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1. F Fee yh Nutr ingo 1 53 it 20 play some Stones trivia in injurie izCard Power 40 Artists on i FreeHand 4 0 15 Exh S Get In Touch With Macworld Mac L toen Welcome BlakeLange Real World ing Le AEE Click a build 4 Garage Sale Don t miss the Garage Sale in December Hardware software and more Just in time for holiday shopping Watch this space for the date and map in the next journal Washington Apple Pi General Meeting 3rd Saturday to avoid Thanksgiving Conflicts NOV 19 1994 9 00 a m Community amp Cultural Center Northern VA Community College 8333 Little River Turnpike Annandale Virginia Nov 19 1994 Casady amp Greene amp Live demo of the Internet From the Beltway 1 495 take Exit 6 west on VA 236 approx 1 mile Turn left into the campus of Northern Virginia Comm College gt Loop around to the rear dn Parking lots and walk to Mill the Community amp Cultural Center Building O Northern Virginia Community College 95 There is abundant free parking adjacent to the Community amp Cultural Center Note that you must be present to win one of the drawing prizes No exceptions November 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 1 Volume 16 Club News es a nee 24 review by Ellen Zuby WAP Hotline PPITTTTIT
2. Mac 512 512e Mac Duo ae a NOVA Educators Disabled SIG Mac Apple _ Mac Plus _ Quadra 700 Desktop Publishing Users ae MacSE Quadra 900 SIG QuickTime SIG _ Mac SE30 _ Quadra 950 Disk Library Stock SIG I Mac Portable Newton EdSIG Education Telecommunications C MacLCI I or Il C Performa 200 eee rue ac 14 OF erIorma Federal SIG Women s SIG _ Mac Classic I II C Performa 400 Game SIG ore Basic Mimiberlip lt 1 year 99 ae Ge Jyears ss 82 Indicate desired Bo och E ae se Student rate for 1 year 32 nee Ady New Member kit a Lon sly y een For other options please add correct amounts a C WAP Bulletin Board System cTcsye 9 ist class mail U S 17 oO Apple I Gs O Airmail to Canada Mexico West Indies Aes O Apple II orCentral America 0 5 Mar oe O Airmail to Europe amp South America 38 SI F O Airmail to Asia amp elsewhere 48 O Surfact to Europe Asia amp Elsewhere s18 Total Enclosed NG o Apple m Applicant signature and date 72 Washington Apple Pi Journal November 1994 Photo CD will change the way you capture and store color images Forever Good Better Our Kodak Photo CD scanner can scan Our Kodak Pro Photo CD scanner can about 100 images from 35mm slides or scan about 25 images from 35mm slides negatives onto a single Photo CD Each or negatives or 2 x 2 and 4 x 5 trans image is stored at five resolutio
3. 3 4 5 6 Never run out of business cards Fill your business card case be fore each event then re fill it immediately after Carry a backup set in your briefcase or luggage Keep your cards organized Des ignate two locations on your person one for holding your own business cards and the other to store the cards you ve collected ALWAYS ask for a card Never offer your card before it s re quested Usually the asking will result in a request so don t worry but if they don t ask try pulling yours out with a gesture of good will exchange while they are pulling theirs out Works every time Quality not Quantity Engage in conversation with each exchangee The trick is NOT stuffing your bags with cards but getting the ones which will prove most important to you Make sure you remember which ones are important See next tip Fit names with faces by jotting notes on each card immediately after each encounter Make them meaningful notes folks you ll want to be able to actually read and understand them later Target your networking Think about who you night encounter and decide BEFORE business or social gatherings who you want to chat with As you work your way around target those people and engage them 7 Review the business cards of people you have met recently Keep them in a business card file for easy access Sometimes I even tape a little index tab onto the particularly importa
4. Also being released are sepa rate specific indexes for Nibble A2 Central and inCider A Each of these indexes provides coverage of the respective publication through its last printed issue Each edition of the Index is priced at 9 95 and can be ordered directly from Kula Software 2118 Kula Street Honolulu Hawaii 96817 808 595 8131 This product is com patible with all members ofthe Apple II family and requires 128K RAM and AppleWorks Both 5 25 and 3 5 disk formats are available Editor s Note Kula Software also has a selection of Apple II books for sale Here is a list of the company s offerings The KULA Software Bookshelf APPLEWORKS TIPS AND TECH NIQUES 2ND EDITION Robert Ericson Sybex An indispensible collection of timesaving techniques and practi cal solutions for intermediate to ad vanced users of AppleWorks Spe cial topics include high performance on the Desktop efficient use of the keyboard word processing tech niques for programmers extended database capabilities custom spreadsheet functions internal and external data transfer printers and advanced print options creating and using macros with numerous ex amples SALE 14 95 Reg 21 95 462 pages APPLEWORKS APPLICATIONS Lauren Flast and Robert Flast Osborne McGraw Hill Twenty Five AppleWorks mod els for business and finance at your fingertips in APPLEWORKS AP PLICATIONS Inthese pages you ll f
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7. Send Now without difficulty Using Send Later took a bit more learning One evidently cannot use it from the ValueFax Manager if the Waiting Faxes Log window is open In addition one must start the back ground program from the ValueFax DA before using Send Later This is reasonable but I did not see it mentioned in the documentation More surprisingly I found that the process of sending a delayed fax started 30 to 45 seconds after the assigned time by the Mac s clock Since I did not know what kind of fax quality to expect I made up a test sheet in Microsoft Works with various fonts printed it on the ImageWriter in Best mode and took it to a fax machine to send to my computer It was sent in Normal not Fine mode It did not look nearly as good when printed on the ImageWriter after reception I also sent the test sheet on my computer from Works to the same fax ma chine in both Normal and Fine resolution When retrieved it took a close look to tell the difference in mode and both results were quite good No fonts were clearly supe rior There probably is consider able variation among fax machines Only twenty fax attempts suc cessful or not may be made from an unregistered ValueFax A message will tell you so Help While exploring ValueFax and writing this review I communicated with Pancomm by e mail I have included some of what they told me here This is a ni
8. Applications Charting Business amp Professional Software Apple III Business Graphics Applications Communications Apple Computer Inc MICRO Courier User s Manual Geiger Rick Apple Access Applications Computer Assisted Drafting Matsumoto Allen CADD Level 1 For the Apple Macintosh Applications Data Processing Apple Computer Inc Apple III Record Pro cessing Services RPS Programmer s Manual Apple Computer Inc AppleFile Tutorial Apple Computer Inc AppleFile User s Manual Part I Creating a Data Base Apple Computer Inc AppleFile User s Manual Part II Using a Data Base Apple Computer Inc Technical Note RPS Using the Unknown Type Sosinsky Barrie Using FileMaker Applications Desktop Publishing Adobe Systems Inc Color Guide Adobe Illus trator 88 Adobe Systems Inc Tutorial Adobe Illustra tor 88 Adobe Systems Inc Illustrator 88 Leper Michael L The Illustrated Handbook of Desktop Publishing amp Typesetting Murray Katherine Using Publish It User s Guide Adobe Applications Graphics Andres Clay Illustrator Illuminated Claris Corp Claris MacDraw Consorti Bob Draw ON Graphics Tool User s Guide Applications integrated Applications Ewing David P Using Symphony Haba Systems Inc E Z Pieces Applications Project Management Microsoft Corp Microsoft Project M
9. GENE thio Te Ree ts A Spas ER HE HEG De Rte VE Ko er EG rs PS ng EN BizCard Power by Fred Showker ANY PEOPLE totally The ZEN of Business underestimate the powers Card of the lowly business card Networking Hey I ve even done it myself But listen up the business cards you give and the ones you get can be come a powerful networking agents with awesome potential Some time ago I conducted a Design workshop in Atlanta for a group ofin house corporate and self employed publishers One of the attendees offered me her card We chatted for a few moments and the whole encounter was soon forgot ten Of course I gave her my card and since the discussion was about this newfangled vinyl cutting thing I wrote Vinyl Cutting on the back of my card before giving it to her Out of the blue I get a call from this person After refreshing my memory about the conversation she ordered a whole pile of vinyl cut graphics from our display department to re sell to her client Whoa This simple chat and the ensuing exchange of business cards resulted in a mutu ally beneficial relationship Tomake a long story short The relationship continues today This has happened more than a few times Never ever underestimate the powers of your business card In fact with a few tips you can position your business card as a powerful partner in your marketing bag of tricks 40 Washington Apple Pi Journal 1 2
10. cated a special center spread to AOL and the news bureau AFC Tooter and Leni got a copy Many other 52 Washington Apple Pi Journal papers from across the country fol lowed similar patterns The HAWKEYE produced a tremendous paper each month and should be seen by all Ateam from Mandeville Louisiana contributed and shared their perspective This year we hope for bigger and better things It is sometimes tough for the sponsors to get things ready and on line in a timely fash ion Besides meeting deadlines for their own publication they have the added stress of getting things on and off the wire One way to tackle this could be a joint project between The combination of trading cards computer technology and tele communications has the possibility of teaching learning skills in areas like math geography interpersonal skills classification categori zation and organiza tion not to mention computer skills related to databases and spreadsheets vocational computer students or aca demic computer students where they upload and download for the journalism kids Tryitout Youcan get some great benefits I PARGROUP would be very happy to work with anyone or help anyone regarding logistics time lines and general points Contact me with questions via E mail or on the folder PARGROUP Trading Cards not bubble gum in Education Friar4 loves to trade organize and collect baseball cards He
11. ment of games When a games is appealing and provides steadily in creasing levels of difficulty a child s interest lasts for a long time p 124 When a logic puzzle is inher ently appealing children will have an inner motivation to want to solve increasingly more difficult versions of that particular type of puzzle One of the reasons I find the Sokoban puzzles so especially inter esting is that the puzzles can help students develop the type of visual ization and spatial reasoning skills that could serve them well when they later study high school and college physics Not only can the puzzles help students learn about the concept of forces acting on a body but the puzzles can also help sharpen and hone students analyti cal abilities A few years ago educational re searchers spent time interviewing college physics professors to find out the types of intellectual skills students should possess before studying physics New York City researcher Arnold Peltzer wrote a 1988 article on this subject in the Journal of Research in Science Phil in Simple Sokoban Vol 1 level 10 31 Teaching In that article titled The Intellectual Factors Believed by Physicists to be Most Important to Physics Students Peltzer con cluded that four general intellec tual factors are most important to physics students They are the abil ity to reason in terms of visual im ages visualization mathematical in
12. on the making of the movie Lou Ward of Apple Computer presented a Multimedia Demonstration Digital Video on the Mac He showed several QuickTime movie clips none of which had areas larger than asmall fraction of the screen size He demonstrated MIDI features under QuickTime 2 0 He had one piece of music play on several instruments using only the Macintosh There was no external synthesizer Scott Converse also of Apple 14 Washington Apple Pi Journal Computer demonstrated eWorld Tour Apple s new on line service The presentation was remarkably similar to the one given at a recent WAP meeting Two presentations dealt with the information superhighway Methods of navigation and samples of the enormous amounts of available information were shown and discussed For someone such as me whois not yet initiated into this lofty realm it was a bit of overkill However I can see that it might be of some value if you don t let it carry you away Vic Clough of Picture Network International PNI demonstrated a Digital Photographic Image Database The database service is for authors and publishers who want to find specific types of pictures for their work The database lists many thousands of photos from hundreds of agents who lease the rights for publication The client describes the type of picture he she wants in ordinary English The software comes up with a list of photos with descriptions The
13. s note For the last 2 or 3 years Brian Mason has volunteered countless hours organizing and maintaining the WAP library November 1994 The Geography of Consciousness Cyberspace and the Changing Landscape of the Self by Michael Strangelove This briefessay will appear in trans lation in the new magazine WAVE the first European newsstand maga zine about digital convergence internetworking and the emergence of cyberspace published in Dutch and French in the Benelux and France For more information con tact Michel Bauwens editor in chief at Riverland Publications 40 Ex celsior Ave 1930 Zaventem Belgium Tel 32 2 721 54 54 fax 32 2 7 2 1 amp 3 8 0 michel bauwens dm rs ch f YOU WANT to see the future or at least catch a glimpse of where the human animal is headed you will need to turn your gaze toward the edges of society Don t look to popular pre package consumerized culture Don t look to those who rule those who lead those who are elected or anointed Don t look to the centre of our modern empires for all you will see is the conservation of power the institutionalized denial of the sec ond law of thermodynamics the in ertia that comes with bloated con spicuous consumption If You Want To See The Future If you want to see the future of culture and consciousness look to the edges ofhuman experience Find the cracks where the boundaries of experience are extended Cultu
14. sj je f i 4 s gt avd at Fi F ETT IE SS i gt wh XJ LINZI PAN it OS eek yy ng adiens JOE HYE XT ee ER endar AA Washington Apple Pi Journal 5 Il company asking them to buy a collection of software that if fully installed occupies an astounding 70 megabytes of hard disk space the recommended RAM for running the entire package is 16 megabytes Nothing less than a 68020 equipped Mac will do either every Mac introduced prior to the Mac II in 1987 plus quite a few since then will be left behind I loved it Dave armed with nothing more than a Macintosh 8100 and the power ofa monster company plus the microphone on one side On the other a legion of doubters nay sayers nit pickers and customers armed with questions and pointed comments President Lorin Evans opened the bout by suggesting you could buy a fully equipped Apple II computer hardware and software for the price of Microsoft Office And have money left over to get some frills The early rounds went heavily against Microsoft Dave was rattled to learn that the big drawing prizes brand new copies of Microsoft Office hadn t arrived We later learned that someone forgot to send them He then madea major tactical error saying he would show a brief slide show via PowerPoint 4 0 An hour after he took the stage he finished the slide show If the slides weren t all that impressive
15. 360 306 270 216 Macnee HETH Calendar Pages Half Page 300 255 225 180 oe Ce ee Third Page 225 191 169 135 SW Apple Il Ile amp IIGS gt Apple Disk Libraries Sixth Page 125 106 93 75 KN Ge Me Special guaranteed positions incur a 10 surcharge Gf Apple III SARA Q Macintosh Disketeria FP iinoa List TT General Interest Ad Deadlines 3 The Washington Apple Pi Journal is published monthly The ad copy deadlines and ad space reserva tions are listed below for your convenience Copy may be received as traditional mechanicals rc paper velox prints or film negatives Negatives will incur an additional 15 00 strip in charge x TeleCommunications System TCS Editorial Staff Deadlines Postal Information Writers submissions Washington Apple Pi ISSN 1056 7682 is pub Poe Hor Edon peie SE e Ad October 23 lished monthly except bi monthly in July and Art Editors January November 24 August by Washington Apple Pi Ltd 12022 RA m 301 530 1990 Editors submissions Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 Second Blake Lange 301 942 9180 December October 30 Class Postage paid at Bethesda MD Calendar Editor Jat i Washi le Pi Bill Wydro omega usa Norea 20 on papi E ans ie iri App oe Mac Editorial Consultant Ad space reservations FE pe ple Pi ice x ng Melissa Sprott 703 379 2972 December October 23 ae 2 FER App dele Mai puonsare ME Saker C ERER January Novem
16. Apple Pi Journal 9 I discussion as to the past present and future of the Newton Most noteworthy was the commitment that Apple Computer has to Newton Technology They understand the newness ofthis market and continue to support it as it is being developed by large and small clients and developers People who have attended the previous NewtonSIG meetings will also be aware that there are two main lines of development the individual user and the vertical solutions Bob reiterated this concept and To those of you who haven t come to a NewtonSIG meeting yet come by and see what all of the excitement is about I think PDAs are here to stay andi it is fascinating to hear how people are using their Newtons discussed how Apple is pursuing both of these areas In the vertical market groups are using their Newtons for patient information management in hospitals vaccine record tracking data acquisition and analysis client tracking and related information database queries to the office mainframe via modem as well as inventories and orders On the personal use side more software titles are coming out with the most widely used being expense tracking e mail and document management games utilities list managers Newton books and other personal information organizers Most of these packages when hooked up to your desktop computer can update 10 Washington Apple Pi Journal synchronize and further process your informat
17. Battleship2 0 2 sea By John Lindal A classic board game of battleship complete with sounds and game options you get a key to unlock the protected features when you pay your shareware fee Shareware 5 Chiral 1 0 0 Installer By Trevor Powell and Andrew Welch Ambrosia 68 Washington Apple Pi Journal Software fusion between the scientific concept of atomic bonding and the addictive game play of Tetris Points are scored by positioning atoms on the screen building molecules out of the atoms provided The number matching concept is similar to dominoes an atom with four dots needs to be aligned with four other atoms Requires at least 256 colors and System 6 Shareware 15 Disk 22 13 G 13 FUN AND GAMES Asterax 1 0 1 f sea By Michael Hanson and Anne Fullerton Asingle or multi player arcade game for Macintosh computers growing out of the classic arcade game Asteroids but with new strategicelements Asterax makes use ofmany Macintosh features including multiple screen sizes and 4 channel sound Requires System 7 0 or later 68020 or better including PPC 4 MB free RAM and a color monitor Shareware 10 Cyclone 1 1 1 f sea By Mike Kelly and Jon A knockoff of the old arcade game Starcastle Plenty of shoot em up action and sound Requires color Mac with 68020 or faster CPU Shareware 10 Disk 22 14 F G 14 Fun amp GAMES Galactic Empire 2 03 sea By Cary Torkelson Rebuild a dy
18. General Assistive Tech Missy McCallen Games Apple II Charles Don Hall John Wiegley ute 219 IBM Leon Raesly Math OR Appins Mark Pankin Modems General Allan Levy Hayes Smartmodem Bernie Benson Practical Peripherals Allan Levy Printers General Walt Francis Leon Raesly days 5 am to 5 pm MX 80 Jeff Dillon Stat Packages David Morganstein Stock Market Robert Wood MS DOS Tom Cavanaugh Dvorak Keyboard Ginny amp Michael Spevak 703 323 6079 703 356 4229 703 437 1808 301 599 7530 703 524 0937 301 340 7839 301 951 5294 301 340 7839 202 966 5742 301 868 9554 301 662 2070 301 972 4263 703 893 9591 703 627 8889 202 244 8644 Please limit calls to reasonable evening and weekend hours and NEVER after 10 P M Oscar Fisher teses 694 9237 A2 GS Doug Tallman sains 663 3268 Mac Dick Grosbier ts 898 5461 A2 GS Mac Scott Galbraith menos 865 3035 A2 GS Harold Polk creserck 662 6399 A2 J Russell Robinson mugen 739 6030 Mac Tony Svajlenka meria 694 6209 A2 Ken Carter 834 6515 A2 GS Annapolis Slice Help Line Mac Area Code 410 Call in the PM unless you have an emergency R Gini Waters Cowie 410 923 0139 Mac DTP Richard MacLean cs 410 721 8157 Macllsi Bill ae da 410 766 1154 Centris 650 DTP Steve Toth t ga 410 956 6557 Mac D _ Bob Peterson css 410 721 9151 MacSE Bill Waring swears 410 647 5605 Mac Excel Sandy Bozek unnspis 410 974 6062 Macll Scanner Helen
19. II Plus Apple Disk Backup System Central Point Software Copy II for the Macintosh Computer Apple Computer Inc Macintosh Utilities User s Guide Videx Inc Manual Apple III Backup III Videoterm Utilities Reference Applications Word Processing Apple Computer Inc Script III Boom Michael Getting Started with Microsoft Word for the Apple Macintosh Boom Michael Microsoft Word for the Apple Macintosh Hoffman Paul Microsoft Word for the Macintosh The Pocket Reference 30 Washington Apple Pi Journal Hoffman Paul Microsoft Word Made Easy for the Macintosh Kahn Stephen Teach Yourself Word 5 1 for the Mac Kinata Chris Working With Word The Defini tive Guide to Microsoft Word on the Macintosh Lancaster Don Apple Writer Cookbook Microsoft Corp Getting Started with Microsoft Word Microsoft Word Document Processing Pro gram Version 4 0 Microsoft Corp Microsoft Word 1 05 Addendum Microsoft Corp Microsoft Word 3 01 Additional Information Microsoft Corp Microsoft Word Sampler Microsoft Corp Microsoft Word Step by Step Macintosh Version Microsoft Corp Quick Reference Guide Applications Programming Harvey Mike Nibble Express Volume I Harvey Mike Nibble Express Volume II Harvey Mike Nibble Express Volume IX Harvey Mike Nibble Express Volume X Business Analysis Business Solutions Inc Senior Analyst III Referenc
20. IIgs ProDOS 16 Reference Includes System Loader Operating Systems SOS Apple Computer Inc Apple III SOS Reference Manual Vol I How SOS Works Apple Computer Inc Apple III SOS Reference Manual Vol II The SOS Calls Hix Steve Apple III SOS Device Driver Writer s Guide Prodigy Electronic Information Service Nelson Stephen Using Prodigy Washington Apple Pi Journal 31 I Programming Apple ilgs Apple Computer Inc Programmer s Intro duction to the Apple IIgs Programming Languages Assembler Lancaster Don Assembly Cookbook for the Apple IIIe Lichty Ron Programming the Apple IIgs in Assembly Language Mottola Robert Assembly Language Program ming for the Apple II Scanlon Leo J Apple IIGS Assembly Lan guage Programming Wagner Roger Assembly Lines The Book A Beginner s Guide to 6502 Programming on the Apple II Wagner Roger Merlin 8 16 The Complete Macro Assembler System for the Apple IIgs Programming Languages BASIC Apple Computer Inc Apple Business BASIC Reference Manual Apple Computer Inc Microsoft BASIC Refer ence Manual Kamins Scott Applesoft BASIC Programmer s Reference Manual Mateosian S Richard Inside BASIC Games Programming Languages C Borenstein Philip Think s LightspeedC Stan dard Libraries Reference Borenstein Philip Think s LightspeedC Users Manual Garmon Paul LightspeedC Users Manual
21. Photoshop Temp folder in remote Macs trash ARA amp 28 8 kbps modems HELP Cable modems Q Etherwaves printers etc eudora PC Excel gt PICT Excel Graph as a PICT Excel Graph as a PICT A Excel PICT Chart Answer Firewall aware programs for SE type screens Freddie Registration HD Icon Disappearance R HP Deskwriters IIci microphone Info Mac Digest V12 76 Info Mac Digest V12 77 2 msgs Keeping SLIP alive Learning French Mac List Server Menubar cruncher for SE type screens R MS Word Graphics Musician needs Mac advice Q NewGen PowerMacintosh 7100 GeoPort Opinions of Duos Ordering a LineLink modem f PC Exchange does not load Problem with Zterm A Q650 First Impression C Q650 First Impression R QuickTime 2 0 MIDI Support 46 Washington Apple Pi Journal November 1994 RAM Doubler still blocks all other extensions RAMDoubler points of interest Reading Japanese NEC 1 2M floppies A Reading Japanese NEC 1 2M floppies A SCSI Cable SoftWindows vs Geoport TeamLinks Mail amp Apple Events Topographical Maps per e mail Unexpected SLIP disconnects was Re Express Modem Unknown Applications What is wrong with Fox Pro Which 68040 machine should I buy White Knight crashes please help WriteNow 4 Excel 4 and DW 5 driver The items marked with identify notices of new Macintosh files available with short descriptions while the following items relate to qu
22. The database service is for authors and publishers who want to find specific types of pictures for their work simultaneous county wide live presentations with people famous and expertin their fields Word has spread and programs are in demand all over the country The development of the overall program and some individual programs were described While I did not learn how to improve my animation at the SMPTE meeting I did learn a great deal of other things It certainly was worth while Well there you have it I hope it s useful Stuart E November 1994 Real World FreeHand 4 0 Written by Olav Martin Kvern A review by Nancy Seferian VE BEEN using Aldus FreeHand for several years with much fondness and familiarity When 4 0 came out I was looking forward to some of the new features Pd read about The new palettes sounded exciting the Inspector palette where you format paragraphs specify fills and strokes and create new pages and the new Align palette Layers palette and Styles palette The new tools and ways of working with text and text blocks sounded like a big improvement too So when I received my upgrade to 4 0 I could hardly wait to get started Was I shocked I couldn t do anything I tried There wasn t any Type dialog box I couldn t align anything and many of my old shortcut commands did nothing or else did something unpredictable and the way to apply the new features wasn t r
23. color documents using off the shelf hardware and software Proxima will talk about their Proxima Ovation LCD video projector a star at Pi meetings for a couple years now Microtek will use their scanners for capturing art Claris will show how easy it is in either ClarisImpact or ClarisDraw to produce spectacular graphic images and Tektronix will polish everything offby printing the color graphics with both speed and fidelity This isn t just hype you really will be impressed Or your admission charge tothe meeting will be fully refunded November 1994 Not wishing to conflict with Thanksgiving the General Meeting will be a week early on November 19 Casady amp Greene one of the oldest Macintosh software companies will be showing some of their newest games and utilities They ve been in the Mac business as long as Microsoft but with a difference their products are inexpensive and usually much more fun Rounding out the meeting will November 1994 be a full fledged demonstration of the Internet Since most people don t have a direct link to the Internet the demo will be done with the same tools you are likely to use a modem and a Macintosh Mosaic Gopher Fetch and other strange sounding tools will be shown We ve had more requests for an Internet demonstration than almost any other topic so this promises to be a packed meeting too December 1994 Roughly a thousand people will descend on
24. for the Macintosh Programming Languages FORTH Creative Solutions Inc MacFORTH Level 2 For the Professional User Creative Solutions Inc MacFORTH User and Reference Manual Tracy Martin Mastering FORTH Programming Languages Pascal Apple Computer Inc Apple Pascal Operating System Reference Manual Beer M D Programming Microcomputers with Pascal Brown Peter Pascal From BASIC Conway Richard A Primer on Pascal Cooper Doug Oh Pascal Findlay William Pascal An Introduction to Methodical Programming 32 Washington Apple Pi Journal Mendelson Bert A First Course in Program ming With Pascal Ruben Ira L Apple III Pascal Enhancements Swan Tom Pascal Programs for Data Base Management Swan Tom Pascal Programs for Games and Graphics Programming Languages Postscript Adobe Systems Inc Postscript Language Tuto rial and Cookbook Holzgang David A Understanding Postscript Programming Programming Languages Prolog Barnes Lan Chalcedony Prolog Language Ref erence and Tutorial Selecting Buying Purchasing Mims Forrest M III Home Computers Silentype Ill Apple Computer Inc Apple III Silentype III User s Guide Universal Parallel interface Card Apple Computer Inc Universal Parallel Inter face Card Installation and Operating Manual Works Microsoft Rubin Charles Microsoft Works for the Apple Macintosh Editor
25. has found that many of his students do as well It was not too long a stretch to toss the bubble gum and find some rather substantial educational potential in his hobby The combination of trading cards computer technology and telecommunications has the possi bility of teaching learning skills in areas like math geography inter personal skills classification cat egorization and organization not to mention computer skills related to databases and spreadsheets Friar s school has a weekly ac tivity period in which clubs meet This period has served as a base of operations for a small middle school card club over the past couple of years He is seeking others who are attracted by the idea of gathering students to trade cards and engage in related educational activities If this sounds like something for your school take a look at some of the possible activities described in the folder in School to School LINK PROJECTS in the Electronic SchoolHouse keyword ESH Per haps add some ideas of your own Then gather students and register to participate Those are the offerings for now but more is already in the planning stages for later in the year As a final note I want to welcome two more teachers to the staff of ESH We are lucky to have the help of BrandyS and NinaTE to manage the GLOBAL LINKS board If you watch there they will be gatehring valuable information from the internet and trying to answer
