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Washington Apple Pi Journal, August 1987

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1. Peter Trinder 63 Apple II News and Notes Walt Mossberg 21 QuarkXPress A REVIEW Jay Rohr 64 unuraa Robert C Platt amp Bruce F Field 24 Excelling on Your Mac Part 14 David Morganstein 68 Word Perfect 1 1 A Review Howard M Berman 25 MISSUS Fred Seelig 69 TLove Apple Musics cere Gary Hayman 26 Developers VIGW Jim Lanford 74 Computers in Education Joseph A Hasson 30 SORVICWS David Morganstein 76 In Search of the Most Amazing Thing Linda Van Zee 33 Preventing Bombs with New Sys Fndr David Morganstein 78 Psal Robert C Platt 34 acq M 78 Sande SIG OWE Andrew D Thompson 35 Word 3 0 Command Summary Tom Warrick 78 Gane S Io a a Steven Payne 36 Using Ramstart 2 0 with LaserWriter Jim Reese 80 Space Quest ARevIeW eise eee eee teuer Marc S Hoff 36 Elegant Desk Accessories David E Condit 81 Mac Pro Football A Review Peter Lindstrom 37 Calendar Maker airs ate Epp a nisse 82 Rebel Charge at Chickamauga A Review Ian Soboroff 38 Nu DISKetesiq NOU eee oec hann ern ss Marty Milrod 82 WAP World Builder Contest Robert C Platt 38 MGS Disketera NO BS aec rire pere yA
2. Apple pi The Journal of Washington Apple P1 Ltd Volume 9 August 1987 Number 8 MS DOS on the Apple II Appie News and Notes Love Apple Music Part 3 HT R A S H sci amp Tech Writing on the Mac pages 58 62 Quark XPress Review Softviews APL Plus In This Issue ES STATS ooa coerente ime 3 Counting the Ballots As Easy as A B c Rowell et al 43 President S QOIIBE Tom Warrick 4 Help Needed with SOItWAEe ac aco nones ate uto eue nov eR 43 General Information 5 TER 9 AV B BE msna Fred Seelig 44 Job Mart Classifieds i eremi tnr 6 Letter to Applied Engineering 46 WAP Calendar SENENG oroin n 7 Say Thanks Americal parari ier oe 47 BRE EDD pae iple edat 9 p Jonathan E Hardis 48 On the Erau of the Apple David Ottalini 10 MacNovice Vive la Diff rence Ralph J Begleiter 52 The GS A Case History oorr ones Ralph Wege 16 Macintosh Bits and Bytes Lynn R Trusal 54 PNE RUNE aderat Ted Meyer 18 Technical Writing on the Macintosh Rick Chapman 58 ING WS Robert Golden 19 Guide to Formulas in Word 3 0 Harris J Silverstone 61 Apps Chanai doti ier 20
3. Db k ES ETE ili 1075 108F 1376 1531 1472 Definitione Definitione Hordes A Onelaught aaa aa a 0 Thin Watery urge a CADRE cg 143 33 76 152 35 100 66 16 133 74 117 124 132 D Like o Guy a a L Uhat Samantha n PP ae eee Se 111 137 60 6 166 151 162 Old 158 62 83 69 155 56 53 5 Slanificant a ae es 0 Packard es PEN 101 72 29 169 68 2 5 119 38 110 12 6 37 10 0 Coaet PER MP T RH NUR oM n B Rubber EU PT RETI 138 184 159 130 146 106 136 11 6 4 4 41 148 E Botanical ec Off Guerd a ts See ee ee ts Partittone 13 14 24 55 34 95 157 10 90 141 126 F Universal T Paul Bunyan ay Solvent 9 60 104 27 108 165 23 54 25 26 153 142 0 144 0 ERE U Usee a rec s Dr RES 66 40 71 8 12 122 3 41 52 39 20 M Perlod V Macintosh 57 115 109 22 Stleutetor 167 64 63 105 131 O0Oleney Bird noc ee Choose P M E 123 9 21 112 65 18 42 102 J o Smooth ERE ae ee ee K Con be Coapletod OO WW LLL ILLI Nanner 6 46 126 160 96 15
4. David Todd 85 a Dana J Schwartz 39 Tutorial Registration eu etus e eai Eorer etas rU 86 WAP 1987 Operating Statement amp 1988 Budget 40 Index to Advertisers Index to 86 Dips 00 d eon ena 42 Disketeria Order Borm ret serere ra asa vi Ix 87 Family Computer CENTER Fair Oaks Shopping Center 11917L Fair Oaks Mall Fairfax Virginia 703 385 2758 Backlick Shopping Center 6691 Backlick Road Springfield Virginia 703 866 9122 Get Expert Input On Improving Your Output Attend one of our desktop publishing seminars to find out how Family Computer Center and Apple an rea Macintosh II Joins the Race Business The Macintosh Il is the new high performance open architecture member of the Macintosh family And is designed for advanced applications in business desktop publishing science and engineering Using hardware and software options from Apple and third parties Macintosh Il can support other operating environments including MS DOS and AT amp T UNIX Come in and See the Macintosh II Now You and Your Macintosh Can Create Beautiful Music Together Opcode MIDI interfaces connect the Macintosh computer to any music synthesizer with MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface From the time m
5. Dana Ricl in onk Michacl Yourshaw Donald Schmitt Jim Be Harve vine John Love Paul Tabler J T Tom DeMay Jr Tom Parrish Jay Rohr Jim Graham Marty Milrod Jon Hardis John Day Tom Berilla Tom Parrish Mark Miani Jay Lucas Jon Hardis Joyce C Little Herb Schwartz Michael Yourshaw John Love David Morganstcin Bob Pulane David Morganstein Mark Pankin Jim Graham Dick amp Nancy Byrd John Boblitz John Love Walt Francis Ray Hobbs BBS Jim Graham Tom Parrish Marty Milrod Ray Hobbs BBS Leon Raesly Walt Francis Ray Hobbs BBS Mark Pankin rmy Parker John ay Jeremy Parker Bernie Benson Harmon Pritchard Ray Hobbs BBS Walt Francis Leon Raesly John Day John Day Jeff Stetekluh John Day Jeff Dillon Michael Proffitt Dan Robrish David Morganstein Robert Wood Dave Harvey le listed are sers of the Hotline users are reminded that calls regarding commercial software packages should be limited to those you have purchased Please Telephone numbers are home phones unless otherwise 593 3316 585 3002 298 9107 439 1799 350 3283 471 4610 534 2077 334 3265 662 0640 299 9380 569 2294 278 8708 779 4632 654 8784 655 0875 643 1848 464 5981 330 1422 621 7543 434 3256 464 5981 864 2715 654 4439 490 7484 439 1799 966 5742 490 7484 524 0937 229 2578 490 7484 966 5742 439 1799 621 7543 621 7543 979 8249 621 7543 662 2070 893 9591 5
6. 59 95 DEJA 39 95 FORBIDDEN CASTLE 29 95 GRAPHIC WORKS 1 1 79 95 DEFENDER OF CROWN 39 95 MONOGRAM DOLLARS amp SENSE 97 95 PRACTICAL 49 95 RACQUETBALL 49 95 MD 20705 PSION PSION 55 49 95 SILICON BEACH DARK CASTLE 39 95 ENCHANTED SCEPTOR 34 95 SUPER PAINT 69 95 SIMOH amp SCHUSTER STAR 29 95 TYPING TUTOR 111 49 95 MAC ART DEPT 29 95 SPECTROM HOLOBYTE 39 95 39 95 ORBITOR 39 95 TELLSTAR 11 39 95 TARGE LIGHTRING MAC LIGHTNING 69 95 HARDHARE SUPPLIES BECK TECH FANNY MAC FAN 79 95 CEHTRAL POINT SOFT BOOK DISK DRIVE 199 00 CHINON BOOK DISK DRIVE 196 95 KEWSINCTOH MICROWARE TURBO MOUSE BALL 104 95 SYS SAVER FAN 82 95 ENTERPRISES SCSI PORT 119 95 ACCESSORIES SONY 3 5 SS DD 13 95 3 5 DS DD 19 95 MOUSE PAD 9 95 DISK NOTHCHER 5 95 GOLDSTAR 5 25 SS DD 8 95 MEMOREX 5 25 55 00 9 95 MEMOREX 5 25 DS DD 12 95 DISKFILE 5 25 2 29 DISKFILE 3 25 2 29 DISK STORAGE 5 25 8 95 DISK STORAGE 3 5 8 95 DISK CLEANER 5 25 9 95 PRINTER STAND 9 95 MONITOR STAND 24 95 TO ORDER BY MAIL WE ACCEPT VISA MASTERCARD CHOICE MONEY ORDER CERTIFIED CHECK PERSONAL CHECK ALLOW 2 WEEKS FOR PERSONAL CHECK TO CLEAR MD RESIDENTS
7. are stunned and bereaved by this loss Our thoughts go to his family and friends Goodbye Richard we will miss you Washington Apple Pi August 1987 3 Y his month we want to recog nize the people sted to the Washing ton Applic Pi Board of Di rectors for the coming year E Last month mentioned the officers myself Ray Hobbs VP Apple II Bob Platt VP Macintosh Peter Combes Secretary and Ed Myerson Treas urcr all of whom ran unopposed To no one s a WL V 74 80 surprise we were all re elected although Lee Raesly came in a close second for Vice President Macintosh recciving one write in vote The seven Directors at Large you have elected are Bruce Field who has previously served the Pi as Vice President for Apple II and Vice President for Special Interest Groups 5165 Priscilla Myerson who has served as assistant trcas urer for many years and who was elected a Dircctor at Large by the Board last term to fill a seat left vacant on the Board when Mike Ungerman was wansferred to Florida by the United States Navy Lee Raesly the Telecommunications System TCS Operator a Director at Large for the last several years and one of WAP s most familiar faces also of W AP s familiar hats Rall newcomer to the Board and onc of the ace program mers on the Telecommunications System Richard Rowell who has been very active in the Apple
8. Help How do I install Tops on a disk with System 4 1 The Tops Installer program copies obsolete resources into the System file Don t use it Instead copy over the Tops files by dragging them in the Finder and use the lastest Fon DA Mover to copy over the Tops DA Q Is the color monitor that Apple is selling soon for the gt Mac II the same as the Sony MultiScan No Despite rumors to the contrary the Apple color monitor isunlike any color monitor already on the market Those who have seen it continue to say it looks better To quote Toby Farrand of Apple s Advanced Technology Group Aside from the actual tube the Apple monitor is completely differ ent from the Sony MultiScan Apple s monitor has a higher video amplifier bandwidth a tighter convergence spec a tighter focus spec a tighter spot size spec a tighter raster positioning spec and a tighter tube defect spec Apple s monitor also passes FCC class B I think Sony s Multi Scan is a class A device appropriate only for business use By the way SuperMac whose large screen color monitor was shown at a recent WAP meeting is getting a better type of display made by Sony as well Finally PCPC the MacBottom people are entering the color monitor market with their own product which is also supposed to look quite good The problem with it at least for now is that only 8 bit 256 color mode is supported Help How get SuperPaint to wor
9. The early early deadline for September Journal articles is July 31 Le ee ee 5 Mac Progmrs 7 30 PM Office 7 30 PM dPub SIG 7 30 PM PEPCO Note change in Executive Board to 3rd Wed 18 19 Executive 20 21 Board 7 30 PM Pascal SIG FedSIG 7 30 PM 8 00 PM i Apple Reston Office September 1987 Wednesday 2 Mac Progmrs 7 30 PM Office dPub SIG 7 30 PM PEPCO Office Executive Board 7 30 PM Apple 7 30 PM Office __ 1 Making Music With Your Mac Tutorial Office 10 12 Noon 7 Sat Aug 8 gt 18 WordPerfect Frederick Slice Office 9 12 AM 7 30 PM Annapolis Slice Disk Drive Office Music SIG gt Office 1 4 PM 13 14 Stock SIG 8 00 PM Office 6 GameSIG WAP Mecting USUHS 9 AM GameSIG 27 No EDSIG Mecting in 1 August Thursday _ Friday Saturday 3 GameSIG 7 30 PM 12 Frederick Slice Annapolis Slice Music SIG 10 Stock SIG 8 00 PM Office 17 WAP Mecting USUHS 7 30 PM Office Fed eral SIG will meet on August 19 and October 21 at the Apple Computer Federal Office in Reston VA GameSIG mects on the Ist Thursday of the month at the office 7 30 PM The next meeting will be on August 6 Mac Programmers meet on the 1st Wednesday of the month at the office 7 30PM The next meeting is August 5 MusicSIG me
10. space when output on the Linotron 300 An space is the space of an uppercase M in the point size being used In a previous article I explained how difficult this function was to perform in PageMaker 1 2 PagcMaker s version 2 0 however corrects this but the control only relates to several kerning pairs with only a quarter of the control that is available in XPress for LaserWriter output QUARK XPRESS A COURSE IN TYPOGRAPHY True kerning and letterspacing arc available in XPress So is Tracking Tracking is a feature for text manipulation used on the Linotron 300 typesetter It changes the white spacing between characters loosening or tightening these spaces until it is turned off Zero tracking is normal 1 tracking is tighter 2 and 3 are very light letter spacing XPress uses this highly advanced typesetting feature for controlling character widths either from a dialog box affecting the selected copy or with keystroke commands Com mand Shift more white spacing or Command Shift less or 66 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 tighter spacing In the keystroke commands this is similar to kerning Also available on the most advanced typesetting systems using digitized fonts is a function known as Horizontal and Vertical Scaling Translated this mean you have the ability to alter the type by expanding it or condensing it in increments of your choosing In this manner onc is often able to create unique characte
11. QUIMTUPLET Add the duration values of only four of the five notes together Divide by 5 and give the resulting value to each of the five notes RARAAARRARARARAAARARRARRARE TABLE 2 REST DURATION VALUES WHOLS REST mm Bam HALP REST UP an QD am cm qm Gm UD UD 9D UP M EN 00 UD UD MD VD OD OR VP UP UD OD UD UD UP UD D ED OD UD P UD DED ED Om ED ODED 255 DOTTED REST 192 DOTTED QUARTER REST QUARTER REST DOTTED EIGHTH REST EIGHTH REST DOTTED SIXTEENTH REST SIXTEENTH REST By the way I want to remind the reader that at times I may stray from being techni cally and musically correct in order to make things easier to understand My main purpose is to create a simplified way for you to take printed music and place it in your programs As long as it works rea sonably well both you and 1 will be happy Real musicians and experienced techies are invited to skip these articles and read something else otherwise they might gnash their teeth too hard FREQUENCY The duration of the note was to distinguish by looking at the icon repre senting the duration The frequency is a little more involved because it relies on WHERE the icon is placed on the staff
12. System 44 SOS KERNEL Pasdta 3 STANDARD CHR Text 2 STARTUP Binary 1 SYS PRT Binary 1 SYS TAB Text 3 TUTORIAL THREESIG 1006B Word Processing and WPL Self Booting Type Blocks Name System 44 SOS KERNEL Pasdia 46 SYSTEM LIBRARY Pasdta 37 SOS DRIVER Pascod 9 MLMTRAN CODE Pasdta 34 SOS INTERP Pasdta 1 SYSTEM MISCINFO Pasdta 51 SYSTEM PASCAL Pascod 18 SYSTEM STARTUP Pasdta 3 Pasda 3 SLANT CHR Pasdta 3 INVERSE CHR Pasdta 3 5 Text 1 START Text 11 AW ARTICLES Text 7 WPL ARTICLES We ve Still Got It Get the C VGE and the quality of APPLIED all at the Lowest Prices and all In Stock APPLIED ENGINEERING 4 bottle of MicroStat with each C VUE order SOFTWARE additional AE items in stock SoftSwitch GS Program Switcher 39 00 AppleWorks 1 3 179 00 2e dits 526900 Locksmith 6 0 Reduced 59 00 Z RAM Ultra 2 1 Meg 289 00 Plus 37 95 Z RAM Ultra 3 1 Meg 339 00 Pinpoint StarterPak GS 119 00 GS RAM PLUS 1 Meg 349 00 Bag of Tricks 2 49 95 GS RAM PLUS 2 Meg 498 00 RamFactor 1 Meg 26900 HARDWARE RamWorks Ill 1 Meg 239 00 Enhancement Kit 62 00 Serial Pro 119 00 Detachable Numeric Keypad 99 00 RamCharger for RamFactor 129 00 System Clock external 48 00 diens erp 209 00 LA 20 Meg SCSI Hard Drive Mac 650 00 TimeMaster H O 12200 Sider 10 GS 575 00 dira o S 2900 Sid
13. The next part of your question has to do with adding more memory to a Mac Plus either the one bought that way or one that got that way through upgrades Now life is easier because memory is socketed The two gotchas a do it yourselfer has to worry about are 1 adjusting the power suppy voltage back to exactly 5 volts with an accurate voltmeter after the upgrade and 2 breaking the tabs off the contd sockets that hold the memory chips in place If you break them off you are looking at a repair usually a board swap of the logic board There are two general classes of memory upgrade prod ucts One is a straight replacement of the four memory SIMMs with the newer 1 MB SIMMs This would be an upgrade of 1 MB to 4 MB and these would fit in the case along with other third party products The other class piggybacks the older 256K SIMMs together on a daughter board These are generally 1 MB to 2 MB up grades Common wisdom is that there isn t enough reserve power to add 4 MB this way Some of these brands take up extra space in the case On the other hand using thc older and more commonly available parts keeps the cost of this class of upgrade lower If you add or remove your own SIMMs on a Mac Plus bc aware that you may have to make other modifications as well If any of the SIMMs are the 1 M variety you have to remove the resistor labeled R8 and 256 on the motherboard You can clip it off i
14. 301 663 4199 Bruce Taylor Mac 301 371 6181 Stephen Hadley Mac amp 301 831 5353 Graphics Cracker Barrel BBS 301 662 3131 FAC Upcoming Programs August8 GS Developments New Products and Graphics Custom Mac Icon designs Sept 12 Word Processing for the IIGS Graphic Writer and Word 3 0 for the Mac 833 Printer Terminal LIKE NEW The versatile AJ 833 daisy wheel printer operates as a high speed letter quality printer a typewriter and a terminal It s perfect for most printing timesharing and data communications applications Features of the AJ 833 include 45 cps bi directional letter quality printing 1200 bps operation Compatibility with virtually any PC including IBM Apple II and Macintosh 256 character buffer Buffer overflow protection Changeable type faces Nonvolatile memory ANDERSON 4 JACOBSON 20 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 Programmable keyboard High resolution XY plotting Printing capabilities such as bold face automatic underlining centering and right margin justification The 833 is more than a letter quality printer Itcan be used offline asa letter quality typewriter When equipped with a modem or an acoustic coupler the AJ 833 can be used as a terminal to access bulletin boards and online data bases such as the Source and Compuserve with no additional com munications software For versatility reliability
15. 7 Edward Myerson 0 120 Priscilla MyersonO 918 0 121 Bruce Field 01 1 122 01 T 9 Peter Combes 0 123 01 E 110 0 124 01 R Pacific Technology Systems Inc of Rockville MD de signed and provided the spreadsheet but the real contributor to this streamlined vote counting system was Super MacroWorks by thc Beagle Bros The macro function ability that Super Mac roWorksaddsto AppleWorks allowed this ballot counting utility to operate with single kcypress simplicity offering additional single key assignments for data entry error correction and printed report generation all able to operate on a basic 128K no frills Apple c or e IIgs butalas nota sorry Dave Ottalini no macro ability Whilethe three volunteers deserve a hearty round of applause for undertaking the chore of confirming and counting 1 150 ballots AppleWorks again demonstrated its day to day office usefulness The ballot counting utility could be easily adapted to handle most elections and is available for use by not for profit organi zations Washington Apple August 1987 43 by Fred Seelig Closeup of Trapper John Pan back Voice off camera Trapper John My gracious it s good to see you Been what seven or eight years Father Mulcahy what are you doing here Same thing you re doing I have no doubt It s the Lord s wotk or the corporate equivalent you might say Father that Iri
16. Apple key used to be the cloverleaf or command key Now it s a big key with both an Apple and a cloverleaf logo on it I guess this is to somehow lure old Apple II users into trying the Mac Apple II keyboards have an Apple key Sheesh In fact the whole bottom left corner of the keyboard feels totally wrong I loved having the option and command keys in the lower left corner because they were both used so much and they were both accessible Do you know what the keyboard designers put in the lower left corner of the Mac SE keyboard The Caps Lock key If that isn t the most singularly useless key on the keyboard I don t know what is An ESCape key and a big oversized Reset key were added The manual is clueless about the functions of these keys The manual is a big help Different applications use the Esc Reset key in different ways See your applications manual for more information The mouse is really horrible It stoo small It hasa shortcord that keeps it hanging around the keyboard like a teenager hanging around shopping malls The wisdom of having the keyboard cord attached to the back of the Mac SE I is totally inscrutable Why did they do this To emulate IBM which has a similar arrangement Software compatibility between the Mac Plus and the SE is pretty good for the standard business packages like MacWrite Excel Word 3 and the Cricket stuff MacDraw has exhibited some puzzling bugs when printing via AppleTalk to the Laser
17. EZ Pieces but new hardware and software that is still being developed for us It s those folks especially that deserve our strongest support in the coming ycars ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT MICRODEAL ERS AIM 3010 North Sterling Ave Peoria IL 61604 309 685 4843 AIM has become a clearing house of products for its members As such it publishes a catalog and lists the software and some hardware that s available They charge 25 00 fora subscription Apple Is For Me membership They offer a wide range of products all at sale prices Retail price is also listed for comparison only problem is that sale prices vary even for the same software ten listings all different Availabil ity is limited to what s on hand so you have to work fast if you want something listed in the catalog read that call in your order NOW Product descriptions are excellent They have also started acting as a Clearinghouse for Apple MAC and IBM products as well D A DataSystems 3792 Windover Drive Hamburg NY 14075 716 648 2462 An excellent source of new software Most programs now offered by Pair Software and some arc in the TAU Royalty library Check out Tools Times Three software that includes a partial compiler for Business Basic The Re iever a file undelete program and a special set of Ram disks for use with the Titan e cards Another offering Pow erKeys DM a background utility with many modules ON THRE
18. Jim Bur 202 337 7900 Associate Editor Gena Urban 301 229 3458 ip Dana Schwartz 301 654 8060 Store Distrbtn Ray Hakim 301 649 1891 Pro John Alden 202 686 1656 Columnists Public Relations Charles Redmond 202 363 3184 Apple Dave Ottalini 301 681 5792 SIGs amp Slices ene Jay Thal 202 244 3649 Derclopers View Jim Lanford 301 589 6300 Telecom Sys Opr Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 EDSIG Peter Combes 301 251 6369 Tutorials Bob Platt 703 486 1466 GameSIG Steven Payne 202 832 66 Voluntcer Coord David Morganstein 301 972 4263 Mac Bits amp Bytes Lynn Trusal 301 845 2651 SIG Chairmen MEE Ralph Begleiter 301 340 3296 Annapolis Slice Steve Toth 301 757 3280 Jonathan Hardis 301 330 1422 AppleWorks Ken DeVito 703 960 0787 6 1 Raymond Hobbs 301 490 7484 pple Ted Meyer 703 893 6845 Pascal Land amp Bob Platt 703 486 1466 Able li David ttalini 301 681 5792 Bruce Field 301 340 7038 Tom Bartkiewicz 703 435 3295 A amp Excel David Morganstein 301 972 4263 CP M Charles Franklin 301 997 9138 StockSIG Andrew Thompson 301 270 6790 DisabledSIG Jay Thal 202 244 3649 Review Coord Jim Burger day 202 337 7900 dPub SIG Tom Piwowar 205 223 6813 Review Coord Raymond Hobbs 301 490 7 EDSIG Peter Combes 1 251 6369 Review Coord David Morganstein 301 972 4263 Federal SIG Gordon Stubbs 703 750 0224 Review ee IIgs Leon Raes Y 30
19. 15 150 ns which are okay for the Mac Plus and the Mac SE Mac II 256K SIMMs are NEC part MC 41256A8B 12 In John Boren s article Faster Printing with the ImageWriter II in the May Journal he related the method for bidirectional printing using the Faster setting However the bidirectional printing was squig gly Can this be prevented No That s why the method for turning bidirectional printing on and off is so obsure It is not a recognized or supported feature By the way the alternate way to turn off the feature is to hold down Caps Lock Shift Option and Command while pushing the Okay button Help I m trying to add an Apple 800K floppy disk drive mechanism to my Mac II but it doesn t work A David Ramsey who works at Apple looked into the matter He reports that there are two versions of the 800 K drive mechanisms The newer one which is being installed on the SEs and the IIs will work on anything The older kind only works on the older machine models Likewise the old 400K disk drives won t work on the Mac II Note that we discussing opening the case and mounting the disk drives internally Mac II has no connector for an external floppy The easiest way to tell the new kind from the old kind is to try it If you have an old one it will fail to recognize or format Mac disks However David is told they can be made to work by cutting wires 9 and 20 on the connecting cable
20. 301 430 1799 Terry Prudden 301 933 3065 Word Processors Wali Francis 202 966 5742 Apple Writer II Dianne Lorenz 301 530 7881 Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Gutenberg Harris Silverstone 301 435 3582 Gutenberg amp Jr Neil Muncy Can 416 298 3964 Letter amp Simply Perfect Leon Racsly 301 439 1799 Magic Window and Joyce C Little 301 321 2989 Apple PIE Jim Graham 703 643 1848 ScreenWiriter II Peter Combes 301 251 6369 Gene Carter 202 363 2342 8 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 Have problem The following club members have agreed to help other members PLEASE keep in mind that the Respect all telephone restrictions where listed and no calls after 10 00 PM except where indicated Apple II Word Processors contd ord Handler Word Perfect Word Star General eve amp wkends only Data Bases clix MS File Omnis 3 and 3 OverVue Desktop Publishing raphics ReadySetGo Inside Mac LISA Mac XL MacDraw MacLion DBMS MacProject MacTerminal Magic Power Point Programming MS BASIC Spreadsheets Graphics Excel Multiplan Sidekick ThinkTank Word Games Apple II Games Mac IBM Lotus 1 2 3 Math OR Appins Modems Anchor Mark 12 Apple Inc Modem BIZCOMP Modem Hayes Smartmodem Smartcom I Music Systems Printers General ms gus Okidata Stat Packages Stock Market Time Sharing Calls until midnight arc ok Jon Vaupel James Edwards Henry Donahoc Leon
21. 32 48 32 48 32 48 64 54 64 1 64 48 32 43 32 54 64 1 64 72 32 72 32 72 32 72 32 72 64 80 64 1 64 72 32 64 32 80 64 1 64 1 127 1040 DATA 108 64 80 64 86 64 96 64 108 64 60 64 64 64 72 64 80 64 48 64 54 64 57 64 54 64 1 64 1050 DATA 48 32 48 32 48 32 48 32 48 64 54 64 1 64 48 32 43 32 54 64 1 64 72 32 72 32 72 32 12 32 72 64 80 64 1 64 72 32 64 32 80 64 1 64 1 127 1060 DATA 86 127 64 96 54 32 43 64 43 64 43 127 48 64 54 64 57 64 64 64 68 192 1 64 1070 DATA 86 127 68 96 57 32 48 64 48 64 48 127 54 64 1 64 48 32 48 32 48 64 48 64 54 64 1 127 1080 DATA 108 64 80 64 86 64 96 64 108 64 60 64 64 64 72 64 80 64 48 64 54 64 57 64 54 64 1 64 1090 DATA 48 32 48 32 48 32 48 32 48 64 54 64 1 64 48 32 43 32 54 64 43 32 43 32 43 32 43 64 48 64 1100 DATA 43 32 38 22 48 64 1 64 64 40 64 48 64 60 64 72 64 48 64 60 64 72 64 86 64 80 192 1999 DATA 0 0 SAVE DATA SONG GIVE A WHISTLE Listing 9 NEW 1000 REM DATA SONG VARIOUS 1010 DATA 1 1 1020 REM GIVE MY REGARDS 1030 DATA 108 64 96 127 86 64 80 127 contd on pg 34 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 29 by Joseph A Hasson I Introduction Perhaps no other educational innovation has expanded so rapidly in our schools as computers This exp
22. However there are some schools that are designated PILOT Schools These PILOT schools are subject to 2 years of experimentation in the use of computers in instruction and the testing of software Among these 103 elementary schools each has a minimum of three computers the maximum number of computers in elementary schools at this time is 15 At the 6th grade level there are 24 schools which are learning to use DATABASE In the 5th grade students begin to leam Word Processing In K 3 students are first introduced to software packages particularly in Math Junior High in M C covers 6th through 9th grades Intermediate grades in some places include 7th and 8th Senior High Schools lOth through 12th grades Each of these schools has 15 computers 7 of which are placed on specially designed carriers for rotating and moving in thc school There are also media centers known also as MS DOS labs The machines employed by MC are largely Apples they had some Commodores but they are being phased Simula tion is employed in science courses particularly where direct experiments would be dangerous and costly Simulation permits contd on pg 33 IN SEARCH OF THE MOST AMAZING THING A Book Review by Linda Van Zee Tom Snyder and Jane Palmer Addison Wesley 10 95 Tom Snyder is a former teacher turned computer program mer and software developer who is very concerned about how computers are introduced and used in our schoo
23. IBM disks Installation was quick and easy once I decided to ignore ASKY s complex manual Cable connections were self evident NOTE Onc obstacle to setting up your own drive rather than buying a full system from ASKY is that most IBM drives are intended for internal use and thus lack acase and separate power supply If you are so brave or foolish as to obtain your own drive ASKY does provide a way to hook it into the Apple s own power supply rather than having a separate power supply in the drive 22 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 But ASKY doesn t recommend this in all cases and configura tions so be careful CONVERTING FILES Converting files is easy You just use the MS DOS to ProDOS utility disk supplied with your ENVOY card Thisisa 7 standard Apple ProDOS disk that runs on your regular disk drive NOT the special ENVOY drive that s primarily for MS DOS disks The disk is unprotected and the special utilities on it can be copied to a 3 5 disk or hard disk Say you have been writing a report at work on your IBM using XyWrite or any other MS DOS word processor Now you want to work on it some more at home using AppleWorks on your Apple II Here s how to use ENVOY to do so First save the report on your IBM as a text file on a floppy disk Let s call the saved report file Taxes Remove the disk from the IBM and take it home Once home insert the ENVOY utility disk into your Apple s regular bootup
24. KoalaPad Graphics Tablet with graphics softwarel 89 Curtis Eserald Surge Protector 6 outlets amp cord 45 Microsoft Works finally 189 Word neu version 3 0 259 Excel best spreadsheet availablel e45 Basic Interpreter Coapiler 991125 Chart presentation business graphics 85 File leasy to use database 119 ReadySetGo PageMaker latest versions call Oanis 3 Plus heavy duty database 279 Odesta Helix 2 0 las 235 Dollars amp Sense accounting w graphics 95 Sidekick 1 65 Micah AT 20 or 30 fast internal hard disk call Peripheral Land 20 or 30 aeg SCSI drive SuperPaint 1 1 amp Video Tech 800K external 10 MacSnap upgrade 512 to 1 seg or 2 169 475 Iomega 10 20 meg removable cartridge drive call Kensington Mac System Saver fan amp surge protector 75 CALL FOR PRICES OF ITEMS NOT LISTED Please Cospare Our Prices If you find a louer price give us a chance to beat it Feel free to call for ansuers to technical questions TO ORDER Call Jeff Dillon at 301 434 0405 Write or visit OPERANT SYSTEMS 7676 New Haspshire Ave Suite 312
25. LTD 11716 Kemp Mill Road Silver Spring MD 20902 301 649 6868 Call to order Sunday Thursday 10A M 9P M UPS Shipping Available Quantity Discounts Washington Apple Pi August 1987 23 Q amp A by Robert C Platt and Bruce F Field This column attempts to address questions about all of the Apple II computers Please send your questions to this column c o the WAP Office Q A gt What is a RAM disk Your computer contains random access memory RAM which can be used for storing and recalling information Unlike a disk which remembers information even after the computer is turncd off RAM losesits information when there is an interruption in power However the Apple can access RAM quickly than it can access data on cither a floppy or hard disk A RAM disk organizes information in the Apple s RAM memory in the same way that it is stored on a disk Asa result your programs can read and write files to the RAM instead of to the disk drive This speeds up your Apple s performance However before you turn your Apple off you must copy the files from the RAM disk toa floppy or hard disk if you don t want to lose them A special RAM disk program is required to teach the Apple to think of a section of RAM as being accessed like a disk drive Most memory expansion cards for the Apple e and c come with such a program However the IIgs has RAM disk program built in which can be activated from th
26. Langley Park Hd 20783 Md sales add 5 tax UPS shipping is available i i E or i 1 i i All iteas carry full aanufacturer s warranties IEITXINILIIIIZIEIIIMIIS OIDIILIIBILLILIZ ILL Washington Apple Pi August 1987 13 11 BASprg 19 3 BASprg 1 BASdat 13 BASprg 7 BASprg 6 Pascod 7 System 52 System 44 BASprg 28 BASprg 7 BASprg 1 FOOTBALL GURU FRIEND HELLO TEXT REQUEST INV SOS INTERP SOS KERNAL TRUCKER WORD PUZZLE TEXT DUMP Games Volume 2 Self Booting Type Blocks Name BASprg 3 AUDIO DEMO BASprg 1 AUDIO DEMO2 Text 1 AUDIO TEXT Pascod 21 BGRAF INV BASprg 9 BIORHYTHM BASprg 15 CAL COUNTER BASpr 14 CIVIL WAR BASprg 4 CODEBREAKER BASprg 14 GOLF BASprg 1 HELLO Text 3 HELLO TEXT BASprg 8 KNITTING TOOL BASprg 8 LIFE BASprg 7 MENU MAKER BASprg 7 PERPETUAL CAL System 28 SOS DRIVER System 52 SOS INTERP System 44 SOS KERNEL BASprg32 SURVIVAL THREESIG 1002 Basic Utilities Volume 1 Self Boot Blocks Name BASprg 1 ASCILLISTER BASprg 1 ASCILLISTER 2 BASprg 10 AUTOMENU BASprg 3 BASIC BOOTPROG BASprg 5 CATALOG RUN Text 1 COMPARE DOCUMNT BASprg 6 COMPARE UTILITY Text 1 BASprg 11 EPSON SELECT BASprg 8 FILE READER Text 3 HELLO TEXT BASprg 1 HELLO BASprg 3 HEX DEC CONVERT BASprg 18 BASprg 5 MANUALMENU BASprg 7 MENU MAKER BASprg 6 MORTGAGE Pascod
27. Quantity aren t nmemonics wonderful total dollars appear as SUM PRICE QUANTITY an function Remember to hold down the command key when entering array functions If the curly braces do not appear the formula was not entered properly On to the Aggregate sheet To link cell B9 in the detail sheet to cell B3 in the aggregate sheet select B3 in the aggregate sheet and type an equal sign Then select the detail sheet and click on cell B9 you see the result When you clicked in cell B9 of the detail shect Excel entered its name in the formula bar Cell B3 in the aggregate sheet has the formula Detail B 9 As B9 of Detail changes B3 of Aggregate will follow along Details Bi9 This works for now but only so long as rows added above B9 or columns entered to the left of it If rows or columns are entered then the absolute name B 9 will not change and the formula Detail B 9 will point to the wrong cell in Detail In 68 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 the shot below a row wasentered above row three The total now appears in cell B10 of the detail while the aggregate shect still refers to B 9 This is known as a gotcha Sce what I mean Well you might think how about changing the reference BS9 to be relative that is 9 Generally Excel is good at adjusting relative references when rows or columns are added or deleted Sounds like a good
28. Some knowledgeable programmers will appreciate the sup port for an interface with machine language programs Array arguments can be passed to and retreived from machine language routines Documentation Well STSC hasn t scrimped here The package comes with three thorough manuals You get a User s Guide a Reference Manual and an introduction to the APL language Each is well written and professionally published I should point out that the introductory guide is written for APL in general and contains no specific discussion of its use on the Macintosh However the User s Guide and Reference Manual take great pains to describe the use of APL within the Mac environment STSC also provide gummed labels for sticking on your keyboard to help learn the special keystrokes needed to enter APL functions One handy item found under the Apple is a picture of the APL keyboard which can also help with remem bering the required keystrokes STSC doesnotoffer on line help with the language other than the keyboard map To be fair I don t know of any other language package that does The APL PLUS package does offer step and contd Washington Apple Pi August 1987 77 APL PLUS Unified Keyboard aig anann no a TE JE JE peg E JE JE JEYCTE E trace functions to facilitate debugging functions Things I Would Change For onc you can not edit directly on the screen You can not cut and paste commands that have been give
29. Speed Boot time is fast Seconds not hours Applications launch with a snap Reminds me of those Maxell commercials where the guy is sitting in his chair in front of the speakers and contd Washington Apple Pi August 1987 69 heturnson the sound and the whole room gets blown away Save times are fast The internal hard disk drive is The drive is rugged too I ve tested it using very tentative bumps and drops while running no problems whatsoever Chooser works great now and the Control Panel seems to know when an operational is the AppleTalk net auto matically By contrast with earlier software it was always a guessing game if the Mac really knew if it was on AppleTalk or not Chooser works within applications now Adding the slot was smart Apple said that they wanted to design a board that was going to make the Mac work like an IBM compatible Har de har har Apple may have designed such a board but all of the smart third party vendors Levco MacMem ory SuperMac Tech flushed that idea and proceeded to design what everyone else really wanted a board that would add a 68020 microprocessor a 68881 numerical coprocessor and lots of memory so it would make the Mac run faster than Tammy Faye s makeup On the down side let s face it the keyboard is still too small and the keys too close together The spacebar is designed for people with inhumanly small thumbs And what s the deal with the Apple key
30. The best of the painting programs amp MacDraw combined in onc and with color Color ribbons 69 95 now in stock From BERING UNLIMITED STORAGE FOR THE MACINTOSH WITH 51 REMOVABLE BERNOULLI 6995 LIST 99 95 Stepping Pho 51795 ur Screen Extende 4 350 ONLY ALL LISTED PRICES ARE FOR ON IN STOCK ITEMS 79 95 LIST 95 4 88 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 LIST 1500 will match or beat an Spear advertised in stock price in the WA 2222 20 20 52095 Lig 171 metro area UPERMAC DATAFRAME XP40 189 95 Los eoe i uus 1539 DATAFRAME XP 40 4 40 erui ient CALL Each DataFrame includes 300 FREE Software Super Spool Super Laser Spool Disk Fit and more as well as a full 1 year warranty 2 d COMSERVE sharing cae Lua e recent CALL TEN E CALL MAC FLOW usr 9125 99 55 MACLINK PLUS LIST 519995 149 PRINTWORKS LIST 75 65 SMART SCRAP amp CLIPPER 49 95 STEPPING OUT UST 95 89 VIP ust 5125 99 HARDWARE MAX PORT scsi for Max 2 LIST 5189 149 TURBO MOUSE s130 109 UPGRADE Lassen ems 169
31. Trapeze InBox Intermail Appleshare Apple Teas If you would like to hostan Apple Tea call Amy Billingsley or the office Teas are small informal get togethers usually with a theme such as desktop publishing or discussing a particular program like Appleworks You need not be able to lead a discussion We can supply the experts for that Just serve as host or hostess for one evening SYSOPs TCS can always use more Sysops to host a board Leave a message on the TCS or call Lec Raesely EVENT QUEUE Washington Apple Pi meets on the 4th Saturday usually of each month both Apple and Mac at thc Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences USUHS on the campus of the Bethesda Naval Medical Center 4301 Jones Bridge Road Bethesda MD Disketeria transactions Journal pickup mem berships etc are from 8 45 9 30 AM and during the Q amp A sessions times for these vary according to the main meeting topic The business meeting is from 9 00 9 30 A sign interpreter and reserved seating can be provided for the hearing impaired but we need 5 business days notice Call the office Following are dates and topics for upcoming months August 22 GamceSIG Extravaganza September 26 TBA The Executive Board of Washington Apple Pi meets on the second Wednesday of cach month at 7 30 PM at the office However in August the date is the 19th the third Wednesday 22 Please note that wc have an early
32. User 303 PIGS 306 PIG6 68 Utilities VII 101 Utilities B 503 DCom 304 PIG7 8 PIG8 69 Utilities VIII 102 Games A 504 Database LOGIC 305 PIG9 10 PIG10 70 Utilities IX 104 Business A Serles Volumes 306 PIG11 312 PIG12 71 Utilities X 106 Engincering Dungeon Designer 307 PIG13 314 PIG14 72 Utilities XI Sys Grph 1 181 Beginners Cave P M Volumes 73 Word Processin 108 TAC 10 hics 182 Lair of Minotaur 401 Master Catalog 74 Fun amp Games I 109 IAC 11 A Teso t Tutrl 183 Cave of the Mind 205 Utilities 1 amp Games 110 Personal Education 184 Zyphur Riverventure 403 Communications 76 Fun amp Games XI 111 Games C 185 Castle of Doom 404 Utilities 2 77 Fun amp Games XII 112 Utilities C 186 Death Star 405 Utilities 3 78 Fun amp Games XIII 113 Business B 187 Devil s Tomb 406 ZCPR2 Install 79 Fun amp Games XIV 115 IAC 12 13 Misc 188 Caves of 5 151 407 ZCPR2 Documentation 80 Fun amp Games XV 116 14 MicromodemlI 189 Furioso 408 ZCPR2 Utilities 81 Utilities 117 Picture Packer 190 The Magic Kingdom 409 Modem 730 82 Utilities 118 Utilities D 191 The Tomb of 410 Essential Utilities 83 Telecom III 119 IAC 15 Misc 192 Lost Isl of A 411 Text Editor 84 Fun amp Games XVI 120 IAC 16 Misc 193 Abductor s m 412 Spreadsheet 85 Fun amp Games XVII 121 WAPABBS 1 1 Doc 194 Quest for Trezore 413 MDM740 SSC amp Com 86 Utilities XIV 122 IAC 17 Misc 195 Underground City
33. What is NEW is the inclusion of Quark and Illustrator in their sample files And what must be remembered here is not only that Linotron series is the state of the art highest resolution typeset ter in the world but also the inclusion and importantly RECOGNITION of the Macintosh as a serious typesctting and graphics producing input terminal for the Linotron as well as for any typesetter equipment using 5 such as the newly an nounced 600 series by AM s Varityper The samples done on the highest resolution possible over 2600 dots per inch were unbelievable One of them showed an image of a VW with halftones drawn in Illustrator and the other apage layout with XPress and the Illustrator eagle floating in the middle of the page the type flowing cffortlessly around it with all the correct kerning letterspacing dropped caps and runa rounds any graphics artist could want Is Allicd promoting Quark XPress You bet itis because it comes closest to Allied s highest standards of typography Allied Linotype invented Helvetica and a host of other typefaces and has the largest collection of owned patented copyrighted fonts in the world Kerning or the ability to proportionately space and design pleasing characters of type such as tucking a lower case under the lid of an uppercase T can be tightened in increments of 1 100ths of an space in XPress which translates to a control of 1 1000ths of an
34. Wish you had LaserWriter Create on your Macintosh or use one of ours then use our LaserWriter Plus amp friendly hand holding for LaserCopy Typesetting 506 an copy for PCR users group members Plus resource time 10 hour Minimum 5 PCR Users Group Membership 25 PC Resources By Appointment 703 860 1100 1850 Centennial Park Drive 8300 Reston VA 22091 Mon Fri 8 30 a m 5 00 p m Evenings amp Weekends On Request Client responsible for disk back up Prices subject to change without notice 877 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 67 Part 14 by David Morganstein _ John had an interesting problem you might encounter He had constructed a pair of linked worksheets The first sheet contained the detail and the second sheet the aggregate values Several of the cells in the aggregate sheet were connected to the detail sheet While his problem arose when he inserted a row or column in the detail sheet let s first see how the linking works and then look at a solution In the following screen shot you see a piece of the detail sheet on the left invoice 3345 and the aggregate sheet on the right We ll just link in one value the total amount of the invoice We obtain the total of the prices times the quantities as we showed last month using an array function The price column has been named Price and the quantity column named
35. XTALK CP M Comm Bemie Benson 301 951 5294 Data Bases dBase II Paul Bublitz 301 261 4124 John Staples 703 255 6955 dBase II amp III Ray Hobbs BBS 301 490 7484 Jim Kellock day 301 986 9522 n Raesly 301 439 1799 Data Perfect Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 PFS Bill 703 620 2103 Ginny Spevak 202 362 3887 Q Pro 4 John Staples 703 255 6955 Hard Disks Corvus amp Omninct Tom Vier BBS 301 986 8085 Corvus Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Sider Jaxon Brown 301 350 3283 Otis Greever 615 638 1525 Languages A Applesoft I Integer P Pascal M Machine A uis Biggie 301 967 3977 A Peter Combes 301 251 6369 Al Jeff Dillon 301 422 6458 A Richard Langston 301 869 7466 A Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Richard Untied 609 596 8816 ALM ohn Love 703 569 2294 M Ray Hobbs BBS 301 490 7484 P Michael Hartman 301 445 1583 Forth Bruce Field 301 340 7038 MS Basic Ray Hobbs BBS 301 490 7484 Monitor RGB ohn Day 301 621 7543 pple DOS John Love 703 569 2294 Adam Robie 301 460 6537 Richard Untied 609 596 8816 CP M Ray Hobbs BBS 301 490 7484 Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 MS DOS Ray Hobbs BBS 301 490 7484 ProDOS on Raesly 301 439 1799 John Love 703 569 2294 Print Shop Thomas O Hagan 301 593 9683 Newsroom Carol Thomas 301 424 1266 Spreadsheets Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Walt Francis 202 966 5742 VisiCalc Walt Francis 202 966 5742 OU Tagen aie Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 SuperCalc Ver 2 0 Leon
36. including parts at mostly decent prices Sun also offers the Titan c turns your into a 128k Check prices against AIM for best deals This company also offers nationwide service for the community and you can call them to ask for help as well 256K reconditioned s offered for 599 00 with monitor Software prices are reduced if purchased with the computer Here are some additional sources for Apple hardware including parts and software which docs not purport to be a complete list Blytheco Steve Blythe 714 583 0424 22952 Alcalde Dr Suite 100 Laguna Hills CA 92653 Product Copy Descrip tion Disk Copy Program Byte Brokers Robert Maxie 916 334 2983 5111 D College Oaks Dr Sacramento CA 95841 Product Apple s and other hardware Description Check for availability Not much in stock last call Computer Reset 214 276 8072 P O Box 461782 Gar land TX 75046 Product Apple Manuals Description Mostly manuals Check for other offerings Custom Computer Company 714 786 3418 3601 Parkview Lane Stc 1 C Irvine CA 92715 Product Apple Cooling System Description Fan DAISI Electronics Inc 215 353 2203 Box Newton Square PA 19073 Product PKASU U Driver Dc scription Printer Driver for PKASU U Parallel Card Flip Trak Learning Systems 312 790 1117 999 N Main St Ste 200 Glen Ellyn IL 60137 Product How to Operate the Description Casset
37. s s Company BBS It is by far THE BEST BBS in the United States and dare we say the World why not It has a wealth of information available purely for the cost of a phone call Ed keeps adding things all the time and likc Major Dobrowolski tics to get as much information as he can into his baby A true mother lode Try it by calling through a modem of coursc 804 747 8752 On Three also has started up its own BBS and you can call itat 805 644 1055 Other groups like ATUNC also offer BBS systems that include PD offerings As for WAP we have onc of the most extensive BBS systems TCS or Telecommunications System in the nation One call gives you access to four complete 32 board systems The Apple board is on Conference 1 Board 5 There are also provisions for uploading and downloading files You must pay contd ascparate 6 00 fee to usc the WAP TCS Call the office for more information SOURCES FOR HARDWARE AND COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE As most know the number of local Apple computer stores offering software or hardware is rapidly becoming non existent Many are going the route of auctions or distress sales These won t be able to sustain us a whole lot longer simply becausc the universe of Apple products at the local level is disappearing However there arc still some places we can go to obtain not only the old linc products like VisiCalc Apple Writer and
38. 17 different teams because many Super Bowl teams went more than once Also included is a well written Tech Manual that takes you through a step by step instruction on how to play the game Certainly the programmers deserve a lot of credit for this too many gamers have to suffer through badly written and muddled manuals and it s a pleasure to sec somcone who takes the time to do it right Once you have absorbed the material in the manual you can boot up the game and let er rip Well maybe not let er rip exactly The programming language used in Mac Pro Football is very slow so if you do have a 512K you can expect to spend a chunk of time on each game After playing several games on my old 512K Igotanew SE which greatly improved the playing speed of the game but for some reason the font used for the scoreboard doesn t work on that machine This isn t such a serious problem unless you happen to bc interested in things like current down yards needed for a first down how much time is left in the game and other information critical to your play selection I quickly learned that on the SE you need a scratch pad by your side to take down this information In any event once you boot up you will see three screens The largest of these is the playing field which shows you the execution of plays through a standard X and diagram that resembles John Madden s CBS Chalkboard without the Hey wait a minute thrown in Tw
39. 4 READCRT INV Pascod 4 RESTART CODE BASprg SCROLLER Text 1 SEARCH DOCUMENT BASprg10 SEARCH UTILITY System 17 SOS DRIVER System 52 SOS INTERP System 44 SOS KERNEL 14 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 BASprg 1 SOSBUFFER DEMO BASprg 7 TEXTFILE COPY BASprg 10 TEXTFILE DUMP BASprg 3 TEXTFILEMAKER Pascod 4 UPSHIFTINV THREE SIG 1003 Basic Utilities Volume 2 Self Boot Type Blocks Name BASprg 6 BASIC RENUMBER BASprg 4 CALCULATE AREA Text 1 CIPHER DOCUMENT 14 CIPHER UTILITY BASprg 4 DISKDRV CLEAN Pascod 5 FILETYPEINV BASprg 1 HELLO Tex 3 HELLO TEXT BASprg 4 HEX ASCII DUMP BASprg 22 LOAN PAY CALC BASprg 7 MENU MAKER BASprg 7 REM REMOVER BASprg 11 RENAME DIRECT BASprg 11 RENAME DIRECT BASprg 11 RENUMBER DOC Pascod 15 RENUMBER INV Pascod 7 REQUEST INV BASprg 7 System 17 SOS DRIVER System 52 SOS INTERP System 44 SOS KERNEL BASprg 7 TEXT FILE SCRLL BASprg 11 FIND REPLACE BASpr 1 LINE PRINTER IHREE SIG 1004A System Utilities Self Booting Type Blocks Name System 44 SOS KERNEL System 24 SOS DRIVER System 28 SOS INTERP Pascod 49 SYSTEM PASCAL Pasdta 1 SYSTEM MISCINFO Pascod 121 SYSTEM STARTUP System Data and Drivers Not Self Booting Type Blocks Name Pascod 14 CONSOLE DRIVER Pascod 8 RS232 DRIVER Pascod 5 SERPRINT DRIVER Pascod 5 AUDIO DRIVER Pascod 14 GRAFIX DRIVER Pascod 6 FMTDX DRIVER Pascod 9 PROFIL
40. 64 68 64 64 64 54 64 1 64 108 64 96 54 80 64 64 255 1 255 1140 REM THE LOOK OF LOVE 1150 DATA 127 64 96 192 64 64 72 192 80 64 86 192 96 64 72 192 1 255 1160 REM MISTY 1170 DATA 54 32 64 32 86 192 108 32 96 32 90 32 48 32 48 32 48 32 48 32 54 32 64 32 80 32 96 64 1 255 1999 DATA 0 0 Listing 10 Now play around with the above and also sec if you can find some music and do some short programming for yourself Save everything as I have described for you may use it later when we meet again Next Array Music Text File Music More Advanced Sheet Music Reading Alternate Sound Driver Coming Up Other Sounds Commercial Programs And More e STOCK SIG NEWS by Andrew D Thompson The June gathering of Stock SIG occurred on the 11th at its standard timc and place the second Thursday of the month at the Apple Pi office 1 STRATEGIES FOR PLAYING OPTIONS Dan Wages presented his personal strategies for playing the options market using his own program witha 512 Mac Lotus and Excel spreadsheet Wages began by contextualizing how his method for calculating risk factors contrasted with traditional approaches The traditional Black Shoals method projected the fair value price of an option and its implicd volatility Wages said his method has enjoyed success by working backwards by assuming that the current market values for particular stock options were
