETTES Members 6 00 cach Non members 9 00 each Plus 1 00 cach postage up to a maximum of 5 00 A 1 00 per disk discount on the above prices is offered for orders of 5 or more disks Postage remains as above DOS 3 3 contd Eamon contd DOS 3 3 Volumes 41 IAC 25 Mach Lang Util 42 One Key DOS 43 IAC 29 Utilities H 44 Utilities 45 Diversi Copy 46 French Vocab Tutorial 47 Tic Tac Toc in French 48 Boot for l Hote 49 l Hote Story 50 l Hote Quiz 51 French say Tutorial 52 Apollinaire Biography 53 Albert Camus Intervicw 54 Tic Tac
99. L HAS HAIR Y Rule 1 deduces that ANIMAL IS MAMMAL Is this tue ANIMAL HAS HOOFS Y Rule 2 deduces that ANIMAL IS UNGULATE Rule 12 deduces that ANIMAL IS ZEBRA I conclude that ANIMAL IS ZEBRA OK Second sample dialog called by START to avoid repeating the introduction Examining Rule 15 Is this true ANIMAL FLIES N Rule 15 deduces that ANIMAL IS ALBATROSS IS FALSE Washington Apple Pi Examining Rule 14 Examining Rule 3 Examining Rule 4 Is this true ANIMAL HAS FEATHERS N Rule 3 deduces that ANIMAL IS BIRD IS FALSE Rule 14 deduces that ANIMAL IS PENGUIN IS FALSE Examining Rule 13 Rule 13 deduces that ANIMAL IS OSTRICH IS FALSE Examining Rule 12 Is this true ANIMAL HAS BLACK STRIPES N Rule 12 deduces that ANIMAL IS ZEBRA IS FALSE Examining Rule 11 Examining Rule 2 Examining Rule 7 Examining Rule 1 Is this true ANIMAL HAS HAIR Y Rule 1 deduces that ANIMAL IS MAMMAL Is this tue ANIMAL HAS HOOFS N Examining Rule 8 Is this tue ANIMAL CHEWS CUD N Rule 2 deduces that ANIMAL IS UNGULATE IS FALSE Rule 11 deduces that ANIMAL IS GIRAFFE IS FALSE Examining Rule 10 Is this true ANIMAL HAS TAWNY COLOR Y Examining Rule 5 Examining Rule 6 Is this tue ANIMAL HAS POINTED TEETH N Is this true ANIMAL EATS MEAT N Rule 5 deduces that ANIMAL IS CARNIVORE IS FALSE Rule 10 deduces that ANIMAL IS TIGER IS FALSE Examining Rule 9 Rule 9 deduces that ANIMAL IS CHEETAH IS FALSE Da
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101. Service Center a division of Family Com puter Centers Inc can service diagnose and repair your Apple Computer Our conveniently located service center can keep your computer system in top working condition And we li do everything we can to keep your downtime to a minimum e Walk in repair service e On site repair service Computer Service e Service contract for all Apple Computers and Epson Center a Printers e AppleCare service Contracts available e Apple Warranty and AppleCare Contracts purchased y 1 from otheridealers honored y Computer Service e CENTER Authonzal Dedi _ monn 4 DIVISION OF FAMILY COMPUTER CENTERS INC 273 0160 April 1986 10807 Main St Fairfax Virginia Washington Apple Pi OFFICERS 8 STAFF Board of Directors President Tom Warrick 301 656 4389 Vice Pres Programs Adrien Youell 301 951 0838 Vice Pres SIGs Bruce Field 301 340 7038 Treasurer Edward Myerson 703 759 5479 Secretary Peter Combes 301 251 6369 Directors J T Tom DeMay Jr 301 779 4632 Raymond Hobbs 301 490 7484 Bob Platt 806 353 9723 Leon Raesly 301 460 07 Jay Thal 202 244 3649 John Voglewede 301 460 3047 l Rich Wasserstrom Past President David Morganstein 301 972 4263 Editor Bemie Urban 301 229 3458 Head Software Libr Jim Little 301 762 3215 Office Managers Gena amp Bernie Urban 301 654 8060 Journal Staff Ass
102. T dBASE II tha best Apple piti requires CP M 299 p e File Report or Graph T VUE pa T9 he General Manager 2 0 ooooooooooommos os 149 Thinktank electronic thought organizer 95 08 Master 4t latest version c f tc ccc cee eee 185 BUSINESS 8 ACCOUNTING Dollars 8 Sense accounting w graphics 69 amp 79 Managing Your Money accounting investaent agat 115 Peachtree Back ta Basics Accounting CL AR AP 115 BPI Accounting CL AR AP PAY INVENTORY each 245 COMMUNICATIONS Ascii Express Professional best DOS PRODO5 program 80 Crosstalk best program for CP M ooomoo mo o 125 CospuServe Starter Kit password B 5 free hours 25 0005 amp ENDS Print Shop Print Shop Coapanian 36 09 Newsrooa Clip Art Collection NN PinpolMt oo ooo A Me Typing Tutor III eessesesessssossesesssososesesos de Kensington 5ystea Saver Fan w surge protector 66 Kraft Joystick TG Joystick Hayes Mach III 35 33 39 KoalaPad Graphics Tablet with graphics software 85 Curtis Enerald Surge Protector 6 outlets amp cord 45 Flight Simulator II a sas da dd Microsoft Word what MacWrite should have been 119 Well you can give it a more powerful CPU 658167 more RAM 1 MEG 5 MEGS bigger disk drives 800K faster clock speed 10 Mega Hertz but NOT the Apple Interface Please Apple jus leave my
103. TED AIRLINES remota 1 9317 339 7600 613 335 1840 Wed gt 4 202 555 9212 709 595 7700 CHIFE JANGTIGSEC MINA 2158 555 6200 SLE ALTAIA Y 312 555 2338 SEE UNITED AIA LINES 000 353 7155 800 555 9048 202 555 9911 202 555 4260 403 SOUTH AKARO STREET Illustration 1 Spreadsheet Format 66 April 1986 f File Do Print Chert Edit Find Analyze Math SetUp Rttrb 90 HOR Phone List 1 22 rec 131LKES JONN ki E DU MAN 03175 SS 1900 EET go TEL NO e rS m REO SV 07 ASTATE BIJH Z P RIEN ET LE vice MEER CUA m SRODRE SS perla de CO ki emi ir ee A Last be a S PR Illustration 2 Zoom to Individual Record Creating columns for a file is extremely easy You pull down the Setup File and choose New Column or Command k You then name the column and set the display width fields can contain up to 62 characters but you can vary how much is displayed The Attributes menu allows a number of formatting options for inputs including variations in text type any text alphabetic alphanumeric numeric money date time phone or yes no right flush as opposed to the default left flush word caps all caps no duplicates to pre vent superfluous identical entries identical where one field will always be the same clairvoyance where the program searches earlier entries as you type and guesses the entry space tab and two space tab to allow moving
104. This routine will try to cache fonts resources the floppy disk and then other things in RAM e The SCSI interface which is very important to me can be thought of as a high speed parallel input output port If the Mac had had a SCSI interface last January I could have done the Spartan 1 ground station on a Mac For those of you who do not follow the Space Shuttle Program Spartan 1 flew last July The software was developed on a Macintosh and ported to an industrial 68000 based computer However I still want slots There is a rumor that slots will be available in a future product The Macintosh Plus will boot from floppy the HD 20 or any device on the SCSI port There were some 799 10 Meg hard disks hooked into the SCSI at the show Also since the Tecmar hard disk has a standard Xebec SASI control ler in it a friend of mine claims that the two standards are close enough so that with only cables connectors and a format routine we should be able to attach a Tecmar to the Mac Plus Another friend at Tecmar told me that he tried this with a Western Digital controller and it did not work So we shall see Fastest Hardware Product E This had to be the hottest hardware add on at the show The Levco MacSuper 20 FP has the Motorola 68020 and 68881 both running at 16 MHz clock speed 4 Meg of RAM using a 32 bit wide data path in a board which fits inside the Mac For those readers who did not understand the last sentence let me
105. Toe in Spanish 55 Rafel boot 56 Rafel 57 Rafel Quiz 58 Matute 59 Lo Fatal Audio Tape 70 Business Math Statstic Music 72 Keyboard Games 73 Text Adventure Games 74 Paddle Games 75 Color Graphics for Fun 76 Education 77 Utilitics 90 Spreadsheet C Gen Bus 91 Spreadshect D Investmt 92 Secor ne E Bus Rec a isiPlot amp VisiTrend ALCULINK 100 Utilities A 101 Utilitics B 102 Games A 104 Business A 106 Science Engineering 107 Games B 108 IAC 10 renee 109 IAC 11 Applesoft Tutr 110 Personal Education l 115 TAC 12 13 Misc 116 IAC 14 Micromodemill 117 Picture Packer it Utilities D 122 IAC 17 Misc 123 French Vocabulary 124 Utilities E 125 JAC 18 Misc 126 Sights and Sounds 127 Math Science 128 Games D 129 GLAQ 130 Diversi DOS 131 Personal Educ 2 132 IAC 19 Utilities F 1 French Voc Audio Tape 2 Spanish Voc 135 WAPABBS1 1 Disk 1 136 WAPABBSI 1 Disk 2 137 IAC 21 Spreadsheet A 138 IAC 23 Utilities G 139 IAC 24 Education 3 140 Education 4 141 Special Data Bases 142 IAC 28 Pinball Games 143 e 144 J 145 Apple Logo Tool Kit 146 Logo Documentation 150 EDSIG1 Elem Math 151 1983 Tax Template 152 IAC 31 Miscellaneous 153 Investments A 154 Investments B 155 IAC 33 Miscellancous 156 IAC 35 Applsft AW e 157 JAC 36 Arcade Games 158 Apple Logo Programs 159 Recipe Files 160 Utilitics amp Games 161 Wizard Worker 162 Games E 163 Graphs and Displays 164 Games
106. Trash Can When you make a screen picture or snapshot there s really no indication that you were successful except that you might hear the disk spinning in the disk drive after you ve typed COMMAND SHIFT 3 to create the snapshot If on the other hand you are unsuccessful at making a snapshot Mac will inform you by beeping once There are two reasons why a snapshot might not be successful e There s already a document named Screen 0 on the disk you re working with If this is the case go to the Finder and give the document a different name That will free the snapshot feature again to create a new Screen 0 e The disk you re working on is so full that there s no space for another MacPaint document I ve found this to be the most common reason for snapshot failures Remember that MacPaint documents are fat They take up a lot of space on your disks Which reminds me It s not important that you know how the screen picture feature works But you should know that i ictures he di j You cannot tell the Mac to place the new snapshot on a different disk Which means you ve got at least one application such as MacWrite or the Finder on the disk You ve got a System File on the disk You probably have some documents on the disk And you may have some other miscellaneous files on the disk such as Imagewriter Clip board Scrapbook Your disk is already pretty full before you start making snapsho
107. We hope that Wash highly ington Apple Pi members will spend some time with the program and while becoming acquainted with it will become enchanted by it 5 24 April 1986 Washington Apple Pi Noa Operant Systems HARDWARE DOT MATRIX PRINTERS Epson FX 85 160 cps 32 cps NQ aodel 369 FX 286 200 cps wide carriage upgrade of FX 185 549 LX 80 100 cps 16 cps NLQ mode 249 LQ 1500 200 cps fantastic letter quality model 899 LQ 1000 LQ B00 quality of LQ 1500 for less call Okidata 192 140 cps replacesent for Oki 92 359 193 132 coluan version of above 519 Toshiba 321 216 cps draft BEST print for the buck 519 351 288 cps wide carriage version of above 1149 Texas Instruaents TI 853 150 cps draft 35 cps NLQ 585 NEC PS P6IP7 Pinwriter 24 wire high quality matrix call Citizen KSP 20 200 cps matrix Epson cospatible 349 Panasonic 1091 120 cps Epson coapatible Best Buy 259 DAISYWHEEL E LASER PRINTERS Epson DX 33 35 cps daisywheel Diabla cospatible 673 Citizen Preater 83 35 cps fastest for the money 449 Canon Laser Printer 8 pages min Diablo coapatible 2095 Silver Reed 800 40 cps Diablo cospatible 695 30 18 cps daisywheel wide carriagel 429 NEC Elf 16 cps par amp ser interface NEC Diablo enul 419 6830 33 cps daisywheel built like a tant 1193
108. Works but I chose not to use this method Basic Essentials The SwyftCard package contains the Card a copy protected double sided 5 1 4 disk with an elegant tutorial on the A side ProDOS conversion programs on the flip side a 120 page robust spiral bound manual containing a separate Reference Guide and a sticky sheet of keyboard decals The Manual aftercozy in house credits com prises 5 chapters of extensive lucid explanation including 28 April 1986 printer control codes for most brands including Imagewriter and LaserWriter comms advice and honest wamings of limitations There is a sketchy appendix on ProDOS conver sion and an unusually detailed Theory of Operation This 16K system implemented in FORTH and assembler stored on a 27128 PROM occupies the same address space as BASIC Redefinition of keys is covered The glossary should be required reading for lexicographers and is relaxing if a break is desired Hurray There is a good index sufficient for looking up any problem area without shuffling pages The small Card marked Swyft Software and Swyft ROM Card Rev C has a few resistors and two chips the larger of which is labelled 840 003A The keyboard end of the card is indicated and should go in Slot 3 The printer interface should be in Slot 1 a Super Serial Card in Slot 2 and the Disk Controller in Slot 6 The SwyftCard ROM is not enabled if a program disk is present in Drive 1 on cold and w
109. aced into the Sth socket and the Encoder reinserted CARE FULLY KEYTALK A Software Review KEYTALK is billed as a beginning literacy activity and is designed for developmental ages 3 to 8 years Itis distrib uted by Programs for Early Acquisition of Language PEAL Software 2210 Wilshire Blvd Suite 806 Santa Monica CA 90403 5784 Telephone 213 451 0997 Cost 69 95 KEYTALK developed out of research by Dr Laura Meyers a linguist whom we ve had the pleasure of having at past meetings and writing about Dr Meyers has worked with disabled infants and children who would have been rejected long ago by practitioners of traditional therapeutic approaches Because she came from a background in linguistics rather than remedial medicine she didn t know that the things she was about to do were impossible Meyer s view is that the most powerful programs are the simplest Not designed to show off the whiz bang capabilities of the computer the programs draw the child in to give him or her command Focus is on the the cognitive task and not on the commands to make the computer run Other than learning the need to use the space bar between words the return key at the end of the line and what punctua tion marks will do and these can be picked up during the exploration the child is in control from the beginning The six commands Talk Print Find Save New and Erase are mnemonically accessed and with minimal supervision can be readily l
110. ady scrolled off the screen I have also bombed the linker repeatedly with System Error 02 The biggest drawback is the lack of units The Mac system calls are divided into six libraries but an entire library must be digested into the symbol table even if only one item is used MacAdvantage s selective uses feature is better in this respect by keeping down the size of the symbol table This means that if your program accidentally uses an identifier that also appears in one of the included libraries you will get an Identifier declared twice error message As with MacAdvantage you can work around this problem by selectively pasting declarations from the library files into your source program and linking in external routines with the U directive It is important to note that although TML is extremely close to both Lisa Pascal and MacPascal it is not fully com patible Some conversion is necessary That is the wee contd Washington Apple Pi of next month s column One severe implementation restriction is that sets can only have 32 possible members Thus many existing programs that use set of char will not run under TML 4 A big factor in judging a native code compiler is the quality of the machine language produced A few tests indicate that although TML is not as efficient as some it does a reasonable job To test this I used the Generate Assembly option in the compiler to see how TML treated case statements and nested
111. aint Draw as enhanced by Microsoft s Excel provide an excellent base of standard com mands Remember one of the great advantages of the standard Mac interface is to make switching from program to program easier Thus for example Command z should always mean undo This is a good example because it is one of the most often accidentally typed entries and does the least harm On OverVUE Command z will slide the active column of fields up one record If as I have done on many occasions you inadvertently hit Command z your file becomes quite mixed up Fortunately the revert to saved command will save the day if you notice the error before you save the file Speaking of saving Command s will not save the file but will select the current field and activate the edit box When I have a chance I will probably use the ResEdit program from Apple to change OverVUE s key command alternatives Another minor but irritating problem is that while Over VUE takes advantage of the spreadsheet format you cannot edit on the spreadsheet Editing can be done only in the edit box Also a minor irritant the edit menu features are inactive in the Zoom mode for individual records While individual records can be conveniently edited in the Zoom mode toggling back and forth when editing several noncontiguous records is not ideal especially without a key command for zoom Also although not relevant for MacUsers OverVUE will not take advantage of th
112. aiting word from Pinpoint s Publishers about the avail ability of the accessory program The manual for Pinpoint is well written and explains the various programs fully According to both the manual and the advertising the publishers plan to add to the options available in the future They also plan to make available a toolkit so that the user can program his own functions into the system In summary this set of programs would work very well in a thoroughly up to date Apple system preferably with only Apple equipment If I had expanded memory cards and the ability to read both AppleWorks and Pinpoint directly into memory the problems I encountered with the the speed of access to Pinpoint would disappear But for most of us with only slightly old or unmodified systems Pinpoint is less than ideal Nevertheless in spite of my impaitence with some of the programs and my less than fully satisfactory correspondence and support from the company parts of the system are very useful and the updates that should be forthcoming will make it all the more useful The price is modest and it is definitely worth considering as an adjunct to existing ProDOS programs such as AppleWorks My only advice would be to hold off purchasing Pinpoint until the company offers the add ons it promises particularly the easy adaptability to a wide variety of printers for the graphics package An CS aN N e LaserCopies 50 each for WAP Plus Reso
113. akest area is ProDOS file conversion Though Jef Raskin acknowledges this he suggests one can use this feature to compress files which are probably only of archival interest As SwyftCard is its own operating system the user is placed way out on a limb as regards text compati bility with word processors if files cannot be shared easily Communications is considered in depth but the procedures are distinctly abstruse How It Works SwyftCard has clever ways of scrolling the cursor about Text The capitalized T is used in the Manual to signify all disk based Text The LEAP keys utilize letters periods spaces words or parts of returns and page breaks as markers to which to Leap All control operations are effected by highlighting desired portions of text in inverse video by LEAPing from one end of the Text to the other and pressing both LEAP keys simultaneously or automatically by PRINT DISK SEND and CALC com mands Ctrl CALC is the key combination invoking BASIC commands One presses say Open Apple Leap Back and Return to get back to the previous paragraph end and whilst holding down the Open Apple Leap Back key and tapping the Tab key Leap Again the cursor moves back up the text by preceding para graphs The same principle applies to other character identifiers and use of the Leap keys Tapping either Leap key staccato style moves the cursor by single characters The arrow keys are disabled so
114. ality In other words the Tech Notes are shudder wrong Inside Macintos JAMES B REESE ON 02 09 TO ALL The final printed versions of Inside Macintosh are now available at B Dalton bookstores I have seen them at both Springfield Mall and Seven Comers Mall Inside Macintosh comes in three volumes printed on high quality 8 5 by 11 inch paper with paper covers Volumes I and II are 24 95 April 1986 73 and Volume INI is 19 95 The contents are similar to the phone book version Macs JIM RHODES ON 02 21 TO ALL Can a Macintosh wreck a nice beach JOHN MARKEY ON 02 24 TO JIM RHODES Pair halves Macintosh canned wreck a nice beach butt knot because of a cinder sized axe scent Telecommunications Downloading Pit Fil BRUCE ST GERMAIN ON 01 27 TO ALL Having trouble downloading files labeled XXX pit Most recent was downloading pool pit CompuServe Apparently it is two packed files if I understand the description correctly but it bombs after the first is downloaded What I received is one text file What do I need to convert what I have and what do I have to do to download the entire file I was downloading using XMODEM with Red Ryder BOB MASSO ON 02 05 TO BRUCE ST GERMAIN Bruce I think you don t quite understand what a PIT file is There is a software application on the Mac called PACKIT which allows you to bundle unbundle several files into one file for up downloads This allows someone to merge an application wi
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116. alone Now I understand that CONTROL CODES are supposd to be user unfriendly but have you stopped to consider how User Unfriendly the new Apple Interface really is True on my word processor I have to depress CONTROL and a D at the same time to to delete a character which really isn t that hard to remember but have you looked at what you want to force me to go through First I have to pick up this little plastic furry creature there it s now in my right hand Next to try to find some desk space to move it Hmmm if I move this pile Yes There now I have a few inches Next look at the screen locate some weird shaped cursor called a pointer then move the plastic furry creature until the BLAST The tail of the plastic furry creature has spilled my coffee All over my desk Well After I have dried what I can and wiped off the rest I have to throw two disks away though Sugar in the coffee tends to make them sticky Maybe I should look on the bright side at least I now have plenty of room on my desk to move that plastic furry creature Please Apple jus leave my alone Ah yes I was deleting a character Now where is the cursor sorry pointer There now move it up to EDIT dialogue box Dialogue Webster tells me that a dialogue is a conversation between two or more fictional persons in a novel Well Td like to let you know that I may be a character but 1 am clearly real not a character in a no
117. amp R MacBottom 10 1989 47922 Opcode amp Assimilation MIDI interfaces 1 69 109 Mac w 512 amp SuperDrive 20 2399 i ERR E Arts Deluxe Music Contruction Set 34 95 E All prices subject to change without notice Limited Availability All prices reflect a 5 cash discount and verifiable WAP membership ATI OO OS OOOO SOS ODODOOOO DSRASAA NER 000 AO SSB OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO Dod RS tte The Macintosh On Software an nd Peripherals Store SUPERMAC TECHNOLOGY DATAFRAME 20 1099 The Dataframe 20 is the first 20 Meg SCSI drive stands vertically next to your Mac and does not require a fan quiet It takes full advantage of the interface s speed Hyper fast as well as of HFS and Networks Via MacServe List 1295 SUPERDRIVE 20 1199 The SuperDrive 20 is a high performance 3 5 Internal 20 Meg HyperDrive compatible drive upgradable to SCSI supports HFS and will be supported by MacServe Up to 10 times faster than floppies this is the perfect internal Hard Drive for your Mac and at a super price ENHANCE Avail March April Enhance is the route of choice for upgrading your 128 or 512k Mac to a MacPlus SuperMac gives you all the power of a MacPlus in your existing Mac TWO 2 megabytes of contiguous memory upgradable to more than SIX 6 1 2 megs amp a completely MacPlus compatible SCSI Port Also included is 12 5 Mhz 68000 coprocessor to make your Mac 50 faster C
118. ancaster recommends using the LaserWriter itself rather than a screen as your formatting display It doesn t take long to run out a page to edit make changes and run it again to check it he suggests The ability to use glossaries in Apple Writer should be a big help in keyboarding the embedded codes as well as many of the commands in PostScript The Synergistic utilities include glossaries already made up for immediate installation both for the Diablo mode and for PostScript What can be done with PostScript by those who will learn it can be truly amazing as anyone will agree who has seen Adobe s LaserWriter samples using Adobe supplied code and as run and indeed modified by Bernie Urban and Adobe s stunningly handsome newsletter Colophon The address for Washington Apple Pi requesting Colophon or for information on the additional typefaces Adobe is readying for sale through Apple Dealers is Adobe Systems 1820 Embarcardero Road S 120 Palo Alto Calif 94303 At the DeskPubSIG early March meeting our fearless leader Jay Condren in a burst of enthusiasm described Post Script as an easy language to learn almost just like everyday language Here s an easy example This short program from Adobe s PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook draws a circle on the page and a series of overlapping elipses each one a little more squashed down than the one above doACircle 0 0 54 0 360 arc stroke def doAnEllipse 1 75
119. and and INSERT block moves very capricious in action sometimes they work sometimes they don t Data being all in RAM explains the rapidity with which searches can be achieved by LEAP commands If you do not April 1986 29 own a zebra you will find zebra within milliseconds If you have once typed it when writing about rare things you can search by holding down a LEAP key whilst typing zebra For more than one zebra one has to tap the LEAP AGAIN key the required number of times to find the appropriate zebra I do not call this instant retrieval It is many seconds not n milliseconds Commendable features of SwyftCard are that in autoboot mode it is ready for typing within 5 seconds with a warm CRT and on power up a data disk in the drive is loaded in 6 seconds Saving a small file and initializing a blank disk takes 5 seconds These timings are mine The cursor flashes rapidly when DISK save has been implemented Re booting a data disk finds the cursor at the point where one previously retired The cursor has a helpful doubled image a highlight bar trails after the flashing cursor during typing and collapses to a single character highlight when deleting or LEAPing Booting with a program disk or an Operating System displaces SwyftCard from the bus so normal operation of the computer proceeds unaffected by leaving the Card in place During typing text scrolls up the screen with numbered page breaks appearing a
120. are Latest Versions David Morganstein 59 Apple Articles WAP Journal David Ottalini 14 EXCEL ing With Your Mac David Morganstein 60 Apple Drivers David Ottalini 15 Fregeriek Apple COTE w 42 b wo s X V e amp Q8A Bruce F Field 16 Inside Mac LasrWrter AppleTalk Lynn R Trusal 62 DisabledSIG News Jay Thal 18 A Developer s View of MacFest Jim Lanford 64 Bye LEEUBPRE lt lt as as 5 s DOrTS Levine 19 Review Corner a o James M Burger 66 BAMESIG NEWS sesa woo oo Barry Bedrick 22 TML Pascal A Review Robert C Platt 68 Sierra Championship Boxing Richard Bollar 22 Accounting on the Mac Part 1 Ed Myerson 70 A View TORIT Chris Hancock 23 512K Mac and Single Disk Drive Lloyd B Swift 72 Wizardry for Beginners Steven Payne 23 Best of the Mac Items UBBS Regina Litman 73 Under FITE in s David rasin 24 Membership Directory Dana J Schwartz 76 INNER vw y ino monwa na n A Disk taria D spateh a 4 4 n n 5 Jim Little 77 Please Apple Leave My Alone Leon H Raesly 26 Index to Advertisers Author Index 78 Lap Computer Part 5 George Kinal 27 Diskeberia Order Form aa e e nn n 79 SwyftCard for the e A Review Adrien Youell 28 Tutorial Registration Directory Change Form 80 For information on joining WAP see G
121. arm starts Slot assignments are important Dave Harvey discovered a bus contention with his Titan Accelerator e card SwyftCard only works in an Apple e regular or enhanced with a Rev B logic board Installation and Setup Installation is no problem even for the timid Plug Card into Slot 3 the only way it will sensibly fit While you are inside the case check that other cards are in slots as required by SwyftCard as in Basic Essentials above Stick decals on respective keys I cut the control decals in half and stuck all labels on the fronts of keys CONTROL becomes USE FRONT which is the most unnecessary confusing change for the sake of change but do not be too worried the other control changes make sense in the context of use ESC changes to PAGE OPEN APPLE to LEAP BACKWARD CLOSED APPLE to LEAP FORWARD and TAB to LEAP AGAIN although it also retains TAB functions in text writing mode The command keys lose all mnemonic character e g the PRINT label goes on N not P the same goes for DISK saving modem SEND CALCulation and INSERT There Ten control command keys are all you need to write your next article How to use them and how to make them all work is part of the reason this product rates 2 Cards Place the tutorial disk in Drive 1 the only drive you ever need and away you o hand in hand For practical purposes Swyft Card acts like several applications installed on an autoboot hard disk Printer set
122. ast November At the time I was unable to provide a hopeful answer but the pieces are finally starting to come together Q I am a visually handicapped WAP member and make extensive use of my Macintosh to help me accomplish many writing and reading tasks that would be very difficult were I not able to use large font sizes and a screen magnifier However 1 still have great diffi culty seeing the small size print of the menus and icon name labels It occured to me that I might be able to change the font size used by these items by using the Resource Editor Perhaps you could just substitute the large fonts for the small ones Unfortunately I have not been sucessful at doing this as the Resource Editor is extremely difficult actual ly impossible to use My hope is that some kind WAP volunteer will be able to help me out Your instinct is correct the Resource Editor can be used to help you out But it requires the newer versions of the Resource Editor and the Finder that were not available when you first wrote I have no first hand experience with these things yet and so I hope that the readers of this column who have spent some time exploring them will call me with details Perhaps Jay Thal and the 48 DisabledSIG can provide further information PO April 1986 It would be unwise to substitute large fonts for such smaller ones as the Chicago 12 used for menus and dialogs Too much software would fail But there are other wa
