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2. 20315 Grazing Way Gaithersburg MD 20879 Saturday 9 a m to 3 p m EST Maryland roudents add 5 sales tas Appio and Applet aro tademarks of Appia Computer Co Washington Apple Pi May 1987 47 Weekdays 9 a m to9p m EST iq by Tom Warrick AppleWorld 87 was more than just the new products dis cussed in last month s issue There were two days worth of activities of interest to user groups Ellen Leanse Apple s Chicf User Group Evangelist and head of the User Group Connection and no stranger to Washington Apple Pi members gave a kickoff speech that touched upon Apple s roots in one of the first computer user groups the Homebrew Computer Club Ellen spoke also of many new user groups being formed within businesses and government agencics Any that would like to work with Washington Apple Pi such as by having your mecting announcements in the WAP Journal please let us know Elicn also spoke of Apple s desire to sce better relations between user groups and dealers She said that Apple was looking to user groups to take the first step and Washington Apple Pi will be making an effort in that direction over the next few months One of the most interesting sessions and one that left many participants frustrated because it was so short was a discussion among user group leaders on how user groups could better cooperate with each other Kent Fillmore of a San Francisco user group said that he was revitalizing if tha
3. BILL BALDRIDGE ON 01 12 You might check out the December issue of Macazine in which resides a comparision of 12 graphics packages in tabular form including such notables a s Cheap Paint 4Paint FullPaint SuperPaint ComicWorks MacBillboard Mac Paint Graphics Magician included are D A s and specialty tools like Paint Mover Paint Cutter CA Effects and MacBanner ALLAN BALLIETT ON 01 13 Well I got so excited about the Summagraphics tablet that I called them They are sending me FREE a cable chart and a list of compatible MAC software for use with the tablet SUPERPAINT WORKS WITH IT The table I have access to is the 1200 A nice piece of work it is Since your mention of the Summagraphics as part of your dream machine their ads are starting to standout to me for the first time Will let you know when I get the thing connected And start entering all the G Men logos etc lt grin gt BILL BALDRIDGE ON 01 14 Glad to hear it I still want to get their smaller tablet Hummmmm maybe if the IRS is nice to me this year BILL BALDRIDGE ON 01 14 To boot a paint application other than MacPaint from the TOOLS menu from within Thunderscan just rename your favorite paint program MacPaint and replace MacPaint with it For you HFS users remember it will have to be in the same folder as Thunderscan KEVIN PARKER ON 01 14 My wife is trying to make T shirt designs using MacPaint The catch is that she has to reverse t
4. 1 Amount enclosed Payment VISA MC Money Order 1 Credit card expiration date aan i L NAME A avpress Al l i fer fp state zip i ll TELEPHONE Picas help us serve you bener Let us know the type jf of Macintosh you will be using with Object Logo si2k mac 12K Enhanced Mac Plus i a4 al CODs and purchase orders WILL NOT be accepted il by Coral Software Outside USA make payment by pean StF bank draft payable in US dollars drawn on a US bank Price is suggested retail price and is subject to i change without notice Minimum system requirements for Object Logo 512K Macintosh with 800K dnve or any extemal disk pe l 5 Ubyt Logo n a vadernazh of Coral Software Cum Aarintnah i watrdemat licensed to Appie Computer Iw N2 j PE l 1 amp amp Coral J SOFTWAaRET al PO Box 307 I all Cambridge MA 02142 jf la al Washington Apple Pi May 1987 49 able The only component in a Plus that could be reused after an upgrade to an SE he said was the CRT Everything else the digital board the power supply the front and back cases the mouse and the keyboard are all different He described Apple s decision aptly as the least worst possible decision Jean Louis was pleased with the way color was imple mented on the Mac II He said that existing programs written in accordance with Apple s guidelines work with color For examp
5. Configuration ROM self identification and booting e Distributed and fair bus arbitration Processor independent e 8 16 32 bit data transfer full 68020 support Plenty of power and ground lines for a quict bus Support for read modify write necessary for UNIX semaphores 72 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 Allows Dumb interrupts NMRQ Memory Management Units MMU The Macintosh II comes with a socketed MMU called the HMMU An interesting aside the chip was first called the FMMU which stood for Fake Memory Management Unit The next revision of the the chip made it the GMMU and the final revision made it the HMMU Of course marketing will come up with a suitable name for the acronym if they haven t already The HMMU translates the 32 bit address mode of the 68020 to the 24 bit mode of most of the Macintosh software It can be set under software control to run in 32 bit address mode This is necessary to take full advantage of the NuBus Drivers for NuBus cards can be written to use 32 bit mode while using the bus and restore the MMU to 24 bit mode for other software The exciting thing about this for UNIX fans is that the HMMU can be removed from the MMU socket and the Motorola 68851 PMMU Paged Memory Management Unit can be inserted The Macintosh II will still ran Macintosh software as before because the HMMU is a subset of the PMMU A UX needs the PMMU to perform multi tasking correctly and efficiently
6. John Alden 202 686 1656 Public Relations Charles Redmond 202 363 3184 SIGs amp Slices Coord Jay Thal 202 244 364 Telecom Sys Opr L on Raesly 301 439 1799 Tutorials Bob Platt 703 486 14 Volunteer Coord David Morganstein 301 972 4263 SIG Chairmen Annapolis Slice Steve Toth 301 757 3280 AppleWorks Ken DeVito 703 960 0787 Apple David Ottalini 301 681 5792 Tom Bartkiewicz 703 435 3295 CP M Charles Franklin 301 997 9138 DisabledSIG Jay Thal 202 244 3649 dPub SIG Tom Piwowar 202 223 6813 EDSIG Peter Combes 301 251 6369 Federal SIG Gordon Stubbs 703 750 0224 i Daniel Adkins 202 822 8052 Frederick Slice Scott Galbraith 301 865 3035 GameSIG _ Thomas Johnston 703 243 2795 Chrmn Emcritus Ron Wartow 301 654 4439 LawSIG John Weld day 202 463 0662 Mac Prog Grp Bob Shaffer 703 671 1194 Charles Weger 703 836 5150 Music SIG Raymond Hobbs 301 490 74 Pascal UCAS Mike Hartman 301 445 1583 PI SIG Bob Golden 301 593 6165 StockSIG Ron Grognet 301 296 5444 Ben Fogle 301 469 5822 Telecomm SIG Allan Levy 301 340 7839 Washington Apple Pi Ltd 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Bethesda MD 20814 Business Office 301 654 8060 Telecommunications System formerly BBS 301 986 8085 Copyright 1987 Washington Apple Pi Ltd EDITORIAL Interesting times Last summer I attended the Midwest Users Group Conference hosted by the Northern Illinois Comp
7. You Be the Judge contd from pg 44 misappropriation You as the judge have conducted a bricf trial and the testimony has developed the facts set forth above You are now to decide whether or not to issue an injunc tion What is your decision You are aware that one of the elements which must be proven to obtain the preliminary injunction is that there is a substantial likelihood that in the subsequent full trial on the merits the requesting party will be successful in proving copyright infringement After you have arrived at your decision go to page 66 to see how the judge actually decided the case Harvey Kaye is an attorney whose private practice includes computer and intellectual property law TWILIGHT CLONE GROUP PURCHASE OFFER Many of our members have participated in the Twilight Clone bulletin board opcrated by Paul and Diane Heller Serving primarily Macintosh owners Clone participants offer ready assistance with problems and an interesting exchange of information on a variety of topics The Clone has served computer owners in the DC arca for almost two years and has accumulated over 40 Megabytes of public domain software available to its members for downloading The Clone has a license from Apple Computer to distribute Apple s public domain software such as the most current Finder System FontDA Mover etc The current hardware configuration includes 2400 baud access into a two line system Paul and Diane h
8. 104i 1742 13109 101 11 25 m2013 3 1 Advertising 101 St0 00 4 10617 55 2014 3712iAdvertising 101 79 001 10538 55 aol han paS C A ae AE 68 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 Notice that Ed has a Code and a Category field The Code field is a number describing each account while the Category field provides a more understandable description Initially Ed used only the category field However when he tried the DSUM to obtain totals by account type he came up short This was duc to misspelling some of the entrics I suggested the use of the code since it was less error prone for entry The categories can be derived from the codes not manually entered using the Lookup function we discussed carlicr I have done that as you can see from the edit bar describing the contents of cell C6 To obtain totals by account Ed uses the DSUM function combined with a one way Table First make sure the database has been defined Do this by sclecting the entire array of ficld labels and entries cells A5 G27 and then use the Set Database command Next build a column of account codes and a place to put the Criteria statement The accounts which will be used in a Tables statement appear in D32 D0 while the cells A32 A33 were used to Set Criteria E31 and F31 contain DSUM commands which compute the total Expense and total Revenue You can see the definition of F31 below DSUM Database Revenue Criteria DSUM
9. 160 cps Epson coapatible best buy ae 1080i 120 cps as abovel ies grat Citizen MSP 20 200 cps matrix Epson compatible 349 OAISYWHEEL amp LASER PRINTERS Epson DX 20 20 cps daisywheel Diablo cospatible 369 Citizen Presier 35 35 cps fastest for the aoney 499 Qune LetterPro PLUS 45 cps daisywheel 595 Silver Reed 800 40 cps Diablo coapatible 759 600 25 cps daisywheel wide carriage 569 NEC Elf 16 cps par amp ser interface NEC Oiablo emul 419 8830 55 cps daisywheel built like a tank 1195 Diablo 635 55 cps daisywheall 0 cece eee eee 625 H P LaserJet Series II 512k 1 5meg 8 ppal 1895 2295 PS Jet Postscript upgrade for Canon H P lasers 2150 Epson Okidata QMS AST Quadras Quae lasers call HODEMS Hayes Saartaodea 1200A 1200 300 card for JC4 JCe call Hicromodea Jle 300 baud card for JC JCe wi sft 145 Saartaodea 2400 2400 1200 300 baud R5 232 599 Spartacdea 1200 1200 baud RS 232 389 Smarteodea 300 300 baud R5S 232 145 Anchor Automation Express 1200 300 loaded w features 219 Volksacdea 12 1200 300 baud RS 232 139 Lightning 24 2400 1200 300 RS 232 325 Prometheus Proaodea 1200G 1200 300 baud R5S 292 179 Promadea 1200A 1200 300 card wi software 209 US Robotics Courier 2400 2400 1200 300 baud R5 232 395 Courier 1200
10. Actions The Take One program is able to convert any hi res picture or Applesoft shape table which the user might get elsewhere for use within the program It was very interesting in the context of the Take One review therefore to get to look at Zany Zingers amp Characters What the library of Zany Zingers amp Characters adds to the Take One program is 782 additional actors any character which can be made to move is an actor new actions and new backgrounds which already have the animation movements added in Animation from scratch can be a very time consuming process so this added movement can be very welcome This new library is derived from the bundling of the Heroes and Villains animation library the Business characters animation library and a new Cartoon Characters animation library These libraries are furnished on three sides of two disks and they are booted as data disks for Take One the utility of an already useful program And oh yes something that I failed to mention in the original review Both Take One and Zany Zingers amp Characters are products of BAUDVILLE Grand Rapids Michigan Stock SIG News contd from pg 22 validity of cycle analysis by agrecing on the critical importance of controlling input data to well beyond the third decimal point That method accommodates the fact that the stock market often moves in a saw tooth rather than sine wave fashion Future mectings wil
11. Apple personnel told the developers that they should start changing their software to assure that it will run in native 32 bit addressing mode because that is the direction Apple is going Programmers out there be forewarned Recommended reading on the Macintosh II Every computer magazine has given coverage to the new Macs MacWorld had quite a few technical errors MacUser and Macizine had a few mistakes as well The best most accurate and in depth coverage was in Byte I recommend reading the Byte article before plowing through Inside Macintosh Vol 5 The Palette Manager The what The Palette Manager was finished the day before the conference This is why those of you who have read all of the available literature on the Macintosh II have not heard of it Prototype boards for the new Macintoshes Diversified I O Inc is shipping some prototype boards for the new Macs The have one for the NuBus one for the SE slot and an extender board for both They are 50 each Call them at 408 730 2171 One Gigabyte WORM We are in the process of interfacing the OSI Optical Storage International LascrDrive 1200 with SCSI interface to the Macintosh The cartridges hold over one gigabyte per side If any WAP members are interested I could bring it to a meeting for a demonstration Jim Lanford is the architect of MacLabeler MARS2 PostHaste and other yet to be announced software for the Macintosh Il He has implemented ground
12. In setting up a Custom Printer with my Imagewriter II what is the code to tum on headline or 4 or 5 characters per inch It doesn t tell in the manual and Apple won t respond to my letter LeRoy McMillin ANSWER What we have here is a failure to commun icate Apple Computer Company probably can t respond to your letter because the popularity of AppleWorks has created an unmanageable flood of questions The Imagewriter can t respond because these mindless literal yet obedient computer peripherals only respond to very limited and specific codes I on the other hand welcome the opportunity to respond to your question First set up a Custom Printer to allow the headline com mand to replace one of the AppleWorks printer options such as superscript Select 5 Other Activities from the Main Menu then 7 Specify Information about your printer s Enter all of the codes that you will be using for example enter ESC Q for 17 characters per inch Finally choose the commands that you are going to redefine For other applications I generally use superscript begin and superscript end but in this case you should use 4 characters per inch or 5 characters per inch The Imagewriter code for headline is CONTROL N begins headline mode CONTROL O returns to normal mode There is no code dedicated for 4 actually 4 5 or 5 characters per inch you must use a combination of headline and 9 characters per inch or headline and 10 chara
13. It s the access itself that docs the trick Let s try it The spcaker toggle is located at address C030 hex 49200 or 16336 decimal So a PEEK 16336 will cause the speaker to beep actually the thing will do litde more than a click when accessed in 24 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 this way by BASIC But essentially that s all there is to it The Softswitch Locations Some operations arc cas ier to deal with than others For example the disk drive motor controller softswitch is not a toggle type instead you use one switch to turn it on and another one to tum it off When I discovered this switch I only knew how to tum the drive motor on After about a minute of POKEing around I finally had to tum the Apple off to get the blasted contraption to stop Later on I found it SCOE9 to start the motor and S COE8 to stop it You can try this out by typing POKE 16151 1 to start the motor slot 6 drive 1 and POKE 16152 1 to stop it Other popular softswitches are those dealing with graphics They can be used like the BASIC HGR HGR2 GR GR2 and TEXT commands but they allow much more flexibility Here are the graphics softswitches LOCATION FUNCTION LOCATION EEEE SO A PORE IO Pernice heed arean sett 6052 16302 poe with o Select screen C054_ 16300 POKE with O LoRes mode if text screen is off CO56 16298 POKE with 0 Select double HiRes mode CJleonly COSE_ 16290 POK
14. Monitor Imagewriter printer and accessory kit extended 80 column text AppleColor RGB Adapter Card RF Modulator all cables manuals and original cartons 1500 or best offer Will consider selling components separately Call Milt Goldsamt 301 649 2768 eve or 301 921 0010 days Washington Apple Pi May 1987 5 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 mailed to you Subscriptions to the Washington Apple Pi Journal are not available The Journal is distributed as a benefit of membership Mailing Notice Change of address must be postmarked at least 30 days prior to effective date of move Joumal 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 Please note that the office is closed on all U S Govern ment holidays Members are asked to place phone calls to the office during the day hours Monday Friday whenever possi ble since only one person staffs the office dur
15. but more an arcade game where one player Alice tries to evade a full complement of chess pieces while attempting to capture them at the same time It is still available at a couple of local stores check call Bethesda Computers or there was is a computer store on Georgia Avenue N of Beltway forgot the name which still had it a few months back DEACON MACCUBBIN ON 01 09 Those who have regained their memory and escaped the cops in Deja Vu then fought their way past gremlins and zombies to save their brother in The Uninvited GET READY ICON Simulations will be announcing their latest graphic adventure release this week It s called SHADOWGATE and they promise that it is bigger better and more challenging than ever with more animation and more and better sounds The game should be ready for shipment by the end of January WILLIAM HULTGREN ON 01 15 Please help I downloaded my first game from Compuserve but can t get it to run ResEdit says it contains no resources DEACON MACCUBBIN ON 01 16 Did you use XModem Macbinary as your transfer protocol If so chances are the game is packed You ll need Packit III to unpack it it s on CompuServe in the MACUS DL14 under the name PACKIT BIN What game is it anyway If you used simple XModem for instance if you downloaded with a version of Macterminal earlier than 2 0 then you ll need to convert the file with Binhex 5 That too is available on CompuServe probably in DL14 also You
16. contain typographical errors The appendix docs not cover the uses procptrs statement which is neces sary when passing procedure pointers to the toolbox The author can be faulted for his Pascal style He does not isolate initialization code in a separate procedure Page 115 introduces the odd convention of const Handle Longlint when proper Pascal would be type Handle Longlint Goodman s approach gives an error message Absent these typographical flaws you will find the samples interesting Anyone who can replicate Inside Macintosh and Macintosh Revealed in 287 pages deserves an award for conciseness MAC DISKETERIA NOTES by Marty Milrod amp Dave Weikert This will be a rather lengthy article and we beg your indulgence about its varied subject matter First let us once again remind our new novice Mac users that all of the text documentation items used on our Mac Disks may be read by using MacWrite 4 5 in the Mac and by simply double clicking on the text file The same is true for MacPaint 1 5 where the document may be stored in MacPaint format the paint brush along the left hand edge and one line across the icon page If you have any other commercial word processing software the text materials within these disks may be opened by first opening your word processor and then from within the program closing the blank screen and opening the Mac Disk description from the dialog box which will appear in your word proce
17. e to IIgs Raymond Hobbs Saturday June 20 1 00 4 00 PM Fee 15 S20 This course is for those in the midst of converting as well as those about to convert Please check the desired tutorials and return this form with fee s made payable to Washington Apple Pi Ltd to 86 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 Washington Apple Pi Ltd Name Membership No Attn Tutorials 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Daytime phone Evening phone SEEE nen ee ere INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Adaptation Elcctromics sesssenerseeeeeeeens 47 Anderson Jacobson sssssessceessteenee 23 r Applied Services Inc ccsscccsssssseeeseecees INDEX TO AUTHORS ASSY IMETIOrS seseseeeesssvsersssesvsrsnsess 21 CACI Graphic Services sssccceceeseeeees 57 Baldridge Bill 0000 76 Norling Rich 71 Clinton Compiler cases iasicsacaciseasacaaseteeoderss 1 Begleiter Ralph J 60 Oringel Bob ccsecceeee 23 Computer Den Ltdiv ca cccassesccdavsessssasvesnnne 33 Black Forrest sscceseeess 31 Ottalini David 008 10 Computer Ware Unlimited csssesseeeees 15 Boren John J oo ceeeeeeee 56 Pastura LOU cccecssseeees 36 Coral Software sssscsccceccccrsscssssseceeesens 71 Burger James M 0080 69 Payne Steven seses 27 32 Gestalt Systems INC ssssssssssosressesssesereerese 59 Byrd Richard J n se 56 Platt Robert C 16 26 82 85 Family
18. from the TCS DownLoad SYSTEM The current labels may be confusing but they will be changed in the future TEXT This is to download text files and is just a stream of data which you would capture in your software buffer and save to disk This is not the preferred way to download files as it takes longer there is no accuracy check for data and should only be uscd for files that are truly text Most files on any non commercial download system typed as TXT are usually not text but simply stored that way by the Host System XMODEM This is the original Ward Christensen s CheckSum XMODEM On the TCS this is called AE ProDOS 3 3 and is reached by entering the A for AE Pro at the download menu then choosing option 1 XMODEM CRC This is also the Ward Cristensen s protocol but the error checking is by Cyclical Redundancy Check rather than by Checksum This is located at two levels on the TCS At the download menu it is the X MODEM command You would usc this if you have a MAC At the next command level it is the AE Pro ProDOS option 2 Sounds confusing lIct s look at it in chart form at the download menu Menu Xfer T gt Text for any computer X gt XMODEM CRC for MACs A gt ASCII EXPRESS l gt DOS 3 3 XMODEM ChkSum l gt ProDOS XMODEM CRC for ProDOS O K now lets look at an actual download session I will leave out the process of signing on and will just
19. international conventions alluded to above there is domestic legislation namely the Copyright Acts of 1909 and 1976 respectively The Act of 1909 recognized the right of copyright only for materials that were intelligible to persons it did not allow copyrights for machine readable materials Hence only the written expression of a computer program was copyrightable material The U S Copyright Office first announced it would accept computer programs for copyright registration in 1964 The first official definition of software is found in a 1980 amendment to the Copyright Act of 1976 it is defined as a computer program or a set of statements or instructions to be used directly or indirectly in a computer in order to bring about certain results The instructions recorded on a floppy disk are read into the memory of the computer where they are activated to perform the specified tasks for which the instructions were designed Software also includes the instruc tion books and manuals that accompany the floppy disk While the disks are physical the instructions are not visible one knows they are there because they cause the computer hardware to perform the designated tasks The software program is visible only in the case of the original program written by the programmer in source code i e a higher level programming language such as BASIC Beyond that point the program on the diskette or in the computer becomes invisible This conce
20. is this the Apple J series except the GS can only directly address 64K worth of memory No matter what the salesman said the limit of the Apple J is 64K What happens with extra memory modules then The answer depends in part on whether you are using an Apple or a e For now I will confine my remarks to the which is somewhat simpler but keep in mind that a completely similar thing happens on the e Let s take the example of a J with a 16K RAMcard frequently called a Language Card The Apple came with 48K of RAM and 16K of ROM In anybody s book this adds up to 64K Adda 16K RAMcard and you come up with 80K too much The Apple copes with this by switching one section of memory out and switching another section in In other words it s like job sharing You occupy your desk from 9 to 5 when you get off and Joe comes in and sits at your desk and starts to work Two workers one job one desk In the Apple we can throw a softswitch and one bank of memory will be switched into the address space previously occupied by another bank Therefore although we can use all 80K of memory no more than 64K will be active at one time Seems simple Well Not quite because we can get more flexibility than that We can select bank 1 of memory to write on while we read from bank 2 and vice versa Phew We can also add more banks of memory to the pot Below is a table which shows in plain English which is more than I can say fo
21. settings every time you switch on the IIgs any properly written ProDOS program you run should without any patching or modification sce a disk drive your Ram Disk in slotS drive 2 with a volume name of RAMS You can copy programs and files to it use it as a program or data disk do anything you would do with a real disk drive only at lightning speeds For people without hard disks and especially those with just a single 3 5 drive the Ram Disk is a Godsend I permanently cordon off 512K of my IlIgs 1 25MB of memory as a Ram Disk This still leaves me 637K available for the desktop in AppleWorks 2 0 even after 12 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 APPLE II NEWS AND NOTES AppleWorks has loaded itself into other parts of memory Pinpoint automatically creates a subdirectory in my Ram Disk into which it auto loads its desk accessories but the majority of the Ram Disk remains free So if Ram Disks are so easy and fast why aren t they the standard means of Apple II program and data storage The big drawback to running directly from Ram of course is that any programs or files you have in your Ram Disk die when you turn off the computer You can preserve them by saving any changed files to a real disk from your Ram Disk just before turning off the machine each time But that also means that each time you boot up you must use some file copying utility to laboriously replace in the Ram Disk any programs you want to run
22. that is each les son s pace is appropriate for a beginner For somcone with a fair amount of experience it is quite slow It would be nice to have a tape recorder on which you could vary the speed Even for an experienced user Volume 1 is a good review but slow On the other hand for someone without experience Volume 1 is an excellent start A side note however Word 3 0 is the most powerful word processor available At the present time it is the application for any serious author But it requires a lot of study The intermediate and advanced courses of Learn Word are ideal to teach the solid fundamentals of Word 3 0 Frankly if you do not need these features you probably should not buy Word 3 0 But if you do I strongly recommend Lean Word Learn Word 3 0 Volume 2 is the intermediate course It covers Using a Glossary Creating Form Letters Printing on Two Sides Using Hyphenation Styles Newspaper Columns Understanding Section Control Printing Envelopes Using Search and Replace and Changing Defaults This section gets more into the meat of Word 3 0 As in the beginning course each segment carefully takes the listener through a function of Word 3 0 The advanced course Learn Word 3 0 Volume 3 covers Formatting Characters Creating Indexes and Table of Con tents Number Lines particularly useful for Lawyers Cus tom Menus Using Footnotes Side by Side Paragraphs Using Outlines Coding Scientific Formulas and advanced
23. the designers feel is worth such an outrageous sum DICK RUCKER ON 02 01 I guess I could format up a report that mimics the data base format in order to print a text file to disk But that makes me do some work Also I am not sure that would preserve all the data base formatting and control features whatever they arc that a Ist Port export might provide KIM BRENNAN ON 02 02 Well it may be a little work but it sure doesn t affect your bank balance As far as the DB formatting and contol features you would probably have to reconstruct those to your liking no matter what you export the data base to The simplist export job retains only the data but after all that is the very stuff that you don t want to have to reenter via the keyboard Whatever new DB you go to make sure that you ll be able to import whatever you manage to export Surely it would be a criminal act for you to go to the trouble of exporting your data only to find that you can not import it Educational Softwar FRED PUHAN ON 01 02 Just read about a package of 11 games for pre K to 2nd graders for the Mac called Match On A Mac by Teach Yourself by Computer Software in MacAzine Their address is 2128 W Jefferson Rd Pittsford NY 14534 Has anybody heard about it I would REALLY like to purchase some quality software that my S ycar old can use She LOVES to play on my Mac but what I ve got for her leaming math reading etc is REALLY REALLY LIMITED
24. the older Epson 100 cartridges the old heavy metal ones that would open and would probably be tougher to do on the newer closed cartridges Myself I use a MACinker here at work We have about 6 Epson wide carriage printers here in use every day the oldest being a 5 year old or more MX 100 The last ribbon I bought was 3 years ago And now I have a red and a blue ribbon to use for special purposes Nice liule machine that inker about 50 to buy and about 5 cents to re ink a wide carriage cartridge contd on pg 43 rn TEMPEST Desk Top Publishing TEMPEST Macintosh Plus TEMPEST QMS Postscript Laser Printer Features Macintosh Plus Personal Features Computer e 2 MB RAM o IMB Memory e 5 MB ROM e Two Internal 800K Disk Drives Font Cache 279000 Bytes Keyboard Numeric Pad Legal Page Image Mouse e 300 19 2K Baud SCSI Interface e 300 x 300 Resolution e Communication Interface e Eight Pages Minute e Printer Interface e Thirteen Resident Fonts e Cooling Fan e Downloadable Fonts gt One Hour Battery Pack Option RS232 RS422 Apple Talk Don t setlle for old out dated equipment We can provide you with tomorrows product today For the best in TEMPEST desk top publishing products call TEMPEST Products Inc The following are registered trademarks TM Apple Talk s a trademark of Apple Computer Inc anent TM Postscript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Inc integra TM Macintosh is a t
25. to the authors of the shareware the requested fees if you decide to add the programs to your soft ware library Mac Disk 91 Fun amp Games XIX with Phraze Craze Plus Zero Gravity Here s an odd one for you You are ina spaceship in free fall Click the mouse on the figure manipu late it to the airlock click again and then maneuver it within the window for points Inside the spaceship remember Newton s law outside the spaceship watch out for strange outside influences Shareware 1 5 15 00 for source code GunShy 1 0 A shareware version of Mah Jongg a solitaire like game played with tiles not cards The end tiles on each row are free Clear the tiles by clicking on matching contd Washington Apple Pi May 1987 83 scts of free tiles Use the option key to highlight the free lilcs See the extensive help menus for other ideas Every ware If you keep it you have to give a copy away Tic Tac Toe Too A strange implementation of tic tac toe which you play against yourself not the computer You get to select the size of your game grid and you score every time you get three X s or O s in a row Golf 1 1 A solitaire game in which you play for the lowest score just like its namesake Shareware 10 I Ching An electronic and thcy say statistically accurate implementation of the Taoist book of philosophy and divination Shareware 15 and a disk for an enhanced version PhrazeCrazePlus A_better than we ha
26. 0 bug which we discussed in last month s column Version 1 3 accidentally uses instructions which are only available on the 65C02 chip Therefore Version 1 3 will crash on a J or unenhanced e Another known bug in 1 3 causes excessive polling of unused disk drives when using a disk controller card with two 5 25 drives attached An experi mental version of 1 4 is in limited distribution but has additional problems Version 1 1 is the latest for Pro DOS 16 and it has yet to fully support all IIgs features The following program written by Stephen Thomas and modified by Glen Bredon will patch ProDOS 1 1 1 through 1 4 NEW 10 REM 00 11 REMStop ProDOS track 0 trashing 12 REMpatches by Stephen Thomas 13 REM MacLagan Wright amp Associates 14 REM West Heidelberg VIC Australia 15 REM 16 REMModified by G Bredon to patch 17 REMPRODOS 1 2 1 3 1 4 as well as 18 REMPRODOS 1 1 1 On 1 3 another bug 19 REMwhich makes 1 3 incompatible with 20 REMolder machines still using a 6502 21 REMprocessor is also fixed On 1 4 22 REMa new bug is also fixed 23 M 20 2nennennneenee 24 REM 150 TEXT HOME E 0 160 VTAB12 Now patching ProDOS 170 ONERRGOTO470 180 IFPEEK 116 lt 128THENE 1 GOTO470 REMIs mem free 190 CHRS 4 UNLOCK PRODOS 200 CHRS 4 BLOAD PRODOS TSYS A 2000 210 ADR 4 4096 220 P 0 FORI 4TO8 IFPEEK ADR lt gt 234 THENP 1 16 Washington Apple Pi Ma
27. 15 SCL 25 19 ADB 26 1A AWP OMNAINMALWN 27 1B ASP 176 B0 SRC 177 B1 OBJ 178 B2 RBN 178 B2 LIB 180 B4 RTL 181 B5 EXE 182 B6 STR 184 SB8 NDA 185 B9 CDA 186 SBA TOL 200 C8 FNT 226 E2 DTS 239 SEF PAS 240 SFO CMD 247 SF7 IMG 249 SFO P16 250 SFA INT 251 FB IVR 252 SFC BAS 253 SFD VAR 254 FE REL 255 SFF SYS ProDOS Typeless File Bad blocks file Pascal code file SOS Pascal text file SOS ASCII text file Pascal data file SOS ProDOS 8 binary load Font file SOS Graphics screen file Business BASIC program file SOS Business BASIC data file SOS Word processor file SOS SOS system file SOS SOS reserved SOS reserved SubDirectory RPS data file SOS RPS index file SOS 9 AppleWorks 3 Easy Pieces data base file AppleWorks 3 Easy Pieces word processor file AppleWorks 3 Easy Pieces spreadsheet file Source Orca M Apple gs Programmers Workshop APW Object Orca M APW Orca M ProDOS 8 assembler Library Orca M for the GS APW ProDOS 16 system file Run time library Orca M APW Shell load file Orca M APW load file Orca M APW New desk accessory Orca M APW Classic desk accessory Orca M APW Tool file Orca M APW Font file Orca M APW Defile RAM toolset patch Orca M APW 9 ProDOS CI added command file gt gt gt disk image Copy lt lt lt ProDOS 16 file Integer Basic file Integer Basic variable file Ap
28. 24 1987 DATAFRAME 20 amp SuperMac Enhance turns ANY Mac 512e into a DATAFRAME 20 XP SPECIAL PRICES 2MB SCSI Super 5700 000 ees arte Increases yo 512e et 30 with 2 Meg stan fe dard and upgrade Aac AZ Rebors able to 6 5 Meg All this with a lifetime IN STOCK warranty Call Mac VAX Killers CORNER today for further details New from MacMemory TurboMax is an upgrade loaded with all the features a power user needs The raw speed of the 16MHz 68000 processor and the 68881 co processor boosts your speed up to 60 times faster C ALL Call today for details LEVCO PRODIGY For those of us wanting the ultimate per formance out of the Mac or Mac Plus without regards to price SPECIAL SUPERMAC PROMOTION Buy any XP DataFrame hard disk XP 40 XP 20 XP 40 40 and get the following boards at incredible prices ENHANCE SUPERRAM 2 DATAPORT abc SPECIAL PROMOTION DOES NOT INCLUDE DATAFRAME 20 SOFT STRIP READER Cauzin Soft Strip Reader provides all you will need to read your own soft strips 7 95 MORE 199 Turn any printed image into a detailed high re solution Macintosh graphic Works with all Im on San al MEGASCREEN m For those with more demanding applications the MegaScreen 2 s 19 display offers room for 2 full pages m An inter face card for the MAC SE is now available C ALL PERESA 499 2 meg Ram upgrade 250 TRSN Ronco Ie
29. 300 Lasersetter from Allied or the LaserWriter from Apple At 2 540 lines per inch the Linotronic s resolution is as close to actual typesetting as you can get Yet it s as easy as printing on a 300 dots per inch LaserWriter How does it work Who is the service for Prepare your copy on e Apple Macintosh users your system e Atari ST Publishing e Deliver your disk to Partner users CACI Graphics Services e Users of any PostScript e Pick up your typesetting compatible software printouts What else do we offer e 24 hour turnaround for Telecommunications in most jobs some cases e Print out of text and Job preparation aid graphics e Courier handling e Service for any project from proposals to ads like this one e Choice of RC paper film or plain bond paper for output e Total disk securi disk ty eici Graphics Services 8260 Willow Oaks Corporate Drive Fairfax Virginia 22031 Call 703 876 2231 Atan ST n a taderrurk of Aan Corpuranon Publishing Parner is 3 trademark of Soft Logi Cop Limyronic i a trademark of Ahed Corporation Macintosh and Laser Wnier are artrasemarts of Apple Computer Inc Postwnpt is a trademark of Adohe Systems Incorporated Washington Apple Pi May 1987 57 A POWER USER PRIMER by Fred Seelig If I hear one more person call himself a power user I m going to take my McCullough 20 power chainsaw and power through his Macintosh The Pow
30. 30th 10 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 MEETING QUEUE Hard disk problems will be the focus of our May meeting Bob Shaffer Jr has agreed to bring his tools and take a look at any sick Profiles or other hard disks you may have Along the way you ll learn a little bit about what s involved with keeping these useful peripherals going If you have a hard disk other than a Profile and would like Bob to take a look at it during the mecting please call me so that he will know what he s getting himself into I have two Profiles lined up so far and given the constraints of time we want to get a count of what might be coming Please also keep in mind that Bob will be taking a look at the machines with an idea toward suggesting what might be wrong and how to go about getting the problems fixed No effort will be made to actually repair any hard disk brought in OTHER SIG NEWS This is also a good time to start thinking about the Garage Sale coming up in Junc Start gathering your programs hardware and software old books and magazines There s almost always a buyer willing to take SOMETHING off your hands We had our own little Apple section last December and came away with a fairly successful day Watch the Joumal for details as the June sale will not be at USUHS as in previous years On the Public Domain front I am happy to say that we have submitted another disk to the Disketeria staff for inclu sion in our library Disk number 1006
31. 36 points Greg s Czech A thin font in 12 and 24 points Lachine A typewriter look alike font for the Imagewriter I amp II available in 9 10 12 14 18 20 24 and 28 points This may be one of the best looking Imagewriter fonts since Boston II Mac Disk 93B Fonts VI Apollo Fonts Lachine Geneva The font you know and love on the Mac now in sizes of 28 and 36 points Shareware 15 00 regis tration fee for any or all of the Apollo family of fonts Herford Similar to Courier and Times in sizes of 9 10 12 14 18 20 24 and 28 points Hood River A horizontally compressed sans serif font in 12 and 24 points Kendall A somewhat thicker sans serif font in 12 and 24 points MacSymbols Instead of letters you get graphics such as a Close box a pointer a question mark and Mac buttons Madeira Another Courier type font in sizes of 9 10 12 14 18 20 24 and 28 points Manteca A thick font with a slightly stenciled look available in 18 24 36 and 48 points Norwood Square Serif A thick font that s thicker at the bottom of the characters in 24 and 48 points Obliqe An attractive font with more diagonal lines in the rounded parts of the characters available in sizes of 9 12 18 24 and 36 points San Francisco A jagged font that s good for writing kidnap or blackmail notes Now you can write BIG notes with fonts of 18 and 36 points Silicon Beach A somewhat thick sans serif font in 12 24 and 48
32. A0 C5 D3 C3 Cl DO C5 AO E5 FB E9 F4 F3 AO F4 EB when printing on an Epson MX100 with a Grappler inter 0A73 E5 AO FO F2 EF E7 F2 El ED AE 8D 8A 53 53 53 53 face card What s wrong 0A83 53 53 55 AO C8 E9 F4 AO F3 FO El E3 E5 AO E2 El A The Grappler is probably the problem try a different 0A93 F2 AO F4 EF AO F3 F4 El F2 F4 AE AO 48 53 53 53 control card OAA3 53 53 53 8D 00 AD 00 CO C9 AO DO F9 2C 10 CO 2C 0AB3 83 CO A2 01 86 E7 86 E9 A2 20 86 El 86 E4 AO 00 0AC3 84 E8 84 EO 84 42 98 aD 04 CO 91 EO C8 DO FB E6 Q What is BINARY2 protocol OAD3 E1 CA DO F6 2C 57 CO 2C 53 CO 2C 50 CO 8D 05 CO A BINARY is a protocol for sending multiple binary Pro QAE3 A9 00 85 E5 20 C3 OB A9 55 85 ES 20 C3 OB A9 FF DOS files under XMODEM A single transmission will OAF3 85 ES 20 C3 OB A9 AA 85 ES 20 C3 OB 4C A4 OB A2 d 1 fil d all of their ProDOS attributes as 0B03 00 86 E6 BD 83 CO A9 20 85 E4 20 82 OC 20 67 OC send several lies an of their Fro 0B13 20 51 OC A9 40 85 E4 20 82 OC 20 67 OC 20 51 0C well BINARY2 is used on Compuserve 0B23 A9 60 85 E4 20 82 OC 20 67 OC 20 51 OC A9 80 85 0B33 E4 20 82 OC 20 67 OC 20 51 OC A9 AO 85 E4 20 82 ied pj inging on my IIgs desktop Should I 0B43 0C 20 67 OC 20 51 OC A9 DO 85 E4 20 82 OC 20 67 Q Te weird pink gs ng rae y j P 0B53 0C 20 51 OC A9 EO 85 E4 20 82 OC 20 67 OC 20 51 send in my computer for an adjustment ve 0B63 0C A2 08 86 E6 BD 83 CO A9 DO 85 E4 20 82 OC 20 A Apple is working on the problem but no fix is a
33. But the power lifestyle image burns e er brightly in the breast of a Washington Yuppie Filofacts notebooks Quiche for lunch Power suits Yellow power ties Florsheim power shoes Power jogging outfits Power plastic cards Kids in Advanced Placement classes or ones with high SAT scores Power kids Summer computer camps Hmmm an inter esting topic for future articles Small but very expensive cars Power transportation If you don t have these things then you re ipso facto not powerful So you get these things to become more powerful If you have a computer then you are a power user It would not do to be an ordinary user No no no girls would never marry just ordinary com puter users No you have to be something special in Hackdom nowadays Seen in this light the Mac is just an extension of a person s quest for a progressive image It s a pity that Ikea isn t an Apple Volvo dealer since if it were it would be almost too convenient buy your station wagon there toot over to the main store and pick up a few Macs pay for it all with the AmEx Gold and buzz home One stop Yuppie shopping The concept boggles the fragile mind The Poseurs Let s talk about power user poseurs Posing as a power user isn t hard First you buy a Macintosh Then you find out what kilobytes really means Then you start telling all of your impressionable friends that you have a million bytes of RAM That s Random Access Memory pal y
34. Databese Revenue Criteria Exceling 2 E i i i mse iremeseeremactmeaspemerrenascnmeGeretnsecm rvs merme emn E EERS POENT E E NES PERTEN Expense 6000 00 ra ENTAR adane mememe Ges Next fill in the totals of Expense and Revenue for each code using the Tables command The result a completed table containing a summary of each categories transactions The Table command under the Data menu was applied to cells D31 F42 after entering the DSUM commands in E31 and F31 ee c D E 31 5 637 07 16 175 62 Advertising 101 89 00 0 00 F 32 33 Food 1021 1 162 25 0 00 34 Postage 35 Printing 104 16 98 0 00 36 Salares 105 2 172 81 0 00 37 Supplies 106 19 07 0 00 38 Travel 9 50 0 00 Advertising 0 00 9 728 18 40_ Dues _202 0 00 3 372 95 Sales 0 00 1 951 21 42 Tutoriais 204 0 00 1 123 28 Ed s report template picks up this summary data from the check register and links it so that monthly changes are contd on pg 70 REVIEW CORNER by James M Burgers MACWORLD PLUS Reviews This month I am reviewing several products that I saw at MacWorld The first is a series of software packages that is billed as hands on training for the Macintosh I Learn Word 1 2 and 3 Personal Training Systems in San Jose California has a series of audio tape cassettes and disks
35. Draw 37 50 UNO Sis cce cies ceeeascvestiaadgcsoasiacisteces 56 00 Kensington Turbo Mouse eee 90 00 THUNGOPCIOCK ciccsisciensiscessecasessccsssessedaense 100 00 Record Master 40 or 60 columni 40 00 Copy tH or Copy HE MAC 20 00 Complete line of Kensington MOfcesseries JOYSTICKS CH MACH 11 57 50 Kraft 55 00 COMPUTER BEN LIB 11716 Kemp Mill Road Stisers Spring MB 70987 SUT 49 GB6H Call te erder Sanday Jbursday 1U H M 9P M UPS shipping available Ganalitg Biscounts Washington Apple Pi May 1987 33 are by Raymond Hobbs Putting It All Together In this series of articles I have examined the various clements of computer assisted music synthesis the synthe sizers the computer the MIDI interface the sequencer the instrument sound editing process In this article I will put together an imaginary music synthesis system including a brief description and comparison of alternate choices for each component part Dispensing with my usual rhetoric here we go 1 Synthesizer This is the heart of the system it generates the sound itself Synthesizers come in all sizes and price ranges but those usually found attached to home systems cost from 500 to 1500 have 8 voices and a 61 note keyboard My choice for the person just beginning to explore music synthesis is the Casio CZ 1000 costing about 300 with 4 voices and a 61 note keyboard Although cheaper synthesizers are available the CZ 1000
36. ES SFFF TSYS Boot this patched copy and it should print to the IIgs ports Ugs Disk Dri TOM VIER ON 03 18 Hardware wise ALL the drives hanging off the SmartPort are attached to the IWM which is accessed through the Slot 6 soft switches The firmware for the 3 5 drives and other Protocol Converter devices i e built in RAMdrive is in Slot 5 and as you said the floppy firmware is in Slot 6 The firmware will fall through to other drives during scan several ways depending on how your Control Panel is configured PS This all assumes you are not using any Your Card selec tions for drives 38 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 TOM VIER ON 03 19 It s not really unreasonable All the drives are hooked together right They must have a common controller Since DOS3 3 and the ProDOS floppy driver plus other software normally accesses the controller registers directly the ITWM registers were mapped into the usual Slot 6 location for floppies Since the Protocol Converter aka Smartport has to be called by software instead of manipulating the registers directly the firmware can be Slot 5 and it can stroke the hardware in any slot In this case Slot 6 Sick c GAIL TAIT NOURI ON 03 16 Does anyone know a good repair shop for my 6 month old c It will not read certain disks and Computerland quoted 250 which is about 200 too much LOU PASTURA ON 03 18 Gail add distance between the computer and the monitor OR add shie
37. Fan a little noisy but compared to what Also I just downloaded from Compuserve a DA that s great for those with a hard disk called DiskTop from CE Shareware download file DSKTOP BIN 35986K if you don t subscribe to CIS call me and I ll upload it for you JONATHAN TETZLAFF ON 02 08 After reading the other messages on hard drives I thought you might be interested in my experiences ordering a Jasmine 80 meg drive at work We ordered the drive on December 28 and were given a delivery date of January 17 When it hadn t arrived by the 19th I called Jasmine They told me that Quantum who makes the drive itsclf was having some problems with the ROM and were in the process of changing it Then they told me that I might not get the drive for about two more weeks To make a long story short it took 3 or 4 calls to get the drive We received it on February 3 The rep at Jasmine said that the demand for the 80 meg drive has been tremendous Because of this they shipped the drive without documentation Their rationale was that a purchaser of an 80 meg DD could probably cope for a few weeks without detailed instructions They have promised to mail the documentation as soon as it is available approximately 2 3 wecks from now The drive itself is relatively noisy As with Jasmine s 20 meg it comes shipped with about 10 meg of public domain programs and shareware Good stuff from the looks of it but the sheer quantity makes it a little overwhe
38. HEALER SSI Apple series is a direct continuation of GEMSTONE WARRIOR In GEMSTONE WARRIOR you had to pick up 5 pieces of the Gemstone and get out of the underground caverns where it had been hidden But unfortunately the Gemstone is flawed It must be healed before it will have its powers restored To heal it you the adventurer will have to reenter the caverns once more split the Gemstone into its component pieces heal them sepa rately and put them together This is the goal of GEM STONE HEALER To reach the first goal of splitting the gemstone you must find a hammer and chisel The pieces are then split on an altar Once done each piece is carried around with you and separately placed on altars distributed through the caverns To heal each piece you need special tools There are 25 in all proper combinations of 5 tools each are described in a series of scrolls which you must find All the action takes place in a series of caverns which you generate on a blank disk New games played from the same generated caverns have the same visible and secret entrances and exits Cavern color and the shapes of the doorways do vary game to game The distribution of monsters crypts chests and altars can vary within a room Although there are only a few kinds of monsters they can be quite tough to get around or to kill especially if several come at you at once from different directions I have moved the adventurer around using a joystick sc
39. In contrast IBM reported a 48 decline in the fourth quarter Maybe Apple can loan them some money to get them over the hard times New HyperDrive and General Computer General Computer has released a 40 Mbyte SCSI version of its external hard disk for the Macintosh It is called the FX 40 and retails for 1 799 In addition to doubling the storage capacity of the 20 Mbyte FX 20 it also has a faster average access time of 28 milliseconds compared to 65 milliseconds for the FX 20 and most other Macintosh hard disks Hard disks with this access speed have long been available for the IBM but are only recently appearing for the Macintosh The FX 40 contains a 3 5 size Scagate hard disk and is contained in an identical case as the FX 20 I hope they have decreased the noise of the fan General Computer also released a 30 conversion kit that allows the FX 20 to interface with Apple II computers that are equipped with a SCSI card not included Neither the FX 20 or the FX 20 are compatible with General Computers Hyper net software although the internal hyperdrives are compatible There have also been no upgrades to the FX software that add the missing capabilities found in the internal Hyperdrives I have been one of the more vocal critics of the internal 64 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 Hyperdrives and written several articles for the Journal about my personal experience In November I wrote a detailed three page letter to General Comp
40. JACOBSON Andorson Jacobson Inc 8653 Grovomont Circlo Gaithoraburg MD 20877 4191 301 840 5700 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 23 The Button Down Guide to the Apple by Ray Hobbs Softswitches and Music The last Button Down Guide written before my venerable Apple moved to the public school system promised to cover the Apple J softswitches Now after doing some tinkering with my GS I m happy to report that they re still there for the most part In this article I ll flip a few of those switches just to sce what they do and I ll demonstrate how to put them to practical use from within your programs Also in keeping with this month s musical theme pun acknowl edged I ll use a softswitch CALL a Monitor subroutine make a machine language to BASIC hook and use a DOS binary file SAVE all for one program to make music on the Apple J series Blackstone should pull so many rabbits from one hat The Softswitch Concept When Steve Wozniak designed the Apple he jumped miles ahead of the competition by including a truly stunning array of capabilitics in a single box Not only was the full 64K of memory user accessible but there was a workhorse operating system called the Monitor with defined entry points for user interfacing a BASIC interpreter an assembler two text pages two pages each for LoRes and HiRes graphics and I O operations tied to memory resident switches We have already looked at the overall ar
41. Lynn R Trusal is a Major in the US Army and a research physiologist with the U S Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Ft Detrick Frederick MD He is also the organizer of the Frederick Apple Core Macintosh Special Interest Group contd MICROPROCESSORS The brain of any microcomputer is the central processing unit or CPU It is also referred to as the microprocessor or more specifically as the 6502 68000 or 8088 just to name a few IBM microcomputers and their compatibles are based on the Intel series of microprocessors including the 8088 8086 80286 and 80386 while the Macintosh Atari and Amiga use the 68000 series by Motorola I ve seen much debate in the computer literature about which microprocessor series is better more upwardly compatible or provides better graphics support I will discuss some of the features and problems of each microprocessor family I m not an electronic engineer or microprocessor expert and it is with this caveat that I begin this discussion I will distill down information which I have read and give the reader some insights into the future growth of Macintosh as it relates to the Motorola 68000 series of CPU s Perhaps the three most important aspects of the microprocessor are the size of the data and address buses the processing speed as measured in megahertz MHz and the amount of memory that the CPU can directly address The clock speed is a measure of how much