41. 92 156 1335 86 76 120 Behavioral soom mem marme Spectol D T ES 50 103 79 145 67 84 134 45 73 30 20 L 2 Casual Coabot Se 11 140 163 130 90 149 97 166 65 161 16 43 32 139 17 147 leltoting a Star apple rM M 62 125 89 99 113 129 19 57 110 31 36 121 M Roueed ne Itis silly your choice whether you will be concerned with compati Words bility or not Apple will not put out a warrant for your arrest However A Artwork H Mellow O Liability Chip if you are doing things that are specifically illegal Apple will not worry Porcupine I Pugnacity P Impiously V Hollow about breaking your program C Palatably J Airfreight Q Torturous Neglecter Author Apple Computer Inc D Layaway Yodelling X Outwit Work Compatibility Tech Note E Eerie L Inward 5 Terror Y Throbs Source Technical Note 17 Compatibility Why amp F Chevrotain M Boorishly T Earplug Z Enfranchise How Part 1 G Outflow Intact Washington Apple August 1987 39 WAP 1987 OPERATING STATEMENT AND 1988 BUDGET A Memorandum To The Membership On behalf of the Board of Directors we are pleased to present the combined Statement of Operating Results for Fiscal Year 1987 and Proposed Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 1988 statement as we
42. ADD 5 SALES TAX SHIPPING 2 50 FOR SOFTWARE AND ACCESSORIES 4 00 FOR HARDWARE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY NETWORKS INC 10724 BALTIMORE AVE RT 1 1 MILE NORTH ON 495 EXIT 25 LOCATED IN TWIN CHIMNEYS OFFICE PARK PRICES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE CALL TO VERIFY STOCK AVAILABILITY QUANTITIES MAY BE LIMITED Washington Apple Pi August 1987 57 TECHNICAL WRITING by Rick Chapman I just recently finished writing my Ph D dissertation on my Macintosh Before I started to write the dissertation I spent good dcal of timc investigating various word processors equa on formatters and graphics programs in search of the ideal combination for producing this type of technical document I m writing this article to describe some of my experiences and opinions I hope that you ll find it a useful review of several alternatives for the production of technical documents My degree is in Physical Occanography and my dissertation was highly theoretical in nature Its 82 pages were divided into 11 sections each with its own special formatting requirements In addition the dissertation contained 15 figures and over 60 equations Several preliminary drafts were to printed on my Imagewriter but the final copy would have to be of the highest quality and would thus be printed on a LaserWriter To dispel any suspense state up front that I ended up producing the entire document on thc Mac using Microsoft Word3 0 Cricket Draw and some cu
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45. Cricket Software s credit they provided the corrected version to all owners as soon as they realized that the first version was inoperative With this new version I have encountered problems copying and pasting selections from one image to the next The copied selection generally gets pasted into the center of the viewing area but I have had selections pasted outside of the useable area of the screen several times These selections then show up on the screen when I ve zoomed out to view the entire page but they cannot be selected to move or cut Another problem is that handles do not always show up on small objects when they are selected Another problem with small objects in general is that they are not always selected when a selection box is drawn around them especially when the viewing mode is not set to actual size Although the text formatting capabilities of Cricket Draw far exceed that of MacDraw there is one area where MacDraw is superior and that is in the global editing of fonts styles and sizes To change all of the text in a MacDraw image to 12 point Helvetica you need only select all objects and then use the menus 60 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 to set the text to 12 point and Helvetica The change will then be applied to all text that appears Cricket Draw will not allow you to make a font size or style change to more than one text sclection at a time Thus to change all text to 12 point Helvetica using Cricket Dra
46. Printer Deja Vu is buggy Switcher has had problems although I didn t determine whether it was Switcher or the applications that ran under it Tempo is buggy Here s an interesting one SuperMac Technologies shipped a Dataframe 40XP with Super Spool version 3 1 df Itdidn t work with the SE SuperMac Tech said that the software people knew that 3 1 had problems with the SE s ROMs and that they would send version 3 4 which con tained corrections Three weeks later they sent version 3 1 again which still didn t work Latest I heard SuperMac was recommending using Finder 5 5 which I know caused some System bombs that version 5 4 didn t 70 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 And there you have it The good the bad and the ugly The SE is electronically much better than the Mac Plus but stylisti cally worse The software compatibility issue is not resolved but a shakeout will take a year I think that it s a damed good business machine I just don t know if it ll attract the cult following that the Mac and Mac Plus did Goodbye Louie Louis de Broglie died in February He was one of the giants of modern physics A French physicist he speculated in 1924 that particles of mass would exhibit wave like properties In fact he submitted this novel idea in in his Ph D dissertation He was proven right and with one broad sweep his theory unified the understanding of the relationship of mass and energy which Albert Einstein beg
47. RSG user the XPress menu at first glance seems to offer nothing new or outstanding As a matter of fact many of the features of these other page layout programs seem very familiar when seen in XPress as if all the best ingredients of these were combined into one program As the Acta outliner has its daughters XPress has its children or siblings Using Text Boxes and Graphics Boxes much like RSG instead of the venetian blinds of PM any text or graphic residing within the bounds of that box is called a child Because of the nature of the program functions deleting some of these elements is not simply a matter of Command X It takes a few times working with files to get used to the delete functions Using the familiar tools on the left side of the screen the user will find that he she has to keep re sclecting them each time a line contd fle Edit Font Stylie Paragraph View Utilities or box is drawn But if homework is done and the manual is read the user finds that depressing the Option key when selecting a tool will keep that tool selected for repetitive tasks until another tool is selected New tools include the top tool for moving Active boxes around the screen The Editing Tool combines an I beam with the hand and is used for either text editing or for moving graphics WITHIN a box but never out of it In other words the concept is
48. Remove PopKeys from the System file At least part of the problem is that there is a bug in System 4 1 is uninitialized Stuffing 14 in it manually using the debugger SM 14 helps I modified the Monaco 9 font so I could tell the 0 from the O more easily Why doesn t this font work on the SE or the Mac II Monaco 9 is in the ROM of the newer machines and so what you installed won t be used unless you go through a lot of extra trouble See the Resource Manager chapter in Inside Washington Apple Pi August 1987 Macintosh IV A simpler s lutionistorenameandrenumber the modified font I also hear of a font named Whitestone which is itself an already modified Monoco though I don t know where to find it Help The screen saver program AutoBlack doesn t work on a Mac II Right The Mac II doesn t have the alternate screen memory Q gt that the original Macs do and that AutoBlack needs How ever another good screen saver called Pyro is about to be released It displays random fireworks at idle which in color on the Mac II By the way many games won t work on the Mac II for the same reason Help I tried using Red Ryder 9 4 on a Mac II and now I can t boot from the internal hard disk It must have mangled the Parameter RAM I can t verify your conclusion but to reset Parameter RAM hold down Option Command and Shift while invoking the Control Panel
49. THE MACINTOSH 100 010 001 This problem has prompted the development of several equation formatters or typesetters These programs allow the user to enter an equation in some manner and then typesct that equation creating a graphic which can then bc pasted into your document just like a graphic created in MacDraw I purchased two of these programs MacEqn and Expressionist previously called Wienberg to try out These two programs turned out to be very similar Both allow you to enter an equation on screen edit that equation and then crcate a graphic for pasting into your word processor Both allow you to paste the graphic back into the program for additional editing The graphic that is created is in the form of a PICT file that is MacDraw but not MacPaint compatible This gives the bencfit of providing a very high quality output on the LaserWriter MacEqn the oldest of the programs is a desk accessory that allows you to enter equations using cither menu choiccs or a sct of keyboard equivalents to select particular equation constructs Thus to typeset a vertical fraction of 1 2 you would choose the fraction construct from the menu type the number 1 for the numerator hitting the ENTER key to indicate the end of the numerator and then type the number 2 Editing is performed by pointing at a particular clement to move the insertion point and then typing the new material to be inserted or using the backspace key to delete p
50. a character in the Symbol font as a word Still even with these complaints I would not hesitate to recommend Word3 0 as the best all around solution to technical word processing Technical Drawing The last major requirement that I had was for a way to produce high quality drawings and plots suitable for use within the dissertation My first thought was to use MacDraw since it is capable of producing reasonably high quality linc drawings on the LaserWriter Unfortunately MacDraw had a couple of draw backs its patterns used for polygon fills are rather crudely printed on the LaserWriter and it cannot easily handle text with super and subscripts For this reason I bought a copy of Cricket Draw a program which promised significant improvements over MacDraw especially in the area of text handling Cricket Draw has almost all of the capabilities of MacDraw but adds such features as advanced text support including mixed fonts styles and sizes within a single sclection an incredible variety of fills a number of special effects such as graduated fills and starbursts and full Postscript support It is an impressive program both in size gt 300K and power Unfortunately it is a new program and still needs to go through several revisions before it will work as consistently and as smoothly as MacDraw Let me say up front that the version I have been working with is the updated version 1 01 the original version 1 0 was almost useless Much to
51. and letter codes Change the size length font style or other attributes of any field intuitively by pointing clicking end meking menu choices Compatibility Macintosh users even MacNovices have become used to the idea that it s possible to CUT and PASTE words pictures charts contd graphs even in spreadsheets complex formulas Using the EDIT menus is probably second nature to most Mac users But in the non Mac computer world it s a chore to SELECT infor mation for cutting and pasting Codes must be embedded in the text of a document for instance telling the computer where a selection begins and cnds Cursors must be scrolled around the document to relocate the insertion point These are tasks im menscly simplified using the mouse Even one devoted cursor user I know who cursed the mouse when he started using a Mac like Atari has since come around to admitting that editing with the mouse is faster simpler more intuitive than the old method But the beauty of the EDIT menu is not limited to editing within one software program The beauty is magnified a thou sand times when you realize that the EDIT menu is available in identical form and function in virtually every Macintosh pro gram published This is the miracle of the Mac s user interface It s possible to cut and paste among different programs using exactly the same commands exactly the same mouse and menu movements Andit s
52. and renamed the duplications as lines 1020 and 1050 Line 1040 was duplicated and renamed as line 1060 Thus with just a couple of key strokes much of the music was written Here is the procedure for playing the DATA SONGS that you will be writing 1 Run RENUMBER 1 discussed its valuable use in Part 1 of this series 2 Load ONE SONG DATA PLAYER 3 Type amp H so that the program is placed on Hold 4 Load your DATA SONG In the example above it would be DATA SONG CHARGE 5 Merge the two programs by typing amp M 6 Inspect the result with a LIST if you desire 7 RUN it Want to hear it again Type RUN there are other ways but this will do for the moment 8 Want to hear another data song Type DEL 1000 1999 Follow steps 3 through 7 above You will note that I snuck in something new the Frequency and Duration Multipliers By changing these numbers a small amount you can cause the frequency and duration of each note to change up or down exactly relative to all the other notes without having to edit your data file In the above example I found that more musical data files that you might like to play with Save each and use them with the above ONE SONG DATA PLAYER in the manner that I outlincd for you NEW 1000 REM DATA SONG GIVE A WHISTLE 1010 DATA 1 1 1 1020 DATA 108 64 80 64 86 64 96 64 108 64 60 64 64 64 72 64 80 64 48 64 54 64 57 64 54 64 1 64 1030 48 32 48
53. and save it using the special drive onto an MS DOS disk you can pop into computer s drive for use with IBM programs ENVOY consists of a 180 add in card for any Apple Apple e or Apple IIgs To this you must add a standard IBM type disk drive either by buying and installing it yourself or by buying it from ASKY already set up The company sells a subsystem card and drive together for 349 roughly the same cost as a regular Apple drive alone or a modem Thave been testing an ENVOY subsystem card plus drive for several months now And while it isn t without some problems described below I have found it to be an easy reliable way to bridge the Apple IBM compatibility gap It should be a useful tool for all but the most novice users who have aneed or an opportunity to share files between Apple IBM compatible computers WHAT ENVOY ISN T Anybody interested in IBM Apple compatibility needs to bear in mind a fcw cssential cavcats when considering ENVOY as a solution There s a lot of confusion on this compatibility business but we ll try to make these points while sticking to this column s credo of being non technical 1 The ENVOY card will not allow you to run IBM compat ible programs like Lotus 1 2 3 or MultiMate or whatever on your Apple II computer It isn t designed to do that and therefore doesn t include a type of chip called a coprocessor sort of an IBM on a board that would be neede
54. another feature not found in other games Should you be successful on the planet you will eventually find the alien spaceship which you must infiltrate in order to deal with the Star Generator I did not find the plot of this adventure to be terribly innova tive several plot devices have been cribbed from familiar movies and television shows I was also disappointed to find that it would be difficult to impossible to complete the game without N saving it at several points it seems to me that a game should reward the astute adventurer who can solve all the puzzles the first time through Overall though I think this game would be contd on pg 38 MAC PRO FOOTBALL A Review by Peter Lindstrom As a dedicated Macintosh user I never thought I would ever come to the conclusion that there is such a thing as being too user friendly Unfortunately an idiot proof user interface mars what would be otherwise great game called Mac Pro Football Avalon Hill 49 95 list 512K required What is frustrating about this is that the problem is so obvious you wonder why the programmers ever allowed it to happen in the first place To fully appreciate the annoyance caused by the interface you need to know what the designers did right in this game Pro Football is a straightforward pro football simulation that relies on strategy not arcade action Though the program has a few limits it is on the whole a remarkably sophis
55. assist in prepara tion of flyers newsletters business cards Candidates must have Macintosh expertise design layout and pastc up experi ence Part time flexible hours Resumes to Strokes amp Strate gies Inc Box 5113 Laytonsville MD 20879 e TUN LIIS 622 20 CEYZ LO LLL COE ee LL 0578 UIT Let your computer carn money you develop mailing lists of various professions or specialties and we will rent them for you Royalties paid for each rental Call Professional List Services PLS Inc for full details Ask for Lec Raesly 301 I 439 1799 l Executive Board Meeting June 10 1987 Bernie Urban and Lynn Trusal volunteered to collaborate with the National Computer Graphics Association in planning a conference on PC graphics in November WAP will havea booth at the MacWorld Expo on August 11 13 additional vendors will not be allowed within the booth Ed Myerson presented the FY88 Expense and Revenue budget to the Board Suggested capital budget items included a IIGS for the office upgrading the e s TCS equipment a replacement vidco projector books for the library a bed scanner a digitizing camera a CD WORM drive The Expense and Revenue Budget was approved The dealer reception went well WAP is being invited to participate in the Capitol Microcomputer Trade Show being held in the fall Executive Board Meeting July 8 198
56. cell B 10 You need only click ok and the cell will be named Total All that remains is to change the reference in the Aggregate sheet from Detail B 9 to Detail Total Now when a row is inserted above Total or a column is inserted to the lcft of Total the Aggregate sheet will continue to reference the correct cell regardless of its row or column Excel updates references to named cells as the size of the sheet changes What is more important John can remain another happy Excel user And so can you Deteil i fiadaregate Wi Undocumented Features There seems to be a new fca ture V1 04 On the MacPlus and the 512E using Sys4 1 Finder5 5 Fkeys no longer work They work fine on the SE using the latest system finder but not the 128K ROM machines I haven t tried this with older 64K ROM Macs Please let me know if you find this to be the case I have tried three different 128K ROM Macs and I cant use command shift 1 or 2 to eject disks command shift 3 or 4 to make screen shots or use other Fkeys I have installed Fortunately the desk accessory Camera which takes screen shots after a prescribed time period continues to work or else I couldn t have prepared the accompa nying graphics for this article Improvements What improvements would you like to see in Excel Ihave senta wish list to Microsoft with the following thoughts but would appreciate your input as well for a second list Ican tell yo
57. credits are given Membership dues for Washington Apple Pi arc 32 00 for the first year and 25 00 per year thereafter beginning in the month joined If you would like to join please call the club office or write to the office address A membership application will be mailed to you Subscriptions to the Washington Apple Pi Journal are not available The Journal is distributed as a benefit of membership Mailing Notice Change of address must be postmarked at least 30 days prior to effective date of move Journal issues missed due to non receipt of change of address may be acquired via mail for 2 50 per issue Current office hours are Monday Friday 10 AM to 2 30 PM Thursday 7PM 10 9 00 PM Saturday 12 Noon to 3 00 PM Please note that the office is closed on all U S Government holidays Members arc asked to place phonc calls to the office during the day hours Monday Friday whenever possible since only one person staffs the office during evening hours and on Saturday The office will be closed on Tuesday evening during July and August APPLE TEAS It s easy to HOST AN APPLE TEA Would you like to gather some Apple users from near and far to discuss a topic you re interested in or one that you d like to know morc about Apple Teas arc opportunies for Apple users to get together in small groups from 3 to 12 to learn more about a specific arca of Apple computing expand each other s knowledge ask questions and share t
58. difficult to keep on all that is happening when text is placed onto a page In other cases a text block can occur on page one and be linked to another block on page 5 7 and 9 in whatever size or shape the text block is defined or the graphics placed within that box and often the user will not sce this happen CLICK CLICK Within a text block one click places the insertion bar into a Static position Most are familiar with this operation Twoclicks selects the whole word 3 clicks selects the whole line 4 clicks selects the whole paragraph and 5 clicks selects the whole story no matter where that story flows from page to page or on the same page Our friends at CACI Graphics Services in Fairfax VA who ran their ad on page 57 of the May 87 issue of the WAP Journal would have had much better word spacing within their type had they used Quark XPress with their Allied Linotron 300 output Both the Linotron salesman and I noticed this ad and compared the samples Allied produced with Quark XPress and their Li notronic output with this particular ad There was no compari son XPress generated far superior output or type generation and it s pretty certain Dick will show CACI samples if they ask him The ad appears to have been produced from either RSG or PM 12 with particular reference to the bold body text and the extreme white spacing around the words Where were the hyphens to tighten the word spacing on these lines Or in
59. dimensional arrays You don t even have to DIMension these arrays before using them Their shape can be changed from one point in the program to another You can do massive numbers of mathematical operations with a just a couple of symbols While my use of APL has always bcen limited to scientific number crunching applications as you will sec in some of the following examples there are virtually no business problems which it can not handle It offers a wide variety of string handling functions Given this glowing overview why is it you have never heard of APL before I believe the answer to this very understandable question is that the price for APL s power is complexity It has many many powerful operators which must be studied to be understood and which must be understood to use To enter these operators at the keyboard requires the use of special symbols Standard teletypes mainframes could not generate these special symbols Terminals would have to be equipped with unique character generator ROMs to provide for the display of these unique symbols However the Mac isan ideal host for APL since it has no problem displaying its unique fonts Let me show you a few examples of APL s power Let s begin with computing a simple mean that is the sum of a of values divided by the number of values In basic you would have to DIMension an array to hold the values and then you would write a loop to add them up Finally you would divide the
60. drive and insert the MS DOS disk from work into the special ENVOY disk drive attached to your Apple Turn on the Apple and the ENVOY utility disk will boot up You will see a menu of the several utilitics on the ENVOY disk The important one is the File Transfer program Select it and you ll sce another menu as follows P gt ProDOS Utilities M MS DOS Utilities T gt Transfer Files S gt Set Defaults O gt Printer ON OFF H gt Help Q gt Quit Select Transfer Files and the Transfer Menu appears From this menu you choose the direction of the transfer MS DOS gt ProDOS in this case and then select Transfer a File A final screen comes up on which you confirm which MS DOS drive to use there s usually only one and the ProDOS Prefix You then type in the MS DOS filename you want to transfer Taxes in our little example and the name you want the file to have ProDOS it can be Taxes in ProDOS too That s all there is to it The two drives whir and ENVOY reads the file from the MS DOS disk converts it to a ProDOS file and saves the resulting ProDOS file on the ProDOS volume you desig nated For an average length file it s very very fast In order to work on the file in AppleWorks remove the ENVOY utility disk from your regular drive and insert Apple Works The ProDOS file you just converted from MS DOS isan ASCII Text File which AppleWorks can use via the Add Files to Desktop inenu in t
61. errors are evident in this one What we have in our hands with XPress is a refinement of tools and functions in masterly style From a personal standpoint with a graphics design and typographic background XPress is it the closest program to matching knowledge of type and graphics This is further substantiated by Allied Corp makers of the Linotron Imag eSetters as we ll sce further on contd Washington Apple August 1987 65 Is it worth learning if you know little or nothing about desktop publishing graphics and type Well let s sce it can be mentioned that what you as a single user with this program can accomplish is what it takes a crew of special people to do i e an art director a designer to spec type a layout artist a paste up artist a graphic artist or illustrator and a typographer Quark XPress thus puts in a single user s hand an electronic program or device that would normally take 5 people to produce manually in their respective fields Such a tool this is Like someone once said So you tell me if it s worth Icarning ALLIED CORPORATION The reference to Allied which I alluded to above rests in this I was shown some Macintosh printouts from a Linotron 300 typesetter using Quark XPress combined with Adobe s Illustra tor on June 25 1987 These examples are by now in every salesman s portfolio The link between Macs and Allied s Linotron with their raster image processor RIP is well known
62. folks want Our clients typically stay in touch and often come back for more equip ment as their needs grow Many send their friends and colleagues to us We must be doing something right Give call when you re ready fora PC and let s talk about why a custom tailored personal computer from Landmark Computer Labs is the best buy you can make Landmark Computer Laboratories Suite 1506 101 South Whiting Street Alexandria Virginia 22304 Telephone 703 370 2242 SourceMall 076 IBM PC XT and PC AT ere regutared trademarha of Intornatinal BDuenem Machines Corporstien Washington Apple Pi August 1987 17 IGS Stuff by Ted Meyer Peg Matzen whois the Apple IIGS SIG recorder gets a break this month since there was no June meeting to report on The Garage Sale went very well and I noticed that some of the swappers even had some IIGS software available Those who stopped by at the Disketcria may have noticed that the IIGS System Disk Version 2 was available Apple sent us a copy and the right to distribute it By the time you read this the new version should be at local dealers who should be willing to copy it for free for IIGS owners However we do plan on always having the latest System software from Apple available through the Disketeria It also looks as though a new IIGS library disk will be available by the time you read this Check out the Disketeria News column for morc information Brand new computer us
63. formula section and read about the equation capability This was the first equation that I entered after powering up my System 20 Vp pef This is a statement of the conservation of momentum in frictionless shallow fluid on a rotating planet Sorry but I couldn t help showing off a lite This equation is entered as follows p F Du Dt 2 Q xu pgNO k SNUPA b The sequence on the left hand side of the equation tells Word 3 0 to form a fraction out of the two items found inside the following parentheses The sequence on the right hand side tells Word3 0 to overlay the second item inside the parentheses on top of the first item The second item is a symbol which is superscripted 4 pixels by the NSNUP4 sequence Within Word3 0 equation constructs are designated by sequences of characters beginning with the special character formed by pressing Option Command This may look initimidating at first but I found it to be quite simple to use in practice All of the special characters appear as shown in b when the equation is first being entered or whenever the Show Paragraphs option is selected Otherwise the typeset form of the equation is shown This makes editing equations fast and simple Further more because equations are just standard text within a regular Word3 0 document all of the equations within a document can be globally edited using the standard Find and
64. have the opportunity to spotlight The Complete Copy Shop people who serve as positive role models in the communities and render programs to say special thanks each month Each year STA establishes an official theme and a national calendar of e LaserWriter Plus groups of people to whom they will say thanks The calendar of cvents for 1987 1991 will commemorate the Bicentennial of Self Service Macintosh Plus the U S Consitution STA s program will focus on the people who build our hopes and ensure our liberties Say Thanks America is recognized by the White House and supported by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U S e Volume Priced Copies e Binding e Stapling e Folding Constitution National School Board Association American Capitol Hill 547 0421 Federation of Teachers and a host of others STA is non profit 611 Penn Avenue S E Say Thanks America seeks Heroes immediately to volunteer their services to establish and train staff for the fol Fairfax 691 9011 lowing computer Macintosh Plus services and functions 10683 Braddock Rd Accounting Desktop Publishing Open Seven Days A Week Newsletter Editorial rt for ST At i o AMSA Today Mien WAP Members receive a 10 Discount Mailing lists Information storage Director of STA at 898 0870 for further information STA has Hours are flexible Please contact Rhoda Zione Executive MacWrite MacPaint and Micro
65. have worked as before and the availability of the fast 3 5Mhz 16 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 processor sped them all up It is easy to set the machine to the slower 1 Mhz speed however There was a great shortage of instructions with the upgrade they don t even provide the GS owncr s manual and there was a 3 1 2 inch System Disk which I could not explore So out I ran back to the dealer to purchase a 3 1 2 inch drive I connected it to the port that parallels and disables slot 5 when used Booting the system disk presented the first look at the Mac type of interface including the icon for the built in ramdisk Wanting to get the whole mod done at once I ordered a Pro Grappler printer interface card which I got as an upgrade by sending in my old card This was not necesssary at the time but it does nice features and my old card was very outdated In addition since I now had the 3 1 2 inch drive I wanted to use it for AppleWorks So the next purchase was the AppleWorks upgrade to Version 2 0 I liked the large desktop that my old Ramworks card provided so I next purchased a GS Ram card I used the 256K chips from the Ramworks card to give me a total memory of 1 Mb I had quite a time figuring out the ins and outs of enhancing the AppleWorks and am still in the process In order to realize many of the AppleWorks enhancements you have to be in Prodos 8 or 16 which means that you must first boot the System Disk and then ope
66. idea but it doesn t work John and I tried this Unfortunately relative references to a second sheet are not updated when the referenced cellis displaced Exercise for the Reader Try it yourself Is there a way around this quandary But of course The answer in this case unlike so many others has nothing to do with thc Option key The same solution we found for keeping charts straight works here as well You may recall a discussion some months back about the way charts are inadver tently destroyed when rows and columns are added above or to the left of referenced cells We solved that problem by naming the cells used to create the chart We can solve this problem the same way Instead of using Excel s description of Detail SBS9 we ll name the Total cell How about calling it something like oh say Total and usc the name as a reference in the Aggregate sheet To name a cell select it and choose Define Name under the Formula menu Format Da Paste Name Paste Function Reference 9 890 0600000000000000000060000004606060068660 00066 Goto Find 36H Select Last Cell Show Active Cell If the cell you choose had a label to the left of it or above it Excel will suggest that as the name for the selected cell As you contd on pg 73 MUSEMENTS by Fred Seelig Brooding that s what I ve bcen doing Brooding brooding A lotof sullen
67. indeed the fair values and therefore he found it unnecessary to calculate or use historically derived volatility factors for those stock options Wages then demonstrated the results of three types of trans actions which illustrated contrary to popular belicf that buying a stock was actually more risky than writing a covered call or selling a naked put Similarly the Chicago Board of Exchange has published historical rescarch which indicated the advantage of using options over simply buying stock In particular the CBOE indicated that going long on a stock in combination with a short straddle selling a put and a call provided better oppor tunity for success than did other traditional buy and hold or synthetic strategies 2 MUTUAL FUND SUB GROUP REPORT Starting in July this Sub Group will meet on the fourth Tuesday of each month Andrew Thompson announced The place and time will be the Apple Pi Office at 8 p m The May meeting began with a discussion of the bullish and bearish projections made by various national gurus James O Connor of Washington Econometrics was cited as having turned bearish on the stock market through the remainder of 1987 Joe Granville similarly was quoted as having character ized the current market as a broadening top of lower lows and higher highs in a see saw motion Newsletter writer Merriman was reported as telling subscribers to sell everything and move into cash Robert Prechter however was described a
68. month after month front tooth asnaggle Oh I can t stand it Why can t David Bunnell have a kind of half shadow photo of himself looking mysterious and worldly Why must his expression be that In Your Face look of his Am Ithe only one with this problem Can other readers seriously read his monthly blurb and be able to ignore his photo His editorials are another thing I have an aversion to He s always dropping names The man doesn t know the meaning of shame I was just talking to Bill Gates the other day and contd John Sculley called me for a recommendation for a great sushi bar and I said hcy Jack can t go wrong with Mushy Sushy I mean let s take a reality break here Dave O People aren t calling you because you re a nice guy You re the editor of the third most important Mac mag around second is MacUser They re kissing your gluteus maximally so you won t shaft their product in some future issue The Mac SE Keyboard Have noticed that the SE s keyboard will unexpectedly quit working Thc only proven method of fixing this problem short of turning off the machine is to disconnect the keyboard and reconnect it Reason for this is that the problem seems to be bus associated The wonderful sounding Apple Desktop Bus that was developed for the SE turns out to have some bugs in it By disconnecting the keyboard you are turning off the power to the keyboard and by reconnecting it you are reinitializing the keyboard into
69. needs a minor modification to work with Version 1 3 change PROCEDURE WhichVersion to read IF Point Valuc 0 2 THEN Version 1 ELSE Version 2 Also change two constants in the main program SysUnit 5 and PrefixName RAMS Explanation of Playback Program Last month we ran a listing of Steve Seaquest s Computer Assisted Instruction playback program I apologize for the fact that the indentations and line breaks got messed up Do not use it as a model for proper indentation A correct version will be on a future WAP disk Here is an explanation of how Steve s program works The key to the jump mechanism is two data structures The Lits record indicates that for each possible branching pathway from cach lesson frame three data items are stored in the JUMP resource 1 a four character type code which indicates whether the next frame is an alert dialog a modal dialog a link to another lessons a request to return to the previous frame or a request to quit the lesson 2 long integers pointing to the resource id or in the casc of a link to another lesson an integer into the second data structure TXrefRec This is a series of strings for all the names of files holding the other lessons The long integer in each frame indicates which of the lesson names in the list should be used as a jump The program can be invoked in two different ways First if 34 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 the application file is double click
70. not just the EDIT menu Notice the FILE and APPLE menus Even FONT and STYLE menus almost always work the same way No matter whether you re word processing drawing painting or creating a spreadsheet or database Consistency of the bancs of the IBM and compatible world is that programs don t share thc same commands the same functions Style vPleinTeut Xe Cant Unda x2 Athens Beverly Hills Bold Cut XH Beverly Hills Large Italic N Copy Boston Underline U Save Rs XR Cartoon Ontiine Page Setup Chicago Print Show Clipboard Courier Superscript XH Quit Fiorence Subscript London Moneco Montreal New York Venice These should alt took familiar becouse they re virtually identical in most Macintosh progrems command which performs a CUT in one program might well do something completely different in another The PRINT command in a word processor may well perform an entirely different function in a spreadsheet program That was a difficulty which Macintosh creators worked hard to overcome in the first place Apple is trying hard to maintain consistency of the user interface now Publishers of programs are encouraged to adhere to carefully thought out guidelines for the user interface so that Mac users even especially novices can feel familiar in any program even if thcy vc just opened i
71. out how to format a simple table of numbers Overall T X is capable of typesetting the most complex docu ments one can imagine but the price you have to pay for this flexibility is a steep and long learning curve Now I know that there will be T X enthusiasts out there that will write in to say that I m nuts In the hopes of heading some of them off let me say that as a graduate student I was more interested in getting my dissertation produced then in learning how to typeset I m sure that once onc learns T X that it can be a wonderful system I just didn t want to spend the time to learn It Microsoft Word 3 0 I was an early purchaser of Word 1 0 and while it was more powerful than MacWrite I found it to be slow and cumbersome The fact is that although I did use it for several long documents I never really liked it Well when I got a letter from Microsoft promising the moon and more in the form of Word3 0 I figured what the hell and sent in my S99 Then as my other choices for equation processing did not work out my need of Word3 0 grew greater and greater When I got Word3 0 my prayers were answered Herc is a word processor that docs it all It is fast and relatively easy to usc It has very complete formatting capabilities It can handle long documents with ease It has the added features of outlining spelling checker and table manipulation built in AIl this and IT DOES EQUATIONS When I opened the manual I flipped to the
72. pages a minute but is faster putting out the first page The new LaserWriter also do page first printing stacking output in the proper order It will probably have 2M bytes of RAM and be based on the same 68000 CPU The personal LaserWriter may generate 35 million dollars in sales revenue for Apple per year Apple is also about to announce a new dot matrix printer called the BusinessWriter which will be a 27 pin printer with a 15 wide carriage and which will include PostScript It will have a retail price of 1 000 While it might be a poor man s LaserWriter the quality of the output is rumored to be excellent Apple has apparently decided to put some of its over 600 million dollars into specific acquisitions Apple has formed the Apple Strategic Investment Group and made its first invest ment by buying a minority stake in Forethought Inc of Sun nyvale CA for one million dollars Forethought is the author of Power Point a dynamic just introduced presentation graphics package for the Macintosh Apple has more recently also invested in Touch Communications of Scotts Valley CA which produces telecommunication software to link various makes of computers Touch s software conforms to the OSI open system 56 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 interconnect format and will permit Macintoshes to connect to IBM or DEC workstations and minicomputers The Macintosh portion of this link will not be marketed until laterin 1987 I hav
73. roDOS Volumes 43 CE Software Sampler 2 Rafel Boot 159 Recipe Files 802 Utilities 44 Boston II Fonts Rafel 160 Utilities amp Games 803 Filecabinet 45 Games IV 26 Rafel Quiz 161 Wizard Worker 804 Shareware 46 Games V 58 Matute 162 Games E 806 ZAP 47 Fonts IV 59 Lo Fatal 163 Graphs and Displays 807 Imageworks 48 3 Fonts V 70 Business Math Statistics 164 Games F 808 Comm Term 49 Utilities IV 71 Music 165 Happy Holidays 809 86 Tax ix tinplate AW 50 Paintings 72 Keyboard Games 166 Charts and ope 810 Haunted House 51 2 Telecom II no sys 73 Text Adventure Games 167 IAC 40 Pilot 5 811 Adventures Disk 52 1 Utilities V 74 Paddle Games 168 218415 ul 812 Toddlers and Kids 53 Utilities VI 75 Color Graphics for Fun 169 Hayes T pi 813 TAWUG 1 54 Games VI 6 Education 170 Love Follies Utilities 814 TAWUG 2 55 Games VII 77 Utilities 171 Cat Graphix 815 TAWUG 3 56 Games 90 Spreadsheet C Genl Bus 172 Print Shop Graphics 816 TAWUG 4 57 1 New Memb Disk 86 91 Spreadshect D Investment 173 Riley s Pers Instrum 817 Telecom 58 Desk Accessories IV 925 E Bus Recd 174 Imageworks ascal Volumes See also 133 59 1 CE Sampler II 93 VisiPlot amp Visi Trend 175 No Name Yet 300 PIGO ATTCH 1 1 BIOS 65 Desk Accessories V 04 CALCUL 500 Master Catalog Listing 301 302 2 66 Desk Accessories VI Spreadsheet K Coin Coll 501 Util Beginner s Choice 302 PIG3 304 PIG4 67 Desk Accessories VII 100 tilities 502 Util
74. set the time in the Control Panel of System 4 1 you have to change something else too in order for the change to be made permanent If SuperSpool or SuperLas erSpool doesn t work try leaving their files on the desktop as opposed to in a disk folder Washington Apple Pi August 1987 51 1 A Vive la Diff rence Recently a friend who has used an IBM compatible computer for ycars told me he was planning to figure out how to print a multiple page document on his machine Until then he d only printed single page letters artwork and spereadsheets He said he d have to review the instruction manual for the correct codes to enter so his computer would continuc printing after page onc and to obtain multiple copies of a single page It would take him awhile to check that all out and then he d demonstrate how well his new printer worked On another occasion the same friend described in a cu rcka tone of voice that he d just bought a computer program that would enable him to print very wide spreadsheets on his 8 1 2 printer by turning the spreadsheet ninety degrees to print the long way He said this with great admiration for the software he d just purchased To my friend these two tasks printing long way and printing multiple pages are major accomplishments They achieved only by referring to the instruction manuals buying additional software and committing to memory some arcanc c
75. speed af JCgs 229 Aadek 3006 3004 12 green amber anti glare 18Mhz 125 139 Color 600 13 cosposite RCB color 16 ahz 369 Taxan 115 green aaber anti glare screen 20Mhz 119 Thoason 14 coaposite RGB color radices edis a e 259 INTERFACES amp BUFFERS 8 CLOCKS Practical Peripherals SeriALL for or printers 99 Graphicard parallel w graphics 69 Printerface wio graphics 59 ProClock PRODOS cospatiblel 109 ProGrappler printer interface parallel w graphics 85 Quadraa Microfazer 8K to 128K printer bufferl 139 Pkasa U printer interface superior graphics 129 Buffered Grapplert 16K to 64K buffer plus graphics 139 VIDEO BOARDS ALS 80 col card w 64K RAM AppleWorks coapatible 69 Applied Engineering III 64K 3 aeg t 80 coll 139 Viewsaster 80 col for 11 125 MEMORY EXPANSION Applied Engineering RaaFactar 256 1 aeg for t e gs 189 gsRAM 256 1 5 raa for gs 139 Microtek 16K RAM card foe 2201 69 Operant Systems runo4dZHOPz SOFTWARE WORD amp PAGE PROCESSING Word Perfect neu version 95 Bank Street Writer 64K amp 128K versionsl 49 pfs Write 5 11 79 MouseWrite 7 05 95 Hoaedord Plus w speller f
76. sse osenuna b Flat 4 Sharp Middle C 108 Octave 2 Most music in octaves 2 and 3 Long dashed lines represent staff lines CA 256 gt A 127 BASE STAPF E 86 lt gt CP 40 TREBLE STAPF EASY PUBLISHED MUSIC Now you have the basics for finding the frequency and duration of the note and determining their values for your Applesoft program but only the basics I will have to develop the topic a little further in a later article But for now you have enough for some simple music If you pick up a complicated picce of music you will be lost Fortunately there music publishers that recognize your problem and publish music even old 28 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 classics jazz rock country western R amp B and contemporary songs in a simple fashion They make the notes large great for my eyes they arrange it so that it is easy to follow simple arrangements some even put the letter corresponding to the note right on the note now that s a convenience Two such publishers are the Hal Leonard Publishing Company 8112 West Bluemound Road P O Box 13819 Milwaukee WI 53213 Easy To Play Speed Music and Mail Order Music P O Box 310 New Berlin WI 53151 Easy Letter Music Write these companies and ask for their FREE catalogs of Easy Music I am sure that you can find some Easy Music in your local library or music store Ihave shopped at Dale Music Co on Geor gia Ave in Silver Spring but I
77. that Apple is aware of these types of complaints and they are quietly working on some sort of fixes to keep everyone happy Stay tuned Where can I get the program Passport which lets a Mac read and write 3 1 2 Apple II disks A The program is now called Apple File Exchange and it is Q 50 available for 13 from the Apple Programmers and Develop ers Association 206 251 6548 Membership is 20 and I highly recommend joining for anyone interested in program ming the Macintosh Why does my dealer claim that the latest version of System is marked 2 0 The system software that Apple provides is packaged as a set of disks and each disk has a collective name The disk marked System Tools 2 0 is the latest version of that disk One of the files on it is System 4 1 the latest version of that file The version numbers for the files can be found in the Information boxes that you can read while using Finder By the way System 4 1 wasn t tested by the developer community before Apple released They were under pressure to put out a Universal System File for delivery with the Mac Asa result there are a number of compati bility problems that will need to be fixed in a future release Help FKey Manager doesn t work on my Mac II fix is due shortly In the meanwhile it seems that this package has interactions with other products which makes it appear that they fail on the
78. through simulations and games The author has an unqualified bias toward this last category the computer as a modeling device Anything that can be taught through CAI can be taught more effectively through games and simulations Besides being a lot more fun they involve the student in learning intensive interactions with the computer and with other people instead of the flashcard type right or wrong answers of CAI The computer can create intensely vivid environments that are an alternative to otherwise unattainable experiences A well designed game or simulation helps the learner to learn because he she sces the consequences of his her actions Mistakes are moves less desirable than others Unfor tunately games and simulations are the least used form of computer based learning in the schools O K Tom if you think educational software is so bad why don t you do something about it Well he has At Tom Snyder Productions some of the goals in developing educational soft ware are to create environments that kids like to explore and that keep them involved in learning to promote dialogue between students to computer and students to students to have the skills flow naturally from the game or simulation and build upon each other that learning how to play and improving game perform ance lead naturally to substantive lcarning I found his discussion of good educational software so intriguing that I had to see for myself I went down to B D
79. to say the M word I d best watch my language if I were you Radar yes sir Father I didn t know that God I mean Armonk cared so much about words Oh yes Image is everything Style not substance And here s another few to watch out for Bit mapped graphi Rest of cast in unison Father Mulcahy and desktop publish Rest of cast in unison Father Mulcahy and that fruit that grows in orchards Rest of cast in unison Father Mulcahy UND TORS N ptu see emus Corte rli Hu dts Ventures me asa trademarks With reviews like these who needs advertising ly the best advertising is word of mouth So we re reprinting some of the multi tude of words that have already been said about MicroPhone communications software for the Macintosh And what they re saying universally is that MicroPhone created by Dennis Brothers has far outdistanced all its predecessors That for the novice MicroPhone is the sim plest telecom software ever devised That for the expert MicroPhone is the most powerful On line for the lazy MicroPhone gives you the means to create infinitely elaborate macro automated rou tines with infinite simplicity Its powerful script language is written in plain English and it also features a recording mode that watches saves and repeats what you do So no programming skills are required The upshot is that MicroP
80. version 1 3 of AppleWorks It works with earlier versions too but you will not get an expanded destop When AppleWorks 2 0 was announced we created AW 2 Expander for use with Apple e s and c s Because Apple Works 2 0 was not intended to run on the Apple we also restricted our expansion software to run only on 128K or larger Apple e s c s and the IIGS Subsequently because of customer requests we developed the AW 2 Expander to work on 64K Apple J s for AppleWorks versions 1 3 and 2 0 with a 256K or larger RamFactor Note that on the J spreadsheet exponential functions are not available unless an additional 16K card or the Applied Engineering TransWarp card is used Our AW 2 Expandcr is now shipped with all of our expansion cards except RamFactor The latest version 2 0 1 expands Apple Works 1 3 and 2 0 on the Apple and AppleWorks 2 0 on the He and the IIGS AW 2 Expander for RamFactor version 2 0 1 is now shipped with RamFactor boards and expands the same versions of AppleWorks For users of earlier version of AppleWorks who own RamWorks and Z Ram Ultra boards Super Desktop Expander version 5 3 1 is available and is also currently shipped with these boards At the time our ads were written there was no AppleWorks 2 0 Although this product was announced earlier in the year it was not released until Spetember 1986 along with the announce ment of the Apple IIGS Our expander for AppleWorks 2 0 was release