123. ata disk by placing it in the drive and switching on power or by a warm boot all the data and apparently program code is loaded into RAM but only 64K as SwyftCard does not access extra memory in an Extended 80 column card This explains the 40K limitation of disk capacity but does not excuse the loss of the other 100K of a Disk drive essential to user efficiency and obtainable with other program systems Telecomms really gobbles up memory space at an alarmingly rapid rate and out of memory beeps occur startlingly early in a Comms session This experience alone largely negates this Card s use as a serious telecommunications tool The Card is incompatible with 30 April 1986 Hayes Micromodem II and Titan Accellerator e cards I found that a warm boot from SwyftCard to Apple Writer does not cancel printer control codes previously embedded a cold start to a new program is preferable I should like to mention to Apple users that I use a Kensington System Saver surge protector which has power outlets for the computer CRT and printer and a main power switch See Kensington Ad in A March page 30 When I say I power down frequently I am using this switch not the Apple switch The one file data structure is disconcerting There is no disk catalog there are no filenames so there are no electron ically discrete documents Unless a tedious paper record is maintained of each text entry saved to disk with
124. ate the users curiosity Most planet and moon surfaces were based on the limited information that is currently available There are no close up photos of some of Uranus or Neptune s moons for example so some of the moonscapes and planetscapes are based on educated guesses Mr Johnston is correct though in point ing out that there should be no stars visible from the surface of Venus and in fact there are a few stars visible from Venus in the Apple version of the program In the Amiga version currently in development the graphic shows heavy clouds but no Stars With respect to Mr Johnston s criticisms about our star chart being copied from a distorted flat map we have to take exception The projection is correct It s copied from a flat map but it s a flat screen The window in the game subtends 45 degrees of the sky which is small enough that distortion is slight Leo and Sagittarius extend quite a few degrees above and beyond the ecliptic so they are masked by the computer screen because it s too small to show the whole constellation The stars are exactly correct there are plenty of bright stars in the sky not included in the programs because they don t fit into the window Sagittarius is the worst because it s recog nizable in the sky but it s below the window in the game We believe that THE HALLEY PROJECT is among the most successful simulations of its kind and deserves more credit than Mr Johnston has given it
125. ay is a jet setting Apple Fellow who is partici pating in an Apple project at a Los Angeles elementary school to study how form and action are perceived by children and how these perceptions and thinking may generate ideas to improve computer relations with people Alan s presentation was a robust sound and graphics essay mulling over the broad questions of the computer user interface He utilized lecture style with video tapes and 2x2 slides The scope and depth of his essay would not have been out of place at the National Academy of Science This account is an informal report of the meeting For brevity s sake he said that s and aspects of audience participation are expunged Also names of pioneers are guessed from the tape rather than researched and checked Alan Kay sharpened his wit at Xerox PARC Palo Alto Research Center in the 70 s where he developed his concepts of the Dynabook and later worked at Atari I suspect he developed many other things but his biography has not yet been written Alan is a lecturer in Computer Sciences and co founder of the Media Laboratory at MIT and is an Apple Fellow In a world with increasingly available information are computers truly helping people Can computers decide what of the plethora of information users want to know Can the computer as a servant perform as a human agent Amidst a backdrop of brilliant graphics and children s fantasies Alan built a foundation of mod
126. base systea 119 Titan Accelerator JLE 3 6 Mhz 6502C coprocessor 229 N desta Helix database for the serious user 249 Speed Deson 6502C high speed coprocessor 195 T Dollars amp Sense accounting w graphics 95 Applied Engineering Z Ran 256K CP M Raadisk for Jtc 325 OQ SidekiCk ccc cece cece cece ene 49 TransWarp 3 6 Mhz 6502C 256K RAM 225 S Iomega Bernoulli Orive 5 10 20 seg reaovable call HONITORS H Maclion prograasable database for Mac 239 Aadek 3006 3004 18 green aaber anti glare 18Mhz 125 139 MacF rth Level Tosca cnn 169 Color 300 13 composite color 229 A ic cate es ise VUL wee es SLM awe 99 NEC J8 1201 1205 green aaber anti glare screen 20Mhz 145 Kensington MacHodea 300 baud ooooooco 99 48 1250 18 green 15Mhz best value for money 9 Kensington Surge Protector replaces power cord 39 INTERFACES LA BUFFERS E CLOCK5 RR EI IICA TA O re ETRE HHIK YII Pkaso U printer interface superior gear sea cans call l CALL FOR PRICES OF ITEMS NOT LISTED Quadras Microfazer 8K to 128K parallel buffer 139 l Grapplert printer interface parallel w graphics 85 Please Cospare Our Prices Buffered Grapplert 16K to 64K buffer plus graphics 149 l If you find a lower price giva us a chance to beat it Practical Peripherals Seriall serial for modeas print 109 Graphicard para
127. because I access many different systems I have installed in my communications program all the sign on sequences where my communications program automatically responds to questions about passwords and user ID s etc This cannot be done with the SwyftCard You must manually transmit when you get a query from the host system you are communicating with it is not done automatically C Please Apple contd from pg 26 HIGHER And even if you give it a faster clock it will actually work slower because of the overhead for the mouse text and mutiple disk access PLEASE APPLE JUS It has been written build a better mouseTRAP and the world will beat a path to your door The operative word there Apple is TRAP And as my ol daddy used to say If it ain t broke don t fix it So please Apple jus leave my alone April 1986 31 Pinpoint is a desktop accessory program designed and advertised as particularly compatible with the popular Apple Works program It has some nice features including an appointment calendar an envelope addresser a calculator a telephone dialer and a communications window It also allows you to use your printer as a typewriter and to merge graphics into AppleWorks files This series of programs is designed to take full advantage of all of the new enhancements for Apple s It will work on the new 3 5 UniDisk drive and can also be copied and read into the expanded memory cards available for the
128. between fields easily Also other options help ease entry You can format an input pattern this is extremely useful for things like telephone number The parenthesis space and dash can be automatic permitting you to just type the numbers Also you can create a value bar with radio buttons for common entries in the edit box In Illustration 3 I have created three choices for entry the three surrounding jurisdictions fite Do Print Chert Edit Find Analyze Math SetUp Attrb 00 O O Washington Ohanjl nd Ovirginta fencer te Illustration 3 Edit Box with a Value Bar Like many of the options you can override the choices and enter what you want With all these options creating the file and entering data is quite easy Three commands let you rapidly fill cells with repetitive data Fill Empty Fill and Sequence which allow you to replace a column s entry with any user defined entry Empty Fill does the same in only empty fields of the column Sequence lets you to use step values i e 1 2 3 and so on in a column The Propagate command permits you to fill empty cells with the contents of the cell above This can be a time saver Unpropagate will eliminate duplicate information Creating summary records is almost too easy But th eae Washington Apple Pi can be easily deleted in one operation Charts can be easily created and up to six user defined formats can be established You can pre program using the notepad des
129. bility The children as was their wont to make models wanted to become Pteradons and wrote a charming song Td like to be a big Pteranosaurus Paul McCready of Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross fame has approached the Smithsonian to build a life size model of Pterosaur which would be capable of flight Test flights with a half scale model have already happened in the Mojave Desert CA and were filmed on IMAX The latest film was premiered at the meeting Alan gave Paul 10 April 1986 Call 241 5542 several Macintoshes which have inspired an on board dynamics and stablity control system adjusting the center of gravity 100 times per second Wing sculling motion gives the beast a certain amount of power and ground radio control provides direction control Seeing the film was absolutely fantastic There will be some big event on these lines at the Air amp Space museum on June 10th maybe a flight across the Potomac So Paul McCready is engaged in the very same business as the LA children Alan showed us this diversion to give us an idea of the romance of studying animals and simulating them It is that romance shared by children and adults alike which powers this project and gives it the life to allow us to do some invention The preferred user interface may have windows but primarily deals with process modeling MIT students have been working on simulations with an Evans and Sutherland CTS but are going to acqui
130. cable with XModem or alternate file transfer protocols Once on the Mac DIF files can be used by OverVUE and other database pro grams Most databases should be able to read text Finally keep an eye out for DMac HI which is meant to be an equivalent database product Can the Tecmar hard disk use the HFS file system Check with Tecmar for their latest recommendations But Jim Lanford and Mike Cohen suggest the following Start with a disposable copy of the Mac System Tools disk if you have a Mac or the 512K Mac January 16 System Update disk Also start with the Tecmar 2 2 driver software which you will merge onto the new Apple disks Rename the special Tecmar ImageWriter file to say TecmarWriter and copy it to the Apple disk You should select this Printer to use the Tecmar print gt Q gt April 1986 spooling Then using ResEdit copy the following resources from the Tecmar System file to the Apple System file DRVR Tdisk ID 20 all FIXX resources ICN 555 INIT 31 and STR 555 Boot the machine with the disk you just constructed After you are fully satisfied that the Tecmar is well backed up using the new Finder you can reformat the Tecmar for HFS by choosing Erase Disk from the menu What are the latest versions of the Apple sys tem software Finder 5 2 System 3 1 ImageWriter 2 2 and Laser Writer 3 0 They are found at your Apple dealer on the LaserWriter update disk dated February 12 T
131. ce a binary file for the linker or can generate assembly language source for use with the MDS Assembler The compiler also has a faster Syntax Error Checking mode However this mode does not check for semantic errors such as procedure parameter type mis matches On the whole compiler error messages are helpful The compiler directives allow you to segment your program to fit into the Mac memory and to include useful information for the linker The compiler generates both an object code file rel and a set of linker commands link to make the linker extremely easy to use A significant problem is TML s implementation of read and readLn from the keyboard ReadLn will not recognize backspaces or any other error correction keys If fact both read and readLn refuse to recognize that the command key has been pressed They input the character value for the nor mal character That is command C is read as a C Option keys work correctly as do enter and retum keys The backspace key does not read an ASCII value at all Thus you will have to write your own read routines before you can port a program from a different Pascal implementation The system worked on the sample programs as promised But 1 was very surprised by the semantic errors that suddenly appeared when I shifted from Syntax checking to a real compile Also if a program has more than 32 errors compi lation terminates and the error message listing file is not saved and has alre
132. ch I purchased Mach FORTH from Palo Alto Shipping Co As a MacFORTH Level 3 developer I wanted to see what all the fuss was about First the good news it does easily support Multi window Multi tasking Machl is also current ly faster than MacFORTH However MacFORTH easily does its multi tasking in the same window as multiple back ground tasks Machl gets its speed by using subroutine threading but the penalty for this is that your code is in 32K segments Although Palo Alto Shipping Co claims that Apple insists on this since MicroSoft does not do it in Word or Excel it is probably just more marketing hype from the Machl people Also I have seen the next MacFORTH kernel and it runs as fast if not faster than Machl without the 32K limitation The only other unique feature and the reason I bought a copy of Machl is the use of standard Motorola 68000 assembler When Apple sends me some assembler source code I prefer not to convert it to post fix assembler How ever many FORTH programmers I know consider a standard pre fix assembler a limitation Machl would be worth the price if it did not keep crashing on the Macintosh Plus and Finder 5 1 Everything else that is claimed to be unique about Mach1 is in MacFORTH and some features have been working since April 1984 The list includes normal text files called stream input in MacFORTH local variables floating point vectored LO AppleTalk MacinTalk templates and toolbox acces
133. ch for a what And do what Another plastic furry creature PLEASE So if you want a tip Apple do what some other companies have done Give me a RAM card with CP M for my c or maybe a 5 MEG Slinkey things like these Hmmmm What s that Oh you have learned the the new Apple Interface really can t run on a 128K machine like the latest you need 512 O K I ve got that What you mean with applications you really need a full MEG Well I ve got that on my e Actually 3MEG 1 MEG and very useful too What s that You mean there is so much overhead from the scripture boxes mouse characters and need for things like FILERs that this will take extra Motherboard memory not able to be used by anything else AND PUSH THE PRICE contd on pg 31 Washington Apple Pi COM RD P PU BOARD F OR T es The patches described here are for Microsoft CP M version 2 23 so called 60K CP M Similar principles apply to other versions of CP M as well as to DOS and ProDOS The idea is to redirect I O from the Apple s built in keyboard to a serial interface in this case slot 42 With most serial interfaces you can get some of the effect of this by simply entering IN 2 from BASIC The patches are presented here for CP M however because I think by far the most useful application is for Apple owners who wish to use WordStar without the restric tions of the Apple s keyboard A second
134. ck in obtaining what is owed them and I hope this column helps In other news Well we finally have a Mac suitable for serious use Personally I like the Mac Plus It has enough memory it s fast it has a numeric keypad and cursor keys YAY and it has a SCSI which I m informed is pronounced scuzzy how nice interface Apple even offers an almost reasonable upgrade policy 300 for the disk ROM upgrade and 800 for the motherboard back panel upgrade Of course 800 is a little steep but it should come down sooner or later The only drawback of course is that you have to have a Fat Mac to do any of this to your machine Else you have to pay extra Ah the hazards of having held out for a cheap Apple approved upgrade 40 April 1986 P O Box 22171 Duke Station Durham NC 27706 PRD A o IIA we Hard drives One of the benefits that will come out of the Mac Plus SCSI port is cheap hard disk drives Right now you can buy a 10 MB hard drive for the IBM PC family for less than the price of a Mac external disk drive Meanwhile we Mac owners pay upwards of 1100 for even the cheapest 10 MB hard drive Well IBM drive makers have only to make simple modifications to their drives which some of them have already begun in order to make them Mac compatible Voil Cheap Mac drives I hope present Mac drive makers realize that the market is about to drop out from under them Basically random comment For You
135. ckWrite QuickPrint etc I paid for I couldn t stand the guilt trip for those but something to print out a Font table is used so infrequently that the line between trial use and unpaid use is not as obvious to the user Anyhow what I am leading up to is that the Try Before You Buy concept of shareware is something which if used by a lot of programmers would really help the success amp usefulness of our machines BUT IT HAS TO BE SUPPORTED BY US Right now a lot of former shareware programmers have already declared that it is unprofitable that only fill in the blank percent of people who use the software bother to pay for it I would like us to prove them wrong So if you find you are using a shareware application or DA all the time PLEASE please PLEASE pay Nuff said CHARLES TURNER ON 02 12 TO BOB MASSO Thanks for your description of the RR CRC problem Now I can at least recognize it even if I can t prevent it JIM RHODES ON 02 14 TO ALL I ve had no problems using RR7 0 to download or upload I m using a 128K Mac and a Prentice PopComm modem I also always use the Slow Timeout option as suggested by SYSOP Paul Heller of Twilight Clone as a way to avoid the CRC problem I got my RR7 0 direct from Scott the writer of it Maybe someone s defective copy has been spreading Mine was uploaded to Twilight Clone in Rock ville 946 8838 1200 Baud for 140 GEORGE KINAL ON 02 13 TO ALL This is not a testimonial or recomm
136. cked software if I wanted to be able to modify the programs I have seen several programs advertised at a higher price for unprotected source code versions For the average user this would not be necessary contd on pg 27 46 April 1986 How to Assemble a Panel for your Comic Strip 1 Copy and Move a stock background into place on your pege template 3 Select from a large Collection of faces then copy and move into place 4 Add detail and balloons 5 Type dialogue Washington Apple Pt GOT HER MACINTOSH g 1 THE TYPING POOL UNDER A P NEW NAME AND I M GETTING y gou e a OUT et EL hd LE L irh gt enter VN A LAA a T A bi am Va gt fai r am D t Se vd y e AN Mi Wi AU 31 NN A a ev e Ne MERA o NM a d S on pw A TI H m gt anni SES x di JO AA LLL BLAU p WHEN WE ORGANIZED THE 51 DATA ENTRY DEPARTMENT CHANGE RIGHT AFTER SHE 4 SHE SAID THAT S JUST Washington Apple Pi proudly presents e n 8 STUDIED Mi a y NEW 9 kons Desk Top p SUBJECTS Mi DONE MARVELS Ve Publishing f au AN WITH THE NEWS 7 W TALKING E LETTER ABOUT f B n OWE IT ALL m 1g BEARDED iy TO APPLE PI se ONE f Va 52 VAN DORNS pe gi Jal STREET secet 2942422299999 A 2 O anu aT Ld LJ LJ e va r y o oop en ao y verre ka ep This paqe prepared by Paul E Funk Washington Apple Pi April 1986 47 T
137. count A relational data base package keeps these two files separate yet allows you to obtain a total figure for all transactions on a given account and store that number in the journal of accounts Multi user Features One last feature you may need in a business environment is a protection scheme Omnis di allows you to define passwords for nine users a master and eight others While the master user can access anything the others may be restricted from certain operations and fields When users begin a session with Omnis they must enter a password Based upon the protection scheme the Master user establishes others users will be allowed to perform some activities but can be excluded from others Each of the other users may have their own unique access defined for Omnis options files menus and layouts Documentation The 300 page manual is divided into four parts and includes an Appendix It contains a table of contents and an index Part 1 is an introduction with tutorial which uses a sample data base included on the disks to make simple changes and to produce a report The sample data base is referred to throughout the manual Part 2 is a more in depth walk through practically every aspect of the program The third and longest part is a complete reference section organized around the pull down menus The last part deals with utilities for reorganizing files and exchanging data The manual is professionally printed on semi glossy paper
138. creen 43 converts rule numbers to the numbers of the variables fed by those rules needed by DECISION Screen 43A adds rule 16 Screen 44 KNOW scans the TABLE for TRUE and FALSE attributes Screens 45 47 DECISION REQUEST and INPUT are the logical operations of this program stack effects are given as line comments Screens 48 49 are the list of primitive input calls Screen 49A is the modification of Screen 49 to incorporate rule 16 Screens 50 57 comprise the description of the diagram of the problem Note the formats for OR and AND if all choices are exhausted without a decision the contrary follows SCR 40 0 EXPERT SYSTEM TOY 15FEB86CHP 1 ARRAY n lt BUILDS 2 ALLOT DOES SWAP 1 2 231 ARRAY TABLE 3 PHRASE n 4 DUPI IF HASHAIR ELSE 5 DUP2 IF GIVES MILK ELSE 6 DUP3 IF EATS MEAT ELSE 7 DUPA IF HAS POINTED TEETH ELSE 8 DUPS5 IF HAS CLAWS ELSE 9 DUP 6 IF HAS FORWARD EYES ELSE 10 DUP IF HAS HOOFS ELSE 11 DUP 8 IF CHEWS CUD ELSE 12 DUP 9 IF HAS FEATHERS ELSE 13 DUP 10 IF FLIES ELSE 14 DUP 11 IF LAYS EGGS ELSE 15 gt SCR 41 0 PHRASES continued 15FEB86CHP 1 DUP 12 IF HAS TAWNY COLOR ELSE 2 DUP 13 IF HAS DARK SPOTS ELSE 3 DUP 14 IF HAS LONG LEGS ELSE 4 DUP 15 IF HAS BLACK STRIPES ELSE 5 DUP 16 IF CANT FLY ELSE 6 DUP 17 IF HAS LONG NECK ELSE 7 DUP 18 IF IS BLACK AND WHITE ELSE 8 DUP 19 IF SWIMS
139. demonstrated by Electronic Arts You have probably already read reviews so I ll just say that they are both great The pinball flippers had a slower response on the MacPlus until Finder 5 1 Installer was run on the disk After that the response was the same as on the 512K Mac G5 Washington Apple Pi n ds A te ann M n A O ann A ee TA defan PA ume tep AP QA QR A n Qum VUE END O ee ee ee anan D ann n aa us A es Aue ann Sit duum A Gtf ium A d O ee gen ee n ee A DP O die van A ER ub Gum dme me KE dun es ee NN COMPUTER DEN Ltd 50 or more off on all software for all APPLE computers including Mac C SEA UT 180 CPS 3 2 rFanasonic 109 cs w a a cds ee 45 00 EPSON EX UISE T cesan ew aw 2360 90 EX 2806FZT 4x acm a 550 00 TAO ww ee 489 00 LQ 800 2 0600006 0 5 0 0 0 000 8 550 00 Ribbons call for discount prices Paper 208 2500 sheets 2 00 20 microperf ve 294 00 Rainbow Packs Call Grappler ocaciones aa 80 00 Ruf fered y it sn lt 156 75 serial Grappler Imagewriter 83 50 iS SOD LEM C ases ote Sele v fek al lat 4 90 HOUIIDnkE de 543 7 a aia 31 75 Print it Interface 160 00 JVC FORTIS 12 amber monitor 80 00 XTRON Comcolor 14 Composite monitor color switchable to green 140 00 TAXAN COLOR MONITOR i 260 00 ShuffleBuffer 64K t1 2930 00 Printer Stand short 25 long 30 Disk holder for 3 1
140. discuss what is contained in each manual and why anyone interested in Macintosh might want to order them INSIDE APPLETALK Inside AppleTalk is a 2 inch thick manual with unnum bered pages which reflects its overall disorganization It has no table of contents but is divided into 14 sections that include the following introduction to AppleBus electrical and mechanical specifications link access protocol protocol architecture introduction datagram delivery protocol routine table maintenance protocol name binding protocol trans acuon protocol data stream protocol programmer s guide Appletalk installer AppleTalk poke and AppleTalk peek The included disks contain the install peek and poke routines 62 April 1986 Anyone familar with Apple documentation would be severely disappointed in Inside AppleTalk It is neither well organized nor professionally done Some pages are duplicates and others are almost illegible because of the wide variety of devices used to prepare the documentation The manual is designed to cover the electrical mechanical and procedural specifications for the AppleTalk Local Area Network LAN There are technical specifications for AppleBus I don t believe this term is used anymore including hardware software and protocols As a user who was trying to find out more infor mation on AppleTalk in order to set up a Macintosh LAN I did find some of the electrical specifications very useful There are addi
141. e 4 5 document using MacWrite 2 2 When MacWrite 4 5 attempts to open a Mac Write 2 2 document it displays a message saying that it is converting the document and for text only documents it asks if carriage returns signify new paragraphs or line breaks Please be advised however that some SigMac disks especially early ones do contain MacWrite 2 2 documents So if you get one of the messages you know you have attempted to Open the document with a different MacWrite version than the one with which it was created If you are opening a 2 2 with 4 5 it is probably okay to proceed If you are opening a 4 5 with 2 2 you will have to get a copy of MacWrite 4 5 in order to read it 6 Washington Apple Pi The Generic PC Fast Relief for IBM Sticker Shock x y Kec date with your software If you have a later version one you have not have heard about please contact David Morgan stein at 301 972 4263 so we can keep our list current TITLE YERSION NO CONCLURE by Bud Stolker COPY Il MAC 5 0 CRUNCH 1 0 Here s good news if you re shopping for an IBM PC compatible compu DELUXE MUSIC CONST SET ter you can now buy more machine than you expected to get for less e ER D money than you expected to pay FEDIT 3 5 You can in fact have your PC custom tailored to your requirements FINDER 5 1 from software right down to the circuit board and chip level at a price FONT DA MOVER 3 0B less than that of an off the shelf PC And
142. e Evening Phone Bethesda MD 20814 Total Enclosed MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY CHANGES Use this form ONLY if you wish to CHANGE your instructions to the Club See article elsewhere in this issue NAME Please print ee AA A A NN E it E MEMBERSHIP NO required ADDRESS Street CITY EN STATE ZIPCODE Please check one only of the following boxes DO NOT include my name in the Membership Directory I authorize the release of my name zipcode and phone no to other members through the Membership Directory Phone no MUST be supplied above Club policy prohibits releasing a member s personal information unless you release that information by checking one of the boxes above If you do not release this information you will not receive a copy of the Directory Your response on this form will supersede any previous instructions to WAP SIGNATURE DATE Please return this form to be received in the WAP office no later than April 27 1986 Mail to Washington Apple Pi Ltd Attn Directory 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Bethesda MD 20814 80 April 1986 Washington Apple Pi tett tate ta aa ata tata a ata a n a ata ateta tata tata ata tata O ta ta tata O O O DO ata taa O a ata a o a a O AAA KRONOR MMR OD O MacCOR DOO WOU POVVVVOHOHHHS56506085665600008500080856060500856006060656065006050060600550558800080000005850550005650504 Padilla he dt ba be bd bt O DB eB AA AAA DOE IO IIA HA 4 Good Rea
143. e had not received the software despite the fact that his credit card had been billed He has called Northeastern weekly but no action has been taken as far as he can tell I feel that it is highly dubious business practice to charge someone for something that they have never been sent Letter number two is from Duncan Langford in Kent England WAP goes international Duncan has had some terrible experiences with several American mail order houses First he ordered three items from MacCorner which advertises in the Journal last June though he was told they were in stock and that they would be shipped tomorrow he never received them Phone calls and letters produced only excuses At least they never charged his credit card Next he had a problem with Software Dimensions Duncan ordered about 150 worth of games for which he was immediately billed You guessed it after eight phone calls remember these are transatlantic calls during business hours and letters the order finally arrived in mid January Next came Business Computers of Peterborough home of BYTE magazine At the beginning of November he ordered Think Tank 128 To make a long story shorter he hasnt yet received it though his card has been charged Business Computers recently suggested that he write a letter to the president of the company which he has done There really isn t a lot I can say about all this except caveat emptor 1 wish both Duncan and Robert lu
144. e it to disk There is no way to disable the capture mode once you are beeped Assuming you have nothing in the buffer to start with except your dialing sequence and password when you see you are approaching the 40K limit you must issue a Ctrl Z S to the host computer tap the SAVE key remove your disk and replace with another blank disk erase memory and then issue a Control Z Q to the host computer to tell it to start sending again If you don t go through this procedure and wait until you hear the beeps incoming data will be lost until you delete or save what s been captured so far in the buffer While you are doing all this data will be lost I encountered another problem when I connected to the BBS This has to do with the particular nature of BBS systems operating under the UBBS bulletin board protocol This problem is caused by the fact that when you type characters on the keyboard nothing is transmitted until you hit the SEND key or until you have typed 80 characters So if you are slow in typing a sentence and take more than 2 Washington Apple Pi minutes to type 80 characters the BBS hangs up The other problem I found is that the SwyftCard sends out a return along with the characters you have typed when you press the SEND key This is not wanted since the UBBS program specifically does not want returns unless it s the end of a paragraph Page 73 of the manual has advice on this feature The User s Manual indicates that an eas