42. Mac Interface Good On Line Help Good Documentation Content no external documentation Product Physical Quality Good Presentation Good Performance Neutral Price Value Good Gs DEEP SPACE OPERATION COPERNICUS A Review by Jeff Malka Sir Tech s new release DEEP SPACE Operation Copernicus Apple series 64K is a shoot em up game set in space The nasty insect brained Adromedans have invaded our mining outposts and you re out there in your Katana fighter to win one for the gipper Onc of the best features of this game is the package it comes in You get a fold over manila pouch marked classi fied top secret etc and scaled with the Presidential seal for the solarian sector Inside you find a memo classified Security Level for your eyes only from the C in C of Terran forces a Ictter from the president on manuscript type paper no less a background intelligence collection of newspaper clippings 30 pages worth bringing you up to date with the present situation and the usual docs Through these news clippings which include interviews with ace pilots you get hints to allow you to prevail in combat One neat hint if you re outnumbered and in trouble tum tail and run As the enemy ships pursue you abruptly put on your retrorockets to slow down causing them to overshoot you and exposing their unshielded rears for you to shoot them down rapidly The graphics are spectacular with brilli
43. Mac Q amp A Jonathan Hardis 301 330 1422 Musical MS le Raymond Hobbs 301 490 7484 Pascal PI P po Platt 703 486 1466 Bruce Field 301 340 7038 oftviews amp Excel David Morganstein 301 972 4263 StockSIG Andrew Thompson 301 270 6790 Review Coord Jim Burger day 202 337 7900 Review Coord Raymond Hobbs 301 490 7484 Review Coord David Morganstein Review yoo Iigs Leon Raesly TCS Appl e Lou Pastura 703 560 1477 TCS Bill Baldridge 301 779 8271 Disketeria Staff DOS 3 3 Lib Jim Little 301 762 3215 Macintosh Lib Larry Halff 703 237 0984 Marin Milrod 301 464 5981 Pascal Lib Mike Hartman 301 445 1583 ProDOS CP M Lib John TH Bell 301 441 9069 Apple II Disks Jim amp Nancy Little 301 762 3215 w Use the Hotline for Technical Questions apple Disks contd John Gersic John Bell Bob Platt c Disk Copiers Dave Weikert Sa 926 4461 Dave Benbennick John arco Garry Elliott Ben Frank Andy Gallant John Gertsch Gary Grey William Jones Al Maloney Ralph Mullendore Fred Rodgers Toe Swick Pon Vande Group Purchases Rich Wasserstrom s 203 544 832 venings 7 00 9 30 Head Reading Lib Walt trancis 09 66 5742 Apple Tea Coord Amy Billingsley 301 622 2203 Arrangements Leon Moore 1 946 2642 Dealer Rel Comm John Alden 2 686 1656 Jim Burger day 202 337 7900 Gencral Counsel Jim Burger day 202 337 7900 Membership Dana Schwanz 301 654 8060 Pro
44. NIR WICKRAMASINGHE ON 01 08 Look in your Pi Journal for the full page ad by Coral contd Washington Apple Pi May 1987 77 Software for their OBJECT LOGO Looks like Alan Kay s group in the LA school is using it with kids that age The videotape of the WAP Feb 86 meeting at which Alan Kay describes some of the things he s working on is available at the Pi office WILLIAM HULTGREN ON 01 15 I purchased KidsTime for my six year old and she loves it The keyboard game is also great practice for non typists like myself FRED PUHAN ON 01 21 Thanks for the reply I have some literature on KidsTime somewhere around here but my wife said she wasn t too impressed with it I think it might be time for dad to take a personal look into it i r RICK ROBINSON ON 01 09 Anyone know where I can purchase the 3D Chess game entitled Alice or Through the Looking Glass Is this program still being sold DAVID GURSKY ON 01 09 Alice Through the Looking Glass is still available but I don t remember the details You are not the first to ask this question and I don t recall the answer Alice was sold by Apple so I would suggest giving them a buzz Another place to check would be the various software flea markets that occur throughout Washington BILL BALDRIDGE ON 01 10 Alice was a tour de force demo done by Apple Inc back in the early days of the Mac It is not a chess game per se though based on chess
45. Running d Code 419 Util Z8E REZ VDE w 2 pple Hi Volumes 1 Games Volumes 1 amp 2 1002 Basic Utility Vol 1 1003 Basic Utility Vol 3 1004 Sys Utils amp Data 1005 New Member Disk Macintosh Ta Red E e abaro yder 9 2 A nA Sign Lang Font RENEA or appin 29 Fun and Ganes E 8 30 Education I 31 1 Dun Doom Eliza Talks 32 Fun and Games II 33 Desk Accessories II 35 Fun and Games IM 36 puliges m 37 Fkey 38 Graphic Tools 39 X and Mini ADA 40 Mac Videos 41 Cap n Magneto 42 Studio Sesion 512K 43 CE Software Sampler 44 Boston II Fonts 45 Games IV ra Modula 2 46 Games Set of 3 47 Fonts IV disks 15 48 3 Fonts V no disc 49 Utilities IV Paintings 51 2 Telecom we sys 52 1 Utilities V 53 Utilities Me 54 Games 55 Games vit 56 Games VIII 57 1 New Member Disk 86 58 Desk Accessories IV 59 1 CE Sampler II 60 DesignScope Dem 6lb Statview Demo RE Demo 63 MacAPL Demo 64 Spellswell amp Gen Led Demo 65 Desk Access 66 Desk Access VI 67 Desk Access VII 68 Utilities VII 69 Utilities VII 70 Utilities IX 71 Utilities X 72 Utilities XI Sys Grph 73 Word Processin 74 Fun amp Games 75 Fun amp Games X 76 Fun amp Games XI 77 Fun amp Games XII 78 Fun amp Games XIII 79 Fun amp Games XIV 80 Fun amp Games XV 81 Utilities XII 82 Utilities XII Telecom HI 84 Fun amp Games XVI 85 Fun amp Games XVII 86 Utilities XIV 3i Utilities XV 90 Utilities XVI 91 Fun amp Games XIX 92 Edu
46. STORAGE FOR THE BERRI RA MACINTOSH WITH 51 4 abun a REMOVABLE BERNOULLI LIST 99 95 Stepping Out w A sae Price 4795 The Macintosh 20mb CARTRIDGE aap THES z E SPECIAL PRICES ARE FOR pereen ENa 1350 meanen ONLY ALL LISTED PRICES ARE FOR S 95 EOR CASH CHECK ON IN STOCK ITEMS 19 ry a LIST 1500 e MacCORNER will match or beat an AN l sann advertised in stock price in the WA LIST 5 f 2 20 52095 Hg metro area E s 88 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 UY ULI gt FA td fi OE UPERMAC DATAFRAME XP40 T S aaa 1539 DATAFRAME XP 40 40 ETSSI s maasta a CALL c Each DataFrame includes 300 FREE Software Super Spool Super Laser Spool Disk Fit and more as well as a full 1 year warranty COMSERVE Modem sharing fOr ADDIETAIK inie sasini CALL a a T E onesie CALL MAC FLOW JUST S125 200000 199 95 MACLINK PLUS LIST s199 95 149 PRINTWORKS LIST 75 rissie isses 65 SMART SCRAP amp CLIPPER uist s60 49 95 STEPPING OUT UST s95 00 0024 89 VIP uist 125 HARDWARE MAX PORT scsi for Max 2 LIST 189 ed 99 TURBO MOUSE ust s130 109 ZK URGRADE cirst 169 SMASH HIT RACKETBALL 199 DARK CASTLE 45 37 MOST GAMES ARE NOW 25 50 OFF WE WILL MATCH BEAT ANY IN STOCK ADVERTISED PRICE IN THE METRO AREA SEE OUR AD ON THE BACK COVER Site ARNI Ky GOOD UNTIL APRIL
47. Supersonic Card is that it contd leaves the GS puny internal speaker operative for all the normal beeping and buzzing which non musical computer programs do This has two advantages over piping all these sounds through the GS built in headphone jack to outside speakers which cuts off the internal speaker First it means we the normal beeps aren t ferociously loud Second it doesn t leave you at the mercy of powered portable speakers which usually shut off automatically between receiving sounds and thus can miss the first beep after a previous power down I liked the sterco effect the SuperSonic produces It s a modestly priced product that does what its makers claim it docs CONQUERING INCOMPATIBILITY A CASE STUDY The column you are now reading was mostly written by me on an Apple IIgs using AppleWorks Mostly but not wholly On its way from my fevered brain to your hands this text was written edited and prepared for the printer on four different incompatible microcomputers using four different operating systems and four different word processing programs The text was never retyped on its way to you but was passed between the machines electronically and very rapidly by average users not skilled technicians All this was possible despite the great problems of incompatibility which IBM sales reps and others love to prattle on about The truth is that if your computer and software can send text through a po
48. VAX running VMS can function as a server for PostScript compatible printers such as the Apple LaserWriter The Macintosh VAX connection uses VT 100 terminal emulation and file transfer Pacerprint runs on all VAX models and is priced according to the model being licensed A MicroVax license will cost 1 000 New Version of MORE 1 1 Living Videotcxt has just mailed to registered owners a new version 1 1 of its highly successful MORE program The free upgrade includes two disks and a documentation addendum detailing the changes Changes include the follow ing addition of an undo command selective text styling multiple fonts within same line multilevel bullet charts keyboard control of more menu items ability to save defaults delete files within MORE resume MORE where you left off and sending and receiving text from inside a document window and installing it as a template The second disk supplied with the upgrade contains the National Directory of Addresses and Telephone Numbers It contains more than 2 000 organiza tion address and phone numbers and can be accessed within MORE using the the Dial Phone command Living Videotext is to be commended for providing more than a minor improvement to their popular program and not charging for the upgrade Most of the changes in version 1 1 have come from uscr suggestions and they request that suggestions continue to be made MORE was selected as the 1986 MacUser Product of the Year
49. Vienna VA 703 442 3800 amp 6443 Old Alex Ferry Rd Clinton MD 301 856 2500 277 S Washington St Alexandria VA 703 838 9700 9636 Ft Meade Rd Laurel MD 301 953 1 1 10 or 301 792 0600 ature fear 12204 Rockville Pike Rockville MD 301 881 2810 Clinton Computer A Full Service Dealership Five Stores Cover Metro Area Clinton Opening Fifth Store in Rockville Clinton Computer one of the Metro area s largest retail computer dealers now has five stores in Clinton Rockville and Laurel MD and in Vienna and Alexandria VA We are authorized dealers for Apple microcomputers at all five locations In addition our Clinton and Alexandria stores are authorized IBM Personal Computer dealer ships We also sell printers monitors software supplies and service for the products we sell Clinton Computer was founded in 1978 by co owners Art Lundquist and Chuck Perilli It began as a two man consulting firm on the fourth floor of an fice building and grew into a 20 million dollar retail business with over 100 employees The first retail store was in Clinton MD behind a shoe store Then the company moved to a shopping center fronting on Branch Avenue in Clinton in 1982 In 1984 Clinton Computer expanded by opening a retail Business Center in Old Town Alexandria The Laurel MD store opened in 1986 when we acquired the assets of the Comm Center The Vienna store was opened in November 1986 in the
50. actual reported decisions but all names have been changed which are connected with the computer field After reading the facts consider how you would decide the case The judge s decision will be presented in the same Joumal in which the facts appear but on a different page so that you cannot sec his decision accidentally OK here is the first fact situation for You Be TheJudge It seems there was a non profit cotton cooperative called Farmers Coop which was an association of about 20 000 cotton farmers in Texas and Oklahoma The cooperative provided information about growing and marketing cotton including prices and cotton availability as well as accounting services The Farmers Coop in striving for efficiency developed and marketed beginning in 1975 a software system called Cotel for which the cooperative registered its copyright Cotel was used to provide members of the cooperative with all the services which the Farmers Coop had been providing to the cotton farmers previously but added a capability to consummate actual sales electronically The system is used by cotton farmers ginners and buyers who have terminals connected by modem to the cooperative s mainframe computer While the terminals allow the system s users to retrieve the desired cotton market information from the Farmers Coop they provide no access to the documen tation programming design or functional specifications of the Cotel system Sin
51. add on boards Experience developing a commercial package for the Apple knowledge of online systems and experience with PL 1 or C are all major pluses If you are interested in this position please send a resume to Jack Daggitt Director Software Services Quantum Computer Services 8620 Westwood Center Drive Vienna Virginia 22180 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 7 P H OTL N E For Use by WAP Members Only blem The following club members have agreed to help other members PLEASE keep in mind that the people listed are EERS Respect all telephone restrictions where listed and no calls after 10 00 PM except where indicated Have a VOLU not call about copied software for which you have no documentation specified When requests are made to retum calls long distance will be collect General Apple Accounting Packages Accountant Dec Sup BPI Programs Home Accountant Howardsoft Tax APPLE SSC Apple TechNotes AppleWorks AppleWorks Data Base Communications Packages an Anchor Mark 12 Apple Inc Modem ASCII Express BIZCOMP Modem Hayes Smartmodem Smartcom I XTALK CP M Comm Computers Specific App e Ile LISA Mac XL Macintosh General Desktop Pub Graphics Excel Helix Inside Mac MacDraw MacLion DBMS MacProject MacTerminal MS BASIC amp MS File Magic Multiplan Omnis 3 and 3 OverVue Programmin ReadySetGor Spreadsheets Spreadshects amp Graphcs Stdekick k ThinkTank
52. all I figure that some bored ad executive is allowed to have free rein once a year and write anything that comes to mind The small print on the bottom of the front page caught my eye though KSK is a results oriented advertising and public relations agency specializing in technology based companies with a vision Wow If you were a corporate president I should think you would be pretty nervous trying to get KSK to be your ad agency Imagine filling out a form to be a client of theirs Item 47 Are you a technology based company Well I suppose so I sell papers to the Government I have a Xerox machine Does that make me technology based I buy mechanical pencils for all of my employees Should I note that here Item 132 Does your company have vision 20 20 in hindsight Does that qualify as vision I do wear contact lenses and those end of the nose reading glasses Does that count Gosh this application is harder than I thought Item 168 Did you want to hire a results oriented ad agency or a non results oriented agency Well I did want some results so the answer seems obvious Maybe this is a trick question Perhaps they re dropping some Zen on me here Maybe I should answer with What is the sound of one hand slapping an ad exec silly Do I your newsletter advisor recommend subscribing to this thing Sure what the heck it s good for a few laughs And it s free Very important to young Gramm Rudmannites
53. an easy way using Microsoft Word 3 0 to convert underlining to italics through out a document Italics are easier to read more professional looking and in any event underlining became a substitute for italics only because typewriters could not easily do both regular roman type and italicized type within the same document To convert underlined text into italicized text do the following 1 Open the document or if the document is already open make sure the insertion point is at the start of the document 2 Select Save As and use the File Format button to set Word to save the file in Interchange Format RTF After you do so the font of the document will probably change and a number of unusual characters will appear 3 Select Change and in Find What type ul there is a regular space after the 1 don t type the quotation marks In the Change To box type N there is a regular space after the i again don t type the quotation marks Then click on Change All If you want to change only some underlining to italics you can do so using the other buttons in the Change dialog 4 After the change is complete select Save As Next to the File Format button in that dialog box should be an indication that the file will be saved as Text Only Go ahead and save the document 5 Close the document 6 Open the document A dialog box will appear
54. any problems hear Our number is area code etc Yes in many cases the rental libraries for applications is very handy indeed If you have been frustrated by the ability of the 20 shareware program Disk Librarian to perform on HFS files and even some MFS documents in version 1 82 without bombing out take heart Version 1 82a was sent to me by Little Bit Software after inquiries They responded very well and so far so good The version seems to work fine and is now available on WAP Mac Utilities XII Disk 81 Now about Marcus negatively slanted review of ReadySetGo3 in April s Publish a lot of IBM amp IBM compatible stuff in that publication Now about the wonderful mazes surprise menus automatic functions and calculation capabilitics of the powerful Microsoft Word 3 And some of the Word manual inconsistencies and left outs Now some more about Cricket Draw Now something on Micro Dynamics PostHaste Now about why Graphidex is superior to PictureBase Now about that hands on publication The Page LATER Jay Rohr has a private practice as a Macintosh consultant and tutor and has set up Mac systems in newspaper offices and graphics studios for 2 years His specialty is graphics commercial art and typography Gs The Complete Copy Shop e LaserWriter Plus e Self Service Macintosh Plus e Volume Priced Copies e Binding e Stapling e Folding Capitol Hit 547 0421 611 Pe
55. are almost as much fun to solve as these Unfortunately they re partially canceled out by some truly awful puzzles involving two locked safes You re not going to find any slips of paper with the combinations written on them The combinations are coded in the descriptions of objects that means that every time you see anything that you can translate into numbers you have to see if those numbers will open a safe The first combination isn t too hard to find but the second is a real killer In the unfortunate puzzle category I ll also have to mention what is easily the largest maze in any Infocom game It takes more than 100 moves to get through it It s so tough that you can t navigate it unless you ve found the map Included in the packaging is a Lucky Palm Tree Swizzle Stick guaranteed to find hidden valuables lost by the previous owners of your house It s a good thing there isn t such a swizzle stick in the game because you could find all of the treasures with it in no time at all You also get an autographed photo of Uncle Buddy and a letter from Aunt Hildegarde Don t just stuff those back in the box and start playing because you ll never get past the front door unless you ve read them The documentation is in the form of a Hollywood gossip magazine and contains some background information on Uncle Buddy s movies such as Slash n 30 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 HOLLYWOOD HIJINX and MOONMIST Tw
56. as easily What I was referring to was Cricket Draw s ability to magnify the display beyond 1x In other words MacDraw s finest magnification results in 72 pixels inch In Cricket draw there is a 144 pixels in mode and a 288 pixels in mode If this scems like it is leading towards the LaserWriter s 300 dpi it is I suspect that the high res mode is really 150 pixels inch and super hi res is 300 pixels in MIL TRATENSEK ON 02 09 CALIFORNIA DIGITAL is selling the no longer produced four pen Apple Plotter 410 for less than 200 includes shipping cables pens and paper Works great with Color Chart and the Mac Their Phone No 800 421 5041 Max paper size supported is 11by17 size B BILL BALDRIDGE ON 02 09 Is this new reconditioned or used equipment MIL TRATENSEK ON 02 09 As far as I could tell this is brand new equipment came with appropriate packing and manuals To be honest I never positively ascertained isk MARK OSTROFF ON 01 08 I have been working with a 20 20 connected to a Sperry PC at work Why just use it for backup and archive What I ve done at work is set up one cartridge as my boot up system disk and created a set of data cartridges to use in the second drive The dual 20 is great for archiving since Iomega supplies you with all the utility S W you need for file by file and disk copy backups data cartridge formating etc In fact at least in the DOS world the disk copy is SO good that is even makes WO
57. been at the cutting edge of tech nological developments Certain measures that can be taken to limit it both in the domestic and international markets will be discussed in a later essay To underscore the impor tance attached to intellectual property rights I refer you back to the numerous Bills and Conventions that already deal with the subject In H R 3 it is specifically stated that in future international negotiations on matters of internatonal trade a principal U S objecive is to push for the adoption of an anti counterfeiting code and to evolve within the World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO substantive norms and stan dards for the protection and enforcement of intellectual property particularly in new and emerging technologics and elimination of discrimination or unreasonable exceptions or pre conditions to protection S 539 Administration propos ed legislation indicates that within the framework of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations an objec tive is to develop a multilateral framework of principles rules and disciplines Finally the U S Special Trade Repre sentative has observed that There is a need for increased pro tection for intellectual property rights The world soon may be in danger of losing the bencfits of major research and develop ment which will not be undertaken if theft of the work product prevents companies from justifying the research expenditure
58. cell into the cell below 1 Use the AppleWorks spreadsheet function Apple C copy to copy one cell to the cell below To copy a single cell to a single cell below requires five keystrokes not as easy as Apple but still pretty quick after you ve done it a few times With the cursor already in the cell that you want to copy the five keystrokes are Apple C W lt RETURN gt lt down arrow gt lt RETURN gt Watch the bottom of the screen prompts to see which items these five keystrokes are sclecting 2 Use a macro program such as the Beagle Bros MACROWORKS to define the five keystrokes described above as Solid Apple After defining such a macro you will be able to ditto using one keystroke You may wish to define the macro as six keystrokes lt up arrow gt Apple C W lt RETURN gt lt down amow gt lt RETURN gt thereby allowing you to start with the cursor in the blank cell EXAMPLE Figure 1 shows a portion of a spreadsheet in which you may need to do some ditto ing Several HOME ROOM entries have been made but one is still blank By placing the cursor in the cell containing B 115 Jacks and following the five keystrokes the information will be copicd to the blank cell See the Chapter Working with Information in Work sheets in your AppleWorks Reference Manual for a more complete explanation of copying Previous Months a IDH Student Name eee Birthday Age Sex Grade Home Room Present Absent T
59. difficulties in a month and a half of printing various documents and a friend reports a similar experience Therefore the fix appears to be a good one Thank you Jonathan Hardis Your DeskTop Publishing Center 1850 Centennial Park Drive Pe Resources nm Reston VA 22091 g E LaserCopy Typesetting T PCR Users Group Member s 50 an original Two Color Transparencies From black amp white originals WAP 86117 s in rnenis fe Seen aa A Clama responsi tor for disk back up Appointment Scheduling amp Messages nees Sud o change without no ATN Plus Resource Time 10 hour Min 5 8 60 A 1 1 0 0 dPubSIG NEWS by Steven Payne The April Desktop Publishing Special Interest Group meeting began at 7 30 PM on April 1 with only a brief reference to its coincidence with April Fool s Day We opencd with questions and answers about the new Macintosh SE LaserWriter connections and possible bugs in Microsoft s WORD 3 0 Chair man Thomas Piwowar announced that ACCESS Recharging 800 426 2466 is offering to refill LaserWriter toner cartridges at a discount to WAP members 62 50 as opposed to 69 and that Aldus will now be distributing PageMaker more widely through Microamerica with a possible reduction in price resulting Tom also thanked our equipment coordinator Hersh Cousin and asked for additional volunteers to help with trans portation and publicity There was a brief discus sion of MacProo
60. for FAC members Please no calls after 10 00 PM The SIG MAC of the Frederick Apple Core will continue to meet on the fourth Tuesday of each month at the U S Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Ft Detrick MD at 7 30 PM Mac owners in the local Frederick area are welcome Call Lynn R Trusal at 301 845 2651 for details May 26 ResEdit amp MacLightning Demo MACINTOSH BITS AND BYTES by Lynn R Trusal Frederick Apple Core Macintosh IBM Hard Disk CMS Costa Mesa CA has announced a hard disk sub system that will allow IBM PCs to share files with Apple and Macintosh computers via the SCSI bus This follows release of a similar product to connect Apple e Hgs and Macintosh computers which was first announced at the San Francisco Macintosh EXPO CMS claims that a user will be able to create a document with a word processor on the IIgs store it on the hard disk and then call it up to add graphics using the Macintosh and PageMaker The document could then be printed on the LaserWriter The Apple Macintosh hard disk subsystem is called Data Exchange and consists of a 20 Mbyte SCSI hard disk with an access time of 65 milliseconds and a list price of 995 It will connect directly to the Macintosh Plus SCSI port while connection to an Apple II or IBM PC will require a SCSI adapter card Utility software will allow data stored on one partition of the hard disk to be translated into a form that other partition
61. for hooking up a music synthesis system 1 DISCONNECT THE POWER FROM EVERY THING 2 Connect the To Computer port on the MIDI interface to a serial port on the computer a serial port is any modem or scrial printer port Follow the manufacturer s instructions on slot selection If there is no recommended slot pick your own but stay away from dedicated slots such as 0 1 3 and 6 contd 3 Connect the MIDI Out port on the synthesizer to the MIDI In port on the interface some synthesizers have only a MIDI OuyThru port Use that 4 Connect the MIDI In port on the synthesizer to the l MIDI Out port on the interface 5 Connect the Audio Out port on the synthesizer to an amplifier 6 At this juncture you may play the synthesizer 7 Install your sequencer software on the computer Fol low the directions that come with the package If you are asked for the clock rate on your interface 500Khz 1Mhz or 2Mhz pick any one If it s wrong no harm will be done the system won t work and you will just have to pick again until it works properly 8 Install the Patch Editor or Librarian if you purchased one 9 Make sure that your synthesizer is turned on then start your sequencer program some sequencers will hang if they can t detect the synthesizer at startup time 10 If something goes wrong the system doesn t work a This sounds trite but make sure that everyt
62. for self paced courses in Microsoft s Word 3 0 and Excel David Morganstein has several of the Excel series and I am sure we ll see a review soon Personal Training Systems plans courses on Page Maker 2 0 and dBase Mac Unfortunately most of us cannot afford to have a personal Word expert such as Washington Apple Pi s Marty Milrod around to teach us how to use a program such as Word Moreover most of us cannot wait for the excellent WAP tutorials or we just cannot make the scheduled date The Macintosh interface of course makes learning a new program much easier Nevertheless with more and more sophisticated programs such as Microsoft Word and Excel the need for hands on tutorials is becoming more evident Personal Training Systems has moved in to fill that gap Each course contains a cassette tape and a disk of examples that are used to step the listener through each segment The beginning course Lean Word 3 0 Volume 1 Beginning Course sets out to teach the beginner the basics of Word 3 0 For a beginner who has had no experience with Word 1 0 I recommend the basic course without reservation Volume 1 teaches the following Entering and Editing Basics text entry erasure deletion changes insertion word sentence and paragraph selection moving a paragraph and saving Printing Margins and Justification Tabs and Tables Spell Checking Headers and Footers and Printing Long Documents The narrators appear quite professional
63. form letters In some respects the definition of intermediate vs advanced is subjective Some of the intermediate sections could be in the advanced course and vice versa Thus for myself it is hard to justify the intermediate without the advanced course Like the other two courses each segment takes you carefully through each exercise using the examples on the disks I had little trouble following the steps In fact as a fairly fast touch typist I found the tape slow in all the sections It should not be too fast for slower typist The great advantage of the tape player is that if it does go too fast it can be stopped until the listener catches up In summary if you are buying Word 3 0 to do serious word processing and even if you are an advanced user of Word 1 05 I would still recommend Learn Word both the intermediate and advanced courses Il Hardware Rodime 20 Okay I will admit it I am a hardware junkie Ever since I put my first add on board into my J a 16K card wow what to do with all that memory I have been hooked The first hard drive for my Mac was a Corvus 5 megabyte serial drive Compared to 3 5 inch 400K micro disks it was impressive Now there are numerous fast SCSI drives for the Mac New ones are appearing everyday I hope to review as many drives as possible The goal is not to run speed test benc hmarks Spced tests only work on disks that have the same software loaded in the same sequence Frankly ac
64. has enough capability to allow the beginner to fully explore the possibilities of synthesis at a very reasonable cost In the mid levels I ll still stick to the Casios this time with the CZ 1 8 voices and a full size keyboard costing just under 1000 For the top end the standard is the Yamaha DX 7 which has proven staying power and whose price is going down to about 1200 duc to the introduction of the DX 7 2 a major upgrade at about 1900 For sampling synthesizers I ve heard a lot about the new ones from Roland and Casio but all I ve played around with is the Ensoniq Mirage which has a huge following both of afficionados and software support It still gets my vote at about 1500 2 Computer The computer itself generates no music you may think of the Apple IIGS as a computer plus synthesizer less keyboard but rather stores and allows manipulation of musical data Any computer will work in a MIDI environment although most of the high powered software seems to be written for the Macintosh Plus or extended 512 No vote cast here 3 MIDI Interface MIDI is like a highly special ized network The MIDI interface controls the serving of data between the system controller the computer and the workstations the synthesizers MIDI interfaces may have single input and output or multiple I O ports I recommend spending the money to support multiple I O on this component since the interface dictates the expandability of your syst
65. have only gone to EMac not Mac and have had no problems with my new internal drive BILL BALDRIDGE ON 01 10 I agree with David Sce the dealer that installed it Fixing it yourself is OK assuming you know what you re doing and the consequences if you screw up i e I personally would like to see Apple be more OPEN about the Mac and at least OFFER upgrade kits with a no warranty caveat BERNIE URBAN ON 01 15 Disagree Fix the internal drive I experienced this same problem in the middle of Journal crunch week and limped along the way you suggest The application I was using would not release the key disk from the external drive and there I was stuck with need for internal or taking time out to eject from extemal Also I forgot a few times and by force of habit used the internal Either fix it tape it over or insist the upgrade installer rectify the problem RICK ROBINSON ON 01 23 First of all I own a Lo Down 20 hard drive however I don t recommend it Anyway the Lo Down sits ynder the Mac As far as hard drives that sit beside the Mac I must recommend the DataFrame hard drive from SuperMac I have talked with owners of this drive and company reps and have read much about it Seems that SuperMac offers the best support in the Hard Disk business any DF owners want to confirm or debate this I m not sure what method the DataFrame uses to park its head s BERNIE URBAN ON 01 27 Wouldn t part with my DataFrame It
66. highly competitive Tyson s Corner area at 8032 Leesburg Pike Rt 7 West This is an Apple Only store carrying Apple products and third party products that complement the Apple line The Rockville store located on Rockville Pike just north of Montrose Road is opening in early April The company also operates a huge 3600 square foot service and repair facility in Clinton with satellite repair shops at the Laurel Vienna Rockville and Alexandria Stores DISCOUNT POLICY FOR WASHINGTON APPLE PI MEMBERS CLINTON COMPUTER offers Washington Apple Pi members a 25 DISCOUNT OFF THE LIST PRICE on all non allocated Apple brand peripherals no CPU s software and AppleCare Ior upgrades the 25 discount appilcs to both the parts and normal labor rate Discount is available to persons who have been Pi members for at least 3 months Discount cannot be applied etroactively Pi members need to present their cards up front No Discount cannot be used in combination with other promotions Products on allocation from Apple are excluded from this offer Clinton Computer reserves the righ t to change this policy at any time New Macintosh SE Expandable and Flexible the brand new Apple Macintosh SE It comes fully equipped with two internal disk drives You get an 800K disk drive and either a second internal 800K drive or an internal 20MB Hard Disk Plus a built in expansion slot allows you to customize a system with a variety
67. is 72 dots per inch and we re working in LaserBits at 300 dpi So betwixt the two we ve got problems viewing the GENUINE finished product on our non LaserWriter screens It is also not so great a thing to suggest we make tial runs on the LaserWriter to see the results and to correct them since Super Paint graphics no matter what size takes an average of 20 minutes to figure out just what in the devil is going on before you get a printout Now I have a lot of patience but this kind of time taxing isn t affordable or available Silicon Beach s reply to my queries was a test version 1 0s disk of SuperPaint correcting problems with LaserBits for those using 300 dpi scanners The problems were white lines appearing between adjacent LaserBits objects and contd Pam sections of LaserBits objects shifting horizontally by one LaserWriter pixel Linda Wardlaw Technical Operations Manager informed me in a 3 17 87 letter Also with smoothing no longer affecting LaserBits printing documents will print out much faster and it will print with a transparent background corresponding to the way the image appears on the screen Ms Wardlaw suggested using the grid snap feature when creating LaserBits documents and wamed not to delete these documents which are linked to the main printing document These should be all reside in one folder In a recent conversation with Douglas Seward at Cricket Draw the problems cited were with the po
68. kept a complete tape record of the Cotel source code Five days later the Farmers Coop gave CIR written notice that it intended to terminate their contract and the parties agreed that the contract would terminate in April 1985 Further on that day the cooperative was to have an irrevocable option through April 1986 to purchase CIR s interest in various programs However the cooperative never exercised the option After about a year the four developers of Cotel were successful in designing a personal computer version of Cotel and put the design specs of the new software to paper However no programming was actually written for the new software and there was never agreement on the preliminary nature of the design or the comprchensiveness of the design documents In March of 1985 CIR initiated bankruptcy proceedings thereby forcing the four developers to seck new employment They were hired by Goodhope Computer Inc Goodhope was an ethical company and therefore signed employment agreements with the four developers in which the developers agreed not to breach any confidences of their former employ ers Fishman however had previously copied the Cotcl programming designs onto a diskette and brought it with him to Goodhope The four developers worked diligently and after only twenty days at Goodhope they completed a design for a personal computer version of the cotton exchange program which Goodhope called GAMS but the software was
69. least in my opinion In Mac Q amp A in the January issue Jonathan Hardis briefly described a change that would make Faster quality printing bidirectional After choosing Faster in the print dialog box one must simultan eously hold down the Caps Lock Shift and Option keys while clicking on the OK button That s it Hardis warned that the change was permanent and that he did not know how to undo it I tried this fix and it worked The one time change was permanent and did not need to be redone Printing time was noticeably decreased With a one page MacWrite document the unidirectional printout before the change required 90 seconds while the bidirectional printout after the change required only 68 seconds This is a 24 decrease In another document the decrease was about 20 The bidirectional printing was faster not a lot faster but certainly enough to make the change worthwhile assuming one does not have to pay some unforescen price Permanent changes like this make me uncomfortable What if the change causes a problem next month and then there is no way to get back to the standard unidirectional printing I found one way to recover If you want to undo the change trash the modified Imagewriter document which is in the System Folder and replace it with a copy of the unmodified document assuming of course that you previously saved it on another disk In spite of my worries I have encountered no
70. of Ngurct 201 Black Mountain 202 Nuclear Nightmare 203 Feast of Carroll 204 The Master s Dungeon 205 The Crystal Mountain 206 The Lost Adventure 207 The Manxome Foe 208 The Gauntlet 209 Caverns of Langst 210 Future Quest 211 House of Secrets 212 Sewers of Chicago 213 Slave Pits of Kzorland 214 Alternate Begin Cave 215 Lifequest 216 Swordquest 217 Priest of Xim 218 Heros Castle 220 Utility II 221 Utility I 223 Temp Je of the Undead 224 oat for Holy Grail 225 Caves of Mondamen 226 Orb of Polaris 227 Death s Gateway 228 Escape from Orc s Lair ProDOS Volumes 802 Utilities A 803 Filecabinet 804 Shareware ZAP 807 Imageworks 808 Comm Term 809 86 Tax Templates AW 810 Haunted House 811 Adventures orth Volumes 700 Assembler Disassemb 701 Full Screen Editor 702 GoForth Tutorial 703 Fig Forth 704 Floating oe ana Pascal Volumes See 133 300 PIGO A ACH a 1 BIOS 301 PIG 302 PIG2 303 PIG3 G4 305 PIGS 307 PIG 2 309 PIGS 0 PIG1O 311 PIGI1 A N32 PIG12 313 POI uerilla Guide vole 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 Utilities 411 Text Editor 412 Spreadsheet 413 MDM740 SSC amp Com 414 MDM740 7710 amp A Cat 415 Orig 350 Pt Adventure 416 Kermit Source Code 417 Kermit Documentation 418 Kermit it
71. one Mac will make a copy of the document on the new disk choosing nice neat contiguous parking spaces e Now just use the new disk when working on your large document You can TRASH the copy on the previous disk if you like making room for expansion of other files Don t copy the large document back onto the previous disk however because Mac will simply find the same old fragmen ted sectors and you ll re create the fragmentation of before If you re working on a hard disk drive you should have no problem making a DUPLICATE of the large fragmented file Then trash the old document Alternatively under HFS you can drag a copy of the fragmented file into a new folder That will effectively make a duplicate Then you can trash the old copy and its folder making room on that part of the disk for other files By the way for hard disk drive users there are a few software programs available now which help eliminate fragmentation by automatically copying fragmented files onto new areas of your drive and erasing the originals Some programs do it on a file by file basis Others take care of the entire contents of the disk drive One word of caution Before trashing your large document under any of these instructions OPEN the new copy and check it Just make sure it opens and reads OK Once satis fied go ahead and trash the old ones Of course you keep back ups of all your work anyway so this precaution shouldn t be necessa
72. said aren t able to conceive of the revolutionary leaps that make the big gains in computers or anything else This is truc for the most part but this statement was interesting in light of the announcements of the SE and the Mac II the former of which is clearly the computer that answers users small requests and the Jatter of which answers the big ones But the next revolutionary computer will likely be something that few of us have asked for That night at dinner Ellen and the Woz hosted what Ellen called Wheel We Make a Fortune an Apple trivia contest in which panelists had to answer some very tough questions about Apple and the computer industry If you think you know something about Apple you will test your knowledge on these questions which we will be printing in the WAP Joumal The contest was run using the public domain Wheel program available on WAP Mac disk 46 and Ellen and the Woz were assisted by letter turner Vanna Byte You will have to see the vidcotape to believe this assuming that they madc one and assuming further that Ellen releases it That believe it or not was only Monday s session On Tuesday Jean Louis Gass e Apple s Vice President for Product Development led off with a discussion about Apple products Jean Louis is one of those people who uses language so beautifully that you want a shorthand reporter to transcribe everything he says particularly when as here the information is
73. stations for Spartan l and other real time 68020 based testing systems Jim is pres ident of Micro Dynamics Ltd a D C based consulting firm specializing in custom Mac software and advanced training MUSEMENTS by Fred Seelig Last month I attended a WAP mecting for the first time It was interesting USUHS is a cavernous set of buildings and the auditorium looks like a place where doctors dissect bodies in front of hundreds of fascinated interns That Satur day it was a few Macs that were being disemboweled in the interests of showing the wares from Levco and Mac Memory Amazing what turbocharging a Mac can do Near real time rotation of 3 D images Ah dangerous thoughts when considering plunking down two thousand dollars for such an upgrade The WAP crowds look amazingly human I guess I was expecting wild eyed funny smelling computer users Got to meet Tom Warrick the prez of this motley crew He was a combination of circus ringmaster and lion trainer We were the audience and lions simultaneously Most of us were there to see a demo of the Mac II That didn t happen exactly We got to see Jim Lanford s real live II after the meeting I briefly thought of how much time it would take to give him a rap on the head gather up the cables and equipment and make a sprint for the door But that didn t happen either We were treated to a video of the Mac II s intro hosted by Jean Louis Gassee at San Francisco s Moscone
74. technical wizardry of the machine The demo sound and display was the most amazing video segment ever produced by a microcomputer Women and children were crying in the aisles We felt as if we d won that the Mac II would be our champion the David to Big Bluc s Goliath IBM Announces New Machines Yawn And Wall Street Responds On the day after the new unveiling of the IBM machines after the dust settles IBM 318 Apple Computer Corp 5 Educational Software Helps Hyperactive Daughter My 3 1 2 year old daughter has been begging to play on the Macintosh for as long as I ve had it But safe programs like MacPaint did not hold her interest for very long We pulled out a year old educational disk Mac Edge II by Think Educational Softwear Inc and let her play the Count On Mac game She played this game all by herself It consists of counting objects that glide into a bordered rectangle On the bottom of the screen are rounded rectangles with numbers from 1 to 9 Julie counts the objects then moves the mouse cursor until it s over the appropriate num ber then clicks After correctly guessing a number the Mac makes happy sounds After a few numbers are guessed correctly a bell is rung and the screen goes crazy Julie is unbelievably proud of herself for being able to do the numbers game and for working the computer She even prefers it over Saturday morning cartoons Well almost Pee Wee Herman is still her fa
75. that asks Interpret RTF text Say Yes The document should appear as it did originally did except that what was underlined will now be italic and the document will be called Untitled Save the document immediately This same technique which takes advantage of the fact that RTF so called rich text format uses characters to do all formatting can be used in other ways as well Anyone interested in writing a Journal article on how to do so 6 CLASSIFIEDS WANTED Catholic Charities USA a non profit organi zation is secking tax deductible donations of Macintoshes for use in the development and operation of a nationwide bulletin board to assist in the matching of hard to place children i e disabled minority older through adoption agencies across the country Call Russell Strange 202 544 0783 day or eve WANTED Will pay up to 550 for 128K Mac or 725 for 512K Mac Will pay up to 225 for Imagewriter I or 300 for used II and 90 for used 400K drive Ask for Jack at 202 287 3460 8 4 M F FOR SALE Apple computer Disk II Drive Disk Controller Card Atari 800XL Computer unopened original carton Gamma 2000 Wide Screen TV Projection Sysem un opened TRAC Moped Prices on all items are so low that I am embarrassed to list them here Call Richard at 770 5260 FOR SALE 400K external drive for Mac 115 Apple Imagewriter I 350 Both with boxes and in excellent condition Call Ann Sciler 301 497 468
76. the packages which Chairman Thomas Johnston passed out for review were COMICS Accolade Apple series three disks of interactive comics INDIANA JONES IN THE REVENGE OF THE ANCIENTS Mindscape Mac 512K all text adventure in the jungles of Mexico BATTLE CRUISER SSI Apple series recreates surface naval engagements from World Wars I and II using the WARSHIP game system The meeting ended with demos of COMICS BARD S TALE II and REALMS OF DARKNESS Then came the anxious phone call from our mystery guest who had taken the scenic route via Walter Reed Hospital Rob Sirotek vice president of Sir Tech and member of the founding family from which the company takes its name When he arrived a half hour later the remaining GameSIG faithful were able to ask him all sorts of pertinent and impertinent questions like When can we expect WIZARDRY IV and V before by David L Porter treating him to dinner where the conversation turned to such deep issues as whether gamers want more graphics whether the fantasy role playing games are getting too large for the mapping required and When can we expect WIZARDRY IV and V Thomas Johnston was delighted to learn that Rob Sirotek is a flight simulator fan Tom also wants you to know of Richard Sheffield s new book Jet Fighter School Air Combat Simulator Tactics and Maneuvers Compute Books 1987 which will be reviewed in a future issue In the cu
77. time passes for the internal clock to cycle so that the next stream of data in 8 16 or 32 bits can enter the microprocessor or be internally processed If the CPU is the brain then the clock is the heart of the computer A series of eight binary bits equals one byte of information The data bus refers to the number of bits of data that can enter or leave the processor at one time while the address bus is the size of data in bits that can be addressed internally by the processor A computer described as having an 8 16 CPU means it has an 8 bit data bus and a 16 bit address bus The Apple II family began with the 6502 and later 65C02 which were 8 8 bit microprocessors while the original IBM PC used an 8 16 bit 8088 CPU In other words with the Apple II data could be input and output through the micro processor 8 bits at a time and addressed or processed interally at the same 8 bits Therefore the IBM PC was faster in that it could internally address 16 bits compared to the Apple II s 8 bits This was followed by the 16 16 bit Apple IIgs 2 5 MHz and IBM PC s using the 8086 16 16 The most recent Intel processors are the 80286 16 32 the 80386 32 32 and the 80486 currently under development The IBM AT was the first to use the 80286 CPU running at 6 MHz This was later increased to 8 MHz after users began replacing the clock crystals to run the AT at 8 12 MHz IBM later prevented users from doing so by making changes in the ROM code
78. tumed it in to Bernie Urban the intrepid editor of this distinguished Journal Bernie loaded it into an Apple II and sent it over a cable to an adjoining Macintosh where it was put in shape for the printer using MacWrite So next time somebody knocks your Apple II as incom patible don t buy it The Apple II can interface with the rest of the computer world and does so every day Turbo Pascal 3 0 CP M 48 THE PRICE IS RIGHT ON Apple Software Macintosh Software ntin CLAN Practical Acct 57 Back to Basics Sys 150 On Balance 70 BPI Gen Acct 145 ni ati Commworks 60 Smartcom II 104 Point to Point 80 Straightalk 21 Database Bank St Filer 128K 50 pfs Workmates f r p w 170 Filemaker Plus 180 Reflex 72 Computer SAT HBJ 28 Math Rabbit 29 Puppy Love 14 SAT Improvement 70 Create a Calendar 22 Springboard Publisher 92 eur Hollywood Hyjinx 29 Mean 18 Ultimate Golf 29 1 Terrapin LOGO 70 Graphic Works 1 1 70 Printworks for MAC 48 Comicworks 57 Smooth Talker 2 0 32 MacForth II 79 Turbo Pascal 72 adsh Planner s Choice 36 Supercalc 3A 141 Clickart Worksheet 56 Excel 1 03 275 Talking Text Writer GS 170 Word Perfect 1 1 101 MORE 512K MS Word 3 0 APPLE MACINTOSH Business Card Mkr Business Filevs n Award Maker Plus Clickart Pub tions Bank St Writer 128K HD Back up Dome Bookkeeping Jet Music Studio GS MacOneWrite Sys Real Est Invest Mgt Mac Racketbali Ter
79. uses a Superparker which comes from SuperMac ALLAN BALLIETT ON 01 29 Bernie You know when I got that last piece of formatting software from SuperMac I mean SINCE I got that last piece of formatting software installed I haven t had one whit of trouble from my drive I can run all the DA s and RAM resident pgms w o losing the DF20 icon That part is great What stinks is that SuperMac must have been clearly aware of the problems that existed to issue such a perfect FIX I just resent that they jived me on the help line instead of awknowledging there was a problem with their stuff and the fix was in the works I got the same sort of obfuscation from them on the X upgrade They were telling me the dealers had them and the dealers were saying they hadn t been shipped Ultimately it turned out they hadn t been shipped MARK OSTROFF ON 01 24 Anybody sce the ad in the Feb issue of MacWorld on the 5 25 Bemoulli technology drives from a company called Bering According to the ad s small print Bering is a division of Mountain Computer Products The last time I dealt with contd Mountain Hardware they were making VERY good S 100 bus cards that I used in the Cromemco Z 80 machine I was working on at the time Anyway the ad shows a 20Mb 5 25 Bermoulli type drive that is equiped with a SCSI interface come in several models and can fit beneath the Mac As far as traveling with it if the drive itself is any good at all the transpor
80. using a computer as powerful as the Mac offered The MacPlus keyboard does not quite do For one thing the small right hand shift key located right next to the cursor keys is a mistake waiting to happen Also function keys would have been nice Adding the numeric keyboard helped The folks at Tangent Technologies offer an alternative to the MacPlus keyboard called PC MacKey The keyboard is similar to improved models offered with non IBM PCs First it has a normally large right hand shift key Second it has and this is very subjective a very nice feel to it softer than the Mac keyboard but a definite positive feel i e you know when you have pushed a key sufficiently to register on the screen PC MacKey has a full set of ten function keys Installation is a snap It just plugs in place of the Mac keyboard A small file PC Mackey 2 2 is placed in the system folder This alerts the Mac to the presence of the func tion keys Unfortunately the function keys vary from pro gram to program It would be great if they would act the same for each program But this would require a little more uniformity on the part of programmers than the Mac rules require You just have to experiment with each program to find out what the function keys do Switching between PC MacKey and a regular Plus key 70 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 board can be a little disconcerting For one thing the command cloverleaf key while actually labeled command on t
81. version VISUALIZER uses the Mac style mouse drive interface that is becoming standard for much IIgs software as well The spreadsheet containing the data to be graphed is loaded into one window and the graph itself appears in another window By pulling down the window menu from the menu bar you can alternate between the two windows All other commands are also entered by clicking on choices in pulldown menus From a given set of data which you highlight with the mouse Visualizer will almost instant ly draw a wide variety of types of graphs bar point line pie 3 D pie scatter area regression or high low And cach graph can be altered using various formatting and display options Lines can be displayed with or without plotting points Bars can be plain or 3 D separate or overlapping Category labels can run horizontally across the bottom or appear in a separate legend box Lincs text bars or pie slices can be any of a wide palette of colors Various grids or no grid at all can be used Text can be added anywhere on screen and lines can be drawn to link the text and points on the graphs The whole background can change colors and one chart can be used as a background for another You can even import pictures or graphics from another program like paintworks plus for use as backgrounds to your charts Another nice feature is that the program allows limited editing of the spreadsheet files themselves from within VISUALIZ