26. improved Knife cuts every selected path you drag it across and the Calligraphic Pen creates thick and thin strokes like a calligraphic nib sounded intriguing and they are Kvern s description of the changes in using text and text blocks explained happily that were to be no more trips to the dreaded Text dialog box that FreeHand EPS files can now be edited they can be opened just as any FreeHand publication file And now color may be added by dragging acolor from the color well and dropping it on the object you want that color applied to The book is a 594 pages long and organized into eight chapters beginning with FreeHand Basics for newcomers and ending with Postscript a chapter for advanced users who want to understand more about FreeHand s postscript resources and who may want to program their own postscript effects The Appendices are excellent OLAV MARTIN KYVERN Stop hen F Rete Washington Apple Pi Journal 15 tL In Appendix A entitled System Kvern discusses how FreeHand can be enhanced through the use of utilities and System resources that are available He writes about some of his favorite extensions and cdevs such as ATM MasterJuggler and Suitcase Super Boomerang and QuicKeys He also lists and describes his favorite utilities ResEdit various file compression utilities and Torquemada the Inquisitor the search and replace utility And finally in this appendix he also describes hi
27. is a PICT document which can be more than 100 K in size at 9600 bps it takes a minute or less to receive When a fax has been received FAX flashes alternately with the Apple icon and you must check the fax with ValueFax Man ager or reboot the computer to stop it flashing Editing received faxes I imported a page into SuperPaint 2 0 and found that the entire page is one Draw object Screen resolution did not appear to be very good at normal size It was okay in the ValueFax Manager where its size could be increased Individual elements of the image cannot be edited unless the whole PICT is converted toa bitmap where Washington Apple Pi Journal 27 TREPATRS Apple Mac I M Motherboard Repairs from 45 00 S amp H Apple Mac I M Power Supply Repairs from 45 00 S amp H Apple Mac I M Drive Repairs from 45 00 S amp H Apple Mac I M Monitor Repairs from 60 00 S amp H Apple Mac I M Keyboard Repairs from 12 50 S amp H Apple Mac I M Upgrades Available Used Apple Mac I M CPUs Disk Drives Monitors Keyboards available for resale Warranties to one year on most repairs Same day turnaround on most repairs Arminius 8519 Orchard Avenue Merchantville NJ 08109 609 662 3420 the resolution will be only 72 dpi In SuperPaint the solution is to first increase the fax s size in the Draw layer before cutting it to the Paint bitmap layer This requires in creasing the doc
28. is located is on page 8 Please note too that Tutorials resume in Novem ber E A Computerist rmssnseravervsssrsrs 14 AllNet Service Center 71 Arminius Nios ssecivsetovestiaivetsvases 28 DG AP ORIG skumt 7 Dupont Computers 9 FC Business Systems 11 Greencastle Graphics 13 MacUperade r cssersserssrecns C4 Publishers Service Bureau C3 November 1994 Advertising in the Journal Washingtonj h pple Pi Some Orientation Possibilities rage m Third Page vert 7 gee 2 5 x 9 5 This issue of the Washington Apple Pi Journal was created on re a Mac SE 30 proofed on an Laser Writer IINT and produced Third Page hor 5 0 x 4 75 by electronic typesetting at The Publishers Service Bureau The page layout program used was PageMaker 4 2a the word processing program was Microsoft Word 5 1 the principal typeface is New Century Schoolbook 10 12 for the articles Half P Two thirds P i 7 5 x p zg 5 x 9 5 keg ret and Helvetica for headlines subheads and emphasis Sixth Page vert 2 5 x 4 75 Cover Design New WAP Journal cover design was created by Ann Aiken in collaboration with Nancy Seferian The Capital artwork was illustrated by Carol O Connor for One Mile Up which donated it for use on our cover No of times ad runs 1 2 3 5 6 11 124 Icon Guide Full Page 450 383 338 270 E GER Covers 550 468 413 330 Se HEHE Two thirds Page
29. macro language offered for years in Nisus and WordPerfect finally has made an appearance in the form of a BASIC programming language embedded in Word Even better the same language is present in Excel 5 0 we ah forgot to ask about PowerPoint Ifthat wasn t enough Excel and Word both work with AppleScript too Document conversions between the Mac and Windows versions of Excel and Word are a thing of the past both platforms use the same file format There is a minor difference between the Mac and Windows versions of PowerPoint but the conversion allegedly requires nothing more than a few seconds delay PowerPoint 4 0 by the way ran the Pi slide show done in PowerPoint 3 0 without a hitch Excel offers mostly cosmetic changes with one big exception pivot tools Detailed commentary will require hands on experience but it looked like the new Excel will allow you to do far more extensive data analysis than in the past slicing and dicing databases in ways that used to require extensive macro programming when it could be done at all Dave s best trick available only to those with ample RAM was the creation of a complete Excel spreadsheet embedded in a Word document Note he did not create the spreadsheet in Excel and then copy it to Word he created the spreadsheet in Word with links to all the Excel tools and functions This will either be salvation to spreadsheet wizards or a great way to demo
30. number Frantically I tried every Applied Engineering telephone number I had including their bulle tin board butit was hopeless none of the telephone numbers worked In desperation I turned to the Apple community for help Using the Internet I sent e mail messages to such famous Apple gurus as John Link Warren Williams Dave Now I needed to find someone or some company that would repair an Applied Engineering product Again I placed mes sages on the Pro Novapple and NAUG bulletin boards asking for assistance About a week later I began receiving replies from all over the United States and Canada Harvey Lee Raesly and Gary Hayman I also placed messages on Pro Novapple NAUG and Pro Qual ity asking for assistance in reaching Applied Engineering To my dismay I received sev eral replies informing me that Ap plied Engineering had gone out of business on March 31 1994 Again I turned to the Apple com munity for help Now I needed to find someone or some company that would repair an Applied Engineer ing product Again I placed mes sages on the Pro Novapple and NAUG bulletin boards asking for assistance About a week later I began receiving replies from all over the United States and Canada Seven repair sources located all over the U S were recommended to me by members of the Apple com munity Mr Howard Katz aNAUG member was especially helpful and recommended two repair sources
31. pages for Apple employees Informa tion and references on these pages represent the interests ofthe creator and not necessarily technically ori ented Apple Stock Price This is a link to the Apple stock information from an experimental site at MIT Future plans for this area in clude M Server statistics E An interactive Austin restaurant guide M A Fun page with links to many entertaining resources on the Internet E Who is in the Lab An example of video capture over the Internet HM Interactive rending over the Internet All Apple Internet sites and Internet support information is con tained in a series of Tech Info Library documents You can easily access these documents with the keyword KINTER B Our thanks to Apple Computer Inc This article is from Info Alley 1994 November 1994 sige BTR GRE FR as Ea Pga te SS an SoA SA ae na KE a Rae E Kees PORE AAR Vi J ARA training without teachers If you have expertise in any sub ject useful to Mac or Apple users please consider teaching Instruc tors have an opportunity to work with students in small groups and informal settings The teaching process is truly rewarding Besides the spiritual and intellectual rewards also include compensation you will be paid We especially need someone who can offer training in Excel Call me if there is a subject that you are qualified to teach I am very pleased with the response to our requests for vo
32. questions and ideas for new meetings If you want to be on the mailing list call our Chairperson Ann Aiken 301 530 1990 E November 1994 ead Sed SEE CHES PrintMonito pes he BE Ad or rare Ri ae r by Ed Rupp HE PRINTMONITOR application program included with Macintosh system software is an example of a background printer or spooler Background spooler software runs on the Macintosh computer and tempo rarily stores or spools documents to be printed on the computer s hard disk The computer must remain connected to the network until the print job is finished but it can per form other tasks during that time The PrintMonitor program opens automatically whenever a user prints a document with back ground printing turned on When a print command is issued PrintMonitor spools the document to a file in the PrintMonitor Docu ments folder It then waits for the selected printer to become avail able establishes a network connec tion and sends the document to the printer Aside from the convenience pro vided by PrintMonitor it also pro vides you with additional manage ment control in printing your docu ments With PrintMonitor you can HM See the name of the document that is currently being printed the document s status for example how many pages still need to be printed and the name of the printer being used Cancel a document currently printing or waiting to print
33. t open it on the Macs at the meeting In an hour on the spot just like Persuasion advertises she recreated his text and electronic diagrams So kudos to Etana Finkler The HDTV movie Astro nomer s Dream showed astronomer Johann Keppler in his study He peers through his non optical star locator at the heavens through a small opening sic in the side of his room He comes to his desk contemplating what he saw Then resting his head he has a vision in which his room has the latest telescope still looking through that same small opening and a computer with a graphics tablet One touch of the tablet reveals Affordable Desktop Publishing amp Graphic Design Promotional Brochures ag Ad Layout amp Design 1 Resumes lut Word Processing Computer Illustrations Greencastle Graphics Nancy Seferian 202 333 5244 1425 Foxhall Road NW Washington DC 20007 Call now for a free no obligation consultation or estimate Washington Apple Pi Journal 13 We service Macintosh Computers lt 00 gt 24 ON P U T E R I S T 703 569 5584 A COMPUTERIST LTD marvelous images of the heavens on the monitor When he wakes the room is as it was before but his face lights up With his quill pen he sketches a sun at the elliptical focus of a planet s orbit He illustrates the famous Keppler law of equal area swept out in equal time After the movie there was a short discussion
34. the questions were Dave was under siege buried in a torrent of questions concerning everything from how Office is packaged 1 4 megabyte floppies or CD ROM only no 800K disks will be offered to Microsoft s programming practices But why does it have to be so big to the merits of different technologies for linking applications together Dave representing Microsoft came out firmly in favor of Microsofts OLE 2 0 Object Linking and 6 Washington Apple Pi Journal Embedding as exemplified in the new Office components The audience was either mystified at the need for any such thing or expressed cautious interest in the multi vendor OpenDoc standard favored by Apple WordPerfect Novell and a number of other vendors Running behind both on the judges scorecards and in time Dave made a rally he launched Word 6 0 Racing through a blizzard of new T loved it Dave armed with nothing more than a Macintosh 8100 and the power of a monster company plus the microphone on one side On the other a legion of doubters nay sayers nit pickers and customers armed with questions and pointed comments features he showed Word automatically correcting typo graphical errors automatically formatting boring paragraphs into styled and stylish text and my favorite dragging text between one document and another Where Word 5 1 had one tool bar you can fill your entire screen with toolbars in 6 0 A
35. to keep a broad range of information about the Internet eas ily available Highly recommended Title The Internet Unleashed Publisher SAMS Publishing A Division of Prentice Hall Computer Publishing 210 West 103rd Street Indianapolis IN 46290 1 800 428 5331 Date 1994 Price 44 95 ISBN 0 672 30466 X Washington Apple Pi Journal 23 Includes Mac Windows disk of Internet Software and up to one month of Internet Access For beginners Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh by Adam Engst Hayden Books Internet Membership Kit by Michael Fraase Ventana will get you on the Information Highway with the least hassle and give you a solid background to build upon Copyright 1994 by Ellen R Zuby Ellen Zuby has a been a high school librarian for over 26 years and loves how technology has enhanced her li brary She can found presiding over networked Macs PC s and CD ROMs preaching the joy of information power Often logging on before breakfast Ellen is an avid tele puter and her alter ego appears as AFA Ellen Fo rum Assistant on the Macintosh Com munications Forum on America Online Reach Ellen at afaellen aol com or 500 E Montgom ery St Allentown PA 18103 E Netiquette by Virginia Shea reviewed by Ellen Zuby 1994 ITH 158 PAGES to its credit you can sit down and read Netiquette in a couple of hours but talking about its size doesn t do it justice This is a book packed with u
36. with a month long rain moni toring period Oct 17 to Nov 15 1994 during which schools will measure the amount of precipita tion and its pH at their local schools Students and teachers involved in the SWOOPE Water quality pro gram the Illinois Rivers Project The Acid Rain Project TARP IT and the West Virginia Space Grant Consortium s Outreach Program are working together on this study More than 100 other schools from around the country are already signed up This project is designed to give students insight into how science really works Most have never had to collect data for an extended pe riod Most have never had tostruggle to control variables posed by the world outside the laboratory Most have never been able to share their findings with other students around the country The study of acid rain is really just a jumping off point for teachers and students who are in terested in science and the environ ment For a more complete descrip tion of this project possible class activities and project registration visit the folder in School to School LINK PROJECTS in the Electronic I LabNet in the Electronic SchoolHouse One of my favorite doors out of ESH leads to LabNet LabNetwork is a semi private area apply for access under your screen name of AOL designed as a Community of Practice for teachers of science and mathematics at all levels There is no cost to join the area and you can get more informati
37. 0 clbondingdemo clgasesdemo conflictcatcherii2 11 datadesk4 2testflight teachersgradingprogl 10 truss5 02demo aolfaql hellcatsfaq2 5 macibmcomparel 95 vendordab wl 43a vendordacolorl 43a gimstatl 1l3 hypercuber2 0 squarerootfinderl 1 foill 2 applesearchl Olpatch birdsongsl Olpatch conflictcatcherii2 llup commidil 0 cdplaythroughl 0 soundappl 1l speakerl 14 alacartel Q1 coloriconmanial 0 gregsbuttons3 3 nodesktopcleanupl 12 speakalertl 04 dmgcalendar fontcontroll 11 volumefkeyl 02 runefonts aspiredemibold lettergothicegg forwarddeletel 1l1l November 1994 menuevents1 12 savethediskl 4 symbionts2 41 util comm alicee2 4 anarchiel 20 genienavlite2 11 util compression gifblast2 05 stuffitinstallermakr2 0 util developer buildall util diskfile chunkjoinerl 1 diskcharmer2 14 foldericoncleanerl 12 setuppartitionsl 03 util font keychart util multifinder calculatortwol 5 util network frontdoorl 20 menugrabberl 12 util organization checksuml 11 clipclopl 1l commodore64v0 4 msword5 lstdfilecolor nisus3 4iconsnrulers philatelisterl 5 util powerbook batteryamnesial 30 batteryminderl 22 powerbookinsomnia3 2 util screensaver afterdark tiggrsclockl 2 util text docmaker4 1 fileviewer notebookmakerl 2b plaintextl 29a texedit2 41 Each of these file listings is accompanied by a one to six line description Instructions for getting these files are also included Comparison shows that some of the same items are available at
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39. 5 disks __ TT Fonts 1 9 disks 20 TT Fonts 2 4 disks 10 Sys Extensions 1 6 disks 15 Pers Met Utils 2 5 disks 15 Misc Utils 3 5 disks 15 Sys Utils 1 5 disks 15 Sys Utils 2 5 disks 15 Sys Utils 3 5 disks 15 Fun Games 1 10 disks 25 Fun Games 2 10 disks 25 ___ LW 8 1 1 amp PPDs 4 disks 10 Apple System Software 6 0 5 4 disks 12 6 0 8 4 disks 12 7 0 8 disks 20 7 0 1 6 disks 20 7 7 0 1 Tune Up 3 7 1 Sys Updater 3 0 2 disks 6 7 1 Sys Updater 3 0 800K 3 Sys Util Update 1 0 1 3 4 QuickTime 1 6 2 3 LaserWrtr 8 1 1 3 LaserWrtr 8 0 6 Network Installer 3 TrueType 6 Basic Con Set 1 1 1 Express Modem 3 CD ROM Setup 3 Comm 1 CTB 3 LW PPDs 3 disks AShare 4 Tune Up AtEase Updater 2 01 StyleWriter II 12 Ile Installer 3 Mon Energy Star 3 LW Pro Tune Up 3 LET SI EI Se S HyperCard Update 1 2 5 3 disk set 9 2 0 5 disk set 15 all files compressed except LW 8 1 1 amp PPDs on 1 44 Meg diskette November 1994 Classified advertisements can be placed by mailing copy to the business office of Washington Apple Pi Ltd 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 Be sure to include your WAP membership number and indicate area codes with your phone numbers Ads must be received by the ad copy due date l
40. 6 0 5 2 5 MB RAM and 2 MB free space on a hard disk are needed I tested ValueFax on a Performa 475 with 12 MB RAM running System 7 1P6 My modem is the LineLink 144e ValueF ax is put in place by an installer The installer creates fold ers in your System Folder and on your hard disk root directory and installs extensions and DAs for back ground operation and quick faxing short messages It also puts the ValueFax Manager on the Desktop November 1994 Its icon is a nice two tone red just right for the Devil I think it is quite striking Most faxes are sent by pressing a modifier key and selecting Print from the File menu of the applica tion from which you wish to fax Reception of faxes is automatic if background operation is set up and your modem is on A phone book to enter fax numbers is available and you can set up distribution lists for sending the same fax to several re cipients Phone number lists may also be imported or exported Faxes may be sent immediately or sched uled for later transmission and logs of waiting received and sent faxes are kept Faxes received are kept in PICT format and can be viewed in the ValueFax Manager forwarded or supposedly edited in graphics programs In the Manager faxes can be viewed at different scales both larger and smaller than nor mal and flipped sideways or upside down in case they were put into a fax machine that way Switching between ValueFax and oth
41. 9 04C I C 4 9 05C I C 5 9 06C I C 6 9 07C I C 7 9 08C I C 8 9 09C C 9 9 10C C 10 9 11C I C 11 9 120 1C 12 9 13C I C 13 9 14C V C 14 9 15C I C 15 9 16C I C 16 Miscellaneous 10 01A M1 10 02A M2 Paintings MacPnt 5 disk set 15 Digitized Sounds 9 disk set 27 Telecommunications Programmer Hacker 11 01 P1 11 02 P2 11 03 P3 11 04 P4 11 05 P5 12 01B S 1 12 02B S 2 12 03B S 3 12 04B S 4 12 05B S5 12 06B S 6 12 07B S7 12 08B S 8 12 09B S9 6 disk set 18 13 01C T1 13 02C T 2 13 03C T3 13 04C T 4 13 05C T5 13 06C T 6 14 01A PH 1 14 02A PH 2 Miscellaneous Utils 15 010 MU 1 70 Washington Apple Pi Journal 15 02C MU 2 15 03C MU 3 15 04C MU 4 15 05C MU 5 15 06C MU 6 15 07C MU 7 15 08C MU 8 15 09C MU 9 15 10C MU 10 15 11C MU 11 15 12C MU 12 15 13C MU 13 15 14C MU 14 15 15C MU 15 System Utilities 16 01E SU 1 16 02E SU 2 16 03E SU 3 16 04E SU 4 16 05E SU 5 16 06E SU 6 16 07E SU 7 16 08E SU 8 16 09E SU 9 16 10E SU 10 16 11E SU 11 16 12E SU 12 16 13E SU 13 16 14E SU 14 16 15E SU 15 Word Processing Utils 7 disk set 21 17 01C WP 1 17 02C WP 2 17 03C WP 3 17 04C WP 4 17 05C WP 5 17 06C WP 6 17 07C WP 7 Adobe Screen Fonts 18 01A AF 1 __ 18 02A AF 2 Fun amp Games Series 22 01 F G 1 22 02 F G 2 22 03 F G 3 22 04
42. Board 6 of TCS Conference 7 is the Usenet newsgroup called comp sys mac digest Unlike many of the other Usenet boards on the TCS it is not available for messages from anyone It consists of a limited number of items which are repeatedly updated Here are examples of what is there Msg Msg Msg Msg Msg Msg Msg Msg Msg Se Se Se Se Gr Se GE SE 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 294 Subject Info Mac Digest V12 65 Subject Info Mac Digest V12 66 Subject Info Mac Digest V12 67 Subject Info Mac announcements mirrors and recent files Subject TidBITS 224 02 May 94 Subject Info Mac Digest V12 68 Subject 150 new files at mac archive umich edu 05 May 94 Subject Info Mac Digest V12 69 Subject Info Mac Digest V12 70 Info Mac Digest The Info Mac Digest is a regular electronic publication with a combination of a listing of new files available if you have Internet access from the Info Mac archives and questions and answers from readers about Macintosh topics Here is a sample of the topics from one issue of the Digest Today s Topics kal LJ ce Sag Sa wy BatteryAmnesia 1 3 0 a PowerBook battery utility comMIDI 1 0 real time MIDI over Modem CompUSA 10 restocking return policy Conflict Catcher II 2 1 1 Demo extensions utility Conflict Catcher II update gt 2 1 1 extensions utility Control Strip Clock 1 0 0 a clock for the n
43. DeltaPoint is the Mac s best selling charting program and the critics choice for creating visually stunning technically accurate charts and graphs With more than 60 different chart types available from pictographs and histograms to bubble charts quality control and XYZ contour plots DeltaGraph Pro has a chart gallery to make heads spin Best of all you don t have to be a pro to produce professional charts with DeltaGraph From start to finish it offers a streamlined system for data import and analysis plotting and formatting charts to maximum precision and producing informative reports or dazzling presentations with your finished DeltaGraph charts I l l I Highlights of DeltaGraph Pro 3 5 7 AG pa Pima E Native Power Macintosh Unique Chart Template Libraries a mM Oe eee Network Support Pre designed Layouts amp Backgrounds Delta amp Point f EMAIL SE EG Al r I l Copies of DeltaGraph Pro 3 5 49 95 I Tax for CA orders 7 25 l User Group Excel Hotlinks Unlimited Free Technical Support I payment Method ENTER DRAWING FOR A FREE COPY OF DELTAGRAPH PRO 3 5 Check payable to DeltaPoint Inc Complete the form at right to order DeltaGraph Pro 3 5 or to enter DeltaPoint s drawing for a __Visa MC AMEX Exp Date FREE copy of the award winning program Mail to DeltaPoint 2 Harris Court Suite B 1 Card No Monterey CA 93940 Drawing will be held on January 31 1995 Signature For ad
44. Hamersrom sonny 410 647 1720 Mac CD ROM Lou Sapienza commie 410 923 3415 Mac Ilsi Canvas DTP Il Barry Conner ami 410 573 7140 Mac Telecomm Mize itn Berne 410 766 1154 GS Il 111 Brian Bassindale nie 410 757 9541 Mac Ilci CAD Helen Hamerstrom sewu m 410 647 1720 IGS lle DTP HS November 1994 pee a VEG ET A Puger YAA a a ol BE st Nees DEG de ue eee Efi peas a4 E di aah one od Quick Reference Sheet for the Telecommunications 5 System Here s a list of commands which may be helpful to you when on the TCS ICS Phone Numbers 301 984 4066 for 300 1200 2400 bps 301 984 4070 for 9600 14400 bps Main Menu lt B gt Bulletin Boards lt C gt Change Conferences lt F gt File Transfer lt L gt General Library lt M gt Membership Search lt N gt Now On System lt O gt Off the System lt P gt Public Library lt T gt Time and Date lt U gt User Preferences lt W gt Read Welcome Bulletin lt X gt eXamine Weather Forecast Change Conference Menu lt 1 8 gt Choose Conference Number lt L gt List Conferences lt Q gt Quit to Main Menu lt 1 gt General Conference lt 2 gt Apple II Conference lt 3 gt Macintosh Conference lt 4 gt Classified Conference lt 5 gt Global General Conference lt 6 gt Global Apple II Conference lt 7 gt Global Macintosh Conf
45. ITITT TTT TTT TTT 35 38 When Your Mac has to go to the WAP Calendar 1 0000 DETT eee MA 25 Index to Advertisers by Kellogg Humphreys TCS Help Sheet ssesessseseeseees 39 ValueFax A Review 27 Classified Advertisements 71 by David L Harris WAP Membership Form 72 The Library at the WAP Office 29 J compiled by Brian Mason SIGs and Slices BizCard Power ssessssssssssesesense 40 by Fred Showker NewtonSIG poenennsensenneennnensanensenenne 9 Simple Sokoban Freeware Logic by Ed Palaszynski Passes 42 Wei a OGA oiana 10 by Phil Shapiro a by Nancy Seferian A Taste of Digest C7 B6 45 by David L Harris General Interest Mine aeo L ioeina 53 Map to Meeting sian 1 by Ralph J Begleiter September General Meeting 5 P pe ee Problem 54 By Lawrence CORTAR teri Sience and Language Map to New Office csccscesceeees 8 Asta San Vi 58 GNUT Top 10 Shareware List for e AY cccccccccceccccesesess by Dicksie Tamanaha Newton Software 6 12 System TO DIG siririna 56 by John Marman S SMPTE Meeting On Multimedia Yearn 2 F a cceccccceccsess 57 and Communications 13 LON a by Stuart Bonwit PE AEE ER 19 Apple II Articles The Geography of Consciousness ChessMaster 2100 00 58 Cyberspace and the Changing review by Darrel Raines Landscape of the Self stuss 33 Vulcan Hard Drive Repair by Michael Strange
46. If I suspect that the Mac may have recently been upgraded to System 7 without proper preparation rll run Help It generates a great report giving an excellent snapshot of the Mac HD system at that point in time Actually I run Help frequently asacourtesy tocustomers Pm looking for software conflicts that arise from not upgrading applications to match the System software The folks at Teknosys do an excellent job of tracking known application extension and control panel conflicts and providing a quarterly update by subscription to their knowledge base How many copies of TeachText do you have on your HD Have two screen savers loaded Two sets of virus checking INIT s Some customers have postponed a system software upgrade because they d have to spend too much to upgrade their favorite applications Yes you can set up Help to simulate running with a newer System version If the HD is up but still a bit flaky I may reinstall System software Before I start I ll drag the old System and Finder files to the trash then reinstall just the System no printers or networking I try to keep in mind that the Mac I m working on is someone s productivity tool and I change as little as I can in the look and feel of their Mac The questions that arose in your own mind as you read this article point out that there are branches not taken paths not explored here I had to keep this discussion reasonably simple to ad
47. Leon Raesly days am Spm 301 868 9554 Quicken Gary Hayman Apple SSC Bernie Benson AppleWorks Ken DeVito Ray Settle Harry Erwin before 10 pm Gary Hayman Leon Raeslyidays am Spm Bill Campbell Allan Griff AppleWorks Database Roger Burt Morgan Jopling Milt Goldsamt Dan White Allan Griff COMMUNICATIONS ProTerm Allan Levy Ray Settle Talk is Cheap Pt to Pt Barry Fox DataBases DBMaster Pro Ile Bob Sherman dBase II John Staples 301 345 3230 301 951 5294 703 960 0786 301 647 9192 703 758 9660 301 345 3230 301 868 9554 301 498 6380 301 654 1515 301 424 6927 I 301 721 7874 301 649 2768 301 449 3322 301 654 1515 301 340 7839 301 647 9192 717 566 6709 1 305 944 2111 703 255 6955 dBase II amp Ill Data Perfect Db Master PRO Leon Raeslyraays am Spm Profiler 3 0 Barry Fox HARD DISKS CMC not CMS Barry Fox Corvus Leon Raesly days 5 am Spm Sider Otis Greever LANGUAGES General Dan White AppleSoft Louis Biggie Peter Combes Leon Raesly 5 am Spm November 1994 301 868 9554 717 566 6709 717 566 6709 301 868 9554 615 638 1525 301 449 3322 301 967 3977 301 251 6369 301 868 9554 Pascal Michael Hartman 301 445 1583 C and TML Pascal Harry Erwin before 10 pm 703 758 9660 OPERATING SYSTEMS ProDOS 8 and 16 Barry Fox 717 566 6709 Dan White 301 449 3322 Print Shop Tho
48. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 TeleComm SIG 12 Annapolis Slice Frederick Slice 10 Stock SIG 14 Intro to the Mac Part I 25 Office Closed 24 Office Closed _ Thanksgiving 21 23 Intro to the Mac Part I Excel SIG re 80 _ Maintaining Your Mac P Intro to the Mac Part I WAP Office Phone 301 984 0300 Note The new WAP office address is 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 TCS 2400 bps 301 984 406 TCS 14400bps 301 984 4070 From 495 take Rte 270 north to the Montrose Road exit Go east on Montrose 2 1 2 mi cross Rockville D ece mM be r 1 9 94 Pike turn left onto Parklawn FETT E ETTE 6 TeleComm SIG Intro to the gt Mac Part 1 24 Office Closed 23 Office Closed 19 Intro to the Mac Part 2 26 Intro to the Mac Part 3 36 Washington Apple Pi Journal Excel SIG er Maintaining Your Mac Christmas Eve November 1994 Unless otherwise noted call the SIG chairs or Slice officers for meeting information A list of the SIG and Slice chairs is on page 4 of every Journal Calendar events in italics are tutorials workshops or seminars Annapolis Slice 2nd Saturday 9 30 AM Severna Park Library on McKinsey Rd off Rt 2 Severna Park MD Answering Machine 410 761 4260 CrabApple BBS 410 315 8532 Apple IIGS SIG Meetings at various locations an don various dates Looking for ne
49. OGIN MAILER MANPAGE MILNET MIME MODEM MOSAIC NETWORK NNTP PACKET PASSWORD PHREAKER PRIVILEGED PROTOCOL REMOTE ROOT ROUTER SERVER SHELL SNIFFER SPAMMING SYSADMIN TCSWAPORG TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELNET THROUGHPUT UNIX USENET USER UUENCODE VERONICA WAIS WEBMASTER WIZARD WORM WORLDWIDEWEB T NHY2HIYMNMVJNHGCITLMCOVWE ZUTU OBN AKA SAH BVIYPHK WOTDVIN HHB SAMMUDE GHP wageowKe WP PP HAaGQXNANNND REPHPAONIN RE P MUIUPNOMENHPPZHAAIRTOGMD POP PHHUVANRPrTTAdioMPvHAwHAnG YODA FA MAAAQDK VHAHOAHCAAwD HrADawAaA PaAK AGAOMAWEHE NOH G V MoOoWADMHAASBAADOAWOACRAVIK SE AY ASHVOAQIRPWAADAS DAAdNHP AZAD OHMMMMUNHAHEEHHNH JEU YP aw GUHOD PAH PrP Pr WrtrHAsS VA SPVAO HArwANQos ES GAHAN RPHHO AMNO NM SHOR DHA OOWo AWDOAQ ATAVUS 2mMHPHUpHULTUANHZIT PAHA ZZOZ WwDUVUDDWDOWIK HA nNK AwWOVH SYK S DUVA VGN ZOD ZIAR XxXOOJXxXOQA ya nsSronowowIiwvae TBTonNAANSHA lt V2ZA OCR OVUWDOANNYP VeHaxrter Zw 2ZPW PXIU PNH ONHP GOAOG AGC Please fill in the course number s of the class es that you wish to attend Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Class 5 Class 46 WAP Form 4CL006 mod 7 90 Mail registration and payment to the above address City State Zip Phone day Member Number Number of Classes Check Money Order Card Number Card Expiration evening Non member x Class Fee Total Fee gt _ Credit Card Signature Yes O No Can you bring your o