81. warned of a coming shock in the international financial markets Some members speculated that Japan with its frothy markets would be the first locus of such troubles D Ferd Hassler shared the results of his analysis of which mutual fund newsletter advisors seemed to have the best track record for subscriber investments Using the Hulbert Financial Digest s report on the 1986 final results of 19 mutual fund newsletters Hassler concluded the Wellington s Worry Free Investor newsletter and the No Load Fund X newsletter offered subscribers the strongest one year results The former turned in a 26 gain greater than the 19 gain enjoyed by the Standard and Poors 500 Index 3 UPDATE ON CYCLE ANALYSIS A Wilbur updated June participants that as of early June the Nikoski stock market s phase as explained above went into an even more favorable cycle for investing B Bob Wood former chair of the Stock SIG group shared his research conclusions to the effect that the stock market seems to have hitan intermediate top The 50 week and 200 weck cycles have topped out and therefore Wood said a strong downward bias will begin to set in He projected a top on June 17 in the 300 range for the S amp P 500 Index and a decline to the 275 range by 35 days thereafter Wood also said he thought that the bond market had bottomed out C Members reported they believed the most recent projec tions by Peter Kasper and Steve Rinchart also i
82. with the minimum size on most of them 3 points recommended The Frame Editor something new is the equivalent of another application residing within XPress Thus the Frame Editor must reside on the same disk or in the same folder as the program The Frame Editor allows one to both crcate and edit frames within a document algorithmic frames however cannot be edited These frames can then be used to set off cither textual or graphic matter for a more pleasing page appearance The Picture Boxes are like static camera lenses or mirrors through which the user uses the hand to position a graphic If the graphic is too large or too small the frame itself can be enlarged or reduced by clicking outside of it and moving its handle with the finger pointing tool that appears when on thc handle itself Very slick designing went into this program Graphics pictures especially bit mapped pictures which previously been the ruination of many an otherwise fine application seem to snap into place AND print exactly where they were placed XPress i c both on the screen and at print out This as opposed to all thc MacPublisher and RSG program versionsthat scemed to have grcat difficulty resolving placement of graphics where the screen and modify box say onc thing but the LaserWriter printout gives you something quite different and unwanted and cross cycd on you PageMaker 1 2 and 2 0 seem fairly accurate in their handling of
83. workspaces DRAW and PLOTDEMO which contain examples useful to the learner To direct output to the printer you issue a command after which all output goes to the printer When you want the output to come back to the screen you issue a different command Unfortunately I was notable to get APL PLUS to work with my Imagewriter This may be due to the fact that it has a network card and requires the Appletalk Imagewriter driver It would be nice if these actions could be initiated from a menu Many APL programmer s are used to working in a main frame environment filled with libraries of routines These routines might be provided by the system or they may be workspaces created by the user STSC has built into APL PLUS a terminal emulator With this utility you can log into your favorite APL system and download existing programs STSC does not provide such libraries itself To support the download ing of files under the FILE menu you will find Exportand Import commands which allow transferring between foreign systems The terminal emulator is fairly simple and does not offer Xmodem or Kermit protocols which perform error checking of file transfers APL PLUS provides support for the clipboard Data can put into or taken out of the clipboard using provided functions Unfortunately these functions are not named Copy and Paste It also offers Mouse functions sound and access to standard dialog boxes to obtain the pathnamces of data files
84. written and a lot of frustration would have bcen avoided Our company policy demands a high level of customer support and timely response to customer inquiries We do answer all mail received But because a reply can sometimes take 2 3 weeks we prefer that customers telephone us when possible Applied Engineering makes every rcaosnable effort to satisfy its customers reasonable demands and expectations Some times it is difficult to describe in exact details with the limitations of a one page ad how a particular product will work Ads are meant to attract interest in our products and encourage further inquiry To that end we have a well trained and able sales staff who can answer specific questions Because Applied Engincer ing is devoted to good customer service please be assured that thatcustomer responsesare considered when we develop promo tional material It is because ads are written in a general way to cover a wide audience base that we offer a 15 day moncy back guarantee on all hardware As long as the customer returns the product to us within 15 days fewer than 1 do from the date it is received we will issue a full refund for the price of the product Regards Chuck Carpenter Marketing Technical Support APPLE COMPATIBLES LOWEST PRICES ANYWHERE IMEG 80 COL BD w 256K Soltwaro Ilo IMEG RAM BD for IIGS w 256K 89 Above w 512K add 39 1 MEG add 99 64K 80 COL BD New Lower Power Ite 35 16K
85. 0 The first line assigns the number from 1 to 60 to the variable x The second reshapes x into a3 by 4 by 5 matrix The third line says display x Try doing the same thing in Basic I ll wait STSC Implementation There are currently three imple mentations of APL that I am aware of for the Mac The others are MacAPL by Leptonic Systems Co and APL 68000 by Spencer Organizaiton Inc You may have seen ads for Porta APL This version was purchased by STSC and formed the heart of APL PLUS The STSC version supports all the APL functions It is well documentated as described below There are a few changes I would make which I will describe later lam sure STSC will consider these and other changes if the demand is great enough for the APL language on the Mac The STSC Mac implementation does not allow you to create stand alone programs Your functions can only work within the APL PLUS environment I know that stand alone APL pro grams are possible since STSC markets STATGRAPHICS a Statistical package written in APL for the MS DOS world Presumably arun time package could be developed for the Mac This version does provide graphics capabilities Things like lines ovals arcs and polygons can be drawn Unfortunately there is not a separate graphics window so your drawings overwrite the command screen and scroll off the top Pen patterns and background patterns can be set To help learn about graphics STSC has included several
86. 02B6 It was to be used for the never to sce the light of day MacBasic much to the dismay of our talented Rich Norling who wrote an excellent book on the subject I have an autographed copy which will be worth a fortune some day but that is another story After Apple caving in to the demand of Microsoft squashed the project a number of software developers like Micro Analyst and Mainstay chose to use this special location in their program after all a memory location is a memory location Well woe unto those who listen not to Apple who decided to pull S02B6 out of hiding with the latest update WORD 3 0 COMMAND I SUMMARY by Warrick word processing program now available for the Mac In order to allow frequent users of Word 3 0 to work more productively Word has keyboard equivalents to its menu commands but the power and complexity of Word means that it has a lot of them The Word 3 0 command summary reproduced on the next page is an effort by our office to bring those keyboard commands to Good Luck within the reach of people who new both to Word 3 0 and the Macintosh itself If you think it would be useful please pho tocopy it It would be unthinkable to tear a page out of the WAP Journal i cont Documents 98 Start a new document 8 0 Open an existing document 38 W Close a document window 98 S Save document 96 P Print a document 96 J Repaginate a docum
87. 08 Fun amp Games XXV With NetTrek Life Hack 1 0 A new implementation of an old favorite contd What s new here is the ability to freeze some of the dots which make up the Life population leading to different combinations Has a number of options to experiment with Nim fairly simple implementation of an old don t be the last to move game against the computer which will display sarcastic com ments about your playing ability NetTrek Try to conquer the known universe before any four of your colleagues on your AppleTalk network do Beam me up Scotty Shareware 25 00 Daleks 2 0 f Daleks 2 0 Here you are again up against those darn robots This is the current version of an old favorite last seen on our Disk 16 Therc is some documentation from the early implementation by Johan Strandberg This incpt robot stalker takes the sugges tion that scores of 1 000 or so are routine as hyperbole but who knows Daleks DA Another implementation this time as a DA Shareware 25 00 Mac Disk 109 Sounds II with SoundInit FZ Frank Zappa from Grand Wazoo uttering his famous Great Googly Moogly sp Hal 1 am completely operational and all of my circuits are functioning from 2001 A Space Odessey Hi This is a nice friendly greeting from your Mac M anic Monday The popular tune by Bangles Number Nine Number Nine This segment from the Number9 Number 9 segment of the Beatles White Album played backwa
88. 1 439 1799 3 Daniel Adkins 202 822 8052 TCS Alexander Barnes 301 474 5310 Frederick Slice Scott Galbraith 301 865 3035 VY 5 Bill Baldridge 301 779 8271 GameSIG Thomas yobnsion 703 243 2795 Disketeria Chrmn Emeritus Ron Wart 301 654 4439 DOS 3 3 Lib Jim Little 301 762 3215 LawSIG John Weld day 202 463 0662 Macintosh Lib David Weikert 301 963 0063 Mac Prog Grp Bob Shaffer 703 671 1194 Martin punoa 201 464 5981 Charles Weger 703 836 5150 Pascal Lib Mike Hartm 1 445 1583 Music SIG d obbs 301 490 7484 ProDOS CP M Lib John T Bell 301 441 9069 Pascal PIG Mike Hartman 301 445 1583 IIgs Lib David Todd 301 228 0237 PI SIG Bob Golden 301 593 6165 Sherman Lewis us 437 3483 StockSIG Ron Grognet 301 296 5444 Apple II Disks Jim amp Nancy Little 1 762 3215 Ben Fogle 301 469 5822 John Bell Bob Johnson Oy Pe Telecomm SIG Allan Levy 301 340 7839 Washington Apple Pi Ltd 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Bethesda MD 20814 Business Office 301 654 8060 Copyright 1987 Washington Apple Pi Ltd Telecommunications System 301 986 8085 EDITORIAL IN MEMORIAM As we go to press we have just learned of the untimely death of fellow Pi member Richard Rowell Richard has been a long time active volunteer the AppleWorks SIG the TCS an instructor in the tutorial program and a Journal author He was recently elected to the Board of Directors We
89. 10 350 4 498 13 243 Total Gross Margin 107 533 107 089 444 110 195 CASH EXPENSES Office Expenses Salarics Managcrial 36 722 37 440 718 37 892 Salaries Other 12 306 15 145 2 839 15 751 Payroll Taxes amp Benefits 3 894 5 784 1 890 5 115 Equipment Rental Office 1 852 2 614 762 432 Postage Office amp Administrative 4 349 8 450 4 101 969 Rent 16 933 16 600 333 18 000 Supplies Office 2 483 3 830 1 347 2 000 Telephone Office 3 483 2 720 763 3 500 Total Office Expense 82 022 92 583 10 561 83 659 Meeting Expense Guard General Meeting 2 172 2 100 72 490 Signer General Meeting 56 100 44 100 Meet g Place Rent Contingent 2 890 Other Meeting Expense 1 494 500 994 1 200 Total Meeting Expense 3 722 2 700 1 022 4 680 Other Expense Accounting and Legal 4 992 6 300 1 308 5 300 Insurance 1 574 1 000 574 1 750 Print Library 2 032 2 032 100 Printing Other 959 959 1 000 Repair amp Maintenance Computer 15 750 735 500 Repair amp Maintenance Other 284 350 66 500 Taxes amp Licenses 678 760 82 760 Sales Promotions 604 1 000 396 1 350 Miscellaneous 737 500 237 250 Total Other Expense 11 875 10 660 1 215 11 510 Total Cash Expenses 97 619 105 943 8 324 99 849 Cash Excess Deficit From Operations 9 914 1 146 8 768 10 346 NON CASH EXPENSE Depreciation 6 775 6 177 598 7 500 Excess Deficit Fr Operations 3 139 5 031 8 170 2 846 Sce Accompanying Text PROPOSED CAPITAL EXPENDITURES Telecommunication Expansion 4 17
90. 4 95 PRINT SHOP 45 95 TOY SHOP 39 95 CENTRAL POINT sort COPY II MAC 27 95 CREIGHTON MACSPELL 9 95 CRICKET SOFTWARE CRICKET DRAM 199 95 CRICKET GRAPH 159 95 STATWORKS 99 95 DATA EXECUTIVE OFFICE 259 95 DATA TAYLOR 2 199 95 ADVANCED TO ORDER CALL 301 937 3606 10724 BALTIMORE AVE SPECIALIZING IN MAG ANYTRING BELTSVILLE MACINTOSH SOFTWARE ENTERSET MAC 5 79 95 QUICK PAINT 39 95 SAM 24 95 QUICK 5 39 95 QUICK WORD 45 95 AEGIS ARAZOKS TOMB 39 95 HOUSEKEEPER 49 95 34 95 MAC CHALLENGER 39 95 TEMPLE APSHAI 34 95 MAC MAIL 47 95 WINTER GAMES 34 95 PYRAMID OF PERIL 39 95 SPEED SPELLER 64 95 TIREBIRD THE 34 95 LASER AUTHOR 169 95 FORE FILE MAKER PLUS 199 95 FACT FINDER 94 95 HAYDEN SOFTWARE 5 69 95 SARGON III 39 95 HAYES MICROCOMPUTER SMARTCOM II 99 95 IDEAFORM MAC LABELOR 39 95 READY SET 239 95 MICROSOFT EXCEL PPS CALL 89 95 FIL E 149 95 MOLTIPLAN 149 95 199 95 259 95 FLIGHT SIMULATOR 49 95 MINDSCAPE BALANCE OF POWER 34 95 BRATACCAS 34 95 COMIC WORKS
91. 414 MDM740 7710 amp A Cat 87 Utilities XV 123 French Vocabulary 196 Merlin s Castle 415 Orig 350 Pt Adventure 88 DAs amp Fkeys VIII 124 Utilities E 197 Horgrath Castle 416 Kermit Source Code 89 Fun amp Games 125 IAC 18 Misc 198 Deathtra 417 Kermit Documentation 90 Utilities XVI 126 Signe and Sounds 199 The Black Death 418 Kermit Runnin Cone 91 Fun amp Games XIX 127 Math Science 200 The Temple of Ngurct 419 Util Z83 REZ 92 Education II 128 Games D 201 Black Mountain 420 Small C Compiler 93A amp gt 93B Fonts VI 130 Diversi DOS rev 202 Nuclear Nightmare Apple Volumes 94 Paintings IV 131 Personal Educ 2 203 Feast of Carroll 1001 Games Volumes 1 2 95 Fun amp Games XX 132 19 Utilities F 204 The Master s Dungeon 1002 Basic Utility Vol 1 96 Fun amp Games XXI 133 IAC 20 Pascal amp DOS3 3 205 The Crystal Mountain 1005 Vol 2 97 Fonts VII 134 New Members Disk 206 The Lost Adventure Data 98 DAs IX 135 WAPABBS 1 1 Disk 1 207 The Manxome Foe 105 Disk 99 Inits I 136 WAPABBS 1 1 Disk2 208 The Gauntlet 1006 Word Proc amp WPL 100 Fonts VIII 137 IAC 21 Spreadshect A 209 Cavers of Langst Apple IIGS Volumes 6 101 Fonts IX 138 IAC 23 Utilities G 210 Future Quest 2001 Utilities amp Pictures A 102 Sounds I 139 IAC 24 Education 3 211 House of Secrets 2002 Demo Disk A 105 Utilities XVII W P 140 pud 212 Sewers of Chicago 2003 Freeterm 04 Fun amp Games XXI
92. 5 PS Jet Postscript upgrade for lasersl 2150 QHS PS 800 Plus 8 ppa LaserWriter compatible 11 Epson Okidata AST Quadras Quae lasers 11 Hayes Saartaodea 12004 1200 300 card for 1 1 249 Hicromodea 2 300 baud card for 2 2 w sft 145 Saartaodes 2400 2400 1200 300 baud RS 232 429 Saartagdea 1200 1200 baud RS 832 295 Saartaodem 300 300 baud Rs 232 RRT CE Anchor Automation Express 1200 300 loaded features 219 Volksaodes 12 1200 300 baud RS 232 139 Lightning 24 2400 1200 300 2321 325 Prosetheus Prosodes 12006 1200 300 baud R5 232l 179 12004 11200 300 card software 209 US Robotics Courier 2400 2400 1200 300 baud 5 232 395 MONITORS Courier 1200 1200 300 autodial ans e19 ZooaMades Jte Plus 300 baud card softuarel 119 DISK ORIUES Sider 10 20 hard disk for J e t gs 450 575 Applied Engineering half hi floppy for 1 119 Controller for 2 drives 55 Video Technology half hi floppy for 1 05 125 CP M 6502C SYSTENS Applied Engineering 2 Ultra 3 256 clock CP M 259 TransWarp 3 6 Mhz 6502C 254K RAM 225 Speed Denon 6502 high speed coprocessor 159 Applicard 6 Khz 2 80 64K to 192K RAM 70 col videol 129 Titan Accelerator 2 gives 1
93. 7 Tom Warrick greeted the new directors and reviewed their 6 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 NOTICE During the last garage sale I sold somcone a WILDCARD copy card for an Apple II I realized after I returned home that I forgot to give him the software that went with it Please call or write Bob Martz 7070 MacBeth Way Sykesville MD 21784 301 795 5689 WANTED Apple 300 1200 Modem Users Manual Part Two for Mac Owners I boughtthis modem at the garage sale and the manual that came with it was Part Two for Apple II Owners Would anyone let me copy their Mac Owners Part Two Call Susan Mechan at 234 5151 evenings FOR SALE Macintosh Plus DataFrame 40XP Mac 512E Apple HD20 Allequipmentin excellentcondition Hardly used by alittle old you ll never believe that onc Call David 301 972 4263 FOR SALE New Simply Perfect for Apple II 5 1 4 disk High powered word processing spell check database mail merge highly recommended by Lce Raesly 50 selling at 100 by mail houses Call Amy Billingsley 622 2203 FOR SALE SIDER 10MG hard disk will format and assist with the installation of your software 450 WANTED Used Apple c grcen monitor and stand Call Tom evenings only 935 5520 FOR SALE CADD PenPlotter Houston Instrument 52 14 pen D size plotter Call for price 301 424 3942 FOR SALE Imagewriter 15 inch carriage Call for price 301 424 3942 FOR SALE 400K External disk drive
94. 78 5621 MACINTOSH CORNER GENERAL ITEMS 55 00 DISKS OF 10 14 00 e SURGE PROTECTOR S9 00 e SS DD DISKS CASE OF 50 560 00 e COE WITH 10 DISK STORAGE BOX 2 50 SURGE PROTECT 25 00 e 36 DISK STORAGE BOX 9 00 MIN POWER CENTER C e e 05 00 DISKS BOX OF 10 16 00 MINI POWER C 558 00 e DS DD DISKS CASE OF 50 70 00 CABLE GENDER e IMAGEWRITER CABLE 19 00 CHANGER 9 00 e MODEM CABLE 19 00 e CABLES S 19 00 IMAGEWRITER RIBBON 9 00 eGLARE FILTER 29 00 5 4INCHDISKETTES amp STORAGE COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS 5500 OF 10 5 00 e 55 00 PAK OF 25 11 00 eLASER 128 395 00 EE MES e 55 00 N OF 500 COMPATIBLE 929 00 2 NOTCH DS DD BOX OF 10 56 00 e VF PC COMPATIBLE 580 00 2 NOTCH DS DD OF 25 VF COMPATIBLE 1040 00 410 DISKETTE CASES ED GAME DEVICES BLUR GREEN e CH MACH II JOYSTICK 33 00 e75FLIP TOP DISK CASE 11 00 MACH IIl JOYSTICK 39 00 PORT EXPANDER 25 00 PRINTERS 9 16 OR 16 9 ADAPTER 9 00 STAR NP 10 159 00 eR e 10911 CITIZEN MSP 15 WIDE 399 00 MEMORY MEMORY 210 e PANASONIC P3131 LQ 329 00 167 00 e
95. 8 Apple IIgs 1 500 Video Projectors or Other Display 4 000 Print Library Expansion 1 000 10 678 Cash Available From Operations 10 346 From Cash Reserves 3327 222 10 678 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 41 TIPS amp TECHNIQUES by WAP s Membership We sometimes overlook the large amount of expertise held by our members Asa way of tapping into this knowledge 3x5 cards were distributed at a WAP meeting and members contributed special tips on using their favorite software Here is what resulted APPLE II TIPS Application AppleWriter Use the glossary function for both automating control and avoiding the retyping of frequently used text The glossary is available through the Control G Application AppleWorks The spreadsheet has a default setting of automatic recalcu late To save time and frustration set the mode to manual Press open apple V then select RECALCULATE FREQUENCY and MANUAL Application WordHandler To convert a WordHandler file to Appleworks use Copy II Plus It works fine except for a few meaningless characters scattered through the new text Application SuperMacroworks Beagle Bros Execellent for making your own macros Application ProDOS Bird s Better BYE or Proselect Bird s Better BYE and Proselect display a menu of the next program to execute based upon the order that files are stored on adisk I like to copy system files ProDOS disks in an order that is quick to access AP
96. 87 37 REBEL CHARGE AT CHICKAMAUGA A Review by lan Soboroff Rebel Charge at Chickamauga 49 95 list is a wargame by Strategic Simulations Inc SSI for the Apple series with 64K The suggested playing time is 10 to 15 hours Rebel Charge 5 5 a slightly altered version of the superb gaming system quoted from the box used in Gettysburg The Turning Point Altered not in my opinion the system is marvelous in terms of being able to handle the game in a logical manner but fails a bit in the playability category Most com mands arc mnemonic i c letters stand for command names but in some cases the command keys can b confusing e g having show the Terrain under a piece while F lets you target your Fire I found myself hitting T to target fire a little too often To move your pieces you use a number corresponding to the direction such as 1 to go up so a numeric keypad doesn t help Fortunately there is a little compass showing the direc tions and their corresponding numbers The system isn t too bad but the thought of playing a game with this system for 10 to 15 hours straight makes me shudder Partly to save my sanity and health partly because I didn t have the time I played in 60 to 90 Space Quest contd from pg 36 enjoyed by most players interested in the genre provided they re not too expericnced I don t think Space Quest is aimed at the expert player I give it 6 point
97. 8th grade Computer literacy b Procedural thinking which includes learning 1 How to solve problems Define problem Subdivide problem into component part Develop procedures for solving 2 Modify procedure if conditions change 3 Distinguish procedures used by Humans Computers ii Grades 9 12 a continue developing computer literacy b make available computer science courses Note Computer science courses cannot be substituted for either Mathematics or Science credits required for high school graduation Courses offered are as follows 1 Programming for Problem Solving I for grades 9 10 11 12 This involves learning BASIC and structured programming techniques 2 Programming for Problem Solving II for Grades 10 11 12 This involves a identification of problems b the use of BASIC c applications in different subject areas and d testing programs and students 32 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 3 Computer Applications Grade 9 10 11 12 This involves a using prepared computer programs b especially Data base Spreadsheets Word processing Projects will be initiated in these areas and will be completed 4 PASCAL prerequisite Algebra II or third year ofa foreign language for grades 10 11 12 Points considered in this course a Teachng of a modern high level computing language b Learn modern computer theory c PASCAL is considered a procedural language which employs to
98. APPLE SOFTWARE eCOPY ll 29 00 e ESSENTIAL DATA DUPLICATOR 25 00 e P usWonks RUNS APPLEWORKS iege ok x 19 00 e WRITE CHOICE WORD PROCESSOR 29 00 PROTERM COMMUNICATIONS 79 00 APPLE lic CORNER e SECOND DISK DR FOR 109 00 HOTLINK PARALLEL PRINTER 55 00 e 95 00 PRINTER OR MODEM CABLE 20 00 DISK ORIVE CABLE ADAPTER 15 00 9 16 10 ADAPTER 9 00 MULTI RAM CX 256K 239 00 MULTI RAM 512K 268 00 UPS SHIPPING 4 00 per order plus S6 00 per printer or monitor Computers 30 00 PLEASE NOTE Add 10 per 30 days for purchase orders SSOCIATES 8231 Woodmont Avenue Bethesda MD 20814 301 652 4232 STORE HOURS Monday through Thursday 12 noon 8 p m Friday 12noon 6p m m Saturday 11 a m 5p m CALL FOR OUR FREE CATALOGUE Washington Apple Pi August 1987 9 THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE llf by David Ottalini 11 SIG Co Chairman This month SIGers an MM on an carlier arcis n lished in the WAP Journal The last time around I called it The Best of the Apple This timc let s just say it s the new and improved version without getting into what s really Best and what s not TO START WITH Despite the fact that the Apple has not been made for more than three ycars there are still folks writing new and excelle
99. Balance 70 BPIGen Acct 165 C icati 60 Smartcom II 104 Straightalk 21 Commworks Point to Point 80 50 Omnis 3 Plus 295 170 Reflex 72 Bank St Filer 128K pfs Workmates f r p w Computer SAT HBJ 28 Math Rabbit 29 Calculus amp Physics 70 SATImprovement 70 Graphics Create a Calendar 22 Springboard Publisher 92 Leisure Hollywood Hyjinx 29 Mean 18 Ultimate Golf 29 Graphic Works 1 1 70 Printworks for MAC 53 Comicworks 57 World Cup Soccer 32 Applesoft Computer 127 Basic Interpreter 71 Turbo Pascal 3 0 CP M 50 Turbo Pascal 72 36 Crunch 95 Excel 1 04 275 Planner s Choice VIP Professional IIgs 205 Talking Text Writer GS 170 MORE 512K 175 Word Perfect 1 1 101 MS Word 3 01 285 recently published software APPLE MACINTOSH 816 Paint 48 Business Card Mkr 44 ASCII Mousetalk 63 Business Filevs n 225 Award Maker Plus 26 Il Mac 26 Bank St Writer 128K 57 HD Back up 34 Clip Art Gallery IIgs 22 Jet 40 Music Studio GS 57 MacOneWrite Sys 64 Springboard Publisher 92 Powerpoint 250 Term Paper Writer 36 Ragtimevl l 250 Where USA is C SD 33 Tempo 66 Writer Rabbit 29 Works 205 0e0900000000280 000900000090050290200095 Ask for a copy of our Apple or Macintosh catalog containing hundreds of other programs Also ask about our volume discount prices for 10 or more of any one item 3 shipping and handling per order UPS 4 MD resid
100. Bring your Apple and 5 1 4 disk drives Please check the desired tutorials and return this form with fee s made payable to Washington Apple Pi Ltd to Washington Apple Pi Ltd Attn Tutorials Name Membership No 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Bethesda MD 20814 Day phone Eve phone Total Enclosed AN INDEX TO AUTHORS INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Applied Engineering 46 Ottalini David 10 Advanced Technology Networks 57 Begleiter Ralph J 52 Payne 36 Anderson Jacobson eese 20 53 Berman Howard M 25 Platt Robert C 24 34 38 Astley Interiors 35 Chapman Rick 58 Reese JiM eese 80 Clinton Computer eere 1 Condit David E 81 Rohr Jay eee 64 Computer Den Ltd eee 23 Field Bruce F 24 Rowell Richard M 43 Computer Ware Unlimited 17 Golden 19 Schwartz Dana J 39 Family Computer Center Inside Front Hardis Jonathan 48 Seelig Fred 44 69 Kinko s Copies 2 47 Hasson Joseph 30 Silvers
101. CAI can be a Supplement to traditional forms of instruction that is normal classroom instruction b CAI can be used as a Substitute for traditional forms of instruction either in whole or in part c CAI can and should be compared to other non traditional methods of instruction which include i individual tutoring ii language laboratories iii film strips iv other First some statistics on the use of microcomputers for student instruction in elementary and secondary schools in the United States comparing 1981 1984 and 1985 30 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION 1981 1984 1985 No of stu mic Public Schools 84 225 81 100 80 768 45 5 using computers 18 2 85 1 92 2 Elementary schools 53 268 60 967 50 805 55 3 w m c 11 822 91 0 Jr High 10 106 9 791 9 732 41 6 25 6 93 1 97 3 Sr High 15 589 15 152 15 092 37 9 42 7 946 974 Private schools n a 24 409 23 398 41 3 95w m c n a 53 0 70 3 Notes stu mic no of students per micro computer w mic percent of schools by category with micro computers Source Data fromStatistical Abstracts of the U S 1987 Table No 218 p 132 From these data it is clear that well over half of thc schools in the nation have at least one computer Of the total public schools of 80 768 1985 74 447 had onc or more computers a total of 849 962 A more detailed breakdown of these data is available but is not reproduced here Further res
102. CSI version of the drive is 3995 plus shipping It is probably a safe assumption that not enough WAP members would need a drive to warrant a group buy Qualstar has agreed to give 200 off list to WAP members who want one When you call ask for Barry and give him your WAP numbcr Qualstar 818 882 5822 74 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 68020 Accelerators Radius vs Levco Micro Dynamics has been programming the 68020 for 6 months before Levco first shipped their Prodigy 4 Our 68020 did not run Macintosh software but did have a 16 MegHz 68020 68881 2 Meg RAM 4 serial ports SCSI port Parallel port and timer We paid 2000 for our GMX 20 When the Levco Prodigy 4 came out with about the same specifications except it ran inside the Mac we were interested except forthe 8000 price tag When the Levco Prodigy SE came out for 2000 we bought one The price is now about 1550 Control Panel 68020 Cache O On Off 68851 None General Keyboard 68881 SANE 881 None On Off version 02 06 MacWrite 4 5 sniffer On Off Dump of the Levco control SEU UE UN cache cata cache e accelerator version 1 7 1967 radius inc Approximation of Radius contro panel The Radius Accelerator was just released for 1000 We bought one of the firstones Smith the original Macintosh hardware engineer designed the hardware and Andy Hertzfie
103. Change com mands Although overall I d give Word 3 0 a five star rating several minor bugs or problems in the program Although they are little more then annoyances I mention them just to show that no program is perfect First my copy of Word3 0 creates small temporary documents in the system folder on the startup disk but never deletes them These documents are usually small but when 30 or 40 of them build up they can take up some space Microsoft informed me that they are aware of this problem and are trying to track it down Second there is something screwy with the way that leader tabs work Leader tabs are uscd to fill in a portion of a line with dots dashes or an underlinc I used leader tabs within my table of contents which Word3 0 automatically creates and fills in to place dots between the section titles and the page numbers Unfortunately this caused the spacing of the section titles to be thrown off just as if extra spaces were being randomly thrown in A Microsoft Technical Representative said that there was an occasional problem of this type when using leader tabs with non LaserWriter fonts but that they were not aware of any problem when standard Laser fonts were uscd In any case the work around is to insert hard spaces using Option Space between the words before the leader tab to prevent Word3 0 from spacing things out Third there is an option in the Section dialog box to make the first page of
104. E 4478 Market Street Suite 701 702 Ventura 93003 800 443 8877 Another excellent source of both software and hardware On Three offers a mixture of new and old Programs include Draw On Three a graphics program DeskTop Manager a background utility and Selector a switching program for hard disk users On the hardware front there s a 512K upgrade hard disks etc The Comm Manager is an excellent telecommunications program And Desktop Man ager is their super background utility program Thcy also sell uscd s and peripherals Finally there s the 3 5 800k Unidisk driver too Pair Software 3201 Murchison Way Carmichael CA 95608 1 800 485 6525 Frank Moore s Pair Software has been steadily adding a varicty of commercial software and hardware products to an alrcady large PD menu Commercial products include GoForth a version of the Forth language There s also the Electronic Mailman for E Mail the Keystroke Data Base ThreeWorks 3EZ Pieces Data Bases full of Apple informa tion and X Modem a telecommunications program Periph erals include monitors and printers and hc has also begun offering an IBM clonc Sun Systems Remarketing 4059 150 E 400 Logan UT 84321 1 800 821 3221 Sun Systems has become THE support organization for Apple via a signed agreement where is concerned and offers a host of products They have a large selection of commercial software and hardware
105. E DRIVER Pascod 6 PARPRINT DRIVER Direct 1 KEYBOARD LAYOUT Direct 1 CHARACTER SETS Direct 1 SITYPE DRIVER System 9 SERCRD DRIVER Text 4 README System 7 MTEK DRIVER System 10 PROFILEIOMEG System 9 LASERJET DRIVER contd 005 IHREESIG 1002A New Members Disk Self Booting Type Blocks Name Direct 1 A3 HELPS1 50 A3 INFORMATION Direct 1 A3 QUESTIONSI BASprg 1 HELLO 3 HELLO TEXT BASprg 8 MENU MAKER 4 READ MEFFIRST System 49 SOS DRIVER System 52 SOS INTERP System 44 SOS KERNEL HREE SIG 1005B New Members Disk Not Self Boot Type Blocks Name Direct 1 A3 HELPS2 Text 8 AXNUTSHELL 3 Direct 1 A3 QUESTIONS2 Text 11 APPLE SSOFTWARE 6 APPLE3 DOCTOR Text 15 BASIC ARTICLES 26 CABLES 7 COLOR MONITOR Text 1 CPYRIGHT NOTICE Text 18 DRIVER CONFIG BASprg 8 MENU MAKER 41 SOFTWARE HELPS 4 SOS DRIVER NOTE Direct 1 TEMPLATES BASprg 3 TEXT DUMP Text 7 THE APPLE3 8 UPGRADING SOS Text 16 WAP BIBLIO 6 EZP TIPS HREE SIG 1006A Word Processing and WPL Self Booting Type Blocks Name Text 4 AW3 0 Text 19 AW341 Text 20 AW32 Text 15 AW33 12 AW34 Text 17 35 Text 1 GLOS KEYPAD Text 4 HELLO Text 3 2 Text 1 HELLO Text 3 Direct 4 HS Text 5 MENU System 34 SOS DRIVER System 31 SOS INTERP
106. I 141 Special Data Bases 213 Slave Pits of Kzorland IIGS Systems Diak 105 Fun amp Games XXIII 142 28 Pinball Games 214 Alternate Beginner s Cave 106 Fun amp Games XXIV Vol 181 required with these disks Vols 121 135 136 must be purchased together DATE 107 Guns XXV 109 Sounds II Note Allow 2 to 3 weeks for mailing Total Order Disks Postage Total Amount Enclosed NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP Make check payable and send to U S funds payable on a U S bank Washington Apple Pi Ltd Atm Disketeria 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Bethesda MD 20814 Telephone WAP Membership No Washington Apple Pi August 1987 87 HNER Sene aa N MAL Mac Draft 1 2a IN 51899 STOCK ust 5269 PROFESSIONAL DRAFTING SOFTWARE EHMAN ENGINEERING 800K DISK DRIVE THE BEST VALUE IN 00 S26 One READY SET GO 13 0 IN STOCK NOW 269 LIST 395 DataFrame XP UPGRADES PLUS LABOR LIST 150 SUPERMLAC WORD 3 0 IN STOCK DISK DRIVES te 275 8190999 k ul ede cricket aO J meg memory board SUPER softwere DRAW LIST 150 405 NEW 520995 DISK FIT 25495 99 VERSION LIST 295 95 LIST 80 WITH MAX 2 PLUS LABOR SIDEKICK LIST 99 95 RADIUS 2 0 j n E SUPER PAINT
107. I think that I liked the old Margaret better If you re trying to impress Ms Jane Doe Businesswoman what s with the ultrablonde hair and the ultratight skirt I may not have much of a part in these commercials but it s better than the cheesecake that you represent Now Frank that was petty crucl and totally unwarranted I ll sce to it that you never ever get a speaking part in any of these commercials Ever Hah And see if you ever so muchas receive one red cent of residuals in the mail She stomps off He looks peeved leaves in a snit eae Major Winchester looks over Radar O Reilley s shoulders as he hunches over a computer Radar what in tamation are you doing Well sir I m just trying all of the sixteen quadrillion extended floating point mathematical operations that I can think of Sir Now why would you want to waste a perfectly good day at 44 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 TX RX A XS KH the front for that Don t you have mail to sort or something Uh no Major Didn t you hear Intel the company that makes the microprocessorchips thatare used in these computers found that some of the mathematics operations didn t work quite correctly Soif you do some astrophysical equations or complex spreadsheets your computer might give you the right answer or it might give you the wrong answer you just don t know 501 just uh wanted to see if I could get the computer to give me any wrong answe
108. IES for Macintosh and other computers all at discount We offer MEMBERSHIP increased discounts amp benefits SERVICES RENT TIME ON OUR Macintoshes Laserprinter MAGIC Digitizer Picture Monitor MacTablet Modem We also offer training desktop publishing services on consignment data conversion reconditioning of laser cartridges and 24 hour repair service Washington Apple Pi August 1987 63 QUARK XPRESS AR by Jay Rohr It is appropriate to XPress gratitude directly to Journal Editor Bernie Urban and also indirectly to Marty Milrod for the honor of allowing me the privilege of reviewing Quark XPress by the July deadline date at Bernie s request This had been one of those programs of promise and rumor up for scrious purchas ing consideration With the opportunity to try it first hand before deciding to buy or not to buy yours truly jumped before shelling out for such a mega bucks program It may be added that Messrs Urban and Milrod could not have picked a more qualified person to handle the project this said humbly but truthfully because of my daily involvement with graphics design composition layout and paste up work typography and an intimate working knowledge of the state of the art Linotron 300 typesetter WAP knows its people well CRITERIA FOR REVIEW For the purposes of this review simplification was a goal for the general reader whercver possible and techni
109. InfoWorld gives the Macintosh II a 9 0 in its June 8 1987 issue In this issue also revicws PageMaker 2 0 PM2 gets an 8 0 The 9 0 is an outstanding score for the always finicky reviewers The 8 0 is a pretty good one considering it s Mac software There seems to be a bias toward MS DOS software in the review process of the InfoWorld but that s the grain of salt that you take when you read their reviews The Mac II came away remarkably unscathed I had a chance to play with a Mac II at the Tyson s Corner Clinton Computer and found it to be fast and solid feeling I thought that the next computer would be an SE but now it s gonna be the II Dave Winer of Living VideoText fame was absolutely right it is a lust machine You dont have the money you can t afford it and suddenly it s Las Vegas feeling again and you ve just gotten that third mortgagc on your house and kids to buy it Fred Seelig would like to introduce legislature to the 101st Con gress banning the use of the letters S T R L N and E on all future TV game shows Actually he would like to introduce legislature restricting the use of the letters I B and M but thinks that a snowball s chance in hell is better than his Mr Seelig Is the president of Mac Consultants a company dedi cated to helping small business users utilize their Macintoshes more effectively Excelling contd from pg 68 can see below Excel suggests Total for the name of
110. N Myerson Co Treasurer Proposed Sources of Revenues YE 5 31 88 Tworab poste age reimbursed by members 1445 mew member 177 kite ond Membership Revenues Publication Sales B3 Group Sales 3 Public Domain Software 16 6 Othe Revenue 91 Advertising aad newsstand sales Proposed Expenses YE 5 31 88 Membership Services Publications Sales Group of Goods Sold 27 8 Publie Domain Software Cost of Other Revenue Otlica Expenses Meeting Ixpense Other Expense 245 12 00 Incl 7500 735 depreciation contd Actuals Budgeted Variance For Budgeted Year End Year End Year Year End 5 31 87 5 31 87 Unfav ble 5 31 88 GROSS MARGIN Membership Revenues 150 291 148 663 1 628 153 426 Cost of Membership Revenues 118 194 122 778 4 584 129 486 Membership Margin 32 097 25 885 6 212 23 940 Publication Sales 28 197 25 291 2 906 27 685 Cost of Publication Sales 11 355 8 281 3 074 10 360 Publication Margin 6 842 17 010 168 17 325 Group Sales 62 621 64 999 2 378 50 400 Cost of Group Sales 50 720 52 603 1 883 39 104 Group Sales Margin 11 901 12 396 495 11 296 Public Domain Software 51 045 53 003 1 958 53 900 Cost of Public Domain Software 19 200 11 555 7 645 9 508 Public Domain Softtware Margin 31 845 41 448 9 603 44 392 Other Revenue 19 316 13 710 5 606 18 299 Cost of Other Revenue 4 468 3 360 1 108 5 056 Other Revenue Margin 14 848
111. NECP6 LQ 54950 512 MEMORY e OKIMATE 20 COLOR 209 00 ON PRINTER ACCESSORIES e 5 22277 99 00 1000 SHEETS OF PAPER 19 00 e ACCELERATOR 22 229 00 2500 SHEETS OF PAPER 29 00 EDD 4 PLUS EXACT BIT e PANASONIC CITIZEN EPSON COPY BOARD 69 00 RIBBONS 7 00 MULTIPLE SLOT CHASSIS 149 00 SINGLE SLOT EXTENDER 29 00 BEIM TER id e QUICK LOADER PROM 149 00 e SWITCH BOX 2 WAY 39 00 BURNER e eos 3119 00 e SWITCH BOX 4 WAY 59 00 DENOTES WEW PRICE DISK DRIVES DENOTES NEW ITEM e FLOPPY DRIVE 109 00 e CONTROLLER 49 00 LONG DISTANCE The new VF toll free ordering number is MONITORS now operating Cali 800 666 STAR RES COMPOSITE 109 00 eRGB COLOR 319 00 MODEMS 3001200 EXT 99 00 300 1200 2400 EXT 279 00 SOUND amp VIDEO DEVICES e MUSIC SYNTHESIZER 149 00 e COMPUTEREYES 119 00 CHIPS e EPROMS 2716 2732 2764 6 00 e EPROMS 27128 27256 8 00 64 SETOF B 9 60 256 SETOF8 24 80 SUMMER SPECIAL Cooling Fan 39 WHILE THEY LAST SPECIAL PERIPHERALS COOLING FAN WITH SURGE PROTECT 39 00 e POWER SUPPLY 69 00 e SHIFT KEY MOD 8 00 RF MODULATOR 39 00
112. One was the Case of the Missing Fonts The Missing Icon Font In WAP s April 1987 Journal I said that the Icon font was found on WAP diskette 23 Well itis on disk 23 but it seems only my copy has iton there This was a copy of a friend s disk and you know who you are darling So lots of people call nice Gena Urban and all of the other nice folks at the WAP offices demanding disk 23 for the fonts and they are told that the Icon font isn t on there and they say well Seelig wrote that it was on there and where is it and isn t this guy a jerk and the poor office people hate my guts now so I try to stay away from the office now in case some telephone crazed disk librarian comes at me with a piano wire garrotte MindWrite Review Redux And then MindWrite s Susan Raab a sunny blond Califor nian I guess you might say she s attractive if you go for gorgeous blond tan California girls I don t I like their minds of course writes in reply to my Dresden firebombing of their word processor in the June WAPJ We had a conversation a few weeks before that and I discovered that MindWork or AthenaSoft or whatever the company s name is is made up of plain old nice type working folk depending solely on the reve nues that MindWrite brings in for shelter food clothing you know the bare necessities of life So then here comes this review that compares MindWrite with something lower than a snake s belly Great
113. PLEWORKS SYSTEM BASIC SYSTEM MS SYSTEM SE OI other files not normally chosen Application Home Accountant I have modified the HELLO program to skip the logo main menu and go directly into the transaction module 330 GOTO 1119 1119 X 1 GOTO 1160 MACINTOSH Application Finder Holding down on the option key when clicking on the close box closes all windows Application MacWrite Command M will center a single line in a paragraph of non centered lines without needing to use a ruler for this format change Application MacWrite If you have tried to use a PICT format filc from MacWrite in another application the secret is to ignore the first 512 bytes Application MacWrite How to change the font of the date page time items in MacWrite 4 5 s header or footer Icons for these items can t be 42 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 selected so they are usually printed with the default Geneva font To switch these items to other fonts open the header or footer window hit a few carriage returns place the icons then select the spaces and icons and then select fonts and attributes Application MacPaint To make a 3 D tube on MacPaint draw a small circle lasso it and drag it around while holding down the Option and Command keys For best results leave thecircle white and leave the space between copies small Application FullPaint Shift Command Option something turns any pixels within the marquee into the gam
114. PPLEWORKS September 15 Macintosh Tutorials for the beginners are regularly given on the 2nd 3rd and 4th Monday evenings of the month at the office from 7 30 9 30 PM You may sign up for 1 2 or all 3 The fee for each tutorial is 10 You are strongly urged to bring your Macintosh W AP docs not have equipment for you to use These tutorials fill up quickly call the office to verify space before mailing in your registration Monday August 10 or September 14 Introduction to Macintosh Prerequisite Guided Tour to Macintosh Monday August 17 or September 21 Intermediate Mac Skills Prerequisite Familiarity with Desktop disk copying etc Monday August 24 or September 28 Becoming a Mac Power User Prerequisite First two sessions or equivalent The following tutorials are being offered in August at the office The fce for these tutorials is 15 20 for non members Making Music With Your Macintosh Judy Moore Saturday August 1 10 am 12 Noon Fec 15 20 Bring your own software and Mac Work with Professional Composer DeLuxe Music Construction Set Music Type and Performer WordPerfect on the Apple II Lee Raesly Saturday August 8 9 am 12 Noon Fee 15 20 Bring your Apple WordPerfect and a blank disk Learn the basics of this popular word processors for the e c and IIgs Maintaining Your Disk II rescheduled Richard Mlodoch Saturday August 8 1 4 pm Fee 15 20
115. R 21033x 0 12 1 4 gt BEFORE OCT 1752 06100104141 316 1 0 0 12 r73 0 12 21113 112121 Qe7IMI214 Q4 CL 70 242 Grails 14 4 gt 1 75 1 13 100 lt 21 4 6 9 11 1121 2 3 0 4 100 400 4000 110 Q BI6 OFMT 6 7 o421 Qp0 v31 1M Qe SUN MON TUES WED THUR FRI 5 110 Me JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH MAY MeM JUNE JULY AUGUST 5 12 9 oM NOVEMBER DECEMBER 217121 Me tte MM 6 7111 M Qe 1 351 110 Now I ll be the first to admit that this program is not transparent It takes quite an investment to learn the APL language Ittakes a while to sce how to use matrix operations to solve problems The result though is sheer beauty The language is compact and the APL environment quite supportive to the programmer Later I ll say a bit about STSC s efforts to make APL work on the Mac Just for your interest here is what you get when you say CALENDAR 3 1987 using the above function to obtain a display of the month of March 1987 MARCH 1987 SUN MON TUES WED THUR FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 contd Print calendar for specified month and year APL is an interpreter It is not as fast as running a compiled program However a lot of programming can be done in very little time For many of us writing programs to solve a single problem it is the development time no
116. RAM Board H 35 128K RAM New Lower Power Il 69 80 Cotumn Board Videx Comp M 49 Super Board 11 49 Graphic BD w 6FT CBL 11 95 45 280 CP M BD Microsolt Comp e 38 Cooling Fan w surge protect 11 GS Super Cooling Fan Ilgs Numeric Keypad 16 Keys Joystick Specify Ile c e gs Joystick w Fire on Stick C 0 gsl en Mini Vacuum Cleaner w Atlachments lt 10 Switchbox Paraltol or ns 232 529 Disk Oro H H Specify tlesc e gs Disk Controtler Board 95 5 Eprom Programmer 1 08 549 ONE YEAR WARRANTY ON ALL PRODUCTS 4 CALL WRITE FOR COMPLETE LIST ADD 3 SHIPPING Per ORDER not item NEXO DISTRIBUTION 914 East 8th Strect Sulte 109 National City CA 92050 619 474 3328 10am 6pm Mon Fri UNIV amp SCHOOL P O s WELCOME VISA MC OKAY C O D ADD 2 00 SAY THANKS AMERICA Say Thanks America STA isa national school program 4 to rebuild hope and values for young Americans During the 2 9 1987 1988 school year STA will launch its programs the Washington arca and render a Capitol Salute of Thanks to the people who build our hopes and ensure our liberties As participants in the program youth Say Thanks Kids under the direction of teachers will
117. RAMs around the corner and 64 MBIT DRAM memory chips envisioned a few years away suddenly de Broglie wavelengths seem no longer so small Indeed our whole semiconductor technology that enables us to compute on Macintoshes today owes its theoretical background to turn of the century physicists such as Louis de Broglie And while we re on the subject of physics Cryogenics Schmyogenics Look I m sick of physicists getting all excited about the revolution in high temperature superconductors It s wasted entirely too much ink in Science News the New York Times Science section and most of the major tabloids that wouldn t know a superconductor even if it bit large chunks out of their ad revenues So here s what I m going to do Asa service to the rest of humanity that is desperately hoping for some peace and quiet and that is hoping never ever to hear about the 3 a m hastily called superconductor conferences in West Nowheresville N H I am issuing the following press release contd Vienna Seelig Superconductoronics aprivately held R amp D firm has announced a super conductor that will work atroom temperature 290 Kelvin and at astonishingly high current densi ties Dr Frederick von Scelig the noted high tech physicist heralds this as the beginning of a new era of electronics an era of cheap clean and humane electrical power He also hopes Stock holm takes note There are a few bugs to be worked out however For
118. SCOUNT POLICY FOR WASHINGTON APPLE PI MEMBERS CLINTON COMPUTER offers Washington Apple Pi members a 2596 DISCOUNT OFF THE LIST PRICE on all non allocated Apple brand peripherals no CPU s software and AppleCare For upgrades the 2596 discount oppiles to both the parts and normal labor rate Discount is available to persons who have been Pi members for at least 3 months Discount cannot be applied vetroactively Pi members need to present their cards up front No hone or mail orders please Discount cannot be used combination with other promotions Products on allocation from Apple are excluded from this offer Clinton Computer reserves the fight tochange this policy at any time New Macintosh II The new Macintosh II There s lot to look into And it s easy Just lift off the cover and you re inside a whole new world A world that makes it simple for you to adapt expand upgrade and configure the Macintosh II to meet yourneeds And with color too What s more the Macintosh II is the fastest and most powerful member of the Macintosh family processing information at four times the speed And with six internal expansion slots you have tremendous expansion capa bilities Which means there s practically no limit to what it can do for your business Best of all it s a Macintosh so training time is minimal In fact you can learn to put all these new capabilities to work in just a few hours Come and take a c
119. SMASH HIT RACKETBALL 19 DARK CASTLE 37 MOST GAMES ARE NOW 25 50 OFF WE WILL MATCH BEAT ANY IN STOCK ADVERTISED PRICE IN THE METRO AREA SEE OUR AD ON THE BACK COVER NYO 52277 1 APPLE PI SPECIAL GOOD UNTIL APRIL 24 1987 DATAFRAME 20 amp DATAFRAME 20 XP SPECIAL PRICES 799 999 SPECIAL SUPERMAC PROMOTION Buy any XP DataFrame hard disk XP 40 XP 20 XP 40 40 and get the following boards at incredible prices 4 SUPERRAM 2 2 meg Ram upgrade DATAPORT 75 SPECIAL PROMOTION DOES NOT INCLUDE DATAFRAME 20 SOFT STRIP READER Cauzin Soft Strip Reader provides all you will need to read your own che cts 17995 MORE 199 Turn any printed image into a detailed high re solution Macintosh graphic Works with all Im MEGASCREEN m For those with more demanding applications the MegaScreen 2 s 19 display offers room for 2 full pages TN fos ud PETTE for the MAC A SE is now E available CALL FOR SALE COME TO OUR SHOWROOM FOR MORE SPECIALS warranty Call Mac Oe X QV I 1 SuperMac Enhance turns ANY Mac 512e into a 2MB SCSI Super MacPlus In fact it increases your Mac 5 2e speed 3096 with 2 Meg stan dard and upgrade able to 6 5 Meg All this with a lifetime 517 Reborn CORNER today for further details IN STOCK VAX Ki
120. The wire with the stripc is number 1 If you try this hcarsay advise I m not responsible for what happens Help I m trying to usea Seagate 251N hard disk on a II but it isn t being recognized Charles McConathy at CMS recommends cutting line 40 the reset signal on the 50 pin ribbon cable Apple s hard disks have special firmware By the way the CMS line of hard disks for the Mac II and the Mac SE are being greeted with good reviews As always I personally prefer to wait year before deciding which brands of hard disks have lasting value contd Washington Apple Pi August 1987 49 0 Are there third party sources for the video memory Apple sells as the 8 bit upgrade for their Mac II video card In last month s Journal Jim Lanford recommeded New Image Technology Other sources include Orion Avionics 213 676 0880 68 for the 8 chips and IC Express 800 892 8889 72 m trying to print a spreadsheet in Excel using horizon tal landscape orientation on legal size paper in the LaserWriter The first two columns of the spreadsheet are chopped off Adjusting the margins simply chopped off the other end yet there is plenty of blank paper left Rich Goldberg suggests choosing Page Setup then push the Options button Check the lowest box Q Pm not happy with my Mac SE The fan is much too loud and the picture is distorted at the sides The word on the street is