82. you that everything is hunky dory but a surprise awaits you when you print out the graphic I ve been waiting for a week for the technician at RSG to call me back on this oddity among others If the program 54 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 was written in the C language is there an IF THEN routine that would alert RSG that IF it sees an imported MacPaint anything that a translation from 96 to 100 should THEN automatically take place to conform to the RSG measurement dialog boxes That IF it sees a user dialog selecting RE VERSE that it reverses the pixel arrangement forming letters A further surprise may await you when it is discovered that the graphic did not print out at all in some cases in RSG3 In talking with Ms Lisa Gray of Manhattan Graphics she advised making use of Art Grabber and selecting the graphic with this accessory as close to trim as possible particularly if the graphic appears near the upper Iefthand corner of the page The reason cited for this oddity is that there is a problem with the printer driver she said Fun with SuperPaint If you have the program have read the manual have worked with it this program is a major breakthrough in resolving bit mapped images with object oriented images There s a plethora of praises in all the magazines on this program But using it is a wee bit different than what you may have read Scan through any of these articles on the powerful attributes in this pro
83. 1200 300 autodial ans 239 ZooaMadea JCe Plus 300 baud card wiadv software 119 DISK ORIVES Sider 10 meg 20 eeg hard disk for e t gs 325 595 Applied Engineering half hi floppy for JCt e 119 Controller for 2 drives 55 Video Technology half hi floppy for JCe c gs 125 CP M amp 6502C SYSTEMS Applicard 4 Mhz Z 80 64K to 192K RAM 70 col video 129 Titan Accelerator We gives IC e speed of JCgs 229 Speed Deaon 6502C high speed coprocessor 159 Applied Engineering Z Raa Ultra 3 256K clock CP M 259 TransWarp 3 46 Mhz 6502C 254K RAM 225 MONITORS Andek 300G 300A 12 green aaber anti glare 18Mhz 125 139 Color 600 13 cosposite RGB color 16 ahz 425 NEC J8 1205 aaber anti glare screen 20Mhz 119 Thomson 14 composite RGB color cc cece ee eee 259 INTERFACES amp BUFFERS amp CLOCKS Pkaso U printer interface superior graphics 129 Quadram Hicrofazer 8K to 128K printer buffer 139 ProGrappler printer interface parallel w graphics 65 Buffered Grapplert 16K to 64K buffer plus graphics 139 Practical Peripherals SeriALL for wodeas or printers 99 Graphicard parallel w graphics 69 Printerface par w o graphics 59 ProClock PRODOS compatible 109 VIDEO BOARDS ALS 80 col card w 64K RAM AppleWorks compatible 69 Applied Engineering RasWorks III 44K 3
84. 149 475 Iosega 10 20 seg resovable cartridge drive call CALL FOR PRICES OF ITEMS NOT LISTED Please Coepare Our Prices If you find a lower price give us a chance to beat it Feel free to call for answers to technical questions 434 0405 Cena oe i t H H H t TO ORDER H i i Call Jeff Dillon at 301 or Write or visit OPERANT SYSTEMS 7676 New Haapshire Ave Suite 312 Langley Park Hd 20763 Hd sales add 5 tax UPS shipping is available All items carry full sanufacturer s warranties Washington Apple Pi May 1987 13 package VISUALIZER IIgs which promised to do sophisticated graphs and charts in color from AppleWorks spreadsheets This time PBI has done better The company has released a product with the power it promised and great ease of use There are limitations as in all software And there is a bug which makes it crash under some circumstances something PBI will have to remedy But VISUALIZER Ilgs List 99 95 Mail 65 produces handsome bold colorful graphs and charts at great speed in numerous styles from standard AppleWorks spreadsheet files The charts can be printed in color on an ImageWriter II or black and white printouts can be obtained by changing the colors to a variety of black and white patterns with the click of a mouse NOTE There is also a Visualizer version for e and c but this reviewer only tested the IIgs
85. 4 F3 AO EC EF E3 Also make sure that the settings on your printer 0943 E1 F4 E9 EF EE AO E9 F3 8D FO F2 E9 EE F4 ES E4 controlled by DIP switches correspond to the settings 0953 A0 El EE E4 AO F4 E8 E5 AO E2 F9 F4 ES AO E6 EF specified on your control panel Consult your printer Er ee A a 2r sh es ai a i es as manual to determine the specific settings required 0983 E9 F3 AO E4 E9 F3 FO EC El F9 E5 E4 AE AO AO CF 0993 EE EC F9 8D F4 E8 ES AO E6 E9 F2 F3 F4 AO EF E6 Q How can a machine language program determine whether 09A3 A0 F4 E8 ES F3 ES AO E9 EE AO El EE F9 AO BS CB 09B3 A0 E2 EC EF E3 EB AO E9 F3 8D F3 E8 EF F7 EE AE T eae eee Apple J or has Applesoft or 09C3 8D 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 nteger Basic in 09D3 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 A Add the following code 09E3 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 BD CB E5 F9 AO D8 AO F4 STA C080 to access the motherboard 09F3 EF E7 E7 EC ES F3 AO E6 FS EC EC AF ED E9 F8 ES 0A03 E4 AO F3 E3 F2 ES E5 EE AE 8D CB E5 F9 AO AF AO LDA E000 SA 0A13 F4 EF E7 E7 EC ES F3 AO E4 ES EC El F9 AO AB 43 If the accumulator equals 20 integer BASIC is in 0A23 A9 AO E2 ES F4 F7 ES E5 EE AO E2 EC EF E3 EB F3 ROM if it s 4C Applesoft is in ROM 0A33 AE 8D 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 0A43 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 0A53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 53 8D AO AO AO AO AO AO Q Thave a Titan Accelerator card e and WordPerfect hangs 0A63
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87. 9 95 APPLE UPGRADES Enhancement Kit s 62 00 lic Detachable Keypad 125 00 TELECOMMUNICATIONS Promodem 300C 119 00 Apple Personal Modem 349 00 Mastec 1200 1 yr guar 129 00 MEDIA STORAGE Apple 3 5 Drive Platinum 359 00 Apple 5 25 Drive Platinum 269 00 GS 30 Meg SCSI Hard Drive Logic Array 1 yt warr 870 00 SUPPLIES 5 25 DSDD with order 899 3 5 DSDD with order 21 99 Top Notch Disk Notcher 12 95 CNUE Travel Kit protective cover lens cleaner lubricator 14 95 e If you don t see it CALL US e Next day delivery available MasterCard and VISA accepted CEs Prices subject to change without notice TOLL FREE ORDERLINE 1 800 438 2883 r 7 days 8 am 5 pm PST AK HI amp outside CA pats P O Box 171466 San Diego CA 92117 All Prices FOB San Diego CALL 619 274 1253 within CA amp outside U S for FREE e Technical Support Appleworks Support and Price Quotes on all Apple Products Washington Apple Pi May 1987 21 STOCK SIG NEWS by Andrew D Thompson Participants in the March Stock SIG meeting continued their discussion of members methods for forecasting the stock market s future direction and vacillations 1 MUTUAL FUND SUB GROUP REPORT The February 24th Sub Group mecting began with discussion of information on the timing of stock market moves Participants cited various forecasters the majority of whom said the market was headed up Peter Eliades Robert Wood while a few ur
88. A B is a word proces sing and WPL disk It includes the never rcleased version of Apple Writer called Super Apple Writer with a host of WPL tutorial files We think it s one of our best disks yet so watch the Journal for availability We are also compiling a separate disk of WPL programs and would invite SIG members to contribute programs to the effort Also on the horizon another games disk with programs put together by SIG member Jim Salerno This will be a self booting disk that contains programs specifically designed for kids It will also include two versions of Kidword a very basic word processing program for kids Another disk now in final testing is D3 Backup by SIG member Al Bloom This is a neat program that is an alternative to Backup and allows you to backup files as well as volumes It will include the source code for the pro gram and complete detailed instructions Also on the draw ing boards more disks containing nothing but information about the Apple Watch The Trail for more updates Jim Salerno also reports that he has tried out some of the CP M and Pascal programs in the WAP library on our at the office Many of them apparently work without too many problems With that in mind we ll try to put together a couple of Best of disks adjusting whatever might be needed so the programs work properly on our machines PHASE NEWS Backing up a bit to Robert Lissner I am told he will now be
89. C83 20 41 F9 20 D9 OC AD A4 00 AS E4 18 69 1F A2 FF BRUNable program 0C93 20 41 F9 A6 E6 BD 83 CO 60 2C 81 CO 2C 53 CO 48 CALL 151 OCA3 84 EA 20 D9 OC AO AO CS F2 F2 EF F2 AO El F4 AO 0803 A9 3F 85 3C A9 08 B5 3D A9 CD 85 3E A9 OC 85 3F 0CB3 A4 87 87 87 00 AS El A6 EA 20 41 F9 A9 BA 20 ED 0813 A9 00 85 42 A9 09 85 43 38 20 11 C3 38 BB 48 A9 OCC3 FD 68 20 DA FD A6 E6 BD 83 CO 60 0823 00 8D ED 03 A9 09 8D EE 03 68 4C 14 C3 20 2F FB BSAVE EXT RAM TEST A 0803 LSO4CB 6 0833 20 93 FE 20 89 FE 8D OF CO 6C F2 03 2C 81 CO 8D 0843 09 CO 20 89 FE 20 93 FE 20 2F FB 8D OC CO 8D 01 0853 C0 8D OF CO 20 D2 OC AO Cl D5 D8 AO D2 Cl CD AO Washington Apple Pi May 1987 17 APPLEWORKS Q amp A by Richard M Rowell I receive about twenty AppleWorks questions per week The questions come from the thousands of AppleWorks users who have found the program to be easy to Icarn and easy to use in starting to get their own jobs done Of course one day the temptation to try something fancy appears The answers that I have been providing are intended to meet the needs of everyday users of AppleWorks who want to add one new feature If you already have your own set of tips techniques and tricks I welcome you to share them with me You are forewarned to avoid reading my answers if the question is one over which you have never puzzled Don t fix it if it ain t broke But I know you will read the answer anyway Thanks for you interest HEADLINES QUESTION
90. Center It was hot It was very hot Oh baby As to this month s offerings IBM s new machines are mentioned sort of A good educational software disk is hyped A very useful and fast plotting software package is discussed but not reviewed The new SE is discussed sort of Being a real jelly spined wimp I offer an equivocable opinion as usual A Bad Ad contest is kicked off And KSK Communication s bizarro newsletter is examined The Macintosh SE Can we talk about the SE Is this an arfer or what The Mac SE shell is the epitome of bad taste Its color makes it look like a beached whale that s been bleached totally white The front looks like a Buick radiator grille There are no vents on the top That makes the SE look like it s hermet ically sealed I am reminded of Catholic girls schools for some reason but that s a whole other story The box is ina word ugly The SE looks bad its mouse feels bad now why did Apple feel like it had to redesign its perfectly good mouse its operating system at the Desktop level is not very Mac like As my daughter would say Yecececuch Blech Urf Gag The SE is faster than the MacPlus but only slightly faster It has only one slot and that s only to accommodate an IBM emulator board Big deal Who wants to emulate an IBM anyway So where is the market niche for this SE It s certainly not positioned between a Plus and a II If it were it would be a turbocharged version of
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92. E with O Figure 1 According to the above table the BASIC command HGR consists of several softswitch settings When I enter an HGR command the screen changes to a cleared HiRes screen 1 with mixed text and graphics text appears in a window at the bottom of the graphics screen The comparable softswitch settings are POKE 16300 0 select screen 1 POKE 16297 0 select HiRes mode POKE 16301 0 select mixed text and graphics and POKE 16304 0 display the graphics screen Using these switches I can switch between text and graphics by turning the text screen on and off and not disturb any graphic data already on the HiRes screen remember that HGR clears the graphics screen so any previous pictures are destroyed by using HGR and TEXT to switch between text and graphics modes Similarly I can switch between HiRes screens 1 and 2 without disturbing the graphics data displayed on them by using the POKE 16300 0 and POKE 16299 0 soft switches In fact I can select one screen while displaying another a popular method of creating graphic animation effects on the Apple done by selecting and displaying a picture on screen 1 selecting screen 2 and drawing on it displaying screen 2 selecting screen 1 and drawing on it displaying screen 1 and so forth Perhaps the area which creates the most confusion is that of selecting memory areas with memory bank softswitches contd The case in a nutshell
93. ER without having to boot up AppleWorks You can change numbers and labels though not formulas And you can delete areas of the spreadsheet or copy whole ranges of data to other portions of the spreadsheet something that may be necessary to make the graphs come out right since column and row headings must be adjacent to the numbers you re graphing in order for them to appear correctly on the axes or legends of VISUALIZER s graphs Unfortunately VISUALIZER has crashed on me 4 5 times in several sessions of use while trying to use this copy range feature in the spreadshect window to better align data for graphing That will have to be fixed In addition to this bug VISUALIZER has onc other major weakness in my opinion The manual is a pitiful piece of documentation It hardly scratches the surface of the pro gram s features and left me with dozens of unanswered questions both about VISUALIZER and about graphing terms Some menu items are virtually undocumented they are described in such sparse terms And if you don t know 14 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 what scatter and regression and logarithmic mean in statistical graphics PBI doesn t help you The company appears to have paid much more attention to the packaging an elaborate plastic box than to the manual But for all that VISUALIZER Ilgs is the first package I ve seen which provides really casy to create impressive looking business graphics base
94. England states For this yearly fea you receive the Computer Update magazine bimonthly a calendar newsletter the BCS Buying Guide semiannual two BCS Newsletters monthly and discounts from nearly 500 companies Many of the companies offering discounts are in the New England area but many are mail order firms One noticeable benefit is free shipping from Mac Connection in the continental U S That one discount alone could make membership worthwhile Many other benefits also exist if you live in the New England area I chose to receive The Active Window which is the Macintosh newsletter It is well laid out and usually consists of 30 to 35 pages of articles and advertisements If you are the type who wants additional Apple or Macintosh literature contd Washington Apple Pi May 1987 63 you may want to consider membership in the Boston Com puter Society Another Macintosh Hard Disk The number of Macintosh hard disk makers has grown exponentially A recent one in the January 1987 issue of MACazine is by Jasmine Computer Systems of San Fran cisco CA 415 621 4339 They offer a 20 megabyte Sea gate drive SCSI Macintosh hard disk for 579 40 Mbyte for 999 and an 80 MByte drive for 1380 Yes that is an 80 Mbyte SCSI Macintosh hard disk for 1380 The prices are effective January 1 1987 and include a 4 prepaid cash discount while credit cards add 3 and COD 5 to the above prices Other features include shock ab
95. Go and subscribe if you need some more junk mail It s printed on nice paper and they even use two or three colors so you might get some stylistic tips for your newsletter if you do that sort of thing KSK Communications Ltd 2485 Chain Bridge Rd Mclean VA 22101 4501 703 734 1880 Ered Seelig s Guide to Proper Computer Etiquette is a huge ly successful book with prerelease sales in excess of three hundred thousand dollars It is the first known instance of vaporbookwear Mr Seelig has taken the money and run He currently resides in Barbados Mr Seelig when he isn t busy fantasizing is the president of Mac Consultants a business dedicated to helping Macintosh users make the most of their computers Log Hopniteds 40 ese 3 Editorial contd from pg 3 lt 500 and large 2500 I was charged with coordinating the initial efforts of the committee and will be reporting to you on its progress An interesting sidelight White the Dayton meeting was a huge success thanks to Dr Roger Siervogel and Jim Coates the food was not At least 90 of the attendess fell ill including Ellen Cathy and Guy of Apple Computer and yours truly among many many others The Health Depart ment has begun investigating the food handling practices of the Marriott Hotel in Dayton Hope all you fellow sufferers are now well Speaking of Guy Kawasaki have you heard both he and Scott Knaster are leaving Apple to form their own firm Acia t
96. I have entered the table as two columns in cells E2 through F6 Notice that the numerical scores must appear in ascending order For clarity I added labels Score and Grade at the top of the columns and used the Define Name command in the Formula menu to name these columns Column C has been designated to hold the letter grade obtained by doing a look up in the translation table The required command appears in the formula bar of the screen shot It is LOOKUP B2 Score Grade The lookup com contd Washington Apple Pi May 1987 67 mand selects the element of the set of cells in Grade the letter grades which is less than or equal to the element of Score the numerical scores as compared to B2 the student s numerical score Lookup can work with a numerical table or a set of alphabetic fields as well It does a search from one set and then a select from the other set While you can use the actual cell references E2 E6 and F2 F6 I prefer the Define Name approach since it is easicr to remember what all the cells mean six months later Just to check that all is working Jane Doe received a 650 Going down the Score column we find the last row that contains a score that is less than 650 The third row does the trick Lookup then selects the row 3 element of grades an E and places it in cell C2 try harder Jane C2 LOOKUP B2 Score Grade Worksheet2 c A Balancing Act Ed came over with his t
97. LLER ON 01 31 Buy a lot of stuff at Bill s I am going to write up the project for the journal in April I will not be manufacturing the drives but will make the cables for those who do not want to do them I think that almost anyone could build this drive JAY HELLER ON 01 31 Zack and I are having problems with the Shugart 1610 4 controller that we are using It now looks like we may write our on formatter for this unit This controller is 80 cheaper than the one Jim Lanford is using now so we will try for a litle while longer on this one If things do not work out we are going to get one of the Adaptec 4000A controllers that we know will work They cost 180 each The Shugart is 100 DEACON MACCUBBIN ON 01 28 I have never heard anyone claim that the MacBottom is noisy I know scads of folks who run with MacBottom SCSIs and every single one praises the drive for its speed reliability and extremely quiet operation As far as I know the MacBottom is the quietest SCSI 20 meg hard disk on the market DAVID GURSKY ON 01 28 The early MacBottom serials emphasis on SERIAL and EARLY were not noted for being particularly quiet See my earlier message here DEACON MACCUBBIN ON 02 01 That s right but the early MacBottom SCSIs are VERY quiet The current MacBottom SCSIs are slightly noisier but still one of the quietest HD around BAILEY WALKER ON 02 03 I ve checked out and finally confirmed that the MacBottoms like mine which were up
98. M seleot RAMoard bank C081 162595 PEEK twice to write is to POKE the decimal values of the 26 bytes into memory Read ROM select RAMoard bank __ scoez 16254 Peek at the beginning of the program Read write RAM select RAMcardbank 1 COB3 16253 PEEK twice to wrie At the beginning program Read RAM selectRAMcardbank2 cose lez4e PeeK 10 POKE 770 172 POKE 771 1 POKE 772 3 POKE 773 174 POKE 774 1 Read wrlle RAM select RaMeard nare 2 c0ee 16245 PEEK twee o wre 1 POKE 775 3 POKE 776 169 POKE 777 4 POKE 778 32 POKE 779 168 Figure 2 Now that we have looked at the most common of the softswitches let s see if we can put some of this into practice A Musical Softswitch Application For this application I wish to thank George Roher who brought it to my attention The application included here will allow you to program some tones into the computer and play them back through the internal speaker Please note that in BASIC commands are carried out so slowly that the speaker will not produce anything much more than a soft click so we must include a short machine language routine as a driver for the speaker This driver comes from the venerable Osborne McGraw Hill Apple Users Guide There are several ways of getting the machine language driver into the Apple From the Monitor the driver can be entered directly into memory at the location from which it will eventually be run Since this
99. PRINT Shepgrng is estra on ALL ORDERS M nimum st ng amp Insurance enno MUCH MORE AVAILABLE COD Oley 190 UPS or 2 40 Postal Yom ce imbag dazd Sakao o Sil tia amp UEan at he cae ore your Pure School PO Terma Prepayment SA Flee Pu 10 Nev 30 Days NEXO DISTRIBUTION MICROPROCESSOR PERIPHERALS 914 E OTH ST SUITE 109 NATIONAL CITY CA 92050 619 474 3326 I 1000 AM 600 PM hase Orders Catton Wi bor Complete Let Mon thru Fel Anew it Arca Appie Bc Appie tle Arptrwee ts are iremamerks af Appm Came ba Vdes bietnoser prade met ed Vale bu Seiwa B faa ae rodoma vet Yoon Ta Maninger Washington Apple Pi May 1987 35 THE BEST OF THE APPLE ITEMS FROM TCS by Lou Pastura Hes C icati RICH MLODOCH ON 03 08 I got a cable that works at Clinton Computer 29 I was assured that the cable they gave me is identical to the MAC gt Imagewriter cable Pinouts are in the latest issue of Com puter Shopper and were posted on the IIgs Hardware board GREGORY KING ON 03 09 I m presently running MouseTalk on a IIgs with the Avatex modem not HC using the modem port with no problems There are a few things you need to do 1 Use ProDos 1 2 or higher also known as ProDos 8 This enables the built in ports 2 Make sure that you are using the gs to DB25 MODEM cable I believe that the pinouts are slightly different 3 When using MouseTalk I used the Generic Smartmodem configuration I hope this helps you o
100. PageMaker ReadySetGo3 JustText various Journals and almost all the popular Mac magazines so much of the real work to be performed is so glossed over as to be almost unusable if not glossed over then ignored entirely Ulick however mentions kerning in his book but does not deal with it at all He shows us that he is familiar with the term but does not attack the problem by offering solutions in his book edifying PageMaker 1 2 In the real world if you are dealing with folks who notice such things as oddly spaced Ictters particularly caps and you are working in PageMaker you simply MUST come to grips with this problem and solve it In a recent job done for a printer was the word AVAILABLE in Helvetica Bold caps The spacing in PageMaker between the AVA was atrocious on the print out See Figure 1 Had to cope with it though Had to solve it Was too far into the job to switch to ReadySetGo3 which does have keming abilities but only in one point increments as opposed to relative points a note PageMaker non kernin AVAILABLE NOW IN STORES pee set these 3 elements separately A V AILABLE piece together to achieve results below AVAILABLE NOW IN STORES FIGURE 1 This demonstrates the awkward manual kerning in PageMaker 1 2 a necessary step in order to produce marketable type for printers Sct a narrow column and type the cap A by itself Then the cap V and
101. RKING backups of installed copy protected software The cost however ain t cheap about 2400 for the drive and about 170 for 3 20 Mb cartridges The construction is excellent and so is the support The fan on the 20 20 is quieter than on the older 5 Mb drive and the unit is about the same size as the older unit but with two drives instead of one The 20 20 plugs directly into the SCSI port so should be much faster than the old 5 Mb drive ALLAN BALLIETT ON 01 09 So if you ve been reading ANY board in this country by now you probably know that my internal Mac upgrade disk drive is only interested in formatting not reading disks As part of the question above I imagine I m going to have to replace the drive since the consensus of replies seems to be that the Mac internal drive was funky from the beginning The question here comes the question Since I am booting from a Dataframe20 HD is there any reason to think in terms 80 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 of INTERNAL drive replacement Will I really lose anything if I buy an external 800K drive and leave the internal dead That is the question DAVID GURSKY ON 01 09 No that is a perfectly valid approach I suggest though you contact the dealer that installed your upgrade Many of the original 800K internal disks were found to be flaky and I think there is an exchange policy but I am not 100 certain For what little is worth I also have an upgraded Mac although I
102. RS Quantum Computer Services the operator of QuantumLink the premier online service for Commodore computer owners is expanding to the Apple II market We will provide Apple owners with a comprehensive source of information and a large and expanding library of public domain software PRODUCER APPLE INFORMATION SERVICES We are seeking an energetic and motivated Apple enthusiast to develop and manage the Apple information and software services Responsibilities include e building an Apple II public domain software library e hiring and coordinating remote staff sysops to maintain Apple software libraries and special interest groups e developing information services of interest to Apple owners e working with user groups to provide synergistic support The ideal candidate will have excellent writing and interpersonal skills a thorough understanding of Apple II computers including the IIgs knowledge of both DOS and ProDOS familiarity with public domain software and online services and some programming experience If you are interested in this position please send a resume to Randy Bennett Manager Consumer Information Services APPLE PROGRAMMERS We are seeking Apple professionals to help develop the Apple II software to support our interactive services To qualify you should have a degree in computer science electrical engineering or comparable professional experience and a thorough knowledge of Apple internals peripherals and
103. System file I had to cut and paste it using ResEdit not something for the novice Oh well Apple says it s working on new versions out any day now perhaps by the time you read this Some Pi business Washington Apple Pi is expand ing its Tcelecommunications System We re adding a sixth line to the TCS which will add a second line for file down loads I ve had a peck at the budget Lee Raesly and his colleagues have developed for next year and it promises even more Also we re organizing a group purchase of access to the Twilight Clone a well known bulletin board system in the Washington area that has one of the best selection of downloadable files available anywhere The annual fee for Pi members has tentatively been set at 10 a substantial dis count from the regular fee of 25 If you are interested contact David Morganstein at 301 972 4263 Mailbag There are a lot of nice things about being president of Washington Apple Pi There are even occasional things that are otherwise Then there are number of things that are well just strange Mail is one of them Most of it is quite legitimate although not particularly enlightening We get a large number of press releases and announcements from software and hardware companics If you want to see any of it stop by the WAP office it s too much for us to track it all Most of these materials go to our Review Coordinators and they follow up on the more in
104. TA 800 controller with 2 DSDD 8 drives 2 Rana 5 1 2 drives and the StarCard Although I have around many other boards most obsolete slot 2 was left empty I have not experienced any power supply problems as yet I am also using the System Saver fan and the motherboard has a few bulges created by the Dan Paymar lower case adapter and the Zicor interface for their plug in keyboard As for CP M I am using ZCPR3 which is rather a must for high capacity media for which the vanilla CP M is an anachronism For your 89 B C E will send you promptly I callcd in my order on Monday was told to expect delivery with 3 wecks UPS delivered it on Friday the following e StarBoard with CP M 2 0 and utilities on a two sided diskette Noted in its absence is M G BASIC CP M Primer by Murtha amp Waite Sams StarCard manual e WordStar 3 33 and install program on 2 disks Manual e MailMerge 3 30 1 disk and manual SpellStar 3 30 1 disk and manual e StarIndex 1 01 1 disk and manual Of course also included are standard legal documents absolving the seller from any liability and binding the buyer forever Advantages of the PCPI StarCard 1 The Z80B s faster speed 6MHz vs the standard 2MHz 20 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 2 Comes with its own 64K RAM Allowing the use of the Apple s RAM actually 34K in my case the rest used by the various device drivers as a print buffer I have seen ads by other vendors fo
105. There is an overflow problem here in both HFS and MFS that may surprise you when you go to call up a Scrapbook file that looks good on screen When you go to paste it in you DO NOT get the graphic you selected at all Often we encountered the infamous BOMB ReadySetGo3 does a bad job on reverse type because it uses only the Outline mode If the word INVOICE is done in Helvetica or Bookman Bold Outline and placed over a shaded area you have the effect of reverse type but not true reverse type On printout the letters are too spaced out and sickly They may look fine on screen but that ain t what you get See Figure 2 To correct this deficiency in this program that has not come to grips with this oddity at all ken each letter by 1 or 2 manually It wasn t perfect but the results were much more pleasing than the first printout DANOCH FIGURE 2 The top two reveal the unkerned type as it appears in RSGS Looks great on the screen but The bottom two Bookman Bold Outline reverses have a kern on each letter Looks terrible on screen but prints out nicely on the LaserWriter ReadySetGo3 imports MacPaint and digitized MacPaint FullPaint graphics at 96 and that is one reason why the printout does not match what is seen on the screen Either a mathematical compensation has to be made for this or trial and error with the placement as well as several run outs are the answer The modification block parameters and measurements assure
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107. While Compaq was the first MS DOS computer to release a microcomputer using the 80386 chip IBM is expected to follow by mid 1987 The biggest problem facing IBM and their clones is the advanced state of Intel microprocessors they have not been followed by software or even an operating system that can use these features This is true for both the Intel 80286 and INTEL VERSUS MOTOROLA by Lynn R Trusal Frederick Apple Core 80386 microprocessors A recent article in Business Week magazine December 1 1986 stated that it will be close to two years late 1988 before an operating system is released that will directly support the 80386 An interim fix in the form of Microsoft s MS DOS 5 0 Advanced DOS is not even predicted until late 1987 This operating system 5 0 will only allow partial utilization of the power of the 80386 chip The article goes on to state that Microsoft Windows and Excel support of Windows for the 386 processor should not be expected until 1988 1989 This may be part of the reason that IBM has been slow to release its own 80386 based microcomputer The current state of MS DOS and the com puters that depend upon it adds to the confusion and the current state of uncertainty in the MS DOS world The published comparisons of microprocessors are often based on so called benchmarks Use of benchmarks has often been compared to the paraphrased statement about Statistics that benchmarks don t lie but liar
108. Word Data Bases dBase II dBase II amp II Data Perfect PFS Q Pro 4 John Day 301 621 7543 Dave Harvey 703 578 4621 Robert Martin 301 498 6074 Mark Pankin 703 524 0937 Jaxon Brown 301 350 3283 Otis Greever 615 638 1525 Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Otis Greever 615 638 1525 Bemie Benson 301 951 5294 Joe Chelena 703 978 1816 Ken DeVito 703 960 0787 Charles Baumgardner 703 538 2316 Ken Black 703 369 3366 Morgan Jopling 301 721 7874 Modems Telecom Jeremy Parker 301 229 2578 John Day 301 621 7543 Dave Harvey 703 578 4621 Jeremy Parker 301 229 2578 Bemie Benson 301 951 5294 Harmon Pritchard 301 972 4667 Bernie Benson 301 951 5294 John Day 301 621 7543 John Day 301 621 7543 Michael Yourshaw 703 534 2077 Terry Monks 703 471 4610 Donald Schmitt 717 334 3265 Jay Rohr 301 655 0875 David Morganstcin 301 972 4263 Mark Pankin 703 524 093 Jim Graham 703 643 1848 Dick amp Nancy Byrd 703 978 3440 Jim B 703 662 0640 Harvey Levine 301 299 9380 Jon Hardis 301 330 1422 Tom Berilla 301 434 3256 Tom Parrish 301 654 8784 Mark Miani 202 333 009 Jay Lucas 703 751 3332 Jon Hardis 301 330 1422 John Love 703 569 2294 Joyce C Little 301 321 2989 John Boblitz 301 356 9384 John Love 703 569 2294 Walt Francis 202 966 5742 Paul Tabler 703 278 8708 J T Tom DeMay Jr 301 779 4632 Tom Parrish 301 654 8784 Michael Yourshaw 703 534 2077 Jim Graham 703 643 1848 Marty Mi
109. _ Washington Apple The Journal of Washington Apple Pi Ltd Volume 9 Ma 1987 Number 5 Apple News and Notes PCPI Z80 Card amp WordStar Pro A Review XFER Help TCS Upload Download 2 AppleWorld 87 A Special Report Part II _ Tips and Graphics 1987 Spring Developers Conference pgs 71 72 Officers amp Staff Editorial President s Corner Classifieds WAP Calendar SigNews On the Trail of the Apple Walt Mossberg 12 Robert C Platt 18 Richard M Rowell 18 Dana J Schwartz 19 AppleWorks Q amp A WAP Acrostic PCPI Z80 Card amp WordStar Pro A Review Henry Lustig 20 Stock SIG News Andrew D Thompson 22 Zany Zingers amp Characters A Review Update Bob Oringel 23 Button Down Guide to the Apple Ray Hobbs 24 PI SIG News Walter Urban 26 Steven Payne 27 David L Porter 27 Deep Space A Review Gemstone Healer A Review Marble Madness A Review Ian Soboroff 29 Hollywood Hijinx amp Moonmist 2 Revs Charles Don Hall 30 PHM Pegasus A Review Reid Hutchinson 31 Ring Quest A Review Forrest Black 31 World Builder A Review Steven Payne 32 The Musical Apple Raymond Hobbs 34 Music SIG News Raymond Hobbs 35 Best of the Apple Items from TCS Lou Pastura 36 You Be the Judge Intellectual Property Rights Twilight Clone Group Purchase Offer AppleWorld 87 A Special Report Part II Tom Warrick 48 Tips amp Graphics Simple to Sublime Jay Rohr 52 Imagewri
110. a trademark we are weakening the owner s rights to the trademark Each time one of us writes and says Please make a xerox of this letter instead of Please make a copy of this letter on the Xerox brand copy machine we drive one more nail into the loss by the Xerox Corp of its trademark rights in the mark Xerox If you think I have left anything out please leave a message for me and I will leave you another simple explanation Pascal KEN KNIGHT ON 03 20 Pascal s main plus over Basic is that it is a very structured language Writing programs in Pascal is much easier due to this organization Your code becomes much more organized and easicr to debug and maintain Here is a small case in point Bubble sort Program sorter const array_size 100 type arraytype array 1 100 of char var array arraylype sorted boolean begin for i 1 to max_array_size do begin if array i gt array i 1M then swap array sorted end for do loop The above should be a procedure so put this in at the top procedure sort var array arraytype var sorted boolean data not sorted Begin sorted false repeat sort array sorted sort data until sorted true all done END In Basic that would be much harder to code and a lot less coherent We could change the sort very simply to an inser contd tion or merge or whatever just by changing the procedure Sort In Basic we would have to do much mor
111. ack and relax A new program for your library is on the way lt H gt Help with File Transfers This command reads the help file That says it all lt L gt List Available Downloads This gets you the list of downloads for this area Below is an example of a partial list Download area Mac Utils amp DA s Workspace HARD2 SID XFER MAC UTILS ieum Type Count Time Description 038 WAYSTATION 2 6 TXT 00000 02Min Grest Min Finder 037 MICROFILMREADER TXT 00000 07Min Reader for certain files 036 KEYCAP8 TXT 00002 01Min Keycaps on Screen 035 SWITCHERS 1 TXT 00000 04Min New version of Switcher Maybe 034 KEYCAPS NEW TXT 00000 01Min Not sure about this 033 MACWEEK1 23 TXT 00000 02Min Moc Weekly Cor week shown 032 HELPDA TXT 00001 02Min MskeHelp screens 031 WINDOWSDA PIT TXT 00000 01Min Adds window commands lt FUNCTION ABORTED gt As you can sce I have shown you the top part of the Mac utilities list Notice that it starts with the latest files first another convenience for you If you have kept the copy of the contd Washington Apple Pi May 1987 41 list you captured and printed you can quickly see if there are any new files In addition this list like all others in the TCS can be quickly aborted by depressing any key the spacebar is probably the most convienent for you In the example above I did just that aborted the reading of the list So the phrase lt FUNCTION ABORTED is not something to be c
112. age may cause the gun to misfire while heavy damage will disable it As a Navy man I thoroughly enjoyed this simulation The effects of over the horizon warfare are chilling to say the least since you can destroy or be destroyed by an enemy that you never sce save for the missile that is specding towards your ship Also what I thought was a cute touch the game disk was in the color of HAZE GREY Final evaluation 4 0 in lay terms SUPERB semi animated to add realism The documentation is very good you get a player reference card a Geographic Map of the land you will be travelling an erasable marker to map the many paths on the Geographic Map and a very interesting choose your own adventure style story book that gives you some insight into the plot of the game The Reference Card explains how to use the features including saving loading quitting mapping starting com municating with the game and some others All this plus the double sided game disk is contained in the remarkably colorful box that has come to be expected from Origin Systems Gorn is your companion whom the writer has cleverly used to regulate your commands what I mean is that if you typed kick the dog Gorn would tell you that this is not appropriate or that there may be a better way Othan than that he serves little purpose except to drink all your water The contd on pg 33 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 31 by Steven Payne You
113. al Software We ve been developing high level languages like LISP for years And we re sure that Object Logo is what you ve been waiting for But you don t have to take our word for it because we will give you an unconditional 60 day money back guarantee You can t lose Buy Object Logo if you are not satisfied return it for a full refund With Object Logo You ll Get An Object System that s Easier to Learn and Use than Any Other Object oriented programming is sweeping through the computing world You ve seen the articles in leading microcomputer magazines Here s your chance to get in on the excitement For only 79 95 you can own Object Logo It s a small price to pay to become an expert on this important new programming paradigm Advanced Graphics Object Logo improves on the graphics capabilities that made Logo famous We ve included multiple graphics windows and multiple turtles each implemented as customizable Object Logo objects Object Logo also gives you access to ALL of the more than 100 Quickdraw commands And Object Logo is the only Logo for the Macintosh with redrawing graphics windows Quality Documentation The Object Logo manual is written by experienced Logo educators who will guide you every step of the way All of their examples are on your Object Logo disk so you can leam by doing right away A Complete Programming Environment The Object Logo incremental compiler automatically compiles your progr
114. ams into native 68000 code as you edit and run them fast fast fast Object Logo 1 0 The math alone is worth 79 95 Object Logo features the most advanced mathematics ever put on a microcomputer unbounded integers complex and rational numbers and a full set of transcendental functions Full Toolbox access Object Logo lets you ta into the Macintosh Toolbox You get low level access to all the ROM And we ve made high level access easy by implementing Macintos data structures such as windows and menus as Object Logo objects Object Logo listener makes history Our lisener is scrollable for a full history of your interaction Advanced debugger The Object Logo debugger gives you step trace and wat ch commands so you can monitor and track down emor effonlessly Compiler Our incremental compiler generates native in line code from each line and procedure you type in Windows The Object Logo system supplies six customizable classes of windows implemented as Object Logo objects generic windows turtle windows text windows file windows editor windows and listener windows Input Output All 1 0 is implemented by object onented streams including random access files and window and serial 1 0 The Object Logo editor features multiple windows The debugger gives you built in trace capabilities Copying and executing input can be achieved with a single keystroke which means more time saving convemence for
115. an We begin our column this month SIGers with the announcement of a new member of the Apple community Danicl Guy Ottalini came into the world at 1 59 pm on March 23rd to rave reviews from Mom and Dad Ottalini and is now doing very well at home No word yct on when he ll start trying out his luck on the Ol Apple though Stay tuned A big thanks also to SIG Co Chairman Tom Bartkie wicz who stepped in at last month s meeting after I was unable to attend due to the arrival of our new member of the family lil EZ PIECES UPGRADE DIES As many of you are aware by now the attempt by On Three to gencrate enough interest in an upgrade for EZ Picces to the 2 0 version of AppleWorks failed The basic rcason was a lack of interest As we told you in past col umns the developer of both programs Robert Lissner agreed to do the upgrade But only if enough owners of EZPs would be willing to pay a 50 00 upgrade fee Unfortunately Lissner wanted to sec 5000 paying custom crs up front On Three sent out a mailing to 22 THOUSAND Apple owners of whom an estimated 10 000 own EZ Picces telling them about the upgrade and asking owncrs to show their support by placing an order Of all the Ictters sent out On Three only got 13 hundred responses Quite a Statement about the Apple community I know our own Charlene Ryan called every member of our SIG to let them know about the upgrade and urged that they call On Thr
116. an author s copyrighted novel from English into French Such a forcign language translation is protected by copyright laws and if it is done without consent of the author constitutes a violation of copyright conventions The issuc is resolved in similar fashion if a BASIC program were converted into Machine Language through the expedient of a Compiler Program say in order to expedite program execution In this case the CP follows a specific set of rules for the translation to occur There is a conversion from one language into another If this were done without permission of the original program creator it would constitute a violation of copyright law There are two other codes in which the BASIC program can be expressed i as a hexadecimal dump or ii in binary code In the former the results look like a formula mathematical formulae are not subject to copyright protection In the latter the binary code is a physical representation of switches being on or off The switches are patentable but not copyrightable Hence it appears that at these lower or more primitive levels 46 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 software programs are not protected by the provisions of copyright laws We have sought to indicate where in this rather complex process software becomes copyrightable This is the critical legal question that the courts must confront and decide No case has yet to reach the U S Supreme Court for final judi
117. ant colors and spe cial effects The screen is filled with an out of the windshield 28 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 view similar to the one in SKYFOX but with added features such as right and left dashboard views as in JET hull dam age estimates etc For combat you have lasers or missiles The missiles good whoosh sound cause the enemy ship to break into pieces on screen when hit and the lasers make them catch fire slowly destroying them Various systems can break down and you get estimates for repair time Shicld power varies and you lose the shields if you run out of fucl where s Scotty when you need him adding to the realism Hyperdrive gives you warp speed to jump around the galaxy There are four missions to pick from In Outpost you land on asteroid outposts to pick up uranium shipments while fighting off the Andromedans In Escort you protect an unarmed and slower diplomatic vessel on its way to its destination In Plague you destroy cannisters of deadly bacteria and return to base In Invasion you re facing planet busting Sword cruisers as well as the usual enemy fighters You have ten minutes to destroy a cruiser before he blows up the planet The game is fun but it is boringly easy to shoot down the enemy ships must be the insect brains of their pilots Landing on the asteroids or planets for repairs is fun The contd on pg 33 GEMSTONE HEALER A Review by Davy Hakim GEMSTONE
118. any font lt 7 gt Mac Graph amp Misc Mac 4 Here you will find graphic programs such as a program to project in 3 D the data from an Excel file and then print it The Miscellancous would be any program or file that does not fit into the other MAC categories lt 8 gt CP M Area Apple II 2 This area contains some of the many CP M PD programs that have been developed over the years The special provence of the CP M SIG and the CP M Librarian this arca will complement the CP M disk in the Disketcria as will all areas actually COMMANDS Having this general background let s move on to specific commands and how you would use them First the commands at the XFER command level The command level looks like this Xfer Menu B C D H L O Q U gt and if you depress the you get this lt B gt Browse File Information lt C gt Change File Arca lt D gt Download a File lt H gt Help with File Transfers lt L gt List Available Downloads lt O gt Off Quit the System lt Q gt Quit to Main Menu lt U gt Upload files to the System lt gt List Commands lt gt Page the System Operator SPECIFIC COMMANDS lt B gt Browse File Information This command allows you to explore the descriptions of the various files within the file area you have chosen First it will tell you how many descriptions you can B rowse i e 1 73 then ask you where to start You do not have to start at the
119. ar my first reactions The drive seems smaller than I had expected it would and that is great It fits under the Mac with out sticking out the back The case is painted the same color as the Mac almost and the quality of the machining is excellent The 2 AC outlets on the back are perfect for connecting the Mac and a modem or printer This way you can leave the Mac s power switch on and power the whole system from the power switch on the drive The drive also comes with over 10 megs of software from the Berkeley Mac Users Group library It took thirteen 800K floppies to back up this stuff Now if I can just find the time to try them all The drive is shipped via air by Purolator which takes about 2 days from the shipping date given when you place your order The 2 days may have been caused by the snow The price of the drive was 575 04 since I ordered on 12 31 86 The price now is 589 00 and this includes the shipping charges My only complaint so far would be the noise level The fan makes a typical fan noise like that on a IBM AT power supply It is not a terrible sound but when you are use to the no sound of a Mac it does scem distracting DAVID GURSKY ON 01731 Buy a Radio Tape Player combo set it up next to your Mac turn it on and you will not notice the fan that s what I do to drown out the noise from my Micah fan contd Washington Apple Pi May 1987 81 GAVIN HEMPHILL ON 02 01 I ve had my Jasmine 20 for abo
120. ardy oS Figure 1 A section from the Pacific Technology Systems SCHOOL ATTENDANCE MONITOR template 6 Using the Definitions fill in Words Transfer each letter into the corresponding square of the grid The resulting WAPACROSTIC by Dana J Schwartz quotation will read across The first letters of the Words Column spell out the Author s name and the Title of the work reading down TE mE Be En ne BR 2 ee ial ae a ee lid ee ee AE ee Pon Ee E EBE l a Eon nn a a a a fn a a ied asec al ede i K eee eee ETAC ede el Definitions Words Definitions A Painting or N Whole ae A NN a Soulpture 173 191 92 86 16 173 104 46 186 66 67 36 6 D Spine Hog a a ee ee es o State of ae a a o a a a a ee 2 20 FEJ 14 12 159 1 42 19 Obligation 161 73 110 100 120 70 164 105 180 C Agreeably cuman amm ee a a a e P Without ee m 160 134 140 90 126 100 176 149 115 Reverence 123 199 68 14 168 GO 152 96 D Bet Aside 2 es ee ey ee ee eee Q Crooked m e a e o a ee D wde 32 0 150 8s 72 3 10 81 65 102 60 190 112 l1 117 231 g Uncanny aa aiia aaa i R Swisso Specialty a mereme me ee ee 23 120 63 7 138 174 194 44 1982 157 1933 113 64 230 F Small Goat with ow ae m e o o a e a e Fear a a eee KEERA ass Dig Teeth 49 40 111 210 99 172 23 197 312 126 2 35 41 as 94 09 G Effluence e o ee ee ee ee T Swimming Aid eee ee 116 99 34 93 8 122 30 22 130 119 69 75 170 333 H Laid Back al eee e
121. are a monthly statement of income Yes folks all this brought to you by Excel But first a couple of quickies Rolling Your Own Format part iii Have you ever wanted to line up the decimal points on a column of numbers say dollars and cents but not have them bumping up against the right side of the cell where you have placed a border That is you have this but you want this where the numbers have been shifted to the left to line them up in the center How to do it MaryLou my secretary had always accom plished this by adding a column of blanks to the right of the column of numbers and then placing the border around both columns The numbers themselves are given an Alignment Right under the Format menu While this works the added column gets in the way You have to TAB through it when entering or changing numbers Copying and Pasting from this sheet carries along a column of blanks tabs that have to be deleted An easier way is to build a format that contains blanks at the right side These blanks cause the numbers to shift left by the number of blanks you include Call up Format Number and select the format you want Now add blanks to the right of the 0 00 You can sce the ones I added in the example below because the vertical bar is positioned about a quarter of an inch to the right of the 0 00 That will do it The next quickie was discovered when running the Heiser Software tax templates Hav
122. ase fray as well In the boat anchor world Nantucket is known for its database compiler Clipper They have bought out a German program called AMAC III which claims BOTH data file AND program file compatability It has been down rated for very poor documentation but Nantucket is going to re write all the docs and release it under perhaps a new name Ex pect THIS product to appear BEFORE the A T Mac version DAVE CHAMPNEY ON 01 08 I am reasonably new to WAP BBS I noticed someone s message wanting to talk about BFilevision I have had it for several months now and find it fascinating I have used it to set up a multi level systems flowchart The top level is a macro level overvue As you click on it you can get to additional levels of detail on the different subjects shown on the macro chart The graphics can also be attached to data records files BFV is a very competent and casy report gencrator and also docs a credible job of producing forms I see many other uses for BFV at my work place but have not been able to catch anyone s attention to the concepts the IBM PC has a program called Accelerator which docs a lot of the contd a same things but costs 10 000 The BFV people are great to work with and provide updates for free I don t see why more people aren t checking this one out MARK OSTROFF ON 01 09 Our home owners association wants to be able to keep track of the ducs owed paid by all members f
123. ase the degree of incompatibility with existing IBM PC s Only time will tell how this will all sort out and if such proprietary changes will only decrease IBM s share of the MS DOS market that it seeks to reclaim Another approach to larger screens for the Macintosh is being developed by Ryad of Santa Ana CA They are developing the ability for Macintoshes to use standard IBM PC monitors Such access will depend on a mother board replacement for the Mac to provide a new video interface that will be permit use of IBM monitors such as the NEC Multisynch monitor The unnamed product is due the end of March and may allow color capabilities of up to 8 colors This company currently offers a Mac motherboard replacement that adds a 68020 processor and a socket for a 68881 math coprocessor The Boston Computer Society I joined the Boston Computer Society last May when I attended the Boston Macintosh Expo It is the largest computer society in the U S perhaps the world with between 20 000 and 25 000 members It has grown very large in part because it services all makes of microcomputers including Apple and IBM I receive a number of publications for the regular member ship price of 35 a year There are about 12 other types of membership from a family membership at 52 to a lifetime at 2500 If you live outside New England an associate membership is only 28 but you do not receive the calendar of club events held monthly throughout the New