145. e larger XLisa screen Finally changing column sizes is an unnecessarily cum bersome operation The best interface is the mouse driven Microsoft Excel method of spreading columns with the alternative of changing several columns at once through the menu This feature would definitely improve OverVUE Washington Apple Pi Performance Many of OverVUE s features such as sort and find are much faster than other databases I have used This is because it loads the entire database file into RAM A disadvantage for 512K users or those of us with more memory but who use Switcher extensively is the limitation on the size of a file Under the Apple menu About OverVUE gives a complete summary of the amount of memory available On 384K of RAM my allocation on Switcher 402 records on my Phone List file uses 23 5 percent of available memory Moving information from other databases into Over VUE works quite smoothly Despite the lack of information from Apple on migrating from LisaList the Import feature of OverVUE transferred my entire list from Lisa easily and without a flaw I used the Lisa Migration program to create text files which resulted in an ASCII file The default Import settings created an OverVUE database which only required me to name the columns Also I imported a large Filemaker file without any problems again just requiring column names OverVUE is a relational database Thus you are able to join two files
146. e options To access a data base you must select a Library and subsequently a file in the Library neither action is performed with an Open When finished with a data base you merely select another one or Quit The Close option is only used to close windows not file or data bases Another shortcoming is its inability to handle graphic images as data fields Omnis 3 is copy protected and requires the use of a key diskette two of which are provided Unfortunately it does not support Switcher at least not Switcher version 4 6 running on a Mac with an HD20 hard disk Omnis 3 is a very complete and powerful data base package that will serve almost any need including those of someone developing an application around it It performs 58 April 1986 well is challenging to learn but fairly easy to use and has considerable power to manipulate and display information from multi file data bases While its use of the Mac interface is somewhat unique it uses pull down menus and screen graphics to simplify the user s work Blyth Computer Ltd 2929 Campus Drive Suite 425 San Mateo CA 94403 Phone 415 571 0222 Price 495 00 5 Accounting on Mac contd from pg 71 either immediate or deferred printing of checks on an indivi dual check basis Cash balances are not charged until the check is printed MacOneWrite is the only one of the packages examined that permits this useful vouchering feature MacOne Write will draw a balance sheet and
147. e s a menu option to do this it doesn t work 74 April 1986 When I tried it on Jeff Davis Falcon BBS which uses the new version of Mouse Exchange that supports CRC I found that I got an error right away An unrecoverable error it appeared to be It gave the first block a large in absolute terms negative number With FreeTerm 1 8 on the other hand there is an option to tum off CRC and this one works BOB MASSO ON 02 06 TO CHARLES TURNER Charles the RR vs CRC problem is in the transmission It is apparently a problem with handling of timing The symptoms are that after a random amount of time your Mac will freeze up This must result during an error handling sequence because of the randomness Anyhow the Mac just keeps asking for the block but can t get it and goes into an endless loop This occurred ANYTIME I saw an error occur As a result I now use FreeTerm 1 8 to talk to download BBS s with this version of CRC and can only use my Red Ryder neato torpedo features for the remainder Oh well PS Anyone out there using Red Ryder who HASN T PAID FOR IT This is probably THE best piece of shareware out on the market A LOT of programmers who wrote short utilities as shareware felt burned when they saw their software being used but never paid for Personally 1 think you are foolish to market as shareware something which will only be used once or twice in a year at best as many of these were But the stuff I can use daily Red Mo
148. e what else is there If addictive ness is an important sign of a great game then WIZARDRY passes with flying colors All too often I sat down to play just for a few minutes after dinner only to look up later and notice the clock creeping toward midnight As for the Mac version there is not much to add to dia contd April 1986 23 previous description except to say that it plays like a dream Nearly everything can be done with the mouse and space bar the program will even run through the list of available spells for you to save time and trouble typing The only bug I found actually worked in my favor the program had a generous habit of equipping me several times over with items already in my possession so that I could end up wielding three maces or wearing three suits of armor at once Impossible of course but who am I to complain That s the magic of computers l In short although it needs no further endorsement at this stage in its history I recommend WIZARDRY especially in its Mac incarnation even to those who don t often enjoy fan tasy role playing games If you are considering it now is an ideal time to buy the Macintosh version while many places are offering it on sale The game richly deserves its reputation as a classic Ralph Bosson who previously programmed the award winning T A C has released yet another miracle in computer wargaming UNDER FIRE Avalon Hill is an entertaining game that is easy
149. earned The Talk command suggests the program s primary feature it talks Of course it needs some aid that of an Echo II or Echo speech synthesizer The Echo is made by Street Electronics which also makes the Cricket for the c but you ll have to check with PEAL about compatability for that configuration It definitely works with the and e I have a disabled child who has speech and language difficulties His first approach to KEYTALK and with mini mal intervention on my part paralleled Meyers notes in which she stated that her goal was to enable children to active ly participate in leaming by making that learning personally meaningful to him Let me explain how that worked My son knows names telephone numbers and even the spelling of many words learned by rote that are meaningful to him But it is a long arduous process for him to learn new words in the sense that he integrates the individual letters letter strings their sound and their meaning association What he first did was type in names and telephone numbers which he knew After each keystroke the letter or number is contd on pg 21 Washington Apple Pi Vision Disabilities by Boris Levine Those of you who stayed till the end of the meeting under auspices of the DisabledSIG September 1985 got to see a fast ten minutes worth of two programs I had written to help some disabled children And when Adrien Youell asked me to write up something on these
150. elf include an OTHERWISE clause for the CASE statement and the BYTESTREAM and WORDSTREAM data types which allow array parameters of indefinite length Again both 64K and 128K systems are included in the product and almost all code written under Pascal 1 2 will run under 1 3 without recompilation An upgrade program similar to that which accompanied the release of Pascal 1 2 is in effect for current Apple Pascal owners Because of the extensive changes to the product the upgrade actually consists of the entire Pascal 1 3 product This includes the manual four 5 1 4 diskettes and one 3 1 2 diskette the two formats have identical contents To order the upgrade mail your original Applel Pascal diskette and a check or money order for 125 to the following address Apple Computer Inc Pascal 1 3 Upgrade P O Box 306 Half Moon Bay CA 94019 Allow 4 6 weeks for delivery And I am happy to report that the upgrades are being shipped on time the 1 2 upgrade program was marred by delays of several months The upgrade offer expires on May 16 1986 so act now Purchasers of Apple Pascal 1 2 within 90 days of the official 1 3 release date might be entitled to a free upgrade see your Apple dealer about this For those of you interested in buying Pascal for the first time the 1 3 release is the unmarked big gray and yellow Workbench binder on your dealers shelves Someone at Apple forgot the labels One piece of bad news for those wi
151. els illustrating human thinking and fantastical research Towards computer development proph ets philosophers designers and technicians need to gain insight into how computers may better interact with humans Artificial Intelligence will never match the complexity of the human brain for which there are no dissectable models Rather more available then studying the behaviour of ani mals the rules of construction and hence motion and response may better provide a basis of how to think about things The distant manageable aim is development of computers that better serve our mechanical requirements The Macin tosh is an excellent object orientated system but is a lousy servant it does not intuitively know what to do to help us 3 Computing problems are as basic as deciding which printer resolution to use and are further obfuscated by questions of a geometric protocol or pixel orientated graphics It is the shear volume of available data resources that is the new big problem The proliferation of networks has meant an ever broader base of resources that we can log into The reason we need agents is that there are so many networks our resources are embarrassingly rich The Macintosh can handle Washineton Apple Pi about a hundred objects and the Smalltalk browser can utilize up to two thousand objects if one uses the system every day but now in America there are about ten thousand networks all of which have res
152. en Book Window Several journals may be opened at the same time File Edit Functions ATEO 00 Income Statement Department Income Balance Sheot Trial Balance Check Register Datiy Cash Hepast Account History Goneral Ledgor Accounts Recelvoble Accounts Payable Financial Ratios Figure 3 Because entries are made into Journals in much the same way that they are into a manually kept journal of the same type the transition from manual books is non traumatic if not comfortable Entry of the date in a journal signifies the start of each entry Columns are available for description reference the account affected except for the cash journals where cash is always on one side of the transaction and the amount The program will prompt with the amount neccessary to complete recording transactions with multiple parts such as a payroll check with several deductions Posting that is writing new journal entries into the principal account book or General Ledger is accomplished by closing the journal The program will not let you close a journal if there is an entry with no amount or one that doesn t balance I consider this a positive feature of the program others have criticized it as rigidity Correction of errors is done from the pull down functions menu which offers restricted easy to use choices appropriate to the journal and transaction to be corrected Complete freedom to make correcting or other special entries such
153. endation However the Volks mini modem is now being advertised for 140 mail order It is a manual dial auto answer 300 1200 baud modem I also note that DAK is advertising their 1200 baud Smart Duck in the CompuServe ONLINE Today magazine for 169 This is the Prometheus Promodem 1200 with an ADC a BSR subsidiary case label By next year they ll be giving them away in cereal boxes contd Washington Apple Pi Smart Duck 1200 KEITH BLAIR ON 02 13 TO GEORGE KINAL To all I ordered and am happily using the 1200 baud Smart Duck by ADC I had to make my own Mac cable with the help of Lynn Trusal who told me that it has the same pin connections as a Hayes modem Surprisingly enough one of the hardest parts of making a cable is finding the 9 pin male connector required for the Mac 3 Radio Shacks were sold out in my area but fortunately one was lying around at work 1 wonder if everyone is buying them so they can mate their current peripherals to the Mac Oh well anyhow the modem is great and works with Red Ryder and MacTerminal STEPHEN C WARREN ON 02 24 TO KEITH BLAIR This all sounds too good to be true Since I am not a Source or CompuServe subscriber how can I order this Smart Duck Complete address and ordering phone number would be appre ciated KEITH BLAIR ON 02 25 TO STEPHEN C WARREN Stephen call 1 800 423 2866 and you will get an operator who seems to take calls for many assorted companies and you will ha
154. eneral Information page 5 Our Apple SIGs are worth so much we couldnt put a price on them Until April 30 we re waiving our 49 95 registration fee to introduce you to the SIGs that could be priceless Join The Source today and you ll give our representative this claim number get direct access to many other Apple 78ABW22 Or mail the coupon today personal computer users through our Because joining The Source is smart new Apple and Macintosh Special But joining The Source and our new Interest Groups at special SIG rates Apple SIGs for free is ingenious You ll be able to download and distribute high Special Free Offer quality public INFORMATION NETWORK domain software Find the best buys e ource Remap 1 on the Apple The most powerful resource any personal computer can have personal com puter market See Source llos a 1800 16 3366 and gie ca e Source toll free at 1 36 3366 and give IOMA porte our representative this claim number 78ABW22 mit bulletin boards a iis YES I want to join The Source and take Solve your toughest computing advantage of your free membership offer problems with help sessions from computer experts And share your experiences with other PC users from many different professions All of which will make you wonder how you ever got along without us And your membership will of
155. ependent not only on the hardware and possible add ons but also the software My wife bought an Apple e because the software she runs was only available for the Apple series I love it but bought a Heath H 150 because my client wanted programs for the IBM PC XT And our next machine may be a Mac because it may soon have Turbo Pascal available for it That would make it easier to transport programs that I have written to a second machine It is hard to write programs that require large amounts of memory for the s PHILIP NICOZISIS ON 02 26 TO EDMON J DONNELLAN I really disagree with what you are saying First the mouse is not metal it is plastic Apple would have been out of business by now if would not have looked toward third genera tion computers The Apple has long since been outmoded and is merely a dinosour kept alive by its proliferation of software but even that has subsided ROTE MIKE UNGERMAN ON 02 06 TO TOM VIER If a manufacturer chooses to have protection he should do so in a way that allows a user to have easily obtainable backups i e not to have to mail off for them which will run easily on his system but have some incentive for preventing casual exchange like the Broderbund Blue examples And finally I agreee about the hard disk I would like to have all my software runable from a hard disk The Catalyst system allows this for a number of programs I think I would be willing to pay a premium for unlo
156. es e c E 0 60 o O 0 40 o A 6 0 20 Y lt a Printed with CG gt o US fons 0 00 4 3 2 1 0 1 Column 1 contd 54 April 1986 Washington Apple Pi This may simply be the numbers from 1 to n the number of points you have CG displays the row number It would be nice if their Column 0 could be selected as the category Manipulating Your Data Often you will find the need to change your data or to plot a transformed version of it CG allows for a number of useful options to help Several functions are revealed in the menu below IRACHE Graph Curve merde Recode Transform Simple Math Count Frequency Smooth The data can be sorted transformed or recoded using the same flexibility found in Statworks Many useful functions are provided for transforming including exponentiation and transcendentals as well as the usual four functions One valuable feature allows you to take a large number of points and produce a count of records containing a smaller number of unique codes Say for example you have 200 records each describing a different individual If one column contains a text or numeric entry indicating their religion below you see C P and J for Catholic Protestant and Jewish you can use Count Frequency to produce two new columns containing one row for each unique code and count of records bearing that code In the example below column two contains the three unique codes and column 3
157. es M Burger zz Dverview 2 0d My hardest software selection decision has been the selection of a database program BMac Before Macintosh I tried several databases on my Either they were far too complex requiring megahours to learn or not powerful enough to meet my needs I needed a database program which could act as a roladex for client names addresses and tele phone numbers and the file should also be usable for far more powerful applications keeping track of dockets mail merge important personal dates etc When I took the plunge and purchased one of the first Lisas I had to manage with LisaList As its names implies the program was not a true database but a list manager To its credit it had the original version of the Macintosh interface Thus it was truly easy to learn But it had little power and was not relational The difficulty I have had with Macintosh database pro grams is not their lack of power Rather it has been their proliferation I have not tried all the available database pro grams But I have tried several including FileVision File Maker and Microsoft File There are some more powerful ones that I have not had a chance to review but see David Morganstein s review of Omnis 3 in this issue Recently I began to use OverVUE Deceptively simple in structure and therefore easy to learn Over VUE is a very powerful relational database with macros charting mail merge and many other useful
158. esale and supplies Cash and credit sales with and without sales tax Recognizing inventory changes and depreciation The final step in the review process was to keep books for LLL using each of the packages and then to evaluate them against the criteria Of these packages only Maccountant which is reviewed below integrates the General Ledger the main books Cash Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable The others rely or will rely on modules for each of these func tions which link together to provide an accounting system I ve discussed the lack of functional coverage with each of the other three vendors Chang told me that they had released Accounts Payables and an Inventory Sale Module and had updated as of January the two modules noted above They also sent me the whole package I was impressed by the earlier Chang material and am looking forward to reviewing the integrated package 1 will report to you next month on it Future Design has only released the Strictly Business General Ledger module but they are sending me an update which I ll also review next month They expect to release Accounts Payable and Receivable in 2 3 months Job Cost Inventory Order entry and Payroll modules are all anticipated for 1986 release The structure of Strictly Business is very 70 April 1986 sophisticated 99 joumals profit centers and departments are available and it talks How about Read back that list please Mac
159. essages for her Incidentally most middle level professionals at Apple don t have their own secretaries When you have a Mac on your desk connected to a LaserWriter you re expected to do your own typing Ellen coordinates Apple s relations with 800 or so user groups and she gets calls all the time That she can get any work done at all is impressive that she has managed to accomplish as much as she has in the very short time the position has existed November 1985 is a testimony to what must be an enormous reserve of energy and spirit I enjoyed meeting the people who attended this session The students consisted of professionals from every part of Apple s worldwide operations including manufacturing qual ity control product engineering marketing and even so I was told a lawyer The guest lecturers included representatives from many of the groups Apple works with such as dealers educators and users Our purpose was to do a massive down load of our motivations interests perceptions and concerns Speaking as a user group representative I tried to impress upon the participants that user groups were most interested in finding out information about how to use Apple s products We were also interested I said in sharing with Apple our experiences with our computers and software Afterwards several people from the product design and quality control areas came up to me to discuss specific ques tions Apple and WAP are in
160. ethesda MD 20814 Business Office 301 654 8060 Copyright 1986 Washington Apple Pi Ltd EDITORIAL It s working After all these years of effort there is evidence of greater cooperation between Apple and the User Groups WAP has benefited in many ways That means that you dear reader have also benefited And that is where it counts Not at the national regional or club officer level but where you sit We are beginning to get through to Apple How you may ask Well witness if you will last month s meeting with Alan Kay He came and enchanted us with visions of the future Apple Columbia pitched in Our dPub SIG meeting was replete with loaners of a Mac and LaserWniter Apple Columbia helped us to make it possible As this is being written plans are being completed for the visit of Ellen Petry Leanse to our March meeting Ellen is as you already or should know is the Apple User Group Evangelist from Washington Apple Pi Cupertino And much more Why we ve even heard that someone has been assigned the responsibility equivalent to Ellen s at the regional e g Apple Columbia level We ve had two follow on conferences since January both of which were on MAUG Nothing concrete from these yet buy maybe It means that you can find Apple and Mac tech notes at the office that maybe soon you can get answers to your own perplexing conundrums via Apple Columbia or elsewhere in Apple Let s see where all this takes us About
161. ets By the way we appreciate Firebird s sending demo and review copies of this program by UPS to be available at this meeting RINGS OF ZILFIN Strategic Simulations for Apple series fantasy role playing with clever animation and puzzles Demonstrated by Dave Granite PHANTASIE II Strategic Simulations for Apple fantasy role playing BRATACCAS Mindscape for 512K Mac entirely mouse run strategy fantasy adventure BLACK CAULDRON Sierra On Line and Walt Disney for 128K e or c a 3 D animated adventure by the rogrammers of King s Quest P Copies of Chipwits Brainpower for the Apple and the Mac and Holy Grail Hayden were given to members who could guess Ron Wartow s shoe size and other esoterica We are printing in the Journal a letter from Mindscape responding to the review in the February issue of The Halley Project Among other things Mindscape thinks that som eone less knowledgeable about astronomy than our reviewer would like the game more G SIERRA CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING A Review by Richard Bollar Sierra Championship Boxing is another foray into the realm of computerized sports simulation Traveling in the footsteps of the classic Olympic Decathalon and Micro League Baseball Sierra has designed an easily playable and enjoyable game The game very carefully maintains the exciting air of a Boxing match from The Tale of the Tape a description of the boxers characteristics to
162. etween the Mac and TScan and fills in the missing 5 12 volts The TScan Co is working on it and it will be out REAL SOON NOW I imagine once you can get these jobbers you could also use them to fix the same problem with other hardware which uses those lines on the serial ports to get their power Mouse Problem CHARLES TURNER ON 02 06 TO RICH NORLING Rich my mouse also failed on a different Mac at Clinton Computer repair The problem seemed to be electronic rather than mechanical because it got worse with time as the circuits warm up New mouse 60 with trade in No WAP discount on replacement items New one works fine and has a crisper feel than my old one that I ve had for two years Thanks for the note Print Head Fi KEITH BLAIR ON 02 13 TO JOHN MARKEY ALL John I had a similar problem on another printer What had happened was some of the paper 1 didn t know to use good paper then had wedged itself into the wires I went to Cox Electronics in Odenton and they sold me some spray that is specially made for cleaning VCR heads The spray comes out as a heavy mist and penetrated deep into the head forcing everything out As a side effect it also forces out any and all lubrication and nearly instantly dries 1 don t know about your printer but this worked fine for me I just made sure that none of the stuff went anywhere else that would be hard to lubri cate I m sure any good electronics store would carry some thing similar Mu
163. even for your family to help them learn the ropes or to help them learn some specific routine you use often Needless to say screen pictures is a feature I use regularly to illustrate this MacNovice Column in the Journal What I m talking about is something computer buffs working with older generation computers call screen dumps They amount to an instruction telling your computer to replicate on your printer or on a disk an exact copy of every thing which appears on your computer screen at any moment Suppose for instance you want to illustrate for another Mac user how to use the trash can on the Macintosh desk top You could try to describe it in text But a faster easier more Mac like way of illustrating it is to do it with pictures or icons You might include a picture like this 4 e Ml ri y E e D W EE Embed i 4 Lm Y TO ka tea En 4 ki SEEN SE ae mg i5 ur A i e sanm ob d ALIE SEES non mua 1 Throw Away Document by moving 1 dni a EI it to Trash Can paMachaint achat ia svg 2 Open Trans Can to inventory its mo date Ms RAM ae i de contents EU REESE ERAS iH M EE a EM A ae i i E deu ES RESAN SEN e d OUEST apena Artioles Archive 2 Via PEDI taka Bae ia AS i4 ra OUS PORE ed MO RN pue UU i ES ya ata SOR edes fu gt Op E 4 4 i y T TE T a a e Switcher Ficture 5 RENE Ra ra tea ib a A fe AA ye 1 q re
164. even if a program works with a card from one manufacturer it may not work with a different brand One solution is to use a pre boot disk that Ram card manufacturers supply to modify popular software to work with their cards For example Applied Engineering supplies software to modify AppleWorks so that it can use their Ram cards up to 3 megabytes My recommendation is NOT to buy a Ram card until you know what software you wish to use with it contd on pg 41 April 1986 17 KEYBOARD MODIFICATIONS During the last month I ve received several inquiries regarding how to modify the e s keyboard for persons with disabilities While these modifications have been published previously almost two years ago the need exists to repeat them Locking Keys Several commands require the simul taneous stroking of two keys And for most of us it is relatively easy to hold down the Ctrl or ESC keys while touching another But for those who find that impossible accessing the computer can prove frustrating The simple fix is to take your Apple into your dealer and have the switches under the keycaps replaced by the locking type switch that underlies the CAPS LOCK Replacement switches cost 4 plus labor If you re handy with a low heat soldering iron you can do this easily yourself but I ve found that recent purchasers of Apples are more reluctant to enter the machine themselves Disabling the e s Auto Repeat Persons who lack the fine motor
165. ews Konvalin 5 1983 30 SIG News Apple SIG News Hershey 5 7 1983 39 SIG News Apple SIG News Ryan 7 10 1985 10 SIG News Apple SIG News Askew 4 6 1982 13 SIG News Apple SIG News Hershey 5 7 1983 39 SIG News Apple SIG News Ryan 7 1 1985 9 SIG News Apple SIG News Ryan 7 2 1985 24 April 1986 contd Washington Apple Pi SUBIECT TITLE AUTHOR VOL YEAR PGS SIG News Apple SIG News Ryan 7 4 1985 5 SIG News Apple SIG News Ryan 7 5 1985 43 SIG News Apple SIG News Ryan 7 6 1985 28 SIG News Apple SIG News Ryan 7 7 1985 15 Software Buying Software Ottalini 7 6 195 30 Users Group A Users Group Burger 7 9 1985 60 61 VisiCalc VisiCalc Formulas in Screen Format Raesly 5 11 1983 58 59 1986 WAP Journal Articles Apple The Best of the Apple Part 2 Ottalini 8 3 1986 14 15 Apple Best Pics in 86 Pt 1 Ottalini 8 2 1986 14 15 Basic The REM arkable REM Hayman 8 3 1986 28 31 Forth Print Using for Forth Page 8 2 1986 32 33 Forth Square Root Routine for Forth Page 8 3 1986 33 Lap Computers Lap Computers as Apple Accessories Kinal 8 3 1986 25 Lap Computers Laptop Computers 3 Kinal 8 1 1986 20 23 Pascal Modula 2 Pascal and Modula 2 Implementations Platt 8 2 1986 36 37 Review Basic Pascal Translation A Review Rusk 8 3 1986 34 Review Views And Reviews Hobbs 8 1 1986 32 Yearend Review A Look Backward and a Look Forward Ottalini 8 1 1986 28 29 APPLE DRIVERS Thanks to our good
166. features Moreover release 2 0d is not copy protected therefore easy to install on the disk and does not require use of a key disk It also works with HFS Ease of Learning OverVUE opens up to a spread sheet like data entry and presentation format See Illustration 1 I find the spreadsheet like format the best method of data presentation This is a personal choice But OverVUE also toggles to an individual record file card like format Merely click in the lower right hand corner where the Zoom Box re places the window sizing handle This is a deviation from the Standard Mac Interface While this one is acceptable there were some others I found annoying For example a screen size index card is displayed where the fields of the individual record appear instead of the spreadsheet format see Illustration 2 fie Do Print Chart Edit Find Analyzo Math Setup Rttrb Phone List 1 22 CEA R WORK TOL MO HOME TEL MO MOORCSG WEIMA IRA 301 333 2919 6110 BUCKINGHAN MANOA DAHU MCIMTPAWO ALOCAT 303 555 0220 303 333 6500 ASSOC JAM CELIDEM 441 72 MELLEA JERAY 314 3337 6041 NORTHERN AIA LINES e WELLS AL 808 3539 6729 808 333 0943 SLE saaa AIRLINES 800 38 fi LESLEA JON 202 335 9406 FRA MOISE 1 f HESTIN FITHESS CENTER 202 555 4194 BETSY MA WHITE MAC 807 533 0603 lt HILDOURK PRESTON 414 333 3123 J MILKZASON LEON 3123 555 4407 UILKES Xnev n AIR WISCONSIN vi UMI