121. To Finish Off OS 2 Well I m here to tell you that that s absolutely false And who should know better than me about falsehoods ch Ycah No IBM is really going to release OS 2 in four yca er uh weeks yeah that s it And boy are they going to show Apple a thing or two Yeah finally their overprice er underpriced PS 2 machines will be able to do the same things as the Mac Two can do Er that s more than the Mac II can do Yeah that s it that s the ticket Dave Bunnell s Mug Shot Just got the latest version of MacWorld Oh I know I told everyone not to subscribe because David Bunnell Mac World s publisher is also the publisher of PC World because MacWorld used to have really out of date stuff that s changed and because MacWorld is much more boring than MacUser is But I have kept on reading it my love for the Mac overcoming the magazine s obvious deficiencies mag s full color glossics of the Mac II were enough to keep me hooked for about a year But I still have a problem with the mag I can never ever read the editorial page I read the Table of Contents I flip through the middle section looking for some intriguing screen dumps per haps a few quickic reviews perhaps a few techie articles But if accidentally I happen to get to the front of the magazine and to the wrong page Armrrrrggggghhhhhh It s him Sitting there with check resting too smugly on one fist smiling that awful smile
122. Turn off AppleTalk in the Control Panel to see if that fixes it If so it s time to start tinkering with the network connections A related problem is when on an ApplcTalk network all but one Mac can print to the LaserWriter You know it isn t the Mac since when you use a known good Mac at that location the problem remains Your dealer can get the long instructions off of AppleLink to help in diagnosing the problem But ina nutshell Apple recommends checking any long custom wired cables for bad connections checking the termination at the ends of the network and swapping cables and connector boxes around gt the Mac video card be used standard television equipment such as video recorders Yes Sort of Conventional TV equipment doesn t have the resolution needed to display the whole picture from a Mac II Yet the designers of the vidco card designed it so it could produce an NTSC standard signal in some fashion The trouble is the Mac II software doesn t know about this and 50 there is no easy way to use this feature Mark Bamwell at Apple has a short program that can kick the card into NTSC mode But since the feature is currently unsupported things will change when either the card design or the video software is next revised If you have a good reason for wanting to see this made a supported feature Mark would like to hear from you Write him at Apple Computer Developer Technical Supp
123. Vidco Escape Key Codes Registers of the 65C816 ASCII Character Codes Zero Page Map Quote While it isn t possible to destroy the hardware with anything that we will be exploring it IS possible to scramble battery RAM trash the control panel lock up the system confuse the various managers or perform any of a dozen pranks that would make a systems engincer turn pale After this quote the book goes onto describe how tore initialize your system to bring it back up Somchow I suspect Apple wouldn t totally approve of this book but Woz might Apple s prescribed methods of using Quickdraw II Soft switches and other firmware are pretty much ignored There is a lot of great information here for those interested in beginning hacking and for generally snooping around in the guts of the machine It should be noted however 18 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 that if you re interested in developing and publishing software this book by passes many of the rules for producing code which will work on future system upgrades Apple IIGS Technical Reference by Michael Fischer Published by Osbourne McGraw Hill 19 95 699 pages avail able at Waldens Daltons and Crown Appendices Apple IIGS Keyboard Layouts 65816 Opcodes and Adressing Modes Quote The pupose of this book is to incorporate in one reference most of the relevant material about the Apple IIGS in a form useful to people with some technical interest in the machin
124. Works SIG and the TCS Jay Thal a long time Director and for many years chair of the Disabled SIG and Lynn Trusal a newcomer to the Board but no newcomer to the many who have enjoyed Lynn s monthly column in the Journal In addition to these officers and directors there are also three ex officio members of the Board of Directors who deserve recognition Jim Little Hcad Disk Librarian David Morgan stein our Past President and Bernie Urban our Journal Editor This also gives mc the opportunity to reiterate an important part of Pi philosophy every Pi member not just those who are formally a part of the Board is welcome to come to all Board meetings and participate fully in the discussions Indeed virtu allyall votes are taken with the participation of everyone present not just formal Board members WAP Board of Directors ings arc usually held at 7 30 p m on the second Wednesday of each month except the third Wednesday in August inasmuch as MacWorld Expo is being held in Boston the week of the second Wednesday at the Washington Apple Pi office in Bethesda We want to thank our Elections Committee headed by Paul Schlosser with the able assistance of Dale and Kelly Smith These generous people devoted a beautiful Saturday in June to counting the 1 150 ballots cast in this election Also we should thank Richard Rowell who wrote a macro routine to enable the 4 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 committee to usc AppleWor
125. Y card is Still another allows you to format an MS DOS disk in the ENVOY drive found my IBM would choke on some of the MS DOS disks formatted by ENVOY THE ENVOY DRIVE AND PRODOS While the special drive controlled by the ENVOY card is mainly for MS DOS disks it can also be uscd as an extra disk drive under ProDOS though with serious limitations When you re not doing a file conversion you can put a blank 5 25 floppy in the drive and format that floppy as a 400K ProDOS storage device If your extra drive is the 3 5 type you can get 800K You can Apple programs to this disk and it can be booted Or it can be used to store data But the limitation is that ProDOS disks formatted in the ENVOY drive can ONLY be used in the ENVOY drive They won t work in normal Apple disk drives And any regular ProDOS disk formatted in any regular Apple drive can t be used in the ENVOY drive A DRAWBACK Whether you re using itas a ProDOS device or just to transfer MS DOS files the ENVOY drive is seen by your Apple as another drive If it s in slot 7 for instance many programs will report the existence of a drive in Slot 7 D1 This causes a minor irritant if the drive s power is on your Apple may try to boot from it and software that polls all your drives looking for disks will take the time to noisily poll the ENVOY drive too Even if the drive is powered off the existence of a drivc in slot 7 will still bc noted by
126. a remarkable program MicroPhone is Without risking a cent We give you a thirty day moneyback guarantee no questions asked Which is virtually unprecedented in software Since MicroPhone is not copy protected we obviously have vast confidence both in our program And in vou Communications Software for the Macintosh MacUser Editor s Choice Award 2907 Claremont Avenue Suite 220 Berkeley CA 94705 415 644 3232 Washington Apple August1987 45 LETTER TO THE EDITOR from Applied Engineering Dear Editor Compatibility of the Applied Engineering RamFactor board and the Apple was the subject of a Letter to the Editor in the June 1987 issue of Washington Apple Pi The letter was from Mr D R Scorer who was dissatisfied with Applied Engineering and our customer support The following will clarify the issues RamFactor is in fact compatible with the Apple products listed inour ads Itis also compatible with the Franklin Ace 1000 and Laser 128 All memory cards that install in slots 1 7 are actually high speed solid state RAM disks RamFactor can be used as a single RAM disk or it can be partitioned as multiple RAM disks With our battery backup RamFactor can be used like a hard drive for instant on capability Our ads are clear on these points What may not be clear is which version of AppleWorks can be modified for use with which computer RamFactor Expand our original AppleWorks expander worked only with
127. abilities of the clipboard adding capabilities that many of us have wanted The Clipper allows you to trim and scale any graphic that has been copied to the clipboard You can use it to determine the exact size of graphic you necd for your business letter or newsletter transparent Clipper window can be resized to exactly measure the size and then with the trimming and scaling capabilities of this DA you can edit it to exact size 6 File Edit Tools Page Type Lines Shades Clipper Untitled Figure 4 The Clipper Measurement Window Desktop publishers will especially appreciate the ability to resize and crop graphics for maximum effect To aid in exact selection for trimming Clipper has a Slow Scroll for exact positioning of graphics prior to trimming The Clipper window has two selectable modes show Contents to allow manipulation of the Clipboard and hide Contents for measuring the size of graphic you nced Shortcomings One serious shortcoming of the program is the possibility of deleting your current Scrapbook if you create a new one When creating a ncw scrapbook the program prompts you for a name and if you don t supply a name your new scrapbook is named Scrapbook File This can result in deleting your current Scrapbook File if you not careful The program docs not ask you if you want to replace your original Scrapbook File If you are saving the Scrapbook to another folder this can resul
128. ach Pius 1 00 each postage up to a maximum of 5 00 3 1 2 DISKETTES Members 6 00 each Non members 9 00 each Plus 1 00 each postage up to a maximum of 5 00 1 00 per disk discount on the above prices is offered for orders of 5 or more disks Postage remains as above DOS 3 3 Volumes DOS 3 3 contd Eamon contd Macintosh 6 411 25 Mach Lang Util 143 S 215 Lifequest 173a Red Ryder 9 2 42 One Key DOS 144 27 Applesoft Prog 216 Swordquest 172b Red Ryder Doc 43 29 Utilities H n Apple Logo Tool Kit 217 Priest of Xim 31 1 Dun Doom Eliza Talks 44 Utilities I 46 Logo Documentado 218 Heros Castle 32 Fun and Games II 45 Diversi Copy 149 Apple Lo ample ae 220 Utility II 33 Desk Accessories IT 46 French Vocab Tutorial 150 EDSIG1 221 Utility III 35 Fun and Games III 47 Tic Tac Toe in French 151 1983 Tax Mai 223 Temp le of Undead 36 Utilities III 48 Boot for l Hote 152 31 Miscellaneous 224 Bell for Holy Grail 37 Fkeys 49 Hote Son 153 Investments A 225 Caves of Mondamen 38 Graphic Tools 50 1 Hote 154 Investments B 226 Orb of Polaris 39 XLisp and Mini ADA 51 French Tutorial 155 IAC 33 Miscellaneous 227 Death s Gateway 40 Mac Videos 22 A iography 156 IAC 35 Applesoft AW e 228 Esc from Orc s Lair 41 Magneto Albert Camus Interview 157 IAC 36 Arcade Games 229 City in the Clouds 42 Studio Sesion 512K 24 fic Tac Toe in Spanish 158 Apple Logo Programs
129. al by being a member of the respective group Apple THREE Group International 100 disks 3 00 cach for members No P amp H fec Literally an attempt to offer all available PD software with some unique offerings like templates in different formats ATUNC 30 disks Available to non members at double the cost S3 00 56 00 P amp H extra Also an excellent source of documentation at reasonable cost TAU 80 disks Available to all Includes some programs licensed exclusively to TAU for use by its members Royalty software also offered Mac and GS are building 3 50 per disk Royalty cost P amp H extra Pair Software 3201 Murchison Way Carmichacl CA 95608 916 485 6525 80 disks Available to all More expensive than others Pair is a business not a user group 10 00 and up per disk P amp H extra Customer and Newsletter mailing lists available Commercial software and hardware also available sce below MAUG Compuserve As mentioned above MAUG s Data Libraries contain a treasure of information and PD software The Apple s are DL7 and 8 but don t forget the AppleWorks DL You must join CompuServe to get access but there is no additional cost Washington Apple Pi The WAP SIG offers 6 PD software including a New Members Disk with a tremendous amount of Apple information Other PD offerings adaptable to the ON THE BBS FRONT More than worthy of mention here is Ed Gooding
130. alton Software where they cheerfully opened up The Other Side by Tom Snyder Productions booted it up on a computer and left me alone I was taken back to my idealistic flower child days in California when we felt global conflicts should be resolved by cooperation Two opposing nations are working toward a common goal of building a unifying bridge while maintaining their own economy Team members must depend on each other for collecting different bits of information making short and long term goals and defensive and offensive strategies Ncither side has sufficient resources to build the bridge by itself The Computer Aided Defense system representative of political and economic forces interested in protecting its own country and not in building the bridge can escalate misunderstandings into real conflicts upsetting the delicate ballance of world power The strategies of peace are complex This simulation is designed for the classroom computer is sufficient to involve the whole class at once although two computers can be used The lessons are many negotiation compromise teamwork communication mapping recork keeping note taking strategic decision making and conflict resolution Seeing firsthand what Tom Snyder felt was good educational software gave credence to the points he was trying to make in the book For anyone who works with kids and computers this book has perceptive insights into the effective usc of computers in
131. am sure that there are other music shops that have easy music in your arca too LET S PLAY SOME SONGS I can t just leave you here without let ting you hear something and at least getting you started Go to your Apple and type and savethe following short program You will be using it alot Please use the disk that contains your other listings especially SOUND DRIVER NEW 10 REMONESONG DATAPLAYER 20 TEXT HOME D CHRS 4 30 PRINT D BLOAD SOUND DRIVER 40 READ FM DM 50 FOR X 1 TO 300 60 READ F D 70 IFF 0 AND D 0 THEN 100 80 POKE 768 F FM POKE 769 D DM CALL 770 90 NEXT X 100 END SAVE ONE SONG DATA PLAYER Listing 7 You will use Listing 7 ONE SONG DATA PLAYER to play songs that you will have created and saved in data state ments There will be other methods later on but for now let s usc the data statements for our music You will construct a small collection of Applesoft programs that con tain your data statements of music and use the ONE SONG DATA PLAYER to play them Figure 31 short piece of music for the buglecall CHARGE I used Tables 1 and 4 to write my music program Listing 8 Seeif youcan follow whatI did While the contd ZN music is not professionally printed I feel that it has a handwritten quality reminiscent of the duration was too quick so I slowed it Amadeus Mozart Don t you agree down with a duration multiplier A word of caution you have to be carefu
132. amples and of all examples that follow is to show how the formula commands work not how to coax out the best looking results oo dx 2 2 gives fx dx x2 2 0 MNin O 20 x dx 202 gives 2 Syntax amp examples of each formula command A rray Options AL AR AC COn VSn HSn align left align right center n columns vertical space n points horizontal space n points a b c A achvs12 hs12 c03 a b c d e f g h i gives d e f g h i 111 123 6 6 02 111 123 3 4 gives P 111 123 NAMIIN S6M156Nc02 111 123 3 4 gives Fd 111 123 6 15 2 111 123 3 4 gives 2174 B racket Options LC c RC c BC c left character right character both characters but notice the lt examples notice also the Bu before the gives BMcN a gives la MINeN 2 gives a BNbcN a gives gives a BNbcM a gives B bcX a gives a B bc lt a gives lt a gt Washington Apple Pi August 1987 61 To get the comma into 0 one needs to precede the by or use List 0 gives 0 MBNCNNeN 0N 29 gives 0 XBNeMMCM AL 0 9 gives 0 12 1 12 02 11 12 3 4 11 12 gives 3 4 D isplace Options FOn BAn LI forward n points backwards n points draw line hNDMo60 gives h h D ba70 gives h hNDMo6NiQ gives _ hNDNba9NiQ gives Lh F rac
133. an where they are on the Mac Plus keyboard are three lights on the upper right hand side of the keyboard Caps Lock Num Lock and Scroll Lock The latter two don t work This is just plain old lazy design It would have been nice for example to use the Num Lock while using MS Word when you don tknow if the numerical keypad is used in the numerical mode or in the cursor control mode TT says that these lights don t work as there are no Macintosh equivalents at this time Bushwah The keyboard is Switcher compatible sort of You can switch between applications all right with CTRL and CTRL But if you don t have the Always Convert Clipboard option set then CTRL ALT which should convert the clipboard between applications 406 not work contd Washington Apple Pi August 1987 71 Included for your 119 isa disk called PC MacKey Itallows you to redefine the keyboard for macro commands Select Cut Varies Find Copy Paste Group Save Bold Plain Italic Underscore New Open Print Eject Information Duplicate Close Quit Figure 2 Function and alt function keys Fi F10 and their usual definitions The bottom functions are accessible by pressing down the ALT key simultancously with the Fkey Select Cut Paragraph A M X F Find Copy F2 F7 Paste Go TO C 6 V S Save Styles Print Insert Graphics 1 PZU Outlining Print Footnote Insert Graphics Charac
134. an with his 1906 paper on the quantization of energy levels I admired his bold intuitive leap P Tipler s Foundations of Modern Physics states that this suggestion was highly specula tive there was no evidence at that time for any wave aspects of electrons The textbook has a picture of de Broglie sitting behind his desk finger crutched on hischin tie askew wild black hair sticking straight up He looks amazed that his simple idea caused such astir He won the Nobel Prize for theoretical physics in 1929 In 1906 Einstein speculated that energy waves could be thought of as discrete particles There were numerous reasons why this should be so chief among them being Max Planck s discovery of a theoretical explanation of the mysterious black body radiation frequency distribution a few years earlier De Broglie reasoned that if waves behaved as particles then par ticles could behave as waves as incredibly condensed electro magnetic waves This simple reasoning process led directly to such physics oddities as electron diffraction and to such useful instruments as the scanning electromagnetic microscope An electron with an energy of 10 electron volts or eV in physics parlance has ade Broglie wavelength of 3 9 Angstroms Sixty years ago such a distance seemed fantastically small Today physicists speak calmly of single atom layers on surfaces of crystals of manipulating atoms within distances of 100 Angstroms or less With 1 Mbit D
135. and operating convenience the AJ 833 Price 325 Andarson Jacobson Inc 8653 Grovemont Circle Gaitheraburg MD 20877 4191 301 840 5700 APPLE Il NEWS AND NOTES by Walt Mossberg The ENVOY Card Using IBM Disks on Your Apple II This month s column is entirely devoted to a review of ENVOY anew modestly priced device that allows your Apple II to directly read from and write to MS DOS disks the disks used on IBM personal computers and their clones Next month we ll return to the more usual mix of comments and mini reviews covering a variety of Apple II software and hardware products THE INCOMPATIBILITY PROBLEM Many Apple II owners are forced by the corporate computer conspiracy at work to use IBM brand personal computers or computers which are compatible with IBM s These machines are sometimes grouped under the label MS DOS computers because they usually use the clumsy outmoded MS DOS oper ating system Trouble is Apple II computers don t run MS DOS and IBM compatible computers don t run ProDOS or other Apple operating systems Worse Apple and IBM computers actually write on disks in physically different ways Soeventhough an IBM compatible disk either 5 25 or 3 5 looks just like an Apple disk you can t pop it into an Apple II disk drive and get your Apple to run a program written on it or even to properly read a text file saved on it And vice versa Your best AppleWorks composition
136. ansion is predi cated on a highly complex process that requires careful planning a willingness to experiment intelligently and adequate re sources One should add that in adopting computers in our schools onc should have in the back of his her mind a theory of learning best suited for the situation at hand Factors to consider in the placement of computers include 1 Planning for the adoption of computers 2 Budgeting and financing for their acquisition 3 Actual acquisition 4 Placing them in the schools when where why how many how much 5 Training of teachers 6 Provisions for servicing and maintenance of computers 7 Revision of textbooks to fit into and be corre lated with computer assisted instruction 8 Development of software that would appropriatcly supplement textbooks 9 Development of new curriculum and revision of existing curriculum What is computer assisted instruction Briefly it is the use of the computer for the direct instruction of students Four modes of use are gencrally involved a Drill and practice b Problem solving c Simulation d Tutorials These modes of computer assisted instruction do not include what is called in the literature I computer managed instruction or 2 the teaching of computer science Even the concept of computer assisted instruction requires further clarification be yond identifying the four modes Clarification involves recog nizing the following conditions a
137. ar to the arrangements in the US Inotice that you have raised the point about dcalers checking the power supply voltages when repairing and upgrading Macs This is something I insist on for every Mac that goes out of our workshops The difference in some of the readings is quite remarkable Further to this I read an article in fact a second part of an article in MacTutor July on the subject of Mac power supply analog boards My board started to play up and I lost video It came back when I tapped the left side of the case This was OK for a while then eventually it would only work when I pressedthe side in This is notarecommended position described in the Macintosh Manual and it gets rather tiring furthermore typing with one hand is not very productive We took the board outand examined it with a magnifying glass We found that there were fatigue cracks round the joints of the heavier components The hot cold expansion of two years of being turned on and off daily had caused some joints to go hard and eventually crack Less that five minutes with an iron had everything back as right as rain again So before you shell out on a 100 board replace ment see if you can either get your dealer or friendly engineer to check the joints out first It takes no longer than a board swap and could take less because you don t need to discharge the tube amp Technical Writing contd from pg 60 improvement I find Cricket Draw to be an improvement o
138. are company in the DC area e High Performance Macintosh Products Prodigy 4 2975 Plus 512 128 4 Megs Ram 68020 68881 fan pwr supply 1615 Plus 68020 1 Meg Ram Prodigy Prime 58020 1 Mog fan pwr s Prodigy SE 61274 5 68020 1 275 Optional 68881 Coprocessor 425 Additional 1 Meg Ram 780 niue Pe rade for 128 512 includes fan and SCSI Additional 1 Meg for Mac Plus includes fan Includes 15 Wap Discount Dave Ferris 202 332 9109 Monster Mac One Plus One 320 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 75 APL PLUS STSC Rockville MD This is going to be a unique review With other application reviews I ve prepared the product has been something you the reader could imagine nceding Perhaps a word processor or a hard disk utility maybe a graphics package Since this review describes a computer language I have to take two steps First for the many people who don t know what the APL language is I ve got to explain it Second having convinced you why APL is a unique and special computer language worth knowing about I ve got to assess how well STSC has packaged APL for the Mac APL A Programming Language was not the first computer language I encountered But compared to FORTRAN or Basic isa dream Itcan do in a single line something that most other languages require reams of code to perform It supports variables which are multi
139. ask easily and it is my learning and ideas that I want to share with you SHEET MUSIC When we first pick up some sheet music we recognize it as a written form of sym bols representing sound and wonder how anyone can make sense out of it in order to play an instrument Fortunately for us because we are producing simple music on our Apples we do not have to know all there is toknow We will only be program ing the notes and their durations into our programs In Figure 1 we see a musical staff Sometimes there is only one and other times there is a second below the first with aspace between the two When the two shown itis called a Grand Staff and is made up of the Treble Staff upper one and the Bass Staff lower one You will see two different symbols Treble Clef and Bass Clef that identify the staffs Sometimes there are other symbols in their place Occasionally but not always there are smaller symbols placed next to the major symbols These are called Key Signatures They look like or b and represent which notes become sharps or flats expla nation later throughout the entire musical score Then you might see some numbers placed one over the other They are the Times Signature Many times it will be 4 4 but you could find 3 4 2 4 6 8 The upper number indicates how many counts in a measure while the lower indicates 26 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 what type of note receives one count You
140. ation was oasy to and the printed examples were good aids Ann Arber Mi he pful advice pleasantly presented Crane Wostmnster The National AppleWorks Users Group policy Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back 2 Washington Apple Pi August cana Read an AppleWorks newsletter The AppleWorks Forum This 20 page monthly newsletter is one of the many bencfits of your membership in the National AppleWorks Users Group TRA ee Here are some of the articles that appeared in our 24 page Junc issuc Printer codes for over 60 popular printers How to print three line headers at the top of each page A review of SchoolWorks How to use the protection feature in spreadsheets How to improve your spreadsheets with the IF function Three ways to enter repeated data into the data base There s a bug in ProDOS 8 version 1 3 An update on the Pinpoint desk accessories o NAUG maintains a library of public domain disks and members share an electronic bulletin board A one year membership costs 24 for twelve months of the AppleWorks Forum eS Special Savings Members of the National AppleWorks Users Group receive a 15 discount on the seminar registration fee Make checks payable to National AppleWorks Users Group Box 87453 Canton Michigan 48187 313 397 1594 Registration Membership Form Name Addre
141. b lished in the programs and courses developed in accord with the policy Development of student com petency will take place through computer aided instruction knowledge of data retrieval data manipu lation problem solving kcy boarding text editing C Staff COMPETENCY will be developed to meet contd Washington Apple Pi August 1987 31 responsibilities of each position Selection of staff to teach computer literacy computer science courses based on demonstrated skill and knowledge of com puters D Staff Training E Instructional matcrials Software 1 Selection 2 Evaluation 3 Some inhouse preparation Does the software fit in with the cuuriculum with teaching strategies with the grade level with educationagoals What are vendor arrangements F Hardware 1 Selection 2 Evaluation 3 Cost effectiveness 4 Matching of software with hardware 5 Maintenance and servicing problems Extended Use of Computers beyond classroom periods H Community Involvement III Feedback Indicators These have to do with A Budget capital and operating costs B Detailed description of courses syllabi C Measures of student and faculty skills with computers D Measure of learning gains via computers E Follow up surveys of graduates to determine value of courses in MCPS I wish to turn to a more detailed consideration of the curricu lum that has been put into place in the Montgomery County Public School System i K through
142. bo a gives gives 1 gives a XNeNbo to a gives a X hello ciao gives MX gives O BITS AND PIECES by Peter Trinder The Great SE Fan Controversy Part Two Tom Warrick s editorial about the SE fan is very interesting I would like to add a comment My friend who makes the Qisk hard disk here in England took his Apple fan out and replaced it with the one he fits to his hard drives This is a standard type of rotary that is used in many disk drives He made a metal shroud after the style of the Apple one and found it still a bit noisy He always puts a 20 ohm resistor in line to slow the fan down a bit and this actually seems to it a bit cooler Finally he looked atthe bars in the back of the case and filed these so that they were a bit more aerodynamic and lo and behold the machine is now acceptably quite On my TurboMax the fan is one of the square framed rotaries and itis running at full speed I intend to try slowing it down with aresistor but want to get the internal drive in first and then check temps before tinkering with the fan speed This leads me on to a postscript to my MacMemory article I said that the Max2 was not shipped fitted in the UK I have been licked off by my good friend Stefan Youngs who heads MacEu rope and is the UK agent for MacMemory here They ship a 2 already fitted to an Apple Board and you return the one out of your Mac for credit So this is simil
143. bring your latest Pascal programming achievements or insolvable bugs We will be discussing Pascal on the IIgs PIG librarian Mike Hartman continues to welcome new contributions to the PIG library For each disk of software which you donate you will receive a disk from the WAP library it need not be a PIG disk The contents of the PIG disks are described and indexed on pages 259 271 of Perfect Pascal Programs RAM Disk on the IIgs My 1105 finally arrived and I immediately began testing Apple Pascal 1 3 on it See the June WAP Journal p 25 for a review of Pecan s p System on the IIgs question is how to set up a RAM disk under Apple Pascal 1 3 Here are the steps Step 1 Create a RAM disk using your control panel I use 228K Besure thc minimum and maximum RAM disk sizes arc same Step 2 Boot Apple Pascal 1 3 and enter the FILER Step 3 List V olumes Step 4 Z ero the RAM disk to give ita p System directory Step 5 Transfer all of your important system files onto the RAM disk At least SYSTEM APPLE SYSTEM PASCAL SYSTEM MISCINFO and SYSTEM LIBRARY Step 6 Easy way Press open apple control escape to go to the control pancl Set the startup slot to RAM disk Press return escape return and return When you get the traveling apple and error message reboot with open apple control reset PIG way X ecutc John Stokes New Root program WAP Disk PIG11 see p 99 of Perfect Pascal Programs His program
144. cal only when absolutely necessary Broader more detailed amplifications could be extended on most of the subjects covered Unavoidable comparisons with other programs are stated when either appro priate or obvious Criteria for reviewing Quark XPress lies neither in the corporate nor the desktop publishing arena per se but in the value of the program itself for the individual user on the Macintosh A critic in the latest issue of Macazinc bemoancd the com plexity of some of the newer programs compared with the originals and stated that because of this the Mac is becoming less user friendly But this overlooks the inadequacy of the older programs and their severe limitations for PostScript translation Developers and Apple thankfully are in a growing expanding market here tostay If the potential of this technology is not built upon Apple would not exist It so happens that the potential of this dynamic Macintosh tool has just recently been recognized for what it is and progress is its building block This brings us to XPress TECHNICAL DATA AND GOOFS Quark XPress version 1 02R 387K program Dictionary 170K Frame Editor 62 5K XPress Help 61K Basic Apple LaserWriter screen fonts loaded Typos typographical errors in the 3 ring manual occur on pages 1 7 boxed should be boxes 1 17 wil should be will 3 1 artwork left off cover page for section 3 5 54 page number in section 3 should read 3 54 and I 3 Index Guidlines sh
145. carch would also reveal the geographic distribution of computers and differences in their incidence between school districts with high average incomes vs those with lower average incomes There is danger that ours will become a two tiered society of haves and have nots where computers are concerned We need to be sensitive to the long run economic and social implications of such a develop ment A user group like WAP has the potential it seems to this observer of making a contribution in this area rapid expansion of computers in schools has not been without prob lems Such problems inherent in the adoption of a new technology needs only recall the problems schools en countered when they switched to the new math Things people had been doing were suddenly given new labels like associativ ity commutativity inverses Those very labels gener ated apprehension and resistance Hence it is almost natural that resistances arise when new and old clash the old and vested interests feel insecure and endangered Consequently careful intelligent planning and resources to minimize these problems are required By 1990 the number of computers in American schools will have doubled reaching an estimated pupil computer ratio of 1 14 by 1990 Some educators predict a ratio of 1 1 by mid 1990 s a computer on every desk The British the French and Japanese als
146. ces for useful technical informa tion how toset up RAM disks use desk accessories configure slots and similar problems That s it for this month Peg will be back next month to let you know what s happening as far as the IIGS SIG is concemed Remember the IIGS SIG meets at 8 00 a m before the regular WAP meetings in the USUHS cafeteria 6 The GS Mod contd from pg 16 display colors at any time I am now using yellow on dark blue with a light blue border Itis great The only slight criticism is that every time the system is warm booted you get to choose 50 or 60HZ power Thatoption should be buried somewhere inside I highly recommend the mod for any Apple e user who wants to stay with the II line for a while I don t think there isa particular rush to get the mod however due to the small amount of software that uses the GS features I don t have any of that software yet There is still a great deal that I have to learn about this wonderful machine and I am looking forward with anticipa tion to doing just that Meanwhile I have a long time to save for that Mac II PI SIG NEWS The July meeting of the Program Interface SIG was on Monday July 6 at the Washington Apple Pi office Members brought and assembled the minimal working components of an Apple IIGS and were up and running before 7 30 PM Wesampled adisk contributed by David Todd a IIGS system disk which contained very recent versions of ProDOS 8 and ProDOS 16
147. ck and change these options You can play the game with symbols representing cach piece type or you can use icons which make it easier to discern pieces your cavalry look like cavalry You can save at the end of cach turn but not during a turn You can also turn the sound on or off every two or three turns but again not during a turn The game moves very slowly on my e but probably would go faster with a speed card or on the IIGS in the fast mode using a speed card you could probably cut the playing time by one third In conclusion I would like to say that despite such obstacles as speed and control this is a fun game great for people who like wargames and have the patience to play through a full 8 to 15 hour game I give it a seven out of 10 Mac Pro Football contd from pg 36 larger screen area to select your plays all at once That way you could take a last look at the picture to sec if everything was just the way you need it It would allow players both to enter all their options and to make any last minute changes without clicking through a morass of similarly blinding screens There is more I could praise and a few criticisms I could make about Mac Pro Football but I sce no point in making them until the interface is changed to help players rather than discourage them Until then if Avalon Hill releases a new disk of 30 or so Mac Pro Football scenarios I will be onc of the first on my block
148. ctory Both the membership tory and the TCS are budgeted as break even items Thus the 4 178 in the proposed budget for capital expenditures sce below is the budgeted difference between TCS revenues and TCS operating costs Publication sales include sales of the Journal through com puter and book stores Publication sales also include sales of advertising in the Journal and sales of other publications Other Revenue and associated costs includes tutorial fees postage and shipping for which we charge and interest income wc have no interest expense With the exception of Public Domain software P D the variances reported are either small or favorable P D sales were 1 958 lower and P D costs 7 645 higher than expected We re investigating but at this time we haven t determined how much of the total 59 603 unfavorable variance is due to incorrect estimates price changes unexpected costs or cost increases The second part of the statement concerns cash expenses Expenses have always been the focus of membership interest and for this reason are presented in detail Please note that the budgeted expense for guards for the general meeting are sharply reduced from last ycar s actual while a new item meeting place rent expense has been added at 2 890 Up to the present time the USUHS facility has been made available to us at no charge USUHS however requires that we hire guards The budget for these items reflects the po
149. d within the 2nd XPress tutorial the LaserWriter Plus took a good half hour to print out Hammond s Candies template newslet ter The long delay was due in large part to the heavy graphics nature of the file At print out the right side and the bottom edges chopped some of the copy Please note that this tutorial was showing an example of a template to be used over and again by Hammond s it was their guide and our guide on setting up templates The adjustments would not have been that difficult to make in order to correct the chopping of some characters in the Stories but that is not the point As a viable LaserWriter or ImageWriter template file it doesn t cut the cake it s not a good one Butitcould have been if someone had taken the time to print it first to check its usefulness as a working master template Nor is itexplicable why a single rule suddenly becomes a double mule at the bottom left hand side of page 1 on this template GRAPHICS Both an EPSF Encapsulated Post Script File and a PICT file from Cricket Draw were attempted as Import files into an XPress document The EPSF file picked up fine and a selected frame of 3 points thickness was placed around it successfully The PICT file did not drop into the Picture Frame device used by XPress to accept graphics files Even with maximum expansion and scrolling with the hand the PICT file just wasn t there WORKING XPRESS For the PageMaker PM MacPublisher and ReadySetGo
150. d at the end of November 1986 The version for use with the Apple was released April 21st 1987 Dealers are provided with updates but do not always implement them We scveral other products that use expansion software It is impor tant that the customer be aware of which products work with which revision levels This is true with many other products now on the market as well as those from Applied Enginering The problem is compounded each time a new release of a major product like AppleWorks occurs Experiences with busy customer service lines are frustrating We have added more people to this area and have considerably improved response Our lines are usually busiest on Monday and 46 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 Friday Many people call these lines for non technical reasons and this does not help the congestion We arc aware of the problems in our customer support area and are continuing to upgrade and improve our procedures I m sure that many readers and our many thousands of customers who have done business with Applied Engineering can verify that we do have of the best technical support departments in the industry About answering letters it is company policy to respond in a timely manner to all correspondence At this point there is no way to know what happened to the letter included in the June column Had a follow up letter been writen to a higher level company official for instance a reply would have been
151. d games and activitics If these don t suit you or if you want to be creative you can create your own with the powerful icon editor which has been included The text portion is equally powerful It gives you ability to select right or middle justification Morcover you can select the font size and style for the month dates weekdays and text You can even make changes on a day by day basis You get all this and color too With ImageWriter II you may print most elements or the calendar in full color All in all I would evaluate this program as an exceptional value for the money and now that I ve used it I don t know how I got along without it NOTES by Martin Milrod _ Contest Announcement Our erstwhile professional pedant thc GameSIG Chairman Emeritus Ron Wartow has agreed to judge a contest of World Builder games to be developed by WAP members It was the only way we could kecp Ron out of the contest Submit your ingenious and terribly clever World Builder game by Labor day on a Mac disk to the office Please mark the outside of your disk or envelope with the words World Builder Contest so that the office staff can just place it into Ron s Receptacle Mac Disk 97 Errata There is a minor problem with using the Palcncia Font on Disk 97 due to space limitations on the disk The Open Suitcase Palencia Icon should be opencd and the Extracted Palencia Font should be saved onto another
152. d laser printer into a LaserWriter look alike The board is made by the Laser Connection of Mobile AL 205 663 7223 and lists for 2 995 It contains PostScript 2 MB of RAM 0 5 MB of ROM and the four LaserWriter fonts InfoWorld gave it a 7 5 rating out of 10 0 IBM has also endorsed PageMaker which it plans to bundle with Windows ina new desk top publishing system consisting of one of the new computers and its PostScript laser printer I get the feeling that IBM needed PostScript Adobe Windows Microsoft and PageMaker Aldus more than they needed it It seems like they are trying to gain a foothold in the desk top publishing market before Apple is declared the winner in this important battle If Apple was not a major playcr in this market Iam willing to bet that IBM would not be using any of these third party products and would have developed its own products Even more recently Hewlett Packard has also decided to support PostScript in addition to endorsing DDL by Imagen The DDL board will be available in July of this year to add this page descriptive language to newer Hewlett Packard laser print ers It will retail for under 2 000 When these boards are added to existing Laserjet printers thcir price will probably surpass the cost of the Apple LaserWriter printer I guess it wasn t so expensive after all Evidently Hewlett Packard bowed to public pressure to also make their Laserjet printer compatible with PostScript Itis u
153. d to do that job If you really need to run such software and I personally find it unnec essary you will need an IBM clone next to your Apple 5500 1000 at least Or you might wait and sce if Applicd Engincer ing releases its own promised MS DOS card for thc Apple II which unlike ENVOY will supposedly allow you to run MS DOS programs But that card already later than expected is likely to cost well above 180 2 ENVOY is designed only to let your Apple and IBM use each others data files not programs In other words you can exchange word processor files between AppleWorks and WordPerfect or spreadsheet files between VIP Profes sional Apple and Lotus 1 2 3 IBM using ENVOY But touse the files you must be able to run on cach computer the necessary word processor or spreadsheet programs written for that com puter For most people this sort of file transferability is the greatest need not the ability to run programs themselves 3 Because ASKY Inc is a small engincering oricntcd company the ENVOY card isn t a smoothly packaged product The product is out of the test stage and bcing sold but it s rough around the edges For instance the file conversion software while very casy to usc is still evolving as this is written some non essential software features don t work The user manual is one of the worst pieces of documentation I ve ever written mainly so a technician can connect up disk d
154. demonstration of a very elementary program based on a shell was provided utilizing TML Pascal The group then divided into smaller subgroups to discuss different technical aspects of IIGS programming the occurrence of bugs and how to avoid them We arelooking forward to future releases by WAP of IIGS disks and have been speculating on what will become available how and when Service on Apple 11 Apple IBM and IBM Compatibles We Test Clean and Align Your 5 1 4 Floppy Disk Drives Factory Service on pson and Okidata Printers Expert Repairs on Other Brands 90 Day Warranty on All Service Work On Site Maintenance Agreements Available For More Information Call 698 0347 Technical Sales amp Service 2820 Dor Ave Fairfax VA 22031 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 19 A SLICE OF THE WASHINGTON APPLE PI KS FREDERICK APPLE CORE OFFICERS amp CHAIRMEN President Scott Galbraith Vice President Stephen Hadley Secretary Treasurer Donna Logan Apple II Librarian Tony Svajlenka Macintosh Librarian Doug Tallman Group Purchase Harold Polk SYSOP Scott Galbraith The Frederick Apple Core now meets on the second Saturday of cach month in the large conference room of the Frederick Library at 110 E Patrick Street Frederick MD at 9 30 AM Programs are normally scheduled for both the Macintosh and the Apple II i HOTLINE MEMBERS Scott Galbraith II amp GS 301 865 3035 Kurt Holter Mac
155. disk with about 100K of free space The Palencia Icon on Disk 97 has only 4 point sizes the Extracted version includes point sizes from 9 to 48 New August Disks We have five new disks for August We will be going to the MacExpo in Boston and this should help us prepare for another scason of Mac Disks that we hope you will find helpful Also decisions will have been made on implementing a new func tional rcorganization of disks and whether to produce 800K disks We ll announce these decisions in this column as soon as they are made Mac Disk 105 Fun amp Games XXIII Air Warrior amp Other Games NFL Fuutball Version 2 2 A football strategy game where you are the coach In the beginning of the gamc you control the selection of some of the major player types including quarter back receivers and runners During the course of the game you pick each offensive or defensive play Operating instructions are self explanatory Shareware 9 00 Lotto Version 10 A Lotto simulation game but we never really got the point Perhaps the point is to show how unlikely it is that you would ever win one of these games thereby discouraging people from wasting their moncy on them Panic Version 1 0 A self described silly game resem bling Space Invaders Find the instructions in the About Panic command under the Apple menu HangMan 9 0 A somewhat sophisticated version of the old word game This computerized versi
156. do Look at the printed music find thc note in the same relative position on Table 4 and use its frequency number If the note is a flat read the number to the left outside the double sets of slanted lines If the note is a sharp read the number to the right Washington Apple Pi August 1987 27 RARRERRRRERERAX TABLES NOTE VALUES AARARAAARARERRR Dn DOS OS EE aa e MMPS ri OCTAVE 1 NOTE t 1 2 3 4 t Ga 136 68 34 17 8 6 144 72 36 18 152 76 38 19 160 80 40 20 172 86 43 21 30 45 22 96 48 24 51 25 34 27 57 28 120 60 30 255 127 64 32 136 68 34 be n Mess landi ee ad outside the double sets of slanted lines If the note happens to be in the ledger area where there arc no staff lincs you will find that the music publisher has inserted very short lines 50 you can tell how many steps above or below the staff the note is located RERRRARARRARERRRARRARRERK TABLE 4 NOTE VALUES ON STAFFS x AARARKARRAARAAKERERAARRRK Gase Gb 19 GQ 18 Ga 17 t iP Fb 21 20 19 Eb 22 77 21 ES 20 1 Db 29 D 24 00 22 1 OCTAVE 4 C Cbd 28 77 6 27 29 B Bb 30 B 28 Be 27 1 LEGER AREA WAS Ab 34 77 32
157. e And it docs I don t recommend this book for the beginning programmer but there isn ta better book available for the programmer who wants to get started developing software using the IIGS s toolbox This book and Fischer s other book 65816 65802 Assembly Language Programming provide a pretty good set of texts for those interested in IIGS software developement with assembly language The Apple IIGS Toolbox Revealed by Danny Goodman Published by Bantam Computer Books 21 95 244 pages available in Daltons Appendices Short Course in Hexadecimal and Binary Math ASCII Table Further Reading Quote Whether you re brand new to programming on the Apple II or you ve come to the toolbox as an experienced programmer this book is where you should begin your IIGS toolbox experience For 21 95 this book doesn t have much hard information Gencrally it describes some methods for accessing the toolbox without giving any specifics or program ming examples If you are interested in the philosophy of how 10 use the toolbox but don t really want to use it this book is for you Apple IIGS Toolbox Reference copyright Apple Techni cal Publications more than 1200 pages 60 00 for beta version from APDA Appendices Writing your own Tool Sct Error Codes Quote IMPORTANT Halts occur only on calls to FP816 Elems8 16 stimulates halts only through a procexit call to FP816 DecStr816 makes calls to FP816 and therefore n
158. e control panel The control panel allows you to specify how much memory to reserve for use as a RAM disk Be sure to set both the minimum and maximum size valucs to the same number What is a Startup disk It is a disk used to start up or boot the computer When the computer is turned on or restarted with open apple control reset an operating system is read into RAM from the startup disk Because the operating system desk accessories and other needed utilities will be present on the startup disk that disk becomes the first place where the system and most other programs return to look for information as it is needed to be read into RAM Because a copy of the system must included on the startup disk some people mistakenly confuse a startup disk with the system disk that came with your Apple You can start up your system from any disk with the proper files not just with the system disk Once your computer has been turned on and your RAM disk loaded with the appropriate software you can use your RAM disk as your startup disk Scc below How do you prepare a disk for the IIgs that will boot as a startup disk You create your own startup disk by copying certain files from your System Disk It s best to usc the latest version 1 2 If you are only going to run under ProDOS 16 the following are necessary PRODOS and a SYSTEM folder subdirectory The SYSTEM folder should contain P16 the