124. at you have an Apple fill it up with premium software like WordPerfect New version now includes a 50 000 word spell checker mail merge macros and footnotes Suggested Retail Price 179 00 WAP Special 139 00 Family Computer Center offers a 10 discount off our regular price to all Pi members on software and supplies Pi members must present card to qualify for discount 1 additional charge for credit card or personal checks Treasurer OFFICERS amp STAFF Board of Directors President Tom Warrick 301 656 6649 Vice Pres Apple Bruce Field 301 340 7038 Vice Pres Jay Heller 301 948 7440 Edward Myerson 703 759 5479 Secretary Peter Com 301 251 6369 Directors Martin Milrod 301 464 5981 Priscilla Myerson 703 759 5479 Rich Mlodoch 703 360 1858 Bob Platt 703 486 1466 Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Jay Thal 202 244 3649 Rich Wasserstrom 703 893 9147 Past President David Morganstein 301 972 4263 Editor ___ Bernie Urban 301 229 3458 Head Software Libr Jim Little 301 762 3215 Office Managers Gena amp Bemie Urban 301 654 8060 Journal Staff Associate Editor Gena Urban 301 229 3458 Store Distrbtn Ray Hakim 301 649 1891 Columnists Apple Dave Ottalini 301 681 5792 Developers View Jim Lanford 202 723 0050 EDSIG Peter Combes 301 251 6369 GameSIG Steven Pa hes 202 832 6622 Mac Bits amp Bytes iym R 301 845 2651 MacNovice Ralph alph Begleiter 301 340 3296
125. ate to have these talented and dedicated people and the many other talented and dedicated people who help out in other capacities in the Pi as part of our group Ga Mac Consultants Solutions for Macintosh based Business Systems thinking of setting up an Apple Talk network interested in a database for your businesss going to add peripherals to your Mac system having problems with your software We can help Write or call for a brochure of our services e Educational Services e Business Applications e System Configurations for Small Businesses Vienna Va 22180 703 255 0953 1103 Drake Street Washington Apple Pi May 1987 51 TI PS AN D G RAPH ICS From the Simple to the Sublime by Jay Rohr Want some practice on your Mac A printer will give you all the work you can handle A printer s main function is to print that s where he or she makes money They would rather have all the work come into them camera ready Typeset ting graphics layout and design are areas they would rather not concem themselves with Every time they do most of them lose money on both personnel and equipment they d rather not have Often it is just a convenience for them to have this equipment on their site If you have a Mac access to a LaserWriter a slew of fonts and some graphics ability money can be made with the Mac Printers are demanding and require quick service once having begu
126. ave kindly offered to work together with the Pi to expand the Clonc s telecommunications capabilities and offer access to WAP members for a nominal fee If the Pi will purchase and own the 900 worth of equipment needed to increase the Clone s capacity to three lines WAP members can obtain download privileges on the Clone board WAP would pay for one phone line while having access through all three lines For many Macintosh telecommunication buffs this is a excellent opportunity The cost will be a 10 annual fee As with most group purchases if sufficient numbers express interest through their ten dollars an agreement will be made with Paul and Diane and the interested WAP members added to the Clone s membership list If you would like access to the Clone board mail in to the office or drop off a check for 10 made out to Washington Apple Pi Please note write Twi light Clone on the check If the interest is not sufficient to pay for this offer you will be notified and your 10 will be returned If you have any questions about the Clone board or this offer contact David Morganstcin 972 4263 or Marty Milrod 464 2154 Custom Cables and Accessories Tailor made for the cost of ready made any length or configuration Apple AppleTalk and other brands Teflon and PVC cables switch boxes power supplies to adapt accessories to MacPlus Wiite to la Phone for fast action Adaptation Electronics 301 948 7440 Hours
127. ble Second it will require a ROM upgrade since it will mean running all software in true 32 bit address mode The original Macintosh and Mac Plus run in 24 bit address mode because the standard 68000 uses only 24 address lines The extra 8 bits are used by the memory manager for such things as memory locking and purge bits In the new 256 K ROMS all of the routines run in 32 bit mode except the memory manager Those programmers reading this will grin and say but most every routine toolbox routine uses the memory manager This is true when running the standard Macintosh operating system the Finder A UX Apple s UNIX will have it s own memory manager that works in 32 bit mode This will allow programs running under A UX to have access to the rest of the toolbox The Macintosh II has seven slots The motherboard uses slot address zero Actually the motherboard takes up slot addresses zero one and two out the the 16 available in the NuBus specification NuBus on the Macintosh II also has the power on off signal available for co processors on the bus This will give third parties the ability to build a card which could wake up via an outside signal such as a phone ring turn the Macintosh II on use all of the available resources and power the system back off Ron also listed the feature highlights of NuBus Synchronous 10 MegaHz e Multiplexed Address and Data Simple protocol Geographic addressing No DIP switches
128. cation II 93A amp 5 93B Fonts VI 94 Paintings IV Vols 121 135 136 must be purchased together DATE Total Order __ Total Amount Enclosed _____ Make check payable and send to U S funds payable on a U S bank Vol 181 required with these disks Note Allow 2 to 3 weeks for mailing NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP Disks Postage Washington Apple Pi Lid Telephone Attn Disketeria 8227 Marr ON eee Suite 201 WAP Membership No Beth 1 ai Washington Apple Pi May 1987 87 JRNER le ESNEA eee HR RIS SoA Tee IRSA P Be E READY SET GO r MAL Mac Draft 1 2a id 3 0 NOW aon YN 1899 STOCK ust 269 95 269 PROFESSIONAL DRAFTING LIST 395 SOFTWARE EHMAN ENGINEERING 800K DISK DRIVE THE BEST VALUE IN DISK DRIVES e 349999 975 iN Max 2 2 meg memor board tor Mac 12 Expanda ble tod megs SCSI TIEN availible Full 2 ee 25495 MAXPORT 3599 WITH MAX 2 PLUS LABOR Microsoft WORD 3 0 IN STOCK XP UPGRADES we 599 SUPERIMAC Cun OLD SUPER LASER SPOOL HETESTE 4995 DISK FIT 55495 LIST 80 SIDEKICK 2 0 s6995 softwere DRAW NEW 829925 VERSION List 295 95 The dest of the painting programs amp MacDraw combined in one and with color Color ribbons 69 95 mow in stock oo OTEM From BERING gemma UNLIMITED
129. ce entering the markct in 1975 the use of the Cotcl system has been widespread among the members of the cooperative and the program has been continuously updated The Farmers Coop owned the copyright to this Cotel system which was designed to be used on a mainframe computer The cooperative s general manager Dan Daley was heavily involved in the creation of the Cotel system He worked with a team of programmers who were employces of the cooperative The programmers Mssrs Cushing Fish man Goodall and Jones worked together and developed the system None of the programmers ever signed a contract with the Farmers Coop agrecing to keep the information confi dential Dan Daley Ieft the Farmer s Coop in 1979 in order to Start a new business called CIR His intention was to expand the capabilities of Cotel by adapting it for use on personal computers His newly formed company agreed with the Farmers Coop to develop and market a personal computer version of Cotel Any modifications developed by Dalcy and CIR in its efforts were to be owned jointly by the cooperative and CIR In 1984 when the modification to run on personal computers had still not been developed at CIR it hired the developers of Cotel that is Cushing Fishman Goodall and Jones from the Farmers Coop All four were assigned to 44 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 the Cotel personal computer project Before Goodall left the cooperative however he copied and
130. ch makes a potential 3 hours per day 40 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 Where do you get uploads Many places Other public Bulletin Board Systems BBS have many and in this way new Public Domain PD and ShareWare SW programs are exchanged across the country By the way SW programs are NOT free If you like the program you are honor committed to send the small amount of moncy requested for its use to the author This is always explained on boot up of the program In exchange for this you usually get the latest copy placed on their mailing list for updates and more complete documen tation usually on the disk You might write some programs yourself or a friend might give you a copy You might belong to a specialty Users Group UG in another area of the country and they might have such a program on disk or maybe you just moved here and still belong to the UG where you used to live and have some PD or SW programs from their Disk Library or BBS One final point about uploads Test them Run them yourself first and ascertain what they do and whether you like them or not Also by trying one several times and using them on your own computer do your best to determine if it is a Trojan Horse or contains any Woms It is sad to me that programs like these exist To me it is a very sick mind that would write such a program thea unleash it on the PD world What are they Well a Trojan Horse is a program masquerading as somet
131. chitecture the Monitor the text and graphic areas and DOS so now it s time to look at the softswitches The Apple having memory map ped I O has the ability to control input and output devices by merely talking to a memory location This can be done in assembly language with the LOAD and STORE commands or in BASIC with the PEEK and POKE commands These softswitches are located in ROM on page SCO bank SEO page SCO on the GS hex which means that any write operations to the softswitch addresses will not change the values already stored there Read Only Memory right The hardware however can detect that the softswitch memory has been accessed and will treat it in the following way If the access opcration was a rcad command PEEK in BASIC or LOAD in assembly then one access has occurred and the switch is thrown once If the operation was a write com mand POKE or STORE then two accesses have occurred and the switch is thrown twice If the switch is a toggle type then two accesses leave it like it was before the opera tion If it isn t a toggle type various things can happen Technically this may be quite important For non technical types like me however it is sufficient to simply leam how to access the switches properly and leave the theoretical part of it to the engineers The bottom line is this since the switches are in ROM what is passed between the switch location and the user is unimportant
132. chose D for download It asked me what file number I wished to down load I chose file number 44 3 It then told me what file that was so that if I had not sclected the file I wanted I could Q uit at the next prompt 4 I chose X and the program responded telling me the type of download I had selected 5 The program then told me it was ready to send and how I could abort at any time 6 These are commands to my software ASCII Express to get ready to receive My commands here meant Hey ASCII Express get a file 7 My software asked me what to name it and told mc it was ready 8 While actually downloading AE tells me a count of how many Ward Christensen Protocol blocks 128K each have been received 9 A successful transfer AE gives me the CRC value 10 Starting over this time I chose option A 11 Given two choices I wanted 2 12 From here on a repeat of steps 5 to 9 Well that s it All you ever wanted to know about TCS downloads AND MORE You re now ready so call the Pi office get yourself a Password AND GO FOR IT Take Care Now Lee Gi Best of Apple Items from TCS contd from pg 38 J MOHAN PAUL ON 03 30 I plan to buy AE Ultra Z Ram III with 256K In the future I plan to expand to 1 meg Can I do this without going through AE by buying the ram chips from elsewhere If I can what chips would I have to buy ALLAN LEVY ON 03 30 You can expand with 256K 150ns chips Cost is less tha
133. cial review we have indicated that lower courts have handed down decisions Cases have been appealed The issue is critical not only in general given the primary functions of copyrighting i e of protecting the property right of an author so he can derive some benefit from his work and be motivated to engage in creative intellectual activity but also because this activity is socially useful The Founders of the U S Constitution recognized the value of such activities when they wrote The Congress shall have Power to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries Article I Section 8 U S Constitution The copyrighted materials should therefore be made available to the public for their enjoyment use or benefit On these grounds the reward or remuneration accruing to the creator should occur without at the same time generating a monopolistic condition If it were generated the creator would be able to exploit socicty and accumulate unmerited monopoly rents Copyright privileges therefore are extended for a stated or defined period of time in the United States for the lifetime of the creator plus 50 years after his her death What the consumer user purchaser obtains when he acquires software is a program expressed in OBJECT CODE a machine language or machine translated version of
134. cknowledged that its 80386 microprocessor will not allow an 80286 protected mode operating system to run under an 80386 operating system In the same issue of InfoWorld John Sculley initiated the magazine s new Macintosh News section by addressing the new role of the Macintosh in the business world He says in reference to new technology being developed versus actually being implemented I think that s probably the biggest issue that faces the MS DOS world right now Even with the introduction of a faster processor the 80386 even with the expectations of new version of MS DOS operating systems our experience is that it s probably going to take several years to get the operating system in place for developers to learn how to use it and to really start to get applications He adds So while the 80286 and the 68020 are essentially standoffs in terms of performance against one another the real advantage of the 68020 technology and the 68030 when it comes out is that it s ideally suited for graphics But while the 80386 is getting sorted out everything we have done since 1984 with the Mac will only run better and faster as we get faster processors the 68020 68030 and so forth That s not true for the DOS world They are essentially starting over again with the 80386 Apparently Apple hopes to make hay while the sun doesn t shine over Intel and the MS DOS world Furthermore the President of Stride Micro formerly Sage Comp
135. conducted in the future that the cooperative would be successful on the merits of the case that is proving there was copyright infringement Also the Farmers Coop failed to prove that irreparable harm would ensue to it in the absence of issuance of an injunction during the pendency of the action and before a full trial of the matter could be con ducted These are some of the issues which must be decided in favor of the requesting party before a judge in most courts may properly issue a preliminary injunction Similarities between the two programs exists on a level not protected by copyright The Farmers Coop program was too large to be copied and modified in the amount of time it took defendants to create GAMS Defendants expert witness Mr Walsh testified that he compared the overall structure of these programs and that he expanded his study of the programs from the narrow search for verbatim copying Goodall testified he did not rely on any material belonging to Farmers Coop or CIR during his employment at Goodhope and that a program for a mainframe could be altered to run on a personal computer only with enormous changes so that rewriting the programs would be faster than modifying them Also input formats of a computer program the organization and configuration of the information fed to the computer were ideas not expressions and thus were not protected by copyright Because it is frequently difficult to provide evi
136. cording to most benchmark tests the variation between individual SCSI drives are not significant Instead my objectives is to provide a subjective review of the features convenicnce and ease of setup and use The first drive review is of the Rodime 20 Plus The company also offers a 45 Plus with 45 5 megabyte of formatted capacity and internal versions of both the 20 and 45 Rodime s entry into the market has created a little stir As mentioned in my March MacWorld article Rodime is the fourth largest manufacturer of hard drives worldwide In fact other Mac drives including Apple s have Rodime mecha nisms inside In size weight and appearance the drive is very similar to the HD 20 The Rodime lists for 1195 but I have seen Street prices as low as 899 It fits underneath the Plus or SE Set up is a breeze Turn off your Mac put the 20 Plus Washington Apple Pi May 1987 69 undemeath plug it in attach it to the Mac s SCSI port and turn it on A minor complaint for some reason perhaps imitation of the Mac most Mac peripherals have the power switch on the left Rodime s is on the right making it difficult to remember and my sideways external drive is in the way My Rodime came with a System and Finder already installed For some reason it was localized for Europe backwards date It was easily fixed and the drives shipped now have the normal localization Loading software is like all SCSI s simplicity itself mere
137. could try a 78 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 BROwse on the keyword Binhex WILLIAM HULTGREN ON 01 17 Thanks for the tip PACKIT BIN did the trick but what a waste of time It wasn t even a game just out of focus dirty pictures My wife laughed at my efforts for an hour However now I know how to unpack just need to find some stuff worth downloading BILL BALDRIDGE ON 01 17 If Compuserve has a similar feature to GEnie then check how many downloads the file game has had previously if there are a lot of people downloading a file there s a good chance it s above average or above dirty for the scanned images Good Hunting RICK ROBINSON ON 01 31 Has anyone tried the new game by Spectrum Holobyte Falcon I have seen an ad for it in MacUser I have been hoping that someone would come out with a good fighter simulation The ad Feb 87 states fly a highly realistic simulation of the F 16A Fighting Falcon Perform fighter maneuvers while engaging enemy MG s in dogfight battles OR connect two computers and go head to head against another plane piloted by a second person Seems to me that this would be one of the first Mac games to allow players to go head to head I m not sure what they mean by connect two computers Could mean modem connection OR hard wire connection in any case I think it would be neat to fly against a real person Comment on Spectrum Holobyte I have been very impressed by their so
138. cters per inch These would be CONTROL N ESC n for 4 5 characters per inch CONTROL N ESC N for 5 characters mea Lf Last First student 12 1970 16 M F 10 B 107 Smith 0 0 0 pe o i 2 Last First studen 12 1970 16 M F 11 Be112 Lyons 0 Of 0 You may use AppleWorks printer options 3 Last First student 12 1970 J 16 MIF 12 B 115 Jacks Of Of 0 for 4 or 5 characters per inch directly and the sae ta tan Heyes 116 l pice I of oj o ast First student 116 MF 10 B 107 Smi h 0 Of 0 Custom Printer Imagewriter will respond 6 Last First stulant 12 11970 16 MIF 10 B 107 mith Of ol 0 obediently The AppleWorks sequence is 7 Last First student 12 1970 16 MF 10 B 107 Smid Of oj o0 Apple O 8 Last First student 12 1970 16 MF 11 B 112 Lyoas ol oj o Cl O Last First stulemt 12 1970 16 MF 11 B 112 Lyons of ol o lt RETURN gt 18 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 4 or 5 lt RETURN gt This general approach will work for setting up a Custom Printer with other model printers however you will have to search through the manual for appropriate printer codes DITTO in SPREADSHEET QUESTION Is there any way the Apple ditto can be used the same way in the spreadsheet as in the data base Lynne Woomer ANSWER Although the Applc ditto function docs not exist in the spreadsheet there are two ways to copy a
139. d his work projects 2500 on the DOW by the end of April and 2750 within a year For more information call Stock meister at 703 893 9591 or write 7616 Burford Drive McLean VA 22102 Robert Popejoy shared his initial exploration into the predictive role which the open interest on calls may have for future market moves By using his Apple e and the DOW Jones Market Analyzer Bob generated 10 graphs and drew channels to allow participants to eye ball possible correlations between the rising open interest volume on the XMI Major Market Index and on the OEX S amp P 100 with index price moves and put volume Members cautioned that rising open interest is often an indication that professional traders are hedging their investments and that this often precedes a significant market move Some members agreed that rising open interest is a psychological indicator but there were pro and con opinions as to whether it was a leading indicator Bob will now use daily data from January of 1986 through early March of 1987 to supplement his current study of weekly data Members concluded the evening s discussion of the contd on pg 22 A REVIEW UPDATE Z Characters for Take One by Bob Oringel I recently reviewed the animation graphics application program Take One for the Apple II family I was very pleased with Take Onc and its accompanying library of actors and actions which is appropriately called Actors and
140. d on AppleWorks spreadsheet files It cannot be considered a top flight package now because of the range copy problem that I ran into and the terrible manual But those who need spreadsheet graphics and are already knowledgeable and adventurous may want to buy it now despite these drawbacks Others may want to wait tl the bug is fixed and PBI gets out a better manual if it ever does SUPERSONIC CARD MDldcas Inc a company which shares an address and some common owners and personnel with the aforementioned PBI Software is offering three new hardware products for the Ilgs a power strip fan disk drive holder called the Conserver an extra memory card called OctoRam and a card which converts the superb GS sound to stereo from mono It is the latter which will be discussed here The SuperSonic card costs just 59 95 list about 45 49 if you can find it mail order but it offers a host of audio output options for your GS without costing a slot True the card occupies a slot but it doesn t prevent other functions from being mapped to the slot it s in via the IIgs control panel I have the SuperSonic in slot 3 but have kept the control panel at its default setting built in text display with no ill effects The card doesn t supplant the IIgs custom Ensoniq sound chip It merely converts the output from that chip into stereo and provides two different types of audio connectors through which you can feed that stereo sound to add
141. dence of direct copying in order to show copyright infringement the test used frequently is that the accused party had access to the copyrighted work and that there is a substantial similarity between the copyrighted work and the accused work In this case the judge found that the similarities which did exist in the two programs were not the result of copying but rather the result of the two programs attempting to present the information in the same general format Typically when a preliminary injunction is requested by a party there are four points which need to be proven The first is that there must be a substantial likelihood that after a full trial on the merits of the case the requesting party will be successful in proving its case The second is to decide whether if a preliminary injunction is not issued the requesting party during the time the case is pending and before a full decision on the merits of the case can be rendered will suffer irreparable damage that is damage for which money alone will not be sufficient The third is whether the threatened injury to the requesting party will outweigh any damage the injunction may cause the other party And the fourth is whether the issuance of an injunction will be against the public interest i ee See a 4 David Morganstein In this month s installment we will discuss a teacher s problem converting numerical grades to letter grades and a treasurer s need to prep
142. dnesday 6 Mac Progmrs 7 30PM Office dPub SIG 7 30 PM PEPCO Executive Board 7 30 PM Apple 7 30 PM Ch of Com DC Thursday Friday Saturday 2 Word Tutorial Style Sheets 9 12 AM Office 9 Word Tutorial Hidden Text Indexes Tb Con 9 12AM Office 16 Word Tutorial Outlining amp Col 9 12 AM Office 23 WAP Meeting 9 00 AM USUHS Sat May 9 gt contd Frederick Slice Annapolis Slice Music SIG Stock SIG 8 00 PM June 1987 Sunday Monday Tuesday 1 PI SIG 7 30 PM Office Beginning Postscript Tutor Tutorial 1 at Artform 7 9 8 Deadline for Journal Articles Beginning Tutorial 2 16 Apple I Beginning Tutorial 3 22 Mac Beginner s Tutorial 1 7 10 PM Office 29 Mac Beginner s Tutorial 2 1 10 PM Office SIGNEWS 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 next mecting will be on May 27 AppleWorks SIG offers two meeting options 8 00AM before the regular WAP meeting and 12 Noon after the meeting Attend either or both DisabledSIG Call Jay Thal at 344 3649 for info dPub SIG Desktop Publishing mects on the Ist Wednes day of the month at 7 30 PM in the PEPCO Auditorium at 1900 Penn Ave NW The next meeting is on May 6 EDSIG the education special interest group meets on the 4th Th
143. e Pascal also supports some very powerful data structures and programming Strutures I used two programming structures not in Basic the procedure and the repeat until loop They make writing complex code much easier than in Basic KAREN RALL ON 03 21 Another big advantage of Pascal especially from a school s point of view is that it forces you to think about what you are doing That is in Basic you can very easily just start typ ing to develop a program As the program grows you just jump around using GOTO s add a subroutine here and there In the end your program runs but takes up considerably more memory than necessary and should you ever want to change or debug do you remember what n5 was Can you follow the path of all the GOTO s Pascal forces a logical approach to programming that applies to all programming projects even Basic It is not all that hard to learn and once learned is very easy to work with creating fast easily modified programs KEN KNIGHT ON 03 21 Very very true Basic does have its uses It is great if you need something quick and dirty I can write a short Basic pro gram to do some computation say compute an average much faster than in Pascal easy in Pascal too since I don t need anything complex to do it and I don t need to bother with the declarations If it s fast and dirty you need Basic will do If it is something big complex something you want to be flex ible and easily modified th
144. e Apple II about 100 and Total Music about 400 for the Mac 5 Patch Editor The patch editor is a side option since virtually all synthesizers have patch editors built into them The patch editor is a software package designed to allow you to modify waveforms envelopes vibrato tuning and so forth for your instrument patches They generally cost between 75 and 400 depending upon the complexity of editing the sound source sampled sounds and DX 7 patches are more complex than the others Also Apple editors are usually cheaper than Mac editors Here is a sampling of Computers and Synthesizers with average prices of their respective patch editors Apple Yamaha DX 7 145 Mac Yamaha DX 7 180 Apple Casio 120 Mac Casio 180 Apple Roland 120 Mac Roland 100 Apple Korg 120 Mac Korg 100 Apple Mirage 210 Mac Mirage 400 6 Patch Librarian If you have a patch editor then the patch librarian is probably already built into it The patch librarian s job is to store organize and retrieve instrument patches and load them to or dump them from the synthesizer Patch librarians make a lot of sense assuming you don t have a patch editor if you re going to do a lot of switching of instruments on your synthesizer or if you want to create hundreds of different instrument sounds Allow about 50 100 for a librarian depending upon the computer and synthesizer you have Hooking It Up Here is a step by step checklist
145. e en ee ee Y One of My Three Oo e 2 43 166 9 189 4s Sona 16 24 17 192 I Belligerency em cw ee eee Vv Cavity ee ee ee ee 79 29 123 9 156 142 181 269 27 106 177 163 74 02 163 J Plane Cargo aes ec epee ed ee eS Ss aa 8 Onitter qe cs es a 147 359 193 144 95 141 395 133 132 30 154 197 33 71 146 135 103 172 K Hawser a es ee ee ee x Deceive a ee a7 0 170 196 97 140 162 62 63 76 209 57 179 L Centrali a E E E E E Y Heartbeata e e a a oe 3 16 20 163 101 12 84 15 26 107 36 4 ee eee ee e e 2 Emancipate o m m ee a a ee Eiet ary 34 177 37 101 143 139 227 0 61 40 76 114 21237 136 129 39 21 185 104 109 ANSWERS TO LAST MONTH S WAP ACROSTIC Words You can use your Mac to gencrate Anagrams words or A Dragoon H Thump O Kneads U Abrupt phrases with their letters rearranged to spell something else B Watchword I Marsh P Eternally V Negligent For example did you know that the word dormitory may be C Eloper J Artery Q Toothwon W Ofi tentimes rearranged to spell the unlikely phrase dirty room D Ideally K Crematory R Europe X Tediously Author D ave Weikert E Kangaroos L Duper S Rhymester Y Exile Work Mac Disketeria Notes F Errors M Idaho T Immodesty Z Shawl Source WAP Joumal March 1987 p86 G Range N Shares Washington Apple Pi May 1987 19 THE PCPI Z80 CARD AND WORDSTAR PROFESSIONAL A Review I by Henry Lustig This article is being prompted by my feelings of frustration wi
146. e key programs and data files I use to control my modem about 200K worth These include the Point to Point telecommunications program the PROSEL program selector the Documax text handling software the CAT DOCTOR file utility Applesoft BASIC and about 10 other programs including some Point to Point system files that let you autodial phone numbers About 30 seconds after I turn on the IIgs this 200K worth of programs and data files has been totally loaded into a 512K Ram Disk the IIgs automatic ally reserves at bootup and is ready for me to use by simply clicking on whatever program I choose from a menu screen established by PROSEL That 30 second setup time from the time I turn on the IIgs compares favorably with the total time it takes a Sider hard disk to get into the PROSEL selector menu from bootup And of course after bootup the Ram Disk is faster than the Sider or any other real disk drive With the extra memory cards available for the e and c you can establish Ram Disks using special software that comes with the cards I always found this cumbersome but many users are doing so On the IIgs however even people like me for whom it was too much trouble before find it almost laughably easy to set up and use a Ram Disk All you need do on the IIgs is to enter the Control Panel and tell the computer how much Ram you want to set aside as a Ram Disk Then you power down and power up again After that unless you change the
147. e you ever tabbed past the righthand side of your active area in the spreadsheet Your data are in columns A through E and you keep tabbing into column F causing a horizontal scroll of the screen Then Format Number h mm ss m d yy h mm 0 00 0 00 00 00 0 00 0 00 Format 0 00 you have to use the horizontal elevator box to drag the screen back to A through E Common problem no Simple answer Select columns F through IV the last column and set their width to zero That s it The results shown below are bullet proof You can t horizontal scroll beyond column E the right boundary of this sheet I ll bet you re curious as to the meaning of the entries in this example sorry you ll have to wait till next month to find out what it represents OSS SS JoshCollections4 6 8 Sa ee Making an A Judy is a teacher She faced a com mon teachers problem Her gradebook maintained as an Excel database contains the numerical scores resulting from her kids tests results and she wanted to convert these numbers to grades Anything over 900 was an A over 800 a B etc The first step is to enter a table containing the translation from numerical score to letter grade This translation table can appear anywhere in the sheet as two columns or as two rows In fact you can even make the table a part of the Lookup command we are about to describe but that prevents its reuse in other cells
148. ed speakers amplificrs headphones and other equipment For Walkman type stereo headphones and speakers there s a combined stereo output jack that fits the plugs typical of portable stereo gear For larger amps and stereo equipment the card also provides at the back of the IIgs a pair of RCA jacks one for each stereo channel You set a jumper on the card depending on which connector you re using Because the GS comes with super sound and already has a mono output jack for outside speakers and headphones the SuperSonic card won t make the kind of sensational difference Apple e owners notice when they replace the e s meager sound capability with a card like the Mockingboard Suill stereo is nice even on small powered speakers and the card s ability to link the GS to a full fledged stereo system holds awesome possibilitics MDidcas also offers a piggyback digitizer 39 95 list 33 mail for the SuperSonic which allows you to import music voice and other sounds from the outside world into your IIgs in digital form for editing and playback Both of the current IIgs music programs Music Studio and Music Construction Set IIgs support the SuperSonic though on Music Studio you must use the design instrument module to change some of the instruments from Right Channel the default to Left Another music program the child oriented KidsTime also supports the card MDIdeas says others will as well One other nice thing about the
149. ee I don t know how many actually did but to those who called thank you for your support So we are stuck with the 1 0 version of EZ Pieces Despite its bugs however it remains one of the best pro grams ever written for our machine and it will continue to provide useful work for many of us in the years to come The company that owns the rights to EZ Pieces by the way Haba Arrays appears to have gone completely belly up Their telephone number has been disconnected and there is no listing for them in the greater Los Angeles area I wonder if Robert Lissner will try to get the rights back for the program in light of this He reportedly hasn t been paid a royalty for EZPs in 18 months ON THREE NEWS While we re talking about On Three the Editor of the magazine Lynne Denicola has Icft after a relatively short tenure to take a position with another Southern California software producer Her replacement is Paula Sheppard who decided the warm climes of Ventura were much preferred to her former digs in Wyoming On Three s President Bob Consorti also told me recently that the Graphics Manager will soon be offered to the Apple and folks for the same price of 39 The 29 offer I men tioned last month was what is called an introductory price By the way now is an exccllent time to subscribe to On Three the magazine As I reported last month the subscription price has been cut in half to 19 95 The offer ends April
150. eeg 60 col 139 Viewsaster 60 col for II 119 MEMORY EXPANSION Microtek 16K RAM card for ICH cece cee eee ee amp 9 Applied Engineering RasFactor 256k 1 meg for t a gs 189 QsRAM 256h 1 5 meg ram for gs 139 Systems SOFTWARE WORD PROCESSING Word Perfect new version w speller 95 Wordstar 3 3 includes 6 shz Z 80 Applicardl 159 Bank Street Writer 44K amp 128K versions 49 pfs Write Jle w speller cc cee eee eee 79 HOUSOW GE tee nnne aaae ates ty a a CAA Ga REES 95 ScreenWriter Professional aaa 85 HoseWord tw speller ouuu ccc eee c eee ee e ees 49 Sensible Speller IV 00S or PROOOS versions avail 79 SPREADSHEETS SuperCale 3a super spreadsheet graphics for JCe c 129 Multiplan best spreadsheet for JCt 70 INFORMATION MANACEMENT dBASE II the best Apple database requires CP M 299 pfs File wiReport cc cece cece eee eee nee 79 BUSINESS amp ACCOUNTING Dollars amp Sense accounting w graphics 79 Managing Your Honey accounting investsent aget 119 Peachtree Back to Basics Accounting GL AR AP 129 BPI Accounting GL AR AP PAY INVENTORY each 225 COMMUNICATIONS Ascii Express Professional best DOS PRODOS prograa 80 MouseTalk new w pull downs for e cl 95 Crosstalk best program for CP M aaa 125 CorpuServe Starter Kit pas
151. efeat him succeeding where others have failed To do this you must not only survive his minions and infested castle but also collect certain items that will be useful later When you enter the Dark Castle you are confronted with four doors The first two will take you to one of the first two problem areas but you cannot tell which beforchand The third one takes you to a harder problem and the fourth to the final confrontation with the Black Knight You control yourself with the following com mand keys Left Right Up Down Jump Duck Do it This last is called the Action key It is used to get anything or to employ some non weapon What happens exactly depends on where you are at the moment and what is in your possession or nearby The mouse is used for aiming and its button for the actual employment of a weapon The game has many positive aspects To quote from the box Dark Castle is a fast paced arcade style action game in which you control the movements and actions of the hero as he battles his way through the Castle It features Real Sound which you have to hear to belicve The stunnin contd Washington Apple Pi May 1987 27 graphics and smooth animation will take your breath away Coming down from that peak of advertising hype let me say that this is not overstatement The graphics truly are out standing both in the detail and the quality of the animation The sounds are equally wonderful Even with the Mac s sma
152. em MIDI interfaces cost about 100 250 Check to make sure that the interface will work with your computer before plunking the money down on the table For the Apple I would probably go with the Passport interface at about 125 and for the Mac I would go for the Southworks interface at 150 4 Sequencer The sequencer acts like a tape recorder for your songs You play it records You play back and your synthesizer acts like a player piano Sequencers vary greatly in functionality and price Ata minimum you should 34 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 The Musical Gpnke demand the ability to edit musical data that is recorded Although as I mentioned prices do vary you should expect to pay from 100 to 400 for a sequencer depending upon the features you get Some sequencers lack great editing capabil ities but are designed to work harmoniously with dedicated and powerful music editor programs Mark of the Unicom s Performer and Professional Composer packages are designed this way Expect to pay about 50 more for such a combina tion Conversely there are pure editor packages such as Music Construction Set and Concertware which have no facilities for recording music but have full editors and playback capabilities If you opt for this less expensive under 100 route make sure that the package supports MIDI or you may wind up with a full musical score and a mute synthesizer My choices are Dr T s Music Software for th
153. en Pascal is a much better choice P B KIM BRENNAN ON 03 07 While the temporary system was up I discovered and posted another bug discovered in Copy If you try to delete a file of type 00 the typeless file Copy will attempt to delete all files in that subdirectory I called type 00 a typeless file since that is the way the ProDOS technical reference manual describes it We return you now to your regular BBS already in progress MIKE UNGERMAN ON 03 07 Just received Copy Ver 7 3 with the latest parameters The usual 5 00 charge to upgrade Do you think the 00 bug exists in 7 3 How do you create a file type of 00 just use a T 00 command in the BSAVE string I ll experiment and let you know what I find KIM BRENNAN ON 03 08 I think you will have to CREATE the file before you can BSAVE to it But that is easy enough to do CREATE filename Axxxx Lxxxx T 00 should work ProDOS File Types KIM BRENNAN ON 03 26 Okay all right already It wasn t Basic system However Copy and Apple s own FILER DO show some of the additional ones However there are some new ones now with the advent of ProDOS 16 Therefore I present my list of ProDOS file types i sluding ProDOS 8 ProDOS 16 and SOS 00 01 BAD 02 PCD 03 PTX 04 TXT 05 PDA 06 BIN 07 FNT 08 FOT 09 BA3 10 0A DA3 11 0B WPF 12 0C SOS 13 SOD 14 SOE 15 0F DIR 16 10 RPD 17 11 RPI 18 12 AFD 19 13 AFM 20 14 AFR 21
154. enie sic Vallely of MacGuide After a couple of episodes of telephone tag she reached me and told me of thcir new publication which she said would review Macintosh software and publish ratings of more than a thousand Mac software and hardware products Such product reviews are presently published by a large number of catalogs and magazines Ms Vallely said she was contacting me to see if members of WAP were interested in reviewing products for their publication Also and this is where alarm bells started ringing in my ears she tried to interest me in a private stock offering for the company that will publish MacGuide She asked if she could send me information which she did The informational packet was a slick promo for their stock not their publication The tone was set by a postscript to the cover letter which said This letter was written with the Macintosh and a laser printer How do you like it There were half a dozen letters from companies mercly expressing interest in advertising in MacGuide one of the letters was hand written I don t know if this outfit is on the level or not if they are I wish them luck But let me make a suggestion to you in case someone approaches you with an offer to invest in a computer related business Washington Apple Pi has people who are involved in or who follow practically every aspect of the microcomputer industry Talk to someone before you invest Microsoft Word 3 0 tip There is
155. er Postscript device so we ve made arrangements with Artform Communi cations to offer a one evening course in Postscript program ming at their offices located on Thomas Jefferson Street two blocks south of DuPont Circle We have arranged for WAP members to take this course at the usual 15 rate Contact Artform directly at 202 331 7423 to reserve a place in the course Please do not call the WAP office c masla sag Weve Ray mond Hobbs MUSIC SIG is a special interest group dedicated to music lovers We use all software and synthesizers and run on Apples Ataris Commodores IBMs and Macs Our meetings are held on the second Saturday of each month in the early afternoon Call me 490 7484 or Gary Larson 337 4267 for meeting place and time information Our April meeting was held at the Public Library at White Oak Maryland We inaugurated a bulletin board for exchange of music information limited to MUSIC SIG members and the performing team for the April WAP meeting gave us a preview of the music to be presented The amount of music that a half a dozen synthesizers can create at once is incredible In addition we got to hear individual performers playing some of their favorite picces The next meeting will be held on May 9 at 1 00 P M at the Dolly Madison Public Library in McLean Virginia Call for directions ci ALL ASSEMBLED amp TESTED WITH ONE YEAR WARRANTY DISK DRIVE marr mecum 64K 80 COL BOARD nai
156. er User Defined Let s get a few things straight Andy Hertzfeld is a power user Bill Atkinson is a power uscr Roger Fidler the guy at Knight Ridder newspaper with the legendary 1500 item MacDraw documents he s a power user But let s face it you and I we re not power users We will in all likelihood never be power users Do you know how you can tell if you re a power user or not Here s a checklist 1 Do your middle fingers have little reverse indenta tions in them from the Mac keyboard dimples on the D and K keys 2 Are your wrists permantly locked up from using the horrible Mac keyboards with the tilt on them 3 How fast can you do a picture of the American flag waving in the breeze in MacDraw 40 50 minutes Pshaw Not even close Try 2 minutes 4 How long does it take your document to print on a LaserWriter Three to five minutes Hah If it doesn t take an hour it just can t be very com plicated Bonus tenths of a point awarded if you know and understand PostScript and have ever written a program that directly drives the Laser Writer 5 Can you hum the exact note of the bing that you hear turning off the Mac Exact note exact vol ume exact duration If five judges don t give you a perfect 10 you re not a power user and bear in mind that even the judge from Russia has to give you a ten 6 Download time Downloading anything under 15 minutes is extremely bush league Downloading something
157. ere not tested The PCPI system was found to be compatible with most commercial and public domain software The only notable exception being Microsoft MBASIC GBASIC FORTRAN Possibly others programs designed specifically with the Apple Microsoft CP M in mind Since the PCPI does not map into Apple memory space one cannot readily access Apple ROM routines as done by the graphics and sound extensions of the above named programs All other features of these languages seem to work properly A driver and a protocol for passing control and communicating with the 6502 and its memory are available on bulletin boards Hopefully hackers will soon document means of doing graphics from the PCPI this will be a great boost for Turbo Pascal Fixes for Microsoft M80 and F80 are also available on bulletin boards WordStar Professional is nothing to sneeze at cither Even for those who like me have used WordStar and its offspring before While I have not yet found any significant functional or performance differences between it and version 3 0 1 besides the increased speed due to the Z80B the installation is not only better documented but also highly contd interactive and menu driven The only complaint the installation menu docs not include a patch for the alternate font which must be done using public domain information on correct addresses with DDT or PATCH COM Caveat this is an integrated package You cannot mix WordStar 3 3 and for
158. ese examples are the exceptions not the rule BILL BALDRIDGE ON 02 03 This is an unequivocal reminder to any who haven t yet seen tried BOUGHT Dark Casue you ain t seen played nothin til you ve seen played Dark Castle i contd DAVID GURSKY ON 02 05 At GameSIG this evening an Alpha test version of a new WWII sub simulation was demonstrated from Epyx While the user interface would seem to need some work on the whole it was a verrry welll written game Much slicker then Gato You are attacked by destroyers and aircraft and can select targets from within the periscope sonar binoculars radar displays No word on price or availability Graphics amp Design Softwar ALLAN BALLIETT ON 01 12 Well I took the FullPaint back to Diskcovery to get Super Paint All I have to show for it is a raincheck for 87 Their prices are great when somebody else is paying for em Now you guys are knocking SuperPaint AND FullPaint My question is If I already own ComicWorks is there any REAL reason to buy either of these other Paint packages I really do want variable tilt and center drawn objects but that is an either or situation Opinions please By the way have they made the GraphicsWorks art archive available separately And BTW2 The artist that did the work for ComicWorks has another disk out of Paula the Plastic Playmate or something like that Object oriented girly art Apparently really beautiful and at least R rated
159. espond scene by scene or as a whole to a vast array of special commands and actions using a simple easy to learn programming language similar to BASIC Thus the code IF court order PLAYER THEN MOVE bureaucrat TO STORAGE would 32 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 allow a player to banish the dreaded burcaucrat once a court order is in the player s possession Even the menu options in the game can be easily modified throughout or for specific locations To give some idea of how it works with a silly example suppose you are designing an adventure where the object is to make it to the WAP Office at 8227 Woodmont Avenue and renew your yearly membership after an endless search for that elusive parking space and a perilous journcy over the cross walk Imagine further for one of the puzzles that you must get the necessary cash from a prominent TV evangelist or politician you happen to encounter taking Charleston lessons at Arthur Murray s while supposedly on a fact finding mission elsewhere We can even imagine that he will inadvertantly injure and eventually kill you with his wild kicking unless and until you get his attention with your camera found in the photo shop downstairs after which he will offer you hush money and disappear Figure 1 shows what the Mac screen might look like with a little rearranging once you begin to construct the game the room here was drawn using the graphics tools the text typed in and t
160. example SpellStar 3 0 it will not work A utility is provided for transferring dictionaries to the new format I have established that SpellStar 3 3 is about three times faster than the 3 0 version I used prior to it It seems to stem from a much improved algorithm for dictionary search While the old version searched by word length and thus the number of words searched when checking a document depended on the longest word in it the new SpcllStar has some improved searching independent of word length So do not be surprised if the statistics it prints inform you that it searched only e g 8 000 words in the entire 20 000 word dictionary I have run Wes benchmarks which indicate that for a oS particular word interdisciplinary in this Se ge case I added it to both dictionaries and ran foe with it being the only word in the document version 3 3 had to search only 5 words while 3 0 searched through the entire dictionary and took an order of magnitude Upgrade Your System With The Quality Products of AC APPLIED ENGINEERING and our Complete Line of Peripherals longer to achieve it I tried in vain to find a pattern by using words of different length but it never searched through more than 108 words in the dictionary and there were no observable time differences when word length kept varying It needed to search through about 13 5K words to proofread this 1 200 word article and took 22 seconds using the RAM card of co
161. f of the problems of importing reduced columns from EXCEL into PageMaker of the new IBMs and the danger of using System 4 0 and Finder 5 4 with a Dataframe hard disk Once again Tom noted that all 1987 meetings are to be held on the first Wednesday of each month with a demo of the new GraphicWorks scheduled for May PostScript and Microsoft Word tutor ials will be offered soon through the WAP by Ron Moore and Hank Taylor respectively In the demos segment Richard Moss pre sented and discussed Guide OWL Intemational 135 list a Macintosh hypertext tool which allows you to develop relational links between different parts of an electronic document Ron Moore demonstrated Adobe s llustrator and briefly alluded to POSTHASTE from Micro dynamics as Ron pointed out though iustrator enables you to produce beautiful object oriented graphics relatively easily by tracing over bit mapped pictures it does not provide for program ming in raw PostScript and won t do color for the Macintosh II Hank Taylor demonstrated WORD 3 0 with different printed samples while Carol Karsch and Tom Piwowar ended with a demo of PageMaker 2 0 The next regular dPub SIG meeting will be held at 7 30 PM on May 6 in the PEPCO Building at 19th and Pennsyl vania NW We hope to see you there Get the Look of Professional Typesetting without the Cost and Effort CACI Graphics Services offers to print files from your disks using the Linotronic
162. first one you may start anywhere you wish When you have read the description you are given three choices 1 N ext description 2 Download the file 3 Q uit reading descrip tions It looks like this lt N D Q gt and you choose which you want Notice if you like what you have read you can immediately download the file without having to quit descriptions and then ask to D ownload Pretty neat Huh lt C gt Change File Arca This command allows you to switch to a new file arca When you enter it it will show again the list of areas and you simply enter the number of the area you wish to go to and Voila you are there lt D gt Download a File Here is the Biggie When you select D ownload you will be asked lt A T P X gt which means do you wish to Abort back to Xfer Menu perform a text file download which you will probably never want even though the file type says TXT don t use this unless the short description says it is really a Text file Most Mac programs and some Apple II programs are listed as TXT files but are really compressed or packed in a way to maintain them in as little space as possible on an Apple H Thus there will be few TXT files that are truly text they should be downloaded and then unpacked and executed Or use a P rotocol download ASCII Express DOS 3 3 or Prodos or X Modem CRC which is what Macusers would want Just enter your choice tell your modem software to do its thing and sit b
163. from there or files you want to store there during the session There are a couple of ways around this One is to just leave the computer on all the time backing up files to a real disk but always working just from Ram If that s not practical you can always buy a Ram card with built in battery backup to keep your Ram files intact even when the Apple II is off one example is the Applied Engincering RamFactor with battery back up option An even easicr and cheaper method is the onc I use and described above sctting up a real disk which will quickly and automatically load all its files and programs into a Ram Disk upon bootup This method also allows you to rapidly save the entire contents of the Ram Disk into a special type of huge disk file after each Ram Disk session to preserve any changes you ve made The next time you boot up the disk the Ram Disk that is automatically established will contain the files and programs exactly as they were when you backed them up to the special on disk file This auto Ram Disk method is possible with two pro grams BACKUP and RESTORE that are part of the PROSEL package by Glen Bredon the whole package of many utilities costs 40 see last month s column for details These two programs were designed as quick backup and restore utilities for hard disks But they contain options that allow you to use them for auto restoring a Ram Disk on bootup and quickly backing a Ram Disk up to a special disk file