50. ONS MAC amp APPLE Dale Smith 301 762 5158 Allan Levy 301 340 7839 Bob Sherman 305 944 2111 TCS Help Dale Smith 301 762 5158 Nancy Seferian 202 333 0126 Paul Schlosser 301 831 9166 MouseTalk Dale Smith 301 762 5158 Ray Settle 301 647 9192 TimeOut Series amp Utilities ProSel Ray Settle 301 647 9192 Barry Fox 717 566 6709 816 Paint Writ rs Ch El Andy Gavin 703 734 3049 Apple II Hardware Epson printers hard drives Guy Durant 202 363 0366 Apple II laser printing Bob Sherman 1 305 944 2111 Apple Ill General Paul Campbell 313 255 6497 Dave Ottalini 9 10 30 pm 301 681 6136 3 Easy Pieces Robert Howe 916 626 8198 David Joan Jernigan before 9 pm 703 822 5137 Steve Truax 304 267 6429 Word Juggler Tom Linders J Carey McGleish evenings Pascal Dr Al Bloom Apple Speller Robert Howe AppleWriter Eric Sheard Stemspeller Steve Truax 408 741 1001 313 332 8836 703 951 2025 916 626 8198 908 782 6492 304 267 6429 Beagle Buddies MARYLAND Ray Settle Annapolis Scott Galbraith Frederick W T Cook Columbia Gary Hayman Greenbelt Lee Raesly Adelphi Dan White Don Avery Bethesda DC VIRGINIA Kenneth De Vito Alexandria Neil Laubenthal 301 647 9192 301 865 3035 301 995 0352 301 345 3230 301 599 7530 301 449 3322 202 362 1783 703 960 0786 703 691 1360 Washington Apple Pi Journal 35 November 1994 Sunday
51. Pi received informa tion about the 1993 update to Michael s Kula Index It might be useful for Apple II members in WAP to know that the club has an almost complete li brary of all back issues of A inCider A inCider A2 Central originally Open Apple Nibble and GS magazines These magazines can be browsed any time the WAP office is open The regular office hours are Mon Sat 10AM to 2 30PM and Tuesday evenings from 7PM to 9PM It s probably fair to say that WAP s Apple II reference collection surpasses just about any other reference collection in the country Armed with the Kula In dex and the club s hard copy maga zine collection just about any pub lished Apple II software or hard ware review could be tracked down Honolulu Hawaii March 1994 Kula Software has announced the release of the 1993 edition of the Kula Index Asin previous editions the Index is an AppleWorks data base covering articles and reviews from the major Apple II publica tions for the past year The publica tions featured in this edition are A2 Central inCider A II Alive November 1994 It might be useful for Apple II members in WAP to know that the club has an almost complete library of all back issues of A inCider A inCider A2 Central originally Open Apple Nibble and GS magazines These magazines can be browsed any time the WAP office is open Scarlett and Shareware Solutions II
52. SIG Quarterly 7 30 PM WAP Office Stock SIG 2nd Thursday 7 30 PM WAP office Telecomm SIG lst Tuesday 7 00 PM WAP office UltraMacros SIG Meetings at various locations and on various dates Call Gary Hayman 301 345 3230 for details WAP Garage Sale June and December WAP General Meeting 4th Saturday 9 00 AM Northern Virginia Community College Annandale Campus Community Cultural Center Auditorium Women s SIG Usually held every quarter on the fourth Thursday of the month at the Pi Office at 7 30 PM Call SIG Chair Ann Aiken 301 530 1990 for details Notice Plans change Anyone with calendar information please call the Calendar Editor Bill Wydro 301 299 5267 or Beth Medlin at the WAP Office 301 984 0300 November 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 37 The Hotline service is only for members of the WAP Please do not call after 9 30 p m or before 8 00 a m GENERAL Tom Witte Dan White Art amp Video Nancy Seferian Borland Products Doug Ferris daytime only DATABASE PROGRAMS Fourth Dimension Bob Pulgino Peter Yared FileMaker Pro Tom Parrish Mort Greene Foxbase Rick Shaddock Helix Jim Barry to midnight Harvey Levine MS File John Spencer Mort Greene Omnis 7 Jeff Alpher to midnight OverVue J T Tom DeMay Jr Tom Parrish Pro Cite Elizabeth Mangan DESKTOP PUBLISHING General Jay Rohr Freddi Galloway V TTY Read Jim Graham Freddi Galloway V TTY PageMa
53. WE Specify a date and time to print a document or postpone a job indefi nitely MM Monitor paper supply Signal when to feed paper manually PrintMonitor s icon blinks at the right end of the menu bar when the printer is out of paper or to signal that you must confirm a manual operation It can also be set to dis play an alert message To change the notification method use the program s Preferences command in the File menu E Thanks to Apple Computer The above article is from Information Alley O 1994 PROMPT amp RELIABLE REPAIR e PowerMac Upgrades Authorized for Apple HP NEC Radius amp more e CPUs Monitors LaserPrinters PowerBooks e On site Walk in AppleCare contracts Special Discounts for W A Pi members BUSINESS 919 Elvi 10565 Lee Hwy Fairfax VA 703 385 2758 Authorized AASP Plus Service Provider Washington Apple Pi Journal 11 Shareware List for Newton Software Sept 94 1 QuickFigure Lite 2 0 Newton Spreadsheet QuickFigure Lite 2 0 is a fast compact only 75k of user memory required Newton spreadsheet QF Lite 2 0 supports over 40 math functions conditional statements text and numeric formatting printing faxing beaming NewtonMail and more QF Lite may be upgraded to QuickFigure Pro for 39 plus shipping and handling 2 List lf 2 7 List Management Version 2 7 of the popular package for the Newton adds some new and very much in d
54. ake MathTalk an extension of your classroom math The first folder will be for Middle School math Participants will be 4th through 6th grades If other school levels are interested Primary K 3 Junior High 7 9 and High School 10 12 math folders can be started Contact RagenT or DF arren or leave a note in the MATHTALK folder on the School to School LINK PROJECTS board and stay tuned for Math Online Games In Progress En Progres En Progresa WWWW No it s not something new to learn about the internet WWWW is World Wide Word Web a Macintosh HyperWeb of foreign lan guages a HyperDictionary of many tongues This is a Mac HyperStudio project for foreign language classes at all levels Participants select November 1994 pictures and then illustrate them with important vocabulary This is a mutlimedia project in which stu dents practice both written and spo ken language A seed stack will be added to the Schoolhouse Magazine library later this month Teachers at Shepaug School will make this seed sprout with their own addi tions in mid October Later they invite you to join with their stu dents in extending the World Wide Word Web as it sets out to explore many topics and many languages Computer facilitators may wish to begin contacting foreign language teachers soon More information will be forthcoming Contact AFCTooter And Speaking of pictures now you can use PICTURES OF THE WORLD DavidT93 has bee
55. alls W Washington Apple Pi Journal 65 go RE NER rose DS nE eG w fee i Sie Di pE A S D e ete to pa ET spot es bey SA ar x SE Hore aa Kj pen TR E Set IEE Maes ees i EA Fa ea AE eS ee ee RIE n Whe 2 See at pans sak Se LT TT TOTAN se Mai NE EM i 4 gt ma Par one Rie ee BRASS PF Pe tt EKO We St p md k Cleaning and Speed Adjustments by Tom Linders I Disk Cleaning OME PEOPLE SAY to clean the disk drive heads with some sort of disk cleaner every two or three days Some others say to do it once every six months to two years Ifyou are writing the great American novel then follow the advice of the former otherwise do as the later says The next thing is what to clean the disk drive heads with The only thing I know of that is reliable is alcohol The question is what kind There are three general kinds of alcohol Rubbing E Denatured E Isopropyl Of these three kinds the best is the third kind isopropyl Rubbing alcohol has too much 30 water and you are not usually aware of the denaturing agent the thing that makes you sick if you drink it in denatured alcohol Inthe later alcohol the denaturing agent may be JP 4 MEK etc I use Isopropyl 99 pure that I buy from Longs for 1 23 pint Also remember if the disk drive head is very dirty make sure that the head load pad is also checked to make sure it is clean _ Ifyou are having trouble with a disk drive bring it to
56. aluable infor mation for planning ahead If you are a school librarian suddenly con fronted with an Internet account and an order to do something with it the Education chapter will get you started Clearly written and under standable for the novice it includes sources of educational information and how to link students and teach ers with their peers and the world The Virtual Classroom in the Global Village Two additional sections Busi ness and Community Govern ment round out Part IX Using the Internet Business includes ac ceptable use policies why do busi ness on the Internet how to market it if you do and examples of compa nies already online Community Government discusses virtual com munities such as the Well in San Francisco and Echo in New York City Free Nets and how to become an online activist A detailed list of federal information available on the Internet is followed by a list of useful commercial and public sites with ad ditional information resources A large portion of Unleashed is devoted to Internet software for both the user and the provider Telnet ftp gopher WAIS mosaic etc are dis cussed in some detail as well as how to read Usenet newsgroups using a newsreader Threechapterson email programs and sending email are al most too detailed intimidating if you are interested only in getting your message from one point to another Experts w
57. anage ment Symposium Enterprise Planning for the 90 s Washington Apple Pi Journal 29 Jl Applications Shells User Interfaces Apple Computer Inc MultiFinder Users Guide Applications Spreadsheets Microsoft Corp Getting Started with Microsoft Excel Version 2 2 for the Apple Macintosh Microsoft Corp Microsoft Excel Accessing Ex ternal Databases Spreadsheet with Business Graphics and Database Version 3 0 Microsoft Corp Microsoft Excel External Data base Access with CL 1 For the Apple Macintosh Microsoft Corp Microsoft Excel Function Refer ence Spreadsheet with Business Graphics and Database Version 3 0 Microsoft Corp Microsoft Excel Functions and Macros For the Apple Macintosh Microsoft Corp Microsoft Excel Getting Started Spreadsheet with Business Graphics and Data base Version 3 0 Microsoft Corp Microsoft Excel Quick Refer ence Spreadsheet with Business Graphics and Database Version 3 0 Microsoft Corp Microsoft Excel Quick Refer ence Guide Version 2 2 for the Apple Macintosh Microsoft Corp Microsoft Excel Reference Ver sion 2 2 for the Apple Macintosh Applications Utility Apple Computer Inc User s Manual Apple Computer Inc Apple III System Utilities An Introduction Exercise Booklet Apple Computer Inc Apple III System Utilities An Introduction Instruction Book Apple Computer Inc Confidence Program Central Point Software Copy
58. appears press the d Shift K keys simultaneously You are presented with a small dialog box with two selections e Update existing system folder e Install new system folder For a Clean install select Install new system folder This installs a new system folder and renames your current folder to Previous System Folder At this point you can transfer any items from your old system folder to your new one Thanks to Apple Computer Inc for the two 7 5 articles above From Information Alley 1994 56 Washington Apple Pi Journal November 1994 i RI SRS A LEAR EASA X ER ER GN kr ops Seb R See H R ERS EE cee 35 Bae Et 288 3 ERE EE SEE PRE i ERO tn OPNA ELAN AVS R OE por Ker KA OS AAN NRS SSH Sa aa eee ERE OS Sots RSR sae SK f EA EONIA PAASA EAER ES EN LE aS bests r sr et ANE NA PONSE to 8 ret Siege SR FASER Stee ILDEN TN SR FEKS KER USSD PRE ARIS Rating 3 5 clicks review by Jeff Eaton HE PEANUTS GANG is back again in Yearn 2 Learn Snoopy the sequel to Imagesmith s Yearn 2 Learn Pea nuts Like the original Yearn 2 Learn package this new program uses games and puzzles to teach kids about math letters and more l Yearn 2 Learn Snoopy has an extremely friendly interface The pro gram makes heavy use of sounds and cute cartoons Instead of displaying the usual Please Wait message while the program is loading infor mation from the hard disk Snoopy entertai
59. are offering ThreeWorks there is a tremendous resource of information about the and where to find things Then there s Jim Nichol who posts from time to time a great list of resources that all Apple family owners can take advantage of See the separate listing to which I have as Inormally do added a few things Washington Apple Pi Journal 63 ADble amp i Vendor List by Jim N ichol a The company s primary business i is eae S Software Commercial or Sh eats H Hardware and Accessories New P Parts for Apple amp Repair and Used Hardware some do repairs M Magazine or Newsletter publisher for Apple IPs Apple support eH P Alltech Electronics 800 995 7773 or 619 721 7788 lt P Arminius Pubs and Products 609 662 3420 EG or S_AV Systems Inc 805 569 1618 Adrian Valle Compuserve 10415 1420 ae P B amp D Computer Repair 312 735 9010 Larry Beyer Fixes hard drives a 8 M Big Red Computer Club Scarlett 402 379 4680 Caloke Industries Dept SK PO Box 18477 Raytown MO 64138 8 H Charlie s Appleseeds 619 566 1297 NN _ S Christella Enterprise Box 82205 Rochester MI 48308 s catalog BO Bae P CreativeSolutions 513 429 5759 S Educational Resources 800 624 2926 or 708 888 8300 a S H Fas Track 7030 Huntley Rd Bldg C Columbus OH 43229 800 9 927 3936 EG S M Kingwood Micro Software Texas ID 2
60. at there is a remote sensor on the 5 volt output It does not appear to have any more power In fact it would be nice if it had even less power There is a 22 ohm resistor on the 5 volt memory boards Many people say that this resistor is there to supply a bit of extra power to the 5 volt output from the 12 volt output Don t you believe it The resistor is there to make the 12 volt supply think it still has the 12 volt loads from the old 128k memory boards The 12 volt power supply is in reality made up of two power supplies a five volt supply to ground and a seven volt supply sitting on top of the five volt supply to make the twelve volt supply One thing I have done on a few Apple s is to clip a 12 volt fan across the resistor and it really cools the old amp off Try it you ll like it Volunteers are what make this group the best computer club around The new facility will offer us a number of improvements ample parking larger facilities for meetings the library computer museum and office space Where Do Find Always a question on the mind of SaraSaurs and other Apple Family Computerphiles WAP is of course the best source for Apple material we have some 250 PD disks offer software on the TCS and more than a thousand files on s Company WAP 301 593 0024 But there are other sources as well see the end of my column each month IF you have never seen my sharew
61. atial thinking p 404 Volume 22 No 5 Problem solving skills have also received renewed emphasis by the National Council of Teach ers of Mathematics NCTM In their 1989 Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics the NCTM urge that general problem solving skills be incorporated into the elementary and middle school curriculum The NCTM believes that younger students should be given practice solving problems so that they develop a capacity to de velop and apply strategies to solve a wide variety of problems And once children develop a capacity to solve simple problems they then acquire confidence in using math ematics meaningfully Similarly the NCTM urges middle school students to have ex posure solving multistep and non routine problems The Sokoban puzzles fit in well with the NCTM prescription for middle school stu dents The more difficult puzzles require multistep reasoning capa bility and present students with many unique non routine problems For that matter the easier Sokoban puzzles fill the bill well for elementary level students These easier puzzles are a gentle intro duction to logical reasoning with 44 Washington Apple Pi Journal the benefit that each solved puzzle helps boost a child s confidence in tackling logic problems All in all the Sokoban puzzles are an interesting engaging way to introduce students to logical prob lem solving O
62. beat on the higher levels However there is a penalty to pay in the form of processing time The better you ask the computer to play the longer it takes for the computer to make a move This can mean a lot of time waiting on your part for the com puter to pick out its next brilliant move Ofcourse you can be using the time to your advantage by working on your next move In any case the game can be quite slow in the higher game play levels An accelerator card can dramatically improve this performance I would recommend an accelerator anyway so that you can see marked improvement with all your software One of the things that make ChessMaster 2100 better than any of its predecessors on the Apple II mar ket is the number of features avail able at the click of a mouse You can establish the strength of your com puter opponent by choosing from a wide variety of options Computer play strength can be selected from a range of 1 to 14 You can also select whether the computer will make ran dom less than the best moves You can even tell the computer to play likea dummy Ifthese options weren t enough you can also choose from a number of timed game modes Any one preparing for a real world chess tournament will appreciate these modes You can select any time con straint you want to use The com puter and you will be forced to make your moves in the specified time or that player will lose the game For a really quick ga
63. ber 24 not available without membership Lawrence Charters 410 730 4658 Camera ready ad copy POSTMASTER Send address changes to Wash Managing Editor December October 30 ington Apple Pi 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville Kathryn Murray 804 472 4851 Jasnuary November 30 MD 20852 Change of Address should reach us 60 days in advance of the move to ensure that your Journals continue uninterrupted November 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 3 Officers and Board of Directors Volunteers President Lorin Evans 202 543 1248 Head Reading Lib Brian Mason Vice President Apple Joan Jernigan 703 822 5137 Dealer Relations Comm John Alden 202 686 1656 Vice President MacLawrence Charters 410 730 4658 __ Harvey Kaye 301 299 8994 Treasurer Charles Froehlich 410 889 9895 Legal Counsel Richard Wohltman Secretary Paula Shuck 410 740 5255 Membership Volunteer needed Directors Ken De Vito 703 960 0786 SlGs amp Slices Coord _ Bob Shaffer 301 384 3724 Glenda Finley Journal Store Distribution Volunteer Needed Grace Gallager 703 222 4570 Telecom SysOp _ Paul Schlosser 301 831 9166 Jon Hardis 301 330 1422 Volunteer Coordinator Tom Witte 703 683 5871 Bob Shaffer 301 384 3724 ar Dale Smith 301 762 5158 er en Jon Thomason 301 951 9631 SIG Chair so o David Weikert 301 963 0063 Annapolis Slice Tom Witte 703 683 5871 President Richard MacLean 410 721 8157 Bill Wydro 301 299 5267 V President Phil Sc
64. ce service to have For those who can do anonymous ftp the latest version of ValueF ax is to be found from ftp netcom com in the directory pub valuefax Some patches are to be found in the same directory Conclusion I will keep ValueF ax The check is in the mail ValueFax Pancomm 18477 Edminton Drive Cupertino CA 95014 E mail valuefaxGnetcom com B November 1994 The Library at the WAP Office list compiled by Brian Mason Apple Il Computers Espinosa Christopher Apple II Reference Manual Apple Ile Computers Apple Computer Inc Apple Ile Owner s Guide Apple ligs Computers Andrews Mark Programming the Apple IIgs in C and Assembly Language Apple Computer Inc Apple Ilgs Hardware Refer ence Apple Computer Inc Apple IIgs Toolbox Reference Fischer Michael Apple IIgs Technical Reference Gookin Dan Mastering the Apple IIgs Toolbox Little Gary B Exploring the Apple IIgs Apple lil Computers Apple Computer Inc Apple III Owner s Guide Apple Computer Inc Apple III Plus Owner s Guide Apple Computer Inc The Professional Solution Apple Writer Lancaster Don Enhancing Your Apple II and Ile Volume 2 Applications Accounting Apple Computer Inc Apple III BPI General Accounting Applications Accounting Tax Preparation Sprouse Russ MacInTax Federal 1989 for the Apple Macintosh The Income Tax Program November 1994
65. cion that a Mac IIcx may not be enough MacWeek taking an early look at Office found the new packages running slow even on a Mac Ilfx and a IIfx is several times faster than a IIcx or II or IIx or IIci or SE 30 or LC or LC II or LC III or On the other hand maybe Microsoft really is a big fan of Apple Computer The new Office looked quick and crisp on a Power Mac 8100 running System 7 5 maybe Il this is Microsoft s way of luring the Macintosh faithful to the promised land of the PowerPC Sweetheart I m going to buy a Power Mac so I can run my new Microsoft Office upgrade OK Sounds like a good idea to me We Now Return As I said before I thought this was agreat meeting Aside from the endless slide show Dave put on a dynamite presentation and put up a spirited defense of his employer s software products upgrade and marketing strategy and even software technology A liberal rain of Microsoft Office for Mac baseball caps encouraged even the shy to speak up And there were goodies In addition to copies of Microsoft Office there were also nice cloth Microsoft briefcases plus the ball Special User Get DeltaGraph Pro 3 5 Group Offer 854995 00000 MacWEEK And get the right chart every time Forder information TO Tired of amateurish and imperfect charts Then put DeltaGraph Pro 3 5 to work and unleash the power of professional charting DeltaGraph Pro from
66. ck cefore 10 pm Kirsten Sitnick Mort Greene Rick Shaddock WingZ Kirsten Sitnick TELECOMMUNICATIONS CompuServe Michael Subelsky VIRTUAL REALITY Virtus Walkthrough Pro Virtus VR Virtus Voyager Jaque Davison WORD PROCESSORS Microsoft Word Harris Silverstone Tom Cavanaugh Freddi Galloway V TTY Kirsten Sitnick ThinkTank More Jim Graham Tom Parrish Hebrew Word Processing Tim Childers Microsoft Works Amy Billingsley WordPerfect Mac Curt Harpold Frederick Apple Core Help Line 301 627 8889 301 972 4263 703 524 0937 703 751 4386 703 978 3440 301 474 0634 301 627 8889 301 740 5255 301 750 7206 703 522 8743 202 829 4444 301 750 7206 301 340 7839 301 949 0203 703 644 7354 301 435 3582 301 627 8889 410 268 5793 301 750 7206 703 751 4386 301 654 8784 301 997 9317 301 622 2203 202 547 8272 MISCELLANEOUS Ile Card for the LC Bernie Benson 301 951 5294 MacProject Jay Lucas 703 751 3332 Norbert Pink 703 759 9243 HyperCard Rick Chapman 301 989 9708 Tom Witte 703 683 5871 HyperTalk John O Reilly 703 204 9332 Tom Witte 703 683 5871 File Transfer Mort Greene 703 522 8743 Backfax Mort Greene 703 522 8743 HyperCard Scripting Jamie Kirschenbaum evenings 703 437 3921 Richard Kozloski 703 352 1523 SoundEdit Jamie Kirschenbaum evenings 703 437 3921 MAC DISKETERIA LIBRARY Dave Weikert 301 963 0063
67. contribute The second area discussed was the Files area which consists of a large number of files members may download The third area the E mail portion of the TCS is available to Premium level subscribers and allows members to send and receive Internet mail from all over the world TCS Guides were available for sale for 7 50 for those who wanted to buy one The Guide describes which Boards are on each Conference what the commands mean and how to use them how to download leave messages and everything else you might want to know about the TCS The TCS starter disk was also available for sale The disk was available for 4 00 and contains ZTerm a shareware commun ications application that helps your computer tell your modem what to do It also contains several applications for compressing and expanding files that you send or receive by modem and other utilities useful for telecommunicating Our next scheduled meeting is Thursday November 17th from 6 00 8 30 PM at the WAP Offfice The topic for the meeting that night will be scanners We will discuss and demonstrate how to scan how to place scanned files into word processing and various other applications OCR optical character recognition software and related issues We d love to have you come and join us R S V P to Grace Gallager 703 222 4570 Metro so don t dial 1 if you can join us Bring a picture you would like to scan and bring your recent projects
68. d charge the battery effectively fixing the problem Step Action 1 Put the questionable battery in the right hand compartment 2 Remove the left hand battery 3 Let PowerBook try and charge the one battery alone 4 Ifthe battery still does not charge remove and reinsert the battery giving the PowerBook another chance to establish communica tion After approximately 10 min utes the PowerBook gives up 5 If charging symbol hasn t ap peared in Control Strip by then pullthe battery out and reinsert 6 Repeatthis series ofsteps atleast 4 times its memory whenever it needs them This information ranges from com puter program instructions to the data you enter Eventually you ll want to learn more about RAM because managing it skillfully can make your computer work more ef ficiently E ROM Another computerese ac ronym standing for Read Only Memory In hardware terms ROM is very similar to RAM It s made of the same sort of computer chip But ROM doesn t allow information to be shuttled in and out It s perma nently endowed with certain very basic instructions your Mac needs Every Mac s ROM for instance con tains the basic information about how to operate the disk drives how to startup etc Except for being able to know what it is when you read about it you ll never need to know anything more about ROM Next month we ll explore some more MacSpeak with the goal of helping MacNovices clear away the un
69. derbrush of lingo surrounding their Macintosh computers B If the PowerBook still does not recognize and charge the battery af ter these steps the Apple Assurance PowerBook Support group will re place the battery using the Advanced Replacement process which takes 3 5 business days due to a temporary delay while Apple takes steps to en sure all batteries are properly charged before shipping E Our special thanks to Apple Com puter Inc Article from Information Alley 01994 November 1994 Learning Science And Language Arts The Fun Way by Dicksie Tamanaha tronaut on the Space Shuttle Endeavor Assume the role of space scientist as you conduct ex periments under the microgravity conditions of Spacelab J Operate an ROV probing the ocean s depths to collect valuable manganese nod ules Follow at trail of scientific dis coveries to determine the origin of the mysterious Yucatan cenotering These adventures and many others are experienced through computer animation video music voice and text on two CD ROMs produced by a new local company Computer Vi sualizations Inc CVI The inter active educational programs Frogs in Space and Revealed Treasures Viewing America from Above con ceived designed and tested in Manoa Valley will be distributed nationwide by Glencoe McGraw Hill Publishing Company The familiar voice of Michael W Perry leads the user through an amazing simulation of Spacelab J rec
70. ditional information or to order Pro 3 5 call 800 448 8955 Daytime Phone DGUGA I Price good for user group members only Suggested Retail Price 195 November 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 7 WASHINGTON APPLE PI 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 WAP Office 270 etown Road Old Georc caps Every user group member who wanted one also got a 40 rebate coupon for Microsoft Office when combined with a rebate coupon included in Office it makes for a hefty discount on the price of purchasing or upgrading Microsoft also promised the Pi a full copy of the new Office which along with System 7 5 should just about completely fill the hard drive in the Pi s Mac IIci and donated a number 8 Washington Apple Pi Journal i y dg Road a Nicholson L te wll Rockville nm oftheir Microsoft Home packages to the Pi Isaac Asimov s The Ultimate Robot CD ROM Art Gallery CD ROM Creative Writer and Dinosaurs CD ROM Finally one special little goodie will debut at the next General Meeting a Pro Presenter This is a smallinfrared receiver that attaches toa Mac ADB port plus a hand held control Press one button and a PowerPoint slide show moves _ Loehmann S 3 Plaza forward Press the other it goes backward I can t wait to try it out October 1994 The October 22 General Meeting will beacollaborative effort designed to show how ordinary mortals can produce spectacular
71. dress the generalities of repair I ll talk more about specifics in future articles If any of you have some suggestions about software diagnostic tools I didn t mention please let me know I m always looking for better tools to keep our Macs running E Kel Humphreys is Senior Macintosh Technician at FC Business Systems He has used Macs in a corporate environment sold Macs and headed a Mac service operation November 1994 ValueFax A Review by David L Harris ANY SOFTWARE pub lishers mail order houses etc are providing techni cal support and information these days via fax so fax software may be of interest even to the individual home user ValueFax by Pancomm is a new shareware fax program uploaded to the TCS so I thought I would try it I have not used any other fax software so I cannot com pare ValueFax to others Its shareware fee is 20 to individual users which compares to MaxFax bundled with some modems and is about half the mail order price of FAXstf 3 0 ValueFax comes with documen tation that is a 700 K application itself It covers installation opera tion and registration of ValueF ax A Class 1 or Class 2 modem is re quired there are instructions on how to query your modem to deter mine what class it is ValueF ax will not work with Apple Express mo dem or Apple Geoport modem and may crash a Power Mac 6100 witha Class 1 modem The documents say at least a Mac Plus System