159. e to think such investments are good moves on Apple s part By helping young companies remain viable which will in turn make the Macintosh more viable Apple is feathering its own nest Buying companics outright would be more expensive drain cash needed for in house R amp D and perhaps lose the independent third party development that has been a large reason for the success of the Macintosh I have to feel that General Computer is hurting and may find it difficult to survive This hunch is not based on any inside information but I do know that two very large dealers have recently stopped selling Hyperdrives If you are thinking of a hard disk purchase I would recommend looking to Apple MacBottom or Rodime All of these drives use the Rodime hard disk that appears to be very reliable My Hyperdrive FX 20 is still performing ok except for an occasional high pitch whine when it is first turned on I have also upgraded to the new system 4 1 and Finder 5 5 on the FX 20 and have had no problem One word of caution somcone from General Computer told me that I needed to wait for a software upgrade this summer but I believe she thought I had an intemal HyperDrive Another WAP member has reported no problems in 5 10 FX 20 Hyperdrives with the upgraded software If in doubt call General Computer first They now tell you to ask such questions of your Hyper Drive dealer but the two I know don t sell them anymore Rodime is suing IBM and others becau
160. e Control Panel at the beginning of the book this may as well have been a book for the e Apple 16 A Comprehensive Guide to Apple IIGS Comput ing by Hank Harrison Published by Archives Press 24 95 251 pages available at Daltons Appendices Users Groups Includes a list of users groups WAP not included The Telephone Link IIGS Education Appleworks Add on Products Getting a Grant From Apple Quote Most computer books are very technical This one is not It sort of reminds me of The Last Whole Earth Catalog Itis an interesting resource guide for beginners There isn t any programming information except in terms of what program ming resources are available This book is likely to become out of date very quickly as it describes a lot of hardware and software that is available now but that is bound to be improved upon by tomorrow Nibble A or inCider magazines are probably just as good for resource guides and will remain up to date lot cheaper too Ihaven tfounda good text for the higher level languages such as C or Pascal yet I suspect that when the Apple Programmers Workshop Pascal and C are released in their final form we ll start to see a deluge Several articles have been published using TML Pascal but no really complete tutorial for the beginning programmer has been published as far as Iknow Newsletters like Open Apple and the WAP Journal magazines and bulletin boards seem to be the best sour
161. e change I described above To do this you need a copy of the program ResEdit 1 0 1 which is available from both GEnie and CompuServe Follow these steps 1 Startup ResEditand insert a diskette containing a copy of RamStart2 0 Use a working copy not your only copy 2 Select the name RamStart2 0 in the window that appears when the diskette is inserted and cither select Open from the File menu or double click on the name 3 In the window labelled RamStart2 0 that appears select the name DRVR and cither select Open from the File menu or double click on the name 4 A window appears labeled DR VRs from RamStart2 0 which contains the single line Driver ramdisk ID 10 Select this line and then select Get Info from the File menu 5 window labeled Info for DRVR 10 from Ram Start2 0 appears In the field labeled ID change the value 1010 19 The screen should now look similar to the figure below Click the close box in the upper left corner of the window 6 Click on the close box for the DRVRs from Ram Start2 0 window and the RamStart2 0 window When dialog box asks if you wish to save RamStart2 0 click the Yes button 7 Quit ResEdit File Edit 9 Driver Desk acc Size 358 10 type Sub 10 J Attributes System Heap D Locked Purgeable O Protected ELEGANT DESK ACCESSORIES by David E Condi
162. e circuit to be turned on and off instantly with no ghosting of the image This new technique is capable of generating contrast ratios as high a 30 1 compared to 12 1 in the current super twist LCD The upper end model of the lap top would feature two drives or one floppy and a 20 M byte hard disk plus an optional electroluminescent display Both models might also have a modular keyboard with numeric keypad anda trackball to control cursor movements Both models might also contain the new Apple drive controller chip that permits Macin contd By Appointment Only Open 7 Days MacTography t 9 AM to 9 PM Call 301 424 3942 T MACINTOSH SERVICES 702 Twinbrook Parkway Visa Master Charge Choice Rockville 20851 WorkStation Rental Macintosh workstations are available starting at 10 00 per hour depending on hardware configurations Price also includes use of the latest popular software Coming Soon J Macintosh SE with 19 inch SuperMac B amp W Monitor Macintosh II with 19 inch SuperMac 8 Bit Color Monitor LaserPrinting Service We have the largest selection of Type faces for the LaserWriter on the East Coast Over 300 fonts are available for your use We print on Hammermill MacTography sells all the currenty available PostScript fonts Call for a listing of fonts and prices The LaserSampler II published by MacTography is a useful reference guide on all the current PostScript Fonts Two Vo
163. e knows of a source of public domain color image data 9 track tape please call us at Micro Dynamics 301 589 6300 For those of you getting your Mac IIs and are planning to Work with color our experience has shown you will need at least 40 Mega bytes of disk and at least 4 Mega bytes of RAM Both of ours have 2 Megs of RAM and 20 Meg hard disks This configuration was fine until we started working with color Misc The SONY Multi Scan monitor 1302 monitor we use on our Mac II does have a slight but acceptable inward bow on the left and right sides of the screen If you try to hook up one yourself be sure that you use a shielded cable or you will have interference and an unacceptable picture SONY has figured out that there is a market for their monitors and they are offering a Mac II cable for their Monitor Some of you have called to ask about converting the 5 Mega byte Techmar to SCSI We have only been able to successfully format the 10 Mega byte drive that came with the Techmar We have also pull outa 5 Mega byte drive and successfully replaced it with a 40 Mega byte drive using the Adaptec 4000a SCSI controller card Jim Lanford is the architect of MacLabeler Micro Dynamics MARS PostHaste and other software for the Macintosh II He has implemented ground stations for Spartan 1 and other real time 68020 based testing systems for various satellites Jim is president of Micro Dynamics Ltd the largest Macintosh softw
164. e line when typed in with Show 0 on but the final printed formula visible when Show is off must fit on a single line Because parentheses and commas are part of the command syntax their use as ordinary characters when part of an argument is slightly awkward To use a comma or a parenthesis as text in an argument the comma or parenthesis must be preceded by the Opt 38 character An argument that consists of a text list containing commas can become a minor mess The List command has the sole purpose to bypass typing Opt 36 V before each comma see the examples below A similar fix does not exist for parentheses Note Use Full Menus Use Show 4 for editing Use Hide 710 view formatted formula 36 y toggles Show 1 and Hide 1 Upper and lower case for a command are equally valid When editing with Show on the Opt 38 character is displayed on screen as a backslash preceded by a period but with the period falling underneath the beginning of the backslash In the discussion below a similar representation has been constructed Always keep mind that means Opt 38 General syntax for formula commands The style is as follows There may be 0 to 6 options and 0 to several arguments Fornula command leuer OPtion letters NOPtion letters argument argument Preliminary examples The purpose of these first two ex
165. e meet in the cafeteria after the September regular meeting After the recent AEC Systems conference held last month it appears that AEC software developers are finally taking the MAC seriously as a professional tool If you would like further information or if you can t make the September meeting please call Warren Simmons during the day at 703 836 7766 78 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 Last month Tom Warrick discussed the new system and finder and included Apple s suggestions as to who should upgrade to the latest 5 5 4 1 pair If you are of the many who received an unqualified yes you may also be among those for whom MacFlow MacZap Recover and possible other programs no longer work Succinctly when launched they bomb If so you will be able to get many of them working again with the following suggestion That is if you adventuresome enough to try changing bytes in hexadecimal Use a sector editor such as the well known Fedit no longer sold as shareware Locate thc hex codes 02B6 and change them 10 0 78 the dollar sign signifies that the numberis in hex For Mac Flow you will find several of these change them all For ZAP MFS Recover use the same approach However for Mac Zap HFS Recover you will find three change only the first two I suspect this approach will salvage other programs as well The story behind this litte fiasco is simple A long time ago Apple held sacrosanct the location
166. e of Life Application Red Ryder 9 4 Change the Delay between characters Transmitted to 0 2 sec to allow pasting clipboard text to modem This setting allows the recciving computer to accept the text Application PageMaker Option Click toggles between actual and size to fit The speed is in clicking on the area you want enlarged or reduced Application Over VUE It pays to learn and use the macro instructions They re easy to master and save a lot of time In larger databases especially where a complex sort and equation routine would require con stant attention for several minutes you can start the macro and do something else while it runs Application Word 1 0 Word refuses to quit to the Minifinder on an unenhanced 512K Mac I needed to remove the Finder to make room on my disk so Irenamed the MiniFinderto Finder This can t be done directly on the desktop so I used ResEdit to force the name change The altered MiniFinder works fine although it won t recognize other minifinders Application Font DA Mover Use the Option key when opening Font DA mover to open in DA Mode with the ability to install DA s in an Application as well as in the System file Application MacDraw Learn to use the Box in the lower left hand corner of the screen pallet If you don t know about it you can really get Stuck You click on the box just before selecting a line or fill attribute Application MacDraw The Duplicate command wi
167. early deadline for articles for the September Joumal July 31 Your editors would like to the MacWorld Expo in Boston on August 11 13 and hopefully have a few days vacation afterwards Washington Apple Pi August 1987 5 JOB MART Help Wanted Sales Help Wanted Enthusiastic salesperson to work full ata fast growing Mac retail store in Crystal City Must have strong Mac background incfuding desktop publishing and data basc programs Send resume to MacSource 2121 Crystal Drive Arlington VA 22202 Institute seeking individuals with expertise in using desk top publishing software on a Macintosh SE to produce a variety of publications from simple brochures to book length manu scripts Production activities include edting proofreading in putting copy page layout cover design and producing camera ready copy on the Macintosh using an Apple LaserWriter Plus If interested plase send resume to NCEMCH 38th and R Streets NW Washington DC 20057 Office Manager for small aviation association needs your Mac talent Professional well organized and efficient individ ual with excellent oral and written skills should apply This job will keep you challenged with its great variety of tasks Compe tetive salary and benefits Send resume to Robert T Warner EVP NASAO 777 14th Street NW Suite 717 Washington DC 20005 Gaithersburg print shop looking for desktop publishing person with PageMaker Word Paint skills to
168. echnical writing but suggest that some real power users may want to consider the T X alternative The area of technical graphics could use some contd on pg 63 GUIDE TO FORMULAS IN WORD 3 0 by Harris J Silverstone General observations Word 3 0 contains machinery for typing mathematical formulas but the discussion in the manual is not very clear This is an overview of that machinery with heavy reliance on examples There are 10 built in formula commands invoked by typing Option 36 N and then of the letters B D I L S X where Array matrix B Bracket various styles automatically sized to following text D Displace forward or backward Fraction Integral product summation or the like L List alternate way for putting commas into formulas O Overstrike R Radical square root Superscript and or subscript X Box overline underline left line right line or any combination These commands may have from 0 to 3 arguments or in the case of List and 0 to 6 options the number depending the command Options are invoked by Opt 36 V followed by a two letter code Some options require additional information See below Arguments on the other hand are i enclosed by parentheses and ii separated by commas Parentheses are mandatory even when the number of arguments is zero Commands may be nested and may take morc than on
169. ed by the mouse Display Allows you to sce SHR screens or Paintworks slide shows from within a Prodos16 shell APW Orca M EPC16 NDA Allows use of New Desktop Accessories from within Prodos16 shell Notepad Patcher will patch the CDA Notepad which ison WAP2001 to save to a different pathname Meltdown P Thisisthe TML source code for the Meltdown NDA on WAP2001 Itisoffered as a shell for designing other NDA s SHR Adds a set of ampersand commands to Applesoft Basic which allows plotting on the SHR screen SpeedSwitch This isa CDA which allows you to save a few steps by changing the system speed from the Desk Accessory menu SlotSwitch This CDA will let you switch between YOUR CARD and the built in slot without rebooting Nifty List Shareware 810 815 A memory examincr manipulator CDA that disassembles with the calls to tools Prodos8 and Prodos16 identified by name Also included are four SHR pics to add to your gallery Liz Digitized face Nagel 85 amp 141 Two heavily stylized drawings of women Uncle Ronnie Everyone s favorite uncle We are throwing in a couple of programs that are offered elsewhere in the library but may be useful to those of you new to Apple and or ProDOS Freewriter is a stripped down Apple Writer type word processor for generating ProDOS text files Kermit allows file transfer between different computers using a standard protocol Our non Disketeria disk offering is
170. ed from the finder then the standard Open dialog box is displayed by calling SFGetFile in procedure StudentChoosesLesson Second if the lesson file is double clicked or if the lesson is jumped into from an earlier lesson the dialog box is bypassed For this demonstration the dialog manager is allowed to process each lesson frame with calls to ShowWindow SetPort ModalDialog and DisposDialog These calls will be replaced in the final version by calls to routines to implement each frame with the SIG s custom routines The remainder of the program implements the jump mecha nism and checks for errors I Love Apple Music contd from pg 29 72 127 80 255 86 192 1 255 1040 REM MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT 1050 DATA 108 64 86 64 72 64 86 64 72 64 64 64 72 127 86 64 72 64 64 255 7 2 127 1 255 1060 REM HELLO MY BABY 1070 DATA 54 64 48 127 54 64 48 127 54 127 64 64 60 127 64 64 60 127 64 127 72 64 64 127 72 64 64 127 72 27 96 255 1 255 1080 REM GENTLE ON MY MIND 1090 DATA 72 64 72 64 72 64 72 64 86 64 72 64 72 64 72 64 86 64 72 64 72 64 72 64 64 64 72 64 86 64 96 64 108 64 96 255 1 255 1100 REM FRENESI 1110 DATA 72 64 64 32 54 32 48 32 43 22 48 32 54 32 48 64 48 64 36 127 43 64 48 32 43 32 48 32 54 32 64 32 54 32 48 64 48 64 36 127 1 255 1120 REM BILL BAILEY 1130 DATA 108 64 96 64 80 64 64
171. edit card number There are even radio frequencies to com municate with other pilots and conference rooms to shoot the breeze with your fellow air warriors on the ground Air Warrior Instructions A ninc page MacWrite file that provides detailed instructions on flying your airplanes as well as adescription of the world of the air warrior on This was originally a text download from GEnie which your friendly annotator has reformatted as a MacWrite file Mac Disk 106 Fun amp Games XXIV Strategy Games amp More Guess The object of the gamc is to guess the four letter words randomly selected by the Mac No not those kind of four letter words You get ten chances and along the way clues about the correct letters and positions in your previous guesses You can get on screen instructions from the game screen by hitting the spacc bar or the return key or most any key other than the letter keys Shareware 5 00 Air Traffic Controller 1 0 As the name suggests this is an air traffic controller simulation and a pretty sophisticated atthat You have a radar screen and a status and command panel for monitoring and controlling the headings and altitudes of a steady succession of aircraft entering and exiting your sector Press the on screen Help button to get 17 pages of dctailed on screen instructions The FAA may hiring again soon so this may be a good way to brush up for an interview Iggy Iggopolis Con
172. education and what to look for in quality educational software Computers in Education contd from pg 32 time compression in the conduct of experiments and in obtaining results The Montgomery County Schools drew upa five year plan in 1983 at which time they selected the Apple They were able to obtain the computers at a cost of 895 each At last count they have 3800 Apples in the System The system is self servicing and self supporting even providing parts and maintenance A closing remark Montgomery County is a wealthy county It has resources for an extensive program devoted to the com puter It has proceeded with caution and not gone overboard One county in Maryland has made a still greater commitment to computers than Montgomery Calvert County It would be interesting to sce what they have done there The bottom line is in evaluating the results obtained with computers Like any investment program there is a rate of return to be determined The determination of rates of return in education is more com plex and difficult than if one were investing in a manufacturing activity Studies have sought to do just that in other places and contexts While it has not yet becn undertaken in Montgomery County school officials are sensitive to the issue Washington Apple Pi July 1987 33 PASCAL NEWS by Robert C Platt The next Pascal Interest Group PIG meeting will be on Thursday August 20 in the WAP Office at8 p m Please
173. ee Last month my company purchased a LaserWriter Natu rally I hauled my Mac into work and connected it to the LaserWriter to give the latter a try I booted up my MacDraw disk which created a RAM disk copied MacDraw on to it and started MacDraw I loaded in a file and tried to print it on the Laser Writer Utter failure The window which is supposed to report the progress of the printing operation on the LaserWriter ap peared for less than one second and then disappeared All attempts to print failed I decided to try an experiment I rebooted the disk but did not create a RAM disk running MacDraw from the diskette instead This time everything worked fine the LaserWriter printed as expected Back to the desktop I tried to run RamStart to create the RAM disk again but this it failed to work I got an error message instead of the window used to specify the size of the RAM disk Hmm Could there be some conflict between the RAM disk software and the LaserWriter software Some re search was in order Dan Weston sbook The Complete Book of Macintosh Assem bly Programming Volume contains a chapter about how to create a RAM disk Interestingly enough it s called RAM Disk He explains that the software for a RAM disk is called device driver Device drivers are used by the Mac operating system to control devices like disk drives and printers ARAM disk driver uses a portion of the Mac s internal memory to store f
174. eir disks regularly needn t have sleepless nights over the question We re thinking of upgrading our 128K Mac which I suspect also has a voltage problem as well as adding more memory toour MacPlus Which packages would be best We would like to do the work ourselves We have no experience working with computers but we re techni cally oriented A Idon tunderstand what you refer toas the voltage problem but I ll try to lay out today s options as I understand them Let s first dispose of the problem I think you are referring to There has been a greater than desirable failure rate of the power supply a k a vidco or analog boards especially in carly production Macs before changes were made If this board in your Mac fails it costs roughly 150 to fix it 120 toexchange your damaged board for a service spare usually a refurbished board from another Mac and 30 for labor If you 1 are comfortable making your own diagnosis of trouble 2 are willing to forgo the post repair diagnostics available to the dealer and his 90 day warranty and 3 know how to disconnect the high voltage connection from the CRT withoutkilling yourself with the stored charge then you can do the work yourself and save the 30 Replac ing this board may be a hidden cost of upgrading an older Mac as it seems to be the case that the trauma of upgrading pushes lots of them over the edge Anyone who uses their Mac in serious pursuits sh
175. ent but if you have problems after pagination use Shift Repaginate using the mouse to force a complete repagination 98 L Spell check a document beginning at the insertion point 98 E Puta footnote at the insertion point Shift to sce footnotes or hold down Option Shift and drag down the black rec 58 tangle above the vertical scroll bar Option 88 M Select entire document select headers footers and footnotes separatel Display 96 V Show f i e returns spaces and tabs 8 Show Ruler Moving Quickly Find 98 Change find then replace Special characters in Find and Change t Search or replace Tab p Search or replace Return graph s Search or replace Required space 986 Go to page Use the arrow keys 7 and Bog Up Up Rogutor 7 auo 8 line 9 screen Sg Previous Previous Begining Sentence 1 of Doc Loft s sm 1 Word Qf Screen Word 5 lossar hrase library 96 To add a phrase before doing 88 copy the phrase itself to the Clipboard 96 Backspace plus the phrase name to insert phrase Microsoft amp Word 3 0 Short Cuts it Ed 98 Cut selected text to clipboard H scissors C Copy selected text to clipboard 98 Paste clipboard contents at insertion point U paste pot Special Characters Option Space Required non breaking space Option Optional hyphen 88 Non breaking hyphen 7 15 on the same k
176. ents add 5 sales tax No charges or COD s Prices subject to change Call for items not listed COMPUTER WARE UNLIMITED P O BOX 1247 COLUMBIA MD 21044 301 854 2346 Smart Computer More Reasons to Buy Our Generic PC by Bud Stolker In th IBM PC compatible world there are many kinds of computers Though they may look alike they all differ under the cover in the quality of the components in the scope and usefulnessof software in the degree of care and foresight with which they re engineered and built Some are better buys than others Herewith we present a few criteria useful in comparing PC compatibles No matter what you need in a personal computer or where you buy it you should ensure that the PC comes with the following features Fully IBM compatible We ve tested our systems extensively and have found them to work with all software designed for the IBM Our PCs are strictly compatible with the IBM hardware standard too The cheaper clones though attractive in price sacrifice full hardware compatibility in effect locking you out of major future upgrades Fully equipped Even our least expensive models have battery operated clocks for automatic time and date stamping They each come equipped with enough ports to handle a modem printer mouse joystick and light pen all at once Software installation is complete We provide 16 or more floppy disks or 400 500 hard disk program and data files linked i
177. er 20 Meg e GS 645 00 High Output Power Supply AB Switch Box Serial Parallel 29 00 ABCD Switch Box Serial Parallel 39 00 PORTABLE SYSTEM 5 25 DSDD Disks 10 pak with order 8 99 3 50 DSDD Disks 10 with order 21 99 C VUE LCD Flat Monitor for c 299 00 Top Notch Disk Notcher 12 95 C VUE LCD for Laser 128 338 00 Travel Kit protective Prairie Power System ah Pack i596 Cover lens cleaner lubricator 14 95 8 Hr UPS amp Carrying Case Power Cigarette Lighter Adapter 2495 Next day delivery available Power Extension Cable 1695 elf you don t see it CALL QS Power Y Adapter 18 95 MasterCard and VISA accepted e World Port 1200 Portable Modem 179 00 prices subject to change without notice e er 5 171466 San Dlego 92117 ORDERS ONLY 1 800 438 2883 7 days 8 am 5 pm PST HI amp outside CA All Prices FOB San Diego CALL 619 274 1253 within CA amp outside U S for FREE Technical Support Appleworks Support and Price Quotes on all Apple Products Washington Apple August 1987 15 THE GS CASE HISTORY by Ralph Wege I have just got up and running with the new Apple IIGS modification from an Apple e and am I ever satisfied This is truly the next step in microcomputer technology Actually there were ins and outs to doing this in my case I have had my e since May of 1983 and was extremely satisfied with it ha
178. ere at the Mac instead Users who make the comparison are confronted regularly with the absurdity of the hard to master user interface which predates the Mac Other examples of the comparison abound But you ve probably never appreciated them if you re a MacNovice spoiled by the simplicity built into the software Simplicity On virtually every major sprcadshect program you don t have to enter a series of number and letter commands to change the width of a column You simply point to the dividing line between columns click and drag the width of the column to where you want it You can change it simply at any time to accomodate larger than expected numbers or text Point and drag here to change column sizes intuitively When you re working with a database on the Mac you don t have to define in advance the length of the individual fields into which you ll be entering data You don t have to know in advance how many different chunks of information you plan to enter Using most Mac database software you can make some educated guesses at the start but you know you ll be able to change your choices at any time later on without losing the data you may have alrcady entered You can add ficlds without jeopardizing information you ve already entered Often on the Mac you can make these changes without remembering how simply by pointing andclicking and dragging the mouse No need to recall confusing and complex number
179. ers may now take heart We have several volunteers to put together a IIGS for the New Computer Owner Tutorial Take a look at the the tutorials column near the back of the journal We hope to geta session available for August or September We hope to start organizing some IIGS Apple Teas too These will be discussed at this month s mecting Watch next month s column for more information A Few Quickie IIGS Book Notes Since before I bought my IIGS I have been collecting books related to it There are a surprising number available a few great and some not so great As an aid to those of you who arc looking for documentation 1 thought that I would list and comment on ones with which I have had a little experience with This list doesn t include every IIGS book out I m sure that by the time you read it there will be new books available and some of these listed will have been updated From cach book I ve taken a quote which I feel somehow represents or MISrepresents the book I ve also listed appendices because in some cases these might give a reader an idea of what audience the book is for Inside the Apple IIGS by Gary Bond Published by Sybex 19 95 389 pages available at Daltons Disk with Super Hi Res Ampersand Routincs available Appendices 65C816 Instruction Sct Palette Color Values Double Hi Res Color Values IIGS Character Sets Soft Switches for Auxiliary Memory Selection Scan Line Starting Addresses Super Hi Res
180. ers to your questions from an AppleWorks expert Attendees receive written sum mary of the idcas presented in this informative mecting Seminar Program General Problems Disk and Space Management Word Processing Tips techniques and suggestions Data Base Tips techniques and suggestions Spreadsheets Tips techniques and suggestions 9 30 10 00 On site Registration 10 00 11 00 11 00 12 00 12 00 1 00 Break 1 00 2 00 2 00 3 00 Fee thru August 14 NAUG Members Non members Registration and Membership About the speaker Dr Williams recent presentations include Advanced AppleWorks Tricks and Techniques Michigan Association of Computer User s in Learning Kalamazoo March 1986 App eWorks Doing What the Program Cant Do Association of Educational Data Systems New Orleans LA April 1966 App eWorks Undocumented Features Na tional Educational Computer Conference San Diego CA June 1986 Dr Williams has presented Apple Works seminars Chicago Den ver Detroit St Louis Philadelphia and other major citios after August 14 55 65 70 80 79 89 Comments from previous seminars Excellent Gave the information need Ron Grootsr St Lows Learned a lot of tips to speed up operations W Bayvr Devot M just a beginner but now know what AppleWorks can do Donna Zingleman Aurora Co The present
181. ets on the 2nd Saturday of cach month Call Ray Hobbs 490 7484 or Gary Larson 337 4267 for details PIG the Pascal Interest Group meets on the 3rd Thursday of cach month at 8 00 PM at theoffice New and prospective users are welcome The next meeting will be on August 20 PI SIG Program Interface meets on the 1st Monday of the month at 7 30 PM at the office Sec their news elsewhere Stock SIG mectings are on the second Thursday of cach month at the office 8 PM The next meeting is on August 13 Telecom SIG meets after the regular meeting on the 4th Saturday of the month Washington Apple Pi August 1987 7 VOLUNTEERS do not call about copied software for which you have no documentation specified When requests are made to return calls long distance will be collect ohn Day General 301 621 7543 Dave Harvey 703 578 4621 Robert Martin 301 498 6074 Accounting Packages Accountant Dec Sup Pankin 703 524 0937 1 Programs Jaxon Brown 301 350 3283 Otis Greever 615 638 1525 Home Accountant Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Howardsoft Tax Leon Racsly 301 439 1799 Greever 615 638 1525 APPLE SSC Bemie Benson 301 951 5294 Apple TechNotes Joe Chelena 703 978 1816 AppleWorks Ken DeVito 703 960 0787 Charles Baumgardner 703 538 2316 Ken Black 703 369 3366 AppleWorks Data Base Morgan Jopling 301 721 7874 Apple John Day 301 621 7543 Communications Packages ASCII Express Dave Harvey 0 578 4621
182. ett Packard Endorse PostScript IBM has endorsed Adobe Systems PostScript language which will make it the de facto standard for the desk top publishing and laser printer industry This is a significant development in that IBM has decided not to develop and market itsown language Ithas not ruled out the adoption of other page descriptive languages In addition Hewlett Packard laser print ers are used by MS DOS owners than any other make yet HP has already made the decision to use DDL by Imagen DDL is currently noton the market estimated release date of July 87 This decision will result in a greater number of MS DOS pro grams being provided with PostScript drivers and perhaps more Apple LaserWriters being sold to offices with MS DOS comput ers Many IBM users already prefer the LaserWriter but the number will increase as more and more means are marketed to permit MS DOS computers to print to the LaserWriter A recent editorial in the March 24th issue of PC Week stated that IBM needed Adobe and Microsoft Windows more than they needed it is to seriously challenge Apple in the desk top publishing arena it needs suitable hardware software and an established page descriptive language Adobe Systems whose stock has already increased over 600 since in went public in 1986 should see further increases Profits were up 150 for the most recent quarter InfoWorld recently reviewed a controller board that will tum any Canon base
183. even if saved to disk as an ASCII text file can t be read from that same disk if you place it in an IBM s disk drive even though your IBM software is supposedly able to read ASCII files There have been some attempts to sell products that fix the disk incompatibility but they have been costly and bulky and commercially unsuccessful few months back WAP Journal 5 87 we pointed out in this column that there is also a way to overcome this problem without directly attacking the disk incompatibility you can send text between incompatible computers using modems and tele phonelines But that method requires that both machines have modems or some direct cable to cable link with proper soft ware and in many cases a neutral electronic mailbox such as CompuServe For many Apple II owners that method will never be easy inexpensive or comfortable THE ENVOY SOLUTION Now ASKY Inc a small company in California has come up with an affordable add on product for your Apple II called the ENVOY card that provides disk to disk compatibility between Apple and IBM It works without connecting the two machines via telephone lines cables or anything else The ENVOY allows you to take an MS DOS disk from an IBM pop it into a special disk drive attached to your Apple II and rapidly convert the files on itto ProDOS for use with Apple programs The same product also allows you to take an Apple file convert iton your Apple to MS DOS
184. ever stimulates halts This is a reference for using the toolbox The quote I ve given is out of context but is designed to be a warning Don t even consider buying this book if you re interested in program ming examples or tutorials My beta version has portions left out and contains some crrors but if you re trying to make full use of the toolbox this 2 volume set contains the answers to a lot of questions The Elementary Apple IIGS by William B Sanders Published by COMPUTE Books 15 95 262 pages available at Waldens and Daltons Light green cover spiral bound Appendices Applesoft BASIC Token Chart ASCII Charac ters Hex to Decimal and Decimal to Hex Conversion Error Messages Applesoft ProDOS 8 ProDOS 16 Fatal Glossary contd Applesoft Quote One of the most exciting aspects of the IIGS is its graphics and sound capabilities and you ll learn how to use these advanced features and become acquainted with the built in toolboxes that offer access to them Unfortunately this book barely introduces you to these advanced features The aquain tance it refers to is only seven pages long for the whole toolbox super hi res graphics and sound capabilities of the IIGS This book is for those who have never owned an Apple before and are interested in Applesoft Basic Hi res Graphics DOS and using printers Epson Imagewriter and Laserwriter are discussed Except for those seven pages and an introduction to th
185. ey as Shift Enter Insert a page break Formats Characters Shift 98 Bold Shift 88 I Italic Shift 3 U Underline Note 88 B 38 88 U turn formats off as well as on 96 selected text the next larger size 98 lt Make selected text the next smaller size 88 D Character formats detailed 3 B Select a Style Formats Paragraph Shift 98 C Center Shift 86 L Left justify Shift 86 J Flush justify justify both left and right margins Shift Right justify ragged left mar gin 36 M Paragraph formats detailed In Dialog Boxes Return Select the outlined option Tab Move to next edit field in the Open and Save as dialog boxes Tab is the same as pressing the Drive button Select Yes Select No period Cancel or stop Cancel sometimes For Find and Change dialog boxes sce previous column lt by Thomas S Warrick amp Washington Apple Pi August 1987 79 USING RAMSTART 20 WITH THE LASERWRITER by Jim Reese Several months ago I purchased a 2M upgrade for my and obtained a copy of the RamStart2 0 software from GEnie This software creates a RAM disk on the Mac You can specify the size of the RAM disk you want and the set of files to be automatically copied to the RAM disk after it is created I quickly became addicted to using an 800K or 1M RAM disk with programs like Word 3 0 MacDraw FileMaker Plus and Red Ryder Best of all RamStart is fr
186. f you don t mind making a permanent change or you can unsolder one end if you want to be able to put itback If you convert to 2M by replacing the four rows of 256K SIMMs with two rows of 1M SIMMs then you have to add a resistor to the now empty space labeled R9 Moving R8 to R9 will do I have no experience with and can not recommend by name any particular brand Some companies throw in extras such as the tools needed to open the case or a fan But after looking to sce which brands the reputable stores and mail order houses sell I don t think you can go too far wrong with any of them The mail order houses also carry the tools separately Do the third party SCSI port add on products for models prior to the Mac Plus act the ame as Apple s Not always Charlie McConathy at CMS a hard disk com pany reports that some of thc third party products don t always work with fast drives certain terminations and in particular some of his products Also a new problem has arisen with the introduction of System 4 1 that only affects owners of the third party SCSI port add ons The new Hierarchical Menus don t work The same chip on the Mac board that kceps the time also provides a small amount of memory that the clock battery preserves even when the Mac is unplugged This is called Parameter RAM It is used to store the preferences you sct using the Chooser and Control Panel desk accessories It is also the thing that gets e
187. fcw of my Mac Pro Football games took about as long as a real game of football Once you start losing you patience other things begin to happen I noticed that even when I was battling against the computer in the third or fourth quarter of a close game I began to click the mouse rapidly just to get through everything and that led to lot of mistakes which led to more frustration which led to alot of saved games games that I will probably never complete In fact I gave up playing games bit and began using Mac Pro Football s truly outstanding feature the Game Situation Scenarios This feature was both instructive and enjoyable and gave me a real insight into this game s potential Basically the scenarios arc five great moments from classic Super Bowl Games of the past You assume the responsibility of changing history by calling the shots in a very constrained period of timc The longest scenario is 5 minutes the shortest is 1 minute 3 seconds These scenarios are great they are almost like a kind of football chess only chess pieces don t fumble in critical situations like players can Truth be told the scenarios got mc so fired up over the game I sat back down and gave Mac Pro Football a second chance But again that interface stopped me cold in the middle of games I simply do not understand why the programmers wouldn t use some keyboard commands or even better use a contd on pg 38 Washington Apple Pi August 19
188. for Macintosh 100 or best offer Call Ed 703 548 7443 FOR SALE Applied Enginecring Apple c External Clock Purchased Sept 1986 mint condition with original box extra software Asking S60 Call Howard at 301 460 5796 evenings responsibilities Lee Raesly was unanimously reappointed as TCS director James Burger will be resigning as General Counscl to WAP prior to taking a position with Apple Inc The Board expressed its appreciation of his service to WAP The August Board meeting will be held on August 19 Lee Racsly reported on the work of the TCS Public school membership in WAP was discussed Rhoda Zione Executive Director of Say Thanks Amcrica asked for thc help of WAP in using the two Macs and the Laser Writer which Apple has donated to them The WAP operating budget was approved Methods of reducing the Journal printing costs were discussed The capital budget was modified to include a IIGS e enhancement a vidco projector and library material The next Directors Retreat may be held in September A design for WAP pins was approved CLASSIFIEDS August 1987 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 3 PI SIG Office 10 Introduction to Macintosh Tutorial Office 7 30 9 30 PM 17 Intermediate Mac Skills Tutorial Office 7 30 9 30 PM 24 Becoming 25 Mutual Fund 12 Mac Power User Sub Group No Apple Meeting in Tuto
189. for your trans ferred files TXT is the standard printer slot onscreen scroll rate and the prefix and name of a ProDOS program you might want to automatically run next when quitting ENVOY s utilities At this writing some features listed on the Transfer program s various menus aren t actually implemented You can t use Transfer Many Files which presumably would allow automatic conversion of multiple files You can t delete files in MS DOS and some of the HELP screens are blank Another problem is that the utilities refer to the special MS DOS drive in a confusing manner IBMs drives are usually identified by letters since ENVOY can control up to 4 IBM type drives they d be known as and your first drive would be drive A On some parts of the ENVOY disk this system is followed But elsewhere on the disk it refers to the MS DOS drives as Drives 1 4 or even Drives 0 3 Just usc the lowest number or letter to designate your first and only MS DOS drive and you ll be OK All of the software features described above including the ProDOS and MS DOS utilities are contained in ENVOY s Transfer program But the disk contains several other programs as well for occasional use One is a diagnostic program for the card and MS DOS drive Itis hard to understand undocumented and kept flunking my ENVOY card even though the card and drive performed perfectly for me Another program allows you to change the slot your ENVO
190. ftware was distributed for review James the Electronic Butler demo Covox Apple series requires X10 Powerhouse Computer Interface allows your computer to control electronic devices in the home Earth Orbit Stations Electronic Arts Apple series 34 95 list strategic simulation building and managing space stations with seven scenarios President Elect 1988 Edition SSI Apple election simulation The Spy s Adventures in Europe Polarware Apple SPACE QUEST A 5 Space Quest Macintosh and other computers is Sierra On Line s latest graphic adventure This particular game is a bit different from other graphic adventures in that there is some arcadc style action involved the player moves his character around the various rooms by moving the mouse and clicking on the desired destination The premise of the adventure is that an alicn race known as the Sariens has captured your character s ship and taken from it a device known as the Star Generator capable of transforming a lifeless or life ful planetoid into a brand new star remember STAR 27 Naturally you as the Defender of all that is Right and Good fecl a moral obligation to track those nasty Sariens down and neutralize their ill gotten weapon before they can terrorize the good people of the universe Your quest will take you toa nearby planet where you must first survive in the open desert then find your way to civ
191. graphics with the 2 0 version s ability to scale into snap to increments for the best LaserWriter printout of graphics contd To set up a template in PageMaker 1 2 one had to leave a kernel at least one character of fake type to tell it what point size and style the text is to be in a particular place on the template Once the desired text is typed into this block one would have to go back and delete said kernel character if one remembers to do so XPress handles templates an entircly different manner text specifications remain within text boxes as a part of that text box and no fake characters or kernels are needed This may have been one reason Quark went the route of Boxes rather than the open blinds of PageMaker The boxes allow for greater manipulation linking and definition Another reason for Text Boxes in XPress is the numbering of linked chains in stories or articles when there is more than one article in a publication This allows for easy identification of which text boxes belong to which story Commands 4 3 and 2 remember continued on and continued from page numbers automatically Pages themselves can be renumbered in XPress and the creation of Default pages allows the user to set up formats for page appearance or for particular publications in advance A word of warning do not blink while placing text into XPress The text flow and graphics runarounds are THAT fast It is truly
192. hat program It s easy to reverse the process to recapture the file on an MS DOS disk which you can take back to the office and use in your IBM After you re done working with the file in AppleWorks and have saved it just print it to disk as an ASCII text file Then remove AppleWorks and boot up the EN VOY utility disk in your regular Apple drive Put your MS DOS disk in the special ENVOY drive Follow thc ENVOY menus as above except use the Reverse Direction command to change the transfer direc tion to ProDOS MS DOS After you type in the filenames the drives will whir and you ll almost instantly have your Taxes file back on your MS DOS disk ready for your word processor complete with the changes or additions you contd made using AppleWorks OTHER SOFTWARE FEATURES The ENVOY Transfer program has some very useful Pro DOS and MS DOS utilities as well One very nice feature is that you can view on screen any file in either MS DOS or ProDOS an excellent way to check that your transfers have been success ful or that you re using the right files You can also print any file in either operating system You can catalog both types of disk check volume names in both operating systems delete or rename files and do other filc handling operations Also inthe Transfer program there s a menu from which you can set your default ProDOS prefix your default MS DOS drive number or letter the default ProDOS file type
193. hington Apple Pi August 1987 inches too long for the case It can however be carried snugly underneath the carrying straps with very little overhang Bad news 2 This one s also related to carrying cases The connecting cord can unplug from the Mac but it doesn t unplug from the TT keyboard Bad news 3 The TT keyboard docsn t work with the new SEs because of their stupid Apple Desktop Bus and those connectors that they use Grrrr This is no fault of the keyboard makers Rather this is Apple changing standards again Some serious headbanging should occur over in Cupertino Aesthetically speaking the keyboard is light the keys don t have as good a feel as do AT keyboard keys and the color is not exactly the buff color that the Mac Plus is Tangent Technologies has a ways to go before its keyboard could be considered to be perfected for the Mac environment But the keyboard does help you type fast If you feel the need for speed you ll consider this kcyboard If you like Word 3 and if your have a Mac Plus then this is the one for you I am kceping mine The Mac Plus keyboard is sold OS 2 Adventures Hi I m Larry the Liar er ah Lawrence Olivier yeah And I m your IBM Sales Flunkie er Sales Support yeah that s it Say there s been a lot of bad press lately about IBM and MicroSoft releasing their grand operating system OS 2 some time in late 1989 EE Times June 15 1987 page 4 MicroSoft It ll Take Three Years
194. hone will save you time hassle and on line fees by auto mating virtually every operation you now have to key by hand Log on procedures File transfers And for a good example E mail retrieval routines At a single command from you Micro Phone will dial vour E mail service giv ID number and password Navigate its through the labyrinth to your mailbox Check for mail Log off if there is none And if is MicroPhone will collect print and save all messages to your disk Then politely log off Let s get technical box 50 to 57 600 Baud e Scripts Invoked by Supports XMOOEM Button YMO0EM Menu ASCII Command Key 1K BLOCKS Scripts have tuil logic constructs MACBINARY Works with ALL Macintosh MACTERMINAL 11 models amp Laser Writer Emulates TTY Works with all async modems y152 Mayes inzludedi 100 Includes Switcher 4 Capture file On OA CompuServe subscription Printer Co OA Inciudes test editor licensed Auto log on scripts for infor Dreams of the Phoenix Inc mation utilities provided e Documentation by Neil Shapiro ibo sie SS If you prefer you can direct MicroPhone to initiate this sequence simply by inserting the disk Or automa ly at any specified time day night Or at regular intervals Anything else you need to do from collect ing stock quotes to sending and receiving files Is Just as simple Try it out at home or office You can find out firsthand just what
195. ic damage done Suddenly Van Gogh s paintings seem so reasonable And the ear thing so right The Macintosh SE Ambivalent Feelings The Mac SEsaren t bad Most of the technical problems with earlier Macintoshes have been corrected Some new ones have been introduced but in software an easy thing to fix So why 1 we ga ga about the new Macs Let s start with the good points There s a small and quiet fan that blows air right over the power supply The power supply itself is rated for 100 Watts in contrast to the suspect Mac Plus power supply that was rated at 65 Watts The power supply in the SE is thus beefier and runs cooler in one stroke I didn t like not having air slots on the top of the SE It ruined the lines of the machine The slots were not only functional to the cooling of the earlicr Macs they added to the looks of the chassis In the SE the slots were eliminated It looked ugly but this was a smart design decision Most of us who own earlier Macs are guilty of laying books notes on top of the Macs But that s a no no because they cover up slots through which the hot air escapes As a result heat builds up inside thc Mac and pretty soon it s Hello Mr Apple Dealer Can You Fix My Power Supply Eliminating the top slots and inserting a fan caused the cooling to be provided all of the time Now users can stack stuff on top of their Mac SEs with impunity since it doesn t interfere with their machine s cooling
196. ifferent styles used to distinguish the five curves wore lost Unfortunately this is really neither program s fault they are simply not 100 compatible with regard to line styles A succession of similar problems Ied me to produce my own plots using a plotting package written by another WAP member Andy Scheck This package provides a wealth of C functions for producing any type of plot one can imagine The finished plots can be placed onto the clipboard in PICT format for pasting into other applications such as Cricket Draw Thus the data was plotted from within the C language but the plots were fully annotated within Cricket Draw The drawback with this ap proach is that I had to write a program to produce cach and every plot Final Comments Using this system of software and hardware I managed to produce a final edited version of my dissertation in just two months from the day that I first started writing Naturally the actual research took a little longer My professors were amazed atnotonly the speed at which I produced my dissertation but also the visual quality of the final product Living in the pre Mesozoic age where IBM s rule the world they had no idea that a desktop System could produce quality technical documents In summary I d say that recent software developments have made it possible to produce high quality technical documents on the Macintosh computer and LaserWriter printer I do not hesi tate to recommend Word3 0 for t