164. ftware I have purchased their astronomy program Tell Star which is not copy protected and would purchase GATO in a heartbeat if and ONLY IF they would remove the silly copy protection I have a hard disk and if I purchased GATO I would like to have the option to put it on the hard disk I will also refuse to purchase Falcon if it is copy protected I hope more Mac users will boycott any and all software that is copy protected RICK STICKLE ON 01 31 Look for Falcon in the May June timeframe I spoke to someone just yesterday at S H They will also have a new WWII simulation coming out near the end of the year that will be starting Beta testing next month By the way version 1 4 of Gato is not copyprotected and neither is their Orbiter simulation DAVID GURSKY ON 01 31 To date Falcon is still in that wonderful category called vaporware SpecHolo has been promising it since August of 86 The computers would be connected via AppleTalk accord ing to my sources While it is certainly your privilege to refuse to purchase software because of copyprotection I per sonally doubt the better games will drop their copyprotection schemes I could be wrong According to Deacon Maccub bin Mindscape will not copy protect their newest game but then again if its anything like King of Chicago it wouldn t be a great loss And I believe MS will be dropping CP from Flight Simulator when the next version comes out if not sooner But th
165. g is a nice touch Then there is a space between Programable and the ellipsis the three dots A little quirk to be sure like the Mystery Spice in mystery meatloaf The first line was done in bold Athens 18 The second line shifts to Chicago font As if we didn t quite pick up on it the first time around the ad rearticulates the If then clsc feature of this program And then there s the And Or feature The mind begins to boggle a bit here But the end is the best The Round Sine that s totally out of the blue Where did that come from What does it mean It snaps our attention like a bad case of whiplash The next pancl which says Data from any source Add 1St PORT S295 Even another computer Fontwise it s an Athens Chicago split again Wordmeaningwise this is pretty dense text here Is Ist Port another product Is it 295 Or is another computer 295 And why all the excitement about data from any source Are we to interpret the scope of the source as being merely other Macintosh software products or are source to include say the Red Spot of Jupiter Dropping down a panc we read that we can get a working demo as opposed to a nonworking demo and Baseball by bringing 800K to our dealer That sounds like a pretty stiff price for a demo fer pete s sake Baseball must be pretty special to rate the quotation marks but we suspect it s not We do not know what the reference to peanuts indicates Continuing on this amazi
166. g their software and hardware peripherals to work on the new machine Topics will include connecting disk drives to the IIgs disk port using the RAM disk and which controller cards are IIgs compatible Bring the hardware and software you haven t been able to get running This course should be valuable to e owners who are in the midst of converting as well as those about to convert Ray Hobbs is Manager of Financial Systems at Amtrack and has been programming since 1964 Introduction to Telecommunications on the Apple Allan Levy Saturday June 6 9 12 am Leam the important basics of accessing other computers with a modem Topics covered include setting up your hardware contd on pg 35 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 85 Apple The following three WAP tutorials are being offered to Apple owners on the first three Tuesday evenings of the month 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 aur 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 4 will be repeated monthly A revised outline of the tutorials was given in the October Journal The fee for each session is 10 00 You are urged to bring an Apple monitor and disk drive Monitors are available for the Ist 5 registrants call office Please note that WAP does not have equipment for you to use if yo
167. game opens his widow Aunt Hildegarde has also died You have a chance to inherit their entire fortune but you must first prove yourself worthy by finding ten props from Uncle Buddy s movies in twelve hours These props are hidden on the grounds of Uncle Buddy s Malibu estate and needless to say you ll have to solve a puzzle or two to get them One thing you quickly notice is that the room descriptions often make reference to your childhood experiences on the estate and in particular to your experiences with your nasty cousin Herman It shouldn t take you long to start wonder ing if there s a connection between Herman and all the mysterious noises you ve been hearing such as footsteps in other rooms muffled thuds heavy objects being dropped The puzzles are among the best I ve seen in a long time My favorite involves getting into the attic I don t want to give anything away but I can tell you that you ll never get into it by trying things at random You have to sit back think about what you want to do what tools you have available and what you can do with them When you finally make it I can guarantee that you ll feel like you ve really accomplished something Another of my favorites involves getting the treasure which is under an unbreakable dome Also under the dome is a scale model of Tokyo and the remote controlled star of Atomic Chihuahuas From Hell There are also a few other puzzles in the game that
168. ged caution Arthur Merrill Ned Davis No bears were cited on the horizon Harley Wilbur provided an update of his Trendpoint DiskLetter service which tracks 24 of Fidelity s Select mutual funds Based on 4 8 and 12 week moving averages of their price performance his data suggested the four most promising funds were Paper Computers Technology and Software For more information call 301 949 8131 Andy Thompson presented the results of his price and asset based method for calculating a short term momentum indicator for cach of the 35 Fidelity Select funds This approach using AppleWorks Spreadsheet calculation and geared for active trading identified the more recent movers to be Sclect Property Biotechnology Computers Financial Services and Health Care Carroll Creitz shared the results of his research and his attempt to resolve the wide variations which investors find in published lists of so called top performing mutual funds Using a Mac and Excel software he analyzed 5 year data from 485 mutual funds By using weekly price data from June of 1985 through December of 1986 Creitz plotted the rate of return and level of risk for ten funds This in tum resulted in developing a risk return index which Creitz hoped would allow him to identify which mutual funds offered the best return Creitz found no reliable relationship between risk and return The study of mutual funds level of risk he concluded could not predict whic
169. gement and trade secret contd on pg 47 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS sottware ae by Joseph A Hasson Three major and several Subsidiary bills have been introduced into the 100th U S Congress to deal with U S foreign trade and trade policy Each of the three major bills S 490 S 539 and HR 3l contains either a Title or a Chapter on intellectual property rights In addition several international agreements deal with this broad subject the Paris Convention of 1883 the Berne Convention originally adopted in 1886 and its several subsequent revisions the Paris Universal Copyright Convention of 1971 and the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization of 1967 The United States not a signatory of the Berne Conven tion is a party to each of the other internativnal agreements The subject of intellectual property rights is receiving the Close attention of the U S Congress because important sectors of the U S economy including the computer industry both hardware and software are affected by them It will also become a major subject of discussion during the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations now in process Numerous countries are violating American intellectual property rights at a heavy cost of billions of dollars to American industry These violations constitute a very serious threat to the continued viability and even existence of these industries in both the short and long term In
170. gincering using FullPaint MailingglAis tse gme nge With am TAH ENT ELAS E QREN NBR cords Introduced in 1984 Mac 100 Award 1987 Low Cost Power 195 Simple setup Forms included Programable In English IF THEN ELSE AND OR ROUND SINE Data from any source fdd 1stPOAT 295 Even another computer WORKING DEMO Baseball Bring 800K to your dealer and peanuts Or send 10 00 direct to deleted Figure 1 The worst Mac product ad I ve ever had the pleasure to see Note the different fonts the changing mar gins the white on black look applied for no apparent reason And the text Ah the text The opening font is Athens 18 shadowed This has been inverted to give it that hip white on black look We have no idca what the reference to 2 billion records means Perhaps 74 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 this changes every month like the McDonald s marquees The second section is also done in Athens 18 plain For some inextricable reason the creators of the ad chose not to go with the standard Athenian dollar sign and imported a dollar sign using some other font Perhaps the Athens just wasn t quite up to snuff The third section has Simple setup in Athens 18 boldfaced Forms included is Athens 18 plain Again we are clueless what part A has to do with part B Our favorite part is the fourth panel It says Programable In English IF THEN ELSE AND OR ROUND SINE First the misspellin
171. graded to SCSI from serial are NOT as quiet as the factory SCSI model Mine is quieter than it was before the upgrade but it is not at all silent or whisper quict Also the upgrades have a piggy back board installed to support the SCSI port which is different from the factory mode as well But all things considered performance is far better and support is fine And how many disk manufacturers even have such an upgrade policy Have you ordered HFS Backup 2 0 yet DEACON MACCUBBIN ON 02 07 Hate to tell you this but your upgraded SCSI isn t as fast as the off the shelf SCSIs cither PCPC was limited in how much of an upgrade they could do on the serials They did a good job but the real SCSIs are better yet I haven t technic ally gotten my upgrade to HFS Backup 2 0 but I bought another MacBottom SCSI last week and it came with the new version I still have to buy an upgrade for my old v1 1 that I use on my Apple HD since the ones that come with Mac Bottoms can t be used on other HDs legally or in actuality ALLAN BALLIETT ON 01 29 Hey where can I find a copy of the instructions for cutting the squeal out of my DataFrame 20 It was in the hardware library of the OLD BBS BILL BALDRIDGE ON 01 30 Check page 86 of the January Journal left column from Kevin Nealon 10 22 for the inside story TOM THOMPSON ON 01 31 I just got my Jasmine 20 meg hard disk yesterday and I thought that some of you might like to he
172. gram but the voices are strangely silent on the LaserBits capabilities for instance And it is precisely in this LaserBits area where the most important and powerful feature of this program resides I m certainly not negative about these well written articles except to shout that they are incomplete in their expositions And this causes great aggravation There are so many what ifs that crop up when using SuperPaint that aren t touched by the writers or within the pages of the manual itself A major problem using LaserBits is the size of the image you can select 2 x 2 1 2 maximum size WHAT IF you have a graphic larger than that size to clean up in LaserBits No answer Okay so you select several bits of the graphic and work on them one at a time So you work diligently in sections Now you want to place these LaserBit masterpieces back into the original or make a new graphic No one including Silicon Beach has told me how to fit the pieces in this puzzle of LaserBit images to line up the complete graphic Maybe they can t But this is another case of us working in the real world in real time trying to solve real problems isn t it There are real jobs and real work at hand in which the proper functioning of an application is important So into the mail to Silicon Beach went my disk asking for answers to these galactic impositions on events unforeseen translate overlooked We know what the problem is the screen resolution
173. h funds would perform best in the future The Sub Group s feedback included contrary suggestions to refine the method by using Fourier Analysis abandon regression analysis because it builds in artificial predictors of future price movements Several members then supported the position that mutual funds do not have long term predictable symmetric moves which can be tracked by sine curves and cycle analysis Ina similar spirit Troy Klein reported his research which endorsed another contrarian position that because of sudden tum arounds the worst performing mutual funds were viable investment instruments and needed to be watched as closely as the best performers Future Mutual Fund Sub Group meetings will be held at the Bethesda Library 7400 Arlington Blvd on April 21 May 28 and June 24 2 DISCUSSION OF GENERAL MARKET TIMING Participants at the March meeting then shared information conceming the forecasts such as those of Robert Prechter who continued to be bearish on gold projected its decline below 22 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 200 oz and long term bullish on the stock market projected above 3000 His advice to 90 of investors seemed to be that they should buy and hold rather than worry about avoiding a 10 correction that may be coming Bob Wood critiqued Trend Analysis a market service which combines Elliott Wave thoery with Gann Analysis but does so with more ambiguity than Bob found helpful Ed Villa
174. hareware so don t forget to send the registration fee to the author if you decide to add any of these fonts to your software library F Manual Double click on this icon to read the instructions and background information on the Apollo family of fonts This file also contains the shareware notice and information Shareware 15 00 registration fee for any or all of the Apollo fonts About Lachine Double click on this icon to read the instructions and background information on the Lachine typewriter look alike fonts on this disk Shareware 5 00 for the Lachine fonts or 15 for the Lachine fonts together with the Apollo fonts Apple I This font bag contains 18 and 36 point sizes of an attractive typeface similar to Athens but with some attractive variations in detailing Athens This font bag contains 12 18 24 36 48 and 72 point sizes of the Athens font provided on the Mac System Tools disk Boxie A sans serif font that looks like its name sounds in 10 and 20 points contd Courier The same font you get on the System Tools disk but in 20 and 28 points Drawing A graphics font that draws lines and boxcs available in 9 10 12 14 18 20 24 28 36 40 48 56 72 80 points Ellesmere A tall thin sans serif font in 10 12 14 20 24 and 28 points Gavarnie A thin sans serif font in sizes of 9 10 12 18 20 24 and 36 points Greenbay A very thick sans serif font available in sizes of 18 and
175. hat the start is slow but the finished polished accomplished Mac user can begin to realize that the end result entail handsome rewards for that service and dedication Prepare to start at the bottom and work up a Mac and a printing company will not allow cheating It rests solely on ability and competence in the work at hand Since printers are usually very familiar with type graphics and overall appearance these observations are offered to anyone who wishes to produce outstanding work on the Macintosh PageMaker current version 1 2 docs an excellent job with reverse type Aldus calls this white type in their menu It prints white on black and it cannot be seen until there is a black or shaded background to print it on Therefore design the approximate area for the background first The background Parameters can be changed later to conform with the type area used Cricket Draw also has this ability these reverse type blocks can then be embedded into ReadySetGo3 documents 52 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 but not in the 1 2 version of PM which does not accept Cricket s PICT files Be finicky about what you are doing not only for yourself but for the overall appearance of your masterpiece In reading articles and books on page layout programs and graphics such as James Cavuoto s informative Laser Write It Terry Ulick s Personal Publishing With The Macin tosh the manuals on SuperPaint
176. he MacKey is located where the Caps lock key is on the Plus keyboard Caps lock is below the right shift key The Option key is labeled Alt shades of MS DOS Finally the bump for positioning your fingers is on the F and J keys whereas they are on the D and K Plus keys While PC MacKey is not a perfect keyboard I prefer it to the Plus keyboard I do not use the function keys much yet nor do any application programs that I am aware of incorporate those keys Using PC MacKey is much a matter of personal preference plus availability of the larger right shift key New Products HARDWARE Rodime Inc 29525 Chagrin Boulevard Suite 214 Pepper Pike OH 44122 20 Plus 45 Plus 201 Plus 451 Plus 1195 1595 1295 amp 1695 25 and 45 Meg internal and external drives Tangent Technologies 5720 Peachtree Parkway Norcross GA 30092 PC MacKey Replacement for Mac keyboards in the form of an improved IBM AT type keyboard SOFTWARE Personal Training Systems P O Box 54240 San Jose CA 95154 Learn Word 3 0 49 95 each module Beginning Intermediate and Advanced Courses Excelling On Your Mac contd from pg 68 reflected in the report whenever it is opened In the Report Template below you sce cell C5 defined as coming from the Check Register shect This is accomplished by means of the command key The cclls on the template are selected the equal sign is hit then the cursor is moved to the Check Register sheet and the co
177. he May issue of A reports on various memory expan sion boards available for the IIgs Kim Brennan is intrigued by the AST Ram Stak Plus board This board contains four sockets for EEPROMs electrically erascable programmable ROMS with a capacity of up to 128K in addition to Ram storage Your favorite programs can be stored in the EEPROMs Peter Combes said that this may have applica tion in an educational environment since once the appropriate programs have been stored the disk drives may be dispensed with Kim is the SYSOP of Board 19 Conference 2 on the WAP TCS We can use this board to exchange PI SIG tech nical information discuss problems and suggest solutions Peter urges us to use this board Finally DISK II drives may be chained to the smart port of the IIgs by a suitable connector such as the one advertised by Applied Services in Columbia The April issue of the Computer Shopper lists the pin connections for this adapta tion c 26 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 by Robert C Platt PIG Meeting Dave Neuman gave an excellent presentation on TDI Modula 2 at the March mecting The next PIG meeting will be Thursday May 21 and will cover Pecan s new Modula 2 for the Macintosh Both newcomers and old hands are welcome Bring your questions and any pro grams that you want to share or to receive debugging assistance USUS The UCSD p System Users Society USUS promotes the p System including Apple Pascal ac
178. he Slow Boat A recent call from a MacNovice wondering why her Mac seems to be slowing down as the size of her manuscript in creases prompted an explanation of something the computer whizzes call fragmentation It s one of those arcane fea tures which users of the Macintosh Plus are learning to cope with You ll recognize the symptoms As the size of your book manuscript grows it seems to take your word processor MacWrite or any other longer and longer to open the file initially and maybe longer even to scroll from one part of the document to another MacNovices still working on 128K or 512K machines which have not been enhanced to the Macintosh Plus system don t experience this problem You ll see why in a minute Fragmentation is a problem not just with word proces sing but with the documents created by many other kinds of software too Presentation software such as MORE is sus ceptible to it spreadsheets can experience it And fragmen lation can be a truly noticeable annoyance in large MacPaint or desktop publishing documents too I did say annoyance because it s not really a difficult problem The slow boat just means you take a little longer to get your work started when you open a document or when you skip to a distant section of it Even MacNovices by now have discovered that when you re working with a computer as fast as the Mac a small slowdown can seem an etermity So what is fragmentatio
179. he dancing couple taken by cut and paste from CARD SHOPPE they will appear in the room accompanied by flute and drum sounds borrowed from ENCHANTED SCEPTERS when you enter Arthur Murtay s Other scenes can be developed in a similar way In fact there is virtually no end to the refinements you can add too numerous to mention in this review File Edit Window Font Tool Fill Pen Scene Mop WRP Adventure TW sound tist WAP Adventur Scene Tent Arth j The sounds of beautiful musio surround you An open door Hes to the south ter Design Dancing Cou Complaints are relatively minor You cannot create plural monsters for instance only he she or it not they Also the program turned out to be a bit trickier to learn than I at first suspected I had a little trouble with the cut and paste for example since WORLD BUILDER seems to divide large imported images into a series of adjoining bit boxes into which the scene s background fill patterns tend to bleed maybe I just haven t perfected my skills with the graphics tools MacUser argues that Silicon Beach really ought to provide support on writing actual scene code since it is a true programming language Ron Wartow famed author of Deep Angst notes that there are no keyboard equivalents for some of the more common commands and no way of contd om printing out all the game coding at once for proofreading you ha
180. he entire picture before she prints it out using a special ribbon Is there an casy way of doing this either within MacPaint or by using free or inexpensive and easily available software BILL BALDRIDGE ON 01 15 Several options come to mind some free some not so free 1 MacBillboard from CE Software is a shareware paint program which will allow you to select the entire document via the marquee the dotted rectangle and then invert It is available on SigMac Disk 43 35 if you like it 2 PaintMover a PD application from Bill Atkinson of MacPaint fame This is a super utility for working from multiple input paint documents to a single output document It allows you to select any part of an input document scale rotate invert OR XOR flip it and output to another document Both documents are presented on the screen in reduced form like show page in MacPaint Freeware available on SigMac Disk 38 3 MacPaint freeest most available option Move the window to the upper left part of the document double click on the marquee this selects entire window select Invert from Edit window Move window using the hand tool until inverted portion JUST moves off screen and repeat Remainder will have to be inverted with the marquee by selecting the individual portions to be inverted This is the least convenicnt method but until you get PaintMover or MacBillboard or some other paint application most seem to allow one to select enti
181. hing else Thus it might pretend to be a Menu program but as soon as it is run it will delete part or all of your disk or files A Worm is a program that actually runs but over time corrupts your disk and files So before you upload a program test it yourself Use only a floppy that is disposable of course Others have tested the programs here before they uploaded them DISCLAIMER Of course you knew this was coming didn t you Neither Washington Apple Pi Ltd or any of its Officers or Volunteers are in any way responsible for the performance of any of the download programs here or for any damage incidental or otherwise that the programs might do AREAS Let s look at the various download areas and what you may find in them Name of Area Type of Ara of Dl s lt 1 gt Library AW Templates amp General TCS 19 lt 2 gt Apple Utils amp Misc Apple I 72 lt 3 gt Apple Games Apple II 15 lt 4 gt Mac Games Mac 12 lt 5 gt Mac Utils amp DA s Mac 38 lt 6 gt Mac Fonts amp Accs Mac 8 lt 7 gt Mac Graph amp Misc Mac 4 lt 8 gt CP M Apple II 2 Total 168 The count shown above was as of Feb 21 87 and is sub stantially higher now Let s look at each area in more detail contd aX lt 1 gt Library Area AW Templates amp General TCS 19 This area contains AppleWorks AW templates It also contains the older VisiCalc templates which can be loaded into any spreadsheet program such as Exce
182. hing is turned on and that the synthesizer and amplifier volumes are turned up b Check to make sure that MIDI Out on the synthe sizer goes to MIDI In on the interface and that MIDI In on the synthesizer goes to MIDI Out on the interface c If you were asked for a clock speed by your sequencer program at startup time try changing it by re booting and picking another speed d Make sure that your MIDI channels agree Set both the synthesizer and the sequencer to send and receive on MIDI channel 1 e If all of the above fails to correct the situation there is probably something wrong with one of the components Have a good time with your music system and if you have any questions contact the MUSIC SIG or write to the editor with your question Ga WAP Tutorials contd from pg 85 sources for hardware and software and demonstration of communication programs including Point to point Mouse talk and DCom 3 3 a shareware VT100 simulator Do not bring your computer Introduction to Postscript Programming Ron Moore Monday June 1 7 p m 9 p m Postscript is the programming language which the Macintosh uses to describe pages to the LaserWriter Although Postscript is gencrated automatically by word processors and page layout programs writing your own Postscript routines can be useful to insert special graphic effects into LaserWriter output Unfortu nately WAP does not own a Laserwriter or oth
183. hor of the material for Washington Apple Pi to include such material on our Mac Disk Lastly let me issue the caveat that we already have access to virtually all commercial BBS materials e g CompuServe so please do not send us material available through those services Thanks G WAP TUTORIALS by Robert C Platt WAP s wide variety of hands on sessions continue into the summer Why not use your spare time to sharpen your Apple skills Also now that the kids are out of school consider WAP tutorials to maintain their computer interest throughout the summer Call the office to reserve a place and then fill out the enrollment form in the back of the Journal If enough youngsters are interested we will sponsor summer time courses for younger users on programming or other introductory topics Mac tutorial Our two session general introduction to the Mac will continue to be offered throughout the summer This course reveals such useful skills as using the Font DA mover organizing your desktop and using a RAM disk Because of demand please phone the WAP Office with your reservations early Our first IIgs tutorial rescheduled We have added several one time tutorials to our summer offerings The fee for these tutorials is 15 for members and 20 for non members Transition from e to IIgs Raymond Hobbs Saturday June 20 1 to 4 p m Apple e owners who are shifting to the IIgs are facing several problems in gettin
184. ial Data Bases nz L C 28 Pinball Games 143 144 AC 27 Applesoft Prog 145 Apple Logo Tool Ki 146 Logo Documentation 149 App Logo Samp P EDSIG1 Elem any 1983 Tax Template 132 TA C 31 Miscellancous 153 Investments A 154 Investments B 155 IAC 33 Miscellaneous 156 IAC 35 Applsft AW e 157 IAC 36 Arcade Games 158 Apple Logo Programs 159 Recipe Files 160 Utilities amp Games 161 Wizard Worker 162 Games E ie graphs and Displays 165 Happy Holidays Charts and Gra 167 IAC 40 Pilot 168 lacs n ali Aw ul 169 Hay Prog 170 Lozes Follies Uul 171 Cat Graphix 172 Print Shop Graphics 173 Riley s Pers Instru 174 Imageworks 175 No Name Yet 500 Master Catalog Listing 501 Util Beginners Choice 502 Util Iniermediaie User omm eon Designer 108 IAC 10 Graphics amon Series Volumes 109 IAC 11 Applesoft Tutr 180 Dung 1 Games 118 uae D 19 I i 122 IAC 17 Misc 123 French Vocabulary 124 Utilities E 132 IAC 19 Uuilities F 3 20 Pascal amp DOS 33 134 New Members Dis 135 WADAPBSI l Di 136 WAPAB DRAG 1 RRRA 181 Beginners Cave 182 Lair of Minotaur 183 Cave of the Mind 184 Zyphur Riverventure 185 Ca astle y Doom 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 noreraih Castle 198 Deathtrap 199 The Black Death 200 The Temple
185. il in limited quantities just as they said when the machine was announced The other thing that the Apple people at the conference went out of their way to make sure we understood is that Apple has not finished with new product announcements for this year Apple actually announced over 20 products on March 2 Macintosh SE Macintosh II internal and external hard disks monitors keyboards memory expansion kits tape backup etc We can expect to see a lot more new products from Apple before the end of the year I don t think Apple will announce any more models of Macintosh this soon but I do expect more announcements of peripheral equipment and software that will significantly expand the value and use of the machines I went to the Developers Conference with a list of software product ideas that I wanted to winnow down to those that fill a market need and are not already being pursued by other developers There were 21 ideas on the list I took to the conference After talking with Apple s managers and evange lists and trying a few of the ideas on other software developers I have picked the top ones to pursue after I publish the two products I have been developing during the last nine months If you are interested in becoming associated with a small energetic software company either part or full time take a look at my ad under Help Wanted in the front of this issue Meanwhile this column is going to be shorter than usual becau
186. imary 64K to the 64K of RAM on the memory card or back the other way There is a typo in the Apple e Technical Reference Man ual Although it says that AUXMOVE starts at location C311 it really should be called at location C312 contd Q My Laser 128 will not send control codes to my printer 0863 D4 C5 D3 D4 8D BA 56 57 56 57 56 57 56 57 56 57 correctly What am I doing wrong 0873 56 57 AO E2 F9 AO C7 EC E5 EE AO C2 F2 E5 E4 EF 0883 EE AO 57 56 57 56 57 56 57 56 57 56 57 56 8D D4 A Many printers require 8 bits of data for control codes and 0893 E8 E9 F3 AO FO F2 EF E7 F2 El ED AO F4 ES F3 F4 bit mapped graphics The Laser 128 communicates with O8A3 F3 AO D2 Cl CD AO El E2 EF F6 ES AO A4 B2 BO BO the printer through a built in port which can be configured 08B3 BO AO E9 EE 8D 1 FS F8 E9 EC E9 El F2 F9 AO ED through a special control panel The default is 8 data bits ie A ee 3 T a F es a A k ae es s 2 F A4 BO B 1 stop bit no parity and 1200 baud operation 08E3 AC AO A4 BS BS AC AO Ad C6 C6 AC AO A4 Cl Cl AO To access the control panel press control P followed O8F3 E9 EE AO B8 CB AO E2 EC EF E3 EB F3 AO El EE E4 by Reset You then have the option of modifying 1 the 0903 8D ED EF F6 E9 EE E AO F4 E8 ES F3 E5 AO F4 EF serial port 2 the parallel port or 3 the mouse Select te __0912 42 4 E8 ES A9 8 Ea F2 ES F3 AD F3 E3 72 ES ES serial port and adjust the format column for 8 data bits 0933 F3 AO E6 EF F5 EE E4 AC AO E9 F
187. important to users According to my notes he said that Apple is committed to common peripherals for the Apple II and Mac families including a common keyboard The new keyboard has one key labelled with the Open Applc and the command symbol I predict Apple will phase out the Cmd symbol over the next few years in favor of the Open Apple symbol which is what the Cmd key should have been all along The IIe still sells well even with the IIgs selling for only a little more The Mac Plus doubled Macintosh sales from their previous levels Jean Louis took a lot of heat for the incompatibility between the Mac Plus and the SE He said that Apple gave the matter careful thought and opted for power rather than cripple the machine by making it upgrade contd Introducing Object Logo Object oriented programming at a price that ll embarrass the competition At 78 95 Coral Software s Object Logo Is sure to move fast But there s more here than low price much more Object Logo is a new easy to use programming language that incorporates the most advanced concepts in computer science Object Logo gives you all the symbolic processing power of ISP in a first class programming environment Object Logo is your ticket into the new world of object oriented programming All of this made accessible by a proven educational programming environment tailored specifically for the Macintosh Don t Take Our Word Take Our Guarantee We re Cor
188. ing evening hours and on Saturday COMMERCIAL CLASSIFIEDS FOR SALE AppleWorks Data Disk Starter Kit for 5 1 4 AppleWorks formatted disks 9 99 Call Richard at 231 9086 FOR SALE PageMaker templates for SF 171 page 1 1979 version other pages 1985 35 Call Dan Adkins for information H 822 8052 FOR SALE Complete Macintosh System Corvus 45 MB hard drive 2800 Corvus tape backup 100MB 850 2 Mac transporter cards 300 Mac Plus 1400 Imagewriter II 375 Apple Sheetfeeder 145 Hayes printer buffer 250 Excellent condtion Prices are flexible Call JJ 202 293 1227 or 302 429 9305 Wilmington DE Ci JOB MART HELP WANTED Do you have the skills energy and enthusiasm to help a little Macintosh software company grow into a big one If you enjoy software demoing sales marketing product design testing programming writing manuals or answering user questions and are good at what you do call Rich Norling in DC at 202 547 5508 1 6 PM any weekday HELP WANTED Macintosh oriented graphics artists desktop publishers and word processors Part time employ ment Work out of your own home Vienna Reston Hemdon area Call Mac Consultants 703 255 0953 HELP WANTED Small Aviation Association in NW Washington needs part time MacTalent Prefer knowledge of Word 3 0 and OverVUE Flexible work hours 10 20 hours week 7 50 hr For more information call 301 695 1189 or 202 347 4989 6 6 Washingt
189. int accessories Pinpoint spell checker and dictionaries and Mousetalk By deleting Mt Help file the Ram5 weighs in at 771 K Now copy the whole thing to a 3 5 backup Now back to the control panel and change your startup slot to Ramdisk Now everyume yourdo a Ctrl OA Reset you boot the Ramdisk and land in the Launcher with all of your favorite programs ready to roll in an instant I think you ll be truly amazed AppleWorks loads in 3 seconds Same of Mousctalk To run any other ProDOS application reboot and select Disk from the Launcher To boot DOS 3 3 alas you must put the System disk back in a drive and go to the Apple II Desktop and startup Slot 6 Simply amazing One megabyte is already not enough Where will it all end PS the Superdesktop does take about five minutes to set up each time your turn on the machine Or you could leave it on all the time Apple Writer 2 0 FERNANDO SALAZAR ON 3 16 Seems like most everybody uses AppleWorks but anybody with Apple Writer 2 0 and a IIgs might find this handy If you have a Super Serial card Apple Writer prints fine but doesn t work with the gs own ports A quick patch fixes this 1 Get into Basic under ProDOS Insert a backup of Apple Writer 2 0 2 Unlock AWD SYS then type CALL 151 to enter the monitor 3 Type BLOAD AWD SYS A 2000 TSYS lt Ret gt 4 Type 4408 440F lt Ret gt You should see the bytes 36 4C 15 4F A9 15 85 9E 5 Type 4409 60 lt Ret then BSAVE AWD SYS A 2000
190. ions The news was the size of the conference itself This conference had about twice the number of developers attending as the conference accompany ing the announcement of the Macintosh Plus in January 1986 For this conference Apple had booked facilities to handle 600 developers of Macintosh software and add on hardware The conference was overbooked What this means is that third party developers are flocking to the Macintosh and you can expect to see a real flood of software and hardware for the new Macintoshes beginning this fall I saw rough working versions of a few and they are awesome WAP members who attended the March meeting saw a videotape of the Macintosh II introduction including a sequence in which the Macintosh II draws a picture of a green hillside and gradually changes the colors as the sun rises It was impressive on videotape and even more impressive live Most of the 3 day conference was filled with presentations on the Macintosh SE and Macintosh II hardware and software marketing directions and how third party developers can work with Apple The benefits of those sessions was boosted by the adrenalin rush of being surrounded by nothing but Macintosh talk with Apple people and other developers for three solid days I won t bore you with a recitation of techni cal details Apple people did say that assembly of boards for the Macintosh II has started and the machine will begin shipping in May possibly even late Apr
191. is a short driver 26 bytes it can be safely tucked in at the beginning of page 03 in RAM To do this enter the Monitor and simply type in the values CALL 151 0302 AC 01 03 AE 01 03 A9 04 20 A8 FC AD 30 CO 0310 E8 DO FD 88 DO EF CE 00 03 D0 E7 60 3D0G 12 POKE 780 252 POKE 781 173 POKE 782 48 POKE 783 192 POKE 784 232 13 POKE 785 208 POKE 786 253 POKE 787 136 POKE 788 208 POKE 789 239 14 POKE 790 206 POKE 791 0 POKE 792 3 POKE 793 208 POKE 794 231 15 POKE 795 96 The results are the same However if you use the first method using the Monitor instead of the above lines 10 15 you should use the following in your BASIC program 10 D CHR 4 15 PRINT D BLOAD SDRIVER The rest of the program consists of simply setting up the frequency and duration locations at decimal 768 and 769 and passing frequency and duration values to the driver Here is a sample 20 TEXT HOME 30 INPUT FREQUENCY AND DURATION F D 40 GOSUB 1000 50 INPUT ANOTHER NOTE Y N Q 60 IF Q Y THEN 30 70 END 1000 D 0 POKE 768 D F 0 POKE 769 F 1001 CALL 770 1002 RETURN contd Washington Apple Pi May 1987 25 The hooks from BASIC to the driver are in the subroutine at line 1000 This subroutine puts the frequency and duration values into locations 300 and 301 hex and then calls the driver routine which you have either BLOADed or POKEd into memory at location 302 hex After the driver returns contro
192. it so you can see just how slow it is Be sure to use that SEARCH ROOM command a few times because that can take forever 6 contd A by Reid Hutchinson You are foilborne at a crusing speed of 50 knots the new Commanding Officer of the PHM Patrol Hydrofoil Missile craft You are a top graduate from Annapolis and a member of TAG Terrorist Action Group part of a NATO Force which has resources to obtain one of three types of hydrofoils the United States PEGASUS Class the Italian SPARVIERO Class or the Israeli FLAGSTAFF II Class Your present objective is to seek and destroy terrorist vessels that attacked a seaside resort Witnesses estimate between seven to ten terrorist vessels were involved in the attack Your FLAGSTAFF II is armed with a 76mm Oto Melara cannon six Harpoon surface to surface missiles SSM and two Gabriel SSM s You radar has picked up three ves sels at the range of 40 miles the targets have been identified as two Fast Patrol Craft and one OSA Fast Attack Missile Craft You launch a Harpoon at the OSA and decide to close within five miles to tackle the Patrol Crafts your radar wams you that three SS N 2A Styx SSM s Russian made have been fired and have locked in on your vessel You prepare to fire your Mark 34 Chaffroc chaff to deflect the SSM s The Styx SSM s can now be seen at 2 5 miles and closing fast You fire your chaff and hope Such is the play of PHM PEGASUS the hydrofoil sim
193. ition in the market is to cancel all the things that have been cloned and start over new hardware new operating system using proprietary technology not compat ible with IBM s or anybody else s current hardware or operating system Some of the new IBM machines are said to be available now but the models using the Intel 80386 chip to compete with Compaq s latest model will not be available until July and the top model won t be available until the end of this year The top two models sit on the floor instead of sitting on your desk The new operating system announced by IBM called Operating System 2 will not be available in even its bare bones version until 1988 and IBM has not even announced an availability date for the version with a windows manager The new operating system is rumored to contain a combination of Microsoft s Windows and IBM s TopView and apparently still needs a lot of work Apple Developers Conference I have just returned from a 3 day conference sponsored by Apple for third party hardware and software developers While there was one session discussing development systems for the Apple II computers this conference was designed for develop ers who create add on equipment and software for the various members of the Macintosh family a conference for Apple II developers was held last fall just after the GS was announced The biggest news of the Developers Conference was not contained in any of the presentat
194. l allow some time for discussion of individual stocks should participants want the group s perspective Stock SIG meetings occur on the second Thursday of each month at the WAP office ci Included too are two small user guides which pictorially describe the actors I believe that this library package adds to FIRST TIME OFFER AJ 833 Printer Terminal LIKE NEW The versatile AJ 833 daisy wheel printer operates as a high speed letter quality printer a typewriter and a terminal It s perfect for most printing timesharing and data communications Programmable keyboard o High resolution XY plotting e Printing capabilities such as bold face automatic underlining centering and right applications margin justification Features of the AJ 833 include The AJ 833 is more than a letter quality e 45 cps bi directional letter quality printer It can be used offline asa letter printing quality typewriter When equipped with a modem or an acoustic coupler the AJ 833 can be used as a terminal to access bulletin boards and online data bases such as the Source and Compuserve with no additional com munications software For versatility reliability and operating convenience the AJ 833 Price 325 e 1200 bps operation o Compatibility with virtually any PC including IBM Apple I and Macintosh e 256 character buffer e Buffer overflow protection e Changeable type faces e Nonvolatile memory ANDERSON A
195. l of the files on the SYSTEM Third you could go to the Main Menu the area you enter first when you log on the TCS There you could go to the Library for the Main Menu each Board also has its own Library as well and read file 16 R 16 which is the same as the download file It is best to capture it to disk and print it out later Capturing this directly rather than downloading the file DL LIST in the XFER module would save one download for that day Generally to make the most use of your time organize yourself OFF the SYSTEM so that when you connect you know what files you wish to download during that session and exactly where they are This also makes it easy for you to keep your own record of what you have as well as what you wish in the future and to give priority to which files you wish soonest UPLOADS Before we get to downloads let s look at a subject near and dear to my heart UPLOADS Uploads make the SYSTEM work and we depend on you to provide them to us so that we can provide them to you and others Several things about uploads First any upload you make does not count against your download quota You can upload 10 files in 1 call and still have your regular download quota for that call presently 3 downloads per call 3 calls per day a possible total of 9 downloads per day Second the TIME for an UPLOAD does not count against your total time for downloads Currently the time per call is 1 hour whi
196. l on the MAC or AW in the Apple II family Further it has files of a general nature to the Pi s Telecommunications System TCS Here you will find such things as an AW template to plan a kitchen and the list of all downloads in each area of the XFER portion of the TCS lt 2 gt Apple Utils amp Misc Apple II 72 This contains ANY Apple II program that is not a game Such items as a program to read a disk s file into a text file a utility and a program to Squeeze and UnSquceze compress and uncompress a file A Print Shop graphics would be here as well as many others lt 3 gt Apple Games Apple II 15 This area contains PD or SW games to run on the Apple II family Hopefully it contains nothing but games lt 4 gt Mac Games Area Mac 12 Like the Apple area this contains all of the MAC PD and SW games Be aware that many of the MAC games are SW lt 5 gt Mac Uuls amp DA s Mac 38 Here you will find MAC utilities and desk accessories for all sizes of MACs Most are PD sometimes called FreeWare and some are SW lt 6 gt Mac Fonts amp Accs Mac 8 This is the home of many beautiful and different fonts for your MAC both for on screen display and printing The Accessories here would relate to the Fonts theme to distinguish them from Utilities Thus there would be various programs here to enable you to use the fonts in many different ways One example is a font doubler which allows you to double the size of
197. l to the BASIC subroutine the subroutine immediately RETURNS to the mainline code at line 50 which checks to see if you want to input another note Have some fun with this one and see if you can modify it to play some songs If you come up with something send it in to the Music SIG and we ll publish the best routines in an upcoming MUSICAL APPLE column B PI SIG NEWS by Walter Urban Bob Golden had to go out of town on the day after the PI SIG meeting on April 6 leaving me to report on the meeting At present our major effort is to leam to program the Apple IIgs particularly by using a construct called shell It interprets the user s commands and performs the necessary housekeeping for the user It may be considered to be an extension of ProDOS 16 We will use a bare bones shell to create a plain vanilla application that is one that does not use any of the advanced features of the IIgs An example of how this can be done is illustrated in the April issue of In Cider Later with more experience a more ambitious applica tion using menus windows etc will be attempted To accomplish this means that we must have a package such as the Apple Programmer s Workshop APW or the Hgs version of ORCA MacAssembler and a language compiler compatible with the Apple IIgs Since it is suitable we will use the TML Pascal compiler Last but not least a minimum of 512K of expansion memory is required 1024K is recommended T
198. lag the ones who are overdue write reports and form letters and bills etc What should we use DAVID GURSKY ON 01 09 Frankly Mark it would seem that ALL the major DB packages can do that I happen to like Double Helix but that is an expensive proposition about 275 I suspect Reflex would do also and it s only 100 Record Holder might due as well and it s only 50 The lynch pin would seem to be flagging overdue members which requires the ability to automatically know the current date to compute if a member is past due DICK RUCKER ON 01 11 I maintain a mailing list using lst Base It has grown to the capacity of the 400K disk it now resides on I tried moving it to an 800K disk I m using a Mac Plus with 2 800K drives but all I get is garbage when I open the data base file It works fine as long as it is on a 400K disk The data base is all by itself on one 400K disk The system folder System 3 2 and Finder 5 3 and 1st Base are on a separate 800K disk Anybody know what is going on Is there a size limit to Ist Base DB file capacity If I have to move out of Ist Base into some other DBMS does anybody have a copy of Ist Port I could borrow to safely extract my files into a usable format I really don t want to type them in again FROM DICK RUCKER ON 01 18 I talked with 1st Desk Systems who bought Ist Base Ist Port etc from DeskTop Software some time ago They have finally released a Mac Plus compatible version of cach of
199. lding between them i c a doubled over square of aluminum foil underneath the monitor That will work about 90 of the time on a c with an intermittent Read or Write problem TOM VIER ON 03 18 The dealers have a fix for the defective shield I t was totally missing from a run of c s and the dealer is supposed to install one for free 1 JOHN CONNAUGHTON ON 03 19 I heard a rumor about printer ribbons which goes like this Quality ribbons use an ink which contains a small quantity of lubricating oil for the dot matrix printheads and this is needed for long print head life Cheap ribbons don t use the oil Can anyone confirm this rumor or is this just a computer hacker s fantasy If this is true how can one tell if the ribbon ink contains the lube oil BRETT PARKS ON 03 20 Yep proper ink for a dot matrix printer ribbon does contain some lubricants of some sort in them This is to keep the little pins from stickin in the printhead once they get gummed up with a bit o ink This brings to mind a couple of cheap ways to extend the life of your ribbon cartridge First put a 1 2 twist in the ribbon and print on the other 1 2 you may notice your ribbon only appears to be used on the top or bottom 1 2 of the ribbon This 1 2 twist allows you to usc both sides Sccond give the ribbon a light shot of WD 40 This will get the free but dried out ink in the cartridge moving about so you can use it This use to work best with
200. le you can paste color pictures into the Acta outlining desk accessory He said that the strategy session on the Mac II was in August of 1985 Go back to your old InfoWorlds and I think you will see hints of this He admitted and apologized for the problems with the Mac Plus analog board which contains the power supply and video circuitry The SE has a new power supply of a different design 1 was able to talk with the engineer in charge of the SE power supply and got a more detailed explanation from him He said that the analog board on the SE is now two boards one with the power supply proper and one with the video and related circuitry Thus a need to replace one may not necessitate replacing both as in the Plus where they are on the same circuit board Mac Pluses also now have a redesigned power supply that makes problems less likely and of course service technicians in the dealerships viewed by many as the cause of many problems suffered by some Macintosh owners have received new detailed instructions how to replace one boards without damaging other parts of the computer I have a note at this point that says Really portable Apple H and I remember Jean Louis joking about the IIc power supply but I don t recall anything beyond that Apple as you may know has a policy against discussing unan nounced products Jean Louis then tumed the podium over to Hardware Product Manager Randy Battat Randy and three of his col
201. leagues from other groups within Apple answered a number of questions about specific design decisions on the SE and the Mac II Randy said that the decision to use the Motorola 68000 in the SE rather than the more powerful 68020 was made because the 68020 was more costly and the engineering would have taken too long The built in hard disk and the expansion slot were easy decisions however Someone on the panel made a comment according to my notes that AppleShare Apple s file server software will run in background on the SE and the Mac II This would be good if true but I have not seen anything further on this and I may have misunderstood what was said There have been a number of rumors since AppleWorld that Apple is working on a multitasking capability for Macintosh The panel said that the most important issues in multitasking were fast context switching Switcher does this for the most part but obviously not as neatly as Apple would like and background printing We were told to expect an evolutionary set of tools to do limited forms of multitasking Printers were discussed only bricfly during the session although a couple of us cornered Randy after the meeting to ask about a fix for the ImageWriter II s problem handling single sheet paper No news yet but Apple is working on it 50 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 The limit of 15 desk accessories is still present in the new System file This announcement was not popular Ra
202. les to be added to an image and contd then manipulated New InBox Version Increases Macintosh IBM Compatibility Think Technologies is releasing a new version of InBox that will allow IBM PC users to send electronic mail to Mac intosh computers Although the original version of InBox was only for Macintosh computers connected to AppleTalk the new version increases the ability to share data between the MSDOS and Macintosh world In addition to mail messages this version will allow transfer of DOS files from IBMs to Macintoshes connected to AppleTalk Such a transfer requires the use of a network adapter card such as MacBridge Tangent Technologies in the IBM Think Technologies is also work ing on a special version of InBox for use with TOPS Centram Systems West Source PC Week December 2 1987 Macintosh Big Screens A recent article by John Markoff in High Technology Magazine January 1987 discussed the three large screen monitors available for the Macintosh It mentioned that the Macintosh s closed design makes adding external video equipment difficult but because Macintosh software is already designed for a graphics interface and Apple guidelines are standardized most programs can make ready use of the large display On the other hand IBM offers better ease of adding video peripherals but IBM software follows no standard guidelines particularly for graphics Programs such as MacWrite MacPaint and Word have some pr