167. first using the system utilities start up disk and will set up the serial ports to accomodate any printer preset on the AppleWorks program Even though Pinpoint is installed on the AppleWorks start up disk it works the printer independ ently of the AppleWorks program Thus you must use the start up utilities disk first to use Pinpoint And as I discovered I was not able to use the Pinpoint options for different characters per inch and lines per inch to their fullest in the text mode see below for a discussion of graphics even though the Okidata was listed as a supported printer At the very same time I was able to get all options on my printer when using the AppleWorks files In their advertisement the Pinpoint publishers say Pinpoint Desktop Accessories are file compatible with AppleWorks If you can run AppleWorks you can run Pinpoint This is not totally true I also have an Apple r 1 purchased Plus Works which enables me to run AppleWorks on the and take advantage of a Saturn 128K expanded memory card giving me an AppleWorks desktop of 136K on the J I asked the Pinpoint company in a letter whether I could run their program on the configured J Their answer The will never run Pinpoint Pinpoint requires the 65C02 microprocessor enhanced CD and EF ROM s Mousetext Icons and Open Closed Apples or paddles Again as in much recent software the buyer must beware that the advertisements are not always 100
168. friends at ATUNC the Apple Three PRINTER Apple Parallel 2K Users of Northern California a complete list of the sizes of PRINTER Grappler Par 4K various Apple Drivers is being developed This RS232 Apple 3K information can be of critical importance since drivers take up FMTDX Apple Formatter 1K plenty of memory CATALYST Quark 10K The key to using drivers in a particular program is to QUARKCOM UNUSEDI 6 Quark 1K simply never install any more than you absolutely need If PROFILE Apple Hard disk 1K you don t need an RS232 driver for example use the System ONTIME On Three 2K Utilities Program and its System Configuration Program to ATTACH 1K delete it The SCP will tell you to begin with what is in AUDIO Apple 1K your driver file allow you to edit them etc PKASO U Complete 5K If your driver file gets too big you may have to make a PKASO U Mini 1K separate boot diskette containing SOS Kemal SOS Interp and TMPDX CODE Microsci 143 SK SOS Driver with the rest of the program on a second diskette TMPFMT CODE Microsci Formatter 5K Again your System Utilites Program will let you do that or you can also use the Filer in Pascal The following list of Driver file sizes is the latest com piled by ATUNC If you have any additions etc let me know and we ll add them to our list and pass them along to the folks on the West Coast as well ALL HOURS CONSULTANTS CHECK OUR HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PRICES MONITORS MODEMS PRINTERS AND BOARDS
169. game and requires a lot of patience recommend this wargame The following letter dated March 4 1986 was sent by Karen J Novak Manager of Communications Mindscape to Ron Wartow l We were very sorry to see Thomas Johnston s review of THE HALLEY PROJECT A MISSION IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM in the February issue of the Washington Apple Pi Mr Johnston s vast knowledge of the solar system may have impeded his ability to appreciate the program from a novice astronomer s perspective The idea is to give users a point of view picture of outer space and to create an environ ment in which they can explore The educational value of the program is minimal only to someone who is already very familiar with the Solar System For those who know little about it the program provides a strong learning experience It is impossible to complete the flying missions without knowing about the sizes and tem peratures of the planets and moons It is also impossible to navigate successfully without knowing the positions of the planets in relation to each other and without learning the twelve constellations of the zodiac Mr Johnston may not like the flashing of the screen that occurs while the user is in Hyperspace but we wanted to make it dramatic so that users would always be aware that they were traveling at a much faster rate than during normal flight The tape was designed to create an atmosphere of secrecy about the flying missions and to stimul
170. ge 6 Review Corner contd from pg 67 are more in the nature of improvements for the next version None of them are significant enough to prevent me from recommending the product AFTERWORDS The product list is short this month Last month s was incredibly long I guess the AppleWorld conference sparked a spate of new announcements I had intended to have a review of Tempo But version 1 0 will not work properly on HFS I just received word from Affinity that version 1 1 should be out shortly and will work on HFS I will keep you posted New Products SOFTWARE HealthCare Communications 245 So 84th St Suite 301 Lincoln NE 68510 MacHealth Series DentalMac 3500 OpticMac 3500 Practice management insurance and patient processing statement processing patient recall and tracking has full merge capability with Microsoft Word and Microsoft File Rubicon Publishing 6300 La Calma Drive Austin Texas 78752 Dinner At Eight 59 95 Chefs of the Nation s finest restaurants offer this collection of their favorite recipes step by step from shopping list to wine list recommen dations Additional data disk available The Silver Plate Col lection 49 95 Enhance your Dinner at Eight program with these recipes from the renown Silver Plate Cookbook by Julee Rosso and Shelia Lukins Summit Systems Inc P O Box 91 1050 Turnpike Street Stoughton MA 02072 Payroll dbsPay 275 Payroll and personnel system that uti
171. h as serial setup Whenever you want to setup the port type EXEC serial setup from the Applesoft prompt This will replay the commands in the text file and set up the port You can also use the file contd Washington Apple Pi from a BASIC program using the Ctrl D character i e 100 PRINT CHR 4 EXEC serial setup When I use my Okidata printer in correspondence quality mode the top of the lower case a is curled down Is this a printer problem Yes in a way In correspondence mode the Okidata makes two passes for each letter with a small line feed in between the passes Sometimes the line feed does not move the paper correctly Check that there is very little play in the platen If you re using pin feed paper make sure the friction feed rollers are disengaged Excessive friction in pulling the paper into the printer can also cause a problem It might help to move your stack of paper so that it doesn t get caught on anything on its way to the printer There is always a little backlash in the gears so that when you tum the platen knob to adjust the paper the next line feed is likely to be incorrect To eliminate this do a line feed before printing anything The Imagewriter also has this problem When I print out two columns using AppleWorks the margins come out ragged even when I put a carriage return at the end of each line Check that the width of an m character is the same as for an i character Your printer may be set
172. h lost time in debugging a new alphabet True it came with some problems discussed below but nothing like those I avoided What can she do She can use a typewriter keyboard slowly She can see the letters but she s not well coordinated She is very calm and patient This much allowed the use of the Apple keyboard with no mechanical modifications Use GET rather than INPUT because it does not need the extra Carriage Return Minimize crashes A M does include an ONERR GOTO routine but that takes the user out of the program and that s not whats wanted So to start there is a short subroutine which confirms that the user wants to be in this program This reduces the frustration of being locked into the wrong program There are others which shunt the user back to the Washington Apple Pi BIG LETTERS A Program for People With program after pressing a wrong key Put the instructions right on the screen this simpifies matters for the teacher and eliminates the separate instruction pamphlet More when the subroutine changes the instruc tions change This is easier than it sounds because we have only lines 21 24 to clear Most useful when going to and from CORRECTIONS Provide for automatic end of line For letters only it really doesn t matter except that the letters should move down automatically i e without Carriage Return But for a child making the jump from letters to words and simple sentences this is
173. he Ist Thursday of each month at Our Lady of Lourdes School 7500 Pearl Sueet Bethesda MD Macintosh and Apple meet together on the 4th Saturday general meeting at USUHS at 9 00 AM StockSIG meetings are on the second Thursday of each month at the office 8 00 PM Telecom SIG meets after the regular WAP meeting on the 4th Saturday Most members who can attend meetings probably remain thoroughly confused about our schedules and this meeting was no exception The meeting format published in the Jour nal is the desired modus operandi and will be adhered to when possible But there was a special reason for any disappoint ments Alan Kay was passing by Strategy demanded new plans and these were effected at last minute notice We importuned Alan to speak to the Club Although I may sound slightly mysterious about this our Editor had been speaking to Mrs Kay Alan s mother about the possibility of Alan appearing at our regular meeting and had asked Alan himself while in San Francisco It was only in the week prior to the meeting that positive acceptance was evident We all apologize to members that there was insufficient notice to inform people more generally of the impending illustrious event It is with this possible disappointment in mind that a separate article is devoted to relate Alan Kay s presentation entitled A Research Project on how to Invent Computer Agents which is published elsewhere in this issue
174. he mailman has been a Larry Moss Product Marketing Manager for Haba Arrays took exception to my answer in the February Journal about the Haba 800K external disk drive The technical differences between Haba s and Apple s offerings have been discussed in the past two columns But he points out that the Haba drive works on all Macs without modification or the need for a special boot disk They can also provide a patch to the HFS Boot disk used on the 512K Mac for the Apple 800K disk drive to allow 512K owners to use the new file systern If you have concerns or questions about Haba products you can call Mr Moss at 818 901 8828 Also in February I wrote about how to change the date stamp that the Mac gives new files the creation date I was concerned that some readers might think it fun to postdate documents play tricks and otherwise fudge data After all wouldn t most of us instinctively accept those dates as gospel Without giving the matter much thought 1 prefaced the answer with I assume the questioner has honest intentions Well the questioner was John Voglewede and there is absolutely no question that he had honest intentions His purpose was to correct obviously wrong dates on SigMac disks And because it is not an uncommon problem 1 thought that the answer might be useful for others too I m sorry for the misunderstandings that this remark caused Finally the mails brought a letter from a Philadelphia WAP member l
175. he printer with the video display turned off Unfortunately not all interface cards recognize this command Despair not it is relative ly easy to change it in versions 1 2 and later From the main menu select 5 Other Activities then 7 Specify Washington Apple Pi information about your printer s choose Change printer specifications for your printer under Change a Printer choose 5 Interface cards Follow the instructions to change the control characters Ctrl I 80N When asked to type the exact control characters required type caret to end the string with nothing in it This will probably work with your interface card If you still have problems you might try setting the string to Ctrl I ON as this has been reported necessary for some interface cards My Duodisk drive occasionally gives me VO Errors and then I find that the disk I m using has bad blocks Usually the bad blocks are on track 0 Before I take a trip to the dealer is there anything I can do I suggest that you tum off the power to your Apple and disconnect and reconnect all the cables to your disk drive Also remove and re insert the disk controller card The connectors develop an insulating oxide layer that can Cause intermittent failure You could also clean the edge connector on the bottom of the disk controller card using a soft pencil eraser be sure you wipe away all the erasures with some isopropyl rubbing alcohol If you have problems reading a disk es
176. her 28 DaVinci Landscapes 20 Leisure Karataka 24 Hitchiker s Guide 28 Microleague B ball 28 Spellbreaker 35 Terrapin LOGO 3 0 69 MacForth II 150 Let s Explore Basic 28 Turbo Turtle 42 Multiplan 58 Excel 260 pfs Plan 86 HabaCalc N Graph 68 MouseWrite req Mouse 86 MS Word 132 Word Perfect 1 0 96 Think Tank 512 145 Buy MOUSE WRITE for your Apple llc or lle List price 125 Your cost 86 c6o0G6D0O002009000000900000980220000000000052002000005005000060200000000 g a g 5 7 Mousewrite Roger Wag ner Publishing An Apple Ilc and Ile word processor that mimics Macwrite Mousewrite offers pull down menus filled with easy to use features We strongly recommend purchasing a mouse in order to take advantage of this product Mousewrite is worth a test drive for home and small business users Category Performance Software 11 18 85 oODOGGODGQQGGSGAGGQ EQOGGGGORRNC QNG b0000000900 soovon 6000000000000606000000000000000 e Copyright 1986 by Popular Computing Inc a subsidiary of CW Communications Inc Reprinted from InfoWorld Menlo Park CA 94025 Ask for a copy of our Apple or Macintosh catalog containing hundreds of other programs Also ask about our volume discount prices for 10 or more of any one item 3 shipping and handling per order UPS 4 MD residents add 5 sales tax No charges or COD s Prices subject to change Call for items not listed COMPUTER WARE UNLIMITED P O BOX 1247 COLUMBIA
177. his should only be of real concern to those with Mac s or 12K Macs in need of HFS such as for a hard disk or an 800K floppy drive Otherwise my advice remains if it isn t broken don t fix it and if you change any of them change them all together In the Sept 85 Dr Dobbs Journal there was a hardware hobbiest article on how to add a SCSI port to the Mac Is this similar to what Apple did No It is not the same thing as the Mac SCSI port Third parties inspired by that article may also offer SCSI hardware upgrade products for your Mac But unless they advertise functional equivalence and software com patibility with the Mac port beware of how useful they might turn out to be The Warp Nine internal hard disk is an implementation of the Dr Dobbs idea It can not boot from the new ROMs as other SCSI disks can Drool What kind of megabit chips would turn my 1 Meg Mac into a 4 Meg Mac The 256Kbyte SIMs are labeled NEC MC 41256A8B 15 If you have a parts catalog they would be the equivalent memory in the 1 Mbyte size See last months Q amp A for more thoughts on 4 Meg Macs When will larger screen Macs be out Jean Louis Gass e Director of Product Planning at Apple says nothing in 1986 And although he couldn t confirm it he left the impression that the next Mac will have an industry standard VME bus That s good news When will dealers get the Mac upgrade kits The ROM 800K internal disk option is n
178. ics package 40 MS Char the perfect graphics companion to Multiplan 45 Mac Fortran compiler convert your mainframe programs to run on the Mac 55 Call David 301 972 4263 FOR SALE Macintosh XL 512K memory cards by Apple Computer 400 each Also MS Multiplan 50 MS Chart 35 Hayden Speller 25 or all three for 100 Call Tepping at 593 5860 FOR SALE Apple J 64K lower case chip shift key mod 5 1 4 Unidisk drive new Monitor II new View master 80 column card some software 800 Call Bill Hughes 301 753 6678 FOR SALE Okidata M192 printer with tractor attachment like new 250 Also Grappler parallel graphics interface card for the Apple J or e 50 Call Bob 703 455 9019 evenings and weekends FOR SALE Bargain prices for three Dow Jones products to track your investments Market Manager used slightly works perfectly except in Canada listed at 299 only 25 Market Manager used slightly works perfectly even in Canada listed at 299 only 40 Market Manager Plus latest version used once lists now at 249 only 110 Call Newt Steers 9AM 9PM at 301 320 5820 FOR SALE General Accounting Software Modules published by Software Dimensions latest versions suitable for Apple e and in emulation General Ledger Accounting module 150 Payroll module 150 Or both at 275 This is 55 off list price 301 262 7823 COMMERCIAL CLASSIFIEDS CABLES
179. ide a folder Some day maybe everyone will listen when Apple Tech Support speaks Finder S LAYO TIM BUEHRER ON 02 09 TO ALL For a good time use ResEdit 1 0D4 or greater to modify the new LAYO resource in Finder 5 1 By modifying the parameters of that resource you can drastically change the layout of the finder desktop For instance by changing the icon vertical phase you can easily stagger the position of icons within a window By changing the font sizes and the height of the bottom line you can use 24 point Los Angeles type as the default type font on the desktop this does not affect the use of Chicago as the system font Have fun HES TOM WARRICK ON 02 09 TO JIM RHODES The new ROM upgrade works with 800K disks which are supposed to be HFS only although there is a way around this The ROM allows HFS or MFS disks Don t know about RAMdisks TIM BUEHRER ON 02 11 TO TOM WARRICK But Tom the question seems to be whether there will still be problems on the Plus if you run an MFS disk While most of the disk problems should be cured for instance the problem with Word not finding the glossary others will still exist like the problem with the immediate bit in the mock desk accessories Similarly there is the odd problem of RR 7 0 on the Plus that does not show up on RAM based HFS Interesting problems no ELABORATION OF AN ITEM WHICH APPEARED IN LAST MONTH S COLUMN In last month s Best of the Mac Items UBBS column I
180. ile The tutorial is designed to guide new AW users through the procedures for using adding to and altering existing files The particular files used will be chosen in response to requests from registrants April 1 WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF APPLE April 8 HOW TO USE YOUR APPLE SOFTWARE April 15 POPULAR APPLICATIONS FOR YOUR APPLE t t Pann Y ann Yonn hdi eny v a pd C The fee for each tutorial is 10 00 with an Apple monitor and disk drive 15 00 without monitors available for Ist 5 registrants call office Please note that WAP does not have equipment for you to use if you do not bring your own you will have to Took over someone s shoulder __ Tutorials at 10 00 with equipment Tutorials at 15 00 without equipment SigMac is sponsoring a series of two monthly tutorials for the beginner The fee for two tutorials is 30 00 They will be held at the office from 7 10 PM on Monday evenings You are strongly urged to bring your Macintosh These tutorials fill up quickly call the office to verify space before mailing in your registration NOTE We are holding two sets of tutorials in April Monday April 7 and 14 Monday April 21 and 28 check with office to see if this one is full Please check the desired tutorials and return this form with fee s made payable to Washington Apple Pi Ltd to Washington Apple Pi Ltd Name Attn Tutorials 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 20 Daytime Phon
181. important It was also one of the exasperating problems and is also discussed below Increase independence Put as many options under the user s control Thus the child can with no help from the teacher enter letters and make words go to the next line make corrections exit from the program and optionally even clear the screen and start over Make the corrections process simple That is if a wrong letter or letters are entered make the computer do the complex parts of the task The program is by no means in final form it has been changed several times and as we learn more will be improved further To start let s note a few things As a friendly voice from the audience commented the large letters are courtesy of APPLE MECHANIC And in response to Beagle Bros polite but firm statement in their literature their copyright is acknowledged in the listing The program is actually quite short it comprises an introduction and entry procedure 600 1199 a corrections subroutine and a series of operating instructions which make it pretty much self contained see Listing Plus of course the extract from A M 50 500 this is not so short and in the inimitable Kersey style is very compactly written It uses the Hires screen for the large letters and leaves four lines at the bottom for conventional text NOTE It is not included in the print out but is available on the disk The operating instructions are displayed in the usua
182. income statement but these are of limited use since they only reflect bank activity checks deposits charges and Interest The program provides for entering account balances outside of the bank entries Any such entries other than initial balances break the link between the statements the system prepares and the activity in the Disbursements journal Because of this lack of integrity and the programs very limited scope I rate it as unacceptable as an accounting system rate it good if expensive as a cash disbursements journal to be used in con junction with an accounting system or even excellent if a high volume of checks and or a vouchering capability is required MacOneWrite lists for 245 and is available from The Software Specialist for 175 G5 Mac BBS contd from pg 75 SigMac disks and a reply to this item The reply said that SigMac disks use MacWrite 2 2 and have to be opened and converted if one is using MacWrite 4 5 The reply further advised using MacWrite 2 2 or moving the document to another disk with more space and opening it with 4 5 1 believe further elaboration is necessary The MacWnte documents on the disk in question are in 4 5 format and must be opened with 4 5 Version 2 2 of MacWrite cannot open documents saved in 4 5 format except those saved as text only which these documents were not Indeed the not able to open document message is one which appears when an attempt is made to open a MacWrit
183. ine If you need to transfer specially formatted files i e database or spreadsheet files additional manipulation of the files may be necessary and require that you or a knowledgable person write a special program to do the conversion This may be more trouble than it s worth dump the PC at work and get another Apple I need help in setting the serial ports on my Apple c to use with an odd ball printer Booting the System Utilities disk does this until the next cold start but it takes forever and means interrupting the work I m doing I have tried setting the port from BASIC by issuing a Ctrl D and PR 1 followed by Ctrl I and the appropriate codes for the port I ve tried this several ways on startup before loading ProDOS from a BASIC program and as direct commands with BASIC in RAM Each time it works once but after I retum to the monitor it seems to forget the serial settings as if I had done a cold start Do you have any suggestions Once you set the ports the settings should remain undisturbed until you do a cold start or a program modi fies them Possibly one of the programs you are using is changing the settings One way to simplify the setup procedure is to create a text file that contains the necessary codes You can use any word processor that creates standard text files Type in the commands exactly as you would if you were typing them directly from the keyboard in BASIC Save the file with some easily recognizable name suc
184. inserted an item in which someone described a problem he had in Opening MacWrite documents on recently purchased contd on pg 58 April 1986 75 MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY by Dana J Schwartz The next edition of the Washington Apple Pi Membership Directory will be published in the next few months There will be over 4700 names listed and with such a large number there are bound to be some unavoidable errors In order to catch some of these problems before publication we are listing below the WAP membership numbers of those members who will not be included The list includes new member numbers up to 8250 and information received via renewals and other communcations in our office as of February 22 1986 An asterisk to the right of the number indicates that you have given us permission to publish your information in the directory but did not give a telephone number If you want to be included you must supply a telphone number 0027 0543 0054 0620 0059 0094 0144 0186 0187 0207 0233 0234 0250 0284 0314 0328 0372 0429 0450 0451 0455 0475 0486 2736 2832 2898 3042 3096 3512 3106 3568 3112 3569 3124 3600 3175 3619 3186 3621 3197 3648 3215 3655 2217 3235 3737 2260 3254 3820 2296 3312 3854 2321 3319 3863 2392 3320 3895 2421 3344 3904 2462 3353 3915 4577 2476 3371 3940 4587 2575 3380 3969 4589 2618 3398 4008 4603 2619 3440 4061 4618 4646 4649 4650 4672 4674 4702 4703 4751 4759 4787 4791 4
185. is the file containing the text for the help command built into Billiard Parlour In the Pinball Player Folder PCS Player by Bob Upshaw Bill Budge PCS is short for Pinball Construction Set PCS is a program by one of the best known Apple programmers of them all Bill Budge PCS had a graphic interface with many of the Macin tosh like concepts long before the Mac existed Needless to say PCS is right at home on the Macintosh Using PCS you can create just about any pinball game you can dream up You need the complete Pinball Construction Set to create original games but with PCS Player you can give copies of your favorite creations to friends or submit them to the WAP Library without their being required to purchase the complete PCS SAMURAI a PCS pinball game SAMURAI MP a MacPaint file used by PSC for the Samurai background Twilight Zone a PCS pinball game Twilight Zone MP a MacPaint file used by PSC for the Twilight Zone background SigMac Disk 36 Utilities III Utilities You want utilities Have we got utilities We got your basic Disk Librarian utility We got your Scrolling Menu utility What You say you think you re losing your memory Well here s just the thing It ll check every nook and cranny of your ram till the cows come home Oh you mean your biological memory Well I can t help you there How about an application compactor instead FatDisk Init by Micro Analyst This routine will format a 400K disk with
186. is the same font as before MacDraw s second problem has to do with moving two or more objects at the same time one of which is text As you move the objects you will notice that the text moves at a slower rate than the other objects taking it out of alignment with the other objects This bug is caused by the ruler settings in the custom rulers dialog box The bug occurs only if the product of the major and minor divisions is not a multiple of eight For example if you set 1 major and 16 minor divis ions you will have no problem since 16 is a multiple of 8 However 1 major division and 10 minor divisions will not work correctly To solve this problem either change the number of divisions or turn off the grid As we become more involved with desktop publishing we will find that there are specific problems and questions which we face that the rest of the rest of us do not For example those concerning typesetting hardware and software Therefore starting next month I will use a portion of this column to cover questions and answers I will either answer in greater detail questions posed during our meeting or provide answers to questions that people send in The best way to do that would be to call up WAP s System 3 board and leave a message for me in the DPub BBS or you could leave it for the SYSOP Mark Walter The System 3 board is down as I write this but should be up again before the end of March Oh by the way for
187. k accessory 20 macros These are placed on the Do menu Thus repetitive Operations can be automated For printing you can create up to eight report templates These are placed on the print menu Font choices however are not available You have only six font sizes Pica Elite Semicondensed Condensed Ultra condensed and Default There are several areas which I would like to see improved in a subsequent version of OverVUE When you first open OverVUE it defaults to a blank sheet asking you to click Cancel or Ok in the command box This can be disconcerting I would prefer an open file dialogue box a nice feature in that box would be a command to create a new file as the first screen upon opening the application A pet desire of mine is standardization of alternative command keys A well taken criticism by IBM types is the need to remove your hands from the keyboard to use the mouse Many mouse driven operations are great substitutes for a series of key strokes such as moving large sections of text in a word processor or choosing printer options etc On the other hand small cursor movements or other operations are faster with key commands One excellent feature of the Macintosh interface are the menus which have alternative key commands They act as a tutorial until the user is comfortable with the command key alternatives While there are no standards I have found that the early Apple applications MacWrite P