72. e familiar desktop interface with pull down menus that allow easy access to the various game features The game plays in 320x200 resolution graphics mode and offers good detail and color The game runs from 3 5 disk or can be loaded onto a hard drive The hard drive installation requires a third party public domain program called Chess Finder in order for the software to be run from the Apple System Finder There is also a minor but annoying problem with the menu bar while using newer versions of the system software You can still load and play the game but the menu bar is black The pull down menus show up fine but you must guess on the whereabouts of the top menu item This minor prob lem aside the game has no difficul ties running under newer system software from a hard drive I should mention here that the game uses a form of copy protection that requires a date person or place to be looked up from the game manual I don t consider this type of protection to be too onerous but it certainly is not as convenient as no copy protection at all In this area also there is help available A file that I have seen on GEnie and other information systems shows how to get rid of the question all together I prefer this option but warn you that only owners with a legal copy of the software should use this patch Okay how does the game play Great I am a fairly good chess player and find that the game is difficult to
73. e Manual Business Solutions Inc Senior Analyst III Tutorial Manual Catalog Clip Art Fenton Erfert Canned Art Clip Art for the Macintosh Computer Operation Gonick Larry The Cartoon Guide to Computer Science Computer Security Hafner Katherine Cyberpunk Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier Computer Sound Processing Andrews Mark The Incredible Sound Machine Unleash the Sound Capabilities of Your Macintosh Computer Computers Ahl David H The Best of Creative Computing Volume III November 1994 CP M Computers Apple Computer Inc Softcard III Installation and Operation Manual Microsoft Corp Apple III CP M Reference Manual Device Drivers Apple Ill Apple Computer Inc Apple III Plus Addendum to the Standard Device Drivers Man Apple Computer Inc Standard Device Drivers Manual Dictionary Hordeski Michael Illustrated Dictionary of Microcomputer Terminology Sippl Charles J Microcomputer Dictionary DOS 3 3 Apple Computer Apple Computer Inc Apple II DOS Programmer s Manual Apple Computer Inc Apple II DOS User s Manual Excel Microsoft Kyd Charles W Microsoft Excel Business Sourcebook An Essential Library of More Than 100 Practical Business App Graphics Design Letraset USA Communication by Design Graphic Materials Handbook Hardware Reference Apple Computer Inc Guide to the Macintosh Family Hardware HyperCa
74. e not regis 50 Washington Apple Pi Journal tered there s still time to get in on the first session of either of these projects Or take a look at EX PRESS YOURSELF one of the truly creative efforts of ESH scheduled to begin soon LabNetwork is a semi private area apply for access under your screen name of AOL de signed as a Commu nity of Practice for teachers of science and mathematics at all levels There is no cost to join the area and you can get more information and a very short applica tion by using the keyword LabNet or simply entering through the gateway in ESH MATHTALK ONLINE Get kids communicating their mathematical ideas Research in dicates that getting your students to talk and write about math in relevant situations increases their understanding of concepts and in creases their comfort level with the topic Doing so online expands the pool of ideas and enriches the dialogues To help us do this RagenT and DFarren Dan have started MathTalk an online math journal in which students write about math Read about MathTalk MathSolve and MathShare in the MATHTALK folder in School to School LINK PROJECTS Open up the STUDENT TO STUDENT folder and a Schoolhouse door will soon lead you right into the journal pages of students in Ragen s and Dan s classes They invite you to observe or better yet to join No registra tion is necessary rolling admissions is on going M
75. eadily apparent or intuitive Furthermore since I was in the middle of several projects with deadlines I couldn t risk delaying things while I searched the manual for procedures I could already accomplish with ease in 3 1 1 In other words I was going to have to read the manual Egads what a thought I kept both versions of FreeHand on my hard drive and every once in a while between projects I would open 4 0 and work ona project of my own while I hunted in the manual for how to do what I November 1994 wanted to do and was able to do easily before That is until I got Olav Kvern s new book Real World FreeHand 4 It set me free It gave me courage I got enough information in the summary of the new features in the preface to allow me to begin exploring and drawing again right away while I progressed through the book The preface offered a short list of what s new in FreeHand 4 0 with a succinct explanation beside each new feature and a page reference for further reading Just this brief description of the new palettes I needed to use right away such as Type Specifications Align Transform move scale rotate and skew and Layers the extensive index and Kvern s usual good humor and enthusiasm were helpful enough to get me started using FreeHand 4 0 immediately In the preface I also got a glimpse of those things I wanted to know more about The Polygon tool the edited by I
76. echnical elements that give both programs an edge over similar products currently on the market Washington Apple Pi Journal 55 I I each program It s like having an entire library of video audio and text on a tiny disk Andrasick con tinued Childers utilizes strong connec tions with NASA and the Smithsonian Institution as well as his extensive background in graph ics design and animation to make significant contributionstothescope content and form ofeach program In celebration of the successful comple tion of both products and in apprecia tion for support the company has received form the state and the com munity Childersin donating one copy of each program to local schools Childers acknowledges the UH hi tech incubation facility where CVI is currently located as partially re Special Find Options in System 7 5 By Mark Hansen The System 7 5 desktop Find command 36 F lets you search fora variety of file attributes There are four additional search options available under the first pop up menu Selection in the Find File dialog box Hold down the Option key while selecting the name pop up and you see these additional selections e contents Find files containing a specific string or phrase up to 30 characters name icon lock Find all locked unlocked files custom icon Find all files that either do or do not have a custom icon visibility Find all visible invisible fi
77. emand features List It lets you create lists of all sorts of things you even have a choice of list types It s great for shopping 10 shareware fee 3 NewtCase 1 1 Package Management Utility NewtCase lets any MessagePad Classic MP100 MP110 user archive his her Newton applications to reduce heap memory requirements alleviate conflicts between applications and clean up his her Extras drawer Archived packages do not show up in the Extras drawer but can be reinstalled at any time using NewtCase NewtCase can launch an archived package and when you quit from that package automatically re archive it Shareware 20 12 Washington Apple Pi Journal 4 Paperback 1 0 book maker for Windows and Macintosh This is an application that will convert simple text files into packages that can be read directly on a Newton Freeware from David Fedor 5 SleepAid 1 2 Newton Power Management Utility SleepAid covers all aspects of power management It replaces the default Sleep preferences allowing you to set two sleep times one for battery and one for AC It lets you reboot or sleep your Newton even if some errant application wants it to stay awake And finally it adds a SleepAidNow corner for one tap sleep and a HeapStatus corner for an instant reading of free heap space Update includes more configuration options SleepAidNow and HeapStatus 6 Solo1 3 Lite 1 02 1 3 adds one of the most requested features
78. en any computer games The quality of chess programs has always been a measure of a computer s ability to simulate intelligent thought I still have some of the original columns from Byte magazine that discuss the possibility of computers thinking In those columns they dis cuss perhaps for the first time in a national forum the type of logic that computer chess games could employ to simulate the strategy used by a great chess player In fact computer chess games have been the subject of critical review for years as a test of the power of computers to out think their creators The theory is that ifa computer can ever master chess bet ter than the humans who are cham pions at the game then the validity of artificial intelligence will have been proven Most versions of computer chess that run on home computers will never offer a serious challenge to the world champions However many software packages exist that will give the average or better chess player a run for their money ChessMaster 2100 falls into this category This game was made available to many different platforms whenit was first released Two newer versions have appeared for the IBM platform entitled ChessMaster 3000 and 4000 turbo Besides some additional bells and whistles added to the interface 58 Washington Apple Pi Journal the game does not appear to have been significantly enhanced in its game play ability The Apple IIgs version uses th
79. en t devoted the time to get thoroughly familiar with MacTools And the new Norton v3 1 that we got recently seems quite powerful I m still exploring it Anyway I ll let Norton clean up any problems it finds then save a copy ofits report to be printed out later Many times this is enough to allow the internal HD to take over so Ill reboot Now I check what System version s installed and double check the RAM I keep notes as I go and here I ll note whether there s a System Update that I could install later I get a fair idea of the level of knowledge of the user by looking at what s in the Apple menu If I can t run Norton disk not found Ill try HDSC Setup to reinstall the driver On non Apple HDs I m forced to try a SCSI Utility from a third party source Many times reinstalling the driver is enough to bring the drive back If you know your drive isn t an Apple HD make sure you get a copy of the LATEST disk formatting utility that your supplier used Many suppliers such as MicroNet MicroTech CMS Optima or GCC will have their software posted on the commercial services I ve never had to go beyond AppleLink for anything I needed so I can t comment on CompuServe or Prodigy or America Online Worst case most of the vendors maintain a BBS you can access freely with a toll call to download the latest SCSI utility for its drives If nothing s worked so far I double check that the disk is in fact spinni
80. en you have arrived there listen to the multiplicity of voices Watch for the appearance of those who become empowered through bypassing the gatekeepers of mass communica tion Recall how the Gutenberg Press empowered a few critical thinkers to change the course of nations with their writings How much time will pass before we stand witness to cyberspace writers who reengage the one constant historical force the power of uncensored communi cation the authority of the compel ling voice The new technology of communication the new geography of consciousness the new technique of existence combine to form a linch pin on which the whole world is about to turn Michael Strangeloveis the publisher of THE INTERNET BUSINESS JOURNAL and the author of HOW TO ADVERTISE ON THE INTERNET Michael is currently working on a new book THE UN CENSORED SELF ESSAYS IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CYBERSPACE He can be reached at mstrange fonorola net Copyright C 1994 by Michael Strangelove All rights reserved Bl November 1994 The Hotline service is only for members of the WAP Please do not call after 9 30 pm or before 8 00 am Apple II GENERAL Dave Harvey days only 703 578 4621 Leon Raesly days 5 am Spm 301 868 9554 Ken De Vito 703 960 0786 ACCOUNTING PACKAGES BPI Programs Jaxon Brown 301 350 3283 BPI amp Howardsoft Tax Otis Greever 615 638 1525 Dollars amp ense Barry Fox 717 566 6709 Home Accountant
81. en Witkin which I purchased in 1987 Al most every auxiliary slot and the memory slot in my IIgs is filled with an Applied Engineering AE product This includes a Parallel Pro card a Buffer Pro card a 100 MB Vulcan Hard Drive a PC Trans porter a 12 5 MHz Transwarp GS a Ramkeeper with two AE memory cards and a Datalink 2400 Baud Modem which I only recently re placed with a SupraFax V 32bis external modem I purchased the 100 MB Vulcan Hard Drive in January 1993 after my 40 MB hard drive died on me The Vulcan worked perfectly for about 15 months and I couldn t have been happier with its performance I had partitioned it into four parti tions and was using one of the par titions as my boot drive The Vulcan was fast quiet and easy to use During April 1994 I began to notice problems with the drive Occasionally the Vulcan would be gin to boot my IIgs and then stop just before the System 6 thermom eter screen became visible At first the problem was intermittent and would only occur once or twice week When the problem first oc curred I began backing up all my Vulcan data files just in case Fi nally by the end of April the Vulcan died completely and I couldn t boot my IIgs with it I immediately called Applied Engineering to notify them of the problem Much to my surprise and dismay I kept getting a recording ES AN APPLE IIGS 60 Washington Apple Pi Journal that I had reached a non working
82. er Cyberspace immigrants enter into a global multicultural social context A virtual but nonetheless real community where time and space are of little help in mapping presence and relationships The Geography of Cyberspace What then are the character istics of the geography of the Internet Can we map the social landscape of cyberspace Or at the very least can we identify a promi nent and stable point of reference from which a grid may be drawn If so then we will have gained a glimpse into the future state of the human animal a state I have named the uncensored self It is the unique nature of Internet communication that pro vides us with a point of reference within the landscape of cyberspace Internet facilitated communication is an altogether new form of human behavior uncensored and accessible at least to the middle class bi directional mass communication The technology of the Internet has enabled an entirely new tech nique of existence mass partici pation in bi directional uncensored mass communication This is critically significant when we realize that community is fundamentally based upon commu nication and in cyberspace we have an entirely new form of communica tion On this new form of communi cation a new culture is emerging This new culture will be the birthing grounds of a new manifestation of the self Communication culture 34 Washington Apple Pi Journal and the self al
83. er com munications software except AppleLink is said to be automatic The various logs phone book and other housekeeping files are TeachText documents and can be edited directly The ValueFax Users Guide ap plication also contains a trouble shooting section and instructions for contacting Pancomm if further help is needed You must print the registration form to learn the shareware fees for single user and site licensing the printed form con tains a set of code numbers for use by Pancomm Here are some of my observa tions about ValueF ax Changing options Editing the Phone Book in the ValueF ax 2 0 2 Manager confused me at first It was easy to add new telephone numbers but when I went back to edit previously entered ones the number and preferred call times appeared to have reverted to previ ous values This can be averted by putting entries in both the Name and Company fields The problem is corrected in later versions Set ting other options such as the modi fier key to be used with Print to send a fax mode of background op eration cover page logo etc seemed straightforward Receiving faxes I tried receiving faxes from WordPerfect s InfoShare and from Claris AnswerLine Several times this failed and then the serial port was held by ValueFax I had to reboot to clear it Other times I succeeded in receiving faxes Each complete page of a received fax in Fine mode
84. erence lt 8 gt Global Miscellany Conference Conference Menu lt A gt Adjust Pointers lt C gt Change Conference lt G gt Global Read All New Msgs lt L gt List All Available Boards lt O gt Off the System lt Q gt Quit to Main Menu lt R gt Read All New Msgs November 1994 lt W gt Welcome Bulletin No Reply Mode lt X gt Xfer All New Msgs lt V gt View Temporary File lt Z gt Zelect Boards of lt X gt Exchange a String Interest ee line Sisi Modify Reply Mode Bulletin Board Menu Gr lt A gt Alter Edit an Existing Message File Transfer Menu lt B gt Blind Reply to a Msg by lt A gt Adjust Pointers Number lt G gt Global Read New lt C gt Change Boards Descs lt D gt Delete Msg From or To lt L gt List All Available You Areas lt E gt Enter a Message lt N gt New File Descriptions lt F gt Find Message by lt O gt Off the System Keyword lt Q gt Quit to Main Menu lt L gt Library for this Board lt R gt Read All New Descs lt O gt Off Quit the System lt Z gt Zelect File Areas lt Q gt Quit to Main Menu lt R gt Read a Msg or Msgs File Area Menu lt S gt Scan Message Headers lt A gt Alphabetical List lt T gt Title Scan Msg Headers lt B gt Batch Functions lt W gt Welcome Bulletin for lt C gt Change Fi
85. es E November 1994 On the Trail of the Apple Apple SIG Co Chairman First of All I WANT TO ADD my thanks to everyone who helped move our WAP office from Bethesda to the new location behind White Flint Mall Volunteers are what make this group the best computer club around The new facility will offer us a number of improvements ample parking larger facilities for meetings the library computer museum and office space Best of all this comes at a considerably reduced monthly cost which will help ensure the health of the club and allow it with time to improve the services we can offer our members Keeping Me Honest Our good friend Tom Linders out California Way is very much on top of all things Apple even if he IS retired He does in fact keep me honest a good thing sometimes when I give advice that could use a little fine tuning Here s what he offered in a recent post via the Internet m While the keyboard looks like the Apple e keyboard it has a much different key vs X Y matrix output As a result the Keyboard encoder chip is not the same as the plain old IF you must spray TV Tuner cleaner into the Apple keys November 1994 by David Ottalini use black and white tuner cleaner as it is was about 75 cents a can cheaper and is identical to the color stuff I prefer Isopropyl Alcohol 99 pure myself The power supply isidentical to the except th
86. es will be on the Sys tem Desktop Icons Windows and basic concepts in System 7 but System 6 hangers on are welcome and encouraged to participate Their issues and concerns will be addressed Please try to take all three parts this is the most benefi cial arrangement Introduction to Macintosh Part 1 Course M111494 You should go through the Guided Tour disk that comes with your computer or system upgrade kit before you come to class You ll learn how to safely turn your Macintosh on and off what the ba sic dos and don ts are how to un derstand common Macintosh ter minology found in manuals and other documentation and how the basic components of your Macintosh system hardware and software work You ll also learn why the Macintosh user interface is consis tent across all applications and how this makes learning and using soft ware easier Materials required Your Macintosh hard disk drive start up disk and an unformatted DSDD 800k disk Date Mon Nov 14 7 10 pm Introduction to the Macintosh Part li Course M112194 Part II will continue the explora tion of the basic components of your Macintosh system hardware and software You ll learn more of the dos and don ts the finer points of the Menu Bar Error Messages Dia log Boxes Icons Folders Keyboard Shortcuts Scrapbook and Clip board will be discussed You ll learn Washington Apple Pi Journal 17 the basics of installing softwa
87. estions answers or other messages about Mac topics Messages may be submitted by e mail to Info Mac and they appear in future issues Note the items VendorDA at the end of the listings they are produced by the Pi s own Bill Baldridge Mirrors Info Mac files are archived on a computer called sumex aim at Stanford University in California and can be retrieved if you have Internet access and can use ftp or file transfer protocol Since they are so popular however the sumex aim archiver is quite busy to relieve traffic on it a number of mirror sites with most if not all of the same files have been set up worldwide Thus the reference to mirrors in one of the Subject lines above Files can be obtained from these sites also Some TCS users obtain items they find of interest and upload them to the TCS File Transfer area TidBITS TidBITS is a weekly electronic magazine of Mac news items and opinions produced by Tonya and Adam Engst It is normally found also in the Mac Information area of TCS File Transfer in StuffIt compressed form uploaded by a TCS volunteer After unStuffing TidBITS can be read using a word processor Here is the description of topics for one recent issue Aldus and Adobe both figure in this issue with a rumor about FreeHand a charting module from Aldus and a new font licensing policy from Adobe which makes it easier for print shops to own lots of fonts We note the new version of CDU from Co
88. etters to spell a particular word For each wrong let ter his plane takes a hit if enough wrong letters damage his plane it plummets to the ground and players are treated to an animated scene of Snoopy patching it up Even if the player knows the correct letter to grab the game requires good eye hand coordination to win While the remaining games are fun their educational value is ques tionable In the Comic Strip section four Peanuts comic strips come to life on the computer Each frame is read out loud and there are hot spots hidden in the pictures Clicking on Linus box of crayons for example will cause the crayons tojump up and dance Clicking on one of Woodstock s friend might cause him to fly away One cartoon features ghosts witches spooky eyes and other things related to Halloween Some kids might be frightened by this With the music game kids can compose their own music with the Peanuts band Rather than entering specific notes they create music by piecing together sounds played by different members of the Peanuts band The musical styles supported are country jazz and rock After composing the player can see the band play the music The final game is a face maker that lets the player design funny faces and print them out It can cre ate random faces by mixing and matching parts or players can draw their own and add them to the li brary of facial parts While it can be fun it lacks the
89. ew PB utility CopyDoubler 2 0 3 Lite updater a file compression utility csmp digest v3 030 DeskMates 1 2 5 useful desktop programs Fokker Triplane Demo v 2 89 FrontDoor v1 2 0 front end to file servers HangMan 1 4 a classic game of words Hunt for Barney a deadly game IM Macl 0b28a a communcations program KeyChart layouts for Quark and PageMaker Letter Gothic EGG monospaced font Macintosh Commadore 64 Emulator MongoPong v1 0 a variation on the classic 2 player game omega0 75 hqx dungeon game November 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 45 i Orc startup Screen Personal Log v1 0 6 a diary polyominoes 50 hqx board game replaces v 4 0 railroad2font1 0 where characters are cars RailroadIcons head on views ram doubler 102 updt a virtual memory utility Ray Dream Designer 3 0 3 gt 3 0 4 patcher Ray Dream Designer 3 0 x gt 3 0 4 patcher Send File an Auto Reply script for Eudora 1 4 Skeleton Startup screen Spellit 1 0 a spelling tutor Sub Battle Simulator Demo v 1 5 Tex Edit 2 4 1 a simple text editor TidBITS 227 23 May 94 VendorDA 1 43a b amp w a list of computer vendors VendorDA 1 43a color a list of computer vendors VendorDA 1 43a updater a list of computer vendors R Problem with PPP on PB 7 5 appletalk router How do I turn off the page numbering in SimpleText or TeachTextv7 0 StyleWriter II software problem Q
90. fathomable names such as General and Finder or MultiFinder Many are located within special fold ers inside your System Folder All of these files are basic to the Mac s operation providing the computer with many of the familiar features which make it a Mac The LaserWriter for instance gives the Mac everything it needs to know to print documents on your LaserWriter printer Similar printer drivers are installed for other kinds of printers The Scrap book contains not only the images and text you store in your Mac s Scrapbook but also the computer code which operates the Scrapbook itself E Finder MultiFinder These are the names of the computer pro grams which run the Mac s familiar electronic desktop containing the trash can as well as icons for your disks folders and documents They re called Finder because they help you find electronic files stored on your disks and help the Mac take care of housekeeping chores such as organizing Files into fold ers erasing disks emptying the trash can etc As simple as these tasks may seem they still require a computer application program to accomplish You ll find the MultiFinder only if you re running System 6 on your computer It allows other computer applications to run while the desk top remains visible on your screen Under System 7 the Finder remains visible all the time E Apple Menu This is the menu without a name at the top left hand corner of
91. gton Apple Pi Journal November 1994 September General Meeting by Lawrence I Charters Magnificent Bout Film at 11 EFORE YOU GET buried in the details let me first say that I was delighted with the September General Meeting We had a large crowd the demonstration was both informative and controversial the audience was keenly interested in what they were seeing you couldn t ask for more There were plenty of ruffled feathers snide comments loaded questions and transparent evasions plus startling honesty bold statements of vision razor sharp wit and cold hard facts I enjoy meetings with a lot of passion and emotion and these are usually in short supply at 9a m on a Saturday But not this September LE pa TET Vy November 1994 Microsoft was the guest and they came in style flying in their own projection and sound equipment plus a Power Macintosh 8100 plus Dave Martinez davemar microsoft com product marketing manager for Microsoft Office for Macintosh For those who aren t certain what Microsoft Office might mean this translates into the latest versions of the top selling Macintosh application of all time Word 6 0 plus the sole surviving big name spreadsheet on the Mac Excel 5 0 plus the top presentation package in the briefing and presentation crazed DC Metro area PowerPoint 4 0 There were a number of controversies starting with the size of the crowd Microsoft e
92. heel 410 761 4260 Secretary Jeff Straight 410 643 0868 Treasurer Mel Benson 410 647 6873 Membership Seth Mize 410 766 1154 Mac Programs Lloyd Olson 410 544 1087 Sandy Bozek 410 849 5232 AAS Membership Infoline 410 761 4260 Membership InfoLine 41 1 4260 _ Office Staff Disk Lib Apple Seth Mize 410 766 1154 Office eg Beth Medlin pe TE Bill Derouin 4 iar eee Office Staff Ambrose Liao Tuesday nights only Apple IGS Gary Hayman 301 3453230 ple ary Hayman fonn Rulaito Saturday Art SIG Joe Morey 703 281 5385 Columbia Slice President Ellen Baniszewski 410 730 4891 Co V President Mac Ramesh Sardana 410 992 9884 Library Volunteers Co V President Mac Tim Helsing 410 730 7272 Apple II Head Librariandohn Ruffatto 301 735 4259 V PresidentApplell TomCook 410 995 0352 Editor Macintosh Lawrence Charters 410 730 4658 Apple IIGS Librarians John Ruffatto 301 735 4259 Editor Apple II Andy Wakshul 410 997 0156 Chris Hutmire 301 871 1203 Treasurer Tom Cowley 410 730 2319 Apple II Librarian Volunteer Needed BBS SysOp Henry Yee 410 964 3706 Apple III Librarian David Ottalini 801 681 6136 Disk Librarian Apple Bill Campbell 410 997 9317 Macintosh Librarian David Weikert 301 963 0063 Disk Librarian Mac Tim Childers 410 997 9317 Mac Library John DeMarco Ben Frank CADSIG Peter Danko 301 868 5550 William Jones Fred Rodgers CY a Eric ker om ar DisabledSI ay 944 3 Jonyelerno Joe Swick Desktop Publishi
93. hese are all on 1 44 Mb disks This was nec essary since many of the pro grams even when compressed were larger than would fit on 800 K formatted disks This new collection is primarily action and arcade although there is a smat tering of adventure board card and strategy games Individual disks are available for 4 00 each 3 50 for five or more and 25 for the ten disk collection Please honor authors requests for shareware fees if you decide to add shareware programs to your software library Shareware is a valuable distribution channel for low cost software and it is impor tant to encourage authors to use this channel by paying them for their efforts Just in time for the holidays there are now ten new disks in Fun and Games series Disk 00 01 C I Mac DISKETERIA CATALOG ee Extract Me First sea When this file is copied over to a hard disk and double clicked it will automatically extract the following two folders Washington Apple Pi f By Dave Weikert Just double click the e e Double Click Mee file toread our Program Notes and infor mation about Washington Apple Pi Ltd and our Mac Disketeria This opens the Easy View viewer You may have to select Word Wrap under the Style Washington Apple Pi Journal 67 menu to facilitate viewing You ey also open the Mac Disketeria text file with your favorite word processor Easy View 2 50 f By M Akif Eyler An application for intel
94. his program You will find some combi nation of modes and timing con straints that will make the game play you on even ground You will definitely enjoy this program and may actually improve your chess play Footnote Many other features are included that I should not fail to mention There is a save and load game feature Over a hundred clas sic games have been saved on the distribution disks Thereis an option to set upa game There is also a solve for mate feature The program will analyze a game and offer the moves that the computer would have made at any point in that game You can print the board position at any time and the moves made so far You can even tell the computer what your name is so that your chess clock will reflect that entry E Darrel Raines is a computer user programmer and sometime chess player He is currently involved with the NASA Space Station development With any luck Americans will be play ing chess in space by the year 2001 c Copyright 1994 T TalkNET Online Publishing and GEnie To join GEnie set your modem to 2400 baud or less and half duplex local echo Have the modem dial 1 800 638 8369 When you get a CON NECT message type HHH At the U prompt type XTX99014 DIGIPUB and hit the re turn key The system will then ask you for your information Call voice 1 800 638 9636 for more information Washington Apple Pi Journal 59 Vulcan Hard Drive Repair Problems by K