203. ll monochromatic screen this game would be a moneymaker on the quarter circuit There is lots of action all going on at once The game employs the Mac interface well All documen tation is on line All action command keys on the keyboard can be reprogrammed for left handers or anyone with a person al preference The mouse movement aiming command can be interpreted from either a horizontal motion or a vertical one at the user s option There is much humor scattered throughout the game in its sounds and actions For those who delight in reference checking the graffiti on the walls reference other arcade games Plus all your favorite scenes from other games seem to be there in one form or another Additionally the game has three levels of dificulty beginner Intermediate and foolhardy innocently labeled advanced On the negative dark side it did fall a bit shy of perfec tion First I found the command structure a bit awkward The hand on the keyboard has seven functions to perform That is two more than the number of fingers I have on that hand Even rearranging the command keys provided no real relief They could have saved two buttons if they had put movement control under the command of the more flexible mouse and the up down aim point adjustments on the keys This would have also given a better hand brain connection because the moving hand would control the moving character Second the game has no pause and no save featu
204. ll available Brock s address is P O Box 799 Crystal Lake IL 60014 Their phone number is 815 459 4210 And finally Another vendor offering Apple sales and service Omicron Electronics 11240 Nine Mile Rd Warren MI 48089 Their phone number is 313 757 8192 Their ad says they have Apple software in stock provide custom software applications and are the exclusive distributors for Infotory an Inventory management program for the Ask for Mike Tattan 6 Smart Computer Our Generic PC Built with Care and Intelligence by Bud Stolker In the IBM PC compatible world there are good computers and there are great computers The generic PC s we are custom building for clients fall into the latter category for several reasons Easy to learn and operate Each Landmark PC comes with a customized start up disk or hard disk menu system as well as a personalized user s guide that fully explains your particular mix of hardware and software The three level help system with pop up messages and explanatory graphics keeps you firmly in charge As you cruise effortlessly from one program to another help screens describe what s happening and tell you what you can do next Full details on all hardware and software are integrated into the menu system and are available by keyword search And our help system is an open one we tell you how to expand and further customize it Modular and upgradeable We custom tailor each PC and d
205. lming The drive responds very quickly and we ve used it quite a bit in the few days we ve had it Jasmine says that the drive has five heads and three platters We were given our choice of cables A 2 foot cable is standard and a six foot cable is available for an extra 20 Incidentally the 2 foot cable is actually about 20 inches It claims a 30 millisecond access time has auto head park and built in surge protection It also has 2 switched AC 82 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 outlets Our office paid 1380 and 20 shipping DOUGLAS E CANTON JR ON 02 09 I have a DataFrame20 w XP upgrade and would like to know if there is a SCSI connection direct to the CPU or otherwise that would allow the Mac to realize the full potential of the drive s transfer rate the external SCSI fast as it is is still a bottleneck The cable for such a connection could be routed through the hole provided for the security attachment above the mouse port Preferably such a connection would not require altering any of the Mac s circuit boards BERNIE URBAN ON 02 09 Suggest you discuss directly with service folks at SuperMac We would be interested to get the news of sucha change BOOK REVIEWS by Robert C Platt After an unintentionally long gap Iet s resume our coverage of the latest computer books for the Apple and the Mac The Third Apple by Jean Louise Gasse HBJ 1987 14 95 Carl Sagan watch out Apple s V P for Pr
206. lrod 301 464 5981 David Morganstcin 301 972 4263 Bob Pulgino 202 797 0879 Ray Hobbs 7 30 10 301 490 7484 Jim Graham 703 643 184 Tom Parrish 301 654 8784 Marty Milrod 301 464 5981 Paul Bublitz 301 261 4124 John Staples 703 255 695 Ray Hobbs 7 30 10 301 490 7484 Jim Kellock day 301 986 9522 n Raesly 301 439 1799 n_Raesly 301 439 1799 Bill Ewe 703 620 2103 Ginny Spevak 202 362 3887 John Staples 703 255 6955 Calls until midnight are ok 8 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 Games Apple Games Mac Hard Disks Corvus amp Omninet a 1 IBM Languages A Appl guages Ae MS Basic Math OR Applns Monitor RG Music Systems Operating Systems ae DOS Y CPM MS DOS ProDOS Printers Gencral noi Gots Re e Dais ce ws 460 magewriter MX 80 Okidata Print Shop Newsroom Spreadsheets Lotus 1 2 3 VisiCa Ic Sprdsht 2 0 MagicCalc Ver 50 SuperCalc Stat Packages Stock Market Time Sharing Word Processors Apple Writer II Gutenberg Gutenberg amp Jr Letter amp Simply Perfect Magic Window and Il Apple PIE SGreenWriter I Word Handler Word Perfect Word Star Charles Don Hall Ron Wartow Tom Vier BBS Leon Racsly Jaxon Brown Otis Greever Ray Pobes 7 30 10 n Raesly esoft I Integer P Pascal achine uis Biggie Peter Conies Jeff Dillon Richard Langston Leon Raesly Richard Untied John Love Ray Hobbs 7 30 10 Michael Hartman Bruce Field Ray Hobb
207. ly finder copy applications and files The drive has a reasonable average seek time the time the head moves to a specific track of 85 nanoseconds the 45 is 28 nanoseconds Seek time however is only one although important factor of a drive s speed The perception of speed on the Rodime however is terrific But my subjective perception is between this SCSI and the Apple HD 20 which uses the floppy disk port Rodime claims it to be six times faster I believe it I have used it extensively nearly six hours a day when I m in town and during weekdays I do not shut it off at night with lots of saves backups crashes transfers etc with no failure that I could attribute to the drive In fact its bomb recovery is good and with my extensive use of Switcher it happens often Rodime says meantime between failure MTBF is 18 000 hours The Mac s MTBF is quoted at 25 000 and other than the floppy drive it had no moving parts The 20 Plus has the feel of a rugged dependable drive Until I find a less expensive drive that I have confidence in I have no hesitation in recommending Rodime I suspect that given its size Rodime will remain price competitive PC MacKey The search for the perfect keyboard Having got used to the IBM Selectric before discovering microcomputers I was reasonably satisfied with the original 128K Mac Keyboard Then it became apparent that such a simple keyboard was inadequate for approaching the shortcuts that
208. lygon and the inability to form a second vertex cusping function the disappearance of the horizontal scroll bar most of the tools defaulting to the left margin no matter where the cursor was placed and imported Paint documents dropping into C Draw in sections rather than as one grouped object that could be controlled with effects and resizing Cricket Draw does not yet support FullPaint which was the Paint document I imported because as Douglas stated FullPaint programmers did not adhere to some of the Mac standards causing these bitmaps to import into C Draw as sections This was being corrected he said Meanwhile he advised two solutions 1 edit each section of the bitmap graphic because one cannot edit them at all by grouping in C Draw and then piece them together very carefully 2 use SuperPaint and import any bitmap from that program which is 100 compatible Also he strongly advised reading and subscribing 25 yr to Cricket Draw s Technical Notes I ve been scribbling these addendums and corrections into the main manual because they are so important And the reason for the cursor defaulting to the left margin and no horizontal scroll bar The program went bananas when I did something with the polygon and corrupted LUCKILY I HAD A BACK UP Please please make a backup of this valuable program Just in case It would be most beneficial if the promoters of programs as well as the psyched up journalists extolling the
209. m Paper Writer Ragtime Where USA is C SD Tempo Writer Rabbit 816 Paint ASCII Mousetalk 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 S4 MD residents add 5 sales tax No charges or COD s Prices subject to change Call for items not listed COMPUTER WARE UNLIMITED P O BOX 1247 COLUMBIA MD 21044 301 854 2346 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 15 Q amp A by Robert C Platt Paul Lucas wrote to respond to an item from a recent column regarding invoking an EXEC file as the startup pro gram on a disk In DOS 3 3 a separate Applesoft program must be stored on the disk with the following statement 10 PRINT CHR 4 EXEC FILENAME Paul notes that ProDOS offers a shortcut If you save the text file to be EXECed on the disk under the name STARTUP no separate Applesoft program is required This is because ProDOS per forms a smart RUN on any file named STARTUP whenever a disk is booted Thus saving a binary file as STARTUP will cause a BRUN STARTUP to be executed automatically and a text file named STARTUP will cause an EXEC STARTUP to be done automatically Q What is the latest version of ProDOS A The latest released version of ProDOS 8 is 1 3 dated 2 DEC 86 However it contains several new bugs which were introduced in the process of trying to fix the Track
210. made for its CPU s compared to the Motorola CPU s Motorola MC68020 Benchmark Report Intel apparently stated that the 80286 was three times faster than the 8 MHz 68000 while Motorola stated that it is commonly accepted that the MC68000 is at least twice ie contd Washington Apple Pi May 1987 65 performance of the 8086 Motorola further added that the MC68020 is 2 5 times the performance of the 286 With regards to relative performance Motorola states Users migrating from the 8086 to the 286 are plagued by additional incompatibilities because the 8086 memory models are incompatible with their 286 counterparts Thus while Intel touts the advantage of having a standard memory management system on the 286 chip the various schemes required to remedy the 64K byte segment limits ironically makes for incompatible code The 68000 family always supports 32 bit addresses and therefore doesn t have any such segmentation induced problems Some of these compatibility problems with hardware and software have also been addressed in issucs of PC Week December 2 1986 and InfoWorld December 1 1986 The article in PC Week stated the forthcoming operating system for the PC AT known as protected mode DOS Advanced DOS or DOS 5 0 may initially be incompatible with a variety of existing PCs and PC products according to several leading hardware and software developers The article in InfoWorld mentioned that Intel has a
211. mall lt 100 medium contd on pg 75 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 3 Macintosh SE would be the idcal business micro computer words I wrote without regard to acron ym for 1987 Since those words were written my law firm purchased five of them for secretarial word processing and other pur poses The story of how we shopped for these is an interesting one and is aa worth telling in a future issue In any event after working with the new SE s in the last few wecks those of us in the office who have mere Mac 512 s and Mac Pluses have become quite jealous I m impressed with the noticeable speed improvement of the hard disk which is due to an improved Small Computer Systems Interface SCSI driver If you are a long time Macintosh member you will recall a talk given in 1985 by computer journalist Cary Lu in which he said that the speed of a hard disk was one of the most critical aspects of microcomputer performance The SE mouse the same as the mouse on the IIgs is also a winner Many of us old style mouse users strongly prefer the new low profile version And the keyboard which I confess I was prepared to dislike is not bad We did notice something curious about the hard disk options for the SE though The model with the built in 20 megabyte hard disk actually has about 642K less storage capacity than is on the 20 megabyte HD20SC extemal drive This would suggest that the drives are different models I
212. mething within reason and system relatively easy to learn teach to bookkeeper Essentially looking for a system that is powerful enough to take care of all or at least most of the functions of a business of the magnitude indicated Any experience or suggestions will be greatly appreciated DEACON MACCUBBIN ON 01 20 Although you probably won t find all those functions in one integrated package most of the medical specific items can be handled by several vertical market packages designed to run under Omni3 I d suggest you contact Blyth Software 415 571 0222 and get a copy of thcir Omnis3 Business Directory normally it s 7 but I think they have a special 4 offer for it right now It lists hundreds of vertical applica tions including several medical specific ones For word processing check out WriteNow or MSWord 3 0 out in Feb both will support mail merge with other data base programs like Omni3 For general accounting work check out Turbo Maccountant from Digital Inc or Insight from Layered There are a number of payrolls applications in the Omni3 Business Directory too One caution most of the available payroll packages handle only single state situations If you have employees who live in one jurisdiction but work in another as I do you re not going to find an off the shelf package that will handle that I am working with three different developers to modify existing programs to handle that task but don t look fo
213. mpt status under Federal income tax law Fred Showker gave a talk on how to improve the quality of user group newsletters Among his ideas Keep line lengths short i e 1 5 times the width of a string consisting of all the lower case letters abcdefg xyz remember that 60 of all readers are browsers and help them find those articles of interest to them create departments so that articles on a common subject are grouped together do not succumb to Mac fever i e the desire to do everything on a Mac rather than resort to real cut and paste and in the production of a newsletter remember that the editor is always boss John McWade a graphics consultant from Sacramento California who among other things writes books for Aldus the publishers of PageMaker offered a couple of tips for newsletter editors Many regarded his talk as the single best presentation of the entire three day event When we get the videotape everyone who does desktop publishing should take the time to see it it was that good He said that Adobe s new Illustrator program will be a landmark program of a kind not previously available on any computer at any price He also recommended that anyone who does newsletters using Times the font the WAP Journal uses should get Helvetica Black a very bold looking version of the Helvetica font as their first downloadable i e non standard font John also advised that editors should never leave line spacing
214. n package that makes tying into information services even easier And there s even another reason why Microsoft Works is the software package for your Macintosh It s all integrated ich means that you can move from any part of the program to another part Play with some numbers on the spreadsheet then transfer them instantly to the word processor Or get some facts from any information service using the built incommunication software and move them immediately to the database When was the last time a best seller made you money Well there s always a first Microsoft Works Retail List Price 295 WAP Special 235 Mouse Pads cccc000 4 95 Imagewriter I II Rit bons 4 99 Checkmate Get these special prices at our Springfield location only Must present Pi membership card for special price 2 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 Multi Megabyte Storage for the Macintosh Plus amp Apple GS Introduce your Macintosh or Apple GS to the fastest mass storage devices available hard disk drives featuring SCSI interfaces These hard disk drives attach to the appropriate port on your Macintosh Plus or GS except for the Hyperdrive 20 s amp 2000 s which work with the Macintosh only Hyperdrive FX 20 1049 Dataframe 20 HD 949 Hyperdrive 2000 2490 Macbottom SCSI 990 Hyperdrive 20 1390 Apple HD 20SC In Stock WordPerfect for the Apple Iic amp the Apple e Now th
215. n why does it slow you down and how can it be fixed Actually the fix is simpler than the explanation But it s interesting to understand why fragmenta tion happens and how it affects your work Let s say you create a new MacWrite document the beginning of a book You open a NEW document from the FILE menu You give it a title and start writing The juices are flowing so you type furiously until you ve filled twenty pages As you go of course you SAVE your document frequently using the FILE menu Of course you save frequently you wouldn t want to lose all twenty pages of inspiration when your foot kicks the power supply plug from the wall by mistake The first ime you SAVE your untitled document Mac asks you for a name When you give it one Mac automatic ally takes care of a few little filing chores unseen by you The computer notes the name the time and date of creation and the type of document it is in this case a MacWrite document Mac also decides where to store the document on your disk If you re working under the MacPlus HFS system your Macintosh asks you which DISK to store the document on and which FOLDER to place it in That infomation is stored invisibly with your document Next time you open the document Mac refers to these notes locates the file on your disk and opens it quickly After the first SAVE of your document Macintosh simply 60 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 MacNovice Column gt by Ral
216. n 3 apiece I usually have some BS O24700 bps 2400bps 2400 bps 2400 bps 2400 bps 2400 bp The AJ 2412 STH Not just another Hayes AT compatible 2400 bps modem The AJ 2412 STH has all the features you d expect from a high quality 2400 bps modem such as e Full compatibility with the Hayes 2400 bps AT command set Synchronous and asynchronous operation at 0 300 1200 and 2400 bps e Automatic speed detection and matching Voiceldata switching Software programmable options Automatic and manual originate and answer Single number redial But the AJ 2412 STH offers more including Optional MNP error detection and correction CCITT V 22 V 22 bis amp Bell 103 212A standards MI MIC or A AI operation Nonvolatile memory EEPROM Integral speaker for call progress monitoring Convenient front panel status indicators The AJ 2412 STH all this for a suggested list price of 395 ANDERSON 4 JACOBSON Anderson Jacobson Inc 8653 Grovemont Circle Gaithersburg MD 20877 4191 301 840 5700 400 bps 2400bps 2400 bps 2400 bps 2400 bps 2400 bps Powell Pandergraph 301 921 4200 Commart 301 261 4344 Comsel 301 734 3880 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 43 YOU BE THE JUDGE by Harvey Kaye 1987 H Kaye This is the first of a serics of articles which will follow the same general format The articles will discuss actual situations all the facts are taken from
217. n the mood for punishment There are over 80 beautiful color illustrations many of which are PHM PEGASUS A Review to choose from The simulation is commanded by the use of keyboard with or without the use of the joystick The joystick can be toggled with the space bar to maneuver the hydrofoil or to aim and fire weapons When firing the 76mm cannon the fire control computer shows you how to adjust for each missed shot You can toggle back and forth from the operations map to the Bridge of the hydrofoil When the mission becomes tedious you can increase the simulation time rate up to 128 times except make sure you return to normal time when in combat or you will not have time to react to the incoming fire On the Bridge view you have a forward view of the ocean your weapon selection speed and damage status As you move the joystick to start a turn the horizon tilts to give a very realistic effect The radar can be adjusted to various ranges from 40 miles to 2 5 miles Each target is individually selected and seen in a Binocular View to distinguish the ship type vessel spotter cards are included to enhance recognition skills Damage Control is shown by the use of an outline of the hydrofoil with various systems being displayed As damage occurs to various systems the colors change from yellow for light damage to red for heavy damage Also the various systems will be affected For example on the 76mm Cannon light dam
218. n with one expect to be relied upon to produce on deadlines The prerequisite is a willingness to work in the business of manufacturing type and graphics Printers are a fine group of people often overworked because of their desire to service their customers in a very competitive market In working with them therefore productivity is a must Short circuit them and your name and reputation is suddenly mud It is a great truth that the quickest way to leam graphics and typography on the Mac is by doing it under the pressure of the jobwork environment It should also be mentioned that one never knows what kind of work a printer will hand one to produce for him one job may be a simple letterhead another a complicated letterhead or it may be an involved menu or simple changes to existing work or simple or complex forms work a business card brochure mailer flier graphics and art work page or layout design material to be scanned or digi tized original logos and logo design newsletters bulletins catalogs just about anything you can think of Often the kind of printer approached will determine the kind of pay received None of them will pay for experimental work or for the trials and tribulations of learning time involved in the many graphics programs available to the Mac user They pay only for actual production results The second great truth is that the more work produced the more proficient one becomes Monetarily this means t
219. ndy talked about the new versions of Finder and System that Apple will be releasing in fairly short order Finder 5 4 was released to work with AppleShare System 4 0 is out now and System 4 1 will be out soon to work with the Mac SE Apple is also working on a Universal System disk to be released at about the time that the Mac II becomes available i e May or so Randy said that people who want to upgrade only once during this period should wait until that version becomes available but that otherwise people should use the latest versions Next was a panel on Software Solutions chaired by Guy Kawasaki and also starring Dave Winer of Living Videotext Charlie Jackson of Silicon Beach Software Bill Holt of Activision and Carl Mishana of Apple Computer Some ran dom thoughts from the panel Carl said quite apologetically that Apple is the only software company with no phone support and no marketing Dave Winer said that the Mac has no serious databases and that the Mac needs dBase III Charlie admitted quite candidly that Silicon Beach which made its reputation on several high quality packages it sold for very low prices had gone through some difficult times during the last year but that things had tumed around He described how difficult it is to run a medium sized software company in an increasingly competitive market Carl confessed that he was one of the people who decided a few ycars ago that Apple should raise
220. ng juggernaut We can send 10 direct to the company but by this time we are extremely reluctant to And that s the end of it Whew A magical mystery tour of an ad It could be viewed I suppose like a fantasy game with hidden treasures in every line This ad has fonts sizes attributes everything Everything but information It s fantastically crummy I challenge anyone else to find a poorer ad in MacWorld or MacUser Okay let s make this a contest The First Annual Trash iest Ad In A Major Magazine Contest of 1987 Let me know if you do Fred Scelig Crummy Ads P O Box 244 Vienna VA 22180 Winners posted in a few months SoftWear Plot I complained about the lack of a good plotting package for engincers a few issues back Since then I have been trying an interesting plotting package called SoftWear Plot It accepts ASCII files as long as they are numeric multi column files as input files That means that you can generate plots from your favorite programming language Basic Mac PASCAL etc text editor or even spreadshcet like Excel or MultiPlan Plotting is fast That s F A S T So long MS Chart The software was designed for speed so some of the contd plotting bells and whistles were left off No legend boxes The software designer Dr Bob Fontana Ph D in information theory from Stanford Gulp reasoned that some of these things would be added in FullPaint using Switcher Actually he is right I used
221. nn Avenue S E Fairfax 691 9011 10683 Braddock Rd Open Seven Days A Week WAP Members receive a 10 Discount Washington Apple Pi May 1987 55 IMAGEWRITER PRINT FADING PROBLEM FIX by Richard J Byrd Sorrow is having your Imagewriter develop a habit of skipping and fading happiness is finding a simple cure For months I have had occasions of print fading with my Imagewriter II which seemed to be worse with inexpensive ribbon cartridges but only occasionally a problem with the Apple ribbons At first glance the cheaper ribbons seemed to require more torque to advance the ribbon and I suspected that the Imagewriter II had a weaker drive to the ribbon advance gear especially since my Imagewriter I s had never given me this problem In desperation I took the Imagewriter II ribbon drive deck assembly apart and studied it carefully Everything seemed to look proper internally but when I reassembled it put the ribbon in and operated it manually the ribbon would stop advancing as the printhead neared the right margin of the page Then I noticed that a slight pressure down on the cartridge would stop the ribbon from advancing at all and a slight pull upward would eliminate the problem On the bottom of the ribbon cartridge are two tapered locating pegs that fit in two corresponding holes in the ribbon cartridge deck Just below the rightmost hole you can see the drive wheel that is rotated by the small cable as the deck mo
222. not fully operational GAMS is similar to Cotel on the functionaspecifications programming and documentation levels and several pages of the GAMS design manual are direct copies of pages from the design manual the developers created at CIR There was no line for line similarity in the two programs The main difference is that while Cotel was designed to operate on a mainframe computer the GAMS program was designed for a personal computer In January of 1986 the Farmers Coop filed this legal action against Goodhope and the four developers seeking an order from the judge enjoining Goodhope and the developers from continuing their alleged copyright infringement misappropriation of its trade secrets breach of confidential relationship and damages The developers argue that with but one exception they did not copy programs used for Cotel but rather drew on their knowledge of the cotton industry and expertise in computer programming and design gaincd over a number of years The one exception admitted by the developers is Fishman having copied one Cotcl subroutine when programming GAMS Goodhope tied to avoid prob lems of this type and therefore it insisted that the developers agree not to use any prior employers information in their work at Goodhope When Goodhope discovered Fishman s copying he was discharged and the subroutine was replaced The cooperative has asked the judge to issue a preliminary injunction based on copyright infrin
223. nt When a document is opened added to and saved again the new material may be assigned to sectors which don t happen to be contiguous with the original file on the disk The picces of your document may also be separated by contd other documents you created in the meantime That s fragmentation With small files you don t even notice the disk drive is skipping around to a couple of different places on the disk to read your document It all happens so fast it s barely noticeable But with large files such as a manu script running into the scores or even hundreds of pages you begin to notice that Mac takes a bit longer to read and open your document from its disk The problem is magnified by the new 800K disks which can hold much more information than the one sided 400K versions did And if 800K disks magnify the problem of fragmentation imagine what happens to a book manuscript when it s scat tered all over a 20 or 40 megabyte hard disk drive Now MacNovices who are still using single sided 400K disks can understand why they ve probably never noticed fragmentation as a problem First of all the disks aren t big enough to hold enough data to really slow things down They re not big enough for the parking spaces to be very far apart no matter how fragmented your files are And users of hard disk drives can now understand why fragmentation could slow them down noticeably Because of the size of hard disks documen
224. o Reviews Chop Sock Hop and Atomic Chihuahuas From Hell MOONMIST Mac and Apple series 39 95 list is Infocom s other new release an introductory level mystery game patterned after the Nancy Drew books You re a junior detective summoned by your friend Tamara to solve the Mystery of Tresyllian Castle It seems that a few attempts have been made on Tamara s life and that a ghost is haunting the castle Moreover it is rumored that a treasure is hidden somewhere on the castle grounds You therefore have to arrest the murderer identify the ghost and find the treasure The game is unusual in that it has four separate plots When you first enter the castle the butler asks your favorite color Which plot you get depends on what your answer is Each plot has a different treasure a different murderer and a different ghost Now I ve never played an Infocom mystery that I liked and this one is no exception I gather some people enjoy them but I find the absence of puzzles makes them dull and unchallenging Basically what you have to do to win MOOMMIST is to go through every single room searching for important items If you ve searched everywhere and not finished then that means you re playing the dreaded Red plot which means you have to do the other thing I hate about these mysteries pick a location and wait and wait and wait until finally something happens At least you don t have to ask every charac
225. o promote the new DBMS Silver Surfer G SoltWear Products Presents Soft Wear Plot The Scientific Plotting Package for the Apple Macintosh Computer fe Plot any size ASCII data fito 10__ lew ead Migbpess Filters N 24 4 f i of t reat ees eae d pea y f E aana e Zoom and on line mcasaromonts gt ae Custom labels tokene lincwidthe 9 nd patterne L 136 1 47E 1 j Lincar semilog amp loglog plots 000 0 10 Trequency teetlentS eLasorWritor competibic for publication quality reesulte Largo screen compatibict Savo as MecPeint document or trenefcr with Clipboard Not copy protected HottWear Products 0030 00490030 0 070000 Frequency Fractional Most Powerful Plotting amp Analysis Package Available At an affordable 99 95 5 S H 7230 Oliver Street Lanham MO 20706 301 577 9207 Apple Macintosh MecPeint A LeserWriter ere Trademarks of Apple Computer inc Washington Apple Pi May 1987 75 BEST OF THE MAC ITEMS FROM THE TCS by Bill Baldridge Business CHUCK ROTHLISBERGER ON 01 19 SITUATION Medical related practice with about 500 active patients and 10 12 employees Interested in commercial soft ware package preferably integrated possibly usable on Macintosh Plus which will provide word processing patient data base including mail merge function payroll and inven tory capability Cost not a great inhibitor but looking for so
226. oblems with the larger displays but already new ver sions are coming out that support such displays Micro soft Excel and Word are two examples The standard Macintosh displays 175 104 pixels on a 9 inch screen The Big Picture 1 995 by E Machine is a 17 inch monitor that displays 827 392 pixels with a 1024 x 808 pixel resolution The screen refresh rate is also slightly faster on the Big Picture 15 nanoseconds than on the Macintosh 65 nanoseconds Radius used a different approach and has a resolution of 863 x 640 pixels with a resolution of 75 dpi The Mac screen resolution is 72 dpi The Radius 1 995 display requires factory modification including the addition of more ROM and 128 K of video RAM Since the Radius does not modify the Macintosh system software Andy Hertzfeld used the new ROM routines to fool some programs into opening to the dimensions of the Radius display The author feels the The Big Picture display is best suited to computer aided design work Its controller mounts inside the Macintosh case and clips onto the 68000 CPU The Big Picture does not add additional ROM but slightly modifies the Mac operating system in RAM The last of the big displays and also the largest is Micro graphics Images Megascreen 2 995 It offers a 1024 x 980 pixel resolution and measures 21 5 inches diagonally The Megascreen installs by means of an interface card which clips onto the 68000 CPU and provides a second slot for the M
227. oduct Development is another engineer seeking to popu larize science This book was originally written in French back in 1985 An August 1986 address was added to update the book Regarding the title the first apple was Eve s and the second was Newton s I ll let you guess who invented the third Buy this book for musings about technology Don t expect extensive hints about Apple s future product lines Advanced Macintosh Pascal Powering up with files Quickdraw the Toolbox and InLines by Paul Goodman Sams 1987 19 95 The Hayden Mac intosh Library which brought you Macintosh Revealed has been bought by Howard Sams One of its first offerings is brilliant in concept but falls apart in execution This book is designed to cover using the Mac ROMs from Think Technology s Mac Pascal The sample programs such as a logger to keep track of your computer usage for tax purposes are interesting This book gives a much clearer overview of the toolbox routines than Macintosh Revealed but in much less depth The problem is that the book was not proofread and contains obvious typos which escaped the spelling checker For example the word most is uscd instead of must and the description of GetCRefCon and GetCtlMax accidentally refer to GetCilMin Appendix A was added to cover Mac Pascal version 2 0 and includes a sample program on Proced ure pointers However both the program and its alleged sample output
228. of Advanced VisiCalc for 25 if you need to replace your old disks ask for the Advanced version even if you need the original VisiCalc replaced No documentation but books are still available Their address is P O Box 9123 Cambridge MA 02139 The Apple Three Users of Northern California group has approached Joe Dobrowolski of Apple THREE Group International about coordinating their PD offerings so that they use the same numbers descriptions etc A great idea AIM the Association of Independent Microdealers has teamed up with DL Liquidators for its next product catalog to be out soon AIM has expanded its offerings tremendously since the early days of Apple only products Today it sells Macintosh Apple IBM Commodore Vic 20 and Atari software and hardware items at what they say is 30 to 90 off list price You can subscribe for twelve issues for 25 or order a single issue for 3 AIM s address is 3010 N Sterling Ave Peoria IL 61604 If you need a top rated Data Base Management program Brock Software is offering a great deal on its Keystroke Database and Report Generator Purchased directly from Brock in Apple native mode the programs are 150 total or 110 for the main program and 60 for the Report Generator That s less than half the going price from Pair Software and others They also have a Macintosh version but you ll have to check their prices for that Service and support for the Apple version is sti
229. of cards to meet your needs What s more since the Macintosh SE is a Macintosh it s easy to use and learn Besides that it can run the large software library that has made the Macintosh a standard for business applications like desktop publishing graphics desktop communi cations word processing databases and spread sheets Come in for a hands on demonstration e Free Seminars Free Desktop Publishing Seminars are offered at our Alexandria and Laurel Stores Call Alyce Neukirk at 838 9700 to register for upcoming sessions This ad was produced on a Macintosh and LaserWriter using MacWrite and Aldus Page Maker Apple the Apple logo and LaserWriter are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Ine Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc Washington Apple Pi May 1987 1 Family Computer Center Springfield VA 703 866 9122 703 385 2758 6691 Backlick Road 11917L Fair Oaks Mall Fairfax VA An Authorized Apple Dealer Microsoft Works It brings a powerful new idea to computers Common Sense Microsoft Works is the complete business package for your Macintosh orks features several powerful data crunching applications including a spreadsheet for quick numerical analysis a database for those instances when you want to see developing trends and emerging markets a word processor for jotting down quick memos to fellow workers or even a multi page report and an easy to use communicatio
230. om 9 point to 80 point All of the fonts are designed for the Imagewriter I amp II printers Disk A also includes a manual identified by the F icon containing written instructions and background on the Apollo family of fonts A couple of the fonts generate special graphic symbols in place of letters but most of the fonts in this collection are variations on the Athens Courier Helvetica and Times fonts provided by Apple in the Utilities Folder of the System Tools disk that came with your Mac A primary benefit provided many of the fonts in the latter category is the provision of larger sizes which allows better high quality printing with the Imagewriter For example adding the 48 point Athens font on Disk A to your System file permits better high quality printing in a document containing 24 point Athens text The typefaces listed below are found on the desktop in font bags with the names shown under the font bag icons The fonts on this disk are usable in your word processor or other application programs only after they have been installed in your System file For that task you need the Font DA Mover provided on the System Tools disk The Font DA Mover also allows you to get an on screen preview of each font prior to its addition to your System file The Font Display 4 5 program on Mac Disk 48 3 also displays on screen and prints fonts that you might want to examine Please note that the fonts on this disk are distributed as s
231. on Apple Pi May 1987 EVENT QUEUE Washington Apple Pi meets on the 4th Saturday usually of each month both Apple and Mac at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences USUHS on the campus of the Bethesda Naval Medical Center 4301 Jones Bridge Road Bethesda MD Disketeria transactions Journal pickup memberships etc are from 8 45 9 30 AM and during the Q amp A sessions times for these vary according to the main mecting topic The business meeting is from 9 00 9 30 A sign interpreter and reserved scating can be provided for the hearing impaired but we need 5 business days notice Call the office Following are dates and topics for upcoming months May 23 Apple II Data Bases Mac To be announced June 27 Garage Sale Location TBA The Exccutive Board of Washington Apple Pi meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 7 30 PM at the office Sometimes an alternate date is selected see the WAP calendar for any changes Disk Drive Converter DB 19 to 20 pin Adapter You can use the old Disk II drives with the Apple IIGS The Disk Drive Converter allows two Disk II drives to be connected to the daisy chain port as slot 6 drives 1 and 2 No slot 6 controller card is required Send 20 00 to Applied Services Inc 7474 Hickory Log Circle Columbia Maryland 21045 301 381 7334 Apple IIGS and Disk II trademarks of Apple Computer Inc AA WE RE LOOKING FOR A FEW PIONEE
232. on Auto because it spaces lines too close together Instead he said line spacing should always be one to two points more than the character size John also gave an excellent critique of the newsletter of the Apple Corps of Dallas including their newsletter logo John criticized their layout and their logo and showed how they could do better He used about a dozen overhead transparencies to show how they could make their logo more attractive At the end Andy Reese the president of the Apple Comps of Dallas asked whether they could have copies of this splendid logo John did for them he said Yes John talked about the typesetting characters available on the Macintosh such as and But he also pointed out that properly typeset books and magazines used only one space after the period at the end of a sentence or after a colon rather than the two customarily used in typewriting this surprised many people but I checked it out in a number of places and he is correct We are going to try to get John to speak at an upcoming show WAP is co sponsoring on desktop publishing but his schedule may not permit it If you ever get a chance to hear John speak by all means do so After lunch Dave Lingwood of the Apple Programmers and Developers Association APDA spoke about APDA s role as a clearinghouse of technical information He said that surveys of their members indicated that they preferred low price over a wide selection of products
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234. oncerned about Also note the information which it presents to you First the number of the file so that when you wish to download you know what file number to enter Next it tells you the file type Sce the further explanation of file types below Third it tells you how many times it has been downloaded by other people Thus a more popular file will have a higher number and indicates that this is probably a good file to consider downloading Next it tells you the amount of time downloading this file will take This is automatically adjusted by the program to account for the Baud rate you are using Thus if you are at 2400 Baud vs 300 or 1200 the time is much less The last bit of information on each line is a short quick description of the file Longer descriptions can be obtained by B rowsing the Description file more about that later lt O gt Off Quit the System lt Q gt Quit to Main Menu Both of these commands function the same on the Download SYSTEM as on the messages TCS A quick way to sign O ff You do not have to return to Main Menu to quit the SYSTEM Incidentally as always the program will confirm that you really wish to do this by asking for a Y or N Any other key except Y and y will bring you back to the Xfer Menu So it is hard to lose a call by mistake lt U gt Upload files to the system Here is another Biggie Plcase use it now and then so we can keep the latest files here It will ask lt A T P gt f
235. one of the main speakers at the upcoming Phase Confer ence in Chicago this October He will be the official Keynote contd lan Speaker and will be doing one seminar as well Another bigger name speaker is still to come as they say for the Saturday night banquet There s still plenty of time for you to sign up for the conference it s cheaper to do it now rather than later and please keep in mind it s not just for folks Lissner will probably be announcing a new Mac product in fact See previous Trail articles for more information In a previous Trail article I mentioned that er Chris Acreman as part of the Future of the panel during the conference was looking for input on what users wish their machine could do that it can t now If you d like to make your thought s known I have an actual address now 13805 Windmill Circle Pflugerville TX 78660 lll SIG TCS BOARD There s been a little more action on our Telecommunica tions System Board the past month or so For those of you with a modem and 6 to bum it s the sign up fee why not join us Lee Raesly has agreed to upload some files for us into the Data Library and we hope to include a number of interesting things for you to use Call the WAP office for more information on becoming part of the TCS Any SIG member interested in becoming the Sysop of the board please give me a call LAST MINUTE NOTES Lotus Development will sell you a copy
236. or A bort ie STOP T ext don t use this unless you know for sure P rotocol this is it lt gt List Commands This is our familiar that lists a quick definition of the anonymous letter that always appears at any Command level At this level it prints the list that this section first started with lt gt Page the System Operator Unless you have reason to know that a SYSOP is there don t use this Most BBS s are run from somcone s house so there would be a good chance of getting a response The TCS however is 5 machines with five telephone lines located in a special room of Washington Apple Pi s office in Bethesda MD So the odds are that no onc is there and even if there is someone there doing maintenance tasks it is much better to call by telephone since so much more can be said or clarified in a lot less time PUTTING IT IN OPERATION A note about downloading There are two stcps that MUST be donc in the following order The order IS critical to successful downloading but if you reverse the order it won t hurt anything it just won t work FIRST You must tell the other System to prepare to SEND you a file This is usually menu controlled and usually rather strightforward 42 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 SECOND You must tell your tclecommunications soft ware to prepare to RECEIVE Check your software manual for detailed directions on how to do it Let s now look at the four possible ways to download
237. oto rola 68881 co processor A second interface card contains 128K of video RAM and a graphics processor that interprets the QuickDraw graphics instructions generated by the Mac ROM Mr Markoff concluded by discussing video monitors for the IBM PC Although the open architecture of the IBM made developing different monitors easy the original 8088 8 18 bit CPU was too slow for most graphics applications and devel opers tended to avoid graphics altogether Therefore few if any programs for the IBM could take advantage of larger clearer monitors without substantial modification One of the major problems developing graphics applications for the IBM is the fixed pixel count Therefore larger screens for the IBM could only display the same number of pixels as the smaller displays which would offer no real improvement Evidently Microsoft Windows will overcome some of these limitations since an application running under windows does not need to be tailored for a particular video standard The author feels that IBM video formats will continue to increase as developers release new video adapters based on the Intel 82786 or the TI 34010 graphic chips Unfortunately these new standards only increase the available options and chaos in the MS DOS world By the time you read this IBM will have announced new PC s which contain new graphics standards in ROM As they increase the degree of proprietary standards to fight the clones they also incre
238. ou whisper knowingly in your Mac Plus Actually it s more than a million it s 1028 some thousand bytes cause they count it digitally and that s why they call it a Mac Plus because it holds a million plus bytes of RAM And their eyes glaze over at the wonder of modem technology And they think to themselves hey isn t this Joe the Exxon mechanic that used to have grease all the way up to his armpits And now he talks tech talk Can computers do this to people While they re dumbstricken at your new found electronic knowledge you look at your cuticles real closely and you drop the bomb Yeah I m a power user now you say quietly They can hear the italics Mr Seelig is a power user and don t you forget it He claims to have an unstained power white shirt somewhere but his daughter is becoming somewhat of a power regurgitater His lawn is a powerful lawn in the summertime and his crabgrass is much greener than the neighbors Mr Seelig is the president of Mac Consultants an organization dedicated to helping small businesses with Macintoshes 6 2 Megab or 512k Mac Includes SCSI and MacBreeze fan Doubles MacPlus memory to 2 Megabytes includes MacBreeze fan 16Mz 32 bit 68020 micro 1 Megabyte Ram fan power supply recoverable Ram _ Disk optional 68881 68020 processor 68881 coprocessor 4 Megabyte Ram power supply fan Overdrive 1200 Internal Hard Disk CONTACT DAVE FERRIS 202 332 9109 PRICES INCLUDE 15
239. over 24 hours now that s good Like the complete listing of Inside Macintosh all four volumes Also a barebones minimum of member ship on 45 bulletin boards frequent quoting in Byte whenever you re on the BIXnet and a monthly phone bill in excess of the GNPs of small African nations 7 Do you take lunch A real PU doesn t Do you take breaks every few hours or so A real PU doesn t A real PU can work hours in a row and frequently does Do you eat things like meat and vegetables and bread Excise these nonessential items from your diet immediately A real PU defines warm food as Twinkies that accidentally got sat on two hours ago The only recently living thing that gets near a PU s digestive tract is the mold growing on the two week old Wendy s Thick and Formerly Frosty 8 Are you really seriously thinking about buying a flat Mac for 7000 with your own money 58 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 9 If you can t wait for CD ROM disks to come out because your 40 Meg Dataframe 40 XP is just too gosh darn small for your storage requirements award yourself a point 10 Have you ever used ResEdit One tenth of a point will be awarded if you ve created a startup screen or customized an icon Up to one half point if you ve customized pulldown menus of most of your favorite applications A full point will be awarded if you ve completely rewritten the Macintosh operating system Score 3 or higher and you re in the p
240. ower user category Any lower and you re pond slime just like the Rest of Us So now it s safe to say that most of us have flunked the test True power users are really creatures from other plancts They re single minded software purists They would never waste one CPU second on trivial things like showers and text processing They would no more type letters to Aunt Bess on their Macs than they would use a Ferrari to get a loaf of bread at the 7 11 Profession doesn t count Education doesn t count Sal ary clothing none of those periphcral things count when that threshold is set It s the total number of hours you spend before your Mac That s it This is a brutally curt standard to be sure And don t think an intense bit filled weekend will do it either Nope We re talking thousands of hours here But then hey you didn t expect this to be easy did you Do airlines give four engine jet ratings to teeny boppers who play Flight Simulator Powerful Users vs Power Users Now then let s look at a misconception of the term in our Capital City Washington the city of power does not under stand what the rest of the world calls a power user Washingtonians think that all you have to do to be a power user is to own a Mac Plus have an American Express Gold card and work on the Hill Nothing could be further from the truth Power users do not concern themselves with what they use the Macintosh for but how much they use it
241. ph J Begleiter appends whatever changes you make to it The file gets bigger and bigger of course each time you SAVE Once you ve churned out your first 20 pages you mind runs dry No problem That s a good day s work You shut down your Mac or close the document and take on some other work Perhaps you ve got some banking to do Or some letters to write Or a spreadsheet to develop Macintosh handles its filing chores the same way with all your documents Each new file is assigned a parking space on your disk Ready for a little technical stuff Here s a stylized picture of all the parking spaces on your disk The sections on your disk are painted there electronic ally when you initialize your disk for the first time or when you erase it The sectors are given code numbers so the Macintosh Finder can file and locate documents placed anywhere on the disk Each block or sector can contain several files Or just one big one When it s time to open a document Macintosh reads the Finder information it encoded with the file upon creation and the disk drive head whips across the disk hovering over areas of the disk which contain the file you re opening All this happens in a matter of just seconds so you hardly notice it When a document becomes very large it occupies several sectors of the disk Macintosh adds pointers to its original coded filing information to help it find the next piece of the docume
242. plesoft Basic file Applesoft Basic variable file Relocatable code file ProDOS 8 system load file Comments The main listing was generated using UTIL SYSTEM Copy File types marked with a arc presented as UTIL SYSTEM lists them I don t know neces sarily what they are I could guess on some Files that are used under the Orca M assembler are marked I included them because the Apple IIgs Programmers Workshop APW Fi contd Washington Apple Pi May 1987 37 virtually identical to Orca M for the GS This brings up the one discrepancy 178 B2 according to the Orca M GS manual is supposed to be LIB Orca M v4 1 for ProDOS 8 gives RBN as the file type I have no idea what RBN is supposed to be The Orca M file types are probably used in ProDOS 16 I certainly expect several of them to be in programs other than Orca M or APW 247 SF7 is a disk image file generated under UTIL SYSTEM I don t know of anybody else that uses that designation Desktop Software DAN HUGHES ON 03 15 I have created a monster Igor Want to test the power of your IIGS desktop software with the 1 meg card Sure you do Just do as follows Using v 1 0 of the desktop lt 1 1 is too big gt boot the System Disk Then format Ram5 and partition it to 800K Then copy the files ProDOS Desktop SYS16 and the System folder into your formatted Ram disk Now load up Ram5 with as many of your favorite applications as possible I have Appleworks with Pinpo