197. iles instead of a physical disk drive Among other things a device driver must be assigned a number known as a resource ID number A quick perusal of the section of nside Macintosh about device drivers then followed An interesting figure appears on page 192 of volume II It describes something called the unit table The text beneath the figure states the following Warning Any new drivers contained in resource files should have resource IDs that don t conflict with the unit numbers of existing drivers unless you want an existing driver to be replaced Could it be that the RAM disk driver that the RamStart program tries to install violates the rule I decided to make a quick check using ResEdit Sure enough it did The RAM disk driver in the RamStart2 0 file was assigned an ID of 10 According to the unit table in the Inside Macintosh figure unit number 10 is assigned to onc of two AppleTalk drivers Since the Mac uses AppleTalk to communicate with the LaserWriter the 80 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 problems with printing were explained According to the way I read Inside Macintosh any ID above 18 is safe for a device driver so I changed the RAM disk driver s ID to 19 Weston s book says that any ID above 10 should work I then repeated my MacDraw printing test while running from the RAM disk Everything worked finc If you have a copy of RamStart2 0 and want to use it with a LaserWriter you will need to make th
198. ilization 36 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 by Steven Payne 2 p Review series with 64K travel adventure for up to 6 players involving a continental search for the fiendish Dr X Battles in Normandy June July 1944 SSG Apple series with 64K wargame and Adventures in Mapping an adventure mapping system developed by QUESTBUSTERS After GameSIG regular Jeff Stetekluh offered a demo of his new Robot Tank an improved version of Robot Wars Ron introduced three special guests from Australia visiting the area to attend the ORIGINS Convention in Baltimore SSG s Roger Keating Ian Trout and Denny Stevens For the remainder of the meeting they discussed some of their past releases such as Battlefront and Reach for the Stars plans for Macintosh products and the new features they hope to include in their first fantasy role playing adventure The next GameSIG meeting will be at 7 30 PM in the WAP Office on August 6th Meanwhile look for GameSIG reviews of Space Quest Mac Pro Football and Rebel Charge at Chickamauga elsewhere in this issue both above and below the surface The hybrid game structure provides for amore entertaining journey from place to place than an ordinary adventure and things will happen to your character in real time rather than only in print There are several points in the game where you are called upon to perform actions in real time in addition to walking
199. ind them at local bookstores The Osborn Mcgraw Hill book however may be purchased from Pair Soft ware We also have a number of copies in the WAP Library If you are EZ Pieces user you can check out any of the AppleWorks books now on the market since the two programs are essentially the same Thereare also some excellent books out on Apple Writer and VisiCalc Video Tape I d also like to remind everyone that we have in the office a VHS video tutorial on how to set up and operate the Apple You may take it out to view at home if you like Call or drop by the office for details on how to do that THE PD LIBRARY At May meeting I had a request to provide listing of all our SIG PD disks now offered by WAP I am only too happy to comply with that request below The disks have been selling well considering our small numbers compared to WAP overall The New Members Disk seems to be our top seller it is also sent out to new SIG members which doesn t hurt But I would remind you that particular disk be used by old members too Itcontains a tremendous amount of information valuable to anyone trying to get the most out of their tottering old Apple Hard to believe the first came off the assembly line in 1980 Finally I d like to remind all SIG members again that we will not be having an August meeting We ll pick things upagain in September Hope to see you then Games Volume 1 Self Booti
200. installed fonts in the styles of those fonts Geneva in Geneva Chicago in Chicago etc The demo dis plays only the first three fonts in your system Shareware 15 00 for the full program 84 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 Area Code Displays the state a representative city and time zone for individual area codes It doesn t work properly in HFS unless you use ResEdit as described in the file Area Code HFS Fix to install the full pathname for the Area Code File inthe DA Autolog Performs log on macros while a terminal emulator sucha MacTerminal is active Autolog should work with most terminal emulators See the extensive documentation about how it works Shareware What you think it is worth Cray5Stuff2 1 f dCad Calculator Version 5 2 1 of Desktop CAD s dCAD Calculator which provides advanced scientific and programmer functions as well as a quick reference ASCII table Two versions of the program are available an application used as any other standard program and a desk accessory The documenta tion is useful and niccly formatted for printing Shareware 8 00 MegaWatch f MegaWatcher Tracks the loading and unloading of re sources You may specify any resource type CODE is the default and MegaWatcher will keep a continuous display of all resources of that type You can determine the size location and status in memory locked and or purgeable of each resource ParmBlaster When you select this DA alth
201. ips To host an Apple Tea 1 Pick a topic one that interests you and one that you think might interest others 2 Obtain a resource person if you like The WAP Hotline is good place to start searching for a knowledcable and helpful person 3 Pick a date a month or two in advance to allow for Journal publication and distribution Pick a suitable time 4 Plan to host your Tca with refreshments at your home or another suitable location e g school or church 5 Any questions call Amy Billingsley at 622 2203 or George Sall at 768 0212 If you mind is made up be prepared to give topic resource person date and time place and directions Start working on your Apple Tea today It is a great way to share information and learn morc about of your own areas of interest The following 1 are scheduled for April Washington Apple Pi Bethesda Apple Tea Saturday September 26 1 30 3 30 PM After the USUHS WAP and AppleWorks SIG AppleWorks and its RAM ifications Uses of the Ram Disk Revisited with Resources Ken DeVito and George Sall Stone Ridge Country Day School 9101 Rockville Pike Bethesda MD 20852 Next to Navy Medical Center Refreshments Bring computer if convenient RSVP to Sister Laurine Haley 657 4322 897 5666 Directions from USUHS Turn right on Jones Bridge Road and right again on Rockville Pike Wisconsin Avenue extended Turn right on Cedar Lane and right again at 2nd driveway by the tenn
202. is allow access to the control panel Even copy protected programs will work Softswitch adds Softswitch as a entry on the classic desk accessory menu This desk accessory allows you to Switch between programs in the three windows Q Is it possible for a program to appear on the classic desk accessory menu but not be present in the startup disk s DESK ACCS folder Yes Files with ProDOS type stored in the startup disk s SYSTEM SYSTEM SETUP folder will appear on the CDA menu without being present in the DESK ACCS folder Two examples are SoftSwitch and Nifty List Ihave a IIgs Can I call the ROM tools from Applesoft BASIC A Not at this time but Roger Wagner Publishing expects to releasc a utility package in September or October which will access the Toolbox directly through amp commands 5 WORD PERFECT 1 1 A Review by Howard M Berman WORD PERFECT is a power word processor program Actually that is only the start of the accolades for this in my opinion superb program for the Apple and Word Perfect Corporation says that it will work with any truly compatible 128K minimum memory We use Word Perfect at the office on the other system and when I saw that it was available in ProDOS I had to try it I feel that it is almost as good as the MS DOS version This will be explained later The program has many good useful features auto page numbering bold under line and center
203. is courts Come to first circle on right Park on circle Look for WAPsignson door and up the stairs to Lower School Library Ist level Calling Scientists Mark Your October Calendar Plan Ahead Scientific Applications for the Macintosh Saturday October 10th 2 00 4 00 PM The Seelig Labs 1405 De Sale Street Vienna VA 22180 RSVP Fred Seelig 703 849 9408 Bring your Mac and extension cord and a demo program you think might be of interest to fellow engineers or scientists Let s discuss the usefulness of the Macintosh in a scientific environment as well as the impact of the Macintosh II workstation on science and 15 24 engineering Sce next month s Journal for directions VOLUNTEERS NEEDED HGS Disk Copying We have had several people step forward but a few more are needed Let us know if you have a GS and can help make disk copies Take Meeting Minutes In past we had someone whoattended the mectings regularly who was willing to write up a bricf description of events for publication in the journal This helpsall those who werc not able to attend If you come regularly and would be willing to take a few hours a month to prepare summary please offer your help HOT LINE Volunteers With all the new products that have begun appearing we can use some new volunteers How about folks who can answer questions about Mac II GS Paint programs Macintosh Programmers Workshop Apple Programmers Workshop
204. k on a Mac II The temporary cure for SuperPaint as well as some of the other painting programs and games is to use the 1 bit 2 color display mode You can choose it using the Control Panel when the Apple or SuperMac video board is installed By the way you can assign colors to the objects in the draw layer You and paste from the paint layer to the draw layer in order to color sections of the picture Charlie Jackson promises a color display in the next release not soon But for the time being other programs that can display contd PICTs saved by SuperPaint in color will have to do Q Help Some objects in my SuperPaint document don t print Charlie Jackson reports that there is such a bug which has been very elusive Try shuffling the document around a bit by using Send to Back and Bring to Front Also if you have a document on disk that has a reproducible problem they d very much like to see it In other SuperPaint notes Silicon Beach Software took great pains to work around a problem in the earlier Laser Writer drivers that prevented the Paint and Draw layers from lining up correctly However now that Apple has fixed the latest LaserWriter driver so it does its job correctly SuperPaint is overcorrecting Call technical support for information on a patch What causes Chooser to take a minute or two to come up Reportedly noise or bad connections on the AppleTalk network can cause this symptom
205. ks to count the ballots quickly There were a number of interesting comments on some of the ballots Many had kind words for the Pi and the people who help run it for which we thank you Some half a dozen people commented that there weren t enough women running As has bcen observed in the past this is entirely a function of who runs for office since any Pi member is eligible and encouraged to run I for one would like to sec more women and other non white males run for Pi office as is apparent at meetings Washington Apple Pi s membership is predominantly white and male this is true of virtually every other computer user group incidentally and does not reflect anything about the Pi specifi cally Diversity of backgrounds and views on the Board is an important way to overcome this limitation I observe that this year every single woman who ran was elected a statement you cannot make about the men who ran Interestingly many of the people who made these comments on their ballots also voted for Lynn Trusal A final note the GameSIG is planning its annual games extravaganza for the August Pi meeting on August 22 Always one of our most popular meetings this GameSIG program promises to be another great show We may even get to see GameSIG Chairman Emeritus Ron Wartow GENERAL INFORMATION B Apple user groups may reprint without prior permission any portion of the contents herein provided proper author title and publication
206. l system He was fortunate in having Jane Palmer to capture his thoughts and insights and express them in such a clear and readable form The author feels the expectations for what computers will do for education have been too high and unrealistic There is a general lack of understanding on the part of teachers and school administrators concerning the effective use of computers and integration of them into the classroom while keeping educational priorities in clear focus Together with his opinion that least 90 percent of the educational software on the market is not worth buying he paints a grim picture of computers in education today The one downfall of the book is the author s tendency to make negative gencralizations about software software manu facturers and how parents school administrators and teachers are handling computer issues without giving adequate support ing evidence from surveys careful observations research or other sources This tends to relegate these statements to personal opinion rather than substantiated fact There is a good discussion of the strengths weaknesses and applications of the three main ways that computers are used in education Computer aided instruction or CAI is the use of drill and practice programs and tutorials The computer as a tool includes the use of word processing database management and spreadsheets In the third group the computer is used to model an interactive environment
207. l that the result of any multiplication does not produce a number that is greater than 255 If had used 3 as a duration multiplier result of my longest duration 96 multiplied by 3 would exceed 255 and the program would not work Of course there are work arounds I will discuss some when I talk about ad vanced techniques Play around with both the frequency and duration multiplier num bers if you like and sec how it effects the musical piece The next couple of listings are some 090000000000500000000000009000000009500000000 8 000020 00000090000000000000000 Figure 3 All right now type and save the following program NEW 1000 REM DATA SONG CHARGE 1010 DATA 1 2 5 REM FREQUENCY AND DURATION MULTIPLIER ALWAYS most of the time it may be 1010 DATA 1 1 1020 DATA 54 24 54 8 54 24 54 8 54 24 54 8 1030 DATA 54 24 54 8 54 24 54 8 54 24 54 8 1040 DATA 36 24 43 8 36 24 43 8 36 24 43 8 1050 DATA 54 24 54 8 54 24 54 8 54 24 54 8 1060 DATA 36 24 43 8 36 24 43 8 36 24 43 8 1070 DATA 54 96 1999 DATA 0 0 REM END MARKER ALWAYS SAVE DATA SONG CHARGE Listing 8 Hint I used my Applesoft line editor G P L E to help me write the above Inoticed that certain measures in the music were repeated so after typing line 1010 I duplicated it twice with the editor
208. lack of adequate knowledge of the effects of computers on the learning processes in the schools vi There is a lack of systematic information sharing vii There is need for Federal funding to equalize opportunities among rich and poor areas Each of these points can and should be greatly expanded in a comprehensive study of the usc and impact of computers on our educational systems and processes word about the philosophy of computer usage Two distinct elements come together in computers First there is the obvious ability to store large amounts of information Second there is the ability to process information in conformity to strict logical procedures The storage of data in computers is equiva lent to the presence of memory in the human being The follow ing of strict procedures required with computers is equivalent to reasoning in human bcing Therefore what Roszak calls the cult of information has concluded that what computers do corresponds somewhat to what wecall THINKING This sounds convincing to thc general public in fact the term invented to depict the high powered performance of these functions is called artificial intelligence The adjective artificial is used to distinguish it from human Those against the cult of information argue that a vital distinc tion is being blurred The powers of human reasoning and human imagination are in danger of being diluted by low grade mechani cal co
209. ld wrote the firmware Sonow Micro Dynamicshas two Macintosh IIs and two 68020 Accelerator cards How do they compare Bill Hole a WAP member and a member of our software team ran the following benchmarks Benchmarks are only partial indicators of performance and should not be taken as absolute comparisons contd regnm 11 0 09 23 BAYS Coop 2 MIHM AE 04017 i 7 5 5 710127 1 200 231 1 35528 Host omborero poner m ME FERE ARS Retrieve LIE Hem 000 in MacForth Plus 10 000 000 iterations SERE ria 3iSteve inMacForth iterations SRA HE te Sieve in Liqntspee erations timed with SiByle Sort in Cightspeed C L100 iterations without print timed with watc iB eter te Sort in Lightspeed C 100 iterations with print timed with watch fis Sine Calculation 58 000 iterations Apple 58881 1 Demo Program vi 19 815 Graph Apple 6888 1 Demo Program v1 3 Eo Bill Hole s remarks We ran only two of the Byte bench marks the sort and the sieve The sort was run twice once with Byte s print statement included which indicates the progress of the benchmark and once without The program listing published in Byteincludes this print statement but the results included with it are not consistent with other results we obtained Our results on the sieve fo
210. ll as the Capital Expenditures Budget for Fiscal Ycar 1988 The first column of the statement summarizes the financial results of operations of the Pi for our fiscal year ending 31 1987 Columns two and three present respectively the budget for the ycar and the difference between the actual results and the budget The fourth column is the proposed operating budget for the year which will end next May 31 The Board of Directors approved this budget for submission to the member shipattheJuly 25 meeting We willbe vacationing then but Tom Warrick who is vacationing now and docs not know I am committing him will present the budget to you for approval A few comments are in order The first part of the statement reports gross margin Gross margin is the difference between revenues such as sale of blank disks and the direct costs of producing those revenucs for example cost of blank disks The Gross margin part of the statement is condensed from three pages of detail The detail is available for inspection at the office or you can obtain a copy by sending us a stamped self addressed cnvclope care of the office Membership revenues include membership dues and TCS Tclecommunications System charges and sales of new mem ber kits and the membership directory corresponding costs include the cost of Journals distributed to members membership mailing costs new member kits TCS expenses and the costs of printing the membership dire
211. ll space identical objects at an offset distance that you can specify This is extremely handy for spacing the lines in a background grid boxes in a block diagram etc Follow these steps 1 select an object 2 select duplicate from the Edit Menu Command D 3 drag the new identical object to the offset you want from the original object making sure that the new object stays selected 4 Press Command D as many times as you need objects Maintenance Mouse On the bottom of a mouse are two small plastic knobs called contd mouse feet If they become worn the mouse movements will become choppy To fix this glue BB s airgun bullets above the mouse feet They work great and never get worn Application Excel To print out multiple spreadsheets without waiting and initiating each one separately select multiple sheets from the desktop and then select print from the menu If you are printing best quality for many sheets you can have dinner while you wait Application Excel Always put amp L amp T amp C amp F amp R amp D in your page header on page set up This gives you the date title and time on your spreadsheet printouts HELP NEEDED WITH SOFTWARE The following letter came from Mark Chmielewski one of our Canadian members Any assistance thatany of you can offer would be appreciated Attn I bought some bummer software the companies have gone belly up and I need help department Our computer users grou
212. llers TurboMax New from MacMemory TurboMax is an upgrade loaded with all the features a power user needs The raw speed of the 16MHz 68000 processor the 6888 1 boosts your speed up to 60 times faster ALL Call today for details LEVCO PRODIGY For those of us wanting the ultimate per formance out of the Mac or Mac Plus without regards to price L HOURS Mon Sat 10 6 Tues amp Thur 10 9 Washington Apple Pi Ltd Bulk Rate 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 U S Postage Bethesda MD 20814 PAID on Permit 5389 Silver Spring MD 20910 Forwarding and Address Correction Requested MacCORNER offers you powerful professional KO solutions for your Macintosh system or network Call us to set an appointment amp discuss your needs 8653 ZETTS AVE GAITHERSBURG MD e 4 STORE 4 HOURS MON SAT 10 6 AUTHORIZED DEALER FOR TUE amp THURS 10 9 Radius MegaScreen Big Picture NEW gt 4 s SuperMac and many others We carry all major ie aed Macintosh hardware amp software business products CALL 301 948 1538 39
213. looks given strangers Fingertips drumming upon temples Let me give you an idea of what the month was like A dear friend well intentioned mentions to me in rhapsodic terms oh you must sec A Room With A View So fine I trudge into Erol s and get it for the evening I hate it Boring flick But she says that film won the Oscar or Emmy or whatever and have you no taste Well for someone who thinks that Rambo was a little on the wordy side Then June 18 11 30 p m a pop hiss and the video picture curls upand dies I frantically save all documents and turn off the hard disk before the Mac dies gasping in my arms Take it to Clinton Computers in 5 I should have known it was going to be expensive The vultures were hanging around circling my car leering at me Now here I sit this evening of July 2 1987 I crank out this column and settle back to watch David Letterman But there is no David Letterman even though it s Thursday evening be casue some idiot programmer prcempts Dave Paul Larry Bud Melman The Fugitive Guy and all the cats in the band for Women s Wimbledon tennis I can hardly stand it Martina s gonna win it again so where s the suspense I wanted to watch Viewer Mail Oh it s been a terrible month Mea Culpa First off I ve made a whole lot of errors in past Musements columns Most of them can be passed off as egregious misspell ings Some have not been so easy to ignore
214. lose look at the new Macintosh II There s lct inore to it than meets the eye inside and out Training Available Clinton Computer offers a comprehensive training program on both Apple and IBM microcomputers Classes currently scheduled through October include New Owners Workshops Mac Graphics AppleSoft BASIC Ap pleWorks Lotus 1 2 3 Microsoft Works and more For registration information contact Paula Majero wicz at our Laurel location 953 1110 This ad was produced on a Macintosh and LaserWriter using MacWrite and Aldus PageMaker Apple the Apple logo and LaserWriter are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc Apple poroducts are available only from authorized Apple dealers They are not available by telephone or mail order Washington Apple Pi August 1987 1 v THe NATIONAL APPLEWoRKs Users Group presents Two great ways to expand your AppleWorks horizons Attend an AppleWorks seminar AppleWorks Beyond the Basics Featuring Dr Warren Williams Saturday August 29 1987 10 am 3 pm Tyson Westpark Hotel 8401 Westpark McLean Virginia 22102 Dr Warren Williams a nationally recognized AppleWorks authority offers tips and techniques that benefit all AppleWorks users He de scribes short cuts examples and uses for this powerful program This half day seminar provides an opportunity for you to get answ
215. lume set 39 95 Abaton MacScan PC Scan Plus LaserMagic Scan your art work and photographs into the Macintosh Fast accurate scanning saved in MacPaint SuperPaint OCR Service PC Scan Plus With OCR software from Dest we can read typewritten pages into MacWrite or ASCII for use on the Macintosh or IBM Self service or Full service When Avaliable we will have OCR from Abaton and New Imag 5555559 5555559 NANNA SARA REE ERO UI EQ IBM to Mac File Transfer With the Dayna FT 100 we can transfer data from the IBM 5 25 disk to the 3 5 Macintosh format Some programs be transfered with formating retained Self service or Full service Washington Apple Pi August 1987 55 tosh drives to read IBM formatted 3 5 disks The portables are rumored to have a list price of 2 500 Source PC Weck June 2 1987 Macintosh Facts and Rumors of the Month Apple Computer is developing its own Optical Character Scanner OCR that will be superior to any product currently on the market The details are still sketchy but it should be able to scan both text and graphics and perhaps at a resolution of 600 to 1200 dpi It would be capable of reading text output for Macintosh fonts such as the LaserWriter fonts and perhaps dot matrix If this rumor proves well founded expect it late in 1987 Servant version 1 0 should be available by the time you read this The first official version ha
216. n STSC has provided for casy editing of functions by issuing an APL symbol followed by the function name the same approach found in mainframe environments This takes you into a full screen cditor for changing functions but doesn t help with commands Second the current version does not scroll There are ncither vertical nor horizontal scroll bars As output is generated it disappears off the top of the screen Third to make entry of special characters easier I d like to see STSC add on screen clickable keypad While there may not be whole lot of room on a nine inch screen there d be plenty of space on some of the fancy bigger screens coming our way Even so it would make entry of APL symbols much easier As it is you have to learn what combination of keystrokes arc needed for the myriad of special symbols Having to rcly on calling up the kcyboard help screen is not a workable solution Support for a separate graphics window would be helpful Summary The STSC implementation is not copy pro tected It is about as easy to work in as any APL environment I have used Some ofthe suggestions made earlier would improve itscase of use Since STSC has been marketing APL services for a long time they knew what they were doing in putting this package together STSC 2115 E Jefferson St Rockville MD 20852 Phone 800 592 0050 Price 395 00 Engineering Construction Anyone interested in forming an AEC SIG pleas
217. n scroll to any part of the graphic or text you would like to copy select it with the standard sclection rectangle or text I bcam and copy just that portion for inclusion in your document SmartScrap both solid and reliable Desk Accessories The limitations of the original Apple provided Scrapbook DA are well known although it was a welcome addition to our original use of the Macintosh we all quickly had ideas on how it could have served us better 7 is whet we always wanted in Scrapbook DA the ability to create and view multiple Scrapbooks the graphic index of the entire scrapbook resizeable window and finally for graphics text larger than the ECAR CURRIE Clipper is a DA aimed at the Desktop Publisher for sizing cropping and accurately selecting graphic to insert into page layout The Clipper will allows you to measure the size Figure 3 A Partial Text Selection An additional elegant touch is auto scrolling when selecting text or graphics If your entire Scrapbook page won t fit in the window the window will auto scroll as you select text or graphics Unfortunately the text saved in SmartScrap does not retain formatting and font information requiring you to reformat the text once you have pasted the text into another program contd Washington Apple Pi August 1987 81 The Clipper DA As the name implies Clipper is a DA that enhances the
218. n test drive it before you put out your hard carned dollars Speaking of dollars this very versatile program only costs 30 and when you send in your money they send you a printed manual and a bonus program called IconMover which allows you to create and modify icons B create and transfer icons between icon files C scrounge icons from resource files and paint files and D savc icons in the resource format The manual is excellent and reflects a highly professional approach to documentation It s clear and concise and is written in non technical language for the common man Richard Skcic should be congratulated for a job well donc CalendarMaker allows you to make three styles of calen dars a pictorial calendar with a half page picture you can import from MacPaint and a half page calendar month a full page calendar month or if you wish a one page calendar with two months on it I have found the full page calendar very useful at work for agendas meetings and appointments I print the calendar on 11 x 15 computer size paper which allows plenty of room for text in each day s box and then reduce it to a standard 8 1 2x 11 on a photocopying machinc The program lets you add icons to dates as a graphic reminder of the importance of the date or if you wish you can enter up to 255 characters of text to cach date The CalendarMaker comes with over 100 predefined icons in such areas as personalities symbols logos pictures an
219. n up AppleWorks as opposed to booting AppleWorks 2 0 directly which has you in ProDOS 1 1 1 Thad an Apple mouse with the mouse card which I installed in the GS in slot 4 You must use the card because the connector on that mouse doesn t fit into the port connector It works fine My AE CP M card docs not work although I did manage to boot up once I believe this to be an electromagnetic interference problem although I am still investigating With five cards now in the machine I decided to buy a Kensington System Saver fan Apple recommends a fan if there arc more than 3 cards installed I have now completed the mods that I want and as you can see below the cost was as much as a new ITEM COST APPLE IIGS MOD LABOR INCL 528 ONE APPLE 3 5 DISK DRIVE 360 1 MB GS RAM MEMORY EXPAN CARD210 SONY RGB MONITOR AND TV 528 SONY CABLE 55 PRO GRAPPLER PRINTER INTERFACE CARD 55 APPLEWORKS 2 0 UPGRADE 55 FAN 62 TOTAL 1 853 Even though there is a high cost in relation to the Mac it must be rcalized that I now have a machine that is very advanced and should be around for a long time Furthermore I can run almost all ofthe software Inow own The Mac costis only the tip of the iceberg as we all know and I have a complete machine and software combination for my cost I love the ability to change the contd on pg 19 THE PRICE IS RIGHT ON Apple Software Macintosh Software DAC Easy Acct 51 Back to Basics Sys 153 On
220. ndecided who will market the PostScript add on board but The Laser Connection appears to have the inside track since they are the only companyoutside Adobe licensed to sublicense PostScript to other vendors Source PC Week May 5 1987 54 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 So you want to sell the Macintosh II Many dealers will be clamoring to market the new Macintosh II when it rolls off the production line in May of this year but many will be disappointed Apple is licensing dealers to sell the top of the line Macintosh based on their past record and ability to sell service and support the product At first only 750 out of 1900 dealers will get to sell the Mac II while this number will expand to 1 100 dealers with time Since the Macintosh II is aimed atengincering and business users who used to support for the products they buy Apple does not want to get a black eye by botching the marketing of the Mac II Apple s last effort ata direct sales force fell flat when dealers complained that it was directly competing with their retail efforts Interest in the Mac I is high in many government agencies and I think it is clear that demand will outstrip supply for some time The Wicked Witch is Dead The wicked witch is dead and I want to congratulate the person who threw the bucket of water What am I talking about yousay Well seems the Army has changed its position on the MS DOS standard I quote as follows from the Governme
221. ndicated their cycles had topped out and that they expected a decline in the broader market indices ASTLEY nteriors Marcia F Astley INTERIOR DESIGNER e Residential e Commercial e Associate Member ASID 10118 Renfrew Road Silver Spring Maryland 20901 301 593 0312 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 35 GAMESIG NEWS A hitch in schedule kept Chairman Thomas Johnston otherwise engaged in important research so Ron Wartow tem porarily set aside his emeritus crown rose from his bed of pain hobbled in on a ski pole crutch and led the July 2nd GameSIG gathering The first item of business was to plan for August 22nd when GameSIG will host the main WAP mecting with software demos the return of several gaming luminaries from last year other important guests and plenty of surprises We were also reminded of the upcoming WAP nominations and elections in the months ahead In his regular new and forthcoming software report Ron mentioned VIDEO TITLE SHOP and ALTERNATE REALITY THE DUNGEON from Datasoft the latter not requiring characters from ALTERNATE REALITY THE CITY LEGACY OF THE ANCIENTS something like a follow up to QUESTRON from Electronic Arts Firebird s KNIGHT ORC a humorous graphics adventure which casts the player as an oppressed orc SSI s real time flight simulator B 24 and SSI s exclusive rights to produce computer games based on TSR s ADVANCED DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS The following so
222. ned contd several years ago before the Macintosh was introduced to provide a means for typesetting technical documents Versions of the program are often found on minicomputers where users use standard text only terminals to enter the descriptions for complex documents The system uses string of text characters created using any word processor to describe the complete layout of each page paragraph linc and character This text file is read into the T X program which converts it into instructions that the printer can understand The user often doesn t see the way the page or equation will look until it is output to the printer Although most minicomputer versions support graphical output to devices like Textronix terminals There are several implementations of T X on the Macintosh including MacTex and Textures Both implementations support output to the screen as well as the Imagewriter and LaserWriter Although I didn t like the idea of abandoning the concept of what you see is what you get word processing I bought the T X Book and borrowed pre release version of Textures from a friend to try it out I ll spare you the blow by blow description of my struggles with T X Suffice it to say that T X is a very powerful system which I found to be very difficult to learn Formatting equations was relatively simple but I found its tremendous wealth of formatting commands to be rather intimidating So much so that I never did figure
223. ng Type Blocks Name System 28 SOS DRIVER BASprg 24 CANIBAL ISLAND BASprg 1 DAZZLE contd HARDWARE DOT HATRIX PRINTERS Panasonic 10911 160 cps Epson coapatible best buy 219 10801 120 cps as 189 5 6 7 Pinwriter 24 pin high quality satrix call Epson 8 200 cps 32 cps NLQ 11 286 200 cps vide carriagel call LX 86 100 cps 16 cps NLA aodel call LQ 800 LQ 1000 180 cps 24pin NLQ aodel call Okidata 192 Plus 200 cps NLQ 369 193 Plus 132 coluan version of abovel 49 292 293 200 cps draft 100 cps NLA 18 pin call Toshiba 32151 216 cps draft slickest 24 pin avail 549 351 300 cps wide carriage version of abovel 999 MODEHS Citizen MSP 20 200 cps matrix Epson caspatiblel 349 DAISYWHEEL amp LASER PRINTERS Citizen Preaier 35 35 cps fastest for the 499 Quae LetterPro PLUS 45 cps daisywheell 595 Silver Reed 800 40 cps Diablo cospatiblel 759 Elf 16 cps par ser interface NEC Diablo 1 419 8830 55 cps daisywheel built like a tank 1195 Diablo 635 55 cps 1 825 H P LaserJet Series II 512 1 5 9 8 ppal 1695 2295 Okidata Laserline 6 6 pps H P Plus coapatible 149
224. ng time experience with the Here in the Washington area your best bet may be Clinton Computer which has been willing to take in s for repair But call the SIG officers if you are having troubles We be able to help and save you some money as well NEWSLETTERS MAGAZINES Not surprisingly those groups listed above also provide newsletters and magazines for us avid Apple users Both the ATUNC and TAU newsletters are excellent sources of informa tion Youmightalso wanttotry News and Views the newsletter of the Apple THREE Group International based in Norfolk Virginia The WAP Journal of course includes at least one article monthly on the Apple As for magazines there are really only two major Apple publications currently available On Three and Frank Moore s The Magazine On Three has published ona regular monthly schedule since January 1986 Paula Sheppard is its full time editor On Three provides a wide range of reviews usually of its own products beginners tutorials and a substantial letters section The Magazine is the successor to The Newsletter begun by Frank Moore in 1985 because there were no general circulation publications coming out regularly at the time The Magazine has had some publication troubles recently but continues to be a good source of Apple information Good tutorials and reviews On Three Magazine 4478 Market St Suite 701 Ventura Ca 93006 40 00 Yea
225. nly way to upgrade from the 64K ROM to the 128K ROM is to buy it from an Apple dealer due to copyright restrictions But with a 128K ROM and System 4 1 the functional differences between the 128K and 256K ROMs will be loaded into main memory This is what it will take to use current software The memory cost is too great for 512K machines necessitating at least 1 M these days Confused Simply the goal I recommend is to get the 128K ROMs andamegabyte of RAM If youaccept this goal you must buy the ROM upgrade kit from a dealer It costs about 245 and includes both the 128K ROM and a new 800K internal disk drive Itisdifficultto getto IMof RAM intoa 128K Mac While there are many companies some small some large and some Apple dealers who will do the surgery needed to convert a 128K Mac to a 512K Mac it takes much more design skill to add 1 of totally usable RAM to an older machine Either also takes skill in the delicate operation of removing and resoldering ICs toa fragile circuit board If you haven t done this sort of thing before I don t recommend it as a beginner s project The only viable solution I can recommend even though others at WAP sure to disagree is to bite the bullet and to geta new MacPlus logic board from an Apple dealer as well This costs about 500 There may well be good alternatives but I don t know enough to point them out There is a side issue addressed in the next question as well
226. now I feel like a schmuck destroying someonc s livelihood Massive guilt feclings created I wear black all month I imagine Susan Raab s pretty blond children of the future looking hungrily out of magazine pages with rice bowls in hand Won t you help them Sally Struthers will ask These are the poor innocent victims of a vicious smear campaign against my mom s software company perpetrated by some low life creepoid by the name of FRED SEELIG letters in 96 point bold italic red letters And then I find out that I didn t send the registration card for MindWrite when I got it last summer so Mind Work amp Co thinks your typical average software pirate when in fact my disk set states that I own Serial No 410001640 This leads one to believe that Iam either the ten millionth user of MindWriteor the 1640 The second seems more likely But they think I ve ripped them off and trashed their software efforts when in fact only the latter has occurred I m sorry I really am Susan Raab was kind enough to send me a disk with the corrected version of MindWrite seems that early versions had some defects in them But now I feel like a double schmuck since MS Word 3 0 has become the fave word processor 501 send all MindWrite disks back even the paid for originals hoping like crazy to appease my guilty conscience But it ain t gonna work Only several years of diligent psychiatric treatment will overcome the tremendous psych
227. nt 100 GET 110 IF ASC A 24 THEN PRINT YOU PRESSED CLEAR The clear key generates the same ASCII code as pressing Control X Also note that both the enter and the return keys generate the same ASCII 13 code All other keys on the IIgs numeric keypad gencrate the same ASCII codes as on the main keyboard The only exception which I found on my IIgs was that Control 2 generates ASCII code for 2 from the numeric keypad and generates an illegal quantity error in line 110 from my main keyboard In the case of the Control 2 is the null string and has a length of zero This is an interesting bug in Applesoft for the IIgs Q The ProDOS CHAIN command is supposed to allow one BASIC program to calla second BASIC program without losing the contents of program variables Is there a bug in CHAIN A Yes If you have BASIC SYSTEM version 1 1 use this work around Before you CHAIN POKE 41859 3 Immediately after you CHAIN into your next BASIC program POKE 41859 7 A fix from Apple will probably be incorporated into the version of ProDOS 8 following ver 1 4 Q I use AppleWorks and Simply Perfect a DOS 3 3 based word processing program on my IIgs Can I switch between them without rebooting A Yes Try Softswitch from Roger Wagner Publishing 49 This program allows you to install any three Apple II pro grams in memory at the same time The only requirement is thatthe program must support interrupts that
228. nt Computer News Junc 5th issuc Deputy Secretary of Defense William H Taft has ordered the Army to drop standards that limited microcomputer buys to IBM Corp PC compatible hard ware and UNIX compatible or MS DOS operating systems The Army is preparing to rewrite its policies to conform to Taft s directive The Army is not totally doing away with standardiza tion and it may propose additional standards if it finds existing regulations do not its needs Complaints from Apple among others and concerns about federal statutes and regulations aimed at increasing competition also influenced the decision The remaining question is will the Navy and Air Force follow the Army s lead I m not holding my breath on that one Is a Portable Macintosh Being Developed Rumor has it that Apple employees are wearing T shirts that say Malibu you can take it to the Beach with you Malibu is apparently the code name for a prototype portable lab top Macintosh that is back on the developmental track after being delayed for some time There are apparently two prototypes both of which use the 68000 CPU Both have 1 Meg of RAM a SCSI port and a mouse port The low end would have one 3 5 drive and a high contrast LCD screen 1115 an active matrix LCD which is different from the super twist LCD used in many of the current portables The active matrix LCD includes a thin film transistor behind every pixel backed by an electrical circuit This permits th
229. nt programs while providing support at the same time Amazing It s definitely a niche market but one which still has potential For example the community docs not do a good job of letting Apple II vendors know that in many instances their products with a little help can work in our machines We need to push that for our sake and for the vendors In fact it s something I intend to bring up at the Phase Conference this fall in Chicago It s also important to remember that whatever niche we have IS growing smaller We must continue to support those who support us But there should also be an understanding that one day the only real support available will be from WAP and other user groups with ers as members That said you need to know that the matcrial below is part of the newly revised A3 Information file now on the WAP SIG New Member Disk The information has also been uploaded to MAUG on CompuServe and I ll put it into the WAP TCS too so those of you with older New Member Disks can get an update It s for ANY SIGer who wishes really APPLE INFORMATION Hi USER GROUPS A user group such as WAP is a great way to obtain more information about the Apple Members are knowledgeable ready to answer questions and most offer PD public domain libraries with Apple software There are not a great many Apple groups but here is a list of some of them Apple THREE Group International Cost 15 00 Yea
230. nto a menu system that puts all common tasks justa few keystrokes away Word and idea processing data base manage ment spreadsheet telecommunications name and addresa file note pad calendar alarm clock printer management all that and more standard with our Generic PCs We match aoftware to your needs and inatall your own software if any at no charge You get capabilities you ll want tools you ll like performance you ll appreciate and a solid foundation on which you ll build quickly and easily Well tuned systems we offer strike a proper balance among speed storage and software They have the good feel that only a properly optimized PC can provide Even our lowest cost systems benefit by intelligent applications of appropriate software We recent ly boosted performance of two competitors PC clones by 75 and 90 respectively just by setting them up properly They way are built and configured makes a big difTerence Carefully performance tested Parts that don t meet our stan dards wind up in our reject pile not in our clients PCs Ask about our second tier systems at scandalous prices They re great buys if you don t mind a noisy fan a mushy keyboard or an out of square video display All are guaranteed to drive you crazy but they re cheap and they work Yes Virginia there really ia a 500 PC but do you really want one The Generic PCs we custom build for clients to be what
231. o pressing hard on this front In Japan 70 percent of high schools will have computers by the end of the decade However in a report published by the U S Department of Education entitled Japa contd nese Education Today available from the U S Government Printing Office itis indicated that computer and other leaming devices are not evident in the Japanese classrooms in 1983 only 3 percent of lower secondary schools had a personal computer and few were used for instruction p 34 France has campaign under the banner 100 000 Computers in Our Schools by 1995 The British with the benefit of generous government subsidies lead now with 98 percent of schools equipped with microcomputers Some of the gencral problems that have arisen in the usc of computers are as follows 1 inconsistent use of technology ii lag in teacher training iii scattershot approach in acquisition of hardware and of software In addition there are five trends which raise serious questions about the way U S schools may be rushing headlong into the computer age i There is differential access to computers between regions and income groups ii New roles in schools have emerged in response to the microcomputer iii There may be a lack of proper integration of micros into the classroom and the curriculum iv Software problems arise both because packages may be inadequate quantity wise and qualitatively v There is
232. o smaller screens appear above cach other on the right side of the screen The upper screen is the Scoreboard described above while the lower screen controls play selection Before you get started though you will use this larger screen to select weather conditions anda few other options affecting the game game is fairly straightforward after that you simply sclect the offense or defense you want to use execute and watch what happens on your screen At least that s the theory The problem with Mac Pro Football is that the user interface on the control screen requires you to select cach play option one ata time with the mouse There are no defaults folks you just have to click up to as many as ninc screens depending on the situation to set up a play Worse there is no easy way to correct the inevitable mistake that will occur within this system For example the last two screens you get on every play No Time Out Call Time Out and Execute Audible In one of my games I accidentally clicked Call Time when I didn t nced to To correct this mistake I had to click Audible on the next screen to give mc the opportunity to correct the mistake Even then you still have to redo the other eight or so scrcens that s right you cannot select the one screen where you the made the mistake you have to do it all over again This interface wears down even the most dedicated gamer s patience after a while in fact a
233. odes which must be entered through the keyboard to tell his computer what to do Asa MacNovice you ve never faced that problem From the day you turned on your Mac you were able probably without even reading the instruction manual at all to print a MacWrite document in multiple pages or along the so called landscape dimension of the page the long way you did was choose PRINT from thc FILE menu and click a few choices in a simple dialog box Imagetiiriter Paper S US Letter US Leget OA4 Letter O International Fanfoid omputer Paper amp pecial Effects Tatt Adjusted C 50 Reduction No Gaps Between Pages Orientation Print the long way here Print multiple peges here Imagelliriter Qualitu Be 0 0410 ms OM 22222 Paper Feed Automatic O Hond Feed Withouteven realizing it MacNovices benefit daily from the most basic of Macintosh concepts a simple intuitive consistent user interface MacNovices who ve never used a computer before probably don t even appreciate the small miracles they accomplish every day because of this straightforward relation ship between the machine and its software and the user Incidentally my friend with the IBM compatible also uses a 52 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 MacNovice Column by Ralph J Begleiter Macintosh at work So he knows how simple it would be to accomplish the same printing chores if he w
234. on offers multiple categories including states state capitals countries Presidents composers astronomy instruments TV and user defined words You also vary the number of wrong guesses allowed 6 8 10 or 12 Wrong guesses produce some interesting graphics on the screen Shareware Any Amount Air Warrior 0 6b f Air Warrior 0 6b An acrial flight and combat simulator This one really blows your mind The program on this disk is a fairly unremarkable flight simulator in the tradition of the com mercial program by that name Youcan fly a collection of World War and airplanes with acombination of mouse and keyboard commands and it s not too hard to get off the ground and cruise the area Landing is another story But what really sets this apart is the fact that the flight program is designed to work interactively with other pilots connected to the GEnic informa tion service Using the built in communications module in the program you can quickly and easily make the connection with GEnic and entcr a whole new world of computer aces Through this system you can dogfight with other air warriors across the country Use the communications module to dial the 800 number provided in the program to make the connection with GEnie by following the instructions provided Of course you have to be a GEnic subscriber to play the game and we drew the line on this annotation business when GEnic asked me for our cr