95. ho are able to share their knowledge with beginners in an un derstandable way have a true gift The chapter on IRC Internet Relay Chat is an example of how difficult it can be to explain complicated knowl edge in simple terms and not suc ceed Chapters on how to set up your own gopher or a campus wide infor mation system are written for those who ve moved beyond the basics Sources for individual and group ac cess are covered as well as how to evaluate what kind of access is needed Issues and controversies such as privacy copyright and freedom of speech are covered in PartX along with discussions of crackers and vi ruses virii electronic literacy and information overload In Internet Diversions how to play in the MUD and go on an Internet Hunt lighten the tone of what is otherwise an over whelming volume ofinformation The Appendices include how to get the latest List of Internet access sites UNIX tips a bibiliography of print resources and useful tools for internet travelers Several of these programs are on a computer disk included with the book you can get either the Mac or the Windows version as well as information on how to set up an ac count with one of several Internet service providers The offer includes up to one month of free access de pending on the package you choose The Internet Unleashed isa valuable reference tool for both you and your library patrons and is a compact way
96. if is absent Cleo spent a year at Apple as the Human Interface Design Manager on a team given the mission of de signing the human interface which consisted of designing both naviga tion and functionality Her primary area of responsibility was for navi gation and after evaluating the designs of other on line services came up with the metaphor of a town named eWorld as the ap proach to take She developed the basic style of the buildings and hired an illustrator Mark Drury to do the final drawings based on her originals It was Mark who in vented the ePeople His did black and white ink drawings which Cleo scanned and then colored using Photoshop on a Quadra 950 the top of the line Mac at the time She did this at high resolution so the fin ished art could be used for both screen display and printed promo tions eWortd Live pom trap eh en olen TSS 3 eWorld Audtoriums arm dy dras pb ren anes wi for eventi featuring the p r conaitens of tha day hebacd deacon aWorid ard hotel rever varmer w een MTT Lay cory The Mac lone e ME Your Mounted Cataeg Superstore Levert prices on S b Or BOO prodati in stock phu overnight ceiver y All the art for eWorld is also in black and white For this the color art was converted to a dithered B W image which was cleaned up us ing a good pixel editor such as Stu dio8 instead of Photoshop which isn t that good for editing pixels When evaluating the exi
97. including the one that was able to repair my drive I actually telephoned all seven recommended sources To makea rather long story short I sent my hard drive to three different com puter repair firms located as far away as Dallas Texas Leesburg Virginia and Chicago Illinois Fi nally the last firm I tried B amp D Computer Repair of Chicago Illi nois was able to repair the drive Larry Beyer the owner of B amp D Computer Repair called my home several times to discuss the prob lem with me I found Mr Beyer to be very helpful and extremely pro fessional and knowledgeable Be sides he only charged me 35 00 to repair the hard drive Today my 100 MB Vulcan hard drive is back in operation and is working perfectly I only have the highest praise for Larry Beyer I would recommend him to anyone out there in Apple II Land with a similar problem Ifyou have a problem with your AE hard drive Mr Beyer may be reached at the following address B amp D Computer Repair 6115 S Massasoit Chicago IL 60638 His telephone number is 312 735 9010 E November 1994 Apple Il Magazine Index Announced Editor s Note For the past ten years Michael Ching a devoted Apple II enthusiast from Hawaii has been meticulously indexing ar ticles that have appeared in Apple II magazines A labor of love Michael makes these indices avail able to others on disk at a very reasonable price Last month Wash ington Apple
98. ind ready to run models for bal ance sheets income statements cash flow analyses monthly sales summaries payroll databases plus many other applications Each model is briefly described and fol lowed by complete program listings that you can quickly key into your Apple 9 95 101 pages THE APPLE FOR YOUR BASIC KID written and illustrated by Tricia Jordan Softalk Books After returning to school and earning a Ph D in Early Childhood Development Tricia Jordan and a friend founded the Computer Work shop where children from pre school through age 80 play and learn with personal computers In this large format easy to read book she describes the ins and outs of com Washington Apple Pi Journal 61 puters in a non intimidating style The many delight ful illustrations clarify various concepts throughout the book From turning on the computer to adventure game programming from flowcharts and flashcards to computer graphics THE APPLE FOR YOUR BASIC KID offers an enjoyable introduction to programming for kids and adults SPECIAL 6 95 pub at 19 95 299 pages APPLES FOR TEACHERS 101 PROGRAMS FOR THE CLASSROOM Jim McRae Tab This book is written for the classroom teacher with little or no computer experience who is eager to use a computer in classroom Classroom teachers simply do not have the time to enter long and complex programs into their computers so most of these programs can be en
99. ine at 1 800 505 0171 for a copy of the catalog HM Apple e Mail Mailing Lists Apple List Processor Join any of four official Apple e mail mailing lists Additional Apple Internet Sites www apple com tThe Apple Li brary Home Page info hed apple com The Apple Higher Ed Gopher Server at the Uni versity of Minnesota ftp info apple com ftp apple com aux support apple com An Apple UNIX related sit spinaltap micro umn edu Tech Info Library via Gopher HM Apple Related Home pages that are not Sponsored by Apple Com puter Inc Farallon Web Server Global Village MacWeb from El Net Macintosh Internet resources from the University of Washington Arizona Macintosh Users Group Newton info from the University of Houston hMicrolib Macintosh Archive from the University of Texas This area will continue to grow and be updated Your Feedback Quantitative information in the form of a survey Qualitative information in the form of a text area for custom ers to write specific problems or sug gestions about the services There is also an additional area for document ing and reporting bugs We hope to base future tools and serviceson feedback andcustomerneeds Smorgasbord This is the entertaining side of the Apple web site This server is run on a Power Macintosh Server 6150 Currently the Smorgasbord con tains HM The Apple Personal Pages This area showcases the personal home
100. ing Galactic Empire by conquering the 19 independent planets You may configure your fleet collect taxes from conquered worlds and spy on planets with satellites prior to configuring your fleet for attack Supports color or B W Macs under System 6 0 4 and later Shareware 15 Infotron v 1 0 f sea By David Peck Nathan Cook and Brooke Nelson Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring MD A graphic based multi level adventure with an original score Murphy is a bright red gumball on a mission to save all the gumballs inside ofhis dispenser from the evil computer battling against power surges falling data stacks and nasty scissors Requires a color Mac with 25 MHz 68030 or faster CPU and at least 2 MB free memory 3 MB for full music and sound Shareware 10 Disk 22 15 F G 15 Fun amp GAMES Maniac 2 0 f sea By Alex Metcalf An arcade game with the chaseof PacMan together with the word play of Hangman Requires a 68020 or better CPU System 7 0 or later 640x480 screen or larger 256 colors grays or more and 2 7 MB of free memory Shareware 15 Mille Bornes 1 2 1 f sea By Greg Abbas Very lush nice version of the classic card game Mille Bornes or 1000 miles in which you try and win a car race while simultaneously sabotaging your opponent Requires a color monitor Shareware 10 Disk 22 16 F G 16 Fun amp GAMES Blackjack Deluxe 1 7 3 f sea By Ed Trice A great introduction t
101. intriguing part is that through artificial intelligence his words the software picks photos with descriptions matching the client s descriptions with varyingrigor starting with the best This was the presentation that prompted me to say that not all were multi media Robert E Kovacs of Northern Sky Design discussed A Practical Look at Video on Demand A Case Study Mr Kovacs was consulted for the design of an inexpensive campus wide closed circuit video on demand system to be installed and operating by December 1 1994 His investigation convinced him that analog video was the only viable option The entire system was designed using off the shelf mostly consumer grade equipment Allthe video playback equipment is in one location Studentsin many locations can call for and view material on normal TVs and can have complete normal VCR type control over playback Mr Kovacs described QuickTime movies as too small and herky jerky for students who expect at least VCR quality playback Dr Judy Garcia whose name is familiar to WAP Journal readers and Dr Terrance Woolsey both of the Fairfax County Public Schools presented Electronic Field Trips The field trips are among the many video programs Drs Garcia and Woolsey have produced for the school system Programs are available all the way from individual play back only classroom use up to lt Digital Photo graphic Image Database
102. ion as you see fit We then bombarded Bob with a multitude of other questions such as Will there be other Newtons such as a larger one Yes Will there be better hardware Yes Will there be better software Yes Will there be better support Yes Will there be a better Newton Developer Kit Yes When When When When Soon Yes it was an informative meeting To those of you who haven t come to a NewtonSIG meeting yet come by and see what all of the by Nancy Seferian UR SEPTEMBER Women s SIG meeting began as usual with Grace Gallager catering dinner for us for the astonishing fee of 2 00 The menu included chicken breasts Florentine vegetarian beans rice fresh broccoli with non fat onion and sour cream dip fruit jello fresh home grown from her garden tomatoes and cucumbers fresh fruit and cheesecake for dessert During dinner we had time to catch up on each other s new projects new hardware and software plans and questions After dinner and before the demonstration portion of the meeting we all introduced ourselves to the group This night we had present a new Mac user several desktop publishers a freelance writer editor a federal defense analyst an elementary school music teacher a Macintosh lab coordinator a database developer a grandmother whose grandson excitement is about I think PDAs are here to stay and it is fascinating to hear how people are using their Newtons Are Newto
103. ir children through the net how to ask for help and information from others and romance via modem The thorough coverage of busi ness Netiquette makes this book a must have for anyone who needs to train employees to use electronic mail at work While teaching people how to use the software it s also impor tant for companies to set up a formal email policy regarding usage This section has good basic information on which to build such a structure including consideration of employee privacy issues This school year our students will begin to use the Internet as resource and a link to the outside world Proper use and behavior is as important as learning the protocols and commands Because Netiquette is so complete and well structured I will be using it as a foundation for instructing both students and faculty Theconcluding chapters consider wider issues such as encryption and copyright Laws and rights designed to protect other media are not so eas ily definable in cyberspace and every one whois involved with this new way of communicating needs to be aware of the importance of creating new laws fair to everyone Netiquette offers an excellent bib liography of materials available in print and in electronic form Ifyou are interested in Netiquette issues the publisher has created a List you can join netiquette request albion com with the words subscribe Your Name in the subject field like so TO netiquette
104. isted in the calendar page for that month in order to be included in the appropriate issue Any ads postmarked after that time will be included at the discretion of the editor Cost is 2 00 line 40 characters per line maximum 12 lines Members of Washington Apple Pi Ltd may place ads up to three lines at no charge The editor reserves the right to refuse any ads deemed inappropriate Services Law Office of Richard S Sternberg A General Practice of Law since 1984 General Civil amp Criminal Litigation Employment Labor amp Civil Rights Personal Injury amp Auto Accidents Business and Corporate Practice Domestic Relations Wills amp Probate Admitted DC MD VA amp Fed Courts First consultation free and discount rates with valid Pi membership 202 638 2300 For Sale Mitsubishi Diamond Scan 20 color monitor 499 Super Mac 20 color monitor 499 Plextor Texel Double Speed Plus CD Rom Drive new in factory sealed carton external model 5028 379 Radius 8XL Accelerated Video Card for 20 monitor 199 Mac IIci Cache Card 29 Mac SE 30 4 megs ram 499 Please call Byron at 301 654 1745 Mac Accelerators amp Other Hardware Call Craig at 703 532 6981 extention 7 Bell Atlantic Caller ID Display Box Like new 50 00 call Barbara through Maryland Relay 1 800 735 2258 then 301 229 6028 November 1994 nati ni Donate old Macs for charitable deduction Church educational ministry need
105. k 500 Series Intelligent Battery M1908LL A Batteries that exhibit the problem typically have a very low charge out of the box Since the power management features of new batteries depend on a minimum charge that is higher PowerBook 500 series computers have difficulty recognizing the new battery and charging it The Apple Assurance PowerBook Support group has developed a series of troubleshooting steps see the fol 54 Washington Apple Pi Journal folders each have their own win dows associated with them When you OPEN a disk icon you see a window displaying the contents of that disk When you OPEN a folder you see a window displaying the contents of that folder You may change the shape and size of each window to suit your work habits Windows have now been widely adopted on other computers as well because they help users compart mentalize their information into manageable batches E RAM tThis acronym stands for Random Access Memory It s the memory space built into the hard ware of your Mac which the com puter uses to store information tem porarily Disks are where most in formation is stored permanently You need to know very little about the RAM in your Mac except how much of this space you have Some applications won t operate without adequate RAM space The com puter uses RAM invisibly to shuttle tiny bits of information in and out of lowing table that may work to get the PowerBook to recognize an
106. ker Mort Greene GRAPHICS General Bill Baldridge Jay Rohr Adobe Illustrator Ling Wong Aldus FreeHand Nancy Seferian Canvas Bill Baldridge Tom Parrish MacDraw Tom Parrish John Spencer ImageStudio Jamie Kirschenbaum evenings SuperPaint 2 0 Mort Greene VideoWorks Mort Greene PROGRAMMING Ada Harry Erwin ceefore 10 pm Harry Erwin efor 10 pm Fortran Harry Erwin tetore 10 pm 38 Washington Apple Pi Journal 703 683 5871 301 449 3322 202 333 0126 800 826 4768 301 474 0634 301 564 1560 301 654 8784 703 522 8743 202 829 4444 703 662 0640 301 299 9380 301 730 1084 703 522 8743 301 630 2036 301 461 1798 301 654 8784 703 750 2710 301 655 0875 410 268 5793 703 751 4386 410 268 5793 703 522 8743 202 333 3409 301 779 8271 301 655 0875 703 803 9109 202 333 0126 301 779 8271 301 654 8784 301 654 8784 301 730 1084 703 522 8743 703 437 3921 703 522 8743 703 522 8743 703 758 9660 703 758 9660 703 758 9660 Inside Mac John Love 703 569 2294 Pascal Harry Erwin before 10 pm 703 758 9660 Michael Hartman 301 445 1583 SMALLTALK 80 Harry Erwin before 10 pm 703 758 9660 SPREADSHEETS amp CHARTS General David Morganstein 301 972 4263 Bob Pulgino 301 474 0634 Tom Cavanaugh Excel David Morganstein Mark Pankin Jim Graham Dick Byrd Bob Pulgino Tom Cavanaugh Paula Shu
107. kgrounds and the like Remember this card represents YOU Make sure it rep resents you accurately Or at least the way you WANT to be repre sented Rule 4 Design the card tocommunicate Communicate the essential in formation clearly and quickly Im portant type should be no smaller than 8pt phone fax and or email numbers should be no smaller than 9 point and preferably 10 to 12 if they ll fit Remember your name and your number are the most im portant things Rule 5 Never fill the card completely up Never You always want room for a note or two Some of the more effective cards I ve seen have even provided space and a little notes prompt to encourage note making If you have an overwhelming need to add lots of copy then consider a folding card Rule 6 Be memorable Think about being creative with out violating the previousrules Any thing that will make you look more professional and stand out in the crowd Look at cards you ve col lected Which are the outstanding ones Ask yourself why Consider foil stamping or embossing These when tastefully done say up scale Consider engraving this says elite Consider a die cut fold this says inventive Keeping in mind all the above information go forward Have a good time Get out there and meet and greet network til you drop Use that business card and make it do what it s supposed to do as an ac
108. l hang in the same web Any innovation within one el ement will have a direct and inevi table effect on the other elements of existence The Democratization of Mass Communication Consider that throughout his tory mass communication has al ways been tightly controlled In pre industrial society a crowd was al ways perceived of as a threat by the It is the unique nature of Internet communication that provides us with a point of reference within the land scape of cyberspace Internet facilitated communication is an altogether new form of human behavior uncensored and accessible at least to the middle class bi directional mass communication elite In post industrial society the ruling elite have maintained almost total control over all vehicles of mass communication As a result of the rise of cyber communication the controlling institutions of society have for the first time in history lost control over mass communica tion From this point onward every one wired to the Internet owns a printing press and soon enough a radio and TV station The means of mass communication has been de mocratized The state has lost con trol over the means of production and distribution of knowledge at the very point in time when we have entered into the digital Information Age The Resurrection of the Word If you want to see the future look toward the edge of the Informa tion Age look intocyberspace Wh
109. l is carefully utilized for visual effect conserving non essential movement and pushing the program to its limits The idea is to trick the program to deliver maximum animation when needed in the most effective location and time Appealing frog characters drawn by Balmes in traditional di mensional frame by frame anima tion also delight viewers in the sec ond product Revealed Treasures Viewing America from Above This program uses both 2 D and 3 D ani mation to introduce the concept of remote sensing through Perry s nar ration of text written by CVI Vice President Kathleen Dudden Andrasick A former English teacher known locally and nation ally for her publications and teacher workshops in language conceptual learning and critical educational components of each program What we re really trying to dois teach kids how tothink as scientists she said Both programs use the pro cess of scientificinvestigation to guide students in forming and proving a hypothesis while exploring a wealth of rich educational material through multi sensory interactive experi ences that totally involve the user in the learning process Extensive in formation on the history and back ground ofsubjects related tothe main topic is easily accessed throughout Letters and words that bounce twirl and pop through the antics of frogs and tadpoles created by animator Mike Balmes are one of the many innovative design and t
110. l the dust from all the chips inside the computer as well as pushing down on all the chips to make sure that they are all in their sockets 8 One last thing make sure that the battery pack for the clock is pretty close to 3 0 or 4 5 for a three battery pack volts If it isn t it s time to replace the batteries 9 Put the eleven screws back in and set the time by booting your favorite program like System Utilities or even Word Juggler Questions Address Them To Thomas E Linders 12604 Wardell Ct Saratoga CA 95070 408 741 1001 E November 1994 by Dave Weikert New Disks About Shareware E HAVE ELEVEN disks Requests this month including an up date of the Disketeria Catalog and ten new Fun and Games disks Disketeria Catalog Update I updated our Disketeria Catalog again this month The catalog in Easy View viewer format permits fast browsing of the contents of our Disketeria collection Youcan search for specific file names or disk num bers The three Easy View win dows make it easy to see the over all organization of the Disketeria collection as well as see the de tailed descriptions of the con tents of each folder or archive The catalog disk costs 4 you can trade in an older version of the Disketeria Catalog disk for the current version for 1 plus postage if by mail Fun amp Games Series Justin time for the holidays there are now ten new disks in Fun and Games series And t
111. le Area Board lt D gt Download a File lt X gt Xfer Download a Msg lt F gt Find File Descriptions or Msgs lt H gt Help With File Transfer Editor Menu lt I gt Info on File Contents lt A gt Add to File lt L gt List All Files lt C gt Clear File in Memory lt M gt Mark Files for lt D gt Delete a line from File Downloading lt O gt Off the System lt E gt Edit a Line lt Q gt Quit to Main Menu lt F gt Find a String lt R gt Read File Descriptions lt G gt Global Search amp lt T gt TitleScan Descriptions Replace lt U gt Upload a File or Files lt I gt Insert Lines into File lt W gt Welcome Bulletin lt L gt List the File lt M gt Toggle Reply Mode User Preferences lt N gt Line Numbering Mode lt A gt Alter Password On Off lt E gt Emulation Mode lt P gt Purge Temporary File lt F gt File Transfer Protocol lt Q gt Quit Clear File amp Exit lt P gt Prompt Character lt R gt Read back from lt Q gt Quit to Main Menu Temporary File lt R gt Reply Mode Prefix lt S gt Save File and Exit lt V gt Video Length Editor lt X gt Expert Novice Prompts lt T gt Write File to lt Y gt Your Current Status Temporary File lt U gt Upload Mode Toggle Washington Apple Pi Journal 39 y O PE sath ict KR ENES
112. les sponsible for the company s rapid grown and success Three years ago I was a one man operation with one desk in one office Today through support provided by DBED Depart ment of Business and Economic De velopment the High Technology Development Corporation and the Manoa Innovation Center we em ploy more than 28 people and have published two products with many others currently in the planning and production process Both Frogsin Space and Revealed Treasures Viewing America from Above can be ordered by calling Glencoe McGraw Hill Publishing Company at 1 800 334 7344 or Com puter Visualizations Inc at 1 800 771 7284 Versions of each program specifically designed for individual use in the home will be available soon Computer Visualizations Inc produces innovative multi media titles and computer animation in four market areas education medical risk management corporate training and mass market entertainment CD ROMs For further information call Richard Childers at 539 3669 Our thanks to the Hawaiian Macintosh and Apple Users Society for the above article from their news letter SIGNAL August 1994 System 7 5 Clean Install Shortcut By Mark Hansen To perform a clean install of System 7 5 without having to remove the Finder or System file and renaming the System folder launch the Installer as normal Pass through the Welcome to System 7 5 dialog box When the Installer window
113. li gent browsing of collections of structured text files large or small It allows very fast access by recognizing the internal structure Easy View Introduc tion and Easy View Notes are in text format Easy View Read Me is in Easy View format Files txt By Dave Weikert A delimited text file of all of the files included in our Mac Disketeria It includes File Name File Size File Type File Creator Creation Date Revision Date and Folder and Disk Names You should be able to import this list into your favorite database for sorting and selection and printing You could also import the list into any word processor that accepts large text files Disk 22 11 G 11 FUN AND GAMES All Ages Bingo 1 01 f seax By Jim Allison A multimedia rendition of traditional Bingo which can be played and enjoyed by all ages Requires System 6 0 7 or later with a 13 inch or larger color monitor Shareware 18 Arashi 1 1 1 f sea By Juri Munkki A 3D vector graphics arcade game You are a crawler moving around the top edge ofa tube or sheet You must evade your enemies the Flippers Pulsars Fuseballs Spikers and Tankers Requires at least 256 colors HangMan 1 4 1 f sea By Ola Montan This computer game plays the famous game of Hang man It can speak different languages in version 1 4 it talks Swedish Spanish Irish and English More languages can be added DropMeANoteWare Disk 22 12 G 12 FUN AND GAMES
114. lished by John Marman President of Group of NEWTON Users in Toronto GNUT E November 1994 y ae Wee Y Line ST hy eed Toe p Se Aa TER tg ae Pa on ae ye ree Ue 5 eee ake E EE AVAN pr eat E Fei ae Peres ik aas dg ie ey EP GET Ho Che re Fee se G He ee Rae pa ge OPE ate ey Sle ar TE SMPTE Meeting on Multimedia and Communications by Stuart Bonwit HE WASHINGTON Section of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers SMPTE convened an all day meeting on the subject Multimedia and Communications on Saturday Sept 24 1994 The meeting was held in the new NASA Headquarters building at 4th and E Streets SW in Washington DC A broad range of topics was discussed all having to do with electronic media most having to do with multi Meeting Chairman Tom Bentsen noted that submissions for the meeting were sought for applications on all platforms However only the Macintosh was represented Macs were all over the stage and out in the lobby registering attendees and making badges NASA s auditorium is high tech tothe max Presentations were made via three video images side by side on a rear projection screen 25 30 feet wide The center video projector has high definition television HDTV capability Professional video equipment taped the meeting with an occasional image of the presenter on the big screen behind the podium All presentation graphics came from Macint
115. lock dis plays for the human and computer players can be turned on or off All of these features are not strictly neces sary but add to the overall polish on the package I guess at this point you could say Nice review but the real ques tion is how well does it play chess I suppose this is a valid question However most people who buy com puter chess programs are not all that strong at their game I would ven ture to say that most people buy a chess package based on features not on playing strength I would rate the game strength of this program as equal to that of an experienced tour nament chess player That probably isn t enough of an answer so I will attempt to expand upon the state November 1994 ment The program makes use ofa large opening book that allows the com puter to choose its first few moves from a time honored collection of the best openings that the chess world has to offer This is both a strength and a weakness for the computer The response from the program will be instantaneous for the first few moves However once the opening book has been exhausted of moves the computer must use its internal algorithm for making successive moves The fallacy here is that the opening moves may have been geared toward an objective that the com puter algorithm does not carry for ward into subsequent moves How ever this does not show up as a weakness in too many games Once the internal alg
116. love Problems 60 Math Poraa TA auasi Art top ORI ENE o O Science Bubblegum amp Writing 50 Apple II Magazine Index s 3 OE NE AR 61 Macintosh Articles What is PrintMonitor 1 Apple III Articles by Ed Rupp On theTrail of the Apple 63 Real World FreeHand 4 0 15 by David Ottalini by Nancy Seferian Disk Cleaning amp S The Apple World Wide Web Adjustments sn REG 66 segotir aa ENE 16 Setting Your Clock on the Apple 67 y Preston Gregg T Macintosh Tutorials 17 ead aa Tutondl POUT nnna 19 Artists on Exhibit cissccscscerivcesses 20 Disk Libraries by Blake Lange Macintosh Disk Library 67 The Internet Unleashed 23 by Dave Weikert review by Ellen Zuby Macintosh Disk Order Form 70 The Journal of Washington Apple Pi Ltd is an independent publication not affiliated or otherwise associated with or sponsored or sanctioned by Apple Computer Inc The opinions statements positions and views stated herein are those of the author s or publisher and are not intended to be the opinions statements positions or views of Apple Computer Inc 2 Washington Apple Pi Journal The office The office did move and the new address is 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 The new phone number is 301 984 0300 The new TCS phone numbers are 2400 bps 301 984 4066 14 400 bps 301 984 4070 A map showing where the office