243. points Sri Lanka Kendall This one comes in 9 10 12 14 18 20 24 and 28 points Swan Song This one has a cursive look available in 12 24 and 48 points Unical A nice Oriental look in this one in 18 and 36 points Mac Disk 94 Paintings IV It has been a while Disk 50 since we offered an assort ment of Macintosh Art so this collection is particularly wel come Here we have an assortment of images from nature some of them digitized ranging from a fascinating Druidess to an owl rat snow leopard and a jaguar not to be confused with the Porsche 959 and not to mention two pages of trees and the teenage mutant Ninja turtles We d like to thank the artists most of whom have not provided their names For those of us who came in late a teen acquaintance tells me that the teenage mutant Ninja turtles were normal baby turtles without a mother They were taken in by Splinter a rat and master of minjitsu One fine day as always seems to happen in these sagas some radioactive waste spilled on the turtles who began to grow to human size Splinter trained them in his art Finally permit us to ask for your assistance in collecting more public domain shareware materials Please get any non commercial matcrials which we may place in our disk collection sent to cithcr of us at the WAP office this is particularly needed in regards to graphics materials which you may have available Please make sure that it is OK with the aut
244. pple a few months ago for not including a after the name AppleWorks I had used the word about forty times in the newsletter and did in fact super script a after it in one place Is there a simple explanation of the requirements for noting trademark on a product name 36 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 HARVEY KAYE ON 03 21 Don t you know better than to ask an attorney for a simple explanation Actually any trademark owner should constantly police its mark by requesting others who write about the owner s products which bear trademarks to indicate that the mark is either federally registered or is otherwise considered by the maker of the product to be a trademark What does this all mean you say Just this If a trademark is used without being designated a trademark the trademark owner could eventually lose his rights to the mark The word aspirin used to be a trademark of the Bayer company for its headache remedy However the term was used by the public to describe the headache remedy regardless of who produced and sold it and Bayer lost its rights to the trademark and the term is now generic There are similar stories which can be told about the terms escalator and linoleum Therefore every owner of trademarks such as Apple tries to police the use of its trademark so that the terms will not become generic So this means that any time any of us uses a trademark as a word without indicating the word is
245. pt of invisibility causes certain complications in the realm of the law It has been commented on by some that the copyright system a means of protecting intellectual property rights will breakdown and fail to function in the environment of electronic impulses e g the computer Nevertheless the latter Act avoided the machine readable problem by granting copyright protection to any work that is fixed in any tangible medium of expression Hence there are two fundamental properties that materials eligible for copyright protection must satisfy 1 they must be the original work of the creators 2 that original work must be imbedded in tangible objects i e fixed in any tang ible medium of expression now known or later developed from which they can be perceived reproduced or otherwise communicated entered either directly or with the aid of machine or device Secton 102 Copyright Act 1976 Only when these two attributes are merged are there legal grounds for the granting of copyright protection With respect to the concept of originality it is recognized that many software programs contain subroutines algorithms and many repeti tive procedures that are widely used If they were to stand alone they would not be copyrightable but when they are combined in special ways to obtain original results then they may satisfy the prerequisites of copyright eligibility and protection The basic issue that create
246. r it before 1988 ROBERT LAMACCHIA ON 01 27 Has anyone had any experience using Rags to Riches the accounting packages put out by Chang Labs I ve heard that it s a popular program but have not seen it advertised or reviewed Docs anyone know if it can handle multi user over AppleTalk or under TOPS Any and all comments welcome MICHAEL HARTMAN ON 02 03 Don t know of specific R to R reviews but there s a decent comparison article in the October 1986 MACazine and an extensive feature comparison table only in the September 1986 MacWorld If you re interested in R to R s Professional Billing package it s reviewed in the Dec 1986 MacWorld looks nice For multi user the only one listed as such in MacWorld is Great Plains Hardisk Accounting Series There are also multi user accounting packages from a number of sources implemented in Omnis 3 You might look at message 14 on this board I have not seen any of these but my experience with Omnis 3 says you could implement a yery nice multi user accounting system in it You can probably expect multi user implementations of some account ing packages for the new AppleShare file server 76 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 ALLAN BALLIETT ON 01 29 I need a small business accounting pkg for a retail shop w lt 150K per annum and a 6 person payroll using 512 MAC None of us has an accounting background What accounting software can you recommend DEACON MACCUBBIN ON 02 01 I recommend that
247. r most technical documentation what switches will activate what bank of memory for what operation Next save the driver onto disk by typing in BSAVE SDRIVER A 302 L 20 which saves 26 bytes of memory starting at location 0302 770 decimal This driver takes a value which we shall place at location 768 300 hex as the frequency of the note and the value which we shall place at location 769 301 hex as the duration of the note and tweaks the speaker pulsing it at the frequency value for the duration specified The assembly language listing of the driver looks like this LDY 0301 _ load the frequency into the X and Y registers LDX 0301 LDA 04 this value is pumpcd into the Monitor subroutine WAIT JSR SFCA8 which pauses operation for about 110 microseconds LDA C030 this is the speaker softswitch INX this command which loads into location 0310 causes the BNE 0310 pulsing of the speaker by looping for the frequency value DEY this is the outer loop of the frequency loop which causes BNE 0305 the frequency to be re input into the X register within the DEC 0300 loop The outer loop shell decrements the duration value BNE 0302 until it reaches zero RTS Then control is passed back to the _tocaTion Funcrion yeeros osae BASIC program Read RAM solectRAMcardbank SCOBO 16256 PEEK Another way of getting the driver into the BASIC program Read ROM write RA
248. r piggy back RAM add ons In my opinion the prices quoted are rather unfavorable compared to other large RAM boards now available Nor will you save a slot as it is unlikely that the slot next to the PCPI will be accessible with the additional boards plugged into it I have found the print buffer option to be a big productivity booster 3 The PCPI RAM can be used when running under Apple DOS as RAM disk though I have not tried it 1Mb is plenty 4 70 column display for those not having an 80 column card Also providing those ASCII sysmbols not available on the standard Apple J keyboard 5 The ability to define and save function keys 6 For the e a driver with faster screen update and scrol ling 7 Sensible and documented means for attaching different device drivers for harmonious operation Not quite dissimilar to Apple Pascal s Attach BIOS but at Icast to me far more understandable I found this to be the main attraction With the PCPI board my CP M is now the only operating system I use which allows the simultancous use of the BigBoard RAM the 8 drives and ZCPR3 The BigBoard driver was written by fellow Vermonter Steve Hirsch and is available from Call A P P L E The installation of drivers is highly interactive and practically done as should be by the provided software without the need for a PhD in computer science and electrical engineering Items 3 6 were of no interest to me or not compatible with my system and w
249. r primary interest is in satisfying your personal computing require ments and in giving you the greatest payback for your hard earned buck So call when you re ready for a PC and let s talk about why a custom tailored personal computer is the best buy you can make Landmark Computer Laboratories Suite 1506 101 South Whiting Street Alexandria Virginia 22304 Telephone 703 370 2242 amp SourceMall TCB076 IBM PC PC XT and PC AT are registered tredemarts of Internationa Buacew Mach nes Corporetior Washington Apple Pi May 1987 11 by Walt Mossberg This month we re going to talk about phantom disk drives present reviews of two new products and offer a case study of how easy it is to overcome The Heartbreak of Incompatibility FASTER THAN A SPEEDING HARD DISK MORE FLEXIBLE THAN A FLOPPY It s a Ram Disk No matter which Apple II you own you can speed up your operations tremendously by using a Ram Disk A Ram Disk is a specially reserved arca of extra memory which the computer and operating system especially ProDOS can recognize and use as if it were another disk drive Only this phantom disk drive needs no time to spin and read a physical disk so it works at almost instantancous speed faster than a 5 25 floppy a 3 5 microfloppy or even a hard disk the fastest type of real drive Here s one way I use a Ram Disk on my Apple IIgs I boot up a specially modified 3 5 microfloppy on which I have placed all th
250. r the Mac Eli Werner took my order personally and also plugged the follow ing new products Pecan software is offering three companion products for their Modula 2 The Modula 2 Software Tools list 99 95 is Dennis Cohen s adaptation of the Kerigan and Richie Pascal tools The Modula 2 Programmer s Toolkit list 79 95 includes a UNIX like shell and associated pro grams The Modula 2 Library Source Listings list 99 95 is the source code for the standard Volition library units All three can be purchased together for 199 95 or 179 95 for Volition customers C ED Oe Ce a ss es ee ee ee es ee ed ee ee ee ee ee ee Let your computer earn money for you develop mailing lists of various professions or specialties and we will rent them for you Royalties paid for cach rental Call Professional List Services PLS Inc for full details Ask for Lee Racsly 301 439 1799 oN l N GCD SER ME MON A AO A MA eed GAMESIG NEWS by Steven Payne The regular April GameSIG gathering was more suspense ful than usual as we waited for Ron Wartow s mystery guest who like Godot never showed up during the meeting itself because of travel directions from our chairman emeritus but read on Ron gave his customary new and forthcoming software report mentioning BARD S TALE and MUSIC CONSTRUCTION SET for the GS Doug Adam s BUREAUCRACY from Infocom and what we can expect from Origin Systems and SSI Among
251. rademark licensed to Apple Computer Inc 703 471 6960 105 B Carpenter Drive Sterling VA 22170 XFER HELP by Leon H Raesly LCSW This article will attempt to give you an overview on how to use Washington Apple Pi s Telecomunications System TCS Upload Download features and provide specific explana tions of commands The phone number for this System is 202 654 2361 for PC Pursuit users and 301 654 2361 for all others DOWNLOAD OVERVIEW First Hjelp A at any command level gives you ALL the commands that you can use where you are at that mom ent Second help No matter where you are a Q will quit that level of the program and take you back where you came from Third help While reading anything you can pause the reading with an XON CTRL S on Apple II and Option S on a Mac and restart reading with an XOFF CTRL Q on an Apple II and Option Q on a Mac Now on with this help file GETTING THE MOST FOR YOUR TIME To get a list of all the downloads on the SYSTEM you have three ways to go You can go to Area 1 Library in the XFER module and there download the file called DL LIST This is a complete list of all the downloads on the SYSTEM and is updated about once a week Second you could go to each area by depressing C hange and read or capture the list of the available downloads for that area By depressing C hange then selecting a new area you will eventually read or hopefully capture to your disk al
252. re as some things about the game which can be frus trating In each new game objects to be found are newly hid den among chests and monsters The balance between which objects are casily found and which are not always shifts In some games scrolls are found early and you then know what to do However in the same game the tools needed to heal the gemstone are tough to find Sometimes it is the other way around Also there is a dagger to help you find hidden doors Daggers only last for a short time and I can never find enough to make the job easy Without a dagger you can bang on walls seemingly forever before you get lucky I recommend this game for adventurers with arcade skills Happy survivors of GEMSTONE WARRIOR especially will find GEMSTONE HEALER enjoyable as it is a more comprehensive game but one which retains the same gaming flavor G MARBLE MADNESS is a new game by Electronic Arts a computer version of the arcade hit of the same name It runs on a 128K Apple e c or GS but will not run in 64K since it uses double hi res graphics Color strongly recom mended Rumor has it or at least the package that this game was inspired when an arcade version was received at Electronic Arts and from there they licensed it for the computer version Whether this is true or not the computer version is a very close adaption of the original The same screens animation music and sound are included You can play with one or
253. re document but all are in the 100 price range it will have to suffice Enjoy ALLAN BALLIETT ON 02 01 Say what if a guy wanted to get LOTUS graphs into his MAC graphics software and these LOTUS graphs were based on info keyed in on an shudder IBM and the coordinate accuracy of the graphs was important and he didn t have time to re key etc Is there an casy way to do this I assume that an ultimate solution would be import to EXCEL and regraph I m hoping for one that involves fewer steps And hey can those EXCEL graphs be saved in PICT form IBM Mac conntection via RR94 and ProComm DAVID GURSKY ON 02 01 Yes and it isn t even tooooo hairy Using EXCEL copy the chart into the clipboard Then open a new MacDraw or Cricket Draw cte etc document past the chart into it and save in PICT format Voila I m afraid though you re stuck on the Lotus graphs The best you could do is put the disk with the Lotus document on a PC on a TOPS network and open the document with EXCEL which can directly open Lows 1 2 3 and Symphony files DAVID GURSKY ON 02 03 The Mac is very smart when it comes to combining graphics and text in text documents It simply views bit mapped graphics as a special case of object graphics or maybe its the other way around In any case non graphics packages such as PM MS Word Double Helix etc that can all cope with imported graphics do not differentiate between bitmapped and object graphics except
254. re ie ECMA gt Safer Stanie 10 80 Columns 7 e Color Marches Appie 129 00 PEI eiae A aey 39 00 128K RAM BOARD 256K 80 COL BOARD Expands Ile 64K to 192K 256K Expandable to 10 Megabytes Satai an Ten Soliware Compatible Soliware Selectne 40 80 Coins Combine wih PLUSWORKS XM and 1009 Extended 60 Col Card Compa Eapand Your APPLEWORKS DESKTOP to 135K on Your Apple or Frankhn Above BD wio memory 65 PLUSWORKS XM Soliware 39 128K Bareboard Lid Quanity 10 SUPER SERIAL BOARD tl tle Be Simar Tr Appie s Super Seral Card e 90 19 2 Puud Selectable Commun ation amp Terms Use RS 232 CABLE 10 MALE MALE All 25 Lines Connected 280 CP M BOARD FREE Soltware Expands AIPLEWORKS DESKTOP to 252K 1014K wrh 10 MEG Above BD wio Soltware SRIK with Software 10 MEG usth Softaare 238 80 COLUMN BOARD Smut To Vdes Viheoterm Upper amp Lower Caw Generation Inverse Video 40 8 COLUMN SOP TSWIICH For Abuve Boa 14 95 SUPER COOLING FAN Sider on Side of He Ile Color Matches Apple Rewer Surch Connes AC to Computer amp Dual Rear 3 Prong AC Outlets 29 95 le NUMERIC KEYPAD 49 00 Te The A Low Cow Merrow Compantte CPM Board Supporia 49K Arnd WAK Apples e Turbo Fasc at Compantite JOYSTICK II FOR N ite the the ae fo HAYES MACH M ge Fore Button on Stab Paved shie Sell Conver amp Non Set Center 16 Keys Torat 009 and Drome Keys t and Return Key 39 00 THE FINE
255. re it originated While we have been relating the notion of Ideas to software the same principles apply to a music score a play a book or an architectural plan They all involve i an Idea and ii a tangible expression of the Idea As one Judge in a contd landmark case expressed it A man s property in an Idea is limited to the physical property which embodies the inven tion Note that a legal distinction is drawn between the Idea the physical property and the physical property as an embodiment of the Idea It is the last of these that is copyright able The concept of intellectual property rights is a broader concept hence there are distinct and separate bodics of law to deal with different aspects of those rights i trade secret laws cH copyright laws iii patent laws and iv trade market aws We have briefly alluded to the third and focused on the second of these because computer software comes under the primary purview of copyright law The general protection of intellectual property rights through copyright or other forms are of considerable importance in part because they are connected with the gencration of large incomes and are susceptible to a high incidence of piracy which denies to the creators their rightful earnings The full extent of piracy is not known It is occurring on a national and international scale and is capable of inducing much harm particularly to the U S computer industry which has
256. reasurer s books He maintains them for a non profit organization It is a simple check register system He lists every check and adds an expense category Every deposit has a similar income category Each month he wants to print a simple balance sheet forgive me accountants if I have used the wrong term here which summarizes all expenses in cach category and a similar summary for each revenue category He has a template that contains this month s entries and the year to date total as well as a column of deviations from the budget Another easy task for Excel He has two worksheets one contains his check register information checks out and deposits in The second sheet is the report template The check register is set up as a database with columns for check number amount date name and most importantly category One issue to be resolved is a method for keeping the expenses separate from the revenues One approach is to keep two separate databases This is easy but prevents casy use of the results to maintain your account balance You might use negative numbers for expenses That will solve the problem Alternatively you might have two amounts columns one for revenues and one for expenses Here is Ed s version EARS oe ee ey EA TETE week oo en A Se se Ge 5 CheckWum Ostel Category Code Expense Wevenuet Balance 2 ifigertn 2011 6 000 00 S 20021 2 121 Supplies 106 19 07 __ 45980 93 i D 3
257. res This may be OK for quarter eaters that are there primarily to make money but I think the home environment has different needs which must be answered if one is to spend time on one s computer Third there is a perceptible lag in the key press release and the expected action This is probably a result of the single processor being overloaded by the large amount of action and quality animation occurring I tested this on an upgraded to 512K Mac Faster chip clock versions may not have this problem at all These first three problems should be noted but should not prevent anyone from buying the game The last problem bears some consideration I was bored amused but bored How could I be bored with such a GREAT GAME Simple I m jaded The game was just too much of a revisit of other games To be fair to the game I showed it to other gamers and talked to other people that had playcd it Out of about 25 people I only found one other that even had a slight feeling the same way The rest doubted my sanity This leaves me in what is known as a statistically insignif icant minority Overall if you like arcade games if you think you might or if you can t rule out the possibility that you might in the future go buy a copy of DARK CASTLE Shop around a bit because I have seen as much as a 40 difference in the price Unless you really get robbed though you can t beat the price value RATING Good Neutral Bad Overall Good
258. resentation by Alan Kay on some of the things he has been working on in the last year or so Alan has one of these jobs that most of us can only dream about he is an Apple Fellow with a charter to think great thoughts about computers Some of what he showed at AppleWorld he had shared with WAP last year but there have been some new developments The Vivarium project has moved forward but slowly and with no quantum leaps It 48 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 APPLEWORLD 87 A Special Report Part I would take the rest of the Journal to explain what the Vivarium is if you weren t at last February s mecting so my apologies to some of you Alan said that his Dynabook a computer that would be so useful to you that you would keep your grocery list on it and so portable that you could carry both it and two bags of groceries seems to be getting closer to technological feasibility although he wouldn t and of course couldn t say when somcone would make one The limiting factor it appears is the weight of the power supply The other thing that stuck in my mind from Alan s talk which was delivered with the lights out so we could see his computer graphics demos and which had the side effect of preventing most note taking was his comment that if you ask computer users what they want in the next computer they will tell you just more of the same only better and faster with this and that little thing changed Most users he
259. ross many different makes of computer The midyear USUS meeting will be held on June 24 at Lake Tahoe in conjunction with the Stride Fair Contact Hays Busch 2193 Monane Dr E Golden CO 80401 9125 for details Pascal on the IIgs Kyan Software Inc announced its ProDOS based Pascal for the Apple IIgs The gs version is a fully validated implementation of ISO Pascal Kyan Pascal gs includes a full screen text editor native code 65816 com piler macro assembler and several utilities It includes extensions for files object module chaining string handling and graphics Kyan claims to support full access to the IIgs ROM toolkit Kyan Pascal gs also includes KIX a UNIX like environ ment for ProDOS 16 Kyan is not copyprotected and requires 512K of memory Pecan s ProDOS hosted p System has completed beta testing and is waiting on some IIgs specific documentation before shipping A third alternative is ADPA s Apple Programmer s Work shop Pascal which is being distributed in beta form The most recent Call A P P L E discusses TML Pascal for the IIgs Apparently there is an even better version in the works which will integrate the editor with the compiler to speed programming cycles The Mac based cross compiler for the IIgs although used to implement TML on the Ilgs will not be released as a commercial product in the near future Modula 2 As reported last month I decided to upgrade my Volition Modula 2 to a Pecan version fo
260. rprised if MacWorks from Microsoft was not similar in action DEACON MACCUBBIN ON 01 20 I don t know anything about the Ist linc but can t they at least export a text file If so you should be able to export a text file and then import that text file to almost any other data base It might be a little tricky but it should work DICK RUCKER ON 01 24 Thanks for the reply but see my message 32 Exporting from Ist Basc is possible but very expensive if it is to be a one time move I would really like to find out if someone has a copy of Ist Port that I could borrow for a weekend DICK RUCKER ON 01 24 Unfortunately Ist Base doesn t have a built in export file facility Instead the designers provided a second application ist Port to do that function Unfortunately it retails at like 195 No way am I going to pay that kind of moncy fora one time export KIM BRENNAN ON 01 24 Dick I am surprised There is no way of printing a report to a disk I mean that is the casiest way of exporting a database With AppleWorks a report can only have 15 lines in a label style report which limits how much can be printed out from a large DataBase But I have a simple text editor that works on simple text files sorry this is all stuff so that I can edit my reports to a format acceptable to other DBs Maybe I am satisfied with simple reports but I sure wouldn t pay 195 for a portage program cither I wonder what else 1st Port has that
261. rrent issue you will find GameSIG reviews of DARK CASTLE DEEP SPACE GEMSTONE HEALER HOLLY WOOD HUIJINX MARBLE MADNESS MOONMIST PHM PEGASUS RING QUEST and WORLD BUILDER The next regular GameSIG meeting will be at 7 30 PM in the WAP Office on May 7 See you there G3 DARK CASTLE by Silicon Beach Software Mac 512K or larger 39 95 list Hmmm open the box two disks that s nice no instructions though wonder if they forgot them no wait here they are on this little card 1 make a duplicate then put the originals away I like that 2 put the disks in and turn the Mac on Seems a little sparse for a user s manual but what do you expect for a bargain price do step 1 no problems do step 2 and BIJDDENLY THE ROOM SHAKES WITH FHUNDER my daughter left the Mac hooked to the stereo and the volume on high Calm down heart this is only the title page meanwhile the organ plays an eerie entrance for Boris Karloff click and move on ah on line instructions read read read select the PLAY button the draw bridge creaks open and you are entering into the world of DARK CASTLE never to return DARK CASTLE is an arcade style game Like the best of the arcade games it has graphics to watch sounds to distract you multiple levels multiple controls and action action action The story is that the evil black knight lives in this castle and your quest is to enter and d
262. rresponding cells selected there Note the number of cells which are to be linked between sheets must obviously be the same Then the command enter keys are struck In the edit bar you see the linkage between the Report Template and the check register Brackets appear around the entry Ex12 checkRegister SE 32 SE 38 meaning it is an array function Don t let this bother you It s Excel s way rH La 89 00 1021 1 162 os S iost g 077 21 TOA If the report template is opened when the check register is not open Excel will ask if it should update references to non resident sheets in this case the check register file If the check register is open at the time Excel will just pluck the entries from the register summary and put them into the report What could be easier Until next time Ga VIEW FROM THE HILL by Rich Norling I can t resist the urge to add my own pronouncements to supplement IBM s announcements of new personal computer hardware Then I report on the conference Apple held for Macintosh developers in early April If you have had your fill of IBM bashing this week feel free to jump directly to the part about the Apple Developers Conference IBM s Announcements A month after Apple announced the Macintosh SE and Macintosh II IBM announced an entirely different set of small computers from the ones it has been selling It appears that IBM s strategy to beat the clone makers and win back its dominant pos
263. rt in standard ASCII format as all leading microcomputers can with commonly available software it is compatible with any other micro for word processing at least And when I say port I mean to include a modem or a serial port connected by cable to the other computer Computers equipped with modems and or serial ports can easily exchange text files even if their disk drives can t read the same disks That s what happened in the case of this column I wrote most of the article and outlined the rest on my Hgs with AppleWorks Then during my lunch hour one day I wrote some more of it on an ITT Xtra an MS DOS clone running XyWrite software at my office I used the ITT s modem to upload this added material to my electronic mailbox on CompuServe and when I got home that evening I downloaded the material from CompuServe into my Apple IIgs and used AppleWorks to incorporate it into the article A day later I went out of town with the article still unfinished So I took along a Tandy Model 100 laptop which isn t directly compatible with either the Apple IIgs or the ITT I wrote the remainder of the column on the little Tandy using its built in word processing program and again uploaded this text to CompuServe Upon retuming to Washington I again fired up the Apple downloaded the new material from CompuServe and put everything together in final form with AppleWorks I saved the finished article as an ASCII text file on disk and
264. ry That s it You should discover that your large documents now open quickly again and it ll be faster scrolling through the entire document too Don t forget that when you add to your large file again you ll be starting a whole pew growth of fragmentation When the slow boat gets you down again just repeat the simple instructions for writing a clean and speedy copy G Washington Apple Pi May 1987 61 g OFFICERS amp CHAIRMEN President Scott Galbraith Vice President Stephen Hadley Secretary Treasurer Donna Logan Librarian Tony Svajlenka Newsletter Editor Kathy Kenyon Newsletter Chairman Lynn R Trusal SIG MAC Chairman Lynn R Trusal SYSOP Scott Galbraith The Frederick Apple Core now meets on the second Saturday of each month in the large conference room of the Frederick Library at 110 E Patrick Street Frederick MD at 9 30 AM Call Scott Galbraith at 301 865 3035 for additional details This meeting will also feature Macintosh applications and demos May 9 Games Demo by Ron Wartow Apple amp Mac Jun 13 Designing Your Own Icons REDERICK APPLE CORE A SLICE OF THE WASHINGTON APPLE PI HOTLINE MEMBEKS Lynn R Trusal 301 845 2651 Scott Galbraith 301 865 3035 Kurt Holter 301 663 4199 Bruce Taylor 301 371 6181 Stephen Hadley 301 831 5353 The above members of the Frederick Apple Core FAC have agreed to field questions on Apple computer hardware and software
265. s 7 30 10 Mark Pankin John Day Ray Hobbs 7 30 10 John Love Adam Robie Richard Untied Ray Hobbs 7 30 10 n Raesly Ray Hobbs 7 30 10 Leon Raesly John Love Walt Francis Leon Raesly John Day y Jeff Stetekluh John Day Jeff Ditlon Michael Proffitt Dan Robrish Thomas O Hagan Carol Thomas Leon Raesly Walt Francis Walt Francis Ray Hobbs 7 30 10 alt Francis Leon Raesly n Racsl Terry Prudden David Morganstein Robert Wood Dave Harvey Walt Francis Dianne Lorenz n Raesly Harris Silverstone Neil Muncy Can Leon Raesly Joyce C Litle Jim Graham Peter Combes Gene Carter Jon Vaupel James Edwards Henry Donahoe Leon Raesly Dana Riel sers of the Hotline are reminded that calls regarding commercial software packages should be limited to those you have purchased Please do 801 30 301 703 301 609 301 30 Telephone numbers are home phones unless otherwise 864 2715 654 4439 986 8085 439 1799 350 3283 638 1525 490 7484 439 1799 967 3977 251 6369 422 6458 869 7466 439 1799 596 8816 569 2294 490 7484 445 1583 340 7038 490 7484 524 0937 621 7543 490 7484 569 2294 460 6537 596 8816 490 7484 439 1799 490 7484 439 1799 569 2294 966 5742 CON May 1987 Sunday Monday Tuesday 5 Deadline for Journal Articles 13 Mac Beginner s Tutorial 1 7 10 PM Office Mac Beginner s Tutorial 42 7 10 PM Office Memorial Day Holiday Office Closed We
266. s can understand Thus totally incompatible operating systems could be stored on the separate partitions of the hard disk and still communi cate with each other In addition a 40 megabyte model with the same access time will retail for 1 595 while a faster 29 62 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 millisecond access time 40 megabyte will cost 1 995 Other companies working towards Apple I Macintosh and IBM compatibility are 3Com Corp of Mountain View CA and Dayna Communications of Salt Lake City Utah Source JnfoWorld January 6 1987 Adobe Illustrator The recent release of Cricket Draw by Cricket Software to tap the power of PostScript now has some competition Adobe Systems author of PostScript announced early 1987 a powerful drawing program for illustrators and graphic artists called Ilustrator An IBM version will also be released that will run under Microsoft Windows and both versions will retail for about 500 The programs will allow the ability to create true curves advanced shading techniques and flexibility of PostScript font styles It incorporates PostScript but allows the user to access advanced PostScript features without leaming the language Since the program is fully PostScript compatible output may be printed on any PostScript compatible printer Illustrator uses a point to point drawing system that can complete a circle by a user defined starting and ending point It also permits different font sty
267. s copyright complications in software programs occurs when the software is entered into the computer the original work of the author or creator is altered from SUBJECT CODE to various levels of OBJECT CODE At what point in this transformation process does the material cease to constitute the original work of the creator and hence to be protected by copyright laws The question is one that has been adjudicated by numerous Court cases In one case for instance JS amp A Group vs Data Cash Co the question raised was whether or not the copying by JS amp A the defendant of the ROM chip in a chess game created and marketed by Data Cash constituted a violation of the 1909 contd Washington Apple Pi May 1987 45 Copyright Act The Court ruled that no copying had taken place and no copyright violation had occurred because the ROM chip was a mechanical embodiment of a writing rather than a truc copy of it Mechanical processes can be patented a different form of protection of shorter duration under alternative circumstances than copyrighting In fact in a 1981 case involving Diamond vs Dicke it had been decided that patent protection may be available to computer programs when used in conjunction with a machine or invention In general however computer soft ware comes within the purview of copyright laws The relationship between author programs and computer can be described as follows i The author
268. s do bench marking The Whetstone benchmark is frequently used as a measure of floating point performance and computer efficiency while the Sieve of Erastenes is used to test the computational power and ability of a microprocessor to handle large memory structures I should mention that benchmark results run by microprocessor companies should be looked at with caution and independent results should be more reliable If you build an automobile that can reach 60 mph in 5 seconds but only gets 5 mpg do you advertise the speed or the miles per gallon The Motorola family of 68000 microprocessors includes the original 68000 and later the 68010 68020 68030 and a rumored 68040 All the Macintoshes to this point have used the 68000 including the recently announced Macintosh SE running at about 8MHz The Macintosh II uses the 68020 CPU with a clock speed of 16 MHz Some basic statistics for the Motorola microprocessors are shown in the following table Processor Dua Address Path Clock Speed Memory Addressing Power MPS Bits Mr Megabytes Gigabytes 68000 16 32 8 10 12 5 16 MB 05 68010 16132 virtual 8 10 12 5 68020 92132 vistwal 12 5 16 7 20 25 4GB 25 68030 92132 enhanced 16 7 20 4GB 68040 641128 772 68881 Floating Point Coprocessor 12 5 16 7 20 68882 Floating Point Coprocessor 12 5 16 7 20 5 Millions of instructions per second Motorola s own benchmark literature addressed compari sons Intel has
269. s reviewed a market tracking system which describes how numerous indicators and variables secm asso ciated with particular phases within a four year cycle research ers found present in stock market rises and declines That system designed by Mitchell Morse and Schwab Inc and published by Investment Indicators of San Rafael CA 1963 35 pp could be used to build an investor s confidence by identifying which variables were indicators of the dynamic stage beginning or other phase of the four year upward move Villas found the listing of key variables helpful for evaluating shorter 100 day cycles as well 3 FOLLOW UP ON MEMBERS FORECASTING METHODS Peter Kasper and Steve Rinehart reviewed their January 6 and February 10 projections see April WAP Journal which fairly accurately forecast the general direction of the NYSE Index except for consistently underestimating its rapid increase Their estimate was off by from 4 to 7 NYSE points They shared their current research which projects a fairly flat market from March 9 NYSE 163 through April 18 NYSE 162 followed by a slight dip to 160 by April 24 25 and a sharp rise toward 165 by May 6 After this near term consolidation period is completed Rinchart said thcir rescarch forecasts a summer rally For more information call Mercari Inc at 703 620 4071 Bob Wood whose forecasts are geared toward identifying market turning points rather than specific price targets sai
270. s you to create name and map out up to 2500 locations 50 x 50 In the scene data windows you can specify which exits are open or blocked and what sound occurs upon entering a room In the scene design windows you can use simple and familiar graphics tools rectangle round rectangle oval polygons freehand bit boxes as well as fill and pen menus to draw the setting and even edit individual pixels less artistic folks like myself can also cut and paste clip art graphics and digitized images from other applications The individuals and items populating your imaginary world can be drawn in the same way in the character and object design windows The six character data dialogue boxes allow you to determine a selected character s attributes includ ing name sex he she it physical and spiritual hit points and strength the likelihood in combat that the character will fight flee accept or offer a bribe the location s in which a character will appear and the sounds that accompany battle Similarly you can specify an item s name owner type armor regular or magical weapon mobile or immobile object damage potential accuracy number of uses magical effects and so on With these features alone you can already create a full fledged if rudimentary game since a good deal of the standard programming is supplied automatically What makes WORLD BUILDER such a flexible tool however is that you can also edit the game to r
271. sample worksheet produced by MathMaster It shows the types of problems the program can handle and the gorgeous output MathMaster Short Docs is a MacWrite file which documents the peculiarities of MathMastcr The program is picky about input so make sure to read this file first StarChart Lets you plot a view of the heavens from any angle of view You can speed up the plot by limiting the brightness of the stars to be included Once the chart is plot ted you can draw lines on the screen to help you trace constellations A nice feature lets you pick a constellation to view You can also click on any star in the plot and get basic information about that star Star is the data file holding the scoop on the heavens 84 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 Veggie Stuff Folder Veggie With Veggie you can see into your own stomach and judge how nutritiously you are eating as long as you are eating a vegetarian diet In this demo version you can select from a limited list of healthy foods and see how they score in terms of essential amino acids and other nutrients The full version available from the author includes many more foods Veggie mwrt and veggie laser hold the documenta tion Other files in the folder include data on the foods Mac Disk 93A Fonts VI Apollo Fonts Lachine This is a two disk set of fonts including 10 different typefaces on Disk A and 14 typefaces on Disk B Each typeface comes in two or more sizes ranging fr
272. se I have a lot to do and J want to get started Rich Norling is coauthor of StatWorks and Cricket Graph and the author of Pict O Graph a new Macintosh application that draws picture graphs He wrote the book Using Macintosh BASIC published by Osborne McGrawiHill Rich is President of Language Systems Corp G Washington Apple Pi May 1987 71 D EV E LOP E R S VI EW 1987 Spring Developers as by Jim Lanford The Spring Developers Conference If you are a serious Macintosh developer you will find yourself attending at least one of the Apple Developers conferences held several times a year The spring conference was especially uscful since it primarily covered the Macintosh II and the Macintosh SE I personally ran into cight other developers from the DC area many of whom are WAP mem bers Hopefully you will hear from some others to receive a more rounded point of view Things you haven t read in any other magazine The Macintosh II can support up to 128 Megabytes on the motherboard Yes I know that everyone including myself has been saying 8 Megabytes but the enginccring manager of the Macintosh II team who is responsible for the NuBus Ron Hochsprung said that all the address lines are there just waiting for the 16 Megabyte SIMS to become available Now before you get too excited I ll mention the caveats First it will be several years before the 16 Megabyte memory chips are even available Ict alone afforda
273. show the actual commands etc as they happened I will mark the commands to my telecommunications software by delineating that arca of this article with s at the begining and s at the end Here gocs AN ACTUAL SESSION Numbers to the right margin are used for later explana tion Commands B C D H L O Q l Xfer D 2 Download 1 72 44 044 CR REMOVER BAS 00001 O1Min Basic pro gram to strip c r s 3 A T Q XP X Xmodem Protocol 4 Sending CR REMOVER 5 Use Ctrl X to Abort s Below are all commands to or from my software Here I give the necessary commands to my software to prepare to receive a file and to store it on disk Since commands differ between software I will not list the actual commands Check your software manual 9 contd Commands B C D H L O Q Xfer D Download 1 72 43 043 CR REMOVER OBJ BIN 00001 01Min BIN file needed by CR REMOVER A T Q Xf A Ascii Express Pro Protocol 10 lt 1 gt Dos 3 3 Ascii Express lt 2 gt ProDOS Ascii Express 72 11 Ascii Express is a registered trademark of United Software Industries Sending CR REMOVER OBJ 12 Use Cul X to Abort s Below are all commands to or from my software Again I told my software to reccive a file and place it on the disk D Commands B C D H L O Q Xfer HERE S WHAT HAPPENED 1 This is the TCS quick command reminder prompt 2 XFER module is waiting for my command I
274. sorbers a public domain and shareware library real time testing of all drives 3 way electronic surge protection two switched AC outlets a SCSI device select switch for changing SCSI priority choice of 2 or 6 ft cables a 30 day money back guarantee and a 1 year replacement warranty It sounds too good to be true Apple in the News Apple Computer has been getting very good press in some of the nation s leading magazines Both Business Week and U S News and World Report ran articles on the comeback of Apple In the January 19 1987 issue of Business Week Apple was the cover story i e Apple s Comeback with a total of 6 pages of coverage The U S News and World Report article i e After a long dict Apple bites back covered two pages and was similar in content to the other article Although Apple s first quarter profits 0 91 share were identical with last year s first quarter and the second quarter is also expected to be flat the second half of 1987 and the entire 1988 is estimated to yield record profits In spite of flat profits earnings were up 24 and gross margins grew to 51 8 This is considered a good measure of profitability of a company s operations The flat earnings were largely due to increased marketing distribution and research and development costs In case you haven t noticed Apple stock has traded as high as 70 a share in recent months It wasn t that long ago that it was at 14 a share
275. ssor application Next we have received a communication from the author of Disk Librarian 1 82a on Mac Disk 81 which should be important to those of you who use his program John R Goldin wrote in part My impression is that I have received more shareware paymentsn as a result of distribution through Apple Pi than through any other single users group there will be no further updates of the program version beyond 1 82a All my future efforts will go into DiskQuick the commercial version of Disk Librarian which will be sold by Ideaform For registered users of Disk Librarian Ideaform is offering upgrades to the latest version of DiskQuick for 15 the same update price they use for customers who purchase from them directly Users who registered before April 1 1987 are eligible for a special upgrade price of 10 Hard disk users in particular might appreciate one change DiskQuick does not automatically catalog the hard disk Ideaform Inc may be contacted at PO Box 1540 Fairfield Iowa 52556 515 472 7256 and the list price for DiskQuick is 37 50 It is sure to be heavily discounted by mail order houses The Winter 1987 Mac Disk Catalog containing compre hensive information about the entire WAP Mac Disk collec tion through Mac Disk 80 is still available The cost is 3 25 at the office or at general meetings or you may order it by mail for 4 75 inclusive of postage and handling The catalog lists disks b
276. st either play a Seven or draw three cards You draw by clicking on the deck If the second player has a Seven the third player must either play a seven or draw six cards Conceivably if three players played Sevens consecu tively and the fourth player did not have a Seven he would have to draw nine cards The computer takes care of insisting that you draw cards and determines how many to give you The Queen is a sort of wild card and can be played at any time except when you are told to play a seven or draw When you play a Queen you have the option of changing to another suit or continuing with the same suit You normally would change to the suit in which you have the most cards But don t be surprised if the next player changes the suit to his option When one of the players plays the last card that deal is over and the computer totals the values of the cards remaining in the other players hands Totals are accumulated on subse quent deals and if your opponents get ahead of you have lower scores you can keep playing until you are the winner If you get hopelessly behind just quit and start over All will be forgiven In May we are issuing five new disks These are described below Folder information where appropriate precedes the listing of program contents Folder information is underscored programs and files are printed in bold with shareware price information printed in bold italic print Please remember to send
277. such a technique to crank out a report full of charts and graphs about 6 months ago You can have an unlimited number of data points and plot up to five I think plots overlaid onto one another There s a handy Zoom feature that allows expanding a local region of the chart If you are plotting hundreds of points this is a handy feature There s a measurement feature that turns your cursor into crosshairs Great for measuring antenna nulls or digital filter sidelobe peaks The user interface is somewhat non Mac But this package is for engineers who know what they re doing that are frustrated by plotting packages written for the general public and as a consequence limit the useful features that engineers need The package is HFS compatible Plots off a LaserWriter will surely impress your audiences The software is compatible with large screen displays And it s not copy protected This is a plotting package to be reckoned with in the engineering community It is a good example of workstation software that will make Macintoshes the machine of choice for personal engineering workstation applications SoftWear Plot is 99 00 with 5 00 for S H SoftWear Products 7230 Oliver Street Lanham MD 20706 301 577 9207 Wow I m on the mailing list of KSK Communication s Kaleid oscope newsletter It s a one page screed that attempts to impress potential clients Nothing especially noteworthy about it It doesn t hype KSK hardly at
278. suspect from different manufacturers It will be interesting to sce whether the drives perform differently over time Finder 5 4 and System 4 0 To accommodate the larger Read Only Memory ROM chips on the SE and AppleShare Apple s new file server software Apple has introduced a new version of Finder now 5 4 System 4 0 FonYDA Mover 3 4 and the printer drivers This raises once again for Macintosh users the question of Should I upgrade now In my view the answer for many will be No Users of the SE and AppleShare should use the new Finder and System The new LaserWriter driver is different and if you are on an AppleTalk network with an SE you will have to upgrade your files or else face the need to reset and re initialize the LaserWriter every time a System 3 2 user wants to print after a System 4 0 user has This gets to be very tedious after awhile I will say however that the new LaserWriter printer driver is much faster than the old one and many may want to upgrade for that reason alone But the new System file is a bit buggy When you select the new Startup Device portion of the Control Panel at Icast when you don t 4 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 PRESIDENT S CORNER by Tom Warrick have a hard disk attached I ve not tried it any other way and then sclect another portion it bombs every time Also the new Font DA Mover refused to recognize a homemade font To put it into a new
279. sword amp 25 dollar credit 25 OD0S amp ENDS Print Shop Print Shop Companion Libraries 36 29 19 Newsrooa Clip Art Collection 42119 Pinpoint Desktop Accessories 0 cee 4 Infoserge eaileerge for Appleworkts 49 Spelling Checker pops up in Appleworks 45 Typing Tutor Ib so c cca ci ee eiehone eee t a8 36 Kensington Systea Saver Fan w surge protector 66 CH Mach III or Kraft 3 button joystick 39 KoalaPad Graphics Tablet with graphics software 85 Curtis Enerald Surge Protector 6 cutlets amp cord 45 Flight Siaulator II or JET 0 cee eee eee 39 Microsoft Works finally 0 00 cee eee 189 Word new version 3 0 259 Excel best Mac spreadsheet available 245 Basic interpreter 99 M Chart presentation business graphics 85 A Fila oo esis dad ke a sia eka hese ences 119 Cc ReadySetGa page processor new version 9 call I PageHaker wore page processing call N Odesta Helix 2 0 database for the serious user 235 T Dollars amp Sense accounting w graphics 95 O Sidekick w PhoneLink ccc cece cece eee eee 65 S Micah AT 20 or 30 fast internal hard disk call H Peripheral Land 20 or 30 saeg SCSI drive 795 949 Video Tech 800K external floppy 5000 259 MacSnap Mesory upgrade 512K to 1 seg or 2 weg
280. t ssssssseeceeceeeeeessoees 75 Technical Sales amp Service o s 33 Tempest Products Inc Inside Front 39 Ne WASHINGTON APPLE PI DISKETERIA MAIL ORDER FORM Software for Creative Living This form is onl for ordering disks that you want mailed to you 5 1 4 DIS Members 5 00 each Non members 8 00 each Plus 1 00 each postage up to a maximum of 5 00 3 1 2 DISKETTES Members 6 00 each Non members 9 00 each Plus 1 00 each postage up to a maximum of 5 00 A 1 00 per disk discount on the above prices is offered for orders of 5 or more disks Postage remains as above DOS 2 yonma DOS 33 contd Eamon contd 1 IAC25 Mach Lang Util 4 One Key DO 43 IAC 29 Utilities H 44 Utilities I 45 Diversi Copy 46 French Vocab Tutorial 47 Tic Tac Toe in French 48 Boot ie l Hote 49 l Hote S tory 50 l Hote 51 French ocny Tutorial 52 A lina iography 53 Albert Carus Interview 54 Tic Tac Tosi in Spanish 55 Rafel boo 3 qus 58 Matute 59 Lo Fatal 70 Business Math Statstic 71 Music 72 Keyboard Games 73 Text aerae Games 74 Paddle Gam 75 Color Graphics for Fun 76 Education 77 Utilities 90 Spreadsheet C Gen Bus 91 Spreadsheet D Investmt 92 Spreadsheet E Bus Rec 93 VisiPlot amp VisiT rend 94 CALCULINK 95 Sprdsht F Coin Coll 100 Utilities A 101 Utilities B 102 Games A 104 Business A 106 Splenee Engincering 107 Games B lucation 139 IAC 24 Education 3 140 Education 4 141 Spec
281. t is the word the International Apple Core which used to be a group of user groups until it became overpoliticized and sadly became no different from any other membership based user group It remains to be seen what will come of any of these discussions but WAP plans on continuing its active role in the national user group community WAP officers Bernie Urban and Lee Raesly participated in a national user group conference in Dayton Ohio on April 10 12 Following this was an extremely interesting panel of four dealers among them Art Lundquist of Clinton Computer who discussed dealer user group relations Some user group representatives felt that it might have been better to have a few user group leaders meet with the dealers reflecting a Subjective assessment of who is responsible for straincd dealer user group relations but this will probably occur at next year s AppleWorld if not before then I took careful notes of everything Art said heh heh heh but quite frankly the four dealers there were among the country s most enlightened with regard to user groups and were all cager to foster better relationships Indeed Art was positively effusive about his desire to cooperate more extensively with Wash ington Apple Pi so much so that I wanted to tell him as I am sure he knows that a user group such as ours would be doing its members an injustice if it were scen as too closely involved with any one dealer Next was a p
282. t our low PostScript Fonts Adobe Casady Ware Allotype Century Software ImageClub T Maker Altsys Invincible Software e Neoscribe Devonian e Software Complement LaserPaper LaserSampler Il Hammermill Laser Reference Guide and font Plus Print 500 catalogue of all the current sheets 8 50 PostScript Fonts 23 95 By Appointment Only Call 301 424 3942 702 Twinbrook Parkway Rockville MD 20851 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 53 on it they said Does PageMaker 1 2 have problems with scanned images Sure hey everyone knows that But they re working on it In the meanwhile we have the option of twiddling our thumbs or going out on a quest for another program whilst expensive scanner sits idle Does that make sense or what Hire a consultant OK How much more is that going to be And will he have the answers If you have ever dickered with the importing of PICT formatted files into PM1 2 then you may have noticed some rather peculiar things happening in PM with your graphic such as half of it missing Is THAT fun Until they get the bug out of their program you have to throw a white box behind the graphic and larger than the graphic to compensate for what PM does not pick up This does not always work There is yet another quirk in PM if you cut a very wide graphic or line of type and attempt to place it into your Scrapbook you will most likely end up with an entire corrupted Scrapbook