188. l Apple size and in the four lines at the bottom of the screen They begin with the option to continue or quit this minimizes the frustration of being locked into the wrong program They then display instructions for entering the letters plus options to make corrections and at any time to leave the program The corrections subroutine 1200 to 1280 makes correc tions one letter at a time and returns to the entry procedure The how is discussed later Several likely errors are trapped One is that all major steps like Quit call for confirmation before they are carried out contd April 1986 19 One of the items discussed was how to provide the instruc tions should they be displayed on the screen or provided separately in a written guide It was settled that they be displayed because they would act as reminders for the teacher The child would at first ignore them and later use them to work independently The program begins at line 600 with GET A Both controls and text are entered here The next several lines permit A to drop through several options including QUIT The drop through continues past line 710 which clears the screen and reserves the bottorn of the screen for messages Line 730 selects alphabet 2 small standard and locates the protocol text at line 22 Alphabet 3 is not used The next several lines compare A with instructions for quitting carriage return clearing the page entirely and
189. le worked up a solution and called back the same day The manual is one of the best for any Macintosh product I particularly like their introduction which lists the standard Macintosh functions like turning on the machine clicking on icons scroll bars etc The manual then says if you are unfamiliar with any of them please see the Macintosh manual or take the guided tour The manual is liberally sprinkled with helpful screen shots and easy to understand instructions Conclusion OverVUE 2 0d is an excellent database which I recommend for medium size databases unless you have 1 meg or greater and do not use OverVUE in conjunc tion with Switcher It is easy to learn and easy to use While have a number of relatively minor complaints they contd on pg 69 April 1986 67 In the February WAP Journal I reviewed the different Pascal implementations available on the Apple and Macintosh One new Pascal from TML Systems promised to be compatible with both Lisa Pascal and Apple s MacPascal At present TML Pascal is the only implementation of Lisa Pascal that allows programming on the Mac without also requiring the use of a Lisa MacXL TML requires either a 512K Mac or MacXL TML offers MacLanguage Series Pascal for a list price of 99 although it has been available from a WAP group purchase for substantially less It supports a full implemen tation of the ISO Standard Pascal including all calls to the Mac s ROMs Unlike the
190. led to you Subscriptions to the Washington Apple Pi Journal are not available The Journal is distributed as a benefit of membership Mailing Notice Change of address must be postmarked at least 30 days prior to effective date of move Journal issues missed due to non receipt of change of address may be acquired via mail for 2 50 per issue Current office hours are Monday Friday 10 AM to 2 30 PM Tues amp Thurs 7PM to 9 00 PM Saturday 12 Noon to 3 00 PM Washington Apple Pi April 1986 Washington Apple Pi meets on the 4th Saturday usually of each month both Apple and Mac Library transactions Journal pickup memberships etc are from 9 00 9 30 AM and during the Q amp A sessions times for these vary according to the main meeting topic The business meeting is from 10 30 to 11 00 A sign interpreter and reserved seating can be provided for the hearing impaired but we need S business days notice Call the office Following are dates and topics for upcoming months April 26 Dvorak Keyboard for Apple and Mac May 24 Apple open Hierarchical File System for the Mac June 28 Garage Sale 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 Sometimes an alternate date is selected Call the office for any late changes 5 CLASSIFIEDS WANTED A copy of Apple II User s Guide by Lon Poole et al Osborne
191. lizes the Macintosh interface dbsForm Payroll forms package that permits the creation of personalized design for checks statements payslips etc G5 April 1986 69 ACCOUNTING ON THE MACINTOSH Parti This is the first of two articles reviewing accounting pack ages for the Macintosh It was to have been the first of one Material for the reviews was received from Chang Labs The General Ledger and Receivables modules of Rags to Riches Sierra On Line The Cash Disbursements module of MacOne Write Future Design Software The General Ledger module of Strictly Speaking and Digital Etc Maccountant The packages were compared by these ordered criteria Integrity of data including program characteristics and security Performance including statement availablity error handling and correction capacity departmental ization and adherence to Macintosh charac teristics Ease of leaming including documentation Ease of use Vendor support In order to make the comparisons I established on paper a business Laura s Lovely Laces LLL and endowed it with a set of transactions typical of a small merchandising proprietor ship The transactions included Deposit of capital receipts and disbursements against trade accounts borrowing and repaying loans transferring funds between accounts and payroll including witholdings Recording liabilities from services provided and from purchases of equipment materials for r
192. llel w graphics 79 l Feel free to call for answers to technical questions Printerface std par w o graphics 59 i ProClock PRODOS coapatible 109 l TO ORDER Call Jeff Dillon at 301 434 0403 VIDEO BOAR05 or Videx Ultratera up to 160 coluan 48 line display 209 I Write or visit MicroSci 80 col card w 64K RAM AppleWorks coapatible 79 Applied Engineering Raakorks II 64K to 3 neg 80 col 139 l OPERANT SYSTEMS 7676 New Hampshire Ave Suite 818 Viewaaster 80 col for II4 ve 119 Langley Park Md 20783 ON Da asias RAN CREO A E LR e 79 l Md sales add 5 tax UPS shipping is available Legend S card 256K to 1 aeg runs Appleworks on JC 209 l All items carry full aanufacturer s warranties Titan Technologies 128K RAM card ooooooooooo mo 179 A A A E Washington Apple Pi April 1986 25 SOFTWARE WORD PROCESSING Wordstar 3 3 includes 6 shz 2 80 Applicard 149 Word Perfect BEST IBM prog now avail for Jle lc 95 Bank Street Writer or Speller oooomommoooo 4 pra Write JEN a ad 19 5creenkriter II 40 70 80 col display w speller 85 HoseWord HomeWord Speller o oo o 35 49 Sensible Speller IV 00S or PRODOS versions avail 79 The Word Plus super spelling checker for CP M 109 SPREADSHEETS Multiplan state of the art spreadsheet 70 SuperCalc 3a spreadsheet amp graphics for the JCe c 135 INFORMATION MANAGEMEN
193. lts Meanwhile the following can be said According to Lan caster driving the Laserwriter with the e using Apple Writer files is the most powerful way to exploit the full potential of the LaserWniter with its built in Adobe Systems PostScript interpreter Apple Writer he says does as good and very often a spectacularly better job of driving the LaserWriter than can anything running on the Macintosh Heady words for a e owner Based on the documentation to accomplish such feats requires working in PostScript a typesetting and graphics language similar to Forth but only superficially according to Adobe Apple Writer is Lancaster s word processing pro gram of choice for this using embedded commands Post Seript code and making use of Apple Writer s glossary capa bility and WPL word processing macro language The LaserWriter does have a mode of operation called the Diablo 630 daisywheel emulation mode that is easier for handling text files but it is limited to printing out 12 point type Fancier material has to use the LaserWriter s 1200 or 9600 modes via PostScript code To provide the proper handshaking DC1 DC3 for files longer than the LaserWriter s input buffer about 4500 bytes the e going to the Laserwriter must have a Super Serial Card or a custom printer driver patch Working in Apple Writer with embedded codes and WPL means what you see isn t any thing near to what you re going to get L
194. m its own slimy little disk drive Won t read copy protected stuff though Also only works with Apple programs that run in 48K DEBBY STAR ON 02 17 TO JOE ENGLAND Just to let you know I called VF Associates Tom the owner told me that ALL IBM and Apple software can be run on their new machine Not only that but for 30 extra it will run with a speed of 8 MHz I m considering purchasing one however am somewhat reluctant to accept all of the claims Am interested in knowing if anyone has heard anything about this machine Incidently the warranty is for 1 year DEBBY STAR ON 02 17 TO MIKE UNGERMAN ALL Thanks for the msg As I said in a previous message Tom of VF Assoc said he had a transfer program that would allow files to be transferred automatically from Apple to MSDOS sans null modem If their Quadram board is better than the old one Tom SAID it would run ALL Apple software then it s a fantastic deal He also mentioned that adding a hard drive 499 will work only for the MSDOS programs and not the Apple The modem will ron from either Apple or IBM This week VF will have one up and running 1 was told MIKE UNGERMAN ON 02 17 TO LEE RAESLY ALL Lee not to be contrary but the Quadram Apple board did work We installed one in an IBM clone at work However work can mean a lot of things It would read Apple disks run Applesoft programs that were not protected and do some machine language routines the monitor was also a
195. m that will graph a function of up to 3 dimensions and is fairly simple to use that is the function can be entered directly without having to define every variable I am hoping to be able to solve some differential equations and to find relative maximum and minimum pts I haven t seen anything commercially and would like to know if there is anything in public domain Thank you KEVIN NEALON ON 02 26 TO KEITH BLAIR I have StatWorks and can highly recommend it as a good sta tistics program It is capable of 3D graphs and you can input the data directly or a text file using tabs to separate fields and a CR to separate records It is also very inexpensive Two Questions JAMES B REESE ON 02 20 TO ALL Does anyone know 1 Does the new driver for the Imagewriter II printer offer any advantages to the owner of the original Imagewriter 2 Exactly how does MacDraw 1 9 differ from the original release What bugs were fixed Any information will be appreciated KEVIN NEALON ON 02 26 TO JAMES B REESE I have the ImageWriter II Driver But I have been having problems using it with the software I have I have even had trouble when I used it on an ImageWniter II Mind you I have v2 0 of the driver and I understand there is a newer version I m afraid I can t help you with the MacDraw upgrade Mac Misc amp Gossip Mac Tech Notes TOM WARRICK ON 02 09 TO JASON DELOOZE Be aware that the Tech Notes on MacWrite file formats do not conform to re
196. might want to wait for the next release of MacLightning if putting up with early bugs is not worth the benefit of having real time spelling checking Cost 100 but a software house at the fair was selling it for 66 Product with the Most Potential This is a fun and useful hardware accessory for Mac Apple and gasp IBM computers It allows you to enter listings into your computer using a special bar code like softstrip from the printed page I talked the Cauzin people into selling me an Apple version Reader with a Mac cable and a beta version of the Mac software They also gave me a stack of sample listings that included brochures and even a magazine with Mac software in softstrip format Cauzin knows it will take a while for this technology to catch on and they are in it for the long haul The Softstrip Reader retails for 200 00 but I assume WAP could arrange a group buy Perhaps four or five members who see each other once a week could even buy one together to share the cost and rotate using it Cauzin promises a program which will allow anyone to print their own strips to an Imagewriter Then it would be great if the WAP Journal would run some listings and their index each month using softstrips When this catches on the disk libraries could be distributed on paper much cheaper to duplicate than disks for those who have the Reader and want to save the money contd Washington Apple Pi Misleading Advertising Ma
197. n sound port The library also supports the standard Pascal built in string and input output procedures Because units are not supported you must manually include interface information from the library in your program Machine language routines are then automatically linked to your pro gram before execution As a result an application that uses a variety of system ROM routines will add about 2 minutes to every compile to process the library include commands Besides the library the second disk has 130K worth of sample programs ranging from a binary tree sort to the clas sic Grow window and text edit sample application Sample desk accessories graphics programs window and menu appli cations are also included Although TML Pascal routines are compatible with and can link to Apple s MDS Assembler no assembler is included 68 April 1986 with the package Oh is it fast On the whole TML is faster than MacAdvantage First each program includes a Transfer menu item that permits you to transfer to the next utility e g Compiler to Linker without returning to the desktop This is faster than Mac Advantage s Executive Although I have not completed benchmarks programs appear to execute faster too The compiler s user interface is well designed One nice feature is that in addition to displaying error messages on the screen they are saved in a separate file for later listing and printing by the editor The compiler can produ
198. n the Mac off reconnect the HD 20 spin up the HD 20 and then tum the Mac on with the floppy already inserted in the internal drive Q What s the experience been with Northeastern Software A Of those at the meeting stating an opinion most had highly negative comments MacConnection and Tele Soft have fine reputations however Note also if a mail order firm charges your credit card for goods not delivered you have the right to tell the credit card company that you refuse the bill Quickies More Mac programs will run on the XLisa than are checked in the MacConnection advertisements if you have a Levco Monster Mac if you press the interrupt button during the power on bong it will revert to a 512K Mac Rod Paine warns you against using Compucable Corporation cables Because of a construction defect found on both of his cables an unprotected exposed loose wire connected to the Mac s 5 Volt power supply short circuited to the cable shield ground This is nothing a scissors and electrical tape can t fix under the DB 25 shell but it demonstrates poor workmanship The Mock package of DAs is now at version 4 2a a new feature is that you can enclose hex codes within characters Option and Option Shift Remove the Assimilation MIDI port attachment when it s not in use as it is reported to freeze the mouse at times Smartcom II version 2 2A is now out and fully supports HFS To free up wasted s
199. nd vice versa Inthe WayStation Folder WayStation 1 9B by Steve Brecher Similar to the MiniFinder Save space on a disk by replacing the finder with WayStation WayStation Documentation by Steve Brecher The instructions for WayStation Gi 78 April 1986 INDEX TO ADVERTISERS All Hours Consultants 15 Anderson Jacobson Back Cover Clinton Computer Center Aa 4 Computer Den Ltd va doe ous 65 Computer Service Center Computer Ware Unlimited oo 41 Dynamic Microsystems Inc 39 Landmark Computer Laboratories 59 MacCorner au o Inside Back Operant Systems sw w a e e w so 25 PC Resources E A dU ls ee Se dd K data TACs wi v t ja f S kk OX d fe cw M The SOURCE o Inside Front TIC Computer Camp au 10 Tysons Corner Center 2l VF Associates pow Ji ea as ft S jik Ge INDEX TO AUTHORS Barnes Alexander 42 Bedrick Barry 22 Begleiter Ralph J 52 Billingsley Amy T 13 Blazina David 24 Bollar Richard 22 Burger James M 66 Condren J 44 Field Bruce F 16 Funk Paul E 46 Hancock Chris 23 Hardis Jonathan E 48 Harvey Dave Hartman Michael 39 Hertzfeld Henry R 32 Kinal George p
200. new people and discover undocumented features in my favorite spreadsheet program In this case the call came from my old friend Jim Jim s problem was quickly resolved He wanted to make a bar chart from seven years of revenue data from three companies Two versions of the data are shown below OE CompanyData a Te c jo ETF 6 W 10 First Attempt PARA pe 11 CoA jCoB jCoC 12 19801 341 25 13 1981 TER 29 14 1982 39 30 15 1983 40 t30 36 16 1984 TIENE 34 37 17 198 a 35 18 pose JE i rud e Puit lio el ASPEN lle 1980 1981 22 COA m m 23 Co8 25 24 CoC 301 First he selected and copied the rectangle from A11 to D18 Next he opened a new chart window and did a paste This resulted in the following nice bar chart 50 45 40 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 Unfortunately the companies and years are not the way he wanted them In a second attempt shown in the data window above he tried to transpose the data items making the com panies rows and the years columns This seems like a rea sonable response don t you think Guess what Excel didn t care which way he did it After copying from A21 to H24 and pasting into a new chart the bar chart was the same Try it yourself Excel is thinking of the data as series A bar or any labels the top row or leftmost column are present Excel uses them to define the series It looks for
201. ns concerning a closely related problem that drives many users crazy missing line feeds extra carriage returns etc etc that always seem to creep in whenever text exchanges between different systems are attempted Best of Apple BBS contd from pg 46 but in the case of a business that wanted unlocked software to change form format for example they should be willing to pay a premium for the privilege SAM SWERSKY ON 02 07 TO MIKE UNGERMAN ALL I dunno Mike I have the same ambitions that you do And I take neither side with a vengance But you have to face facts copy protection is an additional software expense expense in time money or both The result is normally poorer performance for the product and especially if the program handles a lot of data or accesses the drives Games can get by under these circumstances SOMETIMES ie think of what a decent adventure you could have if there was a million bytes of useable memory to store data pictures and whatever all without EVER having to go to disk All that work on copy protection and it has arguable benefits You mention Print Shop for example Print Shop I am sure has many unauthorized copies yet it sells well for the Apple for the IBM etc etc BECAUSE ITS A NEAT IDEA WELL DONE The software business is a risky proposition from the start a good product is the best protection apainst disaster Well help me down from the soap box will you Mike DAVID P
202. ntation of a One write pegbord system fills the screen check in place ready for one writing Fig 4 MacOneWirite presumes the use of computer printed checks but does allow for hand written checks With computer printed checks it provides for contd on pg 58 April 1986 71 WORKING WITH A 512K MAC AND A SINGLE DISK DRIVE by Lloyd B Swift Believe it or not there are still some of us out here who have a 512K Mac but haven t gotten even an external disk drive let alone a hard disk or a Macintosh Plus If you are in that category this article is for you If you re not in that category this article may be for you anyway since it has to do with using big Systems and Ramdisks and such which could be helpful even if you have a second drive I think since I don t have a drive I m not sure The problems with a single drive are Too little space on a 400K disk to put on an application plus all the fonts you d like to use Too many disk swaps e Too much time involved in moving from one applica tion to another without using the Switcher I ll suggest solutions to all three by describing what I do You may have a better way if you do write it up for all of us I have a startup or System disk which has a System file 339K with all the fonts I ever expect to need for whatever job I m going to do Also on that disk I have set up an empty Ramdisk of 220K big enough to hold say MacPaint plus Microsoft Word but still
203. numeric characters to determine the series in this case the years No matter how you position the data the years will always be the series unless you knew there had to be a way out of this didn t you As last month the key is the Paste Special command It allows you to select the categories the x axis points and the values the y axis points from your rows or columns After selecting and copying the All to D18 rectangle and choosing a New Chart pick Paste Special You will get the following dialog box Paste Special Values in O Rows Columns X Series Names in First Row Categories in First Column Excel is assuming each series appears as a column con sisting of seven entries There are three columns each a dif ferent series By clicking on Rows you are saying No there are seven Series each containing three entries After the Paste we have voila the desired plot with legend added for clarity 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 CoA CoB Coc Abbreviated Commands While we are on the subject of creating new charts have you discovered the abbreviation command n followed by hitting the C key twice Or the M key twice for a Macro sheet Excel has numerous keystroke short cuts which keep your hands on the keyboard Try Hands on Excel by Danny Goodman for a thorough discussion of other chart consists of a series of points These may appear many shortcuts as a row or as a column
204. o MUSIC WORKS grow with you Each system is customized to your requirements and OMNIS 3 3 1 built to the highest standards Support includes a system analysis so OVERVUE 20D you don t buy too much or too little extensive component testing inte QUICK amp DIRTY UTILS 1 1 05 gration of a vast array of useful software you can use immediately PAGEMAKER 11 personalized instruction manual after sale checkup and my firm com PRETTY GOOD TERMINAL 20 mitment to quality and client satisfaction ESTO COMPOSER 20 Check with me when you re ready for a PC and let s talk about why a RED RYDER 70 custom tailored personal computer is the best buy you can make RES EDIT 1 0D5 SIDE KICK 1 1 CO m 25 Landmark Computer Laboratories SWITCHER 4 6 Suite 1506 SYSTEM 3 0 101 South Whiting Street THINK TANK 512 1 2 la V 22504 TIME BASE t Alexandria Virginia 223 TML PASCAL 1 1 MUR EINEN T Telephone 703 370 2242 E SourceMall TCB076 VERSATERM 1 52 Washington Apple Pi IBM PC PC XT and PC AT are registered tredemarks of Internationa Business Machines Corporation Sidekick laa registered trademark of Borland International April 1986 59 EXCEL ing ON YOUR MAC by David Morganstein Help said the voice on the phone My cities are where my years should be and my years are where my cities should be This cry of distress began yet another exciting adven ture on the Excel hotline Being on the hotline is a fun opportunity to meet
205. o buen ome y DON EUA MISA NARA amp ls RES 7 ARTE F rth bl ie d A 94 META He sare B RE S as En Of course since the Macintosh itself uses its own Mac Paint tools to draw the desktop you could open MacPaint and draw a desktop just like the Mac s It wouldn t be too hard since you ve probably become familiar enough with it by now to draw it from memory But the Macintosh comes with a handy feature to save you all the trouble of drawing what appears on its screen It s documented on page 72 of your Macintosh manual under the heading To Create a MacPaint Document With the Current Contents of the Screen Its more easily recognizable in the Index to the manual where it s listed under A t3 3 MacNovice Column by Ralph J Begleiter April 1986 Making Screen Pictures Snapshot creating a The instructions for creating a MacPaint snapshot of your screen anytime are simple As the Macintosh manual instructs you can make as many as 10 snapshots in one Mac session When you return to the Finder you ll see them as MacPaint documents complete with the MacPaint document icon each titled sequentially as Screen 0 Screen 1 Screen 2 and so on E 2 149K available Screens E Snapshots Appear as 11 items 252K in disk n A XA po MacNovice Fmt Masthead Customize Your Snapshots 5 7 Soreen O Sereen 1 Screen 2 Screen3 Using the
206. o even consider using a machine by that other company but Apple may be shooting itself in the foot or head by its policies Apple products have always been overpriced and their actions throughout history have been aimed at stifling competition Some years back they took action against their own dealers who were selling at a dis count and they have been very active in court against Apple clone makers I m not a Mac user but I don t remember ever seeing a Mac clone even advertised Maybe Jobs and now Sculley know best but I think the lack of third party clones is a negative for the company The reason I haven t bought a Mac is that it is so overpriced the reason I haven t bought an Amiga is because it may not survive EDMON J DONNELLAN ON 02 02 TO JOE ENGLAND I also think Apple is shooting itself in the foot Notwith standing the IBM and cousin machines which like it or not now hold 70 of the PC market Apple will soon be at a very severe disadvantage in even the less expensive home market The Amiga is getting rave reviews and Atari has just released a 68000 1 megabyte machine for under 1000 The line has been doing well because of a large base of loyal users and the availability of good application software It is becoming more painfully obvious however that the has become an over priced obselete machine and Apple is postponing the obvi ous upgrades for reasons most likely having to do with marketing taking one more year
207. ociate Editor Gena Urban GOR 229 3458 Store Distrbtn Raymond Hobbs 301 490 7484 Columnists Apple Charlene Ryan 703 836 0463 DisabledSIG Jay Thal 202 244 3649 EDSIG Peter Combes 301 251 6369 GAMESIG Barry Bedrick 703 534 7891 LISA SIG John Day 301 621 7543 MacNovice Ralph Begleiter 301 340 3296 Pascal PIG Mike Hartman 301 445 1583 amp A Bruce Field 301 340 7038 ac Q amp A Jonathan Hardis 301 330 1422 Meeting Reports Adrien Youell _ 301 951 0838 Softviews David Morganstein 301 972 4263 Telecomm Dave Harvey 703 527 2704 Review Coord Jim Burger day 202 337 7900 Review Coord Raymond Hobbs 301 490 7484 Review Coord David Morganstein 301 972 4263 BBS Apple Alexander 301 474 5310 UBBS Mac Regina Litman 301 585 0044 View from Durham Chris Klugewicz Disketeria Staff Jim Little 301 762 3215 Dave Weikert John Malcolm Joy Aso Ed Lang Pat Foreman Gordon Stubbs John DeMarco Fred Edwards Andy Gallant William Jones Shirley Weaver H Nancy Little Richard Langston II C M Librarian Joe England 301 953 1949 DOS 3 3 Lib Pascal Lib John Dyer 703 538 5636 ProDOS Lib J T Tom DeMay Jr 301 779 4632 SigMac Lib Tony Anderson 301 277 0386 Group Purchases Rich Wasserstrom 703 893 7143 Me KO 7 00 9 30 M Head Reading Lib Walt Francis 202 966 5742 Apple Tea Coord Arrangements Leon Moore
208. on in this example located in cells A1 C3 and transforms it into a mailing list appearing vertically down the spreadsheet here in column A To make a copy of the selected rows appear in a column of labels you begin by selecting the rows you desire and then running the Macro E ES MailingLblsNames Rockville MD T New York NY F 8 9 SallySmith 710 5678 99th St 11 Rockvilie MD ou 12 Let s go through the listing one line at a time The last line of the Macro contains the only reference to a cell position within it indicating that the macro must be entered beginning in cell Al Type in the macro select cell A2 and issue a define name command using a descriptive name like mailing label Enter the three lines shown above shown in A1 C3 You now are ready to try out the macro In the next few paragraphs you will see the expression data base It is not necessary to create an Excel data base to use the Mailing Labels macro Al MAILING LABELS A2 SET NAME row ROWS SELECTIONO A3 SET NAME col COLUMNS SELECTIONO A4 SET NAME counter 0 Washington Apple Pi AS SELECT OFFSET ACTIVE CELLO 0 0 OFFSET ACTIVE CELL 0 col 1 A6 DEFINE NAME temp SELECTIONO A7 SELECT OFFSET ACTIVE CELLO counter col 1 row 0 OFFSET ACTIVE CELL counter col col row 0 OFFSET ACTIVE CELL counter col 1 row 0 A8 FORMULA ARRAY TRANSPOSE temp A9 COPY A10 PASTE SPECI
209. on line 64 original version The code for all the routines in All About Apple soft is available on diskette from A P P L E product code SIN1 for 16 50 The All About Applesoft publication is available for 7 00 Both prices are for A P P L E members non members add 10 Mike Salzman wrote with an interesting observation on this same topic I have been using FAST GARBAGE COLLECTION for some time now I wanted to hear how often garbage collection was taking place so I added the JSR FF3A after line 59 when 1 changed STREND to STREND 1 I would get a beep if I called fast garbage from the keyboard but not from within my program The problem was the bell call FF3A If your current output device does not have a bell you will not hear the call The bell call at FBDD is not dependent on the output device and would beep under program control For awhile I thought Rod Serling had come to visit me Good point Mike the problem is the the subroutine in the monitor at FF3A just sends the ASCII bell character 07 to the output device The software for the screen traps this character and calls the routine at FBDD that actually beeps the speaker Some printers and other devices just don t bother with the bell I have an IBM PC at work and an Apple at home I d like to find a way of transferring data from my PC so I can work at home on it with the Apple I know that one way is to use a modem but our security regulations do not allow us
210. or Kathy Kenyon Newsletter Chairman Lynn R Trusal SIG MAC Chairman Lynn R Trusal SYSOP Scott Galbraith The Frederick Apple Core meets the second Thursday of each month in the large conference room of the U S Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Ft Detrick Frederick MD 21701 5011 at 7 30 PM April 10 May 8 Program to be announced Program to be announced HOTLINE MEMBERS Lynn R Trusal 301 845 2651 Scott Galbraith 301 865 3035 Kurt Holter 301 663 4199 Bruce Taylor 301 371 6181 The above members of the Frederick Apple Core FAC have agreed to field questions on Apple computer hardware and software for FAC members Please no calls after 10 00 PM The SIG MAC of the Frederick Apple Core meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month in the same location and at the same time MAC owners in the local area are welcome Call Lynn R Trusal at 301 845 2651 for details LaserWriter Printer Macintosh Plus April 22 May 27 INSIDE MACIN APPLETALK by Lynn R Trusal and Peter Markiewicz Frederick Apple Core For the sum of 75 each Apple Computer 467 Saratoga Ave Suite 621 San Jose CA 408 988 6009 will send you either Inside Laserwriter or Inside AppleTalk Both come in loose leaf binders with Apple logos and two 3 5 inch Macin tosh diskettes Inside Macintosh is only 20 and is available from the same address in the form of a large telephone book We will briefly