235. one thing the superconductor is expensive and for another it doesn t last long It is made of a yttrium gadolinium lantha num niobium einsteinium alloy that costs 120 million per ounce and has a half life of 4 2 micro seconds Nevertheless prospects are bright Scclig Super employces hope to milk the discovery for at least a year and get asked to attend three possibly four conference proceedings The SDI research office will underwrite all research attracted as itis to the cost of the exotic material IPOs begin next weck causing frenzied stockbrokers to dump all their IBM holdings to acquire stock in Seelig Superconductronics It s a good dream but not a great one Somchow I have difficulty believing that researchers would get discouraged read ing my press release I think that those pesky physicists just plain won t go away They ll keep doing their research at really warm temperatures like 77 Centigrade and get excited about their superconducting rings and then I ll have to read all about it in the next week s issue of the Wall Street Journal If you didn t understand one thing about these last few para graphs don t worry You didn t miss a thing MicroSoft s Word 3 0 I got a copy of MS Word 3 0 carlier today NOTE Written some time ago possibly Before Vanna White and have been playing with it ever since It s entrancing There are so many capabilities built in Adventure games were never this good Every level lo
236. ontribution to the Macintosh The JustText approach to page layout programming was of course typographical combined with PostScript abilities an attempt to define the Mac as a typesetting input terminal XPress isthe culmination of this program without the complex parame ter coding typesetters are used to interfaced with the simplicity and user friendliness of the Macintosh The developers of XPress therefore successfully bypassed these structured type setting codes with which they were obviously familiar by addressing the powerand capabilities of the Macintosh itself No mean feat Graphics designers publishers art directors and typogra phers all across the country are among those who will love this program because they will immediately see it for what it is the tool of choice for excellence in production And for desktop publishers the office or individual environment and general Mac enthusiast I would heartily recommend saving onc s money to buy this gem it is a major advance in page design and publications production It would be even nicer if the price came down and the copy protection were removed at least it is protected in the version I have allowing only a numbered amount of installations and removals Jay Rohr has a private practice as a Macintosh consultant and tutor and has set up Mac systems in newspaper offices and graphics studios for 2 years His specialty is graphics commercial art and typography
237. operating system 24 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 gt START the program launcher TOOLS folder for system tools FONTS folder for any character fonts DESK ACCS folder for any desk accessories SYSTEM SETUP a folder all programs in it are auto matically executed upon booting File TOOL SETUP should be in SYSTEM SYSTEM SETUP for loading all ROM patches into memory If you are going to run Applesoft BASIC include BASIC SYSTEM in your disk not in the system folder If youare going to run both ProDOS 8 and ProDOS 16 include P8 in the SYSTEM folder If you are only going to run ProDOS 8 then copy filc P8 from you system disk onto your startup disk rename P8 as PRODOS and forget about all of the other files described above How do you use a RAM disk asa startup disk on the IIgs If you have at least 512K of RAM follow these steps 1 Tum off your IIgs for at least 30 seconds to let thc new value take hold 2 Boot the IIgs from the System Disk 3 Run the desktop program Press open apple S or choose Format a Disk form the Special menu 4 Select Slot 5 Drive 2 for formatting Click OK and enter RAMS as the name for the disk 5 When asked Do you want to format RAMS click OK If you get a different message then try a different slot and drivc for step 4 6 Use the Desktop program to copy the files discussed in the question onto thc RAMS disk To make RAMS your startu
238. or 2 49 Sensible Speller IU DOS or PRODOS versions availl 79 Springboard Publisher for 85 SPREADSHEETS SuperCalc super aa for Mele 129 VIP Professional 2 5 spreadsheet 195 Multiplan best spreadsheet for 20 70 INFORMATION dBASE II the bast Apple database requires CP H 299 pis File 79 BUSINESS amp Dollars amp Sense accounting w graphics T Managing Your Money accounting investaent sgat 99 1 49 Peachtree Back to Basics Accounting GL AR AP 149 BPI Accounting GL AR AP PAY INVENTORY each 159 COMMUNICATIONS Ascii Express Professional best DOS PRODOS 80 MouseTalk new w pull downs for e cl 69 CospuServe Starter Kit password amp 25 dollar credit 25 0005 amp ENDS Print Shop Print Shop Companion Libraries 36129119 Newsroos Clip Art 11 42 19 Pinpoint Desktop 55 Infoserge sailaerge for Appleworks 49 Spelling Checker pops up in Appleworksl 42 Typing Tutar 10 36 Kensington 5ystem Saver Fan w surge protector 66 Mach III or Kraft S buttan jaystick 39
239. ort 20525 Mariani MS 27T Cupertino CA 95014 Or call him at 408 973 6757 Help MacTerminal 2 0 doesn t work with System 4 1 Apple is rereleasing all of their products to update them for System 4 1 and the new Mac models By the time you read this your dealer should have MacTerminal 2 2 along with new versions of MacProject and MacDraw Bring in your original master disk s for a free update Updates for MacWrite and MacPaint are also in the works but they may arrive later In the meantime to patch MacTerminal 2 0 to gt work with System 4 1 use FEdit or a similar program to change the third occurance of 02B6 to 0 78 This won t fix all the troubles such as not acting as you would expect with the new ADB keyboards Quickies Copy II Mac is up to version 6 5 which is needed for the Mac If you have the Big Picture large screen product be sure to get version 1 4 of the Big Picture INIT The older versions don t work on a Mac SE Also ask about their Double Feature software that let s you usc the regular screen along with the big one On a Mac II if there is an PICT 0 resource in the StartupScreen file it is used to draw the startup screen This is a clue on how to make color startup screens If there is no 0 the image in the data fork is displayed centered as it always has been Note that an way to create a PICT resource is to paste into the Scrapbook You should make
240. ough nothing appears to have changed ParmBlaster clears the Macintosh or Mac XL s parameter RAM All of the Control Panel desk accessory s settings volume mouse tracking keypress sensitiv ity etc have been reset to 2 This does not affect the date and time however If AppleTalk was connected it will be discon nected after executing ParmBlaster Popup Allows you to access the menubar from anywhere on the screen It works with probably any menu in probably any application It is especially useful on large screens It has been successfully run on the Radius and Mac II According to the documentation that is the Pi hasn t delivered our Radius and Mac II yet Shareware 10 00 25 00 for code l RasNIX A pseudo UNIX emulator which allows you to examine and manipulate to some extent the files on your disks RasNIX provides a command line oriented shell and supports several standard UNIX commands as well as some Mac specific commands WN Text f WN Text The current version of WriteNow has no ability to converta WN document to Text or vice versa except through the clipboard an omission solved by this DA The documentation is in Write Now format If you don t have the program and want to read the document run the WN to Text conversion feature of the DA Shareware 5 00 15 00 for an update 3 Word 3 0 DA s Four DA screenfulls of Word 3 0 keyboard equivalents easier to access than Word s help data Mac Disk 1
241. ould read Guidelines In the Smyth tutorial in Section 1 page 1 23 there was no text in the small text box under the oval on screen as was shown in the manual illustration Only the Text Overflow box was visible This could temporarily throw off somcone trying to learn the program since Text Overflows had not been discussed at this point in the tutorial In PageMaker 2 0 a document was saved in Microsoft Word 3 0 format in order to import it into Quark XPress XPress could not read this version of Word and said so The imported file thus had to be converted into a Text Only file in order to be 64 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 recognized by XPress Import and export arc not listed the XPress index Looking up specific programs for importing and exporting gives the same results they are not there But tucked away in the middle of the manual in Section 3 is a one paragraph reference to importing MacWrite and M Word files with or without formats almost as if this were an afterthought In one of the Appendices is a reference to EPSF and PICT graphic files If the program developers gave much thought and concern about these abilities the manual did not display it The PageMaker manual on the other hand voluminous as it is went to great lengths describing importing exporting features as well as their file filter process for various other programs THE 2ND TUTORIAL After successfully piecing together the elements describe
242. ould seriously consider upgrading to at least the level of the Mac Plus That is they should have at least one 800K disk drive a SCSI port and the 128K ROMs with a megabyte of memory 1 should point to the the newer members that I ve traditionally shied away from pushing the latest and greatest just because it s there The Mac Plus is now the bottom of the line product and significant new products 48 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 and product improvements won t run on a 512K or 128K Mac Also the newest versions of System and Finder do not work or in the case of the 512 machine are not recom mended on these models This means that future releases won t work either The simpliest upgrade path to a Mac Plus is to buy one The street price is now in the 1500 1600 range and you could first sce whattheold 128K Mac would fetch I dexpect it to be worth a few hundred dollars With this strategy you get all the necessary hardware a new power supply board new warrenty and even the larger keyboard The only hidden cost is for two ncw cables or adapters which would cost about 20 each I think this dcal costs about the same as upgrading part by part There are now three versions of the Mac ROMs the original 64K ROM in the 128K and 512K models the 128K ROM in the Mac Plus and 512E models and the 256K ROM s that are uscd in the Mac SE and the Mac II You can not buy the 256K ROM as an upgrade The o
243. p known as CSA MUG Canadian Standards Association Microcomputer Users Group CSA 15 an organization similar to your U S Underwriters Lab pur chased three software packages from a now non existent com pany called Softlok The concept of these software packages was that you can use the software and if satisfied upon purchase of the software were given a Softlock numerical code that would unlock the software and make it a truly interactive package Unfortunately after following the instructions to the letter the software packages bombed The packages are 1 Spellguard by Sorcim a spell checker s n 5 11477 2 Spellbinder by Lexisoft a wordprocessing package s n 4 11467 3 Roots M by a gencology program I contacted Sorcim and was told that although they licensed the use of their software to Softlok they wouldn t help me Lexisoft no longer exists Although we re not out a tremendous amount of we are a victim of buyer beware I would like to know if any fellow member out in Apple land who may have a working copy of any of these software packages would consider selling me a working copy of any or all of the above mentioned software packages Also as we a safety testing laboratory we would be pl ased to hear from any person or company involved in similar work who is using computers especially Apple and real world interface for test and measurement purposes Please contact me
244. p disk until you turn off your IIgs return to Launcher go to the control panel with open apple control escape Use the slots option to set the startup slot to RAM disk Press return escape return return which will send you back to the Launcher Quit the Launcher and press Return to reboot from the RAM disk Q Can I use a RAM disk as a startup disk on other Apple 15 Yes Many popular RAM cards come with software that will help with this The exact procedure depends upon which operating system you are using DOS 3 3 ProDOS or Pascal Ona IIgs can I speed up the Launcher working from 3 5 disk drives Yes Most people use the launcher from floppies But youcan put ProDOS 16 ProDOS 8 and Desktop with TOOLS described above onto the RAM disk Follow through Step 6 Instead of using the control panel to make RAMS your startup slot you can just launch programs from the RAM disk copy of DESKTOP When these applications are done they will contd return to the RAM based DESKTOP Another approach is to leave the Launcher program off the RAM disk Copy BASIC SYSTEM and DESKTOP onto RAMS Launch PRODOS from RAMS and then type DESKTOP from the prompt In this method at the end of each application you return to thc DESKTOP on the RAM disk without using the Launcher Q The IIgs keyboard has a clear key How do you test for the input of this key from an Applesoft BASIC program Try this program segme
245. p down procedures and is appropriate for problem solving d PASCAL is considered a useful and effective com puter language because it lends itself well to sub programming for the solution of problems It has IDENTIFIER terms and Control structures 5 Advanced Placement Computer Science A amp B for Grades and D This is two semester sequence for students of high academic ability with a strong interest in computer science and who want to prepare for the Advanced Placement Computer Science exam A qualifying score in this exam enables a student in some colleges to obtain college credit or advanced standing Course involves I projects 2 use of Pascal 3 130 minutes of machine time per day per student 4 primitive and lincar data structures 5 development of algorithms etc In addition I learned that M C microcomputers were ini tially introduced in the Senior High Schools and that they then spread out from there In K 8th grade computer usage includes a learning the keyboard b loading and booting the computer c assist in the instruction of Mathematics Science and Reading In the fourth grade students are introduced to LOGO Teacher training involves the following offering numer ous as many as 20 in service courses for which teachers receive 3 credits each These are 15 week courses offered increments of 5 wecks each There are 103 elementary schools in M C and there is considerable school autonomy
246. pes are written at 1600 BPIsothis tape drive seemed perfect Itisa very nice drive which comes ready to hook up to any Macintosh with a SCSI port Included with thc drive is a SCSI cable Transport Manual SCSI interface Manual only needed if you want to write your own driver and tape utility software with its manual The software follows the full Macintosh user interface You just need to know your tape That is what kind of data are on your tape block length delimitors ctc These scttings are entered into the tape utility and may be saved as configuration files This allows each of your different tapes to have the settings entered once and loaded from disk as needed The utility alsocontains a tape block dump feature which is useful for determining the format of tapes you are uncertain about This feature is not for novice users The tape drive is small enough to sit on a desk beside your Mac W 12 25 H 21 50 D 89 25 The drive mechanism uses a microprocessor controller Its weight is only 39 pounds in the shipping box This allows the drive to be shipped UPS Red or Fedcral express to those of you who want to buy one and want itthe next day Qualstar quotes immediate delivery We ve been so pleased with the performance of this tape drive that we will be marketing it as an option with our system Qualstar has been selling a PC version of this drive for several years and has several thousand installed to date The list price of the S
247. r Joseph Dobrowolski President Box 913 Langley AFB VA 23665 Apple Three Users of Northern California Cost 20 00 Year Mary Berg President P O Box 1528 Mill Valley CA 94942 Third Apple Users Cost 15 00 Y car Initiation Fee 5 00 Lavona Presi dent 1113 Wheaton Oaks Dr Wheaton IL 60187 Washington Apple Pi Cost 25 00 Ycar Initiation 7 00 Charlene Ryan SIG Secretary 8227 Woodmont 201 Bethesda MD 20814 Other groups worth including here for their work on behalf of the Apple Apple Three Users of Colorado Baud Appleing Computer Club West Germany Los Angcles South Bay Apple Users Group and the SIG of Orange County Apple Users Group California Also well worth a mention here is the Micronctworked Apple Users Group on MAUG s Apple section provides a fantastic forum for information exchange and 10 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 its mun Libraries for m Illa arc full of excellent information and programs Youcan join CompuServe by purchasing Starter Kits at most computer stores SOURCES OF PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE Not surprisingly groups listed above with onc addition also provide excellent sources of native mode public domain software for the Apple Costs for the software are minimal and the selection is good have some unique offerings while selling many of the same programs You usually get the best de
248. r The Magazine C O Moore Enterprises 3201 Murchison 12 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 Way Carmichael Ca 95608 40 00 Year Includes all back issues from current year APPLE BOOKS Only a few books were ever written about the Apple There are three specific books worth mentioning here all of which have Business Basic as their primary subject The Osborne McGraw Hill Guide To Your Apple is the first book on the list The other two are by Eddie Adamis Basic Keywords for the Apple and Business Basic for the Apple The Guide covers only the Apple and not the plus version The author is Stanley M Miastokowski It s a good beginning level text for new owners and good to have for us old fuddy duddies who ve had their machines around for awhile It has a good overview of Business Basic and sections on the Audio and Grafix drivers that are excellent Clinton Computer had a large supply the last time I looked The Adamis texts are straight forward no nonsense books that essentially describe Business Basic version 1 1 its kcy words and provides examples The only other specific book on the marketis Using Apple Business Computers by Kenniston Lord Jr I have it in my library but don t feel it s worth your money unless you are interested in lengthy Business Basic programs specifically for business purposes Unfortunately all these books are now out of print But you may still be able to f
249. r our three 68020 machines were slightly faster than Byte s results whereas our results for the sort were slower if the print statement was included and almost identical to Byte s when the print was deleted This leads me to believe that Byte did not use the print statement but Idon t know for sure Our results for the SE are significantly faster than those obtained by Byte Could Lightspeed C be that much faster on a plain 68000 than Consulair C The reports I have heard indicate that they are comparable in execution speed I m suspicious of 7 Byte s results for the SE Whereas Byte used the Consulair C compiler v5 01 and the Consulair 68020 68881 compiler we used Lightspeed C for these benchmarks Jim again We will send a copy of this article to both Radius and Levco If they or any of you have some benchmarks which will show some strength of their cards we will run them and give more results here next time One feature we enjoy about the Radius Accelerator that we wish the Levco also had is the ability to turn the Accelerator off so that the Macintosh runs in native 68000 mode This is useful for running software which is not 68020 compatible or uses software timing loops We use it for software testing The main thing which can trip software developed on a 68020 is that odd address word boundaries bomb on a standard 68000 they are legal on the 68020 MacWrite runs on the Prodigy and Radius with modifica tions To run MacW
250. rased when you remove the battery for an hour a famous curc all Well itseems that on the Mac Plus and later models those that Apple sells with the SCSI port there is more parameter RAM than on the older models The extra space is used to store among other things information about the delays needed for implementing the heirarchical menus The cue the software uses to sce whether that extra RAM is there is to see if the SCSI port is there If you ve added a third party SCSI port the inference is wrong and the menus don t work right While I expect Apple to come up with a fix in a later release of System in the meantime I can provide a small INIT file that will take care of the problem Thanks to Marcel Rivard and Steve Brecher for this information What s the story about adding more memory to the Mac I The Mac II has eight sockets for SIMMs Each group of four needs to have the same type of SIMM in it that is either 256 KB or 1 MB contributing 1 M or 4 M to the memory capacity of the machine respectively Mac IL comes with 4 256K SIMMs Other possible configurations give 2 M 4M 5 M and 8 M using the various combinations If you want to install an additional 4 M of memory making a total of 5 M you first have to move the smaller SIMMs to the back sockets Note that the Mac II requires faster memory than the other Macs do The chips should be marked 12 meaning 120 nanosecond ns instead of
251. rds Now here s Rocket Rocky the Squirrel sez Stooge Intro From the old movies with Larry Moe and Walk Like an Egyptian Another popular tunc by Bangles SoundInit Place this Init in your System Folder and it will play any digitized sound file named StartUpSound that is also in your System Folder The documentation SoundInit doc was excerpted from the Randomizer Init documentation which will be on a future WAP disk IGS DISKETERIA NEWS by David Todd This month WAP offers its third GS disk along with a non library disk WAP2003 FREETERM FreetermGS casy to use communications program which uses the mouse and SuperHiRes screen A GS with 512K minimum is required Only the built in ports are supported 300 1200 2400 baud Supports Xmodem CRC or Checksum Binar translation is automatic Macpaint to GS Reads a Macpaint file and allows sections to be converted to SHR format Requires the MacPaint file to be on a ProDOS disk MAC trans GS Will copy the files of your choice from a 400K Mac disk onto a ProDOS disk SHR Convert ver 1 1 Updated version adds to the number of file types that can be converted SHR pics may now be saved in different formats Peeker Execute this file to connect the built in memory checker CDA Mouselabel simple mouse driven label printer Mouse Sound A modification of a sound demo that ap peared in the Jan 87 A magazine This version allows the waveform to be shap
252. revious entrics Expressionist differs from MacEqn mainly in that it provides a graphical menu of equation constructs on the side of the equation editing window I liked this scheme as I quickly got tired of choosing menus from MacEqn and I had a hard time remembering their key equivalents I found the icon based constructs in Expressionist easy to usc and recognize In addition the editing of equations was a little casier in Expressionist aided by the fact that the editing point could be more casily selected Both programs do a good job of typesetting equations but I found neither to be suitable for my needs My major complaint with them was in equation editing In particular I lived in fear of my major professor suggesting a change of notation after all of the equations had been entered c g changing all of my a s to B s something he in fact did several times With either of these programs such a change would have meant reformatting each individual equation one at a time This could easily have taken several hours These programs are very good for onc or two equations embedded in a documentand still the only way that Iknow of to get equations into PageMaker For the price I d rate both as very good values but unfortunately I can t recommend either of them for use in producing long technical documents T X No that is not a misprint T X is the name of a typesetting program designed by Donald Knuth It was originally desig
253. rial Office 7 30 9 30 PM Stock SIG 8 00 PM Office 30 Sunday Monday Tuesday 1 Apple II Beginning Tutorial 1 7 30 9PM Officc 6 7 8 Apple II Deadline for Labor Day Beginning Journal Articles Federal Holiday Tutorial 42 is 8 gt Office Closed 7 30 9PM Office 14 Introduction 15 Apple II to Macintosh Beginning Tutorial Office Tutorial 43 7 30 9 30 PM 7 30 9PM Office 21 Intermediate 22 Mutual Fund 23 Mac Skills Sub Group Tutorial Office Stock SIG 7 30 9 30 PM 8 PM Office 28 Becoming a Mac Power User Tutorial Office 7 30 9 30 PM Apple HGS SIG meets at 8 00 AM before the regular WAP meeting in the USUHS cafeteria For information call Ted Meyer at 703 893 6845 Apple SIG meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 7 30 PM in the WAP office There will be no mecting in August The next meeting will be on September 23 AppleWorks SIG offers two mecting options 8 00AM before the regular WAP mecting and 12 Noon after the meeting Attend either or both DisabledSIG Call Jay Thal at 344 3649 for info dPub SIG Desktop Publishing meets on the 1st Wednesday of the month at 7 30 PM in the PEPCO Auditorium at 1900 Penn Ave NW The next meeting is on August 5 EDSIG the education special interest group on the 4th Thursday at 7 30 PM at the office No meetings in July and August 9 Office 27
254. rical variations of simple figures Icons of Doom A set of icons for Memory based on the adventure game Dungeon of Doom Mac Disk 107 DAs X Mostly Utility DAs Amort da Acc Calculates the various elements of a typical loan and prints an amortization schedule Neat Compact 1 and Compact 2 These apparently compact something but they are more than a little mysterious in the absence of documentation Compress It Saves a compressed copy of a file Shareware 15 00 CheckSum Named File Checker 1 0 in the window this DA displays the size of a files data and resource forks and its checksum Clicker This DA for program developers from the Boston Computer Socicty displays the current location of the mouse the location where you last clicked it and the relative displacement between the two Commander 2 0 Displays the Hayes modem and com patibles AT commands and S Registers DoodlePad An expandable blank window in which you can doodle with the mouse as with the pencil in MacPaint but with no fancy features at all Cut from the Edit window will clear the pad Formfeed da Advances the Imagewriter like hitting the formfeed button when pressed Shareware No check is too small Laser Envelope da Prints the contents of the clipboard to the Laserwriter so can be used to print envelopes easily MenuFonts v 1 0 demo da A demo of a DA which if run while an application with a standard font menu is open displays the names of the
255. rite on the Mac II you must put an INIT resource file called WriteFix in the System Folder I am using MacWrite on the Mac II to write this article Which accelerator card is for you Cards other than the Levco and Radius have reliability and compatibility problems with many programs Programs which use AppleTalk break many of the available Accelerator cards The Levco and Radius cards are both excellent cards If cost is the issue the Radius is the clear choice If you will need more than 4 Meg RAM the ability of the Prodigy SE to expand to 32 Meg RAM might appeal to Our bench marks suggest that the performance of the Mac II Levcoand Radius are aboutequal Considering the 550 price difference the ability to turn off the card and the fact it will run with the the Radius Full Page Display we will be buying several more Radius Accelerator cards Radius 408 434 1010 Levco 619 457 2011 Lots of Ram If you really need RAM remember that the Mac II will expand to2 Giga bytes Today the only Nu BUS RAM card aware of is the National Semiconductor 16 Meg card The video card uses one slot This leaves room for 5 RAM cards giving 80 Meg RAM in the Mac Nu BUS The National cards cost 7 000 each Five cards will cost 35 000 This makes 20 000 for a 2 Giga byte WORM drive seem more reasonable All of this will be getting cheaper but if you need it today it is nice to know it is available Call for Color Images If anyon
256. rives with virtually contd Washington Apple Pi August 1987 21 no explanation of how to use the card 4 For most average users buying the ENVOY card alone without the IBM type disk drive is a bad idea Most people would do best buying the whole 349 subsystem with the IBM type disk drive and cables included rather than buying only the 180 card and shopping separately for the disk drive You may beable tobuy an IBM disk drive and cable and power supply more cheaply but the average user will be baffled by the task of connecting everything up at least if he or she is using ASKY s manual With the complete system you can just pop in the card connect the cable to the drive and plug it in S Its hard to buy the ENVOY As far as I know it savailable at this writing only from ASKY Inc itself 770 Sycamore Dr Milpitas Cal 95035 408 943 1940 or 800 621 0854 x 330 President is Ronald Sturtevant Stuart Sales manager is Ryda M Stuart I ve never seen an ad for ENVOY 6 Support is available and cheerfully given But you have to call at the right time and catch the right person in For many questions only company president Ronald Stuart seems able to answer Luckily the thing is so easy to use these lapses aren t fatal I m convinced that anybody other than a total computer novice can install and use the ENVOY relatively easily No tools or programming knowledge are required You don t need to have more thanar
257. rm a decent Tumor ADC Modem Update DAK is now selling the ADC modem that I have written about sev eral times for 129 including a 25 CompuServe on line bonus This is reduced from the original price of 169 and the later reduced price of 149 Mine still works fine and is a good price for a 300 1200 baud Hayes compatible modem Ordering infor mationisas follows DAK Industries Inc 800 325 0800 order 4334 129 plus 6 shipping and handling They also sell serial cables and serial cards for IBM or Apple II hookups The above telephone number can give you the needed information Lynn Trusal is a Major in the US Army and a research physiologist with the U S Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Ft Detrick Freder ick MD He hasn t written any computer books he doesn t own a consulting firm he s never taken a computer course he doesn t do programming but he reads a hell ofa lot and loves the Macintosh not in the Biblical sense Take that Fred Seelig 55 WORD TOOLS 64 95 ATFINITY SOFTWARE 79 95 ALTSYS FONTASTIC PLUS 67 95 ANH ARBOR FULL PAINT 69 95 BERKELEY SYS DESIGN STEPPING OUT 74 95 BORLAND 69 95 69 95 TURBO PASCAL 69 95 BRAVO TEXCHNOLOCIES MAC 99 95 BRODERBUHD ANCIENT ART WAR 34 95 69 95 LODE RUNNER 3
258. rogram the variable stands for frequency and the variable D stands for duration wc have to do is to look at the musical staff and decide what F and what D to place into our program so that the sound will be correct or as near correct as we can make it The position of the note on the staff and its shape icon tells us its frequency and duration Since I haven t been able to commit everything to memory I made some charts and tables that aid me in programming my music I hope you will have them available for you when you program your music First a couple of conventions TONES Range 1 255 highest 1 silence lowest 255 Note some of the highest notes tones 2 6 are so high you may not be able to hear them DURATIONS Range 1 255 short est 1 longest 255 DURATION Let s discuss this first because it is the easiest A duration is how long a note is held maintained the longest note being a whole note and the shortest note for our purpose being 1 64 of a whole note calleda grace note If inour programming 255 represents the longest note that we Bar have then a note held 1 2 as long would be represented by 127 it would be called a Half Note 1 4 of the longest note a Quarter Note would be represented by 64 etc Each note has an icon that appears on the musical staff Sce Table 1 Sometimes contd DURATION ICON these icons have lit
259. rs sir That s find fine Corporal always good to see an enlisted man keeping himself occupied like that Carry on Corporal wek Uh oh here comes Klinger Looks like he s gone straight onus Klinger what s with the blue suit No more Anne Klein dresses Gentlemen I am a little sad to say that you will no more see Klinger in No Nonsense Pantyhose It s a thing of the past The Company has ordered us to assume a wholesome look Goo dbye hoop earrings Goodbye Peach blush Goodbye May belline Eye Liner It s low key ties and Brooks Brothers suits The folks back in Toledo won t recognize me any more Hello Madison Avenue I welcome you with open arms Veni vidi vici Gesundheit Take two aspirin and call us in the morning Better yet don t call us at all Camera tilts down to show Radar sitting at his computer with Col Potter looking over his shoulder Others in soft blur in the background Colonel What is it son I can t quite get this infernal mouse to work Rest of cast in unison Radar What s the matter Didn t they tell you son This isn t a mou Rest of cast in unison Colonel this is a pointing device Oh Long pause You mean we can t say the M word Afraid not son gracious my I should think not Why it would bc as if God Himself would send down fire and brimstone on us Philis tines were we
260. rs out of any given font style XPress also has this feature For example if the text selected is a size of 10 point a Command Shift expands the type horizontally so that although the depth remains the same 10 point size the width becomes expanded or spread out Command Shift on the other hand condenscs type particularly uscful within tight tabular matter where the desired size is needed for legibility but that size will not fit within a particular defined measure Condensed type like Helvetica Condensed or Helvetica Narrow squeezes the type characters closer together while still maintaining the original point size Again these functions until XPress came the scene were only available on very expensive typesetting equipment using digitized fonts The word digitized being used here is not to be confused with digitized art or graphics by any stretch of the imagination A bricf look at the menu options in XPress does not reveal the many hidden features of this program For instance if you were to look at the line menu or thc box menu one may think at first that this is all there is to choose from these menus as is the case in RSG or PM Not true of XPress Any line thickness can be defined in the Line Specification box when lines are selected Additionally there are over 20 frame options available What is unique with these frames is the ability to designate almost size for the thickness of some of these frames
261. rtScrap documentation states it could possibly take up to 5 minutes for the program to create a Table of Contents although normally it takes less than a minute Once you have created the Table of Contents you can call it up anytime you would like It allows you to vicw the contents of the Scrapbook in miniature and a double click on any graphic or text will take you directly to that page in the Scrapbook This super feature allows you to quickly scan your entire Scrapbook looking for that special graphic you need The DA also allows you to resize and scroll the contents of a Scrapbook page Gone are the days when you could only see a small portion of the graphic you wanted to copy with SmartScrap you can resize the entire window or scroll through the entire page SmartScrap SAGITTARIUS Figure 2 A Resized Window SmartScrap even has a grow box to quickly resize the window to full screen The pages actually controlled much as the original Notepad was click on the dog eared page to go for ward and backward If you have very many pages to your Scrapbook you will soon realize the convenience of the Table of Contents for instead of clicking on the scroll bar or even on the dog eared page using the Table of Contents you can quickly double click to the page you want If you have always wanted the ability to select part of the Scrapbook page either graphic or text you can now thank Solutions for that ability You ca
262. s It may appear on a staff line in a space between staff lines above the Treble Staff in an area called the Ledger and between the Treble Staff and Base Staff in another arca called the Ledger we will not permit notes on or below the bottom staff line of the Base Staff Musicians can look at a shect of music and immediately know what note on their instrument to activate in order to produce the sound written in the music I am not so fortunate I must have somc help You will find two tables that I de signed to make life easicr for you Table 3 presents the note and its value by the various octaves that you will use in your Applesoft program 1f you know the octave and the name of the note by looking at the music you can use the matrix of Table 3 to find the necessary numerical value that you will be using By the way you will probably find that most of the music that you will program will be con tained in octaves 2 and 3 with maybe a couple of notes from octave 4 Now if you don t know the name of the note by just looking at its position on the musical staffs not to worry use Table 4 Here thc notes are grouped by OCTAVE from the Base Staff to the Ledger arca above the Treble Staff Please note that the broad horizontal lines made up of characters represent the lines of the staff You will find the natural notes un ac cented not a sharp or flat between the double sets of slanted lines Here s what you
263. s been late coming but what can you expect for a free product Ihope it is as good as beta versions indicated Not to be outdone Apple is about ready to release Twitcher which will combine elements of Switcher and the Finder into Twitcher Apple has apparently decided to use some of Servants code but not use Hertzfcld s product as is Juggler is the code name being thrown around for the multi tasking operating system Apple is developing for the Macintosh II Has the most successful shareware developer finally gone commercial Rumors are circulating that Scott Watson may be ending his shareware version of Red Ryder A soon to be released version 10 0 may be the last shareware version released Say it isn t so Scott He has apparently already made the same decision with Red Ryder Host BBS software which may no longer may be offered free to registered users Implementation of a graphics telecommunication interface Nautilus for both Red Ryder and Red Ryder Host has also been delayed Another possibility is that users will still able to download Red Ryder as shareware but will have to pay for the documentation by purchasing it from Scott It appears that a previous rumor on the death of the personal LaserWriter was premature Apple is apparently ready to release the Personal LaserWriter which uses the new smaller Canon laser engine and uses QuickDraw routines in ROM but not contain PostScript It has a throughput of 5 6
264. s continu ing to be bullish After this review May participants then shared the results of their own methods for investing in mutual funds A Harley Wilbur continucd to refine his Fidelity mutual fund performance index which is geared to give short term buy and sell trading signals By using 4 day and 18 day non exponential moving averages of the funds prices Wilbur calculates an oscillator of the averages whose downturn indicates a sell signal and whose upturn suggests it is time to buy This method yielded a 10 7 gain between March 31 and May 22 Jerry Dotter said he uses this same method in combination with the War Machine software on an IBM using hourly rather than daily closing Dow Jones data This refinement provides more of a feel for the market because it includes consideration of whether the broader stock market as measured by the Dow is headed up or down If the market is headed up then Dotter uses the Wilbur data to decide into which Fidclity Select fund to switch Wilbur then reviewed A Fresh Look At Old Lore an article by Edward P Nicoski which appeared in the Journal for the American Association of Individual Investors May 1987 Nocoski s work used advance decline data from 1969 through the present and identified eight unique cycles including the most favorable timing phases for investing in the stock market He claimed the present time was one of the more favorable cycles for investing C Troy Kline
265. s out of 10 P S Thanks to Sierra for the help extended to me by phone when I was stuck Good service is always appreciated 5 WAP WORLD BUILDER CONTEST by Robert C Platt WAP is sponsoring a contest to see who can design the best adventure game using Silicon Beach Software s World Builder construction sct The contest will be judged by the nationally acclaimed author of Angst Ron Wartow and his GameSIG associates The winning entries will be distributed on WAP Library Disks The Rules All entries must be reccived in the WAP Office no later than Wednesday Sept 16 Please include a note indicating the name age and WAP number of the entrant separate award will be given for games submitted by WAP s younger members You need not includc your actual name in the software The decision of the judges will be final and winners will be announced later in the fall Hints You can import graphics and sounds through the clipboard from other World Builder adventures Sce WAP Mac disks 95 and 96 and May WAP Joumal 32 Silicon Beach Software sells additional sounds library disks for 15 each 38 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 minute stretches The game has some good things to it too Before you start you havea list of options that Iet you change difficulty levels and such and also change the arrival of reinforcements separately for each side built in cheating although once you start you cannot go ba
266. se it says it patents for the 3 5 hard disk drives have been violated Rodime says it has the only license to market 3 5 hard disk drives in the U S Apple has appointed a new head of U S sales is Mr Boesenbery who has held previous positions with IBM and Data General Apple has shipped 25 000 Mac SE units in the first six wecks after the product s release This is the strongest sales for any Macintosh model to date Apple is estimating it will ship 478 000 Macintosh computers in the U S in 1987 which isa41 increase over 1986 By 1988 the Macintosh family of computers will account for 68 of total Apple revenue as opposed to the current 48 in 1986 Appleand 3Com Corp have announced that they have jointly developed an Ethernet network interface card for the Mac II The interface card will be called EtherTalk and will allow direct connection of the Mac II to a 10 Mbit per second Ethernct network Adobe has come up with a unique way of dramatically increasing the compliance of sending in the warranty cards and registering their new software product Adobe Illustrator The original copy of the program is copy protected but if you mail in the registration card they send you a copy that is not copy protected Obviously thcy are not as concemed with pirating as they are having owners register their purchase You would think that most purchasers would automatically register software purchases but I estimate compliance is less than 50 I ha
267. sh wit certainly hasn t changed these past years What s Col Potter trying to do over at the desk He s been muttcring about that new computer for half an hour now Colonel I say what is it that you are doing Hello Padre At the moment I m not doing much of anything I feel like getting my old mule in here and kicking this here machine right up the side of its microchips Horsefeathers This thing won t even let me do anything I have to wait a year for the operating system to appear on the shelves so says that young salesman over there Hell I was fighting the Big One when he was still in diapers Ah I ll give this thing another minute and if it doesn t work by then I ll send it back to Requisitions and let them figure it out Oh my gracious But that certainly is an impressive looking machine Padre impressive looks belong on an automobile show room floor I just want something that works for now Cut to Major Burns sneaking up behind Hot Lips Houlihan Frank keep your hands to yourself Honestly every time you sce me sitting behind this new computer you get so so beastly Oh Margaret I love it when you talk dirty It s just the sight of you in front of that glowing full color bit mapped screen is just too much for an ordinary man to handle Oh grow up Frank These are corporate ads I represent the corporate businesswoman So knock off the sexual double entendres Sighs
268. sive Apple dealer to get the upgrade which they had in stock They took one look at my machine and there was a sigh of frustration The upgrade could not installed my case it was too carly a version It would take 2 weeks to get a case and it would cost an extra 55 I said go ahead Within 2 weeks I got anote that the case had arrived and surprisingly there would be no extra charge The rest of the modification was uneventful The only thing that was left of the old c was the power supply keyboard and the speaker It was exciting to get the GS homeand to hook it up and to find that I really did have a different machine and after a few false starts that there would be a lot to learn Meanwhile however my goal of getting the Sony going scemed as unattainable as ever The dealer said he would make a cable but soon realized that the connector was a real oddball at the monitor end I had to order a cable from Sony which took 10 days and then the dealer changed the computer end from a 25 pin to a 15 pin that was needed This was totally successful using the pinout diagram in the Sony manual that came with the monitor With respect to drives I knew that could usc my two 5 1 4 inch drives with the Apple interface card in slot 6 just as before and that this would get me started It worked after Ttook some time to figure out how to configure the machine using the Control Panel All but onc of my programs that I have tried
269. soft Word Software MacWorld 87 Boston August 11 15 Volunteers needed to help staff the Washington Apple Pi booth Any time you can devote to this will be appreciated 1 hour to all day whatever fits your schedule Please call Bernie at the office Washington Apple Pi August 1987 47 amp by Jonathan E Hardis Leftovers Rosemary Davis who has a MacBottom 40 MB Hard Disk wrote to say that technical support at MacBottom told her that the new system software System 4 1 Finder 5 5 is not needed unless there is more than 32 MB of data on the hard disk In June I repeated warnings from Apple that users with large capacity hard disks should back up their data erase these disks and change to System 4 1 Independently of Ms Davis experiences in the past month I also bought the same model of hard disk When I called the company to ask if it would be okay to use the latest system software with their disk driver software they told me that it would be a good idea As I understood the bug the problem had to do with allocat ing space on the disk beyond the 32 MB point It is possible because of the way space is used up on the disk that there can be less than 32 MB worth of data on the disk while some of that data lics beyond the 32 MB point That is there can be gaps with some low lying space on the disk unused So extracaution is still advised Yetanyone who takes the normal precaution of backing up th
270. some software And on my IIgs at lcast the extra but powered down drive slows down the system s overall disk access time causing a perceptible delay in disk reads and writes even on the drives in slots 5 6 and 2 I have gotten used to this but others may not ASKY says it may one day put a switch on the system to make it invisible to the Apple except when it s being used CONCLUSION The ENVOY system is a very clever fairly priced product that solves a real problem for Apple II users how to swap data on disk between Apple and computers ENVOY won t run software but that s probably not necessary for most Apple users who also usc IBM compatibles Swapping data is the key to compatibility for most and ENVOY does that well ENVOY s main disadvantage is that its makers aren t sup porting it with adequate marketing documentation and software development Nobody but a real hardware expert should try to buy the card alone and add his or her own drive But ENVOY is so easy to use and the need it fills so important that the combined card and drive are well worth the 349 they cost for any serious Apple owner who also works with IBM compatible machines COMPUTER DEN LTD Save more than 30 on software peripherals and accessories for all Apple computers including Mac IIGS We sell Laser computers and accessories Call for information and prices We attempt to beat all locally advertised prices COMPUTER DEN
271. ss City State Zip Phone C Seminar registration Names of other attendees NAUG member NAUG member membership 24 Amount enclosed OFFICERS amp STAFF Board of Directors Use the Hotline for Technical Questions President Tom Warrick 301 654 8060 Mac Lib Staff Dave Benbennick Ham DeJarnette Vice Raymond Hobbs 301 725 5972 John DeMarco Gary Vice Pres Bob Platt 703 486 1466 Frank Andy Gal lant MED Treasurer Edward Myerson 703 759 5479 Gary Grey William Jones Al Maloncy Secretary Peter Com 301 251 6369 Ralph Mullendore Mike Robinett Directors Bruce Field 301 340 7038 Rodgers Charles Sicard Priscilla Myerson 703 759 5479 Bob Soule Joe Swick Bob Vandegrift Eric Rall 301 596 0004 Jessica Weissman Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Group Purchases Rich Wassersrom 202 544 8327 Richard Rowell venings 7 00 9 30 M Jay Thal 202 Head Reading Lib Walt rancis 202 966 5742 Lynn R Trusal 301 845 2651 Apple Tea Coord Amy 301 622 2203 Past President David Morganstein 301 972 4263 Arrangements Leon 301 946 2642 Editor Bernie Urban 301 229 3458 Dealer Rel Comm John Alden 202 686 1656 Head Software Libr Jim Little 301 762 3215 Jim Pure id day 202 337 7900 Office Managers Gena 4 Bernie Urban 301 654 8060 Rich Was Journal Staff General Counsel
272. ssibility that we may not be able to 40 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 Blak disks account lor 30 of this tem Tnelsdes salaries 52555 252 Y and rent continue using the USUHS facility If we are able to continue using the USUHS facility then guard expense will be approxi mately 2 200 for the year while meeting place rent should disappear When cash expenses are subtracted from gross margin the result is cash excess or deficit from operations This is the amount left to spend for equipment or to bolster reserves after all cash expenses have been met Note that the actual cash excess from operation was 9 914 or 8 768 more than expected Almost all of this net favorable variance may be linked to a 10 561 savings over budget in office expenses Of those savings about 4 000 are from double counting membership mailing items These items are treated correctly in the budget for the new fiscal year Thelast linc of the statement excess deficit from operations is the result of subtracting the non cash item depreciation expense from cash excess deficit A proposed capital expenditure budget is also attached Although it represents approximately half of the dollar amount for items that the Board originally considered it makes minimal demands on our cash reserves The charts show the makeup revenues and expenditures costs and expenses Please let us know if you have any questions Edward J Myerson Co Treasurer Priscilla