283. t to normal mode some functions remain keyboard functions You can also move entirely by keyboard or using a joystick in expert mode The caves have irregular walls and internal dividers that may make it hard to mancuver especially when you are being chased by monsters Items can be found in chests or on dead monsters As in GEMSTONE WARRIOR these include weapons along with MARBLE MADNESS A by lan Soboroff various potions and protections Unique to this game are the scrolls and the tools needed to heal the gemstone The scrolls can be read once you have picked them up After reading they disappear In each game the scrolls will be in different places However when you find them they always provide the same information in the same order That is the first scroll you find always has the same contents and so on The scroll gives you the clues necessary to win the game such as which tools are grouped together This game is a real time adventure that in normal mode is best played with a friend one on joystick one on keyboard The good points about the game include 1 the enjoyment gotten from a real time adventure there is a real sense of action to this game and 2 the sense of accomplishment you get as you progress through the caverns Both the joystick and the keyboard based actions are well thought out and easy to accomplish The game can be played as beginner average and kamikaze levels giving us all a chance to win The
284. tation worries of using a hard disk do not apply at all The data resides on 20Mb removable cartridges Just take them out and THEN move the drive The only major drawback is cost I don t know what these drives cost but the original 8 Bernoulli Boxes go for up to 2400 for a 20 20 dual drive Considerably more than a 40Mb hard disk but then you GET more than a 40Mb hard disk JAY HELLER ON 01 25 Several of us are working on the homebrew hard disk that was in the BMUG newsletter It looks like that for around 350 or so you could build one If you are interested in doing this leave me a message here RICK ROBINSON ON 01 26 I already have a Lo Down hard disk but would be interested in following the project and learning more about how hard disks work How could I get a copy of the BMUG newsletter I would be veerrry interested in building a homebrew tape back up unit JAY HELLER ON 01 26 I don t know if we will be able to reprint the article but I am writing one that will tell about what we are doing RICHARD BROSNAHAN ON 01 30 YES I am interested in this project Will you be doing the manufacturing and or writing up a project for the Journal I may go either way I don t really have the time to do the kit but as I understand it the kit would not take that long to build Great idea in any case Pun intended We gotta find appropriate cases for the darn things Have you shopped at Electronics Plus in College Park JAY HE
285. ter Print Fading Problem Richard J Byrd 56 Faster Printing with the Imagewriter II John J Boren 56 dPub SIG News Steven Payne 57 A Power User Primer Fred Seelig 58 MacNovice The Slow Boat Ralph J Begleiter 60 Frederick Apple Core Macintosh Bits and Bytes Intel Versus Motorola Microprocessor You Be the Judge The Decision Excelling on Your Mac Part 12 Review Corner View from the Hill Developer s View Musements Best of Mac Items from TCS Book Reviews David Morganstein 67 James M Burger 69 Rich Norling 71 Jim Lanford 72 Fred Seelig 73 Bill Baldridge 76 Robert C Platt 82 Mac Disketeria Notes Marty Milrod amp Dave Weikert 83 WAP Tutorials Robert C Platt 85 Tutorial Regis Advertisers amp Authors Disketeria 86 87 TPI 861 T TEMPEST Certified IBM AT Compatible e Runs all major IBM PC XT AT software Options include Multi user XENIX Multi user UNIX 3 MB expansion memory total 4 MB 20 MB to 144 MB removable hard disk drive RGB high resolution color monitor 4 port I O 60 MB tape cartridge back up 220 V 50 Hz power AT is a registered trademark of International Business Machine Corporation XENIX is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation UNIX is a registered trademark of AT amp T Information Systems TPI 861 T E MF t P Products an a wphone or mail orders please Clinton Computer Your 1 Apple Dealer 8032 Leesburg Pike
286. ter about every other character like in the other mysteries You can ask them about the ghost but there isn t much else that they ll talk about But an even bigger complaint is that the software is S L O W Really slow Much slower than any other Info com game Almost every time you enter a command the program reads the disk and continues to read the disk for quite some time This is on the Apple II it might be faster on the Macintosh but I haven t tried it After a while just walking from room to room starts to scem like some exquisite oriental torture And there are four plots which means you have to scour the whole castle top to bottom four times because the Clues are in different rooms in each plot I found the program so slow as to be unplayable Fortunately some masochist sent the complete solution to QuestBusters newsletter so I finished all four plots My reaction was Thank God it s over Bottom Lines HOLLYWOOD HUINX is one of Info com s better games The puzzles are solveable but challenging and unusually well designed It isn t for novices but anyone with a small amount of experience with Infocom s other games should enjoy it I d give it an 8 out of 10 MOONMIST well if you don t like Infocom s other mysteries I can promise that you ll hate this If you like those mysteries you might enjoy it but be aware of how slow the software is I d advise booting it up in the store before you buy
287. th the lack of articles in the Apple magazines of interest to users of what lately seems to be synonymous with obsolete systems the Apple and particularly to those of us using Apple CP M some call it a dead language but of course it is no language but rathcr an operating system As the owner of a J Minus which underwent a scx transfer operation switching chips between it and the Floating Point Basic Board purchased after endless frustration in loading it from tape I have avidly used the Microsoft CP M card ever since it was offered Recently I came across a bargain which was hard to refuse For 89 8 shipping less than a third of what the Microsoft card cost me still listed for almost 300 one can get from B C E 3233 K Street NW Washington DC a Z80B PCPI board StarCard bundled with the complete MicroPro WordStar Professional The card can be had separately for 49 Do not be fooled by the low price it is the real thing complete with s w and professionally packaged documentation This article will deal mainly with the hardware with only casual mention of WSP Since I intend to include some performance figures I deem it appropriate to mention my sustem configuration My System consists of an Apple Microsoft Language card Epson MX 80 FGraftrax with the Pkaso U parallel interface some of the products I mention are no longer available the Videx 80 column board Call A P P L E s 1 Mb BigBoard a VIS
288. the three programs Base Merge and Port Cost is 25 per plus S5 for shipping They warned me NOT to use my current version of 1st Base with System 3 2 and Finder 5 3 I would be running some risk of losing everything I have uscd it for 6 months now with no losses so far but who knows The lack of a response to my previous message may indicate a lack of interest in this software As I understand it is pretty limited by today s standards but when you have as I do a large mailing list in it with no way to export it to something more modern you make do IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE who can suggest how to export my Ist Base files into something else KIM BRENNAN ON 01 18 You might read how files are kept on the List board Confer ence 1 for an idea about how to export your data Not being a Mac owner myself I am not positive that most Mac DB programs can create a DB via a text file However it is worth a shot The basic idea is that you create a special report using ist Base it will print out all or as much as possible of your DB to a text file on a disk Each line will have a single entry field of your DB Each record will consist of x number of lines Each record should have the same number of lincs Then when you import to a different DB program I hope that DB program after being informed it is coming from a text file will prompt you for the number of ficlds in cach record This is the way AppleWorks does it I would be su
289. the Mac Plus A whole lot of people would have liked a Mac Plus with a Levco Prodigy 4 This would have added one to three more megabytes of memory and a numerical coprocessor It would have added serious speed Instantancous 3D graphics Fast huge Excel spreadsheets The Mac Plus would have become a true workstation What Apple gave us though was some thing less much less I predict that this unit will bomb as surely as IBM s PCjr did As an Apple enthusiast I am very disappointed that the Cupertinites let this monstrosity get to market Now Apple is saddled with the oncrous job of explaining away a crummy machine It gives the Mac a bad name at a time when the Macintosh was just beginning to find public acceptance within the IBM community And then I discover that across the hall from my room at work there are plunked three brand new SEs with a Lascr Writer Plus and I am suddenly reconsidering all of these opinions Next month a close look at how an SE performs Maybe I ll change my tune The Macintosh II The Macintosh II on the other hand is an amazing picce of hardware No equivocating here Anyone that was at the March 28 WAP mccting and watched the videotape of Jean Louis Gassce introducing the Mac II knows what I am trying to say One is stunned into speechlessness Speechlessness is perhaps the incorrect phrase Sounds were coming out but I was reduced to making lots of inco herent gutteral groans It was the sheer
290. the prices for MacProject and MacDraw and that sales of those products went up The last panel of the day was Larry Tessler Vice President for Product Development The job of his group is not to make actual products but to come up with new ideas that can be incorporated into future products Alan Kay works with Larry it appears One of the areas in which Apple said it was interested was color printing No one asked about compact disks which is another area Apple is supposed to be interested in Alan Kay who participated in this panel was asked when the Dynabook see above would be feasible To the surprise of many he said the technology exists or is in the laboratory today but that there was one remaining problem the weight and size of the power supply He predicted a Dynabook could be done before 1990 The final speaker was Apple Chief Executive Officer John Sculley who fielded questions from the floor for about forty five minutes Some of the questions were very strange one person asked about a problem his mother was having with her Apple modem This drove many of us to look for a quick exit but John handled it with considerable aplomb The next day Wednesday March 4 was devoted to User Group University a serics of presentations and discussions to help user group leaders run their groups better Ellen began with an overview of the user group program I gave a presentation on how user groups can qualify for tax exe
291. the pro gram The courts have decided that even as the program was in the machine but in not human readable form it had been authored by a human and initiated in SOURCE CODE that was human readable Under those conditions therefore the software could should be protected under copyright laws A computer program the written expression of a programmer s Ideas derives value because the Idea behind it has value An Idea per se has no tangible form rather it is a mental representation of an objective process with no object or physical source connected with it The Idea is separate from its ultimate physical embodiment hence it is not copyrightable The legal right associated with a computer program arises from the fact that it is regarded as the physical expression of the Idea This is the genesis of the intellectual property right a special form of property subject to protection in state federal and forcign statutes including treatics and conventions The courts have decided that the OBJECT CODE Starting out as a human readable computer program authored by a human should be protected even though what the consumer gets is a machine translation and machine processed version of that human readable computer program The ultimate legal problem that has faced the courts is whether or not the unintelligible binary code is sufficient human authorship that can be justifiably protected under copyright patents or trademark laws of the country whe
292. the words of H R 3 foreign barriers seriously impede the ability of U S persons that rely on intellectual property rights to ope rate overseas thereby harming the economic intersts of the United States Or as noted in S 490 unfair methods of competition threaten to destroy or substantially injure industry in the U S The Ministerial Declaration on the Uruguay Round observes that there is a need to promote effective and adequate protection of intellectual property rights Technological developments may affect the way of looking at these rights and require new definitions new concepts and perhaps new international conventions In this essay I want to examine in a very preliminary way this broad and involved subject in order to raise the level of consciousness among WAP members to developments occurring in an economic sector that has scrious implications for the American standard of living the position of the U S in the world economy and even American national security The subject is complex and has numerous ramifications Hence the limited focus here is on some of the basic issues that arise in the software industry Intellectual property rights are protected in several ways including the granting of copyright privileges the issuance of patents and trademarks trade names trade secrets etc We focus on copyrights because they are most important in the arca of computer software In addition to the several
293. the writer of a computer program initially gets an Idea which remains in indeterminate form and state of flux so long as it is in the mind of the author hence it is not copyrightable ii The author translates his Idea onto paper say in the form of BASIC a high level programming language referred to as SOURCE CODE When the Idea is translated into this form it becomes human readable and tangible it therefore becomes copyrightable iii The program in SOURCE CODE can be keyed into the computer i c compiled where it is converted into OBJECT CODE In the process of conversion it becomes not human readable but it docs not cannot run as it is iv For the SOURCE CODE to be run by the computer it must be converted into EXECUTE CODE It is in the computer but is not readable by a human There may be several possible conversions from SOURCE to OBJECT CODE One conversion may be from BASIC to ASCII Code the concept of reverse engineering can be invoked implying thereby that if one were to go back from ASCII to BASIC one would get exactly the original result Hence a computer program can be expressed in BASIC or ASCII the results are equivalent and there would be no copyright infringement A different conclusion is reached however if a program in BASIC is translated into ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE In this case the translation of a program from one computer language BASIC to another computer language is equivalent to translating
294. then the rest of the word AILABLE Since the original word was centered in the type I left it there in black type What I did however was to select the original word called up the menu and asked for white type which had the effect of not showing up on the screen but did keep the line centered Then select the AILABLE and place it on the line where the original was Once placed select the V and tuck it in there nicely and do the same for the A Tedious Yes But the desired results were evident Does PageMaker 1 2 have problems with imported PICT graphics and formats Oh yes indeedy But they re working contd ey We A Match Made In oat Ta Adobe Illustrator amp MacScan O Special Introductory Offer Both For Only S1 110 00 Workstatio iB Laser Printing Linotronic PostSer ing OCR MiniCad 495 00 sy The MiniCad Pack Macintosh CADD System Includes On Site System Setup and Training MiniCad MacPlotts II Architecture Templates HI DMP52 Pen Plotter 5485 00 zOCR Is Here DEST PC Scan Plus For the Macintosh Scan Text in 30 Seconds Scan Direct to MacWrite No Line returns Also Scans Graphics Call For a Demonstration pricing for schools and EZ Draft sexe 2495 00 The EZ Draft Pack Macintosh CADD System Includes On Site System Setup and Training EZ Draft HI DMP52 Pen Plotter 7190 00 With DMP56A add 1300 00 Ask abou
295. to a challenging adventure On the overall scale it weighs about 8 out of 10 Service on Apple Il Apple ile IBM and IBM Compatibles We Test Clean and Align Your 5 1 4 Floppy Disk Drives Factory Service on Epson and Okidata Printers Expert Repairs on Other Brands 90 Day Warranty on All Service Work On Site Maintenance Agreements Available For More Information Call 698 0347 Technical Sales amp Service 2820 Dorr Ave Fairfax VA 22031 COMPUTED DEN Liv Shap Computer Den and save SOX and mere an SO alare peripherals ahd accessesrter Yor off Apple computers inclumng AC ie altempt te heat tlacalig aguertised prices Panasonic 10901 w 30cps NLQ 275 06 10801 In stock eee 235 01 Citizen Premiere 35 Doisywheel 450 00 EDSON Printers essessesserseseesesseree C ALL PAPER MICROPERF SPECIAL 000 22 50 RIDDONS ccicccdeccscecscnsaneesicdescetsausensasscasaves CALL Cool Time Surge Fan and Clock 75 00 Apricorn 64K 80 column card 63 00 Maqnavox 12 amber monitor 85 00 LASER 640 computer w cable 495 0 External disk drive e 135 0C CHPONSION DOH oo ee eee eee 268 00 Koala Pad touch tablet eee 85 00 NEW Prograppler works on 11 6S 65 00 Serial Grappler Grappler C 83 50 Clearance on asst d software Koala 510 00 Printshop COMPANION ccseeseeeeee 25 00 Dazzle
296. triguing items for product reviews Some things are more unexpected For example a few months ago I received a box from Apple Computer Inc with a prominent label on it saying Nobody s Perfect We get a lot of mail from Apple and I thought that perhaps this was to correct something in a previous mailing But the box was fairly large about the size of two shocboxes and I couldn t think of what it could be that they would need to correct with a box that size It turned out it was a letter from some people at Apple I d not heard of before who were interested to know our views as to what software best showcased the capa bilitics of Apple s computers I was happy to respond to their request But they also enclosed copies complete with docu mentation of MacLightning by Target Software Inc FullPaint by Ann Arbor Softworks Inc HFS Locator Plus and HD Back up by PBI Software Inc Smart Alarms and Appointment Diary by Imagine Software Tempo by Affinity Microsystems Ltd and MicroPhone by Software Ventures This was great stuff but the cover letter said this software was for my personal use a dubious ethical proposition at best although I m sure no offense was intended The software is now available for use by the club for official business but frankly I find it annoying when people in the computer industry send me unsolicited gifts particularly expensive ones contd Then the other day I got a call from a G
297. ts can be fragmented over far greater distances and the heads on the drive can be forced to take much longer trips all over creation to locate and open a large document So what s the fix Piece of cake As I said earlier the fix is simpler than the explanation If you think your Mac is taking the slow boat when it opens a large document follow the following simple steps These instructions are applicable equally to any size disk including enormous hard disk drives e On the desk top make a DUPLICATE of your file by choosing DUPLICATE from the File menu Give the dupli cate a new similar name The new name is only temporary Now throw your ORIGINAL document in the TRASH Rename the copy to take on the original name That s it You ve accomplished this You ve instructed Mac to write a fresh copy of your original file By doing this Put Away Copy of Very Fat Fite Page Setup Print Catalog the Macintosh finds a whole series of new parking spaces on your disk And it uses contiguous spaces so fragmentation of the file is eliminated AHA you say I can t make a duplicate of my manus cript on my 800K or 400K disk The file is already so large that there isn t room on the disk for a duplicate Or the disk is already nearly full of other files so there s no room for a duplicate of your novel No problem e Initialize a new disk DRAG the large original document from its home disk to the new
298. two players The Apple version has at least six levels including Beginners Aerial and Silly mazes The animation is very well done and smooth The sound effects include the sounds of marbles bumping into each other falling off walls smashing into the ground bumping into the walls etc Most of the music is very good no surprise since the game was written by Will Harvey a la MUSIC CONSTRUCTION SET but only plays at the beginning of each screen instead of during the game as in the original Controls can be either joystick or keyboard and can be a bit frustrating at times because you are moving the controls on a two dimensional planc while the game is in 3 D Nonetheless the game very enjoyable and extremely addict ing because each time you play you get a little farther and it is hard to stop Seeing this game played or playing it for that matter in color is a real experience because the graphics are in 16 color double hi res graphics MARBLE MADNESS is fun not to mention addictive or did 1 for both young and old and well worth buying I give it a 10 out of 10 contd Washington Apple Pi May 1987 29 by Charles Don Hall HOLLYWOOD HIJINX Mac and Apple series 39 95 list is Infocom s newest text adventure a fairly straightforward treasure hunt game in the tradition of ZORK I It seems that your uncle Buddy Burbank King of the B movies passed away several years ago When the
299. u do not bring your own you will have to look over someone s shoulder June 2 WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF APPLE No Tutorials June 9 HOW TO USE YOUR APPLE SOFTWARE in June 16 POPULAR APPLICATIONS APPLEWORKS July and August Macintosh Tutorials for the beginners are regularly given on the last two Monday evenings of the month at the office from 7 10 PM The fee for two tutorials is 30 00 An outline was given in the October Journal You are strongly urged to bring your Macintosh These tutorials fill up quickly call the office to verify space before mailing in your registration Monday May 11 and 18 Monday June 22 and 29 Note Prerequisite The Macintosh Guided Tour Non Regular Tutorials The following tutorials are being offered in the next few months at the office unless otherwise specified The fee for these tutorials is 15 for each session within each tutorial 20 each session for non members Word 3 0 Style Sheets Hank Taylor Saturday May 2 9 12 Noon Fee 15 20 Word s formatting power Word 3 0 Hidden Text Indexes Table of Contents Hank Taylor Sat May 9 9 12 Noon Fee 15 20 Word 3 0 Outlining amp Column Features Hank Taylor Saturday May 16 9 12 Noon Fee 15 S20 Introduction to Apple IT Telecommunications Allan Levy Saturday June 6 9 12 Noon Fee 15 S20 Leam the important basics of accessing other computers with a modem Transition from
300. ulation from Lucasfilm Games distributed by Electronic Arts From the start of the scenario to the completion of the mission if you make it this is an excellent simulation To call this a game would be a gross error it requires both Strategic and tactical ability The graphics are three dimen sional with solid fill colors and full color maps of the opera tion area such as the Persian Gulf the Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf of Sidra You have full control of the SH 60B Seahawk and the SH 2F Seasprite search Helos and Convoy Ships and 8 real life missions like the one described above RING QUEST A Review by Forrest Black Origin Systems has come out with one for devout adven turers and beginners as well The back of the box says The Ring of Chaos has possessed the enchantress Lisa and threatens the very fabric of the universe Unless it is reunited with the Ring of Order life as we know it may come to an end The Ring of Order has now found its way into your hands and you better believe it RING QUEST Origin Systems Apple series 64K is the sequel to THE QUEST in which you seem to have accidently given Lisa the ring of chaos RING QUEST is a graphic adventure with about 60 locations not including a 99 location maze of precarious walkways Also there are two optional arcade style skill games to test your skill and endurance These games Cliff Climber and The Flyer may be turned off if you re not i
301. ursday of the month at 7 30 PM at the office The next meeting will be on May 28 Fed cral SIG meets on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at the office 7 30 PM The next meeting will be on May 20 Wednesday Ch of Com DC Saturday 6 Intro to Tele communications Apple II Tutorial 9 12 AM Office 13 Frederick Slice Annapolis Slice Music SIG 20 Transition from e to IIgs Tutorial 1 4 PM Office 27 WAP Meeting Garage Sale Location TBA Friday Stock SIG 8 00 PM GameSIG meets on the Ist Thursday of the month at the office 7 30 PM The next meeting will be on My T Mac Programmers mect on the Ist Wednesday of the month at the office 7 30PM The next meeting is on May 6 MusicSIG meets on the 2nd Saturday of each month Call Ray Hobbs 490 7484 or Gary Larson 337 4267 for details PIG the Pascal Interest Group meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 8 00 PM at the office New and prospective users are welcome The next mecting will be on May 21 PI SIG Program Interface mects on the Ist Monday of the month at 7 30 PM at the office See their news elsewhere Stock SIG mectings are on the second Thursday of each month at the office 8 PM The next mecting is on May 14 Telecom SIG meets after the regular meeting on the ey Saturday of the month Washington Apple Pi May 1987 9 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE by David Ottalini SIG Co Chairm
302. urse The update of a dictionary is also slightly faster Since I have no use yet for either MailMerge or StarIndex they were not tested To summarize the PCPI board and the bundled WordStar Professional are a highly recommended addition to everybody s system even those already possessing a CP M card The performance and functionality improvements discussed would in my mind justify the slightly higher cost of this board in comparison to the 40 clones flooding the market mostly without even the CP M operating system included Apple c is a registered trademark computa Inc ASTLEY ntertors Marcia F Astley INTERIOR DESIGNER e Residential e Commercial e Associate Member ASID 10118 Renfrew Road Sitver Spring Maryland 20901 301 593 0312 APPLIED ENGINEERING additional AE items in stock GS RAM 1 5 Meg 289 00 GS RAM Plus 1 Meg 399 00 Z RAM Ultra 2 1 Meg 299 00 Z RAM Ultra 3 1 Meg 349 00 RamFactor 1 Meg 279 00 RamWorks Ill 1 Meg 259 00 VIP for e or c 169 00 VIP for li GS 199 00 10 discount with purchase of any Applied Engineering Board PORTABLE SYSTEM C VUE LCD Flat Monitor Prairie Power System Battery 299 00 Pack UPS amp Carrying Case 139 00 Iic Power Cigarette Lighter Adapter 24 95 lic Power Extension Cable 16 95 iic Power Y Adapter 18 95 SOFTWARE SwyftWare card or software 69 95 Appleworks 1 3 179 00 Locksmith 6 0 Reduced 59 00 Copy I Plus 37 95 EDD 4 4
303. ut Dropped Characters TOM VIER ON 03 15 Your software is not keeping up with the incoming characters during screen scroll It is caused by the following You have an un enhanced e The scroll routine in the 80 col firmware is too slow and disables interrupts for too long Your serial card docs not have interrupts enabled Your software doesn t use handle interrupts You can add nulls to every line with most BBSes but to correct it at the source is better Enhance your e or get a program with it s own screen driver i e AE Pro for the e Also check to sce if you have interrupts enabled on your serial card Could be just a switch or you may need a jumper ALLAN LEVY ON 03 16 You may find that clear screen loses characters I think you may change the clear screen characters to lt CR gt and the BBS will not clear screen and will scroll DCom3 3 ALLAN LEVY ON 03 08 DCOM3 3 has been added to the library disketeria Disk 503 and should be available to all at the next meeting Sorry for any inconvenience The vtl00 works great The documenta tion is obtained by sending the author 25 I think his requested donation as it is shareware I will give you the source at the next meeting or you can get it out of the library Let me know if you have any problems I can get you started on the documentation I have a sct and will also put it in the WAP office library m RICHARD ROWELL ON 03 21 I got a mild amount of flack from A
304. ut a month now and find it quite reliable and quiet direct comparison with an Apple SCSI and a LODOWN 20 It surprised me that the drive was quieter than the LODOWN even though the LODOWN doesn t have a fan The company has a support line not toll free and seems to be reasonably responsive to qucrics problems They also have a one year warranty and say they will supply upgrades to their software as needed the first upgrade should be here this week their formatter has a bug that requires the HD to be off when you start it up In all I ve had fewer problems with this drive than I ve had with either the LODOWNS or Apple SCSI s DEACON MACCUBBIN ON 02 01 Word has leaked out that PCPC will shortly be introducing a 40meg SCSI MacBottom HD They expect to offer 20 meg HD owners an upgrade path probably about 400 to upgrade from 20 to 40 roughly the difference in the retail price be tween the two Also there is a new version of their print spooler and their HFS Backup program If you need these upgrades you can call PCPC s customer support to order them or wait for the notification postcard to arrive You ll need to give them the serial numbers of your registered HD or software LEE DUER ON 02 02 To anybody interested I received the drive about a month ago 995 via Mac Conn and have not had a bit of trouble shut it down on purpose at various times etc and no trouble at all It sits next to my Mac on a DAK power controller
305. uter discussed his company s choice to use the Motorola 68000 instead of the Intel 80286 Byte September 1985 He says and I quote Sage computer came to the quick conclusion the 68000 is at least one gencration ahead of the 286 in terms of microprocessor design the 286 was so steeped in it s own history that the architecture suffered critically In reality today s 286 is little more than an 8086 with a memory management unit tacked on just look at the registers and addressing modes They are much larger and far more flexible in the 68000 than in the 286 Unfortunately the 286 has a bottleneck where it forces single pins into double duty It shares the use of its address and data bus which means that for a given bus bandwidth its transfer rate will always be less than a non multiplexed processor The 68000 escapes the problem by dedicating a single pin for each function 66 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 I hope I have not bored the reader with these quotes My purpose was to give readers a feel for the current state of microcomputer microprocessors I personally feel the Motorola 68000 family of CPU s appears to have the edge over the Intel family I am glad that Apple decided to use the Motorola and not the Intel processors in the Macintosh YOU BE THE JUDGE The Decision The judge did not grant an injunction because the Farmers Coop failed to prove there was a substantial likelihood after a full trial would be
306. uter Society in Chicago very ably run by Terry Tufts At that conference many user group representatives expressed their pleasure for such events and the amount of significant useful information garnered from such interaction informa tion which could directly improve the operation of their respective organizations They wanted such gatherings to continue and they have continued with Apple Computer s support at each succeeding MacWorld conference the AppleWorld conference and most recently at the second Midwest conference sponsored by Apple Dayton in Dayton on April 10 through 12 At each gathering a common thread has appeared user groups helping user groups I chaired such a discussion and it some became evident that there is considerable interest in exploring possibilitics for the creation of a new organization to be run by user groups and charged with the responsibility of providing services to user groups Interestingly the general consensus was that the International Apple Core originally created for such a purpose is no longer the appropriate mechanism and much revision to its current form would be required A committee was established to prepare a survey questionnaire to idenufy possible components of such an organization This survey is to be taken of all user groups currently registered with Ellen Leanse Apple Computer s User Group Evangelist Four representatives were chosen from each category of user groups s
307. uter listing what I perceived the problems were and made 12 suggestions that I think will go a long way to addressing them As of March 1987 I have not received any reply to that letter As I pointed out to General Computer any columnist has an obligation to the reader to present objective view points on the pluses and minuses of computer hardware and software We also have an obligation to the companies to be fair truthful and as thorough as possible when we write such reviews When companies pro duce good products for the Macintosh we are all winners while products that do not fulfill their promise only hurt the Macintosh the company and the consumer In that case we all lose Such a partnership between all partics much be based on trust reliability performance and customer support So fi xtemal H riv much m liabl I have had no trouble with mine although I know one owner that had to have the hard disk replaced A quick note in the Boston Computer Society Macintosh Newsletter and in the February issue of MacUser also noted this increased reliability of the external Hyperdrives I sincerely hope that General Computer has solved its past problems and continues to produce good quality hardware and software for the Macintosh LaserWriter VAX Server Pacer Software of La Jolla CA has released a software package called PacerPrint which will allow the LaserWriter to be used simultancously by both VAX and Macintosh computers In essence a
308. vailable 0B73 67 OC 20 51 OC 60 2C 82 CO 2C 51 CO 18 B8 48 A9 at this time However be sure to report the problem to 0B83 30 8D ED 03 A9 08 8D EE 03 68 4C 14 C3 AS E4 85 i 0B93 E1 Bl EO 45 ES FO 03 4C 5D OD C8 DO F4 E6 El CA expires your dealer betore Your Wananty exp OBA3 DO EF 60 AS E4 85 El 8D 04 CO Bl EO 91 42 C8 DO ae s OBB3 F9 E6 El E6 43 CA DO F2 8D 05 CO 4C 97 OC 85 El Q Can you use Pinpoint with 3 Easy Pieces the Apple OBC3 A2 20 AO 00 AS ES 91 EO C8 DO FB E6 El CA DO F6 version of Appleworks 0BD3 20 F7 OC AO 00 24 E8 30 OE A2 04 98 18 69 0l DO No Pinpoint will only work with IIgs s with the 65816 OBE3 FC C8 DO F8 CA DO FS AD 00 CO 10 1D 2C 10 CO C9 OBF3 9B FO 83 C9 AF DO 04 45 E8 85 E8 C9 D8 DO OA A9 processor chip or enhanced e s and c s which have the 0C03 01 45 E7 85 E AA BD 52 CO A2 20 86 43 60 20 58 65C02 processor chip The has the 6502 chip 0C13 FC A9 OD 85 24 68 85 E2 68 85 E3 DO 03 20 ED FD Q Is there a public domain program that will test the RAM 0C23 A0 00 E6 E2 DO 02 E6 E3 Bl E2 DO Fl AS E3 48 AS on the auxiliary memory of the fe or the fc eee O DE AI 40 26 eo 90 20 EA aS Eo 2 A Yes Glen Bredon wrote the following program If uses paws F9 A9 88 20 ED FD A6 E9 EO 27 08 90 04 A9 00 mousetext characters so its messages are legible only on a 0 63 85 E9 E6 E9 28 BO 06 20 D9 OC 46 47 00 20 D9 OC Iic or enhanced e Enter the following to create a 0C73 8D D4 ES F3 F4 E9 EE E7 BA AO A4 00 AS E4 A2 00 0
309. ve any right to expect version of one of today s favorite game shows Spin the wheel select your letters buy vowels if you have to but enjoy About the only thing we don t have here are the host of prizes Read the documentation to see how it works and how it got here Shareware 10 PhraseFile 250 phrases for the game easily modified when you guess them all PhrzCrz doc mw The documentation mentioned above Mac Disk 92 Education II MacFlash for Speed A no frills arithmetic speed drill where you can set the type of problems and compete against others at the same level Answer as many problems as you can in sixty seconds The rapid pace makes it challenging for anyone Drawback it doesn t tell you the correct answer if you get one wrong Advantage it s written in MacForth so if you hunger for MacForth examples you can peck at the code Shareware 15 00 if you use the program with students MathMaster Folder MathMaster An algebra study tool and pretty amazing in its way Factor numbers solve simple systems of equa tions simplify some polynomials and amazingly graph lines given EITHER the intercepts the coordinates of a point and the slope or the coordinates of two points AND there s more all algebra related If you re a teacher you can use MathMaster to set up study sheets with worked out prob lems If you re studying algebra you can use MathMaster for assorted forms of study help Shareware 17 00 Demo is a
310. ve probably already seen the detailed and admiring reports in The MACazine January 1987 MacUser April 1987 and elsewhere Now the WAP Joumal adds its voice to the chorus of praise If you ve ever finished a computer adventure with the dissatisfied feeling that the game plot and graphics could have been better or wishing that you could design one yourself this program is for you WORLD BUILDER Silicon Beach Mac 512K or better 79 95 list is essentially a construction set which allows you to create an almost unlimited varicty of stand alone adventure games incorporating not only graphics and text but sound effects as well These independent applications will run even on a 128K Mac and can be sold rented shared or distributed however you wish as has happened already with Radical Castle Zoony and the more recent Deep Angst described as the greatest Mac program ever by our totally impartial GameSIG Chairman emeritus The WORLD BUILDER disk includes not only the construction program itself but also a demo world a blank world template in which to edit your masterpiece and a utility which will convert sounds digitized by MacNifty for use in your application The package comes with an 87 page manual describing how to construct or modify games with individual scenes characters objects and sounds Each of these is represented by its own set of windows on screen The scene window for example allow
311. ve to do it scene by scene which is tedious Nevertheless WORLD BUILDER is a great program Though it won t yet allow you to create anything as sophis ticated as DEJA VU or UNINVITED you could easily develop a rough sound and graphics equivalent of ZORK I or the original Adventure game And Silicon Beach also recom mends it for the construction of scene oriented training pro grams has anyone used it for this yet The documentation performance and Mac interface are very good I highly recom mend it especially if you can buy it at a reasonable price Deep Space contd from pg 28 three levels of difficulty bring on more enemies before you can terminate your mission but do not make them harder to fight so the game gets a bit dull after a while In summary graphics excellent docs cute and ingen ious game playing nice for a while Ga Ring Quest contd from pg 31 parser is good it can take multiple word commands and has a large vocabulary with plenty of synonyms in case you can t come up with the exact wording Also it can take a long string of commands separated by commas This saves consid erable time when you know exactly what you want to do Before I played RING QUEST I wasn t really into this type of game but it has awakened me with its enigmatic puzzles and intriguing plot line I was very pleased with the quality and depth of this product I would recommend it to anyone who feels up
312. ves across the carrier rod Now wait if the locating peg were to touch the drive wheel Eureka I put a small piece of cardboard under the right part of the ribbon cartridge keeping the peg from penetrating as far in to the drive deck and the problem was eliminated A more permanent fix was effected by taking a few strokes with a file across the point of the locating peg so that it could not penetrate deeply enough to touch the drive wheel That was the simple answer and I ve never had the problem since If you have experienced this difficulty with your Imagewriter II expecially when using non Apple ribbons just file a tenth inch or so off the right locating peg right as looking down on the ribbon in the as instalied position The cheaper ribbon cartridges are gencrally for C Itoh printers and definitely have slightly longer locating pegs but I file my Apple ones also just to be safe It only takes about thirty seconds to file five ribbons By the way the Imagewriter I does not have the problem because the drive wheel is not located under the locating peg and hence the problem is not experienced with this earlier machine 56 Washington Apple Pi May 1987 FASTER PRINTING WITH THE IMAGEWRITER Il Il by John J Boren Although the Imagewriter II normally prints bidirectionaly in Draft and Best quality Faster quality printing is aea This is curious since Faster printing is none too fast at
313. virtues of same would be honest enough to include in their articles the full picture of what is being reviewed It s not so much what is said about any given product that is at fault but what is NOT said about these products that mislead us Honesty is the best policy all around OK we have a potientially good product here with some limitations so let s work with it and try to solve them I mean is it just me or do I have the impression that those reviewing and writing about specific applications aren t writing about the ones I m using Or are they writing about stuff they are not qualified to write about Or heaven forbid haven t they really used the product themselves and are just relying on press releases to fake through their reviews I can understand retailers and wholesale houses doing this in order to hype up the market for potential sales But when I subscribe to Mac publications I want some nitty gritty hands on objective reporting Don t you Thus a lot could be said for the virtues of the rental libraries out there mainly in Texas who let you rent a program to try out before you decide to buy them Taking them up on some of these offers has saved some bucks For example as fast as SlideShow Magician was received it was shipped right back and the cost was minimal Here You re the guinea pig have some bugs on your time and moncy and patience and don t hesitate to give us a call if you happen to have
314. vorite show and not even the Mac can displace that love Parents ought to check out this disk full of games It is contd Washington Apple Pi May 1987 73 excellent The software is done very well and it reaches all elementary school and as I can personally attest pre school age levels The sounds and graphics are also well done The disk teaches the following numeral recognition cardi nality addition subtraction multiplication division phon ics reading antonyms synonyms homophones contrac tions compound words sight words and vocabulary Each of the eight programs has a variety of skill levels Six of the eight programs allow competitive play with up to four players MacUser gives Mac Edge II a three out of five mouse rating I think the rating is ridiculous it s a five mouser if you have kids or if you teach Mac Edge II 49 95 by Think Educational Software 16 Market Street Potsdam N Y 13676 Bad Ad I love bad ads I scour the back of MacWorld MacUser and all of those minor league Mac rags just to find new bad ads Bad advertisements have a certain anti resonance to them They stick in my mind long after I read them This month s MacWorld has one that I really love and I d like to share it with you Figure 1 has the ad The company name has been omitted so that Bemie amp Co won t get sucd It s on page 237 of April 1987 s MacWorld It has been created through painstaking reverse en
315. whea printing and even then it isn t handled by the application but the printer driver All the application does is pass the driver the graphic and location What Bill suggests doing with your charts or any drawing for that matter is perfectly valid and a time honored solution and it can be used for ANY graphic not just charts In this regard Cricket s new draw package really shines as you can magnify beyond 1x or should I say below 1x allowing very precise manipulations of objects If you are wondering what usc this would be the answer is frechand graphics where very precise control is needed BILL QUALLS ON 02 05 Thanks for the additional information it was very helpful ee contd Washington Apple Pi May 1987 79 heard some good things about Crickct Draw but I don t recall anyone posting any comments about it here I know it s somewhat expensive so maybe that s a factor limiting wide usage At any rate I d like some clarification on the magnification and reduction feature if possible Can you in fact reduce images If so is text reduced in the same scale as geometric primitives and patterns DAVID GURSKY ON 02 05 I didn t try text reduction Since text size is a function of the font size I doubt that text is reduced in the same scale I could be wrong though and perhaps it is smart enought to reduce the font size in proportion with reduction in other primitives MacDraw can reduce and enlarge images as well and
316. when you want to power down And by the way the programs do their thing not only on IIgs ram disks but on the e and c types as well the PROSEL package also contains utilitics that set up ram disks on Ile s and IIc s VISUALIZER PBI Software is a company which in the past has seemed to me to come up with good idcas carly and then to stumble in executing them I found its Jeeves desk accessory package for AppleWorks balky and poorly docu mented and it was quickly overtaken by the competing Pinpoint package Its Graphworks software which drew charts from AppleWorks spreadsheets was limited and clumsy and in my opinion generally a poor value I retumed Jeeves within days of receiving it and sold Graphworks at a loss So it was with a skeptical eye that I opencd a new PBI contd m A Operant HARDWARE DOT MATRIX PRINTERS Epson FX 84e 200 cps 32 cps NLQ aodel call FX 286e 200 cps wide carriage call LX 84 100 cps 16 cps NLQ aode call LQ 800 LQ 1000 180 cps 24 pin NLQ ande eall Okidata 192 Plus 200 cps MQ aode 349 193 Plus 132 colusn version of above 549 292 293 200 cps draft 100 cps NQ 18 pin call Toshiba 321 216 cps draft BEST print for the buck 519 351 288 cps wide carriage version of above 1099 NEC PS P6 P7 Pinwriter 24 wire high quality satrix call Panasonic 1091i
317. which in tum was ranked higher than speedy delivery Other speakers included Jonathan Rotenberg president of the Boston Computer Society who spoke on how to recruit and motivate volunteers Steirling Speirn from Apple s Corporate Grants group who discussed how some tax exempt groups could qualify for grants from Apple Trev Griffiths who discussed AppleLink Toni Tomacci of Apple s Customer Relations group and finally Bob Hall of Apple s Government Marketing group Bob had many kind things to say about Washington Apple Pi which he described as having an excellent relationship with Apple A personal note I always come back from these conferences a few inches off the ground Washington Apple Pi is one of the country s best known and respected uscr groups not only because of our size but because of the high quality of what we do We are proud to have a number of people in our group with a truly national reputation in the user group community Foremost among these is Bernie Urban our Journal editor The Journal which we exchange with more than a hundred other user groups is read by many leaders of other user groups as well as by leaders in the computer industry Jon Hardis who writes the Mac Q amp A column and is our CompuServe coordinator is another person of national renown So is Walt Mossberg who writes a column on the Apple II and is our representative on the Apple II forums on CompuServe We are very fortun
318. y 1 disk name 2 description of disk contents 3 alphabetic listing of files across all disks and 4 by type of file listing across all disks We anticipate updating the catalog periodically In response to our request for documentation of the MacSevens program on Mac Disk 80 WAP member Donald Kahler has written a short description which will be added to the disk when it is next revised and is repeated here in synopsized form Mac Disk 80 Fun amp Games XV Card Games MacSevens Documentation MacSevens card game can be played with one opponent or two opponents or you can let the computer play itself The latter is practically useless since the computer plays so fast that you can t see what s going on After selecting the number of opponents select Play the Game from the Sevens menu and the computer will deal The object of the game is to play all of your cards and catch your opponents with as many cards as possible preferably high count cards Aces count three points against you if you are caught with onc Queens count 5 and Sevens count 10 To play you put the cursor on a card and click the mouse You must follow suit or play the same denomination i e a heart on a heart or a deuce on a deuce If you can t follow suit you must draw a card from the deck The Sevens are the important cards in this game hence MacSevens When a player plays a Seven by following suit or on another Seven the next player mu
319. y 1987 230 NEXTI 240 IFPEEK ADR 4 189ANDPEEK ADR 5 156ANDPEEK ADR 6 192THENPOKEADR 5 142 GOTO440 250 IFADR gt 6 4096THENE 3 GOT0O470 260 IFPTHENADR ADR 256 GOTO220 270 POKEADR 4 189 POKEADR 5 142 POKE ADR 6 192 REMLDA SCO8E X 280 ADR PEEK ADR 2 256 PEEK ADR 3 13 4096 ADR 5 IFADR gt 6 4096 ORADR lt 4 4096THEN E 3 GOTO470 290 FORI 0TO9STEP3 300 IFPEEK ADR I lt gt 157THENE 3 GOTO340 310 POKEADR I 189 REM4 STAs changed to LDAs 320 NEXTI 330 GOTO440 340 FORI 0TO12 350 READBYTE IFPEEK ADR I lt gt BYTE THEN470 360 NEXTI 370 FORI 0TO12 380 READBYTE POKEADR I BYTE 390 NEXTI 400 ADR 4 4096 12 256 12 16413 410 FORI 0TO3 READBYTE IFPEEK ADR I lt gt BYTETHEN470 420 NEXTI 430 POKEADRS 15 16 440 CHR 4 BSAVE PRODOS A 2000 TSYS 450 Patches completed 460 END 470 CHRS 7 Error No patches were made 480 ONEGOTOS00 510 520 490 PRODOS file not found END 500 Insufficient memory to load PRODOS END 510 Patch location not found 520 PRODOS file may have been patched 530 already or is not a compatible version 540 END 550 DATA160 8 189 128 192 232 232 136 208 248 234 234 96 560 DATA189 128 192 189 130 192 189 132 192 189 134 192 96 570 DATA128 6 190 0 SAVE PATCH PRODOS You should RUN this program on the backup copies of your PRODOS disks I am having great difficulty using the AUXMOVE routine in the e ROM which moves an area of memory from the pr
320. you You Get the Future For Only 79 95 Object Logo is the product of over fifteen man years of development Now that it s done its careful design and low price make it irresistible It s an amazing value so easy to learn yet so powerful We think Object Logo is more than a modem programming language It s the programming language of the future Macintosh owners from more than 300 universities and 50 research centers worldwide agree Object Logo is already being used by the Apple Vivarium project by faculty and students at MIT and by prestigious AI Lads such as Bolt Beranek amp Newman Inc That s because Object Logo makes every Mac an excellent tool with which to explore advanced concepts in artificial intelligence and object oriented programming You see soon everyone will have Object Logo Make sure to place your order today CA YES I want to leam this accessible dialect of LISP Rush me Object Logo i J YES want 10 leam all about object oriented I programming Rush me Object Logo and never have to leave behind Rush me Object Logo C YES 1 buy any software product priced under l 100 00 Rush me Object Logo 1 79 95 i To order by phone CALL 800 521 1027 i hg In Mass call 617 868 7440 i 1 CI YES want a language my students can leam l Obyect Logos 79 98 ig Outside USA add 10 per copy l MA residents add 5 sales tax
321. you upgrade to at least a 512E and get a hard disk Seriously most accounting programs are a drag to run on 400K disks Then you might look at Turbo Maccountant from Digital Etc Insight from Layered or Rags to Riches You should have your accountant look at cach program you are considering he she may have special requirements MARK OSTROFF ON 02 03 I realize this is for business accounting but I just bought Dollars and Sense to do both personal and very small business accounting The only problem is that I m having a lot of trouble um making sense of Dollars and Sense The manual shows all kinds of examples of how to sct up accounts for various situations but FAILS to tell you how to USE these x amp accounts HEEELLLPP AL COOPER ON 02 05 There are some preset accounts in the program which you can use if you are having trouble setting up your own accounts I ve been using the program for a couple of years and think it s great Did you go through the tutorial I thought that was pretty good for a quick start to learning the program Data Bases MARK OSTROFF ON 01 08 According to what I ve read in the trade journals A T Ashton Tate ed is disappointed in the speed of the current form of dBase Mac and so has put off releasing it until mid 1987 However there seem to be no major bugs according to the reports I ve read Another company you may be familiar with Nantucket Software is jumping into the Mac Datab

Washington Apple Pi Journal, May 1987

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