211. or to the meeting As was mentioned at the meeting there are two major shows in the DC Baltimore area which are of interest The first being held by the Logical Choice in Baltimore on March 20 and 21 will probably be passed by the time you read this the second show is FOSE the Federal Office Systems Exposition at the DC Convention Center on April 8 10 Both shows promise to be great events Apple will show off its desktop publishing capabilities by putting together the ideal Macintosh Office complete with several Macintosh Pluses and LaserWriter Pluses a Linotronic 100 typesetter and an Abaton Scan 300 a full page 300 dpi digitizer and Mac Bridge a card for IBM PCs and compatibles which allows them to connect directly onto AppleTalk transfer files to Macintoshes and print on the LaserWriter Come to the shows to see it all work Because I am involved in helping Apple prepare for these shows Apple has loaned me a LaserWriter Plus which I brought to the meeting Since Apple s announcements in mid January most people have been concentrating on the changes in the Macintosh Plus and barely commenting on the LaserWriter Plus only saying that it has several new fonts These fonts Avant Garde Bookman Narrow Helvetica New Century Schoolbook Palatino Zapf Chancery and Zapf Dingbats bring the total of typefaces in the Laser s ROMs to 35 and some of them especially Chancery and Palatino look incredibly good The fonts however a
212. other Pascals on the Mac TML produces 68000 machine language native code rather than using an interpreter to execute the program This results in much faster program execution but adds the step of compiling the pro gram each time that it is modified The result is a stand alone application or desk accessory that can be executed directly from the finder without a separate runtime file to help exe cute your program Unlike other Pascals TML will not allow a program to be divided up into separately compiled units Despite TML being a small operation it has produced a very professional package The manual is excellent although it lacks an index The system comes with two disks which are not copy protected The first disk includes the TML Com piler the same Editor program and Linker program that were written for the Consulair C package Apple s Resource Com piler RMaker and Apple s Fon DA Mover The second disk contains a Macintosh interface library and various runtime routines to be linked into your finished pro gram Because TML conforms to most Lisa Pascal specifica tions you can use nside Macintosh and Macintosh Revealed without translation when accessing the Mac s system and ROMs Additional library routines support 1 3 dimensional QuickDraw Graphics 2 AppleTalk 3 the Printing Manager for both the ImageWriter and LaserWriter and 4 the Macin Talk speech synthesizer routine that speaks text through the built i
213. ources By 1995 there may be up to one hundred thousand networks By then the chances of finding something that will be of use to us will be vanishingly small Information retrieval will not be the answer because if one spends all one s time probing we cannot be sure the results will be useful In the late 50 s McCarthy suggested systems such as an advice taker that would handle transactions as a symbiotic servant In 1965 Oliver Selfridge called these agents and now in 1986 we realize we should be working on these questions This talk then 1s on how to invent computer agents Historically a trip from the earliest real time graphics to the present day illustrates the development of the Macintosh and points the way beyond In 1962 Sketchpad was the first graphics system and the first non procedural programming system on a TX 2 with which lines were drawn perpendic ular parallel and co linear The constraints were solved in real time When asked how this first object orientated system was invented within one year it was said that they didn t know it was hard On to 1969 at Rand Corporation a system which was the forerunner of window control had no keyboard to benefit an economist who didn t like to type This was a hypertext system using icons borrowed from PARC Text was entered in script and was the first modeless system GRAIL Graphics Interface Language Transition to showing slides was almost the undoing of the
214. ournal MAKING ENTRIES lt IS ITA DEBIT OR CREDIT NEW DATA DISK 7 NEW YEAR SPEED UP YOUR REPORTS Chocolate breek will be created You may delate on Index via the Edit Menu choice Delete o Line SETTING UP UP YOUR BOOKS First Click the Compare F Folder icon and enter the first month of your fiscal 7 Figure 2 Fig 1 also shows the wide variety of reports that Maccountant can generate These do not include a Statement of Changes in Financial Condition but neither did any of the other three packages The Functions pull down menu by contd Washington Apple Pi which the date is changed also provides account balances There is an on screen help program with its own pull down menu The user can add items to the help menu as Laura has done in Fig 2 All accounting entries in Maccountant are made from five pre defined journals books in which the entries are first written Thus no balances can get into the records without first being entered in a journal The journals are Cash Receipts Cash Disbursments Sales Accounts Receiv able Purchases Accounts Payable shown open with three others in the background in Fig 3 and Non Cash or General Each bank account up to five are accommodated has its own Cash Receipts and Disbursements Journal LLL has a checking account and an insured money market account and therefore a total of seven journals Journals are opened with a single click from the Op
215. out 1K of disk space Using the 5 1 4 disk and using it exclusively for the calendar means that you can have about 140 days of appointments before switching disks And the program only permits 255 filled in days For business purposes you could easily exceed the limits for only one year s records and thus have to delete many early days in order to add records Thus you must copy the disks and or make and keep hard copy of your schedules if you intend to use this for tax record keeping notes Further see above having this on a separate disk requires additionl time for switching disks each time a change is desired in your calendar The Telephone Dialer is convenient Of course you must have a modem It recognizes a ten digit number on the screen and will automatically dial that number upon hitting the return key Since local calls have only seven digits in the set up mode there is a provision for Pinpoint to ignore the first three digits of one area code presumably the local one But in the Washington D C area as well as New York City and Los Angeles more than one area code is included in the local calling area If you set the dialer to ignore the 202 area code for instance all 301 and 703 calls will be incorrectly dialed The Calculator only performs simple four function add subtract multiply and divide routines It is easy to work but is not very convenient As mentioned above it is slow to access And the results cannot be
216. out bugs in his gaming software More on my malfunctioning modem I haven t really had a chance to do anything about my modem a Prometheus Promodem 1200 which you ll recall broke down over Christmas vacation after less than five months of use For those of you with whom I correspond via CompuServe Easy Plex thats the reason you haven t heard from me lately You ll have to wait until next time to hear how things get resolved Jonathan and other rumors A lot of people seem to think that the Mac Plus is the long awaited Jonathan that Apple has had under development for the past year Not so Jonathan is a completely open like a e or an IBM PC it s got slots Macintosh Rumor has it that this computer will be availabe contd Washington Apple Pi in early summer yeah sure and that it will look very much unlike the present Mac People have asked about an upgrade policy to the Jonathan but personally I don t expect that to be possible It will probably be cheaper to wait a while then buy a brand new one To boldly go where no designer has gone before Im getting very much involved in theatre again as you may have been able to tell from my comments this month and last especially the technical side Specifically I m interested in scenography set and lighting design Right now set and lighting design involves lots of laborious drafting for those of us who aren t so good with our T squares and triangles anyhow The
217. ow shipping The 1 Meg SCSI motherboard option will come later due to the strong sales of the Mac What software fails on the Mac Software will tend to fail for three main reasons 1 HFS problems which can usually be avoided by not using folders or by using 400K single sided disks 2 Bugs in the new ROM which isn t the usual reason and 3 Programs that were not written by the book in the first place I don t have confirmation of these and I only repeat stories from the grapevine but the following are 49 Q 50 said to fail Red Ryder 7 0 pay up and get 8 0 single voice sound and some other features in MS Basic 2 1 use multivoice sound instead My Disk Labler bombs with ID 02 version 2 0 will fix and will be out RSN Mac Vegas Mac Labler amp Harrier Strike Mission don t boot Click on Worksheet won t calculate and Copy II Mac new version is said to be coming out in April Again this is a randomly obtained list neither complete nor necessarily accurate How do I connect the Mac to other things Cables for the Mac serial ports are a bane for everyone Updating the information from the March Q amp A you can also get the mini DIN 8 connectors part number MDX 8 2 for 1 05 each from DRA Electronics 800 423 5336 A minimum order applies Also Harbor Electronics mentioned in March can be reached at 800 243 4794 I ve heard good things about their service Adaptation Electronics 948 744
218. pace on a HyperDrive periodically copy drawers to floppies delete and recreate them Jim Bede of Bede Tech strongly advises that you don t block the front air vent of the Mac keep the keyboard away from the main unit as that opening is very important for the cooling airflow PCPC the MacBottom people have announced a file backup program that can be used with any HFS hard disk Thanks again to the folks on MAUG for much of the information used in this column G r ATTENTION STAMP COLLECTORS According to an article in the February 10 issue of Linn s Stamp News Clifford Morrison a computer science student at the University of Utah has written a stamp inventory pro gram for the Macintosh The program which requires a 512 Mac and Macintosh Pascal allows the listing of multiple files of up to 500 stamps each The listing includes stamp infor mation such as mint or used gum condition damage notes cancellation notes special arrangement block sheet coil etc perforation condition luminescence cost and catalog value Copies of the program are available from Mr Morrison if a disk disk mailer and return postage are sent A donation to defray his expenses would also be appreciated The address for the program or additional information for which a stamped addressed envelope is requested is Clifford Morrison F Box 3939 S Wasatch Blvd Salt Lake City UT 84124 April 1986 53 Mo This month you will find
219. patch to CP M is also presented which redirects output from the screen actually from slot 3 to the serial output With both patches then the Apple can be operated remotely like a traditional CP M computer This can even be done via modem The external keyboard may well be your lap computer connected to the serial interface in the manner described in previous articles in this series It could also be a standard dumb CRT terminal or a printing terminal like the AJ 831 The external keyboard patch also makes file uploading easier from the lap computer to the Apple Normally keystrokes have to be entered on both computers to effect a transfer But once you turn over control to the external keyboard the lap computer commands to the Apple are entered from that key board So you can enter this command for example PIP d Filename TTY From this point on the Apple will capture everything sent to it until an end of file marker Ctrl Z occurs In a remote modem connected setup that is a way of uploading to an unattended machine PART 1 To use an external keyboard via slot 2 serial interface RUN this MBASIC program 10 POKE 62338 111 20 POKE 62339 254 30 END The Apple s keyboard at this point will be dead only the external keyboard will work place lap computer into TEL COM with 8N1 and the baud rate that the serial card is set up for PART 2 If desired To send display output to external system via slot 2 Note if
220. pecially disks written awhile ago or disks written on another machine the problem may be the drive speed and can be measured using any of a number of public domain disk drive speed programs Track O is only written at initialization time Since you are finding bad blocks on track 0 presumably with the drive that isn t suspect it sounds like you have an interrmittent failure that causes the bad drive to write to the disk when it should only be reading or writing to the wrong track That s why I suggested the contact problem Alignment of the read write head in the drive should only affect tracks that are currently being written and should not trash other tracks Adjustment of the head should be done by a dealer anyway I m thinking of adding a large Ram card but all that I m reading about them has me confused 1 understand that not all programs work on them and thus I m trying to figure out if it s worth buying one of these cards What kind of programs make use of these Ram cards You are right that not all programs work with all Ram cards Adding a Ram card to your Apple does not auto matically increase the amount of memory available for all your programs Each program must be written specially to use the extra memory And Applesoft won t use it at all unless you buy a special patch program for it Unfortunately except for the extended 80 column cards for the e different manufacturers use different methods for accessing the cards so
221. ple Tech Notes Schenker 4 12 1982 24 Apple Computer Apple Reacts 7 11 1985 28 Bibliography Open Apple Gazette Bibliography Ottalini 7 12 1985 11 12 Bibliography An Apple Bibliography PT 2 Ottalini 7 9 1985 26 27 Bibliography Apple Articles A Compilation Ottalini 7 8 1985 37 38 Books Apple Bookshelf Ottalini 7 7 1985 16 17 Compuserve Calling Compuserve with the Apple Cable 6 9 1984 29 Compuserve The Compuserve Connection Cable 6 11 1984 46 Computer Sales Thinking of Selling Your Computer O Connor 5 8 1983 44 Demo Program Taking Apart the Apple Demo Program Ottalini 7 11 1985 12 Lap Computers Lap Computers as Apple Accessories 2 Kinal 7 12 1985 34 35 Lap Computers Lap Computers as Apple Accessories 1 Kinal 7 11 1985 24 MAC Steve Wozniak Brings MAC to DC Cable 6 4 1984 26 Modual 2 1 Introduction to Modula 2 Platt 6 1 1984 42 Modula 2 2 Introduction to Modula 2 Platt 6 2 1984 26 27 Modula 2 3 Introduction to Modula 2 Platt 6 3 1984 24 25 Modula 2 4 Introduction to Modual 2 Platt 6 4 1984 34 36 Modula 2 5 Introduction to Modula 2 Input Output Platt 6 5 1984 30 News Apple News Ottalini 7 12 1985 10 Pascal Writing Business Letters with Pascal Klonsner 3 9 1981 40 42 Pascal The Apple Pascal Express Root Stokes 5 8 1983 8 10 Programming Some Suggested Programming Standards Askew 4 6 1982 36 42 Review Titan EM Board De Jong 7 6 1985 29 SIG News Apple SIG News Ryan 7 12 1985 9 SIG News Apple SIG N
222. ple card It s not a Quadram board nor a clone of that board It s called a Track card and is supposed to run all protected and unprotected software that s published for the LIFE JIM RHODES ON 02 08 TO ALL A friend of the Rose Buda said You can live well if you are rich and you can live well if you are poor but it s a lot cheaper if you are poor LEE RAESLY ON 02 09 TO JIM RHODES As my father used to say I ve been rich and I ve been poor Rich is better TOM WARRICK ON 02 09 TO LEE RAESLY ALL I didn t know your father was Sophie Tucker EDMON J DONNELLAN ON 02 10 TO JIM RHODES To the Rose Buda s friend I would prefer to be rich and live poorly than to be poor and live poorly for a wise man can see farther from the top of a hill than can a fool from the bottom of a well THERON FULLER ON 02 10 TO JIM RHODES Somebody or other observed While money can t buy happi ness it sure does make misery a lot more fun EDMON J DONNELLAN ON 02 11 TO JIM RHODES Perhaps a solution to this difficult problem is to live in serenity without desire with a very wealthy ailing uncle JIM RHODES ON 02 11 TO THERON FULLER Maybe most of the fun is in getting there Therefore poverty is a good thing because it gives you the opportunity to get richer Washington Apple Pi DONALD KAHLER ON 02 11 TO JIM RHODES Confucious says He who sitteth on a tack is better off THERON FULLER ON 02 11 TO JIM RHODES No riches are bette
223. quences of deviations from its proced ure For example the manual instructs the user to make a new disk from a backup but not that starting a new data disk trashes all data on the disk Maccountant is the only package reviewed which could export to Excel and Jazz Export to a spreadsheet is very useful for instance at budget or tax times If gussied up reports are desired export to a text file is also available In a rating system of E xcellent G ood A cceptable and U nacceptable I rate Maccountant an overall G For integrity an E performance a G ease of leaming an A the manual ease of use a G and Vendor support an E Maccountant lists for 150 The Software Specialist Wash ington and Tyson s Corner has agreed to sell any of the packages to Pi members at reduced prices For Maccountant that is 114 Turbo Maccountant lists for 495 and is available at The Software Specialist for 369 MacOneWrite is strictly a cash recipts and disburse ments journal It has little or no utility as a general accouting system except to small cash basis businesses The package is very easy to learn and use and the documentation is good File Edit Checks Doing Reports Options Year NT TERRE L DE rest Falls va 22008 l AA B mak i iur em a n trem mm Bank of Back fai n D Sf ii a Wim vpn xdi 6 t qr 21 A matant moniman nn AT Accoun O aT Eu ECT MEE LT EA Ja lu When the program is opened a convincing represe
224. r It leaves you the option of giving it all away and having all the fun of getting there again to try and get richer than you are or to maximize happiness with the status quo Poverty gives you only two options content ment with the status quo and the fun of getting there THERON FULLER ON 02 11 TO JIM RHODES Actually a ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness Nothing is better than eternal happiness And a ham sandwich is certainly better than nothing JOE CHELENA ON 02 11 TO JIM RHODES If you were to profit from death would you not rather be poor Money can not take the place of someone you have lost EUCLID COUKOUMA ON 02 12 TO ALL Solving problems is a great pleasure Therefore one who has many problems is very rich since he has so many opportun ities to experience great pleasure LOU PASTURA ON 02 12 TO JIM RHODES Whether you re rich or poor it s nice to have money THERON FULLER ON 02 12 TO ALL Life is the cereal that Mikey likes CHARLES DON HALL ON 02 12 TO ALL you can try and get into Heaven which I picture as a gigantic balcony with an unobstructed view of Hell PAUL H SCHLOSSER ON 02 12 TO ALL WHEW And I thought this computer stuff was confusing AMAC IS ERIC RALL ON 02 15 TO REGINA LITMAN ALL What is a Mac RICH MLODOCH ON 02 16 TO ERIC RALL The mac is a machine you can use to draw a circle on the screen and then paint it in with a pattern of bricks Nifty huh But of course if
225. rd and gave me a good idea of how to use the program except that the tutorial did not cover the communications part very well I called the NOVAPPLE BBS which operates using the UBBS bulletin board software To dial a number you first type the dialing sequence which appears on the screen and then highlight what you have just typed You then hit the SEND button Ctrl D and what you highlight is transmitted to your modem I had problems getting this to work because I found I had left off a return at the end of the sequence I also had problems with the setting of the baud rate which you change by typing a formula highlighting it and hitting the CALC key I found an error in the manual in that the setting specified for the Super Serial Card dip switches indicates 7 bits no parity and one stop bit but the manual states that the default for the program itself is 8 data bits no parity and 1 stop bit The Apple standard for the most part has always been 7N1 whereas for IBM it s usually 8N1 I finally managed to get on the BBS system and that s where I first encountered a major problem when using the SwyftCard I kept getting all sorts of beeps I quickly looked through the manual and discovered that the problem was that when the buffer i e RAM used by the program is full it will not accept any more characters and just throws them away The capacity of the buffer is 40K and in order to continue to receive you must either delete the buffer or sav
226. re a several million dollar CT6 capable of 60 graphics frames per second Several film clips showed examples of techniques especially the pastels of the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies air brushed by hand at 24 frames per second This hand work will probably never be repeated The pastel look is desirable in animations because impressionistic trees and foliage appear inoffensive and not patently false A D O D sponsored film of a Harrier exercise shows realistic tree branches waving in the power thrust wind A beautiful Digital Products 3 D film on an enormous 1000x3000 screen showed an amazing fantasy trip into the atmosphere of Jupiter This lecture is a sketch of what this project is about It is not about fish or fantastic animals It is a context for thinking about things in Artificial Intelligence and computer graphics that we haven t had the motivation to think about before These animals have to survive in a complex environment just like our agents ten years from now will have to survive in the network world of the future Thank you very much 6 MPUTER CAMP E ee intensive computer learning ARES d on Apples IBMs for novices w C thru experts 8 vigorous athletics including swimming soccer e FUN for kids 7 to 16 The only ACA accredited camp in DC on the campus of Mount Vernon College Four two week sessions June 20 Aug 15 8 30 3 00 M F extended day to 6 00 Washington Apple Pi WAP
227. re not the only new thing about the LaserWriter Plus A new option cover page has been added to the Laser s print dialog box You can choose to print a cover page before or after your job or not at all This page lists the name of the workstation the application and file names the date and time of the print job In an office setting with many people sharing one centrally located LaserWriter this will ease the confusion of figuring out which pages belong to whom Another feature was added to the LaserWriter Plus driver which will also help in a multi user situation Formerly if the LaserWriter was out of paper the Macintosh screen would report this by indicating that the job status as printer out of paper With the new driver the Macintosh will beep until the paper tray is taken out of the LaserWriter At one point during our meeting a discussion was 44 April 1986 Started concerning some bugs in MacDraw by the way the Current version of this program is 1 9 For some unknown reason MacDraw does not save font information in the same way that most other programs do When text is entered MacDraw remembers that the text is in the font which is at a certain position in its menu rather than saving the font s id number which is what other programs do What this means is that when the document is opened up on a later occasion text will be drawn using whatever font is at that position on the menu regardless of whether that
228. relevant numbers at page breaks documents are incredibly difficult to find I resolved some of this dilemma by typing unusual keywords at the beginning and end of a file also recorded on paper The most reliable stratagem is by typing END at the beginning of a document then backspacing a few times and typing ahead with the END leading the train In this way to get back to the end of a document one Leaps Forward to capitals EN and you re there With a scintilla of imagination one can compensate for the deficiencies of this system but it requires total concentration Value If 90 is pocket money to play with an unusual toy AND you do not need Slot 3 then SwyftCard is certainly interesting Its intricacies have helped to pass several snow days and holidays Cumulatively I spent 3 days learning the system and working out the printer control code system shoe leather walking round my study deep in thought and many pages of printer trials This Card will be of little value in moderate to volume word processing and absolutely useless for Business unless the disk shuffle comes naturally and 40K per disk is subsidized As disk catalogs cannot be viewed files will be mislaid It will be of some value to me for quick memos and short letters now that I have the Card but only when hardcopy is kept and disk retrieval not vital I cannot afford to continue using this system for important files I have used more disks for data
229. riety in field types flexibility of forms creation for data entry and reporting and rapid searching and sorting More powerful characteristics might add the complexity of file structures it can handle its speed of operation and the clarity of documentation Additional features which Omnis 3 provides include a password protection scheme needed for multi user environment and programmabiltiy to develop your own applications Overall I rate Omnis 3 quite highly If I had any reserva tions it would be in documentation and Mac interface Unlike competing packages such as Overvue Omnis 3 does not have to keep an entire data base consisting of many files and report formats in memory at one time While this results in somewhat slower processing it allows for data bases limited only by available disk space Since Omnis 3 can be run on a hard disk using a key disk copy protection scheme these limits are quite large File sizes of more than 16 Megabytes are supposed to be possible although my experience has been confined to files of only several hundred records You solve your data base problem through the use of File Entry Report and Search formats In the simplest case you must have at least one file and one entry format describing the record content and the way in which data are entered on the screen Most likely the data base will have at least one report format perhaps to list all fields on all records Search formats can be created
230. ring data and printing it back again Omnis 3 allows you to rearrange your data select subsets of records and massage the items stored in the fields Omnis 3 permits you to define as many as fifty selection rules to extract records The rules allow for all of the usual boolean operations equal greater than and ing or ing etc as well as string manipulation of text to pick out the desired records The sorting power is equally complete in as much as you can use up to nine items to define the sorting arrangement One of Omnis 3 s most powerful features is the multiple update of entries within the file With this feature you can increase prices for selected records by a specified amount or you can transfer a final balance to an opening balance at the beginning of a fiscal period Internal computations like these are usually found in expensive language oriented data base packages which require you to write a program to process designated records In this sense Omnis 3 is programmable without requiring you to write a program Relational Capabilities Omnis 3 permits access to as many as a dozen files using a relational data base approach Relational data bases allow you to pull information from separate files which have been connected through one or more common fields For example a journal of accounts contains one record per account while a transaction file with one record per transaction contains many records relating to a given ac
231. s MacFORTH is a mature language and supports much more than the above list Some MacFORTH programmers may not know how to perform some of the above functions and so may think that MacFORTH cannot do them Examples of all of these functions are available from the MacFORTH users group the MacFORTH CompuServe sig GO FORTH at the prompt and some are on WAP disks When you see a demo of Mach note that it is on a Mac with 1 Meg of RAM running a RAM disk and Switcher MacFORTH works under the same conditions but a smart programmer does not do development work under those condi tions It is too easy to lose your work The MacPlus with its write through cache is fast and safe MacFORTH has been out for two years and has been updated four times during that period Most of the software development tools for it are mature and debugged Until the Palo Alto Shipping Co gets Mach running on the Macintosh Plus I ll continue to use Apple s MDS assembler package and link the object code into my MacFORTH programs a relatively straightforward proced ure Brief Impressions of Other Products We have been looking for a reasonably priced disk based database manager to do what OverVUE 2 0 was not designed to do Interlace by Singular Software seems to fit the bill List price is 150 show special 95 Will let you know what I think after we beat it up I finally picked up Pinball Construction Set and Deluxe Music Construction Set after seeing them