273. stom graphics software written in C While I experienced some minor problems and frustrations with these software packages I was able to accomplish all of my goals and finish my dissertation Before discussing why I ended up using these products I d like to discuss some of the programs that I initially tried but for one reason or another rejected Equation Formatters The first and most obvious requirement for my dissertation was a way of producing the equations that form the heart of the work Typesctting equations is a real art and there are several ways that it can be approached on the Mac My earlicst attempts involved the usc of some special fonts along with a standard word processor e g MacWrite or Word 1 0 to produce equations This works fine for simple formulae like y x 4 but fails miscrably when more complex equations are attempted For example the best an equation of the form fact could be typeset using Word 1 0 is 1 dx 0 2 2 The biggest problem here is that there is no good way to represent a vertical fraction Of course there are also other problems including the fact that equations typeset like this are very difficult to edit since spaces or tabs used to arrange all of their terms In addition there are equation constructs which cannot be represented at all using standard word processors such as matrices with the brackets around them e g 58 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 ON
274. struct electric fences that will pen your adversary inacorner of the playing screen It sa little frantic but I can see that there s some strategy involved Type to get some bricf instructions Brickles 7 0 A variation on the old Break Out theme You can vary speed and lots of other variables Shareware 5 00 or 10 00 contd Washington Apple Pi August 1987 83 1000 Miles An auto racing game based on the card game Mille Bornes by Parker Brothers This isn t an arcade style game but rather a game of strategy and chance in which you play against your Mac It s strangely addicting Shareware 10 00 1000 Miles doc An illustrated six page MacWrite file that provides instructions for playing 1000 Miles Memory Version 2 0 A matching game in the style of Concentration but without the puzzle Match pairs of familiar Macintosh icons playing against either a friend or the Mac Fortunately the Mac was almost as forgetful as we were at the lowest level of difficulty giving us achance to stay competitive The game offers five levels of difficulty and different collec tions of icons called decks are available in the game section of CompuServe Check the About Memory command under the Apple menu to get on screen instructions Shareware 10 00 Casino A different set of icons for the Memory game based on playing cards dice and telepathic recognition symbols Symmetry Another set of icons for Memory based on symmet
275. sum by the total number For example DIM X 100 REMARK enter the data into the X array somehow SUM 0 FOR I 1 TO 100 SUM SUM NEXTI PRINT SUM N 76 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 In APL you can accomplish this with A lot easier don t you agree As aside the rX means the number of items in X actually the rank of X which in this case isa vector of some length with rank equal to the number of items The says add up the elements of the array that follows Among APL s many operators are those which take the inverse of a matrix which multiply two arrays together or which deal out random numbers Each of these complex operations is accomplished with only a few symbols Much of APL is designed in such a way that the programming construct of a loop DO loop FOR NEXT loop DO WHILE etc are unneces sary Itis rare to see an index in an APL program In mostcases numerical operations which would require many lines of code containing loops and indices can be done in a just a few operations using APL Imagine writing a program that prints out a calendar for a specific month of a specific year Admittedly the logic behind such a program is not easy to see But you will agree that you probably can t solve such a problem in Basic Pascal or C in just a couple of lines How about this 7 QeCALENDAR 1 010 T AYCALENDAR mm yy DERROR 2 0 HD LENGTH ERROR 01044 o TeMeMIVMI 1 o 1931 DERRO
276. sure that this resource is purgeable Macintalk and the pro grams that use it such as the Talking Moose DA don t work on the Mac II After a change of publisher Thunder version 1 1 isnow shipping Call Electronic Arts at415 578 0316 for update information It works with Works To use MS Works on a Mac II use FEdit find 3039 and change it to 203C Ready Set Go version 4 0 is in the wind People who bought after June 1 will get the upgrade for free Others will have to pay about 50 It is said to have all the features of XPress that were missing in 3 0 Expect an announcement by mid August Corvus laid off their staff that were working on Apple compatible products If you turn off the 68020 instruction cache on the Mac II AppleTalk which depends critically on the instruction timings will stop working Registered World Builder owners should be recciv ing version 1 1 in the mail for free AppleShare owners should get the version 1 1 update from their dealers By the way InterMail or InBox can run on the same server Mac as Ap pleShare If the Apple hard disk on your Mac won t boot run Apple s HD Setup from a floppy and select Update This will reinstall the SCSI drivers which could have been wiped out Reinstalling the drivers will not trash any data that is still present on the disk Other brands of disks would have a similar procedure Jasmine and MacBottom hard disks don t work on the Mac II yet When you
277. t SmartScrap amp The Clipper are heralded by Solutions Inc as a Pair of Elegant Desk Accessories and they are correct both are solid and reliable Desk Accessories The limitations of the original Apple provided Scrapbook DA are well known Although it was a welcome addition to our original use of the Macintosh we all quickly had ideas on how it could have served us better SmartScrap incorporates these ideas and is what we always wanted in a Scrapbook DA the ability to create and view multiple Scrapbooks the ability to see a graphic index of our entire scrapbook a resizeable window and finally for graphics or text larger than the window we can now scroll the Scrapbook window Clipper isa DA aimed at the businessman and desktop publisher for sizing cropping and accurately selecting a graphic to insert into a business letter or page layout Clipper will allow you to accurately measure the size of the space for your graphic and then you can copy your entire graphic to the clipboard and scale or crop it to the exact size you need SmartScrap DA The SmartScrap DA opens to the first page of your Scrapbook and installs it s own menu in the menu bar The menu allows you to create new Scrapbooks switch Scrapbooks and most impor tantly show a Table of Contents for your Scrapbook This is one of the really nice touches to SmartScrap Astrology Scrapbook on McPic 1 Disk Figure 1 The Table of Contents Window The Sma
278. t for the first timc That s why the Mac looks and feels different rom other IBM compatible machines Enjoy the feeling Enjoy the familiarity But don t take it for granted 2400 bps 2400bps 2400 bps 2400 bps 2400 bps 2400 bp The 2412 STH Not just another Hayes AT compatible 2400 bps modem The AJ 2412 STH has all the features you d expect from a high quality 2400 bps modem such as Full compatibility with the Hayes 2400 bps AT command set Synchronous and asynchronous operation at 0 300 1200 and 2400 bps Automatic speed detection and matching Voice data switching Software programmable options Automatic and manual originate and answer Single number redial But the AJ 2412 STH offers more including Optional MNP error detection and correction CCITT V 22 V 22 bis amp Bell 103 212A standards MI MIC or A AI operation Nonvolatile memory EEPROM Integral speaker for call progress monitoring Convenient front panel status indicators Powell Pendergraph 301 921 4200 Commart 301 261 4344 Comsel 301 734 3880 Anderson Jacobson Inc 8653 Grovemont Circle The AJ 2412 STH all this for a suggested list price of 395 Goithersburg MD 20877 4191 ANDERSON JACOBSON 301 840 5700 400 bps 2400bps 2400 bps 2400 bps 2400 bps 2400 bps Washington Apple Pi August 1987 53 MACINTOSH BITS AND BYTES by Lynn H Trusal IBM and Hewl
279. t in deleting your original Minor enhancements that would improve the programs include a default setting that opens SmartScrap to the Table of Contents and the ability to retain formatting of text in SmartScrap Do I Really Need It For anyone who uses the Scrapbook for cutting and pasting graphics or text between programs SmartScrap is a must have program It really makes it much easicr to find select and transfer graphics and text The Table of Contents capability will give most people the cataloging capabilities they need for their graphics files climinating the need for additional programs Clipper is a more specialized program catcring to desktop publishers and business users adding additional enhancements to the standard Clipboard Thecostof SmartScrap amp The Clipper is high for stand alone Desk Accessories but by mail order the program is a good buy SmartScrap amp The Clipper Solutions Inc 29 Main Street Box 989 Montpelier 05602 59 95 Not Copy Protected 82 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 CALE NDARMAKE R A Review _ Ed Note This article came without the author s name attached and therefore we cannot give proper credit at this time CalendarMaker by Donald Brown of C E Software is a rcal gem of a program for those of us who have busy schedules or have trouble remembcring appointments and important dates To make it even better the program is distributed as shareware so you ca
280. t over the older ver sions thatit would be foolish to now use the older versions And of course there is Microsofts s powerful Excel running circles around the formidable Microsoft Multiplan The list goes on But notice above that many of the software development companies that survive are constantly improving their own products based both on user response and advance discoveries made with other programs And many of these companies do thisatrisk of sounding the death knell for their own previous versions by rewriting them entirely This is good from a user s point of view If it temporarily causes some pain and confusion bear in mind that these adjustments have to be made by the better developers in response to user problems and requests us and in response to new System Finder Laser Writer LaserWriter Prep and font file refinements that are not only important but necessary upgrades toward better quality and craftsmanship in our environment Quark a new company asked questions of page layout users and had some ideas of their own to implement As a result XPress was produced And though their menus look familiar and the Mac interface is followed more than just closely XPress like CricketDraw is full of hidden menus and shocking sur prises SIMILARITIES Text picture boxes grid boxes and the Modify dialog box in XPress are reminiscent of RSG The SnapTo Guides the Tab dot or dash or any character Leaders Reverse t
281. t the running time that matters When you start APL you are in a clear workspace This Workspace can contain programs denoted functions and vari ables You can save a workspace with the accompanying variables and functions and reload it tomorrow picking up where you left off APL is modular Each function is created by itself One function can call another Variables can be numeric or character They can be global that is available at the workspace level or they can be declared local so that they exist only within a function Below I have loaded the workspace STATS into APL Then I issued the command fns to list the functions in the workspace Lastly the command vars is given to list all the global variables DLOAD DF40 Languages APL STATS DF40 Languages APL STATS SAVED 06 13 87 16 52 14 fna DIE DIE2 MEAN STDEV vars 1 2 To see the value of a variable you just type its name If it is an array all the elements will be listed in a neatly formatted order If the variable is a matrix with several dimensions the elements will appear in an organized display without the need for formatting commands Let s make an array containing the numbers 1 to 60 and form it into a three by four by five matrix x 160 3 45 px x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 5 58 59 6
282. te learning system Jameco Electronic 415 592 8097 1355 Shoreway Road Belmont CA 94002 Product Apple Chips ctc Description 6502B and many other chips for the Jeff Sumey Enterprises Jeff Sumcy 412 439 2633 75 Boyle St Uniontown PA 15401 Product Spooler p De scription Spooler Printer Driver Legend Industries 800 5 LEGEND 2220 Scott Lake Rd Pontiac MI 48054 Product S Card Description RAM Card for the Morris Horn and Associates Morris Horn 817 292 3432 Box 330876 Ft Worth TX 76163 Product Various Prod ucts Parts Description Lots of stuff Check for availability N D R C 214 750 9889 8511 Dallas TX 75231 Product Apple s and Parts Description Sells many Apple hardware products Omicron Electronics CON TACT Mike 313 757 8192 11240 Nine Mile Road Warren MI 48089 Product Infotory Software and various hardware Description Software and some hardwarc Pecan Software Systems 718 851 3100 1410 39th St Brooklyn NY 11216 Product Modula 2 Description Pro gramming Language Pre Owned Electronics Charles 617 891 6851 Box 644 Lincoln MA 01773 Product Various Apple Hardware Products Description Apple s Motherboards etc Shreve Systems 318 865 6743 845 Lark Ave Shreveport LA 71105 Product Motherboard and other products De scription Sells many Apple products contd Washington Apple Pi Aug
283. ter Close I W D Q Quit Figure 3 Function and alt function keys F1 F10 for MS Word 3 0 At the right hand side of the Tangent Tech keyboard exist ten function keys These make it worth the price of the keyboard In a few quick keystrokes you can edit almost any document quickly and efficiently and witha minimum of contortion of your lefthand No more need to hold down three or four function keys to get the action you want Function kcys automate the mundane portions of the computer saving files printing getting info grouping nice for MacDraw duplicating MacDraw and word formatting like bold italic underline I wish that they would have given us the superscript and subscript features on the Fkeys but that can be easily reprogrammed with Tempo The shift keys on the right and the left hand sides are both oversized That means that you can actually use the right hand shift key This key is so small on the Mac keyboard that it is unusable There are raised dashes in thc F and J kcys to give a good feel for Home typing position The numerical keypad has araised dot on the 5 key the central one There sa shelf above the keys ideal for the propping of books and manuals whilc typing Now for the bad news The PC Mac Key keyboard doesn t fit into a normal carrying case I have a Mountain Equipment carrying case Icon Review stocks and it can fita Mac Plus and an HD 20 hard disk in it But the TT keyboard is about 1 1 2 72 Was
284. ter with a 512 or one megabyte memory The most disconcerting problem is the cursor I prefer the blinking line as in APPLEWORKS or the WORD PERFECT MS DOS version instead of a vertical white solid bar In addition a line draw feature as in the MS DOS version would be quite useful Finally a thesaurus would be another useful featurc Since the program comes on four disks another one with a thesaurus would not be unreasonable Thesc are a few things that might be changed for the next version Insummary Iam quite enthusiastic about WORD PERFECT for the Apple It is a powerful hcavy duty program that anyone should be able to usc easily Finally with highest praise to the publisher this program is not copy protected Washington Apple Pi August 1987 25 SIMPLE APPLE ML 78 by Gary Hayman 1987 In Parts 1 and 2 we played with paddle joystick tablet sounds We listened to some random notes and developed a sub routine for some interesting sounds We produced musical scales major and chro matic to enjoy and recognize Well it s now time to get down to some serious music business Remember what we are doing is to insert a little music into our programs or at the least listen to a couple of songs that we programmed into Applesoft Also at this point you may know very little or nothing at all about printed music That s allright neither do I But I have learned just enough so that I can accomplish the above t
285. text automatic date insertion if you have aclock headers footers and footnotes indents overstrike super and subscripts and macros and mailmerge to name a few I counted about 127 different features commands compared to about 135 for the other version There is also a 50 000 word spell checker that is casy to usc In fact the entire program is casy to use The documentation is superb it has the same tutorial learning examples as the MS DOS version The manual is clearly written comprehensive and easy to follow The publisher is easy to contact and readily and pleasantly answers questions keyboard template is furnished that fits above the top row of keys In addition there is a quick reference card detailing the location of all of the features The program utilizes open Apple number and closed Apple number combinations that bring up menu choices across the bottom of the screen These are selected with the number keys If you are familiar with the other version you will be quite surprised at the similarities between the keyboards and between the screen prompts The macros are easy to dcfine and the program supports about fifty of the most common printers Three can be installed at time and custom installation is also available Despite these accolades however there are several drawbacks although they do not dampen my enthusiasm for the program The program is slow and disk intensive However it should perform bet
286. that a sibling can never be separated from its parent box but the box can be expanded and manipulated Two other new tools appear at the bottom end the linking chain and the broken unlink chain These link columns of textual matter from one frame to another The important thing to remember about XPress is that these chains do not have to be sequential boxes but can be ANY box on ANY page of ANY size that the user defines as a link for that story or article within that document View m T WPress Program 6 stems 761 in disk 24K XPress XPress Dictionary Frame Editor Press Datframe Editor XPress 194K avaitadle lt 96K in disk a Samples for Chapter 1 Samples for Chapter 2 H e BUILDING BLOCKS Perhaps weare witness to a pattern developing in these newer gencration of programs It s more like a building block structure of ideas amplified from previous ideas and then welded into more of the potential of which the Mac is capable Graphic Works 1 1 has done it with MacDraw and MacPaint while throwing in some newer tools most notably the airbrush and the sophisti cated PostScrip LaserWriter manipulations PageMaker 2 0 has built upon the corpse of their own PM 1 2 whose files now have to be translated into the completely new 2 0 version with a little bit of pain as far as type and leading are concerned ReadySetGo3 is such a great improvemen
287. the network International Datawares International Datawares sounds like a shell corporation that was formed to run arms down to South America but these folks are really legit They give us Diskette Gazette every month absolutely free of charge They just celebrated their first year anniversary this last month This outfit is a genuine pleasure to work with Here s a hero story I ordered two copies of FileMaker Plus the Macintosh Bible few boxes of disks Sony DSDD 1 box of ten for 15 50 an ImageWriter ribbon 3 90 and a few other odds amp ends ID sends a box but only one copy of FileMaker Plus Icallout there right away on their 800 number They say hmmm if the invoice says we shipped two we probably did What was the weight of the package I tcll them and they get apologetic and say oops we put together a package here with your things and we did slight you a FileMaker Plus package So they UPS another package out right away The invoice says 6 18 87 CUS TOMER RECEIVED ONLY ONE FILEMAKER PLUS VERIFIED BY WEIGHT SEND OUT ASAP MR SEELIG WE APOLOGIZE FOR THIS INCONVENIENCE DD I dunno it sort of warms the cockles of my heart knowing that there are still companics out there that work the way they re supposed to And I haven t heard that kind of story about any IBM type vendors lately Diskette Gazette International Datawares Inc 2278 Trade Zone Blvd San Jose CA 95131 Mac II Garners Rave Reviews
288. the new GS System Disk ver 2 0 This contains ProDOS 16 ver 1 2 ProDOSS ver 1 4 and Basic Launcher ver 2 0 Most of the tools have been revised and slightly compacted couple of the missing tools have been added along with the printer drivers Hodgepodge WAP2002 will print SHR pics when using this system Wearetrying to compile a disk of songs Music Studio Music Construction set and a disk of SHR pictures Contributions of any type arc eagerly welcome Washington Apple Pi August 1987 85 Apple II The following three WAP tutorials are being offered to Apple II owners on the first three Tuesday evenings of the month from 7 30 to 9 00 PM at the office 8227 Woodmont Ave Bethesda MD The tutorials start promptly at 7 30 if you bring your computer please arrive 15 minutes to set up You may sign up for any or all of the series They are designed for the beginner and will be repeated A revised outline of the tutorials was given in the October Journal The fee for each session is 10 00 You are urged to bring and disk drive Monitors are available for the 1st 5 registrants call office Please note that WAP does not have equipment for you to use if you do not bring your own you will have to look over someone s shoulder No AppleII WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF APPLE September 1 Tutorialsin HOW TO USE YOUR APPLE SOFTWARE September 8 August POPULAR APPLICATIONS A
289. the section special that is to not print the standard headers footers of page numbers for the first page of the section This option works fine with regard to headers and footers but does not always suppress the printing of page numbers at the beginning of sections Apparently the program will only sup press the printing of the page number if the first page of the section is numbered 1 Otherwise the page number is printed as on all of the other pages This was a problem since my disserta tion was required to have all of the pages numbered at the top except for the first page of each section those were to be numbered at the bottom I used this option to insert a special first contd Washington Apple August 1987 59 page footer with the page number throughout the document When it printed out though the program printed the page num bers at the top and the bottom of the first page of each section except for the very first section A little white out corrected the problem My final complaint is that the spelling checker objected to the spelling of certain words that it found within equations Most often what the program identified as words turned out to be simple Greek variables with one or more alphanumeric sub scripts This made the spelling checker much harder to use on technical documents then it would be on regular text In my opinion the spelling checker should not treat any sequence containing either a number or
290. this instance why not use ragged right copy Either would have solved the problem and helped to make their ad more legible and eye pleasing Quark XPress combines the best of all the page layout programs fixes and adjusts most of the peculiarities in these programs synthesizes them makes the operation as ergon omic to the useras possible adds super refinements and touches that make this not only an extremely fast application but one that is custom designed and custom geared if you will for precision operation and control of both graphics and text Slick clean and professional are the words best describing it The developers under the team leadership of Tim Gill cer tainly made an art form out of horizontal and vertical spacing And they certainly know the Macintosh and typography no question about it The manual and its tutorials are very clear and simple with the suggestions made at the beginning of this review to include additional information about importing and exporting files as well as some expansion on PostScript abilities All praise and all encouragement must go toward their efforts along with the hope that with such a foundation application as XPress new developments will be addressed by them as these develop ments occur in the world of the Macintosh for upgrades and further refinements toward that quality and craftsmanship we all seek and they so well understood Quark XPress is a powerful major find and major c
291. ticated game that will either challenge a serious football fan or educate an occasional fan like myself on the finer points of the game Certainly many football purists who own a Mac will probably hold out for other Mac Football game NFL Challenge but for the rest of us that game not only has a steep price tag it also requires you to memorize about 200 pages of playbook material before you get started Mac Pro Football is an easier game to get started on but easy doesn t mean simple You might get away with a few gonzo plays now and then like the night GameSig Chairman Emeritus Ron Wartow executed a long bomb touchdown to the cheers of a roomful of GameSiggers but not often That s because the game plays very much like real football and real football requires some thought careful plan ning and a coach who can call for the right play in a critical situation For that reason no one should even attempt to play Mac Pro Football without spending some time with the Coach s Play book a guide to all the football fundamentals you need to know to get started This Playbook was especially important to someone like me a guy who wonders whatever happened to the drop kick or the Statue of Liberty play actually I m told they are alive and well in this thing called Arena Football The book also gives you a scouting report on each of the 38 Super Bowl teams included in the program Actually there are only
292. tion numerator MF numerator denominator gives qoiominator I ntegral Options SU PR IN summation product in line limits fixed height character c variable height character c integral is really a misnomer for this command b gives b M su a b c gives a b N pr a b c gives a M in a b c gives 2 b MMCMA a b M 1 2 c gives A jc 1 1 22 gives 2 b MWeMANin a b M 1 2 c gives A 1 62 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 L ist 2 gives 2 Note how to use NL to get the comma n m i c to include commas as text oo anmx y n m 0 MAsuQL n m 0 c0 anmx y gives O verstrike Options AL AR AC align left align right align center XO h gives Ji NONMac h gives O ar h gives hf OMal h gives h R adical MR yz gives Vyz AR x yz gives S uperscript or Subscript Options UPn DOn up n points down n points According to thc manual when two arguments are used the super and subscripts are left adjusted In fact they come out centered Also with two arguments both UP and DO arc ignored aM 111 2 gives 4 a S 1 gives al a S do12 88 gives a 88 a S up1 111 2 gives aly a S up6 dol2 111 2 gives 2 X Box Options TO BO LE RI top bottom left right gives XMo a gives a NXN
293. tle dots next to them These dots mean that the note is to be held a little longer actually one half as long again There are times that you don t make asound these are called rests Their icons and durations are contained in Table 2 They will receive a frequency of 1 for silence and an appropriate duration I have also placed icons for Triplets three notes in the space of two and Quintuplets five notes in the space of four on the chart for your convenience butI won t discuss them till later Table 2 contains the Rest values You will notice that from the eighth note down listing two icons one with descending ski slope s and the other with bar s This is because that many times short notes are joined together for easy recognition Thus in Figure 2 instead of indicating 4 eighth notes as is first repre sented they are indicated in the second manner 4444 Pigure 2 TABLE DURATION VALUES x RRAARAARAARKAARERARRRARR DURATION WAME M em am am ae DURATION VALUE DOTTED QUARTER NOTE QUARTER NOTE DOTTED EIGHTH NOTE EIGHTH DOTTED SIXTEENTH NOTE SIXTEENTH NOTE DOTTED THIRTY SECOND NOTE THIRTY SECOND DOTTED SIXTY FORTH NOTE SIXTY FORTH NOTE GRACE 4 TRIPLET Add the duration values of only two of the three notes together Divide by 3 and give the resulting value to each of the three notes
294. to buy one Graphics can also be imported from MacPaint or other drawing programs Although you cannot display the current contents of most numeric variables the status command is an exception that displays the current contents of two system variables If your player character has native weapons indicated in his character data window e g swings fist and kicks foot a Weapons menu automatically appears Although the Weapons menu cannot be altered during the game the Command menu is under your control The Command menu can be altered by executing the MENU command any scene See 56 of instructions Try to use the Global Code Window to anticipate as many commands as possible If a command does not match any scenc code World Builder responds with an unhelpful huh By anticipating common adventure commands in the Global Code Window your game will casicr to play The challenge of designing an adventure game should keep you than busy for the rest of the summer Good luck P AC R O S T C Using the Definitions fill in Words Transfer each letter into the correspond ing square of the grid Theresulting quotation will read across The first letters by Dan a J Schwa rtz ofthe Words column usually spell out the Author s name and the Title of the work reading down UNT M DE BRR UU UM BEE SBR Wet Bee oe Zoo BORE BRB Ba EL
295. tone Harris J 61 Landmark Computer Laboratories 17 Hayman 26 Soboroff Ian 38 75 Marc S 36 Thompson Andrew D 35 MacCorner 88 Inside Back Back Cover Lanford Jim 74 Trinder 63 MacTography 0 eere 55 Lindstrom 37 Trusal Lynn R 54 4255 55555 63 Meyer Ted s 18 Zee Linda 33 National AppleWorks Users Group 2 Milrod Marty e 82 Warrick Tom 4 78 Nexo Distribution eese ennt 46 Morganstcin David 68 76 78 16 Operant Systems esses 13 Mossberg Walt 21 PC Resources eese esee 67 PES T 6 Roger Coats sensorinen 15 Software Ventures 45 Technical Sales amp Service 19 VF Associates 97 86 Washington Apple Pi August 1987 WASHINGTON APPLE PI DISKETERIA MAIL ORDER FORM This form is only for ordering disks that you want mailed to you 5 1 4 DISKETTES Members 5 00 each Non members 8 00 e
296. ture on what is happening in Montgomery Schools The first item that I received from her isa Statement of Policy issued by the Board of Education and entitled Instructional Uses of Computers This Statement is broken down into three parts I Purpose II Process III Feedback Indicators I summarize thc major points under cach part I Purpose five main purposes of this Montgomery County Policy are A Ensure that students become computer literate In Montgomery Co there are four facets to computer literacy i familiarity with computers and their usage ii familiarity with programming languages iii use of computer applicaton programs iv understanding social ethical and technlogical impact of computers Student competency in use of computers as a tool for school and lifetime Icarning C Career preparation in computers D Equitable availability to all students Education of instructional staff II Process In order to implement these objectives the Superintendent will take the following steps He will develop CURRICULUM to develop computer literacy He will adhere to the following format i grades K 8 develop computer literacy 1 grades 9 12 computer literacy and the offering of computer science courses iii grades K 12 develop materials and methods for using the computer in all appropriate sub ject arcas as an aid to learning B Standards of Student COMPETENCY will be esta
297. u my first impressions It s very light Feels flimsy IBM keyboard layout so there s no Option key and no command cloverleaf key Instead you use the CTRL key as the command key and the ALT key as the option key My hands automatically go to the wrong places at first butafter a while you get uscd to the different layout This is not an insurmountable problem Key feel mushy and light Youcan definitely type faster with the flatter keyboard but it s not like the IBM keyboard with the nice clicking sound Figure 1 The Mac Plus L and the Tangent Technologies R keypads Note the rearrangement of the keypads MS Word 3 0 enthusiasts should note that the keypad is perfect for use with Word The four symbols in the upper right hand comer are cursor control keys which are always active The symbols and comma cannot be typed using the numerical keypad keys that are dedicated to be the cursor control keys You must use the regular keypad equivalent keys for these symbols MS Word 3 uses both these keys and the 2 4 6 8 keys as cursor control keys The numerical operators are arranged differently on the keypad Sce Figure 1 Unless you work for Peat Marwick and Mitchell the all Mac accounting firm and you re so used to the old style keypad you won t miss the rearrangement very much if at all The cursor control keys are in the upper right hand corner much morc logical and easily accessible place for them th
298. u this they listening Use memory beyond Meg Multiple fonts and font sizes User specified delimiters for import export of files for upload and download to mainframe Dynamic linkage of titles to spreadsheet Better macro support for charts Multiple charts per page Automatically executing macros load and go Enjoy Washington Apple Pi August 1987 73 DEVELOPER S VIEW 9 Track SCSI Tape Drive 68020 Accelerators Radius vs Levco by Jim Lanford Qualstar 9 Track SCSI Tape Drive Onc of our customers sent us 9 track reel of tape containing some bcautiful color graphics images Each of the pictures has aresolution of 512 by 386 with the color information stored in 32 bits per pixcl Our task was toconvert the images to Mac II color PICT format The first problem was how to gct these images from the tape tothe Mac II Since the Mac II wasannounced we have received anumber of requests to move data via a 9 track tape to the Mac II During our market rescarch we discovered the Qualstar Model 1054 9 Track SCSI Tape Drive With this tape drive we were able to move the images and then successfully convert them to Mac II color PICT format We are still taken aback when we cut and paste full color 256 colors into and out of the scrapbook The Qualstar uses standard 10 1 2 reels 1 2 tape It reads and writes standard 1600 3200 BPI tapes with any block size up to 64K Most ANSI data interchange ta
299. udimentary understanding of either ProDOS or MS DOS The process of transferring files is menu driven on screen and is rapid and uncomplicated It worked well on my IIgs and with botha PC XT compatible and a PC AT compatible and two different versions of MS DOS HARDWARE AND INSTALLATION The ENVOY system consists of a card that can control up to 4 IBM style disk drives plus one external drive and a cable to connect them There s also a special utility disk which controls the system and does the Apple IBM file conversion You install the card like any other card in any open slot though slot 7 is preferred it ll work in the others as well Plug one end of the cable into the card and the other end into the external IBM style drive The drive itself is a box with its own power supply plug it into any outlet ASKY has used different brands and types of external drives but the one I received has a beige metal case with a single half height 5 25 drive mounted inside perpendicular to the desktop There is room for a second drive as well either 5 25 or 3 5 should I want to add one later The box stands on little rubber feet and is 13 25 decp 3 5 wide and 6 5 high similar in size and shape to a Sider hard disk I keep it about two feet from the computer with my regular Apple drives in between Iusually keep the ENVOY drive turned off via an on off switch at the rear except when I m transferring files between Apple amp
300. unterfcits Computers and their uses therefore af fected by commercial interests and have political implications The training of people to use computers and their considerable commitmentto them can seriously hamper their capacity to think through on important social and ethical questions or engage in philosophical speculations which are beneficial per se or which may be the antecedents of new ficlds of human knowledge I was in Martinsburg W Va a couple weeks ago where I met a gentleman who it turned out was the Superintendent of Schools of Garrett County Western Maryland I exploited the chance meeting by discussing with him the role of computers in the schools under his jurisdiction He was delightcd to talk and to provide me with some interesting information The informa tion indicated at what levels of schooling cfforts are made to develop computer literacy among students the successive stage students pass through the use of computers for instructional purposes language arts math science The reader should be cautioned that no standardized definition exists as to the components of computer literacy Based on that chance en counter I became curious about how computers were being used in Montgomery County Schools I called the Board of Educa tion and learned there is an Office of Computer Assisted in struction under the direction of a Ms Beverly Sangston She took time to talk with mc and gave me some litera
301. usic and computers began to mix musicians have dreamed of a music production system with the power graphics and user friendly interface that Authorized Apple Express Service When your Apple equipment breaks down you need it fixed not excuses That s why we re introducing ServiCenter Express Service for Apple members at a special rate But what does Express Service mean to you Express Service means fast repairs at reasonable prices for you As an Apple 7 member in good standing you pay only regular labor rates for Express Service It means that if we have parts in stock for your Apple brand peripheral you can have it repaired while you wait in most cases To take advantage of this special offer you must do two things First call for an appointment before bringing you machine in for repair Second you must present your current Apple membership card when you present your equipment for repair to receive the special Apple x discount on Express Service labor rates For appointment call our service department 644 8442 the Macintosh delivers Opcode makes it a reality with hardware and software As authorizedresellers of Opcode peripherals we carry Studio Plus Two Interface The Professional Plus Interface Opcode Sequencer 2 5 Librarians with Patch Factory Washington Apple Members receive 10 off all MIDI interfaces and software in stock Apple and the Apple logo are registered trademarks of
302. ust 1987 11 Sourceware 6899 South Yukon Court Littleton 80123 Product Directory Labeler Description Labeling Utility The Computer Place Deh Weh Tu Andy 301 330 6016 Potomac Valley Center Gaithersburg MD Product Various Apple Software Products Description Also offers MAC and IBM Computer Solutions Richard Warren 202 478 1878 26 Plaza Street Leesburg VA 22075 Product Various new used Apple hardware software Description Some products as is Ishould also mention herethat anyone using EZ Pieces can make use of any of the thousands of templates now available for AppleWorks Our WAP PD library offers anumber of templates and the back of any Apple magazine will give you sources for many more print an updated list in a futurc issue APPLE REPAIRS Here s a list of places you can get your Apple repaired This list is being updated Any additions welcome Affordable Micro Repair 213 973 0255 Mr Habib 2718 W Pomona St Santa Ana CA 92704 Omicron Electronics 313 757 8192 Mike Tattan 11240 Nine Mile Rd Warren MI 48089 Sun Systems Remarketing 801 752 7631 technical help Bob Cook Box 4059 Logan UT 84321 The Intercom Store 619 466 5383 Jim Fair San Diego CA Third Wave Management 503 244 6128 Brad Brother ton 7227 SW Terwilliger Portland OR 97219 Out of all those above Sun is probably your best bet because it has many technicians and lo
303. ve often gotten free upgrades and at the very least discounts or information on new products by simply mailing in the warranty cards I encourage everyone to do so immediately after opening the box Adobe is also the first company that includes a VHS VCR tape with the software program The tape does a very good contd job of illustrating what Adobe Illustra for does and includes a basic tutorial I guess they can afford it at a retail price of 495 It wouldn t pay to do so fora 100 program but I encourage other software companies to consider cluding a VCR tape if their program is difficult to use and the price warrants it I will give you my impression of thisimportant program in the next few months It suffices to say that I have not seen the ability to manipulate shapes and curves as well in any other Macintosh graphics program Walker Richer and Quinn is set to unveil a Reflection software product to connect Macintoshes to the HP 3000 super minis It will also include a VMS and Unix file transfer utility that will increase Mac to VAX con nections WR amp Q isa Seattle software house whose products include Reflec tion which is a micro to mainframe connection Prime computer is also rumored to be on the verge of signing a strategic agreement with Apple Computer which may involve a economy class Unix workstation Although Prime has been rumored before to be work ing with Apple there isn t enough information here to fo
304. ver MacDraw in most areas but the combination of a few bugs poor support for global text editing and a relatively high price leads me to suggest caution before you rush out and buy a copy Still I expect that given some time Cricket Software will improve Cricket Draw to the level of some of their other products Finally I see a real need for some advanced charting package for those that do not want to program In the meantime scientists and engineers will just have to cither program or make do with what _ they have Programs Reviewed MacEqn Software for Recognition Technologies 110 University Park Rochester NY 14620 716 461 0923 40 Expressionist Allan Bonadio Associates 1579 Dolores St San Francisco CA 94100 415 282 5864 54 95 FTL Systems Inc 234 Egunton Ave E Suite 205 Toronto Ontario Canada 1 5 416 487 2142 750 Textures Addison Wesley Publishing Co Educational Media Systems Division Reading MA 01867 617 944 6795 495 Microsoft Word3 0 Microsoft 16011 NE 36th Way Box 97017 Redmond WA 98073 206 882 8089 395 Cricket Draw Cricket Software 3508 Market St Suite 206 Philadelphia PA 19104 800 345 8112 295 e 2121 Crystal Drive Arlington VA 22202 703 521 9292 MacSource a mostly Mac store rent computertime on a Macintosh buy software for all your needs MacSource is a new concept in computer stores We sel SOFTWARE PERIPHERALS ACCESSOR
305. ving gotten it for the kids who never got any time on it along the way My plan was to get a Mac eventually having used a Lisa extensively when I was working in Washington With all of the uncertainty in the last six months about what new Macintosh products would be available and at what cost I was casting about for something to buy not fully comfortable with making the big move to the Mac I will do it though I always wanted a good color capability for the so when I read Leon Raesly s article on the new Sony monitor Initron Rinitron Trinitron in the January 1987 PI Journal I thought that would be a good beginning toward a IIGS Meanwhile I could usc it Sony KV 1311CR as my primary monitor for the c while taking my time to upgrade The monitor is great but I did not realize that it was not useful in 80 column composite mode The color was great for the kid s programs however I use Appleworks and Think Tank very heavily and I had to continue to use the Apple Monitor with the Sony on the side It should be noted here that the IIGS uses analog RGB and not digital RGB so be careful about monitor purchases Well I couldn tlet that lic for long so I was the first onc in Santa Maria a small town near the coast in central California to purchase the upgrade figuring the monitor would now be used as originally intended for all applications in clcar analog RGB I marched my c to the Computer Terminal the local exclu
306. w you have to select cach text object onc at at time type Command E to edit the text select the entire text selection with the mouse type Command T to set the text type and then choose 12 point and Helvetica from the dialog box that appears If there numerous text selections in an image like numbers along an axis in a plot then changing thc text font and size can be a long and tedious process I ve complained about this feature to the people at Cricket and they responded that this was a compromise required to keep the program small enough to fit onto a 512K Mac I view it as simply a poor design choice in an otherwise well designed program Data Plotting The final piece of the puzzle was a way of producing the required data plots for the dissertation The data itself was produced from a model running in the language C My first thought was to import the data into a standard Mac graphics program such as Microsoft Chart or Cricket Graph Unfortu nately I nceded some rather complicated plots including polar and three dimensional trajectory projections which the standard programs could not create Even when I did try to import the data for the simpler plots things didn t quite work out For example simple plot that Icreated had five curves overlaid within the plotting area When I created this figure using Excel it looked pretty good but needed some minor relabelling When I imported the figure into Cricket Draw the d
307. we would genuinely appreciate it Mark P Chmiclewski Special Acceptance Inspection Services Cana dian Standards Association 178 Rexdale Blvd Rexdale On tario M3M 1P4 Canada COUNTING THE BAL LOTS as Easy as A B C by Richard Rowell Paul Schlosser Kelly Smith Dale Smith We ve always thought that the Apple c is an excellent small office task handler its effectiveness was proved on Saturday June 20th when three volunteers Paul Schlosser Kelly Smith and Dale Smith with Apple c s under their arms arrived to count ballots for the Washington Apple Pi annual elections Each keyboard had stickers placed over keys assigned to candidates There is no truth to the rumor that Lee Raesly was assigned for quack Using a simple AppleWorks spread sheet shown below ballot counters merely pressed a solid Apple lt key gt for each vote and had a running total of the count on screen at all times Solid Apple S for slate added one vote to the count for each of the five candidates who were running unopposed when ballots were so marked 1 Tom Warrick 0 111 Lec Racsly 01 I AB 12 0 112 John Alden 0 113 Richard Rowell 01 pL 3Raymond Hobbs O 114 Lynn R Trusal O I 11 14 0 115 Rich Mlodoch 01 eol 116 Jay 01 WT 5 Robert Platt 0 117 Eric Rall 01 16 0 118 Harvey 01 119 Lou Pastura 01
308. wer reveals more goodics in the Microsoft goodie bag Ilove the spelling checker I love the speed The numerical keypad can be used in two modes When you press the CLEAR key UL of numerical keypad you sec a small N appearing in the upper right hand comer of the screen The keypad functions in the numerical mode Pressing CLEAR again takes the N off and allows you to use the keypad as a cursor controller A super duper turbo cursor You can select words or move up or down or to the end of the line or to the beginning or move and select Or you can move to any of the three previous places that your cursor was using the Go Back key zero on the numerical keypad If you are a recent Word convert you ll probably want to reread such recent magazine copics such as MacUscr s March 1987 issue containing Word revicws by Sharon Z Aker and Doug Clapp WORD 3 0 Summary Sheet I have written a five page summary sheet of most of MS Word 3 0 s keystroke commands Persons interested in a copy should send a SASE to Fred Seelig Mac Consultants P O Box 244 Vienna VA 22180 and I ll send you a copy absolutely free of charge Such a deal Tangent Technology s PC Mac Keyboard Icon Review is selling Tangent Technology s PC Mac key board for the Mac Plus and earlier Macs for 119 Every writer that is doing some serious word crunching should buy this or a similar keyboard It s that much better than the Mac Plus keyboard Let me give yo
309. will see long straight vertical lines every so often on the staff which are called Bar Lines The space between two such Bar Lines is called a Measure You might see a double Bar Line one being thicker than the other This signifies the end of the musical piece or if there are two dots next toitif wouldsignify a musical repeat I will discuss musical repeats in a later article You will find them very easy to program with your Applesoft line editor mine is G P L E and will look forward to using them for they make music writing much faster Another item of interest will be end ings You will see them above the staffs looking like enclosures with numbers usually 1 or 2 printed in them Getting more advanced you might see a lot of foreign words around the music No you don t have to learn them But there are couple thatare important forour purpose like Fine D C al Fine Coda D S al Coda that I will discuss in a later article They are musical traffic flags that govern repeats You may see some curved lines These could represent Ties Ties are lines joining two notes that signify that the first note is held on for the duration of the two notes Treble Clef Now to the main part the notes Most of what you see on the staff are notes Notes are made up as far as we are con cerned of FREQUENCY and DURA TION Itis the frequency and duration of the note that we place into our program In our Applesoft p
310. ype Ruler Guidclines horizontally and vertically for placement of objects the ability to create Default pages are reminiscent of PM The Picture Boxes in XPress have somewhat thc auraof MacPublish erII without the confusion But from this point on and aside from some of the moot minus points described at the beginning of this the comparison stops To say that XPress is a significant advance in page descrip tion and layout manipulation to say that it resides in the forefront of what a computer program should be to state that it is a professional tool not merely because of the price but because of its valuc to say that it is a precision tool exploiting much of the power of the Mac and the LaserWritcr Linotron all these may very well be understatements THE DIFFERENCE Is XPress a user friendly program If one is familiar with the basics of other page layout programs the answer has to be yes If one is just beginning to enter into desktop publishing graphics alittle delving into the Glossary of the manual would be enlight ening plus exercising with the step by step tutorials would translate user friendliness into a fairly casy learnable program Envy the newcomer who has this application as the first page layout program because most of the peculiarities and bad habits learned from the other page description programs necessary manual adjustments most of the frustrations and disappoint ments trials and

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