117. lunteers We have a very bright and enthusiastic group of volunteers working to bring you the best possible classes and programs We encourage and welcome additional support for the training program Graphic designers desktop publishers and illustrators we could use your help in promoting our programs with brochures and fliers For further information call Beth Medlin at the Pi office 301 984 0300 V OLUNTEERS AND INSTRUCTORS You can t have J dents who wish hands on train Some Specifics BH Where Unless otherwise ing to bring their computers DE stated all tutorials sponsored W Instructor Cancellation Ifa by Washington Apple Pi are class is cancelled by the instruc given at the office located at tor all students will be notified of 022 Parklawn Drive ae payment must be made to hold a seat W Class Size Class size is thecancellation Pleasecheckyour Mu 1494 limited to6 stud nts per class Intro to Mac 2 1121 94 E Bring my computer AU M11219 Classes rd oser seminar Intro to Mac 3 11 28 94 style with the instructor using M112894 PN computer and an overhead oS 11 23 2 Seley We encourage stu 94 MIN November 1994 E Macintosh Tutorials The Macintosh introductory tu torials are a three part introduc tory series designed for beginning users or those desiring to brush up on their skills The primary focus of these cours
118. mas O Hagan 301 593 9683 SPREADSHEETS General Walt Francis 202 966 5742 MagicCalc SuperCalc2 0 Leon Raesly 5 am Spm 301 868 9554 Telecommunications Dale Smith 301 762 5158 Allan Levy 301 340 7839 Ken De Vito 703 960 0786 Dan White 301 449 3322 TimeOut Series Morgan Jopling 1 301 721 7874 Utilities ProSel Barry Fox 717 566 6709 CROSS PLATFORM TRANSLATION MS DOS Apple Mac Transfers Ken De Vito 703 960 0786 WORD PROCESSORS General Walt Francis 202 966 5742 Apple Writer 2 Ron Evry 703 490 1534 Dianne Lorenz Leon Raesly 5 am Spm 301 530 7881 301 868 9554 AppleWorks GS Roger Burt 301 424 6927 A D Bill Geiger 703 237 3614 Andy Gavin 703 734 3049 Letter amp Simply Perf Leon Raesly 5 am 5 pm 301 868 9554 Mouse Write Barry Fox 717 566 6709 Publish It Gary Hayman 301 345 3230 Ray Settle 301 647 9192 Screen Writer II Peter Combes 301 251 6369 Gene Carter 202 363 2342 Word Perfect James Edwards 301 585 3002 Henry Donahoe 202 298 9107 Word Star Art Wilson 301 774 8043 Apple IIGS Neil Laubenthal 703 691 1360 A D Bill Geiger 703 237 3614 General Barry Fox 717 566 6709 Ile Upgrade Morgan Jopling 301 721 7874 APW Andy Gavin 703 734 3049 Leon Raesly am Spm Deluxe Paint II 301 868 9554 Rich Sanders 703 450 4371 GS BASIC Barry Fox 717 566 6709 Multiscribe GS Ray Settle 301 647 9192 TELECOMMUNICATI
119. me after a phone call and Ill check it out for you The only charge is my cost for the parts involved which is usually not very much ll Disk Speed Checks There are several ways to check the disk speed The best way I know of is to remove the bottom of your 66 Washington Apple Pi Journal Disk J or Disk and check the speed with a strobe light The best strobe I know of is a neon bulb with 50 or 60k ohm resistors in each leg of the little bulb Not having a bulb just use a regular lamp a fluorescent one is better The bottom of the disk hub has a strobe wheel with two tracks one for 50 Hertz and one for 60 Hertz In Europe use the 50 Hertz track andin America use the 60 Hertz track The speed is good enough when the little bars move less than one space in ten seconds The disk drive speed should be set to 300 R P M or one revolution in 200 milliseconds 200 milliseconds 0 2 seconds 1 5 second There are many commercial programs that check this out by just booting a disk and sometimes inserting a blank disk In order to check disk drive speed the disk usually writes to the disk but not always The above programs work just great if you have an American Spec Apple computer n American spec Apple Computer has a master crystal frequency of 14 318 180 Hertz The European computers have a master crystal frequency of 14 250 450 Hertz Not much of a difference but enough to make any speed tests rather inacc
120. me you can choose the Blitz mode and the whole game must be completed in less than 10 minutes i e 5 minutes per side to make all moves There is also a feature called Equal Time mode where the com puter is constrained to use about the same amount of time that you use to determine the next move November 1994 The options don t end there Many features are available for the human opponent You can choose between three different views of the board A 2D option will show the board from above A 3D option will show a nice three dimensional view of the board from one side A War Room option provides a smaller 2D view with additional windows show ing pieces captured notation for moves made and computer contem plated moves If these features are not enough for you you can also choose the colors that will be used for all pieces the board colors and you can even design and use a custom set of playing pieces A number of other good features of varying importance round out the package The computer will play with no sound at all bell sounds music or a human voice responding to play on both sides A variety of informational windows can be turned on or off as a way of monitoring computer activity There is a teach ing mode where the computer will suggest your next play Thereisa list of moves made so far There is a computer thinking display that will give you insight into what plays the program is contemplating C
121. mple Sokoban Vol 1 level 6 31 2468 or hjkl Clicking with the mouse in a neighbor square has the same effect as pressing keys Themancan move the gold bags by pushing them in front of himself one at a time This of course means that if you push it into a corner it is stuck If you get stuck which will happen frequently you can restart the level from the Edit menu You can also save a position with Copy and restore it with Paste Undo is supported for the last move Ifyou press the control key while pressing a key or clicking the man will move as far as possible in the chosen direction If you press shift instead he will move and push as far as possible If you click the mouse some where but the closest positions the path finding algorithm is activated and the man will go to that position if there is an open path there When moving using the mouse you can click and drag to make sev eral moves in a sequence by holding the mouse button down while mov ing Ingemar Ragnemalm Internet address ingemar isy liu se November 1994 The Educational Value of the Simple Sokoban Logic Puzzles Children enjoy thinking One of the miracles of micro computers is that they can help younger and older chil dren develop an appetite for logic puzzles When I first saw the Sokoban logic puzzles I quickly became fascinated in trying to solve them myself But the 50 original puzzles are s
122. n party reste your own books and have fun n computar comenarety part for kits EX Fun tuff ta learn and Ge coal rtories inter active Garret the later beds dook reviews and mach more Kids Clubhoese Meet other Creekies Put on rhit oF olay at for joker contests fun Let s Put On A Show Every tte you need te put on shits ard plays at home The Hungry Ear Check the hedde of events pee t Encycopeds maker ng eae oga US and gobu statister ee erie Search the wet inaen source of nformatsan on computer Compareet and the industry Hoover s Company Profiles In depth cover age of hundreds of world wide comparves nduderg herte y management frandal and more Little Theater actat Tha Hung Ear od and more Little Theater Director Joanis dele 1 great ideas for young actors You ve the actor for ergrovt comedy night and more What s Up ft The hungry Ear November 1994 REP De read Heter og ce odde KN de Set beet CRN beh pe hr Re Sa as ee tet Sea eek Me chad td Ne A PRE CERES Pope SR 9 838 Bee eat ete 5 SR AAE PRS ed we ae Zs he gt z SES SESSLER x Ihe a review by Ellen Zuby books about the Internet by poundage alone The Internet Un leashed would win the contest Sub titled Everything You Need to Know About the Internet it s also a winner in its coverage Here you will find information ranging fr
123. n speaking with Carl amp Ann Purcell CarlPix474 and Annpurcell of the Pictures of the World forum keyword PIC TURES on AOL They have very graciously extended permission for online classes in ESH to make use of pictures in their libraries for our class projects including those in which stacks and magazines are uploaded to our ESH libraries for classroom sharing This is an in valuable resource with pictures on many topics from around the world Carl and Ann ask only that we honor their copyrights through taking the following action 1 Include the following text line on all pictures Copyright The Purcell Team Publication and screen rights can be obtained by calling 703 845 1104 Addi tional images available on AOL through keyword Pictures 2 Send a short E mail note to CarlPix474 and Annpurcell whenever a multimedia hypertext or desktop published documents containing their pic November 1994 tures are uploaded to the ESH libraries 3 Post only to ESH libraries and do not re use their photos or distribute them for use by oth ers Their survival as an online forum depends on us honoring their copyrights Many special thanks to Carl and Ann for letting us use their photos SWOOP Acid Rain Study The Students Watching Over Our Planet Earth SWOOPE Acid Rain Study is designed to include students from across the country in a long term scientific study Kanawha will begin the 1994 ses sion
124. nce students develop a basic mastery skill at playing the puzzles themselves they can then try their hand at designing their own original puzzles Puzzle design itself is a skill that calls for an interesting blend of creative and analytical skills Thanks are owed to Ingemar Ragnemalm an inspired Macintosh programmer in Sweden for creat ing this freeware Macintosh ver sion of Sokoban Showing an exem plary public spirit Ingemar has spent many extra hours adding and enhancing this freeware program over the past two years Thanks too to WAP member Phil in Simple Sokoban Vol 1 level 28 31 Bill Wydro who first explained to me how the MacSokoban puzzles could be used in the classroom Bill teaches middle school science in the Montgomery County schools and is a longtime mem ber of the WAP board of directors Phil Shapiro bon t rnet pshapiro aol com Note The freeware Simple Sokoban puzzles can be down loaded from the Mac Education file area on the TCS and the Mac Education Forum library key word MED on America Online Apple II versions of the Sokoban logic puzzles can be downloaded from the Apple II Roundtable li brary on GEnie E November 1994 amaaniks a y SEE ce ra EST ata neces ar iby SEE A Taste of Digest C7 B6 by David L Harris IRST TASTE then chew then swallow then digest Just so you don t taste after you digest Anyway C7 B6
125. nd white or color The easier puzzles can be enjoyed by elementary school children The original fifty MacSokoban puzzles are difficult enough to challenge the best of logic puzzle players The first part of the article from the program s original documenta tion explains how to use the soft ware The latter part of the article explains about some of the educa tional benefits of the Sokoban puzzles Phil Shapiro How to Play the MacSokoban Puzzles from the documentation by Ingemar Ragnemalm When you start the game the first time the first thing you must do is to create an entry in the Play ers menu As delivered one player is defined namely myself Feel free to remove me it just remains as an example The object of the game is to for each level rearrange a set of gold bags should perhaps have been cardboard boxes to certain posi tions When you have solved all lev els you have won the game There is another kind of score kept but don t bother about it for now You move the man with the mouse or the keyboard Keyboard movement is done with arrow keys 42 Washington Apple Pi Journal by Phil Shapiro For that matter the easier Sokoban puzzles fill the bill well for elementary level students These easier puzzles are a gentle introduction to logical reasoning with the benefit that each solved puzzle helps boost a child s confidence in tackling logic problems Phil in Si
126. ng I really did this earlier you see Don t confuse fan noise with HD startup amp run noise HINT Next time your Mac boots up close your eyes and LISTEN to the sequence of sounds Commit it to your long term 26 Washington Apple Pi Journal memory as the way it s supposed to sound If you have problems later it s important to note any change in the sounds of the startup sequence Mac chimes HD spinup noise and clicking of the head actuator Most of the time we re successful with these measures If wecan t bring back the HD welll try to get at the data with a volume recovery program usually Norton Sometimes we see that we can reformat the HD but can t get the data off We ll call and let you know the status and get your okay before reformatting though I always warn customers tonever Now I check what System version s installed and double check the RAM I keep notes as I go and here Ill note whether there s a System Update that I could install later let their HDs get over 90 full If they re that full you re going to try to save some new long file and encounter the dread Disk Full message If you persist in using a disk that s almost full you run a real risk of so corrupting the directory structure that you ll never get anything back if it fails m a strong believer in file optimization to eliminate fragmented files The worst HD I ve seen so far had 52 fragmentation
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128. nity and the physi cal shape of their bodies The prin cipal is simple change the geogra phy of existence and you change the nature of the self Now it is not every day that we see a massive shift in the founda tion of our existence This is simply because the majority of individuals live within a relatively stable and narrowly defined social geography Excluding for the moment nomadic societies it can be said that the The Internet is I believe a cultural phenomenon that is destined to be the seedbed of a new form of consciousness and a new type of self the uncensored self Bear with me as I explain why this is as certain as tomorrow further you go back in time the more physical and social mobility decreased Asa result cultural para digm shifts were rare In pre indus trial society and for the vast bulk of the record of human civilization the geography of existence was de fined by a day s walk from one s village This radius was the scope of the peasants life All else outside this familiar landscape was myth and danger Immigrants in Cyberspace Six years away from the dawn Washington Apple Pi Journal 33 Ji of a new millennium we are faced with nothing less than massive glo bal immigration into cyberspace One million new electronic citizens are initiated into its mysteries each and every month By the year 2000 there may well be half a billion homesteaders on the virtual fron ti
129. nkyou and hopefully has November 1994 become a BOS3 owner by the time you read this I ve asked him to write us an article about his experiences with the so watch for it sometime in the next few months Public Domain Library Restructuring I m happy to tell you I have made some progress with this project and in fact you may actually see the results this month or next As I began working on it I decided it would NOT make sense to release the updated files until AFTER the WAP Office had moved The office staff and volunteers had enough on their hands AND since each disk includes the WAP office address it made little sense to release the disks and then have to go back to update them one more time Since by the time you read this we SHOULD be in our new office I hope to have given John Ruffatto the first in our series Accounting Same category but some updated files AppleSoftware Ahomeforformer commercial software or updates to commercial software that I would rather not put somewhere else Bloom Software Dr Bloom s great series of disks finally have a home of their own Business Basic Ahome for BB its programs and utilities I may well have gotten further than this watch the Journal for more details over the next few months As always I appreciate your help and comments about our PD disks ESPECIALLY if you get one that doesn t work as advertised in some manner Finally Yo
130. nnectix and list shipping software for the Power Macs lots of international companies on that list Rounding out the issue Matt Neuburg and Adam focus on the small Macintosh developer mac archive umich edu The other listing above is for Macintosh files newly to be found at mac archive umich edu which as it suggests is a popular archive site for Mac files located at the University of Michigan Again access to these files is easiest with full Internet access which the TCS does not presently have Here is a recent edited example list of files uploaded to this site development libraries xtlite development source gdbml 73 hypercubersource2 0 macmint0 95 November 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 47 game arcade game board game card game demo game space graphics fractal graphics graphicsutil graphics quicktime hypercard game hypercard xfcn misc demo misc documentation misc math misc physics misc update sound midi sound soundutil sound speech system extensions cdev system extensions da system extensions fkey system extensions font bitmap system extensions font typel system extensions init 48 Washington Apple Pi Journal mongopongl 0 abalonel 3 battleship2 0 polyominoes5 0 500cards0 93 poker2 2 fokkertriplanedemo2 89 asterax1l 01 rescue2 02 colorfractalgen2 12 animorpherl 0 jpegview3 3 maccubeviewl 50 photoshopditherl 0bl flipbookmakerl 1 slotmachine dialogdisplay2 0 speaktextxfcn2
131. ns The parencies onto a single Pro Photo CD highest resolution can produce a 7 x 10 The highest resolution can produce a color separation on a PostScript image 14 x 20 color separation on a Post setter at 150 lpi The cost per image is Script imagesetter at 150 lpi The cost about 1 75 plus the price of the disc per image is less than 15 plus the price under 10 of the disc under 10 The Publishers Service Bureau 4300 King Street Alexandria Virginia 703 824 8022 ror Washington Apple Pi Ltd 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 Second Class November 1994 postage rates paid at Bethesda MD a m cUpgrad s 301 907 0500 Macintosh service LA Models Available Qur place or yours In the unlikely If you d like us to come to you event your Apple our goal is to respond to your request Macintosh com within eight hours And if you choose puter or peripheral to bring your Macintosh in you can needs service you expect to be up and running within have more choices two business 40mhz Ultra High Speed 68040 Processor Ethemet amp Appletalk Networking today than ever EE days Apple AT amp T Digital Signal Processor DMA SCSHI Disk Interface before These PowerBook 180k Full Screen Video NTSC In Out Optional Apple CD ROM 16 Bit Stereo Sound In Out 230 500 1000 MB Hard Drives Since we are an Apple Authorized extended Service Provider we can offer in service warranty and out of
132. ns a mature enough product that you will go out and buy one for the wife and kids No not yet But maybe next year you will The NewtonSIG meets monthly at the WAP office For more information please contact Andy Halls at 301 990 3725 or at ahalls digex net B owns a IIgs and two graphic designers a great and diverse group Our topic for the evening was the TCS WAP Telecommunications System Lauri Rohn gave us an overview of how the TCS works She is a member of the TCS Crew the Crew consists of the volunteers who help tooversee and operate the TCS and is also the author of the new TCS Guide She also showed us how to log on and maneuver around the 8 Conferences and the topic oriented Boards on each Conference Lauri began by explaining that she had been using the TCS for less than a year and had begun her TCS experience by trying every command she could She encouraged our group to do the same thing She said the worst thing that could happen might be that we would have to restart our computer and that we shouldn t worry about exploring and experimenting Lauri explained that the TCS has three parts to it the Conferences the Files area and E mail The Conferences may be visualized as a giant living room where there are many groups participating in different conversations It is a place where you can find several topics and November 1994 groups which you might like to join in order to listen and or
133. ns users with one of several animated cartoons Upon launching the program you re greeted by Snoopy s doghouse in the middle of the screen Surrounding it are five buttons leading to math games word games music games cartoons and a face maker The three math games teach ad dition subtraction multiplication and division In one game the Pea nuts gang takes a bus tour of the world Players count how many people are on the bus as they get on and off Another pits Snoopy against Woodstock in a game of darts Play ers can aim the darts themselves then tally up the scores To teach multiplication the entire crew gath ers around a table and divides up cookies As the player figures out how many cookies go toeach Peanuts character Peppermint Patty amuses herself by throwing her napkin at Charlie Brown The word games teach the let ters of the alphabet and simple spell ing Snoopy throws colored eggs around the screen each labeled with November 1994 a letter A voice instructs the player to click on a particular letter and rewards them with a fun animation if they choose the correct one If they click on the wrong letter they re given a cheat sheet showing all the let ters of the alphabet and allowed to try again Unfortunately the ani mated pictures for each letter pig for P kite for K etc can become very repetitive In the spelling game the player pilots Snoopy s airplane around picking up l
134. nstrate conspicuous computing Probably both Editorial Diversion When the Pi first began negotiations to show Office back in May all the applications were still under development A demon stration of Office at MacWorld DC was noteworthy for two things less than two dozen people showed up in a room that seated 300 and Excel November 1994 wouldn t even boot On the other hand there were enough refreshments for a small army Microsoft has obviously been very busy since then the new Word Excel and PowerPoint are impressive They are also frightening some in the audience were wondering if they should even dream of upgrading several hundred Macs or even a single Mac to the new Office given the daunting memory storage and processor requirements Say you have 400 Mac IIcx computers Yes they have 68030 processors so they will run Office Yes they have 1 4 megabyte floppies so you can install Office Yes they have mostly 8 megabytes of RAM so you have enough memory But they also have mostly 40 megabyte drives so you can t install all of Office you ll have to leave off the extra TrueType fonts templates sample files tutorial files even at a bare minimum Office requires 18 megabytes of disk space And you still need disk space for whatever files you might want that weren t written by Microsoft such as a decent database program and maybe System 7 5 and And then there is the nagging suspi
135. nt ones Consider follow ups Think about following up with those individuals you would most like to be aligned with Hot leads quickly turn cold so strike while it s hot A simple phone call will suffice A brief cordial note or post card Nearly unheard of in today s society Always makes a favorable impression 8 The hunt Now let s go on an expedition First stop will be your local Cham ber of Commerce Chances are they conduct events which are attended by the movers and shakers good hunting grounds for business card karma Look for other organizations like local church school or civic clubs Attend trade shows fairs and expos like MACWORLD Don t forget stopping in the kiosks at your local mall Good quality business referrals and contacts can turn up everywhere you go opportunities present themselves when you least expect them Never leave home with out your business cards a pen or pencil and a smiling face Rules for BizCard Success Rule 1 Your business card MUST BE GOOD By good I mean good printing with good readable type and graph ics Forget about the cheap o ther mal engraved stuff unless it s re ally high quality and PLEASE get rid of those tacky laser printed busi November 1994 ness cards footnote 1 They re a dead giveaway of amateurs If you position yourself with quality you ll get quality in return Be assured that the few extra dollars spent now on yo
136. nts customizing software installation cleaning your mouse and Macintosh housekeep ing philosophies Date Wed Nov 23 7 10 p m 18 Washington Apple Pi Journal Weekly Telecom Tutorials THE NEWLY started weekly telecom tutorials will be continuing on Fridays evenings 7 PM to 10 PM call for location These introductory telecom classes are intended to help people learn basic telecom skills The first two Fridays of each month are for people who have had little or no prior experience using modems The latter two or three Fridays of the month will be for people who already have some telecom experience The classes themselves will be taught on the club s Mac Ilci or Performa computers To sign up for one of these classes send 25 to the club s office The fee for non members is 35 Class size is limited to six persons The instructor for these classes is Phil Shapiro For questions about the classes please call Phil at 202 686 5465 home office or contact him via Internet electronic mail at pshapiro aol com Incidentally supplementary telecom information and programs will be provided on Macintosh disks Students interested in obtaining these supplementary materials are urged to bring a five formatted Macintosh disks either high density or double density to the classes Important note These classes are purposely set up to be unstructured During any given class the instructor will tr
137. o card counting Better looking cards a configurable shoe 1 16 decks a new analysis mode that allows you toset up a situation and perform millions trials rapidly to determine the best strategy a built in cheat mode variable levels of advice during game play an ability to modify the casino s rules and more Runs on Mac Plus and later Shareware 285 Five Dice 2 1 f sea By Tim Bobo Image Works Plus Software A Yahtzee type game rich in color and sound You can play single double or triple five dice with one to three players GopherGolf 1 2 0 f sea By Bob Mancarella A miniature golf game and course editor Play one of the five included courses or create your own with the editor Watch out for that pesky gopher You never know where he ll pop up next Runs in B W or up to 256 colors on monitors 9 and larger Requires System 6 0 5 or later Limited functionality until Shareware fee is paid Shareware 15 Disk 422 17 F G 17 Fun amp GAMES Canfield 5 1 f sea By Michael A Casteel cards by Dave Elward A solitaire card game You hear the first few bars of Scott Joplin s Entertainer when play is started Works with B W or color and most System software Shareware 10 Gobbler 1 3 1 f sea By Les Blatt A November 1994 snake eats mushroom game starring a snake named Hedda a variety of stones some delicious looking mushrooms and occasionally some bonus chests Gobbler plays in color if y
138. o very difficult that it took me three weeks and about 25 hours of thinking to reach puzzle number 12 At that point it occurred to me thatifthe puzzles were made easier they would have a strong appeal to children as well as adults The di rections for Sokoban said that it was possible to design your own puzzles using a word processor or text editor Ever ambitious to try something new I spent two or three hours designing my first simple Sokoban puzzle But it soon occurred to me that I could far more easily modify existing Sokoban puzzles than to design my own simple Sokoban puzzles from scratch _ I wasespecially intrigued in sim plifying the existing puzzles into various sub puzzles so that chil dren who played each of the sub puzzles would then have a fighting chance to attempt the original full puzzles Also it made sense to have a series of similar form puzzles where kids could say to themselves Gee this puzzles looks somewhat similar to the puzzle I just solved Let me try and discover what extra steps I need to do to solve this varia tion of the puzzle I just solved There s a special appeal in play ing logic games where each new puzzleis slightly more difficult than the last In the 1990 book The Art November 1994 of Human Computer Interface De sign educational software designer Joyce makes the following remarks Kids love the challenge and excite
139. of Solo Double tapping You can now double tap an Ace to bring it to an empty foundation Compatibility issues with the MP110 are also resolved Memory is approximately 55k The Lite version is included and functions just like the regular but without the gadget features Please read the enclosed Read Me File Solo is a simple card game based on the famous Klondike 7 NotePak 2 0 beta 2 0b10 NotePak is a list to do manager for the NEWTON This is a public beta release of NotePak 2 0 8 Figgles Utilities A snappy set of utilities for keyboards Typomatica is one that lets you type directly to your Newton from your PC Also a game a clock a multi colored readMe file 9 Sony Remote Control Application for the Newton This is version 1 0 of the Sony remote control package for Newton It enables the Newt to act as a remote control for Sony devices 10 QuickFind 2 1 QuickFind C 2 1 by noGravity C Software C 1994 by Thomas J Volgger All Rights Reserved ShareWare US 10 00 DM 15 OeS 100 QuickFind 2 1 enhances the Find function of the Apple Newton MessagePad in three ways It makes the Find button work as comfortable as the Assist button does It it gives you more options than just searching the current area or in all areas And it lists the last ten terms that were searched in the Look for pop up menu Found in Switzerland The GNUT TOP 10 Shareware List for Newton Software is pub
140. ols Hire me directly and save I teach Excel Word Quark PageMaker Illustrator MS Project and more References available Alan Stillman 703 548 8794 Bl ALLNET SERVIGE CENTER Apple and Macintosh Specialists Mac Plus 512 Power Supply 95 One MB Memory Upgrade Installed 48 Upgrade Mac 512 KE to Mac Plus w 1MBRAM 335 Laser Printer Hard Drive Floppy Drive Repair Call for our low rates Pickup Delivery On site Walk in Service Agreements 3020 Wilson Blivd Arlington VA Tel 703 527 4300 Washington Apple Pi Journal 71 Washington Apple Pi Ltd 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 Membership Application GE Please print or bpe n Sponsors s Name _ Please answer a few questions for us regarding your computer use Check the computers equipment that you use on a regular basis C Apple II LISA I Performa 600 L Mac II Other Apple II MacII Centris 610 L IBM or Compatible Apple Ile L Mac IIx L Centris 650 Non Apple Laptop L Apple Ic L Mac II cx WAP has many Special Interest Groups SIGs Apple IIc C Mac IIc and Activities Fill in letter next to area of _ Apple I GS Mac Ici interest J Join Group V Volunteer Laser 128 C Mac Ilsi AppleWorks SIG________ HOTLINE Franklin C Mac Ilfx Apple I a SIG_______ HyperTalk SIG_ Apple III SIG Mac Programmers Apple II SARA 1 Mac VX Art SIG SIG 6r Mac 128 Mac PowerBook CAD SIG Music SIG