232. s new with Red Ryder Version 8 0 is out However only paid up users can get it until April Scott now runs his support BBS on the GEnie network based in Rockville instead of from his home in St Louis Details should have arrived in the mail Further paid up users will be given access to Red Ryder Host Scott s new BBS program which will not be released to the general public Special attention was paid in the new version to file transfer Kermit and MacBinary are now combined and the Kermit itself is much expanded XModem bugs were fixed and the ACK ahead Fast Track Turbo variant is offered as an option For CompuServe subscribers CIS B protocol and Vidtex graphics are provided It is possible that a later version of Red Ryder will be the current one by the time this column is printed as 8 0 is said to fail on the MacBottom hard disk Is Apple selling a SCSI HD 20 No although there are recurring rumors to the contrary They could some day One source of confusion is the MDideas SCSI hard disk which they are also calling the HD 20 Further some people myself included used to abbreviate HyperDrive as HD only adding to the muddle Will HFS work on an XLisa No at least not yet How can I port dBase III files from a PC to a Mac Save the files in DIF or text format Link the modem connectors of the two machines using a null modem cable and run communications programs on each The file can then be sent over the
233. scale doACircle stroke def 300 500 translate doACircle 4 0 72 translate doAnEllipse repeat showpage Two procedures are defined first doACircle which draws a circle 54 units points in radius with its center at the origin coordinates x O y 0 and doAnElipse which draws an ellipse by scaling the y dimension to three quarters the x and then drawing a circle The actual program starts with the line 300 500 translate The pro Ellipses cedures are called and executed the required number of times Showpage tells the printer to print PostScript uses stack architecture it s understood that the values for the arc command which come first within the curly braces in the first definition are respectively x posi tion y position radius starting angle of the arc on the x axis and the ending angle These values unless modified by the scale operator are 1 72 inch each very close to the points used in printing The values go into the stack first in last out and the stack can get a bit complicated sometimes So do the programs depending of course on what you want to do Speech ordinary like seem doesn t it somehow G5 April 1986 45 Best of Apple BBS contd from pg 43 RONALD WARTOW ON 02 25 I could never understand the chauvinism personally but what about people like me who have e s or any and a Mac Are we left out of this titillating subject What to do What to do Before we Apple ers get
234. sical Dri TOM VIER ON 02 18 TO ALL Anyone here had their drives sing to them in high pitched whine while spinning STEPHEN C WARREN ON 02 19 TO TOM VIER I ve noticed some peculiar noises but the most impressive tune my drives have come up with reminded me of Cheap Trick Twisted Sister AC DC and Kiss coming together for one big concert Wait there was the time I thought I heard Sunshine on my Shoulder Never mind KEITH BLAIR ON 02 23 TO TOM VIER Yes I ve had my internal and external drives do it to me The occurences seem to be few and far between though The one program I noticed it the most was a utility called Patch Disk Any other times it just squeals for a second or two and quits haven t lost any data or applications yet knock on wood At least I m not the only one this has happened to Washington Apple Pi Mac Software Flight Simulat COREY ZIMMERMAN ON 02 10 TO ALL In the back of the latest issue of Macazine they mentioned a new program from SubLogic called Flight Simulator Is this a MAC version of the famous game used by the world on IBM PC s I hope so I would appreciate any comments or descriptions that anyone has RICK STICKLE ON 02 10 TO COREY ZIMMERMAN Corey yes this is a Mac version of the PC game A call to SubLogic revealed that it will be marketed by Microsoft and should be coming out in March I couldn t get a price Graphing KEITH BLAIR ON 02 12 TO ALL I am looking for a progra
235. some Macintosh communications software for handling situa tions where large portions of the blocks transmitted improp erly The software hangs up and will not retransmit The highlight of the meeting was the demonstration of The GEnie information utility This is a new service offered by the General Electric Company It is just starting out now so much of its potential is still to be realized The system is designed very much like the Compuserve system and some one who is familiar with that system would have no trouble using GEnie The Special Interest Groups called Forums on Compuserve are very much like Compuserve This is to be expected since the person who designed the Forums on Compuserve is now working on the GEnie system The cost is very low compared to some of the other systems It is just 5 an hour non prime time at both 300 and 1200 baud There is also no monthly minimum for the service George passed out descriptive literature on the service for those who were interested in exploring it further Gs by y John Preston Attention Early Bird Lisa and Mac XL Users There will be a brief meeting in the USUHS cafeteria for interested persons around 8 30AM Saturday April 26 before the main April WAP meeting It is intended that this gath ering will end about 9 00AM before the main Mac Q amp A session It is hoped that this will be a forum to exchange tips and to answer questions that pertain specifically to the XL LISA users
236. sons to Buy a MacBottom 20 ILis extermely FAST Although not quite as fast as an SCSI drive this baby still Loutruns amp outperforms the Apple HD 20 the other serial drives amp is MAC ready i The SOFTWARE is included HFS Backup MFS Backup Assignable printer Spooling Volumes HD Utilities Floppy Copy etc It also has a 68000 proccessor amp HFS ready ROMs built in In contrast the Apple HD20 is not intelligent amp you have to spend 250 more for SW Lis PORTABLE RUGGED amp RELIABLE While in my briefcase ours fell down the stairs the other day It still runs without a glitch in point of fact we are using it right now to write this It Just Got CHEAPER MacCORNER now extends WAP Members a 28 DISC on MacBottom MacBOTTOM 20 1073 MacSERY This excellent program allows ANY hard disk to share in the spoils of Apple Networking Users of the net can access any of the volumes in the drive with their own password as well as utilize MacServe s printer spooling and Backup capabilities MacServe works great with MB 20 s SCSI drives even with the Apple HD 20 MacServe CRUNCH 139 95 LASER BASE 99 95 HELIX is THE Database for Macintosh Whatever your needs are from simple listings forms amp filers to complex multiuser relational turnkey applications helix has got it all and then some room to grow indeed Offered at an incredible price since January
237. st Pi Price Macintosh Plus Internal Disk Upgrade 324 243 list includes 25 installation Macintosh Plus Upgrade from 128K or S849 637 third party 512K also requires Disk Upgrade list includes 50 installation Macintosh Plus Upgrade from Apple 512K S649 487 also requires Disk Upgrade list includes 50 installation LascrWriter Plus Upgrade list includes 849 637 50 installation Washington Apple Pi April av Ataer 8 he Clinton Computer Your 1 Apple Dealer 6443 Old Alex Ferry Rd Clinton MD 301 856 2500 April 1986 Desktop Publishing For Macintosh owners with a need to produce type set quality documents the answer is an Apple Desktop Publishing System Add a LaserWriter Printer and any of a wide variety of software pro grams to your Macintosh System and you are ready to create faster better and cheaper If you or your company necds to save time and money on your presentation graphics then plan to attend one of our FREE SEMINARS on Desktop Publishing These seminars will be scheduled throughout the next four months with both after noon and evening sessions Please call 838 9700 for information and reservations c Special Through April 30th Apple c Carrying Case Monochrome Monitor and Stand Pi priced at only 74 25 Use your color monitor at home and carry the jic to work where you use the mono monitor Previously Owned Macintosh 512K s Available For Sale Previously
238. st program While I haven t tried it I would suggest the following With the HD 20 disconnected for a moment build a floppy disk with the HD 20 test program set as the contd on pg 53 Washington Apple Pi DISCOUNTS MACINTOSH CORNER GULDA e SS DD DISKS BOX OF 10 19 00 e SS DD DISKS CASE OF 50 89 50 e 10 DISK STORAGE BOX 2 50 e 36 DISK STORAGE BOX 9 00 e COPY Il MAC 29 00 51 4 INCH DISKETTES amp STORAGE e SS DD BOX OF 10 7 00 e SS DD PAK OF 50 31 00 e SS DD CASE OF 100 59 00 e SS DD CARTON OF 500 245 00 2 NOTCH DS DD 8OX OF 10 8 00 e 2 NOTCH DS DD PAK OF 25 18 50 e 2 NOTCHDSODD CASE OF 100 69 00 10 DISKETTE CASES 2 25 EACH 5 for 10 00 SPECIFY COLOR CHOICES BEIGE BLACK BLUE GREEN GREY RED YELLOW COMPACT CASES CLEAR SMOKE AQUA 70 DISK CASE 11 00 e 70 DISKETTE LOCKING ROLLTOP CABINET 16 00 PRINTERS e PANASONIC P1091 259 00 e PANASONIC P1092 339 00 e CITIZEN 120D 199 00 CITIZEN MSP 10 160 CPS 259 00 e CITIZEN MSP 15 WIDE 379 00 e CITIZEN MSP 20 200 CPS 349 00 e SILVER REED 500 LO 209 00 e STARWRITER A10 30 339 00 e OKIMATE 20 COLOR 209 00 PRINTER ACCESSORIES e 2500 SHEETS OF PAPER 31 00 e STANDARD PARALLEL INTERFACE 49 00 e GRAPHICS PARALLEL INTERFACE CARD 59 00 e FING
239. t but I now have all those fonts available to use with Word The Ramdisk gives me great speed Any documents I edit or create I save in the Ramdisk Saving to the Ramdisk is very fast but of course you need to save to a real disk from time to time to avoid loss Until then I won t have another disk swap If all I want to do is write a letter of course I don t go to that trouble Rather I boot a disk with a smaller system fewer fonts MacWrite and an empty Ramdisk Why the 72 April 1986 Ramdisk Because if I create a document of some size and want to transfer it to a separate data disk say a letterfile disk and I put the data disk in and drag this document out of my application disk Z get requests for several disk swaps If I store the document in the Ramdisk all I do when I m finished is kick out the application disk put in the data disk and drag the document out of the Ramdisk into the data disk It transfers fast without swaps no matter the size Be careful If you have a Ramdisk on the machine use it If you try to transfer documents between disks without using the Ramdisk when there is a Ramdisk resident you ll get many many disk swap requests because of reduced RAM size I have a big sign over my computer desk reading Put it in the Ramdisk Now if I know that I m going to need to draw some pictures with MacPaint and put them into a document in MacWrite or MSWord I drag both applications from my word processing
240. t 6457 Old Alex Ferry Road in Clinton Mary land in the same shopping center as our retail store Here you can find demo and used equipment as well as discontinued software peripherals and accessor ics ALL AT SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS Mark Krenik Sales Manager of the Clearance Center has a wide varicty of product in stock nght now and invites Pi members to visit the store For April Mark is featuring Apple III Software Product Training Paks for AppleWriter Ill Mail List Manager VisiCalc III or Business Graphics 10 00 each III E Z Pieces 59 95 COBOL 125 00 VisiCalc III 49 95 Senior Analyst Il 87 50 QuickFile III 19 95 Soficard III 150 00 AppleWriter III 44 95 Pascal 62 50 Apple Business BASIC 29 95 System Software 62 50 Mail List Manager 32 45 Business Graphics 34 95 Group Purchase of the Month Fifty Unidisk 3 5 A2P2099 are available as a special group pur chase for Pi members at 324 35 that s 35 off the list price of 499 These drives are available at cither of our retail locations Sorry no pur chase orders please Note Apple c owners with serial numbers less than F6051GF will need a ROM upgrade e owners will need a board A2C2002 Pi priced at 51 75 Lisa MacXL Trade In If you own a Lisa MacXL you may trade it in on a Macintosh Plus and Hard Disk 20 between April 14 and August 29 only The cost is your Lisa and 1498 Pi discounts do not apply Pi Pricing for Macintosh Upgrades Li
241. t a big game but does have some nice features Clearly I would have enjoyed it more had the operating system been cleaner The restriction to a single disk drive is antiquated and the game plays at least as slow as early games such as Cranston Manor which also include some graphics 1 do not think there is much excuse for that in 1986 1 would certainly recommend that Mindscape give more thought to updating their operating system It certainly detracts from an otherwise pleasant change of scene System Requirements Apple Family with 64K single disk drive view large finding and defeating the evil wizard Werdna and returning from the maze with his amulet Mapping alone is one of the most important elements involved since there are many tricks designed to make it difficult also by defeating monsters your characters gradually grow in strength I Q piety vitality agility luck and in some cases spell casting ability I particularly appreciated that players are given time to plan their strategy before being propelled into battles But that scarcely begins to describe the complexity and fascination of the game With eight different classes of characters avail able each with distinctive strengths and weaknesses some fifty potential spells dozens of unique monsters and items to encounter and retrieve WIZARDRY presents a constantly shifting challenge Even after you ve won you ll still want to return to the dungeon to se
242. t default values of 66 lines As your accountant will not be amused to receive page numbers 15 and 16 of your 3 page letter repagination is essential Repagination is effected through the BASIC PA command As text just streams up the screen I found it useful to divide letters by forcing page breaks with the ESC Page key 200 page breaks are available per disk The Card warranty for 90 days covers replacement of defective tangible media there is a 30 day money back policy I called Information Appliance Inc and Patti was very helpful Jef was busy but called back soon Jef Raskin has a way of convincing one that all our problems are little ones He actually gives very good advice but 1 preferred my own solutions Error Handling and Limitations There is no error handling apart from irritating uninformative beeps and the ubiquitous Syntax Error The manual has check lists to troubleshoot beeps but I found the instructions hard to follow This is where entry level users may become frustrated and where a modicum of operating systems knowledge saves the day Simplicity a la Raskin has left much to be desired In these days of menus windows real time error messages and on screen help more could have been done to ease the user through difficulties All Text in no matter how many separate letters or memos saved to a data disk will utilize only 40K usable disk capacity between 15 and 20 pages of single spaced typing Upon loading a d
243. ta supplied do not match any animal in my list OK A valuable feature of FORTH is the ease of modifying programs The original problem made CANT FLY a primi tive input After writing the program I realized that CANT FLY is the opposite of FLIES so does not need a separate primitive input Screen 43 was modified to 43A to provide for having a Rule 16 and Screen 49 was modified to 49A by deleting line 3 CANT FLY and adding line 13 CANT FLY 16 RULE FLIES NEGATE USE which corresponds to Rule 16 in the diagram The only non obvious component word is USE this tells FORTH to store the value of the variable corresponding to CANT FLY and to check for higher level decisions to be made now that a value is available A second modification was made to the original logic for a bird to fly well it must be able to fly Thus if it has already been determined that the animal doesn t fly there is no point to asking for the primitive FLIES WELL I therefore added a connection from FLIES to the AND operation of Rule 15 ALBATROSS This was easily done by inserting line 2 of Screen 56 and adding the third ENDIF at the end Di f t Screen 40 ARRAY defines a TABLE of variables num bered 1 thru 31 to correspond to the 31 attributes Screens 40 42 set up the various phrases that will be April 1986 35 needed for printing The variable component numbers in TABLE correspond e g 1 TABLE returns the value cor responding to HAIR S
244. tains suggestions of accompanying materials and prompts which can let the parent or teacher individualize and support the activity All of this is impervious to the worst assaults of peanut butter and jelly I should hasten to point out that though this program was designed around and for children with disabilities its approach seems equally useful for all children as they begin to develop literacy As my son and I further explore the program s capabilities I ll try to keep you informed Next month I ll also report on two other programs designed for children as young as 18 months TYSONS CORNER CENTER S Homeinform Information on Store Names Sales Events Restaurants Theatres Gifts Metrobus Schedules and Much More A rr Computer Access Number 703 893 0874 April 1986 21 First a reminder the April meeting is on April 3 7 30 PM at the office March s meeting covered a lot of ground Much new software was available for demonstration review and discussion Among these were the following ORBITER Spectrum Holobyte for 512K Mac preferably with external drive a space shuttle simulation Beta test version demonstrated with permission by Rick Stickle ELITE Firebird for Apple series with 64K an import Great Britain s Adventure Game of the Year for 1985 it says here with space travel and trading among 2000 planets Demonstrated by Ron Wartow who was prevailed upon to leave out a few of the plan
245. terested in Apple it is no secret is interested in ideas about future printers particularly for the market between the Imagewriter II and the LaserWriter What features should it have How much would it be worth Can we start a discussion of this on the Apple Link board on BB cont Washington Apple Pi System 3 After a few weeks we ll forward the information to the right people at Apple I also learned that while Apple is aware of the problem the UniDisk 3 5 has when trying to write a one block file to a write protected disk a hardware fix is not likely in the very near future The current software patch available from your Apple dealer will have to do After the Apple University presentation I was able to speak for an hour with the person responsible for the Apple Clubs Intemational program Apple Clubs International are parent or teacher sponsored small groups of schoolchildren K 12 who meet periodically to learn about computers Apple Clubs and user groups have much in common although Apple Clubs are something like the computer equivalent of the Girl Scouts You may be pleasantly surprised to learn that more than half of the members of Apple Clubs are girls They even have awards akin to merit badges The program is one with many opportunities for children to have fun work together and learn about computers just like we do here at WAP Can WAP work together with some of the Apple Clubs in the area If you are involved with
246. th any accompanying documentation or datafiles so that it can be sent and stored as a single file Then after downloading you run PACKIT and re constitute the indi vidual files on your Mac What you need to do is get the PACKIT application amp run it OK Red Ryder and CRC CHARLES TURNER ON 02 06 TO REGINA LITMAN What have you observed or heard the problem to be Is it with transmission or errors with the resulting file or something else REGINA LITMAN ON 02 10 TO CHARLES TURNER The problem seems to be that when Red Ryder misses a NAK or ACK due to line noise or some other problem it keeps asking for a resend This loop continues until someone manually aborts the transfer This request for a resend is on the same block over and over CHARLES TURNER ON 02 12 TO REGINA LITMAN Thanks for your reply have you or anyone else out there been in touch with Scott Watson s BBS about this So often we assume someone else has reported a problem especially when any single person may rarely experience it REGINA LITMAN ON 02 22 TO CHARLES TURNER From what I hear Scott Watson has finally admitted there is a problem with XMODEM using Red Ryder 7 0 Version 8 0 is due Out in the next week or so JIM RHODES ON 02 06 TO REGINA LITMAN I ve been using RR7 on a RBBS with CRC with no problems You can also tum CRC off with RR7 easily REGINA LITMAN ON 02 10 TO JIM RHODES No it s not true that you can turn CRC off easily with RR7 Although ther
247. th peripherals requiring SYSTEM ATTACH is that the 1 3 version of this is not gen erally available yet This is a repeat of the 1 2 release problem ATTACH itself is ready but the update of the ProDOS Support Tools software is holding up release of the entire 1 3 Pascal Device Support Tools package If you own a hard disk or other device requiring ATTACH I recommend that you include a letter to Apple with your upgrade order requesting inclusion of the SYSTEM ATTACH file only in the stand ard Apple Pascal product This is currently being discussed at Apple and input from customers might make it happen I have had the 1 3 release for over a month now and am very happy with it I recommend the upgrade to everyone there are many significant improvements that I have not men tioned Next month I expect to have an article here on these features and on the variety of Pascal support software now available from Apple amp Washington Apple Pi shrink position and overlay graphs DATA SHOW Presentation quality research and business graphics including 2 and 3D bar and pie charts linear and non linear regression sequence plots line charts and more Software screen dump fancy fonts slide show Price 95 00 FEMALES ij MALES A Cy uen y rg 73 8a si ge 83 DYNA STAT PROFESSIONAL The only microcom puter program to fully integrate data management and statistical routines with all the high resolu
248. the button click click and NOW it s gone Wait Stop This is too much Are you REALLY sure you want to do this N 9o E PLEASE Apple jus LEAVE my ALONE Well the new Apple interface will be uniform on all Apple machines So that s supposed to be a big advantage Hmmmm I can use WordStar on my CP M Apple c and learn the little diamond of movement Up 1 line CNTRL E CNRTL S CNTRL D Left 1 char Right 1 char CNTRL X Down 1 line You know Apple I really can learn these codes I am a big boy now And it is easier than always hunting for the right scripture box since I am not fictional I will not call it a dialogue for the command But talk of universality I can go to WS on an IBM PC or a Morrow CP M a TRS 80 KayPro and always there will be the same commands And in our modern business oriented society I must use several different brands of machines each week Many people do And the Desktop metaphor Well Metaphor a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally accurate in order to imply a resem blance Well at least you finally got your English correct but have you seen my DESK Why anyone would want to clutter up a microcomputer screen like that is beyond me And what happened to CATALOG I can CATALOG a disk and true 1 have to remember the word CATALOG But that s not too bad What do you mean I have to LOAD ANOTHER PROGRAM called FILER Sear
249. the testers would not have had the proper time to test it Games in Stock MICHAEL DROLET ON 02 09 TO ALL I was in Family Computers in Fair Oaks Mall today They had 45 games for the Mac in stock Best selection I ve seen Washington Apple Pi anywhere outside of mail order houses List price naturally Brataccas RONALD WARTOW ON 02 25 TO ALL Requires 512K Macintosh State of the art game Appears to be an adventure game but not like anything I ve seen before Seems to be entirely mouse run There could be some role playing aspects but it s hard to tell the documentation This is a review copy so any GAMESIG ers out there with FAT MACS come to next meeting and you ll get a shot at reviewing this Mac Programming TOM PARRISH ON 01 12 TO ALL Your SYSOP has finally come to life Does anyone know the true story with regard to Apple s MDS as well as TML Pascal and Consulair C working with the HFS Hard Disk 20 The general problem is that nothing works quite right a specific problem is that the Linker doesn t seem to work at all All problems appear to be due to the programs not using HFS file manager commands correctly RICH NORLING ON 02 04 TO TOM PARRISH Yep the problem is that the authors of Edit Linker and RMaker seem to have ignored Apple s warnings about using the file system correctly They seem to work OK if you put them all and their data files in the volume directory the first window instead of burying them ins
250. ther program But they have made it possible for the owner to install Pinpoint on the AppleWorks start up disk This permits you to use the closed Apple key to access the Pinpoint menu If you have the Pinpoint accessory disk in Drive 2 or have copied the accessory you wish to use onto the disk you are using in Drive 2 or have read everything into your expanded memory card then you can directly access the Pinpoint programs Of course if you do not have that disk in Drive 2 then you must switch disks before using Pinpoint s options On its surface it sounds good If for instance you need to make a couple of simple add subtract multiply or divide calculations while in the middle of an AppleWorks file simply press a few keys and get the calculator on the screen It does work But I question whether it is worth the trouble First you must access the Pinpoint menu Second you must insert the applications disk in Drive 2 Third you get the calculator and make your calculations Then you must switch 32 April 1986 disks again to get back to your AppleWorks files and finally exit Pinpoint It takes approximately 20 seconds to either access or exit Pinpoint In that time you could easily have done the calculations on a hand calculator and saved a lot of trouble Only on a new Apple system with expanded memory and direct and immediate access to RAM would this program be an advantage AppleWorks can be booted into the computer system without
251. this is to SELECT the first row of the database The name temp is given to this selection The effect of cells A7 amp A11 are the toughest to appre ciate but now that we see what SELECT and OFFSET do maybe it won t be so bad A7 selects an area located under the leftmost column of the data base The upper left corner of the area in which the next mailing label will appear is offset from the current record now the first row of the data base by counter col 1 row Since counter is currently zero and row in our example is three we are talking about a position four rows below the start of the data base 0 3 1 3 As counter is increased for each mailing label in A12 the start position of the next label will move down by the number of entries i e columns in the label Well that certainly makes sense The bottom right corner where the label goes is in the same column but col rows lower that is counter col col row Cell A8 says to TRANSPOSE the active selection still the first row of the data base Transpose means to flip around the meaning of the rows and columns Something which is one row high by three columns wide becomes three contd on pg 63 April 1986 61 g FREDERICK APPLE CORE A SLICE OF THE WASHINGTON APPLE PI OFFICERS amp CHAIRMEN President Scott Galbraith Vice President John Lee Secretary Treasurer Bruce Taylor Librarian Tony Svajlenka Program Chairman John Lee Newsletter Edit
252. ticios Archive 2 HH MIRA Kon EAS Toi ti if T Masthead PED Goreen O Sorem 1 Soren 2 Serenm3 Ustng Ove Trash Can or LN O M aeaf CU OOH Eu CDS A A Us O Se BAN ati MEET ZZ irr aL ASSETS You can open and make changes to any of your screen pictures from MacPaint You can even cut and paste them from MacPaint into other applications such as MacWrite for an instruction manual or a database for future reference One more sidebar to this snapshot theme In the pre Macintosh days a screen dump was really a printout of the screen onto paper It s possible to do that with your Mac too Instead of COMMAND SHIFT 3 use CAPS LOCK COMMAND SHIFT 4 This will duplicate your entire Macintosh screen onto paper through your printer automatically And if you don t want the entire screen to be duplicated just the active window such as a disk contents window or a spreadsheet document window simply use COMMAND SHIFT 4 These features are documented on page 73 of your Macintosh manual Note that in all cases snapshot screen dump to paper and active window snapshot the j i i if you re holding it down to display a menu on the screen Creating screen pictures is a little noticed feature of your Macintosh which can make development of simple user friendly Macintosh instructions easy and fun Try it You ll like it Washington Apple Pi Mac Q amp A contd from pg SU Startup application Tur
253. til the original question is answered Several tracks down through levels may be involved The logical decision chart of the application is an exact parallel of the structure of FORTH application words I made some changes in the problem diagram as given In ats Meat Pointed Forward Teeth Eyes April 1986 Gives Milk 34 R12 the original the OR operations were located inside the attribute boxes I extracted them and labelled every logical output from OR or AND with a rule number In the diagram each attribute is enclosed in a rectangular box each logical operation in a circle Each attribute is associated with a corresponding variable whose value is 0 when the truth falsity of the attribute is not yet known 1 when the attribute is known to be true either by deduction or input 1 when the attribute is known to be false The name of each attribute is defined to be a FORTH word which returns the value of the variable associated with that attribute each numbered rule is also used for a word e g RULE2 which returns the value resulting from the corresponding logical operation Again a TRUE is represented by 1 FALSE by 1 and UNDECIDED by 0 Any return of 0 by any FORTH word calls for a word on the next lower level Loading the screens and entering RUN results in the following dialog between the computer and operator the Y N and W responses at the end of each Is this true line comprise the operator s tiny