141. om the history of the Internet to doing business on the Internet from a detailed expla nation of how to set up your very own gopher to copyright issues and from having fun with MUDs to protecting your privacy According to the intro duction this book is supposed to have something for everyone and with its inclusive coverage it s sure to have something of interest to every one but it s not a book for beginners If you want step by step instruction and hand holding while you install Internet software buy one of the books intended for those just starting out see below Unleashed is the book you buy once you ve gained some familiarity with the Internet through your own computer screen and want some di rection as to where to go next Ar ticles written by experts in the field cover topics in depth detail and pas sion not possible in books by a single author making it an excellent choice for reference Of particular use to librarians are the sections Librar ies and Education in Part IX Using the Internet Libraries in cludes information for public school and academic librarians citing use ful net sources Lists online message conferences for librarians and the Virtual Library In the Virtual Li brary the library without walls youll find what is being done now I F YOU WERE evaluating November 1994 with Internet access and a sketch of future possibilities v
142. on and a very short application by using the key word LabNet or simply entering through the gateway in ESH Teachers share information and activities are involved in online professional development take part in live chats with scientists around the country and have their stu dents take part in collaborative projects like taking data from the eclipse in May the Pringles Chal lenge the dive reflex project and much more The LabNet area is made up of a Community Forum Boards devoted to biology chemis try earth science physics telecom munications mathematics and more a science library for sharing materials and a Student Forum See you there SchoolHouse keyword ESH GEOGRAPHY DETECTIVES is back Whoever heard of students be ing eager to research This aston ishing occurrence took place last school year as students in class rooms across the U S took part in LaurieP8 s Geography Detectives Teachers using lesson plans pro vided in the SCHOOLHOUSE PROJECTS Libraries guided their students through a study of their own states and communities as they gathered clues about their locations These classes which had been as signed partners swapped boxes via snail mail of course and the re cipients excitedly analyzed the clues and began to pinpoint the locations Washington Apple Pi Journal 51 Il Not content with discovering the location classes wanted to under stand every clue Thi
143. ord 6 0 Excel 5 0 PowerPoint 4 0 MOM RAMDoubler Jay Miller Georgia Sadler Charles Ostrofsky Marilyn Schmal knowing what to expect due to the diverse nature of Newton users And we came to the meeting to hear Bob inform us and answer our questions as to what we can expect from Apple concerning the Newton and its related technology We started our meeting with the customary discussion of what we are using our Newtons for and what we would really like to do with our Newtons This cursory introduction gave new attendees as well as Boba quick synopsis of our uses abuses interests and needs Armed with that information Bobthen initiated a very interactive Il and Washington Apple Pi Credits Apple Power Macintosh 8100 courtesy Microsoft Corp Electrohome video projector courtesy Microsoft Corp Setup and worrying courtesy Microsoft Corp Question amp Answer Help Tom Witte Send meeting comments to lcharters tcs wap org To date I ve received several dozen comments from people out of the area and two from people out of the country but only three from people who ve actually attended the meetings W MAC REPAIR CENTER Dupont Computers UE in 1761S Ghee NW Washington DC 202 232 6363 Computers Monitors Printers Mac Repairs Mac UPGRADES Mac Parts amp ACCESSORIES On Site and In House Repairs Service Contracts Available Special Discounts for W A Pi Members Washington
144. orithm takes over the program is a good position player The computer will attempt to crush you with its entire arsenal of pieces The big advantage for the computer is this it does not overlook any capture fork or discov ered capture that is available in the next two or three moves This is a tremendous advantage over the av erage human player The advantage is even more obvious in timed games I have slapped my forehead a num ber of times upon overlooking a simple fork This is where one of the other attractive features of the game comes into play You can take back any number of moves for yourself or the computer This feature is probably important to the weekend pawn pusher Ihave played chess on and off for the past 20 years have participated in many different forms of game play including postal chess and modem chess For those of you who want a rating to use for comparison I have been rated anywhere from 1400 to 1900 during my chess playing ca reer ChessMaster 2100 can beat me 9 times out of 10 in the tougher game modes I can doa little better in the fast game play modes but when the computer wins in the fast time play it is usually because I failed to see something simple Let me put the ratio at 5 out of 10 for the faster modes Bottom line on ChessMaster 2100 If you have any interest in chess whether it is a casual spark or a deep seated love of the game you owe it to yourself to get a copy of t
145. oshes on the stage Mr Bentsen pointed out that the SMPTE crew set up everything the evening before the meeting and everything was working perfectly November 1994 but you can guess Early in the morning of the meeting day someone wiped out software for the HDTV projector that controlled the 16x9 aspect ratio ratio of picture width to height Of course an HDTV movie was to be first on the program It was decided to show the movie in normal 4x3 aspect ratio The picture quality was so bad much worse than my VCR that they stoppedit I m sure there followed desperate backstage activity Later in the day we saw the movie in 4x3 aspect ratio Part of the left side of the image was missing But talk about sharp detail you ain t lived till you ve seen HDTV One presenter s wiped out graphics were rescued by Washington Apple Pimember Etana Finkler Chairman Bentsen publicly acknow ledged her contribution What happened was that on the evening before the meeting Bob Kovacs slide presentation was loaded on a Mac ready to go At noon on Saturday the person who owned the Mac had finished his her presentation and took the computer home along with Mr Kovacs presentation Ms Finkler overheard this at 1 15 pm he was due to present at 3 00 pm Since creating presentations is her work she I volunteered to recreate it on the spot Mr Kovacs had a Microsoft Word6 pc disk with him but couldn
146. ou are using a Macintosh with a color monitor Shareware 10 Maelstrom 1 4 1 Installer By Andrew Welch Ambrosia Software Deadly meteors fly at you from all sides indestructible balls try to drain your shields and just when you thought escape was in reach the deadly Shenobi fighter will take you on one on one This is perhaps the classic Mac arcade game Requires color capable Macintosh with a 256 color monitor any size and System 6 0 7 or above Shareware 15 Pentris 1 1 f sea By Patrick Fournier A Tetris variant using goofy five block clusters instead of four The game has many background pictures to see as you clear away rows and it hosts a be politically correct checkbox which might just as happily be on as off For System 7 0 and later and Color QuickDraw Shareware 15 Disk 22 18 F G 18 Fun amp GAMES FiveStones 2 3 f sea By Xin Xu A traditional Chinese board game In the game two players black and white put their own stones in turn on a board with 15x15 or 19x19 lines Once on the board the stones can not be moved or overlaid or removed The winner is the first person who has on the board five or more consecutive stones of his her kind along lines or diagonally Plays both human and computer opponents Shareware 10 Missions of the Reliant 1 1 f sea By Michael Rubin An arcade adventure game that bears some resemblance to STTNG Rescue and NetTrek but has a per
147. our baling rformaten a Getting Started yi Utd efermeten ta De a h FN pms INA hd Unopened Mail vm Not yet rent a ea ad G fred bad Soret on pos pha MANAGE MAIL merecormer i far towers eWorid Weekly News Beet hot oew amp ov eget oep am He fart ber eWorld Products E Cr e the eWorld beet Waung for you te pend i Sent Mail N aad Already sent by you a 20 Washington Apple Pi Journal by Blake Lange Artist Information Cleo Huggins has just joined the design firm of Watts Silverstein in Seattle Wash ington after working for a year for Apple on the design of eWorld For merly she attended the Rhode Is land School of Design majoring in Graphics Design graduating in 1981 She spent the summer of her Junior year in Germany designing Ikirus computer type the first com puter outline type even preceding PostScript on a PDP 11 From the Fall of 1981 until the Spring of 1983 she taught graphics design at the Portland School of Art From there she went to Stamford from the Fall of 1983 until graduating with a Masters in Digital Typography in the Spring of 1988 designing a Hi eroglyphic font as her major project While attending classes she worked full time for Adobe starting in 1984 From1988 to 1991 she worked freelance and during that time she had long contracts to do graphics design work for both Apple and Next In 1991 she started a graph November 1994 eWorld News from Re
148. quests in Email recently for a source of DB 19 connectors for making Apple II cables They are readily available through JDR Microdevices 1850 South 10th St San Jose California 95112 4108 The phone number there is 1 800 538 5000 The male plug is part number DB19P 69 cents each or 50 cents each in quantities of 25 and up The female plug is part number DB198 75 cents each or 55 cents each in quantities of 25 and up These are the solder cup design with pins in all 19 holes There are no hoods available in the 19 pin size Craig by the way is the Sysop of the Electronics Shop BBS 1612 789 2149 And while he primarily supports the Apple I have talked with him a tad about the especially about power supplies IF anything comes of it I ll give you an update along the Trail Meet the Nicest People One of them has been Joe Schneider of Chesapeake Ohio who has been using Apples s for many many years Joe owns and operates a funeral home and has developed complete system to handle all of his business needs on Apple s In fact at one time he was seriously going to market it to other funeral directors but the lack of a good inexpensive hard drive foiled his plans In any case he continues to operate his business today on this s and says neither a Mac NOR a PC can do what his SARA can do as easily or as quickly I wonder if he s been talking with Paul Campbell Joe HAS become a WAP member Tha
149. r the idea of bribing officials for better public access Arrows appearing on many of the windows are doorways to ar eas that didn t pay the bucks to make it onto the first window There are also hard hats for areas still under construction On the left side of many windows is a bank of circular icons offering such things as service information directory and feedback Apple makes it known from the start to users and publishers alike that eWorld is nice and not raun chy It is a clean and well lighted place suitable for the entire family 22 Washington Apple Pi Journal win n Iver Dhire teatang and AIG resources f d grant sources aed AA Cpt ard talk ett other educators per sh enden hd er ape ht money for study research ard creative purnats Dollars for Study Research amp Creative Activities Search through thousands of funding progr ans The ABCs of Financial hid Your quide to whan where and how to search for financial support funding Exchange Mark Your Calendar sie Share you p rtons and successes Don t miss out Put these with fabos h ntsetk er 1 Gater om you Calendar Financial tid Library fs Financial hid News Read about the latert firvarasal wet Qader DEGEN A IAA d State hyeney k dress Book More about RS Ep Dicover more sbu the products from Reference Service Preti E Blackberry Creek Kids Creativity Community Put om play pla
150. ral change begins like a crack in the November 1994 wall ofour ordered and highly struc tured existence Sometimes the change is successful and survives long enough to generate a viable foundation for community Some times a crack in our social existence grows into a force strong enough to drag all of reality through itself and on into an altogether different para digm For over fifteen years now the Internet and the larger world of cyberspace itself the totality ofnon spatial and non temporal electronic culture have existed on the edge of dominant culture Until as recently as last year the Internet has re mained invisible and beyond both the experience and scrutiny of the majority Today the Internet has perma nently entrenched itself within the landscape ofalternative culture and has a steadily growing presence in the larger more prevalent world of mundane reality The Internet is I believe acultural phenomenon that is destined to be the seedbed of a new form of consciousness and a new type of self the uncensored self Bear with me as I explain why this is as certain as tomorrow Geography and Consciousness The Internet will have a dra matic effect on the cultures and in dividuals that interface with it due to the relationship between geogra phy and consciousness Both com munities and individuals cultures I and psyches are defined to varying degrees by the physical geography of their commu
151. rd Apple Computer Inc HyperCard User s Guide HyperTalk Programming Language Shafer Dan HyperTalk Programming Interface Design Electrical Mechanical Apple Computer Inc Designing Cards and Drivers for the Macintosh Family Macintosh Computers Aker Sharon Zardetto The Macintosh Bible Apple Computer Inc Apple Vertical Market Business Directory Coleman Dale The Macintosh Bible Lu Cary The Apple Macintosh Book November 1994 I Naiman Arthur The Macintosh Bible Quar terly Update Microcomputers Osborne Adam An Introduction to Microcom puters Volume 0 The Beginner s Book Zaks Rodnay From Chips to Systems An Intro duction to Microcomputers Microsoft Word Lambert Steve Using Microsoft Word Modems Apple Computer Inc Modem 300 1200 User s Manual Part I Reference Apple Computer Inc Modem 300 1200 User s Manual Part II Guide to Apple II Operating Systems Danuloff Craig The System 7 Book Getting the Most From Your Macintosh Operating System Operating Systerns GSOS Apple Computer Inc Apple IIgs System Disk User s Guide Little Gary Exploring Apple GS OS and ProDOS 8 Operating Systems Pascal Apple Computer Inc Apple III Pascal Intro duction Filer and Editor Operating Systems ProDOS Apple Computer Inc ProDOS 8 Technical Ref erence Manual Operating Systems ProDOS16 Apple Computer Inc Apple
152. re as well as about the Chooser periph eral devices and how they are con nected to the Macintosh Materials required Your Macintosh hard disk drive start up disk and an unformatted DSDD 800k disk Date Mon Nov 21 7 10 p m Introduction to the Macintosh Part lll Course M1 12894 Part III will follow up the con cepts in Parts I and II You will learn more advanced Macintosh skills and terminology about the system software and using install ing and updating system files about managing memory hard disk space fonts sounds and other resources the Apple menu aliases launching applications inter application com munications Publish and Sub scribe and Balloon Help You ll also learn about how to buy hardware and software how to upgrade and what kinds of software are avail able for your Macintosh Materials required Your Macintosh hard disk drive start up disk and an unformatted DSDD 800k disk Date Mon Nov 28 7 10 p m Maintaining Your Macintosh Course M112394 How to maintain and troubleshoot your Mac Topics will include orga nizing and managing your hard disk backing up and back up strategies archiving disk formatting defragmentation and optimization managing start up resources in cluding System 7 extensions or Sys tem 6 INITs avoiding conflicts and incompatibilities virus protection memory management upgrading or replacing the operating system sys tem enhanceme
153. reated with detailed three di mensional precision by Art Director John O Keefe Using mouse clicks to open locks revealing store units filled with frog embryos the user directs and records intricate labo ratory procedures The experiment to discover how frogs develop under near weightless microgravity con ditions is so accurate that NASA is considering using similar simula B ECOME A VIRTUAL as November 1994 tions to prepare astronauts for labo ratory work in space In order to adapt the material for youngsters studying science and biology grades 5 through high school CVI staff consulted with classroom teachers and conducted tests of work in progress with stu dents at Noelani Elementary in Manoa Valley We noticed that the kids lost interest in the on screen text after viewing animated se quences said Richard H Childers CVI president and CEO so we ani mated the text Letters and words that bounce twirl and pop through the antics of frogs and tadpoles created by ani mator Mike Balmes are one of the many innovative design and techni cal elements that give both pro grams an edge over similar prod ucts currently on the market We push the DTR data transfer rate on QuickTime to achieve the effect of actual TV or video animation Balmes explained The technique is to distribute limited animation over a wider area of the screen instead of fully animating only a small win dow Each pixe
154. request albion com SUBJECT subscribe YourName Many books have been published about the internet and all were dated almost from the time they hit the shelves Netiquette is the exception to that rule The simple clear and thor ough advice on how to handle cyberspace communications is pe rennially fresh Netiquette Author Virginia Shea Publisher Albion Books Copyright Date 1994 ISBN 0 9637025 1 3 Price 19 95 To order Albion Books 4547 California St San Francisco CA 94118 415 752 7666 or fax 415 752 5417 email info albion com E November 1994 When Your Mac has to go to the Hospital by Kellogg P Humphreys EN YOU bring your Mac in for service it s important to give an accurate description of your problems Many times I don t have enough information to go on requiring a call to you for amplification It helps to have a short written list of the problems you ve met and the things you ve already tried to clear it up We don t need your power cables just SCSI cables ifthat s where your problems have been On Macs with built in video and Macs with NuBus slots we ll use our shop Apple Hi Res RGB monitors So you don t need your video cables or cards or monitor unless you ve had a video problem and youre bringing in your whole desktop If you have any questions call ahead and ask We d really rather have too much stuff than too little For PowerBooks and devices with exte
155. rnal power sources like StyleWriters or DeskWriters bring all power adapters and chargers too For Duos your Dock or Mini Dock is very helpful For Laser Printers of all sorts if the toner cartridge is removable REMOVE it and carry it in a plastic bag before you move the printer We all count on toner to do its job when applied to the paper we pass through the printer but sloshed around the inside of your printer it s a real bear to clean up November 1994 What do we really do in surgery Here s alist of the software tools we use daily for diagnosis and treatment of faulty Macs E SCSI Probe 3 5 E Disinfectant 3 5 M Norton Utilities 3 1 M Help from Teknosys for software conflicts M Hard Disk Toolkit from FWB M Apple s MacTestPro diagnostic software E Apple s TechStep diagnostic tool E Apple s Disk First Aid and HDSC Setup M SCSI utilities from most of the third party HD suppliers I probably won t use all of them on a given repair but they re available if I need them A typical plaint HD has gone away Let s assume a Mac IIcx 8MB RAM Apple 40MB internal HD comes in with a complaint Can t see the HD just disk with blinking question mark I have several external hard disks set up for shop use on which I ve installed the software tools One HD is 120MB and we use this one if we need to save a customer s files before reformatting or replacing their HD I ll hook the IIcx up
156. s computer lab Call Mrs Gilmer 410 721 5038 int ftw HyperCard FRT Shopping Stack which compares air amp grnd FRT pkg costs It will provide fast accurate and easy bottom line FRT costs with discounts and other calculations for many carriers Fly it for less Save big bucks For more info and demo please leave your name and phone number on my answering mach Call Ed 410 437 0609 or 410 332 4540 ext 280 FoxPro 2 5 50 Lotus 1 0 30 Works 3 20 HP color plotter driver or ClarisWorks 2 1 for 35 Call John at 703 636 2487 Help Wanted Seeking Programmers Developers who have experience with MacApp Full time position Contact Dan Blankenship c oGOVA Consulting 7814 Carousel Lane 400 Richmond VA 23294 Tel 804 762 8801 Fax 804 762 5859 GOVA works with Fortune 500 companies Macintosh Tutor wanted by a new computer user in Bethesda area Prefer a teenager and or student I can be reached via Maryland Relay 1 800 735 2258 then 301 229 6028 and ask for Barbara Services NEW METRO DC ONLINE SERVICE CLASSIFIEDS ONLINE Inc announces an online version of the classified ads Use your Apple Mac Power PC to quickly search for a JOB CAR HOME COMPUTER FREE access Home Car with PHOTO Advertise FREE call for details Data 703 404 0240 ANSI 8 N 1 Voice 703 404 0244 MetroDC s Macintosh trainer consultant available for hire I currently subcontract to many local Mac scho
157. s favorite 3 D rendering applications and image and postscript tools If you ve ever wondered what s installed and where it s put when you install FreeHand or if you ve looked in the Aldus folder in your System folder and puzzled over what all those files were for and what they do Appendix B will tell you and tell you what you can do with some of them For instance the FreeHand Defaults file in the Aldus folder is where you can change FreeHand s defaults to suit yourself The final Appendix C offers a list of where you can get all the things mentioned in the book a valuable resource at your fingertips So did I like this book Yes It helped me get started using FreeHand 4 0 right away it kept me reading and learning with its clear writing good humor and pertinent graphics and it is a valuable well used resource for my library I recommend getting acquainted with this artist author s sound information good tips and wonderful sense of humor Real World FreeHand 4 Olav Martin Kvern edited by Stephen F Roth Peachpit Press Inc Berkeley CA 1994 29 95 E 16 Washington Apple Pi Journal eae SEE eo hae Hu HEG Web Server continued from the October Journal page 58 by Preston Gregg Apple Web Pages continued E Apple Fax Support Documents Technical Quick Fixes and Docu mentation These are the same files that are available on the Apple Fax system Call the Apple FAX l
158. s nothing more than preparing it for use by your Macintosh This includes com plete erasure of the disk division into sectors much like painting November 1994 parking stripes on new asphalt and giving the disk a name On other computer systems this is re ferred to as formatting a disk Without initializing your Mac can t recognize a disk or use its available space If you ever tried to start up your Mac witha blank uninitialized disk your Mac would reject the disk and ask for another Warning Whenever you initial ize a disk you erase it completely so never initialize a disk containing any data you want to keep System File Every Macintosh needs a system file to operate It s not really important that you know what s inside the system file but it contains such computer resources as the fonts used on the desktop the dialog boxes you ll see for many stan dard Macintosh functions and even the bomb messages you get when something goes wrong The system file is stored inside the System Folder on a disk It must be present for the Macintosh to operate so don t trash it It is possible to OPEN the system file to extract system sounds and certain other Macintosh resources but my strong advice to MacNovices is to leave the system file sacrosanct There are other system files in your system folder Some have simple and familiar names such as Keyboard and LaserWriter Others have un
159. s year s project will be even better Requests have been flowing in with more and more people ea ger to participate This year the Student to Student message board will be utilized more and hopefully more classes will include a video tape or computer presentation along with their written answer sheet which explains their clues Bein on the fun be in on the planning Reg ister today THE SCHOOLHOUSE NEWS BUREAU expanding The SchoolHouse News Bureau has both a board and a library in ESH PARGROUP writes to tell us about what happened last year and what he hopes for this year in the NEWS BUREAU the ESH online WIRE SERVICE Last year the news bureau was a great success We stretched far beyond the bounds of the United States To give you some examples The University of Helsinki FIN LAND ran a few of the news bu reau articles from Amite County School in Mississippi They even called on the telephone to talk to the kids Now that was some toll call We had articles printed in Germany Canada and Mexico as well as throughout the USA The effect of this on the stu dent journalists was tremendous They recognized that kids are kids all over the states and the world common problems common goals and common likes The articles we gathered reflected teenage culture and concerns All in all they were a sounding board for students across the nation The TROJAN HORSE from Amite County went ahead and dedi
160. seful and important information about how to handle the human side of communicating via computer and modem In Netiquette Virginia Shea covers all aspects of online interaction from how to handle your electronic mail politely to how to avoid making a fool of yourself in front of the entire electronic world think before you type This is a book you ll want to share with friends who are just en tering the new world of the net take to the office to help establish a formal email policy and read for fine tuning your own communications style According to Netiquette the Core Rules are 1 Remember the human 2 Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life 3 Know where you are in cyberspace 24 Washington Apple Pi Journal 4 Respect other people s time and bandwidth 5 Make yourself look good online 6 Share expert knowledge 7 Help keep flame wars under control 8 Respect other people s privacy 9 Don t abuse your power 10 Be forgiving of other people s mis takes From these basics Netiquette goes on to discuss the dos and don ts of electronic mail the elements of electronic style how to participate in discussion groups the Art of Flam ing and the polite way to retrieve information Violations of Netiquette discusses the hazards of cyberspace and some of the creatures who lurk there waiting for the un wary traveler Other chapters advise parents on guiding the
161. sight mathematics the ability to evaluate the logic of arguments logic and the ability to attack prob lems in potentially productive ways problem solving p 726 Volume 24 No 9 Peltzer goes on to comment that the development of these four skills in younger students could pay hand some dividends five or ten years later when they tackle formal physics Science curricular from the earliest grades through high school physics could incorporate the cultivation of these four intellectual skills as ex plicit goals Monitoring the growth of these intellectual abilities would give a developmental focus to sci ence education to complement the teaching of the subject matter of science p 730 Other researchers into this sub ject have arrived at parallel conclu sions In an article titled Enhanc ing the Visuo Spatial Aptitude of Students also published in the Jour Washington Apple Pi Journal 43 ia nal of Research in Science Teach ing commentator Thomas R Lord concludes It is the job of our schools to develop the cogni tive potentials ofits student popu lation potentials that include the mental formation and ma nipulation of images This study has found that a student s visuo spatial cognitive potentials can be enhanced through carefully planned interactions It is hoped that those responsible for creat ing the course curriculum for our schools include exercises that encourage sp
162. simplicity of the coloring book in Yearn 2 Learn Pea nuts Yearn 2 Learn Snoopy is a good program and it makes an excellent complement to Yearn 2 Learn Pea nuts A special CD version of the program is also available support ing two more musical styles and add ing an additional comic strip Users of the floppy version can upgrade for ten dollars However this new se quel lacks the well roundedness of the original program If Imagesmith were to release both Yearn 2 Learn programs on a single CD ROM with a retail price of 99 it would be a better deal Software ratings 5 Excellent 4 Good 8 Average 2 Below Average 1 Waaaayy below average 0 Dangerous do NOT buy this Publisher ImageSmith Retail Price 70 Approx Street Price 40 System Requirements Macintosh with 256 color monitor System 6 0 7 or higher 4 megs RAM 14 megs of disk space CD ROM drive and Sys tem 7 for CD version IBM require ments 386 or higher Windows 3 1 or greater minimum of 4 megs RAM 640x480 256 color monitor Windows compatible sound board E This review is Copyright 1994 Jeff Eaton Ifyou wish to reprint it or use it contact me via electronic mail at AnthemSong aol com Washington Apple Pi Journal 57 tware Review ChessMaster 2100 by Darrel Raines HIS MONTH S column will examine the software clas sic ChessMaster 2100 There have been computer chess games available ever since there have be