254. tion color graphics of DATA SHOW Plus flexible data entry edit missing value handling large data sets subset selection transformations recoding comprehensive output and the widest variety of statistical procedures currently available CE 195 00 MINUTE Both programs are fully documented menu driven fast and easy to use For Apple computers with minimum 64K t and 1 drive Major charge cards institutional P O s COD and dealer inquiries accepted CALL OR WRITE FOR FREE DEMO DISKETTE DYNAMIC MICROSYSTEMS INC 13003 Buccaneer Road Silver Spring MD 20904 301 384 2754 April 1986 39 drip rmm a mm de o A t Med OS OS hri savers COC perm urupde see PP m 2 112 Good grief Duke s production of You re a Good Man Charlie Brown for which I designed the lighting just closed tonight in fact and I m beyond exhausted Please pardon any lack of coherence in this column and I beg forgiveness of my editor for sending it in so late Ed Note This article ar rived too late for the March Journal for which it was intended Consumer Advisory formerly Mail order blues I ve already received a couple of letters in response to February s query about mail order service and I strongly suspect there will be more very soon First from Robert L Vandegrift On November 8 Robert telephone ordered Typing Made Easy for his Mac from Northeastern Software in Stratford Con necticut As of January 28 h
255. tional LAN installation instructions in a small manual included with each AppleTalk Connector Kit but not as part of Inside AppleTalk The small manual supplied with each connector kit was most helpful because it covered the overall do s and don t s of hooking Macintoshes and other devices to the network Installation of an AppleTalk LAN will be the subject of a future article The AppleTalk installer program allows the user to modify the AppleTalk resources in the System resource file of contd Washington Apple Pi any disk volume while the AppleTalk Poke is used by AppleTalk developers to test their protocol software hardware implementations for AppleTalk products Finally the Apple Talk Peek program is a network tool used to monitor packet traffic on a single AppleTalk network My overall impression is that unless you are technically minded or in charge of setting up a Macintosh AppleTalk Network you would have little need for Inside AppleTalk INSIDE LASERWRITER In contrast to the previous manual Inside LaserWnter is much more up to Apple documentation standards It is a large manual about the size of a large phone book consisting of10 Appendices These include the postscript language manual the postscript cookbook the Adobe font manual the advanced users supplement the AppleTalk printer access protocol programming and debugging aids example of LaserWriter Output the Macintosh print manager using MacTerminal to talk
256. to an address You can then highlight just what part you want printed move the highlighted block easily around the screen to get in in position for printing in the right place on the envelope already in your printer and print the address block Washington Apple Pi automatically The Typewriter program simply allows you to directly type to the printer You can vary the pitch lines per inch and several other functions such as bold face printing and underlining The degree of flexibility depends on your printer It prints a line at a time thus allowing you to make corrections to that line before it is printed The final program is called GraphMerge The description in the manual indicates that this would be a useful and clever program Unfortunately I could not test it because I do not have an Imagewriter printer The company promises an accessory program at additional cost in the future to permit other printers to work with this program In addition it will only work with an Apple Super Serial Card interface with the Imagewriter or a parallel card that is 100 compatible with an Apple Parallel Interface Card The manual specifically says Other printer cards will not work with GraphMerge The program permits you to take a high resolution pic ture crop it change its size stretch it horizontally or verti cally place it directly into an AppleWorks document print and save it As this program appears to be very useful I am aw
257. to find sub sets of the records meeting criteria such as all people with a birthday in a given month Lets 56 April 1986 look at each of these functions in more detail One of Omnis 3 most powerful aspects is its ability to modify the Mac menus and create new sequences of operations A data base application can be hand tailored toa particular problem and made to display your own messages in dialog boxes In this regard Omnis 3 is a programmable data base although unlike a program like MacLion there is no language to learn The sequence commands are selected from dialog boxes containing options u File Definition Omnis 3 provides a great deal of flexibil ity in the definition of data fields They may be defined as character national numeric boolean a date or a sequence number You can request the number of decimal places to be used in the display as well as designate a variable to be indexed for use in ordering and searching An important characteristic required of a data base package is the ability to revise the structure of the record after data have been entered into the file You might need to widen a field increase a Zip Code from five to nine digits or you may need to add new fields at a later date Omnis 3 provides these features in an easy to apply method You need only redefine the record by changing the screen and then run a utility called Reorganize data In short order your file will be copied automatically into
258. to play but hard to master The rulebook explains movement combat line of sight and other critical components of a wargame in a clear and concise manner The rulebook is divided into two sections The first section describes the scenarios has color maps for each of the nine scenarios describes the weapons of each country describes in full detail the movement and combat and has an extensive appendix The second section includes instructions on the construction of maps printing of maps hints a dictionary and an interview with the author The setting is in World War II Like T A C you can fight your allies or nexus When you design your own teams you can choose your own country and weapons and also choose the computer s country and arsenal This is poorly designed since you can arm yourself with the best armor and infantry while giving the computer a small group of poorly armed trucks The pre made scenarios however are a radically different story The designer has thought out each weapon on each team carefully deleting any tank or infantry that unbalances the scenario Some scenarios are bloodbaths such as Road to Ruin that are made with the expert gamer in mind Most of the other scenarios are moderately difficult One problem is the slow flow of gameplay It once took the computer five minutes to decide not to shoot Overall this is an excellent game brightening new horizons for the future of wargaming It is not an easy
259. ts You may only have space for a few snapshots before you get a beep indicating an unsuccessful one Don t worry You haven t made a mistake You ve just contd Washington Apple Pi got a full disk The solution Go to the Finder and throw something away if you need to to make room for more screen pictures I often trash my Imagewriter file temporarily while creating screen pictures for this column That frees about 25K from the disk When you get a beep after making a couple of successful snapshots go to the Finder rename them approp rately and i l igi Incidentally once you ve renamed and moved your screen pictures the next one you make will automatically get the name Screen 0 again so don t be confused For purposes of making instruction sheets the snapshot feature has a tremendous additional benefit Once you ve created a screen picture ify i li by using MacPaint That is the Screen 0 etc documents may be opened from MacPaint just like any MacPaint picture Once you ve opened a snapshot you may use all of MacPaint s tools to change it Fancy it Add arrows Add legends Add instructions Remove extraneous material which doesn t contribute to your story etc Customize your screen pictures using MacPaint Fite Edit Goodies Font FontSize Style CAE Keer Customize Your Snapshots E a hentia eaten ba A FA bo al gou 2d ty uu Ji E Li l vo alae MAL UA us Ar
260. ublished Inside Macintosh Is it true that you can recondition Image Writer ribbons with WD 40 I ve heard so though I haven t tried it I can imagine how paper would smell with WD 40 in the ink The things to definitely avoid are old fraying ribbons the fibers get into the print head and chemicals that don t both dissolve the unused ink and lubricate the pins in the print head WD 40 and LPS 1 should be equivalent You can also get a ribbon reinker from Bede Tech and Robins Office Supply sells new ribbons that you can somehow get into the old case Do any of the copy utilities work to get copy protected programs onto 800K disks Copy protection is really a losing battle for all con cerned and you should give extra weight when you choose products to those that aren t copy protected That said Hard Disk Utility will patch programs to remove their copy protection checks Then you can put them on any kind of disk you want And hopefully on only one computer Of course as programs are revised you have to keep updating the utility Where is Microsoft now Microsoft has moved The new address is 16011 NE 36th Way Redmond WA 98052 The new telephone numbers are deceptively similar to the old ones Product support is at 206 882 8089 and the main number is 206 882 8080 Would you elaborate on last month s answer about reinitializing the Apple HD 20 If the disk is corrupted how do you get past the Finder to run the te
261. umber of articles that may not be considered to be totally Apple specific However there were compelling reasons to list articles dealing with various languages for the and like Modula 2 and Fortran Lap Top Computers which can be hooked up to the as well as the other Apples etc So the bottom line here was that I tried to compile a list of all articles that in this author s mind related to the Apple And yes there is even one on the Mac only because SIG member Bart Cable wrote it saying that despite its capabilites he d still keep his thank you This compilation covers up through the March 1986 issue of the WAP Journal by the way so you have a bibliography here that is as up to date as I could make it for you You should also note that I have not included a month category The Journal follows a January December publishing schedule so January Issue 1 etc Enjoy SUBJECT TITLE AUTHOR VOL YEAR PG S 111 Magazines Apple Newsletters and Magazines Ottalini 7 10 1985 12 13 AIM Apple for Me Update Ottalini 7 10 1985 13 AIM Apple Is For Me Ottalini 7 8 1985 38 Apple Flavors Little Tidbits Apple Chambers 3 2 1981 17 Apple Here So Slowly Comes the Cheren 3 3 1981 8 Apple The Not Too Slow Apple Is Great Dow 3 4 1981 8 9 Apple Apple News Special Report Apple Expo Violante 3 4 1981 13 15 Apple Update On the Big Apple Dow 4 2 1982 13 Apple Ap
262. up is always a most important consideration in assessing any new productivity program The Manual sug gests in your first testing of a few lines of text that you should just press Ctrl PRINT and see what happens I was economic with two lines and found they over printed Clearly my C toh ProWriter M8510A printer needs a line feed PR CHRS 1 which must be embedded in the disk Text as there is no configuration file Other printers need more con trol codes I need extra code for underlining which is similar to the codes printed in the Manual on page 65 as for Applescribe US CHR 27 CHRS 88 for Underline Start contd Washington Apple Pi and UE CHR 1 CHR 27 CHR 89 for Underline End These codes are highlighted and embedded in BASIC by pressing Ctri CALC When these strings are saved to a data disk they enable my printer to get a line feed and underline words starting and ending with underline tokens word is the Card s method to achieve word I do not need to reset printer dip switches In 80 column mode with Pica print set by switches I do get what I see More thought is required for bold face and italics Documentation Exemplary The tutorial disk and manual are a joy to read for sheer lucidity introduction and explanation taking one patiently through the learning curve with tasteful humor and numerous warnings Limitations of the system are clearly outlined in the advertisement and the Manual The we
263. urce Time 10 hour Minimum 5 00 4 e Digitizing Macintizer 4nour ThunderScan 2 25 scan e DeskTop Publishing Word processing Typesetting Quality Reprographics PC Resources Appointments 8 Messages 860 9600 Reston Copy Center 11800 Sunrise Valley Dr Reston VA 22091 Complete service information amp price sheet available on request Appanmants Requred Cuonts rosponsiblo for disk back up Pncos subjoct to change wm hout noice 860210 April 1986 33 I was recently challenged to write a FORTH program for the model expert system shown in Knowledge Based Expert Systems Come of Age by Richard O Duda and John G Gaschnig published originally in BYTE Sept 1981 and republished as Chapter 3 of the book Applications in Artifi cial Intelligence FORTH is well adapted to this type of problem the variables in the problem are either deduced analogs of FORTH colon words or primitive inputs analogs of FORTH primitive words supplied by the user in response to requests for Yes No answers Thus a FORTH word which investigates a possible conclusion from the input data auto matically provides for component words which investigate lower level conclusions which in turn investigate still lower level conclusions and so on down to the primitive level of raw input data At the end of the line a TRUE or FALSE value is found FORTH comes back up the line drawing conclusions on successive levels un
264. urns to the main program where the desired characters can now be entered Wraparound at the end of the line was handled by counting characters With room for 17 characters on a line I arbitrarily started looking for the first space after character 12 could have been 10 or 11 just as easily but 5 letters back from the mar gin is a reasonable spacing to minimize break up of words Another detail is to avoid BLOADING the shapefile every time the program is booted When it might be booted from several programs 1 PEEK at the first few characters in the shape table location and if thev match skip the BLOAD line line 45 Some other matters I would like to improve or simplify are CORRECTIONS the handling of wrong letters and perhaps the addition of a screen dump program Note particularly that with the large letters the user 20 April 1986 doesn t have to be a child can enter text correct text and even get rid of the current text and start anew all without outside help The entire program A M and all is on disk If you have an interest in the program give me a call LISTING 8 REM MAY 13 1985 9 REM 10 REM BIG LETTERS 11 REM BY 12 REM BORIS LEVINE 13 REM BETHESDA MARYLAND 14 REM 301 229 5730 15 REM 16 REM LINES 50 500 FROM APPLE MECHANIC 17 REM COPYRIGHTED BY BEAGLE BROS 18 REM 19 REM 20 REM aa do e o o de ode ade e ae oe a ade od ad e as khkkh 25 REM 30 DIM B 30 REM STRING IN 830 35 REM LIN
265. use confu sion relates to the length of the data field When the file is defined a length is supplied for every field The entry screen construction includes a place for designating the length of a rectangle within which the field will be entered While the default length used by the screen layout routine is equal to the field length provided earlier by the user during record defini tion it is possible to make the entry rectangle longer than the field length When someone enters say an address with a maximum length of 20 characters into an entry rectangle which is 25 characters long they may be surprised to see their 25 character entry truncated to 20 without any warning message Report Formatting Report layouts are created by the same screen painting action used to define the record format The report format is broken up into several sections a header a detail section one of up to nine sub totals or a report total In the screen below you see a simple report containing only a header consisting of manually entered text the detail consisting of three fields and the end of the report ud Hp A ar tm Es Layout for report DRUIDTE H Most NANE FIRST MAME PHONE NO RECORD 1D EOS AASARACASAR NAS 502 t Ps PS y N 503 504 505 h Omnis 3 Report Definition Window Washington Apple Pi Besides regurgitating data stored in the data base Omnis 3 reports can contain information computed from fields in
266. uted to this area by writing a small program to toggle the size of the cursor to twice its normal size This should appear soon on a SIGMac disk For the future Jan Eugenides 617 897 7749 has written a special word processor with the partially sighted in mind Everything is large and the program will speak the text using the Macintalk phonics package Further MacWorld magazine is preparing a special article on Mac use by the disabled which should provide many useful ideas and leads What is MIDI and how to I get details on it MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface It s a standardized way for computers and synthesizers to communicate Several MIDI programs for the Mac exist see the December MacUser and October MacTutor magazines for examples It s also an increasingly popu lar subject for books on the Computer shelf at many bookstores For detailed specifications write to the International MIDI Association 11857 Hartsook Street North Hollywood CA 91607 818 505 8964 contd Washington Apple Pi PO ze P O Washington Apple Pi Where can I get a sound digitizer for the Mac If you are an electronic hobbiest you might consider the Berkeley Macintosh Users Group BMUG Mac Recorder II For 50 they will send you everything you need to build and use one except for the solder and iron BMUG 1442A Walnut Street 62 Berkeley CA 94709 I haven t seen one yet but it sounds like a good deal What
267. vailable It was limited in what we wanted it for running VisiCalc and DB Master contd Washington Apple Pi MARK WHEATLEY ON 02 17 TO ALL To all w questions about the VF Associates VF PC clone I am now using one having put it together in an evening Other than a few missing parts and having to pick up a 20Mb hard disk a few days later all has been fine I got the Turbo motherboard which runs at 4 77 or 8 MHz A fair amount of software does NOT work on 8 MHz eg PC Talk COPYIIPC Wang WP Am now using the Multi I O card and Novation modem at 2400 Have not found any IBM software that will not run at normal clock speed Next step is to try the Quadram clone JOE ENGLAND ON 02 17 TO DEBBY STAR ALL I guess the only way to tell for sure is to actually see the thing do the particular things you want it to do in person As to whether you should believe dealer claims my opinion is that you should neither believe nor disbelieve them until you have experimented with the product WF does seem to be pretty good about allowing this I personally have no knowl edge of the product other than what I read in the ad but I have bought from VF before Promodem ALL disk purchases EPS keyboard CCS card etc and I find them to be just fine LEE RAESLY ON 02 17 MIKE UNGERMAN ALL Well Mike not to be pickey but then for your purposes it did not work DEBBY STAR ON 02 18 TO MIKE UNGERMAN ALL I spoke with VF associates about the Ap
268. ve 4 miles to Randolph Road Turn left Drive to Ist traffic light Locksley Lane Turn right Drive to 2nd Street on your left Old Forge Road 13325 is on the right almost at the end of the street 2 houses from Hawkesbury and the elementary school G The Forth SIG meets on the 3rd Saturday of the month at the WAP office Starting April 19th it will meet at 12 00 Noon instead of 10 00AM Also at the April meeting elections will be held for a new SIG Chairman since yours truly has let his duties lapse for other interests 5 April 1986 13 It may be hard to believe but there have been quite a few articles published in the WAP Journal over the past few years conceming the Apple In my continuing quest to find every article I could lay my hands on I went back and took a look at all the past WAP Journals from DAY 1 and was surprised at what I found This month I get to share that information with you The WAP Office has copies of all back Journal issues so anytime you are interested in finding a particular issue spend a little time in the library I might add that the WAP library is probably one of your best sources of information on Apple Computers around I really don t know of any other group in this area and that could probably be expanded to most of the nation that has the fantastic resources that our own library has Now if there was only a little more space In any case you will notice that I have included a n
269. ve to know exactly what you want You will want a 1200 baud Smart Duck ADC They will also ask for an ad which I have forgotten Fear not it is in the Dec 85 WAP Journal at the very end of the article titled 175 1200 Baud Modem You must have this to place the order I ll have to hunt for it and I ll post it this Thursday night assuming I can log on Mac and Comm Soft xd ES ON 02 17 TO ALL Le i re about pe to do if you get a Mac and can t M until 8 0 comes out MockTerminal doesn t files SmartComm I don t have BOB MASSO ON 02 23 TO JIM RHODES Do you know if FreeTerm 1 8 will run OK JIM RHODES ON 02 23 TO BOB MASSO No I don t but Marty Milrod seems to think it might Maybe you d like to check with him Games amp Gamesig Orbiter RONALD WARTOW ON 02 05 TO RICK STICKLE Rick 1 wonder what must be going through the Spectrum Holobyte people s minds in view of the Shuttle tragedy We all know what happens when any flight simulator on a computer is not well play RICK STICKLE ON 02 05 TO RONALD WARTOW When I called them I really didn t want to ask how they felt about the accident 1 do know that quite a few of the beta testers that were picked like me work for NASA They said that they did this to get better feedback on the accuracy of the program and the payloads they are simulating In a way the delay is good for us because as you can realize if the betas had been received last week a great number of
270. vel And maybe the Apple interface is a character in a novel but I READ things not have fictionalized conversations with a computer screen PLEASE Apple jus leave my alone I click a button on the plastic furry creature actually I push the button and IT clicks and drag the mouse down Boy they got that one right it sure is a drag There now to look for Delete a character Delete a file Delete a disk Delete a mouse Hmmmm Not there well let me see How about Page layout Nope not there either Now where did they put Delete a character Let s see how about On Screen appear ance Yes there it is Now move the pointer down oh the other down Yes that s it Move to the proper box click it again you remember that is really pushing the button right Yes Delete a character is highlighted to you uninitiated in Apple Interface that means inverse Now what was the character I wanted to delete from the screen PLEASE Apple jus LEAVE my alone 26 April 1986 Now move the pointer translate cursor to the character place it over the letter I wish to delete push the button Click the one on the plastic furry creature and voila that character is gone Wait no it s NOT What s this Double clicking the mouse will permanently delete this character Do you wish to do this Dummy of course I do you stupid machine Why do you think I went to so much trouble Oh all right double push
271. ver your search of the smiths shop uncovers a map Following clues on it you find yourself at the ruins of a castle keep Searching the ruin you stumble across the burned body of Locus Nearby is a stairs going down into the bowels of the earth You take it from there Disk 228 is Escape from Orc s Lair by Jay Hink leman You are feeling great as you stride down a dark alley You feel so energetic that you hardly notice that a gang of Orcs is following your trail A club crunches down on your skull The gang takes you home their s not your s and you awake in a dark cell to overhear fragments of a conversation 1 we have nearly enough hostages 2 hope we get enough ransom to you lapse back into dreamworld Later you wake up to find the cell has no exit Must get out to wam the Guild But how Disk 229 is The City in the Clouds by Evan Hodson Based on the theme of Star Wars after the destruction of Death World you have partly finished training with Yoder As you prepare to leave he concludes with you must find your way back to your own world I do not have all the answers More material for the Apple is on the way for next month The descriptions of the following SigMac disks are taken from the notes of Tony Anderson as submitted by Dave Weikert SigMac Disk 35 Fun and Games III Kick off your shoes Grab a diet Coke Turn on the answering machine and get ready for some serious Mac Gaming You are about to discover some
272. y slick don t you think The macro capability of Excel is incredibly powerful There is plenty to discuss in upcoming columns Ed note Yes you read right David has perpetuated an expression which he originally heard being used by Rich Norling and Jim Rafferty The radio buttons pertain to the little circles you see in choice boxes Old word for new technology April 1986 63 A DEVELOPER S VIEW olin TATE Il When a Macintosh h Developer a attends a computer show he will have a different point of view than the average Macintosh user Although I am sure that I missed some things here are some of the products which excited me the most Most Waited for Hardware Product By now you have probably read about the MacPlus and perhaps have upgraded your Mac with either the ROM s and double sided drive or gone all the way with the logic board swap Here is what I found significant 1 am typing this in my hotel room on my new Macintosh Plus e The ROM now contains many routines which used to be in the system file and loaded into RAM This saves space on the disk and in RAM For example the new ROM includes AppleTalk and the floating point routines e Many of the ROM routines such as the resource manager have been speeded up Most of the bugs have been fixed The double sided 800K disk drive is faster than the origi nal 400K drive The Finder now has a four level RAM cache which is set from the control panel desk accessory
273. y use of the communications part of the program might be communicating with another Apple that has a SwyftCard I called Adrien Youell and we agreed that he would originate the call to me When I heard the phone ring I sent out the command ATA which puts the modem in the answer mode We connected and everything I sent out appeared on Adrien s screen The only problem encountered was that whatever was typed and which appeared on the screen didn t go out until I pressed SEND Sometimes the screen got messed up because Adrien had just sent something that appeared on my screen Therefore I had to wait until Adrien had stopped sending before I could type a reply I also noticed that there is no easy way to get the modem to hang up at the end of a session You must first type and then ATH This would be necessary especially for host computers such as DIALCOM which continue to furnish carrier even after you ve logged off This procedure is not documented I found that the Card is not compatible with the Titan Accelerator e card After testing the Card without the Accelerator e installed I then put the Accelerator e card back but when I turned the Apple back on it refused to boot I ve grown quite used to the Accelerator e card and would hate to give it up in order to use the SwyftCard In summary I can not see this Card replacing ASCII EXPRESS PROFESSIONAL or any other communications program any time soon The main reason is that
274. you have to remember to forget they exist Ease of Learning and Use OK Even very easy at a superficial level One learns the techniques readily Novices will love the no nonsense ground rules and quickly take for granted this over simplification in introductory word process ing Old hands will quickly grasp the principles of SwyftCard but will rapidly become frustrated by its limitations The finer cursor movements required to get on target to Leap to errors and select text for printing make heavy weather of routine word processing Arithmetic calculation in text works and is a bonus point the formula can be left in situ or deleted Highlighting text to select a section for printing sounds easy enough but can be a consummate bore with inevitable errors when more than a page is selected the PRINT command cannot be aborted Jef Raskin is the sort of designer who is reported to hate the Macintosh interface Washington Post December 30th Business Section page 11 Ilike the mouse driven I beam and scroll bar of MacWrite which get me round a document faster than spelling out a word in one s mind then transferring Washington Apple Pi that thought to keystrokes to LEAP BACK to a misspelling and remember you then have to get back to end of text to continue I think one subconsciously detects mistakes on Screen rather than clearly seeing them intellectually that is get the cursor there quickly then let s think about the cor rection
275. ys to accomplish the same thing Finder 5 0 and greater uses a new resource to determine a lot of its behavior It s the LAYO layout resource and it determines such things as the spacing of icons on the desktop and the font and size of the names beneath them The new Resource Editor knows the format of LAYO and aids you in modifying it to personalize your Finder This solves the icon problem Menus are another matter I don t know of any way to alter the size of the menu bar but the menus themselves are much easier to change Andy Hertzfeld suggests that someone could reprogram the MENU 0 resource found in the System File as it determines the characteristics of the standard menus including the size of the font used to draw them Of course with larger type you would have to allow for scrolling menus as implemented on the Mac and older Macs using System File version 3 0 The original MDEF 0 source code was distributed in the Software Supplement I don t have it Would someone out there please MacNosy the new MDEF 0 compare it with the old one and adjust the Font size to say 24 point Also would you repeat the menu title in large print after the menu is selected Thanks With the new ROMs Andy says it is easier than that There are locations in low memory that you can change to alter the menu font and size An application to do that called FontSizer is said to exist although I haven t found it yet Andy also has contrib

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