163. sk catalogs 1 50 postage 4 50 TOTAL AMOUNT DUE November 1994 member number All payments must be in U S funds drawn against U S Banking institutions Non members add 3 00 per disk to listed prices Name Street Address City Day tele Box Number Apt Suite State Evening tele Washington Apple Pi Journal 69 Pi Library 0 01 C01 Catalog 0 02 C02 Sampler Anti Virus Utilities 101G AV1 1 02L AV2 1 03L AV 3 Desk Accessories 7 disk set 21 2 01E DAs 1 2 02E DAs 2 2 03E DAs 3 2 04E DAs 4 2 05E DAs 5 2 06E DAs 6 2 07E DAs 7 F Keys Function Keys 4 01A FKs 1 4 02A FKs 2 ImageWriter Fonts 5 01A IW 1 5 02A IW 2 5 03A IW 3 5 04A IW 4 PostScript Fonts 6 01B PS 1 6 02B PS 2 6 03B PS 3 6 04B PS 4 6 05B PS5 6 06B PS 6 6 07B PS 7 6 08B PS 8 6 09B PS 9 6 10B PS 10 6 11B PS 11 6 12B PS 12 6 13B PS 13 6 14B PS 14 6 15B PS 15 6 16B PS 16 6 17B PS 17 6 18B PS 18 6 19B PS 19 TrueType Fonts 7 01A TT 1 7 02A TT 2 7 03A TT 3 7 04A TT 4 7 05A TT 5 7 06A TT 6 7 07A TT 7 7 08A TT 8 7 09A TT 9 7 10A TT 10 7 11A TT 11 7 12A TT 12 7 13A TT 13 Graphics 11 disk set 33 8 01A G1 8 02A G2 8 03A G 3 8 04A G 4 8 05A G 5 8 06A G 6 8 07A G7 8 08A G 8 8 09A G9 8 10A G 10 8 11A G 11 INITs amp cdevs 9 01C I C 1 9 02C I C 2 9 03C I C 3
164. sonality all its own complete with strategy and action aplenty Requires a 256 color Mac with 13 inch or larger monitor System 7 0 or later and at least 3 MB free memory Shareware 15 Polyominoes 5 0 f sea By Kevin Gong A strategy board game in which you try to put the last piece on the board The pieces can be flipped or rotated in any manner Requires System 6 0 or later For color or gray B W Shareware 8 Solitaire Till Dawn 2 0 f sea By Rick Holzgraffe A superb solitaire implementation with 24 different variations of the game Included are excellent User and Game Guides the Game Guide includes information about difficulty of play and other names for the variants Shareware 20 Disk 22 19 F G 19 Fun amp GAMES omega 0 75 f sea By Yoshibumi Fukuda A rogue like multi dungeon game which runs on Apple Macintosh series Requires 2 MB RAM for the application and System 6 0 7 or later Rescue 2 0 3 f sea By Tom Spreen The multi window color capable action adventure inspired by the Star Trek The Next Generation universe It s a fast action rescue mission set in space which requires both strategy and arcade style reactions Requires System 6 0 7 or later with 2 1 MB of free RAM Runs on any Mac but for maximum enjoyment and visual effects you need color and a 68030 or later CPU Shareware 10 SpacelInvaders 1 1 f sea By Simone Bettini A fast action shoot em up destroy the dreadful
165. space invaders arcade game There are more different types of weapons to defend against than anyone could stand Requires System 6 0 7 or later and operates in color or B W Shareware 10 Disk 22 20 F G 20 Fun amp GAMES Egyptian Solitaire 1 0 f sea By Mike and Shari Houser A simple and addictive solitaire game The cards are shuffled and 28 cards are dealt face up and overlapping in the shape of a pyramid Shareware 5 Wolfenstein 3D f sea By MacPlay In this action adventure game you must escape from the Nazi prison keep known as Wolfenstein so you can notify the allies of enemy plans Arguably the most superb game ever to hit the DOS free shareware gaming world this Mac port includes the first three levels Requires System 6 0 7 or later and color Mac with 25 MHz 68030 or faster CPU and at least 2 2 MB free memory 6 MB for full music and sound Shareware 15 gets you the full 30 level game Please write disk numbers on a separate sheet of paper and include them with your order HyperCard upgrade requires HyperCard proof of purchase any of original disks first page of manual receipt of previous HypCard upgrade disk Are you a member of Washington Apple Pi Ltd Y N __ If yes Mail this form with your check to Disk Library Washington Apple Pi sat New Addre es Singles 4 or less 4 00 5 or more 3 50 mm sets marked above above postage 1 00 disk maximum 5 00 Di
166. stimated the size at around 200 but three E Apple Pr ge Ofer s 24 hour General Meetin call 301 1984 0300 for registration fete si Jines supporting 300 to 14 400 bps modems Pak E Il different people attempted a crowd count difficult with people drifting in and out and came up with figures of 338 348 and 349 The general feeling was that more people attended the WordPerfect 3 0 presentation earlier this year which is a surprise I had confidently predicted that Microsoft s presentation would draw the biggest crowd ofthe year so maybe next year Ill buy mycrystal ballin Orem Utah Dave proved to be an enthusiastic believer in Microsoft Office This may not strike you as all that startling given his job title but most vendors give presentations that can be ranked somewhere between tepid and reptilian Dave in contrast not only had a pulse he was also warm blooded he didn t just want you to buy his product he wanted you to think it was neat because he thought it was neat If Dave was excited so were some members of the crowd OK maybe excited isn t the best term they were angry and alarmed and resentful Here was a representative of the world s largest software ra rN ER br O i 4 at f gt i 4 EINN TT de aug or Small i Ir Lae C28 2 audi LAL S 14 den fw f KS Asi CI AN v IX L Y Ir vn bij ILA ken r eT ENG i rv r p 2 n mae F
167. sting on line services such as America Online Cleo found that navigation was a difficulty It was hard to know where you were So when design ing Apple s new on line service she paid a lot of attention to the look and feel and being consistent about the organization At the top level is the Welcome window with the town cluster At the second level are the building interiors At the third level are store entrances with their privately designed logos and ban ners The publishers as they are called enjoy designing their iden tifying logos and banners when they join the service At the fourth level are the logos and a plain textual banner Navigating into the service in 1 WEN the dart byte of a ton aattona Stage otters ached setting fer v r arr of pr ventet stine opr erreer ai ak i traa Kay sere wer bak huditorium Events Calendar hd aker od pencil mager eWorld lt ard be are te vette your friends Auditorium Transcripts I NAs rende mg ad ou murs ah event losd the ranket Par op ata on your own Ume Washington Apple Pi Journal 21 volves point and click taking full ad vantage of the Macintosh s ability to create new windows To navigate back up one uses the Windows menu Because of limited real es tate there is competition among the publishers to appear at the highest level To deal with this situation Apple has published Zoning Regu lations complete with carrying the town motif even furthe
168. tered in 15 minutes or less You ll find programs to manage your classroom more efficiently save time and effort when creating tests and quizzes and make learn ing fun for your students with computer assisted instruc tion The author Jim McRae is a fifth and sixth grade teacher who was selected Teacher of the Year in 1982 SPECIAL 6 95 pub at 21 95 hard cover 212 pages APPLE LOGO FOR KIDS David A Yule Tab Let Sam the turtle teach your children or you the painless way to learn the language of Logo With Sam they can color draw circles and arcs change the sizes of pictures and diagrams and then put it all together to create sunsets mountains trees and much more With out even knowing it they ll have learned math and logical reasoning as well as the basics of computer pro gramming You ll be delighted at how quickly they pick up both basic and advanced techniques with this easy to understand guide Although based on Apple Logo this manual can be easily adapted for other Logos by using a handy table SPECIAL 4 95 pub at 11 50 213 pages THE APPLE PROGRAMMER S CHALLENGE Steven Chen Tab Just as crossword puzzles are designed to challenge and stimulate anyone fascinated with words this unique series of programming puzzles and problems has been designed to intrigue anyone who wants to challenge and improve his or her computer skills Several types of problems are included basic mathematical ques
169. the Info Mac archives All of the entries in comp sys mac digest are areas where more information about the Mac and its uses are available Good hunting November 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 49 Math Foreign Language Art Science Bubblegum amp Writing From the Electronic Schoolhouse EAR SCHOOLHOUSE Friends CyberSchool is in session and all over the country new class rooms are opening their doors into the Electronic SchoolHouse key word ESH Ifyou re one of the many teachers that Leni and I and the rest of the Schoolhouse staff have been welcoming in unprecedented numbers over the last few weeks please come in and look around There have never been so many projects starting up all at once and in this edition of Schoolhouse News I will call your attention to some of these First an important bulletin CHANGE IN STARTING DATE for SCRAPBOOK and SEASON STORIES These two projects were sched uled to begin on Thursday of this week However in order to honor the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur HELLO DAY and the start date of SEASON STORIES will be changed to Monday September 19th On Monday each class registered for ScrapBook will post a HELLO LET TER in the folder which will be created on the STUDENT TO STU DENT board For more information on either SEASON STORIES or the SCRAPBOOK WRITING PROJECT check the appropriate folders on the School to School LINK PROJECTS board For those who hav
170. the winter edition of the Pi s Computer Garage Sale shopping for bargains gossip and information New feature for a modest donation to the Pi you can have your Macintosh go through a checkup to confirm health or possibly diagnose existing or future problems A team of recognized Mac gurus has volunteered to perform the honors 1995 Meeting Dates General Meetings for 1995 are tt ee eae ee Jr haa Py by Ed Palaszynski HE NEWTON is new technology and with any get together of interested people in Newton technology comes new ideas and fresh approaches to old problems Thus our NewtonSIG meetings always seem to be filled with innovative solutions to new and old problems Such was the case again at our September meeting featuring Mr Bob Whitecotton National Integration Manager from Apple Computer Inc Bob came to our meeting not November 1994 scheduled for the following dates all the fourth Saturday of the month Mark your calendars or better yet put them in your electronic calendars to give you advance notice Jan 28 1995 Feb 25 1995 Mar 25 1995 Apr 22 1995 May 27 1995 Drawing winners Microsoft Office ball caps several dozen people Microsoft Briefcases Grace Gallagher Charles Stancil Don Essick Lou Pastura Mark Rogers John Ailes Roger Firestone D Bingham Joseph Goldscher Joan Martensen Mike Schmeible Pro Presenter Washington Apple Pi Microsoft Office W
171. tions problems which involve logic procedures and ap plications programs which demand intuition reasoning skills and business acumen Solutions are given in BASIC Pascal and C SPECIAL 9 95 pub at 14 95 228 pages SMART APPLES 31 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EXPERI 62 Washington Apple Pi Journal MENTS Delton T Hom Tab This book provides a quick introduction to intelli gence research and covers the milestones in AI develop ment You ll encounter such intriguing topics as the Turing Test game theory computer generated stories and computer creativity BASIC program listings are included that demonstrate artificial intelligence con cepts These programs will turn your computer into a tough competitor for games a musician a witty conver sationalist a poet a composer and a writer SPECIAL 9 95 publ at 12 95 192 pages 1001 THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR APPLE Mark R Sawusch and Tan A Summers Tab A gold mine of exciting ideas for applications ranging from household recordkeeping and budgeting to invest ment analysis and business management from game playing and hobby use to scientific educational and technical applications This is a book that not only includes a treasure trove of ideas for getting more from your computer it provides you with actual programs flowcharts diagrams and step by step instructions for using your Apple in practical and just for fun ways SALE 9 95 publ at 11 95 242 pag
172. tive marketer not a passive af terthought Oh yes may I have your card Don t forget to send one to me Footnote 1 Don t be seduced into buying those handy dandy print it yourself laser business cards Over popularized by the boutique paper merchants They just won t cut it in a professional business environment Ifyou can t afford first class litho printing see the resource directory on our PowerHouse BizCard disk for listings of to the trade wholesale printers Footnote 2 If you use a folded business card of any kind you may have to cut back to 70 or 80 pound cover stock to accommodate the folds and to keep the bulk to a minimum Also be sure they will stay closed See my Great Folding Concepts on disk for special tricks on creating closures Fred Showker is a 20 year plus vet eran of the graphic arts industry and award winning graphic de signer He s editor and publisher of DT amp G The Electronic Journal of Design Typography amp Graphics and known for his appearances at MACWORLD PrintFest etc He may be reached via AFA Shwkr on America Online or Showker Graphic Arts amp Dessign 15 SouthGate Harrisonburg VA 22801 E Washington Apple Pi Journal 41 SOS HRS Simple Sokoban Freeware Logic Puzzles THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE de scribes a cute freeware logic puzzle program for the Macintosh These logic puzzles can run on just about any Mac black a
173. to one of our Shop HDs use our shop keyboard amp mouse and replace your RasterOps or Radius video board with our 4 bit Apple video board and hook up the display At power on with our shop HD running Ill cause the Mac to boot from our external HD by holding down the CMD OPT SHIFT DELETE keys until I see the unique startup screen we use Once I get the Mac booted Ill first try SCSI Probe to try to mount it If successful then I ll look at it to seeifthere s any anti virus program installed Ifnot ll run Disinfectant and put a copy on the Desktop of the Mac I ll install its INIT later when I boot from the internal HD If the HD file structure looks like the user was a sloppy file keeper or Many times I don t have enough information to go on requiring a call to you to for amplification It helps to have a short written list of the problems you ve met and the things you ve already tried to clear it up downloaded everything from the Pi TCS America OnLine and CompuServe I ll run Disinfectant too Disinfectant produces a good report on damaged files and sometimes these are the very files the customer hasn t been able to work with If not successfully mounted or Washington Apple Pi Journal 25 after running Disinfectant I ll run Norton Utilities I know there area legion of Mac Tools devotees out there but Norton has saved the day for me so many times that I hav
174. u have a problem give me a call and bring your drive to me Actually the whole computer is better as sometimes the problem is not with the drive but with the brains behind the drive lll General Interest For you Apple or e owners not c I still havea pair of those controller card connectors that will not allow you to plug the disk cables in wrong You could be avoiding a disaster if you spend a couple of bucks Questions Contact Thomas E Linders 112604 Wardell Ct Saratoga CA 95070 408 741 1001 E November 1994 oe Nr Setting Your Cloc on the Apple by Tom Linders SETTING THE CLOCK on your Apple is as easy as one two eleven 1 Remove the lid and any cards in the four expansion slots 2 Remove the eleven screws that hold the mother board to the frame and remove the mother board 3 Keep the computer on it s back with the keyboard end toward you makingsure that thereis something under the keyboard to support it 4 Put a counter on the penultimate pin number 11 on the 1 to 12 row ofthe clock chip using the chassis as return 5 The counter should count 32768 Hz If it doesn t adjust the tiny variable capacitor adjacent to the clock chip The total adjustment range is about three Hz 6 My clock s oscillator was set to run at about 32765 Hz One Hz off means an error of about 2 6 sec per day 7 While you are inside the computer this would be a good time to brush off al
175. ument size first so the enlarged Draw object will fit After cutting the entire Draw object to Paint it can be edited like any bitmap The desired parts can then be pasted back into Draw and re duced to original size or further edited as SuperBits This is a bit clumsy but it can be done and it will produce a high resolution out put I don t see how a fax can be usefully edited with a graphics pro gram that is limited to Draw or Paint only Printing received faxes I printed unmanipulated faxes 28 Washington Apple Pi Journal from SuperPaint us ing Best mode on my ImageWriter II The results were quite readable better than the screen image Dif ferent fonts in the re ceived document dif fered in their read ability no surprise there Faxes looked as good as those I have seen printed by fax machines ValueFax Manager also has a Print function but it apparently only cre ates a file named Print File in the Sys tem Folder of the same size as the PICT This file has Type PFIL and Cre ator PSYS and is evi dently a PrintMonitor file I am unfamiliar with using PrintMonitor and there was no mention of it in the ValueFax instruc tions If you Print another page from the Manager the file gets re placed by the new page Sending faxes I tried sending faxes to three different machines not computers Sometimes no connection was made At other times faxes were sent us ing
176. ur SIG really needs your help to make our current Software Development Fund Project work Now is the time to ask Santa for that early gift by pre purchasing your edition of Bob Consorti s new Communications Manager or BOS3 in stock Call the WAP Office for details on how to do this they take plastic but if every member were to pre purchase a copy we d have enough to not only make our final payment to Bob but also to help us with funding for our next project Apple Resources Bob Consorti 75300 1548 COMPUSERVE COM Repairs Software Hardware 179 B Kent St Brookline MA 02148 617 731 0662 On Three c o Joe Consorti Software 1174 Hickory Ave Tehachapi CA 93561 805 822 8580 Sun Remarketing Software Hardware Repairs PO Box 4059 Logan UT 84321 800 821 3221 Sleepy Hollow Corp Repairs PO Box 969 Woodland Ca 95695 916 668 5637 Note WAP gets a rebate on repairs done by these folks WM Enterprises Repairs Software Hardware 1932 D Lincoln Drive Annapolis MD 21403 301 268 4242 Tom Linders Linders007 AOL Com Repairs and Hardware 12604 Wardell Ct Saratoga CA 95070 408 741 10011 Apple Internet Listserver APPLE3 L WVNVM WVNET EDU or LISTSERV WVNVM WVNET EDU Electronics Shop BBS Repair Info Apple 612 789 2149 Apple User Group Connection 800 538 9696 ext 500 Apple User Assistance 800 767 2775 they answer Apple c
177. ur business card will be paid back many times Rule 2 Use ONLY heavy quality card stock Here s a test place your busi Never ever un derestimate the powers of your business card In fact with a few tips you can position your busi ness card as a powerful partner in your marketing bag of tricks ness card across your favorite coffee mug Gently lay quarters in the center of the card one by one If it breaks before a buck s worth of change it s too light Try this on cards you ve gotten You may want to think about using an empty mug Please I know this sounds silly but I want to reinforce the proven fact that the weight of a business card carries a lot of subconscious clout with the recipient Ahem A lot of weight so to speak I recom mend at least 100lb cover weight Bet your printer doesn t even carry it If you really want something spe cial try Protocol Writing 120lb or 140lb cover Now you re talking Footnote 2 November 1994 Rule 3 Avoid cuteness at all cost Never make an oversized card Never make odd or strange shapes These will act as a deterrent to card filing Maintain the 3 5 x 2 inch size even with folded cards Also be careful with cute graphics unless that s the intent With the ever growing multi media mish mash mentality there are a lot of really bad concepts floating around out there Resist the urge to use too many marble textures bac
178. urate I shall discuss three programs Apple Diagnostics EDD and Copyl 1 Apple Diagnostics This program gives a count of plus minus about 100 Forthe European model Applecomputerstohavetheirdrive speed set accurately the count should read 13 2 counts For the American Apple computers the counter should read about 3 2 counts The reason for the negative setting is that the driftis usually in the positive direction 2 EDD This program sets the disk drive speed in two ways one for making program copies and the other forjust everyday use For the American machine just set the both drives to original for everyday use and set as directed for copying For a European model set the drive speed the same way as for the American models except set the count about 3 to 4 counts to the right from the indicated nominal 3 Copy This program presents the speed as a measurement of the period of rotation of the drive Remember period is the inverse of speed For this program the American model should have the speed set to 200 0 1 milliseconds ms and for the European machines try 199 1 0 1 milliseconds Remember you need to use a version equal to or lower than 4 4 in an Apple An easy way to set the speed is to have a hole drilled into the side of the disk drive so that disassembly is not necessary every time you want to check the drive speed The same thing applies as applies in cleaning if yo
179. uters pa degree te n ret iones about works 4 einer Goaaltdhosane ad agana BP Cock for the latert scores schedules and news from the very wide variis of professonal E anete sport The fartert tondeng news betes on ina ics design company with Hal Rucker Rucker Huggins which is still a going concern She left in 1993 to work full time for Apple on the eWorld project Tools All the resources of Apple Computer Corporation Apple s new eWorld uses the town motif to make its users feel as if they are in a familiar and com fortable place The opening screens show a cluster of buildings around an inspiring statue of one of the ePeople holding the eWorld aloft Each of the buildings houses a par ticular area of interest Upon entering a building one sees its interior and the store fronts of private enterprises pri vately designed logos Cross a threshold and be greeted with their logo and identifying banner over head For a while further the cor porate logo is present a reminder of which store you are in At the deepest reaches of eWorld in the Entertainment ey ey Waart hot aad what jun poser pe nt e TER the arts aonga nie bet tae wh nnd He re ay mm November 1994 indexes ond por tfobe tacking I Sensible etvice on how to rave and where to vert from i Trina Meda Sarwe 2 Business Resources B orld ot Work conferences and file transfer areas that commercial vestige of the town mot
180. w chairperson Call Gary Hayman 301 345 3230 for details Apple III SIG Quarterly on 2nd Saturday 10 00 AM WAP Office AppleWorks SIG Meetings at various locations and on various dates Call Gary Hayman 301 345 3230 for details CAD SIG Call SIG chair Columbia Slice Ist Thurday 7 00 PM Call for location BBS 410 964 3706 DataBases Mac SIG 2nd Wednesday 7 15 PM FHWA R amp D Labs near McLean VA from GW Parkway exit at the interchange marked CIA HQs then make a right turn to the FHWA gate and check in with the guard DeskTop Publishing DTP SIG Ist Wednesday 7 30 PM PEPCO Auditorium 1900 Pennsylvania Ave NW DC For further details we encourage you to attend the monthly DTP meeting Information can be found elsewhere in the Journal See page 5 this month Excel SIG 3rd Wednesday 7 30 PM WAP office Frederick Slice General meeting time 2nd Saturday 10 00 AM United Methodist Church 22 Main Street in Walkersville Game SIG lst Thursday 7 30 PM Call for location Hyper Talk SIG Call SIG chair for information Mac Programmers SIG lst Wednesday 7 30 PM WAP office Newton SIG Ist Monday 7 30 PM WAP Office NoVa Education Ed SIG Last Wednesday 7 30 PM Walnut Hill Ctr 7423 Camp Alger Ave Falls Church VA Programmers Interface PI SIG Meetings are announced on the Announcements Board of the TCS Call Gerry Wright at 301 422 4286 for details QuickTime
181. warranty repairs programs are High Speed Hard Drives We can also offer our customers on designed to Fixed Storage Removable Storage site and carry in service options for provide you Quantum 105 Meg snes 319 Apple POWerCD anser 539 select Apple with maximum in Macintosh service Toshiba 213 Powerbook 599 PLI Syquest 44 refurb 299 pl EA products So stop by or call today And learn the Quantum 240 Meg kanne 349 PLI Syquest 44 new prosa 369 wo I s cifics about full service for our Quantum 425 ees 499 PLI Syquest 88 refurb S AOD ee gt p 3 y Fujitsu 520 Meg ssccssseseseee 799 PLI Syquest 88 RW 44 649 c Macintosh Fujitsu 1 2 Gig us 1 099 PLI 105mb Syquest on nuee 659 DEC 1 2 Gig ssensessccosseereees 1 099 PLI CD Multi Session Int 499 Call us today for details on carry in and on site service QUAaNCUM 1 8 Gig p 1 599 PLI 128 Meg Optical xoo 999 Add 100 for External Drives PLI 1Gig Optical 1 999 1993 Apple Computer Inc amp MacUpgrades Inc Apple the Apple logo and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc Other trademarks property of their respective owners Prices subject to change without notice Complete turn key system solutions available for DTP Prepress Medical Office Billing Imaging Document Management Multimedia and Point of Sale Inventory Management
182. wn computer to the class November 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 19 HOW TO GET GREAT SCANS Outwit deceptive scanners Get In Touch With Macworld Live Event 7 30 PT for tips from scan expert Steve Roth ISIT THE lt LAST WALT2 gt Time for the Stones to quit rolling Come share views amp play some Stones trivia in Open Mic at 7 30 PT BEEN INTO LIFTING LONG Come hang in The Weight Roorn with us at 7 30 PT amp pick up some tips on routines injuries nutrition more THERE S IN HERE Now s your chance to fill it in Come up with the wackiest response amp you win Play Draw Blank at 7 30 PDT Apple Customer Coster mb bee so fur the mer Comer etenaa kid Man Po wm Mat Ma erot ad more By Apple Products amp Technologies Feud out about Macmtow Power Martaih Newton Appia oft ware E rare Sare Yoursef a Phone Call Ape vert te the quarter peagte med Ullen o Aggie hippie Tech inio Library More than 10 000 protien solvers uted by Appias wn apport staff gJ Tips amp Tools from the Information Alley Newsletters amp support tools from Appie Cuitemer Service Maxing Your Mac s Reaching Out Tipt on how to expand or ts Wok tore working wth Woy at you computer DOS amp other platform bot a Better faswer Weld love to hear it Please sand ntau wrth et conversant form Ordine support frem the World Assistance Center fecount Services Check out y
183. y to answer specific questions that students bring to the class The aim is not to teach any one particular communications program bulletin board or information service but rather to help WAP members develop general tele communications skills that can then be applied in using any communications program bulletin board or information service Apple II telecom questions will be entertained as well time permitting E Other Educational Opportunities Desktop Publishing amp Graph ics tutorials are given by Clockface amp Creole Communi cations Inc Please contact Manolo Almagro at 301 718 0612 for details Prince George s Community College Center for Business Training 301 Largo Rd Largo MD 20772 2199 Call 301 322 0726 Greentalt Systems Inc 610 Herndon Parkway Suite 900 Herndon VA 22070 Call 703 471 6842 Berkeley Computer Training 1800 Diagonal Rd Ste 240 Alex andria VA 22314 Call 703 548 9471 Micro Center Training 3089 Nutley Street Fairfax VA 22031 Call 703 204 8409 November 1994 an CHED CHED CHD GED GED CHED Ga Debug H3 a Washington Apple Pi computer puzzle Find the hidden Internet terms In a break with tradition there are no spurious entries ANONYMOUS ARCHIE ARCHIVE ARPANET BANDWIDTH BINHEX BROWSER BYTES CERN CERT CRACKER DAEMON DOMAIN ENCRYPTION FETCH FILTER FINGER FIREWALL GOPHER GURU HACKER HOMEPAGE HOST INTERNET L
184. your questions about global links All of us in ESH look forward to helping classes across the country to open their doors Leni David Kath Sandy Brandy Nina amp Toot AOL AFC Tooter Copyright 1994 ESH Project Lead ers Consortium W November 1994 Mac Lingo by Ralph J Begleiter VEN AFTER TEN years of using a Macintosh I still talk with MacNovices who are puzzled by the computerese which surrounds the Mac Remember that many Mac users are not only nov ices to the Macintosh but to com puting in general And the growing complexity of the Macintosh system has even some old hands founder ing on the shoals of the lingo So here s a MacNovice s guide to MacSpeak E Application As with almost any other job using your Mac in volves using the appropriate tools for each task An application is merely a computer program con taining the right collection of tools for the job you want to accomplish If you re writing you ll need the word processing tools which are contained in a computer applica tion such as ClarisWorks Word or WordPerfect If you re making pic tures you ll need the picture mak ing tools contained in applications like Illustrator or Freehand E Initialize No sooner do you in sert a brand new blank disk into your Mac than you are greeted with a message asking you if you want to initialize the disk How should you know Initializing a disk i
185. your Macintosh screen It s got only the icon of an apple Beneath it are found all of the desk accessories you have installed in your System 6 file or under System 7 it includes any documents or ap plications you ve installed in the Apple Menu Items folder within your System Folder The apple menu al ways appears in the same place on Washington Apple Pi Journal 53 mn the screen of all Macintosh applica tions It also usually contains one menu choice called About name of application This choice often presents you with a brief screen message containing the name of the application you are using its ver sion number and perhaps informa tion about its creators In the Finder this menu choice also contains use ful information about how much of your computer s memory space is free E Window For all intents and purposes the Macintosh introduced the concept of computer screen win dows to popular usage Windows are essentially subscreens which appear on your Mac screen Each one contains certain information distinct from what s inside another window On the Mac windows may be changed in size and shape by the user allowing a flexible display of information according to an indi vidual user s wishes The best illustration of windows is in the Finder where disks and PowerBook Charging Problem _by Jeff Mosqueda A NUMBER OF you have called Appletoreport trouble charging your PowerBoo

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